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HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-21-88 SS . e . MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL SESSION COMMISSION MEETING HELD ON SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1988 CALL TO ORDER: 3:55 P.M. PRESENT: Mayor Ison; Commissioners Bateman, Dabbs, Hager, and Johnson; City Manager Ryan; City Attorney Rosenthal; and Assistant to the City Manager Resnik. Mayor Ison read into the record'what happened Workshop Session and that there would be another in July and a draft written evaluation form was from Commissioner Dabbs. during the such session forthcoming Mayor Ison asked if the Commission had any further comments on the evaluation of the City Manager or on the "State ox the City". There were no other comments and Mayor Ison opened the discussion on the interlocal agreement with St. Johns River Water Management District. Attorney Rosenthal said Attorney Woodson was working on the state of the water bodies in Ocoee. He said the City had several options for protecting the City's lakes and other surxace water bodies. Attorney Rosenthal said presently the City and St. Johns Water Management regulated the maJority of surface water bodies. The regulations of these entities often overlapped without any additional benefit to water quality. Because of this, the City could opt to delegate the regulating of these matters to St. Johns. The downside to this would be that St. Johns would only research certain size water ways. Attorney Rosenthal said the City would need to create certain regulatory measures for the smaller water bodies. Attorney Rosenthal said the Spring Lake proJect was an example of the present situation where the City and St. Johns were overlapping in regulating. The Developer had already received a permit from St. Johns and the City Staff and Consultants duplicated that effort to make sure the City standards were met. Attorney Rosenthal said this was an expensive process and did not provide xor anything St. Johns had not already done. Attorney Rosenthal recommended that the City hire someone to review and enforce regulatory measures in regards to water bodies. He said the City had the ability to pass on some of the cost to the Developers. He also suggested that the City cooperate with St. Johns Water Management in the review process. Attorney Rosenthal said the other option would be to discuss with St. Johns about lowering the thresholds to provide for more stringent criteria. Attorney Rosenthal felt that St. Johns would respond that that would require additional staxxing. Attorney Rosenthal said Attorney Woodson felt it was not worth the extra work the City Consultants were presently doing. Mayor money Ison questioned whether the City could collect to pay for another person. Mayor Ison asked enough if the 1 e Page 2 Special May 21, Session Commiesion Meeting 1988 City had a recent breakdown that listed development proJects versus City proJects. Commissioner Dabbs provided Mayor Ison with a recent breakdown. Mayor leon said it did not appear that there would be enough money there to hire someone. Commissioner Bateman said iz the City had the right ordinances in place, it would not need to hire a staff person. City Manager Ryan said that this would make a good topic for discussion at the day-long meeting scheduled for June 23 since water and drainage would be diecuesed. Commissioner Bateman said for the record that he wae interested in reviewing and strengthening current ordinances and establishing new ones if necessary. Commissioner Johnson suggested that the Commiesion wait to see how much the new City Engineer could handle. Mayor Ison asked iz the Commission wanted to make any other comments or take action on anything other than what had already been said. Since there were no comments, Mayor Ison asked for any closing comments from each Commissioner. e Commissioner Johnson wanted to take another look at the ProJect Manager position for Bowness Road that was discussed at the Commiesion Meeting on Tuesday night. Mayor Ison asked if the money to fund this position could come out of the money set aside for the Bowness Road proJect. City Manager Ryan said it could and that the City would also be looking into other improvements in the area around the proJect. Mayor Ison said the Staff also needed to look at the section of road from Story to Highway 50. He felt it would need to have three lanes to handle the expected growth. Commissioner Johnson motioned ProJect Manager position out money, Commissioner Bateman unanimous. to look into of the Bowness seconded, and funding the Road proJect approval wae e Mayor Ison said he wanted to make a comment about the issue of setting the agenda for meetings. He said it was his understanding that the Mayor and Commiseioners had the authority to get something on the agenda at any time, but that it was the City Manager who had control over what was on the agenda. The Mayor said the Commission did not have the time to review what was proposed to be on the agenda and that the City Manager should review it and make any decisions. Mayor Ison said the agenda should also accommodate citizens and that they should be able to approach the Commission early. Mayor Ison aleo said if there was a full agenda, the 2 . e e Page 3 Special Session Commission Meeting May 21, 1988 City Manager should hold certain items until the following meeting and not overload the agenda. Mayor Ison said to make the meetings progress, they would need to follow Robert's Rules of Order and that no discussion would occur until a motion was made and seconded. Mayor Ison also said to place more items on the Consent Agenda to conserve time. Mayor lson said the agenda could be altered to move citizens' comments toward the beginning of the meeting and that any other improvements the City Manager could make should be done. Mayor Ison said the Commission should also be holding a mini-agenda at 7:15 p.m. and that they should all be in attendance for that. ADJOURNMENT: 4:40 p.m. ;!:1 J7 Q f) \ ------~---~---- MAYOR ATTEST: -------------------------------- ASSISTANT TO CITY MANAGER RESNIK 3