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Approvals and Decisions: City Commission Meeting, June 9, 2025 · Inside West Palm Beach

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  Welcome to the City Center podcast. I'm
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  Jerry Marcello. Here are
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  some of the approvals and
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  decisions made during the City Commission
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  meeting held on Monday, June
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  9, 2025. The following items
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  were approved during the meeting. Two
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  resolutions, the first amending the city
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  salary plan for fiscal
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  year 2024 through 2025 by adding various
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  job classifications and
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  updating the pay grade and
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  salary ranges for certain job
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  classifications and a second companion
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  resolution amending the full
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  time equivalent budget for certain
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  departments and for certain funds for
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  fiscal year 2024 through
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  2025. Mayor Keith A. James proclaimed the
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  month of June 2025 as LGBTQ
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  plus Pride Month in the city
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  of West Palm Beach. The commission
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  approved a resolution
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  authorizing the assessment of city
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  liens in the total amount of $13,826.15
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  for unpaid water service,
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  sewer service, and storm water
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  service for the month of February 2025.
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  Approved resolution for the
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  settlement agreement totaling
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  $55,000 in the matter of Celestion A.
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  Nov. v. the City of West Palm Beach.
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  Approved resolution waving a potential
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  conflict of interest relating to
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  Greenberg Trowig P.A.'s
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  representation of Norden Museum of Art in
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  connection with a proposed ground lease
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  transaction and its representation of the
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  city in unrelated matters.
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  Approved an ordinance after
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  second public hearing on a privately
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  initiated text amendment to
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  Chapter 94, zoning and land
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  development regulations Article 4 and
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  Article 19 to provide additional
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  standards for hospital use
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  within the downtown master plan and to
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  further clarify the
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  existing definition for hospitals.
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  Approved an ordinance after a second
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  public hearing on a development
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  regulations Article 4,
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  downtown master plan urban regulations
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  sections 94 through 124
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  North Railroad Avenue District
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  to eliminate the height in stories
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  requirement for residential developments
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  utilizing the downtown
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  master plan housing incentive program.
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  Approved an ordinance after first public
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  hearing amending the
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  code of ordinances after Chapter 86
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  traffic and parking at sections 86-245
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  and 86-246 to revise
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  the permit requirements and approval
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  process for construction traffic
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  management and construction
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  parking plans. Approved a resolution
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  approving a seventh amendment to the
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  interlocal agreement
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  for fire vehicle maintenance between Palm
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  Beach County and the
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  City of West Palm Beach.
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  Approved resolution approving amendment
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  number four to the Tamron
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  Parcel lease and transit village
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  PPP-C board LLC for the seaboard train
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  station to extend the commencement date.
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  Approved resolution approving the
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  transfer of city funds in
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  fiscal year of 2024 to 2025
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  for the purpose of amending the grants
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  capital project fund budget to provide
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  additional appropriations for the Curry
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  Park redevelopment project.
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  Approved a resolution authorizing the
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  provision of child care services at
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  Pleasant City and South
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  Olive Community Centers and approving a
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  state of Florida statewide school
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  readiness provider contract
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  and a children's services provider
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  contract to provide funding for the
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  provision of said services.
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  Approved resolution for the service
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  agreement with JD Thornton
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  Nurseries Inc. in the amount of
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  $108,910 for the relocation of large
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  specimen trees within
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  Drer Park to accommodate the
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  development of the Boys and Girls Club.
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  Approved resolution
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  authorizing the appropriation or
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  transfer of city funds amending the 2020
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  general obligation bond
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  fund providing $350,000
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  from bond fund reserves to fully fund the
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  construction of the Bryan
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  Chappelle Park fishing pier.
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  Approved a pair of companion resolutions
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  the first accepting a
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  donation from the fund
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  for West Palm Beach Police Department in
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  the amount of $89,165
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  for the expansion of the
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  city camera and license plate reader
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  project and the second companion
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  resolution recognizing
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  and appropriating a donation of $89,165
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  from the fund for West
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  Palm Beach Police Department
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  in the fiscal year of 2024 to 2025 for
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  the expansion of the city
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  camera and license plate
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  reader project. Approved a resolution
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  amending the fiscal year
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  2024 2025 miscellaneous trust
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  fund budget to authorize appropriations
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  of $196,653 from the
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  state law enforcement
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  forfeiture receipts for law enforcement
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  equipment. For the complete list of
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  approvals and decisions
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  made at the Monday, June 9th City
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  Commission meeting visit
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  the city website at wpb.org.
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  This has been the City Center podcast
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  from West Palm Beach. I'm
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  Jerry Marcello. We'll see you soon.
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