City Council Regular Session 12/15/2025 06:00 PM City Hall

REVISED

Revised 12/15/2025:  Move item 12 Resolution No. 2025-171 from New Business/Resolutions to New Business/Other Items and retitled item to Discussion and Possible Action - 2025 Employee Holiday Schedule 

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.

Events Prior to Meeting - 5:00 PM CRA Meeting

Pledge of Allegiance

Invocation - Vice Mayor/Council Member Chevella Young

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.

Failure to abide by the rules of decorum will result in removal from the meeting.

Approval of Agenda

Proclamations

• 1.In recognition of Terry Hancock

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.Minutes - November 17, 2025 Workshop

• 3.Minutes - December 1, 2025 Workshop

• 4.City Council Resolution No. 2025-162 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida, accepting grant funds awarded to the City of Lake City Police Department by the State of Florida Department of Transportation State Safety Office; providing additional funding for the Strategic Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) to cover costs associated with enforcing speed and aggressive driving laws; adopting the grant award agreement as a condition of accepting such grant funds; making certain findings of fact in support of the City accepting such funds and adopting said grant award agreement; recognizing the authority of the Mayor to execute and bind the City to said agreement; directing the Mayor to execute and bind the City to said agreement; repealing all prior resolutions in conflict; and providing an effective date.

• 5.City Council Resolution No. 2025-163 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida, accepting grant funds awarded to the City of Lake City Police Department by the State of Florida Department of Transportation State Safety Office; providing additional funding for the Strategic Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) to cover costs associated with enforcing impaired driving laws; adopting the grant award agreement as a condition of accepting such grant funds; making certain findings of fact in support of the City accepting such funds and adopting said grant award agreement; recognizing the authority of the Mayor to execute and bind the City to said agreement; directing the Mayor to execute and bind the City to said agreement; repealing all prior resolutions in conflict; and providing an effective date.

• 6.City Council Resolution No. 2025-164 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida, accepting grant funds awarded to the City of Lake City Police Department by the State of Florida Department of Transportation State Safety Office; providing additional funding for the Strategic Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) to cover costs associated with enforcing occupant protection laws; adopting the grant award agreement as a condition of accepting such grant funds; making certain findings of fact in support of the City accepting such funds and adopting said grant award agreement; recognizing the authority of the Mayor to execute and bind the City to said agreement; directing the Mayor to execute and bind the City to said agreement; repealing all prior resolutions in conflict; and providing an effective date.

• 7.City Council Resolution No. 2025-168 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida, providing for maintenance and security of the cemetery located in the City of Lake City, Florida, commonly identified as Wilson Cemetery, such cemetery being situated on Columbia County 2025 Tax Parcel 11248-000 at the Southwest corner of the intersection of Northwest Redding Avenue and Northwest Wilson Street; citing the provisions of Section 497.284, Florida Statutes as the legal basis for providing maintenance and security of said cemetery; making certain findings of fact in support of the City providing for maintenance and security of said cemetery; recognizing limitations to the City's liability for damages; recognizing the City's right to recover amounts equal to the value of such maintenance and security; directing the City Clerk to transmit the resolution to the State of Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Funeral, Cemetery, and Consumer Services; directing the City Manager to seek any available grant funds to provide for such maintenance and security; repealing all prior resolutions in conflict; and providing an effective date. 

Presentations - None

Quasi-Judicial Hearings

Open Quasi-Judicial Hearing

First Reading

• 8.City Council Ordinance No. 2025-2315 (first reading) - An ordinance of the City of Lake City, Florida, amending the Official Zoning Atlas of the City of Lake City Land Development Regulations, as amended; relating to the rezoning of less than ten contiguous acres of land, pursuant to an application, Z 25-03, by Carol Chadwick, P.E., as agent for Florida First Coast Investment Corp., Inc., the property owner of said acreage; providing for rezoning from Residential, Single Family-3 (RSF-3) to Commercial, Neighborhood (CN) of certain lands within the corporate limits of the City of Lake City, Florida; providing severability; repealing all ordinances in conflict; providing an effective date. This property is located on Laurel Lane behind Circle K on Highway 90.

  Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2025-2315 on first reading

Close Quasi-Judicial Hearing

Old Business

Ordinances

Open Public Hearing

• 9.City Council Ordinance No. 2025-2345 (final reading) - An ordinance of the City of Lake City, Florida, approving, adopting, and authorizing the execution of an Interlocal Service Boundary Agreement between the City of Lake City, Florida, and the Columbia County, Florida, Board of County Commissioners regarding a joint planning area and Municipal Service Area to be commonly identified as the Cornerstone Planning Area; providing for recordation; providing for severability; providing for conflicts; and providing an effective date.

Close Public Hearing

Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2025-2345 on final reading

Resolutions - None

Other Items - None

New Business

Ordinances - None

Resolutions

• 10.City Council Resolution No. 2025-108 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida, adopting that certain update amendment to the procedure for processing public records requests element of the City's Public Record Request Policy; making certain findings of fact in support of the City approving said update; directing the City Manager in cooperation and consultation with the City Clerk to update the City's procedure for processing public records requests element of the City's Public Record Request Policy; repealing all prior resolutions in conflict; and providing an effective date.

• 11.City Council Resolution No. 2025-161 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing the City Manager, after consultation with the City Attorney, to issue trespass warnings and orders related to real property owned or leased by the City; requiring the City Manager to notify the City Council of any such warnings or orders issued by the City Manager; authorizing the City Council to rescind any such warnings or orders issued by the City Manager; making findings of fact in support thereof; directing the City Clerk to reflect said authorization in such records of the City as are necessary and prudent; making certain findings of fact in support of the City Clerk reflecting such authorization in the records of the City; repealing all prior resolutions in conflict; and providing an effective date.

Other Items

• 12.Discussion and Possible Action - 2025 Employee Holiday Schedule

  City Council Resolution No. 2025-171 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida, amending the schedule of paid holidays for the 2025 calendar year; making certain findings of fact in support of the City amending the schedule of paid holidays for the 2025 calendar year; recognizing the authority of the City Council to adopt such amendment; directing the City Manager to give effect to such amendment; establishing all other published paid holidays for the 2025 calendar year shall remain in full force and effect, without change; repealing all prior resolutions in conflict; and providing an effective date.

• 13.Appoint Council Member to serve on the Columbia County Tourist Development Council for 2026 (Mayor Noah Walker)

Departmental Administration

• 14.Informational purposes only - Gwen Lake Update

Comments by:

City Manager Don Rosenthal 

City Attorney Clay Martin 

City Clerk Audrey Sikes  

Comments by Council Members

Council Member Chevella Young 

Council Member Ricky Jernigan 

Council Member James Carter 

Council Member Tammy Harris

Mayor Noah Walker

Adjournment

YouTube Information

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