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MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING
April 25,1996
.ITEM.,
LEGISLATION PAGE
SUBJECT
NO. ..
NO.
1.
PRESENTATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS &
DISCUSSION 2
SPECIAL ITEMS.
4/25/96
A. Proclamation: Save Your
Vision Month in Miami --
recognizing importance of healthy
vision and quality eye care.
B. Commendation: Mari Paz
Martinez -- for her efforts /
dedication to human rights.
C. Commendations: Police
Officers Christine Ballesteros
and Ariel Saud -- Most
Outstanding Officers of the Month
(January 1996).
D. Commendation: Police
Detective Pedro Pidermann -- Most
Outstanding Officer of the Month
(February 1996).
2.
CONSENT AGENDA -- (1) DIRECT
DISCUSSION 2-8
ADMINISTRATION TO ENSURE THAT ANY
4/25/96
TIME SURPLUS EQUIPMENT DONATED BY
THE ;CITY IS SOLD] ANY MONIES
RECEIVED BY ANY MUNICIPALITIES
FOR SAME SHALL COME. BACK TO THE
CITY;, AND. (2) DIRECT CITY
ATTORNEY TO PREPARE RESOLUTION
CONCERNING MIAMI CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION (JULY 27-28, 1996).
2.1.
ACCEPT BID: SOMAY' PRODUCTS,
R 96-239 8
INC. -- FOR FURNISHING LATEX
4/25/96
FIELD MARKING PAINTS FOR ORANGE
BOWLFIELD -- FOR PUBLIC
'FACILITIES DEPT. --- ALLOCATE
$19,365.50.
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ACCEPT BID: JULES BROS.
R 96-240
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UNIFORMS, INC. -- FOR FURNISHING
4/25/96
UNIFORMS TO FIRE -RESCUE DEPT. --
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ALLOCATE ,$50,000fqetr
2.3.
ACCEPT BID: PARK STRUCTURES,
R 96--241
9
INC. FOR FURNISHING PLAYGROUND
4/25/96
STRUCTURE, FOR CORAL GATE PARK --'
FOR PARKS & RECREATION DEPT. --
ALLOCATE $11,102.
2.'4.•
ACCEPT BID: MUNICIPAL EQUIPMENT
R 96-242
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CO. - FOR FURNISHING
4/25/96
FIREFIGHTING BOOTS, HELMETS AND
GLOVES -- FOR FIRE —RESCUE
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DEPT. --;ALLOCATE $24,000.:
20:5.'
APPROVE PURCHASE: AVIATION FUEL,
R 96-243
10
GASOLINE, 100 OCTANE, AND TYPE
4/25/96
"A", JET FUEL (UNDER METRO -DADS
CONTRACT 2716-2/97-OTR) -- FROM
HUSTA INTERNATIONAL AVIATION --
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FOR POLICE DEPT. HELICOPTER --
ALLOCATE $50,000.
2.6.
AUTHORIZE PURCHASE:
R 96-244
11
FIREFIGHTERS' PROTECTIVE CLOTHING
4/25/96
(UNDER BROWARD COUNTY CONTRACT
BID J-11-93-18-12) — FROM
BENNETT FIRE PRODUCTS COMPANY
FOR FIRE --RESCUE DEPT. -- ALLOCATE
$80,718.75.
2.11.
AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO EXECUTE
R 96-249
11
LEASE AGREEMENT: WITH WARNER
4/25/96
PLACE, INC. -- FOR USE BY EAST
LITTLE HAVANA NEIGHBORHOOD
ENHANCEMENT TEAM SERVICE CENTER
(NET) OF'.OFFICE `SPACE (111 S.W.
5TH AVENUE) -- INITIAL COST
$1,000 PER MONTH.
2.7.
AUTHORIZE PAYMENT: $5,000 TO
R 96-245
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CRIME 'STOPPERS OF DADE COUNTY --
4/25/96
TO BE USED AS: REWARD FOR
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INFORMATION LEADING UP TO OR
RESULTING IN ARREST / CONVICTION
OF SERIAL MURDERER RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE HOMELESS FIRE DEATHS.
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2.8.
APPROVE PAYMENT: ROM
R 96-246
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`CORPORATION,KANSAS CITY, MO --
4/25/96
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FOR 3' IFEX 3000 HOSEREEL UNITS
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WITH, GUN. AND WATER / AIR HOSE
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INSTALLED ON NEW RESCUE,
VEHICLES -- FOR FIRE -RESCUE
DEPT. -- ALLOCATE $33,099.71 FROM
CIP 313425.
2.9.
AUTHORIZE ACQUISITION:
R 96-247
13'
PROFESSIONAL. COASTAL DESIGN AND
4/25/96
ENGINEERING SERVICES (UNDER
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY
CONTRACT) -- WITH COASTAL SYSTEMS
INTERNATIONAL, INC. -- FOR
VIRGINIA`KEY BEACH` RENOURISHMENT
PROJECT -- ALLOCATE $51,500 FROM
SALE OF SURPLUS FILL MATERIAL
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FROM`'VIRGINIA KEY DISPOSAL SITE.
2.10.
AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO EXECUTE
R 96-248_
14
`AMENDMENT TO PROFESSIONAL
4/25/96
SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH PEER
CONSULTANTS,.P.C. -- FOR VIRGINIA
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KEY YARD / TRASH MANAGEMENT
FACILITY TO PREPARE PLANS /
SPECIFICATIONS FOR EXPANSION OF
FACILITY AT 3851 RICKENBACKER
CAUSEWAY -- CONSISTING OF PROPER
GRADING, DRAINAGE, PAVING, AND
CONSTRUCTION OF 2 ADDITIONAL
RETENTION PONDS PER STORM WATER
PERMIT CRITERIA -- INCREASE
COMPENSATION FOR PROVISION OF
EXPANSION SERVICES BY $12,000 --
ALLOCATE FUNDS FROM FY 95-96
RECYCLING AND EDUCATION GRANT
FUND (PROJECT 197.008).
2.12.
APPROVE BAYFRONT PARK MANAGEMENT
R 96-250
14
TRUST'S REQUEST TO RENAME /
"4/25/96
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'DEDICATE MILDRED AND CLAUDE
-'PEPPER ; BAYFRONT PARK SOUTH END'
AMPHITHEATER AS: TINA HILLS
`PAVILION.
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2.13.
CLASSIFY ONE SURPLUS CITY CAR AS
R 96-251
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CATEGORY "A" SURPLUS STOCK, IF
4/5/96
AVAILABLE DONATE SAME TO
VECINOS EN'ACCION (NOT -FOR -PROFIT
ORGANIZATION IN EAST LITTLE
HAVANA) - TO PROVIDE, FOOD,
TRANSPORTATION,, AND OTHER SOCIAL
:SERVICES TO NEEDY FAMILIES IN
SAID .AREA.
2.14.`
CLASSIFY 3 SURPLUS 32-YARD
R 96-252
15
RUBBISH TRUCKS, 3 SURPLUS 25-YARD
4/25/96
GARBAGE PACKING TRUCKS, 2 SURPLUS
DUMP ,'TRUCKS, ` AND 2 SURPLUS CARS
AS CATEGORY "A" SURPLUS STOCK (IF
AVAILABLE) -- DONATE SAME TO CITY
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CLAIM SETTLEMENT: JUAN CARLOS &
R 96-253
16'
BEDALINA PAZ ($58,000).
4/25/96
2.16.`
CLAIM SETTLEMENT: LAURA
R 96-254
16
SCARBROCK ($24,500).
4/25/96
2.17.
CLAIM SETTLEMENT: JUDY KLIGLER
R 96-255
16
($24,500).
4/25/96
2.18.
CONTINUE ENGAGEMENT OF ECKERT
R 96-256
17
SEAMANS CHERIN & MELLOT -- TO
4/25/96
SERVE AS COUNSEL TO THE CITY IN
CONNECTION WITH POST -TRIAL
LITIGATION IN CASE OF PERRY L.
ANDERSON, JR. vs. CITY OF MIAMI,
JORGE L. FERNANDEZ AND A. QUINN
JONES, III -- ALLOCATE $25,000.
2.19.
CONTINUE ENGAGEMENT OF WEISS,
R 96-257
17'
SEROTA & HELFMAN -- TO SERVE AS
4/25/96
COUNSEL TO THE CITY IN CONNECTION
WITH`PERSONNEL`MATTERS PERTAINING
TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPT. --
ALLOCATE $20,000.
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' 2.20.
MAKE INAPPLICABLE LICENSES OF
R 96-258
18
STREET.VENDORS / PEDDLERS WITHIN
4/25/96
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DESIGNATED AREAS ADJACENT. TO
ORANGE BOWL . STADIUM DURING
SPECIFIC HOURS DURING OLYMPIC
SOCCER COMPETITION (JULY 20-28,
1996) -- TO GIVE EFFECT TO RIGHT
OF SOUTH FLORIDA SOCCER
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE FOR 1996,
INC. TO OPERATE ALL NOVELTY AND
SOUVENIR <MERCHANDISE CONCESSIONS
FOR 1996 ATLANTA CENTENNIAL
OLYMPIC GAMES SOCCER COMPETITION
TO BE HELD AT ORANGE BOWL
STADIUM.
2.21.
ACCEPT PLAT: SIMPSON PARK FIRST
R 96-259
18
ADDITION.;
4/25/96
2.22.
ACCEPT MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION
R 96-260
19`
TO REJECT PROPOSAL SUBMITTED IN
4/25/96
'
RESPONSE TO RFP FOR LEASING OF
MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER
(900 & 970 S.W. 1ST STREET) --
DIRECT MANAGER TO RETURN PROPOSAL
GUARANTEE.
2.23.
AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO ISSUE
R 96-261
19
REVOCABLE LICENSE TO MCCAW
4/25/96
COMMUNICATIONS OF FLORIDA,
INC. -- FOR USE OF SPACE ON SIXTH
FLOOR OF.FIRE DEPARTMENT TRAINING
CENTER (3425 JEFFERSON STREET) --
FOR INSTALLATION / OPERATION /
-.MAINTENANCE OF UNMANNED MOBILE
TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT STATION --
INITIAL ANNUAL RENT '$10,000.
APPROVE ACQUISITION: SPECIALIZED
R 96-262
20
FLAT 'TIRE REPAIR SERVICES FOR
4/25/96
CITY.VEHICLES FROM ROUND TIRE
SERVICES, INC. (UNDER METRO-DADE
COUNTY BID 4935=2/98) -- FOR
POLICE DEPT. =- ALLOCATE $10,000.
2.25.
AUTHORIZE INCREASE (.$4,450). IN
R 96-263
20
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PURCHASE ORDER ISSUED TO JSK
4/25/9.6
INTERNATIONAL, INC. (FROM $11,174
TO $15,624) -- FOR SHENANDOAH
PARKIMPROVEMENT, CIP PROJECT
331360 -- -ALLOCATE FUNDS` FROM
CDBG MONIES PREVIOUSLY
APPROPRIATED`.
3.`
DESIGNATE RAFAEL HERNANDEZ
M 96-264
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HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
4/25/9.6
CORPORATION (RHHEDC) TO PREPARE
STUDY CONCERNING DEVELOPMENT OF
AFFORDABLERESIDENTIAL HOUSING AT
BOBBY'MADURO STADIUM --- DESIGNATE
NET ADMINISTRATOR, ELBERT WATERS,
TO BE ASSIGNED TO SAID PROJECT,
ETC.
4.
DISCUSS AND DEFER CONSIDERATION
DISCUSSION
37-38
OF PROPOSED RESOLUTION RELATING
4/25/96
TO DEVELOPMENT OF NEW HOPE /
OVERTOWN PROJECT, A 40-UNIT
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AFFORDABLE` _HOMEOWNERSHIP
PROJECT -- COMMISSIONER` DAWKTNS
REQUESTED THAT SAID ITEM BE HEARD
AT.A CRA MEETING FIRST.
5.,
APPOINT FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO
R 96-265
38-46
SERVE ON JOBS AND EDUCATION
R 96-265.1
PARTNERSHIP REGIONAL BOARD:
R 96-265.2
WILLIE IVORY (PRIVATE SECTOR),
4/25/96
JOHN ANDREWS (PRIVATE SECTOR),
WILBERT T. HOLLOWAY (PRIVATE
SECTOR), MANUEL VEGA (PRIVATE
SECTOR), EDUARDO PADRON
(EDUCATION), MELVIN CHAVES
(COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATION),
JOSEFINA HABIF (COMMUNITY BASED
ORGANIZATION), ANITA BOCK (PUBLIC
ASSISTANCE), MILLER J. DAWKTNS
(LOCAL ELECTED OFFICIAL), ARIEL
MELCHOR (PRIVATE SECTOR), BILL
RILEY (LABOR),. WILBUR BELL
(PRIVATE SECTOR), AND HOWARD GARY
(PRIVATE SECTOR).
'6.
RESCHEDULE BOTH' COMMISSION
R 96-266
46-48
MEETINGS IN. MAY TO TAKE PLACE ON
4/25/96
MAY 23, 1996.
7.
SUPPORT BAKEHOUSE ART COMPLEX
R`96-267,
-49-50
PROJECT -- CERTIFY SAID PROJECT
4/2-9/96
IS IN- COMPLIANCE WITH STATE OF
FLORIDA COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
REQUIREMENTS:
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DISCUSSION CONCERNING JOSE
DISCUSSION
51-52
ALEMAN'S PROPOSAL FOR AFFORDABLE
4/25/96
HOUSING.:
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DISCUSSION CONCERNING MARCH 14,
DISCUSSION 52-56
1996 DIRECTIVE TO ADMINISTRATION
4/25/96
PERTAINING TO ITS.114TENT RELATIVE
TO COMMERCIALFACADE AND CODE
COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS -- DEFER FOR
COMMISSIONER' DAWKINS'S
CLARIFICATION.
10.
.(A) DISCUSS AND ,CONTINUE (TO MAY
M 96-268 56-62
23RD MEETING) CONSIDERATION OF
4/25/96
CREATION, OF NET COUNCILS
DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE
FULL BUDGET CONTAINING (A) COST
STAFF INVOLVED AND (B) SAVINGS
REALIZED' THROUGH CONSOLIDATION OF
OFFI.CE SPACE INTO` RIVERSIDE
4.
CENTER ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
(B) DISCUSSION CONCERNING
COMMISSIONER CAROLLO'S REQUEST
FOR 3-5 YEAR BUDGETS.
11.
ACCEPT BID: TIFTON SELECT
R 96-269 63-65 '
GRASSING, INC. -- FOR PROJECT:
4/25/96
ORANGE BOWL FIELD, SOD
REPLACEMENT, B-6257 (SECOND
BIDDING) -- FOR PUBLIC WORKS
DEPT. -- ALLOCATE $56,000 FROM
CIP 404240.
12.
PERMIT EXISTING WALL ENCROACHMENT
R 96-270 65-67
ADJACENT TO 1641 TIGERTAIL AVENUE
4/25/96
TO REMAIN WITHIN DEDICATED RIGHT-
OF -WAY OF TIGERTAIL AVENUE,
SUBJECT TO RECORDING OF COVENANT
TO RUN WITH LAND. (See label 12)
13.
PERMIT UNDAMAGED PORTION. OF
R 96-271 68.
EXISTING FENCE ENCROACHMENT AND
4/25/96
RECONSTRUCTION OF PORTION. OF
EXISTING FENCE';_ ENCROACHMENT
ADJACENT TO 3630 JUSTISON.ROAD TO
REMAIN WITHIN DEDICATED RIGHT -OF-
WAY:.OF JUSTISON 'ROAD AND LYBER
AVENUE, SUBJECT TO RECORDING OF
COVENANT TO RUN WITH LAND.
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BRIEFLY DISCUSS AND CONTINUE
DISCUSSION
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CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED SECOND
4/25/96
,
READING ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH
:RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR
MEMBERS / KEY PERSONNAL OF
COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS
(CBOS),AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATIONS (CDCS) WHICH SOLICIT
CITY FUNDING.
15.
(A) PERMIT EXISTING FENCE
R 96-272
69-72
ENCROACHMENT ADJACENT TO 3995
4/25/96
PARK AVENUE TO REMAIN WITHIN
DEDICATED RIGHT-OF-WAY OF
BRAGANZA AVENUE, SUBJECT TO
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RECORDING OF COVENANT TO RUN WITH
LAND.
(B) (Continued) DISCUSSION
CONCERNING INSURANCE IN
CONNECTION WITH WALL ENCROACHMENT
ADJACENT TO 1641 TIGERTAIL
AVENUE. (See label 12)
16.
PRESENTATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS &
DISCUSSION
72
SPECIAL ITEMS.
4/25/96
17.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE: MANUEL
DISCUSSION
73-75
GONZALEZ-GOENAGA CONCERNING
4/25/96
ALLEGED POLICE BRUTALITY AND ITS
R 96-275 79780
4/25/96 i
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DENY REQUEST FROM SOUTH FLORIDA
M 96-276 81-87
1996 OLYMPIC` SOCCER- CONCERNING
4/25/96
bLYMPIC SOCCER 96-MILE. BALL RUN
THROUGH MIAMI, ENDING IN COCOWALK
(MAY 3, 1996)-
22
(A) SECOND READING ORDINANCE:
ORDINANCE 87,-94
AMEND. CODE CHAPTER 22 (GARBAGE
11352
AND ;TRASH) -- PROVIDE NEW
4/25/96
"
DEFINITIONS -- SET FORTH NEW
AREAS` OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR
NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENT TEAM'
(NET) SERVICE CENTERS PREVIOUSLY
HELD BY DIRECTOR, SOLID WASTE
.DEPT. --: PROVIDE NEW REGULATIONS
CONCERNING'' WASTE DISPOSAL BY
COMMERCIAL AND FOOD SERVICE
ESTABLISHMENTS -- SET FORTH NEW
STANDARDS ''CONCERNING ` LOCATION /
APPEARANCE OF GARBAGE / TRASH
CONTAINERS -- ADD NEW REGULATIONS
FOR PROPERTY OWNERS / OCCUPANTS
OF IMPROVED / UNIMPROVED
PROPERTY - SET NEW AREAS OF
RESPONSIBILITY OF PERSONS OTHER
-
THAN OWNERS OF PREMISES FOR
VIOLATIONS / NONCOMPLIANCE --
CREATE NEW ENFORCEMENT AND
ADMINISTRATIVE FEES.
(B) DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO COME
BACK WITH PLAN TO ADDRESS: (1)
TIRES BEING DUMPED ON PRIVATE
RESIDENCES, AND (2)'FINES TO BE
IMPOSED ON PROPERTY OWNERS
CONCERNING GRAFFITI.
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23:
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: -AMEND
ORDINANCE 94-96
CODE CHAPTER 2, SECTIONS 2-75 AND
11353
2-76, WHICH SET FORTH FEES FOR
4/25/96
ZONING CERTIFICATES' OF USE AND
FOR INSPECTION /-EXAMINATION OF
PLANS -- AMEND FEES' TO COVER _COST
FOR ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCE
11000.'AND SOUTH FLORIDA BUILDING,
CODE.
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� � SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND
ORDINANCE 96-1Q0
ORDINANCE.6145, WHICH ESTABLISHED
11354
FEES FOR BUILDING, PLUMBING,
4/25/96
ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL (INCLUDING
BOILER AND ELEVATOR) INSPECTION,
PERMIT AND CERTIFICATE FEES -
ADD / INCREASE REQUIRED FEES TO
COVER. COSTS FOR ENFORCEMENT OF
SOUTH FLORIDA BUILDING CODE.
(A) SECOND READING ORDINANCE:
ORDINANCE 100=103
ESTABLISH SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS
11355
:,,AND APPROPRIATE FUNDS: (1') 22ND
4/25/96
YEAR 'COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
GRANT- (CDBG) - ,$13,709,0001 (2)
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP
PROGRAM (HOME) - _$4,038,000, (3)
EMERGENCY SHELTERGRANT (ESG) -
$494,000, AND (4') HOUSING
OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH
"AIDS (HOPWA) - $81359,000 -
APPROPRIATE $2,700,000 FROM 21ST
YEAR CDBG PROGRAM INCOME, AS
APPROVED BY DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) --
TOTAL CDBG APPROPRIATION:
.$16,409,000.
(B)_DISCUSS RATIONALE OF AIDS
VICTIMS RECEIVING FUNDS FOR
HOUSING WHILE VICTIMS OF OTHER
SERIOUS ILLNESSES DO NOT RECEIVE
HELP.
26, SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND
ORDINANCE 103-104
CODE' ARTICLE XII, CHAPTER 2,
11356
CONCERNING STANDARDS FOR CREATION
4/25/96
REVIEW OF BOARDS -- PROVIDE_
THAT ALL MEMBERS OF CITY BOARDS
WHO RECEIVE REMUNERATION FROM THE
CITY.,SHALL, BEFORE,"ENTERING UPON
DUTIES OF OFFICE, TAKE AN -OATH /
AFFIRMATION THAT HE/SHE WILL
SUPPORT / PROTECT'/ DEFEND U.S:
' STATE OF FLORIDA CONSTITUTION /
LAWS.
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27..
