CEDAR KEY COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
DECIDES UPON PARKING, BUDGET
2024 November 21
DECIDES UPON PARKING, BUDGET
2024 November 21
The Cedar Key Community Redevelopment Agency met in a workshop first and then a meeting, two separate proceedings, on Thursday, November 21, 2024, at 5 pm in City Hall. This article recounts the meeting’s content.
Commissioners in attendance included: Chair Jim Wortham, Vice-Chair Sue Colson, Nancy Sera, Jeff Webb, and Jolie Davis. CRA member John Meeks was not in attendance.
BUDGET
FINAL BUDGET HEARING 2025
Commissioners unanimously approved the CRA 2025 budget. $634,325 carries over to the upcoming year’s budget.
FINAL BUDGET HEARING 2025
Commissioners unanimously approved the CRA 2025 budget. $634,325 carries over to the upcoming year’s budget.
RESOLUTION 2024-2
Commissioners unanimously approved the CRA budget for fiscal year 2024-2025.
Commissioners unanimously approved the CRA budget for fiscal year 2024-2025.
THIRD STREET PROPERTY
Commissioners voted three to two, to not approve the purchase of property on the south side of Third Street from the Carmen Project.
Commissioners voted three to two, to not approve the purchase of property on the south side of Third Street from the Carmen Project.
No backup paperwork was provided for this item in the agenda packet.
For the past year, the CRA and the Carmen Project have been in negotiations about this property. It contains six lots on the south side of 3rd Street, behind the Island Hotel. The asking price was initially $525,000. The property was later appraised at $415,000. Tonight’s’ price, after Attorney Fugate and the Carmen Project representative met, was $415,000.
Mayor Sue Colson again articulated the community’s need for the property, citing hopes to raise a sinking Third Street,, its current value as parking, and the need for the city to own property for later catastrophes, public works staging, and other yet unknown complexities.
Commissioners Jim Wortham, Jeff Webb, and Jolie Davis voted not to purchase the property while Sue Colson and Nancy Sera voted to purchase it.
Wortham, Webb, and Davis said that they might purchase the land later if and when they were more certain of funding. Caryn Stephenson, Carmen Project co-owner, responded that, though she believed the land should be in the city’s hands, her project would move forward, and it may not be available to them in the future.
SECOND AND A-STREET PARKING
For the second time, the issue of possible parking spaces and retaining wall on the northwest corner of the Second Street and A-Streets intersection surfaced. Currently, the narrow road, A-Street, has no authorized parking, nor has it a pedestrian path/sidewalk.
For the second time, the issue of possible parking spaces and retaining wall on the northwest corner of the Second Street and A-Streets intersection surfaced. Currently, the narrow road, A-Street, has no authorized parking, nor has it a pedestrian path/sidewalk.
Tonight, commissioners voted to provide a retaining wall and four parking spaces on A-Street at the intersection of Second and A-Street, site of the Sellars Bakery property, at a cost of $41,000. The vote was 5-0.
No informational backup paperwork was provided for this item in the agenda packet. The site plan showing the proposed parking and retaining wall was not available prior to the meeting to allow for public comment.
IN ATTENDANCE
Staff in attendance included: City of Cedar Key Attorney Norm Fugate and Interim City Clerk/Building Clerk Jennifer Sylvester.
Staff in attendance included: City of Cedar Key Attorney Norm Fugate and Interim City Clerk/Building Clerk Jennifer Sylvester.
Among those in the audience were: Ronnie Taylor, Dennis Gill, Dell Weible, Pat Bonish, Caryn Stephenson, Maureen Magee, ,Doug and Sandy Lindhout, Andrea and Scott Dennison, and the Cedar Key News’ Mandy and Frank Offerle.
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