MINUTES OF MEETING

HERITAGE SPRINGS

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

The regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the Heritage Springs Community

Development District was held on Monday, March 18, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. at the Heritage Springs

Community Clubhouse, 11345 Robert Trent Jones Parkway, New Port Richey, Florida.

Present and constituting a quorum were:

Joe DePompa	Vice Chairman
George Kachavos	Assistant Secretary

Les Elwonger	Assistant Secretary

Also present were :

Andrew Mendenhall	District Manager

Robert Dvorak	District Engineer

Residents

The following is a summary of the minutes and actions taken at the March Heritage Springs Board ofSupervisors meeting.

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2019

Mr. Mendenhall noted the continued was not held and requested a motion to close the

meeting.

On MOTION by Mr. Kachavos seconded by Mr. DePompa, with all in favor, the meeting of February 18, 2019 was adjourned.

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS Mr. Mendenhall called the meeting

to

Roll Call

order and  Board members and  staff identified

themselves for the record.

SECOND A. B.

ORDER OF BUSINESS	Consent Agenda	
Approval of the Minutes of the February 20, 2019 Meeting	
Approval of the Financial Statements	

Mr. DePompa MOVED to approve the Consent Agenda and Mr. Kachavos seconded the motion.

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On VOICE vote, with all in favor, the motion was approved .

THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS	Public Comment on Agenda Items

•	Mr. Lynne Simmons, Chairman oflnsurance Committee for Heritage Springs Community

Association,  noting with the overlap	of the public and private entities questions  arise	
regarding proper insurance protections. In speaking with Mr. Mendenhall earlier he was	
able to clarify some of the things.		

o	Mr. Simmons noted they asked for evidence of insurance for anybody who comes into the community to make sure they are properly covered so when there are claims causing serious injury or damage to property they have protection and they do not have to worry about a claim coming against them due to an uninsured contractor or vendor.
o	They are asking to be added as an additional insured to the CDD policy.

o	The second item is Workers' Compensation.  If a supervisor was seriously injured

while out on the grounds, where is the protection from a Workers' Compensation

standpoint.  There is no current coverage for the members of the committee.  It is

an exposure he feels they might want to look into.

o	Addressed auto liability while conducting District business.

•	Mr. DePompa inquired if they are considered employees?

o	Mr. Mendenhall noted to the extent they are paid by the Board they are considered employees. He can bring back information on quoted coverage and the Board can

make decision. He noted they do not have other CDD's with this type of coverage, but that is not to say it cannot be done or shouldn't be done.

•	Mr. Dennis and Mrs. Peggy Woods, Scenic View Estates -  Walstone Court, noted they

have o

not been to a meeting since the project Mr. Mendenhall noted the Engineer

was completed and will have a report in

would like an update. a moment.

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Attorney's Report

There

being

no

report, the next item followed.

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Engineer's Report

•

Mr. Dvorak reported he looked into the analysis of 191-F further. Discussion continued with Mr. Dvorak noting he would like to examine the data collected by Mr. Elwonger to

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see if they a little bit

can and

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pinpoint a few specific areas to give some relief in the system to open it up increase the capacity somehow.

•	Discussion followed on clearing paths which would increase the flow rate out.

•	Mr. Dvorak noted his understanding of the Walstone Court project was that Mr. Wertovitch	
	had mentioned doing landscaping around the electric box, but he does not know the status	
	of	this.  Mr. DePompa noted it has been operational since last summer and he thinks they	
	have had pretty good results.  The plan is still to install landscaping in front of the box.	
•	Mr. Burroughs inquired if there is anyone setup to look at the pump on a regular basis.	
	o	Mr. DePompa noted he would have to defer to Mr. Wertovitch on it, but he thinks	
		there  is  something with  the  pump manufacturer regarding bi-annual  or annual	
		inspections.  If there is a report of a malfunction they would bring in someone to	
		repair it.		
•	Mr. Kachavos inquired if there is any jurisdiction to go onto the preserve to change the	
	grade or do channel work.		
	o	Mr.  Dvorak  noted  he  thinks	if there  were  clear  evidence  that  something  had	
		changed materially that was causing an adverse impact they could get SFWMD out	
		to look at it and plead their case, but to do something on a routine basis, they cannot.	
	o	Discussion followed on jurisdiction of the preserves with it being noted in Pasco	
		County it is the Army Corps of Engineers and SFWMD.	
SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Manager's Report	
	A.	Acceptance of the Audit for FY 2018	

•	Mr. Mendenhall reviewed the audit and the Management Letter.

Mr.  DePompa  MOVED  to  accept  the  FY  2018  audit  and  Mr.	
Kachavos seconded the motion.		
On VOICE vote, with all in favor, the FY 2018 audit was accepted.	
SEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Maintenance Items	

•

Mr.

DePompa distributed

and reviewed

the

FY

2019 Maintenance plan.

•	Outlined the eight proposals received from BioMass on nine items. All are entered as approved.

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EIGHTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Supervisors' Requests

•	Mr. Kachavos addressed the timing of repairs and inquired why it is taking Biomass so long to do the work. Is there no other contractor?

	o Mr. DePompa noted BioMass bid the projects in February and the proposals came in two weeks ago and Mr. Wertovitch signed off on them. They now have to put it into the work scheduling.

•	Mr. Elwonger noted he is concerned about the weir behind the clubhouse in 152-A. The walls have been armored to prevent erosion, but there is a lot of riprap downstream of the weir.

•	Mr. Elwonger reviewed the areas in his pond data.

NINTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Audience Comments

•	An unidentified speaker inquired since they are at summertime water levels would be possible to bring in large pumps and start positioning them where they would need to be to

lower some of the pond levels prior to the rainy season to be proactive rather than reactive.

o	Mr. DePompa inquired if they are limited on the ability to dewater a preserve to do

work on it.

o	Mr.  Dvorak noted the size of pumping out would almost require some type of

consumptive use permit.  The size of the pumps required to get that much water out

may trigger a withdrawal type permit from SFWMD.

o	Discussion continued on the possibility oflowering the water levels within Heritage Springs and moving the water around within the community.

TENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Adjournment

On MOTION by Mr. Elwonger seconded by Mr. DePompa, with all in favor, the meeting was adjourned.

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