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RESOLUTION NO.
A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, CALLING AND
PROVIDING FOR A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO
BE HELD NOVEMBER 2, 1993. FOR THE PURPOSE OF
SUBMITTING TO THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA. FOR THEIR APPROVAL OR
DISAPPROVAL AS TO WHETHER THE CITY OF MIAMI
SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO EXCEED THE
CONSTITUTIONAL TEN (10) MILLS LIMITATION BY
THE LEVY OF AN ADDITIONAL AD VALOREM TAX OF
NOT MORE THAN TWO (2) MILLS, FOR A PERIOD NOT
TO EXCEED TWO YEARS, FOR THE PROVISION OF
ADDITIONAL POLICE SERVICES AND RELATED
EQUIPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE CITIZENS OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI, TO REQUIRE THAT ALL CITY
PERSONNEL NEWLY HIRED AND PAID FROM FUNDS
GENERATED BY THE SUBJECT MILLAGE INCREASE
SHALL BE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, AND
SAID NEW PERSONNEL SHALL MAINTAIN SUCH
RESIDENCY AT ALL TIMES DURING THEIR
EMPLOYMENT BY THE CITY OF MIAMI OR SHALL HAVE
SUCH EMPLOYMENT IMMEDIATELY TERMINATED UPON
AN ADMINISTRATIVE FINDING THAT SAID
EMPLOYMENT CONDITION HAS BEEN VIOLATED, AND
FURTHER TO ESTABLISH A HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATIONS
ADVISORY BOARD, CONSISTING OF BPRBSTATIVS
FROM VARIOUS ASSOCIATIONS,
RBC, 0 ATIONS TO♦'. T � fI'rY
}►ll.=a;RNg'►T `BY`'SAID ADb�Tit)NAL :.LVy
SHALL BE EXPENDED ON SAID POLICE RELATED
MATTERS; DESIGNATING AND APPOINTING THE CITY
CLERK AS THE OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
CITY COMMISSION WITH RESPECT TO THE USE OF
VOTER REGISTRATION BOOKS AND RECORDS; FURTHER
DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO CAUSE A CERTIFIED
COPY OF THE HEREIN RESOLUTION TO BE DELIVERED
TO THE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS OF
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY. FLORIDA, NOT LESS
THAN 48 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF SUCH
SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
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ity
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Of the OitirAM of the City Of UJAMI regerdirt the provision, of aMitioml
Polioe services and related equipment - and
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authorizes the qualified eleotows of - if •f •` • exosel the
a f• a r: crt i rd '11 _tax cap for period not •. _xose• h •
and
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• • =r = vitbin the City of u for to :x : c •
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ad
val• :.-If not to :..;IOe two v• for period • not to -31• e;. • h •
years,•.a for the •/ • • a•1• of 4•
related equipment. -and
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f ��r• �•, and
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in=vamd•: be
residents of the city or f and • f: l i gtn•: _'ff
XWMtMn OUdh141sIdMW at &U Ia n dUrirg ri♦ : >ao ♦ • • ,i _.• by the f4 ty of
n or A a:•= _fads Lua ••n=.rJnMojataly tamins;tad upon. an
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POW, TREREPORI s 82 IT RESOLM BY TUB COMMISSION OF 222 CITY
OF MIAMI, FLORIOAs
Section 1. In a000rdanoe with the provisions of the City
Charter (Chapter 10847, seers of Florida, 1926, as amended), a
speoial municipal eleotion is hereby called and directed to be
held in the City of Miami, Florida, from 7:00 A.M. until
7:00 P.M. on Tuesday, November 2, 1993, for the purpose of -
submitting to the qualified eleotors of the City of Miami for
their approval or disapproval as to whether the City of Miami
shall be authorized to exoeed the Constitutional millage
limitation by the levy of an additional subject specific ad
valorem tax of not more than two (2) mills, for a period not to
exceed two years, for the provision of additional police services
and related equipment for the benefit of the citizens of the City
of Miami, to require that all City personnel newly hired and paid
from funds generated by the subject millage increase shall be
residents of the City of Miami, and said new personnel shall
maintain such residency at all times during their employment by
the City of Miami or shall have such employment immediately
terminated upon an administrative finding that said employment
