City Council Regular Session 07/21/2025 06:00 PM City Hall

REVISED

Revised 7/21/2025:  Item #4 Moved from Presentations to New Business/Other Items as Discussion Item #10, Item #4 Business Impact Statement and presentation slides added, Item #5 Business Impact Statement and presentation slides added

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 Ricky Jernigan 

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. 

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

Approval of Agenda

Proclamations/Awards - None 

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

• 1.City Council Resolution No. 2025-098 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, approving the Second Amendment to the Standard Grant Agreement Number LP12031 with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection funding the Ichetucknee Springs Water Quality Improvement Project; 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; authorizing the Mayor, after consultation with the City Attorney, to execute such future amendments to the standard grant agreement which amendments accept additional grant funds without otherwise expanding the scope of the project funded by the standard grant agreement or creating additional obligations of the City pursuant to such agreement, as amended; repealing all prior resolutions in conflict, and providing an effective date. 

• 2.City Council Resolution No. 2025-101 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida accepting funds awarded by Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation to purchase from MSA Safety Incorporation four self-contained breathing apparatuses (SCBAS) and six compressed air cylinders for use by the City of Lake City Fire Department; adopting the Grant Award Agreement associated with 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 for said agreement; repealing all prior resolutions in conflict; and providing an effective date. 

Presentations

• 3.Fire Assessment Study from Benesh 

Quasi-Judicial Hearings 

Open Quasi-Judicial Hearings

First Reading

• 4.City Council Ordinance No. 2025-2324 (first reading) - An ordinance of the City of Lake City, Florida, amending the future land use plan map of the City of Lake City Comprehensive Plan, as amended; relating to an amendment of 50 or less acres of land, pursuant to an application, CPA 25-04, by Carol Chadwick, P.E., as agent for Leslie Earl Peeler and Riverwood Investments of Jacksonville, LLC, the property owners of said acreages, under the amendment procedures established in sections 163.3161 through 163.3248, Florida Statutes, as amended; providing for changing the Future Land Use classification from Residential, Medium Density (Less than or equal to 8 dwelling units per acre) to Industrial of certain lands within the corporate limits of the City of Lake City, Florida; making findings of fact in support thereof; providing severability; repealing all ordinances in conflict; providing an effective date.  This property is located at 1509 and 1563 SW Century Gln.  

  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. 2025-2324 on first reading

• 5.City Council Ordinance No. 2025-2325 (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-25-06, by Carol Chadwick, P.E., as agent for Leslie Earl Peeler and Riverwood Investments of Jacksonville LLC, the property owners of said acreages; providing for rezoning from Residential Mobile Home-3 (RMH-3) to Industrial, Light and Warehousing (ILW) 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 at 1509 and 1563 SW Century Gln.  

  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. 2025-2325 on first reading

Close Quasi-Judicial Hearings

Old Business

Ordinances

Open Public Hearing

• 6.City Council Ordinance No. 2025-2326 (final reading) - An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, amending Section 70-127, Paragraph (b) of the City of Lake City Code of Ordinances to add the Conclusive Cancer Presumption Provisions of Florida Statute, as established by Section 112.1816, FLA. STAT.; providing for inclusion in the Code of Ordinances; providing for severability; providing for conflicts; and providing for an effective date.  

  Passed on first reading 7/7/2025

Close Hearing

Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2025-2326 on final reading

Resolutions - None 

Other Items - None 

New Business

Ordinances

Open Public Hearing

• 7.City Council Ordinance No. 2025-2316 (first reading) - An ordinance of the City of Lake City, Florida, declaring for a period of one year a moratorium on the acceptance and consideration of applications for land use actions or permits for buildings to be used as dwellings where such buildings are constructed in accordance with codes other than the Florida Building Code; making findings of fact in support thereof; providing severability; repealing all ordinances in conflict; providing an effective date.  

Close Hearing

Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2025-2316 on first reading 

Resolutions

• 8.City Council Resolution No. 2025-100 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida adopting the evaluation and tabulation of responses to that certain Invitation to Bid Number 022-2025 for the purchase of pipe and fitting supplies for the Crosswinds Subdivision awarding said bid to Staline Waterworks, Inc., a North Carolina Corporation; 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; repealing all prior resolutions in conflict; and providing an effective date. 

• 9.City Council Resolution No. 2025-103 - A resolution of the City of Lake City, Florida approving that certain agreement between the City and Insituform Technologies, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, for trenchless rehabilitation and maintenance of pipeline infrastructure 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. 

Other Items

• 10.Discussion - Richardson Community Center Budget Proposal (Council Member Chevella Young) 

• 11.Discussion and Possible Action - Designation of Florida League of Cities Voting Delegate (Mayor Noah Walker)

  The Florida League of Cities Annual Conference will be held in Orlando, Florida from  August 14, 2025 through August 16, 2025.  It is important for each municipality to designate one official as "voting delegate" to participate in voting at the Annual Business Meeting which will be held on Saturday, August 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM.  

• 12.For Informational Purposes Only:  City Projects and Activities Report - July 2025 

Departmental Administration

• 13.Discussion and Possible Action - Staff recommendation to approve proposed FY25/26 "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 (City Manager Don Rosenthal and Finance Director Angie Taylor Moore) 

• 14.Discussion and Possible Action - Staff recommendation to approve the TRIM schedule for FY25/26 (City Manager Don Rosenthal and Finance Director Angie Taylor Moore) 

Comments by:  

City Manager Don Rosenthal 

City Attorney Clay Martin 

City Clerk Audrey Sikes  

Comments by:  

Council Member Chevella Young 

Council Member Ricky Jernigan 

Council Member James Carter 

Council Member Tammy Harris

Mayor Noah Walker

Adjournment

YouTube Information

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