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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY MEMORANDUM CONSENT ITEM TO: Joseph A. Baird County Administrator DEPARTMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE: Stan Boling, AICP Community Developmelli /1 irector FROM: Roland M. DeBlois, AICPA Chief, Environmental Planning DATE: August 6, 2014 RE: Approval of State Sovereignty Submerged Lands Fee Waived Lease Renewal for the Jones's Pier Dock Facility It is requested that the Board of County Commissioners formally consider the following information at the Board's regular meeting of August 19, 2014. DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS In September 2008, the Board of County Commissioners purchased the historic Jones's Pier site on south Jungle Trail under the County's environmental lands program. The property includes a dock facility that extends over sovereign submerged lands of the Indian River Lagoon. Because the submerged lands are state sovereign lands, the County is required to maintain a sovereignty submerged lands lease with the State (Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund). The Jones's Pier sovereignty submerged lands lease is up for renewal. To that end, attached is a copy of the lease renewal document, which includes a "fee waived" modification, for the Board's approval consideration. ANALYSIS When the Jones's Pier property was acquired, the County entered into a life -estate arrangement with Mr. Jones in the form of a caretaker agreement. Under the caretaker agreement, Mr. Jones retained the opportunity to use the dock as he had in the past, which was to act as dock master and oversee use of the dock facility for the mooring of visiting / transient vessels. Based on that arrangement, the submerged lands lease entered between the County and State at that time allowed use of the dock facility by Mr. Jones consistent with his past use and consistent with the County's caretaker agreement with Mr. Jones, and included an annual lease fee (approximately $460) paid by the County to the State. 1 150