The following are items discussed or acted upon by the Apalachicola City Council at our regular scheduled meeting held last night.
• Tabled a request made by the Chamber of Commerce to close a portion of road for their annual Oyster Roast until the item can be placed on the September meeting agenda for public discussion.
• City Administrator Betty Taylor-Webb announced that she and Chief Bobby Varnes, Jr., would be working together to conduct random drug tests on police officers and other city employees.
• After receiving complaints from residents in the area, the council instructed Chief Varnes to discourage the non-traditional use and activites at the Park located on Sixth Street adjacent to the Franklin Square Recreation Center.
• City Grant Writer, Cindi Giametta informed the Board that she submitted on behalf of the city and was awarded an $86,000 grant to perform electrical work at the Battery Park Marina, and that the grant application from the Florida Department of Elder Affairs for the construction and renovation of Senior Citizen Centers was submitted.
• Attorney Pat Floyd discussed the request made by the Supervisor of Elections office to address the problems associated with the current city run-off elections. Click HERE to read the letter received from the supervisor of election office.
• Commissioner Jimmy Elliott initiated and moved to designate July 12 as Jimmy Mosconis Day in the City of Apalachicola and to rename a portion of the Street that runs through the Orman House State Park after Mosconis.
• By way of a motion, city commissioners instructed the planning and zoning board to delayed working on revisions to the Riverfront zoning until after updates to the City’s economic development plan are completed. The last update to the plan was in 1989 as an element of the Land Development Code.
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