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Home My WebLink AboutM-98-0195PETITION TO REPEAL OR MODIFY THE CITY'S FIRE -RESCUE FEE We are tenants in an apartment building which has five or more units and is serviced by a private garbage hauler. The currently approved fire rescue fee for buildings such as ours will be $160 per year for each of our apartment units as of January 1, 1998. We feei that the owner of our building will be forced to pass this charge on to us which will result in a rent increase of over $13.00 a month for each of us. Homeowners, under the Ordinance you have approved, will receive as net increase in fire -rescue and garbage fees over the garbage fees which they are now being charged. This is not fair. We ask you to repeal the fire -rescue fee or to reduce the amount which tenants like us will and up paying. 3 C it ,,3313.E e oP -VO 30 7-1 V�Y /0AA& 0 6 �o /f zs c plc 98- 195 Name )C� 1 .�W=S... 7 Com �JOT nod I�kV-r 1 V � J co 1N� A4 / f lef f 4-; Q /Y"G� f.. �9 " 98-- i95 L11 s A �, uc-luo(t( j v'j>C_ ,1,p vx-z- A LE_ Z Al/-C . _ air %. c /tom' _2 0 >=eIQ ,,� �� E U Nis r�N L M �'='t✓ s%�� r 7o a q1J . jq rr ` X11d 98- 195 // �,, �pl y ff(2iCf(' p q f-(S �Y 1�"L- Ln AaaY L(cvAJZ if" 2- �yaare�s -7 0 0 C2 -.03 A(6 L7Pssl YT Yee 4) -aq %rg•# A/0 ;-o o v c 2 ? e gRN I "a 9 ■ 1/ I .1/ 91111 1 RM •\ PETITION TO REPEAL OR MODIFY THE CITY'S FIRE -RESCUE FEE We are tenants in an apartment building which has five or more units and is serviced by a private garbage hauler. The currently approved fire rescue fee for buildings such as ours will be $160 per year for each of our apartment units as of January 1, 1998. We feel that the owner of our building will be forced to pass this charge on to us which will result in a rent increase of over $13.00 a month for each of us. Homeowners, under the Ordinance you have approved, will receive as net increase in fire -rescue and garbage fees over the garbage fees which they are now being charged. This is not fair. We ask you to repeal the fire -rescue fee or to reduce the amount which tenants like us will and up paying. 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Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado wa DATE: .r � -)-�-q� 1 7 N P1 6 ti c I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year SEJ y �SIG ATURE ADDRESS ' G �? Tit_ --- / - / 74-Vj&r-------- -----.�� ems' '_.z�� _----__ ---L cL 3 3 a zz- j r4- J.-,; -ea ------------------ -�- - ---- - -------------------- ----------- U1),t I,. r �5 0 SZ a�` ( � - ---------------- -- --------------------------------- _q �4 A-pt, ?A /0 Ck M -44 -------- /-Ij L-L- y5e-2 221 2D ------------------------------------------------------- 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: �- �7 - 9 8 I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATUREpp ADDRESS _Cj�q�Lq-j -Lg-C A,`� �---14'_vfc='Z S R.-l`( i c+"Y J r=c_ 3s �f Q _ _ Q� ----f S G----= --- -r-7> -- -- -- - - ------�-y__ 1� _n�J",.j►I'_^�►per - r �_�� r - - - - - - - - - - - _-14�, t f 'Se 5 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: 9. _ 9L; _` R I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATURE ADDRESS -It ------ 017- 7; - ---------------- ::5 6 --------- d --- - -- -------- 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: ' , e,Z _ q I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATURE AD DR S jar-------------- ---_ _- _ ------------------------- ------------------- ------------------------------ ------ --------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------ -----�- ----1------------ _ 1 -------------------- 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto- H-etnandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: 7- . ;L-7- -� ST I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATURE ADDRESS 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: A � � Z , 9 '. I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIG TURE ADDRESS /� /J �y .------- 5(� 5 �, -�jJs7 ( l 7 i�'� 1 r�r^-� l FZ I l VAqs� V-4 f --- ----- ------------------= rt-. ----- 11" sL _z-c-----_ -- ----� -1 --- -' �-------' �----Z----------- _ r 98— 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: 91 - Z 1- - g � I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATURE ADDRESS } 11 1 ------ ------ (-- ----- - 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: a , - a � I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATURE SIGNATURE ADDRESS �i=---- (--- ---- h` ' -- ---- -- E a�S" - _lam - � - F�3 3i,19 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: �, . �- 2-- - 9 � I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNAT RE ADDRESS 98�. 