12-28-1971 Supporting DocumentsMINUTES NQ 785
REGULAR MEETING
A Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Clermont was
held in the Council Chambers on Tuesday, December 28, 1971. The
meeting was called to order at 7:30 P.M. by Mayor Don E. Smith
with the following members present: Councilwoman Watson and
Councilman VanderMeer, Cochran and Beals. Other officials present
were: Deputy Clerk Dollar, Chief of Police Tyndal, City Attorney
Langley and Assistant Director of Community Services Nagel. Others
present were: Mrs. Walter Ream, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Wurst and
Messrs. E. L. Schumann and George Schroedel.
The Invocation was given by Councilman VanderMeer followed by the
Pledge of Allegiance in unison by those present.
The Minutes of the Regular Meeting held on December 14, 1971 and the
Special Meetings held on December 20, 1971 and December 22, 1971
were approved as written.
Mayor Smith announced the first order of business to be a Public
Hearing to consider amendments to the Zoning Ordinance. There were no
objections voiced from the floor. Council withheld any discussion
on the amendments, pending further reviews, and the Public Hearing
was continued until the Council Meeting of January 11, 1972.
Mayor Smith announced that the changeover of city offices from the
present City Administration Building to the old First Federal Building
would take place during the coming weekend and that the City Offices
would be open for business at the new location on Monday morning,
January 3, 1972 at 8 A. M.
Councilman Cochran stated that he wished to express his pleasure
in working with the City Council during his tenures of office, and also
present the following as items for consideration by the Council:
Major expenditures of the Chamber of Commerce be presented to the
Council for review and approval; a review of rates charged by local
motels; a review of the method of election of Council members
with thought given to election by Districts and increasing the Council
to seven members. It was consensus of Council that control of
motel rates came under the Hotel and Restaurant Commission.
Councilman Cochran offered and moved the adoption of a RESOLUTION to
the State Department of Transportation wherein the Council concurs
with their work program of adding two lanes where necessary to complete
the 4 laning of State Road 50 from State Road 561 east to State
Road 25 and from State Road 25 east to the Lake -Orange County line and
requesting consideration for construction of underpasses across State
Road 50 in the East and West Avenue areas. The motion was seconded
by Councilwoman Watson and unanimously carried. The RESOLUTION was
read in full by City Attorney Langley, the number 187 assigned to it
and a copy ordered posted.
Councilman Beals offered and moved the adoption of an ORDINANCE UNDER
THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT A14ENDING ORDINANCE NO.
25-M PROVIDING FOR THE EXTENSION OF TIME OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE SUBJECT
PROJECT UNTIL MAY 5, 1973, AND ACKNOWLEDGING RECEIPT OF THE PERFORMANCE
BOND EXTENSION UNTIL THAT TIME and the motion was seconded by Councilman
VanderMeer. The ORDINANCE was read in full for a second and final
reading by City Attorney Langley. Upon roll call vote on passage
of the Motion the result was: Ayes: Beals, Cochran, VanderMeer, Watson
and Smith. Total Ayes: 5. Nayes: None. So the ORDINANCE was adopted,
the number 44-M assigned to it and a copy ordered posted.
The first reading of the sign ordinance was postponed until the meeting
of January 11, 1972.
MINUTES NQ 786
Mrs: Dollar, Deputy Clerk, read a communication from Mrs. Charles
Peffley wherein she expressed thanks to the Council for their thoughtful-
ness in conjunction with her presentation of a flag for Oakhill Cemetery.
City Attorney Langley presented a Quit Claim Deed from the City of
Clermont to Dr. J. R. Peacock and and Maragret H. Peacock, his wife,
for property located in Sunset Park Subdivision and requested that the
deed be executed by the Mayor and City Clerk as authorized in Ordinance
43-M.
Upon request of George Hovis, Attorney, for a quit claim deed from
the City of Clermont on certain property located in lettered Block 0,
motion was made by Councilman Cochran, seconded by Councilman Beals
and carried that the deed be prepared and executed by the Mayor subject
to approval of the City Attorney.
Mayor Smith called a Work Shop Meeting of the City Council to be held
in the Kiwanis Room of Jenkins Auditorium on Tuesday, January 4, 1972
at 7:30 P.M.
The meeting was adjourned by Mayor Smith.
Don E. Smith, Mayor
fdi dre Do tar,Deputy Clerk