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bL INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA BOARD MEMORANDUM TO: Jason E. Brown, County Administrator THROUGH: Richard B. Szpyrka, P.E., Public Works Director FROM: Eric Charest, Natural Resources Manager SUBJECT: Indian River County Stormwater Needs Analysis, Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc. Work Order No. 2 DATE: February 1, 2022 DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS On April 17, 2018, the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) approved the Continuing Contract Agreement for Continuing Engineering Services with Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc. (JEA) for professional water resource engineering support services. The original contract was for three (3) years with an option for one (1) two-year extension at the County's discretion. This contract was renewed on May 18, 2021 for the two (2) year extension Indian River County is seeking to enlist the professional services of JEA to assist the County in preparing a 20 -year needs analysis of the County's Stormwater Management Program in support of recently enacted legislation. In the 2021 legislative session, Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 53 (HB53) into law. HB53, titled as Public Works, requires the County to submit program and project specific information related to the County's stormwater program to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) and to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research (EDR) by July 31, 2022. In addition to this requirement, the County is also to compile the same needs analyses information submitted by the municipalities within the County (Fellsmere, Indian River Shores, Orchid, Sebastian and Vero Beach) and include with the County's submittal. Please note that the individual municipality submittals are due to the County no later than June 30, 2022. Under Workorder No. 2, JEA will assist the County in fulfilling the County's Stormwater Program requirements identified in HB53. This includes collecting general information on the County's stormwater program; preparing a summary of program/project funding, summaries of the County's stormwater assets and the operation and maintenance performed on them, future expansion projects, future resiliency projects and projected replacement projects. JEA will work with the County to collect information listed above and incorporate that information, together with the information submitted by the municipalities within the County, to create the County- wide stormwater needs analysis for submittal to the FDEP and EDR. The cost for Work Order No. 2 is for a time and expense basis not to exceed $35,487.00. The anticipated completion date for a draft version County's stormwater needs analysis is 16 weeks after execution of the workorder, with the final stormwater needs analysis being provided to the County 20 weeks after Workorder execution. The individual municipalities and other entities M