OFFICE OF
THE CITY COUNCIL
CHERYL L. BROWN 117 WEST DUVAL STREET,
DIRECTOR 4TH
FLOOR, CITY HALL
OFFICE (904) 630-1452
FAX (904) 630-2906
E-MAIL: CLBROWN@coj.net
CITY COUNCIL AGENDA MEETING MINUTES
September 13, 2011
4:00 p.m.
Location: City Council Chamber, City Hall –
In attendance: Council President Joost, Council Members
Crescimbeni, Carter, Jones, Bishop, Clark, Gulliford, Brown,
Also: Peggy Sidman, Dylan Reingold and Jason Gabriel – Office of General Counsel; Janice Billy, Kim Taylor and Heather Norsworthy – Council Auditor’s Office; Steve Cassada – Council Staff Services; Jessica Deal - Mayor’s Office; Bill Killingsworth – Planning and Development Department; Dana Farris – Legislative Services Division; Lin White and Tom Goldsbury – Public Works Department; Jeff Clements – Council Research Division; Celeste Hicks, Sandra Lane, Debbie Delgado and ScottWilson - ECAs; Kevin Meerschaert – WJCT; Steve Patterson – Florida Times-Union; Scott Hamilton – WJXT; Tony Bates, Theresa Eichner, Wyman Duggan, Sarah Boren – U.S. Green Building Council, Northeast Florida Chapter
Meeting Convened: 4:01 p.m.
Council President Joost convened the meeting and asked the committee chairs to report their committee actions.
Rules Committee: Council Member Bishop reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting, noting that 2011-554, the redistricting ordinance, will have a public hearing. In order to maintain consistency among all of the redistricting public hearings, the Office of General Counsel and Planning and Development Department will make the same brief overview presentations as have been made at the previous hearings.
Finance Committee: Council Member Clark reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting, noting that tonight will be the public hearing and tentative approval for the budget and millage levy ordinances. He asked that 2011-366 (Parador Partners parking garage incentive deal) be added to an addendum to the agenda and discharged from the Finance Committee so that it can be acted on tonight based on the recommendations of the Rules and RCDPHS committees.
TEU Committee: Council Member Anderson reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting.
RCDPHS Committee: Council Member Gulliford reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting. He stated that he will offer a floor amendment to 2011-494 (allowing Northeast Florida Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council to utilize space in the library parking garage). Peggy Sidman explained that the amendment will incorporate the Finance Committee’s amendment regarding utilities as amended to state the utilities as an annual rather than monthly amount, to change the start date to January 3, 2012, and to provide that the tenant may work with the City and JEA to appropriately plan for build-out of the space and for utility locations.
LUZ Committee: Council Member Brown reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting.
President Joost announced that the Value Adjustment Board was taking assessment protests in the Don Davis Room across the atrium. Mr. Joost also requested the council members who anticipate offering floor amendments to the budget at the next meeting to please have the amendments prepared in writing for distribution at the agenda meeting on the 27th.
Peggy Sidman reviewed the budget-related ordinances being handled tonight, including 2011-402, -403, -404, -405 and -406. The budget ordinance (405) will need a floor amendment for a minor technical change to one exhibit and then will be moved for tentative approval and postponement to the September 27th meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:11 p.m.
Minutes: Jeff Clements, Council Research
9.13.11 Posted 5:40 p.m.
Tapes: Council agenda meeting – LSD
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Materials: President’s agenda - LSD
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