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11 PRESENTATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS AND PRESENTED 1
3/3�89
� SPECIAL ITEMS.
CONSENT AGENDA. 1=2
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i 2.1 ALLOCATE $46.600 FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT R 89-213 2
TRUST FUND TO ACQUIRE A COMPUTER AIDED 3/3/89
TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM, A T.D.I.
CONVERTER AND A 3-38 MICROCOMPUTER WITH
LASER PRINTER.
1.2 ACCEPT BID: JUELLE, INC. - for R 89-214 3
furnishing demolition services to 3/3/89
Building 6 Zoning Dept.
E -2.3 ACCEPT BID: OMNICHROME - for furnishing R 89-215 3
`a fingerprint detection light source to 3/3/89
Police Dept.
E -
2.4 APPROVE BY-LAWS OF THE "BRING TO R 89-216
JUSTICE" REWARD FUND INC. - allocate 3/3/89
$10.000 from the Law Enforcement Trust
Fund as City's pro rata share (See
label 3)
2.S COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN: R 89-217 3 4z<,;
Amend R-78-271, amending by-laws - 3/3/89 4
Increase membership from 20 to 25, etc.
5 Y.
2.6 AUTHORIZE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN R 89-218 4
METRO-DADE COUNTY AND THE CITY: Make 3/3/89
joint application to Florida Solid
Waste Management Grant Program for
funding of recycling and related
education projects. '
2.7 AUTHORIZE BASEMENT AGREEMENT - for R 89-219 _4.>
Ingress and egress to and from 3/3/89
residence located at 3924 Hardie Road. ray
2.A RESCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING regarding a R 89-220
unified development request for 3/3/89 1«
proposals of City block number 43 (N.B.Wfi`
R ° 7 and 8 Streets and N.E. 1 and North Y Y6y}
Miami Avenues.) °:t
2.9. ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK AND AUTHORIZE R 89 221
FINAL ' PAYMENT: TARAFA CONSTRUCTION, 30'/89�� &;
for Virginia Key Improvements t H
LlfeguErd Facilities VIP Project
331044. 4
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INITIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MR. R 89-223
bti6ER'T S. IsRG, PRESIDENT, SAItogm, 3/3/69
t9i b/b/A POP EYE 'S FRISD CHICKEN - to
"cover Model City Small business Pilot
Leah Program's loan - rescind remaining
balance.
2,1E INITIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MS. R 69434
ULPHIN'E MURRAY, D/b/A D & D COIN 3/3/89
LAUNDRY - to recover Model City Small
business Pilot Loan Program's loan.
2.13 LAW DAY RUN 1989: Authorize street R 89-22S
closures. 3/3/89
2.14 1999 MIAMI MAGIC SK RUN: Authorize R 89-226
street closures, establish pedestrian 3/3/89
mall, etc. (See label 10).
3. (Continued discussion) "BRING TO DISCUSSION
JUSTICE" REWARD FUND, INC. (See label 3/3/89
2.4).
4. DISCUSSION ON DRUG PEDDLING IN THE DISCUSSION
CITY. 3/3/89
S. ACCEPT BID: ENGLESIDE SERVICE R 89-227
CONTRACTORS, INC. - for furnishing 3/3/89
custodial services at the Police North
8=11
Substation.
6.
EXECUTE CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS WITH 9
R 89-228 11-14
NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
3/3/89
ORGANIZATIONS - for implementing a
commercial facade treatment program -
allocate funds from 14th Year CDBG.
7.
EXECUTE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
R 89-229 14-16
WITH A. FOSTER HIGGINS & CO., INC. -
3/3/89
for actuarial assistance in pension
matters.
S.
ESTABLISH SPECIAL CHARGES FOR USE OF
R 89-230 17
BOBBY MADURO BASEBALL STADIUM BY LITTLE
3/3/89
HAITI SOCCER LEAGUE - for 40 amateur
games - execute agreement. (See label
69)
9.
AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF REVOCABLE PERMIT
R 89-231 18-22 g
TO REYNOLDS ALUMINUM RECYCLING
3/3/89
e
COMPANY - for space in parking lot of
Fire Training Center. (Limit recycling
to cans only).,
- 10.
(Continued discussion) 1989 MIAMI MAGIC
DISCUSSION 22-23 :
SK RUN (See label 2.14).
3/3/89
11.
DISCUSSION ON THE STATUS OF HIRING
DISCUSSION 23-25 -
ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC
3/3/89
SERVICE AIDES FOR POLICE DEPT.
�• 12.
COMMISSION OPPOSES 2 PERCENT COUNTYWIDE
M 89-232 25,1
FOOD AND BEVERAGE TAX - Instruct
3/3J89 ;
Administration to request Greater Miami
6
Convention and Visitors' Bureau to
provide details of how it plans to
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'spend money from the proposed tax.
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13.
A. STATUS REPORT ON SOUTHEAST
DISCUSSION
SO-SO
OVERTOWN/PARK WEST REDEVELOPMENT
3/3/89
PROJECT.
B. DISCUSSION REGARDING PROPOSED SITE
FOR NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
14.
A. APPROVE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
M 89-233
38-41
BID ADVERTISEMENTS: Police Dept.
DISCUSSION
equipment acquisition (FY '89).
3/3/89
B. DISCUSSION REGARDING CITY'S
DUPLICATION OF PRISONER PROCESSING
PROCEDURE.
C. DISCUSSION: Greater Miami
Convention and Visitors Bureau - City
Attorney to obtain the financial
information of Bureau.
is.
A. DISCUSSION ON STATUS OF DADE COUNTY
DISCUSSION
41-42
HELICOPTER CO. AND CHALK'S AIRLINES ON
3/3/89
WATSON ISLAND.
B. DISCUSSION REGARDING NATIONAL
CONVENTION OF MUNICIPAL LAW OFFICERS
CONFERENCE - scheduled to come to Miami
16.
DISCUSSION ON RAILROAD TRUCKS.
DISCUSSION
42-44
3/3/89
17.
CITIZENS' INDEPENDENT REVIEW PANEL:
DISCUSSION
44-46
Report (Overtown)
3/3/89
18.
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: Authorize
M 89-234
46-52
creation of the Model City Local
ORDINANCE
Government Neighborhood Improvement
10557
District - in accordance with Sect.
3/3/89
163.506 F.S. (amend ordinance by
changing proposed boundaries from NW 36
to NW 17 Ave., State Rd. 112, and NW 12
Avenue).
19.
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: Authorize
ORDINANCE
52-53
creation of the Allapattah Local
10558
Government Neighborhood Improvement
3/3/89
District - in accordance with Section
`
163.506 F.S.
20.
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: Authorize
ORDINANCE
53-55
creation of the Overtown Local
10559
_-
Government Neighborhood Improvement
3/3/89
District - in accordance with Section
163.506 F.S.
21.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: $200,000 for
ORDINANCE
56
a Strategic Plan for the City.
10560
3/3/89
22.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: Amend
ORDINANCE
56-57
Ordinance 10421 by increasing project
10561
entitled "Preliminary General
3/3/89
Obligation Bond Expenses - 198811 (No.
322005) by $20,000.
23.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: Establish
ORDINANCE
57-61
special revenue fund entitled
10562
"Emergency Shelter Grant (FY189)" -
3/3/89
appropriating $186,000 from USHUD.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: Amend Code,
ORDINANCE
61
Chapter 37, "Offenses -
10563
Miscellaneous" - by adding new Section
3/3/89
37-71 entitled "Unsecured and Vacant
Structures".
2S.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend
ORDINANCE
62-63
Ordinance 10484 by increasing
FIRST READING
appropriations ($34,000) -
3/3/89
International Trade Promotion.
26.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend Code,
ORDINANCE
63
Section 42-8 - provide for assessment
FIRST READING
of charges for provision of special
3/3/89
departmental services.
27.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend Code,
ORDINANCE
63-64
Section 38-82 - provide that Bayfront
FIRST READING
Park Management Trust may reserve the
3/3/89
park on behalf of the City for an
additional 30 days each year for
community use or Trust sponsored events
and may waive Amphitheater rental fees.
28.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend
ORDINANCE
64-65
Ordinance 10413 by increasing
FIRST READING
appropriation ($121,824) to special
3/3/89
revenue fund entitled "Pre -School
Program Consolidated".
29.
A) DISCUSSION ON BAYFRONT PARK RULES
DISCUSSION
65-66
TEMPORARILY PROHIBITING CERTAIN
3/3/89
ACTIVITIES (i.e. skateboarding).
B) DISCUSSION REGARDING MAINTAINING A
QUORUM FOR BAYFRONT PARK MANAGEMENT
TRUST.
30.
OLYMPIC GAMES: Assign responsibility
R 89-235
66-67
of securing the hosting of the Games in
3/3/89
2000 to the Orange Bowl Committee.
31.
ORANGE BOWL: Discussion on the status
DISCUSSION
68
of improvements.
3/3/89
32.
JOB TRAINING, HOUSING AND HEALTH
DISCUSSION
68-72
SERVICES: Alternative Program,
3/3/89
Inc. Discussion and temporary
deferral (See label 42).
33.
TACOLCY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
R 89-236
72-75
CORPORATION, INC.: - Authorize contract
3/3/89
agreement for commercial facade program
along N.W. 15th Avenue between N.W.
60th and N.W. 71st Streets in Model
City.
34.
NAACP'S REQUEST FOR TEMPORARY LOAN FOR
DISCUSSION
76-77-
USE OF BALLROOM IN HYATT REGENCY HOTEL
3/3/89
IN CONNECTION WITH ITS ANNUAL "FREEDOM
FUND BANQUET": Discussion and temporary
deferral (See label 43).
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ACCEPT TWO GRANTS FROM FLORIDA DEPT. OF
R 89-239 82-83
HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES:
3/3/89
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES - execute
j
agreements to purchase one EMS Type III
Paramedic Rescue Vehicle and one part-
timre accident and first aid resource
tvicher.
37. TIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend Ord.
ORDINANCE 83-84
10521 by increasing project entitled
FIRST READING
1
"Fire Rescue New Apparatus
3/3/89
Acquisition - FY '89" No. 313229,
($65,000), appropriating funds from
Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative
'
Services Grant.
30. EXECUTE AGREEMENT: RUSSELL PARTNERSHIP,
R 89-240 84-92
INC. - for professional design
3/3/89
consultant services for the Morningside
Recreation Building Project (No.
331313).
39. EXECUTE AGREEMENT:
ASSOCIATES, INC.
RICKETTS, ARCHITECT
design consultant
African Square Park
(No. 331053).
40. EXECUTE AGREEMENT:
ASSOCIATES, INC.
design consultant
Grapeland, Hadley
Irrigation projects
LAURA LLERENA AND R 89-241
AND HERMINE E. M 89-241.1
- for professional 3/3/89
services for the
Renovations Project
LAURA LLERENA AND R 89-242
- for professional 3/3/89
services for the
and Morningside Park
(No. 331338).
41. HERITAGE CONSERVATION BOARD: Brief DISCUSSION
discussion on appointment. 3/3/89
92-93
93-94
94-95
42.
(Continued discussion) EXECUTE
R 89-243
95-96
AGREEMENT: ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS, INC. -
R 89-243.1
to provide a case management program to
3/3/89
refer clients to agencies providing job
training, housing and health services
(See label 32).
43.
(Continued discussion) APPROVE NAACP'S
M 89-244
96-98 *-
REQUEST FOR TEMPORARY LOAN FOR USE OF
3/3/89
_
BALLROOM IN HYATT REGENCY HOTEL IN
CONNECTION WITH ITS ANNUAL "FREEDOM
FUND BANQUET" (See label 34)
44.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ADVISORY BOARD:
R 89-245
98
Appointed was John Bennett.
3/3/89
45.
CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD: Appointed were
R 89-246
99-100
Ana Magda Guillen and Thelbert
3/3/89
Johnakin.
4F.
VAIVE CODE REQUIREMENTS AND EXECUTE
R 89-248
101-162
AGREEMENT - for professional planning
3/3/89
services with Reginald A. Barker, AICP,
In connection with the Increments I and
It of the Southeast Overtown/Park West
Development of Regional Impact - with
funds from 14th Year CDBG.
48.
INCREASE CONTRACT AMOUNT: TARAFA
R 89-249
102-103
CONSTRUCTION, INC. - for construction
3/3/89
of Fire Garage/Fire Station No. 3,
Modification and Expansion (second
bidding), CIP Project 313019.
49.
1989 MIAMI JAZZ FESTIVAL: Brief
DISCUSSION
103-104
discussion and deferral (See label 63).
3/3/89
50.
44TH MIAMI INTERNATIONAL ORCHID SHOW:
R 89-250
104
Valve portion of rental fee for use of
3/3/89
Coconut Grove Exhibition Center.
51.
COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND PARADE:
DISCUSSION
105-108
Discussion.
3/3/89
S2.
COCONUT GROVE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE:
M 89-251
108-110
Expand scope of Committee.
3/3/89
53.
A. AIDS MARCH: Grant request from
R 89-252
111-113
Health Crisis Network for street
R 89-253
closures.
3/3/89
B. Allocate one free community day
_
from existing community days reserved
for City events to Health Crisis
Network for use of Bayfront Park
Amphitheater.
54.
A. PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF DAY CARE
R 89-254
114-118
-
FACILITY IN ALLAPATTAH: Instruct City
M 89-255
-
Manager to execute a professional
3/3/89
services agreement with Heriberto
-
Fonseca - to include solicitation of
area merchants and State of Florida
support.
B. Clarify previously passed motion in
-_
connection with professional services
agreement with Heriberto Fonseca for
proposed development of day care
facility in Allapattah.
55.
MARCH OF DIMES 19TH ANNUAL WALKAMERICA
R 89-256
118-121
EVENT: Authorize street closures,
3/3/89
1
restriction of retail peddlers, etc.
56.
AMERICAN LEGION: Grant request
R 89 257
121-122
for street closures (See label
3/3/89
74.)
57.
BAYFRONT PARK: Discussion on status
DISCUSSION
122-123
report.
3/3/89
-
58.
LEGION PARK MINI -STATION: Discussion.
DISCUSSION
123-125
3/3/89
59.
I.ATIN QUARTER SPECIALTY CENTER:
DISCUSSION
125-129`
Discussion on status.
3/3/89
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IS`IABLISH A TAX INCREMENT DISTRICT FOR M 89-258
THE LIBERTY CITY AREA: Instruct City 3/3/89
Manager to have a redevelopment plan
prepared, together with proposed
boundaries and plans for proposed
revenues.
61. TROPICAL CLEAR BLUE LAUNDRY SYSTEM: R 69-259
Accept possible second position on 3/3/89
loan.
62. ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC: Direct City R 89-260
Manager to pay outstanding bills in 3/3/89
connection with the 1988 event and turn
over balance of money to designated
custodian, Mr. Garth Reeves, for the
next event.
63. (Continued discussion) 1989 MIAMI JAZZ R 89-261
FESTIVAL: Grant request from 3/3/89
representatives of Production Center
for the Arts, Inc. to waive rental fee
for use of Miami Marine Stadium (See
label 49).
129-ISO
131-139
139-144
144-147
64.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend Code
ORDINANCE
147-148
Section 14-17 to expand the boundaries
FIRST READING
of the Downtown Development District.
3/3/89
65.
YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL: Instruct
M 89-262
148-149
City Manager to appoint a liaison
3/3/89
from the City to reactivate the
_
Council.
66.
SALTWATER SPORT FISHING SHOW:
R 89-263
149-150 _
Authorize special dockage rates for
3/3/89
Dinner Key marina pier 6 - execute
agreement.
-
67.
ACCEPT BID: J.R. BUILDERS - for
R 89-264
150-151
demolition services in connection with
3/3/89
the Golden Arms apartment building at
2000 S. W. 24th Street.
68.
GRANT REQUEST FROM BELLE MEADE
M 89-265
151-154 _
NEIGHBORHOOD in support of their
3/3/89
efforts to have Florida Power & Light
place underground electric wires, at no
expense to the City.
69.
(Continued discussion) COSMOPOLITAN
M 89-266
154-155
SOCCER LEAGUE IN LITTLE HAITI: Refer
3/3/8921
to City Manager, to fund the group out
of the Law Enforcement Trust Fund (See
label 8).
70.
A) REQUEST METRO-DADE COUNTY TO PUT UP
R 89-267
155-164. -
"STOP" AND "CHILDREN AT PLAY" SIGNS IN
M 89-268
THE AREA OF KUMQUAT AND LOQUAT AVENUES
M 89-269
AT WESTERLY SIDE OF INTERSECTION WITH
3/3/89
DOUGLAS ROAD.
B) DENY PROPOSED RESTRICTION OF
VEHICULAR ACCESS TO KUMQUAT AND LOQUAT
AVENUES AT WESTERLY SIDE OF
INTERSECTION WITH DOUGLAS ROAD.
C) INSTRUCT ADMINISTRATION TO MEET
-
WITH RESIDENTS OF KUMQUAT AND LOQUAT
AVENUES AND SURROUNDING STREETS TO SEEK
A SOLUTION TO THE TRAFFIC PROBLEMS IN
'
THE AREA (See label 72).
Grant it 84=3I0
radlu 313/89
TWIFIC DISCUSSION
AWNWIS 3/3/89
DESIGN DISTRICT: Authorize
temporary restriction of vehicular
access, using removable barricades.
(Continued Discussion) ANERICAN LEGIONS
Refer funding request to Administration
(See label 36).
R 89-271
3/3/89
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3/3/89
MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF THE
CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
a e
On the 3rd day of March, 1989, the City Commission of Miami, Florida,
met at its regular meeting place in the City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive,
Miami, Florida in regular session.
The meeting was called to order at 9:12 a.m. by Mayor Xavier Suarez with
the following members of the Commission found to be present:
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
ALSO PRESENT:
Cesar Odio, City Manager
Jorge L. Fernandez, City Attorney
Walter J. Foeman, Assistant City Clerk
An invocation was delivered by West Miami Mayor Reboredo. Vice Mayor De
Yurre then led those present in a pledge of allegiance to the flag.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: ITEMS 7, 30, 35, 42, 64 AND 68 WERE
WITHDRAWN FROM THE AGENDA.
1. PRESENTATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS AND SPECIAL ITEMS.
1. Commendation plaques were presented to the following City of Miami
Employees of the Year: Lourdes Rodriguez, Michael Jimenez and John Wood.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Minutes of the Regular and Planning and
Zoning City Commission meeting of December 15, 1988 and the
Special City Commission meeting of January 18, 1989 were
unanimously approved.
2. CONSENT AGENDA
Mayor Suarez: The Consent Agenda, it consists of items one through twenty.
Is one of these yours, Mayor? Item five? Do you want it pulled or if we pass
it are you going to be pleased and you're just going to thank us?
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
_ Mayor Suarez: OK, why don't we just leave it in there unless sc9rta
_! Commissioner has any doubts on it. Commissioners, which items, otherwise,
would you like pulled? Item 7 has been withdrawn. y:
Mr. Dawkins: Why? 4 r
Mayor Suarez: Administration, why are you pulling seven?�
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Mr. Odle: This has to be worked out with the Law Department. We're still not
together on this.
Mr. Dawkins: Weli, I'm going to tell you, I'm going to vote no to start with
so you all can worry about anything you want.
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Mr. Odio: OK, sir.
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Mr. Odle: OK.
!� Mr. Dawkins: All right.
Mayor Suarez: OK, any other items that need to be pulled?
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Mr. Dawkins: Yes. Pull three. Go ahead, J.L., I'm sorry.
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Mayor Suarez: Three, Commissioner Dawkins. Plummer. _
IMr. Dawkins: Three, 8, 9 and 13.
Mr. Plummer: I pull 12.
Mrs. Kennedy: I don't have any.
Mayor Suarez: OK, with the exception of items 3, 8, ,9, 12 and 13, I'll
entertain a motion on the consent agenda.
Mr. Plummer: So move.
Mrs. Kennedy: So moved.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Call the roll.
ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER PLUMMER AND SECONDED. BY COMMISSIONER
KENNEDY THE CONSENT AGENDA WAS APPROVED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
2.1 ALLOCATE $46,600 FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND TO ACQUIRE A COMPUTER
AIDED TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM, A T.D.I. CONVERTER AND A B-38 MICROCOMPUTER
WITH LASER PRINTER.
RESOLUTION NO. 89-213 '
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
FORTY SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS (646,600)
FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND.TO 7 3X
COVER THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACQUISITION OF A
COMPUTER ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACQUISITION OF A
COMPUTER AIDED TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM A T.D.I."
CONVERTER AND A B-36 MICRO COMPUTER WITH LASER
PRINTER, UPON SUCH COSTS HAVING BEEN APPROVED BY THE a
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2.2 ACCEPT BID: JUELLS, INC. - for furnishing demolition rervicee to
building A Zoning Dept.
RESOLUTION NO. 89-214
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF JUELLE, INC. FOR
THE FURNISHING OF DEMOLITION SERVICES FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING AND ZONING AT A TOTAL
PROPOSED COST OF $48,854.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEMOLITION
FUND ACCOUNT CODE NOS. 451220-340-799-206
($29,030.00) AND 451420-340-799206 ($19,624.00);
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF
PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR
THIS SERVICE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
2.3 ACCEPT BID: OMNICHROME - for furnishing a fingerprint detection light
source to Police Dept.
RESOLUTION No. 89-215
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF OMNICHROME FOR
FURNISHING A FINGERPRINT DETECTION LIGHT SOURCE FOR
THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF
$9,720.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM PROJECT NO. 312015
ACCOUNT CODE NO. 299401-840; 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
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2.4 APPROVE BY-LAWS OF THE "BRING TO JUSTICE" REWARD FUND INC.
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$10,000 from the Law Enforcement Trust Fund as City's pro
rate share
(See label 3).
RESOLUTION NO. 89-216
A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENTS, APPROVING AND
ACCEPTING THE BY-LAWS OF THE "BRING TO JUSTICE"
REWARD FUND, INC., AND ALLOCATING THE AMOUNT OF
$10,000 FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND AS THE
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2.5 COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN: Amend R-78-271, amending by-laws:-
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increase membership from 20 to 25, etc.
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RESOLUTION NO. 89-217
A RESOLUTION AMENDING SECTION 1 OF RESOLUTION NO.
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78-271, ADOPTED APRIL 27, 1978, WHICH AMENDED BY-
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LAWS OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN, MORE
PARTICULARLY BY AMENDING SAID BY-LAWS BY PROVIDING
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FOR AN INCREASE IN MEMBERSHIP FROM 20 TO 25 MEMBERS;
PROVIDING FOR LIMITATIONS ON LENGTH OF MEMBERSHIP;
ELIMINATING THE OFFICE OF SECRETARY AND CREATING NEW
OFFICERS; AMENDING THE METHOD OF ELECTING OFFICERS;
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PROVIDING FOR ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS AND
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RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE MEMBERS; AND FURTHER
PROVIDING A METHOD OF TERMINATING MEMBERSHIP.
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(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
1.6 AUTHORIZE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN METRO-DADE COUNTY AND THE CITY:
Make joint application to Florida Solid Waste Management Grant program
for funding of recycling and related education projects.
RESOLUTION N0. 89-218
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MIAMIo FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
ENTER INTO AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY AND THE CITY OF MIAMI IN
ORDER TO MAKE A JOINT APPLICATION TO THE STATE OF
FLORIDA SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT GRANT PROGRAM FOR THE
FUNDING OF RECYCLING AND RELATED EDUCATION PROJECTS
IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 403.7095 FLORIDA STATUTE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
2.7 AUTHORIZE EASEMENT AGREEMENT - for ingress and egress to and from
residence located at 3924 Hardie Road.
RESOLUTION NO. 89-219
A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, AUTHORIZING THE
DIRECTOR OF THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT TO EXECUTE
AN EASEMENT AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM
ATTACHED, FOR A HOMEOWNER TO HAVE INGRESS AND EGRESS
TO AND FROM THE RESIDENCE LOCATED APPROXIMATELY AT
3924 HARDIE ROAD, MIAMI, FLORIDA.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
2.8 RESCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING regarding a unified development request for
proposals of City block number 43 (N.E. 7 and 8 Streets and N.E. 1 and
North Miami Avenues.)
RESOLUTION NO. 89-220
A RESOLUTION RESCHEDULING A PUBLIC HEARING FROM
MARCH 9, 1989, 2:00 P.M. TO APRIL 13, 1989, 2:00
P.M. TAKE TESTIMONY REGARDING A UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF CITY
BLOCK NUMBER 43 NORTH BOUNDED BY N.E. 7TH AND 8TH
STREETS, N.E. 1ST AND NORTH MIAMI AVENUES.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
2.9 ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK AND AUTHORIZE FINAL PAYMENT: TARAFA CONSTRUCTION,
INC. - for Virginia
Key Improvements Lifeguard Facilities
CIP Project
331044.
RESOLUTION NO. 89-221
A RESOLUTION
ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF TARAFA
CONSTRUCTION,
INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF 627,165.00 FOR
VIRGINIA KEY
IMPROVEMENTS LIFEGUARD FACILITIES CIP
PROJECT NO. 331044 AND AUTHORIZING A FINAL PAYMENT
OF $2,716.50.
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body of resolution, omitted here and
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2.10 ACCEPT PLAT ENTITLED "CHEVRON MIAMI TRACT".
RESOLUTION NO. 89-222
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE PLAT ENTITLED "CHEVRON
MIAMI TRACT", A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MIAMI;
AND ACCEPTING THE DEDICATIONS SHOWN ON SAID PLAT;
AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER AND
CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE PLAT AND PROVIDING FOR THE
RECORDATION OF SAID PLAT IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF
DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
2.11 INITIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MR. ROBERT S. BERG, PRESIDENT,
SAILORMEN, INC., D/B/A POPEYE'S FRIED CHICKEN - to recover Model City
Small Business Pilot Loan Program's loan - rescind remaining balance.
RESOLUTION NO. 89-223
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
INSTRUCT THE CITY ATTORNEY TO INITIATE APPROPRIATE
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND CIVIL ACTION AGAINST MR.
ROBERTS. BERG, PRESIDENT, SAILORMEN, INC., D/B/A
POPEYE'S FRIED CHICKEN, TO RECOVER LOAN FUNDS IN THE
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AMOUNT OF $24,335.25 TO SAID INDIVIDUAL THROUGH THE
MODEL CITY SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT PILOT LOAN
PROGRAM; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
RESCIND THE REMAINING BALANCE OF $664.75 ALLOCATED
TO THE AFOREMENTIONED BUSINESS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
2.12 INITIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST MS. DELPHINE MURRAY, D/B/A D & D
COIN
LAUNDRY - to recover Model City Small Business Pilot Loan Program's
loan.
— RESOLUTION NO. 89-224
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
INSTRUCT THE CITY ATTORNEY TO INITIATE APPROPRIATE
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LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AND CIVIL ACTION AGAINST MS.
DELPHINE MURRAY, D/B/A D. & D. COIN LAUNDRY, TO
RECOVER LOAN FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,000 TO SAID
INDIVIDUAL THROUGH 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.)
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2.13 LAW DAY RUN 1989: Authorize street closures.
RESOLUTION NO. 89-225
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE LAW DAY RUN 1989 TO BE
CONDUCTED BY THE GREATER MIAMI RUNNING ASSOCIATION
— ON APRIL 30, 1989, CLOSING CERTAIN STREETS TO
THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE
OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE AND FIRE,
RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES; CONDITIONED UPON THE
ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR THE NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY
SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH SAID EVENT AND THE
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REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY BE INSURED AGAINST ANY
POTENTIAL LIABILITY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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2.14 1999 MIAMI !MAGIC SK RUN: Authorize street closures, establish pedestrian
mall, etc. (See label 10).
RESOLUTION NO. 69-226
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE 1989 MIAMI MAGIC SK RUN
TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREATER
MIAMI, INC. ON APRIL 22, 1989; AUTHORIZING THE
CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR
TRAFFIC, ESTABLISHING A TEMPORARY PEDESTRIAN MALL
SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE
DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND
INSPECTION SERVICE 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.)
3. (Continued discussion) "BRING TO JUSTICE" REWARD FUND, INC. (See label
2.4).
Mayor Suarez: Mayor Reboredo, at the risk of losing momentum, if you want to
make a quick statement...
Mayor Pedro Reboredo: Well, I don't think you will go back on your word, they
just passed it.
Mr. Plummer: Ha! You don't know this Commission.
Mayor Reboredo: Well, I see it's not much different from ours, but anyway I
really thank you and the Bring to Justice reward fund now it will have about
$20,000 and we will have many other people who are waiting for you all to give
the first step. The bylaws have been prepared and approved by your attorney.
Mayor from the City of Miami is here with us, who's been very
cooperative and also Mr. Mats, our City Manager, who you know. And I really
thank you and we'll have a press conference pretty soon to announce this and
have crime stoppers advertise, begin advertising the reward fund so every
criminal knows before they pull the trigger, that there's already a bounty on
their head if they shoot a police cft:cer. So, thank you very much.
Mayor Suarez: Mayor, because you're so active in the area of law enforcement,
have you thought about something that's been mentioned in this Commission and
we've never acted on which is the publication of people who are arrested for
buying drugs in the community, publication of their names?
Mayor Reboredo: That's a very good idea. And I think that...
Mr. Dawkins: And their address.
Mayor Suarez: And their address.
Mayor Reboredo: That's absolutely right. And now that I - if, in line with
this same subject, if I'm...
Mayor Suarez: If you would consider that and make a recommendation to this
Commission, I think we'd like to hear about it and we'd, of course, would have
our City Attorney help with and our City Legal Department help with the -
legalities of that so that we don't get sued for libel but I...
Mayor Reboredo: Yes...
Mayor Suarez: ... I've been talking to people about the situation- with
outsiders coming into our communities, our inner cities, and buying drugs here
and, of course, it's very difficult to pin them down on any kind of a crime
afterwards or conviction, but at least to have their names printed in the
newspapers as people coming into our community to buy drugs.
Mayor Reboredo: I'll ask Gus Efthimiore who just came, our City Attorney,
he's going to have another job...
Mayor Suarez: Ah, we give him a quick, an instant legal opinion. We do that
with our City Attorney all the time.
Gus Efthimiore, Jr., Esq.: My instant opinion is that there's no prohibition
of advertising or displaying the name of a person who's been lawfully
arrested. It's a matter of public record and, therefore, it can be disclosed
and should be.
Mr. Plummer: As long as it's not a minor.
Mayor Suarez: As long as it's not a minor.
Mr. Efthimiore: As long as it's not a minor, that is correct. That's the
only exception.
Mayor Suarez: What is the name of the new City Attorney?
Mayor Reboredo: Gus Efthimiore.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, surely.
Mayor Reboredo: And one more thing in reference to this. Just food for
thought, OK? Since we're neighbors along Oth Street and we share of the
problems with prostitution, etcetera. We've been looking into this
possibility because the number of motels that cater to this kind of a
situation. Just as an idea that it was brought up before, we brought it up
for the State Legislature. One of the main problems is the motels do rent per
hour and if a motel is for family purposes, should be a minimum of 24 hours
and maybe....
Mayor Suarez: Should be absolutely prohibited. You mentioned that to me the
other day. Or at least a minimum of half a day or whatever makes sense if
some people occasionally need a room for half a day for valid reasons, but I
can't imagine for an hour.
Mayor Reboredo: And that will give another tool for the Police Department to
check on that and if, of course, if they fail to do that, they could lose
their license. So, anyway, that's something that we're looking into and I'll
appreciate if we all can work together on that. Thank you very much.
Mayor Suarez: We'll support most of, if not all of your law enforcement
initiatives, Mayor, and we commend you for them.
4. DISCUSSION ON DRUG PEDDLING IN THE CITY.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: ... I'd like to ask our City Attorney, I've gotten numerous
complaints and yesterday I was on the radio talk show and the main theme was
crime, I mean, drugs. Why is it that we allow young males, black males, to
stand on corner continuously eight, ten, and twelve hours and we know they're
selling out there peddling drugs and we do not harass them, we do not run them
off the corners, and we don't do anything. Why?
Mr. Plummer: I've been asking that question for years. I'll tell you again.
I'll take you right now to three intersections in Coconut Grove where you're
only limited by the cocaine you have by the money in your pocket and they're
so damn obvious it's unbelievable.
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Mr. Dawkins: Well, by the same token, J.L., you and I have been to Liberty
City and as we ride through and they run up to your car and nothing looks more
like a police car than yours.
Mr. Plummer: I had two...
Mr. Dawkins: And they sell... they run up there to sell us drugs and we're
riding in his car.
Mr. Plummer: I had two of them arguing who could make the change.
Mr. Dawkins: So, now why is it that we permit this?
Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Would you like an answer, Commissioner?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, sir, please.
Mr. Fernandez: Our police officers may only effectuate an arrest when there
Is probable cause. Probable cause they are very well trained to determine
when there is a crime being committed...
Mr. Plummer: You see, that's the problem. You're talking about arrest,
that's not what he's talking about.
Mr. Fernandez: Well, otherwise, there is a constitutional prohibition against
harassing people, against forcing people to move on and keep them moving.
Mr. Plummer: With that kind of attitude, my friend, the situations going to
persist.
Mr. Fernandez: Well, then...
- Mr. Plummer: I've said to the Police Chief and I'll tell you on the record,
at those three locations if you park a policeman with a police car, you're
going to move them and if you keep them moving, they're not going to make
their sales.
Mr. Dawkins: But by the same token...
Mr. Plummer: It's not harassment, just selective enforcement.
Mr. Fernandez: All right. That...
Mr. Dawkins: By the same token, J.L., we've got police cars and we've got
motorcycle motormen. Now what says that the police car can't pass there every
30 minutes and the guy on the motorcycle pass there every 30 minutes and you
don't have to bother them. The people who buying the drugs will not buy the
drugs because the police presence is always there. I mean, something has to
be done, Mr. Manager, I don't know how. OK, thank you, Mr. Mayor.
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5. ACCEPT BID: ENGLESIDE SERVICE CONTRACTORS, INC. - for furnishing
custodial services at the Police North Substation.
Mayor Suarez: OK, item three, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Williams, will you turn to page seven of item three? -
Mr. Ron Williams: Page seven.
Mr. Dawkins:
You have it?
That's the resolutions,
Mr. Williams.
The
resolutions.
Mr. Williams:
Yes, yes.
Mr. Dawkins:
You got it? All
right. The last two lines...
Mr. Williams:
Are you saying,
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Mr. Dawkins: Number three.
Mr. Williams: Number three.
Mr. Dawkins: Number three, page seven, the resolution.
Mr. Williams: Yes, I'm with you.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Williams: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: You got the resolution? The last three lines starting at the
and - no, may, "... order for this service," and then I want to start there
where it may, "... and thereafter, to renew this contract annually at the same
price terms and conditions." Now you never bring a contract like that up here
for me and the only contract I have seen with these terms is a black
contractor. I raised hell when you brought it up to me the last time and yet
you bring one back with the same terms this time, sir. Delete, "...at the
same price and terms and conditions," and I'll move it.
Mr. Williams: We have no problem deleting that, Commissioner Dawkins. We
have no problem whatsoever. We can rebid this document, rebid...
Mr. Dawkins: Rebid it? What you got to rebid it for?
Mr. Williams: On an annual basis, and/or...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, you see, you don't do that with nobody else. You
put in there that this contract can be renewed at the will of you people. And
that's the administration. But because this is a black contractor, you got to
rebid it and... come on, give me a break up here.
Mr. Williams: My only point to you, Commissioner, and if I may explain it is,
you're absolutely right, we should not stick it in at the same price.
However, we have to have some kind of provision by which escalations may be
included in the contract. One, of course, is the normal formal way is to
rebid it annually. If you're suggesting that we provide for some...
Mr. Dawkins: You don't rebid all the other... no, no, no. All I'm suggesting
to you, sir, is that you treat this one as you treat every other contract you
have where you say we renew annually. That's all I'm asking. I don't want
you to do me no special favors, I don't want you to do anybody no special
favors, I want the same treatment you give everybody else. Now, however you
do it, do it.
Mayor Suarez: Let me follow up and ask the Manager. Really, I think the
Manager should be put on the spot here. Why is it that almost all of these,
when we get them, have like 3 year terms and at our option, they can be
renewed on a yearly basis and this one seems to be unnecessary now to rebid -
every single year, every twelve month period.
Mr. Williams: No, that...
Mayor Suarez: They don't seem to be the same clause but the Commissioner's
saying, they don't seem to be the same as the other ones. The other ones
we're always worried about the opposite of what he's worried about right now.
We're always worried about the fact that it seems like it's an automatic
thing. Now, all of a sudden, we get one where it seems like it's a - the
whole thing has to be rebid.
Mr. Williams: OK, no, Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: And I happen to like that but as Commissioner's saying, at
least they should be symmetrical, I mean, they should be parallel. One
shouldn't be one way and the other ones the other way.
Mr. Williams:
renewed at the
presently is.
OK, Mr. Mayor, the way it presently reads, the contract may be
same price and conditions on an annual basis. That's how it
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Mayor Fuarez: At whose option?
Mr. Villiams: At the City's option, OK? We will...
Mayor Suarez: OK, so we tie them down on price.
Mr. Dawkins: That's right.
Mr. Williams: Exactly right, OK.
Mr. Dawkins: So then, the cost of living goes up, the material goes up,
equipment goes up, then the person has to perform and lose money or somebody
else gets it? I mean, that's unfair.
Mr. Williams: I understand.
Mayor Suarez: See, what happens is, you finally have done what we've been
telling you about, but you picked the one which is a black owned company and
it seems like it's, you know, the first time that you did what we've been
asking for. And it happens.
Mr. Williams: OK, Commissioner Dawkins, I understand your point...
Mr. Plummer: Oh, I have no problem with that.
Mr. Williams: If I may suggest, the revision is naturally we can take out the
wording about it being renewed at the same price, terms, and conditions and
add in some kind of escalator in there and, of course, that would naturally
have to be determined at new contract award. We will bring that document back
to you on an annual basis for your approval because of the dollar amount
anyway.
Mr. Dawkins: Is that anything different than you do with the rest of them?
Mr. Williams: That depends upon the type of contract. We would like quite
often, Commissioner...
Mr. Dawkins: Is this anything different than you do on contracts that we give
out annually and bring up here and say we're going to renew them annually.
Are you going to do anything different with this one?
Mr. Williams: No, we're not.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, that's all I ask. Treat it just like we treat all the rest
of them, air.
Mr. Williams: We will do that.
Mr. Dawkins: I'll move it with that deletion.
Mr. Plummer: Second, is this coming out of the police budget? It says
general operating budget. I doesn't say that.
Mr. Williams: Well, yes, at this point, the way it's structured,
Commissioner, is that GSA has all of the custodial service responsibilities
throughout the City and that's where it's funded. We will be asking that it
be continued to...
Mr. Plummer: How can I sit here and determine what is an actual police budget
if you're paying other things from other sources?
Mr. Williams: It's the same as the main police station. We...
Mr. Plummer: Do they contribute to you from their 75 million?
Mr. Williams: Yes, yes, they do.
Mr. Plummer: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: OK, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion?
Call the roll.
10 March 9,
the following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, Who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION N0. 89-227
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF ENGLESIDE SERVICE
CONTRACTORS, INC. FOR THE FURNISHING OF CUSTODIAL
SERVICES AT THE POLICE NORTH SUBSTATION FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION ON A
CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY AT
A TOTAL ESTIMATED FIRST YEAR COST OF $52,222.32
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE OPERATING BUDGETS
1988-89 ($30,463.02) AND 1989-90 ($21,759.30) ACCOUNT
CODE NO. 921001-230; 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.
(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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
6. EXECUTE CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS WITH 9 NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONS - for implementing a commercial facade treatment program -
allocate funds from 14th Year CDBG.
Mayor Suarez: Item 8, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: I don't have my agenda but... My complaint with this was that
we're supposed to do - which one is the 15th Street...
Mr. Frank Castaneda: It's item 41.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION No. 89-229
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS WITH NINE (9)
NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS IN
SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED HERETO, UP TO THE
AMOUNTS SPECIFIED FOR EACH, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
IMPLEMENTING A COMMERCIAL FACADE TREATMENT PROGRAM;
FUNDS ARE ALLOCATED FROM THE FOURTEENTH (14TH) YEAR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUND IN THE AMOUNT
OF $162,400 DOLLARS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file In the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: Item nine.
Mr. Dawkins: In item nine...
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, we just did eight.
Ms. Ann Marie Adker: I have a ...
Mayor Suarez: Why don't you put your name on the record, Ann Marie.
Ms. Adker: I'm Ann Marie Adker, 407 N.W. Sth Street.
Mayor Suarez: And bring the mike down.
Ms. Adker: I'm here to speak specifically toward the New Washington Heights
allocations. . Now, I have a problem with this program on paper and we, the
residents of Overtown, realize that long ago we gave you the mechanism to
Inhibit the progress of the Overtown area and seemingly it has boiled down to
the intentional removal of residents from that area. New Washington Heights,
I can't see at this time anything visible that they have done and if anybody
can explain to me what has been done by this group, I would rescind those
thoughts. But I brought with me a message this morning from those residents
of Overtown that have been frustrated with this corporation and the message
is, we can take it no longer.
Mr. Dawkins: Mrs. Adker, we all are in agreement with what you say, but this
is for facade treatment Overtown, that is to fix up businesses in the area and
New Washington Heights is supposed to fix up three businesses and according to
this, the St. John Community Development will fix seven businesses.
Ms. Adker: Why can't they do the ten?
Mr. Dawkins: You'll have to ask him.
Mr. Castaneda: St. John's can do ten but St. John's and New Washington
Heights had reached an agreement in which they will be working on one side and
New Washington Heights on the other. I don't believe St. John has any problem
with this item.
Me. Adker: I don't imagine so either, but does it take $50,000 that's going
to go into administrative causes to do a facade treatment?
Mr. Castaneda: No. No. Nov Washington Heights main project is the
development of a hotel on a property...
Ms. Adker: Let's not go on that because we've been hearing that for years,
honey. They don't have any track record and I really can't foresee anything
coming out of New Washington Heights, whether it be a facade treatment or
anything else. They said they have been working with businesses and I've yet
to find the business that they have been working with.
Mr. Plummer: What assurance does this Commission have that that money will
used for what it says?
Mr. Castaneda: This money is directly for businesses, there's no
administrative monies taken out of here. All of this money will go to help
businesses.
Mrs. Kennedy: And they have to identify the businesses.
Mr. Castaneda: And the businesses have been identified. That's one thing
that we did this time that before we gave a contract, they had to identify the
business, that's why you see different allocations for different groups.
Ms. Adker: Sir, it was in 1984 that the Overtown Advisory Board went along
_ because we thought that would get rid of New Washington Heights and given them
$76,000 that was supposed to generate some sort of development in Overtown.
And it did not have an administrative cost clause in that contract and I'm
quite sure you have seen the audit of that money, and it is. So - I mean,
you've really stepped on us and we're tired of it now, we're really tired of
it. We're tired of supporting your cause and that's to get rid of us.
Mr. Castaneda: I think what Ann Marie Adker is really talking about that New
Washington Heights wants another $50,000 for next year to continue the
development...
Ms. Adker: No, I'm talking about the 50 thousand now.
Mr. Castaneda: Now, OK.
Ms. Adker: Yes. The project that they've been talking about for years isn't
like the Phoenix that they've been talking about since 1980, the ground hasn't
been broken yet. You know, don't you...
Mayor Suarez: It is a very, very difficult project to bring together,
everyone agrees on that. I don't want to say anything about the likelihood of
it happening, but I can't imagine that we should skimp on $4,200 at this
point, whatever the amount is if there's any likelihood that it will happen.
And I'm not going to even... I would put...
Ms. Adker: Wait a minute, what am I hearing now? Forty-two hundred as of
fifty thousand?
Mr. Castaneda: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: The item for New Washington Heights is $4,200...
Mrs. Kennedy: Forty-two hundred.
Ms. Adker: Forty-two hundred dollars and...
Mayor Suarez: It's peanuts compared to - I mean, that's within the Manager's
discretion. We...
Mr. Dawkins: ... to do three buildings. To do the front of...
Ms. Adker: Forty-two hundred dollars to do...
Mr. Dawkins: To do the fronts of three buildings, yes, ma'am.
Ms. Adker: And who would monitor this?
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Mr. Castaneda: Yes, Community Development.
Me. Adker: Who will monitor this?
Mayor Suarez: Ann Marie, this is within the Manager's discretion. We don't
even have to take this up at the Commission, OK?
Ms. Adker: Uh huh.
Mayor Suarez: Forty-two hundred dollars is such a small amount. Now, whether
they will be able to do this magnificent project or not is another question.
It's not an easy one. Everyone admits it's not - I don't think there's
anything in the nation like it, a community owned hotel, although if I was
going to invest money, I certainly would invest it in something like that in
that area because it's likely to be successful, but...
No. Adker: You'd better see...
Mayor Suarez: They don't have the financing for it at this point.
Ms. Adker: You'd better see Risk Management first before you invest. But
_ now, let me get this understanding. This is only forty-two hundred we're
talking about.
Mr. Castaneda: This is only $4,200...
Ms. Adker: And you are going to monitor the activities of New Washington
Heights which you've never done before.
Mr. Castaneda: We have, yes.
Mayor Suarez: Give her a full report, Frank.
7. EXECUTE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH A. FOSTER HIGGINS & CO.,
INC. - for actuarial assistance in pension matters.
Mayor Suarez: Item nine, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Item nine. This says that the terms of this agreement shall be
from October 1, 188 through September 30, 189. So that means that this is
ongoing?
Mr. Carlos Garcia: Commissioner, we have used them in the past. We have used
this particular firm for a number of years in pension related matters.
Mr. Dawkins: This says that this contract is in force from October 1, 188
through September 30th, '89. From October to December, 188 is four months and
to September is eleven months.
Mr. Garcia: This goes back to...
Mr. Dawkins: We have been into the contract for eleven months and we're just
passing the money to pay them?
Mr. Garcia: We haven't entered into a contract. We have kind of used them
informally but we haven't entered into a
contract with this firm.
— Mr. Dawkins:
Well, how did you pay them
informally?
Mr. Garcia:
We haven't paid them anything for this year, sir.
Mayor Suarez:
What if we didn't approve
this?
Mr. Garcia:
We wouldn't pay them.
Mr. Dawkins:
Then they would sue.
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Mr. Garcia: I don't think so.
Mr. Plummer: Are they working on soft dollars?
Mr. Garcia: No, sir. They're working on hard dollars but they haven`t done
much work this year. You know, at this time we're beginning to start working
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Mayor Suarez: Mr. Finance Director, since apparently one of our Commissioners
knows something that the rest of us don't know, what is your definition of
soft versus hard dollars?
Mr. Plummer: Well, I'll tell you very quickly, soft dollars are that which is
In the trade where they work and they get commissions back and that's a soft
dollar as opposed to a hard dollar that's actual cash that you have to pay
them.
Mayor Suarez: Commission?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, sir.
Mr. Garcia: No, they get paid cash by the City.
Mayor Suarez: There better not be anything about any commissions in this
trade. I think what you're saying is, that they're not too sure they're going
to be paid if they're just kind of... right, is that what you're saying?
Mr. Dawkins: No, you see...
Mr. Plummer: You can work both ways.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor.....
Mayor Suarez: Right now they're not too sure because we may not pass the
item.
Mr. Dawkins: See, my problem with this is, when I yell and scream that
minorities that is Latin, black and women...
Mr. Plummer: No, you got to have it.
Mr. Dawkins: ... do not get this type of work, now you can understand why
they do not get it, OK? Here's a company that worked a whole year free, which
a beginning minority cannot do, whether it's a male, I mean a black, Latin or
a woman, they cannot afford to work one year for free and wait till we pay
them and this is why we don't have anybody in this type of work, in my
opinion.
Mr. Garcia: Commissioner, basically they haven't done that much work this
year. They practically have done nothing. Now, we are ready to start working
with them. The reason...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, then if they haven't done nothing, why don't you
start the contract from March, April of 188 through April, I mean, April 189
through April of 190 if they haven't done anything? You see...
Mr. Garcia: They have done some work, some limited work.
Mayor Suarez: When was this item brought before us? The Manager's saying we
didn't act on it before. When was this before us? Because, otherwise...
Mr. Garcia: No.
Mayor Suarez: ... OK, if it was not, I would go with the Commissioner's
recommendation that we begin the contract March 1, 1989 till February 28th,
1990.
Mr. Odio: I'd rather do it to September 30th then, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: All right, but beginning March 1.
prior to March 1. He's right, we didn't approve it.
We don't pay him anything
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Mr. (idiot But I'd rather and it with the budget year.
Mayor Suarez: Right, you can end it with the budget year. But beginlirig
March 1, do you want to make a motion be begin March it
Mr. Odio: And reduce the amount accordingly.
Mayor Suarez: Or April 1.
Mr. Dawkins: And what will be the maximum amount you're going to....?
Mayor Suarez:
Then it's got to be a proportionate amount, not the whole year.
Mr. Garcia: OK.
Mr. Odio: That's right.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, so move.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second. -
Mayor Suarez: Beginning April 1 then, I guess, because we're past March 1.
Mr. Dawkins: Um hum.
Mr. Plummer: Be twenty-four thousand, half a year.
Mr. Garcia: It's seven months out of twelve.
— Mr. Plummer: Twenty-eight thousand.
Mayor Suarez: Seven out of twelve times the amount. And we just saved
$20,000. Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by
Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-229
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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A
_ PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE
FORM ATTACHED HERETO, WITH THE FIRM
OF A. FOSTER
HIGGINS & CO., INC., FOR EXPERT ACTUARIAL ASSISTANCE
" IN PENSION MATTERS AT A COST NOT TO
EXCEED $24,000
WITH FUNDS THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS `
AND ACCOUNTS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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- Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy,
the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
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Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
- Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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S. ESTABLISH SPECIAL CHARGES 1POR USE OF BOBBY MADURO BASEBALL STADIUM BY
LITTLE HAITI SOCCER LEAGUE - for 40 amateur games - execute agreement.
