City Commission Conference Meeting and CRA Board Meeting on 2026-01-06 1:30 PM - Jan 06, 2026

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What is discussed at the start of this meeting and how is the Budget Advisory Board motion introduced?

Dean Trantalis 0:01

Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to twenty twenty six. Uh Thank you all for being here today. Um and I wanna thank uh the m members of the commission for um Once again returning to work and uh we got a lot going on this year, so very excited about working together and making sure that all the good things happen to our community. Uh today we have quite a few presentations we're going to hear. Um and uh But before we get to those, I want to first refers to the communications that we had from um Um first from the budget advisory board. Is there anyone here from the budget advisory board? Bill Mr Brown. So there's a motion made by Mrs Booker uh seconded by uh Mr Calais. To state that the budget advisory board supports the proposed ordinance as presented by staff without amendments.

Bill Brown 1:00

Do you want to talk a little bit about that? Yes, Mayor. Mayor, members of the commission, Bill Brown, Chairman of the Budget Advisory Board. Uh Judy Erickson from Parks and Rack came before our board on an ordinance change that related to food and beverage applications and the fees for the beach and the renewals. Uh I believe it came before you at the last meeting for ordinance first reading, which passed. We are in support of as it passed. We also discussed, I think, what might be an amendment that gives the council the option for a call up. on the renew automatic renewals at staff level. So I think it's on tonight's agenda for second reading. So we are in support of that. Uh and then the second communication do you w want me just go into that as well?

Bill Brown 1:48

Yes, the second communication regarding the reserve

Dean Trantalis 1:51

and the general fund. You want to talk about that? Yes.

Bill Brown 1:54

Uh staff came to us, uh they brought after the staff had worked on the financial uh integrity principles that the city adopted several years ago. They went back, updated it, made it more to make sure that what was current principles in today's g uh municipalities and everything. And there will be a presentation this afternoon from staff on that. Uh we uh first of all want to thank uh the city auditor. He attends all our meetings, uh the budget and he sits here quietly, doesn't say anything, but we did ask him about the principles and making sure that they felt comfortable with him as well. And he brought up and that we asked that it be amended and put in as a best practice. is a best practices used by the Governmental Finance Officers Association be incorporated in that.

Bill Brown 2:46

So you'll see that in the presentation, but we're in full support of staff's uh recommended changes. Okay, great. Any questions of Mr. Brown? Okay. Thank you. Oh, and by the way, thank you for now all your appointments. We have a Tim Member board after tonight. Okay, great. Thank you. All right,

Dean Trantalis 3:05

very good. Uh thank you so much. And now um We have another communication from the planning and zoning board. Is there a a member here? Ella

Ella Parker 3:19

Good afternoon, Mayor, Commissioners, Ella Parker, Deputy Director, Development Services. Um there's no uh members of the Planning and Zoning Board here today, but we wanted to um let you all know that they would like um the Commission to consider changing the timeframes before um the planning uh before an applicant comes to the planning and zoning board to have a public participation meeting more than no more than a year prior to the public hearing. And staff concurs with that. So we would like to to take a look at our ordinance, amend that language, and bring something back in front of the Planning and Zoning Board and uh back to the city commission, if you all. Give us that directive.

Dean Trantalis 3:54

Uh that's not what it says here. Um it says here it has to do with uh adding vacations of rights of way to the code as it relates to public participation. So you want to limit the to just the vacations and rights of way?

Ella Parker 4:07

No, so what happened is there was a case in front of the board that was a right of way vacation and the applicant for that vacation um had done a public participation meeting um A couple years before coming back to the board and actually having the item scheduled.

Dean Trantalis 4:21

You want to know what you're doing.