City Council - Regular Meeting

day after the end. There we go. Yeah, turn it down. The first day after hurricane season. I can say the h word now. How about the first day of not hurricane season and our third victory Monday in a row. Congratulations to all who celebrate. Uh we're going to begin with our opening ceremonies. Invocation followed by salute to the flag. Um invocation delivered by Mr. Wagner. Please rise.

We want to take time and express our gratitude and thankfulness for you and your guidance and your wisdom. As we are on the back side of this Thanksgiving season, we want to take time to express our thank our thankfulness for all those that wake up every day with a servant's heart to take care of us. Whether that's our public safety of military educators and clinicians and anyone who leads with a servant's heart. Um, as we as we approach out of the Thanksgiving holiday season, we are going to enter into the giving holiday season. And we just ask that you lay on each of our hearts as that so that we may all stay super focused on celebrating the reason for this upcoming holiday, which is your son's birthday and the spirit of giving. And in your name we pray. Amen. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

This meeting is called to order. Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Golding here. Council member Horn here. Council member Jansen here. Council member Sutton here. Council member Wagner here. Council member Waters here. Mayor Hoffman here. Moving on to approval of minutes. I move we approve the minutes from the council briefing held on November 10th, 2025. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any comments? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Item B. I move we approve the minutes from the regular city council meeting held on November 17th, 2025. Second. We have a motion and second discussion. All in favor signify by saying I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Approval of the agenda. I move we approve the agenda. Second. We have a motion to second. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Announcements. Miss Golding.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, I wanted to mention I hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Um, and I had the opportunity to attend a Thanksgiving gratitude service last week at Palms Presbyterian. It was hosted by OneJacks and it was a wonderful service because um there were faiths represented of all kinds. I mean, it was it was really really amazing to see all the people that were there and they were there in unity and um and gratitude. So, it was a really wonderful service. Um I think they do it every year. So, I do plan to do it again next year and if they have it again next year, I hope everyone has an opportunity to attend. Um this Wednesday, December 3rd, at 7:00 at the Beaches Branch Library, Beaches Watch, we'll be awarding uh their giveback award to the nonprofit organization here tomorrow, which is here at the beaches. And it provides no cost, no weight uh year-long suicide prevention services, uh which is really a a a very important service for our community. Um, so if it this opport the meeting will be an opportunity for them to receive a donation to support the great work that they're doing, but they'll also be discussing the work that they're doing. So, uh, if you have the time, I would encourage you to attend that so that you can learn more about what this organization is doing in our community. Then on Friday, December 5th at 6 PM, the Nutcracker Ballet is going to be at Deck the Chairs. I love ballet and I love the nutcracker. So, that should be really, really good and I hope everybody will plan to go out for that. And then on Saturday, December 6th, um, Deck the Chairs has a Christmas market for the

first time this year and there will be 52 vendors. So, get your Christmas shopping started if you haven't already and support our small businesses that will be participating. And then my favorite part of Deck the Chairs, Saturday, December 13th at 1 p.m. will be Tuba Christmas. And if you have never been to Tuba Christmas, you have missed out. And you but you have an opportunity to go. And uh I mean there has to be at least a hundred tubas that are on the stage of all sizes and um playing Christmas songs. And uh you have never lived until you've heard grandma got run over by a reindeer played by tubas. [laughter] And then last but not least, I think the mayor mentioned this in the last meeting, but I think it's worth mentioning again, our citizens police academy, which our police department puts on uh twice a year, will be starting January 8th. Um, and it's an amazing um, once a week class that you can go to to learn about our police department, all the different departments, what they're doing, and the issues that they deal with in our community. The uh, application deadline is December 19th, so you've got time to um, to sign up. They do limit the size of the class to 28 people, and it's only $25, but you get a shirt and you get to have a lot of great experiences. So, highly recommend it. Um, encourage people to sign up.

Thank you, Miss Golding. I believe it's over 200 tubas and various tub like instruments. Yeah, it's pretty incredible. And they flow off the stage. There's some seated on the ground level. Um, but I agree, one of my favorites. And if you are heading out to the Nutcracker, check the weather first because it's looking a little dicey this week. Mr. Wagner. We'll get there.

