Amendment
Bill No. CS/CS/HB 611
Amendment No. 771973
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Hukill offered the following:
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3     Amendment
4     Remove lines 109-178 and insert:
5this paragraph, the term "repair" means a corrective action to
6restore an existing public facility to a safe and functional
7condition and the term "maintenance" means a preventive or
8corrective action to maintain an existing public facility in an
9operational state or to preserve the facility from failure or
10decline. Repair or maintenance includes activities that are
11necessarily incidental to repairing or maintaining the facility.
12Repair or maintenance does not include the construction of any
13new building, structure, or other public construction works or
14any substantial addition, extension, or upgrade to an existing
15public facility. Such additions, extensions, or upgrades shall
16be considered substantial if the estimated cost of the
17additions, extensions, or upgrades included as part of the
18repair or maintenance project exceeds the threshold amount in
19subsection (1) and exceeds 20 percent of the estimated total
20cost of the repair or maintenance project using generally
21accepted cost-accounting principles that fully account for all
22costs associated with performing and completing the work,
23including employee compensation and benefits, equipment cost and
24maintenance, insurance costs, and materials. An addition,
25extension, or upgrade shall not be considered substantial if it
26is undertaken pursuant to the conditions specified in
27subparagraph 1. Repair and maintenance projects and any related
28additions, extensions, or upgrades may not be divided into
29multiple projects for the purpose of evading the requirements of
30this subparagraph.
31     6.  If When the project is undertaken exclusively as part
32of a public educational program.
33     7.  If When the funding source of the project will be
34diminished or lost because the time required to competitively
35award the project after the funds become available exceeds the
36time within which the funding source must be spent.
37     8.  If When the local government has competitively awarded
38a project to a private sector contractor and the contractor has
39abandoned the project before completion or the local government
40has terminated the contract.
41     9.  If When the governing board of the local government
42complies with all of the requirements of this subparagraph,
43after public notice, conducts a public meeting under s. 286.011
44after public notice, and finds by a majority vote of the
45governing board that it is in the public's best interest to
46perform the project using its own services, employees, and
47equipment. The public notice must be published at least 21 14
48days before prior to the date of the public meeting at which the
49governing board takes final action to apply this subparagraph.
50The notice must identify the project, the components and scope
51of the work, and the estimated cost of the project using
52generally accepted cost-accounting principles that fully account
53for all costs associated with performing and completing the
54work, including employee compensation and benefits, equipment
55cost and maintenance, insurance costs, and materials. The notice
56must specify that the purpose for the public meeting is to
57consider whether it is in the public's best interest to perform
58the project using the local government's own services,
59employees, and equipment. Upon publication of the public notice
60and for 21 days thereafter, the local government shall make
61available for public inspection, during normal business hours
62and at a location specified in the public notice, a detailed
63itemization of each component of the estimated cost of the
64project and documentation explaining the methodology used to
65arrive at the estimated cost. At the public meeting, any
66qualified contractor or vendor who could have been awarded the
67project had the project been competitively bid shall be provided
68with a reasonable opportunity to present evidence to the
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