DISCUSS :AND DEFER (FOR FURTHER
DISCUSSION 104-107
INFORMATION) CONSIDERATION OF
4/25/96
PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE
TO AMEND CODE CHAPTER 42, AND
ESTABLISH, MAXIMUM TOWING AND
STORAGE RATES CONCERNING VEHICLES
WHICH ARE - PARKED ON PRIVATE
PROPERTY WITHOUT" OWNER'S
PERMISSION.
28..
DISCUSS AND CONTINUE.
DISCUSSION. 108-110
CONSIDERATION" OF PROPOSED FIRST
4/25/96
READING.ORDINANCE TO CHANGE DATE
FOR 'CITY OF MIAMI MUNICIPAL RUN-
OFF ELECTION -(NOW SCHEDULED FOR
VETERANS' DAY, NOVEMBER 11) TO
_
NOVEMBER 18, 1997.
29.
(A) FIRST, READING ORDINANCE:
FIRST 110-113 :.
AMEND ORDINANCE 11337 (CAPITAL
READING
APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE) --
ORDINANCE
INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS
4/25/96
($700,000) FOR PROJECT: MIAMARINA
(413400).'
(B) DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO
INSTRUCT PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
TO PROVIDE COMMISSIONER PLUMMER
WITH COST FIGURES AND ANTICIPATED
SUBSIDY REQUIRED FOR NEW
MIAMARINA REDEVELOPMENT - PHASE
IV PROJECT.
30.
ACCEPT BIDS: (1) MCO
R 96-277 114-115
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC. (2)
4/25/96
DECON - ENVIRONMENTAL &
ENGINEERING, INC., (3) WAYNE
:BLACKWELL & CO. INC., (4) CROSS
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC., AND
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(5) DPC GENERAL CONTRACTORS,
INC. -- FOR FURNISHING ASBESTOS
ABATEMENT-SERVICES'TO'BUILDING &
ZONING DEPARTMENT -- APPROPRIATE
$150,000`,FROM CDBG,FUND.
31.
SCHEDULE PUBLICHEARING (MAY 23,
R 96-278 115-116
1996, 4:30 P.M.) TO TAKE
4/25/96
TESTIMONY REGARDING EXTENSION OF
TERM'- OF FLAGLER / CORE AREA
"SECURITY DISTRICT SPECIAL
414
IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.
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32.
AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO PREPARE /
R 96-279 117-120
SUBMIT APPLICATION TO U.S.
4/25/96
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT (HUD) FOR A LOAN
UNDER HUD SECTION 108 LOAN
PROGRAM ($5.6 '-MILLION) -- TO
FINANCE / DEVELOP S.W. 8TH STREET
SHOPPING CENTER PLAZA IN EAST
LITTLE :HAVANA TARGET AREA =- ON
BEHALF OF DEVELOPER. S.W. 8TH
STREET VENTURE, L.P. ( See libel
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43)
33.
APPROVE EXTENSION OF EXISTING
R 96-280120-122
CONTRACT WITH TRANSPORTATION,
4/25/96 f
INC. -- FOR CONTINUED LEASE OF 3
STORAGE CONTAINERS -- FOR DEPT.
OF GSA / SOLID WASTE'-- ALLOCATE
$6,690:
34.
DISCUSS AND CONTINUE
DISCUSSION 122-123
CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED
4/25/96
RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE
OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP)
FOR UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
(UDP) TO CONSIST OF DEVELOPMENT
OF COMMERCIAL AND RECREATIONAL
WATER -DEPENDENT FACILITIES (WITH
OPTIONAL FACILITIES) AND
ANCILLARY RELATED USES ON CITY-
36.
(A) DECLARE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT
R 96-282 128--131
PROJECT (UDP) AS MOST
4/25/96
ADVANTAGEOUS METHOD -- AUTHORIZE
PREPARATION OF.DRAFT REQUEST FOR
PROPOSALS .(RFP) FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF THE MIAMI-MARINE STADIUM AND
ANCILLARY MARINE, RECREATIONAL
AND RELATED FACILITIES, 'AT'MIAMI
MARINE STADIUM (3601 RICKENBACKER
CAUSEWAY, VIRGINIA KEY).
(B) DIRECT MANAGER TO CLEAR UP
AND MOW GRASS IN SAID SITE --
TRAILS (FEMA) AND ANIMALS THERE
AREA NUISANCE.
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DECLARE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT
R 96-283 131-133
PROJECT (UDP) :AS MOST
4/25/96 }
ADVANTAGEOUS METHOD -- AUTHORIZE
PREPARATION OF DRAFT REQUEST FOR
PROPOSALS ,(RFP) FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF BOAT YARD AND ANCILLARY
MARINE RELATED FACILITIES AT
VIRGINIA KEY -BOAT YARD (A.K.A.
MARINE STADIUM MARINA) (3501
RICKENBACKER CAUSEWAY).
38.
DISCUSS AND CONTINUE
DISCUSSION 134-136
CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED
4/25/96
RESOLUTION CONCERNING CLAIM
SETTLEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH
KOSTMAYER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY,
INC. AND ITS ATTORNEYS, ROBERT J.
BRYAN ESQ., AND GEORGE B.
:RECILE, ESQ. ($636,710.93).
39.
ACCEPT DONATION: 16GP300 2
R 96-284 136-137
CHANNEL 438-470 12.5 KHZ RADIOS
4/25/96.
AND BATTERY CHARGERS, FROM
DOWNTOWN', DEVELOPMENT, AUTHORITY
(DDA):AND MOTOROLA, INC.,.'THROUGH
FLORIDA RADIO RENTAL, INC. -- FOR
POLICE DEPARTMENT SECURITY
COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANCE NETWORK
(SCAN).
40.
AUTHORIZE MANAGER` TO ISSUE
R 96-285 137.-157'
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) -- TO
4/25/96
QUALIFY / SELECT ELIGIBLE FIRMS /
SOLE PROPRIETORS TO PROVIDE
TOWING / WRECKING SERVICES FOR
DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE -
RESCUE.
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(A) APPROVE ACQUISITION OF BODY
R 96-286 158-164
WORK REPAIR (COLLISION DAMAGE),
4/25/96 ;-
REFURBISHMENT,,' AND PAINTING
SERVICES'FOR 'CITY VEHICLES (UNDER
METRO-DADE`COUNTY BID 3881-4/01)
FROM: (1) ANTHONY ABRAHAM
CHEVROLET, (2). CRONY BODY WORKS,
(3) E.S.E.F. INCORPORATED, (4)
MACK SALES OF SOUTH FLORIDA, (5)
OLYMPIA BODY SHOP INC`. (6) PALM
TRUCK CENTERS, INC.'<, (7) PALMETTO
FORD TRUCK SALES, INC., (8)
RECHTEIN INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS
CORPORATION, (9) TRUCK CITY BODY
�-
CORPORATION, (10) WORLD MOTOR
CORP., (11) 3 POINTS PAINT AND
BODY WORKS, INC., (12) OCEAN
CADILLAC, (13) J & G BODY SHOP,'
(,14) ANGEL BUICK OLDSMOBILE, INC.
(15)'CHILE BODY SHOP, INC., AND
(16) NAVARRO PAINT AND BODY --
ALLOCATE $416,000.
(B) DIRECT ADMINISTRATION NOT TO
RELEASE CROWN VICTORIA VEHICLES
FOR CITY USE WITHOUT FIRST HAVING
CITY DECALS AFFIXED.
42.
DISCUSS AND CONTINUE
DISCUSSION 165-169
CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED
4/25/96
RESOLUTION TO ACCEPT BID FROM
GREGORI INTERNATIONAL OF FLORIDA,
INC. ($3,108,081, TOTAL BID) FOR
PROJECT: MELREESE GOLF COURSE
RENOVATIONS, B-3255.
43:
(Continued) CLARIFYING COMMENTS
DISCUSSION 169-170
BY CITY ATTORNEY CONCERNING
4/25/96
APPEAL (GROUP ALSO APPLYING TO
HUD .FOR SECTION108 LOAN) IN
CONNECTION WITH S.W. 8TH STREET
SHOPPING CENTER PLAZA. (See
label 32)
44.:
DISCUSSION CONCERNING CHRIST
DISCUSSION 170-171
EPISCOPAL CHURCH FUND-RAISER FOR
4/25/96
SCHOLARSHIP -- DEFERRED.
45..
CLOSE' DESIGNATED STREETS AND
R 96-287 172-173
ESTABLISH PEDESTRIAN MALL IN
4/25/96
.CONNECTION WITH MIAMI'S
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION (JULY 27-
`.
28, 1996), -- PROHIBIT RETAIL
PEDDLERS.
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COMMISSION EXPRESSES OPPOSITION
R 96-288 173-175 '
TO FLORIDA HOUSE BILL 2463 AND
4/25/96
SENATE BILL 1952, AMENDING F.S.'`
768.28, RELATING TO LIABILITY
LIMITATIONS WITH RESPECT TO
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY IN TORT
ACTIONS.
47.'.
(A) ACCEPT PROPOSAL: JILL BEACH
R 96-289 175-176
PRODUCTIONS, INC... -- TO PROVIDE
4/25/96
SERVICES FOR PRODUCTION OF VIDEO
FOR PARKS & RECREATION DEPT. TO
PROMOTE CITY'S PROGRAMS FOR
"PERSONS
WITH DISABILITIES --
ALLOCATE FUNDS ($13,240).
(B) COMMISSIONER PLUMMER DIRECTS
ADMINISTRATION TO IDENTIFY
COMMISSION AGENDA ITEMS ON CABLE
TV CHANNEL NET 9.
48.
COMMISSIONER PLUMMER STATES THAT
DISCUSSION 176-178
ZONING CLASSIFICATION C-1, WHICH
4/25/96
INCLUDES PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
BUILDINGS, SHOULD ALSO INCLUDE
BAIL BONDSMEN ADMINISTRATION
OFFICES.
49.
(A) APPELLANT WITHDRAWS APPEAL OF
DISCUSSION 179-180
ZONING BOARD'S DECISION TO UPHOLD
4/25/96
ZONING ADMINISTRATOR'S DECISION
CONCERNING CONSTRUCTION /
INSTALLATION OF A CELLULAR
COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY AT 8425
BISCAYNE_BOULEVARD. [Applicant:
T.N.A.Palms, Inc. (owners) /
BellSouth Mobility, Inc.
(lessee).- Appellant: BellSouth
Mobility, Inc.)
(B) APPLICANT WITHDRAWS REQUEST
FORSPECIAL EXCEPTION TO ALLOW
FINANCIAL. DRIVE -THROUGH' FACILITY
AT 2200 SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY,
ZONED ' O-OFFICE, SD-19..DESIGNATED
FLOOR, AREA, RATIO (FAR) OVERLAY
DISTRICT AND SD-3 COCONUT GROVE
G
MAJOR STREETS OVERLAY DISTRICT,
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WITH CONDITIONS. [Applicant:
Tri-W Investment 'Co. of Dade
County ,(owner)/J.P. O'Neill'for
Bank Atlantic.]
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(A) CONTINUE (TO MAY 23RD DISCUSSION 1$0-182
MEETING) PROPOSED RESOLUTION 4/25/96
CONCERNING REQUEST FOR SPECIAL
EXCEPTIONTO ALLOW- FINANCIAL
DRIVE -THROUGH FACILITY AT 2200
SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY, ZONED `A -
OFFICE, SD-19 DESIGNATED FLOOR
AREA RATIO, (FAR) OVERLAY DISTRICT
AND SD-3 COCONUT GROVE MAJOR
STREETS OVERLAY DISTRICT,_ WITH
CONDITIONS. [Applicant: Tri-W
Investment' Co. of Dade County
(owner)/J.P. O'Neill. for Bank
Atlantic.]
($) CONTINUE (TO MAY 23RD
MEETING) PROPOSED RESOLUTION
CONCERNING REQUEST FOR SPECIAL
EXCEPTION TO ALLOW DRIVE -THROUGH
FINANCIAL INSTITUTION WITH
REDUCTIONOFRESERVOIR SPACES, AT
-2200 SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY, ZONED
O-OFFICE, SD-19 DESIGNATED FLOOR
AREA RATIO (FAR) OVERLAY DISTRICT
AND SD-3 COCONUT GROVE MAJOR
STREETS OVERLAY DISTRICT, WITH
CONDITIONS. [Applicant: Tri-W
Investment Co. of Dade County
(owner)/J.P. O'Neill for Bank
Atlantic.]
51:
(A) CONTINUE (TO MAY 23RD
DISCUSSION 182-183
MEETING) CONSIDERATION OF
4/25/96
PROPOSED..FIRST READING 'ORDINANCE
TO AMEND ZONING -ORDINANCE 11000
ATLAS, CHANGING DESIGNATION AT
110,
3298.CHARLES AVENUE (MARIAH BROWN
HOUSE) FROM R-1 SINGLE-FAMILY
RESIDENTIAL TO R-1:SINGLE-FAMILY
RESIDENTIAL AND HP HISTORIC
PRESERVATION OVERLAY DISTRICTS.
[Applicant: Community Planning &
Revitalization Dept.]
(B) CONTINUE, (TO MAY 23RD
MEETING) CONSIDERATIONOF
PROPOSED FIRST READING. ORDINANCE
TO AMEND; ZONING ORDINANCE 11000
ATLAS, CHANGING DESIGNATION AT
3744-3754 STEWART AVENUE (MARJORY
STONEMAN DOUGLAS HOUSE) FROM R-1
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AND SD-
18 MINIMUM LOT OVERLAY DISTRICT
TO R-1 SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL,
SD-18 MINIMUM LOT OVERLAY
DISTRICT AND HP HISTORIC
PRESERVATION OVERLAY DISTRICTS.
[Applicant: Community Planning &
Revitalization Dept.]
52.
CONTINUE (TO MAY 23RD MEETING AT
DISCUSSION 183-186
6 P.M.) CONSIDERATION OF APPEAL
4/25/96
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CONTINUE TO MAY 23RD MEETING)
DISCUSSION 186-188
CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED FIRST
4/25/96
READING ORDINANCESt
(A) TO AMEND ZONING ORDINANCE
11000`ATLAS, CHANGING DESIGNATION
AT 2521 SOUTH .'BAYSHORE DRIVE
(TRAPP HOUSE) FROM R-1 SINGLE -
RESIDENTIAL TO R-1.SINGLE--
FAMILY 'RESIDENTIAL AND HP
HISTORIC PRESERVATION OVERLAY
DISTRICTS.;
(B) TO RESCINDI ORDINANCE- 11207,
AMENDING : 10544,, MIAMI
COMPREHENSIVE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN
1989-2000 (MCNP), AMENDING
;
INTERPRETATION OF FUTURE LAND USE
MAP TO ALLOW PROFESSIONAL
OFFICES, TOURIST AND GUEST HOMES,`
MUSEUMS, AND PRIVATE CLUBSOR
LODGES AMONG LAND USES PERMITTED
ONLY WITHIN DESIGNATED .HISTORIC
SITES / DISTRICTS WITHIN SINGLE
FAMILY DUPLEX AND MEDIUM DENSITY
MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL LAND USE
CATEGORIES, WITH INTENSITY CAPS.
(C) TO AMEND ZONING ORDINANCE
(11000) TEXT, ARTICLE 7 (HP
HISTORIC PRESERVATION OVERLAY
DISTRICTS), SUBSECTION 704.1.4
(DEVIATIONS.CONCERNING OFF-STREET
PARKING), TO ALLOW VALET PARKING
FOR PRIVATE CLUBS OR LODGES, TO
REQUIRE SPECIAL EXCEPTION FOR
PRIVATE CLUBS OR LODGES, TO ADD
NEW SUBSECTION- SETTING MINIMUM
LOT SIZE AND HOURS OF OPERATION
FOR:_PRIVATE CLUBS OR LODGES .IN
-
SUCH- DISTRICTS. [Applicant:
Community Planning &
Revitalization Dept.]
DISCUSS AND TEMPORARILY TABLE
DISCUSSION 188-190
CONSIDERATION OF PZ-15, PZ-16 AND
4/25/96 '
PZ-17. (See labels`59 & 60)
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AMEND DEVELOPMENT ORDER
R 96-290 190-193
(RESOLUTION 85-1060) FOR BRICKELL
4/25/06
SQUARE PROJECT, PHASE II (845-999
BRICKELL- AVENUE), A DEVELOPMENT
OF REGIONAL IMPACT EXTEND
COMMENCEMENT DATE OF PHASE II
FROM MAY OF 1996 TO DECEMBER OF
1999.[APplicantc Equitable Life
Assurance Society of the United
States.]
56'.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND
ORDINANCE 194-196
ZONING -ORDINANCE-(11000)> TEXT,
11357
.'SECTION
401 ("SCHEDULE OF DISTRICT
4/25/96
REGULATIONS) -- ALLOW -PUBLIC
=.
STORAGE FACILITIES AS A
CONDITIONAL PRINCIPAL USE IN C-1
RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL ZONING
-
DISTRICT -- ADD NEW SECTION
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REGULATING PUBLIC STORAGE
FACILITIES -- DEFINE PUBLIC
STORAGE FACILITIES. [Applicant:
Community Planning &
Revitalization Dept.]
57.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND
ORDINANCE 196-197
ZONING ORDINANCE (11000) TEXT,
11358
SECTION 608 (SD-8 DESIGN PLAZA
4/25/96
COMMERCIAL -RESIDENTIAL
DISTRICT) -- MODIFY REQUIREMENTS
FOR MIXED USE PROJECTS WHICH
INCORPORATE A RESIDENTIAL
COMPONENT -- AMEND SECTION 617
(SD-17 SOUTH BAYSHORE DRIVE
OVERLAY. DISTRICT) -- MODIFY /
CLARIFY HEIGHT LIMITATIONS.
-,[Applicant;
Community Planning &
'
Revitalization.Dept..]
58.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND
ORDINANCE - 197-198`
ZONING ORDINANCE_(11000), SECTION
11359
O (SCHEDULE OF DISTRICT
4/25/96
REGULATIONS) -- ALLOW VEHICLE
RENTAL FACILITIES AS A
CONDITIONAL PRINCIPAL USE IN C-1
RESTRICTED COMMERCIAL ZONING
DISTRICTS -- ADD NEW SECTION _947'
(VEHICLE RENTAL FACILITIES) --
PROVIDE FOR REGULATION /
IMPLEMENTATION OF SAID USE.
[Applicant: Community Planning &
Revitalization Dept.]
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(A) (Continued) SECOND READING
ORDINANCES 199-207
ORDINANCE: AMEND ZONING
11360 `
ORDINANCE (11000) TEXT, ARTICLE 9
11361
(GENERAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY
4/25/96
REGULATIONS) -- PROVIDE NEW
`SECTION 910, (UNITY OF TITLE) --
PROVIDE FOR IMPLEMENTATION.
[Applicants- CommunityPlanning &
Revitalization Dept.] (See label
54)
(B) (Continued) SECOND READING
ORDINANCE: -AMEND CODE, SECTION
54.5=1`1 (SUBDIVISION
'REGULATIONS) -- PERMIT PROPERTY
OWNERS TO SUBMIT COVENANTS IN
LIEU OF UNITY OF TITLE.
[Applicant': Community Planning &
Revitalization Dept.] (See label
54)
60.
(Continued) FIRST READING
FIRST 207-209
ORDINANCE: AMEND ZONING
READING
ORDINANCE (11000) TEXT, SECTION
ORDINANCE
_917.9 (JOINT PARKING FACILITIES
4/25/96
FOR CONTIGUOUS USES, SPECIAL
EXCEPTION REQUIRED), SECTION
922.8 (JOINT LOADING FACILITIES
FOR, CONTIGUOUS USES, CLASS II
SPECIAL PERMIT REQUIRED), AND
SECTION 924.1.3 (LIMITATIONS ON
LOCATION AND EXTENSION OF DOCKS
AND PIERS IN RESIDENTIAL
DISTRICTS) -- REQUIRE THAT
RECORDABLE AGREEMENTS BE
PROFFERED BY APPLICANTS FOR
SHARED FACILITIES AS A PERMITTING
CONDITION.-- AMEND SECTION 922.8
TO PROVIDE FOR FINDINGS --
PROVIDE DEFINITIONS' FOR COMBINED
'
FACILITIES, JOINT.FACILITIES, AND
SHARED .FACILITIES. [Applicant:_
Community Planning &
Revitalization Dept.] (See label
54)
61
FIRST 'READING ORDINANCE: AMEND
FIRST 209-210
ZONING ORDINANCE (11000) TEXT,
READING
SECTION 615 (SD-15 RIVER QUADRANT
ORDINANCE`
MIXED' -USE DISTRICT) -- MODIFY
4/25/96
EXISTING SIGNAGE REGULATIONS.
`[Applicant: Community Planning &
Revitalization Dept.]
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62.
FIRST READING ORDINANCES AMEND
FIRST 210-211
EONING ORDINANCE (11000) TEXT,
READING
SECTION_'926 -- ALLOW SEALS AND
ORDINANCE
EMBLEMS AS A. MEANS OF. BUILDING
4/25/96
IDENTIFICATION -- PROVIDE
LIMITATIONS ON SUCH SIGNS.
[Applicant: Community Planning &
Revitalization Dept.]
63.
DISCUSS.AND CONTINUE (TO MAY 23RD
DISCUSSION_ 211-214
;MEETING)CONSIDERATION OF
4/25/96
PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE
:TO AMEND CODE CHAPTER 35 (MOTOR
VEHICLES S'` AND TRAFFIC), SECTION
35-194, INCREASING THE COCONUT
GROVE PARKING TRUST FUNDPARKING
BANK' BY 170 .SPACES, TO NEW
MAXIMUM OF. 11170 SPACES.
