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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-08-1996 Called Meeting CALLED MEETING COMMISSION-COUNCIL CHAMBERS February 8, 1996 Augusta-Richmond County Commission-Council convened at 3:00 P.M., Thursday, February 8, 1996, the Honorable Larry E. Sconyers, Mayor, presiding. PRESENT: Hons. Beard, Bridges, H. Brigham, J. Brigham, Handy, Kuhlke, Powell, Todd, and Zetterberg, members of Commission-Council. ABSENT: Hon. Mays, member of Commission-Council. Also present were Nancy Morawski, Deputy Clerk of Commission-Council; James B. Wall, Interim County Attorney; and Cathy Pirtle, Certified Court Reporter. MAYOR SCONYERS: The Richmond County Board of Commissioners will please come to order. Mr. Wall, would you do the invocation for us, please; and if you will, remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. THE INVOCATION WAS GIVEN BY MR. JAMES B. WALL. THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE WAS RECITED. MAYOR SCONYERS: Mr. Wall, do you want to address what we're doing today, please, sir. MR. WALL: Yes, sir. Mr. Mayor, at the retreat that was held I was asked to do several things, one of which was to brief the Commission-Council on pending legal matters and to do that within a time frame of roughly 30 days, and you were kind enough to call this meeting for that purpose. Several things that re-quire action to secure approval for settlement authority have come up in the meantime and I've put those off until this meeting could be had. In addition, one of the things that you asked me to do was to begin the process of consolidating the codes of the City and the County and the ordinances of the City and the County. What I have brought to you today is Title I, and if we can take just a brief minute and talk about it before we go into executive session. If you'll look at the first page in there, what I have done is broken it down into eight titles, and that would be general government, which has the various chapters that are listed there. Title II would be revenue and taxation. Basically, Title II is going to be the business tax ordinance that y'all have already approved and some general provisions related to the ad valorem taxation, the fire tax, et cetera. Public Safety is the offense, the ordinance violations, et cetera. Public Health you will see addressed there. Title V being the utilities, water and sewer. Title XI being the business tax ordinance, most of those are already in place. The City and County have basically adopted a consolidated ordinance to deal with a lot of these issues. Title VII is going to probably be the last one that I bring to you, which is the license and inspection and those regulations. And I've met with Miller Meyer and Christy Attaway, and that is going to be a good bit of work involved in doing that, but we've started on that process. Title VIII, planning and zoning; again, a lot of that was consolidated even before the government was consolidated, and I will be bringing that to you. Rather than bringing you everything at one time, what I have done is brought to you Title I because I think that's the one that you are going to have to direct me on more so than any other. Because how the government is organized, how you want the court system to operate, what you want to do with the airport authorities, how the administration -- Chapter 2 is probably the most lengthy one, and how you want that set up is probably going to require the most discussion among you for y'all to give me direction. And over the next several days I will bring you other titles, but I wanted to give you this title to begin the discus-sion. And I don't know how you want to address that as far as called meetings to discuss that and how it's to be set up, et cetera, but I bring that to you. The other part of it is to discuss the pending legal issues, and I would ask that you entertain a motion to go into executive session for discussing pending legal issues as well as to discuss a couple of real estate matters that I would like to bring before you as well. MAYOR SCONYERS: Do I have a motion we go into legal meeting? MR. HANDY: So move. MR. POWELL: Second. MAYOR SCONYERS: Mr. Handy, second by Mr. Powell. Further discussion? MOTION CARRIES 9-0. [MR. MAYS OUT] COMMISSIONERS RETIRE INTO LEGAL MEETING AT 3:22 P.M. Nancy W. Morawski Deputy Clerk of Commission-Council CERTIFICATION: I, Nancy W. Morawski, Deputy Clerk of Commission-Council, hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the minutes of the Called Meeting of Augusta-Richmond County Commission- Council held on February 8, 1996. ___________________________________ C E R T I F I C A T E G E O R G I A RICHMOND COUNTY I, Cathy T. Pirtle, Certified Court Reporter, hereby certify that I reported the foregoing meeting of the Augusta-Richmond County Commission- Council and supervised a true, accurate, and complete transcript of the proceedings as contained in the foregoing pages 1 through 4. I further certify that I am not a party to, related to, nor interested in the event or outcome of such proceedings. Witness my hand and official seal this 15th day of February 1996. ______________________________ CATHY T. PIRTLE, B-1763 CERTIFIED COURT REPORTER