091384-Special Session380
MINUTES
City Commission, Sanford, Florida
September 13 at 12:00 Noon 1984
The City Commission of the City of Sanford, Florida, met in Special Session in the
City Manager's Conference Room in the City Hall in the City of Sanford, Florida, at
12:00 o'clock Noon on September 13, 1984.
Present: Mayor-Commissioner Lee P. Moore
Commissioner Milton E. Smith
Commissioner Edward A. Yancey
Commissioner David T. Farr
Commissioner Edwin O. Keith
City Attorney William L. Colbert
Acting City Manager Steven D. Harriett
City Clerk H. N. Tamm, Jr.
Absent: City Manager W. E. Knowles
The meeting was called to order by the Chairman.
The Mayor announced that at the request of the Mayor of Lake Mary, the City
Attorney and he had met with Mayor Sorensen and the Lake Mary City Attorney, to discuss Lake
Mary's problems with the U. S. Farmer's Home Administration in seeking an additional loan in
the amount of $1,400,000 to build a well field and processing facility, and to tie into the
present water system.
Lake Mary had obtained an original loan of $650,000 from said administration, and
to obtain the additional loan, someone must guarantee it and assume the liability in case of
default.
No action was taken by the Commission.
The Mayor announced that he had discussed with the City Attorney the apparent lack
of clarity of the resident requirement in the districting court order, and expressed that if
no action were taken by the Commission that the Commission may find inself in contempt of
court, and if there was an error in someone qualifying, that it could be corrected before
the qualifying period ends, and avoid a challenge in 1985 to the election. :
The City Attorney suggested that he be authorized for action as follows:
1. Research the legal precedence and definition of legal resident/residency.
2. Research the facts.
3. If steps 1 and 2 are not conclusive, to take the facts and the law to the
Federal District Judge and petition for a declaratory order to help define the
requirement of resident/residency.
Commissioner Smith moved to authorize the City Attorney to take the aforesaid
action. Seconded by Commissioner Yancey and carried.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned.
ACTING MAYOR
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK