Fort Walton Beach Council agenda — 05-10-05 — reading text

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PETITION FORM PLEASE PRINT LEGIBLY FLORIDA REGISTERED VOTERS ONLY SIGN ONLY ONCE I 04. I 85--- A person who knowingly signs a petition or petitions for a candidate, a minor political party, or an issue more than one time commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775. 082 or s, 775. 083. I am a registered voter of Florida and BALLOT TITLE: hereby petition the Secretary of State to place the following amendment to the Florida Constitution on the ballot in the general election. Initiative requiring legislative IS THIS A CHANGE OF ADDRESS WlrHfN rHF. ~ determination that sales tax exemptions A MF. r. at fNry ONr y FOR VOTER REGISTRATION? 0 YES 0 NO serve a public purpose NAME BALLOT SUMMARY: Please print name as it appears on Voter I. D. Card The legislature shall periodically review all sales tax STREET ADDRESS exemptions except those crurently provided for: food; CITY ZIP prescription drugs; health services; and residential rent, electricity and heating fueL After such review, the COUNTY legislature shall reenact and continue only those exemptions that advance or serve a legislatively VOTER REGISTRATION NUMBER detennined public puIpOse. Sales tax exemptions not reenacted and continued by tl1e legislature shall be OR) DATE OF BIRTH / eliminated. FULL TEXT OF PROPOSED AMENDMENT: BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA THAT: Article III of the Florida Constitution is hereby amended to add the following as Section 20: Periodic legislative review of sales tax exemptions.- Except for the current exemptions provided for: food; prescription drugs; health services; and residential rent, electricity and heating fuel, the legislature shall, prior to July 1, 2008, and prior to the first day of July for each tenth year thereafter, review all exemptions from the sales tax existing on or created subsequent to the effective date of this amendment. The Legislature shall reenact and continue only those exemptions determined to advance or serve a public purpose. Those exemptions not reenacted and continued shall lapse and end effective January I subsequent to the July 1 deadline enumerated in this section for the review of sales tax exemptions. RETURN TO: FLORIDIANS AGAINST INEQUITIES IN RATES ( FAIR) For Office Use Only: P. O. BOX 13689 Serial Number: 05- 02 TALLAHASSEE, FL 32317 Date Approved: 01- 21- 05 Pd. PoL Ad.,. Paid for by x Date Floridians Against Inequities in Rates ( FAIR) Senator John McKay, Chairman. Signature of Registered Voter Date Signed To volunteer, contribute, or for more information: www.fairamendment.com  CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PETITION FORM PLEASE PRINT LEGIBLY FLORIDA REGISTERED VOTERS ONLY SIGN ONLY ONCE 104. I 85--- A person who knowingly signs a petition or petitions for a candidate, a minor political party, or an issue more than one time commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775. 082 or s, 775. 083. BALLOT TITLE: I am a registered voter oj Florida and hereby petition the Secretary oj State to place tlte Jollowing amendment to the Florida Constitution on the ballot in the general election. Extending existing sales tax to non- taxed services where exclusion fails to serve IS THIS A CHANGE OF ADDRESS W1TH1N THE SAME COUNTY ONLY FOR VOTER REGISTRATION? 0 YES 0 NO public purpose BALLOT SUMMARY: NAME Please print name as it appears on Voter I. D, Card Except for the payment of employee salaries and benefits, all non- taxed seIVices provided for STREET ADDRESS comPensation shall be reviewed by the Legislature to detennine whether the exclusion of each service ftom CITY ZIP taxation selVes a public purpose. Upon completion of such review, services currently not taxed and which are COUNTY not exempted ftom taxation by the Legislature shall be VOTER REGISTRATION NUMBER subject to the sales tax on January 1, 2009. OR) DATE OF BIRTH FULL TEXT OF PROPOSED AMENDMENT: BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA THAT: Article III of the Florida Constitution is hereby amended to add the following as Section 22: Extension of sales tax to non- taxed services.- a) The legislature shall, prior to July I, 2008, review each service rendered for compensation that is not taxed under the existing sales tax authorized in Chapter 2 I 2, Florida Statutes, and shall exempt from future taxation only those services whose exemption is determined to advance or serve a public purpose. Except for the payment of employee salaries and benefits, all services that are not exempted by the legislature shall be subject to the existing sales tax effective January I, 2009. b) To accomplish the public purpose review of each service that is mandated in this section, a single service shall be that rendered by a business, industry or profession with at least the same first four digits in its NAICS code number as described by the North American Industry Classification System code published by the United States Census Bureau, or its successor in function. RETURN TO: FLORIDIANS AGAINST INEQUITIES IN RATES ( FAIR) For Office Use Only: I P.O. BOX 13689 TALLAHASSEE, FL 32317 Serial Number: 05- 04 Date Approved: 01- 21- 05 Pd. PoL Ad". Paid/ or by Floridians Against Ineqllities in Rates ( FAIR) x Date Senator John McKay, Chairman. Signature of Registered Voter Date Signed To volunteer, contribute, or for more mformatlon: www.falramendment. com  City of Fort Walton Beach MEMORANDUM To; Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Joyce Shanahan, City Manager Subject: Purchase of Softball Complex and Fairgrounds Property Date: May 5, 2005 BACKGROUND: The Softball Complex and the Fairgrounds comprises 42. 3 acres. The Softball Complex is a 12. 3 acre parcel of property on U. S Forest Department land located on Lewis Turner Boulevard, at the northern end of Fort Walton Beach, in the Kenwood Neighborhood. The complex is currently leased from the U. S Department of Agriculture - Forest Service via a five- year lease scheduled to expire December 31, 2005. The complex has been used by the City for softball programs and picnics since 1971. The Fairgrounds make the remaining 30 acres of this parcel. The City has a long- standing relationship with the Fair Association and we share parking space with the association. Neither the Softball Complex nor the Fairgrounds is located in the City limits. The USDA Forest Service wants to rid itself of these small isolated parcels that they own/ manage, and therefore have not entered into any long- term lease agreements with the City or the Northwest Florida Fair Association, as they have in the past. Our current lease is short- term and is scheduled to expire on December 31, 2005. Staff has previously solicited and received Council's consensus on its interest in continuing to use these properties either through lease or purchase. Until just very recently the outright purchase of the property was not possible and was only available through a long and