Next City Council Mtg on Thursday, August 1st at 7pm

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The next City Council Meeting will be on Thursday August 1st at 7pm in City Hall.

Presentations include:

a. GOLD STAR MEMORIAL MONUMENT.
b. FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH EMS PROVIDER OF THE YEAR.
c. AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION GOLD PLUS AWARD.

Consent Agenda includes:

• Resolution 58, 2019 – a request by Avenir Development, LLC for approval of Avenir Site Plan 2 Pod 5 Plat – consistent with the approved site plan for the project approved by the Council on October 18, 2018.
• Purchase Award – Accounting and Financial Services – The Deputy Finance Administrator will retire in July 2019. The Finance Administrator submitted a proposed plan to the City Manager for the reorganization of the Finance Department, and to hire a consultant to work directly on the budget preparation process. An analysis done by the Finance Department showed that the reorganization of the department and hiring the former Deputy Finance Administrator, as a consultant, will realize savings of $97,000 each year for the City. Not openly competed. Contract term: 41 months; cost per fiscal year: $95K
• Purchase Award – Citywide Telephone System Replacement – The City is in the midst of several capital improvement projects and is using the opportunity to replace the existing telephone network with a voice-over-internet-protocol communications network. Piggyback/access contract for $280K

Public Hearings and Resolutions – New Business/First Readings includes:

• Ordinance 17, 2019 – An amendment to the City of Palm Beach Gardens Police Officers’ Retirement Trust Fund.
• Resolution 43, 2019 – A City-initiated application to submit the One-Year Annual Action Plan to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. In accordance with U.S. HUD requirements, the City must submit a One-Year Annual Action Plan and application for grant funds that confirm the projects on which the current year’s grant allocation is proposed to be spent during the upcoming year. The City is eligible to receive approximately $228,608 for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. Staff is recommending approval of the City’s FY 2019 CDBG application to U.S. HUD.
• Resolution 48, 2019 – Adopting the Fiscal Year 2019/2020 Fees and Charges Schedule. The new fee schedule will be effective October 1, 2019. See the resolution here which includes the proposed fee changes.
• Resolution 50, 2019 – Award of a Contract to Musco Sports Lighting, LLC to Supply and Install Outdoor Sports Lighting for the Gardens Park Baseball Expansion Project. The City’s total compensation to the Contractor for supplying and installing outdoor sports lighting for the Gardens Park Baseball Complex Expansion project shall be Four Hundred Forty-Three Thousand Nine Hundred Dollars ($443,900) – Funding from Current Fiscal Year Budget.
• Resolution 53, 2019 – Award of a Contract to Jahnke & Sons Construction, Inc., dba WHP Trainingtowers, for the construction of a Fire Training Tower at the Public Safety Training Complex on Richard Road. Total Cost: $1,468,411.86 The Fire Rescue Department has budgeted funds this fiscal year for the construction of a fire rescue training tower. This multi-story fire training tower will be used by fire rescue staff to conduct training on the suppression of different classes of fires; practice victim location and extraction; other search and rescue techniques; practice in different environmental scenarios and events; create realistic smoke; practice fire truck operations, safety, and training, including ladder use; practice rappelling and rope rescue, and confined space rescue; and other fire rescue training.

Check the agenda to see if any additional items have been added before the meeting here.