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OF
MIAMI
IiCOM MISSION
OF MEETINS HELD ON June 9, 1988
(REGULAR)
PREPARED BY THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
CITY HALL
MATTY HIRAI
City Clerk
INDEX
MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETINO
CITY COMMISSION OF MIAHlj FLORIDA
JUNE 90 1988
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ITEM SUBJECT LEGISLATION PAGE
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1. PRESENTATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS AND PRESENTBD 1
SPECIAL ITEMS.
2. DISCUSS AND REQUEST CITY MANAGER'S
RECOMMENDATIONS AND FULL REPORT
REGARDING ALLEGED LEASE VIOLATIONS BY
THE CUBAN NATIONAL MUSEUM.
3. URGE COMMISSIONER MILLER DAWKINS TO
TAKE THE LEAD IN CONNECTION WITH
EFFORTS TO REPAIR GENERAL ANTONIO MACEO
STATUE.
4. CONSENT AGENDA
4.1
4.2
4.3
4.4
4.5
4.6
4.7
4.8
6/9/88
M 88-486
6/9/88
1-3
M 88-487 4-5
6/9/88
5-6
6/9/88
ALLOCATE $4,500 TO ACQUIRE A PORTABLE R 88-488
16 MM MICROFILM MACHINE FOR POLICE 6/9/88
DEPARTMENT.
AUTHORIZE PURCHASE OF TWO SCOTSMAN ICE R 88-489
FLAKERS MACHINES FROM SALOMON 6/9/88
REFRIGERATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF SOLID
WASTE.
ACCEPT BID: DOTHAN SECURITY, INC. - FOR R 88-490
FURNISHING SECURITY GUARD SERVICES TO 6/9/88
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
ACCEPT BID: ALISON COMPANY - FOR R 88-491
FURNISHING VEHICLE DECALS AND 6/9/88
INSTALLATION OF DECALS TO POLICE
VEHICLES FOR DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION/MOTOR POOL
DIVISION.
ACCEPT BID: BROWARD ELEVATOR SALES AND R 88-492
SERVICE - FOR FURNISHING ELEVATOR 6/9/88
MAINTENANCE TO DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.
ACCEPT BID: WEATHERTROL MAINTENANCE R 88-493
CORPORATION - FOR FURNISHING AIR 6/9/88
CONDITION MAINTENANCE SERVICES TO DON
HICKMAN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
ACCEPT BID: DOWNTOWN RADIATOR SERVICES, R 88-494
INC. AND LATIN AUTO GLASS, INC. - FOR 6/9/88
FURNISHING RADIATORS AND GLASS REPAIRS
FOR DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION/FLEET MANAGEMENT
DIVISION.
ACCEPT BID: FEDAN TIRE CO. - FOR R 88-495
FURNISHING TIRE RECAPPING SERVICES TO 6/9/88
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION.
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8
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4.9
ACCEPT BID: PITNEY BOWLS, INC. - FOR
R 88-496
9
FURNISHING ONE ELECTRONIC MAIL
6/9/88
PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR USE AT CITY'S
MAILROOM.
4.10
ACCEPT BID: QUALITY FIBERGLASS
R 88-497
9
PRODUCTS, INC. - FOR FURNISHING 250
6/9/88
DOCK LOCK BOXES FOR THE DINNER KEY
MARINA - PIER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
4.11
ACCEPT BIDS: STOCKLAND COMPANY AND L.P.
R 88-498
10
INDUSTRIES, INC. - FOR FURNISHING TRASH
6/9/88
RECEIVERS AND CONTAINERS FOR DINNER KEY
MARINA - PIER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.
4.12
ACCEPT BIDS: ALLIED UNIVERSAL
R 88-499
10
CORPORATION AND ASHLAND CHEMICAL
6/9/88
COMPANY - FOR FURNISHING SWIMMING POOL
CHEMICALS FOR DEPARTMENT OF PARKS,
RECREATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES.
4.13
ACCEPT BID: TRS, INC. D/B/A SECOA - FOR
R 88-500
10
FURNISHING 12 ACOUSTICAL ENCLOSURE
6/9/88
UNITS TO BE USED AT BAYFRONT PARK
AMPHITHEATER FOR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
WORKS.
4.14
ACCEPT BID: MIAMI STAGECRAFT, INC. -
R 88-501
11
FOR FURNISHING PORTABLE DANCE FLOOR FOR
6/9/88
BAYFRONT PARK AMPHITHEATER FOR
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
4.15
EXECUTE INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTUAL
R 88-502
11
AGREEMENTS WITH 13 NEIGHBORHOOD
6/9/88
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS -
FOR CONTINUED IMPLEMENTATION OF
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.
4.16
EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH NATIONAL CENTER
R 88-503
11
FOR MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT, INC. TO
6/9/88
CONTINUE REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI IN WASHINGTON, D.C. BY MR. MARK
ISRAEL.
4.17
AUTHORIZE EXTENSION OF AGREEMENTS: (A)
R 88-504
12
MANUEL G. VERA & ASSOCIATES, INC., (B)
6/9/88
WEIDENER SURVEYING AND MAPPING P.A.,
(C) E.R. BROWNELL & ASSOCIATES, INC.,
(D) H.J. ROSS & ASSOCIATES, AND (E)
FERNANDO Z. GATELL P.L.S., INC. - IN
CONNECTION WITH CITY CONTRACTED
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
4.18
RESCIND RESOLUTION 88-292 - ENTER INTO
R 88-505
12
AGREEMENT WITH ENVIROCARE, INC. - TO
6/9/88
PROVIDE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL
SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH GROUNDWATER
CONTAMINATION PROBLEM AT THE SOUTH
DISTRICT (LITTLE HAVANA) POLICE
SUBSTATION.
4.19
GRANT $30,000 TO CITY OF MIAMI YOUTH
R 88-506
12
BASEBALL ACADEMIES, INC. - IN SUPPORT
6/9/88
OF THE 7TH ANNUAL YOUTH BASEBALL WORLD
SERIES.
4.20
APPROVE COST SHARING CONTRACT WITH THE
R 88-507
13
SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT
6/9/88
DISTRICT - FOR RETROFITTING STORM WATER
BASINS WITHIN THE CITY.
4.21
ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO CATHOLIC
R 88-508
13
COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC., IMMIGRATION
6/9/88
SERVICES - FOR USE OF SPACE IN THE
MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER TO
PROVIDE COUNSELING AND LEGAL ADVICE ON
IMMIGRATION PROCEDURES.
4.22
APPROVE AND ADOPT THE CITY OF MIAMI
R 88-509
13
COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL REPORT FOR FISCAL
6/9/88
YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1987.
4.23
APPROVE ONE YEAR EXTENSION OF
R 88-510
14
EMPLOYMENT PAST THE AGE OF 71 FOR
6/9/88
EVELIO RIZO.
4.24 ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: RIC-MAN R 88-511
INTERNATIONAL, INC. - FOR CITYWIDE 6/9/88
SANITARY SEWER REPLACEMENT PROJECT CIP
PROJECT NO. 351170.
4.25 ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: MAN CON, INC. - R 88-512
FOR OVERTOWN/PARK WEST SANITARY SEWER 6/9/88
REPLACEMENT CIP PROJECT NO. 351280.
4.26 AUTHORIZE ACCEPTANCE OF 65 DEEDS OF R 88-513
DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES. 6/9/88
4.27 DECLARE IMPROVEMENTS ON 1.5-ACRE CITY- R 88-514
OWNED WATERFRONT PARCEL AS A UDP - 6/9/88
AUTHORIZE RFP FOR A UDP - SET PUBLIC
HEARING FOR SEPTEMBER 6, 1988 - IN
CONNECTION WITH DEVELOPMENT OF A NON-
PROFIT OLYMPIC SAILING AND TRAINING
CENTER TO BE LOCATED AT THE
SOUTHEASTERLY PORTION OF DAVID KENNEDY
PARK (SEE LABELS 16 AND 62).
4.28 AUTHORIZE STREET CLOSURE AND R 88-515
ESTABLISHMENT OF PEDESTRIAN MALL 6/9/88
CONCERNING GRAND OPENING OF FIRE HOUSE
4 AND A CHARITY EVENT TO BENEFIT
JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BURN CENTER.
4.29 ACCEPT FINANCIAL REPORT FROM THE R 88-516
FLORIDA INTERAMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP 6/9/88
FOUNDATION REGARDING CITY'S GRANT IN
SUPPORT OF JIMMY BUFFET BENEFIT
CONCERT.
5. DEFER CONSIDERATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF A M 88-517
PROPOSAL MADE BY U.S. IMPRESSION, INC. 6/9/88
TO PUBLISH A FREE ECONOMIC PROFILE OF
THE CITY - DIRECT MANAGER TO ATTEMPT TO
IDENTIFY A LOCAL FIRM TO PERFORM SAID
SERVICES.
6. PURCHASE THREE PUMPER APPARATUS, ONE R 88-518
QUINT APPARATUS, RELATED FIREFIGHTING 6/9/88
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FROM YOUNG
TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. FOR DEPARTMENT
OF FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES
($1,168,156.70).
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14
14
15
15
16
16-18
18-19
7. BR1EF CLARIFICATION ON HOW ITEM 10 DISCUSSION 19=20
(PURCHASE OF RADIATORS AND GLASS 6/9/88
REPAIRS FROM DOWNTOWN RADIATOR SERVICES
AND LATIN AUTO GLASS) WAS MODIFIED BY
CITY ATTORNEY'S MEMORANDUM. (SEE LABEL
4)
8. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND WITHDRAWAL OF DISCUSSION 20-21
PROPOSED RESOLUTION ACCEPTING BID OF B 6/9/88
& F MARINE, INC. - TO FURNISH FOUR
OUTBOARD MOTORS TO DEPARTMENT OF
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.
9. ACCEPT BID: MC LAUGHLIN GROUP FOR R 88-519 21-22
FURNISHING 1,200 CLEATS FOR DINNER KEY 6/9/88
MARINA - PIER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
10. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL OF DISCUSSION 23-25
PROPOSED EXECUTION OF INDIVIDUAL 6/9/88
AGREEMENTS WITH (A) LITTLE HAVANA
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, INC., AND (B)
SMALL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY CENTER,
INC. - FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A
COMMERCIAL FACADE PROGRAM.
11. EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH SAN-AI-KAI, R 88-520 25-28
RICOH SANAI GROUP - FOR THEIR $330,000 6/9/88
CONTRIBUTION FOR THE RENOVATION OF THE
CITY'S JAPANESE GARDEN.
12. SET SPECIAL USE FEE AND EXECUTE USE R 88-521 28-30
AGREEMENT WITH FEDERACION DEPORTIVA 6/9/88
NICARAGUENSE, INC. FOR USE OF BOBBY
MADURO MIAMI BASEBALL STADIUM FOR
PRESENTATION OF 60 AMATEUR BASEBALL
GAMES THROUGH DECEMBER OF 1988.
13. REFER TO CITY MANAGER ISSUES PRESENTED M 88-522 31-58
IN CONNECTION WITH PHASE II 6/9/88
IMPROVEMENTS TO THE ORANGE BOWL -
FURTHER REQUESTING HIS RECOMMENDATIONS
BY THE MEETING OF JULY 28, 1988.
14. DEFER AGENDA ITEMS 39 THROUGH 45 M 88-523 59-60
(PROPOSED DESIGN SERVICES FOR INNER- 6/9/88
CITY PARKS) TO THE MEETING OF JUNE 23,
1988 - REQUEST MANAGER'S INTERPRETATION
OF THE CRITERIA USED IN SELECTION OF
MOST QUALIFIED FIRMS.
15. ORDERING RESOLUTION: LAWRENCE WATERWAY R 88-524 60-63
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT (DISTRICT H-4536) - 6/9/88
DESIGNATE PROPERTY FOR SPECIAL
ASSESSMENTS.
16. (A) RECONSIDER DECLARATION OF 1.5-ACRE M 88-525 64-65
LOT OF CITY -OWNED WATERFRONT PARCEL AS 6/9/88
UDP (OLYMPIC SAILING CENTER) (B)
TEMPORARILY TABLE ABOVE ISSUE UNTIL
LATER THIS SAME DATE (SEE LABELS 4.27
AND 62).
17. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH NEW ORDINANCE 66
SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED "OFFICER 10442
JAMES HAYDEN REWARD FUND" ($50,000). 6/9/88
18: AUTHORIZE PAYMENT OF $500000 TO R 88-526
INDIVIDUALS FURNISHING INFORMATION 6/9/88
WHICH LEADS TO THE ARREST, APPREHENSION
AND CONVICTION OF THE OFFENDER
RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING OFFICER JAMES
HAYDEN.
19. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND 10347 - ORDINANCE
INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR EIGHT 10443
EXISTING PROJECTS: (1) WINONA SANITARY 6/9/88
SEWERS (351169), (2) SOUTH GROVE
SANITARY SEWERS (351174), (3) CITYWIDE
SANITARY SEWER REPLACEMENT - FY 187
(351275), (4) NW 36TH STREET SANITARY
SEWER IMPROVEMENT (351276, (5) LAWRENCE
PUMP STATION -BAR SCREEN (352184), (6)
CITYWIDE STORM DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN
(352250), (7) PUMP STATION
RENOVATIONS - FY '88 (352254), AND (8)
LOCAL DRAINAGE PROJECTS - FY '88
(352251).
20. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: REPEAL ORDINANCE
10368 - APPROPRIATE FUNDS TRANSFERRED 10444
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES AND ALLOCATE AS 6/9/88
BUDGET FUNDS IN THE 12TH YEAR CITYWIDE
DEMOLITION OF SUBSTANDARD BUILDING
PROJECT.
21. (A) PRESENTATION BY MAJORITY LEADER, DISCUSSION
RON SILVER, OF THE CITY'S TALLAHASSEE R 88-527
INITIATIVE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE. (B) 6/9/88
EXPRESS THE COMMISSION'S SUPPORT OF THE
INITIATIVE ON STRICTER HANDGUN CONTROL
BEING CONDUCTED BY REPRESENTATIVE RON
SILVER SOON TO BECOME PART OF A
STATEWIDE REFERENDUM.
22. PRESENTATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE PRESENTED
LOCAL POINCIANA FESTIVAL. 6/9/88
23. REFER TO CITY MANAGER FUNDING REQUEST M 88-528
RECEIVED FROM ASSAULT BRIGADE 2506 6/9/88
INCLUDING PROPOSED LIBRARY - CITY
MANAGER TO REPORT BACK.
24. A- DISCUSSION CONCERNING PROPOSED DISCUSSION
FIRST READING ORDINANCE TO 6/9/88
INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE
NORTH DISTRICT POLICE SUBSTATION
AND TO THE SOUTH DISTRICT POLICE
SUBSTATION. B- DISCUSSION
REGARDING STATUS OF THE LATIN
QUARTER PROJECT.
25. APPROVE ESTABLISHMENT OF A HOME R 88-529
PURCHASE FINANCING LOAN POOL, 6/9/88
ALLOCATING $1.5 MILLION OF INTEREST
INCOME FROM 1976 G.O. HOUSING BOND TO
FUND IT.
26. CONTINUE CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED M 88-530
FIRST READING ORDINANCE TO INCREASE 6/9/88
APPROPRIATIONS FOR TWO EXISTING
PROJECTS ("SILVER BLUFF STREET
IMPROVEMENTS" AND "BUENA VISTA STREET
IMPROVEMENTS - PHASE III") UNTIL THE
CITY CAN IMPLEMENT A PUBLIC EDUCATION
PROGRAM TO ENSURE CITIZENRY SUPPORT OF
THE PROJECT.
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67-68
69
70-71
71
71-72
72-85
85-88
89-92
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27. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE TO ORDINANCE 93=94
ALLOW FOR THE ADDITION AND REMOVAL OF FIRST READING
CERTAIN POSITIONS WHICH ARE 6/9/88
CONDITIONALLY ALLOWED TO REJECT
MEMBERSHIP IN THE GENERAL EMPLOYEES AND
SANITATION EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT TRUST,
ETC,
28. INSTRUCT CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE M 88-531 95
LEGISLATION REGARDING PROPOSED 6/9/88
EXPANSION OF MIAMI SPORTS AND
EXHIBITION AUTHORITY.
29. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: CREATE THE ORDINANCE 96-100
MIAMI WATERFRONT ADVISORY BOARD - FIRST READING
DESIGNATE MEMBERSHIP, PURPOSES, ETC. 6/9/88
30. A -DISCUSSION OF PROPOSED CHARTER DISCUSSION
AMENDMENT NO. 2 - EXPANDING 6/9/88
MEMBERSHIP OF THE OFF-STREET
PARKING AUTHORITY - FURTHER
PROVIDING FOR STAGGERED TERMS.
(SEE LABEL 35) B-APPROVE DRAFT
OF PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO.
3 - CITY ATTORNEY TO SERVE AS
COUNSEL FOR THE OFF-STREET
PARKING AUTHORITY. (SEE LABEL 35)
31. A - LINE ITEM TRANSFERS IN OFF-STREET M 88-532
PARKING BUDGET MUST FIRST BE APPROVED FIRST READING
BY COMMISSION. B - FIRST READING 6/9/88
ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE SECTIONS 35-91
THROUGH 35-93 AND 53-161(3) - ESTABLISH
RATES ON CERTAIN ON -STREET PARKING
METERS AND CERTAIN OFF-STREET LOTS -
ESTABLISH RATES AT MUNICIPAL PARKING
GARAGES, WITH PROVISO.
32. APPROVE AND ADOPT DEPARTMENT OF OFF- R 88-533
STREET PARKING FIVE-YEAR STRATEGIC AND 6/9/88
FINANCIAL OPERATIONS PLAN.
33. DEFER PROPOSED ADOPTION OF THE ANNUAL DISCUSSION
BUDGET OF THE DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET 6/9/88
PARKING (FISCAL YEAR 1988/89).
34. A. DEFER ADOPTION OF DEPARTMENT OF OFF- DISCUSSION
STREET PARKING ANNUAL BUDGET (FISCAL 6/9/88
YEAR 1988/89) FOR OPERATION OF GUSMAN
CENTER AND OLYMPIA BUILDING.
B. DEFER ADOPTION OF ANNUAL BUDGET FOR
OPERATION OF WORLD TRADE CENTER GARAGE
(FISCAL YEAR 1988/89).
C. DEFER ADOPTION OF ANNUAL BUDGET FOR
OPERATION OF DOWNTOWN GOVERNMENT CENTER
GARAGE (FISCAL YEAR 1988/89).
35. A. CLARIFYING VOTE IN CONNECTION WITH R 88-534
PRIOR ACTION APPROVING CHARTER R-88-535
AMENDMENT NO. 2. 6/9/88
B. CLARIFYING VOTE IN CONNECTION WITH
PRIOR ACTION APPROVING CHARTER
AMENDMENT NO. 4 (SEE LABEL 30).
100-112
112-130
131
131-132
132
133-136
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36. CONDITIONALLY APPROVE IN=FIND SERVICES M 88-536 136-139
AND FEE WAIVER FOR USE OF CONVENTION 6/9/88
CENTER IN CONNECTION WITH SECOND
NATIONAL YOUTH CRIME PREVENTION
CONFERENCE, SUBJECT TO FUNDS BEING
IDENTIFIED THROUGH THE LAW ENFORCEMENT
TRUST FUND.
37, INSTRUCT CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE M 88-537 139-140
LEGISLATION FOR PROPOSED G.O. BOND 6/9/88
REFERENDUM IN CONNECTION WITH
CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW BASEBALL STADIUM.
38. ALLOCATE $21,804 TO CAREY TECHNICAL R 88-538 140
INSTITUTE, INC. FOR PURPOSES OF 6/9/88
PROVIDING A JOB DEVELOPMENT/PLACEMENT
PROJECT FOR CITY RESIDENTS.
39. ALLOCATE $1,694,550 OF C.D. BLOCK GRANT R 88-539 141
FUNDS (FOURTEENTH YEAR) AND $5,000 C.D. 6/9/88
BLOCK GRANT FUNDS (THIRTEENTH YEAR) TO
VARIOUS SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES FOR
APPROVED SOCIAL SERVICE PROJECTS.
40. AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF REQUEST FOR R 88-540 141-142
QUALIFICATIONS - IN CONNECTION WITH 6/9/88
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF AN
APPROXIMATELY 250,000 SQ. FT. BUILDING
TO BE OCCUPIED BY THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S
OFFICE AND OTHER U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES.
41. APPROVE DRAFT OF PROPOSED CHARTER R 88-541 142-143
AMENDMENT (CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1) TO 6/9/88
PROVIDE FOR A FOUR-YEAR TERM OF OFFICE
FOR THE ELECTED MAYOR OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI COMMENCING NOVEMBER 1989 -
SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD SEPTEMBER
6, 1988.
42. APPROVE ESCROW AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN R 88-542 143-156
SWIRE PACIFIC HOLDINGS, INC., 6/9/88
VIZCATRAN, LTD., OCEAN BANK OF MIAMI,
AND THE CITY OF MIAMI IN CONNECTION
WITH PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF AN
ELDERLY -HANDICAPPED HOUSING PROJECT.
43. ALLOCATE $8,000 TO THE WYNWOOD GROUP M 88-543 156-160
(INGRID GRAD) AND $8,000 TO THE 6/9/88
SOUTHWEST SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAM
(ORLANDO URRA'S GROUP).
44. APPOINTMENTS TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION R 88-544 160-161
ADVISORY BOARD (APPOINTED WERE: JOE 6/9/88
BOLANOS AND LORI WELDON).
45. APPOINTMENTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE R 88-546 161-162
BOARD (APPOINTED WERE: STUART SORG, 6/9/88
WILLIAM MESSETT AND WILLIAM ALEXANDER).
46. DISCUSSION CONCERNING PROPOSED DISCUSSION 162-163
APPOINTMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL TO SERVE 6/9/88
AS A MEMBER OF THE PLANNING ADVISORY
BOARD.
47. APPOINT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE M 88-547 163-165
LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD (APPOINTED M 88-548
WERE: (A) RAUL HERNANDEZ, AND (B) 6/9/88
HECTOR GASCA).
48.
AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF AN REP FOR
R 88-549
165-166
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES = CONSULTANT
6/9/88
SUPPORT FOR CITY OF MIAMI VISIONS 2000
COMMITTEE:
49:
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: M. VILA AND
R 88-550
166=167
ASSOCIATES, INC. - FOR BUENA VISTA
6/9/88
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II (BID
"B") = CIP PROJECT NO. 341108.
50.
RATIFY MANAGER'S FINDING OF SOLE
R 88-551
167-169
SOURCE - WAIVE COMPETITIVE SEALED
6/9/88
BIDS - APPROVE ACQUISITION OF SERVICE
FOR DIGITAL ASSEMBLIES OF PORTABLE
UNITS FROM MOTOROLA COMMUNICATIONS AND
ELECTRONICS, INC.
51.
RATIFY MANAGER'S FINDING OF SOLE
R 88-552
169
SOURCE - WAIVE COMPETITIVE SEALED
6/9/88
BIDS - APPROVE ACQUISITION OF FIXED
SITE DIGITAL ASSEMBLIES FROM MOTOROLA
COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS, INC.
52.
INCREASE IN CONTRACT WITH MARINA POWER
R 88-553
170-171
COMPANY FOR ELECTRIC METERS AT DINNER
6/9/88
KEY MARINA.
53.
WAIVE CODE PROHIBITION AS IT APPLIES TO
R 88-554
171-173
THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION
6/9/88
AUTHORITY AGREEMENT WITH HOLLAND AND
KNIGHT TO RETAIN CHRISTOPHER KORGE.
54.
STIPULATION BY CITY COMMISSION THAT
M 88-555
174-188
PROPERTIES SOUTH OF THE EXPRESSWAY BE
6/9/88
EXCLUDED FROM PRESENTLY INSTITUTED
BOUNDARIES OF THE DESIGN DISTRICT IN
CONNECTION WITH PROPOSED LEVYING OF A
SPECIAL ASSESSMENT.
55.
RESCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING TO TAKE
R 88-556
189
TESTIMONY REGARDING A UNIFIED
6/9/88
DEVELOPMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF DESTINATION RESORT
FACILITIES ON CITY -OWNED WATERFRONT
LAND ON VIRGINIA KEY (NORRIS CUT FILL
SITE).
56.
BRIEF COMMENTS BY PAUL ANGELO -
DISCUSSION
190-193
REPORTING ON HIS WORK IN THE AREA OF
6/9/88
NAVAL AFFAIRS.
57.
APPOINTMENTS TO THE COMMISSION ON THE
R 88-557
193-196
STATUS OF WOMEN (APPOINTED WERE : ANITA
6/9/88
RAFKY, LUISA M. GARCIA TOLEDO AND
CONCHY TRELLES BRETOS).
58.
SUPPORT METRO-DADE COUNTY'S DECISION TO
R 88-558
196-197
CO -DESIGNATE N.W. 7TH STREET FROM N.W.
6/9/88
57TH AND 12TH AVENUES AS "LUIS SABINES
WAY".
59.
REFER TO CITY MANAGER REQUEST FROM THE
M 88-559
197-200
VETERANS COUNCIL OF DADE COUNTY, INC.
6/9/88
FOR A VETERANS WAR MEMORIAL TO BE BUILT
IN BAYFRONT PARK.
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60.
DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO ASSIST OFFICER
M 88-560
200-200
DAVE DONALSON AND MS. JANICE HALL IN
6/9/88
FINDING AN APPROPRIATE USE FOR THEIR
PROPERTY AT 202 NW 20 TERRACE TO REDUCE
THEIR LOSS FROM NOT BEING ABLE TO RUN A
LIQUOR LOUNGE.
61.
ALLOCATE $4,000 TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS
R 88-561
210=215
IN SUPPORT OF THE 1988 SUMMER
6/9/88
RECREATION PROGRAM (SUMMER CAMPS), WITH
PROVISOS.
62.
DECLARING THAT THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS
R 88-562
216-217
METHOD TO DEVELOP IMPROVEMENTS ON CITY-
6/9/88
OWNED WATERFRONT PARCEL IS BY UDP -
AUTHORIZE PREPARATION OF RFP FOR
DEVELOPMENT OF A NOT -FOR -PROFIT OLYMPIC
SAILING AND TRAINING CENTER AT KENNEDY
PARK (SEE LABELS 4.27 AND 16).
63.
DISCUSSION CONCERNING REPORT ON THE
DISCUSSION
217-226
YOUTH GANGS SITUATION.
6/9/88
64.
ALLOCATE $15,000 FOR RENTAL OF MIAMI
R 88-563
226-228
MARINE STADIUM IN CONNECTION WITH THE
6/9/88
POPS -BY -THE -BAY CONCERT SERIES.
65.
ALLOCATE $250,000 FOR THE REBUILDING
R 88-564
229-230
AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE RAILROAD
6/9/88
CROSSING AT NW 1ST AVENUE AND NW 8TH
STREET - URGE METRO-DADE COUNTY TO
EXPEDITE REIMBURSEMENT IN ORDER THAT
THE LAND SALE AGREEMENT FOR THE PORT
BRIDGE MAY BE EXECUTED.
66.
ACCEPT BIDS: JUELLE, INC. AND TREE
R 88-565
230
MASTERS, INC. - FOR FURNISHING
6/9/88
DEMOLITION SERVICES FOR THE DEPARTMENT
OF BUILDING AND ZONING.
67.
DISCUSSION CONCERNING REQUEST FROM THE
DISCUSSION
231-233
JAMAICA AWARENESS REGGAE FESTIVAL FOR
6/9/88
ASSISTANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR
UPCOMING FESTIVAL.
68.
DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO COMMENCE THE
M 88-566
234-240
PROCESS TO HAVE THE D.A. DORSEY LIBRARY
6/9/88
DECLARED A HISTORICAL SITE.
69.
DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO STOP DEMOLITION
M 88-567
240-244
ORDER FOR THE DORSEY HOUSE FOR 180
6/9/88
DAYS - AND TO ENSURE NO ACCESS TO SAID
PROPERTY.
70.
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: OCEAN BAY
R 88-568
244-245
CONSTRUCTION, INC. - FOR FORT DALLAS
6/9/88
PARK PLAZA - PHASE II - 1986.
71.
APPROVE IN PRINCIPLE THE ALLAPATTAH
R 88-569
245
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TO
6/9/88
UNDERTAKE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIUM DENSITY
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ON FERN ISLE
NURSERY SITE.
72.
DIRECTION TO INSTRUCT DIRECTOR OF
DISCUSSION
246
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO RESTORE FUNDS
6/9/88
TO THE ALLAPATTAH GROUP.
73,
BRIEF COMMENTS BY CITY ATTORNEY IN
DISCUSSION
246
CONNECTION WITH THE MIAMARINA LAWSUIT.
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MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF THE
CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
On the 9th day of June, 1988, the City Commission of Miami, Florida, met
at its regular meeting place in the City Hall, 5500 Pan American Drive, Miami,
Florida in regular session.
The meeting was called to order at 9:08 a.m. by Mayor Xavier Suarez with
the following members of the Commission found to be present:
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
ABSENT: Commmissioner Victor De Yurre
ALSO PRESENT:
Cesar Odio, City Manager
Jorge L. Fernandez, City Attorney
Matty Hirai, City Clerk
Walter J. Foeman, Assistant City Clerk
An invocation was delivered by Mayor Suarez. Vice Mayor Kennedy then
led those present in a pledge of allegiance to the flag.
Mayor Suarez recognized and welcomed the students from Biscayne Gardens
Elementary School.
1. PRESENTATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS AND SPECIAL ITEMS.
1. Commendation awarded to Ms. Mary Smith, Communications Operator, City of
Miami Fire Department, whose quick thinking and skillful telephone
techniques saved the life of an infant in a child day care center.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: COMMISSIONER DE YURRE ENTERED THE COMMISSION
MEETING AT 9:11 A.M.
2. Certificate of Appreciation to Sid Sussman and Nick Coffin for their
corporate participation in the Bayfront Park Amphitheater inauguration in
April and their subsequent contributions to the City of Miami Parks &
Recreation Department, Division of the Handicapped.
3. Mr. Seth Gordon presented video highlights of last year's Miami Film
Festival.
2. DISCUSS AND REQUEST CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATIONS AND FULL REPORT
REGARDING ALLEGED LEASE VIOLATIONS BY THE CUBAN NATIONAL MUSEUM.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins wanted to have a report back - really all
of us wanted to have a report back. Is Commissioner Dawkins close to here?
He's back there. On the issue of the Cuban museum, Mr. Manager, are you ready
to make a report on that?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir. We did - I think you found in your offices this morning
a memorandum from me about the Cuban museum lease. Do you want me to put it
on the record or is it sufficient to... well, based upon the information
provided by the Cuban museum, we found that they have not violated the
provisions of the lease because section 10, which is titled, alterations by
lessee, states that the lessee shall have the right to remove any movable
1 June 9, 1988
personal property that is art work or fixtures that it places on the premises.
However, the Cuban museum may have violated section 4, which is called "use"
of the agreement by selling the art objects. This section states the Cuban
museum must provide art classes and cultural lectures for adults and children.
Therefore, sufficient art work should be available for these activities. If a
determination can be made concerning the unavailability of art work for
classes, these matters should be referred to the law department for an opinion
and I have referred that to the... we have also sent - we will be reviewing
all the Cuban museum financial records to determine if the proceeds from the
auction were used for the benefit of the museum. To date, the department of
internal audits and review has learned the auction is a fund raising project
and the art work auction was on consignment to the museum. Therefore, the
museum would only retain a percentage of the sale price. The City Attorney
has agreed to contact the U.S. Attorney for a legal opinion concerning the
possibility of the museum violating the trade embargo act and jeopardizing its
non profit status. We have sent a letter that I signed this morning to Leon
Kellner, U.S. Attorney, requesting all records. We have also sent a letter to
the chairman, or the president of the Cuban Museum of Arts and Culture in
which we notified them what this section 4 of the lease states so that in the
future, they understand clearly what the lease says and there won't be any
violations.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, when will all of this that we asked you to do be
completed such as your audit, the letter back from the U.S. Attorney and, etc.
so that we can bring this thing to closure?
Mr. Odio: We are going through the records this morning. I expect two weeks
would be sufficient to conclude the financial records part of it, I don't know
what kind of cooperation we'll get from the U.S. Attorney's Office and the law
department.
