Download the Key Colony Beach Townhall Agenda and Commissioners' Packet here.
First up, the City Commission will host its monthly "Townhall Meeting" in Marble Hall and as a Zoom webinar on Monday, November 18, 2024, at 9:30 a.m. This Townhall will include fees and fines, garbage, pedestrian and bike safety, sewer bills, and the city hall building schedule. The "commissioners' packet" has a host of useful details.
Townhall Meetings are planned for the Monday before each monthly city commission meeting "in season".
Come in person! Attend on Zoom!
Have your questions and comments ready!
The city commission really wants to hear from all KCBers!
Be persuasive. Be focused. Be present.
Please attend the meeting to hear the news and to tell your story or make your requests. The commission invites all KCBers to air their interests and concerns on these topics. Really. They do want to hear from you. Town hall meetings educate the commissioners who have pledged to include your issues at the commission meetings.
From the Agenda:
Mayor Raspe will welcome back KCBers who were out of town over the summer months.
Vice-Mayor Foster will review the Fee Schedules shown on pages 1-12 of the commissioners' packet
Laurie notes: If people wonder about code fines, this is a good time to ask.
New fees include building permits (with added fees for the city engineer, legal, fire safety, and many more), a new garbage service charge, variance charges, application charges, trailer parking changes, and more.
Don't we already pay Marathon Garbage Service $548.58 (on our tax bill) for trash hauling? And doesn't KCB already fine us when our cans are left out?
The packet includes a schedule of 47 revised and new violations with punitive fines ranging from $25 to the maximum $250 per day. 16 of the listed violations and their fines are brand new.
- The prior commission disbanded KCB's (free) citizen-led Code Board in favor of hiring the Florida Department of Administrative Hearings to hold code proceedings. Commissioner Harding never answered these questions:
- Is it true that the work formerly done by citizens didn't bring in enough revenue?
- Is it true the DOAH magistrate has rubber stamped whatever the city lawyers or the code enforcer told him to do?
- Isn't it true that Florida law mandates that municipal fines and fees shall raise only enough revenue to cover the cost of administering the department? [§166.222 Florida Statutes]
- Why can KCB "sweep" thousands of dollars from the building department fees and fines into the general fund?
Commissioner Harding has resident feedback on an open grant for Pedestrian/Bicycle safety.
Commissioner DiFransico will discuss the revised Sewer Billing Approach.
- Should the city commission change our sewer billing from the current "flat rate" quarterly bills sent by the City to a bill based on water usage?
- The Commission has unanimously tabled the Utility Board's suggestions to change sewer billing. The current billing method means the residences without pools or irrigation subsidize high volume users with renters, pools, etc. The revised plan would make the billing more fair and also make it easier for the city to administer.
Commissioner Colonell has some timelines for Townhall Progress.
People Are (still) Asking for the city hall renderings approved at the last commission meeting.
KCB is our little city. Be there. Be ready. Be focused. Be persuasive. And please volunteer to help our gem.
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Download the 11-18-2024 Townhall Meeting Agenda and Commissioners' Packet.
Download just the 11-18-2024 Townhall Meeting Agenda.
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