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Rules Committee Agenda Meeting Minutes

March 20, 2019

1:30 p.m.

 

 

Topic: Rules Committee agenda meeting

 

Location: Council Chambers, First Floor, City Hall – St. James Building, 117 West Duval Street

 

In Attendance: Council Members Tommy Hazouri, Bill Gulliford,  Lori Boyer and JuCoby Pittman

 

Also: Peggy Sidman - Office of General Counsel; Trista Carraher - Council Auditor’s Office; Chiquita Moore– Mayor’s Office; Colleen Hampsey - Council Research Division;  Juliette Williams - Legislative Services

 

Meeting Convened: 1:33 p.m.

 

Councilman Hazouri called the meeting to order and reviewed the agenda. The marked agenda included 6 items marked for deferral and 5 items ready for action (one item to be withdrawn).

2018-310: ORD-MC Amend Sec 656.152 (Certification of Use Application and Fee), Subpart E (Certificates of Use), Pt 1 (Gen Provisions), Chapt 656 (Zoning Code), require tenant affirmation and acknowledgement be included within a COU app for leased properties – DEFER

2018-420: ORD-MC Auth All Documents Necessary to Consummate the Installation of the National Memorial for Peace & Justice's Duval County Memorial Monument in Hemming Park to Commemorate the African-American Victims of Lynching in Duval County, FL btwn 1877 & 1950; Create new Chapt. 54 (Peace & Justice Memorial Monument Oversight  Committee),Ord Code; Create New Sec 111.107 (Peace & Justice Memorial Monument Special Revenue Fund), Chapt 111 (Special Revenue &Trust Accts.), Part 1 (Parks, Recreation, Culture & Entertainment), Ord Code, Providing Oversight by Peace & Justice Memorial Monument Committee; provide for codification. - DEFER

2018-593: RESO Expressing City Council's Opposition to the Sale of JEA at this time - DEFER

2019-54: ORD-MC Amend Sec 602.912 (Membership, Terms, Appt), Part 9 (Jax Ethics Comm), Chapt 602 (Jax Ethics Code), Ord Code to remove the Provision that Ethics Commission Appointees can serve on the Commission prior to Council Confirmation or Denial - DEFER

2019-63: RESO Requesting an Attorney General Opinion on whether a Public Official violates the freedom of speech clause under Art. I. Sec. 4 of the Florida Constitution when such Public Official restricts another individual's access to the Public Official's personal social media account; Directing the Office of General Counsel opinion to provide a legal opinion; Directing the Chief of Legislative Services to forward a copy of the resolution & legal opinion to the Florida Attorney General - DEFER

2019-128: ORD Renaming the 1st St. West extending approx. 1 mile from Jefferson St. N. to Pearl St. N. to "Reverend Henry T. RHIM Blvd.", Waiving the Req. of Sec. 745.105 (I) (2),Ord code, regarding persons who streets may be named after; Waiving the Req. of Sec. 745.105 (G),Ord code, regarding abbreviations in proposed street names - DEFER

2019-129: ORD Approp. $15,000 Grant recv'd. from AT&T to fund the positivity project, a "Train the Trainer" approach with a focus on positive Psychology's 24 character strengths, invoking the exception to sec. 126.107 (g),Ord code; Apv & Auth the Mayor & Corp Sec & CEO of the KHA to execute a contract with the positivity project for children's svcs. programs; waiving the provisions in Chapt. 77 (Kids Hope Alliance), Sec. 77.111 (a) (provider contracts), Ord code (B.T. 19-061) – AMEND/MOVE

2019-139: RESO Conf Appt of Thomas J. Daly, Jr. as Chief of The Housing and Community Development Division of the Neighborhoods Dept of the City of Jacksonville - MOVE

2019-140: RESO Reappt Patricia Vail as Member of the Jax-Duval County Council on Elder Affairs as the Council Dist 1 Rep, for 2nd Term exp 6/30/20 - MOVE

2019-145: RESO Reappt Frederick D. Newbill to the JEA for 2nd Full Term exp. 2/28/23 - MOVE

2019-181: RESO Commending and Thanking the Coastal Conservation Assn for their Contribution to the Starship Reef off the Coast of Jacksonville - WITHDRAW

 

Meeting Adjourned: 1:34 pm

 

Minutes: Colleen Hampsey, Council Research

CHampsey@coj.net 

(904) 630-1498

3.20.19     Posted 5:00 p.m.

 

·         Tapes:  Rules Committee Agenda Meeting – LSD

3.20.19