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070445.
| 1 | | Airport Fire Rescue and Police Services (B) | Staff Recommendation | Airport Fire Rescue and Police Services (B)
This item recommends an amendment to the City's agreement with the Gainesville Alachua County Regional Airport Authority (GACRAA) for the provision of fire rescue and police services. | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070814.
| 0 | | Traffic Engineering Services Agreement between the City of Gainesville and Alachua County for FY 2008 (B) | Staff Recommendation | Traffic Engineering Services Agreement between the City of Gainesville and Alachua County for FY 2008 (B)
This item involves an agreement between the City of Gainesville (City) and Alachua County (County) for traffic engineering services in the amount of $146,393.88 in revenue to the City during FY08. | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070815.
| 0 | | Continuation of Employee Bus Pass Programs (B) | Staff Recommendation | Continuation of Employee Bus Pass Programs (B)
This item involves a request for the City Commission to authorize the City Manager to execute interlocal agreements with the University of Florida (UF), Alachua County, Alachua/Bradford Regional Workforce Board, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Administration Health System (VA), and Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics, Inc. (Shands), for continuation of these employee bus pass programs. | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070821.
| 0 | | Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Local Arts Agency Grant (NB) | Staff Recommendation | Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Local Arts Agency Grant (NB)
The Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs requests City Commission approval to apply to the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs for a three-year Local Arts Agency grant. | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070824.
| 0 | | Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting and Additional Award Announcements (NB) | Staff Recommendation | Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting and Additional Award Announcements (NB)
The City was awarded Government Finance Officers Association of the United Sates and Canada (GFOA) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Annual Financial Reporting for its 2006 Citizen's Report. The 2007 Citizen's Report is hereby presented to the Commission and will also be submitted to GFOA for the award. In addition, the Communications and Marketing Office will be sharing information on recent awards the Office has received from the Florida Government Communicators Association. | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070829.
| 1 | | 2009 Federal Legislative Agenda (B) | Staff Recommendation | 2009 Federal Legislative Agenda (B) | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070833.
| 0 | | OBSOLETE REFERENCE TO TERMS OF CHARTER OFFICERS (B) | Ordinance | OBSOLETE REFERENCE TO TERMS OF CHARTER OFFICERS (B)
Ordinance No. 0-08-03
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, repealing section 2-142, of the Gainesville Code of Ordinances, relating to terms of the City Manager, the City Attorney, the Clerk of the Commission, and the Internal Auditor; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date. | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070866.
| 0 | | KAREN JOHNSON'S RESIGNATION AS GENERAL MANAGER FOR UTILITIES (NB) | Staff Recommendation | KAREN JOHNSON'S RESIGNATION AS GENERAL MANAGER FOR UTILITIES (NB) | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070832.
| 0 | | City Commission Meetings (NB) | Staff Recommendation | City Commission Meetings (NB) | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070852.
| 0 | | Rules of the City Commission (NB) | Staff Recommendation | Rules of the City Commission (NB) | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070860.
| 0 | | Resignation of Citizens' Advisory Committee for Community Development Member Mary Freeman (B) | Staff Recommendation | Resignation of Citizens' Advisory Committee for Community Development Member Mary Freeman (B) | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070785.
| 1 | | Federal LECFTF Funding for Special Investigations Division (NB) | Staff Recommendation | Federal LECFTF Funding for Special Investigations Division (NB) | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070786.
| 1 | | Gainesville Police Department Reichert House Construction (B) | Staff Recommendation | Gainesville Police Department Reichert House Construction (B)
This item requests the City Commission to approve $5,000 expenditure from State Law Enforcement Contraband Forfeiture Trust Fund to construct a 2,400 square feet building. | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070787.
| 1 | | Federal Law Enforcement Contraband Forfeiture Trust Fund Funding for Thermal Imager for GPD Helicopter (B) | Staff Recommendation | Federal Law Enforcement Contraband Forfeiture Trust Fund Funding for Thermal Imager for GPD Helicopter (B) | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070855.
| 0 | | Status Update - Biosolids Land Application Site Purchase (B) | Discussion Item | Status Update- Biosolids Land Application Site purchase (B)
GRU has been pursuing the purchase of the Whistling Pines Ranch as approved by the City Commission on 7/23/07. Prior to purchase, a Special Exception is being sought from Alachua County to allow the continued land application of biosolids at the Whistling Pines Ranch. Staff will provide an update on the Special Exception process, issues that have been identified through the process, and findings related to the issues raised. We continue to believe that land application of biosolids is a sustainable and cost-effective method for reusing biosolids and want to ensure that the City Commission continues to share that opinion. | Withdrawn | |
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070808.
| 0 | | Evaluation of Biomass-Fueled Generation Facility Proposals (B) | Discussion Item | Evaluation of Biomass-Fueled Generation Facility Proposals (B)
Staff is providing its evaluation of the proposals received in response to GRU’s Request for Proposals (RFP 2007-135) for a Biomass-Fueled Generation Facility for City Commission review and recommends that three respondents be invited to submit binding proposals. | Approved as Amended | Pass |
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070861.
| 0 | | School Crossing Guard Appreciation Day - February 1, 2008 (B) | Proclamation | School Crossing Guard Appreciation Day - February 1, 2008 (B) | Heard | |
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070823.
| 0 | | Special Recognition - City of Gainesville's Citizens' Academy 2007 Graduates (NB) | Discussion Item | Special Recognition - City of Gainesville's Citizens' Academy 2007 Graduates.
