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MEMORANDUM
TO: Mayor Watford & City Council DATE: March 25, 2024
FROM: City Clerk GamioteY
SUBJECT: Re -Appointments to the Planning
Board, the Board of Adjustment,
& the Design Review Board
There are three current Board Members whose terms sunset: on April 30, 2024. All have requested to
be re -appointed for another three-year term.
We have advertised for citizens to apply for this 3 -in -1 Board on multiple media formats since
February 291h and have not received any new applications to date. We have one application on file,
but that individual requested we pull the application from consideration.
Please consider re -appointing Dawn Hoover and Mac Jonassaint as regular members, and James
Dean Murray as an Alternate Member.
As per Council instructions, Board Secretary Burnette provided attendance information during their
most recent term. Ms. Hoover has served since 1999. She was last reappointed May 1, 2021; there
have been 28 meetings held through March 2024, and she has been absent five times with consent
and once without consent. Mr. Jorassaint has served since 2014. He was last reappointed May 1,
2021; there have been 28 meetings held, and he has been absent two times with consent and once
without consent. Mr. Murray has sE!rved since October 202-,;; there have been five meetings, and he
has no absences.
Let me know if you have any questions or need further information.
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o.•o CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA
APRIL 2, 2024, REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING
MEETING MINUTES
CALL TO ORDER
Mayor Watford called the regular meeting of the City Council for the City of Okeechobee to order on April 2,
2024, at 6:00 P.M. in the City Council Chambers, located at 55 Southeast 31d Avenue (AVE), Room 200,
Okeechobee, Florida. The invocation was offered by Pastor Don Hanna of First United Methodist Church;
followed by the Pledge of Allegiance led by Council Member Chandler.
II. ATTENDANCE
City Clerk Lane Gamiotea called the roll. Members present to establish a quorum: Mayor Dowling R. Watford,
Jr., Vice Mayor Monica M. Clark, and Council Members Noel A. Chandler, Robert "Bob" Jarriel, and David R.
McAuley.
III. AGENDA AND PUBLIC COMMENTS
A. There were no modifications stated at this time. However, three pages were added to Exhibit 5, for New
Business Item VI. B.
B. Motion and second by Council Members Jarriel and McAuley, to adopt the agenda as published.
Motion Carried Unanimously.
C. There were no comment cards submitted for public participation for issues not on the agenda.
IV. CONSENT AGENDA
Motion by Vice Mayor Clark, second by Council Member Chandler to:
A. Dispense with the reading and approve the Minutes for March 19, 2024 [as presented in Exhibit 1]; and
B. Reappoint Dawn Hoover and Mac Jonassaint as regular members and Dean Murray as an alternate
member to the Planning Board, the Board of Adjustment, and the Design Review Board, terms being
May 1, 2024, through April 30, 2027 [as presented in Exhibit 21.
Motion Carried Unanimously.
V. MAYOR WATFORD OPENED THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ORDINANCE ADOPTION AT 6:02 P.M.
A. Motion and second by Council Members Jarriel and McAuley to read by title only, proposed Ordinance
No. 1287, prohibiting smoking/vaping in City Parks, adding enforcement of the policy by Code
Enforcement citation process [as presented in Exhibit 3].
Motion Carried Unanimously.
City Attorney John Fumero read into the record the title of proposed Ordinance No. 1287 as follows: "AN
ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF OKEECHOBEE, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES AT CHAPTER 30 ENVIRONMENT; ADDING SECTION 30-47 SMOKING AT PUBLIC
PARKS PROHIBITED; PROHIBITING SMOKING IN CITY PARKS; PROVIDING FOR
ENFORCEABILITY; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT; PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION; PROVIDING
FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE."
Motion by Vice Mayor Clark, second by Council Member Jarriel, to adopt proposed Ordinance No. 1287.
Mayor Watford opened the floor for public comments, there were none.
Roll Call Vote: Chandler — Yea, Clark — Yea, Jarriel — Yea, McAuley — Yea, Watford — Yea.
Motion Carried Unanimously.
MAYOR WATFORD CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING AT 6:04 P.M.
VI. NEW BUSINESS
A. Motion and second by Council Members Jarriel and McAuley to [award] a [Quote] to Streamline Paving
in the amount of $18,900.00 for repairing [two segments] of the asphalt on Southwest (SW) 111h AVE
[segment one: the East 12.5 -feet (ft) from SW 2nd Street (ST) Northward 50 -ft; segment two: the West
12.5 -ft from SW 6"h ST Southward 202 -ft as presented in Exhibit 4].
Motion Carried Unanimously,
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