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20071108 City Council Minutes
Mayor Buelterman called the Consent Agenda Meeting to order at 6:30p.m. Present in
addition to the Mayor were Council Members, Sessions, Crone, Pearce, Williams, Doyle
and Wolff. Also present was City Attorney Hughes and City Manager Schleicher.
Mayor Buelterman listed the Consent Agenda items as:
One Day Alcohol Permit for St. Michael’s Men’s Club for February 3, 2008 in
Memorial Park.
Approval of City Council Minutes for 9/27/07.
5th Avenue Conveyance of the triangular piece of property to Mr. Groover allowing
his house to be in conformity and conveyance to the City by deed, lots 244,243 and
242 and an easement that is now depicted on the Plat. Mr. Hughes said this had
previously been approved but the Mylar and Deeds needed to be prepared.
Mr. Wolff moved to adjourn the Consent Agenda, Ms. Doyle seconded and the vote
was unanimous.
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Mayor Buelterman called the Regular Meeting of the City Council to order at 7:00p.m.
City Officials present at the Consent Agenda were still in attendance.
Mayor Pro Tem Sessions gave the Invocation and everyone recited the Pledge of
Allegiance to the Flag.
Mayor Buelterman thanked everyone that came out to vote last Tuesday and
congratulated the newly elected council members.
Mayor Buelterman presented the New City Flag and thanked Ms. Doyle and Ms.
Sessions for their work along with staff member Michael Bodine.
Ms. Amy Clifton of the American Red Cross announced the Blood Drive at the Cafeteria
on December 13th. She thanked staff member April Moore for her hard work on making
the blood drives on Tybee successful.
Ms. Schleicher announced a meeting next Thursday, November 15th at 3:00p.m. at City
Hall with Coastal Grading; the contractor on the strand project. She said this meeting is
for the businesses and property owners to meet with the contractor. Ms. Schleicher said
she will meet with property owners and businesses as needed during the project.
Mr. Crone said he has received public comments that said the contractors were doing a
good job on the strand.
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Mayor Pro Tem Sessions asked if all three project coordinators realized what their job
responsibilities are. Ms. Schleicher said HGB&D provides an inspector on the site to
make sure everything goes according to plan.
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Mayor Buelterman opened the meeting for business legally presented and called for a
motion on the Consent Agenda items.
Mr. Wolff moved to approve the items on the Consent Agenda as listed earlier, Ms.
Williams seconded and the vote was unanimous.
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Mr. Wolff moved to approve Julian Toporek as a regular member of the Ethics
Commission and Marianne Bramble as an Auxiliary member of the Ethics
Commission and advertise for another auxiliary member. Mr. Pearce seconded, and
the vote was unanimous.
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Mayor Buelterman gave an update on the Beach Task Force recommendations. He said
the recommendations will keep coming as we get closer to the renourishment. He said
the 1st recommendation is to install signs warning of underwater hazards from 2nd to
North Beach. He said they discussed closing portions of that beach due to the existing
danger but decided to recommend improving the signage. Ms. Schleicher said it is in the
budget for next year and we have been installing signs but after each storm we have to
install new signs because the beach erodes and creates additional hazards. Mayor
Buelterman requested council’s permission to send a letter to the DNR asking for advice
on signage and what permits would be necessary to cut the groins off or take them out.
Ms. Schleicher said she requested the plans from the Corps of Engineers of the wall when
it was installed. She said they sent the plans for the wooden groins instead of the metal
ones. She said they are looking for the plans to the metal groins. Council agreed the
Mayor should send a letter.
Mayor Buelterman said the second BTF recommendation was to have our consultant Eric
Olsen look at the possibility of moving sand from areas of accretion to areas that are
exposed right now and also scarp removal in the dune area for possible use by beach
visitors. Ms. Schleicher said she talked with Mr. Olsen and he said he did not recommend
moving the sand because it will wash away immediately and would be a waste of money.
She said Mr. Olsen said we needed to work with DNR and the Corp on scarp removal.
Ms. Schleicher said Mr. Off said hopefully the DNR will be at the next meeting and we
can get them to give us their feeling on how to go about scarp removal and dune area use.
Mayor Buelterman said since this all relates to the DNR he will write his letter and
include bullet points for the various topics and he will try to get it to them in advance of
the BTF meeting.
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Ms. Williams asked for an explanation of dune area use by beach visitors. Mayor
Buelterman said it is using a little of the dune for recreation purposes as requested by
some of the hotels. He said we have done this before between 15th and 16th Streets, with
the DNR’s permission. Ms. Schleicher said the DNR said where there is a flat dune with
no vegetation it is alright to use it. She said we cleaned out an area that had old snow
fencing and there was no build up of any dune. She said the request of the task force was
to look into moving that dune and using the dune because we are losing so much of that
beach at high tide. Ms. Williams said she has grave reservations about that 2nd
recommendation and requested another independent source be used to determine what
environmental damage would be caused by those activities. She said it is hard for people
that aren’t familiar with dune science to differentiate if they see people in one section of
the dunes why another section would not be open to the public. Mr. Pearce said he shares
Ms. Williams’s concerns and is Leary of the scarping.
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Mayor Buelterman said the city is looking to the State to provide an additional Three
Million towards a complete renourishment. He said all of our local delegation is working
on that. He said there is an ongoing economic impact study of the beach that we will be
submitting to the governor’s office along with our official request.
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Ms. Doyle announced the Lights on for Tybee celebration on December 7th at the Park of
7 Flags beginning at 6:30p.m. She said the choirs will participate and on December 8th
we will have the Christmas Parade around 3:00p.m.
Mayor Pro Tem Sessions encouraged everyone to shop on Tybee for Christmas Gifts.
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Mr. Wolff moved to adjourn, Ms. Williams seconded and the vote was unanimous.
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Mayor Jason Buelterman
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Vivian O. Woods, Clerk of Council