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The City Commission recognize City of Gainesville's Citizens' Academy 2007 Graduates. | Heard | |
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070887.
| 0 | | Citizen Comment - Pat Fitzpatrick (B) | Discussion Item | Citizen Comment - Pat Fitzpatrick (B) | Placed on File | |
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070888.
| 0 | | Citizen Comment - Kevin Claney (B) | Discussion Item | Citizen Comment - Kevin Claney (B) | Placed on File | |
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070757.
| 1 | | Lynch Park (B) | Discussion Item | Lynch Park (B) | Approved as Recommended | Pass |
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070620.
| 1 | | LAND USE CHANGE - MALLORY SQUARE (B) | Ordinance | LAND USE CHANGE - MALLORY SQUARE (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-112, Petition No. 73LUC-06PB
An ordinance amending the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan, Future Land Use Map; by changing the land use category of certain property, as more specifically described in this ordinance, from “Residential Medium-Density (8-30 units per acre)” to “Mixed-Use Low-Intensity (8-30 units per acre)”; located in the vicinity of 3600 block, east side of Southwest 34th Street; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an effective date. | Adopted (Ordinance) on Adoption Reading | Pass |
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070621.
| 1 | | PLANNED DEVELOPMENT - MALLORY SQUARE (B) | Ordinance | PLANNED DEVELOPMENT - MALLORY SQUARE (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-113, Petition No. 74PDV-07PB
An Ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida; rezoning certain lands in the City, as more specifically described in this Ordinance, from “RMF-8: 8-30 units/acre multiple-family residential district” to “Planned Development” commonly known as “Mallory Square Planned Development” located in the vicinity of the 3600 block, east side of Southwest 34th Street; adopting a development plan report and development plan maps; providing conditions and restrictions; providing for enforcement and penalties; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date. | Adopted on First Reading (Ordinance) | Pass |
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070208.
| 3 | | FOREST RIDGE/HENDERSON HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD - RESIDENTIAL PARKING OVERLAY DISTRICT (B) | Ordinance | FOREST RIDGE/HENDERSON HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD - RESIDENTIAL PARKING OVERLAY DISTRICT (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-103; Petition No. 78NPD-07PB
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville amending the Zoning Map Atlas by rezoning and imposing the Residential Parking Overlay District on certain properties zoned RSF-1 (Single-Family Residential, up to 3.5 dwelling units per acre) or RSF-2 (Single-Family Residential, up to 4.6 dwelling units per acre), consisting of 283 parcels on approximately 140 acres commonly known as the Forest Ridge/Henderson Heights Neighborhood, and located north of Northwest 16th Avenue, south of Northwest 23rd Avenue, east of Northwest 23rd Street, and west of Alfred A. Ring Park, as more specifically described in this ordinance; making findings; providing directions to the City Manager; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and, providing an effective date in accordance with the schedule provided herein. | Adopted on First Reading (Ordinance) | Pass |
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050761.
| 11 | | ENERGY EFFICIENCY STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS (B) | Discussion Item | Energy Efficiency Standards and Requirements (B) | Referred | Pass |
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070627.
| 1 | | PARKING GARAGE VIOLATIONS (B) | Ordinance | PARKING GARAGE VIOLATIONS (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-121
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending section 26-2 by providing a definition for owner/vehicle owner; amending section 26-75 of the Gainesville Code of Ordinances by creating a new subsection (d) making it a violation to damage an entrance or exit control device of a municipal parking garage; creating a new subsection (e) making it a violation to enter or exit a municipal parking garage without paying appropriate fees; creating a new subsection (f) providing affirmative defenses for damaging an entrance or exit control device or entering or exiting without paying appropriate fees; creating a new subsection (g) regarding proof of affirmative defenses; amending Appendix A, Schedule of Fees, Rates and Charges, establishing penalties; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date. | Adopted on First Reading (Ordinance) | Pass |
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070721.