(See label 69)
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Mayor Suarez: Item 12, Commissioner Plummer.
Mr. Plummer: I just wanted to make sure, Mr. Manager, on item 12 because it's
such a long period of time that this is that we have audit rights on this and
that it is a non profit situation because we are making concessions. Mr.
Manager.
Mr. Odio: Sir...
Mr. Max Cruz: The corporation is a for profit corporation. However, the
proposed rent that they're paying, they paid the rent at $250, they paid the
ticket surcharge, they paid the light, they clean up the staffing and all the
expenses that In involved. And in top of that, we're giving them 72 hours
that the City need the stadium for whatever, you know, for...
Mr. Plummer: I still want audit rights.
Mr. Odio: Sure, no problem.
Mr. Cruz: Yes, that can be made.
Mr. Plummer: I move it.
Mayor Suarez: Move it with that proviso.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Second. Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-230
A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, ESTABLISHING SPECIAL
CHARGES FOR THE USE OF THE BOBBY MADURO MIAMI BASEBALL
STADIUM BY THE LITTLE HAITI SOCCER LEAGUE FOR THE SAID
ORGANIZATION'S PRESENTATION OF APPROXIMATELY FORTY
(40) AMATEUR SOCCER GAMES DURING THE PERIOD APRIL 1
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THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 1989; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A USE AGREEMENT, IN
SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, BETWEEN THE CITY OF
MIAMI AND SAID ORGANIZATION, SAID AGREEMENT TO ALSO
INCLUDE AUDIT RIGHTS FOR THE CITY.
(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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES:
None.
ABSENT:
None.
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9. AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF REVOCABLE PERMIT TO REYNOLDS ALUMINUM RECYCLING
COMPANY - for space in parking lot of Fire Training Center. (Limit
4 recycling to cans only).
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Mayor Suarez: Item 13, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Do we have anybody representing the Reynolds Aluminum Company?
Mr. Neven Eisenberg: Yes, sir, I'm Neven Eisenberg, I'm the area business
manager for South Florida. We operate at 2003 N.W. 72nd Avenue here in Miami.
f Mr. Dawkins: Mr. City Attorney.
Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: What would be - first, I have no problems with this, OK, until
it comes to what I'm getting ready to say. How do we pass legislation to
ensure that these aluminum recycling trailers purchase only cans? Now, I have
been getting calls and all of us up here about people's window frames,
aluminum window frames being ripped out and sold. I've gotten calls about
people aluminum awnings being taken down and sold so I would like to find out
if we can legally say that this organization can operate and buy cans but that
other stuff has to go to a scrap place and make it a little more difficult for
the rip-off artists to...
Mr. Odio: Could you include my chairs from the Bobby Maduro Stadium, that we
lost a whole row already. They are taking the aluminum chairs.
Mr. Dawkins: And they're being bought. And I don't know if you... I don't
even know if they're doing it at your trailer, sir.
Mr. Eisenberg: Well, I'd like to address that if I could. We do...
Mr. Dawkins: Wait, let me... wait, sir, wait till I find out from him though.
Mr. Eisenberg: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: What can you do?
Mr. Fernandez: Yes, if it's an industry in our jurisdiction, we can regulate
that industry within the bounds of the law. That is, we have to look at state
and federal law to see what regulations they have preempted us from doing but,
otherwise, we can regulate by passing an ordinance that would prohibit them
from accepting certain items or by requiring them that the person who goes
ss there shows them either proof of ownership or a permit from the City that, you
know, gave them the permit to demolish a house and then they're trading in the
house aluminum.
Mayor Suarez: What permit do they need?
Mr. Dawkins: You see, everybody tells me what they want and not what I ask
for. The only thing I want to know, can we legally prevent these trailers
® from buying aluminum windows and shutters? If we can, then we would do it.
If we can't, then I may ask that they move out of the City of Miami. I can
legislate that. OK? Now that's - OK, go ahead, air, because, see, he's gone
to law school on me, I don't...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, and before he goes to graduate school, what are the
present permitting requirements for a trailer to be placed at 54th and, is it
North Miami?
Mr. Dawkins: I don't know where they're going to put it.
Mr. Eisenberg: Northwest Second.
Mayor Suarez: And to begin, just all of a sudden buying and trading in metal
and aluminum products. Copper...
Mr. Fernandaz: I imagine that all of their zoning permits and all of that
must be in order if they're already ready to go operational.
Mayor Suarez: Are they in order as to this property at that... I mean, can
you just set up a trailer and begin buying and selling metals in the middle
of, it appears to me to be essentially a residential community?
Mr. Fernandez: I don't know.
Mr. Dawkins: No, but it's at the fire station.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, you mean at...
Mr. Eisenberg: We do have a zoning permit there at that location.
Mayor Suarez: A zoning permit.
Mr. Eisenberg: Yes, sir. It's a class..
Mayor Suarez: What is a zoning permit?
Mr. Eisenberg: Well, it's what I call a zoning permit. It's...
Mayor Suarez: Well, I was hoping our staff here would help us a little bit.
Joe, will somebody tell us something about this? What are the zoning
requirements for them to...
Mr. Joseph Genuardi: Joe Genuardi, City of Miami Building and Zoning, Zoning
Administrator.
Mayor Suarez: You would think you'd have to do that in an industrial zoning
or commercial.
Mr. Genuardi: Yes, I - what we do is, we have no provisions to permit
trailers on lots but there is a provision which allows us to give them a
temporary permit and we usually limit that to the maximum of one year. And in
the meantime they're supposed to build...
Mayor Suarez: Is that considered a commercial use or is that a...
Mr. Genuardi: Well, it's a - is it a commercial use you're asking me?
Mayor Suarez: We're not sure and that's why we have a temporary permitting
process, is that what we've got? Is that the only situation in the law of
zoning that we have temporary permitting processes?
Mr. Genuardi: Temporary permit to have the trailer on the site. Now, the
site, I don't remember exactly what it's zoned, but I think it is a
commercially zoned lot, but I'll have to check that.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, it may be commercially zoned any how.
Mr. Genuardi: Yes, I think it's commercially zoned.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, let's hear from the gentleman with the aluminum, Reynolds,
please.
Mr. Eisenberg: We have a whole policy that deals with the purchase of non -
what we call non UBC or non cans - because of the stolen material problem.
We, as a company, have liability exposure if we buy your seats and you come to
us and we have not made...
Mayor Suarez: OK, that's liability insurance. That protects you. What about
your policy, what is your policy? How do we know for sure that people are not
stealing this stuff and ripping it out of houses in projects and taking it
over to you?
Mr. Eisenberg: We have a whole series of steps that a buyer goes through to
ensure that it is a legitimate sale and one of them is to simply say, is this
stolen material?
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Mayor Suarez: Great.
Mr. Eisenberg: Well, if you roll up...
Mayor Suarez: OK, besides asking the person if he has stolen the stuff and
brought it to you, what other policies, procedures do you have?
Mr. Eisenberg: You look at the material. If it's new, if it's new material
and you drive up in your automobile and you have new shutters in the back of
it and you want to sell to us, we will not buy it. Even if it is legitimately
yours. It's a question in our mind, where did it come from, how did you get
control of it, is it a legitimate sale, we say, no, we don't purchase it.
Mayor Suarez: So, your procedure, I want to tell you, unless you've got more
than that, consists in asking them and instinct. That's what you've got so
far.
Mr. Eisenberg: That's...
Mayor Suarez: Unless you've got something better.
Mr. Eisenberg: That's really all there is.
Mayor Suarez: OK, well you really made it sound like a complete procedure
with a series of steps and I'll give you a copy of the transcript if you'd
like to read it.
Mr. Eisenberg: OK, well, I can provide you with the steps, but it is all to
the discretion of the buyer. The buyer gets no benefit out of buying it or
not buying it. They're on a salary, if they buy it, it doesn't affect their
income one way or the other. They do have legal exposure. If they purchase
something that they didn't go through a series of steps to prove or to at
least resolve in their mind that it was not stolen, then they are going to be
in a situation where they can be prosecuted for purchasing stolen material as
well as the company.
Mayor Suarez: Well, we know they can be prosecuted if we can catch them but
we're trying to figure out how we can stop them at your level and you haven't
given us much comfort, to tell you the truth.
Mr. De Yurre: What percentage of the business are cans?
Mr. Eisenberg: Eighty percent.
Mr. De Yurre: Eighty percent.
Mr. Eisenberg: Twenty percent represents the non aluminum and it is generally
purchased as a convenience item. We purchase it because - you want to get rid
of your barbecue grill, you want to get rid of some old lawn chairs.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, well, can we do that? Right now.
Mayor Suarez: No, well, not necessarily pass it now but if the Vice Mayor is
heading in the direction of limiting you to cans, that is something that is a
great concept, it is great for you to be doing that, we want to encourage
people to bring you the cans, but, you know, piping and seats from the stadium
and some other things...
Mr. Eisenberg: I can assure you, we would never buy seats from a stadium.
It's just...
Mayor Suarez: Well, we hear of piping, we hear of your buying piping that's
being...
Mr. De Yurre: Well, I can assure you won't, because I won't vote for it. I'd
be in favor of, you know, voting for this if we just limit it to cans.
Anything other than cans, you lose your permit.
Mr. Eisenberg: If that's the way you want to do it, that's the way we'll do
it. ,
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j have other facilities and other ways of doing it but in a community like that.
Mr. Plummer: I think we ought to leave the door open that if you can come
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back and giving this Commission some comfort, you know, that there is built in
rules and regulations that would prohibit the fears that they have, that you
come back and we would...
Mr. Eisenberg: I'd like that opportunity.
Mr. Plummer: Sure.
Mr. Eisenberg: Again, it is as in most scrap purchases, it is the judgment of
the buyer and our buyers are professionally trained. I understand your
concern.
Mr. Dawkins: I understand what you're saying, see, but I live out there, OK?
I go by and I see the window frame... I mean, you can move out of the house
today and go by there tomorrow and the window frames are jerked out. Now, if
there was no market, they wouldn't jerk them out.
Mr. Eisenberg: We make an effort in most cases if we have somebody that we
know the material is stolen, we try to work with the Police Department, we're
working with the crime watch people...
Mr. Dawkins: But that doesn't put them back in the house.
Mr. Eisenberg: No.
Mr. Dawkins: I want them... See, but if I can stop the market, I can stop
them from ripping them out. That's all so...
Mr. Eisenberg: Well, at this point we're working with the Crime Watch people
in the Little Haiti area to work with the residents to ensure that - we've
worked with them, talked with them about the possibility of identifying,
putting... yes, as you would identify your television, putting the marks on
them so that when it appears to us, we know we have a stolen product. Beyond
that, I can't prevent somebody from taking somebody's window out if they don't
bring it to me, they'll take it to somebody else.
Mayor Suarez: Well, the cans are a great idea. That meets our recycling
requirements under State law and meets every possible public interest of the
City. Anything beyond that at this point, I think is going to create more
headaches than otherwise. We have a motion and a second. Any further
discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-231
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE A
REVOCABLE PERMIT TO REYNOLDS ALUMINUM RECYCLING
COMPANY FOR THE PURPOSE OF USING 480 SQUARE FEET OF
SPACE IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI FIRE
TRAINING CENTER; SAID AREA TO BE USED FOR PURCHASE AND
PROCESSING OF RECYCLABLE ALUMINUM CANS FOR A FEE TO
THE CITY OF $1.00 PER YEAR PLUS A DONATION TO THE CITY
OF MIAMI FIREFIGHTER'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION IN THE
AMOUNT OF $140.00 PER MONTH PLUS ANY APPLICABLE STATE
OF FLORIDA SALES TAX, FOR A PERIOD COMMENCING DECEMBER
1, 1988 THROUGH NOVEMBER 30, 1989, WITH FOUR (4)
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution vas passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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10. (Continued discussion) 1989 MIAMI MAGIC 5K RUN (See label 2.14).
Mayor Suarez: Item 20.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, can I go back and revisit on 20?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, do you need a motion at this point or do you want to
clarify it first?
Mr. Plummer: Well, maybe a little of both. Mr. Manager, I'm concerned about
closing streets of downtown Miami on a Saturday morning from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m.
Mr. Odio: Two hours in the Saturday morning, there's nothing happening...
Mr. Plummer: But, I mean, you're closing off downtown.
Mayor Suarez: One and a half hours, according to what I'm reading.
Mr. Plummer: Seven thirty to... 7:30 to 9:30.
Mr. Odio: Seven thirty a.m. to 9:00.
Mayor Suarez: I see 9:00 on mine.
Mr. Plummer: That's the height of traffic.
Mayor Suarez: Is it 9:00 or 9:30?
Mrs. Kennedy: To 9:00, to 9:00.
Mr. Plummer: I'm sorry, here it says 7:30 to 9:30.
Mayor Suarez: OK, because on the summary it says 9:00.
Mr. Plummer: I mean, you know, and you've got such a large area, you've got
Flagler Street blocked off, you got 2nd Avenue blocked off, all the way up to
8th Street. And I think it's going to be extremely detrimental to the
merchants downtown. You know, if it was a Sunday morning, I wouldn't be
concerned. But Saturday morning, those merchants are going to scream and, at
least I think they will.
Mrs. Kennedy: Did we close them off last year?
Mr. Odio: Or they'll be happy to have a lot of people downtown after 9:00.
The stores don't open until 10:00.
Mrs. Kennedy: Did we do it last year?
Mr. Odio: I don't remember, Commissioner, but if you bring people downtown
between 7:30 in the morning to 9:00 in the morning and then they stay there,
Bayside and everything else opens at 10:00.
Mr. Plummer: OK, nobody else is concerned, I just had to raise the question,
Mr. Odio: And the police was not so...
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Mr, Plummers They're Paying all expenses?
Mr. odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Go ahead, Mr. Mayor. It's disastrous to close those streets off
for such a period of time. Now for...
Mayor Suarez: OK and we didn't need to reconsider it?
Mr. Plummer: No, sir.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: At this point, Agenda item 21 was tabled.
Dr. Hattie Daniels stated that Father Richard Barry would arrive
at 10:30 a.m.
11. DISCUSSION ON THE STATUS OF HIRING ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC
SERVICE AIDES FOR POLICE DEPT.
Mayor Suarez: Item 22. How are we doing on the hiring of additional police
officers?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, just for the information of my colleagues, I have
forwarded to the City Manager the name and phone number of a lady at Dade
Junior College who has offered to put together whatever classes and space that
we need for doing up to a hundred at a time.
Mr. Odio: We'd also - Commissioner Dawkins had met with Dr. Bryant and we are
working on that with Dr. McCabe also...
Mr. Plummer: That's fine.
Mr. Odio: ... to make sure we can increase the size of the...
Mr. Plummer: How many do we have in the presently in the academy?
Mr. Odio: Go ahead.
Lt. Joseph Longueira: We started with 26, we have 25 left.
Mr. Plummer: That's in police officers?
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Lt. Longueira: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: When does the next class start?
Lt. Longueira: March 13th. It's scheduled for the...
Mr. Plummer: And is that another 30?
= Lt. Longueira: I believe we're shooting for 25.
Mr. Plummer: What about the PSAs?
Lt. Longueira: The PSAs we're having them... we've got six hired to date. We
just got a new register of 221 people, we just received it.
Mr. Plummer: And when are they going to start? >'
Lt. Longueira: Their classes are scheduled for April 24th, June 26th,
September llth. We're looking around 30 in each class.
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Mr. plummer: That's ninety.
Lt. Longueira: Right, we already have some on board. Volvo got 23 on board
now counting the six that we've hired.
Mr. Plummer: I would like for you to furnish the Commission a list of what
those 23 are doing.
Lt. Longueira: OK, yes, air.
Mr. De Yurre: How many have we hired since the beginning of this fiscal year?
Mr. Plummer: Six.
Mr. De Yurre: Six?
Lt. Longueira: We have 23 now, we've hired six.
Mr. De Yurre: Since October 1...
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. De Yurre: ... we've hired six.
Mr. Plummer: In five months.
Mr. De Yurre: And how many have we lost through attrition?
Mr. Plummer: Just about the same because we had that number when we started
the year.
Lt. Longueira: Yes, we had around that number.
Mr. De Yurre: So we haven't improved at all.
Lt. Longueira: We may...
Mr. Plummer: Now, one saving factor here is, I hope, that it's as the past
and that is that those six that we lost from the PSA program went to the
academy to become police officers.
Mr. De Yurre: No, but I'm talking about attrition, guys retiring or...
Lt. Longueira: Commissioner, the big problem is that most...
Mr. De Yurre: I'm talking about police in general, the police force. How
many have we hired since October 1?
Lt. Longueira: We've hired 26.
Mr. De Yurre: Twenty-six.
Lt. Longueira: No, wait a minute.
Mr. Plummer: None.
Lt. Longueira: No, policemen, we've hired - let's see - twenty-seven,
thirty - thirty.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, how many have we lost through attrition?
Lt. Longueira: I'll have to ' g gat that but its not as high as we thought it
was originally. The attrition is less than originally projected.
Mr. De Yurre: So instead of...
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Mr. De Yurre: So maybe four now?
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Lt. Longueira: I'll have to get you... no, I don't want to tell you something
that I'm not sure - I know it's less than projected...
Mr. De Yurre: Well, four times five... So we've hired what, about 30?
Lt. Longueira: ... that's what I was told. I'll get you the exact number.
Mr. De Yurre: We've hired what, about thirty? And we lost about twenty, so
we've netted ten out of the hundred - how many were we going to gain this
year? A hundred, somewhere around there?
Lt. Longuelra: No, that's including the class.
Mr. De Yurre: OK.
Mr. Plummer: It's not OK, but that's the name of the game.
Mr. De Yurre: No, it's not. Certainly it's not OK but I just want to make
- sure my point is proven come budget time this year.
12. COMMISSION OPPOSES 2 PERCENT COUNTYWIDE FOOD AND BEVERAGE TAX - Instruct
Administration to request Greater Miami Convention and Visitors' Bureau
to provide details of how it plans to spend money from the proposed tax.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: ... I have a point I'd like to get some clarification here on
and at your pleasure I go to the Tourist Board meeting and they know your
views about the sales tax, they know my views about the sales tax, but I need
to hear the views of the other members of this Commission because I feel that,
me, personally, I sent a memo to you that I do not know what they do with the
private sector money, you see, and until that is better utilized or better
explained to me, I'm not in favor of any tax dgllars and the second thing I'm
not in favor of is after we've spent money to bring up the Knight Center where
it could be used and now that we're spending money to bring up Dinner Key
Auditorium to where it could be used, all of a sudden, somebody wants to take
it over and operate it since we've made improvements to it and I'm not in
favor of that. So I need to know what the consensus of opinion is up here.
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you a question. You sit on that board.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, yes.
Mr. Plummer: And you don't have the exposure to the private money?
Mr. Dawkins: No, sir.
Mr. Plummer: As a member of the board?
Mr. Dawkins: They wanted to give me some figures to go through that's
doctored... no, I do not, J. L.
Mayor Suarez: I think they have...
Mr. Plummer: I wouldn't sit on the damn board.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, the most they have said is that privately they would make
them available to...
Mr. Plummer:
No, no, no, not to you and I as City
Commissioners...
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Mayor Suarez:
No, that's the most they have said.
Mr. Plummert
... but as a member of the board?
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Mayor Suarez: In the board meeting public, I don't think they've ever made
those figures public. Have they?
Mr. Dawkins: Never.
Mayor Suarez: And Commissioners, to add to what Commissioner Dawkins is
saying, in today's paper, it is now apparently a definite action by the Bureau
to cancel the plans for the one thing that I thought was really useful that
they have been proposing for about two years and that is for a tourist
Information booth in Biscayne Boulevard right close to Bayside. The one thing
that I thought would really, really be helpful to tourism, to let people know
what is happening in this community and to help tourists to find a way - we
don't have one at the airport as you know. Most major airports have one. Mr.
Judy, for whatever reason, has not seen fit to put one in place. And now, the
$250,000 which is 1/36th of their budget of $9,000,000, has been apparently
cancelled for that use so we're not going to have a tourist information booth.
And I'm going to bring this to the attention of the Downtown Development
Authority to see what funds we can find because we're going to have to do that
booth ourselves it looks like to me. We can't even get a booth out of the
Bureau.
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me ask and I read the paper this morning as I was
flying out of the house. They've applied for a million dollar loan?
Mayor Suarez: They've applied to...
Mr. Dawkins: No, they received.
Mayor Suarez: The Funeral Association for a million dollar loan.
Mr. Plummer: The Funeral Association?
Mayor Suarez: I was just kidding.
Mr. Plummer: It's a dead issue, you mean.
Mayor Suarez: They have a half a million dollar loan from one bank and
another 4250,000 or some kind of loan from another bank according to the
paper.
Mr. Plummer: I'm at a loss. How can a man sit on a board of directors and
not have access to all records of the corporation?
Mr. Dawkins: Because...
Mr. Plummer: How do you make decisions?
Mr. Dawkins: Because the powers that be structured it so that the only monies
that I am allowed to speak about is public monies. The private monies are
private and don't ask me who decided that and under no circumstances, do they
have to give us any explanation of how they spend the private money that was
donated to them.
Mr. Plummer: Who controls the private money? Is there a separate board?
Mr. Dawkins: No.
Mr. Plummer: The executive committee, is that a...
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, the executive committee. Yes, we're not on, executive.
Mr. Plummer: But is that a board?
Mayor Suarez: It's a portion of the board, it's the president and vice
president and so on, it consists of, if I'm not wrong, Commissioner, Don
Lefton, Steven Muss, Ziggy Silber, Skip Shepard and Bob Dickinson, I think.
Is that right, Tony? Is that the five? Now, they definitely look at the
entire budget of the agency, the private funds that come in? Is that formally
their procedures? As far as we know?
Mr. Tony Pajares: Mr. Shepard has told me that he has never known the records
of the privates funds either.
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Mayor Suaret: Oh, so he's on the executive committee, he also does not have
access to not even the executive committee so presumably...
Mr. Plummer: Well, who in the hell does know?
Mayor Suarez: The executive director apparently.
Mr. Pajares: I believe Mr. Kirkland has the power to sign any check up to
$5,000 without accounting to anyone. This is what I've heard.
Mr. Plummer: No, but I'm saying is, where is the fox in the hen house...
Mr. Pajares: Well, in the paper today it says that they're overdrawn by I
don't know how many hundreds of thousands...
Mayor Suarez: Well, Tony, for example, do we know they would get an approval?
Who would have to approve a loan of half a million dollars?
Mr. Dawkins: The executive committee.
Mr. Pajares: I believe the executive board.
Mayor Suarez: So Skippy would have - Mr. Shepard would have voted on that
presumably.
Mr. Odio: Yes, he would have. Yes, he would have.
Mr. De Yurre: And he had to have known what the economic situation is for
them to vote on something like that.
Mayor Suarez: Can somebody contact him to see if he can come by the
Commission later today since he's one of the, you know, representatives of
City hotels and see if he'll...
Mr. Pajares: Sure.
Mr. Plummer: Well, wait a minute, who's the executive president or who's the
president of the executive council?
Mr. Pajares: Donald Lefton.
_ Mr. Plummer: Wouldn't it be appropriate that we'd ask him?
—� Mayor Suarez: That's a fair comment.
Mr. Pajares: Would you like me to contact him or...
Mr. Plummer% Well, I think that he ought to be sent a letter inviting him to
come here to this Commission and answer some of our concerns.
Mr. Pajares: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: And one of the things in the letter, unless the Commission
feels otherwise, should be a great deal of concern about the cancellation of
the plans for the tourist information booth. And Commissioner Dawkins is
concerned about the private sources of funding and how they're expended, at
least being made available to the board. Including our representative who is
Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Pajares: One of the things the City should be concerned about is the
amount of money they're spending to publicize Miami Beach Convention Center
and nothing on Coconut Grove and the Knight Center.
Mr. Dawkins: In fact we're not even... in the brochure they just printed,
Tony, we're not even listed in it.
Mr. Pajares: That's correct. The Coconut Grove has been dropped off as a
facility they book.
Mr. Plummer: Well, now wait a minute, in fairness...
Mr. Pajares: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: The $100,000 we give them in the interlocal agreement, we do
publish our own facilities and that money comes from that source.
Mayor Suarez: They're supposed to promote our facility with that $100,000, do
we have anything to show that, Tony, or...
Mr. Pajares: The report that I saw that Commissioner Dawkins saw lists, so
many thousands of dollars bringing people or promotion to the beach center.
Mr. Plummer: No, you're not answering my question now.
Mayor Suarez: We were told that the hundred thousand that we...
Mr. Plummer: Do they not print a brochure for your operation at the Knight
Center for about, I was told, a hundred and thirty-five thousand a year?
Mr. Pajares: Yes, sir, they're ready. It's being printed, it hasn't been
delivered.
Mr. Plummer: OK, so... well, wait a minute, please, I'm trying to get my
question out.
Mayor Suarez: But we don't have it yet, J. L.
Mr. Plummer: OK, but the point I'm trying to make, Mr. Mayor, is, we donate -
we give them 4100,000 in the interlocal agreement.
Mr. Pajares: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: And in return, they print a brochure for us that's $135,000, is
that correct?
Mr. Pajares: That's probably correct.
Mayor Suarez: They will print. They will print.
Mr. Plummer: OK. So we get more back than what we give them. And that
brochure is for us.
Mayor Suarez: They were going to do a tourist information booth but they're
not going to do that now so maybe, for all we know, they've abandoned the
promotion of our....
Mr. Pajares: When they give us...
Mr. Plummer: The point I'm trying to make is that there's been a contention
of us giving a hundred thousand dollars.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Plummer: Giving that hundred thousand we get back $135,000 in goods so
the interlocal agreement that this City has is a good agreement, is the point
I'm trying to make.
Mayor Suarez: If we get a brochure that's worth a hundred and thirty...
Mr. Plummer: If we don't, then it's not worth a damn.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, it...
Mr. Pajares: I'll let you know when we get it.
Mr. Dawkins: Brochure be damned.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: If we do not have what we opted for. Now, when this
organization was formed, it was formed for the express purpose of selling Dade
County. It was not supposed to se11 Miami Beach, it was supposed to sell all
—' of Dade County...
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Mr. Plummer: Including Miami Beach.
Mr. Dawkins: And our point, J. L. is, they are not selling the City of Miami.
They're only selling hotels on Miami Beach. The only convention that has been
booked into the City of Miami this year is one that Tony's staff went out and
got. They have brought nothing to the City of Miami. So, a brochure, it's
fine but when they go away to recruit conventions, they don't sell our hotels.
Mr. Plummer: You know, the thing that interested me more was an article I
think that I read about three or four days ago. And that is that they're now
proposing to take over all facilities including the Arena, the Knight Center.
If they can't make it on what they've got now, how in the hell are they going
to run the others?
Mr. Dawkins: But why would they wait until we spend all of this money, J. L.,
to renovate our two facilities to decide they want to run them better than us?
OK, well I just need to know what to tell them about the sales tax.
Mr. Plummer: That's on food and beverage, two percent?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes. Two percent, yes.
Mr. Plummer: That's a tough question. See, the reason it's a tough question
is, if I had assurance of where the money was going, but at this particular
point that nobody has delineated and said, this is where the money is going
and it's restricted to that, I've got to vote against it.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, I'll buy that. Who else? Well, that's three of us against
it.
Mr. Plummer: If I knew where the money was going, maybe I would have
considered it.
Mr. Dawkins: But, if you knew where it was going, you'd have to know what
percentages were going where you wanted it to go.
Mr. Plummer: That's exactly right. But I don't know that.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, OK, so, all right, now who else is going to...
Mrs. Kennedy: That's four.
Mr. Dawkins: Four. All right, then, I think we need a motion, in my opinion,
to instruct those who lobby for us, who we pay, that we are against this
because we got lobbyists who are playing both sides of the fence. They're
lobbying against with us and for for the other clients.
Mr. Plummer: I think a motion would be in order until this Commission is
given details of where that money would go and what it would be used for, we
would have to be in opposition. I'll move it.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 89-232
A MOTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION GOING ON RECORD IN
STATING THAT THE CITY IS OPPOSED TO THE TWO PERCENT
COUNTYWIDE FOOD AND BEVERAGE TAX; FURTHER INSTRUCTING
THE CITY MANAGER TO REQUEST OF THE GREATER MIAMI
CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU TO PROVIDE TO THE CITY
COMMISSION PERTINENT DETAILS AS TO HOW IT PLANS TO
SPEND MONIES TO BE RECEIVED FROM THE PROPOSED TAX;
FURTHER STATING THAT UNTIL THE AFOREMENTIONED
EXPLANATION IS GIVEN, THAT THE CITY WILL CONTINUE TO
OPPOSE SAID TAX.
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
13. A. STATUS REPORT ON SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
B. DISCUSSION REGARDING PROPOSED SITE FOR NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
Mayor Suarez: Item twenty...
Mr. Odlo: Three.
Mayor Suarez: ... three. Did we close on Cruz Development? I mean, I know
we did. I just want to make sure that, for the record, %qe announce that...
Mr. Odio: I know, we did, we did close on Cruz because I signed all the
papers.
Mayor Suarez: ... and bring out the champagne and so on.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir, we did, sir.
Mayor Suarez: What does that mean in terms of when they will actually begin
building that 430 unit tower?
Mr. Odio: I'll have to get you a... wait, let me see...
Mayor Suarez: This item is on the agenda.
Mr. Odio: I know, it should have been here.
Mayor Suarez: I hope that somebody here can tell us and I hope Mr. Bailey's
not the only one that knows.
Mr. Odio: Let me get a hold of him.
Mr. Plummer: Well, what's happened with the soup kitchen?
Mr. Odio: Camillus House. That's not in the agenda today.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, I'm asking.
money. Is that still the case?
Mr. Odio: Yes. Yes, sir.
The last I heard is you don't have the
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mayor Suarez: How are we doing on... I don't know what he's talking about.
Mr. Plummer: You know what I'm talking about.
Mayor Suarez: How are we doing as far as the ground breaking for Cruz
Development? They're really kind of working over there, aren't they already?
Mr. Bailey: But we do have a serious problem on the debris on the site. We,
through contractual obligations with Cruz, had promised to deliver a site
that's developable and it looks like we might have a little problem. The
demolition contractor's out of business so we can't sue him. The Department
of Solid Waste did hire somebody to remove it, so we're trying to determine
whether or not we got a case against them. But we may be looking at a couple
of hundred thousand dollars to clean the site up. That disturbed us. I'm
having a meeting out there today with the contractor. Cruz did close and he's
ready. He got his check yesterday and I think the impact hasn't hit him yet
but that was probably one of the most difficult ones we had.
Mayor Suarez: He put up the line of credit that they were requesting, a
letter of credit.
Mr. Bailey: Everything that was requested has been given, yes.
Mayor Suarez: But was that the mechanism, you usually put up a letter of
credit, two and a half million dollars?
Mr. Bailey: Yes, he put up a line of credit, letter of credit.
Mayor Suarez: Herb, how about Circa Barness Sawyer?
Mr. Bailey: We are still having some difficulty with that. We have suggested
that they come back to this Commission and make their proposal as to how they
want to go through the new financing structure.
Mayor Suarez: Are they looking for equity partners, is that what they need?
a Mr. Bailey: Well, they're proposing public purpose bonds which is, in our
opinion, a deviation from the original submission and it's a whole new process
i that has to be decided by this Commission. So, they are preparing a proposal
(Tape 3) and we'll probably have it on the agenda in April.
Mr. Dawkins: I'm tired of waiting. I mean, I'm just tired of waiting with
it, that's all.
Mr. Bailey: Well, I have related to them the maments I have heard from
- various Commissioners about this and I have suggested they come back through a
-_ public forum to this Commission and explain their case to you.
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Mr. Dawkins: OK, well tell them for me that this is one vote they do not have
-i because they're not in the ground and that's me, I don't know about nobody
else. OK?
Mayor Suarez: They're going to have to come up with... when they and meet us
with a plan, specific financing plan, within the guidelines that they can show
that they're viable, Herb, otherwise I can't imagine any of us voting for it.
Mr. Bailey: I have indicated that that seems to be the mood of the Commission
and I think it's their responsibility to come before the Commission. I don't
think administratively we should be part of the recommended financing strategy
for them.
Mayor Suarez: Anything on this item? Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: I have an overlay up there to try to get some closure on the
site for the police station - I mean, I'm sorry, administration building.
Now, there seems to be some discussion as to what Overtown is. The heavy
black line what you see "B" on, is Sth Street and technically Overtown goes
from there north. Below 5th Street, it's still Overtown but I don't know what
else they call it. Now, the "A" you see up there, that's where Camillus House
is now. "B" is where they're going to build the Camillus House, "C" is Culmer
Gardens Housing project and "D" is Lummus Park. Now, the land that we have
already put out a bid on and got architectural work on, sits between 53 and
47 - point that out now, Mr. Bailey, for me on there - 53 and 47, yes, right
there. Now, that's the lot that we own, it's debt free and you can build on
it. You've already put... now, up there at number 54, point to 54 - now,
right there, that's the jail. Now, that's our Police Station. No, over a
little more.
Mr. Bailey: That's a county building.
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Mr. Dawkins: No, over a little more, that's a state building.
Mr. Dailey: State building.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, and the one behind there is the police station,
right?
Mr. Bailey: Where the police...
Mr. Dawkins: Behind 54.
Mr. Bailey: Fifty-four going west is the police station and the police
garage.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, and 52 is...
Mr. Bailey: Fifty-two is the vacant lot between the police station and the
administration building. Fifty-three is the administration building. That
space you see in front of it is the space where you have suggested that we go
out and get architectural bids to build a second phase of that.
Mr. Dawkins: Fifty-one is what?
Mr. Bailey: Fifty-one is a garage that is also a City facility.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Bailey: That's a garage that was built at the time to complement the City
Administration Building and the museum but...
Mr. Plummer: That's a subsidy of $1,000,000 a year the City is paying for
that thanks to Metropolitan Dade County.
Mr. Dawkins: Parking.
Mr. Bailey: Right.
Mr. Dawkins: And the county won't even help us by putting people from number
47, which is the government center, in there. My only reason for showing this
is to try to show that if the Administration Building is put anywhere in that
triangle or quadrangle between 51, 53 and 47, you have access to Dade County's
governmental center, you go back down by the police station, you got the state
building, you also got the Metrorail there by 47 which is the county. Now, if
you go some place else in Overtown and purchase land and take it off the tax
rolls when you already got one piece off the tax rolls, you're taking two
pieces of property off the tax rolls.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, the thing is that, you know, we have to make a policy
decision here and I raised the issue last time. You know, if we're talking
about stimulating growth in Overtown, a building of this nature would... we
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still don't have the exact answer from the last meeting how employees
g man y we
would have in the building, but you're talking about at least hundreds of
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employees, that would certainly be an economic boost to the area and provide
the people for many new jobs and many new businesses to open up in the area.
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I would be willing to entertain, you know, if you have to walk three blocks to
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another administration building down the street to the county, so be it. I
think that the impact that an administration building would have in the
Overtown area would be significant.enough to warrant doing it in that area and
I would certainly like to look further into it without us making a, you know,
it may not be the ideal situation for government, per se, but I think if part
of our job is to improve the lives of our community and the people that live
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In it, then I think that we have to look into the impact that we can provide
for this area.
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Mr. Dawkins: I agree with you, but there again, we've got to think in terms
of what's been planned there and my thing is, if there's any land there pn
which it's available then we should let some blacks buy this land and put
opmething,up. We don't have no hotel over there, don't have no restaurant, pa
we're :talking about economic development for the area and for the people is
that .area, let's...
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Mr. Plummer: Where?
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Mr. Dawkins: Over there by the Arena.
Mr. Plummer: With Camillus House still there, forget it.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, let's take Camillus House and make a restaurant out of it.
Mr. Plummer: Would you want to stay in a hotel next to Camillus House?
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, both of you.
Mr. Dawkins: Ham?
Mr. Plummer: I wouldn't.
Mayor Suarez: I'll take that in the form of a motion right now.
Mr. Plummer: What's that?
Mayor Suarez: That we take Camillus House.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, we don't...
Mr. Dawkins: Camillus House for what?
Mayor Suarez: Buy it, I thought you guys moved that.
Mr. Dawkins: No.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Plummer moved and you seconded it, right?
Mrs. Kennedy: No, it's not going to be easy.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, if we got the money. If you come up with the money right
s now we'll buy it.
Mayor Suarez: I have three problems with what Vice Mayor's talking about the
Administration Building and I know I said last time that I have no problem
with it but I've been thinking about it. Number one is what Commissioner
Dawkins is saying. We put an Administration Building in Overtown, we're
putting a non taxable property there. Secondly, Commissioner, or Mr. Vice
Mayor, I think after the last meeting when we asked the Administration how
many employees they plan to put in there and the best we could get was six
hundred and 150,000 square feet. We don't need a new building for that and
I'd hope that we don't get into the expenditure of a new building and I think
_{ I'm reflecting the Commission's consensus on that. We need a complete report,
Mr. Manager, as to exactly how many employees you mean to house there, how
much we're paying presently for facilities to house those employees and
jj keeping in mind that many employees cannot be moved to an administration
j building any how. And the final question that I have is what does the
j community want? We have to consult the community of Overtown and see if this
In their priority or if they'd rather have, as Commissioner Dawkins is saying,
a theater, a hotel or God knows what else that we try to put by way of
i development in that area.
Mr. De Yurre: The problem to address your first concern about taking
something off the tax rolls, you know, how much taxes are we making on the
property that's in Overtown right now?
Mayor Suarez: I wasn't thinking of taking it off the tax rolls, I was
thinking of trying to put things that are taxable in there.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, you know...
Mayor Suarez: By inducing the kind of development we want.
Mr. De Yurre: Because we can always take, you know, we buy Camillus House now
we sell it and two years from now, we take that money and use it for something
also. And what, you know, what about the property that where we have our that we have downtown that was, you know, we have the, you know, the employees
over there on 4th and 2nd. Is there anything that prevents us from selling
that?
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Mayor Suarez: That's a nice looking building.
Mr. Bailey: I have to correct the record, I guess I'm paid to give you the
right information. First of all, this Commission has already passed
legislation that has caused us to take certain administrative action and we're
now in the process of reviewing submissions from an RFP that went out to get
architectural drawings for the City administration, phase II, and that was
done by this Commission through a resolution. The bid stipulated that their
submission should be done in a way that would indicate to us how we could
build phase II of City administration building on a particular site.
Mayor Suarez: And that's the three dimensional rendering that I have right up
there in my conference room?
Mr. Bailey: Well, that's an old one. We come up for a reconnaissance study
on that and we're now have...
Mayor Suarez: We come up for a reconnaissance site?
Mr. Bailey: A study. That was the original submission. When the first phase
of the administration building was built, it was done in two phases. They
designed the second phase but I guess because of economics, they did not build
the second phase. So, and at that time, it was for a different configuration
and you had more employees. We submitted to you some time ago a report that
indicates the number of employees that we are...
Mayor Suarez: What does it say, Herb7
Mr. Bailey: Four hundred and fifty-one employees to go in there at 115,000
square feet with the new suggestion that you made that we include day care and
other facilities, we came up with 150,000 square feet based on the number of
employees that we think we'll have by the year 2005. We have some pretty good
indication as to what that would be. The City work force has shrunk since
you've made the first proposal. So to our best...
Mayor Suarez: So we may never need an administration building if we keep
shrinking. We'll end up being over there where the Off -Street Parking
Authority is, take over their parking facility and make it into an
administration building.
Mr. Bailey: The whole thing came about because of the substantial amount of
money we are paying to outside property owners in the amount of leases. About
a year...
Mayor Suarez: Which is how much, Herb? On a yearly basis?
Mr. Bailey: About 1.5 million at this point.
Mayor Suarez: That's bondable out to fifteen million.
Mr. Bailey: About 15 million.
Mr. Plummer: When those leases run out.
Mr. Bailey: But that's...
Mayor Suarez: And, you're right, those leases unfortunately don't run out at
the same time. One of the things we should be doing...
Mr. Bailey: They run out in the next three years.
Mr. Odio: No, no.
Mayor Suarez: I hope we're making sure that they all now...
— Mr. Odio: We have planned so that they will be all run out in the next three
years.
Mr. Bailey: Right.
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Mayor Suarez: In the next three years?
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Mr. Bailey: Then you'll be paying probably about two million dollars and
It'll go up and it'll keep going up, up, up, and up.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, now also, you know, let's be honest, let's talk about the
parking structure. Four hundred and fifty one employees is going to require a
parking structure of at least 400 parking spaces.
Mr. Bailey: We have indicated in the report that we have given to you, and
I'll resubmit it to you with a memo, how we intend to take care of the
parking. It just so happens that at the present time, we have adequate
parking facilities at the City Administration location. And if we utilize the
parking that we have been using under 1-95, adding two floors to the present
parking facility. All of that is included in the RFP that we have gotten
submission on.
Mr. Plummer: At a cost of two million dollars.
Mr. Bailey: Somewhere like that, yes.
Mr. Plummer: I still may, I'm sorry, DuPont Building is the best buy. You
got what, two hundred and eighty thousand square feet of which we could lease
part of it out? You got an instant parking garage of 400 cars?
Mr. Bailey: The modification to that garage is very expensive. It's only
good for valet parking. We've looked at it.
Mr. Plummer: What, what?
Mr. Dawkins: How old is the DuPont Building?
Mr. Bailey: We've looked at the garage there at the DuPont Building.
Mr. Dawkins: How old is the DuPont Building?
Mr. Bailey: It needs substantial...
Mr. Dawkins: How old is the DuPont Building?
Mr. Bailey: It was before you got here? OK. How old is the DuPont Building,
somebody, anybody?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Older than you.
Mr. Dawkins: Older than me? It's old.
Mr. Odio: I think it was built in 1925 or something like that.
Mr. Dawkins: 1925? Then it's just as old as I am. OK, so it's 63 years old.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but the DuPont Building's had better maintenance than you.
Mr. Dawkins: And we're going to sit up here and go into a 63 year old
building in modern Miami when we say that Miami is in its infancy and Miami is
growing and destined to become the best City in South Florida and we don't
want to build a new administration building...
Mr. Plummer: To me, the DuPont...
Mr. Dawkins: ... to enhance this.
Mr. Plummer: ... the DuPont Building is one of the finest structures in this
town.
Mr. Dawkins: I will not vote if they give us the DuPont free, then I would
take it. But if I'm going to pay them for a building that they have gotten
all of the life out of, and now they want me to reward them for moving to the
suburbs or wherever they move to in a new building, they got to be out of
their minds. Now, if that building was so good, why didn't they stay in it?
Mr. Plummer: I'm not questioning that. I'm saying, that under the proposal,
we can get 100,000 square feet more than what Herb is proposing for 5 million
less than you can do it...
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Mr. Dawkins: But it's a 63 year old building.
Mr. Plummer: You can do it...
Mr. Dawkins: It's a sixty... OK, let roe ask you a question, see, would you
take a 63 year old hearse over a 1980 Cadillac hearse in your building?
Mr. Plummer: If the 1980 hearse didn't run and the 1963 did, I would take the
older one.
(LAUGHTER)
Mr. Plummer: Annie, you ain't getting no younger, be careful.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, that's an unscheduled item, go ahead, Mr. Mayor, go to
something else.
Mr. Plummer: All I'm saying is, if you took - let me tell you something. All
right, you're spending a million and a half dollars a year paying rent. You
could pay for the DuPont Building and have it in full ownership in 10 years.
Mr. Bailey: Not exactly, Commissioner. We have also indicated in the report
to you what our estimate is and what it would cost to retrofit the building to
make it suitable. The garage is absolutely unsuitable. We don't know - we
figure somewhere a substan...
Mr. Plummer: The garage is not unsuitable. I'm sorry to disagree with you.
I go there all of the time.
Mr. Dawkins: That's why you want us to have it, they let you park free.
Mr. Plummer: No, it's not a matter of that. I just think that the DuPont
Building, in my estimation, is a class act.
Mr. Dawkins: You're entitled to your opinion. I think it's a lousy one and
I'm entitled to mine. Now, let's go to the next item.
Mr. Bailey: I have one other item to point out to you.
Mr. Plummer: It is a class act and God knows you couldn't get a better
location.
Mayor Suarez: Have we agreed, Mr. Manager, on the parameters then so that
everytime this discussion comes up, that we're talking about 451 employees and
you don't have to be that precise, just round it out, and 115,000 square feet
plus some ancillary?
Mr. Odio: A 150,000 so that we can have the day care facility.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, taken into account up to the year 2205 and that we're going
to look for the most economic way. The more I think about it, the more I like
the idea of putting it precisely in Overtown because I have a feeling the
existing admins...
Mr. Odio: That's why the new administration building should go next to the
other one because it is in Overtown.
Mr. Bailey: It is in Overtown.
Mayor Suarez: It is in the district, right.
Mr. Odio: That's Overtown.
Mr. Bailey: I just wanted to say that those boundaries are for the CD
allocation purposes but for political purposes, Overtown it extends all the
way back to Lummus Park. There's another little item I wanted to bring out,
in 1979, we, through a land exchange agreement with the county, this
Commission or this City committed itself to build a City administration
building on the present site. And at the time, it was envisioned to have a
total administration building but we only built one phase. I guess it's just
a scatter of legality as to whether or not you're committed to build a second
phase on the same site but the land exchange agreement with the county stip...
and we stipulated that we would build on that site.
Mayor Suarez: It would really make a lot of sense to build it there. It
would make a lot of sense to try to use the same architectural renderings to
the extent possible. It would make sense to put it exactly where it is. We
have economies of scale from having two buildings attached, infrastructure,
plus if we're centralizing in this effort, we may as well centralize by having
at least two major City facilities together. OK.
Mr. Odio: I mean you don't have the Finance Department in one place and the
other...
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins said that, basically, this was a
discussion item of his so we're not deciding on this. Mr. Manager or Mr.
Bailey, I hope that at some point, we finally do decide. We obviously don't
have a clear Commission consensus on this so...
Mr. Baileys We have a resolution directing us...
Mr. Odio: We have resolution to, directing us...
Mr. Bailey: We have architects...
Mayor Suarez: In today's agenda?
Mr. Bailey: No, no, past resolutions. We...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, well I have no problem with that because I happen to agree
with those past resolutions but if anybody doesn't here on the Commission,
we're going to have to schedule the item for discussion. If you don't have
clear instructions from us, if you don't feel you do.
Mr. Odio: We have clear instructions from this Commission to proceed
in
building the new administration building in the site that was selected.
Mayor Suarez: OK, if any...
Mr. Plummer: I don't remember such a resolution. We told you to go in -
no,
sir, what...
Mr. Bailey: I will bring them back to you, Commissioner.
Mayor Suarez: It was sort of a - then it sort of...
Mr. Plummer: Please do.
Mr. Bailey: Today and within the next half hour.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Plummer is right that that would conflict with
the
analysis of the DuPont site which I didn't...
Mr. Odio: No, no, what happened then, the DuPont site...
Mayor Suarez: The A.I. DuPont Building which I didn't agree with, but I
do
remember that we asked for an analysis of that.
Mr. Odio: After that, the DuPont Building offer came and then we were asked
to do a comparison between the DuPont Building and the building which we were
instructed to buy.
Mayor Suarez: But that reflects Commission policy that we want to have a
comparative analysis then. So the prior resolution, really, in a sense,
doesn't stand. And you ought to get a clear resolution from this Commission
to proceed on the plan as you understand it. Which I happen to agree with.
Mr. Bailey: Well, we have two.
Mr. Odio: We have.
Mr. Bailey: Resolution 88-231 and Resolution 88-326. And that is also...
Mayor Suarez: But, Herb, when the Commission, as a policy matter, asks for an
analysis of a comparative plan, then it has moved from the prior resolution to
a new resolution.
Mr. Baileys No, no.
Mr. Odio: No, all we were told to look at is the DuPont offer and we have
done...
Mayor Suarez: OK, this Commission, unless the Commission otherwise feels, in
which case we're still back to the same point, ought to make a clear policy
statement on where we want the administration building.
Mr. Odio: If you want to do no. I would appreciate it.
Mr. Bailey: Can I read this resolution to you?
Mayor Suarez: It's irrelevant, Herb.
Mr. Bailey: OK.
Mayor Suarez: If we don't want to make a clear resolution, then we're
obviously unclear as to how we feel. So why don't we schedule that so we get
a final determination and you get clear instructions from this Commission. I
think there's a consensus, putting it where it is and I hope there is, but if
not, we ought to decide that. Commissioner Plummer still wants to argue in
favor of the DuPont Building and I think we ought to hear him out on it.
Mr. Bailey: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: But we ought to do that as soon as possible because I...
Mr. Bailey: We'll do it next Commission meeting.
Mayor Suarez: Please.
Mr. Bailey: I think by then your consultant would have the financial advisor
would have the report ready for you, the one that you asked for.
Mayor Suarez: That will be very helpful because nothing like having the final
report of a comparative analysis before we decide whether we stick to the
original resolution or not.
Mr. Plummer: We'll do that if De Yurre doesn't go to Latin or South America
again.
Mayor Suarez: We'll make sure that some Commissioners are on an extended trip
to countries with internal upheaval.
14. A. APPROVE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT BID ADVERTISEMENTS: Police Dept.
equipment acquisition (FY 189).
B. DISCUSSION REGARDING CITY'S DUPLICATION OF PRISONER PROCESSING
PROCEDURE.
C. DISCUSSION: Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau - City
Attorney to obtain the financial information of Bureau.
Mayor Suarez: Proposed capital improvement projects bid advertisement, item
24.
