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MINUTES
OF THE
OKALOOSA
COUNTY LEAGUE OF CITIES
BOARD
OF DIRECTORS MEETING
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2003
CALL
TO ORDER
President
Brenda Bush called the meeting to order at
12:00
noon
at
Shalimar
Town Hall
.
PRESENT
Mayor
Sara Carroll - Cinco Bayou (President)
Councilwoman
Brenda Bush - Crestview
Councilman
Larry Williges - Destin
Mayor
Glenda Glover -
Fort Walton Beach
(Secretary/Treasurer)
Councilwoman
Fay Miller - Laurel Hill
Mayor
John Thomas - Mary Esther (Vice-President)
Mayor
Gary Combs - Shalimar
Commissioner
Heyward Strong -
Valparaiso
ABSENT
Councilman
Al Swihart - Niceville
ALSO
PRESENT
Helen
Spencer, City Clerk -
Fort Walton Beach
Nell
Webb, Town Manager/Clerk - Cinco Bayou
Monika
Gillette - Cinco Bayou
Eric
Garcia, Code Enforcement - Crestview
MINUTES
Mayor
Combs moved to approve the December 5, 2002 Board of Director’s
minutes, as corrected. Commissioner
Strong seconded motion and it carried unanimously.
Commissioner
Strong moved to approve the
December 19, 2002
Quarterly Meeting minutes. Mayor
Glover seconded motion and it carried unanimously.
BOARD
OF DIRECTORS LIST
The
list of Directors and representatives was reviewed, corrected and
updated.
SCHEDULE
OF MEETING DATES & CITY HOSTS
The
schedule for the 2003 quarterly dinner meetings and host City was
reviewed as follows: Mary Esther on
March 20, 2003
; Niceville on
June 19, 2003
; Shalimar on
September 18, 2003
; and
Valparaiso
on
December 18, 2003
.
A
copy of the schedule will be provided at the next meeting.
TREASURER'S
REPORT
Mayor
Glover gave the Treasurer’s Report as follows:
current balance of $4,070.72 after a deposit of $900.00, a
payment to City of
Laurel Hill
for $100.00 and to Big City Café for 78.00; and the dues for 2003 have
not been received from three Cities.
Mayor
Thomas moved to approve the Treasurer's Report.
Councilwoman Bush seconded motion and it carried unanimously.
UNFINISHED
BUSINESS – LEGISLATIVE FORUM
Mayor
Glover reported the Legislative Reception has been rescheduled for
Saturday, January 25, 2003
at Two Trees Restaurant from
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
The Legislators who plan to
attend are: State Representatives Ray Sansom, Greg Evers, and Donald
Brown; State Senator Charlie Clary; and Lois Hoyt will attend for U.S.
Congressman Jeff Miller. She
requested each member city RSVP to Helen Spencer by January 17th
the number of attendees from their municipality.
Commissioner
Strong will prepare a policy statement on the issues to present to the
Legislators and Mayor Glover will conduct the forum.
The member cities were encouraged to bring their questions for
the Legislators to the Reception.
UNFINISHED
BUSINESS – BY-LAWS COMMITTEE
The
revised By-Laws will be provided at the next meeting.
TELECOM
It
was requested if anyone attends the Telecom meeting, to please provide a
report to the Board.
NEW
BUSINESS – OCLOC WEB SITE
Mayor
Gary Combs gave a presentation on establishing an Okaloosa County League
of Cities web site. The
presentation included an explanation how the world wide web works, why
the OCLOC should have it’s own web site, the purpose it would serve,
the type of information it could contain, and the costs involved for set
up and monthly maintenance.
The
costs involved include: the $35.00 per year for the domain name; the
$10.00 to $50.00 month hosting service; the $345.00 flat fee to create
the web site pages, up to 20 pages; and the $10.00 monthly maintenance
fee (after the first year) to include secretarial support for recording
and publishing agenda and minutes; for a total cost of $500.00 for the
first year and $275.00 a year cost thereafter.
Discussion included questions on how the web site would be
funded, whether or not the current $50.00/year dues would be sufficient
to cover the costs involved, and whether or not to proceed.
This
item will be placed on the February agenda for a decision on whether or
not to proceed with the creation of an OCLOC web site.
ANNOUNCEMENTS/REPORTS
FROM CITIES
None
given.
FEBRUARY
MEETING
The
next meeting will be held on Thursday, February 6, at
12:00 p.m.
ADJOURNMENT
Being
no further business, the meeting adjourned at
12:40 p.m. |