REGULAR MEETING OF
Be it remembered that the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen of the City of Ocean Springs met in a Regular meeting at City
Hall in the City of Ocean Springs at
Alderman Cody gave the Invocation.
Mayor Ainsworth led the Pledge of
Allegiance.
CONSENT
AGENDA
Motion was made by Alderman Carvin,
seconded by Alderman Jalanivich and unanimously carried to approve the Consent
Agenda, except item (a), which was pulled by Mayor Ainsworth and item (j) which
was pulled by Alderman Lloyd.
DEPARTMENT
REPORTS
City
Clerk
After a discussion regarding the
deleting of Doug Denehie from the Charlie Carr letter, motion was made by
Alderman Lloyd and seconded by Alderman Gill to remove Mr. Denehie’s name from
the letter. The motion carried
unanimously.
Motion was made by Alderman Cody to
rescind the previous motion, seconded by Alderman Lloyd and unanimously
carried.
Motion was made by Alderman Cody and
seconded by Alderman Lloyd to remove the entire Charlie Carr letter from the
minutes and give it back to Mr. Carr. The motion carried unanimously.
Motion was made by Alderman Jalanivich,
seconded by Alderman Gill and unanimously carried to approve the minutes of the
regular meeting of January 4, 2005 as submitted (without the Carr letter being
attached) (Exhibit 3-a)
Police
Department
After discussion and explanation by the
Police Chief, motion was made by Alderman Lloyd, seconded by Alderman Cody and
unanimously carried to approve item (j) of the Consent Agenda “Authorize the
purchase of a TouchPrint Live Scan Booking Station from Identix, Inc., State
Purchasing #RFP3327for $41,479 to be paid from the building grant funds for the
new Public Safety Complex (Exhibit 3-h).
Fire
Department
Chief Hare requested an Executive
Session at the end of the meeting regarding personnel in the fire department.
Risk
Manager/HR
Not present.
City
Engineer
No report.
Public
Works
Not present.
Mr. Kaufman’s report on Forest Hills
Drainage Project (Exhibit 4-A) was made a part of the minutes.
Community
Development and Planning
Motion was made by Alderman Dalgo,
seconded by Alderman Gill and unanimously to adopt Ordinance No. ______2005 as
attached (Exhibit 4-b). with an amendment to item 3 b
to read “Not located within 250 feet of a church…….” The motion passed
unanimously with a roll call vote as follows:
Alderman Jalanivich Voted Aye
Alderman Lloyd Voted Aye
Alderman McDonnell Voted Aye
Alderman Cody Voted Aye
Alderman Carvin Voted Aye
Alderman Dalgo Voted Aye
Alderman Gill Voted
Aye
Parks
and Recreation
In discussion of the Park Commission
letter (Exhibit 4c) Motion was made by Alderman Jalanivich to use Joe Gill,
LLC, as the City’s Environmental Consultant.
Alderman Jalanivich withdrew his motion.
City Engineer David Compton was instructed to provide an Order of
Magnitude (estimate) of cost to build the roads, drainage, utilities, etc to
develop the property.
Mayor
Motion was made by Alderman Gill and
seconded by Alderman Dalgo to adopt the RESOLUTION OF THE CITY BOARD OF
ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS,
Alderman Jalanivich; Voted Nay
Alderman Lloyd Voted Nay
Alderman McDonnell Voted Aye
Alderman Coty Voted Aye
Alderman Carvin Voted Aye
Alderman Dalgo Voted Aye
Alderman Gill Voted Aye
Motion was made by Alderman Lloyd to
appoint Travis Norman to the
City
Attorney
Mr. John Edward advised that he had a
current litigation issue that needed to be addressed in Executive Session.
ALDERMAN’S
FORUM
Motion was made by Alderman Lloyd, seconded
by Alderman Dalgo and unanimously carried to concede that the names that were
gathered for the referendum are sufficient and to move forward with the
referendum by putting it on the ballot and let the people of Ocean Springs
decide (if the recreation department agrees). This is the $1.6 million project
that is before the Board.
