City Council Regular Session 08/02/2021 06:00 PM City Hall

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 - Mayor Stephen M. Witt 

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

Proclamations - None 

Minutes

• 1.7-19-2021 Regular Session 

• Minutes 7-19-2021 final AES.pdf (0.02 MB)

Approval of Agenda

Approval of Consent Agenda

• 2.Permit application from Dr. Christopher M. Esing to hold a Bicentennial Founders Day Celebration on Saturday, November 20, 2021.  

• SKM_C250i21072707120.pdf (0.65 MB)

• 3.Approval for the Lake City Gateway Airport to apply for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Airport Rescue Grant Program (ARGP), in an amount up to $59,000. 

• Report to Council - Grant Application - ARGA.pdf (0.02 MB)
• FL LCQ - SF424 Unsigned.pdf (0.12 MB)

Presentations - None 

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.

Old Business

Ordinances

Open Public Hearing

• 4.City Council Ordinance No. 2021-2195 (final reading) - An ordinance of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, amending section 22-4 of article 1 of chapter 22 of the City Code of the City of Lake City; providing for a schedule of permit fees; providing for the relocation or demolition of buildings and structures; providing for the set-up of mobile homes, manufactured homes, and modular homes; providing for the addition of driveway access; providing for the establishment of the City's military veteran building permit discount program, providing for the repeal of conflicts; providing for severability; providing for codification; and providing an effective date.

  Passed on first reading 6/7/2021

• ORD. 2021-2195 AMENDING 22-4 BUILDING FEES VETERAN FEES 2.pdf (0.26 MB)

Close Hearing

Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2021-2195 on final reading 

New Business

Ordinances

• 5.City Council Ordinance No. 2021-2199 (first reading) - An ordinance of the City of Lake City, Florida, pursuant to Petition No. ANX 20-03, relating to voluntary annexation; making findings; annexing certain real property located in Columbia County, Florida, which is reasonable 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.  

• Ord 2021-2199 ANX-20-03_3rd_1stREAD_ORD.pdf (0.12 MB)

Adopt City Council Ordinance No. 2021-2199 on first reading

                 

Resolutions

• 6.City Council Resolution No. 2021-082 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing the execution of Task Assignment Fourteen with Passero Associates, LLC, for professional services related to the realignment of Taxiway C at the Lake City Gateway Airport at a cost not-to-exceed $59,150.00; and providing for an effective date.

• RES. 2021-082 AUTH TA 14 - PASSERO ASSOC. 05.27.2021.pdf (0.99 MB)

• 7.City Council Resolution No. 2021-087 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing the execution of Task Assignment Fifteen with Passero Associates, LLC, for professional services related to the rehabilitation of the apron and taxi lanes at the Lake City Gateway Airport at a cost not-to-exceed $103,370.00; and providing for an effective date.

• RES. 2021-087 AUTH TA 15 - PASSERO ASSOC. 05.27.2021.pdf (1.01 MB)

• 8.City Council Resolution No. 2021-106 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing and ratifying the appointment of Ami Mitchell Fields as Interim City Manager; providing for the execution of an Employment Agreement with Ami Mitchell Fields; and providing for an effective date. 

• RES. 2021-106 APPOINTMENT OF AMI FIELDS AS INTERIM CM.pdf (0.49 MB)

• 9.City Council Resolution No. 2021-120 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, authorizing the execution of an agreement with Englewood Electrical Supply Company for the purchase of programmable logic controllers at a price not-to-exceed $139,496.20; providing for an exception to the competitive procurement of the commodity; and providing for an effective date. 

• Reallocation of funds from Account 410.72.536-060.63.pdf (0.02 MB)
• EESCOEnglewood 7676 Quote #879881.pdf (0.05 MB)
• LakecitySS21 - Sole Source.pdf (0.66 MB)
• RES. 2021 -120 - EESCO SOLE SOURCE PLC'S.pdf (0.10 MB)

• 10.City Council Resolution No. 2021-121 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, declaring one firearm to be surplus to the City's needs; providing for the conveyance of the firearm to Lieutenant Keith Heston for his outstanding service to the City and its citizens during his career with the Lake City Police Department; and providing for the removal of the firearm from the fixed assets of the City. 

• RES. 2021-121 SURPLUS PROPERTY SERVICE WEAPON.pdf (0.09 MB)

• 11.City Council Resolution No. 2021-123 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida. authorizing the acceptance of a grant award in an amount of up to $166,520.00, from the United States of America acting through the Federal Aviation Administration in accordance with the Department of Transportation Appropriations Act of 2021, for projects at the Lake City Gateway Airport; providing for the realignment of Taxiway C; providing for the rehabilitation of the apron and taxi lanes; and providing for an effective date.  

• RES. 2021-123 ACCEPTING FAA GRANT.pdf (0.10 MB)
• 2021-123 attachment.pdf (1.63 MB)

• 12.City Council Resolution No. 2021-124 - A resolution of the City Council of the City of Lake City, Florida, constituting the fiscal year 2021-22 preliminary fire assessment resolution; relating to the provision of fire protection services, facilities and programs in the City of Lake City, Florida; confirming previous resolution as amended; reimposing fire protection assessments and establishing fire protection not-to-exceed assessment rates; directing the preparation of the preliminary assessment roll; authorizing a public hearing and directing the provision of notice thereof; and providing an effective date. 

• Res 2021-124 FY 2021-22 Lake City Fire Assmnt Prelim Resol 7-26-2021 revised.pdf (0.03 MB)
• Lake City Fire Assessment Update_Final Report 7-26-21.pdf (0.58 MB)

Other Items

• 13.Discussion and Possible Action - Extension of State of Emergency (Mayor Witt)

• 14.Discussion and Possible Action - Selecting a firm to assist in City Manager search (Mayor Witt) 

Departmental Administration

• 15.Discussion and Possible Action - Fire Pension Board Appointee (Donna Duncan)

• 16.Discussion and Possible Action - City's options to deal with complaints regarding the homeless in downtown (Ami Fields)

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/channel/UC28Eyfa2Uogc-8VTWqafG3w