The Key Colony Beach City Commission will meet on Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 9:30 a.m. for the Organizational Meeting...
The Key Colony Beach City Commission will then hold a public hearing and regular meeting on Thursday, December 14, 2023 at 9:35 a.m. OR at the conclusion of the Organizational Meeting in the temporary meeting place for the City of Key Colony Beach at the Key Colony Inn Banquet Room at 700 W. Ocean Drive, Key Colony Beach, Florida, and virtually via Zoom.
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The Key Colony Beach City Commission will hold an additional Special Meeting on Wednesday, December 20, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. OR at the conclusion of the Planning & Zoning Meeting in the Key Colony Inn Banquet Room and virtually via Zoom.
Welcome the new mayor, vice-mayor, and secretary-treasurer.
Does renewing the one year contract for legal services with Vernis & Bowling benefit the city?
Kudos for the new items in the Commissioner Comments section:
Cheers to Commissioner DiFransico for opening a discussion about the rules for volunteer/advisory boards and the procedures for City Commission meetings.
Applause to Commissioner Foster for opening a discussion of the long overdue promotion of Jamie Buxton to Sergeant with back pay, the need to re-write the employee manual, the employee travel rules, employee attendance, and the need for a Commissioner to handle Union negotiations. We hope the discussion to stop the independent FEMA fraud investigation means a state or federal prosecutor will accept the evidence and continue the investigation?
Hurrahs to Commissioner Raspe for opening a discussion to repeal the 7/20/2023 acceptance of HOB bid for City Hall or to submit it to a vote of the electors, plus the need to reduce and control the City Attorney budget, to reopen Marble Hall immediately, to get bids to repair the existing city hall building (information needed to make intelligent decisions), more thoughts on employee attendance, a change so the Chief of Police reports to the Mayor, and the big question of whether we need a City Administrator.
We hope the City Commission will discuss all of these questions and bring them to a vote.
The amended agenda adds a BIG change that can help move the city forward. (See below for a link to the original agenda.)
The commission will enter a closed attorney/client session to discuss a settlement of the lawsuit over your referendum, then re-open what is now a Public Hearing and Regular Meeting to discuss and potentially approve a settlement proposal.
Sadly, there are serious questions about the "release" the city attorney intends to offer..
Questions the Commission should be asking that aren't on the agenda
People are asking how the work environment got so toxic that every "before-Turner" employee has left the city? And how can we help bring the good ones back?
People are asking why Commissioner and former Mayor Patti Trefry resigned abruptly but Commissioners Harding and Vickrey haven't stepped down? They are as culpable as Ms. Trefry
Commissioners get a "packet" which is typically about 100 pages of paperwork that supports all the agenda items. The regular agenda was created by December 8 but the packet is not online.
The commissioners had their packets (both the PDFs and the paper copies) for the December 14 meeting but despite citizen requests, the packet still wasn't on the city website as of Tuesday morning, December 12. Why did it take so long to be posted ... again?
The Government in the Sunshine manual makes clear that the packet should be published to the public at the same time it is produced for the commissioners. People are asking why it was not.
This meeting will be held at the temporary meeting place for the City of Key Colony Beach at the Key Colony Inn Banquet Room at 700 W. Ocean Drive, Key Colony Beach, Florida, and virtually via Zoom.
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