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1991-02-05 Regular MeetingCity of Okeechobee C I T Y C O U N C I L M E E T I N G February 5, 1991 - 7:00 P.M. SUMMARY OF COUNCIL ACTION A. Call meeting to order. B. Invocation offered by Pastor Griffis; Pledge of Allegiance led by Mayor Kirk. C. Mayor and Council attendance: Mayor James "Jim" Kirk Councilmember R.R. "Nick" Collins Councilmember Danny Entry Councilmember Jerry E. Walker Councilman Dowling R. Watford, Jr. Staff attendance: City Attorney John R. Cook City Administrator John J. Drago City Clerk Bonnie S. Thomas City Deputy Clerk S. Lane Earnest D. Motion to dispense with reading and approve the Summary of Council Action for the regular meeting for January 7, 1 991 . COUNCILMEMBERSIACT70N Mayor Kirk called the meeting to order at 7:00 P.M. Invocation by Councilmember Watford; Mayor Kirk led the Pledge of Allegiance. Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Councilmember Collins made a motion to dispense with reading and approve the Summary of Council action for the regular meeting of January 7, 1991; seconded by Councilmertiber Entry. Kirk Collins Entry Walker Watford Motion Carried. PG I OF 9 ©0 y E. Motion to ove warrant registers for December, �9tt�� : GENERAL FUND . . . . . $68,539.66 PUBLIC UTILITIES . . . $89,564.59 REQUEST FOR THE ADDITION, DEFERRAL OR WITHDRAWAL OF ITEMS ON TODAY'S AGENDA. OPEN PUBLIC HEARING FOR REZONING 1. Consider Petition 353-R and 341-S for rezoning of land located at 1811 S.W. 2nd Avenue from RSF to CI -Upon the recommendation of the City/County Plan ning Commission (Exhibit 8). CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING FEBRUARY 5, 1997 - REGULAR MEETING PG 2 OF 9 VOTE COUNCILMEMBERS/ACTION CouXIc lmember WatfQrd m d a motion to ap v the warx�}t regis�ers for December, TOO - General Fund ?9?,?39.66, PL1b11C Utilities $89,564.59; seconded by Councilmember Collins. Kirk Collins Entry Walker Watford Motion Carried. Mayor Kirk announced a public hearing was added to the agenda as found in exhibit eight. Councilmember Watford made a motion to approve rezoning petition 353-R (and 341-S Special Exception) located at 1811 Southwest 2nd Avenue, from Residential Single Family to Commercial I (upon the recommendation of the City/County Planning Commission); seconded by Councilmember Walker. Mayor Kirk asked for any comments for or against the rezoning. There were no comments from the public. Kirk Collins Entry Walker Watford Motion Carried. IYES I►O X X X X X X X X X X A FEBRUARY 5, 1991 - REGULAR MEETING COUNCILMEMBERS/ACTION F. NEW BUSINESS PG 3 OF 9 VO E YES I W 1. Motion to approve Kathy Kidder as a Councilmember Collins made a motion to approve Kathy Kidder as regular dispatcher - Police Chief. a regular dispatcher (assigned to the Police Department); seconded by Councilmember Watford. Kirk x Collins x Entry x Walker x Watford x Motion Carried. 2. Motion to approve Pat Pethybridge as a Councilmember Entry made a motion to approve Pat Pethybridge as regular meter reader - Director of Public a regular meter read (assigned to the Public Utilities Utilities. Department); seconded by Councilmember Collins. Kirk x Collins x Entry x Walker x Watford x Motion Carried. 3. Motion to appoint Charles Elders, Roger Councilmember Entry made a motion to appoint Charles Elders, Roger Jones and Dowling Watford, Jr., as Jones and Dowling Watford, Jr. as trustees to -the General Employee trustees to the General Employees Pension Pension Board from January 1, 1991 to December 31, 1992; seconded Board from January 1, 1991 to December 31 by Councilmember Collins. 1991 - L.C. Fortner, Jr. Kirk x Collins x Entry x Walker x Watford x Motion Carried. L-- jo F. NEW BUSINESS CONTINUED 4. Motion to appoint Bill Saum, Bill Douglas Lola Parker, Rick Jordan, Peter Teitsort and Bea Castorina to the city's employee grievance committee - City Clerk (Exhibit 2). 5. Motion to grant a 120 day extension for � itility agreement between the City and Royals - Director of Public Utilities (Exhibit 3). 