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: g- , �-. Z I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME II SIGNAT-qE ADDRESS 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE:` - Z q k I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year E SIGNATUR DDRESS --------------------------------------------------------- 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: A ,Z 3 - q 8- I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATURE ADDRESS ------------------------- &i. --------------------------- ?u L�- --------------------------------------------------------- 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: q- • )t- 3 , C I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SI TURE DRESSri --------------------------------------------------------- 98-• 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/yea # Yl� N � SI�G�N/ATU D7RS _ __ _ _______________-_�__-- ---_______� _________________________________________________________ -ItL� 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATUjkE ADDRESS -�a - - / 2 sz-- - 98- 195' To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: _ 3 , 9 00 I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATURE ADDRESS To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: 2-s • Q N I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME S gNAT , DIJ ESS 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: �( .)— 3.9y I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATURE ADDRESS 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: % . Z 3 -9 - I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATURE ADDRESS --------------- ----�2-M) 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado / DATE: I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATURE ADDRESS .......... ----------------------- 98- 195, To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: ')— . Z- 3 7? I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SI NATUR ADDRESS LEY: S ------ - ��_`- -------------- 98- 195 To: CITY OF MIAMI Executive Mayor Xavier Suarez Chairman Humberto Hernandez V. Chairman Arthur Teele, Jr. Commissioners Willy Gort J,L, Plummer, Jr Tomas Regalado DATE: ,Z Z 3 78 I hereby wish to register my STRONG OPPOSITION to your intention to impose a FIRE RESCUE "FEE" of $132/year NAME SIGNATURE ADDRESS ; -------------------------------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---------------------------- A- ----------- 98- 195 BRICK,,LL HOMEOWNERS ASSC,%-_;IATION POSITION PAPER AGAINST ADOPTION OF CITY OF MIAMI FIRE - RESCUE FEE This so called "Fire Rescue Fee" is not a fee only for the Emergency Medical Rescue Service provided by the Miami Fire Department. This so called fee is intended to ultimately pay the entire Miami Fire Department budget, WHICH IS NOW BEING PAID FOR BY THE AD VALOREM TAX paid by each taxpayer in the City of Miami. II. What is called a "fee" by the City is not related to the users of the services provided. The justification given is that the services of the fire department, including both fire response and emergency rescue services, are available to whoever might need it, however, unlike the garbage fee or a water/sewer fee, or a waste pick up fee - all of which are paid only by the person or business receiving the benefit of such services - the Fire Rescue Fee is being imposed on selected groups of property owners who are to pay the fee, whether or not they "use" or "receive the benefits" of the service. The City is quick to counter and say that all property owners receive the benefits of reduced fire insurance rates, quick response in the event of emergency, etc., However, so does every other building or structure in the City. So does every non -taxpayer, non -property owner, non -tenant and tourist in the City. Every person, whether homeowner or homeless, resident or visitor, worker or retired, even people walking biking or driving through the City of Miami on the way to points beyond, are fully entitled to and will receive the full benefit of the emergency rescue service or fire service when and/or if the need ever arises, without any obligation to pay this new user "Fee" proposed by the City either for the availability and/or use of such service. III. All of the current Fire Department and Emergency Rescue Services are being provided and paid for 100% by the ad valorem tax structure and other revenue sources of the City, and