Mayor Suarez: Better be ready for the 23rd.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, look, this is a pocket item, there are individuals in
the community who do not know about it who need to be here to discuss it and,
in my opinion, it doesn't make sense for us to go through something and have
to rehash it. So I would move, Mr. Mayor, that at the meeting on the 23rd,
that the Manager be prepared to come before us with a full report and a
recommendation that we can act on.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Not to in any way go against the motion but, in
fact, along the same lines, it seems from the memo from the Manager that
there's at least, if not a violation of the lease, some indication that the
museum is really not doing in many ways what they should have been doing
according to the agreement with the City in that they seems to spend all their
time selling works or art and not necessarily having the art classes and
having the works of art available for the general public. I happen to have
been there a couple of times because, as you know, we helped in the fund
raising and it doesn't seem to be any permanent exhibition there and all of
the purposes of a museum, as we think of it, you know, don't seem to be
fulfilled. Instead, we have these money making activities and somebody, you
know, whether it's a violation of the lease or not, ought to let them know
that that was the premise on which we gave that lease as I remember it. That
a museum is a museum to exhibit works of art and somebody ought to tell them
to redirect their activities towards that purpose whether it's a violation of
the lease or not. Let me go ahead and take a vote on the motion unless some
other Commissioner wants to make a statement. Call the roll on the motion,
Madam City Clerk - Mr. City Clerk.
2 June 9, 1988
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-486
A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE AND
BRING BACK BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION AT THE PLANNING
AND ZONING MEETING SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 23, 1988, A FULL
REPORT, INCLUDING HIS RECOMMENDATIONS, IN CONNECTION
WITH ALLEGED LEASE VIOLATIONS BY THE CUBAN NATIONAL
MUSEUM, FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE CITY COMMISSION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: Miss Ruiz.
Ms. Margarita Ruiz: Mr. Mayor and the City Commissioners, we would like to
ask that once this investigation begins that we get ourselves contacted, the
people that resigned from the museum, because we have a lot of information and
at no point during this past month have any of us been contacted as to what is
going on...
Mayor Suarez: OK, why don't...
Ms. Ruiz: ... or what it is that we know, there have been serious conflicts
of interest.
Mayor Suarez: Why don't you be, since you're as active as any of them, be the
liaison with the City since you've come here to make this presentation and Mr.
City Manager and Dr. Daniels, make sure that Margarita is contacted and given
copies of all of the materials without having to constantly ask for them.
Ms. Ruiz: We also have attorneys, Raul del Portillo and Mzria Rita del
Portillo are representing our side of the issue.
Mayor Suarez: OK, you might give Dr. Daniels then their addresses and names
so they can be copied with all the...
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, does anything preclude their being at any quote,
unquote public hearings or what have you that we could invite them to so that,
as she said, they got some input on, they know what's happening rather than -
so that when we come here to the meeting, anything that they've heard that
they don't understand is ironed out.
Mr. Odio: Yes, we'll be glad to include them in the...
Mr. Dawkins: Is that agreeable with you, that when they have the meetings,
that they notify you so that you can show up?
Ms. Ruiz: Yes, definitely. Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor,
Ms. Ruiz: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Thanks to all of you for your appearance here this morning.
3 June 9, 1988
3. URGE COMMISSIONER MILLER DAWKINS TO TAKE THE LEAD IN CONNECTION WITH
EFFORTS TO REPAIR GENERAL ANTONIO MACEO STATUE.
Mr. Dawkins: I have another one.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: All of us are aware that the Antonio Maceo's statue was
destroyed. We also building him a park in his honor and in that park, we're
going to have statue so there has been some movement to do another statue.
What I would hope that this Commission would assign someone to work with the
Maceo Park group so that we will not duplicate expenses instead of if we can
repair this and bring it up to a standard then we would repair this and take
the money that we are raising to really do something that's memorable and that
we could be proud of in his honor.
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, I had received two calls. One yesterday from an old
brigadier general of Wars of Liberation and they have raised funds to repair
the statue, but also I had a call from a Dr. Abrill who says they have enough
funds also and I told him to write me a letter with that and what they're all
saying is one thing, is they want to keep it in the same place. They would
like to keep it in the same place, the statue that was torn down.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, I agree with that.
Mr. Odio: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, well I agree with that but I'm just saying, let's don't
build another one in that place. I'm for, you know, doing whatever we have to
do to put that one back to the status that it was, if that's the will of the
Commission.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: I will entertain a motion to have Commissioner Dawkins take the
lead on that effort.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Second and symbolically, since Maceo had the name Titan de
Bronze which, roughly translated, would be the Bronze Titan. We have our own
Titan de Bronze on this Commission, it's Commissioner Dawkins who has so
kindly offered to get involved in this effort and in a symbolic way come to
the rescue of Antonio Maceo and the value that his memory has for this entire
community. Moved and seconded. Do we have any discussion from the
Commission? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-487
A MOTION URGING CITY COMMISSIONER MILLER DAWKINS TO
TAKE THE INITIATIVE IN CONNECTION WITH MAKING
NECESSARY REPAIRS TO THE STATUE OF GENERAL ANTONIO
MACEO LOCATED IN JOSE MARTI PARK IN ORDER TO BRING
SAID STATUE UP TO PROPER STANDARDS.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
4 June 9, 1988
AYES: Commissioner Victor be 'Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES. None.
ASSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: I understand the first contribution of $1,000 is going to come
from Dr. Lago who is with us today and, maybe it's $500 from Dr. Lago and $500
from Dr. Noel Tarafa, I don't know how you guys can split the...
Mr. Dawkins: Our guest is leaving, Mr, Mayor. Oh, they're going to stay, OK,
they're going to stay...
4. CONSENT AGENDA
Mayor Suarez: OK, items one through 47 constitute the consent agenda. Is
there any items the Commissioners would like to consider separately and
pulled?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.'
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, pull one and four.
Mrs. Kennedy: Thirty-nine through 45.
Mayor Suarez: Through 45?
Mrs. Kennedy: Right.
Mayor Suarez: Not and 45?
Mrs. Kennedy: No, through. _
Mayor Suarez: I want to remind everyone that Commissioner Plummer.'s got to be
absent for part of the day and if you...
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE):, He's absent, he's absent now.
Mayor Suarez: Thirty nine through 45 are pulled.
Mrs. Kennedy: It's all the same related items, so...
Mayor Suarez: All right. Any other items that need to be pulled? Is there
anyone from the general public that wishes to be heard on any one of these
items specifically?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, even though I'm Peck's bad boy, I would like to pull
12, 14, 25 and 28.
Mayor Suarez: Twenty-five and 28?
Mr. Plummer: Twelve, 14, 25 and 28.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): Ten, 13 and 28, right?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Item 13.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): No, 36.,
Mayor Suarez: Thirty-six,I'm sorry, OK, Anyone else?
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE); Twelve, 14, 25 and 28.
5 June 9, 1988
Mayor Suarez: Items 10, 13, and 28 have been modified; i want to make
everyone aware of that as per the revisions, presumably not on substantive
matters that are before us.
Mr. Plummer: Say that again; ten...
Mayor Suarez: Thirteen and 28 have minor modifications. If you're interested
in 13 you might want to check with the City Attorney as to what those changes
are, they may satisfy you. Oh, your's is 36, I'm sorry. Anyone from the
general public wish to be heard on these items individually? Let the record
reflect that no one has stepped forward. We can, therefore, proceed to a vote
on items one through 47 exempting...
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Move it.
Mr. Dawkins: No, two through 47. I pulled one,
Mayor Suarez: Right, exempting 1, 4, 12, 14, 25...
Mr. De Yurre: Twenty-two also.
Mayor Suarez% Twenty-two, 28, 39 through 45 and 36.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mr. Dawkins: Moved.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
ON MOTION DULY MADE BY VICE MAYOR KENNEDY AND SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER DAWKINS, THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTIONS, AS REVISED ABOVE,
WERE APPROVED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
4.1 ALLOCATE $4,500 TO ACQUIRE A PORTABLE 16 MM MICROFILM MACHINE FOR POLICE
DEPARTMENT.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-488
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED FOUR
THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($4,500) FROM THE CITY
OF MIAMI LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND TO COVER THE
COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACQUISITION OF A PORTABLE
16 MM MICROFILM MACHINE, SUCH COSTS HAVING BEEN
APPROVED BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
6 June 9, 1988
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4.2 AUTHORIZE PURCHASE OF TWO SCOTSMAN ICE FLAKERS MACHINES FROM SALOMON
REFRIGERATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF SOLID WASTE.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-489
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF TWO (2)
SCOTSMAN ICE FLAKERS MACHINES FROM SALOMON
REFRIGERATION UNDER AN EXISTING STATE OF FLORIDA
CONTRACT NO. 740-650-387-1 FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
SOLID WASTE AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $8,340.98;
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT FUND ACCOUNT CODE NO. 353001-329402-840;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF
PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR
THIS EQUIPMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.3 ACCEPT BID: DOTHAN SECURITY, INC. - FOR FURNISHING SECURITY GUARD
SERVICES TO DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-490
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF DOTHAN SECURITY,
INC. FOR FURNISHING SECURITY GUARD SERVICES TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ON A CONTRACT
BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR WITH THE OPTION TO RENEW FOR
TWO ADDITIONAL ONE YEAR PERIODS AT A TOTAL PROPOSED
FIRST YEAR COST OF $21,594.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-88 OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNT
NO. 450301-340 ($7,068.00) AND 1988-89 ACCOUNT CODE
NO. 450301-340 $14,526.00); AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO
ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE AND TO
EXTEND THIS CONTRACT FOR TWO (2) ADDITIONAL ONE (1)
YEAR PERIODS AT THE SAME PRICE, TERMS AND CONDITIONS
AND SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.4 ACCEPT BID: ALISON COMPANY - FOR FURNISHING VEHICLE DECALS AND
INSTALLATION OF DECALS TO POLICE VEHICLES FOR DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION/MOTOR POOL DIVISION.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-491
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF ALISON COMPANY FOR
FURNISHING VEHICLE DECALS AND INSTALLATION OF DECALS
TO POLICE VEHICLES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION/MOTOR POOL DIVISION ON A
CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR RENEWABLE FOR AN
ADDITIONAL ONE (1) YEAR PERIOD AT A TOTAL PROPOSED
FIRST YEAR COST OF $28,925.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-88 OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNT
NO. 420310-850; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A
PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE AND MATERIALS AND TO
EXTEND THIS CONTRACT FOR AN ADDITIONAL ONE (1) YEAR
PERIOD AT THE SAME TERMS, CONDITIONS AND PRICES,
SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.5 ACCEPT BID: BROWARD ELEVATOR SALES AND SERVICE - FOR FURNISHING ELEVATOR
MAINTENANCE TO DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.
7 June 9, 1988
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RESOLUTION NO. 88-492
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF BROWARD ELEVATOR
SALES & SERVICE FOR FURNISHING ELEVATOR MAINTENANCE
TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR RENEWABLE
ANNUALLY AT A TOTAL ESTIMATED FIRST YEAR COST OF
$23,640.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-
88 GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
PROPERTY MAINTENANCE DIVISION OPERATING BUDGET
ACCOUNT CODE NO. 420401-670; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO
ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.6 ACCEPT BID: WEATHERTROL MAINTENANCE CORPORATION - FOR FURNISHING AIR
CONDITION MAINTENANCE SERVICES TO DON HICKMAN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-493
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF WEATHERTROL
MAINTENANCE CORPORATION FOR FURNISHING AIR CONDITION
MAINTENANCE SERVICES TO THE DON HICKMAN
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION/PROPERTY MAINTENANCE
DIVISION ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR
RENEWABLE ANNUALLY FOR THREE (3) ADDITIONAL ONE (1)
YEAR PERIODS AT A TOTAL ESTIMATED FIRST YEAR COST OF
$4,633.20; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-
88 GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
PROPERTY MAINTENANCE DIVISION OPERATING BUDGET
ACCOUNT CODE NO. 420401-670; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO
ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE, AND TO
EXTEND THIS CONTRACT FOR THREE (3) ADDITIONAL ONE
(1) YEAR PERIODS, FOR SUCCEEDING YEARS AND SUBJECT
TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: R-88-494 was modified per memorandum from City Attorney
on file in office of the City Clerk.
4.7 ACCEPT BID: DOWNTOWN RADIATOR SERVICES, INC. AND LATIN AUTO GLASS,
INC. - FOR FURNISHING RADIATORS AND GLASS REPAIRS FOR DEPARTMENT OF
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION/FLEET MANAGEMENT DIVISION.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-494
A RESOLUTION ACCEPT THE BIDS OF DOWNTOWN RADIATOR
SERVICES, INC. AT A PROPOSED COST OF $4,500.00, AND
LATIN AUTO GLASS, INC. AT A PROPOSED COST OF
$10,000.00 FOR FURNISHING RADIATORS AND GLASS
REPAIRS ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR WITH
THE OPTION TO RENEW FOR ONE (1) ADDITIONAL ONE YEAR
PERIOD TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION/FLEET MANAGEMENT DIVISION AT A TOTAL
PROPOSED FIRST YEAR COST OF $14,500.00; ALLOCATING
FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1987088 GENERAL FUND
OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNT CODE NO. 420201-670;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF
PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR
T$SE SERVICES AND TO EXTEND THIS CONTRACT FOR ONE
(1) ADDITIONAL YEAR UNDER THE SAME TERMS, PRICES AND
CONDITIONS AND SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
8 June 9, 1988
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.8 ACCEPT BID: FEDAN TIRE CO. - FOR FURNISHING TIRE RECAPPING SERVICES TO
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-495
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF FEDAN TIRE CO. FOR
FURNISHING TIRE RECAPPING SERVICES TO THE DEPARTMENT
OF GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION ON A CONTRACT
BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR WITH THE OPTION TO RENEW FOR
AN ADDITIONAL ONE YEAR PERIOD AT A TOTAL ESTIMATED
FIRST YEAR COST OF $45,000.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-88 OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNT
CODE NO. 420201-670; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A
PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE, AND TO EXTEND THIS
CONTRACT FOR AN ADDITIONAL ONE YEAR PERIOD, AT THE
SAME PRICE, TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND SUBJECT TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: R-88-496 was modified per memorandum from City Attorney
on file in office of City Clerk.
4.9 ACCEPT BID: PITNEY BOWES, INC. - FOR FURNISHING ONE ELECTRONIC MAIL
PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR USE AT CITY'S MAILROOM.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-496
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF PITNEY BOWES, INC.
FOR FURNISHING ONE (1) ELECTRONIC MAIL PROCESSING
SYSTEM FOR USE AT THE CITY'S MAILROOM FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION AT A
TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $12,629.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-88 OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNT
CODE NO. 420501-850; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A
PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT; FURTHER APPROVING
THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER'S DECISION TO REJECT A
PROTEST RECEIVED IN CONNECTION WITH SAID PROJECT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.10 ACCEPT BID: QUALITY FIBERGLASS PRODUCTS, INC. - FOR FURNISHING 250 DOCK
LOCK BOXES FOR THE DINNER KEY MARINA - PIER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-497
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF QUALITY FIBERGLASS
PRODUCTS, INC. FOR THE FURNISHING OF 250 DOCK LOCK
BOXES FOR THE DINNER KEY MARINA - PIER CONSTRUCTION
PROJECT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AT A
TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $35,000,00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE DINNER KEY MARINA-
RENOVATION/EXPANSION PROJECT ACCOUNT CODE NO.
414005-319302-830; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A
PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
9 June 9, 1988
4.11 ACCEPT BIDS: STOCKLAND COMPANY AND L.P. INDUSTRIES, INC. - FOR
FURNISHING TRASH RECEIVERS AND CONTAINERS FOR DINNER KEY MARINA - PIER
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-498
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BIDS OF THE STOCKLAND
COMPANY IN THE AMOUNT OF $32,500.00 AND L.P.
INDUSTRIES, INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,864.00 FOR THE
FURNISHING OF TRASH RECEIVERS AND CONTAINERS FOR THE
DINNER KEY MARINA - PIER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR
THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AT A TOTAL PROPOSED
COST OF $38,364.10; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM
THE DINNER KEY MARINA-RENOVATION/EXPANSION PROJECT
ACCOUNT CODE NO. 414005-319302-830; AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT
OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS
EQUIPMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.12 ACCEPT BIDS: ALLIED UNIVERSAL CORPORATION AND ASHLAND CHEMICAL COMPANY -
FOR FURNISHING SWIMMING POOL CHEMICALS FOR DEPARTMENT OF PARKS,
RECREATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-499
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BIDS OF ALLIED UNIVERSAL
CORPORATION AT A PROPOSED COST OF $47,624.00, AND
ASHLAND CHEMICAL COMPANY AT A PROPOSED COST OF
$25,315.00 FOR FURNISHING SWIMMING POOL CHEMICALS ON
A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR WITH THE OPTION TO
RENEW FOR ONE (1) ADDITIONAL ONE YEAR PERIOD TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND PUBLIC
FACILITIES AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $72,939.00;
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-88 GENERAL
FUND OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNT CODE NO. 580301-704
($32,777.00) AND 1988-89 OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNT
CODE NO. 580301-704 ($40,162.00); AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT
OFFICER TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THESE MATERIALS
AND TO EXTEND THESE CONTRACTS FOR ONE (1) ADDITIONAL
YEAR UNDER THE SAME TERMS, PRICES AND CONDITIONS AND
SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.13 ACCEPT BID: TRS, INC. D/B/A SECOA - FOR FURNISHING 12 ACOUSTICAL
ENCLOSURE UNITS TO BE USED AT BAYFRONT PARK AMPHITHEATER FOR DEPARTMENT
OF PUBLIC WORKS.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-500
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF TRS, INC. D/B/A
SECOA FOR THE FURNISHING OF TWELVE (12) ACOUSTICAL
ENCLOSURES UNITS TO BE USED AT THE BAYFRONT PARK
AMPHITHEATER FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AT A
TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $32,460.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE BAYFRONT PARK REDEVELOPMENT NORTH
END AND AMPHITHEATRE PHASE II C.I.P. ACCOUNT CODE
NO. 331301-559303-840; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER
TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A
PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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4.14 ACCEPT BID: MIAMI STAGECRAFT, INC. - FOR FURNISHING PORTABLE DANCE FLOOR
FOR BAYFRONT PARK AMPHITHEATER FOR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-501
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF MIAMI STAGECRAFT,
INC. FOR FURNISHING A PORTABLE DANCE FLOOR FOR
BAYFRONT PARK AMPHITHEATER FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
PUBLIC WORKS AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $20,475.00;
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE BAYFRONT PARK
REDEVELOPMENT NORTH END AND AMPHITHEATER PHASE II
C.I.P. ACCOUNT CODE NO. 331302-559303-840;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF
PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR
THIS EQUIPMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.15 EXECUTE INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS WITH 13 NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS - FOR CONTINUED IMPLEMENTATION OF ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-502
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS WITH THIRTEEN (13)
NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS, FOR
THE AMOUNTS SPECIFIED FOR EACH, TO CONTINUE
IMPLEMENTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS, WITH
FUNDS ALLOCATED THEREFOR FROM THE FOURTEENTH (14TH)
YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.16 EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH NATIONAL CENTER FOR MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT, INC.
TO CONTINUE REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI IN WASHINGTON, D.C. BY
MR. MARK ISRAEL.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-503
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, WITH THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MUNICIPAL
DEVELOPMENT, INC., TO CONTINUE REPRESENTATION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI IN WASHINGTON$ D.C. BY MR. MARK
ISRAEL; ALLOCATING THEREFOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$25,000 FOR SUCH SERVICES, AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED $4,000 FOR REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES FROM THE
LEGISLATIVE LIAISON GENERAL FUND.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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4.17 AUTHORIZE EXTENSION OF AGREEMENTS: (A) MANUEL G. VERA & ASSOCIATES,
INC., (B) WEIDENER SURVEYING AND MAPPING P.A., (C) E.R. BROWNELL &
ASSOCIATES, INC., (D) H.J. ROSS & ASSOCIATES, AND (E) FERNANDO Z. GATELL
P.L.S., INC. - IN CONNECTION WITH CITY CONTRACTED CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-504
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
AN AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENTS, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE
FORM ATTACHED HERETO, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND
MANUEL G. VERA & ASSOC., INC., WEIDENER SURVEYING &
MAPPING P.A., E.R. BROWNELL & ASSOC., INC., H.J.
ROSS & ASSOC., A DIVISION OF BAYMONT ENGINEERING
CO., AND FERNANDO Z. GATELL P.L.S., INC., EXTENDING
THE CONTRACTS FOR ONE (1) YEAR FROM JANUARY 2, 1989
TO JANUARY 1, 1990 FOR SURVEYING SERVICES IN
CONJUNCTION WITH CITY CONTRACTED CONSTRUCTION
PROJECTS, WITH FUNDS THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE
PROJECT EXPENSE FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL PROJECT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.18 RESCIND RESOLUTION 88-292 - ENTER INTO AGREEMENT WITH ENVIROCARE, INC. -
TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH
GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION PROBLEM AT THE SOUTH DISTRICT (LITTLE HAVANA)
POLICE SUBSTATION.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-505
A RESOLUTION RESCINDING RESOLUTION NO. 88-292 AND
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN
AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY
WITH ENVIROCARE, INC. TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES TO BE SUBMITTED AND APPROVED
BY THE FLORIDA STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL
REGULATION AT CONNECTION WITH THE GROUNDWATER
CONTAMINATION PROBLEM DISCOVERED AT THE SOUTH
DISTRICT POLICE SUBSTATION SITE AT A TOTAL COST NOT
TO EXCEED $20,000 WITH SAID FUNDS TO BE PROVIDED
FROM FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE SOUTH DISTRICT POLICE
SUBSTATION CIP PROJECT NO. 312008 AND SAID PROJECT
TO BE REIMBURSED LATER IF AND WHEN FUNDS ARE
RECEIVED FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA UNDER THE STATE
UNDERGROUND PETROLEUM ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE ACT OF
1986 (SUPER ACT).
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.19 GRANT $30,000 TO CITY OF MIAMI YOUTH BASEBALL ACADEMIES, INC. - IN
SUPPORT OF THE 7TH ANNUAL YOUTH BASEBALL WORLD SERIES.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-506
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A GRANT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED $30,000 TO THE CITY OF MIAMI YOUTH BASEBALL
ACADEMIES, INC., A NON-PROFIT FLORIDA CORPORATION,
IN SUPPORT OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL CITY OF MIAMI YOUTH
BASEBALL WORLD SERIES; ALLOCATING FUNDS IN THAT
AMOUNT FOR SAID EVENT FROM MONIES PREVIOUSLY
APPROPRIATED FOR SAID EVENT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
PARKS, RECREATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES GENERAL
FUND, RECREATION DIVISION, AID TO PRIVATE
ORGANIZATION LINE -ITEM; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT FOR SAID EVENT,
IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED, BETWEEN THE CITY
OF MIAMI AND THE CITY OF MIAMI YOUTH BASEBALL
ACADEMIES, INC.
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(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.20 APPROVE COST SHARING CONTRACT WITH THE SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT
DISTRICT - FOR RETROFITTING STORM WATER BASINS WITHIN THE CITY.
RESOLUTION NO, 88-507
A RESOLUTION APPROVING A COST SHARING CONTRACT
BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND THE SOUTH FLORIDA
WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT FOR RETROFITTING STORM
WATER BASINS WITHIN THE CITY; AND AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE SAID CONTRACT IN
SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED HERETO ON BEHALF OF
THE CITY WITH FUNDS THEREFOR MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE
CITY'S SHARE FROM STORM SEWER GENERAL OBLIGATION
BOND FUNDS AND STORM WATER UTILITY TRUST FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.21 ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC., IMMIGRATION
SERVICES - FOR USE OF SPACE IN THE MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER TO
PROVIDE COUNSELING AND LEGAL ADVICE ON IMMIGRATION PROCEDURES.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-508
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER'S ISSUANCE
OF A REVOCABLE PERMIT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE
CITY ATTORNEY, TO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC.,
IMMIGRATION SERVICES, A NONPROFIT CORPORATION, FOR
THE USE OF SPACE IN THE MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY
CENTER, LOCATED AT 970 SOUTHWEST FIRST STREET,
MIAMI, FLORIDA, TO PROVIDE COUNSELING AND LEGAL
ADVICE ON IMMIGRATION PROCEDURES, SAID PERMIT BEING
FOR AN INITIAL ONE-YEAR PERIOD, AT A USER FEE OF
$2,430 PER YEAR, WITH SUCCESSIVE AUTHORITY BEING
GIVEN FOR THE PERMIT TO REMAIN VALID FOR ONE-YEAR
PERIODS, SUBJECT TO THE CITY MANAGER'S APPROVAL.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.22 APPROVE AND ADOPT THE CITY OF MIAMI COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL REPORT FOR
FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1987.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-509
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING, APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL REPORT
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30, 1987 AS
REQUIRED BY FLORIDA LAW.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
13 June 9, 1988
4.23 APPROVE ONE YEAR EXTENSION OF EMPLOYMENT PAST THE AGE OF 11 FOR EVELIO
RIZO.
RESOLUTION N0. 88-510
A RESOLUTION APPROVING A ONE (1) YEAR EXTENSION OF
EMPLOYMENT PAST THE AGE OF 71 FOR EVELIO RIZO,
TYPIST CLERK II, CITY CLERK'S OFFICE, EFFECTIVE MAY
11, 1988, THROUGH MAY 10, 1989, WITH THE PROVISION
THAT IN THE EVENT OF A ROLL BACK OR LAYOFF, EVELIO
RIZO'S PHYSICAL CONDITION SHALL BE REEVALUATED TO
DETERMINE IF HIS CONDITION IS SATISFACTORY FOR
CONTINUED EMPLOYMENT; FURTHER PROVIDING THAT ALL
FUTURE REQUESTS FOR EXTENSION OF EMPLOYMENT BE
BROUGHT BEFORE THE COMMISSION ON A YEARLY BASIS FOR
ITS REVIEW.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.24 ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: RIC-MAN .INTERNATIONAL, INC. - FOR CITYWIDE
SANITARY SEWER REPLACEMENT PROJECT CIP PROJECT NO. 351170.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-511
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETE WORK OF RIC-MAN
INTERNATIONAL, INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF $701,215.39
FOR CITYWIDE SANITARY SEWER REPLACEMENT PROJECT
C.I.P. PROJECT NO. 351170 AND AUTHORIZING A FINAL
PAYMENT OF $24,933.44.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.25 ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: MAN CON, INC. - FOR OVERTOWN/PARK WEST SANITARY
SEWER REPLACEMENT CIP PROJECT NO. 351280.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-512
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF MAN
CON, INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF $532,246.41 FOR OVER
TOWN/PARK WEST SANITARY SEWER REPLACEMENT C.I.P.
PROJECT NO. 351280 AND AUTHORIZING A FINAL PAYMENT
OF $54,820.66.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
4.26 AUTHORIZE ACCEPTANCE OF 65 DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-513
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PROPER OFFICIALS OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI TO ACCEPT SIXTY FIVE (65) DEEDS OF
DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES AND APPROVING THE
RECORDING OF SAID DEEDS 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.)
14 June 9, 1988
4,21 DECLARE IMPROVEMENTS ON 1.5-ACRE CITY -OWNED WATERFRONT PARCEL AS A UDP -
AUTHORIZE RFP FOR A UDP - SET PUBLIC HEARING FOR SEPTEMBER 6, 1988 - IN
CONNECTION WITH DEVELOPMENT OF A NON-PROFIT OLYMPIC SAILING AND TRAINING
CENTER TO BE LOCATED AT THE SOUTHEASTERLY PORTION OF DAVID KENNEDY PARK
(SEE LABELS 16 AND 62),
RESOLUTION NO. 88-514
A RESOLUTION DECLARING THAT THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS
METHOD TO DEVELOP CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON AN
APPROXIMATELY 1.5-ACRE CITY -OWNED WATERFRONT PARCEL
IS BY A UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (UDP);
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE A DRAFT
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR A UDP, AND
CONFIRMING THE SETTING OF A PUBLIC HEARING FOR
SEPTEMBER 8, 1988, AT 2:00 P.M., TO TAKE TESTIMONY
REGARDING SAID RFP FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A NOT FOR
PROFIT OLYMPIC SAILING AND TRAINING CENTER ON A
CITY -OWNED WATERFRONT PROPERTY LOCATED AT THE
SOUTHEASTERLY PORTION OF DAVID T. KENNEDY PARK
ADJACENT TO BISCAYNE BAY IN COCONUT GROVE, AND AT
THE CONCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING TO AUTHORIZE
THE ISSUANCE OF A RFP, SELECT A CERTIFIED PUBLIC
ACCOUNTING FIRM AND APPOINT MEMBERS OF A REVIEW
COMMITTEE TO EVALUATE PROPOSALS AND REPORT FINDINGS
TO THE CITY MANAGER AS REQUIRED BY THE CITY CHARTER
AND CODE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: R 88-514 was reconsidered by M 88-525 (See label 16) and
repassed as R-88- 562 (See label 62)
4.28 AUTHORIZE STREET CLOSURE AND ESTABLISHMENT OF PEDESTRIAN MALL CONCERNING
GRAND OPENING OF FIRE HOUSE 4 AND A CHARITY EVENT TO BENEFIT JACKSON
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BURN CENTER.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-515
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING CERTAIN ACTIVITIES TO BE
HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE GRAND OPENING OF FIRE
HOUSE 4 AND A CHARITY EVENT TO BENEFIT THE
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI/JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BURN
CENTER JUNE 29 THROUGH JULY 3, 1988 SPONSORED BY
FIRE HOUSE 4 RESTAURANT AND THE BRICKELL AREA
ASSOCIATION IN COOPERATION WITH THE CITY OF MIAMI;
PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO
THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC AND ESTABLISHING A
PEDESTRIAN MALL SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS
BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND
INSPECTION SERVICES; FURTHER ESTABLISHING AN AREA
PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS DURING THE PERIOD OF
THE EVENT, CONDITIONED UPON THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE
CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY
AND UPON 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.)
15 June 9, 1988
4.29 ACCEPT FINANCIAL REPORT FROM THE FLORIDA INTERAMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP
FOUNDATION REGARDING CITY'S GRANT IN SUPPORT OF JIMMY BUFFET BENEFIT
CONCERT.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-516
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE FINANCIAL REPORT AND
APPROVING THE PROPOSED EXPENDITURE OF PROFITS
SUBMITTED BY THE FLORIDA INTERAMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP
FOUNDATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE CITY'S $6,000
GRANT IN SUPPORT OF THE JIMMY BUFFET BENEFIT CONCERT
HELD AT THE MARINE STADIUM ON NOVEMBER 29, 1987.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5. DEFER CONSIDERATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF A PROPOSAL MADE BY U.S. IMPRESSION,
INC. TO PUBLISH A FREE ECONOMIC PROFILE OF THE CITY - DIRECT MANAGER TO
ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY A LOCAL FIRM TO PERFORM SAID SERVICES.
Mayor Suarez: Item one, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Have someone explain to me...
Matthew Schwartz, Esq.: Item one is a ...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, hold it. We don't have to go through all of that. What
does a significant portion of the ERP will be set aside for commercial
advertisement which will compensate the cost of the project? Explain that to
me.
Mr. Schwartz: This is a private company that will produce the document - the
bulk of the documenter's advertisements from real estate developments in the
City, businesses in the City. It includes approximately a third, 25 to 30
percent of the document is text about the City of Miami and Metropolitan Dade
County. In the fact that the City would be the one to endorse this, the bulk
of the text would and we would have editorial control, would be about the City
of Miami as a place to do business.
Mr. Dawkins: So, in other words, the City of Miami and Dade County have
already done the research and got the data that this individual is just going
to put together and slap his letterhead on and charge people a fee for
advertising in it and he's going to make a ton of money using the data and the
stuff that we already have.
Mayor Suarez: That's a very good point, what about the copyright aspects of
this and the fact that we provide all the data and they get all the profits
from it?
Mr. Schwartz: They have asked that we provide existing data that the City
has. They will prepare the text, they will do the writing. There's nothing
additional that the City really has to do, it's just the City gives them
endorsement to this credibility. Yes, they make money on this and it's profit
making. The thing is that they will give us between five and ten thousand
copies of this...
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, and the Mayor's signature is going to sell a hundred
thousand copies. When the Mayor gives a letter of endorsement, that's going
to sell a hundred thousand, so he's going to give us five thousand. We're
ninety-five in the hole.