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[Applicant: Community Planning'&
Revitalization Dept.]
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Mayor Stephen P. Clark
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
ALSO PRESENT:
C. Commendations: Police Officers Christine Ballesteros and Ariel Saud -- Most
Outstanding Officers of the Month (January 1996).
D. Commendation: Police Detective Pedro Pidermann -- Most Outstanding Officer of
the Month (February 1996).
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Mr. Manuel Gonzalez-Goenaga: Good morning, Commissioners and citizens of Miami. My
..name; is Manny "Boom -Boom" Gonzalez-Goenaga, the one and only. I want to speak with... in
'general and some of the items in particular. Taking away the ones that have been withdrawn that
I... happens to be that I was going to speak on each and every one. I would like to speak on 15,
16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24,125, 26,, 27, 29, 30, and 33. Yet, I am... In order to go to the crux of
the matter, in particular, I'm going to speak about CA-27, and making a comparison with CA-26.
When the distinguished, efficient Law Department of the City of Miami asks for additional funds
for outside counsel - and I do understand the position regarding conflict of interest - the case
number in CA-26; is mentioned of Perry Anderson 'versus the City of Miami, JorgeFernandez
and Quinn Jones, III. Yet, on CA-27, it's an additional fees for Weiss, Serota and Helfman.
And it's... They don't even mention the case. Question number one, is the case the... the federal
case of Gerald , Lopez Morales and Ralph Rosas Baldazaris against Cesar Odio and Victor De
Yurre? If that is the case, fifteen dollars ($15) were previously awarded to this law firm, who,
incidentally, were good contributors to the campaign of Victor De Yurre. In addition, twenty
thousand dollars ($20,000). It adds up to thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000). And I have
been watching closely this federal lawsuit. And you can rest assured, Commissioners, that very
little effort, very little has been done by this law firm, except a, motion to dismiss the federal case
for violation of civil rights, and Victor De Yurre is not a Commissioner anymore. When I am
arrested, I have to hire my own attorneys. And yet, we have to pay the attorneys for these
people, on top of the good salaries that they have.
Vice Mayor Gort: Mr. Gonzalez, please, make the questions, and we'll answer your questions...
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: Well, I already made one question.
Vice Mayor Gort: OK.
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: If it is the federal case?
Vice Mayor Gort: All the questions, my suggestion to the Law Department, they'll be answered
at.the end.
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: Well, at the end...
Vice Mayor Gort: You just go ahead and make your presentation, ask all your questions, and he
will answer, sir.
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: Is it - CA-27 the federal case of Geraldo Lopez Morales and Ralph
Rosas Baldazaris. versus Cesar Odio and. ex -Commissioner Victor De Yurre, yes or no, Mr.
Attorney?
A. Quinn Jones, III, Esq. (City Attorney): No,
Vice Mayor Gort: Thank you, sir.
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga Yes?
Mr. Jones: No.
Vice Mayor Gort: No. The answer is no.
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: The answer is none?
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pertainsto? So I can follow, it in the...
Mr. Jones: Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga, if you had been to the City Commission meeting wherein'
the Commission approved the initial engagement, it involves several dismissals of City
employees. That's what this firm was hired for, relative to an investigation of our Community
Development' Department,'
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: And what's the problem with the Community Development
Department?
Mr. Jones:. Well, I can't tell you what the problem is. I can tell you why they were engaged,
which I just indicated to you why they were engaged.
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: So this additional twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) doesn't have
anything to do'with the previous. fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) that were given to this law
firm to defend Victor De Yurre.
Mr. Jones: No, absolutely not.
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: Well, I'm glad, because, you see...
Vice Mayor Gort: OK, please, Mr. Goenaga. We've got a long agenda, and a lot of people
waiting.
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: OK. I know, I know, I know. That's the problem.
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Mr. Cruz: Mariano Cruz, 1227 Northwest 26th Street in Allapattah, Miami, Dade County,
Florida Since I am here for one issue as well, because I check all of this and, you know, politics
is`the art. I... consent agenda. I get... T am going to check some of them fast. Politics is the art
of delivering money to people, giving money away, but you got to see who pays for it and who
gets it, and keep everybody happy. I am not happy the way the monies are being given away to
Allapattah and all . that. And, like I see here, the Orange Bowl, nineteen thousand dollars
($19,000) first, see? Very good. Other City facilities should be treated like the Orange Bowl or
the Dinner Key Convention Hall: They won't be in so dilapidated way if they have been taken
care, especially with the monies we pay in Allapattah. Resolution... Number 2 was withdrawn.
Now, here, number 7, the money for the helicopter fuel. Is that a take-home vehicle, too? Do
the pilot of the helicopter take it home? Because I see they have a lot of people taking them
home. They use a...
Commissioner Plummer: Oh, a take-home helicopter.
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Vice Mayor Gort: No. My understanding is they can't. Go ahead, sir.
Mr. Cruz: OK. I know. That's one there. This was withdrawn, the cars, the Oldsmobile, more
take-home cars, and all that.
Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Manager, is there a full moon?
Mr. Odio: You know something?
Vice Mayor Gort: Excuse me.
Commissioner Plummer: Take-home helicopters?
Vice Mayor Gort: Excuse me. Go ahead, sir, continue.
Mr. Odio: Yes, there is a full moon.
Mr. Cruz: Right. These of the parking lot were withdrawn. Fine. Now, here, I see, finally, that
the NET office - of Little Havana, East Little Havana, is going to be in East Little Havana.
Before, they were two blocks west from East Little Havana. I'd like to see the CBO
(Community, Based Organization), the East Little Havana Development Corporation in Little
Havana, not at 1699 Coral Way, like it is now. This should be in Little Havana, and that they
will share ,with everybody there. Actually, they're getting money and they... OK. Now, the
other one. This was withdrawn. Now I see all this money that is being settled out of court here
by the Risk Department of the City, fifty-eight thousand, twenty-four thousand. I never see any
time that the City is collecting money from anybody. Always the City is giving money away.
Why? Because ' I work for the Federal government. The Federal government, if I have an
accident or something and the other driver is at fault, they pay me continuation of pay. But if I
go to sue, whatevermonies I recover will be used to pay whatever the Federal government paid
me. And then whatever is left, I keep. But the only thing I see, the City paying and paying
money. No wonder there's no money for the parks and for the programs, and all that. And you s
ask... Or there is no money to mail me the agenda. Forty thousand and fifty thousand. And I
see here hundreds of thousands of dollars being given away on this 27. Twenty-six, 27, the same
thing. Outside counsel. ` What about our fine Law Department with so many lawyers, with so
much expertise there? We can use some of the lawyers we got. What we need the Law
Department? Get on Administration. Mr. Diaz will settle out of court, Joe will litigate. We
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donneed the full complete Department of Law when... Look at how many cases are being just
farmed out. Now, and then here, I see here... There was a lot of them, too. But something for
the flats.: What about our General Service Department?' We have people working" there. We
have �laid off so many people and retired so many people that now we got to be farming out basic
service, like towing service for police vehicle, and flat service, and mechanic service, and body
shop service. Everything is being farmed out. I mean, that's what l see. I see or hear under the
old one, 'eighty thousand dollars for human resources. What about our Personnel Department?
So we have people there.Can they find a test? You can go to the library to research and find a
test for the people. No. We needto pay eighty thousand dollars to a Dr. Sheldon Zedeck to do
that.. And like that, you know, many, many, many, many more. I went through the agenda.
Thanks to the :Office of Miller Dawkins, he's sending it to my house, because people offer me to
take the agenda to my home and they haven't delivered. But the office of Miller Dawkins did it.
And if you could say... Here, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars being spent in just
without litigation, just settle on the whole thing, and giving away whatever is... Everything boils
down to politics, who gets it and who pays for it. And I am tired of paying. We want parity. f
We want our parks to have programs, and we want our City facilities to be taken care,' like
Dinner Key Convention Center, and like the Orange Bowl. Thank you.
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Vice Mayor Gort: Thank you, sir. OK. Commissioner Carollo.
Commissioner Carollo: We can move ahead. The items that I had questions with, I see have r
been withdrawn already. _
Commissioner Plummer: I have two. Mr. Manager, on CA-22, of giving surplus equipment to
other municipalities or Sister City Programs, I would like to instigate that in the future, that once
we give these vehicles or equipment, that if, in fact, that municipality sells that equipment, that
the proceeds of the sale come to the City of Miami. Because in reality is if we didn't give it
away, it would go to a surplus auction, and we would get the money direct. But I would say that
in the future, I would like to see the resolution state that if any of this equipment is sold by that
municipality that, in fact, the money comes to the City of Miami. On item 28, I have no problem
with that -Yvop f T xvniihi Mra 4n av+=",I 41n4 is T - AA« rI.N.. Au,.««.... L.__...___ _a __ ___
Mr. Jones: Twenty-seven. My recollection is it's a hundred... I think it's a hundred seventy-five
dollars ($175) an hour.
Commissioner Carollo: Because this...
Mr. Jones: It's been discounted, a hundred and seventy-five dollars ($175).
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of
the City Clerk.)
2.3. ACCEPT BID: PARK STRUCTURES, INC. -- FOR FURNISHING PLAYGROUND
STRUCTURE FOR CORAL GATE PARK -- FOR PARKS & RECREATION DEPT. --
ALLOCATE $11,102.
RESOLUTION NO.96-241
2.14. CLASSIFY 3 SURPLUS 32-YARD RUBBISH TRUCKS, 3 SURPLUS 25-YARD
GARBAGE PACKING TRUCKS, 2 SURPLUS DUMP TRUCKS, AND 2 SURPLUS
CARS AS CATEGORY "A" SURPLUS STOCK (IF AVAILABLE) -- DONATE SAME
TO CITY OF NORTH MIAMI BEACH.
RESOLUTION NO.96-252
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CLAIM SETTLEMENT: JUAN CARLOS & BEDALINA PAZ ($58,000).
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RESOLUTION NO.96-253
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO
PAY JUAN CARLOS AND BEDALINA PAZ THE SUM OF
.$58,000.00, WITHOUT ANY ADMISSION OF. LIABILITY, IN FULL
AND. COMPLETE -SETTLEMENT OF ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AND
DEMANDS AGAINST THE CITY OF ' MIAMI IN THE CIRCUIT -
COURT IN AND FOR DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, CASE NO. 95-
'12773 CA (09); ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE CITY
OF MIAMI SELF-INSURANCE AND INSURANCE TRUST FUND,
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INDEX CODE NO.620103-653.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of
the City Clerk.)
2.16.
CLAIM SETTLEMENT: LAURA SCARBROCK ($24,500).
RESOLUTION NO.96-254
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO
PAY LAURA. SCARBROCK, PLAINTIFF, THE SUM OF $24,500.00,
WITHOUT ANY ADMISSION OF LIABILITY, IN FULL AND
COMPLETE SETTLEMENT OF ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AND
DEMANDS AGAINST THE CITY OF MIAMI IN THE CIRCUIT
COURT OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, CASE NO. 92-20243 CA
(13); ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFORE FROM THE CITY OF
MIAMI SELF-INSURANCE AND INSURANCE TRUST FUND,
ACCOUNT CODE NO. 620103-651.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of
the City Clerk.)
2.17.
CLAIM, SETTLEMENT: JUDY KLIGLER($24,500).
RESOLUTION NO.96-255
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO
.PAY TO JUDY KLINGLER THE SUM OF $24,500.00, WITHOUT
ANY ADMISSION OF LIABILITY, IN FULL AND COMPLETE
SETTLEMENT OF ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS
AGAINST THE CITY OF MIAMI IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF
DADE COUNTY, CASE NO. 94-6091 (CA 10), UPON THE
EXECUTION OF A GENERAL RELEASE RELEASING THE CITY OF a
MIAMI FROM ANY AND . ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS;
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI'
SELF-INSURANCE AND INSURANCE TRUST FUND, INDEX CODE
NO.620101-653. t
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the City Clerk.) }
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2.19. CONTINUE ENGAGEMENT OF WEISS, SEROTA & HELFMAN -- TO SERVE AS
COUNSEL TO THE CITY IN CONNECTION WITH PERSONNEL MATTERS
PERTAINING TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPT. -- ALLOCATE $20,000.
RESOLUTION NO.96-257
A RESOLUTION CONTINUING THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE LAW
FIRM OF WEISS, SEROTA & HELFMAN. P.A. TO SERVE AS
COUNSEL TO THE CITY OF MIAMI IN CONNECTION WITH
PERSONNEL MATTERS PERTAINING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
RESOLUTION NO.96-263
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE, IN AN AMOUNT
NOT TO EXCEED $4,450, IN THE PURCHASE ORDER ISSUED TO
JSK INTERNATIONAL, INC., FROM $11,174 TO $15,624, FOR
SHENANDOAH PARK IMPROVEMENT, CIP PROJECT NO. 331360;
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3. DESIGNATE RAFAEL HERNANDEZ HOUSING AND ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (RHHEDC) TO PREPARE STUDY
CONCERNING DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE RESIDENTIAL,
HOUSING AT BOBBY MADURO STADIUM -- DESIGNATE NET
ADMINISTRATOR, ELBERT WATERS, TO BE ASSIGNED TO SAID
PROJECT, ETC.
Vice Mayor Gort Item 2, discussion concerning the future development of Bobby Maduro
Stadium. If you all will recall, this item was deferred from last meeting and was requested to be
heard first today.
Mr. Angel Diaz: My name is Angel Diaz. I am executive director of the Rafael Hernandez
Housing and Economic Development Corporation. My address is 2902 Northwest 2nd Avenue.
The Rafael Hernandez Housing and Economic Development Corporation is a nonprofit
community -based organization serving the Wynwood/Allapattah neighborhoods. For the past
three years, Rafael Hernandez Corporation has been working hard to build single-family
affordable housing that could be sold to the residents of these communities. Actually, we are
embarking on a project that would enable us to build six scattered single-family houses in lots
made available by the City of Miami. We have already secured the financing for the
construction, and the plans were submitted to the City of Miami for approval recently. Also, for
the past two years, we have been contemplating the idea to build affordable housing at the site
where the Bobby Maduro Stadium actually stands. This idea was originated by Father Jose Luis
Menendez, pastor of Corpus Christi Church in Allapattah, who happens to be here. In trying to
pursue this idea, we celebrated several meetings with Mr. Cesar Odio, City of Miami Manager,
and them we decided to make a presentation of the project to the City Commission on its
December 7th meeting. Due to reasons beyond our control, the presentation was postponed. On
April 26th, the item was again brought to the City Commission's attention, but was withdrawn at
the last minute. In the meantime, the University of Miami School of Architecture became
interested in the preservation of the stadium, including affordable housing. Under the leadership
of Professor Orlando Llanes, an urban design chart was celebrated between April 12th to 14th.
From the charette, they made three alternatives to preserve the stadium, as well as create
affordable housing. Because any one of these alternatives would have the effect of enhancing
the community, which is our main goal, we would be willing to work side by side with the
University of Miami in this endeavor. At this moment, we urge the City Commission to give
Rafael He Corporation and the University of Miami the go ahead to bring one of these
alternatives to reality for the benefit of the community. Specifically, we want that the City
Commission designate Rafael Hernandez Housing and Economic Development Corporation as
sponsor _to undertake the development of the Bobby Maduro site, taking into consideration the
alternatives proposed by the University of Miami School of Architecture in a period not to
exceed three years, and 'within one year, submit evidence of firm commitments related to the
construction and permanent financing to the City Commission for their consideration and
approval.
Vice Mayor Gort: Thank you. Father Menendez.
Father Jose Luis Menendez: I would like only to say one thing. You know, with these...
Vice Mayor Gort: Name and address, please, Father.
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Father Menendez: My name is Father Menendez. I am living in Allapattah, 3220 Northwest 7th
Avenue, not' far away from Bobby Maduro. With this opportunity that Rafael Hernandez
presented "today here, we... I think that unites all the efforts of the strength of our community.
We will .always says that we want, you know, the corporation to start working and developing
this land, the University of Miami,the preservationists trying to save what is in the first
centenary of our City, trying to save everything suitable in our City. And also, we would like to
have some representative of the City in this joint, you know, force, to work for this, you know,
Bobby Maduro site. And that is why we are asking the City of Miami, as we have been doing
this for the last year and a half, at least trying to see if we can develop that, give us the
opportunity of one year of studies, all the plans that we can do for that. Then you will decide.
Vice Mayor Gott: Thank you, Father. Anybody else wishing to speak on this item?
Commissioner Plummer: I just... Mr. Manager, do we have a copy... I heard him make a
statement that they had the financing guaranteed. Do we have a copy of that financing proposal?
Mr. Diaz: No. At this time we don't have that because we have a group of banks that are
interested in the project.
Commissioner Plummer: Well, you made the statement that you had financing arranged.
Mr. Diaz: No, no, no.
Vice Mayor Gott: No. His statement was once the project has been identified by them, then
they will procure the...
Mr. Diaz: Yes. Because the main problem is that the... That's what the banks said to us. "You
have to have the consenting of the City before, and then we can come in," you know. So we
have...
Vice Mayor Gott: Right.
Commissioner Plummer: I misunderstood you, sir. I thought you said that you had financing
already arranged.
Vice Mayor Gott: Thank you.
Commissioner Plummer: Thank you. Yes, sir.
Mr. Joe Fleming: My name is Joe Fleming, and I'm an attorney, and I'm at 620 Ingraham
Building in Miami. I was interested in trying to work with the City to see if this stadium; which
is an incredible resource, could be utilized for the community. And we were told to see .Father
Menendez, and then Mr. Diaz. And independently, the University of Miami and Professor
Llanes, who is here - he'll. be speaking in a moment - became involved in trying to come up with
concepts. So at the request of the City, we met with interested citizens. I am independent of this
particular group, and so is Professor Llanes. We have just done this as volunteers to assist the
City.., But Professor Llanes has created a charette which was an opportunity for architects and
students to meet and see if something could be done to use the stadium in a way that would be
consistent with any concepts that any groups and the City might want to use. And so we are
acting independently, and would like to volunteer our services to try to help the City. And
Professor Llanes, who is independent, has created a charette and provided some information, and
I thought maybe you could hear from him briefly now, so that he could explain what he has done
and some of the, opportunities. Professor Llanes.
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Mr. Rolando Llanes: Good morning. My name is Professor Rolando Llanes. I'm with the i
School of Architecture at the University of Miami; and...
Vice Mayor Gort: Give us your address, please.
Mr. Llanes: 5910 Southwest 35th Street, And as Joe mentioned, we got involved in this project
out of... Well, personally, I've been pursuing writing a history of the stadium, and also,. in a
sense, paralleling the history of professional baseball in Miami. And then one thing led to
another, and it was brought to our attention that there. were movements being made towards
looking at a possible future development of that particular site, some of which, in that case,
didn't include the stadium as a component of those ideas. And we thought that before we lose
this window of opportunity that we would like to get involved on our end, from the university
standpoint, in terms of helping the community of Allapattah. And this is really not a "save the
stadium'' as much as it is "save the community and help the community." And I think that is...
that must be underscored. I think I left a copy for all of you Tuesday of the charette document,
and the images on the cover, and in fact, the booklet ends with those two images. One shows...
And I have them here. I don't know if you want to project them upon the wall. I don't have to
do that. OK.Well, I have an overhead, yeah.
Commissioner Plummer: Oh, fine. Good. Thank you.
Mr. Llanes: This won't take too long. But on the images there that you see, and again, they're...
OK.
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Mr. Llanes: Some of you may know a little bit of the history of this place, and it goes back a
long way, over 50 years, and it's truly a remarkable structure from an architectural point of
view...
Commissioner Plummer: Fifty years? '46? No, not quite.
Mr. Llanes: .. but it also is a quite vital part of the culture of Miami and of our history. The two
images that you see there, the image on the right shows the "stadium, looking north on Northwest
loth Avenue, as it is currently, today. The image on the left, by some handiwork at the computer
lab at the university, we took the building out and show you the empty lot, in a sense, to bring
the paint home that once you get rid of it, it's gone forever. And the void that is left is not just a
physical one, but a cultural one, as well. And we thought that we would take this, what I call this
little window of opportunity that we were presented with over the last month or so, and last few
weeks to do as much as we could to present to all of you, and the citizens, particularly, the fact
that there could be development in this area that centers around the stadium as a focal point,
rather than to get rid of it and then wait around to see what might happen on this empty lot. This
image represents one of three schemes that we did. Probably the most...
Vice Mayor Gort: Can you see it?
Commissioner Plummer: I can see it.
Mr. Llanes: This is what we call the Allapattah Town Center Proposal, which proposes to use
the stadium and its structure as really a catalyst and a center, a community center for Allapattah,
which is something that it. sorely lacks today. It would not be... It would not be, per se, a
baseball stadium. As you can see in the drawing, the center or the field itself, as it is currently
today, would' be converted into a public plaza, a palm court. Some of the seats would remain
and accommodate an amphitheater, which you would come to expect in a public forum such as
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this. The underneath portions of the grandstands would be reappropriated as programs. Again,
City. functions, NET. offices, daycare center, a public pool. All of that could be... The structure !
