Mayor, City Commission Approvals and Decisions for Monday, March 16.
Published on March 17, 2026
West Palm Beach Mayor and City Commission Meeting Approvals and Decisions
WEST PALM BEACH, FL (March 16, 2026) – Below is a summary of the approvals and decisions made by the City Commission meeting on Monday, March 16, 2026.
MAYOR’S OFFICE – Mayor Keith A. James presented two proclamations at the Mayor and City Commission meeting.
Mayor James proclaimed March 2026 as Florida Bicycle Month and presented the proclamation to Brian Ruscher, Deputy Director of Multimodal, Palm Beach Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), and Nicholas Bixler, Executive Director of Connect West Palm Beach.
Accepting the 2026 March Florida Bicycle Month proclamation from Mayor Keith A. James, center, are, Brian Ruscher, left, and Nicholas Bixler.
Mayor James proclaimed the week of March 16-22, 2026, as West Palm Beach Week Without Driving and presented the proclamation to Amelia Sherfield, program director with WPBgo.
Amelia Sherfield accepts the West Palm Beach Week Without Driving proclamation from Mayor Keith A. James.
MAYOR’S OFFICE – Approved an ordinance after second public hearing approving the sale of City property at 202 - 206 N. Sapodilla Avenue to Publix Super Markets, Inc., for development of a full-service supermarket.
CITY ATTORNEY – Approved a resolution authorizing the assessment of City liens in the total amount of $18,544.29 for unpaid water service, sewer service, and stormwater charges for the month of November 2025.
FIRE DEPARTMENT – Approved two companion resolutions, the first accepting the award for the 2026 Technical Equipment Grant in the amount of $254,766 with a required local match of $382,150 for the purchase of dive rescue-related and other technical equipment, and the companion resolution recognizing receipt of grant funds and opioid settlement to provide appropriations for the purchase of fire and diverelated technical equipment.
HOUSING and COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT – Approved a pair of companion resolutions, the first amending various fund budgets to appropriate new contributions and program income for housing and homelessness initiatives totaling $1,138,571 and the companion resolution correcting a scrivener's error in the official record of Resolution No. 4-25(F); approved a resolution approving the transfer of $206,197 of City funds in Fiscal Year 2025/2026 for the purpose of amending the Grants Capital Project fund budget to provide additional appropriations for the Currie Park Redevelopment project.
HUMAN RESOURCES – Approved a resolution authorizing contracts for master property insurance, water system property insurance, excess liability insurance, excess workers' compensation insurance, crime insurance, and miscellaneous insurance policies for policy year 2026-2027 (March 1, 2026 - February 28, 2027).
PARKING ADMINISTRATION – Approved a resolution amending the Fiscal Year 2025/2026 General Fund budget to recognize a parking meter donation in the amount of $11,078.12 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 19, 2026, and appropriating the funds for a donation to the Martin Luther King Jr. Caregivers.
PARKS and RECREATION – Approved a resolution approving an Inter-local Agreement between the City of Riviera Beach and the City of West Palm Beach, granting the opportunity for residents of Riviera Beach to participate in the aquatic programs offered at the Warren Hawkins Aquatic Center in Gaines Park, with the City of Riviera Beach subsidizing the difference in the fees charged to non-West Palm Beach residents.
POLICE DEPARTMENT – Approved a resolution allocating of supplemental funding from the Palm Beach County Manatee Protection Program in the amount of $6,650 to assist in conducting manatee protection enforcement.
PUBLIC UTILITIES – Approved two companion resolutions, the first approving an Inter-local Agreement between the Town of Palm Beach and the City of West Palm Beach for the 2026-2028 Water System Improvement projects in the Town of Palm Beach, in an amount not to exceed $6,200,000 and the second resolution appropriating funds for the planned improvements.
For the complete list of approvals and decisions made at the Monday, March 16, 2026, City Commission meeting, click here for the pass/fail agenda(PDF, 188KB).