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE); Yes, I do sell it for about that.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Sure.
Mrs. Kennedy; Matthew, who are these people, U. S. Impression?
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Mr. Schwartz: This is a company from New York, they have prepared this for
numerous other municipalities, I'm sorry, I don't have a copy of the example
of this but it's basically.,.
Mr. Dawkins: And there's nobody locally can do this.
Mr. Schwartz: No one has approached us. They came and approached the City.
Mr. Dawkins: Beg pardon? OK, I move that this be deferred and that we see if
we can't find a local firm that can do this if we want it done.
Mayor Suarez: Move to defer.
Mr. De Yurre (OFF MIKE): Second.
Mayor Suarez: Second. One alternative for the Commissioner's satisfaction
may be for them to give us some idea exactly what kinds of monies are expected
to be made from this and what control we may have over it or something.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Right, Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Schwartz: They have indicated that we have full control of the editorial
and the text.
Mayor Suarez: That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about what,
you know, so people won't be profiting off of our information and...
Mr. Schwartz: Obviously, it's a major expense to print this. The book is
about 300-400 pages.
Mayor Suarez: Well, I mean, you might want to give us that information. That
might convince the Commissioner that we have a motion to defer, I don't
know...
Mr. Schwartz: OK, I'll provide you with copies.
Mr. Herb Bailey (OFF MIKE): No, wait a minute, hold on, hold on. If we do
this local, it's going to cost money.
Mr. Schwartz: Yes, the only thing is that this is no cost to the City. And
the emphasis will be on the City of Miami as the center of Dade County and
this metropolitan region versus...
Mayor Suarez: The Commissioner, I think, wants to know about the money
aspects of it, the financial aspects. We have a motion to defer and a second.
Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-517
A MOTION TO DEFER CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEM NUMBER
ONE (AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A PROPOSAL
MADE BY U.S. IMPRESSION, INC. TO PUBLISH A FREE
ECONOMIC PROFILE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI/DADS COUNTY);
FURTHER INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER TO SEE IF A LOCAL
FIRM CAN BE IDENTIFIED TO PERFORM SAID SERVICE.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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Mayor Suarez: You might consider it a tabling motion if you can convince them
later to have it reconsidered but show them some figures on how it's going to
work.
6. PURCHASE THREE PUMPER APPARATUS, ONE QUINT APPARATUS, RELATED
FIREFIGHTING TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FROM YOUNG TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. FOR
DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES ($1,168,156.70).
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Mayor Suarez: OK, item four.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF AND ON MIKE): Item four. Chief, where's Chief Duke? How
many new pieces of new equipment are we purchasing?
Chief Colonel Duke: With this bid, we'll be purchasing three new engine
companies and one aerial.
Mr. Dawkins: Three new?
Mr. Duke: Yes, sir. Three new engines and one aerial.
Mr. Dawkins: All right. And next year we'll try to purchase what?
Mr. Duke: I hope to replace at least half the fleet within the next two years
so we're looking at another 15-20 purchases very shortly.
Mr. Dawkins: You ought to be commended because I have been saying ever since
I've been here that it's time that we purchased some new equipment rather than
rebuilding equipment that's twenty years old because eventually we will be
obsolete and nobody buys obsolete fire apparatus and pay for it. So, I
commend you for finding a way to purchase four new pieces of equipment.
Mr. Duke: Thank you very much, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: I move four.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll on four.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-518
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF THREE (3)
PUMPER APPARATUS, ONE (1) QUINT APPARATUS, RELATED
FIREFIGHTING TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT AND MISCELLANEOUS
VEHICLE SPARE PARTS UNDER AN EXISTING DADE COUNTY BID
NO. 176-37 FROM YOUNG TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. FRO THE
DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE, AND INSPECTION SERVICES AT
A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $1,168,156.70; ALLOCATING
FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE FY 188 FIRE BOND ACCOUNTS NO.
313223-289401-840 ($1,119,167.00) AND NO. 313222-
28940-840 ($48,989.70); AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER
TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A
PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote;
18 June 9, 1988
ASS: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner j. L. Plummer, ,fir.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None,
7. BRIEF CLARIFICATION ON HOW ITEM 10 (PURCHASE OF RADIATORS AND GLASS
REPAIRS FROM DOWNTOWN RADIATOR SERVICES AND LATIN AUTO GLASS) WAS
MODIFIED BY CITY ATTORNEY'S MEMORANDUM. (SEE LABEL 4)
Mayor Suarez: Item twelve.
Mr. Plummer: Somebody pulled = oh, ten was modified.
Mr. Dawkins: Twelve?
Mr. Plummer: Don't you think we ought to put on the record how ten was
modified?
Mayor Suarez: Please put on the record how we modified ten, that's a good
idea. Thank you, Commissioner.
Mr. Plummer: From what I understand, it's not a slight modification.
Mayor Suarez: It's not a slight - not a minor modification.
Mr. Plummer: Changing from one vendor to another.
Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Yes, the modification consists in that the lowest bidder
was not properly reported. The lowest bidder is someone else than the one
that appears on the resolution on the package that you got and, in fact, the
lowest bidder is Latin Auto Glass and not AA Glass as previously reported.
So, it's just a change to correct.
Mr. Plummer: Where did themistake come about?
Mr. Ron Williams: Commissioner, the mistake was made in tabulation because
when the analysis was done, a discount was not properly allocated. We
identified that mistake after we had finished the analysis and we came back
and corrected it.
Mr. Plummer: Did you so notify the supposedly awardee that it had been
changed?
Mr. Williams: Yes, we.have.
Mr. Plummer: He's had the opportunity to speak to the issue?
Mr. Williams: We did notify him on yesterday. As to whether or not he's had
an opportunity to speak here, I'm not certain. We did notify him that we did
incorrectly performed the tabulation.
Mayor Suarez: I think what he means is, if the awardee is aware of it and
agrees to this and is not going to create a problem for us, not that he's
going to be heard here, Ron, but just if we're OK with the awardee.
Mr. Williams: We did notify him, Mr. Mayor, that the change had been made.
Mr. Plummer; Well, you see, I guess the real question I'm raising.. To me,
when you switch from an agenda item and you switch vendors, that's not .a
slight modification and yet, we would have rushed over it and said, that's it
and we would have walked away from here thinking, in fact, that this is what
we passed.
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INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: No, I don't want to postpone it. As long as the AA Glass that's
on here has been notified. Obviously I assume were notified that this matter
would be discussed this morning and this change would be made. You know, if
you make a mistake one time, you make a mistake two times.
Mr. Williams: Commissioner, we did speak to them and they are aware that the
change is being made.
Mr: Plummer: OK. Fine with me. I have no problem.
8. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND WITHDRAWAL OF PROPOSED RESOLUTION ACCEPTING BID OF
B & F MARINE, INC. - TO FURNISH FOUR OUTBOARD MOTORS TO DEPARTMENT OF
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.
Mayor Suarez: OK, Item 12 is think is also yours, Commissioner. Not twelve?
Mr. Plummer (OFF AND ON MIKE): Put my glasses on. Mr. Manager, did we just
recently overhaul completely some boats? We have three, correct?
Mr. Ron Williams: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: And we're paying $6,000 an engine for an outboard motor?
Mr. Williams: That's correct, Commissioner.
Mayor Suarez: How recently did we replace those motors?
Mr. Williams: The motors that were present that we're asking you to replace
now have approximately a minimum of 1700 hours on them.
Mr. Plummer: How long ago did we replace them?
Mr. Williams: I don't have the exact date, Commissioner, I can get that for
you.
Mr. Plummer: It's less than a year.
Mr. Williams: We replaced the Boston Whaler engine last year and that's
already up to a thousand hours at this point. But the motors that we're
asking you to replace now are for the two Rebalos.
Mr. Plummer: The point I'm trying to make, you know,...
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): I thought you were going to eliminate it.
Mr. Plummer: ... hours are fine for maintenance. But, damn, an outboard
engine ought to last more than a year; especially when you're paying six grand
for them. Now, there's something wrong somewhere and I don't know where it
is. But an engine that's - you just don't keep an outboard engine for one
year and throw it away, I realize they get a lot of hours but that's for
maintenance to bring them up to snuff and when you take them in and you
rebuild them. My question, it looks like to me it's going to be easier to buy
new ones than to rebuild them. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to ask that this matter be
deferred until the next meeting because there's just something wrong that
doesn't hold up here. I don't know what it is.
Mr. Odio: I'll tell you what - Yes, I'll withdraw the item and because we're
in the budget process and I want to look at the marine patrol anyway.
Mr. Plummer: Well, but here again, please, my question is not about the
marine patrol in general. You know my feelings there. My question is that
we're having outboard engines that are only lasting a year, something is
radically wrong.
Mr. Odio: Well, Commissioner, if you think that the boats are working around
the clock —
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Mayor Suarez: 'Yes, it must be because of continuous use, I guess, and the
number of hours is really mote of an indication, don ''t you think,
Commissioner?
Mr. Odio: They're working on the shifts basis like a patrol car would be.
Mayor Suarez: But he wants to be satisfied that we're not just throwing money
away here with replacing, you know, within a year of acquisition.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sure, yes.
Mr. Williams, Mr. Mayor, if 1 may just add for the Commissioner's benefit.
We did check into that Commissioner, and we found that the industry average on
these motors are about a thousand hours.
Mr. Plummer: Absolutely wrong.
Mr. Williams: And these have in excess of 1700 hours and:.:
Mr. Plummer: My friend, you know, you might tell that to somebody who all
their life didn't run outboard motors. OK? I don't get sick in the bath tub.
Mr. Williams: We will...
Mr. Plummer: It's been withdrawn so we'll bring it back at a later time.
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9. ACCEPT BID: MC LAUGHLIN GROUP - FOR FURNISHING 1,200 CLEATS FOR DINNER
KEY MARINA - PIER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Mayor Suarez: OK, item fourteen. Sometimes he gets sick right here on the
Commission but not in the bath tub.
Mr. Plummer: That's for sure.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF.MIKE): That's different.
Mr. Plummer: On fourteen,_ if I'm not mistaken, it seems like that we're
talking about these improvements in the Dinner Key Marina.
Mr. Odio: Brand new marina.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, I understand, but where -"I just don't understand, you're
paying $100 for a boat cleat? You're paying... the next item which is also
involved in it, you're paying about $700-$800 for a boat...
Mr. Jim Kay: No, no, no, no. The bid is almost $12,000.
Mr. Plummer: Twelve thousand dollars.
Mr. Kay: For 1200 - twelve hundred boat cleats.
Mr. Plummer: It's a $100 a piece.
Mr. Kay: No, it's $10, isn't it?
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me? Do I stand corrected?
Mayor Suarez: Ten dollars.
Mr. Plummer: OK, $10 is not bad. All right, the other one, 250 of the dock
boxes at`$35,000. What does that come out to? There's 250 of these boxes at
$35,000, Who has a calculator? No, it can't be $14.00, no. Mr. Mayor, go
ahead and go on, I might revisit this subject because it can't be $14.00. No
way. It can't be. Ten dollars would be 250, would be $2500. It can't be,
I'll come back and revisit the issue.
Mrs, Kennedy (OFF MIKE): OK,
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Mr. P1umman Xavier! go ahead and proceed, 1011 come back and revisit later,
Mrs, Kennedyi It's finished,
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Anybody got a calculator?
Mayor Suarez: OR, item = you don't want to take a vote on it at this point,
right, Commissioner?
Mr. Plummer: It's immaterial, I might come back, Yes, I'll move 14 for the
present time and maybe come back and revisit 14, 15 and 16.
Mayor Suarez: All right, item 14's been moved.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Second.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): No, you withdrew 12,
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): ... past.
Mayor Suarez: Second. Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-519
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF MC LAUGHLIN GROUP
FOR THE FURNISHING OF 1,200 PIER CLEATS FOR THE DINNER
KEY MARINA - PIER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF
$11,940.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE DINNER
KEY MARINA-RENOVATION/EXPANSION PROJECT ACCOUNT CODE
NO. 414005-319302-830; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A
PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.,
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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10. $RIEF DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED EXECUTION OF INDIVIDUAL
AGREEMENTS WITH (A) LITTLE HAVANA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, INC., AND (B)
SMALL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY CENTER, INC. - FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A
COMMERCIAL FACADE PROGRAM.
Mayor Suarez: Item twenty=two, Commissioner De Yurre,
Mr. De Yurre: 1 want to get some background, Frank, on exactly the cost of
this facade improvement.
Mr. Plummer: What number are we on?
Mrs: Kennedy: Twenty-two.
Mr. Odio: This was a donation from them to the City from Ricoh to improve the
Japanese Gardens and this is a...
Mrs. Kennedy: Well, we're on 22, not on 25; twenty-two.
Mr. De Yurre: No, no, twenty-two.
Mr. Odio: Oh, 22, I'm sorry, I was - sorry.
Mr. De Yurre Yes, I want to know what the Japanese were doing in Little
Havana.
Mr. Odio: I was looking at 25, Commissioner, I'm sorry.
Mrs. Kennedy: There are a lot of Cuban Chinese though.
Mr. Frank Castaneda: Commissioner, let me just explain quickly. Basically
it's Little Havana Development Authority, SBOC, the City and the county are
working together on rehabilitating approximately 25 stores between loth and
12th Avenue on Flagler Street and the idea has been for the City, the county
and all these agencies to put their money together to try to have a major
impact on the renovation of the stores on Flagler.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, you're talking about improving 25 stores.
Mr. Castaneda: Right, the facades and the county will be putting some money
to improve certain parts of the interiors.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, now as far as the facade..
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Mr. De Yurre: You're asking us to put in $60,000.
Mr. Castaneda: Right, $60,000 for SBOC and $60,000 for LHDA; it's $120,000
total.
Mr. De Yurre: $120,000, that comes out to roughly over $5,000 per facade. -
Right?
Mr. Castaneda: No, my numbers must be wrong because the maximum that we put
per facade, per store, is $2,000.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, then...
Mr, Castaneda; So either...
Mr. De Yurre: ... then we're talking about $50,000 altogether if it's twenty-
five,,. only twenty-five, right?
Mr. Castaneda; Right,
Mr, De Yurre; OK.
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Mr. Castaneda: So, I figured we must be renovating a lot more than 25 stores
because what we put per store front is maximum of $2000 of which we put in
only $1,400 and $600 in private sector. In this part the county is also
putting in money and they will be putting more money than we had really stated
here. They're probably putting approximately $50,000 into this project. It's
going to be handled through Isabel Ogden's office of Metropolitan Dade County
in that they're going to do also some improvements to the inside and so forth
but it's going to be treated as one joint project.
Mr. De Yurre: Let me ask you something, do the owners of these stores have
the option of saying, I'll do the work, give me the money or is the work going
to be done by an instrumentality of the government?
Mr. Castanedat No, the work will be done by a private contractor. I do not
know the details whether one private contractor will do all the facades or
there will be different facades. I would assume that a private contractor
will do most of the facades but I can get you that information.
Mr. De Yurre: I'll tell you the problem I have with this. The facade program
in Allapattah, I know of one owner that had the option of saying no. They
were providing $4,000 worth to improve the facade. He said, no, give me the
$4,000, I'll do the work myself. He spent $800, he pocketed $3,200.
Mr. Castaneda: Give me the case and I'll look into that, that should not
happen.
Mr. De Yurre: That is my concern, I don't want that happening again.
Mr. Plummer: No, send him to jail.
Mr. Castaneda: Yes, that shouldn't happen.
Mr. De Yurre: No, he did it, it was fine.
Mr. Plummer: No, send him to jail. That's stealing.
Mr. Castaneda: If you want, you can give me the name after the meeting and
I'll look into that one. That shouldn't happen.
Mr. De Yurre: So what I want to know is, you know, what procedures are used
here.
Mr. Castaneda: No, we have a bid procedure in all cases.
Mr. Plummer: Who does the bidding procedure, us or the little...
Mr. Castaneda: They do. But they have to come to us with three bids.
Mr. Plummer: On each project?
Mr. Castaneda: Yes, sir. Each project or if five projects are done together
on the total five_ project.
Mr. Plummer: Is it the same bidding procedures used by the City?
Mr. Castaneda: They're usually fairly small bids and basically what we
require is them to bring three bids. I would assume that what you're saying
in that particular case is that the gentleman said, well, I can do it for the
lowest bid and I will do it, but if what you're telling me is that he did not
do the work that he was supposed to, then we've got a problem.
Mr. De Yurre: No, he did the work, but he did it for a way less than the
money that was being afforded for each property. That's my point. You know,
if you're talking about $4,000 and you can do it for $800, then there's
something amiss here.
Mr. Castaneda: No, there's something wrong there. If you want, we'll talk
about the name later on.
Mr, De Yurre: Well, I'd like to have this deferred until we get some more
information and see where we're at.
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Mr. bawkiht: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Do you want to table it for the rest of the day or do you want
to defer it?
Mr. be Yurre: No, I want it deferred.
Mayor Suarez: Motion to defer. Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
ON MOTION DULY MADE BY COMMISSIONER DE YURRE AND SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER DAWKINS, ITEM 22 WAS DEFERRED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
11. EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH SAN-AI-KAI, RICOH SANAI GROUP - FOR THEIR
$330,000 CONTRIBUTION FOR THE RENOVATION OF THE CITY'S JAPANESE GARDEN.
Mayor Suarez: Item twenty-five, Commissioner Plummer.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager, the last time we talked about this situation, there
was a concern raised by, I think, the entire Commission that any monies we
accepted had to be for infinitum. That any monies that were spent on this
project would only be spent if the City agreed that that was infinitum and
could never, ever be changed.
Mayor Suarez: You mean like non recurring expenses?
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, no.
Mayor Suarez: What do you mean?
Mr. Plummer: Remember when they talked about the Japanese Garden they were
going to spend some $300,000 but they had to have, written into the contract,
that that would be - oh, for eternity, eternity.
Mr. John Gilchrist: Yes, if you look at...
Mr. Plummer: The question I have here, if we accept this money of $330,000,
are we bound for eternity?
Mr. Gilchrist: Item e...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, you mean that it would be kept and not used for eternity.
Mr. Plummer: For eternity.
Mr. Gilchrist: May I just read what's in the
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Gilchrist: May I read what's in the agreement, item e, for term on page
three, the Garden shall remain in its present location unless or until future
development of Watson Island occurs. In the event that future development on
Watson Island occurs and requires relocation of the Garden, the City agrees to
develop and maintain a comparable garden to ensure the existence of the
Ichimora Miami -Japan Garden. In that event, the City shall notify Ricoh
immediately to provide Ricoh with an opportunity in assisting the City in the
relocation and the alteration of the garden.
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Mr. Plummer: All right, to the word eternity has been removed.
Mr. Gilchrist: Removed entirely and it's replaced with this, sir.
Mr. Plummer: All right but now wait a minute. If there is to be development
on Watson Island, is that mean that the City is going to have to pay out
$930,000 to move it to somewhere else?
Mr, Dawkins (OFF MIKR): Or more.
Mr: Gilchrist: Well, they wanted have some assurance that we could designate
another garden as the...
Mr. Plummer: Designated an area is one thing, to make that new designated
area a comparable site...
Mayor Suarez: John, to try to solve this, the wording that you just read does
not indicate that we have to give any compensations. So if we work with them
to designate another area, we're out in the clear.
Mr. Gilchrist: Yes. It's intentionally vague, Mayor.
Mr, Plummer: OK, that's all I want to get on the record.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I know it's intentionally vague, we do a lot of things
that way sometimes, but...
Mr. Gilchrist: It's to our benefit in this case, sir.
Mayor Suarez: That's the point. It's to our benefit in this case.
Mr. Plummer:
Mrs. Kennedy:
I'll move it.
Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved, seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. We're going
to fix up Japanese Gardens finally. Congratulations!
Mr. Gilchrist: They did increase the money as well in this little delay.
Mayor Suarez: I noticed. You got an extra...
Mr. Plummer: Well wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Now the City
Attorney just brings out that one of the words in there is the City, if, in
fact, is moved, the City will develop - development in this City costs a
helluva lot of money.
Mr. Gilchrist: Would you like to have that word changed, Mr. City Attorney?
Mr. Plummer: Well, you know, listen...
Mr. Jorge Fernandez% I don't want anything.
Mr. Plummer: ... let's understand where we are.
Mr. Gilchrist: Well, the City's...
Mayor Suarez: Well, who appointed this City Attorney?
Mr. Gilchrist: This had been reviewed by their office and approved already,
but I...
Mayor Suarez: That's still pretty vague, J.L., I...
Mr. Plummer: Well, development cost.
Mr, Gilchrist; I think we were trying to walk a very narrow line with them to
not lose the donation and also have some flexibility there. If the word...
Mr. Plummer: Well, I think it's fair that if we move it, that we designate a
site for it to be moved to. But then, you're talking about another four or
five years down the road, you're talking $330,000 just became a half a
million. Now, Mr. Manager, give me some wisdom.
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Mr, Gilchrist: Why don't we chahge the word develop to locates
Mr. Plummer: That's fihe, I can live.
Mr. Gilchrist: Agrees to locate and fnaititain a comparable garden, fs that
a..,
Mr, Plufnftr: hell, relocation could, in fact, be misconstrued,
Mayor Suarez: Well, but that's again, being intentionally vague to our
advantage, you know, they're not going to...
Mr, Plummer: That's ghat I'm trying to be.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Odio: We said will provide a site for.,,
Mayor Suarez: That's..,
Mr. Gilchrist: OK, how about, agrees to provide..,
Mr. Plummer: That's perfect. Provide a site and maintain the new site, I got
no problem with.
Mayor Suarez: Hey, if you can add maintain in there, that might be acceptable
to them because maintain different from the way we understand maintain, as
Walter knows.
Mr. Gilchrist: So we change the word develop to...
Mr. Plummer: Provide.
Mr. Gilchrist: Provide.
Mayor Suarez: Of course, when you put all of this into the record, it sort of
allows them to go back in the record and see what exactly we meant. And, in
any event, you know...
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): What good would it do, we don't know what the hell it
meant?
Mr. Gilchrist: They had already signed off....
Mayor Suarez: With those modifications, will the moving party accept the
modifications? I think it was Commissioner Plummer that made the motion.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mayor Suarez; And the seconding party? Whoever seconded, do you want to
second?
Mrs. Kennedy: I'll second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption;
RESOLUTION NO. 88-520
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
AN AGREEMENT WITH THE SAN-AI-KAI, RICOH SAN-AI GROUP
("RICOH"), IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED, SETTING
FORTH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF A $330,000
CONTRIBUTION FROM RICOH TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE
RENOVATION OF THE CITY'S JAPANESE GARDEN LOCATED ON
WATSON ISLAND.
(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 Commissioher Mehnedy, the resolutioh WAS passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor be Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None:
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: When do we begin the work on this, John? Or Walter? How close
are we to actually beginning the improvements?
Mr. Gilchrist: They're taking the moorings on the site right now and they're
constructing the pavilion which goes there, the site work is going to be a
little delayed yet. We had to have this agreement in hand before we touched
anything.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, yes, very important.
12. SET SPECIAL USE FEE AND EXECUTE USE AGREEMENT WITH FEDERACION DEPORTIVA
NICARAGUENSE, INC. FOR USE OF BOBBY MADURO MIAMI BASEBALL STADIUM FOR
PRESENTATION OF 60 AMATEUR BASEBALL GAMES THROUGH DECEMBER OF 1988.
Mayor Suarez: Item twenty-eight. Commissioner Plummer.
Mr. Plummer: How has it been modified?
Mr. Jorge Fernandez: It's only been modified to add the action of this
Commission at its last meeting to include the assessment of the surcharge
authorized by Ordinance 10439, adopted May 19th, 1988.
Mr. Plummer: So there will be a surcharge charged?
Mr. Fernandez: To bring it into compliance, yes.
Mr. Plummer: And out of the 60 games that will be played there, what will the
City derive?.
Mr. Max Cruz: J.L. it's a $125 per game plus all expenses to include lights
plus, at the same time, we get them the twenty-five cents per ticket sold.
Mrs. Kennedy: The Marlins didn't pay a use fee so this is better than
nothing.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. Odio: This assures us one thing is that the stadium will be in the black
and it's never been in the black.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Cruz: Face it, J.L., the Marlins were there and the...
Mr. Plummer: They're paying all expenses,
Mr. Cruz: All expenses.
Mr. Plummer That's personnel.
Mr. Cruz: That's personnel, light, cleanup, everything.
Mr, Plummer: And $125,
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Mr. Cruz: Yes, sir.
Mr, Odio: And they draw a lot of people,
Mr. Plummer: fine. Great. I just wanted to make sure. 1 move 28,
Mr. be Yurre: Hold it, hold it, hold it. 1s this the Nicaraguan group that
we're talking about?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Cruz: Yes, sir, that's the... Carlo Garcia is the representative of
the...
Mr, be Yurre: OR, now, how much are they going to have to pay?
Mr. Cruz: $125 per game+.6 per day, per day:
Mr. De Yurre: $125,
Mr. Cruz: Per day.
Mr. De Yurre: And what...
Mr. Cruz: Plus all the expenses.
Mr. De Yurre: How much are the expenses?
Mr. Cruz: The expenses could run, if you play at night, could run three or
four hundred dollars, depending.
Mr. De Yurre: That's the maximum expense?
Mr. Cruz: It all depends, the length of the time. There's two employees that
are assigned to them, the field guide and the stadium representative that they
pay to cleanup, depending on the attendance at the game and if it is a light,
at night there's a light expense that is involved. Normally, they are playing
during the day now to avoid the expenses of the light. As they progress and
they become bigger and better, then they will be playing some nights also.
Mr. De Yurre: OR, what I would like to have and what I'd like to do is table
this until later on today. Give me a total breakdown of what the costs are
going to be because these individuals, they're, you know, last year they ended
up losing money and, in fact, they owe money which they're indebted to right
now. And I don't want them to be in a position, they provide a lot, thousands
of them come into this community and they're staying right within the City of
Miami limits and I want to do whatever we can, I think, to give them a hand in
that respect. So, what I want is a cost breakdown, exactly what it is and I
want to run it by them to see if it's OR with them during the course of the
day, then we can revisit this in the afternoon.
Mr. Odio: They have accepted this agreement. They accepted this agreement.
They are perfectly satisfied with this, they did not owe us any money from
last year.
Mr. De Yurre: No, not the City, but...
Mr. Odio: They don't owe us any...
Mr. De Yurre: . and a number of no, not to the City, they paid the City
but still the whole program, I think they lost about $20,000throughout
different - the hotels and some of the other things, some.advertising.
Mr. Odio: But I mean, they have accepted this agreement. That's why he's
here,
Mr. De Yurre; And theyareaware of what the costs are going to be exactly?
Mr. Cruz: Yes, sir,
Mr, Odio; Yes, sir,
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Mr. Cruz: And they are - not only they are aware, we had, to the point that
we cut their expenses so much that it's just to the bare bone. Even the field
guy, after he get the field ready and they play the first game, they released
the individuals so there's a lot less, sometime is about a $100 or less than
$100 per day what they paid in expenses.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, with the understanding that they are in agreement with it,
then I'll second the motion.
Mr. Cruz: They are in agreement, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I think the thing that has to be remembered, the only way
they'll lose money is if they don't have the attendance. If they don't have
the attendance, then they ought to consider playing in some other facility
that is City owned that is not as expensive to operate as the baseball
stadium.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, there isn't any for that type of situation, you know,
controlling the gates for a baseball game, where can you do that?
Mr. Plummer: OK, I'm just saying, you know, that we've seen so many times
where people wanted to use the Orange Bowl and they lost their financial
ticket because of the fact they didn't have the anticipated audience they
thought they were going to have and they should have played somewhere else
where they would have not incurred those tremendous expenses that are in the
Orange Bowl.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, well, let's go ahead.
Mayor Suarez: What are you going to do with the item? You moving it?
Mr. De Yurre: I second it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-521
A RESOLUTION SETTING A SPECIAL USE FEE FOR THE USE OF
THE BOBBY MADURO MIAMI BASEBALL STADIUM BY THE
FEDERACION DEPORTIVA NICARAGUENSE, INC. FOR SAID
ORGANIZATION'S PRESENTATION OF APPROXIMATELY SIXTY
(60) AMATEUR BASEBALL GAMES THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 1988;
FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A USE
AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, BETWEEN
THE CITY OF MIAMI AND SAID ORGANIZATION.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None,
NOTE: AT THIS POINT, THE CITY COMMISSION MOMENTARILY TABLES CONSIDERATION OF.
THE CONSENT AGENDA AND TAKES UP AGENDA ITEM 126.
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13. REFER TO CITY MANAGER ISSUES PRESENTED IN CONNECTION WITH PHASE II
IMPROVEMENTS TO THE ORANGE BOWL - FURTHER REQUESTING HIS RECOMMENDATIONS
BY THE MEETING OF JULY 28, 1988.
Mayor Suarez: We're up to item 39, Commissioner Plummer, did you want to have
the Orange Bowl issue heard? I think we've got everybody here.
Mr. Plummer: Is Cundy here? Are they here? Are they ready? Mr. Mayor, you,
months ago, appointed myself as the chairman of a committee to look into the
three facilities that the City owns, namely the Orange Bowl, the baseball
stadium and the Marine Stadium to see what the future was, could be or will
be. The Committee, actually, in fact, tackled the Orange Bowl first because
of an indication from the Orange Bowl Committee themselves and the University
of Miami to be agreeable to negotiations of their contract beyond the year
1991. This committee has presented to this Commission and approved phase I
which is underway and will be completed before the first game of September the
3rd for the University of Miami and Florida State. What we are here today to
present is phase II. I have asked that this presentation be limited to
fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes will be first, five minutes will be the
presentation of what this committee has approved in the way of architectural
and engineering of what they feel is best that can be done for the money. The
second part of the presentation of five minutes will be, in fact, the finance
director, who will put together the financial plan. The third five minutes
that I've asked for will be the different parties and anyone of the Commission
or else who wish to make comments about this particular plan. I think the
greatest benefit that is offered in this plan which has been the stumbling
block in the past, is where will the money come from? This particular
situation I think is extremely fair because the monies would basically be
coming from the people who derive the benefit, the users of the Orange Bowl
and the recipients. So, at this particular time, Paul, are you ready to go?
OK, go ahead and set up and we'll see what is being proposed keeping in mind
that this is what is proposed based on the amount of money which you will hear
about in the financial picture.
Mayor Suarez: Is the posture of this item, Commissioner, such that you'd
expect us to take any actual definitive action today?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, it would be the hope and desire if the Commission
agree, that in fact, you would approve it in principle, it would be sent back
to the Manager for final negotiations and then come back to this Commission as
far as the plan is concerned. As far as the actual implementation of the
plan, you know, hopefully what we're trying to accomplish is getting all of
this work done in one season. The last game in the Orange Bowl, Walter, is
January the 1st. We would hope that we would be in a posture that all of the
bidding procedure, the drawings, the renderings, everything would be such so
that on the second day of January the work could commence and be completed
before the start of the next season. So all we're really hoping for today is
acceptance, either as presented or modified, whatever this Commission so
desires so that the Manager can sit down, finalize the final agreement with
the University of Miami and with the Orange Bowl Committee and then send it
back for final negotiations to be brought back to this Commission.
Mayor Suarez: OK, I don't want to dispute the procedure but it would be a lot
easier for me, for my vote, to have this be a report of the committee that you
headed and give us a little time to meet with University officials and our own
staff before we take any definitive action, even as a matter of principle.
But, in any event, I certainly have no problems with hearing the
recommendations of the experts and your committee.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, listen... let's look at the...
Mayor Suarez: I thought we'd get a recommendation from the committee and then
we'd be moving on to - and I'm not one to delay things, you know...
Mrs. Kennedy: And it is listed as a discussion item.
Mr. Plummer: That is correct.
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Mayor Suarez: OK, proceed with the presentation. I also don't want to give
the impression and the media, I think, distorted this a little bit, that on
one side you have your committee with your recommendations,, on the other
side, myself, certainly as to these improvements, nor should anyone understand
any comments in the paper as meaning that I don't want the University of Miami
and the Orange Bowl Committee to remain in that particular location for many,
many years. Unfortunately, the media doesn't always quite grasp the whole
picture here or else their editors don't print the whole picture, I don't know
which it is, But, in any event, I'd be very interested in your input, as
always Jim, and the University of Miami's input and was actually making an
effort to get a hold of Sam Jankovich last night but he was at some phone that
really doesn't seem to communicate with him but we'll figure that out at some
other point.
