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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 1998-03-02 City Clerk's ReportCITY OF MIAMI CITY CLERK'S REPORT MEETING DATE: March 2, 1998 ITEM 1 Direction to the City Manager: by Vice Chairman Teele to produce a professional and objective study in connection with proposed transfer of the City's Fire Department to Miami -Dade County. Vice Chairman Teele further indicated that he did not want the Manager to start communicating to his staff how he wanted the results of said study to come out. Vice Chairman Teele also asked of the City Clerk to provide a transcript of the above cited discussion to the members of the City Commission and the City Manager. Direction to the City Manager: by Commissioner Regalado to check the fact that the issue of purchasing fire equipment was discussed last year and that the City can and should consider using Community Development funds to buy same. ITEM 1 Direction to the City Manager: by Commissioner Regalado to distribute to the members of the City Commission a copy of the monthly budgetary reconciliation report which is currently being forwarded to the State of Florida Financial Emergency Oversight Board. ITEM 1 Direction to the City Manager: by Vice Chairman Teele to provide him with an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) chart of the Office of the City Manager. ITEM 1 Direction to the City Manager: by Vice Chairman Teele to provide a system of checks and balances that will address the integrity of the Finance and Comptroller's Office as it relates to the budgetary process, by having the Finance Department and the Comptroller explain how the budgetary numbers related to the City were entered. Vice Chairman Teele further requested a simple standard budget document which shows how the City will address its recurring budget shortfall, either through budget revenue enhancements or through budget reductions. NON- Direction to the City Clerk: by Vice Chairman Teele to provide AGENDA the Commission with copies of the record when the Commission funded $250,000 for 50 kids who were going to be laid off, to clean up the City of Miami, said activity to be paid from enhancement of the solid waste fee. PAGE NO. 1 CITY OF MIAMI CITY CLERK'S REPORT MEETING DATE: March 2, 1998 ITEM 1 A MOTION DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO REVIEW POSSIBLE PILOT PROGRAM CREATING ZONES OR DISTRICTS (SPECIFICALLY COMMISSIONER PLUMMER'S DISTRICT THAT INCLUDES THE DOWNTOWN AREA) SIMILAR TO CURRENT TOWING ZONES IN THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR SOLID WASTE COMPANIES (PRIVATE HAULERS) TO HANDLE COMMERCIAL ACCOUNTS ONLY FOR GARBAGE PICKUP, AS WELL AS LICENSING OF SAID COMPANIES; FURTHER DIRECTING THE MANAGER TO COME BACK WITH A RECOMMENDATION WITHIN 30 DAYS. NOW Direction to the City Attorney: by Commissioner Regalado to AGENDA draft appropriate legislation amending prior Resolution 98-222, which had passed on February 24, 1998, in connection with benefits packages for the Manager, the City Attorney, the City Clerk and the City Commission; further directing the City Attorney to amend R-98-222 to only address the benefits package for the City Manager. NOW Direction to the City Manager: by Commissioner Gort to AGENDA review all pocket items which have a fiscal impact to the general fund and to make a written recommendation to the Commission on same prior to Commission consideration. NOW Direction to the City Manager: by Commissioner Regalado to AGENDA apply for state funds available for hurricane awareness. NOW Direction to the City Attorney: by Chairman Hernandez to AGENDA provide a legal opinion in connection with possible conflict of interest as it pertains to Kendall Coffey representing certain legal cases against and some in favor of the City. NOW Note for the Record: Mayor Suarez announced that he would AGENDA meet in his office with the City Manager and the City Attorney, at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, March 4, 1998 in connection with the homeless issue. NOW Direction to the City Manager: by Commissioner Plummer to AGENDA negotiate with utility companies to use local City banks. ITEM 1 Direction to the Administration: by Commissioner Gort to provide the Commission with total figures regarding revenue enhancements and what the City has done regarding same. M 98-225 MOVED: SECONDED: UNANIMOUS PAGE NO. 2 HERNANDEZ REGALADO CITY OF MIAMI CITY CLERK'S REPORT MEETING DATE: March 2, 1998 ITEM 3 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), APPROVING R 98-226 AND ADOPTING CERTAIN "BUDGET SOLUTIONS", AS MOVED: MORE PARTICULARLY SET FORTH ON "ATTACHMENT A"; SECONDED: DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE AN UNANIMOUS ORDINANCE FOR CITY COMMISSION CONSIDERATION TO AMEND THE APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997-98 TO REFLECT SAID "BUDGET SOLUTIONS"; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO DEVELOP AND EVALUATE THE ALTERNATIVE INITIATIVES SET FORTH ON "ATTACHMENT A" AND TO RENDER A REPORT AND RECOMMENDATIONS THEREON. NON- Direction to the City Manager: by Commissioner Regalado to AGENDA get in touch with those individuals who were appointed by the Commission to the Little Havana Special Events Advisory Committee to address the problems currently existing between the merchants on S.W. 8 Street and the KUwanis. NON- Direction to the City Manager: by Vice Chairman Teele to AGENDA instruct the City's Finance Department, through its Comptroller, to make a presentation on the financial condition of the City, which would be consistent with the role of a financial officer as in other corporations; further inviting input from the City Attorney, Budget Office, etc. regarding same. NOTE: AS DULY NOTED ON THE HEREIN AGENDA AND CITY CLERK'S REPORT, WHICH CONSTITUTE A JOURNAL OF CITY COMMISSION PROCEEDINGS, THE "UNANIMOUS" NOTATION NEXT TO THE VOTE ON EACH AGENDA ITEM MEANS THAT ALL FIVE CITY COMMISSIONERS WERE PRESENT AND VOTED "AYE" ON SAID ROLL CALL VOTE. NEGATIVE VOTES, PHYSICAL ABSENCE OF A COMMISSIONER OR ABSTENTION FROM VOTING BY A COMMISSIONER, IF ANY, IS ALSO DULY REFLECTED IN SAID VOTE. PAGE NO. 3 PLUMMER REGALADO