He's playing mic tonight. We'll go ahead and call the Tuesday, May 27th, city commission meeting to order. If you would please stand for the invocation and the pledge. Heavenly Father, we come to you this tonight. We ask that you give us wisdom to make the best decisions on behalf of the city of Leburg. in your precious
name. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
[Music] Proclamations, we have none, and presentations, we have none. We'll move to public comments. This section is reserved for members of the public to bring up matters of concern or opportunities for praise. Please note the issues raised during this time will not be discussed in detail during the current meeting. They will be either
referred to the appropriate staff or scheduled for consideration at a future city commission meeting. Each speaker is allocated three minutes to provide their comments. Kindly adhere to this time limit to ensure equal opportunity for all participants and to support the efficient conduct of the meeting. Thank you. Any public comments? If you would just state your name and address for the
record. Hi, Amanda Mccle Leburg Center for the Arts President. Um 429 West Magnolia Street. I just want to let you guys know uh thank you for your continued support of the arts. I just left where 15 of our artu students have done a puppet show that they designed
and are performing for all their parents. The art center is completely full with all of our residents and parents of those kids. So, uh thank you to your continued support of this group. Also into Lakefront TV. They have provided us some um uh coverage for that
puppet show. So, that'll be uh going on Lakefront TV. But thank you commissioners, city manager, and staff. We appreciate your continued support. Thank you. Good evening, fellow commissioners, mayor, city manager. I don't know why I got nervous all of a sudden. I'm used to
you guys. But no, on a good note, um I just want to invite you all out to West Leburg CDC ribbon cutting. It's going to be June the 6 for the duplex. This is one of our babies that has been dear to our heart over the last year. Um I thank you all once again for the u funding
that you have given us and the opportunities and the work relationship that we're going to have moving forward. And on that note which I received a notification that the uh George WH Bush Foundation acknowledged us for the uh
community services that we are doing here in Leburg. So that was a major plus knowing that I was getting up here today. So, thank you all and I'm looking forward to working with you all ahead and um we will see you on June the 6th at 7:00 p.m. and that's going to be at uh
2114 Weightman Avenue and the uh chamber is going to be um cutting the ribbon uh with their uh items. So, I love to see you all there. Thank you. Thank you. Any other public comments? We'll close public comments. We'll move on to the
consent agenda. Routine items are placed on the consent agenda to expedite the meeting. If the commission or staff wish to discuss any item, the procedure is as follows. One, pull the item from the consent agenda. Two, vote on the remaining items with one roll call vote. Three, discuss each item pulled and then vote by roll call. Are there any items
the commission would like to pull this evening? Seeing none, can I get a motion to approve all the items on the consent agenda? So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Any public comments? Seeing none, roll call. Commissioner Cono, yes. Commissioner
Bur, yes. Commissioner Peterson, yes. Commissioner Barry, yes. Mayor Reeseman, yes. We'll move on to six. Public hearings and nutine items. During public hearings and non-reine items, the commission requests that those in attendance respect the process and maintain order. As such, in accordance
with Robert's rules of order, please refrain from speaking out, cheering, or applauding during these proceedings. Your cooperation helps ensure a fair and representful hearing. We have no second readings. We have first readings. Would someone please introduce 6B1? I'd like to introduce
6B1 to be read by title only, please. Thank you. An ordinance of the city of Leburg, Florida, vacating and abandoning a portion of the unimproved ride ofway of Madison Street located in Leburg, Lake County, Florida, south of US
Highway 441, and between lot 4, block 46 and lot one, block 47. According to the revised and recorrected plat of re-ubdivision of subdivision of Silver Lake Estates as recorded in platbook 10,
page 66 through 69 of the public records of Lake County, Florida, reserving a utility easement, providing for conditions, providing for severability, and providing an effective date. This is a first reading. Uh Dan, any comments on
this? Okay. Any comments from the commission? Any public comments? Seeing none, this will lay over till June 9th. Would someone please introduce 6B2? Introduced as be read by title only. an ordinance of the city of Leburg,
Florida, amending chapter 10 of the COD ordinances relating to fire protection and prevention to create article 3, open burning regulations, creating sections 10-50 through 10-52, providing for regulations and
restrictions on open burning, providing for penalties, providing for exemptions, providing for conflict, severability, codification, and an effective date. Thank you, Andy. This is a first reading. Any staff presentation? Seeing none. Any commission comments? Seeing none, this will lay over. Any
public comments? This will lay over till June 9th. Would someone please introduce 6B3? I'll introduce and ask to be read by title only, please. An ordinance of the city of Leburg, Florida, amending ordinance number 24-25 concerning the granting of a
non-exclusive franchise to Tri County Sanitation LLC and its successors and assigns parenthesis franchisee providing for conflict and severability and providing an effective date. Thank you, Andy. Any staff presentation? Any commission comments?