Mr. Plummer: Well, he is here today.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, he's here.
Mr. Plummer: We got him as a captive.
Mayor Suarez: Although he looks a little different, I don't know if it's the
same Sam Jankovich we've gotten to know and love back there.
Mrs. Kennedy: I also think that your presentation should address a very
important issue which is if we don't approve this plan, what happens to the
Orange Bowl? Does that mean that we don't have the University of Miami games
playing after 1981, does it mean that we have to rely solely on major events?
I hope that you can address all of these questions.
Mr. Plummer: Well, excuse me, that will be, I think, in the third part of the
presentation.
Mrs. Kennedy: Right.
Mr. Plummer: He will be making a presentation here of the architectural and
engineering of what is proposed for the amount of money that is...
Mrs. Kennedy: All right. I just hope that somebody addresses that issue.
Mr. Plummer: Yes. Sure. Proceed.
Mr. Pat Yaskin: As the consultant for the City on the Orange Bowl, we were
asked to address three major problems; the lack of concessions, the lack of
restroom facilities and crowd control and access to the various levels of the
Orange Bowl. What I have here in front of me is a site plan of the facility
and basically to address overall what the improvements will be. We're talking
about new concourses, new access ramps to the two upper levels, closing the
street right here and, as a part of crowd control and access to the facility,
we're removing the ticketing boxes and booths that are currently along the
face of the stadium. We're locating them away from the face of the stadium in
three locations and this is to keep the long lines that occur up against the
face of the building streaming out into the level, the ground
concourse which causes a great deal of confusion and crowd control around the
bowl. Also, we intend to accommodate in these ticket booths restroom
facilities. The restroom facilities are there to take care of pre -game
activities such as tailgate parties. Currently, the stadium has a specific
time in which it opens its gates and there are numerous requests to use the
restrooms inside the facility. This causes security problems and by locating
these restrooms with the ticket booths, this will then provide for the need
for restrooms prior to the game. We're also, and we'll show later on new
handicapped provisions as well as the potential, and I quote that's potential,
for sky boxes.
Mrs. Kennedy: Excuse me a second, if you're talking about four locations
only, that also means that it reduces he number of the security, correct?
Mr. Yaskin: Security, yes. Just to organize your thoughts as to where we
are, we have a ground level, a nine and a half foot concourse for the lower
stands, a 38 foot concourse for the upper portion of the lower stands and a 68
foot concourse for the upper stands. What you'll see here, the purple colors
illustrate the locations for new restrooms and concession areas, the yellow is
the location for crowd control and movement of fans. We intend to build new
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concourses, much wider than existing concourses for better flow, we intend
to...
Mayor Suarez: Let me ask you, if I may interrupt you for a second. As a
logical matter, if we had a principle tenant having many sold out games in the
Dolphins. We no longer have that tenant, why does crowd control become an
issue how when you have one less major tenant that can typically fill the
Orange Bowl, when before, this was not an issue. At least I never heard it as
an issue. I never heard it as an issue from the University, from the Orange
Bowl Committee, except as to the sale of beer which we now have banned, I
guess, in the last Orange Bowl Classic. Who gave you the indication? Was it
the committee that gave you the indication that crowd control is a problem,
was it parks, was it the Manager? Where does this become a problem? Maybe
the Commissioner can answer that.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, maybe it's the wrong word. It's the flow of people,
OK? Rather than security as we know security. It's how the people have to
jam up presently to get in and to get out.
Mayor Suarez: Because I'll admit that the flow is not the greatest.
Mr. Plummer: OK, this...
Mayor Suarez: But, in our case, where we're able to use those nice inside
elevators, if I've had a choice of using those and the ramps, I've taken the
ramps everytime.
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh, yes, for sure.
Mayor Suarez: Now, I politic on the way down and up the ramps, you
understand, so there's some benefit there.
Mr. Plummer: And you need the exercise. I think...
Mayor Suarez: But, and we get a little exercise, you know, which, in the case
of some of the Commissioners, it's something particularly needed but...
Mr. Plummer: That's for damn sure.
Mr. Sam Jankovich (OFF MIKE): Mr. Mayor, if I may...
Mayor Suarez: I thought you were going to get into this.
Mr. Jankovich (OFF MIKE): Right. If I may...
Mayor Suarez: How come we meet three or four times a year and you never tell
me about this business of the ramps?
Mr. Jankovich (OFF MIKE): You never show up.
Mayor Suarez: For your meetings? After I went to the half time of the thing
and showed up with a $50,000 check and everything and now you're telling me I
don't show up. OK.
Mr. Sam Jankovich: If I may make this point very clear, crowd control is
extremely important. Crowd flow is extremely important. The image and the
perception that we set forth at our athletic events at the Orange Bowl and
everything we do, is extremely important for this community and one of the
great concerns that are out there naturally, is the crowd control that we have
at the Orange Bowl. Not only with the Orange Bowl Classic but the University
of Miami athletic events, so, therefore, it is only proper that we do right by
the consumer but at...
Mayor Suarez: Sam, if you had a choice of one of two alternatives to control
the crowd and make sure the rowdyism was decreased and so on, and one
alternative was to ban the sale of beer as we did for the Orange Bowl Classic
and the other one is to spend, I don't know how many millions of dollars to
redo the ramps, wouldn't it make sense to you to go with the banning of beer
or some other less expensive method? I mean, we lose some money when we ban
beer, obviously, but...
Mr. Odio: $200,000 a year.
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Mayor Suarez: $200,000 a year is equivalent to - small expenditure compared
to $15,000,000.
Mr. Jankovich: But, I think the other point which is extremely important to
keep in mind in regard to the ramps, you know, if you take a look at the
University of Miami football games, some - about ten years ago, we were
generating about $67,000 in rent to the City. This past year, we're very
close to $400,000, One of the things about college athletics is that it is a
family event and we want, on a Saturday afternoon, or Saturday in the evening,
a husband, a wife and two or three children to come to that ball park and we
want them to come there and be safe and that there is room to where they can
move. And beer is not the only problem, Mr. Mayor, because people consume
before the game and they consume during the game whether you sell beer in that
stadium or not, and so, therefore, you must take every step that you possibly
can that the flow of that thing before the game and after the game, is in the
best interest of those people who are at that ball park and I feel that having
the proper ramps is extremely important and you set the issue aside of selling
beer or not because there is an entrance and there is an exit that is
extremely important and we live in a society where people are basically not
very patient. And the only thing they want to do is hurry up and get there
and hurry up and get out of there and if a catastrophe does take place, that
people have to get out of there in a hurry. It's extremely important to keep
that in mind.
Mayor Suarez: Let me say something on that and there's been no catastrophe on
the ramps that I'm aware of, but one of the interesting things about a similar
kind of situation of crowd control, moving crowd control, is Calle Ocho with a
million people. One of the things, I think, that keeps Calle Ocho from
turning into a disaster is that people are moving all the time. Because if
they had time to contemplate what had been done and the touching that goes on
over there in Calle Ocho and so on, I have a feeling people get into a lot
more fights. The same with these ramps, I mean, I've never seen people go up
and down so quickly and have you witnessed any incidence? Do we have any
record from the police department of people getting into fights on the ramps?
I mean, I understand the issue of flow the Commissioner was talking about, of
the spectators, but the implication that we have a security problem on the
ramps, I...
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, we have to admit, I mean, I accept the fact that we
got lousy ramps. I accept the fact that with better ramps, there'd be a
smoother flow of people and I accept the fact that as the people move more
swiftly and quietly, we're going to have less of a problem. Now, whether we
sell beer, Coca Cola or lemonade, if we got 80,000 people to move, it's to our
advantage to have a roadway, for the lack of a better word, that will
facilitate the flow of people rather than one that sort of obstructs the flow
of people. So, you know, let's, you know, if this is what we're going with,
let's go with it, if it's not, let's don't. But, at 9:00 o'clock tonight, I'm
going home.
Mayor Suarez: With or without the ramps.
Mr. Plummer: May I just interject o
People have said, what about the future
make a report. Last Saturday there was
this City derived net revenue from one
concert.
on
Mr. Dawkins: I need...
thing, I guess it's a plus item?
of the Orange Bowl. I just want to
a concert in the Orange Bowl in which
concert of $115,088. That's from one
Mr. Plummer: We have a concert that is possibly going to be there in August.
Don't - please. You'll cause me nothing but grief. If that concert comes
about in August, this figure will probably double. Go ahead.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, I got two questions I'd like to get out of the way,
please.
Mayor Suarez: Please.
Mr. Dawkins: Number one, somebody tell me what we're doing in this phase for
the, quote, structural maintenance? Now we do have structural repairs that we
need to do in order to keep this a safe structure. So now what are we doing
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in this phase with this money that we're spending? Because if you don't do it
now, you're going to come back and tell me we need more money with which to do
it. No, no, no, let Cundy or something... no, no, no I don't want nobody in
charge of no facility that don't know a damn thing about structural
engineering telling me about structural repairs.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: But...
Mr. Dawkins: That's what we're paying you for, go right ahead.
Mr. Jim Jankovich: Yes, sir, if 1 may. We, as a part of the renovation plan,
approximately 12 years ago, did a thorough and complete inspection of the
facility, outlined numerous areas that had to be corrected. Those areas have
been corrected and the existing management of the facility does a yearly
inspection and does renovation work or repair work on a continuing process.
That is an on...
Mr. Dawkins: Is that included in this work?
Mr. Plummer: No.
Mr. Jankovich: No, that is an ongoing process.
Mr. Plummer: No, that is something that is done every year, but it is
included in the operational cost of the stadium.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, second question. Mr. Golby, Mr. Manager, or Mr.
Barker, OK, for five years I've been complaining about the seating that this
Commission receives. For five years I get seats that are in the upper deck.
When politicians from around the country call asking me, not to give them
seats, but to be able to sell them seats, I don't have anything to offer but
something in the second tier. What arrangements can be made, is made or will
be made so that 20 seats in an acceptable, reasonable position - I don't care
where they are - as long as they're within the 50 yard line, something that's
acceptable, that this City Commission can be entitled to 20 seats, not for
themselves, but for other people, their peers around the country, dignitaries
who come in and ask us for seating. Now, how can we... and I must say this,
the Orange Bowl told me that Father Gibson was satisfied with those tickets
and he doesn't understand why I wasn't. I'm not Father Gibson, OK? And
Father Gibson was here ten years ago so there's a whole lot of difference. So
now, can somebody tell me how we can do something with that?
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Jim Barker: I'm Jim Barker, president of the Orange Bowl Committee this
year and Commissioner, I've heard your comment and I'll be happy to work it
out personally for you...
Mr. Dawkins: No, if you all want my vote, you all will work it out now.
Mr. Barker: Or you've got them..
Mr. Dawkins: You all will tell me we are going to do this, or we are going -
OK? All right. Then it'll be worked out. OK?
Mayor Suarez: You know, the very gracious...
Mr. Barker: I will be happy - you got it.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): OK, that's all...
Mayor Suarez: Jim, it was a very gracious invitation for myself, I don't know
how the other Commissioners were treated last year, to attend the Orange Bowl.
Except they asked me for $100, I think, for 2 tickets. Now, you know, Mayors
of other cities typically go to their own facility for games, and
Commissioners, without being asked to pay for it. Now, you guys...
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): I don't want no free...
Mayor Suarez: ... your public relations is a little...
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Mr. Dawkins: The Mayor's entitled to it as a Mayor. See, I don't want the
Miami Herald saying that I... Ohhhhh! I don't want the media saying that
Miller Dawkins asked for better seating for free tickets. I don't want no
free tickets, OK7 I want whatever the going price is, bill me for the number
of tickets that you sell me and I'll get you your money. OK?
Mr. Barker: You've got it.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Good tickets.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, OK.
Mr. Plummer: OK, can we proceed with this, I mean, if... because I want to
get them finished -so we can get to the financing.
Mayor Suarez: Public relations with the Commissioner aside, and you're so on,
why don't we proceed with the proposal. See, that's what happens when you
don't give us the tickets, your mike doesn't work and...
Mr. Yaskin: The illustration we have here is the ground level concourse which
is this level right here. What we intent to do is to collect all the current
gates into the four corners of the Orange Bowl. Right now, we have gates for
access along the front of the Bowl, numerous number of gates requiring
security at each one of those gates. What we're going to do is collect all of
the gates and put them in each of the four corners. The gates will have no
restriction as to section or seating. People will be able to come to any one
of the four gates, enter the ground level concourse and then, through graphics
and proper signing, find the right location, their own section, be it on this
side of the stands or on that side of the stands and this will be a secure
concourse all the way around the stadium. Security will be minimized to four
locations. Ticket taking will be minimized to four locations. Each of the
four locations, if we look at this one location, will be through turnstiles
and either directly into the lower stands, around the corner and directly up
the ramps to the 38, 36 and 68 foot level, or if you're sitting in the center
of the stands, lower level, down through the concourse and into the stands.
Mr. Plummer: Rush it up.
Mr. Yaskin: Again, crowd control. We're going to add concessions behind the
stadium in the space that's currently not used for basically anything. What
we call a garden type concession area. If we go to the nine and a half foot
concourse, this level right here, the purple is concession space. Currently,
most of that's available. We intend to add a very large concession area right
here in the middle of the both north and south stands.
Mayor Suarez: What's the cost, if you're able to tell, to separate it in that
way of the concession space addition?
Mr. Yaskin: We haven't gotten into specifics on cost.
Mayor Suarez: I see. If there's any way to isolate for us, if not in this
meeting, obviously, at some later meeting or by further documentation, the
cost of additional concession space and remodeling that I'm sure goes with it,
the improvement of the bathroom situation and a whole separate item for ramps
because you're going to have a very, very tough time, for my vote, on the
ramps so... but the other items, you know, seem to be high priorities, I
think, for the committee and for the University of Miami.
Mr. Yaskin: I think later on in the present...
Mayor Suarez: And logically seem to be needed, you know.
Mr. Yaskin: Later on in the presentation, Walter will be able to discuss the
benefit of the additional concession space as far as increased revenues.
Mayor Suarez: No doubt about the benefit, I'm worried about the cost. You
know, we can always project benefits and additional revenues. We just want to
know that the investment - we've been investing money on the Orange Bowl every
year with the promise of, you know, additional benefits and revenues and so
on, but we want to know the cost. You know, that's the initial investment,
that's what's difficult for us.
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Mt. Plummer (OFF MIKE): I don't think they brought the new seat. The new
seats are nice.
Mt. Odio: Mr. Mayor, let the ask him the question because I asked this
question in the committee. In order to get concession areas, new concession
areas and new bathroom areas, you told me you needed the new ramp. Is that
so?
Mr. Yaskin: I'll tie that in in one second. In addition, at this level, we
are going to add in both of the northwest and southwest corners a provision
for permanent handicapped seating. At the 36 and 68 foot level, this picture
is basically the same. Currently, we have minimal restroom facilities and
almost no concession space. The purple in this illustration is new concession
space, the green is new restroom facilities. How do we accomplish or how do
we acquire and increase the size of this? If you'll notice, in the cross
section here, the existing space provided for concessions and restrooms is
right now limited to this area I'm pointing to. We intend to use the existing
concourse to expand our concessions and our restrooms, and in essence, double
the size available and therefore potentially more than doubling the number of
restroom facilities and the counter space provided for concessions. And that,
in essence, is what requires, if we're going to use the existing concourses at
the two upper levels, that is one thing that requires new concourses, other
than the fact that it also will enhance crowd control and crowd flow.
Mrs. Kennedy: Have you determined the number of restrooms you're going to
have?
Mr. Yaskin: I do have an illustration here of potentially what we can
accomplish and I'll...
Mr. Plummer: But isn't it basically more than double what presently?
Mr. Yaskin: More than double. More than double.
Mr. Plummer: Try and rush it up, Bill.
Mr. Yaskin: In essence, again, I can show you the - this is the 36, this is
the 68 I would like to have... as an illustration of what we're going to be
able to do from the restroom standpoint...
Mr. Dawkins: You know, J.L., you've used up your fifteen minutes already and
told you wanted five minutes for this, five minutes for that, and five minutes
for something else. Now, we either got to cut this short or cut out one of
your others so we can get the hell out of here.
Mr. Yaskin: I got one more line to say and I'm through.
Mr. Plummer: I've asked him twice.
Mr. Yaskin: At the 68 foot level, this is a typical womens' toilet. There
are six water closets, four lavatories. This space will be turned into this
space with double the facilities at this one location. Twelve water closets,
eight lavatories. And that, in essence, is the proof of how it's going to be
done. At this point, I'll turn the presentation over to Walter.
Mr. Plummer: All right, all right, if there's no questions there, quickly,
who's going to speak to financing of the project? Carlos?
Mr. De Yurre: Let me ask you something. Water closets, is that the same as
toilets?
Mr. Plummer: More or less.
Mr. Yaskin: Yes, sir.
Mr. De Yurre; OK, I just wanted to make sure.
Mr. Carlos Garcia; Although we have not made a detailed study as to the
financing of the project, we have some rough numbers and we believe that a
sixteen million dollar bond issue will cost the City about $2,000,000 a year.
These will be taxable bonds because they are being used for stadium purposes.
The department has worked out some projections as to what new revenues this
stadium will bring. They're estimating about $2,000,000 a year.
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Mr, Plummer: That's new revenue.
Mr. Garcia: Well, yes, except for the tourist development tax which the
City's already receiving and, of course, some decision will have to be made of
how that money will be used, whether it should be going to the Orange Bowl or
whether it should be going to the Knight Center or some other purposes. So we
think the project is doable. The new revenues in the amount of $2,000,000
will be sufficient to pay for the bond issue although...
Mayor Suarez: How much do we get from a seat charge right now, that we're
expecting on a yearly basis?
Mr. Garcia: They are projected $700,000.
Mayor Suarez: And you're talking about $2,000,000? Where's the other 1.3
million a year going to come from?
Mr. Garcia: OK, $260,000 from the increased concessions revenue.
Mayor Suarez: We hope.
Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead.
Mr. Garcia: The new advertising revenue...
Mayor Suarez: The increased concession revenue, the Commissioner was asking
for it.
Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead.
Mr. Garcia: Advertising revenue from the scoreboard, $250,000.
Mayor Suarez: We hope.
Mr. Garcia: The tourist..
Mayor 'Suarez: We hope.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, hold it, hold it. Isn't the commitment with that company
that they get the revenues for the first ten years?
Mr. Plummer: Of what?
Mr. De Yurre: That new scoreboard.
Mr. Plummer: No, we get all the revenues.
Mr. Walter Golby: They only get a portion of the revenue. They...
Mr. De Yurre: How much?
Mr. Dawkins: J.L. say we get all, now who's correct?
Mr. Plummer: No, no. We get the revenues but here again, I think it's got to
be understood that that scoreboard is not going to be put in place unless
there are long term contracts signed with the two major tenants. So, I mean,
it's a chicken and egg.
Mr. De Yurre: Yes, but my understanding was that they would put it up for
free and they will get ten years' worth of advertising to cover for the cost
and their profit.
Mr. Golby: Exactly, and on top of that, you have the open window time on
those scoreboards and the remote boards that belongs to the City for future
advertising. That's what we're using.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, I'm sorry, I misunderstood what he said. They are putting,
at no cost to the City, the scoreboard. They will get the revenues from the
advertising to pay for putting that scoreboard in, of course, After ten
years, it belongs to us.
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Mr, be Yurre: OR, now.:.
Mr, Colby: But during that period of time, there are open windows on the
scoreboard and on the remote boards which we will be selling advertising,
Mr. be Yurre: OR, now, but you're not talking about just the Orange Bowl;
you're talking about the remote windows that are going to be at Dinner Key,
Mr. Golby: Yes.
Mr. be Yurre: Knight Center and where ever else we're putting them.
Mr. Plummer: There's four, isn't there? There's four.
Mr. be Yurre: OR. so...
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): Bayfront Park.
Mrs. Kennedy: Bayfront Park. Miami Maduro Stadium.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. De Yurre: So, as opposed to there being revenues for Bayfront Park from
that source of advertising, you're not going to be giving it to Bayfront Park
and Lord knows Bayfront Park is going to need it. And Dinner Key needs money
and every other area needs money. But your say, that you're not going to give
them a penny and everything's going to go to the Orange Bowl. Is that what...
Mr. Plummer: No, what it is in effect doing is giving these facilities free
of charge at no cost to the City. Now, needless to say, there's no free
lunches, they've got to have some way to reimburse them for their cost. The
cost of that scoreboard is what, a million and a half?
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: Two million dollars.
Mr. De Yurre: I thought it was four.
Mr. Plummer: We're getting a first class scoreboard that doesn't cost the
City taxpayers a dime. After ten years it belongs to us.
Mr. De Yurre: Wasn't it 4.3 million, where did I come up with that ,figure for
the scoreboard?
Mr. Golby: That includes the remote boards.
Mr. Plummer: Four of them.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, so how much is it going to cost, the actual Orange Bowl
scoreboard?
Mr. Golby: Four point three.
Mr. De Yurre: What am I saying?
Mayor Suarez: Including the remotes, yes.
Mr. Plummer: Including the four remotes.
Mr. Golby: Including the remote boards.
Mr. De Yurre: Forget the remotes. The Orange Bowl scoreboard.
Mr. Plummer: Two.
Mr, Golby: Two million dollars.
Mr. De Yurre, Two point what?
Mr. Golby, Two million dollars. i
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Mr. be Yurre: Two million, OK. Now, again, the point that l'm making is,
that you're going to take income that should be going for Bayfront park from
their advertising and you're allocating it to the Orange bowl. Walter. You
can't explain it.
Mr. Golby: Though all of the package...
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, get somebody who can then.
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, the only...
Mr. De Yurre: Well, but see, hold it, hold it, hold it, Cesar. Who's the
director of parks and recreation here?
Mr. Odio: He is.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, he has to know what he's talking about.
Mayor Suarez: Who ever the Commissioner wants to hear from? Who do you want
to hear from?
Mr. De Yurre: I want to hear from him.
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): Go ahead, I'll let you talk.
Mr. Golby: The remote boards are being paid for by the Orange Bowl.
Mr. De Yurre: How are we paying for that? Aren't we getting it...
Mayor Suarez: Did you say by the Orange Bowl?
Mr. Golby: Yes.
Mr. Odio: The reason that we're getting the remote scoreboards is that you
have...
Mr. De Yurre: Cesar, Cesar, Cesar, no, hold it, hold it, hold it. He's in
charge of his department..
Mr. Odio: Yes, he is.
Mr. De Yurre: You know, I know you're responsible for everybody in the City,
all four thousand` employees', ,but, you know, these guys got to know what
they're talking about and they got to be able to express it to us.
Mr. Plummer: All right, let me try to answer it for you.
Mr. De Yurre: J.L., J.L., I'd like to hear from him.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mayor Suarez: Walter, and when you explain it, when you say it's going to be
paid by the Orange Bowl, that is a fiction because there's no such entity as
the Orange Bowl that can pay anything. Now, it's either the City, from the
operations of the Orange Bowl, the Orange Bowl Committee, and I don't think
that they have come forward offering to pay for this or something so explain
it so that the Commissioner can get his answer, please.
Mr. Plummer: It's a simple answer.
Mr. Golby: Because of the contract with the Orange Bowl, you're getting the
remote boards also.
Mr. De Yurre: The $260,000 is going to go directly to the Orange Bowl.
Mr. Odio. Yes, sir, because...
Mr. Plummer: ,No, that's not true, no, no.
answer it for you, Victor?
Mr. De Yurre; Go ahead, J,L.
First and foremost,.. can I.try to
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Mr, Plummer: All right, first and foremost, this scoreboard with four remotes
will be of no cost to the City, 0KI The actual Orange Bowl scoreboard, first
class, will be two million dollars. The four remotes are 2.3. There is no
revenue going into the Orange Bowl. The revenue derived from the basic and
the four remotes go and reimburse and pay the company who put them in.
Mr. be Yurre: For a ten year period.
Mr. Plummer: Exactly.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, the $260,000 that are generating from the air spate, or the
90 some percent that we are supposed to be getting...
Mr. Plummer: Yes, sir.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, the point I am trying to make is, that money should go, the
one that is in Bayfront Park should generate money for the Bayfront Park.
Mr. Plummer: Then, what Bayfront Park would have to do is to pay for their
own, or in fact, make a side deal or a separate deal.
Mr. Dawkins: I move that, because you all seem to be going through a lot. I
move that whatever you are talking about doing, let's do that.
Mr. Plummer: That's fine, if you can get a company to do it, that's fine,
there is no problem with that.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, but then, I agree with him. If this guy is going to put
it at the Orange Bowl, then he is entitled to the Orange Bowl!
Mr. Plummer: Exactly.
Mr. Dawkins: OK? Now, as Victor says, and if somebody wants to do it at the
baseball stadium, they do it, but...
Mrs. Kennedy: Get the money, let...
Mr. Plummer: Fine, what you are saying is that in the remote locations, if
those locations want to get a company to come in and can, to put it in, fine,
there is no problem with that.
Mr. Dawkins: And if a guy don't want to put the Orange Bowl in, for the
receipts for the Orange Bowl, then let him go someplace else, that's all!
Mr. Plummer: Well, but I think what you ought to remember, in those four...
Mr. Dawkins: No, I am not going to remember anything. I want you to
understand that we have gone as far as we have gone with these people at
citizen's expense. Now, if the guy at the Orange Bowl, with the sign...
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: ... scoreboard, thinks he has got a good thing, then let him
participate.
Mr. Plummer: Fine!
Mr. Dawkins: OK, but don't let him come in and tell me this is the best thing
since high button shoes, and you take this, and I am going to take these shoes
over here, this pair of shoes and this pair of shoes. That is all Victor is
saying.
Mr. Plummer: Because simply, if you get a company to go in and put in the
remote, they are going to want the same deal, and there is not going to be any
revenue.
Mr. De Yurre: What I think is that the company doesn't care where the money
goes, as long as they get their ten years free, and I will ask Rosario who is
in charge of, you know, she has got the Bayfront Park project going, you know,
wouldn't Bayfront Park like to have $100,000 from advertising right there?
They are going to be using their land.
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Mrs. Kennedy: Absolutely.
Mr, Plummer: Yes, but that is not going to happen. That is the fallacy,
victor.
Mr: be Yurre: The thing is, J,L, ,,.
Mr. Plummer: If a company goes into Bayfront Park, and puts up the same kind
of a marquee, they are going to want, if you put it in free of charge, they
are going to want the revenue for ten years to pay for it.
Mr. De Yurre: But, what I am trying to say, J. L., is that we, the City of
Miami, we are going to get $260,000, They don't care if we take a hundred an
allocate it to Bayfront Park. They don't care, right?
Mr. Plummer: Fine.
Mr. Odio: And I don't care either. We can do that.
Mr. De Yurre: You know, you don't care, either,
Mr. Odio: I will do it that way, and then we will pledge some other dollars
to this.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, then what happens is that we are going take $100,000 for
Bayfront Park, then we only $160,000 for...
Mr. Odio: Fine, so we will...
Mr. De Yurre: to cover the $2,000,000, and then if Dinner Key wants that,
so, what I am trying to say, is that we in reality, don't have $260,000 to
pay...
Mr. Odio: Yes, we do,because what we will do, we will allocate funds from the
net profits of the Orange Bowl to this and place some advertising. This is
something..
Mr. Plummer: No problem.
Mr. Odio: It is the same City dollars.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mrs. Kennedy: And the Marine Stadium and the Hyatt, which has a deficit, and
all the others.
Mr. Plummer: All right, is there any other questions in reference to
financing?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I have one. I think you have got pretty clear indication
from the Commission now on how we would be disposed to go on the issue of the
scoreboard, I think. Carlos, you were trying to give us a complete $2,000,000
package, and I don't know where I heard, not at this hearing, but from
someone, or from a memo, or someone I discussed this with from staff, maybe it
was a discussion with the Manager, that part of the $2,000,000 a year in
stream of revenues that we would need from the bonding would have to come from
the resort development tax, otherwise known as the bed tax.
Mr. Garcia: That's right.
Mayor Suarez: How much are we talking about there?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, how much, how are you going to do that?
Mr. Plummer: About half.
Mr. Garcia: That's right. The project has"$785,000 out of the bed tax.
Mayor Suarez: I don't even have to tell you, all of you, and the Manager, and
I don't know that the Commissioners . the committee has actually made this
recommendation, I presume they haven't because what you are looking at is
really the improvements that need to be made and the way to keep the Orange
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Bowl Classic and the University of Miami playing there, I don't know that you
have gotten into the actual financing of all of this, but for my vote, there
is absolutely no way that I would spend one cent in bed tax monies to improve
the Orange Bowl. We have got to be ready to spend money for an exhibit
facility in the City, which is a high priority, we have got to be ready to
spend money possibly, seed money, or part of the package for renovations or
erection of a whole new stadium for major league baseball, and those to me are
much higher priorities for that money from the bed tax, and this of course, is
not your... you were asked to present a package, so these are not your
recommendations, but I want to caution, as to one vote, how I feel about this.
I want to work with the University of Miami and I am extremely disposed to
take the funds generated by this facility and put them back into this
facility, even though I think that some times it there comes time for that
facility to be able to subsidize the rest of the City's projects, because this
facility is fully paid for and the land that it is on is worth a lot of money
and if we have to pay debt service on it, it would be a money loser, although
it is a money winner right now and I happy to hear the Commissioner telling us
of future activities there, and I think that maybe the newspaper distorted a
little bit our ability to continue getting these events and continue making a
profit on the Orange Bowl, but not to the extent... our commitment is not to
the extent of taking be taxes and pouring them into the Orange Bowl at this
juncture. We've got two other things the people of Miami are looking to have
and they are crucial to this community and that is just for my vote, so don't
for me, even mention using the bed taxes.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, since this is open confession, let me confess. We, this
Commission, appointed J. L. Plummer as a commission of one to go and represent
us, sit down with the Orange Bowl Committee, the University of Miami, work out
a solution that would be beneficial to both of us, and come back with a
solution. J. L. Plummer went, negotiated, reported back to this Commission
his findings; this Commission concurred and told J. L., go ahead. J. L., went
out on his own and committed this Commission, at our urging, that we support
what he negotiated. Now, we are saying to J. L., we didn't mean it. We
really weren't sincere when we told you to go and represent us, and we were
kidding when we told you that what you negotiated, we would go along with.
Well, I cannot do that. I told him I supported the things he worked out with
the UM, and that he worked out with the Orange Bowl. I will have to be voting
with it, regardless of whatever it is. I am anti -bond issue, but I voted and
worked hard for the school board issue because I thought that was a bond issue
that was needed, and just as we told Commissioner De Yurre that he should go
and attempt to find a way to bring a major league baseball to this town, if he
goes and tells them that we will do it and they say the only way they will
come is they have to have a bond issue because I, as a Commissioner
recommended to Commissioner De Yurre that he go do it, I would get out in
there and help him pass the bond issue, and I for one think that if J. L. made
a promise on the behalf and the strength of us, I would have to support him.
Mrs. Kennedy: Miller, how come you appointed me to head the Bayfront Park and
then you voted against me?
Mr. Dawkins: I voted against it because you got too damn much money spent
down there in that Bayfront Park. You also got $500,000 coming again from the
State of Florida and you all have not spent one penny in the inner-city parks
and you promised me...
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh, yes, we have!
Mr. Dawkins: ... last year, that if I went along with the $750,000, that
would help me get the $750,000 for the inner-city parks, and you went right up
there and got $500,000 for your park. That's why I am not with you.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, that is another issue and this is not the time.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, well you.,. I didn't open it up.
Mr. Plummer: Let me...
Mr. Kennedy: But, we both went to Tallahassee together and both lobbied for
the inner-city parks. OK, just setting the record straight.
Mr. Dawkins: And all jokes aside, we got money for it.
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Mrs. Kennedy: OK, and we got money for it.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, can I wrap this up?
Mr. Jankovich: Mr. Mayor and Commissioners, if I may...
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, Sam. What do you want, Commissioner?
Mr. Plummer: No, no, that is what I was asking is, to wrap it up, please,
with Sam to speak in behalf of the University and Jim to speak in behalf of
the Orange Bowl.
Mr. Jankovich: I was told by... yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Sam, before you say anything, I am not going to tell you what
to say, obviously, because you are entitled to say whatever you would like,
but remember, that we are involved in some very difficult trade-offs here, and
your recommendations are extremely important to us. We, as a highest
priority, want to keep you and the University at the Orange Bowl, but we have
got to make these trade-offs and we have got competing interests. Go ahead.
