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CASSELBERRY CITY COMMISSION Minutes of January 16, 2024 —Special Meeting Page 2 of 4 4. APPOINTMENT TO FILL CITY COMMISSION VACANCY FOR SEAT NO. 2 A. Applications Received January 8 — 12, 2024 City Clerk Donna Gardner explained that a total of six applicants had qualified for the vacancy for Commission Seat No. 2; however, one of the applicants, Tim Veigle, had withdrawn his application today, so there were five applicants being presented for City Commission consideration and all were present at the meeting. She added that since there were only five remaining applicants, she and the City Attorney recommended allowing all five to be given time for a 2 -minute introduction and a 12 -minute time period to address the six questions presented on the application. Ms. Gardner then gave an overview of the process that would be followed for filling of the vacancy. The five candidates would be called up in alphabetical order and given two minutes for introductory remarks to the City Commission. At the conclusion of that time, the five candidates would again address the City Commission in alphabetical order with a time limit of twelve minutes to speak about how they answered the six questions on the application. There would be no set structure to that process and the applicants could spend as much of the twelve minutes they would like for each question. The twelve minutes was derived by allowing two minutes per question. After all five candidates had an opportunity to address the City Commission, there would be an opportunity for citizen comments during which anyone in the audience would be given an opportunity to speak as to why they may support one candidate over another. Each audience member speaking would be required to give their name and address, and in the interest of time the comments would be limited to two minutes each. Once audience participation was concluded, the City Commission would commence discussions, and hopefully a motion would be presented for appointment of one of the candidates. The following applicants for vacant City Commission Seat No. 2 presented introductory remarks to the City Commission: 1. Thomas Cardenas 2. Nancy Divita 3. William Dixon 4. Travis Kelley 5. Thomas Kirk At the completion of the two -minute introductions, the five (5) applicants each addressed the City Commission again, and responded to the following six questions which were part of the applications they had submitted: 1. What is your vision for today and the future of Casselberry? 2. What are your top three goals within that vision for the Casselberry community? 3. Why do you want to serve as a City Commissioner, and why now? 4. What are your qualifications, including professional, leadership and community experience? 5. How will your qualifications strengthen this City Commission? 6. Do you have any potential conflicts of interest with the City or its officials?