the city of sarasota and this year commission recap look at the actions taken by the city commission at their regular meeting of november third two thousand and fourteen after citizens input the commission approved the minutes of their regular city commission meeting of october eighth two thousand and fourteen with the corrections next the commission moved on to the consent agendas they approved all of consent agenda one and adopted all of consent to with one exception the commission polled item number four b three and in that they tabled the portion of resolution number fifteen our dash two four five six regarding the request to hire a full time commission reporter in the office of the city auditor and clear which direction to bring the budget amendment back to this to the city commission with additional information the commission then adopted the remainder of resolution number fifteen our dash two four five six next was board appointments the commission reappointed schiller roberson to the firefighters pension fund board of trustees next was unfinished business first was the adoption of the proposed resolution to establish an ad hoc committee to be known as the bobby jones golf club study committee decided was adopted which changes including the following that all members shall be residents of the city of sarasota with the potential of including residents from sarasota and manatee county that applicants should apply using the advisory board application and the date for appointment of members shall be the first city commission meeting in january of two thousand and fifteen that discussion regarding management structure and alternatives shall be executed from the board's purview and consideration of environmental concerns and effect on neighboring areas sh included that reports mentioned by commissioner kerik should be added ad as backup material and finally that the city manager shall designate a staff liaison next was a presentation of the proposed two thousand and fifteen legislative priorities for the city of sarasota after commission discussion there was consensus for the legislative priorities to come back at the november seventeenth city commission meeting for final approval next was the continued discussion of the homelessness status report after some commission discussion no action was taken and finally in the afternoon was a discussion of a request from joe henry regarding the pad light site and the  adjacent city property the commission authorized to enter into negotiations with mr henry regarding the pad light site and the unused adjacency property in the evening session the commission moved directly to three public hearings first was a public hearing regarding a proposed ordinance to vacate a drainage easement retained by the city of sarasota through a strip of property within the last twenty one twenty two and twenty three of the houses of indian beach this was passed on first reading next was a public hearing of a proposed dorrance amending the sarasota city code to clarify that discrimination on the basis of gender includes discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression this also passed on first reading and lastly was a judicial public hearing it was an appeal of the historic preservation board resolution conditionally granting a certificate of appropriateness allowing the demolition historically designated structure located at six twenty four south palm ave the commission affirmed the board's resolution to allow the demolition and that did it for the regular city commission meeting november third two thousand and fourteen if you like to look at the video the backup material or the genda you can do so it sarasota gov dot com on the right side look for video on demand i'm john knopper with city of sarasota see you after the next meeting