Mr. Jankovich: Well, Mr. Mayor, you have made many important decisions since
you have been the Mayor of this City and in other positions you have had, as
well as the Commissioners. I can only relate to you how strongly I feel about
the recommendation that has been made by your Commissioner. I think, one, you
have a decision to make. Do you want to have a first class facility or not,
and do you care to look into the development impact that the Orange Bowl has
had on this community with the many different football games that have been
played there and without a doubt, one of the best bowl games in the country,
the Orange Bowl Classic, and then that particular weekend, the revenue flow
that that brings to this community. Secondly, I caution you, is that there is
a tendency in this community is not to worry about what you really have, but
to exert yourself to attract something that you don't have, and I think what
we have to do is make certain that we protect and take care of some of the
good things that are happening within this community. We come to you with
these improvements and you can make that decision, that vote, anyway you like,
and the University of Miami at some point then will have to make another
decision, but we come here with the great concern of the image of this
community, but secondly, a great concern of the consumer who comes to that
game - the many women, and men, and young people, who want to have make
certain that they are comfortable, that they have adequate rest room
facilities, that concessions are right, and when you look at the financial
plan, and you look at the developmental impact, if you vote this down, you are
making a mistake, because the University of Miami is making a very strong
commitment, that dollar surcharge for every person that goes into the
ballpark, generating over $350,000; secondly, we are one of the very few major
football programs in the entire country, that is not receiving any proceeds
from the concession stands, none whatsoever. And the people we compete with,
who are public schools throughout the entire country, get a good share of the
concessions, we have said, take that concession money, put it into the
improvement of the stadium. So in closing, the only thing I could say, on
behalf of the University of Miami, we strongly recommend the improvements, if
you don't improve them, we can live and then make a decision, but we would
have to, but I do think it would be a mistake for this City as far as its
commitment to excellence, and taking care of the people in the community.
Mayor Suarez: Sam. Sam.
Mr. Plummer: Do we have any questions? Questions? Sam, come back to the
mike, and I am going to ask Jim the same questions of you, so that is
understood by my colleagues. OK, number one, you are willing to negotiate a
contract to what date?
Mr. Jankovich: We are willing to negotiate a contract ten years up front with
five year options for twenty years.
Mr. Plummer: That's beyond 1991,
Mr. Jankovich: That's right.
Mr. Plummer: The second comment I wanted clear, because you have been
extremely adamant about, that if in the fact, these improvements are not made,
that you would not pay the surcharge.
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Mn Jankovich: We would not pay the surcharge, that's for certain.
Mr. Plummer: And the third question is, that if another sport was considered
in that facility, your reaction?
Mr. Jankovich: We are in full support that the Orange Bowl should be a
multipurpose facility, but we are totally opposed of major league baseball
coming in and being tenant because, the University of Miami, we feel with our
football program, has to be the primary tenant and the message that is put out
throughout the entire country, is that baseball and football is not a good
marriage, as far as sidelines and the facility itself, and then also it is not
a good marriage, because of the time of the year that football and baseball
are being played. And nationally, I believe the Commissioner of Baseball has
made it very clear, their stand as far as the joint stadium, and everybody who
has one, wishes they didn't have one, so we are opposed to a stadium that
would house both football and baseball.
Mr. Plummer: OK, Jim.
Mayor Suarez: Let me, before that, let me ask the Manager a question, because
I am a little troubled by this answer now, on the issue of the surcharge on
the tickets. We were not, Mr. Manager, told that the University of Miami was
only willing to have a surcharge imposed if we did $16,000,000 worth of
improvements. I hope sometime and between now and the time that we make the
final determination on this, you clarify that for me, because I voted for the
surcharge, on the basis, simply that the University of Miami was willing to
have that imposed, with the hope that that money would be used for
improvements to the Orange Bowl, and if it is a precondition for this entire
package, that came... I don't want to accuse anybody of a mis because
that is not my business here, but it certainly wasn't made clear the last time
around.
Mr. Odio: It wasn't tied to $60,000,000, but it is definitely tied to
improvements to the Orange Bowl.
Mayor Suarez: In fact, I thought actually, we were beyond that to tell you
the truth. Now, let me be strictly technical about that. I thought we
approved the surcharge, and I thought you approved the surcharge
unconditionally. Is that not the case? Let's get that clarified.
Mr. Jankovich: Mr. Mayor, if I may add, because I...
Mayor Suarez: Well, I'd be happy to hear the University's position, but I'd
like to know the City's position, Sam, because you were not the one advising
us on this last time. When we voted on this, we thought we had an arrangement
with the University of Miami.
Mr. Odio: In the case of the University, that it would be tied to major
improvements to the Orange Bowl, then they would increase the terms of the
contract, and therefore, that's what was negotiated.
Mayor Suarez: The posture with phase I and phase II, we approved phase I, we
said phase II was to be considered, and it wasn't clarified.
Mr. Odio: We never tied to $60,000,000, that was not, but it is tied to
improvements to the Orange Bowl.
Mr. Plummer: Major improvements.
Mayor Suarez: And that's really my next question, so we don't argue here
about it, you know, exactly what we were doing before, but rather, what we are
going to do in the future to try to accommodate all the interesting questions.
Sam...
Mr. Jankovich: But, I only think that I am here, Mr. Mayor, that I want to
make it very clear to where I am coming from. See, we will go along with this
surcharge, only with substantial improvements in the Orange Bowl, and if they
are not substantial, we will not go along with the dollar surcharge. We have
made a commit...
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Mayor Suarez: OK, Sam, that was not told to us last time by our own staff,
so...
Mr. Jankovich: We have made a concession, in regard to the concession money,
that we are not participating in any concession monies, no percentages, nor
anything else and those concession monies are going toward improvements of the
Orange Bowl, which is necessary.
Mayor Suarez: Well, Sam, I presume, it is not the University's position that
for you to be allowed to have a surcharge of, I believe it will produce
$700,000 a year roughly, that we must, in effect, match that almost two to one
with those expenses allocated for the Orange Bowl, plus a total of almost
$2,000,000 a year, which is almost a two to one match. I don't think that's
the University's position. That's what I am trying to get at now. What are
the items of these improvements, you are talking substantial, can we just...
we are not going to argue about this today, you know, the entire day, I hope,
because I, for myself, I'd much rather just take a little more time to
contemplate all of this, but if you are able to... of the improvements that
are being mentioned here, roughly defined as the improvement in the
concessions, the improvement in the bathrooms and the improvement in the
ramps, what are the key ones that you have to...
Mr. Plummer: Also new seating.
Mayor Suarez: And seating. What are the key ones, if you have to, and of
course, the score board, which presumably pays for itself is not really a
trade-off situation. What are the keys ones, from your perspective, if you
are able to tell us, for you to be able to contemplate staying there for a
lengthy period of time?... understanding that you change your mind with time,
and you might need improvements as time goes on.
Mr. Jankovich: Our whole attitude during the many meetings that we have held
on this particular issue, that there was going to be a commitment with very
little cost to the taxpayers of this community, of developing a first class
facility, and to be very honest and candid with you, I really do not think
that if you are not willing to make that commitment, then therefore, you
shouldn't put any monies into the stadium, and let it be as it is, and make
the improvement on a year to year basis. For me to stand here, and tell
them... excuse me, Mr. Mayor, you asked me a question, I'd like to answer it.
Mayor Suarez: I'm listening, Sam, I'm listening, but I don't think you are
being reasonable.
Mr. Jankovich: If you tell me the ramps aren't important, I have a hard time
telling you they are. If you tell me the rest room facilities aren't
important, I would have a very hard time telling you that. The concession
stand, which is going to generate money to offset the cost, the seating in
that stadium, which is extremely important, if you are going to make a
commitment and to keep this stadium over a period of time, do it right, or
don't do it, as far as I'm concerned, where I sit.
Mayor Suarez: Actually, you answered my question, because you left the ramps
out, which is one of the things I...
Mr. Jankovich: No, I said the ramps.
Mayor Suarez: I can't believe that that would be the University's position,
but we shall see.
Mrs. Kennedy: You just made a statement that baseball and football don't mix,
and it is my understanding that there are a lot of stadiums where they have
both of these facilities and I just ask for a list: San Diego, Cleveland,
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Francisco and Seattle, that
are very successful ones.
Mr. Jankovich: If you were to call them, Commissioner, or Vice Mayor, and
asked them if they were pleased and if they had to do it over again, they
surely wouldn't. If you take a look at the trends as it is today, there are
no joint stadiums being built. If you are to take a look at Denver right now,
that they are building a separate stadium to seat 35,000 or 40,000 for
baseball. If you were to take look what is happening in St. Pete, there is a
tremendous attitude throughout the entire country that joint facilities
operating for both football and baseball just do not work.
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Mr. Plummer: Well, Sam, I think also one of the important facts is that the
baseball Commissioner has stated emphatically that there will be no expansion
teams, or transfer of existing teams in a facility. It must be only for
baseball period They also include that there must be 15,000 parking spaces.
The Orange Bowl, we only have 4,400. Jim, would you please wrap up very
quickly?
Mr. Barker% Sure.
Mr. Plummer: And i apologize to the Commission for... we tried to hold to 15
minutes.
Mr. Barker: Thank you very much. Well, it is an important issue, Mr.
Commissioner, and I commend you for the work that you have done. I think you
have been a great committee chairman. As president of the Orange Bowl
Committee, I come before you representing 178 volunteers of your community
here that, we try to highlight this City and this County once a year with a
great festival that has 54 years of tradition, as you all know. I would
sincerely hope that you would endorse these improvements for the stadium,
because as we travel across the country, - and next week I will be in Boston
for the CIFOA meeting, which is a college independent for that area, which are
Penn State, Notre Dame, and Pittsburgh and those folks might be down here one
day, but in our travel, we represent this community to a high degree. But we
get a lot of comments too, like: "When are you going to improve the Orange
Bowl stadium? Are you going to play in Joe Robbie's stadium? What are you
doing about additional rest rooms? It is so hard to get down from the
stands." - and on and on, and we continually chide them and talk to them about
the improvements and tell them that we are working with the City Commission in
the City of Miami and we hope we can reach some agreement. We endorse these
improvements and we are willing to negotiate down the road, to stay there.
The Orange Bowl Festival brings in a ton of revenue every year. It take a lot
of valuable time from the folks who work and highlight this City. As you
recall, a couple of weeks ago we came before you and we changing the parade
route, for specific reasons, so that we can get good shots of the great
skyline of the City of Miami and showcase this to the world, which is what we
do.
Mr. Plummer: Jim, you have been willing to extend your contract in the same
terms of the ten and five.
Mr. Barker: Yes, we would be willing to negotiate when our contract expires,
for a ten year extension, plus some renewals and there are things down the
road that I can't mention at this time, that we are pursuing with separate
subcommittees that will highlight the City of Miami even more.
Mr. Plummer: And you are willing, we understand you can't by your rules and
regulations pay a seat charge, but we understand you are willing to pay
additional rent.
Mr. Barker: Yes, sir, we are going to negotiate that, and last year we paid
over $200,000 for rent for one game and as you recall, we have had four
national championships this year, so we have a lot riding on this stadium.
It's been in the City of Miami. We want to keep it there. It is paid for.
Let's improve it and make it what it is, or it should be, a first class
stadium.
Mr. Plummer: If none of my colleagues have any further questions, I would
make a motion at this time...
Mr. De Yurre: I've got plenty of questions.
Mr. Plummer: I understand.
Mr. De Yurre: Plenty.
Mr. Plummer: At this time, OK, I would like to make the motion at this time
that we send all of this to the Manager for a final negotiation, to come back
before this Commission on July 28th. In the interim time, the committee will
be happy to meet with any one of the Commissioners to go into full detail and
try and answer any questions that they have, so that hopefully, by the 28th of
July, that this Commission can make some final decisions in reference to this
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ongoing committee, and Mr. Mayor, if that motion is in order, I will make sure
that the architects prepare in book form so each and everyone of you would
have it. The Finance Department would outline even clearer in the financial
picture, and that the Manager would hopefully be able to come back with some
final negotiated contract for this Commission to accept. I would so move.
Mayor Suarez: So moved. Do we have a second?
Mrs, Kennedy: I tell you the problem, J. L., is that the Manager has
expressed...
Mr. Dawkinse I second it. Under discussion.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Madam Vice Mayor, under discussion.
Mrs. Kennedy: The Manager has expressed and the Mayor has expressed that he
needs time to study the issue and it is the policy when one member of this
board needs more time to go ahead and give it to them.
Mr. Plummer: No, I am not asking for a decision, not at all, I am doing
exactly, I think, what the Mayor asked for, to have the opportunity in the
month's period of time, to...
Mayor Suarez: But, you want us to approve it in principle, is the problem.
I...
Mr. Plummer: No, no, I am not asking to approve anything in principle today.
Mayor Suarez: I thought that was what the motion was.
Mr. Plummer: No sir.
Mayor Suarez: Well, what is the motion?
Mr. Plummer: No, sir, no, sir. All I am saying is, take everything that we
have had presented here today, sent it to the Manager, let him come up with a
final agreed kind of a contract and present it back to the Commission on the
28th.
Mayor Suarez: If you would make that, and send it to the Manager for his
recommendations on the 28th, I would have no problem with the motion.
Mr. Plummer: That's exactly what I am saying. His final draft would be
recommendations. It's something to...
Mayor Suarez: But I don't want the implication of the motion, if I vote for
it that I am agreeing in principle to the whole package. There is just no way
I can vote for it at this point.
Mr. Plummer: Then I will withdraw my motion. Anybody else want to make one?
Mayor Suarez: No, no, I mean, is that acceptable, that it...
Mr. Plummer: It is acceptable to met
Mayor Suarez: ... is not approval in principle. We are referring it to the
Manager for final recommendation or for recommendation whether it is final or
not on July... what was the date?
Mr. Plummer: And in that interim period of time, each Commissioner will have
the opportunity to sit down with delegated members of the committee to answer
any questions that they would have.
Mrs. Kennedy: I have no problems with that.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: So stated, I would vote for it. Commissioner.
Mr. De Yurre; I think that, in all fairness, we have had the positive of this
proposal expressed, and by the same token, I think we have to use this forum
to air out other issues, not issues that should be discussed behind closed
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doors, 1 want, you know, let's get the whole picture in this situation, We
have Bob Allen here, with the Sports Authority, and I know he has some
comments on this issue I'd like to hear.
Mr. Dawkins: (OFF MIKE) What does the Sports Authority have to do with the
Orange Bowl? Somebody tell me,
Mr. De Yurre: Well, he is here as an individual, let's put it that way:
Mr. Plummer: No, that's fine.
Mr. De Yurre: OK,
Mr. Dawkins: (OFF MIKE) No, hold it, hold it.
Mr. Robert Allen: Commissioner Dawkins, I can answer that question,
Mayor Suarez: No, no, no, Bob. I would hope that we would clarify,
Commissioner, your question, because I have some views on it, so if you want
to restate...
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, what does Mr. Allen have to tell me in reference to how I
should vote about the Orange Bowl, and he is in charge of the Sports
Authority, that's what I need to know.
Mayor Suarez: One thing, obviously, since it is a Sports and Exhibition
Authority, since we are talking here about spending bed tax monies, which I
understood was supposed to be for an exhibit facility, and of course that is
why we call it a Sports and Exhibition Authority, that would be one issue, but
besides that, I would hope that the Sports and Exhibition Authority... wait.
Mr. Plummer: No, you are mixing apples and oranges.
Mayor Suarez: That's what your proposal is doing, but...
Mr. Plummer: No, no, the two percent money has nothing to do with the Sports
Authority.
Mayor Suarez: The ResortDevelopment tax.
Mr. Plummer: It does have to do with an exhibition hall, yes.
Mayor Suarez: _ Right, and besides all of which, the Sports and Exhibition
Authority, as far as I am concerned, can recommend to us anything related to
sports, and this is certainly one of those items, but at some point...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, you say that's... I don't have no problem with that, but
just like you tell J.L. that you can't vote for his stuff, I can't vote for
his.
Mayor Suarez: Fine.
Mr. Dawkins: You know that is why they got five of us up here.
Mayor Suarez: Right, but I mean, that doesn't mean we don't hear from the
Sports Authority and what they feel about this.
Mr. Dawkins: They we make a motion, and get three votes, we don't.
Mayor Suarez: You can make your motion if you like.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, I don't want to, but you are telling me how I can
and cannot do.
Mayor Suarez: I'm telling you that ,it makes sense to hear from the Authority,
Mr. Dawkins: I don't have to hear from him if I get three votes,
Mayor Suarez: Fine, you can make that motion,
Mr, Dawkins: OK, but is that a fact though, Mr. Mayor? Is that a fact? If I
make a motion and get three votes, I don't have to hear from him? Is that a
fact?
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Mayor Suarez: You can close discussion on any item if the Commission majority
votes not to hear discussion on an item, yes.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, that's all I ask.
Mayor Suarez: Jim, Commissioner De Yurre, I think... are we going to finish
with Jim before we get to Bob?
Mr. Dawkins: I'll hear him because Commissioner De Yurre wants to hear him.
I just want to know in what light I am hearing it in, that's all!
Mayor Suarez: Right,
Mr. Dawkins: I am respecting his right to hear him.
Mayor Suarez: Absolutely.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, go ahead, Bob.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, we are going to finish with Jim, because I want to
ask him a question.
Mr. De Yurre: Go ahead.
Mayor Suarez: You know what it is going to be. Jim, it is not my particular
concern, but it is the concern of people in the City of Miami, that the Orange
Bowl Committee is not doing particularly well in its minority membership and I
want to remind you to convey this back to the committee. The City of Miami is
composed roughly, and this is just a rough estimates, if you include
Hispanics, blacks and women, 90 percent of our population is my estimate,
because almost 60 percent is Hispanic, 20 some percent is black, and of the
rest, I assume roughly half are women, so...
Mrs. Kennedy: 54 percent.
Mayor Suarez: Right, so a little bit more than half, so that is about 90
percent of the entire population falls into one of those three categories, and
the Orange Bowl Committee is not doing particularly well in that. Now, I know
that there are all kind of factors, and I have seen your quotes, and so on,
and this is not my concern, I have to tell you. I personally don't care
particularly who sits on the Orange Bowl Committee, because I think that you
spend a lot of your time on it, and I think it is a lot of valuable time and
it is a worthwhile effort and it's a traditional organization that has added
much to this City. However, a lot of my constituents do care, and I've gotten
a lot of phone calls from them, young, eager to participate, whose names have
been submitted and what the problem is, and you ought to convey back to your
committee that when the time comes for this Commission to consider
recommendations of the committee, you know, we would like to see some
participation of people who roughly represent, in some way, or least are
heading in a direction of representing roughly the constitution of the City of
Miami. You may or may not want to answer that, but that is just something I
think ought to be conveyed to them, because I've gotten a lot of calls about
that.
Mrs. Kennedy: I echo that sentiment. I think that to say the least, you have
been a little insensitive to the makeup of our City, and I have also gotten a
lot of phone calls and complaints.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, I just have to say that I am happy to see that there are
two others up here who join me. I have been saying this ever since I've been
here. I said that the Orange Bowl Committee was not representative of the
community. I've also said that when the Orange Bowl makes junkets to select
teams around the country, you do not see people like us up here on it. We do
not get a chance to go an scout the teams and have a good time, like everybody
else, and I... it's been addressed, but now with three members up here saying
the same thing I've been saying for five years, it may get addressed...
Mr. De Yurre: Make that four.
Mr. Dawkins: Four... it may get addressed a little quicker.
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Mr. Barker: If I may respond, I will echo your sentiments, Mr. Mayor, in
regard to your early statements concerning the press, because the first shot
out of the barrel by Mr. Tasker was incorrect, I did not say that. I tried to
explain the entire festival to him with the makeup, and then, as I stated in
the newspaper, I was disappointed, I voted for all three that were proposed.
I want to advise you though, Commissioner Dawkins, that we do have a black,
Bob Simms, and a Latin, Les Pantin, Jr. on the team selection committee, who
will be traveling this year. Maybe we haven't moved as fast as we should. I
know there is a great concern on the committee for the complexion of the
community. I think sometimes this overshadows the tremendous amount of work
that we do and the volunteer effort that we put in and I am with you, I
understand what you are talking about. I know where you are coming from and
we are going to address this.
Mr. Dawkins: Tell you what, I will make you a deal. At the next Orange Bowl
game, I am going to get a picket line and I am going to march around the
Orange Bowl telling you to show me the blacks on the Orange Bowl. Then, when
I get all of the media, I want you to bring me all the total number of blacks
on the Orange Bowl, and then bring me the total number of blacks and Cubans
you got. You want to do that? That's a deal?
Mr. Barker: No, I don't think that is necessary, Commissioner. I mean, you
have got me, and I'm addressing you and tell you what I am trying to do.
Mr. Dawkins: But, you see, you addressing me, and telling me what you are
trying to do.
Mr. Barker: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: I want you to address me and say that we, the Orange Bowl, are
going to correct this, and then when you tell me that, then I can go out and
tell my constituents, Rosario can tell her constituents, we can tell our
constituents, this is going to be addressed! See, don't tell me, we working
on it, and then when I get back, and next year, you look at the Orange Bowl
Committee, it is not addressed. Then you see blacks and Cubans represented
and the good ole boys say: "Well, you know, their parents didn't come over on
the Mayflower, so therefore, they can't be a member of the team."
Mr. Barker: Well, we... I am one vote, Commissioner Dawkins, but I can assure
you the process proceeds and the committee votes, I can't guarantee you that,
but I can tell you that I can talk to the folks and we are going to do the
best we can, and I'm sorry in that same regard, Miller.
Mr. Dawkins: Well see, you and I have been on this, and I've been one vote up
here, and you have been one vote out there. Now, we got a majority up here.
Mr. Barker: Well, I think...
Mr. Dawkins: And so you've got to get a majority.
Mr. Barker: Yes, sir, right.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, that's fine, so we still work together.
Mr. Barker: Yes, I will. Thank you very much. Commissioner De Yurre, do you
have any questions?
Mr. De Yurre: No, not at this time.
Mr. Barker: I'm sorry I missed you yesterday afternoon, but maybe we can get
together soon.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, thank you.
Mr. Jankovich: Commissioner, may I please ask one question? And I think it
is a critical question as far as we are concerned, not only with the
improvements we are discussing, as far as the future, whether it is fifteen,
sixteen, or $14,000,000, but the future of the Orange Bowl. You as a
Commission are up here questioning whether or not the bed tax is going to be
put into the Orange Bowl, as the bed tax has been put into the Orange Bowl for
the improvements. Now, are you saying, that what you are really questioning,
that these bed tax monies that have been going into the improvement at the
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Orange Bowl are no longer going to take place?... because if that is the case,
then we have real serious problems with the maintenance of the Orange Bowl as
It is today, and that's a very critical issue, so when you discuss the
$2,000,000, the $780,000 of bed tax money that is involved with the
improvement of the Orange Bowl each year, and now if you are saying that is no
longer going to be there, then maybe, the discussion is a lot more serious
than what we think.
Mr. Plummer: Well, that is what I was going to deal in later. Let me answer
that very quickly. When the bed tax was passed by the legislature, 20 percent
of that money was dedicated the Orange Bowl. That was in the original
agreement. When we went into this interlocal agreement with the TIC and TDC,
they in fact, released the City from that stipulation of the Orange Bowl per
se, and said to Sports that inter -local agreement goes from year to year. If
for any reason this City does not enter into an inter -local agreement in the
following subsequent years, the Metro Commission can in fact, revert that back
to just the Orange Bowl itself.
Mr. Robert Allen: Commissioner...
Mr. De Yurre: Bob.
Mr. Allen: Thank you. Mr. Mayor and Mrs. Vice Mayor, Commissioners, my name
is Robert Allen, I am the chairman of the Sports Authority Sports Committee.
I am here in an official capacity, not individually, and the reason that I
interpret my job on the Sports Authority to include the Orange Bowl is because
of the language of the statute and the ordinance that created the Sports
Authority, and that job includes, quote, to promote sports to the great extent
feasible and quote, to endeavor to attract professional sports franchises to
this City. It is the unanimous position of the members of the Sports
Authority, present at our last meeting, and the members of the subcommittee on
sports, that we recommend as an entity to the Commission that you defer
action. It is not that the authority is against renovations to the Orange
Bowl. It is that it is a very complex issue, and the way the matter is
proceeding, if it passes today, forecloses our ability to make rational
recommendations to you in our advisory capacity.
Mayor Suarez: We're sort of beyond that, because the motion made now by the
Commissioner is really to refer to the Manager for final recommendations, so
we are not foreclosing your ability to have input, which is what you are doing
now, so...
Mr. Allen: I understand that.
Mayor Suarez: I figured you were a smart man.
Mr. Allen: The reason that we recommend deferral, and we don't recommend
deferral until July 28th, we recommend deferral until we have time to complete
a study. It's because we are looking at issues of sports facilities in the
199O's and the next generation. It is not a question of renovation, it is a
question of vision. We are committed to excellence. The arena reflects that,
attracting the Heat reflects that. We want to commit to excellence in the
area of the university of Miami's playing facilities and the Orange Bowl
facilities. The truth is, that the Orange Bowl is a relic of another
generation. $15,000,000 is insufficient to make that a first class stadium.
That's the truth. If we put $15,000,000 in there, we are saying to the
community, these are $15,000,000 that lock in the concept that Miami will have
for a long time, an Orange Bowl facility that is really not first class, and
we are going to go build another stadium for baseball only. Now, maybe, as a
result of our study, that's what we will recommend.
Mrs. Kennedy: Excuse me, Bob this referral reminds me of the Japanese
Gardens - ad infinitum.. How long does it take for your study to be completed?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, what kind of timing are you asking for?
Mr. Allen: We are asking for as much time as it takes to do the best job we
can, but I would say...
Mr. Plummer: That tells us nothing.
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Mayor Suarez: No, no, give us something more specific than that. It's
beginning to sound like Japanese Gardens.
Mrs. Kennedy: 1n perpetuity!
Mr. Allen: No, not into perpetuity. 1 think we can say, reasonably, we need
six months to come back to you with a plan that allows us to digest everything
we know about baseball, and everything we know about the University of Miami's
and Orange Bowl's needs and try to integrate them into one package, so that we
are not locked into stone -age facilities, and so we can move into the future.
Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Interestingly, before... if I may just comment, Commissioner De
Yurre. He asked for six months, it takes the better part of six months, I
would say, to give final approval to any of the items embodied in this plan,
even if we approved it in principle within the next 30 days or 60 days. So
you know, the six months time table, if it were applied to even approving in
principle any of the proposal, is a bit much, but it might end up taking that
long for the specific items to be ready to be moved on, so, it sounds a little
long, if you are saying that we can't even approve in principle some of the
elements of this proposal, for myself, but actually, in reality, as a
practical matter, it will take that long to implement any of it, I would
think, I don't...
Mr. Allen: We don't have a problem with approval in principle, looking at
these issues, but when the band wagon gets rolling, then the band wagon will
be rolling too fast for us to do the best thing we can for the community.
Mayor Suarez: I understand.
Mr. De Yurre: My concern is also, Mayor, that if we were to approve a concept
in principle, then you know, who is going to come down later, six months, say,
"Look, we are committed to this already because this has been going on for too
long," and I don't want to be in that position. You know, I have concerns,
that you know, we were talking about the dollar seat surcharge paying for the
bond issue. That was my concept of what we were talking about. Now, all of a
sudden, we are nowhere near the dollar seat charge paying for this bond issue,
in fact, a moment ago, Mr. Jankovich mentioned that the dollar surcharge to UM
games, we are talking about $350,000 only. The Orange Bowl game, let's say it
is another $75,000, so we are up to $425,000, so from somewhere else, and
Cesar, you are going to help me on this one now...
Mr. Odio: The seat charge we said would raise $705,000.
Mr. De Yurre: Where is that going to come from?
Mr. Plummer: There were 960,000 tickets sold in the Orange Bowl last year.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, how many were UM?
Mr. Odio: UM is 350,000.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, so that is a dollar a piece, $350,000.
Mr. Odio: Right.
Mr. De Yurre: You had the Orange Bowl game. That is 75.
Mr. Odio: 75,000.
Mr. De Yurre; So we are up to $425,000. What else are we dealing with?
Mr. Odio: Major concerts will raise...
Mr. De Yurre: How many did we have last year?
Mr. Odio: We had four?
Unidentified Speakers (OFF MIKE) Four and we had five this year.
Mr. Odio: We had five this year, and last year we had a total of 960,000
people come to the Orange Bowl.
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Mr, bb Yurre: I know, 3 know, but t arh just trying to break it down: ,?oe
Robbie 3tadiurn wasn't around last year either.
Mr. Odio: We expect to cotnpeta even with the Robbie Stadium and beat thek►,
Mr, be Yurre: OK, well,,,
Mr, Plummer: Oh, no, no, we will do better than the Robbie Stadium, because
we don't have $1,060,000 worth of interest a month to pay.
Mr. Odio: We expect to raise $?00,000 conservatively on the surcharge,
Mr. be Yurre: OK, now last year we had what, five concerts?
Mr. Odio: Five,
Mr. De Yurre: OK, This year how many have we had to far?
Mr. Odio: Four, and we expect to have two more.
Mr. Plummer: Two big ones,
Mr. Odio: And two big ones.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, so you are, going to have $300,000 additional through
concerts:
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir,
Mr. De Yurre: So, you come up with what, $750,000? Is that a round ballpark
figure?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. De Yurre: Aside from that, we are talking, about $260,000?
Mr.,Odio: From increased concessions, with respect... to receive that, -that
-
is from experience, will happen.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, do you think people are going to eat more because we have
better concessions?
Mr. Odio: When you have limited concession areas, they can get to them,' and
that is a fact. In concerts, one of the major problems we have is people
cannot reach the concessions. They give up and walkout, so your average
drops.
Mr. Plummer: By the way, the concessions at the last rock concert was over
$5.00 per person.
Mr. Odio: Per person.
Mr. Plummer: Of which we get 42 percent.
Mr. De Yurre: A lot of munchies!
Mr. Odio: And the rest of the monies that we are saying is, we are not
creating any new revenues. The Orange Bowl, the bed tax that was passed by
the taxpayers earmarked 20 percent for the Orange Bowl renovations and
maintenance. And that is what we have been doing every year, and that's the
785 that you see in this report, is the same monies we have been using year
after year from the bed tax. It has nothing to do with the Sports Authority
bed tax whatsoever.
Mr. De Yurre: So we are still what, $300,000 short?
Mr. Odio; No, we have $2,000,000, which is what we need a year,
Mr, De Yurre; You got $7500000 from the seat charge, $260,.,
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Mr. Odio: Two sixty, two fifty from new advertising revenues, or other, or
net profit revenues from concert. That can be changed, and the tourist
development tax. That is earmarked for the Orange Bowl today and has been
since it was passed.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, let me ask you this. What is the life span of this bond
issue?
Mr. Odio: It is 20 years:
Mr: be Yurre: Twenty years? Do you expect, within the twenty year period, to
renovate the seats in the Orange Bowl?
Mr. Plummer: No, that will be done in this, yes.
Mr. Odio: That will be done in this...
Mr. De Yurre: We are going to... we are changing all the seats?
Mr. Plummer: This is part of this. Every one of them.
Mr. Odio: Yes, air.
Mr. De Yurre: What other improvements would you deem necessary during the
next 20 years?
Mr. Odio: For the next 20 years?
Mr. Plummer: Maintenance.
Mr. De Yurre: It is going to be around.
Mr. Odio: Well, preventive maintenance, structural inspections which are done
yearly, and change as precast seating as necessary, when their concrete has
worn out, we will replace, and general maintenance of the facility.
Mr. De Yurre: And the Orange Bowl pays for itself right now?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. De Yurre: All the overhead, and all the cost of maintenance and all of
that?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. De Yurre: OK.
Mr. Plummer: Victor, we've traveled under a premise, that say that the
improvements that will be made, will be paid for by the recipients, the users.
This is something we were never able to do in the past. It was always going
to be a revenue bond, or a general obligation bond, which was turned down.
Here, we have the opportunity to have a guarantee of 15 years, actually 18,
because it would go beyond 191, and the primary payment would be by the people
who are using it, not the taxpayers! That is the key factor, none of this
would have been possible, in my estimation, if the University and the Orange
Bowl Committee did not agree to this additional dollar per person, so what I
am saying to you is, the only monies that would be used would be half of the
bed tax dedicated to sports, only half, OK? Now, I think one of the primary
things, if we make these improvements, we are going to have the availability
of getting more days of play in that facility, that people have been hesitant
to use it today, because of the rest rooms and the concessions, but we are
looking at the conservative numbers of last year and the year before. And I
think the key to this whole thing, is that it is not going to be taxpayer's
money, but the people who are using it are the ones who are going to be paying
the tab and that's the key.
