City Council Regular Session 02/05/2024 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 - Mayor Stephen Witt

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.January 16, 2024 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 - None

Old Business

Ordinances

Open Public Hearing

• 2.City Council Ordinance No. 2024-2275 (final reading) - An ordinance of the City of Lake City, Florida, amending the City Code to add new Section Number 86-2 to Part III, Chapter 86, Article I; providing for the regulation of Public Parks, park hours, and penalties for violations; providing for severability; providing for the repeal of conflicts; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

  Passed on first reading 01/02/24

Close Public Hearing

Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2024-2275 on final reading

Resolutions - None

Other Items

• 3.Discussion and Possible Action - Applicants for filling the vacancy of Council Member for City Council District 13.  (Mayor Stephen Witt)

  Note:  For reference purposes, all supporting documentation provided at the January 16, 2024 meeting is attached.  During the January 2, 2024 meeting, City Council authorized acceptance of letters of interest for 30 days.  Deadline for submissions was 5:00 PM on February 1, 2024. One applicant, James Carter, submitted paperwork.  

• 4.City Council Resolution No. 2024-018 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, appointing __________________ as Councilmember of District Thirteen in accordance with the City Charter; and providing an effective date.

New Business

Ordinances

• 5.City Council Ordinance No. 2024-2276 - (first reading) An ordinance of the City of Lake City. Florida, pursuant to Petition No. ANX 24-01, relating to voluntary annexation; making findings; annexing certain real property located in Columbia County, Florida, which is reasonably compact, and contiguous to the boundaries of the City of Lake City, Florida, into the boundaries of the City of Lake City, Florida; providing severability; repealing all ordinances in conflict; and providing an effective date. (Cecilia Davis)

  Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2024-2276 on first reading

• 6.City Council Ordinance No. 2024-2278 - (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 86-110.22 to Article III, Chapter 86, which provides for the permanent vacating of a right of way; finding that the right of way was abandoned by the City; finding that the closing of the right of way will not adversely affect the public health, safety, or welfare; finding that it is in the best interest of the City and for the general welfare of its citizens to close the right of way; providing for the repeal of conflicting ordinances; providing for severability; providing for inclusion into the City Code; and providing an effective date. (McCall)

  Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2024-2278 on first reading

• 7.City Council Ordinance No. 2024-2279 - (first reading) An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, amending Article I Section 70-2 of the City Code related to residency requirements; providing for severability; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

  Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2024-2279 on first reading

Resolutions

• 8.City Council Resolution No. 2024-008 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, adopting revisions to the City's Procurement Policy and Procedure to contribute to the strategic goals of achieving efficiency, transparency, cost savings, and fairness in the City's Procurement Procedures.

• 9.City Council Resolution No. 2024-009 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, approving a replat filed by Gateway Development, LLC, for a major subdivision of real property within the City; providing for conflicts; providing for severability; providing an effective date.

• 10.City Council Resolution No. 2024-014 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, appointing Ricky Jernigan to serve on the Columbia County Tourist Development Council.

• 11.City Council Resolution No. 2024-016 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, appointing Sergeant Kevin Johns as elected members of the Board of Trustees of the Lake City Municipal Police Officers Retirement Trust Fund.

Other Items

• 12.Discussion and Possible Action: Funding for Council members to hold Town Hall Meetings (Interim City Manager Dee Johnson)

• 13.Project Updates (Interim City Manager Dee Johnson)

• 14.Discussion and Possible Action: Reschedule Council Workshop to discuss Council Meeting Decorum (Council Member Ricky Jernigan) 

  Note:  The workshop scheduled for January 29, 2024 was cancelled due to three of the four council members being in Tallahassee at the Florida League of Cities Legislative Action Days.

Departmental Administration

• 15.Discussion and Possible Action: Approval to pay retainer fee in the amount of $250,875.05 to CGC, Inc. for Taxiway C Realignment & Transient Apron Rehab Project (Airport Director Ed Bunnell)

• 16.Discussion and Possible Action: Transition to County - Communication Officers (Chief Butler) 

Comments by Council Members

Adjournment

UPCOMING DATES OF INTEREST

February 26, 2024 - Council Workshop - 6:00 PM - Affordable Housing/Properties and Application and Policy for Grant Funding Request $5,000.00 max

YouTube Information

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