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* 1 NCORP , ► r OF PWING HEU ON S+ Emmwmm BFR 7, 1990 REGULAR PREPARED $Y THE OFFICE OF HE CITY CLERK CITY ,'-*yam.. .rc1 1- ' W I Wsll, v n. x IS s P N R it 1000 ITEN SUBJECT L2018LATION PA62 NO. Nd. 1. PRESENTATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS, AND DISCUSSION 1 SPECIAL - ITEMS. 9/7/90 2. CONSENT AGENDA - DISCUSSION CONCERNING DISCUSSION 2 r PULLED CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS (See label 9/7/90 4). s 3. GRANT REQUEST FROM ASSOCIATION OF CUBAN R 90-642 2-3 ENGINEERS - AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF 9/7/90 REVOCABLE PERMIT FOR MANUEL ARTIME - CSNTER. - 4. CONSENT AGENDA (Continued - see label DISCUSSION 3-5 {{ 2) 9/7/90 - f 4.1 ACCEPT PROPOSAL: MTR SYSTEMS MARKETING, R 90-643 5 INC. - FOR FURNISHING CATHODE RAY 9/7/90 ". TERMINALS TO COMPUTERS DEPARTMENT ALLOCATE FUNDS. 4.2 ACCEPT BID: JULES BROTHERS UNIFORMS, R 90-644 5 INC. - TO PROVIDE UNIFORMS TO FIRE 9/7/90 DEPARTMENT - ALLOCATE FUNDS. - 4.3 ACCEPT BID: XEROX CORPORATION - FOR R 90-645 6 FURNISHING FIVE COPIERS TYPE D 9/7/90 CATEGORIES - FOR GSA DEPARTMENT/GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION DIVISION - ALLOCATE FUNDS FROM USER DEPARTMENTS - APPROVE CPO 'S REJECTION OF PROTEST RECEIVED FROM {' EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY. 4.4 ACCEPT BID: C.S. & S. LIEBERT - FOR R 90-646 6 FURNISHING MAINTENANCE SERVICES (FOR 9/7/90 GSA DEPARTMENT) CONCERNING EMERSON UPSa SYSTEM SERVING THE CITY'S COMPUTER SYSTEM ALLOCATE FUNDS. 4.5 ACCEPT BID: FLORIDA SILICA SAND CO. - R 90-647 6 , FOR FURNISHING RED CLAY TO PARKS 9/7/90 DEPARTMENT - ALLOCATE FUNDS.}} 4.6 ACCEPT BIDS PEDSCO (CANADA) LTD. - FOR R 90-648 7 FURNISHING ONE TRANSPORTABLE ROBOT TO 9/7/90 POLICE DEPARTMENT (PROJECT 690001)= N ALLOCATE FUNDS (LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST x FUND). f 4.7 ACCEPT BID: SUPER SEER CORPORATION - R 90-649 7 FOR FURNISHING MOTORCYCLE HELMET 9/7/90 CONNUNICATIONS SYSTEMS TO POLICE DEPARTMENT - ALLOCATE FUNDS (PROJECT 690001). R. i 4 R ' s - Acem SIDI aotm RNGIt21RING1 INC. R 90-65.0 :.. a rMISH G I -RAT SQUIET T TO 9/7/90 4 POWN, :DSPARTMW_ W11 PRRVIOU$LY 3, SATED VU08 (LAW 11NFbRC NT TRUST 1). 4.9 ACCM IlDs JORGE LARRAUR2 G.C. w BASE R 90-651 a — _ BID FOR NOWN482b8 PARR - IRRIGATION 9/7/90 PROJECT (SECOND BIDDING) (PROJECT 331338) - MMCUTS CONTRACT. : 4.10 ACCEPT 11b► JORGE LARRAURI, G.C. - BASE R 90-652 8 _ BID FOR MODIFICATION TO FIRE STATION 9/7/90 NO. 1 (PROJECT 313018) - EXECUTE CONTRACT. 4.11 ACCEPT BIDi HIALEAH GRANDSTAND, INC. - R 90-653 8 FOR FURNISHING RENTAL OF TEMPORARY 9/7/90 GRANDSTAND BLEACHERS FOR ORANGE BOWL _ STADIUM TO DEPARTMENT OF CONFERENCES, CONVENTIONS AND PUBLIC FACILITIES — r. ALLOCATE FUNDS. — 4.12 ACCEPT BID: FLORIDA TENT RENTAL — FOR R 90-654 9 FURNISHING ONE TENT (FAST STRUCTURE) 9/7/90 FOR MIAMI MARINE STADIUM FOR DEPARTMENT OF CONFERENCES, CONVENTIONS AND PUBLIC — FACILITIES — ALLOCATE FUNDS. 4.13 ACCEPT BID: MUNICIPAL SALES AND R 90-655 9 LEASING, INC. — FOR FURNISHING FOUR 9/7/90 RECYCLING COLLECTION VEHICLES TO SOLID — WASTE DEPARTMENT — ALLOCATE FUNDS _ (FY'90 STATE RECYCLING GRANT FUND, PROJECT 197002). = 4.14 AUTHORIZE PURCHASE: REHRIG PACIFIC R 90-656 9 - - COMPANY — 23,000 CURBSIDE RECYCLING 9/7/90 — CONTAINERS UNDER EXISTING PALM BEACH COUNTY BID (89-085) — ALLOCATE FUNDS - (FY'90 SOLID WASTE REDUCTION, RECYCLING AND EDUCATION SPECIAL GRANT FUND, - - PROJECT 197002). = 4.15 AUTHORIZE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES R 90-657 10 AGREEMENT: R.W. BECK AND ASSOCIATES — 9/7/90 a TO ASSIST SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT IN DEVELOPMENT -AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A _ STATE PERMITTED CITY —OWNED AND OPERATED r' YARD WASTE RECYCLING FACILITY — ry _ ALLOCATE FUNDS (FY'90 SOLID WASTE REDUCTION, RECYCLING AND EDUCATION �— SPECIAL GRANT FUND, PROJECT 197002). _- �L 4.16 AUTHORIZE PURCHASE: FUEL HARVESTERS R 90-658 10 r EQUIPMENT, INC. — FOR ONE WOOD WASTE 9/7/90 t TUB GRINDER FOR YARD WASTE COMPOSTING UNDER EXISTING CITRUS COUNTY BID (90- 78) - ALLOCATE FUNDS (FY190 SOLID WASTE x REDUCTION, RECYCLING AND EDUCATION SPECIAL GRANT FUNDS, PROJECT 197002). 4.17 EXECUTE AGREEMENT: NATIONAL CENTER FOR R 90-659 10 - MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT, INC. TO 9/7/90 �a CONTINUE REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. BY MR. MARK ISRAEL (LOBBYIST). } i 1 r F xl a ^� ex c5'x n sw AMOUNT no. 3 TO AdRM"m A 00-660 11 i1 P ,OPT , Aft TO , CPAI 1# 9/1/00 { ASOOCPATP VtTH P T01t, ARtittSON AND MUM, P'At V110VA, IRIMMO AND ORoInt AND VATBOR AND CWPANY, PA 101t WIRRAL A't DITINO SERVICES POR rY MMING UPTRMBRA, 301 1990 - ALLOCATE FUNDS (Seelabel 7). 4.19 APPROVE AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT WITH R 90-661 11 YMCA OF GREATER MIAMI, INC., REGARDING 9/7/90 4 A $1,150,000 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FLOAT LOAN, FOR REFINANCING OF LAND — ACQUISITION FOR THE CARVER BRANCH YMCA. 4.20 EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH COCONUT GROVE R 90-662 11 LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INC. 9/7/90 (NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION) - FOR CONTINUANCE OF _ COMMERCIAL FACADE TREATMENT PROGRAM (14TH YEAR CDBG PROGRAM FUNDS). - 4.21 ENGAGE SERVICES OF VALLE, AXELBERD, R 90-663 12 CAPP AND ASSOCIATES, INC., TO PROVIDE 9/7/90 PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES - FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT - ALLOCATE FUNDS. .Z 3 4.22 ACCEPT TWO GRANTS FROM STATE OF FLORIDA R 90-664 12 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE 9/7/90 SERVICES: EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES (EMS) MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM - EXECUTE AGREEMENTS - IMPLEMENT PROCUREMENT OF 10 TWELVE LEAD EKG INTERPRETATION AND TRANSMITTING UNITS AND ONE PART-TIME ACCIDENT AND FIRST AID RESOURCE TEACHER. 4.23 ESTABLISH SPECIAL CHARGES FOR USE OF R 90-665 12 ` BOBBY MADURO MIAMI BASEBALL STADIUM BY 9/7/90 CENTRAL AMERICAN SOCCER ASSOCIATION, - INC., AND LITTLE HAITI SOCCER LEAGUE, - INC. - FOR THEIR AMATEUR SOCCER GAMES - EXECUTE AGREEMENTS. 4.24 EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH FRITO-LAY, INC. R 90-666 13 i_ FOR SPONSORSHIP OF THE 1990 FRITO- 9/7/90 LAY/CHEE-TOS FOOTBALL CHALLENGE, A RECREATION PROGRAM FOR LOCAL YOUTH - ACCEPT DONATION FOR PARKS DEPARTMENT. 4.25 ESTABLISH SPECIAL CHARGES, TERMS AND R 90-667 13 CONDITIONS FOR USE OF ORANGE BOWL 9/7/90 STADIUM BY FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY (FLORIDA A&M) FOR ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAME - EXECUTE USE AGREEMENT. 4.26 ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO CONFEDERACION R 90-668 13 DE PROFESIONALES CUBANOS - FOR USE OF 9/7/90 SPACE IN MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER. 4 4.27 AUTHORIZE CITY ATTORNEY TO INITIATE R 90-669 14 LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MR. LUIS 9/7/90 BENITEZ D/B/A B. B. AND SONS k_ — CORPORATION - TO RECOVER LOAN FUNDS 043001.52) ISSUED THROUGH CITYWIDE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PILOT LOAN - PROGRAM. qxxZ u_ - Y Y �y. tt r P ..._.....:..:.�..:.:.:.....�.:.�..uy,._-de�..,.y,,.-�.,,ra.....nn�.::.�r- y.�..:.�......v.�.....,..... •.....,.�3::rarvE 4.28 AVMAIU CITt AT'POmm TO INITIATE R 90-610 tX*Af PROCSOMS AGAINST LUOT AND 9 / I / 90 VILLIN PAPM ` D/E/A PAttNBER SERVICE COAPORATfOR = TO MCOVE t LOAN FUNDS ($34,794.56) ISSUED THROUGH CITYVIDE SMAM 1118INE89 D IiELOPNIENT PILOT LOAN 1�ROf3RAM. 4.29 AUTHORIZE CITY ATTORNEY TO INITIATE R 90-671 LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ROY L. AND 9/7/90 TROY' SEARS D/B/A DAVIS RESTAURANT - TO RECOVER LOAN FUND§ 018,867.38) ISSUED THROUGH CITYWIDE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PILOT LOAN PROGRAM. 4.30 EXECUTE QUIT "CLAIM DEED - VACATE THE R 90-672 NORTH 10 FELT OF THE SOUTH 20 FEET OF 9/7/90 LOT 24, BLOCK 4, GRAPELAND REVISED PLAT (JrUSTO R. DIAZ). 4.31 GRANT REQUEST FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED R 90-673 STREETS CONCERNING 1990 ORANGE BLOSSOM 9/7/90 CLASSIC- PARADE - ESTABLISH AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS. 4.32 GRANT REQUEST rBY FRIENDS OF GERMANY, R 90-674 INC., FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS 9/7/90 CONCERNING FIFTH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST - AUTHORIZE SALE OF BEER AND WINE (See label 22). 4.33 GRANT REQUEST BY UNITED WAY AND R 90-675 SOUTHERN BELL FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED 9/7/90 STREETS CONCERNING THE LITTLE HAVANA UNITED WAY KICKOFF EVENT, A DOMINO TOURNAMENT. 4.34 GRANT REQUEST BY MIAMI RUNNERS CLUB, R 90-676 INC., TO USE STREETS IN COCONUT GROVE 9/7/90 DURING THE AV-MED COCONUT GROVE 5- MILER. 5. DISCUSS AND DEFER PROPOSED ACCEPTANCE OF BID FROM CORAL GABLES GLASS AND MIRROR FOR FURNISHING AND INSTALLING RIOT GLASS AT MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS. 6. (A) GRANT REQUEST BY MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS CONCERNING PAELLA 190 - ESTABLISH PEDESTRIAN MALL, AUTHORIZE SALE OF BEER AND WINE - ESTABLISH AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS. (B) GRANT REQUEST BY MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS CONCERNING INTERAMERICAN FESTIVAL - ESTABLISH PEDESTRIAN MALL, AUTHORIZE SALE OF BEER AND WINE. (C) GRANT WAIVER OF FEES CHARGED FOR LINEAR FEET OF SPACE USED BY THE INTERAMERICAN FESTIVAL. 7. BRIEF CLARIFICATION OF CONSENT AGENDA ITEM 24 (See label 4.18). DISCUSSION 9/7/90 J� 'S. 14— 15 15 - -s- 15 r_ 15 15.1 16 = R ROMICY MINAMt AM10 10642 ORDINANCE ESTASUIR M CAPITAL I 'PROV814RUT 10775 i lwlkCT t UNW RGROtfND STORAGE TANK 9 / 7 / 90 RRTROPITTING (31.1009). 9. RM$AOSUCY ORDINANCEt AMM 10642 - ORDINANCE ESTABLISH NEW CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT 10716 PROJECT: PSRMITS) VIOLATIONS AND CODE 9/7/90 MORCEMSNT COMPUTER SYSTEM (311024). 10. BRIEF COMMENTS BY TWO MEMBERS OF CITY DISCUSSION COMMISSION EXPRESSING THEIR DISPLEASURE 9/7/90 WITH THE CITY'S NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM. 11. MOTION IN SUPPORT OF CITY OF MIAMI / M 90-680 CITY OF MIAMI SHORES TASK FORCE IN 9/7/90 THEIR FIGHT AGAINST CRIME - DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO GIVE SURPLUS RADIOS TO THE TASK FORCE, IF AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. 12. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE SECTION ORDINANCE 4-10 (ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES) - REDUCE 10777 DISTANCE SEPARATION REQUIREMENTS FOR 9/7/90 IDENTICAL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSEES (LIQUOR PACKAGE STORES, BARS, LOUNGES) IN COMBINATION RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS. 13. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH NEW ORDINANCE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND: ORANGE BLOSSOM 10778 CLASSIC (1990-1991) - APPROPRIATE 9/7/90 $250,000 FROM STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, DIVISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - ACCEPT GRANT FOR PROMOTION OF EVENT - EXECUTE AGREEMENT. 14. ALLOCATE $250,000 TO DR. ARTHUR E. R 90-681 WOODARD (REPRESENTATIVE OF FLORIDA A&M 9/7/90 UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION) TO BE USED FOR PROMOTIONAL EXPENSES RELATED TO 1990-1991 ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC (See label 45). 15. DENY PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE M 90-682 AMENDING CODE SECTION 22-2 (GARBAGE AND 9/7/90 TRASH) TO ADD SECTION CONCERNING UNAUTHORIZED REMOVAL, MISUSE AND/OR MISPLACEMENT OF RECYCLING CONTAINERS FROM CURBSIDE AND PROVIDING FOR FEES. 16. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE ORDINANCE SECTION 2-399 - PROVIDE THAT NOTICE first reading REQUIREMENT FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD 9/7/90 HEARINGS MAY BE MET BY POSTING NOTICE, IF SUCH IS IN ADDITION TO NOTICE BY CERTIFIED MAIL OR HAND DELIVERED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, SHERIFF, CODE INSPECTOR, ETC. 17. DISCUSS AND DEFER PROPOSED FIRST Discussion READING ORDINANCE TO AMEND CODE CHAPTER 9/7/90 37 (OFFENSES - MISCELLANEOUS) BY ADDING NEW SECTION: UNAUTHORIZED USE OF OFFICIAL CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT EMBLEM AND STATIONERY PROHIBITED. � r rF Of+t�tMAt t AMM 10656 ORDINANCE 6241 "ttj $STABLISNED SPgCf AID REVOM FUND t first reading _ TRAINING PORT' Ftllf11 AMON XIV 9 / 7 / 90 _ PROVIDE FOR INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR OPERATIONS - ACCEPT - GRANT AWARD FROM STATE OF FL+ORIOA. 19. AUTHORIZE USE A PORTION OF VIRRICK GYM R 90-683 63y-65 . AND BOAT RAMP BY SHAKE -A -LEG, INC. 9/7/90 FOR 'THEIR COMPREHENSIVE WATERSPORTS RECREATIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE DISABLED (HANDICAPPED) -,ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT, a SUBJECT TO NECESSARY APPROVAL, i _ 20. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE ORDINANCE 65-69 (STADIUMS, MARINAS, EXHIBITION AND first reading CONVENTION CENTERS) - REPEAL 53-48 9/7/90 =' (REFUELING VESSELS) - SUBSTITUTE NEW _ -' SECTION TO PROVIDE FOR REFUELING AT _ CITY MARINAS, MOBILE DELIVERY VEHICLES, - REGULATIONS ON MOBILE DELIVERY VEHICLES, REGULATIONS ON DELIVERY, OCCUPATIONAL LICENSES, INSURANCE AND —; PERFORMANCE BOND, AND A CITY USER FEE. 21. (A) DISCUSSION CONCERNING PROPOSED R 90-684 69-84 WASTE FEE (DUMP FEE) INCREASE TO 9/7/90 _ REFLECT METRO DADE COUNTY WASTE SCALE FEE FOR 1991, AND CITY'S INCREASED COSTS OF WASTE: COLLECTION. (B) AUTHORIZE UTILIZATION OF $1 MILLION FROM MONIES PREVIOUSLY INTENDED -� FOR THE YOUTH CENTER AND $1.4 MILLION _ FROM THE GENERAL FUND FOR PURPOSES OF BALANCING THE FY 190-91 BUDGET. 22. (A) RECONSIDER PRIOR VOTE ON CONSENT M 90-685 84-88 AGENDA ITEM 40 WHICH AUTHORIZED CLOSURE R 90-686 _ OF STREETS AND PERMIT TO SELL BEER AND 9/7/90 -i WINE AT THE FIFTH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST. (B)`AUTHORIZE REQUEST BY FRIENDS OF - GERMANY, INC. FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED -; STREETS, PERMIT TO SELL BEER AND WINE, AND WAIVER OF FEES CHARGED FOR LINEAR FEET OF SPACE OCCUPIED BY THE OKTOBERFEST (See label 4.32). ^, (C) DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL + OF PROPOSED MOTION DIRECTING CITY ATTORNEY TO PUT METROPOLITAN DADS COUNTY ON NOTICE THAT THE CITY INTENDS TO FILE A LAWSUIT TO PROTEST WHAT IT ji FEELS IS AN UNFAIR WASTE DISPOSAL FEE. =y 23. WAIVE COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDS R 90-687 88-69 PROCEDURES FOR REQUIRED SERVICES, 9/7/90 EQUIPMENT, GOODS AND/OR MATERIALS FOR GENERAL MACEO PARK DEVELOPMENT PROJECT - PHASE II- RATIFY MANAGER'S FINDING OF EMERGENCY - ALLOCATE FUNDS a' (331354). 24. APPROVE, IN PRINCIPLE, THE 1990-1996 R 90-688 90-98 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AS A GUIDE 9/7/90 a TO CITY AGENCIES, BOARDS AND Et DEPARTMENTS. 25. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH ORDINANCE 99-100' APPROPRIATIONS FOR CITY OF MIAMI first reading CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS - ESTABLISH NEW 9/7/90 CIP PROJECTS TO BEGIN DURING FY'90-91, ,K h t i` a' - CO Ts eomkmtma nTTlxmm PPOS DY CfTY ATTORNEY - CONCERNING A LADY RRSID fi Of PISHIR ISLAND WHO HAD AN ACCIDENT IN VIRGINIA UtEY» 21. GRANT REQUEST BY REPRESENTATIVES Off e W'It�tii00D SNID FOR USE OF EXISTING ENTERPRISE rUND SArl NEIGHBORHOOD CAPITAL IMPROVSMENT FUNDS TO COVER COSTS OF APPLICATION AND ADMINISTRATION CONCERNING PROPOSED WfNWOOD FOREIGN TRADE ZONE, SUBJECT TO DEPARTMENT Oil COMMUNITY AFFAIRS' APPROVAL- 28. REFER TO CITY ATTORNEY REQUEST RECEIVED :I FROM LEGAL COUNSEL REPRESENTING POLICE OFFICERS GEORGE MANRESA AND GEORGE E, LOPEZ TO RECOUP COSTS OF LEGAL REPRESENTATION INCURRED BY THEM IN 'CONNECTION WITH CHARGES FOR WHICH THEY { HAVE BEEN EXONERATED. 29. EXPRESS SYMPATHY AND CONDOLENCES TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF MICHAEL D. SPEAR j, AND JODI SPEAR UPON THEIR UNTIMELY DEATH. 30. GRANT REQUEST BY HISPANIC HERITAGE COMMITTEE, INC. FOR CELEBRATION OF THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA — AT BAYFRONT PARK — ESTABLISH AREA PROHIBITED TO —' RETAIL PEDDLERS. 31. GRANT REQUEST BY MARY STREET DANCE THEATER FOR WAIVER OF FEES INVOLVED FOR USE OF MANUEL ARTIME CENTER FOR ONE —DAY 2 REHEARSAL, SUBJECT TO PROVISOS. 32. PERSONAL APPEARANCE; JOSE FABREGAS AND EUGENIA ANDERSON (CODEC, INC.) TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEY WOULD START —_" CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR BUILDING PROJECT (105 UNITS — N.W. 18 AVENUE AND 35 STREET) IN SEPTEMBER — CODEC AGREED TO BUILD NEXT 202 PROJECT ON CITY —OWNED LAND, IF MADE AVAILABLE BY THE CITY. 33. BRIEF DISCUSSION CONCERNING TOBACCO ROAD'S REQUEST FOR EXTENSION OF TIME CONCERNING PROHIBITION OF NOISE REGARDING THE MIAMI RIVER BLUES FESTIVAL — DIRECT CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE EMERGENCY ORDINANCE GIVING CITY COMMISSION AUTHORITY TO WAIVE PROHIBITION. 34. GRANT REQUEST BY THE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. PARADE AND FESTIVITIES COMMITTEE, INC. FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS CONCERNING THEIR PARADE; DISCUSS FUNDING REQUEST. 35. GRANT REQUEST BY CORAL GATE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS CONCERNING CORAL GATE'S 40TH BIRTHDAY PARTY. .- ;q 3^ } DISCUSSION 100-101 9/7/90 M 90-689 101y1b8 �' 9/7/90 M 90-690 108-115 9/7/90 R 90-691 115 9/7/90 x DISCUSSION 123-124 9/7/90 R 90-694 124-126 a 9/7/90 D 26. bl"vSSItiN CANING FUND= REQUEST DISCUSSION FROM Ft.ORIDA FOOD RECOVERY PROGRAM - 9/7/90 ADMINISTRATION OFFERS TO ASSIST IF MCKINLEY ACT FUNDS BECOME AVAILABLE. 37. FIRST READING ORDINANCRt BURGLAR AND ORDINANCE ROBBERY ALARMS - AMEND CODE CHAPTER 3.5 firret reading (ALARM SYSTEMS) - PROVIDE THAT ALL 9/7/90 ENFORCEMENT RRMEDIRS FOR VIOLATIONS ARE DEEMED TO BR CUMULATIVE - REDEFINE TERM ALARM USER -• DELINEATE QUALIFICATIONS OF BURGLAR ALARM SPECIALTY ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR . SET FORTH SERVICE CHARGES AND LIEN PROVISIONS REGARDING FALSE ALARMS - SET FORTH PROCEDURES IN CONNECTION WITH FALSE ALARMS - PROVIDED THAT THERE SHALL BE NO AUTOMATIC FEE INCREASES WITHOUT COMMISSION APPROVAL, 38. GRANT REQUEST BY EXCLUSIVE SPORTS R 90-696 MARKETING FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED 9/7/90 STREETS- AUTHORIZE SALE OF BEER AND WINE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS CONCERNING HOOP -IT -UP BASKETBALL EVENT. 39. AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO GIVE CITIES OF R 90-697 SWEETWATER AND OPA- LOCKA FIRST RIGHT 9/7/90 OF REFUSAL ON FUTURE BIDS FOR CITY OF MIAMI SURPLUS MOTORCYCLES. 40. DISCUSS AND TEMPORARILY TABLE RENAMING DISCUSSION OF EAST BAY VISTA MINI PARK AS MILLER 9/7/90 J. DAWKINS MINI PARK (See label 54). 41. DISCUSS AND REFER TO ADMINISTRATION REQUEST FROM CUBAN ACCOUNTANTS ASSOCIATION IN EXILE CONCERNING ITS CONTRIBUTION REQUEST FOR THE XXI INTERAMERICAN REGIONAL SEMINAR OF ACCOUNTING. 42. DISCUSSION CONCERNING FUNDING REQUEST (UNDER MINI-UDAG PROGRAM) FROM THE OVERTOWN ADVISORY BOARD REGARDING DEVELOPMENT OF AN OVERTOWN PROGRAM. 43. (A) DISCUSSION CONCERNING FUNDING REQUEST FROM ST. AGNES RAINBOW VILLAGE TENANTS COUNCIL (FOR CHILD DAY CARE, AFTER SCHOOL CARE, OUTDOOR RECREATION AND ADULT EDUCATION). (B) INSTRUCT ADMINISTRATION TO GIVE IMMEDIATE PRIORITY TO THE FUNDING OF COMMISSION -APPROVED PROJECTS IN OVERTOWN AND WYNWOOD AREAS - SECOND PRIORITY TO PROJECTS IN OTHER AREAS ALSO NEGLECTED IN THE PAST. M 90-698 9/7/90 DISCUSSION 9/7/90 M 90-699 9/7/90 44. GRANT REQUEST FROM LIBERTY COLUMN, R 90-700 INC., TO PLACE INSCRIPTION ON A 9/7/90 MONUMENT TO BE PLACED IN BAYFRONT PARK. 45. (A) DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO ADVANCE ONE- R 90-701 FOURTH OF THE $250,000 PREVIOUSLY R 90-.702 ALLOCATED TO FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY FOR 9/7/90 PROMOTIONAL EXPENSES RELATED TO 1990-91 ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC, (B) APPROVE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS CONCERNING THE ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC PARADE - WAIVE FEES. . A - 129-133 131-131 ;t 138 �j 139-141,_. 141-142 142-145 145-155 J_ 155-160 'n 161 e4 -i 162-169 Y 7 f ab^8 ; +T : tjtki'1, r'no+li+C✓ �� � _ 'B r;F #B� wrmin ADMIitIaTurum TO MITIOA'1'N M 90-705 18�1�#74 BRNMMY AS SND 09 C'CTR'E AIDS 9 / 7 /90 MW IT COD11 U410RCSMW BOARD FOR ILLNGAL PARKING W V29=138 AT LOT NEXT _ TO 2240 B0't1Tf1' DIXIE HIGHWAY. - 47. CREATE TIN -MEMBER MOUTH GANd TASK FORCE R 90-704 174-177 r i INCLUDING THM NX OrrICIO"MEMBERS FROM 9/7/90 TACOLCY CMNTER, ASPIRA, AND POSITIVE, INC. 48. DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO SCHEDULE R 90-705 171-178 PUBLIC HEARING TO HEAR PROPOSAL By 9/7/90 "- STEPHENS, INC. (BOND UNDERWRITING FIRM) CONCERNING SAL! OF TAMABLE BONDS. 49. DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO TRANSFER OF R 90-706 178-179 FEDERAL AVIATION TRUST FUNDS TO DADE 9/7/90 _ comm. wo 50. DISCUSS AND DEFER PROPOSED AGREEMENT DISCUSSION 179-181 WITH LAMAR LOUISE CURRY CONCERNING HER 9/7/90 DONATION TO THE CHALLENGER VII MEMORIAL. 51. RESCHEDULE PROPOSED DISCUSSION ON THE DISCUSSION 181-182 - CITY'S TOWING CONTRACTS TO THE FIRST 9/7/90 k F- COMMISSION MEETING IN OCTOBER. 52. APPROVE BOND COUNSEL LEGAL OPINION FROM R 90-707 183-184 HOLLAND AND KNIGHT AS TO WHETHER THE 9/7/90 - - CITY MAY IMPOSE A FEE OR CHARGE ON i GROSS INCOME GENERATED BY THE USE OF OFF-STREET PARKING METERS. 53. DISCUSSION CONCERNING PROPOSED MILLAGE DISCUSSION 184-202 RATE AND TENTATIVE FY'90-91 BUDGET FOR 9/7/90 THE CITY (Momentarily deferred see label 55). 54. (CONTINUED DISCUSSION): RENAME EAST R 90-708 203-204 BAY VISTA MINI -PARK AS MILLER J. 9/7/90 - DAWKINS MINI -PARK. (See label 40). 55. CONTINUED DISCUSSION CONCERNING DISCUSSION 205-243 Fg--- PROPOSED MILLAGE RATE AND TENTATIVE 9/7/90 FY190-91 BUDGET FOR THE CITY (See label r 53).� si 56. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: DEFINE AND ORDINANCE 244-245 - DESIGNATE TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF THE first reading CITY OF MIAMI FIX MILLAGE AND LEVY 9/7/90 r TAXES FOR FY OCTOBER 1, 1990 - SEPTEMBER 30, 1991. 57. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: MAKE ORDINANCE 245-246 APPROPRIATIONS FOR FY ENDING`SEPTEMBER first readingP 30, 1991. 9/7/90 58. DISCUSSION CONCERNING PROPOSED MILLAGE DISCUSSION 247-250 RATE AND TENTATIVE FY'90-91 BUDGET FOR 9/7/90: THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. 59. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: DEFINE AND ORDINANCE, 251-252 DESIGNATE TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF THE first reading DOWNTOWN DMLOPMENT DISTRICT FIX 9/7/90 - MILI.AGE AND LEVY TAXES FOR FY OCTOBER t 1, 1990 - SEPTEMBER 30, 1991. =i z< £ y,2t G,C. ii" 4 fri:.'i l Y i :' .• t JF c i rim? RW`MINAN2: MAKE ORDINANCE APPIOMIATIO14S- , MOM THE DOWfNTOi1N f irst read iiag DEULOPMENT DISTRICT AD VALOREM TAX 9/7/90 LM AND OTHER INCOME FOR THE DOWTOWN DIVILOPMT AMORITT FOR r? ENDING S`EEtT1ffiER 30 1991. 61. DISCUSS AND DEFER PROPOSED RESOLUTION DISCUSSION APPROVING OFt (a) FYt90-91 BUDGET OF 9/7/90 DEPARTMENT OF 017-ST1I ET PARKING; (b) FY190'91 BUDGET OF DEPARTMENT OF OFF- STREET PARKING (FOR OPERATION OF GUSMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS AND THE OLYMPIA BUILDING); AND (c) DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET PARKING FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL OPERATIONS PLAN (ORDINANCE 10641). 62. DISCUSS AkD DEFER PROPOSED RESOLUTION DISCUSSION APPROVING FY190-91 ADMINISTRATIVE 9/7/90 BUDGET OF THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY. 63. APPOINT LAW FIRMS: (a) MATZNER, R 90-709 ZISKIND, KOSNITZKY AND JAFFEE; AND (b) 9/7/90 BARNES, DARBY AND MCGHEE (CO -BOND COUNSEL) - TO RENDER A FORMAL BOND COUNSEL OPINION CONCERNING: (a) USES, ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES WHICH MAY BE DEVELOPED AS A UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON THE CITY'S FEC TRACT; AND (b) WHETHER A BASEBALL STADIUM MAY BE CONSTRUCTED IN BICENTENNIAL PARK (BOTH ORIGINALLY FUNDED BY 1972 PARKS FOR PEOPLE BOND ISSUE). 64. AUTHORIZE CITY ATTORNEY TO ENGAGE R 90-710 SERVICES OF ROBERT F. CLARK AS SPECIAL 9/7/90 COUNSEL IN MATTERS PRIMARILY RELATED TO LEGISLATIVE AND SPECIAL PROJECTS, ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 18, 1990. 65. APPROVE SUBMITTAL OF PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1 - TO PROVIDE THAT A CITY COMMISSIONER SHALL SERVE EX OFFICIO AS MEMBER -CHAIRPERSON OF OFF- STREET PARKING BOARD WITH THE RIGHT TO VOTE ON ALL MATTERS AND THE POWER TO CAST A SECOND VOTE TO BREAK A TIE - CALL AND PROVIDE FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 6, 1990. 66. EXECUTE GRANT AGREEMENT WITH STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, DIVISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ($200,000) TO PROVIDE FOR FUNDING OF THE PASS -THROUGH GRANT FOR STAGING 1991 GRAND PRIX - AUTHORIZE EXECUTION OF GRANT AGREEMENT WITH MIAMI MOTORSPORTS, INC. 67. EMERGENCY ORDINANCEt ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDt GRAND PRIX 1991 - APPROPRIATE $200j000 FROM STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, DIVISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GRANT. R 90-711 9/7/90 Ist-2a9 254-256 256-257 257-259 259-261 261-262 MM 1 "FRJ w$ AUTHORIZE EncuTtom OF: (a) R 90-113 96S-266 SUPPLEMENTAL AORIMM NO. 2 3 AND (b) 9 / 7 / 90 '- PAYMENT ESTIMATE - CONTRACT PERFORMANCE - PROVIDING FOR R0I2TANCE OF $225,222.75 FROM N.S. CORPS of ENGINEERS AS PAYMENT OF . FEDERAL GOVERNMUNT'S SHARE OF COSTS INCURRED AS A RESULT OF REMEDIAL. WORK ON FOUNTAIN FOUNDATION AND SERVICE TUNNEL. FOUNDATION FOR BAYFRONT PARK RECREATION PROJECT. 69. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE ORDINANCE 266-261 r SECTIONS 35-33, 42-741 42-79 AND 42-80 first reading (TOWING AND STORAGE OF MOTOR 9/7/90- VEHICLES) - INCREASE CHARGES AND FEES. t;y 70. FIRST READING ORDINANCEt AMEND CODE ORDINANCE 268 4 SECTIONS 42-8.1 AND 5406, AND ADD NEW first reading SECTION 42-12 (SPECIAL OFF -DUTY POLICE 9/7/90 SERVICES AND PERMITS REQUIRED FOR PARADES AND PROCESSIONS) - PROVIDE FOR INCREASED CHARGES. Viil VVL'Y'1L �iVi Vim VL' \liiL'ii, +L/Vi�L Lif - ' On the nth day of September, 1990, the City Commission of Miami, Florida, met at its regular meeting place in the City Hali, 3500 Pain American Drive, Miami, Florida in regular session. x{ The -meeting was called to order at 9:12 a.m. by Mayor Xattier Sitaral with ¢ the following members of the Commission found to be present: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins x '7? Mayor Xavier L. Suarez 7— ALSO PRESENT: Syr Cesar Odio, City Manager Jorge L. Fernandez, City Attorney Matty Hirai, City Clerk `— Walter J. Foeman, Assistant City Clerk An invocation was delivered by Mayor Suarez. Vice Mayor Dawkins then led -_ those present in a pledge of allegiance to the flag. NOTE FOR THE RECORD: At this point, Agenda items CA- 10,.7CA-11,-CA-12, CA-14, CA-15, CA-19, CA-22, CA-24, and CA-27 were withdrawn by the Administration. 1. PRESENTATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS, AND SPECIAL ITEMS.}_ 1. Proclamation to Carlos Arboleya recognizing his contributions to the .Ado t-A-Park Program and p g proclaiming September 7, 1990, as Carlos �- Arboleya Day. 2. Proclamation to the Pepsi Cola Company for its contributions to the City of Miami arks and p proclaiming September 7, 1990 as Pepsi Cola Company Day. 3. Proclamation to Joseph A. Rios, saluting hisgenerous donation of uniforms for the City of Miami volleyball team and proclaiming.September 7, 1990 as .Joseph A. Rios Day. 4. Certificates of Appreciation to the City of Miami volleyball team and Coach Luis Molinet. 4 L'+ it 4 �1 FW 1'M .A -sept r�9 a�� a 'i y NOT11 fOtt TO 99COADt On motion duly made by -Cotnmiestoner Alonso and saconded by Commissioner be Yarre, the minutes of the Regular and Planning and .n Zoning City Commission meetings of May .24, June 26, 4 and duly 26, 1990, and the Regular City Commission Meetings of ,Tune f and July 12, 1990 were unanimously y approved. r.r.r.rr.wYrarrrrA.arir.ia'.aiiY.+itiwr.riSs�+ir:asira.r..:rr..rvr.r.rrr�rrrear:n.i+.i:.ra.Yrf..rr+.iwrrA.ia:.ir:.rrrlit..rrY+i::oii: '�} t 2. CONSENT AGENDA DISCUSSION CONCRRNINC PULLED CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS (See label 4). .----ri.rrrYrrY.r+rri.4rrYrrrr—rr—rrrra.rr—rrrarr—rw —r.►rr rrrr rrrrrr�wrr--.►r—rr-----rrrr Mayor Suarez: On items withdrawn and I know that at least one item that was withdrawn at the request of Commissioner Alonso was not listed here. And let's state which one that is, We consent agenda item 33. Commissioner Alonzo: Yes. Mayor Suarez: In addition to those, administration has pulled CA-10, CA-11, CA-12, CA-14, CA-15, CA-19, CA-22, CA-24, and CA-27. A lot of them, I think, at the request -of various Commissioners, in accordance with our rules and for _- a variety of.reasons that are probably going to be beneficial to the entities r` in question. I think people want more information before we turn down funding requests or leasing terms, at Cetera. Any other items? - Mr. Odio: I think Commissioner Dawkins was going to bring back three of them. Commissioner... 3. GRANT. REQUEST FROM ASSOCIATION OF. CUBAN ENGINEERS - AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF REVOCABLE PERMIT FOR MANUEL ARTIME CENTER. Mayor Suarez: OK, while we do that, Mayor Reboredo, Mr. Manager, had called me yesterday and out of courtesy for the Mayor and the Engineering Society, they have apparently reached full agreement with the City on space, paying, full rent at the Artime Center and the only thing they needed was subject to your review, is the approval of the Commission for the terms of their lease.. Again, it's not a request for grants or funding or anything and... Mr. Odio: No, we recommended that, so... Jorge Fernandez, Esq.: And it's not a lease, it's a revocable permit. r Mr. Odio: It's a revocable permit. h Mayor Suarez: A revocable use permit and subject to all the usual conditions <' and standard rent payments which are prescribed, and if anyone - if the Commission doesn't have any problem with that, I'll entertain a motion on it subject to the fine points being worked out by the Manager. Commissioner Plummer: Work them out, I'll move it. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Mr. Fernandez: And the name of the group is the... UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Association of Cuban Engineers. -. Mayor Suarez: The rents at the Artime Center are now competitive, they're get x. for all groups and I presume that they are given leases on first came, f it•,st .. served basis, or otherwise, rights 4 Mr. Adlo: They're very low rent. y3 t Mayor SUArati They're -vary low. Well, maybe neftt year -rsvocablepermit- to that it, cdUld be revoked at any saeondad. It there's no 4u66ti0ft, call the roll. nv4f increase them. It4s time. to moved And Thefollowitig resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adopt ions RESOLUTION NO. 90-642 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE Ara REVOCABLE PERMIT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE To THE CITY ATTORNEY, To ASOCIACION DR INGENIEROS CUBANOS, FOR THE USE OF 262 SQUARE FEET OF SPACE IN THE MANUEL ARTIMI COMMUNITY CENTER, LOCATED AT 900 SOUTHWEST FIRST STREET, MIAMIo FLORIDA; SAID PERMITTER TO PAY AN. ANNUAL FEE OF $1,179 FOR THE USE OF THE AREA, IN - ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN SAID REVOCABLE PERMIT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clark.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Alonsot the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES.- None. ABSENT: None. 3 Mayor Suarez: Mayor Reboredo, don't forget us when we come to.'West Miami City Commission and give us the first item on the agenda, I hope. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Always. Mayor Suarez: Always. ------------------ A 4. CONSENT AGENDA (Continued see label 2) Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. Mayor... Mayor Suarez: Yes, Mr. Vice Mayor. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I asked that certain items be pulled from the agenda... Mayor Suarez: Yes, did I... Vice Mayor Dawkins: And I keep telling the Manager, over and over, that I think anything of $100,000 or more, should be discussed and the citizens should have a chance to hear it. So, I pulled them. But the Manager mays that he must have 19 and 22, so I would like to reinsert 19 and 22 Into the budget please I mean, into the consent agenda. Af, Mayor Suarez: OK, have we then read the other ones? The ones that are not reinserted? Vice Mayor Dawkins: And 27, he says, I'm sorry. Mayor Suares: OK, so the consent agenda, otherwise, consists of Item CA-1 through CA-44 with the exception of CA-10# 11, 12, 14, 15, 19 and you want to reinsert 22, 24, and 27? -is that what you said? 8" 3' 4 .. vies meyor ot"tamt, us,' sir, Mayor $uares 't And, sleo,: vlth the 'a*oeption of CA-33. So, with those items i exempted., out i . { , Mr. Fbrniadeat Mr. Mayor, point of order. a ayor uarez! es. Mr. Fernandez! Also in again reviewing the consent agenda, there are three ` items in which we have found that certain modifications may be made, not to the substance of it... -i Mayor Suirw Olt, just to... Mr. Fernandez! ...but Just so that they read properly. They are item 18, the administration has changed the codes from which the allocations are going to 4 be coming, so that's the -only difference in item 18. On items 6 and 41 these Y' are multi -year contracts in which we need to make very certain that for }- subsequent years after the first year, the amount of money remains the same - - _y same terms and conditions. In other words, we put that clearly, in the { resolution now and valve also made it subject to City Commission bringing it n ` back. Otherwise` -they're renewable automatically. Mayor Suarez:'`OK. _ - Vice Mayor Dawkins: With 27, I'm going to tell all of you, I'm going to be , trying to see that another small firm gets some of the work because it's a _ whole lot of people -out there who need their light bill or phone bill paid. Mayor Suarez: OK, do you want to remove that at this point for a separate... - — Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, I'll'let the Manager work that out. Mayor Suarez! OK. All right, with the exception of the items that I T' mentioned, items CA-1 through 44 constitute the consent agenda. If anybody ! wishes to be heard 'on any of those items from the general public, please step up to the podium. Let the record reflect that no one did. Yes,Commissioner? Commissioner Plummerr Item five. - r Mayor Suarez: 'Item five for clarification, hopefully. An'y:other items, FT _ — Commissioners? is Commissioner Plummert Clarification, Mr. Me or,,is for the fact 'that they did - not furnish any backup material to us previous to the meeting. Mayor Suarez: OK, possible death of the item, who knows? Yes, 'ma'am, which item? fik UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes, item C-43 and C-44. — Mayor Suarez: CA-43 and 44. OK, we'll take those separately at the appropriate time. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: OK. 4 Mayor Suarez: OK, with the exception of those items and CA-5, I'll entertain �l a motion on the consent agenda. Commissioner Plummer: So moved. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll. ON MOTION DULY MADE BY COMMISSIONER DE YURRE AND SECONDBA By ' COMMISSIONER PLUMMER$ THE CONSENT AGENDA, AS CITED A$OVE, WAS APPROVED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: Y y, +3 k wc3ay t�4r� r2 5 f � Altai Comisaianer Vlet6r be Yurre Cr ieeieAer J. PluftAr, Jr. cbmiest6hec Miriam Alaft6o vied Mayor Miner is UWkifts Mayer kavior L, Stiat6z N0E91 None. ABSENT: None. 4.1 ACCEPT PROPOSAL: MTR SYSTEMS MARKETING, INC. FOR FURNISHING CATHODE RAY TERMINALS TO COMPUTERS DEPARTMENT - ALLOCATE FUNDS. RESOLUTION NO. 90-643 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE PROPOSAL OF MTR SYSTEMS ';— MARKETING, INC., FOR FURNISHING CATHODE RAY _- TERMINALS ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS FOR A MINIMUM OF TWO YEARS' AT A GUARANTEED PRICE OF $534.00 PER UNIT TO ` THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTERS; ALLOCATING FUNDS _ THEREFOR FROM THE VARIOUS CITY DEPARTMENTS FY190/91 OPERATING BUDGETS AS NEEDED; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THIS EQUIPMENT AS NEEDED. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) - 4.2 ACCEPT BID: JULES BROTHERS UNIFORMS, INC. - TO PROVIDE UNIFORMS TO FIRE DEPARTMENT - ALLOCATE FUNDS. RESOLUTION NO. 90-644 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF JULES BROTHERS UNIFORMS, INC. TO PROVIDE UNIFORMS TO THE FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES DEPARTMENT ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR FIVE (5) YEARS AT A TOTAL FIRST - YEAR COST NOT -TO EXCEED $75,153.95; ALLOCATING FUNDS —_ THEREFOR FROM THE 1990-91 OPERATING BUDGET, ACCOUNT CODE NO. 280601-075; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THESE MATERIALS, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. 1: (Here follows body of resolution, omitted on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 5 f •b" lK N L� �Y 4.3 ACCEPT BID: XEROX CORPORATION - FOR FURNISHING FIVE COPIERS TYPE D CATEGORIC 8 - r0A GSA DIPARTMM/GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION DIVISION = ALLOCATE Ft S FROM USER DEPARTMENTS - APPROVE CPO 'S REJECTION OF PROTEST RECEIVED I`ROM EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY. RESOLUTION NO. 90-645 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF XEROX CORPORATION FOR FURNISHING FIVE (5) COPIERS TYPE D CATEGORIES ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR THREE (3) YEARS AT A FIRST YEAR COST OF $105,390.00 FOR A TOTAL PROPOSED THREE-YEAR COST OF $316,170.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE OPERATING BUDGETS OF THE USING DEPARTMENTS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION/GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION DIVISION FOR USE BY ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS; AND APPROVING THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER'S DECISION TO REJECT THE PROTEST RECEIVED FROM EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THIS EQUIPMENT SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.4 ACCEPT BID: C.S. & S. LIEBERT - FOR FURNISHING MAINTENANCE SERVICES (FOR GSA DEPARTMENT) CONCERNING EMERSON UPS SYSTEM SERVING THE CITY'S COMPUTER SYSTEM - ALLOCATE FUNDS. RESOLUTION NO. 90-646 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF C.S. & S. LIEBERT AT AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $8,769.00 FOR FURNISHING OF MAINTENANCE SERVICES FOR THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT IN REGARD TO THE EMERSON UPS SYSTEM SERVING THE CITY'S COMPUTER SYSTEM ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR WITH THE OPTION TO RENEW ANNUALLY ON THE SAME TERMS AND CONDITIONS; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1990-91 OPERATING BUDGET, ACCOUNT CODE NO. 420401-670; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE AND THEREAFTER TO RENEW THIS CONTRACT ANNUALLY, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AND TO A CONTRARY INSTRUCTION BY THE CITY COMMISSION. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.5 ACCEPT BID: FLORIDA SILICA SAND CO. - FOR FURNISHING RED CLAY TO PARKS DEPARTMENT - ALLOCATE FUNDS. RESOLUTION NO. 90-647 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF FLORIDA SILICA SAND CO., IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $49,400.00, FOR THE FURNISHING OF RED CLAY, ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR, TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1989- 90 OPERATING BUDGET, ACCOUNT CODE NO. 580302-712; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS PURCHASE, AND THEREAFTER TO EXTEND THIS CONTRACT ANNUALLY ON THE SAME TERMS AND CONDITIONS, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AND TO A CONTRARY INSTRUCTION BY THE CITY COMMISSION. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 6 1' Ooptembor i1°990 �r4 k5 4.6 ACCEPT DIM PEDSCO (CANADA) LTD. - FOR FURNISHING ONE TRANSPORTABLE ROBOT TO POLICE DEPARTMENT (PROJECT 690001) - ALLOCATE FUNDS (LAV ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND).' RESOLUTION NO. 90-648 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF PRDSCO (CANADA) LTD. FOR FURNISHING ONE (1) TRANSPORTABLE ROBOT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE AT A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $38,684.56, USING PREVIOUSLY ALLOCATED FUNDS THEREFOR IN AN AMOUNT OF $29,000.00 FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND; FURTHER ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR" IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,000.00 FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND, PROJECT NO. 690001, ACCOUNT CODE NO. 290952-840; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.7 ACCEPT BIDs SUPER SEER CORPORATION - FOR FURNISHING MOTORCYCLE HELMET COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS TO POLICE DEPARTMENT - ALLOCATE FUNDS (PROJECT 690001). RESOLUTION NO. 90-649 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF SUPER SEER CORPORATION FOR THE FURNISHING OF MOTORCYCLE HELMET COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $9,405.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM PROJECT NO. 690001, ACCOUNT NO. 290947-840; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT. (Here, follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.8 ACCEPT BID: GOLDEN POLICE DEPARTMENT TRUST FUND). ENGINEERING, INC. - FOR FURNISHING X-RAY EQUIPMENT TO - USE PREVIOUSLY ALLOCATED FUNDS (LAW ENFORCEMENT , RESOLUTION NO. 90-650 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF GOLDEN ENGINEERING, INC. FOR FURNISHING OF X-RAY EQUIPMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE IN A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $5,130.00; USING FUNDS PREVIOUSLY ALLOCATED THEREFOR FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER. TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THISEQUIPMENT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 7 N Cy 4*0 ACCEPT IUDs JORGE LARRAVRI G.C. - BARS BID FOR MORNINGSIDS PARE - IRRIGATION PROJECT (SECOND BIDDING) (PROJECT 331338) - EXECUTE CMU. RESOLUTION NO. 90-651 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF JORGE LARRAURI G.C.; IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $94,000.00, SASS BID OF THE PROPOSAL, FOR MORNINGSIDE PARR IRRIGATION PROJECT (SECOND BIDDING), WITH MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE 1990 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE NO. 10642, PROJECT NO. 331338,- IN THE AMOUNT OF. $94,000,00 TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH SAID FIRM. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.10 ACCEPT BID: JORGE LARRAURI, G.C. BASE BID FOR MODIFICATION TO FIRE STATION NO. 7 (PROJECT 313018) - EXECUTE CONTRACT. RESOLUTION NO. 90-652 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF JORGE LARRAURI, G.C., IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $38,500.00, BASE BID OF THE PROPOSAL, FOR MODIFICATIONS TO FIRE STATION NO. 7, WITH MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE 1990 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE NO. 10642, PROJECT NO. 313018, IN THE AMOUNT OF $38,500.00 TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH SAID FIRM. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.11 ACCEPT BID: HIALEAH GRANDSTAND, INC. FOR FURNISHING RENTAL OF TEMPORARY. GRANDSTAND BLEACHERS FOR ORANGE BOWL STADIUM TO DEPARTMENT OF _ CONFERENCES, CONVENTIONS AND PUBLIC FACILITIES - ALLOCATE FUNDS. RESOLUTION NO. 90-653 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF HIALEAH GRANDSTAND, INC., FOR FURNISHING RENTAL OF TEMPORARY GRANDSTAND BLEACHERS FOR THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM :TO THE DEPARTMENT. OF CONFERENCES, CONVENTIONS AND PUBLIC FACILITIES AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED $28,000.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE FY'91 ENTERPRISE FUND, ACCOUNT CODE NO. 580402-340; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE. ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE, SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) sra a stpts bob M � 4.12 ACCEPT IIDs FLORIDA TINT RENTAL - FOR FURNISHING ONE STRUCTURE) FOR MIAMI MARINE STADIUM FOR DEPARTMENT OF CONVENTIONS AND P'i1BLIC FACILITIES - ALLOCATE FUNDS. RESOLUTION NO. 90-654 TINT (I'Ag CONi�REFtCES � A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF FLORIDA TENT RENTAL FOR THE FURNISHING OF ONE 63' X 45' TENT (FAST STRUCTURE) TO BE USED AT THE MIAMI MARINE STADIUM FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF CONFERENCES, CONVENTIONS AND PUBLIC FACILITIES AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED $49,318.001 ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR AS FOLLOWS: $24,659.00 FROM FY190 ENTERPRISE FUND, ACCOUNT CODE NO. 580403-340 AND $24,659.00 FROM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT NO. 402002; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS PURCHASE, SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.13 ACCEPT BID: MUNICIPAL SALES AND LEASING, INC. - FOR FURNISHING FOUR RECYCLING COLLECTION VEHICLES TO SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT - ALLOCATE FUNDS (FY190 STATE RECYCLING GRANT FUND, PROJECT 197002). RESOLUTION NO. 90-655 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF MUNICIPAL SALES -i AND LEASING, INC., FOR FURNISHING FOUR (4) RECYCLING COLLECTION VEHICLES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF SOLID WASTE AT A TOTAL COST NOT TO EXCEED $193,540.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE FY-90 STATE RECYCLING GRANT FUND, PROJECT NO. 197002, ACCOUNT - CODE NO. 320305-840; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT, SUBJECT TO THE -_ AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.14 AUTHORIZE PURCHASE: REHRIG PACIFIC COMPANY - 23,000 CURBSIDE RECYCLING CONTAINERS UNDER EXISTING PALM BEACH COUNTY BID (89-085) - ALLOCATE FUNDS (FY'90 SOLID WASTE REDUCTION, RECYCLING AND EDUCATION SPECIAL GRANT FUND, PROJECT 197002). RESOLUTION NO. 90-656 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THH PURCHASE OF TWENTY- THREE THOUSAND (23,000) CURBSIDE RECYCLING CONTAINERS UNDER EXISTING PALM BEACH COUNTY BID NO. 89-085 FROM REHRIG PACIFIC COMPANY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF SOLID WASTE AT A TOTAL COST NOT TO EXCEED $77,740.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE FY-90 SOLID WASTE REDUCTION, RECYCLING be EDUCATION SPECIAL GRANT FUND, PROJECT NO. 197002, ACCOUNT CODE NO. 320305-840; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THESE CONTAINERS, SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 9 Sepiemkrr l • 4.15 AUTHORIZE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT: R.W. BECK AND ASSOCIATES .: TO ASSIST SOLID WASTE DEPARNM IN DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLANTATION OF A STATE PERMITTED CITY-OMD AND OPERATED YARD WASTE RECYCLING FACILITT ALLOCATE FUNDS (FY190 SOLID WASTE REDUCTION, RECYCLING AND EDUCATION SPECIAL GRANT rWD, PROJECT 107002). RESOLUTION NO. 90=651 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, BY AND BETWEEN R.W. BECK AND ASSOCIATES AND THE CITY OF MIAMI, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $48,400 IN ORDER TO ASSIST THE CITY OF MIAMI'S DEPARTMENT OF SOLID WASTE IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A STATE PERMITTED CITY OWNED AND OPERATED YARD WASTE RECYCLING FACILITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 17-709, FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, AND SECTION 403.706(2)(C) OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE FY'90 SOLID WASTE REDUCTION: RECYCLING AND EDUCATION SPECIAL GRANT FUND, PROJECT NO. 197002, ACCOUNT NO. 320305-340. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.16 AUTHORIZE PURCHASE: FUEL HARVESTERS EQUIPMENT, INC. - FOR ONE WOOD WASTE TUB GRINDER FOR YARD WASTE COMPOSTING UNDER EXISTING CITRUS COUNTY BID (90-78) - ALLOCATE FUNDS (FY'90 SOLID WASTE REDUCTION, RECYCLING AND EDUCATION SPECIAL GRANT FUNDS, PROJECT 197002). RESOLUTION NO. 90-658 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF ONE (1) WOOD WASTE "TUB" GRINDER FOR YARD WASTE COMPOSTING UNDER AN EXISTING CITRUS COUNTY BID NO. 90-78 FROM = FUEL HARVESTERS EQUIPMENT INC. FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF SOLID WASTE AT A TOTAL COST NOT TO EXCEED $138,750.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE FY- 90 SOLID WASTE REDUCTION, RECYCLING & EDUCATION SPECIAL GRANT FUNDS, PROJECT NO. 197002, ACCOUNT CODE NO. 320305-840; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.17 EXECUTE AGREEMENT: NATIONAL CENTER FOR MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT, INC. - TO CONTINUE REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY IN WASHINGTON, D.C. BY MR. MARK ISRAEL (LOBBYIST). RESOLUTION NO. 90-659 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT, INC., TO CONTINUE REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI IN WASHINGTON, D.C. BY MR. MARK ISRAELI ALLOCATING THEREFOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $28,800 FOR SUCH SERVICES, AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $4,000 FOR REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES FROM THIS LEGISLATIVE LIAISON GENERAL FUND. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 10 September 7, 4.16 MCM2 A1I#DMWT 140. 3 TO ACRIM 49MT WITH DELOITTE AND TOUCHE, CPAj IN ASSOCIATION WITH SHARPTONt BRUNSON AND COMPANY, PA; VERMA, IRIONDO AND GRAVIER; AND WATSON AND COMPANY, PA - FOR EXTERNAL AUDITING SERVICES FOR ry ENDING SEPT EMBER 300 1990 - ALLOCATE FUND8 (See label I). RESOLUTION NO. 90=-660 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AMENDMENT NO. 3, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED 'FORM, TO AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND DELOITTE & TOUCHE, CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS, IN ASSOCIATION WITH SHARPTON, BRUNSON & COMPANY, P.A., VERDEJA, IRIONDO & GRAVIER, AND WATSON & COMPANY, P.A., FOR EXTERNAL AUDITING SERVICES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 301 1990, WITH FUNDS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $298,000 THEREFOR BEING ALLOCATED FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.19 APPROVE AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT WITH YMCA OF GREATER MIAMI, INC., REGARDING A $1,150,000 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FLOAT LOAN, FOR REFINANCING OF LAND ACQUISITION FOR THE CARVER BRANCH YMCA. RESOLUTION NO. 90-661 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, APPROVING AN AMENDMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, TO THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE YMCA OF GREATER MIAMI, INC., REGARDING A $1,150,000 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT "FLOAT LOAN" FOR THE REFINANCING OF THE LAND ACQUISITION FOR THE CARVER BRANCH YMCA, THEREBY EXTENDING THE REPAYMENT DATE BY ONE YEAR FROM MARCH 14, 1991 TO MARCH 13, 1992, AND ACCEPTING AN IMMEDIATE PAYMENT TO THE CITY OF $100,000 IN PRINCIPAL AND $17,958.90 IN INTEREST, WITH QUARTERLY INTEREST PAYMENTS TO BE MADE ON THE BALANCE; FURTHER INCREASING THE INTEREST RATE ON THE REMAINING BALANCE OF $1,050,000 FROM ONE PERCENT (1%) TO SEVEN PERCENT 0%) FOR THE PERIOD OF THE EXTENSION SUBJECT TO THE CITY CONTINUING TO BE SECURED BY AN AMENDED LETTER OF CREDIT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.20 EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH COCONUT GROVE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INC. (NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION) - FOR CONTINUANCE OF COMMERCIAL FACADE TREATMENT PROGRAM (14TH YEAR CDBG PROGRAM FUNDS). RESOLUTION NO. 90-662 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH ONE (1) NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: (COCONUT GROVE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INC. (CGLDC), FOR THE CONTINUANCE OF THE COMMERCIAL FACADE TREATMENT PROGRAM, SAID AGREEMENT TO PROVIDE CGLDC WITH $25,200 FROM FOURTEENTH (14TH) YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here *44 on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) i l 8eptes�ker 7 i iW�O "F r__ 4.21 SAGE SERVICES Or VALLE, AXSLB%n, CAPP AND ASSOCIATES, INC., TO PROVIDE PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES - FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT - ALLOCATE rtfN`DS, RESOLUTION NO. 90-663 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENGAGE THE SERVICES OF VALLE, AXELBERD, CAPP AND ASSOCIATES, INC., FOR THE PROVISION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SIRVIC181 ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $163,000, ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE YEAR, FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT GENERAL OPERATING BUDGET, INDEX CODES 290201-270, IN THE AMOUNT OF $112,000, AND 290201-260, IN THE AMOUNT OF $51,0001 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SUBMITTED PROPOSAL, WITH SAID ORGANIZATION FOR THE INITIAL YEAR AND THEREAFTER TO EXTEND THIS CONTRACT ON THE SAME TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR TWO ADDITIONAL ONE-YEAR PERIODS, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.22 ACCEPT TWO GRANTS FROM STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES: EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES (EMS) MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM - EXECUTE AGREEMENTS - IMPLEMENT PROCUREMENT OF 10 TWELVE LEAD EKG INTERPRETATION AND TRANSMITTING UNITS AND ONE PART-TIME ACCIDENT AND FIRST AID RESOURCE TEACHER. RESOLUTION NO. 90-664 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT TWO (2) GRANTS FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES: EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES (EMS) MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY AGREEMENTS TO IMPLEMENT THE CITY'S PROCUREMENT UNDER THE GRANT PROGRAM OF TEN (10) TWELVE LEAD EKG INTERPRETATION AND TRANSMITTING UNITS AND ONE (1) PART-TIME ACCIDENT AND FIRST AID RESOURCE TEACHER, SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AND COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE CITY CODE PROCUREMENT REQUIREMENTS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.23 ESTABLISH SPECIAL CHARGES FOR USE OF BOBBY MADURO MIAMI BASEBALL STADIUM BY CENTRAL AMERICAN SOCCER ASSOCIATION, INC., AND LITTLE HAITI SOCCER LEAGUE, INC. - FOR THEIR AMATEUR SOCCER GAMES - EXECUTE AGREEMENTS. RESOLUTION NO. 90-665 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENTS, ESTABLISHING SPECIAL CHARGES FOR THE USE OF THE BOBBY MADURO MIAMI BASEBALL STADIUM BY CENTRAL AMERICAN SOCCER ASSOCIATION, INC., AND LITTLE HAITI SOCCER LEAGUN, INC., FOR THE SAID ORGANIZATIONS' PRESENTATION OF AMATEUR SOCCER GAMES ON APPROXIMATELY FORTY (40) EVENT DAYS DURING THE PERIOD FROM JULY 1 THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 19901 FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE SEPARATE USE AGREEMENTS, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORMS, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND SAID ORGANIZATIONS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 12 September 71 1990 2�? 4.24 WMCUT1 AGAIMENT WITH FRITOYLAY, INC. FOR SPONSORSHIP OF THE 1000 FRITO-LAT/CHEF-TOS FOOTBALL CHAUEN0E, A RECREATION PROGRAM FOR LOCAL YOUTH z ACCEPT DONATION FOR PARKS DEPARTMENT. RESOLUTION NO. 90-666 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, RELATED TO THE "1990 FRITO-LAY/CHEF-TOS FOOTBALL CHALLENGE", A RECREATION PROOP.&4 FOR LOCAL YOUTH TO BE CONDUCTED ON SELECTED DATES BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 15 AND NOVEMBER 4, 1990 IN FIVE (5) CITY OF MIAMI PARKS, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NXECUTN AN AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND FRITO-LAY, INC., FOR SPONSORSHIP OF SAID PROGRAM; FURTHER ACCEPTING A DONATION FROM SAID FIRM IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,500 FOR THE CITY'S DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION PROGRAMS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.25 ESTABLISH SPECIAL CHARGES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR USE OF ORANGE BOWL STADIUM BY FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL & MECHANICAL UNIVERSITY (FLORIDA A&M) - FOR ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAME - EXECUTE USE AGREEMENT. RESOLUTION NO. 90-667 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, ESTABLISHING SPECIAL CHARGES, TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE USE OF THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM BY FLORIDA AGRICULTURAL AND =! MECHANICAL (FLORIDA A&M) 'UNIVERSITY FOR THE ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAME TO BE HELD ON OCTOBER 27, 1990; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A USE AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH SAID USER FOR THIS PURPOSE. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.26 ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO CONFEDERACION DE PROFESIONALES CUBANOS - FOR USE OF SPACE IN MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER. RESOLUTION NO. 90-668 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, AUTHORIZING.THE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE A REVOCABLE PERMIT TO CONFEDERACION DE PROFESIONALES CUBANOS, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, FOR THE USE OF 234 SQUARE FEET OF SPACE IN THE MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER LOCATED AT 900 SOUTHWEST FIRST STREET, MIAMI, FLORIDA; SAID PERMITTEE TO PAY FOR THE USE OF THE AREA AT AN ANNUAL FEE OF $263.25, IN SUBSTANTIAL ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS CONTAINED IN SAID REVOCABLE PERMIT, SUCH FEE BEING AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO THE FEE TO BE CHARGED EACH OF THREE SIMILAR ORGANIZATIONS SHARING SAID SPACE; NAMELY: COLEGIO NACIONAL DE ARQUITECTOS, COLEGIO NACIONAL DE DENTISTAS, AND COLEGIO NACIONAL DE FARMACEUTICOS; WITH THE CITY MANAGER BEING INSTRUCTED TO REDUCE THE PREVIOUSLY IMPOSED PERMIT FEE TO BE PAID BY EACH OF SUCH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO REFLECT THE ABOVE AMOUNT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 13 Septembor 4.21 At'MR2211 CITY ATTORNEI' TO INITIATE LEGAL PROCEEDIN09, AGAINST MR, Lut$ BENITEZ D/B/A B. B. AND SONS CORPORATION - TO RECOVER LOAN rUND8 ($43,3013 2) ISSUED THROUGH CITIVIDE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PILOT LOAN PROGRAM. RESOLUTION N0. 00-660 A PISOLIJTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO L=' INITIATE APPROPRIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND CIVIL ACTION AGAINST MR. LUIS BENITEZ, D/B/A B. B. Aft — SONS CORPORATION, TO RECOVER LOAN FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $43,3013 2 TO SAID INDIVIDUAL THROUGH THE CIMIDE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PILOT LOAN — PROGRAM. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) _ 4.28 AUTHORIZE CITY ATTORNEY TO INITIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST LEROY AND WILLIE PARKER D/B/A PARKER SERVICE CORPORATION - TO RECOVER LOAN FUNDS ($34,794.56) ISSUED THROUGH CITYWIDE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PILOT — LOAN PROGRAM. — RESOLUTION NO. 90-670 — A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO - INITIATE APPROPRIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND CIVIL ACTION AGAINST LEROY AND WILLIE PARKER, D/B/A PARKER SERVICE CORPORATION, TO RECOVER LOAN FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $34,794.56 GIVEN TO SAID INDIVIDUALS VIA THE MODEL CITY SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PILOT LOAN PROGRAM. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and - on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.29 AUTHORIZE CITY ATTORNEY TO INITIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ROY L. AND TROY SEARS D/B/A DAVIS RESTAURANT - TO RECOVER LOAN FUNDS ($18,867.38) ISSUED THROUGH CITYWIDE SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PILOT LOAN PROGRAM. RESOLUTION NO. 90-671 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO INITIATE APPROPRIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND CIVIL ACTION AGAINST ROY L. AND TROY SEARS, D/B/A DAVIS - RESTAURANT, TO RECOVER LOAN FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $18,867.38 RECEIVED BY SAID INDIVIDUALS THROUGH THE MODEL CITY SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PILOT LOAN PROGRAM. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) and i�. 14 Septombor 78 19$Ci r, ka� k'til`'CLC �P . v +i 4. 30 Xnem QUIT CLAIM DREIti - V'ACAnt THE NORTH 10 nsT or THE soulit 26 An Ot LOT 240 RLOCk 41 tMPILANb REVISED PLAT (JUSTO R. DIAZ). RESOLUTION NO. 90-6I2 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACIIIQ=j VACATING, DISCONTINUING; AND ABANDONING THE NORTH TEN (10) FRET OF -.THE SOUTH TWENTY (20) FEET OF LOT 24, BLOCK 4, "GRAPELAND REVISED PLAT", ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 39 PAGE 196, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A QUIT CLAIM DEED THERETO, CONVEYING SAME TO THE PRESENT OWNER OF RECORD. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.31 GRANT REQUEST FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS CONCERNING 1990 ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC PARADE - ESTABLISH AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS. RESOLUTION NO. 90-673 A RESOLUTION RELATED TO THE 1990 ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC PARADE TO BE HELD OCTOBER 27, 1990, PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC; FURTHER ESTABLISHING AN AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS DURING THE PERIOD OF THE EVENT; CONDITIONED UPON THE ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR ALL NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH SAID EVENT, BEYOND THE FUNDING, IF ANY, WHICH MAY BE PROVIDED BY FESTIVAL ORDINANCE NO. 10206 AND OBTAINING INSURANCE COVERAGE TO PROTECT THE CITY IN THE AMOUNT AS PRESCRIBED BY THE CITY MANAGER. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 4.32 GRANT REQUEST BY FRIENDS OF GERMANY, INC., FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS CONCERNING FIFTH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST - AUTHORIZE SALE OF BEER AND WINE (See label 22). RESOLUTION NO. 90-674 THIS RESOLUTION WAS LATER RECONSIDERED AND FORMALIZED BY MOTION 90-685. 4.33 GRANT REQUEST BY UNITED WAY AND SOUTHERN BELL FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS CONCERNING THE LITTLE HAVANA UNITED WAY KICKOFF EVENT, A DOMINO TOURNAMENT. RESOLUTION NO. 90-675 A RESOLUTION RELATED TO THE LITTLE HAVANA UNITED WAY KICKOFF EVENT, A DOMINO TOURNAMENT TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE UNITED WAY IN CONJUNCTION WITH SOUTHERN BELL AT DOMINO PARK ON OCTOBER 2, 1990; AUTHORIZING THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THIS DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AND SUBJECT TO ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR ALL NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES AND SUBJECT TO THE ORGANIZERS OBTAINING INSURANCE TO PROTECT THE CITY IN THE AMOUNT AS PRESCRIBED BY THE CITY MANAGER. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) l September 7, 1990µ ' T?: . v, e 'n 4,14 CRAM REQUEST BY MIAHI RUNNERS CLUB, INC. , TO USE STR IETS IN COCOM �r 00" BRING THE AV=lib COCONUT GROVE 5-MILER. RESOLUTION NO. 90-616 A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE USE OF STREETS AND TH"OROUGMFARES IN COCONUT GROVE DURING THE AV -MID COCONUT GROVE S-MILER TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE MIAMI a` RUNNERS CLUB, INC., ON OCTOBER 6, 1990, BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 7100 A.M. AND 11s00 A.M., SUBJECT TO THE =j ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICESi AUTHORIZING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO CONTROL TRAFFIC FLOW ON SAID STREETS3 CONDITIONED UPON ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR ALL THE NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES AND FIBS AND OBTAINING INSURANCE COVERAGE TO PROTECT THE CITY _ IN THE AMOUNT AS PRESCRIBED BY THE CITY MANAGER. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) t` k_ ?d t wyq SE ;r era 15.E Soptembst I.,14_ftr ydzf'�� St_ (, d _ 1011, '*f S } rj1= 1i1�.a�ii�itil�'iifiYi7fYfY1Yfi11G�1YYYitWf.YYii�Yii •.,"..-`.—". — iii.YiLYYiLiY�(1��NIiiYiYliiYiY�i.�YUG1.i9t.�iiL+YYNi+WiW6Y3. , S. DISCUS& AND DMA PROPOS$D ACCEPTANCE Or 91D FROM CORAL GABLES 01-ASS AND MIRROR rOft rMISMING1 AND INSTALLING RIOT CLASS AT MIAMI POCKS DRpARTMOT HIADQUARTIRS. Mayor Suarett Ysst Commissioner Plummer, item five. Commissioner Plummert Mr, Mayor, I have no back up on furnish it. They didn't furnish it to us as is proposed. need riot glass at the police station. five. They didn't I question why we r— Mr. Odiot It's not. It's called that way, but it's a shatter proof glass that we have at the Liberty City station. Commissioner Plummert Well, I mean, I would like the opportunity to defer it until the next meeting, Mr. Mayor. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Second. Mayor-Suarea: So moved and seconded. The idea of having, quote, unquotey riot glass, even it it's a misnomer, does make a heck of a lot of sense for the police department. If it's something else that we're supposed to be accomplishing, maybe we ought to say that and... Mr. Odio: It's only for the front, it's on the front desk. Mayor Suarez: Presumably, it's bullet proof, or shatter proof, or... Mr. Odiot That's what it is, it's in... Mayor Suarez: It's just that the terminology you've used implies that we're going to have a Police Department under siege. You know, I mean... anyhow. Commissioner, you don't want to further consider it, do you? Commissioner Plummer: At the next meeting. Mayor Suarez: All right, so moved and seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll. ON MOTION DULY MADE BY COMMISSIONER PLUMMER AND SECONDED BY VICE MAYOR DAWKINS, THE ABOVE ITEM WAS — DEFERRED TO THE NEXT COMMISSION MEETING BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: - AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre - Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. - Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 1 t tt 1{ � `` A X � r ie. rz YWHuliYiiiLiiYiifY�Yi.iY�i�Y�riY�l4wiai4c11aY3iY.YYiby►fi.ifii.aYWwi$iGYfsYit:lsi:.a33ui+Ytr�4rYlfrWiirii.ri.r�r.Yr'��.�iiiiirird'wyi+ib4uik�iilii+ilYiiii .�. 6. -(A) GRAFT IMQUIST BY MIAMI DADS COMMt ITY COLLEGE FOR CLOSM OP DESIONATED STREETS CONCERNING PAELLA 190 ESTABLISH PEDESTRIAN - MALL, AUTHORISE SALE OF BEER AND WINE ESTABLISH AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PADDLERS. (B) GRANT REQUEST BY MIAMI DADS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNA"D STREETS CONCERNING INTERAMERICAN FESTIVAL - ESTABLISH PEDESTRIAN MALL, AUTHORIZE SALE OF BEER AND WINE. `$ (C) GRANT WAIVER OF FEES CHARGED FOR LINEAR FEET OF SPACE USED BY fits INTERAMERiCAN FESTIVAL. ----------- --------------------rr—r--r—r--------r.r�—rrrrr�.rrrrr+wrrr Mayor Suarest item CA... Mr. Odio: Forty-three, I think. Mayor Suarez: ...forty-three then. Thank you, Mr. Manager. Give us your _ name and address. Ma. Maria Christina Mateo: My name is Maria Christina Mateo, I'm from Miami - Dade Community College and the address is 300 N.E. Second Avenue. The reason why I'm here is I'm requesting a waiver for the street closure of two - festivals that we're going to be... Mr. Odio: Why did she pull it? - Mayor Suarez: OK, if the item passes, will she get what she's requesting? Mr. Odio: The street closure, yes. Ms. Mateo: Yes. Mr. Odio: That's what they was exactly... Mayor Suarez: You're not asking for any money or anything like that, are you? Ms. Mateo: No. Mayor Suarez: You wouldn't be making that mistake here on a Friday morning, would you? Ms. Mateo: Well, what we're requesting is the waiver of the street closure fee. Mayor Suarez: And, if you need any financial help, you've got the AFL-CIO there with all their economic... Commissioner Plummer: How much is the fee? Ms. Mateo: For Paella is one thousand, five hundred and for the Interamerican Festival, it's $125. Commissioner Plummer: And this is a money making proposition, this Paella? Ms. Mateo: Paella is a scholarship fundraiser for Miami -Dade... Commissioner Plummer: It's a fundraising... it raises money. Ms. Mateo: For scholarships, right, at the college. It's a nonprofit event. Commissioner Plummer: You get your money from the state and from the local school board that's just increased their taxes. Ms. Mateo: The money that we get from the state is for the academic programs that we have at the college. Paella is an event that we do to be able to provide to the community a more scholarships for the disadvantaged students that cannot afford to come to college. Commissioner Plummer: You're not giving them. The taxpayers of the City you're asking to give them because you're asking us for a waiver. OK, I just wanted to get it on the record. 17 �ept;eNiae� �, I9� 3re�Tg1y,t-wv" *_F �r 4' x= Kiyat 'Smite; This 1tma du4teted, Mr. Manager, are just street cioaures; tho best and wine permit. her6ls no economic implications from 43 or 44j is k Commissioner Piuoer3'Yet, that'a what I'm trying to bring out. � Mr. Odlot Yosi ohs In asking a waiver of fee which I... _ Mayor Suaregit hell, no, but as presented, the items don't include that, do they? Mr. Odiot No, they do not. a Mayor Suarezt OK, I'll entertain a ;notion on items 43 and 44 and then if anybody wranta to' try to move any funding, I don't want to give -my . particular ' } ` Imp ressian of that. spy `Viet Mayor# Dawkine t So move. r Mayor Suarezt So moved as to 43 and 44. Commissioner Plummer: Second. Mayor Suareat Seconded-. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll. -The following resolutions were introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, -who ;Honed their adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 90-677 A RESOLUTION RELATED TO PAELLA 090 TO B37CONDUCTED BY MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ON OCTOBER 13, 1990; PROVIDING FOR THIS CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC; ESTABLISHING A PEDESTRIAN MALL SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES; AUTHORIZING A ONE -DAY PERMIT TO SELL BEER AND WINE IN CONNECTION WITH SAID EVENT SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE' OF ALL PERMITS REQUIRED BY LAW; FURTHER ESTABLISHING AN AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS DURING THE PERIOD OF THE EVENT; CONDITIONED UPON ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR THE NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH SAID EVENT AND OBTAINING OF INSURANCE COVERAGE TO PROTECT THE CITY IN THE AMOUNT AS PRESCRIBED BY THE CITY MANAGER. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) RESOLUTION NO. 90-678 A RESOLUTION RELATED TO THE INTERAMERICAN FESTIVAL TO { BE CONDUCTED BY MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, r INTERAMERICAN CENTER, ON OCTOBER 10, 1990; PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR' TRAFFIC ESTABLISHING A PEDESTRIAN_ MALL SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE,, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES; fi AUTHORIZING ONE (1) DAY PERMIT TO SELL BEER AND WINE X IN COMCTION WITH SAID EVENT; FURTHER ESTABLISHING AN rks AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS DURING THE PERIOD OF THE EVENT; CONDITIONED UPON THE ORGANIZERS. PAYING FOR ALL NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES AND OBTAINING s IN;SVRANC$ COVERAGE TO PROTECT THE CITY IN THE AMOUNT {, AS PRESCRIBED BY THE CITY MANAGER. 's``. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here; gad'QA ; file in the Offico of the City Clerk.) a 4 �h: pq i Upon being attended by Commissioner Plusur, the resolutions were Isseeed the adopted by the following vests t Aylgt Commissioner Victor be Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer$ Jr. Comissioner Mirift Alonso _ Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins y r Mayor Xavier_L Suarez molts S None. A88ffii'1` t None Vice Mayor Dawkinst Now, the can go into her spiel. Mayor Suarest Do you want to try one last appeal? We've got a situation that we've _got a still -,a short fall in our budget. We hope to work that out today- so that the City can comply with its Constitutional mandate to have a balanced budget. And, we just don't have the money, so...— - Me. Mateo: yes, the reason why I was asking for the waiver is the administrative offices of the City of Miami told us that this waivable fee, r that you... _ - Mayor Suarez: OK,:which is the waiver that she's talking about? Ms. .Mateo: The linear foot. Right now, the City is charging for linear foot ask — of a street closure. :.4d Mayor.Suarez: Is it a waiver... oh, for street closure we're charging fees? - Mr. Frank Castaneda:, There's a new fee for linear foot of street closed. Mayor Suarez: Oh, for - based on this festival policy recommendation? I — didn't know that applied to the whole City. _ Mr. Castaneda: No, no, no, no, that's... i- Commissioner Plummer: That was not part of our recommendations. It's part of what came forth inthe overall ordinance, but that was not part of ours. Mr. Castaneda: Right. Mayor Suarez: I hope you have not created a situation now, Frank, that every single item of a street closure is going to come here, where people are going_ to be asking for waiver of the fee for lineal foot charge. Commissioner Plummer: No, all you... ; 5'r 4 — Mayor Suarezt We're going to be going crazy up here.` Mr. Castaneda: Commissioner... _ Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Mayor, all you got to-do is turn it down about �- three times and people will realize that we mean business and then it will be over and the City will get what it should get. E Mayor Suarez: How much is that fee that you're... Commissioner Plummer: Over $1,000. Ms. Mateo: For Paella, $1500. P Mayor Suarez: Owed. f Ms. Mateo: It's $1,499. Mayor Suarez: I see what happens, is every once in a whale, it turns into a =., fairly large fee, See, we've created a fee that I don't know that sly the ;, root of .uo, agree with and now we've got to be waiving it -ail the: hear what Commissioner Plummer is saying that if we don't waive theo , pretty soon some people will got the message, but I'm not our that we a y} _ have that fee in place, ." kk0 y i� pgr 1 , N `� t a i y •, Mf"t CaisstaSedat +gall, Co missionar, let me clarify something. The lineaf Peat AW h hag hothifta to do Vith the Coconut drove Committee. r Commissioner Plufteart Committed, Has frothing to do with my comitteei Mrt G Mayor. } Mr, Castanedat Right that was... s nice Mayor Dawkinst Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it... Mayor'Suarers' We11r where did it come from? I don't remember ever... Vice Mayor Dawkinst Hold it, hold it. Does the fee for the linear foot apply to the:•Coconut.Grove Art Festival? t-. y ' Commissioner Plummert Yes, 3 Mr. Odios No. k Mr. Castanedat Yes, yes... — trice Mayor Dawkins: Why not? s Mr. Odio: It was not included. Commissioner Plummer: Yes. ate' Mayor Suarezt I love it when we get two different answers to every question around here. Mr. Castaneda: No, no, the fee the Public Works... the linear foot fee applies to the City of Miami as a whole. Mr.Odio: The fee has got to be waived. It has nothing to do with the Coconut Grove Festival. R Vice Mayor Dawkins: Wait a minute, wait a... Mayor Suarez: He wants to compare it to the situation with Coconut Grove Arts Festival. Isn't there a fee like this for the Coconut Grove Arts Festival?''' - or is there? - Dr. Luis Prieto: Yes, but they're usually - they're waivered. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right, when we close the streets for the Coconut 4 Grove Art Festival, how do you close them? What do you do? And how does -it differ from what they want done? Wait a minute, I work at Miami -Dade, let me .;. leave Miami -Dade alone. How does it differ from Goombay? Mr. Prieto: Basically, it's up to the Commission to waiver it or leave it is <. - force, Commissioner Plummer: You know, that's what throws us into the jackpot when — you tell people that. r Vice Mayor Dawkins: We didn't create it. You didn't come to me to -create it. `' Mr. Odio: Commissioner, maybe I can explain this. In the last meeting that we had, there wan a fee created to include in Coc... that we charge only fa►r f Coconut Grove festivals.f))= Mayor Suarez: Sort of an impact fee for festivals. 1W, Commissioner Plummer- Correct. Mr. Odio; An impact fee. That it was tied to a number of City services Moos The fee was calculated. You use no many...t Mayor Ou-arez: because we felt that there were too many events happoulas In, Ma Coconut Grove, et cetera. Now... i 20 � !e 4 ;r T y - �y h x{ Mr, Mot lt6w1 this feo is charged Citywide, and it's boon there for a lone .- time r. ~ Mayor SutreAt ror how iongl I've been here five years, I don't remember that r: fees W ".. Me. Mateo$ No. , 4 Mr. Odiot Yes, we have. It's... a = Mice Mayor Dawkinst OK, now, OKO let me ask you a question then. Why do we - have two conflicting fees? Either what you have applying in Coconut drone appliss:Citywide, or what you have applying Citywide applies in Coconut Or6vai _ a Mr. Odio: It does apply... ;— Vice Mayor Dawkins: It's all the City of Miami. Commissioner Plummer: Excuse me, Mr. Dawkins, I headed up that Committee. Ity� was the intent.'.. { Vice Mayor Dawkinst That don't make it right whatever come out of there. But, go ahead. Commissioner Plummer: It's the gospel. We tried in the committee to make it — uniform Citywide and this Commission said, no, create a district because the -__ people that were hollering and screaming were the Grovites at the time. And that was the reason you all limited us to making a district in Coconut GrovetiyT, — as what we addressed as instructed. - Vice Mayor Dawkinst Thank you, the senior citizen of the Commission. Commissioner Plummer: Oh. Vice Mayor Dawkins:- But, we have a long agenda, Mr. Mayor. Therefore, I will —_- not comment any more and ask that the Commission take action on this. _ Mayor Suarers OK, thank you. I see, Commissioner Alonso being as troubled as taw: I am. I did not know that we had this ordinance Citywide. If no, I would like to have that reviewed and brought back to us for later ordinance to �— either modify or repeal it. Because there's many neighborhoods in the City �'== that want to. have festivals and that are not concerned about the impact to ' their community. In fact, almost anything they do in some communities is - going to be positive by way of getting people to enjoy some of the activities r} you're talking about. So, for myself, I'd have no problem waiving the fee. Commissioner Alonso: I have only two questions. Is this a new regulation? Has it been in the books for a long time? And, if so, how come this Commission had no idea? - Mr. Prieto: No, these fees have always been in place. What happened was, last year, what we did was we revised the fee schedule, under adirective from §' the Commission that we charge for the services that we render. And, actually, = these fees... Mayor Suarez: Well, what fees were in effect for a street closure? We did street closures up here always under the assumption that there was no fee c. involved., F: tire. Commissioner Alonso: Fee involved... �a Commissioner Plummer: Because people paid it. f Mr. Prieto: No, there is a fee and there is a resolution from the City Commission that it is inclusive of all the other fees that are charged. For example, banners across streets... ; Commissioner Alonso: How much in the fee? x . ' Mr. Pristo: It's a dollar, I think, per linear foot. _ s_ 3 S Yt . Commissioner Alonso: And it has always been in effect? k v , 1a � R �r ��1► }1 yyAy 5 R t rc i 71 4 ri Mr. Prieto: We11, the fee wasn't a dollar. It was upgraded to a dollar last year. Vsyor guarest How much was it before? fir. Prieto I don't remember, air. Mayor Suarese Because it didn't seem to be a substantial impact. I meat►,31, nobody- evetyr asked about it, We did it perfunctorily. We just did At very gUi.ckly aft- sorest closures, absusing there was no impact. Commissioner Plummer: In the past,Mr. Mayor, the fee was low, people peid : it ' they ' did toot ask for a waiver. - Mayor Suarez: They didn't ask for a waiver. r f— Commissioner Plummert That's correct. py= Mayor Suarez: How much lower was it? Nobody can tell us? Are we talking... .- f�. Commissioner Plummer: As I recall, it was like twenty cents. Mr. Prieto: 'Some... yes, I don't know exactly.— Mayor Suarez: So, it's gone up by a factor of five without us knowing and now _ we're going to have every group coming here and asking for waivers? —_ Commissioner Plummer: Well, let me ask an important question, because I think it's really is getting back to my old scenario. What does the City do for that fee? - Mr. Prieto: Well, it includes, of course, the preparation of barricades = beforehand. It' includes the placing of banners, taking down banners,.cleaning` up streets. I mean; there's a whole host of departments involved in these fees.— r Ms. Mateo: Excuse me...; Mayor Suarez: Now, cleanup is a whole separate item. { Mr. Fernandez: Mr. Mayor... ra Commissioner Alonso: Cleanup is a different item. 4 — Mayor Suarez: Banners have a separate fee that go with them. Mr. Prieto: Banners are included. Ms. Mateo: And barricades, we put them up. _ Mayor Suarez: But, isn't there a separate fee for banners? Didn't y p you just tell us that? Mr. Prieto: What the banners have is a limitation -on the number of bannexa and the placement of the banners that this fee includes. Mayor Suarez: Right, but there's a separate fee?-` Mr. Fernandez: Mr. Mayor... x� r 4�, Commissioner Plummer: No.f n= Mr. Prieto: Not that I know of, air. Mr. Fernandes: On the Code, it is section 54.3, it clearly establishes the process for permit - requesting a permit for a street closure and there, not only it provides for a fee of $30.00 to accompany each per it appiicatlon, but 'y also 25 cents per linear feet and also all the issues of i,naurance tttd s liability to be assumed by... s s it Y.L _ 1$ mmL 1 � x v :3 7- t Mayon guarest We h&Vs newer warred that, that I tm aware of. go prob eth With � that Mr. rernandess It to in the Code and it rims been here from my last reading, f 3 F, since 1070. ; Mayor Suarest So why is it a dollar now? So, now it's a dollar? It vent; �k '.° from 25 cents to_a dollar per lineal foot? Mr. f'ernandess Wall, I don't know whether this sect -ion has been changed. All' ..— that I have is a Code in front of me.` Mayor Suarez: Wait# wait] wait, wait a minute, wait a minute. You don't know- whether the section has been changed? How are we going to act today if we don't know, from the City Attorney, where we are in our Code? What's going on here? } Mr. Fernandazs Sir, it takes a considerable period of time from the day you take an action to the it becomes codified in this blue book. What Y'm... - s= Mayor Suarez: But you have to know what the law is at all times. Not just based on what's in the Code Book, Mr. City Attorney.` Mr.Fernandez: I know what the law is. I don't know the exact dollar and A _ cents associated with it and, for that, I'll turn to the technical team who over here. Dr. Prieto would tell you exactly what the exact fee is. Mayor Suarez: I would like that ordinance brought back for reconsideration. - Commissioner Alonso: Definitely. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Commissioner Alonso, and let's see what sense we make out of it. The procedure is wrong because we're going to be confronted _ with each one of.,these every... you know, every Commissioner meeting, four or five of them, and the fee may be wrong. You've pushed it up, apparently a factor. of four,:, although we can't be sure because the City Attorney doesn't know exactly what the law says at this point because it hasn't been codified. and, you know) this is a sad state of affairs. Mr. Fernandazs That's unfair representation, sir. Mayor Suarez: That's a statement of act, Mr. City Attorney. You don't know r' what the fee is, according to the law, right now. You think you can find out, _ but you don't know it. A Mr. Fernandez: What is it? Mayor Suarez: It's OK, it's par for the course. Nobody else seems to know a lot of. things around here.. Ma'am, I:don't know, I'll entertain a motion on her particular event, if the Commission wants to... if not, I'll move the — waiver for your fees.. , - Commissioner Alonso: Yes, I do, I so move.- a Vice Mayor Dawkins: It's been moved and seconded. Any further discussion? I will be abstaining in that I am an employee of Miami -Dade Community College. Call the roll, Madam Clerk, please, w The following resolutions were introduced by Mayor Suarez, vho moved their adoptions «- RESOLUTION NO. 90-679 t A RESOLUTION AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 90-677 ADOPTED . SEPTEMBER 7, 1990, BY ADDING A NEW SECTION WAIVING THE STREET OBSTRUCTION FEES APPLICABLE TO PAELLA 1990 TO BE CONDUCTED BY MIAMI-DADS COMMUNITY COLLEGE ON 4 OCTOBER 13, 1990. t r ti t- 4' . (Hors follows body of resolution, omitted mere sad on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 23 3y tiai,4. t A RISOLUTION AMINO RI2SOLtMON NO. 90-678 AbOPT1D 90TW11 7, 10901 IT ADDING A Nam' 89CTION WAIVING THE f STRUT 088"WTION PSIS APPLICABLE TO THE IWTIP MMRICAN. STIVAL TO BS CONDUCTSD BY MIAMI AAD$ CC LAITY COLtIM ON OCTOM 10, 1990. s (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon,being seconded by Commissioner Alonso, the resolutions were passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: NOSSs ABSTENTIONSs ABSENT: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miriam Alonso Mayor Xavier L. Suarez - ti Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins None. Vice, Mayor Dawkins: OK, thank you. Mayor Suarez: OK, we've completed the consent... Mr. Fernandez: Did it carry? Did it carry? - Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes. Mr. Fernanders I didn't see Commissioner De Yurre's vote. — Commissioner Plummer: Three to one. - y= Mr. Fernandez: All right. - Commissioner Plummers One abstain. Mayor Suarez: It's in the record. Yes, Doug... Vice .Mayor Dawkinss. Hold it, just a minute. For the record, Madam Clerk, what was the vote? Commissioner Plummer: Three to one. - Vice Mayor Dawkins: Oh, thank you, Madam Clerk. Ms. Hirai: Three to one, sir. v Commissioner Plummer: Boy, you're feisty as hell this morning. I'm going to '' 2 send you.to the Metro Commission. _ Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, please don't... No, don't punish me like that, J.L. OK, thank you, Madam Clerk. Go ahead, Mr. Mayor, thank you. f Mr. Odio: Forty-four, you took a vote Commissioner Plummer: We did both at the same time. r , xL f J N ft 7 r24 Cif Y if6�tlF:ii�/is��9.idYt.e1G'71ii1Yr�LYcri'r:.�`—'n•�•;sYrrit..iettr...•••iiYrrsui:.r3..�..ws.'..G..c...r,�...rn '•., •W+r-,. `".. .,""iii.�liliiTi,r '<; y S1tYEP"' CLAItIPICATION Or CONSENT AGENDA ITEM 24 ( See label 4.12 ) UN'ID tirIED SPPAnKi Just a point of order. In CA.... ;J Mayor Suarott I *as hoping it Mould be a point of order, otherwise, it`, wouid. be out of Order'.' UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERt No, no, I know, I know. But it's CA-24, which'is the audit fees, at one point I understood it had been pulled out of the consent aSenda.. Mayor Suarezt I thought we had. UNIDMIFIED:SP$AKER: ...and at another point, I understood it was included. My question is, was it included or was it pulled out? Mayor Suarezt OK, this may have been one of the ones that was relbeerted-by Commissioner Dawkins, Vice Mayor Dawkins. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Twenty-four or 27? UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Well, that's my question. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Twenty-four or 27? Mr. Odio Twenty-four was pulled. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Twenty-four. Mayor Suarezt OK, what's the story on 24? Did we mean to vote on that or not? Mr. Odio: Commissioner Dawkins withdrew the item. Mayor Suarez: OK. Execute amendment three to an agreement between the City of Miami and Deloitte and Touche. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: The audit fees for the City. Mayor Suarez: I believe he said that, let that be worked out by the Manageir and he did want it 'reinserted and we did vote' on it. 5- Commissioner Alonso: OK. Mr. Odio: No, not 24. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes, um hum. Yes, I did. Mr. Odio: You include it back in there? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes, um hum. Mr. Odio: OK. Mayor Suarez: OK, if the City Clerk reflects otherwise... Vice Mayor Dawkins: That's what you told me, you told me you needed it. ; Mr. Odio: Yes. Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, I didn't want to do it, Mr. Odio: I just wanted to clarify, that's all. but you say you needed'it. Vice Mayor Dawkins: But, I said, I was going to set down and give you sow► parameters we need to look at. Mr. Odio: Yes. ■ fh f ,tt�+ �5 i9A�t4e1lbal• �� ���� � �Y 54 FAIT t .w t'20 `IP111) IPgA ttt Ott thafik you very much, Mr. Odiot Matty, stake sure, . Mayor guareks All right. -"'�-m�-ii�r'�Ii1f�r�i��lrla►�iYll�liiY��ili'iiYiYialPl�lii�iW.f.�rr__._._.<_:.c.�Ya�ii�.YLUi1il+.riYiiiiYGiiiGiiiiYbiGi411►1fi.�3Y1YYi/viYrll�.li1(iilYil�i�:`.:. a��; .. �(-=j 8. =1WENCY OROINANCRt AMEND 10642 Y ESTABLISH NEW CAPITAL IMPROVam'f, L P t0J$CTt tit XXOROW STORAGI TANK RRTROPITTINd (311009) . ` ir..+s..i:Yr..r....rr...sm..rYr..a��w.r.i..r�..�..r.��... _....,....-..r.+...ro.....a..�a...r...............sr...u—r�..—.eai.aaw.wa.i:rawwc»w9rr ,. '•: `'�#'' Mayor Suarezt Item two. Commissioner Plummer: Hell of a way, to run an airline! Vice Mayor Dawkinst Item two. Mayor Suarez,: Emergency ordinance. Capital improvement appropriation ordinance establishing the capital improvement project, underground storage tank retrofitting. Mr. Odiot Various regulatory agencies have informed the City that most of the City's 57 underground fuel storage tanks do not comply with current federal, state, and local regulations and... Mayor Suarez: Do we get any funds to help us with this? Mr. Odio: Yes. Dr. Luis Prieto: Yes, we are. Mayor Suarez: The whole amount? Mr. Prietot The super fund is contributing and we're having several other funds°that are being thrown in. Vice Mayor Dawkins: But, you see, the only problem that I have with it, Mr. Mayor - and I may as well tell the Manager and the director - you're complaining and you want to.get rid of my Melreese Golf Course, but yet -:you're takings $20,000 from a; fund that I could use as operational fund to go and retrofit something else. And then, all of a sudden, you be coming back telling me, Melreesecan'.t support itself. No, it can't support' itself. if we keep taking the revenue from Melreese to do something also. r Mr. Odiot Well, true, but... Vice Mayor Dawkins: It says here, you're going to take - we got $65,000 from the super fund grant, $100,000 from 1970 pollution control bond, $35,000, again, from the new port bridge land interest and that money Iwas not earmarked for nothing like this. And, you're taking $20,000 from the Miami Springs Golf' Course retained earnings. Commissioner Plummer: Wait a minute. What was the one prior to that? Mr. Odio: The interest derived... Vice Mayor Dawkinat Thirty-five thousand dollars from the new port bridge land sale interest earnings. r Mr. Odio: That's the land we sold to the... Yr Commissioner Plummer: That money was absolutely not to be touched except for playgrounds. Vice Mayor Dawkins; That's right. 's Mr. Odiot No, this is interest, not... Commissioner Plummer: But, that was to be included in for any exp*uxJ9# of the pro&rame Y 4 ♦ .fir 5. .Cj� r W e �4 -i N q "� �"�ca'r sus• f, `,� - � t •�s'y�* - �i 1 Vice Mayor D&Wkina: Thank you, Amen. Hallelujah. Commissioner Plwns rt The interest was supposed to be there for any overrune.. _ Mr. Olio: rihe, Comtaissioner, then the problem that we have is, we have been :. notified we must do this work, So, I'll have to find somewhere elee, $SS,OOO, d: but we have to'do it. The fact is the Miami Springs golf Course is very close. to the water wells and welve been notified that it could begin to permeate into the water wells and we have to protect the aquafier. So... Mr. Prieto: The consequence of a spill would be much greater impact to the e economy of the City. Vice Mayor Dawkinat Doctor, you do not have to editorialize and commercialize.. OK? We understand the seriousness of this. My only concern is that it didn't become serious yesterday. Mayor Suarezt Do you want to remove from the $220,000, the amount that was otherwise earmarked and vote on the rest of the item? Commissioner Plummeri That's fine. It's got to be done. Mayor Suarez: I presume you ought to - you can begin doing something with two -twenty, minus thirty-five, right? Mr. Prieto: Yes, sir. Mayor Suarezt With one eighty-five? Mr. Odio: Yes, we can. Mr. Prieto: Well, partially. Mayor Suarez: OK, I'll entertain a motion on the same item but at $185,000. Commissioner Plummer: So move. Vice Mayor Dawkins: So move. _ Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Any discussion? If not, please read the ordinance. Needs a 4/5ths vote. THEREUPON, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD, BY TITLE ONLY. Mayor Suarez: Have we given enough justification for the emergency, Mr. City rx. Attorney? Wait a minute. Have we given enough justification for the emergency? Mr. Odio: I can put it on the record that it is a fine of $15,000 a day if we don't correct this. Mayor Suarez: All right, sounds like enough justification for an emergency. Thank you, call the roll.` 4 1'T Ms. Hirait Mr. Mayor, we need a second. We have Vice Mayor moving, Commissioner Plummer: Seconded. Ms. Hirai: Oh, all right. d 5 f«S /gam' j 4 �L® �U6r i i soptmbor I, IM e - � - ? i T -------------- e S ii AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED- AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION ONE OF - }.. ORDINANCE NO., I0842, ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 28, 19691 AS - AMENDED, THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATIONS — ORDINANCE, BY ESTABLISHING THE NEW CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT ENTITLED "UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK ` !'. RETROFITTING", PROJECT NO. 311009, IN THE AMOUNT OF t $jSSj000 rROM: VARIOUS FUNDING SOURCES AS SET FORTH HERSIN; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION, SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. — 1, Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner Plummer, for adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the requirement of reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre ?" Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso _— Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins — Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. -- Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner Plummer, adopted said ordinance by the following vote: — AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre = Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. - - Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. — ABSENT: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10775. The City Attorney read, the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and —_ to the public. - T=- 9. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND 10642 - ESTABLISH NEW CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT: PERMITS, VIOLATIONS AND CODE ENFORCEMENT COMPUTER SYSTEM (311024). ` I — .