Any public comments? This will lay over till June 9th as well. We'll move on to 6C non-reing items. We have none. Informational reports. City attorney items. No reports this evening. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. City manager items. Let me just bring up one.
The mayor's looking for a record here. Okay. Go ahead. Um, and then look, I sent out an email earlier today um about uh potentially speaking with the county about a joint uh joint planning agreement. joint planning agreement.
Yeah, JPA. I would I had the acronym, but JPA. Um, recently the county and the city of Groveland has approved the JPA. Um, I don't know, you know, obviously this would be a long process. That's what the June 30 meeting is about as
well. So, um, with with that thought, you know, I think that there there's some areas of commonality we could work with the county on. Uh, so I outlined in that email some of the points that um I thought would be reasonable grounds to
start some discussions with the county about a JPA. Um, it's in that email. Um, some of them were um, sunsetting the ISBA, kind of keeping the provisions that we like and deleting the ones that we don't like. I think the the the
provisions the county didn't like necessarily now um x years after we did the ISBA was the uh non-ontiguous annexations. So we would propose in in such a GPA we we keep the ISBA box, you know, basically
the lines of where we grow. Um, we eliminate the the non-ontiguous annexations and we revert back to a process of I'm going to call it 163 annexations because that's the statute that regulates how you annex. I would
capitulate that all the annexations we've done for the most part, especially in the RPA have been contiguous annexations, not uncontiguous, which we didn't actually need the ISBA for. But in any case, you know, I think there's some I think there's some scenarios
there that perhaps the county may not may like to discuss. Um I happened to have a discussion with Commissioner Parks last week about um some different things and and that's kind of the catalyst, if you will. Um Commissioner Morris has also talked to me on several
occasions since uh being elected as well. Um so in any case, that that's there. Barring any feedback from you all that you may have at this juncture, I could probably go ahead and get that email out to uh the county manager here probably this evening. If you if you
make your if you make your schedule um and and go from there. So any questions you have, let me know. I have a question. Will we make a liaison between the county and the city to have someone to be Yeah, you know, I assume that there'll probably be quite this several discussions on there.
Um, and the the leaison will probably be me or Dan as the lead point for how we would would talk with them. And then and then this document will be a working document. So, it will come back before each body, the BOCC as well as you all for review and input. I would think on a
number of occasions for things for you all to add or subtract. Um, at least that from a starting point, the bullets that I put in that email would be the ones from the city perspective that I think probably enough bullet points there um that that start discussion,
but I I think it would be a long process and lots of public input and commission elected official review. Could we workshop? I think it would be something you would you may want to have a specific workshop on. I think before we get to workshop, we probably have to have the workings of a of a document
template before you start adding and subtracting from it. I was going to bring this up in my comments. It' be quick, but I think it's tied into the JPA. Uh I was going to reference Sean Parks. He presented to the Lake County Commission last Tuesday
a funding strategy for roads. Did this come up in your meeting with him? It did. Um, but I just I I guess the purpose I didn't mean to catch you off guard. The purpose of my comment is I want the public to know that that the county and this commission hear them on roads and traffic. And it it's good to
know that Sean Parks did submit a he calls it late county roads funding strategy. He submitted to the county commission last Tuesday. I just saw a copy today. Uh it's a starting point, but I mean he basically is saying you we need to look at any any and all options. We need to raise more money. And I just want people to hear that. So just I
don't know if there's a connection to the JPA is why I brought it up under your comments. One of the bullets in the JPA the the the city the county and the cities have talked the last year about the concept of taking over city roads. Um especially
I'm sorry I said that backwards taking over county roads. um especially in areas where the city has um annexed or development on both sides of said road. I think this is an exception for um
collectors. Um a collector road would be 48, 33, 441, uh 44, uh those type of roads. But I mean there's there's some roads that that you probably don't even know or county roads that the city probably should assume. uh for example, West
