First Budget Hearing and Sept City Council Mtg on Thurs 9/7
September 4, 2017
The next City Council Meeting will be on Thursday September 7th at 7pm in City Hall. This is also the first of two Fiscal Year 2017/2018 Budget Hearings.
Agenda Highlights:
- First Hearing 2017/2018 Budget and setting property tax rate
- New Ordinance prohibiting Medical Marijuana facilities in the City
- Final Approval of Ordinance on the Operation of Mobile Food Trucks
Announcements/Presentations: None listed
Consent Agenda includes:
- Resolution 59, 2017 – Ratifying the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the SEIU/FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICES UNION (FPSU) for fiscal years 2017-2020; Employees' base salaries were increased as a result of being placed in a new, updated salary plan, effective October 1, 2017. In addition, all employees will receive a 3 percent increase to base salary effective October 1st each year of the contract: 2017, 2018, and 2019.
- Purchase Award for Renewal of Microsoft Enterprise License for 3 years – Piggyback/Access Contract for $417K
- Purchase Award for Landscaping for the New Golf Clubhouse – Landscape contract is for 1 time $175K – using an existing vendor with the City
City Manager Report – no details listed
Public Hearings and Resolutions includes:
- Ordinance 17, 2017 – First Reading and First Public Hearing Adopting the Fiscal Year 2017/2018 Budget.. The proposed budget holds Operating Millage flat at 5.55 mills. The total operating and debt service millage rate proposed for Fiscal Year 2017/2018 is 5.6678 mills, which is less than the current year combined rate of 5.6781 mills. See our post on the growth of the proposed budget along with a link to the Proposed Budget page. The second and final public hearing on the budget is scheduled for September 25, 2017.
- Ordinance 22, 2017 – First Reading of Ban of Medical Marijuana Treatment Facilities and Dispensaries – amending Chapter 78 Land Development Regulations to prohibit such facilities in the city. The staff analysis outlines the rationale for the proposed ordinance.
- Ordinance 23, 2017 – First Reading of Temporary Moratorium through December 31, 2017 on Micro Wireless Facilities: on the submittal and processing of applications and the issuance of any permits pertaining to the collocation on existing or the creation of new utility poles in the City-owned rights-of-way to support small or micro wireless facilities for a period ending December 31, 2017.
- Resolution 55, 2017 – Art in Public Places for La Posada
- Resolution 60, 2017 – Approving a FPL Watts Substation site-plan on 5-acre utility parcel in the NE corner of Alton PCD.
- Ordinances 15 and 18, 2017 – A City-initiated request to amend Chapter 78, Land Development, in order to repeal the previously adopted and now outdated Floodplain Regulations from Chapter 78 and to amend Chapter 86, Buildings and Building Regulations to add the revised Floodplain Regulations. The proposed amendments will provide consistency with the Florida Division of Emergency Management's Model Ordinance.
- Ordinance 17, 2017 – Mobile Food Trucks – second reading and adoption of the new permit requirements approved on first reading in August
Check the agenda to see if any additional items have been added before the meeting here.