August 23, 2007

3:00 PM

Welcome to the City of St. Petersburg City Council meeting. To assist the City Council in conducting the City’s business, we ask that you observe the following:

1. If you are speaking under the Public Hearings, Appeals or Open Forum sections of the agenda, please observe the time limits indicated on the agenda.

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3. Please do not address Council from your seat. If asked by Council to speak to an issue, please do so from the podium.

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GENERAL AGENDA INFORMATION

For your convenience, a copy of the agenda material is available for your review at the Main Library, 3745 Ninth Avenue North, and at the City Clerk’s Office, 1^st Floor, City Hall, 175 Fifth Street North, on the Monday preceding the regularly scheduled Council meeting. There is also a copy of the material located on the podium just outside the Chamber doors on the day of the meeting.

If you are hearing impaired an require the services of an interpreter, please contact the City Clerk, 893-7448, or call our TDD Number, 892-5259, at least 24 hours prior to the meeting and we will provide that service for you.

August 23, 2007

3:00 PM

Council Meeting

A. Meeting Called to Order and Roll Call.

Invocation and Pledge to the Flag of the United States of America.

B. Approval of Agenda with Additions and Deletions.

C. Consent Agenda (see attached)

D. (New Ordinances - (First Reading of Title and Setting of Public Hearing)

Setting September 6, 2007 as the public hearing date for the following proposed Ordinance(s):

1. Authorizing the grant of a five hundred (500) square foot Public Utility Easement to Florida Power Corporation d/b/a Progress Energy Florida, Inc., a Florida Corporation, to install, upgrade and maintain electrical service including, but not limited to, a pad mount transformer and related accessories at the City owned Jamestown Apartment Complex.

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2. Amending Section 2-226 (b) of the St. Petersburg City Code to provide an extension to the exemption from the Procurement Code relating to the purchase of property insurance for City property.

Setting September 20, 2007 as the public hearing date for the following proposed Ordinance(s):

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3. Approving the vacation of a 20 foot wide east-west alley in the block bound by Central Avenue and 1st Avenue North and 1st and 2nd Streets North. (City File 07-33000010)

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4. Approving the vacation of a 20 foot wide ingress-egress easement at 3950 - 34th Street South. (City File 07-33000014)

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5. Approving the vacation of a 24 foot wide ingress-egress easement (named 3rd Avenue North) to accommodate the construction of four new residential buildings at the Jamestown Apartment Complex. (City File 07-33000015)

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6. Approving the vacation of the street easements on each corner of the block bound by Central Avenue and 1st Avenue North and 17th and 18th Streets North. (City File 07-33000017)

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E. Reports

1. Approving and adopting the Albert Whitted Airport Master Plan Update 2005 ("Master Plan") and Airport Layout Plan ("ALP") for Albert Whitted Airport.

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F. New Business

G. Council Committee Reports

1. Housing Services Committee. (8/8/07)

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2. Public Safety, Services & Infrastructure Committee. (8/9/07)

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H. Legal

I. Public Hearings and Quasi-Judicial Proceedings - 6:00 p.m.

Public Hearings

NOTE: The following Public Hearing items have been submitted for consideration by the City Council. If you wish to speak on any of the Public Hearing items, please obtain one of the YELLOW cards from the containers on the wall outside of Council Chamber, fill it out as directed, and present it to the Clerk. You will be given 3 minutes ONLY to state your position on any item but may address more than one item.

1. Ordinance 841-G providing for the adoption and approval of the Dome Industrial Park Community Redevelopment Plan.

RECESS CITY COUNCIL –-

St. Petersburg

Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA)

August 23, 2007

1. City Council Convene as Community Redevelopment Agency.

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2. A resolution of the St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) recommending City Council adopt the Dome Industrial Park Community Redevelopment Plan (see City File # DIP 07 01).

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3. A resolution approving amendments to the Community Redevelopment Agency's development review and construction cost thresholds for projects requiring CRA review.

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4. Adjourn Community Redevelopment Agency.

CONVENE CITY COUNCIL ---

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Quasi-Judicial Proceedings

Swearing in of witnesses. Representatives of City Administration, the applicant/appellant, opponents, and members of the public who wish to speak at the public hearing must declare that he or she will testify truthfully by taking an oath or affirmation in the following form:

"Do you swear or affirm that the evidence you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?"

The oath or affirmation will be administered prior to the presentation of testimony and will be administered in mass to those who wish to speak. Persons who submit cards to speak after the administration of the oath, who have not been previously sworn, will be sworn prior to speaking. For detailed procedures to be followed for Quasi-Judicial Proceedings, please see yellow sheet attached to this agenda.

2. Appeal of the Environmental Development Commission (EDC) approval of a site plan with variance at 145 - 4th Avenue NE. (City File 07-31000007)

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J. Open Forum

If you wish to address City Council on subjects other than public hearing or quasi-judicial items listed on this agenda, please sign up with the Clerk prior to the meeting. Only the individual wishing to speak may sign the Open Forum sheet and only City residents, property owners, or business owners may speak. All issues discussed under Open Forum must be limited to issues related to the City of St. Petersburg government.

Speakers will be called to address Council according to the order in which they sign the Open Forum sheet. In order to provide an opportunity for all citizens to address Council, each individual will be limited to one appearance per month and each speaker will be given three (3) minutes. The nature of the speakers' comments will determine the manner in which the response will be provided. The response will be provided by City staff and may be in the form of a letter or a follow-up phone call depending on the request.

K. Adjournment

CRA

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Consent Agenda

Consent Agenda II

Consent Agenda

August 23, 2007

NOTE: The Consent Agenda contains normal, routine business items that are very likely to be approved by the City Council by a single motion. Council questions on these items were answered prior to the meeting. Each Councilmember may, however, defer any item for added discussion at a later time.

(Purchasing)

1. Renewing a blanket purchase agreement with Bulk Express Transport, Inc., for the disposal of brush debris for the Sanitation Department at an estimated annual cost of $ 210,000.

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