IS completely sound. It is truly a building of remarkable engineering, and a building that, if you
were to, build an equivalent one today... To give you an idea, I think the stadium in Homestead
cost about ten million dollars. It has no roof. This thing is far and away a much more
spectacular structure that you probably could not build for that kind of money today. So our
feeling is that if you tear it down to really build back up a kind of community component, it
would be kind of silly, because you already have the infrastructure there. It also does something
that in discussions with the City planner have come up, which is an interesting point, is that if
you simply parade housing all the way south on that site to the edge of that industrial area, that
will make those houses on that edge quite marginal, since they have to compete or deal with that
kind of environment. And the stadium, in a way, acts as a buffer to that. It's an attraction. We
would also, in all the schemes that we proposed, propose a pedestrian friendly connection back
to the Metro station on 12th, because we feel that that is a critical component of any project
Which will bring people as far north as Hialeah and as far south as Kendall to this site shop.
As you notice here, this structure right here is a public market that is also consistent in all three
schemes. It would accommodate' the flea market functions that we now have there and so on. ! .
On this part here, you see the housing that begins to try to knit this kind of scale along this back
northern edge of the site, leaving the more civic structures to compete and deal with all of this
happening here.
Vice Mayor Gort: Mr. Llanes?
Mr. Llanes: Yes.
Vice Mayor Gort: Could you try to speed it up, please, because you're going to have to come
back to us anyway with a presentation... OK? My understanding of what's in front of us is that
the request today is to give the rights for the... to the group to go back and continue with the
charette, get the community involved and come up with a plan that will be feasible, and bring it
back to us within a year. Am I correct? That's what's in front of us today. And I didn't mean to
cut you short, Mr. Llanes, but we have a long agenda. We got to go. And we'll get back to this.
Father Menendez: Can I say something, Commissioner?
Vice Mayor Gort: Yes, sir.
Father Menendez: Jorge Maduro is the son of Bobby Maduro, and I think that the last word has
to be from him and...
Mr. Jorge Maduro: Well, I'd just like to thank the group for asking me to participate.
Vice Mayor Gort: Name and address, please, sir.
Mr. Maduro: Oh. Jorge Maduro, 11205 Southwest 112th Avenue. I said I'd like to lend my
support to the group here and to request. from the Commission... I remember many years ago
when'you bestowed on my father to have the name Maduro Stadium. You know, my dad tried
always to dive his life to develop a healthy body, mind and spirit, which is so needy in our
'community. And Rolando had mentioned the fact that this is a... He mentioned physical and
cultural. I'm going to also add the spiritual side, and that's why I'm very glad that Father
Menendez is involved, because picture this, and know how I know we're going to come up with
the right decision. My father goes in the.operating room, has a tumor in his head. He comes out
a vegetable. And it's hard to see your father a vegetable after he's been a sports figure. When I
looked at his death bed, the only thing you could see was Maduro Stadium. So_I know God is
going to guide us here to make the best decision. So whatever we can do, T would appreciate it
very much.
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Vice Mayor Gort: Thank you, Mr. Maduro. Yes, sir.
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Mr. Luis de Rosa: I'll be brie£ My name is 'Luis de Rosa. I'm vice chairman of the Rafael
Hernandez Corporation,1801 Coral Way.
Vice Mayor Gort: Give me your address, please.
Mr. de Rosa: I'm sorry?
Vice Mayor.Gort: Your address.
Mr. de Rosa: Yeah,1801 Coral Way. I'm here on behalf of the board of directors to say to you
that not only do. we want to preserve this historical place, but we also want to look at ways and
means where we can make this project affordable to working people. We don't want to
relocate, dislocate. We want to bring people in and help stabilize and bring that neighborhood
back to its former glory. We're looking at ways to... working with the banks and other
institutions,and HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development), if necessary, to make
this an affordable project. Thank you.
Vice Mayor Gort: Thank you, sir. OK. Yes, sir.
Mr. Manuel Gonzalez-Goenaga: Yes. My name is Manuel "Boom -Boom" Gonzalez-Goenaga. I
am, in the concept, in full agreement, but not in the way they want to perform it. It's very good
to have... it's marvelous to have a good concept, but there is nothing deep inside. Regarding the
Rafael Hernandez Housing Development, what have they actually produced? They have been
given, for a long time - I think it's three years now - money to subsist. They have been given six
lots, little lots, and they have been unable to do anything. I have... and I have come before, and I
have tried to talk to Father Menendez, and he only wants to see me for confession, you see. And
I do... I am a sinner. I don't... I don't... But we must do the right thing. And whatever is
presented here, it should be very well studied, no cosmetic issues, and it should go for a Request
of Proposals, to see who will make, after the request is presented, who has the best deal, cost
efficient, with sufficient financing, with... with performance and payment bonds for affordable
housing, so we will not have what in practice we have in the City of Miami - allegedly
affordable housing that is not affordable. And to finish, I was... I met Mr. Bobby Maduro father.
I lived in Cuba for many years, and I was a terrific baseball fan. I know he was the owner of
also the.:: He was 'also `the owner of El Cerro Stadium, if I'm not mistaken. But the real owner
of Bobby; Maduro is Jose Manuel Aleman, and ex -minister during the... Ramon Grau San Martin,
tlaf probably, ultimately, under the Helms -Burton Bill, this land might belong to the treasury of
Cuba.
Vice Mayor Gort: Thank you. Yes, sir.
Mr. Maduro: Can I respond to that?
Vice Mayor Gort: No, no.
Commissioner Plummer: No, please.
Mr. Maduro: OK.
Mr. Mariano Cruz: Mariano Cruz, 1227 Northwest 26th Street. That puts me two blocks from
the stadium. I used to go there many times with my children from there. The other day at that
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charette, I.think I was the only one that went there walking. Most of the people drove there, but
I ,walked to the stadium there on Friday.. And one thing first. Concerning when the people here fi
speak and say 2902 2nd Avenue, 1801 Coral Way, that's the place of business. And here you
got... The opportunity here today will be discussed about residency. So I mean, it's important. I
like to know where the people live. Like I told Ms. Reno here once, she told me 1351 Northwest
12th Street. I told her, that's where you work, State Attorney, but you live there in Kendall.
That's ,what I want to know, where you live. Because many people work in Allapattah. They
don't live in Allapattah. They close their windows and go home. One of the first things I am
worried 'about, cluster housing, if it's going to be cluster housing, Because I remember years
ago, the City and Little HUD, Mr. Mol Adams, they came to us with a proposal in Allapattah
about the scattered housing. And they did scattered housing. It's not scattered housing, it's
cluster housing. On Northwest 30th Street, they got those duplexes there. That's a detriment to
the area. Instead of putting one duplex in one block, another duplex... No. They put, it all `
clustered. I So... And they painted all the same. So the people go by and say, "Oh, that's public
housing, that's public housing," and all that. So people will go there and they won't say
affordablehousing. They will say, "Oh, that's public housing." So you have to be very careful.
Also, we want to know, the land bank of the City, how many lots they got? Because the program
that they got.of affordable housing is working very well, because I know by experience the lots.
1221 26th Street. I live at 1227. East from me, the house that needs the roof times, she put the
house, she keep it. One house by the church, .7th Place and 34th Street; another one, 32 Street
and 11 Avenue; another one, on 11th Avenue there. They all working fine, affordable housing
built I think - built by Armando Caso. They all working fine. People are paying the mortgage,
they are not delinquent, they are not foreclosing those properties. So that's one thing we have to
keep. We don't have to have a lot of empty houses there. Remember, they were talking about
the monies. You know how much Allapattah, the industrial base, the tax base of the Allapattah
neighborhood, with all the business there? I think we pay, the neighborhood pay like thirty
million or forty million dollars ($30,000,000 or $40,000,000) to the City and County coffers,
besides State taxes, sale taxes, the people that go there buying, and that goes to the taxes that...
for the Federal taxes. We want to see some of that money coming back to us. So far, we don't
see anything. The monies you're using to subsidize the Orange Bowl, subsidize Mel Reese,
subsidize other places. We want some of the money going back. We want taxation and
representation. Talking about the problem they said, the perception of crime in the
neighborhood. You know, when the guy there came and killed somebody in a store, and then
going to upstairs and kill somebody. At the time, people were being machine-gunned by the
cocaine cowboys at Westland Shopping Center, and Dadeland Shopping, all over the place. The
other day when I went to the charette, at 1223 Dickenson, UM School of Architecture, at 1216
Dickenson, there were two students killed right there, because I was there. I talked to Mr. Foote.
So there is crime anyplace. Now, they talking about the perception of crime. The other day...
Just here today I read in the Herald, Mr. Clifton Pauley, he was killed there in Coral Gables.
Vice Mayor Gort: Mariano, my under...
Mr. Cruz: So you get killed any place.
Vice Mayor Gort: Mariano, my understanding is this is going to be taken in public hearings,
public meetings...
Mr. Cruz: Right, but...
Vice Mayor Gort:... where you and the community will be able to participate and bring this up.
Mr. Cruz: Well, we want to know, see... Because many people are not able to meet. Like I have
a bank of annual leave. I can go and take eight hours and come here. It doesn't cost me, just the
overtime lose. But many people in my neighborhood, they drive taxi, they are self-employed
people. They can't come here. But I can...
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Vice Mayor Gort: No, no. I'm not asking about coming here. , My understanding is what we're
doing today, is giving the opportunity for all...
Mr. Cruz: The public hearing is going to be May...
Vice Mayor Gort: Excuse me, Mariano. Mariano, my understanding is what we're doing here
todayis getting all these people to come together and come together with the people that live in
the area - and you live two blocks, and I live four blocks away from there, so I'm going to be
very interested in this, also - to see what is going to be the most feasible and the best use for that
land.
Mr. Cruz: Right.
Vice Mayor Gort: And then it's got to come back to us, and then we've got to make a decision.
Mr. Cruz: Especially;.. Because, see, one thing I'd like to mention, the history of the public use.
I remember, I remember there when they told us that possibly when they did away with the site
of Camillus House at 19 and North Miami, one of the sites they were thinking of was Miami
Stadium. I came here with a lot of people, and it was not that. Now, afterwards, it was used for
the Nicaraguan and for the homeless people. And I was talking to the City Manager - he's
sitting right there I was told... He told me that they were talking to the State Department of
Transportation to put an off ramp, 20th Street to 22 Street, to put the people there.
Vice Mayor Gort: Mariano, Mariano, we got a long agenda today. Could you please conclude?
Mr. Cruz: Yes. Well, just I... Listen. I am here as a taxpayer in the neighborhood, a resident, a
voter. Most of the people that come here, they come here in business, asking for money for the
law firms of whatever they say. I don't come here in business. I want to know where my money
is being spent. That's the way it is going to be. And that's my money. OK? I want to know
where it's being spent.
Vice Mayor Gort Right. OK. Thank you.
Mr. George Hajjar: Good morning, Mr. Mayor and honorable Commissioners, and interested
citizens. My. name is George Hajjar. I live at 1531 Northwest 27th Street. I'm an Allapattah
resident for 35'years in the same house. I think it's about time that Allapattah has got a fair
shake.' It's about time that we have a centerpiece that people can come to Allapattah and feel
safe, and do business, and enjoy Allapattah. I think the Bobby Maduro Stadium, the three plans
that I've seen, either one of them would be very sufficient. They bring back people to shop. I.
remember at 36th Street and Pith Avenue, we had a wonderful shopping area. It's almost gone
now. I think we need this, and I think we should all think very, very seriously about it. Thank
you.
Vice Mayor Gort: Thank you, sir. OK. My understanding, to make it clear... Mr. Manager, you
want to go over what we're doing today?
Mr. Cesar Odio (City Manager): Well, I need you to authorize us to... or to, I guess, appoint
them as the organization we will be dealing with in this development of Bobby Maduro Stadium.
Commissioner Plummer: Well, let's have a clear understanding, whoever is the head of that
organization. I'm ready to move or join with a motion for approval, but I want to make these
points very clear. Number one, at the end of the twelve months, this Commission and this
Commission alone will decide whether or not your presentation to this Commission will be
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approved or not approved. Point number two, at the end of that twelve months, you understand
today; that you ;have no vested right in that project or that location; that you do not get anything
without acknowledging those two factors. That it is for a' maximum of twelve months that you
wIII, i sentback to this Commission your, project full financing package. But I want to make it
clear, twelve months, no vested right, and that this Commission will make the final decision.
And...
vice Mayor Gort: Commissioner Carollo.
Commissioner Carollo Mr. Manager, when was the last time that this City tried to recruit a
minor league baseball team to use Maduro Stadium?
Mr. Odio: We... What happened is when. the major leagues were coming to Miami, the owner
of the rights to baseball in this area was Fine, Mr. Ron Fine. In order for the Marlins to play in
Miami, they had to acquire those rights. This is a very complex thing. We cannot do anything
with minor... with baseball, organized baseball, unless it goes through the Marlins. And they
chose to put their minor league team in... somewhere up in Orlando where... They have the right
to baseball here baseball. Is that... That's what I...
Commissioner Carollo: So you're saying that there are no other minor leagues, no other types of
leagues at s11 that we can bring to Miami because the Marlins...
Mr. Odio: Well, I don't know about other leagues. I mean, organized baseball... We do have
the amateur league there that was created with Bobby Maduro about 15 years ago, and that is
very successful. But organized baseball, I understand the major league... the rights are owned by
the Marlins, and it's not simple. We tried at one time - and that's the ramp he's talking about - is
to get off, shoot ramps off I-95 and build a Baltimore Orioles complex there. The problem is
with the new system they have in place now in the major leagues, you need to have five... five
baseball fields, full baseball fields in one place, plus dormitories. That's when Homestead made
a deal and were successful with the Cleveland Indians, and then later, after Hurricane Andrew,
they lost that. But we have... We tried for years. We had an architect design a complex, and
then we offered them, as a matter fact, Grape Tree... Grapeland Park, around that area. They
looked at that. But then the Orioles owner was totally committed to the City of Miami -Edward
Baynard Williams, a good friend of Miami - he loved it here. When he died, the new owners
decided to move out of here. But now, to bring organized baseball, as I understand it, is that you
have to go through the Marlins organization. In fact...
Commissioner Carollo: Who do we need to contact in the Marlins organization?
Mr. Odio: Well, I guess the president, Smiley or Dubrowsky or somebody like that. The thing is
that the Homestead Stadium is empty, and it's a beautiful facility. It was built especially for the
Cleveland Indians, and they have not been able to bring a team down there.
Commissioner Carollo: Why is that?
Mr:' Odio; It's the... I believe one of the problems - that I foresaw at the time, by the way - is the
distance between teams. Most teams have moved either to the Tampa/West Coast area, and
there are still some in Vero Beach. And in the,Grapefruit League, they -have ,to travel on a daily
basis, to play games. And now the Yankees, you know... When they moved out of Fort
Lauderdale, you know, they were too far apart from the rest of the league to play.
Commissioner Carollo: Is there any possibility at all and this is something that I think we need
to -look at and study that we can attract anyone in professional baseball to use that stadium?
Can we approach every single league that's out there, every single team, to see if there is...
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Vice Mayor Gort: Excuse me, wait.
Commissioner Plummer: Let him finish.
Commissioner Carollo:... anything we could do to use that stadium for professional baseball?
Mn Odio: Sir, on the major leagues, you have the A, Double A and Triple A and...
'Commissioner Carollo: Right.
Mr.Odio: Well, I think that's one of the conditions that you can put to this motion; that the
people doing the research go into looking into it, and work very closely with the Sports
Authority to do so.
Commissioner Carollo: See, my concern right now, Commissioner,` is twofold. We're agreeing r '
to give one entity only the. rights to do a study; a study, frankly, that this City Administration
should be the one doing, and frankly, should have done some time ago, before we got to this
point. And we could say all we want that we're not giving any vested rights but it sure as heck
is going to appear that - to anyone else in the future. And I think these people have very good
intentions, and we need to do something with that area. But I think this is really something for
this whole Commission to decide, and we're missing 40 percent of this Commission. Why has it
been, Mr. Manager, that our Administration cannot do the kind of study that we're asking them
to do? I mean, we have more staff. We should be in a much better position than they are to be
able to do such studies.
Mr. Odio: We did, we have, and then we contacted Father Menendez, since he is a person that is
totally involved in that area. The Administration contacted them to look into this, because this
should be a community project, not an Administration project, and to come up with alternatives
on what that site would be used to, since I feel - and I could be totally wrong - that there is no
way you can get a professional baseball back into that stadium. And the use for that stadium is
minimum, it's a waste. All you have is some soccer games there, and it is a waste to have that
structure sitting there without any use. That's why we contacted them about a year ago.
Commissioner Carollo: That might be so, Mr. Manager, but we need to be absolutely sure on
that. And while it is very, important to have the community input, are you telling me that we are
going to be making a policy decision that every time that we're going to do something in
neighborhood, we're going to just give it to an organization from that neighborhood to decide
that for us?
Mr. Odio: No, sir. In this particular case, though, this is... This is something that is so part of
that community.. There is so much need in that community that unless you get community
involvement, whatever we do there would have been done in a vacuum, and would not been...
would not have worked.
Commissioner Carollo: Well, but we're not talking about community involvement. What we're
talking about here is giving everything to do to a group from that community. And we're talking
about everything, basically. And, you know...
Father Menendez: Can we speak, please?
Mr. Odio: Right. But...
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Commissioner Carollo: They're going to need help from this Administration.
Mr: Odio:' Oh, but we will work with them. That's...
Commissioner Carollo: Right, but that's the point that I'm making.
Mr.`Odio:' Oh, no, we're not going just to...
Commissioner Carollo: If you're telling me that you know that we're going to have to work
with them...
Mr. Odio: We have to work with them.
Commissioner Carollo: ... why can't we have the City Administration, your Administration be
handlingthis project, ` with their input, working hand in hand with you? But it's the City of
Miami that is responsible, and the ultimate responsibility will lie within your Administration.
CommissionerPlummer: No; Here.
Father Menendez: May I say something, please?
Commissioner Carollo: Certainly, Father.
Father Menendez: I am Father Menendez, again. We have been working with the
Administration for the last year and a half or two years, I don't know when. Second, this has
been in the newspaper. Third, it has been open to anyone who wants to come and present their
project here. Nobody has come. And you were the first one, Mr. Commissioner, that you said
that in the last meeting, we have to decide this once and for all. I am thinking here that to have
another deferral, we'll come again, and again, and again. We have been here, we have been in
the newspaper. Everybody knows that we are going to be here. Nobody is here who is asking
for this again. And what I would like is to solve this problem once and for all.
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: I am...
Commissioner'Plummer: Only the "payaso."
Father Menendez: Because I don't know. What we want to do is... We have been working with
the preservationists, we have been working with the university, we have been working with the
people, we have been working... You know, I cannot... You know, as a normal citizen, I don't
know what to do else. ;
Vice Mayor Gort: From my understanding, Commissioner Carollo, what we are doing here is
very similar to what we did here in Coconut Grove when we were going to develop this area.
We had the charette, had the people get together, and anybody that showed interest in something,
being developed got together, and. they came out and tried to come up with a feasible plan. I
think what we are requesting of these individuals is to do the same thing, and come back to us,
and we are going to make the final decision if we like it or we do not. Now, what I would like to
see is and I agree with you - someone from the City staff should be assigned to work with this
committee, and at the 'same time, to make sure that this committee, which includes the
University of Miami, some private sector and people, that the people that live in the area get
involved. You got some very strong organizations, the representatives are here from the
community in.Allapattah. They should also be invited, and let them participate. Because a lot of
times, let's face it., planners and architects will come 'up with beautiful plans, beautiful
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architecture, but not feasible. We got to make sure whatever we look at in there, there is.
Something that can be feasible, and we got to look at all the options.
Commissioner Carollo: By your statement, Commissioner, you've trade my point. For
instance, here, we have one major piece of property in Coconut Grove, waterfront property, that
we're presently in the process of doing an RFP (Request for Proposals) on. It's the City
Administration that's working on that. We haven't gone out and found one community group in
Coconut Grove to go and do the study and present the plan to us. What we. did was, we went out
to Coconut Grove, we went out into the community, and asked for their input. But it was the
City Administration all, along that's been at the head of this process. It's been the City
Administration that's been responsible for doing this. Now, in this process, it's just going to be
the opposite. It's going to be people from the private sector that will be in charge of this process.
Mr. Odio: I think the difference is... Excuse me. I think the difference is that we were looking
at this. as a housing development, that we normally would do something like this, to go out to the
area Housing Authority to develop. That's the difference here. Or in the case of Wynwood, the t
trade, zone, what we did there. You know, waterfront property like this, when we took the }
approach that it has to come... The only way you get the private sector involved is through the t
RFP process.
Commissioner Carollo: My concern at the last meeting that the Father mentioned was that there
was another group that was trying to get involved in this, also, and I did not want to see people
that did not live in the City of Miami, whatsoever, that the majority of that other group do not
live in the City of Miami - they live out in West Kendall and South Dade - be the ones that were
pushing to get a part of this.
Mr. Odio: No. They are...
Commissioner Carollo: I want to open it up to a complete, open process, taking into
consideration what that particular community wants for it, but at the same time, we have to do
what is best for all the City of Miami.
Mr. Odio Right. ,
Commissioner Carollo: Taking, most of all, into consideration also, what the particular
community there wants also.
Mr. Odio: The other group, we met with them, and they have withdrawn. They have... And
they support going through with this for at least the process of a year. And if they cannot...`
Vice Mayor Gort: OK.
