Document Summary

This is a Task Assignment Notification Form issued by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), Division of State Lands, Bureau of Appraisal, under statewide contract PL292 with Clayton, Roper & Marshall, Inc. The assignment involves appraisal services for the Volusia Conservation Corridor project located in Volusia County, Florida. The property owner is Deep Creek Reserve, LLC, represented by Paul M. Roper. The contract designates Jay F. Scott as both the DEP Contract Manager and DEP Designated Task Manager, with oversight responsibility for the appraisal assignment.

The task assignment requires a fixed-price appraisal service valued at $4,810.00 for appraising a 276-acre property (147 acres uplands, 129 acres wetlands) owned by Deep Creek Reserve, LLC. The appraisal will follow Supplemental Appraisal Standards for the Board of Trustees and Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice, and will be delivered in narrative single-parcel ownership format within 30 days. The purpose of the appraisal is to evaluate possible conservation easement acquisition, with the appraiser tasked with determining the value assigned to the conservation easement in the "after" value scenario. The state will furnish the five-year title history, and required attachments include appraisal maps, tax cards, and location maps. The assignment became effective upon execution of the task assignment notification, dated March 27, 2019, with funding provided through Florida Forever Project allocations.