CITY COUNCIL AGENDA MEETING MINUTES
June 10, 2008
3:00 p.m.
City Council Conference Room A
117 W. Duval Street
Attendance: Council
President Davis, Council Members
Also: Peggy Sidman, Steve
Rohan, Dylan Reingold and Shannon Eller – Office of General Counsel; Kirk
Sherman and Janice Billy – Council Auditor’s Office; Dana Farris and Carol
Owens – Legislative Services Division; Lisa Rinaman, Sherry Hall and Shannon
Hewett – Mayor’s Office; Lin White – Dept. of Public Works; Brad Thoburn –
Planning and Development Department; Wight Greger and Kelly Boree – Recreation
and Community Development Department; Paul Crawford and Joe Whitaker – JEDC;
Cheryl Brown – Council Secretary; Sheriff John Rutherford; Dianne Smith, Debbie
Delgado, Suzanne Warren, Alison Miller, Susie Loving, Sandra Lane, Tiffany
Clark, Meghan Friel, Sarah Balme, Allison Miller, Celeste Hicks, Rupal Wells
and Angela Ryan – ECAs; Kevin Meerschaert – WJCT; Joe Adams – Florida
Times-Union; Paul Harden – agent; Ken Johnson – office of Congresswoman Corinne
Brown; Angela Getter – Edward Waters College; Tom Ingram – agent; Scott Crosby
- agent
The meeting was called to
order at 3:04 p.m. by Council President Davis.
Council Member W. Jones gave
the Rules Committee report.
Assistant Council Auditor
Janice Billy gave the Finance Committee report.
She noted that Ordinance 2008-27 (dogs in outdoor restaurants) had
conflicting amendments. The PHS
Committee amendment incorporates and expands upon the Finance Committee
amendment and should be taken up first.
Ms. Billy also gave the PHS
committee report, noting that all items had been covered by the previous
committee reports.
Council Member Clark gave the
TEU Committee report, noting that Resolution 2008-509 supporting the Knowledge
Is Power Program coming to
Council Member Graham gave
the RCD Committee report, noting that all items had been previously covered.
Council Member Corrigan gave
the LUZ Committee report. He noted that
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The President introduced
Sheriff John Rutherford to explain Ordinance 2008-428 which adds 40 new
positions to the Sheriff’s employee cap to hire new patrol officers. The Sheriff described how the funding was
identified within existing resources in his department for the remainder of
this fiscal year. Thereafter he has a
number of potential funding sources in mind to fund these positions in the next
fiscal year, including the recently-increased inmate food and medical payment
fees, increased wrecker fees, reduced operational expenses (cell phones and
maintenance), charging fees to special events that require substantial amounts
of traffic control that do not currently pay the fee (i.e. ACC baseball
tournament, Monster Truck Show), and privatization of JSO vehicle
maintenance. The Sheriff explained the
rationale behind increasing inmate fees and described the mechanism by which
they will be collected. The Sheriff also
explained that Council’s funding for Operation Safe Streets ran out on June 4th
so that program is on hold until further funding is identified. President Davis recommended that the bill be
deferred for 2 weeks so that all council members could have all their questions
thoroughly answered before voting.
Steve Rohan of the General
Counsel’s Office requested that the public hearing on Ordinance 2008-341
(re-employment of retired JSO officers) be opened and continued to the next
meeting to allow for a required actuarial study to be completed before the
final vote.
Council Member Fussell stated
that he would be offering a floor amendment to 2008-315 (hurricane zone maps)
to allow for alterations to the official maps if a property owner has competent
technical evidence to dispute a property’s inclusion within the zone. Assistant General Counsel Shannon Eller state
that the floor amendment would aid the City in coming to a resolution with the
Florida Department of Community Affairs of a dispute over the hurricane zone
maps.
Steve Rohan introduced 6
interns serving in the Office of General Counsel’s
There being no further
business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:47 p.m.
Jeff Clements, Chief
Council Research Division
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Posted 6/11/08
9:22
a.m.