Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 01-26-2010 Regular — reading text

assigned b the ,.; tom , ,,,,,, 61 mil. 62 63 Section 4. Amendment of Section 2. 11. 02, Municipal Planning Board, Powers and Duties, 64 of the Code of Ordinances. 65 Section 2. 11. 02, Municipal Planning Board, Powers and Duties, of the Code of 66 Ordinances, is amended as follows: 67 68 Sec. 2. 11. 02. Powers and Duties. 69 The municipal planning board shall have the following powers and duties 70 under the provisions of the Land Development Code, Comprehensive Plan, and 71 otherwise as assigned by the city council, to: 72 ( 1) To serve as the local planning agency ( LPA), as required by § 163. 31745 73 F. S.; 74 ( 2) To prepare or cause to be prepared the comprehensive plan, or any 75 element or portion thereof; 76 ( 3) To prepare or cause to be prepared the land development code ( LDC); 77 ( 4) To initiate, review, hear, consider and make recommendations to the city 78 council to approve, approve with conditions, or deny applications to amend the 79 text of the comprehensive plan; 80 ( 5) To- initiate, review, hear, consider and make recommendations to the city 81 council to approve, approve with conditions, or deny applications to amend the 82 future land use map of the comprehensive plan; 83 ( 6) To- initiate, review, hear, consider and make recommendations to the city 84 council to approve, approve with conditions or deny applications to amend the 85 LDC; 86 ( 7) Te- initiate, review, hear, consider and make recommendations to the city 87 council on applications for development permits to approve, approve with 88 conditions, or deny amendments to the official zoning map of the city; 89 ( 8) To hear, review, consider and make recommendations to the city council 90 to approve, approve with conditions or deny applications for development 91 approval for developments of regional impact ( DRI) or substantial deviations to 92 previously approved developments of regional impact or proposed essentially 57-  93 built -out agreements for DRI's; 94 ( 9) To hear, review, consider and make recommendations to the city council 95 to approve, approve with conditions, or deny applications for development 96 permits fbr a planned unit development, subdivision plat or zero -lot line 97 subdivision; 98 ( 10) Te hear, consider, and approve, conditions, or deny approve with 99 applications for development permits for development or redevelopment located 100 in areas of the city outside of the redevelopment area as required by the land 101 development code; 102 ( 11) To hear, consider, and approve, approve with conditions, or deny 103 applications for development permits for conditional uses; 104 ( 12) Te hear, consider, and approve, approve with conditions, or deny 105 applications fbr development permits to expand, enlarge or change a 106 nonconforming; building, structure or characteristic of use. 107 ( 13) To, hear, consider, and make recommendations to city council to approve, 108 approve with conditions, or deny proposed development agreements, according to 109 the procedure specified in the Land Development Code; 110 ( 14) To serve as the land development regulation commission pursuant to § 111 163. 3194( 2), F. S.; 112 ( 15) To make its special knowledge and expertise available upon written 113 request and authorization of the city council to any official department, board, 114 commission or agency of the city, state or federal governments; 115 ( 16) To recommend to the city council rules of procedure not inconsistent with 116 this section to €;ovem the municipal planning board's proceedings; iffid 117 ( 17) Te make studies of the priorities, resources, possibilities and needs of the 118 city and to report its findings and recommendations, with reference thereto, from 119 time to time, to the city council; and 120 18 Review and propose tree related standards, provide community education 121 related to tree conservation, plan for Arbor Day activities, provublic forums 122 for citizens concerned about community trees, and perform other duties assi led 123 to the Beautification Committee prior to adoption of this ordinance. 124 125 Section 5. Conflicting Provisions 126 If any ordinance or parts of any ordinance are in conflict with this ordinance, the 127 provisions of this ordinance shall prevail. 128 129 Section 6. Severability 130 Should any section or provision of this ordinance, or any portion thereof, be declared by a 131 court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the 132 remainder, as a whole or any part hereof, other than that part declared to be invalid. 