Mr. De Yurre: I tell you, I have, when I look at what we are discussing here,
and you make good arguments, it makes sense what you are saying, but I have
one concern, and the thing is, I have to look forward in time, I don't want to
have a situation where we have the Knight Center, we have a $5,000,000 debt
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service; and we have the Miami Arena, and the Miami Arena is taking away the
events from the Knight Center and taking them over here, down the street.
Mr. Dawkins: Bayfront Park.
Mr: be Yurre: That's a concern.
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh, no, that is totally different, it is a different crowd.
Mr. be Yurre: OK, that's a concern of mine. If we are talking about, and we
are pushing very hard, and I think this community wants to see in the near
future, major league baseball down here, and i think we voted on that and 1
think on principle, that we all want baseball down here, we are talking about
constructing a major league baseball park. Now, if you have a major league
baseball park, for it to pay for the bond issue, whatever the amount is going
to be, say a $75,000,000 bond issue, part of that is going to come from a seat
charge, to help defray that cost, OK?
Mr. Plummer: Exactly.
Mr. be Yurre: Now, if we, then say, we are going to have this stadium, the
baseball stadium, competing directly with the Orange Bowl, for the same
concerts, so either the taxpayers are going to lose at the baseball level, or
they are going to lose at the Orange Bowl level.
Mr. Plummer: Well, that same argument could be today with the Robbie stadium
up there, as opposed to the Orange Bowl.
Mr. be Yurre: So we are competing within ourselves.
Mr. Plummer: You know, you can use that same argument.
Mr. be Yurre: We lose either way.
Mr. Plummer: We are competing with ourselves, no question.
Mr. be Yurre: We lose either way...
Mr. Plummer: Well, we are right now today...
Mr. be Yurre: whether they have it at the Orange Bowl, or at the new
stadium, if it comes to be.
Mr. Plummer: Today, we are still competing with ourselves and have been,
because the baseball stadium is presently used for concerts. As a matter of
fact, it has a permanent stage, it never had before, so we aren't competing,
yet, we are using the conservative numbers based on reality. Now, is there
some risk involved? There is no question. I don't know of anything you do,
that there is not some risk. God forbid the University of Miami doesn't draw
350,0001 They are not sitting up on top of the heap, as they are doing today.
Is there a risk, yes, there is a risk, that the Orange Bowl Committee doesn't
draw 75,000, they only draw 40,000.
Mr. be Yurre: They're_ paying rent.
Mr. Plummer: There is some risk, there is no question about it, but we base
our whole formulation of this presentation on conservative history numbers,
and for all practical purposes, which is all we can do, is that that would at
least be the bottom line for the future.
Mr. be Yurre: This renovation is going to take... it is done during the off
season, it will all be done in one year?
Mr. Plummer: That is if in fact we don't procrastinate, yes.
Mr. be Yurre: But, it is doable...
Mr. Plummer: The proposal you have before you is that it would be done from
January 2nd, and would be finished by September, if we get everything in place
and ready to go on the second day of January.
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Mr. De Yurre: What I would like to see done, there is my view, we are going
to put in November, the issue, the bond issue, where I am going to be
Proposing next month, a bond issue referendum to have tentatively upon
approval of a major league baseball franchise from Miami, have the money set
aside for constructing a baseball stadium, OK? Now, if that happens, we are
talking about late 189.
Mr. Plummer: OK, no problem.
Mr. De Yurre: We are talking about that the Orange Bowl contract, and the UM
contract runs to 191.
Mr. Plummer: The season of '91.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, we can do it before their new contract enters into play.
We have time between 189 and '91 to do the improvements. It is all going to
be done in one shot, in one year.
Mr. Plummer: OK, but I think the area that you have got to take into
consideration, is that this money is hopefully going to be collected during
this season. If you are creating a pool of money, it is with full... my
understanding, that the University of Miami and the Orange Bowl Committee are
only going to contribute to that pool if this Commission makes a guarantee
that this will be done.
Mr. De Yurre: Aren't we already committing to $1,000,000 improvement with the
press boxes? Isn't that a major improvement to the Orange Bowl right then and
there?
Mr. Plummer: Exactly.
Mr. De Yurre: I think that that should be...
Mr. Plummer: But that is coming out of the funds from the Orange Bowl.
Mr. De Yurre: But it is improving the Orange Bowl.
Mr. Plummer: That's correct. There is no question about that.
Mr. De Yurre: You know, as far as they are concerned, they shouldn't have to
care where it comes from, as long as it gets improved.
Mr. Plummer: Well, look, it is the cart or the horse.
Mr. De Yurre: I would say, you know, for that issue, that we set that money
aside.
Mr. Plummer: Well...
Mr. De Yurre: You know, if we collect it, and we don't spend it, we just hold
on to it until we make that determination, to make a go of it. I'm just
expressing, they can go ahead and keep studying it, but I just want to put
these points on the table, so that doesn't come as a surprise down the road.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, we certainly have gone into this quite deeply, and I think
we are ready for a vote on that motion. It sound like a very reasonable
motion at this point, at least for my vote, and the motion as stated, if I
remember correctly, is to send the whole package back to the Manager for
recommendations, including the possibility of final action, let's put it that
way.
Mr. Plummer: On the 28th of July.
Mrs. Kennedy: One very quick comment that we should also consider is, what
happens to the neighborhood if we don't approve this eventually? You know,
right now, people are coming to the area, the residents are making money
because they charge for parking. Activity is better than none at all.
Mr. De Yurre: What was that comment, now?
Mrs, Kennedy: If we close the Orange Bowl, you know, we have to consider what
happens to the whole area. Food for thought.
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Mr: De Yurre: What do you think it going to happen?
Mr, Plummer: it won't improve.
Mrs: k6hriedys No, it won't improve for one,
Mayor Suarez: Certainly a lot of people will deprived of the parking fees
that are being collected. I think that was the...
Mr. De Yurre: Well, I'll tell you, for 20 years we collected parking fees.
We lived a block away from the Orange Bowl,
Mayor Suarez: Anything further on the motion? We have a motion and a second.
Any further discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-522
A MOTION TO REFER TO THE CITY MANAGER ISSUES PRESENTED
ON THIS DATE IN CONNECTION WITH PHASE II IMPROVEMENTS
TO THE ORANGE BOWL; FURTHER INSTRUCTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO COME BACK AT THE PLANNING AND ZONING
MEETING OF JULY 28, 1988 WITH HIS RECOMMENDATIONS ON
SAID MATTER; FURTHER STIPULATING THAT, DURING THIS
INTERIM PERIOD, EACH MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION SHALL
HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SIT DOWN WITH DESIGNATED
MEMBERS OF THE ORANGE BOWL COMMITTEE TO ADDRESS ANY
QUESTIONS ANY INDIVIDUAL COMMISSIONER MAY HAVE
REGARDING SAME.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: COMMISSIONER PLUMMER LEFT THE MEETING AT
11:34 A.M.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, COMMISSIONER MILLER DAWKINS
RECOGNIZES THE PRESENCE OF SEVERAL STUDENTS FROM SUNSET
ELEMENTARY.
NOTE: AT THIS POINT, THE CITY COMMISSION RESUMES CONSIDERATION OF
THE CONSENT AGENDA.
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14. DEFER AGENDA ITEMS 39 THROUGH 45 (PROPOSED DESIGN SERVICES FOR INNER-
CITY PARKS) TO THE MEETING OF JUNE 231 1988 - REQUEST MANAGER'S
INTERPRETATION OF THE CRITERIA USED IN SELECTION OF MOST QUALIFIED
FIRMS.
Mayor Suarez: What items are we up to? The ones that you had asked to be
tabled, 35 to...
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh, 39..4 yes, 59.
Mr: Odio: 39 through 45.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, 1 just wanted to know on these items, what is the
time table. Also, let me get the items, one second. All right, 39 says:
"Authorizing the City Manager to undertake negotiations with the most
qualified firm..." In 39 we had only one firm.
Mr. Dawkins: Madam Vice Mayor, I too am concerned, and I would like to move
that 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, and 46 be pulled from the agenda and put back
on the agenda for the July 14th, and I've had a chance to study this and look
at it. I am very disturbed that I don't see the kind of individuals that I
thought would have been on here. And I don't know how it happened, but I get
tired of sitting up here looking for individuals on Bayside, OK?... on
everything, and I don't see them and then everybody tells me, Commissioner,
that we are going to get to it. Well, now you are going to get to this,
before, or not at all.
Mr. Odio: Mr. Commissioner...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, so I move, Mr. Mayor, I move...
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, 46 is not...
Mrs. Kennedy: No, 45, he said.
Mr. Odio: He said 46, and 46 is not...
Mrs. Kennedy: No, 39 through 45.
Mr. Dawkins: 39 through 45, I move that it be continued until the 14th and
that those individuals come in and explain to me how they chose who they
chose, and why they chose them, and at that meeting, I may vote to throw them
all out and start over if I can get the votes.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, yes, that is one of my other concerns, the kind of criteria
that was used, so I second that motion.
Mayor Suarez: OK, do you want to make an additional statement? I am sorry, I
interrupted you, Madam Vice Mayor.
Mrs. Kennedy: No, just the criteria used to chose these firm.
Mayor Suarez: OK, moved and seconded. It is basically to defer until when?
Mrs. Kennedy: Until the next June meeting.
Mr. Dawkins: 14th.
Mrs. Kennedy: The last meeting of this month.
Mr. Dawkins The last meeting, what is the last meeting?
Mayor Suarez: The last meeting in July, or the last meeting in June?
Mrs. Kennedy: No, no, this month, June 23rd, whatever it is.
Mayor Suarez: OK, yes because that gets us started a little quicker on this.
We don't want to delay too much.
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Mr. Dawkins: OK, no problem.
Mayor Suarez: OK, motion to defer until June 23rd meeting. We had deferred a
couple of items, Mr. Manager, so we ought to consider at some point during
today's proceedings, what time we start. Yes, 1 have a feeling that we are
going to have to start here, if not at 9:00, then at least at 10:00 or 11:00
o'clock, and once again, remind Aurelio... I don't see him out there, to work
with us .on ceremonial items so we don't waste too much time at the beginning
of the Commission meetings. Some of them are very important to do in the
Chambers, but some can obviously be done in some other forms. OK, we have a
motion and a second. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-523
A MOTION TO CONTINUE CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEMS NUMBERS
39 THROUGH 45 UNTIL THE PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING
SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 23, 1988; FURTHER INSTRUCTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO EXPLAIN TO THE CITY COMMISSION AT SAID MEETING
THE CRITERIA USED IN THE SELECTION OF THE MOST QUALIFIED
FIRMS TO PROVIDE PROFESSIONAL PLANNING AND DESIGN SERVICES
FOR DESIGNATED CITY PROJECTS.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted 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.
15. ORDERING RESOLUTION: LAWRENCE WATERWAY HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT (DISTRICT H-
4536) - DESIGNATE PROPERTY FOR SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS.
Mr. Odio: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Mr. Manager.
Mr. Dawkins: I move...
Mr. Odio: The City Attorney tells me that 36 was pulled.
Mayor Suarez: We have pending 36. Sir, would you come up? - tell us what the
problem with 36, what is 36?
Mr. Robert Hughes: St. Lawrence Waterway.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, the canal!
Mr. Hughes: I'm back again. Mr. Mayor, Commissioners, Robert Hughes from the
Lawrence Waterway area. We tabled, or continued this from the last meeting.
I'm glad, I might say, that Commissioner Plummer didn't ask for an hour,
because we might not have gotten through. The discussion on the waterway
canal was whether to improve it or to cover it in. I have here a letter sent
to the homeowners, dated March 24, 1986, in which the City stated that if the
property owners along that canal -way would donate their waterfront property,
that the City would make improvements to that area. Being a good citizen,
I've donated my property and now they don't want to make the improvements.
You want to cover the canal -way over. I sort of take this as a slap in the
face, that I acted in good faith, by donating my property, and now you turn
around and want to cover it in rather than make the improvements that you
promised.
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Mr. Dawkins: You have a setter?
Mr. Hughes: Yes, I do.
Mr. Dawkins: Read it for me please, just read it to me.
Mr. Hughes: "According to Dade County tax records, you are the owner of
record of out -lot 6-A abutting the Lawrence Canal Waterway. The bulkhead and
sidewalk along the Lawrence Canal Waterway is in need of repair. According to
the City Charter, this City can create an assessment district and charge the
owners of the out -lots with the cost of this repair, or you can dedicate the
out -lots to the City and the City will do the necessary repairs at no cost to
you. If the City receives voluntary dedications of all out -lots abutting the
Lawrence Canal Waterway, the City will proceed to repair the bulkheads and
rebuild the sidewalks. Enclosed is a stamped self-addressed, whatever.
Mr. Dawkins: But, see where they got us, they didn't say that they wouldn't
close or said make the necessary repairs.
Mr. Hughes: But they say the bulkhead and the sidewalks, the bulkhead. To
repair the bulkway is not to fill in the waterway. I also heard at the last
Commission meeting, the value of waterfront property in the City of Miami and
Dade County, or whatever. If you do in fact, decide to fill in this waterway,
you are not only deleting some valuable waterfront property, you are also
degrading my property value. I mean, just to fill it in, and cease it to be a
waterway, right there I am going to lose $10,000, $15,000 in property value at
a very minor estimate.
Mr. Jim Kay: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, from the last
meeting...
Mayor Suarez: Put your name on the record, please.
Mr. Kay: OK, Jim Kay, Public Works. At the last meeting, we were discussing
this project, which is a ordering of a highway improvement district. As a
part of that district, we had to do some treatment of the canal.
Mayor Suarez: You have to what? I am sorry, I didn't hear, Jim.
Mr. Kay: To do some treatment to the canal, something. We had to treat the
canal somehow. One of the proposals was to bulkhead in the entire canal.
That cost was $1,200,000 for the whole project, including the highway project
and the bulkheading and dredging and the other cost to fill in the canal was
$925,000. The other cost was $925,000 to fill in the canal and put a culvert
in the canal to take care of the storm outfalls at the south end, and the
Commission asked for those two prices.
Mayor Suarez: And a recommendation too?
Mr. Kay: And this is where we are at now. Our original recommendation was to
bulkhead in the entire canal. We have had several meetings with the property
owners in this area, in which just about every property owner attended
abutting that canal, and there was...
Mayor Suarez: The monies are available for either or?
Mr. Kay: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: It would just deplete our sewer bonds a little bit more, I
guess, huh?
Mr. Kay: Well, we would be...
Mayor Suarez: Our street improvement bond?
Mr. Kay; The highway improvement bonds for this project will amount to
$250,000. The remainder of the project would come from storm sewer bonds.
Mayor Suarez: All right, so we are using a combination of both?
Mr. Kay: Right.
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Mayor Suarez: And we are not doing too well in the street improvement bond
monies, l guess. What are we down to?
Mr. Kay: Well, we are down to about $500,000, That is from $30,000,000,
starting out with $30,000,000, so...
Mr. Dawkins: Did we make the promise sir, to these residents, that if they
gave up their footage, that we would repair the bulkhead, or what have you?
Mr. Kay: From previous meetings with them, sir, it was our intention to go
ahead with the bulkheading of the canal and that's what we told the property
owners that we would be doing.
Mr. Dawkins: And now we are not going to do that?
Mr. Kay: We didn't say that we wouldn't do that.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, what are we saying?
Mr. Kay: We had proposed, originally, to bulkhead in the canal, and at the
last Commission meeting, a question was raised, as to whether or not the canal
should be closed in, and culvert pipes put in under that portion of the canal
in order to take care of the storm drainage.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, did the citizens raise that issue?
Mr. Kay: No, the Commission did.
Mr. Dawkins: Or did the Commission raise that issue, or did the
Administration raise that issue?
Mr. Kay: The Commission raised that issue, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Who, Plummer? You mean, old conservative Plummer who wants to
save money and don't want to take no risks, that's the Plummer?
Mr. Hughes: If I might, Commissioner Dawkins, at the last hearing when
Commissioner Plummer took the opposing view, he stated that he thought he
could fill in the whole canal for $200,000. I told him that I didn't think it
would work quite that way. What he has in mind is that they want to fill in
the canal to a point about halfway up, where an adjoining canal, which is not
City property, comes into view, which, if you look at the diagram, doesn't
make a heck of a lot of sense.
Mr. Dawkins: The water is going to... see, I am for you. The only problem I
have is, that I go down there and there is no outlet there, so all the debris,
and what have you - you know it too. - floats up in there and it backs up, and
we got an eyesore there.
Mr. Hughes: If I might, I've lived there since 1972, my mother-in-law has
owned this property since 1958, or 1959. When I first started coming to
Florida in 1960 to visit, before I moved down here as a resident, about once a
week, maybe twice a week, they used to bring the little clam digger along and
clean out that canal. They haven't done that, as I stated Mayor Suarez, in one
of our meetings, they haven't done that in well over two and one-half, three
years. It is an eyesore. However, I think if they dredge or put the bulkhead
in there, and in the matter of their cleanup, they come along and they mow the
grass along there now, since we've complained, in the matter of their cleanup,
if they come along with that little clam digger once in a while, and keep the
bottom clean, then the outflow back to the river will keep it clean.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, Mr. Manager, what are we voting on, on 36? To fill in, to
make the repairs, or to fill in the canals.
Mr. Kay: Item 36, is the ordering of a highway improvement district to repair
the streets on either side of the canal.
Mr. Dawkins: And put in the bulkhead?
Mr. Kay: Putting in the bulkhead is...
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Mr, Dawkins: You repair the street, sir, and we don't put in the bulkhead;
and then the street washes back into the water. I mean...
Mr. Kay: That has been set up as another project in the CIP, which really
does not require... actually it requires Commission approval prior to
advertising, that is.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, let me ask a question a different way. If we approve
this now, do we go out in the neighborhood, repair the streets, the curbing;
the gutter, and the bulkhead?
Mr. Kay: Yes, we will.
Mr. Dawkins: I move 36.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any further discussion from the
Commission? You OR, with that?
Mr. Hughes: Love you.
Mayor Suarez: Hold it, we haven't voted yet! Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-524
A RESOLUTION ORDERING LAWRENCE WATERWAY HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT H-4536 AND DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY AGAINST
WHICH SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS SHALL BE MADE FOR A PORTION OF
THE COST THEREOF AS LAWRENCE WATERWAY HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT H-4536.
(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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
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16. (A) RECONSIDER DECLARATION OF 1.5=ACRE LOT OF CITY -OWNED WATERFRONT
PARCEL AS UDP (OLYMPIC SAILING CENTER) (B) TEMPORARILY TABLE ABOVE ISSUE
UNTIL LATER THIS SAME DATE (SEE LABELS 4.27 AND 62).
Mr. Dawkins: Mayor, I'd like to vote to reconsider 38, please.
Mayor Suarez: So moved, do we have a second?
Mrs. Kennedy* Second,
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-525
A MOTION TO RECONSIDER PREVIOUSLY TAKEN VOTE ON A PROPOSED
RESOLUTION DECLARING THAT THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS METHOD TO
DEVELOP IMPROVEMENTS AT DAVID KENNEDY PARK FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF AN OLYMPIC SAILING AND TRAINING CENTER IS BY A UNIFIED
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted 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.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, We have got a portion of the City parks and you
have already fenced it off, and I set up here and voted for that and didn't
know I was voting for it, to set up an Olympic Training, quote, unquote,
facility, only for training for the Olympics.
Mr. Odio: For sailing, yes sir.
Mr. Dawkins: That's what you told me.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, you want to put out an RFP to take that parcel of the park,
which by the way, has a kiddy's park around it, and now you want to put an RFP
out to make this a permanent training facility, when we are down here, we got
all of the... we got a for profit sailing club and all, I mean, explain to me
why it is necessary to take City park land to make a training for Olympic
training?
Mr. John Gilchrist: Commissioner, I was out of the room for part of your
question, but, when we gave a one year revocable permit to them, by resolution
and by that agreement, it was determined by the City Commission to make a
decision before the end of that year, as to whether we would issue an RFP for
a permanent facility, and it is brought before you, asking you to make that
decision. The operation of that has been a positive thing for the community,
and the question is...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, so what you are saying is, you want permission now to
put out an RFP.
Mr. Gilchrist: That's it, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, I vote no. I move that we do not take the City land
and put out for no sailing, when we got all the land down here to make a
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sailing group out of, We got a pack, we got land back here that is laird
locked,..
Mr. Odio: May I ask, Commissioner Dawkins; that you defer this item until
Commissioner Plummer is here in the afternoon, since he is the one that..,
Mr. Dawkins: I move it, and Commissioner Plummer can vote like he wants. If
I don't get three votes up here, he wins. if I get four votes and he come and
vote, he got one vote, I don't understand you all up bete!
Mr. Gilchrist: Well, this is...
Mr. Dawkins: You know, I mean, he can come and make his pitch,
Mayor Suarez: it has the same effect, if the Commissioner prevails on the
motion, the other Commissioner, Commissioner Plummer, can always bring it up
again at a later date.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: So we have a motion to actually deny the proposed RFP.
Mr. Dawkins: I move.
Mayor Suarez: So moved,
Mr. De Yurre: I'll second it, but under discussion..
Mayor Suarez: Second, under discussion. Commissioner De Yurre.
Mr. De Yurre.- What if the RFP doesn't go out? Whatisgoing to be the
situation we are going to have?
Mr. Gilchrist: Well, I think the City; Commission could determine to give them
an additional year's permit, like they have had before, or could abandon the
project. I mean, it is really a determination that you all would make.
Mr. Dawkins: And give the park back to the people, right?
Mr. Gilchrist: Right.
Mr. De Yurre: Would they be doing substantial improvements?
Mr. Gilchrist: They, are not substantial, but they would be more permanent.
We would... by the RFP, we would determine what is allowed to be done there.
Mr. Dawkins: I'll tell you what, let's do this, I'll do this, I will tell you
what. I'll defer this until-J.L. is here...
Mayor Suarez: Please.
Mr. Dawkins: and I would ask Commissioner De Yurre to ride down there and
look at it,_so that he can 'see ...
Mr. Gilchrist: I'd be glad to take him there.
Mr. Dawkins: what they have done to the park and how you feel about it.
Mr. De Yurre: OK.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Gilchrist: I'd be glad to take you there, if you would like to.
Mr, De Yurre• OK.
Mayor Suarez; We have a motion, Do you want to defer, or table?
Mr, Dawkins: Just table it'until J.L, come back,
Mayor Suarez; OK, the item is tabled,
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17, EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED
"OFFICER JAMES HAYDEN REWARD FUND" ($50,000),
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Mayor Suarez: OK, Consent Agenda item 48, emergency ordinance.
Mr. Odio: This is establishing a special revenue fund ...
Mayor Suarez: The reward fund, this is just a formality for something we have
done before?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Moved.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. The
reason for the emergency is obvious that we need to have this outstanding, so
that someone will cooperate in this. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL
REVENUE FUND ENTITLED "OFFICER JAMES HAYDEN REWARD
FUND", APPROPRIATING FUNDS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$50,000.
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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Dawkins and seconded
by Commissioner Kennedy, 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.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10442.
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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18. AUTHORIZE PAYMENT OF $50,000 TO INDIVIDUALS FURNISHING INFORMATION WHICH
LEADS TO THE ARREST; APPREHENSION AND CONVICTION OF THE OFFENDER
RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING OFFICER JAMES HAYDEN.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 49,
Mr. Odio: it is tied to the ordinance. This is authorizing the payment.
Mayor Suarez: It is a companion item. I entertain a motion on it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mr. Dawkins: 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. 88-526
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PAYMENT OF AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED $50,000 BY RESOLUTION NO. 88-368, ADOPTED ON APRIL
28, 1988, TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO FURNISHED INFORMATION
WHICH LED TO THE ARREST, APPREHENSION AND CONVICTION OF
THE OFFENDER RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING OFFICER JAMES
HAYDEN, APPROVING THE PROCEDURE FOR SAID PAYMENT AS
AUTHORIZED BY EXISTING POLICIES.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
19. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND 10347 - INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR EIGHT
EXISTING PROJECTS: (1) WINONA SANITARY SEWERS (351169), (2) SOUTH GROVE
SANITARY SEWERS (351174), (3) CITYWIDE SANITARY SEWER REPLACEMENT - FY
187 (351275), (4) NW 36TH STREET SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT (351276, (5)
LAWRENCE PUMP STATION -BAR SCREEN (352184), (6) CITYWIDE STORM DRAINAGE
MASTER PLAN (352250), (7) PUMP STATION RENOVATIONS - FY -88 (352254),
AND (8) LOCAL DRAINAGE PROJECTS - FY 188 (352251).
Mayor Suarez: Yes, item 50.
Mr. Odio: This is to amend the CIP ordinance by increasing appropriations for
eight existing sewer projects, Winona Sanitary Sewers, by $150,000,..
Mayor Suarez I entertain a motion on this,
Mr, Dawkins; I move it,
Mrs, Kennedy: Second,
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Mayor Suarez: Pot the emergency, nature of the emergency, Jim, or Mr.
Manager.
Mr. Odio: The basis is due to the fact that three of the projects require
additional funding on an emergency basis in order to begin construction.
Mayor Suarez: And I am sure they need it for the sewer needs of this City,
Any...
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: OK, call the roll,
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 10347,
ADOPTED NOVEMBER 19, 1987, AS AMENDED, THE CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE, BY INCREASING
THE APPROPRIATIONS FOR EIGHT EXISTING PROJECTS
ENTITLED "WINONA SANITARY SEWERS", PROJECT NO. 351169,
IN THE AMOUNT OF $150,000, "SOUTH GROVE SANITARY
SEWERS", PROJECT NO. 351174, IN THE AMOUNT OF
$5,571,000, "CITYWIDE SANITARY SEWER REPLACEMENT-FY
'87", PROJECT NO. 351275, IN THE AMOUNT OF $500,000,
"N.W. 36 STREET SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT", PROJECT
NO. 351276, IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,053,00, "LAWRENCE PUMP
STATION -BAR SCREEN", PROJECT NO. 352184, IN THE AMOUNT
OF $100,000, "CITYWIDE STORM DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN",
PROJECT NO. 352250, IN THE AMOUNT OF $100,000, "PUMP
STATION RENOVATIONS-FY 188", PROJECT NO. 352254, IN
THE AMOUNT OF $350,000, AND "LOCAL DRAINAGE PROJECTS-
FY 188", PROJECT NO. 352251, IN THE AMOUNT OF
$400,000; AND CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
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 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 Dawkins and seconded
by Commissioner Kennedy, 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.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10443.
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, SECOND READING ORDINANCE: REPEAL 10368 - APPROPRIATE FUNDS TRANSFERRED
FROM VARIOUS SOURCES AND ALLOCATE AS BUDGET FUNDS IN THE 12TH YEAR
CITYWIDE DEMOLITION OF SUBSTANDARD BUILDING PROJECT.
Mayor Suarez: Item 51.
Mrs, Kennedy: Moved.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion on 517 There is no
emergency there, read the ordinance, please. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 10368 ADOPTED
JANUARY 14, 1988, AND AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 10145,
ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 11, 1986, BY APPROPRIATING FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF AN AMENDED TRUST AND AGENCY FUND
ENTITLED: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT TWELFTH
(12TH) YEAR, THE ADDITIONAL SUM OF $201,955 AT PRESENT
ALLOCATED AS REVENUE IN THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK GRANT FUNDS, $172,359 IN FIFTH (5TH) YEAR AND
$29,596 IN SEVENTH (7TH) YEAR, SAID AMOUNT TO BE
TRANSFERRED FROM SAID REVENUE FUNDS AND ALLOCATED AS
BUDGET FUNDS IN THE TWELFTH (12TH) YEAR CITYWIDE
DEMOLITION OF SUBSTANDARD BUILDINGS PROJECT TO BE
CARRIED OUT BY THE BUILDING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT;
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 12, 1988, was taken
up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of
Commissioner Kennedy, seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the Ordinance was
thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted
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.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10444.
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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21. (A) PRESENTATION BY MAJORITY LEADER, RON SILVER, OF THE CITY'S
TALLAHASSEE INITIATIVE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE. (B) EXPRESS THE COMMISSION'S
SUPPORT OF THE INITIATIVE ON STRICTER HANDGUN CONTROL BEING CONDUCTED BY
REPRESENTATIVE RON SILVER SOON TO BECOME PART OF A STATEWIDE REFERENDUM.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mayor, representative Ron Silver is here, and...
Mayor Suarez: The Commissioner represents... Madam Vice Mayor, we all
recognize you, I mean, in your new style fashion or whatever, a lot of weight
loss here, the majority leader of the House of Representatives of the State
that comes to bring us good news in the programs so far approved, subject to
approval, or non -approval by the Governor, and Ron, do you want to make a
statement? We are very grateful for your efforts, we...
Rep. Ron Silver: Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor and members of the
Commission. I think we did have an outstanding session for the City of Miami
and for Dade County. I think we brought back a lot of, I guess I can say,
bacon. I don't know if my district will approve of that, but we brought back
a lot of bacon to the area, and I just want to say this now. It is up to the
Governor to keep those projects in there, so if anyone wants to start making
calls, and making sure that that is done, that's fine. I want to emphasize
one thing. I think it is important to emphasize this that this was a Dade
Delegation that comprised both Republicans and Democrats and worked together,
jointly, to bring back what was good for Dade County, and there was not very
much partisanship at all, when it came down to what was bringing home good for
Dade County. I just want to thank you all for coming up to Dade County and
supporting us and fighting for it, because that was an important component of
it also, your ability to come up there, and give of your time to make sure
that some of these projects went through. We thank you for that.
Mrs. Kennedy: Thank you, because I know how important your leadership in
these projects were, so thanks for all your help.
Mayor Suarez: Take note of the fact that The Miami News had just a
magnificent article on the successes in the Legislature. I think it was
yesterday's paper, and hope that the other daily in Miami, will also take note
of the successes of the Dade County Delegation and particularly lead by
majority leader have had, and all the Commissioners who were in Tallahassee, I
think that was key this year. I really appreciate everyone taking the time to
go up there and undo whatever damage the Manager may have done and accomplish
all the things that we accomplished in Tallahassee this year.
Mr. Odio: We need to thank him especially for his support on the gun law, and
now we need to stay with him on that.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: You know, we have never taken a vote of this Commission on
that, it would have been a good idea. If anyone wants to move to support that
initiative at this point...
Mrs. Kennedy: With pleasure, I move it.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: OK, moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll on that,
because it would be helpful in advocating that, to know that the Commission
stands behind it unanimously.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-527
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION EXPRESSING ITS
SUPPORT OF THE INITIATIVE ON THE SUBJECT OF STRICTER
HANDGUN CONTROL BEING CONDUCTED BY REPRESENTATIVE R014
SILVER WHICH WILL ALLOW THE VOTERS OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
TO EXPRESS THEIR CONVICTIONS ON THIS QUESTION IN A
STATEWIDE REFERENDUM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Suarez: It might be comforting to know that one latest poll I have seen
on that issue indicates 82 percent of the people in Dade County support
tighter measures for control of guns reaching the community and only just a
few, like seven or eight percent, are against and the rest are undecided, so
it is like eight or nine to one, and I see, Lt. Longueira, nodding the support
of the Police Department of the City of Miami, and the Chief, which who for
many months has been advocating this.
THEREUPON THE CITY COMMISSION WENT INTO A LUNCHEON
RECESS AT 11:59 A.M. AND RECONVENED AT 2:36 P.M., WITH
ALL MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION FOUND TO BE
PRESENT.
22. PRESENTATION IN CONNECTION WITH THE ROYAL POINCIANA FESTIVAL.
1. PROCLAMATION: - to Al Pallot and Lisa Hurst, Queen for The
Annual Royal Poinciana Fiesta Week.
23. REFER TO CITY MANAGER FUNDING REQUEST RECEIVED FROM ASSAULT BRIGADE 2506
INCLUDING PROPOSED LIBRARY - CITY MANAGER TO REPORT BACK.
