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The coming week in City government: COTW

by Derek Cosson February 4, 2009 Join the Discussion

Tags: Charter Review / City boards / Pensacola City Council

Due to the size of the Committee of the Whole agenda, I will handle Committee of the Whole separately from the other committees this week.

The Committee of the Whole will be spending a lot of time voting on board appointments, both of its own members to community boards and of citizens to City boards.

Council members also have the opportunity to serve on various community boards. With each new Council, open seats on those boards are filled. The open board seats and nominations for them are as follows:

Arts Council of Northwest Florida

  • Ms. Mack, nominated by Ms. DeWeese

Bay Area Resource Council

  • Mr. Johnson, nominated by Ms. DeWeese, Mr. Hall, Mr. Johnson, and Ms. Pratt

Celebrate Pensacola

  • Mr. Townsend, nominated by Mr. Townsend

Arts Council of Northwest Florida

  • Ms. Mack, nominated by Ms. DeWeese

Bay Area Resource Council

  • Mr. Johnson, nominated by Ms. DeWeese, Mr. Hall, Mr. Johnson, and Ms. Pratt

Celebrate Pensacola

  • Mr. Townsend, nominated by Mr. Townsend

Community Action Program Committee

  • Mr. Jerralds, nominated by Ms. DeWeese, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Jerralds

Community Drug and Alcohol Council

  • Ms. Pratt, nominated by Ms. DeWeese and Mr. Jerralds

Community Enterprise Investments

  • Mr. Townsend, nominated by Ms. DeWeese, Mr. Jerralds, and Mr. Townsend

Downtown Improvement Board

  • Mr. Hall, nominated by Mr. Jerralds
  • Ms. Mack, nominated by Ms. Mack
  • Ms. Pratt, nominated by Ms. DeWeese and Mr. Hall

Escambia County Tourist Development Council

  • Mr. Johnson, nominated by Ms. DeWeese, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Johnson
  • Mr. Townsend, nominated by Mr. Townsend

Florida-Alabama Transportation Planning Organisation

  • The members of Council’s Enterprise Operations Committee (Council members Hall, Johnson, Mack, Townsend, and Wu) are automatically appointed to the TPO.

Juvenile Justice Council

  • Ms. Cannada-Wynn, nominated by Mr. Jerralds
  • Mr. Jerralds, nominated by Ms. DeWeese

Pensacola-Escambia Clean Community Commission

  • Mr. Johnson, nominated by Ms. DeWeese
  • Mr. Wiggins, nominated by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Wiggins

Pensacola-Escambia Development Commission

  • Ms. DeWeese, nominated by Ms. DeWeese
  • Mr. Hall, nominated by Mr. Hall and Mr. Johnson
  • Mr. Jerralds, nominated by Mr. Jerralds
  • Ms. Mack, nominated by Ms. Pratt
  • Mr. Townsend, nominated by Mr. Townsend

Scenic Heights Corridor Management Entity

  • Ms. DeWeese, nominated by Ms. DeWeese, Mr. Johnson, and Ms. Pratt

Tourism Administration Convention Committee

  • Ms. DeWeese, nominated by Ms. DeWeese
  • Mr. Wiggins, nominated by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Wiggins

West Florida Regional Planning Council

  • Mr. Wu, nominated by Ms. DeWeese

Then comes the appointments of citizens to City boards:

Code Enforcement Board. Council will appoint one engineer and one alternate member. Only one nomination was submitted for each:

  • Daniel Keck (Engineer), nominated by Ms. DeWeese
  • Tom Whittaker (Alternate), nominated by Mr. Townsend

Gateway Review Board. Council will appoint one member. Only one nomination was submitted:

  • Brian Spencer, nominated by Ms. Mack

General Pension Board. Council will appoint one member. Two nominations were submitted:

  • Ann W. Regan, nominated by Ms. Mack
  • P. A. Ucci, nomination by Mr. Johnson

A sidenote: I’m very much hoping that Mr. Ucci is appointed. He is a great critic of the City’s pension issues.

Other business to come before Committee of the Whole:

  • Staff recommends Council approve Mayor Wiggins’ appointment of Ms. Nan Harper to the City’s International Relations Advisory Board. I will note that Ms. Harper is not a resident of the City, although member of that board are not required to be.
  • There are presentations from the Naval Flight Academy and United Way.
  • Charter Review Commission Chairwoman Crystal Spencer will appear to update Council members on the progress of the Commission.

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