►�—� — —� ter— �—���--�„—'r..�—�rnlTw'�rtT Mayor Suarez: Item 3, emergency ordinance, capital improvement appropriations; permits, violations of code enforcement computer system. Mr. Sergio Rodriguez: Basically, this is to try to bring the Building g y, Y g ng i & yfi Zoning Department computer system up to date. At this time, we don't have they capacity to pool all the information that we have and to be able to operate and keep all the permits up-to-date and this is my first effort in -trying :to do that since I took over that department. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Somebody over there tell me how much money we have spout in computers in the last two years - anybody. Just a top figure, A ball park 3yi�$ r figure, �t Commissioner Plummer: You want a ball park? Yes - o of come on J. v e Vice Mayor Dawkins:n. no ► n 1.,, give me a break, y � l .iL Comissioner Plum r: No, well, I negotiated the biggest one. u 8 September 7, 1990 A yy Vies Mayor bawkibs s 11 tice. i 11 Mayor guaress No# he said, do you want a ball Vittor.be.Yurre is trying to get a ball park... Comissiofter Pluitisisers About $10,000,000. 9,o �SR xs park and we were going to SAY Vito Mayor Dawkins: +oft, great. All right, that's clone enough. now... Commissioner Plummer: About ten million. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Ten million dollars. OK? And out of the $10,000,000, ;- every Commission meeting you come here and tell me you've got to add this -_ software, you've got to add this reverter, you've got to add this converter, to bring it up to the state of the art. You know, somewhere along the lines, we're going to have all the new components and nothing to hook them up to. Now, the'way I've been complaining, somewhere along the lines, you guys should _ have sat down and said, we are going to need all of this and let's hear Millers Dawkins complain and argue once and for all, and get it done. I don't -know , why you keep coming here every time and tell me, oh, in order to bring this`up = to -capacity, we are going to do this. Now, what's the justification you gave.' for doing it, Mr. Rodrigues? Mr. Rodriguez: That we don't have the capacity in the department. The department was not computerized and as... Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, no, before that, you said, because you did what? -you did this? Mr. Rodriguez: Since I started in the function in the department four months _ ago as director, I have looked into all the shortcomings that we have -in computerizing the information and don't have the department computerized and I believe this is important to do. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, now, you combined departments, right? Mr. Rodriguez: The department has been consolidated by the Manager, yes. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right, now, and you... Commissioner Plummer: Does that mean, yes? Mr. Rodriguez: Yes. 4, Vice Mayor Dawkins: And then you tell me that you saved "X" number of dollars by combining the departments, right? Mr. Rodriguez: Yes, air. 4}- Vice Mayor Dawkins: And now, you're spending $84,000. -Nov, when you comet back and tell me you saved money by combining the departments, but yet you're spending $84,000. I mean, it don't make sense to me. = 7 01 Mr, Rodriguez: You would have had to make this change anyhow because we did... the department is not computerized and any time we have :to :g¢t_p�- permit, we have to do it by hand and it doesn't make any sense in'1990_..to:do that. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I've been arguing about your hand operation for the last -, five years. I'm the one who complained because in our Personnel Department, you had to go look up everything by hand. That's when we started to May . t►e ' ' `. needed to computerize. W- . Mayor Suarext I remember that action. ` ' Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. That's right. So now.., ' s. Mayor Suarez: days. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes, thank you, nee... G s. I,}� 294 F ; +hcp 3"K°kit tfi ,R _ Mayor guarest That was about ten years... ` Comissioner Plumbtert Xavier, the day comes that anybody Roes into the eamputt e, and finds out information we have in it, it is ineredibie We've had information in those computers that are totally irrelevant to the "rid. Vi+ee Da+wkinst - go, you know, thin is nothing but all I'm' tying �s averytims I - I mean, sotnewhate along the lines, you guys need toi . , Mtn `= Manager, somebody you paying money, need to come to you and say, Mr, Mahal6ki 4 this is what we head) you know, and let's buy at one time and be through,uith It instead of every tithe you look, you're piecemealing me. Mr, Odio: Yes, air, we will do that. We will do that. Mayor Suarezt I have a question, Sergio. Mr. Rodrigueze fifes, sir. Mayor Suareat In the hopes that this, in fact, accomplishes something worthwhile for us, and you're telling us that it would. Will this, for _- example, automatically tell us any rezoning that we have granted or any" variance or any of the other zoning determinations that are subject to a 12- month cap, if I remember correctly, where there's a lot some place that we have granted a particular zoning permit, would this tell us that the 12 months are up and some kind of a little red light go off in the computer, or smoke or something, and may, make sure that the Commission is aware that this matter " has now lapsed and is ineffective or can be abolished? Mr. Rodrigueze Let me tell you what this is. This is a pre -step. I'm trying - to establish the account in the capital improvement programs so that we can do it. We cannot do that if we don't have the. money in the capital improvement program. Once we have that money in the account, which is the action today..,, Mayor Suarez: Will this computerized system give us that kind of information? — Mr. Rodriguez: Yes, at the beginning of 1991, if all this fall in place, you will be able to have that kind of information and also all the follow up that we have to do in every case, and, as soon as we can get all the information.., Mayor Suarezt It will, like have a built in chronology and timetables and ' everything else on every single item that comes up for consideration that has 'r a building and zoning character to it? Mr. Rodriguez: We do have now, by hand, but it will be much better done in V_ the future, , yes, sir. t- Mayor Suarez: All right. =4 Commissioner Plummer: Following up, Mr. Rodriguez. This Commission u� r Instructed the department, as the Mayor just said, to come back on, I think, It was 12 months or 1S months. If somebody came before this Commission, made rW statements, and didn't do them. Correct? -that they were automatically to come back up before this Commission. I have not seen the first one. In - particular, every morning and every afternoon, as I got to work and come home, the buildingon the corner of 91st Avenue and Dixie Highway, where we were B Y � - told the computer department was going to go in there, the need for parking u}F_ was not as great, the cutting of the buildings. It now has, which is almost a ��=� �t couple of years ago, a "For Lease" sign out there and obviously, what we did was not what we were told. Now, I want to know why that building has not clefs E back up before this Commission because we passed it based on a certain z criteria that we were told it was a computer company software, it didn't Rood a lot of parking and yet, it was never used for that and now it's out for lease again. It would seem like to Rae, that that, within itself, would have ry, triggered an automatic back before this Commission. You know what bull4 1ng Ilm talking about? - Mr. Rodriguez: No, I don't know, but I will follow... Commissioner Plummer: Thirty-first Avenue and Dixie Highway, Y 30 $opt x z � ix 3`: } x '',ry `Y f 1 j.., £K `F•-Y q $ R WIT" t 2 , sf� Ml ,, jadrikutt t'ssorry, Nhatt Comnissioner plutsmert Thirty-first Avenue and bixie Highway. Mr. R&driju*2t OR I knot/ which ohs it is now. Cdwit tioner plum6rt Theta's a "rot Lease" sign on that building right 8sr►.° - The amputor aodpany that we were told never obviously went in theft, and :14k, saying that this Commission - I'm not'saying we were hoodwinked they _. probably came here with the full intentions that they had a company going in there:'' It "didn't happen and as I'm saying, that it was my thought of this Commission's intention, that if that were the case, that it would = automatically kick back here. _yr Mayor Suarez: Yes, any exemptions, variances, or rezonings, I thought that }' they would have basically 12 months to act on them and if not, they would j somehow.lapse. - Commissioner I'lumtiert I' think it was eighteen. us R Mr. Rodriguez: We can put... r_ Mayor Suarezt' Was it 12 or 18, by the way? ,n Mr. Rodriguez: We can put conditions on the special exceptions and variances. - On zoning, we cannot put conditions because that's illegal. What you asked us = to do was to bring a report... _- 4.: Commissioner Plummer: No, no, no. What the City Attorney told us was, yes, you cannot contract zoning. But there is nothing to stop this Commission from looking and restudying an issue. Mr. Rodriguez: And we send you a report. I'm trying to refresh your memory - on this. We sent you a report on this, on all the cases that have been coming before you. It was discussed in one of the meetings with the Commission, you #` were saying that it includes some properties that you felt they didn't perform " the way they were supposed to, but that was the end of it. F4Y Mayor Suarez: Are you saying there's no ordinance in the books that='a sF rezoning, an out and out rezoning, a change of zoning, and I believe a _ variance too, has only a certain amount of time in which the builder must build according to his plans, otherwise, automatically, it loses its _ effectiveness? Commissioner Plummer: Not on zoning. R_ Mr. Rodriguez: No, the... - 5; Mr. -Fernandez: No. Once the rezoning is obtained, the City Commission, or k: the City can have the parcel rezoned, but you have to follow the same process. 1 Commissioner Plummer: Exactly. Mr. Fernandez: There is nothing automatic about it. x • ',yip Commissioner Plummer: No, no, no, no, it was to be automatic... Mr. Rodriguez: No. Commissioner Plummer: ...if they did not move in iS months. Mayor Suarez: We meant to make it automatic. N 2.1 Mr. Fernandez: But, it cannot be. Mr. Rodriguez: You cannot do it. Mr. Fernandez: It cannot be. You have to follow all of the processes because s of due process consideration. Mayor Suarez: All right, I... g t CoMiteloner pier: but the problem too around here, we were trying tai look ' In iB; automatic protons and I's yet to see the first one. '.. _ Mt. Aodriguust $edaueb you were advised by the Law Department that you are - ' not allowed to have contract (toning and a condition of that Would be that. Commissioner Plummer: Sir, excuse me. If the Law Department has a disagreement with the policy of this Commission, it would have logically seen g^ „ to me, you would have brought it back to this Commission. Tice Mayor Dawkins: Why? -you ain't no lawyer. Mr. Rodriguest They did. - r, Commissioner Plummere What? Vice Mayor Dawkins: You're not a lawyer. Commissioner Plummer: I'm not a lawyer. But if there's a policy we set is. - -� not adhered to... Mayor Suareze Yes, we could downzone an item if they haven't acted on it -i after 12 months. That's what I thought we were doing and I thought we had an s automatic trigger... Commissioner Plummer: That's What we all thought and they're... x �t Mayor Suarez: ...that would bring the matter right back. - Commissioner Plummer: And they got a disagreement. = Mr. Rodriguez: Well... Commissioner Plummer: And here we sit thinking we've done something and found - out we've not. Mr. Fernandez:_ Our position, which I believe that we have -stated. for you on. :- the record, is that once a zoning application comes through the., process,:; and it arrives here and a zoning change is granted, to do away with that, the —z exact same process has to take place to change it, downzone it, upzone it, do whatever you want:to dowith it. Mayor Suarez: OK, wewantedat least at the time, to hopefully, bring .this:to i an and, at least anautomatic trigger of notification back to this Commission - = so we would begin the process. �Y 4. "I Rk Mr. Fernandez: Well, that you can have. There is nothing illegal with that. Mayor Suarez: That you, I'm glad that's legal. — Mr. Rodriguez: And -that we're doing, we're sending a memo:to you. Mayor Suarez: All right, the Commissioner is pointing out that we have yet to - see of one,. Sergio, that come back where you tell us - we see them all over: the City. I've seen quite a few all over the City that I could have sworn. We. have a couple on Brickell like that too, that I could have sworn we made s some variances or concessions or rezonings. And, after 12 months, there's no j _ construction. In fact, they have a big "For. Sale" sign. I, thought that the big "For Sale" sign vas an automatic trigger for us to know that that's not ,. what we intended. So, ve're going to have to revisit this and I hope the ` computer, at least, the program, or whatever it is you're buying with this to it hardware or software?} Mr. Rodriguez: This, over here, will be for hardware. The software, we are In negotiations with Ft. Lauderdale, and the Law Department over there - they H ,Y=> put a new person on that - and our Law Department has cleared already a long ate time. dgo, but we have boon having some problem with them in. buying the y software, Mayor Suarewe Can we borrow software from another City? I've never..'. tf At a 32 7 ipr AWL Mr.drigue� t Well, that's ghat we're trying to do, buy from them to wg tr WmIdn't reinvent it. Mayor Suarem I like that idea: We don't alvrays have to buy some of the stuff. I think cities should be able to there them we should be able to build in the contraots with software providers that we can pass them- around among ' the pities. Comisisioner Plummers Now many programers do we have in the Computer Department? Over thirty. Mr. -Bob Parchers Right now, in the programming of the mainframe,''there's twenty-three. `a Commissioner Plummer: 'Twenty-three programmers and we're going out and buying. Too bad for Sammit Roy. Mr. Rodrigues:. But this is for, again, this is for hardware. And, on the other request that you have, what we can do is bring the issue before you as to rezoning, whether you want to revisit the cases and see how you want to do It. We sent memos to you on this, but I think, maybe, we have to find another way to... Mayor Suarez: Well, you have sent the memo to us? Mr. Rodriguez: I said, we brought it back... Mayor Suarez: If you can revive that, I would like to see it again. I must have gotten confused there. I thought we had done exactly what J.L. was saying. All right, as to the... Mr. Rodriguez: One second on this, because I think it's important. In doing this back, if you want to revisit the cases, remember that we had to make a finding of why the zoning is not corrected in more on the merits of the particular case in each case. _ Commissioner Plummer: Of course, we had to make that finding to change it in the first place. But all we're asking is, that you remind us. Put it back on an agenda, automatically. Mr. Rodriguez: OK, I will do that. Mayon Suarez: The passage of time is, itself, a change of circumstances, I think, in almost every instance. All right... Mr. Rodriguez: Very good. Mayor Suarez: As to item three, emergency ordinance, I'll entertain a motion on it, unless we have one already. Commissioner Plummer: I'm not going to allow them to come back and say, we didn't do it. Garbage in, garbage out. I'.11 vote for it. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Mr. Fernandez: This is an emergency ordinance. Mayor Suarez: Yes, the nature of the emergency, Mr. City Attorney., Commissioner Plummer: You haven't got a second yet. k,• Mr. Rodrigues.: Basically, we need to have the funds in place to buy as 40on as possible so that we can get this implemented by the beginning of the year. Commissioner Alonso: I second. Mayor Suaresds Seconded. Thirded. Any discussion? If not, please read=then ordinance. Call the roll. 33 Uptombor If Mo �. AN ORDINANCB MITL - AN SWOUCY ORDINANCE MEWING SECTION i OF ORDINANCE t - NO. • 10642; AB AM2Mt1# TIM CAPITAL IMPROVMWT APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE BY ESTABLISHING -A NEW CAPITAL IMPR0VM4M;T PIWICT SNTITLEb "PIRMITS, VIOLATIONS, AND Cobs ENFOItCBMENT COMP UR SYSTEM" 0 PROJECT NtTMENII 511024, IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT Or $84,670.001 CONTAINING A AInALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and Alone*, for adoption as an emergency measure requirement of reading same on two separate days, following voter AYES: Coffimiseioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. seconded by Commissioner and dispensing with the which was agreed to by the ABSENTS None. Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Alonso, adopted said ordinance by the following vote, AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10776. The - City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. 10. BRIEF COMMENTS BY TWO MEMBERS OF CITY COMMISSION EXPRESSING THEIR DISPLEASURE WITH THE CITY'$ NEW TELEPHONE SYSTEM. Mayor Suarez: I want to say one other thing about computers, following along the lines of the statements and questions made by my colleagues, specifically Vice Mayor Dawkins. Carlos, the last time we had a big discussion, from -my perspective, about a'change in our hardware, it had to do, not precisely with computers, but with phones. You remember the discussions we had? Your arguments that this was a very important system to initiate, at cetera, at cetera, as we've had on many of the other modernisation efforts rsgarding vur computer and telecommunicat Lone system. I have now had enough time with the new phones to know that I wish we'd never changed the old phones, and I just J want to put that on the record. I gave whatever number of months we've had to try them. You changed the numbers, which was already enough of a problem. With the new system came the new numbers, which violated the pledge I>°had made every time that I've run for office of not changing the number, and then, t. also, I just find these new phones to be very difficult to handle and to transfer phone calls, you have to be a computer export. I liked- the` old fashioned system. I'm pleased with the old fashioned system. Its worked awfully well in my office. People had a push button that you can�usa with;*" finger of this size, not a little tiny thing that you somotimba, YOU kttow, "it you have a fairly large finger, you know, it kind of slips on to the A#xt button. Transferring calls is a mess, Having more than one person -*A Y system at a time is, I think, impossible. - There's probably a. way to °praBr X y At 34 Septembor 7, It",,} E `n v.4 cR? t7:*Rta it *6 that you cab do it, but in the old way, you just yell across the aMOO, grab line such and such and you have two or three people on the same lisle, which works very well and you don't have to use a speaker and all of that. And I'm just telling you, as far ae I'm concerned, the old system was exactly right with me. die would have saved, I don't know how much money] so any eotoputer systems or modernizations or whatever that you want in the future, you're going to have to justify it for my,., just like we did now. So, you'd better allocate a lot of time in the agenda for them, because that one *Ast- sort of borderline there, that one we just passed, and for... Commissioner Alonsos I'm so glad to hear I'm not the only one having problems with the phones. Vice Mayor Dawkins: And I voice the same concerns of Commissioner Alonso and the Mayor. I think that this is the lousiest phone between here and Russian I think I got better phone system in Russia than we got here. 11.- MOTION IN SUPPORT OF CITY OF MIAMI / CITY OF MIAMI SHORES TASK FORCE IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST CRIME- DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO GIVE SURPLUS RADIOS TO THE TASK FORCE, IF AND WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE. Mayor Suarez: Mayor Courtney, we're happy to see you. Would you come up to the mike and tell us what kind of a phone system you have. Is it simpler than ours? There was an item, Commissioners, that I passed out, I believe, the request of the Mayor to be heard on the task force. I think it's essentially a positive report to be made on that area of the City that kind of is between Miami Shores and Miami and the County, in a sort of no man's land. If you want to give the boundaries and say what we've done, Mayor, everybody is cooperating in trying to bring that area into some sort of a law and order situation. _ Mayor Henry T. Courtney: Thank you for the opportunity to be here. My name is Henry Courtney, I'm the Mayor of Miami Shores, and I'm here at the request of Mayor Suarez to just bring you up-to-date on a little problem that has been — . occurring - not a little problem - a big problem, that has occurred in the north section, and it concerns the many citizens on our mutual borders. And this is between 85th Street and 91st Street, Northeast, and Biscayne Boulevard and N.E. llth Avenue. Mayor Suarez: The City, at that point, ends at what street? Commissioner Plummer: 89th. Mayor Courtney: Yes, the City ends at 89th, so the main area of concern is from 85th to 89th, and then it comes up into Miami Shores at 919t and - 90th - and to 91st. Mayor Suarez: There's an unincorporated Dade... Mayor Courtney: And there's also a Dade County area in there. So, it's a - real difficult situation to solve, but the main problem is to get everybody working together to try to rout out the problem that has occurred. Mayor Suarez: It has to have one of the highest concentrations of transients, ;= apparently. I mean, people are just moving into a building and moving out..: Mayor Courtney: Right. Mayor Suarez: ...and nobody knows exactly who they are or what they do, at cetera. } Mayor Courtney: Right. The reason that this whole thing came up is because the Archdiocese of Miami is located on 93rd Street and Biscayne Boulevard, and they have a church there called St. Martha's and St. Martha's has a lot of their people walking and coming from the 85th to 89th Street area, and they are being mugged and they are afraid to walk outside and they're afraid to walk to church and all the activities that are going on at their pariah. 59 —�; the pastor of the church and some of the people at the church haste banded M 35 $4ptembor 7, 1999 L- hr together and asked us to form a joint task force for the purpose of helping thafe make the aress more safe and cleaning it up. We did this by A series Of wettings in Miami Shores and we did create - I asked the Village of Mimi Shares C&MLssion to create this special task force, a combined task forea from people in City of Miami, bade County, Miami Shores, and also the School Board. And tha reason this is also really important is because within two years, there is going to be a new elementary school on 87th Street. and approximately 8th Avenue, which is right dead in the center of this area where there's a lot of drugs and prostitution that's going on. I'd invite you to drive up to 85th and Biscayne Boulevard and turn east and drive down 85th -' Street to see what the City looks like at that point. We had our police chief go out there, and he found that there was open prostitution, drugs in the street, dumpaters which were overflowing, trash out in the street, used 4 3 furniture out in the street, and we had a meeting at Mayor Suarez'. office =y about a month ago, I'll say. We had our police chief. We had your assistant -_ chief. We had people from your Code Enforcement and other officers from"the City of Miami. Everybody agreed that it's a problem. Everybody agreed that the police and the Code Enforcement would go to work. The only reason that I think is important for me to be here is just to ask for your help in this effort to clean up this area. It's really more yours than ours, but we certainly have a joint effort that needs to be accomplished here, and we're = more than happy to cooperate in whichever way we can. Commissioner Plummers The minute you squeeze them there, they're going - somewhere else. Mayor Courtney: I think the infrastructure cleanup is what's really going to help. We need to get the trash picked up... Mayor Suarez: Did we, Mayor, did we extend the code enforcement sweeps by the Fire Department into that area? I think... _ Commissioner Plummer: That's where it started. Mayor Suarers And we also did... Commissioner Plummer: That's where it started. Mayor Suarez: No, not that far north, I don't think. Commissioner Plummer: It started at the north boundary line. Over 4,000 —_ violations. Mayor Suarez: I didn't know that we had gone that far north. We also, of course, have done sting operations since then, and, as to the area of the... ;s Mayor.Courtney: Right. Mayor Suarez: ...that's part of the City. Can we do it in the area that is not, in a joint fashion? Has that been tried? Mayor Courtney: I think that the three police departments are working - together to do a sting operation. After our meeting at your office, they were supposed to start, I think, on August the 6th... Commissioner Plummer: You know what happens... Mayor Courtney: ... so, hopefully, we've had one month of sting operations and whatever else they do. I don't know, we haven't heard the results yet. But it would be really helpful, I think, if we would make a commitment to do whatever it takes, whether it's sidewalks, whether it's just cleaning up the { street, whether it's picking up the trash, or whatever. I think we just need to make a commitment to do it.J. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Courtney: You. Mayor Suarez: Vice Mayor. Vice Mayor Dawkiass I commend the Mayor this is the first time we've had `. another municipality to come in and request that we work jointly together to 36 September 7, 19" 11 = r+el+re a probie�ebut I would be tomiso if I were to sit here and tell the Mayor that he found out something riding down O th Street that we didn't know, _ 1,0 pretty sure that when he eompiled his information with my Polite Departm6nt's information, the same drug information he found, we had, or we had found it before him. The name prostitution problems he found, we found 90 he just bought more pressure to bear on us to clean it up. Now, I need to know from the Manager and Mr. Ingraham, specifically Mr. Ingraham, this Mayor says that trash and garbage needs to be picked up in that area. Commissioner !Mummers And bins running over. —r Vice Mayor Dawkines And garbage. You have cut, which I will get into later at the budget, all kind of people from the Sanitation Department. You told me you were going to provide the same level of services, but here I have an official from another municipality coming to tell me that in this area, we are not - now, this is not coming from a taxpaying citizen of Miami- this is from the Mayor of another municipality who says, we are not providing the trash and garbage pickup that you said that we could provide - with the same - with no - increase or nothing in the same level of services now. Is this gentleman's information correct or incorrect? Mr. Odio: I'm sure it's correct, and I will have it checked out, Commissioner, and report back to you on that. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, thank you. Mayor Courtney: Thank you, Mr. Dawkins. I got that information from a memo from our police chief, and I certainly don't - I'm not here to cause any dissension within the ranks. I'm here to pool the ranks together to fight a common problem. And... Vice Mayor Dawkins: We're fighting the same thing, but there again, you know, you see it and I see it, OK? I want to know why. And if we do not, you see, correct it there, it will spill over into your area and then spill over into _ the incorporated area, because we drove it from our area to your area, instead of stopping it in its totality. -. Mayor Courtney: And I'm really concerned about the school. When that new school gets built right in that street, that's going to be a real serious - problem unless we get it cleaned up. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, we're going to clean it, collectively. Mayor Courtney: OK. - Vice Mayor Dawkins: Your being here is a start for us to collectively - but now, next time you come, bring the School Board. Don't bring... Mayor Courtney: I have included... yes... Vice Mayor Dawkins: ...bring somebody from the School Board down here so that we can tell them also how we feel about them. - Mayor Courtney: I've included the School Board on our joint task force, so °'- they do have representatives on the task force. Mayor Suarez: Very good. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, thank you, sir. Mayor Courtney: Thanks, Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Police radios was still an issue for citizen patrols and those kinds of activities? Mayor Courtneys I haven't met with them since we met, Xavier, so I don't know. r �•t Mayor Suarez: Commissioners, can I get a sense of the Commission that if police radios can be used as a scan system in some of the other programs that we have to involve citizens in helping patrol their neighborhoods that Wd would give them the required help as long as it's not a high economic impact. We're talking, I guess, about surplus radios when we have those available.' 37 Oept"ber 7, 1990 „ t �� Li -t r Via* Mayor tawkinss Aldo, Wri Mayor, t would like to see you add to your suggestiono thtt rob tap into their thin band that we're supposed to hAV6 F— Mayor Suar6st That goes to all ..... Vies Mayor Dawkinst ...that goes to... I mean, I would like to see that tied — jh►..riace we got such a wonderful, you know, telephone -radio system. Mayor Suaress I guess yes, I guess if that's in effect, as long as,you can' tap into it, you should be able to communicate with any jurisdiction. Is that _ true?Rai Commissioner Plummert later -city, you can. - Mayor Suaress Inter -city. - Commissioner Plummers The Police Departments themselves, can tie into inter- , city.- Vice Mayor Dawkins: I would like to see that included in our... Mayor Suarez: And make sure that that's part of the network that is set up, the communications network. Thank you. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I move it. a' - Commissioner Alonso: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the - roll. There's no specificity on the... Commissioner Plummer: Aren't you already tied in with inter -city? Mayor Courtney: I'm really not sure of that answer. Commissioner Plummer: Does your police department operate its own radios? --or are you part of little Dade? ;Y- Mayor Courtney: They operate their own radios, I think. s Commissioner Plummer: OK, they should have inter -city, 155. Vice Mayor Dawkins: If we have it, no problem. If you don't have it, this *r r will give it to you. Commissioner Plummer: Yes. w Mayor Courtney: All right. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll, Madam City Clerk. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, its adoption: MOTION NO. 90-680 A MOTION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI COMMISSION IN SUPPORT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI/CITY OF MIAMI SHORES TASK FORCE] FURTHER STATING THAT WHEN AND IF ANY SURPLUS RADIOS BECOME AVAILABLE, THAT THEY BE GIVEN TO THE TASK FORCE1 FURTHER STATING THAT THE CITY SHALL ALLOW THE AFFECTED MUNICIPALITIES TO TIE INTO MIAMI'S INTER -CITY COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK SYSTEM IN FURTHERANCE OF ITS ACTIVITIES. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Alonso, the motion was adopted by the following Votes 38 who moved iLa �! '� 'apse T f �i ,. Met Cb mission6t Victor DM Torre . oasnieeioner J. � nunmer, Jr. commissioner Miriam Alonso t` -vies mayhf millet J, Dawkitie - Mayor Xavier L. Suarer. ' Roast None. tIh� A�Sfi: atone. r Mayor Suarest Let me mention, Mr. Manager, and Commissioner De Yurre, just very briefly, because We a sort of pat on the back type thing here. The representatives of the Archdiocese that were present said that our: program of E knocking down crack -houses that began, at least in part, when mice Mayor and,=t attended one of their meetings up there by St. Marys, has been maghif atht and they Want that,. obviously, extended to this neighborhood too, you know. They did recognize that we had...— w Commissioner Plummer: You'll have a wasteland. Mayor Suarez: Yes, we had eliminated quite a few crack houses in the - immediate vicinity of St. Marys. Of course, this is now farther up north _ because -we've got the pastoral center at 93rd. But they recognize that anfl they basically are... Commissioner Plummer: Let me ask the Mayor a question. Do you have anybody - on your task force from Janet Reno's office? x Mayor Courtney: I don't think we do, no. Commissioner Plummer: Then you've made one hell of a mistake. Mayor Courtney: I can certainly... Commissioner Plummer: Let 'me tell you why. If you go out on a sting - operation with our Police Department, our Police Department is doing a magnificent- job of busting these people. But they're back out on the:streets_ the same damn day. The real breakdown in this system is the fact when -we arrest these people, they are not being processed and through the system..<The" system doesn't exist. What good is it to take and put them in jail and four hours later, they're back out on the street selling more drugs to make money - for the, bail and for the lawyer. And if you don't have somebody from the = State Attorney's office involved, I think you've completely missing the entire question. - Mayor Courtney: Well, that's a good suggestion, and I will just get somebody - on there, that's all. t ' Mayor Suarez: OK, Mayor. Commissioner Plummer: Well you invite them. Y'y Mayor Suarez: Thank you much. Mayor Courtney: Thank you very much. Goodbye. - i.`_ Si F" c- R - Fp c `x� 39 age y{��� # T�!4{VTI�IF. bo Z( .rt.a. uFi , uy -ra—rr4c.rwarw—ar..Yriani�a.rriwia..riiiirJ�iYCJirdillfi3uLSiYiL x- ,. 12 =V14 CY ORDINANCEt AMEND CODE SECTION 4-10 (ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES) RMCI DISTANCE SEPARATION REQUIREMENTS rOR IDENTICAL ALCOHOLIC 1MRA IE LICENSEES (LIQUOR PACKAGE STORES, BAILS, LOUNGES) IN COMBINATION RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS. Mayor Suares: Item four. Mr. Guillermo Olmediilos Item four is a request to amend the City Code to have similar or identical licenses for liquor licenses, Have a distance separation of 1,500 feet. you may remember that on July 26th, this Commission _ amended the Code for those dissimilar licenses, and reduced the distance between theta. But the identical licenses were left with a 21500 foot distance. Mayor Suarez: Why did we leave the similar licenses at 2,500 and adjust the dissimilar licenses?- Mr. Olmedillo: There was some discussion to it, and the end result was that " the dissimilar licenses were reduced and the similar licenses were not reduced, Then, when we looked at the record and we heard the tapes, there was _ some discussion to it, but the vote was taken on - was before you, it was not amended, and then in a subsequent discussion by this Commission, the point was " k brought out that the 1,500 was the intent and we were instructed to come back on an emergency basis to come on back to you. - Mayor Suarez: OK, so it's kind of to make the whole Code consistent. Anyone that voted against, I suppose, could consistently vote against this time, _ and... Commissioner Alonso: Yes, when I voted that time, I was in favor of that as to have it as the County, 1,500. And there was some confusion and I voted in favor of the - to have it in 1,500, and it was not the vote of opening on - Sunday, it was a different vote on that. And I agreed that it should be the - 1,500 and it was some point of discussion on that. That was brought to my attention as well. Mr. Olmedillo: Right, that's correct and... Commissioner Alonso: Yes, I so move. - t yi Mayor Suarez: OK, so this is to bring the whole thing into consistency then? Mr. Olmedillo: That is correct, sir. Commissioner Alonso: Yes. Mayor Suarez: So moved, Commissioner Alonso. Commissioner Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? If not, please give the nature of �x the emergency. I guess the nature of the emergency is misstated, Mr. City Attorney, by the fact of the lack of consistency. Mr. Fernandez: Correct. Commissioner Plummer: I'd like to amend it to have one year review. Mr. Olmedillo: One year review.; r*, Mayor Suarez: Read the ordinance, please. Call the roll. z THEREUPON, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD, BY TITLE ONLY. Commissioner Plummer: Excuse me, Mr. Mayor.. 40 ' r ' N r Suarem Ua Comffiiasioner Pltwwrt .o.t'si tdldi on the other ordinances we have a at* month reviet. I'd like to make the same here if it's all right with the maker, 'a`e'll rivie* it in silt m6nthr. Make them simultaneous. Malydr Suarem Y66. That, by the way, I guess is a logistical requeit. e You're not building that into the ordinance itself. Commissioner Plummer: Not into the ordinance, just as a request. ; Mayor Suarez: It's a request to the administration. = Mr. Fernandez: In the last one, we did put her in the ordinance and-w!t suggest that it should be placed in the ordinance. _ Mayor Suarez: You want it in the ordinance and, OK, does the movant accept that? -and the second? You made the motion, I think... Commissioner Alonso: Does it mean that we made the automatic review in six months ore... Commissioner Plummer: Correct. Commissioner Alonso: Yes. Mr. Olmedilloi Yes, every six months will be a review. Commissioner Alonso: OK... Commissioner Plummer: Of course, any time that we see that it's 'working properly and no problems, we can remove that... Mayor Suarez: It could be perfunctory review, if we think it's working, OK. So moved and seconded with those modifications. Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED- . AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE RELATING TO ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; AMENDING SECTION 4-10 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, BY REDUCING THE DISTANCE SEPARATION REQUIREMENTS FOR IDENTICAL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE LICENSEES IN COMBINATION b RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS TO FIFTEEN HUNDRED (1,500) FEET{ SUBJECT TO SIX MONTH REVIEW• CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION, SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Was introduced by Commissioner Alonso and seconded by Commissioner Plummer, for adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the requirement of reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to, by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Alonso and'saaoaded by Commissioner Plummer, adopted said ordinance by the following vote: �i 41 x€ j� s + e� „fir`* i s r •k''13TMs' yy��F-i '",' A` At Comissioner Victor be Yurrs Comuisaitftor J, L, Plurouri Jr. Comisaioner Mirim Alouso :mice Mayor Millar Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarer .,3 A$SENT: None. a u SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10777. { 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. ii.i11W—i1iYr+YYuilr.riY.L►y.iY.r+italic..—ti.Yii--i"r—aY.iwir--Y`��—iYYaiY►rirrrri—wrw.Y—abrw..Y.irYYyrY`Iri`'- w -„-- -,f 13. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND: ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC (1990-1991) APPROPRIATE $250,000 FROM STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, DIVISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT - ACCEPT GRANT FOR PROMOTION OF EVENT - EXECUTE AGREEMENT. ------- -------------- --------------------r�_M..-...r Mayor Suarez: Item 5, emergency ordinance. of state funds? I take it, this is a pass through a;a Mr. Odio: Yes, it in. That's for the... Commissioner Plummer: I got a problem here. I got a problem and it's based on the history. .I have no budget... the reason this money is given to the City as a pass -through, according to the State of Florida, was because we are to be thesafeguard and the watchdog of these monies. Mr. Odio: Mr. Plummer, excuse me, sir. This one is to receive the money. Number six:is what you're talking about, your budget. Commissioner Plummer: All right, well, either one, you know. The problem that I have, Mr. Mayor, we know that at one time, there was a major problem and I,'m .not trying ,to point any fingers. The only problem that ;I . have . ie, ; I don't even find.a.budget for what these monies are going to be used.,for. Mr. Odio: Agreed. We won't release... Commissioner Plummer: I mean, if we are the watchdog for the State of_`+ Florida, and that's what they're doing... Mr. Odio: Well, don't release the funds until we get... you can do... Vice Mayor Dawkins: But, you see, what J.L. is telling you guys is - and nobody seems to hear what we're saying is... Mr. Odio: I'm hearing. Vice Mayor Dawkins: We have a fiduciary responsibility.for these funds. Mr. Odio: That's right. 4 a Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now, what did the State of Florida say that fiduciary responsibility is? What did the State of Florida say, we're giving you this money, and we except what, in return?' Mr. Frank Castaneda: That the Orange Blossom Classic be promoted adequately '¢ and we are responsible for all the monies given under this grant. 4 Commissioner Plummer: That's exactly.. • :. �r Mr. Odio: They also -wait a minute, wait a minute. They will also, under now regulations, will not release the full amount to us, only 25 percent at 0 °1 i 42 fteb mayor baftinat go-# hot no, n6, Wheh the 9tate of Florida said to rib- wdit a 61hut+e, Vil go bask. Whan Carrie Meeks called and said, you got to y6d t6 hold is custodians for the Orange Ploeso& Cleheid, s�= k.. Aft criteria .vad'`eaht with the money telling us what to do with it, what to z� y' audit findings should be, who you report to, and who's responsible? Theta - A. all Cottg►issiahir `piW tnerls saying. -t ' 10. Castanedas Oki the City of Miami is responsible. ' Mr. Odios iie's right. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, then, if we are responsible... now, go on with your Commissioner, go right ahead, sir, if we are responsible. ?- Commissioner Plummers No, I'm just asking, you know, it would seem logical - that we would have a budget as to what that money is going to be used `for so that we can track later that, in fact, that money was used for what it said it - Was intended. Mr. Odio: Well, that's your... i Commissioner Plummer: you know, the'last time, and I'll just use one example, ; Where we found that one individual was paid $119 to drive palms in his station ' - wagon two blocks. That's... - Mr. Odios Well, what you can do, is, on five, accept the money. On number - six, tell us that you don't now want to release it, but under conditions. _ Commissioner Plummer: Well, the conditions are, at least that we should have a budget before us. Mr. Castanedas No, no, we will have a budget and we will have a budget... - Commissioner Plummer: But, we don't have it. We don't know what it's going - to be used for and our butte are on the hook. ; Mr. Castanedas, That's correct. Mr. Odio: Correct. ,,h Commissioner De Yurre: We're not talking about following the guidelines that - the City follows with RFPs and that kind of thing. Are we talking about that? :- Mr. Odio: No. t Mr. Castanedas No. S.Ste. Commissioner Plummer: No, no, no, no, Victor. Commissioner De Yurres To secure the least amount, you know, or the maximum °# _ amount of savings or... may; Commissioner Plummer: Victor,prior-to your arrival on the Commission,, one time, unfortunately, there was a big hubbub about this, about the fact that f monies were not spent the way they should have been spent. Let's leave it at e= that. Now, what I'm saying to you is, that the state sends the money to us to act an watchdogs to make sure the money is well spent - whatever it's spent for - and yet, I'm saying here, in this ordinance, I'm just given the $230,000. Mr. Odio: No, you're receiving on the ordinance.' Commissioner Plummer: In the first one, I'm receiving it. In the second one, - 4x I'm allocating. Mayor Suarez: Yes, and in the second one, there's no built in assurance , on �F t item six. _ k z £: Mr. Odio: You're right. r Mr. Plumuers None. SAY K M lyY' i 43 _ 3;u - �&ii� ,_ -_ --Pais i•s.,-„ fir- Sayer dubtailt Afld, Mr. Manager, VhAt - wa wish we had it before us today on �— Itse six; 66 wb delt't hAV# to t6hitruet then, and devise theis bufbaitta, but +r at d6 you ftdgg#At flftj at this late hour, that wa build into - asttutieiftg that to 'vote favorably on number five c on humber six so that we be sure that that* is u6nit6 inn by Ist6rhat audits 6t vhoaverl C;7 #r. Wet Th#re'ik two things. They provide a budget... 4 Mayor Suareetk T'he Ca mtisaies should snot have to do this kind of thing. 1 M a'n & . . Hr, Odic- t know, that's why - we have a contract with them, the contract spells butt iexatt'ly what authorities they have and don't have. Mayor Suarett And what monitoring goes with that. Mr. Odict That's correct, that* is a contract that goes along with the money. Vice Msy+br Dawkinsc From who? Contract from who? Mr. 0dict Prom the City to the Orange Bowl Blossom. 4 Vice Mayor Dawkinat Where is the contract from the City and the State Of Florida? Mr. Castanedat We have not received it... Mr. Odic: its have not received it from the Department of... Vice Mayor Dawkins: So, how do you.... Commissioner Plummer: 'thy is it before us? Vicky Leiva, Esq.: You've got a draft. Excuse me... Mr. Odic t We have a draft from them. — -.Vise Mayor Dawkins: You see, you're making us look like bad people. Mr. Odic: No. Vice Mayor Dawkins: You make it appear here that we don't want to support the;; Orange' Blossom Classic. You make me the bad guy because I'm black and the Orange Bowl Classic is black and it looks like I don't want to support it. Mr. Odic: We have received... 5 Rice Mayor Dawkins: But all I'm saying to you is, the same thing Commissioner Plummer said. What did the State of Florida say they want from us with this stoney? 5^ C Mr. Odics We've been asking the state... ter; Rice Mayor Dawkins* Do they want a budget? Do they want cancelled checks?; Mr.. Odic: Do you Brant me to put this... n� Vice Mayor Dawkins* Do they want invoices? Mr. Odiot Do you want so to put this letter that we have from the State of r; Florida, D e p a r t m a n t of Commerce. Vice Mayor Dawkins* no, I want you to tell me that you have the contract in rs; - F.' your hand tarose the State of Florida and in the contract, it says... .` Vice Mayor Dawkins: ... the contract says, either you give them the money, �7�= Ilk* you're saying, or it says, you are responsible for making sure that this y£ money is spent for what it said. Now, that's all. C A 44 September y, 1990 � ry — 6t - a fir, �ittio: 196o, it you mind, I put in the.... you want to out in the roe6rd what they toil us to do IVice ia�or Dawkins What did their... *alit that should have been in here: ' Mr. Castanodat No,.. ti Mr. Cdio: We just got this, this morning, Commissioner) from the State. 'q Me: Leivas I was taxed this morning from the State of Florida to us. ti a Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, why do you have it on the agenda if we did not_ m have...? I give up. - Mr. Castaneda: Commissioner, let me explain that. Perhaps it's my fault why n this is on the agenda. The reason that I have this on the agenda is... Mr. Odio: Which I didn't want to put on the agenda..._ Mr. Castaneda: ...because if you grant to properly market the Orange Blossom {- Classic, which is in October, you need to provide the funding to do that. If not, you're not going to be promoting the Orange Blossom Classic for October. t5 Commissioner De Yurre: But, you know, the question that arises, how are you going to promote it? Is the money well spent in promotion or are you just, you know... do you have a program for promoting it? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Never mind how it's spent, OK? Never mind the y p , promotion of it, OK? Do you have whatever the State of Florida said it was going to give to .us in the amount of money for the Orange Blossom Classic? Do you have - - that in hand? - Mr. Odio: Vice Mayor Dawkins: Do you have the money in hand? - Mr. Castaneda:. No, air. _ Mr. Odio: No we do not. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now, that's what we're getting to. So now, if you don't - have the money in hand, what are we going to tell the Orange Blossom Classic?`` Mr. Castaneda: That's another issue. Yes... Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, it's not another issue. It'never'should have been put... Mayor Suarers Well, do we have the basic parameters of how the money has to F be spent? -if and when the City... k, Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, first we of to g get the money, Mr: Mayor. - Commissioner. Plummer: Well, Mr. Mayor, can I get us off dead center? Can I approve five and six, subject to them surrendering a budget and this r� = Commission's approval? Mayor Suarez: Yes. No, but I grant you they won't give it -to us ,if We } don't... Commissioner Plummers It's two weeks. t }: t Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, all right, I'll move that, then I got another motion,= .s Mayor Suarez: All right, as to five then, we have a motion on the ordinance - setting up the fund. OF Vice Mayor Dawkines I'll second it. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. { Mr. Odio: make copies of this and give it to the Comxaissioaers. - d R_ 45 srpt r 1, 1- k Hat6t Suaresi Afiy disausoloat ff not, please read the ordinance, The fiaturo of the entergeney to* that the Claesie is 6otsing up, I guess.... Mr. Castaneda: , , Right . Mayor Suaress All right, and we're short on time. Thank you. THEREON, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE MLIC RECORD, BY k TITS ONLY. Call the roll, Commissioner Plummors - Just for the record. legisiature?. Mr. Castaneda: Yes, Commissioner. Commissioner Plummer: That ended in June? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes, Mr. Castanedas Um hum. Commissioner Plummer: You've had June, July, and August... ''1= Mr. Castaneda: The State has... v' Commissioner Plummer: Not August, that's not a fair statement. But you had ;,- June and July knowing this was coming forth. ==j Mr. Castaneda: Commissioner, the State has had that period of time. We've" been calling the State every day and that's why they, at the end, faxed it, because we told them that the`item wag coming to the, Commission today. Vice, Mayor Dawkins:They faxed you that because Senator Carrie Meeks called - up there' yesterday and raised sand and got it faxed to you. That's why they; got it. Go ahead. I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor, call the roll. �c. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on the item. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL £; REVENUE FUND ENTITLED: "ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC"'(1990- kkr: 1991), APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE SAME IN THE AMOUNT OF $250,000 FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA, DEPARTMENT OFa"` COMMERCE, DIVISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TO PROMOTE THE 1990 AND 1991 ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC; AND r37. AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE AFOREMENTIONED GRANT AND ENTER INTO THE NECESSARY �r- - CONTRACT AND/OR AGREEMENT WITH THE STATE OF FLORIDA; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITS 3_ CLAUSE. > — Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner - Dawkins, for adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the requirement of reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by t1t4 following vote: AYESt Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso F" Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez x NOES: None. ,r �r ASSENTi None. Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer and s000Ads;3d by Co- missioner Dawkins, adopted said ordinance by the following vote: ab x N.,- A� s a AIMS i Comiesta ter Victor De 'Turto s CitmrmiissiaAar 3, L. Plummer, Jr. ,. Comissioner Miriam Alonso ,t. Vies 'mayof Miner'Dawkinr �5 Mayor Xavier L. Suarest Met Rafte. ASSRft i None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS bS8It1NAT1D ORDINANCE NO. 10778. The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies vote available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. -----------Y.—iiWYiiliYi+.rrYi.vWw..rrw.YW.w/�Lw�ii—__iw—rY—iii►i�'wiwriwi.YwrW 'v .• 14. ALLOCATE $250,000 TO DR. ARTHUR S. WOODARD (REPRESENTATIVB OF FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION) TO BE USED FOR PROMOTIONAL EXPENSES RELATED TO 1990-1991 ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC (See label 45). _....—------ -------------- --------- _---.._..__. r--------� Vice Mayor Dawkins: Six, five - six.�- Commissioner Plummer: Subject to them surrendering the budget approved by this Commission. Vice Mayor Dawkins:Wait a minute. All right. Seconded, and under - discussion. Now, it says here, it is respectfully recommended that the City - Commission adopt the attached resolution allocating an amount of $250,000 from — the Orange Blossom- Classic fund and give it to Dr. Arthur E. Woodard, as f representative of the Florida A&M University Alumni Association. Now, when we j passed this, this morning, you and Frank Castaneda got $250,000 to give`.Dr - Woodard. °It says, right here that's what you... Commissioner Plummer:' No, no, subject to a budget. Vice Mayor Dawkins: That's what it says. Huh? Commissioner Plummer: Subject to a budget approved by this Commission. ' Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, now, OK, all right, go ahead, read the rest' --all right, go ahead.... i- Mr. Odio: No, Commissioner, just... Vice Mayor Dawkins:, No, no, come on. w# Mr. Odio: I know what you're saying, you're right. No, he's right. Commissioner, you're right, the money has not arrived yet. Vice Mayor Dawkins: That's right, so how are going to give it to him?Y 1 Mr. Odlo: We cannot give it until we receive it, Vice Mayor Dawkins: See, but... Ms. Leiva: And until we execute - excuse me - the contract with the State and prepare and execute a contract...` fi.,. Mr. Olio: Until we execute the contract with them. g°- <<, Ms. Leiva: .,,with the Orange Blossom Classic. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Orange Blossom Classic, by your putting this on the r agenda, thinks the City Commission is going to hand them $250#000, h n a_ Mr. adios No... x } 47 geptb�l's k Y R � .. - $ _ of k « 'TIN h ,a Via$ ftyor DAWkiftht dell, yea, it. ibdios ited, you are, but... ? fto k1kydr Dawkiftiki Y6u ahhuld Oki but..: '. Mid. tydisss t+at me read something, Cansniesioner, to you and it will, clrisi~if it J� sict16ii two of the resolution, tt sayso *...The herein allooatio>y is hai 16 e6aditioned upon substantial compliance with APM 184 and any other conditioi�ii and IIImitationt as may be prescribed by the City of Miami and the State of _ Florida." And you're prescribing that today and they know, also, that until va, have an executed agreement with the State and with them, there will not be any funds released. _ Commissioner Plummers How much money are you reserving for the audit?' Mr. Odios Well, see, we're only getting... I'm sending you a copy of what we got this morning. We're only getting 25 percent allocations at a time. :. Vice Mayor Dawkins: We'll get to that after this get through this. _ Commissioner Plummer: No, if he give you $250,000 and the City charges ten or fifteen thousand dollare.to do an audit, it would seem like, as A pass through agent, we shouldn't have to pay for the audit. a_ ter. Odios Well, let me - maybe you're reading... because I want to propose on _ one point, we're receiving quite a lot of grants, pass through, and not pass = through, that we begin to keep monies here as a charge, overhead cost, and this would be the case that we need to do. Vice Mayor Dawkinss Call the roll. Ms. Leiva: Excuse me, Commissioner, furthermore, we should have, in your - - motion, clarification that it's subject to receiving the funds... Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, I should not have that in my motion. It should have s been in the legislation. ,+ Ms. Leiva: You're correct. - Vice Mayor Dawkins: I should not have to add anything. Ms. Leiva: Correct._ k = Vice Mayor Dawkinsi Do not tell... you see, you make me a bad fellow in'My - neighborhood, see. No, wait a minute, you make me a bad fellow in the City of �z Miami. If I sit up here and tell you that I have a fiduciary responsibility to be responsible for this money, then the black people are mad with me. If I` Y give them this money without the fiduciary responsibility, then the white p-`- folks and the Latins will say, you're crazy because you're giving away money. And it's all because you people put me under the hammer with kind of legislation. And it's unfair to me. It's very unfair to all of us up he;e. Ca Everybody now is going to say, the State gave us money and the City'of Miami R: taking our money and won't give it to us. It's not that. It's not that at4z all. x. Me. Leiva: Commissioner, I feel the need to let you know that the what was faxed this morning from the State of Florida, also contained a letter informing us that it's quite possible that the allocation will be less than $250,000 and that they are not giving us an advance..., Vice Mayor Dawkins: So, how can you give... but the front page of this, which I know, is only going to be read - they're not going to read the11 backup - says that we give to Dr. Arthur E. Woodard, as representative of the n� Florida A&M University Association, $250,000, j Ms. Leiva: The agenda information that you have before you was all prepared" prior to the receipt of the letter and the document this morning. -' Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, let me ask you. Wait a minute, let me gat between... Who did this? -the Low Department or the administration? dt - - 4�M�M x i r' • :,i tl `4 X r S;L Hrr " C+eatanedat V& did, fib), L61V&3' .2oitttlyr Viav Mayor-bafkindi All right, well if you... Well, i don't Want to hear = nothing from you. I don't Want to hear nothing from you. I want to hear from them, Whywould bu guys put us in A osition? You don't have the money. ' �' g y p � y ;- The money has not bean received by us. And I was going to bring this up in my motion because I'm going to make after this, we're not receiving $2500000. What are we receiving, Mr. Castaneda? " Mr. Odio t Twenty-five percent at a time. Mr. Castaneda: Twenty-five percent at a time. Vice Mayor Dawkins: What is 25`percent of $250,000? You All got compass over �^ there. Mayor Suarezi Sixty-two thousand, five hundred, I think. a Mr. Odio: Sixty-two thousand. r. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All. right. So, all you're going to receive is $52,000. But yet, you're saying here that you're going to give Dr. Woodard 4250,000. Now, let's just assume that they have already spent $100,000 because we said that we were going to give Dr. Woodard $250,000. Now, let's assume we give him $250,000, and the state is only giving us $52,000 and they decide they're $.- not going to give us any more. Who's going to swallow the rest of the money? Mr. Castaneda: Commissioner, I understand your point, but there have been discussions with the organizers in which we would pay, on a reimbursement _ basis, as we always do. They would have to submit a budget, they would have to have an approved budget. It would have to be approved by the State and so forth. I know that the legislation does not go into that type of detail, but, you know, there have been additional discussions with all the organizers on this particular issue. The reason that we brought it, you know, and I know x_ it's haphazard, is that I believe that if you want to promote the Orange Blossom Classic for October the twenty...- Vice Mayor Dawkins: See, there you go again, saying if we want. Commissioner Plummer: What happened to June and July? Vice Mayor Dawkins: We do want. If we did not want, we would not participate. But when the... printed in the media, Mr. Frank Castaneda said, if you wanted to, and they didn't respond._ Mr, Castaneda: No... you're right. s Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, all right, call the roll or something, so I can get into my next motion. Mayor Suarez: OK, as to item six, do we have a motion and a second, Madam City Clerk? Commissioner Plummer: Move it, subject to. _- Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes. k4- ' Ms. Hirai: You..,. s� Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the �a roll. y�f Commissioner Plummer: Subject to a budget being presented. j g ' Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, so be it. Mayor Shares: Call the roll, please. Its. Hirai: He has to read, no? 49 1 a4+ue vMr 00 y fty6r Dawktnat load thi brditiante� .. NdYOf Stilrts t #6 it'll item silt. u. co issi6aer plufedhert It's s resolution. f Y ' Mayor, euareatt Reebluti6tt. _ Me, `Hit alt All Bight. r Tha following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Hummer, who moved its adoption: t, - RESOLUTION NO. 90=681 3: A' RESOLUTION ALLOCATING THE AMOUNT OF $250,000 FROM THE "ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC 1990-1991" FUND TO DR. ARTHUR E, WOODARD, AN INDIVIDUAL, AS REPRESENTATIVE OF = THE'FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, TO BE t, UTILIZED FOR PROMOTIONAL EXPENSES RELATED TO THE 1990- 91 ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSICi CONDITIONING SAID ALLOCATION UPON SUBSTANTIAL COMPLIANCE WITH APM-1-84 AND ANY OTHER CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS AS MAY BE _ PRESCRIBED BY THE CITY OF MIAMI AND THE STATE OF FLORIDA. — (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on t' file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 3 Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Comcniasioaer J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez ' NOBS: None. 'T ABSENT: None.,_ COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:' Commissioner De Yurre: You know, the issue that I have is, what's the use of 4— havinga budget if we don't know if those numbers` are good numbers in the `the 'which _ sense that, you know,' if they have a breakdown of two fifty, is *hit v we're talking about, that doesn't tell us if the money is being well spent or not. All it's'saying is, where the money is going; Mr. Castaneda: That is correct. �n Commissioner Plummer: Yes,'but it is a tracer back that if the monies don't go for that, then we hold them responsible. You see, we're being...r— Commissioner De Yurre: But the issue is not then that the money in well'. spent. The issue is that the money is spent where they're saying that, it'i`s £ being spent. That's all we're saying.:— 4 i^' Co nissioner Plummer: For promotion only. For promotion. = -r rr Commissioner De Yurre: OK. Yes. 3�. COMMENTS MADE FOLLOWING ROLL CALL: Vice Mayor Dawkins s Mr. Mayor. 67 �s _ Mayor Suarez: Yes, Vice Mayor Dawkins? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Since the administration has put this C*=Lssiaut'on t#• y P e y t spot and tit4y have not received any money from the State of ' Tjo rids, ' d tto Orange '8lossotp Classic is expecting to receive the funds -that were 4110"catad' AA yPi 1� t � i t¢ k fi� 'y1y�S F � to t"Ol I Mown that the admit !*teatlob find to date, $52j000, AdVAA66 it to the Ot tinge 116e6orm Ciaselet as they promised in this resolution, and w onaVOr Y the State of ylotida sends theta the $52,000, they put it back. I'ta not going to sit here And all** the administration to make it difficult for me to go home in my community. And I to move. Cbmmissioner Plumbrs to effect, what you're saying is seed money. Vice Mayor Dawkinst That's right. Mr. Odio: Wait, let me... Vice Mayor Dawkins: That fifty-two thousand... subject to the same provisions stated by Commissioner Plummer that you receive a budget as to how the- fuftds will be expended or you will receive invoices saying they've spent it already, or whatever, so.be it. Mr. Odio$ Commissioner, let me warn you, the document we got from the state clearly says, on page 2, under the terms, that no grant funds may be expended for program expenses incurred prior to the execution hereof. Vice Mayor Dawkins$ That's wonderful. You say, on the front page and I'in X going to read it to you again... Mr. Odio: This from the State. Vice Mayor Dawkins$ On the front page, you don't say nothing about going back > and read the fine print. You say on the front page, it is respectfully recommended that the City Commission adopt the attached resolution allocating an amount of 4250,000 from.the Orange Blossom Classic, 1990-91 fund, State of Florida grant, to Dr. Arthur 8. Woodard, as a representative of Florida A&M University Alumni Association. You do not say in that line, that Mr. Woodard, Dr. Woodard, will only get these funds if the State of Florida approves them. You do not say this. And when I go home this afternoon, all they going to be calling my house again like they called all night last night is, we, the State has given us money and you, the black Commissioner, holding it up. Mayor Suarex$ And, by the way, that will not be an impediment, Mr. Manager.. x- If, what the Commissioner is proposing and his motion pastes, what we would do is hold available a loan which, hopefully, we would get paid back, but it would not be State funds as to the loan. As to the pay back, it would be and we would not be violating anything that the State prescribes. It's a bit of a fir' risk for us to do, but it may be the right thing to do so that the event can ' happen. Commissioner De Yurre: Well, let me check on this also. We're talking about, t� and it was just mentioned by the City Attorney, that Tallahassee may not,give the whole $250,000. So, the thing is, by this resolution, are we committing ourselves and are they expecting, by that, the Orange Bowl Classic Committee, are they expecting 4250,000 from us not matter what? Because I don't think it's clear that it is subject to whatever we get from Tallahassee. And I don't know if that's in theresolution and that's going to be understood that way. Because it's saying, flat out, $250,000. Commissioner Plummer: Are we the grantor? Ms. Leiva: We're the grantee. In the document that you have in front of you, the grantor is the State of Florida, who will give the amount of money, whatever, it will and up being, to the City of Miami. However, the two -page, the cover letter to the contract, has two pages worth of limitations ;and the State specifically says, please advise everyone that there may be a short fall. Commissioner Plummer: Let me read to you from this document. "The grantee," that's us, huh? - "...shall be liable and agrees to be liable for and *hall indemnify, defend, and hold the grantor, State of Florida, harmless for all ^. claims, suits, judgments, or damages arising from the grantee's performance of the task and duties which you are subject to this agreement." We are, Ip fact, liable, if any Lawsuits are filed, in behalf$ or bocause of the Or4z# Blossom Classic, we, as a pass through agent, are liable for every lawsuit and you so agree to that right here. I can't believe this. I can't believe it. And, here we are, in the position of thinking we're nothing but an &genic *Ad r-: "7. C' 3� we're accepting full liability, gut you're not telling me that. l"itbilty. Me. Lb vas 'l.`'hat liability, .. zz: Full '� Cbmissioh r Plummer: Ve will hold the State of Florida harmless, You know, I'm not a lawyer, as these people keels reminding me. This little simple ubdertake'r knows ghat that means. Me. Leivas Ofily as to our duty in receiving the funds and passing those funds through. Also, when we prepare the contract with the Orange Blossom Classic y committee... Commissioner Plummer: Excuse me, excuse me, You know, I'm sorry. Let me read it again. "The grantee shall be liable and agrees to be liable for and shall indemnify, defend, and hold the grantor harmless for all claims, suits, judgments, or damages arising from the grantee's performance of the task and duties which are subject to this agreement." Ms. Leiva: To the task and duties subject to this agreement only. And then, we pass it on to them. Mayor Suarez: Any time we handle monies, we'll have that obligation. Ms. Leiva: Correct. Commissioner Plummer: To hold them harmless and we responsibility? Mayor Suarez: For carrying out the obligations of the... Commissioner Plummer: Are we taking out the... Mayor Suarez: Why exactly is it that they can't give the money directly? Commissioner be Yurre was asking about that. I forget, there is an answer to that but I.. Mr. Castaneda: I am not familiar to the reason but I know that the State has done that several times, they did it with the... Mayor Suarez: I guess they pass on the responsibility. Mr. Castaneda: ... Latin,, Little Havana Activity and Nutrition Centers, you might recall about three or four years ago and so forth. Ms. Leiva: That's standard language really in everything we receive f rom'the State. And then we pass it through to whoever we are contracting with and require insurance and full indemnification from them. Mayor Suarez: That's right. Commissioner Plummer: But who is going to insure us? Mr. Castaneda: The Grantee. Ms. Leiva: They are. Commissioner Plummer: Who? Ms. Leiva: When we develop the document with the Orange Blossom Classic, one of the things we require is that they have insurance. Vice Mayor Dawkins: That doesn't say that here. Ms. Leiva: You do not have, at this point in time, that document in front of you. Mayor Suarez; But that's the problem. The problem is that the signal that we are sending that this is somehow an approval which implies that tomorrow the will give two hundred and fifty thousand,.. t Commissioner Plummer: No, that's what it implies. r ; tF September To ip s, i i MW j Mayor suarast Not that's the signal. Mrs Adiot ltbpiiee7 Comissionner fiummart Oh, yet, y c Mayor Suarest And that instead of having up front, a variety of documents and restrictions and impediments that have to be met ands you know, clarifying to these folios that there is many, many thing that have to be done before any=- money is given out and it might not be two hundred and fifty thousand and it may not be one quarter of that coming up right away, let alone two hundred and fifty._ Mr. Castantldat That's- right. '- :' i. Ms. Leivat All those limitations will be part of the terms and conditions that we will have in our contracts with the Classic._ Mayor Suarez: Yes, but it not part of the signal that we are sending today by approving this to the community. t_ Ms► Lsivat True, absolutely. z k r Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, I have, I'd hate to do this but I've scheduled forty-two for the public hearing this afternoon and the Orange Blossom Classic is supposed to come here. Would it be to our advantage or out of order to ask that this be continued until this afternoon and when forty-two comes up, we complete.it? Mayor Suarez' We'll take it up at that point as to... Commissioner Plum ort That's fine. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I don't know, rather than have to go through this but I still iay,-I need to know before this afternoon so that if you don't-.'_ Mr. Odio: Then we will clean it up. s Ms. Leiva: Yes. Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, don't clean, don't change nothing until they get z here. I -want you just to explain it to them. OK? But I'd like"to :kanott: - somewhere in here it, said that, we receivedone, one what of"the' :amount"? Somewherd in here it says that you received the money by- OK, one quarter of the grant will be released to the City upon execution of the agreement with - the State* ve'just agreed that one quarter was fifty-two thousand dollars. Didn't we just agree to that? f Commissioner Plummer: No. { V'- Mr.. Castaneda: I believe it's sixty-two thousand - sixty-two five. L- Commissioner Plummer: We are granted to put up fifty-two thousand, see... s . ,# , _- z. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right fifty-two thousand. h'i f Mr: Castanedar Sixty-two, five. - Six, two. v� Vice Mayor Dawkins: So, one fourth is sixty-two five. f Lw Commissioner Plummer: But you are not sure, t they are "getting- wo'°fit y; � yw that's the problem.It could be less as they have imdicatad. F <% Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. See, all right. So, sometime this ofterpooA, somebody need to tell me, what- amount of rooasy, since you are the ones 'rho kr< dreamed this up, is going to be made available to this group. Mr. Castanedat Sure. Y x� Vice Mayor Dawkinos OK. And wait until the (State bring it back to you, t�� • s 770 sty .- s Mrs Castaneda! OR. _ Vice Mayor Dawkiftsa OKI to that all tight with my fellow Commissioners that I continue this until forty-two this afternoon? Commissioner Plummers Fine with s:se. Mayor Suarez, So continued until forty-two, Vice Mayor Dawkins: Thank yous Mr. Mayor. F"•Y �IY�iYriY�IYiSiYYYY �rriYy.riwib�----r—_-_----w.------------r------------rr.arW—Y.�II..Y. •- aF: 15, DENY PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE AMENDING CODS SECTION- I2--2 { (GARBAGE AND TRASH) TO ADD SECTION CONCERNING UNAUTHORIZED RXM0VAL; - MISUSE AND/OR MISPLACEMENT OF RECYCLING CONTAINERS FROM CURBSIDB-,AND PROVIDING FOR FEES. ..aurrW..—...,.......W—�..�.i—....—.,.�..�_---_----rWr—.. .r—..------- --"'----a.n.----_—.. �....+.W.r..a...... Mayor Suarez: Item seven. First reading ordinance. -- Commissioner Plummer: I've -got to ask a question. Mr. Manager, are you telling me that if a trash bin is stolen, that I as a homeowner is going to have to pay for it? Mr. Odio: Yes. Commissioner Plummer: You go to hell. - Mr. Fernandez: So then, take it off the books. - Commissioner Plummer: I am not going to pay for somebody else stealing my —_ damn bin and it has already happened. Why should I be responsible for it. Mayor Suarez: Well, either may you're going to be responsible. Either as:a tax payer or as .a homeowner. Which way do you want to do it? Commissioner Plummer: I'm not voting for it. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Not voting for what? Commissioner Plummer: I'm not voting that if somebody comes and steals my recycling container that I've got to pay for it. The City put them out there, let the City replace them.` h^ Vice Mayor Dawkins: But you're the City. 5{ Commissioner Plummer: I'm not voting for it. I move to deny seven. Mayor Suarers So moved. Do we have a second and a motion to not approve, or disapprove item seven? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Hold it one minute. J.L., Mr. Manger... r Mr. Odios Yes, sir. Vice Mayor Dawkins: These bins are being bought with what funds? x i Mr. Odios The grant monies we have received from the State." Vies Mayor Dawkinss All right. Now, following my fellow Commissioner's reasoning, when the grant money runs out and they are still being stolen, who is going to replace them? i d Vice Mayor Dawkinss The City will have to replace them. *, Vice Mayor Dawkinss See. Well I'll- now if you can tell me that once they run out we are through with them, I'll be like J.L. Mr. 0419:- We cannot be through. F t�. 354 ;tl` f� Y Tx F Y 4 Ca m►iesiaaer i'lum mart Weli we are In serious trouble. You know and I know that when that money runs out, we can't afford the program. And this prograte, As far as I ate cancerned, is an absolute farce. The container which they give tee today doesn't begin to hold what my weekly collection is. If you get a severs day a day Miami, whatever that damn thing in the morning is caiiedy including a Sunday paper which is 90 percent advertising, that's the whole bin right there, In the County, they gave out and did it properly and gave out, I think it was three bins. One for paper, one for glass and one for metal, the tin cans. Yott give tee one container with a ,separator in it and you expect as to be a part of a recycling program and then when that sucker comes dawn the street and steals my plastic container, you're going to ask me to pay for it The hell you may. - Mayor Suarez: OX, We've got three alternatives. Either each homeowner pays for theirs if it's lost or all homeowners, that is, all tart payers pay for = them, or J.L. pays for all of them that are stolen. Those are the three —_ alternatives that we now have before us. Commissioner Plummer: No, no, no, because I'm going to tell you what I'm - going to do. When they come and steal mine, I'm going to South Miami and _— steal yours. Vice Mayor Dawkins: And we're going to shoot you. Mayor Suarez: My eldest eon is very fast and he is going to be ready for you. He is going to either hit you with a bat or worse. All right. Commissioner Plummer: I'll take your son, it's Rita I don't want to tackle — with. Mayor Suarez: Yes Rita, you don't to- We have a motion to deny. Has it been seconded? Calling twice, calling- third time. Commissioner De Yurre: I'll second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and second. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll on the motion to disapprove. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: r MOTION NO. 90-682 A MOTION TO DISAPPROVE PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE CODE BY ADDING NEW SUBSECTION — CONCERNING THE UNAUTHORIZED REMOVAL, MISUSE AND/OR - MISPLACEMENT OF RECYCLING CONTAINERS FROM THE CURBSIDE; PROVIDING FOR ADMINISTRATIVE FEES; ESTABLISHING SAID ADMINISTRATIVE FEE FOR SUCH REMOVAL, MISUSE AND/OR MISPLACEMENT, ETC. Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre >4 Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso` NOES: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez 4++: _= Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins aY: ABSENT: None. COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL: 3 Vice Mayor Dawkins: Wait a minute, we've got a conference here. How Bauch In {- it we're talking about? { Commissioner De Yurre: How much are we talking about? Commissioner Alonso: Ten. Ten dollars. 55 x1 �x septo"or 7, 1911 ' .. 7 � S i, 'Vlee igay'nt b4 ttifsal NO# hft tauoh teoheyt TOU all ain't Got h6 a>so"t. Comitoiener be Torre: What's the mount? Mayor duarost The Poo is how much? Mr. Odior It's ten dollars par: h M nice Mayor Dawkins: Ro, no. How many for ten dollars?- all of them for tone Mrs Odia►s ,Mo, no. We don't know horn many are going to be stolen or misplaced. if one... Mayor 3uares: Ten dollars per -item. Comissionor Alonzo.- Ton dollars. 14ti Odioc It's ten dollars is the amount, each. Commissioner Plummer: I want to tell you, that guy that went down the street, my street with a pickup truck is at least a hundred dollars richer, then. Commissioner De Yurre: Who is going to pay for that?- us. Commissioner Plummer: I don't know what he is doing with them. Mr. Odio: Oh, it's like the- it they lost and it's lost by somebody some homeowner that didn't take care of it or broke, the City is going to have to pay for it one way or the other. Commissioner Plummer: And. you're trying to encourage people to recycle. Is that what you're telling me? Mr. Odio: Yes. Commissioner -Plummer: And you're telling me that now you are going to hit me with another fee and that's supposed to encourage me to recycle. r- Mr. Odio: No. We are giving you a free container. {; Commissioner Plummer: You!re giving me... Mr. Odio:. Now if you, suppose that somebody destroys it in your house, isIt right for the rest of the taxpayers to replace your container that.you_broke or lost? Commissioner Plummer: I didn't talk about break, I,talked,about stolen, Mr. Odio: All right. Well. Commissioner Alonzo: It is put it outside and anyone can take it. Commissioner Plummer: And I'll love that whoever chose that blue color,,i s4 mean, than is absolutely:- to drive down the street and see those• -blue x' barricades at every house is just gorgeous. _ Vice Mayor Dawkins: Hey, that has nothing. , , _you're out of ozder, Uri City �} Attorney, would you tell- Mr. Plummer that he is not speaking to the point, be ' is out of order. . Commissioner Plummer: Oh, shut up. I don't need either one of you. k Commissioner De Yurre: Hey, continue the roll call. i. �t Mayor Suares: Can we get that big hammer that I have for the anti-�filibwr�Les', z .�; Mee. natty Hirai: Mr. Vice -Mayor, you vote for?- votes yes? 3, Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yos,:ghat?' to deny. T Me.Hirais Yes. s 'Y _ its 3 f. ta�'�1#22�}._ • ,eft '( _—� 4 l ' F • i. nt* Mayor Dawkins: Test to deny. a; Mc Hirait The motion is to deny, sir. mayor Suarost I'll tall you) Iim voting no, because we have to do softthirit here: a Ms. Hirai, You vote not You vote no. Commissioner De Yurre7 = n f Commissioner De Yurfet I vote yes, in the hope that we can, better reason, � work something out.^ Mayor Suarezt I vote no, but I'm always in favor of better reasoning. So if you tan'tome up with a better alternative, let me know. C S MADS AFTER ROLL CALL t Vice Mayor Dawkins: But it pass, anyway. fib; Ms. Hiraia Three to two. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Pass to deny. Commissioner De Yurret Let me suggest something though. The awareness program, Commissioner -Dawkins, he is in charge of Solid Waste, you guys get together with Commissioner Dawkins and work something out that you know, that _ is acceptable to this Commission. Commissioner Plummer: That's fine. _ Commissioner De Yurre: Yes. Mayor Suarez: And we're going to have the Miller Dawkins... Vice Mayor Dawkins: My picture, you put my picture on all the boxes aninobody is going ° to takethem.. Commissioner Plummer: Blue boxes for the blue brothers. Mayor Suarez: That's right. We'll put his picture on all the boxes, nobody is going to take them. All right. - 16. FIRST•READING-ORDINANCE: -AMEND CODE SECTION-2-399 - PROVIDE THAT NOTICE REQUIREMENT FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD HEARINGS MAY BE MET BY POSTING NOTICE, IF SUCH IS IN ADDITION TO NOTICE BY CERTIFIED MAIL OR HAND DELIVERED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, SHERIFF, CODE INSPECTOR, ETC Mayor Suarez: Item 8.- Mr. Rodriguezt On item 8, what we do now when we have Code•-Enf+orcament^ -the°:tiara violations is that we, in addition to send by certified trail noticss, n also publish in the paper and it's kind of expensive. -And<we beiieve,by doing kt; this, other approach of also posting in the property, we might be able to save a lot of money and comply. Mayor,Suarez: Very similar to a summons, OK. t Vice Mayor Dawkins: Move it. Mayor Suarez: Moved. -M Commissioner Plumomer: Ts'this going to be assessed against the person that is - found guilty?'_ tAt r Mr. Rodriguez: We always charge the person even when we send a notice o! 1 t $50.00 charge, sir. t f t 3 n hx $ .... ... env_ 7777-7�7- A* Tell me it you would, very quickly. When a person is how charged with a violation, how long 10 it before he comes before the Code Iftfortement Board? Mir. RodrLgu6st because oti it taken about one month and halt or so, because of the notice in the Vapor, Commissioner Plummets How come a doctor on South Bayshore Drive has been allowed to be there for six months operating a business and that has not been shut down by Code Enforcement? Mr. Rodriguest Because he might go to the Code Enforce Board and then the person might ask for administrative retoody and try to come before the. Commission. t Commissioner Plummert What administrative remedy can be to operate a business _X. in a private residence that is not even lived in? Mr. Rodriguezi He might say that he might want- I don't the particular case, but he may want to have a zoning change to allow him to do that or he might... Commissioner Plummert On South Bayshore Drive?- in front of Mercy Hospital? Mr. Rodriguez: I'm telling you, or he may be saying that he will have only a home occupation with one person in place... Comissioner Plummer: When you know he is lying. Mr. Rodriguez: ... and then, the Code Enforcement Board gives them a proper time, if they doesn't comply, we take it to the board again. 411 Commissioner Plummert We have no teeth in our ordinance, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Rodriguezi I tell you, Commissioner Plummer, if you look at the amount of 4 cases that we are bringing before the Code Enforcement Board an compared to before, there were about three hundred cases brought before the board before, now we are taking one hundred and f if ty to a hundred and seventy per meeting and there are two meetings per month. And I think there has been a tremendous improvement over there. I think the Law Department has been swamped with the amount of work that they have been doing in working all the settlements with them or trying to resolve. Commissioner Plummer: Yes, because don't respect it. They come before_ypur. board,, they get. �there, they get, delays after delays after delays, they got these so-called administrative remedies, they got all kinds of reasons not to comply, you don't fine them... Mr. Rodriguez: Commissioner, great majority of the ,,people come into, 'the compliance and they agree to comply, before the meeting. Only, a very, fOw :of them and there are about three hundred taxes outstanding for, in the last-f years haven't been resolved, all the others are in compliance, Commissioner Plummert Sergio, how, long ago- where in the Manager?,,., How %I ago did I bring before this Commission's attention that there are five. violations on Bayshore Drive between Aviation and Alatka of hou"o, that,.,aro being used solely for businesses and not one of them has boon putout?. Mr. Rodriguez: I don't know. Commissioner Plummer: Now, you know, I mean, tell me you know, the only way to measure ability is in results, and I don't see the results. Jf. Mr. Rodriguez: I don't know the particular* of that cane, I cannot tell you but.*# Commissioner Plummer: Well, who does? Mr. Rodriguez: Vellt I will find out if you want to, - 4�` Commissioner Plummert It was over a year ago that I brought that botor e this jv Commission. Nobody around bar* knows what the hell Is joinjg on. iM 541 N»x"-�"k�-'*�'-x , „ 'b fair. ed 3gnies I will give you an &never on that one this afteraoon. Comissioner Alo#teot f have borne questions. Mr. Rodrigueet yes, maiami - Mr. Rodriguese 8keu*6 me one second. You said B&yshore Drive between =� Aviation and Aietka, right? Commissioner Plummer: Toni sir. Mr. Rodriguest Oft. _- Commissioner Plummert And why have I got to go out and find them, where the hell is the inspectors? Mr. Rodriguez: You don't have to. We have the inspectors, if we miss that one, we'll take care of it. = Commissioner Plummer: Where are they doing? °y Mr. Rodriguez: They're working. k_ Commissioner Plummer: Where are they? They sure don't work from Friday afternoon at 500 o'clock until Monday morning at 5:00. - Mr. Rodriguez: We have inspectors on weekends.: Commissioner Plummer: Where? — Mr. Rodriguez: Yes, we do. We have inspectors on Saturdays now. I - instituted that again when I started the new position about two months ago and they have inspectors on Saturdays, sir. _ Commissioner Plummer:Your time is up. — Mr. Rodriguez: Thank you: Commissioner' Alonso: Now, I have some questions. You said the posting'ot notice will be done at the property? _ 4� Mr. Rodriguez: At the property. 'In addition to... - Commissioner Alonsot What about if the owner of the property does not liveAn 4 the property?- what's going to happen? P Mr. Rodriguez: That's in addition to the fact that we serve theta with certified mail and signature required, and also, we serve them personally. `. tie try to go the property with a Sheriff or a Code Enforcement person and serve the notice personally.` But sometimes people say that they haven't receive �— �. it. So, to take care of that, we were putting°notices on papers. 'What' Me''ara dti doing now, is in addition to the certified mail notice. ltl Commissioner Alonso: OK. So, this is in addition to... OR, fine, no problem. h' - Mayor Suarez: All right, that will help us expedite that processing. Prov$de k due notice, hopefully. So, I'll entertain a motion on` the ordinance. It•s 3 been moved?° Commissioner Alonso: Commissioner Dawkins, I think, he moved. Mayor Suarez: Moved. 34 # 4 Commissioner Alonsot Second. Commissioner PlumNmert Second. ,. x Mayor Suarext Seconded. Read the ordinance. Cali the roil, piemse, n c �+ ¢g r - ------------„�+ u� TIC get 3 AN ORDINANCE RNTITLZD= AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUBSECTIONS (B), (C) AND (D) OF SECTION 2-399 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, ' FLOAIDA, AS AMENDEDi BY PROVIDING THAT THE NOTICE REQUIREMENT FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD HEARINGS MAY BB MET BY POSTING WHEN SUCH POSTING OF NOTICE IS DONE IN ADDITION TO NOTICE BY CERTIFIED MAIL OR BY HAND DELIVERY BY THE SHERIFF, OR OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, CODE INSPECTOR, OR DESIGNATED AGENT ACTING BY AND THROUGH THE CODE INSPECTOR AND BY PROVIDING THAT SO LONG AS PROOF OF SAID POSTING CAN BE PROVIDED BY THE PERSON POSTING SUCH NOTICE, SAID POSTING SHALL BE SUFFICIENT TO SHOW THAT THE NOTICE REQUIREMENTS HAVE BEEN MET WHETHER OR NOT THE ALLEGED VIOLATOR ACTUALLY RECEIVED SUCH NOTICE. Was introduced by Vice Mayor Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner Alonso and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Mayor Xavier L. Suarez - NOES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre ABSENT: Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins 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. COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL: Commissioner De Yurre: I'm going to vote, no. And my concern is that you know, Code Enforcement, I think J.L. was mentioning this just a moment ago, alluding to it. You know, you can have all the laws that you want and if - there is no enforcement and I'll give you the prime example, political signs, the proliferation of political signs in the City of Miami, it's a disgusting _ thing. And for time and time, even before campaigning started, I tried to get something going about enforcing it and nobody did nothing about it. They are up there, they remain up there and they are going to remain up there becanse we don't have what it takes to address these issues. And it just bothers the hell out of me that we just sit back with more notices, and more this, and more that and what for?- if we don't have the ability to take care of business and take care of our City in that fashion. So, I have to vote no for that.' 17. DISCUSS AND DEFER PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE TO AMEND CODE CHAPTER i 37 (OFFENSES - MISCELLANEOUS) BY ADDING NEW SECTION: UNAUTHORIZED USE OF OFFICIAL CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT EMBLEM AND STATIONERY PROHIBITED. Mayor Suarez: Item 9. First reading ordinance, prohibiting the unauthorized use of official City Police Department emblem and stationery. Commissioner Plummer: Why is that before us? I mean, what's the problem? Mr. Odlo: I don't know what the problem is, Commissioner. If you want to... Commissioner Plummer: No, I'm just asking. Is there a problem? Somebody using the stationery out of the Police Department?- I mean... �? Mr. Odio: Maybe somebody has. Mr. Fernandez: Yes. The purpose of it is to misrepresentation by unauthorized persons. Commissioner Plummer: Isn't that against the law now? - against the law pow? 60 kt Wry F� { Mr, renandew To ie roosits a polies officer is against the Iaw, hdwe ver, _ :.. this is. Y r ;rr , CaMissioner Plugs If you use somebody alse's stationery, that's not _ ' against the Iaw?, Mr. Fernandasi This is to use the syshboi of the Polite Department. Commissioner Plummers I'm asking again. Is there a problem existing, the reason this is,being brought before us? Mr. Odlos Not to my knowledge and maybe it's to avoid a problem. a -_.. Mayor Suavest If you moue to defer, I'll second. I'll like to. F Mr, Odios If you want to defer it or kill it or do whatever you want to fine. Mayor Suarss: Or to kill, for that matter. Commissioner Plummers It seems so crazy. Mr. Odio: Sliminate. Commissioner Plummers If there is a problem, I think we ought to know -about �M& it and' wewill deal with it accordingly. When there is not problem, why at*NA you bringing it up?:;; Mayor Suarers Lieutenant. - Lt. Joseph Longusiras Commissioner, at one time I believe, that back in the river cops and stuff, people were getting emblems from the Police Department. They. used them illegally. OK, in commission of a crime. That in itself..;. Commissioner Plummer: If that was illegal then, it's still illegal. ,z `w Lt. Longueira: Yes. ° That in itself resolves the problem, but the fact that they can readily obtain them without permission, you know, just creates the possibility that this occurs. The County has it for their agencies and we were looking to get it for our type of situation also. It doesn't become a forgery; if, you use a written document unless you're using somebody I'm ''name. You can still use the stationery and misrepresent, but it's not a forgery or counterfeit unless you'.re signing their name on a document. ^' Mayor Suarez: Is -the stationery their concern?- or is the emblem? The emblem... Lt. Longueiras It's everything. Mayor Suarez: The emblem to the extent that it could be used in a uniform is = 4' already prohibited with very, very harsh penalties by state-law..;'I just had,a request for an emblem from the City of.Miami by people who are.•collectors. wouldn't want -to ''restrict that particularly because: thatZ'doesn't seem to 7 create a problem, and I'm .not sure we had to put any`procedure'4lu place, So, is the stationery really what you're concerned about right.,`nov?'=' }h Lt. Longue ira:. Mr.' Mayor, I' 11 have to get... let I a defer' it wad I'll cocas ' back with all the facts for you. r` Commissioner Plummers I'll move that it be deferred. Mayor Suarez: So moved. -� Commissioner Alonaos Second. r, Mayor Suarers Seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll, I'll like to discuss it with you too, Lieutenant, before it comes hack. Cali the roll. WR � a'. =5 POW r- ON MOTION MY MAN RY 0016810NIA Ptumnit AND Womb it COMMISMOKU AL0t80 To AMR ITEM VAS DSFERRSfi RY THE FOLLOM6 i�OTE: ATISs Comissioner Victor be Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Aionso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez MOSSs None. ABSENTS. None. CONS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL: Mayor Suares.s Yes, if there is any- Lieutenant, if there is any- reason - for having this that'a relating to any pending natters that you rather not discuss ,— publicly, feel free to tell us about it in privately because some of us know -- of incidents. So, we know the justification and we don't have to spread it on, the record here._ u 18. