AT A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONER HELD IN AND FOR GADSDEN COUNTY, FLORIDA, ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7,
2010 AT 6:00 P.M., THE FOLLOWING PROCEEDINGS WERE HAD, VIZ.
Present: Sherrie Taylor, Chair, District 5
Gene Morgan, Vice-Chair, District 3
Eugene Lamb, District 1
Doug Croley, District 2
Brenda Holt, District 4
Deborah Minnis, County Attorney
Johnny Williams, County Administrator
Muriel Straughn, Deputy Clerk
Invocation, Pledge
of Allegiance and Roll Call
Amendments and
Approval of Agenda
Proposed Retreat – Add as Item 13.
Move Item 13 Appointments to the Small County Coalition to General Business Agenda Item Number 10A
Commissioner Holt – Purchase of the Jai-Lai (Direction to County Administrator to agenda for next meeting)
Croley/Morgan 5 – 0
Awards ,
Presentations and Appearances
Lake Talquin Dam Project - Add as 1A
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Public Appreciation of
Rural Hospital Concept Citizens Committee Members Recognition of Eugene Lamb
for his Leadership for the Last Two Years Awarded a plaque of appreciation. Update on Lake Talquin Dam
– City of Tallahassee Corn Hydro Trevenie Saint Dean Thompson Gordon King Carl Bower (overseeing the project at the dam) |
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Consent Agenda Lamb/Morgan approve 5 – 0 |
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Approval of Minutes September 8, 2010 Tentative Budget Hearing October 5, 2010 Regular Meeting October 19, 2010 Regular Meeting November 2, 2010 Regular Meeting |
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Ratification of Approval to Pay County Bills Accounts Payable Dated: November 19, 2010 November 24, 2010 Payroll Dated: November 18, 2010 |
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CITIZENS REQUESTING TO BE
HEARD ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS Terry Presnell 914 Magnolia Drive, Quincy, FL – Bike Safety - Three Feet Please Program - to raise awareness of laws relating to bicycle traffic. Requested that county vehicles to bear stickers regarding bicycle safety. Would like to begin public awareness. Instructed to see the county administrator as soon as possible. Chuck Roberts 3372 Capital Circle N.E. Tallahassee – Paving of Highway 267 C.W. Roberts has contract to do widening of SR 267 from SR20 to I-10. He will be using his property on SR 267 in connection with that project. Just wanted to advise the board of his activities. The job is approximately a nine month project – will take most of 2011. PUBLIC HEARINGS: |
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Quasi- Judicial Public
Hearing – New Israel Church of Jesus Christ, Inc. Special Exception with Site Plan
(SE-2010-01) (SP-2010-01) – Tax Parcel
ID 1-35-4N-4W-0000-000341-1200 Applicant: The New Israel Church of Jesus Christ, Inc. Address: 532 Dusty House Road Representative: Sharon Smiley Gainous 162 Charlie Harris Loop Quincy Engineer: Peter Okonknwo, Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc. The Church requested a Special Exception Use with Site Plan Review with departures to allow a 1918 square foot church on a 1.237 acre parcel. Planning Commission Recommendation: Approval Subject to Special Conditions a – q of the agenda report. Planning Staff Recommendations: Denial subject to findings listed as a – d in the agenda report. Anthony Matheny administered an oath by Deputy Clerk Muriel Straughn.
Called for public comments. Peter Okonknwo, Spectra Engineering & Research, Inc.- administered oath by Deputy Clerk Muriel Straughn. Gave testimony. In support Sharon Smiley Gainous 162 Charlie Harris Loop Quincy, FL- administered oath by Deputy Clerk Muriel Straughn. Gave testimony. In support of request Linda Barkley – Dusty House Road resident. Administered oath and gave testimony – in support of request. Rev. Gainous questioned by Commissioner Croley. Rev. Gainous questioned by Commissioner Holt. Rev. Gainous questioned by Commissioner Morgan. Easement owned by church. Rev. Gainous questioned by Commissioner Lamb. Holt/Croley motioned approval. 5 – 0 Option 2 Motioned was amended to include Option 2.
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Approval to Confirm the
County Administrator’s Appointment of Charles Chapman as Public Works
Director Lamb/Morgan 4 – 1 (Commissioner Holt opposed) Questioned by Commissioner Holt. Problem with the position and the advertisement. Should advertise correctly. Feels that former director was doing a good job. Mr. Chapman does not meet the advertised qualifications. Questioned by Chair |
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Approval of the Contract for State Lobbying Services to Christian B. Doolin & Associates ($25,000.00) Arthur Lawson, Assistant County Administrator - Was it advertised? Not this year, it was bid last year. Chair Taylor – not supportive of moving forward with this contract. In favor of holding. Croley/ Motion to table. Morgan rebuttal if complete privatization happens, Chattahoochee could not recover. Supportive of the lobbyist contract. Commissioner Holt totally against privatization. Supportive of lobbyist contract.
