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                                                                                                                                                                                                              

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Rules Committee Agenda Meeting Minutes

January 21, 2013

8:30 a.m.

 

Topic:  Rules Committee agenda meeting

 

Location:  Conference Room A, City Hall – St. James Building; 117 West Duval Street,

     Suite 425

 

In attendance:  Council Members Warren Jones (Chair), Lori Boyer, Bill Gulliford, Richard Clark, Don Redman

 

Also: Janice Billy and Heather Reber – Council Auditor’s Office; Marilyn Allen – Legislative Services Division

 

See attached sign-in sheet for additional attendees

 

Meeting Convened:  8:35 a.m.

 

Chairman Jones reviewed the Council Auditor’s marked agenda which included 6 items marked for deferral, 16 items ready for action and 12 items for second reading and re-referral.

 

2013-451 (requesting Cindy Laquidara to resign from the position of General Counsel): the committee will take up the bill is Council Member Schellenberg is in attendance and wishes to act.

 

2013-820 (extending the local option gas tax): Council President Gulliford will request deferral of the bill today while a substitute is prepared, or perhaps a request for withdrawal of the current bill and introduction of a new version. He will be asking the JTA to prepare a list of prioritized future work projects with annotations as to which can begin construction most quickly while interest rates are still low for long-term borrowing purposes. Council Member Boyer said the list needs to also consider the list of  Better Jacksonville Plan projects that have been abandoned due to lack of funding – some of those projects are being counted to make the mobility fee system work properly. Council Member Jones wants the list of projects to include the neighborhood drainage plans developed in the 1980s and 1990s that have never been implemented.  That was supposed to be the intent of the local option gas tax when it was adopted in the mid-1980s. Peggy Sidman suggested that a list be developed of all potential projects so that it can be incorporated into the substitute (or the new replacement bill) so that the public can fully aware of what is being proposed.

 

Mr. Jones announced that there would be 2 presentations at the conclusion of the regular agenda.  Director of Public Works Jim Robinson will discuss the LED streetlight conversion pilot project, and Jeff Foster, Chief of the Solid Waste Division, will discuss the recent community blight reduction campaign.

 

Meeting Adjourned:  8:45 a.m.

 

Minutes:  Jeff Clements, Council Research

                1.21.14   Posted 5:00 a.m.

Tapes:      Rules agenda meeting– LSD

                1.21.14

Materials:   Auditor’s marked Rules agenda

    1.21.14

 

Attendance Record