NOTICE OF LANDOWNERS’ MEETING AND ELECTION AND MEETING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE ROOKERY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

Notice is hereby given to the public and all landowners within Rookery Community Development District (the “District”), the location of which is generally described as comprising a parcel or parcels of land containing approximately 566.02 acres, generally located north of First Coast Expressway, west of US 17, east of CR 15A and south of Green Cove Avenue in Green Cove Springs, Florida, advising that a meeting of landowners will be held for the purpose of electing five (5) persons to the District Board of Supervisors. Immediately following the landowners’ meeting there will be convened a meeting of the Board of Supervisors for the purpose of considering certain matters of the Board to include election of certain District officers, and other such business which may properly come before the Board.
DATE:July 8th, 2024
TIME:11:00 a.m.
PLACE:Green Cove Springs City Hall,
321 Walnut Street, 2nd Floor Training Room,
Green Cove Springs, FL 32043
Each landowner may vote in person or by written proxy. Proxy forms may be obtained upon request at the office of the District Manager, in person at 2806 North Fifth Street, Unit 403, St. Augustine, FL 32084 or by mail at 3434 Colwell Ave. Suite 200, Tampa, FL 33614. At said meeting each landowner or his or her proxy shall be entitled to nominate persons for the position of Supervisor and cast one vote per acre of land, or fractional portion thereof, owned by him or her and located within the District for each person to be elected to the position of Supervisor. A fraction of an acre shall be treated as one acre, entitling the landowner to one vote with respect thereto. Platted lots shall be counted individually and rounded up to the nearest whole acre. The acreage of platted lots shall not be aggregated for determining the number of voting units held by a landowner or a landowner’s proxy. At the landowners’ meeting the landowners shall select a person to serve as the meeting chair and who shall conduct the meeting.
The landowners’ meeting and the Board of Supervisors meeting are open to the public and will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Florida law. One or both of the meetings may be continued to a date, time, and place to be specified on the record at such meeting. A copy of the agenda for these meetings may be obtained by mail from 3434 Colwell Ave., Suite 200, Tampa, FL 33614 or phone 904-436-6270. There may be an occasion where one or more supervisors will participate by speaker telephone.
Any person requiring special accommodations to participate in these meetings is asked to contact the District Office at (904) 436-6270, at least forty-eight (48) hours before the hearing. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the Florida Relay Service at 7-1-1 or (800) 955-8770 for aid in contacting the District Office.
A person who decides to appeal any decision made by the Board with respect to any matter considered at the meeting is advised that such person will need a record of the proceedings and that accordingly, the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, including the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
Lesley Gallagher
District Manager
Legal 112565 Published 6/13/2024 and 6/20/2024 in Clay County's Clay Today newspaper