Commissioner Carollo: Well, that was probably a very good decision that they withdrew.
Mr. Odio: They did withdraw.
Vice Mayor Gort: Do you have any additional things? Do we have a motion?
Commissioner Plummer: Let me ask a question. Mr. Manager, I would hope, in working with
this group that we're talking about houses for sale.
Mr. Diaz: Yes, sir. i
Commissioner Plummer: OK?
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Commissioner Carollo And maybe Father Menendez could find some time to hear both the
Manager's and "Boom -Booms" on the same date.
Commissioner Plummer: Yeah, right.
Mr. Odio: I tell you, I don't think he can do that.
Commissioner Carollo: I think he would have to make arrangements to have the church open
late at night for the Hail Marys and Our Fathers.
Mr. Odi64 Behind the church.
Commissioner Carollo: That they're going to have to say. Ha ha ha.
Mr.'Odiot Behind the church, Mr. Mayor...
Commissioner Plummer: Don't forget the collection plate. Call the roll.
Commissioner Carollo: There's no further discussion from the public, and the public side of the '
hearing will be closed. Now, coming again to my colleagues, do any of you have any further
statements or questions to ask?
Vice Mayor Gort: No, sir.
Commissioner Carollo: Let me say this before I ask the Clerk to do the roll call on this. I'm
going to vote today with not what is politically expedient, but with what I think is politically
correct and morally correct. I do not want to vote for something today that two of the other
members of this Commission are not here to vote upon something as important as this project is,
not only for the Allapattah and Wynwood community, but also truly for the rest of the City,
because the days that people think that one part of the community can be cut away from the other
in Miami and it won't affect the rest of the City of Miami, you know, those days, we've proven
already, are long gone. What affects one part of our City affects all of our City. I really haven't
had the opportunity - and it's not anyone's fault here, but it's because of all the things that we've
had to deal with in the last months now in this City, some that I've had to be in the forefront of -
to really sit down and go over many of the new ideas that have come out on this, some of the old
ones. I think tomorrow, I'm scheduled to meet with some of the people from the University of
Miami, and hopefully, by next week, I'll be able to meet with some of the people from the
community. I want to be able to really grasp a lot of the ideas that are being given here now.
And at the same time, I have a very strong feeling that with something like this, we shouldn't be
passing the ball out to a community organization, that no matter how well its intentions are, does
not have the adequate resources; the staff, to really be able to `do basically by themselves the
study; whether it's twelve months or 24 months, that the City of Miami should be doing and
could do.:,And I'm just concerned with the precedent that we'll be starting if we do it that way.
So with that stated, I'll ask the Clerk to give the roll call, and this is why at this point in time I
will be voting no on the motion.
Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Carollo, another stipulation that has to be attached, so there will
be no misunderstanding, this motion made does not give this group any control over that facility,
in any way, shape, or form, The City still will maintain full control over that property up until
the twelve-month period of time when we will be making some other decision.
Commissioner Carollo; I understood that fully, Commissioner. At the same time, I don't think i
if we wait another 15 days or, 21 days before we meet again that it's really going to change
anything. At the same time, I'm concerned about the perception that we will be placing on the
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community. I would really like to discuss with the Manager certain criteria and the impact that
this ,might have with other projects that we have. What is to say that we're not going to be
having other .people coming to us demanding the same thing that we're giving Allapattah and !
Wynwood; now? And by that, I mean the exclusive right to go over a particular deal, If
tomorrow you have a "group in Coconut Grove asking that their group be given the. rights to
present a full plan...
Commissioner Plummer: This thing should have been more detailed by the Administration.
Commissioner Carollo: ... and to basically do the bulk of the negotiations for some of the
projects we have here in the Grove coming up, I'm sure that you would be the person to vote no
for it. And if you don't, you're going to see Mr. Kneapler here jumping up and down,
threatening all kinds of things.
Vice Mayor Gort: Commissioner Carollo, let me... You brought up _a good point, but my
understanding is there... A proposal came out with questions, and we voted on that, so that the
people within the community could try to come up with the proposals on this. So I think we did j
publicly give the opportunity to anyone within Allapattah to come in with a proposal.. Only two
people came in with a proposal. This is one of the reasons I'm voting for it. It was this group
and the other group, and the other group after two meetings took themselves out of it, and this is
the only group to put out the... In Coconut Grove, you have many groups that want to be part of
the.... take the leadership. That's why we have the charette the way it is. In Allapattah, you only
have this one group constantly coming here in front of us. Am I correct in that?
Commissioner Carollo: Well, the question, if you have one group in a particular community or
you bad several, it's moot to myself. The point that I'm making, that I have major questions,
that we should be throwing the whole ball to any community group, whether there is one in a
community or several. I'm not trying to pitch competition between one group or another in any
community.
Commissioner Plummer: I have one other stipulation, Mr. Carollo, since you're running the
meeting, that should this Commission, in the ultimate end of the twelve months turn down this
proposal, that the City will not assume any expenses incurred for the project. It's solely on the
backs of the proposers at this time, that you're getting a good proposal, and that the City will not
assume the cost factors of your putting any proposals together, if it's turned down. If it's
approved, then you got no problem, of course.
Commissioner Carollo: Well, then where is the money that they're going to need to do the
study?
Commissioner Plummer: That's up to them to find.
Commissioner Carollo: Sir?
Mr, Diaz: We have... First and foremost, we have done exactly what this Commission has asked
us to do. back in December, if I recall, to come to the Commission with a proposal after we, met
With people on the Allapattah community, also. We have people on our board who are from
Allapattah. Fifty-one
ifty-oneover 51 percent of our board is made of people from the community.
And,we have put together, I think, an impressive... with a coalition of the university, of course,
and, of course, with the guidance and the direction and the input because we're going to need
that`- of the City of Miami has to be there with us...
Commissioner Carollo: Well, you have an impressive group. you have, I think, a good group
coming together, and that is, I think...
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neighborhood We are part of the Metro -Dade County Enterprise Zone, ` and we're requesting''
that the City give us a resolution - we are not asking for money at this time - just a resolution that
it has been prepared,
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Mr. Aleman: No.
Vice Mayor Gort: OK. Mr. City Manager, are you aware of this request here?
Mr. Waters: For the program, it's...
Commissioner Plummer: Each individual.
Mr. Waters: Each individual, the particular program is seven thousand.
Vice Mayor Gort: Up to tan thousand dollars ($10,000) maximum.
Commissioner Plummer; No, it's...
Mr. Waters:: Ten thousand, seven thousand and three thousand. Seventy percent on the City's
behalf, and 30 percent being a profit by the particular entity.
Commissioner Plummer: The only question that I had, and I bring back to the table to make
sure... ;
Mr. Odio: Let me read what Commissioner Dawkins said. OK?
Commissioner Plummer: Go ahead.
Mr. Odio: "Let's vote on it. Because, you see, every time some money is given out around here,
You come back and say, 'but, oh, they didn't vote on it.' I make a motion that the hundred
thousand dollars ($100,000) that you were going to take before from the Overtown project be
made available for Code Enforcement in that area. So we need to clarify this. And I think that
maybe we should defer this until Commissioner Dawkins is here.
Commissioner: Carollo: Well, 'I would be happy to withdraw the motion and wait for
Commissioner Dawkins to get here.
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Commissioner Plummer: This was... Well, tell me if I'm wrong. Was this not the YMCA
money?
Vice Mayor Gort: Right.
Commissioner Plummer: It was going to be given to Allapattah, and he came up here from the
Overtown group and said, "Please don't takeOvertown money and give it to anybody else." I
made the motion that the money be given to Allapattah, and a like amount be given to Overtown.
Mr. Odio: I can only...
Commissioner Plummer: Now, why didn't you read that in there?
Mr. Odio: I can only go by what he... the motion that he passed. And he says... Mayor Clark
seconds the motion. Vice Mayor Gort also seconds, the motion. And there's a unanimous ballot
on that. '5o what is the motion? We need to ask the... '
Commissioner Plummer: There's. another motion pertaining to the subject, to give.a hundred
thousand ($100,000) to the Allapattah and that you find another hundred to reimburse for
Overtown, .since YMCA didn't want it, then another hundred thousand ($100,000) to go into
Overtown. Now, that was... That was done.
Mr. Waters: For commercial facade and Code Compliance. That was the directive.
Commissioner Plummer: Of course, without question.
Mr. Waters: But... And what we... What Administration is attempting to do is get that clarified,
because in the record, it says Code Enforcement.
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Commissioner Plummer: Well, excuse me. My question is, is it going to take a referendum? If
it takes a referendum, then we need to discu&-, it real quickly, yes or no, because of the time
frame to get it on the ballot in September, October, and November.
Commissioner Carollo: Well, J.L., if it doesn't, legally, this is one that it should. We're talking
about creating 13 new zoning boards where we're going to have an additional 65 new elected
positions in this City...
Commissioner Plummer: That's why I think it takes a referendum.
Commissioner Carollo: ... and an additional 26 new appointed positions. Now, you know; this
City is only 30-plus ' square miles in size. And if we're going to divide it into 13 areas, to have ;
13 zoningboards... I mean, this is crazy. I've never heard of anything such as this.
Commissioner Plummer: Oh, I've heard of some crazier things around.
Commissioner Carollo: Especially... Especially, you know, when there really hasn't been any
real thought process, outside of the political one, which is the root of how this whole thing got
started. You know, I... And Mr. Manager, the main thing I wanttogo, over with you is how
much more it's going to cost us. And I don't want the numbers that I'm usually given, you
know, off the cuff you know, of the thin air. I want numbers. Now, while I'm at that, let me go
over a couple of things with you. I have sent you some memorandums that the answers that I've
gotten really aren't appropriate, to say the least, and I want to get this for the record.
Commissioner Plummer: Are you finished, Joe?
Commissioner Carollo: No, no.
Commissioner Plummer: Oh, I'm sorry.
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Commissioner Carollo: Do we have -the City of Miami -have a projected budget for the next
four or five years, or not?
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Mr. Odio: No sir. We have - and hopefully we'll have, Mano - by next week, for the first time
ever in the City - we never had the process of having four- or five-year budgets at a time, but we
only had one budget at a time - we're going to have. a three-year budget hopefully done by
Monday.
Commissioner Carollo Well, let me say this to you. When you say that we have never had this
in the City, I know that in 1987, that was my last year in this City Commission before coming
back last year, sitting down with Mano Surana, he gave me budget projections for five years into
the. future.
Mr. Odio: Oh,'no. If you're talking about projecting revenues and...
Commissioner Carollo: Projecting revenues and expenditures.
Mr. Odio: We can do that. But I'm talking about for the first time full-fledged budgets. I mean
total budgets, complete packages. The projections of revenues, that can be given, yes, sir.
Projections of expenses in detail is what I wanted. I wanted a three-year budget so you could sit
down and see where we are three years on the line, in full detail.
Commissioner Carollo: Let me read to you what I wrote and see if this makes sense for the
answer that you gave me in writing, and now with what you're telling me. And I made it in the
form of a public records request, and I sent this to you on April 1, 1996. You know, maybe
because of the date that you got it, you didn't take it seriously. Maybe you didn't think I was
serious, but I certainly am. Because I don't know of a single major city in the country that does
not have concrete budget projections four, five years out. Now, those change, and everybody -
knows that. You know, you could have budget projections to next year's budget, five years from
now, four years from now, but they will change. They always do. Let me read to you what I
stated to you, sir.
"It is now approximately three weeks since I have directed - since I have made a
direct vocal request to Mr. Mano Surana for the preliminary budget projections,
including income and expenditures for the next four fiscal years. The request was
made directly by me, because attempts to secure this information by my staff on
March 6, 7; 8, 12, and 14, 1996, received no reply. To date, I have not received
any budget material I have requested, neither as a . result of my staff's earlier
requests, nor from my personal appeal to Mr. Surana. I am now requesting that
you personally provide me this information under public records law, Chapter
1191 Florida. Statutes. Your prompt reply to this and other matters that I requested
will be greatly appreciated."
We won't get into the others now, Cesar.
Mr. Odio: I believe I sent you a memo... I told...
Commissioner Carollo: You sent me a memo 15 days later, April 15, 1996, that says the
following:
'Your request for preliminary budgetprojections, including income and
expenditures for the next four fiscal years, is in progress and should be completed
in approximately two to three weeks."
Now, it takes 15 days for you answer me that it's going to take another three weeks for me to
receive anything, which, under the public records laws, you to know you cannot do, and it's not
acceptable. At the same time, I was asking for this since the beginning of March of this year.
You just stated for the record that you do have some budget projections, but you're playing withdi
semantics, with words...
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Mr. Qdio: To defer it.
NAYS: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Stephen P. Clark
Commissioner Plummer: I move item 20.
THEREUPON, ON MOTION DULY MADE BY
COMMISSIONER PLUMMER AND SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER CAROLLO, ITEM 20 WAS CONTINUED
BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Wifredo Gort
Mr. Fitzsimmons: For the excess policy.
Commissioner Plummer: Is it within our purview to change it?
Mr. Kay: We'd have to revise the ordinance.
NAYS: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Stephen P. Clark
ABSENT:
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Stephen P. Clark
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14. BRIEFLY DISCUSS AND CONTINUE CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED
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Vice Mayor Gort: Yeah, mine went to school, too.
Vice Mayor Gort: All of you kids who are here, you're welcome to come up. Come on, all the
kids. The mothers, too. OK, let me... OK, let me read this. This is a proclamation of the City
of Miami, Florida. J.L., if you'd keep quiet I'll get it going.
"Whereas Take Our Daughter to Work Day is held the fourth Thursday of every
April, falls on April 25th in 1996..."
J.L., it's not a funeral.
FWhereas Take Our Daughters to Work Day was originated by the Ms.
oundation for Women, which is a national multi -issued, public women's fund
that supports the effort of women and girls to govern their own lives and to
influence the world around them; ' and whereas research shows that girls have
more self-esteem problem than boys, and are twice as likely to be depressed, have
a lower expectation of their future, and are less likely to receive attention in the
classroom and other young services programs; and whereas Take. Our. Daughters
to Work' Day also helps girls to become more comfortable in the workplace and
more aware of the many career opportunities that are now available for them,
thereby stimulating their imagination, and encouraging their hopes and dreams, I,
therefore, on behalf of our Mayor, Stephen P. Clark, the City of Miami, Florida,
do hereby proclaim Thursday, April 25, 1996 as Take Our Daughters to Work
Day."
Congratulations and thank you very much.
(APPLAUSE)
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: At this point, City Manager Cesar H,
Odio exited the Commission Chamber and Assistant City Manager
Mano Surana acted in his stead.
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17.PERSONAL APPEARANCE: MANUEL GONZALEZ-GOENAGA
CONCERNING ALLEGED POLICE BRUTALITY AND ITS SOLUTIONS
WITHIN POLICE DEPT.
Vice Mayor Gort OK. Item 25. Yes, sir.
Mr. Manuel Gonzalez-Goenaga: May I address the Commission?
Vice Mayor Gort: Yes, sir.
Mr.' Gonzalez-Goenaga: My name is Manny "Boom -Boom" Gonzalez-Goenaga, not the
Unabomber. Yet, I have been perceived by the City Police of Miami like a criminal, and I am
going to start` like an uneducated man, and like a person that should be behind the slammer for
life Yet, I am going to show them, the citizens and the Commissioners, and the police,
specifically, by quoting, starting with Abraham Lincoln, an American President, I think, for
those who. don't know, that did say: "To sin by silence when one should protest makes cowards
of men." And also, to quote Jose Marti, when he said: "El que contempla un crimen, y no to
condena es igual que si to cometiera." And now, we have seen the hideous crime of Lassie, the
dog, in Wynwood. I totally abhor that criminal act. But it was done to an animal, an irrational
animal. Yet, many policemen in the City of Miami have done worst crimes than that, because
they have done it to human beings. One of them was taken to trial, he was convicted. He has
not been in jail one minute. And he was allowed to retire by the honorable and prestigious
department and the Union with thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) a year. You might say it's his
own money. No. He only contributed sixty thousand dollars ($60,000). So if he lives ten years,
we pay the criminal. And to continue, we have other situations also in Wynwood of Fermin
Alameda that has cost the citizens plenty of money. And the policemen who actually killed
Alameda have not even received a reprimand, and are still working for the Miami City Police.
And we want to combat crime. The only way to combat crime is to combat crime at the source,
crime at the police, so the citizens will cooperate with honorable policemen. There are a lot of
"Fuhrman", policemen here, and police brutality, Commissioners, is not only to kill a person with
a stick. It's the use of the words. Sometimes you do more damage emotionally by insulting a
citizen than giving him with a stick. And here. I am, standing tall, and here I am, speaking
against police brutality for four years four times, excuse me since Xavier Suarez, King
Suarez' years in Miami, and nothing has been done. And yet, we spend thousands of dollars to
buy a certification by the law enforcement officers. And we have beautiful annual reports of the
Police Department that show the good, but not the bad and the evil, and that's a disgrace. And
Mr. Gort should know better, because he is in that business that when you are a... you receive an
annual report, and if you deceive or fail .to inform the truth, the truth and nothing but the truth,
we are wasting our money. Just a cosmetic issue. And I will.speak in the proper form about the
ten arrests that. have been given to me by these blue brothers. But I am going to specifically
mention the president of the Police Benevolent Association. And let me tell you something. L'
have never meta benevolent policeman that have arrested me. Every... thank God this is a free
country. Andwhen I go before the Judge, the Judges, they perceive a different situation. And
what can be done to solve this problem?' It's costing us more than sixty million dollars
($60,000,000). 1 has requested further specific information, and for... has been banged like a
ping-pong ball from the Manager down, and no specific information has been given to me, even
though it has been requested under the public records request back on August 25, 1995. Thank
you for the... Well, if this Administration don't provide timely reports to the Commissioners,
how can I expect the citizens, who are the real owners of the City, to receive them? Solution.
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Dart of it has been approved by the citizens. L remember vividly that we pay... We gave three
hundred thousand dollars ($'00,OOU) for psychological tests of the police, where it was said here,
and I vividly remember Mr. Dawkins, that every single police officer were going to be reviewed
independently. Has it been done? I don=on
ownd iftwas done, nothing has come out.
Another specificissue was a lieutenant, Fernandez, who has arrested me thrice, three
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Vice Mayor Gort: Mr. Gonzalez, I'm going to ask you, please, to...
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: , One more minute. ... and he has been 'promoted from sergeant to
lieutenant. Well, if crime pays in Miami - and it looks like it pays - then that is. terribly wrong.
What is needed in here to wrap it up is that this Commission and the citizens urge that first, we
pass what. I present as, an individual, the whistle -blower ordinance. Most important than all these
things,- because I have heard an information have a right to mean not only in the police, but in
this Administration, that there the morale, the integrity is off. But some employees privately
have told me. But what can we expect, if this place is corrupt, from the City Manager down?
Vice Mayor Gott: Thank your sir. Does that conclude?
Mr. Gonzalez-Goenaga: Well, the solutions. Let's have, like it's been done in many others, an
independent review panel of private citizens and part of the police to review these cases. Let's
have a study to get the perception of what the community thinks about the police, because crime
will not end or will not be diminished unless the citizens cooperate a hundred percent. And let
me tell you, the citizens that I have talked, they cannot cooperate, because they don't trust the
police. But I know that, you know, if I am not allowed to go a little deeper, that I... information
has come to my attention that the president of the Police Benevolent Association, Mr. Al Cotera,
that here before you people, did say that we needed more cars, new cars every year, so when
they arrested me again, I could have leg work. What a cynic, that midget policeman who plays
pool constantly... And I have recorded this, and I have heard - and Mr. Plummer, you have heard
it also - that he snorts cocaine, among other things. Thank you very much.
Vice Mayor Gott: Thank you, Mr. Gonzalez.
Commissioner Plummer: Just for the record, please. You know, it's unfair that a man's name...
And I don't think it should be stated, rumors on the record. I've heard rumors about everybody
at City Hall, including myself, but they're just that,"chismosa."
Commissioner Carollo: What did you hear about yourself, Plummer?
Commissioner Plummer: _That I'm one of the greatest guys that ever lived.
Commissioner Carollo: Well, that's one I didn't hear.
Commissioner Plummer; You don't listen long enough.
Vice Mayor Gott: He told me a different thing.
Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. All right, Willy.
Vice Mayor Gort: Item 26.
Commissioner Plummer: You're on the wrong channel, Joe.
Commissioner Carollo: ` Willy and I haven't heard that one.
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Commissioner Carollo: I don't mind going ahead with your request to close the streets, but we
got a waiver for in -kind services. What does that come to?
Commissioner Plummer: That was not going to be part of my motion, Joe.
Commissioner Carollo: That was not going to be?
Commissioner Plummer: No.
Vice Mayor Gort: Let me ask you... Let me ask you a question. Why don't we hear from the
applicants in here, and at the same time, if there's anyone in opposition...
Commissioner Plummer: I'm trying to save time.
Vice Mayor Gort: Then we'll go. Yes, sir, state your name and address for the record.
Mr. David White: I am Dr. David White. I live at 3523 Maria Avenue, Coconut Grove. The
Goombay Festival... Dr. David White, 3523 Maria Avenue, Coconut Grove. The
Miami/Bahamas Goombay Festival is requesting permission to close the streets from the west
side of McDonald to Douglas Road on Grand Avenue from June the 8th through the 9th, 1996,
waiver of all waivable fees of equipment to be used during the festival, secure permits for the
above routs, permission to obtain an alcohol beverage permit, and for provision of vendors
within two blocks of the festival route.