Mr. Plummer: Right now, I'm not hungry at all. Why is this money coming out
of capital improvement instead of that $2 million dollar fund?
Mayor Suarez: We use the law enforcement trust fund at all, Joe? Does it
imake sense to? .
Lt. Joseph Longueira: Commissioners, this item was part of your original bond
fund for an argon laser for fingerprint detection. We've since determined
that the argon is not...
Mayor Suarez: Is police equipment.
Lt. Longueira: ... not the piece to buy. It's this piece and that's why it's
coming out of that bond money.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you know, I got a problem. Everytime, Mr. Manager, I
asked about that Law Enforcement Trust Fund, it's two million dollars.
Lt. Longueira: It's not that much, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Well, how much is it?
Lt. Longueira: When I got back, I checked, they said it was about 1.4
•illion, but that includes...
Mr. Plummer: OK...
Lt. Longueira: ... money that you've already budgeted to projects. It's not
all available money.
Mr. Plummer: What is the money being used for?
Lt. Longueira: Well, part of it you approved today, some funding - 446,000
for the transcription, item number one, was funded out of there today. And I
know that the department's working on some other items to bring to you.
Mr. Plummer: To me, you know, that's - it seems like to me it's a fund that's
being used for whatever the hell they want.
Lt. Longueira: Commissioner, there's very strict ways you can use it. It's
not a free and open fund.
Mr. Plummer: Is that a federal fund?
Lt. Longueira: No, that fund comes from monies that we obtained from
confiscations from enforcement action and it's put, by law, in that fund and
there's prescribed how you can use it.
Mr. Plummer: Whose law?
Lt. Longueira: State law.
Mr. Plummer: Then maybe we need to change the state law.
Lt. Longueira: If you would like, go ahead.
Mr. Plummer: Then we could use... no, Mr. City Attorney...
Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: ... I think we need to review that and maybe make it part of our
package to use that monies for other purposes, worthwhile purposes, in the
Police Department to reduce the $75 million dollar contribution from the
1 general fund.
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Lt. Longueira: Commissioner...
Mr. Plummer: To me, it's ludicrous that we got a fund that's always a million
and a half dollars, then the money is not being used.
Mr. Fernandez: Money's been used.
Lt. Longueira: Commissioner, part of the problem with trying to go back and
do that is, there's a lot of agencies that are on the border, what they're
doing is legal or not legal and what we may and up doing is losing that fund
completely.
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Mr. Plummer: Well, I'll ask the City Attorney to look into it and write me a
recommendation.
Mr. Fernandez: I will.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager, let me ask this question. We are, I think, the
only Police Department that are still doing our own prisoner processing which
is, in fact, a duplication and it's done again at the county. Are we - I
guess I need a justification of why we're still expending all the money to
duplicate prisoner processing. I think we are the only City in Dade County
left that has duplication. Rather than taking them straight to the county
jail, we bring them to our place, then we've got to transport them, then we've
got to process them, they go to the county and they do it all over again.
Lt. Longuelra: Right, Commissioner, but...
Mr. Plummer: Can we afford that luxury?
justification why it should continue.
Lt. Longueira: Yea, sir.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. City Attorney.
Mr. Plummer: I'll move 24.
Mr. Fernandez: Yes, sir?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
And I'd like to see a letter of
Mr. De Yurre: OK, moved and seconded. No further discussion, please call the
roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 89-233
A MOTION APPROVING PROPOSED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
PROJECT REQUEST FOR BID ADVERTISEMENT IN CONNECTION
WITH MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT'S EQUIPMENT ACQUISITION
FOR FY '89.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, Mr. City Attorney...
Mr. Fernandez: Yes, sir?
Mr. De Yurre: Let me ask you. Going back for a second on this situation with
the bureau. Do we have any legal right to force them to turn over all the
financial information that they have including the private funds?
Mr. Fernandez: The only rights that we have against them would be those that
are contained in the contract. We have a contract with them and we are
governed by whatever provisions we have in the contract. In the contract,
there is no specific provision for us having a right to request that they give
us their private records. There is...
lft. De Yurre: As a citizen, taxpayer, do we have a right to that information?
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Mr. Fernandez: To the extent that these are private monies and not public
monies, it would be questionable. However, because this is a combination of
the public and private sector, perhaps a case could be made whereby the proper
cause of action, they could be forced to divulge their finances.
Mr. De Yurre: Weil, I bet you that there's got to be some way wherein or some
legal, some legal situation wherein if you have employees that are paid by tax
dollars that their actions have to be made available to the public.
Mr. Fernandez: What I understand, they're able to account fully for all
public's funds that they receive.
Mr. De Yurre: And do they pay employees with that?
Mr. Fernandez: I believe that - I don't know their operation, I'm going to
have to look into that.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, let me put it to you this way. You, as the City
Attorney...
Mr. Fernandez: Yes.
Mr. De Yurre: ... find a way, a legal way for us to be able to obtain those
information.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, they... Commissioner De Yurre, they structured this and we
argued against it so that private monies would not be accountable for. The
only one who had any say so over them was Kirkland and that the private funds
were that way and the public funds, they would account for. And they set up
two separate accounts - am I right Odio?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: They set up two separate accounts; one they put the public funds
in and one they put the private funds in and the only thing - and this was the
agreement - the only thing that we could stand accountable for would be the
public funds. But there again, I go along with the Commissioner's suggestion
that you find out if there's any way to do it.
Mr. De Yurre: And let me know by the next meeting the 23rd.
Mr. Fernandez: Yes.
Mr. De Yurre: Thank you.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: At this point, Agenda item 25 was withdrawn.
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15. A. DISCUSSION ON STATUS OF DADE COUNTY HELICOPTER CO. AND CHALK'S
AIRLINES ON WATSON ISLAND.
B. DISCUSSION REGARDING NATIONAL CONVENTION OF MUNICIPAL LAW OFFICERS
CONFERENCE - scheduled to come to Miami
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Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Mr. Mayor, excuse me for a second, but under City
Attorney report, there are two other items that I'd quickly like to bring to
your attention. At the last City Commission meeting you instructed us...
Mayor Suarez: If you must.
Mr. Fernandez: I must.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
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Mr. Fernandez: You instructed us to give 30-day notice for the helicopter
operation to leave Watson Island and they have turned around and appealed the
decision of this Commission and we're now in Circuit Court defending our
position in that regard. Apparently, they feel that they have rights beyond
those that are given in our agreement with them. And so this is another area
of litigation they're going into. As to Chalk Airlines, I also need to report
to you that they have requested an indefinite extension of time within which
to answer to our complaint and my response to that was...
Mayor Suarez: An indefinite extension of time?
Mr. Fernandez: Yes, sir. Was that, out of professional courtesy, knowing how
busy attorneys could be sometime that we would not mind a limited extension of
time courtesy -wise, ten days, but that otherwise it was the intent of the City
Commission that we vigorously prosecute this case and that they must respond —
within ten days. They have not made any other overtures or they have not made
any other proposals to find any solution for this case.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Fernandez: And at the next City Commission meeting, I intend to bring to
you a request for bringing to Miami national conference or a convention and
this is a National Institute of Municipal Law Officers. This is the...
Mr. Plummer: We don't want that bunch of drunks.
Mr. Fernandez: This is a bid that we have to put in for 1992.
Mayor Suarez: Who's going to provide security when they...
Mr. Fernandez: No, these are all the City Attorneys throughout the United
States that they, I believe...
Mayor Suarez: Sounds like a good idea, Mr. City Attorney.
Mr. Fernandez: You will hear more about it next time. Those are the only
three items that I had, sir.
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16. DISCUSSION ON RAILROAD TRACKS.
Mayor Suarez: State Representative Jefferson Reeves is recognized. We're
honored to have you, sir. Is there any item that you wanted heard?
Mr. Jefferson Reeves: I'd certainly like to, Mr. Mayor, if it's possible.
Good morning, everybody. Mr. Mayor and Commissioners, my name is Jefferson
ssssE Reeves and my address is 1002 N.W. 54th Street and my two problems this
morning have to deal with railroad tracks. That's on 17th Avenue - 17th
Street off 7th Avenue. The citizens in that area are having a whole lot of
trouble because those tracks sticks up in the air and they have almost, a lot
of them have completely destroyed their tires and their cars. I've called the
railroad company and I certainly would appreciate it if the City of Miami
would also call the railroad company and have those crossings repaired for the
citizens in that area. Also, on 14th Street also, they're not quite good
enough but they're not as bad as the ones on 17th Street. They're really
terrible.
Mayor Suarez: Mr. Manager, we've had some paving over some of the tracks that
were abandoned in Overtown but you're talking about 17th Street and 7th
Avenue?
Mr. Reeves: Right, right off 17th Avenue, yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, 17th Avenue.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor...
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Mayor Suarez: Am I confused?
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor...
Mr. Reeves: 11th Street, yes.
Mr. Dawkins: ... and fellow Commissioners.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Representative Reeves could not have picked
a better place
to
come. Maintenance of those tracks belong to DOT which is
the Department
of
Transportation.
= Mr. Reeves: True.
' Mr. Dawkins: Under which Representative Reeves controls their budget and
if
V they have not made the corrections by the time they case
up before you
in
hearings up there, then you should chop their budget off.
Mr. Reeves: I will, I will put a little pressure on them.
I will certainly
put a little pressure on them.
Mr. Dawkins: We have been on it, and I'm going to give you the letters that
we have written to the DOT explaining that the citizens are complaining, and
just like you say, Representative Reeves, you can go and have your car aligned
now and you hit them one time and the alignment is gone, see? And so we are
with you and we've already written letters to the Department of Transportation
citing all of these areas and the only one that they ever corrected for us is
the one on 7th Avenue there where the Forensic Hospital is. Nov, they made
their adjustment there, but if you want to say something else, go right ahead.
Mr. Kay: No, I have nothing further to add on that. You're correct.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, OK, so it is, but it is not our road to maintain, it is
DOT 's.
Rep. Reeves: I understand that quite well. One other problem, Mr. Mayor, is
that an individual and I, we worked out a deal, I thought we had worked it
out, a health clinic for Little Havana and a health clinic for Overtown. Now,
see in your legislative issues for 1979 coming to the Legislature, you are
requesting monies for a health care center for Little Havana, but you are not 1
In your legislative issues, you are not requesting a health care center for
Overtown and I think you are going to have to be even handed. Now...
— Mayor Suarez: Yes, Representative, I think I can tell you now, because you
are probably aware of it because you may have talked to Representative Morse
that in the Governor's budget is included a sufficient amount for both and so
the idea I think, emanated from Little Havana, but it is working out that he
put enough in his budget which you know is almost guaranteed then that the
house, under your leadership in the Senate, almost under your leadership,
passes it, we will have enough for both, unless I am wrong about that, I
believe there is enough money for those two, and that's where it is earmarked,
from our perspective, to be.
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Mr. Dawkins: Representative Reeves, the motion
was made here, if you don't
put one in each place, you get none.
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: We've already made that, so...
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Mayor Suarez: That's right.
Mr. Dawkins: ... we just, all right, yes sir.
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Rep. Reeves: Appreciate that, appreciate that.
I was just looking' at the
issues and I didn't see it and I thought it would be best for me to come do"'
and talk to you openly.
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Mayor Suarez: Would you check to make sure with
Representative Morse to make
sure that = the -amount is sufficient? I think
the Governor's budget''has
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pretty large sum, over 46,000,000, and that should be plenty enough,
because...
Mr. Dawkins: I will say again, you don't have to check nothing. If they
don't have enough for both, we don't get none, OK? Let Representative Morse
check to see if they got enough for two.
Rep. Morse: OK, the reason I came down and I'm going to quit now is that, I
have a large constituency of a whole lot of people and we are trying to do
some things in all areas and Little Havana and Allapattah especially. The
people over there need some kinds of things and Allapattah, and I represent
those districts and I want those districts to be evenly controlled and evenly
helped. Appreciate your time, thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you. Thank you for your leadership.
Mr. De Yurre: Yes, Mr. Mayor, we also should note that the Advisory Board is
working with Jackson Memorial Hospital, as far as getting a clinic in the
Overtown area and I think they were supposed to meet some time next week on
that, to solidify the situation.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, the beauty of it is that the staffing and the operational
aspects of it apparently have been taken care of already, because the Jackson
people want to do it, the Jackson Memorial people want to do it and we also
have the offer of free medical care from the clinic now established at
Camillus House, if that facility should at any time end it's operations.
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17. CITIZENS' INDEPENDENT REVIEW PANEL: Report (Overtown)
Mayor Suarez: Father Barry, we have pending report, I believe, and since you
are here, we'd like to take you up.
Father Richard Barry: I want first to thank the City Commission for meeting
with the panel in a joint session on Monday, February 13th. During the joint
meeting, we heard from those key players who were a part of the 1983 Blue
Ribbon Committee Report. It was evident from that meeting that there were a
lot of hard feelings out there, centering in and around those persons who were
a part of that report. The Reverend Dr. Winston Rudolph, who served as Chair,
for that committee, reported to us, and Dr. William Perry gave us a minority
report. Since that time I need to inform you that we have on board an
attorney, Harold Long, Jr., who has selected another attorney to work pro bono
_ with him, Steven Helfman, of Fine and Jacobson. We have also brought on board
a consultant, Tony Crapp, Sr. and on March 1, Wednesday, we took testimony
from our first witnesses. The first person to come before us, was the Chief
of Police, Perry Anderson. Testimony ran over some three hours. I want
however, to alert you that the monies set aside by the City Commission for the
i work of this panel is not sufficient. We're talking about a consultant, an
attorney, a stenographer, to handle the testimony under oath, and not right
now, but we will be speaking with you in the future about becoming more
realistic with those funds. I also want to point out to the Commission that
the panel is duly constituted by a resolution of the City Commission, and that
being the case, I think we should not entertain any more public or private
® discussion about the composition of the panel. It was by your design that we
should have on that panel a cross representation of the community, citizens
and police officers. That should be a closed matter now. The panel has begun
its work. We are pleased with the direction in which we are going and we
trust that you would have enough trust in us that we will do a good job.
Mayor Suarez: Father, let me assure you on that score, there's been no mention
by any Commissioner of any intent to change the composition of that particular
panel. There has been talk, and there will also be talk about what would be
the ideal composition of any permanent independent review panel and of course,
we have to entertain any discussion by any citizen on any issue that they
request to be heard on, but as I said, you can be assured as of now, and I
think I speak for the entire Commission that we don't intend to change in any
way that panel and the panel that you are heading and we suspect that were we
to do that, we might have mass resignations anyhow. We wouldn't want that to
happen, or to in any way hinder the process of reaching hopefully, very quick
recommendations that You're eneaaed in right now.
Father Barry: Well, we are proceeding and it is a slow process and those of
us who sit on that panel realize that there are going to be some hard feelings
out there, but we aren't concerned about that. We're concerned about
listening to what everybody has to say, getting some data, writing that up and
coming up with some kind of action plan that we can present to this Commission
so that we can alleviate some of the problems we face in this City. Remember
that Overtown is a part of the City of Miami. Whatever happens in Overtown
affects the total City. We cannot isolate any community section in this City
from the total community and I want to thank you for the confidence you have
reposed in this panel.
Mr. De Yurre: Father, I would like to get some feedback from the board, and
rather quickly, as to your feelings with reference to the Administration
Building, whether you feel that would make an impact, having it in the
Overtown area where we are talking about as opposed to next to the Police
Station where we are looking at also, whether that four or five block
difference would be an impact on the community.
Father Barry: Well, you know, I can't speak for the panel.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, that's...
Father Barry: Yes, I can only speak for Richard Barry and I, you know, any
kind of construction in Overtown for the betterment of that community is good,
provided that it is also going to have some effect on the citizens the
residents, in Overtown. We need jobs, we need hope, and we need to have
someone to help us get a clear picture of our destiny there, you know, so if
building that building in Overtown is going to be of any benefit, sure.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, I'd just like to get the feelings from the board.
Father Barry: You have other persons here, you have on the panel. Do you
want to ask them? They can speak for themselves.
Mr. De Yurre: No, I just want to get something from the board back some
feedback form the board and a consensus type of situation as to what your
feelings are. My feeling is that if you have a building where you have 500
employees there on a daily basis, that's going to create a situation where
somebody will be able to open up a restaurant down the street because people
go there for lunch and it will create an economic stimulus in the immediate
area.
Father Barry: Sure, I have no problem with that. As a matter of fact, I was
happy to read that that was even a consideration.
Mr. Dawkins: But when the board considers that, also consider where you are
putting it, and what parcel you are going to put it on, that's all. OK, thank
you.
Mr. Plummer: How much did you propose to pay the consultant?
Father Barry: That is being worked out now with the City personnel and the
consultant. We just, at our meeting on Wednesday, voted to accept Tony Crapp,
Sr., but the details of that acceptance is being worked out with City staff
and Mr. Crapp.
Mr. Plummer: Give me a ballpark number of when you feel that you will have a
report ready for this Commission, a final report ready.
Father Barry:: Well, Commissioner, we just started hearing testimony on
Wednesday.
Mr. Plummer: I understand, but I mean, are you looking at three months, six
months? Before somebody comes up and start screaming at you and at us that
you are dragging your feet, not knowing the process that you are going
through!
Father Barry: ... assumes this kind of posture, he has to also surround
himself with alligator hide. Now, I'm not about to let anyone force me to
make any kind of decision that I'm not ready to make and I can't ■ay that it
is going to be three months, six months. I am hoping that it will be done as
quickly as we possibly can.
Mayor Suarez: OK, thank you, Father.
Father Barry: Do you want to say something?
Mayor Suarez: OK, the report is complete unless another member wants to may
something and the Chairman has made it. Thank you.
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18. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: Authorize creation of the Model City Local
Government Neighborhood Improvement District - in accordance with Sect.
163.506 F.S. (amend ordinance by changing proposed boundaries from NW 36
to NW 17 Ave., State Rd. 112, and NW 12 Avenue).
Mayor Suarez: Item 26.
Mr. Olmedillo: 26, 27 and 28 are related items in that they are requests to
establish a safe neighborhood district for the areas of Allapattah, Model
Cities and Overtown. We've been working with the local community and we have
the support of the Overtown Advisory Board, the Allapattah Business Community
and...
Mayor Suarez: The basic thrust of this is to be able to apply for State
grants under 163-506 Florida Statutes?
Mr. Olmedillo: That is correct, air. That will enable the City to apply
directly for capital improvement monies for improvement of these areas which
are established within the district. This morning Carlos Luis Brito from the
Allapattah organization came up to us and he wanted to change somewhat the
boundaries and that I would like for him to state it on the record so that you
know what is the thrust of his proposal which is a slightly different from
ours, but I think we don't have any problem with it. As I said...
Mayor Suarez: Well, unless any Commissioner has any problems with the
boundaries as you are now recommending them, taking into account Mr.
Brito's
recommendation, I don't know that we need to delve into...
Mr. Dawkins: I have some problems.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Number one, the proposed Model City Safe neighborhood,
what is
the south boundary? You got 59th Street, you got State Road 112. What is the
south boundary?
Mr. Olmedillo: It will come down to one one twelve...
Mr. Dawkins: Well what you got 59th Street in here for?
Mr. Olmedillo: That is the northern boundary, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: North? Well OK, let me read what you have and then see
what we
got.
Mr. Bob Clark: Commissioner...
Mr. Dawkins: The proposed Model City Safe Neighborhood Improvement
District
has the following boundaries, NW 62nd Street, NW 59th Street...
Mr. Clark: Commissioner Dawkins, I'm sorry. I know I am interrupting you,
but you were furnished with a more specific well articulated set of boundaries
this morning in a memorandum, which we distributed to the agenda coordinator
because like you, when we see twice 59th Street, or 58th Street, there was no
way that we could have lived with that set of boundaries and if I may, let me
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read you the boundaries that we proposed to you for Model City, because that
Was the most...
Mr. Dawkins: No, that's all right. 'Where...
Mr. Clark: You were right, you...
Mr. Dawkins: ... is the southwest boundary of this total concept going to bee
the south boundary?
Mr. Elbert Waters: The southern boundary, Commissioner Dawkins is right at
the Airport Expressway which is 112. That is the southern...
Mr. Dawkins: No, it's not, sir. The proposed Allapattah sr.fe neighborhood
south boundary is NW 23rd Street.
Mr. Waters: No sir, that is the Allapattah.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, wait a minute, let me go back, OK? This is one complete
ordinance. Than you are going to divide it into three districts, is that
correct?
Mr. Waters: Yes, sir.
Mr. Clark: No, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: All right now, give...
Mr. Clark: Commissioner, there are three ordinances. 26 is Model City, 27 is
Allapattah and 28 is Overtown and they each have their own set of boundaries,
they each have their own ordinance and they each will have their own advisory
board. They each...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, bring me the boundaries that you just showed me.
Mr. Waters: If I may, and I'll try to delineate them, if you will look...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, bring me... see you delineated them here. Bring me
something in writing, please, Mr. Waters. Well, while we are doing that, Mr.
Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: On page one, it says Section 165.506(d) F.S. designates the City
Commission as the Board of Directors of an approved local government
improvement district. 3
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That is correct, air.
Mr. Dawkins:
Does that mean that these
five Commissioners are the Board of
I± Directors for
each of these districts?
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Mr. Olmedillo:
That is correct, sir.
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And we cannot delegate that
authority to
nobody?
Mayor Suarez:
I was hoping that would be
your second
question. I hope we can
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Mr. Olmedillo:
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You can name an advisory
board.
Mayor Suarez:
Advisory board, OK.
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Mr. Olmedillo: And then you can act through a third
entity which may be*tbo
local development corporation or whomever you decide.
You may -delegate;
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We delegate what now?
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The functions.
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Mr. Dawkins: Of what?
Mr. Olmedillo: Of overseeing the monies that are being granted for this
particular activity for the...
Mr. Dawkins: Which will establish an advisory council to Board of Directors.
Advisory council to advise me too, but it still doesn't say I can pass over
the responsibility of the five members up here.
Mr. Olmedillo: Well, the legislation isn't clear on that and I would like to
defer to the Law Department to give you an opinion on that.
Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, how could we delegate if we were inclined to say, you
handle it totally in the neighborhoods. Could we do that? Is that... let the
Trust do it?
Mr. Olmedillo: I'd like to defer to Law.
Mr. Clark: They are under negotiation right now with some CBO's to make that
proposal or to solicit and if the...
Mayor Suarez: They, you mean the Legislators?
Mr. Clark: No, meaning the City Administration.
Mayor Suarez: How far could we legally go now if we wanted to delegate fully
the...
Mr. Clark: There would be a limit, based on the wording of the State Statute
right now. I think it has to be the governing body. However, to a great
extent, I think the delegation with parameters is not a forbidden exercise.
Mayor Suarez: All of which I guess means that we could delegate the entire
thing up to the final approval of the actual plan and expenditure of the
monies, I would guess, is what you are telling me.
Mr. Clark: I think the Department of Community Affairs would be .the final
arbitrator as to what extent did you still have some control over it.
Mayor Suarez: Please avoid involving the Department of Community Affairs.
Mr. Clark: That's where you want to get the money from.
Mayor Suarez: I'd rather have State Representative Jefferson Reeves involved
than the Department of Community Affairs.
Mr. Clark: But you have to be accountable, the local governing body.
Mayor Suarez: OK, Commissioners, anything further on this?
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Mr. Olmedillo: We are waiting for Commissioner Dawkins to see the boundaries
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of the Model City.
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Mr. Dawkins: OK.
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Mayor Suarez: He wants to make sure that the written boundaries meet the
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illustration.
Mr. Dawkins: All right now, somebody explain to me why this was stopped at
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62nd Street as much as we need it up to 71st Street. Why did we stop it at
62nd?
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Mr. Waters: Commissioner Dawkins, clearly our City Administration recognizes
the problem that are occurring up to 71st Street. However, what we are
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attempting to do is make a concentrated effort in an area to create the
`reatest impact. One of the things that we attempted to do was to contact a
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CK0 that was working exclusively in those particular areas and in the Model
City's case, we have identified and we have been talking with the Urban League
of Greater, Miami. You may be aware that the Urban League has been working in
the King High's redevelopment area which is the area from 12th Avenue west to
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We are tracking the City boundary up to 71st Street on the west
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17th Avenue, the northern boundaries being 62nd Street. They have a housing
project and the focus of this safe neighborhood program is to create an
environment that would be more safe for those areas. So what we are doing is
based on what the League is proposing to do. We are going to work with them
In trying to implement this safe neighborhood program.
Mr. Dawkins: What does the application say about moving the boundaries to
?let Street?
Mr. Waters: Well the criteria indicate that there must be approximately 75
percent of the residential property owners being in a contiguous area. The
Administration would not have a problem in extending it to ?let Street. It
would be a lot...
Mr. Dawkins: That's all I need to know. And move it to 70th... I move that
the north boundaries, unless Representative Reeves, you have some problem with
that, sir? I'd like to move it to 71st Street, but if you got a problem with
it, I...
Rep. Jefferson Reeves: No, I don't. I appreciate your doing that, Mr.
Commissioner.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Rep. Reeves: Let we say this also, that as the Speaker of the House and I
rode through Liberty City and those areas, Overtown, now, the Governor had a
little problem, but I think we would work out the problem with the Governor.
The Speaker is willing to pump some millions of dollars in now, because he has
seen the need of impoverished areas like Overtown and Liberty City, all the
way up to 71st Street and I appreciate your doing that, Mr. Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, I agree, you know, if we don't put it in now,
Representative and try to put it in after we get the money, you know, we've
dropped the ball. To put it in now, and we get the money, we're home free.
Rep. Reeves: I suggest that you put it in now, make it very strong about
what you need, and ask for big bucks. Thank you.
Mr. Dawkins: All right sir. All right, I move that the northern boundaries
for Model Cities be moved 71st Street.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. You second?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mr. Olmedillo: Are you moving the entire item 26 with a modification of the
boundaries, Commissioner Dawkins?
Mr. Dawkins: I'm going to move this first and then move the item, see? I may
have some time, you know. OK, no problem.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on just the movement for whatever...
Mr. Dawkins: The boundaries.
Mayor Suarez: The boundaries.
Mr. Waters: For clarification, Commissioner Dawkins, we are saying then that
the western boundary is 17th Avenue, eastern boundary is NW 12th Avenue and
the northern boundary now extends to NW 71st Street, correct?
Mr. Dawkins: For the section of clarification, the westward boundaries are
wherever the City of Miami city limits are. Now, somewhere we go from 54th
Street to the middle of 19th Avenue, then we go up there to I don't know what
street that is and we go back in. Then you go up, and wherever the City of
Miami property is in the westward boundaries of the City of Miami, then that
up to 71st Street are the boundaries.
Mayor Suarez:
side` there.
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than we'll take the whole item.
The following Motion vas introduted by Commissioner DaMbs, who 661red
Its adoptions
MOTION NO. 99-234
i A MOTION IN CONNECTION WITH EMERGENCY ORDINANCE IOSS7
(PROPOSED MODEL CITY SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT) CHANGING THE PROPOSED BOUNDARIES OF SAID AREA
FROM NW 36TH STREET TO Nil 71ST STREET (NORTHERN BOUNDARY),
I NW 17TH AVENUE, NW 19TH AVENUE (WESTERN BOUNDARY); STATE
ROAD 112 (SOUTHERN BOUNDARY), AND NW 12TH AVENUE (EASTERN
BOUNDARY).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following votes
AYES: Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner !filler J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Turre
j Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None. —
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
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Mayor Suarez: Do you want to move the item?
Mr. Dawkins: Move the item.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. The reason for the ordinance I gather is;
that, I mean the emergency, is that we have to apply for funds in this current
Legislative session and otherwise the need in that community, which is
pressing is those communities...
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Mr. Olmedillo: That is correct, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: I move it as an emergency item.
Mayor Suarez: Read the ordinance. Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE XNTITLED-
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CREATION OF THE
MODEL CITY LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION
163.504, F.S., IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 163.506
F.S.; IDENTIFYING THE DISTRICT AS AN AREA OF
APPROXIMATELY 578.0 ACRES IN SIZE LOCATED WITHIN THE
CITY OF MIAMI; BOUNDED ON THE SOUTH BY STATE ROAD 112,
ON THE EAST BY NORTHWEST 12 AVENUE, ON THE WEST BY THE
CITY'S WESTERLY BOUNDARY, AND ON THE NORTH BY
NORTHWEST 71 STREET; AUTHORIZING THE DISTRICT AND/OR
THE CITY, ON BEHALF OF THIS DISTRICT, TO RECEIVE A
PLANNING GRANT FROM THE SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FUND
AND/OR THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS;
INCLUDING A STATEMENT OF PURPOSE TO UTILIZE SPECIAL
ASSESSMENTS ON REAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE DISTRICT;
DESIGNATING THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AS THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ADVISORY COUNCIL TO THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS COMPOSED OF PROPERTY OWNERS OR RESIDENTS OF
THE DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR THE OPTIONAL PROHIBITION
OF THE USE OF ANY DISTRICT POWER AUTHORIZED BY SECTION
163.514 F.S.; PROVIDING FOR THE POWER OF THE CITY
COMMISSION TO DISSOLVE THE DISTRICT BY RESCINDING THE
HEREIN ORDINANCE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy, 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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Dawkins and seconded
by Commissioner Kennedy, adopted said ordinance by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10557.
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19. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: Authorize creation of the Allapattah Local
Government Neighborhood Imprnvement District - in accordance with
Section 163.506 F.S.
Mayor Suarez: Item 27.
Mr. Olmedillo: 27 is the Allapattah area and again as I stated before, Carlos
Luis Brito from the Allapattah Business Association came up to us and he had a
proposal. The boundaries that we are proposing are the ones in the small
cross -hatched. The one which is signalized by the paint over in the
transparency. As you suggested Mr. Mayor, if you want to take into
consideration the boundaries that the Administration proposed, and you want to
hear from Carlos Luis Brito...
Mayor Suarez: No, no, if you recommend it, unless any Commissioner has any
problems with it...
Mr. Dawkins: OK, the only problem I have is, 38th Street is I-12.
Mr. Olmedillo: That is correct. Yes, the boundaries will come together. The
Model City's boundaries and the Allapattah boundaries will touch each other.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, well change 38th Street to I-12 for continuity.
Mr. Olmedillo: OK.
Mr. Clark: You mean State Road 112, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: State Road 112, yes.
Mayor Suarez: OK, the southern boundary of the one will be the..
Mr. Dawkins: Northern boundary of the other.
Mayor Suarez: OK, with the modification I entertain a motion on 27.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved. Second?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Second, read the ordinance. Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CREATION OF THE
ALLAPATTAH LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 163.504
F.S.; IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 163.506 F.S.;
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IDENTIFYING THE DISTRICT AS AN AREA OF APPROXIMATELY
922.0 ACRES IN SIZE LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY OF MIAMI;
BOUNDED BY N.W. 27TH AVENUE, N.W. 12TH AVENUE. S.R.
112 AND N.W. 23RD STREET; AUTHORIZING THE DISTRICT
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AND/OR THE CITY, ON BEHALF OF THIS DISTRICT, TO
RECEIVE A PLANNING GRANT FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT
OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS AND SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FUND;
INCLUDING A STATEMENT OF PURPOSE TO UTILIZE SPECIAL
ASSESSMENTS ON REAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE DISTRICT; -
DESIGNATING THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AS THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ADVISORY COUNCIL TO THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS COMPOSED OF PROPERTY OWNERS OR RESIDENTS OF
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THE DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR THE OPTIONAL PROHIBITION
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OF THE USE OF ANY DISTRICT POWER AUTHORIZED BY SECTION
163.514 F.S.; PROVIDING FOR THE POWER OF THE CITY
COMMISSION TO DISSOLVE THE DISTRICT BY RESCINDING THE
HEREIN ORDINANCE.
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Vas introduced by Commissioner Kennedy and seconded by Commissioner
Dawkins, for adoption so 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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ASSENT: None.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Kennedy and seconded
by Commissioner Dawkins, adopted said ordinance by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Cosmsissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOSS: None.
ABSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10558.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
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20. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: Authorize creation of the Overtown Local
Government Neighborhood Improvement District
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the OAB.
Mayor Suarez: But we are going to leave Overtown out,
aren't we?
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Mayor Suarez: OK, do we have any problems on the boundaries
on 28th? Are we
agreed on the boundaries?
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Mr. Dawkins: I don't live here. Move it here, I live
on 50th Street. Don't
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Mayor Suarez: Sorry I even said that) Item 28,
are we agreed on the
boundaries? If so I will entertain a motion on 28.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mr. Dawkins: The boundaries, what is the south boundary?
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Mayor Suarez: NW 5th.
Mr. Dawkins: 5th Street?
Mr. Waters: It is on 5th Street, NW 5th Street.
Mayor Suarez: In the railroad line on the...
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but the
l'lorida East Coast Railroad line is the eastern boundary.
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Mr. Dawkins: OK, so problems.
Mr. haters: And the river on the western side.
Mayor Suarez: OK, I'll entertain a motion on the item.
Mrs. Kennedy: !loved.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it as an emergency.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded, read the ordinance. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CREATION OF TH
OVERTOWN LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 163.504
F.S.= IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 163.506 F.S.;
IDENTIFYING THE DISTRICT AS AN AREA OF APPROXIMATELY
201.0 ACRES IN SIZE LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY OF MIAMI;
BOUNDED ON THE EAST BY THE FLORIDA EAST COAST RAIL
ROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY, ON THE NORTH BY NORTHWEST 20 STREET
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NORTHERLY TO NORTHWEST 22 STREET THENCE WESTERLY UNTIL
1' ITS INTERSECTION WITH NORTHWEST 5 AVENUE THENCE
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UNTIL ITS INTERSECTION WITH US INTERSTATE I-95, ON THE
1 WEST BY US INTERSTATE I-95 UNTIL IS INTERSECTION WITH
US. INTERSTATE I-395, AND ON THE SOUTH BY US
INTERSTATE I-395; AUTHORIZING THE DISTRICT AND/OR THE
I; CITY, ON BEHALF OF THIS DISTRICT, TO RECEIVE A
' PLANNING GRANT FROM FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY
= AFFAIRS AND THE SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST FUND;
INCLUDING A STATEMENT OF PURPOSE TO UTILIZE SPECIAL
=, ASSESSMENTS ON REAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE .DISTRICT;
DESIGNATING THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AS THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS OF THE DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR THE
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ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ADVISORY COUNCIL TO THE BOARD OF
1; DIRECTORS COMPOSED OF PROPERTY OWNERS OR RESIDENTS OF
THE DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR THE OPTIONAL PROHIBITION
OF THE USE OF ANY DISTRICT POWER AUTHORIZED BY SECTION
163.514 F.S.; PROVIDING FOR THE POWER OF THE CITY
1 COMMISSION TO DISSOLVE THE DISTRICT BY RESCINDING THE
HEREIN ORDINANCE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy and seconded by Commissioner
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requirement of reading same on two separate days, which was agreed
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Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
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Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Kennedy and seconded
by Commissioner Dawkins, adopted said ordinance by the following,vote:
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SAID ORDINANCE VAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE N0. 1055 .
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.
jMr. Dawkins: OK, valve already identified somebody, Mr. Manager, you've'
already identified the local development participants who are going to work
with this?
Mr. Olmedillo: That is correct, sir.
t Mr. Dawkins: All right, who is going to work in Overtown?
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Mr. Olmedillo: The OAB, Overtown Advisory Board.
Mr. Dawkins: That's not in existence. They are out of business.
Mayor Suarez: Not the OADC.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, no problem, thank you.
o these items obviously is to et money from the
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Legislature and I hope that Mr. Fair and Ann Marie would join Commissioner
Dawkins, myself and the rest of the Commission who are able to come and meet
- with the Dade County Delegation forthwith and we're going to try to coordinate
to see if they could meet here in Miami, otherwise in Tallahassee or the North
Pole or wherever, to make sure that we now get the monies before the
_I' Legislative session begins and we should have someone from the Allapattah CBO,
Mr. Brito, to also be present and see if they begin to understand our
priorities as opposed to some of the other items that last year were brought
down as quote, unquote turkeys that are not nearly as needed as some of these
projects that are included in these safe neighborhood grant applications. Mr.
Bartel from my staff, would you please make sure we coordinate that meeting ;
with Dade County Delegation, invite all the Commissioners and the CBO's in ,.
question to make an all out pitch before the Legislative session begins, which
means in the next couple of weeks.
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Zi. SECOND READING ORDINANCES $200,000 for a Strategic Plan for the City.
Mayor Suarez: Item 29, second reading. !loved? Do we have a motion?
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved. Seconded. Any discussion? Now, read the ordinance.
Call the roll.
AN ORLINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 AND 5 OF ORDINANCE N0.
10464, ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 27, 1988, THE ANNUAL
APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING
SEPTEMBER 30, 1989, BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATIONS
FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, COMPREHENSIVE
PLANNING UNIT, IN THE AMOUNT OF $200,000 AND BY
INCREASING REVENUES IN A LIKE AMOUNT FROM THE INDIRECT
COST ALLOCATION PLAN, FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE
DEVELOPMENT, DIRECTING AND MONITORING OF A STRATEGIC
PLAN FOR THE CITY, WHOSE PURPOSE IS THAT OF
ESTABLISHING EXPENDITURE PRIORITY ORDERS AND
RATIONALIZING THE CITY'S ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION
MAKING PROCESS AND THE EVALUATION, PROGRAMMING AND
MONITORING OF THE CITY'S CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS,
INCLUDING THEIR FINANCIAL AND FUNDING PLANNING
PROGRAM; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of February 9, 1989,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
motion of Commissioner Plummer, seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the
Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed
and adopted by the following vote:
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AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
i' Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
ABSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10560.
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.
22. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: Amend Ordinance 10421 by increasing project
entitled "Preliminary General Obligation Bond Expenses - 1988" (No.
322005) by $20,000.
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Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
' Mayor Suarez: Item 31, second reading. I've been threatened by Commissioner
Plummer that if we don't get through the agenda today by 6:00 p.m., is it?..._
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Mayor wares: And I fully intend to heed that threat. we have n motion red a
second. Anyone wants to be heard on item Sit Let the record reflect D6 one
stepped forward. Read the ordinance.
Mr. De Turret Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 or ORDINANCE No.
10321, AS AMENDED, ADOPTED NOVEMBER 17, 1088, THE
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE, BY
INCREASING THE PROJECT ENTITLED "PRELIMINARY GENERAL
OBLIGATION BOND EXPENSES - 1988" PROJECT NO. 311005 IN
THE AMOUNT OF $20,000; APPROPRIATING FUNDS IN SAID
AMOUNT FOR SAID PROJECT FROM BOND PROCEEDS; CONTAINING
A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of February 9, 1989,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
notion of Commissioner Plummer, seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the
j Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed
1 and adopted by the following votes
i AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
NOES: None.
ABSENT. Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10561.
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.
23. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: Establish special revenue fund entitled
"Emergency Shelter Grant (FY'89)" - appropriating 4186,000 from USHUD.
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Mrs. Kennedy: Move item 32. r t
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Mr. Plummer: Who is the money going to on 32? r
Mr. Odio: You gave part of it to Christian. Services and. the other qna=ii}
we're negotiating with the County, it was given.to the operation, of-B�ckh�un
—4 Nall, the balance of...
Mr. Plummer: Second the motion.
Mr. De Yurre: We have first and second. Discussion. Let me, you know, I get,
a feeling that somehow we are going back to status. quo that we were a few.aF'
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i months ago. You know, a few months ago, we weren't doing anything for th
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'F homeless. We did some things and now I get that feeling that we are,,goi>zg
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=+ to the County and we are pulling out of...
Mr. Odio: We are not. 5
Mr. De Yurre: What are doing? What are we going to be doing?
_ Mr. Odlo: We ore running Beckham Hall together with the Cout►ty. Ai a
►e Cad find a private operator :to take over that facility, we Vile bet 'E��`�
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Mr. De Turret And then, you know the City is going to go back to not doing
anythingt
Mr. Odio: Not do anything, we will be monitoring that facility to run
properly, but we are not in the business of running shelters.
Mr. De Turret OK, how are we going to monitor that?
Mr. Odio: We have a homeless coordinator that will be doing that and we have
a young man, Mark Coats, that will stay monitoring in that operation, but
that's about the extent that I am prepared to recommend that we stay in this.
Mr. De Turre: What are we going to do as far as you know, the rehab and we
are you know, we went to Washington, Rosario went to Washington, I went to
Washington, and then for a while we are doing all these kinds of things about
getting money and trying to find out how we can apply for money and help. You
know, where is that going in the whole scheme of things, because my feeling is
that the City is kind of pulling out from this whole situation?
Mr. Odio: Well, I think we should be out of the shelter business, yes. As
far as getting monies to help the homeless, we are still very much lobbying in
Washington to get those funds. As far as the trailers are concerned, we got
the trailers and the County decided not to put up the land, so our part of the
commitment was made and we can only do what we can with the resources that we
have and we are still doing it.
Mr. De Turret OK, now who in this City is assisting the private sector in
applying for the funds in Washington?
Mr. Odio: We have a grant coordinator. We are not working with anyone of the
private sector to my knowledge right now in getting funds for them. Go ahead.
Ms. Francena Brooks: Well to the degree that things that come through the
McKinney Act and that are under part of our having to certify their
sufficiency with our Comprehensive Homeless Assistance Plan, we are helping
agencies.
Mr. De Turret Who? Which ones?
Ms. Brooks: Well, all of them, really. I guess...
Mr. De Yurre: How many are there?
Ms. Brooks: There are so many agencies that do help the homeless, but more
specifically, Christian Community Services Agency, that has been developing
the family shelter...
Mr. De Turret And what have you done for them?
Ms. Brooks:... that's now under construction.
Mr. De Turret What have you done for then?
Ms. Brooks: The City provided two of the emergency shelter grant allocations
that came through the City to them. We tied them up and into with Community
Action Agency of Dade County which got money through the Community Services
Act, through the State, to give the support services. The last emergency
shelter grant, the $70,000, as part of the emergency shelter grant went to
them to complete the family shelter. We'll be helping them to apply for some
supplemental assistance money as we will help...
Mr. De Turret That's the group in Coconut Grove, right.
Ms. Brooks: No, no, it is not in Coconut Grove. This shelter is in Wynwood..
Mr. De Turre: What you are talking about the $70,000?
Ms. Brooks: At about 37th Street.
Mr. De Turret Didn't we give the $10,000 to the Father Fox' church?
No. Brooks: To Christian Community Service Agency, not to a church.
Mr. De Yurre: Which one did we give about seventy some thousand dollars?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Christian Community Services for the family shelter.
Me. Brooks: For the family shelter, $70,000. That's located at 37th Street
between let and 2nd Avenues in Wynwood. It abuts the... it was an old hotel,
an abandoned hotel that was a crack house and they were able to get it and
they are in the process of renovating that now. In fact, they should open in
April when they...
Mayor Suarez: I was going to ask you about that, when they were going to
open.
Ms. Brooks: Hopefully, April or May.
Mr. De Yurre: Father Fox came here not too long ago and we gave him about
seventy some thousand.
Ms. Brooks: He's part of that board.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, he is part of the board.
Me. Brooks: He In part of the board of Christian Community Service Agency, but
the location of the shelter is Wynwood.
Mr. De Yurre: Weren't they opening up something right here in Coconut Grove
at the church?
Ms. Brooks: No. No, I think...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, they have a feeding facility, they have a dining room at
Christ Episcopal, I know that.
Mr. De Yurre: They were expanding it, or something like that.
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Ms. Brooks: Yes, but that is not related to the family shelter, no.
Mayor Suarez: By the way, that's an example of very successful program that
does not, that involves indigents, I presume, and people that are very needy,
eating once a day or more and not creating soup kitchen type lines or anything
like that. That's the way that the system should work.
Mr. De Yurre: My concern is that, you know, the $70,000, and we give this
$186,000, but after that, we've got zilch and when we went to Washington, they
had a period that they were going to open up to apply, and I think it was
going to start some time in April, and...
Ms. Brooks: There are some other parts of the Act that are coming available
at different period of time. I mention the supplemental assistance for
shelters. I can't remember the exact acronym or its staff, but it within the
McKinney Act.
Mayor Suarez: How about other legislation?
Mr. De Yurre: Oh yes, jobs training and...
Ms. Brooks: And they'll be some jobs money
that comes available that last
year the State applied for, but was not successful in getting. We'll be
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following that and we'll help, if we don't
apply for it, we'll help other
— agencies apply for it. There will be some
transitional housing money that
will come available, however, that would have
to be with the private property
owner for their property. The single, ESRO money, the Single Room Occupancy
money too will be coming available, so we
are tracking all of that in
combination with the Coalition For Care to the
Homeless, and helping agencies,
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you know, plug into these things. Those...
Mr. Do Yurre: OK, what I would like to have
is a status report, because we
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like to have a status report every two weeks until the period runs out for
applications. I want to know how many people are working, what other
agencies, you only named one...
No. brooks: Yes.
Mr. De Turre: ... that we are working with.
Ms. brooks: Well, I mentioned that one specifically, but there are others
that we are working with, yes.
Mr. De Yurra: OK, so I just want, if you can get something on my desk in the
next week or so, so I can be kept abreast of things and so we can bring it up
at the next Commission meeting. Thank you.
Mr. Dawkins: Did you find out what happened to that $116,000?
Mr. De Turre: Weil, we are not doing anything with the $116,000 right now,
right?
Mr. Odio: No, we are negotiating...
Mr. De Turre: We are holding on to it.
Mr. Odic: We are holding on to it. The instructions I had was to use it for
Beckham Hall whenever we reach an agreement with the County, that was the
Instructions I had from the City Commission.
Mr. De Turre: But we won't distribute that money, won't turn it over until
you come back before the Commission with whatever agreement has been worked
out.
! Mr. Odic: I would have to bring back an agreement, yes.
Mr. De Yurre: OK.
Mr. De Yurre: Call the roll, please.
Mr. Fernandez: It has to be read.
I Mr. Dawkins: It is an ordinance, he's got to read the ordinance.
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Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A SPECIAL REVENUE FUND
ENTITLED: "EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (FY'89)",
APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR OPERATION OF SASE IN THE
AMOUNT OF $186,000 FROM U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT (USHUD) AS A RESULT OF THE STEWART
D. MCKINNEY HOMELESS ASSISTANCE ACT AND FURTHER
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE
AFOREMENTIONED GRANT AWARD AND ENTER IN TO THE
NECESSARY CONTRACT AND/OR AGREEMENT WITH USHUDz
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of February 9, 1969,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
action of Commissioner Kennedy, seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the
Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed
I and adopted by the following vote: i
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ASSRNT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO 10562.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the, public record and
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24. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: Amend Code, Chapter 37, "Offenses -
Miscellaneous" - by adding new Section 37-71 entitled "Unsecured and
Vacant Structures".
Mayor Suarez: Item 33.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move 33.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Read the ordinance, second reading, call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 37 ENTITLED "OFFENSES -
MISCELLANEOUS" OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, BY ADDING A NEW SECTION 37-71
THERETO ENTITLED, "UNSECURED AND VACANT STRUCTURES"
WHICH DECLARES THE MAINTENANCE OF AN UNSECURED AND
VACANT STRUCTURE TO BE A PUBLIC NUISANCE AND A
VIOLATION OF THE ORDINANCE AND WHICH PROVIDES FOR
ENFORCEMENT THROUGH CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD
PROCEEDINGS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
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Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of February 9, 1989,
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vas taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
motion of Commissioner Kennedy, seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the
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Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed
and adopted by the folloving vote:
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Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De YurreK-
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ABSENT: None.
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25. rIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend Ordinance 10484 by increasing
appropriations ($34,000) - International Trade Promotion.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 34, International Trade Promotion. Second Miami
Conference of InterAmerican Trade and Investment. Do you have a
recommendation on that?
Mr. Plummer: I thought that was supposed to come out of their budget?
Mr. Dawkins: It's part of their budget, but they are going over budget.
Mr. Odlo: This conference last year was very well attended, was very
important and it is a continuation of the aggressive Caribbean Conference
Plan, Commissioner. I really recommend this and...
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but I'm asking, they may that they are going to get this
amount out of fees? Is this a loan?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, it is supposed to be a loan, but my problem is, J.L., we
are loaning them the money to have this and they say they will repay us out
of registrations. Well, what happens to the balance of the money above the
$34,000? If we are going to be the one who foots the bills, then it appears
to me that all profits should come to the City.
Mr. Odio: Why don't you say that? I got no problem with that.
Mr. Plummer: That's fine. Move it with that amendment.
Mayor Suarez: Provided that not only do they reimburse us for our investment,
but anything that they make in excess of that also has to come to us. Nov, we
may or we may not...
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Motion and a second...
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: ... with those provisos. Read the ordinance, call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 1 AND 5 OF ORDINANCE
NO. 10484, ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 27, 1988, THE ANNUAL
APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING
SEPTEMBER 30, 1989, BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATIONS
FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, INTERNATIONAL TRADE
PROMOTION IN THE AMOUNT OF $34,000 AND BY INCREASING
REVENUES IN THE SAME AMOUNT FROM FEES TO BE COLLECTED
FROM PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING THE SECOND MIAMI
CONFERENCE ON INTERAMERICAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT TO BE
HELD ON MAY 3-5, 1989; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION
AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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tFhe 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. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend Code, Section 42-8 provide for
assessment of charges for provision of special departmental services.
Mayor Suaret: Item 36.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 42-8 OF TIE CODE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, PROVIDING FOR THE
ASSESSMENT OF CHARGES FOR THE PROVISION OF SPECIAL
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICES; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION
AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
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.
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} 27. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend Code, Section 38-82 - provide that
Bayfront Park Management Trust may reserve the park on behalf of the
City for an additional 30 days each year for community use or Trust
sponsored events and may waive Amphitheater rental fees.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 37.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it. This is in response to your complaint.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
i Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: For our community days use, first reading. Moved and seconded.
