092407 ws agenda & min.CITY OF SANFORD
CITY COMMISSION WORK SESSION
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2007
4:00 PM
Railroad Depot Room
2nd Floor
Sanford City Hall
300 North Park Avenue
Sanford, Florida
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AGENDA
1) Police and Fire Department retirees' health insurance issues.
2) City Commissioners' Special Projects funds. (Regular Item #10.C) [Commission Memo 07 -259]
3) Georgetown Neighborhood Plan presentation. [Commission Memo 07 -257]
4) Agenda Items - additional information and /or questions.
5) Attorney- client Session: Announce the commencement and estimated length of the attomey- client session and the
names of the persons attending.
6) CLOSE the public meeting.
7) Begin Attorney - Client Private Meeting. Requested by the City Attorney to seek advice from the City Commission
concerning ongoing litigation to which the City is a party.
Persons attending may include: City Commission
City Manager Robert Yehl
Deputy City Manager Kristi Aday
Assistant City Attorney Kenneth W. McIntosh
Certified Court Reporter
8) END the private meeting and REOPEN the public meeting.
9) Announce the termination of the session.
10) END the meeting.
The City Commission of the City of Sanford, Florida, met in Work Session on Monday, September 24, 2007, at 4
PM, in the Railroad Depot Room, 2nd Floor, City Hall, 300 North Park Avenue, Sanford, Florida.
Present: Mayor Linda Kuhn
Vice Mayor Velma Williams
Commissioner Art Woodruff
Commissioner Randy Jones (present at 4:10 PM)
Commissioner Jack T. Bridges
City Manager Robert (Sherman) Yehl
City Clerk Janet R. Dougherty
Deputy City Clerk Cynthia Porter
Absent: City Attorney William L. Colbert
Mayor Kuhn called the Work Session to order at 4:05 PM.
1) Police and Fire Department retirees' health insurance issues.
Doug Bishop, representing Police and Fire Department retirees, distributed a copy of Section 10, Health
Insurance, City of Sanford Personnel Rules and Regulations effective September 27, 1993, and expressed concern that retirees
of the Police and Fire Departments are required to pay for health insurance after being told when first hired that the benefit
would be paid for life. They are on a fixed income and receive no cost of living allowance. He asked that the Commission
consider building a COLA system into Police and Fire pensions or that they be exempt from paying for health insurance. He
also asked that the pension boards include a retiree, because they receive no information from the boards. [Commissioner Jones
joined the meeting during the discussion.]
City Manager Yehl said that he will provide information to the Commission so the budgetary impact can be
determined. The Commission also requested an estimate of the cost to buy the Police and Fire back into the State retirement
system.
2) City Commissioners' Special Projects funds. (Regular Item #10.C) [Commission Memo 07 -259]
There was a consensus of the Commission that unencumbered special project funds lapse at the end of the
fiscal year.
3) Georgetown Neighborhood Plan presentation. [Commission Memo 07 -2571
Christine Dalton, Community Planner, distributed a draft Historic Georgetown Neighborhood Plan and gave a
power point presentation of the same. The Commission had no objections to the plan and requested that the rezoning initiative
proceed immediately.
4) Agenda Items - additional information and/or questions.
5) Attorney - client Session: Announce the commencement and estimated length of the attorney - client session and the
names of the persons attending.
6) CLOSE the public meeting.
Mayor Kuhn adjourned the Work Session at 4:47 PM.
7) Begin Attorney - Client Private Meeting. Requested by the City Attorney to seek advice from the City
Commission concerning ongoing litigation to which the City is a party. Persons attending may include the City
Commission, City Manager Robert Yehl, Deputy City Manager Kristi Aday, Assistant City Attorney Kenneth W.
McIntosh, and a Certified Court Reporter.