Commissioner Lamb – supportive of the contract. Chris Doolin – addressed the board. Motion to table. Does not require a second. Vote called for: Lamb will support chair’s Request 3 – 2(Morgan & Holt) |
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Approval of the Purchase of Emergency Generator for the W.A. Woodham Building Approval of Agreement with Caterpillar to lease a new generator for a period of 60 months at a rate of $1,708.28 per month with a balloon payment of $1.00 due at the end of the lease period to take over ownership of the generator. What should be done with the old generator? Surplus and sold. $247 service per quarter – to be born by county plus annual Morgan/Lamb approve – purchase and disposal of old generator 5 – 0 |
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Approval for Installation
of Helicopter Pad at Capital Regional Medical Center Gadsden County Campus Cost $143,942.00 to be paid from ½ cent indigent sales tax. Croley/Morgan approve. 5 – 0 Question by Commissioner Holt. Will start immediately. Should finish 3 month. |
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Approval of Budget
Amendment for Gadsden County Health Department for FY 11 OMB-BA# 1100000 Funds to be taken from the budgeted line item Reserves for Contingency leaving a balance of $57,138 in Budgeted Contingency Funds Holt/Lamb approve. 3 – 2 (Croley/Morgan) Croley opposed. Morgan opposed. Taylor – talked to Marlon Hunter – she put him on notice that they will have to do with less. This money will be used for the dentistry and will generate $300,000. |
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Budget Amendments OMB-BA#
100123 thru 100139 - Resolution
2010-046 (Close out Amendments for FY 2009-2010 Croley/Morgan Approve 5 - 0 Holt wants to see narrative about where the money is coming from on the budget amendment itself. |
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Appointments to the Small
County Coalition Croley/Lamb Motion to appointChair and Vice-chair and county administrator 5 – 0 |
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County Administrator’s
Agenda No items. |
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County Attorney’s Agenda Interlocal Agreement with Sheriff – draft is completed. It will be e-mailed to commissioners. To come to board on third Tuesday in January. Ex-Parte communications on quasi-judicial issues May develop ordinance to allow communication with petitioners if disclosure is made on the record – not one on the books now. Commissioner Holt – Motion Morgan/Croley have attorney to move forward in developing an ordinance 5 – 0 Croley cited FL Statutes 1223187 Whistle Blower - We don’t have a procedure to handle complaints. Asked to have attorney and administrator develop policy or ordinance to deal with to whom reports have to be made. Possibly the Human Resource Director |
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Discussion Items by
Commissioners |
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Commissioner Lamb, District
1 No items. |
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Commissioner Croley,
District 2 Reminded everyone that this date marks the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. VAB concluded business for the past year. Recognized Emily Rowan and Bill McMillan who served as volunteers. Filed minutes for the record. Resigned as the VAB appointee. Will need to appoint someone else. Voiced his dismay on November 16, 2010 by BCC for not moving on the nuisance abatement ordinance. Read statement into the record. |
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Commissioner Holt, District
4 Her request to have items agendaed that are not appearing on the agenda. One of her problems was the manager himself. He is too expensive. He is costing the county in lawsuits filed by employees. Something is wrong with the process. Motion to replace the county
administrator. Motion died without a
second. Want to see the budget of the Attorney. $157,000 paid out. What did we get for $157,000? Want to see this on the next agenda. Compare to former attorney. Interested in the meetings being televised again. Asked to have this put on the agenda. Parking lot – what is going on with it? It is a public parking lot. Direction to county administrator was to meet with the merchants and city manager to resolve issues. Wants this item to appear on an agenda. Jai-lai and employment possibilities – want this to go on an agenda – end of January. Went to city commission meeting – need to get government off the square and make space available to local merchants. |
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Commissioner Morgan, Vice-Chair, District 3 Noted that the meetings are available on the Clerk’s website. Parking lot issues. Attorney costs raised by Commissioner Holt. Legal costs were down 70% in 2009 over previous years. Lobbying efforts. Need to identify cold weather shelters throughout the county. Get it posted in appropriate places. Commended Mr. Price for the quarterly report. Want this to be discussed at the next meeting. Would like the Clerk to be present to speak to financial conditions.
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Commissioner Taylor, Chair, District 5 Drake Acres Park grand opening. Thanks to staff and Commissioner Morgan. Put Sheriff’s Department on notice to frequent the area to police it. Televising of BCC Meetings – bring back on next agenda. Budget Amendments need to be coming forth more timely. Ordinance regarding nuisance abatement - the direction was for Major Wood and Sheriff to get with county administrator and county attorney and come up with an ordinance that was more palatable. County Kick-off - gone to each constitutional officer and asked them to come together with their employees and have collaboration on January 11 so that everyone can understand where the vision is for the county and move forward with proper attitude. Cost would be $2,200 350 people approximately . Let the county administrator identify the dollars and move forward. No vote taken. There are five commissioners here and we must respect each other.
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Receipt and File |
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Letter from FDLE regarding close out of Grant Contract Number 2010-JAGC-GADS-1-4X-187 |
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Letter from FDLE Regarding close out of Grant Contract Number 2010-ARRC-GADS-5-W7-203 |
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Letter from FDLE Regarding close out of Grant Contract Number 2010-ARRC-GADS-1-W7-192 |
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Letter from FDLE Regarding close out of Grant Contract Number2010-ARRC-GADS-3-W7-194 |
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Letter from FDLE Regarding close out of Grant Contract Number 2010-ARRC-GADS-4-W7-083 |
Next Meeting – December 21, 2010 at 9:00 a.m.
ADJOURNMENT
THERE BEING NO OTHER
BUSINESS BEFORE THE BOARD, THE CHAIR DECLARED THE MEETING ADJOURNED AT