Any discussion? Read the ordinance. Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE INTITLED=
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 38-82 OF THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TO PROVIDE THAT
THE BAYFRONT PARK MANAGEMENT TRUST MAY RESERVE THE
PARK ON BEHALF OF THE CITY FOR THIRTY (30) DAYS EACH
TEAR FOR•COlMUNITY USE OR TRUST SPONSORED EVENTS WHICH
IS IN ADDITION TO THE SOS OF EACH YEAR THAT IS
RESERVED FOR COMMUNITY USE; FURTHER PROVIDING THAT THE
TRUST MAY WAIVE AMPHITHEATER RENTAL FEES DURING
PORTIONS OF SUCH THIRTY (30) DAY PERIOD FOR NONPROFIT
CORPORATIONS, COMMUNITY CHEST, FUND, FOUNDATION,
ORGANIZATION OR ASSOCIATION; CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy and seconded by Commissioner
Plummer and was passed on its first reading by title by the following mote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
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.
28. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend Ordinance 10413 by increasing
appropriation ($121,824) to special revenue fund entitled "Pre -School
Program Consolidated".
Mrs. Kennedy: Move 38.
Mayor Suarez: Item 38 has been moved.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Mr. Katz, can you just stick around for a second?
I'll ask you a couple of questions. Any discussion? Read the ordinance on
38. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 Of ORDINANCE NO.
10413, ADOPTED APRIL 14, 1988, INCREASING THE
APPROPRIATION TO THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED
"PRESCHOOL PROGRAM CONSOLIDATED," BY *121,824 COMPOSED
j OF 4111,000 FROM PROGRAM PARTICIPATION FEES AND
's. 410,824 FROM DESIGNATED FOOD REIMBURSEMENTS FROM THE z
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy and seconded by Commissioner
` Plummer and was passed on its first reading by title by the following voter,:'
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ATES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
MONS: 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.
29. A) DISCUSSION ON BAYFRONT PARK RULES TEMPORARILY PROHIBITING CERTAIN
ACTIVITIES (i.e. skateboarding).
B) DISCUSSION REGARDING MAINTAINING A QUORUM FOR BAYFRONT PARK
MANAGEMENT TRUST.
Mayor Suarez% I just want to ask a couple of operational questions, Mr. Katz,
and I know that Commissioner Kennedy gets involved in these matters, but
probably not to detail we occasionally want to know about. This is a fairly
insignificant item, but there were young fellows over there at the park
wanting to skateboard and they were told apparently that is now against rules.
What rules? Whose rules? Who passes and implements... who is that nice young
man that comes out all the time when we park right behind the amphitheater
there. Is that one of your assistants?
Mr. Ira Katz: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: How big is your staff now, Mr. Katz?
Mr. Ira Katz: Four people.
Mayor Suarez: Ah ha, OK. Now, who implements these rules? Has your board
decided how the park is to be used or not?
Mr. Ira Katz: Let me explain to you the problem with the skating.
Mayor Suarez: The board that hasn't been having a quorum is now passing rules
on how to use the park?
Mr. Katz: No sir. Let me explain to you the problem, because right now we
are doing some construction areas and the construction people have requested
that because we're laying several amounts of new sod, that there
be no skate
boarding on an interim basis in the park until the sod is fully
put down on
the ground so that it levels out. So, for a temporary interval
period we've
gotten together with the police at Bayside and prohibited skateboarding so it
won't interfere with the construction area.
Mayor Suarez: So it is kind of like your executive order then.
Mr. Katz: Yes.
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Mayor Suarez: How are we doing on car parking in the park?
i Mr. Katz: We have put up many new signs, but we are still towing
almost every
i day at least 15 to 20 cars.
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Mayor Suarez: And on the south end, have you figured out any ways to build
some kind of an impediment so the cars can't even get there?
Mr. Katz: We're working with Mr. Schwartz, at the DDA. We're
getting some
bids right now for some temporary impediments that would block
cars from
getting in there.
Mayor Suarez: Benches or something that maybe they could pay for
so that wa..
Wit Commission"wouldn't have to allocate any monies, or this
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$thwart% had more in mind something of a chain, not a chain, but like a
railing, some kind of railing.
Mayor Suarez: Get some nice attractive railing to we protect it. OK, sir, go
within your discretion, when the time comes, we allow skateboarding, but In
the meantime it is prohibited?
Mr. Katz: Right, until the construction is just completed.
Mr. Plummer: How much longer is that?
Mr. Katz: I expect the sod to be completely laid in another week to ten days.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: After two more weeks they can skateboard.
Mr. Katz: Yea, sir.
Mayor Suarez: And if you need to pass regulations on where they should
skateboard and when and how to avoid them running into people, that might make
sense, but do it in a way that they have a chance to be heard and so on, you
know, otherwise they badger us when we go over there. We want to delegate
that responsibility to you.
Mr. Katz: I understand, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Item 39, Mr. Vice Mayor.
Mr. De Yurre: I'm hearing information that we are having trouble with a
quorum.
IMayor Suarez: Yes, we have been. Is that improved since the last Commission
meeting?
Mr. Katz: Let me address that, Commissioner De Yurre. First of all, we have
polled all the members and we reset a time and I think that right now with the
new time that we not up that is no longer going to be a problem.
Mr. De Yurre: Oh, because the thing is, you know, if they don't have the
interest to be there for whatever reason, or they just can't make it, then I
think it is time for them to pull out and we name somebody else.
Mr. Katz: At the last Trust meeting the chairperson, Mr. Martinez, addressed
that and certainly made that aware to all the board members.
Mr. De Yurre: I'd like to have in fact, a copy of the attendance record.
Mr. Katz: Certainly.
Mayor Suarez: Make it available to the entire Commission, that might send a —
message to them, we want to see who is attending and who isn't.
30. OLYMPIC GAMES: Assign responsibility of securing the hosting of the
Games in 2000 to the Orange Bowl Committee.
Mayor Suarez: Item 39. -
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Is there someone here to make that presentation? We don't need
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Mrs. Kennedy: Second. "
Mayor Suarez: OK, moved and seconded. It doesn't Involve any of our money, l r:
presume. Call the roll.
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ABved its adoption:
RESOLUTION N0. 54�235
A RESOLUTIONASSIGNING THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SECURING
THE PRIVILEGE OF HOSTING THE OLYMPIC GAMES FOR THE
CITY OF MIAMI TO THE ORANGE BOVL COMMITTEE AND ITS
!!EMBERS, VITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE COMMITTEE
WILL BEGIN IMMEDIATELY AN EFFORT TO BRING THE GAMES OF
THE YEAR 2,000 TO MIAMI; FURTHER PROVIDING THAT ALL
INITIAL FUNDING FOR THAT EFFORT VILL BE THE EXCLUSIVE
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ORANGE BOVL COMMITEE AND VILL IN
NO VAT IMPACT ON THE CITY OR DADE COUMIS PUBLIC FUNDING OF ANY KIND VITH OPERATING
BUDGETS OR REQUIRE PUB THE
UNDERSTANDING THAT THE ORANGE BOVL COMMITTEE• FOR THE
PURPOSE OF ENHANCING SOUTH FLORIDA•S IMAGE AS A HUB
FOR PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL ATHLETIC CONTESTS, VILL
BEGIN THE QUEST IMMEDIATELY ERIES OF USING SUCH ITS
SVENTSFAS�T�E AND
PAN
RESOURCESTO BRING
AMERICAN GAMES AND THE VORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES TO
GREATER MIAMI, SAID ORANGE BOWL COMMITTEE, HAVING
RECOGNIZED THE NEED FOR A UNIFIED EFFORT AND HAVING
PLEDGED ITS COOPERATION VITH ALL LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES
AND OTHERLOCAL
THE CIRGANIZA
TY OF MIAMI , SUCH SPORTS A
S THE SPORTS
COUNCIL AND EXHIBITION
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AUTHORITY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
r.,. m4eninnpr Rosario Kennedy
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31, ORANGE BOWL: Discussion on the status of improvements.
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Mr. Plummer: I've got a question, Mr. Manager. We were supposed to get back,
where are we on the improvements to the Orange Bowl? - seeing as how I am
chairman of that committee.
Mr. Odio: Yes air, we are having a meeting this week on deciding what the
scope of the work and total dollars, deciding on the financial package and the
Instructions I gave to staff is to go back to the architects is that the
design has to meet the monies that we have.
Mr. Plummer: Has the architects been chosen?
Mr. Odio: Mr. Bailey and Mr. Mulvena have been negotiating with the
architects. You chose them and they are negotiating an agreement and they
will be bringing it to you I believe in the next meeting.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I would hope that we'll have a committee meeting prior to
then where the committee themselves has a right to discussions.
Mr. Odio: Right, well you the Commission chose the architect and you
instructed Bailey and Mulvena to negotiate the agreement.
Mr. Plummer: I understand, but as a matter of courtesy you should have a
meeting so the committee can be informed of what's going on.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
32. JOB TRAINING, HOUSING AND HEALTH SERVICES: Alternative Programs, Inc.
Discussion and temporary deferral (See label 42).
Mayor Suarez: Item 40.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mr. Odio: Change the amount to $22,000, please.
Mayor Suarez: With the modification of $22,000 from $50,000, moved. Do we
have a second? Second on item 407 OK, Ms. Adker.
Ms. Anne Marie Adker: Item 40, the Alternative Programs, Inc., may I remind
you that you have an alternative program coming under your City of Miami Job
Program. Wouldn't this be a duplication?
Mayor Suarez: Mr. Manager?
Mr. Odio: No, it is not.
Mayor Suarez: In what sense does one differ...
Mr. Odio: We do not have the alternative plan as proposed here, as what Ms.
Georgia Ayres does with the plan that she has, we do not do in the City and
only this program, I feel is the one that should do it. We don't do that in
the City.
Ms. Adker: Well then may I ask another question? If the City of Miami Jobs
isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing, and this is within that program,
would that mean in a cut in the City of Miami Jobs Program?
Ms. Francena Brooks: This would not affect the Neighborhood Jobs Program in
any way. I think the major difference that Mrs. Adker is probably relating to
the feet that there is mention of referral for jobs. However, the Alternative
Program staff would actually.. they are more, they are social workers, to be
very frank, and they do a more...
Mayor Suarez: The clients, or...?
Ms. Brooks: The staff that would be working with the clients.
Mayor Suarez: Right, but I mean, the clients are typically people with
criminal problems?
Me. Brooks: Right, they would enter the system.
Mr. Odlo: When we were dealing with the homeless at the stadium and
Commissioner Dawkins is a witness to this, some of those men came to us and
said that they couldn't find jobs because they had a criminal record and
unless we start placing those people someway, somehow into jobs they will
became criminals forever, career criminals. The firm that I feel that can
help is Georgia's and I think we should... I believe we are not giving her
enough money. I believe that somehow, and I'm lobbying Washington, that we
have to find more monies in the drug programs or any other way to help out
those people that have committed crimes so that we can put them back into the
mainstream of this community.
Ms. Adker: I was strictly under the impression that this,..
Mr. Plummer: Wait, wait. If that's the case, why did you drop it from
$50,000 to $22,000?
Mr. Odio: Because the year ends June, and then we start the next year. We'll
come back.
Mayor Suarez: We are doing it for the...
Mr. Odio: We'll come back then after...
Mrs. Kennedy: And the money is coming from...
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Mr. Odio: we are recommending in the social programs... excuse me-,'
Commissioner... CD, we are recommending funding for fifty for next year.
Mrs. Kennedy: I was going to say the money comes from the Community
Development?
Mr. Odio: Yes.:
Ms. Adker: Explain to me then, why once a month I get the flyers from your
Citywide Jobs Program and in that they have the X or vendor's referrals?
Mr. Odio: Fine.
No. Adker: Which is an alternative program.
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No. Georgia Jones Ayres: It is not, it is..,
Mr. Odlo: It is not.
Ms. Ayres: I think I can..
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Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait.
Ms. Ayres: I think I can talk about this program.""
Mayor Suarez: It may work out, but one at a time please. Georgia.
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this room. I am the founder and executive director of the Alternative
Programs. I see no one in this City or in this County, in Dade County
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have anyone in this room come and go to the field with me and see what this
program actually does. We take on the entire problem of anyone who is charged
with a felony or a misdemeanor. The courts are continuously calling the
Alternative programs to assist clients who cannot otherwise find jobs because
of their criminal record and I think my work in Dade County speaks for itself.
Mayor Suarez: We said there are no programs. I have a feeling that there
are, but what...
Me. Ayras: No sir, I beg to differ with you.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, we...
Me. Ayres: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Whether they are effective or not is another question.
Me. Ayres: That's it.
Mr. Dawkins: Georgia, give your name and address for the Clerk, please.
Mayor Suarers Your name and address for the record, please.
Ms. Ayres: Georgia Jones Ayres, the founder and executive director of the
Alternative Programs located at 710 NW 62nd Street. My home address is 2475
NW 111th Street, Miami, Florida.
Mr. De Yurre: Is Frank Castaneda around here?
Mr. Plummer: He's here.
Mayor Suarez: Mr. Castaneda.
— Mr. De Yurre: Explain to me the difference between what is being proposed
y here today and the Offender Program that we have in Neighborhoods Job Program.
Mr. Castaneda: The difference is that in the Offender's Program that we have,
we are directly concerned about placing people. Ours is a job placement
program. What Georgia Ayres' program will deal with is more from the social
point of view of dealing with social workers to get them to be in a condition
_j of being able to get a job. One of the problems that we are having in the
!# community, there are two problems, one is making that the person gets the job
j and number two, that the person retains the job. It is not as easy, you know,
—;j we have plenty of jobs and we have been able to place people, but our
�j retention rate has to improve and what George Ayres will work from a social
worker point of view to try to change the lives of those individuals.
t; Mrs. Kennedy: It provides solution oriented options to nonviolent persons. -
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Mr. De Yurre: Frank...
Mrs. Kennedy: I'm very hoarse; I'm sorry. That provides solution oriented
options to nonviolent persons. {
Ms. Ayres: Just exactly what we have some piirsonu ight now, we have taken on
the entire family. Last evening I met with the Family Health Clinic and some
of these people need dental care and have health problems, they have mental 5r`
health problems, physical health problems and I have gotten all of these
agencies to work with the entire family. Now, I know no one else is doing
what I am doing. I've been doing what I'm doing now since 1982 and I know, 4.
that there is no other agency out there doing what I am doing.}
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Mr. De Yurre: OK, Frank, it says here that the allocation will provide for
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_; }r corrections systems on a daily basis. The case worker provides direct �}r>
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services to clients by referring them to appropriate agencies fox such
services as housing, job training and health care.
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Mr. De Turre: That's it, it is a referral thing.
Ms. Ayres: No, we're not just...
Mr. De Turret Well, that's what it says here.
Ms. Ayres: ... sir, I don't think you understood what I said.
Mr. De Turret No, I want you to understand what it says here, which is what
we have to go by.
No. Ayres: We to - OK, case that's in question, you're arrested. You have a
criminal record. When you come out, you go to various places to find a job.
Not only do you have a problem because
you've be been evicted. te:la take ot your n on the whole
amily
has lost your income. They're going to
problem, including going to court with you. Let's assume the judge wants to
give you 60 days in jail. Wewill rvici re that you your
can behalf
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society. We, in turn, will get you a job and assist your family.
Mr. De Turret Well, if that's the case then, then I want that information
provided to us because I don't have that here.
Mr. Odio: We will be glad to do that, Commissioner.
Mr. De Turret And so I'll defer this until the next meeting, till we get that
information.
Mrs. Kennedy: Can't you have this information by this afternoon?
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Ms. Ayres: Yes, ma'am, it's no problem. This office - this agency have, Mr.
De Yurre, has been operating since 1982. As a matter of fact, we were in the
office where I first met you when you were running for office. We were at 710
N.W. 62nd Street.
Ms. Adker: May I say too the Mayor and the Commissioners that I don't have
any problems with Mrs. Ayres alternative program and my frustration deals with
the duplication and wondering, did it take a crises for the alternative
program come in and be extended to Overtown?
Ms. Ayres: For what it's worth, if...
Mr. De Turret I got no problem with the program...
Ms. Adker: I have no problem.
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Mr. De Turret ... I just, you know, this is more of an administration type of
thing.
Ms. Ayres: No, I want to address this to the member... I want to address -
answer Mrs. Adker's question. If the Mayor will tell you, when he first got
into office, did I not come to you, Mayor Suarez, for monies? Mr. City
Manager. did I not keep your office hot for monies? Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Would you - why don't we table the item and see if you can get
that information? Can it be obtained and given to the Vice Mayor by...
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Mr. Odio: Right away?`
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Mayor Suarez: It may be we don't even have to wait till the afternoon, Miss
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Mr. Plummer: You got 16 minutes._
Mayor Suarez: Or Miss Jones. What do you prefer for your last...
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Ms.°`Ayres: Georgia Jones. As long as you don't call me too late to get the
money that I asked for, Mayor, it's all right with me. Georgia JOAes Ayre$ is
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No. Ayres: No, air, I don't.
Mr. Plummer: Where are we?
Mayor Suarez: I think he's already implementing it. I think it may be
already implemented.
AT THIS POINT, THIS ITEM WAS TEMPORARILY DEFERRED.
33. TACOLCY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INC.: - Authorize contract
agreement for commercial facade program along N.W. 15th Avenue between
N.W. 60th and N.W. 71st Streets in Model City.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Which item, I'm sorry?
Mr. Plummer: Forty-one.
Mrs. Kennedy: Forty-one, second.
Mayor Suarez: Forty -one's been moved. Forty was tabled, by the way. Forty -
one's been moved, seconded.
Mr. Dawkins: Second. Second, under discussion.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: I've got... where is Mr. Castaneda, somebody, anybody?
Mr. Odio: Go ahead, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, first, two individuals who wasted their businesses g.
done were left off the list. So I'd like to
add 77, 7070 N.W. 15th Avenue and
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Mr. Odio: Have you got that? I got it.
( Mr. Frank Castaneda: Right. And then
increasing the amount by four
1 thousand...
{ Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, no, no. Hold on, you're going ahead of me, OK?
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done on it since we've been here ,Y
and we have put facade treatments in all of
the City and now we are going to
put in - what is it? -eighteen thousand dollars. This is utterly ridiculous, _
OK? Nov, now since the Manager asked, what's the balance of the money in this
facade treatment for the 14th, 15th - what
is it, 14th year funds? The 14th
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balance?
Mr. Castaneda: There is about $150,000 but
I think that we've covered every
business that qualified.
Mr. Dawkins: Beg your pardon?
Ms. Castaneda: I believe that we covered
every business that qualified-f'A
that street.
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What is the total amount of money 3-
left in the facade treatment for the loth year?
llr. Castaneda: About 4150,000.
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Mr. Plummer: Are any of those funds restricted or already allocated?
Mr. Castaneda: No, they're not. As I explained in the other item, we ate
allocating the money as people have the buildings on hand so the money doesn't
just sit there.
Mr. Dawkins: I, instead of $2,000 maximum, I would like to move that each
place have a maximum of up to $3,500 and that that amount be appropriated and
that we go in and do something on 15th Avenue to enhance the area instead of
going in doing something which, in my opinion, just is a band aid.
Mr. Castaneda: The problem with that, Commissioner, that the reason that we
stop at $2,000 because after $2,000 we have to pay
and...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, do half of it one week and stop and then go back and
do another half the next week. And that's a job we have completed the job at
two thousand, we knock everybody off and tell them be back next Monday morning
and start for the other two thousand. Nov, can you do that? No, you see -
hum? OK.
Mr. Castaneda: Well, what you're saying is that there will be a project for
$2,000 in which we would do some commercial facade and we would finish the
project and come back later on and do another contract for $1,500.
Mr. Dawkins: No, I'm not, I'm saying that you go in and determine, for the
lack - just for the sake of discussion - let's just say that to make this an
attractive business that will draw people to it, it cost $3,500...
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Mr. Dawkins: OK? So you decide what we're going to do for $2,000 and we do
that and we know that we got to come back and do $1,500 worth. OK, lot me -
no, let me do it like this. Mr. Manager...
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: ... I would like to see $3,500 spent on each one and at the
administration who you paying $80,000 a year, find out how to do it.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir, we'll do it.
Mrs. Kennedy: If that's you motion, I second.
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Mr. Dawkins: Thank you, air. All right, so move.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Mr. Knight, do you want to address that?
Mr. Dewey Knight III: Yes, please.
Mayor Suarez: Bring the mike closer to you. Give us your name and address
and then...
Mr. Knight: Dewey Knight III, 829 N.W. 55th Street, Miami, Florida. Mr.
Mayor, Commissioners, along with this facade program, Tacolcy Economic
Develo me t C i
p as orporat on would also ask your support in authorizing the office
of Community Development, the office of Planning, the Police Department to
work with us in this area in reference to getting the merchants involved and
getting the citizens involved. Dade County is doing a massive project
renovation on the Scott project. Mr. Fair and the Urban League is doing some
buildings in that area, hopefully, soon and we would like to have a commitment
from the City of Miami to come in - also Public Works - this area really needs
some work done to it and more than facade. We're requesting that if you could
authorize your departments to work with Tacolcy Economic Development
Corporation and forming a committee and being responsive to what those
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merchants in that area need and those citizens.
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Mr. Plummer: Where are you identifying the funding coming from?
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Mr. Knight: We're not asking for basically funding, we're asking that the
Planning Department can come in and assist us in helping with the facades,
we're asking that the Police Department can come in and work on the committee 1
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to hear the concerns of those merchants, we're asking that the Public Works
could come in and hear the concerns and also Sanitation can come in.
Mayor Suarez: Absolutely, I mean, that...
Mr. Dawkins: But Mr. Knight...
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: ... wouldn't you advise us that since we are, we've just passed
this morning a safe street neighborhood, or safe neighborhood, that as we
apply for money for the safe neighborhood that we apply for funds to do some
of these things you just mentioned?
Mr. Knight? Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Did I hear that the Urban League's going to be involved in
Improvement of public housing projects? And if so, I'm very interested in
that new mode of operation where we're going to help tackle the problems of
public housing in Dade County. I didn't know that you had had the ambition
or - I don't know what the word would be - the audacity or whatever...
Mr. T. Willard Fair: It's the courage, Mr. Mayor. I'm T. Willard Fair...
Mayor Suarez: Courage.
Mr. Fair: .. 8500 N.W. 25th Avenue. We certainly plan to continue our
efforts in the King Heights model cities community and part of that effort, of
course, is to work very closely with Liberty Square and the rehabilitation
thereof. As you well know, they've already received $21 million dollars for
rehab. Our position is very clear in that unless we make an effort to rehab
the families - to rehab the buildings makes no sense. So we're going to be
working on the human side while they work on the brick and mortar side.
Clearly...
Mayor Suarez: Have they given any thought to passing over some control and
ownership to the tenants?
Mr. Fair: That is a clear indication by the current interim administration as
to what's going to be Mr. Bower's position on that. If he is confirmed, I
don't know but part of - with his commitment is to clearly understand that the
tenants ought to have an opportunity, where feasible and possible, to own
those units. I think that makes sense and we support that as a proposition.
Let me say also, while I'm at the mike, that one of the things that disturbs
me about the Commission process is that I'm elated that we're going to
Initiate a facade program on 15th Avenue but I think that part of the long
term solution is to make sure that as the City come forward with $3,500 for
each building that those merchants be organized and that they demonstrate to
the City that part of their responsibility is to show you how they plan to
keep the buildings up so that we do not have to do a facade program 15 years
from now. I think it is not right for us not to assume and insist...
Mayor Suarez: Or even worse, 15 months from now.
Mr. Fair: ... that those who are going to be the recipients of the money also
demonstrate that they are prepared to do their part in terms of the long range
maintenance and I think that ought to be part of the contract that you work
out with each person who gets the $3,500. What are you going to do? How are
we going to be assured that you're going to take steps, individually or
collectively, to make sure that this facade work remains what we want it to
be. I strongly urge that you make that happen.
Mayor Suarez: How about that, Mr. Castaneda?
Mr. Castaneda: We'll very much look into it and working with Tacolcy on this
particular project, we'll make sure that that happens, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, but include that in all the others that we did previously.
All the other facades that we did back here...
Mr. Castaneda: That's correct.
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make sure that it's a unifofrm ,�,; ,, and not ,jest on lath
Mr. Dawkins:... -
Avenue:
Mr. Castaneda: Correct.
Mr. Piumsers Where are Mel
Mr. Dawkinss Going to lunch.
Mayor 5uarets Item... going to lunch in a couple of mifdntas.
Mr. Odio: Did you pass 41 yet?
Mrs. Kennedys Call the roll.
Mr. Fernandez: No, so item...
Mayor Suarez: Do we have a motion and a second, Mr. City Clerk?
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Mr. Foeman: Yes, we do.
Mayor Suarez: We do? Call the roll on 41. s:
Mr. Fernandez: Well, it's... let me make sure that it's clear on the record
that item 41 has been amended in two respects. First, we have added two new
t sites and we have increased by $3,500 for each site so the amount...
Mr. Dawkins: No, up to, up to.
Mr. Fernandez: Up to.
j Mr. Dawkins: Yes, see, we're not salting...
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Mr. Fernandez: So then the amount then in the resolution changes from $18,000
-1 to up to $38,500.
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Mr. Dawkins: Right.
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Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
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j RESOLUTION NO. 89-236
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$38,500 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A
CONTRACT AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM
ATTACHED, WITH TACOLCY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT"
CORPORATION, INC. FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPLEMENTING A
VARIANT COMMERCIAL FACADE PROGRAM ALONG N.W. 15TH
AVENUE BETWEEN N.W. 60TH AND N.W. 71ST STREETS IN
MODEL CITY; WITH FUNDS ALLOCATED THEREFOR FROM THE
1 FOURTEENTH (14TH) YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
GRANT FUND.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
' Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre?r
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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34. NAACP'S REQUEST FOR TEMPORARY LOAN FOR USE OF BALLROOM IN HYATT REGENCY
HOTEL IN CONNECTION WITH ITS ANNUAL "FREEDOM FUND BANQUET": Discussion
and temporary deferral (See label 43).
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Mayor Suarez: We have a request from an emergency matter having to do with
the NAACP, Miami Dade Chapter. Are they here? Two o'clock, Henry? Did you
want to be heard in the morning and is this something...
Mr. Ronald Hauck: We can make it at 2:00 o'clock, Mr. Mayor, either way.
Mr. Dawkins: If you're here, we don't have to wait till 2:00 o'clock
Mr. Hauck: One of the - Kate Kemp who is the first vice president was to be
here but she can't be here to...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, give us your name please.
Mr. Hauck: My name is Ronald Hauck and I live at 14650 Naranja Lakes Drive.
Mayor Suarez: This is not the same chapter as now is headed by Johnnie
McMillan?
Mr. Hauck: It is.
Mayor Suarez: It is.
Mr. Hauck: I'm the chairman of the industry and labor committee for the
NAACP.
Mayor Suarez: And you need one of our facilities, a waiver of rent, is that
what you need?
Mr. Hauck: That's correct.
Mayor Suarez: This is the Knight Center which...
Mr. Plummer: We can't.
Mr. Odio: ... Knight Center, we cannot waive the Knight Center.
Mr. Plummer: We cannot waive the rent.
Mayor Suarez: It is administered by a...
Mr. Plummer: It's a bond indebtedness.
Mayor Suarez: ... trust fund, I guess, that cannot - the fees for which
cannot be waived. It's for June 3rd, 1989? Why don't you meet with the
administration and see what they can do that is permitted and otherwise have
It...
Mr. Dawkins: Hey, wait, hold it, hold it, hold it.
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: I think we need, out of due respect, we need to wait for
somebody who look like me from the NAACP to come here to explain about the
NAACP. So I defer this until 2:00 o'clock.
Mr: Plummer% So be it.
Mayor Suarez: OK, the item is tabled until two.
Mr. Plummer: As scheduled.
Mayor Suarez: I, frankly, Commissioner, would much prefer that we handle the
item by having him meet with the Manager or appropriate representatives of the
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NAACP. The NAACP obviously encourages participation of people of all the
races and I...
Mr. Dawkins: I was just informed that they're sending a letter to me by
somebody. OK? And when the letter gets here, then I would like to address...
Mayor Suarez: Is this the letter?
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, no. I just said, somebody that look like me is
going to bring the letter.
Mayor Suarez: OK, the Commissioner wants to hold off on hearing the item
until 2:00 p.m., presumably he'll have more information at that point.
35. ACCEPT DONATION OF 120 MICROCOMPUTERS FROM UNISYS - the first group of
30 to be distributed by Vice Mayor De Yurre (10) and Commissioner
Kennedy (20).
Mayor Suarez: Item 42 is withdrawn, item 43.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mr. Plummer: It is my understanding, Mr. Manager, that each Commissioner will
have approximately 20 to designate where they're going. Is that correct?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir, and the way we're going we will have 30 units at the end
of March, 30 units at the end of April, 30 units at the end of May and the
other 30 at the end of June.
Mr. Dawkins: That's four times - that's 120. And five into 120...
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Mr.
Odio: Well, I should say the balance. The balance would come in the mid
of mid June, after the - mid June.
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Mr.
Dawkins: How many total units?
Mr.
Odio: It's a hundred. I'm sorry, air...
Mr.
Dawkins: A hundred?
Mr.
Odio: ... yes.
Mr.
Sergio Rodriguez: That's correct.
Mr.
Odio: So that would be the last ten...
Mr.
Dawkins: So that's 20 per Commissioner.
Mr.
Odio: Yes.
Mr.
Plummer: That's correct.
Mr.
Dawkins: That's what J.L. is asking, I think.
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Mayor Suarez: What do they look like? What are you calling a microcomputer?
Mr.
Odio: It's a 8-20, it's what you have in your office
right now.
Mr.
Plummer: They're outmoded.
Mr.
De Yurre: They're outmoded?
Mayor Suarez: Maybe that's why the stuff isn't coming out
right. What do you
wean, they're outmoded? '
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Mr. Plummers They're no longer the state of the art. The City has ordered
the state of the art computers with a new systems that we've bought and these
are the ones that are now...
Mayor Suarez: The word processor, you mean, with the screens and all of that?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Nothing wrong with that art, as far as I'm concerned.
Mr. Dawkins: ... won't work well with the A -frame we purchased.
Mr. De Yurre: Let me ask...
Mrs. Kennedy: Carlos, at one point we had asked for a list of the agencies so
that they don't come on a first come, first serve basis.
Mr. Odio: We have a list of interests already from quite a few agencies.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, you've got a list.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Longueira, Officer Longueira, I want to ask you a question,
please. Does the department that is dealing with the youth gang, do they have
their computer?
Lt. Joseph Longueira: I believe they have the B-20, yes.
Mr. De Yurre: You believe or you know for a fact?
Lt. Longueira: They do have the B-20, yes.
Mr. De Yurre: When did they get it?
Lt. Longueira: I believe they've had that a while. What they don't have is
the other computer that they want.
Mr. De Yurre: Which is?
Lt. Longueira: I believe an IBM compatible to link up to a network with Metro
which they're not ready to link up yet anyway.
Mr. De Yurre: Well...
Mr. Plummer: They don't have to buy a new computer. UNISYS has an adapter
which can be made IBM compatible.
Lt. Longueira: It does have limitations.
Mr. De Yurre: OK. Carlos...
Lt. Longueira: You cannot all IBM programs on that slice.
Mr. De Yurre: Can you look into it, see if one of the 120 they could use?
They've been asking for it since I got elected.
Mr. Dawkins: You got 20 of them.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, if they need one, if they still need one.
Mr. Dawkins: You got twenty. I make a motion that we give Commissioner De
Yurre the first twenty.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. Plummer: Fine with me.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Call the roll.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 89-237
A MOTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION GRANTING THE FIRST
GROUP OF B-21 MICROCOMPUTERS (TOTALING 20) OUT OF A
TOTAL OF 120 MICROCOMPUTERS DONATED BY UNISYS
CORPORATION TO GO TO VICE MAYOR VICTOR DE YURRE (10)
AND COMMISSIONER ROSARIO KSNNEDY (10), TO BE
DISTRIBUTED BY SAID COMMISSIONERS, RESPECTIVELY.
(Note: This motion was later changed by motion 89-
238.1 in order to distribute a total of 30
microcomputers.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mrs. Kennedy: Well...
Mayor Suarez: Ten and ten.
Mr. Dawkins: Ten and ten.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, because I had already talked to some people about that.
Mr. Dawkins: I'll accept the amendment, ten and ten.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. Complete the roll.
COMMENTS MADE FOLLOWING ROLL CALL:
Mr. De Yurre: Carlos, you talk to...
Mayor Suarez: And I make another motion that
mine be taken off the last.
Mr. De Yurre: To the Sgt. Reimundi.
Mayor Suarez: I like mine.
Mr. Carlos Smith: You want yours last?
Mayor Suarez: They function well now, we now
understand them.
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Mr. Smith: OK.
Mr. De Yurre: Talk to Sgt. Reimundi and see if he needs one.;
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Mr. De Yurre: And get it to him right away.
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Mayor Suarez: And install a special one for
me that connects me up
with our
former director of GSA back there. It's like
a hot line. Item...
Mr. Plummer: They've got one, it's a string and two tin cans.
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"tERRUPON THE CITY COMMISSION WENT INTO RECESS AT
12:02 P.M. AND RECONVENED AT 2:02 P.M., WITH ALL
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION FOUND TO BE PRESENT
EXCEPT COMMISSIONER DAWKINS AND VICE MAYOR DE YURRE.
Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Fernandez: You need to take a look at item 43. The vote that was taken
on item 43 was a vote on a motion and not a Vote on the item itself. SO we
need to go back and...
Mr. Plummer: No, that was the motion as amended.
Mrs. Kennedy: Wait a second, let me look at 43.
Mr. Fernandez: So, is it clear because the record is not clear, the Clerk
Is....
Mr. Plummer: Yes, the record was clear. We passed the motion as amended
showing ten and ten.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: If not, you can redo a motion that clarifies that we took up
the entire item, is that what you want us to do?
Mr. Fernandez: Yes, that's what needs to be clarified.
Mr. Plummer: The motion is that we approve item 43...
Mayor Suarez: With the modification on the...
Mr. Plummer: With the modification or amendment that says ten go to De Yurre
and ten go to Rosario of the first grouping.
Mr. Odio: Where do the other ten go because there's 30 in the first group?
Mr. Plummer: No, I don't want them, I want all mine together.
Mrs. Kennedy: I'm willing to take...
Mr. Plummer: You want twenty?
Mrs. Kennedy: Sure.
Mr. Plummer: That's fine. Ten to De Yurre and twenty to Rosario.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on the motion, in
toto, in other words, the
entire item with that modification.
Mr. Plummer: Just for the record, Mr. Mayor, the
ones that are allocated to
me I have already made commitments to the Sister
City programs. So I'm just
putting that on the record. I've made commitments
to Sister City programs.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Plummer: Call the roll.
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Mayor Suarez: That's good because that really
- or that we get a lot of
requests and that way you're really acting on behalf
of the entire City. Call
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The fo1 ow as rea u
Reaaedyt who moved their adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-230
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE DONATION OF ONE HUNDRED AND
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FOUR (104) 1-21 MICROCOMPUTERS FROM THE UNYSIS
CORPORATION, AS PER THE ATTACHED LIST= FURTHER,
DECLARING THE SAID MICROCOMPUTERS AS CATEGORY "A"
SURPLUS STOCK AND DONATING THE SAME AFTER THE
=CUTION OF THE APPROPRIATE RELEASE DOCUMENTS TO
VARIOUS NONPROFIT GROUPS TO BE SELECTED BY THE CITY`,
COMMISSION.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
MOTION NO. 89-238.1
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A MOTION AMENDING MOTION 89-237 WHICH HAD GRANTED THE
FIRST GROUP OF B-21 MICROCOMPUTERS DONATED BY UNISYS
CORPORATION TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY VICE MAYOR DE YURRE
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(10 MICROCOMPUTERS) AND BY COMMISSIONER ROSARIO
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KENNEDY (10 MICROCOMPUTERS) TO REFLECT THE ADDITION OF
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TEN MICROCOMPUTERS TO COMMISSIONER KENNEDY'S LIST FOR
DISTRIBUTION, THEREBY STATING THAT THE CORRECT TOTAL
OF INITIAL MICROCOMPUTERS TO BE DISTRIBUTED IS THIRTY
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(30): TEN (10) TO GO TO VICE MAYOR DE YURRE AND TWENTY
(20) TO GO TO COMMISSIONER KENNEDY, RESPECTIVELY.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution and motion
were passed and adopted by the following vote: f
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy���
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
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ABSENT: Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre}
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36. ACCEPT TWO GRANTS FROM FLORIDA DEPT. OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE
SERVICES: EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES - execute agreements to purchase
one EMS Type III Paramedic Rescue Vehicle and one part-time accident and
first aid resource teacher.
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Mr. Plummer: Move 44.
Mayor Suarez: Forty-four's been moved. Seconded. Any discussion? Anyone
wish to be heard on item 44? Let the record reflect no one stepped forward.
Call the roil.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoptions
RESOLUTION NO. 89-239
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 PURCHASE UNDER THE
GRANT PROGRAM OF ONE (1) FULLY EQUIPPED EMS TYPE III
PARAMEDIC RESCUE VEHICLE AND THE CITY'S HIRING OF ONE
(1) PART-TIME ACCIDENT AND FIRST AID RESOURCE TEACHER.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, I'm sorry, I did have a question, Mr. Manager. Mr.
- Manager, on 44, why are we spending money as a City to teach Dade County
teachers? It would seem like to me that that should be a responsibility of
the school board. Why are we putting out the $26,000 for teachers?
Mr. Odio: This is a grant. This is a State Department grant.
Mr. Plummer: But still, why are our people teaching Dade County teachers?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Mr. Commissioner, it's working under the same system as
NONE the Learn not to Burn curriculum.
Mayor Suarez: Forty-five.
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Mr. Plummer: But it's not just in the City is the point I'm making.
_ Mayor Suarez: Fire Rescue apparatus acquisition. Item 45.
Mr. Plummer: My question - do you understand what I'm saying?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes, I do.
Mr. Plummer: They went the other day to Coral Gables and put on a
demonstration out in West Lab, City of Miami firemen. Now, you know, Coral
- Gables has got a fire department. Why are we doing it is the only question
I'm asking? Look...
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UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: I don't know.
Mr. Plummer: ... I would like to confine it to the City of Miami.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: OK.
Mr. Plummer: OK, I'm selfish.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: I'll make sure that our people understand.
Mr. Plummer: Fine.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Commissioner Dawkins and Vice Mayor De Yurre
entered the Commission meeting at 2:05 p.m.
37. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend Ord. 10521 by increasing project entitled
"Fire Rescue New Apparatus Acquisition - FY 189" No. 313229, ($65,000),
appropriating funds from Dept. of Health and Rehabilitative Services
Grant.
Mr. Plummer: I move item 45.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Call the roll on 45, there's
no discussion.
Mr. Plummer: No, wait a minute, it's an ordinance,
it's an ordinance.
Mr. Jorge Fernandez: It needs to be read.
Mayor Suarez: Read the ordinance, please.
Mr. Plummer: We're waiting for you, hurry up.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF
ORDINANCE NO.
10521, AS AMENDED, ADOPTED NOVEMBER
17, 1988, THE
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CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS APPROPRIATIONS
ORDINANCE, BY
INCREASING THE PROJECT ENTITLED "FIRE RESCUE NEW
APPARATUS ACQUISITION-FY189" PROJECT NO.
313229 IN THE
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AMOUNT OF $65,000; APPROPRIATING FUNDS
IN SAID AMOUNT
FOR SAID PROJECT FROM THE DEPARTMENT
OF HEALTH AND
REHABILITATIVE SERVICES GRANT; CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
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Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and
seconded by Commissioner s
Kennedy and was passed on its first reading by title by the following
vote:
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AYESs Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins'
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurrej
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez-:
NOES: None.
A$SENT; None
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The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
38. EXECUTE AGREEMENT: RUSSELL PARTNERSHIP, INC. - for professional design
consultant services for the Morningside Recreation Building Project (No.
331313).
Mayor Suarez: Item 45 - 46, I'm sorry.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I would like to ask a question in relation to 46, 47
and 46. Mr. Manager, we're talking about almost $150,000 worth of consulting
fees. Why aren't we doing it in house?
Mr. Jim Kay: Mr. Commissioner, these are highly specialized projects. We're
going into a building...
Mr. Plummer: One of them's strictly irrigation.
Mr. Kay: Well, one of them is irrigation, that is correct. But, in the
beginning of the 8.3 million dollar parks program, we identified 41 projects.
Nine are being done by private consultant, the remainder are being done in
house and that includes two irrigation projects.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: No, it's not OK, see. I've said from day one that I felt that
you should have had someone in house to do this and I really don't see how
it's necessary for somebody to come in and tell me where to put a sliding
board and what else to do in a park. That's my personal feeling.
Mr. Plummer: You know...
Mr. Dawkins: Now, let's go to page three of item 46, page eleven, I'm sorry.
OK? "H, Direct technical salary expense is hereby defined as the hourly cost
of salaries of principals and employees directly engaged on the project and
the cost of those mandatory customary benefits...", etcetera and etcetera.
Now, and, "...The salary claims shall be substantiated by the consultant's
accounting records and shall not exceed $45.00 per hour for consultant's
principle salary." OK? Here again, you're taking away from what you should
be putting in the parks. Let's go to "M, ...Special consultant allowance is
hereby defined as the amount of money established by the City to cover costs
associated with professional and technical services related to the work but
other than that provided by the consultant as professional and technical
services under this agreement." And all through here it says that more money
is available for the consultant than this $37,000.
Ms. Diane Johnson: Commissioner, if I may, the direct technical salary
expense is a guide that's put into the contract. What we are paying them is a
fixed fee of $37,100. That salary expense is utilized as a gauge if it comes
to the point where we're stopped the work in the middle of a phase and we have
to compensate them. That is the guide that we use.
Mr. Dawkins: Yea, in here you got something else here that's...
Ms. Johnson: The special consultant's allowance is only in this project and
it's only for technical services that would only be rendered if the City
cannot perform them themselves. In this instance, it would be for soil
investigations and borings.
Mr. Dawkins: Who determines...
Mr. Plummer: You mean, where the demolition team buried the material?
Ms. Johnson: Well, this is at Morningside. We won't know what's there until
the old one comes down.
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Mr. Dawkins: Who determines what construction contingencies are that you got
thirteen, six, nine in and overall project contingencies? What's the
difference? I mean, so that it comes out to twenty-nine, thirty thousand
dollars?
Ms. Johnson: Construction contingencies are put into every capital project as
the cash allowance that the contractor is that we hold in the event that
construction costs go over our original allotment. Overall project
contingencies are included in these types of projects in the event that we get
through schematic design phase or design development phase and we discover we
want to do more or it's impossible to do a certain type of work. We have a
little bit of a cushion here that could be utilized only at the City's
authorization for such things that were unanticipated at the time of this
writing.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, the other gentleman, now, who is going to explain to me
what's technical about this that it can be done only by the consultants whom
you've hired.
Mr. Kay: Right. You know, if we did this, it would take much longer than
what we're talking about here. We just don't have the staff, sufficient
staff, to do it in a timely manner is what I'm saying. And I...
Mr. Dawkins: But when the Manager consolidated and laid off people and went
back and told me he was doing this, that it would be no - and I quote -
reduction in services, he did not tell me that he was going to have a
reduction in the staff that he needed to design a park and, therefore, would
go out and have to hire somebody.
Mr. Odio: Because you only decide...
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask a question. On item 47, you tell me they're not
building any buildings, what in the hell are you doing for $700,000?
Ms. Johnson: Six hundred thousand.
Mr. Plummer: You said this was 10 percent of seventy thousand was ten
percent, that means it's seven hundred thousand.
Ms. Johnson: No, it's 11.6 percent.
Mrs. Kennedy: It's 11.6.
Ms. Johnson: It's a renovation of an entire park.
Mr. Odio: That park is a mess. That's the worst park we have.
Mr. Plummer: OK, at worst it's a mess. What are you doing for six hundred
and whatever thousand dollars?
Ms. Johnson: Believe it or not, that's not enough to do what really needs to
be done. We need to just demolish the whole thing and bring it back up.
Mr. Plummer: And you're telling me that park, as I recall, is the equivalent
of a half a block.
Mr. Odio: What happened is that park was designed for a flea market and now
we have to demolish the whole thing and start all over again.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager. If you start from scratch, what are you spending
that kind of money on?
Ms. Johnson: Well, at this point in time, we're looking at a complete
building rehab or complete building reconstruction, we're looking at
demolishing all existing structures, developing plazas, recreational, you
know, ports, everything. At this point in v*ae, we are going to be defining
the project through the design phases so we have a...
Mayor Suarez: We're talking about forty-six?
Ms. Johnson: Yes - no, forty-seven,• African Square, air.
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Mayor Suarez: Morning...
Mr. Plummer: Seven. Forty-seven.
Mr. Odlo: It In cheaper sometimes...
Mayor Suarez: OK, you're not...
Mr. Odios ... to build a new park than to...
Mayor Suarez: ... really design - I mean, defining the project. 1 06 ift,
we're beyond that stage.
Me. Johnson: We have an overall project outline, Mayor, but...
Mayor Suarez: We know what the components are, we know...
Me. Johnson: Primarily, yes. But we have to get input from the public, from
the Park Advisory Board and we will be working with the Urban League on this
particular project. We will be seeking all of that input before...
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask a question.
Ms. Johnson: ... we have the design to go out to bid.
Mr. Plummer: Do we, the Commission, have the right to see what we're buying?
Ms. Johnson: Yes, you do, sir.
Mr. I'lummer: When?
Ms. Johnson: In any of the design phases, sir, we can submit the drawings to
you and you can certainly participate...
Mr. Plummer: Well, I'm saying, it would seem like, to me, if you're asking me
to spend almost $700,000 total with design...
Ms. Johnson: I agree, sir.
Mr. Plummer: ... that we should know what the hell we're buying.
Ms. Johnson: I agree.
Mr. Plummer: I have nothing at this point to tell me what I'm buying. Now, I
can either agree with you or I can disagree with you and when you don't show
me what you're doing, you leave me no...
Mr. Odio: Well, you are agreeing to a $70,000 now. After that, we would have
to come back to you to issue any contracts for any work done at that park.
Mr. Plummer: But doesn't it, Mr. Manager, doesn't it seem feasible before you
go to the design of what you're going to do, that this Commission should have
some right of input?
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Mr. Odio: You did all of that.
Ms. Johnson: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: I haven't seen a design.
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Ms. Johnson: Well, of course not, this is the design consultant contract..
But we started...
Mr. Plummer: When are we going to see what we're buying?
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went through the community meetings for input, we came to you with the Park
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Mr. Plummer: The problem is, you give them $8 million dollars, they're going
to spend it.
Mayor ruaret: But now, we're talking about African Square now at this
particular moment, right? What?
Mr. Plummer: In this particular case, yea.
Ms. Johnson: That's correct.
Mayor Suarez: What are the components of what we're going to do in African
Square? Give me...
Mr. Dawkins: They don't know.
Mr. Plummer: They don't know.
Ms. Johnson: Wait a minute. Let me have the design consultants come up and
disc...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no....
Mayor Suarez: No, you tell me. What are the components of what we're going
to do at African Square Park in general?
Mr. Plummer: I don't want any design consultant telling me how he's going to
spend my money.
Mayor Suarez:
We consulted the community...
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That's right.
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... this Commission approved the big
chart with all the
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OK, basketball and playing courts. They're
going to demolish
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Mayor Suarez:
They're going to fix up the basketball courts.
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... market - the existing market structure, the African market
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building rehab, we're
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Mayor Suarez:
Building rehab? You mean that little
but back there, the
little building?
Mr. Dawkins:
Um hum...
Mr. Odio: The big building in the corner where is the day
care center.
Mayor Suarez:
Oh, OK.
Ms. Johnson:
Former day care cen...
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Mayor Suarez:
Does that have to be rebuilt, does that
building have to be
rebuilt?
Ms. Johnson:
Yes, it's in deplorable shape. In fact...
Mr. Plummer:
How old is it?
Ms. Johnson:
The park itself?
Mr. Plummer:
No, the building.
Mayor Suarez:
The building, the building.
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proximately pp;oximately 1972.
Mayor Suarez:
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Me. Johnson: Landscaping, irrigation systems...
Mayor Suarez: You're not going to be able to put much grass on that park.
Ms. Johnson: No, but we'd like to see it, you know, kind of become an oasis
In that little concrete area.
Mayor Suarez: Basically, it seems to me that you're just fixing up the park
Is what you're doing.
Mr. Plummer: For six hundred thousand, seven hundred thousand.
Ms. Johnson: No, we're rehabbing it.
Mr. Dawkins: OK....
Mayor Suarez: But you don't like the step down aspect of it.
Ms. Johnson: What is there is not functional, it's not recreational, it
was...
Mayor Suarez: Says who?
Ms. Johnson: Says the neighbors.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, you see, very seldom did I agree in total with the Mayor,
but this is one of the few times that I do. OK? Now, the Mayor has said over
and over, we went to the community, you had hearings in the community, you had
a committee that went from neighborhood to neighborhood to tell us what to do
t in the park.
Ms. Johnson: And this is what we're doing.
Mr. Dawkins: No, you're not, you got a damn consultant, yet you got the draw
to do what they may do.
Mayor Suarez: Is all he's doing is just doing like the plans to be able to
actually like to build?
Ms. Johnson: To go out to bid. He's doing the plans for any kind of
demolition, any kind of infrastructure.
Mayor Suarez: He's not doing the concept. We know the concept.
Ms. Johnson:
We know the general concept, he will be utilizing, he...
Mayor Suarez:
We know more than the general concept, we know the
specific
concept...
