Health & Fitness
No Public Safety Contract, No Budget
Message from City Manager Don Johnson was the most important non-event of the CITCOM meeting.
RE: Discussion of Revenue Strategies
February 16, 2012
The Honorable Mayor And Members of the City Commission:
When this was discussed at the Strategic Planning session, I fully expected to have a contract with the firefighters signed by this date and I thought there was a good chance that one or two of the three police contracts might be resolved as well. As of this date, however, none of these bargaining units are under contract.
Without contracts in place, we cannot provide the accurate cost projections the Commission needs to intelligently discuss revenue options at this time. I have to recommend we defer this discussion until we have settled with at least one of the major uniformed bargaining units.
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Respectfully Submitted,
Donald E. Johnson
City Manager
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The message above was the most important non-event in the 20 February 2012 CITCOM meeting. Its message needs no clarification. For the rest:
There were 4 split votes:
- Allow Shakespeare in the Park to sell Beer and Wine, 5-2, Capello and Poulton voting No.
- Refer a Permit Parking issue back to the Traffic Committee, 6-1, Ellison voting No.
- Approve Black Finn request for extended hours, 6-1, Goodwin voting No.
- Reject National League of Cities Sewer Warranty program, 6-1, Ellison voting No.
Unanimously, CITCOM approved such matters as special event permits, appointments, other Traffic Committee recommendations, concessions agreement in Memorial Park on Dream Cruise Saturday, and replacing a Police Dispatcher.
And work is under way to schedule a joint meeting with the Planning Commission and the Downtown Development Authority.
Noteworthy through the relatively short meeting (adjourned at 9:50) was that despite even a couple of seriously differing philosophies, not a voice was raised, not a snide personal attack was made.
The 46th City Commission has had enough meetings of all types to generalize that the chronically contentious atmosphere which pervaded the 44th and 45th commissions can be attributed largely to former commissioners.
A special meeting to explore the consultant's report about the Police Department is scheduled for February 27th.
Frank Versagi is the editor of Versagi Voice.
