JOINT FINANCE &
RCDPHS
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
MEETING MINUTES
Monday,
April 25, 2016 |
Tape
No.________________________ |
9:00
AM |
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Council
Chambers 1st Floor, City
Hall |
Dana
M. Farris, Chief
of Legislative Services |
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Bill Gulliford, Finance Chair |
Legislative Assistant: Jessica Morales |
Anna
Lopez Brosche, Finance Vice Chair |
Legislative
Assistant: Crystal Shemwell |
Danny
Becton |
Asst.
Council Auditor: Kyle Billy |
Aaron
Bowman |
Chief
of Research: Jeff Clements |
Lori
Boyer |
Research:
John Jackson |
John
Crescimbeni |
Deputy
General Counsel: Peggy Sidman |
Reggie
Gaffney |
Attorney:
Paige Johnston |
Doyle Carter, RCDPHS Chair |
Administration:
Ali Korman Shelton |
Sam
Newby, RCDPHS Vice Chair
Katrina
Brown- Excused Late Arrival
Reggie
Brown
Garrett
Dennis-Excused Late Arrival
Al
Ferraro
Matt
Schellenberg
Meeting Convened 9:02 a.m. Meeting
Adjourned 11:32 a.m.
If a person decides
to appeal any decision made by the Council with respect to any matter
considered at such meeting, such person will need a record of the proceedings,
and for such purpose, such person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of
the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon
which the appeal is to be based.
Attendance: CP Anderson spoke
on bill 2015-519
Speakers:
2015-519 Lawsikia Hodges,Office of General Counsel
Dayatra Coles, Housing &
Neighborhoods
Diane Seydlorsky
spoke, Acting Chief Housing & Neighborhoods
2016-198 Darryl Joseph,
Director of Parks and Recreation
Vince Cavin,
Executive Director of Friends of Hemming Park
NOTE: The next regular Finance meeting will be held
Monday, May 2, 2016.
The next regular RCDPHS meeting
will be held Tuesday, May 3, 2016.
1. 2015-519 |
ORD-MC Amend Chapt
122 (Public Propty), Sec 122.461 (Donation for
Residential Housing), Ord Code, to Increase Value of Propty
City may Donate from $25,000 to $50,000 & Provide Addnl
Criteria for Entities Accepting said Donation; Adopt Policy created by
Housing & Community Dev Div to Evaluate & Apv Entities Eligible for said Donation. (Johnston)
(Introduced by CM Lee, Jones, Bishop, Crescimbeni, Gulliford, Love, Anderson
Co-sponsored by CM's Hazouri, Dennis, Ferraro & Morgan) Public Hearing Pursuant to Chapt 166, F.S. & CR 3.601 - 8/11/15 |
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1. 7/28/2015 CO Introduced: F,RCDPHS,R |
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8/3/2015 RCDPHS Read 2nd & Rerefer; 8/3/2015 F Read 2nd & Rerefer |
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8/4/2015 R Read 2nd & Rerefer |
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2. 8/11/2015 CO PH Read 2nd & Rereferred; F, RCDPHS, R |
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2/1/2016 F Sub/Rerefer 7-0 |
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2/2/2016 R Sub/Rerefer 7-0; 2/2/2016 RCDPHS Sub/Rerefer
7-0 |
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3. 2/9/2016 CO
SUBSTITUTE/ Rerefer; F, RCDPHS, R Dayatra
Coles |
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2/16/2016 F Amend/Approve 7-0 |
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2/17/2016 R Amend/Approve 6-0 |
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4/12/2016 CO REREFERRED; F, R |
Bill
Summary
The joint committees engaged in
extensive discussion about potential amendments to the bill regarding
procedures for, timing of, and conditions on transferring buildable surplus
lots to Community Housing Development Organizations (CHDOs) for the
construction or rehabilitation of affordable housing. The committees discussed
requirements for applicant CHDOs to have no outstanding unpaid taxes, liens or
other financial obligations to the City on other properties when applying for
acquisition of new properties. A requirement for owner occupancy of any new or
rehabilitated affordable housing and what sort of legal mechanisms would be
needed to achieve that end was discussed. The committee discussed the contents
of the Housing Division’s affordable housing building standards and whether or
not they included architectural and appearance standards, setback and
orientation requirements, etc. in addition to purely construction and
mechanical standards.
During a public comment period
Jacqueline Tisdale of AAA Investment Group said that her for-profit company
wants to buy some of the City’s available properties for the construction of
quality affordable housing.
Finance Ballot vote-Twice Amended/Approve 7-0 RCDPHS Ballot Vote-Twice
Amended/Approve 7-0 Finance Amendment 1: Finance Amendment 2: requires recipients of all
property transfers regulated by Chapter 122 to be current on all taxes,
liens and other City obligations before property can be conveyed
2. 2016-198 |
ORD Approp
$250,000 from Spec Council Operating Contingency to the Parks, Rec &
Community Svcs Dept Acct
to fund 13-Jax, Inc d/b/a/ Friends of Hemming Park
(FOHP) for Operation & Mgmt of Hemming Park by
FOHP; Auth 2nd Amend to Contract with FOHP.
(Sawyer) (Introduced by CM Gulliford) Public Hearing Pursuant to Chapt 166, F.S. & CR 3.601 - 3/22/16 |
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1. 3/8/2016 CO Introduced: F,RCDPHS |
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3/14/2016 F Read 2nd & Rerefer |
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3/15/2016 RCDPHS Read 2nd & Rerefer |
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2. 3/22/2016 CO PH Read 2nd & Rereferred; F, RCDPHS |
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Bill
Summary |
In response to questions from the
committees, Vince Cavin, Executive Director of
Friends of Hemming Park, said that the organization plans to use the full
$250,000 for operations in the park and would be requesting $500,000 in the
City’s FY16-17 budget for operations and programming next year. Council Member
Crescimbeni said that he could not support the bill without the addition of
language providing for reimbursement to the City of any cost savings achieved
in the stage construction project by use of a contractor willing to donate
goods or services toward the project as a civic contribution. The bill was
deferred by the Finance Committee (the bill was not noticed for action by the
RCDPHS Committee).
Jeff Clements, Council Research
Division
Posted 4.26.16 9:30 a.m.
DEFER