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Home My WebLink AboutM-93-0794�- 48 NORTH MORE A 7 13 PIS x, 3 9 OFFICIRS AND MEMOIRS WARD OF DIRICTORS President WILUAM SAXON 407 UnCDIA Rapti M1074 SWCM. FL 33139 (305)672-100 vwo ►radd.nh EDDIE MVIGAN MAX LAZEGA SCOTT GLAZER Roeorrlinq 9ooirtmry /�,s .at.^2 Q. • C. G-d' P,G, RICHARD PRAC3ER 52S Arthur Godfrey Road fJ f MkM Beach. FL 33140 C-G• 1 %t a (3M)V (305) 673-6656 PsG E �fan�nY• ALSrER 900 N.E. 195th sheet North MIOMI Beach, FL 33179 u bi2e"M Toren jxpke! 1094 JOHN Oe®LASIO $10 SUSSMAN HARRYSKY FR ANKNK FIUP11FIUR �! - MIKE DRUCKMAN SAM HIRSCH CHARIM NEWTON, JR. '• �U� � � G�,��j��tv^•Z• /��r �^� SILK R N MURRAY RUBIRUBIN aneiors Q•'l.�.ft- ��"%JC.��r�rG��A[.Lr JCE Term "ores 1495 rjrrdA THEOPOST 149y1+r LARRY ARONSTAM MARTIN SAXONJAY JAC051 C HARRY HOLWAAN JOE SPERLING IRA XODISH•/�-�— JOHN MOSESIAN r r•h STANLEY WALLMAN MURRAY RUSIN Tyler JOHN MOSESIAN/ii2C• MIKE DRUCKMAN / ParllamsManan MARTIN SAXON s9r. al Ama TOM ARANGIO Sulam IdwOr GENE MOOD 93- 794 N13nlL � s Eej�" 13.) ) �°� -3- It's lights out.. for.street carnivals on Miami beach By D"ID KIDWELL Herald Staff Writer Roadside carnivals are extinct in Miami Beach. No more permits for carnivals will be issued for the next three months, time enough for city administrators to draft an ordi- nance outlawing them forever. The action came about because of noise, crime and traffic prob- lems this year at two annual car- nivals. "We're not talking about Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey here," said Police Chief Phillip Huber, who .pushed for the ban. "We're talking about the bottom end of that type of indus- try. These are nUL nice peoT. CO W 1- NEIGHBORS Joan Chrissos Editor Linda Sykes Advertising Manager 407 Lincoln Rd. Suite 9-D Miami Beach, Florida 33139 News: 672-2195 Retail ads: 653-2438 Classifieds: 350-2222 Fax: 532.3009 Wake up to famous faces every morning with The Miami Herald's Page Two column They are the kind of people who are of suspect character to begin with." Huber's sentiments were shared last week at a meeting of the City Commission's Rules & Special Events Committee, whose members received dozens of complaints from residents about the carnivals' noise and disruption. "Carnivals, I think, are a. thing of the past in Miami Beach," said Commissioner Susan Gottlieb. But there is a catch.. • . . The sponsors of the two carni- vals are the Miami Beach Jaycees and the North Shore Optimist Club, whose officers say the car- nivals are the mainstay of their yearlong fund-raising efforts. "They've cut our necks," said Michael Pike, president of the Optimist Club. "They don't want us to put on any carnivals. They don't want to help us put on any other kinds of events. But they still want our money. It doesn't make any sense." Both organizations give sub- stantial amounts of money to city charities, and the Optimists are solely * responsible for many :youth programs, including _the city's baseball and football leagues. This year, the Optimists netted $16,000 at • thidr carnival, all of .which is used to support youth programs, Pike said. BAth the Optimists and the Jaycees contract with carnival companies, then take a percent- age of the revenues. The civic organizations do not directly manage the event. Huber said his officers dealt with 33 "carnival -related" .crimes • duringthe three-week Optimists carnival in December. The carnival is held on a city .parking lot at 72nd Street and Collins Avenue. The crimes ranged from fist fights • to attempted,- murder, Huber said. City inspectors also caught car- nival employees emptying sew- age tanks into storm