Commissioner Plummer: You ready Mr. Vice Mayor?
Vice Mayor Gort: Thank you. Is there anyone else to speak on this item? Hearing none, yes,
sir, go ahead, Mr. Plummer.
Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Vice Mayor, I will concur under the following conditions:
Number one, they, must stay west of the McDonald Avenue, totally leaving the intersection of
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Vice Mayor Gort: OK. Is there a second?
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Commissioner Plummer: Hello?
Vice Mayor Gort: OK. It's been seconded. Is there any further discussion?
Commissioner Plummer: Aye.
Vice Mayor Gort: Hearing none, all in favor, state so by saying "aye."
The Commission Collectively: Aye.
Vice Mayor Gort: It's unanimous.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO.96-275
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A RESOLUTION RELATED TO THE ROOTS AND CULTURE FESTIVAL '96,
CONDUCTED BY THE ROOTS AND CULTURE FOUNDATION, INC., TO BE
HELD ON MAY 9, 1996; WAIVING ALL WAIVABLE FEES AS PERMITTED BY
THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, IN AN AMOUNT
NOT TO EXCEED $1,408; SAID WAIVER(S) CONDITIONED UPON THE
ORGANIZERS: (1) PAYING FOR ALL OTHER NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY
SERVICES AND APPLICABLE FEES ASSOCIATED WITH SAID EVENT; (2)
OBTAINING INSURANCE TO PROTECT THE CITY IN THE AMOUNT AS
PRESCRIBED BY THE CITY MANAGER OR HIS DESIGNEE; AND (3)
COMPLYING WITH ALL CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS AS MAY BE
PRESCRIBED BY THE CITY MANAGER OR HIS DESIGNEE.
(Here follows body, of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the resolution was passed and adopted
by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Wifredo Gort
NAYS: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
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Mayor Stephen P. Clark
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Commissioner Carollo: Who is "they" that's saying this?
Mr. Stahl: The South Florida Soccer Association.
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Mr`. Stahl: Oh,`in front of Cocowak, yes.
Commissioner Plummer: All right. Is it possible that only one lane - was that considered? one
lane going West'to be closed?
Mr, Stahl: We discussed that problem and we... The way their plan is laid out, needing the
soccer field size, and their tents, and their booths, and the amount of people coming, it would be
impossible to' do that, sir.
Commissioner Plummer: Commissioners, I would recommend that we turn them down, and let
them come back and negotiate an alternative site.
Vice Mayor Gort: Well, let's hear from the opponent. Yes, sir.
Mr. Art Turpel: My name is Art Turpel. I'm with South Florida Olympic Soccer. My address is
7444 Southwest 48th Street. As Commissioner Carollo had said,I'm sure you're well aware of
what the Olympics are, but in 1993, many community leaders and people from,all over South
Florida started the bid process which is bringing eleven soccer games to South Florida this
summer. Those eleven soccer games are going to constitute about 528,000 tickets in the Orange
Bowl, which, I believe, is the largest single sporting event that's ever been held in the City of
Miami:
Commissioner Carollo: That's correct. Excuse me for a minute. How many have we sold so
far?
Mr. Turpel: We are in the fifty to sixty thousand range, and we have quite a few to go.
Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. You just reminded me of one of the areas that I've got to cover
with the County Manager, because if the people that came up with the idea do not sell those
tickets, Dade County is stuck for up to three and a half million dollars. And, you know, that's
three and a half million dollars that could go to police officers, that can go to libraries, that can
go to schools.
Mr. Turpel: Between the City, and the County and the State, a commitment of over five million
dollars ($5,000,000) has been made to this event. And now, at this juncture, this event, which
what it consists of is dribbling a soccer ball from. Jupiter to Miami - 96 miles - to bring attention
to what is, as I mentioned, the single largest sporting event to be held in Miami, starts the kickoff
of what is going to happen in July. And the reason we are culminating this thing, we think, in
one of the best locations in all of South Florida -Coconut Grove. we've invited people, we will
have celebrities, media, we will have soccer people from all over the world coming in to dribble
this soccer ball.. And to put us on a back street is pretty much what people are asking. We
believe..:
Commissioner Plummer: Let me interrupt you, sir, if I may. I don't think you have the votes.
OK? Now, have you given any thought to the Torch of Friendship? That's where the torch is
going "for the Olympics, and it just seems like it would be a natural..'. As a matter of fact, I was
there six months .ago with the Mayor to raise the Olympic flag over the Torch of friendship.
And I don't know of another place that would be more appropriate. With all of the countries
being represented around the Torch of Friendship, it's a great media place. It's in front of
Bayside.
Mr. Turpel: Right or wrong, as the City Manager stated, the invitations have already gone out...
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Mr. ;Odio: This is Code... It's partly the Code Enforcement, also, because we're having
problems with people putting out trash cans.
Commissioner Plummer: My concern at the last meeting still is the concern I have now. I`can
get you 100 photos of "garbins" - I guess that's the word for them - than are totally overflowing
every. day. They're not buying or renting that are adequate in size. And because of that, people
are using them, and the garbage is thrown all over the street. And I _asked the last time this was
before us, what teeth are you putting into an ordinance to make people who, by ordinance, have
to use "garbins," to get adequate size? I'm not trying to...
Mr.'Odio: They have to have a minimum of two cubic yards - am I correct? depending on the
size of the...
Commissioner Plummer: It would seem like to me...
MrOdio: When I went to 8th Street, I found that to be a common practice to over...
overspilling.
Commissioner Plummer: It would seem like to me, Mr. Manager, that it would be a certain
cubic feet per unit.
Mr. Odio: Let me say what this does.
Commissioner Plummer: OK?
Mr. Odio: May I?
Commissioner Plummer: If you got a 20-unit apartment house, if it's two cubic feet per unit,
then it would be a 40... No, no, no. Multifamily be damned. Excuse me. You got duplexes that
are using them. I'm saying to you that you need a formula. And I'm not here to try to put
money in the waste management companies. I'm here to try to keep my City clean.
Mr. Odio:. What we're doing on this one, what we're trying to do here is require that the private
haulers...
Commissioner Plummer: That's who I'm talking about.
Mr.:,Odio: ... notify the NET (Neighborhood Enhancement Team) office when service is
discontinued: One thing that happens commonly, the private company, the commercial entities
just cancel the contract and then just put the stuff out on the street. Require the food service
establishments to provide removal of raw or processed organic waste matter. They require that
garbage or, trash container site be screened from the streets.
Commissioner Plummer•. All right, all right, all right. This is half-assed, if that's the way you
want to do it.
Mr. Odio No. Well, why don't... You can ask that we put a.cubic yard size...
Vice Mayor Gort: The question... My understanding is we have a specific requirement,
according to the use.
Commissioner Plummer: No; We don't have a. formula.
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Commissioner Plummer: Who's going to determine what is adequate?
Mr Odio How do we know what kind of garbage you have in a business?
Commissioner Plummer: Is it one cubic yard per apartment unit? I'm not that smart. That's not
myjob,
Commissioner Carollo: Well, I agree with that.
Commissioner Plummer: That I'm not that smart or not my job?
Commissioner Carollo: Both.
"Commissioner Plummer: Thank you.
Commissioner Carollo: Ha ha ha.
Mr. Odio: But J.L., listen to me for one second, Commissioner.
Commissioner Plummer: We won't miss you at all.
Mr. Odio: How do we know the amount you...
Commissioner Plummer: Excuse me. I will bestow to my colleague, who is very smart, on the
garbage, to let him establish...
Commissioner Carollo: No, that...
Mr. Odio: Let them be the size of a casket.
Commissioner Carollo: That was your area of expertise for eight years, I'm told.
Commissioner Plummer: You know...
Commissioner Carollo: That Metro passed it on to you.
Commissioner. Plummer: I hear you. I hear you.
Mr.Odio: Let's defer this one, and we'll bring it back with that added.
Commissioner Plummer: Well, I'll pass this one.
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Commissioner Plummer: Hey, I'll pass it,
Vice, Mayor Gort: I'm sure we can make a few phone calls and get some ideas. We'll continue.
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Mr. Odio: Why don't we continue it then?
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Commissioner Plummer: All right. I have one other area of concern, OK? And it's not being
addressed. ` And that is two ways. Number one is tires. Oil? Hey, you throw your hands up, my
friend, but it's a major, major problem. OIL?
Mr. Waters: It is. I'm agreeing.
Commissioner Plummer: Now, either we're going to collect the tires and establish some method
of getting rid of them, or they're going to continue at three a.m. in the morning of throwing them
in somebody's backyard, and then we, the City, are going to come along, and we're going to
write them a notice of violation to the owner of the property, that he is guilty of having tires in
his yard. That is absolutely ludicrous. Number two. Let's go for this one. These little idiots
that go out, who I wish were in - is it Singapore? I wish they were in Singapore - with their
spray cans of paint in the middle of the night, go out, and they've done my neighborhood, every
wall that was white, with blue spray paint. And you not personally - you, the City of Miami,
are writing my neighbors a notice of violation that they are guilty of not removing it. That is
wrong. That is wrong. That my neighbors, law abiding citizens, who had nothing to do with the
spray paint on their walls, are being treated as criminals, and fined seventy-five dollars ($75) a
day. That is wrong. Now, I want you to come back at the next meeting, Mr. Manager, and I
want to address that issue. If we've got to pick up the tires to keep our City clean, let's do it. I
mean, you know, there are horror stories out there of people who are renting 50,000 square foot
warehouses for 30 days. When the guy comes back, there's tires up to the thing. The guy gave a
false name. He can't rent his warehouse because it's full of tires. He can't get rid of the tires,
and we turn our head and stick our head in the sand.
Mr. Ron Williams (Assistnt City Manager): Commissioner, with regards to tires specifically,
we..
Commissioner Plummer: Hey, don't take up the Commission's time or anybody. Come back at
the next meeting.
Mr. Odio: The other thing, sir...
Commissioner Plummer: Come up with some plan for the tires and the graffiti and let this
Commission address it.
Mr. Odio:. We're bringing something that Eddie Borges in the NET area has worked... I think
it's.with some other people - where is Eddie? -about incentives for people to turn in people that
are dumping illegally, within the City, including tires. You have to have some... You have to
catch them in the act. If they dump anywhere - not only in the City is having a problem you
save sixty-eight dollars ($68) a ton. And so they charge somebody to pick up their garbage, they
dump it - seventy-five (75) - they dump it anywhere in the City, and they save the fee. That's
the problem. -
Commissioner Plummer: And that's... Then you turn around...
Mr. Odio: So we have to catch them.
Commissioner Plummer: And then. you turn around and go out to the property owner, and fine
him - who didn't know a damn thing about the tires - you fine him as a guilty party. for having
tires on his lot. That's wrong.
Mr. Odio: But maybe if you pay this cash incentive to pay people to turn people in when they
have seen them, we can...
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An Ordinance entitled -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 22 ENTITLED: "GARBAGE AND
TRASH," OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, BY
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PROVIDING' FOR NEW DEFINITIONS; SETTING FORTH NEW AREAS OF
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENT TEAM (NET)
SERVICE CENTERS PREVIOUSLY HELD BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE
..DEPARTMENT, OF SOLID WASTE; PROVIDING FOR NEW REGULATIONS
CONCERNING THE DISPOSAL OF WASTE BY COMMERCIAL AND FOOD
SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS; SETTING FORTH NEW STANDARDS
CONCERNING THE LOCATION AND APPEARANCE OF GARBAGE AND/OR
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TRASH CONTAINERS; ADDING NEW REGULATIONS FOR PROPERTY
OWNERS AND OCCUPANTS OF IMPROVED AND UNIMPROVED PROPERTY;
SETTING NEW AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY OF PERSONS OTHER THAN
OWNERS OF PREMISES FOR VIOLATIONS AND FOR NONCOMPLIANCE;
CREATING NEW ENFORCEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE FEES; MORE
PARTICULARLY BY AMENDING SECTIONS 22-1, 22-2, 22-5, 22-9 AND 22-32 OF
SAID CODE; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE.
passed on its first reading, by title, at the meeting of February 29, 1996, was taken up for
its second and final reading, by title, and adoption. On motion of Commissioner
Plummer, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the ordinance was thereupon given its
second and final reading by title, and was passed and adopted by the following vote:
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The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies
were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public.
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24. SECOND -READING ORDINANCE: AMEND ORDINANCE 6145, WHICH
ESTABLISHED FEES FOR BUILDING, PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL,
MECHANICAL (INCLUDING BOILER AND ELEVATOR) INSPECTION,
PERMIT AND CERTIFICATE FEES - ADD / INCREASE REQUIRED FEES
TO COVER COSTS FOR ENFORCEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA BUILDING
CODE.
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Commissioner Carollo: Now, can you give me the fee structure for item 40?
Mr. Cesar Odio (City Manager): Yes. And by the way, we have also...
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Commissioner Carollo: For building, plumbing, electrical, mechanical?
Mr. Carlos Smith (Assistant City Manager): OK. We have also stricken out any reference to the
Administration being able to raise fees. ,The minimum fee goes from fifty dollars to sixty dollars
($50 to $60). Fee for work without a permit actually goes down. It's a requirement of the South
Florida Building Code. We had it four times the fee. It's two times the fee, so we have taken it
down to two 'times the fee, so that it meets the South Florida Building Code.
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Vice Mayor Gort: Ten dollars ($10). An additional ten dollars ($10). OK? Are you through,
Carollo?
Commissioner Carollo: Let's go with it.
Vice Mayor Gort: Well, let's hear from Mariano.
Mr. Cruz: Yeah. `Mariano Cruz, 1227 Northwest 26th Street, Miami, Florida, in Allapattah.
Now, the... I want to know, also, in all these fees here...because when I received this year my
solid waste bill, you know, the garbage, there was a fee included, that I didn't know anything on ;
there,,three dollars ($3) fee. a
Commissioner Carollo: Three dollar ($3) fee.
Mr. Cruz: Right. And I mailed my money, the eighty dollars ($80) without the three dollars `
($3). 1' haven't received any letter back from the City. I paid eighty dollars ($80), because I
didn't know what... Is there maybe hidden a garbage fee here between the lines or something
there? There is nothing because I...
Mr. Odio: ' This has nothing to do with garbage fees.
Mr. Cruz: I don't like _ , you know, something coming down from the
Administration, I know that you do it. I don't know. I want to know, if we going to be taxed, if
we going to increase whatever fee on the garbage...
Mr. Odio: Mariano, talk slowly, because I don't understand what you're saying.
Mr. Cruz: Right. Whatever you say. If we're going to have an increase...
Mr. Odio: Talk slow. I... You are losing me.
Mr. Cruz: Right. If we're going to have an increase, don't make it look like a fee or something.
See, most of this fee, if you have, if you itemize deductions on your income tax, you cannot take
them out. If it is a tax, you can take it out on your Federal income tax, but not a fee. You can
pay ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in fee, and you cannot deduct that. But you can deduct
regular taxes. So you're going to increase it, because eventually, you will have to go and
increase the garbage fee, because, by the way, I know it's the lowest in Dade. County. But be
sincere. Bring it to the Commission. When they say that everybody wants more service and
more service, and people have to pay for them. They have to realize out there that you have to
pay for. the service you. get. But make it a regular tax that people will know, not a fee.
Everything is a fee. That's how I... I want to know if it's going to be a garbage fee there too,
because that's what they told me.
Mr. Odio: It has nothing to do with garbage fees. The garbage fees are one hundred and sixty
dollars ($160) a year. OK?
Mr. Cruz: No, no, but they have a service charge.
Mr. Odio: Three dollars ($3).
Mr. Cruz: Right.
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Mr. Cruz:... later on I get a bill in my home...
Vice Mayor Gort: No, no.
Mr. Cruz: ... and they say, "Oh, no, it was passed April 25, 1996, but you were not there."
Commissioner Carollo: Well, see, you started this, Plummer, talking about garbage. Now you
got him confused, you know, and...
Commissioner Plummer: No. The issue back then was garbage. The issue now is not garbage.
Vice Mayor Gort: OK. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any further...
Commissioner Carollo: Well, depends which side of the fence you're in. But anyway.
Vice Mayor Gort: Any further discussion? Read the ordinance.
Commissioner Plummer: One man's food is another man's treasure. Call the roll.
An Ordinance entitled
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 5 OF ORDINANCE NO.6145 ADOPTED
MARCH 19, 1958, AS AMENDED, WHICH ESTABLISHED FEES FOR BUILDING,
PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL (INCLUDING BOILER AND
ELEVATOR) INSPECTION, PERMIT AND CERTIFICATE FEES, THEREBY
ADDING AND. INCREASING REQUIRED FEES TO COVER COSTS FOR THE
ENFORCEMENT OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA BUILDING CODE; CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION, SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
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25. (A) SECOND READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH 4 SPECIAL
REVENUE FUNDS AND APPROPRIATE FUNDS: (1) 22ND YEAR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) -
$13,709,000, (2) HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
(HOME) $4,038,000, (3) EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) -
$494,000, AND (4) HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS
WITH AIDS (HOPWA) - $8,359,000 -- APPROPRIATE $2,700,000
FROM 21ST YEAR CDBG PROGRAM INCOME, AS APPROVED
BY DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT r
(HUD) --TOTAL CDBG APPROPRIATION: $16,409,000. ;
(B) DISCUSS RATIONALE OF AIDS VICTIMS RECEIVING FUNDS
FOR HOUSING WHILE VICTIMS OF OTHER SERIOUS
ILLNESSES DO NOT RECEIVE HELP.
Commissioner Plummer: I move item 41.
Vice Mayor Gort: Is there a second?
Commissioner Plummer: I haven't heard a second.
Commissioner Carollo: Yes, you have a second.
Vice Mayor Gort: OK.
Commissioner Plummer: Now, I have a question, and this is not to be detracted from the people
with AIDS. God bless them, and I understand the problems and the plight. I'm asking for the
rationale of the Federal government, who gives money for housing because of a condition, but
they don't give money for other conditions existing, and give money for that. ' Has there ever
been any, question as to why people who have a serious, serious disease, other than AIDS, are not
afforded the same opportunity of money for housing? I just... I don't know that... I'm trying to
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reach. fora rationale. That a person who has a very serious and devastating disease other than
AIDS; no money;; is forthcoming to give them housing. Did you ever find out why?
Mr._Mbert Waters: Commissioner, I really can't answer, you know, that national policy decision
that has been made. I can say that, you know, other than making funds available for individuals
who are handicapped, as an example of our Federal dollars utilizing a home fund could... can be
used`to assist those individuals in terms of handicap assessability.
Commissioner Plummer: OK. I just asked if there was any rationale ever expressed of why.
Mr. Waters: Outside of that, I am unaware.
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Commissioner Plummer: It just seems like to me there is an unfairness for the people who have
other problems, that they are not ; taken into consideration in a like ` way. The only other
discussion I have, as I recall, that we did, at this Commission meeting, for the eight million
dollars ($8,000,000), as'I recall, some was to be used for permanent housing, and some was to be
used for rental.
'Mr. Odio: And you added three million dollars ($3,000,000) to help.
Mr. Waters: Yeah. All you're doing here...
Commissioner Plummer: No, we didn't add it. We broke it down.
Mr. Waters: Yeah. All you're doing here is just... These are the aggregate amounts. We're just
setting up the accounts. Once those dollars are...
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Mr.`'Odio: Fifty to seventy ($50 to $70). And administrative charges went from five dollars to
ten collars, ($5: to $10)) That's on Class A. Class B, base rate from sixty-five to a hundred and
fifty. dollars ($65 to `$150). What is that? That's... Class B are tow trucks, are gross vehicles
weighing more than 18,000 pounds: They are bigger trucks.
Commissioner Carollo: Like RVs (recreational vehicles)?
Mr.'OdioIt doesn't break it down' into... It just breaks it down into...
Commissioner Plummer: You know how to get my attention, don't you?
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Mr Odio: Yeah. His costs would go from sixty-five to a hundred and fifty dollars ($65 to
$150). The towing agency would go from sixty dollars to a hundred and forty dollars ($60 to }
$140). And the charges would be from five to 10 ($5 to $10). Class C would go from ninety
dollars to one 'hundred and seventy-five dollars ($90 to $175). The towing agency would go
from eighty-five to one hundred and sixty-five dollars' ($85 to $165). And City administrative
charges, from five to ten dollars ($5 to $10). And the last Class, D, remains the same.
Commissioner Carollo: °Well, what we're doing in this ordinance is establishing the maximum
rates. -
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Commissioner Plummer: And it's a companion to the County, Joe. Its what the county is
charging.
Mr. Odio: And there is also a motorcycle rate which is.., goes from four dollars to twelve dollars
($4 to $12). And that's it. I hope I didn't miss one.
Commissioner Plummer: Captain Longueira, am I misinformed that this is not comparable to
the County rate? That's what I was told. Now, if it's wrong, let me know.
Captain Longueira: No. I believe it's bringing it up towards the County rate. I don't know if in
all cases it's as high as the County rate.
Commissioner Plummer: If anything, we're less?
Mr. Odio: The memo...
Captain Longueira: If anything, it's less. But it's not higher.
