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08-08-197Regular Meeting . . MINUTES REGULAR MEETING NQ 829 A Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Clermont was held in the Council Chambers on Tuesday, August 8, 1972. The meeting was called to order at 7:30 P.M. by Mayor Don E. Smith with the following members present. Councilwoman Watson and Councilmen Smoak, Beals and Schroede1. Other officials present were: Acting City Manager Smythe, City Controller Fleming, City Clerk Carroll, City Attorney Langley and Chief of Police Tynda1. Others present were: Messrs. Henry Czech, E. L. Schumann, Willard Hoebeke, Stuart Green and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Waters. Representatives of the local Press and the Orlando Sentinel were also present. The Invocation was given by Mayor Smith followed by repeating of the Pledge of Allegiance in unison by those present. The ~nutes of the meeting held on July 25, 1972 were approved as written. The Oath of Office for Municipal Judge was administered to R. W. Waters by Mayor Smith, to fill the unexpired term of George E. Hovis, who recently resigned. Mayor Smith announced the next order of business to be a Public Hearing to consider request of Herman Potash for the closing of an un-named street around a portion of Lake Dot, such hearing having been continued from July 25, 1972. Mayor Smith was advised that Mr. Potash had withdrawn his request, whereupon he ordered the Public Hearing closed. Motion was made by Councilman Schroede1, seconded by Councilman Beals and carried that the bills be paid. Councilman Smoak offered and moved the adoption of AN ORDINANCE UNDER THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT, LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 80 BY DELETING THEREFROM THE PHRASE IIWHO SHALL BE A QUALIFIED ELECTOR OF THE CITYII AND SUBSTITUTING THEREFOR THE FOLLOWING PHRASE IIWHO SHALL BE A RESIDENT OF LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDAII and the motion was seconded by Councilman Beals. The ORDINANCE was read in full by Councilman Smoak for a second and final reading and UpOA roll call vote on passage of the motion, the result was::Ayes: Smoak, Smith, Beals, Watson and Schroede1. Total Ayes: Five. Nayes: None. So the ORDINANCE was adopted, the number 76 assigned to it and a copy ordered posted. Councilman Beals offered and moved the adoption of AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 3-4 OF ORDINANCE NO. 54-C OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF CLERMONT, FLORIDA: DEFINING THE HOURS OF SALE OF ALCOHOLIC AND INTOXICATING BEVERAGES: PROVIDING ADDITIONAL HOURS OF SALE OF ALCOHOLIC AND INTOXICATING BEVE~~GES WITHIN CERTAIN ESTABLISHMENTS: PROVIDING DEFINITIONS and the motion was seconded by Councilman Schroede1. The ORDINANCE was read in full for a second and final reading by Councilman Smoak and upon roll call vote on passage of the motion, the result was: Ayes: Smoak, Smith, Beals, Watson and Schroede1. Total Ayes: Five. Nayes: None. So the ORDINANCE was adopted, the Number 77-C assigned to it and a copy ordered.' posted. Inasmuch as a vacancy now exists in the position of Second Municipal Judge, it was consensus of Council that Mayor Smith contact Mr. John Parks with regards the possibility of accepting this position. Motion was made by Councilman Smoak, seconded by Councilman Schroede1 and carried that the City deed a strip of the existing West Avenue right-of-way, 20 feet in width on the east side of West Avenue and running south from Linden Street a distance of 225 feet, to Lynn Brotherson, provided that Mr. Brotherson deed back to the city the south seventy-five feet of the following described property: All that portion of said unnamed street which lies west of a line extended due south from the northeast corner of Block 87 to the water's edge of Lake Winona and which lies east of a line extended due south from the southwest corner of said Block 87 to a point at which it intersects the extension of the northern right-o-way line of Seminole Street and which lies ndth of the said extended right-o-way line, and provjded still further that Mr. Brotherson grant an easement on that portion of the 20 foot strip on which the sanitary sewer lines have been installed. Councilman Smoak inquired of Stuart Green, Attorney representing Mr. and Mrs. R. M. . . MINUTES NQ 830 Frye, if the proposal as outlined in the above was finalized, would this put the property over which the Fryes hold a 1akefront easement back in status quo, and he replied that it would. Mr. Green inquired of Council if they would extend the easement which the Fryes now hold for an additional ten years following its present expiration date, and he was advised that they would not. Councilman Watson introduced an ORDINANCE finalizing the sale of the old city hall building to the Florida Department of the Disabled Veterans Association and the Ordinance was read in full for a first reading by City Attorney Langley. The meeting was adjourned by Mayor Smith. Don E. Smith, Mayor Dolores W. Carroll, City Clerk