Gulfport meeting approves license agreement with Driven Elite; one member recorded a nay

Gulfport held a special-called meeting that approved a resolution authorizing a license agreement with Driven Elite and then adjourned.

The meeting opened with a motion to declare the session a special called meeting and to adopt the agenda, which was moved and seconded. The assembly then took up one agenda item: a resolution approving a license agreement with Driven Elite. Mr. Casey moved to approve the resolution and a second was recorded. A voice vote was taken; the presiding officer called for ayes and the motion was initially announced as carried. The clerk later recorded Miss Heinz as voting nay and recorded the other members as aye, producing an approval of the resolution.

The agenda also included a motion to adjourn to the next regularly called meeting unless a special meeting is called sooner; that motion was moved, seconded and approved.

The meeting record shows that Ms. Hynes and Mr. Flowers joined by telephone and that the presiding officer said telephone participants would be assumed to have voted with the majority unless they spoke up otherwise. No further details of the license agreement (terms, financial amounts, start or end dates) were specified on the record.

No substantive debate or detailed public comment on the license agreement appears in the transcript; the formal actions recorded were the adoption of the agenda as a special-called meeting, approval of the license agreement resolution, and adjournment.

Clerk’s notations in the transcript are the only recorded vote-level detail: Miss Heinz was recorded as voting "nay" and the remaining members were recorded as voting "aye."