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Finance Committee Agenda Meeting Minutes

 December 7, 2016

8:30 a.m.

Topic: Finance Committee agenda meeting

 

Location: City Council Chamber, 1st floor, City Hall – St. James Building, 117 West Duval Street

 

In attendance: Council Members Anna Lopez Brosche (Chair), Sam Newby, Bill Gulliford, Aaron Bowman, Matt Schellenberg

 

Also: Kirk Sherman and Kyle Billy – Council Auditor’s Office; Peggy Sidman – Office of General Counsel; Jeff Clements – Council Research Division; Philip Zamarron and Tess Patterson– Legislative Services Division; Ali Korman Shelton – Mayor’s Office; Mike Weinstein and  Angela Moyer – Finance Department; Kirk Wendland and Paul Crawford– Office of Economic Development; Jon Heymann and Bill Hodges – Jacksonville Children’s Commission; Bill Killingsworth – Planning and Development Department; John Pappas and Lin White – Public Works Department; Dave Herrell – Sports and Entertainment

 

Meeting Convened: 8:31 a.m.

 

Chairwoman Brosche called the meeting to order and asked the attendees to introduce themselves. Ms. Brosche reviewed the Auditor’s marked agenda which included 6 items marked for deferral, 25 items ready for action (1 for substitution and re-referral, 1 for withdrawal, 3 requested for emergency approval) and 14 items for second reading and re-referral.

 

2016-779 (approving the "Northwest Jacksonville Economic Development Fund - Goals, Policies & Guidelines") will be substituted to correct the attached exhibit and re-referred.

 

Ms. Brosche announced that the committee would hear a report from General Counsel Jason Gabriel regarding the Loblolly Wetlands Mitigation Bank and that Council Auditor Kirk Sherman would report on the latest Council Auditor’s audit report. The topic of the Special Meeting would be a continuation of the discussion of City grant budgeting processes. At the conclusion of the meeting, if there is time at the end of a long agenda, the committee will hear from Finance Director Mike Weinstein and Police and Fire Pension Fund Executive Director Ken Johnson regarding the recent media reports concerning an increase in the City’s employer contribution to the PFPF for FY17-18.

 

Meeting Adjourned: 8:39 a.m.

 

 

Minutes: Jeff Clements, Council Research

            12.7.16   Posted 9:00 a.m.

Tapes:  Finance agenda meeting– LSD

             12.7.16