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND 10656 WHICH ESTABLISHED SPACIAL REVENUE FUND: TRAINING SUPPORT FUND REGION XIV FY '89-'90 - PROVIDE FOR INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR OPERATIONS - ACCEPT GRANT AWARD FROM STATE OF FLORIDA. Mayor Suarezc Item 10. r Mr. Odios This is to receive a grant of $7,875.00 from the State of Florida. Mayor Suarez: I entertain a motion on the ordinance to receive the grant. L r— Vice Mayor Dawkins: Move. r}`^ Mayor Suarez: So moved.At Commissioner Plummer: I'll second it, but what is the money being used for? Lt. Longusiras Sir, this is the Law Enforcement Training Trust Fund and they ' f$ are awarding the grant to put on two investment in excellence courses. It's to purchase the books and for the instructor. r, Commissioner Plummer: Thank you. Call the roll. F°:= 4— AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 106560 ADOPTED OCTOBER 12, 1989, WHICH ESTABLISHED & SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED: "TRAINING SUPPORT FUND REGION XIV FY489-90," TO PROVIDE FOR INCREASED APPROPRIATIONS FOR R° h ITS OPERATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $7,875; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A GRANT AWARD FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN SAID AMOUNT AND IMPS THE SAMR-: IN ACCORDANCE WITH APPLICABLE CITYCODEPROVISION61- CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Was introduced by Vice Mayor Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner w Plummer and was passed on its first reading by title by the following < votes-,! �0 x .. f K l- 4j - 4.- q !w i 4-Al' } - 1' .: A129 i C�iirsi er i►idt+df �urre �• �oa�i,�sioher �. �. pitri fir+ - ,•.; Commissioner Miriam Alonso Viet Kayor 11111er J, - bawkitts Mayor Xavier L. Suarez Rossi Mope. ABSENT: None, 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 thepublico 4_ s� COMMENTS MADE.DURING ROLL CALLS ` CommissLoner ..Plummer: This is just a drop in a bucket to their hundred million dollars, I vote, yes. , ' YV✓IYirrr.�d►1�iiiYYi+r1r+Wr�.rY+—rrriY—..a.Mrri.w.r---.'itY—r—�rrr—rr.—�r�r—err--+rw—.rrar--rsr�.NY.fIYa.iw�Y � j. e 19. AUTHORIER USE A PORTION OF VIRRICK GYM AND BOAT RAMP BY SHAKE -A -LEG, 5 INC. - FOR THEIR COMPREHENSIVE WATERSPORTS RECREATIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE DISABLED (HANDICAPPED) ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT, SUBJECT TO NECESSARY APPROVAL. Mayor Suarez: We've had present here, a representative of the Shake -a -Leg organization, Mr. Morgan, I had passed the Commissioner's memo as to why we had to do something on this item, I'm not sure why, if I remember it, but do you. represent, the organization, air?- can you tell us why we have to act on " this item today? I did pass this out within the prescribed time in our code in _ case any legislative action vas needed„I don't -know that , any Lei, I think 4. the item had been postponed, prior. It's Harry Morgan, right? T Mr. Harry Horgan: It's Harry Horgan and Barth Green, right. J Mayor Suarez: If you need for him to speak, he can get the other mike, too, y and she will activate it the moment he grabs it- the one with the cord on it. Commissioner Plummer:Activate the hand mike. Mayor Suarez: Please, do we have the mike working?- for Mr. Horgan. Me. Hirai: We -have to call the gentleman from communications which we will do to right now. Commissioner.Plummer: There.goes another thousand dollars, Mr. Odio: Let ms.. maybe, I can may what they<'want." `ryx Mayor Suarez:- OK, you got its- close enough to the -mike and it will work. � �4 Mr. Harry Horgan: Fes, my name is Harry Horgan and I'm representing Shake-&- � Leg along -with Barth Green,pr. Green. ��.•, iz Mayor Suarez: Oh, doctor, I'm sorry, I didn't recognize you, from the'niami Project. Good to see. -you, again. I think you've done something different, _I don't know if it's you're thinner or lost your beard, or... rF .` Dr. Barth Green: Lost my hair. fy"f Mayor Suarez: Lost hair and other parts of the face, whichever. It's that, world recognized project we all know about. Yes, Mr. Horgan. Dr. Green: Well, we have asked to come before you today, when back b ^' December, when we met and asked for approval to move forward on o8t4biiab►145 hondiasp sail program at the Virr ck Gym. l � p g guoas it was my igapr+�cR " that we moved forward in- you had a resolution to aovo forward ritD the City to enter into s' revocable peMit a$. well . as got find #*Mr, as. #rho1 otbe areas to establish the program. We moved forward and raided ap roahl ate l r # �olZ 0pe 1 ,5, 14 thirty - pareant of the fomy fiseeinary to start this program and have boot Working nary closely with the Park* Department. F— z. Mayor, guaress OX. At thin point, all you need is a revocable permit?- is P that... Dr. dreens Yens . mayor $wrests to than What in recommended by the administration? , Commissioner Plummers What's the square footage involved? a �T Y - Mr. Odios Eighteen hundred and fifty square feet, plus the rent, Dr. Greens Plus he .installation of the dock. r Mr. Odios And a floating dock, yes. &— Commissioner Plummer: Wait a minute. On a dock .noW, they've got td :go s through the regular permitting fora dock. Mr. Odios Yes. ti Commissioner Plusssmers It's already done? You want a motion? Mayor Suarez: Yea, please. Commissioner Plummer: I'll move it. — Mayor Suarers Thank you. Commissioner Alonsos I'll second. -- Mayor Suarez: Seconded. ; Any discussion? If not, please call the roll.- '' The, following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who k o. moved its adoptions x RESOLUTION NO. 90-683 ` A . RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING -TH8 USE OF A- PORTION - OF THE s = ' CITY, PROPERTY KNOWN AS THE.VIRRICK GYM AND BOAT RAMP LOCATED AT 2600 SOUTH BAYSHORE DRIVE, MIAMI, FLORIDA,= BY SHAKE -A -LEG, INC., A NOT -FOR -PROFIT 501 (C) (3) CORPORATION,, FOR THE: PURPOSE :OF CONDUCTING A.= ''. COMPREHENSIVE WATERSPORTS RECREATIONAL PROGRAM FOR THE 1 DISABLED; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE A REVOCABLE PERMIT,,IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THR,CITY ,. ATTORNEY, TO SAID ORGANIZATION, SUBJECT TO THE REVIEW_ ` AND ALL NECESSARY APPROVAL(S)BY THE NATIONAL PARK h, SERVICE OF.THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR. (Here follows body of. resolution, omitted here and.on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) . t ,. Upon being ;seconded by Commissioner Alonso, the resolution •was passed =x° ` and adopted by the following vote: AYXSs Commissioner Victor De Yurre� x' Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.r. Commissioner Miriam Alonso4�M Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins'" '- Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOBS; None. x ASSENT: None. ? COMFITS SADE AMR ROLL CALL - Mom Ou+arox; ThWO it. Go away ;sad sin no more, doctor. Q*od uvk.„ 4 64 Bs# rz Dta Earth drestt itee, : thsnk y*u for your support. { Mayor Suaratat Pitding all the cures that would enable everyone to function a _ hundred percent. Mr. Horgan: That's a tomorrow, this is a today. We hope to really... least we have this program going. Mayor) Suareet In the taeattiime, at Mr. Horgant Right. Good quality of life for the disabled people in the:City, Thank you. Mayor ffivarass Very good. 3 Dr. Greens Thank you very much. r .-...._..._. ..-.... ..-..._.....- _.............-... -_.��_ _--------- ._._-----.._...._-....-... 20. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE (STADIUMS, MARINAS, EXHIBITION AND CONVENTION CENTERS) - REPEAL 53-48 (REFUELING VESSELS) - SUBSTITUTE NEW � �- SECTION TO PROVIDE FOR REFUELING AT CITY MARINAS, MOBILE DELIVERY VEHICLES, REGULATIONS ON MOBILE DELIVERY VEHICLES, REGULATIONS- ON DELIVERY,OCCUPATIONAL LICENSES, INSURANCE AND PERFORMANCE BONDi-AND.A CITY USER FEE. -------------_-----W---------- --------------------------------------------- Mayor Suarezv Item LO. Mr. Fernandez: That's past already, Mr. Mayor. It's number 11. Mayor Suarezt Item ll, thank you. Refueling ordinance, presumably. Commissioner Plummer: Well, where is the Fire Department? That was the only area of concern, that I really had besides the money they are going to -pay us. Is the Fire Department here? �Y Mr. Odiot I don't see them here. I'll withdraw the item unless they show up. Commissioner Plummer: well, you know, they were the ones expressing the safety concerns, and I want on the record from them that all concerns they had were eliminated. We can't afford... Chief, we are talking =about: the me refueling, item 11, you were the one who expressed,safety concerns and I don't Avon want to talk about it unless you're satisfied from the Fire Department standpoint that all safety requirements have been met and.can be met. Chief Huddleston: Yes, sir. We are. I've spoken with the Fire Marshal and he is very' satisfied as long as no class 1 fuels are used, everything is fins; �^ Commissioner Plummets Fine. How much are .they going to pay us? The administration, how much are they going to pay us? f Mr. Joel Maxwells It's ten percent of gross,, fifteen cents a gallon, ;greater y of Commissioner Plummer: percent of gross, no less than= fifteen cents a gallon. Mr. Maxwell: Correct. r�r Commissioner Plummer: And who monitors that?- we do? C Mr. Alfredo Rodriguez: City Marina's staff. Commissioner Plummer: And anticipated, what amount of moneyx would be seised �� in the run of a. year? �- Mr. Rodrigues: It these people are successful as they are todayp weere talking in the neighborhood of thirty thousand a year. ` Commissioner Plummer: Thirty thousand? And this is a non-exclVsivo7 A"a a *� leftember 74 n ilr Rbariguest This is a ton-eaaiusive. At rpecifiC 10t:atiOns. l— a.,' Commissioner Pluemert I'll move it, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarezi So ,moved. On our third attempt, we're about to pars the - t,�'' bsrdislande. Commissioner Alonebt Second, S d It will rovide some funds and also some services for 5— Mayor Suarete: econ . p the boaters. Any discussion? If not, please read the ordinance. A L AT THIS POINT, THE CITY ATTOPMY MEAD THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD, BY TITLE ONLY. Mayor. Suarez: Call the roll. Mr. Martin Treds Isn't... is there going to be any discussion on this? x- Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Mayor, just for the record. One of the -reasons that.,. Mayor Suarez: Yes. If you have any... we assumed I guess, that you were _ standing next to the gentleman, that you were in support of this. If you have any 'opposition to it, we would like hear, but let me just hear from the Commissioner, first. - Commissioner Plummers Just very quickly, Mr. Mayor. One of the reasons that this became so vital was that there was absolutely no place for boaters in the — Dinner Key area to have a refueling when they closed down the Merrill Stevens docks, and I think it is very important that this service is going to be provided, not only at no cost to the City but the City will get a source of revenue. Mr. Martin Tredt Yes. My name is Martin Trod, I live at 5261 Lagois Drive-, <- Miami Beach. I have the fueling facility on Watson Island. I don't hear anything in this ordinance as far as I know, that limits this to one particular location. Commissioner Plummers It doesn't. Mr. Trod If it was just to allow fueling in this particular vicinity to replace Merrill Stevens, which you don't have right now, then I would say, fine. But what I'm saying is, if you start this by allowing a fuel truuck.:.to: come, in at one particular place over here, and then it spreads all over, and a; then there is no supervision, and then one of these fuel trucks come in and t spill fuel in one of your marinas, then you better make sure that you can prove which fuel truck it is and who is going to be responsibility forShe- liability there. Also, there is nothing to prevent anybody from coming into the contracts that you already have, like the percentages that you get from me. Right now, that's on a limited basis, but when you finally want to go out and put out something like this for bids, remember I have the same expenses s� that -you're going to have on your fuel tanks of having to instal right now over -spill and over -spill protection, and vapor recover protection. 3 �K Mayor Suarex: When is your contract over?- your concession over? Mr. Treds I've been -there twelve years, on a month to month basis. Mayor Suarez.: So we could theoretically change yours any month we want?r maybe after you had a little competition, you will want to change it, I don't � know.- Mr. Treds Well, I don't want to change anything. The only thin#... Mayor Suarex: Well, I know. You want to stay there for another twelve years on a month to month, I om sure. Mr. Treds Well, I mean, you know, you've come is with a proposal for Watson xi Island, I assume eventually that you will do something about that proposial."„ $t "( tt • i Mayor guarest Right. And then you will have to compete with the whole world for that concession. In the meantime, you're there, 1 wouldn't — Mr. 'grad: ... and then 1"111 have to compete with the whole world. Commissioner Plummer: What are you paying us a gallon, now? Mr,. Treds I'm paying you three and a half cents a gallon. Commissioner Plummers As opposed to fifteen. Mr. Tread: c .. But I also have all kinds of fees. I have a minimum rental and I have the competition of Belcher Oil at close to wholesale and many other marinas in that area. Like I said, 1 can see the need for having something to replace Merrill Stevens over here, but you are not limiting this, you are just making.a blanket thing where trucks can refuel at marinas, you're not stating anything about having a special contract, and so anybody that's allowed to =_ come from Ft. Lauderdale down here with a truck, can construe this to mean that they can come in here and fuel up at marinas. And then if you catch - them, they will give you fifteen cents a gallon. And that's the type of thing that, the type of competition that I'm concerned with. I'm not saying that the City _shouldn't get this revenue,.1 think that you should, and I think that you, should fill the need for the areas that need to be, but it should be on.a _ one place. by one place basis, not on a blanket thing of saying that fuel trucks can come into marinas, because I don't think that you have the way to - police when;a boat is being filled up, and that's the concern that I have. Commissioner Plummer: Does this gentleman in the silver jacket- sir, do you represent one of the companies? Mr. Rob O'Neil: Yes, air. My name is Rob O'Neil and I'm representing Dockside Fueling Service. And basically, what has just been eluded is really " - wrongi we.are limited to areas... Commissioner Plummer: No, I have a different question. You listen to my = question. What. do you anticipate the amount of gallonage that you would, be - selling in a year's time? Mr. O'Neils Well, due to the increased amount the City requires, we are going to be in an extreme area as far as our competition, we'll be lucky... Commissioner Plummer: Don't cry poor mouth, answer my question. - Mr. O'Neil: On a really high side estimate, would maybe be a hundred thousand gallons a year. — Commissioner Plummer: But where do we come up with... if fifteen cents a k4 gallon at one hundred thousand gallons, where do you come up with the thirty thousand figure? - Mr. Rodriguez: Fifteen cents. Commissioner Plummer: How much? '- Mr. Rodriguez: Fifteen cents will be fifteen thousand and you're pumping -a lot more than that right now, on City property. ks- Mr. O'Neil: No, we don't,pump any fuel on City property. We used to, but we of caught. B_ Mr. Rodrigues: OK. Let's say that you pump somewhere in the City. 4^ �V- 4 Mr. O'Neil: But, you know, we are strictly the. Virrick Gym aocation, we estimate that we could do ono -third of the business that Merrill Stevous did, which was three hundred thousand gallons a year, because we are limited to diesel fuel only, no gasoline stud plus, with a possibility of opening up a �h spocific downtown in a river location, there is a possibility that we could double that capacity. We don't know, we haven't experienced that yet. Commissioner Plummer: Well, there is only one other area- how much is the bond they are going to have to post? w - 67 7, 4; 77 No wellt Thay have to pay ten thousand dollar performance bond. Mr. kodriguost It's a ten thousand dollars - but they are required to pay aft �..- a dais basis to the City. The ten thousand is to cover the eventually that they default. Commissioner Plummart Is that bond so written that we could draw down on,- thby a we us money? y FySnx Mr. godriguafti Instantly, almost. Commissioner Plummer: Drawn down on the money? .sue Mral Rodriguelt Yes, correct: '£ Mr, 'M&xvell: May I clarify that, please? - Mayor Suarez: It's a performance as to payment and as to any other aspect of performance? Mr. Maxwell: That performance bond hasn't been tendered to the City yet,, it, f'— is only required here by the ordinance, so we can require, have it drafted`in such a way .that ,it could address those concerns but we don't have that in our possession. - Commissioner Plummer: Very definitely. a Mayor Suarez: OK. Well, it sounds like we are heading in that direction., , then. We can draw down on it for payment. Any concerns?- the Waterfront Board presumably supports all this. Mr. .lames Wellington: Yes, sir. We feel that this is late in coming and — totally endorsed it and it is a vital need. Because people are carrying fuel — to their boats, and that is dangerous. Thank you. Mayor Suarez: All right. Thank you for that recommendation on behalf- does qX that speak on behalf of the board? tik Mr. Wellington: Yes. Mayor Suarez: Right, very good. OK, Commissioners. Commissioner Plummer: I moved it. 3 Mayor Suarez: We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? If not, please jt read the ordinance. Mr. Maxwells I've read it, sir. zt Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. i AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED- ` 3 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING MARINE REFUELING FACILITIES] - AMENDING CHAPTER 53 ENTITLED "STADIUMS, MARINAS, _ EXHIBITION AND CONVENTION CENTERS", OF THE CODE OF THE: CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA AS AMENDED, BY REPEALING 4" EXISTING SECTION 53-48, ENTITLED "REFUELING VESSELS" OF SAID CODE IN ITS ENTIRETY, AND SUBSTITUTING IN PLACE THEREOF A NEW SECTION 53-48 TO PROVIDE.THERSBTaz V �— FOR REFUELING AT CITY MARINAS, MOBILE DELIVERY VEHICLES, REGULATIONS ON DELIVERY, OCCUPATIONAL LICENSES, INSURANCE AND PERFORMANCE BOND, AND A, CITY USER FEE; SUBJECT TO ONE-YEAR REVIEW; CONTAINING A A P REPEALER PROVISION, A SSVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Was introduced by Commissioner Plummet and seconded by Cou.014819swr � Aionso and was passed on its first reading by title by the following P4ts3 t n � a° . ro 7, n �-777 171 CwAiaaiahbr ►#dfe►f Die 1rurte COM16616fift ylustanef, Jr. c6tmissl6nsr Miriam Alanslo Mayor xav►ier #.. Suar+es Viae Mayor 'Miller J. DaiWkias None. t The City. Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and w= to the public. COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALLS Comissioner Plusmmr: A lot better than six cents a gallon that was originally offered, I vote, yes. ......_..__ _... -__—--- ---- ..------- ----- --------------------...___....�-........._.r. 21. (A) DISCUSSION CONCERNING PROPOSED WASTE FEE (DUMP FEE) INCREASE TO REFLECT METRO DADE COUNTY WASTE SCALE FEE FOR 1991, AND CITY''S `INCREASED COSTS OF WASTE COLLECTION. (B) AUTHORIZE UTILIZATION OF $1 MILLION FROM MONIES PREVIOUSLY INTENDED FOR THE YOUTH CENTER AND $1.4 MILLION FROM THE GENERAL FUND FOR PURPOSES OF BALANCING THE FY 190-91 BUDGET. Mayor Suarez: Item 12. CommissionerPlummer: Let me ask a question on item 12. Mr. Manager, someone gave me reason to believe in Dade County... Has your Budget Department looked _ at the second budget of Dade County in which they provide a budget for municipal services? Mr. Odio: I probably have. What is the question? Commissioner Plummer: Not probably. Have they or have they not? Mr. Odio: I don't know, I have to ask them. Commissioner Plummer: May we ask or inquire? - Mayor Suarez: What is the question, though? Commissioner Plummers I'm'asking, have they looked at the municipal budget which is required by Metro Dade County?... you have not. So you would not know whether Dade County has transferred responsibilities from one budget to another and justified it? - Mr. Odios `- We know what we have to pay the County. Commissioner Plummers That's not my question, air. My question. is, the 3 �� County is required to have two budgets. Mr. Odios Correct. .E Commissioner Plummer: One budget which is for regional services and one budget which is for municipal -type services rendered by the County. .w Mr. Odios That is correct. r7 fir- Commissioner Plummer: Sir, I have reason to believe that you used to look at that extremely close, and I'm surprised that you haven't done it at this point- that the County, once again, for example, last night in their budget ° hearings, as you know, the gams that they are playing is to pass 'a one `psauy sales tax, all right, sir? That one penny sales tax is going" to' be' to tiny , call, a contingency. All of the people who were with festivals or rsquesting r - money last night were told, if you don't pass the penny sales tax, you gat" zilch. What was surprising to me, that in the unincorporated area# that thorns is an eight million dollars short fall in their police budget. Tboy aref to 69 ptstr;s'$r F r - d ': * Yes 9W r atistat oa, are not shooting straight as to what . should be taxed t6 , the unincorporated municipal recipients of municipal stervicefr. And i am bagging =: you o look at that. We, for years, fought to make it a reality, A* YOU knoWt the budget only had a .single budget for gears with the County, It wa+r r.. the Dade, baagua of Cities who brought about the forcing of theft to have two .; budgetsand if you have not checked that out, I don't think you have dons a service- for the tax, payers of this. City. Now take it from there, _ t - also " relates to dump fees. Mice Mayor Dawkins: I move that this be denied. Mayor Suarez: $o moved. Commissioner Alonso: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Commissioner Plummers Under discussion. Mayor "Suarez: Discussion. Commissioner Plummer. Commissioner Plummer: Where are you going to make up the difference? The County in five years, Mr. Manager, has gone to what?- from six dollars a ton to forty-two dollars a ton? Mr. Odio: To forty-two dollars a ton. Commissioner Plummer: Now, where is the difference going to be made up? The`�`�'—_ County- you know what they do... Vice Mayor Dawkins: I'm not... oh, you're asking me, I'm not the Manager, that's the Manager's problem. Commissioner.Plummer: But the money has got to come from somewhere. Vice.Mayor Dawkins: Then that's the Manager's problem. 'r! Commissioner Plummer: I am opposed to increasing my own garbage fee,, OK? I'm opposed to that. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, vote against it, let's go. Commissioner Plummer: All right, fine.. But where is the money going to come from? That's the question that's got to be asked. You cannot have every year, the' dump fee going up... and still have... where is it coming from?, Vice Mayor Dawkins: I'm going to say it now and say it again this afternoon.:• _ t�k Commissioner Plummer: Sure. I'm not arguing with you, by the way. Vice Mayor Dawkins: When I kept telling you that we needed to raise taxes, you. -told me, no. I told you we need to not reduce the sillage, you tell :qua, ' no. Then, now, you want me to raise taxes b y putting a garbage fee on peogla, r^ � which, Is a form of taxation. Now, you can't have it both ways. You either ' Sw are going to tax people or you're not going to tax people, but I'm not going to sit here and allow us to put a tax.on a person and, call it a user lest;_ Mayor Suarez: I fully agree with you. { h Commissioner �Plummsr$ Wall, you know, I concur with your.: reasoning ti , Commissioner, I very much concur with that because call it whatever you may, as fee, a tax or whatever. it may be, it is still the homeowner who is getting stuck with the bill. � yq Vicar Mayor Dawkins: Thank you.. t, 1 Commissioner Plummer: But what I'm saying to you and the question that I rraised# that in five yearn this fee has gone from six dollars a toa :to.;. -ia r It forty? t r,k Mr, Odsor forty-two, ,.a R 14,; . e e Cotseissioner Plumers To forty-two. We have not increased our fee. Where is the difference of the money► going to come from? it's got to come free somewhere. And IIm asking you, I'm asking the administration, I'm asking anybody# it, is not a magic wand for anyone. Where is the money going to coM from to pay for these services? Somebody has got to pay. Now, it's trice and till vote you:kaow, I'll note to say, hey, don't increase the fast then we111 x look like a hero, but where we look like a bum is when we don't have the money to pay it. Now, t ask again, Mr. Manager, tell me in dollars, what hag that - dump fee gone from five years ago, not the tonnage, it was "X* number of million_ dollars five years ago, what is it today?. — Mr, Odiot Well, we're going to pay an additional trillion, one million and a a half... Commissioner Plummers That's for one year. What is the five year increase? Mr, Odio: Well, it has gone up five hundred percent. Five hundred percent! Commissioner Plummer: So in other words, what you are saying to me... that doesn't tell me anything. Mr. Odio: Yes, because... Commissioner Plummer: How much is the dump fee this year? Mr. Odio: It is forty-three dollars. Cotmmissioner Plummer: No, total. Mayor Suarez: It's working out to be about close to ten million dollars. Commissioner Plummers I think it's eleven. Mr. Mano Suranat It's thirty-six total. It's going to go to forty-two. Mr. Odio: Forty-two. Commissioner Plummer: dump fee? Mr. Odiot It will be about eight, with this year about eight point something. Commissioner Plummer: All right, nine million dollars. Mayor Suarez: Doesn't reach nine million. OK. Commissioner Plummer: Five years ago, what you're telling me is, that was how much? Mr. Odiot I'll tell you,we didn't reach a million dollars. Commissioner Plummer: How much? Mr. Odiot We never got to... seven hundred thousand. Mayor Suarez: It may have been, using your prior figures, somewhat over a � million. Commissioner Plummer: All right, it was a million dollars. So we've gone from a million dollars, something we have absolutely no control over... Mr. Odiot To eleven million.'- Commissioner Plumaert ... something we can't even argue about, we've gone from one million dollars to eight million dollars, eleven. You know, I'm b getting fourteen different figures from you over here. a= Mr. Odiot This year, eleven. Commiaslosor Plummer; one to eleven. Nowt fee... it's eight point something, next year it will be almost 3 All right, Next year it's eleven. So, it's gone from �- it's nice and I wont to vote against ann increase in L. ,s o- • Vice Mayor bawkifia: gory had better] you're running. Comissioner Plu mnare i want to do that at all times, but where is the difference in the money coming from? That's ten Million dollars differan6si you don't increase the fee, you don't increase the taxes, where is tho money coming from?= _ Commissioner De turret, J.L. but one thing that we have to understand and it , has been my philosophy from day one, since I've been sitting here, is that, in _ government. in general, and that includes the City of Miami, includes the School Board, includes the County and every other form of government, there's" a lot that can be cut back while still providing the same services._ .r Commissioner Plummer: That's fine, but when are we going to do it? �z Commissioner De turret And, we are doing it right now. Commissioner Plummer: Where? Commissioner De turret We are doing it right now. I bet you that tonight we will not increase taxes. I bet you, and we will still provide the same level of services. Eventually... Commissioner Plummer: Victor, if you don't go forward, you don't go back, you stand where you are, you technically go back. We have had an increase. Now, , if the fee was the same, my argument doesn't hold water, but what I'm saying = to you is, where are you going to make up the difference? We have been, for all practical purposes, at the same millage, give or take a few points, for the past five years. Our fee has not gone up, our cost have tenfold gone up. Commissioner De turret Which tells you the kind of misspending there used to be here. Commissioner Plummer: Hey, all I'm... you know... Look. Commissioner Plummer: If there is no additional income, and we've got a lot more expenses, it's got to tell you that something was not being done right, but it's being done right now. Mayor Suarez: That's right. Commissioner Plummer: Victor, you know, I'm going to vote with the motion, all right? Because you know, it's the popular thing to do, but let me say to you this, how do we equate?- how do we equate that in the County, they.paq� m three -hundred and twenty dollars a year, we pay one hundred and sixty, just 3 half. They have to put their garbage at curbside, we pick up in the back yard. They have to take their trash to a central location, we pick up at curbside, once a week. Our service is so superior to the County and yet, we're charging half the amount. Now, something has got to give... - Mayor Suarez: We are not charging half the amount, Comaissioner. we are charging at least as much as the County, if not more in real estate -twins which is supposed to cover municipal services, including Solid Waste. F Commissioner Plummer: But you see, that's why I asked, did the Budget Department look at that, OK? Now, the Manager tells me, whether ha, s. sight or wrong, I accept his numbers, out of the hundred and sixty dollars that I pay now, all but fourteen which would be one sixty-sixth, goes for the dump fee. We're getting fourteen dollars. 3 Commissioner Alonso: But remember that before it was a service provided with your taxes and now, on top of that, citizens have to pay a fee. rya Mayor Suarez: That's right. G. Commissioner Plummer: Miriam, I'm not arguing, I'm only asking... Commissioner Alonso: It's a fact they are paying more. Commissioner Plummer: .. , it you don't raise the fee, where are you SQinSto � make up the difference of nine million dollars?- that's all I'm asking*-,- Mayor Suareti OK, The question has been asked and each one of us hag ideas, many of us have been making them known to the City Manager for further streamlining and in moms cagesi have been headed, in eoms other cassg not go heeded. Lot doe just add that on top of all of those, the mandatory recycling, s variable rates, bag and tag programs, all of the other thing the City it doing, would automatically save us an incredible amount of money from that tipping fee that we have to pay to the County because people would put out legs trash. And we have not implemented that and I feel very bad that we've hot.- Us have had this voluntary recycling demonstration project, which you called a total fares, I think, and I just think it was ill planned and ill devised,.. Commissioner Plummer: No question. Mayor Suarea: We should have the whole City under recycling and .that the first impact that you have for mandatory recycling is anywhere from eight to thirty or maybe even fifty percent of the total volume of waste is reduced, people begin to conserve, particularly people who are in poor areas who cannot afford to pay anything higher than they are already paying. Let alone the possibility that we might actually reduce if they begin to conserve `and recycle properly and that's unfortunate that we haven't done it. And I'm very dissatisfied with the administration on that score and they know it and I've made it known. Vice Mayor Dawkins and then, ma'am, we're going to hear from you, I know that you have some ideas on variable rates I think, is what your documents shows that you've given to us. Ms. Kathleen Winchell: My name is Kathleen Winchell. Mayor Suarest Let me just have the Vice Mayor make his statement and then we'll go to you, ma'am. Vice Mayor Dawkinst OK. My concern is, I asked the Law Department quite some time ago, f ind out if there is a reverter clause in getting the land back on which we allowed the County to transfer trash on 20th Street. I have not heard from the Law Department, OK? We continue to give services and things to the County and the County continues to care less about us meeting our obligation. Now, you said that it's an eleven million dollar shortage, OK?- I constantlyhear that the City of Miami is going to...(RING) Commissioner Plummer: Your time is up. Commissioner De Yurre: Must be the wife. — Vice Mayor Dawkins: I constantly hear that -the City of Miami is going private 3 _ with garbage, OK?- that's wonderful. But if you were private and the private hauler told you, you needed eleven million dollars, where would you get it from? But all we sit up here and say, you know, emotionalism with the taxpayer, that we're going to raise your taxes, but if you go private and°ths private hauler said, you need ten more million dollars, you're going to come up with it. Because they will not pick up garbage free. So somewhere along the lines, and we keep saying it, we've got to and every member on this Commission said, we've got to live with what you recommmend, OK? Now, you recommended no tax increase- I can provide the same level of services. You _ tell me that every time I ask you. — Mr. Odio: Well, if you are referring to me, Commissioner, I recommended A ton mill and- if you remember. Vice Mayor Dawkinat OK. So... Commissioner Plummer: Well hey, Commissioner, I'sl not arguing with you and r. your philosophy, I have no argument. I'm merely asking, where is the Money coming from? That's my question and I've got is tell you, other than Commissioner De Yurre, who I... hey, I'm ready right aow, OK? You're going to z' cut, you're going to out, you're going to cut- that's the only plaice I knowAt can come from. You can't go up any higher in taxes. <J Vice Mayor Dawkins: But the City charter says- and attar this, I'm got.Ato = ; let the lady speak because she is getting tired of standing...: atld if I Im° to s error, I want the City Attorney to correct as. With ad valorem taxes in the City of Miami, you must provide three critical services, fire, police *Ad yy.l A3g. ::::11111 ?l geptelr 1, i'py�i i d banitatioh, that's reOitb& to that a wrotrg statement Mr. City Atterbeyt" — or, you have to reeeafoh it dga'in, like everything also. Commissioner Do Yurre: you have to provide also, legal services. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, I'll wait until he researches it. Go ahead, thank 41 you. x Mayor Suarez: Ma'am- we'll leave it as a rhetorical question, ma'ami Me. Winchell. .', f Cotmaiksioner Mummer: Rhetorical or historical? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Go right ahead, ma'am. Ms. Winchell: My name is Kathleen Winchell. The Honorable Mayor and members of the City Commission. The purpose of my visit before you is protest the unfairness of the annual fee that is imposed for the disposal and collection of Solid Waste. Under present law, single homeowners are penalized compared to landlords of multiple unit buildings who pay half of said fee of forty. I consider that it should be fairer to the home single owner, they do not have tenants to pay their expenses and they are sometimes hard-pressed to survive with the high cost of living and so many taxes. In order to alleviate the present situation, I am recommending that you consider the following. They are as follows: Apartment owner pays half of said fee which is based on the _ collection of one container per collection, twice weekly. This should be _ given to homeowners who need limited pick up services, as well. "B", a forth ,} of said fee of eighty collection which is twenty semi annual for senior citizens, one container, one pick up weekly. "C," a hundred percent service connected to disabled veterans and their widows should receive the services of one container, one pick up weekly, f ree of charge. "D", individuals who are not residing in their homes should not be charged for services which was not used, but available. So is FPL, the Southern Bell Company, Dade County Water, but you pay only for usage, not availability. Mayor Suarez: Well, Ms. Winchell, before we get to that, which is going to be the toughest of all because that would imply a net revenue loss to 'us automatically the moment we started not charging people when they were away for a few months or whatever. That the basic thrust of what you are saying is - that, a limited number of containers, let's say, one container... Ms. Winchell: Yes. Mayor Suarez: ... should be less expensive for us to pick up and we should recognize a lower fee or maximum fee for those people, and with that philosophy, I could not agree with you' more. Mr. Manager, I'd hope that that ordinance that would prescribe that the maximum amount of solid waste that we — will`pick up, garbage that we will pick up, will be ready for us on the 27th I hope?- and that anything beyond... and I recognize that people that you have outlined here probably produce lose than one container per week. Ms. Winchell: Yes, sir. Mayor Suarez: I also recognize the people like I, produce more than that and should pay for it. y Ms. Winchell: Yes, sir. I had over five hundred signatures before I was V burglarized and they took my vehicle. Mayor Suarez: Oh, well, I hope you reconstruct that and put that together n again and bring it to our attention, because if people are as supportive of that as you say, I think we're going to have an ordinance like that and that 4_ will enable the people with lower incomes, the retirees, the people vitb filed incomes, to limit the amount of garbage that they produce and to show thet there are some people that are producing more of a burden to the citizens than they area And hopefully, if not reduce the fees right away,' at least hold them steady and maybe over time, as people begin to recycle and use the rio h, kinds of plates and dishos and other kinds of things, that 40 no disposed, you know they are not disposable, it will reduce the overall v+slume ' and actually bring great savings to the City. And your progr4m is .4�tctly along the lines of what I've been trying to argue for, ' AMlm V z{}4 'ti 74 tetembs, i4! pp a _dip 1 S i rc �- r ®rr""'O J — rt: S ,x M,s. liinoheiis er°+t It many- now, t use the earwiaa trace a month because V11 { not there all the time. Many people use it that are aingle, twice a wrath and they are paying the same. Mayor:. Suarez: sura� And we are trying to hit the ones that don't use it a x , limited way'.. ,- Mo., Winchell: Yes. - Mayon, Juarez: ... the ones that put four or f ive containers out there you know, full of stuff, I have to say that occasionally I do that and I should be charged for it. 4s` Mr. Winchelli Not four or five, Mayor, ten. They have ten bags there.;. They v<< have fifteen living in the homes, they are the ones that should pay more abeVe the regular. Mayor Suarez: Exactly. 3= s Ms. Winchell: And the best ones to see that, is the truck drivers and the _ ones who pick up the garbage. 01 Mayor, .: We.. -would prescribe under that system, a specific amount that 1. _ _ ..Suarez: can be picked up, a specific container and that's it. Anything beyond that, we either wouldn't pick up or we would charge them for it. Commissioner - Alonso.. Commissioner Alonso: It should be one can. Ms. Winchell: Yes. Commissioner Alonso: And if not, then an additional fee. Ms. Winchell: That's right. Mayor Suarez: For each additional can, you would pay a variable... - Commissioner Alonso: And this way perhaps, we can... _ Commissioner Plummer: The County has that now. _ Mayor Suarez: In some cities, that has brought the average amount of trash'— down from three and half containers per household per meek or per_ whatever F= period of time,it was, to one. Has reduced it by seventy percent, for God's K- - sake. That would take the tipping fee that we are paying to the County, right_ of the bat and save us seven million dollars. Ms. Winchell: Now, apartment owners, they pay half. Now, why couldn't they give that to single homeowners who, pick up one? Mayor Suarszs We're heading in that direction, I hope. We are heading in ' that direction. t'w- No. Winchell: Yes, I hope so. Because- and here... x Mayor Suarez: But please reconstruct the signatures so that we have that support from the citizens and we know because the one thing that concerns the "— administration is if we go to this kind of system, where people are going to = be gust dumping garbage in different parts of the City, and it's got ug to;, but if we know that the citizens will support it, they will participate in it, � they will know the savings to them, then it will work. h — t; No. Winchell: I did have a lot of signatures when I was burglarised, theyQ. stole the vehicle and now I'll be going back to school so I won't, have time, ` I've been on this about six months, I mean, I will be going back to acbool so _ won t have mwoi# time but the citizens ar0 involved, especially the di6oblad, -K, the senior citizen who use limited pick up. And there are a lot of thus wb9 just use one co ataiaer a week, I've proven to the City that I haver ooe.l � s i submitted a letter from the Sanitation Department and yet, up, F I am 04I►iO4 a bundred and sixty. And then, to make matters gorse, they +tan put. foreclosure an your property, they won't solve_.the _p ej)10mA tb►<,,i''lman D*partment, fbey ,say, gall it don't pay, we'll put a lion, on your prop+ma't9� f t 7sap w-� t A` ti y L 11 • do, something has to be done for the disabled and the senior citiaeft and for people vho have one, gust one pick up, there are a lot of divorced Mothfire, 1 mean, they are not using the service, you should make the people who use the service, and believe me, there are many, there are ten big bags weekly with the people that are in the multiple housing and they are the ones that should be paying three times -as much for your service. Mayor-Suares: OK, ma'am. Commissioner Plummer: Can I ask a question, Mr. Mayor? _:�.;1 t �aAAA' "Vice Mayor bawkina: but the multiple service units honey, that's the County. � You're paying for picking up their trash and the County has a contract with the private hauler and private hauler... and you call us because you're paying and we, pick it up and it's an added expense for us. s Mayor Suareet OK, Commissioner Plummer, and then let us vote, please. Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Manager. Mr. Odio: Yes, sir. Commissioner Plummer: Is it true that the condominiums for example, on Brickell pay no garbage fee? Mr. Odio: Yes, sir. Commissioner Plummer: We pick up their trash... Mr. Odio: Well, that... yes, sir. Keep asking the question. Vice Mayor Dawkins: We sweep the streets too, J.L. Mr. Odio: I love these questions. Commissioner Plummer: But why are they getting off scot free? Mr. Odio: Because we tried and we pass the street cleaning sweeper ... _ Commissioner Plummer: No, no. Forget about, I'm not talking about street = cleaning. Mr. Odio: Wait, wait. Let me tell you why. Because they pay the private haulers and what they do is, we have to go behind them and clean behind them. Commissioner Plummer: Why do we do it? Mr. Odio: Because we have to, if not, we have a dirty City here. { Commissioner Plummer: Why should they get off scot free and I as a homeowner have to pay for both?- am I not subsidising them? _ Mr. Odio: Yes.Y-= Commissioner Plummer: Where is the equity in that?_ Mr. Odio: There is no equity in that. • i� f it Commissioner Plummer: Well, why are you sitting still and not doing something ter- about it? Mr. Odio: Mr. Plummer, I'll remind you that there is in the books today @i{ fee, that we were charging to all those properties and we sent the bills out and then I was told to hold off on the bills.= k pY� Commissioner Plummer: Told by who?- Mr. Odio: By you. This is in the books. If you order me, I'll be pe�►din� � the bills out tomorrow morning. Commissioner Plummer: Wall, I'm asking, was there a reason this Comiesiom Y told you to hold up?- I don't remeaber that. E 76 Upt r ? 1006 i ,. Odiot ices, there were ,'tome ottplaint:t, *am* people that had never paid this before... - s i3missioner Plufw6rt gut exauso AC, tor. Manager, ilia not saying that they shbuhd pad the seise as a homeowner if they are having their garbage picked up. Mir. adiai ate caeie out with rY linear per..., Ctastt►isaiener Piurryneri ... but if we are having to pick up their trash, it w— seem like there should be a fee. z - Mr. Odioi ... and sweeping their sidewalks and cleaning up their mains. Commissioner Alonsot, Are you talking about the famous fee of as? Mr.-Odio: Yes, ma'am. Commissioner Alonsot That some of the properties were going to pay like four t� thousand dollars? Mr. Odioi - Yes, but we then reviewed it so that it would be limited to a f hundred and fifty dollars. r Commissioner Alonso: Mr. Manager, let's be serious about this. It was twice the amount of the tax that they pay for the property- that's unreal. Mr. Odio: No, nob You'were right the first time. No, Commissioner, you were'- ', right, but then it was revised. ;. Commissioner Plummer: No, it would seem like to me, if we are charging a - �' hundred and sixty to the homeowner to pick up garbage and trash, that they _ip should be paying' at least eighty bucks to pick up the trash. And they are getting off scot free. ' Mr. Odio: In fact, when we reviewed it Commissioner Alonso, because it was '= a{ very high the, first time, we said, why don't we charge per building the hundred and fifty dollar per year. Whether you pick up with private hauler'or not, we will charge you a hundred and fifty dollars to pick up behind them aind. to clean the sidewalks. Commissioner Plummer: Per building?f Mr. Odio: Per year. Commissioner Alonso: I have two concerns, two concerns. Is in fact the 'City doing,it? Mr. Odio: Yea; Commissioner. We have to. Commissioner Alonso: I -don't know.' I'm around the City of Miami all the time and I am yet to see the people doing this in the streets in front of buildi:agis �- and so on. Let's take any street, 6th Street. § =: Mr. Odio:= We do it at night. We have the street sweepers come out at night. - Fkx Commissioner Alonso: Eight Street? I have ssen that. k:. Mr. Odio: We do. We do�come out and... ,F ., r?- Commissioner Alonso: Do you do it in Seventh Street and do you do It In Sixth 55 f" and all through the City of Miami? Because if in fact, you are going to `'dollars, charge something 'like a hundred and fifty you are supporsed to', prove-46 " the service or collect,s;omothing also, but what you cannot do, is both. ' .`: Mr. Odio: No, no. You're right. But we are doing street cleaning. Mr. Joseph Ingraham: We do all the major arteries'} withinthe City l�sixsst. ilA �� do s,at provide - and you correct is every. ,treat, but all of tbo major arteries within the City limits of Miami,. yt�1!: ' i omAi.ssioner Alonso: Commercial, main thoroughfares, you do. #` r1C f j k u-f� _ h l7y k �y y 11 Mr. Ingraham: yes. And... Commissioner Alonso: So actually, in fact, you were charging people for wviee- or you wanted to charge people for service that, in facto the City:is not providing, Mr. Ingraham: `that's not true. What we were proposing to do was to expand, That was a part of the plan also, if it were, the fee had been Implemented that we would have expanded the services. Commissioner Alonso: But then there is a contradiction of what the City'q. Manager just said. Mr. Ingraham: We are doing all of the major arteries now within the City limits, we do approximately twenty-one to twenty-five square miles per night. - We were expanding under that new plan to encompass, you know... do daytime sweepings and to do more to go up to possibly, at least fifty percent more than what we were doing at night by doing it in the morning also. Commissioner Alonso: How often do you do that in .the areas that you do?- and I'd like certainly to have a list... Mr. Ingraham: Oh, sure. - Ms. Winchell: Am I finished? Commissioner Alonso: ... of the areas that you are doing now. Mr. Ingraham: I can provide it to you after lunch, the work schedule of what the street sweepers do on a daily basis. Commissioner Alonso: I'd like to see that, thank you. Mr. Ingraham: I can have that for you after lunch. Commissioner Plummer: My area of concern was not in the street sweeping. My area of .concern is that we are having to provide trash pick up for all of the condominiums which the private haulers do not take. Mr. Odio: We have to pick it up. Commissioner Plummer: Why are they getting off without a fee? -.It doesn't make any sense. Commissioner Alonso: What do you mean, we have to pay for them?- and why do we pay?- and what do we pay? Mr. Odio: Well Commissioner, if they put the trash out on the sidewalk.., Commissioner Plummer: We pick it up. Mr. Odio: ... we have to pick it up. :g Vice Mayor Dawkins: And the private haulers throw it out. `. x� Commissioner Alonso: Mr. Manager, let's be clear on this. For example, on 18th Avenue and 9th Street SW, there is a building that has been an eyesore in R the City of Miami for years, it's called La Paloma, I believe. °— Mr. Odio: Yen, yes. Commissioner Alonso: I don't know why they call it La Paloma, anyway, but { anyway, that's how they call it. t� Commissioner Plummer: Yes, it's white and it's powder. ; F 41 Commissioner Alonso: There are lots of white goods lying nextto the property. I called the owner to my office and I said, the City of Miaai ban been having problems with your property for such a long time, it see" to be r that it's a new owner who hasn't been there that long and so on. T As I finished? Commissioner Plummer: Anyraay, they tell me that the City of Miami, they have private hauler*. They told me that the City of Miami, it's not picking those items. And I said, of courts, that's the way it should be. You should pay°* private company to do this job for you because you have private haulers. So, don't I find here a contradiction? Is the City of Miami picking up in front of properties that have private haulers? And if no, that's wrong. And I think it's easy to see when they have a private haulers because they sea the green huge:.. } 3_ Mr. Odio: Yes, you point is a good one. If they put the white goods inside their property, we cannot pick it up. if they put it out on the sidewalki *6 have to pick it up. Commissioner Alonso: Why? Mr. Odio: Because it's our responsibility to keep the streets clean.- Commissioner Alonso: Hold it a minute. You have- at whatever it takes from ' y,- t- this Commission, I'm sure that we all are willing to do that, you tell us, what do we have to do to make them pay. If they have a private hauler, they better, take.. the entire package with them. Why should we pick up those items when, in fact, we are not getting anything... and then in those cases, I'm in favor in placing an additional fee for those individuals. Commissioner Plummer: Commissioner Alonso: Excuse me. Not an additional, no fee. Well, a fee, a fee, for those... Commissioner Plummer: There is no fee now. Commissioner Alonso: ... for those people, they pay their private haulers and then they.pay the City of Miami and then we should say, they cannot come with their story, we pay to a private hauler. No way, you will not be allowed to - pay to.a private hauler because the City of Miami will be responsible to clean the streets, therefore, you pay "X" amount of dollars to the City of Miami. I „ have no problems with that. Mr. Odio:. Commissioner, what I am going do is, if the fee that we had in 188- it's in the books, and it clearly spells out just what you are saying. Commissioner Alonso: No. Excuse me, but it was for everyone in the City of ,z Miami... - Mr. Odio: No, no. You're right, but... F„ Commissioner Alonso: ... and as I recall, some properties were as high as $4,0O0 and it meant twice the amount of the regular tax. I remember _ Commissioner Dawkins saying in 188, it is a tax and a huge one, and he was in fact, very right. y� Mr. Odio: Well, I think the time has come that we need to address this. Commissioner Alonso: Let's revisit this and say, this is a fair amount, and they have to pay this, and it makes lots of sense.— . Mr. Odio: You have to realize that, this is not the moment but it's a= question of enforceability also. It will cost us more to just go„out:to very i�- building and say, why did you put the trash there. Commissioner Alonso: Nothing like that. You say, do you have a private hauler?- you pay a fee. That's it, it's as simple as that, Commissioner Plummer: I agree. A , A Y { Mr. Ingraham:: I think that your new wrinkle, if you will, to it, provides a whole new avenue, and you're right because that building can go directly to i4 any individual that's not paying the City now. If they pay that tee and however the formula 'a, then you're right. And thpt will, elimmtimaate then problem. 79 8eptexter 74 19 y)] V a F S d - _ l � t N•. SAzb. _ C� 17. eteimiel�ioner Aiortsot And it should be a very easy protest. sh: Mr. Ingrahamt Sure. Comissioner A16aaot tie do know indeed$ the properties who have privatb 6oapaniest now, Mr. ingrahatst Sure, we do. Vo have that information. _— ji Commissioner Aionsot All right, so we go those businesses and buildings and we gray►, this is the fee that we are going to apply and it's as simple as that. Mr. Ingraham: What 1 would recommend to the Commission and the Manager, that k we go back and make whatever modifications to that fee and present it to you, A b'A ns far as that is concerned. Commissioner Plummer: Hey, it's easy. Commissioner Alonso: Sure. r' -F� — Mr. Ingraham: It's very simple. Commissioner -Plummer: It should be an 480.00 fee for trash pick up per unit.- Mr. -Ingraham: Correct. — = Commissioner Plummer: Why does that take any major problem to sit down ands<, figure out? — Mr. Ingraham: We'll work... Mr. Odio:- We'll come back September 27th with something that is equitable. — Commissioner Alonso: OK. Commissioner De Yurre: OK. Can we... ,- ,e— Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes, go ahead. — Commissioner Alonso: So, we have to vote? fi Commissioner De Yurre: Can we get down to- well•first of all, Mr. Manager. — Mr. Odio: Yes, air.: Commissioner -De Yurre: How much money are we looking to?... because this has direct significance to our budget that we are going to be talking about later`'.- on today. How much money are we talking about here that there is a short fall if we vote this down? Mr. Odio: We would have a.2.4 problem. Commissioner De Yurre:• Two point four million? rx— Mr. Odio: Yes. Commissioner De Yurre: So, if we could come up with... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Two point four, I thought you told me three point fours Mr. Odio: Well, the other problem has been already resolved. z Commissioner De Yurre: So its down... that's why I tell you that we have $ you know, it works out. Y } r M1iY Commissioner Plummer: I thought it was four point four. Mr. Odio: Right. Miller... 1' Mr. Odia: Go ahead. That's you and the Commissioner, go ahead. — Commissioner Plummer: .1 thought it was four point four? = n z � - septenwr 7# .it" ! - F;' COMINS1664t A106e0: it's tW6 point four. Csntiretienef, De Yuret Two point four, I'd like to see if we can let this dons - and over with: ' , Vs have out of our money set as ids to build tho: Youth eanter:at° Curtis park, we'vegot four million dollars. - �- Mr. Odiot hour Million one hundred thousand dollars that came from the State. Ca mioaLotaer De Turret OK. Of which, based on the administration`s eatitnates, rte aaft building it for approximately three million dollars. fi Mr, Odiot Yes, sir, Commissioner Do Yurre: So that leaves an excess of a million dollars available. Vice Mayor Dawkinat No, a million one hundred. Mr. Odiot A million... Commissioner De Turret Well, I'm saying around, so I need that hundred thousand cushion, OK? `R— Commissioner Plummert Mae a menos! Mr. Odiot Yes, sir, the youth center will take three million one hundred 5, +- r thousand dollars to build? - Commissioner Ds Yurret Will take three -one. So, I propose that we take that - extra million that we have there and put into this effort to cut down. So, we - are down from two point four to one point four. Mr. 'Odiot Yes. x^ n:= Vice Mayor Dawkinst` Is that a motion, sir? 4 Commissioner De Turret It's a motion, that's part of the motion. Vice Mayor Dawkinst There is a motion on... part of the -motion? L Commissioner Alonso: Yes, there is a motion on the floor. Commissioner De Turret Part of the motion because... Vice Mayor Dawkinst All right, what's the other part, sir? Commissioner Alonso: You say, one million?. 1. Commissioner De Yurre: One million. So, we are left with one point four and �- the rest I'll leave to Commissioner Alonso to speak on that. _ Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, let's get- but why don't we do one at a time?- so that.., IN — Commissioner De Turret -Well, it's a package deal though. _ Commissioner Alonso: It's a package deal?- let's see. r Mr. Odio: It's a package deal. Commissioner De Turret- You know, we've got to come up with a-tvo polnt`,four.r Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. ` Commissioner Alonso: Mr. Manager, we have some proportion that that City is going to sell,and we are going to get come funds from that, right? Mr, Odiot Yes, Ma'am.TF Comissioner Alonsot OK. I don't want the solid waste fae*sp�1 011 thixtk the citig*no are paying enough, more than enough. Sao, are have td fdm sop lo" k � r "F 11 solutions to the problem; We have a fund balance that perhaps, if the tomniasloa sigreea- with isa, pie can use, at the present tisae, one point four to resolve the problem of the budget at this time. We said and agreed that this - wae."geeing to be taken but only in emergency cozen. You have some monies c6 ting up and I will be agreeable to present a motion allowing to use one point four at this time, With tho provision that this will be ,replaced... Vies, Mayor DawkinssAs revenue commas in. Commissioner Alonso: ... as revenue comes in, in order to avoid an increase _ of the Solid 'Waste fee. Commissioner fie Yurres And these are revenues or capital revenues? Mr. Odios Capital revenues. Commissioner Alonso: Yes, also... Commissioner Du:Yurre: So, it's not. from the general fund kind of money will F� be coming.: is?" 3 .4 Commissioner Alonso: Yes. Also, if in"fact we.can get additional funds from the suggestion that this Commission made in reference to charging those buildings and charging them for white goods and so on, perhaps also we can got a considerable amount of money coming in, additional money that we were not - counting on before. Is that right, sir? OK. So, I think that might be the solution, one and one point four... - Commissioner De Yurres OK, and the deal is... and talking about our goal, which was to build up to ten million dollars... Commissioner Alonso: Exactly. Comnmissioner,De.-Yurres ... the fund, if we are talking about sales .of capital properties that. we- have and we are talking about some significant money, I would like to see that money go into that fund... Commissioner Alonso: Immediately, yes._ Commissioner De Yurre: ... so that we would probably you know, if we do it� right, = we could exceed the -ten " million and we can really have a signif icant `' amount of money there for our purposes. Mr. Odio: Yes. I agree. Commissioner De Yurres OK. So, I'll make that into a form of the motion... Vice Mayor Dawkinss What is...state the motion. Commissioner Do Yurre: ... one point four... Vine Mayor Dawkins: OK. ' Commissioner De Yurre: ... one point four from our reserve -fund.:." Commissioner Alonso: Plus the one million. Commissioner De Yurres ... plus the one million that we have for the youth s center and that makes up the two point -four million deficit:' Mr. Fernandez: Mr. Vice-Mayor,"point of order.: To do anything with the fund balance, you need a fourb-fifth vote. While you don't weed a four -fifth vote 4 to deal with the Curtis Center issue." h Commissioner Alonso: So do you want that we separate... Vice Mayor Dawkinss All right,_OK. Mr. Ferpandez: So I think they should be dealt with separately becauov Vice Mayor Dawkins: I think you've got the ;four votes. Let's go, we aisagt_ gat to go through that.82 ;3 L Y 3 = . }t a 071 F Mr. ftrnandast OR, All fight. Commissioner Iio:Turret That's the motion. What's my Motion and... Commissioner Alonsot Look at his face. Commissioner PlummGrt Up, julep, Roger rabbit. y Comissioner be Yurres We have a second? by Via* Mayor Dawkinst Yes, Commissioner Alonso seconded.XX Commissioner Alonsot Yes. Vice Mayor Dawkinss Any further discussion? - Mr. Odiot I have him on my ear here. What we need to do is this. You need to state that .we -had, without the fee, we were three point four-. However,.Vo had made provisions for a million before we came today and we now... - ' s.r Commissioner Plummer: Where did that million come from? Vice Mayor Dawkins: And the short fall is two point four, instead of three point four. That's all you've got to say. So you made an adjustment and - instead of a three.point four shortage, we've got a two point four shortage.- .. Mr. Odio: Right... And then what we need to do, is for you to tell us that we need to adjust the budget by three point four this afternoon when we... Mr. Surana: I have to change my budget by three point four. Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, no. You tell me that when we give you the two point four million,; we give you what you need to balance the budget. That's -what s' you've got to tell me. ; _ t t Mr. Odio: Right. ,y Vice Mayor Dawkinst OK? Whatever you have to do... Mr., Odio: Well, we'll do the number... Comissioner De Yurres OK. �r= Commissioner Alonso: That's what you're telling us. ' Mr. Odio: Yes. { Commissioner Alonso: Yes.., rR Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. All -right.. Any: further discussion? MotioA understood? Call the roll. - The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who Y moved its adoptions: RESOLUTION NO. 90-684 A RESOLUTION APPROyING THE USE OF t$1 MILLION FROM y_ FUNDS INTENDED FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI YOUTH CENTER AND APPROVING THE USX OF $1.4 MILLION FROM FUND ;Il"CX . 4 MONIES, WITH SAID $2.4 ; MILLION TO BE APPROPRIATED IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE CITY'S GENERAL OPERATING �ts� EXPSN$IS DURING FISCAL YEAR 1990-1991. (Here t9l4ows body of resolution,- omitted here end on Y,} file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being Seeconded by Commissioner Alonso, the resolution was pike rd and adopted by the following vote: k y. J k Ault Noss � I camisridnar na of Di $urre Commissioner J. L. Plumserg Jr. Commissioner Miriaw A16646 Vice Mayer Miller J. 'Dawkins Nona. ABSENT: Mayon Xavier L. Suarez CAS AFTER ROLL. CALL: Commissioner be Yurre: So then we don't have to meet at S:OO o'clock, right?;, r: Mr. Odior Well, I guess there have been a lot rumors all over the City that..: �r Commissioner De Yurre: I'm only kidding. I wouldn't miss it for the world. Vice.Mayor Davkina: Yes, you've got to meet at 5:00 o'clock because I've got a whole lot of. questions. I mean, you all balanced the budget but you didn'.t balance me. OK. 22. (A) RECONSIDER PRIOR VOTE ON CONSENT AGENDA ITEM 40 WHICH AUTHORIZED CLOSURE OF STREETS AND PERMIT TO SELL BEER AND WINS AT THE FIFTH ANNUAL OKTOBERFEST. 4 (B) AUTHORIZE REQUEST BY FRIENDS OF GERMANY, INC. FOR CLOSURE OF — DESIGNATED STREETS, PERMIT TO SELL BEER AND WINE, AND WAIVER OF — FEES CHARGED FOR LINEAR FEET OF SPACE OCCUPIED BY THE OKTOBERFEST — — (See label 4.32). (C) DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED MOTION DIRECTING — CITY ATTORNEY TO PUT METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY ON NOTICE THAT THE CITY INTENDS TO FILE A LAWSUIT TO PROTEST WHAT IT FEELS IS AN UNFAIR WASTE DISPOSAL FEE. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now, we have .a lady here on CA-40 who has been waiting and she didn't know, so I'd like to revisit consent item CA-40. Go right = ahead, ma'am. Ms. Elizabeth Wamanoha: My name is Elizabeth Wamanoha, I'm here to represent �c Friends of Germany, and I'd liketo be heard on the same issue as the Paella — event. We received in the mail yesterday, a street closure permit invoice. which we have never received before and as I was listening what this fee was _— for... it was for placement of banners which we don't place any. The second was street barricades, which we always have and will again this year, pay for ourselves. Also of course, insurance which we are required to have and we have paid and will pay again this year. Also, we pay our own street clean up, as a matter of fact, valve been commended by the City Waste Department that we leave the street cleaner than we ever receive it. And I'd .like to -ask for this 41,137.70 fee to be... Commissioner De Yurre: So, what do you need?' YN Ms. Wamanohas I would like this to be waived. i Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Mr. Vice Mayor.F Commissioner Alonso: They used the same that we did with Miami. Dade, the f= waiver of the fee for the street closure. Ms, Wamanoha: Exactly.w- Commissioner De Yurre: OK, how much are we talking about? q Ms. Wamaaoha: One thousand one hundred and thirty- sevon dollar's and sevou y rx Coate, Commissioner Alonso: What I want to make clear is that we are not goXn; ts�.:►. k ztl me even though we have done this, it's not going to be done every time. It's Jot : f — 84 t t that 06 feel that people were aft iaforMd beoause you saw this Morning, Commissioh was not clear on this item. Therefore, you cannot expect citizens to know when we were not even sure... Mr. Luis Priatot Yes, you're right. Commissioner Alonsot ... of the item. What's why we're doing it today. Ms. Wamanohat We received this in the wail yesterday and this our sixth year of the festival. It's the first we have heard of this. Commissioner,Alonsot 9cactly. What I'm trying to say is that, you people -_— notify. the different groups when they come to you, prior to be placed on the agenda, so they know exactly what's going on. And don't allow that everyone comes in front of us for items like this. Commissioner De Yurre: OK. Mr. Prieto: Commissioner, I would like to just clarify a point of this morning. I'have here, a copy of the resolution that we had before and I was mistaken when I said a dollar, that's what we attempted to get, we got 2S cents a linear foot and that was for Public Works only. And let me just briefly state to clarify it. What it included is, the inspection of the area the event is going to take place, it includes the repair of any sidewalks, tree trimming, barricades if necessary, diversion of traffic and reinspection and repairs after the event. And this is applied to all events unless wavered by the Committee. Commissioner Alonsot So actually, the dollar that was mentioned this morning... Mr. Prietot Did not pass, was... it's a twenty-five cents... Commissioner Alonsot it's not a dollar but it's twenty-five. Mr. Fernandez: As I originally stated to you. Mr. Prieto: Yes. That's right. And it was zero before. The Commission approved it from zero to twenty-five cents last year in October. Commissioner Aionso: And the twenty-five still makes the thousand that she .is talking about? Mr. Prieto: I believe that is correct. Yes. - Mr. Fernandez:. Right.— Commissioner De Yurre: OK. Excellent. I move that we waive the... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Is there a second? Mr. Fernandez: As a matter of procedure, Mr. Vice Mayor, you need to reconsider consent agenda item number 40, because it's already been passed..' Commissioner De Yurre: Moved. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Is there a motion to reconsider? Commissioner Alonsot Yes. Commissioner De Yurret Second. Call the roll. 3r Vice Mayor Dawkins: Call the roll on the reconsideration. t 3 _ { F r h. i^ tytyG f +'i..�.R'.t - art 'i, ,, - •� — n � +� `. � � (2'�,j�x$' 1 ••�. _ d97 rrh ::.. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner be 'turte, who moved i Its adoption: - n MOTION 90 90-655 :. A MOTION TO RECONSIDER PREVIOUSLY PASSED AGENDA Imo! CA-40 (WHICH AUTHORISED CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS _ AND PERMISSION TO SELL BEEtt AND WINE IN CONNECTION WITH THE t I"H ANNUAL OKTOEERnST TO BE CONDUCTED BY FRIENDS OF GERMANY OCTOBER 7, 1990), w" _ Upon bring seconded by Commissioner Alonso, the motion was passed and adopted by the following votes AYES: Commissioner. Victor De Yurre Commissioner J, L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins NOES: None. ABSENT: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez Commissioner De Yurres OK. I move that we waive the street fee. - Commissioner Alonso: And I second. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right. Call the roll. Commissioner Plummer: Question, Are you a profit or nonprofit? - Ms. Wamanohas Nonprofit, air. Commissioner Plummer: Where do the monies go that you make? Ms. Wamanoha: If we were ever to make a profit from the festival instead of —_ t,. deficit, we have scholarships planned, and we've notified all Dade County - schools of it. _ C, issioner Plummer: And you've never made a profit? a. Ms, Wamanoha: No, air. This is our sixth year and hopefully, by learning_ from the last years, plus cutting down on our overhead, we hope to finally, = = make a profit. I also have to say that this is the only festival of this kind happening in October that does not charge admission to the citizens. In other words, we don't charge an admission.Ayx OF Commissioner Plummer: But you run for nine continuous days? G; Ma. Wamanohas Yes, air. Because... well, we have invited the Commission to - {, come and take part of our festival to see what it is so that you... Commissioner Plummer% You all... I hope this Commission is aware that you have a ten day Oktoberfest running a continuous ten days in -Peacock Park.' Ms, Wamanohas No, air. _ ixP _:. Commissioner Plummer: It's not yours, it's another one. t No. Wamanohas No, sir, it's not our... Unfortunately, we have been mistakes =- for a few other organizations. Commissioner Plummer: No, there is another one running Peacock Park.for too �• days._ a Me. Wamanoha: I'm not aware of that, air. Vice Mayor Dawkins% Call the roll, Madam Clark, Commissioner Plummert I know you are not aware of it. Frank. N Mr. Castaneda: This is a different organization. This 3s is front of i<h+s•�.; r� #� t i Ak z Vice Mayor Dawkins: Call the roll, Madam Clerk. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, rho moved its adnptionr RESOLUTION NO. 90-666 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING TH8 FIFTH ANNUAL OXTOBERFEST TO BE CONDUCTED BY FRIENDS OF GERMANY, INC., DURING SEPTEMBIR 28 THROUGH OCTOBER 7, 1990; PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES; AUTHORIZING TWO (2) THREE-DAY PERMITS TO SELL BEER AND WINE IN CONNECTION WITH SAID EVENT SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF ALL PERMITS REQUIRED BY LAW; WAIVING THE STREET OBSTRUCTION FEES IN CONNECTION WITH SAID EVENT; CONDITIONED UPON THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY AND UPON ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR ALL NECESSARY COST OF CITY SERVICES. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Alonso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following votes AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins NOES: Commissioner J.L. Plummer, Jr. ABSENT: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez Vice Mayor Dawkins: I have one thing before we leave, please. I'd like for — my fellow Commissioners... if nobody makes the motion, I'd make the motion. That whatever the increase tipping fee is, that we refuse to pay it, put the money in escrow, go to court and challenge the County and see how we come out and let the County understand that we are no longer just going to roll over = and play dead. Commissioner De Yurre: Let me ask you this. How about a motion asking for a :y"y legal opinion on that before we go ahead and decide to do that? Vice Mayor Dawkins: See, by the time you get to legal opinion, we will have paid it, Commission. Commissioner De Yurre: Well, when does it have to be paid? ..— Vice Mayor Dawkins: We can go to court anytime we get ready. Mr. Odio: We pay on monthly or quarterly basis, so... iX Commissioner De Yurres What's that? =- Mr. Odios We begin to pay the County on a monthly or a quarterly basis so r what we can do is that we can not the money aside in escrow, knowing that the money is there, but contesting the... Commissioner De Yurre: OK. I just want to feel comfortable as to our legal grounds to make a move of that nature:. Mr. Fernandez: We have been looking at this issue in anticipation of you asking us so that we could have a quicker turn around for Vice Mayor Dawkins, and we can tell you that our chances are minimal, especially in light of the Pact that if the County is able as a fee, if the County is able to justify ar- that they are only charging that amount which is reasonable For them to cover :m the expenses of the operation and that they charge the same to every one elect. 87 S*pt�beer 7, i49# ���- Commissioner Fltm m t: Including themselves? Nr4 Fernasdes: Weil, you know, they have the burden of proving all of this. gut the standard to be able to justify a fee, is that they have to have a rational basis between the fee that they charge and cost of operating that. To the oxtent that this is under their control, I'm sure they would know► what standard they have to rise to and they have to meet. So, it would be unlikely for any municipality or for any government to impose a fee without being able to articulate a rationale for the fee. Just like the fees at the City of Miami imposes on its taxpayers, the Finance Department and the originating department is able to justify to the penny, every cent for which that fee is being charged. The argument I mould imagine would... Commissioner De Yurre: I don't want a position paper right now. Mr. Fernandez: All right. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All I'd like to know from you... Mr. Fernandez: Yes. Vice Mayor Dawkins: If .we challenge this, where do you challenge it? - in the court, the State of Florida, or the Supreme Court? That's what I need to know from you. Where will it be challenged? Mr. Fernandez: Here in Circuit Court. Vice Mayor Dawkins All right. So you don't know how the courts going to rule or how the jury will rule, we're just assuming that because Dade County says this is it that that's how it's going to come out. Mr. Fernandez: And we should not assume that. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right, thank you. That's all. Mr. Fernandez: But let me... before we. institute a lawsuit, there is a procedure that is established by statute that we have to notify the County or the other governmental entity that we intend to sue and we.have to give them a period of time for them to respond with the information .we want. So, perhaps what's in order, is for you to instruct us to put the County on notice... Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right, I'll discuss this after lunch, it's 12:00 o'clock. I tried to get through this but... after lunch, I'll make my motion. THEREUPON, THE CITY COMMISSION WENT INTO RECESS AT 12:03 AND RECONVENED AT 2:40 WITH MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION FOUND TO BE PRESENT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF COMMISSIONER ALONSO. 23. WAIVE COMPETITIVE SEAT D BIDS PROCEDURES FOR REQUIRED SERVICES, EQUIPMENT, GOODS AND/OR MATERIALS FOR GENERAL MACHO PARK DEVELOPMENT PROJECT - PHASE II- RATIFY MANAGER'S FINDING OF EMERGENCY ALLOCATE FUNDS (331354). Mayor Suarez: Well, let me do the following. I'm going to take the 11:00 o'clock items that are public hearings, let me know on any of the others items that we missed from the morning that we need to get done before Se00 p.m. would you Mr. Manager? Otherwise we're on item 23. Resolution waiving formal competitive sealed bid procedures for the equipment, goods and materials for General Antonio Macao Park Development Project - Phase III finding that a valid public emergency exist, etc., Commissioner Plummer: Move it. Vice Mayor Davkine: Seconded. yY' 1 >a3 J } yes Fr,, Mayor Suaret t No obved atkd fitcondi Any discuset6ft? We need a four -fifth Vote and we Iva got four of Us here, Are you with us now, CoMiA11161160 Commissi6aar be Turret. duro. Mayor Suarest All right] tall the roll. Commissioner Do Turre: He has a house as big as mine and he pays one third what 1 PAY6` z-- Vice Mayor Dawkinat His family isn't rich like yours. Mayor Buarezi That's right. Thank you. Somebody had to come to my defense. Commissioner De Turret There in something going on here. We got to check _�7 this cut.., Mr. Fernandext Mr. Mayor, what item are you taking a vote on? Mayor Suarazi item 23. We have a motion and a second. If there in no further discussion about that, or my house, please call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved Its adoptions RESOLUTION NO. 90-687 tiT A RESOLUTION BY AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF 4/5THS VOTE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION WAIVING FORMAL COMPETITIVE SEALED BID PROCEDURES FOR THE REQUIRED SERVICES, EQUIPMENT, GOODS AND/Olt MATERIALS FOR THE GENERAL ANTONIO MACRO PARK DEVELOPMENT PROJECT - PHASE Ill RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE CITY MANAGER'S FINDING THAT A VALID PUBLIC EMERGENCY EXISTS JUSTIFYING SUCH WAIVER FOR SAID PROJECT; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER. TO ACCEPT THE LOWEST RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE , BID(S) - FOR NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS, SERVICES, EQUIPMENT, GOODS AND/Olt MATERIALS FOR SAID PROJECT; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $2559000 FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVMUNT PROJECT OF THE SAME NAME, PROJECT NO. 331354; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AND/OR ISSUE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, WITH THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER(S). 4-- (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clark.) 69 i 24, APPROVE, IN PRWIPLM, TM8 19904096 CAPITAL IMPIkO 214M#T PROGRAM Al A 0111% TO CITY AMCIRS, IOAADS AND DEPARTMENTS. Mayar Suarezn Item 24. DOea any Otte wish to be heard on item 24? Let the record reflect no one stepped forward on that either. Mr. Odiot Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarostt You, Mr. Manager. Mr..Odiot Let me get this out of here. This is important that we get it passed right now, Mr. Mayor, because we did a transaction prior to the lunch break that, to balance the budget for next year and we need to have this done. Mayor Suarest Does that preclude us acting on 24 or what? OK. Item 25-in the meantime. Vice Mayor Dawkinst What about 24? Mayor Suarez: OK. There he is. _ Vice Mayor Dawkinst Jesus Christ. Mayor Suarest You're not going to hit us with all those documents now, right? We are approving in principle, the 1990-96 Capital Improvement Program. Why Is it six year, now?... it used to be five. Mr. Eduardo Rodriguezt Six. Mayor Suarez: Six years. OK. Obviously, each and every one of those items will at some point have to be approved by us in full detail. This implies no. authorization or appropriation to spend a single penny. OK? It's basically In principle. Does anybody have any problem with the item?... Vice Mayor Dawkins.'._ Vice Mayor Dawkinst Where will you identify the items that... I mean the Capital Improvement Projects... where will I know where they are located? r �s Mr. Rodriguez: The physical location?- Vice Mayor Dawkinst Yes, where are they at? f INAUDIBLE COMMENT NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Beg pardon? — INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO.THE PUBLIC RECORD. Commissioner Plummer: Well, let me ask you a question. You're saying these - appropriations are twenty-eight thousand?..., the first one, the City Administration Building? Is that twenty-eight thousand? d Vice Mayor Dawkins: That's twenty-eight million. Mr. Eduardo Rodriguez: No, twenty-eight thousand. That's correct. Commissioner Plummer: Twenty-eight thousand... and what does that do? Mr. Rodriguez: That is the failing short that was in place for a consultant study. That's the development department. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Consultant to do what? a Mr, Rodrigues: That's a development department Item. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Beg pardon! (f Mr. Radriguezt It's a development,., you approved that years back. 90 sopt"Ator It ,Mo � Zr- i� Nr# Odiou 2stubd me, let me, plaitai r f Vice Mayor IJ&VkLas: Yes, please, because I'm having difficulty, r_ Mr. Odiot.. At one tLma, Osmmissioner, we approved to do a study on whether we should build the administration building and to put together a financial � package► And that stayed here, we have never spent that and we kept t there in case you decide to go ahead and do it, anyway. F Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. • t Commissioner Plummer: but, what's the eight hundred and twenty-three thousand, three hundred dollars for underground tanks?.,. and we just approved F one this morning,. Mr. Rodrigues: That's correct, You approved this morning, an emergency ordinance. Mr. Rodriguest We did that, because that is programed out two months prior. ;a Commissioner Plummers But where he was stealing the money from this morning; it's supposed to come from Capital Improvement. Mr. Rodrigues: That's correct. No, no, no. - 4 Commissioner Plusmmers No, no?... that's why we got in an argument with him. Mr. Odio: No, we didn't get in an argument. You just did what you wanted to, Commissioner Plummer: We had a disagreement. — Mr. Odic: A disagreement. Mr. Rodriguez: We changed the funding source. As a matter of fact, as you instructed this morning, we changed it. It's changed. x Mr. Odio: It's changed, that's why you have the... NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Commissioner Alonso entered the — meeting at 2:47 p.m. Y— Commissioner Alonso: .Is that about the administration building? Commissioner Plummer: No, we're talking about this Capital Improvement Program, item 24. p, x Vice Mayor Dawkins: Is this fund under removal... is money in here to remove rt- the pollution on Mr. Bill Sawyer's property? Mr. Odio: Yes, air. That's the one the government center. " x i` 'u- Vice Mayor Dawkins: That's the one right there, in the middle of the ghetto... on third avenue and... Mr. Rodriguez: Southeast Overtown Park West? f� Vice Mayor Dawkinss Beg pardon? No, no. Northwest. ,-- Hr, Odio: In the northwest. It is not. e Vice Mayor pawkina: All right, then scratch the whole thing, What about.��� pollution at the Camillus House.,. that's in here? Mr, Rodriguens Ho, it's oot, ' r Vice Mayor Dawkins: But what do you have in here? f.. � Mr, Rodriguez: We have a public storks enginser izg l charge hare. s r J. 4 1X p Comiasiafmt Plunaars But A lot of this work has ilraady been done?- right? - <3 Mr. Odios No, sir. Mr. Rodriguez: We have to... Commissioner Plummets You're going to build another south district police, substation? Hr..Rodriguest No, no. 20m talking about underground tanks. That's done, We have to do... Commissioner Plummets Well, then why are we approving it today? Mr. Rodriguez: We have to approve.. prepare the money in totals. This year ve.have to prepare the -money in totals. No other balance. 1 Mr. Odio: You're not spending this money today, you're just appropriating. Commissioner Plummer: We've already spent it. Mr. Odio: Then we have to come back to you or we have come to you before._ Mr. Rodriguez: It's a bookkeeping purpose only. ' Vice Mayor Dawkins: On number 5, upgrading main frame computers and peripherals, that's one thousand two hundred and seventy-three thousand y dollars or one million two hundred and seventy... Mr. .Rodriguez: That's one million two hundred and seventy-three. That's the first payment... - Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well see, on one side of the page, you've got the dollars r� in hundreds..: Mr.,. Rodriguez: No, sir. in the front... ' Vice Mayor Dawkins: ... and then on the next page, you've got the amounts in 4- - millions. a* .i- S Mr. Rodriguez: No, no. Go to page number 3, and you will see the same, total appropriation in thousands, there. Page 3. All of the money here ere in ,r thousands. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right. Mr. Odic: Commissioner Dawkins. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Wait, Mr. Manager, wait Mr. Manager. All right, go to r number 8. 10- Mr. Odic: Wait, Commissioner, lot me... can we get back to five, please. s Vice..Mayor Dawkins: Go to number 17, OK? Upgrade main frame and computers, a_ million two seven three. Acquisition of computers and associated, etc., eight . ' million three hundred and two dollars. You all are going to _spend ton 14i.111Qn $, dollars in computers? Mr. Odios Yes, but we did, Commissioner, listen to me, please. Mayor Suarez: Wait, either we're going to spend it or we did spend it. which is it? f Commissioner Plummer: This is... a lot of this is already done., That'i wbet ,' I'm trying to bring out. k } Mr. Odle: We did this already. The first... it you look at five, It.44 - first payment of the... when we changed the whole twain frame. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I move that this be deterred until I {; read through this and know what we're talking about. s t A 1 y3 h v - f� wi h y A .1 5 ,NK' Yd iiay€tf tuare�tt mod. g tell your I wouldn't note on any item that MO :.. that we are going to spend ten million dollars:.. MrOdiot we already. ... Mr, Rodriguest It's already done. ti Mayor dearest In computer... -wait a minute, wait a minute. Vine Mayor Dawkinst hell, if the hell have you done it, why are you coming to me to. 6. I'm sorry# Mr. Mayor. 4 Mr. Rodriguest I can answer that. - Mayor Buaretet: ... that would spend million dollars in Computers and at the ` sametime you tell me, we've already spent some of it, but this is a y prospective capital budgett 1990-1996. So, I'm going to need to know more.... Mr.. Rodriguez# Could you allow me to explain that for a second, please? ;< Mayor Suarezt Well, we have a motion to defer. I'm inclined to second it' I don't... y t Commissioner Alonsot Me, too. - Mayor Suarez: .+. you know, and to third it and to fourth it. Mr. Rodriguez:. Can I explain it for a second? Vice Mayor Dawkina: You know, you see, and I have to tell you, and I'm going _ to say: it in the record so that the Miami Herald and everybody can print it. OK? Commissioner Plummer: God forbid# Vice Mayor Dawkins: All of this money that you have spent with capital Improvement-, IL guarantee > you thirty- percent of it was not spent with minorities, especially small minorities. I guaranty you, I'll bet you even — 3 money.Now, if I'm in error, tell me, tall me I'm wrong. R— Mr. Rodriguez: I cannot tali you that. What I can tell you is °that :every Y, single item is going to come to you after this....One by one, individuallyr._ Vice Mayor Dawkins: It can't, if you've already spent the money, sir. How „- can that item come to me.,one by one?' Commissioner Plummer: Yes, but if you've got capital funds... I'm sorry... k, Vice Mayor Dawkins: Go ahead, J.L. Commissioner Plummer: If you've got capital funds and somebody makes a donation, that's not capital funds. z _ Mr. Rodriguez: You. r ??hy '- YF�v— sx, Commissioner Plummer: A hundred and forty-nine thousand for --the scu ptora Lee and -Tina Hills, gave that. Why are you putting that, as a =part fof your capital fund? 411 Mayor Suarexs It's an accounting technique. Commissioner Plummer: But it,shows, it is a larger deal. t� W Vice Mayor Dawkins: Whatever the Commission do, I'll go along` with "Ito '1 r ' guess Mr. Odio: But let me... I think we need to explain the capital .project budget to you. Thin Is a six year budget. Every year.,.- , Mayor Suasezt As for myself, ; if the implication is that I don't understand $ ghat a capital budget is... � 93 k_ f Mom)- Mt. Odio: Not f'M sat saying that: I'm sayiad.., Mayor Suaret: ... I sure as hook don't need for you to explain it tither it's a eapitai budget for future 6xpenditures:.. Commissioner Plummer: Vhich► it's not. to sae. Mayor Suarea: .., which is the wait all budget are that I'm aware of or It's got partial, already incurred expenditures. ,t- s�- Mr. ddiot Every year, you add another year, Mr. Mayor. That means that what we did last year... Mayor Suarez: And then you must have a column somewhere that says, the unekpeaded part of the budget. Mr. Rodriguet.t It's very simple, Mr. Mayor. Commissioner Plummer: Maybe, it's too simple. Mr, Rodriguez: Yes. I think it's -very simple. The thing is we have to look at it... Mayor Suares: Reminds me of a court proceeding where I said to the judge that, "I'm going to make it very simple for you, judge," and he said, "I can take it simple or complicated, either way, just give it to me." Commissioner Alonso: Why don't we defer this, and we make it more complicated? - Mr. Rodriguez: OK. Page three of volume one give you the details. Commissioner Plummer: Page three. Mr. Rodriguez: Volume number one, not the ordinance. Mayor Suarez: How much money... make it even simpler. Mr. Rodriguez: We are putting, new money. Mayor Suarez: ... How much money for computers, main frame, non main frame, } subsidiary, whatever are you planning to get us to approve? Even in principle, as of today, that has not already been spent? r Commissioner Plumper: Wait a minute, now. Mr. Rodriguez: One point two million dollars that we have to pay October of this year.for the new computers that... Mayor Suarez: OK, It's already.., _ }° Commissioner Plumper: You're not giving him the answer you want. Mayor Suarez: No. J mil. Comissioner Plummer: That's what is coming out of the capital. budget. Now k, what also is being spent for computers? - not out of the capital budget. T Vice Mayor Dawkins: Number b, police micro -computer and I.D. system and has A4. spent one million dollars. Commissioner Plummer: No, no. I'm talking about out of General Fund of of the terminals and all the maintenance contracts, all of the repairs, 411'aof that... when the Mayor asked you, how much is being spent from computers, I P think what the Mayor was looking for is the total amount for coaWutsrs, aot r r just from this source. Mayor Suarez: Well, the operating is interesting too. I was thinking of more of capital, but either way,.. I a►emn, I'm particularly Worried abc►ut aapita�, s right now, How much for capital expanditurg for computers? ywL �p,S�� mr. Odios tot me see if i... two years ago, you approved to buy the naM computers, ten million dollars... Comissioner plutsmers No: f... Mrs Odlos ►.. that Commissioner Plummer... Commissioner PlU mer: Seven point one. Mr, Odio: ... or seven point one. Here what you're doing is saying, you make the first payment that we are committed to pay through the contract that we have, which is a million two that you see here. This computer has been already installed for a year and half or about two years now. Mayor Suarez: So let me then ask my other question. How much of a capital expenditure for computers are you expecting us to approve by this budget that we haven't already contractually... Mr. Rodriguess One point two million dollars, Mr. Mayor, it's the... Mayor Suarez: No, I thought you were saying.that that one point two million also had to be approved, also had to be expended. Mr. Odio: No, this is the first payment of the contract that we entered with Unisys. Mayor'Suares: So we -are contractually bound to pay that? Mr. Odio: You. Mayor Suarez: How much is not contractually bound, if any, that you are asking me today in principle to approve? Mr. Odio: None. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. But you see, Mr. Manager, somewhere, somebody should say, you're right. When we bought the computers, we deferred the payment to do something. Mr. Odio: That's correct. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well then say... but you know, Commissioner Alonzo is not privileged to that because she wasn't here. Mr. Odio:- You're right. And the problem is, this is not the right forum to go .through all of this in detail and maybe, you know, that's our fault. It'a�� our fault, but to tell you in honest, what you are approving here -today, will not be spent until every individual item comes back to you on a case:by-casa basis...,not one dollar. But we need to have this appropriated so that we can _. enter into certain new programs that we wanted to start which is not such. We only have seven million dollars left. Vice Mayor Dawkins: What? Mr. Odio: We only have seven million dollars left in the... that's all we are doing, is starting the process. Mayor Suarez: For not yet approved capital expenses, you are talking`of... Mr. Odio: Seven million dollars, that's all. ' Mayor Suarez: ... about seven million dollars? What are the principle components of that, that are contained in this plan? Mr. Odio: Latin Quarter is one, i believe a million fiva, the Youth Center �- is about three million one, and the Hadley Pool is two million one.,. loam going by memory but that's... what I remember, that's all we have. y Mr. Rodrtguex: And Solid Waste, seven hundred and forty-eight thousand, Mr. Odigi And Solid Wants, seven hundred and forty-eight thousand for SO114 Waste Oquipmont. _ v � ! Y t G Y 4a� 95 It' y Y_ JCS ;Wn Af y h.�� `• yk•' Comalasloftor be turret Right, moue it, I molte it, f i i t defer Coftisriober pluMa rt The motion on the oor s o q� Gomtitissioner Alonsot feat to defer. - Mayor Suarest We have a motion to defer, it hasn't been seconded, Comissioner Alonsot That's what..6 the motion he made: Commissioner De Yurres (INAUDIBLE STATMMT. ) Mayor Suarez:. We could have a substitute motion, but either way, lets go protedurallyo OK? Mr, Odiot Miller, if I would, I would request respectfully that you approve this because... and then we'll come back to you on an item by item basis. =4— Mayor Suarez: OK. Can you... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Under discussion on the second motion... Mayor Suarez: ... Yes, Vice Mayor. Vice Mayor Dawkins: ... to approve it. Mr. Manager, through you to Ms. Macbeth.... Ms. Macbeth. k- Commissioner Plummer: It's over thirty million dollars in here for Water and Sewer. Mr. Odio: That money will come from the storm water sewer fees that we have, _ thank God for that. - - Commissioner Alonsot .The one with the water? Mr. Odio: The water, yes., That comes directly from those funds. And we will have... that fee is working and we're going to have enough capital monies for years'to replace storm water sewer without having going on to bond issues. — 4:`i Vice Mayor Dawkinst Mr. Manager, and I'd like.'.. I guess Ms. Macbeth will have to answer =it. What have you done to ensure that Blacks, Latins,. and other minorities get a fair share of this capital money? Now, if a Latin?_ contractor gets the contract, where does it spell out that fifteen percent of� that should go to: a Black contractor and fifteen percent to a.woman?- And, ifs * woman contractor gets the contract, how is it spelled out that fifteen percent must go to a Latin and fifteen percent to a Black? Or if a Black gets the total contract, how do you spell out that fifteen percent goes; to a. woman =d fifteen percent to a Latins v= Ms. Adrienne Macbeth: Sir, you would have amend the current ordinance we have to specify that. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Ma'am? Mayor Suarezt Have to amend the? Me.,14acbetht You would have to amend the ordinance that we currently have to specify that. Est B Vice Mayor. Dawkinst Mr. City Attorney. Mr. Fernandez: Yes, sir. Vioe Mayor Dawkinst What's the procedure for amending the current ordinance +' ' that Ms. Macbeth is talking about? '- He. Macbeth; Yes, sir. The minority... in women business assistance k - ordinance. f Vice Mayor Dawkinst Mr. City Attornney$ when they get through ph1lo*opb1z1Ag, would you answer the question ploame, Asir? �_ - Mrs Fernandeas 'yes. The way to go about and amending that, my suggestion tm you would be to wait until we get the results of the study that you have commissioned, and after we have all the data that we need in order to sustain any challenge to that ordinance, then we will amend that ordinance in whatever particulars the results of the study would yield. Tice Mayor Dawkins= OK. And if I follow your suggestions, how do i establish a fund to put these people back in business who might have gone out of business while they were waiting for us to challenge something to keep them... and if we find out that we were right? Mr. Fernandez: By way of a policy statement from this Commission directed to the administration, that in the interim, it is your policy position that those individuals or those minority contracting firms should receive that kind of consideration. But other than a statement of policy from you at this time, I would not advise that we amend the ordinance to make it either more generous or more strict, depends how you would look at it. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now that you have given me the professional advice for what we pay you, I direct you as a City Commissioner... Mr. Fernandez: Yes. Vice Mayor Dawkins: to bring back at the next meeting, the legislation to ensure that what I just said, is done. And then it's up to this Commission whether they wish to vote it up or down. But at the next Commission meeting, Mr. Manager, would you let Ms. Macbeth work with the City Attorney or whomever and bring back legislation to do what I just asked? Mr. Fernandez: Correct. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Thank you, air. No further questions, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: All right. Mr. Odio: Commissioner, just... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes, sir. Mr. Odio: ... make sure, when we start the Hadley project which I intend to begin to move it so that we can do it in the winter season, we expect that will be set aside for blacks. And that's... Vice Mayor Dawkins: But that... but after we do that one, then what also you set aside for me? Mr. Odio: Well, no. I'm talking about the project that I see coming, are the Youth Center, we have the Hadley Pool... Vice Mayor Dawkins: That's two. - Mr. Odio: ... and, that's the two projects that I see coming right away. Vice Mayor Dawkins: That's two out of how many?'— Mr. Odio: No, that's two out of two that we can take out of capital projects, p. right now. a Vice Mayor Dawkins Yes, but I mean... all right, how many projects are in - the capital budget? Mr. Odio: Well, those are the two that I think I'm going to bring... - Vice Mayor Dawkins: How many are there? Mr. Odio: Well as I said before, I only see the Youth Center... Vice Mayor Dawkins: how many are there? Two hundred, three hundred, four hundred, one hundred Mr. Odio: Total, two hundred and twenty-three. 97 U Vice Mayor ilawkins: All right. go, you will give me two out of two hundred ghd twenty-two and I'm supposed to be grateful? Mr. Odio: No, no. I'm saying that this year, we only propose to do... at least these two. A 'rtf Vice Mayor Oawkinat OK. Let's see... we'll discuss it... put it on the t: agenda for discussion at the next meeting when they bring that back please. r Thank you, Mr. Manager, and Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suareatt OK. We have a motion then, to approve in principle and by the way, a lot of these questions will have a bearing on the next item too, because I'm particularly interested on why we need an ordinance if We're _ approving something in principle. Mr. Fernandez: Now, Mr. Mayor, let me clarify. I just... - Mayor Suarezt Can I... wait until we get to item 25? I'm just indicating that to try to get over 24, that some of these questions might be relevant to 25 - how about that? Mr. Fernandez: Correct. Mayor Suarest Thank you. Item 24, we have a motion, do we have a second? - to approve: In principle. Ms. Hirai: No, air, we don't. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes, I second it. - Mayor Suarez: Thank you. Ms. Hirai: Oh, you second? Good. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I have no problem. Mayor Suarez: All right. Call the roll on 24. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 96-688 A RESOLUTION WITH ATTACHMENT, APPROVING, IN PRINCIPLE, THE 1990-1996 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AS A GUIDE TO CITY AGENCIES, BOARD AND DEPARTMENTS. _— (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) -- Upon being seconded by Vice Mayor Dawkins, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following votes AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miriam Alonso Mayor Xavier L. Suarez Y NOES: Commissioner J.L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Miller Dawkins , x, ABSENT: None. 's ?tti— h�. G= U5 98 St��+LnhaF►i# P W ,i Y � - . ��.� -....�.�...._. .. �-s.: s..�5us...�.u..sy ._.-._..•,-yyyy..iciY.iiY.ri.a.iW+w.YuaW.rca:r+w.r `" rfa9i+irr.tirri:iR�s ".1aY�3�3YfGaIY 2S. rIRST RRAb'!NG ORDINANCg3 ESTABLISH APPROPRIATIONS rOR CITY Of MIAMI CAPITAL IMPRINTS ESTABLISH NEW CIP PROJECTS TO BEGIN MMING IVY' 00i 91. ` spy._ m-"•.—yilWfi►iifLPiiiiJy.Y+iiib���+iiii.LlrY.iiV�'�i3ilfi.wYLLIY+��W��rii�.Yii.iw' •. .:.. ••.•.�.—••�.�� _.. _—.•-••.. •�y� Mayor Suarez: Now, on item 25. Why would we want to have now an ordinance to sort of cast in stone or to give legal validity, or statutory validity to something that is so far, a statement of principle or simply a restatement of prior contractual obligations... why do we need an ordinance? Mr. Odio: Well, for instance, for us to... you explain why we need the ordinance, I'm not a... Mayor Suarez: Either one, it doesn't to me. Mr. Odio: Go ahead and do it. Mr. Fernandez: You cannot allocate by resolution monies which have not have been previously appropriated by ordinance. Mayor Suarez: OK. Would it be a fair statement to say that the appropriation ordinance is then needed only for those matters that are already on the way, or have already been approved as to their specifics? Mr. Fernandez: It is approved for those projects in which there will be any expenditure at all for the next fiscal year. Mayor Suarez: You know, it seem like a duplication of effort because as we've _ said before many times, individually, each one has to be approved for - expenditure, for bidding, an to essential parameters and it seems like unnecessary to have a global ordinance but if you tell me that it's useful in some way, as long as it doesn't imply any approval of anything that hasn't - already been finally approved in detail by this Commission, I have no problem. Mr. Fernandez: No. Because in any event, every item individually, will have to come back to you at any time in the future. — Mayor, Suarez: Yes. That's what worries me, then. It just seems like an unnecessary ordinance. But at some point, we're going to figure out a system of having less votes on ordinances that don't seem to have any ultimate definitive effect, such as this one. Commissioner Plummer: It doesn't. Mayor Suarez: We have a... I'll entertain a motion on it with all the provisos and caveats and objections that we've had already incorporated, if !' you would like as to 25, such as were had as to 24. I guess in effect, — tvanty-five moves forward some of the ones already approved, is what you are saying? Mr. Fernandez: Correct.k; Commissioner Alonso: I move. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Do we have a second on 257 Do we have a second on item 25, somebody? Commissioner Plummer: Second. �= Mayor Suarez: Thank you. Any further discussion on 25? Anyone wish to be heard on item 25? Let the record reflect that no one stepped forward. Call the roll... read the ordinance. Call the roll. 99 Ce% AN ORDINANC11 ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING APPROPRIATIONS FOR CITY OF MIAMI CAPITAL IMPROVEMUNTS1 CONTINUING AND REVISING PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SCHEDULED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS, ESTABLISHING NEW CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS TO BEGIN Dimim N FISCAL YEAR 1990-911 REPEALING PROVISIONS OF ORDINANCE NO. 106421 AS AMENDED, THE FISCAL YEAR 1999-1990 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE WHICH MAY BE IN CONFLICT VITH THIS ORDINANCE= AND PROVIDING CONDITIONS, AVMR12A'T'IONS AND DIRECTIONS TO THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY CLERK. Was introduced by Commissioner Alonso and seconded by Commissioner Plummer and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: — AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins ABSENT: None. 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. 26. BRIEF COMMENTS CONCERNING SETTLEMENT PROPOSED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY CONCERNING A LADY RESIDENT OF FISHER ISLAND WHO HAD AN ACCIDENT IN VIRGINIA KEY. , Mayor Suarez: Item 26. On the personal appearances, if you're not seeking an expenditure, if you're seeking a street closure or anything other than an expenditure, we'll try to take you and go through them as quickly as possibla. _ If you're seeking for us to spend money on something, you may be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Go ahead, Ron. Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I would like to... before this day ends, bring up this settlement proposed by the City Attorney. I think the City"is getting raped on Virginia Key. — Mayor Suarez: Oh, I think I have the same problem that you did. Commissioner Plummer: Did you read this? Mayor Suarez: I just happened to have read that at lunch time. The one involving the lady who fell or somebody who fell?... Commissioner Plummer: Yes.. Mayor Suarez: ... in Virginia Key? I want to have a say on that one.: Commissioner Plummer: Twenty-five thousand dollars for the woman who is a director of membership for Fisher Island, who we allowed to use Fisher Island, and now, she is suing us. Mayor Suarez: Right. They were using our... Commissioner Plummer: Our facilities and they are recommending that we settle. K= Mayor Suares: I've got a lot of problems with that. Let's hold that for second. ' Y Commissioner Plummer: Yor twenty-four nine. too 7,: 4 • Mayor guares: giro City Attornsy, On that settlement... Coftisaioner plummers I want to discuss that before this day is over, y. K =r Mayor Suarez: Yes, I will also want to register at this point under our procedures, an objection to that settlement.., authority, and Commissioner Plummer is doing the same thing, so I think that gives you enough indication that not to proceed with that. Commissioner Plummers We are nice enough to let them use the property, she _— falls and then she is suing us, Ludicrous. Mayor Suarez: I have objections to that one too, so You've got two of us. �- Eton, before you speak, I'm sorry. , Mr. 'Ron Cohen: That's OK. __M-__....------�_�.-----------------_ 27. GRANT REQUHST BY REPRESENTATIVES OF WYNWOOD SNID FOR USE OF EXISTING ENTERPRISE FUND SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUNDS TO COVER COSTS -OF APPLICATION AND ADMINISTRATION CONCERNING PROPOSED WYNWOOD FOREIGN TRADE ZONE, SUBJECT TO DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS' - APPROVAL. Mayor Suarez: From the special items requested from other Commission meetings, Bill, do you have problems with the Wgnwood 3NID and the application, the ongoing application process? We need a quick report from the Manager, -what exactly is it?... because I reread your materials and I can't _i figure out what you need. Mr. Bill Rivas OK. We originally, on July 26, requested a professional service agreement ,from an appropriation that I requested ,from the State legislature, this past•legislative session, and it was withdrawn because.they needed some more information from the State of Florida. { Mayor Suarez: The process of getting your project on the way is -,so complex, - require so many actions by -so many different boards and ultimate,City-approval that I'm as mystified as the Chairman of the SNID and fairly active in this T: effort, as anybody. Mr. Manager or counselor, can anybody tell us what exactly or Albert, what we need to do here? Are we just dealing here withthe n formalising of an agreement of some . sort? - no? I know they are not= asking b. for,money.from the General Fund because otherwise, it will be bye bye. I know ' one thing, that you're not asking for money from the General Fund. All your funds are coming the State and from federal government.- we hope. l." Mr. Rios; Yes. Absolutely. Mayor Suarez: So what exactly are they asking for? - that we haven't already done. It seems like we've visited this item so many times. Mr. Rios: Well what we... Mr. Albert Waters; Mr. Mayor, well, yes. If I may... 41, :. Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait. Maybe we can get real quickly from our staff. L $ < Mr. Waters: Yes, Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission,... Mr. Odio: Mr. Manager, please. _ w . Mr. Waters: ... the item that you just brought before the: group,,. 74 what we would like to do, is clarify for. the record and explain the'Depest■ At � ' of Coasaunity Affairs requirement for the exponditure of the sppropriatiop,4bat T _ was recently passed by the Florida legislature. Mr. giop aed VypV90 Coegnunity gcononic Development Corporation is atteeaptirg to b►sva..99Ftbet clarification on how that mousy is to be.expended, WyAwo.04 VC.,. d .�,'•.' lot a +t+r a -74 } S 4pr — Mayor #uarail tom. WA (Department of commuftity Affairs) requested 06ra apecifiefty or fore ekpi.anation of how to spend the money and..: Mr. 116s: Noi 'sir. Mr. deters 3 No, Mayor Suaree: Mot- that's not it? All right, at least I tried. Mr. Vaterse The issue at hand is this. 'There is a hundred thousand dollar appropriation that was recently enacted by the Florida legislature, Mayor Suares: OR. Mr. platers: That money is for capital improvements. Wynwood Community Sconomic'.Development Corporation is requesting the use of those.., that hundred thousand dollars for the payment of the application fee for the Wynwood l*oreign,Trade Zone. Mr. Bill Rios: Not correct. Mayor Suarez: OK. From the respective of Bill Rios it's not correct, so what do you recommend? Mr. Waters: Well, based on the statutes, Mr. Mayor, the... under section _ 163521, the fund can only be used for capital improvement, those capital improvements are hard cost. Those hard costs mould be street closures... Mayor Suarez: Bricks and mortar and stuff like that, all right. Mr. Waters: ...bricks and mortar. You may be... if I may remind the Commission or the SNID board, you recently adopted the Wynwood SNID plan. That plan had an implementation strategy which talked about the establishment of the Foreign Trade Zone and also the implementation of certain street closures and the like. When we submitted that plan to DCA and included that strategy... and what we are saying today is, that the appropriation, although ' it's small, that has been appropriated by Florida legislature, can only be used for those capital improvements. While the administration is, you know, ; working hand in hand with our consultant, in order to implement the plan, we feel that unilaterally, this Commission or the board, cannot change the scope or at least, how that money is to be expended. It's for capital improvements by definition. Mayor Suarez: All right. First before you answer that, as to how the funds are supposed to be used, tell us how much is the application fee, just so we know. Don't tell me its exactly a hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Rios: No, sir. The appropriation that we requested was a hundred ' thousand dollars. We requested the appropriation and the title of the 4 appropriation was, to prepare and file an application for a foreign trade zone and it's follow up. It's a you know, twenty-four month process. Mayor Suarez: How much is the application fee? r Mr. Rios: The application... there is no fee. The process of filing an application is rather lengthy because you have to have public hearings and you have to have documents, legal documents that have to be prepared relative to'. the application. l Mayor Suarez: How would you plan to spend the hundred thousand dollars? - if �^ not bricks and mortar.' Mr. Rios: I have prepared... well, I think.., let's answer the issue about. the bricks and mortar. I think the interpretation of staff is s very narrow -:{r interpretation relative to their need for an appropriation on some of th r items that are part of the plan. By the way, the plan was approved after the appropriation of a hundred thousand dollars, so that was not part an+d pare+el of the original appropriation. However, the interpretation of copitai r improvements is an interpretation by staff that is not held by the Depart of DCA, they have another interpretation. in addition, I believe that-;, should continue to go forward with the appropriation as it was roquoxtad gnr the application process. The foreign Trade Zone in chapter 200 is a capi ei M° a t V.. 102ap#t' f, tl' m cwJ t M a. •' LY3ISIY r:::.-.. ,.. ,...:.r _H-..:, a,,:..; ... ..t .. e... , - _ i t' ftf itapre event deaignatibb by the State of 1►16rida. In addition] our neighborhood eompreh4naive... - Mayor Suaret: Well, let me cut through this, bait a minute. Isn't DCA going to have to ultimately approve the expenditure of the hundred thousand dollars anyhow? Mr. Riost That is correct. Mr. Watersi in the memorandum that we've submitted to this Commission, we 1 Kam= = received a letter, a request from DCA asking the City administration to put together a program budget for the expenditure of the hundred thousand dollars that have been appropriated. Within that budget, it talks about the hard:eost $= that those -dollars would be used towards, i.e. engineering, construction. That budget, and there is a sample within your package, under attachment "C," I mean, I'm sorry, under attachment "B" clearly indicated how the money is to be expended. I.would have to disagree with my colleague. Mayor Suarez: But why do we have to resolve this? Why don't we let DCA resolve it? = Mr. Waters: Well, it has been resolved in a sense that it's established in } section-163521. Mr. Riost If I may read 163, please. One sixty-three, clearly states. _ Mayor Suarez: Anybody that comes out with a solution to this... Mr. Riost Under 163521, -"Neighborhood Improvement Districts Inside Enterprise Zones: The _ local governing body of any municipality of county in which the boundaries of an enterprise zone, including a neighborhood. improvement district may request the Department of Community - Affairs to submit a budget request to the legislature for 100 percent of the capital improvement cost, for 25 percent of the area of the enterprise zone in which the district in or a portion thereof is located," — period. There is no definition, no clarification of what is or what isn't a a capital improvement. I beg to differ with staff in that there is no clear delineation as to what is a capital improvement project. I would resubmit -_ your suggestion that we submit my original proposai relative to the appropriation and let DCA make the definitive statement as to whether our project qualifi'eds any capital improvement project. s Mayor Suarez: OK. Mr.,Riost However, in addition to support staff's effort... Mayor Suarezt Well ultimately, we agree, Bill. Ultimately, it is a capital improvement project. The question is can you use this hundred thousand dollars to.., Mr. Waters: Application fee. Mayor Suarez: .,. plan, process, analyze and provide statistical data for Nx your application. Mr. Vice Mayor. Mr. Rioat I believe, that is the case. f Al }, Mayor Suarez: Wait, please. _ 4� Vice Mayor Dawkins: Anyway we can cut through this, and resolve it, what do_ you want?� _LL Y'ptg_ Mr. Rios: We would like the hundred thousand dollars to be used for its --_ original purpose of the application process. Vice Mayor Dawkins: You what now? Wait, wait, slow down and talk slowly so I can understand what you're saying. F- *tea` 103ptss►bor xb bl �r Mr, tliost We believe that the application protest should Continue *ad utllito the one hundred thousand dollars that was appropriated for that purposes to do just than Viet Mayor Davkinst Now, what are you going to apply for in the applicatiohl Mr, ttiosi For a Foreign trade gone. For status as a zone, ,r Vito Mayor Dawkinsf All right, Now, the improvements that we discussed doing for two million dollars, what about those? ice_ Mr, Host deli, what I did was, I did further research, I was able to obttix a grant that's - available for traffic related economic development improvements. ;ram _ At Mayor Suarez t The Vice Mayor wants to make sure that y you don't use that far the application, too, I mean, that's going to be for real. tangible improvements. " Vice Mayor Dawkins: Thank you. of Mr. Rios: Now, that monies can be used for those traffic facilities that we are suggesting. Mayor Suarez: If we get it. All right. Mr. Rios: Yes.h` r�r Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now, is it anyway that we can approve this continuant upon your receiving the two million dollars?... and then you get the hundred thousand. Mr. Rios: Well, the two million dollars would come to you, but yes, that could be an ideal situation. Mayor Suarez::,Or even... Vice Mayor Dawkins: A hundred thousand is to me. Mr. Rios: Yes. Both of them. Vice Mayor Dawkins: So, I mean, you see, Bill, this is why you and I have a problem. See, you refuse to give me straight answers. Mr. Riot: No, both of them, Commission. I agree with you, Commissioner. L'3A sorry, I agree with you.. Both the hundred thousand and the two million come to -you. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Come to me? Mr. Rios: Yes, sir. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right. So then, is it anything that says, if this CooYnLesion says to you, yes, we agree, you go ahead and apply and once the two z' million dollar grant is given to,you ou az you start to make the improvements is 'f�s the area, that we give you the hundred thousand dollars for administration. Anything wrong with that? is j k'it Mr. Rios: Philosophically, no, N, Mr, Water: Mr. Mayor.k } Commissioner Plummer: That's not for administration. Its for an application of a processing thing. m., 9 3 Mr, Rios; Right. l " Mayor Suarez: Couldn't we present the whole... following up on tte sa►ms... { Mr. Rios: It's the name thing. + u Vice Mayor Dawkins; That's same., that's semantics, 11 /♦� r �! 1 v j k7 � 4 - Mayer ou �'��" , �'' contingaa slppi icst i Mr. Water • w s Our comprehensive matter plan, which was approved by the State, has within it, our capital improvement program..._ Commissioner Alonso: It is a legal question. Commissioner Plummer: it is a legal question. Can it be done, yes or no. You are a lawyer. Ms. Linda Kiersons The answer is no.- Vice Mayor Dawkins: Why? Commissioner De Yurre: That's what I'm saying. Commissioner Plummer: But then, why didn't you say that? - Vice Mayor Dawkins: Why, no? Mr. Rios: What cannot be done? Ms. Kierson: We were told by DCA that the money was to be used for capital expenditures. We are awaiting a letter from DCA to give us that explanation {` in writing. We just talked with them a few minutes ago - that's what I was telling them - so we cannot... you cannot authorize him to use the money for x the purposes that he wants to use them for. He wants to use it for salary... Mayor Suarez: Why don't we let DCA... - Commissioner Alonso: If that is the case, what are we doing discussing -this Item? - Ms. Kiersons We have told him that. irk_ Vice. Mayor Dawkins: How do we tell Mr. Rios that for three years, you:,have gone around and knocked your brains out to get this done and you're almost at, the end where it's going to come into being and because of some technicality that we have dug up, that we didn't tell him, that the project is going to go down the drain. Mr. Waters: No, air. Commissioner Plummer: We didn't tail him that. ;t- Vice Mayor Dawkins: What are you telling him, then? - Mr. Rios: Commissioner...F« - Commissioner Plummers DCA is telling him that, we are not telling him. { Mr. Rios: No, Commissioner, Commissioner, you don't have anything in your k hands that tells you that, Commissioner. Mayor Suarez: No, DCA had not said that. 1 � commissioner Plummer: Look, ]et me ask you.... ryk Mr. Rioss DCA is saying, send it up to me and I will wake *-4ecis oa. O � sm Coissioner De Turres Hey, time ; out. Let us have amen* order here, OKt Commissioner Plummer: Right. z` Sk, x a f -Lrtx sir s;H _ f x �z G Coss�ie,�i+ si' De >srre: Let'to ha#6 time order, r^�k Oomissioner Piunmert Look, is this in orders Can we say that they make out €rr in -application, send it to DCA and they will be the ultimate approval, yea er ' no Mayor Suar6it That's what I've been asking. Mr4 Watorat If I may, Commissioner Plummer... Mice Mayor Dawkinst Yes or no, just yes or no. Y Mr. Waters: Yes. Mite Mayor bavkins: All right. M �a Mr. Waterst No, no. I'm sorry.# Commissioner Plummer: Why can't we do that? Mr. Waters: The application... you said, can they. The application... Co:ntniasioner Plummer: Can they send... or can we? i Mr. Waters: No. Commissioner Plummer: Can we send what we call, an amended application for the plan to DCA and they say, yes or no? Mr. Riost Fine. Mr. Waterat No, air. If you... Commissioner Plummert What's wrong with that? Commissioner Alonso: Then, that's the answer. Mr. Odiot May, I offer something? All we need to do, is wait for the letter from DCA to come and say, yes, you can do it or no, you cannot do it. That;'s all you need to do, Commissioners. x Mayor Suarez: All right. But we can do a little bit better than that. We have already asked the question and for some reason, we, keep getting a different answer from what you are implying now. Why can't we approve it subject to DCA saying, yes, we can characterize that as capital improvement. - In fact, wait a minute. In fact... ' Mr. Rion: Yes. Mayor Suarez: ... many things are capital improvements which included design, layout, and so on, -so why not an application which is what makes the capital 3f improvement valuable in the first place. Commissioner Plummer: Well, whatou've got to do is you've got t, amoad ,'the plan, that's what you've got to do.,L� Mr. Odio: I don't mind you approving it subject to'DCA saying yen or uo.#' Mr. Rion: Great. 14N Mayor Suarers Right. Thank you. Y;Us { r Mr. adios If DCA says no, it's no. � Mayor Suarets: And then, Bill remind us to get on the phony and talk to Mr, Y Pelham and to the other peoples the Vice Mayor might know and the 'rest o this Commission and that I might know, see if we get a favorable- Ott On.Lks ' � .: Mrs Riost I agree with the City... rn tq too � Ax S4 Y • d yf j " 1 MAy6t Butte a: s.. die: wart to be as fls*1ble to let the pr6joet lgihS• Mot as inflexible as somt1two ou'r staff seems to want to make it `.. be.:. All right, I#11 entertain a motion to approve. T� .. s Mtt. Vatera t Mr. Mayor, piaaae.. . No. kiersent I'd like to knot► what you are approving though, Mr: Mayor, � r Mayor Suarez: I was about to state it. To approve the use of the funds r•,. subject to. .. for the application process, consultants, whatever he needs it for, subject to DCA's approval of the funds for that purpose. I can't imagine > that we would doge with that kind of motion. Vice Mayor Dawkins: So moved. I., Commissioner Plummer: I have no problem with that. Vice Mayor Dawkins Well second then, if you ain't got no problem. x' 7 Commissioner Plummer: Oh, be quiet. Mayor Suarez: Moved... I understand that to be a second. Moved and second. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll. �P Commissioner Plummer: Would you move him downtown? - he belongs on Metro Commission. � rf` _ The following motion was introduced by Vice Mayor Dawkins, who moved its'° adoption: MOTION NO. 90-689 A MOTION TO APPROVE THE USE OF AVAILABLE ENTERPRISEIt ZONE SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUNDS FOR `{ PURPOSES OF COVERING THE COST OF ADMINISTRATION OF THE APPLICATION BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS IN CONNECTION WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE WYNWOOD - FOREIGN TRADE ZONE;. SUBJECT TO DCA'APPROVING THE IISB OF SAID FUNDS FOR SAID PURPOSE. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and adopted by -the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L.-Plummer, Jr.r. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins " " Mayor Xavier L. Suarez , NOES: None. ABSENT: None. r. COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL: Mayor Suarez: You're going to need something very specific from DCA before, you can proceed. 2k- ' Mr. Rios: We'll get it. ; Mr. Waters: Mr. Mayor, if... let me clarify also the proposition that there is a grant that we are going to get. That particular grant application that, _:•. Mr. Rios spoke of, is an application from the Florida Department, of Cowsercd f.° It's regarding economic development, : it's an application that adatint'str*tton �Y hasin place, it is on a very competitive basis, we are in... at this :names:, xA preparing to submit that application... Mayor Suarez: You mean the transportation funds, the two million dollars? °fig e' Mr. Waters: The transportation funds, but it is not a straight forrd, � x} P get this grant just because you submit this application. _ ' § py 1 " {A, t f t o uaraa: i gather that. WO ought to know that Ainta w* were protilk6d $ ' grant too, and wh navat got that sithar from the bepartteetit of Labor, Ift, Nati ra: go, We on a very'.. . Viau hayor haWkinat That'e a Federal dr State! Mt•. Waterer It's a State. dt Mr. Rios: state. ' f,. Vice; Mayor Dawkinst All right. Don't you go up there. OK? You're r " democrat, don't go up to 'Tallahassee asking that man for no money. Lot him Mr. Waterer It is for the local municipality to submit that application,'not _ our consultant. Mayor Suarez: Fine. OK. `- Vice Mayor Dawkins: 1-can go after November when Chiles get-up there, but let him go now. F 11 10, Mr. Rios: Mr. Mayor, I'll like to make one statement relative to that so that Is... we don't make a mistake. It has nothing to do with... p- Commissioner Plummer: Quit, while you're ahead. =` Vice Mayor Dawkins: The more you talk, you see... Mayor Suarez: We've got to get moving on this thing, don't take up any more of the time. Mr.:Rios: All that I want to try to do at this point... Commissioner Plummer: Go home. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. I'll take my vote back. c Mayor Suarez: You're out of order, Bill. Commissioner Plummer: If I see you south of 29th Street before the next Commission meeting, all bets are off. Commissioner Alonso: Oh, my, my. Twenty-six. h Mayor Suarez: Go find the secretary and give him the application, he is probably still in town. _ 28. REFER TO CITY ATTORNEY REQUEST. RECEIVED FROM LEGAL-COONSBL''R$Pi RESM rINt3 , POLICE OFFICERS GEORGE MANRESA AND GEORGB LOPEZ: TO-RSCOUP:COSTS pr,.LX a REPRESENTATION INCURRED- BY THEM IN CONNECTION= WITH CHARGE$ FOR WHICH THEY. HAVE, BEEN EXONERATED. w Mr. Robert Klausner: Ready? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes. 5 Mr. Klausner: Mr. Mayor, Robert Klausner representing Fraternal Order ,,cf Police. I'm here today regarding two police officers who were required to 5 spend their own... Mayor Suarext Twenty-six. ; Mr. Klausners I'm sorry? Vice Mayor Dawkinsa Go right ahead, sir. 9 � � too t = Mr. Klausner: OR, I'm here regarding two police officers who were required to spend their own funds in the defence of a criminal action, arising out of the course of their employment with the City of Miami. They were bath r. sftnetated at the close of the government's case. In 1986# Sergeant George - lopes and Sergeant George Manresa were charged in a five count federal indictment, with allegedly violating the civil rights of a known drug dealer. It was alleged that in the course of their employment they fired shorts at this person's house and performed other illegal acts. At the close of the government's case, the U.S. district judge, said it was ridiculous case, there was no merit to it, no basis to it and discharged all of... dismissed all the - charges against the officers. I said at the outset, if you note the agenda, it says that we are here for attorney's fees for a number of people. Since this matter was first placed on the agenda, the City Attorney's office has been most cooperative with us in resolving all, but these two. The state of = the law in Florida is this, that when a municipal officer is subjected -to attack, either in a criminal or civil proceeding in connection with official duties, that officer is entitled to reimbursement from public funds for counsel, and that that obligation arises independent of statute, ordinance or charter. And that's from the fourth district court of appeal in the case of Lamelo versus City of Sunrise. Commissioner Plummer: Question. Does that statute also refer to the amount of money,that-will be paid to an individual lawyer. Mr. Klausner: No. It says reason, you know... Commissioner Plummer: How is that determined? Mr. Klausner: I guess, it's determined by what is reasonable and customary. Commissioner Plummer: And who does that? Mr. Klausner: I guess, you would probably do that, based upon advice from your own counsel as to what people charge in the community for like services. Mayor Suarez: And also, be careful with that standard, because what is reasonable, or what is customary, may not be what is reasonable. _ Mr. Klausner: I understand that, and I think that... Mayor Suarez: And you're customary is not reasonable. Mr. Klausner: Sure. talking about lawyers, most of Commissioner Plummer: None of them are reasonable. Mr. Klausner: No, I clearly understand that, Mr. Mayor. You know, it's how we all make our living. I want to may something, for someone like me who fights with the City Attorney's office on a most regular basis, on the civil cases, whose names also appear on here, are Coleman, Arroya, Rojas, Mendez, Gonzales, Behar and Garcia. As it turns out, the City Attorney's office ultimately did tender a defence for these people. Mr. Firtel was assigned by Jorge Fernandez to handle these cases, he did an excellent job, all we really did, was sit and look and as a result, we've withdrawn any application for ' fees on those, because those officers received an excellent defence. Mayor Suarez: Which are pending then? r; Mr. Klausner: The only ones which are pending are Manresa and Lopez, and the reason is that the City Attorney's office never provides a defence in a criminal case. Their obligation is to defend the City and its officers in civil matters only. An a result, Lopez and Manresa had to seek their gVJM counsel. In the case of Lopez... Mayor Suarez: Now, you understand, you are admitting that there is soma discretion to us to grant or not grant? r Mr. Klausner: I'm sorry? Mr, Loon Firtel: Mr. Mayor. z,. 109 Msar 4 q'� AXff�y�r Mayor sua tot t Vies. Nr4 ytrtals If I might. Leon i►ifrtel from the City Attorneys offiee. One eleven oh gisty-five is it controlling statute and it's an absolute option oft this, 06 mjtsrioft� -or to this Commission as to whether or not they wish is relmburod;,these mahj if they meet certain requirements. - Mayor-Suarezi slit. So the absolute option terminology that you're using, `3 answers my question, that is, really within our discretion, right? Do you agree with that? ; Mr. Klausnert I agree that you have discretion regarding what is reasonable. I think you have an absolute obligation to do some reimbursement. Mayor Suarez: And there is no court cases that have settled that difference of views? Mr. Klausner: There is a court case. I have it here, if you would like to see Mayor Suarez: Yes, but we don't want that he... if he obviously disagrees... Mr. Firtel: Well, Lamelo dealt with the statute for elected officials and the Statute that we are dealing with here is 111065 and while I believe that Lamelo does provide some support, I do believe that the case law says that this Commission has discretion. Commissioner Plummer: Lamelo was found guilty. Mr. Firtel: Ultimately... Mr. Klausner: This was in a different case. This was not the one where_ he ultimately went to prison. This is one where he was exonerated and in this , particular case, he was acting in his capacity and under their sunrise strong I ayor form of government. He was acting in his capacity as head of the law enforcement agency, and... Mayor Suarez:' And our City Attorney is saying that when you have a :City employee or official, the standard will be.different... as opposed to an elected official?t 'g Mr. Firtel: I'm saying, Mr. Mayor, that 111065 specifically applies to law enforcement officers. Commissioner Plummer: How much are we talking about? Mr. Klausner: In the case... �+ Mr. Firtel: Forty-six thousand dollars before we negotiate. Mayor Suarez: Say it again. Mr. Klausners I was just going to get to that. It was... Lopez spent twenty- three thousand five hundred dollars including costs. Manresa spent seventeen thousand five hundred and there is a four thousand six hundred,'doiia>r.:-unpaid cost bill to their investigator, to whom they are obligated, ultimately to Pay. So the total is forty-one... about forty-six... about 'forty-five � thousand -dollars . , r E Commissioner Plummer: And is that.... to the City Attorney... is that: reasonable? Mr. Firtel: We have not investigated the reasonableness of the amount of the bill. At this point in time, we are asking direction from the Commission with regard to whether to we want to reimburse. z y � ,Mayer Suarea: OTC. On that issue, are you recommending anything? _ , T want to mistake your position. Is there a recommendation forxor4 or is there 5. something that you want our indication? Typically, you a000tiate 1 d it doesn't trench us this is ane of the few iimtem that it yewtrAte �1es sa , ' reached the Commission since I've been here. Ch o _ l`c 5 i„ a?� Mr. Klausner: In a noun*, money comes from the dues. ac tr Nr, . rjrtalt Deeauae of the Mount, seebadlys gut first of ail# bstauter the statutes that we interpret the reimbursement would come under, plates in this Commission discretion to to whether or not you want to pay or not. Mayor Suarese: As we under itt we have discretion. Oil? to there a reeoaieebdation then? Ca miesioaer De Yurre3 No. Hold it. Mayor Suareas Wait. Is there a recommendation then and finally, or not1 I mean, you have to help us do our thinking here. it's difficult enough for normal items, let alone in legal items. Mr. FLrtel: Mr. Mayor, there is an argument to be made on behalf of these' officers. There is an argument that, could be made, a technical argument that dould be made against the reimbursement. Commissioner De Yurres I want to know what they have to say. Commissioner Plummer: We are the politicians and you are the lawyer. Mr. Firtel: The point is that they..4 the point is, Mr. Mayor... Commissioner De Yurre: Wait, hold it. Excuse me a second. I want to know what your recommendation is as the City Attorney's office and that's what I'm going to go by, so you give me the figure right now. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Zero, two dollars, four dollars, eight dollars or what? Commissioner De Yurres Right now, you guys know what the case is about, you guys have been working on it and you brought this here before us, and you expect us to make a decision in a few minutes? That doesn't work like that that. You tell us what your recommendation is? Mayor Suarez: Well, one part of that, let me just correct. That's unfair to say that they brought it before us. I think it was really more at the request, of the officers and at my request that it's before us. The fact of the matter is, I think the City Attorney's office was hoping that if they justsort of delayed on it and negotiated for ever and ever... Commissioner Plummer: It would go away. Mayor Suarez: ... it would get to the point that they could sort of forget about it and not have to pay anything or pay a minuscule amount. So... Commissioner De Yurre: Well, where are we at? Mayor Suarez: ... it's not totally their fault that it's before us. Commissioner De Yurre: Well, I'm not blaming, fault. I'm saying that it is here before us now. Commissioner Plummer: I have got one other question. Vice Mayor Dawkins: But I think and everybody knew, it's been there. Go ahead J.L. Mayor Suarez: Yes. Commissioner Plummer: Did the officers pay it or did the union pay it? k Mr. Klausner: The union loaned the money to the officers, they remain obligated to the union to reimburse. Commissioner De Yurres The union paid it. all the officer* paid it, Commissioner, because the Commissioner De Yurres Well. 11i A, .. fl � Yn{ *"or #uami It would .bio astal lr it we knew that We had no discretion, ex"Ift fill i 1 • - s. Mr. Klausnert And I was not the lawyer. { Mayor duaret: Can I finish my statement, counselor? = I am sure you don't do 'that to the judges and -neither does J.L* Plummer, Where is that big haew6t that I usually have around here to keep you guys from talking out of turnt Mr,�Odict: I know, I wouldn't back out... h� p Mayor Suarest Mr. Manager, can I.., t Mrs Odic: ... I would pay them. I Mould help them pay the fees because we have Police Officers that are risking their lives every day and it's in their_ line of duties. Sometimes, they can be judged to have done something wrong and they have not, then we need to back them up. 4 Commissioner De turret And who brought... V Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK.' Now. When these people out here come up here for money, don't tell me you don't have any money. Mr. Odio:. I said to help... 0, Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, no, no. You're recommending that we pay them, OK? Mr. Odio: I'm recommending..." Vice Mayor Dawkins: You've got people sitting out here who are going to come up here in a few minutes asking for money and you're going to tell them, we don't have any money. And I'm going to tell you, find it where you're finding this. Commissioner Plummer: It's coming out of City Attorney's budget. Mr:� Odios No, I'm not finding any money, I'm asking... I should of kept.:. could of kept quiet. I'm telling that we should back up our Police Officers. - Commissioner De Yurre: Well, I'll tell you... I'll make a motion. Mayor Suarez: I''ll.take any motion.that you make at this'point to get.us out of this. Commissioner De Yurre: My motion... obviously, the City Attorney's office doesn't have their act together. I would move to defer until they come back with a recommendation, at the next meeting. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Seconded. Commissioner'Plummert I'll make a substitute motion. Mayor Suarez: Substitute motion. Commissioner Plummer: I'll send it to the City Attorney to negotiate to better price. Commissioner De Yurre: Well we don't know what that is to begin with. Commissioner Plummer: Well, but if you say, defer, defer means nothing. Mayor Suarez: How about if we combine the two motions? Mr. Firtels Mr. Plummer, at this point in time... Mayor Suarez: Combine the two motions. I don't either one given k clear indication. Commissioner Plummer: My motion, my substitute motion is to send it to tbs City Attorney to negotiato a better price and ,como-b&ck to this Cias a � x f si its .7 c '', 0. w, n . M c :.y Mayor Suar6at All tight, the chair rules that the two fnotions are fi t Inconsistent and therefore, the first one has the second one incorporated in ' co missioner tPlutMmers i appeal the ruling of the chair. - ` Mayor Suareras Really, it's the some thing. if we're going to defer, there to no problem with the substitute motion. Commissioner Plummers Deferring for no reason, means nothing. Commissioner De Yurre: No. Deferred to cone back with an answer. Mayor Suarers We would take a vote on your motion, afterwards. : Commissioner Plummer: Fine. x- Mayor Suarez: We just want to incorporate it in one vote. I mean, it's the }L- same thing.> Commissioner Plummer: It's fine, one vote. _54- Mayor Suarers :Thank you. We are moving to defer and to send back to the City- r Attorney to see if they could negotiate, quote unquote, a better deal, whatever that means. _ Vice Mayor Dawkins: But... Commissioner Plummer: No, no., no. Not if they can, they will. - Mayor Suarez: They will. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. Under discussion. Discussion only. Mayor Suarez:- Vice Mayor Dawkins. 4 Vice Mayor Dawkins: Following the Mayor, I mean the Manager's chain of thought, what does a policeman do who is placed in the situation that these guys just came out of while he is waiting to find out if he is going to be helped? Commissioner Plummer: He goes back and gets another loan from the union. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. That's all. F Mr. Firtel: Mr. Manager, I'm sorry. ' Mayor Suarez: They've been waiting in this particular case for about, how_ many?- - I forget how many years. All right. So, we have: a motion -and k second.' _ Presumably, you'll have a report back with some sort of recommendation.' s Commissioner Plummer: At the next meeting. Mayor Suarez: At the next Commission meeting, on the 27th. Vice Mayor Dawkina: But I, you know... Mr. Firtel: Mr. Mayor, as I understand the motion that you all are about to #; vote on, implicit in this is an approval of some payment. j ` Commissioner Plummer: No, air. .:' Consaissioner De Yurre: No, no. no. b Commissioner Aionso: Negotiate and come back. Mayor Suarez: I think it's implicit in it but... Commissioner De Yurre: If you fool it's necessary. i x� xaw` a phi a F;d „ � 1T _ d5 S Mir or ila3`llg �.. t thick itle implicit in it. Because otherwise, we would days sterol Commissioner Plummer3 ftrty=siX thousand is the asking price. Now go quibble about it. Mayor gdarbSt Yea. I would say that it is implicit. - awkins: It is Implicit because if it wasnt, you Mould of told Vice Mayor O ' p ,. they sero,. Mayor Suarez: That's right. Thank you. We have a motion and a secohtt,--you r Caa read into it chat you like. Call the roll. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who molved its adoption:_ MOTION NO. 90-690 x A MOTION TO REFER REQUEST BY COUNSEL FOR RECOUPMENT OF LEGAL FEES OR COSTS PAID BY GEORGE MANRESA AND GEORGE LOPEZ -IN CONNECTION 'WITH THEIR DEFENCE OF CIVIL OR =CRIMINAL. CHARGES IN WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN EXONERATED= FURTHER INSTRUCTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO TRY TO NEGOTIATE AN AGREEMENT ON MORE BENEFICIAL TERMS FOR THE CITY. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: 'A AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. _ Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins '- Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. - ABSENT: None. COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL; Mr. Klausner''Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Vice Mayor Dawkins: And I think... and I would hope that when we have 4_ situations like this,' that the Manager and the City Attorney would gat their, act together before'we get down here. Commissioner Do Yurre: Now, this would get paid out of this budget or next year's budget. s Commissioner Plummer: No. The City Attorney's budget. Mr. Fernandez: Mr. Vice Mayor. This item would of never come to you had it z not been upon the insistence of one of your colleagues. M Mayor Suarez: That's right.. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I still... my colleague has a right. Mayor Suarez: But the Manager should... right. x x= Vice Mayor Dawkins: My colleague has a right to demand that anything dealing kri with the City of Miami has a right to be heard. Y Mayor Suarez: That's right. F g� F 5 Vice Mayor Dawkins: But by the same token, those employed to carry out the dictates of this Commission, have a right to do that. fi Commissioner i'luinaor: Should be prepared. s� w s 1l4 UP oat* t?7 — c vice Mayor bawkinst thank yeu, mayor Stiarett t Ox. Al" %, ", L +"iNr.iW. .,•.. iGiiiWiWL416ib71Y�.i�.ba'r.Y/+fiwcafti+a�rrsiYilrrarfGrl..irGi`r.tiwwNat.YWW.rrr6�i.Y 'wvaw..iYfiria.xYclriiiff�i - i, MUSS SINVA" t AND CORMLINCIS TO f'AMIL'Y AND FRIMOS Or MiC L D� A- ' SPEAR AND JODI SPEAR UPON THEIR UNTIMELY DEATH- � ilk.rirr.rriilrYLf►raiaHrrr..r.rw+vr.r-..Iris.riir���r�o�rrrrrrr�.rrrr��r-----------.uirr.-----aarirYlli11W F Commissioner Plummer: Mr, Mayor, I think for the record, I would like to l+ offer a motion at this time. A motion of condolences to the family of Mike 5 Spear. Mike was the president of the house Foundation who did an awful lot° ` for this community. His untimely death in a plane crash in Boston last week _ was I assume as surprising to every one, as it was to me, and at this time, I '.' would like to offer a motion of condolences to be put on the minutes of this meeting and forward it to his family, expressing that of the City of Miami. Commissioner De Turret Second. _ Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. A letter of condolence has already been sent, but anything else you think deem proper, would be quite acceptable. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who } - moved its adoption: - RESOLUTION NO. 90-691 A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING DEEPEST SYMPATHY AND SINCEREST CONDOLENCES OF THE CITY COMMISSION ON BEHALF OF .THE CITY OF MIAMI AND ITS CITIZENS TO THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF MICHAEL D. SPEAR AND JODI SPEAR, UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATHS OF THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS. i (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on �y file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the resolution was passed{- and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre 4' Commissioner J. L..Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins�z; +.;. Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. F` { a x 4 - WM v: wi W Lis ^ )r hit RY'-k[1-r'� �iYfLti _Y y 'N'eti 4n .. A yy J3,1 sw •*"'^�—=„-'•:•'•.,:•-..�:iYaC.iYYrltiliJiiil�lilic."-.-, _, L.-,_�:i�sifiiriri.i�iiti$.ii$+�eiG+iiGai.fi.i::i.'iYa..-"-.u._-.itliJ4iiT:i'saL'raYri.Ji.' ""'' — J 30. OKA)ft MOMT HISPANIC HIRITAU COMMI'iTPBI, INC. r6l ClUISRATtON Ot TON i1I$CQ A1� C�l� AMIRICA AT IAYrIO T PARR _ ESTABLISH ARIA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL MMUMS. s fi•+J aii.f6iiWintiWiY+Yitbli.af+ir.Lii.r+W�iiY.i�iYfYwYYYiirri:i.r+�.liriaw.warilr�rir` ++G+1rW�.ri��q ,_ -' . Mayor Suarezt Item 27, Hispanic Heritage restivAl. Representatives, are they here? Item 28. Commissioner P14mmert gait. I'll move 27, I'm on the board of directors, }; Mayor Suarezt It's a... y just a restriction of retail peddlers? - no... { Commissioner Plutnmert Just a restriction on peddlers. = ic s Mayor Suarez: ... as they say in the legislature, it's revenue natural. " Commissioner Alonsot Second. t Mayor Suarez.- Moved and second. Any discussion. If not, please call the s- roll. The. following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: k RESOLUTION NO. 90-692 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA - CELEBRATION TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE HISPANIC HERITAGE - COMMITTEE, INC., AT BAYFRONT PARR ON OCTOBER 7, 1990; - ESTABLISHING AN AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS DURING THE PERIOD OF THE EVENT.: (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) �y Upon being seconded by Commissioner Alonso, the resolution was passed s and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins ; Mayor Xavier L. Suarez - ��dk. NOES: None. ABSENT: None. �r 31. GRANT REQUEST BY MARY STREET DANCE THEATER FOR WAIVER OF FEES INVOLVED FOR USE OF MANUEL ARTIME CENTER FOR ONE -DAY REHEARSAL, SUAJICT-I'O PROVISOS. F. a= Mayor Suarez: Twenty-eight, Mary Street Dance Theater. Fee waiver. Manuel Artime Center. Do we have any community days, so to speak, for the Artime '. Center or are we pretty much at an end with those? On Mary Street DaAoe4 Theater requesting a fee waiver from Manuel Artime, do we have a cert+ai�> allocation of community days, anymore? Commissioner Plummer: What's the recommending of the administration? ZU Mr. Odios No. A. _ Suarez: What's the fee? _ Ali.Mayor N Mr. Odios Twelve hundred and fifty dollars. .,, 116 ' i... ,., .. i-.:',..zs. -. `-``...n . ,-� r _^t d3 1 'L..iY-'3 ,..i�x. ?i7.+t .a'?� i ssi�"`iii .• 4$r:aa S4 Y' Mayor guareat Twelve hundred and fifty dollars it will coot you, he'll 91VO you twelve hundred and forty-nine dollars, I'll out the other dollar. Mr. Odio: Sir, we're trying to bake that place break even: Artims Center. Mayor Suarez: And Plu mer will put another forty --nine, so you're down to... = Commissioner Plummer: Don't you speak for Plummer. Unidentified Speaker No. 1: OK. Mr. Mayor, we are willing to pay the ten V percent on gross. What we are requesting is the fee waiver for the rehearsals and the performance fees. We are a Miami based modern dance companyo .-- Mayor Suarez: Oh, the old Miami Herald type deal where you're going to pay us .; back if you have enough in the percentage of gross, but if you don't... _ Unidentified Speaker No. 1: No, no. It's ten percent of gross. Mr. Odio: The rehearsal is two hundred dollars. Mayor Suarez: Yes. Ten percent of gross, ma'am. Ten percent of gross can be ten percent of zero if nobody comes, you understand. We have done that for other groups, we have done it for the pop series, I know, at the stadium for the Herald. Herald. I don't know that we're going to be doing that in the future. In the case of events that have happened over time, we're pretty sure that we are going to get our money back. I think we also do it for some of the. speed_,; races. But in your case, what if nobody shows? - we are out the money. Commissioner Alonso: Oh, don't be so negative. Unidentified Speaker No. performances. 1: Well, that's never happened before in any of our Mayor Suarez: Well, the other way to do it is, you post a bond for the amount, I mean, you know, cost you a little less than the actual amount, cost you --a lot less, usually ten percent. I don't know, if we're going to get tough on our fees, we've got to start somewhere. Unidentified Speaker No. 1: OK. We are a Miami based company and we want to perform in Miami and reach out to the Miami community, especially in the Hispanic community, that's why we chose the Manuel Artime. Out budget is extremely limited. If we are not able to get a fee waiver, then we would have to -consider another space, because other spaces go by a sliding scale depending on your budget. Mayor Suarez: OK, Would Dade County Auditorium give you -that? Unidentified Speaker No. Is The Colony Theater. The Colony Theatre is a sliding scale where it... depending on our budget, what we can afford to pay. That's why... we want to support Manuel Artime and we want to perform there, it's a wonderful space, that's why we will pay the ten percent: on the grass, we are not opposed to that, but just the rehearsal and performance fees. - Mr. Castaaeda: Let me just clarify something. The fee in, the actual fee 50 plus ten percent of gross if tickets are sold to the event. What she La Fw saying is, she wants to avoid the initial fee, but the ten percent will be part of that. ; Mayor Suarez: Well, the ten percent we always get... Mr. Cestaneda: Yes. That's correct. • s Mayor Suarez: ... as a routine matter, with everybody.` Unidentified Speaker No. l: Yes. r� Mayor Suarosc I see, so you are not giving us there, anything that•ve dOA!t, � otherwise got, anyhow, but you want to waive the flat fee of twelve hundred and fifty. Unidentified Speaker No. Is Correct. zt cs 4 i' @! 1 F t z#tom i A scyy,,y _ M 4 Mayor duareat The only Way i Would do it is if we knew for sure that you're ^r , plag to ; have enough to at least, oover the twelve hundred and fifty and you - know.. s' Mr, Olio: Vaive one day of rehearsal. That way, they can rehearse one dayji and.pay for.the tither one# sir. Mayor guarea: Waive the use of the facility for one day for rehearsal, which Would not be otherwise used for anything also. That goes back to our policy x of allowing use of facilities at no cost, there is no out of pocket to us. preswaablyj you will clean up and close and open and everything also. At4 least, we can justify that, I can't do anything... for myself, I can't do any better than that. No out of pocket. >- Unidentified Speaker No. 1: we will be responsible for what? the... No, I LY,t don't think... we can't do that. Mayor, Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on waiving the fee for the one day rehearsal. Commissioner Plummer: She said they can't do it. Commissioner Alonso: No? Unidentified Speaker No. 1: Our performance there was contingent on receiving this waiver and we want, like I said, to reach out to the Hispanic community. 01, We are doing lecture demonstration in different schools in the area and that's why we chose the Manuel Artime and we went to staff and we were told to come before you. Mayor Suarez: I presume that's a non profit agency? Unidentified Speaker No. 1: Yes, it is. Mayor Suarez: Otherwise, you are reachingout is very similar to you. know, Publix°and any other Bank, or anybody else that is reaching out to get our money. Unidentified Speaker No. 1: We are not asking for money. - Commissioner Plummer: In effect, you are. Vice Mayor Dawkins: If you're,asking us to waive a fee that you don't pay, w; what do you pay with? Mayor Suarers She is saying no pay from... would you accept paying from the gross? Unidentified S eake o :- n g r N 1: Exactly. Mayor Suarez: In addition to the, ten percent, the twelve hundred and,.fiftyll A - flat, plus ten percent of gross, paid from the receipts? In other words, you first have to pay us twelve fifty and then, ten percent of gross on top of that. l " Mr. Odio: Or, she can give us twenty percent of the gross.'. q. Mayor Suarez: Or give us twenty percent of the gross. Now we, are reaching out... we're reaching in. Actually we're reaching in is what we're doing.- ;. Unidentified Speaker No. 1: This is : our artintic director. negotiating, now. Unidentified Speaker No. 2: Yes. The biggest problem with the Manuel ArtU►e, It's not being used by the Miami artist because it is too expensivee auA .l think that what we are asking for now is the way it's net up, is the waiver, but what would be better is if something could be net up with a sliding scale.'. Because it's a... Mayor Suores: Well that's what he Just proposed, twenty percent of gross. its A i - �'fttdentilieg Speaker 'Mo. �3 Mayor guaresf All right! 11 Vftaty percent of gross. All right, Unidentified Speaker No. 2: Yea, that Would be fine. Mayor Suares3 Aid if gross is zero, out ten percent' All fight. waste out twenty percent, we used to be Unidentified Speaker Mob It but we'll be hurting more than you. t5 i*; Commissioner Alone*, Weir, late give it a try. Mayor Suarez3 I'll entertain in the form of a motion at least for one year. 7 1 1 Commissioner Plummer: gxcuse tine. How many people do you expect? Unidentified Speaker No. 2: We are expecting about five hundred at ten..* well twelve dollars a'ticket. Commissioner Plummer: All right. Now, how many does that hold? I want a hundred free ticket for inner-city kids. No, no, no. Not as part of the twenty percent. Mayor Suarez:- For the rest of the seats? Commissioner Plummer: The empty seats. A hundred free kids, a hundred free tickets.��� Mayor Suarez: Or fifty. You know, a reasonable number, whatever is reasonable. In view of your expectation, whatever is reasonable. ;. unidentified Speaker No. 2: That's... we do a lot of outreach. We plan on doing things like that. I'm talking about tickets we're selling. We plan on that, anyway. 4 k t. . Mayor Suarez: OK. a Commissioner Plummer: You'll make a hundred ticket available to the Manager, that is not included in your gross. Mayor Suarez: You can give him indications who you want, sometimes he has the tickets, he don't know what to do with them. So you can give him an indication who you intended to give them to, in the first place. Unidentified Speaker No. 2: That's fine. ;.' Mayor Suarez: As long as they go to people for free who are from the inner- {; city, which means everybody in the City of Miami, the whole doggone thing is the inner-city. Fri Commissioner Alonso: So, I move with the twenty percent, the hundred tickets 2 and all the provisions. P i Mayor Suarez: That's it. 4 t Y Vice Mayor Dawkins: aw ns: Second. YH` Mayor Suarez: Moved and second. Any discussion? If not, please call the K u roll. t 9 t t � Commissioner Plummer: And you will clean all the windows before you lsav,e.' -r x `1. /-i 119 AW � �� The folioving resolution was introduced by Co missi6ner Alonsoo who moved its adoptiont RESOLUTION NO. 90-693 A RESOLUTION GRANTING THE REQUEST OF MARY STREET DANCE THEATER FOR A WAIVER Or THE RENTAL AND REHEARSAL FEES IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO 'EXCEED $1,250 FOR A FALL CONCERT TO BE MILD AT THE MANUEL ARTIME PERFORMING ARTS CENTER DURING THE PERIOD NOVEMBER 1-3, 1090, CONDITIONED UPON THE ORGANIZATION PAYING THE CITY TWENTY (20) PERCENT OF GROSS TICKET SALES AND PROVIDING THE CITY MANAGER WITH ONE HUNDRED (100) TICKETS FOR THE PERFORMANCES; FURTHER CONDITIONED UPON THE ORGANIZERS OBTAINING INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS AS MANDATED BY THE CITY OF MIAMI AND PAYING FOR ANY COSTS ABOVE AND BEYOND THOSE FEES GRANTED BY THIS RESOLUTION. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Vice Mayor Dawkins, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 32. PERSONAL APPEARANCE; JOSE FABREGAS AND EUGENIA ANDERSON (CODEC, INC.) TO ANNOUNCE THAT THEY WOULD START CONSTRUCTION OF THEIR BUILDING PROJECT $` (105_ UNITS - N.W. 18 AVENUE AND 35 STREET) IN SEPTEMBER - CODEC AGREED TO BUILD. NEXT 202 PROJECT ON CITY -OWNED LAND, IF MADE AVAILABLE BY;THE '- CITY. _ Mayor Suarez: Jose Fabregas. Mr. Odio: Mr. Mayor, he is withdrawing that item. Mayor Suarez: Withdrawn? Mr. Odio: He wanted me to announce that he is building... started then building of 105 units, and they wanted to make that announcement. a Mayor Suarez: You mean, bricks, mortar, action, you're building? Mr. Odio: Bricks and mortar. Ms. Eugenia Anderson: Good news. Great. Mayor Suarez: When, cuando? E' Ms, $ugenia Anderson: We're going to close... my name is Eugenia Anderson, I'm their housing director... ra Mayor Suarez: We don't care. When are you going to start building? Me. Anderson: September 19th, we're closing this loan and we'll break ground, F1 the following week. Z. y£ Mayor Suares: How many units? no. Anderson: A hundred and five unite. ll� �t��A� i l• a � � ,i r�,};, ._ MW . 'Yl - r +� r; a Wayor tuarest A119pattah7 Xi Y • Axdemfii , ni Y . wall, fear AllapattahY . . "1 kaytt dwtrat: - ' Very x y Mr > Odi.+br bratty oiose }Fti ire.'Atdarfionttea, it is Allapattah. r, Mayor 'Suajrsit All right. r Vice Mayor Dawkins: That's the Melrose sight? '. Mr. Odio: No. Vito Mayor Dawkins: What is it? Mr, Odior Eighteenth... Ms Anderson: Northwest 18th Avenue and 35th Street.; :. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I'm going to tell you again, in here. The next 202, I'm >5 going to try to find somewhere north of 36th street, south of 71st street and betveen the expressway and 17th avenue. Ms.`Anderson: If you find the land, we'll do it. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. Bailey. Mai. Anderson: Do you have any on your portfolio? Vice=Mayor Dawkins: Hold up, I move that this be held up until I come hereon Monday morning with the land, and they're going to do it on it, OK? Commissioner Plummer: There is nothing to... - Vice Mayor Dawkins: I move that we hold this and we give the Manager the authority to ` go ahead and negotiate this- and ` sign it, , but ,Monday morning, I '} will give them a piece of land that my brothers have burned down, you know during the 'riot, 'I've got plenty land that ve can: put a 202 on,,OK?'--.1 ;t r. . Ms.>Anderson: OK. 'k Vice' Mayor` Dawkins: You're going :to do it? 4-1 Ms. Anderson: Yes. Commissioner Plummer: You didn't understand. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Huh? , Commissioner Plummer: They withdrew this item. What are you withholding? Vice Mayor Dawkins: No. He didn't withdraw it. Commissioner Plummer: They withdrew the item. They are not asking for ti,. Z4 Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, what is she speaking on? Kk Ms. Anderson: I'm making an announcement. u>z Commissioner Plummer: They are here just to announce.$ Vice Mayor Dawkins: What, they what? F Mr. Yernandext Giving good news. Me. Anderson: diving good news. s3 7 tj`�fi {3 Ch i 'iC -� r L eaftisojeast Pluemera They of here t6 Ailia you the good ft*Vbi They wstMrew the items. Vice may6t btwkina: Ahd you're het 1e3111k to build thedi7 z Commi�tltiei�et� .i�ii�laso t 'Yee i_ , , qsu Comisaioner Plummer: No, they are..6 that's what they 're here to tell us. Corrm►issioner Alonso: To tell us the good news. �dg n, Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes, I understand that. But do they understand... do you all understand what I'm saying? _' r Commissioner Alonso: yet. Commissioner Plummer: They've already said. You give them the land, they'll build. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. That's what... Commissioner Plummer: Good morning. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. I'm going to give them the land. Commissioner Plummer: Good morning. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Herb Bailey. Start somebody now and identify three parcels of land, please. Mayor Suarez: And all the other support that goes with it to get the section 202 in place because we know how hard it is. Ms..Anderson: Thank you. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Except the land on 7th Avenue between the expressway, I don't want no 202 in there. We've got enough of that kind of housing in there. Commissioner Plummer: How about the 1100 block of 50th street? Mayor Suarez: All right. Right in front of the park, that little house there, tear that°up.. The one with�ths little columns and driveway. Get the bulldozers out. Commissioner Alonso: He cannot approve of that. Nancy has to be the one to decide on .that. Mayor Suares: Make sure you remove Nancy, first. 1, b t Y; �i «t , rt v x4 �J { u y'm J3 ,� �..+.,d,r.::.�r:•:Jt.i::�.��aiita�wir�ili4aii�YWYtlYi a""1f1'itriiiifVlYwiiYGli+SiilililtiLiYi.Yl4YtaY�iLY1WtiYNiJi14tYJIliG11Yi1QiYYiiii'YiiStYi(Ai�iiiFilY - 33a IRISP: DISCUSSION CONCI 4100 TOBACCO ROAD a 02 Bt FOR UT"810 t 01 11"1 CORCMINa P'RCM jAITION' Or NOISE RBLIAnt#a THE MIAMI RIVER SUMB PNBTIVAh - hIRNCT CITY ATTORNNT TO PRIURS BMNR C! ORBINAM UVINd CITE` COMMISSION AUTHORITY TO VAI'VR PROHIBITION. 7d Mayor Suares: Item 300 Tobacco Road. Mr. Odio: They are requesting that the extension of time for the ordinance be extended to 1:00 a.m. The... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Just for one festival? Commissioner Alonso: One day. Mr. Odio: For one day, but... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Move it. Mr. Fernandez: No. Mr. bdio: ... wait, wait. it. r„ The City Attorney is telling us that we cannot do Commissioner Alonso: Oh! Vice. Mayor Dawkins: Why? Mr. Fernandez: Because in the code, this is one of those areas where you have not given yourself the right to waive it or the right to extend it, no, if you intend to do that, what you have to do is pass an amendatory ordinance, giving yourself the right to extend it upon request and then do it. Because right now, the code does not give you the authority to do that. Commissioner Plummer: How did we give the right to Miami Vice to blow up a car in that area at three in the morning? Mr. Fernandez: I have no idea. Mr. Odio: You did it, the Commission did it. Commissioner Plummer: Sure, we did it. Mr. Fernandez: There is another provision of the code that's very specific µ' for fireworks and for that kind of event... Mayor Suarez: Sure, that's clearly... Mr. Fernandezc ... The City Commission has the power to do that. Mayor Suarez: That's clearly not noise. I mean, you know, you blow up a c,sr, fireworks... Mr. Fernandez: Yes. Fireworks and that type of thing, there is a provision in the code very specifically, in fact, section 19.184 gives you the power to be flexible and extent, but when it comas to the are of noise iA neighborhoods, as a result of parties and things like that, Which is what this f is, you don't have the flexibility. You can do it however, if you runt... �2 Mayor Suarez: That's why Shakespeare said, the law is an abs. :4 ;!! Commissioner Plummer: No, he doesn't look like that, Mayor Suarez: Not the lawyer, although that may.,. What 0o we do hare, you want an emergency ordinance? You draft it, set it back to up...195 r Commissi.onor Plummer: Lot's hear you say, how, baw, hew bar, Commissioner ,Alonso: So what dQ we have to do? i l'g3 f PRE" C Mr. lPerhandest If you intend to do that, that would be the thing to doi will cam back t6 you shortly With an emergency ordinance. Commissioner Plum6ri Well, let's do it, Mayor Suarest All right. Thank you. Mr, r6rnandett Thank you. Commissioner Albblos OK. Mayor Suarez: And the Manager recommends it, presumably, we're -hot doing something that is going to create all kinds of presidents and problems) ate. 34, - GRANT REQUEST BY THE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. PARADE AND FESTIVITIES COMMITTEE, INC. FOR CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS CONCERNING THEIR PARADS1 DISCUSS FUNDING REQUEST. Mayor Suarez: Item 31, Martin Luther King Parade. Commissioner Plummer: Move it. Mr. Odio: No. No, air. Commissioner P1112—sr: How do you mean, no. All they're asking for is a street closure. Mr. Odiot No, they are also asking for twenty thousand... Commissioner Plummer: No, air. What's before me is a street closure. Commissioner Alonso: Street closures. MayorSuarezt OK. On the street closure, we have a motion. Do we,have a second? Commissioner Plummer: I've already made it. Mayor Suarez: Yes, I know. But we will need a second. Commissioner Alonso: Second. Mayor Suarez: Thank you. Call the roll. Dr. Preston Marshall: Ah... Mayor Suarez: Wait. Wait, Doc. Z The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: -4, RESOLUTION NO. 90-694 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, PARADE TO BE HELD JANUARY 21, 1991, PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC SUBJECT TO THE. ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AND THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY, (Here follows body of resolution, omitted hers, and On' file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being aoconded by Commissioner Alonso,the resolution was, passed and adopted by the following vote: -�4 124 opt I �. � l �r .. J f•�YrC� �`�S.'H�"�'r4`i .L �''.}, '3 t$.��a•'- v, •�-y+4 .1`N j- x,rt, x 5f i tC '' CbMias iorteP View Da iturire 5 .. co misaioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonao Vida Mayor Millis: J. bawkiea . igar�rdr Xs��rier L. > Suaraa . ISS man*. t APSINTs None, CVMMINTS MAN ArTER ROLL CALL: r Commissioner Plummer: Doctor, you were eloquent, come back next year. what's the hurt item, Mr. Mayor? Dr. Marshall: OK. My, problem was, that I have two commitments that haven't t ' been completely fulfilled from last year. One was that I have some bills that I don t have the balance of one commitment. Second, I have... that I was told " to be included into this year's budget... Commissioner Alonsos That's right. �r Dr. ,Marshall: ... and that's on the record, and I would like for those �} ,:. obligations to be fulfilled. We do have bills to... T Mayor Suarers On last year's bills, what's the problem? We just didn't have q, budget beyond a... a Mr. Odios We did not get the bills. A, Commissioner Alonsos On last year's bills, it was not a guaranty that we•wers ., going -the entire morning, we were going to try to get as much money as we could and that's what we did, and concerning to be placed as a regular item in the -budget... it's true, it was approved by this Commission. Commissioner Plummer: How much are the bills?` Dr.-Marshalls. The bills right now... well the bills are five thousand and the City:, owes about thirty-eight_ hundred or something like that..._I mean,�'the $ g. pledge. Mayor Suarers You haven't seen the bills? - have the bills been presented, reviewed? Commissioner Alonsos Bring the bills and see what we can do.° Mayor Suarers All right. As to past''year's bills,.bring the bills,,:.check it out, use what the commitment was and let's get that resolved. As to next } year's budget, what are we doing with festivals?z Mr. Castanedas No money. Mayor Suaress Zero. Mr, Castanedas Zero. Commissioner Alonsos None, zero? Mayor Suarers Not a single cent of the two hundred thousand dollar policy - �• festival policy? Mr. Castaneda: Nothing, zero. We're just trying to 'get our commitment fulfilled so we would Dr. Marshall:Ali be in some kind of shape. Mayor Suarers I think we're going to end up running afoul of 0 lot of commitoputs votve'made over the years' but I guess people knees that it was for , one fiscal year at a time. And this year, it's either that or praisingto s, K, art¢ I don't hear anybody saying they want' to raise taxes, so.. + Aad vwl v* $OnA as far of we can than we think to... t' ; truutr w. # .. N = x9y c-amassiobar Plummers mot wove gone trio far. Mayer duarees thin out the budget otherwise. Commissioner Pluwmr is 02, spaying- that--wave=-gene. too fatj- r don't thin we've- gone too far but we may to a. a little farther late on todgP, who knows. The hearings begin at fiva, to... 3100:p►tn. bos:. Dr. Marahaile All right. Whys do I subtiait the bills to the Managers ! Mayor Suaress Frank, and/or the Manager. Frank is the first person in.linay Mr. Marshall: OK. Frank. j Mayor Suarasts . And if you have any problems, if they are' valid bills, - and It ws=made'_that commitment, -Commission Alonso apparently has reviewed it, let us F know, we'll take Commission action on it. r Dr,::Marshall: OK. Appreciate that very much.- , . Mayor Suarezt Thank you. } Dr. Marshall: We'll be back to the hearing too, committee. F -- r 35. GRANT REQUEST BY CORAL GATE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION FOR CLOSURE OF T• DESIGNATED STREETS CONCERNING CORAL GATE'S 40TH BIRTHDAY PARTY. i = . irw�.rrrwra.iww.rarwr—rrr—wwrrrr—�._r—.r.—.r.wa��r++—rr_�.wrwrr----w—rww--rrr Mayor Suarez: Item 32. Coral Gate Homeowners' Association street closures }. and fee. - waivers?... Commissioner Plummer: What? Mayor; Suarez: ... or is this because of the street closures? - that new... In ,"t the,old days, it just seem like a fee permit because it was only twenty-five cents per linear foot, now, they, come out as fee waivers because of large amounts. And you guys did all of that to us without us realizing it. Thank you. = And then -blaming, it on-Plummer's committee for the. .Grove, where ,we clearly have:a problem. Mr. Castanedar I think. Prieto made a mistake when he made his presentationA before. It is thirty dollars plus twenty-five cents per linear foot, the charge. k 4:3 Mayor Suarez: -That's what he said. -Twenty-five cents per linear foot. Mr. Castaneda: The new... that's what is in the books now. Mayor Suarez: Right. _ e Mr. Castaneda: He said that he went from twenty-five to a dollars. Mayor -Suarez: Right. Mr. Castanedat It,was zero, before. r . Commissioner Plummer: And how much in their fee? �a Mr. Odio: Your hundred and ninety dollars and twelve cents. " x Mayor Suarez: From a Coral Gate Homeowners' Association, you can't come up with four hundred and ninety dollars? n " z� UVIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Plus six hundred dollars for the insurance. } r Vice Mayor Dawkiass In a fluent neighborhood like that? r Mayor Suarez:: And six hundred dollare for the insurance? Castaneda: flight.Jq S 13+b aV # K �!Y x Mayor'$uareet We can't have 'block parties if people can't afford to pay that kind of money, We just can't have them. The insurance... unfortunately, we don't" ,kegulate the insurance industry, God help theta, if we did. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAK91i We understand. Mayor Suarea: I mean, God help them if we have the power here to regulate the insurance companies, because I guaranty you, they would not be able to charge you six hundred dollars for whatever it is you're going to do over there for the block party. But we don't regulate them, so that six hundred dollars, we have to'have 'that assurance that we are not going to be held liable. And then the other four hundred dollars for a permit to close streets, I mean, I don't know what city in the world you wouldn't have to pay that kind of money. Go ahead, I mean, after having said all of that, if you want to say something. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: I just wanted to say that I am here for a joyful reason, the residential community of Coral Gate is turning forty this year and we'd like to celebrate by having a block part on November 4th between 2:00 and S OO P.M. We would like to request fee waivers and a grant toward insurance, if at all possible. We want you to know that... Mayor Suarez: How about a little money from Mr. Fernando Rodriguez?... Commissioner Alonso: I was going to say that. Mayor Suarez: Yes, and maybe, Mr. Antonio Cardet to build a little bit of goodwill with the community there. Have you thought of that? Commissioner Alonso is obviously volunteering to call Fernando Rodriguez... Commissioner Alonso: I didn't go as far as that, but I thought... - Mayor Suarez: ... who has been seeking an appointment with me. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: I don't think she would want to be put in that position, but... Mayor Suarez: I'll call Mr. Cardet. { UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: OK. Now your honor, if it is not possible, we will find some way to take care of this. We do want you to know that there will be nothing sold, no alcohol consumed, so it will be... there will be no money, everything will be given... Commissioner Plummer: It's going to be a lousy party. ,. Commissioner Alonso: Family party, Mr... UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: ... things will be given to the participants, the 4: invitees, OK? Mayor Suarez: Guess who's not coming to it, right? I guess Plummer is not going to it. Commissioner Alonso: Commissioner Plummer is not going. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Well, we do hope you all can make it. Mayor Suarez: Street closures. I'll entertain a motion. Fees - fee waivers ' at this point, no. on the street closures, please. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Move it, street closures, only. Mayor Suarez: Moved. Thank you. Commissioner Alonso: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded, Commissioner Alonso. Cull the roll. Commissioner Plumers What vote the motion? Noyor Suerms: Just street closures, no moAoy. s 127 F r ar Y ,tr F sa a you All no fee waiver. 00019e1eter PlWabort hell the-strost blosure very deiiniteiy, we to tors 1 �< Mayor `Ouatrost Thank you. It would be even better it you didn't say Anything amid just voted. , Commissioner Alonso: Yes. Take a vote.3 V'ice;Maydr DAwkifts: You could tell when J. L. Plummer is running,: ha g6ts the ktizi last word in, -; Mayor guarozs Call the roil. The following resolution was introduced by Vice Mayor Dawkins, who moved its adopt ion t RESOLUTION NO. 111-695 A ABSOLUTION, CONCERNING A BLOCK . PART TO BE CONDUCTED g ,. BY THE CORAL GATE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, INC., TO CELEBRATE THEIR FORTIETH (40TH) BIRTHDAY ON NOVEMBER 4, 1990; AUTHORIZING THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE, ty, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AND THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY AND UPON ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR ALL NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Alonso, the resolution was passed ,. and adopted by the following vote: AYBSt Commissioner Victor De Yurre .: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. -Commissioner Miriam Alonso ' Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins .. } ..:Mayor: Xavier L. Suarez NOES:. None. ' ., ABSENT: None. COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL: Mayor Suarez: I think Florida Power and Light is eager to get involved in . their Commissioner Alonso: Oh, yes. Mayor Suarez: ... Coral Gate Homeowners Association. You see him over then few hu>adred:.buaks. _r the balding guy with the glasses. Just desperate. to give a41 ;,,: Commissioner Alonso: They have started the whole problem with moving on at �. the underground. r,a Mayon Suarez: Don't they have are office over there? ;. Commissioner Alonso: And they mobilised the emir* community because of th ! t; work you're doing, believe me. Yes. So, be nice to them. Mayor Suarezt You can tell he is excited, .he is all is to -it airojs4y. ,)X. TbAnk you, y 3 a UHiDBUTMED SRX=R: Thank you very much. x r M'l►yor Suss$; Tot) bad we _diddn't .have) any mousy, iOrA actcry abo��.+fit �- r. hgvo . B tooling you're . So ing to Md it. r F -SEW". i ? it r Camtouioner Alouecr Give her yeur aard. Commissioner plummert What... can i sae you a minute. Was the sit hundred dol liars t , 6 was that a quote that ' y►ou got t What happened t6 the ° pattkal• tht►t f offerad irew the City oL . ,, : Mayor duaraiet Ba1f 3.nirurti►ee or umbrella insurance? No. t guess it ean"t be, k` Mr. Castansdat I assume Segundo Perez worked for them to try to get them the beat ptica and that was it. Mr. Fernandezt :Yes, exactly. Mayor Suareet Sounds high. tfR Mr. Fernandezt Not for this kind of event. And those were the best quotes we y are getting on a global type of policy that we've split UP. ## Vice Mayor Dawkinst Yee, but six hundred dollars for insurance for one day?' Commissioner Plummert Oh yes. That's nothing. Mr. Fernandezt And for an event that there must be anticipating close to five hundred people, if not more. Less than five hundred people? Well, we..: Mayor Suarez: OK. All right, we'll work that out. If you can find something better, God bless you. 36. DISCUSSION CONCERNING FUNDING REQUEST FROM FLORIDA FOOD ' RECOVERY PROGRAM - ADMINISTRATION OFFERS TO ASSIST IF MCKINLEY ACT FUNDS BECOME AVAILABLE. Mayor Suaress =Item 33 Vice Mayor Dawkins. Florida Food Recovery to request food,, funding: t' Commissioner Plummer: Funding? X Mr. Steve s Thank you for the resolution of July 12th, endorsing our V program and... - Mayor Suarez: Are you the Sunday guys? Mr. Steve : Excuse me? heMa or Suarers Are you the Sunday guys, the guys that do,the feadin$ t} Sundays or do you do them every?... ) vice Mayor Dawkins: No. Mr. Steve : We were just at the City of Miami Beach explaining that, we give to agencies, we do not give to individuals or loose groups. o Unidentified Speakers Steve... r Y� Mr, Steve s Once 'removed, we do not give directly and I think'tha£s meaningful. And I think the Miami Beach City maybe is trying to find'A , facility that they can do this in a more orderly manner. Unidentified Speakers But all their food comes from the Florida, Food -Recovery project. We have about hundreds* of agencies that are receiving food on a daily basis from our project. xx } Vice Mayor Dawkins: I'll cult through this, Mr. Mayor. Unidentified Speakers And at this particular times # we. , , as Mirim Aloµoo. knows, the CotsoaissiQner, she is a representative on our board oi' direcQs; i h# 1 A4 i#eer ; y� =iwiMZ .. have . had sore deetings with Miller bawkins, Fite Mayor, ane we've talk" alit tt. -We've been feeding a lot of different groups in a lot of the toughest areas in bade County and basically in the City of Miami. Via* Mayor baokinat Mr. Mayor, this is a group that gets food from the fo*d - stores .that thisfood to outdated or marshed and they redistribute it. They said they needed money# I told them we didn't have any, they are here to request money from the Commission because I told them... Commissioner Plummer: How much money and what would the money be used for? N Mr, Woo Let me give you a suggestion... Oh...17 Vice Mayor Dawkinss Nov why are you going to go through that when you don't 1 have any? Why you make them go through that? Commissioner Plummer: I can ask. r Vice Mayor Dawkins: You're just, you're evil. Unidentified Speakers Well, Commissioner Plummer, that's a goad question. First of all, for the past two years of this program, and we've fed over forty t million dollars worth of food.'- Commissioner Plummers My question is, how much are you looking for and what's it going tobeused for? £ Unidentified Speaker: OK. Well, we're looking for a fifty thousand dollars grant to'emergency money funds to our program at this time. And the reason we are asking for that money is because operationally speaking, the money has been coming out of Steve's pocket and our pockets, basically, not making 4ny - money on this project but putting in over the past two years, and as >I -saidt fed four million dollars worth of food. We have a lot of things that have been donated to us over the past two years. Warehouses that aren't able to be a used because"we have no electrical money, truck that are available for us, but we have no money to run the trucks, drivers available to help deliver the food; programs that we have to coordinate our advocate groups. So, we have 'a r_ representation of advocate groups of people that actually receive food from us 4 and they don't have any money either and we're feeding everybody for free. But in order to feed people for free, our organization needs the operational cost to be able to stand as a one body voice for all people in need of food. L Commissioner Plummer: What do you get from Dade County Welfare?_ Unidentified Speakers We haven't... we are now talking with their... Metro Dads, we have not... h _ Commissioner Plummer: It'"s their responsibility. w+ Unidentified Speaker: Well, we are' recognized by the Dade League ofCities and we have twenty-seven cities that have given us a proclamation.. And=,oth+er cities are now... Commissioner Plummer: Yes, we'll give you a proclamation, that doesn't "Cost but a couple of dollars. Unidentif led Speaker: No. But, OK, that's true. But we're talking about � feeding the recipient groups, hundreds of hundreds of groups and we have lists of them, and you've already realized and recognized us with a resolutian ,tflitt we are feeding thousands and thousand of people, beyond and above any.othtr organization in South Florida. There is nobody that is giving away food "for free, quote unquote, through the HRS. Mr. Odios Excuse me. Let se offer this, Commissioner Plumm r. It we get McKinley Act funds in February, then you can consider giving teem go" fund#t� if we have that extra monies from McKinley Act. Commissioner Plummer: That's fine. unidentified Speaker: That's corre"Ct. What we pant to do though at. this x. - , A � two. } f x _ g S Mr. Od#-6e mall, thatle it. go we have to gait until g'ehrua y to see w spy x �¢ we get. tW ,k Mayou guateat Do you have any other suggestion*? It hot, 1et1b 90. Uto Mayor Diiii Lnet That's it fines Cut it out, .. ftiaentifLed Opuakere' Well, City Manager, the reason we have crane rod. ,t^ tieaause after talking with Miller Dawkins... a , k Vide Mayor Dawkins: Yes, and Miller Dawkins told you to come to the Commission, OK? - V61dentified `8peakert That's correct. Vld*,Mayor Dawkins OK. Now, you're here at the Commiasion now. Comisaioiner Plummer: Why did you tell them to come here it: there no ►' money? :a Vice Mayor Dawkins: Because I know you all... they didn't believe me, so I r wantedto let them hear from you. ' Commissioner'Plummers Oh. f Mr. Odio: If you wait until February, we'll know how much money we're getting from McKinley. Unidentified Speaker: Let me ask you this much. Is there any way at all... 1 keeping in mind, this program is in operational status, there are hundreds'of agencies who we are feeding that rely on us for food, every day, -every dayl People in -the streets, people living in homes, we're feeding everybody. Now the key factor is at this particular point, we need funds,i:mnediately., Mr.`Odio: We don't have funds immediately. Unidentified Speaker: Well, what about borrowing funds against something that A.' may be coming up in the future? Mr: Odios -We don't have any. Vice Mayor - Dawkins: I • think the most important thing you left, out : that you . told me and Commissioner Alonso is, you do have insurance that holds _the. C ty of Miami harmless. Unidentified Speaker: Absolutely. We have protected... . a. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I mean, you did explain that. Unidentified Speakers Mayor Dawkins... basically, Vice Mayor Dawkins is ,.? correct. We have a hold harmless agreement, we have a million- dollar. insurance policy that was donated to us, and we have permission from the . department of agriculture as well, to take this food and handle it properly, and distribute it out. How would you like to have four, five million dollars worth of food and you can't even get it out to the people? And you can't even distribute. That's the situation. Mr. Steve : And we're talking about thirty million dollars right here a in the County, two hundred and fifty million in the State. I'm besides il, •> myself, I don't know what to do. Everywhere I go, people say xhat .yam fly-. Fr I've worked for free for two years. I've delivered four million doligsrai r of food. I put ninety thousand miles on my own truck. When is some gong h, to care enough? I can't even get one of you to pick up the phone sad try end help to get Winn Dixie to release the food. We really need help life. It's not supposed to be. I put two years of this in tbs missi aVJ*a f" to create community participation, to collect thirty million dollars worth of � food, and not precedent for a nation. When are you going to help met? Mayor Suaress Before you walk out of those chambers, or certainly before 5soo ;. p.m0 we will have called the chairman of Winn Dixie in Jacksonville and *to OT „ whet we care do with them• a�io,4 d 131 r a z35 r I r- r EIF r Mr. ,Steers, i. Thank your t Unidentified Speaker: Well that's great. And if we can get some kind funds given out to us imodiately, just to help us until the McKinley Act comes, every penny is so vital to us. I am a man that needs to make money to shpport my family. The organisation brought tine in to help them and to make mohe'yr, f don't get paid at this time, I don't make money at this time,, , Steve is m putting in money at this time. The city of Miami Beach is willing to help us, I'ta Meeting with them this week. The city of Hialeah is looking for funds for us. We feed hundreds and thousands of people here in your community every - day.:- Mayor Suarest We have more pending applications for McKinley Act funds than Y' any city in this community... Unidentified Speaker: That's correct. Mayor Suarez: ... by far; you know that. And we're going to keep trying and t_ as soon as any of that money is received, it sounds like your project is.. your service and project is one of the most worthy ones I can think of. " Unidentified Speaker: Thank you. Mayor, one more point. Do you realize that by us,.. we have formed an advocate's group. We met right here in this chambers last week, where we had advocates from other groups, recipient groups that need food. We are in the midst of calling seventeen hundred of them, we - have a committee to call seventeen hundred of these o ti th t = rgani za ons so a we can speak out as their voice, throughout the County and throughout the South,r Florida area. And with that voice, when you need somebody that needsfood, <g. when you find somebody that needs food, all you have to do is tell them to call us and we will be able to lock them in and give them the food. It will take a headache off of the City of Miami, the Dade County and probably, most of the big supermarkets. So, if you could see it clear just to break away some funds, there is nobody doing what we do. We are the only ones giving food away for free. And at this time, we appeal to you folks for immediate funds. I'm sure somewhere, under a rock, or whatever, there has to be some monies. And that's about all we've got to say. Is there any way at all? 1 Mayor Suarez: We will look for it, just like you're doing. I can tell you that -every single member of this Commission is involved -in helping and feeding - the homeless in a variety of ways. We don't try to say that anybody else does less,: we_just do it, sometimes quietly. And in your particular case, I'm glad you're bringing it to the attention of the general public, but all we can do is tell you that the tax payers of the City of Miami cannot pay more in taxes: - So, you know, we don't want to create more homeless by taxing some more. Unidentified Speakers That I understand. :�{y Mayor Suarez: So, we will work with the private sector and with Me Kinley Act funds from the federal government. The federal budget is 1.2 trillion dollars, it works out to, the last time I checked, it works out to a hundred.,. fifteen thousand dollars for every family in the United Stated, or some similar amount and for poor families, it's even more than that. Unidentified Speaker: So, we will be considered for the He Kinley Act funds? Mayor Suarez: Oh, absolutely. Commissioner Alonsos Definitely. Unidentified Speakers OK. And at this particularly time, I want to thank you r for all the help you've given us and if in the next couple of days, a01111C omey should come, please give me a call. Mr. Steve s Closing on my part, thank you for being willing to call the CIO$ Wins Dixie. South Florida Winn Dixie alone, twonty-four million dollars Korth of food thrown away. n: Mayon Suarers I thought of Winn Dixie because they are in the State of Florida. I don't know if Publix, I don't what their... Mr. Steve s They are also in Lakeland. r, 13pgtr's ice! „. r FCfb "`': L a — - ''t °`�r'�[`'df!3 Pi��.y+"�£'�w��� �' ;fie I4�ik : �.✓ * � 3 { fawntified Spaakeirs They are out of Lakeland Florida, lie have ten StbrOd l— that,. fi Mrs Steve I TOO, bir, That's the Jenkins. .,. Mayor guarea2 OR. And I know a member of the board of Winn Distiej t dau#t �— know any members of the board in Publix, but if you would get that tb urn would hel�y" ybu out, C Mr, Steve i Thank you. Mayor Suaress OR. Thank you both and congratulations for the work you do. ' rr.Va.o:�.:c:+arc+..�t..a..sc+b.rJi.r.rr.w..,ii�..i.r.r.r.w.rrta.r.ua...�s..ira...rrr..rya..t:..rc.rr+tc.tor.....�s.i...a.....1......�ai.... - •.•.:,r,r+r:who: ,�s: 37, FIRST READING ORDINANCES BURGLAR AND ROBBERY ALARMS AMEND CODE `- CHAPTER 3.5 (ALARM SYSTEMS) - PROVIDE THAT ALL ENFORCEMENT REMEDIES FOR = VIOLATIONS ARE DEEMED TO BE CUMULATIVE - REDEFINE TERM ALARM USER DELINEATE QUALIFICATIONS OF BURGLAR ALARM SPECIALTY ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR - SET FORTH SERVICE CHARGES AND LIEN PROVISIONS; REGARDING FALSE ALARMS - SET FORTH PROCEDURES IN CONNECTION WITH FALSE ALARMS PROVIDED THAT THERE SHALL BE NO AUTOMATIC FEE INCREASES WITHOUT COMMISSION APPROVAL. " ---------- ------------------------------�_..__� Y_ Mayor Suarez: We had an item that the Manager is requesting be handled from the morning agenda because the officer has to go back to another shift or#Y duty. Mr. Odio: Item 15. Mayor Suarez: Is that Lt. Longueira himself?' Commissioner Plummer: What item? Mr. Odio: Fifteen. �Y Lt. Joseph Longueira: Fifteen, it's the alarm ordinance. - > Vice Mayor Dawkins: Go ahead, sir. Commissioner Plummer: I want to throw it out. I want to throw the alarm - ordinance out. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Throw what out? Commissioner Plummer: Throw the alarm ordinance out. Who is in charge of.it, xF3 ` Joe? Lt. Longueira: We have an alarm unit. Commissioner Plummer: Who is in charge of the alarm unit? A Lt. Longueira: I believe we just have a police officer now. We transfer.,,,.'