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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10282009City Council Present: Mayor Richard H. Gillmor Vice -Mayor Jim Hill Council Member Andrea Coy Council Member Dale Simchick Council Member Eugene Wolff cliv OF HOME OF PELICAN ISLAND SEBASTIAN CITY COUNCIL MINUTES REGULAR MEETING WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2009 6:30 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1225 MAIN STREET, SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA 1. Mayor Gillmor called the Regular Meeting to order at 6:30 p.m. 2. Rev. David Foster, Tabernacle Ministries, gave the invocation. 3. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 4. ROLL CALL Staff Present: City Manager, Al Minner City Attorney, Robert Ginsburg City Clerk, Sally Maio Deputy City Clerk, Jeanette Williams Growth Management Director, Rebecca Grohall Police Chief, Michelle Morris MIS Senior Systems Analyst, Barbara Brooke -Reese 5. AGENDA MODIFICATIONS None. 6. PROCLAMATIONS, AWARDS, BRIEF ANNOUNCEMENTS None. 7. CONSENT AGENDA 1 -10 A. Approval of Minutes 10/14/09 Regular Meeting Minutes Regular City Council Meeting October 28, 2009 Page Two 09.053 B. Resolution No. R -09 -42 Amending R -09 -17 Working Waterfronts Committee 11 15 Composition (GMD Transmittal, R- 09 -42) MOTION by Mr. Hill and SECOND by Ms. Coy to approve the consent agenda. Result of the roll call vote: AYES: All NAYS: None Passed 5 -0 8. COMMITTEE REPORTS APPOINTMENTS None 9. PUBLIC HEARINGS None 10. UNFINISHED BUSINESS None 11. PUBLIC INPUT None 12. NEW BUSINESS None A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SEBASTIAN, FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE TEMPORARY WATERFRONT COMMITTEE; AMENDING AND RESTATING RESOLUTIONS NO. R -09 -17 AND R- 09 -23; MODIFYING THE COMMITTEE COMPOSITION; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT; PROVIDING FOR A TERM AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. 13. CITY ATTORNEY MATTERS None 14. CITY MANAGER MATTERS None 15. CITY CLERK MATTERS None 16. CITY COUNCIL MATTERS A. Council Member Coy Ms. Coy announced that Tuesday, November 3rd is election day and urged people to vote, noting that some polling places have changed and people can contact Kay Clem to determine their polling place. 2 Regular City Council Meeting October 28, 2009 Page Three She also announced that November 6, 7 and 8 is the Clambake Festival, and urged people call one of the participating non profits and come down and volunteer. B. Council Member Simchick Ms. Simchick said this was a bittersweet moment for her being her last meeting, noting due to its importance to her she had never missed a meeting. She commended the three charter officers, said she had learned a lot from them and cited the professional staff in City Hall. She thanked the Police Department and officers for coming to the meetings. She said in the two and a half years on Council she had seen what makes a small community a wonderful place to live and named many of the organizations that make up the community. She listed some of the highlights of her term such as bringing the state college here, economic development plan with the tax abatement referendum on the ballot, improving the riverfront district with the Main Street and Working Waterfronts projects and saving the Hardee Tree, and the Collier Creek canal dredging and seawall. Ms. Simchick said she would like to see future Council allocate land or trade with Indian River County for old fire station 9 property, discussed the addition of the Boys and Girls Club basketball court, but suggested allocating land and placing a sign "future site of which will bode well for the new station site; and she encouraged work on affordable housing. She said it has been a wonderful experience and an honor to serve, saying it had been a pleasure sitting side by side with Mr. Wolff and thanked the other members of Council. C. Council Member Wolff Mr. Wolff noted this could be his last meeting too. He said at the last meeting, Council discussed if there would be a conflict with the Fisherman's Landing foundation members serving on the Working Waterfronts committee and inquired about the City Attorney's findings. The City Attorney said there is no conflict being a member of the foundation and serving on the committee, though if you were an officer or director of the foundation, you might have a fiduciary responsibility and that could create a conflict. He said the other thought is, if it occurs that there is always a conflict and if a member is frequently removed from the vote, the member should resign from the committee. Mr. Wolff then announced that long term Post Office employee Don Wilson is retiring after tomorrow and wished him well. 3 Regular City Council Meeting October 28, 2009 Page Four ATTES D. Mayor Gillmor Mayor Gillmor said he would like to briefly have a dialog about what we could task the City Manager to come up with for economic development so that Sebastian can take the lead in the area. He noted he was watching a Titusville Council meeting at which the Mayor said they need to spruce up the city as they are in competition with cities up and down the coast and wondered if Sebastian's billboard on 1 -95 may have precipitated that comment. He suggested an Economic Development workshop in the near future to revisit what can be done to get the City up and running, and announced the Sebastian Jam in Riverview Park this Friday. There was no objection from Council on the idea of a workshop. E. Vice Mayor Hill Mr. Hill said if you drive out CR512to 1 -95 the county has put up a beautiful expanded corridor and noted that the City should begin to explore annexing some of the commercial property along the corridor east of Vero Lake Estates because it will come and the City could gain the tax benefit. He said he would like Council to task the City Manager with starting those discussions. Ms. Coy stated that after the election on Tuesday, if the tax abatement question passes, we can start working to put that together. She also said she agreed with Mr. Hill on sprucing up the sign on the east side of the airport and said we should also be looking at doing so along the Roseland Road corridor to bring in business. 17. Being no further business, Mayor Gillmor adjourned the Regular Meeting at 6:47 p.m. Approved at the November 18 2009 Regular City Council Meeting. Ri �rd H. Gillmor, Mayor Sally A. Maio, MC City Clerk 4