OFFICE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
CHERYL L. BROWN 117 WEST
DUVAL STREET,
DIRECTOR 4TH FLOOR, CITY
HALL
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Finance Committee Agenda Meeting Minutes
June 19, 2012
9:30 a.m.
Topic: Finance Committee agenda meeting
Location: Conference Room A, City Hall –
In attendance: Council Members Richard Clark (Chair), Greg
Anderson, Bill Bishop and Ray Holt
Kirk Sherman and Janice Billy
– Council Auditor’s Office; Peggy Sidman – Office of General Counsel; Lin White
and John Jones – Public Works Department; Jessica Deal and Tiffani Dailey –
Mayor’s Office; Joe Whitaker – JEDC; Cynthia Nixon – Children’s Commission; Elaine
Spencer, Laura Stagner and Dayatra Coles – Housing and Community Development;
Ronnie Belton – CFO; Sherry Hall – Tax Collector’s office; Vince Seibold – Environmental Quality; BeLinda
Peeples, Suzanne Warren, Sonia Johnson and Stan Johnson - ECAs; Jessica
Stephens – Legislative Services Division; Jeff Clements – Council Research
Division; Troy Washam, Coen Purvis; Chris Quinn – Jacksonville Chamber of
Commerce
Meeting Convened: 9:32a.m.
Chairman Clark convened the
meeting and reviewed the Auditor’s marked agenda which showed 8 items to be
deferred, 11 items ready for action (1 for withdrawal) and 6 items for second
reading and re-referral.
2012-128 (appropriating
$125,000 from Old Kings Road Landfill mitigation account for purchase of park
property on Hamilton Circle): Council Member Brown will not be present; Mr.
Clark will leave it to the commission’s discretion whether it wants to act or
not in his absence.
2012-274 (declaring Council
support for installation of surveillance cameras in high crime areas): in the
absence of any information about potential costs and with the sponsor absent,
the Chair is inclined to defer.
2012-297 (appropriating $4.63
million from First Coast High School swimming pool project to a rail corridor
study and Jacksonville International Airport north access road): Council Member
Holt will support adoption of yesterday’s TEU Committee amendment to
appropriate funds for the rail corridor study and pool feasibility study
only. He will deal with the airport
north access road in subsequent legislation.
2012-301 (tentative budget
and millage resolution): CFO Ronnie Belton indicated that he had received the
Police and Fire Pension Fund annual report this morning and would be reviewing
it for its impact on the budget.
2012-302 (moving date for
submission of mayor’s budget proposal to July 16): Ms. Deal indicated the Mayor
will be ready to submit the budget on July 13th if this bill is not
passed. Peggy Sidman noted that 2012-379
also addresses the time for budget submission.
Ms. Deal noted that 2012-382
(establishing separate project number within the Unified Courthouse Project for
the State Attorney’s Office) was not moved as an emergency in the Rules
Committee yesterday but the administration requests that Finance act on the
emergency today. Mr. Belton indicated he
did not wish to disclose a particular budget amount for the project before the
bids for the project are received.
Janice Billy said that the bill would create a separate project number
for the State Attorney’s office in order to better track the expenditures for
that building. If the bill is not acted
on by Finance it could be discharged next week in Council by a 2/3 vote.
Meeting Adjourned: 9:50 a.m.
Minutes: Jeff Clements, Council Research Division
6.19.12 Posted 4:00 p.m.
Tapes: Finance agenda meeting– LSD
6.19.12
Materials: Auditor’s
marked Finance agenda
6.19.12