=�: Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, who is it? A61 °. Commissioner Plummer: Why do you have to have a policeman administer an ordinance for burglar alarms? Absolutely, there is no justification YOU ic&w give me that says that you have to have a policeman off the street enforcing . the law to administer an ordinance relating to burglar alarms. And bow many }� ;` other officers are in that unit? Commissioner Plummer: There are three officers administering a burglar alam ordinance. Lt. Longueira: There is two... 7` Commissioner PlummerS We need those two policemen on the street, p� iia " Pr, t $ - 133 t T4 4` eazrat�rn'F,q, {3,y" _ fi z y, *F - Lt, t.o ueirat There are two police officers] but Commissioner, this: ill- at timais they make arresta: Commissioner Plumert They do not make it over the ordinance, Their do not masks it over the ordinanos, This is exactly my, excuse me, fay bitch all year long. You've got policemen not doing police work. Nov we've got policafth, they should be out enforcing the lav, not doing these ordinances. Now, you take those two policemen out of there, put civilians in to administer an ordl.nanae, that's all you need, I'll back you. This is my ordnance, but never, ever did conceive that when I brought this before the Commission ' some bears ago that there would be policemen put into this capacity to do the Work r that is absolutely out out for a civilian. It's ridiculous, Com�aisaioner Plummer* PSA's were hired let me tell ou I'm oin to bring Vice Mayor Dawkins What about the PSA, J.L.?- why a PSA can't do this? � y g 6 that up during budget time. We gave the Police Department money for 100 PSA's. What did we say?- to put policemen back out on the street. You see where these PSA's are? They work on the front desk, they are working every detail, about fifty of PSA's are actually going to relieve policemen 'to go back out on the street. Now we are speaking about a burglar alarm ordinance. As far as I'm concerned, there is absolutely no justification that you have to have a sworn officer administering an ordinance. Mr. Manager... Lt. Longueira: Commissioner... Commissioner Plummer: I want to hear from my Manager. What is your justification? Mr. Odio: The Police Department have to reduced that unit, I believe at one point, they had f ive then three, now they are down to two. The Police Chief tells me that he needs sworn officers in there. Commissioner Plummer: Why? Mr. Odiot I'll provide you the information in writing if you want. In the meantime, why don't you approve this on first reading... Commissioner Plummer: Each policeman is fifty thousand dollars. What is the category of'the rank of the policemen that are administering this ordinance? Mr.'Odiot They are private, no, I mean they are police officers. Commissioner Plummer: One was a Sergeant. Mr. Odio: He is no longer there. 5— Commissioner Plummer: That's him, he is starting on midnight shifts now, so there is no longer a Sergeant there full time. a Commissioner Plummer: OK. So we have two policemen that should be out on the " street enforcing the law and they are sitting behind a desk reading an - ordinance to the public about burglar alarms. I've got to tell you something. We are going to go through that budget and I'm going to tell you something. rg. I've said it before and I'm going to may it again. There are at least fifty policemen in that police station not doing police work. Replace them with civilians and put them out on the street. Nov, anybody want to give ms;a justification, I'm willing to listen. U Lt. Longueiras Commissioner, I can understand how you feel and I'll relay u those sentiments to the Chief, but the ordinance itself is important and it has done an important thing for the department. The alarm industry since this ordinance was enacted has gotten better, we forced it to get better. When we Y` initiated this ordinance, false alarms over the years have gone down because we forced them to comply. If we do away with this ordinance, it's going to t make it worse again. OK? They are not going to have a... Commissioner Plummer: Joe, this ordinance, I have nothing wrong- there is a few, in the wordings of the ordinance that I don't agree with. QK? Wit; 'M x haying to you In$ that to take sworn policemen off of the street and put them bore absolutely defeats in my estimation, the good that this ordinance doe$, swu Now, the problem that I have in this ordinance, OK? What I have the problem 134 September 1 0" a _ M°f✓ ai h t P L �' � _ i ✓r-Yf„ � here and taking it item by item* I don't think we have the right and I d6sit think bids County is proomat y giving any qualifications for a burglar alatat _ installers I don't thing there to such a classificatibn but I think under the Cmmty charter, we don't have the right to take over that licensing facility, Mow t could be wrong on that, OIL? Lt, Loagueirai We would have to defer to City Attorney on it. Commissioner Plummer: because I think the County under home rule charter takes that right-of-way from us. I am concerned of what is the penalty for a person who allows a burglar alarm in a residential, especially a residential neighborhood,.to ring for over thirty minutes, I don't see a penalty attaches— to that. What in the penalty if they in fact allow their burglar.;to sound for over thirty minutes?. Lt. Longueira: There is nothing in there on that, sir. Comissioner Plummer: Well then, why are you putting it in the ordinance? t.rt Lt. Longueira: What section you're referring to, sir, so that I can get�on the same page.— Commissioner Plummer: Requiring that an activated annunciator be silenced within thirty minutes. If it doesn't happen, what's the penalty? Lt. Longueira: What page are you on, air? f Commissioner Plummer: I'm reading from the main ordinance, Joe. Mr. Longueira: Or, OK. Commissioner Plummer: What's the penalty? Lt. Longueira: I'm looking in the ordinance trying to find out where you're talking about, sir, because that's what- I've got it here. Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I'd ask that this matter be deferred until the neat meeting. a° Lt. Longueira: OK. Commissioner Alonso: Yes, and I also have problems with the wording in' .the 3; ordinance. Second page where it says, "C" the Budget Department and the t� f- Police Department with the approval of the City Manager shall revise the charges for services that set forth in this article, that section, it means= that it will not.have to come back to us for approval, is that it? Mr.,Fernandez: You are making reference to what page? In page two? _ Commissioner Alonso: Second page, yes. Mr. Fernandez: Section... Commissioner Alonso: A, B, C, the Budget Department and the Police Department with the approval of the City Manager. There f Mr. Fernandezt Yes. is no reference there to City Commission-oction so it is implicit in there that those decisions can be made jointly by the Budget Department and the Police Department to increase fees at future time, without City Commission involvement at all. x Commissioner Alonso: Are you people listening to this? They cah increase, in Y the future, without coming to us. I don't like that at all. Mayor Suarez: No self executing fee increases on any ordinances f^ Lt. Longueira: We didn't write that up.jr; fA Commissioner Alonso: And all of these ordinances are having enact language?- like 19 and 14. Mr. Fornandes: Yes. y 135AM +k z' .� AL Cbmisstaner A1onsat We110 1 'don't agree with thisi sa we are pausing the powers to the Budget Department and the Police Department to make the Mkt yernandeat `des• Commissioner Alonso: i don't think that's right. I think that should be eliminated. , Mr, rarnandes: Commissioner Plummer, in response to your question about what penalty is there if someone lets their alarm ring for thirty minutes, you have to go to the main text which is not being amended. The only thing you have in front of you are those areas that are being amended but otherwise, this entire 3` ordinance have an overall catchall provision for penalties for violation of i any provisions of this ordinance and that is... Commissioner Plummert They're spelled out in the number of false alarms. gip= Commissioner De Turret Let me ask you this. Do we have any segment in that h ordinance wherein the Police Department and the City pay back to the citizen if the police takes their time about getting there? Commissioner Plummer: Well you're running sometimes as much as three, four g. _ and five hour response but not on burglar alarms because it's a priority call but they are running sometimes, over an hour. Commissioner De Yurre: That's right. Commissioner Plummer: Because they've got two policemen administering this rather than going out and answering the burglar alarm. Commissioner De Turret So, that's the beef. You know, I can't penalize people for time delays when the police takes their time about this too. ,a Commissioner Plummer: Well, we'll penalize the Police Department if they don't show up within ten minutes. ;- Commissioner De Yurres Then, we'll really go bankrupt. Commissioner :Plummer: Mr. Mayor, this .is an ordinance that; I have no objection at .the request of the City Manager to allow it to"proceed as first Yt readingso that ho efull the will modify, correct it b the second P Y', y y� y reading if not, I'll vote against it. Mayor Suarez: OK. ,M R:r Commissioner Plummer: So, I'll move it as a first reading. a` Commissioner Alonso: As amended. Mr. Fernandez: As modified. 4 Commissioner Plummer: As amended, of course. That is- excuse me... = F Mayor Suarez: OK. Now, Commissioner Alonso brought up the point of the self 9 � executing increases, is that going to be modified between first and seeoad reading? x Mr, Fernandez: That has already been modified, right now.= Mayor Suarez: All right. As amended then, we have a motion and second, I'm'_ not sure we needed to go through all of this but if, since it v"-,,boimg recommended by the administration as fairly complex, yes. Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Manager, does this also include fire alarms? We„r instigated the policy with fire alarms at a different rate, Does this include - the same? Lt. Longueira: No, this is just... y� °{ 4 p6moft a a at �h4 a4wak& a t Uka 4a #k4a rills beingvi"'WoulAA *V% ekafkah aftd tip fit* WN %#" A I _:_ . . elate► dtdiAanoe is not? Mr, Odi6t 06* We did fire already. C6aniselofter Plummart Whatt- you have already done fire. Mr. Odiot Yes, yes. CbmiselbAer Pluthmett I*m sorry, I stand corrected, thank you, Mayor Suarazi Call the toll. AN ORDNANCS ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCERILATED TO BURGLARY AND ROBBERY ALARMS; AMENDING ARTICLE II. "BURGLARY AND ROBBERY ALARMS" OF CHAPTER 3. 5, "ALARM SYSTEMS" OF THE CITY CODE Or THE CITY OF MIAMIj FLORIDA, AS AMENDED; PROVIDING THAT ALL ENFORCEMENT MEASURES AND REMEDIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF SAID ARTICLE ARE DEEMED TO BE CUMULATIVE IN NATURE; REDEFINING THE TERM "ALARM USER"; DELETING THEREFROM AN OBSOLETE REQUIREMENT OF OBTAINING A CERTIFICATE FROM A FEDERAL AGENCY AND ADDING A REQUIREMENT THAT A MASTER BURGLAR ALARM TECHNICIAN HAVE HIS/HER FINGERPRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPH ON FILE WITH EITHER METRO- DADE COUNTY OR THE MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT; DELINEATING THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A BURGLAR ALARM SPECIALTY ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR; DEFINING THE TERM "BACKUP POWER SUPPLY"; AND BY SETTING FORTH SERVICE CHARGES AND LIEN PROVISIONS DEALING WITH FALSE ALARMS AND ADDING A REQUIREMENT THAT PROOF BE SUBMITTED THAT AN APPLICATION FOR AN ALARM USER PERMIT HAS BEEN FILED BEFORE THE ISSUANCE OF AN ELECTRICAL PERMIT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF AN ALARM SYSTEM; REQUIRING THAT AN ACTIVATED ANNUNCIATOR BE SILENCED WITHIN THIRTY (30) jT MINUTES FROM THE TIME THE CITY PLACES A PHONE CALL TO THE EMERGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER SHOWN ON THE PERMIT APPLICATION; SETTING FORTH THE PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED IN CONNECTION WITH FALSE ALARMS INCLUDING THE .fk INSTANCE WHERE AN ALARM SYSTEM FOR WHICH NO ALARM PERMIT HAS BEEN ISSUED GENERATES A FALSE ALARM AND SETTING FORTHPROCEDURES IN CONNECTION WITH IMPOSITION AND COLLECTION OF SERVICE CHARGES AS CONTAINED IN SAID ARTICLE;' SPECIFICALLY AMENDING SECTION 3.5-21, 3.5- 22, 3.5-23, 3.5-24, 3.5-25, 3.5-26, 3.5-27 AND 3.5-281 FURTHER REPEALING SECTION 3.5-29 IN ITS ENTIRETY AND SUBSTITUTING NEW PROVISIONS THEREFOR; CONTAINING A V REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Comissioner Alonso and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins K Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: Commissioner Victor Do Yurre ABSENT: None. The City Attorney road the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. . . . . . . . . . . 137 A 11 38. GHANT !t$Q g'� Hit SXCi tJSt" SPORTS MARKSTINO FOR CLOgum or, t INAT ST TS- AV=Rln SAS Ch HER AND WINE Aft HSTAS#.ISHM T ARIA PROHIBITED ` O RETAIL PnDLERS CONCERNING HOOP -IT -UP HA3HH�'$AI�t �. ---------------- Ma or Suaress We're n4%6 to be getting to you Mr. Mayor from the City of Sweetwater, Mayor Rivero, just going to do it in order if we may. Wa know V that the great City of Sweetwater is here rather often on very meritorious items, but typically, are requesting something form City of Miami, so ve Will get to you in a second, sir. Item 34, Sports Marketing. Are they here? Request street closures. Mr. Odios We recommend this. We are partly sponsoring this and... Mayor Suarea: Permit to sell beer and wine and restriction of retail peddlers - " for their Hoop -it -up. t l 9' Commissioner Plummers Move it. Vice Mayor Dawkinss You recommending this, Mr. Manager? Mr. Odios Yes, I am.— Mayor Suarers Moved and seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the - roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoptions RESOLUTION MO. 90-696 ` A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE NATIONAL 3-ON-3 HOOP -IT -UP BASKETBALL SERIES TO BE CONDUCTED ON OCTOBER 26, 1990, _ IN THE VICINITY OF THE MIAMI ARENA, PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR - TRAFFIC, SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE, FIRE, RESCUE .AND INSPECTION k SERVICES; AUTHORIZING A ONE -DAY PERMIT TO SELL BEER AND. WINE IN CONNECTION WITH SAID EVENT SUBJECT.TO THE ISSUANCE OF ALL PERMITS REQUIRED BY: LAW; FURTHER ESTABLISHING PERMITS REQUIRED BY LAW= FURTHER ESTABLISHING AN AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL. PEDDLERS DURING THE PERIOD OF THE EVENT; CONDITIONED UPON THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY AND UPON THE ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR{ ,. ALL THE NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH SAID EVENT. t, (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) s Upon being seconded by Vice Mayor Dawkins, the resolution wan passed and i. adopted by the following votes z AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. fi} ABSENT: None. } COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALLS # Mayor Suarez: Obviously, don't have to put as the record. This iavolvem no expenditure by the City. ' IS t C "Mmm'"Opw, Iq 10i, AMOR122 AMAOR TO GIU CITIES Or SWIMAIIA AND OPA- tb=,r1181f A10ft Or 1t tSAL ON rUTM 1111A J!OR CITY OF MIMI SURPLUS MO"1tOT=1#. Mayor Suarez: equipment? re Item 35. City of Sweetwater. You want to give us Some surplus Mr. Odiol We need some police cars. Mayor Suarez: We could use a few police cars, if you could give us a few. Unidentified Speaker: Oh, we have plenty to give. Mayor.Suarazt We had forty-five I think that were in accidents 'last weekend,, and the weekend before that, twenty-nine? Mr. Odios We have given them thirty-six cars. Mayor Suarez: But how many did we have last weekend in accidents? - forty - some? Mr. Odiot We... forty some cars. Mayor Suarez: Chief, we are very... Unidentif ied .Speaker: Right now, we are considering bicycles, and I think it would.be good exercise for... Mayor Suarez: A lot of cities are going to bicycles.. And some have roller skates. Commissioner Plummer: That's on the hooker patrol and they don't have no hookers. Unidentif ied Speaker: Well, first of all I want to thank you for the help that you have. given us in the past, and for all the equipment in excess of $61,000 according to your City Manager, they have given us in the past. What ve.request here, was a trash crane. We realize that this crane, you have not declared a category "A" surplus yet, but we will like to make a request, so when: you do., we will be considered. Also, we need some trash trucks and I think you have some declared a category "A" surplus and six motorcycles. That's what we're requesting at this time. And we realize.... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Yes, Vice Mayor Dawkins. Vice Mayor Dawkins: We cooperate, and every.time you've come, we've met your need. What does.the County give Sweetwater? Commissioner Plummer: A big bill. Unidentif ied Speaker: Well, right now, the only thing that I am finding in the big increase in the taxes. Vice Mayor Dawkins: But they've got to... I'll tell you, 1, will take you to their... where they got their stuff and they've got more- trucks declared surplus... right out there by the Palmetto expressway, than we have. Unidentified Speakers OK. I'll go any place... with you and,,,, Vice Mayor Dawkins: I mean, you know, they've got them sitting there. Unidentified Speakers anything we can get, we don't care where it come from, we will be glad to accept it. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I was Just Saying, you ought to try them. Ito 8"t"b*V, rvi, Is 1 �e ties Etter plea 'i 611 .I thihlr the motion he is looking for todayt tad those Items whieh he Iistlid that Mr. Williams be given the wherewith that if this e4uipmaht-beeofts,610diiable'that he has the first right of refusal at the ut#uti surplui Vriees I think that's the motion he is looking fort and I sty ffiov!!, Commissioner Alonsot Second. :�. Mayor Suarett So moved and seconded. The City of Sweetwater has how many e166toral precincts? tinidentifiad -3peakers One. Unidentified speakers Two. Two precincts. Mayor Suareits 'It's gone from one to two, OK. I just want to give people an f idea of the size of the City we are talking about, so they don't get the impression that we are giving away the... Commissioner Plummeri And that come from the guy that when I was... }E y ry Unidentified Speaker: Actually, we have three, but one is not ours. .It's Fontainbleau that they moved over there to the City. rt Mayor'Suarez: And they stole it from you, you stole it from them.All right,' r call the roll on the motion.}` Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I want you to know that motion comes fi6m the guy who used to get his proverbial in a ringer when I was younger and went to Sweetwater with all my girlfriends. Unidentified Speaker: I know, you told me about it and you know... That's a nice beard you've got wearing today. Commissioner Plummer: Thank you, sir. Commissioner Alonso: It was a nice isolated area, I bet you. Commissioner Plummer: It was. a' Commissioner Alonso: I know. Commissioner Plummer: Call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoptions RESOLUTION NO. 90-697 " A RESOLUTION CLASSIFYING SIX (6) SURPLUS POLICE PATROL SPECIFICATION MOTORCYCLES, ONE (1) GARBAGE TRUCK WITH CRANE, AND TWO (2) GARBAGE TRUCKS' WITH NETS AS` CATEGORY "A" STOCK, SHOULD SUCH VEHICLES BECOME AVAILABLE AS SURPLUS CITY STOCK; FURTHER DONATING THE SAME TO THE CITY OF SWEETWATER, FLORIDA, SUCH DONATION<; TO BE VALID AND EFFECTIVE BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 27, 1990A_ AND SEPTEMBER 26, 1991, UPON EXECUTION OF THE APPROPRIATE RELEASE. DOCUMENT$, SAID VEHICLES TO B8 A' USED BY THE CITY OF SWEETWATER, FLORIDA, IN ITS 3 EFFORTS TOWARD DETERRING CRIME AND PROVIDING SOLID WASTE SERVICES. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on r file is the Office of the City Clerk.) 5q Upon being seconded by Commissioner Alonso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following votes 140 1 ri . ..-:. ,..,-..: ,.._ ., - _•... .,'. J:.>K.sa.+.wii.....3-"'�icfidrr7 EF�"�tF�� ci x yt4 W -t , i r r f A' �t C Fi�VL iast6seL ♦1Do urre fi �� CamtostenAr J t, itlr, r, Jr. Comissioner Miriam Alonso Vies Mayor* Millar it wwlkins Mo la t None, Aggs Mayor Xavier L. §uarea.- COMMUNTg MADE AMR ROLL CALLS Vice MAyor,Dawkinat- Yes,`with the proviso that Opa-Lock^ be consulted and if ram, they need any of these surplus motorcycles, that they too, along with Swroetwater =have the first right of refusal. ' Unidentified Speakers OK. Thank you very touch, Mayor and Commissioners..' `}.� r�WWrvWWWr.irYrrrrrrrWrwwrirrWwa.,...r�+rWrywrrrWrrrrwrr.rrrrr�r�rr�r..�Wa�iw�a:.:+u+�a►rrarrirt 40. DI SCUS4 AND . TEMPORARILY TABLE RBNAMINa. OF BAST BAY VISTA MINI PAWL AS � t; MILLER J. DAWKINS MINI PARK (See label 54). ft Xr •. • �I�i1��WW' ".:. WYWWrr+.rrwrr..Yw.rWrW�Wrrrrrrrrrr�r.►rrrrrrWr�.rrw�WW�iiw�wW`rrwrr�.w.i�W�Y ,. s Commissioner Plummer: What's this next item? Is Miller Dawkins dropping dead? Commissioner Alonso: No. But Nancy came and said, don't take this item` today. ,. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Nancy... I don't... well, I listen to Nancy, so I suggest you guys listen too. Who did this, anyway? I don't know who did it? Commissioner Plummer: Who is Bay Vista? r_ Vice Mayor Dawkins: Where, where is Bay Vista? Commissioner Plummer: Where is Bay Vista? - x: Mr. Alberto Ruder: First of all, there are three Bay Vistas, and'ae deed- b 31 clarify: There is a south Bay _Vista -an east Bay ',Vista and a north Say Vista: Commissioner Plummer: Well, where is Bay Vista, whether it's east, north or south? i r h Mr: Ruder: I don't know. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, who put it on the agenda? - who requested it? Mr. Ruder: There is a citizen, there is a letter. -; Commissioner Plummer: I think that's a... isn't that up -there there -.the: —x-. prostitutes .are or... 4. Mr. Ruder: Not too far away. Mr. Odic: This is a .request from Levi Rogers. - He is' the'vica ipresidont,-of` t the Bay Vista Neighborhood Association. ; Vice Mayor Dawkins: What's the name again? L ."• x; Mr. Odio: Levi Rogers. Coaiesioaer Ds Yurre: Is that male or female? 1 Commissioner Plummer; That's Millers brother-in-law, =- Mr. Odic:: I don't know.. Nine bundxed Northwast; - forty-seven terrace, for `;user' _ record. And they are requesting that the- Bey Vista M -Ui Parkih should x . C ssloner Alt�►nvot That's very Wise o > then. x3i . } �s � �`L2'�� _ �x`Y�_"�`� ✓'ss � ,.et F �ti ,5. * � � fkF� ,a! eta 4P _.- ... WyhK,Pt^'. .;'+ :•' . r( Zy F +4W iationot De turret ifeii. ' Mr.„Ruders Again,.we'll heed to clarify which one they are talking about, dad Commissioner be Yurre: I think it's a, you know... � Vice Mayor Daakinst I would... I guess I'm quiet. Commissioner De Yurret I think it's an insult to try to Met a park named after Miller Dawkins that's a mini park, OX? W Mayor Muarest Say a mini, mini, mini park? icy commissioner De Yurret You've got to find a significant park if you're going to do that. Mr. Odios Well, Macao, I know that the people from Maceo foundation want toti " name that building there after Commission Dawkins. 3 y; fy . Commissioner De Yurre: There's a whole bunch... we've got a youth center we are going to have to name after somebody. a. p'= Mayor Suarez: This is before he dies or after he dies? f; Vice Mayor.Dawkins: Let's defer this until we find out who requested it and where it is. Mayor Suarez: Bay Vista Mini Park to Miller J. Dawkins. OK, this was not - Nancy's ,item? _ Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, Nancy... I don't think Nancy requested this.-. AT ".THIS .POINT, THE ABOVE -ITEM, WAS DEFERRED, PENDING MORE, INFORMATION. (See label 54) '} 41. DISCUSS AND REFER TO ADMINISTRATION REQUEST FROM CUBAN ACCOUNTANTS �. ASSOCIATION IN EXILE CONCERNING ITS CONTRIBUTION REQUEST FOR THE XXI F= ,. INTERAMERICAN REGIONAL SEMINAR OF ACCOUNTING. L3_ I. .. ter--- , r _ —r,r r--r, r—rr--r----+ —r rw�—.crw.•rwr Mayor Suarez: Item 38, Cuban. Accountant Association in Exile contribution from the City of Miami in connection with the... you say contribution? Not ,,. contribution in the same sense that we think of contribution, right? i t f.5 Mr. Jose Urrechaga: I guess. Mayor Suarez: Not money contribution? - you mean like a symbolic, honorary, t honorific, intangible, not monetary contribution. Yes, you can have that. Mr. Urrechaga: Mayor, members of City Council, my name is Jose Urrechaga, I'm a practicing certified public accountant in downtown Miami, located at 2l 88 r tat Avenue. I am the president of the Association of Cuban Accountants, a member of the Cuban American CPA Association and a director of same, And I: come here before you, representing both of them. The interamerican Accounting =. Conference, an organization that groups accountants for all the Americas, from Alaska, represented by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, down to Chile and Argentina by the association of those countries and d11 the other association of accountants in North, Central the Caribbean and South : America periodically holds accounting conference in different places in the _ < American. Both associations that I'm representing here today, have requested .;;. them to... that the next Interamerican Accounting Conference which they designated to be held in October, be held in Miami. What this is going to entail, is that we believe that approximately between three hundred and foutr w hussdrd visitors from all thus® countries and also the membero s o!E ur z$ . organization in Miami, are going to be grouped together in downtown Hiamit � We're going to have speakers of groat quality, like the v1c0 a r'At�tr'y of rw commerce of the United States, Dr. Anthony Venmij, dioti uishod ug prQfeen&►�' �f �3. 142 y i 5 v is a� 0661m3+ and AteftBtitia ftft th tfaversity of Argentina, Dr, Tomatti. As a y tseteber... Co ission;er Plumart Has this been to the Division of Conventions? t MetD; yautt o talking about a e6nvention, a seminar. His this been sent..4 have you talked to Mr. Pajares? ktr6 `Crreehagat Mr. Who? _ s Comissiomr Plufamort Pajarea b Mayor duareat Tony Pajakes.' �s- Comissioner Plummer: That weird looking guy that site out in tho babkg y h:,a .z somewhere.Where is he? he is not here now. Have you talked to him ? '' { Because that's where logically the money should come from in my estimation it's not economic development, it's convention. Commissioner De Yurre: What department? } r Commissioner Plummer: From Pajares' - Convention and Tourism.4 Mr. Odiot It should really go to the Greater Miami Visitors and Convention Bureau, Merritt Stierheim - please, they have plenty of money - they passed the additional sales tax. Commissioner De Yurre: How much money are we talking about? t,:, Mr. Odiot Five thousand dollars. Mr. Urreehaga: You know, I was an active member, I'm a member of the Miami Downtown Business Association and for the past few weeks, we have been receiving a- number of visitors from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo and I've seen an avalanche of people and every time that we have a lot of people in downtown Miami, all these merchants become very happy. I think that.<we need to have this convention in Miami, in downtown Miami, it's going to be held in the River Parc Hotel. Commissioner De Yurre: What's the problem with... Frank, wouldn't economic development be able to give some assistance at`a11? Mr. Castanedas' No, Commissioners, under con>taunitq'development, they are. getting more and more restrictive. You have to be' talking about permanent jobs and long term jobs and so forth, they just would not be' eligible. Commissioner De Yurre: How about the Host Committee? A ey �� Mr. Castaneda:- You know, perhaps the International Trade Board, :Merritt Stierheim or... ^ Commissioner Plummer: International 'Trade Board, we did what the Manager asked us. I would send it to Pajares, he has the money for these kinds of events. tG Commissioner Alonso: The Host Committee. a Commissioner Plummer: That's what I would suggest. `q Commissioner De Yurre: Well, Tony or the Host Committee or you know, one of 7 M_ Wr those have got to have some money. ;}a 7. Mayor Suarez: Refer with a favorable recommendation to the Host Committee aad Skt Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau. OK? Commissioner Plummer: That's fine sir , t Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on that. Commissioner Plu mnar: When is this supposed to be? Mr. Urrechaga: This is going to be bald is October 24th to 26th.143 5� , Y r tl Ciirit#Dttg i'lvkkftot think year` Ut rtahaga: Its, beat manth. Coksmisdibner Plummeft 0K. — � i.`. Colftissioner Alonsot Can you work with them to see if they... 'Tony and the Mott Cotataittes and you will be able to , help these to get this money? Mx - Commissioner be Yurret OK. Can you help theta out, Mr. Odio? � Mr. Odi+et (INAUDIBLE RESPONSE) '.: Cotmrtissioner De Yurre: OK. I move that the administration assist in this tt effort. Mayor Suarez: -So moved: i Commissioner Plummer: Second. { f f Commissioner Aloneot Second. Mayor Suarez: Third it. Call the rolls Mr. Urrechaga: OK. On behalf of the two thousand members of the Cuban Accountants, seven hundred members of the Cuban American CPA, I thank you for; the opportunity to be here and present this to you. Commissioner De Yurres Thank you, very much.Ou Mayor Suarez: OK, Pepe. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved its adoptions MOTION NO. 90-698 k 1 A MOTION REFERRING TO THE ADMINISTRATION A FUNDING': REQUEST FROM THE - CIJBAN ACCOUNTANTS ASSOCIATION `IN EXILE IN CONNECTION WITH THE::XXI INTERAMERICAN:'. REGIONAL SEMINAR OF ACCOUNTING TO BE HELD OCTOBER 24- 26, 1990; FURTHER DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO ' ASSIST. THEM IN THEIR EFFORTS TO IDENTIFY.- POTENTIAL. �` FUNDING SOURCES. - Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was .:passed ant m tx adopted by the following votes AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. k Commissioner Miriam Alonso s Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez , NOES: None. ABSENT: None. COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL: Mayor Suarez: Did you say, two thousand members in the association? That works out to $2.50 per member. - Commissioner Plummer: You're a big help. TM Mayor Suarers Two dollars and fifty cents, Y . Mr. UrFet;haga: You're talking to me. j Sh - u . ri•Y � a t c lfaybr luateat That'a good seoeunting, generally accepted btaftfitSfit ptaotit:eg, if you have tWo thousand members and you need five thousand to put together the couferehce, that's two dollars and fifty cents par t ydollars laVlYb'�i i U'rrechaga: Yes, but see,., Mayor guarea: They are not dues paying members? Mr. Urrechaga: No. We represent the Association of Cuban Accountants. ;. Mayor Suaret: i think you exaggerated a little bit when you said you had two thousand, you probably have a lot less that are active. Mr. Urrechaga: No, no. no. We have those people. But I represent... I'm the president of Cuban American Association of Accountants in Exile, We have '°a tremendous number of people who are old people. I am the youngest' member° -of the associations I'm fifty-two years old, and, I didn't get my degree in the University of Havana, I couldn't finish, I did in here. These people don't have any money. If these people had money, I'll tell you, because they are very proud. For them, it's something to feel very proud of that they could be s; y able to help this... Mayor Suarez: I hear you. I thought they were active practitioners. Thank you. _1 ..�ru�—. .r..r�������a►e�����.��..... — . ------------------.—�.�—.ter 42. DISCUSSION CONCERNING FUNDING REQUEST (UNDER MINI-UDAG PROGRAM) FROM THE - OVERTOWN ADVISORY BOARD REGARDING DEVELOPMENT OF AN OVERTOWN PROGRAM. - Mayor Suarez: Thirty-nine, Overtown Advisory Board mini UDAG. How are we doing on getting mini UDAG directed to the various efforts in Overtown including this specific one we are going to hear from in a second from Reverend White? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Somebody over there, anybody.- Mr. Odio: We are recommending, Mr. Mayor, we have met with them, Frank Castaneda has and that we find other sources of funding since we are - 'restricted to the 20 percent cap on what we can do on CDBG. So... x Mayor Suarez: Twenty percent of what? - what are you talking about? ' J 4� Mr. Castaneda: Let me explain it to you. Commissioner, planning. activities and administrative activity and you are restricted to twenty percent of the block grant and that's the amount of money that we use to pay for community - development administration and part of the planning department. Mayor Suarez: And. :fir Mr. Castaneda: And that would mean basically, that we have to cut our budget Fri to do that • Vice Mayor Dawkins: What to fund? - they are looking for a mini UDAG. What has that got to do with what you're telling me? Castaneda: Mr. It has nothing to do with it What I'm saying is that it does not qualify as a mini UDAG, it only qualifies as an administrative expense to undertake, and you basically have to take it out of the administration. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. All right, then you tell me, Mr. Castaneda, toll me what they asked you to assist them to do? k Mr. Odio: Well, what we can do... 4 Vice Mayor Dawkins: No. _ Mr. Odlo: The planning division can't perform the planning for them. r r 145 t P n Vies Mayor _bawkihas Ito, -wait a mltiute, Mr. manager. Before you tell ,ate that Mrs .Ms�tna$ers Mr. Odiet OKa Vice Mayor Bawkinst What did the Overturn Advisory Board ask you to fund under the mini UDAQ conceptt Mr. Castanedat OK. This request of $350,000 is a request for an Overtown plan which... what I'm saying is that that is a planning activity... ,. Vice Mayor Dawkinst They want $350,000 just to plan? Mr. Castanedat Correct. Rev. John Whitet Mr. Vice Mayor, the original price is $500,000 and 'Volvo got $150,000 in kind service, so, if he is talking about twenty percent, we need to talk about the $500,000 rather than the $350,000. Vice Mayor Dawkins: But, what he is saying is that.. I don't know what he is saying, but what I understand him to say, Reverend White, is that they have reached their twenty percent cap, whatever that is and there is no more money for planning. Is that what you are saying? Mr. Castanedat That is correct, Commissioner. Vice Mayor Dawkinst And that is the cap for what funding period?; Mr. Castaneda: For this whole year. From July 1st through June 30th of 1991. ; Commissioner Plummer: And how much money was that? — Mr. Castaneda: Two point two million dollars. == Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. Now...' — Commissioner Plummer: They have already received that? Mr. Castaneda: No. That's... °- Commissioner Plummer: How much is the twenty percent? Mr. Castanedat Twenty percent is two point two million dollars. Commissioner Plummery And they can use that for planning?`'_ Mr. Castaneda: No, no, for administration and planning. 8s eciall P g. P y :covers the cost of the department... s F Vice Mayor Dawkins: And you've already awarded two million dollars, in grant... in this type of thing what they want? h= Mr. Castaneda: That's correct. Mayor Suarezt Well, no, no. They used it up. The department Jtself, How much from CDBG monies went to the department itself? Mr. Castaneda: Most of the money is going to the department except for two hundred... rs. Mayor Suarezt Go ahead, Mr. Mayor, you're right on target. Mr. Castaneda: .,. twenty thousand dollars that goes to the planning` department. Commissioner Plummert How much has the Overtown Advisory Beard received? 41 Rov..White; Nothing. ca T �- i Mr. Castaneda; Nothing. 146 FT ilkjF J �r art '� �e tisg +sner pl r! What you're saying is then, you're not.., you're juat ,' waking for initial funding t '� ��4 -�astanClf�al .That's .tr{7ri e4it�4 :: a r -sty Comn:isaioner plumor: Initial funding is what you're looking for? x Mr. Donald henj amin: ices. Whig is to develop this bvertown plan we've been taikirig about. -R Commissioner plumtner: And what you're saying is, there are no funds loft, r that it all has been allocated. :r4 Mr. Benjamin# That is not true. t S ` 'Vice Mayor Dawkifng: To what... Mayor Suarezi Yes, that's what we're going to,get into. Vice Mayor Dawkins: You don't know that. Mayor Suarez: We are going to get into that right now. I guarantee you, we're going to know exactly where that 2.2 million has gone. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now, what did you fund with two million dollars? Mr. Castaneda: With two million dollars, what is funded is the administrative cost of the department of community development and the planning department. Mayor Suarez: That's what I just said and Mr. Rodriguez contradicted me and said, twenty thousand dollars. And which is it? - either 2.2 million or twenty,thousand. Mr. Sergio Rodriguez: I was saying two hundred and twenty thousand dollars gent to -the planning department of the 2 million plus that they et for a d[ministration. Mayor Suarez: Planning. How about, community development? r.. Mr. Rodriguez: Around two hundred. x=: t Mayor Suares: Oh, so you give me a partial answer and then hope that I forget to ask about the rest of it, that's great. ' Mr. Castaneda: No no. Commissioner... Yr Mayor' Suareza How much for community development? Now, come on we want to 4x know how :ouch goes to the City for administration. Mr. Castaneda: Two hundred and twenty, I'm sorry - 2.2. million dollars is . twenty percent of 11 million dollars. $ Mayor Suarez: All of it went to the City? Is that what y y you're trying to say? r Mr. Castaneda: All of that goes to the City for the administration, and the r community development block grant program of which goes to fund the department of community development and the planning department of which it receives two k` hundred and twenty thousand dollars. a Mayor Suarez: OK, congratulations. Now that we know that all of the twenty 4 percent of the entire amount... k VK..- Mr. Castaneda: That's correct. }' Mr. Castaneda: , .. is going to the City of Miami is our various department*� the logical question is, when are we going to free up smtae of that that a community based organisation can have some administrative fm ads? `* Instead of being told every year, no, we don't have anymore because we usad the twenty percent. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now, let's see. Let's go the other way,'Mr. xsyor, t l4 - i ,( h mayor suatset Teri � ' Vies Mayor bawkitist Why don't you tali the public that you're using the total � twenty ptrdent as City of Miami- money to pay City of Miami OM010YOOB that r don;t apply. k{ Mry Castansdat Oh no: W6 have told the public. wON ' wide Mayor Dawkinit Beg pardon? Mr: Castanedat ate have told the public. Ann Marie knows. Vice Mayor Dawkinst What? - that the public understand that the twenty f percent... tq Mr. Castaneda: For administration goes... Vice Mayor Dawkinst :.. goes all to the City of Miami] so don't apply for.'any administrative cost. : Mr. Castanedas That's correct. And they are appealing that decision here, I ' assume. f' "Dawkins: Vice Mayor And the Federal Government OK this? Mr. Castanedas Yes. 3 Mr. Odio: Yes, they do. And when don't, we have to pay it back. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right. So... Commissioner Plummers Wait a minute. What about the fifty thousand that we give each of the CBO's for economic development? Mr.. Castanedas But that is not for planning, that is to undertake.variety of activities in the Overtown area. And in the Overtown area, we fund two organizations, one being St. John's at the level of fifty thousand dollars and the:other one, New Washington Heights. #� t4 Mayor Su arez: What is the total funding we get? Mr. Castaneda: I'm sorry? : Mayor Suarers Yes,. but what is the total funding that we get? Is that... that's from regular CDBG monies, right? 4' Mr. Castanedas That is correct. J ` Mayor Suarez: Of which... Mr. Castaneda: The total amount.is 11.3 million dollars.` Mayor Suarez: Of which... what fifteen percent can:. be for social prograaar a>ad the rest, economic development? wM z Mr. Castaneda: Fifteen percent can go to social, and twenty percent for a administration, and the rest can be for... +. Mayor Suarez That twenty percent for administration, I don't even want to �.•s ask. ;M It � Mr. Castaneda: Fine. Mayor Suarers That also goes to the -City, I take it.,. k _ Y Mr. Castaneda: Right. It turns out, that is the twenty percent that goes t0 the City. �.a., Mayor Suarez: That is the twenty percent. it's all the vame pet• no {set per mini UDAQ funds that are.. 4 4 l { l 71 v„ Mr. Castanedat Moo no. Ve have a Mini UDAO fund, but that mini UDAG fund f ' think his about six hundred thousand dollars. May, Suareet Nov are you saying that not a single penny of the mini UbAO Pa t, to use your tarts not a particularly correct term. Not a single penny of that can be used for planning, and analytical processes leading to a capital improvement project? Mr. Castanedat That is correct, It cannot be used. They will determined that that is an administrative cost, The purpose of the mini UDAA is to find private sector money and do some development projects or some job creation projects. Mayor Suarezt Usually, when they come with a project that is already fairly `.` developed, already, fairly conceptualized, already the basic parameters are in place, all they need is some capital monies to carry it out. And they can't match all of that effort and all of that analysis, and all that planning and all that conceptualizing with capital funds?- with mini UDAG funds? They can't give any value to all that, and say that that is in fact their _ Contribution to it and then they need the money to actually do the project? Mr. Castaneda: No. And that's what the mini UDAG is for, to do the project. That is what the mini UDAG fund is for. Mayor Suarez: OK. Have you looked at their project, have you seen if it fits under the criteria and be ready to fund it? Mr. Castaneda: They have never shown to me a project that is ready to go. - It's a plan, it's a concept. - a - Mayor Suarez: Is it? - it seem like they come to me with all kinds of projects, it's surprising they don't come to you with projects. Mr. Benjamin: When we send information to the City Manager, we assume that at some point in time, that information gets down to the appropriate staff. Mr. Odio: Frank, can I do something please? I think we can help them. I'm " trying to say, that the department of... the Division of Planning can sit down and work with them and do the planning for them and we -don't have out of `. pocket cost. Mayor Suarezt And I'm saying that a lot of the planning has already been - done, because the last time when I met with them, they had some pretty' specific projects. They weren't just think generally. Mr. Odio: So, why don't we work together and find a solution that we will ,. have to find any monies? - that we don't have. Mayor Suarez: Right. Mr. Benjamin: You know, when we started this whole activity, Mr. Mayor -and Commissioners, we tried to work with the City planners and they consistently told us, there is a development plan already in place for Overtown. There'is no such development plan for Overtown, there is a plan for Southeast Parktwdt `'- Overtown. Mr. Odiot Sir, I'm willing to start all over again, and we want to work with you to find out what you want and see if we can reach the plans that you want x h and not what we're telling you we have. - Mr. Benjamin: Yes. I appreciate that. I'm just trying to explain"something further. What we done beyond that, we worked with the Florida Center for 7,� Al` Urban Design and Research, the State University system, and they developed a concept called the Overtown Connections, which provide for continued development, We used now some more monies to put the meat and flesh an the that was developed. The Florida �. structure Center, continues to offerus professional services. They haveoffered here a hundred and fifty thousand 5 dollars in professional planning and engineering services, we need about,.. the rest of the money to bring on other planners and developers to help us put �- i the total plan together, so that we know: where we -go fret► theta, 4ad. .which < would also move into the whole area of tax increment fiasucing:; end- so :see►; . And = ; we... i � t >: 149 f},?,zPtr' r rr ,V ; v Mayor IlUdrens htst Would the tUhde that y►ou'd bo receiving be:. fir the mini VDAO pots foritlaak of a better.word, be aetualiy for... I Mr. sonjamint Domoping the plan. , e Mayror� Buaresas KLghtf .Can it be used for developing a plant Can .tak incrementfunds be used for developing the plan? f Mr. $enj&min: No, that's not tax increment funds. That's mini'tWAG fund'. Commissioner Aloesos- For land and study. Ms*. Senjamins That's mini VbAG funds, and we got information from WD which " said that this proposal 'falls under CUBG funds, and those mini UDAG funds° -are ,t. CDSG .funds. z, Mayor Suarest OK. Where is the City Manager? Mr. Odio: Yes, sir. Y' Mayor Suarez: Mr. City Manager. h Mr. Odiot Yes, air. Mayor Suarez: We get into this, I see your staff having great conversations ' with each other. I see the City, time and again being asked to contribute -and get involved with substantial funds, and slightly over 11 million dollars a year that we receive in CnBG monies, in community originated projects, and I see every possible impediment placed in their way. We had the Wynwood group here, and it was like pulling teeth, as you saw, to get a reconsideration of f: what seems to be staff... impediments really, or interpretations that --are w.. about - as difficult to overcome as any. Is there any way that the° City can actively,' proactively, supportively, help them to get the project off"the , ground? i Mr. Odiot Yes. - Mayor Suarett Not the _project that we may have for Overtown, not the project that we call Southeast Overtown Parkwest not that project at all, forget et that project. s Mr. Odiov; I will. I just said before, yes, we will. Now,- on the matter of Wynwood... Mayor Suarez: I don't want to go back to the matter of Wynwood. Mr. Odio:Oh, well, you brought it up. Mayor Suarez: I just gave my opinion of what,I think has 'bees' the City`s { attitude up to now. It will hopefully change, as of today's vote. It didn't ' seam' like it was going to, until we put it to a vote. Now, 'on -the lssriis=Huf the Overtown Advisory Board, St. Agnes also has a plan coming up for Rainbow Village, when are we going to see your active involvement and your Instructions to your staff to work with them, so that we can get=there A projects on the way? Not Southeast Overtown Parkwest, not our idoa,.of�havl:pg :j some very nice looking malls, pedestrian malls, but specific concrete projects, conceptualized, devised, initiated by the community? or you don't believe in those, because if you don't believe in those, say that', Mr. Odio: I didn't say that, I'm going to say what I think. And I'm telling him that we're willing to work with him, period. Benjamin: Well, I'm prepared to accept that but the history of this: kind ry a Mr. �.- of offer has boon, when we started developing the Overtown connections, the � City planning staff were completely against the whole concept. Hero to a community making every effort to take care of what At sees the needs Are And f they hardly ever work with our consultants. Mr. Adios personals have a meeting, Sir, I will y and I want to hear your plat and then we will go from there. But we don't have the sagaay, so that's t1*0 f 5 host thing you can get, _ANN1 fY ISO w #�t1► t t_ k i ��' .. o y", . F r 0 Mt. tanjaMins Mr. Odio, tiro not even trying to argue. I just want to make clear, our experience. Hven when you put out the Imp or whatever it was for the property on filth street, our consultants offered, I came here and made the request to work with the City planners on that concept and not.., they haven't celled on us as yet, but they've gone ahead and advertised and done all sort*, of thing. And this Commission had instructed them to work with us. It hasn't been done. Rev. Whites Mr. Mayor, you can recall, I personally met with Downtown Advisory Board and I think what Mr. Benjamin is saying is only a continuation of the kind of things that we're feeling in that community. There are some things that are going to be developed in that community and the people in Overtown is not having anything to say about that development. And Southwest Overtown is one thing, but Overtown is another. And we do not pant to be a community that become an extinct community. If you look at the situation presently, we are vastly becoming an extinct community and we refuse to accept that and we are saying at this juncture, we need your support, we need your cooperation, we need to instruct your staff to do the kind of planning that we think necessary to develop that community. It's a sad commentary to come up I-95 and look at the south side of 8th street and look at the north side and you tell us continuously, that that's still Overtown and there is Overtown Parkwest. Let's develop the community so that everybody can feel proud of that section of town. Mayor Suarez: And Reverend, since we've divided, use that dividing line of NW 8th Street, let me ask you a question. Mr. Manager, on the tax increment bonds, I thought I read in Miami Today, this week, yesterday's edition, that the tax increment fund bond monies that we are about to be able to sell on the market are going to fund two pedestrian malls. Now, I know Herb, we've gone through this before, we have a resolution in place of this Commission, saying that that money is supposed to be spent, north of 8th Street, if I remember correctly, unless somebody wants to go back and try to tell me that that resolution doesn't say that. I don't know what malls we're talking about to spend, to build with the tax increment bond and I know that we have to pay HUD back some percentage of the twenty-two million dollars, and I think it will net up to somewhere around ten or twelve million dollars. Nov... Mr. Herb Bailey: Mr. Mayor... Mayor Suarez: ... where I am misstating anything? Mr. Baileys Well, first of all, what you have read in the paper, probably is an excerpt... Mayor Suarez: That's why I'm asking you. Mr. Bailey: OK. Mayor Suarez: If I thought it was correct, I wouldn't bother to ask you. Mr. Bailey: Let's explain it. First of all, the dividing line is not NW 8th street. Mayor Suarez: The dividing line not by this Commission was NW 8th street, by resolution. I don't know how binding it is, but that was the dividing line we set, Herb. Mr. Bailey: No, no. The tax increment district goes from NW 5th street all. - the tray up to 395 on the... Mayor Suarez: That is not the dividing line I'm talking about, I'm talking about the dividing line of where the money is going to be spent, not the dividing line as to where the money is coming from. We know that the stoney is coming from the entire Southeast Overtown Parkwest tax increment district. Mr. Bailey: No, no. I'm not saying where the money is coming frsxa, I'm trying to answer the question in sequemce, so we can get it is place. I cannot give you experts, because you will be misled. If you will just give me one minute and I'll explain it to you. AFA Mayor stiarest tuto rafhembet the partmettra is what I hoed. I need to knot/ the net fiamnt we're going to got In the tax increment bonds and I heed to know how much is going to bo spent north of 8th street and how much, it any, It going to be spent south of 8th street, betause that I believe to be the.#* Mr. baiieyt to the documents that you have approved and the documette presented to the County, the acquisition of program is between Oth and 10th t: street RV 8th and RW 10th and from 2nd to 3rd avenue, which is the historic village, and also between NW 8th and XV 10th on the east side of N! 2adt and in the document, ever since we have had the Southeast Overtown Parkvast plan, ash there has always been a commitment which has been approved by all of the Overtown Advisory... 7 1 Mayor Suarez: How much is the total bond issue expected, less what we have to pay HUD and how much of it is for the Polk Life Historic Village items, you just mentioned? Mr. Baileyt Wait a minute. The bond issue would be perhaps no less than 11.5 million dollars, we hope to get more than that, we have spent already... Mayor Suarez: I want quiet in the Chambers here, excuse me Herb. Commissioner Alonsot Yes. It's very difficult to concentrate. Mayor Suarez: Where are the officers who are supposed to be in the back, Mr. Manager? Anybody who is in the back, including City staff who has got anything to discuss, City employees, you do it outside. That includes the public works director, fire fighters, anybody. Mr. Bailey: Property acquisition has been started almost two years ago between NW 8th and NW 10th and NW 2nd and NW 3rd. We've spent pretty close to $690,000 doing that, we had to more pieces to acquire as presented to you in the documents that you approved. The balance of the money is to be used NW 8th, NW 10th, NW 2nd and NW 3rd, to acquire what we consider to be the Folk Life Historic Village, and to acquire those properties. We do have an obligation... F. Mayor Suarez: OK. You're saying the entire amount of what's left over of the bond issue after we pay back the HUD, would be to acquire land, none of it would be to build anything? - just to acquire? Mr. Bailey: That's all we do, is acquisition. We do have enough... Mayor Suarez: And you are saying, all of it would be items that we currently sir characterize as being part of the Overtown Historic Folk Life Village? Mr. Bailey: Part of the Overtown Folk Life Historic Village and Overtown, Yes. We do have some... Mayor Suarez: Well, well, what part is Overtown that is not part of the Overtown Historic Polk Life Village, because that may be the kind of money that they're looking for? I don't know. Mr. Bailey: No, that is not. The Overtown tax increment district, the redevelopment district, goes all the way to 1-395. We are spending money all the way from N.W. 5th to that area. We are currently at 8th and 10th, 2nd 1and 3rd, and that... Mayor Suarez: What part in available from the bond issue? This in my last time I'm going to ask this question? Mr. Manager, I'm going to want an answer to this question. I'm going to research the City records for the resolu' on that we passed that we almost violated when we used tax increment bonds you remember for what? -right? For the Motrorail acquisition. Mr. Bailey: Well, let... Mayor Suarez: Wait a minute, Herb. What part in available for community projects, such an thin, of the now bond issue because$ otherwise. 1,1b SoIngto vote against the bond issue and I'm going to ask 'my f 0 11,0V commiesio, Asral to vote Against It.., Mt,' Saileyt; f6ull.l just have to, because there is none available for that r ty06 of' Pk6j6et. _Vau just vote against it. Mayor Nuiroes Ali right, as of now, you can assume that my vote is going t6- —_ bts , agains, i ft, and ii .v►e can... if . you want to dote... if you want -a motion, right n6w:to undo'the bond imbue, we'll begin doing that right now Mr. hailays You may do that. I would not advise you to make an illegal bets:�_- You may do that if. you like, Mayor guaress That's right. Mr. Baileys Do it!`3 Mayor Suarea: That's right, we're not going to go into the .second phase of 1= Overtown/Park West, the part that is funded by the district itself, and continue to acquire land without building some of these specific projects. _ We're just not going to do it. u— Mr. Baileys .What are .the projects they're talking about? They have not named one project yet. I would like to know what is the project? Mayor Suarez: Herb, I want to make sure that the money is available for community originated projects. I don't want any more acquisition of land... ,a- Mr. -Bailey: You can't do that. u Mayor Suarez: ...I don't want any more expansion of what they already said is- -- a project that does not benefit the community for myself, and for my vote. Now, we have that in the form of a resolution. Do you want it in the form of _— another. resolution, Mr. Manager? Mr. Odios If you say there is a resolution to that effect, I will research it and we'll follow.the... - Mayor Suarez: You don't know if there's a resolution to that effect in ,place? Mr. Odio: I don't remember the resolution myself. Mayor Suarez: And it sets the dividing line as being N.W. 8th Street. — Mr. Bailey: There is no resolution... Mayor .Suarez. The record is spread with my comments and I think the Vice Mayor's comments on that. Mr. Bailey: There is no resolution, Mr. Mayor. We can vouch for that. There is no resolution to that effect. r= Mayor Suarez: Do we need to make another resolution, Commissioners? —or are.. �— we -on the same wavelength on this? - Mr. Benj amine Mr. Mayor, may I? Mr. Bailey: I don't know. Mr, Benjamin: On that matter of the tax increment, the 22 million:_ bond: there's an... Mayor Suarez: Don't keep calling it 22 million, because we're going to have to give a lot of it back to HUD and some of it will be for the cost. °, .We'.sre , 5. going to not between 10 and 12 million, at most. Mr. Benjamin: But, in terns of what they identified to use that money for,„ one item that we discovered is $500,000 for administrative costs, Mayor Suarez: Oh, yes, that's why I was going to get to that. If these were monies available, I was going to may, some of it, obviously, would-be for administration and it would be helpful to get :your pr9j*;t u4d0rw&y, ;pps#a bly ` to comploto the St.John's Sconomic Development offort, possibly to work with ,.y ` St, Agnes on the neat item, but, no, tbsy; wapt to continue to acquire f { x 153 300* 4; 1 e 49+ Q n , 1.l. • Cotniasioner plummars Tou know, before we have tempers flare herd, I think ghat wa need t6 do is to take the Manager up on his offer, Mr. Trinidad, t G;. but and see if you ean't work out some tompromise, some agreement. 1 have heard him express that he is willing to start anew. OK'd And I think that what this Commission needs to do is to have a two week or 30-day breathing period, present whatever project you have to him, give him the opportunity to work with you and come back with a recommendation to this Commission. And if, in 30 days, he doesn't, then this Commission will take it in its own hands and we'll tell him, here is the name of the game. I think that's the logical way to do it. I think it is the smart way to do it. Let's see if he really means what he says that he's really willing and able to start anew. Mr. Baileys One thing about this, Mr. Commissioner and Mr. Mayor, we listen, and we hear what you're staying and we'll accept his offer and, hopefullyt we can work something out. It hasn't worked well in the past. You know that'ghd the most recent incident was the heat. But, we hope we can get over that and move forward. I'm willing to accept Mr. Odio's offer to work with him on this, Mr. Odio: I'm asked by staff, just for the record, that to read from your own_ report, "City of Miami agencies working with you..." Commissioner Plummer: Did you say you were going to start anew or are you going to bring up history? Mr. Odio: Yes - no, I was at... because it seems like we have not and there are at least five agencies... and, OK... Commissioner Plummer: History is history. The proof of the pudding, there's nothing built there, Mr. Manager. You know... Mr. Odio: I said it before, I'm willing to do it, let's set up a meeting for next week. Commissioner Plummer: Let's give you that opportunity. Commissioner Alonso: I think they should really get together right away, next _ Commission meeting, if they have not met with you... Commissioner Plummer: No, no, Miriam, not that too... Commissioner Alonso: ...no, the next Commission meeting if they have not met with them... Commissioner Plummer: Oh, met. Commissioner Alonso: ...by then, then you come back here and let us know. Mr. Odio: Oh, we will, we will. Commissioner Alonso: But, I think that the meeting should start right away; - working, and then 30-days and then come back to us and let us know. Mr. Benjamin: I wanted to...- ?R- Commissioner Alonso: You can always call us and tell us how it is going. Mr. Benjamin: I want to thank you very much. There's one other item which isn't related directly to this, but it has some reference to the Overtown '- Advisory Board. I've said over, and over, and over that this Commission created the Overtown Advisory Board and one of the things that we have in an office in the Overtown shopping center and we have talked with the City Manager about a telephone and he has promised to do that and hope that this would also be part of that new working deal where we can get that telephone 3 installed as soon as possible. F Commissioner Plummer: The Mayor said he's be glad to give you his. It' sn't working. Mayor Suarez: Yes, a new fangled machine that was installed in my office, `t Commissioner Plummer: And a roll of quarters.' 154 'fy Rov. VhitSi . Thank You, Mt, Mayor, and coundilmen. Va I ll be looking forVsrd to iaaet with the Manager and we will be reporting back to the council. Thank you: Mr Renjamint thank you very much: 43. (A) DISCUSSION CONCERNING FUNDING REQUEST FROM ST. AGNES RAIN OW VILLAGE TENANTS COUNCIL (FOR CHILD DAY CARS, AFTER SCHOOL CARE, OUTDOOR RECREATION AND ADULT EDUCATION). (9) INSTRUCT ADMINISTRATION TO GIVE IMMEDIATE PRIORITY TO >THE FUNDING OF COMMISSION -APPROVED PROJECTS IN OVIRTOWN AND WVNWOOD AREAS - SECOND PRIORITY TO PROJECTS IN OTHER AREAS: ALSO NEGLECTED IN THE PAST. � �......_...r.....------- -------------------- -----------------__-_----........�.----�... Mayor Suarez: OK, item 40, St. Agnes Rainbow Village Tenants Committee. Reverend. Rev. Gilberti Mr. Mayor, my name is Rev. Gilbert from St. Agnes Episcopal Church. I am here because I firmly believe that a joint venture with the City of Miami, the Dioceses of Southeast Florida and St. Agnes Episcopal Church, will be an asset to this community. I believe if this plan is accepted, we can begin to build or rebuild many bridges so, therefore, we are attempting to start a program with the tenants of Rainbow Village whereby we can make them feel as if they are a part of this community, whereby we can make them feel as they feel good about themselves. I believe you have a copy of the study -that ,ty+� T i y was made, the needs, assessment < report - does everyone have one? - - Commissioners? Mayor Suarez: What, one statistic that I think is worth spreading on the records and bringing out, what percentage of the households in the project, in - the village, are headed by single parents or by mothers without a father at home ? Rev. Gilbert: Out of the interview that was made, it was 27 of the 28 - household are headed by females. Therefore, 96 percent of the Rainbow Village "- households are headed by females. Anyway, this was brought out in a survey that was made and' to meet the church's initiative the committee, , prepared needs assessment report for a portion of the Overtown community, -was completed y and finalized by the village, the Rainbow Village Tenants Council, approximately 25 to 30 persons was in that, first interview and the next -one s - was held during a cleanup campaign. So, if you would turn to page Mine . of Pt�� your report, you will find that on pages nine, the second paragraph gives you the survey, the results, and the analysis, and if you turn to pages 11 through "+ 17, you will find the actual results to each question asked on these surveys._ There's also a report finding percentages of questions pertaining to crime, drugs, the delivery of health services, child day care, and no, based on the results of the needs and assessment survey, it appears that some of the needs_ of the residents of Rainbow Village are not being adequately met* No, _ therefore, St. Agnes, along with the tenants from Rainbow Village, thinks y= that... Mayor Suarez: You said, there's a report included, Reverend? -how many units are vacant or boarded up? Rev. Gilbert: There were just - I think it was four. Mayor Suarez: OK, excuse me for a second, Reverend. Officer we're going to need quiet in the back. If somebody wants to come in, cameras, or without; cameras, they can certainly have a seat here or they can stay in the back , where they can go outside, but we won't have any discussions inside,icbee� chambers except for the one taking place at the Commission levol. and with,.the speakers that are recognized. Otherwise, we'll lock the doors outside and proceed like other Commissions do, including the County, where no one is allowed in unless they're going to sit down. Hate to go to that ,:maybe What we'll have to do. x� a £ L Q 1 4T t. .. y. i4N e 4 gs*. Hilbert: Anywsy, to eontihne, the survey showed that there heads to bt ah iihdpr&rereefit and expansiob as far to new programs of child day care, after school cars, outdoor recreation, and adult education is concerned. And this is the program that we are at St. Agnes, attempting to implement at this project. And, after the final analysis, we found out that tht child day care satellite facility is estimated to cost around $126,500. the attar school care program is estimated to cost $30,000. The adult education program, estimated... Mayor guards: Is that... are you talking about nonrecurring i in other words, you're talking about capital investment, or yearly cost of operations? Rev. Gilberts For a first time program. The recreation program which we have already started, estimated cost at $7,500. There is a home ownership progkdA that we're supposed to implement, but that will come at a later date, but the' total cost of these projects and the reason why we are here, amounts to' $1740000, and any part of this monies from the City of Miami will be greatly appreciated. Mayor Suarez: Once again, Mr. Manager, how can the tax increment bond issue help with Rainbow Village and the variety of economic development and social programs that this report has proposed be done to bring that small public housing community to life, given that we have a church in the vicinity that's already helping. I know you have one child care program in place, right? Rev. Gilbert: Yes. Mayor Suarez: They are already patrolling at nights they have adult males that are helping to keep an eye on that project. They have already adopted the project, so to speak. How can we help now with the tax increment bonds that we have managed to obtain from development already taking place in Overtown, under our definitions, and after priming the pump, to the tune of about $42,000,000, in federal, state, and local funds. Mr. Herb Bailey: Mr. Mayor... Mayor Suarez: OK, once again, if I may, Mr. Manager, I'm going to need quiet in the chambers, in the back. We're going to have to secure the doors. I'm not going to have one more Commission meeting where people are in and out of the chambers and cannot be controlled. Also, Madam City Clerk, Comaissioner Plummer suggested, and I think we're going to implementit, as of today, everyone who wishes to address the Commission will have to sign one of these,' fill out, that will help us too to keep track of names and addresses. Commissioner Plummer: And I would t 1 t th h s rong y sugges at t e Clerk send someone to the back, so that we don't have to do it up front here and disrupt the rest. To send somebody in the back with these forms that anybody wants to speak on budget, please sign up so we can do it in a systematic order. All' 4,000 of you. Mayor Suarez: OK, Mr. Manager, Mr. Bailey, somebody answer that question. Mr. Bailey: Tax increment monies cannot be used for this particular project. I would like to just remind you... Mayor Suarez: From any element of this 9 particular project? „{ Mr. Bailey: No, we have a... Mayor Suarez: For building a child care facility, for a ., what was the other capital portion of your effort there, Don? Mr. Bailey: I have them all... Mayor Suarez: The other structure that you needed built there? It was a community center, right? You can't build a community center with tax increment bonds. Mr. Baileys No, we cannot and I would just give you a one sentence explanation. r 156spx" c d - �.'K°-i},; f A •; Y t f 4� f ,,- ) h 4 t'��s�,L'th 7 't f ; > , S � ' Nayar srazt Mr.►.+ wait a mibutst wait a atinute. Mr. City Attorhey, do yt�u agree with that opinion before you...? M'r, Fernandez: Yes, we do. Mayor 9uar6st You can't build a community center with tax increment bonds. h Mr,. rernandes: 'It is not part.of the plan. - Mayor Suarezt will g et outside legal counsel to challenge that, like I did I g 6 t :J when I first got elected and you told me that we could not have a linkage - <' ordinance, that it was unconstitutional to have a linkage ordinance.,andt got k` outside legal counsel. They proved that it was constitutional, they got a Supreme Court interpretation of the State of Massachusetts, because it seers:- like_ anything we try to do, cannot be done legally. I don't- want -.to .argue about it. today, we're not a court of law. We're not going to make that decision. I'm just telling you that I'm going to personally get outside legal counsel and I'm going to challenge you on that opinion. Can't use tax increment bonds to build a community center. That's preposterous!- fl'p Mr. Fernandez: All right. 7 Mayor Suarezr Anything else we can do of what he's proposing with any funds that we now have, any discretionary funds from the federal government other - I guess CDBd is the only thing we have left. Mr. Odio: I would like to start working with them, so when we come with they new allocations, that they could be part of the new allocations. Mayor Suarez: The new allocation process begins when? I know that - ultimately, the monies are allocated by next July. - Mr. Odio: We should start right after the new year and.working:with themy;and making sure .that we get them involved in the process. And, .since :it's children, and that's one of the priorities, feeding the,.. and .then, children; so... I .would like to work with them and I think =it's a great program, but; - you know, they're coming at the and of the allocation year and... Mayor Suarez: One other question, of the funds that we now divvy up with the social - I guess there must be the social programs section of the Community Development block grant monies, or maybe there are separate monies that wig -get for child care programs, right? How much do. we get a year? -about three million dollars? - Commissioner Plummer: It's not separate. It's a million two, a million Y r three. Mr. Odio: About two... a million and a half or something that rumor is. No, it doesn't quite reach the two million.... 3 Commissioner Plummer: But, child care is the same except as we relate to the City, in-house day care. Mr. Odio: Yen. Mayor Suarez: OK, how much is the in-house day care of the City? Commissioner. Plummer: Approximately a half million dollars. Mayor Suarez: And then we also divvy up another 1.2 million? Commissioner Plummer: The 1.2 is going out to the social of which there are E day care programs involved in that. Mr. Odio: We have the Catholic - Centro Mater, and St. Albans, and.., g t rF Commissioner Plummer: St. Albans, Holy Cross... x,3 Mayor Suarez: What is the total amount that we're now divvying up among child _ care programs? Does anybody know? A�jt f ti i ♦ I Y s r7 y� Scf p. a T comissibliar iglu mert I'll Site you an estimate, about a third bf it, t gecauset you known Centro Hater gets a piece of it, Catholic charities gets A - f i M 1 C_ et a ieoe of Piece of it, St, Alan a gets a piece o t, o y Loss g s . • They sit get mounts of money for day ears. Mr. Mayoro just no 2 den t mislead you, there are other monist involved. For example+ the utats giV66 U ' fbed monies, r;tit Mayor guarest Mach of those programs receives money from other.sources, _y Commissioner Plummert Exactly. k'tl p`g Mr. Odiot We have given out about $200,000 for day care out of a million# }t Mayor Suarez: It just got out in half from his estimate. Are you saying, total amount that we give is $200,000? We have that battle here every year. Mr. Odio: For day care.:- , h Mr. Frank Castaneda: No, we give out 1.7 million dollars for social services. £' .; Mayor Suarez: No, no, I know that, but just child care, how much? We got two hundred from the Manager, four hundred from J.L. Plummer. Is it...._, Mr. Castaneda: I can give you an exact figure tomorrow or Monday. Mayor Suarez: All right. Somewhere between 200 and 400 is the best we can do at this point. Obviously, they're entitled to apply for that. Mr. Castaneda: Sure, and they are represented on the board, we have as a CD ' Advisory Board. Mayor Suarez: Right, and it is my hope that, since they're a new.. program, -we begin to suggest that existing programs look for more state funding*.look for L..; �- more economies, such as I suggested to them. I remember Commissioner.:Plummer `. emphasizing that the cost per child of some of the programs is high -and -.that O e we make monies available for new programs as they come on line. And: then, over time, hopefully, they will create other money sources, 'other financial sources so they can run their programs. ' Commissioner Alonso: We can request money from the state and it can be placed 7 as one .of the priorities of the City of Miami, as we have done with other- programs, and they could be helped. This year, we were successful in ` obtaining, oh, about 4300,000 from the state for two projects for day Aar*., 1 - don't see any reason why they can't be included... _. s^ Mr. Odio: We can do the same thing. Commissioner Alonso: ...and be able to get - we can work with them and I'm sure that we are going to be successful in obtaining the money. #' z Mayor Suarez: Yes, those are capital projects and we should be able to do that. rX Commissioner Alonso: This was a very difficult year and we were successful in t obtaining that. r Mayor Suarez: That's right. For the building of the facilities and then, i also, for the operations. 1p t Commissioner Plummer: Get in touch with the legislatures. Commissioner Alonso: Well, as a matter fact, we got much more than that. Three hundred... Y Mr. Odio: How much are we talking about for the... it's a building, right? ., • #{� Commissioner Alonso: ...and hundred and fifty, lour hundred< and fiftl► max, thousand... s a. Mr. Castaneda: In Allapattah, alone, yes, A — '-- it +Cofftiasioner Aloneos ...in Allapattah. Might. Mir. Cdio: If I may have time to research, I may look through the capital ptojecto, and if we hate, I would recoftend to you if wa have any left per,' of ''projects that we completed, when are complete there this year, 'that we could glob look to that. But, I don't know yet. Mayor..Suareatt the head of the little HUD of the county has requested monies. We have told them basically we cannot provide monies for public housing. That just isn't our mission, but we certainly can help to build a community center there. We certainly can do something about Rainbow Village and that huge space that is in there that's sort of a "No Man's Land" and put a c6makuhity center there. Hopefully, Me. Manager, as you've just indicated, f rom'capital projects monies; from sale of other facilities that we have, which I know you've been considering doing, from applications to the state, and it sounds like Commissioner Alonso is going to lead our effort - although it might depend on who gets elected, I guess, in November... Commissioner Alonso: Dever mind, we go after them. Mayor Suarez% May be we'll send Vice Mayor Dawkins, who knows? Commissioner Alonsot This year they told us we were not going to get anything. Mayor Suarez: That's right, and we did quite well. We got enough for building of two facilities and... Commissioner Alonso: Sure, yes. Mayor Suarez% We're going to put you at the top of our priority list, and I hope we get a report back on all of that - again, with the other report that you're going to give us on the Overtown Advisory Board's proposals. No later than the first meeting in October. The needs assessment is very well done, and we appreciate, I think, something that we needed very much to have. I :f didn't think it would be quite as - show quite as high an index of poverty as it did and I guess it's a lesson to all of us. I mean, just the figures on one parent households are incredible - 96 percent in that particular project. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, let me see if... Mayor Suarez: Vice Mayor Dawkins. t= Vice Mayor Dawkins: ...I know what I heard. We've had two Overtown projects come before us. Each one of the Overtown projects were told there is no money. But, each of them have been told that you have priority for the next year's funding. Is that a correct - I mean, am I right in assuming that?- Commissioner Plummer: He's talking to you. Mr. Odio: Yes.... _ �i Commissioner Plummert No, he's talking to the Mayor. { Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, I'm talking to the Manager. Commissioner Plummer: Oh, I'm sorry. Vice Mayor Dawkins: The Mayor don't... Mr. Odio: We said we would work with them and that we would help them go z through the... Vice Mayor Dawkinst Sea, I need to know... no, no, no, see, I don't need... I` need to know... you see, I'm not going to allow them to leave here not knowing what is said here. Either we said they are a priority and they'll get first IA shot at the next one, or you are saying that they're not a priority. Overtown hero been neglected. They haven't gotten anything and so now, either vo"ro saying to them that, in the need year's funding, you, the project for the Overtown Advisory, number one, the St. Agnes project is number two, and anybody also go number three or number four. Is that what we're saying% 159 Sspleeabapes. Sp S F r� Kr# odios Not tir. �- t 'vice Mayor Dawkinst All right, what are we baying? Mri Odlok I said that the new allocation process begins right after the sawZZ Yost, that we would work with them to put them through that process _t Vice Mayor Dawkines- left out. They have been applying to the application and they har►a �X gotten Mr. Odios No. Not this new program. Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, well, OK. I'm going to... that's why I'm askin1. ; I'm going to make a motion that in the next year's funding - Dawkins, call_ you -I'm going to make,a motion that this section has not - I'm not going to t say neglected - has been left out. We have spent money everywhere in the City of Miami except Wynwood, Overtown, and Coconut Grove, and Allapattah, OK? So, a I'm going to; make a motion that in the next year 's'funding, that these two projects have priority and anybody else whom we have neglected, have the third t shot .the fourth shot. And that's my motion. .and Commissioner Plummer: I will accept and second that motion if, in fact, you will include that those projects, as submitted by them, and approved by us - I'm not giving them carte blanche... Vice Mayor Dawkins: I'll accept that correction.- - V�- Commissioner Plummer: I will second the motion. - Mayor. Suarez: OK, with that modification, we have a motion and a second. I think it reflects the sense of the Commission. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll. _ The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved its adoption: �. MOTION N0. 90-699 A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO GIVE PRIORITY TO. FUNDING PROJECTS ALREADY APPROVED -BY--THE COMMISSION IN THE OVERTOWN AND WYNWOOD AREAS; FURTHER _ INSTRUCTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO CHIVE SECOND PRIORITY A ~� TO ANY OTHER PROJECTS IN AREAS THAT HAVE ALSO BEEN NEGLECTED IN PRIOR YEARS. # Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: F J' AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso ' Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor.Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. : ABSENT: *-Commissioner Victor De Yurre. * - Note: Although absent during roll call, Commissioner De Yurre requested - of the Clerk to show him voting with the motion. Mayor Suarers Thank you and thank you for the efforts to improve the conditions in that general vicinity of St. Agnes. � Rev. Gilbert: Thank you very much, { x� vl k� IN 4 k i. _ y 4Tr k{d - t.!, - ORR 44. OUNT RzQ08T "ON L1221tTy COLUMN, INC., TO PLACE INSCRIPTION, ON -4 140MUMOT TO BE PtACID IN SAYMONT PARK Mayor Suarest Humberto Sanch(326 Item 41. You want permission for In. inscription on a monument to be placed in Bayfront Park. - administration looked at this? You're proposing something that would be at nb toot to the City? Mr. Humberto Sanahezi That in correct, air. Commissioner Plummert Wait a minute. Wasn't this the man that was before us before? Vice Mayor Dawkins What's your recommendation, Mr. Manager? Mr. Odiot We recommend it. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Move. Mayor Suarez: Moved. Commissioner Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll. Commissioner Plummer: Do we know what the inscription is? The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 90-700 A RESOLUTION ALLOWING AN INSCRIPTION TO BE PLACED ON A MONUMENT THAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED FOR INSTALLATION JK THE MILDRED AND CLAUDE PEPPER BAYFRONT PARK, SAID MONUMENT AND INSCRIPTION BRING PROPOSED BY HUMBERTO SANCHEZ REPRESENTING LIBERTY COLUMN, INC., UPON THE CONDITION THAT NEITHER THE MONUMENT NOR INSCRIPTION WILL RESULT IN ANY COST To THE CITY OF MIAMI. (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 wast,passed and adopted by the following votes AYES: Commissioner Victor Do Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALLS Ir Mr. Od Los It says, to J.L. Plummer... 161 45. (A) DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO ADVANCE ONE-FOURTH OF TtM $250,000 PREVIOUSLY ALLOCATn TO FLOAIbA AAM UNIVERSITY FOR PRMOTI+ONAL E[iSES IMLATED TO 100041 ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC, (B) APPROVE CLOMW OF DESIGNATED STREETS CONCEftNINO TNB ORAN02 BLOSSOM CLASSIC PARADE - VAIVB MO. +iY.:iGiiYwiiiJ/ilYrlYYii_.•.".iwJ�Lii�1UJi'wt.YYW..i�wii.Yi..Yi.31Y`ili�. iiwiiY�ifiy.ii�GiL�rii�i5i:ii�.►iLii�.ih+il.�iYW.iYifiii Mayor Suaret: Item 42. to that taken care of? Mr. Odio3 We have not taken care of that. I think... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mrs. Brown, come forward, please. This morning,we discussed the request by the Orange Blossom Committee about the awarding of the money allocated by the State of Florida and we found some strange things, so I thought that we would hold it off until you came and now I'd like for the Manager to either explain, or have somebody else explain, to everyone, where we are and what is what. Mr. Frank Castaneda: Commissioners, we have just finished talking with Tallahassee and what they're telling us that they will not sign the agreement they have submitted now till September 25th and that the contract cannot be retroactive to that date. That would mean that we cannot give any monies to the organization prior to that date, and it can only be for activity... Commissioner Plummer: That was not the Commissioner's contention. The Commissioner's contention was that we make a loan - we, the City - make the loan of $52,000. When they get their funds, the first $52,000 that they receive comes back to us. Mr. Castaneda: But, that's the problem. Commissioner Plummer: Why? Mr. Castaneda: The problem is, that they will... they are saying that they will not reimburse the City for any expenditures incurred prior to September the 25th. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Twenty what now? The twenty what? Mr. Castaneda: That they will not reimburse the City any expenditures incurred prior to September the 25th. Vice Mayor Dawkins: You see, all of this could have been avoided if we had not had those two items on the agenda this morning, you see. Nov, I'm sure that the Orange Blossom Classic Committee has geared up and there's a possibility that they have expenditures that they can't be reimbursed 'for' ' But there, again, I can't let the City of Miami take total responsibility for this. Commissioner Plummer: No, you can't do that... Vice Mayor Dawkins: The Orange Blossom Committee also had a commitment to ,. find out what the rules and regulations were for playing the game also. But, coming back to what I said this morning, we led them to believe that they were going to get some money. Now you found out from the State of Florida, that ?_ cannot get any money. So what are we going to do now? }fir Commissioner Plummer: Well, they can't get it till the 25th. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now, OK, let me ask another question. When the State of Y'= Florida told you, you cannot dispense any money until the 25th, how much money is the total amount so that ire will know what one-fourth of that is to disburse? Is it the total $250,000? - r Mr. Castaneda: Basically, what they're stating is, I believe, that they will give you 25 percent upon signing, 25 percent October the.... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Twenty-five percent of ghat? that the state... 162 Did you any this morning fc y� 4 _ y �� t t mr, ciattaodaf of two fifty, two fifty. Vie@ Mayor ]Dawkins i Ohl than that statement this morning that there was a possibility that the total amunt will not be two fifty was erroneous. Mr. Castanedfif No, that possibility still exists. They have not retracted that, but they will issue a contract for two -fifty, and that's what we hairs here. It's a contract for two -fifty. Hovever, they are also stating that there might be some problems with the tax that they're trying to impose as to ita constitutionality. And that, therefore, the amount might be reduced.; Mayor Suarezi What's the constitutional question in it? � f Vicky Leiva, Esq.: Mo, I'm not aware of any constitutional question, but they do have... Mayor "Suarez: I thought every legal question was going to come up today except the constitutionality of a grant for the Orange Blossom. Mr. Castanedas I understand that... ?= Commissioner Plummer: Get your outside counsel. Ms. Leiva: Excuse me, Frank, they have... Mayor Suarez: Yes, I'm going to get my outside counsel on that one too. Ms. Leiva: They have an availability of funds escape clause built into the contract that they're giving the City, which, basically, releases them from = the commitment of $250,000. Over and above that they've also added a cover { letter saying that there are expecting a shortfall and, therefore, they're not — guaranteeing the two -fifty. Mayor Suarez: So, it may be reduced by proportionally to the shortfall overall? Ms. Leiva: Yes. Commissioner Plummer: Knowing the way this governor is, it will probably be all. Mayor Suarez: But, it's supposed to be proportional to the overall shortfall.; Kind of like Gramm-Rudman, or something like that? -sequestering.... Ms.`Leiva: They have not identified what... if there will be a percentage of cut. They are just advising us that it could be less than two -fifty. Mayor Suares: Now that we know that the funds aren't: a' hundred percent guaranteed, we presume that they're most of them" guaranteed', and, how 'do - you want to proceed, Commissioners? Commissioner Plummer: How can you? Vice Mayor Dawkins: How do you... when you sign the contract, do you have the check in hand? Ms. Leiva: No. Mr. Castanedas We will not have any check on hand till September the-25th.' Vice Mayor Dawkins: On September the 25th, you will have the money from the State of Florida? Mo. Leiva: Excuse me, to clarify that, the State of Florida, had saki that they will execute no sooner than'September 25th. That is not a magic data.,,,, Vice Mayor Dawkins: By the twenty... they say no sooner than? E _ Mo. Leivas Um hum. Vice Mayor Dawkins: ...but they didn't say, any later than. r; 163 Mr. Castansdas That is correat. Vice Mayor Dawkins: -Did they say, any later than? Commissioner plumnert No, it's to be assumed, when they say, no sooner -thane that that means that any time after that. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right, when you execute the agreement, by or on the 25th, will the check be in hand? Can they fax you the check? Mr. Odios Us will try. If not, what I'm told legally that we can do is if the check... if the contract is executed on the 25th, we can lend them the money until we get the check from the state and then we reimburse the City. But we cannot do it prior to the execution of the contract. Vice Mayor Dawkins: ..So, they can look forward to, on the 25th) $62,000. Is that a correct statement? Mr. Odiot If the contract is executed that day, yes. Mayor Suarez: As a loan. Vice Mayor Dawkins: As a loan. Mayor Suarez: As a loan? u Vice Mayor Dawkins: Pending repayment from the money the state gives. Mr. Odios That's correct. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now... Mr. Odiot And subject to our reimbursement... you know, the budget and what they are using the money for. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, you didn't tell them? Mr. Odio: They know that, they know that. they have to give us Vice Mayor Dawkins: They know they've got to.provide you with a budget? Mr. Odioz It's reimbursement, yes. - ;a Vi M ce Daw ki B d ? ayox nas eg your par on �, Mr. Odio: That is going to be a reimbursement of expenses incurred. They _ will bring us, on the 25th or 26th, what expenses they have incurred and we will pay them as a loan until we get the money from the State and then we'll reimburse the City. Vice Mayor Dawkins: So, I'll ask it again. So, on the 25th, they can come and pick up a check? Mr. Odio: If the contract is executed, yes. Commissioner Plummer: And the check arrives. Ms. Leivas As well as the contract between the City and the Orange°Blossom Classic. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I didn't understand that. Ms. Leiva: The contract we're talking about with the magic date of September 25th is between the State and the City. The City and the Blossom Classic, every year, also execute a document between the Committee - in this c#so# it's going to be Dr. Woodard - and the City. r; Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, what's wrong with the City of Miami... Say, back there, could we have a little order so vie can, you know, gat through whatevmr , term so we can to you, please. Thank you, ,t z h 164 t �G y _ i i � ^r� { Mayor guaroet We have a lot of City employees, we have some officers who Are obviously here, police officers, who are obviously here, off duty. We would appreciate their help in keeping order in the back of the chambers. Otherwise, we will have to - thank you, I appreciate that. And that goes for firefighters, solid waste, general employees, and all of you. We appreciate that. I guarantee you that before it's all over, we'll probably hear some fireworks, but let's do it on the mike and an the record, not informally in the back, please. All right, Cottaissioner, Vice Mayor.. Me. grown: Mr. Mayor, INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Ms. groan: One of the things that poses a very crucial issue for the Orange Blossom Classic is that the event is scheduled October 20th through 27th. The funds from the State of Florida are primarily for promotion of that classic. The advertising and at cetera, is scheduled to try to bring tourists into the Miami area. It needs to be prepared and executed and visible in other places that we may be able to go about with bringing people into the Miami area. We were told in June by letter from Tallahassee, that the funds had been approved and signed by the governor and that as soon as the City did whatever its preliminary procedures were, that the monies would be available. Last year, I think the funds were retroactive to July and everything is quite a shock to us to find that those funds are not only not available, but when available, are not retroactive. Commissioner Plummer: They didn't do you any favors and they've tied our hands. Mayor Suarez: OK, the best we can do... Do you want to make the motion to advance, at the time of the signing of the contract is the earliest we can do it, that quarter of the total amount that we expect will be, in fact, forthcoming right away, and pursuant to the conditions that have been discussed by all this Commission...? Want to make that motion? Vice Mayor Dawkins: But, before I make the motion, I need a clarification. r Mayor Suarez: Yes.a Vice Mayor Dawkins: You're advancing $62,000 cash or you establishing a- reimbursement fund or what are we establishing?- That's what I need. Mayor Suarez: Do you want to do it by some sort of a line of credit or reimbursement. fund so that we pay the expenses directly? That makes: -,the_ monitoring easier, possibly, I don't know. ". Commissioner Plummer: Yes. Nx Mr. Castaneda: Usually we give a small advance and then we work :on a reimbursement basis depending on their particular problem. We can negotiate ' - something, I'm sure. Mayor Suarez: OK, we leave it to your discretion. 2= Vice Mayor Dawkins: I move the recommendation of the administration. Commissioner Plummer: Second. g Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Work with them, Frank. It sounds like every day will be extremely valuable to them and, also, if we have a problem with the State, let us all know. Maybe we'll make a few phone calls up tbore and get it resolved. Moved and seconded. Any further discussion? If not, please call the roll. 165 The fdiidliiftg xesdlutien VAN introduced by Cotttrniasiotfer DAtkitta, who Moved its adoptionf RESOLUTION NO, 90-101 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ADVANCE ONE -QUARTER (1/4) OF THE $I01000- PRIVIOUSLY ALLOCATED TO FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY BY RESOLUTION NO. 90-681, ADOPTED THIS DATE; SAID ADVANCE TO BE MADE AT THE TIME OF EXECUTION OF THE CONTRACT DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE GRANT FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA WHICH IS THE SUBJECT MATTER OF RESOLUTION NO, 90-601, AND WITH SAID ADVANCES TO BE USED FOR PROMOTIONAL EXPENSES RELATED TO THE 1990-91 ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC AND TO BE DISBURSED UPON THE SUBMISSION OF PROPER RECEIPTS. (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 Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. Mayor Suarez: Item 43, are they here? Mr. Castaneda: You got another item. Mayor Suarez: Does the administration have a recommendation on item 43? e Ms. Leiva: Excuse me, Mayor... Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, before I have one thing... I have one... Ms. Leiva: Before we move away from item 42, along with that was a request for a wavier of permits for the parade, for the actual Orange Classic - excuse me - Orange Blossom Classic Parade. Ms. Brown: We have been notified, Mr. Mayor, by the City staff, that, there are no funds for street waivers and et cetera. The kinds of expenses that you have supported us with throughout the years. We do understand your budgetary limitations.... pi f: Mayor Suarez: Are we talking the waiver - wait, wait, wait - are we talking about the waiver of this new fangled, per lineal foot fee? Yes, as we expected...£ Mr. Odio: No, they want us to waive $3,680 on solid waste, they want us to waive $13,481 in police service, which we cannot. And the total adds up to about $31,400 and... Mayor Suarez: We've probably done the best we can... Mr. Odio: Yes, we have. Mayor Suarez: ...unless any Commissioner has any motion on that, that's the f best we can is to advance you the money on a loan basis, hoping we're going to recover from the state. If not, we're going to have $62,500 lose in our budget.' Hs. Brown: Excuse me, air, the monies from the State of Plorida are only �f promotional. They cannot be used for entertainment, for strset closuresfor anything of that sort.` �p xd ri k 4V �E. ✓"' k I Nagar Guar tt Mo the Strreet el:asures, by the wdy, we Mill, bf 6*Urte approve, mind if any of this &Mount that YoU're talking about has to do Witli ° a aew 6r+ a saah higher a ` yes, it is a fit* fee w we've f inallg established it � to a . now fee I'M disposed tb valvethat because we'va never had 'that 64 thid Committion hasn't had any warning, let alone the groups in 4uestift-- auto none of the other' stuff that is aft adtualt out-of-pocket cost to 48o 'tan bey.'