Polk County Board of County Commissioners
Meeting Agenda - Final-revised
December 17, 2024 Regular BoCC meeting
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CALL TO ORDER - 9:00 a.m. (RICK WILSON, CHAIR)
INVOCATION
Murphy Hanley, Polk County Fire Rescue Chaplain
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE (RICK WILSON, CHAIR)
A.
PRESENTATIONS and RECOGNITIONS
A.1. Steve Labate - Presentation to Commissioner Bill Braswell on behalf of
Lakeland Gold Star Parents.
B.
C.
CEREMONIAL PROCLAMATIONS
REQUEST FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC/AUDIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY TO BE
HEARD
C.1. Randy Wilkinson - Invitation to Evening with Gilbert King at Polk Theater,
December 21. The Pulitzer Prize winner will discuss his expose' of the unjust
Polk County conviction of Leo Schofield as told in Bone Valley, the worldwide #1
Crime Podcast.
C.2. Comments.
D.
APPROVE CONSENT AGENDA