City Council

City of Clearwater Main Library - Council Chambers 100 N. Osceola Avenue Clearwater, FL 33755 Meeting Agenda Thursday, December 19, 2019 6:00 PM Main Library - Council Chambers City Council City Council Meeting Agenda December 19, 2019 Welcome. We are glad to have you join us. If you wish to address the Council, please complete a Comment Card. Comment Cards are on the right-hand side of the dais by the City Clerk. When recognized, please hand your card to the Clerk, approach the podium and state your name. Persons speaking before the City Council shall be limited to 3 minutes unless otherwise noted under Public Hearings. For other than "Citizens to be heard regarding items not on the Agenda," a spokesperson for a group may speak for 3 minutes plus an additional minute for each person in the audience that waives their right to speak, up to a maximum of 10 minutes. Prior to the item being presented, please obtain the form to designate a spokesperson from the City Clerk. Up to 60 minutes of public comment will be allowed for an agenda item. No person shall speak more than once on the same subject unless granted permission by the City Council. The City of Clearwater strongly supports and fully complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Please advise us at least 48 hours prior to the meeting if you require special accommodations at 727-562-4090. Assisted Listening Devices are available. Kindly refrain from using cell phones and electronic devices during the meeting. 1. Call to Order 2. Invocation 3. Pledge of Allegiance 4. Special recognitions and Presentations (Proclamations, service awards, or other special recognitions. Presentations by governmental agencies or groups providing formal updates to Council will be limited to ten minutes.) 4.1 ID#19-7223 December Service Awards 4.2 ID#19-7219 The Arc Tampa Bay Foundation’s Festival of Trees - Madison Orr Hauenstein, Executive Director; Kiersten Finchum, Event Co-Chair; Kim Kurey, Event Co-Chair 4.3 ID#19-7241 Recognition of Human Resources Director Jennifer Poirrier as a 2019 People First Honoree - Bill Horne, City Manager 4.4 ID#19-7258 2019 Citizen Satisfaction Survey - Joelle Castelli, Public Communications Director 5. Approval of Minutes 5.1 ID#19-7230 Approve the minutes of the December 5, 2019 City Council Meeting as submitted in written summation by the City Clerk. 6. Citizens to be heard re items not on the agenda City of Clearwater Page 2 Printed on 12/19/2019 City Council Meeting Agenda December 19, 2019 7. Consent Agenda The Consent Agenda contains normal, routine business items that are very likely to be approved by the City Council by a single motion. These items are not discussed, and may all be approved as recommended on the staff reports. Council questions on these items were answered prior to the meeting. The Mayor will provide an opportunity for a Councilmember or a member of the public to ask that an item be pulled from the Consent Agenda for discussion. Items pulled will receive separate action. All items not removed from the Consent Agenda will be approved by a single motion of the council. 7.1 ID#19-7213 Award a contract for Gas Utility rate studies and other professional services for the five-year period ending December 31, 2024, to Raftelis Financial Consultants, Inc. (Raftelis) for a not-to-exceed amount of $184,000 and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.2 ID#19-7221 Approve settlement of automobile bodily injury liability claim 18-00162 for payment of $95,000, inclusive of attorney fees and costs, for Zoe Applegate, with a general release of all claims and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.3 ID#19-7243 Authorize a sole source award for a renewal subscription to the ISO ClaimSearch for Non-Insurers Database, effective January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, for a not-to-exceed total of $15,000 for the annual membership fee and as-needed claim search fees, pursuant to Clearwater Code of Ordinances Section 2.564(1)(b) and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.4 ID#19-7174 Approve a Facility Encroachment Agreement with CSX Transportation, Inc. for the installation of an underground natural gas main in the CSX right-of-way and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.5 ID#19-7197 Authorize a purchase order to Angelo’s Recycled Materials of St. Petersburg, FL, for debris disposal (yard trash, Class III, and construction and demolition debris), in the not-to-exceed amount of $275,000 for the period of December 1, 2019 through September 30, 2021, with one additional two-year renewal term at an annual not-to-exceed amount of $150,000 at the City’s discretion, pursuant to Clearwater Code of Ordinances Section 2.564(1)(d) Cooperative Contracts and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.6 ID#19-7199 Authorize award of Invitation to Bid 03-20, Landscaping Maintenance Services, to Botanical Dimensions, Dean’s Environmental, Earth Designs, Gamco