Commissioner Plummer OK. i
Mr: Odia: It would bring the business within the City of Miami into line with wrecker
companies throughout Dade County. That's what the memo said.
Commissioner Plummer: Why... Mr. Manager, real quick like. Why is the Police Department
in 'charge of this operation, rather than GSA (General Services Administration)? I mean, it
doesn't seem like to me it takes sworn police officers to count the storage of vehicles. Answer
me in a memo because, you know, I say this every year.
Captain Longueira: Right.
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Commissioner Plummer: You're pouring money into something that never made money, that
always required subsidy.
Mr. Odio: You know, Commissioner, if I had my doing, I would not ever have recommended a
marina there. But when you approved the Bayside contract, we agreed that we would have a
first class marina there. And we would be in violation of that contract. That's as simple... I
tried not to build a marina. We signed a contract back in 19 whatever...
Commissioner Plummer: Sir, you don't have to have a five million dollar ($5,000,000) marina.
Mr. Odio: You have to have...
Commissioner Plummer: , You can have a million dollar marina, as long as it's first class.
Mr. Odio: No, sir, you cannot. ;This is the cheapest - you want to explain it? the cheapest we i
could build it with.
Commissioner Plummer: I'd have a three and a half million dollar marina, just exactly what the
Federal government paid.; I mean, you know and I know... Hey, go ahead.
Mr. Odio: ` No, tell him what...
Commissioner Carollo; The total that FEMA is giving us is how much, again, for the record?
Mr. Sheehan: All right. What we have in the original DSR (DamageSurvey' Report) that we
had received from FEMA did not cover the total cost of the replacement of the marina that was
there. Because of the existing conditions at the time of the storm, they only paid us about two-
thirds of the value of that marina. So in replacing what we had there before, the City was
obligated to come up with some additional funding. In the design of the marina, we have
upgraded the marina'. to resist any, further category two, three and four storms, according to
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Mr. Sheehan: Approximately 141.
Commissioner Carollo: A hundred and forty-one.
Mr. Odio: And I think we have close to an agreement, Commissioner. The problem with that
marina was that the contract with Bayside prohibited us from having tenants that could stay there
on a permanent basis. It had to be... And they are... I think we have an agreement with them
that will allow us to have permanent residents there, and leaving enough for the one-time users,
or,, you know, the transients. The transients. But at least we have... We need a mix of
permanent with transients. If not, you cannot make money like we do here. That's what was
wrong with that marina in the first place, Commissioner Plummer. We couldn't have tenants t
there full-time.
A RESOLUTION SCHEDULING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR MAY 23, 1996, AT 4:30
P.M., TO TAKE TESTIMONY REGARDING THE EXTENSION OF THE TERM OF
THE FLAGLER/CORE AREA SECURITY DISTRICT SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT FOR A ONE YEAR PERIOD, WHICH WAS INITIATED BY
RESOLUTION NO. 96-50, ADOPTED JANUARY 25, 1996; PROVIDING THAT AT
SUCH TIME ALL PROPERTY OWNERS OR ANY OTHER PERSONS INTERESTED
�'�'tu-3�,�`�k.�Yp a, ,.�\ C„� ��au h F,y-tF q o r1
M,�, :l. fir.
Commissioner Plummer: First amendment is sending it to the Manager to negotiate, that, in fact,
he is to, in every way humanly possible, to find that there be a source of revenue derived to this
City from that facility. And if he doesn't, there's going to be a problem. Second of all, that the
monies of the interlocal agreement will be no longer given, and that they will now revert back to
the City. I will...
Commissioner Carollo: Whoa, whoa! Hold on now.
Mr. Cesar Odio (City Manager): I missed the last...
Commissioner Plummer: The monies of the interlocal, which is the hundred thousand...
Commissioner Plummer: Yeah.
Commissioner Carollo: I don't want to ask you the question, Willy, because you got enough
heat over there on your board, but the reason I'm asking all these questions is that we could end
up with some space so that we could save the City additional monies by placing some of our
agencies, such as the Sports Authority. I'd like to extend that to the ITB (International Trade
Board), and maybe some others. Now, DDA (Downtown Development Authority) has a special
mission. It needs a 'different typeof space. I don't know if that would be appropriate or not in
the future. It might not be, then again, it might. But, you know, that's something, Willy,. that
you should discuss with the Manager, and maybe at some point in time, we need to have apublic
meeting, between the executive directors of the Sports Authority, ITB, and DDA, so that we can
work jointly in some of the same areas that right now we're spending resources and going
different ways. The areas of tourism, bringing conventions and exhibitions to Miami, bringing
commerce. And all three boards are working on this, and we need to try to get them to cooperate
a little more jointly. You know, everybody thinks about the Sports Authority just being,sports,'
but the other major part that it should be doing, but it has not been doing, is bringing exhibitions,
conventions to Miami to fill our hotel rooms up, and to bring revenues and more jobs to Miami.
,.. , Downtown Development Authority shares some of that responsibility. ITB, in a way, does, too,
by bringing trade and commerce to Miami and vice versa. So maybe in the near future, we could
have a meeting on this. And certainly, for ITB, I think space there would be good. 1 don't know
about DDA. It might, it might not be. But.
Commissioner Plummer: Joe, I think that's all part and parcel of what the Manager is going to
be charged with the responsibility. I can also tell you that at Bayfront Park, in the laser, tower-
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ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Stephen P. Clark
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36. ; (A) DECLARE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (UDP) AS MOST ►►
ADVANTAGEOUS METHOD -- AUTHORIZE PREPARATION OF
DRAFT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF THE MIAMI MARINE STADIUM AND ANCILLARY MARINE,
RECREATIONAL AND RELATED FACILITIES, AT MIAMI
MARINE STADIUM (3601 RICKENBACKER CAUSEWAY,
VIRGINIA KEY):
(B) DIRECT MANAGER TO CLEAR UP AND MOW GRASS IN SAID
SITE - TRAILS (FEMA) AND ANIMALSTHERE ARE A
NUISANCE.
Vice'Mayor Gort: Fifty-five, Miami Marine Stadium.
Mr. Cesar Odio (City Manager): On 55, we want you... We.are asking permission to draft an
RFP (Request for Proposals) or UDP (Unified Development Project), start the UDP process on
the Marine Stadium property. That doesn't mean we area.. we need to develop some... I wanted
to add that you consider the idea of putting a marina there.
Commissioner Carollo: After all these years.
Mr. Odio: Consist...
Commissioner Carollo: After all these years, you finally have agreed to it, huh?
Mr. Odio: It has to...
Commissioner Plummer: You know, Mr. Manager, let me tell you something. I would hope that
you at least would send somebody over there to cut the grass.
Mr'Odio: Yes, I ordered that. Yes, I agree.
Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Manager, that is a disgrace...
Mr. Odio: You know,, sir, I...
Commissioner Plummer:... to drive by that place over there. It is incredible.
Mr.Odior I went there this morning. It was bad. It was bad.
Commissioner Carollo: Commissioner Plummer is correct. In fact, he was talking about
skinning cats. You can't have food there in that little restaurant without at least half a dozen cats
coming at you, ducks. I mean, the whole place is an embarrassment. We need to move all those
trailers out of there, Mr. Manager. We've been talking about that for some time now.
Mr. Odio: I know. I... = That's... They were donated to us by FEMA (Federal Emergency
Management Agency) and we should send them back, because we have not found a use for them.
Commissioner Carollo: Well, they've been there for several years now.
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Commissioner Carollo: And with all the salt water there and everything else, I don't know what
kind *of shape they're in.
Commissioner Plummer: Can we sell them or not?
Mr. Odio: No. They were donated to us. Maybe...
Commissioner Plummer: Can we give them away?
Mr. Odio: Huh? They belong to us, but can we give them away? -
Vice Mayor Gort: I'm sure there's someone, some nonprofit corporation and other cities that
might be able to use it.
Mr, Odio: I may be able to. Maybe we can. But I would like for you to think of an opportunity
here on the Marine Stadium to do something unique there, to make this an ample RFP so that we
can 'do something creative there, not necessarily... and comply with the County's deed restriction
that it has to be marine oriented. The marina would comply with that, and some amphitheater
type or things_ like that, And...
Commissioner Carollo: Well...
Commissioner Plummer: I'll move 55.
Mr. Manuel Gonzalez-Goenaga: May I address the Commission?
Vice Mayor Gort: Just a minute.
Mr. Odio: We'll have to bring that back to you.
Commissioner Plummer: Of course.
Commissioner Carollo: We can have there many sports oriented activities. At the same time,
we could have the best marina anywhere in the United States, better than Marina del Rey. We
don't have to do any dredging. We could put 40 docks, you know. I'm flabbergasted that the
Manager and Jack Luft have finally seen the light in this. It's been how many years since I've
been talking about this? ;
Mr. Odio: You know, the problem that we have, frankly, is the DRI (Development of Regional
Impact). And we're going to have to fight the City or the Village of Key Biscayne on this, but I
think we should:.. we have to try it.
Commissioner Plummer: Well, wait a minute. Excuse me. If you show one ounce of fear on
anything that Key Biscayne is concerned about, a city or a village... when put to.their voters to
buy two parcels for parks were turned down. I think the people who come over here and try to
tell us what we should do in our City should go back to their village and try to tell their people
what they'should be doing, and leave us alone.
Mr. Odio: But look what they have done to the Seaquarium. They have stopped them dead on
their tracks.
Commissioner Plummer: Maybe they had a right to do such, but with us, we are doing
everything legally, and I very much object to any resident of Key Biscayne who comes over
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37. DECLARE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (UDP) AS MOST
Commissioner Carollo: Yeah.
Commissioner Plummer: OK.
Vice Mayor Gort: Okie-dokie.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Carollo, who moved its adoption.
RESOLUTION NO.96-284
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE DONATION OF SIXTEEN (16) ' GP300 2
CHANNEL 438-470 12.5 KHZ RADIOS AND BATTERY CHARGERS, EITHER (8)
FROM THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, AND EIGHT (8) FROM
MOTOROLA, INC.; THROUGH FLORIDA RADIO RENTAL, INC.; SAID RADIOS
WILL `BE, .USED BY THE MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE SECURITY
COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANCE NETWORK("SCAN").
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted
by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Wifredo Gort
NAYS: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Stephen P. Clark
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40. AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO ISSUE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) TO QUALIFY / SELECT ELIGIBLE FIRMS / SOLE PROPRIETORS TO
PROVIDE TOWING / WRECKING SERVICES FOR DEPARTMENTS OF
POLICE AND FIRE -RESCUE.
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Vice Mayor Gort: Fifty-nine.
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Commissioner Plummer: All right. On 59, I have questions, Mr. Manager. On 59, at the last
time this came up some years ago... I don't understand an RFP (Request for Proposals).It was
my understanding at that time that we had an RFQ (Request for Qualifications), and that was that
any.company who met the minimum standards set forth by the City could be considered to be
awarded one of the contracts. And now, you're talking about an RFP. I mean, I, don't know
what they'regoing to be proposing that would be advantageous to the City. Maybe there is
something, but I'm asking. And second of all, the thing that I remember at the last time that we
had the awards, we created a scenario that said that we wanted to increase the number of zones...
We wanted to increase the number of zones, but we were told, "Don't do it now. We'll do it
next time." And we created a thing called "backup." And we gave to three companies so-called
backup, with the understanding that when we went to a bidding procedure. again; that this
Commission would be empowered to create as many zones as we wanted or we felt that was
necessary. Yet, that which has gone out, number one, is not an RFQ; or not to go out, is not an
RFQ: It still continuously speaks to six zones. It still continues to speak to backup. And as far
as I am concerned, this RFP is not acceptable to me, that I. want the RFP to be an RFQ, and that
if the companies can meet the minimum requirements of this City, that this Commission will
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Commissioner Carollo: That's fine. T agree with you.
Ms) Lichtman: Hello, My name is Lauraine Lichtman, and I'm affiliated with Midtown
Towing. How you doing, Mr, Plummer? Commissioner Gort, Commissioner Carollo. I been
going through this with this City of Miami for the past six years. First problem they gave me
was my zoning wasn't right, that I had to be zoned industrial. It cost me over two hundred
thousand dollars ($200,000) to take the property I have, to fix it up to make it what the City
wants. New Way, which is around the block from me, is in a commercial area, not industrial.
They were the ones fighting on me. I am not fighting New Way. I do not want to take nothing
from New Way. I am in their zone, and I still want them to continue to tow. But -I am tired of
them just fluffing me off. As far as paying every month, I brought with me my City of Miami
1995 and 1996... how I paid my bills here every month.
Mr. Odio: Excuse me. Ma'am, everybody, Commissioner, we are told from the Police
Department, are in compliance.
Vice Mayor Gort: ` Excuse me. Mr. Manager, excuse me. Let's finish hearing from them,
please. Go ahead. I'm sorry.
Ms. Lichtman: I would like to know how these companies could always owe so much money.
My husband was in the hospital. I didn't get a bill for two months. I sent a certified letter to the
Finance Department, I sent a Ietter to some of the Commissioners, telling them that I did not
receive a bill. I think what you need to do is you need to make each company put up ten
thousand dollars ($10,000) in a CD (certificate of deposit) or a letter of credit so if they don't
pay, the City won't lose. Commissioner Plummer, you're always saying...
Commissioner Carollo: That's a good idea.
Ms. Lichtman: You're always don't protect the City, something always goes wrong. Well, you
know, I been doing... I have done one... I can give you a record of Paul's here. I'm just a little
nervous.
Vice Mayor Gort: Don't be. Relax.
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Ms. Lichtman: I'm tired. OK. We have seven zones. OK? Zone one, I can tell you how many
calls they've done. Zone two, zone three, zone four, zone five, zone six, zone seven. Backup is
a joke. I would like to know why New Way is allowed to have their phones patched over to
Nolan's and them cover their calls. What is Downtown, Midtown and Banos backup for? They
tell me that's OK. That's not in the contract. Also, the contract has been extended for two years.
That is illegal. Right now, by law... I don't owe you anything, but I do pay my bills on time. I
mean, you've been playing games with me for six years. What do I have to do? I tell the Metro -
Dade, I brought my book here. Never behind in a payment. They're so easy and logical. I don't s
know why people can be behind. Number of vehicles towed in the last... for the. month.
Released vehicles. Subtotal Special releases. When you give something back, an investigative
tow, or something back for nothing. Investigative tows. What we have left. What salvage. I
mean, this could all be done. I don't understand. And every time, I hear the same story. And '
I've been checking on it. Now, Commissioner Carollo, I didn't know you were doing this, too. I {
did it, too. You just read off some companies that owed money. Three months prior to what you
investigated, I investigated. New Way, twenty-six thousand one hundred and eighty-five dollars
($26,185); Ted and Stan's, sixteen thousand and fifty dollars ($16,050); Southland, sixteen
thousand and five dollars ($16,005); Banos, still at the same, four thousand two hundred and
sixty-five: dollars ($4,265), and Nolan's, three thousand ($3,000)`. I have a copy of - where is
it? - I have a'copy here. I take a photostatic copy of every time I pay the City, and my check
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equipment for the County, for safety reasons, the City's going to make it minimum. Why?
Because maybe the other companies don't have the equipment I have. But I'm going to tell you,
you're going to come down here when the, RFP or RFQ comes out, and the same companies are
going to get the same contracts: It's been going on and on in the City of Miami. You still need
to put... And each company; needsto give at least the ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in trust to
the City so their bills can't be behind.
Commissioner Carollo Well, I, for one, like that ten thousand dollar ($10,000) idea.
Mr. Odio: - I just want to say that we've been notified that everybody is current right now.
Commissioner 'Carollo: .Yeah, but, you know, Mr. Manager... 4
Mr. Odio: Yeah, but you are right. I like that idea very much.
Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Why are they current? If you remember, the first month, month
and -a half since I came back, I requested from you publicly a list of all the leases and contracts
that I the City had; how many owed us money, and how many were in violations. I' think it was
just'iast week or so that you finally answered me, after I kept reminding you. In the meantime,
all the people that were in violation, you know, it got them moving right away. And that's why
all these people paid up. That's why our friends by the bay here paid up the hundred and thirty,
forty thousand or. seventy thousand. I forgot how much they owed. The ones over here from the
same crowd paid up, and scores of others. And it shouldn't be that way. I mean, we had a free
for all before November of ' 95, and we need to tighten the rules and regulations. I don't give a
hoot whose friends people are. I mean, the laws have to apply to everyone, friend or not friend.
And what I'd like to do, Mr. Vice Mayor, is, number one, to establish, beginning now, that
anyone that's going to tow for us has to put up ten thousand dollars ($10,000).
Mr. Odio: How much is the monthly bill?
Captain Longueira: How much is the monthly bill?
Commissioner Carollo: Well, if it's more than ten thousand, more, you know, so be it, make it
more,.but a minimum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per month. I'd be willing to go for more
if they're making more. I have no problem with that. All these people could afford that. j
Mr.'Lichtman:' Excuse me, Commissioner Carollo.
Vice Mayor Gort: ' OK. Also...
Mr. Odio: ` How much is the billing per month? They are billing around fifteen hundred to three
thousand ($1,500 to $3,000) a month. That's their billing, average. `.
Ms. Lichtman: Excuse me. What I mean... Let me explain it. I'm saying put up a letter of
credit...
Commissioner Carollo: Sure.
Ms, Lichtman:... to the City for ten thousand dollars ($10,000). By that, I mean if the company
does not pay the City their bill every month, the City can just deduct that from the ten thousand
dollars ($.10,000). -
Commissioner Carollo: OK. Well, it could be either a letter of credit, a bond.
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Mr. Udhtman: A bond. That's what we...
Commissioner Carollo: If they want to put cash up in a bank in the City's name. You know,
whichever way the City decides that we want to give them different options to do,
Vice Mayor Gort: Authe same time, I think I'd like it to be built in that if they don't pay within
a certain.amount of time, automatically, the contract be denied or revoked.
Mr. Odio: That if we don't pay, we...
Commissioner Carollo: That should...
Vice Mayor Gort: I think that's something you need to do.
Commissioner Carollo: Yeah.
Vice Mayor Gort: If they don't pay, revoke their contract.
Commissioner Carollo: Yeah, we revoke the contract, and we then use that money they put up
to collect on that. That's one. Secondly, to be playing the game that's been played here on and
on again, that now, we're going to keep the same thing going for another 90 days, I think, is
unfair. I mean, we have been working without a contract for well over a year. What I'd like to
do is, let's rotate it for the next 90 days. Let's give everybody a real chance. The ones that have
been on the out, let's put them up front now, and the others could be in reserve.
Commissioner Plummer: How can you do that?
A. Quinn Jones, III, Esq. (City Attorney): You can't.
Commissioner Plummer: You can't do that.
Commissioner Carollo: Why not? We don't have a contract now anyway with anyone.
Commissioner Plummer: But you got to go out for...
Mr. Jones: Well, if you... Then you wouldn't... You don't... Then you would summarily...
Commissioner Plummer: Who are you going to rotate...
Mr Jones: You can't summarily engage in anew contract on a rotational basis. The purpose for
extending the contract for 90 days was to give them adequate time. to bring the RFP back or '
whatever, for people to respond to, so that a new contract could be entered into.
Commissioner Carollo: But how can we keep going with this contract when, in fact, there is no
contract...
Mr. Jones: Yeah,
Commissioner Carollo:... because it's been expired for over a year?
Mr. Jones: Well, one thing in the law is if the parties... all the parties consent to an extension,
there's no problem. What I was looking at, what my biggest concern was that - and you're
absolutely right - during this whole period, technically, a contract is up. My biggest concern is
the Iiability aspect from the City of one of these persons who goes out and tows under the
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rotational and`open it up completely, if you get your car towed in the Grove, you might have to
go to 79th Street to get it.
Commissioner Carollo: Mm-hmm.
Captain L.ongueira: Where currently, they're all in their zone, and you don't have to go too far
to get your car. So I'd like you to be aware of that, you know, because it could create another
problem. If we could resolve that...
Commissioner Carollo: And that's a very good point, Captain. I think maybe what we need to
do iS to, on the rotation basis, is try to keep people in the zone that they're in, or as close to it as
they possibly.:. s
Mr. Odio: That's why I was thinking of the RFP per zone, because if you don't have your
business in that zone, you shouldn't be towing cars all the way...
Commissioner Plummer: Well, make it as part of the minimum criteria.
Vice Mayor Gort: Right.
Commissioner Plummer•. It's that simple, you know. And this Commission, as I usually
understood, will make the final decisions. Now, if we want ten zones, and we feel that that's
what should be provided, then this Commission will decide that. If we think it should be five
zones, we'll decide that.
Commissioner Carollo: Well,..
Commissioner Plummer: One of the interesting concepts that I've heard...
Vice Mayor Gort: Excuse me, excuse me. For the second time, I understand that there's some
more speakers. Why don't we listen to all of the speakers, then we'll close the public hearing
and have comments among ourselves.
Commissioner Plummer: Fine.
Vice Mayor Gort: Yes, sir.
Mr.,Manny Velazquez: How you doing? I'm Manny Velazquez of Midtown Towing. In
reference to your RFQs and your zones, in Metro -Dade we tow for Metro -Dade - there are
seven zones,,0& and they have two companies per zone which rotate, OK, on this towing issue.
Our zone happens to be all the way up in the Aventura area, so what you're saying on being out
of zone is kind of irrelevant, because it's who qualifies for what zone. They stuck us. all the way
out in Aventura, and our office is on 72nd Street, within ten miles of that zone, so they say.
