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Gainesville council approves trail and transportation intergovernmental agreements, bulletproof vest grant and adopts code recodification
Summary
Council approved four items — intergovernmental agreements for the Highlands Islands trail and airport connector, a T-SPLOST intergovernmental agreement, and a Bureau of Justice Assistance bulletproof vest grant — and unanimously adopted Ordinance 2024-16 recodifying the municipal code.
At the June 18 meeting, City Manager Brian Lackey presented four resolutions and the council voted to approve them and to adopt a municipal code recodification ordinance.
Resolutions: Lackey outlined BR 2024-25, an intergovernmental agreement to clarify maintenance responsibilities for the Highlands Islands multi-use trail and an airport connector segment; BR 2024-26, which authorizes the mayor to handle easements and encroachments necessary for the airport connector segment and move the project toward bid; BR 2024-27, an intergovernmental agreement related to the T-SPLOST (transportation special purpose local option sales tax) planning for a prospective referendum and related incentives (Lackey said the regional six-year total was estimated at least $390 million under the current draft); and GR 2024-05, the Bureau of Justice Assistance bulletproof vest partnership program for FY24–25, a recurring grant to equip officers.
Council moved, seconded and voted to approve the resolutions; a roll-call notation in the transcript recorded Councilmember Julie Hayes voting in favor and the motion passed unanimously.
Ordinance 2024-16: The council considered and approved Ordinance 2024-16 to adopt a new city code covering items outside the Unified Land Development Code. Lackey said the recodification project was the culmination of a roughly two-year effort, and that the ULDC (Unified Land Development Code) component would come to the planning appeals board and return later (expected in August). The ordinance passed on a unanimous vote.
Provenance: The manager presented the BR and GR items beginning in the meeting record at SEG 389; motions and votes for resolutions and the ordinance are recorded later in the transcript with unanimous outcomes.
Implementation notes: Lackey said approval would allow staff and the mayor to execute necessary documents and move projects into the bid or referendum process; specific schedule dates for bids, signings and the referendum were not finalized in the June 18 discussion.
