Next City Council Meeting on October 8th at 7pm
October 3, 2015
The next City Council Meeting will be this Thursday, October 8th, at 7pm in City Hall. There are quite a few items on the agenda.
Presentations: Presentations by the principals of Watson B. Duncan Middle School and Timber Trace Elementary outlining programs for the upcoming school year
Consent Agenda:
- One Purchase Award for EMS Supplies via a piggyback contract for $120K/year for one year, renewable twice.
- Several resolutions at the behest of the Florida League of Cities requesting that the Obama administration and Congress maintain tax-exempt status of interest on municipal bonds, maintain funding of community block grants and clarify the de-obligation process of previously approved disaster relief funds.
- Several proclamations.
Public Hearings and Resolutions:
Ordinance 13, 2015 – A City-initiated text amendment to Code Enforcement Procedures, Administration Fines, giving the Code Enforcement Special Magistrate authority to impose fines in excess of the limits set forth in Paragraph (2)(a) of Section 162.09, Florida Statutes. Apparently reaching the ‘magic’ number of 50,000 in population allows the City authorization to impose higher fines. “Administrative fines are imposed to impress upon the violators the severity and seriousness of their violation to the City, and the direct and indirect impact to the citizens. The proposed fines attempt to account for the larger imposition violations can place on a growing population”. Fines would be increased fourfold from $250/day to $1000/day; tenfold from $500/day to $5000/day and threefold from $5000 to $15000 for specific descriptions of the violations.
Three Resolutions concerning Alton PCD
- Resolution 44, 2015 AN AMENDMENT TO THE ALTON PLANNED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (PCD) IN ORDER TO CONVERT FOUR (4) MULTIFAMILY DWELLING UNITS TO THREE (3) ADDITIONAL APARTMENT UNITS WITHIN PARCEL C, INCORPORATE ADDITIONAL PREMIER, PRIMARY, AND SECONDARY STREET TYPICAL CROSS SECTIONS WITHIN THE DESIGN GUIDELINES, AND INCLUDE A MODIFICATION TO PCD BUFFER B1;
- Resolution 45, 2015 – APPROVING THE ATLANTICO APARTMENT COMPLEX SITE PLAN IN ORDER TO ALLOW THE CONSTRUCTION OF 353 MULTIFAMILY APARTMENT DWELLING UNITS WITHIN PARCEL C OF THE ALTON DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL IMPACT (DRI)/PLANNED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (PCD);
- Resolution 46, 2015 – APPROVAL OF A 241,400 SQUARE FOOT CENTER FOR INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS TECHNOLOGY COMPLEX also in Parcel B of the Alton Development – this is the United Technologies complex.
In addition, there are several resolutions for appointments and reappointments to the Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board, Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, the Art in Public Places Advisory Board and the Fire Pension Board.
See our summary of the September 17th City Council Meeting (including the Final Budget Hearing) here. For the latest Martino Minute, click here.
The agenda (with links to full detail) can be found here. Check the agenda to see if any additional items have been added before the meeting.
We get the government we deserve – and it’s up to us to watch what they do. Hope you can make it. If you can’t make the meeting try and watch live-streaming or on-demand.