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RESOLUTION APPROVING AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN BROWARD, MIAMI-DADE, MONROE AND PALM BEACH COUNTIES, WHERE SUCH AGREEMENT PROVIDES MONROE COUNTY WILL PROVIDE A TOTAL OF $30,000.00 AND THAT MIAMI-DADE, PALM BEACH AND BROWARD COUNTIES WILL PROVIDE A TOTAL OF $285,000.00 EACH, OVER A THREE-YEAR PERIOD DURING FISCAL YEARS 2027-2029 FOR SERVICES RELATED TO THE SOUTHEAST FLORIDA REGIONAL CLIMATE CHANGE COMPACT BY THE INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES AND WHERE BROWARD COUNTY WILL OFFICIALLY RETAIN AND SUPERVISE THE INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES ON BEHALF OF THE FOUR COUNTIES; AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY MAYOR OR THE COUNTY MAYOR�S DESIGNEE TO EXECUTE SAID INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AND EXERCISE THE TERMINATION PROVISIONS CONTAINED THEREIN; AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY MAYOR OR COUNTY MAYOR�S DESIGNEE TO APPROVE EXTENSIONS OF TIME UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS; AND AUTHORIZING THE COUNTY MAYOR OR COUNTY MAYOR�S DESIGNEE TO SELECT MIAMI-DADE REPRESENTATIVES TO THE COMPACT LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE

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WHEREAS, this Board desires to accomplish the purposes outlined in the accompanying County Mayor�s memorandum, a copy of which is incorporated herein by reference,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, that:

Section 1. This Board approves the Interlocal Agreement among Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Monroe County, and Palm Beach County, in substantially the form attached hereto and made a part hereof as Exhibit A, which provides for Monroe County to provide a total of $30,000.00 and for Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties to provide a total of $285,000.00 each over a three-year period during 2026-2029 for services related to the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact, which would be provided by the Institute for Sustainable Communities. Under the terms of the Interlocal Agreement, Broward County will retain and supervise the Institute for Sustainable Communities on behalf of the four counties.

Section 2. This Board authorizes the County Mayor or County Mayor�s designee to execute the Interlocal Agreement, in substantially the form attached as Exhibit A and exercise the termination provisions contained therein.

Section 3. This Board authorizes the County Mayor or County Mayor�s designee to execute amendments for extensions of time to this Interlocal Agreement, after approval by the County Attorney�s Office as to form and legal sufficiency, and provided that the expenditure of any additional County funds beyond those authorized by this resolution has been approved by separate action of this Board.

Section 4. This Board authorizes the County Mayor or the County Mayor�s designee to select Miami-Dade County�s representative who would participate on the four-county Compact Leadership Committee, consistent with the requirements specified in the Interlocal Agreement. The County Mayor or the County Mayor�s designee may also select an alternate Miami-Dade County representative for the Compact Leadership Committee.

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To: Honorable Chairman Anthony Rodriguez
and Members, Board of County Commissioners

From: Daniella Levine Cava
Mayor

Subject: Resolution Approving the Interlocal Agreement Among Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach Counties for Services Related to the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact by the Institute for Sustainable Communities

STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Executive Summary
The purpose of this item is to obtain approval and authorization for the County Mayor or County Mayor�s designee to execute the attached Interlocal Agreement (ILA) (Exhibit 1). The ILA was developed through the partnership of Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Broward and Monroe Counties comprising the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Compact (the Compact). The Compact�s activities and success have attracted additional resources and funding to the region and earned significant national and international attention, contributing significantly to the tangible progress each county and the region have made towards a coordinated and visionary action to address the impacts of a changing climate and provide for economic and environmental resilience in Southeast Florida. The current ILA was adopted in its initial form by this Board in 2020 by way of Resolution No. R-1248-20, amended in 2023 by way of Resolution No. R-755-23 and in 2025 by way of Resolution No. R-1221-25. The Second Amended ILA expires on September 30, 2026 and this ILA replaces that agreement.

Broward County contracts services related to the Compact, which are provided by the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC). Broward County has consistently served as the fiscal agent for the Compact and contracted services with ISC since the inception of that contracting relationship. Under the terms of the Interlocal Agreement, Broward County will retain and supervise the ISC on behalf of the four counties. The ILA provides for Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and Broward Counties to contribute $95,000 per year and Monroe County to contribute $10,000 per year, which will total $885,000 between the Counties over the three-year term of the ILA. The total annual cost of the Broward-ISC agreement for the participating counties will therefore be $295,000.