Ms. Johnson:
Yes, OK.
Mayor Suarez:
The neighbors have told us what they want to build there and
we've listened to them and we've come up with a concept and we have
a budget
and the Commission approved the budget many, many months ago.
Ms. Johnson:
Um hum.
Mayor Suarez:
And it cost 470,000 for him to draw what this thing's
going to
look like?
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Ms. Johnson:
That's correct, sir. According to industry standards,
in the
construction
industry, it is not an unfair or unreasonable figure
of 11.6
percent...
Mr. Plummer:
We're paying 10 percent. Normally, anybody else pays 6
percent.
Mayor Suarez:
I'm hearing the Vice Mayor and I'm hearing everybody
here
wondering why
that cannot be done in house? We have no one in house
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comes through with the plans, the depart...
Mayor Suarers Well, the last time we used a highly specialized approach
apparently it didn't work. Why would we use a highly specialized approach to
building a little park...
Mr. Kay: Well, we didn't... we did some of that in house, but what I'm...
Mayor Suarers ... with basketball court and a community center and
landscaping? What about the chess tables? Are you going to get rid of those?
Mr. Plummer: I'd like to know what we're do... what are we getting for
$600,0007
Ms. Johnson: A brand new park.
Mayor Suarez: Before, before that, please, you're not going to get rid of the
chess tables, are you?
Ms. Johnson: Not if the community wants them.
Mayor Suarez: What did the community tell you about the chess tables?
They're playing chess there all the time.
Mrs. Kennedy: Don't you know at this point?
Ms. Johnson: They will stay.
Mr. Plummer: What instructions were to the designer?
Ms. Johnson: We had provided them with an outline proposal from staff and
from the Urban League as to what some of the needs were in that particular.
The Urban League proposed a project that was going to cost almost 1.2 million.
Mr. Plummer: See, I have no problem with spending the $600,000. My problem
is, am I getting my money's worth? And when I got to pay ten percent to an
architect when everywhere else you're paying 6 percent, it triggers, you know,
what's going on?
Ms. Johnson: We did research...
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, one other thing that's bothering me. You're telling
me here on this particular project of $70,000, you only had two bids?
Ms. Johnson: Commissioner, that was one that we went out for proposals, we
received three proposals, we brought them forward to the Commission, they were
rejected. We went out for a new proposals, only two were received and only
one was qualified.
Mr. Plummer:
I didn't know that our architectural firms
were doing so damn
well in this
town. And I'm assuming that both of these parties are, in fact,
architects.
Is that correct?
Ms. Johnson:
No, the prime consultant is a joint venture
between a landscape
architect and an architect. The RFP specified that we
wanted a landscape
architect as
the prime consultant.
Mr. Plummer:
And who is the architect?
Ms. Johnson:
The architect is Hermine E. Ricketts.
Mr. Dawkins:
Who drew up the RFP?
Me. Johnson:
Staff of the Parks Department.
Mr. Dawkins:
See, J. L., that's the problem, see?
Mr. Plummer:
I've told you that for years.
Mr. Dawkins:
You've got a Parks Department who just
stand up here and
somebody said I'm tell you it's so technical we can't do it,
but they drew up
the RFP that
made it technical.
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Ms. Johnson: The RFP is a very brief document that just merely states what
the general requirements are.
Mayor Suarez: I hope to, because if that's true...
Ms. Johnson: There is no technical detail included in that whatsoever.
Mayor Suarez: ... if that's true, that's the first simple RFP that I will
have seen since I've been...
Ms. Johnson: It's not a UDP, it is not like what is produced by the
Department of Development or anything...
Mayor Suarez: No, we know it's not a UDP, not for a small park you wouldn't
have a UDP.
Mr. Plummer: Have you got a copy of the RFP?
Ms. Johnson: Not with me, sir. I could get you one in a moment.
Mayor Suarez: Park design. OK.
Mr. De Yurre: What number are we on, 46? I'll move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: I'll second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. You're sure the neighbors didn't want the step down
design and wanted to redo the whole thing?
Ms. Johnson: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: I've appointed a member of my own staff to follow the parks
Improvement plan and be sure at all times and go to all of those hearings.
You had hearings, did you have a lot of participants from the community as to
African Square?
Ms. Johnson:
I can't answer that directly because I was not in...
Mayor Suarez:
Alberto, do you know?
Ms. Johnson:
Neither one of us were in charge at that time.
Mayor Suarez:
OK. Because I like that particular design myself, I would have
fixed the park up, I would have put lights, done whatever it takes and it
would have been
a hell of a project for $600,000, without having to redo that
whole park and
start tearing up.
Me. Johnson:
We will invite you to all the public meetings.
Mr. Plummer:
We're going to hang lanterns in your office.
Mayor Suarez:
We got park designers here.
Mr. Plummer:
No, no, no, no. Carollo's going to be up there with the
lanterns.
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Mayor Suarez:
I have a thing about park designers. It's not just African
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Square, it's
Bayfront Park.
Mr. Plummer:
Yes, what you got against them is they're all wealthy and we're
poor. They got
the money from the City.
Mr. De Yurre:
Some aren't around any more so let's stick to what we've got.
Mayor Suarez:
Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who
roved its adoption:
RESOLUTION N0. 89-240
A ABSOLUTION WITH ATTACHMENT, AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THIS
ATTACHED FORM, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND THE
RUSSELL PARTNERSHIP, INC. FOR PROFESSIONAL DESIGN
CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR THE MORNINGSIDE RECREATION
BUILDING PROJECT, AT A FEE TO THE CONSULTANT IN THE
AMOUNT OF $37,100; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM
PROJECT NO. 331313 ENTITLED "MORNINGSIDE PARK
RENOVATIONS".
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: Question. Who is going to do the selection of the
art work?
Ms. Johnson: For Morningside? I imagine we'll...
Mr. Plummer: For any of it.
Ms. Johnson: Well, there's only one that requires art work, it's Morningside. I,
We'll bring it to you.
Mr. Plummer: OK, do we have a committee that selects art work?
Ms. Johnson: Not at this point.
Mr. Plummer: I think there should be.
Ms. Johnson: OK, we take it...
Mr. Dawkins: I vote yes only if the design is brought back to this Commission
and this Commission has a chance to look at it to ensure that
this is what the
community wants and I don't think we can afford to vote no
because this has
been going on for quite sometime and the neighbors are waiting for - I mean,
the citizens are waiting for us to do something.
Mr. De Yurre: So amended.
Mayor Suarez: Before I vote, in the case of Domino Park, the
Miami Herald and s
other more reputable institutions documented 476 days where
the people were
not able to play dominos. We're not going to have 476 days
where the people
in that neighborhood are not going to be able to play chess,
are we?
Mr. Plummer: They're trying for 500.
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39. EXECUTE AGREEMENT: LAURA LLERENA AND ASSOCIATES, INC. AND HERMINE 1.
RICKETTS, ARCHITECT - for professional design consultant services for
the African Square Park Renovations Project (No. 331053).
Mayor Suarez: Let's go to 47 then.
Mr. be Yurre: Move 47.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion on 47? Other than, you're not going
to remove the chess tables, are you?
Ms. Diane Johnson: No. Can I move them?
Mr. Plummer: And you will, in fact, bring us back something in design on all
three projects - no, all projects, all the $8 million dollar worth of projects
prior to your standing here saying, "Well, you can't change that because we'll
have to go back and redo all the architectural." OK?
Mayor Suarez: Well, you can't have the architectural for your approval...
Mr. Plummer: Or the design.
Mayor Suarez: ... unless they're ready to have it approved, so, I mean, they,
hopefully, won't have to be any modifications but we have to give final
approval to the plans is what he's saying.
Ms. Johnson% Certainly.
Mayor Suarez: You're going to move the chess tables. Where are you going to
move them to?
Ms. Johnson: I don't know.
Mayor Suarez: Now, they're now are...
Mr. Plummer: 3060 So. Miami Avenue.
Mayor Suarez: Under...
Ms. Johnson: They'll stay in the park.
Mayor Suarez: They're under trees, they're in the shade, they're right next j
to the street and these are components that are important to this famous
designer that's going to design this. OK? The people like to be close to
where the traffic is, to where the sidewalks are. They like to be under shade
and they like to play chess almost the entire day, certainly on weekends, so
please make sure that we don't end up putting the chess tables in some place
nobody's going to want to use them, please. OK, did we call the roll on that?
Call the roll.
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The following resolution and motion were introduced by Commissioner be
Tucei, who moved their adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 84-241
A RESOLUTION WITH ATTACHMENT, AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, I:: StrBSTANTIALLY THE
ATTACHED FORM, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND LAURA
LLERENA AND ASSOCIATES, INC. AND HERMINE E. RICKETTS.
ARCHITECT, AS A JOINT VENTURE, FOR PROFESSIONAL DESIGN
CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR THE AFRICAN SQUARE PARK
MMOVATIONS PROJECT, AT A FEE TO THE CONSULTANT IN THE
AMOUNT OF $70,000; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT NO. 331053 OF THE SAME
NAME.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
MOTION NO. 89-241.1
A MOTION CONCERNING THE RENOVATION OF AFRICAN SQUARE
PARK, DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO KEEP THE
EXISTING CHESS TABLES AT SAID PARK UNDER THE SHADE AND
CLOSE TO THE STREET AND SIDEWALKS.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution and motion
were passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner biller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
40. EXECUTE AGREEMENT: LAURA LLERENA AND ASSOCIATES,
INC. - for professional
design consultant services for the Grapeland,
Hadley and Morningside
Park Irrigation projects (No. 331338).
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Mayor Suarez: Forty-eight.
Mr. De Yurre: Move 48.
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Mrs. Kennedy: Move. Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded.
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Mr. Dawkins: Now see, I'm like J. L., I mean, under construct... under =
discussion. We're going to spend...
Mayor Suarez: Grapeland Hadley Morningside irrigation...'
Mr. Dawkins: $300,000 for irrigation and seeing as how I have - the Mayor's
going to jump on me but I have to say this. I live
across the street from r`
Hadley Park we've already had : y h two people out there with irrigation and each
time they've covered up what the other one did and now we're coming back out
to spend more money to irrigate the same park that we've covered up the pop up t^,
heads and all are in. So, I hope this time, the irrigation whoever they are,
will have the park where it can be watered.
Mayor Suarez: And in the process of installing the
new system, they don't
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Mr. Dawkins: No, that one will not.
Mayor Suarez: Without at least checking with the Commissioner that lures
across the street who'll be out there every day with the...
Mr. Plummer: And turning the sprinkler heads around.
Mayor Suarez: Have the switch connected to his house. That way, the wrong
person goes in there and you can spray them. Call the roll on 48.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-242
A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENT, AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE
ATTACHED FORM, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND LAURA
LLERENA AND ASSOCIATES, INC. FOR PROFESSIONAL DESIGN
CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR THE GRAPELAND, HADLEY AND
MORNINGSIDE PARK IRRIGATION PROJECTS, AT A FEE TO THE
CONSULTANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,000: ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM PROJECT NO. 331338 ENTITLED "CITYWIDE
IRRIGATION PROJECTS".
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution vas passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
.ABSENT: Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
(NOTE: Although absent during the roll call, Vice Mayor De Yurre requested
the Clerk to show him as voting with the motion.)
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: At this point, Agenda item 49 was withdrawn
by the administration.
41. HERITAGE CONSERVATION BOARD: Brief discussion on appointment.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 50, Heritage Conservation Board.
Mr. Dawkins: You didn't have the votes, huh?
Mr. Guillermo Olmedillo: You have... <<
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Mr. Olmedillo: Leonard Alvarez, it's a joint appointment for either/or-
Commissioner Dawkins and Commissioner De Yurre. r5
Mr. Dawkins: Either/or?
Mr. Olmedillos It's either/or or both, or a joint.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, you get a half of an appointment, he..,
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Mr. Dawkins: Well, let him have it.
Mr. Plummer: You get half an appointment, he gets the other half.
Mr. Olmedillo: Leonardo Alvarez is the landscape architect who vas advertised
and I don't know if he wants to move or not.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, let Commissioner De Yurre appoint somebody.
Mr. Plummer: Have they got to live in the City?
Mr. Olmedillo: I believe so, air.
Mr. Plummer: Well, this gentleman doesn't live in the City the one that's
recommended.
AT THIS POINT, THIS ITEM WAS DEFERRED.
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42. (Continued discussion) EXECUTE AGREEMENT: ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS, INC. to provide a case management program to refer clients to agencies
providing job training, housing and health services (See label 32).
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Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry, before we go to the... or while we get this
resolved, we've got a couple of items left from the morning. I don't know if
they've been resolved. I know we've got - which is the item on Georgia Jones'
program?
Mr. Odic: Number forty. Forty.
Mr. Plummer: His business is not in the City.
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Mayor Suarez: Commissioners, OK, on item 40 now.
Mr. Plummer: He is not in the City.
Mr. Odic: What I'd like to do, as I talked to all of you, we
need to add the is
Mayor Suarez: There's the issue of who the contract is with,
the City asAt
opposed to...
Mr. Odic: No, we need to add to the twenty-two... the forty thousand five
hundred on the peer counselors that we were handling separate
but...
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
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Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded and it'll be done such that
the City is not
a contracting party any more...
Mr. Odic: That is correct, that is correct.
Mayor Suarez: ... as a peer counselor, which sounds like a good idea from
the...
Mr. Odic: That's the advice from the Law Department.
Mr. Plummer: Call the roll.
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The following resolutions were introduced by Cownissioner Plummer, vho
movfd their adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 69-243
A RESOLUTION, WITH ATTACHMENTS, ALLOCATING $22,000
f'ROM THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GENERAL
MD TO THE ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS, INC. FOR THE PURPOSE
OF PROVIDING A CASE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO REFER
CLIENTS TO AGENCIES PROVIDING JOB TRAINING, HOUSING
t AND HEALTH SERVICES; AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENT WITH SAID AGENCY FOR
SAID PURPOSE, SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE ATTACHED FORM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
RESOLUTION NO. 69-243.1
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$40,500 FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS FOR THE
PURPOSE OF PROVIDING A PEER COUNSELING PROGRAM TO BE
CONDUCTED BY ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS, INC.; FURTHER
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN
AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY,
WITH SAID AGENCY FOR IMPLEMENTING SAID PROGRAM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on —
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed -
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
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Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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43. (Continued discussion) APPROVE NAACP'S REQUEST FOR TEMPORARY LOAN FOR
USE OF BALLROOM IN HYATT REGENCY HOTEL IN CONNECTION WITH ITS ANNUAL
"FREEDOM FUND BANQUET" (See label 34)
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Mayor Suarez: Item - the NAACP presentation,
I'm sorry, before we get to
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these board designations which are internal.
Mr. Plummer: Do we own the property?
Ms. Kate Kemp: Good evening, I'm Kate Kemp, the
vice president of the Greater =_
Miami NAACP. Good evening to Mayor Suarez and the members of the
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Commissioner. Thank you for allowing us to get
on the agenda at such a short
notice. We have a problem.
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Mayor Suarez: We've done more than that.
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Ms. Kemp: Right.
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Mayor Suarez: You're really not on the agenda,
we're hearing you any how.#'
Me. Kemp: Well, thank you, nonetheless. We...
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Mr. Plummer: And I got news for you, you don't
look like Miller Dawkins. And
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Me. Kemp: Thank you again to all of you.
Mrs. Kennedy: It's an inside Joke.
Mr. bawkins: I resent that, J. L. Plummer.
Ms. Kemp: May I continue?
Mr. Plummer: You resemble that.
Me. Kemp: I may continue?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, why not.
Ms. Kemp: OK. We have a freedom fund banquet each year which is the major
fund raiser for the organization, the only one. With those funds we sponsor
1500 youth. They're not on drugs, these are youths who we're training to
become up and coming citizens in our communities. I--+ checking the hotels in
Miami and in Dade County, there are none left that can accommodate a thousand
people on June 3rd due to proms and weddings. I have checked with the Hyatt
Regency and they have space that can accommodate 800 to a thousand of our
people. They have told us that that property belonged to the City of Miami
and that the required deposit for that is $4,000. Unfortunately, because of j
the consolidation of all the branches here in Dade County, we've had to expend
some expenditures to national. We do not have that amount of funds in our p
treasury at the moment. We're not asking you for anything free. We're Just
asking you, if possible, you can waive that $4,000 fee and once we have our
banquet, we will pay every penny back within the 48 hour period that the Hyatt j
has explained to me we would need to do. ,
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Mrs. Kennedy: We cannot waive it but we can certainly give you the money and
then...
Mr. Plummer: Sure.
Mrs. Kennedy: ... get our money back when you...
Mr. Plummer: Sure. That's more than fair. That's more than fair.
Ms. Kemp: OK, that is all that we are...
Mr. Odio: We need to do is delay two days collecting the money.R
Mrs. Kennedy: Right, that's fine.
Mr. Plummer: Which you're, in effect, doing rather than giving them a grant, t;
you're loaning that amount of money for 48 hours.
Mrs. Kennedy: Loaning them the money. I so move.
Ms. Kemp: No, the problem is, they need the $4,000 deposit, you know, to
secure the facilities.
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Mr. Dawkins: Quit while you're ahead, quit while you're ahead. OK? We said
we're going to make it available, all right?
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Mr. Dawkins: OK now? Nov, go ahead and make your motion, Commissioner i
Kennedy. Make the motion, go ahead.
Mrs. Kennedy: I did.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, what's the motion?
Mrs. Kennedy: To delay the payment for 48 hours.
Mr. Dawkins: By delay, we mean loan them the money...
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Mr, bawkjns: ... to pap the Hyatt so the Hutt will not be on their haakd
because they tot their money in their hands and they will repay tha City it
the and of the 46 hour period, OXt
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Mr. Plummer: night.
Mrs. Kennedy: Correct. �.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded.
j Mr. Davkins: I second it.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. :>
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved .:
Its adoption:
MOTION No. 89-244 q
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A MOTION APPROVING REQUEST RECEIVED FROM
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MIAMI-DADE BRANCH OF THE
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED
PEOPLE (NAACP) FOR A LOAN IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,000 FOR
USE OF THE UPSTAIRS BALLROOM IN THE HYATT REGENCY
HOTEL IN DOWN TOWN MIAMI IN CONNECTION WITH ITS ANNUAL
"FREEDOM FUND BANQUET" SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 3, 1989, FOR
THE PURPOSE OF RAISING FUNDS TO PROMOTE THE GOALS,
_ OBJECTIVES AND OVERALL PROGRAMS OF THE AFOREMENTIONED
CHAPTER; FURTHER STIPULATING THAT SAID ORGANIZATION
SHALL REPAY SAID LOAN AMOUNT TO THE CITY WITHIN 48
HOURS OF SCHEDULED EVENT.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed, and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins '
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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ABSENT:- Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre 1
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44. AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ADVISORY BOARD: Appointed was John Bennett.
Mayor Suarez: Item S1, Affirmative Action Board. That's Commissioner
Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: John Bennett. I recommend John Bennett.
Mr. Plummer: Second. Call the roll.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roil.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION No. 89-245
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING AN INDIVIDUAL TO FILL ONE
VACANCY ON THE CITY OF MIAMI AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
ADVISORY BOARD.
(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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
j Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
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Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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ABSENT: Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
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45. CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD: Appointed were Ana Magda Guillen and Thelbe'rt ,.
- Johnakin.
Mayor Suarez: Item forty...Y`
Mr. Plummer: Fifty-two.<
Mayor Suarez: Fifty-two. Do we have...
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Mr. Plummer: Dawkins and Kennedy.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Kennedy and Commissioner...y_
Mrs. Kennedy: I reappoint Ana Magda Guillen.
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- Mayor Suarez: Aenominate the incumbent, Ana Guillen.
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jMr. Plummer: Second the motion.
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Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
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Woad its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 69-246
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING TWO INDIVIDUALS TO THE CIT 18
CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD, EACH TO SERVE A TERM ENDING
2`EBRUARY 11, 1992.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clark.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was pissed
and adopted by the following vote:
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AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
46. CONFIRM ORDERING RESO. 88-1018: Advertise for sealed bids for
construction of South Flagler Sanitary Sewer Improvement (SR-5540-C
centerline sewer).
Mayor Suarez: Item 53.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-247
A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION NO. 88-
1018 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO ADVERTISE FOR
SEALED BIDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOUTH FLAGLER s
SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT IN SOUTH FLAGLER SANITARY}
SEWER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT SR-5540-C (CENTERLINE
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(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on :`toss
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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.i..
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
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Mayor Xavier L. Suarez�¢'
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planning earvleas with Reginald A. Barker, AICP, in connection with the
Increments I and it of the Southeast Overtown/Park West Development of
Regional Impact - with funds from 14th Year CDBG.
Mr. Dawkins: Move 54.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: I've never seen him like this, what you are doing?
Mr. Plummer: What? No, nothing. I just want to get out of here.
Mr. Dawkins: Will you all move this while J. L. Plummer's in good...
Mr. Plummer: Will somebody call the roll? its
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, before J.L. changes his mind. 3
Mayor Suarez: I want to know what he has at 6:00 p.m., I've never seen him
like this.
Mr. Plummer: But you'd better tell Macu it was midnight before I got out of
here.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
Mr. Jorge Fernandez: In 54, is that the item you're on?
Mr. Plummer: Who asked you?
Mr. Fernandez: Because you need to know what you're doing on it.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. Fernandez: OK, 54....
Mayor Suarez: Item 54. What are we doing?
Mr. Fernandez: We distributed some a new packet of information that - and I'm
recommending to you that you handle that separately. That resolution original'
in the packet contained two things. Contained a waiver of the conflict of
interest and then the authorization to enter into the contract. What I'm
asking for you to do is for you to take them separate. First, to pass...
Mr. Dawkins: I'm going to take them both at one time against your judgment
just because I get tired of your telling me that I can't do these.... Move it
as it is.
Mayor Suarez: Moved 54 as is.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Mr. City Attorney, you
successfully. Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
iooved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-248
A RESOLUTION (*) VAIVING BY A 4/5TH AFFIRMATIVE VOTE
OF THE CITY COMMISSION THE REQUIREMENTS AND
PROHIBITION CONTAINED IN CITY CODE SECTION 2-302;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN
AGREEMENT, SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED, SUBJECT
TO THE CITY ATTORNEY APPROVAL AS TO FORM AND
CORRECTNESS, FOR PROFESSIONAL PLANNING SERVICES WITH
REGINALD A. BARKER, AICP, IN CONNECTION WITH THS
FINALIZATION OF INCREMENT I AND THE PREPARATION OF
INCREMENT II OF THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL IMPACT, FOR A TEN MONTH PERIOD
FROM MARCH 1, 1989, THROUGH DECEMBER 30, 1989, FOR A
TOTAL FEE OF $25,000 WITH FUNDS IN THAT AMOUNT BEING
ALLOCATED FROM THE 14TH YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK GRANT FUNDS.
(* - For City Clerk reference, there is an attachment
to this Resolution as herein stated.)
(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:
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AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Fernandez: It's a four -fifth vote you need.
Mayor Suarez: We got four of us here.
48. INCREASE CONTRACT AMOUNT: TARAFA CONSTRUCTION, INC. - for construction
of Fire Garage/:ire Station No. 3, Modification and Expansion (second
bidding), CIP Prcject 313019.
Mayor Suarez: Item 55, City of Miami and Tarafa Construction to complete fire
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garage.
Mr. Plummer: Move it. The Fontainebleau of fire garages.
Mayor Suarez: Really.
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Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
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Mayor Suarez: Taj Mahal. Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll
on 55.
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moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION N0. 89-249
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE IN THE CONTRACT
AMOUNT OF $95,000 IN THE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF
MIAMI, FLORIDA, AND TARAFA CONSTRUCTION, INC., DATED
OCTOBER 14, 1986, FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF FIRE
GARAGE/FIRE STATION NO. 3, MODIFICATION AND EXPANSION
(SECOND BIDDING) CIP PROJECT NO. 313019, SAID FUNDS TO
BE PROVIDED FROM FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR THE PROJECT;
FURTHER RATIFYING THE CITY MANAGER'S WRITTEN FINDING
THAT THE HEREIN INCREASE RESULTED FROM EMERGENCY
CIRCUMSTANCES BY AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF 4/5THS OF THE
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre •
49. 1989 MIAMI JAZZ FESTIVAL: Brief discussion and deferral (See label 63).
Mayor Suarez: Item 55, representatives of Productions Center for the Arts,
Inc.
Mr. Plummer: Fifty-six.
Mayor Suarez: Fifty-six, rather. Request the waiver of the 10 percent fee on
ticket sales and requests the City to purchase 300 tickets at a cost of $4,500
for distribution to underprivileged individuals in connection wii.h the 1989
Miami Jazz Festival scheduled for June 30th through July 4th, 1989.
Mr. Plummer: Can somebody identify who are the underprivileged children?
Mr. Dawkins: Me.
® Mr. Plummer: I know that. I didn't say financially, I said physically.
Mr. Dawkins: You didn't say mentally either.
Mr. Plummer: You heard. No, who are the so called underprivileged children?
Ms. Barbara Howard: These are children in the public school system.
Mr. Plummer: Who designates... are they are given group in a school in a
special program.
Ms. Howard: They will be designated as you wish. We had indicated that in sir
fact - let me introduce myself first. I'm Barbara Howard...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I'm glad you put that in the record and give us an
address too, Barbara.f,
Ms. Howard: OK, I'm at 7024 S.W: 114th Place, Number H. Since you have
already discussed it, we were going to originally ask that you defer it for a.
little while longer, we were waiting on Carol Ann Taylor,��
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No. Howards Now, if that`s a0Qr6pr1ata.-s.
Mr. Plummer: Well nova..
Mayor Suarez: Item 56 it tabled.
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S0. 44TH MIAMI INTERNATIONAL ORCHID SHOW: Waive portion of rental fee for
use of Coconut Grove Exhibition Center.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 57, South Florida Orchid Society.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
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RESOLUTION NO. 89-250
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $8,000 '
FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND,
IN SUPPORT OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA ORCHID SOCIETY TO
COVER THE COST OF THE RENTAL FEE IN CONNECTION WITH
THE USE OF COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER FROM
FEBRUARY 27 TO MARCH 6, 1989; SAID ALLOCATION BEING;.
CONDITIONED UPON SUBSTANTIAL COMPLIANCE WITH CITY OF
MIAMI ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY NO. APM-1-84, DATED
JANUARY 24, 1984. }
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed Z
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. i=
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins Y
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None. j
ASSENT: Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre -r
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Mayor Suarez: The biggest in the world?fir
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: The biggest in the world.
Mayor Suarez: The biggest in the world, all right.
Mr. Plummer: What•a that, the biggest in the world?•'
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Mr. , Plummer:, That ain't what Mrs. Retina told me.
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51. COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND PARADE% Discussion.
Mayor Suarez: Item 58, Carnival Development Committee to discuss park
arrangements for the Columbus Day weekend.
Mr. Plummer% No, no, we did not pass 56. We passed 57.
Mayor Suarez: We tabled 56.
Mr. Plummer: Fifty-six until Carol Ann Taylor gets here.
Mayor Suarez: Go ahead and proceed on 58.
Mr. Franklin Smith: Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission, I'm Franklin Smith,
Smith, president of the CDC. We would like to host a parade on 7th
and Oth in Margaret Pace Park. We are in full agreement with Community
Development for that day and all we're asking is a little in -kind services, if
necessary.
Mr. Dawkins: We waived the fees for the Orchid Show?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: That's so sweet of us.
Mr. Odio: I'd like to say on 58 that we're just recommending here the use of
the park but not the funds that he's asking for.
Mayor Suarez: I missed out on it too which is even worse.
Mr. Plummer: Where are we?
Mr. Dawkins: This gentleman's waiting for us to give us...
Mr. Smith: Fifty-eight.
Mr. Dawkins: This gentleman's waiting for us to give him our undivided
attention, that's where we are.
Mr. Plummer: I wish him well.
Mayor Suarez: Let me apologize on behalf of my fellow Commissioners. Please
proceed.
Mr. Plummer: Ho, ho, oh, oh.
Mayor Suarez: And myself. With the exception of Commissioner Kennedy who was
attentive the entire time.
Mr. Plummer: .... you need more than one police car around that house.
Mayor Suarez: Which is to say, apologizing on behalf of the Blues Brothers,.
go ahead. A
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Mr. Smith: Accepted. Mr. Mayor, we've had this affair - this festival three
years now. It has been very small and successful, we have never had any
Incidences and we're asking just a little in -kind services, if possible. Just
the police. We would like, you know, we would like the parade to be safe and
we're asking just these things.
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Mayor Suarez: I don't want to be the one to tell you but we have no funds
left in our festival policy fund and have stated rather clearly that we're not a
going to approve any funds for any further events so that we can give you,the P
use of the facility if it's one of those that we can, which, I guess certainly
we can, right?
Ms. Diane Johnson: It's Margaret Pace Park, we have scheduled any major type
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the neighbors, canvass the neighborhood to make sure that's OK. - h�
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Mayor Suaret: Anything you do at Margaret Pace
Park to bring it to life Will
add to !Margaret Pace Park.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, I don't - which
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Street...
No. Johnson: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: ... or the 36th Street?
No. Johnson: Eighteenth.
Mr. Smith: Highteenth Street.
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Mr. Plummer: Oh, OK.
Mr. Smith: What about street closures for those
date*, sir?
Mr. Plummer: Why would you need to close Via street, it's all on the
Sayfront?
Ms. Johnson: They're going to have a parade.
Mr. Smith: We were going to have the parade.
Mayor Suarez: A parade right around the park there?
Mr. Smith: Yes, from - the parade is going to be from 54th down into Margaret -
Pace.
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Mr. Smith: On Second Avenue.
Mr. Plummer: Fifty-fourth Street?
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Mr. Smith: And N.E. 2nd Avenue.
Mayor Suarez: All the way down from 54th Street?
Mr. Smith: All the way down, yes.
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in Police Department?
- Mayor Suarez: May be a little long; come from 54th.
Mr. Plummer: You've got to have a policeman at
each intersection.
Mr. Smith: From 52nd Avenue there is - N.S. 2nd
Avenue there is - you have
traffic either going in either direction, there
is no cross sections.
Mr, Plummer: You still got to have a policeman
at every intersection. At
least I think that's the case. You'd better
find out what you're talking
about dollars.
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Mayor Suarez: Yes, why don't we approve the use of the park and the closure
of the street* subject to working it out with
the Police Department because
you might be biting off more than you can chew.
Mr. Smith:
Mr. Plummer: OK, the only...
Mayor Suarez: And no funding. We're not approving any funding. = r�Y
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Mayor Suarez: No, it doesn't go to the Omni.
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streets of that...
Mayor Suarez: OK, good point. Yes, it should...
Mr. Smith: No, we go east to N.S. 19th Street, above the Omni.
Mayor Suarez: Then, why don't we build that in also that...
Mr. Plummer: But you got to cross the boulevard also.
Mr. Smith: Across the boulevard but above N.E. 19th Street.
Mayor Suarez: And subject to...
Mr. Plummer: OK. What are you talking about in Police Personnel?
Lt. Joseph Longueira: I didn't know that was the route. We're going to have
to look at it, we're going to have to lay out all of that...
Mayor Suarez: We'd better make it subject to the police approval.
Mr. Plummer: You're making - well you're talking about what, 35 blocks.
Mr. Smith: Sgt. Bach has the route in writing.
Mr. Plummer: What was his estimated cost on police?
Mr. Smith: Well, he hasn't given me that as yet. But, I would assume around
$1,500, $1,600.
Mr.
Dawkins: $1,500?
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Plummer: $1,500 won't even get them out from the station. Well,
OK, as
long
as you understand you got to pay the expenses...
Mr.
Smith: No problem.
Mr.
Plummer: ... then what time of day and what day of the week?
Mr.
Smith: We're looking at Sunday, which is going to be less traffic
in that
area.
Mr.
Plummer: OK.
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Mr.
Smith: For that particular street closure.
Mr.
Plummer: On Sunday from what time to what time?
Mr.
Smith: Well, we're saying we're looking at at least four, five hours on
the
road. This is what we're trying. We said maximum, we're not going
beyond
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Plummer: From what time to what time?
Mr.
Smith: From ten until probably 2:00.
Mr.
Plummer: No, no, no, no, not probably, not probably. Nov,
I want
= definite...
Mr.
Smith: Ten a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
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Plummer: Go ahead.
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Lt.
Longueira: Commissioner, I'd like to... October 7th and 8th is
a long ,
time away. I'd like to nail this down better, you know, with him on costs
and
route and times and what kind of parade it is. I mean, that's quite
a ways�y-
away and I think we've got enough time to get together and come back
to the
Commission.
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Mr.
Plummer: I agree with you. But we'll go ahead and give them the park.
OK?''
Lt. Longueira: Fine, fine.
Mr. Plumaers That we'll do and then he'll come back with some cost figures.
Mr. Smiths But, sir, the thing is, we do have sponsors that would take care
of these expenses. The thing is, we have to start advertising now and if we
can't tell theta something now as a street closure, we really have nothing for
a parade, you know?
Mr. Plummer: All we're saying to...
Mr. Smith: This is all I'm saying.
Mr. Plummer: All I'm saying to you is, I don't think you have any idea what
the cost factors are. And I think they're going to be very, very high and I
think a four hour parade - the Orange Bowl Parade doesn't last but two hours,
and you're asking for four.
Mr. Smith: Maximum. I mean, it could take two hours. -
Mr. Plummer: OK, hey...
Mr. Dawkins: You know, I think that, as Joe said, sit down and look at it
because after we look at it and the cost factor may determine that we don't
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have but one hour parade. See? So, sit down with him and then we can come up
with what we're going to do. OK? But you do have our blessings to do it?
Mr. Smith: OK, sir, so I can start advertising.
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Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
- Mr. Smith: That's all I need. Thanks a lot. Commissioners, thank you. Mr.
` Mayor, thank you. Community Development thanks you.
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52. COCONUT GROVE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE: Expand scope of Committee.
Mr. Plummer: Where is the Mayor? Mr. Mayor, let me ask you a question and
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I'm asking it of the Commission. Mr. Mayor, we had yesterday, our first
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meeting of the committee that has been put forth to come forth to this
recommendations of the Commission for festivals and guidelines and rules and
regulations. The question immediately arose was, is this committee supposed
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that are not special, because, let me tell you, one of the things that we
decided yesterday...
Mayor Suarez: What are special events that are not festivals, for exampleT
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I think one of the things that...
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Mr. Dawkins: The Budweiser...
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Mr. Plummer: That's exactly all of It.
Mr. Dawkins: Well say it then, don't be...
Mr. Plummer: So that what we're looking towards is if, 'in fact;„ this
committee recommends an authority for coordination' you've got to`coordinaje:.:
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festivals as well as special events. And I think that's one of the...
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Mr. Dawkins: Well, what's your recommendation, J.L.?
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Mr. Dawkins: Well, what you think we put you over there for if you can'V'�oekg
a recommendation?
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Mr. Plummer: 'Well, if you want my opinion...
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you.
Mr. Plummer: my opinion says that you can't coordinate unless you do the
entire coordination.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, so make the motion.
Mr. Plummer: I'll make a motion that this committee's authority be expanded
to look into both festivals as well as special events.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Now, wait a minute, wait, wait. Moved and seconded. We're
talking about Coconut Grove?
Mr. Dawkins: We're talking about the City.
Mr. Plummer: We're talking about the City.
Mayor Suarez: I thought this was the Coconut Grove festivals that we were
going to deal with the issue of having too many festivals in the Grove and the
neighbors...
Mr. Plummer: No, no, too many festivals anywhere, Mr. Mayor, is what my
instructions were.
Mayor Suarez: Well, we haven't heard that from other parts of the City yet.
We've heard it from Coconut Grove.
Mr. Plummer: OK and what are the...
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Mayor Suarez: And we've appointed people on the basis of Coconut Grove, the
two appointments that we each have were all Coconut Grove people generally.
In fact, I think exclusively.
Mr. Plummer: Well...
Mayor Suarez: I have no problem going into other events in Coconut Grove,
that's what we did, right?
Mr. Castaneda: Right, yes...
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Mayor Suarez: I mean, if we need a...
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Mr. Castaneda: Yes, the committee was created as the result of a large number
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of citizens in the Grove area complaining.
Mr. Plummer: That was what the original brought to the table was. The
problem was, is to try to get some of these events spread around the City and
as I explained to the committee, "Hey, you know, whenever you impose rules and
regulations, they've got to be Citywide. You can't do it to just one area."
All I'm asking is, how do you want this committee to travel? I think one
of...
Mayor Suarez: Well, if the recommendations affect in any way areas other than
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Coconut Grove, the Commission...
Mr. Plummer: It would affect any park that is available to a festival, yes.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, you would come back to the Commission and say, "Look, this
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matter has spilled out of the Grove because to accommodate some of these
festivals that have been in the Grove, we now must go out and then the,
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Commission can act on it but, I mean, the object was to see if we had too many
in the Grove and how they could be scheduled and...
Mr. Plummer: OK, look, all I'm asking is what way do you want...
Mayor Suarez: But not restrict it to festivals. I mean, festivala or any
other special event in the Grove.
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fMayor Suaras: Might.
Mr. Plummers Fine, because l think one of the things that it was Pretty lull
felt yesterday was to like very definitely like they have in Payfront Park# an
authority. And they would be a clearing authority so we don't find ourselves
with three major events in the City, all sponsored by the City in the samR
weekend.
Mayor Suarez: But I think we ought to restrict ourselves to Coconut Grove. i
mean, if we're going to get into a committee that's going to look at it
Citywide, we're going to have to restructure that. I think we ought to do
It...
Mr. Plummer: if you want to just...
Mayor Suarez: But I would agree to go to things beyond festivals, any special
events in Coconut Grove.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: I'll accept that amendment.
Mr. Plummer: it's fine with me. I think you're going to be at a loss though.
Because when you...
Mayor Suarez: There's going to be some spilled over. 1 think the committee
might come back with recommendations of things that should be done in other
parts of the City and then we're going to have to look at the City as a whole. ;
You're right.
Mr. Plummer: That's the way I felt about it.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Yes, don't be constrained by the fact that some of the
recommendations might...
Mr. Plummer: OK.-
!Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Plummer: Fine. g;l
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on that with that understanding.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
Its adoption:
MOTION NO. 84-251
A MOTION EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF THE CITY'S COCONUT
GROVE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE TO INCLUDE BESTOWING UPON
SAID GROUP THE AUTHORITY TO PERUSE SPECIAL EVENTS AS
WELL AS FESTIVALS OCCURRING IN COCONUT GROVE ONLY.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and:
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez - +' ""a
NOES: None.
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S3. A. AIDS MARCH: Grant request from Health Crisis Network for street
closures.
B. Allocate one free community day from existing community days reserved
for City events to Health Crisis Network for use of Bayfront Park
Amphitheater.
Mayor Suarez: Fifty-nine, Health Crisis Network and the amphitheater's
resolved?
Mrs. Kennedy: I move the closure of the streets and the amphitheater's
Mayor Suarez: Already gone through this trust or...
Mrs. Kennedy: Naive, waiver.
Mayor Suarez: One of the community days or...
Mr. Plummer: What time of the day would the streets be closed? Are you
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speaking to Biscayne Boulevard?
Ms. Lynn Ellmen: Yes, sir, be 10:00 to 1:00 o'clock.
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Mr. Odio: Eight -thirty in the morning to 11:30.'
Mayor Suarez: What day of the week?
Mr. Odio: That's the request.
Mr. Plummer: It's a Sunday morning.
Ms. Ellmen: Sunday morning, May 7th.
Mr. Odio: Eight -thirty to 11:30?
Mr. Plummer: What is the need to close the street?
Ms. Ellmen: It would be to cross from Bayfront Park, from the amphitheater,
to go west to South Miami Avenue. The walk would go south on South Miami
Avenue and back north on South Miami Avenue and cross Biscayne Boulevard again
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to go into the amphitheater for the end of the event.
Mayor Suarez: Well, the actual closing of Biscayne it sounds like would just
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be as a cross. Is that what you're saying?
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Ms. Ellmen: Pardon me, I'm sorry?
Mayor Suarez: You're not going to be closing Biscayne in any kind of a
permanent way, just as they cross the street.
Ms. Ellmen: Just across the street.
Mayor Suarez: We'd better get that understanding. Does the Police Department
understand...
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Mr. Plummer: But in -kind services you're going to pay for.
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Ms. Ellmen: The police picked this route for us. It was a policemen approved;
route and it was completely at their suggestion.'
Mayor Suarez: That's what I wanted to hear that they had...
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Mr. Plummer: But this is not for an in -kind, this is just for: st=eet
closures.
Mrs. Kennedy: Street closure. Y,+
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Mrs. Kennedy: Let's take one at a time, the street closure is my motion.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mr. Plummer: You got a policy on the other. Yes, I'll move the street
closure.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
Mr. Plummer: Huh? Oh, I second it.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, rho
soved its adoption:
RESOLUTION MO. 89-252
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE AIDS MARCH MIAMI BE
CONDUCTED BY HEALTH CRISIS NETWORK ON MAY 7, 1989,
AUTHORIZING THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO
THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC SUBJEC TO
— T THE ISSUANCE OF
PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE,
RESCUE
AND INSPECTION SERVICES; FURTHER CONDITIONED UPON THE
— REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY
POTENTIAL LIABILITY AND UPON ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR ALL
NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES.
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(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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
_ Commissioner Miller Dawkins
— Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
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Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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— ABSENT: None.
Mr. Odio: I recommend number 60, Mr. Mayor. It's... oh, she's got a problem?
= Mr. Dennis Edwards: That's OK. My name is Dennis Edwards,
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my address is 2907
Seminole Street here in Coconut Grove. I'm with Health
Crisis Network as ;1_
well. We intended to ask for in -kind services, but realize
now that that's no
SEEM longer possible. We would ask for the community day for use of Bayfront Park
for that day, if that's possible.
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Mr. Plummer: I thought that had been approved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Have you checked the date? Have you cleared
it with Ira Katz?
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Mayor Suarez: He's functioning by executive order there
now. He doesn't.
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Mr. Plummer: You're not using any skateboards, are you?
Mayor Suarez: What executive order are you up to? Are you over a hundred
executive orders over there? OK, it's been approved by
the Sayfront perk
Trust?
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board doesn't work real well.
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Mrs. Kennedy: The whole week has been declared AIDS Avarenastaek add #`
think it's important to do it. I so move.
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Mr. Dawkins: What are we doing?
Mayor Suaret: The same item, just allowing the use of the Bayfront Park
amphitheater. ".
Mrs. Kennedy: It's giving them one of the days as a community event.
Mayor Suarez: Do we have a second, J.L.? Do you second?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, I'll second it. We reserve audit rights.
Mr. Edwards: Certainly.
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Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption: ".
RESOLUTION NO. 89-253
' A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE AIDS MARCH MIAMI TO BE
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CONDUCTED BY THE HEALTH CRISIS NETWORK; HEREBY
DESIGNATING MAY 7, 1989, AS ONE OF THE THIRTY (30)
DAYS RESERVED FOR USE BY THE CITY PURSUANT TO
ORDINANCE NO. 10348, WITHOUT THE USER PAYING THE FEES
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FOR BAYFRONT PARK; CONDITIONED UPON ORGANIZERS PAYING
FOR THE NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES ASSOCIATED
a; WITH SAID EVENT AND THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY WILL
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(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on��
file in the Office of the City Clerk.) y
'} Upoh being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
` Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre"
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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` NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Edwards: Thank you:
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Sb. A. PROP0SED DEVELOPMENT OF DAY CARE FACILITY IN ALLAPATTAH: Instruct
City Manager to execute a professional services agreement with Heriberto
Fonseca - to include solicitation of area merchants and State of Florida
support.
S. Clarify previously passed motion in connection with professional
services agreement with Heriberto Fonseca for proposed development of
day care facility in Allapattah.
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Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, I got a...
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: ... I got a pocket item up here.
Mayor Suaraz: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: We have a gentleman who we instructed him to go out in
Allapattah and to work with attempting to do some things in Allapattah and in
my opinion, he's being jerked around. So I move that the Manager be
Instructed to work with this gentleman and provide him with up to $25,000 to
pay for expenses that's been occurred and to continue to do the things that we
are - that we agreed to let him do. Come up there a second and sign a
professional agreement or whatever you have to sign with him for the $25,000.
I move, so move.
Mayor Suarez:
Moved and seconded. Do we understand what the
programs all
about?
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Mr. Plummer:
Let me make sure that I understand.
Mayor Suarez:
It's the same one that came...
Mr. Plummer:
This money is in connection with a day care potential facility.
Mr. Dawkins:
No.
Mr. Plummer:
No.
Mr. Odio: It's
the professional service to develop that program
in that area,
yes.
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Mr. Dawkins:
Again, this is going back to the... go ahead.
Mr. Frank Castaneda: The CBO, it's to do... they came...
Mr. Odio: We'll
work it out with him if you...
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OK, that's what I - thank you, thank you.
Mr. Heriberto
Fonseca: Thank you, Mr. Commissioner. Thank you,
Mayor. Thank
you.
Mayor Suarez:
Don't thank us yet.
Mr. Dawkins:
Don't thank us yet, wait till we vote,
Mayor Suarez:
Call the roll.
Mr. Fonseca:
Well, I had to say thank you. I had to say :thank you.
—_ Mr. Dawkins:
Call the roll.
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Tha following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
Mowed its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-254
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE
FORM ATTACHED, WITH HERIBERTO FONSECA AND PAY SAID
INDIVIDUAL AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $25,000 FROM THE
GENERAL FUND ACCOUNT FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES WHICH
SHALL INCLUDE SOLICITATION OF AREA MERCHANTS AND STATE
OF FLORIDA SUPPORT, ASSOCIATED WITH THE PROPOSED
DEVELOPMENT OF A DAY CARE FACILITY IN ALLAPATTAH.
(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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy '
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: Assuming that the Manager is going to come back with whatever he
works out with that agreement that's... I'll vote yes.
Mayor Suarez: Before I vote, let me clarify one point. I still presume that
they're applying for State funding, aren't they? In other words, this is the
hope that we're going to be able to match this up against some substantial
State funds, at least? I mean there's at least a hope?
COMMENTS MADE FOLLOWING ROLL CALL:
Mr. De Yurre: Three hundred thousand.
Mayor Suarez: Three hundred thousand dollars, right? Why. is Frank shaking
his head? Because that's not very likely now or... k€
Mr. Plummer: They got to bring it back.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, why don't you iron it out, work it out with them, get all
the information and come back to us next month?
Mayor Suarez: Is it now likely that they're not going to get the money, $a
that the problem, Frank?
Mr. Dawkins: No. What's the problem? What's the problem?
Mr. Plummer: The problem is they're going to bring it back at the next
meeting.
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Mr. De Yurre: No, I don't want to bring nothing back, you know. The '
motion... work it out up to the $25,000 and that 'a it and you work out the
details and I don't want to... I don't want it to come back again. r "
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Mr. Plummer: No, no, then I'm - whoa, whoa...
Mrs. Kennedy: No, no, no, it has to come back. ry
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, no, sorry.;
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Mrs. Kennedy: Bring it back.
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Mr. Dawkins: Bring it back in its completed form, that's...
Mr. Plummers No, I've got to know what it's going to be used for and In mar
mind justify that it's money that is going to be well spent.
Mrs. Kennedy: Absolutely.
Mr. Dawkins: It's going to be used for - OK, you know...
Mr. Plummer: I vote for it.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, but wait then, let me...
Mr. Plummer: The allocation.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, let we tell you what happened. This gentleman came before
us and we agreed - I've forgotten what we told him to go out there and do -
then, when time came to fund the project, we got pressure from other groups in
the community not to fund it.
Mr. Plummer: That's correct.
Mr. Dawkins: So, we didn't fund him. So now, we're going to turn around and
jerk him around again?
Mr. Plummer: No, not at all, but I, as a Commissioner voting, say yes, we
give the funds, but, yes, I've got to know what they're going to be used for.
Mrs. Kennedy: I agree with that. We've got to see the...
Mr. Dawkins: Look, there's nobody up here is saying to violate your fiduciary
responsibility with public funds. Now, nobody tip here is saying that. And we '+
all realize that we have that fiduciary responsibility and we're going to do
that. So I don't think anybody is saying, hand him $25,000 without any
accountability, without anything.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, of course not.
Mr. Dawkins: Nobody's saying that.
Mr. Plummer: Just bring it back and let us look at it.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, my understanding is that Cesar knows what it's going to 7.
be used for. Do you know what it's going to be used for?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. De Yurre: What is it going to be used for?
Mr. Odio: He's going to keep pursuing the day care facility and he's also
going to maintain his office, he's going to be dealing with the merchants in
the area and that's what it is for.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, so if it's used for that purpose, I don't need for it to
came back again.
Mr. Odio: That's the purpose that - the only way I would recommend it that
way.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, that's it. '
Mayor Suarez: Is that the tenor of your motion that it is approved as of now'. 4
with that understanding?w
Mr. De Yurre: With that understanding, that's Commissioner Dawkins' mot-ion:x'a.,.•
and I second.
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Mr. Dawkins: I second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion?
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Mr. Plummer: I got to see
Mayor Suarers OK.
Mr. Plummer: I got to sea the contract. I'll vote for it now...
Mrs. Kennedy: NO too, I agree.
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Mr. Odlo: Why don't you approve it and I'll bring it back subject to gout.... _.
Mr. Plummer: That's fine.
Mrs. Kennedy: Next month. n
Mayor Suarez: There are three that want the matter not to come back again to
we can do some other things in the City of Miami.