have been so funded since the inception of the modern ad valorem tax system in Miami. All of the current fire and rescue support facilities, infrastructure, buildings, equipment, etc., have been paid for and provided under the ad valorem tax structure, subject to the caps and limitations and restrictions of that taxing structure and the other revenue sources of the City. IV. No new Fire Department services or facilities are being proposed by the City of Miami as justification for the adoption and imposition of this fire and rescue service fee. No new fire engines, fire houses, Fire Rescue vehicles and/or any of the supporting infrastructure of that department is given as the justification for the imposition of this new fee. Instead the cost of the Fire Department/Emergency Rescue Service is simply and openly being removed from those services currently supported by the ad valorem tax base and other revenue sources, and declared by legislative fiat and slight of hand of the City Commission to be no longer included in the ad valorem tax funded tax services, but henceforth subject to funding only by the imposition of a special user's fee. V. The transfer of the fire and rescue service costs from those items supported by the ad valorem tax revenues is a flagrant act designed to nullify the millage cap mandated by the citizens of the State of Florida on ad valorem taxes and on the value, force and effect of the constitutionally created homestead exemption from ad valorem taxes. VI. Had the City never established and provided fire and/or fire rescue services, and now decided that it wished to establish and provide such a service within the City, it would not be inappropriate, under current law, to consider utilizing a Fire and Rescue service fee, tied and related to the annual cost of providing such a service, plus the amortization cost of the infrastructure which would have to be established and constructed and/or acquired to provide such service. As such items would never have been part of the ad valorem tax base, and the benefits to the property owners within the taxing district, whether it be a special taxing district, a City or a county, such a fee would probably be valid under the recent Lake County v. Water Oak Management Corp. line of cases. As in that situation, the services were not previously available, and not provided, and therefore, each and every property upon which the fee was to be imposed, was receiving the very real and tangible benefits of the services to be provided from the fees - Page 1 - 98- 195 assessed. Those facts are ,aite unique to that particular water management district, and have not even a scintilla of a resemblance of what is being perpetrated by the City commission in trying to impose the Fire and Fire Rescue fee for what already exists and has existed for years under the ad valorem tax base. The City commission is saying to the property owners - until today, the residents of the City of Miami have received fire protection services and Fire Rescue services from the City and have paid for those services as part of the ad valorem tax assessment and payment. But - from now on, everyone in the City, whether resident or visitor or just passing through will receive those same services, but each property owner, and tenant is going to receive them and pay a new fee separate and apart from the monies paid, directly as taxes or indirectly as rent and/or common area pass through, and of course, you will still pay the full amount of your ad valorem taxes. What the City is not telling the voters is that now that we are going to be paying for the fire and rescue services by a new and separate fee, the City will continue to impose the same high ad valorem taxes and use those same ad valorem tax dollars to pay for some other program or give away. VII. What do some of the City Commissioners really want to do? What is it that some of the City Commissioners are afraid to do? Why does the City commission give away free services worth a minimum of $370.00 to each and every one of approximately 70,000 single familv home owners and the owners of small apartment buildings of up to four units, in the City of Miami? Why is this same gift of $370 per living unit not given to the voters who live in condominiums and/or rental apartments. Why is not a similar gift not given to the owners of businesses. Everyone is paying the same ad valorem taxes. The people living in condominiums and the owners of business properties and office buildings are paying the same level of taxes, but