September 6, 2007

8:30 AM

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.

2. Placards and posters are not permitted in the Chamber. Applause is not permitted except in connection with Awards and Presentations.

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

4. Please do not pass notes to Council during the meeting.

5. Please be courteous to other members of the audience by keeping side conversations to a minimum.

6. The Fire Code prohibits anyone from standing in the aisles or in the back of the room.

7. If other seating is available, please do not occupy the seats reserved for the hearing impaired.

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.

September 6, 2007

8:30 AM

ouncil 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. Public Hearings and Quasi-Judicial Proceedings - 9:00 a.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 842-G 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. Ordinance 843-G 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.

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E. Reports

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

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

1. Utility Rate Increases for FY 2008:

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(a) Amending Chapter 27, Sections 27-296.2, 27-331 and 27-359 of the St. Petersburg City Code, relating to Sanitation Rates.

(b) Amending Chapter 27, Sections 27-117, 27-132, 27-133, 27-153, 27-191, and 27-192 of the St. Petersburg City Code, relating to utility rates and charges; and creating a new Section 27-121 relating to portable meters.

2. Amending Chapter 20, Article 6 of the St. Petersburg City Code, relating to false alarms; and creating new sections regarding the purpose and applicability of the ordinance and alarm awareness classes.

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G. New Business

1. Requesting Council schedule a Committee of the Whole to discuss Bright House Networks Realignment of the City's Government Access Channel. (Councilmember Polson)

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2. Requesting Council change the time of the St. Petersburg City Council meeting scheduled for Thursday, October 4, 2007 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in order to accommodate citizens who may plan to participate in the Westin appeal. (Chair Bryan)

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H. Council Committee Reports

1. Budget, Finance & Taxation Committee. (8/30/07)

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2. Policy & Planning Committee. (8/30/07)

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3. Public Safety, Services & Infrastructure Committee. (8/30/07)

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I. Legal

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

Consent Agenda

Consent Agenda II

September 6, 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. Approving change orders to Imagineering, Inc. and Alfred Conhagen, Inc. of Florida for machine shop services in the amount of $76,600 which increases the estimated annual contract amount to $305,600.

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