Public Hearing
The City Commission will host a public hearing in Marble Hall and on Zoom on Thursday, March 20, beginning at 9:30 a.m.
The agenda includes a variance request for the construction of a dock to extend past the mangrove at 920 Shelter Bay Drive and a request to install a 33,000 lb. elevator boat lift at 300 14th Street.
"Members of the public may speak for three minutes and may only speak once unless waived by a majority vote of the commission."
Regular Commission Meeting
The City Commission will host a regular monthly meeting in Marble Hall and on Zoom on Thursday, March 20, beginning at 9:35 a.m. or at the conclusion of the Public Hearing.
The City Commission scheduled no Town Hall meeting for March.
The commission will handle several high profile items in this meeting. They are adding two more new ordinances and may hold a referendum to purchase property. They will discuss conducting an ADA compliance study for city parks, spending $50,000 in-house on a city hall kitchen remodel, and adding new boat storage rules.
KCBers may want to ask our commissioners about these items in particular:
- People Are Asking about adding more and more new ordinances piecemeal after saying last year that we need to rewrite the whole code of ordinances.
- After the prior commission refused to allow a public referendum, kudos to this commission for considering asking KCBers whether to purchase property.
- Research teams at the University of Miami (and other Florida colleges) conduct ADA studies. People Are Asking why not invite them to do the ADA compliance study for our parks. People Are also Asking for certification of why the Sunset Park bathrooms were not built above Base Flood Elevation.
| In flood hazard areas, including coastal high hazard areas (Zone V), public restrooms, like other non-residential structures, must be built above the base flood elevation or dry floodproofed. |
- People Are Asking about why long term trailer parking will mandate that: "Public access to the lot is no longer available. Schedule the removal of your trailer, please provide 48 hours' (sic) notice."
- People Are Asking why, in this day of sunshine and perfect transparency, city "insiders" had electronic copies of the 149 page meeting packet last week but the public had to wait until Tuesday or later to see it?
The agenda includes:
No Special Requests were listed.
The City Administrator will discuss the Baptist Municipal Service Taxing Unit and the Building Official will discuss fees to Ed Borysiewicz for his service. Consent Action Items include several recent meeting minutes and a warrant for $830,840.77
The commission will discuss several Rec Department recommendations:
The placement of cornhole structures.
A location for the 7th Street Basketball court and appointing a committee to find alternative locations.
Hiring an engineer to conduct an ADA compliance study for all parks.
Grant applications for fitness elements.
The commission will discuss awarding the 7th Street & Shelter Bay Drive Stormwater Drainage Improvements contract.
The commission will discuss remodeling the City Hall Kitchen in house for $50,000.
The commission may discuss assigning Mittauer Engineering Projects to CPH, the architects working on the city hall project.
The commission will approve compensation for unpaid comp time for former building official Gerard "Spook" Roussin.
The commission will handle two more new ordinances:
The First Reading of a big and complex ordinance amending the goals, objectives, and policies of the comprehensive plan.
The Second Reading of a code amendment to increase the discretionary spending threshold.
Commissioner Harding will release the February financial summary, the wastewater report, an update of the Monroe County local mitigation strategy, and FDOT's work requests.
Mayor Foster will discuss holding a referendum to purchase the lot at 721 W. Ocean Drive, the new boat storage rules, Sunset Park improvements, and the role of the Rec Committee for properties under lease or management agreements.
Read the Key Colony Beach City Commission Public Hearing Agenda here.
Read the Key Colony Beach Regular City Commission Meeting Agenda here.
The City Commission Meeting and Public Hearing Commissioner's Packet was still not available on the city website as of 2:00 p.m. on March 18. That packet may be available before the meeting.
Read the City Commission Meeting and Public Hearing Commissioner's Packet here.
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