Bradenton City Council Regular Meeting Results Jan. 25, 2012

BRADENTON—At Wednesday night’s city council meeting, members approved the minutes from meeting on Jan. 11, 2012.  The lane on the Green Bridge will be closed on St. Patrick’s Day for a five-kilometer run. Participants will start in Sutton Park in Palmetto run over the Green Bridge and then come back. Several expenditures costing over $35,000 are planned for the celebration of Arbor Day.  Councilman Gene Gallo was elected vice mayor. Mayor Polson announced that the first electric car was plugged in at the electric charging station adjacent to city hall.

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       INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE:

• Invocation led by Fidel Diaz of First Hispanic Baptist Church.

2. PROCLAMATION: None

3. PRESENTATION: None

4. ADMINISTERING THE OATH: None

5. CITIZEN COMMENTS: None

6. CONSENT AGENDA: (Unanimously approved)

a) Minutes from Jan. 11 meeting
b) Resolution 12-01: SHIP Community Development Block Grant housing rehab contract and agreement.
c) Public Event: St. Patrick’s Day 5K Run
d) Tree & Land Preservation Board FY 2011-12 projected expenditures.

7. BUSINESS/ADVERTISING, PETITIONS, HEARINGS AND COMMUNICATIONS: None8. NEW BUSINESS BY DEPARTMENT HEADS, CITY ATTORNEY AND COUNCIL:

• Claude Tankersley showed the board a presentation on road maintenance. There are approximately 157 miles of street in the City of Bradenton. Tankerley’s team walked all of them and used the PASER ranking scale to rate their condition on a scale of 1 to 10. According to Tankersly, maintaining a street is much for cost efficient than neglecting a road and then repaving it. Without any maintenance, asphalt roads have a life span of about 16 years, with regular maintenance and repair; the road will last twice as long. Tankersly said $2.5 million is needed to repave roads and move forward with maintenance program. Currently only 10 percent of the roads in Bradneton need to be repaved.

9. BUSINESS BY APPOINTMENT:

10. COUNCIL REPORTS:
11. DEPARTMENT HEAD REPORTS:

12. ADJOURN