| 0 | | VOLUNTARY ANNEXATION - PRAIRIE VIEW TRUST (B) | Ordinance | VOLUNTARY ANNEXATION - PRAIRIE VIEW TRUST (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-116
An Ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, annexing a portion of the City of Gainesville Reserve Area pursuant to Chapter 90-496, Special Act, Laws of Florida, as amended by Chapter 91-382 and Chapter 93-347, Special Acts, Laws of Florida, known as the Alachua County Boundary Adjustment Act; making certain findings; including within the corporate limits of the City of Gainesville, Florida, that certain compact and contiguous area comprised of a portion of Tax Parcel 07240-000-000, as more specifically described in this ordinance, generally located south of the vicinity of Archer Road and Interstate 75, west of Interstate 75 and the City limits, north of Williston Road, and east of SW 62nd Avenue and the vicinity of SW 63rd Boulevard; providing for inclusion of the area in Appendix I of the City Charter; providing for land use and zoning regulations; providing directions to the City Manager and Clerk of the Commission; providing a severability clause; and providing an immediate effective date. | Adopted on First Reading (Ordinance) | Pass |
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070510.
| 3 | | TRESPASS TOWING (B) | Ordinance | TRESPASS TOWING (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-108
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending Chapter 14.5, Article III, Section 14.5-29(4)(d), Gainesville Code of Ordinances, relating to photographs of vehicle violations and viewing photographs; creating a new Section 14.5-29.1 establishing and requiring the posting of a Customer Bill of Rights; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date. | Adopted on Final Reading (Ordinance) | Pass |
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070542.
| 1 | | Planned Development Amendment for Fire Station No. 8 (B) | Ordinance | PLANNED DEVELOPMENT AMENDMENT - A CHILD'S PLACE (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-91, Petition No. 95PDA-07PB
An Ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida; amending Ordinance No. 2604, that adopted the Planned Development commonly known as "A Child's Place" located in the vicinity of 4127 Northwest 34th Street; providing for the reduction of the lot size of the existing planned development; adopting revised development plan maps and a revised planned development report; amending and adopting additional conditions and restrictions; providing for penalties; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an effective date. | Adopted on Final Reading (Ordinance) | Pass |
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070626.
| 2 | | PARKING ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM BY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES (B) | Ordinance | PARKING ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM BY PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-107
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending Section 26-2 of the Gainesville Code of Ordinances to provide a definition for parking enforcement specialist; amending Section 26-46 to delete the term traffic enforcement technician and to provide parking enforcement authority to parking enforcement specialists; amending Section 26-53 by deleting the term traffic enforcement technician, providing parking enforcement authority to parking enforcement specialists; providing for notice by department initiating impoundment and prohibiting tampering or removing immobilization devices without authority of department initiating immobilization; deleting obsolete references in sections 26-46 and 26-53; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date. | Adopted on Final Reading, as amended (Ordinance) | Pass |
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070769.
| 2 | | URBAN MIXED-USE ZONING DISTRICTS (B) | Ordinance | URBAN MIXED-USE ZONING DISTRICTS (B)
Ordinance No. 0-06-120; Petition 141TCH-06 PB
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the City of Gainesville Land Development Code, relating to the establishment of zoning districts and categories and to the correspondence of zoning districts with future land use categories; amending section 30-41, to add the Urban Mixed-Use 1 and Urban Mixed-Use 2 districts; amending section 30-46 to provide corresponding zoning districts and future land use categories that conform to the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date. | Adopted on Final Reading (Ordinance) | Pass |
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070816.
| 0 | | Resolution for a Joint Participation Agreement - Service Development Grant for Intelligent Transportation System applications in Transit (B) | Resolution | Resolution for a Joint Participation Agreement - Service Development Grant for Intelligent Transportation System applications in Transit (B)
This item involves adoption of a Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a Joint Participation Agreement between the City of Gainesville and Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to accept a service development grant for applications in Transit. | Adopted (Resolution) | Pass |
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070862.
| 0 | | 2008 Series A Bonds and 2008 Series B Bonds (B) | Resolution | 2008 Series A Bonds and 2008 Series B Bonds (B)
This item is related to financing for costs of acquisition and construction. | Adopted (Resolution), as amended | Pass |
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070818.
| 0 | | PLANNED USE DISTRICT - FAT TUSCAN (B) | Ordinance | PLANNED USE DISTRICT - FAT TUSCAN (B)
Ordinance No. 0-08-04; Petition 115LUC-07 PB
An ordinance amending the City of Gainesville 2000-2010 Comprehensive Plan, Future Land Use Map; by overlaying the "Planned Use District" category over certain property located in the vicinity of 725 Northeast 1st Street, as more specifically described in this ordinance, with the underlying reversionary future land use category of "Office"; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an effective date. | Approved (Petition) as revised by the City Plan Board, as amended | Pass |
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070819.
