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BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
DATE: November 20, 2012
TO: Honorable Chairman and Members of the Board
FROM: Daniel O'Byrne
SUBJECT: Waiver of the Term Limit for Tourist Development Chairman
DEPARTMENT: Tourist Development
BCC DISTRICT: All
STATEMENT OF ISSUE: The TDC Operations & Procedures Manual (Section A.500 2)
approved by the Board at its September 18 meeting states that “Terms for the Chairman and Vice
Chairman are limited to one (fiscal) year. The Board shall have the option of designating the
Chairman or allowing the Council to elect a Chairman. They may be re-appointed by a majority
vote of the Council members but cannot serve more than two (fiscal) year terms.” The Tourism
Development Council, at its August 22 meeting, unanimously elected Kathy Houchins to serve
as its Chairman subject to the Board’s approval and a one time only waiver of the two (2) one-
year term limit, because of the special circumstances regarding transition at the TDC.
BACKGROUND: The TDC Operations & Procedures Manual indicates that “The Chairman
and Vice-Chairman terms shall begin on the first day of October of the fiscal year of
appointment and terminate on the 30th of September.” Accordingly, the Council held
deliberations on this subject at its August 22 meeting and unanimously approved a motion
(Timothy Edwards/ Lino Maldonado 2nd) “to recommend to the Board of County Commissioners
to exempt the limitations of two terms for the Chair of the TDC Council to allow for a third term
due to the current mitigating circumstances of transition, with the recommendation of the TDC
Council.” This exemption is a one time only request. The Council then unanimously approved
an additional motion (Timothy Edwards/ Patricia Hardiman 2nd) “to nominate Kathy Houchins to
continue as Chair of the TDC Council and to move that nomination forward to the board of
County Commissioners.”
The minutes of the August 22 meeting containing these motions were then approved by the
Council at its meeting on September 26, 2012.
OPTIONS: Approve/Disapprove
RECOMMENDATIONS: Approve both unanimous motions of the TDC allowing Kathy
Houchins, in this instance only, to serve a third one-year term as Chairman due to the current
mitigating circumstances of transition.
RECOMMENDED BY:
APPROVED BY:
James D. Curry, County Administrator