JACKSONVILLE CITY COUNCIL

RESEARCH DIVISION

 

 

PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY COMMITTEE

AGENDA MEETING MINUTES

 

March 3, 2008

3:30 p.m.

 

City Council Conference Room A

Suite 425, City Hall

117 W. Duval Street

 

 

Attendance:  Chairman Kevin Hyde; committee members Redman, Yarborough, Holt and Joost

Philip Peterson  – Auditor’s Office; Phillip Zamarron – Legislative Services Division; Steve Rohan – Office of General Counsel; Lisa Rinaman – Mayor’s Office;; Jeff Clements – Research Division; Angela Ryan and Celeste Hicks – ECAs

 

 

The meeting was called to order at 3:30 p.m. by Chairman Hyde who reviewed the marked agenda, which included 4 items to be deferred, 5 items ready for action and 8 items recommended for second reading and re-referral. 

 

There will be 2 presentations after the completion of the regular agenda.  Kevin Gay of Operation New Hope will make a presentation on the Ready To Work program, and Ben Goldsmith of Circle of Hope will make a presentation on the WorkNet program.

 

Following those presentations the committee meeting will move from the Council Chamber to Committee Room A where Chief Assistant State Attorney Jay Plotkin will have 2 juvenile offenders who have been tried and convicted as adults of serious crimes to speak to the committee and answer questions about their lives and involvement in crime and about their perspective on how the City can address crime issues.

 

 

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:34 p.m.

 

 

Jeff Clements, City Council Research

630-1405