.. at- least, right now, for my vote, can come out of general funds. Ve just 54 don't have the *money. Unless any Commissioner has a motion to snake on that, we'll move on to the... Coeseissionef Alonsot Well, are gust moved for the street closure and... ; Vice Mayor Dawkinst OK, also... Conmisttioner Plummer* Street closures, yes. Mayor Suarezt On the street closures, we have a motion, Commissioner Alonso. Commissioner Alonsot Yes. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Second. Mayor Suarez* Seconded. Call the roll on that, including a waiver of any fees related to the street closure. Not to mean the solid waste or police or fire employees that are needed. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, I'll wait till that one pass and then I'll find out'= about the other. Mayor Suarez: Thank you. - The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Alonso, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 90-702 am A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC PARADE TO BE HELD OCTOBER 27, 1990, WAIVING THE STREET OBSTRUCTION FEES AND ANY OTHER APPLICABLE FEES THAT MAY BE WAIVED BY CITY CODE SUBJECT TO THE ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR THE COST OF.POLICE, FIRE AND, SOLID WASTE. SERVICES. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: - AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ;r ABSENT: None. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. Cruz, how long have you asked, have been attempting to get Florida A&M University to sign the contract to secure and use the stadium? Mr. Max Cruz: Since the early part of July, Commissioner. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Has it been executed? Mr. Cruse: No, Commissioner, my last conversation with the athle tic director said they were holding up there for their law department to reviser and also hoping that the City Commission would find some money for the expenses of the game, Commissioner. r H .x ys +4 y- toy sop% r T,r n r t _ 'ice Mayer Dawkins So, OK, I want the public to understand that Florida Ate+! University has not executed a contract for the use of the stadium. The City .' of Miatai prepared it and sent it to them in July. And then, when the stadium is not availabl6, or if someone comes in for a tractor pull or ,sotmething, and we rent theta the stadiui for that date, then everybody say that we are Anti - Orange Blossom Classic. But it's all the process that has to be done. So Commissioner Plummer: Well, ou've just brought u a point... y � g p Vice Mayor Dawkins: ...somebody in the Orange Blossom Committee needs to call up there to the athletic director or somebody, tell them to sign the contract and fax it to Mr. Cruz and then forward the other contract by mail. Commissioner Plummer: I would hope that the previous motion would say that none of those monies that we spoke about in the previous motion would be disbursed until such a contract were in hand: Because, you know... Mayor Suarez: That's all right, it was said. That was part of the motion. It had to be, because that's the wording of the State grant. '# _ Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes, that's fine, but, J.L., there's also the cost for „ the use of the stadium that nobody has addressed. Mayor Suarez: The actual rental fee for the stadium itself. r_ Vice Mayor Dawkins: The rental fee, again, the cleanup of the stadium, the lights - this hasn't been addressed. — Mayor Suarez: Is there a flat - I always forget, Max - is there a flat .rental fee just for the use of the stadium? Does not take into account any of the attending expenses, solid waste, electricity? Commissioner Plummer: It's so much, plus a percentage. Mr. Cruz: Mr. Mayor, the rental fee of the stadium, the flat rental is $10,000. The expenses is a little bit over $20,000. Commissioner Plummer: And you got the surcharge. Mr. Cruz: Police personnel, the surcharge need to be waived again or need to be addressed. Commissioner Plummer: It's not a cheap facility. >A` 4 Mayor Suarez: I guess it isn't. Commissioner Plummer: And let me ask you a question. How many people attended last year? Mr. Cruz: Seven thousand, seven hundred, Commissioner... R- Commissioner Plummer: Seven thousand. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right, on top of that, how many free tickets did the < president get from you? Commissioner Plummer: Fifteen thousand." Vice Mayor Dawkins: How many, Mr. Cruz? Mr. Cruz I do not know because they bring the ticket ,they. control r the - tickets and they do not give us a report or the tickets, Comissioner. �K Commissioner Plummer: Yes, they did. Vice Mayor Dawkins: But we had seven thousand paid attendance, according to our record. Mr. Cruz: According to our record. t� 5 ;hp M px,..r kg A fit•`-g1P+5'.I�t 4r I Y"' Y�jy�t�j ,f�T Gy� Y e Camiaikt6nar Plumatri Part of the audit showed 15,t}00 free tickets ftat td y Mr, Crust . dent :to the sthool,. t+. Ctmibsloner pluaomer: that was part of the audit) so it did show. k� Viet Mayor Dawkinat And 15,000 where's Mano? Fifteen thousand times $15.00 ry it how much) Mano? Commissioner Plumm6rt A lot of money. Mayor Suarest: A hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Vice., -Mayor Dawkins: So, Mrs. Brown, or somebody, you need to get this R fir_ , committee to do something - this Commission to do something. 9 Ms. Brown: I think that that number is not quite correct, sir. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Darling, we need to... Wr Ms. Brown: The free tickets that we are aware of, come to the schools, ao .the bands, and to the bands only, and the participants that work with the bands. f, Those have been... Commissioner Plummer: Well, excuse me, that was not my number. That was in the audit that showed 15,000 free tickets. It's not my number. I don't have the slightest idea, to be honest with you. But that's what's said went to the _r school. Vice Mayor Dawkins: My concern is how are we going to make the stadium available.or will it be made available or what? Time is of the.essence. Ws need need to know something today. Me. Browns I will contact the athletic director right away, Commissioner °" Dawkins, about that. We were not aware. that Florida A&M had not met .that �F responsibility., Thank.you. Vice Mayor Dawkins: And be sure,; Mrs.: Brown, that you bring the budget,,for., you know.* set..it him before the 25th so that when,you come in on the 25th,,,.you don't have to -bring anything else. Mayor.Suarezt All right. 46. AUTHORIZE ADMINISTRATION TO MITIGATE .FINS PRESENTLY ASSESSED ON:,:COO ; AIDS.. NOW BY CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARDFOR ILLEGAL .PARKING ,OF VEHICLES' AT LOT NEXT TO 2240 SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY. Mayor Suarez: Item 43.. Cure Aids Now. Is there any of this that is revenue neutral, does not involved any spending that they need and that the Manager v would recommend? z� y A Mr. Odios They were found in violation of ;the parking,,lot.,on:_ rovs�aegt, They want us to pay for the paving, which is $12,000 oa private property, ' which we will not and cannot do. And they also want a zoning change or,` I mean, the fee... they were .charged $250 a day in violations and they:: W#Att, F u to. waive that. Mayor Suarers What vas being done on that facility? -you were selling or just � taking contributions or selling something in exchange for contributions Qr.x what Mr, Arthur Calabrese: Well, we're basically a meals on wheels program, as you know. „i h ;Mayor 6usrea: We need your name and address. SYta Mr, Calabrese: Arthur Calabrese, nhaln f the board of Cure Aids Now ! 'F 169 , 1 s {; ,i a' E x e iiiRRRiRRR 14adaft City Clerk, did the gentleman fill out one of the-t6MO Commisdioner Plunairs N69 this is hot.... Mr. Odlot No, he'$ a regular Appearance. Comisdi6net A16hoot He war in the agenda. Commissioner Plummort This is an agenda item, not... Ms. Hirilt The forms have been uhed for... Mayor Suarez: OK, my purpose, as of the next meeting, in for speaker to fill out a f om. Mg. Hirai: I see, Mr. Mayor. every single mayor Sutrozi All right, go ahead, air. Give us name and address first. IN2, Mr. Calabrese: Arthur Calabrese, chairman of the board, Cure Aide -Now) 2240 S. Dixie Highway. The question was asked, what we do. We're basically a heals onwheels program to Aide patients, indigent, and... Mayor Suarest We know all of that, but you're using the lot on 22nd and U4S- I'Ihlwhat capacity? We've all seen it. Me. Calabrese: Mr. Mayor, it's basically for parking. We do hold occasional garage sales and we do occasionally have people come in there and ask us if they can use the lot, and then they give us a little donation. 4.. Commissioner De Yurre: Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, can we get a little quiet back there? Mayor Suarez: Once again, we're going to need your help in the back on left, lease., The only way it's going to work is if everybody helps us-bbesuie weldf. V"� hate to have to clear the chambers because I know everybody wants to participate. We Ill be getting to the, item on the budget which, I gather, is what most people are here for, right after this item. It's my intention to T: two personal -that we have, Maybe clean: up,: maybe one or items, personal appearances and get right to the budget. I guess that's 55, right?. Whatever.- as soon as possible and, to hear,, from the unions and from:ahy..City `4- employees. It's an item scheduled for 5:00 p.m. We're not too late on it and we have by-passed a lot of other items to get to this point, but we're almost finished,'please.So, on personal appearancest we have just one or two left. Mr. Calabreset Mr. Mayor, what we're asking for is a waiver of the 'fee for the variance. The fee in approximately, $2 000, and- at the'sametjMe'' a! _j_ asking for the waiver of the fine that they levied on us. I believe it begins as of the... CommLssioner Pluminert We can't do that. That's not within our-','purvie,0: to waive the fee. That is strictly up to the building director. Mayor Suarez: You're talking about the fine or the fee?. Commissioner Plummer: The fine that is imposed by Code Enforcement. It's not. Z, within the purviewofthis board. Mayor Suarett I don't think we can waive the fine. The fee for applying for a variance, I don't know about waiving that either. Can we vaive.the too for applying for the variance? wi Commissioner Alonso: Can we waive the fee? Mr. Sergio Rodriguez: No, air. Commissioner Do Yurret OK, what's the item? Commissioner Alonso; it not, why are they bore And you 4jdalt toll him? p. Mr. Calabrese: Why weren't we told this right away? tic Mr. todriguest V611j they Want to appeal to you because we have said no: Mr. Calabreset Mr. Mayor, we feed approximately, just in the City of Miami" a- alone.... Mayor Suarest What would the variance do, by the way? -just so we can tell you, maybe you ought to save your variance fee because you might no got ° theiK variance anyhow. What are you applying... Mr. Calabreset Well, Mr. Mayor, all we want to do is just leave the lot as it _ is,, It's basically used for parking. We do very little`else,with the lot And F to take that lot a.... Mayor Suarest So.why are they... wait a minute, why are they requesting a variance, do you think then? Would they be requesting a variance? Mrs Rodriguezt They are presently in violation. They cannot use the lot for parking and they have been notified since October of last year. They have been given two extension to try to resolve their problem and they haven't done it. So, as of August the let, the fines start accumulating at $250 per day. So now, they are coming to you to try to see if you can pay for :the application for the variance and... Mayor Suarez: Two hundred and fifty dollars per day, of course, envisions a continuing violation... Mr. Rodriguez: Right. Mayor Suarez: ...and this is not a continuing violation. They don't have the garage sale and the use of the property everyday. Mr. Rodriguez: The violation is not because of the garage sale, the violation Is because of the parking that they are using illegally on that property: Mayor Suarez: But, they're not using it everyday for parking, are they? - Commissioner Plummer: - No, but that's not it. _ r' Mr. Rodriguez:? They are using it everyday for parking, air. y' Mr. Calabrese: Mr. Mayor, we do use it everyday for parking for'our:.-clients' and for,our staff. Mayor Suarez: How many cars, typically? `our t- ^�1 Mr. Calabrese: At the maximum, I'd say maybe....at the maximum, including vans that we load food on to deliver, maybe ten to fifteen. Occasionally, inhere might be more if there's.an emergency situation going on, but I nee no reason why you can't just kind of take this into consideration. Commissioner De Yurre: Let me ask you this. Are you telling ms that, -=knowing that it's illegal to do it, you continue to do it? Mr. Calabrese: Well, we were informed of this, I believe,` in October; Mr.,:_#` Commissioner. -41 Commissioner De Yurre: Of what year? Mr. Calabrese: Eighty-nine, I believe.,a Mr. Rodriguez: Eighty-nine. Commissioner De Yurre: So, knowing that something was illegal, you continued to do it for about a year? Mr. Rodriguez: Well, Mr. Commissioners, we were not the owners of the lot. a' Commissioner De Yurre: Well, you've been aware since when? x2 Mr. Calabrese: I would say since the end of October of 189. A F F s �n k: Sa- C ise onor be turret Ott, so nines October, you know that it's not proper, it's not legal to park vehicles where you've been parking and continuing to park them on a daily basis till the present. Is that What you're saying's Yee or no. Mr. Calabreeet Yes, sir, in answer to your question. jA x Commissioner De Yurre: Oh, I gust pant to make clear, you know. I just want to understand.LA �- A Mayor Suares: You know, as a practical matter, right across the Street, - you've got. an apartment complex, you've got a bunch of side streets coming into 22nd Avenue. You could just park the cars across U.S. 1 and it just..., Mr. Calabrese: No, air, the neighbors would just get in an uproar. Mayor Suarez: They don't have any right to prevent you from parking across - the Street. Y.h Mr. Calabrese: Well, sir, our problem in... Mayor Suarez: And on the same side of U.S. 1 too, for that matter. It's just that you'd.probably have to walk a little longer, I think, because there's not as many side streets... Mr. Calabrese: Well, no, Mr. Mayor, our problem is, we load food and unload_ food. We have to have access and the only access we have is through that lot. Mayor Suarez: Well, for the loading and unloading, I can't imagine that that, in itself, is a violation, is it? The loading and unloading of food that they do. That is not, in itself, a violation as long as they don't leave the car or van there stationery after the loading and unloading, is it? Vice Mayor Dawkins: That guy give you permission to drive across his lot? 3, i Mr. Calabrese: Yes, sir. The new situation we have with them is, he leased - us the lot now, OK? He, up until this point - I don't know the exact date, I can get it - we were not the lessees. But we're trying to get the whole thing tt': remedied now. Two hundred and fifty dollars a day he would make us pay that. He's not... well, he's a kind gentleman, but it's not that kind. And it would - devastate our program, Mr. Mayor, and Commissioners,. and you know the,,good' work -that we do and I think if you would just us a little consideration on this, you'd be helping a lot of people in the City of Miami, as well as Dade 4 County. Commissioner Plummer: In it within our purview to ask the Code Hnforcement;'to,.t,: review? Mr. Rodriguez: The Code Enforcement, as soon as we find now that they're in compliance, meaning that they stopped the parking in the lot illegally, we find them in compliance and the fine, at that point, stop.- And,, then at that point, the Law Department reviews the case and make a determination as to the fine. Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Yes, and we ameliorate, or we take into consideration, all kinds of circumstances and oftentimes we reach vs favorable f le settlements, Mr. Rodriguez: But we cannot do this while the violation continues and there n� in no compliance. At this point... Commissioner De Yurre: Can I suggest something? We're talking about two things. One is the penalties for being in violation, which - it's running. Mr. Rodriguez: Running. Commissioner De Yurre: That's one thing. The other thing is the foe to apply for a variance. Mr. Rodriguez: Right, and there's also, I believe, a third thing which is tine t improvement of the parking lot, which I believe they're asking $:I000 for it, 4 7t � MiiM s v — comissionst to 'turret WolIq I went to deal with the applid-atift to the variance sad then the running of the violation. Olt. Mr. Calabroost That's all we're asking for, 768, sir. Commissioner Do Yurrat Vhat I would suggest, and knowing and Und8fatandiftig the City Attorney's office role in this situation, that ones these issues are mitigated or one* they're rosolvado then the City Attorabyie office can mitigate the damages. How much in the cost for applying for a variantO Mr. Rodrigues: Two thousand dollars. Commissioner Do Yurre: if we can tome with an understanding that the mitigation will be, once it's been addressed and the problem has been solved, that the mitigation will be at least in an amount of $2,000 to the benefit of the applicant) then that would cover their cost the filing for the variance. And then, whenever they got on top of that, you're going to have to work out) directly with the City Attorney's office. Mr. Fernandez: They still have to come up with the first $2,000 upfront for the application. Commissioner Do Yurres Sure, but you can take that into consideration and when you start to - the mitigation process. Mr. Fernandez: Sure, sure. Mr. Rodriguez: Commissioner, also you want to take and put this on the record that there is no guarantee that when they go to get a variance, that the Zoning Board will grant that. Commissioner De Yurre: Of course not. Mayor Suarez: Absolutely. Mr. Rodriguez: So they will understand that. Mayor Suarez: Absolutely, put that into the record. Commissioner Alonsoi Of course. Commissioner Plummer: Xavier, you are going to bring out droves of people in opposition, I can tell you that. Mr. Rodriguez: In the Grove. Mayor Suarez: That's why exactly why we're putting into the record, there's no guarantee. Commissioner Plummer: I sat through... Commissioner Do Yurre: Well, we're not determining the outcome -right, -.now. Mayor Suarez: Exactly, we're all in agreement. We're all in agreement. OK., We have a motion and a second on your proposal, which makes a lotof sense. Any further discussion? If not, please call the roll. 'Y The following (notion was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved its adoption: - MOTION NO. 90-703 A MOTION REFERRING TO THE CITY ATTORNEY REQUEST BY REPRESENTATIVES Olt CURE AIDS NOV TO MITIGATE PRESENTLY OUTSTANDING FINE ASSESSED TO SAID GROUP BY THE CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD FOR ILLEGAL PARKING OF VEHICLES ON THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF S.W. 22 AVENUE AND SOUTH DIXIE HIGHWAY, SUBJECT TO SAID GROUP COMPLYING WITH THE CODS ENFORCEMENT BOARD'S DIRECTIVE TO IMMEDIATELY STOP PARKING ON SAID LOT; FURTHER STIPULATING THAT, IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR SECOND REQUEST, THAT THEY BE GRANTED A VARIANCE TO PAVE THE AFOREMENTIONED LOT, THEY SHOULD BEING THE APPLICATION PROCESS FOR THE VARIANCE AND COME UP WITH THE REQUIRED $2,000 FOR SAID APPLICATION= FURTHER STIPULATING THAT SUCH WOULD BE WITHOUT ANY GUARANTEE THAT THE VARIANCE WOULD ULTIMATELY BE GRANTED. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. Commissioner De Yurre: Thank you. 47. CREATE TEN -MEMBER YOUTH GANG TASK FORCE INCLUDING THREE EX OFFICIO MEMBERS FROM TACOLCY CENTER, ASPIRA, AND POSITIVE, INC. Mayor Suarez: Five discussion items that none of them, I think, require legislative action or are controversial. Before that, the Positive, Inc. item that is listed here in item, as item 46. Is Mr. Cortada still here? He was with us most of the day. Let me preempt your presentation by telling the _ Commission that, basically, and maybe Commissioner Alonso also wants to give her perspective on this, I know she's quite familiar with what Positive, Inc. is doing. The task force for youth gangs was initially set up by myself. I asked a young fellow by the name of Mickey Minagorre, well known to you and brother of high placed City employee, to head it. They've done a magnificent job. I think it's proper for the entire Commission to appoint a new task_ force, each of you, two or three members, however you'd want to do it, and I t= think Mickeywants to resin as chairman so 8 , Perhaps we can make him chairman tf emeritus or something to recognize the work he's done and we'll take it from there. I don't think we'll be in a position to act finally on it, but if the Commission would want to propose either ten or fifteen members, however you _ want to do it, we can go from there. `z Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Mayor, their request before us is for office space. Mayor Suarez: That's not pending today. Commissioner Alonso: Yes, that's not today. Vice Mayor Dawkins: What is the day? Commissioner Alonso: question of the... The only thing that now they want us to address in the 45 Vice Mayor Dawkins: This is not going to... 174 t'cth- }. � r Major buirast ` Just a task ferae; £b: fta* Mayor Dawkins t Valli when is the space doming up? tt iej::j5uiraA: Tht havenitfound any at this point, so they're not... Vita -Mayor Dawkins: Its going -ta giVd them some Lit a few minutes. fi Mayor Suarez: All right.U' -- WIDENTIFIED SPIAKERs Thank you. ' Mayor Suarez: hell, if you an idea, why don't you go ahead and put it on the t6d6 'd, Visa Mayor? Vice Mayor Dawkiftst Mr. Mayor cannot vote in this bedaume he plays baaketball with you guys. So, it's a conflict of interest for him. He can't,votc.•$ut z we've been letting people use space in the Artime Center. I don't see why... UNIDENTIFIRD SPEAKER: We have a.... Commissioner Alonsos No... yes. Vice Mayor Dawkins: You have the space? UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes, we have a space there, but.... Vice 'Mayor Dawkins: Well, how you say you don't have it? UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Wait, wait, it's not conducive to our activities, particularly when these kids speak in high decibels. A Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, I move that it be denied, because I just asked him and he may he didn't have it. OK, so we move to deny it. Commissioner Plummer: To deny what? 1< } Vice Mayor Dawkins The space. F _ Commissioner Plummer: Oh. How can we deny something he didn't get? Vice Mayor Dawkins: He say he's got it. ;. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Vice Mayor Dawkins, the reason I'm before you is not 4M1` necessarily toaddress the issue of getting the 'space because that... Vice Mayor Dawkinss But I'm concerned about the space. Do you have space? Commissioner Alonso: No., n ' UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: We need a different type, a different sort of spats. In other words, what we have now is a small office where we cannot have our kids get together and do all their activities. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Whoa, whoa, whoa, activities... Well, you don't need g office... u Mayor Suarers Right. Commissioner Alonsos Yes, they get to be very loud and perhaps people will, ter' • misunderstand their expressions and things and it will be a problem, i j y Vice Mayor Dawkinas Well, you don't need office apace. *n UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKRRs No, no, we don't`vant office space. Wefre looking and k we're... Vice Mayor Dawkinni OK, well may that. OK, you vant epics, not office spgcef '. '' UNIDENTIFIED 8PEAK3Rs We van% big -space. k, Mayor Ault ia: And that' wore Hoping for aft abandoned lot or abandoned ttraft �- house or aomething that they could turn into this facility Would haVS been great. So far, none has been identified. You're going to keep looking, though, right? UNIDENTIFIED SPRAR$R: Right. Mayor Suarest As to the committee then, would you like to have a membership _ of ten or fifteen people, Commissioners? Two suggestions. Commissioner Alonso: Ten. :f Mayor Suarez: Ten, two per Commissioner. �r UNIDENTIFIED SPRAKER: Yes, we think the - and obviously, respectfully ask for E_ L My a committee of ten people to be composed of members from service organiitations R_ that work with gangs directly. Organizations like ASPIRA, like Positive and R like the Tacolcy Center, along with members from our law enforcement and = members from our... t Mayor Suarez: You might want to have some of those y g people who are in agencies �— to be ex officio, non -voting or voting, however you want. But, in addition to the ten appointed members, so that you don't constrain the Commission from — naming people who are interested in helping in this effort. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: That will be great. Good. Maybe we could have a ten member committee with some ex officio members. 'Fa Mayor Suarez: And then you could have up to another three or four or five ex officio members representing the various agencies. How many agencies, typically, do you need represented? UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: There's three of them that were working closely with 1 gang activities._ s Mayor Suarez: Plus three ex officio. What are they? -just for the record.- T4 UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Tacolcy Center, ASPIRA, and Positive, Inc. fi Mayor Suarez: OK. Commissioner Alonso: OK, so I move that... Mayor Suarez: So moved. Commissioner Alonso: ...we approve a Commission... Mayor Suarez: Task force on gangs to be... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Second. Commissioner Alonso: ...task force from the Commission... {' d: Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded... Commissioner Alonso: And ten people. ,= Mayor Suarez: Two per Commissioner, plus three ex officio. Any discussion? �- If not, please call the roll. t{ The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Alonso, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 40-704 � A RESOLUTION CREATING A TEN MEMBER YOUTH GANG TASKfl FORCE PITH THREE EX OFFICIO MEMBERS FROM. TACOLCY u CENTER, ASPIRA, AND POSITIVE, INC. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clark.) _= M Hi � 170 50vtomber 710, { Openbetr4 ; Woftd+ed . tj Comi-esie►fter DAWkitls, the regolUtiem 066 pas+ d tad , daptad by th6 following vote t x A St Comiseibaer Vittor be Vurre - ti° oaeniseioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. - Comiir Jonbr'Miriam Alonab i�iese° 1geyotlilier J Da�►kins �.gle�ror �katriar L� Bastes MORS I ABS1W i None. UNIDSNTIFIRD SPRAKIRs Thank you very touch. Mayor Suarez: The chair recognizes State Representative Alberto Gutman, who is here to give.us all kinds of state money so that we can solve our budget = problems. -� We.appreciate it. � Y Vice.Mayor Dawkins: And if.he doesn't get it to it, we won't vote for him. Mayor Suarszt.. We'll take any of your twenty-eight and -a -half billion dollars in the State'budget. ..e��Yrrrr_rrriiiiY`rr.wrr_rr_rarrr_rr—rr_r__rr_rrrs_rrrr_r_rrr_rrr+_r_rrrrrrrrr�rr 48. ='DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO SCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING TO HEAR PROPOSAL BY � STEPHENS, INC. (BOND UNDERWRITING FIRM) CONCERNING SALE OF TAXABLE BONDS. Mayor Suarez: There's a discussion item listed here from Stephens, Inc. concerning- the sale of taxable bonds. Is that still pending,- Mr. --Manager? , Whose request is this? Mr. Od'io: This is something we've been working on with T. Willard Fair -and 'in the new ideas.; , Mr. Carlos Garcia: Yes, Mr. Mayor, the Urban League has given this proposal G° to., the City to sell taxable: bonds at very low interest rates. 3 or 4_,perdent. Of - course,:' they will have to find the buyers to accept that kind of interest rate. Once the proceeds are received, then part of the monies will be put in trust to pay back the bonds and rest of the monies will be used to f fight the drug war that they have presently in their section of Liberty City.' Vice Mayor, .Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, I move that this be scheduled as -a yregular agenda item and advertised... Mayor:Suarez: After they've thoroughly -studied, yes. Vice Mayor Dawkins: ...and advertised so that other members of the community who may be for this or against this, or may feel that they are entitled to the same thing, can come • before us. "w Mayor Suarez: So moved and a formal advertised item for public hearing.'s Commissioner Plummer: Second it, Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll. s rr e x N , t yn5 k�,�' i�, y�,} t� ..i *,} •"fit , ,< r j' d , � i < ,r'r ; { -- d° o fallovift rarsolutioti iiaa inttodueed by Comissioner ifawkihs, fte twvod its adopt its i ABSOLUTION NO, 00��0� A RNSOLNTION SETTING A PUBLIC ' HEARING BY TIC CITY C09MM198ION Or THE CITY OB MIAMI CONCSARM Tft PROPOSAL BY THE UNNDDBNkITIRG FIRM Or STEPHENS, INC. TO A891ST THE URBAN LRAW1 Or OREAT91 MIAMI WITH "S ISStTANCE or CITY or MIAMI TAXABLE BONtS FOR "M PURPOSE OF FINANCING PROGRAMS TO F16HT DRUG RELATED PROBLE48 WITHIN THE CITY. (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 Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None.., ABSENT: None. ------------------------ - 49. DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO TRANSFER OF FEDERAL AVIATION TRUST FUNDS TO DADE COUNTY. Mayor Suarez: Item 48. Mr.:Odio:. That is a... you remember, we had monies received from the federal government for a study in Watson Island. r Mayor Suarez: Have you come up with a creative way of using those funds? -is sr' that the idea? Commissioner Alonso: We have to return... x Mr. Odio: No, the idea is that unless, by September 30th, we allocate these funds within the County, that we will lose them, and they would then go to -a '- national pool. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I move that they be awarded to the County since the County handles aviation and helicopter would be aviation, "I move that the �- funds be donated to the County to work on their aviation program. Mayor Suarez: So moved.`._ Commissioner Plummer: Second. 1 Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll.._ a: Y ' 445. {z d r_ 3�� ' A fhllas� tig rssolution was ihtrodueed by Comiesiahar IiaftitkC Vfi6 s rr `its adopt io'f► f RESOLUTION 90. 90-106 A RESOLUTION APPROVING AND AUTH01RIZING THE CIT'f '- 90AGEAi$ EXECUTION AND FILING OF THE APPROPRIATE k DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE WAIVER AND REASSIGNMENT TO MITKOPOLITAN bAft CONY, FLORIDA, OF TRUST FUNDS IN } THE AMOUNT OF $300,000 PREVIOUSLY APPORTIONED BY THE RAC DEPARTMENT OF 'TRANSPORTATION, FEDERAL AVIATION AbMINISTRATION, rOR CITY USE IN CONNECTION WITH THE WATSON ISLAND AIRPORT FACILITY.— (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOSS: None. ABSENT: None. the resolution was passed 50. DISCUSS AND DEFER PROPOSED AGREEMENT WITH LAMAR LOUISE CURRY CONCERNING HER DONATION TO THE CHALLENGER VII MEMORIAL. Mayor Suarez: Forty=nine, agreement between the City and Lamar Louise Curry related to her donation to... Commissioner Plummer: I need to know why the Law Department is holding this r' up. s.= Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Says who? Commissioner Plummer: My understanding, from the Parks Department, is that the agreement is still bogged down in the Law Department. " �i Mr. Fernandez: Incorrect information, whoever gave you that information. Mr. Odio: No, but... I have a problem with it. It's not that we're holding it up, I wanted to discuss it today. Commissioner Plummer: Well, we understand that there - just so the Commission knows - there is a full ramification. , Mr. Odio: Ah. Commissioner Plummer: What I'm trying to say here is the acceptance of the money does not have to do with any of the problems that are presently existing. Mr. Odio: No, but they also have a clause that worried me a lot that the City would agree to... Lot me see if I can read it. Mayor Suarez: Mr. Manager, there are two different things being said. If we have a problem in substance with the agreement, you should give that 'input 'to Commissioner Plummer, Sayfront Park Management Trust, and this Commission. Mr. Odio: I'm saying... 179 n a># t rz g` r Mayor. luarbat It therole a problem as to the form and the 'City Attorney is fiat getting it done on timaj or whatever... Mr, Odiot It is not true Mayer Suareat ...as stated by some other department that will not be named, +ae ought to know that. X Mr. Odiot-Let me repeat what I said... Mayor $uareat If you have a problem with the substance of the agreements let's get it on the table and let's resolve it. Mr.-Odiot I have a problem with a condition that the City of Miami would then �4 r be responsible that we have collected sufficient funds to completa:. he p memorial. Up to this point, this has been a private donation project, and:1 r do not recommend that the City of Miami get involved with it. If: the condition they are putting on these funds that they are donating to the City, is that we then are respon... s Commissioner Plummer: Well, wait a minute, wait a minute, there's two segments, as I recall._ Mr. Odio: I don't want... Commissioner Plummer: Where is Diane Johnson Mr. Odio: She's here. Commissioner Plummers She is willing to give the seventy some thousand dollars to finish the monument and she is willing give 466,000, as I recall, in &.perpetual trust, to change the landscaping. Mr..Odio: No, that's not the way it's supposed to be. Commissioner... Commissioner Plummer: Well, that's what I was told. Mr. Odio: ...I'll tell you what I'd like to do. Defer this item until next41 ` Commission meeting. Commissioner Plummer: 'Well, if Diane Johnson doesn't show up, but let --me tell-, you... 4` Mr. Odiot Accept the funds then, but not with... subject to -negotiating that condition. �4$ Mayor Suarez: Subject - right. Accept it, but not with the condition that we do any of the rest of the configuration that... Mr. Odio: Right. Right. Mayor Suarez: Right. : Vice Mayor Dawkinse What is the condition that she wants to impose with the * money?. Mr. Odio: It says here something that bothers me... ` Vice Mayor Dawkins: Read it... Mr. Odio: ...it says, "...that the gift is made upon the express condition that the City of Miami Challenger ViI Memorial Committee aad/or the, New zVori'd d. - Center Foundation demonstrate that they have collected sufficient funds to complete the memorial in conjunction with this gift." Vice Mayon Dawkins: To complete what? Mr. Odio: To complete the memorial in conjunction with this gift. So, this t just says, we'll give... Mayor $uarezi The memorial construction,.. i80 MepttF.' nh ,� 8 A Mr. Odios They'll give us this money if we can prove that we have enough fdaftias to finish the project. Mayon :wares: iiho definea what completing it is? As far as I'm concerned, it's completed right now. c6mmissioner Elufters All right, all right, Mr. Mayor... Mr. Mayor, I stand corrected. I have other information now from your DDA and I will acquiesce to the Manager to defer this until next meeting. f asp Mayor Suarers All right, we'll work it all out. If, indeed, Lamar Lewis Curry or other relatives of the Curry family, Mr. Manager, Mr.. Lee, -Mist Johnson - if the Curry's are concerned about any of this, we've had long conversations in the past, I'm sure Commissioner Plummer his had lout conversations with them, we will have additional long conversations to assure — them that we... I've gone through this before with them on many, many other aspects of what we're doing in the park, and we're available. Please don't forget, this is a very interesting gift. It's been pending for a long time. Hopefully, the conditions will not be too onerous for us to meet. ------- ----------- ---- ------ -.-...._--------------------------------------- 51. RESCHEDULE PROPOSED DISCUSSION ON THE CITY'S TOWING CONTRACTS TO THE _ FIRST COMMISSION MEETING IN OCTOBER. —r-------------------- Mayor Suarez: Item 50. Final item and we get to the budget, towing contracts. What's the... Commissioner De Yurre: Yes, sir, Mr. Mayor. I need to get some information on this whole concept that we have about our towing system. It is my understanding that well over a year ago, we awarded contracts to various companies that are in the towing business based on regions or districts that the City was carved up into, six of them. It is my further understanding that that was for a one year period, and for a number of months now, that contract has expired. I need to get some information from the administration as to where we're at with this situation. - Mayor Suarez: If we were to find out that after all the effort of putting out for bids the different regions of the Cityand implementing a whole new y_ program, and a whole new system of allocating the rights of towing in the h different parts of the City on a competitive basis, and reducing the maximum rates, etcetera, that somehow that contract has expired, I will be very upset. Commissioner Plummer: Was it a one year or two year? Mayor Suarez: I don't remember. Commissioner De Yurre: I think it was only a one year, and I want to know - April or something like that. exactly and I think it was up is last March or pr g Mayor Suarez: OK, one more time then we're going to need, to ask you to please, in the back, all the union members, all the non -union members, all the City employees, friends, relatives, please help us to keep as much quiet an possible. Like I said, pretty soon we'll have the mikes available for the k, issue that concerns a lot of you, and I am sure in very, very emphatic language, we will hear, but, in the meantime, we'll just get through this one Item and maybe one or two that Commissioners may have, we'll go right on to it. We're only 56 minutes late, which isn't too bad, as the City goes. Yes? Mr. Odios The contract has expired. I believe that GSA sad:. -the I.aa Department are working on the renewal of this whole concept.av x, Commissioner De Yurres OK, one concern that I have, it is my understanding,, k from what I hear, that one company has been sold. Maybe it's Southland , Company, I'm not sure if that's the one. Mr. Odios That's the name that I have heard, gT d �+Y �> Commissioner De Yurre: OK, I've also heard, through the grapovtuo, that this company was involved in an auto accident with one of their trucks that wasf4't Insured, which is in violation, from what I understand... l 5 l8 Sej�t.r y, 'ice .. k . #•� . ,' i fY ti Mr. Odio: nights Oom ssioner be Vurro: ...with our requirements. j F Mr6 Odiot If you wish, what I'd like to do is bring the whole concept up and° the contracts in the first meeting of October. r Commissioner De Yurre: OK, because I want to deal with this issue and I want to 'make sure- that we're doing things right, because I've been hearing -_ :.ydu know, we went through a lot of pain about getting an ordinance approved that would cut back on the abuse that has been going on for a long time, as far as fees and charges, that our citizens get hit with. You know, I've been hearing complaints that people are getting hit with all kinds of fees that were not part of what our ordinance was. So, I want to make sure that we deal with this issue, and if it means that - Cesar, Cesar... <> Mr. Odio: Yes, sir. Commissioner De Yurre : ...the first meeting in October, we're going to deal with this issue then? Mr. Odio: Yes, air. Commissioner De Yurre: OK, and let's deal with... Mr. Odio: I'll bring... and Mayor Suarez: I understood, by the way, that those exclusive agreements were not assignable. Mr. Odio: OK. They are not assignable. Vice Mayor Dawkins: That's what I was going to ask the City Attorney. Mayor Suarez: I sure as... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. City Attorney... Mayor Suarez: ...heck hope that that was the case, and that we're not going to hear afterwards that they were somehow assignable. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. City Attorney? 7 Mr. Odio: But, I think this would be the time that... 4 Vice Mayor Dawkins:- City Attorney? Mr. Fernandez: Yes, sir. Vice.Mayor Dawkinss Were -those contracts transferable? Mr. Fernandez: My understanding is that they were not assignable. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Thank you. Commissioner De Yurre: Does that include sale of stock? -in any way... any transfer or any change of ownership via sale of the company, via sale of stock? Well, just have that answer for us for the meeting in October. Mayor Suarez: There are ways around a prohibition on assignment by transferring all of the stocks or etcetera, no I hope that we've also built that into the requirements, that we were dealing with the people in question ` at the time or only with minor deviations from the stock ownership. OK, thank you. 1 t Wm irt��:WLWu+iYY�►�' ••. ••`.".,:-.+ 3 `�i3i�tWl�s1iY.'YliYtiiaiiaGaJfi�.fill.iriitY.iwiiiliiYr"N".�iWtY�lu.:r�iEY�39�6i.`••.•:��.• ,P ' -SgL + *AA* tJ1ek+u+~ 1POINU tiOLI.AND ANb KN1f3HT A$ 4%A iiti04011i r.. 3 API�ROVi R %0 THE CITY CITY MAY IMPOSS A M 01k CHARM CAN GROSS INCOME GRNNRA`iID 13y THE ME - Cy aid' -STRUT PARKING MRTRRS. S iNWi.W�f..YwY..r'YiiciiiY�.YlaiWfYirifia3rir,,.".i►i ,.. '"—.Yii`:-`"•"IYWarriYYfii.il.�i.w�i.isii�ii.iaYaiiilta.'i.ri.irrYYsf.WlfiY y;_ Mayor Suarez3 0nmissioners, Commissioner Alonso had one brief Item...oFt Commissioner Alonsoe Yes. { R Mayor Suarez: ...then we're going to , take a five minute recess and come batik at the request of some of us that need to use the facilities, come back for ,? the budget item. Yes. Commissioner Alonso: Yea, I have a pocket item from the City Attorney. s•. Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Yes. Commissioner Alonso: To authorize the law firm of Holland & Knight to give us a formal written bond counsel for the Off -Street Parking fee that I requested. Mr. Fernandez: Correct, in order for me to give you a binding legal opinion on whether we can attach any of the proceeds from the Department of Off -Street Parking revenue from the parking meters, I need bond counsel to supplement my opinion as to whether the stream of income, or revenue, a comea rom e parking meters have been pledged to meet their bond obligations. And, therefore, bond opinion is important, and pursuant to your request that I come to you whenever I need to go to outside bond counsel, this is what we're doing right now. Commissioner Plummer: How much? Mr. Fernandez: Three thousand dollars. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Is Traurig the next rotation? Mr. Fernandez: This does not fall within the rotation. We look to the bond attorneys... otherwise, Vice Mayor, we're following the rotational list. Vice Mayor Dawkins: That's what I asked you. That's all I -asked. Mr. Fernandez: Yes. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Thank you, that's all I asked. Mr. Fernandez: We are, we're following it. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Thank you. Mayor Suarez: OK, do we have that in the form of a motion?'' Commissioner Alonso: Yes. Mr. Fernandez: Yes. Commissioner Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. S,. is a i@e►srz# f. The following resolution aas introduced by Commissioner Alftso, Who footod its Adootionk RESOLUTION NO, 90-101 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE LAW FIRM OF HOLLAND A KNIGHT TO PROVIDE A P09MAL WRITTEN BOND COUNSEL OPINION ON THE IS= OF WHETHER THE CITY MAY IMPOSE A PEE OR CHARGE ON THE GROSS INCOME GENERATED BY THE USE OF OFF-STREET. PARKING DEPARTMENT'S PARKING METERS WITH SAID MONIES TO BE PAID DIRECTLY TO THE CITY ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, WITH THU COST OF SAID LEGAL SERVICES NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF $3,000.00 BEING ALLOCATED FROM FY 190-91 BUDGETED FUNDS, SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS: (Here foiloaa 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 Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 53. DISCUSSION CONCERNING PROPOSED MILLAGE RATE AND TENTATIVE FY190-91 BUDGET FOR THE CITY (Momentarily deferred - see label 55). Mayor Suarez: Before we recess, all the union heads I see, are pretty ready to make their presentation. -I presume each one of you is going to do that, and I'd like to meet with you briefly on procedure before we come back. .:If you could hang around. Anyone else, interested parties, people who are here on grants I see a few faces of people that are going to make .the foolish attempt - or rather the attempt - to get monies for grants. Please fill out one of the little forms with name and address, and that will help us to proceed with a little bit more order. Thank you. We're recessed until 6:05. THEREUPON THE CITY COMMISSION WENT INTO RECESS AT 6:01- P.M. AND RECONVENED AT 6:10 P.M., WITH ALL MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION FOUND TO BE PRESENT. Mayor Suarez: ...part of the same item 51. Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Correct. Mayor Suarez: Because they are relevant to setting the millage rate,t obviously, even though they could also be considered to be relevant to 52, 53, 54... Mr. Fernandez: That's it, no. Mayor Suarez: And, conceivably, even some of the other ones that are 'not strictly City of Miami budgets. And the City Clerk, please take note of the YI- fact that we have'put that in the record, that each of the comments related are expenditures, or even revenue production by the City, through the millage 341 rate, all of those comments are deemed to be applicable to all of the item beginning with 51 until the and of all the budgets, so that we don't take 4' repetition of any of those. We'll take them once. To the extant that :you represent a union or to the extent that you represent a group tuad of soms sort, or a grant, your comments will be only accepted on one Its*, ` Fifty-one will be applied to all the other ones that are.relev4xt. l guess two or three are together on each one of these. Counselor. , 144 &rptr "l a �Dl' Robert Klausner, Esq,s thank you, Mr, Mayor, rhsmbers of the Coftissift Robert Klausner, I'm here today on behalf of your four employee organitatibVIN AFSCME' Local 1907, Fraternal Order of police, Lodge 20, IAFF, Local 567, end Sanitation Employees Association, Each of the associations and unions ig here today to speak -on behalf of the employees. Bach has a brief presentation _ prepared for the Cosmmission. I do watt to say at the outset, though, that the tons of what motivated much of our appearance here, me'Ve had some respohae f d ini t do Sometimes it takes ackin the hall with the right color rom a m s ra n. p g tee-shirts and turning out demonstrative democracy here, but the Manager has responded to a number of the issues. With regard to Police, there has been a release of funds for vehicles which is a safety issue. With regard to Fire, we've learned that some of the vacancy problems will be taken care of with additional personnel. I received a letter two days ago from the Manager regarding filling some long-standing vacancies in the Sanitation Department, and I understand that the Manager has assured Charlie Cox, from Local 1907s that layoffs are not something with which he should be concerned. As I said, each of the unions has a presentation for you. Because we have solved some problems, does not mean that they are all solved, and I think that there are some that the Commission needs to be aware of. As the Mayor pointed out to me, he says, the making of promises and the monitoring of promises to ensure their completion, is not the same thing. And there's an old saying that, there's a far cry from the speech to the deed, and we're concerned that we've had a lot of speeches and we want to ensure that this Commission is aware of what speeches were made so that they can ensure that the deeds are followed up on. The first presentation is going to be from the firefighters union, followed by the FOP. You'll then hear from Dave Simms from the Sanitation Employees Association and the last speaker from the unions will be Charlie Cox. And, of course, I'm available to answer any of your questions. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Before you leave, I need to know, from the Manager, what did he mean when he said, funds had been released for the purchase of vehicles? Mr.. Odio: Well, Commissioner, at the end of July, I was facing - not me, the City - we were looking at a shortfall in cash and I wanted to see how things were developing cash flow wise to finish the year, because our main concern was to cover the payroll. Once I began to see the cash flow was moving in as projected and that we would be able to cover the payroll, which is what we were concerned with at the time... and, also, I want to tell you the truth, it was brought to my attention by Dick Kinne, that police cars were being backed up at the motor pool because we had not released funds for parts, and, honestly, that upset me because that's one category that I was hoping we didn't hold up and I ordered immediately that we would release that... Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK... Mr. Odio: ...and that also that if we had to, since we had a backup at the motor pool, that if we worked overtime to get those cars out as soon as we could. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Didn't this Commission promise the policemen that we would purchase "X" number of cars and didn't this Commission authorize that expenditure? Mr. Odio: Yes, sir. The Commission authorized a system, through resolution, that we would replace cars - a policy on how to replace cars. We have replaced - I don't remember how many now - it's over 300 of them. Ron, how many? Mr. Ron Williams: Three thirty. Mr. Odio: Three thirty is the ones that we have purchased in the last twp i years, then the last replacement, which was due August, the beginning of August was 186 vehicles and for a long time, Commissioner, I have been trying to, because of cash flow, to find a system that we would not have to find four or five million dollars in cash, pay for the vehicles, then bring the vehicles in, let's say a hundred or a hundred and fifty or a hundred and eighty at a time, park them over at the motor pool and it takes six months to get them out because it takes a transitional period, You have to park the old vehicle, get the equipment out, the lights, whatever, and the radios and that, it made no sense, so what we wanted to do is to start in August to create a lease program 185 ® t t that'I the first 20 cant would be here in November and then after that, e+lerY month - and this is something I talked to nick about too - that every month then we would have 20 vehicles coning in, brand new vehicles, and that way, they would come in and they would get out of the motor pool as fast as they came in because you can only deal With so many care at a tine, and then : the cash flow problem would go away because you didn't need to outlay four or five M million dollars in cash at one time. You would only have to make lease r payments on the cars you got in and the cars you were using and, therefore, our cash flow would be helped by that. Vics.Mayor Dawkins: Where did the money come from that you froze and you just � released? That's all I'm asking. Mr. Odio: We're talking about $25,000. It was monies... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Twenty-five thousand dollars is all the money that you released... Mr. Odio: That was the only... Vice Mayor Dawkins: what you're saying? ... and that brings the car allowance up to date. That's Mr. Odio: No, what I'm saying is... and the reason I got upset is that, without my knowledge, bills for buying parts for twenty-five or.thirty- thousand dollars were held up because we were trying not to make purchases it the month of August trying to save the cash flow. And you're not talking about a huge amount of money, and it should have been released and it is... Vice Mayor Dawkins: But, this Commission... Mr. Odio: It has nothing to do.... Vice Mayor Dawkins: ...made a commitment to the policemen. 1 Mr. Odio: Yes, but I have a fiduciary responsibility, Commissioner. - ,y Vice Mayor Dawkins: But, did you come back to us to let us know you did this? Mr. Odio: No, because we're not talking about replacement of cars, we're - _ talking about parts for repairs. Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, you're talking about reneging on a promise - in my opinion, now I could be wrong - but we're talking about reneging on a promise made by this Commission to the members of the Fire Department that. we ►ere yY concerned about their safety and that they be able to deliver services to the community that were required and that we would work out a replacement program to ensure that the incident on these red tee-shirts did not happen again, and that they would be available to provide service. Mr. Odio: Commissioner, you're right, I did not bring it back. It is _my_ fault. I should have. I have a responsibility towards the f inances of the City and the way of having to find four million dollars that we did not have, - -{ at that time, I made the decision in August to try to go into the lease w} - program with the idea of bringing it back to you today or in the neat budget hearing, because that's what we (unintelligible) in the budget, lease monie#, and not outright purchases. But, it is my fault and I should have done th+lt,. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Thank you, Mr. Mayors Mr. Klausner: Mr. Mayor, just one last word. The employees of the City today. are here an mass*, but, as always, we've said, make us partners in they procoxx and not adversaries. Because we're in it too. It's our City and we're the ALL' ones who serve the citizens and it is important to... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Where do you live? r Mr. Klausner: Sir? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Where do you live? h t �8.r Mr. Klausnitri t live 1s %retard Ooutity, air. Vice Mayor bawkinat go, that's not your city Mr. Kiauanert I work to help the employees this City, i : Vice Mayor bawkinst Olt, all right, OR, all t Mr, Klauaft6r: And the last- time I was here; offered my services for free to this City to the way 1'haven It bean:,. Vice Mayor Dawkina: Hey, I don't have any ,1 just don't want you to misstate where you lit Mr, Klsusners I never have, sir, Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, you said, our City. Mayor Suarez: Thank you counselor, thank you. Mr. Manager, one quick ;• clarification on the prior issue. You're talking about a lease program and I'm wondering, have you ever purchased vehicles for the Police Department from capital funds, or are you always using operating funds? Mr. Odio: No, we have purchased them in many ways. The first, and more 4 creative way that we found, was the COP (Certificatos of Participation) notes, ,. if you remember. When we made monies in arbitrage. . But traditionally, all - monies have come out of the operating fund in cash and that is the wrong way of doing business really, Mayor Suareza Have you ever done them... has the finance director or.:bond counsel advised us, or financial advisor, advised us on GO bonds being used? Can they be used? Can general obligation bonds be used for purchase. of _ equipment that might last...- Mr. Odio: You would have to go out on a. referendum and I don't...' Mayor Suarez: I know the requirements of passage of a general obligation bond. I. want to: know, if legally, they can be characterized as long,!to= .obligations and paid :for by a GO bond? Mr. Odio: Yes, sir. But I don't feel that we could ever pass bond,'.insue.here for... Mayor Suarez: I didn't ask you for your opinion on whether it would pass.' y4 4 Mr. Odio: Well, I... - Mayor Suarez: Mr. Manager, I have my own opinions on just about: anything and I want to say this before the public here, just about anything that is put for `the voters to buy, which has to do with the Police Department, passes.,; Mr. Odio: Well... Mr. Fernandez: Mr.. Mayor... Mayor Suarez: And it's interesting to me that:ve had a bond :iss"_94 Toesd;+� r, ;sae -which Man for roads and highways and even wasn't too far from. paett#ing..,. ,: rt . - Mr. Odio: No, we have... r.. Mayor Suarez: ...but we might have had a general obligation bond iw. ue 1nr police equipment. , Hr, Odio: We do have one coming up. We have prepared a bond issue for e" police... g� Mayor Suarez: Better be careful. - before you say that, bec4uee' l . thLa .he: -a � about to say there's some problem with it legally. S , 1fr. Odic: I don't know what you'regoing to say, 147 f rr Ull i Mayor guarest Is there some problem with it legally? Mr, Odios We're preparing a bond issue for both Polies and Fire. rA ' .. Mayor Buaree: CK, he says there', a problem with it legally. I 'don'tAnat'to embarrass both of you guys. = AIF r Mr. Odiot gut, let me explain to you about police cars, hecause the life span on police cars, they are not covered under that type of bond issue. Mr. Fernandez: Correct. And that's the thing, Mr. Mayor, you can have,00 � bonds used for that so long as the life of the equipment lasts as long as it :;R. �t takes for the bonds to mature. And so, if you're able to creatively come ; up... - Mayor Suarezt That's the answer that I wanted. That's the answer that I— t: wanted. It's conceivable to issue general obligation bonds, but they would ;:.. have to be paid back within the time that the expected life of the equipment - in question, the automobile. OK. �.- Mr. Fernandez: Correct._ Mayor Suarez: We've never done it. _ Mr. Odiot We bought... t Mayor Suarez: The other answer is, we've never done it. All right. - Mr. Klausner: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Lou Kickasolat For the record, Lou Kickasola, president of Miami - Association of Firefighters, 1701 N.W. 79th Avenue. Before I get into my short speech, it's going to be short and to the point. We do have some guests who wish to speak. I think there's five or six of them who wish to speak, non -firefighters. I'd also like to request that firefighters that are in the audience -please don't take up the time and come to the mikes. I'm goiag-to°be speaking for you and we have some guests that wish to speak and make it quick as possible. Mr. Mayor and Honorable Commissioners, Itm- here tonight representing all firefighters and their concerns with our fire service and'the proposed 1990-91 budget. Unacceptable levels of manning on the Fire; Department have resulted in adverse conditions to the citizens of Miami and the Fire Department. A record number of trucks are being placed out of service on a daily basis, resulting in longer response times which are 1 detrimental to the citizens. Increased response times for medical emergeacer_ or fires means increased risk for property damage, personal injury, or eves death. So far this year, we've had a 400 percent increase in fire deaths compared to last year and we still have four months to go. The Fire a Department has responsibility for enforcing the life safety code adopted by the State of Florida and the City Ordinance mandates annual property` inspections. Inadequate manpower has resulted in four to six month backlog of fire code violation: referrals sent. to our '.fire prevention ;bureau;. -for z enforcement. Inspections and code compliance are required -by elaw'for good ,f reason. They save lives and prevent fires. Most, if not all,' ` of- :these problems could have been avoided if the level of manpower was> at the lovei r ^?� this Commission mandated last year at the budget hearings. The-Managerr;has hired a class that is presently attending the Fire College but these people will not be ready until January of 1991. And the department is expecting many retirements. The department will remain at the same unsatisfactory manningft level as we now have. From October of last year, through the present, the taxpayers paid for the service of 672 firefighters. But during most of that period, there were fewer than 630 firefighters on duty. It is time that you give the citizens of Miami what they pay for. All of our fire rescue units must be kept in service by maintaining the 672 person manning levels that you promised them and which the citizens paid for, To do this, another recruit class must start immediately. We resent the fact that :the Mayor -believes -:he can cut another five percent from the Fire Department, resulting in even Further cuts in manpower, the number of trucks out of services`iacressdag's risk to our citizens, lives, and property. We resent the Mayor-sayins-- that w f should work longer hours when we already have a 48 hour work Wreck. We alno resent the Mayor trying to negotiate our working conditions with the media 4a4 the public, rather than at the bargaining table, which is the proper forte, `! y t k 4k ISO 6 "3 1 RYA'. .T -m- 4 _ G i'- 1, and other firefighters *of* shocked and dismayed by the Mayor's receht = statement that, "...it is better to let the house burn to the ground and theft pay to have the structure rebuilt." it's obvious that the Mayor has never j looked into the despondent eyes of a newly homeless family, people who have 4 just lost all of their belongings and memories in a house fire. Nor has the !- Mayor sifted through the ashes of a ruined bedroom looking for the body Of a small child who's burned to death. My question to the Mayor, how Would you �— t pay back the parents of that dead child? This attitude is similar to saying, we should give everyone a gun and then go do away with the Police Department. It may sound all right from a budget standpoint to save money, but What price do you place on human life? People lose everything including their lives when - fire trucks take too long to respond to emergencies. Mr. Mayor and Honorable_ Commissioners, firefighters and police officers are protectors of the community, but we can't protect the people who live and work in the City if you don't give us the resources that taxpayers deserve and which they have paid for. Because of statements made by this Commission and the inaction of the administration to maintain a fully staffed fire service, we have no choice_ _ other than try to protect the citizens of this City through political action.- _ We are in the process of collecting signatures from residents who agree that *, they should receive the fire protection that they deserve and pay for. We are 4_ here tonight asking you to hire the additional firefighters we need to bring the fire service back to a fully staffed department, with enough personnel to man all the trucks every day of the year. Only then, will the Miami Fire! Department be able to respond quickly enough to save the lives and property of the people for whom we risk our own lives. Thank you. i— Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Lou. (APPLAUSE) Mayor Suarez: OK, if we had a noise level, you probably broke the record. All right, let me just ask a couple of questions of Mr. Kickasola, if I may, Mr. Zaiden. Mr. Alfred Zaiden: Honorable Mayor Suarez... Mayor Suarez: No, no. Wait, wait. I want to inquire of the prior speaker, sir. We're going to take you in a few minutes. Mr. Kickasola, please come to the mike. When you said - Lou, just a couple of clarifications, you said a 400 percent increase in fire deaths. Is that because you're saying that there s' were four versus one last year or how was... _ Mr. Kickasola: That is correct. Mayor Suarez: OK. I.just want to clarify that, because one... Mr. Kickasola: We had one fire death... Mayor Suarez: ...and you go up to four, then that looks like a.huge increase. If it had have been zero, it would be an infinite increase, obviously.' -And we would hope that on certain years, we would have zero. And then the next year, we would have one, still be an infinite increase, so I mean, the 400 'percent is a... it sounds like a little bit more than what it means. Although, I suppose a life is a life is a life. You say there's a six month backlog on inspections of fire code violations. Is that what you said? -six months or t what was the period of time?'s R; Mr. Kickasola: Four to six months. Mayor Suarez: Four to six months. Mr. Kickasola: Referrals go to the bureau on a daily compliance. Mayor Suarez: Are you able to tell or monitor or measure whether the fire code is being better or worse obeyed on any one year? In other words, axe you actually able not to, by backlog of complaints or alleged violations, but by actually determining whethbr the fire code is in fact being better obeyed or not from year to year?': f{, 189 9eptomber 7, 1900 � 4 f I Mr. Rickasolas I don't have that &tat in front of ma. I Chief Duke could better addreaa that. but 1 can tell you that on a daily basis... Mayor Suarez, because, for oxample, the reason I asked that is, for example, you may have batter enforcamsht, better inspections, better aitiken input Eft this and have a lot more code violations brought to our attention. That dossn't mean that our code obedience from year to year and code compliance is not improving. Mr. Kickasola: Code inspection is a yearly process. Combat crews go out there on a daily process, along with the bureau of personnel. Vbdn violations are found, they either readdress it through a reinspection and if they ekhOt come into compliance, they refer it to the fire prevention bureau for follow up through the court actions. Those referrals that I'm speaking to are-fiew four to six months behind because of the shortages throughout the service. Mayor Suarez: The referrals or the execution of... Mr. Kickasola: The referrals of the violations. Mayor Suarez: ..or the following up on the referrals? Mr. Kickasola: For non compliance of those violations are sent to the fire prevention bureau. Mayor Suarez: The following up if the referrals. Mr. Kickasola: That's correct. Mayor Suarez: Didn't we recently do a sweep through the northeast and some other areas of the City? Didn't that involve some of your own employees, union members? Mr. Kickasola: I didn't hear the first part, I'm sorry... Mayor Suarez: Didn't we just have sweeps very effective and very active sweeps of the northeast and other areas of the City for fire code violations, among others? — Mr. Kickasola: They might have targeted a small area, but they.didn't, you know, I can't address that. Chief Duke can address it. Commissioner Plummer: No, it was for total violations, not violations... Mayor Suarez: It was all violations, but included fire code. Did Ve not have fire personnel?,y Mr. Kickasola: But it was a very small percentage, from what I understand. _ Chief Duke: The... Chief Duke. The sweep that you're talking about was the code enforcement sweep that the Commission asked the Fire Department to basically chair. We basically had two of our fire -inspectors involved in.that for quite some period of time. But it wasn't just for fire code violations. E It was for all the violations. Mayor Suarez: It included fire code violations. Chief Duke: Yes, sir, it did.- Mayor Suarez; OK, and we expected to find as many violations as we possibly could and refer them for action and enforcement. Is that correct? ''- t; Chief Duke: That's correct. �S N Mayor Suarez: So, to me, that indicates either that we have more dangerous situations, or conditions in our City, or that we're just being more effective at staking sure that we find them out. And I'd rather believe the latter of the two although I can't prove that to you, £, r� Chief Duke: Mayor, what we had to do was reallocate lour vanour es ;t�1 accomplish that. -= 140 k i#apor suareas k' the way, s,ven... 06ftiati6 ter Humeri- is that why there's a four to silt month lag? Mayor Suarea: Yes, I think that's part of the reason there's a four to sit s .: mouth lag. r i Commissioner Plummer: That you took them to do other things? Chief Dukes We had to pull some of our inspectors from other areas that that►_ ham^ mere its to monitor that particular program. It was a program that we got a lot of benefit from, but we have, you know, just so many people in the fire prevention bureau and we had to take them off of other tasks. The four; to sift ;. months lag time.is basically a reality in some areas of the Code. W re.going _ y; through a. Code _change and as Lt. Kickasola says, we do have quite a lbit of ; down time on some of the buildings. We're doing the best we can. We try to get into at least the first inspection as often as we can to ensure that we've ,x. got some good code protection. z Mayor Suarez: What is the procedure after the violation is found and -referred ;7 for enforcement? Is it like any other Code enforcement?' 4 Chief Dukes At the present time it is, yes. Up until just recently, we — actually took it through the court system, Janet Reno's office. Mayor Suarez: Is there any resource that you need to catch up on a backlog of referrals of those Code violations to get them resolved quicker? Chief Duke: The additional bodies that the union is asking for. �— (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING) Mayor Suarez: Please. Please, please, please... In the actual enforcement process, what is the participation of the bodies that you're talking about? - ,- ` or the employees that you're talking about? i Chief Dukes I'm sorry, sir, I couldn't... Vz,- Mayor Suarez: In the actual enforcement process through .the courts and, fine- imposition -and levy and otherwise, presumably there's got to be a remedy.for closing down buildings too. What is the function of the Fire Department _ personnel that you're referring to that you need more bodies to do that? f" Chief Duke: OK. We have approximately 50 percent of the fire prevention . bureau that are uniform firefighters. The rest are civilian. We did that, a some time ago to solidify everything that was going on .in :fire prevention in I.., the City of Miami and .it's worked very well. The new changes that we've -gone # through recently. in the number of inspections that we have, it's increased t- drastically. We now do the individual offices. Some 23,000 inspectable y. properties are in the City of Miami. As ths.firefighters... ; '& Mayor Suarez: Chief, we now have a situation in the hypothetical, and the y question .that I'm asking, when we have identified a . fire code violation, °ire =- now are on the issue of enforcement that was referred• to by Lou as being•,four_ to six months behind in remedying, presumably. How does the firefighter, inspector, employee of the Fire Department, how does that person, having more j �. of those individuals, help you to catch up on the backlog? -if you,. could,y,: Y V explain._ Chief Dukes Just strictly the numbers of inspections that we're dealing with. r- With the work... a ` Mayor Suarez: We've got the inspections done. Nov we're correcting them. ' `... Now do they participate in the correction effort? Chief Duke: They would continue to do the new inspections. Those referrals would go to the fire prevention bureau. That total process that we would go � f� through with identifying buildings with extra support, possibly, in the fir* .; prevention bureau, from the additional people,'but just. getting bash ato the code enforcement by the fire apparatus. Right now,-. all firs_ atpparatus.; in the b City participate in codes enforcement. In the last few months, I don't know what the time is but sQssae four months we have not been doing the ipipfamber. s'- ' t }f M h - Mayor guarett We've got the violations snow in our hands, we know where the ,3 -. violations are. We're trying to take corrective actiono Boer deb the firefighters participate in the corrective action? I don't know if they do or don't. Explain it to me. + _ Chief nuke: Once it gets to the corrective action process, then it goes through the fire prevention bureau. It requires a state certified inspector. Mayor Suarett OK, do you have enough personnel there? Do you treed additional " resources there? What is missing in the equation to get that completed? Chief Duke: Its a constant, ongoing battle to keep enough firefighters in 3. the fire prevention bureau. We rotate them in and out on a regular basis. Additional firefighters would certainly give me the opportunity to share those tasks, and, thereby get us into more buildings on a regular basis. Mayor Suarez: You keep going back to actual, further violations. On the issue of personnel. Like Vice Mayor Dawkins talking about the police._cars, I could have remembered, I could have sworn that we made a commitment last year, by Commission action, of having a level of firefighters in our department. ?[ What was that commitment and how did we fail it, Mr. Manager? Chief Duke: The... - Mr. Odio: We agreed to keep a level at six fifty. And I guess, again, by the - time you lose people and put people in class, that we do get down to a 638.— We now have a class of 24 and now what I plan to do, and that's something that I - when I met with Shorty and Kickasola the other day, is that we have to program the class and we're trying to project... we don't know how many people are going to retire in January, for instance. Now, we have a class coming in of 24, we already have to have another class of 24 ready to go in, in December or January, as soon as the other one comes out. And then, plan the next one in - right after that. Mayor Suarez: A similar size class? Your idea is to begin a similar size class at that point? - Mr. Odio: Or higher, if we could, so that we could keep the level up. My agreement and what the budget will project is that we can keep all the trucks manned fully so that we can keep this department at the level. i„ Mayor Suarez: OK, do we recognize, in effect, that we have not met the Commission resolution of 650... Mr. Odio: Yes, we're down twelve. But like I said, sometimes it's impossible �- to comply to the letter and the intention was not to comply, but to try to - comply, but you are dealing with classes and exams and now we learn from this w process and I am committed to keep a level of 665 or - I think it's the number I said - that we agreed to, so that all trucks will be manned fully. And that's what the budget projects. Mayor Suarez: OK, the commitments and the reality don't always seems to fit together, but, Lou, what do you base your estimate of how many retirees you'll have? -and if you want to give us an idea of how many... Y Mr. Kickasola: Each year, we have an "X" amount of firefighters retire and I'm using an average. We're looking now at probably between - it goes between ten to thirty. Last year... Between last year and this year... Mayor Suarez: OK, using anything within that range, Are you using .any figure a specific or are you just saying ten to thirty somewhere? :_. Mr. Kickasola: Last year, we had a potential between 15 to 20 people retiring'" each year. Commissioner Plummer: Oh, more than that. j Mayor Suarez: All right, so we agree on the basic figures. We agree on the k basic goal and I guess what we're disagreeing on is the implementation of 1t and the monitoring. Vice Mayor Dawkins, t 192 t LA Vic* Mayor biftinss # have tiva 4ubsitions three questions ft6*. Through the MAnAger to the Chief and than the same question to you, Lou. _ With thse reduction at four percent in the depart.. , .with the reduction in staff, Gait the department maintain the same level of proficiency? Chief Duke: No, Bice Mayor Dawkins s Lou. Mr. Kickasolas No. Vice Mayor Dawkinss Why? Chief Dukes Just the s s hear growth in the City, the common growth. Last year, Mben I spoke to the Commission, I said that we could maintain the level of service that we had at the present time and when we couldn't, I would come back before this body and relay , that through the City Manager. I have done that at this time. We continue to grow in the number of people that are in our community. There was an article in the paper just this morning that our hotels are 74 percent full. We are out -distancing the number of apparatus and bodies that we have that can do the job without overloading the present firefighters. So we have -reached that saturation point. LT t ' Vice Mayor Dawkins: You got anything to add or that's sufficient? Mr. Kickasola: No. Mr. Odio: Commissioner, if I may, I want to add something that I forgot that Bryson said, I think. Shorty mentioned to me that what we need to look now, if we can get this budget behind, and keep the full manning, is then to look - �` at the future and see how we can find better ways of reallocating manpower, ,4 but never putting the men at - not in an unsafe position, in other words. ,. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Chief and you, Lou. In this budget book, it says that t• and you just told me that we do not have enough manpower...- r Mr. Kickasol'a: That's correct. jL .: Vice Mayor Dawkins: Will maintain a 3.5 to a 4.28 minutes response time to all types of alarms. Is that possible? - r Chief Duke: Sir, that was the accomplishment from last year, if you're looking at the current budget document. '. a Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, this say what we will do this year, 191 projections of what you plan to do. V Chief Duke: If that's this document right here... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes, sir. , Chief Duke: ...that's actually what we shot for last` Y year.. The reality ...: that this year, the data that I have... Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, no, Chief, let me rephrase it. OK - all right�1° somebody in your professional position, what do you think is an .adequate response time to an alarm? x'r � Chief Duke: If we can maintain four minutes, we can save livsx f Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK. See, no, you're throwing me a curve now. What do you say that the average response time should be, as a professional. firefighter? , Chief Duke: In my opinion, as close to four minutes as you can get; oK S" ' Vice Mayor Dawkins: First you said four minutes. As close to four minutes � manpower we can got. Now, with the present Haan that P - you have, how close fro i'outsr minutes can we got? Chief Duke: At the present time, we are still mainteLatn a ve g ry ' 011"Ope f approximation of the four minutes. We are running, aomputor. chocks' to soe exactly where we are on our response time. $o, my gut fae,i. .. RAN 193 �# 'tee Mayor Datokinaa gay either we have adequate manpower to provide ettlelifit �- sbnfiai6 or .we -don't. Th6ta'aa no in between, Chief. "- Chief Nukes it depends on the type at responae, Commissioner. Vice Mayor Dawkins: ©K, now, but see, let's just talk about the a►verai�e:> _ iresponse.. It don't... see, t'as not a fireman, gee, and t have to lean. sat►; rou r professionally, Olt? All I know about a fire is a house catch fire and you got; to go put it out► r }" Chief Duke: Cotesiissioner, let me say this, in 1985, our response time Naar �-- approximately three and a half minutes. t .. Vice Mayor Dawkins s OK. ' Chief Duke= Right now, our response time is slightly over four minutes and { this is the -average that we're dealing with. 3;it ' r Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right, now, why... �k } �i �. Chief Duke: That's a sixteen percent increase in that time period. �. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now, why was it down to 3.5 before? -why? _ Chief Dukes We've had an increase in the traffic growth in the City of Miami y in that time period, more people in the community. Just the inner City area is more congested than it was before. We're just dealing with more of everything. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, now... ' Mr. Kickasola: More alarms too. Chief Dukes And a great deal more alarms, yes, sir. t Vice Mayor Dawkins: But, if you got... but more alarms would mean you need more personnel? Chief Dukes More alarms means that you have to have more apparatus to respond'-- t to those alarms.;, 1 Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, who operates.the apparatus? - Chief Dukes' _ I'm sorry? ` _ V c Dawkins: The a operate themselves? ~x" �.. i eM6 or y apparatus P c � Chief Duke: No, sir. °x Vice'Mayor Dawkins So, you need what to operate the apparatus. r Chief Duke: You have to have the bodies, of course, to.operate the'-appasatus-; ; yes• r ' Vice Mayor Dawkins: Personnel. So we got more apparatus, Chief, we used more ' personnel. Chief Duke: But what we're looking - I guess, what the union is asking for 1' and ghat I'm telling the Commission is, we've got the apparatus, we've got r tool,.. Vice Mayor Daiwkinss No, no, the union, this is not the union. This is Miller'' r ' This has nothing to do with the union. This is me. .� Dawkins. i asked th* question. The union didn't ask me nothing, l asked you to explain to` me°e <; the.Commissioner. c i ti+a the response that I hav , Chist Dukes UN, h p e to give you is at .the present tom, f duty to the number of f ire# ighters that ' way' haveavailable, to q r+ov * the vv U service in the City, we are putting apparatus out Of service alk 8 daily ' pls. Ltd i.t we hate those .apparatus fully staffed. _ we Hsu matataai t#aPty, l�etlx , $ miaates, or that approximation of tour asiasutmas, mob longer these Va raau�a without those people•� ;l;a tq —_ .f 1 t 1 i„ .. .. ... - - '.!. ':_'. F. .. ." -1 -kr et. ,>Y.L. kv���k.''•ay'+�,.�.'4�� -. — x^.arv'sSF! Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right. Mr. Manager, when we came up before, I think -; that a.Mayor said, we said that we, would bring the mire Department up to eke nus►4'r ot persons. Is that a correctstatement? Vice Mayor., Dawkins And, at that time, you were ordered, by this Cosmioola%$WF to start &.fire class immediately. Is that a correct statement? Mr. Odioc Yes, sir.: Vice Mayor Dawkins: You did not pent... all right, so when was that? -can — somebody tell me? — UNID$NTIF'IRD SPEAKER: October. Vice Mayor Dawkins=, October of last year. Mr..Odio: Right. Vice Mayor Dawkins: When did you start the class? r- Mr. "Odio: In January, I think. z Chief Duke: Last week. Mr. Odio: Oh, last week, I'm sorry. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right, so that's October again almost, huh? ,= Chief Duke: This week. - Mr. Odio: Yes. =, Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now... all right, how many people were we supposed to put i in the class? Mr. Odio: I don't remember... =• Q Chief Duke: We put twenty.... h.. Vice Mayor Dawkins: How many were we supposed to put in that other class?_ Mr..Odio: We put 24 in this class.- Chief Duke: Twenty-five. j ryV Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right, 24. So, from October.to September,.is eleven -.' months. What was the savings in salary for the eleven people that we did not u y., put in the academy? ,t Mr. Odio: About, I think it was three hundred thousand, five .hundred. • thousand.. Vice Mayor Dawkins: What happened to the $900,000? Mr. Odio: They're within the department. Wo.didn't... ` Vice Mayor Dawkins: Be& your Mr. Odio: The monies are within the department. They were not t4k9n from the department, if that what you're asking.3° Vice Mayor Dawkins: So, if the money is in the department, thap in:,;thin budget book, where it says, office of the Chief, "This re uea�t is $1700000' 6 y � 9 " leas - more... no, I don't- "in the fire cOms►unicetiQAar { request is $1050000 less than fiscal year.: 190. " Then it says, "�... �. n ,t fire fighting service, this request is590,000." Therefore, in the Firs. Department budget, there's clone to... with the $500,000 that we 41d mot apsw l` on the training, there is a million dollars in the budget. is that at nor"Ot ��u astuted►ent? �' 195.Y �YS T r� Lc _ a Fe�%v-..`ajt e .. .. �. •.,ut. ^i. ... Jr. +.U:� � .�.3" ( .S� 040 Mr- Qdtot I egn it rejhotnber those numbers from memory, it thatle what youlft a6iLag the. Mr. Maftohat Suranat Commissioner, the numbers you are looking at* those are budget numb6rat Vida Mayor Da4kinst Mr. Mano, got your pencil, please. The Manager just'Sa id that we mated $300,000 by not starting the class in October. Mr, Odiot I iteed to clarify something, Commissioner. Vies Mayor Dawkinst Ox. Mr4 Odio: The orders that I received were that we were to keep a level of 650. When the budget was approved, and that was Commissioner Plummer's... the department had 650. It was not a month after that, that the class that people began to retire and that's when we should have put a class in. Vice Mayor Dawkinst Well, let me ask Plummer, because, see, he's the oldest with the -beat mind up here. Commissioner Plummer, did this Commission give a directive to start a class immediately or not? Commissioner Plummert As I recall, what this Commission said was, that we wanted to maintain a level of no less than 650 firefighters. Vice Mayor Dawkinst Um hum. Commissioner Plummers And whatever it took that that was what was to be done. I don't remember that we had to start it immediately. I remember there was talk that if we started immediately to process, before we got them into the academy, it would be almost a three to four to f ive month period, because of having to go through all of the background checks and all of that --which,- is time consuming. Vice Mayor Dawkinst OK. Commissioner Plummer: Now... Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now, f rom the day... all right, let's go at it f rom, another way then. How many... from October until the-date.of the class', the starting of the class how many persons were we short from our goal in the Fire Department? How many people? INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Thirty? Mr. Odio: Oh, about ten, if fluctuated, Commissioner, ten or twelve. Vice Mayor Dawkins: It can't be ten when you had damn near 20 people retired. Mr. Odio: We had 638 in the department, and that means at some point, we had 650. When some people left, we dropped below that and no -we are running_Wlow Vice Mayor Dawkins: OX, just for the sake of discussion, I'm going to go through this. Put $300,000 savings down, Mano. In the firefighting service, you got five hundred thousand, ninety dollars.... five hundred omd ninety thousand, two hundred dollars. OX? Put that down, air. Al I 'right'i- in, operations, you got $1,077,551. No, I'm sorry, two hundred and sixty -on* thousand, nine hundred and forty-four dollars. Add those two together.,, Mr. Suranas Commissioner$ if you add all those numbers, it will come out six h=4red, fifty-fLve thousand, one hundred three dollars more than FT 190. So, have half Vice Mayor Dawkines we a a million dollgrg in'the.fjrpM"fs budget as of now that we did not expond In the last year. In ttL,&t corroct? 196 4' +{r Mr. duranas Comissionar, if we would have started the class October 1, it +quid h&Vt boaft $200,000 ,*&+wings. Normally, we start the class comet me , in cuddle Of the fiscal year, do, you got... Vice Mayor Dawkinat When you got the budget, Mr. Hanoi last year, did you budget for those positions or did we not? Mr. duranat We did not fully fund the 655 positions. The reason we do that, a w6 budget- positions based on attrition. We take into consideration retirement. Wo take into consideration when we're going to have the 0-lass. t And than we project -the number. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right, with that criteria that you follow, how does that apply to the present budget? How am I to know exactly how much moneywa are talking about to operate the Fire Department? If you are to juggle it because you feel that "X" number of people are going to retire, five people will die, and what have you. Mr. Odio: Go ahead... Mr. Surana: The next year budget, which is $43.7 million dollars, should support roughly 665 positions. Now there again depend when they have the retirements and all those things. Vice. Mayor Dawkins: What is... Mr. Surana: If there is no retirement, then you don t have class then. Vice Mayor Dawkins: What is in there for emergency overtime, such as a h i God f bid h i i t 10.2 1h t hif urr cane or a, or a s x or e IS a arm re w ere wo s to may have to overlap and a guy can't go home. Commissioner Plummer: Six or eight alarm? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Where would money come from to pay that kind of expense? Commissioner Plummers Don't even worry about it, an eight alarm fire, there won't be none of us here to worry about it. t Vice Mayor Dawkins: See, no, because the Lord will have come for you. You _ don't have to worry about.that. Mr., Kickasolas It may go to fourth or fifth alarm, because you don't have the manpower on all the trucks. '= Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, thank you, Mr. Mayor.'_ Commissioner Plummer: Can I ask a question, Mr. Mayor? : Mayor Suarez: OK, Commissioner.... �- 5 Commissioner Plummers. It's a simple question... Mayor Suarez: Quick. Commissioner Plummer: Chief, you've told me everything except, what is your professional opinion as to the need of staffing to get to the f our- minutio' response time? That's the simple question. - �s� Chief Duke: Sack up to the levels that we were last year. Commissioner Plummer: That doesn't tell me a damn thing. What is the number? tt', Chief Duke: The last conversations that I had with the City Manager vas t4it we would restaff the Fire Department to the level that it was last year, x,.! Commissioner Plummer: And what was that? Chief Dukes And the Number is 665, I believe it is, that the Manager is coum . itted to. T Mr. Kickasolas Yes, yes. {4j Ar AZ ftmissifter Plummort And you are how, In this budget, tommitted, Mt, waastor, -t6 that :statf tag levoll Mr, Odl6t Tait' sir. Commissioner Plumm6ri Thank you, Mayor Suaress Commissioner Do Yurre, Commissioner Do Yurret Yen, I just wanted to have Mano clear something up,f6r mc, ;Ifivivgave a directive last year of keeping a minimum of 650 firefighters and Commissioner Dawkins asked the question you answered that, there's no money -left over, even though* there's 'only 638 in the forte because yod projected there would be attrition, then what you're telling me is, you never Olhnft6dlto keep the 650 minimum. Mt,tOdiol Maybe I can explain, sorry, because... Commissioner De Yurre: Not that's what I got... 4 Mr.'Xickasolai No, let's start there and go backwards. Mr. Odio.- If I may. What we are... we're projecting, in this budget, basted on our discussions that 20 people are going to retire. If only five retired and then all of a sudden later, you have to plan on projections and don't know — we cannot read people's mind, we don't know what's going to happen in January. Commissioner De Yurres No, but the point that I'm getting at is that you were projecting too was based on less than six fifty. You didn't project, saying, OK, let's have 660 because we're probably going to drop to 650, which in the minimum. You. shot - for the max for 650, knowing that you were going to Abe b6lowA650 because, obviously, you don't have the money. Mr. Odl6u,'- What happened is, we shot for below that and what I'm doing now, learning from this, is that we're shooting above. Commissioner De Yurre: OK, now... ham — Mr. Odiot We're going to go above. Commissioner Do Yurre: Now, let me understand this... Mr. Odiot We're shooting to have, in my mind, and I told this to the Chief. the other doy, that we're going to have to think that we're going to hire 680 to keep about 665. That's what we have to do. Commissioner Do Turre: OK, no the bottomAine, so everybody understands- each othor here. What has been requested by the union and what has been reflected by the management, as far as the manpower that in necessary, with the proposed budget, In that amount going tobefeasible? Mr. Odiot I'm going to answer that... that's the agreement that we made that this would... Mr. Kickasola: And I think I board Chief Duke say that, with that budget he has he can maintain 665 people. That's what ve6re saying'. - If 665 people within our fire service, we can keep the trucks in service. Commissioner Do Yurre: OK, now how soon will we got to the 665 level? Mi. Odiot Well, we have the twenty class in.: I wanted to put.., we have to �N 0� wait for this class to leave to put the other one in and we'll put it on as:wo can on the next class.. And,-** soon as this class is go Commissioner Do Yurre: So, what's your, quote, unquote, projection? Mr. Odiol :W*1ro going to put.,. s Mr, Wei Vh6tif Chief buket April bt Mny. Mrt-0di6i -April; we put the other SO... how many can we put maximal A'`,, Chief Duke: Up to 30, basically, Mr,.Odiot Thirtypeople in and,then, as soon as.,, Commissioner be Yurret go when are we going to get to 665? Chia! Duket April or Mays, we_should be able to, sir. Commissioner., De.Yurre t When? Chief Duket.: April or May. Commissioner Alonsot April or May. Commissioner De Yurret April or May. in a Claue7 the tt. Y } Mr. Kickasola: Fire College class usually lasts about sixteen or eighteen weeks. Commissioner De Yurre: What's that, now? Mr. Kickasola: The first class in process now graduates in January. They _ start another class, like he said, it would be about four months because it taken -about eighteen...' — y{. Commissioner De Yurre: Is that this same group that goes.jogging at the track 3, over at Gables Ugh? ; rs Mr.. Kickasola: No....,oh, I guess... ;- ., Commissioner De Yurre: Huh? Mr. Kickasola: Yes. Commissioner De Yurre.: They need to get in shape. Mr. Kickasola: tTos. That's,,why they call them rookies. r= Commissioner -De Yurre: Let me tell you that much. - Mr..Kickasola: If I could bring this back on track - and I don't want to take awe from the discussion here - but I have some other y .guests that wish to sp*W-,and, you know, I'll follow the,whim of the,..-' E, � Commissioner De Yurres OK, thank you. � 5 �•— Mr. Kickasola: Thank you. S 5 8L T Mr. Zaident Honorable Mayor Suarezandthe City Commission. Mayor Suarez: Mr, Zsiden, briefly. This is the second time Vve: topp*4 ,you., Mr. Zaiden: Don't stop me no more, Mayor, because, you know, I want to protest.,z. r� Vice Mayor Dawkins: Pall the mike to you, please, Mayor Suarez: We're going to restrict all members of the public to tw9 k x1putas,. , and anyone -who La not, ,otherwise, -represented by :the ;v�ios�; < agyr IN grsatpe programs, So you got two minutes, ;Give it your boat, shot, ; aZfg what the Code provides and, we've got.. . ob, one other thing, We m4y be ;abbe IL� to - Mr, Manager, we may be able to get rid of a lot of thews 4 #peak, Thoxo's sa .issue .here, Apparently raised by about halt oC all tho, N F speaker* that want to address us, having to do with Virg aia gageb. J x gg Y G _ e : l . • Mf ,� , t�dio: ;.. W6 wan .put that to rait. Mayor. guare�e� Can you put that on the record, and if any of you are .. interested in that there's about tan of you here, or fifteen, in the requested speakers list.., ; h Mr. Odio: We've...s ` May�iruare: You might wantto stick around or not, depending o�►' hcrit satisfied you are by the statement about to be made on that, because we ftitt:- �f r to take care of that ,issue. Mr. Odios Our intention is not to close Virginia teach down to the public. but, however, what our intentions are, that only during the summer period of �— time where you Mould have a heavy demand daily, from the general public, and # we charge admission, is to have lifeguards there. After that, we'll go back to where we were before in that the beach is open to the public and there will 4' be signs posted all over the beach clearly delineating that the City has no responsibility. That you swim at your own risk. That's the ways Virginia <. Beach has been for 20 years and I don't know why... - xr Commissioner Plummer: No, no, no, no. Mr. City Attorney... 4V Mr. Fernandez: Yes, sir. Commissioner Plummer: What does that do to us liability? If a woman trips %k over there and is suing us and you're going to settle for $25,000, what in the hell is going to happen to us of a liability, if you have lifeguards there _ three months out of the year and nine months you don't? Mr.-Odio: Well, the alternative is... - Commissioner Plummer: I will not accept that responsibility. ..