Yeah, just two or three more years. Maybe I'll get that down. Um, so I wanted to share uh in the spirit of gratitude, wanted to share uh some exciting news that I I received uh yesterday. Uh and I was uh asked to participate in the 2006 Regional Leadership Academy, which is a program from the Northeast Florida Regional Council dedicated to fostering regional collaboration uh and leadership across the Northeast Florida. So, I was pretty excited about that to get to represent the city of Jack Beach and and this amazing group of folks up here. So, quite an honor. And then secondly, um my wife and I did go out to uh deck the chairs on Saturday and I just want to throw another word of encouragement. Council Golding did a great job, but it really was fabulous. I really think you guys need to go out and enjoy it if you have a chance.

Thank you, Mr. Wagner. Mr. Jansen.

Yes. Uh a couple things. one. Um later on this week, uh my colleagues and I will be attending the final policy committee week um for uh uh bills that are going to be hitting the legislation uh this coming legislative season. So we will be busy at work uh later on this weekend, this week, and trying to solidify those that are most important for Jacksonville Beach. Uh we'll be coming back with report and how that went probably in the next meeting. And then also right before Thanksgiving, I had the opportunity to represent Jacksonville Beach uh for Farm City Week. And um I learned quite a bit uh during that uh that engagement where uh Duval County accounts for 11.1 billion dollar worth of agricultural annually. So between small farms and and big farms and big institutions, that's a that's a lot of farming that goes on. And um I didn't also know that uh Florida is one is the largest state for uh beef farming. I would have thought for sure it would have been one of the western states, but Florida is the largest. So there was a lot to be learned there and it was it was fantastic to represent our little beach and probably the little gardens that are that float around our beach community. So that's it. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Jansen, Mr. Rogers.

Thank you, Mayor. I want to thank Councilwoman Golding for her thoughtful comments and announcements and here tomorrow is is a great cause and I look forward to the tubas. [laughter] Um I did want to say um to congratulate our some local businesses and the first one that comes to mind is Coach's Christmas Trees. They've been in business 72 years and I've never had the pleasure of buying a tree there till the other day. And they have the best prices in some in Jacksonville Beach. I guarantee it. So, I would recommend if you haven't got your tree yet, check them out. It's for a good cause. All the uh profits go to Councilman Sutton's pockets. [laughter] And then I'd like to congratulate DNLP P uh subs on 15 years of being in business. And uh Councilman uh Jansen, [clears throat] I I I'm sorry I won't be able to attend, but I know you all will do a great job. And any way I can help, please let me know. Thank you.

And just to echo, I went out to deck the chairs on Wednesday, Thanksgiving Eve. It was beginning to feel not at all like Christmas. It was a really nice um spring evening, but it was a great start. Already really busy. Um and I think it's going to be the best year yet. I say that every year, but every year they managed to uh to raise the bar and congratulations uh Councilman Wagner. That's a great program. I think you're really going to enjoy it and you might see me on one of the panels a little towards towards the end. Um okay, any other council announcements? Moving on to courtesy of the floor. I do not have any speaker cards. Madam Clerk, did I miss any? Great. And next up, consent agenda. I move that we approve the consent agenda. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I.

I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Okay. Next up, we have a slew of um it's kind of our time to make appointments to the board. We've gotten to all of our citizen boards. we've gotten in a really good rhythm of starting interviews uh in the fall so that we can come into December ready to make our appointments for any um expired terms, any resignations, things like that, and start off uh January uh with everybody kind of installed and ready to go. Um madam clerk, did you have anything to add at this point before we get started? Okay, just wish us luck. Okay, so the first item is uh one of our appointments is a fifth member to the general employees pension board. We have um Mr. Morzma, who's served for quite some time on that board um and has done a really great job for us um is rolling off um and so we're uh the general employees board did vote to um appoint Greg Klesner. So, we just need to kind of ratify that uh with a motion. And uh Dan Jansen and I both sit on that board and I think we're uh excited to u bring in a new a new person to hopefully serve for another good length of time like Mr. Merzma did. Can I have a motion?

