City Council Regular Session 10/17/2022 06:00 PM City Hall

The meeting will be held in the City Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall located at 205 North Marion Avenue, Lake City, FL 32055. Members of the public may also view the meeting on our YouTube channel. YouTube channel information is located at the end of this Agenda.

Pledge of Allegiance

Invocation - Council Member Eugene Jefferson 

Roll Call

Ladies and Gentlemen; The Lake City Council has opened its public meeting. Since 1968, the City Code has prohibited any person from making personal, impertinent, or slanderous remarks or becoming boisterous while addressing the City Council. Yelling or making audible comments from the audience constitutes boisterous conduct. Such conduct will not be tolerated. There is only one approved manner of addressing the City Council. That is, to be recognized and then speak from the podium.   

As a reminder, persons are not to openly carry a handgun or carry a concealed weapon or firearm while the governing body is meeting. 

Proclamations - None 

Minutes

• 1.October 3, 2022 Regular Session

Approval of Agenda

Public Participation/Persons Wishing to Address Council

Citizens are encouraged to participate in City of Lake City meetings. The City of Lake City encourages civility in public discourse and requests that speakers direct their comments to the Chair. Those attendees wishing to share a document and or comments in writing for inclusion into the public record must email the item to submissions@lcfla.com no later than noon on the day of the meeting.  Citizens may also provide input to individual council members via office visits, phone calls, letters and e-mail that will become public record.

Approval of Consent Agenda

• 2.Permit application from Blue Grey Army, Inc. to hold the Olustee Battle Festival starting with the set-up on Thursday, February 16, 2023.  The festival will be held on Friday, February 17, 2023 through Saturday, February 18, 2023.  All supporting documents, excluding the certificate of insurance, have been provided.  This approval is contingent upon receipt of the certificate of insurance prior to the event.  

Presentations

• 3.Mavis Georgalis, Chair of the Planning and Zoning Board, Historical Preservation Board and Board of Adjustment to introduce new Chair, Christopher Lydick and Vice Chair James Carter and to update Council on the number of petitions heard this year. 

• 4.Discussion and Possible Action - Gun Buyback Program (Presenter:  Ms. Chevella Young)

• 5.Discussion and Possible Action - Curtis Burgess requesting donation of $8,795.00 to the Columbia Youth Football Association for the 2nd Annual Vince Timmons Youth Football Tournament.

Old Business

Ordinances - None 

Other Items - None 

New Business

Ordinances

• 6.City Council Ordinance No. 2022-2232 (first reading) - An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, amending the City Code to add a new Section Number 86-110.18 to Article III, Chapter 86, which provides for the permanent vacating of the South 50.00 feet of the North 158.00 feet of Block 15, McFarlane Park Subdivision, a subdivision according to the plat thereof recorded in Plat Book B, Page 5, of the public records of Columbia County, Florida; providing for conflicts; providing for severability, providing for codification; and providing an effective date.  

  Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2022-2232 on first reading

Resolutions

• 7.City Council Resolution No. 2022-111 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida authorizing the acceptance of a utility easement from TWAS Properties LLC; providing for the relocation of an existing sewer gravity main and sanitary sewer manhole; and providing for an effective date. (Tidal Wave Auto Spa/TWAS)

• 8.City Council Resolution No. 2022-119 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing Task Assignment Number Four to the continuing contract with Gmuer Engineering, LLC; providing for an application for a permit for the maintenance of an existing drainage ditch at Evergreen Drive; providing for a cost not-to exceed $4,700.00; and providing for an effective date.

• 9.City Council Resolution 2022-120 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, declaring certain property owned by the City to be either surplus to its needs and sold at public notice sale, or determined to be obsolete, non-serviceable, or beyond economic repair pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions and requirements of Section 2-183 of the City Code; authorizing the City to remove such surplus property when sold or disposed of from the fixed assets of the City.

• 10.City Council Resolution No. 2022-121 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing the Lake City Police Department to accept the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant in the amount of $13,222.00; providing for the procurement of equipment for the use and benefit of the Police Department; and providing for an effective date.

• 11.City Council Resolution 2022-122 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing the execution of a grant agreement with the State of Florida, Department of Financial Services; providing for the acceptance of a grant award of up to $500,000.00 in reimbursable costs associated with the construction of a fire station located on the Westside of the City of Lake City, Florida; and providing for an effective date.

Other Items

• 12.Discussion and Possible Action - Planning and Zoning Board (Presenter:  Mayor Stephen Witt)

  Mavis Georgalis has resigned from the Planning and Zoning Board effective October 31, 2022.  The Board now has a board member vacancy. 

Departmental Administration

• 13.Discussion and Possible Action - Approval of additional three (3) firefighter position through the Safer Grant (Presenter:  Chief Wehinger)

Comments by Council Members

Adjournment

UPCOMING DATES OF INTEREST

Monday, November 21:

6:00 PM City Council Meeting - Swearing in of new Council Members and recognition of outgoing Council Member Eugene Jefferson at Columbia County School Board Auditorium

YouTube Channel Information

Members of the public may also view the meeting on our YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/c/CityofLakeCity 

Pursuant to 286.0105, Florida Statutes, the City hereby advises the public if a person decides to appeal any decision made by the City with respect to any matter considered at its meetings or hearings, he or she will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for such purpose, he or she may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:  Pursuant to 286.26, Florida Statutes, persons needing special accommodations to participate in these meetings should contact the City Manager’s Office at (386) 719-5768.