Council Work Session
Regular MeetingClearwater, FL · May 12, 2025
Agenda
City of Clearwater
Main Library - Council Chambers
100 N. Osceola Avenue
Clearwater, FL 33755
Work Session Agenda
Monday, May 12, 2025
1:30 PM
Main Library - Council Chambers
Council Work Session
Council Work Session Work Session Agenda May 12, 2025
1. Call to Order
2. Presentations
2.1 ID#25-0305 2025 Mayors Challenge Presentation - Mayor Freaney, City of Dunedin
3. Parks and Recreation
3.1 ID#25-0338 Approve co-sponsorship and waiver of requested city fees for eight High
Impact co-sponsored special events at an estimated cost for in-kind
services of $514,390, ($482,380 general fund, and $32,010 enterprise
fund), and general fund funding for the Community Event Co-Sponsorship
Program cash contributions of $150,000, for the purpose of Fiscal Year
2025/26 departmental budget submissions and authorize the appropriate
officials to execute same. (consent)
3.2 ID#25-0361 Approve a First Amendment to an Agreement between Boys and Girls
Clubs of the Suncoast, Inc. (Agency), and the City of Clearwater to change
the name from Boys and Girls Clubs of the Suncoast, Inc. to the Boys and
Girls Club of Greater Tampa Bay and change the address from 2300 Tall
Pines Drive, Suite 150, Largo, FL 33771 to 1307 N. MacDill Avenue
Tampa, FL 33607, and authorize the appropriate officials to execute
same. (consent)
4. Public Works
4.1 ID#25-0263 Declare as surplus and approve the Sale of City of Clearwater improved S
Garden Avenue Right of Way to the sole adjacent landowner Church of
Scientology Flag Services as further defined “All of the right-of-way (ROW)
of Garden Avenue abutting lots 6-11 together with that portion abutting the
vacated 15-foot alley lying between lots 10 and 11 of Court Square
Subdivision as recorded in Plat Book 5, Page 53 of the Public Records of
Pinellas County, Florida,” containing 0.65 Acres ±, and authorize the
appropriate officials to execute same. (APH)
4.2 ID#25-0371 Approve a Work Order to Moffatt and Nichol, of Tampa Bay, FL, under the
continuing services contract, for the design and permitting of the
Clearwater Harbor Marina North Basin Repair Project (23-0030-MA) in the
amount of $145,904.00, pursuant to Request for Qualifications (RFQ)
34-23, Engineer of Record Consulting Services (EOR) and authorize the
appropriate officials to execute same. (consent)
5. Planning
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5.1 ANX2025-03 Approve the annexation, initial Future Land Use Map designation of
002 Residential Low (RL) and initial Zoning Atlas designation of Low Medium
Density Residential (LMDR) District for 1609 Levern Street and pass
Ordinances 9822-25, 9823-25 and 9824-25 on first reading.
(ANX2025-03002)
6. Information Technology
6.1 ID#25-0369 Authorize the first amendment to the agreement with Whitlock Consulting
Group of Beaufort, SC, for project management and professional services
in support of utility billing system upgrades for the term July 1, 2025
through December 21, 2025, in the not to exceed amount of $173,812.00,
for a total not to exceed amount of $506,548.00, pursuant to RFP 20-24
and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. (consent)
7. Marine & Aviation
7.1 ID#25-0395 Authorize a purchase order and an agreement between Divecom
Services, LLC, located at 1310 10th St E Unit G, Palmetto, FL., 34221,
and the City of Clearwater to provide vessel removal, towing, storage,
and/or disposal services to accommodate all needs of the Clearwater
Police Department and the Marine and Aviation Department in the annual
amount of $100,000.00 for the initial term with two, one-year renewal
options pursuant to Request for Proposal 12-25 and authorize the
appropriate officials to execute same. (consent)
8. Public Utilities
8.1 ID#25-0406 Award a construction contract to Razorback, LLC of Tarpon Springs, FL,
for Reverse Osmosis Plant 2 (RO2) Injection Well 1 (IW-1) Retrofit in the
amount of $213,888.40 pursuant to Invitation to Bid (ITB) 20-0020 UT;
approve Supplemental Work Order 2 to WSP USA, Inc. for construction
oversight and SCADA programming for the RO2 IW-1 Retrofit, Project
20-0020-UT, in the amount of $57,043.80, increasing the project amount
from $127,313.80 to $184,357.60 pursuant to the continuing contract
awarded in Request for Qualifications (RFQ) 26-19, Engineer of Record
Consulting Services (EOR) and authorize the appropriate officials to
execute same. (consent)
8.2 ID#25-0385 Authorize a purchase order to Razorback LLC for Clarifier Maintenance
and Services in the annual not-to-exceed amount of $515,000.00 with the
option for two one-year renewals pursuant to ITB 15-25 and authorize the
appropriate officials to execute same. (consent)
9. Gas System
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9.1 ID#25-0415 Provide direction on Clearwater Gas System rebranding to CGS Energy.
(WSO)
10. City Attorney
10.1 9812-25 2nd Adopt Ordinance 9812-25 on second reading to vacate city right-of-way
Rdg as requested by the applicant Church of Scientology Flag Service
Organization to the Southern platted right-of-way portion of S Garden
Avenue as Statute owned in fee-simple by the City of Clearwater as further
defined “Less and except the Southern Right-of-Way portion of Garden
Avenue abutting Lots 6-11 together with that Portion abutting the vacated
15 foot alley lying between Lots 10 and 11 of Court Square Subdivision”
as recorded in Plat Book 5, Page 53 of the Public Records of Pinellas
County, as containing 0.65 acres ±,” and pass Ordinance 9812-25 on first
reading.
11. City Manager Verbal Reports
12. City Attorney Verbal Reports
13. Council Discussion Item
13.1 ID#25-0441 Individual councilmember budgets for ticketed events - Councilmember
Cotton
14. New Business (items not on the agenda may be brought up asking they be
scheduled for subsequent meetings or work sessions in accordance with Rule 1,
Paragraph 2).
15. Closing Comments by Mayor
16. Adjourn
17. Presentation(s) for Council Meeting
17.1 ID#25-0235 May Service Awards
17.2 ID#25-0247 EMS Week 2025
17.3 ID#25-0284 National Safe Boating Week Proclamation - Captain Karen Miller, US
Coast Guard
17.4 ID#25-0387 Florida Water Reuse Week Proclamation - Rich Gardner, Public Utilities
Director
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