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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY MEMORANDUM TO: Jason E. Brown County Administrator DEPARTMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE: ZA�i - Stan Boling,P Community Development Director FROM: Roland M. DeBlois, AICP� Chief, Environmental Planning DATE: July 5, 2016 RE: Approval of State Sovereignty Submerged Lands Fee Waived Lease 5 -Year Renewal for the Archie Smith Fish House It is requested that the Board of County Commissioners formally consider the following information at the Board's regular meeting of July 12, 2016. DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS In January 2007, the Board of County Commissioners acquired the historic Archie Smith Fish House under the County's environmental lands program. The subject waterfront property consists of approximately 1. 15 acres located north of the intersection of Jackson Street and Indian River Drive in the City of Sebastian. The property includes a dock and icehouse (currently in disrepair) extending over sovereign submerged lands of the Indian River Lagoon. Because the submerged lands are state sovereign lands, the County executed a sovereignty submerged lands lease with the State (Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund) in conjunction with the property acquisition. The State submerged land lease is now up for renewal. To that end, attached is a copy of the 5 -year lease renewal document for the Board's approval consideration. ANALYSIS Currently, the County has an approved grant from the Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND) for phased restoration of the Archie Smith Fish House dock. The FIND grant is for dock restoration using construction plans that the County commissioned under a 2014 historic preservation grant. As reflected in the lease renewal (and in the previous lease), the lease is for a docking facility with a non - water dependent historical fish house/shed to be used for mooring of recreational vessels. The lease renewal is a "fee waived" lease, which reflects public use and forgoes an annual lease fee that would 117