November 12, 2020 –
Awards and Recognition
Coast Guard received the Veterans Day Proclamation.
Public Hearings
This is a first reading to increase water rates by 3% for FY 2021, which was approved by City Council as part of the FY 21 budget. This increase will take effect on December 8, 2020.
Passed 5-0 by City Council
This is a first reading to increase wastewater rates by 9% as outlined in the rate study to finance proposed capital improvements to the City’s wastewater and reclaimed water systems that was approved by City Council in August 2016. This increase will take effect on December 8, 2020.
Passed 5-0 by City Council
This approval is for budget adjustments for fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2020, and this adjustment recognizes any unexpected revenues and expenditures as of Sept. 30, 2020.
Passed 5-0 by City Council
This approval is for budget adjustments for fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2020, and this adjustment recognizes any unexpected revenues and expenditures as of Sept. 30, 2020.
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Consent Agenda
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Pulled from Consent Agenda for further information by City Council.
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Pulled from Consent Agenda for further information by City Council.
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Pulled from Consent Agenda for more information by City Council.
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Pulled from Consent Agenda for more information by City Council. The original required compliance was replaced by wording that states that properties need to follow St. Johns Water Management District Standards, making it a living document.
Passed 5-0 by City Council
Council Business
Development Services Staff have created the Traffic Impact Analysis Guidelines due to the potential for large-scale development projects coming into Green Cove Springs and comprehensive plan requirements that dictate that new development must comply with the designated Level of Service standards for transportation.
The guidelines are designed to require developers to hire a traffic engineer to analyze roadways within the study area and determine if the projected traffic from the proposed development will degrade the roadways below the Level of Service standards for roads connected to or surrounding the new development. If it does, then the applicant will be required to pay the City a proportionate fair share of the cost of improvements to those roadways, as specified in the City’s Consurrency Ordinance.
Passed 5-0 by City Council
City Manager Steve Kennedy: Requested that the City Council make an emergency motion to approve the new Interlocal Agreement with Clay County, which is in line with the new standards for CARES Act funding, and to rescind the original project list for CARES Act funding so Staff can make a modified project list to comply with the new funding standards.
Council Member Connie Butler moves to make the emergency motion and Council Member Matt Johnson seconds the motion. Emergency Motion passes 5-0 by City Council.
City staff have been walking the downtown area from the post office to Walgreens and down to Spring Park to take note of any improvements that need to be made, as well as projects that are already underway. City Manager Kennedy has passed that list along to City Council, and will periodically update the Council on the progress of those improvements.
City Manager Kennedy is also working with community groups to come up with an after-school curriculum for the new Augusta Savage Mentoring Center.
The StoryWalk Project with Clay County Library System is moving forward in Spring Park. The project will be installed in Spring Park within the next few weeks.
There will be a presentation on the Smart City Projects that have been happening in Green Cove Springs during an upcoming City Council meeting.
City Manager Kennedy called Planning and Zoning Director Mike Daniels to the podium to talk about a recent proposal to develop of flag lot in Green Cove Springs. Owner wants to use the lot as a single family home, but lot does not meet the setbacks required for a single family home. Daniels does not recommend approving development on flag lots, which are lots with one narrow access point that opens up to a larger area of land. Mayor Van Royal suggested giving an exception for this lot with caveats on how to develop the property. Daniels said that the lot will go to the Planning and Zoning Board, then back to the City Council for approval.
Council Member Connie Butler said that the County Preservation Board is working on an Augusta Savage Marker.