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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 1988-10-14 Minutes10 CITY OF MIAMI IN!:ORY��)N:1TEi� O It 96 OF IWIN6 HU ON October 14, 1988 (SPECIAL) PupARD iY THE OFFICE OF THE CITY Cam CITY HALL r ITEM NO. 2. INDEX MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA OCTOBER 14, 1988 SUBJECT A - (1)"PROPOSED CITIZEN OF THE YEAR AWARD AT THE STATE OF THE CITY ADDRESS" brief discussion of future selection by the City Commission of five prominent citizens of this City in connection with this award. (ii) CITY COMMISSION HEARINGS IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS - direct Administration to hold a series of hearings at the beginning of the new calendar year. B - EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: repeal Ord. 10473 which authorized issuance of $35,000,000 Street and Highway Improvement Bonds and $10,000,000 Waterfront Improvement Bonds, and Ord. 10474 which called for a Special Election to be held in respect to said issuance of bonds. Direct City Clerk to take all steps necessary to have the November 8, 1988 Special Election cancelled and to have the City ballot questions removed from the General Election ballot. LEGISLATION PAGE NO. ORDINANCE 1-9 10490 10/14/88 R 88-959 9-10 10/14/88 t_ z < T MINUTES OF SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA On the 14th day of October, 1988, the City Commission of Miami, Florida, met at its regular meeting place in the City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, Florida in Special Session to consider a matter of public import, namely, the consideration of the cancellation of the Special Municipal Election scheduled for Nov. 8, 1988. 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 Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez Absent: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. ALSO PRESENT: Cesar Odio, City Manager Robert F. Clark, Chief Deputy City Attorney Matty Hirai, City Clerk Walter J. Foeman, Assistant City Clerk An invocation was delivered by Mayor Suarez who then led those present in a pledge of allegiance to the flag. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: repeal Ord. 10473 which authorized issuance of not to exceed $35,000,000 street and highway improvement bonds and not to exceed $10,000,000 waterfront improvement bonds; and Ord. 10474 authorizing the holding of a Special Municipal Election with respect to issuance of said bonds. ------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------- Mayor Suarez: This special session is called pursuant to the charter by myself, I forget the exact section, I don't think that we need to cite it, do we, Mr. City Attorney? - and the purpose is to consider a matter of urgent public import, namely the consideration of a cancellation of a special municipal election, which was scheduled for November 8, 1988, is in two parts, the first having to do with general obligation bonds of $35,000,000, am I correct? Mr. Odio: It's two issues, highway improvement bonds. Mayor Suarez: Street improvements, right. s Mr. Odio: And waterfront improvements. Mayor Suarez: And that was a $10,000,000 bond issue? Mr. Odio: $10,000,000. Mayor Suarez: And I would like to ask the Commission for what its... Mr. Odio: Mr. Mayor, may I... Mayor Suarez: Yes, Mr. Manager. Mr. Odio: May I, on behalf of Commissioner Plummer, he is in Orlando representing the City of Miami in the Florida League of Cities and that's why he is not here today, so... Mayor Suarez: OK, how do the Commissioners feel about these bonds issues being on the ballot in November? Mr. Manager, do you want to make a recommendation on it? 1 October 14, 198$ i 7 Mr. Odio: Well, my recommendation, we only have 20 some days left and we don't have enough time to do the proper education program that is needed to tell the public how important these improvements are, and I suggest that we do not hold a... we pull them off the ballot this time. Mr. De Yurre: And even, I think no matter how much education you put out, it is not going to be fruitful. Mayor Suarez: Do we have an indication, or do you have any idea when the next primary or general election might be, at which time we might be able to put these on the ballot? Mr. Bob Clark: I just spoke with the elections supervisor, Deputy Joe Malone, and they haven't doped it out as far as the schedule for the different municipalities. We'll have our own general election for the candidates next November, but I am not aware of any earlier elections than that. I will inform the Commission as soon as I get the information. Mayor Suarez: There is no elections at all, general elections, primary elections before November of next year? I guess not. Mr. Odio: Unless somebody calls a special election in March and we don't know that yet. Mr. De Yurre: That's going to cost $100,000. Mrs. Kennedy: No, we don't want to do that. Mayor Suarez: OK, Commissioners. Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, through you to Mr. Cather. Mr. Don Cather: Yes, sir. Mr. Dawkins: In your professional judgement, where are we in providing the sewer and road improvements that you think is needed? Mr. Cather: We are behind schedule. We will be further behind schedule. Mr. Dawkins: And why are we behind schedule? Mr. Cather: Because the bond issue failed last March. Mr. Dawkins: Last March. Same bond issue? Mr. Cather: Yes, sir. Mr. Dawkins: All right. Mayor Suarez: A little bit different, Don? Mr. Cather: Well, it was $40,000,000 and then they cut it down to $35,000,000. Mayor Suarez: I guess you meant the same in terms of what it was meant to do, but the amount is a little different. Mr. Cather: The amount is different, but the purpose is the same. Mr. Dawkins: OK, so we are behind now, and from last March until now, we didn't educate the public, I mean, we the Commissioners, right? Mr. Cather: Well, if you'll remember, at the time that you authorized the $35,000,000 bond issue, you authprized a $50,000 fund at the suggestion, I believe, of Commissioner Plummer, for education purposes. We had been working for the past three months in developing a program. The consultant which was recommended by the Public Relations Department gave us a proposal that was deemed unnecessary because of budgetary reasons to do it in house. We had made a movie in the department, a VCR, showing the results of before and after highway improvements. We were intending to put that out starting October 5th. 2 October 14, 1988 0 4V Mr. Dawkins: If we do not get a bond issue, this and in your professional estimation, where would .,.�. c. ,. e,,u ,cad improvements needed, five years seven years without... will throw us furt'ner behind that place us in providing slow throw back, six years, Mr. Cattier: Well, it would put us another... it would put us two years behind on our scheduled improvements. Mr. Dawkins: OK, and the only place other than the bond issue to get money would be where? Mr. Cather: Well, we could get the larger percentage of the state gas taxes appropriated, but those funds are used for other purposes in the budget. Mr. Dawkins: OK, thank you. Mr. Mayor, I agree that from last March until now we did not do enough to educate the public, but I have a problem with us saying that we didn't spend enough money. I think that we, ourselves didn't do enough to educate the people, because they are looking to us for guidance, so when we hire, in my opinion, Mr. Mayor, when we hire PR people, etc., to go out and do what we are supposed to be doing, it doesn't have the same effect on the people, because they didn't elect PR people, they elected us. So I think that... I am not for pulling it off, but I am going to go with the majority and I think, Mr. Mayor, that we should be about educating the people and the reason that I don't want to pull it off is that either it was important enough for us to put it on or it wasn't... Mayor Suarez: In the first place. Mr. Dawkins: ... in the first place. So now, and either we have to sell the people or we don't, and either the citizens have to make up their mind that they want these improvements, or they don't, because we appear to need something to go forth with when they come and say that the water is backing up in my house, and I have to be able to say, we put the bond issue on, and you voted it down, which meant that you didn't want your street, you know, clear of water. I don't want them to tell me that had you put it on, I would have voted for it. So we are in a dilemma here, but I agree that we have to educate the people and we didn't do that from last March until now. Mayor Suarez: Let me ask the Commission, as long we are on this general topic on an idea that I have had, and I want to see how the Commission feels, and it is related to the State Of The City address. Typically one a year the Mayor is given a State Of The City address. A lot of time it has been used around election time, with the hope of convincing people that the City is in great state and the Mayor should be reelected and I don't think that's a particularly smart way of doing it. We've been sort of taking a little longer in the year each time to reschedule it and it is not even scheduled at this point for the end of the year. My idea would be the following, first of all, to ask each Commissioner to nominate and prepare the award and the wording to give to a total of five people in the City of Miami, a citizen of the year award, each Commissioner choosing one, and stating the reasons therefore, and making an award at that time. The other one would be, the other idea, and that's not particularly related to this bond issue, but the other one would be, and that would be to have a series of hearings in the neighborhoods and we haven't had these, I don't believe, since the new Commissioner came aboard. He probably doesn't know that they do take quite a bit out of you. They make you go out in the community in evenings and so on, but I think it is time that we maybe have four or five hearings, Mr. Manager, following up on Commissioner Dawkins was saying that we have to go back to the community and ask them what they want us to do. If they want us to put these bonds on the ballot, they have to support it, they have to tell us for what purpose, they have to tell us what streets they feel have to be repaired. I would