6. Motion to approve a partial pay request to Sharp Construction in the amount of $62,210.79 - Director of Public Utilitie (Exhibit 4). FEBRUARY 5, 1997 - REGULAR MEETING COUNCILMEMBERSIACTION Councilmember Collins made a motion to appoint Bill Saum, Bill Douglas, Lola Parker, Rick Jordan, Peter Teitsort and Bea Castorina to the city's employee grievance committee; seconded by Councilmember Watford. Kirk Collins Entry Walker Watford Motion Carried. Councilmember Walker made a motion to grant a 120 day extension for a utility agreement between the City and Royals; seconded by Councilmember Entry. Councilmember Watford asked Director Fortner to update him concerning this utility agreement. Director Fortner explained the property is located on Highway 441 South. They are opening a Taco Bell and are having problems with permitting and need the 120 day extension. Ki rk Collins Entry Walker Watford Motion Carried. Councilmember Collins made a motion to approve a partial pay request to Sharp Construction in the amount of $62,210.79; seconded by Councilmember Entry. Kirk Collins Entry Walker Watford Motion Carried. PG 4 OF 9 VOTE YES I NO I A&9TN X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X F. NEW BUSINESS CONTINUED 7. Discuss the transfer agreement for utility lines in the Industrial Park - City Attorney (Exhibit 5). 8. Discuss the advertising for the positions of Director and Assistant Director of Public Utilities - Mayor Kirk (Exhibit 6). FEBRUARY 5, 1991 - REGULAR MEETING COUNCILMEM6ERS/ACTION Attorney Cook explained he had talked to Tom Conley concerning the matter of the utility lines in the industrial park, but he knew nothing more than he did at the last meeting. No action was taken. Councilmember Watford asked who wrote these job descriptions? Administrator Drago answer he did. Councilmember Watford asked Administrator Drago how he arrived at this information. Administrator Drago explained he had looked at some other cities job descriptions of Director and Assistant Director of Public Utilities, selected certain parts and combined that information with current job descriptions of our City. Councilmember Watford asked Director Fortner if he had seen it? Director Fortner stated, yes, I received a memo with, the information assuming its the same as the exhibit. Following lengthy discussion among Council and staff, Council decided a screening board made up of the mayor, Personnel Director, Administrator, Public Utilities Director Fortner and one outside engineer to review applications for the positions of Director and Assistant Director of Public Utilities. Councilmember Collins made a motion to advertise for the positions of Director and Assistant Director of Public Utilities, but do not hire the Assistant Director until the Director is hired; seco,ided by Councilmember Entry. Kirk Collins Entry Walker Watford Motion Carried. PG 5 OF 9 VOTE YES I NO X X X X X CN2 F. NEW BUSINESS CONTINUED 8. Continued . . . 9. Discuss the revised policies for Future Land Use, Infrastructure and Capital Improvements Elements of the Comprehen- sive Plan - Mr. Jeff Hopper, Central Florida Regional Planning Council (Exhibit 7). G. COUNCIL REPORTS AND/OR REQUESTS: Councilmember Collins: FEBRUARY 5, 1991 - REGULAR MEETING COUNCILMEMBERS/ACTION Councilmember Entry made a motion to accept Director Fortner's resignation with regret; seconded by Councilmember Walker. Kirk Collins Entry Walker Watford Motion Carried. Mr. Jeff Hopper of the Central Florida Regional Planning Council appeared before the Council with a listing of all the Department of Community Affairs objections of the proposed Comprehensive Plan submitted by the City. Along with the objections also were comments and proposed changes offered by the Central Florida Regional Planning Council. Mr. Hopper then proceeded to read each Department of Community Affairs objection, explain each change the Central Florida Regional Planning Council made and answer all councils questions on the changes or objections. After much discussion among Council, Councilmember Collins suggested the Citizen's Advisory Committee review the new information also and then report back to the Council at the next meeting, Council agreed. Mayor Kirk suggested Mr. Hopper give as much help as possible in deciding on the Conservation Map. Councilmember Collins informed the Council of a meeting that gook place with himself, Southern Electrical International Representative Roger Smith, City Attorney Cook, one County Commissioner, three members of the Business Council, Bill Reese of Reese Engineering, Administrator Drago and Public Utilities Director Fortner. Councilmember Collins further explained Mr. Smith had questions on zoning, noise ordinance, transmission lines and tower heights. PG 6 OF 9 VOTE SAES I W X X X X X G. 2. COUNCIL REPORTS AND/OR REQUEST CON'T Continued . . . Councilmember Watford: FEBRUARY 5. 