are paying more if not most of the ad valorem taxes being used by the City to give away the free or subsidized gift of garbage service to people who own single family residences. WHY? The City commission is currently making a gift of not - Page 2 - less than $:.., To each and every single family home and/or owner and/or tenants of small (up to 4 unit) rental apartment buildings in the City. The cost of that gift from the City of Miami is between $26,000,000, yes TWENTY SIX MILLION DOLLARS to $27 million per year. $26-$27 Million is the current approximate cost to the City of Miami to provide garbage service and waste pickup to the approximately 70,000 single family homes and up to quadriplex apartments in the City of Miami. In every other City in Miami -Dade County, and in the County itself, the fee charged for garbage and waste service is $400+ per single family home, and is paid by everyone. It is a reality of life, the same as ad valorem taxes are a reality of life. If you create garbage, you pay for its disposal, EXCEPT IN THE CITY OF MIAMI. In Miami if you live in a single family home, someone else pays most (currently) or all (if the fire rescue fee passes) of the cost of disposing of your garbage. The very concept is unbelievable. A single family home owner can make a mess and someone else will have to pay to clean it up. How much longer must this City be the butt of our Nation's humor. For larger structures, office buildings, buildings not on the tax roll, governmental, charitable, high rise rental or condominium, etc. Those garbage removal services are paid for by the individual buildings, usually for less cost per resident or unit, than the cost per unit for the same service from government. Gentlemen, The t'`ommission has discussed privatization. Is the Commission so afraid of a Union that it cannot not or will not do what is best for the majority of the Citizens of this City. If private industry takes over garbage collection, the same people who are working for the City can apply for jobs in the private sector, which would be immediately created. It is almost axiomatic that the service will be better, the cost less and the tax burden eliminated. People will begin paying their bills. Not like now, where so many recipients of garbage service have never paid anything. It seems that in Miami, the drivers of the garbage trucks decide who is going to get service, not the City itself. Everywhere else, people who live in a City or unincorporated area pay their taxes for the fire and rescue services and other municipal or governmental services, such as police, building and zoning, minimum housing, youth services, sanitation service, parks and recreation, etc. Those same people pay the taxes imposed by the school board, the South Florida r9� 95 Water Management Distrk the library, lighting districts, special taxing districts, etc., And they pay for all of those things as part of their ad valorem taxes each year. These same people also pay for specific services they receive, water, sewer, garbage removal, waste removal, etc. No one gives any of these people, residents or tenants, a gift of free or subsidized garbage services, EXCEPT IN THE CITY OF MIAMI. No City or county says to their single family residents and people living in up to four unit apartment buildings, that only because you live in a single family home or an apartment building of four units or less, we, your City Commissioners, who you have been so nice to elect, are going to give you free garbage service - no City, village or town except the City of Miami would even propose such impropriety. Why? Votes! What we are witnessing with this proposal, whether realized or not, is in reality an attempt to influence the votes of the single family residents and owners and/or occupants of apartment buildings of up to four unit, by members of this commission who would vote to approve the Fire Rescue Fee. In a City where the last election was decided by questionable absentee votes (still the subject of court action) they will now by implication be able to say to a potential 150,000 voters, "vote for me, because I gave you the gift of free garbage service." What they are not saying is that while they were giving that gift to 70,000 single family residences, which we should regard as at least two or more potential voters minimum in each house, they will be taking that money from the pockets of all of the other property owners, taxpayers and voters in the City. Because of economic reality, the average single family home in the