suggest luring 1989, beginning as early as possible, the first three, four month, to have a special hearing, one a month, in each of four or five principal neighborhoods in the City, as maybe Don can instruct us which ones are the ones that may need these infrastructure improvements the most. I know I have a running discussion, debate, with The Miami News on what they claim to be the dire state of the streets in the City. I don't see it quite as bad as they do, but I do know that there are some streets that have to be improved and some neighborhoods that need these improvements and schedule four or five hearings, if the Commission would like to do that in the neighborhoods, to ask them and have people come forward. A couple of years ago all the hearings would always turn to crime, that was the overriding issue. Hopefully this time people 3 Octobgr 14, 1988 10 ip would say besides crime, we are also concerned... and besides substations, and mini -stations and this kind of stuff, we are also concerned about our intrastructu;e. Our streets need improvement, our parks, whatever it maybe and if the Commission would like to go along with that., and express your feelings on it, I'd like to schedule those hearings at the beginning of the year and get input from the community and maybe then, instead of this informational PR type stuff that Commissioner Dawkins was talking about, we'd have a little bit more of an exchange with our voters as to what they want. Mr. Odio: For clarification, are we talking about the regular City Commission meetings to hold it... Mrs. Kennedy: No, apart. Mr. Odio: Or just a hearing? Mayor Suarez: Special neighborhood hearings, whatever we called them, last... a couple years ago. Mrs. Kennedy: Like we used to do them. I think they were very effective, and anytime when you give people the opportunity to speak and tell them what's on their mind, we get a lot of good input back. Mr. Dawkins: And like you said, Commissioner Kennedy, when we vote for just a special meeting, we're there for that issue. When we take the Commission meeting out there, you know, we are busy conducting City business and the residents don't get a chance to say anything. Mrs. Kennedy: right. Mr. Dawkins: So we should just go just for that purpose, Mr. Mayor, I agree with you. Mayor Suarez: Commissioner De Yurre, do you want to... Mr. De Yurre: Yes, I have a couple of things I'd like to mention. First of all, I think that with this issue of the bond issues going out, and I understand Miller's concern about the fact that saying, you know, if we put it out and they voted it down, then you know, we can say, listen, there was a need and you people decided, the community decided not to go for it. But then again, back in March that was done and they said they didn't want it, so I don't think that they would change their minds during the same year anyway, so I am not that concerned with that situation. However, I think that a concern that I have, and again, it boils down to, you hear it all the time, and I think it is a small number of people, but they are vocal, and they say they lose faith in the Commission, they lose faith in their politicians, and all that kind of thing, and so it goes down to creditability. I've heard on more than one occasion, people that live around loth Avenue, SW, and 4th Street, around there, the streets there are in horrendous condition, and they say, listen the last time these bond issues came out, they told us that our streets were going to be repaired, and look at them today, they haven't been repaired, so why should we believe now that if we approve this bond issue, that our streets are going to be fixed? You know, some of these haven't been fixed in 20 years. Mayor Suarez: I have to say that one area that has really noticeably improved, since we are talking about one that hasn't, is the Edgewater area, I mean, the streets there were just in horrendous shape three or four years ago and Little Haiti also. Those two areas have made magnificent improvements. I'm sorry, but there are areas like you mentioned there, SW loth Avenue and 4th Street at East Little Havana, there, not in good shape at all. Mr. Cather: That's the East Little Havana Highway Improvement, I think is number 4, is scheduled to go out for bids within the next month. Mayor Suarez: We do have monies for that, though? Mr. Cather: We have money left over from what we set aside out of the CIP from last year. Mr. De Yurre: OK, let me ask you, Mr. Cather, since you are up there already. Now, you mentioned that we were falling behind in our schedule, because of the fact that these bond issues were not approved back in March, correct? 