- November 23, 2024
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For the second time within a week, a Palm Coast City Council meeting was cancelled because three city council members were ill.
A Sept. 23 press release from the city announced the cancellation of the Sept. 24 workshop. On Sept. 19, the council also had to cancel its final budget hearing. The Palm Coast City Council needs a quorum, or majority, of council members to be physically present for a meeting to be valid, according to the city charter.
With a five-person council, a majority constitutes as three of the five members. Council members Theresa Carli Pontieri and Nick Klufas, and Mayor Alfin are out sick, according to an email from Shannon Martin, Palm Coast communications and marketing manager.
The Sept. 24 meeting was a workshop where four topics were to be presented and discussed: the applicants for the City Council District 4 seat, the pending ordinance for short-term vacation rentals, a work order to create a traffic calming plan for residential areas and an update on expanding parking at the Palm Coast Community Center.
The items that were to be presented on Sept. 24 will instead be addressed at October City Council meetings, the press release said.
The Palm Coast City Council does have a legal requirement to fill the District 4 seat within 90 days of former council member Cathy Heighter’s resignation. That gives the council until mid-November to find a replacement.
The council had chosen to host the Sept. 24 workshop in the evening in order to allow Palm Coast residents more time to research and participate in the process, since Heighter’s replacement will be chosen by the council instead of voters.
By the original schedule, the council were to appoint a new District 4 representative at the Oct. 1 meeting. Martin said the council is still expected to do so at this time.