City of Miami does not pay as significant an amount of ad valorem taxes because of the Homestead Exemption, while the multi -family high rises and office and industrial buildings, carry the large portion of the ad valorem tax burden for the entire City as well as paying most of the other revenues received by the City. The high rise buildings, the large rental apartments, the condominiums, the office buildings, get no free garbage pickup or waste collection services. They must pay for all of those services privately. Who pays for all of those services, the residents and the owners and the tenants who live and/or work in those buildings. They pay the ad valorem taxes, and get nothing back. With this proposal they will have to pay the same high ad valorem - Page 3 - tax, plus t. new Fire Rescue fee, not only for themselves, but they will now have to fund and pay for the gift of completely free garbage service to be given to the single family residence owners under this new proposal. What is this Proposal Today? 1. Abolish what is left of the garbage fee to single family residents, thereby increasing the existing deficit from the operation of the garbage service from its present level to approximately $26 to $27 million per year, and in so doing, gifting to each single family resident and occupant of apartment buildings with no more than 4 units, a minimum of $370 per year. Actual value in Miami -Dade county, a minimum of $400.00. Total amount of the deficit from provided free garbage services to single family homes - $26,000,000 to $27,000,000 Potential number of votes influenced - up to 150,000 persons. How do they propose to pay for this newly increased deficit? 2. Pass a new fire and rescue service tax which will raise how much the first year? $2790009000.00 How many votes will the commissioners voting to approve this fee lose? Surely not 150,000. Why, because there are not as many condominium residents who vote as there are single family homeowners. The owners of commercial buildings are not by virtue of that ownership, voters within the City. WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO PAY RENT? What about the voters who are tenants and live in apartment buildings of more than four units. The number of voting tenants paying rent in apartment buildings with more than 4 units may well be as numerous as the single family residentialvoters, BUT no one speaks for them. They will not know about this new Fire Rescue Fee until the landlord has to raise the rent at the next lease renewal to cover the cost of the new Fire Rescue Fee being charged on a per unit basis. Remember that those tenants are already paying the ad valorem tax through their rent, but they are not getting any free gift of garbage service. But they do vote and perhaps they ultimately will understand how they have been abused and ignored by their elected representatives. 98- 195 You will be told by those who favor this .z, that if it passes, the single family residents will pay a Fire Rescue fee in the same manner and amount as the people living in high rises, and based on a sliding scale, to the apartment building office building and industrial users. That is true! 1BUt Only the single family residents get the reduction in their garbage fee equal to the amount of the new Fire Rescue fee plus the continuing subsidy of what will now become a fully free garbage service worth a minimum of $400.00 Per year. Up until now the Commission has been subsidizing more than half of the cost of the garbage services provided. Now to help the City of Miami financially, they propose to subsidize 100% of the cost of the garbage services provided. If something costs $370, and you give it away for free, you lose $370 by giving it away. If you give that $370 away to 70,000 home owners, then you are losing TWENTY FIVE MILLION NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($25,900,000). In the rest of Miami -Dade County, single family homeowners pay an average of $400 per year for garbage service (some more). Why not the City of Miami. Instead of losing $25,900,000 per year, the City would take in $28,000,000. Is this equal protection under the law? No! Is this due process of law? No! Is this taxation without representation? Yes! Is this pandering to a special interest group? Yes! Does this border on vote buying? Yes! Is this fair government? No! WHAT THEN IS THIS SO CALLED FIRE -RESCUE FEE PROPOSAL? WHAT WILL IT ACCOMPLISH? NOTHING! All they are going to do is find a way to give away free garbage and waste fee to single