` Mr. Fernandez: Whether you have lifeguards or not, the issue of liability is #- one that's always decided in court. Via Commissioner Plummer: No kidding? Mr..Fernandez: The issue of having a program where, during a part of the Year you have: lifeguards,, and another, part of the year, you don't, so long as you n= take all the precautionary measures and you act reasonably, you will be, able` - to defend successfully, I believe, from a lawsuit, if you have all the signs 5 and all the cautions in place. Mr. Odio: The problem is, sometimes, we only have ten people using that beach :*n ,� and here, we have a full staff sitting there and we can't afford it. It'a` r either that or... �5 Commissioner Plummer: I don't disa... excuse me, Mr. Manager, I don't` disagree with that. I am very concerned about the liability... Mr. Odio: That's... me too.- Commissioner Plummer: ...of the time when you have people there that is a known beach, operated by the City, and you don't have lifeguards, a Mr. Odio: What if we tell you we will not do this unless the Law Aepartmout tells us that it is... that we are protected?_ Mr. Fernandez: It's a discretionary type of decision for which, there ie _ immunity. However, this is, again, an issue that is usually litigated in .� courts, and it's a question of how reasonably do you approach the problem, if you take... Mayor Suarez: You could even have a situation, Mr. City Attorney, that, by bavyng clear posted signs of no supervision during nine months out of the 46 year, you might actually have less liability, pj r,3 Mr. kmraande:z: Correct. Correct. - Mayor Suarez= So, but anyhow, please study that and give us your boW 1hQt: ' 200 pfptagib!►z' ? #, M a •r Mr. bdios Just for the record, in 1986,.4 s t Mayor Suares: Hie knows that, held been around. 3 Mr. +adios . *,there eras nobody theca. s, Mayor Suaresa We never had supervision in that beach until 1966 or 167. OR) " anyhow, 1 think we reflect the consensus of this Commission, and I can tell - } g F. you, for sura, my belief on the issue, that we should not close Virginia teach _ and to tho extent that we need to have it unrestricted and unsupervised, as we did before for certain months of the ' year, we can go to that. That's a state }- A" of nature and it seethed to Mork well enough during that time. Mr. 2aiden, OK, sir, you're on. Mr, 2aiden: Do I count, Mayor? Mayor Suarez: You got it. Mr. Zaident Honorable Mayor Suarez, and members of the City Commission, my� name is Alfredo Zaiden. I am an active member of this community, of this great City of Miami.- I live in the City, under the way. I come today to j protest, for the intention to lower the budget for the Fire Department which will affect the wain power of the excellent service they provide our ; x' community. A reduction in the Fire Department can only lead to a reduction -in the the quality of the fire and rescue service for the entire City. This is :,an area where, in a few minutes, you can cost a family their home or can cost -in a ` a store owner, .their business. A reduction of the budget can harm especially the elderly and accident victim who may need a rescue unit promptly and whose life can depend on such service. I think in the 42 counties of the State of Florida, we like a taxpayer, this is the highest City in the State. We pay high taxes. And I believe we deserve a much better service than we have right now. And I'm opposed to cutting out any budget for the Fire Department. Thank you. ." .: (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING) ..• � Mayor -Suarez: Please, please....I know that Essie Silva is back there somewhere out of sight. She had asked to be the first speaker. She's got an injury'; and she's partly incapacitated. We will get to you because I thought that both of your remarks were going to addressed to the Fire Department, which was the topic at hand, and then we'll get to her concerns; very, quickly. Rspresentativs;Gutman. 5= ,. Rep. Al Gutman: Yes, Mr. Mayor. My name is Al Gutman, I live at 681 S.W. ":. 28th Road in the City of Miami. I'm here because I was concerned - oops' almost got y 8 our ,bud eL - I was concerned about the reduction of aesvices:as::a person who lives in the Roads area, a person who's got a family, a person who has family that have businesses in Miami. I have two children and in the last few y*ars, as I've lived in Miami, my family has had the misfortune of needing ". the services of the Fire Department. And let me tell you, Mr. Mayor, and Commissioners, I thank God for these guys. These guys came through when we needed them. You know, it's commendable that they're not here asking for more ' fo r or them,. but rather they just want _to :be fully manned, so ;the health. .� r and welfare of the citizens in the City of Miami are not in jeopardy. And I 3, think for them to come out and protest like they did - not for more money, but, y} j people are well just to make sure that p protected, is something we need to recognize and commend them on. Mr. Mayor, Commissioner Dawkins eloqu4atly` n„ made a statement about a promise. A promise of 650 uniformed individuals t ' working for us in the Fire Department. I think we need to make sure that,+ through attrition, we don't drop under 650. We are under 650, the promise has not been kept and I believe that we're on the right track and we will eventually meet that promise, but it needs to be done as soon � as possible. } Thankou very much.ve y = �. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, sir. Y 4 % Z�R (APPLAV33 AND CHEERING) 4 ii f� Mee Josefina Carbonell: Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Comissionors, C1x1► Mane er, ' 14m Josetina Carbonell., I sm the president of Little ' pavan+ J4Ot;iv'tt ;. Nutritiou Centers, well renowned for old people in this comunity. 444' t } n 3 -k i ten 66fitere that are in the City of Miami 10filts. And I thank trod and thank this City that we have teen from mire Rescue like we do and that we 6613. uPh them day to day for life saving measures and we thank thew for their so"ioee and I'm here; to make ours that you replace the positions and you plao`epersons in those. positions to be able to continue the quality service that these people deserve and that this City deserves. I urge you to support the6f,5 and I thank you.. (APPLAUSE) r Mayor Suareze please. What are you doing... Me. Pat Rodriguesr.t Pat Rodriguez, 3041... Mayor Suareze Wait, wait, wait. What are you doing over there? Mr. Joe Wilkins: Just standing here. Mayor SuarezAll right, Joe, is it the same issue? -presumable? : Mr. Wilkins: Yes) just real... well, a little bit more specifically. My name is Joe Wilkins, I'm with -the Miami Roads Neighborhood Civic Association. We } support, generally, what has been said, but most specifically, our members are ,. concerned because Fire Station Number 4, which services the Roads neighborhood and the Brickell neighborhoods, has no advanced life support system. Our association and the Brickell Homeowners Association feels this is a dangerous situation. We request that this service be provided for in the new budget'and that, indeed, the entire Fire Department be strengthened to provide maximum service for our entire City - our entire City - I live here too. Thank you. (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING) Me. Rodriguez: Pat Rodriguez, 3041 N.W. 8th Avenue. I came here to really petition for you not to change the budget and I get the feeling you're not going to do that, because you see that we need these firefighters. I hope you y keep that in your mind and that feeling in your heart. Thank you. i 3 Mayor Suarez: Thank you. kr _ F' (APPLAUSE). Mayor Suarez: OK. Proceed to whatever the next part of the presentation. I F: don't know happened to Miss Silva. Presumably she's here on a grant, I guess. Anyhow, go ahead. Mr. Kickasola: OK. I'd just like to close by saying that I think the taxpayers have s spoken to you and I think you heard the message given to you p y and I don't think there's much more to be said. Thank you. Commissioner Plummer: I have a question. Mr. Kickasola: Yes. C- issioner Plummer: Do you agree with the Chief on the level of 665? Mr. Kickasola: Yes, I do.K Commissioner Plummer: Thank you. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Vice Mayor Dawkins. ,] ;f Vice Mayor Dawkins: I have a lot of questions. But this, you know, the first .; one has taken quite some time. $o, I'm going to tell all of -you, Ito goiagto ressrve my questions till the next hearing so that the public can be heard) .` because the more I talk, the less the public got a chance to say. So, I'a Y` going to close up my question book and sit here and listen, but I will have r questions at the second hearing. Discussion on FX 190-91 budget is momentarily 4eferrod. See label 550 ' 4S �. 1 } 4 202 � 1 nrp ,i'�'}111*c4yh r4.Z-- x' �. 1 Y tt 4IIS�F3ra Z �•,- 5. �.Gixii'sili�a.ilt.8"-"_ "+`— "••..�Y�iiYiii��aNlc.Ti.G.Y4�r.s.a:��—�u� w r A..r.. �..i.w •'. _ � "•�.T.:tis...Li/YIiWiYKM1Y. ;/ - y ` S4. (CONTI'i D DISMSSI(t) t ROAM! EAST DAY VISTA MINI -PARK AS MILIXR J. DAWINS MIRI 'PARX, ($ee label 40). :. ... .-- ..__._ LL— V#'oe _May6i Dawkinae Aiso, Mr. Mayor, I'd like.for you to tell the , Say Vistta 0rotp what happehad on their issue, so that they will not sit here waiting through the budget. � Mayor Suavest: Oh. Vice Mayor Dawkinst They're waiting through the budget and they're here on... Mayor Suarezt OK, that's the renaming of the park? r Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes. Mayor Suarez: After Miller Dawkins. The only clarification I need is - are you talking about before he dies, or after he dies? Commissioner Plummert to that the Miller Dawkins memorial? { Mayor Suarez: All right. Do you want to say something on the record very quickly? We, I think, are quite inclined to go along with the recommendation and begin to take the steps, all except Commissioner Plummer, who has been k here longer than anybody else and should know what it would be like to have .. named after the Vice Mayor, but why are you so eagerly at the mike? Have you guys... W, Mr. Albert Ruder: Well, there's three Bay Vista parks and they just need to clarify which one they're talking about. XV; Mr.Kelly C. Wilson: We are speaking of the west. Mayor Suarez: We have three Bay Vista parks? Mr.-Rudert There's South Bay Vista, East Bay Vista, and North Bay Vista. Mr.' Wilson: Bap Vista. Mayor Suarez: Leave it to the City of Miami to have three parks with the same name. Mr. Rudert Are you talking about the one on N.W. 8th Avenue and 47th Terrace? [� Mr. Wilson: That's it, sir. Mr. Ruder: OK, that's East Bay Vista. Mayor Suarez: OK, would you like to just go ahead and make your statement? I think we're going to be inclined to follow your recommendations, so we can pretty much preempt your statement. But if you want to say something, give us, at least, your name and address and... � Mr. Wilson: My name is Kelley... '. Y. Commissioner De Yurre: Name, address, and relationship to Commissioner Dawkins. is Mr. Wilsone My state... my name is Kelly C. Wilson, I live at 4750 N.W. Qtb Avenue, right beside the park that we would like to have Mr. , our great Mr. Miller Dawkins, who worked so hard in that community, to see that this park be improved. So, we would like to offer a plea and request that you rename th�i park to Miller Dawkins Mini -Park. Thank you. ;. f ; s b� '{ Mayor Suaroz: Very good. rvx� 4yy`. .. ' (APPLAUSE) A} 203 s ettcet t � 7, { A Mayor �ttiiCe�t ttll etltorttin a motion frm any member of the Ct irsiotl, x b l t a,otod art e n -A Ct�tission+t�� lllum�e�t 36 1Dt�'tl�etY► -. Mty6r Suaroat Moved. Commiosioner Alonsot Second. Mayor Suaretrt Seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll .to begin the process,.etcetera. r The followingresolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who ' moved its adoptions RESOLUTION NO. 90-708 r A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING "MILLER J. DAWKINS MINI PARK" AS THE NEW OFFICIAL NAME OF THE CITY -OWNED PARK PROPERTY LOCATED AT NORTHWEST 8TH AVENUE AND NORTHWEST 47TH TERRACE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, HERETOFORE KNOWN AS "EAST BAY VISTA PARK". (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Alonso, the resolution was passedh,:_ and adopted by the following votes AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre - k . Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. �.- Commissioner Miriam Alonso Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. - T_ * - Vice Mayor Dawkins' name was not called during roll call on the above- . resolution. COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL: Commissioner Plummer: For the Miller Dawkins memorial, I vote yes. Commissioner Alonso: I'm delighted, yes. A t. COMMENTS MADE FOLLOWING ROLL CALL: 4 Mayor Suarez: Very good.-- . ' Commnissioner De Yurre: Which park do you want, Mr. Mayor? -Simpson Park? OK. ;- ry ! �v 'art F 1 { . t .34 a _ i fin_ tin f= n 04 Sapt$%ba€ i,, ► - m . a 5 r� • r~� MR �4iYtiffwiaa�iryi��`:_ �..........._..,-w,.._.,,aa,.5.,�.piiaL�iyyEy.rii�:i.3i�'iii.—"—"iP.riati��ma.le.rr.i►.'4�.Ltd.icC3iawar..i.Wc�.Ys+fY+..`.�r.r.r...n,• .•,. .y,.. ..-•.. ... SSj CONTIMD DIOLVOSION CONCNRNING PROPOSND MILLAGN RATN AND TKN'TATIVI PTig0-91 $trmi FOR THE CITY (See label S3). wr.wwrrYr.1W ra..rr. Yid.rri.Y:...�L.r+��'...ur..rr.rrrrra.f�rr.a.��rr.r��rrrrr.......w..w���y.rr�►i V.Lr�..+war..wrwrrii�r.wiiiiiw Mr. Klausnert Mr. Mayor, just as follow up to the last coomt: by Commissioner Dawkins, if any of those... if he could let ua know between now and the next budget hearing, what some of those questions are. If 1 someone from his staff could either contact me or the Firefighters union, we can be prepared with some of -the answers for that. Mayor Suarezt The old, give me questions in advance trick. All right, counselor, now we know why you get paid well. You got all the unions now? i they're using you in some capacity or another? Mr. Klausner: Working as fast as I can. Mayor Suarezt Very good. All right. Robert"Klausner, Rsq.t All right, our next presentation is going to be from Dick Kinne, president of Fraternal Order of Police. Mr. Dick Kinnet Mayor, Commissioners, as Bob Klausner told you, my name is Dick Kinne. I'm the president of Miami Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge "`•—_- Number 20. We come here today to revisit an issue which we thought we settled with the tragic death of brother David Herring in 1986. At that time, this Commission responded to the combined voices of hundreds of our members and - passed a resolution requiring the police fleet to be replaced every two years. That promise was that officers safety would not be sacrificedin the name of money. We were told that our officers could rely on their police cars not -to be a death trap. Those promises have been broken. In 1989,` the administration convinced the Commission to change that resolution and replace, at 3 years at 55,000 miles. At that time, I warned you that I had concerns _ about the vehicles and their maintenance... t= Mayor Suarezt When was that? I'm sorry to interrupt. s_ Mr. Kinnet It -was in 1989. I don't remember the exact month. w: Mayor Suarez: Three years at 55,000?_ Mr. Kinnet Yes, sir. x Mayor Suarez: For all vehicles... Mr. Kinne: This is on the police marked vehicles and patrol. Commissioner Plummer: Patrol. Mayor Suarez: Marked vehicles and patrol. ' Mr. Kinne: Yes, air. Mayor Suarez: And this was a change from the prior policy, which was? Mr. Kinnet Two years. Mayor Suarezt You know, I don't remember making that change, but.I knew we were heading in that direction. Go ahead. Vice Mayor Dawkins: That change was negotiated between him and the Manager; Mayor Suarez: Oh, OK, it wasn't done at the Commission level, you're saying? Mr. Kinne: It was done here at the Commission level and through a resolution. Mayor Suarez: I didn't remember that but go ahead. I know we were heading. Al r- in that direction because we thought two years was not snough, but to Oead. { t W 205 Mr. itinne: I had concerns as the vehicles weren't going to be... Mayor Suarese: Suit a minute, Dick. As you leave the ch tubers, please, if your item is completed, give us a little bit of silence so we can continue the neat item. And everybody else can be heard tonight. Thank you. Mr. Kinnei I had concerns when that resolution was brought up about the maintenance of the vehicles. And I also thought it would be a license to forget the bitter lesson of the past and sacrifice safety for money, because It's proven to yield a bitter and potential deadly harvest. A review of the records now, if you can find them, in the GSA garage, shows that cars are being brought in for repairs at an alarming rate. Those cars are being repaired with used and inferior parts, if they're being repaired at all. Often the care are moved from the repair line to the ready lane without being seen by a mechanic. Now, I'll give you an example. Steve's going to give the Mayor two pictures. The first picture will show a police tire where they plugged the side wall because it had a hole in it. Not the tread, but the side wall. And the second picture is... Mayor Suarez: It's the same one with the side? Mr, -Xinnes ..the wheel and tire on the police vehicle itself. And not only do they plug side palls of police cars, they're plugging motorcycle tires too, and that's entirely dangerous. Personnel in the GSA garage have been denied overtime necessary to keep up with the maintenance records and demands. When this rally by our members was announced, there was an emergency release of overtime and $20,000 was magically made available to put proper new parts on - the car. As you heard earlier, the City Manager said it was $25,000. The availability of working - excuse me - the availability of working vehicles has reached crisis proportion. We're so short of cars, that one person units ,are now having, to ride double on a regular basis, reducing, substantially the number of care on the street. On a recent day in the south substation, the afternoon shift could not begin its patrol for nearly two hours because it had to wait for the day shift cars to come in. The cost to the taxpayer in lost_- - productivity far exceeds the cost of making proper and timely repairs. Once - officers are able to finally begin their patrol duties, cars often do not make it to the end of the shift. To give you an example, we had a police car that was parked out in the front that was released by the motor pool this morning. About two hours ago, the motor pool came and towed it away because it wouldn't start. On any given day, there's 28 percent of the patrol vehicles at the motor pool for repairs. Many of the accidents in which our members, we believe, are involved, are due because of faulty equipment. Cars used by the detective divisions are equally in bad shape. The newest of the cars available to the homicide unit has over 60,000 miles. Now Steve': got a picture of a speedometer of a vehicle. As you look at it, I want you to take ' note of the odometer's numbers. If you look closely, you'll see they're all zeroes. That doesn't mean the car hasn't got any miles on it, what that means is that, that car has got over 100,000 miles on it. It's still in the fleet as a detective car. A review of the departmental correspondence shows a long 4 list of memos to GSA and the administration... s= Mayor Suarez: Dick, can I hold you on that because that, particular bit of evidence is perhaps most troubling of all. Can I have it back so Commissioner ' De Turre can see it? -if everybody has seen it. Mr. Manager, Mr. William,',r , any of department heads, assistant city manager, how could that happen? Does anybody have any idea of how an automobile could have a reading that appears was: to be a hundred thousand or more, because, conceivably, if they're all _zero,' c2. it has passed a hundred thousand and stopped functioning or God kt►,��rs, tisi< . ; might have happened. Do we have any such cars that could have possibly ti reached that level of mileage and that have not been taken out of service for at least 45,000 in excess of the maximum that we agreed to by a policy that,l, frankly, do not remember? Commissioner Plummer: No, well,.. wait a minute, that was to patrol. Mr. Ron Williams: Well... =. Mayor Suarez: Right. It did not apply to a detective's car? { Comissioner Plummer: No, only to patrol. ;- 1.'c4.,t x 200 t fa`fic.�ux•xL; t-�h- � <. - - _ - }a," _ c;t .. d, •k .i°�:�.!,Gs 'Y 8. �V I ! 11 Mayor Suares: What to the policy oft a car not on patrol? Mr. williamas The policy is quite different, Mr. Mayor. Ron Villiama, director of OSA, coremissiondr plvmmer: Entirely different. it's not an emergen.., Mayor guarass ghat, a hundred, two hundred or what? Like one of those daft you see on television where they've gone, you know, a million miles, I think they had a... Mercedes, yea. Mr. Williams: Absolutely not, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Well, what is it? Mr. WLIliamss The policy is well described in your resolution that passed in September and I'll give you that specific information. Mayor Suarez: How many miles, Ron? Mr. Williams: The mileage for that particular car, we would like to have it out of the fleet within 70,000 miles. Mayor Suarez: So this could have conceivably gone 300000 miles beyond that policy? Mr. Williams: It is quite possible, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: How could that happen? Mr. Williams: I'm not familiar with that particular car. However, it could happen because the unit was not, at that particular time, able to be replaced. If I'm.advised.of which particular vehicle it is, I could be more specific. Mayor Suarez: And the policy does not include a directive from the Manager to tell you.to put it out of service and figure out some other system? It just keeps on going? What kind of policy is that? UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER:. Is it 697 or 8977 Mr. Williams: Not directly,..Mr. Mayor, but let me say to you that, mileage is not the pure indicator. Most certainly, we have... Mayor:Suarez: That's the indicator in our policy, I thought. Mr. Williams: No, there are various things in your policy and let me... r, Commissioner Plummer: No mileage.... Mayor Suarez: That, and number of years of service. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes. Mr. Williams: That, and number of years and condition of the fleet, out..., r< Mayor Suarez: Well, supposing this car had more... how many years,je .the maximum on a non patrol car? r s , Mr. Williams: Well, the maximum goes all the way to eight years. :or-00;000 miles. But those are basically administrative vehicles that are not used -Is any kind of an emergency environment. u Mayor Suarez: All right, so you're saying that, when you've exceeded the maximum for that particular kind of service automobile, that it cou .d st"ill stay in service? There's. nothing triggered that says, notify the administration, notifythe Commission that we've of a g problem, so that we han"{ne and rwni anw khan&? Wind meniag frnm vharwvwrl f S va»4n Mir. #iliitma: You're absolutely right, Mr. Mayor. That vehicle, and it MAY be B2, Pi category, or whichever, and i can be more specific if you give se the number. The point is, we would try to move those vehicles out of servide. I can say to you, in non emergency environments, i.e. the other departtsentso there are vehicles with high mileage that we Mould like to also move out. Mayor suarers Mr. Manager, Mr. City Attorney, what do you suggest for the next time, including today, if we do it today, that we establish a policy on a number of miles and the number of years, maximum use of a vehicle. That we put into the resolution, so that it have the assurance that the vehicle Vill be taken out of service at that point? So, apparently, we didn't do a good enough Job last time or somebody didn't follow it, one of the two. Mr. Williams: Weill let me speak to that, Mr. Mayor, if I might, just quickly. Again, the mileage may not be the most evident situation involving that particular car... Mayor Suarez: But those are the criteria that we use, Ron. If we use criteria of years and mileage. Mr. Williams: But then you also give discretion to those of us that you charge... Mayor Suarez: We didn't mean to give discretion. We did not mean to give discretion. If anybody on this Commission meant to give discretion, they sure didn't say. Because I don't remember hearing it in the record at all. The first time we went through this right after the death of David Herring. Mr. Williams: No, you're absolutely right. The policy that I'm talking about was addressed again with you, as Mr. Kinne indicated, in September of 189. Mr. Kinne: Yes, but I got to also add to that... Mayor Suarez: On that one, we particularly didn't mean to give discretion, because there we were presumably extending the period. Mr. Kinne: That was also talked about at that meeting, at that Commissioner meeting, about discretion... Mayor Suarez: I thought it was. Mr. Kinne: ...and I voiced opposition to it and you all said, now, the Police Department and Police Chief is also going to have to be involved in those vehicles. So that language in regards to giving the director of GSA discretion, was supposedly struck out. Mayor Suarez: I would have thought it would be and in the future, I sure hope. It will be, Mr. City Attorney, Mr. City Manager. Because that's the understanding, the consensus of this Commission, unless - somebody correct -me if I'm wrong. Mr. Odio: I already stated that I feel that there's 186 vehicles that have to be replaced and we will replace. Of the 186, because of the years, there are only 12, as I'm told, that have exceeded the 55,000 miles, and I'm going to 4 ask them to park them if they're in condition that they should not be operated " safely, period. Mayor Suarez: Mr. City Attorney, to be sure that we don't have this problem again, how do we build it into the resolution that there's no discretion? Could you draft that during these proceedings and make sure that we have it ready to vote on today. And if it needs to be by form of an ordinance, that we have ready to vote today or at the meeting of the 27th, please. We didn't think we were giving discretion and lets make sure that that's the case in the future. OK, Dick. Mr. Kinne: A review of the departmental correspondence shows a long list of momos to GSA and the administration begging for improvements to this situation. They have consistently been met with silent indifference and t As rah n I asked for a public release I was handed at least this oh gorr'espondemce alone by our Police Department to GSA in roSards to policy :.. vehicLos. Currently, the Dade State Attorney is conducting an investigation 3i �4 208 geptsmwr 7, 1990 rya. s � of the City Motor Pool. The focus of that investigation to a failure to keep accurate records and to be able to document that repairs charged to the police budget were actually performed. Typical of City vehicle practices it the recent purchase of 21 new motorcycles at nearly $10,000 a piece. The M called for steel footboards. The bikes were accepted with aluminum footboards which tan sheer off in an accident, leaving a razor-sharp edge to endanger the rider. The bikes were supposed to have cruise control, which is needed for control and in traffic direction and in that type thing, and their escorts and stuff like that. Again, the bikes did not receive cruise control. The RrP also called for fairing to eliminate wind drag. Again, that requirement, and presumably paid for, was absent. In their first day that they received these new motorcycles, emergency lights engaged themselves or failed to work at all. Gas tanks were damaged and gears were inoperable. Brake pads were improperly Installed and turn signals failed to function. All of these defects were found in the first seven bikes given to officers as safe and operable. The FOP is unwilling to wait until another one of our members is hurt or killed. _ The City can hire all the officers in the world, but if they are not given the tools to do the job, there's a simple waste of money. We cannot place too high a value on officers' safety. Carelessness has already killed one member. We are prepared to take all lawful actions to prevent another. This Commission must act today or consequences will far outweigh the cost. We remember David Herring. To that motto, we must add these words, "never again." Thank you. (APPLAUSE) Mayor Suarez: Vice Mayor Dawkins. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. Williams, at the next meeting, I will be asking you to explain to me why is it, when I go to get gas, I see policemen changing fuses that get backup lights to work and they tell me that they do it themselves rather than go over and wait all day or have the car out of service? I'll be asking you that. (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING) Mr. Williams: Vice Mayor, I look forward to giving you that response. Mr. Klausner: What's the next police vehicle? Vice.Mayor Dawkins: That's living high on the hog. Mr. Kinne: Did you get one, Ron? Mr. Williams: What? Mr. Kinne: Give one to Ron. Mr. Klausners We're distributing pictures of the new model of the police vehicles. When they reach... (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING) When they reach 55;000 miles, then we can eat them. Mayor Suarez: Ron... Mr. Williams: It's not a bad idea. Mayor Suarez: What about... one question and we've talked about the number of years and miles and so on, I don't know, and some of the other conditions on! repair of tires and all of that. But one of the things I've noticed in that it seems like a huge percentage of the patrol cars, the steering is awful, and the doors don't ever seem to lock right. Both of which, are very dangerous— conditions. What sort of maintenance do we have to assure, particularly on steering, but, really, on both, because they could create an incredible danger to the officer - not to mention if he has a suspect with him as to getting out, and in and out of the car, or if it should ever fall into any kind of a body of water, what effect that would have if you can't get the doors open, r I've seen people who have to stick their hands, open it from the outside, kick the door to get it open. The steering, it seems, sometimes you turn iti one way and it goes the opposite way, at cetera. Mr. Williams: Mr. Mayor, the steering is - and let me address that first that... t 209 $erpl embs#' 1, ii4Q E Mayor guarese th fact, i would say, Just generally, from my eaperieftat# that we have particularly bad batch of automobiles or manufacturer for steering. I know I'm going to hear from the manufacturer about it, but it just seems like a preponderance of bad steering or... I don't know what the problem is, maybe it's the impact against the curbs and so on. I don't know what it is, but if we need to get, put into the specifications extra strong front ends so that they can go right up on the sidewalk and do some of the other things they have to do, sometimes at full speed, without affecting the steering. Ve've got>to do something. Are those cars really equipped for that kind of action that 1s taking place out there in the streets of the City? Mgt. Williama: bell, Mr. Mayor, they're most certainly equipped as well as any police car built in the country and we... (JEERS AND BOOING) Mayor Suarez: Please, please, please... Mr. Williams: If I may start over... Mayor Suarez: You know, I am not an expert, but I don't buy that, because I don't think they're built as well as some of the other cars I've seen on the road that can do that kind of stuff without having those problems. They have to be built a heck of a lot better and, by the way, even if they have to be the very best in the country, Miami has some conditions right now that requires some of the best police cars in the country. I don't... (APPLAUSE AND CHEERING) Mr. Williams: Let me say, Mr. Mayor, and I would solicit... Mayor Suarez: Your Chief, by the way, has given us one interesting figure that I was hoping not to have to bring up in the prior part of the hearing because it cuts against my arguments as to the other department too, and I know:,their union head is around here, but the total number of people that are living in the City of Miami, or who are daily residents of the City of .Miami, In not 400,000 or even 500,000; it's 820,000 people who are 'residents of the City of -Miami. So you can imagine the kind of activity of patrol -that -has to take place and the speed at which it has to be done to monitor and to surveil crime and to try to put an end to crime•in the City .;:And that really -.warrants the very best equipment and we don't have the beat equipment out there. And that's not totally his fault. In fact, it's mostly not his fault.It may have been our fault in approving specifications that .were not at the -level that::.they should have been. a rs Mr. Williams: Let me, as I attempted to say earlier, Mr. Mayor, let no -.say this, that our police officers are - and through your decisions here- you { basically: are purchasing the same vehicles', that we'reusing, :naturally, r= Metropolitan Dade County, all of the other municipalities throughout -the State_ of Florida, and on a national basis, as you well know, we drove the....;in,,_the ?=_ City of Miami, the Chryslers for a long time. And that car, contrary-to°saomo 6 opinions here, was a very fins automobile. Let me say this, 'police �work.has different kinds of needs and -I want to go back to the front and issue.,:Most certainly that front end is reinforced in a better and different maunor tbam - my car and yours. There are limits. Most certainly, you kaow,-our,offic*rs ' find a used to go over curbs and other kinds of things that we ;woulft!t go over in our own personal automobiles, but, at a given period of time, after -so t=.. many of those- actions, naturally it weakens. We do have: a preventative maintenance program. We have state of the art equipment to bring that vehicle _ back into alignment and naturally we try to address that as best -we can. 7, 1F Mayor Suarez: I hope you don't align them by putting those little Is weights • pN Mr. Williams No, that's balancing, Mr. Mayor. �- it Mayor Suarozi Yes, and I hope you don't balance it b y putting .t�xarse-li�tt�4 , € lead weights. I hope. you get good, solid tires and good, solid rim on every automobile. s Commissioner Plummer: There's no other way to balance thew. k n _ tkpi�43. A xi te" x M: Mr. Utiname: Rio hate top Notch equipment and talented people. mayor gutrest hecause, you khcMt little lead weights can fall off and ybu'�i_ got..i Commissioner Plummer:. No other way to balance them. Mr. Villiama: Sure. And we have talented mechanics that are trained in the' alignment of vehicles. Mr. Klausnert Mr. Mayor, it's important to know on these cars and these officers can tell you. These cars literally never stop. They go three shifts a. day, 24 hours a day,.seven days a week. Machines aren't meant to lost that wain. It may be the same car that the County uses, but those cars get used one officer for one shift", four or five days a week. if you use the equipment' three times that much,ouu're going to get three, times the gear and tear. »:a Mr. Williams: Let me correct that, Mr. Mayor. The County has a policy that's slightly different than ours, and 1 would beg to differ that their vehicles are used a bit more than ours. Now, they have a different kind of patrol' environment because they have a wider... Mayor Suarez: Yes, and I hope you don't compare us, frankly... Mr. Williams: Right, they have a different kind of environment, but... Mayor Suarez: ...I hope they don't hear me, but I hope you don't compare us to.the Highway Patrol, because what they do is nowhere near what our guys do. I mean, it just doesn't compare. Mr. Williams: Yes, but you... let me say this, you have established a policy here that's more stringent than most in the nation. Mayor Suarez: In fact, sometimes I'm not sure what, exactly, it is they do. I'm sorry? Mr. Williams: I say, you have established a policy here ,that's more strenuous than most in the nation and, naturally, more strenuous than Dade County's.,_ Mayor Suarezt Well, it's going to... I think it's going to have to be better than that, frankly. Anything else, counselor? OK. Mr. Klausner: No, your next speaker is going to be Dave Simms, president of the Sanitation Employees Association. Mr. Dave Simms: Mayor and the Commission. My name is Dave Simms, Sanitation t Employees Association. Before I start, I have one speaker after me. We are r here today to join hands, with our union brothers and sisters to express our, jobs security. For many months, 80 employees have been required to work above, their classification with promotional opportunity put on hold. The managers have assured us that when the budget process is completed, these positions will be properly filled. We are afraid that the resource, will not be theri. Already, the sanitation workers force is shrinking. The net result will be less service, but projects currently given to the private haulers could be affected, performed by your own employees. Our organization gives the largest number of minorities opportunities to serve the citizens of Miami by being contributing members of the work force. We should be looking to imcreA44._ zx � service, not curtail it. In the areas of efficiency, we also suffer equipment which failed to work too. Our repair cannot be made for lack of r.- mechanics. On the recent routes, the truck have broke down with flat tire* - and have been abandoned and left overnight to change a fiat tire. This is the,,; third time this year... Mayor Suarez: There's a real problem of communication, David, if I tasty, Y. �n Interrupt you, When a truck that's out of order and getting it replaced aa4 getting the men picked up, because I've run into two out there recently and it just seem like the hardest time in the world getting that resolved. what to the +coramua►ication system that we have to take care of when a truck is out of order like that? I've sees their employees for at least three hours cat4h _— there, i_ no ong r. 211 ? l — 4,, 1 f / t � Mr, willieffist tea, we have a two shift operation, Mr, Mayor, and it will respond to thy call which usually ewes through either a supervisor in the field or through the central administrative offices. And usually we will try to address that downed vehicle to soon as possible. On weekends, when there's vehicles In use on the streets and we don't have anybody on duty, we will call people in. Mayor Buarget Wall, wait, *sit, wait.., why don't we have somebody on duty�on weekends? They're out there on weekends sometimes, from a variety of tanks. — That was one weekend, I think it was a holiday the last time I ran into a truck up there In the northeast and there was nobody 1 couldn't got through to anybody, Mr. Villiames Those are basically satellite like kinds of operations, to my understanding, and through coordination with the director's office, there are specific in small amounts of work that's done on the weekend and usually we're made aware of those jobs so that we can either be standing by and have somebody to back it up. But, the full time service operation in essentially, a five-day operation. Vice Mayor Dawkins: How many men do you have assigned to make repairs :to sanitation equipment? Mr. Williamist The total operation is around forty-seven. Vice Mayor Dawkins: How many men are assigned to work on sanitation equipment? Forty-two. Mr. Williams: Forty-seven for the entire heavy equipment division, Mr. Vice Mayor. Vice Mayor Dawkins: So, all of the heavy equipment repairs in made at one shot where the 47 people are. Mr. Williams: That's true. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now, what are the hours of the 47 people? Mr. Williams: We're open around 6t00 o'clock for early fueling until 11:30 at night, five days a week. Vice Mayor Dawkins: And you got - OK. now, break It down so from seven in the - you say 7t00 o'clock In the morning? Mr. Williams: It's 600, we are open for fueling. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Six to six is twelve and then twelve... to eleven in twelve more hours. Mr. Williams: Yen, lltOO, 1100. Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, all right. How many man work on... what have you got? -one shift, two shift, or three shifts? Mr. Williams: Two shifts. Vice Mayor Dawkins: How many men are on the morning shift? Mr. Williams: The morning shift in a little I would say, and we move them around, the reason I'm not absolutely certain it's about thirty. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Thirty on the morning shift? Mr. Williams: UM hum. Vice Mayor Dawkins: How many on the night shift? Mr, Williams: The difference of seventeen. Commissioner Plummer: Seventeen. 212 , 3:x,•. - yt -r.r r x t a 1 "lam T jA. i Vice Mayor bawkinat BeVenteen. When do you have the sanitation and the Senaral, sorwiee equipment meaning trucks and other heavy equipment when are they idle? — Mr. Williamat They are - most equipment, in both Solid Waste and Public :. Works, is in the shop around 3:00 o'clock, at the latest. °. vice Mayor Dawkinst Three o'clock. And when it's in the shop, that's when you got the least amount of people available to work on that equipment. to 3 -that right? �A Mr. Williamst And that is because we essentially do our lighter work or -preventative maintenance, grease jobs, oil changes, etcetera, during the `- night. We have equipment on our, what we call our spare line, available to meat those needs throughout the day, x_ ,n Vice Mayor Dawkinst So, therefore, the truck that the Mayor saw broken down, It was a truck on the spare line, that all we had to do was crank it up and run out there? <d4 Mr. Williams: When it left the shop, it was ready for a day's work, Mr. Vice Mayor. z Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, no, no. You told me, on the ready line, we got _ � equipment ready. A truck is broken down, out of service, we got men standing by who we are paying by the hour. Is there a truck on the ready line that �{1I7 Peter Joffre can pick up and say, send the truck? Mr. Williamst It depends upon the type of equipment, but I would generally — ► say$ Yes. �. Vice Mayor Dawkins: You're like my wife. You answer like you want to, but -I don't have a problem with it. — yy: Mr. Williamst Let me answer it more directly, Mr. Vice Mayor. _- Vice Mayor Dawkinst Thank you, I wish you would. € Mr. Klausnert Commissioner, you may want ask, how many of those 47 people are_ . heavy equipment mechanics? I think there's only about 12 or 13 of them? Vice Mayor Dawkinst Well, see, like I told you, I got my questions next time. I'm just trying to, you know, let him know where I'm going to come from.; + �.' Mr. Klausnert I got you. +: Vice Mayor Dawkins: Um hum, OK. I got no further questions.... y { `L Mayor Suaretat One quick question on the equipment. I meant to ask it about police cars, but I know the answer in the case.of police cars because 1 think you have standard 12 volt batteries for police cars. They may be a little bit ` better batteries than you would find with an ordinary car, but you haven't tk ' thought of having either backup batteries or stronger voltage. What about the °! sanitation trucks? What do they have? F ' Mr. Williamst Well, depending on the type of equipment, obviously, we have, �,. in some cases, 24 volt batteries, double batteries, depending on the type,of ' equipment, the type of use. Mayor Suares: You know, most - and then, go back to police care - most emergency vehicles, in your course you see it is large limos and so on you have, that are tested and that have a lot of electrical gadgets and go through a a lot of stress situations, have more than one battery. And our police cars ' have one and that means you could be stuck many, many times some place and aQt ' have any way out. zj Mr. Williams: That's a high amp battery, Mr. Mayor, that is Wit 3 a ecifically for police use as part of the additional equipment that p electrical equipment that we have to". ` Mayor Suavest I would strongly cmaider, the next tine vs 40, SPOCii 1044Lonns m `.. having a backup battery, or having a higher voltage battery,' if tholm done. g13 September i, 4 L, rho tilslwier Plummrt Your answer is the alternator. Bigger aiternators, " Mr. Villiamst We will... Mayor Suareet Well, I've... .aa- 4j i wry; Williams look at that, Mr. Mayor, and... " Mayor Buarekt I've jump started almost every car that almost any problem, « if you add enough voltage sometimes it gets, you know, somehow it gets started _# - tad it gets mooring again and it's unfortunate that our police cara Aave �— Commissioner Plummers If you go from an 80 amp to 105 amp alternator, that's What I always do.— Mr. Williamst We'll spec the highest amp battery for that purpose, Mr. Mayor. s Commissioner Plummert What about the alternator? Whenever I buy my car, I go from an 85 to 105 amp alternator and I never have a problem. Mayor- Suarszt From my studies - well, I Won't get into it, but... the ti amperage is the ratio of the voltage to the resistance so you need more Y�- voltages But, anyhow, go ahead. Mr. Simmat This is the third time this year we have had to bring our members?�u� and Mayor to this Commission to avoid a threatened loss of jobs. There must — be a better way. In recent days, the Manager has offered promise to fill the ' positions and improve the condition. We are concerned that the money Will not be there to keep those promises. Your work desire and the security of knowing that if they do their job, the job will be there. Keep you Word. I would _ like for the Manager to go on record that he would keep his promise that he made'to us to promote and fill the positions in.Solid Waste through the Civil Service rules for the ninety -nines that We talked.about._ Mr. ©diot You got a letter from me but I don't think I have to repeat the letter.-, And your attorney, and both.of you negotiated with -,us iw good #aith s - We negotiated .in good faith. We gave you a number and we intend.to keep that number and exactly what We negotiated and nothing else. And I don't know why that has,,to-come upinow.. Mayor Suarezr :;Thank you, Dave. _Don't. hesitate to communicate mean, you vaid .that you've been here three times this year,- but the phone is open a lot more than that.'^ Mr. Simmst. Thank you, Mayor. �- ��- i of r. Mayor, Commissioners, Bob Menditto act n irecto Mr. Bob Mend tt M M y , o , , i g d, x, . _ Sanitation Employees Association. Before I start, I'd like to pass out some pictures. - Commissioner Alonsot In the meantime, Mr. Williams, how many mechanics do we have in the City?.. Mr.,Willlamst On the heavy equipment side? y Commissioner Alonsot Yes. dig <, K Mr. Williams: Eighteen.' f Mayor Suarezt Yes, please. Mr. Mendittot While, you're looking at those pictures, We have foun4 17,0p0 ;a commercial accounts not accounted for, no money conning into the City, in the Solid Waste Department, we are losing 41 people f : twenty+-bintr ;:#u17.: tame thirty-two standbys. Yet, in the director's department, they are gaini too. more people at a cost of $84,000. There are liens to be collected of t -$671,QQ0. Since 1987, union wage*- were 8 percent, plus two $1 000 uoos 'Wht0k did not affect +anybody's pension. Yet, . 49magemsa►t , bays 1000 s f,ocrosses of 8 percent to 38 percent. Ths. 09114 Waste Deportment tray O"PI sdto start classes so that the Mon that drive the trucks could receive thoic n AMR gR t ZT Ot license. 'i'elaVibion was bought] video was bought, books were bought. To this date, there have hot been any classes to help the men get their license. The only classes that have been held is at the classes at the union hall. And so fart we're had quite a few people pass, For what we find, none of the `{q promises have been made to the Solid Waste Department. That is all. Vito -Mayor Dawkinat Where is the Solid Waste. director? to that a true statement, Mr. Ingraham? Mr6 Joseph Ingrahams Which statement, air? Vice Mayor Dawkins: The one that you bought materials and did not start -a. class, Mr. Ingraham: We've not started classes as of yet. That's correct, air. Vice Mayor Dawkinat When did we buy the... Mr, Ingrahams Approximately 3 months ago, I guess, roughly, two and a half, three months ago. Vice Mayor Dawkine: So, we bought equipment without having any plans or anything in place to start the operation? Mr. Ingraham: That's not true. We're in the process of gearing up for that. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I'm asking the question. I don't know whether it's true or untrue. Mr. Ingraham: No, that's not true. — Vice -Mayor Dawkines All right, well what did you do then? Mr. Ingraham: We bought the equipment in anticipation of starting the classes and we have went through the process of getting our people prepared to do that.-- We've yet to start the classes, Mr. Dawkins. Vice Mayor Dawkins: What do you mean, in preparation to start the class? -or'- get people prepared. n= Mr. Ingraham: We went about looking at it doing it on a Citywide basis in reference to joining hands with a number of other departments throughout the �- City. That has- not come to fruition L and we're about to start. -Solid Waste Department's training. That was the approach that we had taken.. Vice Mayor Dawkins: What's the time limit for getting this done? -getting these people qualified? F. Mr. Ingraham: We can start our classes within the next week. The training... .r Vice Mayor Dawkins: What did the State of Florida say that these men must -be certified to do this at what date? z4 Mr.. Ingraham: In reference to the commercial drivers license mandate<::is concerned, it goes into effect in 1992, I believe it is, in reference to when, nf they're required to actually - all commercial drivers throughout the state to have a license, hr� Vice Mayor Dawkins: Thank you. k 4. Mayor Suarers Bob, have any of those liens to be collected been referred to by �z your friendly attorney who has offered to... ass s�- Mr. Klausners We've got to get them from you. Mayor Suarez: ...to help us out on a pro bono basis in collecting a few of them?Sir elr. Klausner: I told you, Mr. Mayor, I offered.. I have a large collection _ department in my law firm and we volunteered to assist the City. if you will. rsfor the matter to us, we said We would donate:, . . 104, t� .�Siwe¢•.a ...46•' r.. Mayor guafttt , Tau know] yow can charge there for answering the 4uesti6t,, if you want, but I really asked it of him. Mt, Klausneft Right. Only because the materials have to crane from you. l Can't go out and do that, Mayor buarett Mr. Manager and Mr. City Attorney' are we going to engage the services of some attorneys who have here offered their help on a pro boric ' basis, to we can collect some liens and put some motley back into the general operating budget of the City? y<� Mr. y'arnandess When it comes to 'my attention that my department and ray attorneysare not capable of doing the job that's provided to us by the° administration to collect, then I will gladly go to members of the bar... a Mayor Suarezt All right, were you aware of the fact that there were six hundred and some thousand dollars in liens to be collected here? INA10DIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mayor Suarsts No, that was directed at the City Attorney because he says that it hasn't been brought to his attention that we may need additional... Mr. Fernandez: We have a very active collection practice in our office. We have'an attorney and a half who basically do nothing else, on a daily basis, but collection for the City for the Finance Department, in particular, _ collectingall kinds of liens and all kinds of bill payables, bringing to the , City close to a million dollars a year. Vice Mayor Dawkins: What is a half an attorney? ti Mr. Fernandez: That's an attorney that has one leg and one arm. Vice Mayor Dawkins: And that's why we haven't collected anything. — Mr. Fernandez: But then, there is the other one that has two legs and two ' arms ' Vice Mayor Dawkins: You have a non-functioning attorney. But... - Commissioner Plummer: But, wait a minute. ' Vice Mayor Dawkins:. ...what I'd like to know, from the Manager, and Mr.: Garcia, two, three, or four times, you have come to this Commission and had us to appropriate money for to hire a collecting agency and the reasoning that Y x. you gave for hiring the collecting agency, that it would collect these �- .`. collectibles.; Mr. Odio: Sir... Vice Mayor Dawkins: And, now I'm told that we have not done that. Why, air? c: Mr. Odio: No, air, we did not do that. The only time we came to the - _ Commission for a collection agency contract was to handle the fire rescue bills that are very complex... Vice Mayor Dawkins: So... Mr. Odio: Our collections, which are very good, by the way, on Solid Writs bills, are done by the Finance Department. �. •; Vice Mayor Dawkins: Well, why do we have $600,000 out there, ` if they're so" good, by the Finance Department? Yt Mr. Odio: May I remind you, air, that in 1986 when I became Manager, w .had_. :- $10,000,000... 4 Vies Mayor Dawkins: No, don't remind me of nothing. Tell tee what we're doing currently.+ Mr. Odiot We put liens on the property, we $ell the liens and get the money; And that's Mhat we're doing. Once we put a lien on a property, we ga to the = �a + x 4 V 216ej►t�r 7► L a , e kR. ,� 3 AS,rywE,--"s .,. I e . c .. ,:, '.. , :.. •.,. I s , r r_, .zYl 3ti�wt�'��i't iGx1 i tat. steps of the oourtbouse and sell the liens to the County and get all our whey Flee Mayor DiNkinst And didn't we agree with the fire rescue that no sanlor 4. citizen or anyone on a fixed Income... = {= Me, Odiot Not nb, IIm talking about the Solid Waste, n Bien Mayor Davkins t ... that their property would be 1 iened and not sold on the court house steps? vA Mr. Odiot No, but, Commissioner, let me understand that. Are we talking ,. about Solid Waste bills or rescue? { Vice Mayor Dawkinst Are we liening... Mri''Odiot No. Vice Mayor Dawkinsi ...property of a senior citizen... 5' Mr, Odiot No, sir. J -., Vice -Mayor Dawkinst ...diabetic with no legs. You're liening their property? Mr. Odiot On solid waste bills, we do place liens on the property. Mayor Suarezi Are you selling at the courthouse steps? Vice Mayor Dawkinst Those liens? Mr. Odiot Well sell the liens. � Mayor Suarezz Solid Waste liens? 4 Mr. Odiot Yes, sir, we -are and we get our money out of property and let's... r Mayor:Suarei: %I would like,before` the 27th of September, a report on all the Solid Waste liens that you've sold at the courthouse steps. Let me remind my t3taff'lof that particular question., (APPLAUSE) 4+ Mr. Odiot By the way, the last... Vice Mayor Dawkinst And what you did with the money. r. Carlos Marcia: Seven hundred thousand dollars in May of this year. Mr. Odiot We just sold... (APPLAUSE) = Mr. Odio: We sold in May $700,000 in the... Vice Mayor Dawkins Seven hundred thousand dollars, but yet, you tell tee �. 5x' we're laying off people in the -Sanitation Department because you got no money. (c Mr. Odtos Oh, we have a... Vice Mayor Dawkinst Give tee a breakt Mr. Odio: Mr. Commissioner, we haven't laid off anyone in the Solid lustre Department. In fact... Vice Mayor Dawkiast All right, OK, I didn't want to get into this, Mr. Mayor, but boar with me. OK. You eliminated 25 positions. ,Ate 1 right? = u ry, .; Kr. Odlot We *1iminated five routes. Yes. �$ ,r VLae Mayor DawkLast You eliminated 25 non filled positions, a Ar» io-s Too.'' . i+23"`.+�ryty i - .:W 4i }' L41 Al�1 #?: P .. ii*4 Airat Ia that a• bai~roat 6tetomintt 3 ':• Mr. Odiot Yaa, sir. Fide Mayor Dawkina s TWO11ty-fide people.AWT , Od or yes, *Ir.' mb" We eliminated five routes, but we did not fik i+s��le• � off 25 w Vice Mayor Dawkinas Mr. Manager, you had 25 budgeted positions. Is that a correct stateiiint? fir. Od os Vas, that is• o6frect. , Vito Mayor Davtkidss You did not fill the 25 budgeted positions, is that right? Mr. Odios That is correct. q Vice Mayor Dawkinas So, therefore, we did not hire 25 people. Mr. Odibi That is correct. • .. . fro: ,p, Vice Mayor Dawkins: Now, so that's 25 positions. .t µx•. 'EI Mr. Odios Yes, air. f ,' Vice Mayor Dawkins: Then you cut out five routes. Mr. Odlor ` Yes, lair. �R Vice Mayor Dawkins: That's 25 more people. Is that a correct, statement? Mr. Odios No,.sir. Those were the 25 that we cut out. w '.; Vice Mayor Davkiszss 'Beg' r ... y your pardon? Mr. Odios The twenty-five positions we eliminated were those five routes. We. elisaiti'teted ifve ''routea that meant 25' positions that 'we- didn't ' heed' those psople. Vice Mayor Dawkins: All right, how many people on a route? See, I'll have to Odi Mr. os Its one truck you have five r y persons. Therefore... -��_ , Vice Mayor Dawkins: Five persons. So five... and if five routes - five times fiveis treaty=f Iva . iYb Mr. Odic: That's; chat I'm ':aping, exactly what I'm' sayiag. I eliminated 25 positions because we eliminated five routes. m Vice Mayor Dawkins: OK, but y you also did'not fund 25 positions. } Mr. Odios That is correct. No, no... s; Vice Mayor Dawkins: So 25 and 25 lit 50. U Mr. Odo: No, no, I'm talking about the 25. ,r ?'ice Mayor Dowicias s Hog' your pardon? `YR Mr. Odios ' It's► the same 25, Gomanissioner. Vics Mayor Dawkins: Alut' AA way in bell it can be the sente S. , Mr. Od os dell, it sure La. k Vico Mayor Dawkjust It to not 41 ` Mac' `.tkiiss OX Gsa�iiraw#otaesr. Mr �� �� x2r -•i 216 d id 0 � AF, -N Vito ,Mayor Davk-Lust DR, all tight, well show me how# if I des not.., if f gttt 2S people working now sae, you all must think I'm retarded... ' Commissioner Plummert glow learner. Slop learner. . Via* Mayor Dawkinst You've got 25 people working now, OK? but before you also got 25 positions that you didn't fund. but, now you're going to tell me P.,. .. that -..y►ou: don't fund these :2S positions and you lay off this 250 even if z the same people? d Mr. Odiot What I m saying, commissioner, to you is that we we a ... , KRI`s VicemayorDawkinst No, Uhl uh... ` ' Mr. Odiot ...when the five routes were eliminated. ty`^. Vice Mayor Dawkinst Now, you decided. Mrs Odios No, no, no. We met with this union and we negotiated this and they agreed. t: Vics;Mayor Dawkinet No, I don't want to know what you negotiated with. I - want you to explain to me how you don't fund 25 positions for the whole year and the money in budgeted. And then you eliminate five routes for 25 people and then tell me it's the same people. Make me understand that. Mr. Odio: OK. When we agreed, and the union agreed that five routes were not needed... - Mr.�Mendittot We didn't agree to that. Mr. Odiot Excuse me, you can say whatever you want afterwards, but I thinkk,qv = �— ` that our attorney was present when we negotiated it.= '. Vic*, Mayor Dawkinst All I need for you to do is explain to me how 25, that's f� nQ,:, not working, and not funded, equals 25 that is working and it's the same k... people.—r=- Mr. Odio: We eliminated the five routes with the one condition that we would not lay oft anyone. And, therefore, what we did is through attrition ' eliminated the routes. And, yes, we eliminated 25 positions only. x Vice Mayor Dawkinss Well, what happens to the money that was... the 25 positions was funded with?. g Mr. Odio: You saved that money. ys, �— Vice Mayor Dawkins: Where is it if you saved it? What pot did we put it in?— Mx. Odio: It stays within the Solid Waste Department to try... `. Vice. Mayor Dawkins: So why, so now, so then that. means -that .we don't have to Jay off nobody else in the Sanitation Department because we saved the money for the 25 people. — Mr, gdio: We have agreed to a number and we both agree of, --it and signed off - oa itl :h 4:: Dice Mayor Dawkinss I don't.... see, I don't want to know,.. —_ Mr. Adios We don't have to lay off anyone in the Solid Waste Department. ; Vice Mayor Dawkins: See, we pay you to manage. s M. Adios Not enough.-' 4d V ce..Mayor Dawkiaas Whatever you work out with the bargaining &Seats, I'don't have a problem with it, OK? That's between you gad the bargaining'agsat. F Mr. Odio: Well, I have �lseahere�lei have a e �coby.e�t► with a good with d ' are 3 thost I hear something, p a Mr. Meaditto* Tau haven't bargained in good faith, my friend. Mr& Odtot Sint Atp, Vice Mayor Dawkina* Hey, hey, suit a sinute, I don't... Wait a minute. Mey# hey, you. Mr. Mendittot No, don't tell me to shut up. No way. r (JSIRS AND BOOING) Mayor Suareze please. We seem to have discrepancy on a particular figure and we end up with personal stuff. Now, if we could just get that... Mr. Odiot Mr. Mayor, we had an agreement that we would fill 395 positions and We will keep.40 temporary positions. My agreement was, and I stated this to you, that we would take the ninety -nines that had - there were 70 at the time - and we will fill the vacant positions, the vacant positions with those temporaries. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Was it 70 positions or ninety-nine? Wait a minute, was it 99 "ninety -nines" or 70 "ninety -nines?" Mr. Odio: We had 70 "ninety -nines" at the time. Vice Mayor Dawkins: How many did we start out with? Mr. Odio: I don't remember. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Ninety-nine... Mayor Suarers Well, it had to be 99 "ninety-nine"s, Mr. Manager. That's how their name got to be "ninety -nines." - Vice Mayor Dawkins* Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez* It took us about a half a year to figure that ,one out, L `{ remember that.=_ Mr. Odio* Yes, me too. g+. Mayor Suarezt Why do they call them "ninety -nines?" We kept asking, why do _ they call them "ninety -nines?" - Mr. Odio* Anyway.... x . Mayor Suarez* And somebody said, because we got ninety-nine of them.*— Mr. Odio: This budget, it calls for... Mayor Suarez: I've never seen -a City in my life that calls people ,by•,the Try {- number that they happen to be in that particular department, -ninety -nines. - Mr. Odio: We are agreeing to 395 plus 40 temporaries, period. Mayor Suarez* All right, I have heard most of your statements on that. I!m f h not agreeing or disagreeing. I don't even know exactly what the argument Is about, but Vice Mayor was inquiring, if he has any further questions, , fin..• f If you have any further statements, fine. If not, let's not get into personal bickering here, please. , Mr. Menditto* OK. Thank you for your time. That's all there is, Mayor Suarez* OK, we're going to have a boxing match scheduled with you end the Manager. --�= Mr. Menditto: Later. Mr. Odio: Mr. Mayor, I'ro the best shape I've been in my lift, ao anytime, 3 Vice Mayor Dawkins: You can't do nothing but... 220 �rp►t+ � t F k -_ F 3 ' e - 4 nO. , Maadlttoa I *itl take y6u up on that! — ti AWIMINCY Mica 1[yor`= barikt�l:i f' youdan't �do not but tow, The only thing you ail! de r , its[ ■x ,q'a.�.. Coiataeither be Turret Do we have any shorts that... t� - aY� Cotlyniseioter plr[mmer: No, leave them' all, leave thee.ail, I need the fuherai y , — ..... '. business. Lot theist go, let them go. {k. .; Mayor Suarest OX, After which time, we'll have all kinds of other rp�►rte-i �r ,3 { , yes,'counaelor. + - Mr'. Kl'ausaer:''Mr. Mayor, that concludes the presentation frosyyour employeee. ^ we appreciate the Commission's attention. Whoa, who's coming? -I'm sorry. ; _ Mr. U mas Charlie. E $'A Mr. Klausner: I didn't see you. We got one...' V Mayor Suarez: Charlie, in all fairness, you have given us.:. Mr. Klausner: It's been a long day. {t Mayor Suarez: Yes. And we have some grantee recipients who want to make some statements and some other folks. You've spent the last five months educating — a lot of us on your perspective of life. A lot of the things we have solved, hopefully. Some others are unsolved. Just try to be as brief and to the point as possible and, of course, you can have another shot at the apple, bite .. at the apple on the 27th, if need be. r; Mr.-Klausner: Mr. Mayor, Charlie's provided' you all with information ih C - '- advaned'of this. We're not going to repeat... Mayor°Suarez: Yes, the stuff we just got today we obviously haven't digested rt- Mr: Klausner: Right; we're not going to reinvent the wheel on what you'ver- already had, but there's some additional material and some summarization which I think is app"ropriate°for the Commission. = `! Mr. Charlie Cox: Mayor and members of the Commission. My name is Charlie �r Cox; 'president of'`AFSCME, local 1907. I address you today because, o:ica ' again, budget cuts threaten to fall hardest on my members: I have'presentai d .,•-. f each of you with a `substantial amount of documentation about 'waste and h _ 3aefficiency in the City of Miami government. The bottom line is, that managerial raises have been substantially higher than represented; to'a atcich '` greater number of managers than represented. At the same time, the number of w w rank and file employees has diminished to the point where 'basic' services to° the citizens are disappearing. Today, I have additional statistics to demonstrate the decline in the quality of life for the average eltitttnt in> thy• x, City. Were finding the City to be a community, behind bars;, At. each 4 - Commission Meeting, you are petitioned by a new neighborhood:,' barxica 6 streets against crime. The information that I have today ala+a shows'"she systems of parks with very few programs for the children they vote deiigned'itb _ serve. Workers safety is also a major concern. If you 'would 'take 'a "mittute t r4 . and turn to page four on the presentation I just gave you. If you look -at ti1tt, first neighborhood, it's bounded on the north, S.W. Sth Street, on the' SOU Coral Way, on the east, S.W. lath Avenue, on the west, S.W. 17th A�►eaia. { ; g, ,. There are ` 519 homes with bars ' on' the wiadoas, 48 witho4t." x nextc� neighborhood you look at, the north boundary is 54th Street, south bo" a 40th Street, east boundary is N.W. 12th Avenue, Nest boundary As i1aT,.17hf Avenue, There are 649 homes with bars on the windows; 308 without, •i 414 survey also in Hallandale, ylorida, The boundaries are north;' dal° ' Beach Boulevard, south, S.W. 11th Street, east, Dixie #Iighway, and Oth Avenue There were 40 homes with bars, $14 wiittot�t:. t ' U4 �ttt�xk' ' , neighborhood, which is mine in Pembroke Pines. North, +eats Jw1#so4'$t: ;x z� k t south. , , r y s. h ` i ' r7•e 5fr Y — STTJJ ;g vies Mayor bawkinss Your city too. Mr. Coxt Tou're right - south, Pembroke Pines Boulevard, east, N.W. 72fid Avenue, and west, university Drive. There were four homes with bars on the windowsl $IS without. And if you go to page Ili I'll give you reasons why# V6 have no programs for kids in the City to speak of. The biggest organisation you have is trying to make a dent in it, is the baseball aoadeaies. They use eleven parks in the City of Miami and they have only 1#765 kids. if you go to the next page, Pembroke Pines, within three miles of my house, there's five parks. In those five parks, there's 41720 kids that participate. That keeps the kids off the streets: That starts them, from age five, on up, to be in the parks and not running the streets. If you go to Dade County, there's six leagues that are listed here and there's over 6,000 kids involved in those leagues. For every one of those programs, for every six kids, -it takes at least one adult that's also out there supervising and most of the parents are out there when the kids are playing, when the kids are practicing. We do not have the programs in the parks any longer. Mayor Suarez: Charlie, let me just beg to differ with you a little bit. And I'm not sure of the answer to this question, I'm not sure you have it either, but I Mould guess if you did an analysis of the County versus the City, in terms of total number of supervised programs in the parks, versus the population, that we would do probably as well as the County in terms of that. Some of the programs in the City are partially operated or funded or supervised by volunteers or by the school system or by other folks, you know, but I just don't know that your statistics there are totally... Mr. Cox: OK... Mayor Suarez: ... just positive of anything. You might want to do that, by the way, to see... Mr. Cox: Which I have. Every association which is in... Mayor Suarez: ...and increasing, and increasing, although you're echoing, at least my sentiments, in terms of the lack of sufficient programs and the lack of maintenance of the parks, don't get me wrong, compared to what it should be. . Heck of a lot better than it was three or four years ago. And not to mention the summer programs, which are incredible now, compared to a couple of years ago, we almost had nothing. But, we could do better, I know that. If that's what you're trying to say... Mr. Cox: Let me guarantee you something... Mayor Suarez: ...and if you're trying to say that we need more field level employees doing that kind of work and less managerial employees doing. other kinds of work, without being derogatory about what kind of work that may be:, - including my particular favorites, those people who do public information. I - don't know why we need to have all kinds of public information officers in all kinds of departments. And why the high ranking police and fire officers` cannot do that themselves and some other people that we have in the City of Miami, but, otherwise, I understand your comments and I agree with them. Mr. Coxs Let me guarantee you something. I'm part of those associations, Little League associations. Dade -County and Pembroke Fines both are run strictly by volunteers. It's a nonprofit organization. So, that's people in =' the neighborhoods that are off the streets donating their time .,to those programs and that's what I'm saying, we do not.have.in the City, Those,,,arp all volunteers, they are not paid. And the numbers of five parks to put that many kids into a park and you don't have that many in, eleven parks in the City, there's something wrong. And that's something wrong for the citizens in this City too. If you look at another statistic that we did, thg ,Auntberat v re not back from Dade County yet, but I can tell you the most damage . that was , done in any park in Pembroke Pines, and they have twenty-one, was by ,the unmanned parks. And they had two broken windows and graffiti on buildings Qn three different buildings and that's it. I can tell you, in the City of Mismi , alone, we spend millions of dollars each year on vandalism. They otoal',tho poles right out of the parks, they take the wires out of the poles.. You:go;..Ja there, you relamp them sad tree next day they're shot out. Mhy4 geoatu►+se there's nobody manning the parks. There's no programs in the parks. If we,'rs not going to use the parks, we ought to take theta and . sell therm and: buJ.14_. 4s other ono* that, are being used. Someone has to speak up for the worlLor who has served this City. rr 222 topbor :y,, �rq; ; a Mayor guare:ts That's in interesting concept that was mentioned at this Cotramission at least two years ago, maybe three years ago, We were supposed to have a program that we were going to look at divestiture of City propertied that were not being productive, including some mini -parks that don't even look like mini -parks. The term is sort of misapplied. in the effort to improve the larger, most used parks, and to have better maintenance - Mr. Manager, whatever happened to the program of divestiture of City properties, including mini -parks that were not really - it's a misnomer to call theta midi -parks - cannot be maintained by the City properly? Some of them probably could be maintained by the private sector if you gave somebody some involvement. Mr. Albert Ruder: Yes, right now we're conducting an extensive study of mini - parks. You Mill find though, that a lot of them have deeds which are very restrictive and they would... Mayor Suarez: Now, you're conducting something that we've been requesting for two and one half years, Mr. Ruder? Mr. Ruder: Well, we've been doing it for a while, but we're trying to look... Mayor Suarez: I bet you've been doing it for a while. Mr. Ruder: We're trying to look at usage of the parks also. Not just what facilities are available, at those park usage, but... Mayor Suarez: Well, when are we going to have that report that would give us an idea of usage, deed restrictions, and possibly more intense and better use by other folks that might also take it out of our operational expenditure cycle there? Mr: Ruder: I would say in about two months we should be through with it. Mayor Suarers I would may in a lot less than that. Mr. Ruders OK. Mayor Suarez: -Because we've been waiting for it for two years, please. Mr. Odio: By the way, Mr. Mayor, if you look at the - Mr. Mayor? Mayor Suarers Yes, I'm here. Mr. Odio: If you look at the budget book this year. We now have a cost per park, by the way, for the first time when we did the budget. And when, you look at the last section of book will give you each park, of 46 parks that ve have, fully manned, and the manpower that we have in each park,: and the acreage. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Vice Mayor Dawkins, Vice Mayor Dawkins: I'd like... I'm going to be asking at the next budget hearing two questions, mainly. Number one, what happened to the idea that new hirees in AFSCME or the General Service employess, would take,a 25 percent cut in salary in order to work? And I want to know if that cut was City::work �= force wide. If not, why. And the second thing I'll be asking is, how many acres of grass do we have in the parks to be mowed and how many people we have mowingit. Nov,hose two questions I'll have at the next meeting, � q B, Please. �. Mr. Cox: Also, we're going to have to start addressing the issue of worker safety. The Manager gave a commitment yesterday in the budget hearings, _ budget workshops for the Commissioners. We do not have the mechanics to put out the work to fix the police cars. We do not have the manpower. We cannot keep going through these stages the way you've got a fleet manager, assistant fleet manager, a superintendent, all of them standing on the floors with whips ,. behind the mechanics.to get these cars out on the floors. It Pasnot happen, � There's going to be mistakes made and somebody is going to get hurt, t Or. Adios You're right, Mr... you're right, and we -r as I told you yesterday, � we used to readdress the mechanic work force and how they are allocated, 4 r 223 SOP004r 7, 4iM ;.; j 3 . "6 N Mr. Coxt t will also make another statement. We have primary that went bad in the Orange Bowl. The crew was given two summertime kids help to pull , In primary cable.' If anyone's ever seen somebody burned by 1,000 volts, it's not pretty. We do not have the manpower to do the fobs any more. lie have zero air conditioner men with the City any more except for one temporary. Mayor Suarest Weil, Charlie, you've run that argument by me and you know what we always and up. We agree on 98 percent of the others items or 09 percent, but some of that really - and you just gave a prime example of that should be done by consultants - I'd really not rather have our employees involved whatsoever in anything having to do with high voltage cables and you got... Mr. Coxt Why? You've got licensed linemen, I'm one. Mayor Suarezt Charlie, I'm telling you that you're going to lose that argument because you're going to be leading us toward privatization. The example you chose is just not a very good one. I think that a lot of other things should be done by our own folks, you've given me some examples, but that's just not a real good one because I would... for my preference, and I have a feeling that if we thought about it, this Commission would conclude that that kind of stuff we should do with outside consultants. Mr. Cox: You know, you had employees... Mayor Suarez: You've told me about a lot of other things that you used to do... Mr. Coxt ...that came from Florida Power & Light. The City did not train any of us. We all came from the contractors, we came from Florida Power & Light, and we can do it cheaper in-house than it's ever been done. It's been that way... Mayor Suarez: Let me put this way, Charlie, the City has enough trouble, as we've heard before, maintaining electrical circuits with 12 volts and 'so on. I'm not sure I want to gat involved in 9,000 volts, whatever it is you said. r. . . Let's' just stick to the most basic of all the services we can :render,-and let's dothebetter job of that and some of these things should be given to ' consultants. But, go ahead. Mr. Cox: °Someone has to speak up for the worker who has served this City and now must worry whether he or she will have a job tomorrow. At each Civil — Service Board meeting, we present a new claim for workers made to do duties — far above their classifications without proper compensation. In each of`these hearings, we have prevailed. Yet relief for these employees remains delayed. Someone has to have the courage to say that the citizens need services.to make this a livable City. If it means higher taxes, so be it. At yeaterday's _ workshop, the Manager promised new solutions to these problems. We need more .. than words. We need the City officials to promise these workers, on the ,.' record,` that their jobs are secure. It means this Commission and a Manager y, must give our members the job security they deserve. Unless we face the 1 _ decline of services together, as partners, and not as adversaries,:I 1sar:for :- the future of Miami. Why must there be a crisis before our voices are'heard? Why must there be a confrontation before decisive action is taken? Why must'_ there be a march on City Hall to ensure that yesterday's promises are -not r forgotten? We cannot continue to operate like this. It's time to face the music and do what's right to keep the faith with your employees and guarantee that the citizens of this community have a safe, healthy environment to raise ' their children. tr Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Charlie, for your presentation. Anything further,' Bob? ;. (APPLAUSS) -. �A. Mr. Klausners I only wanted to add, Mr. Mayor, that one of the solutions, which we've suggested to your work force problem, is for the City to create} Its own apprenticeship program. Apprenticeships which are doss, for example, In the skilled trades is the private sector, employees are brought in at for Z below... 1! L 224 $*Vtoobor 7, l J ^ Mayor duarest I am eas hundred and fifty percent behind anything like in Apprestie6ship p"gram. I think we have something like that in the f3olitb papartnwnt. For some reason, it" doesn't seem to always lead to the people being later offered jobs in the City. Sometimes it gets scooped up by other departments after they're public service aides. I don't know why we don't have it in every department. And, one of the first ones that we should begin With is the Fire Department, where we have a credibly high entry level salary, and we should have people, who are apprentices, doing a lot of the same kind of work that could be done at the beginning for a lot less salary and being tried and us ascertaining, in the meantime, if that person can ultimately become a firefighter or not, or a police officer - some of these jobs that have a high risk and high responsibility circumstances and for other departments, the same thing. I can't imagine any department where it wouldn't be necessary. Mr. Odiot Mr. Mayor... Mr. Klausner: In your civilian work force... Mayor Suarez: Except possibly being a member of the Commission. I don't know ' that there's any apprenticeship for that. Mr. Odiot Mr. Mayor... Mr. Mayor... Mayor Suarez: Anybody who is an apprentice for this, probably wouldn't want the job afterwards. Yes? Mr. Odio: We have agreed in that what we need to do, I think, is we're going to form a management union committee to work together and try to implement certain... Mayor Suarez: Yes, I would hope so because that's the beginning of wisdom in management is to involve the unions. Mr. Odiot The next thing I think we need to say here that I think that you wanted to hear that we have in this budget, there are no plans for any more layoffs. That they will not be there. And we have a balanced budget and they are not based on any layoffs whatsoever. Mayor Suarez: And I think that we ought to add that that is not unrelated to a battle waged by one union head, in particular, Charlie Cox, who has really; really taken the City budget and the City personnel, torn it apart,. one by one, has done all kind of calculations and has helped educate the Commission and given us the weapons occasionally to battle the administration on things we disagree with them on. The battle hasn't totally ended, I guarantee you, Charlie, from my perspective, but the help that you have given us has been magnificent and is probably worth a lot more than some of the other itesse we've been talking about. (APPLAUSE) Mr. Klausner: Mr. Mayor, I just wanted to may, in summary, for your _ employees, they're in this boat with you. When the finances suffer, they're 3 the first ones that suffer. They're here to be a partner in this procsssaod F_ when we make suggestions, it's not to cause problems, it's not to embarrass. It's to improve the system and we hope that the Commission will maintain the open ears and open eyes and open doors that you've had to listening -to these' and turn some of these suggestions and statements of good intention into real promises and into real deeds. Thank you. _ Mayor Suarez: Absolutely. Thank you. OK, from the general public, I'm going to go through these quickly. Bssie Silva, I know, was here, must have left. Donald F. Benjamin, I don't think is with us. Reverend Gilbert, I don't see I don't know Reverend Gilbert. Tom Spencer, Miami Film Festival. Tom's been �== around for a couple of hours. Is he still here? -or... there he 'is, Complete in double breasted suit. Mr. Tom Spencer: Thanks a lot. My name In... Mayor Suarez: Referred to in my 1989 inaugural speech with a slight'mist4*o _- as to ethnicity, but, otherwise, correct on all other respects. s ' 225 fpt.teAr yt i 4 ti _ i :` W . 0 Mr. dptheer: Volt, we don't know about that. Mr. Mayon, members of the domeiaaior►# My name is Tarn Spencer and i'te cochairman of the Piles Society of Miami and VM here with my partner, Maria Christina Barros, Who is 603 dhairperson and a number of other people from our organisation, to address 16U about the omission of the Film Satiety of Miami, The Miami book fair and other ortanlsatioas in the budget. Obviously, and responsibly, I might add, the Manager... Mayor Suarez: Ott, just a second, Tom, you picked up on... OK, everybody's clearing the chambers, if we'd just have a little silence as you leave, 01ease. Ott, Tom, proceed. Mr. Spencer: As I was about to say, the Manager very responsibly, about six months ago, notified the public in general and the Commission, I think, that his recommendation, initial recommendation was to cut out a number of events, such as the Film Society of Miami and the Miami Film Festival from the sponsorship by the City of Miami. And we're here tonight to address that problem and to see whether or not there is any way that the City of Miami can look into the budget, compare the Film Society of Miami, the Miami Film Festival, with other special events that are continued to be funded by the City of Miami and will be funded this year and determine, as a matter of policy, whether or not that is equitable and whether it's in the best interests of the City of Miami. Candidly, the inability of the City to fund the Film Society and the Miami Film Festival, will mean the end of the Miami Film Festival. Now, the City of Miami is the major sponsor of the Film Society. For seven years, the Miami Film Festival has grown in international stature. It has been positive publicity for the City of Miami. The sponsorship of the City has afforded the opportunity of the Film Society to allow anybody, regardless of economic position, to attend the Film Festival, to most the producers, the directors, the filmmakers, the stars, the people who come here from all over the world, not only to participate in the festival, but also to bring the economic development of the motion picture industry to the City. And we submit to you that it is a tragic error to overlook the significant economic impact of the film society and the Miami Film Festival to the overall well being, economically, of the City. We showed a film the other day - actually a few weeks ago - called "Havana", made by a Czech filmmaker, who went to Havana to film what Havana is like today. And I sat in the Gunman Cultural Center, where the Film Society of Miami spends sixty or seventy thousand dollars of the money that the City gives, to go back to Gusman to rent the facilities to hold the Miami Film Festival, and I sat in there because I am not Cuban, but there were blacks and whites and Cubans and Americans... Mayor Suarez: Could have fooled me. Mr. Spencer: ...and we were sitting there watching this film with tears is our eyes about what's happening. And I thought about what was happening in the City of Miami and I was thinking that Fidel must be rolling in the aisles and laughing like hell. Why? Because two years after the City of Miami and the Film Society began the Miami Film Festival, in response to its -Fidel Castro started the Havana Film Festival. And people in Cuba don't have enough to eat, but Fidel Castro has enough money to fund the,Havana<Film-Festival:` + We showed that film here, which is- being shown by BBC and around the world. a - We took films to Moscow to show the Soviet people the films that we showed in Miami about what's happening in Cuba, and we think that we're an integral part — of this community. And for the City of Miami to say that the Grand Prix can; be funded, that other events can be funded, that there's enough money to support other events, such as Calla Ocho and other things that are funded not directly by money, but indirectly by services and in -kind donations. I > think it's a tragic mistake to close the Miami Film Festival, to close the Book Fair International. These events, which provide such positive impact for ; A the City of Miami around the world. Every year, we have 500 separate articles' that are written in every language around the world. The people in America this year were treated to HBO, Cinemax, which showed the Miami Film Festival. Miami at it's beet! Not the headlines of Miami at it's worst. So, we're `z simply here to say, please, take another look. There's got to be a way, Mr. Manager and members of the Commission, there's got to be a way'that'the Niami Film Festival can be continued. And we're willing, of course, in a tight " �' budgetary year, everybody has got to take in the ropes a little bit and everybody has got to give a little bit and we're willing, as Volunteers, as we- are, and the people who are here, Mere willing to go out and work hardsr to21( bring in more money for the Film Festival. But don't and the sponsorship +cud 4 22 Plr IR'4i k t v r • -: *ad the zMisni fills Festival And please, leas find a way. In oeSnosia davelopmsatt Cc lisioner Do Turret we have asked and there are . ttaitda e development funds eoisevhere in that budget available. But, the leadership hair .` to come from the Commission and you, as our leaders, have to find a way and t' we'll work with you in every vayj shape, or fore►. Maria Christina, have I :. loft anything out or anything else...? Thank you very much. X iAppLA�9S) Mayor.Suares: Anyone else of the people who have submitted a form on the Film Festival issue? Let me go through these quickly and then see what, if anyt statements or action the Commission will want to make on these, and then wetll have to go ahead and take the vote on the items as they're prassnted before us, George Adams. Mr, George Adams: Yes. Mayor Suarez: You look resplendent also. Yellow and... Commissioner Plummer: We ought to use that necktie for the Miller Dawkins Park barricade.. Mr. Adams: That will be fine. Mayor Suarez: That will keep people out of the park. Mr. Adams: Thank you for allowing me to speak. Mayor Suarez: Anyone left, by the way, while you do that on Virginia Beach issue? -if no, raise your hand. Because we explained what we're going to try to do with that, so I guess that... is Mariano Cruz still here? There he is, I was afraid of that. Commissioner Plummer: Oh, is he here. f= ; Mayor Suarez: Is Billy Hardeman still here? `— Ms. Aida Maria Sevasco: Yes, I'm here. Commissioner Plummers They were together last night at Metro. — Mayor Suarez: Is Kenneth Hardin still here? INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. L.4 Mayor Suarez: OK. Orlando Savedro still here? The Virginia Beach peoplo"'are p gone. Alfredo Zaiden,we heard from. Laurie Goldstein, Nat Chediak, I guess, deferred to Tom Spencer. Frances Rodriguez here? Josette Woodworth? -doesn't say the item of concern. Anna Maria Monteflores is here, "Keep Dade Beautiful", with some other friends that we won't mention. We're going to give you really one of the three of you to the extent : possible, *van though '�- technically, we would have to..let each one•of you speak for two minutes. Ifs you'd sort of consolidate that into one. Xavier Cortada is gone, hopefully.' i- Aida Maria Sevasco? Ms. Sevasco: I'm here. Mayor Suarez: That's you? y.: No, Sevasco: Yes. #. Mayor Suarez: You said that twice now. You said that with Billy Herdsman...' {r - Mo. Sevasco: ....well, when I heard you say Aida, so I thought you were ` t referring to me. x .4 Mayor-Suaress How do I know you're not lying this time? Last time you raised 5 9aff your hand. OK, what is your issue, ma'am, if I may? �t No. Sevasco: My issue is on the of the increase in the talc, 4 ; s Y 4_ r Mayor guare m Oki on tastes. Virginia Beach, Virginia Beaah, preamably f 6t hats b yirgifiia Utah. ' Va i re AlMost at the and here, George, and you're on, Josafina Carb6anell we heard from. Commissioner Plumsere Is George the last speaker? Mayor Suarate Alina Interian. Oki Took Fair, Miami Book Fair, International. Martin tray lie heard from, I believe. I see Silva, Don Benjamin.... �. Comlaii6fter Plumdrs Mr. Mayor, just for the record... Mayor Suarese tea, that's it. Commissioner Plumbers Mr. Manager, I am simply amazed if, in fact, what the Mayor 'has just read through that not more people are here this evening from festivals and other organizations. And I have to ask, on the record, if you did what this C60ffiission' asked... Mr. Odioe 'res, air, to the letter. COMissionet. Plummer: ...and that is that you sent all of,these people more, than adequate notice... Mr.'Odios Yes, sir. Commissioner Plummer: ...that their funding was being cut to nothing. Mr. Odio: Yes, air, they were notified. Commissioner Plummer: OK, I am amazed. Hr. Odio: The proof is, they're here, you know. I've been getting calls from -" the film people... UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: We're here. =tom (APPLAUSE) Commissioner Plummer: No, no, you're here. OK. (APPLAUSE) — Commissioner Plummer: But there's probably a total of 50 organizations that I thought Mould have<been-here that are not 'here and... — Mayor Suarez: Well, don't may 50 though. How many were they that were being proposed to have budget reduced to zero? Mr. Odio: Let me see, one, two, three, four, five, six..... - � Mayor Suarez: Which is another nice way of saying that they were going to have... it wasn't fifty. It was like fifteen, I would say. Commissioner Plummer: I'll bet you it's damn close. No. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Commissioner Plummer... Commissioner Plummer: Sir... f a a Vice Mayor Dawkins: It could be that those people took us at our`word-"d decided to to stay home. , Mr. Odios Thirty-four, thirty-four. Commissioner Plummer: OK, how many? & Vice Mayor Dawkias: They might not have thought you were playing. Mayor Suarez: Thirty-four, OK.`R Y t Coeasiasioner Piusmoere Thirty-four?l Doss that in the ejght or epee you cut out from the International Trails Board? P Mgyw 0. 228 a _ z Odl6t Ohj h6ot1w*6 are there, separate. taftitai6fibr Plumarl Muhl 126ftiodi6mr Plummart Mai are separate, Mayor-Suareas It's Interesting... Comiselofter, Plumon Sol like I said, Ltto bear fifty and that a why I am simply amazed... Mr. Odios J. L.0 J.L6, you got to got me who we notified. Commissioner Plummort OK, I'm just, you know... I'm glad to see it. Mr, Odloi, Me toot they got the message, Commissioner Plummort' Maybe the people do understand. But I will dread the next hearing. Hmm, hmmm, hfmm, Yogi Bear. Mayor Suarazi Was it the Film Festival that did a flyer or an ad or something that made reference to -Calls Ocho Festival? -receiving funds? I donitknov that that Was a misstatement. It may have been a misstatement there. Mr. OdIo: Calla Ocho does not receive funds from the Citv of Miamib Commissioner Plummort It hasn't for two years. j. Mayor Suarezt- We clarified last year, it was sort of sprung upon us that the were still receiving in -kind funds, which in another way of saying* money, and twa,-,havestopped that. They are totally self-supporting. Mro-.8poncers Somebody has to clean up the streets after. Commissioner Plummeri They pay for it: Mayor: Suscroz: They pay'for the whole,thing Tom.1. Mr._'Sponcert Oh, I @as. Mayor, Suarez: They pay:: for the whole thing. It's a few hundr*d--, thousand, dollar altogether to stage that. C*mmisoioner`- Plummeri And just also for your... -Tom, for your edlftcatLoi, 1+ the money that goes to the Grand' -Prix is by contract It In not' by, an, -annual ban Is.: Mayor Suaromt OK, George, please. Mr. Adams i OK, my name in George Adams. I live at 1055 N.V. 60th Street is Liberty City. What you have,; before you is an article from the F.O.P. Journal... CominsLoner Plummort Interesting, Hr. Adams i ...as It relates to residency requirements. And it's aloo letter there from me to the Commission dated August 27, 1990, asking you ,to , maw& our r4tv from grof"* hpnka , The mm"aur the Pit- mmmA *_ *-U4 -all other budgetai is right aAdW 46 MP 'WwAsimu here, In Miami. There are over 4,709 employsolvin the City's workforce, with an annual payroll of between ninety and one hundred thousand dollars. Commissioner Plumeri It's a hall of a lot more than that. Mr. Adams; well, let's say approximately.... Commissionor Plumsert Take your budget, your budget is a. hw► -five thousand. A hundred and olghty-five million.- K a. Mi f77" l lay6F guar6st 'yea, both heap sayink ` theusand, Wa're in the, huadreds milli"* at dallara, OM a lit, "Adow t Ott, - Caftiss oner Plumert Mail, 00 psraent of it is salaries. Mayor Suarez No, it's not 90 percent salaried, but it's... Commissioner Plummer: 'What? a Mayor $uarett ninety percent of the budget is not salaries, but... ? Commissioner Piummert Ninety percent is people. Mayor Suarez in a sense, a hundred percent is people... Olt, go ahead - George. Mr. Adamsi There's a two hundred million whatever... Mayor Suarez: We've been arguing about that now forthreeyears, so.:. t, Mr.;..-Adam:':iowever.,.what's happening is 85 percent of the employees live, pay taxes, and vote in Broward, Dade, Monroe, and Palm Beach Counties. ,That `5 leaves only 15 percent of your work force living in the City of Miami paying taxes and voting. Tx Lc Commissioner Plummer: Hell, they're scared, they don't want to live here. Mr. Adams: A large number of these employees that do not reside in the City have take home automobiles. If not automobiles to take home, they have automobile allowances, which includes gas, insurance... Mayor Suarez: Let me say this for myself, George, not to cut you short', -,but just - to put it on the record. For myself, I would vote and` I know that Commissioner De Yurre has been mentioning this, I would vote 'right now,` -`to , take' away car allowances, and to take away take-home cars for any employee that doesn't live in the City of Miami. That, by itself, would be a huge a. savings. 