Mr. Odio: Mr. Mayor, Esquire Duran would like to see if you could take him
out of turn, because he has to go back to his law practice, and he is here pro
bono.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, we have a request from the Bay of Pigs, which is
substantial. I have talked with the Manager, and I think the best thing that
we can do at this particular time, is refer the matter to the Manager to look
for the funds, and as soon as he is able to come back with some kind of
report, he would do so, and this is agreeable with the committee. I would move
at this time that this matter be referred to the Manager for consideration,
study, investigation, and finding and report back to us whenever he has the
opportunity to do so. I so move.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
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Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. I don't know if this is the appropriate
moment to mention it, but I believe Commissioner Plummer has already agreed,
and I certainly would be willing to, and the rest of this Commission, to co-
host with you and our other friends from The Bay of Pigs Brigade, a function
to raise monies from the private sector, and I have a feeling we could raise
quite a bit around election time, with politicians needing to contribute to
it, and so on, and you know, that is another way to raise substantial amounts
of money, Alfredo, and we offer that collectively on behalf of the Commission.
Mr. Plummer: It is called extortion, but it works.
Mr. Alfredo Duran: I am sure, Mayor, and with the help of yourself, and the
Commissioners, I am sure that we can achieve that. I want to thank you very
much for taking us out of turn, and I want to ask excuses from the audience,
for interjecting myself in this way. Thank you very much.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you counselor. Let's take the roll on that. Madam City
Clerk, will you call the roll?
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-528
A MOTION TO REFER TO THE CITY MANAGER FUNDING REQUEST
RECEIVED FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ASSAULT BRIGADE
2506 INCLUDING ITS PROPOSED LIBRARY; FURTHER
REQUESTING THE MANAGER TO REPORT BACK TO THE
COMMISSION AT FUTURE DATE.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
24.A - DISCUSSION CONCERNING PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE TO INCREASE
APPROPRIATIONS TO THE NORTH DISTRICT POLICE SUBSTATION AND TO THE SOUTH
DISTRICT POLICE SUBSTATION. B - DISCUSSION REGARDING STATUS OF THE
LATIN QUARTER PROJECT
Mayor Suarez: Item 52.
Mr. Odio: Item 52 is to amend the CIP ordinance by increasing appropriations
for the north and the south district police substations.
Mrs. Kennedy: Why are we amending something that we already appropriated?
Mr. Odio: We never did this officially. This is the...
Mr. Plummer: No, that is not the point.
Mr. Odio: You gave us five hundred... you said at one point if we needed to,
we could use an additional $250,000 in each substation. We were trying not to
use those funds, and now we find that we have to.
Mr. Dawkins: have to what? Ain't no way in hell you are going to use the...
Mr. Plummer: We told you...
Mr. Dawkins: Wait a minute!
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Mr, Pluf6 f., .., to do $5,000,000, periodl
Mr. nawkins: To use the $5,000,000 on each station, period!
Mr. Odio: txeuse me, Commissioners. At one point, you said that we could use
another $500,0006
Mr, bawkins: No, we did notl
Mr. Odio: Yes, you did, Commissioner.
Mr, Dawkins: No, we did not!
Mr. Odio: 1'll bring the records.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, then I will just move now that we undo that. The
voters told us to build two stations for $10,000,000, The voters did not tell
us to build two stations for $10,200,000, $10,300,000, ten million nothing! -
and this Commission agreed that you would build two stations at $5,000,000 per
station. You were also ordered to cut back wherever necessary to remain
within budget.
Mr. Odio: At one...
Mr. Dawkins: Now, if we told you to remain within budget, when did we tell
you it was OK, if you go over budget?
Mr. Odio: You told us that we could use the... at the June 11, 1987
Commission meeting, Motion 87-570, and Motion 87-571, you said that if we had
interest earned money, if needed, that we could use them in the substations.
Mr. Dawkins: No, sir, no sir, no we did not say that.
Mr. Odio: I will bring the copy of the motion to you.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, I... I am getting ready to say I lied. I don't have no
problem with that!
Mayor Suarez: It is always subject to the Commission's determination, so we
can certainly go into that now.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, hold on one minute, hold it.
Mr. Odio: No, but you asked me...
Mr. Plummer: Now, Mr. Mayor, I think it goes further than that. I think yes,
anything is subject to this Commission's approval, but I think also, we have
an obligation not to break faith with the public, and that faith, we gave in
that referendum, $5,000,000. It was very, very clear, and you know...
Mayor Suarez: Let me ask a question this way. If this is from the interest
on the bond monies, which I presume it is.
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: It is.
Mayor Suarez: If the voters approve it at a particular time and we don't want
to break faith with them, they expect us to build it within a reasonable
amount of time, and we don't, it takes a little longer than it should have, or
quite a bit longer, during that time, construction costs goes up, but at the
same time, the monies that the voters approved accrue interest, and that is
able to compensate for the increased construction costs, that is not breaking
faith with the voters.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, let me ask a question, Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Plummer; Well...
Mr. Dawkins: Let me ask a question first, J.L. please. .Mr. Manager,,.
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Mr. bdioi Yes, sir.
Mr. bawkins: You were instructed to bring in, and I am going to only di§cuss
one station, the north station at $5,000,060,
Mr. 0d16: yes, sir:
Mr. Dawkins: You told me that that's all it was going to cost, and that you
had worked out all of the particulars for $5,000,000, Now, what are you going
to spend $250,000 on, if you have designed a station, and you have it ready to
be built for $5,000,0007
Mr. Odio: I will let them explain that, but I needed to clarify::, I want to
clarify...
Mr. Kennedy: Does this have something to do with the contamination?
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, clarify what I asked you first, OK?
Mr. Odio: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, listen to me clearly, so you can answer me fully.
Mr. Odioe Go ahead.
Mr. Dawkins: You were told by this Commission, when you came back and said
you needed more money to build a station. We said bring the station in at
$5,000,000. You sat down with the architect, we reworked the plans, we came
up with a plan that said that this station can be build for $5,000,000. Is
that a correct statement?
Mr. Plummer: No, $4,500,000, with $500,000 left.
Mr. Dawkins: Is that a correct statement?
Mr. Plummer: Exactly.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no,,I am talking to the Manager. You aren't the Manager.
Mr. Plummer: I_might as well be, without briefcase, without their pay.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir, but, in June llth..
Mr. Dawkins: I don't... I mean, I am getting ready to try to get three votes
so I can do that if I lied. I mean, I don't have no problem with that.
Mr. Odio: No, no, you were right!
Mr. Dawkins: I don't have no problems with that! The voters told us what to
do, and we said that is what we were going to do.
Mr. Odio: Fine, let them explain why we need the $250,000.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, because...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no...
Mayor Suarez: .. whether it was subject to later action...
Mr. Dawkins; Tell me where you are going to spend $250,000. Tell me where,
if you already designed a station for $5,000,000...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, because whether...
Mr. Dawkins; and you are building it for $5,000,000.
Mayor Suarez; The point of what the Commission did, is we wanted you to build
it within the $5,000,000, that is what the Commission wanted. Why can it not
be done?
Lt. Joe Longueira; All right, Commissioners, you know, when the bids came in,
they came in over budget by about $1,000,000. You awarded the bid, knowing
that, and asked the contractor to work with,,,
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Mt• Dawkins: Nbi no, n6.,. told the tonttact6r1
Lt. Longueita: You asked,..
Mayor Suaters We made it a condition, Joe, we made it a condition.
Lt. Longueira: You asked him to work with us to reduce it to bring with.:.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, we told him to work with you, Joe, that's the
difference!.:. and told you that if he didn't work with you, that you don't
build the station, didn't we tell you that?
Lt. Longueira: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, then.
Mr. Odio: OK, fine.
Mayor Suarez: Is it now in fact...
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD,
Mayor Suarez: No, no, don't... let's not start throwing blame around until we
figure out what the Commission's consensus is here. Can you or can you not
build it for the $5,000,000, and if you can't why not?
Mrs. Kennedy: I want to hear from Joe anyway.
Lt. Longueira: We have been working with the contractor. We awarded the bid
based on the plans that were bid $1,000,000 over. We had to hire a new
architect, pay additional architect fees to modify those plans as we go along.
We have to do.., how do they call the construction? ... value engineering
every step of the way. He makes modifications, we approve it, it goes back to
the construction firm for a bid, they give us the bid on just that item. As
the project goes along, you are making changes.
Mr. Plummer: You are not empowered to make approvals on bids.
Lt. Longueira: No, no, we are talking about on their estimate on what it is
going to cost them to make the change.
Mayor Suarez: You are talking about change orders in the contract.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but any change order over $4,500 has to come before this
Commission.
Lt. Longueira: No, you told us to bill it and work with the contractors. You
said...
Mr. Dawkins: Within a certain amount of money, Joe. You keep leaving that
out. Now, you still have not answered my question, and I am going to ask it
again. You say that you got $256,000 to spend on each station.
Lt. Longueira: Right.
Mr. Dawkins: Is that a correct statement?
Lt. Longueira: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, you told me that you were going to build the north station
within budget. What are you going to spend the $250,000 on at the north
station? Tell me thatt
Lt. Longueira: OK, the additional engineering fees are $47,000,
Mr, Dawkins; All right, we still got $200,000 left.
Lt. Longueira; The Arts In Public Places.,,
Mr. Dawkins: We don't need no Arts In Public Places out there.
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Mr. Pluh:mer: No, no, you have got to have it. It is mandated. You've got to
do it by Metro rule, but that was in the original $4,300,000. It had to be.
Mr. bawkins : Oh, yes, it had to be, or else you weren't going to build it?
You know, this is ridiculous)
Lt. Longueira: Because the project came in over, that wasn't part of it.
Mr. Plummer: It's got to be. It is a law.
Lt. Longueira: I know it is, that's why we need the money to finish it,
otherwise, you are going to cut another $66,000 out.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Lt. Longueira: Plus, we need about $136,000 for project contingency. You
know, we are trying to come in within that budget.
Mayor Suarez: Well, the contingencies are contingencies at the beginning of a
project. As the project goes on, they become realities. What are those
contingencies that have become actual expenditures?
Mr. Plummer: There was a ten percent reserve built in originally for
contingencies. What happened to that $500,000?
Mayor Suarez: You know what I think may be the consensus of this Commission
if I read the Commission right, Joe, is that if at any time you exceed the
initial total amount, you are supposed to cut out some components.
Mr. Plummer: Exactly, and this Commission, maybe in a simplistic way, but it
seems awfully logical to me, sees a substation of that sort, as having all
kinds of components, which, can at any time, just sort of be cut off as your
cost increases. Just stay within the budget, why not?
Lt. Longueira: I don't see it being that easy, and I've dealt with it for
four years. Believe me, if I could do it that easy, I would. I've already
cut the parking garage out, we have locker rooms at our south substation, to
bring it in budget, prisoner process, hold cell, at our south substation.
Mr. Plummer: Joe, let me tell you something - $5,000,000 for a substation.
We built the present police station for $5,600,000, and it is three times the
size. What in the hell are you building for $5,000,000?
Lt. Longueira: Sir, it is on the record that the architect built... designed
the substation within budget. It is also on the record, that he told us in
writing, because we demanded a minority contractor, you could add 25 percent.
He did not put that in writing until after it was designed and went to bid.
Mr. Plummer: Then, let him go to hell!
Lt. Longueira: You are right! The architect is gone, we fired him, but I
have to deal with the reality of trying to get it built. If you think I enjoy
this, I don't.
Mr. Plummer: Then something has got to be cut out.
Lt. Longueira: I want to get it built.
Mayor Suarez: Well, how about if we... we have other items today,
Commissioner. Maybe the Commissioner ought to go ahead and state for the
record how we stand on this. I see this resolution as shown to me, and I
guess I voted in favor of allowing the $250,000 expenditure. Frankly, my most
important priority is to complete the substation, and if the rest of the
Commission doesn't feel that way, maybe we ought to just go ahead and take a
vote on it...
Mr. Odio; that is why I needed to...
Mayor Suarez; ... because it is a pretty advanced stage now, and they seem to
understand from this resolution that they have the ability to spend that
money.
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Mr. Plummer: But see the problem is, OK...
Mayor Suarez: You were consistent, you voted against it!
Mr. Plummer: Hey, the problem is simple. You bet your bippy when you give
them this $250,0001 they are going to be knocking on the door again, It you
don't hold to the fire and say, this is it, remember, that $5,000,000 was to
be handing over the key, desks, chairs...
Mayor Suarez: OK, I've got an idea.
Mr. Plummer: .., light, phones, air conditioning, everything was to be
included.
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, and they picked the wrong site in Little Havana, that
you had to spend two times the money you needed to buy site. If we had not
picked that site...
Mayor Suarez: Let's not get into Little Havana, when we are just going to
approve the north station. How about this, if we approve only... leave out
the contingencies. At this point, there should be no contingency account. If
you know what you need the money for, you can always come back and ask us to
approve it, and only approve the rest of the expenditures, leaving out
$130,000 that you said was for contingencies. If you don't know what they are
by now, and you need the spend the money, this is not the time to be coming to
us and asking for it.
Mr.
Plummer: Let me ask another question. Mr. Manager, why is the Police
Department in charge of construction, rather than Public Works?
Lt.
Longueira: We're not.
Mr.
Gene Pelaez: I'm sorry sir, I am Gene Pelaez from Public
Works. I'm
standing by the sidelines.
Mr.
Plummer: Well, you haven't been doing much talking.
Mr.
Pelaez: No, I haven't sir, I'm sorry. Lt. Longueira is doing...
Mr.
Plummer: Are you in charge of the project?
Mr.
Pelaez: Yes, sir.
Mr.
Plummer: Well, it is very simple as far as I am concerned.
For this one
vote,
we've got to keep the faith with the voters. It's just
that simple.
Now,
what you can you cut out of that building?
Lt.
Pelaez: The $137,000, at this point, is a cushion.
Mr.
Plummer: No, forget about this $250,000. What can you cut
out of that
building
right now? What luxury do you have in there that can be
cut out?
Mr. Pelaez: We don't have any luxury, sir. We will have to go, as Lt.
Longueira said before, little by little, and as the architect submits the
changes to us, we will approve them to come down to the four point two, that
you originally mandated to us.
Mr. Plummer: That's it.
Mr. Pelaez: The building to be built for.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, how can you comedown to four point two, when you are
actually telling me you got two point five to go with four point two?
Mr. Plummer: No, no, Miller, no. Four point two was the actual construction
cost. $800,000 was supposed to be for furnishings. Two point five is twenty-
five... two hundred.,.
Mr. Dawkins: No, but he got $250,000 he is asking me to add, but he is just
telling you he is going to do it for four point two.
Mr. Plummer; That's construction cost.
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Mr. Pe1aet: Cohstructioh Cost, Coftdnissioner.
Mr. Plummer: The other $800,000 to make it to $5,000,000 was for furnishings.
Mr. Dawkihse OK, all I am saying is, I voted no, the majority of this
Commission voted yes, but according to this, and I am going to keep this now,
nobody has to bring this back to me. It said that the $250,000 would be spent
on each station.
Mr. Pelaez: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, when you come back, don't come back telling me that at the
north station you spent something else, because you needed something else. I
don't want to know anything about that, see, because I believe you should stay
within the... and I do not believe that we, this Commission, gave you the
authority to override sitting down with 3-W, and bringing this station in at
cost. You were supposed to redo... you paid Wright money to redo all the
plans and everything, and you were supposed to be going step by step and each
plan was to be redrawn, and come with specifications to bring this station in
at what you were doing. Now, that's what you told me.
Lt. Longueira: Yes, sir, as it is being constructed, that is exactly what we
do. Every week, sometimes two, three times a week, I review changes.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, if it changes, why do you have to have $250,000?
Lt. Longueira: Because ultimately in the end, you don't know what all the
changes are going to end...
Mr. Plummer: I'll tell you why they got the $250,000, because it is there.
If it wasn't there, they'd find a way to get around it, but the money is
there, and they are going to spend it. Joe, Mr. Manager, I want on my desk
next week, a complete set of the plans that are presently there, with a bid
order on all of the furnishings that are going into that building. Don't tell
me you couldn't find a way to cut a corner.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, no further discussion.
Mr. Plummer: That's why in government, you don't have to worry about the
thing called profit and loss. You were given an ultimatum, and first thing
you are out of the box, and now you are going to turn around and say it's the
City Commission...
Mr. Odio: I resent that about government and profit and loss. Commissioner,
we worry about what monies we are spending here.
Mr. Plummer: Profit and loss you never worry about in government.
Mr. Odio: Yes, we do, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Never!
Mr. Odio: Yes, we do sir.
Mr. Plummer: Because profit goes in your pocket, and God forbid if I catch
you doing that.
Mr. Odio: We don't put it in the pocket, we put it here it belongs, in the
fund balance. That isn't the same thing.
Mr. Plummer: Look, I want full set of those plans. As far as I am concerned,
I'll guarantee you that I can take them to an expert and I'll find a way to
cut the cost. In business, if you don't have the money, you don't spend it.
Mayor Suarez: OK, what do we do with the item? That doesn't even require a
motion. You are going to provide them with that information, obviously.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: And he's going to be a joint construction manager, which we can
always use.
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Mr. Plummer: Free of charge.
Mayor Suarez: Free of charge, to that we can keep an eye on the cost. What
do we do with this item? How much do you actually.,. just in an attempt to
see if we can get the votes, Joe. What do you actually need right flow? Don't
tell me about contingencies. Tell me about actual over...
Mr. Odio: We need for the south, I know we need the $250,000. For the north,
we need.,:
Mr. Dawkins: With the north, you are going to spend $250,000. l don't give a
damn what you need.
Mr. Plummer: The south you haven't even started.
Mr. Pelaez: Yes, but we know...
Lt. Longueira: We know up front that we have the site soil contamination
problem up front from the old gas station, which nobody knew we were going to
have that.
Mayor Suarez: But, in the case of the south, Joe, be reasonable. You are in
a position to make major changes and cut components, because it hasn't even
started yet. In the case of the north...
Lt. Longueira: I can do that, if you give me more money to pay more money to
the architect to go back in and change all the drawings, I'll do that,
Mr. Plummer: Have we got the bids in yet on the south station?
Mayor Suarez: I'm sure for a...
Mr. Plummer: How much are they?
Mayor Suarez: ... small percentage of what the architect will save, by
eliminating a component... I mean, it doesn't take an architect to say, "Bam,
we are not going to have this room where certain activities that are not
absolutely necessary are going to take place," Joe.
Mr. Plummer: I'll bet you everybody in that building is going to be very
comfortable.
Lt. Longueira: Mayor, I have already cut out, the parking garage, prisoner
hold cells in there, and locker rooms for those officers, where the other
stations are getting all of that, so I can cut more.
Mayor Suarez: This one cost more to acquire. Presumably, this one is in a
location close to where people live and otherwise desirable, so I mean, you
know, there is...
Mr. Plummer: Joe, don't sound like a hero, now. You didn't cut out a parking
lot at the south station. You have surface parking there for almost a hundred
automobiles.
Mr.
Dawkins:
And also, what kind of a process... wait a
minute, Joe, what
kind
of parking
did you cut
out of the north station?
Lt.
Longueira:
A parking garage
also.
Mr.
Plummer:
No, you got a
garage.
Mr.
Dawkins:
No, what did
you cut out? See, don't try to
be Jesus like you
are
only doing
this for one
station! .
Lt.
Longueira:
No, we cut
out a parking garage at that one
also, yes, Sir.,
Mr.
Dawkins:
So you cut
out things at both stations,
so don't stand up
here..,
Lt,
Longueira:
Right, that.
made me doubly unhappy,
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•
Mt, bwkiha: ,,: and act like the abuth station is the only one got pAtking
dUt oUt a
Lt, tohgueirat No, air, t hah tell you the horth,.,
Mr, Plummer: They got 106 surface parking,
Lt, LOhgueira: The north has the worse problem,
Mayor Suarez: On the north substation, for a second, what is your absolute
need of the funds? - See if this Commission will approve it. Doh't tell me
contingency, Tell me absolute heed of...
Mr. Dawkins: $150,000, just like the other one. That's what it is,
Mayor Suarez: You want to move that?
Mr, Dawkins: Yes, I move...
Mayor Suarez: All right.
Mr, Dawkins: .., to spend the same amount of money on each station that we
got.
Mayor Suarez: Not the same, the...
Mr. Dawkins: If you spend $8,000,000 on the south station, you spend
$8,000,000 on the north station.
Mayor Suarez: Make it $250,000.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, whatever it is, I don't care.
i
Mayor Suarez: Up to $250,000.
Mr. Dawkins:' Because if you are going to break the faith with voters, let's
do it right!
Mayor Suarez: I think it is fine thewaywe voted on it last time.
Mr. Dawkins: Let them',know that we can't..., you can't hold us.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a; motion.
Mr. Dawkins:... responsible for nothing we tell you.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a`motion on the north substation. You want to
move it?
Mr. Dawkins: Said what?
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain any motion.
Mr. Dawkins: No, I'm not going to move no motions.
Mayor Suarez: OK, I'll entertain a motion from somebody else who wants to
move the.north substation.
Mr. Plummer; Who wants to break the faith with the voters?
Mayor Suarez: How much do you need to. be able; to complete asof now:without
contingencies?
Mr. Pelaez;Without the contingencies, Mr. Mayor, we got.$113,000,
Mayor Suarez; I move the approval of $130,000 additional for the north
substation, keeping in mind that we might very well go all ,the way up to
$250,000 for the north and that we will match -equally, and that's certainly
part of my thinking, for the two substations,
Mr. Dawkins Match from where when you are laying off people, you are cutting
back,
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Mayor Suarez: From the intere§t on the bonds.
Mr, bawkinse you charging people user's fees for taxes, and now you are
going to find money.
Mayor Suarez: I thought that is what you wanted. OK, I take that part out.
$130,000 for the north substation, forget the matching, because you don't want
it now. I thought you did.
Mr. Plummer: Now, before you.,.
Mrs. Kennedy: It has been moved approval of $130,000 for the north
substation. Is there a second? Is there a second, going twice, the approval
of the $130,000 on the north substation, is there a second? All right, I
second.
Mr. Plummer: All right, further discussion? Let me give you the good news
now while you are waiting. Tell us what the sub south station bid has come
in.
Mr. Pelaez: The bid, Mr. Plummer, is $2,129,000. That's the low bidder.
Mr. Plummer: Over projections.
Mr. Pelaez: It is about 2.3 percent over the available funds right now.
Mr. Plummer: They'll be back! There are building a mausoleum in their honor.
Any further discussion? ... because it is going to kill you, it is going to
kill this City, OK? When you continuously run over budget, over budget. If
you don't believe it, ask Ted Gould. Call the roll.
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, you can reject the bid and go back and see if we get
a lower bid.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, you are not going to get a lower bid, because just like
I found all of the damn goodies that were built in, in the first bidding, you
are going to find the goodies here. Now go back and change the specs and live
within your budget, and you'll get a price that you can afford, OK? - I'm
telling you, but as long as you keep writing the specs with all of these
luxuries built in, you are never going to get a bid that is going to be the
proper bid, what we promised the people, OK?
Mr. Dawkins: What is the cost of the south station overbid now?
Mr. Plummer: 2.3 percent he just said. -
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, Mr. Plummer, I need dollars. I don't need percentage, I
need dollars.
Mr. Pelaez: The construction bid is $2,129,000, the available funds, I
believe, is $2,082,000, so it is about $48,000 over.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, why don't you leave the $500,000 alone and say that I
need $50,000, and let us find...
Mr. Plummer: (OFF MIKE)No, you made the motion and you seconded it.
Mr. Dawkins: ... $50,000 for you for that station and forget about it.
Mr. Pelaez: Mr. Dawkins, if I may, we also have $53,000 that we spent in
demolishing...
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it now, let me say something to you, OK?
Mr. Pelaez: Yes, sir,
Mr. Dawkins: What is the total amount of dollars you need over the original
$5,000,000 to get the station built, and don't break it down in little bitty
pieces, Give me...
Mr, Pelaez: $250,000,
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Mr. bawkins: Oh, right on the head, huh?
Mr, Pelaet: Yes, sir,
Mr, bawkins: Just what we got in the bankl Oh, how sweet. How sweetl
Mr, Plummer: Convenient, just happened to bet
Mr, Dawkins: How sweet it is, How sweet it is!
Mr. Plummer: Yes, wait until they come back the next time, and tell you it is
our fault that they can't build it: Any further discussion?
Mr. De Yurre: Yes, this interest, aren't we paying interest on the bond money
right now?
Mr: Plummer: sure, we are.
Mr, De Yurre: So, what... we are not talking about having available $500,000?
Mr. Plummer: No, that should have gone to reduce the debt service.
Mr. De Yurre: Because, what we are talking about is, the voters having
given
us $10,000,000 to provide them a service, which we haven't provided in how
many years now?
Mr. Plummer: The voters are going to pay double. They are going pay for
the
improvements to the mausoleum and they are going to pay through the
debt
service.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, we should go back to the voters and ask them what
they
want us to do with the money.
Mr. Dawkins: They'll give it back to us.
Mr. De Yurre: Give it back to them?
Mr. Plummer: Any further discussion? Call the roll.
MOTION FAILED. MOTION TO APPROVE additional $130,000 for
construction of north police substation, moved by Mayor Suarez and
seconded by Vice Mayor Kennedy failed by the following vote:
AYES: Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
ABSENT: None
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: Go back and redesign. No, I am keeping the faith.
COMMENTS AFTER ROLL CALL:
Mayor Suarez: OK, and I gather that will probably...
Mr. Plummer: Now, you bring it to me. I'll tell you what you do. Now,
I am
going to put the monkey on your back. You got us to this point...
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, he is campaigning, he is not even running! Oh ohl:
Mr. Plummer; OK, you go back and show me a way to cut that damn cost and
come
back to this Commission, OK? You can find a way. If it was money out of
your
pocket, you find a way.
Mr. Longueira: All right.
Mr. Plummer; And I'd better not find luxurious offices in there
for
administrative, and that furniture better be standard and not plush.
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Mayor Suarez: And I think you've got a pretty clear message as to the south
substation, where you have an opportunity how to redesign and cut out
elements, I mean, literally cut out elements, whatever it takes, because
otherwise.., and the important thing is to get these built, if it is a little
smaller, or a lot smaller.
Mr. Dawkins: And the longer they wait, the higher the cost.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, and the longer the wait, the higher the cost,
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, I've a question on the Flagler Station. My
understanding...
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, I'm assuming that was item 52, we did not read an
ordinance. It was modified. For the Clerk:..
Mayor Suarez: We turned the whole thing down, so there is nothing to read at
this point.
Mr. De Yurre: On the Flagler Station, I've been told that the reason that
they haven't broken ground is because there is some toxic problem underground.
Mr. Pelaez: Yes, sir, we...
Mr. De Yurre: And again, it is in the land.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, oh.
Mr. De Yurre: Now, just so you can clear up the discrepancy here. Over on
8th Street, the Latin Quarter the project that is being analyzed to purchase
the land, to make the proposed project that they are working on there, my
understanding is that the land can't be bought because there is a toxic
problem underground. Is that correct?
Mr. Plummer: You mean, the old "El Pub"?
Mr. De Yurre: That's right.
Mr. Plummer: You mean the grease trap?
Mr. De Yurre: Who here can address that, Cesar?
Mr. Odio: That is the first I heard of it. I'll have to check it out.
Mrs. Kennedy: Well, one of the properties is contaminated. The one that used
to be a laundromat.
Mr. De Yurre: Right, now my question is, if we can't close on that property
because the banks, or whoever the lending institution is, will not go ahead
with the closing because there is that problem, was that not addressed when
this land was purchased?
Mr. Pelaez: No, Commissioner, there is a difference. Apparently, the case
you are saying, we already knew there was contamination. In the police
station site, we only found out about it after we had bought and started to
level the ground.
Mr. De Yurre: How did they know that there was contaminated underground toxic
problems over on 8th Street?
Mr. Pelaez: On 8th Street? I don't know.
Mr. De Yurre: My understanding is that they ran a test.
Mr. Pelaez: I'm not aware of that.
Mayor Suarez; And it was built in.., I believe it was built into the contract
to purchase and sale, which may have been a provision we should have put in
this one too. The Commissioner is showing us an inconsistency there, in our
procedures.
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Mr. Plummer: Joe, let me ask you another question, since we are airing all
the dirty linen. Let's get the editorials all at one time. What about the
stables on Virginia Key?
Lt. Longueira: There are no stables on Virginia Key. That site has been
closed.
Mr. Plummer: That site has been closed? What about the $500,000 you sent me
two months to negotiate? Who closed the site?
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: Fine, give me a report.
Mayor Suarez: OK, so much...
Mr. Plummer: I want it, because I want to know who closed it. This
Commission did not.
Mayor Suarez: So much for the stables, but if you are going to give him a
report, give the entire Commission a report. Somebody else might want to
know.
Mrs. Kennedy: Back to the Latin Quarter, to answer your question,
Commissioner, we are working with the County and that and Jack Mulvena is
here, who will tell you the latest.
Mr. Plummer: You blew up a half million dollars?
Mr. Mulvena: We were very near closing on two pieces of property in the Latin
Quarter area when the environmental impact study indicated tetrachloride
ethylene.
Mr. De Yurre: Who put that provision in the contract?
Mr. Mulvena: Well, no one put any provision in the contract, it is just, you
know, protecting your interest before you buy a piece of property. In other
words, we always do an environmental study before we close.
Mr. De Yurre: But, that has to be in the contract for it to be a condition
for you not to have to buy.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, we put it in the contract.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, who is we, Off -Street Parking, or the City of Miami, who
did it?
Mr. Mulvena: Well, the City of Miami Department of Off -Street Parking,
Commissioner De Yurre.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, now, you are a different entity from the people that
negotiated, or the entity that negotiated the contract for the purchase of the
land on Flagler Street for the substation?
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, we are different totally. See, we are different, but we
discovered you know, if both the land owner and the would be buyer are
cooperative, Dade County is very helpful in assisting in the resolution and we
have been told, although, we haven't had to seek it, there is money available
to clean up sites, so...
Mr. De Yurre: Well, now we are talking about that property on 8th Street,
what is the next step? You know, when can we see something happening there,
and we forget about it, and talk about it every election year.
Mr. Mulvena: No, we are meeting with Dade County tomorrow, as a matter of
fact, with the owners, and you know, our own representatives and we are hoping
we will have a resolution out of that meeting.
Mr. De Yurre: And you will bring it before the Commission, or...
Mr. Mulvena: I'd be very happy to, sure.
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Mr, be Yurre: Well, I just want to know what is happening.
Mr, MulVena: It is one of the items in our five year plan, which we are,:.
Mr. Plummer: is ha, you are funny! Five year plan, you can't even give five
months.
Mr. Mulvena: We are going to deliver some goods in one year, arena parking
program, not no small piece of change, you know. But, anyway, we are very
close to closing on that property,
Mayor Suarez: It will be even better news when you close.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: All right, Jack.
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25. APPROVE ESTABLISHMENT OF A HOME PURCHASE FINANCING LOAN POOL, ALLOCATING
$1.5 MILLION OF INTEREST INCOME FROM 1976 G.O. HOUSING BOND TO FUND IT.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: May I get permission to move 67. We have some people from Key
West up here who need to get home. Can we move 67.
Mayor Suarez: Item 67, Commissioner Dawkins's request - Key West apparently.
That is a separate republic, for those who don't know.
Mr. Dawkins: That's Key West Republic.
Mr. Plummer: Careful, boys. You are talking about my heredity.
Mr. Gereaux: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, as you all know, back
in 1984, we bought an eight acre site. We call it the Melrose Nursery site.
The strategy at that time, when we had such a tremendous rental housing
crunch, was to select private developers through an RFP process and build a
fairly intense and dense rental housing development to meet that outstanding
need. Now, we did select a developer. The developer could not finance the
project and there we were with land ready to develop again and no one to
develop it. During that time, the Commission, also staff, took a really good
look at the project and that area around it and what needed to be done. And
at that time, we received a proposal from a nonprofit housing corporation to
develop 153 townhouses on the site that would be affordable to low and
moderate income people. You, in 1987 in January...
Mayor Suarez: The history is very interesting, but I think we all have it
memorized.
Mr. Gereaux: You don't want to hear the....
Mayor Suarez: Didn't you know that? You got turned on by the... I heard
Commissioner Plummer state it. You got turned on by the Surtax Board. Now,
what is the story here? Do you have a chance to get...
Mr. Gereaux: The bottom line of all of this is...
Mr. Dawkins: There we go!
Mayor Suarez; There we go.
Mr. Gereaux: The bottom line of all of this, is that as hard as they tried,
the nonprofit...
Mr. Dawkins; What do you want, Jerry? The bottom line, what do you need?