oonditlon has been violated, and to establish a Homeowner
Associations Advisory Hoard, consisting of representatives from
various associations whioh, shall make recommendations to the
City Manager as to how the monies generated by said additional
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levy shall be expended for said services and equipment. f
Section 2. Said special municipal election shall be held
at the voting places in the preoinots designated, all as shown on
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` the list attaohed hereto and made a part hereof and referred to
as 'Exhibit No. 1, or as may be designated by the Supervisor of
'Eleotions of Metropolitan Dade County, Florida, in oonformity
with the provisions of the general laws of the State. The
preoinot 'Eleotion Clerks and Inspeotors to merge at said polling
plaoes on said eleotion date shall be those designated by the
Supervisor of Bleotions of Dade County for suoh purpose in
a000rdanoe with the general laws of the State. A desoription of
the registration books and reoords whioh pertain to eleotion
preoinots wholly or partly within the City and whioh the City is
hereby adopting and desires to use for holding suoh speoial
munioipal eleotion is as follows: all registration cards, books,
reoords
hand
oertifioates
pertaining to eleotors of the
City
of
Miami
and
established
and maintained as offioial
by
the
Supervisor of Sleotions of Dade County, Florida, in oonformity
with the provisions of the general laws of the State of Florida,
are hereby adopted and deolared to be, and shall hereafter be -
reoognized and aooepted as, offioial registration oards, books,
reoords and oertifioates of the City of Miami.
Seotion 3. In oomplianoe with Seotion 100.342, Florida
Statutes (1991). the City Clerk is hereby authorized and direoted
to publish notice of the adoption of the herein resolution and of _
the provisions hereof, at least twice, once in the fifth week and
onoe in the third week prior to the week in whioh the aforesaid
speoial munioipal eleotion is to be held. in newspaper(s) of
general oiroulation in the City of Miami. Florida, whioh notice
shall be substantially in the following form:
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"NOTICE OF SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION
TO BE HELD ON
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1993
IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. 93-
A speoial referendum eleotion will be
held on Tuesday, November 2, 1993, from
7:00 A.M. until T:00 P.M. in the City of
Miami, Florida, at the polling plaoes in the
several eleotion preoinots designated by the
Board of County Commissioners of Dade County,
Florida, as set forth herein, unless
otherwise provided by law, for the purpose of
submitting to the qualified eleotors of the
City of Miami, Florida, the following
question:
"Shall the City of Miami be authorized
to exoeed the constitutional ten (10) mills
limitation by levying an additional ad
valorem tax of not more than two (2) mills,
not to exoeed two years, to provide
additional polioe servioes and equipment,
require new personnel hired as a oonsequenoe
to be City residents, and establish a
Homeowner Assooiations Advisory Board to
advise the City Manager how funds generated
by said additional levy shall be expended?"
mlis proposed referendums autlaarizes the levy of an
additional ad valorem tax of not more than two (2) mills, for a
period not to emm3ed two years, to provide eddittonal poLios
services and related equipment for the benefit of the oitizeas of
the City of Muni., to require that all City del newly hired
and paid from itids generated by the subject millage increase
shall be residents of the City of NJami, and said new persamel
tea] 7. maintain such residenoy at all times duripg their
by the City of MLami or dW1have such employment Snmedirately
tesmirated upon an administrative findiBg that said employment
oondition bas been violated, and auttsorizes e t of a
Hmeowner Ad"awy Board, o=si.etiof
reparesentatives from various homeowner assoaZatious in the City
whtah sW.l make reoommedaticros to the City Manager as to how the
moaii es generated by said additional levy aba.11 be expended on said
Police related matters.
