JACKSONVILLE
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA MEETING MINUTES
October 14, 2008
3:00 p.m.
1st Floor, City Hall
117 W. Duval Street
Attendance: Council
President Fussell, Council Members
Also: Peggy Sidman, Shannon Eller and Dylan Reingold
– Office of General Counsel; Kirk Sherman and Janice Billy – Council Auditor’s
Office; Dana Farris, Carol Owens and Juliette Williams – Legislative Services Division;
Shannon Hewett and Sherry Hall – Mayor’s Office; Lin White and Bob Williams –
Dept. of Public Works; Wight Gregor, Laura Stagner and Clayton Bailey – Housing
and Neighborhoods Department; Paul
Crawford and Jorina Jolly – JEDC; Susan
Stewart – Duval Legislative Delegation; John Crofts – Planning and Development
Department; Dianne Smith, Debbie Delgado, Angela Ryan, Celeste Hicks, Sarah
Lane, Mina Hosseini, Meghan Friel, Alison Miller, Tiffany Clark, Stan Johnson
and Scott Wilson – ECAs; Annette Hastings – Tourist Development Council; Jeff
Cements – City Council Research; Rachel Welsh and Steve Cassada – Council
Administrative Services; Tia Mitchell – Florida Times-Union; Kevin Meerschart –
WJCT; Paul Harden, T.R. Hainline, Paige
Johnston, Alberta Hipps
The meeting was called to
order at 3:03 p.m. by Council President Fussell.
Council Member Webb reviewed
the Rules Committee’s actions from its meeting, noting that the several resolutions
of appointment to the Housing and Community Development Commission and Housing
Finance Authority (2008-729 to -739) are actually reappointments of existing
members to the newly reconstituted boards as a result of the restructuring of
the Jacksonville Housing Authority.
Council Member Corrigan
reviewed the Finance Committee’s actions from its meeting. Council Member W. Jones stated that he would
be offering a floor amendment to ordinance 2006-591 which creates a
Soutel/Moncrief Retail Redevelopment Area regarding the reallocation of
unexpended funds at fiscal year-end.
Council Member Yarborough
reviewed the PHS Committee’s actions from its meeting.
Assistant Council Auditor
Janice Billy reviewed the TEU Committee’s actions from its meeting.
Council Member Graham
reviewed the LUZ Committee’s actions from its meeting, noting that the
committee had had a lengthy meeting and considerable discussion on 2008-563
(Jackson Square PUD rezoning) and anticipating that there may be a number of
speakers on the bill tonight.
Council Member W. Jones stated
that all items from the RCD Committee agenda had been covered by previous
committee reports. He stated that he
would be offering a floor amendment to ordinance 2008-765 (appropriation of
$5,500 for purchase of a lawn mower for the Paxon Athletic Association) to
change the name of the purchaser of the mower.
Council Member Johnson
requested emergency approval on first reading of resolution 2008-901
encouraging citizens to take advantage of the early voting locations to avoid
lengthy waits on Election Day if the predicted record-breaking voter turnout
occurs, which was approved.
Council Member Corrigan asked
about the status of the three resolutions (2008-905, -906, -907) approving
proposed J-bills 1, 2 and 3. President
Fussell stated that the bills would not be introduced tonight because they do
not yet have sponsors in the Legislative Delegation. Chief Legislative Counsel Peggy Sidman stated
that there is sufficient time for the delegation members (as constituted after
the November general election) to choose to sponsor the three proposed J-bills
in time for the introduction of their endorsing resolutions to the Council at
its November 10th meeting and for the resolutions to have a full
3-reading cycle and be approved at the December 9 Council meeting in time to
report the recommendations to the delegation before its organizational meeting
in January. Council Member Yarborough
stated that he has talked to one of the returning delegation members who
indicated that he would be willing to sponsor one of the J-bills, but only after
the Council had acted by resolution to state its support of the measure.
Council Member Graham stated
that new ordinance 2008-908 is intended as a “glitch” bill to fix an unintended
consequence of the recent re-write of the code regarding temporary recreational
vehicle parking permits. The bill will
be requested for approval as an emergency on second reading in October in order
to have the correction made before the Florida/Georgia football weekend.
Council Member W. Jones
stated that he would be offering a floor amendment to 2008-563 (Jackson Square
PUD rezoning) to reduce the number of permitted units from 900 to 750. He also stated that the RCD Committee would
be holding a special meeting, either in City Hall or perhaps at the beach, to
discuss the management plan for
Council Member Holt asked if
there has been any progress on rewriting the Zoning Code to deal with the
problem of large commercial vehicles being parked in residential neighborhoods
(i.e. landscaping trucks and trailers).
Shannon Eller of the General Counsel’s Office indicated that the problem
is being addressed in re-write of the residential Zoning Code.
There being no further
business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:23 p.m.
Jeff Clements, Chief
Council Research Division
630-1405
Posted 10/15/08
11:40 a.m.