You can. Uh, I move to appoint Greg Kefler Kefner to serve to serve on the board of trustees as the fifth member of the general employees pension board beginning January 1st, 2026 and expiring December 31st, 2027. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Waters, yes. Mayor Hoffman,

yes. Motion carries. The next item is to appoint the next two items are to appoint a chair and a co-chair for the community redevelopment agency. Um, this is the only of the citizen boards where we are responsible for appointing the chair and co-chair. And we did not realize that we needed to do that every single year until recently. So, we're going to go ahead and add that into our healthy habits of board management. Um, we received a memo with the information and indication that all of the current members of the community redevelopment agency are interested in potential appointment. Um, we also received an attendance um chart which was very nice. Um, I did want to note just and don't take this as a um any any sort of advocacy one way or the other, but Ron Whittington did have three absences in a row. He was on an anniversary cruise to Australia and New Zealand. So that I think that was planned long before he ever even applied for the board. So just wanted to make a note of that since that's going to probably stand out to you. So I think what we'll do is open the floor for nominations for the chair and then uh if we have more than one nomination, we'll go ahead and accept all of those and then we'll have a vote um kind of a roll call vote where we can say uh who we prefer for that seat. Miss Golding,

I'd like to nominate Gary Ptow uh to serve as the chair again. I second there. We don't need a second. We're just taking nominations. Yep. Uh are there any other nominations? Mr. Jansen, I was going to nominate Ron Whittington to move to chair. Okay. Are there any other nominations? Okay. So we'll go down uh the roll call and if when your name is called if you can indicate paywal or wittington. Madame clerk. [snorts] Council member Horn. Pay. Council member Jansen. Weddington.

Council member Sutton. Pay. Council member Wagner. Pay. Council member Wowers. Pay. Council member Golding. Pay Mayor Hoffman Whittington. Congratulations, Mr. Pay. Well, he was here. There he is. Thank you for your continued service. Yot. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. Now, I've been advised by the city attorney that we need a motion to uh ratify that. I move we appoint Gary Ptow as the chair for the community redevelopment agency for a term beginning on January 1st, 2026. Second. We have motion and second. Any discussion? Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen,

yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. And moving on to vice chair, I'll open the floor for nominations. Miss Golding, I'd like to nominate Thad Mosley for the vice chair. Mr. Sutton, I'll nominate Kevin Meyers. Any other nominations? We have Thad Mosley and Kevin Myers. Uh, Madame Clerk, roll call. Council member Jansen. Myers. Council member Sutton. Myers. Council member Wagner. Myers.

Council member Waters. Myers. Council member Golding. Mosley. Council member Horn. Myers. Mayor Hoffman. Meyers and a motion. I move we appoint Kevin Myers as the chair as the vice chair for the community redevelopment agency for a one-year term beginning on January 1st, 2026. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Mr. Sutton. Sorry. Seeing none, Madam Clerk, roll call. Council member Jansen. Yes. Council member Sutton. Yes. Council member Wagner. Yes. Council member Wowers.

Yes. Council member Golding. Yes. Council member Horn. Yes. Mayor Hoffman.

Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Moving on to the planning commission. Um we have two members rolling off. So we are we have traditionally moved up the alternates into uh the uh regular seats. Um I'm going to assume that that is what we're going to do in this case. So, I would um suggest that we start with the appointment of Dean Haddock to fill the remainder of Debbie Cole's uninspired un uninspired. I feel like was probably slightly inspired. Um because that's just a that's a slightly shorter time, but let's we'll we'll go to discussion. Can we go ahead and get a motion on that?

Give me the name again. Dean. Dean Haddock. Hadock. I move we approve the appointment Dean Haddock to fill the remainder of Debbie Cole's unexpired term on the planning commission with a term beginning on January 1st, 2026 and ending on December 31st, 2028. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Wagner. Yes. Oops. Council member Sutton. Yes. Council member Wowers. Yes. Council member Golding. Yes. Council member Horn. Yes. Council member Jansen. Yes. Mayor Hoffman.

Yes. Motion carries. And then the next one would be U. Matthew Filer. And And the reason I hesitated before it was just they had um different expiration dates, but it's because they're filling um unexpired terms. One more time. Matthew. Filer. I move we approve the appointment of Mask Baller to a new a new four-year regular member term on the planning commission beginning January 1st, 2026 and ending December 31st, 2029. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn,

yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Mayor Hoffman. Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Now, uh that we have moved Mr. Haddock and Mr. Filer up into regular seats, we need to um install a first alternate and then a second alternate. So, I'll open the floor for nominations for first alternate. Miss Golding, I'd like to nominate Lindseay Hagga. Any other nominations? Yes, I would like I'm sorry, Mr. Wowers. Yes. I would like to nominate John Lions, Mr. Sutton, [clears throat] uh, Greg Clefner. Oh, he's already been appointed. Sorry.