1991 - REGULAR MELTING COUNCILMEMBERS/ACTION Councilmember Watford stated he appreciated the update of the meeting, however, we ( the Council) have asked to be kept informed, I object to the way this was handled. Councilmember Entry also expressed concerns for not being notified of the meeting . . . "Jerry and I are new and we are trying to learn everything we can I got upset because we were not notified ." Councilmember Walker suggested one way to remedy this problem would be to have the City Clerk's Office take the minutes at all important meetings of this nature then if only one Councilmember is in attendance the other Councilmembers can read the minutes to have knowledge of what was discussed at the meetings. Council agreed. a) City/County Inter -Local Agreement Councilmember Watford stated he could see no reason for renewing conversations with the County concerning the Solid Waste Inter -local Agreement. Council decided to wait until the County made a final decision concerning the landfill before the issue of the inter -local agreement is totally dropped. b) Reclaimed Water Project Councilmember Watford asked Director Fortner if the reclaimed water project was complete? Director Fortner answered the project was complete with the exception of testing. c) Well System councilmember Watford asked the status on the well water system. Director Fortner stated Engineer Reese was ironing things out with South Florida Water Management. Councilmember Watford requested the Administrator to have an update by the next meeting. d) Land Clearing Ordinance Councilmember Watford made a motion that we revise the ordinance on land clearing by exempting undevei.oped land from the ordinance. Motion died for lack of second. PG7OE 9 VOTE YES I W IAS-TN V '1 M 1-4 G. 0 3. COUNCIL REPORTS AND/OR REQUEST CON'T Continued . . . Mayor Kirk: FEBRUARY S, 1997 - REGULAR MEETING PG 8 OF 9 VOTE COUNCILMEMBERS/ACTION e) Evaluate Administrator Councilmember Watford asked if everyone had a chance to review Administrator Drago's service contract, and if so, what was their opinion on adding to it an area for yearly evaluations. Mayor Kirk stated he read it and did not feel any changes needed to be made. Councilmember Walker suggested the issue of evaluations be put on the agenda for the next meeting for discussion. After lengthy discussion among Council, staff and department heads, Councilmember Watford withdrew his request for adding a yearly evaluation requirement to the administrator's service contract. f) Councilmember Watford stated it was nice to see Okeechobee get some good publicity every once in awhile and in this months issue of Quality Cities (a publication of the Florida League of Cities) there are listings of committees for the 1990-91 year. Congratulations wre extended to Fire Chief Tomey as being listed as President of the Florida Fire Chief Association and our Administrator is listed on the Standing Committee of the Florida League of Cities and I think that is commendable that Okeechobee gets some recognition. Mayor Kirk ended the meeting stating, "I hate to do this, but I am going to make one final comment before we leave. I know that evaluations are on your mind as you leave out of here —and so be it ... and think about it. We don't have to have it on the agenda for the next meeting and at some point later we might want to re -address this, but as a professional person with a college degree, I want to tell you Light now, every year I have to sit down, with my principal while he marks me on some thirty sum items and he tells me the ones I'm doing a bad job on. Sometimes it's hard for me to swallow because he's about thirteen years younger than me, but I'm going to tell you right now he evaluates, and I have no problem with it We need to be careful what we put in place. Make sure that if we're going to move in that direction that we put something in place that's workable". YES ADJOURNMENT Mayor Kirk: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IF ANY PERSON SHOULD DECIDE TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADE AT THIS MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL, SUCH PERSON WILL NEED TO INSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING IS MADE WHICH INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS BASED. A COPY OF THE RECORDING CAN BE OBTAINED IN THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE. ,j, mes E. Kirk, Mayor Attest: Bonnie S.'TK mas, City Clerk, CMC ,h I EEBRUARY 5, 1991 - REGULAR MEETING COUNCILMEMBERS/ACTION Mayor Kirk adjourned the meeting at 10:15 P.M. PG9O1= 9 V07F YES 1 NO i