Mr. Odios I'm reading your lips, Mr. Mayor. I can read your lips. -'
_ Mayor Suarez: I mean, I understand the feeling to my left but, I mean, we
have to bring this to a vote. It's my feeling.. in procedural fairness to the
Vice Mayor, that's the way he proposed and I think we ought to vote on it. —
Mr. Plummer: Got the three votes? Go.
dayor Suarez: Got a motion and a second. Call the roll. 6;
Mr. Foeman: I need a clarification on the motion, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: The motion is to allocate $25,000 to that program with the
understanding that the Manager has looked at the components of it and has
I approved them.
Mr. Plummer: I'm voting against, they got their votes. You can do what you
want.
Mayor Suarez: About as simple as you can get. Call the roll. _
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who. moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 89-255 `
A MOTION CLARIFYING PREVIOUSLY PASSED RESOLUTION NO.
_ 89-254 WHICH ALLOCATED $25,000 TO MR. HERIBERTO
_ FONSECA IN CONNECTION WITH PROPOSED DAY CARE FACILITY.
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IN ALLAPATTAH, BY STATING THAT THE MANAGER HAS LOOKED 7
AT THE COMPONENTS OF SAID PROGRAM AND APPROVES THE
1 SAME.
( Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
�i AYES: Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
i Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
—j NOES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
—� Commissioner Rosario Kennedy#'
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COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALLS
Mr. Plummer: I'd like to vote for it but without the contract, I•can't., ' �r
have to vote no.
Mrs. Kennedy: Are you absolutely clear...
Mr, Odio: Vve always been clear.
Mrs. Kennedy: Can you repeat it to as so that I can be clear?
Mayor Suaraz: As to all subjects or only this one?
Mr. Odio: He will perform duties for the City to develop the day care _
facility in that immediate area and dealing also with the merchants in that
area to get the support for that. And also with the State.
Mr. Plummer: Hey, I'm not going to get into any long harangue, but I need to
know that there's another group there. They're not going to be duplicating,
that the monies are going to be spent not for all for an office space or a car
telephone...
Mr. Odio: No, sir.
Mr. Plummer: That's why I've got to see what you're proposing and I had to —
vote no.
Mr. Odio: Pine.
Mrs. Kennedy: I have no problems with the concept but I want to see it. So I
vote no.
COMMENTS MADE FOLLOWING ROLL CALL:
Mayor Suarez: Yes. I share the concerns of the two Commissioners but I think
we have given a lot of money to other community development organizations
and...
Mr. Plummer:
But we had a budget.
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Mrs. Kennedy:
Yes. Let's see it, that's all.
Mr. Plummer:
We haven't even seen a budget.
Mayor Suarez:
Yes, I know, I know.
55. MARCH OF DIMES 19TH ANNUAL WALKAMERICA EVENT: Authorize street closures,
restriction of retail peddlers, etc.
Mayor Suarez:
Item 60. March of Dimes street closures.
Mr. Odio: I
recommend that, Mr. Mayor.
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Mr. Plummer:
I'll move the street closures.
Mrs. Kennedy:
Second.
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Mayor Suarez:
Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
Mr. Plummer:
Excuse me, the street closure
and the prohibition against
peddlers.
Mayor Suarez:
Understood in the motion and the
second. ai
Mr. Dawkins:
What item are we on?
Mayor Suarez:
Sixty, March of Dimes.`
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Mr. Odio: And also, may I add that can you recommend that the Shommobile la tiLi ``
provided and
the PA system that goes with it?
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Yes.
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That's fine.
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piutsraer: Reserve audit rights.
Mr.
Dawkins: What is the cost of the Shomobile?
Mr.
Odio: It's $90.00.
Mr.
Dawkins: Huh?
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Mr.
Odlo: Ninety dollars.
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Mr.
Dawkins: No way.
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Mr.
Odio: That's what I have here. It's only ten hours and $90.00.
Mr.
Dawkins: OK...
Mr.
Plummer: All right, it costs you more than that in employees.
Mr.
Dawkins: ... hold it, hold it...
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Mr.
Odio: Wait, wait, and then you have to add the...
Mr.
Dawkins: Thank you. Thank you.
Mr.
Odio: ... the PA system is $25.00 and the canopy rent or whatever is a
total of $310.00.
Mr.
Dawkins: What about the men who drive it over there and hook it up?
Mr.
Plummer: Yes, what about the two men that set it up and stay with it the
entire time?
Mr.
Dawkins: You have people.
Mr.
Odio: No, no, no...
Mr.
Dawkins: What about the guys who...
Fir.
Odio: No, we're not recommending that.
Mr.
Dawkins: Beg pardon?
Mr.
Odio: They would have to pay for that. I'm talking only about the rental
of
the Showmobile that we charge.
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Mr.
Dawkins: But, I think we need to explain to them...
Mr.
Odio: Oh, OK.`
Mr.
Dawkins: ... that $300.00 does not cover the use of the Showmobile.
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Mr.
Plummer: Correct.
Mr.
Dawkins: I don't want them walking...
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: We understand that it doesn't cover and that we have to
pay labor. We understand that.
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Mr.
Dawkins: You have the costs? OK, I just needed to know that, that's all.
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UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: That's understood.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Odio: And they also understand that they will do the cleanup in Myers em¢ ,r�r
Morrie Christmas parks and the cost of staffing at Peacock•Park: -
Mr. Plummer: And what streets are you... what streets are you closing? Era
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Mr. Pl emer3 iihat time of the day are you disrupting traffic?
Mr. Odio: They start at 0100 o'clock in the morning and...
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: It's early a.m. that we'd be just...
Mr. Odio: ... toes on until about 2:00 o'clock in the afternoon.
Mr. Plummer: What day of the week?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: On Saturday, we would want the streets closed between
600 and 9:00 o'clock so the walkers could get through, after that it'll be
open.
j Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. ;
Mrs. Kennedy: 1 walked last year.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes, you did.
Mrs. Kennedy: No, the year before last. We walked...
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: We'd like everybody to walk again.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes. No, not last year. Last year was Bayfront Park opening.
The year before last.
Mr. Plummer: This year you're too old.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: By the way, I gave Mayor Suarez has the tape and it's a
national walk tape and the City of Miami is very visible in it so you might
want to see it, that one point.
Mr. Plummer: You're going to turn into an old maid.
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Mrs —Kennedy: You wish. 4a
Mayor Suarez: Thank you. Have we concluded the requests on that item?
Mr. Odio: You need a vote on 60, Mr. Mayor.j
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, f
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-256 ._
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A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE WAUL MERICA 1989 TO BE
CONDUCTED BY THE MARCH OF DIMES BIRTH DEFECTS
FOUNDATION ON APRIL 1 1989• AUTHORIZING THE CLOSURE
�t OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC,
ESTABLISHING A TEMPORARY PEDESTRIAN MALL SUBJECT TO
` THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE r 4=
AND FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES; FURTHER
WAIVING THE RENTAL FEE OF THE PEACOCK, MYERS AND a "
— MERRIE CHRISTMAS PARKS, THE GLASS HOUSE, AND THE
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RENTAL EQUIPMENT. OF THE SHOWMOBILE, PORTABLE STAGE`AND
PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM; STIPULATING THAT THErwj
ORGANIZATION WILL CLEAN UP MYERS AND MERRIE`'CHRISTMAS ONO
PARKS,'AND.WILL PAY FOR THE CLEANING OF PEACOCK`PARK, 4-r
INCLUDING _ THE COST OF LABOR FEES FOR SAID PARK;
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FURTHER CONDITIONED UPON THE REQUIREMENTS THAT THE
CITY. WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY
AND UPON ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR ALL NECESSARY "COSTS 'OF
CITY.rSERVICES. ti h
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(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and ''pn
file n the .Office.,- of the .City"Clerk:)jiqA
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller Dawkins
Tice Mayor Victor be Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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56. AMERICAN LEGION: Grant request for street closures (See label 74). ;{
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Mayor Suarez: Item 61.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, my objections on 61 have been... this is the American
Legion?
Mayor Suarez: Oh, you know, I think they wanted to have this after 5:00 p.m.
Why don't we table that unless you want to resolve it...
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Mr. Plummer: No.
Mayor Suarez: If it's favorable, we can take care of it.
Mr. Plummer: Well, it's basically just to close the streets, right?
Mrs. Kennedy: No, they want fee waivers.
Mr. Odio: They want $3,000 for police and that we _
Mayor Suarez: We'd better reserve because I have a feeling they're going to
Set the same thing everybody else has been getting which is a very
pleasant
and dignified...
Mr. Plummer: Well whydon't t we pass it now that way and explain that to them '
when they get here, it's already passed.•
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Mayor Suarez: OK, you're going to vote the matters that we can approve?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, I'll vote the street closure.
Mayor Suarez: OK, so moved.
Mr. De Yurre: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded, street closure for American Legion. Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLVTION N0. 89-257
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING A MEMORIAL DAY SILENT PARADE
TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST
10212 AND THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 346 ON MAY 29, "
1989, PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS
TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE
OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRS,
RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES= CONDITIONED UPON Tin
:REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY
POTENTIAL LIABILITY AND UPON THE ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR.1x
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' ALL NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES.
`(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and qA a� s f?'�*yy
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aced adopted by the following votat
A'IS: Commissioner J. L. Plua mor, Jr.
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Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner hiller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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ASSENT: None. s
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57. SAYFRONT PARK: Discussion on status report.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, I just wanted Wally Lee to give you a report on the
update of Bayfront Park.
Mayor Suarez: You really wanted that, right? -
Mrs. Kennedy: If you want it to hear it.
Mayor Suarez: Is The Miami Today accurate at all? Did you read Miami Today's
report?
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Mr. Odio: We have a memo here that...
Mr. Wally Lee: That is accurate.
Mayor Suarez: We're ready to go with the light tower? z.
Mr. Odio: Yes sir, it's great. a
Mayor Suarez: And the fountain?
Mr. Odio: The laser lights.
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Mr. Plummer: When is the laser lights going to be turned on?
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Mayor Suarez: Yes, that is a good question.
Mrs. Kennedy: We are going to wait until the first year anniversary.
Mr. Plummer: When's it going to be turned on? zr
Mayor Suarez: Well, Saturday and Sunday for testing, right?
p t Mr. Lee: We did it already.
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Mayor Suarez: Oh, you did. -
` Mrs, Kennedy: We did test it already.v
6. Mayor Suarez: When is. it going to be turned on?. Whea ias.it„ zs —
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Mr. Plummer: Why that long if it is ready?
Mr. Odio: Tau want it for the Grand Prix, is that what it is?
Mr. Plummer: No, but that's not a bad idea.
Mr. Odio: Do you want to turn it on tomorrow as a test?
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Mr. Plummer: Why don't you turn it... you can't turn it on during the day,
right?
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Mrs. Kennedy: No, you can't see it during the day.
Mr. Odio: No, no.
Mr. Lee: No, just at night.
Mayor Suaraz: If you are concerned about it not working right, turn it on,
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the two houses that are over there on... where do you two guys live over
there? Maybe it will destroy your documents, instead of all the...
Mr. Odio: May I suggest, Mr. Mayor, we have a three page report on Bayfront
Park, if we send you the copy off this right now.
Mayor Suarez: That's fine with me, but the Commissioner wants... this her
part of the agenda.
Mr. Plummer: Fine with me!
Mrs. Kennedy: Fine with me, no it is fine with me.
Mr. Dawkins: Where is Pete Long? Is Pete Long still working?
Mr. Lee: No sir, he is not.
Mr. Odio: As of February 28th.
Mr. Plummer: 64...
Mr. Odio: He's officially retired, Mr. Commissioner.
Mr. Plummer: Dawkins got another one.
Mayor Suarez: Well, you don't have to be uncharitable.
Mayor Suarez: OK, is Ira Katz still... yes, he is there, he is ready with
another executive order.
58. LEGION PARK MINI -STATION: Discussion.
Mayor Suarez: OK, item 64. This is an exception to the Commissioner Kennedy
part of the agenda. Vice Mayor De Yurre.
Mr. De Yurre: I want to get an update on Legion Park, where we are at with
the mini -station.
Lt. Longueira: Sir, I met with Mr. Engleton from the northeast group and they
are still working on the plans, their architect. We still have to iron out,
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there is a little discrepancy on whose project it really is. Is it going to
be run by the City? - is it going to be run by the northeast group who in
actually going to build this facility? - and we had some discussion about
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that. That hasn't been ironed out. He is going to get back with me as soon
as they, have some more solid plans on the facility. They are the ones that
have been designing it and had the architect all along.{}'
Mr. De Yurre: Do we have any input from the Police Department?
Lt. Longueira: You, they had, quite a while back, they gave us a rough sketch
and asked ghat we wanted and we gave them our requirements and ve're very
satisfied with what they have to date. They've also met with Mrs. Shaeffer
from the northeast group who is very concerned that the building reflect the
tone of that community up in the northeast area. We have no problem with
that either, but he is supposed to get back with me. Like I said, there is
not a clear delineation on whose responsibility it is at this point.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, why don't you make that clear?
Lt. Longueira: You give me the authority on whose project it is.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, it is supposed to be what, $70,0007
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mr. De Yurre: We're giving them seventy as it is for the construction.
Mr. Odlo: The policy is that we want Mr. 8ngleton to keep running that, or we
take it over and do it.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, but you see, what you need to know, Mr. Manager, is what we
have to do, so when budget time comes, you know how to stretch, stick to your
budget.
Mr. Odio: Right, I'd rather do it myself, though.
Mr. Dawkins: Well then tell them.
Mr. Odio: Well, no wait, they would...
Mr. Dawkins: No wait, make up your mind. Now either you are going to do it,
or let them do it.
Mr. Odio: I want to do it.
Mr. Dawkins:
Well tell them then.
Mayor Suarez:
Are you sure? I mean, didn't they do a pretty good job
of
running it up
to now?
Mr. Odio: No.
Mayor Suarez:
No?
Mr. Odio: You
mean that house? It never, nobody knows it is there.
Mayor Suarez:
But I mean, at least it saves us any expenditure, right?
Lt. Longueira:
Well, I'm not sure that... you've allocated $70,000 of bond
money to do this.
Mayor Suarez:
For capital.
Lt. Lon ueira:
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I ' m not sure how you go about giving them the $70,000 to
do
S the project.
Mayor Suarez:
Oh no, no, I didn't think that was meant to be done that way, 7
— did you?
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Mr. De Yurre:
No, I thought we were going to do it.
Lt. Longueira:
Well, that's the question.
Mayor Suarez:
No, no, the capital -FLy p part? No, no, I think... - �-
Lt. Longueira:
Right, that's what we are talking about.'
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Mayor Suarez:
OK.;
Lt. Longueira:
It is his understanding that, he was giventhe impro"ss'ion
it
was his project to run and I said...
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Mayor Suarez: ball, to run and to build are two different things.
Lt. Longueira: Well, to build is everything, and I said no.
Mr. Odio: That's why...
Lt. Longueira: That's the problem.
Mayor Suarez: I didn't understand that, no, no.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, it's got to be, if it's City money and it is City land,
we have to go through a bidding process and all that kind of thing. I ~Wean
like we just can't hand them, I wish we could, hand them the $70,000 and have
It built, but...
Lt. Longueira: So the City is going to do the construction project. Fine.
I'll notify him.
Mayor Suarez: Oh yes, the building of it we have to do. Now, in the process
I hope it doesn't mean that we can't do it for $70,000 where he could have
done it for $70,000, Mr. Manager. OK.
Mr. De Yurre: Thank you.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: At this point, Agenda item 65 was tabled
until 5:00 p.m.
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59. LATIN QUARTER SPECIALTY CENTER: Discussion on status.
Mayor Suarez: Latin Quarter Specialty Center.
Mrs. Kennedy: 66 is something that I would like to see realized within the
next few years, three years, hopefully.
Mayor Suarez: It would be really nice, now that we have a four year term for
the Mayor, and assuming that the current Mayor runs and get reelected, that
this project could be done within that. That would be somewhere in the next
four years and three-quarters.
Mr. Plummer: That's a hell of an assumption.
Mayor Suarez: Those are two important assumptions.
Mr. Jack Mulvena: Jack Mulvena, executive director, Department of Off -Street
Parking. We're shooting for the same goal.
Mayor Suarez: You are being facetious, since we are being facetious, you
figure you might as well be facetious too.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Well, we did acquire the last portion of land, right?
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Mr. Mulvena: Yes, basically that's the purpose of the update, it is a very
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.positive progress report for the Commission. We now have both parcels of
land. We expect in the immediate to demolish the properties, using them 'as
combination minipark and parking area until we get to a point where enough
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land is assembled that we can proceed ahead with the Latin Quarter Specialty
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Mayor Suarez: Take some lessons from the, is it Burger King?-McDonald's.
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Mr. Plummer: Mebonald'a.
Mayor Suarez: McDonald'@, logo sorry, the McDonald's, of course. I have
Burger King on my mind for other reasons, you know they are being acquired and
all that.
Mr. Plummer: I think Camillus house would make a nice parking lot.
Mayor Suarez@ As to that landscaped area that they have there, you know, l
don't know, you do pretty well on landscaping, now that I think about Ito but
they are doing very well over there.
Mr. Mulvena: Well, if we a landscape, then we'll be looking at that.
Mayor Suarez: I still go over there and buy Whoppers, is that what you buy
over there?
Mr. Plummer: Big Mac.
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Mr. De Yurre: Have we closed on the $1 Pub property then?
Mr. Fernandez: Yes.
Mr. Mulvena: We have yes, that is the purpose of the report today,
Commissioner.
Mr. De Yurre: When is that being demolished?
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Mr. Mulvena: We would have started demolishing instantly, but we did not want
to...
Mayor Suarez: Please don't tell us what we would have done, tell us what we
are going to do and when?
Mr. Mulvena: Well, we will do it the day after the parade and the
extravaganza is completed. We didn't want to...
Mayor Suarez: We're waiting for Calle Ocho.
Mr. Mulvena: Exactly.
Mayor Suarez: That is kind of Ramlawi waiting for the Super Bowl before he
does a demolition over there, which he hasn't done.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, well the other part is the Fin& station there, but we
didn't want to get caught half way through it and not have it ready for the...
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Mr. De Yurre: Now, you've got to acquire the rest of the property behind
these lots?
Mr. Mulvena: Well...
Mr. De Yurre: What else is there to acquire?
Mr. Mulvena: Basically between what we are and what we own and what the City
owns in the form of Domino Park and what a friendly owner has under control
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with his, which is in and around the McDonald'@' property, there is about 60
5
to 65 percent of the exact footprint, either under control or owned by the
owner, the City and Off -Street Parking.
Mayor Suarez: Have you considered scaling the project to that footprint that
you now have, so that we can get something going and put out bids and see if,
or you don't think that would work?_
Mr. Mulvena: Well, curiously, because it is taking up two City blocks and
there is a garage involved. They are not all together, they are on either
side of the north and the south side.
Mt. De Yurre: What else do we need to acquire?
Mr. Mulvena: Basically we have another, like I say, 35 percent of the
footprint to acquire it. That's basically along 7th Street and -bordered
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sorry, 15th Avenue, bordered between 14th and 15th Avenue and along 7th
Street.
Mr. De Yurre: Are we under contract at all, or have =je started any of that?
How long, you know, what are we...
Mr. Mulvena: No, basically what we are looking for from the Commission is
certainly the continued support for the concept, but also if you would direct
the Department of Off -Street Parking in the City to move in that direction and
that is a collective effort to acquire the property through some State help,
J through City help and the Department's help.
Mr. De Yurre: So we haven't even started on the first step of acquiring that
property.
Mr. Mulvena: No, not outside of what we presently control.
Mr. De Yurre: So then it may be the Mayor's second four-year term before we
finish that.
Mr. Mulvena: Well we hope not. I think a lot depends on how much the State
would like to get involved in this particular project.
Mayor Suarez: What kind of square footage are you going to have as of, what
do you have as of now, including the friendly neighbors across the street?
_ Mr. Mulvena: Basically right now we have a little over a full city block and
there is a remaining city block divided between two separate areas that have
to be acquired.
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me ask you this question. Once you get it 100 percent,
where is the money coming to build the Specialty Center?
Mr. Mulvena: We'll do like the City usually does when it has some of its own
property, Commissioner, this is go to a unified development request for
proposal and expect a private developer to come in, in collaboration with the
City and the department that built.
Mayor Suarez: At some point Jack it might make sense to look at the project
and see if you can scale it down to the land that you already have. I mean I
know that... otherwise, you spend forever if you take...
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, the original concept as it was developed as a result of
feasibility study really uses, you know, a portion of one side of 8th Street
and the other side of 8th and without that land mass which would also include
a garage behind all of that activity and away from the major 8th Street area.
Mr. De Yurre: How much money are we talking about needed to acquire that
balance of the property?
Mr. Mulvena: Well the Department of Off -Street Parking paid approximately of
$1,200,000 to get its portion of the property and we expect...
Mr.
De Yurre:
That's on 8th Street?
Mr.
Mulvena:
Right, but for the rest of the
properties, we would expect it to
be
in that neighborhood, about $1,000,000 to
$1,200,000.
Mr.
De Yurre:
For the total balance.
- Mr.
Mulvena:
For the total balance unless prices
skyrocket all of a sudden.
Mr.
De Yurre:
And we at this point time
have no idea where that money is
going
to come
from?
Mr.
Mulvena:
We have had some information that the State of Florida will
occasionally
buy park area, as long as that
portion of the land remains park. -
If
we convert
our property into mini -parks,
the State might be interested in
buying
our property, as long as that's...
Mr.
De Yurre:
Are you talking about, could
it be a courtyard, a plaza...
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Mr. Mulvena: Well that is what we would expect them to do, then convert it
Into open -spaced courtyards, that type of thing for the project.
Mr. Plummer: About a Mediterranean Camillus House? We've got $2,000,000.
Mr. Mulvena: Now you're talking.
Mr. Plummer: We could always put hot dog vendors there, they get everything
they want. See, if we didn't buy...
Mrs. Kennedy: What parcels do you need to acquire to have a chunk?
Mr. Plummer: If we didn't buy Camillus House, we'd have all the money we
need.
Mrs. Kennedy: Do you need to acquire the one from 7th Street between 14th and
15th?
Mr. Mulvena: Exactly, once those were acquired, the others are fill in spots
and we could conceivably start moving ahead with the request for proposal with
most of the property under control, but that's an additional part of it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Well then, why didn't you go ahead and try to acquire it then?
He needs to acquire the ones on 7th Street between 14th and 15th to have a big
chunk.
Mr. Mulvena: Well, you have to have the money.
Mr. Plummer: You are going to buy Camillus House?
Mr. Mulvena: The City Manager asked me to look at it.
Mr. De Yurre: Are we applying for funds right now Jack, in Tallahassee?
Mr. Mulvena: Well, we've been in communication with Representative Morse who
Is the chairman of the Task Force of the Latin Quarter area and he has been
very receptive as is Ron Silver, for considering an application that would
consider buying our property for park purposes as long as that were to remain
park, like as you mentioned, any open spaced courtyard, etc. If that occurs
at the end of this session, we then have back our $1,100,000 to achieve what
we want to do regarding the rest of the property and my board has only put the
limit on the amount that we were to pay, not that we couldn't convert it back
into additional properties, so...
Mr. De Yurre: Then you are saying that we have to wait until the end of this
session.
Mr. Mulvena: If that's our only source of income, you know, to acquire the
property, yes, we'd have to.
Mr. De Yurre: What other source is there?
Mr. Mulvena: The City Manager is allowed to look to me for help, but I'm not
allowed to look to him for some, so I am going to put a blinder up and not
look.
Mayor Suarez: The money left over from the Camillus House purchase we can
use. Jack, I think that the Vice Mayor is on to something here. If after the
— Legislative Session, we are exactly where we are today in terms of funding, I
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think you ought to really reconsider the scope of the project because it may
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be that now is the time to go out into bidding and seeing if the private,
sector is willing to build some of the beautiful exciting things that have
been designed for there and if not, you know, let's do something worthwhile
with the project. It's affecting the economic well-being of that entire area,
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that have been promised to...
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Commission's wishes and also the board's and also the community's, then."y
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certainly if we got to the and of the session and it didn't look likely that
we would acquire them, then perhaps even some swapping of land could form a
different footprint.
Mayor Suarez: I remember the DDA office being sort of a cemetery for three
dimensional swdels of projects that never got done and we sure don't want the
Off -Street Parking Authority to become that now. Does that sound like a good
time table? Would you report back to us after the session please and see
where we are?
Mr. Odio: dr. Mayor, he says he wants to address the Commission on this
Issue.
Mayor Suarez: To*, Mr. Torres.
Mr. Esteban Torres: (Translated by Mr. Cesar Odio) The merchants of the Latin
Quarter area believe that this is a project that is very important to the area
of the Latin Quarter. Their geographic position will not make the City fail
In their efforts that you make for that area. They are talking about the
economic part of it. They have the support of all the merchants of the Latin
Quarter. He is going to give you a list of the signatures of all the
serchants of the area.
Mayor Suarez: Did you guys understand what we talking about before in terms
of the size of that Latin Quarter Specialty Center? The trade-off in clear,
we take a little longer to build a more exciting project or we start thinking
In terms of streamlining. We've done that before with quite a few projects in
the City of Miami. We've gone back and we've said, look, this is the amount
of money we've got, do it within those constraints, or don't do it at all and
somehow, magically, a lot of projects seem to be able to get done pretty
feasibly within constraints established. In this case, the fact that we have
X amount of stoney to buy land. I just wanted you to make, you know, this is
going to be an ongoing process, because the Commission is on record now as
wanting to at least go through a Legislative Session, which will be a couple
of months, three months, I guess. OK, that's all, but you know you have to be
always giving your input to the authority, that's one of the things we are try
to do with the task forces to make sure that the authority here is the input
from the affected communities and not just sort of make up its own mind.
Mr. Mulvena: OK, thank you very much.
Mrs. Kennedy: I think we also have to thank the merchants who have stayed
there, because they could have gone to Kendall and to other areas and they
hung in there for us.
Mayor Suarez: That's all you wanted to do? OK, that was simple enough.
60. ESTABLISH A TAX INCREMENT DISTRICT FOR THE LIBERTY CITY AREA: Instruct
City Manager to have a redevelopment plan prepared, together with
proposed boundaries and plans for proposed revenues.
Mayor Suarez: The Commissioner Kennedy portion of the agenda is almost at an
end. We have 67, tax Increment District, Liberty City. Herb, how are we doing
on that?
Mr. Odio: This is yours, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: It's not listed as mine, it's on her portion of the agenda.
Mr. Dawkins: I'll take credit for it, no problem, go ahead.
Mr. Bailey: I'm just here to respond to questions. I don't know, who put it
on or what responses you would like to have me make.
Mayor Suarez: When are we going to get a proposal on this,
that we are preparing?
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Mr. Bailer: Veil, i think what happens when we do these Tax increment
Diatricts is that someone, either the Administration, or someone from the
eoMunity will stake a request to the Commission and a motion is passed
directing the Manager to prepare a redevelopment plan to come back before the
Commission to make a presentation as to what we are going to do, establish the
boundaries and come up with some kind of strategy as to what would happen with
the Tax Increment District.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain such a motion.
Mr. Dawkins: So moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion. Mr. Mayor, I also get in touch with
Commissioner Carey because she is going to help us spearhead this through the
County.
Mayor Suarez: Good. And yes of course, Mr. Manager, we'll be hearing on the
economic impact to the City of declaring another Tax Increment District and we
of course assume that this will be a fairly narrowed defined one because of
that concern, but at the same time, if we don't get some development going,
we're not going to have tax increment anyhow, so it would be a moot issue.
OK, call the roll on the motion.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner 'Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 89-258
A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER TO DIRECT THE
DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT TO PREPARE A REDEVELOPMENT
PLAN FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A TAX INCREMENT DISTRICT FOR THE LIBERTY CITY AREA; FURTHER DIRECTING THE
MANAGER TO RECOMMEND PROPOSED BOUNDARIES FOR SAME AND
PREPARE A PROJECTION FOR THE PROPOSED REVENUES;
FURTHER DIRECTING THE MANAGER TO BRING SAID ISSUE BACK
— TO THE COMMISSION FOR ITS CONSIDERATION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. -_
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ASSENT: None.
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61. TROpICAL CLEAR BLUE LAUNDRY SYSTEM: Accept possible second position on
loan.
Mayor Suarez: Item 69, back to Commissioner's agenda. Tropical Clear Blue
Laundry.
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh yes.
Mayor Suarez: Is this where you get your laundry done?
Mrs. Kennedy: Are they here?
Mr. Odio: No, but they have not complied to our request that they would 'go to
a bank and get a loan to Miami Capital, as of this time as I am informed
by...
Mrs. Kennedy: The only reason Mr. Manager that I put it on is because these
people have been talking to Community Development for some time to get a loan
for a hamburger restaurant. They have been going back and forth. They wanted
the City to match the funds. The City wants to take a first position, the
banks do not the City to take a first position and I think at this point we
should either decide do we do it or we don't, but let's decide one form or
another. Hello?
Mr. Odio: The first position was your issue. Now, you would have to remove
that and I would recommend you don't.
Mrs. Kennedy: But what I am saying is, let's not prolong it much longer and
decide.
Mr. Odio: Well, it's up to them to get a commitment from bank and they have
not done that.
Ms. Sara Williams: But if I may speak, my name is Sara Williams. I'm
affiliated with this particular loan request. Right now we're waiting for a
commitment from Barnett Bank. We've approached several banks and Barnett Bank
is one of the banks that has shown some interest in giving us the matching
funds. In the event that they don't come through, we've also applied to Miami
Capital. What we want to do, I was talking to Herb Bailey the other day and I
asked him if it was possible that the Commission could approve pprove the... because
this is the one thing they are waiting for, is the commitment from the bank...
if they could approve disbursement of those funds based on the fact that we
are going to get the commitment from the bank, because that is the only thing
that we are waiting for. I was supposed to hear from him this afternoon, so
far they haven't called me back, so...
Mayor Suarez: It is just a matter of what came first, the chicken or the egg.
What are we doing here? They are expecting to have the commitment from us and
their private financing is contingent on that, or what?
Mr. Castaneda: Well, I think there are basically two issues. The first issue
was that under the mini-UDAG we have a two to one leverage ratio. It was
changed by the Commission for this particular case, to one to one, but the
Commission said, we want the first position with that change. So you know, I
think that we are missing the bank commitments, an agreement with Short Stop,
I also believe that we do not have a list of the partners, is that correct?
Ms. Williams: OK, you have a list of what partners, the partners of...?
Mr. Castaneda: Of the corporation?
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Ms. Miranda Alberry: Of the corporation.
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partners of the corporation are the same partners who are the partners of
Tropical Clear Blue Laundry. You've got all that information. What you don't_`''
have is the commitment from the bank. You also have a letter from Short Stop
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Nell, I sent that to you. The only thing, that I vas talking to Mr.
Fernandes, the only thing that he does not have to complete the package is the
comnAtment from the bank.
Mr. Plummer: Now much is the request of the City?
No. Aiberry: $105,000.
Mr. Plummer: And where do you anticipate getting the money from?
Me. Aiberry: It's coming from the 13th year Community Development block Grant
fund, through our mini-VDAG program.
Mr. Plummer: And what is your recommendation?
Mr. Castaneda: They did not meet the requirements of two to one match, that
Is why they came to the City Commission. The City Commission reduced that and
said that the City Commission... with the condition that the City would have
the first position.
Mr. Plummer: OK, so where are we?
Mrs. Kennedy: Well, we have to decide whether we want to keep the first
position in that.
Mr. Castaneda: They are saying that they cannot...
Mr. Plummer: But we've got to have one or the other!
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Mr. Plummer: That's only logical.
Ms. Williams: If I may introduce you at this moment, I'd like to take -this
time to introduce you to the president of Short Stop of Florida, Mr. Mike
McMillan.
Mr. Mike McMillan: We've been working with the Sanders group and...
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, is this on a laundry?
Mrs. Kennedy: No, a hamburger restaurant.
Mr. Plummer: Am I looking at the wrong item? Am I looking at 69?
Mr. Castaneda: It is the correct item, Commissioner.
Ms. Williams: Commissioner Plummer, it is just...
Mr. Plummer: Well, I am looking at Tropical Clear Blue Laundry Systems.
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Mr. Odio: Well, they want to sell hamburgers.
Mr. Plummer: In a laundry?
Mr. Odio: No.
Mrs. Kennedy: No, they are own a laundry, you see?r.;
Mr. Castaneda: They operate a laundry. It's your turn.
Ms. Williams: Without ridiculing the whole idea of this... `
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Mrs. Kennedy: They own a laundry, but they want to sell hamburgers In, a. hew
location.
Mr. Plummer: I take my shirts there with the mustard on thOM, _ I don't .brIng
them out with the mustard.
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No. Williams: Do you want me to answer the question as to why you see Tropical -
Clear glue Laundry on there instead of Short Stop of Florida, or what?
Mr. Plummer: Short Stop of Florida?
Ns. Williams: That's the name of the franchise that we are purchasing.
Mr. Plummer: OK, and this gentleman represents them?
Ms. Williame: This particular gentleman is the president of Short Stop of
Florida, of South Florida. _
Mr. Plummer: And it has nothing to do with the laundry?
Ms. Williams: Only in the interest that we are the partners of that
particular business as well and we would like to go into, to branch out into
different business. That's the only correlation to Tropical Clear Blue
Laundry.
Mrs. Kennedy: Unless you want to wash your clothes while you eat the
hamburger.
Mr. Plummer: Well you know, Sara, I don't mean to insult you, but I've heard
of McDonald's and Burger King, I've never heard of Short Stop.
Mr. McMillan: Would you like for me to give you a brief history of Short
Stop?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, please do.
Mr. McMillan: My direct involvement was as the executive vice-president of a
bank that originated a loan to Short Stop in Austin, Texas, about five years
ago. Nov they have about 16 Short Stops in Austin and close to 50 Short Stops
in the southeast primarily. I left the bank to form a company to build out
Short Stops in South Florida. We've opened our first store in North Miami
Beach. Dade County is currently... looking at our applications for a permit
for a Bird Road location and we have been working with this group here.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, where on Bird Road?
Mr. McMillan: 107th and Bird Road.
Mr. Plummer: That's all right, that is far enough. Go ahead.
Mr. McMillan: This is a very successful concept that has close to 50 very
successful stores, several franchisees in several markets in the southeast and
we are working trying to establish a location at 54th and 7th with the
Williams and Sanders group.
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minority partner, 25 percent, we bring in a benefit that they pay only half of
the franchise fee, and half of the royalty of the typical Short Stop
franchisee. There is a possibility that we would be a minority partner, but
we have been working with them and trying to establish their group at that
location.
Mr. Plummer: She is asking this City for a loan. How is this City assured
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Mr. McMillan: In the same way that the bank is considering their loan
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Mr. Odio: I don't think we should be in the loan business for a franchise.
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Mr. Plummer: Hey you know, somewhere along the line, we got to get out of x
this thing. We can't be... that's not our businesel That is not what ve` aie, t'
about.
Mr. Odio: Miami Capital, yes. I mean, that's... r`
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Mr. McMillan: The typical Short Stop Mould create about 30 jobs and it is in
a location that I think that would be a real benefit.
Mr. Plummer: You are saying ?th Avenue and 54th Street?
Mr. McMillan: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Is there not a Burger King there now?
Mr. McMillan: You there is, across the street.
Mr. Plummer: And you are going to go in competition with burger King?
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Mr. McMillan: Oh, absolutely.
Mr. Plummer: Absolutely.
Mrs. Kennedys Have you tried going to Miami Capital?
Me. Williams: What we have done is, what we are hashing out right now, we've
been through all of that as far as explaining what the franchise is all about,
the fact that Community Development and the mini-UDAG program is set up to
fund and finance and not up businesses like this, so that the competition in
these areas that are deprived can be greater. That's the whole purpose of the
mini-UDAG program. I think with the City getting involved with franchising,
In not the whole issue here. I think we need to consider developing this
area. On 54th and 7th is a good area to be in. Burger King is the place that
we want to be located next to, Burger King and McDonald's because Short Stop
has very, very good menu and we have a very good price menu and our burgers
are cheaper than any other burger, so we want to be near, just like
hamburgers, we want to be near Burger King and McDonald's.
Mayor Suarez: How can we advance this process? What can we do within our
guidelines. Is the issue are we going to be requiring to be in a first
position, is that the only issue?
Mr. Plummer: We've got to have some kind of collateral.
Mayor Suarez: I want to know what, you know, how we can decide what more we
can do. Is that the only issue pending, that we could possibly, if we wanted
as a policy matter, to change that, or...?
- Mr. Castaneda: Well, the issue was originally that under the mini-VDAG they
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Mayor Suarez: We know that, Frank, we saw that!
Mr. Castaneda: They came here, they changed...
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Ms. Williams: That's forthcoming. That was my previous request was that I
don't know exactly how you do things for this concern, but I think since we
are here, why can't, I'd like to ask the Commission to go ahead and approve
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disbursement of the funds based on the fact that we have to get a commitment,
from the bank before we can do it anyway. That way we won't have to :keep"
coming back and...i.
..Mayor Suarez: Well I don't know that we'd have to
come back to the Commipsion;
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Mr Castaneda: But they are not. They have not.
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Mayor Suarez: When they are, if and when they are, they don't have to come
back to the Commission do they, for the mini-UDAG? - with the parameters?
Mr. Odlo: It would have to come back.
Mayor Suarez: And by the way, if you need any help with Barnett, please let
us know. Any one Commissioner can call and let them know how important we
think this project is.
Ms. Williams: I sure will. Do you know a Mr. Sciva? Do you know a person
by the name of Mr. Sciva, S-c-i-v-a? He is the loan analyst for this
particular loan.
Mr. McMillan: They were talking about taking this loan to their CRA loan
division and I was talking to Mr. Sciva this morning and they were discussing
the request and we were hoping to have heard something by now.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Bailey, you had something to may, sir?
Mr. Bailey: I just want get a clarification as to the position of Barnett
Bank and I missed something in the beginning. Are you saying that Barnett
Bank is requesting a different position from the City or are they just still
waiting to make an evaluation of your loan?
Ms. Williams: No, the bank is definitely asking for a first position.
Mr. Bailey: Then you're...
Ms. Williams: But this is for the two hundred and ten, the total amount, but
the hundred and five, we definitely have... you wanted to have Short Stop
subordinate the first position to the City. That's what Short Stop has done.
That was a request that you made of us to get that, so the bank, you know,
they would definitely want to have first position on the one hundred and five
that they are going to match with the one hundred and five from the City. I
think that is a...
= Mr. Bailey: That is the one to one. I think the last meeting we had, I
requested that the bank submit to you a conditional commitment explaining
their position as to what they would want in order to make that commitment.
Do we have that yet?
Mr. Williams: Well, they are going to give you that along with the
_ commitment, the total commitment that they are going to have. They are going
to take loan in master funds.
Mr. Bailey: Now in your opinion, you think the bank is going to ask for first
position and ask the City to subordinate its position?
-- Ms. Williams: I'm sure that the bank would definitely want first position. I
can't see the bank not wanting first position, because see, if I'm not
mistaken, the whole purpose of the loan, of this particular money is to
finance deprived areas. I don't see...
Mr. Bailey: Yes, we understand that. I'm just trying to get to the point of
what the Commission has to do, because if the bank requests that they have
first position, the Commission has indicated that we ought to have first
position, I don't know whether or not you want to decide today if the bank
requires first position that the City Commission will change its mind, or do
you want to come back before this Commission after you get the commitment,
that's what I am trying to get to.
Ms. Williams: Well..
Mrs. Kennedy: That's what I would suggest, to come back after you get the
bank commitment.
Ms. Williams: Can we know today if that's... because I'd like to know also if
the Citywould subordinate first position to the bank, since the bank...,
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Ms. Williams: You mean, you want time to talk about it, or what?
Mayor Suarez: No, we may talk about it and decide against you.
Ms. Williams: Because I would hate to get a commitment from...
Mayor Suarez: We may decide that we should have a first position.
Ms. Williams: I would hate to get a commitment from the bank and come back
and you decide that you don't want to have to subordinate first position to
the bank, when that's what the bank wants.
Mayor Suarez: That's precisely what we are saying.
Mr. Bailey: Mr. Mayor, I, you know in the past year's experience in these
matters, when we get to a point when we can get some financing from a bank,
and banks usually always think that governments always come second, third or
fourth, and we have indicated that our objective is to establish more black
businesses within black communities. I would suggest that if that would be
the case, and we've done it in other situations that we would subordinate to
the bank in order to get $105,000 from the bank.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, and I have a feeling Herb, and Mr. Manager, that the
reason that it might make sense is that I have a feeling that they would have,
from what I hear about the structure, that they would have more than enough
collateral. The bank, the private, that you are applying is how much?
Ms. Williams: For the private? - $105,000.
Mayor Suarez: Wouldn't they have much more equity than $105,000, with all the
equipment and location and everything else?
Ms. Williams: Considering the franchisor is subordinating their position, you
would perhaps have enough, at least on paper.
Mayor Suarez: And the franchisor would be third, right, in that situation?
Mr. Bailey: He is taking third position, yes.
Mayor Suarez: I have no problem. Commissioners, I think I hear Herb
recommending that it might make sense in view of our efforts to have black
owned businesses in that area, that we would take a second position if that's
what makes this deal work. If so, we ought to go ahead and express ourselves
on that, otherwise we are going to be having this item come back time and
after time and I am waiting for the Commission to express itself. I think you
know how I feel about it, I would be willing to go to a second position.
Mr. Plummer: We have three items today on the agenda of three loans that have
gone under. First and foremost it is my opinion that this Commission should
not be loaning money to the businesses, that is not our business.
Mayor Suarez: That is what we are doing with mini-UDAG's and with Miami
Capital monies.
Mr. Plummer: Then give the money to Miami Capital. They have the provisions,
the setup, the loan committees and everything.
Mayor Suarez: Isn't that what a mini-UDAG is supposed to be, to put people in
business?
Mr. Plummer: But not through us necessarily when we have Miami Capital.
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Mr. Plummer: Vail, but look...
Mayor Suarazs There was no collateral, there was no...
Mr. baileys Without anything we just made a decision we'll lend this person
for what...
Mayor Suarez: Those were almost grants in some ways, this is not, this is...
Mr. Bailey: Nov, in this particular one, we...
Mr. Plummer: They were never designed to be grants.
Mr. Baileys But the mini-UDAG is really a leveraging factor. If something
goes in this particular deal, we have several people losing money. In the
other situation, if something vent wrong, only we lost money, that's a little
different.
Mr. Plummer: That doesn't help me when I go to the bank with a blank check.
Look, I can't see...
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Mayor Suarez: Let's do it because you know, we are going to argue policy here
forever.
Mr. Plummer: Then you go back to the two to one leverage.
Mrs. Kennedy: I have no problem with taking a second position.
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Mr. Plummer:
And how is the money proposed to be paid back?
Mr. Bailey: From the operation of the business with the collateral that...
Mr. Plummer:
What is the term of the loan?
Mr. Bailey: Oh, I don't have those details. We haven't...
Mr. Plummer:
Then how the hell do you bring it here?
Mr. Bailey: Well, we didn't bring it here. We have been working with...
Mrs. Kennedy:
I brought it here. You saw it on the agenda.
Mr. Plummer:
You've got my colleagues here saying they are willing to go, and
nobody knows
the terms, nobody knows the conditions, nobody knows the
collateral!
Mr. Bailey: Commissioner, I would say to you in defense of that, we don't...
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Mr. Odio: We
have no commitment from...
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Mr. Plummer:
Absolutely no way that I could vote for something without any
definition of what are the terms, the conditions, the collateral, the
interest, the
payback, that's crazy!
Mr. Bailey:
Commissioner, that cannot be determined until we have the
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conditions of
the bank. When the bank makes their commitment and makes the
loan, then we
have to wrap out conditions around the bank.'_°
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Mrs. Kennedy:
Let them talk to Barnett and then come back to this Commission.t.
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Mr. Plummer:
Remember when the Manager has to raise taxes in November.
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Mayor Suarez:
I'll entertain a motion only in
y principle understanding that we
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position if recommended by the Adminiatration if all the Esther requirmsehtt.
are met. Just So you have that to take to the bank, if that helps you.
Mrs. Kennedys And i move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded and thirded.
Mr. Plummer: Based on what tame and conditions?
Mayor Suarez: We would...
Mrs. Kennedy: We will hear them.
Mayor Suarez: Subject to approval of all the terms and conditions.
Mrs. Kennedy: Subject to approval.
Mr. Plummer: Well, the bank is not going to accept that, Mr. Mayor!
Mayor Suarez: The bank will be happy to know that we might take a second
position.
Mr. Plummers Then word it that way.
Mr. Odics At that point...
Mayor Suarez: That's all I am saying that we might be willing to take a
second position. In fact, we are willing to take a second position subject to
the proper terms and conditions that give us sufficient assurances, that's
all.
Ms. Williams: One of the things that the bankers...
Mayor Suarez: This could hurt you if you even say anything at this point.
OK, call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-259
A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING, IN PRINCIPLE, THE WILLINGNESS.
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO FOREGO ITS SUPERIOR SECURITY
POSITION IN CONNECTION WITH A LOAN BEING MADE BY
BARNETT BANK TO THE TROPICAL CLEAR BLUE LAUNDRY
SYSTEMS; FURTHER PROVIDING THAT SAID ACCEPTANCE OF
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SUBORDINATE POSITION BY THE CITY IN REGARD TO A PRIOR '
CITY LOAN/GRANT SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL BY
CITY ADMINISTRATION OF ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE
PENDING NEW LOAN BY BARNETT BANK.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on `k
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was Passed.
and adopted by the following vote:
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AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.#
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy j
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins-x�fTr���'
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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Mr. P�.ummer: Coming back 1011 vote yes, but I am going, to bo very, pdxy ����
particular,.on.thoae terms and conditions. t
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Mayor Suarez: After 19BO we had disturbances in this City and there was a
Grand Jury report and these figures are figures that I have tried to avoid
giving out, because they are ■o pessimistic, At that point there were 600
black owned businesses in Miami and Dade County. There were 20,000 Hispania
owned businesses. We've got to do something about that. Hopefully this will
be a beginning. Yes, absolutely yes.
Ms. Williams: Thank you.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: At this point, Agenda item 70 was called and
the record reflected no appearance by interested parties. At this
point, Agenda item 71 was withdrawn.
62. ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC: Direct City Manager to pay outstanding bills in
connection with the 1988 event and turn over balance of money to
designated custodian, Mr. Garth Reeves, for the next event.
Mayor Suarez: Billy Rolle, oh I'm sorry, you also have to come up on your
item. What do you have, Bill?
Mr. Billy Rolle: This is Billy Rolle, 3430 Williams Avenue, 58 years. Like
you say, I'm pinch hitting for Frankie Rolle about the funds for the Orange
Blossom Classic. She had to go to Nassau and she asked me to stand in. I am
not versed on all the particulars, but then I know that they keep calling me,
calling my house to be paid. So if along with Community Development, release
these funds to pay these bills then, The Miami Herald, The Miami Times, the
other people won't keep harassing 3430 Williams Avenue.
Mr. Dawkins: I thought it was just two, Mr. Rolle, The Times and The Herald?
Mr. Rolle: Whatever the other, I think one PR person, he might know that.
Mr. Plummer: Who is Royal? Who is the Royal group that got so many checks? -
Mr. Rolle: You can't do anything down there unless Pearls Shear let's it go,
she don't let anybody get through, so whatever happens with that, she'll guard
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Mr. Plummer: Who is the "Royal Group?
Mr. Castaneda: Richard Gibson, Representatives.
Mr. Plummer: What did he do?
Mr. Rolle: He was in charge of the Classic for 1988. He made the bills and
Frankie and the other fellow was supposed to be on top of him, so what
happened ....
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask a question. Do I understand that the committee gave;
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Florida A & M University $15,000 worth of free tickets?:`
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Mr. Rolle: I don't have that information.
Mr. Castaneda: They bought 415,000 worth of ticket to give out to;.. r
underprivileged kids and advertising for the game. hM';
Mr. Plummer: But who authorized that?
Mr. Castaneda: What do you mean, who authorized that now? Frankie Rollo, s,e
Mr. Rolle: This is a part of the promotion, Brother Plummer,��
!!r. Plummer: How about checks made out to Billy Rolle? zYT w�
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Mr. Rolle: Don't have any.
Mr. Plummer: To* air, sure do.
Mr. Rolle: That's what came out of my pocket, they need to reimburse eye,
that's all.
Mr. Plummer: No, I'm questioning about moving flowers for $1,100.
Mr. Rolle: Fashion show.
Mr. Plummer: For $1,100 to move plants?
Mr. Rolle: No, no, if you look at it good, you'll see what happened to it.
Mr. Plummer: OK, tell me what happened to it.
Mr. Rolle: We hired men to move flowers. Out of that, to hire some people. I
paid them out of my pocket and I was supposed to be reimbursed. Now, if the
City needs that gift, I know you don't...
Mr. Plummer: No, no, I am not talking about that, I'm...
Mr. Rolle: But this has been since October and I just paid the money down.
Always unless you pay to get the work done then, you don't get it done. They
don't deal with invoices.
Mr. Plummer: Billy, you're my friend.
Mr. Rolle: OK, now if I ask a man there to work, I don't want to be labeled,
because mine can be with the State. I paid it because I done the
work, but I am talking about The Herald, Times and other lady, because the
money the State appropriated, and if you don't see Michelle OK'ing these funds
for you then, I would not step in because this is the problem. I paid for
these*affairs and I see how much money people spend and what they do. Now if
this little $66,000 is going to cause some problems, I rather for the State to
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deal with it and then let the City deal with it. See, they had handle this up
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all the time to get these little few dollars. See, we always had to wait for
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their department to do anything. Now I don't know why you don't want to
expend these funds that were given by the State. If you can't trust Ms. Pearl
Shear, you can't trust anybody. You can't get away from her.
