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El <br />IN REGARD TO RENTAL OF SPACE IN THE GRANT BUILDING, OF WHICH COMMISSIONER <br />SCHMUCKER IS A PARTIAL OWNER, AND IT WAS FELT THAT FLORIDA STATUTE 112. <br />313,3 CREATES A PROHIBITION FOR THE BOARD TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WHERE <br />A BOARD MEMBER HAS AN INTEREST. THE ATTORNEY STATED THAT HE DISCUSSED <br />THE FACT THAT THE RENT WAS LESS THAN ANYTHING ELSE AVAILABLE AND THAT <br />A DISCLOSURE STATEMENT HAD BEEN FILED, AND THEY SUGGESTED IF THE BOARD <br />WISHED, THEY COULD WRITE AND ASK FOR AN OPINION, BUT RIGHT NOW THE BOTTOM <br />LINE IS NO, HE NOTED THAT THE ETHICS COMMISSION IS MEETING DECEMRER 15TH, <br />AND THIS MATTER COULD POSSIBLY BE PLACED ON THEIR AGENDA AS AN <br />EMERGENCY ITEM. ATTORNEY COLLINS STATED HE FEELS THE ETHICS COMMISSION <br />MUST MAKE THE DECISION AS, IF THE BOARD ACTS, IT WOULD POSSIBLY PLACE <br />THEM IN JEOPARDY, <br />DISCUSSION FOLLOWED, AND COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER NOTED THAT HE <br />HAD PREVIOUSLY FILED HIS CONFLICT OF INTEREST ON THIS MATTER. THE <br />ATTORNEY FELT THERE WAS NO REASON HE COULD NOT PARTICIPATE IN THIS <br />DISCUSSION AND VOTE. <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER Loy, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, <br />THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AUTHORIZED THE ATTORNEY TO WRITE A LETTER TO THE <br />ETHICS COMMISSION OUTLINING THE SITUATION IN REGARD TO RENTAL OF SPACE <br />IN THE GRANT BUILDING AND REQUEST IT BE PUT ON THEIR AGENDA AS AN <br />EMERGENCY ITEM. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS NEXT DISCUSSED CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN REGARD <br />TO COMMISSIONER SIEBERT`S SITUATION WHICH AROSE INVOLVING A REZONING <br />REQUEST AT THE LAST MEETING AND PRESENTED THE FOLLOWING MEMO ON THIS <br />SUBJECT TO THE BOARD. <br />.103 <br />DEC 11976 <br />