Properties, MMM Property Maintenance, and Valleycrest Landscape, for a nine month not-to-exceed amount of $500,000 for the period of January 1, 2020 through September 30, 2020, with the option for two one-year term extensions and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) City of Clearwater Page 3 Printed on 12/19/2019 City Council Meeting Agenda December 19, 2019 7.7 ID#19-7200 Authorize award of Request for Proposal 31-19, Special Events Production Services, to American Mobile Staging of Schaumburg, IL and RCS Corporation of Clearwater, FL in an annual not to exceed amount of $100,000 with three one-year renewal options at the City's discretion and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.8 ID#19-7157 Approve a professional services agreement and design work order with Wannemacher Jenson Architects, Inc. (WJA) of St. Petersburg, FL for the design of Fire Station 46 (18-0028-FD) in the amount of $734,109 and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.9 ID#19-7169 Approve a proposal from Precision Sidewalk Safety Corporation of Ocala, Florida for Sidewalk Grinding (16-0016-EN) in the amount of $250,000.00 in accordance with Clearwater Code of Ordinances, Section 2.564 (1)(d) Other Government Entities Bids and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.10 ID#19-7194 Approve Request for Qualifications (RFQ) 52-19 agreement with Construction Manager at Risk (CMAR) Skanska USA Building, Inc., of Tampa, FL and Preconstruction Proposal, in the amount of $425,000, for Imagine Clearwater and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.11 Bid #01-20 Authorize award of Invitation to Bid 01-20, Code Inspection and Plan Review Services to Quorum Services of Tampa, FL, Joe Payne Inc., of Tampa, FL and NOVA Engineering and Environmental, LLC of Tampa, FL for an annual not-to-exceed amount of $500,000.00, effective January 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, with the option for two one-year term extensions, and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.12 ID#19-7216 Authorize the piggyback of Florida State Contract 4323000-NASPO-16-ACS-SVAR, Software Value Added Reseller (SVAR) Services, to CDW-G, of Vernon Hills, IL, in the amount of $460,581, pursuant to Clearwater Code of Ordinances Section 2.564(1)(d) Exceptions to Bid - Other Government Entities’ Bids and authorize lease purchase under the City's Master Lease Purchase Agreement or internal financing via an interfund loan from the Capital Improvement Fund, whichever is deemed to be in the City's best interests and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.13 ID#19-7201 Approve the Interlocal Agreement between Pinellas County and the Cities of Clearwater, Dunedin, Gulfport, Largo, Oldsmar, Pinellas Park, Safety Harbor, St. Petersburg, and Tarpon Springs for funding the Tampa Bay Estuary Program match of a Florida Department of Environmental Protection Grant to develop a social marketing campaign focused on reducing sanitary sewer overflows and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) City of Clearwater Page 4 Printed on 12/19/2019 City Council Meeting Agenda December 19, 2019 7.14 ID#19-7214 Authorize the award of Invitation to Bid 12-20, Liquid Aluminum Sulfate, to Thatcher Chemical of Florida, Inc., in an annual not-to-exceed amount of $235,000, with the option for two one-year extensions at the City’s discretion and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) Public Hearings - Not before 6:00 PM 8. Administrative Public Hearings - Presentation of issues by City staff - Statement of case by applicant or representative (5 min.) - Council questions - Comments in support or opposition (3 min. per speaker or 10 min maximum as spokesperson for others that have waived their time) - Council questions - Final rebuttal by applicant or representative (5 min.) - Council disposition 8.1 ID#19-7206 Declare surplus, for the purpose of donation for development of affordable housing, two parcels of real property located at 1002 LaSalle Street and 1011 LaSalle Street; approve the Real Property Donation Agreement between the City and Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County, Inc., and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same, together with all other instruments required to affect closing. (APH) 8.2 ID#19-7207 Declare surplus, for the purpose of donation for development of affordable housing, real property located at 912 Nicholson Street, approve the Real Property Donation Agreement between the city and Emerge Community Economic Development Corporation, and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same, together with all other instruments required to affect closing. (APH) 8.3 ID#19-7211 Approve the City of Clearwater’s Fiscal Year 2018-2019 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). (APH) 8.4 9352-20 Approve the request from Edgewater Valor Capital LLC, (Applicant) to vacate a portion of a 5 foot-wide platted utility easement