JACKSONVILLE
RESEARCH DIVISION
FINANCE COMMITTEE AGENDA MEETING MINUTES
May 5, 2008
1:30 P.M.
CITY COUNCIL CONFERENCE ROOM A
117 W. Duval Street
Attendance: Chairman
Shad, Richard Clark
Peggy Sidman – Office of General
Counsel; Kirk Sherman and Janice Billy – Council Auditor’s Office; Jessica
Morales – Legislative Services Division; Lisa Rinaman and Sherry Hall – Mayor’s
Office; Jeff Clements – City Council Research; Mickey Miller – Finance
Department; Lin White – Public Works Dept.; Bob Williams – Real Estate
Division; Ron Barton and Steve Emery – JEDC; Cheryl Runyon – Sheriff’s Office; Dick
Cohee – Police and Fire Pension Fund; Debbie Delgado, Meghan Friel, Alison
Miller and Celeste Hicks – ECAs; Ginny Myrick and Alberta Hipps - consultants
The meeting was called to
order at 1:30 p.m.
Chairman Shad reviewed the
agenda items, which included 10 items to be deferred, 2 items to be withdrawn, 14
items ready for action, and 16 items to be read a second time and re-referred. He noted that Council Members Lee and Joost are
excused from the meeting so only a bare quorum will remain.
Seeing
several representatives of the Retired Employees’ Association in attendance, the
chairman asked the representatives of the Mayor’s office when bill 2007-1136
creating a defined contribution retirement plan would be ready for action. He was
informed that the bill will be taken up during the next committee cycle in two
weeks.
The chairman was informed
that Council Member Hyde would be abstaining from voting on bill 2008-288
(Fidelity National Financial economic development incentive package) because
his law firm does considerable work for Fidelity National, which will leave the
committee with only three members voting on this bill. In the interest of allowing the bill to
potentially be approved by the committee and sent to Council, Chairman Shad
requested that the Council President be contacted and asked to appoint a
temporary member for the committee for purposes of addressing this bill. It was suggested that Councilman Warren Jones
would be in attendance and, as the district council member for the project,
would be a logical appointment. Staff
will contact the Council President and Mr. Jones immediately after the agenda
meeting.
There being no further
business, the meeting was adjourned at 1:33 p.m.
Jeff Clements, City Council
Research
630-1405