OFFICE OF THE CITY COUNCIL

 

CHERYL L. BROWN                                                                                                                     117 WEST DUVAL STREET, SUITE 425

            DIRECTOR                                                                                                                                                                                                 4TH FLOOR, CITY HALL

   OFFICE (904) 630-1452                                                                                                                                                                                  JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA  32202

     FAX (904) 630-2906                                                                                                                                                                                                              

  E-MAIL: CLBROWN@coj.net

 

CITY COUNCIL AGENDA MEETING MINUTES


February 12, 2013

3:30 p.m.

 

Location:  City Council Chamber, City Hall – St. James Building; 117 West Duval Street,

    

In attendance: Council Members Bishop (President), Anderson, Gulliford, Boyer, Crescimbeni, Lumb, Love, Yarborough, Daniels, Redman, Jones, Schellenberg, Holt, Joost and Brown

 

Also:  Cindy Laquidara, Peggy Sidman, Paige Johnston and Jason Gabriel – Office of General Counsel; Kirk Sherman and Janice Billy– Council Auditor’s Office; Dana Farris and Juliette Williams  – Legislative Services Division; Jeff Clements – Council Research Division; Steve Cassada – Council Staff Services; John Jones – Public Works Department; Jessica Deal – Mayor’s Office; Dan Macdonald, Celeste Hicks, Leeann Summerford, Scott Wilson and Ricky Anderson  – ECAs; Kevin Meerschaert – WJCT; Steve Paterson – Florida Times-Union; Jim Piggott – WJXT; Wayne Young – JEA; Jim Gilmore

 

Meeting Convened:  4:04 p.m.

 

Council President Bishop convened the meeting and asked the committee chairs to report their committee actions.

 

Rules Committee: Council Member Yarborough reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting, noting that 2013-15 (appropriating $47,000 from Special Council Contingency fund to hire a brownfields grant consultant) was amended and passed in the Rules and TEU committees but was deferred in the Finance Committee.

 

TEU Committee: Council Member Anderson reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting, noting that 2013-13 (appropriating $287,000 in St. Johns Water Management District grant funds to the Lincoln Villa septic tank phase-out project) was amended and passed in the PHS and Finance committees but failed to be reported out of the TEU Committee on a 3-1 vote.  Discharge from TEU will be requested tonight.

 

PHS Committee: Council Member Redman reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting.

 

Finance Committee: Council Member Crescimbeni reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting and reported that there will be a joint meeting of the Rules, Finance and PHS committees on Thursday, February 14th to hear a presentation on 2012-636 (approving a proposed settlement of federal litigation under the Americans with Disabilities Act).

 

RCD Committee: Council Member Carter reported that all actions of the committee had been covered by earlier reports.

 

LUZ Committee: Council Member Boyer reviewed the actions of the committee from its meeting. 

 

Council Member Jones requested that the Finance Committee amendment to 2013-10 (regulation and enforcement of waste tires) be moved first, as it is the most comprehensive of the committee amendments.

 

Council Member Brown requested that 2013-15 be discharged from Finance and acted upon tonight.  Peggy Sidman explained the modified contract provisions and the floor amendment.  Council Member Crescimbeni requested more information before he is comfortable discharging the bill from Finance and requested that Jeff Foster of the Solid Waste Division and Ken Pinnix of Cardno TBE be present to answer questions at the meeting if a discharge is contemplated.

 

Council Member Schellenberg requested that 2013-86 (amending the membership of the Jacksonville Human Rights Commission) be taken up on a normal cycle and be amended to remove the emergency action language.

 

Council Member Love stated that he will move to adopt 2012-109 (resolution expressing the City’s support for the basing of new F-35A aircraft at the Florida Air National Guard base at JIA) as an emergency tonight on first reading.

 

Council Member Yarborough stated that he will not be requesting emergency action tonight on 2013-1 (appropriating $44,260 from the District 1 autumn bond account to Tree Hill nature preserve).

 

Council Member Schellenberg reported that he had requested information from the Finance Department last week on the bond refinancing proposal that is the subject of ordinance 2013-89 but has yet to receive it despite being promised that it would be available yesterday.  Jessica Deal of the Mayor’s Office will inquire of the Finance Department about the data request.

 

Council President Bishop noted that 2013-108 (resolution expressing the City’s appreciation to the governor and state legislature for their assistance in supporting correction of the Mile Point shipping channel reconfiguration for the JPA) will be taken up as an emergency tonight.

 

Meeting adjourned:  4:17 p.m.

 

 

Minutes:  Jeff Clements, Council Research

                1.12.13   Posted 5:00 p.m.

Tapes:      Council agenda meeting – LSD

                 2.12.13

Materials:  President’s marked agenda - LSD

    2.12.13