1,don't -see '- and I hope the constitutional opinions and `other opinions that the City Attorney will give us, will show that that.can be>dones° " I'm <sure - it can be.. And if not, we 11 ' f igure out a . way, to make -sure*it=own happen. Mr.'Adams : :All right, the main reason or�the main -thing that I wanted:to say is tho,national trend in savings, cities throughout the United States, 'has'to' k} do with residency requirements. It's been • tested all the way ,to the United States Supreme Court. -You've got the cases that were cited there. The F.O.P. national council attorney is saying that it's legal, it's constitutional, and X,think we should do that with no c romise. If amp you cannot five in `the City; then you cannot work-in the City. Commissioner Plummer:- You're speaking of now hirses.' George.-,,} Mr: Adams: I'm talking about everybody. N_ Commissioner Plummer: How would you take a man who is presently working$ long fti term or short term, are you going to subsidize him to move into the City? =i t mean, that would be preposterous, the amount of money that it: Gould take, Mr.. • r Mr. Adams OK, what you got to be concerned about, is, are you going to �P appease the employes or the taxpayers? Commissioner Plummer: No... Mr. Adams: I'm speaking about the tax... I don't care vhers be lives �Or btu► much 'it takes to get hiss back in .here. loot me tell you aotaething, we a...' gat Cowls sioner Plummer: George, i#eosgs, i'ta not trying to ' ap�,�asss aayb�l>R. is�q } Just saying, that in the psrivato sector,- if a company says :, to a :; ►� ;..,"you �_ s�vs," the man, today, if it's a large company, buys his ice, serves Us at their cost and puts him into a new house and I want to tell, you sopeoinA7-79 � K: #r r ' Y +"fit f v _ vftidwt disagree with you on all new hirses. but Y'm just looking at, riot t6 &#posts, but in the interest of fairness, what Would be right by what we would doo The smount of money involved to demand that these people move bank in with a given period of time, I gust, you know... and I wholly concur with your theory. They take more pride in the fact, if they live in the City. They take more pride and they work harder to keep their city in their home area a better place. But to say to people that are living out of the City right nowt that you've got to hove in within six months, a year, or- you know, I aould even go along, that if you sell your home, you have to move back into the City. But, for a person who has their life savings invested in their home, to tell them they've got to move. In fairness, I think it would cost more for this City than we could ever afford. Mr. Adams: It's the national trend all over the nation. Mayor Suarez: Well, George, we can begin by giving them incentives such as taking away their car allowance and taking away their take-home car. It is ridiculous that we have police officers in the City of Miami to be able to take home - their patrol car, they have to live in the City. And other employees with take-home cars and don't live in the City. And that would be a savings almost as large as the one that estimated an economic impact of like maybe a million dollars. I bet you that if tomorrow we could take every single automobile that is taken home and every single car allowance away from employees who don't live in the City, we'd save close to a million dollars. I'm going to do that calculation because I think your argument is... Commissioner De Yurre: Mr. Mayor... Mr. Adams: Let me just make one more point. Mayor Suarez: Yes. Commissioner De Yurre: Let me add something, George, because you and I are on the same page. I've been doing, and I've requested from the City Attorney's office, research on this very issue. And, if I'm not mistaken, the final product has been turned over to the City Attorney, and I expect to get that readily. Mr.-! Fernandez: Yes, you should have this in your office - if not today, on Monday'- a complete legal opinion analyzing all of the issues that have been raised, and while Mr. Adams is correct in most of his statements he has,made there is no case precedent in the State of Florida where residency requirement has been submitted to PERC (Public Employees Relations Committee). Our position is that while, yes, you may make residency a requirement for City employees, we believe that that may be a condition of employment which would be susceptible, to negotiations with those employees that are members of unions. Now, with anybody else... Mayor Suarez: Well, how many contracts do we have now that are outstanding? that are not... how many units do we have not under contract? Mr. Odio: The only one we have outstanding is AFSCME and the Fire.— r Mayor Suarezz Get some quick answers back there. Mr. Odio: Fire. Mayor Suarez: Sounds like two pretty good ones to begin with right there. Mr. Odio: Fire is easier because it is a requirement that they Jaunt live in the City to get hired. Mr, Fernandez: And, to the extent that it's already a requirement... Mayor Suarez: Yes, well, it's easier in that sense, but it isn't easier in the sense of how many you're going to find that don't live in the City because they've got to have the highest percentage, because they... Mr. Odio: No, but... what I agree with, Commissioner Plummer is that I agree- __^__�� residency require, I read what you said, that we should do it, grandfather people in then start. 231 September 1, It" J �! rx, COMIANioner lid turret Well, what I'm planning on doing, which is part f this whole process that was brought up a while ago, is to analyse and make sure everybody has copies of this instrument, analyze it and put it down on the agenda to discuss and we can look into it and something that is going to be feasible, something that we can all live with, and, you know, We not something that's going to happen overnight. Because you cannot take thousands of employees and all of a sudden, wake them move into the City. But, if we start the process now, gradually, we will get to that point, and certainly, that. is one way of adding more taxes, you know, more tax dollars, to our community. You know, it's going to raise, you know, property values because the property is going to be well kept and there's going to be more demand to live in the City of Miami and it's going to add a whole bunch of, you know, positive things to our community which we sorely need, because our talc base is not going up as it should. So, certainly, you know, I'm in accord with -you and I hope to get your input when we have this item, it'll be some time in October that we're going to bring it up. Mayor Suarez: What I was intrigued about, just to follow up... Mr. Adams: Let me just give you a couple of more... Mayor Suarez: George) just to follow up on that. What I was intrigued about your analysis is that you not only took into account the direct economic impact to the City, but the indirect economic impact by the expenditures of the funds by these people in housing, etcetera, from living in the City, which I think is a magnificent analysis you've made there. Mr. Adams: Just let me give you a couple of figures and then I'll be through. You've got 648 firefighters. Only 51 live in the City of Miami. That includes Chief Duke. You've got 87 people living in Broward, Monroe, and Palm Beach counties. You got 510 that lives throughout Dade County, with the exception of Miami. So, you've only got 51 firefighters. Police officers, you've got 1,087. Only 130 lives in the City. About a thousand police officers live in Dade and Broward counties. Commissioner Plummer: They don't want to live here. Mr. Adams: You've got 222 people that hold the rank of sergeant or above and only 16 of them live in the City of Miami. And they make salaries from $45,000 to $90,000. You've got 149 sergeants, only 13 live in the City. No captains live in the City - Dade and Broward. Fourteen majors - Dade and Broward. Assistant chiefs, two - none live in the City. Mayor Suarez: How many majors live in the City? You said fourteen majors. Mr. Adams: No majors live in the... out of fourteen... Mayor Suarez: Zero out of fourteen. :.a Mr. Adams: Out of fourteen majors, no major lives in the City. Two assistant chiefs, they don't live in the City. The deputy chief doesn't live in the City. The executive assistant to the chief doesn't. live in the City.; The: Chief of Police doesn't live in the City. We're being policed by mercenaries_ t- or an occupational army. We've got people coming in here from other cities #_ and counties policing us and then going home on I-95, or U.S. 1 and when they cause some incident to occur, we are held accountable and they are comfortable in Davie, Cooper City, or Key Largo. I mean, it's time to stop. It is time to stop it. It happened in Detroit. Eighteen of the largest cities in the ' United. States have residency laws and they were told to move back within _12` months or be terminated. Now the case law, I gave it to you, it's right there. Mayor Suarez: The most recent case was from New York; it was held _ constitutional.` Mr. Adams: All of the cases are held constitutional. Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Mayor... Vice Mayor Dawkins: The only thing I'd like to add to what... 232 r ti a,raarw.s�' Mr. Adams: And maybe 1 need to get a portion of the City Attornay'a salary, because l did all the research. Vice Mayor bawkins: I'd hike to add that... Mr, Po rnatdee: Mr# Adams, your research is an article and I'll be more than happy to share it with you, all the research we have done. Mayor buarea: I will bet everything in my wallet and everything in my eredit aF cards will hold, that he's right on the constitutional opinion, Mr. City v; Attorney* I don't know what you're going to give to us tomorrow with today's date, but I hope not lose my bet. % 4 Mr. Adams: And you see, don't tell me what case law in Florida. I'm talking about all the way to the United States Supreme Court. You don't have to deal with Florida. ti Vice Mayor Dawkins: Let me add one thing to what he's saying. Commissioner Plummer: We have 18 minutes left. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Everybody is concerned about the cost factor and what the Impact.will be. -But I would like to know what you're going to tell the voters when you start talking about raising their taxes to pay these people who don't live here and you don't have no money and the City go under and they don't have no job. Now, you all think of that. Ms. Sevasco: They should have not have been ours in the first place. Mayor Suarez: I think we're going to let you go next, ma'am, because you've lied to us, you've made up stories. Now, it's your turn to get up to the mike. The truth, and nothing but the truth please Ms. Sevasco: May I, may I.... Mayor Suarez: Yes. This is a good time. You got two minutes now. Truth or lies; whatever, you got two minutes. ; Ms. Sevaseo: That's enough for me. Mayor Suarez: Billy Herdsman, my foot. Ms. Sevasco: Honorable Mayor and Commissioners. Mayor Suarez: Thank you for that.5 ' Ma. Sevasco: My name, Aida Maria Sevasco. I live at 3725 S.W. let Avenue in the City of Miami, the "Magic City", supposedly. Where are we going? I am referring to the increase in the real estate taxes. Mayor Suarez: Question. Real quick. Did your property go tip from last year to this year? No, not the taxes, the valuation of the property, the appraisal? Ms. Sevasco: Yes! Mayor Suarez: Ah, I lost the argument, Z Ms. Sevasco: Yes, sirl The valuation of the property, assessed valuation, went up and my home was built in 146.,< Mayor Suarez: From what to what did it go up? From what figurer to what figure? "K Ms. Sovasco: I'll tell you, Mr. Mayor. Let's see now. Commissioner Alonso: In the left corner.': No. Sevesco: Last year's assessed value, fifty-six, zero, seven, seven. Mayor Suarez: How many zeroes now? Are we talking five hundred and stxt�► theuo"4 or fifty-six thousand bore? How many zeroes? rr F J 5 23 Hly.F y,e; ti y YSiY � 1: t s: ..' Hot Safaleot . rtfty-it* thousasd; tyre, sevent��iie+�en. �b ,_. Mayor Buries 11thought so, Cat. ',. Ift.84491166f Your , property value, as of January, 1090, is tiny -five thousand, four hundred and eleven. f Mayor Suarez: What was your address again? Mr. Sevascos 3193 S.W. let Avenue. I'm at 16th Avenue and the Dixie Highway,, I'm at "death's junction." Cc is�sionor l'iusmssers You turn off at Dixie and she's the first house-6h thi ¢ right. INAUDISIX COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Commissioner plummets First Avenue. Yes, it is First Avenue. Mr. Odios You mention the corner of your house. Commissioner Plummers She lives right across the street from me. we know her well. Ms. Sevascos Mr. Plummer, may I say this to you? -you closed your side of the itrest, but you didn't close mine, did you, because I'm a woman... '4nt Commissioner Plummers Ma'am, I... Me. Sevascos ...and I have no defense. ice: (APPLAUSE, AND LAUGHTER) Mayor Suarez: You talking about the Roads area? Commissioner Plummer: I didn't close any of the streets and pours was oven. Ms. Savascos He closed his side. T Mayor Suarez: I thought he did. Ms. Sevascos There was a big accident many years ago and he... and I vent over to talk to him on the Bay Heights side. You know, he lives where all the big '-wigs live., Commissioner Plummer: I don't live in Bay Heights. Ms. Sevasco: I know, but you live a little further down, but it's on that Fa side. Anyway, he was standing there talking to all the people in that particular neighborhood about the accident and I went up to him and I said... - Mayor Suarez: We're talking about Plummer now. Ms. Sevascos ... r. Plummer, when are M , you going to close this road that xhouldz never have been open? The 'engineers' of the City of KLAMi bead-"tbeis head -examined. Right now, they have a double line on 19th Avenue. fiheu you... Mayor Suarez: You know what I'm going to do with you?" Me. Sevascos Tell me: s' Mayor Suarez: I'm going to send you Dr. Luis Prieto. He's our chief engineer... } Ms. Sevascos Who is he? Mayor Suarets Is Dr. Prieto here? 7 Commissioner Plummers And I thought Archie Sucker went off the sir. Yx Z . Ms. 'Sersrascos Well, lot me tall.. * i 234 !f x{ fp C}'- i P MAY0t .guarse: This guy is our chief,,. he definitely needs hie head exas 1fisd& Ms.. d*Vasco: Let Mo tell you about My story though. 't K Mayor,, gaaras! All right. Ms. bevascot May 1 con... y- _ M ayor uaras: Yee, you re running out of time, but we re interrupting you. Finish up,_piease.. Me. Sevasco: All right, now, let's see. And now the assessed valuation of t» 1990 is Nov,. sixty-five thousand, four hundred and eleven. y , I get $25,000 off for,homestead exemption.- I've been living in this house IS years. I'm trying .� ; to repair it little by little. I was entitled to the $10,000... what do you call that, Mr. Mayor?_. Commissioner Alonsoa Exception. Mayor Suarez: Additional exemption. Ms. Sevasco:. You know, the improvement on the house. Commissioner Alonso: Yes, additional exception. Ms. Sevasco: But, I couldn't find a contractor. Everything is..."< INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Ms. Sevasco: ...under the table. Commissioner Alonso: Oh, the grant, she's talking about the grant for the house. Mayor Suaraz: Oh, the facade improvement. M. ..-_ s. Sevasco: zeal I never got it. 411 Commissioner Alonso: Oh, oh, she's talking about the... Mayor Suarez: In that neighborhood, you were g ' y going to get money to improve your house from us? Commissioner Alonso: Really? ' Ms. Sevasco: Of course! I'm entitled to it. I worked for the City in the 60's,and I was receiving a salary of $275 a monthl - �. Mayor Suarez: A month. Ms. Sevasco: A monthl Mayor Suarez: Were you the City Manager, by any chance? Mu.; Sevasco: No, I was secretary to Mr. Ryder up at the Public Works on 20th a4. Street. I ... Commissioner Plummer: You said last night at Metro you worked for Gautier. MA. Sevasco: I was employed there. I thought I was doing the City a favor, j ;. you know. Mayor Suarez: You know ghat? We got all these Miami Film Festival people` bore. Commissioner Plumsers Edith! Ms. Sevasco: OK? q, Commissioner Plummers Edith, you said last might at the Mstro Coawiasiolz, yet worked for Gout ier, v , rr 235 r 02 't 1 K' h v�4 Nis 98#46661 Vell, that was in the SO's. anissioner Plummer: Ohl ohi oh. , " Me. Sevasoo: 1 worked for Oautier in the SO's and I worked five years for the ' tom. ' k Cnt�r; and +sas not oovared by social security. y w.k Mayor Buaresi Would -you like a part in a movie? �} Commissioner. Plummer: I heard that last night. .. Mgt. Sevasco: Nn. Mayor Suarea: These people are appreciating this performance an much as,I am. It Ms. Sevasco: Well, let me finish, Mr. Mayor... j Commissioner Plummer: Please do. ;F Ms. Sevasco: ...because this is getting more interesting. LG Mayor Suarez: All right. ,., Me. Sevasco: Now... Commissioner Plummer: What? I didn't hear that. What was the last remark? Me. Sevasco: How can a single woman on this type of taxation, make it on $383 a month? Right? To be able... yes... I'm going to end up in the homeless cuss or a bag lady, so as they call them in the subways. ". Commissioner Alonso: Don't worry, we're getting a homeless 'coordinator. Commissioner Plummer: We'll get you a reservation at Camillus House, " Me-. Sevasco: Solution. Solution to the problem. a #: Mayor Suarez: That's what we need. .That's what we. need. Commissioner Alonso: OK. - Ms. Sevasco: Solution is a state income tax. People who make the money fthould pay.'- How can"you obtain blood from stone? Thank you, thank you all.. (APPLAUSE)' Mayor Suarez: Whoa, whoa, whoa! We've got the deal here. We've got our Yry k. chief engineer. =Please examine - you see how eager he is to be examined? All right, anybody further? If not, we're going to start going through - Mariano, f Mariano, you're not going to do this too? " Commissioner Plummer: No, no, Mariano,. you can't top that. Oh,.,no,..'j know... Ah, no, no. B0000000. Commissioner Alonso: Mariano comes every year. xm x� Mr. Mariano Cruz: Hers was a very hard act to follow now. I Mr. Cruz: Well, you know, just getting... Commissioner Plummer: Not Mariano. We save you for the last hearing.{ r Commissioner Alonso: He comes every year, so... tKwfL Mr. Cruz: Just getting serious. Before I thought this was g going to bs,a public hearing, but so far, It's only been an employee hearing. $o next time, { S you make a public hearing, the public go first, the smploysas So; Mayor Suarews That's a good point. We'll do 'that next tom. Mr. Cruz: Sure, because that's unfair. 230 �f ri: i � ; .. .• .. ?'fir y 71 Mayor Nuarest but that doesn't mean you're going to got another shot at,., Mr,,Crusi- Those employees should have been here to listen to what Mr-6 Ad#At kar6riguaratt .Thatls true. rr Mr. Cruet That's true. You see? Mayor Buarett That's very true. Mr..Cruet And# anyway, the employees, employee have the union to represent them. You should represent us. Because we elect you, not the people that live in Browardj. Palm Beach, or other counties. first, for the record... Right. Remembert that many people didn't think of that and they're not sitting here today. Mayor Suarest Please don't claps please don't clap. You're 9oiftg,t*,wLftd-h1M fi up. Mr,-,Cruzi Remember, people that served Costa Rica and other things, they'kA not here tonight. :Aha, I know. No... People that worry about Costa Rica and other places. Well, the people from Costa Rica don't vote in the City of Miami. Mayor Suarez: Costa Rica? Commissioner Alonso: Well, he's sending a message. Mr. Cruz: No, you know, got it, use it, right. They are not sitting here tonight. Because they forgot about the neighborhoods. -But ym know, people in my neighborhood, they don't here today, but they don't got mad, they don't got even. They got ahead, they get one up on you. And that's the Vay-they're going to do. (IAUMISR) Mayor Suarez: You know, I want everybody to know, we had elections for Community Development Advisory Board 'And each -neighborhood-had candidates'.;' There was only:person in the City that got every single vote that was cast. I think... Mr. .;°Cruzil.;About:what?1-2i4OO, what? Mayor Suarext .'..he.threatened them all if they didn't vote for him. And he got them all. Mariano Cruz. Mr. Cruet Now, but to start serious, my name. Commissioner Plummert, It shows you what a good vigilante can do. Mr. Crust Right, Mariano. am persistent, even if it cost tvoi�,hou'rd overtime to be here today.' I didn't make two hours overtime Just to be fisril'i, Mayor Suarez: The Postmaster General let us down again. Mr. Cruz: Don't worry about that. Mayor Suar*xt You still work for him, right? Mr. Cruz: But, you know, I don't do revolution the other way, that's the 014 W46 way. Now we do revolution here. That in the way it in done here. Tha V4 the way it is. Mayor Su*rezi That's right. Mr. Cruz i That'a the way it in. America, by the system. And X kno V the system, I -play by it. I know the rules. mike YOU fay, you're playin$ pokoro I know the rules, deal me in. I know how to bluff or Whatever. Well, for the J, record, my now, Mariano J. Crux, 237 a. Comissioner Plunm r: Mariano, why is my postage stamp going to 38 eente? Mr. Crust Might, 1211 N.W. 26th Street. And just to be serious, I want the budgait Paopie _ on item CA-240 we got two hundred ninety-eight thousand to Deloitte and Touche, all that. I want a copy of the report that ymi had to file to comply with the Single Audit Act: It's a public record, OKI Now, I'm talking about Single Audit Act. I want to see how efficient you ere. Mr. Odio: Yes, you'll get a copy. Mr. Cruz: OK. Now, I'm not going to complain about my taxes, you know. Takes are necessary. Me and my family, as you can see here, for notice. Mayor Suarez: Did your assessment go up? Mr, Cruz: Yes. I'm not complaining about my federal taxes. I had a lot more and get a lot less from the federal than I get from the City. lut, what I am going to complain is about the way the City monies are used. You can become lean and mean the way now is, no? Got to readjust. It's a lot of expenses going. Like you're talking about festival, we can eliminate a lot .of those so-called seminars, symposiums, that we all go - traveling expense, education training. I just happened to be this summer in the Poconos Mountains or most of the time they go... I don't know, that's true. You're sending one... Mayor Suarers The Poconos? Mr. Cruz: Poconos, yes, they go.... Mayor Suarez= Did you say the Poconos Mountains? Commissioner Plummer: This is the same speech he used last night at Metro, same speech. Mr. Cruz: Right, on the summertime. Or Toronto, or some other places. But, *hy don't you send one person when you can get a report in the mail? Same thing. You don't have to send the whole department, division, everybody there, for a training seminar. When you to to... Mr. Odio: You sound just like me, that's exactly what we did. We cut all ,- those trips out. Mr. Cruz: Well, but that's one thing. You're talking about the car allowance $— that he mentioned. I know, I heard a police officer work on the Not the patrol car, but the lease. They have lease cars, civilian cars, undercover, to Sroward County. And they use as a personal car. Lease cars that costs a lost of money to the City. Another thing, you're talking about Y ti= buying property f rom the City. I mean, buying houses in the City. The City of Miami has now, in my neighborhood, four houses for sale under the= neighborhood and the housing rehabilitation. On the housing rehabilitation, there are one located next to me, 1221 26th Street, Lill 32 Street, 3241 11 y Avenue, 781 34... If any of you employees are interested in buying, you can k call Jeff Hepburn, 579-3336. You can call and they got good, affordable "k housing in the City of Miami patrolled by the police of Miami, served by the - Fire Department of the City of Miami, A, Class A Department. Let me eliminate 5- here - I finish that. Let me see. Ah, one department here bas got to ga. Every time I get the agenda, because I receive them, I make a point of being the mailing address. You know, it helps my business too. Mayor Suarez: No, no, no, Aida, don't even think of it. > Mr. Cruz: It help my business. Mayor Suarers No, she's coming back, I was afraid. _ Mr. Cruz: I see so much money going to outside legal counsel. Why is that? Don't we have a legal department? B P Commissioner Plummer: We got lousy lawyers. Mr. Crus: Even just today I heard you say, oh, I get legal opinion; outai4e and all that. r } f � �; 7M INK" akF, `Syy'r�. Mayor Soar tet rre6 j : free. Mr. Crust trod, pro bono, whatever. Mayer guareat Pro bbn+a. �- Mr. Crust Pro bona, right, Ott. But I see here a lot of outside legal things r� i1n Ahe consent agenda. Mayor Suareat I hope to get it. Mr..Crust Every -agenda that I see► < ® i 'say, well, if the lawyers are, they are to go on litigants or they going just to decide what we settle out of court, ? or this... :You don't need a high g pay lawyer to this case we settled out of t courts thin we don't go. You get somebody going to court, a trial lawyer , -or T {, pay him accordingly. You need an administrator, just administer what we do in the morning. You don't need that much money going to the --for 'the department, you can out that and give money...' Mayor Suarets That's a very good point. A trial attorney will always command -s : a much higher fee than an administrative type, Mr:"Crurt Well, put it out for bids. There's a lot of things - use creative thinking. You can get together here. There's a nice view of Biscayne 'Bay, J there, you can think. Go over there and think and you can do a lot of things. I was sitting there and started thinking, you know, a lot of things to cut things because I have a budget now at home. If I can't go out, I can't go to Casa Juancho, I go to the coffee shop on the corner, whatever. No, I adjust myself to the budget. So people 'here know, we raise taxes, we need -more money, we raise it. No, that's not the point. Because people are going to...' remember the Boston Tea Party? You're going to have a Cuban Coffee:Party here or somethin a revolt. You know. Now, somebody even mentioned... No $- g� q .going seriously; I'm going to take more than two minutes becauseI listen".to k everybody here,! so you have to listen to me because I am talking for many '. people out there working out there. And, you know, after I leave here, I -am S` going`to report at The Pub restaurant, what went on here today. JI Commissioner Plummer: Start the revolution. Mr. Cruss I°am'going to report at The Pub. You know, they pay taxes -too even 51 if they 'don't 'come here. p/ Vice Uayor Dawkins: -,:I'll meet you'at Versailles: N Mr'`Crurt - Right. You'd see Petata,and all the people there. OK. Now, remember that by now, somebody mentioned that about department, one of best 4 departments being run two,' three years ago being the Parks Department, or 4: whatever it was before. Because I came here every year lobbying for... Mayor Suarez: We know about the Parks Department before. We know.about that, yes.,,' s Mr. Cruz: OK, but the problem is that they... Mayor Suarez: It seemed to have boon -concentrating on the stadium foci!-ities; a , lot of • times and not the rest of the park • but, Mariano,', there's onother r problem here. You've much exceeded your time. I have a. feeling >re'rs going a to' hear from you on the 27th. Mr, Cruz: Do you tell that to Mr. Klausner, who lives in Broward County? ;y ' Mayor Suarez: I made a deal with Mr. Klausner because he, represents' a thousand... �~ " Mr. Cruzs No, no, no, no, no...listen, I work.., t Mayor Suarez: ...officers 'and, otherwise, Mariouo, he would have.,,,;escl►`'.ons a :E t of them would have wanted to speak. ER Mr, °Cruzs I work all day and be here to be here tonight. I don't rotas boas, .t I don't lobby you or anything,�g. 239 i ,fi t�1 mayor Suarost Let's not argue. finish ups Just finish up. Don't argue, don't argue, Mr. Crust riot wells you know, that's the way it is. You remember you used to go. to The pub. I don't see you around there very often now, Maybe you sre its Coconut drove south now ; ._,._.N ....._ . • Now, we tan eliminate some... Coaamissioner Plummert Mariano, they're calling from The Pub. (LAUGHTER) Mayor Suarest OK, regardless of how often we go to The Pub any more... Mr. Crust No, regardless, Mayor, it's serious than that. Remember, I do not complain about taxes because they are necessary evils. We have to have takes. Mayor Suarez: OK, but Mariano, in fairness, do you know of any other municipality or the County in this area that is maintaining the same tax rate? Mr. Cruz: No, that's what by choice I live within City limits. I make enough money to live any place. I even have property in Polk County, I have a.house in-PolkiCounty. I can live any place. But I choose to live in Allapattsh because that's geographical center of Dade County. I am close to every place, like 95, 836, 112, expressway, everything, downtown, Metrorail. I am right in the middle of things. I'm close to Miller, anyway. No, just my few blocks. Mayor Suarez: That's the only drawback in the whole scheme, OK. Mr. Cruz: Right. But remember, now one thing I have to say about the parks. The public sever department is doing their job about the lines they're trying to get something, but probably now you mention something a community canter: Miller, remember that Allapattah-Comstock needs a community center.too in the park. Put it right there together with Overtown. You know, we're just right there -at ith Avenue, you know, just jump. Remember... Vice Mayor Dawkinst Where is Mr. Ruder? Mr. Cruz: Right. Vice Mayor. Dawkins: We'll use some of that money from the fill to, put something over there. Mr. . Cruz s Community center, right, and the fence and all that. Remembers, that I am here - tonight, but I'm speaking for a lot of people out there.-. ;I told.them not to come because, you know... INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mr. Cruz: I have a few more other things to say, but most of- it vlll,,be redundant -what other- people said already. So, remember, -be, lean -and.mesu, cut the fat and the gristle, and go down to the muscle, bscause�that's.what ere need here.The same way you go outside there and do - jogging and you do rowing, well, that's the same thing you got to do with the City. efficient. That's the thing.- The main priority, deliver the servicebeaause ve$re - and now, oh, one thing I got here to the list that pertain,', to the `a County employees, not to the City employees. Remember the tax, the band --issue that was lost? It was lost by only 3,350. votes. That- list, if I cau: go=by your account, 800,000 people live in'the City of Miami. Mayor Suarers That's a daily population count and it's... Mr. Cruses Well, daily, you know, the population list that half of one percent of people decided for the other people. Mayor Suarez: Even on the register... Mr. Cruse So, if most of the City employee move to the City and they Com=ns three or four votes and they'll be able to pass an issue we wanted. Mayor Suaress That's right, that's right. Uactip right:. r } iz AO optP 7# y 1T 1 ;eEVe ➢ y' f h t WSJ _ rcc';.R �= ��,ry Yyk T Mr. $ri, it'll idf ttt+e3r tom► bafteftt to f6tVO back to the City. Mayor luarest : Altd it's aerrn = it's 3 percent of the registered votera Mr. Crust And don't-: v6rry about recallings because there is no way they din r6aal,l anybody because they, don't live here. You're going to have the sa �= thing -happen bsfore.., we live here. Mayor Suaress Thank you, Mariano. Mr, Crust We decide.' ;ate Mayor, Suarez: We particularly like that last part. OK, Aline, quickly, and than..,. • = Me. Sevascos Good night, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarers Yes, good night,;Aida. }'= h Ms.:aAlina Interians Tough act to follow. Mayor Suarez: Usually that's found to be out order to do that, buto inyour case, - we're -going to make an exception. All right, and then Anna Maria .and t= than we finish. Yes. Ms. Interian:. Commissioners, my name is Alina Interian. I'm here with Miami Book Fair, International, and like the Film Festival, we're here to also make; a.plea for your possible reconsideration of budget allocation. The Book Fair is a festival which has grown tremendously in scope and importance over the last few years. It is held every year in November for a period of eight days, right smack in the middle of downtown Miami. Our budget is quickly approaching the million dollar mark. Although the City's contribution is less than 10 percent of that. We also have gone out and worked very hard at tapping-the.corporate sources and raising some funds this -year in anticipation of.,vhat is apparently happening. We have been able to do major things for the City. No other festival, that I'm aware of, has brought the recognition and acclaims to.,Miami that the Book Fair - perhaps the Film Festival as well -.has been able to do. We have been recognized nationwide and internationally by the.:media- as the largest and finest event of: its; type in the .United Staten We. have brought in the past and we're bringing again this year, top names, from the nation and from around the world. John Updike, Ray Bradbury, Mario s Vargactosa,� -to name a few, are: going to be with us this November. This is not just a cultural festival. It is also an economic development program. We have`: brought- to -the downtown, more than 400,000.,visitors to the Fair last year. We booked hundreds of hotel rooms, more than 300 exhibitors and over 160 authors. Most'of them:from out of town, stay in Miami hotels, shop in our stores, and eat in our restaurants. That's not to speak of the thousands of fair goers that we draw from outside of the -state and the -City. Last.year,`we were privileged to .have First Lady Barbara Bush as our honored guest -'at:,our _ gala aard, if, I may, I would like to. quote from her remarks. "I = learned' that 5 this City, Miami, puts on one of -the most 'extraordinary book Yaira--anyone has 1 1 f h Ci id i ever hemu tua heard o T e major crevet t n o e year, a yw a Comm tment b ,y hundreds of volunteers." This year,, the American Book Awards' which its comparable; perhaps, to the Oscars in the film industry,, are ;moving, their awards ceremony to take place during the fair. And this, again, will bring even -more -attention from .national media. While we understand and are sympathetic with the situation the City faces, we need your support to , continue to maintain the excellence we have strived; for - 'and ` continue.,. to r aitp 5 for. And to continue to put Miami on the map, in ' the ' `nattou and r you', internationally, and with a very positive image, at than. Thank r , consideration. k 9� Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Alina.* - (APPLAUSE) Mayor Suarez: 'Final speaker of the day because we have tovote on these 3 matters and ad j Darn: Mtr. Ana Maria boats,floress 6004 evening, Mr. Mayor, Comissivners; is Ana Maria Monteflores. I am the executive director of "Keep. Vs. geaut ful" and, fir. Mayor, although I'm very pro4d of all the "No Arse �tzYN: ni hY �Op fi i ° r Satr�Y �d� ➢:Ne 4 4- .,. _.. ,,.. t �v'+4.:,s.9r=?,`s`'h-4r rt. 1. �`V 2`.. .. _ Y }i, beautiful" has stampiiahed in the City of Mimi, Y am going to oraface ghat thy board chairman and another Baird ,member are going to express a lot more eloquently than I cats. However$ there is something thet 71m so proud of, it's something that I'm so excited about that I do want to talk to you myself about it. ror this corning budget year, "Keep Dade Beautiful" has secured state funding for an anti -litter campaign in Miami. The value o!: this campaign will surpass one million dollars, but most importantly, this .-ampaign fully funded by Tallahassee, at no cost to Miami, is titled, "Keep Miami Clean." i stood here last year, and Commissioner Plummer said, why keep bale, why not keep Miami? If you can get them to change it to "Keep Miami," you know, we'll give you all the support in the world. Well, this campaign, which is coining down from Tallahassee, was titled "Keep Dade Clean" and it was in English and through our efforts, through the efforts of "Keep Dade Beautiful", we have been able to change that campaign, a public awareness, education campaign, to be aired, the radio and television to "Keep Miami Clean." And it will be in two languages. This campaign will also complement your recycling education program for which we are also securing air time at the request of your Department of Solid Waste staff, and I have a letter from your Department of Solid Waste director here, requesting that we do this for you. This, of course, is in addition to the funding that we receive from the County, from private foundations, and from the state, of which approximately 70 percent is spent here in the City of Miami. "Keep Dade Beautiful" is not a burden, but a financial asset to the City of Miami. However, we were omitted from neat year's budget. We are here today to request that you continue supporting "Keep Dade Beautiful". We are asking that the City fund us in the amount of $50,000 this year. Commissioner Plummer: What did you get last year? Ms. Monteflores: Thirty thousand. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Ah.... C, iasioner Plummer: Do I not recall - excuse me - do I not recall made a cleanup of the community? Ms. Monteflores: Yes, air. Commissioner Plummer: And that you gave us more than $30,000 in alone. Ms. Monteflores: In one project. Just one. Yes, we did, sir. Commissioner Plummer: OK. Is that anticipated again this year? Ms. Monteflores: Absolutely, air. Commissioner Plummer: Mr. Manager, I have to ask the question. It sounds_ like, to me, again, this year, as it was last year, that if we're going to give them $50,000, and they are going to save us more than that in the tonnage -¢-_ that we would pay in Metro Dade County, tell me why it's not a bargain? Mr. Odio: Well, why don't we do it the other way around. Why don't they do it and save us the money and then we don't have to give them any money? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Why don't we... Commissioner Plummer: I don't understand. What I'm saying to you in, is if _ we give them $50,000, and they do this cleanup and save us that amount of money in tonnage and give us more than what we would ourself have to spend, that, to me, is a savings. Now, why are we turning our back on a savings? I don't understand that. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Mr. Manager... INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Commissioner Plummer: No, we get more. Mr. Odio: ... thirty thousand and you save thirty thousand, it's a wash. f 242 September 7, t99C f� Ms. M ►ntefle res: 1461 sir - excuse me. Our last cost benefit analysis which V. each of the ambers of the Commissions have, as does your staff, demonstrates z, that last year we gave back the City of Miami 4.9 for every dollar. go, it is _"- hm not a Math. It is absolutely hot, sc we're.,. Vice Mayor Dawkinss Mr. Manager, did I hear her say that the Solid Waste _ Department asked her to sell the recycling program? "µme Ms. Montefloress Sir, Commissioner, the Solid Waste Department, with whom _ we've worked extremely closely, we complement the work of the Solid waste - Department. One of the things the department has done right now is produce a marvelous PSA. We have been requested by the staff to work with them in airing this PSA. Commissioner Plummers They've got the money to do it. Ms. Montefloress If the City had to purchase this air time, it would cost.you - hundreds of thousands of dollars. We are going to... — _ Vice Mayor Dawkins: All I asked was a simple question._ Me. Montefloress Yes, sir. Vice Mayor Dawkinss Did they ask you to work with them? Thank you, ma'am. OK. Now, you have money for recycling promotion. Why don't you pay her $50,OOO from the recycling money to go ahead and promote the recycling program ?- and get done with what we're talking about doing? I mean, you know, this - shouldn't even have to come here with us.— Commissioner Plummer: Good. Goodbye. Ms. Monteflores: Did he Just say, fine? He just -fine? {; Commissioner Plummer: He said fine. Goodbye. Me. Monteflores: OK, thank you very much. Thank you very much. — i' ` Commissioner Plummer: And don't invite Harvey Ruvin next time. Y4{_ JJ Ms. Monteflores: No, I told him, next year, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner Plummer is going to be the guest speaker at our yearly conference. K Vice Mayor Dawkins: Take the money back! Take the money back) Mayor Suarez: All right. All right, that's it. Take the money back.- Vice Mayor Dawkins: Take the money back. Commissioner'Plummer: You take it back. I'm in charge of the garbage. Mayor Suarez: You had to do that. 243 M. P OF ITM � �: T4 s� 6 _wry 56, P1191I RRAI iNG ORDINARM DRS'INR AND DESIOATN TURRITORIAL LIMITS 01 THI CITU Or MIAMI w. FIX MILLA(B AND LRVY TAXSS rOlt PY OCT0111 1, 1006 Ung"$R t0, 1901. Mayor Suarers Mr, Manager, Mr, City Attorney, what's the first, order of business on the items before us? Mr, .forge Pernandez: Mr. Surana is ready for you. Mr. Manohar.Surana: OK, item 51. Mayor Suarez: You get introduced now, is that the idea, or what? What do we have to do? -please. Mr. Suranae OK, item 51. Item A, percentage increase in millage -over rollback rate. Response, two and -fifty eight one hundredths of one percent... Mayor Suarers OK. Mr. Suranaa B, specific purposes for which ad valorem tax revenues are being increased. Response, partial funding for public safety services, two million, four seventy --five eight hundred twenty-three dollars. You can go to item Dl. t4 Mayor Suarez: What do we need to do? You can read anything you want into the record, please. Mr. Surana: OK, item number 52. OK, adopt... Mr. Fernandez: Now, you can go to 52 now immediately, which is your setting the...territorial limits. It's an ordinance. Mayor Suarez:, All right, I'll entertain a motion on the territorial limits of the City. Presumably, there is no argument on that at this point. Commissioner Plummer: Move it. Mayor Suarers So moved. Mr. Fernandez: Well, it's fixing the millage which you had computed the last time. The last time you computed the millage... Mayor Suarez: So, it is not the territorial limits of the City. It is the r= millage that will apply within the territorial limits... °4 Mr. Fernandez: Well, it does many things, Mr. Mayor. It's territorial limit, it's millage, it's taxation. .`. Mayor Suarez: I presume the important one for us is the millage rate, oot the territorial limits. OK what is the millage being , g g proposed is that item? gF Mr. Surana: The -same millage as last year, which is nine point five, nine, F^ t.tr. nine, five, operating purpose... fi Mayor Suarez: OK, operating millage rate. How about debt serviced? -in that included? Mr. Surana: No, that's separate - two point, three, three, eight, one. Mayor Suarez: Is that in the same item? <` Mr, Surana: Yes, sir. x Mayor Suarez; Can we take theta together? Mr. Suarat►+t: Yes, sir. 1 F4r14ai Yes.: t�Ti :. <r i r � A.,2 Mayor guaraet I'll entertain a motioft on both millage rates being exactly the came as last year. Comissioner Alonaot Move. Mayor Suarez, go moved. ' Commissioner plummert Mr. Mayor, I'm going to second it, but I'M going to tell -`you that between now and the second hearing, that as far as I'm concerned, there's going to have to be a lot of changes of priority. I agree z='- with the miliag6 rate. I think that; in my estimation, I have expressed it before and I'm going to continue such, that the monies that where they're X3_ allocated, in my estimation, are not the beet and the top priority in my bo6ki try And, if they're not that way at the next hearing, I fully intend to vote against the budget. Mayor Suarez: OK, we have a motion and a second. Is it in the form of an ordinance? Do we have to read anything? Mr. Fernandeza: It is an ordinance and it's item 52. Mayor Suarez, -Please read it. Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE DEFINING AND DESIGNATING THE TERRITORIAL' LIMITS FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAXATION; FIXING THE MILLAGE AND LEVYING TAXES IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 1990, AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1991= CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Was introduced by Commissioner Alonso and seconded by Commissioner Plummer and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. �- The CityAttorney read the ordinance into the y public record and `� announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. 30, 57. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR FY ENDING SEPTEMBER 1991. - Mayor Suarez: Next item, 53. Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Nov,his is $ , your appropriations ordinance and this is, that, together with the budget,` which is the booklet that was prepared for. you, is what really is your budget for next year. Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on that budget. All of us understanding that there may well be changes between now and:-tha next '= Commission meeting. Mr. Fernandes: Correct, this is only first reading. a. Mayor Suares: Thank you. One thing we can't change, I gusset is Brit$ to bs the millage rate, except downward, but we could certainly ohaa$e tom' allocation within that. Xk 245tegtbe�' 7 3E - -c 3, - -i . farnabdsas the' a0P io riations x P r yes, you can. _Y mayor Suareat Orb I'll shterta` ri a m6t1oft on that, gomebody please tyre It ,a. ; orlrsio�ni piumoert Sure] we can lower they rate. a Mayon Suarett -'Yea, we cab, Mr. Yernandeat • Yes. wq Mayor Suaress We can lower it. The only thing we can't do is go;x- Commissioner Plumtnert but you've already voted on that in the first one, for = r> the first reading. f: Mayor Suaress OK, I'll entertain& motion on the budget. ComissLoner-De.Yurre: •Move it. Mayor Suarers Moved. Somebody second. Commissioner Alonso: Second. Mayor Suarezt Seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll. Read the, ordinance. Call the roll. �.4 AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1991; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION; AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.. Was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre and seconded by Commissioner Alonso and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: =' AYESr, Commissioner Victor De Yurre f Commmissioner Miriam:Alonso Vice:'Mayor Miller Ji. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez ' NOES: Commissioner J.L. Plummer Jr.' r ABSEI+i'P:.. None.. The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public -'record and 4 announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. r y f CAS MADE DIIRING ROLL CALL: sk ; Vice Mayor Dawkinst I don't know, why you voting no? ; Commissioner Plummer: Because I don't like the way the appropriations are,,'. That's what I've just stated. Mr. Fernandez: By the way, Commissioners, you should be made aware that the, item : that's passing is on item that has just been distributed to 'you.y not the item than is found in your packages delivered -a week ago... .J Commissioner De Yurre: What is it you don't like about it? Commissioner Plummer: I'll tell you at the second hearing, my friend. � Vice Mayor Dawkins: I'm voting yes on the strength that I can change My.weto I 4xii with T.L. it I dike his reasoning next time. t fr - 240 t Y. r7» -,tm',", W 09 Rj 2 ,p Mayor Suarez: Moved. Mr. Fernandez: There is no need to consider recomputation, so you move directly then, to item.55. Commissioner De Yurre: OK, well let me ask...`` Mro Fernandez: Because item 54 is your discussion. Commissioner De Yurre: I have only one issue that I want to .deal with,the DDA. ,:Is there any way that the DDA, with their funding, can help the -:Film Festival? Mr,.. Schwartz: At the present time, our budget shows about $242,000 for capital projects in downtown. The thrust of that money had extensive review by the board, really calls for projects initiated by.DDA marketing efforts..and physical improvements in downtown. spa b; c, Mayor Suarez: They want bricks and mortar, but you just said marketing, w Matthew. Mr. Schwartz: Yes. Mayor Suarez: It sounds like it could be characterized as marketing. AW Mr. Schwartz: We could sit down and discuss it with.them, but this relatively sma4l:amount.of money could be available. =" Vice.Mayor Dawkins% Well, what•about the rest... r a" Commissioner De Yurre: No, they only need a hundred thousand. Vice Mayor Dawkins: What about the rest of the money? -you said a majority of_, it was... what about the rest? -what is this for?:: Mayor Suarez: Some is expected to.be spent for,Briokell improvements, aoa4! P Flagler improvements, some Omni improvements. The three areas lfight; sack for the capital monies. Commissioner Plummer: Another sidewalk that will come up and trees to outn down. Mr. Schwartz: We're doing .a monthly cal.oudar:of dowutowu� events, 14 40wgtQwtt r y; guide, thing* that are helping to attract business and touriste.to dowmt�rwn�k r iQ P F M Mayor Suarez: But you do pretty well in downtown guides and all that by - y getting sponsor*. { dF�, Mr. Sr hwartz: Bight. We're really using our saucy this year for :eegd .a►oas�y, 1L h dmd as a downtown guide, we're ]oolong —and, possibly on of the ! athti rig say be a sponsor up to $50,000, so.., Ma �t�F i,; j�f Wr yak Mayor luarest I really Would look Very closely at that as Apposed to being able to give some hand to Miami Vila Festival and Miami took fair::. Comissioner De Yurrat So, you feel you can come up With $500001 Mayer.Suarest ...both, of Which] take place downtown. F� Commissioner tlummert It Wasn't mine. ti �- Commissioner De Yurret Fifty thousand is a good amount, right? Mr. Fernandest Whose was it? -I don't know. `r Mr. Schwartzi I don't believe that would greatly restrain the program that our board has approved. y Mayor Suarest I would ask that you leave that... Commissioner De Yurret That We have to approve now. Mayor Suarezt Commissioner, if I may, Victor... Commissioner De Yurret Is that correct? -the one that we have to approve now? Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes. The one that your board approved and sent to us. Commissioner De Yurre: But, if not, it doesn't go.- Mayor Suarez: Before you specify an amount, I would ask that please, your consult the members of the DDA board that you have nominated and get input } from them because you might -hear that the DDA board has looked at all of this and has very, very strong priorities on how to spend the monies. So, at least get that input, please. If you want to leave the actual amount to-; be determined between now and the next Commission hearing, that's fine, but please consult them because you're going to hear from all of them. Commissioner De Yurre: Well, the bottom line, well, what is it being spent on? Mayor Suarez: Do you want to do a breakdown? Mr. Schwartz: Do you want a breakdown right now? _ Commissioner De-Yurret Yes. St -,'- Mr. Schwartz: OK, Flagler Street information booth, $5,000. Landscaping ` Flagler Street, a match, $10,000. That's continuing the tree planting . program. Brickell Avenue beautification, $5,000. That 's-a match with the adjacent property owners. The banners for the restaurant .district .,Brickell Avenue, N.S. lot Street in the jewelry district and welcome banners for downtown, $12,000. N.S. 2nd Avenue demonstration project, $10,000. Kiosk... Commissioner De Yurre: What's that? What's that? Ali Mr. Schwartz: OK, that's a project on relandscaping, beautificati*n'for N.H 2nd Avenue from DuPont Plata up to 5th Street in conjunction with the junior college, Guaman Hall, their building renovations. There's interim development on some land there that's vacant. Kiosks, this is a program we'rs°talking about $35,000 to be matched by private individuals for thirty-five thousand. -r Commissioner De Yurre; Well, what's that? Mr. Schwartz: One of the biggest problems downtown is that there's 'a lack�ot maps and an indication of where people are. This would be kiosks throughout downtown which would explain, "You Are Here," and activities that acre occurring downtown. f`{- Y �H Commissioner De Yurre: Well, you have people manning those? -what is it? x� Mr, Schwartz: No, these would be stationery kloaks, but we're looking st the s possibility, with the ability of the City's cable system, of haviaag monitors 240 septe41ber ?# nw. ri t there that would give daily events of activities in the downtown area. We hive had a regugat to de - rye ' re working with the University of Miami on a hrickell housing study, that's $15,000 being matched by the University of Miami by $709000, We need to provide money for a world trade and exhibition center studies. This is a major need in the downtown area. This is seed money to do some interim studios to attract some developers to a project. We produce five City News at $7,000 an issue. That's $35,000 that promotea all of downtown. We do about $5,000 a year in direct advertising. We want to start, this year, some special holiday promotions. That's $2,500. This is, just seed money to be used with individuals money that we have gotten from other individuals in the downtown and companies. Focus 90 sessions, we're running a series of sessions with the Miami Today, that's $4,000. It's a monthly meeting on different issues in downtown. We hope to run a conference this year on downtown issues. We have $15,000 for that. Joint marketing activities - this is activities to promote all the South Florida region. We're looking to work along with the Beacon Council, Brovard County, the idea of promoting South Florida. We're in the process of putting together a downtown guide for $15,000. We're working on a calendar of events, $12,000. That would be a monthly calendar and the objective is to produce a 150 monthly calendars that would be distributed in all the hotel rooms and all the stores downtown promoting all the activities that are happening in the downtown area. We're looking at obtaining the services of a public relations consultant for ' $12,000 a year. And this is really - it's a minimal amount. Commissioner Plummer: For what? For what? Mr. Schwartz: This is to provide us assistance and direction in the public relations activities. Right now, we have one senior staff person and one contract employee. In total, that comes up to $227,000. We have $10,000 for miscellaneous, which has not been designated yet by the board. So, in total, we have $238,000 that we were spending on projects. Most of these with seed money to do a number of projects. Mayor Suarez: Do we have a DDA board meeting between now and the next Commission meeting? Mr. Schwartz: There will be a DDA board meeting on the 26th. Commissioner De Yurre: Well, I suggest that, you know, something significant be allocated, because... Mayor Suarez: You have to go over that with a fine tooth comb. Commissioner De Yurre: A lot of that sounded that there could be some significant money available for this. Commissioner Plummer: What is the total amount that half a mill will raise? _ Mr. Schwartz: Half a mill for the DDA will raise, next year, one million, four hundred and seventy-seven thousand, eight hundred and thirty-five dollars. That's a one percent decline from last year. Commissioner Plummer: And what is your contingency fund? Mr. Schwartz: We have a contingency fund of $100,000 and the purpose of that fund is because of tax shortfalls. Last year we were short $250,000. We F were.. Mayor Suarez: I don't think he really meant a contingency fund. He's been thinking of what we've been doing every year that you just referred to as the capital fund or capital and marketing fund, which is a fund not related to the direct operations of the DDA, but to be used - sort of a discretionary fund. Commissioner Plummer: And, no expenditure over $5,000 without Commission approval. !Mayor Suarez: $xactamundo. Well, the whole thing is approved, but no changes can be made of $5,000 or over without coming back to the Commission, Under our present policy, I think ordinance too - I'm not sure. Commissioner Plummer: What is your salary? 249 Mr, Betwirtat lighty-tvb th6u6sad, I believe, Plud parka? Mr. SchWatti i Plus 06rkso yes. Caminal6ner Plummert Soj it's $120,000. Mr,,,, Schwarte s Not it's $103j000, a Commissioner Plummets It can't be. I'll check it between now and the n itt and 'I'thiak you're wrong. . . . . . . . Mr. Schwartes I have the numbers. .-JIN Commissioner Plu*Aort I hope you're right. Mayor Suarest Go over my suggestions, go over the marketing. and whatever you dill it -:discrotlonary fund - with a fine tooth comb, and come back and see what can be made available for these programs. Commissioner Alonso: I also have a request. Commissioner De Yurre: Well, if we make the adjustment like the Sports AAithority. Executive director that was up in the 80's and he went down to 55, then we can... that's about $30,000. A Vice Mayor Dawkins: Yes, but you replaced him, come on. Now, let's be fair now. We replaced him and dropped the salary. We didn't drop the salary with him in place. Commissioner Alonso: Yes, yes..... Commissioner Plummer: Well? Commissioner De Yurre: Well, nobody brought that up when he was replacing the former one. Mayor Suarez: You know, the problem with Matthew in that he's a civil service employee of the City :of Miami. But that's another -,issue. Yes?; Commissionor'Alonsot I have's request too that you'work within your budget to hire a homeless' -coordinator. Mayor Suarez't', 'Yes, --'was that included in that or was that:supposed to be part of the salary 'portion 'of, the budgetT V Commissioner Alonsot 'No'I'just... Mr. Schwortzo No, that's not included in this proposal that was' approved by the board. Commissioner Alonsot But I'm sure you can include that. Mayor Suarez: I have a feeling we're going to need''to, find some funds on that, Matt, from what I keep hearLng'from:people. • Commissioner Alonsoo He can do it. Vice Mayor Dawkinst I nominate J.L. as the homeless coordinator; '' ............ Commissioner Plummer: Nothing wrong with that. - �srwarrttsom+. 1�xXdT i�fB C1iDIt�Att B: DEVIMD AND DXSIGNATE TERRITOMAL LIMITS Or TO DOVIRTOW DEVRLOPKINT DISTRICT - FIX MILLAGX AND LXVY TAXXR POR rT .: OCTOBER 1 SIPTBMBIR 30, 1991. qi —�.LiwYr.ii�liYisi..�.��fiiiY�YW.'"i�rYuriiYi f,:.�-riwiii.aN.w��1iii.�i:.`�—_.••. •••..—• �i Mayor Suares: OK, with those indications, prior to a second reading do we t have a motion and a second? -or do we already have a motion and a second? Vice Mayor Dawkins: I trove. Mayor Suarez: Moved. Mr. Fernandea: This is on item 551 Mayor Suarez: Yes. Do we have a second, please6 Somebody second the item? first of all, Mr. City Attorney, Commissioner Alonso: Yes, I second with all the provisions mentioned. Ms. Hirait Thank you. Mr. Fernandez: What provisions, again, are those? Commissioner Alonso: The requests, and he noted that... k` Mayor Suarez: Indications of finding some monies that can be used for the two 1— issues mentioned up to now. Mr. Fernandez: OK, but that would be applicable to item 56, because it's really not part of 55. Mayor.Suarez: All right. We will apply them to 56 then, the provisos..Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE, WITH ATTACHMENT, RELATED TO TAXATION, _- DEFINING AND DESIGNATING THE TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, } FLORIDA; FIXING THE MILLAGE AND LEVYING TAXES IN SAID DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT .FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 1990, AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 300:: r 1991, AT FIVE -TENTHS G 5) MILLS ON THE DOLLAR OF-THB NON8X8MPT ASSESSED VALUE OF ALL REAL AND PERSONALz:- - PROPERTY IN SAID DISTRICT; PROVIDING THAT SAID MILLAGE AND TH8 TAXES LEVIED HERRIN SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO THE FIXING OF THE MILLAGE AND THELEVYING OF TAXES WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI AS REFLECTED IN THE CITY'S MILLAGE-LEVY ORDINANCE FOR THE AFORESAID FISCAL YEAR WHICH IS REQUIRED: BY CITY CHARTER SECTION 271 PROVIDING THAT THE FIXING OF THE MILLAGE AND LEVYING OF TAXES HEREIN SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS] PROVIDING THAT THIS.: ORDINANCE SHALL NOT BE DBSMED AS REPEALING OR AM WING" � { ANY OTHER ORDINANCE. FIXING MILLAGS OR LEVYING TAXES BUT SHALL BE DEEMED SUPPLEMENTAL AND IN ADDITION THERETO; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION, BEVARASILITY ` CLAUSE AND PROVIDING FOR AN EMCTIVR DATE. Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner #` Alonso and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: ; k . .5 c. ri s - F¢* ,. , C�aissibnes� .i, L. piuma►er� fir. �'ti Comi&616hotMiriam Alonso .. Viet Mayor Miller ,?. Dawkins �= ' mayor Xavier Ls Suarez ��- NMI None i' g�� ADSRNT3 Note, The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies aere available to the members of the City Coft6iioioi► Aft'a to the public, COMMENTS 'MADE`DURING ROLL CALL: Commissioner Do Yurre: Expecting changes for the neat time around, yes. Commissioner Plummer: Don't hold your breath. ' 604 :. FIRST .. READING MAKE - APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE DOWNTOWN Y DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AD VALOREM TAX LEVY AND OTHER INCOME FOR THE x DOWNTOWN DRVSLOPMENT AUTHORITY FOR FY ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1991. Mayor Suarez: Item 56. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Item 56. ` Commissioner Plummer: The appropriations. Commissioner Alonso: Yes, I move with the provisions mentioned here and... this is the Mr. Jorge Fernandez: OK, actually, this is a resolution, no, if you're... Commissioner Plumaters You're amending it. 4` s Mr. Fernandez: I'm sorry, it's an ordinance. Sorry. ,r> Commissioner Plummer:' But it'd being amended. ^- Mr.` Fernandez: Woll;'> the question is whether you want to amend it before n second and final reading or whether you want those modifications to be made ' right now. Vice Mayor Dawkins: She would not have said amended had she wanted to wait :. for the next one. ar, r, Commissioner Alonso: Well, they will have to look into the first part of the discussion. They will have to go back and examine Y; � is Mr. Fernandes: Then, my suggestion , that you pass• it` vn f'irat-raad'irig, it stands in front of you and before second and final reading, whatever changes that were discussed, be incorporated.; 5;. Mayor Suarex: Can we have a modification as to the principle of thinning out some of those expenditures and looking for monies for the other proglcams mentioned? Is anything wrong with that resolution? - iv Mr. Fernandez: I can do anything I'm told, 4 Commissioner Alonso: Is that possible? i� Mayor Suarez: That's what we were trying to accomplish, Mr. City Attorney a4d! t' you... Mr. Fernandes: You got it, Mr. Schwartz. h�ry 25 u 8ll►p��blRf,�- 7 � � � � �� 41i a ` NAyof SuateSt It's Sat up to his, it's up to Cotemis*ion. Mr. rernatidss: All right. , �- ` Coeri:isgonsr Aldi�ao s iLst's do it. Mayor Suares: die have s motion and a second with that understanding. Do ire," Media "City Clark? Ms. Hirai: ,We need a second, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Alonso seconded it before. Would you second it now with that proviso? Ms. Hirai: She moved it. She moved the item. ;Y. Commissioner Alonso: I moved, I moved. - € Mayor Suarez: Moved. Somebody second, please. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Second.` ry Mayor Suarez:, Call the roll with that understanding. Or, read the ordinance. f- Call the roll. Thank you, call the roll. F- t AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED-` _ AN ORDINANCE MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FROM THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AD VALOREM TAX LEVY AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS INCOME FOR THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, FOR THE S FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1991; AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT f- AUTHORITY TO INVITE OR ADVERTISE REQUIRED BIDS; PROVIDING BUDGETARY FLEXIBILITY; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE BE DEEMED SUPPLEMENTAL AND IN ADDITION TO THE :ORDINANCE MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL { YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1991, FOR THE OPERATIONS OF THE .CITY OF MIAMI; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION,', SEVSRABILITY CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Was introduced by Commissioner Alonso and seconded by Commissioner M' ri Dawkins and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: - AYES; Commissioner Victor De Yurre - Commissioner Miriam Alonso x' Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez 3 NOES. Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. ABSENT: None.— '. The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City Coma:isaioa and t- to the public. xx— k s x �s TeSr� � 1 t 253 0t`pton 'b 'S, l g 4rt.. tYt.Mia*e ,':'znFcif 11 * ,a 61, DISCUSS A" L►EFgR PROPOSED ABSOLUTION APPROVING OF: (a) FY'90-91 BUDGET OF DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET PARKING; (b) FY190-91 BUDGET OF DEPARTMM OF OFF-STREET PARKING (FOR OPERATION OF GUSMAN CENTER FOR THE PERPONINd ARTS AND THE OLYMPIA BUILDING); AND (c) DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET pAUXINO ,w FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL OPERATIONS PLAN (ORDINANCE 10641). ;z x._ .Y.YYYr.iGwf'�f�r'.ai.�......v.�JiauYww.:b:rww�r'w'i.r..rr.iY.wYiYvrYrwY.awwLvrrr+riwrAai.rYwrYiYY....iWiJiWY.iYiYilUiYl.w(i►iYYh x_ ?I> f Mayor Suarez: Item 57. a Mr. Schwartz: Thank you. Mayor Suarez: Off -Street Parking Authority. `z x Vice Mayor Dawkins: Move it. Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Fifty-seven, 58, 59, are all Department of Off -Street Parking items. Mayor Suarez: We have a motion on 57. Do we have a second? Commissioner Plummer: Second. Commissioner De Yurre: 'Tom Spencer. Mayor Suarez: Any discussion on 57? Commissioner De Yurre: Yes, discussion. Mayor Suarez: Yes. Commissioner De Yurre: How much money do you all spend at the Gunman? Mr. Tom Spencer: Sixty-seven thousand dollars. Commissioner De Yurre: Can we find $67,000 to help them out? Mr. Jack Mulvena: Yes, see, you have to remember, Commissioner, that this issue... Mayor Suarez: Is that yes? -and... Mr. Mulvena: This is your facility and your budget, you can do with it what you want. Commissioner Plummer: Yes, you got to put up the money ifyoudo it. Mr. Mulvena: Yes, I mean, you know, it's.... Commissioner Plummer: By ordinance. Mr. Mulvena: Yes. I mean, we're not able. Commissioner Plummer: item on the agenda. If you don't think that isn't true, look at the next ,.4 r l; Mayor Suarez: Well, let's look at it this way. From the surplus of operations of the Off -Street Parking Authority, can you help to fund one of the principle programs that takes place at Gunman? Mr. Mulvena: We're not allowed to by our indentures, Mayor. Honestly, you can get your legal opinion on it...auditor. Mayor Suarez: You're not allowed to by what? Mr. Mulvena: We're not permitted to use our monies for anything other than parking or parking related purposes. Commissioner De Yurre: How about waivers? .. sadeY 254 h+ t. Najr6r guatass All might.. Comissionir Oe Yurrea Waivers at the dusmant Mr. Mulvenas Weil, if we waive it, it theft goes to the bottom line of Your budget though, Coamissioner6 Mayor Suarass How much are.you returning to the City this year thent t hatred to.get -into all of this d by way of a yearly operating surplus that we can take? Mr. Mulvenas hall, we didn't have an operating surplus. We just came off, last years with a $704,000 deficit. This year, we're working out of:it, .p We haven't completed this fiscal year, but we hope to be between: a hundred_ nine... f` w Mayor Suartev What kind of a debt coverage ratio are you using? Mr. Mulvenas We have about a point nine oh, we hope. At the and of this year, yes. Point, nine, oh. Mayor Suarers I don't believe it for one moment. You and I are going to have = to meet between now and the next Commission meeting. There is no way you have ;_— a .90 at all. Mr. Mulvena: Sure, we do. Mayor Suarez: Anyhow, Commissioners, he's telling us he doesn't have the money and that he's got a lower debt service ratio than he needs. I don't buy it, but that's what he's saying on the record and I know that we got to have some... Mr. Mulvena: I can show you the materials, Mayor. - .s— Mayor Suarez: Can we do this together at the next Commission meeting or does It have to be done today also? Mr. Fernandez: No, it should be done today in order to be within your dates. _ commissioner Piummer: You can change it at the next one. Commissioner Alonso: But, -this is a resolution. T Mayor: -Suarez:; Yes... - Mr. Fernandez: ,. To the extent that they really do not- have ,.any ,; ad valorem t— receipts and that they're not levying millage or anything, would come from j` E under thestate's requirements, so this doesn't necessarily have to pass today and it's just a resolution which would... Mayor Suarez: If you're not absolutely sure of that, we can pass it on first... Mr.,Fernandez: No, no, no, I am sure of that. �< Ik '. Mayor Suarez: Votes: Mr. Fernandez: These are resolutions. N �w Commissioner Alonsos Resolutions, that's why I said.,. Mayor Suarez: All right, so , you're sure we don't need to .have two sots " Qg hearings and two sets of votes on it? Mr. Fernandez: No, you do not. ^,,4 Mayor Suarez: All right, then, if the Commissioner wants to take it that way, that's fine with me. d Cow- issioner Alonso: Yes, I would. 'G r [ t - AnIf --+.cr:'"y t{4 1 .- f'17 :Y• ''{ 7 k 4d may.. M ' Mr. tiulv+�ssas Is theta th instruatift that you would like to defer theta until � the sakt msatiag and that I tduld met with each of you individually? Mayor 8uarens Seems to be the direction we're heading in..., Mry Mulvanas I'd be very happy to, Commissioners. Mayor Suarez ...arid I ash, thyself, remiss in not having prepared you for this, because I just thought of it, actually. 4 _ Mr. Muleenat Mello that's all right. No, we'll... Mayor Suaress And the Coamis;sioner may have also. I don't know) they' stay ,bib,. more up-to-date on the budget. OK, as to 57, 58, and 59, we have a motion to - defer, _ 4 Comtmissioner`Plummers Second. Mayor Suarest Cali the roil. g' ON MOTION DULY MADE BY COMMISSIONER ALONSO AND SECONDED -BY COMMISSIONER PLUMMER, THE ABOVE ITEM WAS DEFERRED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTEs - AYESt Commissioner Victor De Yurre d Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. s — Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES$ None. - ABSENT: None. 62. DISCUSS AND DEFER PROPOSED RESOLUTION APPROVING FY190-91 ADMINISTRATIVE BUDGET OF THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY. j Mayor Suarez: As to item 60. Commissioner De Yurre: Move it. Commissioner Plummer: I would like that deferred because I have not had the chance because of my sickness to meet with Bill Perry and I would like that W opportunity. Vice -Mayor -Dawkinst Your sickness or your illness? - Mayor Suarez: Move to defer. We have - can we do that, Mr. City...? 4{ - Vice Mayor Dawkins: You are sick. A Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Yes, you can. To the extent that there's no millage or taxes levied in relation to this budget... �x Mayor Suarez: I heard some items, by the way, Bill, that seem similar... I = , mean, I heard some items that the DDA budgeted that seemed similar to the kinds of objectives of the Sports Authority, specifically, the international u exhibit facility downtown, or wherever it may be located, but.,. prssuatably:. +_ downtown somewhere, and I think that maybe the two of you ought to talk about =?`* how to jointly fund some of that because everybodys got to chip in. '3 - Vice Mayor Dawkines I socomd, Commissioner.... - Mayor Suarezi Moved and seconded to defer. Any further discussion? If not please call the roll. ON MOTION DULY MADE BY COMMISSIONER PLMWR AND zt�� SRCOMED BY VICE MAYOR DAWKINS, ITEN 60 WAS %)RnRRID BY TUB FOLLOWING VOTE: � 250 Sept bey 1, i lQ � e £.,`;t U "�.`f^.,:.•. .„, Ti..�S£sa bpi a;:' a'^:rY,_.3.rt m`11.F141k¢iL... &.,X... ..fi _,...73,ax.t_. _ _ �`.:.�. _ g3t�' i'1.� 1 u _ r . AY8S3 conissitiner Victor ifs Yurre Commissioner J. L. Piuimi Jr. r: Commissioner Miriam Aloetee� Vies Mayor Miller Ja Dawkins Mayor Xavier. L. Suarezr; 5 NOES! Nonei ABSENTt None. r-----rif+Y.wirrr.rrWiYi._diii.iiiiNfMT 63, APPOINT LAW rIRMSt (a) MATZHER, ZISKIND, KOSNITZKY AND JAFFEE= AND (b) SARNES, DARBY AND MCGnR (CO -BOND COUNSEL) - TO RENDER A FORMAL BOND COUNSEL OPINION CONCERNINGt (a) USES, ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES WHICH MAY BE DEVELOPED AS A UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON THE CITY'S FEC TRACT AND (b) WHETHER A BASEBALL STADIUM MAY BE CONSTRUCTED IN BICENTENNIAL PARK (BOTH ORIGINALLY FUNDED BY 1972 PARKS FOR PEOPLE -BOND ISSUE) Commissioner De Turret Mr. Mayor, I have a resolution... Commissioner Alonso: Item twenty. 4 Commissioner Plummer: I've been handed... you got a resolution also? THEREUPON, COMMISSIONER DE YURRE READ THE PROPOSED RESOLUTION INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD, BY TITLE ONLY. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Vice Mayor Dawkins: What special... OK, I'm sorry. Let me wait till discussion.f Mayor Suarez: So moved.` 5` Commissioner Plummer: I'm not seconding it because I have made it clear and I will continue to make it clear, I am opposed to -building anything on theeast. side -of the boulevard. We have so much vacant land on the west aids, ,. as the Arena, it could be utilized and I just am totally opposed to using waterfront property to put up a big stadium there. So, I can't - you know, I can't vote for,it. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Ia that the FEC property on the east side or is that the FEC property down near 36th Street in the cut there? -where is it? Commissioner Plummer: Oh, I'm sorry. *' r9 Commissioner De Turret No, by Bayside. Commissioner'Plummert On the east side, right? Mayor Suarez: Right, on the east Bide is what you meant. Commissioner De Turret Next to Bayside. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Not the west side, east side. Mayor Suarez: Right.` Commissioner Plummer: On the east side. We paid $23,000,000 for that property." Mayor Suarez: OK, we're not even talking about that property right now. We're talking about Bicentennial Park. Commissioner De Turret And, also, the FEC - both. d Cot�issioner Plctis�ter3 correct? El Wo, we're taiking about the W property. Am Mr. r6 rnandezt The administration has an RFi' pending for the FBC property an well as the plans, or the proposed plans for the baseball stadium neat door in Bicentennial Park. We're getting bond counsel to give us an ,opinion as to whether those two uses on those two lots will be permitted because this land was acquired with Peoples for progress bond or some sort of bond like that. Mayor Suares: You mean, the master plan that we now have, by Jack hufti_ essentially, in planning Department, is one that we don't have an opinion on whether it can be even implemented on that FSC property and Bicentennial?� Mr. Fernandez: That has not... Mayor Suarez: You have any doubts as to that? Mr. Fernandez: That has not gone out (Tape 20) because it's been held subject _ to this legal opinion. We cannot put out an RFP, that would be a legal impossibility to follow through on. — Mayor Suarez: I don't buy that at all, but... I don't buy that at all. I think you're dead, one hundred percent wrong. Commissioner Plummert Well, I think you're going to find that there were two — sources of funds, because we could not afford to buy it when we went in on a quick take and we had, I think, twelve million in reserve and the jury awarded twenty-three. Mayor Suarez: That's right. Commissioner Plummer: And we had no way, but to pay it. So, that was... Mayor Suarez: OK, but in any event, if there is a possibility of doing major league baseball on any of those sites, we certainly need that opinion. And you're saying now, that we even need it as to the present plan under the - master plan for the FRC? Mr. Fernandez: Yes. Mayor Suarez: Which I don't buy, but I guess we need the opinion to, — hopefully.... so, I'll entertain a second on that. Do we have a second?- If not, I'll second myself. _ Vice Mayor Dawkins: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Hearing none - is it an ordinance or a resolution? Commissioner De Yurre: Resolution. Commissioner Plummer: It's a resolution, isn't it? Mayor Suarez: Resolution. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Resolution. Call the roll, Madam... , H .rrz vM1 j.� 9'LLydw� �L {_— .� 7,1 ii z5s �� The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved its edoptiont RESOLUTION NO. 90-709 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE APPOINTMENT OF THE LAW FIRM OF MATZNER, ZISKIND, KOSNITZKY AND JAMI AND THE LAW FIRM OF BARNES, DARBY AND MCGHEE, CO -BOND COUNSEL, TO RENDER A FORMAL WRITTEN BOND COUNSEL OPINION AS TO THE USES, ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES WHICH MAY BE DEVELOPED AS A UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON THE CITY'S FEC TRACT, THE ACQUISITION OF WHICH WAS FUNDED BY PROCEEDS OF THE 1972 PARKS FOR PEOPLE BOND ISSUE, AND TO RENDER A FORMAL WRITTEN BOND COUNSEL OPINION ON THE ISSUE OF WHETHER A BASEBALL STADIUM MAY BE CONSTRUCTED ON BICENTENNIAL PARK, THE DEVELOPMENT OF WHICH WAS FUNDED, AT LEAST IN PART, BY THE 1972 PARKS FOR PEOPLE BOND ISSUE, WITH THE COST OF SAID LEGAL SERVICES NOT TO EXCEED $7,500.00 BRING ALLOCATED FROM FY190-91 BUDGETED FUNDS, SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Mayor Suarez, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: - AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miriam Alonso _ Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: Commissioner J.L. Plummer, Jr. _ Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins ABSENT: None. COH14MS MADE DURING ROLL CALL: f Commissioner Plummer: For so reasons stated, I have to vote no. = 64. AUTHORIZE CITY ATTORNEY TO ENGAGE SERVICES OF ROBERT F. CLARK AS SPECIAL COUNSEL IN MATTERS PRIMARILY RELATED TO LEGISLATIVE AND SPECIAL PROJECTS, ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 18, 1990. Mayor Suarez: OK, anything that is of an emergency nature before we adjourn? Commissioner Plummer: I have a resolution here from the City Attorney to engage the services of Robert Clark as special counsel, on matters primarily related to legislative special projects handled by the City Attorney's office, I of an annual basis commencing September 17th, 1990, with a total compensation for services not to exceed 450,000 with the monies therefor being allocated from the Law Department budget funds. I so move. j. Vice Mayor Dawkinss What firm? Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Roberto Clark. Commissioner Plummer: Bob Clark.` ,. Vice Mayor Dawkins; Oh, that's one... oh, that's one lawyer. I thought you i � said a firm. You had me frightened for Commissioner Plummers So move, Mr. Mayor. - ;I Mayor Suarems So moved. OK. We'll try to get to it, the Commissioner has... g i Mr. Fo rnanders Mr. Mayor, there is an item which is in relation to the... 259 Camiss'i6her plufter: dell, wait a minute. Did I gat a see6ftd? Mr. fFeraandet: I'm sorry, Mayor Suarest , We ha*e h fttion on the allocation of the fifty thousand. Produmablyiih your biidget fbe feast year? ,f Mr. Fernandez Yes, It is 51 Mayor Suarest And that duds that cover? -chat percentage of his time will be allocated to the City? Commissioner plummar: A hundred and one. f� Mr. Fernandes: He will work no Tess than 30 hours, but I can assure you that T rarely a peek goes by that I don't pull 40 to 50 from him. Mayor Suarest It's aot on a per hour basis then. We're talking... you're going to try to get a full Meeks work out of him on a weekly basis. Mr. Fernandez: Exactly. Mayor Suarez: Now, if we're talking paying him $50,000, he's certainly entitled to that. Of course, on the other hand, he's also drawing his pension, isn't he? Mr. ; Fernandez: Yes, he is.x' Mayor Suarez: From the City, so you're kind of doing it as a consultant. Mr. Fernandeze Correct. Mayor Suarez: Wowl Mr. Fernandez: The services he renders the City are - I wouldn't say indispensable, because I don't believe any of us is indispensable... Mayor Suarez: Yes, yes, we know all of that. Mr. Fernandet: ... but to the extent that he has been around 25, years, ha; hits a depth of knowledge. .Vice Mayor Dawkins: Was it moved? Mayor Suarez: Yes. Vice Mayor Dawkins: I'm going to second it and I'm going to tell you, Mr. Clark, and everybody else, you better get some damn body' in there and train them to do what he's doing. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. (- Vice Mayor Dawkins: I am not going to vote for this next year. ;T ._h Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. t Vice Mayor Dawkins: You got all year to train somebody to do what he's doing. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the d: i roll. PA ,x r s` t t " 44 , a. L d d =L� a Ye r fa 4 f The following resolution was Introduced by Csmmlasiener Plummer, who tR' 6aved its adaptiont RESOLUTION NO. 90-710 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO ENGAGE TIM SERVICES OF ROBERT F. CLARK AS SPECIAL CO'U1489L IN MATTERS PRIMARILY RELATED TO LEGISLATION AND SPECIAL h' PROJECTS HANDLED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY' S OFFICE ON A14 ANNUAL BASIS COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 181 1990, WITH TOTAL COMPENSATION FOR SAID SERVICES NOT TO EXCEED $50000 AND WITH MONIES THEREFOR BEING ALLOCATED FROM LAW DEPARTMENT BUDGETED FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor be Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins NOES: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez ABSENT: None. COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL: Commissioner Plummer: That means we got a year to get rid of Dawkins, I vote yes. Mayor Suarez: No reflection on Mr. Clark, but no. 65. APPROVE SUBMITTAL OF PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO PROVIDE THAT -_ A CITY COMMISSIONER SHALL SERVE EX OFFICIO AS MEMBER-CHAIRPSRSON OF OFF- - STREET PARKING BOARD WITH THE RIGHT TO VOTE ON ALL MATTERS AND THE POWER TO CAST A SECOND VOTE TO BREAK A TIE - CALL AND PROVIDE FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 6, 1990. Commissioner Alonso: Item twenty. Mayor Suarez: Last - item twenty. Mr. Jorge Fernandez: This item is the item that's being put on the ballot is November relative to making a City Commissioner a member... _ Mayor Suarez: Oh, yes.... q Mr. Fernandez: ...and the chairman of the Department of Off -Street Parking of � h that board., Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on that item to put it on the ballot. Commissioner Alonso: Move. ijf=_ h. Mayor Suarez: Moved. 1; Commissioner De Yurre: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Is there an ordinance? f F4 Mr. Fernandes; No, it's a resolution, but let me clarify this. This is an Item that came in front of you once before and it's coming to you agginAn ¢' because there was an issue that had not been fully addreamod which was, how to resolve the issue of a tie vote, 261 �opeer 7, s �V 1 Mayor Suarez: line, final fine. That doesn't sound like Mr. yeftaedaa: And! -wig have done that, Now we hews cleared 3t up... Mayor Suarez: It doesn't sound like an earth shattering problem. Mr. Fernandest No, it isn't. Mayor Suaraz: Thank you. Mr. Fernandazi So, this item is ready to be passed as item twenty. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on the motion. We all the voters will approve it. The following resolution was introduced by moved its adopt ion: RESOLUTION NO. 90-711 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, APPROVING, SETTING; FORTH AND SUBMITTING THE DRAFT OF A PROPOSED CHARTER - AMENDMENT, AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, KNOWN AS CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1, �— TO PROVIDE THAT A CITY COMMISSIONER SHALL SERVE EX OFFICIO WITHOUT COMPENSATION AS MEMBER AND AS'' - CHAIRPERSON OF THE OFF-STREET PARKING BOARD WITH THE RIGHT TO VOTE ON ALL MATTERS COMING BEFORE SAID BOARD = AND WITH THE POWER TO CAST A SECOND VOTE TO BREAK A BOARD TIE VOT91 MORE 'PARTICULARLY BY AMENDING - SUBSECTION (b) OF SECTION 23 OF SAID CHARTER THROUGH THE ADDITION OF PARAGRAPH (ii) TO SAID SUBSECTION AND BY AMENDING SUBSECTION (c) OF CHARTER SECTION 23; CALLING AND PROVIDING FOR A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION'_ TO BE HELD ON THE 76TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1990,-FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING CHARTERAMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE ELECTORATE AT SAID ELECTION; FURTHER, DIRECTING THAT A- CERTIFIED COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION BE 'DELIVERED TO.THB _— SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS OF METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, NOT LESS THAN 45 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF SUCH SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION; FURTHER, RESCINDING i RESOLUTION NO. 90-587,= ADOPTED JULY 26, 1990 WHICH RELATED TO AN EARLIER DRAFT OF CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1 A • (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and one= file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. t the resolution was passed e a F ; a Jj fi t y Jti 262 �►p�t #� .ice'_ � ,, .; n jet: k 66. MCM GRANT AGRUMSUT WITH STATR 01r FLORIDA DBPARTI m or cownes DIVISION or scamoRtc D LOPNINT (0200 0 000) TO PROVIDN FOR MYNG or — TM PASS=THROMM GRANT FOR STAGING 1001 GRAND MIX - AMOR111 EXECUTION 01t GIANT AGRR$M$NT WITH MIAMI MOTORSPORTS, INC. iitiiiYraiYfYYYiY3Yfi7Wiiliii�Yli�b'i iYii:•�iii�fifYYY�iiYY.r��.uYrr�l���rrrrr--------- Wii.ii�Y�.�r�r�fi.wi.YI Ma or Suarez: Do q you have two ewer... Commissioner Plummert Can I trove item 16? -the pass through money on the Grand Prix, I so move. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Do we have a second on that? Commissioner De Yurret Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? If not, please call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 90-712 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENTS, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH THE STATE OF FLORIDA, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, DIVISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, IN THE AMOUNT OF $200,000 PROVIDING FOR THE FUNDING OF THE PASS -THROUGH GRANT FOR THE STAGING OF THE 1991 GRAND PRIX; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH MIAMI MOTORSPORTS, INC., TO EFFECTUATE SUCH STATE GRANT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins m Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. i yfi 263 September It x i hP; .. Y-� i.ii.lil.YLliiiYrr7Si. �:w"'• r :..yr _.� '^`fy 'Y"-'^ iWWiiYiF:iiWYYaiaiiiiaii�.i'Iii..ii�lF1'iiifiiiiSillifiJ'. a..-„ 67. 2010 ICY OADINAWCBt ESTAUISH NEW SPECIAL RE MS rUND: GRAND PRIX 1091 _ APPROPRIATI $2OO OOO FROM STATE Of' FLORIDA DIPARTMINT Ot y COMMACC DIVISION OF SCONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GRANT- - — — — i:rr.. ---------ia-- MAybr Suarez: You had items... ' k C6*nie6i6r►er PLUM trt Item V is the companion emergency ordinance r have ws got four -fifths? -yes. I so move. , Mayor Suarsto Moved. Commissioner Alonso: Second. ? Mayor Suarez: seconded. Any discussion? If not, please read the ordinance. - THEREUPON, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD0°'1Y TITLE ONLY. Mr. Odio: We need 18'to receive two hundred and twenty... Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. Commissioner Plummer: Justify the emergency. Mr. Fernandez: Two calls. Commissioner Plummer: Justify the emergency on the record. Mr. Odio: Oh, I'm sorry. This item is being presented on an emergency basis in order to enable the City to release the funds 'promptly to Miami Motorsports, Inc., for promoting and facilitating the 1991 Miami Grand Prix. Mayor.Suarez:. Call the roll on the item. Mr..Fernandez: Four -fifths. Mr. Odio: Eighteen... == Commissioner Alonso: Eighteen. ` AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED# "GRAND PRIX 1991" APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR IN THE AMOUNT OF $200,000 FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE; x DIVISION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; CONTAINING A- REPEALER PROVISION AND SEVERABILITY CLAUSE: Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Alonso, for adoption as an' emergency measure and dispensing' -.with'~-the {T requirement of reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. ;ems Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez` i NOES: None. y u ABSENT: None.R Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer and oocomdei by Commissioner Alonso, adopted said ordinance by the following vote# .F b Y ? J 14� Also Comissioner Victor Da 'Turr6 F` Co issiom r 3. L, Plummer, if. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vine Mayor Miller Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOBS: Mono. = , St A$S$NT: None. .' r• SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORD2NANCE NO. 10179. x 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. r 68. AUTHORIZE EXECUTION OFs (a) SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT NO. 2= AND (b) PAYMENT ESTIMATE - CONTRACT PERFORMANCE - PROVIDING FOR REMITTANCE OF $225,222.75 FROM V.S. CORPS OF ENGINEERS AS PAYMENTOF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S SHARE OF COSTS INCURRED AS A RESULT OF REMEDIAL WORK ON FOUNTAIN FOUNDATION AND SERVICE TUNNEL FOUNDATION FOR BAYFRONT PARK RECREATION PROJECT. --- --------- ------------ --_---____-_ ...._.--------- -- - Vice Mayor Dawkins: Eighteen, Commissioner Alonso... — Commissioner Plummer: Did we want to do this thing on Tobacco Road? Vice Mayor Dawkins: No, I just want to say to everybody in here, I want you - to be sure and read the article tomorrow about Miller Dawkins and the park. I guarantee you, it will not be a positive article and I had nothing to do with it. Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Where's Tobacco Road? — Commissioner Plummer: Miller Dawkins in the what? Vice Mayor Dawkins: The park, where they named the park for me. Read the article in the Herald in the morning and see if... Commissioner Plummer: Oh, the memorial park. The memorial park. Vice Mayor Dawkinss See if this park I bet you, it will not be positive, 5 Commissioner De Yurre: That's Dade politics.... Mr. Odic: Mr. Mayor, on nineteen. Vice Mayor Dawkins: Miller Dawkins and I'll guarantee you, it will not be a positive... Mayor Suarez: It would have been if we had made it after you died, we would name the park. All right. Commissioner Alonso: Eighteen. Mayor Suarez: Item 18 is what, Commissioner, that aesms to be... Commissioner Plummer: What is 18? Commissioner Alonso: It's the.,. Mr. Odio: We are receiving a check for $225,000. d�nrs .,i�d 4 i Cdfsafohar Aionso: �'es, t �no�re... Mayor Suarez: Pour? Mr. Odio: For the Sayfront Park settlement. Commissioner Alonso: For the settlement of the corps: v Mayor Suares: So moved and seconded. Any discussion? If not, phase tail the roily The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Alonso, who moved its adoption:' RESOLUTION No. 90-713 A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENTS, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS, ENTITLED ."SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT NO. 2" AND "PAYMENT ESTIMATE - CONTRACT PERFORMANCE", PROVIDING FOR THE REMITTANCE OF $225,222,75 FROM THE U.S. CORPS OF ENGINEERS AS PAYMENT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S SHARE OF COSTS INCURRED AS A RESULT OF REMEDIAL WORK ON THE FOUNTAIN FOUNDATION AND SERVICE TUNNEL FOUNDATION FOR THE BAYFRONT PARK RECREATION PROJECT. F • (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 Victor De Yurre Commissioner.J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 69. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE SECTIONS 35-33, 42-74, 42-79 AND 42- 80 (TOWING AND STORAGE OF MOTOR VEHICLES) - INCREASE CHARGES AND FEES. ' Mr..Odios Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor... Commissioner Plummer: Do you want to do this on Tobacco Road or not? Mayor Suarez: I1.4 just as soon wait until the 27th. Commissioner Plummer: An ordinance. Do you want to wait? s Mr. Odio: We need, we need... Mayor Suarez: Yes, because the Manager is saying that there's two other items, and we're way beyond our time here. *, 31 Mr. Odio: We used badly 13 and 14, which are first readings of ordinances. t t Mayer Suarers What are they, Mr. Manager? Mr. Odios One is to increase the charges and fees of the administration cost precisely? on the towing agencies and storage of vehicles. Commissioner Plumners Move it. 4w. s ttr�a' a p q `` ` a 1 gq 19-11 1�Y�6: �� � a l f Sh R 3 yy t n K 7 Fir. ij % oraideioaeg Mn* Provided that wee delayed the4 . , b Kr. Mot No, that is the ae the other t6ftisa over plummerk Move it. i Rayon duaret! Moved and seconded. Item 13. Is it an ordinance? 4 Mr. Fernand6st Yee, it is. ` Gomissioner Pluim or: Read the ordinance. . Mayor Suarez: Head the ordinance. Call the roll. ` THEREUPON, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD, BY TITLE ONLY. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. Mr. Fernandez: And, for the record, this is an item that - it's not the item i that was delivered in the package. It's an item that was delivered subsequent to, because some minor modifications were made in the body of the ordinance. Mr. Odio: Fourteen is the amendment to the Code related to a special off duty 'S police officers charges. We're going... Ms. Hirai: Excuse me, Mr. Manager, I need to call the roll on that. Mr. Odio: Oh. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, AS SAID CODE RELATES TO TOWING AND STORAGE OF MOTOR VEHICLES; INCREASING CHARGES AND FEES TO REFLECT THE INCREASED ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS OF TOWING AGENCIES AND THE STORAGE OF VEHICLES IN THE CITY AUTO POUND; MORE PARTICULARLY BY AMENDING SECTION 35-33, 42-74, 42-79 AND 42-80 OF SAID CODE; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. - Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Alonso and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre s Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. g Commissioner Miriam Alonso rip, Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 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. ;ry j 267BF # 1 r dWAbA1Q6 i0. FtRST MOING OADINA f t AM CODE SECTIONS 4I4.1 AND 5405, AND ADD O:- NEt�f SICT fog 42-11 (SPECIAL Oil' DM POLICE SERVICIS AND PFRMfTS RWt1t1b FOR PARADES AND PROCESSIONS) PROVIDE FOR INCREASED CHANTS. f ... .. i,W�ilbr.�YlYlYriwYiiY,iiiiiii�ifiliY�ItYbir+iYiiWiliY.ii�Y.Y�YY�Y• _....Y�iYiH±H•YYrwf4W •.• .'• •.:•—� �•"--`�•. •. .7. '. h � - 1 n rtz y Mayor Suareits Companion item... Comissioner Plummert I move fourteen. Mayor Suarerts The companion item. y Vice Mayor Dawkinat Second. j Mayor Suarett Moved and seconded. Read the ordinance. Call the roll. A AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,' FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, AS SAID CODE RELATES TO TOWING AND STORAGE OF MOTOR VEHICLES; INCREASING CHARGES AND FEES TO REFLECT THE INCREASED ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS OF TOWING AGENCIES AND THE STORAGE OF VEHICLES IN THE CITY AUTO POUND; MORE PARTICULARLY BY AMENDING - SECTIONS 35-33, 42-74, 42-79 AND 42-80 OF SAID CODEf CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. >e Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Dawkins and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: AYES( Commissioner Victor De Yurre f: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.- Commissioner Miriam Alonso Vice Mayor Miller J. Dawkins_ Mayor Xavier L. Suarez "6=— NOES: None. Ai - ABSENT: 'None. The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public recordand announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. u THERE BEING NO 7UR7HZR BIISINBSS TO cm E81.^OItB TM c=r — C OIKISSIOK, THE FETING VAS AWOUNM AT 9 s 42 P.R. Iawisr L. iRaaarta YATOPt z A2'1'SST is 9 Natty Hirai ,t, CITi CLERK v} Fu Walter J. J. Foemaa ASSISTANT CITE CLERK [ 1 NCOIiP �)RATE z ti 18 96 r. � rR 205 � Y J