JACKSONVILLE CITY COUNCIL

RESEARCH DIVISION

TRANSPORTATION, ENERGY & UTILITIES COMMITTEE AGENDA MEETING MINUTES

August 20, 2012

1:30 P.M.

City Council Conference Room A

Suite 425, City Hall

117 West Duval Street

Attendance: Council Members Greg Anderson (Chair), Jim Love, Matt Schellenberg; Steve Rohan, Dylan Reingold, Office of General Counsel; Heather Reber, Council Auditor’s Office; Tiffani Dailey, Administration; Lin White, John Jones, Jeff Foster, Public Works Department;; Chief Maxine Person, Bill Clement, Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office; Steve Smith, Mark Shelton, Ellen Falles, Planning & Development Department; Elaine Brown, St. Johns River Ferry Commission; Vince Seibold, James Richardson, Environmental Quality Division; Chris Warren, Chamber of Commerce; Executive Council Assistant James Nealis, Juliette Williams, Legislative Aide; John J. Jackson, Council Research Division.

The Chair called the meeting to order at 1:30 p.m. and proceeded to review the Council Auditor’s Office marked agenda.

The Chair announced that Council Member Ray Holt would remark on Item #6, ORD 2012-446, as the ordinance’s sponsor, Council Member Bill Gulliford, will not be present at the Committee meeting. The ordinance appropriates $200,000 to the St. Johns River Ferry Commission.

On Item #8, ORD-MC 2012-451, Amend Chapt 30 re Addressing & Street Naming…Procedures to Notify Propty Owners & Occupants of Duplicate t Street Names & Out of Sequence Addresses…to Supplement & Clarify Existing Re-Addressing Display & Appellate Procedures, ,the Chair indicated that while he was going to defer the measure, he wanted to get a sense of the Committee Members.

On Item #17, ORD 2012-496, Declaring Public Necessity to Acquire Fee Simple Title by Eminent Domain for RE# 054821-0000, Approx 1,791 Sq Ft Appraised at $5,400, for the 11 & 12^th St. Connector Project, John Jones, Public Works/Real Estate, indicated that the property in question was not an apartment building that Council Member Love thought it was. The property was a strip of land on the side of a fence.

Though marked as a request for emergency action, the Chair indicated that Council Member Crescimbeni indicated that he wanted Item #21, ORD-MC 2012-522, transferring the St. Johns River Ferry operations from JaxPort to the St. Johns River Ferry Commission, to go through the regular, routine Committee cycles. The Item was therefore seconded and re-referred.

There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 1:38 p.m.

08.21.12

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