JACKSONVILLE
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA MEETING MINUTES
September 9, 2008
3:00 p.m.
1st Floor, City Hall
117 W. Duval Street
Attendance: Council
President Fussell, Council Members Holt, Yarborough, Corrigan, Webb, Shad, Bishop,
Joost, Graham, W. Jones, Redman, M. Jones, Johnson
Also: Steve Rohan, Dylan
Reingold, Cindy Laquidara and Carol Mirando – Office of General Counsel; Kirk Sherman, Janice
Billy and Kyle Billy – Council Auditor’s Office; Dana Farris – Legislative Services
Division; Lisa Rinaman – Mayor’s Office; Kerri Stewart – Deputy CAO; Lin White – Dept. of Public Works;
Ros Phillips and Kelly Boree – Recreation and Community Development Department;
Ebenezer Gujjarlapudi – Environmental and Compliance Department; Chris Pearson
– Public Works Department; Wight Gregor, Laura Stagner and James Richardson –
Housing and Neighborhoods Department;
John Crofts – Planning and Development Department; Dianne Smith, Debbie
Delgado, Sandra Lane, Celeste Hicks, Mina
Hosseini, Meghan Friel, Suzanne Warren, Alison Miller, Tiffany Clark, Bridgette
Green – 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; Brenna
Durden, Warren Alvarez, T.R. Hainline, John Crescimbeni; Paige Johnston
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.
He noted that Ordinance 2008-538 (Trail Ridge Landfill operations
contract) is not on the agenda because the Rules Committee did not take action
on the bill, unlike the Finance and TEU Committees. Council Auditor Kirk Sherman recommended that
the bill be taken up, substituted and re-referred to all three committees, to
which the President agreed. 2008-555
(FY08-09 budget) was not acted on by Rules in committee last week; it will need
to be discharged from Rules so the Finance Committee substitute can be adopted
and the bill laid on the table.
Council Member Corrigan reviewed
the Finance Committee’s actions from its meeting. He noted that he will be offering floor
amendments on 2008-630 (appropriation of $10.5 million from the Landfill
Closure Account to purchase land adjacent to Trail Ridge Landfill for fill
material) and 2008-682 (amending the Ordinance Code regarding feeding the
homeless for bona fide religious reasons).
He also stated that the three budget-related ordinances (2008-554, -555
and -678) will have their public hearings tonight. The budget ordinance (2008-555) will have the
public hearing opened and closed, the additional public hearing at the next
Council meeting announced, be discharged from Rules, substituted and re-referred
to committee. In response to a question
from Council Member Shad, Kirk Sherman indicated that the Finance Committee
concluded its work on the budget to date with a contingency reserve of just
over $204,000.
Council Member Yarborough indicated
that all the PHS Committee’s actions were covered by the previous committee
reports.
Council Member Bishop reviewed
the TEU Committee’s actions from its meeting.
Council Member W. Jones stated
that the RCD Committee’s actions have all been previously reported.
Council Member Graham
reviewed the LUZ Committee’s actions from its meeting, noting that the
committee failed to recommend approval of 2008-314 (rezoning on
President Fussell stated that
he was under the weather and may need to excuse himself before the end of the
meeting. Given Vice President Clark’s
excused absence, Rules Committee Chairman Jack Webb would assume the chair
should that become necessary.
Steve Rohan announced that,
following the retirement of Tracy Arpen, Shannon Eller has been promoted to the
position of Deputy General Counsel for Land Use and Environmental Law. He also announced that Peggy Sidman has been
promoted to the position of Chief Legislative Counsel.
The floor leader was asked to
make an announcement early in the meeting to inform the general public that the
Value Adjustment Board is conducting business in Committee Room A across the
atrium in case a VAB applicant is mistakenly in the Council Chamber. Council Member Holt stated that bills
2008-627 and -628 (Dunn Creek, LLC/Titan Land, LLC/Valerie Britt stipulated
settlement agreement and Future Land Use Map amendment) may draw a substantial
number of interested citizens.
Council Member Mia Jones
requested that 2008-763 and -764 honoring and commending recently deceased
citizens be taken up as emergencies.
There being no further
business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:15 p.m.
Jeff Clements, Chief
Council Research Division
630-1405
Posted 9/10/08
11:25 a.m.