Yep. We just appointed him to, uh, pension. So, we have Miss Hega and Mr. Lionus are our two um, nominees. Let's go down roll call. Same as before. Council member Wowers Lions. Council member Balding. Hagga. Council member Horning. Lime. Council member Jansen. Hagga. Council member Sutton. Lions. Council member Wagner. Lions. Mayor Hoffman.

Hagga. Uh Mr. Lionus has the nomination. Let's have a motion for first alternate. I move we appoint Mr. Lionus as the new first alternate to the planning commission to fill the remaining of the first alternate terms expiring December 31st, 2028. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion, Mr. Sutton? Got to watch our lights around here, guys. Little tired. Getting festive on this day. Yes. Uh, any other discussion? Madam Clerk, roll call. Council member Wowers. Yes. Council member Golding. Yes. Council member Horn. Yes. Council member Jansen. Yes. Council member Sutton. Yes. Council member Wagner. Yes. Mayor Hoffman.

Yes. And uh the last item on the planning commission is a second alternate. Miss Golding. I'd like to nominate Lindseay Hagga. We have a nomination for Lindseay Hagga. Any other nominations? Let's go ahead and get a motion. Yes. I I would like to make a nomination. I'm sorry. Okay. We got people on their lights, off their lights. Mr. Wowers, who's your nomination? Pardon me, mayor. I'm sorry. It's okay. Um, Deborah Klein. Klein. Okay, we have a nomination for Lindseay Hagga and for Deborah Klene. Any others? Madam Clerk, uh, roll call for our each of our selections. Council member Golding.

He council member Horn. Hagga. Council member Jansen. Hagga. Council member Sutton. Hagga. Council member Wagner. Uh Debbie Klein. Council member Wowers. Klein. Mayor Hoffman. He Okay. So, we will have uh John Lionus as first alternate and um Lindseay Hagga as second alternate for the planning commission. I'm sorry. Motion. I move we appoint Lindsy Hagen as the new second alternate to the planning commission to fill the remaining the remainder of the second alternate term expiring December 31st, 2027.

Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion from council? Seeing none, Madam Clerk, roll call. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Mayor Hoffman,

yes. Okay, motion carries. Moving on, the last board is the board of adjustment. We have quite a few vacancies on this. Um thankfully have two members uh that are interested in reappoint. Um so let's start with um Matt Mets and then Douglas Dell and then we'll go through the new member nominations. Go ahead with the motion. I move that we approve the appointment of Matt Mets to a new 4-year regular member term on the board of adjustments expiring December 31st, 2029. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madame Clerk, roll call. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton,

yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. And then the next one is Douglas Dell. I move we approve the appointment of Douglas Dell to a new four-year regular member term on the board of adjustments expiring December 31st, 2029. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Waters, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn. Yes. Mayor Hoffman.

Yes. And just in case anyone's wondering if it seems like we're moving through this quickly, we did have a briefing uh a couple of weeks ago where we went through all of this to kind of put a a little bit of a game plan together. Um we didn't have a great game plan on the next three items. So, we're going to see how this goes. So, we have a regular seat that is open uh and then two alternate seats. So, I'm going to open the floor for nominations for the regular seat. And I'm sorry I didn't see who got there first. Mr. Jansen. I think it was Miss Golding. Oh, I'm sorry. Miss Golding then. Thank you. I nominate Alex Erdle. We have a nomination for Alex Erdle. Mr. Jansen.

I nominate Karen Dory. Karen Dhy. Any other Mr. Sutton? Uh I nominate uh Gary Hawkett. And just as a matter of order, I believe Mr. Le um was desiring to withdraw his um application. Did we did that information come to the clerk's office at all? It may not have. Yeah.

So, I'm not really sure how to handle that. Um because if he doesn't want it then we have to go back and do this all over again unless we want to put him on second alternate instead. Um just a thought. We can always do that and I think that would be easier to replace versus having to move everybody up. My only thought was that in the interviews he was a really strong candidate for the board of adjustment, which is why I thought since we need to put somebody in as a regular member as opposed to an alternate, I figured he would be good in that regular member seat. So that's why I nominated him. Okay. Mr. Wowers,

please forgive me. Please forgive me. Can Who are the nominations on the table right now? We have Alex Erle, Karen Dhy, and Gary Hockett. Boy, that's a lot. I'd like to nominate Deborah Klene. Oh, I'm sorry. Bobby Canudson. Bobby Canudson. Yep.