4 October 14, 1988 Mr. Cather: That's correct. Mr. De Yurre: Correct? OK, now when were those bonds issues, the money from those bond issues supposed to be used? Mr. Cather: Those bond issue monies, that $40,000, was supposed to spent over the next... $40,000,000, spent over the next six years. Mr. De Yurre: Starting when? Mr. Cather: Starting this year, 1989. Mr. De Yurre: October 1st. Mr. Cather: October 1, 1989. Mr. De Yurre: 1989. Mr. Cather: '88-189. Mr. De Yurre: OK, so when did we start falling behind schedule? Because you mentioned that we were behind schedule. Mr. Cather: Well, we informed the Commission and the Manager that we were in need of highway funds prior to March 1st of last year, and asked them to scheduled a hearing for the authorization to issue additional $40,000,000 worth of bonds to continue our highway improvement program, which has been going on for at least 30 years. We have set aside and have a complete survey of every street, the condition of each street in the City, 665 miles. We have gone through and allocated which street need the... which are in the worst condition and which need to be rebuilt. There are also special conditions that have been met, for example, a large amount of money was taken out of the $40,000,000, the previous bond issue, to build NW 1st Avenue, because of the Arena. I was at a meeting yesterday, where they asked us to extend on up to 14th Street. Of course, that is impossible, we still have funds available to extend it from 5th to 1st Street. Mr. De Yurre: Now, if I follow this line of reasoning here, we are in a position wherein if the money was supposed to be used starting October, and today is what, the 14th? - the most we could ever be behind schedule would be two weeks, as far as physically being out there and doing the job. Mr. Cather: No, that's not the proper reasoning, because what we do we start planning, we have planning funds and plans available to start letting contracts. What we are now behind is the fact that we have plans designed, we have had to lay off on the future design, because we do not know the status of the bonds. We will not spend this year the amount of money we have spent in past years for highway improvements. Mr. De Yurre: I understand that, but based on what you are telling me then, up to September 30th of this year, we were up to date. Mr. Cather: No, we were using the funds that have been previously appropriated. We ran out of money as far as the bonds are concerned, sometime in the last three or four months. We still have a couple of million dollars left in the funds. We don't sell the bond right away, we sell them as needed. Mr. De Yurre: OK, but either you are not understanding me, or I just don't understand you. If we've had money in place and scheduled to be used for improving our highways, and you are telling me that the $40,000,000 bond issue was supposed to have come into play after September 30th, that means that there was no reason for us not to be up to date, up to September 30th. Mr. Odio: Well, let me see if I can understand what he is saying. If the bonds had been approved in March, he would have start planning immediately in March of 1988, so he lost from March through September 30th, that's what... Mr. De Yurre: No, so that's what I am saying, so whatever work has been lost is starting October 1st on... 5 October 14, 1988 Mr. Odio: No, he lost from March, when the bonds were turned down through now, because he would have started planning and design then, see, so he lost almost a yeei oecau�e o.... Mr. De Yurre: But the physical work, being out there improving... Mr. Odio: The physical work would have been let out after October 1st. Mr. De Yurre: OK, so we are saying that we should have been up to date up to September 30th, as for as doing the work out there, not the planning. Mr. Odio: The physical work, yes. Mr. De Yurre: OK? So I just want to clear that up. Now, as far as your man hours, if... how many people do you have staffed, that are going to be doing this kind of work that now won't be doing this kind of work because the money isn't there, and what is going to ha,no% with them? Mr. Cather: Five. Mr. De Yurre: Well, are they going to be laid off? Are they going to go to Parks and Recreation? Where are they going to be doing? Mr. Cather: No, they will continue to work on the storm sewer project and advance that, and also be used on the completion of the sanitary sewer system, which we have been working on for the past 15 years. We were in a position where we will be one of the first major cities in the State of Florida to have completely sanitary sewered the entire City, a major accomplishment for public health. Mr. De Yurre: When is that scheduled to finish? Mr. Cather: It is scheduled to be finished next year. We are working on the last design project now. In addition to that, I have set up the storm water program which will permit us... Mayor Suarez: On that issue, Don, before you get too deeply into it, why don't we instruct the Manager, because I have the same interest in that. I once asked you, in connection with Personnel Department, now known as Human Resources, why we had to maintain the same level of staff, if we in fact, we had a hiring freeze? That was a couple of years ago. As to Public Works, would you like the Manager to be instructed to check as to manpower levels that are needed, in view of the fact that for the moment, we don't have any major projects going on with that, as far as street improvements, and maybe we can assign some people over to Parks, or God knows where, I mean, I... - Mr. Cather: Well, let me put it this way. Ten years ago When I started with the City, the staff