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
August 23, 2011
4:00 p.m.
Location: City Council Chamber, City Hall –
In attendance: Council President Joost, Council Members
Redman, Crescimbeni, Carter, Jones, Bishop, Yarborough, Clark, Gulliford,
Brown,
Also: Cindy Laquidara, Steve Rohan, Peggy Sidman, Dylan Reingold, John Germany and Jason Gabriel – Office of General Counsel; Kirk Sherman and Janice Billy– Council Auditor’s Office; Steve Cassada – Council Staff Services; Mayor Alvin Brown, Chris Hand, Jessica Deal - Mayor’s Office; Joe Whitaker – JEDC; Bill Killingsworth – Planning and Development Department; Dana Farris – Legislative Services Division; Lin White – Public Works Department; Robert Phillips and Justin Gicalone – Supervisor of Elections’ Office; Wight Greger and James Richardson – Housing and Neighborhoods Department; Jeff Clements – Council Research Division; Celeste Hicks, Sandra Lane, Debbie Delgado and Kevin Kuzel - ECAs; Kevin Meerschaert – WJCT; Steve Patterson – Florida Times-Union; Dana Chapman – Financial News and Daily Record; Nelson Cuba – FOP; Tony Bates, Theresa Eichner, Jim Gilmore
Meeting Convened: 4:04 p.m.
Council President Joost convened the meeting and introduced Mayor Brown to make brief comments. Mayor Brown stated that he looks forward to establishing 19 partnerships with the City Council members to take the City to the next level. He asked the Council to please consider two items: 1) defer 2011-400 (amendments to the Police and Fire Pension Plan) for no more than 60 days; and 2) defer the requirement for annual actuarial studies (2011-377) for one year.
Rules Committee: Council Member Bishop reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting.
Finance Committee: Council Member Clark reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting. 2011-297 has competing Finance and TEU Committee amendments; the Finance amendment should be moved first..
LUZ Committee: Council Member Brown reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting.
TEU Committee: Council Member Anderson reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting. 2011-430 will be pulled from the Consent Agenda and will have a floor amendment requested by FDOT. 2011-460 will also be pulled from the Consent Agenda and rereferred to committee at the request of Council Member Carter.
RCDPHS Committee: Council Member Gulliford reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting.
President Joost announced that the Rules Committee will be holding 4 resdistricting public hearings at 6:00 p.m. on the following days: August 24, FSCJ North Campus; August 25, FSCJ Kent; August 29, FSCJ South; and September 1, FSCJ Deerwood.
Mr. Joost announced that 2011-400 will be moved for postponement at the request of the Mayor. Council Member Boyer stated that she will propose a substitute floor amendment for 2011-377 which would defer the mandated actuarial study for one year, require that future deferral requests must be filed by March 1st of the applicable year, and would change the rationale for granting deferral requests. Council Member Bishop stated that any criteria can be overridden or waived with 10 votes unless the Code specifically requires a super-majority vote.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:19 p.m.
Minutes: Jeff Clements, Council Research
8.23.11 Posted 5:30 p.m.
Tapes: Council agenda meeting – LSD
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Materials: President’s agenda - LSD
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