Mr. Plummer: Billy, it is not a matter of trust. It's a matter that it was
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very poor planning in budget, that's the problem, because you went so far over
budget. Now, that's the problem. It's not a matter of trust. I think
everybody there is honorable, but the problem is when you go $34,000 over
budget! Now, I have a more serious question to ask.
Mr. Rolle: Go ahead.
Mr. Plummer: That was to be for two years, including this coming year.
There's $66,000 left, is that correct, Frank?
Mr. Castaneda: If you increase the amount of money for this year's festival.
Mr. Plummer: Well, if you take it from one, you've got to take it from the
other.
Mr. Castaneda: Right, that's correct.
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Mr. Plummer: That's going to leave how much for this coming year's festival?
Mr. Castaneda: 466,704.12.
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$134,000 last year, correct?
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Mr. Plummer:
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Does that include the money that they are still owing?
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Mr. Castaneda: Teo, the grant was...
Mr. Plummer: What's going to happen if we turn this money over now, the
$66,0007 What is it going to be used for? I haven't seen a budget. I've got
the report here of where the monies want that were over -budgeted. Where is
the $66,000 that is remaining going?
Mr. Castaneda: The $66,000 will be... there is confusion here. For 1890 the
Commission had allocated $50,000 and for 190, the balance of whatever money
was left over. I understand from Frankie Rolle that she does not want to do
this thing next year.
Mr. Rolle: She won't do it another year.
Mr. Plummer: OK, but where is the remaining balance of the money going?
Mr. Castansda: We are not asking to release that money unless somebody out
there...
Mayor Suarez: Where is it going then? It's just staying where it is?
Mr. Castaneda: It's staying in the bank until next year until the time that
we enter into a contract with somebody.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, that answers that part of the question. Now, as to
expenditures for this year, do you want to make it contingent on the City
staff of people we pay to go through these things being satisfied?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I would feel more comfortable with that, yes,
contingent upon their audit. Here's a stack of papers that they came to my
office with and I appreciate trying to bring me all the documents.
Mayor Suarez: But not to bring to us, but not bring it back to us, we're
delegating on our staff...
Mr. Plummer: Unless they find something that they feel should be brought.
Mayor Suarez: They won't approve it then, they won't approve it.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, are we going to pay The Times and The Herald, I mean, I am
sorry that I was out of the room.
_ Mayor Suarez: I would think that that would be the first thing would be
approved by this City staff, with the only...
Mr. Dawkins: OK, let me tell you, Senator Meek sent a letter saying, pay The
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Times and The Herald, OK?
Mayor Suarez: No, no, I don't want anything bui$tinto the motion.
Mr. Dawkins: No, I don't want anything built into the motion.
Mayor Suarez: I want to be sure that everything is correct. Would you
propose then, in view of that, building that into the motion? That seems like
a clear cut issue that we ought to pay for advertising that was used. We'll
get that resolved, that part of the... and the rest is...
Mr. Dawkins: No, because see, I made my motion last week and nobody accepted
It.
Mr. Plummer: No.
Mr. Rolle: I figure everybody needs to be paid, and that's good too.
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Mayor Suarez: All we are doing is to solve the issue of having to go through.,'
the report and being absolutely sure on all items, that we have control and
- supervision delegating to the Manager the final determination of any specific
Items. we approve the global amount, but if you want to include...
Mr. Rolle: You could pay any of these bills, that's what I figure you should,
do.
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Mayor Suarez: I presume that they will do that, once they look at them,
billy, but they have a chance to go over them, we are not... you know, we are
trying to account here for not only $240,000,000 budget, but grants that come
from the State and we end up being a conduit and as Commissioner Dawkins has
said sometimes I feel that...
Mr. Castaneda: Commissioners, to my knowledge, there are only two bills
outstanding and that's one for Gladys Kidd and Associates for $7,760 and one
to The Miami Herald for $4,000.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, what was the other one?
Mr. Dawkins: The Miami Times. There is one for The Miami Times and also...
Mr. Rolle: And we have one to reimburse me also.
Mayor Suarez: As I said, I will entertain a motion if you want to make it that
way, to pay all of the items that we have clear documentation from, including
those and others that the staff deems proper to the full amount, if you so
approve it. I can't think of any other way to deal with this. Do you want
to...
Mr.
Dawkins:
OK, under discussion.
Mayor Suarez:
Yes, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr.
Dawkins:
The only motion I will vote for is to pay outstanding bills and
turn the rest
of the money over to Mr. Garth Reeves to manage and work with
the
Orange Blossom Classic.
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Plummer:
I second the motion.
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Dawkins:
I do not under any circumstances want to be responsible for
accounting for this money, the rest of this money.
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Mayor Suarez:
So moved.
Mr.
Castaneda:
Commissioner, I am not too sure you can do that.
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Dawkins:
Why? We accepted iti
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Castaneda:
Because this is a grant from the State.
Mr.
Dawkins:
Through resolution, we accepted the money and to act as a
- custodian only.
Mayor Suarez:
Can we make him the custodian from that point forward?
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Castaneda: Well, it is a grant from the State to the City of Miami to
operate, to do the Orange Blossom.
Mr.
Dawkins:
No, it's not, wasn't operated.
Mr.
Castaneda:
It's a grant to the City.
Mr.
Dawkins:
Yes, but it wasn't to us to operate, it was...
Mr.
Castaneda:
Well, to us to manage or...
Mr.
Dawkins:
And we manage it by giving it to whoever is supposed to promote
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Castaneda:
That's fine, but you were still responsible...
Mr.
Dawkins:
So now, let's sign a contract them with Mr. Garth Reeves to take
the
rest of the money to promote it.
Mr.
Castaneda:
Fine, but we still have to...
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Dawkins:
Oh yes, I want Garth to bring us back...
Mr.
Castaneda:
Receipts and everything.
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Mr. Datokins: 'Yes, but I Mant him to be responsible for this now instead of
us. Are you following... is that...?
Mr. Castaeeda: I got you.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, see, because we get... you are spending a lot of man hours
on this, Frank, that we don't havel
Mayor Suarez: ?es, we really shouldn't.
Mr. Dawkins: And I am figuring if we give it Mr. Reeves, you know, I don't
know now, but if you don't agree with that now, let me know.
Mr. Castaneda: No, no, the only thing is that if Garth Reeves is going to do
It next year, that's fine, but we would still have to get the reimbursement
package...
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, we are still responsible for fiduciary responsibility to the
State of Florida. We want to go out from under that. OK, now everybody
understands the motion?
Mayor Suarez: And you also intend to pay current bills that are outstanding,
right? — directly, without...
Mr. Dawkins: Let me see, substantiated.
Mayor Suarez: OK, that part is left up to staff then, to be absolutely sure.
Mr. Dawkins: See because like we said, Frank said he's only got two, Billy is
saying it's four, and it may be six, I don't know. OK?
Mayor Suarez: All right, that's a good start. So moved and seconded, callI
the roll. ,
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who j
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-260
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A RESOLUTION AMENDING SECTIONS 1 AND 2 OF RESOLUTION
NO. 88-763 ADOPTED AUGUST 8, 1988, BY AUTHORIZING AND
DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PAY CURRENT
SUBSTANTIATED OUTSTANDING BILLS IN CONNECTION WITH THE
1988 ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC THEREBY INCREASING THE
ORIGINAL ALLOCATION OF $100,000 BY AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED $15,820.76 WITH FUNDS THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM
THE "ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC" FUND AND BY ALLOCATING
THE BALANCE OF THE MONIES IN THE "ORANGE BLOSSOM
CLASSIC" FUND IN SUPPORT OF THE PROMOTION FOR THE 1989
ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC AND DIRECTING THAT SAID BALANCE
BE TURNED OVER TO GARTH C. REEVES, AS DESIGNATED j.
CUSTODIAN, TO MANAGE AND PROMOTE THE 1989 ORANGE
BLOSSOM CLASSIC.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.) �a
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed Mai
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J, Dawkins' _ k�
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre ; y'
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez zj
NOES: None." Jy
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Mr. Dawkins: Mr. !tanager, will you send a letter to Mr. Garth Reeves
explaining to him that we would like to meet with him in order to make the
custodian of these funds to promote the 1969 Orange Blossom Classic? Thank
you.
Mr. Rolle: Let we understand this so I can take the report back to Frankie.
We will pay the outstanding bills for 188, right?
Mayor Suarez: The City will pay the outstanding bills for 168 in conjunction
with however that is worked up to now that is substantiated, yes.
Mr. Dawkins: You see Billy, the City can only...
Mr. Rolle: The ones that are substantiated by Pearl Shear and Community
Development. We don't want anything for free, because I think we give enough
free.
Mr. Dawkins: The City has a letter from Senator Meek which says pay up to
$18,000 worth of overage. Now, if the bills that they are agreeing to pay is
$16,000, yes, they will be paid, but if it is $28,000, $10,000 is not going to
be paid unless a letter comes from Carrie Meek.
Mr. Rolle: I just want to tell her, you know, what it is, that's all.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, tell her that we are going to follow the letter of the
Senator Meek and pay up to $16,000 over the $100,000. Is that the way we are
doing it? Because we do have the letter and the letter just says $18,000,
which means that the rest of it would go to Garth Reeves to hold, to manage
and what have you. OK.
Mr. Rolle: That will be a balance of $18,000 from the $66,000 that's
remaining?
Mr. Castaneda: Like I said, I do not know whether you have any additional
bills even though Frankie was pretty adamant that it was not, but it was only
eleven sixty-six, something.
- Mayor Suarez: That's close enough.
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63. (Continued discussion) 1989 MIAMI JAZZ FESTIVAL: Grant request from
representatives of Production Center for the Arts, Inc. to waive rental
fee for use of Miami Marine Stadium (See label 49).
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Mayor Suarez: Your item, Production... I didn't get the name right.
i Mr. Plummer: What item number?
-� Ms. Carol Taylor: Carol Taylor, item 56.
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i; Mayor Suarez: You passed it over until Carol Ann could be here. Did we ass
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on some of this already?
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Ms. Taylor: No. We deferred it from the last Commission meeting.
Representing Production Center The Arts, we are into our third annual Miami
Jazz Festival and hoping that the City of Miami will become one of our major
_ sponsors and make this a historical event as is the Newport Jazz Festival, the
Hollywood Jazz Festival. We are asking for a $10,000 sponsorship which
includes the purchase of tickets for 300 underprivileged youths and the waiver
of the use of the fee for Marine Stadium.
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Mr. Plummer: Well, just to clarify the record, because the agenda item is
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misleading. That would be only for July 2nd, is the only time you would be
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Me. Taylor: That's true. it's being held in other venues throughout the City.
but it is a major event, this is the third annual Jazz Festival. It is
something that can become as large as the Hollywood Jazz Festival, the Newport
Jazz Festival. Miami is a great place to have this Jazz Festival. We're
bringing in major artists from all over the country and we really would like
for the City to be a major sponsor of this on an annual basis, really.
Me. Barbara Howard: It is a culmination of a Latin Jazz Festival. Last year
we brought in Mango San Maria, Ricardo Valdez, etc. Along with people like
Carman Lundy, we brought in Dizzy Gillespie, so it's a Latin Jazz, it was
called Latin Jazz on The Bay, and we had last year at the Marine Stadium,
which we paid for. We're asking...
Mayor Suarez: What is the request, is the request the surcharge, is that what
It is?
Mr. Odio: Yes, we buy $4,500, is what it was.
Mr. Plummer: No, $10,000, is what she said.
Ms. Taylor: That's it.
Mr. Odio: No, that's been added, $7,000.
Mayor Suarez: You know what our policy is. We go to the Festival Policy
Fund. If you are not funded by them, the best we can do is waiver of waivable
facilities. And is ten percent suppose to mean the ticket surcharge, is that
what that is, no? What is that ten percent?
Ms. Diane Johnson: Normal rent for the facility is $2,500 minimum guarantee
versus...
Mayor Suarez: What facility is, it, I'm sorry.
Ms. Johnson: This the Marine Stadium, $2,500 minimum guarantee, versus ten
percent of gross ticket sales. —
Mayor Suarez: OK, now we have occasionally fashioned formulas that would
allow for them to have a waiver for that particular facility. If then their
profits exceeds a certain amount, they have to pay us back. We have done
this. It's still within the...
Ms. Johnson: Are you talking about the entire rent or just the percentage
portion? -
Mayor Suarez: We've done situations where we said we will take a risk that
you won't bring in enough to pay for the rent, as long as if you do bring
enough for the rent, we get paid back out of the first X amount. We've done
those.
Ms. Taylor: OK.
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Mayor Suarez: And those are still consistent with our policy, so if the
Commission feels strongly about this, I... what is the rent for the facility?
Ms. Johnson: $2,500.
Mr. Odio: $2,500, or ten percent, whichever she... -
Mayor Suarez: And then what, like'they would usually try to set their break-
even point and anything in excess of that, then they have to start paying back #.
the $2,500? Is that the way we usually do it?
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Ms. Johnson: Yes, the break-even point.
Mayor Suarez:
from the...
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Ms. Howard: For that particular night?
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Na. !towards It's going to be probably in excsss of $20,000, d&pendieS on
which Artists we can actually get to commit to come down. we are still in the
process of negotiating for Tome artists.
Mayor Suarez: well, I would say, the motion gets to be complicated, but if
the notion were that we would accept a waiver, however anything of the
tickets receipts beyond what you need to pay your entertainers, but not to
exceed $20,000, then the first $2,500 goes back to pay us. That's the way
we've done in other cases, that's the best we can do. we take the risk on the
$2,500, we hope you are successful and least we get our $2,500 back.
Sometimes we even take a percentage beyond that, but...
Ms. Taylor: Are you able this year at all to participate as a sponsor in any
other way in terms of...
Mayor Suarez: well, don't... let's see what you can get first, and then...
you want to move that formula?
Mrs. Kennedy: Sure, so moved.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Plummer, are you all right on that?
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Call the roll on that.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-261
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $2,500
FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND,
TO COVER THE COST OF THE RENTAL FEE OF THE MIAMI
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MARINE STADIUM FOR THE "LATIN MEETS JAZZ BY THE BAY"
CONCERT TO BE PRESENTED ON JULY 2, 1989 AT SAID
STADIUM BY THE PRODUCTION CENTER FOR THE ARTS, INC.;
SUBJECT TO AND CONTINGENT UPON SUCH CONDITIONS AND
LIMITATIONS AS MAY BE PRESCRIBED BY CITY OF MIAMI,
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INCLUDING THE RECEIPT OF PAYMENT FOR ALL CITY SERVICES
AND FEES REQUIRED FOR SAID EVENT AND THE CONDITION
THAT SAID SPONSOR SHALL REIMBURSE CITY IN THE AMOUNT
OF $2,500 IF RECEIPTS FROM SAID EVENT EXCEED $20,000;
FURTHER PROVIDING THAT NO CITY FUNDS BE EXPENDED
UNLESS AND UNTIL SAID SPONSOR AGREES THAT THE CITY
COMMISSION SHALL APPROVE IN ADVANCE ANY EXPENDITURE OF
PROFITS FROM SAID EVENT AND THAT THE CITY COMMISSION
SHALL BE ALLOWED TO CONDUCT A POST -EVENT AUDIT;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY
AGREEMENT(S), IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
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ATTORNEY, BETWEEN THE CITY AND SAID SPONSOR TO
IMPLEMENT SAID GRANT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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being eeconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed '<
and adopted
by the following vote:
AYES:
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
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Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
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Vice Mayor Victor De Yurremw
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Mayor Suarez, I have to tell you that we are absolutely bankrupt as far as
any out of pocket expenditures of any sort, raven tickets for underprivileged
Children. That's my feeling. We've said and we have a policy, we cannot
spend any score nobles. We are looking at a very difficult budget for next
year. We feel that other cities are not asked to constantly contribute to
many, many worthy causes as we are. If we added up all the requests that
we've had in one year, they would be easily in excess of $10,000,000 or
$20,000,000 and each one seems small, but you know how it is, Carol Ann,
having worked here.
Ms. Taylor: I do, ;n addition, this is, I mean it goes a little further than
that. This is go ng to be viewed, this is being picked up by some
International TV stations. In other words, we are looking for this to become
a Miami Jazz Festival, institutionalized.
Mayor Suarez: This is the kind of stuff that I've always felt the TDC and the
Greater Miami Visitors and Convention Bureau should get involved in and I
don't know how we are doing on TDC funding, but they may want to fund it in
view of that.
Ms. Taylor: We are going after that as well.
Mr. Plummer: They are out, I can tell you, TDC is flat out of money.
Mayor Suarez, Maybe the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau could
use some of their loan monies.
Ms. Johnson: Can I get some quick clarification? They're going to
be paying
all expenses including police and the surcharge?
Mr. Plummer: It has to be.
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Mayor Suarez% OK, that is the best we can do unless some other Commissioner
wants to move something. And I frankly don't know where we would get
the money _
even if we did move it.
64. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: Amend Code Section 14-17 to expand the
boundaries of the Downtown Development District.
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Mr. Dawkins: I move 72.
Mayor Suarez: Item 72 has been moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: I second 72.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll on 72.
Read the ordinance.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 14-17 OF THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TO EXPAND THE
BOUNDARIES OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT TO
INCLUDE THE AREA BOUNDED GENERALLY BY NE 2ND AVENUE,
NE 24TH STREET, THE EASTERN BOUNDARY OF THE CR-3/7
ZONING DISTRICT AND HE 17TH TERRACE AS EXTENDED TO
EASTERN BOUNDARY OF THE CR-3/7 ZONING DISTRICT,
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERASILITY
CLAUSE.
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Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy and was passed on its first reading by title by the followipg
vote:
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Comissioner Rosario Kennedy
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Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
mayor Xavier L. Suarez
HORS: 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.
65. YOUTH ADVISORY COUNCIL: Instruct City Manager to appoint a liaison from
the City to reactivate the Council.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, we are ready now on 65, Mr. Juan Zapata, the Youth
Advisory Council.
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Mr. Dawkins: 657 Move it, whatever it is. I don't know.
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Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, let's get out of here, folks, 65, hold off, let me see what
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it is.
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!Mrs. Kennedy: It's the Youth Advisory Council.
Mr. Juan Carlos Zapata: OK, I'm Juan Carlos Zapata, I reside at 2767 NW 14th
Street. I was a member for the Youth Advisory Council for a year and one- ?a.
half. I was the acting treasurer at the time. I think what happened was the
two years came up and they expired and we're supposed to get reappointed. We
came in front of the Commission and I think it is a very good idea. We did a
couple of things for the community. We got involved in a lot of projects, but
we got them half accomplished. I think if you reinstated again, we have some
funds in our treasury and we would really like to get involved in a lot of '
projects like in the gangs and drugs and anti -drug campaign and so forth. I
would like you to consider it and...
Mrs. Kennedy: I guess Juan, that Liz Sierra used to be the Manager's liaison
between us and the... since she is not there anymore, we either need Lisa or
another person.
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Mr. Zapata: She resigned. Virginia said she would be interested in being our
liaison. `.
Mrs. Kennedy: Virginia Godoy?
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Mr. Zapata: Yes. She said she would be interested in being our liaison. I
think we used with some direction we could definitely accomplish a lot of
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Mrs`. Kennedy: OK, I'll recommend to the Manager that he appoint somebody and Fir
we get the Youth Advisory Council back on track. -I so move. ' =o
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Mr. Plummer s Second.
Mrs. Kennedy: Call the roll. w` -
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A NOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER TO APPOINT A
LIAISON FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR THE YOUTH ADVISORY
COUNCIL AND REACTIVATE SAID GROUP.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
66. SALTWATER SPORT FISHING SHOW: Authorize special dockage rates for
Dinner Key marina pier 6 - execute agreement.
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Mayor Suarez: What do you want. Mr. Manager? -
Mr. Odio: We have the one that I gave you on the Dinner Key Marina that would
provide... '
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Mayor Suarez: (MAYOR SUAREZ READS RESOLUTION INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. SEE R-
89-263 HEREINBELOW.) This is a J.L. Plummer, special?
Mr. Plummer: I don't know anything about it. `
Mr. Odio: No, this would give them $20,000 in services.
Mayor Suarez: Nothing related to him. G:!
Mr. De Yurre: What would we make otherwise?
Mr. Albert Ruder: Well, this comes out to approximately the normal rate,IT
there is about 60 cents per foot. As a result of this rate, we are gettingi
slightly over 80, and they are taking the entire pier for this show so it is
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about $20,000 potential revenue. *�z
Mr. De Yurre: OK, I'll move it.w_
Mayor Suarez: "To be presented by Trade Show International Inc., March 13th t:
s■� through the 20th, 1969, subject to the maximum availability of 76 berths at }
the sponsor's compliance," - that's B-E-R-T-H-S, not the other kind of birth -
"with any and all conditions and requirements of the Administration of the
City of Miami, includingthe s onsor's r,
p payment of any applicable marina
service and use charges." And then the usual provisions that we don't have to 1F
read, do we, Mr. City Attorney? "The City Manager is hereby authorized to
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t h # Attorney." And it's been moved and seconded, call the roll.
Mr. Foemans Need a seconder to the motion.
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The follooKng resolution was introduced by Commissioner be turret who
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RESOLUTION NO. 89-263
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING SPECIAL DOCKAGE RATES FOR DINNER
XEY MARINA PIER 6 FOR THE ACCOMMODATION OF VESSELS
SCHEDULED FOR BERTHING AT SAID PIER IN CONNECTION WITH THE
SALTWATER SPORT FISHING SHOW TO BE PRESENTED BY TRADE SHOW
INTERNATIONAL, INC. MARCH 13 THROUGH 20, 1989; AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A USE OR DOCKAGE AGREEMENT, IN
A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, WITH SAID SPONSOR
FOR THIS PURPOSE.
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(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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
67. ACCEPT BID: J.R. BUILDERS - for demolition services in connection with
the Golden Arms apartment building at 2000 S. W. 24th Street.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I have the demolition of the Golden Arms Apartments.-
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Plummer.
Mr. Plummer: It's been bid and recommended by the City Manager that the a'#�
demolition to J.R. Builders and Demolition Contractors for demolition and
clearing away the debris at 2000 SW 24th Street, for a total cost of $16,800,"
I so move.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. Somebody Fri
is going to be happy about that. '
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who y
(moved its adoption:`"
RESOLUTION NO. 69-264
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF J.R. BUILDERS FOR
THE FURNISHING OF DEMOLITION SERVICES FOR THE
DEPARTMENTS OF BUILDING AND ZONING AND PARKS, = xf
'RECREATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES AT A TOTAL PROPOSED``.
COST OF 416,600.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE tx '
PARKS, RECREATION be PUBLIC FACILITIES OPERATING BUDGET
ACCOUNT CODE NO. 331303-589901-340; AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER ,
TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.) w
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution wits,
and, adopted by the following voter paadF
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J 68. GRANT REQUEST FROM BELLE MEADE NEIGHBORHOOD in support of their efforts
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to have Florida Power & Light place underground electric Mires, at na
expense to the City.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor.
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Mayor Suarez: Vice Mayor De Yurre.
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Mr. De Yurre: We had a... in fact, there's an item that was going to be
coming up around 6:00 o'clock and I think we can get it out of the way. I had
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to do with the Belle Meade residents. They are having some problems out there
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with the wires, FPL wires.
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Mayor Suarez: Oh, that's a long term issue, yes.
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Mr. De Yurre: And what they are looking, they are going to go to FP&L to get
them to put the wiring under ground.
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Mayor Suarez: Yes, that's been a long term discussion up there and it's
expensive, but the FP&L vice president is here, maybe he'd approve it right
now, I don't know. Stroke of the pen solution, as I call it..
Mr. De Yurre: What they wanted from us, and I'll move. it, is a resolution
wherein we support their efforts to go out and try to get this done, so I move
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that motion.
Mr. Odio: We don't pay for it.
Mayor Suarez: No, no, just to support their efforts.
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Mr. Plummer: Absolutely no cost to the City.'
Mr. De Yurre: To support their effort in that endeavor."
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Mr. Dawkins: Second.
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Mr. Plummer: Well, wait a minute now. I support the issue. That's what they.;!'
want, that's fine, but if there is any City expense of...
Mayor Suarez: No, no.i:
Mr. Plummer: Wait, whoa. It possibly will entail, relocation .oP Ci;►
utilities. If
that
is the case, that
cost. has to be
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added to _tha .FP&L; :opt
for the purposes...
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Mayor Suarez:
Provided there is not a
cost...
Mr. Plummer:
At no
cost to the City,
OK. But what
I am saying to you,`
Oere is relocation of City utilities,
that cost has.to be busdeaed;=by tt#s�a.
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Mr. Odios Put
it in
your resolution.
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"pyor- Suarez:
It's
clarifying that, even though the
resolution imp 1i*s.
FP&L has to
be the one to finance it, there are
some things that"re.wc
heve,:to,dp.
which .wou�d come
out,Qf our pocket
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Mayor $unrest He's clarifying that we are not making that commitment either.
Mr. Odiot No, that is right. It is provided that it will be no cost to the
City.
Mr. Xeyt If Florida Power and Light goes underground, that means Southern
Bell and Cable TV and everybody else has to go underground.
Mr. Plummert Possibly water pipes, sever pipes, you could have all of that
stuff involved.
Mayor Suarez: I think the Commissioner was not present the last time that
this took place, that's why he is making the motion, the Vice Mayor, but when
he sees what it entails...
Mr. Dawkins: OK, to...
Mr. Plummer: There is no easy answer.
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Mr. Plummer: Wait until they find out the cost factor)
Mr. Dawkins: Call the roll, because I've got a motion after this one.
Mayor Suarez: OK, call the roll on that, it is a motion on principle.
Mr. Plummer: The Japanese are buying FP&L so it makes no difference)
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 89-265
A MOTION GRANTING REQUEST FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF THE _
BELLE MEADE NEIGHBORHOOD IN SUPPORT OF THEIR EFFORTS TO
HAVE FLORIDA POWER AND LIGHT PLACE UNDERGROUND ELECTRIC r{:
WIRES IN THE BELLE MEADE NEIGHBORHOOD PROVIDED THERE IS NO,
EXPENSE TO THE CITY OF MIAMI; FURTHER STIPULATTAG THAT IN ,
THE EVENT THAT A POTENTIAL INVESTOR BUYS SAID COMPANY, s
THEN THEY SHALL HONOR SAID AGREEMENT. - ;z
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote: M
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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NOES: None.
• ABSENT: Commissioner Rosario Kennedy '-
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Mayor Suarez: I'll put a proviso in there that if the Japanese buy FP&L they
are required to do this before we approve that purchase, which is not totally
up to us, but maybe the Public Service Commission.$
Mr. Plummer: Mr. City Attorney, under the franchise with FP&L, if the sell
do we have the right of the approval of the new owner? y�>
Mr. Clark: I would have to examine the franchise. I think there
assignment provision in that franchise. I don't believe theist-
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Mr. Plummer: There is no reassignment? t utz�L x
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Mr. Clark: I would want to check.
Mr. Plummer: So that could open up and renegotiate the franchise,
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Mayor Suarez: I don't think we have a franchise agreement in that :ease• I
think we have a franchise fee.
Mr. Clark: No, I...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, we will have...
Mayor Suarez: We don't get a chance to decide who gets the franchise, I don't
think.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, we will. Well, but we have an agreement with the present
franchisee. We do not have it with the proposed franchisee.
Mayor Suarez: I don't think it is that kind of an agreement, but anyhow... do
you want to check that out with the...
Mr. Plummer: Yes, I would ask the City Manager to report back and tell us
what in fact, the City's rights are, if that company is sold.
Mayor Suarez: Could you please check that out and report back to us?
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, this is a thing that needs discussion and I've talked
with Guy. I would like to see us meet up there in t1ae northeast, this
Commission, those people and Florida Power and Light for a two hour meeting
and iron this out and be finished with it so that it doesn't continually come
down there and tie up hours and time here, so if it is agreeable with
everybody on the Commission, 1 will ask the people in the northeast to call
the Mayor and the Mayor will set a date and send us a memo telling us when to
be there, if that is agreeable.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, it has been a few years since we've had an official
Commission meeting in the northeast. In fact, i don't think we've ever had
one since I've been here.
Mr. Dawkins: No, only when they call us.
Mayor Suarez: That will be fine.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mayor Suarez: If the Commission agrees, I don't want to be calling a special
session and finding out that everybody gets angry at me now.
Mr. Plummer:
Yes, but wait a minute, excuse
me. What can we do if we meet
with them?
Mayor Suarez:
He wants to air out...
= Mr. Dawkins:
Listen to them.
Mayor Suarez:
Yes, listen to them.
Mr. Dawkins:
The same thing you are going
to do if they come down here,
listen to them.
Mr. Plummer:
I think what would be only right is to urge Florida Power and '
Light to have
a meeting with these people. We
have no authority in the area.
Mayor Suarez:
How about a P.S.C. meeting over
a.
there?
Mr. Dawkins:
But if you... come on, Guy. OK,
that's fine, but when they meet --
_ with Florida
Power and Light, they are going
to still want to come here to
tell us about it, but if we are out there
listening... but I don't know,
whatever you guys want.
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Mayor Suarez:
That may be an interesting way
to do it, to have a session w tb
_ them that the
Commissioners are invited to and
we participate in, you know, om r=
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Mr. Plummer: You know, I'm sure glad I sit with a bunch of people that don't
have to work for a living.
Mr. Guy Sanchez: My name is Guy Sanchez for the record, FP&L, 4200 West
Flagler. Mayor and City Commissioners, we have met several times with the
belle Meade Neighborhood Association and the people leading that effort.
Frankly, I agree with them. I'd love to have underground service in my own
neighborhood. The bottom line again is who pays for that. It is stated
clearly by PSC, the PSC agency has jurisdiction over the rates as well as the
safety standards of the utilities and it clearly written by them, and I can
relate you to this paragraph very briefly, it won't take but a second to read.
Mayor Suarez: Guy, we are trying to avoid...
Mr. Sanchez: "If a utility is required by governmental or other valid
authority to Install underground distribution and abandon overhead
distribution, the utility shall not be required to bear any of the cost of
making the necessary changes on the customer premises."
Mayor Suarez: We know, you've told us that before. We are trying to not get
Into the substantive aspects of this, but to figure out a procedure by which
we don't have this item coming up every six months, you know, and it could...
Mr. Sanchez: It's not up to us, really. We'll be glad to meet with them.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins is suggesting that we have hearings out
there with you present and some representatives of FP&L present and we
present, that is what he is suggesting.
Mr. Sanchez: I have no objection whatsoever to meet with them once again, ten
times if you want to. We are willing to do that.
Mayor Suarez: We'll decide the appropriate time if there is a request from
the Commission to have a special session. I'm not sure that any purpose would
be served by it, but you would certainly be willing to go to a meeting in
Belle Meade.
Mr. Sanchez: I have no objections to meet with them and the people, OK.
Mayor Suarez: What is your golden parachute going to be like if Japanese
acquire it. Is that really in the making?
69. (Continued discussion) COSMOPOLITAN SOCCER LEAGUE IN LITTLE HAITI:
Refer to City Manager, to fund the group out of the Law Enforcement
Trust Fund (See label 8).
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Mr. Dawkins: Just a minute,
gentlemen wanted to talk about.
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Mr. Mayor, I thought 12 dealt with what these
Mayor Suarez: We're reconvened for one item.
Mr. Dawkins: One item. Go ahead, sir.
Mr. Yves Englate: My name is Yves Englate, 3300 NW 7th Place.
Mr. Plummer: What item is this, sir?
Mr. Dawkins: This is a pocket item, Miller Dawkins'.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead. Let me cut through it these
B � gentlemen are from the
Little Haiti community and they're concerned about the youth and the crime and
what have you and they want to establish a soccer league such as a crime
prevention sort of thing and they are looking for some funding and I suggested '`P
that it might fall under the Law Enforcement Crime Prevention, so I called the
Chief and he did not get back to me, so I think the way to do it would be to
refer it to the Manager so that the Manager and Joe could sit down with them
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and bee It it can be done se a crime preventive... what would you call it,
Joe, crime preventive what?
Lt. Longueira: It would be some kind of a program. Right, the thing is that
It would have to be run by the... we couldn't give them the money, it would
have to be run by the Department.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, you got some Haitian policeman who know how to play soccer,
who can go with them and run it, that ain't no problem.
Lt. Longueira: We'll work it out.
Mayor Suarez: OK, so moved to defer to the Administration.
Mr. Dawkins: Go with him and let them tell us how we are going to do this.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Call the roil.
The following motion vas introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
Its adoption:
MOTION NO. 89-266
A MOTION REFERRING TO THE CITY MANAGER FUNDING REQUEST
RECEIVED FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COSMOPOLITAN SOCCER
LEAGUE IN LITTLE HAITI; FURTHER REQUESTING THE MANAGER TO
TRY TO FUND SAID GROUP OUT OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST
FUND.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
THEREUPON THE CITY COMMISSION WENT INTO RECESS AT 4:18
P.M. AND RECONVENED AT 5:03 P.M., WITH ALL MEMBERS OF
THE CITY COMMISSION FOUND TO BE PRESENT. {y;
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70. A) REQUEST METRO-DADE COUNTY TO PUT UP "STOP" AND "CHILDREN AT PLAY" a.
SIGNS IN THE AREA OF KUMQUAT AND LOQUAT AVENUES AT WESTERLY SIDE OF g
INTERSECTION WITH DOUGLAS ROAD. {
B) DENY PROPOSED RESTRICTION OF VEHICULAR ACCESS TO KUMQUAT AND LOQUAT
AVENUES AT WESTERLY SIDE OF INTERSECTION WITH DOUGLAS ROAD. j
C) INSTRUCT ADMINISTRATION TO MEET WITH RESIDENTS OF KUMQUAT AND LOQUAT
AVENUES AND SURROUNDING STREETS TO SEEK A SOLUTION TO THE TRAFFIC
PROBLEMS IN THE AREA (See label 72).
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Mayor Suarez: Item 73, temporary barricades... can we change the names these streets while we are at it, Jim? Counselor. Y>
Mr. Plummer: Are we split it again, 50 p g , percent of the people want them and 50
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percent of the people don't want them? No?
Mr. Kay: Mr. Mayor, members of the..,
Mayor Suarez: A show of hands. Why don't we have the people Mhsa are 0 F�
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to the closing of the streets on a temporary basis, P P rt=
Mr. Plummer: And the people that are for it.
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Mayor Suarez: The people that are for it, Randy by himself and a coupla of
friends. He's a great lawyer and a great basketball player.
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Mayor Suarez: Whoever has more hair gets to decide, right?
Mrs. Kennedy: Do you all live within the 375 foot radius?
Mr. Kay: No, it is 1,000 foot radius for street closures.
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh yes, 1,000.
Mayor Suarez: 1,000 foot radius on street closures? We really ought to hear
a presentation. On the opposing side, I want to warn you that with that many
people opposed, that you ought to keep it to one or two people. And staff,
tell us about it.
Mr. Kay: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, this is for the prohibition
of traffic on Kumquat and Loquat in their westerly intersection of Douglas
Road. We sent out letters within a 1,000 foot radius, announcing the
temporary closures and we receive back a petition from the neighborhood,
neighbors to the south primarily, with 63 signatures opposing these closures.
70 percent of those signatures were from residents on Crawford Avenue. We
received responses from the Departments of Police and Fire, opposing the
closures as well. The Department does not recommend that these streets be
closed.
Mr. Plummer: What's the traffic count?
Mr. Kay: There was no traffic count done in this case.
Mr. Plummer: None?
Mr. Kay: None, no.
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Mayor Suarez: Yes, he meant from staff, but's we'll take input from residents
on any counts they may have done.
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Mr. Plummer: Metropolitan Dade County did not do a traffic count?
Mr. Kay: No, they did not. The problem here as we see it, seems to be one of
the speed of the traffic rather than the volume. There is a lot of vegetation
on these streets that goes right out next to the pavement and there is poor
visibility on some of these streets, so...
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Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you a question, two things, and I'm not going to say
it
who of the City employee gave me the first idea, but just for consideration
one of the main opposition comes, and possibly legitimate opposition to all of
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these, and you people are not the first group we've had here, nor I'm sure
will you be the last. There is a type of barricade that is made... excuse me,
the opposition comes from the inaccessibility of emergency vehicles. That's
the best argument I've heard against them. The Fire Department can't get in
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and the Police Department can't get in, Sanitation would have to back up their
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trucks. A type of barricade is made in which you can take and put a pole in
the ground and have the pole a little bit smaller, whatever you call that
system. Put them in and if a fire truck was going to go, it could be lifted
a
out and moved and allow passage, that's one. Has there been any
consideration? The other one, the Fire Department, as well as myself are
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opposed to what you call the speed bumps, is that what they are called?
Mr. Kay: Speed bumps.
Mr. Plummer: In Spanish you call them the "sueno policia",the sleeping
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policeman, but there is a different type that I've experienced in this lasts
week, and that is a kind that is only about that high, but if you go over them
at a high rate of speed, it sounds like your car is coming unglued. Are
you... ?
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Mr. Kay: I'm familiar with those.
Mr. Plummer: What are they called?
Mr. Kay: I don't know the name of those little smaller bumps.
Mr. Plummer: Speed strips.
Mr. Kay: Speed strips, possibly.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Kay: There is also the possibility of grooved pavement which makes a
noise.
Mr. Plummer: OK, no the grooved pavement I think is more so for traction.
Now, have we considered any of those speed strips without the humps, where you
are not going to totally wreck your car, but the speed strips which would
make you definitely slow down? You know as much as I oppose the traffic that
runs on Tigertail, the 3,000 cars a day, if they would just slow down and
observe the stop signs, I wouldn't ever want to propose barricades. My
question to you is, have you had any experience, have you explored what I call
the speed strips. If you have to find out, they exist as you enter Red Road
from Old Cutler. There's three sets of them and if you ever went over them
one time without slowing down, I guarantee you that from time on, you won't do
It again. Is that worth considering?
Mr. Kay: I think it's worth looking into, coming back to you with
recommendations.
Mayor Suarez: These are very effective, what he calls speed strips?
Mr. Plummer: Well, as opposed to the hump, which is about that high.
Mayor Suarez: No, no, the hump right. No, I know the ones you are talking
about.
Mr. Kay: No, there is something yes, it is called a speed bump and again
there is something called a speed hump, which is spread out over a much
longer...
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Mr. Plummer: I'm talking about something that it almost...
Mayor Suarez: No, the strips that you have before some toll booths, I've seen
them right before a toll booth, or someplace, that will slow you down. r
Mr. Plummer: They look almost like a piece of tape, they are so thin.
Mr. Kay: I know what you are talking about, I don't know the generic name.
Mr. Dawkins: They are on 22nd Avenue up around 103rd Street, as you go
through that school.
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Mr. Plummer: To me they're very effective. They are for me anyhow. I would
hope you'll look into those because there is...
Mayor Suarez: When you complete the City's presentation let me know, so we
can hear from the proponents and opponents.
Mr. Kay: We are basically completed with the presentation. With regard to the
removable barricade, we would like to hear from police and fire on that. r`'#
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!; Mrs. Kennedy: I was going to say that the record should reflect that we hgve
in our package a letter from the Fire Marshal, Chief Lutes, and another one f
from Walter Martinez, Assistant Chief, opposing the closure of the-stree a.'
Mr. Plummer: They're always negative.
!: !Mayor Suarez: OK, we are putting 'into the record, we also have, Mr. City,
Clerk, petitions, this particular one is with a cover letter signed by 8d '
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MatEircy, and quite a few petitions attached to it. Put those in the record,
and letters specifically from John C. Lopez. I think all of these are in
opposition. OK, finished with the department, with the staff? Chief.
Chief Huddleston: Mr. Mayor, from the Fire Department's perspective, we are
opposed to the street blockage as currently proposed, but are not if we can
come up with some kind of a movable barrier so that the fire apparatus can
gain access to and from that street..
Mr. Plummer: What about the idea of the speed strips, as we are referring to?
Chief Huddleston: I don't believe we would be opposed to that. I would like
to talk to the mechanics that service our trucks to make sure that that
wouldn't have any adverse effect. I can't think that it would, but before I f
would give a recommendation, that would be my only concern.
Mr. Plummer: I really think that's an answer.
Mayor Suarez: Mr. Duvall, proponents.
Mr. Randy Duvall: Mayor, members of the Commission, Commissioner Plummer, if
I could address... I'm sorry, Randy Duvall, I live at 3623 Royal Palm Avenue
in the same general neighborhood. I am an attorney. With respect to your
concern or recommendation about this speed strips, I would suggest that your
staff speak with Pete Fernandez of the County. They have put in those strips
In areas, but they do not recommend putting them into residential areas
because of the noise that is created, or associated with cars going over it.
The County has actually been in a number of situations where they have been
requested by neighborhoods to pull those strips out. Specifically, I think
they had them in along Main Highway at one point, and they pulled them out at
the request of residents. Also, I would disagree with staff in terms of this
being a problem of speed and not volume. We have a serious problem with
volume in the area. I can understand many of the objections that people have
to closing off just two streets because it is a piecemeal approach to what is
essentially an area wide problem with the volume of traffic trying to get from
the Coral Gables area and Le Jeune over to Main Highway, Royal Palm
experiences this problem of volume and speed probably more severely than any
of the other streets because we also have the problem of a traffic signal at
the intersection of Main Highway and Royal Palm which acts in effect as magnet
and attracts traffic to that particular street. The County did do a traffic
study of Royal Palm and Poinciana about a year and one-half ago, so there is
some information available in that regard, but I would simply urge that before
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you reject out of hand these barricades on these two streets, that you perhaps
ask staff to take a look at the full picture and there is number of different
alternatives that they could explore, including partially barricading off
streets in the area, not all of the streets, but some of the streets, a
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combination. That, or signs, no left turn signs placed there, or no right
turn signs, in the event the particular streets that we are talking about,
because most of those cars coming on Kumquat and Loquat, at least in the
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easterly direction, tend to then jog left, or north bound, so I think that you
could control the problem through a combination of street closures and signage
and that's what I would suggest that you have staff look into at this
juncture, but there are many children in this neighborhood, there is a serious
problem that is posed by this traffic. We've had pets killed, I've had my car
hit a couple of times, so I would ask staff to first take a look at the broad
range of possibilities that are out there. Thank you.
Mr. Frank Balzebre: My name is Frank Balzebre. I reside at 3843 Kumquat
Avenue. Appreciate his mutual concern. The problem at hand is before we get
to speed bumps, is to get the stop signs posted on Kumquat and Loquat to help
cut down the traffic, get the "Children at Play" signs up that we don't have,
and get the mileage reduced to 20 miles an hours.
Mayor Suarez: On the first of those two, could we now make a recommendation
right off the bat to the County to get stop signs and "Children at Play"
signs, so at least we begin to get people aware of the fact that they are
going into a residential neighborhood and they have to stop at every
intersection? Commissioner, you want to move that, J.L.?
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Mr. Fernandez: Just pass a resolution.
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Mr. Plummer: Fine.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Call the roil.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoptions
RESOLUTION NO. 89-267
A RESOLUTION URGING METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TO TAKE
STEPS WHICH WILL RESULT IN THE INSTALLATION OF
STATIONARY STOP SIGNS, "CHILDREN AT PLAY" SIGNS, 020
MPH" SIGNS, SIGNS AND "NO THRU TRUCKS" SIGNS ALONG
KUMQUAT AVENUE AND LOQUAT AVENUE BETWEEN SOUTHWEST
37TH AND 42ND AVENUE IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA;
FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT A COPY OF
THIS RESOLUTION TO THE HEREIN NAMED OFFICIALS.
(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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Balzebre: Excuse me, would you put that in the form of
a resolution? We'd ;
glad to work something out because the County only
really considers
resolutions, not motions.
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Mr. Fernandez: That's what you are doing.
Mayor Suarez: A resolution. We'll formalize it at the appropriate time.
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Mayor Suarez: The third of your items was the speed limit, and I guess what r
we can do on that is to a ask the County to get back to
us. Mr. McKay, I t
don't know what else we can do.
Mr. Balzebre: What do we have right now?
Mayor Suarez: Good
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Mr. Balzebre: We have 30 now, we want it reduced to 20.
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Mayor Suarez: Is it 30 automatically in residential areas unless otherwise
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Mayor Suarez: That would be helpful.
Mr. Rodriguez: You could include that in the resolution if
you want to.
Mr. Balzebre: So we have the "Children at Play" signs and
the three-'w►iy` ito! s ar ii' `
Signs? Is that what is on the record?
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Mr. Plummer: That will keep them uniform.
Mr. Balzebre: And the no truck signs, can we get that in the -'same- rpsolutJOA
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Mayor 5uarelt Is that no trucks except delivery trucks, I guess, huh?
Mr. Salzebre: No through trucks.
Mr. Plummer: No, no trucks.
Mayor Suarez: No through trucks. We don't want any of those kind of trucks.
Mr. Balzebre: That's a beginning, then there is the street closures.
Mayor Suarez: You had to get to that. We're doing pretty well so far.
Mr. Balzebre: Yes. Let me read, while you are reading the map there, you'll
get an idea. If you look at the map, you will realize that Kumquat and Loquat
are being used as substitutes instead of Poinciana and Grand Avenue, which are
notably thruway streets. They are engineered to handle the growing traffic
problem.
Mr. Plummer: Wait minute, repeat that.
Mr. Balzebre: Poinciana, Grand Avenue, 70 foot wide openings, they are
engineered to handle the growing traffic.
Mr. Plummer: All residential streets are designed to carry 300 to 500 cars a
day, period, regardless of street. Poinciana is still two lanes.
Mr. Balzebre: Two lanes.
Mr. Plummer: That's right, three...
Mr. Balzebre: Divided lanes, divided...
Mr. Plummer: ... hundred to five hundred cars a day, that's it!
Mr. Balzebre: It is a three way street from LeJeune to Douglas. It's
picking...
_ Mr. Plummer: It's still a residential street. No more, no less than your
_ streets on Kumquat or Loquat.
Mr. Balzebre: Well, we'd feel the impact of such a closure, but it will be
distributed evenly throughout Poinciana, Grand Avenue, where the traffic flow
should be going at this point.
Mr. Plummer: See, I have the same problem on Tigertail.
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Mr. Plummer: Tigertail is designed to carry 300 to 500 a day and It carries
3,000.
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opportunity to have their say, please.
Mr. Plummer: Unless it's four lanes, you can't carry any more traffic than
i that on a residential street.
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Mayor Suarez: OK, that applies to your side too. If you want to speak, 'go
f ahead and use the mike, Ma'am.
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Ms. Karen Ragas: My name is Karen Regas, I live on Linden Lane. I was just
speaking about the size of Loquat and Kumquat and the area that we have, we
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can't even get two cars down our street at one time. Crawford is a little bit
bigger, Poinciana has a dividing line down the middle. We don't have that at
all. We barely have sidewalks down either side of our streets.
Mr. Balzebre: We also have the soon to be developed St. Hugh Oaks Village:'
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That is going to create more traffic in construction,, the delivery,,`the
workers coming into the area. We think that should be noted for the-recpr�
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Mayor Suarez: Thank you. Any other proponents? briefly. Try not to be
cumulative.
Mr. Michael Kenny: I'm Michael Kenny, I live on 3504 Solana Road. In the
last two years I've had problems with the speed on the streets. Somebody
going, I guess west on Loquat, you note the map, I live in the second lot
south on Solana Road south of Loquat. Just didn't bother stopping at the stop
sign at the corner of Loquat and Solana Road and ran into my back yard, which
Is through a fence and into the back yard. It's part of the traffic problem
on the street. Also, people being mugged and robbed, in my case, my wife on
the front steps, because it is so easy to get in and out of that neighborhood.
We also have a problem with people, whether it be Monday to Friday, people
taking their children to school. There are two or three or four private
schools on !lain Highway, where the traffic should be using Grand Avenue, they
are coming through Loquat and Kumquat and on Sunday, the churches. We have
traffic starting at dawn on Sunday and people going to churches through a
residential neighborhood like ours, and so we have to put up with them. It is
just not necessary. People... if you create a set of circumstances, sir, to
make the people use the streets that should be used for access to these
places, thank you.
Ms. Patricia Kyle: Gentlemen, Commissioner Kennedy, my name is Patricia Kyle.
I also am an attorney, neighbor of Mr. Duvall. My husband, Art Carlson and I
live on Royal Palm Avenue. I am here to ask you to, not necessarily as a
proponent, or opponent, of the requested proposal, but to parrot what Mr.
Duvall has said, that this situation is one that encompasses not just Loquat
and Kumquat, but also Poinciana, Avocado, Royal Palm and down to Main Highway.
We have experiences many difficulties on Royal Palm. It is a main access, as
is Crawford and it is something that has really become virtually intolerable.
There are, I can't tell you how many children who live on these streets now,
the area, the entire area, is becoming an area where daily families are moving
in with very young children. We have two, Randy has one. There is one across
the street, three down the street. They all play together and they are all in
danger of being killed. Now, that situation is becoming more and more
dangerous. The stop light on the end of Royal Palm at Main Highway, I
understand that at one point there was a traffic study done and a
recommendation that it be removed because of the problems that were being
caused throughout the entire area, the backup on Royal Palm and throughout.
There is Plymouth School, St. Stephens, Carollton, Ransom -Everglades and every
child that comes from the north or Coral Gables area, that goes to any one of
those schools, either walks or is driven down Kumquat, Loquat, Poinciana,
Avocado, Royal Palm and Crawford and it has become a situation in conjunction
with the building up there, we've have 12 new buildings, new houses going up
on Royal Palm, which is a two block street and it has simply come to the point
where I would ask the Commission to ask the City to conduct an entire study of
this area and to see if there is something that can be proposed that would
alleviate that problem. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: I think that, assuming that we decide not to install the
barricades, that we want to go beyond what we've already moved by way of
consideration of other devices to try to get people to slow down and really
discourage them from using streets as thoroughfare to get from one side of the
neighborhood to the other. They really should only be going in there if they
are going to something specific, to some location specifically within the
neighborhood and...