was 190 some, plus some... Mayor Suarez: What are we up to now? Mr. Cather: What are we up to? We also had CETA staff, which was useful. Mayor Suarez: That is a figure of speech, Don. I don't mean to imply that it's... Mr. Cather: We are now down to 145, I believe we have out of that 145, budgeted about 13 vacancies, so I have plenty of work for the remaining staff. Mayor Suarez: Do you want to instruct the Manager to bring back a report on that? Mr. De Yurre: I just like to have an idea what the impact of this bond issue not being approved, what impact it is going to have on our personnel, what they are going to be doing? The people that would have been working on that, what are they going to be doing? Mr. Cather: They are going to be doing other engineering projects within the department. Mr. De Yurre: OK, I want it in writing. Who was assigned to this project of the street improvement and now he is going to be doing something else. 6 October 14, 1988 Mr. Cather: You want to know specifically who is going to be doing. what% I would be happy to furnish that inic:rnai j,,n to you. Mr. De Yurre: That will be great. OK, let's see what else I got here. Thank you very much. Cesar, of the $50,000 that was allocated for the education, has any been spent at all, up to this point? Mr. Odic): No, Sir. Mr. De Yurre: So we are not going to lose any on that. OK, thank you very much. Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Cather, how do you determine what streets to set priorities on, and where to work? Mr. Cather: One major source of information lead to the decision as to what streets need improvements, is our highway condition survey, which we commissioned, I believe it is now about four years old. We hired a consulting firm to go out and evaluate each street. In addition to that, the superintendent of operations, my assistant director, Erno Rosa, who has been with the City for some 30 years, he and his assistant ride the streets every street, all 660 miles of them, twice a year, and make notes on suitable plans of the conditions of all the streets. These two factors, plus the needs of —_ special projects in the City, such as our improvements to SW Overtown area, where we improved all those streets, the improvements to downtown and the streets to the Arena, where we needed special attention, are the three indicators that we use to decide which streets are improved. Mr. Dawkins: Along with the report that you are going to send to Commissioner De Yurre, send each of us a report of how the streets are and how you prioritize them, so that when we have these public meetings, we'll know what areas we really need to tell the people where we are. Mr. Cather: Yes, sir. Mr. Dawkins: The second thing is, the consultant that you hired to come up with the future needs, do they also give you a budgetary need to accomplish this? Mr. Cather: Yes, there are budget figures in there, and there is also provision in the contract so that we can use the computer program to update that program each year based upon input internally from the department. Mr. Dawkins: OK, to follow up on Commissioner De Yurre's question, you said that we are up to date as of September 30th. If we are up to date as of September 30th on all of our sewer plans, why is it in the last two years wat -s continued to back up in the SW 8th Street area? Why is water backin, up in other areas and why isn't all of the streets that have sewer problems, storm sewer problems corrected, because you told him, you made a statement, sir, that we are up to date. Mr. Cather: No, I don't think I said up to date. I said we were on schedule. It is my personal opinion that, I had high hopes when I came here, that I would be able to vastly improve the overall condition of the streets of Miami. I have been involved for 40 years in transportation and related fields, highways, rapid transit, etc. I have a definite feeling that sidewalks, curb and gutter are appropriate in any major city. I see too many streets in the City of Miami which are 30 and 40 years old, have been used, just simply have oil finish on it, rock spread on there, and asphalt applied, no curbs, parking on the side. The increase in population has caused a packing down of the sides of the streets, causing more drainage problems because of the impermeability of the sides, doesn't drain properly. I have worked to set up, not only a highway improvement program, but a storm sewer improvement program. All of these two are related. The sanitary sewer system is a separate thing and does not affect the drainage or the condition of the street. This is an objective, a goal. We haven't come close, in my opinion, on the goal. Now, we all have priorities. Naturally, being an engineer, and concerned very much, and being very aware of the national concern for the infrastructure and decay in our country, including bridges and a lot of other things that are of national concern, of which I have sent every one of the Commissioners several articles of national significance on the significance of our improvements to 7 October 14, 1988 our infrastructures and maintenance of that infrastructure, the cost of neglecting the