OFFICE OF THE CITY COUNCIL

 

CHERYL L. BROWN                                                                                                                                                     117 WEST DUVAL STREET, SUITE 425

DIRECTOR                                                                                                                                                                         4TH FLOOR, CITY HALL

OFFICE (904) 630-1452                                                                                                                                                      JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 32202

FAX (904) 630-2906                                                                                                                                                 

E-MAIL: CLBROWN@coj.net

 

CITY COUNCIL AGENDA MEETING MINUTES


May 12, 2015

4:00 p.m.

 

Location: City Council Chamber, City Hall – St. James Building; 117 West Duval Street,

In attendance: Council Members Clay Yarborough (President), Greg Anderson, Bill Bishop, Lori Boyer, Reggie Brown, Doyle Carter, Richard Clark, John Crescimbeni (arr. 4:05), Bill Gulliford, Ray Holt, Warren Jones, Stephen Joost, Jim Love, Robin Lumb, Don Redman, Matt Schellenberg

Also: Peggy Sidman, Paige Johnston, Susan Grandin and Stephen Durden – Office of General Counsel; Kirk Sherman and Kyle Billy – Council Auditor’s Office; Dana Farris – Legislative Services Division; Steve Cassada– Council Staff Services; Jeff Clements – Council Research Division; Teresa Eichner – Mayor’s Office; Lin White – Public Works Department; James Richardson – Environmental Protection Board; Dan Macdonald and Scott Wilson – ECAs; Paul Crawford – Office of Economic Development; Bill Hodges – Children’s Commission; Fred Atwill, Paul Harden, T.R. Hainline, Richard Berry

 

Meeting Convened: 4:01 p.m.

 

Rules Committee: Council Member Gulliford reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting.

 

TEU Committee: Council Member Brown reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting. 

 

Finance Committee: Council Member Clark reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting.

 

RCDPHS Committee: Council Member Redman reported that all the actions of the committee had been previously covered

 

LUZ Committee: Council Member Holt reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting.

 

Council Member Boyer reported that she will be offering a floor amendment to 2015-234 (amending the City “whistleblower ordinance”) to conform the wording of who constitutes a whistleblower official to state law. On 2015-258 (amending the Police and Fire Pension Plan) Ms. Boyer stated that the City has received the required actuarial statement from the Police and Fire Pension Fund, so she will request that the bill be discharged, amended to attach the actuarial statement, and then re-referred to committee. She also suggested that 2015-304 (amending the Police and Fire Pension Fund) be similarly discharged, amended and re-referred.

 

Council Member Holt announced that many of the e-mails that council members have been receiving from his constituents regarding 2015-254 (appropriating funds from several roadway improvement projects to design of a new Imeson Park Boulevard project) are misleading. The constituents want the funds from the Yellow Bluff Road improvement project to be used for repaving of a different portion of Yellow Bluff Road from the original project, but Mr. Holt has been informed that the bond funds providing the funding to that project cannot be used for paving purposes. Council Member Bishop requested that Mr. Holt also provide an explanation of why funds are being proposed to be transferred from a project in the Springfield neighborhood to the Northside for this project.

 

Council Member Jones reported that he understood Council Member Lee to be agreeable to the Council taking action on 2015-216 (appropriating funds from a landfill mitigation account to install security cameras at two parks), which was postponed at the last meeting.

 

Council Member Bishop reported that he would be offering a floor amendment to 2015-55 (amending the Sport and Entertainment Complex Sign Overlay Zone regarding exterior signage on the Veteran’s Memorial Arena), explaining that the floor amendment would provide that all legal signs currently on the exterior of the building will be allowed to stay, future exterior signage would be required to be approved by the Downtown Development Review Board, and recognizing that a changeable message marquee will be erected in the future following design approval by the DDRB.

 

President Yarborough said that the administration had requested a floor amendment to 2015-273 (appropriating grant funds to the Jacksonville Homeless Day Center) to define what constitutes “utilities” payable with the funds.

 

Meeting adjourned: 4:15 p.m.

 

 

Minutes: Jeff Clements, Council Research

             5.12.15 Posted 5:00 p.m.

Tapes:  Council agenda meeting – LSD

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Materials: President’s marked agenda - LSD

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