Power up for a PowerPoint presentation — or two.
Longboat Key and Manatee County officials are set for a joint meeting Dec. 1 to tackle an agenda that deals with capital improvements, services and collaboration.
The four-point agenda listed the following topics:
- A discussion on the challenges Longboat Key faces due to being included partly in Manatee County and partly in Sarasota County.
A study by the Florida Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability completed in October examined challenges for Longboat Key, with 3,747 parcels in Manatee and 6,617 parcels in Sarasota.
Longboat Key town manager Tom Harmer is scheduled to present the study, which includes information about taxes, investments and services, as well as outline steps for collaboration with the county, including working on a roundabout at Broadway Street and Gulf Drive.
- An update on the process to replace a wastewater pipeline that extends from Longboat Key underwater across Sarasota Bay to the mainland and a county treatment facility.
Longboat Key public works director Isaac Brownman is scheduled to present information about the ongoing effort to replace a pipeline that ruptured and leaked raw sewage in June-July 2020 about 400 feet inland from the bay on the mainland.
- County transit services on Longboat Key.
Manatee County Area Transit officials will talk about services on Longboat Key, which include an on-demand shuttle operating seven days a week between Coquina Beach in Bradenton Beach and Bay Isles Road on Longboat Key.
- Renourishment and erosion control plans for Coquina Beach in Bradenton Beach.
Charlie Hunsicker, director of Manatee County Parks and Natural Resources, is set to brief officials on erosion control and renourishment projects in fiscal 2022-23.
A memo indicated Hunsicker will talk about:
- The deconstruction and removal of derelict concrete groins constructed in the late-1950s, replacing them with offshore stone breakwaters;
- Proposed structural solutions for refurbishing the Longboat Pass jetty at the south end of Anna Maria Island;
- The placement and location of additional artificial reefs.
The meeting will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, at the county administration building, 1112 Manatee Ave. W., Bradenton. People can attend in person or follow by video at mymanatee.org/mga.
