Board of County Commissioners

Two Board of County Commissioners (BCC) Regular Meetings are generally held each month on the first and third Thursdays at 5:30 p.m., with the Public Forum beginning at 4:30 p.m. prior to the start of the Regular Meeting, unless otherwise noted. An Agenda Review Work Session is held on regular meeting dates at 9:00 a.m. Committee of the Whole (C/W) meetings begin at 9:00 a.m. All BCC, Agenda Review and C/W meetings will be held in the Board Chambers, Room 100, 221 Palafox Place. All Joint City-County meetings will be held in the Hagler Mason Conference Room, Second Floor, City Hall. Other special meetings may be scheduled to handle specific topics. The meeting schedule is published in the Pensacola News Journal every Saturday.

Both Regular BCC Thursday night meetings are televised "live" on Cox Cable, digital channel 98, Brighthouse and Mediacom (on Pensacola Beach). All meetings subject to change. The BCC, C/W and Agenda Review Work Sessions are broadcast live on the web starting approximately five minutes prior to the meeting. This may be accessed by the "View Live Video" link from the BCC schedule page.

The BCC Schedule page lists all the BCC, Committee of the Whole and Joint City-County meetings for the calendar year. Beside each meeting is a link to an agenda, in Adobe PDF format, that is posted approximately a week before the meeting. In addition to the meeting agenda, this document contains the reports of the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Growth Management, the county administrator and the county attorney. After each meeting the Clerk of the Circuit Court makes available resumes and minutes of the meeting as explained below.

 

Meeting Minutes vs. Meeting Resumes

RESUMES The "Resume" document is a summary report which shows recommendations presented to the Board of County Commissioners (BCC) on the agenda and various reports; (i.e., Clerk's Report, Growth Management Report, County Administrator's Report, County Attorney's Report, etc.) in the order presented on the agenda cover sheet, with the BCC's action noted below each recommendation; e.g. "Approved 5-0 or Approved 4-1, with Commissioner ? voting 'no.'" The Resume document does not include motions and votes, no speakers are listed, and the document is finalized and distributed the first working day following the Board Meeting. The Resume document is available on the Clerk's website until the Minutes are approved.

MINUTES The "Minutes" document is a report which includes titles for, and records the motions and votes depicting the BCC's final action on, all recommendations presented for BCC action; e.g., "Motion made by Commissioner ?, seconded by Commissioner ?, and carried unanimously, approving..." The Minutes document presents each item in the order in which it was addressed by the BCC and lists any public speakers under the corresponding item(s). The final Minutes document is presented for BCC approval at the next regularly scheduled Meeting and is available for public access via the Clerk's website after BCC approval.

 

The BCC Resumes and Minutes are created and maintained by the Clerk of the Circuit Court and can be accessed from their website these documents are made available in the portable document format (.PDF ), which you may view, search, and print using the Adobe Acrobat Reader software version 4.0 or above.