Mr. Sutton. I was just going to add um that I did have a discussion with Mr. Erdle to ensure that he was still interested and it was a I think he has a scheduling conflict and he'd like to remain um uh option but not at this time in the future. So I don't know again I don't know how we handle that. He I think he's probably the strongest candidate quite honestly. saw was pretty disappointed that he had uh that he had decided uh to do that. So, but I agree with Miss Golding. Okay. So, we have Miss Golding.

I I mean, I'll take your word for it, Mr. Sutton, and I'll withdraw my nomination. Mr. Horn, I had a commentary related to that, but move now. Okay. Um, okay. So, the remaining nominees for the regular seat on the board of adjustment are Karen Doherty, Gary Hackett, and Bobby Kit Kitson possibly. So, we'll go uh roll call and uh state the name of your candidate as your name is called. Council member Sutton. Hawket. Council member Wagner. Dohy. Council member Wowers

Kudson. Council member Golding. Dohy. Council member Horn. Hawket. Council member Jansen. Dohy. Mayor Hoffman. Dohy. And a motion, please. I move approve the appointment of Karen Dhy to fill the remainder of the unexpired regular member seat on the board of adjustments with a term expiration of December 31st, 2028. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madame Clerk, roll call. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes.

Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries. Okay, now we move to Well, I'm not going to jinx it yet. We still have two more. Uh, first alternate expiring December 31st, 2029. So, this is um the nice place to put our newer members, which we've had, as you know, a tradition of doing, um to have a little bit of a training ground and to participate and and vote on any items uh should they need to. Miss Golding.

I'd like to nominate Gary Hawket. We have a nomination for Gary Hockett. Any other nominations? And we will go straight to a motion. I move we nominate and appoint Gary appoint Gary Hawett as the new first alternate with a term expiring December 31st, 2029. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madame Clerk, roll call. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Mayor Hoffman,

yes. Motion carries. Okay, last one. I since we aren't completely 100% confirmed with Alex Urtle, if we did want to appoint him to something, this would be potentially and if he's an alternate, he may not feel quite as much pressure, but it's also easier to replace the second alternate than somebody above it, then we have to shuffle the deck. So, just throwing that out there. But I will go ahead and open the floor for nominations. Miss Golding, I'd like to nominate Alex Ertle. Any other nominations? Mr. routers. I'd like to nominate John Lines.

I not sure if he'd want to serve on board. Okay. Any other nominations, Mr. Horn? Nomination, but a comment. Can you on Mr. Erdle on their process? Okay.

Um, and this may be a a question for Mr. Migot. Um, if there's a question here, I mean, this is 2025. Can we take like a 90 second recess and somebody try and get him on the phone and ask him if if he would pref prefer us to do this as opposed to us like we mentioned, you know, it is an easier spot to fill. And this is what I was going to mention previously is if we get to the point where we're going to do X motion. I I just don't know the procedural aspects of this whether it's appropriate to take a three minute break see if we can grab them on the phone real quick and be like hey look x y and z is occurring is you know we were told you might not want to be as involved um again just a just I guess I don't know the procedural aspects of this just my thoughts

Mr. routers or perhaps we could postpone it till a later date so we can talk to them. Miss Golding. Uh the only comment I was going to make is that um we have seen our board of adjustment meetings being cancelled. So, you know, I don't know if if we are having fewer if that would make it more easy or make it easier for Mr. Bal to attend. So maybe that's something that might make it possible. So I mean I would still support putting him if if everyone supports it in second alternate and that unless we call him to confirm.

I I think getting someone on the phone at 6:30 in the midst of a vote is probably not not the best way to handle it. But Mr. Horn and that's and that's fair. Like I said, I mean, as long as as a second alternate, it's not as, you know, one of these critical positions, and they're all critical, but, you know, as as difficult to fill down the road, so that's okay. I'm just, like I said, I was asking the question. Yep. Good question. Any other comments? Did we already do a motion? We haven't done a motion on this one. Mr. Jansen, the motion, please, for Alex. I move to nominate and appoint Alex as the new new second alternate with a term expiring December 31st, 2029. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madam clerk, roll call.

Council member Wowers, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Mayor Hoffman,

yes. Motion carries. I just want to thank um everyone, all of the citizens not only who are already serving on our boards, but who applied with their willingness to serve um as well as our council members who put a lot of time into this process. I think it was a record record number of interviews. We have a long list of eligible candidates as you heard for all of our boards which um just really speaks so much to um people's interest in being involved in the city. Um we see a lot of them. I love the um asterisks among the ones who have attended the citizen information academy. So, our plan is working. Um and a big thanks to the city clerk's office for keeping it all straight and organized for us because that's a um a lion's share of being able to get us to this point and for that part of the meeting to run so smoothly. So, thank everyone uh involved. We will move on to our final item. Uh we have an ordinance. Do we have a presentation from staff? Miss Gosset.