Recommendation
It is recommended that the Board of County Commissioners (Board) approve and authorize the County Mayor or County Mayor�s designee to execute the ILA among Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Monroe County, and Palm Beach County for cost share support services for the Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact (Compact). The ILA serves to: (1) commit Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties to contribute a total of $285,000 annually ($95,000 each) and Monroe County to contribute $10,000 annually over the three-year term of the ILA; (2) designate Broward County to officially retain and supervise the ISC; (3) provide the Scope of Services (see Scope of Services, attached as Exhibit A to the ILA) that ISC will be providing, and (4) provide guidelines for each county�s participation in the four-county Compact Leadership Committee.

Scope
The Compact�s work encompasses and benefits the entire Southeast Florida region, and as a result, has a countywide impact.

Delegation of Authority
This resolution authorizes the County Mayor or the County Mayor�s designee to execute the specified ILA and exercise the termination provisions contained therein. This resolution would also delegate to the County Mayor or the County Mayor�s designee the authority to execute amendments for extensions of time to this ILA, after approval by the County Attorney�s Office as to form and legal sufficiency, and provided that the expenditure of any additional County funds beyond those authorized by this resolution has been specifically approved by separate action of this Board.

Additionally, this resolution authorizes the County Mayor or the County Mayor�s designee to select a Miami-Dade County representative who would participate on the four-county Compact Leadership Committee, consistent with the requirements specified in the ILA. The County Mayor of the County Mayor�s designee may also select an alternate Miami-Dade County representative for the Compact Leadership Committee.

Fiscal Impact/Funding Source
The ILA provides for Miami-Dade County to contribute $95,000 for each year of the ILA, for a total of $285,000 over the three-year term. The proposed FY 2026-2027 Budget for Department of Environmental Resources Management Operating Budget for contractual services is anticipated to account for the FY 2026-2027 contribution to the ILA services. The line item is expected to be reflect in Miami-Dade County FY 2026-27 Proposed Budget, Vol. 3, Operating Expenditures, Contractual Services.

Track Record/Monitor
The Chief Resilience Officer and Director of the Department of Environmental Resources Management, Loren Parra, will be responsible for monitoring the Interlocal Agreement and its associated activities.

Background
In early 2010 through joint actions by the Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade and Monroe County Commissions, the counties entered into the Southeast Florida Climate Change Compact, an interlocal agreement which is a voluntary collaboration focused on addressing shared climate challenges. In the first years of the Compact, the partner counties were able to secure program administration support via the ISC with funding provided under a grant with the Kresge Foundation, secured by ISC.

As grant dollars were incrementally reduced, the counties each committed to provide cost share funding to maintain the programmatic support of ISC. Broward County agreed to manage the contract services Agreement with ISC and the Interlocal Agreements with each of the Partner Counties, to include annual invoicing for each partner�s respective cost share.
The success of the Compact has been underpinned by the coordination and facilitation services provided by the ISC and its staff. Staff from the ISC are intimately familiar with the individuals, issues, priorities, and processes relating to the Compact�s history, progress, and needs. Their valued advice, mediation skills, administrative support, and leadership have helped to guide the Compact process and are acknowledged by the staff from the four counties to be essential to the continued work.
The Compact has created a foundation for Southeast Florida�s leadership in resilience. Early planning efforts through the Compact enabled the region to secure nearly half the funding awarded by the Resilient Florida Grant Program in the first several years. The success of our 4-County Compact has served as a model for others in the state, prompting the formation of nearly half a dozen collaboratives similarly focused on resilience. Of critical note, the Compact has provided the basis for myriad additional landmark regional projects benefiting our communities, including the construction of the C-51 Reservoir Project to ensure sustainable long-term water supplies; the establishment of the Coral Reef Conservation Area, which extends reef conservation activities from the Keys Marine Sanctuary through Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Martin Counties. The Compact has delivered regional guidance tools and planning efforts, such as the unified sea-level rise projections used by all four counties to plan and reduce risk of flooding and provide a business case for economic resilience, which then served as a model for a similar study focused on the Tampa Bay region.
The ILA continues a partnership between the Counties as effectuated through a series of previous agreements approved by the Board of County Commissioners since 2016, including previous ILAs and amendments to those ILAs. These agreements were approved by the Board pursuant to the following adopted Resolutions: R-637-16, R-520-18, R-398-20, R-1248-20, R-755-23, and R-1221-25, respectively. The current ILA commits Miami-Dade County to contribute $95,000.00 per year for three years for a total of $285,000.00. This contributes towards the services provided by ISC in implementing the Compact. ISC will be retained by Broward County to implement the Compact�s work at a cost of $295,000.00 a year, representative of the contributions of all the participating counties.

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Roy Coley
Chief Utilities and Regulatory Services Officer