City Council Regular Session 01/20/2026 06:00 PM Columbia County School Board Administrative Complex Auditorium

This meeting will be held at the Columbia County School Board Administrative Complex Auditorium located at 372 West Duval Street, 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 - 5:00 PM Joint City/County Workshop at the Columbia County School Board Administrative Complex Auditorium 

Pledge of Allegiance

Invocation - Council Member James Carter

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.Martin Luther King Jr. Day - January 19, 2026

• 2.Black History Month - February 2026

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

• 3.Minutes - November 17, 2025 Regular Session

• 4.Minutes - December 15, 2025 Regular Session

• 5.Minutes - January 5, 2026 Regular Session

• 6.City Council Resolution No. 2026-002 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida, approving that certain lease agreement between the City of Lake City and Tubular Building Systems, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company, to lease certain vacant land located in the Lake City Airport Industrial Park; making certain findings of fact in support of the City approving said agreement; recognizing the authority of the Mayor to execute and bind the City to said agreement; directing and authorizing the Mayor to execute a memorandum of lease setting forth the essential terms of said lease agreement for purposes of recording same in the public records of Columbia County, Florida; repealing all prior resolutions in conflict; and providing an effective date.

• 7.City Council Resolution No. 2026-010 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, adopting that certain Memorandum of Agreement with Florida Department of Corrections Identified as Agreement Number A572 to provide support during emergencies or escapes at the Columbia Correctional Institution and/or Lake City Community Release Center; making certain findings of fact in support of the City adopting said agreement; recognizing the authority of the Mayor to execute and bind 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.

Presentations/Updates

• 8.Gwen Lake Update - Michael Klink, Four Waters Engineering

  Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) - Dr. Shannon Williams, Gateway Grant Writing & Administration Services, Inc.

Quasi-Judicial Hearings

Open Quasi-Judicial Hearing

First Reading

• 9.City Council Ordinance No. 2026-2350 (first reading) - An ordinance of the City of Lake City, Florida, pursuant to Petition No. ANX 25-08, submitted by Pam Stewart and Scott D. Stewart, relating to voluntary annexation; annexing certain real property located in Columbia County, Florida, which is reasonably compact, into the boundaries of the City of Lake City, Florida; making certain findings of fact in support thereof; providing severability; repealing all ordinances in conflict; providing an effective date. This property is located at SW quadrant of I75 and SR47.

Disclosure by Council members of ex-parte communications (this includes site visits), if any. 

Swearing in of applicant/appellant, staff and all witnesses collectively by City Attorney.

Clerk should take custody of exhibits. 

Note: All exhibits, diagrams, photographs and similar physical evidence referred to during the testimony or which you would like the Council to consider must be marked for identification and kept by the Clerk for 30 days.

A. Brief introduction of ordinance by city staff.

B. Presentation of application by applicant.

C. Presentation of evidence by city staff.

D. Presentation of case by third party intervenors, if any.

E. Public comments.

F. Cross examination of parties by party participants.

G. Questions of parties by City Council.

H. Closing comments by parties.

I. Instruction on law by attorney.

J. Discussion and action by City Council.

Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2026-2350 on first reading

Close Quasi-Judicial Hearing

Old Business - None

New Business

Ordinances - None

Resolutions

• 10.City Council Resolution No. 2026-012 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida, approving that certain agreement between the City and AVI-SPL, LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company, for audio visual equipment and related professional services; making certain findings of fact in support of the City approving said 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.

• 11.City Council Resolution No. 2026-013 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida, adopting the evaluation and tabulation of responses to that certain Invitation to Bid Number 004-2026 for the milling and resurfacing of NE Congress and SE Castillo Terrace; awarding said bid to Anderson Columbia Co, Inc., a Florida Corporation, at a total cost not to exceed $200,015.64; approving the agreement with said vendor; making certain findings of fact in support thereof; 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.

• 12.City Council Resolution No. 2026-014 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida, adopting the evaluation and tabulation of responses to that certain Invitation to Bid Number 004-2026 for the milling and resurfacing of NE Bailey Street; awarding said bid to Florida Fill and Grading, Inc., a Florida Corporation, at a total cost not to exceed $86,646.00; approving the agreement with said vendor; making certain findings of fact in support thereof; 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.

Other Items - None

Departmental Administration - None

Comments by:

City Manager Don Rosenthal 

City Attorney Clay Martin 

City Clerk Audrey Sikes  

Comments by Council Members

Vice Mayor Chevella Young 

Council Member Ricky Jernigan 

Council Member James Carter 

Council Member Tammy Harris

Mayor Noah Walker

Adjournment

YouTube Information

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