WEST PALM BEACH, FLA (July 28, 2021) -- Below is a summary of some of the approvals and decisions made by the City Commission at a meeting on Monday, July 26, 2021. To watch meetings live or to watch recorded meetings on-demand, please visit the City’s YouTube channel at: www.youtube.com/user/WestPalmTV.

• Approved an interlocal agreement between Palm Beach County and the City of West Palm Beach providing grant funding in the amount of $17,000 to the city to purchase a digital narcotic and medication tracking system. The West Palm Beach Fire Department desires to purchase a digital narcotic and medication tracking system to track medication/narcotic inventory and use. This protects the city's providers, while ensuring medication is available for patients in need. The digital system is fully Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) compliant and tracks the life span history for each controlled substance from initial receipt, movement, audit, administration to final disposition, while verifying each action.
• Approved an interlocal agreement between the City of West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, the City of Delray Beach, the City of Palm Beach Gardens, and the City of South Bay for the Palm Beach Workforce Development Consortium. The purpose of the Consortium is to create regional workforce development initiatives to avail its businesses and citizens of the benefits of Florida’s workforce development strategy in a coordinated and cooperative fashion.
• Approved authorizing submittal of an application up to $400,000 to the Florida Department of State Division of Library and Information Services for a Florida American Rescue Plan Act grant for providing services to support the West Palm Beach community in its COVID-19 relief and recovery efforts. The library is considering programs aimed at providing services to the community, such as story time kits for childcare centers, programs aimed at emotional healing, providing laptops for checkout by the public, and adding to the library's circulation.
• Approved the second reading of Ordinance No. 4959-21, adding the recently enacted "Juneteenth National Independence Day" federal holiday to the city's list of observed holidays. This change would bring the city’s total observed Holidays from 11 to 12 and will make the city’s list of observed holidays consistent with observed federal holidays.
• Approved the first reading of Ordinance No. 4962-21, providing for revisions to the dates for candidates to qualify for General Elections in March 2022 and all future elections for city offices. The Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections has requested that municipalities amend their qualifying period, so that their qualifying ends on or before the 95^th day before Election Day in order to accommodate vote-by-mail requirements, as further set forth by Florida statute. The statute authorizes the city to change the dates for qualifying and for the election of members of the governing body by adoption of an ordinance.

For a complete list of the approvals and decisions made at the July 26, 2021 City Commission Meeting, please click here to view the pass/fail agenda.

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