Council meetings, workshops this week

The Pensacola City Council has a special meeting and two workshop sessions scheduled for this week.

The busy week starts tomorrow (Tuesday) with a budget workshop on outside agency funding for FY2011. Council will discuss applications for funding submitted by external agencies. In total, sixteen agencies submitted applications and together are requesting funding in the amount of $739,600. Obviously, the City doesn’t have an extra $739K lying around, so Council must decide which organisations to fund at what amounts.

The outside agency funding workshop starts at 3:30 PM tomorrow in the Hagler/Mason Conference Room, second floor, City Hall.

Following the budget workshop tomorrow will be a special meeting of the City Council to discuss the “final offer” from UWF regarding its participation in the Community Maritime Park project. Several Council members have raised concerns about the current proposal, such as UWF’s plan for the maritime museum to encroach upon the public greenspace planned for the south end of the park site, or to operate a small marine service centre to store and maintain boats.

The special Council meeting will begin at 6:15 PM tomorrow, also in the Hagler/Mason Conference Room.

Finally, on Thursday afternoon, Council will hold another workshop session to discuss the Mercer Group’s study of the City’s compensation and benefits, including pensions. That session will begin at 4:00 PM in the Hagler/Mason room.

The difference between a workshop session and special Council meeting, in case anyone is unsure, is that Council can formally vote and take action on issues at special Council meetings. Workshops are limited to discussion and informal “straw” polls.

Agendas

• 02/02 Budget Workshop
• 02/02 Special Meeting
• 02/04 Mercer Study Workshop