of sarasota and this is your commission recap look at the actions taken by the city commission at their regular meeting february twentieth two thousand and eighteen we began with approval of miss the commission approve the minutes of the special joint meeting of the convocation of government the sarasota county commissioners the city commissions of the cities of north port and service to the city council of the city of venice the town commission of the town of longboat key and the school board of sarasota county held on january nineteenth two thousand and eighteen and they also approved the minutes of the regular city commission meeting of february fifth two thousand and eighteen with modifications next the commission approved all items and consent agenda one and adopted the one item on consent agenda to next after that was board appointments first the commission  reappointed michael walker to the board of rules of appeals next to the appointed ernest risk and wayne rubin to the downtown improvement district board of directors the commission appointed jeff jamieson to the public art committee and finally the commission appointed geoffrey michael to the same arm as business a third term and this was adopted on second reading next was a presentation and discussion of a proposal to draft an ordinance prohibiting certain medical professionals from engaging in conversion therapy on minors when the counseling practice or treatment is performed with the goal of changing individual sexual orientation or gender identity now this was approved and the commission authorized the city attorney to draft an ordinance and bring it back to the commission with an update relating to pending legal lawsuits such as a case currently in tampa and finally it was a discussion regarding sarasota bayfront twenty twenty sarasota bay planning organization and moat marine laboratory an aquarian consideration and no action was taken and we began the evening session with commission presentations first was the presentation of the employee of the year two thousand and seventeen followed by a presentation of the team of the year two thousand and seventeen next up was one public hearing was a public hearing of a proposed ordinance amending the future land use chapter the comprehensive plan to change the future land use map classification of an approximately forty five thousand square foot vacant parcel property located on the westerly side of north washington boulevard bounded by thirty second street on the south and thirty third street on the north with a street address of thirty to fifty one north washington boulevard from the community office institutional future land use map classification to the community commercial future land use map classification in accordance with a comprehensive plan amendment application and this was passed on first reading the next step was new business first was a presentation the discussion regarding changes to the special events ordinance pertaining to street closures proposed by the downtown service at a condominium association board of directors and the commission approved a motion to take no further action on that item and finally was approval for authorization to advertise to twenty eighteen twenty nineteen action plan funding recommendations and this was approved and that does it for the regular city commission meeting of february twentieth two thousand and eighteen if you like to look at the agenda back in material or watch the video you can do so asserted f l doc go and the right side look for video on demand i'm john knopper with the city of sarasota and i'll see you after the next meeting