family residents. They will have done nothing to increase the income desperately needed by this City now, to pay its bills. The final tax impact ZERO. All they will have done is more unfairly allocate the tax burden. If this commission enacts this proposal, they will have opened a flood gate which v� _ . permit them to impose fees at will and to increase the Fire Rescue service fee every time they need money for another one of their pet projects. They will violate the constitutional value of the Homestead Exemption and they will violate the Constitutionally imposed cap on ad valorem taxation. As of the writing of this Memorandum, Commissioner Plummer has announced his opposition to this proposal. Mayor Suarez's most recent proposal advocates a garbage fee and cost efficiency in the City. It is only hoped that his veto will be there if the Fire Rescue Fee is approved by a majority of the Commission. Find a competent and qualified attorney who is not biased on the issue, and ask if the proposal is legal. Ask Broward Circuit Judge Herbert Moriarty, who has already ruled that it is not, when a Fire Rescue Fee was enacted by the City of Pembroke Pines. Don't ask the Tallahassee lawyers who would try to get a lucrative and far reaching contract worth millions of dollars over the years if this Fire Rescue Fee is adopted. Find and ask an attorney with municipal and constitutional law experience, whose job now or in the future is not dependent on your votes, to give you an objective opinion. Step back from self interest and look at what you are doing, and ask yourselves if it is fair and equal treatment to all of the people of this City? If you can still say yes, that you are being fair, then be prepared to be further humiliated both in the eye of public opinion and by the courts of this State, neither of which will tolerate further abuses of due process and equal protection by the City of Miami. Do not rely on the prior approval of the Oversight Committee unless and until you have determined that they have bothered to consider the laws of this State and the fact that you are giving away garbage service as a quid pro quod to the enactment of the Fire Rescue Fee. Mayor Suarez, Commissioner Plummer and those other members of the Commission, who have the courage and decency to stand with you, can stand tall and proud. You are acting according to law. You are ensuring equal protection and due process to all of the residents, voter and non-voter alike of the City. You are upholding you oath of office. - Page 4 - w 98- 195 48- 1u5 EL ' 1 Condominium Association PROTEST LETTER 52(, Northwest 7th Street Miami, Florida 33126 CARTA PROTESTA Phone:444-9617 THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY PROTEST THE UNJUST AND DISCRIMINATORY PROCEDURE IN WHICH THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION VOTED TO LEVY A FEE TO A SPECIFIC SEGMENT OF TAXPAYERS, NAMELY CONDO UNITS OWNERS. COMMISSIONERS NOT ONLY HAVE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THEM, BUT ALSO THEY HAVE DOUBLY PENALIZED CONDO OWNERS SINCE THEY.PAY A PRIVATE HAULER HAVE THEIR GARBAGE COLLECTED AND ARE NOT GETTING A REFUND AS SINGLE" FAMILY OWNERS WILL. CONSEQUENTLY, ALL OF THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS UNJUST ACTION ARE DEMANDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE REVOKED IMMEDIATELY. L03 ABAJO FIRMANTES PROTESTAMOS POR LA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORIA FORMA EN QUE LA COMISION DE MIAMI HA VOTADO EN CONTRA DE LOS DUENOS DE CONDO- MINIUM. 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AL VOTAR PARA CREARLE UNA CUOTA ESPECIAL DE PAGO DE BOMBEROS A UN SEGMENTO ESPECIFICO DE LOS CONTRIBUYENTES, A LOS DUEfiOS DE CONDO, LOS COMISIONADOS NO SOLO HAN DISCRIMINADO EN CONTRA DE ESTOS, SING QUE TAMBIEN LOS HAN PENALIZADO DOBLEMENTE YA QUE LOS DUEAOS DE CONDO PA- GAN FOR SU PROPIA RECOGIDA DE BASURA Y NO TENDRAN DERECHO AL REEMBOLSO COMO LOS DUENOS DE RESIDENCIA UNIFAMILIARES. EN CONSEQUENCIA, LOS ASI AFECTADOS FOR ESTA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORI4 ACCION DEMANDAN QUE ESTA ORDENANZA SEA REVOCADA DE INMEDIATO. NAME ADDRESS SIGNATURE PHONE NOMBRE FIRMA DIRECCION TELEFONO 14. . (!