as recorded in Plat Book 31, Page 12 of the Public Records of Pinellas County, Florida, and a portion of a 10 foot-wide platted alley, as recorded in Plat Book 4, Page 56 of the Public Records of Pinellas County, Florida, and pass Ordinance 9352-20 on first reading. (VAC2020-01) City of Clearwater Page 5 Printed on 12/19/2019 City Council Meeting Agenda December 19, 2019 8.5 9349-20 Approve amendments to the Community Development Code to adopt the International Property Maintenance Code with Certain Local Amendments in Section 3-1502 in place of Chapter 47, Article VII, Unsafe Buildings and Systems and Chapter 49, Housing Code and expanding the powers of the Building/Flood Board of Adjustment and Appeals to hear violations and appeals related to the International Property Maintenance Code, and pass Ordinance 9349-20 on first reading. (TA2019-10005) 9. Second Readings - Public Hearing 9.1 9343-19 2nd Adopt Ordinance 9343-19 on second reading, annexing certain real property rdg whose post office address is 1725 Owen Drive, Clearwater, Florida 33759, into the corporate limits of the city and redefining the boundary lines of the city to include said addition. 9.2 9344-19 2nd Adopt Ordinance 9344-19 on second reading, amending the future land use rdg element of the Comprehensive Plan to designate the land use for certain real property whose post office address is 1725 Owen Drive, Clearwater, Florida 33759, upon annexation into the City of Clearwater, as Residential Low (RL) and Water/Drainage Feature Overlay. 9.3 9345-19 2nd Adopt Ordinance 9345-19 on second reading, amending the Zoning Atlas of the rdg city by zoning certain real property whose post office address 1725 Owen Drive, Clearwater, Florida 33759, upon annexation into the City of Clearwater, as Low Medium Density Residential (LMDR). 9.4 9351-19 2nd Adopt Ordinance 9351-19 on second reading, vacating a 20 foot wide alley rdg described as all of the platted alley abutting Lots 6 and 7 of Block D, as described in the plat titled “McVeigh Subdivision,” as recorded in Plat Book 30 Page 83 of the Public Records of Pinellas County, Florida. 9.5 9353-19 2nd Adopt Ordinance 9353-19 on second reading, submitting to the city electors rdg proposed amendments to the City Charter amending Section 2.01(d)(5) to increase the size of city owned real property that can be donated or sold for less than fair market value to five acres for the purpose of affordable housing and to allow for the donation of sale for less than market value uneconomic remainders to adjacent property owners. 9.6 9354-19 Adopt Ordinance 9354-19 on second reading, submitting to the city electors amendments to the City Charter making non-substantive organizational amendments; deleting Section 2.01(d)(8) because it has expired; amending Section 2.06(c) to be consistent with state law; amending section 3.03(f) to require the City Manager to submit to the council a report on the state of the city every November. City of Clearwater Page 6 Printed on 12/19/2019 City Council Meeting Agenda December 19, 2019 9.7 9355-19 Adopt Ordinance 9355-19 on second reading, submitting to the city electors amendments to the City Charter, amending Section 7.02 to require the City Council to appoint a Charter Review Committee at least every eight years. 10. City Manager Reports 10.1 9356-20 Amend the Clearwater Code of Ordinances, Chapter 25 - Public Transportation Carriers, Article I - Public Conveyances to define commercial megacycles and definitions to establish standards for commercial megacycles, to require a license for commercial mega cycles to be operated in the city and to add penalties and pass Ordinance 9356-20 on first reading. 10.2 19-37 Authorize the negotiated sale of not to exceed $25,000,000 Water and Sewer Revenue Refunding Bonds, Series 2020 and adopt Resolution 19-37. 10.3 ID#19-7218 Accept a Natural Gas Easement over, under, across and through a portion of property conveyed by NNP-BEXLEY, LLC, whose principal address is 777 South Harbour Island Blvd, Tampa, FL, given in consideration of receipt of $1.00 and the benefits to be derived therefrom, and adopt Resolution 19-41. 10.4 ID#19-7220 Accept a Natural Gas Easement over, under, across and through a portion of property conveyed by Bryan Craig Bexley, Successor Trustee of the Bexley Ranch Land Trust, whose principal address is P.O. Box 10, Sumterville, FL, given in consideration of receipt of $1.00 and the benefits to be derived therefrom, and adopt Resolution 19-19. 10.5 ID#19-7196 Approve co-sponsorship and waiver of requested city fees and service charges for Fiscal Year 2019/20 for a new event sponsored by Clearwater High School, the Unity Walk, in the amount of $3,330 and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. 10.6 ID#19-7270 Imagine Clearwater - Public Input Survey 11. City Attorney Reports 12. Closing comments by Councilmembers (limited to 3 minutes) 13. Closing Comments by Mayor 14. Adjourn City of Clearwater Page 7 Printed on 12/19/2019