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Lake City council signals consensus to create advisory board and add two members to CRA board
Summary
At its March 2 workshop, the City of Lake City CRA discussed board composition; the city attorney said the council cannot change from a council-model to a separate CRA board but can add up to two residents/business owners and create an advisory board to help score grant applications; staff were directed to return recommendations.
The Lake City Community Redevelopment Agency on March 2 spent substantial time discussing whether to expand or reorganize the CRA board and whether to create an advisory board to assist with grant scoring and redevelopment planning.
City Attorney Martin told the board that under the statute the council retained the authority to sit as the CRA board and that if the council initially chose the council-model it cannot reverse that choice to create a separate, distinct CRA board. "By electing to do a council model first, the way the statute is worded, you can't go in the other direction," Martin said, laying out the…
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