Okaloosa
County
League
of Cities, Inc.
Executive
Board Meeting
Minutes
Monday, June 7, 2010
CALL
TO ORDER
President
Nick Chubb called the meeting to order at
12:04 p.m.
at Two Trees Restaurant
PRESENT
BOARD MEMBERS
Nick
Chubb (President) - Cinco Bayou
Charles
Baugh, Jr (Vice President) - Crestview
Gary
Combs (Secretary/Treasurer) - Shalimar
Sam
Seevers – Destin
Mike
Anderson -
Fort Walton Beach
Joan
Smith - Laurel Hill
Chuck
Bolton
– Mary Esther
Dan
Henkel - Niceville
ALSO
PRESENT
Dennis
Mattson - Eglin AFB
Jasmine
Denamur - Eglin AFB
Tina
Smith – Shalimar
Sheila
Hansen - Shalimar
MINUTES:
March 1, 2010
and
April 20, 2010
. Mayor
Combs moved to approve the minutes of the
March 1, 2010
meeting as written.
The motion was seconded by Mayor Anderson and passed unanimously.
Mayor Combs moved to approve the minutes of the
April 20, 2010
meeting as written.
The motion was seconded by Mayor Anderson and passed unanimously.
TREASURER’S
REPORT: $2824.17
after reimbursing Tina Smith $600.00 for web site contract and $68.72 for the
March Meeting lunch and adding $1300 for all of the dues payments.
Everyone
introduce themselves so that new people present were acquainted with everyone.
OLD
BUSINESS:
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Amendment 4 Strategy (Mayor Anderson) – The board discussed the Home Town Democracy Amendment
which will be on the November ballet. It
was stated that the actual language of the amendment was not yet done however,
as has been publicized, this bill would require a referendum vote on any changes
to Local Comprehensive Plans. Councilman
Henkel from Niceville stated that the people need to be educated in what this
bill actually says. Mayor Seevers
suggested a vote by the league not supporting the bill and that this should be
published in the local newspaper. Everyone
agreed the bill should be opposed. Mayor
Chubb suggested that the members should bring the bill up with their respective
councils and get a consensus before the September meeting.
It
was also suggested that this be brought up at the NWFLC meeting in Chipley on
July 17th and get the members on board to oppose the amendment.
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Discussion to possibly Rescind
Resolution 2009-03 - Mayor Combs
– The OCLOC received a letter from
Valparaiso
stating that they would rejoin the OCLOC only
if the resolution was rescinded. The
vote at the previous meeting was a tie and the members were to take it before
their cities and get the cities feedback. After
discussing the matter further Mayor Combs made a motion to vote again to rescind
the resolution. The motion was
seconded and a vote was done. The
motion was passed 5 to 3 with Mayor Chubb, Mayor Bolton and Councilman Henkel
voting against. It was decided that President Chubb would draft a letter
to be sent to Mayor Arnold of
Valparaiso
letting him know that the resolution had been rescinded.
NEW
BUSINESS:
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Point of Contact list for Board Members – Mayor Chubb asked that a database be created with the members contact
information as well as information for an alternate contact for each member.
This database would include name, cell phone number, business number and
email addresses. An email will be
sent out requesting this information be updated.
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FLOC Requests that Regional and Local LOC put member on the Nominating
Committee. Mayor Seevers suggested that the President should be
on the committee. President Chubb
said he did not feel he would be able to accept that position and Vice President
Charles Baugh, Jr. would accept this position.
Mayor Anderson moved for Vice President Baugh to be on the
committee. Mayor Seevers seconded
the motion. A vote was made and
passed unanimously.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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July20, 2010 - OCLOC dinner meeting (hosted by Shalimar)
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September 7, 2010 - Next scheduled OCLOC lunch meeting at Two Trees
Restaurant. Tina or Sheila will
email the board on the location of the next meeting.
ANNOUNCEMENTS/REPORTS
FROM CITIES:
Cinco
Bayou –
We
are working the final details on the underground utilities project.
Crestview:
-
Announced getting $13 million for the Florida A & M Healthcare center
in Crestview.
-
Finished the walk path at
Twin
Hills
Park
.
-
Benjamin Iannucci has become the newest council member replacing Chip
Wells.
-
10 Screen Cinema opened
-
Trying to run parallel path, pave and put gravel down to relieve some of the
stress on Hwy 85
.
Destin
– 400 acre Community Development Area at harbor moving forward.
-
Trying to get underground utilities done by Labor Day
-
Oil – when Destin was trying to submit Booming Plan tried to get all entities
involved and had a very unified group. Booms
started to be deployed on June 6. Everyone
has been working well together and is pushing forward.
Anyone who wants to volunteer to help on the oil cleanup can call 311 for
information or Jobs Plus is hiring about 1300 more workers to help with the
cleanup.
Eglin
AFB – Community Leaders Breakfast,
Air Armament Center Commander’s Summer Social, USO Airport Grand Opening, 96th
ABW Change of Command and Eglin Noise Committee are all coming up in the next 6
weeks.
Fort Walton Beach
– Two new council members have been chosen
to fill vacant seats and a 3rd vacancy will occur when Councilmen
Patterson runs for Sheriff.
-
Well into the budget with a 7 to 10% reduction.
-
Billy Bowlegs Torchlight Parade tonight at
8 o’clock
.
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Soundside area will have 200 Affordable Housing Units built which are 95% funded
by HUD with the CRA funding the other 5%.
-
City will place screening in local waterways to protect them from oil.
Hurlburt
Field - No one from Hurlburt
Field was present.
Laurel
Hill – Joan Smith has taken the
place of the former mayor with Larry Hendrin taking Joan’s place as Council
Chair.
-
Working on budget.
Mary
Esther – New Council member Ruth
Sikes
-
Road correction on
Hollywood
will be done by end of June.
Niceville –
Budget process engaged.
-
Underground pipe projects will start next month.
Will try to minimize affecting traffic as much as possible.
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Adding another boardwalk through Boggy Bayou.
-
Walmart project going well and should open in the fall.
Okaloosa
County
- No one from
Okaloosa
County
was present.
Shalimar
– No announcements
Valparaiso
- No one from
Valparaiso
was present.
ADJOURN
– There was no new business so the meeting adjourned at 12:58.
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Sheila
Hansen, Secretary
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Date
Approved
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