All right. Good evening, mayor and council. Ashley Gosset, CFO. Um, the city's purchasing policy manual was last updated in 2008. So, we've been working on a strategic plan project to conduct a comprehensive review. So, city council and staff discussed the proposed policy changes in briefings held on September 8th and November 10th. So, tonight I'm very excited that this is the first step in formalizing the proposed changes. The ordinance before you will increase the city's bid threshold from 25,000 to 50,000 and rename the purchasing manual to the procurement manual to reflect the broader scope of sourcing goods and services. The ordinance also repeals section 2-1, which is definitions, because we're adding that to the manual. Um, and it repeals section 2-2, the uniform accounting system, because it's no longer relevant. The state statutes mandate all local governments to um use their prescribed uh uniform chart of accounts. Um, so we're just doing some tidy work in the code. So, if approved tonight, the next steps will be to bring the ordinance back on December 15th for its second reading and also to adopt the resolution for the new procurement manual. Um, and as always, I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Thank you, Miss Gosset. Madam Clerk, will you read the ordinance by title, please? An ordinance of the city of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, amending chapter 2, administration of the city of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, code of ordinances by repealing chapter 2, administration, article one in general, section 2-1, purchase of materials, etc. in excess of specified amount. Publication of notice for bids, definitions, amending and renumbering section 2-1.1 purchase procedures, contracts, etc. And repealing section 2-2, adoption of uniform accounting system, providing for legislative findings, repeal of conflicting ordinances, separability, scriveners errors, codification, and an effective date. This ordinance is before the council for a public hearing and consideration on its first reading. I will now open the public hearing on ordinance number 2025-8230. I do not have any speaker cards on this item. Would anyone from the public wish to speak in favor or against this ordinance? Seeing none, this public hearing is closed. Can I have a motion? I move we approve ordinance number 2025-8230 on the first reading amending the bid threshold in the city code ordinances chapter 2 administration article one in general and schedule a second reading for December 15 2025

second we have a motion and a second Mr. Wowers. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Um, Miss Gosset, I was just curious in reading your memo that you note that uh the state of Florida increased our threshold from 25 grand to 35 grand. What was the reason for the city of Jacksonville Beach going all the way to 50 grand?

So, we looked at kind of the uh ease of procurement. We looked at what our neighbors were doing. We looked at other FMPPA or electric providers where their thresholds were and we felt with inflations from 2008 to 2025 that was kind of the appropriate level to kind of rightsize um our need for competitive bidding.

Thank you for your answer. And I'm not sure if this would be a better question for Deputy Nelson or City Manager Nelson or yourself, but under the current ordinances, how much, if any, property has our city manager sold?

So, that section was added around about 2020. There was a little sliver, a parcel of land, and we didn't have any formal process for it. Um, so a previous city attorney had drafted that legislation which was added to our code of ordinances and since that time we have not sold or I'm sorry I take that back. Since that time we have sold the parcels in South Beach um park that the city had been holding for a long period of time. Um but that was at the direction of both council and the CRA. Do you happen to recall who was sold to? Um I do not. I think we had six parcels in total and they went to three or four different biders. Thank you.

Any other questions or comments from council? Cena. Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Golding. Yes. Council member Horn. Yes. Council member Jansen. Yes. Council member Sutton. Yes. Council member Wagner. Yes. Council member Wowers. No. Mayor Hoffman.

Yes. Motion carries and congratulations, Miss Scots, on the first reading of a first step of something we've been talking about for almost 20 years. Um, thank you again also to all involved in that. It's a huge project and I really appreciate the deep dive and doing a comprehensive review versus um just kind of piece mealing it together. I think it's going to u pay off in the long run and the short run. Uh there is no other business on the agenda. Thank you, Deputy City Manager Nelson for sitting in. Our um city manager is down the street on a field trip to Neptune Beach's city council meeting and we will see um their city manager here at our next regular meeting, I believe. So, um it's just like a little city manager exchange program. It's great. Uh can I have a motion to adjurnn?

I move we adjourn. Second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Oh yeah. Amazing concern.