133 134 Section 7. Effective Date 135 This ordinance shall take effect immediately upon approval by the City Council and 136 signature of the Mayor,. 137 138 58- 139 140 Adopted Mike Anderson, Mayor 141 142 143 Attest: Approved as to form, legal sufficiency, 144 and codification. 145 146 147 148 Helen Spencer, City Clerk Toni L. Craig, City Attorney 149 150 New language is underlined 151 Deleted language is stfieke 152 153 Codification Instructions: 154 Sections of this ordinance to be codified: Section 2, 3, 4 155 Placement: Amends Volume II, as stated. 59- Regular Council 1 - 12 -10 CONSTRUCTION COSTS FOR EFFLUENT INTERCONNECT WITH COUNTY Approval of Funding for Effluent Interconnect with Okaloosa County' s Arbennie Pritchett Water Reclamation Facility and the City' s Reuse Water System. Michael Beedie, City Engineer, explained Section 8 of the Interlocal Agreem with the County requires the City to fund the costs, excluding labor, related to reclaimed ater interconnect. He requested the use of the 2005 Utility Revenue Bond funds in an amount t to exceed $ 220, 000. 00. Mr. Beedie explained under the agreement the County agreed utilize the City' s existing tertiary treatment system at the City' s wastewater treatment ant site; however, after evaluating construction costs for piping and modifications to th ity' s existing tertiary system the County decided it was more cost beneficial to construct ew tertiary treatment system at the Arbennie Pritchett Water Reclamation Facility ( He said the funding will allow the County to e. system and the City' s reclaimed water X ' proceed with completing the interconneen the Arbennie Pritchett WRF tertiary treatment on system. The Mayor opened the floor fublic input. As there was none public input was closed. Mr. Garvie moved t I uthorize staff to proceed with funding the required Reclaimed Water Point of Connect' as specified in Section 8 of the Wastewater Service Interlocal Agreement with Okaloos Country in the not -to- exceed amount of $ 220,000. 00 for the materials and engineer' of the interconnect. Mr. Reeves seconded motion and it carried unanimously with Holmes, Reeves, Garvie, and Patterson in favor (Miller, Nabors, and Rynearson absent). BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE /TREE BOARD Dissolution of Beautification Committee /Tree Board and appoint the Municipal Planning Board as the Tree Board. The City Manager discussed the difficulties of the Committee in achieving a quorum to hold meetings and in accomplishing any significant project, as well as the amount of staff time spent on preparing for meetings that do not take place. He noted a lot of the duties of the committee can be performed by staff and the Tree Board duties can be transferred to the Municipal Planning Board. The Mayor opened the floor for public input. As there was none public input was closed. Mr. Reeves moved to dissolve the Beautification Committee /Tree Board; to appoint the duties of the Tree Board to the Municipal Planning Board, with the Executive Assistant placing an update memo on their agenda quarterly; and funds remaining in any of the Beautification accounts to be used to purchase a tree for planting on Arbor Day 2010 to satisfy the requirements to maintain the status of TreeCity USA. Mr. Holmes seconded motion and it carried unanimously with Holmes, Reeves, Garvie, and Patterson in favor ( Miller, Nabors, and Patterson absent). CITY MANAGER REPORTS Request for Special Meeting. at 5 PM on Tuesday, January 26 prior to the regular meeting for presentation of Utility Rate Study findings and recommendations. The City Manager reported the draft has been received and will be reviewed to send back to the consultant with staff' s recommendations for a final draft for Council' s review on January 26th prior to the regular meeting. 60-  CITY OF FORT WALTON BEACH MEMORANDUM To: Robert T. Mearns, City Manager From: Carole Jones, Executive Assistant Date: January 5, 2010 Subject: City of Fort Walton Beach Beautification Committee /Tree Board 1. BACKGROUND: 1. 1 In 1979, City Council adopted Ordinance 713, creating the Beautification Committee to advise City Council on matters which would beautify the properties in Fort Walton Beach. This was comprised of 11 members originally. 1. 2 In the 80' s, the Beautification Committee was active, recruiting members themselves, and reviewing such items as budgets for beautification. 1. 3 By July 2002, the Committee was facing the difficulty of establishing a quorum for meetings, and the Committee directed staff to