Commissioner Plummer: Yeah, but it's response time.
Vice Mayor Gort: Excuse me. J.L., let's continue,
Mr. Velazquez: As to response time, you'd have a response time of 20 minute ET(estimated
time) with the wrecker. If you have the wreckers to supply for the City, you're going to have a
response time, OK?. We have no problems on responding for Metro -Dade. In reference to what
she was saying about the ten thousand dollars ($10,000), I think it's OK, but you guys got us as
backup, and we haven't received no 'calls as backup. Nolan's went out, they got disqualified,
and we didn't receive a call for backup when they were out, you know, not doing their business
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the way they, were supposed to do it. The last meeting I was here, I made a statement about
Nn1an's,'and I. Plummer;told me that Bill McClosky (phonetic) was not here, to don't make a
statement about him when he's not here to defend himself. Well, my boss, Howard, he's home
sick with Agent .Orange, and I'm here representing Midtown, trying to keep the ball rolling and
to keep business rolling. < So the last meeting and this meeting, we haven't gotten nowhere from
the last meeting till now. Now, you're saying that the RFQs, which is Request for
Qualifications, 'right? That's what you're getting at, right? I don't see why you guys just don't
piggyback the County ordinance, what the County has done with the towing, with the towing
industry,' because we have no problems with what the County is doing on towing.
Commissioner Plummer: That's you. We don't have to... We don't have to be what the County
is doing.,
Mr. Odio: What have they...
Vice Mayor Gort: J.L., J.L. .
Mr. Velazquez: No, I'm not saying you have to be with the County, what they're doing. It's
that..
Vice Mayor Dort:: If it's a good idea, why not?
Mr. Velazquez: OK? I'm not saying you have to do what the County is doing. I'm saying it's
working for the County. That's what I'm saying. And it hasn't worked in the City. OK? The
method you guys got going right now is not working, as far as your zones and your companies in
the zones right now.
Vice Mayor Gort: OK. Thank you, sir. Yes.
Mr. Stanley Mykytka: Stanley Mykytka, Ted and Stan's Towing Service. Vice Mayor and
Commissioners. Commissioner Carollo, you're right, there are some problems in the system,
and you need to look into the Police Department's finance section. When you receive a bill for
two, three thousand dollars ($3,000) and you owe a thousand dollars ($1,000), you are doubled
and tripled, and sometimes four times charged for the same call. It's takes time to sort through
that information. Yes, we are up to date. Your numbers are grossly exaggerated. ` And
especially, it's kind of hard to do business sometimes when the City... You expect us. to be up to
date within 30 days, when some of the towing services wait a year to get paid for work that we
do that the City can't find the money to pay us. It needs to be straightened out on both ends, sir.
Commissioner Carollo: Well, let mesay this to you. The figure that I read from here is what the
Manager. gave: me.
Mr. Mykytka: Correct. I understand that, sir.
Commissioner Carollo: OK? If you're having other problems, I'd be happy to sit with you, and
set up a meeting with the Manager, and try to resolve that.
Mr. Mykytka: In the last three months, we have straightened out of the problems with the
computer section and with the printouts. We've been working to straighten them out. I do want
to sit down with you next week so we can work on the private property issue and the towing
issue. The companies that have been towing for the City for the last four or five months, the
majority of us have been trying to get this passed and through, creating more zones or whatever,
because we're working without, a legal contract, and we want a contract. So later on, I'll make
an appointment with your secretary, and if Midtown would like to. be there, whoever would like
to be there..;
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Commissioner Carollo: I don't care.
Mr. Mykytka:... the more the merrier.
Commissioner Carolio: Sure. I have no problem with meeting with anyone.
Mr. Mykytka: OK.
Commissioner Plummer: Next speaker.
Mr. Barry Greff: Thank you. Mr. Commissioners, Barry Greff, 239 Northeast 20th Street. I'm
an attorney. I'm here on behalf of Diaz Towing, who came here in the hopes that this resolution
would be passed. I have read the proposed RFP. It is 13 very stringent requirements and
qualifications that I don't believe some of the six towing companies right now could pass if they
had to.
Commissioner Plummer: Then they're a non -bidder.
Mr. Greff: My point here is they're putting this off again and again. The qualifications that the
Commission are asking for right now are already set forth in this document. Why don't we at
this point see what the problem is with these qualifications, and if there are any, we'll change
those in the next30 days? The problem is, my client sits here, after 16 years, after going from
one tow truck to 14, and can't get a piece of the City of Miami pie, which is what this is all
about. He's worked very hard in this town, he pays taxes in this City, and he keeps coming back,
Commission meeting after Commission meeting, and they keep delaying him. And there is no
way if this keeps being put off... You put this off for 90 days, and then in 90 days decide there
might be a problem with that qualification, and come back in another 90 days. It's going to be
another year or two before he ends up getting an opportunity, even just a basic opportunity to
compete fairly with the six companies that have been doing this for over a decade. And we're
here today... We sat here all day long from nine to five o'clock, and all we're asking is the right
to compete.He might not win the contract, but I can tell you, I've reviewed his records, and his
trucks, and his yard, and he meets all these qualifications. I can't stand here and tell you whether
the other companies do or not, and I can't tell you whether the six that are under contract do or
not, but he does. And he should have a right to come before this Commission with his
application, just to be... for an equal opportunity to compete for these contracts. And my... We
strenuously object, to the continuation, the deferment, whatever you want to call it today, because
it's going to be then another 90 days before we even get to the issue, and then the issue could go
another 90 days if there's one or two changes. We'd like it to move along. We have 13 different
paragraphs outlining from licenses and, insurance to yards, to the trucks, to appearance. I mean,
I've never seen anything so strenuous. And it's already outlined. I don't care what it's called,
it's already here. And we are asking the Commission to move on it. Mr. Diaz is actually the
fourth backup. Nobody's ever mentioned it, but a year ago or two years ago, they came in and
they made him the fourth backup.. He has gotten zero calls in the last two years. And I
understand that the other backups have gotten very close to zero calls. So the backup, as far as I
can see, are worthless. That leaves us with those six companies that have been doing all the
towing in this town for well over a decade, and there's a tremendous problem with that. You've
got some very qualified people, very hard working people out here that deserve the right to
compete.
Vice Mayor Gott: Thank you. Next.
Mr. Vazquez: Good afternoon, Commissioners. My name is Elio Vazquez, and I represent the
company called King Wrecker Service. Let me tell you a little bit about the company. This is
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the company that has right now the capacity of 300 spaces to store vehicles, over 15 are stored t
inside. ,This is the community that's been in this community in Miami over ten years, providing !-
towing service. Yet, this company is not one of the six of the contractors, not even a backup. In
addition, this company has just spent an estimate of over a hundred thousand dollars ($100,000)
in making this space available for storage: Talking about vehicles that are stores within, inside a
closed area, So we have a company here in this community. They're located presently at 1529
Northwest37th Street, which is within zone two. This company has been there ten years. They
have not been given the opportunity, like counsel before me said, to compete, to present their
bids. They have complied with all the requirementsthat have been presented. They have fully
complied with them. For example, with insurance, with liability insurance, to comply with, in
addition; to that, all their licenses, et cetera. And they also have complied with the appropriate
vehicles,'neaning the appropriate towing trucks, the Class D, the Class B. They have all the
equipment. Yet, they have been foreclosed for presenting their bid. We are asking, and we
object, most respectfully, to reset this matter for 90 days. The appropriate remedy should be the
shortest possible, to be fair and just to all of those that are qualified, and they can provide the
same service as these other, companies, six and the three that are backups, that have done for
many years. This is a time now that changes need to be made for the betterment of the
community, and all these business persons that have spent thousands of dollars in this
community, not only in taxes, but also in licenses and insurance and all that, in addition, let me
add for all Commissioners, this company has provided service to the police and Fire Rescue, free
of charge, towing their vehicles when they have been called upon during these ten years, and yet,
they are not given the opportunity to bid. I ask all of you respectfully to not set it for 90 days.
Thirty days should be enough. Let's move on. Let's stop this delay and delay since January of
1995, and I ask respectfully, 30 days should be enough. Let's get this matter going forward, so
all, and not just Mr. - my client, Mr. Salazar - but all others have the same opportunity to bid for
these contracts. Thank you very much for your attention.
Vice Mayor Gott: Thank you.
Mr.Odio: Commissioner Gort.
Vice Mayor Gott: Yes, sir.
Mr. Odio;. The last time we issued an RFP or contracts was in 1993, so there is no such things as
ten years. I don't know what they're talking... The last one was three years ago.
Commissioner Carollo: Manny, you're in the wrecking business now?
Mr. Manuel Gorizalez-Goenaga: No, But since I have been arrested ten times, seven times out
of ten times, my car has been towed. So I have more experience than the Emperor Caligula on
this. He admitted already that he doesn't have any experience with towing, for the particular
reason that I pay for his car. We all do. And if he has any problem, he calls his different girl
friends or whatever, and let's face it, I mean. And if not, he calls one of his cronies. If not, he
calls his..: It doesn't come out.
Vice Mayor Gott: Excuse me, Mr. Gonzalez. Would you address the RFP, please, sir.
Mr.. Gonzalez-Goenaga: Yes, sir. So the issue is, my friend, I am speaking as a citizen who has
been... who has used, not only during my arrest time, but also... because you know I cannot buy a
new car, and my car gets stuck many times, and Diaz Towing has helped me many times, on
17th Avenue one time, many times. And I get good service from private things. I mean, the
same thing is going on with Metro. ' So we must give what is best for the citizens, not what is
best for the emperor, because he doesn't even know what a towing thing. I wish I... I will... He
will learn when I tow him to court very soon.
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Vice'Mayor Gort. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. j
Commissioner Plummer. Diaz Towing has one strike against them.
Commissioner Carollo: Now that we have heard from an expert witness. Manny, which of the
different zones that you were' towed from provided the best service?
Vice Mayor Gorti Yes, Mr. Cardenas.
Mr. Al Cardenas: Thank you. For the record, my name is Al Cardenas, with offices at 201
South Biscayne Boulevard. I'm here on behalf of Downtown Towing and its owner, Dagmar del
Rosado; is here with me. Basically, you asked for suggestions, so I'll limit my short comments
to'that, with respect to what ought to be in the RFQ.` I think Commissioner Carollo's'suggestion
about some sort of financial funding is appropriate. For your information, the County actually
requires aseventy-five hundred dollar ($7,500) amount.
Commissioner Carollo: Seventy-five hundred?
Mr. 'Cardenas: Right. The average monthly towing bill at the County, it's about twenty-five
hundred dollars ($2,500) per zone.: Yours here, my understanding, is about fifteen hundred to
three thousand ($1,500 to $3,000). So really, something in the three-month range is prudent, and
not overly burdensome, but fair, we think, to make sure that your cash flow is not affected. With
respect to the other items, our client favors, although it dilutes the revenues, but it favors, you
know, a more equitable system. We think that if you put in everything you really ought to put in
to make sure that you have the right equipment, the right companies that are financially sound, at
the most, you're going to get about 14 companies being responsive to those requirements in the
County, that are County -based. If you have the six zones that you currently have and you go into
the same system that the County decided to do after meeting with the industry for over a year,
and go into two companies per zone, that's a total of twelve companies. At the most, you're
going to leave out a couple of companies that are qualified under what... you ought to have a
fairly strict proposal. So that's pretty fair. You would increase your coverage to twelve
companies. Basically, what they would do is, one company would cover one day, the other
company the other dayVand the day when you're not the one that's doing the coverage, you're
being the backup. And so you're familiar with that zone, and one day you're doing it, and the
next day; you're the backup. , That would give a lot of companies the opportunity to do it. And
frankly, I think you ought to have some sort of preference for those whose shop and facilities are
located within the City of Miami. After all, they are your taxpayers. They're not going
somewhere else. They're paying for their facilities here, for the real estate here, and those
basically are the thoughts we wanted to share with you. Thank you, sir. '
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Captain Longueira: They got to be in the City, right?
Vice Mayor Gort: Thank you, sir.
Ms.Lichtman: Thank you.
Vice Mayor Gort: Next.
Mr. David Miller: Yeah. My name is Dave Miller. I'm with New. Way Auto Service, 551
'Northwest 71st Street. The purpose of this contract or proposal is to provide a service to the City
and'the service is towing, and that is to also offer a service to the public. I invite any and all
Commissioners to look into our record of prior services that we have rendered to the City, and I
offer to look for any complaints or. anything that may suggest that we have not provided a good
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service. I hear everybody saying, "We need change, we need change, we need change." I'll be
the first one. to say, if I'm not doing the service, and providing a service that is beneficial to the
City, I'll be the first one to offer my zone. Thank you.
Vice may Gort: Thank you. Next, Mariano.
Mr. Mariano Cruz Yeah. Mariano Cruz, 1227 Northwest 26th Street. I have to add something
to the problem of the towing. Many... Sometimes, the problems you see here is the business
part of it. You're gottosee the public out there. And many times, they got legal rip-off, but
they don't know their rights, and they are not informed. To me, once, it almost happened,
because on January 20, 1992, I saw something, a police officer giving tickets at loth and 36th. I
stop ped'at 11th and 36th, parked my truck there, which I still have a backup there. I went to the
officer and told him that he was sandbagging the corner where he was giving tickets. And the
officer put me under arrest. He told me, he said, "Is that your truck over there?" I say... that's
your Officer Irvin Garriga, motorcycle officer. And then he told me, "Oh, I will have to tow
your truck." I say, "Why? It's well parked." He say, No, no, no. For purpose of liability and.
the problems that"... Oh, no, no, no. I know the system. You give me that release paper you got
there and I sign the release paper, and my truck remains, and from the police station, wherever,
you take me, I will make a call to my home, they will get a spare key and will take my truck
home. The car was parked at 11th and 36th. So if I hadn't known anything, they would tow my
car, take it to Molina right there or whatever, and charge me whatever they want to. A legal rip-
off. Many people don't know this thing. And they've been ripping off out there. Because, you
know, because also, years ago, I drove taxi, and many police officers get drunk people, say, park
your car, take a taxi home, and that's it, and give the address where the car was left on the side of
the road, not calling the tow system or whatever it is. Because I said you got to let... You're
going to say we're servicing the public. Tell them the whole thing. The police should tell them
the whole thing. Because sometimes, through no fault of their own, they have to leave a car
parked. And there is nothing wrong with leaving a car parked or signing a release for the car and
they can call home. Because it happened to me. And Officer Garriga is still there working. And
I remember that. I beat the case in court. I beat it real, real bad.
Vice Mayor Gort: Thank you. OK. We'll now close the public hearing. What is the wish of
this Commission?
Commissioner Plummer: First of all, Mr. Vice Mayor, the 90 days was not proposed by me, but
by the Law Department, who felt that that was the legitimate time necessary for the RFP or the
RFQ to go out, to come back, to analyze, and that would cover us for the liability of the 90 days.
If it could be done in 60 days, great. But knowing how the City operates, it's probably going to
be 90 days. Now, my only proposal is, I don't see the necessity... If they want to go with an
RFP - I don't understand it - as long as minimum standards are, in fact, met. I will tell you that I
would not consider any company that doesn't exist in the City of Miami. OK? That's number
one. Because I think that that affords better service. The only area that I have is the area of six
and one. I will not vote for that. I think that we have the opportunity to do the areas as we need
it in the companies that bid, and as far as I am concerned, it ought to be capped at, say, ten, and
we might only do five, but cap it at ten, that we would not have more than ten zones. And then
what you're actually doing is you're reducing the response time, where today, if, in fact, they are
not on the scene, once they are ordered, 'within 30 minutes, we order somebody else. That's
what happens today. And day after day, that's the way it's supposed to be.
Vice May or'Gort: No, it's not.
Commissioner Plummer: People shouldn't have to wait more than 30 minutes. So as far as I'm
concerned, if you want to go with an RFP, I don't know what it accomplishes, because it will
still be a minimum requirement. If you want to add, Commissioner Carollo, I think it's a damn
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Captain Longueira:... what they're asking in 60 is to go off the County contract.
Mr. Cruz: No. I look at the... at 60, I wasn't going to say much. But then, I see four hundred
and sixteen thousand ($416,000) for... I mean, body... body shop work, paint and all that. I look
and the City is farming out everything. They don't even have anybody working at the General
Services Administration there, the garage there, that fix cars and all that. I don't know how
come the City don't have it, because other cities have that. And they're farming out everything.
And look at the companies here. All big companies. There's no... anybody shop there from
Allapattah, probably being awarded anything here on the contract. And I don't see any hourly
rate, whatever they're going to pay for that, either using the Chilton's (phonetic) Manual, or
what kind of manual they're using for how much... just gross, four hundred and sixteen thousand
dollars'($416,000). And anyway, now, they got 200 new Crown Victorias coming. So it won't
be that problem. They have the big cars. Also, I want to know of this accident we're goingto
fix in the City cars was about what 1700 City cars? - that's a fleet down? Seventeen hundred?
Unidentified Speaker: The fleet.
Mr. Cruz: The fleet. How many cars in the City? Seventeen hundred? Of the use of those cars.
If that car leaves the City limits after working hours, how many of those accidents are happening
out of the City' limits and out of working areas? Because by the law of probabilities, every time
you increase the time that the car is on the street, you're increasing the probability to having
accidents and problems. Because my wife told me not too long ago that she was going to
International Mall, and she saw a police car around there on 836 that hit another vehicle on the
rear. That's not the City of Miami. That's the County, way out there, the west, man. And we
have to pay for that accident. Why? Because the car is being a take home vehicle. And that's...
We have to pay for accidents. I want to know, more or less, how much of those accidents, how
much is costing us taxpayers, those accidents that are happening out of the City limits and out of
working areas, out like on weekends, or going to Orlando, or going someplace, or taking
children to college, ongoing shopping, on Miracle Mile, because I see them. And I tell them
starting... When I see them, I'm going to bring the numbers and the names right here to the
Commission, because it really bothers me a lot when I see people taking the children to school in
North Miami, or going to pick up the laundry there in North Miami. It bothers me. Because it
shouldn't be that way. If the car is going to be for police visibility, put that car in the corner, put
that car in Allapattah there in... where Willy... not there some other place there. And then they
can have accident, and we have to pay for those accidents. You know, but with that money, the
money we can save now that we have 200 new Crown Victorias with the accessories that they
got, that they were here in the agendas today, but it was deferred, because it's emergency items.
How come emergency item? Are you going to need 200 things for restraining prisoners? You
expecting any riots in the summer that you need the 200 things to right away put in the cars? I
mean, that confuse me. When I tell the people in the neighborhood about that, the six hundred
thousand, and the four hundred thousand, and all that, they don't know. They don't comprehend
that money. I say, no, but you paying for that. You paying. Whether you like it or not, you
paying for that. And now, they will come and say, we need some of that money. We could be
using money... I'm going to say that because my wife is watching me. I'm going to save that
money because we need the money for the market, that with the problem we got with the
produce.market, and nothing is being happening so far there. And maybe if we got that money,
we'll spend so much money in body shop or Anthony Abraham, and to whatever it is, maybe
we'd have some money to take care of the problems of the market, fence the market and control
it, and have a' police working. Like before, they used to have police working in the market there
at all times. Now, we don't have anybody working. Maybe Officer Conte (phonetic) was there
and visit, and you, you go around there, because you're about the only one that I've seen around
there from the Administration or the Commission. And one thing, to close. Make sure that the
monies that we're paying for police protection or whatever it is don't be an excuse to use us for
other things like, you know, telling us, oh, you don't pay that, you won't have police protection.
No. We're going to get police protection, because there is also called walking the beat. People
can walk the beat.
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Commissioner Carollo: Senator who?
Vice Mayor Gort: Thank you, J.L.
Commissioner Plummer: Yes, sir.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted
Commissioner Plummer: Where are we?
Mr. Wally Lee (Assistant City Manager): Well, we have a resolution in front of you.
Commissioner Plummer: I'm well aware of that, and I'm ready to move it, and if there's not a
second, then let's go home.
Vice Mayor Gort: I yield the chairmanship. I'll second.
Commissioner Carollo: I am the chair now, so a motion and a second...
Commissioner Plummer: Is he going to rule us out of order?
Board Member Carollo: ... accepting the... item 61. Are there any questions, statements from
the public? George, are you here representing Decoma or are you here representing someone
else?
Mr. George Knox: No, sir. No sir. I'm George Knox, for the record. I'm attorney with offices
at 2601 South Bayshore Drive, Suite 1600. And my law firm represents Bunkers of Miami, Inc.,
and we simply want to ask the. Commission to proceed with the award of the contract so that the
management agreement might be executed according to the schedule, and to respectfully suggest
that there is no legal reason that the contract should not proceed and...
Commissioner Plummer: Did you hear the motion, George?
Mr. Knox: Yes, sir.'
Commissioner Plummer: Are you trying to defeat yourself?
Mr. Knox: No, no, sir.I just want to get on the record so my client would...
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Commissioner Plummer: Yeah, fine, thank you.
Mr. Jones: OIL.
Vice Mayor Gort: OK. I have two pocket items. One is... We got a call from Miller Dawkins
that I would like to bring up, the pocket items is April 25, 1996 Commission Meeting. A
resolution expressing opposition to Florida House Bill 2463 and Senate Bill 1952.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Stephen P. Clark
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