Ms. Kyle: Mayor, I think if someone addressed the actual traffic pattern and
the needs, and could put in signs that would bar certain turnings as has been
suggested, putting in the "Children At Play" and "Caution, Children" signs,
perhaps at some areas, like for example, immediately prior to a stop sign, put
in one of the strips that Commissioner Plummer mentioned. Nobody on Royal
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Mayor Suarez: Yes, the place would be right before a stop signs.
Ms. Kyle: I wouldn't mind a little noise if I can guarantee that someone is
going to pay attention to that stop sign.
s Mayor Suarez: Yes, I would hope the people adjoining the stop Xiang realize
that some inconvenience may be had from the strips or any other device an4'..t
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hope that we are going to get back.., did you build that into your motion,
!' that we would get back a study on that, or a proposal on that?
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Mr. Plummer: I thought they were going to do it without...
the motion because that, It that works, Mr. Mayor, I would
area in town that now we are having a problem, it would b
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Mayor Suarez: OK, in other words, I want to clarify that if we don't accept
the barricades, that you know, we are going to try the things that have
already been proposed and anything else that comes to mind, don't hesitate to
propose more ideas. Maybe "No Left Turn" in some of those would make sense
too. "No Right Turn," I've never seen a "No Right Turn."
Mr. Plummer: You.
Mayor Suarez: There are?
Me. Kyle: We have a neighborhood association that we would be very delighted
to work with the City and to extend our association to all of the people in
the neighborhood that are suffering this problem. Specifically, in my
recommendation to the Commission...
Mayor Suarez: That is very important on the issue that you have not addressed
particularly, which is the issue of crime. If you don't have a neighborhood
association, you have people networking to avoid and to try to impede the
criminal activity, the police cannot do it by themselves.
Ms. Kyle: Mayor Suarez, last October, the issue of crime is rather personal
to me. Last October, Sunday afternoon I was coming in with my children, my
six month old baby at the time. Thank God my husband was preceding me and
carrying her. I was in my own walkway, I was ten feet from my front door. I
was mugged, dragged 20 feet, seriously hurt, and still have not recovered from
that, either psychologically or physically, to the point that I come home now
and I cannot get out of my car without looking and feeling the hair come up on
the back of my neck, every time I come into my own home! Now, I know that
there are a lot of people here that can say that same thing and I don't care
whether you live on Loquat or Kumquat or Crawford or any one of the streets,
but it's a situation that the traffic level has just proliferated the crime
problem, the accessibility to crime and my suggestion is not only an overall
study but specifically that someone talk to the County, or whoever is in
charge of that traffic light on Main and Royal Palm and perhaps have it
removed to some area such as... the prime area, according to the Fire
Department is Franklin Street, which is where the sidewalks bend, if you are
going up Main Highway, where the kids cross the street, there is no sidewalks.
The sidewalk is on the, I don't know which side it is, south side?
Mr. Plummer: Yes. `-
Ms. Kyle: South side of the street, all the way up until you get to Franklin t
and then it shifts over, if you want to go to Coral Gables Elementary School,
It shifts over to the other side at Franklin. I don't want to take up any
more time. Those would be my suggestions.
Mayor Suarez: OK, but I mean we're open to further ideas and concepts,
assuming that we don't install the barricades. Thank you, Ms. Kyle. Anyone
else from the proponent side?
Mr. Balzebre: Yes, your Honor, for the record, we'd like to handle this
traffic complaint, there were answers by your Police Department.
Mayor Suarez: That's been directed into
presentation by staff and those in favor.
don't know how the Commissioners feel,
opponents.
Mr. De Yurre:
how the rest
the better.
the record. OK, that completes the
Before we get into the opponents, I
we may not have to hear from the
Mr. Mayor, I am opposed to barricading this, so I don't know
feel, then if we can expedite this, then it would be that much
Mr. Plummer: Well, you know I feel the same way.
i said all the way along, I was the guy who started
because in my area we catch holy hell, but I did
whatever the neighbors want, the majority rules.
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like the barricades, I think to put those up takes us back to some things that
we maybe don't want to remember. Damn it, this City has an obligation to it's
people to have safe streets and if the barricades are not the answer, there's
got to be some answerl There has got to be an answer. Now, we have tried
everything in the book and then some, but these people that choose to live in
the City of Miami should not penalized by people who wish to live in the
County at the sufferance of the people in the City. Now, I think we've got
people in the Planning Department, we've got people in the Traffic Department,
somewhere along the line. somebody has got to come up with an answer to keep
these streets safe. You're talking about putting in stop signs. Let me say
to you, in my neighborhood, they put in four-way stops and they were great for
about two or three days. That's itl I'll tell you, Tigertail and Halissee,
they don't even slow down, much less stop. And on the other side of lath
Avenue, 19th Avenue, Jack Luft tells me that they had a count there, Tigertail
is carrying 8,400 cars a day. You can't may, that hey, you got to put them on
Dixie Highway where they belong. Dixie Highway is carrying 212 percent of
capacity... South Dayshore Drive, every one of these streets, yet when we the
City Commissioners go to Tallahassee and say guys, you've got to do something
to give us relief, they keep reminding us right now they are $100,000,000 in
debt. Now, there is somewhere, something along the line, where have got to
give these people relief, not in fighting groups, one against the other, but
wherever these other people live who don't want the barricades, they've got
problems the same and I don't know what the answer is. I've been here for
two, three years that we've talked about barricades.
Mr. Dawkins: Much too long.
Mr. Plummer: They can get rid of you before they can get rid of mel Mr.
Mayor, you know, if you want to cut it short, I'll take the bullet by the
teeth and grind down and say I move to deny the barricades.
Mrs. Kennedy: I second.
Mayor Suarez: OK, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
Its adoption:
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MOTION NO. 89-268
A MOTION DENYING REQUEST OF A GROUP OF PROPERTY OWNERS t
FOR A PROPOSED RESTRICTION OF VEHICULAR
ACCESS TO
KUMQUAT AND LOQUAT AVENUES AT THE WESTERLY SIDE OF
THEIR INTERSECTION WITH DOUGLAS ROAD.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the
motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
— NOES: None.
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ASSENT: None.
—� Mr. Plummer: I'm going to follow with another motion.
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Mayor Suarez: OK, proceed with your other motion.
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- Mr. Plummer: I'm going to move at this time that the
Administration go,..fnd
— meet with all the people in the area to see if there
Is some way that
— relief can be given to the entire area, not just the two
streets. Maybe; just.`:
maybe, somebody can come up with some relief.,
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Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
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Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Including that, including that, to aee
what..
Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you what you do. Sir, when you invite the
people to
this town hall meeting, you have to invite the churches, invite the
schools.
Mr. Kenny: We'll do that.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roil.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved
Its adoption:
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MOTION NO. 69-269
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A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO MEET WITH
THE RESIDENTS OF KUMQUAT AND LOQUAT AVENUES AND
SURROUNDING STREETS INCLUDING THE AREA CHURCHES AND
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SCHOOLS, TO ATTEMPT TO FIND SOME RELIEF TO THE TRAFFIC
PROBLEMS OF THAT ENTIRE AREA.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was
passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
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Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
_. NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, stick aroundt We've got another barricade coming
up, so you want to hear them, come listen to them. We hear them all the time.
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71. PARADE FOR ROBERTO DURAN: Grant request from representative of radio
station WQBA for street closures.
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Mayor Suarez: Mr. Rodriguez, do we have quick item that we can take care of,
having to do with a parade that WQBA wanted to sponsor?
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
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Mr. De Yurre: WQBA?
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Mrs. Kennedy: Are we moving the street closure for that day for the parade?
Mr. Dawkins: No, we are moving the WQBA thing, whatever the hell it is.
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Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, that's what I'm saying.
Mr. Plummer: What parade? Four Kings, Five Kings?
Mayor Suarez: Six Kings parade. Tomas would you come up real quick so we
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can do thaat?
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Mr. Plummer: It always is. Is this Four Kings, Five Kings, Six Kings',: how
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many kings parade?
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Mr. pugtiol The guy that won the tour ebool6hahl0bi
Mr. Plummtrt Sure. When are you proposing this parade?
Mr. Fust#1 Well, it will be from intercontinental is Irlagler,
then *66t Oft
Plaglior until the court.
Mr. Plummer: The courthouse?
Mr. Irust*t Yes.
Mayor Suarez: How many blocks? Just a few blacks downtown?
Mr. Plummer: Three blocks. What day of the week?
Mr. Fustot Next Thursday the 9th.
Mayor Suarez: That's why we had to take It up as an emergency.
Mr. Plummer: What time of the day?
Mr. rustet Noon.
Plummer: There's never been a problem. I'll movie it.
Mr. Dawkins: Second, let's go.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, subject to the usual limitations
and police
restrictions and so on. Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 89-270
A MOTION GRANTING REQUEST RECEIVED FROM
REPRESENTATIVES OF WQBA RADIO STATION FOR CLOSURE OF
FLAGLER STREET FROM THE INTERCONTINENTAL HOTEL WEST TO
THE COURTHOUSE ON MARCH 9, 1989 AT NOON :IN CONNECTION,
WITH A PARADE FOR ROBERTO DURAN, SAID STREET CLOSURE,
SUBJECT TO THE USUAL LIMITATIONS AND RESTRICTIONS OF
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THE CITY.
:'Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was
passed and
!adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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AREA (See label 70).
Mayor Suarez: Sir, you had a comment to make, because his concern is that we
have voted in favor of getting the County to consider stop signs and some of
the other things only on Kumquat and Loquat and not... you wanted to do it
also on another?
Mr. Ed McElroy: Ed McElroy, 3586 Avocado Avenue. Two motions ago, or three
motions ago, I guess, you talked about having stop signs, "Children At Play"
signs, etc. on Kumquat and Loquat. In conjunction with what you then approved
or disapproved of the barricades, after that you said you were going to look
Into the neighborhood. I propose that anything you do, stop signs, "Children
At Play," everything, that that be done for the whole neighborhood and not
anything for one specific area of two blocks. You know, we've got the same
problems on Avocado, which is on the other side of Douglas and everything and
I'm against anything to be done for any one neighborhood, because what it does
It quiets that little section down and we still have the problem on Crawford,
Poinciana, Royal Palm, etc.
Mayor Suarez: Are you talking about Avocado east of 37th?
Mr. McElroy: Everything from between Main Highway, Douglas and Le Jeune. You
know, not to do anything for one section, but to do it for all. Whatever you
do, do for all.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, but I mean, we are trying to take it piecemeal, because if
you wanted us to all of a sudden ask the County to put...
Mr. McElroy: We have been after people to come and look at stop sign
situations, etc. and we don't get anyplace calling up the City engineers.
Stop signs along Plaza to break the free ride that people get between Douglas
and Main Highway, they can get to 40 miles an hour.
Mayor Suarez: But that doesn't address the...
Mr. McElroy: No, but what I am saying is that your issue of looking at Loquat
and Kumquat for "Children At Play" signs, for stop signs for 20 mile an hour
signs, things like that, that you do that for the whole neighborhood, not for
one specific little area.
Mayor Suarez: OK, the motion was intended to immediately ask the County as to
those two streets, but certainly we ought to study the whole neighborhood and
see if it makes sense otherwise.
Mr. Plummer: That's why we are having a town hall meeting there.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I don't think the Commission would be inclined to pass, at
this point a resolution asking the County to install stop signs at every
intersection in the City of Miami, you see what I'm saying?
Mr. McElroy: Then on Avocado Avenue we will come next week and ask you to put
barricades up so that we you can ask the County to come and look at our
streets too, that's exactly what's going to happen!
Mayor Suarez: We're mindful of that problem too, but
it just wouldn't
make
any sense to do that as to the entire
Coconut
Grove
area, because I think
that...
Mr. McElroy. I'm asking that you just
do it
in the
South Grove area,
the
neighborhood that...
Mayor Suarez: OK, I'm trying to pin you
down a
little
bit more and more
and
more. I would entertain a motion as
to Avocado from
32nd to 37th,
.for
example, if that's what you wanted.
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Loquat,
Avocado, Palmetto
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Royal Palm, and you are just addressing a
few of
the streets
there, and if:ypus
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traffic over the next day. You can't do something to two streets and not do
it to all five in a row there. It will move that traffic the next day if you
put 20 mile an hour signs up on one street.
Mayor Suarez: Am I understanding correctly that are a total of four streets
bounded on the west and the east by the same two avenues that are affected by
this?
Mr. McElroy: And it's also affected the other side of Douglas.
Mayor Suarez: Ah he, you want to get me on the other side of Douglas, then.
Mr. McElroy: No, that's where those cars go. They don't turn down Douglas,
they go right to Main Highway.
Mayor Suarez: I'm aware of all that. I'm just saying that I don't think it
makes sense for us to ask the County to look at stop signs at every
intersection in an area.
Mr. McElroy: I agree that it doesn't. You should ask the County to look at
the whole...
Mayor Suarez: I always let you complete your statement. You never let me
complete mine.
Mr. McElroy: I asked you not to do that...
Mayor Suarez: You must be an attorney.
Mr. McElroy: No, I'm not... and to ask the County to look at that whole
section.
Mayor Suarez: You should be, you'd win a lot of cases. You wouldn't let even
the judge speak, let alone the opponent.
Mr. McElroy: Right, OK, I'll give you a minute.
Mr. Plummer: We ask the Department to look at it and report back to us at the
next meeting.
Mr. Rodriguez: At the next meeting, we won't...
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Mayor Suarez: Please. The next Planning and Zoning, or whenever you are
going to come.
Mr. Plummer: You could look at whether or not the stop signs are warranted.
I'm not asking you to do a study. Look at it and see if the stop signs are
warranted and hopefully we can make a decision.
Mr. Rodriguez: You mean, so it will clear on the
record, we're talking about
on the other side of Douglas, where Franklin, Loquat, Avocado, Palmetto, Royal
Palm...
Mr. Plummer: We are talking about the immediate
area surrounding that which
we just did.
Mayor Suarez: Both sides of Douglas.
Mr. McElroy: There is a natural triangle that
runs from Loquat to Main
Highway, down Poinciana, kind of a triangle, and
then to Le Jeune. It is a.
neighborhood that...
Mayor Suarez: It's covered by that, it's covered
by that. His definition is
broad enough to be covered by that.
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that neighborhood, we all
received the notices from the City so it is all within the 1,000 feet. Thank
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you very much.
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the 1,000 feet, it in evens
easier to define it, Mr. McElroy. I think you
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13. MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT: Authorize temporary restriction of vehicular
access, using removable barricades.
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Mr. Dawkins: Let's go to 74.
Mr. Kay: Item 74 is an item concerning the prohibition of vehicular traffic
to certain streets in the Design Plaza. We sent out 490 letters in a 1.000
foot radius of the closures. We really haven't received very such back from
anyone, mainly just phone calls here and there. We did receive one
recommendation from the...
Mayor Suarez: Let me ask who is here to be heard on item 74? Raise your
hands.
Mr. Plummer: How many for, and how many against? Which I'm looking at as
residents as opposed to commercial.
Mayor Suarez: The old residents against commercial.
Mr. Kay: We did receive a reply from the Police Department. They felt that
these closures would inhibit their response time, so our only... we didn't
make a traffic study on this item, because the item was presented to us not as
one to resolve any traffic problems within the area, but rather to move to a
safe neighborhood type of program. We are opposed to the closures. We only
received one response, from the Police Department.
Mayor Suarez: For the usual reasons. Would you come up to the mike and tell
us where you live and if there is any specific barricade of the one being
proposed that is particularly problematic to you, or if it is all of them,
or...?
Mr. James Kemp: My name is James Kemp. I live at 76 NW 39th Street. I am a
resident for 25 years. We understand that a group of property owners are in
favor of this; however, we're residents and it is a relatively stable
community. It constitutes about working people. It is not really bad area,
I've been there all my life and it is not a high crime area, I know.
Mayor Suarez: Can you point to his residence on the map there, Jim, does it
reach the boundaries there? - 76 NW 39th Street.
Mr. Kemp: My house would be right were the proposed barricade, right around
there, 76 NW 39th Street, where the proposed barricade is. See where the
wording, proposed barricade?
Mr. Kay: The barricade is on the other side of Miami Avenue.
Mr. Kemp: To the west side, right there.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, he's got to be on the west side of Miami Avenue, right
around where the sign is there, OK. Which is the barricade that most affects
you in getting in and out of your neighborhood?
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Mr. Kemp: OK, what concerns me mostly is not the mere fact of the traveling,
It is the mere fact of the issue having a group of businessmen marching
through our area. This is a relatively unstable dwelling as businessmen `4
Impose a law that's a permanent idea on our community. It restricts our �r
travel throughout the community freely, and I don't think that it's exactly
just to the people that live there. If there...
Mayor Suarez: Well, for example, which ones do you think would be the ones *,
that would be affect your ability to get to where you live?
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Mr. Kemp: Well, if you were to visit someone in the area of 40th Street.or f
the traffic that flows down 39th Street as a result of coming off I-99 In 4
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damaging our roads already. To close off these areas Mould direct more
traffic into our community. If you visit someone in the 40th around that...
Mayor Suarez: To Miami Avenue, for example► North Miami, which is...
Mr. Kemp: Right, if you were to visit someone up around 40th Street and all
the traffic having to come back out onto 39th Street, creating more traffic,
stop signs are just to the west of the lettering, proposed barricade, there
have at least been 20 or 30 accidents there within the last five years. This
wouldn't help the situation by installing barricades and it definitely, I
don't think it is a good idea for the community.
Mayor Suarez: Well, if you lived on 40th Street, you might see a lot less
traffic going through your street on the west side of North Miami, because of
the barricades, because a lot less people will be able to come over there.
Mr. Kemp: Veil, I live on 39th, and 39th is...
Mayor Suarez: No, no, but I mean you mentioned 40th Street, if you wanted to
visit somebody on 40th.
Mr. Kemp: That was 40th in northeast section. If I was to visit someone in
the northeast section of 40th Street...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, that's right.
Mr. Kemp: ... and anybody else for that matter who comes back into that area
would have to exit onto 39th Street and the issue really isn't the traffic
being created, the issue is the fact that you are imposing a permanent
fixture. If the problem is too much traffic during the their business hours,
maybe they could install some type of fixture which is based on business hours
or maybe a temporary block of some sort for those hours and remove it after
those hours, allowing the residents to travel freely through their own
community. If there is any problems with that, I could not understand that.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, the thing it is only done as a testing type
situation, right at this point in time and I think it's... let me tell you
something, we need to do something with this district. You know, it's going
down hill to a great degree and I think it behooves us to do all that we can
to try to get it up to where it has been for many years in the past.
Mr. Kemp: Are you concerned with the businessmen or the residents?
Mr. De Yurre: Right now I am talking about the district itself.
Mr. Kemp: Businesses.
Mr. De Yurre: OK?
Mayor Suarez: It will affect both, I mean. I the business district goes down
and you know, they close down all the shops and everything else, it will
affect the neighborhood.
Mr. Kemp: Why don't we extend that area out into the community? If you look,
it's about a $60,000 area, and if you want to retain the value of that area,
why don't you place the barricades out a little further than just the district
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of the businessmen in conservation of that area.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I don't know how far that would mean, and I don't know if
it would make sense, but it's conceivable that it would.
Mr. Kemp: If your interest is within. the community and not the businessmen,
then do something that would affect the entire community as whole, not just
their interests.
Mayor Suarez: See, they are competing, as the Vice Mayor said, they are
competing with an area in Dania, I gather, that is self contained and you
pretty much can only in one end... I've never been there, so I shouldn't try
to describe it, but I understand that you can't go in all kinds of different
ways and they are not restricting this, you know, from entry by every corner,
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Mr. Kemp: Weil, did you agree with me that the interests are primarily of the
businessmen and not of the community?
Mayor Suarez: The businessmen are part of the community. -
Mr. Kemp: They constitute a small portion of it. You just said you sent out
a 100... and another thing that is...
Mr. Prince: We purposely didn't want to interfere with the residents.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, we are not going to have a back and forth in here.
OK. Go ahead and compete your presentation. By the way, if you have other
people who live in the vicinity and don't have exactly your perspective, or
similar, and you want to add something, feel free to do so. _
Mr. Kemp: Well, there are a number of residents, who because of their
obligations to work and because we constitute the working population and not
the entrepreneurs, free to travel with them, they are not able to be here.
I've traveled about 30-40 miles to get here and that's not exactly right
around the corner in traffic hours, so I'm sure my feelings represent the
masses of my community and though they are not here, they feel the same way I
do.
Mayor Suarez: OK, as the Vice Mayor is pointing out, should we decide to do
these barriers, they are going to be there on a temporary basis, on a trial
basis, and you are welcome to get petitions signed by a lot of other people.
Mr. Kemp: All right, would petitions suffice? Because I understand once you
place barricades...
Mayor Suarez: They are very effective here at City Hall.
Mr. Kemp: Well, it is a lot easier to install than to remove. Once they put
these items in place, we...
Mayor Suarez: No, the temporary ones are totally temporary. They can be...
Mr. Kemp: Are these barricades, the barrels, or the barricades as a wood
structure? The kind that you can move?
Mayor Suarez: They are wood structures with little sacks at the bottom to
hold them in place.
Mr. Kemp: Well, why aren't these installed for the business hours? If you
don't want traffic down there during the business hours, why don't you just
put something up that you can remove after 5:00 o'clock?
Mayor Suarez: I don't know that we'd have somebody every day... they are easy
to remove, but not quite that easy to remove.
Mr. Kemp: Well, it is a heavily patrolled area. I have been harassed all my
life, living over there. I mean, I'm a working person, college educated and
every time I walk into that area, police stop me, so if you are concerned with
people, if you are concerned with the community getting in your sacred area,
then why don't you install something that could be removed after hours?
Mayor Suarez: Anything further you want to add? Anyone else? OK, that's
another problem that we are trying to deal with, is people being stopped all
the time for absolutely no reason and...
Mr. Kemp: That's common throughout... that's our life story. I've been there
25 years, I've never lived anywhere else, and many of my friends of similar
backgrounds.
Mayor Suarez: Ma'am, do you want to add anything?
Ms. Mary Kemp: My name is Mary Kemp and I'm a teacher.
we should before you install these...
Mayor Suarez: Give us your address or...
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Me. !temp: I'm 76 NW 39th. I think that we should have a chance to go around
and tot petitions because a lot of the neighbors, you know, at 5:00 o'clock
It's hard for them to get here, that we should be able to get petitions and
everything before you...
Mayor Suarez: Let's make sure too, that we schedule the hearing on permanent
barricades at 6:00 p.m. instead of 5:00 p.m.
Ms. Kemp: ... install these things, even temporarily, that we should have a
chance to, you know, really speak.
Mayor Suarez: And we'll try to schedule the meeting a little bit later next
time, so...
Ms. Kemp: Yes, because this is very inconvenient and everyone...
Mayor Suarez: Ss00 p.m. In very tough for a lot of people. Sir, do you want
to make a statement?
Mr. Carl Eloi: My name is Carl Eloi, I live at 66 NW 39th Street. I am a
Creole speaker and this area here is heavily populated by the Haitian
community. Now, most of them did not
have a chance to be here, due to the working problem and I ask that the panel
give me a chance to come. I will take it upon myself to give to each and
every one of those families to get a petition signed, to do what we are trying
to do here.
Mayor Suarez: OK, while you do that too, by the way, and assuming that this
passes today, please let's get the two groups together. I mean, as you
organize the neighborhood, if it isn't already organized to oppose something
like this, let's talk between the two groups to see if there is anything that
we can do to give them a little bit more of a self contained aspect to them to
compete with Dania which is a very important thing, the purpose of the City to
have this Design District be alive and thriving and that would not be as
obstructive to you and destructive of your neighborhood as you feel it is.
You know, there may be ways. Maybe the temporary ones you talked about, we
mentioned a little while ago, those rubber ones that allow emergency vehicles
to go through. God knows what may be the best expedient, but don't hesitate
the two groups to meet and to organize them and have an association, if you
don't already have one. What is that neighborhood called, the residential
neighborhood? Do we even have a name?
Unidentified Speaker: Princess Park.
Mayor Suarez: Princess Park? Do we have an association, neighborhood
-- association?
Mr. Eloi: One more thing, sir. I said the panel should check on the City of
Miami Police record to check the amount of accidents that has been on 39th
Street, it is a heavy populated area. If this would happen, it will increase
�! the amount of traffic.
®' Mayor Suarez: You'll have more traffic on 39th Street.
Mr. Eloi: Yes, it will traffic and our children in the neighborhood in
this location are being hit by cars and this situation it will just make
things worse and one human life, the price is too much to pay for any amount
of money, whatever and the point is, human life and we have to do whatever it
takes to protect the life of the children in the neighborhood.
Mayor Suarez: I really believe that as the Commission is saying, this could
be a good situation for removable barriers. We may have to look into that.„
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Mr. Kay: It would need a ninety day trial period.
Mr. Kemp: Could we postpone or delay installation of these until we can get a
petition or something and not just because we are fewer in number and maybe in
economic stature that it's going to pass. Could we just postpone this for a
while and we get these petitions and things signed to show you that our
community really feels as we do. Is that an unfair suggestion, or is that...
Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you what I think is fair, OK? Under normal
circumstances, it takes no less than 30 days from the time we ask the County
or we ask the Administration to put them in place. We have another meeting on
the 23rd. Let's go ahead, if it passes today and you come down here and we'll
schedule an item on the 23rd and if this Commission in its wisdom decides not
to put them up, we'll decide that on the 23rd, or if we do, we'll proceed.
Mr. Kemp: Is it not feasible that we could delay the issue until...
Mr. Plummer: Well, the issue itself is the ordering of the signs, is usually
30 days, am I right? About 30 days, which carries beyond the next meeting.
Mr. Kemp: Well, that seems, you know, a step in the direction of passing or
favoring their notion, since it hasn't been resolved and you don't really know
the feelings of the masses of people in that community. I mean, you are
basically voting in what they have asked for.
_ Mayor Suarez: We're running a test based on something that was requested that
we may or may not agree with and that people in the neighborhood have
presumably been notified.
Mr. Kemp: They have been notified of...
Mayor Suarez: And that doesn't mean that we won't change our mind, it doesn't
mean that if we hear you on the 23rd as the Commissioner is proposing, we
might not change our minds then.
Mr. Kemp: OK, they have been notified. These gentlwmen, or people, they can
travel, they can write their own schedule.
Mayor Suarez: We know what you feel about their ability to travel. We've got
to hear from them now and get this matter decided. We've got many other.
things that we can decide.
Mr. Plummer: How about 7:00 o'clock in the evening?
Mr. Rodriguez: Mr. Mayor...
Mr. Plummer: Will that do it, when the people are off of work?
Mr. Rodriguez: If I may, in the 23rd you have a very heavy agenda with a lot
of hearings scheduled by you for 5:00 o'clock and 6:00 o'clock and so on. I
suggest that if you have a hearing, leave it for the next Commission meeting
for fixed time on the next one.
Mr. De Yurre: Well no, because we have already, there's a 30 day period the
things are going to go up.
Mr. Rodriguez: Well, you can delay your 30 day period if you want to, but
what I am try to make you aware is that most of the agenda that day is after
5:00 o'clock, a lot of items have been scheduled in that and with a lot of
people coming on that meeting. It is up to you, but I want to make you aware
that you are going to have a lot of items after 5:00 and 6:00 o'clock.
Mr. Kemp: What is the main concern of... what is your main concern for this
community now? - businesses competing with similar fashion districts in other
areas or the stability of a community? This is not a...
Mayor Suarez: One of the concerns we have is the business being able to
compete with Dania so that we don't have another business district that goes
down the drain, which affects your community.
Mr. Kemp: OK, how has the business district contributed to the property value
of our homes?
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Mayor Suarez: Well, that is a long and complicated answer. I'm sure they are
going to want to answer it, but I'm glad you posed it. OK, have you completed
your presentation?
Mr. Kemp: Tom, well I've... yes, I've completed it.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you. OK.
Mr. De Turret Mr. Mayor, you know, I understand the concerns, but you know,
by the same time, we are talking about a temporary situation, and by doing
these temporary situations, we find out whether they're feasible or not and
maybe that during the 90 day period, we find that out that it is not doable,
because of the impact that it has on the neighborhood and that's why we do
these things on a temporary basis. I think that this will give us time for
the residents together with the business area to get together and work out
something feasible. The idea of removable barricades sounds like a pretty
good idea and I think it is something that can be studied during the period of
time, if this passes now, that it will be a study, so you know, I feel
comfortable with that and I move that we place the barricades at this point in
time.
Mayor Suarez: So moved. They are a lot more removable than one might think,
when you see them.
Mr. Kay: I would just like the record to reflect that in this resolution
before you there is a footnote which states that there is no more funding
available for FY186-189. The last barricades put up in the Grove were used
with SPA funds, that's my understanding there are no more funds, so...
Mayor Suarez: How much would they cost, these?
Mr. Kay: We're looking at about $3,500.
Mr. De Yurre: For the whole thing?
Mr. Kay: The whole thing.
Mayor Suarez: Association, do we have any proffers of monies to fund the
barricades?
Mr. Eduardo Gonzalez: We can call on the property owners.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, I'll move it subject to them putting up the $3,500,
or whatever the amount is that's needed.
Mayor Suarez: Or a lesser, I suppose a lesser number equivalent to a lesser
number of barricades, if they can't get the $3,500 up, maybe they want to try
for three or four? How much are they per barricade?
Mr. Kay: It's about 6500... $500, $600 per barricade.
Mr. Joe Pallant: Can we share half of it? I'd be very happy to...
Mayor Suarez: We don't have any money in the budget. It would require a whole
appropriation ordinance and everything. I would try for, you know, as many as
you can fund.
Mr. Pallant: I want the...
Mayor Suarez: State your name for the record, please.
Mr. Pallant: My name is Joe Pallant, and I'm at 4000 NE 2nd Avenue in Miami.
I'm a business owner and I've been in the area for 19 years. I want the
Commission to understand that there is on the record right now, $56,000,000 of
property values in this four block area from 36th Street to 40th Street. This _
is the third largest taxing district in the area. We want our property values
to go up. Our property values are going down. We help support the City on '-
property values and our taxes and I would give the City anything to help
promote the area. I think that we came here knowing that the City would put
this in, to call upon us now, where we are property owners and paying one of
the highest taxes and taxing districts, I think it is unfair. If it means
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that we can't do it, I think that we'll try and maintain it, but I certainly
think that as a taxing district, we heavily support this City of Miami and
what we are doing with $S6,000,000 in four areas. I'll be very happy to most
anybody in any area to sit down with them. They are on the outside of the
area, they set traffic patterns. I'll be happy to sit down with them in the
future, but we need this now and we want this... we have brought in the last
meeting, hundreds in your records and in your files, that I brought last
time, hundreds of petitions that were signed by property owners and merchants
and tenants in the area, so as Commissioner Plummer said before, you know,
majority rules. We have hundreds of people that have signed petitions.
That's on public record that I filed with the circuit court. We would hope
that you would agree that I would like to start moving toward temporary
barricades.
Mr. Dawkins: You know, I have to take issue with the majority rule. Now, as
the gentlemen said, you know, they have a right to enjoy their homes the same
as we want the right to save the Design District, so you know, why can't we,
if you are talking about, I don't know whatever you are doing, but just
everybody, don't say the majority rules, because they can come down here, just
like he said, they could go get 3,000 people and come down here and if I go
with them, I'd have to may the majority rules, OK? So don't talk about the
majority rule, let's talk about what is best for the City of Miami.
Mr. Prince: You're 100 percent right. He only meant majority of
businesspeople.
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me tell you what I think, OK? I think this is a damn
good idea to start for the first time and try the removable barricades, those
that have the pipes in the street, where they can place them in at 9:00
o'clock in the morning and take them out at 5:00 o'clock... whoa, whoa,
please... at your expense, at your expense. If you have somebody, you have
five, well no, there are two more down there, you have seven barricades that
we will take and we will make them, we will put the holes in the street, and
at your expense, you have somebody put them up at 9:00 o'clock in the morning
and somebody take them down at 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon. I think this is
a good experiment to try to see whether it works or not. That's my opinion.
Mrs. Kennedy: I agree. I think it is a case where it can really work and if
that is in the form of a motion, I second.
Mr. De Yurre: Are you talking about even for the temporary basis?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mr. De Yurre: Right now?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, let's see if it works.
Mr. Prince: To put the holes in the street, yes. We have security in the
area.
Mr. Plummer: Let's see if it works. You got security, they can go move them,
swing them around, I think it is a thing to try, we want to see whether that
has any good results, let's try it.
Mr. Dawkins:
Call the roll.
Mayor Suarez:
OK, so we withdraw initial motion and
have a new motion r
seconded on the withdrawable ones.
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Mr. Kay: What
would be the hours of operation?
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Mr. Plummer:
9:00 to 5:00 p.m.
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Mrs. Kennedy:
9:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Mayor Suarez:
9:00 to 5:00.=g
Hr. Plummer:
They cannot put them up before 9:00 o'clock
In the morning.:
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!Mayor $uarott stub;act of during the testing period to the association being
good at putting them up and taking them down.
Mr. Plummer: They mist take them down by 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon. Your
business closes at S:00 p.m. primarily.
Mr. Prince: 5:00 or 6:00 in the afternoon, yes.
Mr. Plummer: All right, I'll give you leeway, 9:00 to 6100 p.m. You cannot
put them up before 9:00 and you must have them down by 6:00 in the afternoon.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roil on that motion...
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Mr. Plummer: Wait, excuse me.
Mayor Suarez: ... so stipulated. ;
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Mr. Prince: But the City will pay for the poles.
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Mr. Plummer: We'll pay for the poles...
Mr. Dawkins: No, you will pay for it, we've already taxed you for it, ain't
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no problem. The money won't come from us, no, OK, no problem.
Mr. Prince: Thank you.
Mr. Plummer: Let's try itl
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-271
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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND PERMITTING THE N`
RESTRICTION OF VEHICULAR ACCESS TO N.E. 38 STREET AND
40 STREET AT THE EASTERLY SIDE OF THEIR
INTERSECTION WITH NORTH MIAMI AVENUE, N.E. 38 STREET
AND N.E. 40 STREET AT THE WESTERLY SIDE OF THEIR
INTERSECTION WITH N.E. 2 AVENUE, N.E. 1 AVENUE AND r
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N.S. 1 COURT AT THE NORTHERLY SIDE OF THEIR
INTERSECTION WITH N.E. 36 STREET AND N.E. 1 AVENUE AT
THE SOUTHERLY SIDE OF ITS INTERSECTION WITH N.E. 41 tip;
STREET ON A NINETY (90) DAY TRIAL BASIS BY
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CONSTRUCTING TEMPORARY BARRICADES ACROSS SAID STREETS,.
AVENUES, AND COURTS, SUBJECT TO CITY COMMISSION REVIEW
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AND PROVISIONS CONTAINED WITHIN THIS RESOLUTION.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on>
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)__
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
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AYES: C, lissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins dry
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez x r
NOES: None. A
ABSENT: None.
Mr.- Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, let me may this is temporary aad that wbea Choy `wipe "
back for the permanent hearing have all your people here and if it c�otasa't A':
work, document that it doesn't work and if you think that We besot iful;-- and
you like it and you want to extend it out to include you Brea so,:, t c9tld be
safe so folks won't stop us who look like me when you go walking thxough
there, then we will do that, OK? All right: s`
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Mr. Plummer: I keeptelling ''
g you, People don't look like you, they are -49t
that uglyl;.
Mr. ltodriguet: Mr. Mayor, I didn't get clear who pays for thist
Mr. Gonzalez: I want to show them, you know, what getting to Dania.
Mr. De Turre: The City.
Mr. Plummer: We do.
Mayor Suarez: I think the City is going to pay for it, yes.
Mr. Davkins: The City.
Mr. Kay: The whole thing?
Mr. Plummer: Teo, sir.
Mr. Kay: You still haven't identified the source of funds, though.
Mr. Plummer: Out of the City Manager's budget.
Mayor Suaraz: Did you want to make any...
Mr. Gonzalez: Yes, I want to show you something. This is what you need to
get into Dania. This is what we are competing to. I have a business in Miami
and I have a business in Dania. Miami, they are moving up to Dania like likes
flies.
Mayor Suarez: We know that's a self-contained area, that you need a car to
get into, but we don't have that. We have open City streets, so...
Mr. Gonzalez: We have two security gates in Dania, so you have to go through
the security gates in order to get in there. Thank you, so we are not trying
to do anything to your people. We are trying to protect the business in the
area.
Mr. Davkins: They are not trying to do anything to the business.
Mayor Suarez: They are also hoping to cause...
Mr. Dawkins: They also know that we want to save the District, but they also
want the liberty of enjoying their homes, OK, all right.
Mr. Pallant: Thank you very much.
Mr. De Yurre: Thank you.
74. (Continued Discussion) AMERICAN LEGION: Refer funding request to
Administration (See label 56).
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, item 61, which is the American Legion, they would
like to request some of the things that were on the item that weren't heard
before, if we can just bring that up right now.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, we approved I think everything except any funding. OK,
what was the issue on the American Legion now, matter?
Mr. Do Yurre: Yes, air.
Mr. Roberto Mayeda: Good afternoon, my name is Roberto Mayeda, I am with
Post 10212, American Legion Post 346. We want to know the results of item 61,.,E
We were not present at the time.
Mr. De Yurre: What was the result of item 617 Sergio, item 61, the results.
Mr. Rodriguez: What is the action from the Commission, you mean?
Mr. De Yurre: That's right.,�� -
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Mr. Rodriguez: You can ask the Clerk, Commissioner.
Mts.
Kannedy: Commissioner Plummer or Commissioner Dawkins made a motion to
close the street, which I seconded it. I don't know if you got that.
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Mr.
De Yurre: OK, the street closure is what you got. There was no funding.
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Mr.
Mayeda: No funding at all?
Mr.
Da Yurre: No funding. Did you get funding last year?
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Mayeda: Yes, sir.
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De Yurre: What did you get?_
Mr.
Mayeda: The City provided the police.
Mr.
De Yurre: How much was that?
Mr.
Rodriguez: The request was $3,000.
Mr.
De Yurre: What was the total cost?
Mr.
Rodriguez: The request for this year for the police In $3,000.
Mr. De Yurre: $3,000.
Mr. Rodriguez: The request that they have.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, well I move that they get together with the Administration
and work out those details, if we were just talking about $3,000.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded.
Mr. De Yurre: Call the roll.
(WHEREUPON ROLL CALL WAS BEGUN)
Mayor Suarez: Wait a minute. This a procedural nicety, Mr. Vice Mayor, but
I'm still the one that calls the roll here. He has been doing that to me all
day, now you do it to me.
Mr. Plummer: It's after 6:00 o'clock sir, you are on dangerous thin ice.
Mayor Suarez: What is it you are doing at 6:00 p.m. that is so valuable? I
want ten percent of whatever it is. OK, Mr. City Clerk, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 89-272
A MOTION REFERRING TO THE ADMINISTRATION FUNDING
REQUEST IN THE AMOUNT OF $3,000 RECEIVED FROM }
REPRESENTATIVES OF THE AMERICAN LEGION. L ,,
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
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adopted by the following vote:
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AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy "^ x
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.,
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is, cin commiSSIoN MEETING MARCH 2STH: Change commencement to 1:00 p.m.
Mayor Suarez: Cosmissioners, before you leave, the problem is that the
Planning i Zoning will take up the afternoon. There are a few other items. We
could begin in the morning at 11:00 a.m. and then have the usual adjournment
at lunch, or we could try beginning at 1:00 p.m., but I don't want you all to=
gat angry later if we don't finish everything.
Mrs. Kennedy: I like 1100 P.M.
Mayor Suarez: We are going for 1:00 p.m.?
Mr. be Yurre: 1:00 o'clock.
Mayor Suarez: CK, we have a amtion, seconded. Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 89-273
A RESOLUTION RESCHEDULING THE SECOND REGULAR CITY
COMMISSION MEETING OF MARCH, 1989 TO TAKE PLACE ON MARCH
23, 1989, COMMENCING AT 1100 P.M.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the.Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy,
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice Mayor Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
HOES: None.
ASSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
THERE BEING no FURlEMR BUSINESS TO
OMISSION, 2= =; WAS ADJOqRBW AT 6:08 P.M.
the resolution was passed
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ALLOCATE $46,600 FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT
,TRUST FUND TO ACQUIRE A COMPUTER AIDED
TRANSCRIPTION SYSTEM .L AL T,D.I.
CONVERTER AND A B-38 MICROCOMPUTER WITH
LASER'PRINTER. 89-213
ACCEPT BID: JUELLE, IJC. FOR
FURNISHING DEMOLITION SERVICES TO
.BUILDING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT-.- 89-214
ACCEPT BID: OMNICHROME. FOR FURNISHING
A:FINGERPRINT DETECTION LIGHT SOURCE
_To 'PL
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JUSTICE.".RrwARD FUND INC. ALLOCATE
`FROM.'THE "'LAW ENFORCEMENT -TRUST
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UTHORIZE INTERLOCAL- AGREEMENT -BETWEEN
`METR'O*:DAbE COUNTY AND THE CITY:MAKE
JOINT -AP PLICATION TO FLORIDA SOLID
lWA:sTE.!'MANAGEMEmT GRANT .1PROGRAM FOR
-'FUNDING-`OF RECYCLING AND .RELATED
EDUCATION -PROJECTS. q
AUTHORIZE EASEMENT AGREEMENT FOR
11ING128S AND =EGRESS T0AND :FRON'
'RE S I DEN C E :LOCATEDtATI'.3924HARDIE ROAD. 89;
RBSCHEDULE.PUBL'ICHEARING REGARDING A
UNIFIED DEVELOPMENTREQUEST FOR
'PROPOSALS :OF-"CI,TY:.XBLOCYt.NUMBER ,*43
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INITIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST
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MR. ROBERT BERG, PRESIDENT, SAILORMEN
INC. DBA POPEYE'S FRIED CHICKEN TOA•`„
RECOVER MODEL CITY SMALL BUSINESS PILOT
LOAN PROGRAM LOAN. RESCIND REMAINING
BALANCE.
89-223
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INITIATE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINT MS.
DELPHINE MURRAY DBA. D & D COIN
LAUNDRY TO RECOVER MODEL CITY SMALL
BUSINESS PILOT LOAN PROGRAM.
89-224
LAW DAY RUN 1989: AUTHORIZE STREET
CLOSURES.
89-225 3.
1989 MIAMI MAGIC 5K RUN. AUTHORIZE
STREET CLOSURES, ESTABLISH PEDESTRIAN
MALL.
89-226
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ACCEPT BID: ENGLESIDE SERVICE
'CONTRACTORS INC. FOR FURNISHING
CUSTODIAL SERVICES AT THE POLICE
NORTH SUBSTATION.
EXECUTE CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS WITH 9
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NEIGHBORHOOD. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT*
ORGANIZATIONS FOR IMPLEMENTING
A=COMMERCIAL FACADE TREATMENT PROGRAM
ALLOCATE FUNDS FROM 14TH YEAR CDBG.
89-22.8
EXECUTE PROFESSIONAL.SERVICES AGREEMENT
WITH: A. FOSTER HIGGINS''AND C'O.INC.
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.FOR ACTUARIAL ASSISTANCE IN''PENSION
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MATTERS.
89-229
ESTABLISH SPECIAL CHARGES FOR USE OF
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:BOBBY,MADURO BASEBALL STADIUM BY LITTLE
HAIT.I SOCCER LEAGUE FOR 40 AMATEUR
GAMES. EXECUTE AGREEMENT.
89-230 s
AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF REVOCABLE PERMIT
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TO REYNOLDS ALUMINUM RECYCLING
COMPANY, FOR SPACE IN PARKING LOT
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OF FIRE -TRAINING CENTER.
89-231
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pLYMI'IC GAMES:. AS.$GN RESPONSIBILITY
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OF- SECURING THE —HOSTING -OF THE GAMES . IN
2000 TO THE ORANGE',BOWL COMMITTEE.
TACOLCY ECONOMIC
—DEVELOPMENT,
:CORPORATION INO._AUTHORIZE"CONTRACT:
,AGREEMENT :FOR :COMMERCIAL FACADE PROGRAM
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ALONG.,`NW -1.5TH .:AVENUE .BETWEEN .NW
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LOTH RNA.. NW 71ST $•TWEETS IN MODEL
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ACCEPT TWO GRANTS FROM FLORIDA DEPT, OF
HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES:
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES. EXECUTE
AGREEMENTS TO PURCHASE ONE EMS TYPE:
III PARAMEDIC RESCUE VEHICLE AND ONE
PART TIME ACCIDENT AND FIRST AID
RESOURCE TEACHER.
EXECUTE AGREEMENT: RUSSELL PARTNERSHIP
INC. FOR PROFESSIONAL DESIGN
CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR THE MORNINGSIDE
RECREATION BUILDING PROJECT NO,
331313
EXECUTE AGREEMENT: LAURA LLERENA AND
ASSOCIATES, INC. AND HERMINE E.
RICKE TS, ARCHITECT. FOR PROFESSIONAL
DESIGN CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR THE
AFRICAN SQUARE PARK RENOVATIONS PROJECT
(NO.331053).
EXECUTE AGREEMENT: LAURA LLERENA AND
ASSOCIATES',INC. FOR PROFESSIONAL
DESIGN CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR THE
GRAPELAND, HADLEY AND MORNINGSIDE PARK
IRRIGATION PROJECTS (NO.331338).
EXECUTE AGREEMENT: ALTERNATIVE=PROGRAMS
-INC, TO PROVIDE' A CASE MANAGEMENT
PROGRAM TO,REFER CLIENTS'TO AGENCIES
PROVIDING JOB TRAINING, HOUSING AND
HEALTH SERVICES.
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89-239
89-240
89-241
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89-242
89-243
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ADVISORY BOARD;
APPOINTED WAS JOHN BENNETT,
89-245
CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD: APPOINTED WERE
ANA MAGDA 'GUILLEN AND THELBERT
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'JOHNAKING.
89=246
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CONFIRM ORDERING RESO. 88-1018
ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR
CONSTRUCTION OF SOUTH FLAGLER
SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT (SRC`
5540- d) CENTERLINE -SEWER.
89=247
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WAIVE CODE REQUIREMENTS ;AND EXECUTE
AGREEMENT 'FOR' 'PROFESSIONAL PLANNING
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SERVICE'S WITH -R'EGINALD A. BARKER, AICP
IN. CONNECTION WITH THE INCREMENTS I AND'
II OF. -THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
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FUNDS FROM 14TH YEAR CDBiG.
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INCREASE CONTRACT AMOUNT: TARAFA
CONSTRUCTION INC. FOR CONSTRUCTION
OF FIRE GARAGE/F'IRE STATION NO. 3
MODIFICATION AND EXPANSION (SECOND
BIDDING), CIP PROJECT 313019.
44TH MIAMI INTERNATIONAL ORCHID SHOW:
WAIVE PORTION OF RENTAL FEE FOR USE OF
COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER.
AIDS MARCH: GRANT REQUEST FROM HEALTH
crisis network for street closures
ALLOCATE ONE FREE COMMUNITY DAY
FROM EXISTING COMMUNITY DAYS RESERVED
FOR CITY EVENTS TO HEALTH CRISIS NET-
WORK FOR USE OF BAYFRONT PARK
RME:VAL COVE NO.
89-249
89-250
89-252
AMPHITHEATER.
89-253
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF DAY CARE
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FACILITY IN ALLAPATTAH: INSTRUCT
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CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
WITH HERIBERTO FONSECA. TO INCLUDE
SOLICITATION OF AREA MERCHANTS AND
STATE OF FLORIDA SUPPORT.
89-254
MARCH OF DIMES 19TH ANNUAL WALKAMERICA
EVENT: AUTHORIZE STREET CLOSURES,
RESTRICTION OF RETAIL PEDDLERS.
89-256
AMERICAN LEGION: GRANT REQUEST
FOR STREET "CLOSURES.
89-257
TROPICAL CLEAR BLUE LAUNDRY SYSTEM:
ACCEPT POSSIBLE SECOND POSITION ON
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LOAN.
89-259
ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC: DIRECT CITY
MANAGER TO PAY OUTSTANDING BILLS IN
CONNECTION WITH THE 1988 EVENT AND TURN
OVER BALANCE OF MONEY TO DESIGNATED
CUSTODIAN, MR. GARTH REEVES FOR THE
NEXT EVENT.
89-260��K
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1989 MIAMI JAZZ -FESTIVAL: GRANT
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REQUEST FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF
PRODUCTION CENTER FOR THE ARTS,INC.
TO WAIVE RENTAL FEE FOR USE OF
MIAMI MARINE STADIUM.
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SALTWATER SPORT FISHING SHOW:
AUTHORIZE SPECIAL DOCKAGE RATES FOR
DINNER KEY MARINA PIER 6-EXECUTE
AGREEMENT. 89-263
ACCEPT BID: J.R. BUILDERS. FOR
DEMOLITION SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH
THE GOLDEN ARMS APARTMENT BUILDING AT
2000 S.W. 24TH STREET. 89-264
REQUEST METRO DADE COUNTY TO PUT UP _
"STOP" AND "CHILDREN AT PLAY" SIGNS
IN THE AREA OF KUMQUAT AND LOQUAT
AVENUES AT WESTERLY SIDE OF INTERSECTION
WITH DOUGLAS ROAD.
89-267
MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT:
AUTHORIZE
TEMPORARY RESTRICTION OF VEHICULAR
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ACCESS USING REMOVABLE
BARRICADES.
89-271
CITY COMMISSION MEETING
MARCH 25TH
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CHANGE COMMENCEMENT TO
1:00 P.M.
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