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6010K PA6L ANALYSIS Grant Award Agreement The Grant Award Agreement is a standard document that the FCT requires be recorded in the public records. Generally, the Agreement explains the County's obligations to manage the property for conservation with compatible public access, as agreed to in the grant application. The obligations in the Grant Award Agreement are consistent with proposed management activities described in detail in the conceptual management plan. Closing Statement The Grant Award Calculation Statement provides a break -down of acquisition costs, and details concerning the cost -share amount that the County will receive from the FCT. As calculated, the total amount of the FCT grant award is $556,338.12. Conceptual Management Plan As were other FCT conceptual management plans, the St. Sebastian PUD management plan was drafted by F1oridAff nity, Inc. and Ecotech Consultants, Inc. (in accordance with the County's contract with FloridAffinity, the County's environmental land acquisition consultant). The plan was drafted by FloridAffinity and Ecotech in coordination with county staff and Sebastian staff (the property is located in Sebastian City limits). The St. Sebastian PUD property, in combination with the contiguous AGC Industrial Tract, totals + 388 acres. Also, county staff is negotiating the purchase of an additional 19 acres, which would bring the overall property total to ±407 acres. To account for the contiguous tracts, the draft management plan applies to the overall property, which has been renamed the "North Sebastian Conservation Area.' The management plan accounts for City plans to improve a runway at the Sebastian Municipal Airport (to the west), such that the City has a need for a runway "clear zone" over approximately 50 acres of the western portion of the St. Sebastian PUD property. This "clear zone" is compatible with the proposed conservation use of the St. Sebastian PUD property, since the clear zone will not require removal of vegetation. Also, the City of Sebastian has expressed a desire that the County leave open the opportunity of the extension of Gibson Street along the eastern boundary of the property, most of which extension would be within an existing unimproved public right-of-way. The proposed use of the St. Sebastian PUD property is an expansion of the resource-based passive recreation park planned for the "AGC Industrial Tract Scrub" to the east. That property is proposed to have nature trails, picnic facilities, boardwalk/pier access into on-site wetlands, parking, and informational displays. It is planned that public access facilities will be shared between the two projects, with nature trails and boardwalks extending onto the St. Sebastian PUD property in conjunction with the expanded park area. Proposed improvements will be located to minimize impacts to site natural resources. The existing ORV trials will be used to the extent feasible for nature trials, being upgraded as necessary. Management Costs Page 29 of the draft management plan (see Attachment #3) summarizes cost estimates of site improvements and maintenance. A number of initial site improvements, including fencing and March 17,1998 52