Maine from Canal to 27 that's that's a county road. We had taken 20 we had taken canal to Dixie years and years ago. Um I think when we we started doing different projects um so there are a couple of anomalies like that and I think those are probably easy roads. Um
and and I think at the end of the day, at least from my perspective and how I would recommend to this body, I think that the biggest issue there that you would want in a JPA, um not necessarily as uh is is harmony in land development
regulations because I think politically you're probably just not going to get there. Um I mean, even the dichotomy of our commission versus putting two bodies together. So I I think and land development regulations become extremely difficult to do because really that's
the root of of home rule. Um but I do think there from from a JPA level that goes along with growth. There's a lot of planning and financial things that we have said kind of from the get-go on things that we need to talk about how best to provide police, recreation,
streets, those type of services. And I think that JPA at least potentially is a vehicle to get there. Um I as I there there there there are a few I think poison pills that that I outlined in the um in the email this afternoon where I
think that that would probably trip up the city commission at least the majority of it. Um but you know with with the with the meeting scheduled ahead is probably a good time to start. Very good. And that was my last question. I wanted for the public to know that we are meeting with the county
commission sometime in June. I can you clear Yeah. There's a series of meetings. because I think they're kicking off a charter meeting on the 2nd. The the JPA is the 30th and then there's a fire uh fire services concept that's coming up in July. Okay. I just
want those are at least the three big the three big topics we'll be talking about. The dates I may have mixed up. No, that's fine. I want the public to know that we are we are talking about Rose. You know, here's a meeting with Leburg City Commission, Lake County Commission. So, thank you. Very good. I
have one more as well. One more question please. Um, explain the ISBA when you say sunset. So that means all items that would be already approved and voted on as of what date? Like so sunset would mean exactly that
if we you know the the Groveland and and the and the cause for a sunset is upon review of the Groveland Lakeland Lake JPA um there's a statement in there that says that the JPA supersedes the ISBA.
So the ISBA does that the JPA doesn't sunset the ISBA. But I think in our specific case, um, if we're going to have a clause in a JPA that has one document superseding the other document, then then I think the question is why
would you do that? Um, and why would you have two working documents where one supersedes the other? I I think that will create hostility and confusion down the road. So, if we're going to move into a JPA, I think I think the indication and we've had enough
indication from the county commission that they're not real happy with the ISBA as of late. So, if we're going to endeavor into this JPA language, then I think we we we need to pull back the ISBA. And so, how would that sunset? I
think there would be provisions. You know, the ISBA would only sunset if you a JPA's approved. There may be annexations that are in Dan's queue that probably would need an exception to the to the to the um no more non-ontiguous
annexation clause. Um but you know those things as we would negotiate and talk those things will get vetted. Thank you. Any other questions? Roll call. Commissioner Bur? Nothing
tonight. Commissioner Conell, Commissioner Barry. Um, yes. I'd like to ask for a recommendation far as um last month I last meeting, excuse me, the comprehensive annual financial report. Is it possible that we I recommend that
we the commission receives it like at least two weeks to a month before we getting it that day so that we could review and have further conversations for the pres presenter. the CPA. Oh, on Yes, absolutely. That's just a recommendation. Just Well, yeah. And the
difficult thing with that is we do the, you know, the the timeliness of it, the requirement of getting it approved by the end of March and then the the the the accountants going through and and doing all the work and so so so the timeline is basically they that document
gets wrapped up between September 30th and March 30th. Right. Right. So there's so there's still outstanding invoices and acrruels and things they got to count before they can make the final numbers. So it we really work hard to get that document approved by March. So
that's that's the that's that's the the hurdle we're up against, but we also do all the budget reports and the different things throughout the course of the year. So just a chance to review and absolutely have questions to be able to ask the presenter versus accepting what
is. That's my only thing. Thank you, Commissioner Peterson. Nothing tonight. Mayor Eastman, one thing. This Friday night is opening night at Pat Thomas for the Leburg Lightning. Game starts at 7 o'clock. Hopefully see youall out there. And with that, I'll take a motion to adjourn.
So moved. Second. Meeting adjourned. Less than 20 minutes.