City Council Regular Session 07/18/2022 06:00 PM City Hall

This 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. 

Minutes

• 1.July 5, 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 - None 

Presentations

• 2.Discussion and Possible Action - Tom Geoffroy, Florida Gas Utility, Hedging of Natural Gas pricing for cost savings to the City of Lake City 

• 3.City Council Resolution No. 2022-074 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing the execution of the directive to Execute Financial Hedges with Florida Gas Utility; providing for severability; providing for conflict; and providing for an effective date. 

Old Business

Ordinances

Open Public Hearing

• 4.City Council Ordinance No. 2022-2229 (final reading) - An ordinance of the City of Lake City, Florida, amending Chapter 2, Article 2, of the City Code of Ordinances; providing for amendments to the rules of City Council Meetings; providing for training of appointees to special standing committees; providing for severability; providing for the repeal of conflicts; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.  

  Passed on first reading 7/5/2022

Close Hearing

Adopt City Council Ordinance 2022-2229 on final reading 

Other Items

• 5.Gwen Lake Project Update (Presenter:  Interim City Manager Paul Dyal/Director of Natural Gas Steve Brown)

• 6.Discussion and Possible Action - Police Officers Pension Board Appointee (Presenter:  Mayor Stephen Witt)

• 7.Discussion and Possible Action - Fire Pension Board Appointee (Presenter:  Mayor Stephen Witt) 

New Business

Ordinances - None 

Resolutions

• 8.City Council Resolution No. 2022-072 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida; providing for the ratification of the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding with Local No. 2288 of International Association of Fire Fighters, AFL-CIO; providing for the ratification of a voice vote of the City Council; providing for severability; providing for conflict; and providing for an effective date. 

• 9.City Council Resolution No. 2022-073 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, reappointing Clarence Cannon as the City Council appointed member of the Board of Trustees of the Lake City Municipal Police Officers Retirement Trust Fund. 

Other Items

• 10.Discussion and Possible Action - Request to forgive Code Enforcement Liens in the amount of $35,550.00 that occurred from February 12, 2021 to date (474 days) on Parcel #05884000, 1175 NW Ashley Street, Lake City, Florida 32055 for Jacqueline Espenship, Special Magistrate Order Case No. 2021-00000020 (Presenter:  Code Enforcement Officer, Marshall Sova)

• 11.Discussion and Possible Action - Consider rescheduling the August 1, 2022 City Council Meeting to take place on Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 6PM.  Mayor Stephen Witt and Council Member Jake Hill, Jr. will be attending the Airport Conference from Saturday, July 30, 2022 through Wednesday, August 3, 2022.  (Presenter:  Mayor Stephen Witt)

  The City Council members will meet on Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 5:15 PM as the Evaluation Committee for RFP 020-2022 City Attorney. 

Departmental Administration

• 12.Discussion and Possible Action - Staff recommendation to approve proposed FY22/23 "Tentative" Millage Rate to the Columbia County Tax Appraiser for Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notice advertisement to property owners for the City's Tentative Budget Hearing (Interim City Manager Paul Dyal/Finance Director Donna Duncan)

• 13.Discussion and Possible Action - Staff recommendation to approve the TRIM Schedule for FY22/23 (Interim City Manager Paul Dyal/Finance Director Donna Duncan)

Comments by Council Members

Adjournment

YouTube Channel Information

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