�/ _'..f/�_.... - 6 0 ...... . ._............6:rff Cyl 41, - 0 //' "ox/; J'��ev 5s1 .. �' 98— 195 PROTEST LETTER II CARTA PROTESTA THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY PROTEST THE UNJUST AND DISCRIMINATORY PROCEDURE IN WHICH THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION VOTED TO LEVY A FEE TO A SPECIFIC SEGMENT OF TAXPAYERS, NAMELY CONDO UNITS OWNERS. COMMISSIONERS NOT ONLY HAVE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THEM, BUT ALSO THEY HAVE DOUBLY PENALIZED CONDO OWNERS SINCE THEY.PAY A PRIVATE HAULER HAVE THEIR GARBAGE COLLECTED AND ARE NOT GETTING A REFUND AS SINGLk- FAMILY OWNERS WILL. CONSEQUENTLY, ALL OF THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS UNJUST ACTION ARE DEMANDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE REVOKED IMMEDIATELY. LOS ABAJO FIRMANTES PROTESTAMOS POR LA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORIA FORMA EN CUE LA COMISION DE MIAMI HA VOTADO EN CONTRA DE LOS DUEROS DE CONDO- MINIUM. AL VOTAR PARA CREARLE UNA CUOTA ESPECIAL DE ?AGO DE BOMBEROS A UN SEGMENTO ESPECIFICO DE LOS CONTRIBUYENTES, A LOS DUEAOS DE CONDO, LOS COMISIONADOS NO SOLO HAN DISCRIMINADO EN CONTRA DE ESTOS, SINO QUE TAMBIEN LOS HAN PENALIZADO DOBLEMENTE YA QUE LOS DUEflOS DE CONDO PA- GAN POR SU PROPIA RECOGIDA DE BASURA Y NO TENDRAN DERECHO AL REEMBOLSO COMO LOS DUEROS DE RESIDENCIA UNIFAMILIARES. EN CONSEQUENCIA, LOS ASI AFECTADOS POR ESTA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORIA ACCION DEMANDAN QUE ESTA ORDENANZA SEA REVOCADA DE INMEDIATO• NAME ADDRESS SIGNATURE PHONE PROTEST LETTER CARTA PROTESTA THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY PROTEST THE UNJUST AND DISCRIMINATORY PROCEDURE IN WHICH THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION VOTED TO LEVY A FEE TO A SPECIFIC SEGMENT OF TAXPAYERS, NAMELY CONDO UNITS OWNERS, COMMISSIONERS NOT ONLY HAVE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THEM, BUT ALSO THEY HAVE DOUBLY PENALIZED CONDO OWNERS SINCE THEY.PAY A PRIVATE HAULER. HAVE THEIR GARBAGE COLLECTED AND ARE NOT GETTING A REFUND AS SINGLt FAMILY OWNERS WILL. CONSEQUENTLY, ALL OF THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS UNJUST ACTION ARE DEMANDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE REVOKED IMMEDIATELY. LOS ABAJO FIR MAN TES PROTESTAMOS FOR LA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORIA FORMA EN QUE LA COMISION DE MIAMI HA VOTADO EN CONTRA DE LOS DUEROS DE CONDO- MINIUM. AL VOTAR PARA CREARLE UNA CUOTA ESPECIAL DE PAGO DE BOMBEROS A UN SEGMENTO ESPECIFICO DE LOS CONTRIBUYENTES, A LOS DUEAOS DE CONDO, LOS COMISIONADOS NO SOLO HAN DISCRIMINADO EN CONTRA DE ESTOS, SINO QUE TAMBIEN LOS HAN PENALIZADO DOBLEMENTE YA QUE LOS DUEROS DE CONDO PA- GAN POR SU PROPIA RECOGIDA DE BASURA Y NO TENDRAN DERECHO AL REEMBOLSO COMO LOS DUEROS DE RESIDENCIA UNIFAMILIARES. EN CONSEQUENCIA, LOS ASI AFECTADOS FOR ESTA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORIA ACCION DEMANDAN QUE ESTA ORDENANZA SEA REVOCADA DE INMEDIATO, NAM SIGNATURE ADDRESS NOMBRE FIRMA DIRECCION I sl y-y '30 PHONE TELEFONO . . ................... _._....._ ._... __ 1 o6T._-----__.l1 _.__._.____..._. ___ _._ _._.___-- ___..._---. _._�_ 7 5T f PT-_. _3 6 __ PROTEST LETTER CARTA PROTESTA a THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY PROTEST THE UNJUST AND DISCRIMINATORY PROCEDURE IN WHICH THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION VOTED TO LEVY A FEE TO A SPECIFIC SEGMENT OF TAXPAYERS, NAMELY CONDO UNITS OWNERS. COMMISSIONERS NOT ONLY HAVE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THEM, BUT ALSO THEY HAVE DOUBLY PENALIZED CONDO OWNERS SINCE THEY.PAY A PRIVATE HAULER HAVE THEIR GARBAGE COLLECTED AND ARE NOT GETTING A REFUND AS SINGLE FAMILY OWNERS WILL. CONSEQUENTLY, ALL OF THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS UNJUST ACTION ARE DEMANDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE REVOKED IMMEDIATELY. LOS ABAJO FIRMANTES, PROTESTAMOS FOR LA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORIA FORMA EN CUE LA COMISION DE MIAMI HA VOTADO EN CONTRA DE LOS DUENOS DE CONDO- MINIUM. AL VOTAR PARA CREARLE UNA CUOTA ESPECIAL DE PAGO DE BOMBEROS A UN SEGMENTO ESPECIFICO DE LOS CONTRIBUYENTES, A LOS DUEROS DE CONDO, LOS COMISIONADOS NO SOLO HAN DISCRIMINADO EN CONTRA DE ESTOS, SINO QUE TAMBIEN LOS HAN PENALI,ZARO- DOBLEMENTE YA QUE LOS DUEROS DE CONDO PA- GAN FOR SU PROPIA RECOGIDA DE BASURA Y NO TENDRAN DERECHO AL REEMBOLSO COMO LOS DUEROS DE RESIDF14CIA UNIFAMILIARES. EN CONSEQUENCIA, LOS ASI AFECTADOS FOR ESTA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORIA ACCION DEMANDAN QUE ESTA ORDENANZA SEA REVOCADA DE INMEDIATO. NAME ADDRESS SIGNATURE PHONE HOMBRE FIRMA DIRECCION TELEFONO -7 . ... .. ... .. .. eg7 / .......... .3 )CIL J .3 C . ......... 