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THE CITY COUNCIL
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JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA 32202
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Finance Committee Agenda Meeting Minutes
July 20, 2016
8:30 a.m.
Topic:
Finance Committee agenda meeting
Location:
Lynwood Roberts Room, 1st floor, City Hall – St. James Building, 117
West Duval Street
In attendance:
Council Members Anna Lopez Brosche (Chair), Greg
Anderson, Aaron Bowman, Sam Newby
Also: Kirk Sherman and Kyle Billy – Council Auditor’s
Office; Peggy Sidman – Office of General
Counsel; Jeff Clements – Council Research Division; Jessica Matthews –
Legislative Services Division; Ali Korman Shelton – Mayor’s Office; Mike
Weinstein and Teresa Eichner – Finance Department; Kirk Wendland, Ed Randolph and
Joe Whitaker – Office of Economic Development
See attached sign-in sheet for additional attendees
Meeting Convened:
8:30 a.m.
Chairwoman Brosche called the meeting to order and asked the
attendees to introduce themselves. She reviewed the Auditor’s marked agenda
which included 9 items marked for deferral, 9 items ready for action (1 as an
emergency) and 20 items for second reading and re-referral.
There is an unnumbered bill added to the agenda for
discussion. Fire Chief Kurt Wilson will discuss a requested emergency
appropriation for work on Fire Station 4 to make it habitable after a
renovation project.
Ms. Brosche stated that the “Overview of Housing Division
and housing-related grant ordinances” shown as a Topic for Special Committee on
Finance Matters is, in fact, a part of the regular agenda, not the Special
Committee meeting. Council Auditor Kirk Sherman will also brief the committee
on the annual millage rollback resolution. She also stated that she has asked
the Council Auditor’s Office to briefly report at each Finance Committee
meeting on any Auditor’s Office audits or reports released since the previous
committee meeting. The package of budget-related ordinances was sent to all
council members yesterday by e-mail from Deputy General Counsel Peggy Sidman.
Council Member Anderson announced that 2016-385
(appropriating $150,000 from Special Council Contingency – Hemming Park to the
Parks and Recreation Department for use by Friends of Hemming Park will be
discussed by the Special Committee on Hemming Park that he has been appointed
to chair. He will notice a meeting of the special committee for next week.
Meeting Adjourned:
8:36 a.m.
Minutes: Jeff Clements, Council Research
7.20.16 Posted 9:00 a.m.
Tapes: Finance agenda
meeting– LSD
7.20.16
Materials: Auditor’s marked Finance agenda
7.20.16