drains, and RANDY RA MORE/ M.1aml Herald Staff found employees camping on the fairgrounds. The Jaycees carnival, front Jan. 29 through Feb. 7 at the northwest corner of Flamingc Park, generated dozens of call: from residents complainin€ about the noise and cop' -ct a carnival employees. "At first they didn't have an, toilets," said Matti- Bauer, nearby resident. "They were going all over our yards an( everything." Gottlieb said the city will wor with both civic organization over the next three months t come up with alternative funs raising events. LIGHT FANTASTIC Donald Ackerman, visfting South Florida from New Jersey, jr' s a morning jog along the sY. In Bal Harbour. I Please call daily for our Lunch & Dinner Menus Be '.h!�to ' 'pti ii s� Party's: over fog ant ualr� ni a1: r� ByCRACELIM .:< oe rt ,. Share Op'inlist:Club of Miami Iterua "ImWritor Though csty commi'sstoners said the . • 13esoh which has an annual bud Miami •Beach` commissioners R ., get of bout $80 000, ' gashed alast-minute plea froth r;j n- 6&er�S2l1)ports worthy,youth prOgrQmS "Now ;#e dontt have anything the North Shore Opptimist ,Club.::. .. ' "have look forward to if we don't to have its annual'wir carnival COt3ptll t k6 [i'b011t nb"' ?.: "d ,C�'ZffZe p1 6i lid have that carnival in Decerfrber," in North Beach. Alstei said: Club members'on Wednesday. - them. t0 nOt (L rove thZs,ye& s event.: Commissioner Nancy Lieb- told commissioners that the man told club members the city money raised from the carnival,:: , := -- will look for ways to supplement a 15-year tradition, pays. for • .plaints about noise and increased • of which went to fund programs � ••the club's programs and help it many youth athletic and cultural crime during Oast carnivals and. such -as. the city's little league, ' .-find other ways to raise money. programs. They brought' a peti- , urged the Opt mist Club to find The-thi+�week event. was` held', ' Ronnie Singer, executive direc- tron with several hundred signa- other ways to;taise money. _ on a city parking lot. at 72nd -tor of the North Beach Develop- tures from North Beach residents i;.ast;December, the Optimist Street and Collins Avenue. Some ment Corp., told the commrs- who supported the carnival. Club •contracted with a carnival carnivals raised as much. as sioners that . although the However, commissioners said company, got 35 percent of the-$25,000, said E. Manny Alster,. they have fielded numerous com- revenues and netted S 16,000, all secretary/treasurer of the, North PLEASESEE CARNIVAt., 13 aival fails. ' -' . ' roval�.• CARNIVAL,.FP0Af 3. _.. .: . corporation opposes the V rnival, it supports the:Opt►mist Clubs goals. "We 'think that they are wonderful and what they do is wonderful,":she said. " ' Joe Piiion, executive assistant to the 'citymanager, suggested the Optimist • Club• sponsor an international karate tournament.._ However such an -event' -would take many .volunteer •hours:and. about a year to plan and adver- tise, Pinon said. A year is:too long to wait, Als- ter said..Youth programs will suf- •fer without the revenue from the carnival, he said. . - Urry Aronstam, a member of ,the, Optimists and the carnival 'chairman, said ' many North 'Beach residents and merchants favor the carnival. "They are happy the carnival is there," he said. Aronstam said the Optimist Club is partial to sponsoring a carnival over other events because the carnival company, not the club, manages it. He said; many club members are elderly and therefore unable to partici- pate in many fund-raising activi- ties. With the carnival, only a handful of the club members had to. be enlisted, to sell tickets, he said. 93- 794