02-22-89BEADTIFICATION CQMMITTEE MEETING
MINUTES
The organizational meeting of the Atlantic Beach Beautification Committee
meet on Wednesday, February~22, 1989 at 7:30 P.M. in the City Commission
Meeting Room City Hall Atlantic Beach, Florida.
The meeting was called to order by Mayor William Gulliford who welcomed
members of the committee attending who were Jody Ford, Betty Eilers, Phil
Corp, Gwen Mathews, Dezmond Waters,. Gary Wetherhold, Joanna Fletcher,
Bob Wilkins, Chris Blanchard, Barbara Bonner., Betty Carey, Cass McKenna,
Susan Grube, LuAnn Wilson, Carolyn Woods and Jeffrey Hite. Residents who
had expressed an interest in being on the committee but who could not.
attend were Rose McCall, Karen Wolfson, Julia Hite, Nick Nicoll, Jr. and
Gene Nordan. Also present was City Manager Richard Fellows.
Mayor Gulliford opened the meeting and discussed at some depth his hopes
for what the committee might be able to accomplish in the way of
attacking the problems of litter, signs, electric utilities .and
landscaping. He .pointed out it was easy to adopt ordinances and just
make everything against the law but that the main thrust of the committee
should be to find ways in which friendly persuasion might be utilized to
accomplish more in fulfillment of the committee's goals.
After the Mayor's discussion each of the members of the committee
introduced themselves and gave a brief background sketch of their
personal and professional endeavors. The Mayor then turned the meeting
over to the committee with a suggestion that a temporary chairman be
appointed until the group got to know each other and could move for the
appointment of a permanent chairman. The Mayor suggested Jody Ford act
as temporary chairman and this was agreed to.
With a lot of enthusiasm, the members of the committee then began
discussing the main topics which had been suggested by Mayor Gulliford
i.e. litter, underground electric, signs and landscaping generally. City
Manager Fellows pointed out several areas the committee would want to~be
thinking about and these included the development of Section H, the
possible sale of the Bennett's Beach Motel and the plans of the DOT to
improve (?) Atlantic Boulevard between Mayport Road and 3rd Street and
Atlantic Beach by the elimination of the planted medians in favor of a
paved turn lane. There seemed to be general consensus the committee
should get to work right away wiCh the DOT officials in regard to the
Atlantic Boulevard work and see if some influence could be exerted on
these improvements to improve the aesthetic values of the community.
Further discussion ensued covering the Mayport Road interchange, bike
lanes and beach accesses. Also discussed the need for creation of
subcommittees and finalization of the main areas of concern. After
~"~""'~ considerable discussion it was the unanimous consensus of the committee
the three main areas to be taken under consideration were litter, signs
and landscape control which would also include transportation relative to
Atlantic Boulevard improvements etc.
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The City Manager indicated he would prepare some rough minutes of this
first initial meeting and include a copy of a list of committee members
with addresses and phone numbers for each member along with copies of the
sign ordinance, the letter recently sent to the City regarding bike lanes
and all of the information that could be obtained relative to the
Atlantic Boulevard improvements and Mayport Road intersection
improvements.
Before closing each member of the committee was queried as to their
specific area of interest under the three main topics to be evaluated.
These areas of interest are to be included on the roster for mailing to
each member of the committee.
In closing, Gwen Mathews suggested
the committee to make contact as
available garden clubs in the area.
as a good idea.
that it would be very important for
soon as possible with all of the
This was accepted by the committee
The Chairman then discussed with the committee their wishes in regards to
the next meeting and their consensus seemed to be that a meeting within
two weeks would be most desirable and therefore the next meeting was set
for March 8, 1989 at 7:30 P.M. in the City Commission Meeting Room
Atlantic Beach.
There being no further discussion the meeting was adjourned at 9:15 P.M.