| 0 | | PLANNED DEVELOPMENT REZONING - FAT TUSCAN (B) | Ordinance | PLANNED DEVELOPMENT REZONING - FAT TUSCAN (B)
Ordinance No. 0-08-05; Petition 112PDV-07 PB
An Ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida; rezoning certain lands within the City, as more specifically described in this ordinance, and amending the Zoning Map Atlas from "OR: 20 units/acre office residential district" to "PD: Planned Development District"; located in the vicinity of 725 Northeast 1st Street; commonly known as "Fat Tuscan Planned Development"; adopting a development plan report and development plan maps; providing conditions and restrictions; providing for enforcement; providing a severability clause; and providing an effective date. | Approved (Petition) as revised by the City Plan Board, as amended | Pass |
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070820.
| 0 | | STREET VACATION - POLICE DEPARTMENT AREA (B) | Ordinance | STREET VACATION - POLICE DEPARTMENT AREA (B)
Ordinance No. 0-08-06, Petition 122SVA-07PB
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, to vacate, abandon and close a certain portion of the right-of-way of N.W. 7th Place between N.W. 4th Street and N.W. 5th Street, and a portion of N.W. 5th Street located south of the CSX Railroad right-of-way to a point 10 feet south of the northeast corner of Lot 26 of Brush's Addition to Gainesville, as more specifically described in this Ordinance; reserving a public utilities easement; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date. | Approved (Petition) | Pass |
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070776.
| 0 | | AMENDMENT TO LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE - SIGN REGULATIONS (B) | Ordinance | AMENDMENT TO LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE - SIGN REGULATIONS (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-87
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending the Sign Regulations of the Land Development Code; amending § 30-315 by adding an objective; amending § 30-316 providing conditions when signs are allowed on public property and rights-of-way without a permit; amending prohibited signs and signs that are exempt; allowing signs on hospital grounds under certain conditions; allowing flags or insignia under certain conditions; allowing substitution of non-commercial messages for commercial messages; providing clarification; amending § 30-317 relating to regulations and conditions for temporary signs; amending § 30-318 by revising the conditions and restrictions relating to permanent identification signs and structures for non-residential uses in residential districts and adding regulations for flags and flagpoles; repealing § 30-319 relating to restrictions on political signs; repealing § 30-320 relating to time and temperature devices; amending § 30-322 providing when permits are required; amend | Approved (Petition) | Pass |
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070619.
| 2 | | LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AMENDMENT - RELIGIOUS LAND USE AND INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS ACT (B) | Ordinance | LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AMENDMENT - RELIGIOUS LAND USE AND INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS ACT (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-118, Petition No. 103TCH-07PB
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending Chapter 30, the Land Development Code, in accordance with the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, 42 U.S.C. § 2000cc, and making other revisions for clarity and consistency; amending Section 30-51 to allow public schools as a use by special use permit in single-family residential districts rather than a use by right and removing public libraries as a use by special use permit in single-family residential districts; amending Section 30-52 to remove conditions on places of religious assembly and allow private schools as a use by right in RMF-5 and RC districts, and allow places of religious assembly and private schools as use by right in MH districts; amending Section 30-53 to remove conditions on places of religious assembly and allow private schools as a use by right in multiple family medium residential districts; amending Sections 30-54, 30-62, 30-63, 30-72, 30-75, | Continued | |
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051225.
| 12 | | ANTI-DISCRIMINATION - GENDER IDENTITY (B) | Ordinance | ANTI-DISCRIMINATION - GENDER IDENTITY (B)
Ordinance No. 0-07-88
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, amending Chapter 8 of the Gainesville Code of Ordinances, relating to discrimination; defining gender identity and readily achievable; adding gender identity as a class protected against discrimination in Article I, In General, Article II, Human Rights Board, Article III, Equal Employment Opportunity, Article IV, Equal Access to Places of Public Accommodation; Article V, Fair Housing, and Article VI, Equal Credit Opportunity; amending sections 8-49 (Employment), 8-69 (Public accommodations), 8-94 (Fair housing) to provide exceptions regarding discrimination on the basis of gender identity, relating to access to, and use of, certain facilities such as shower rooms and dressing rooms, in covered facilities; providing directions to the codifier; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date. | Adopted on Final Reading (Ordinance) | Pass |
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070889.
| 0 | | ANTI-DISCRIMINATION POLICIES (B) | Ordinance | ANTI-DISCRIMINATION POLICIES (B)
Ordinance No. 0-08-53
An ordinance of the City of Gainesville, Florida, relating to Equal Opportunity; adding protections against discrimination on the basis of gender identity to certain anti-discrimination policies of the City; amending the Policy Statement; amending the Discrimination, Harassment and Conduct Policy; amending the Equal Employment Opportunity Policy; and amending the Equal Opportunity Complaint Policy; providing a severability clause; providing a repealing clause; and providing an immediate effective date. | Referred | Pass |
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