By order of the Commission of the City of Miami, Florida.
CITY CLERK
A list of City of Miami polling plaoss follows:
(Insert list of City of Miami Polling Plaoes.)"
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Seotion 4. The offioial ballot to be used at said
eleotion shall be in full oomplianoe with the lava of the State
of Florida with respeot to absentee ballots and to the use of the
meohanioal doting maohines or the Computer Eleotion System (CES),
and shall be -in substantially the following form, to wit:
"OFFICIAL BALLOT
SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER a, 1993
FOR APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF THE
FOLLOWING QUESTION:
AUTHORIZATION TO IMPOSE LEVY OF
ADDITIONAL AD VALOREM TAX OF NOT
MORE THAN TWO MILLS.
Shall the City of Miami be
YES authorized to exoeed the
(For the Measure) oonstitutional ten (10) mills
limitation by levying an
additional ad valorem tax of
not more than two (a) mills.
NO not to exoeed two years, to
(Against the Measure) provide additional polioe
servioes and equipment, require
new personnel hired as a
oonsequenoe to be City
residents, and establish a
Homeowner Assooiations Advisory
Board to advise the City
Manager how funds generated by
said additional levy shall be
expended?"
Seotion 8. Eleotors desiring to vote in approval of said
Question described above, shall be instruoted to punch straight
down with the stylus through the hole next to the word "YES"
within the ballot frame oontaiaing the statement reUting to said
Question. Eleotors desiring to vote in disapproval of said
Question, shall be instructed to punch straight down with the
stylus through the hole nest to the word "NO" within the ballot
Section S. The City Clerk shall cause to be prepared
absentee ballots containing the Question set forth in Section 4
above for the use of absent electors entitled to Oast such
ballots in said election.
Section 1. All qualified electors of said City shall be
permitted to vote in said special municipal election and the
Supervisor of Elections of bade County is hereby requested,
authori2ed, and directed to furnish, at the cost and expense of
the City of Miami, a list of all qualified electors residing in
the City of Miami as shown by the registration books and records
of the Office of said Supervisor of Bleotions and duly certify
the same for delivery to and for use by the election officials
designated to serve at the respective polling places in said
election precincts.
Section S. For the purpose of enabling persons to
register who are qualified to vote in said munioipal election to
be held on November 2, 1993, and who have not registered under
the provisions of the general laws of Florida and Chapter 16 of
the Code of the City of Miami, Florida, or who have transferred
their legal residence from one voting precinct to another in the
City, they may register Monday through Friday, from 8:00 A.M. to
5:00 P.Y. at the Metropolitan Dade County Elections Department
located at lit Northwest lot Street, Miami, Florida, within such
period of time as may be designated by the Supervisor of
Elections of Dade County. in addition to the above place and
I
l times. qualified persons may register at such branch offices and
may also use any mobile registration van for the purpose of
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registration in order to vote in the herein described eleotion
during suoh times and on suoh dates as may be designated by the
Supervisor of Eleotions of bade County.
Seotion 9. NATTY HIRAI, the City Clerk of the City of
Miami, Florida, or her duly appointed suooessor, is hereby
designated and appointed as the official representative of the
Commission of the City of Miami, Florida, in all transaotions
with the Supervisor of Eleotions of Dade County in relation to
matters pertaining to the use of the registration books and the
holding of said speoial municipal eleotion.
Seotion 10. The City Clerk shall deliver a oertified oopy
of this Resolution to the Supervisor of Eleotions of Metropolitan
Dade County not lees than forty-five days prior to the date of
the herein speoial municipal eleotion.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this day of 1993.
ATTEST:
NATTY HIRAI. CITY CLERK
PREPARED AND APPROVED BY:
JOEL E . NAXWEM
CHIEF ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY
BSS
XAVIER L. SUAREZ, MAYOR
APPROVED AS TO FORS[ AND
CORRECTNESS:
A. QUINN JONES. III
CITY ATTORNEY