Florida Senate - 2006                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1226, 1st Eng.
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11  Senator Dockery moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment 
14         On page 42, lines 16 and 17, delete those lines
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17  Protection for the purchase of the Babcock Crescent B Ranch
18  contingent upon the management agreement to be executed by the
19  Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund and
20  Babcock Ranch Management, LLC, a limited liability corporation
21  registered to do business in this state containing or not
22  conflicting with the following provisions:
23         (1)  Babcock Ranch Management, LLC, shall be the
24  managing entity of the working ranch for 5 years with an
25  option to continue for an additional 5 years.
26         (2)  Babcock Ranch, Inc., shall take over the
27  management of the working ranch after the Babcock Ranch
28  Management, LLC, ceases to be the ranch manager.
29         (3)  Babcock Ranch, Inc., shall adopt a comprehensive
30  business plan consistent with current ranch management
31  practices except as otherwise provided in this section.
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    Florida Senate - 2006                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1226, 1st Eng.
                        Barcode 680984
 1         (4)  Babcock Ranch Management, LLC, shall pay travel
 2  and per diem expenses for the members of the Babcock Ranch,
 3  Inc., board of directors as provided in s. 259.106(7)(g). 
 4         (5)  The working ranch shall continue to be operated in
 5  a financially self-sustaining manner.
 6         (6)  Tenant farming currently on lands historically
 7  used for that purpose shall be phased out as each contract or
 8  lease for tenant farming expires.
 9         (7)  There shall be no harvesting of cypress trees on
10  the property being acquired by the state except for salvage
11  harvesting following natural disasters.
12         (8)  The following ranch operations shall not be
13  prohibited or restricted except by general law:
14         (a)  Silvicultural operations, including upland
15  harvesting, salvage harvesting and palm tree removal, except
16  that harvesting of cypress trees on the property being
17  acquired by the state shall be limited to salvage harvesting
18  following natural disasters, and
19         (b)  Any other bona fide agricultural use that is
20  compatible with the environmental resources and wildlife
21  habitat found on the preserve.
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