Placement: Resolutions
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Resolution 26-R42, Appointment of a Special Magistrate, and the Approval to Authorize the City Manager to Execute an Engagement Agreement with the Special Magistrate.
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Submitted By: Oswmer Louis, Code Compliance Administrator, Neighborhood Services Department
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of a high-performing city government organization.
Executive Summary (General Business): Appointment of one Special Magistrate (Jamy Ernst Barreau, Esq.) for Code Compliance, Building Department, special set hearings for Animal Control, Solid Waste, and reasonable accommodation requests (among others).
Presentation Information: There is no presentation; however, staff is available for questions.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council appoint Jamy Ernst Barreau, Esq. to the position of Special Magistrate, and approve the authorization of the City Manager to execute the Engagement Agreement governing the Special Magistrate's services.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and appoint Jamy Ernst Barreau, Esq. to the position of Special Magistrate, and approve the authorization of the City Manager to execute the Engagement Agreement governing the Special Magistrate's services.
2. Move that the Council not approve and provide staff with direction.
Background: The City of Port St. Lucie Code of Ordinances established the office of Special Magistrate per Chapter 37, Article I, Sec. 37.01 with the intent to promote, protect, and improve the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the City by appointing a Special Magistrate with the authority to impose administrative fines and other non-criminal penalties in order to provide an equitable, expeditious, effective, and inexpensive method of enforcing any codes and ordinances in force in the City, where a pending or repeated violation continues to exist (Sec. 37.02).
The Neighborhood Services Department an...
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