City Council Regular Session 10/18/2021 06:00 PM City Hall

REVISED

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 live on our YouTube channel. YouTube channel information is located at the end of this Agenda

Pledge of Allegiance

Invocation - Council Member Eugene Jefferson 

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.

Roll Call

Minutes

• 1.October 4, 2021 City Council Workshop

• 2.October 4, 2021 Regular Session 

Approval of Agenda

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.

Appointment of City Council Member for District 14 

• 3.City Council Resolution No. 2021-154 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida appointing Stephen A. Douglas as Council Member of District Fourteen in accordance with the City Charter; and providing an effective date.    

• 4.Swearing in Ceremony New Council Member, City Council District 14 

Approval of Consent Agenda

• 5.Permit application from Lake City VFW Post #2206 to hold the Veterans Day Parade on Thursday, November 11, 2021 from 10:00 AM until 12:30 PM.  All supporting documents including certificate of insurance have been provided.

• 6.Travel Request - Council Member Jake Hill has requested to attend the 2021 Florida League of Cities Legislative Conference in conjunction with his attendance at the Florida League of Cities Board of Directors Meeting on Thursday, November 4, 2021.  The Florida League of Cities Legislative Conference is to be held November 3 - 5, 2021 in Kissimmee, Florida.  This is not a budgeted conference.  Funds are budgeted to cover the estimated cost of $210.00 associated with mileage, parking and toll charges for the Board of Directors Meeting.  The unbudgeted estimated cost to attend the conference will be approximately $695.00.

  Currently budgeted in the Council Travel accounts 511.30-40 and 511.30-55 are the following:  Airport $2,900; City Council Travel Allowance $9,000; Florida League of Cities Board Travel Expenses - Hill $750.00; Florida Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials $900; Florida League of Cities  $6,150; IEMO Training - Basic and/or Advanced $2,750. 

Presentations

Open Second Public Hearing

• 7.Corbett Alday, V.P. of Guardian Community Resource Management, Inc. - Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) CV Funding 2020-2021 Second Public Hearing PowerPoint (Richardson Community Center Covid Testing Site) 

Close Second Public Hearing

• 8.City Council Resolution No. 2021-152 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing the execution of an application to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity for a Community Development Block Grant; providing for the rehabilitation of the existing Richardson Community Center for the use of Covid testing and vaccinations; providing for consistency with the City's Comprehensive Plan; providing for consistency with the Community Development Plan; and providing for an effective date.  

Old Business

Ordinances - None 

Resolutions - None

Other Items

• 9.Discussion and Possible Action - Fire Pension Board Appointee (Mayor Witt) 

• 10.Discussion and Possible Action - Lake City Police Department requesting approval to purchase laptops at a cost of $102,947.00 to bring laptops used by officers into compliance with SmartCop's standards.  (Chief Gilmore) 

New Business

Ordinances

• 11.City Council Ordinance No. 2021-2208 (first and final reading) - An ordinance of the City of Lake City, Florida, extending the moratorium related to the issuance of new business tax receipts that are connected to activities that include electronic simulated gaming promotions or electronic sweepstakes as adopted by Ordinance No. 2021-2189; providing for an extension of ninety (90) days; providing for severability; providing for conflicts; and providing an effective date.  

Resolutions

• 12.City Council Resolution No. 2021-149 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing the execution of Task Assignment Number Eight to the Continuing Contract with Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc., for professional services and assistance with four (4) wastewater improvement projects; providing for the payment for the professional services and assistance at a not to exceed cost of $403,000.00; and providing an effective date.  

• 13.City Council Resolution No. 2021-150 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing the execution of Task Assignment Number Nine to the Continuing Contract with Jones Edmunds & Associates, Inc., for professional services and assistance with the installation of a twenty-four (24) inch water main from the Price Creek Water Treatment Plant to the North Florida Mega Industrial Park; providing for the payment for the professional services and assistance at a not to exceed cost of $268,000.00; and providing an effective date.  

• 14.City Council Resolution No. 2021-153 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, appointing Glenel Bowden to the Board of Trustees of the General City Employee Retirement Plan to serve as Trustee; and providing for an effective date. 

Other Items

• 15.Discussion and Possible Action - Complaint identifying employees and the City Manager.  F.S 119.071(2)(k) exempts all information related to employee complaint and investigation.  

Departmental Administration - None 

Comments by Council Members

Adjournment

YouTube Chanel Information

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

Agenda revised as follows:

*  Addition of supporting documents for Item #3, City Council Resolution No. 2021-154 Appointing Stephen Douglass as City Council Member District 14.

*  Addition of Emergency Item #15, Discussion and Possible Action - Complaint identifying employees and the City Manager.   F.S 119.071(2)(k) exempts all information related to employee complaint and investigation.