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Commission approves consent agenda; commissioners praise workforce-housing project on the consent calendar
Summary
The Winter Haven City Commission approved the consent agenda, including a workforce-housing agreement (item 10) brought to the city by a private proponent; a commissioner thanked the proponent and staff for advancing the project.
The City Commission approved the consent agenda at its June 22 meeting. A motion to approve the consent agenda was made and seconded and the commission called the vote; the clerk recorded the motion as approved. The meeting record does not include a full roll-call tally for the consent agenda vote.
During the vote period one commissioner publicly thanked a Mr. Galt, who was present, for bringing a workforce-housing project (identified in the meeting as agenda item 10) and praised staff for working with him to advance a housing option the commissioner said meets a local affordable-housing need. The commissioner said the project was not solicited by the city but was brought forward by the proponent and expressed support for voting on it that night.
No ordinance second readings were scheduled for the meeting. Commissioners spent the remainder of the evening on routine reports and community-event updates.
The meeting record does not include ordinance numbers, contract identifiers, or a detailed description of the workforce-housing agreement; those details were not presented on the record and are therefore not specified in this report.