infrastructure, all results in the fact that I think we are behind schedule. Mr. Dawkins: Thank you. Mr. Manager... that's all, thank you, Mr. Cat her. What Mr. Cather just said to me, is what we should have been out in the community saying to the neighbors. We've got the resources right here. Mr. Mayor, I'll close by saying I agree with you that we need to go and sell this ourselves to the public and also, as Commissioner De Yurre said, I mean, implied, we need to do with bond issues a thing of earmarking where money will be spent. When we put out a bond issue, we need to say that it was a $40,000,000 sewer bond. We need to say to them, the first area we are going to do is here, the second area there, and the third area there, so that when bond issue passes, and time comes like this and we haven't done anything, they can hold us accountable. Mayor Suarez: And they can verify the need by knowing what neighborhoods we are talking about that we are going to be going into. OK, I will entertain a motion on... which is the first motion we should take, Bob? Mr. Robert Clark: An emergency ordinance. Mayor Suarez: Do you want to read that into the record, please? THEREUPON, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD, BY TITLE ONLY. Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on... Mrs. Kennedy: I'll move it. Mr. De Yurre: Second. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 10473 ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 8, 1988 WHICH AUTHORIZED ISSUANCE OF (i) NOT TO EXCEED $35,000,000 STREET AND HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT BONDS AND (ii) NOT TO EXCEED $10,000,000 WATERFRONT IMPROVEMENTS BONDS, OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA AND ORDINANCE NO. 10474, ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 8, 1988, WHICH AUTHORIZED THE HOLDING OF AN ELECTION IN RESPECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF SAID BONDS. Was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy and seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, for adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the requirement of reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Kennedy and seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, adopted said ordinance by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. 8 October 14, 1988 SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10490. The City Attorney read the ordinance into tiie puuilt- 1cCO'd atlu announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. DISCUSSION ON FIRST ROLL CALL: Mr. Dawkins: I have to vote no. I'm in favor of what we are doing, but I still feel that it was important enough for me to put it on, and I still think that the citizens should have a chance to say yes or no. I vote no. Mrs. Kennedy: Could I just interrupt this for a second? Mr. City Attorney, do we need four -fifths vote? Mr. Clark: Yes, but you should continue the roll call, and then we can entertain a motion for first reading, and then adopt a resolution directing the City Clerk to take all steps necessary with respect to the... Mr. Dawkins: Hold it, this is an emergency ordinance? Ms. Hirai: Yes, sir. Mr. Dawkins: OK, I'll change my vote. This is an emergency ordinance and it is the consensus of this Commission that we should pull it off, I vote yes. Mayor Suarez: Yes, and I appreciate Commissioner Dawkins. I think.... we note for the record his point, that's a very important point made in regards to this, otherwise procedurally though, if we had not had a four -fifths vote, I guess we would have really had to wait until the second hearing in October, and it would have really been quite complicated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Direct City Clerk to take all necessary steps to cancel the November 8, 1988 special municipal election; further instructing the Clerk to have the City ballot questions removed from the official ballot. Mayor Suarez: Do we need to entertain a resolution at this point? Mr. Robert Clark: Yes, you should. THEREUPON, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE RESOLUTION INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD, BY TITLE ONLY. Mrs. Kennedy: Move it. Mr. De Yurre: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-959 A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TAKE ALL STEPS NECESSARY TO HAVE THE SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION SCHEDULED FOR NOVEMBER 8, 1988 CANCELLED, INCLUDING FORMAL INSTRUCTION BY THE CITY CLERK TO THE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS OF DADE COUNTY TO REMOVE THE CITY BALLOT FROM THE GENERAL ELECTION BEING CONDUCTED BY THE SUPERVISOR ON SAID DATE. (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: 9 October 14, 1988 AYES: NOES: ABSENT: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkiaf Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez None. Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS TO COME BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION, THE MEETING VAS ADJOURNED AT 9:40 A.M. ATTEST: Natty Hirai CITY CLERK Valter J. toss ASSISTANT CITT CLERIC Xavier L. Suarez N A Y O R 10 October 14, 1g8$