4 4 _?2 4-1 'XII,/a/ -117-1 7o' C_ 10 Al 7-/7( 7, Tr 98- 195 PROTEST LETTER CARTA PROTESTA THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY PROTEST THE UNJUST AND DISCRIMINATORY PROCEDURE IN WHICH THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION VOTED TO LEVY A FEE TO A SPECIFIC SEGMENT OF TAXPAYERS, NAMELY CONDO UNITS OWNERS. COMMISSIONERS NOT ONLY HAVE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THEM, BUT ALSO THEY HAVE DOUBLY PENALIZED CONDO OWNERS SINCE THEY.PAY A PRIVATE HAULER HAVE THEIR GARBAGE COLLECTED AND ARE NOT GETTING A REFUND AS SINGLk- FAMILY OWNERS WILL. CONSEQUENTLY, ALL OF THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS UNJUST ACTION ARE DEMANDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE REVOKED IMMEDIATELY. 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COMMISSIONERS NOT ONLY HAVE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THEM, BUT ALSO THEY HAVE DOUBLY PENALIZED CONDO OWNERS SINCE THEY.PAY A PRIVATE HAULER HAVE THEIR GARBAGE COLLECTED AND ARE NOT GETTING A REFUND AS SINGLE" FAMILY OWNERS WILL. CONSEQUENTLY, ALL OF THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS UNJUST ACTION ARE DEMANDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE REVOKED IMMEDIATELY. LOS ABAJO FIR MAN TES PROTESTAMOS FOR LA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORIA FORMA EN QUE LA COMISION DE MIAMI HA VOTADO EN CONTRA DE LOS DUEROS DE CONDO- MINIUM. AL VOTAR PARA CREARLE UNA CUOTA ESPECIAL DE PAGO DE BOMBEROS A UN SEGMENTO ESPECIFICO DE LOS CONTRIBUYENTES, A LOS DUENOS DE CONDO, LOS COMISIONADOS NO SOLO HAN DISCRIMINADO EN CONTRA DE ESTOS, SINO QUE TAMBIEN LOS HAN PENALIZADO DOBLEMENTE YA CUE LOS DUEROS DE CONDO PA- GAN POR SU PROPIA RECOGIDA DE BASURA Y NO TENDRAN DERECHO AL REEMBOLSO COMO LOS DUEROS DE RESIDENCIA UNIFAMILIARES. EN CONSEQUENCIA, LOS ASI AFECTADOS FOR ESTA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORIA ACCION DEMANDAN QUE ESTA ORDENANZA SEA REVOCADA DE INMEDIATO. NAME i ADDRESS SIGNATURE PHONE HOMBRE FIRMA DIRECCION TELEFONO l _ ._........ l:;)_NLl W---......_...__ ........... . _.._....-_........... ___....._ PROTEST LETTER CARTA PROTESTA 0 THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY PROTEST THE UNJUST AND DISCRIMINATORY PROCEDURE IN WHICH THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION VOTED TO LEVY A FEE TO A SPECIFIC SEGMENT OF TAXPAYERS, NAMELY CONDO UNITS OWNERS. SSIONERS NOT ONLY HAVE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST THEM, BUT ALSO THEY HAVE DOUBLY PENALIZED CONDO OWNERS SINCE THEY.PAY A PRIVATE HAULER HAVE THEIR GARBAGE COLLECTED AND ARE NOT GETTING A REFUND AS SINGLE FAMILY OWNERS WILL. CONSEQUENTLY, ALL OF THOSE AFFECTED BY THIS UNJUST ACTION ARE DEMANDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE REVOKED IMMEDIATELY. LOS ABAJO FIRMANTES PROTESTAMOS FOR LA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORIA FORMA EN QUE LA COMISION DE MIAMI HA VOTADO EN CONTRA DE LOS DUEROS DE CONDO- MINIUM. AL VOTAR PARA CREARLE UNA CUOTA ESPECIAL DE PAGO DE BOMBEROS A UN SEGMENTO ESPECIFICO DE LOS CONTRIBUYENTES, A LOS DUEROS DE CONDO, LOS COMISIONADOS NO SOLO HAN DISCRIMINADO EN CONTRA DE ESTOS, SING QUE TAMBIEN LOS HAN PENALIZADO DOBLEMENTE YA QUE LOS DUEROS DE CONDO PA- GAN FOR SU PROPIA RECOGIDA DE BASURA Y NO TENDRAN DERECHO AL REEMBOLSO COMO LOS DUEROS DE RESIDENCIA UNIFAMILIARES. EN CONSEQUENCIA, LOS ASI AFECTADOS FOR ESTA INJUSTA Y DISCRIMINATORIR ACCION DEMANDAN QUE ESTA ORDENANZA SEA REVOCADA DE INMEDIATO. J NAME ADDRESS SIGNATURE PHONE NOMBRE FIRMA DIRECCIONy TELEFONO f ---� � � % !� ��Z/ =,.,orb. �_. ��/✓.��. �:..�1 �:7%' �� _� �_.,� � .. ...... 0-4 7 _ . y r� 1 VA 3 h f ila JU 1.U: t)b M. U. WItitliLfiK I, 0M. , t'.1i tJuuj o�;)u-'rou-r • ■ 11 I .1l 088 1 RRI lei► PETITION TO REPEAL OR MODIFY THE CITY'S FIRE -RESCUE FEE We are tenants in an apartment building which has five or more units and is serviced by a private garbage hauler. The currently approved fire rescue fee for buildings such as ours will be $160 per year for each of our apartment units as of January 1, 1998. We feel that the owner of our building will be forced to pass this charge on to us which will result in a rent increase of over $13.00 a month for each of us. Homeowners, under the Ordinance you have approved, will receive aQ net increase in fire -rescue and garbage fees over the garbage fees which they are now being charged. This is not fair. We ask you to repeal the fire -rescue fee or to reduce the amount which tenants like us will end up paying. 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