City Council

City of Clearwater Main Library - Council Chambers 100 N. Osceola Avenue Clearwater, FL 33755 Meeting Agenda Thursday, March 18, 2021 6:00 PM Main Library - Council Chambers City Council City Council Meeting Agenda March 18, 2021 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. Citizens wishing to provide comments on an agenda item are encouraged to do so in advance through written comment. The City has established the following two options: 1) eComments via Granicus - eComments is integrated with the published meeting agenda . Individuals may review the agenda item details and indicate their position on the item. You will be prompted to set up a user profile to allow you to comment, which will become part of the official public record. The eComment period is open from the time the agenda is published. Comments received during the meeting will become part of the official record, if posted prior to the closing of public comment. The City Clerk will read received comments into the record. 2) Email – Individuals may submit written comments or videos to ClearwaterCouncil@myclearwater.com. All comments received by 5:00 p.m. the day before the meeting (March 17) will become part of the official record. The City Clerk will read received comments into the record. 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#21-8888 American Red Cross Month Proclamation - Eric Corliss, Regional CEO American Red Cross of Central Florida and US Virgin Islands 4.2 ID#21-8952 March for Meals Month Proclamation - David Lomaka, Executive Director of the Neighborly Care Network 4.3 ID#21-8939 Florida Food Waste Prevention Week Proclamation - Sheridan Boyle, Sustainability Coordinator for the City of Clearwater City of Clearwater Page 2 Printed on 3/17/2021 City Council Meeting Agenda March 18, 2021 4.4 ID#21-8937 Centennial Year of Celebration for the Nancy and David Bilheimer Capitol Theatre Proclamation - Ms. Susan Crockett, President and CEO of Ruth Eckerd Hall & Mr. Michael Bollenback, Chairman of the Board. 5. Approval of Minutes 5.1 ID#20-8628 Approve the minutes of the March 4, 2021 City Council Meeting as submitted in written summation by the City Clerk. 6. Citizens to be heard re items not on the agenda 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#21-8954 Approve the 2021 Federal Legislative Priorities. (consent) 7.2 ID#21-8853 Approve revised Fiduciary Investment Committee Charter for the City’s defined A contribution retirement plans. (consent) 7.3 ID#21-8940 Approve the purchase of Excess property insurance, including Bridges, Boiler and Machinery and Terrorism coverages, from April 1, 2021 through April 1, 2022, at the level of insurance provided for in this agenda item, at an amount not to exceed $2,800,000 and at the property rate of $0.3476 through April 1, 2022, and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.4 ID#21-8930 Award a construction contract to CROM Coatings and Restorations, a division of CROM, LLC. of Gainesville, FL, in the amount of $149,437.75 for MS WRF Chlorine Contact Chamber per Invitation to Bid (ITB) 18-0060-UT; approve Engineer of Record (EOR) Supplemental 1 Work Order to Tetra Tech in the amount of $168,157, increasing the work order from $43,481 to $211,638 and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.5 ID#21-8868 Approve amendment to the construction contract between the City of Clearwater and Construction Manager at Risk J. Kokolakis Contracting, Inc. of Tarpon Springs, Florida, for the Solid Waste Transfer Station (Project 15-0007-SW) to include an extended bonded warranty covering the top one and a half inches of asphalt and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) City of Clearwater Page 3 Printed on 3/17/2021 City Council Meeting Agenda March 18, 2021 7.6 ID#21-8942 Accept FDOT Grant Agreement Amendment (No. 435222-1-94-01) in the amount of $100,000 for the Clearwater Airpark Hangar-C Replacement Project and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent) 7.7 ID#21-8935 Authorize a purchase order to multiple vendors as listed, for the maintenance, purchase and rental of generators, transfer switches, replacement parts, and services, in the annual not-to exceed amount of $1,000,000 through January 2022 with one renewal option through January 2023, in accordance with City Code of Ordinances Section 2.564(1)(b) Sole Source and 2.564(1)(d) Other Government Entities Bids 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#21-8949 Approve the City of Clearwater’s Fiscal Year 2019-2020 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). (APH) 8.2 ORD Approve the request from the owner of property addressed as 1068 Eldorado #9439-21 Avenue, Clearwater to vacate a platted 5-foot Utility Easement, described as the west 5 feet of lot 5, Block 70, Mandalay, recorded in Plat Book 14, Pages 32 to 35, of the Public Records of Pinellas County, Florida, and pass Ordinance 9439-21 on first reading. 9. City Manager Reports 9.1 9446-21 & Amend the City’s fiscal year 2020/21 operating and capital improvement 9447-21 budgets at first quarter and pass Ordinances 9446-21 and 9447-21 on first reading. 9.2 ID#21-8944 Confirm COVID-19 Emergency Proclamation and adopt Resolution 21-12. 10. City Manager Verbal Reports 10.1 ID#21-9001 PSTA/Forward Pinellas Update - Vice Mayor Allbritton City of Clearwater Page 4 Printed on 3/17/2021 City Council Meeting Agenda March 18, 2021 10.2 ID#21-9002 Cult City Tours - Councilmember Bunker 11. City Attorney Reports 12. Other Council Action 12.1 ID#21-8958 Amend City Charter to Require Candidates Receive 50% of the Vote to be Elected - Councilmember Hamilton 13. Closing comments by Councilmembers (limited to 3 minutes) 14. Closing Comments by Mayor 15. Adjourn City of Clearwater Page 5 Printed on 3/17/2021