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08-26-2002 Workshop Meeting CITY OF CLERMONT MINUTES WORKSHOP MEETING AUGUST 26, 2002 Page 1 A Workshop Meeting of the City Council of the City of Clermont was held at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, August 26, 2002 at the Police Department Community Services Room. Mayor Turville and Council Members Caputo, Dupee, Mullins and Renick were present at the meeting. Also present were City Manager Saunders, Finance Director Van Zile and Accountant Lisa Strickland. City Manager Saunders explained that, due to changes in election procedures and the change to touch screen voting equipment, the Lake County Supervisor of Elections has informed the City that if a Primary election is to be held we must conduct the election ourselves due to the new time constraints required for programming of the new touch screen equipment. He further explained the procedures for the election. Finance Director Van Zile provided additional information regarding the procedures and stated that we would be working closely with Lake County Supervisor of Elections Emogene Stegall to ensure that we handle the election properly. City Manager Saunders then discussed with the City Council a request by Lake Utilities, Inc. to expand their franchise area for water and sewer to include a large area south and east of the southeastern city limits in the area of Hartwood Marsh Road. He further explained that the City will need to provide an objection letter within 30 days if we are opposed to Lake Utilities receiving a franchise to provide central utilities to this area. After further discussion City Manager Saunders stated he would bring this to the attention of the City Council at a regular meeting. Mayor Turville then provided the City Council with information from a recent meeting he had attended regarding school resource officers and the Lake County School Board's request for cities to possibly fund resource officers for some of the schools in their jurisdictions. City Manager Saunders then referred the City Council to their draft budget documents and stated that the next section to be discussed would be the Community Development Block Grant. City Manager Saunders and Finance Director Van Zile reviewed the Block Grant budget with the City Council with no noted changes. City Manager Saunders then referred to the next section of the budget, the 1989 Bond Issue. He stated this issue would be paid off in the coming year. Finance Director Van Zile explained the use of this fund. There were no noted changes to this proposed budget. Next discussed was the 2000 Water and Sewer Bond Fund with no proposed changes to this draft budget. The next area of the budget to be discussed was the Building Construction Fund. Finance Director Van Zile provided information to the City Council regarding this fund. There were no recommended changes. City Manager Saunders then referred the City Council to the proposed Water Fund Budget for the upcoming year. After review of the personnel and capital outlay items the need for a part time temporary water irrigation regulatory employee was discussed and Staff was instructed to budget dollars to fund this position. There were no other proposed changes to the Water Fund Budget. CITY OF CLERMONT MINUTES WORKSHOP MEETING AUGUST 26, 2002 Page 2 Next discussed was the proposed Sewer Fund Budget including capital outlay and proposed personnel changes. There were no proposed changes to the draf~ Budget. City Manager Saundets then stated that the next workshop would be held Wednesday, August 29, 2002. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 9:35 p.m. ~oseph E. Vanity Clerk