Placement: Resolutions
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Resolution 24-R88, Approval of Professional Services Agreements to Re-Appoint Special Magistrates for the City of Port St. Lucie.
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Submitted By: Camille Wallace, Esq., Deputy Director, Neighborhood Services
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of a high-performing city government organization.
Executive Summary (General Business): One year re-appointment of two Special Magistrates (Claudette Pelletier, Esq. and Keith Davis, Esq.) for Code Compliance, Building Department, special set hearings for Animal Control, and reasonable accommodation requests (among others).
Presentation Information: There is no presentation; however, staff are available for questions.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council approve the professional service agreements for the reappointment of Claudette Pelletier, Esq. and Keith Davis, Esq. as Special Magistrates for the City.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and approve the reappointment of Claudette Pelletier, Esq. and Keith Davis, Esq. as Special Magistrates for the City.
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 and the Building Department enforce property maintenance, safety, building and zoning codes that affect the quality of life in the City of Port St. Lucie. Cities enact th...
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