Discussion was held on whether or not
the safety complex should be included on the referendum. The Mayor advised that floor plans for the
new safety facility are available for the Aldermen in his office. The projected cost is $4.5 million, excluding
the cost of refurbishing the existing police department building.
In accordance with the City Attorney’s
recommendation, the following amendment to the motion to provide that the
referendum on the bond issue (that is before the board) will be advised 4 weeks
starting Feb 10 with a voting date of March 8. The amended motion was made by
Alderman Dalgo, seconded by Alderman Jalanivich and unanimously carried. Mr. Damin McKay said
that he was sure that his Board would agree to the referendum as presented and
authorize it going right to vote.
NEW
BUSINESS
Gloria Skillestad,
President of Fort Maurepas Foundation, presented the
attached Lease between the City of Ocean Springs and Fort Maurepas
Foundation (Exhibit 7-A). At her
request, motion was made by Alderman Gill, seconded by Alderman Carvin, and
unanimously carried to enter the two (2) letters presented by Ms Skillestad in the minutes as attached.
The City Attorney advised that he needs
to consult with the Fort’s legal council (Samuel Tucker) about some items in the
lease before putting it before the Board.
After much discussion regarding lease vs. management contract, the
matter was continued and will be placed under Old Business for the next
meeting. Some citizens requested that a public forum be held on the matter so
that their concerns can be heard.
AUDIENCE
REQUEST
Damin McKay, Park
Director, was recognized and he apologized for not being present earlier in the
meeting to address the park commission letter.
As clarification in the letter, the park wants to proceed with the 60
acres. The existing mitigation credits
will take care of the 60 acres. In the
future if the additional 30 acres is needed then credits can be purchased. The Park’s recommendation is to move forward
with the 60 acres. A plan can be
presented for the entire 90 acres, develop 60 acres that we have credit for and
then go out for bond issue later on the other 30 acres. Motion was made by Alderman McDonnell to
accept the Park’s recommendation as presented in the letter pertaining to going
after the 60 acres, with the option of additional credits for the 30
acres. The motion was seconded by
Alderman Jalanivich and unanimously carried.
Mr. Ross Dodds reported that an Ocean
Springs Citizens for Responsible Hometown Government has been formed and their
purpose is to determine where and how the city’s money is being spent. At the request of Mr. Dodds, Mayor Ainsworth
reported that a total of $686,943 has been spent on the Hwy 57 project,
excluding engineering fees, plus an estimated cost of $250,000 will be needed
for development of roads.
Ann Birk
reported that $150,000 has been collected in impact fees and that $278,777 has
been spent. She asked how much more will
be spent?
Milton Jenkins indicated that they do
not want an all inclusive bond issue on the ballot, but that they want separate
issues on the ballot.
EXECUTIVE
SESSION
Motion was made by Alderman Jalanivich,
seconded by Alderman Carvin, and unanimously carried to go into closed session
to see if they would remain in executive session.
The City Clerk returned to the meeting
and announced that motion was made by Alderman Jalanivich, seconded by Alderman
Carvin, and unanimously carried to remain in executive session to discuss matters
relating to personnel in the fire department and supervision and finance and
current litigation.
Alderman Dalgo left the executive
session at 7:50 pm and did not return to the meeting.
Motion was made by Alderman McDonnell,
seconded by Alderman Jalanivich and unanimously carried to come out of
executive sessions and return to regular session.
Motion was made by Alderman Jalanivich,
seconded by Alderman Cody, and unanimously carried to authorize the Mayor to
sign the ANSWER OF THE CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS,
Motion was made by Alderman Jalanivich,
seconded by Alderman Carvin, and unanimously carried to authorize the City
Clerk to hire a Deputy City Clerk, who she feels is qualified and within civil
service rules.
Motion was made by Alderman Cody, seconded
by Alderman Carvin, and unanimously carried to authorize the Fire Chief to hire
three additional firemen on a part time basis to fill the vacancy resulting
from Military call-up.
Motion was made by Alderman Jalanivich,
seconded by Alderman Carvin, and unanimously carried to recess until 6:00 p.m.
on February 15, 2005.
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City Clerk Mayor
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