Mrs. Kennedy; What is the alternative?
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Mr. Gereaux: ... sponsor did not get surtax stoney, and I want you to feserve
in principle:..
Mayor Suarez: $1,500,066?
Mr. Gereaux: $1,500,000.
Mayor Suarez: What do we do with the other site?
Mr. Gereaux: The other site is still in the surtax process. We have some
funding if it becomes a necessity there. We talked to the sponsor. He doesn't
feel that it will be necessary. He is a community based nonprofit.
Mr: Plummer: My understanding was clear, that if they did not get the surtax
money, the project could not be built.
Mr. Gereaux: Your understanding is absolutely correct and that's how you, as
a Commission, passed it.
Mr. Plummer: But, if we take.., you are asking us here today to approve
$1,500,000 which we don't haves
Mr. Gereaux: Commissioner, what I am asking you to do here today, is allocate
$1,500,000 that we do have sitting in a housing budget that is doing nothing
for housing and convert that into active participation with five local banks
to make this Melrose project happen. We are not giving away the money. The
money will come back in the form of second mortgages.
Mr. Plummer: What about all the rest of them that have applied for surtax?
Mr. Dawkins: In the event that the... I'm only interested in two, that is
Melrose and the Civic Center. In the event that the Civic Center comes, we
have money to make adjustments with them?
Mr. Gereaux: We have money to make adjustments similar to what we are doing
here, and all we are saying is...
Mr. Plummer: How much money do you got in that fund?
Mr. Gereaux: We have $2,600,000 in that fund, earning interest.
Mrs. Kennedy: Well, let me say something, that this is the first time that
five local banks have gotten together to provide first mortgages. We are
very, very close to making this deal and if the money is available and we can
use the interest, the City is going to get the money back in the form of
second mortgages. I'm all for that, Jerry.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it. You move it?
Mrs. Kennedy: I move it.
Mr. Dawkins: I second.
Mr. Plummer: All right, under discussion. In the case of default, do we get
our money back?
Mr. Dawkins: No, it is the same thing as you said this morning, when you say
we must take risks. Now, we cannot be prepared to take risks with the Orange
Bowl, where they may have all the people they say they are going to have for
the Orange Bowl, and it doesn't come up. We cannot take risks where the
University of Miami may not be number one, and they may not have what, so this
is another one of those risk taking situations.
Mr. Plummer: OK, just let's get it on the record,
Mayor Suarez: And now, this would leave how much for the Civic Center site,
if they came to apply, Jerry?
Mr. Gereaux: This would leave approximately $1,000,000, if that became
necessary.
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Mayor Suarez: Do you anticipate that they would be approved by the Surtax
Board?
Mr. Gereaux: Yes, I do.
Mayor Suarez: And if... at that point, how much will they Heed because we
would like to make both of these viable!
Mr. Gereaux: They are asking $1,000,000 from the Surtax Board in the form of
second mortgages.
Mayor Suarez: Coincidentally, the exact amount that you would have available.
This is like the substation issue heret Very good.
Mr. Gereaux: We have to have redundant systems if we are going to get housing
built in Miami, Mr. Mayor,
Mr. Plummer: So then in other words, when that is depleted, we are broke.
Mr. Gereaux: When the remaining interest on our little issue here, our little
second mortgage program is over, we are broke in terms of being able to
provide second mortgages. However, I would...
Mr. Dawkins: There are for sale homes, right?
Mr. Gereaux: These are for sale homes.
Mr. Dawkins: And as they are sold, we get the $1,000,000 to put back in, is
that correct?
Mr. Gereaux: That's right, but I want to respond to your question,
Commissioner. I think that we need to take a much, much more aggressive role,
active role, in how that surtax program is working.
Mr. Plummer: Well, but how much money has been forthcoming from the Surtax
Board to Miami projects?
Mayor Suarez: That's a good question.
Mr. Gereaux: Sure, I'd say that based on Jerry Gereaux' formula, we better
get 40 percent of that money every year.
Mr. Plummer: How much of it is raised in the City of Miami?
Mr. Gereaux: That is something that we can't even get a handle on, but what
we do do, is compare the housing assistance needs of the four participating
jurisdictions, Hialeah, Miami Beach, corporate Miami, and unincorporated Dade,
and if you compare those needs on a relative basis, we should get 40 percent
of that money every year.
Mayor Suarez: But that is on the basis of need and the Commissioner is
asking, and I think we ought to be able to f igure out, at least within some
degree of certainty, on the basis of contribution, the biggest transactions I
would think, are being made in the City maybe, and we may have an over
proportion of the contribution too.
Mr. Gereaux: Yes. We would need to put somebody on that to work over in the
recorder's office...
Mayor Suarez: I am sure you can do that in your spare time.
Mr. Gereaux: ... because they are reluctant to provide us with that
information.
Mayor Suarez: OK, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion?
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins; We are interested in providing housing stock, OK? Now, we have
been saying for almost four years that we were going to do the Melrose site
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and the Civic Center site, so now, if we are getting off of square one with
the Melrose site, how long is it going to take you to sit down and come back
before this Commission and tell me that we are ready to start building homes
on the Civic Center so we can get some affordable housing out here like we
promised?
Mr. Gereaux: Yes, it is an educated guess if they get surtax monies.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, you guessed up on how much money you need the $1,500,000.
Guess up on that.
Mr. Gereaux: How long will it take? They should be able to be in the ground
if they get the surtax financing next month, within four months.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, thank you. No further questions.
Mr. Gereaux: They should be able to be in the ground, and if they don't I'll
be back in September with a similar request for them.
Mr. Dawkins: Get your request ready, because they don't have it.
Mayor Suarez: OK, we have a motion and a second, any further discussion?
Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-529
A RESOLUTION APPROVING IN PRINCIPLE THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF A HOME PURCHASE FINANCING LOAN POOL FOR THE PURPOSE
OF PROVIDING AFFORDABLE HOME PURCHASE FINANCING FOR
QUALIFIED, LOW AND MODERATE INCOME PURCHASERS OF THE
TOWNHOMES PROPOSED FOR DEVELOPMENT ON THE PUBLICLY
OWNED MELROSE NURSERY SITE BY MELROSE TOWNHOMES, INC.
A NOT -FOR -PROFIT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION,
SUBJECT TO CERTAIN TERMS AND CONDITIONS; FURTHER
ALLOCATING $1,500,000 IN INTEREST INCOME FROM THE 1976
GENERAL OBLIGATION HOUSING BOND TO FUND THE LOAN POOL.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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lb. CONTINUE CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE TO INCREASE
APPROPRIATIONS FOR TWO EXISTING PROJECTS ("SILVER BLUFF STREET
IMPROVEMENTS" AND "BUENA VISTA STREET IMPROVEMENTS = PHASE III") UNTIL
THE CITY CAN IMPLEMENT A PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAM TO ENSURE CITIZENRY
SUPPORT OF THE PROJECT.
Mayor Suarez: Item 53, Silver Bluff.
Mr. Odio: This is to amend the...
Mayor Suarez: Silver Bluff's street improvements, right?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir, and Buena Vista street improvements, Phase II1.6
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on the item 53, Buena and Silver Bluff
street improvements, $50,000 each. Commissioner.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mr. Plummer: Just for the record, how did they vote on the bond issue? Did
they vote for the bond, or did they vote against it?
Mr. Kay: The precinct in the Buena Vista area voted in favor and the
precincts... all precincts north of U.S. 1 in the Little Havana area were
against it.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you know...
Mayor Suarez: Wait, that contradicted what you just said.
Mr. Plummer: He- said `the precinctnorthof U.S. 1 voted against it.
Mr. Kay:In the Little Havana area were against.
Mr. Plummer: Silver Bluff...
Mayor Suarez: So, west of 95. You say Buena Vista voted for it?
Mr. Kay: Yes, west of 95, right.
Mr. Plummer: Why do you have to increase the appropriation? You know, what
is the increase in the appropriation? Here we go again.
Mr. Kay: Both of these projects are $2,000,000 projects, each over all, for
construction and design. What we did was, we didn't have any bond monies to
construct these projects so what we did was designated the funds for design
only, and so these are originally $50,000 each for preliminary design work,
and these will complete the plan.
Mr. Plummer: When you put these bids before this Commission, you built in 17
percent. What did that 17 percent go for?
Mr. Kay: Well, this isn't even 17 percent.
Mr. Plummer: I'm aware of that.
Mr. Kay: the 17 percent...
Mr. Plummer: But in the bid package, you put in 17 percent.
Mrs. Kennedy: Right, that goes...
Mr. Plummer: Part of that is contingency.
Mr. Kay: Part of that is design, part of that is inspection, and survey
services and testing lab.
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Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, what would it do to your program if I were to make
a motion that we go back out and publicly say that only those individuals who
want it, the storm sewers, and voted for the bond, were interested in doing
their area, so therefore, we are going to take the money that we have now and
do those areas and we will go back and ask for another bond and see if those
people would change their mind about their area.
Mr. Odio: What would it do to my program?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, getting the job done.
Mr. Odio: Let me tell you something, Commissioner. We don't have many funds
left in the pots for...
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, but see, this is what I am saying, Mr. Manager, and you
see...
Mr. Kay: We have about $500,000 left.
Mr. Dawkins: ... everybody who comes down here, OK? - they don't want us to
raise the users fee.
Mr. Odio: That's right.
Mr. Dawkins: They don't want us to put in a cleaning fee, they want us to
raise taxes, but yet, when we ask for a bond issue, with which to do these
things, they vote against it, and then they come down here and get mad when we
can't do it. And I think it is about time that we let them know that you are
the reason that this isn't getting done.
Mr. Odio: Well, $500,000 is what we got left.
Mr. Dawkins: What we got left?
Mr. Odio: And with that, believe me...
Mr. Dawkins: So we need to taker that $500,000 and do the sewers in the area
where the people approve the bonds, and then go back and tell those where we
can't do it, well, you know, you voted against the bond, now you want us to
pass another bond issue, we will put it out and you vote for it, we can do
your area.
Mr. Odio: Well, it is going to come to that, Commissioner, because like I
said, with $500,000, we won't be doing very much.
Mr. Dawkins: And then when we sit up here and say we have got to have a sewer
users fee, in order to bring the sewers up to a health standard where we will
not be criticized by the State of Florida, and everybody, by having a health
hazard, then everybody is going to get mad and say I am not going to vote for
you because you raised my taxes!
Mr. Odio: And the pavement of the street, sir, that is another problem.
Mr. Kay: Mr. Commissioner, for the record, I'd just like to say that the bond
issue, $40,000,000 bond issue for highway projects that failed this last
March, was the very first public works bond issue that I know of that has
failed since I have been with the City for the last 17 years, so I am saying
we should go for another one some time in the near future, is what I am
saying.
Mr. Dawkins: So you are saying that I should assume that because that was the
first one that failed, that none of the others will fail?
Mr. Kay: No, sir, I think we probably need to go back as a better job.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, then, what I am saying to you is, that they knew it was
going to fail, that is why they voted for it to fail, so they got to make up
their minds what they want. Now, that is just one vote up here, I don't know,
but somewhere, the citizenry, of which I am one of, has to realize that there
is no free lunch, OK? The Federal government is not giving us anything, the
State of Florida cuts back as far as it can, and we are at the 10 mill millage
cap, and these things have to be done.
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Mr. Odio: Mr. Dawkins, you are tight, you know, we lost, when the highway
improvement bonds, failed, we lost $1,500,000 a year, that we could use for
administrative cost that would have subsidized employees in the Public Works
Department, which we now will have to fund out of the General Fund.
Mr: Dawkins: No further questions.
Mayor Suarez: Oki we have a motion and a second on 53.
Mr. Dawkins: What is the motion?
Mayor Suarez: Read the ordinance... to approve the.:.
Mr. Plummer: Who made the motion?
Ms. Hirai: I don't have a motion, Mr. Mayor,
Mr. Dawkins: 'Who made the motion?
Mayor Suarez: I thought we did. I thought you seconded it for discussion. I
entertain a motion on 53. Somebody move it, to deny, to approve, whichever.
Mr. Dawkins: I move. Like I said, I move that it be continued until we can
educate the public as to what we are doing and why we are at the stage where
we are, and let them tell us, that they are going to support bonds that will
do the sewers, or they are not, or you can charge me a user's fee, and I will
not hold it against you in 189, Miller Dawkins, when you run.
Mayor Suarez: You know, the idea has a lot of merit. If we now go to Buena
Vista and Silver Bluff and start educating them to why we need eventually to
have them approve the bond issue that they turned down, or some similar bond
issue or smaller size, or whatever this Commission agrees to put on the
ballot, maybe it will pass next time.
Mr. Dawkins: I think so.
Mayor Suarez: OK, we have a motion to continue, pending...
Mr. Odio: In this case, though, if I may...
Mr. Kay: This is design only.
Mr. Odio: This is actually design, and this was to reflect the actual
preliminary expenses and the actual design costs incurred in 188. This will
not send that message out, that the one we...
Mr. Kay: We will not construct with this project. Even if this item is
approved, we will not go to construction of any of these projects until a
future bond issue is passed.
Mrs. Kennedy: You are talking about the difference between preliminary
designs and actual designs here?
Mr. Kay: That's right.
Mr. Odio: We don't have the funds to do any of the work in this area.
Mr. Plummer: Well, come back when the bond issue passes.
Mr. Odio: OK.
Mayor Suarez; I could go either way on it, because it is a small amount for
design, but the thing is, when you are down to half a million dollars, as you
have told us, you know, $100,000 is... OK.
Mr. Plummer: Why design something you don't have money to build?
Mayor Suarez: You got it. We've got a motion, do we have a second?
Mrs, Kennedy: Second.
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Mayor Suarez: Second. Any discussion? Call the roll.
Mr. Fernandez: It is an ordinance need to be read:
Mayor Suarez: I guess it is just a motion at this point to deny so...
Mr. plummere It is a motion to defer.
Mr. Fernandez: Motion to deny? :. OK.
Mayor Suarez: ... or defer, so, call the roll,
Ms. Hirai: To continue.
Mr. Plummer: No, excuse me! It is not to deny, it is to continue or defer.
Ms. Hirai: It is continued.
Mayor Suarez: To continue. Excuse me, do you want to address the motion to
continue?
Unidentified Speaker: No, not at all.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-530
A MOTION TO CONTINUE CONSIDERATION OF AGENDA ITEM 53
("INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR TWO EXISTING PROJECTS -
SILVER BLUFF STREET IMPROVEMENT AND BUENA VISTA STREET
IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II") UNTIL THE CITY CAN IMPLEMENT
A PUBLIC EDUCATION PROGRAM IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN TO ITS
CITIZENRY WHAT IT IS DOING WITH RESPECT TO EXISTING
PROJECTS; FURTHER STIPULATING THAT RESIDENTS' INPUT
SHALL BE INVITED TO ENSURE THEIR SUPPORT OF THE
AFOREMENTIONED PROJECTS.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AGENDA ITEM 103 WAS WITHDRAWN.
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21. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE TO ALLOW FOR THE ADDITION AND
REMOVAL OF CERTAIN POSITIONS WHICH ARE CONDITIONALLY ALLOWED TO REJECT
MEMBERSHIP IN THE GENERAL EMPLOYEES AND SANITATION EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT
TRUST, ETC.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 54, first reading. Anybody want to tell us about item 54,
or any Commissioners have any questions? Somebody want to move it? I'll take
anything at this point.
Mr. Plummer: Due to the lack of interest, today has been cancelled.
Mayor Suarez: Item 54, is this controversial, Mr. Manager?
Mr. Odio: (OFF MIKE) It is deferring to the City Attorney's
Mr. Fernandez: Yes, it is really not controversial, it is just housekeeping
details and changes to the pension ordinance to clarify language and to add
and delete titles of positions that may apt out of....
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved, do we have a second?
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Second. Any discussion?
Mr. Plummer: Under discussion, Mr. Manager, as a City Commissioner, I read in
the morning paper, I don't know if any of my colleagues have got information
that I have. With interest I read that you have negotiated a settlement with
the Police Department on their labor negotiations.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir, and I informed your office of that, and you were...
Mrs. Kennedy: We were informed.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I'll go back and tear her up. I just asked her.
Mr. Odio: No, no, please, because I tried to find you at that point, and I
don't know what happened, but, we did notify your office to inform you.
Mr. Plummer: And we will be getting a copy of what has been negotiated.
Mr. Odio: Oh, yes, sir, the...
Mr. Plummer: OK, I am sorry, my office told me that I wasn't informed.
Mr. Odio: Well, we, you know...
Mayor Suarez: Any further discussion on this item?
Mr. De Yurre: What have you got the Herald for?. To find out things.
Mr. Fernandez: Reading the ordinance.
Mr. Plummer: One - 800.
Mr. Plummer: Commissioner, we are bringing in the contract for ratification,
if it is ratified by the union members, on June 23rd.
Mayor Suarez; Were you going to make any announcement on it today?
Mr. Plummer; It's in the paper.
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Mr. Odio: No, no, all we say in the paper is that we have reached an agree...
Mayor Suarez: You mean the paper got it down tight!
Mr. Plummer: I didn't say that.
Mr. Odio: Not all the details
Mr. Plummer: I said there was something in the paper.
Mayor Suarez: It could have been accurate or not, huh? OK, read the
ordinance on 54, please. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA AS AMENDED, TO ADD AND REMOVE CERTAIN
POSITIONS WHERE PERSONS EMPLOYED IN THOSE POSITIONS
ARE CONDITIONALLY ALLOWED TO REJECT MEMBERSHIP IN THE
CITY OF MIAMI GENERAL EMPLOYEES AND SANITATION
EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT TRUST (RETIREMENT PLAN) OR THE
CITY OF MIAMI FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS
RETIREMENT TRUST (RETIREMENT SYSTEM); FURTHER ADDING
CONDITIONS FOR REJECTION OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE
RETIREMENT SYSTEM; AUTHORIZING DISTRIBUTION OF
CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY AND ON BEHALF OF SUCH PERSONS
FILLING THOSE POSITIONS AS PROVIDED FOR IN TRUST
AGREEMENT APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION; DELETING
OTHERWISE LIMITING RESTRICTIONS UPON SUCH
DISTRIBUTION; FURTHER REMOVING AN ADDITIONAL OPTION BY
THE CITY MANAGER TO REJECT MEMBERSHIP IN THE
RETIREMENT PLAN OR RETIREMENT SYSTEM AND HAVE A
SEPARATE RETIREMENT BENEFITS ACCOUNT ESTABLISHED FOR
HOLDING CONTRIBUTIONS MADE BY AND ON BEHALF OF THE
CITY MANAGER; FURTHER ADDING LANGUAGE SPECIFICALLY
SETTING FORTH THE REQUIREMENT OF UNINTERRUPTED MEMBER
SERVICE WHICH MUST BE MET BEFORE A VESTED RIGHT TO AN
EXECUTIVE BENEFIT MAY BE DEEMED TO HAVE EXISTED ON OR
BEFORE MAY 23, 1985; MORE PARTICULARLY AMENDING
SECTIONS 40-208(B), 40-214, 40-234 AND 40-241 OF SAID
CODE; 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 vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
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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28. INSTRUCT CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE LEGISLATION REGARDING PROPOSED
EXPANSION OF MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY.
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Mr. be Yurre: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner.
Mr. be Yurre: I'd like to bring up for a moment, the issue of the possibility
of expanding the Sports Authority, which has nine members presently, expanding
the board to eleven. Presently, you, the Mayor, have one vote, or you name
one person, and the rest of the Commissioners each have two. I think that in
the next year or two year period, we are going to be going through a lot of
concerns that deal with sports and certainly I feel that even though they may
not have any input directly as to what we are going to do, when we are going
to be deciding things, but I would like to see the Sports Authority expanded
to eleven, giving the Mayor the two additional votes and then the other
Commissioners retaining two each.
Mayor Suarez: Are you also suggesting that the entire board should be
reappointed, or are you suggesting to keep...
Mr. De Yurre: No, just the addition of two additional...
Mr. Dawkins: I second it.
Mayor Suarez: Well it... moved and seconded. There was certainly an incident
that we all remember where the person previously sitting in the chair you are
sitting figured out a way to give me one appointment, and I appreciate the
Commissioner's consideration in giving me two appointments to make up for
spending the better part of two years with only one appointment, so I
certainly would go along with that. Moved and seconded. Any discussion from
the Commission? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-531
A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE
NECESSARY LEGISLATION IN CONNECTON WITH THE PROPOSED
EXPANSION OF THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY
FROM 9 TO 11 MEMBERS; FURTHER STIPULATING THESE TWO
EXTRA APPOINTMENTS SHALL BE MADE BY MAYOR XAVIER L.
SUAREZ.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
NOTE FOR RECORD: Commissioner Plummer expressed concern that new
DDA member Michael Koznitsky, appointed in April had not been
notified of his appointment. Mayor Suarez, chairman of the DDA
assured Commissioner Plummer that Mr. Koznitsky is already serving
on that board.
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29. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: CREATE THE MIAMI WATERFRONT ADVISORY BOARD =
DESIGNATE MEMBERSHIP, PURPOSES, ETC.
Mayor Suarez: Item 55,
Mr, Odio: This is a Law Department item, but it is the creation of the Miami
Waterfront Advisory Board, consisting of 10 members. There is an amendment to
this ordinance in front of you.
Mr. Fernandez: The amendments that we are putting are at the request of the
chairperson of the board, and that is to delete language relative to a
secretary and asking the City Manager's office to provide administrative
support to the board...
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Fernandez: Yes, that means staff, administrative support to the...
Mr. Plummer: What?
Mr. Fernandez: ... board and the second change that is in front of you by way
of an additional memo handed out, is the terms of office and cause for
removal. Those have been changed from the way that they were originally
presented to you. Originally, the board had a rule that upon a member being
absent for a number of meetings, that would give rise to that member being
dismissed. The proposed language now reads that that's solely within the
power of the City Commission to both appoint and remove members, taking away
from the board itself, that power to remove.
Mayor Suarez: Why are we doing that?
Mr. Stuart Sorg: Mr. Mayor, under resolution 79-172, when we first created
the Waterfront Board, Article VII gave the Waterfront Board the right to
remove those people who didn't make three meetings, and so forth, rather than
come back to the Commission every time somebody doesn't make the meetings.
Mayor Suarez: You are sneaking in with a suggestion now, when we decided to
change the composition of the board to change the rules, and the rules
suggesting... the change that you are suggesting is that you are able to do
that on an automatic basis based on...
Mr. Sorg: Of part of the resolution, which is stated right in, which I just
passed to you. It's the same...
Mr. Plummer: Well, that's what is there now.
Mr. Sorg: It's the same...
Mr. Plummer: What's there now is they miss three consecutive meetings, that's
automatic... that's not a matter of the board deciding, it is automatic, wham,
they are out.
Mr. Sorg: Right, exactly, exactly.
Mr. Plummer: Then why do you want to change that?
Mr. Sorg: I'm not. I want the same principle, but that wasn't written into
the current ordinance, though. This just specifies...
Mr. Plummer: I think it is a good thing.
Mr. Sorg: It prevents us from coming here each time we have to notify you
somebody is not following the rules.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, It is just automatic. If they miss three
consecutive meetings, they are out. We appoint another one.
Mr. Sorg: Yes, sir.
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Mayor Suarez: is there any issue of the absence being excused or not?
Mr. Sorgt I think the chairman can have that right to do that,
Mayor Suarez: No, but is that built into the existing regulations?
Mr. Sorg: No, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: I don't think the chairman should have that right. Maybe the
City Commission should be able to determine whether it is excused absence:
Mayor Suarez: Yes; let's make up our minds how you want to go. Is that your
preference, everyone, that... or would you rather it not come to us? I don't
really care.
Mr. Sorg: That means that every time that somebody wants to...
Mayor Suarez: 1 wish you hadn't brought this point up.
Mr. Dawkins: You have got to come here to get somebody appointed...
Mayor Suarez: Why did you have to bring this point up? We are trying to
reconstitute your board so it will function, and you are causing us to not
function as a board herel
Mr. Sorg: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: All right, what does the Commission want to do on that? To me
it is either way, I don't really care.
Mr. Plummer: Well, explain to me, "Setting forth organizational and
operational details." Is that staff?
Mr. Sorg: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: How much?
Mr. Sorg: Whatever. The same we have now, Bibi at the Waterfront Board.
That is principally the lady at Dinner Key Marina, that is it, and whatever
support we need from the Manager at times.
Mr. Plummer: How much?
Mr. Sorg: It is a monthly support situation.
Mr. Plummer: How much? That's dollars, with a big "S" and the two lines
running through.
Mr. Odio: We don't have any...
Mr. Sorg: No, we don't need dollars.
Mr. Odio: We send someone from the marina to attend the meetings.
Mr. Plummer: So you are telling me it costs nothing.
Mr. Odio: Nothing. Well, it does, because this person is on staff.
Mr. Plummer: How much?
Mr. Odio: Additional expense to the City?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr, Odio: Zero. Additional expense, zero.
Mr. Plummer: OK, thank you, How many members do we have now?
Mr. Sorg: We have nine, this is raising it to ten.
Mr. Plummer: Why would we go to ten?
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Mr, Sorg: tbt ause that was the suggestion of the CofnAission,
Mayor guarez: It is divisible by five.
Mr. Sorg: Right.
Mr, Plummer: Ott,
Mr. Sorg: Each Commissioner gets two appointmehts,
Mayor Suarez: You remember all the problems we hadj and you wanted to get
your appointment.
Mr. Plummer: tine,
Mrs, Kennedy# Stuart, you are the Chair, I hope that you continue being the
Chair.
Mr. Sorg: If that is the pleasure of the Commission, Vice Mayor,
Mayor Suarez: Sometimes pleasure, sometimes pain, but there you have it.
Mr. Dawkins: Your term will be up when? - so it will be a pleasure to me.
Mr. Sorg: Three years, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Plummer: You don't even look like Papa Docl
Mr. Sorg: You know you'd miss me, Commissioner.
Mayor Suarez: How is the setup on the legislation,is it the board itself,
that selects its own chairman? How is it set up?
Mr. Sorg: That's right, that is the way it has been done in the past.
Mayor Suarez: So; you are going to have to lobby, it. sounds like, except you
can't talk them,,'so...
Mr. Sorg: Unless you choose to make the appointment, which you have the right
under this ordinance, as the Vice Mayor just did.
Mayor Suarez: Right. Well...
Mr. De Yurre: Well, Mr. Mayor, I have a question because a statement was just
made that troubles me. We're talking about, and J.L. was alluding to it,
putting a staff person to address the board, or to take care of its business,.
and Cesar said it is not going to cost us anything.
Mr. Odio: I didn't say that, Commissioner. I said there would be no
additional expense to the City - no additional expense.
Mr. De Yurre: OK.
Mr. Odio: The person is on payroll at the marina,- and she will attend the
meetings like she has been doing for years.
Mr. De Yurre: So, it would be like after hours.
Mr. Odio: When they meet at night, it, will be, yes.
Mr. De Yurre: So, it isn't like they are taking away from their daily duties
to take care of this business.
Mr. Odio: That is correct.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, you have got to pay them overtime,
Mr, Odio The staff person that.,.
Mr. De Yurre: They don't get paid overtime or anything?
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Mr: Odi6: No, sir:
Mayor Suarez: It is someone that is not a civil service employee, it is
discretionary and, OK, no overtime, toy, we are really getting down to the
dollars and pennies here, i see:
Mr. be Yurre: How about... how are we going to be naming these members? Did
we decide that a while back?
Mr. Plummer: We'll each get two.
Mr. Odio: Yes, but it is riot additional expense to the City.
Mr. De Yurre: Are we starting from scratch?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, totally starting from scratch.
Mr. De Yurre: So it is a brand new thing, right? OK.
Mayor Suarez: OK, any further questions on this item?
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion. Moved. Do we have a second?
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded, read the ordinance, call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE CREATING AND ESTABLISHING A MIAMI
WATERFRONT ADVISORY BOARD, CONSISTING OF TEN (10)
MEMBERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF REVIEWING AND EVALUATING
ISSUES RELATED TO THE USE AND DEVELOPMENT OF CITY -
OWNED WATERFRONT PROPERTY AND FOR THE GIVING OF ADVICE
TO THE CITY COMMISSION CONCERNING SUCH OTHER MATTERS
AS ARE REFERRED TO IT BY THE CITY COMMISSION IN REGARD
TO CITY OR PUBLIC LAND ABUTTING WATER; DESCRIBING THE
METHOD OF APPOINTING MEMBERS TO THE BOARD; SETTING
FORTH ORGANIZATIONAL AND OPERATIONAL DETAILS,
INCLUDING TERMS OF OFFICE, REMOVAL OF MEMBERS, AND
SELECTION OF A CHAIRPERSON; CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR
INCLUSION IN THE CITY CODE.
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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
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.
Mr. Sorg: Now you have got to appoint the board, Mr. Mayor. We are all off.
Mayor Suarez: I'm not ready for my appointment.
Mr. Dawkins: I'm not ready for mine.
Mrs. Kennedy: I will be ready for mine, before the end of the meeting.
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Mayor Suarez: And I'll be interested in any suggestions you might have the
from the existing board.
Mr. Sorg: We are going to come back next month on it?
Mayor Suarez: Do it in Writing. Please don't call me.
Mr. Plummert I nominate Davy Jones and Esther Williams.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. Dawkins: Second,
Mr. Sorgt Do you want this to come back next month for the
Mayor Suarez: Actually, can we do it in between? Can we build that into the
motion?
Mr. Dawkins: OK, no problem.
Mayor Suarez: Can we do it by designation in writing?
Mr. Sorg: Is that possible?
Mayor Suarez: So that we don't have to wait until the next Commission
meeting. .
Mr. Sorg: Shall I meet with you and work that out?
Mayor Suarez: In writing.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, AGENDA ITEM 56 IS WITHDRAWN
BY THE ADMINISTRATION
30. A - DISCUSSION OF PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 2 EXPANDING
MEMBERSHIP OF THE OFF-STREET PARKING AUTHORITY - FURTHER PROVIDING FOR
STAGGERED TERMS. (SEE LABEL 35) B - APPROVE DRAFT OF PROPOSED CHARTER
AMENDMENT NO.3 - CITY ATTORNEY TO SERVE AS COUNSEL FOR THE OFF-STREET
PARKING AUTHORITY. (SEE LABEL 35)
Mayor Suarez: Item 57. Ohhhh!
Mr. Plummer: Ah, yes!
Mr. Odio: Mulvena.
Mayor Suarez: We have the pleasure of dealing with this issue today.
Mr. Plummer: We have seen you before.
Mr. Jack Mulvena: Good afternoon, Commissioners, Jack Mulvena, executive
director of the Department of Off -Street Parking. As you know, the Department
has seven agenda items. One of them, four of our five board members have come
down today to speak to, and that is item number 69, regarding the Charter
amendment, and I wonder if I could presume on the Commissioners to take that
one out of sequence, so that they might be able to speak and then be about
their business today.
Mayor Suarez: Actually...
Mr. Mulvena: 69.
Mayor Suarez: 69, yes, they are all related.
Mr. Plummer: You intentionally separated that out from the rest.
Mayor Suarez: I'm sure all the board members are going to tell us that they
are in full agreement with what we are trying to do here, and if so, we just
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go ahead and note that for the record, and be done with it. That's not the
case?
Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you an amendment that 1 think has to be there,
because I just assumed that it was and it is not, and I think it is mandatory
that it has got to be. The terms of the new members, as well as the terms of
the old have got to be staggered.
Mr. Fernandez: In essence they will be.
Mr. Plummer: In essence, hell, in writing!
Mr. Fernandez: It is in writing, also, Commissioner. If you read the
provisions provided, the existing members will be concluding their terms. The
existing members have staggered terms, which means that those terms, when they
get off their terms and they get filled by you, they will continue then, on a
five year basis and the staggering will continue.
Mr. Plummer: I am talking about the new members.
Mr. Fernandez: Oh, well then, for the six new members, if you want those six
staggered, that could very easily be done.
Mr. Plummer: I say it is mandatory,
Mr. Fernandez: Fine.
Mr. Plummer: So whatever it takes to write into that ordinance, do it now, in
case we pass it.
Mr. Fernandez: The problem I had with suggesting to the Commission staggering
those six terms, is not knowing how you wish to divide those appointments
amongst yourselves.
Mr. Plummer: Victor De Yurre will put an "X" in a hat.
Mr. Fernandez: Let me finish, Commissioner. If you have six appointments
presumably...
Mr. De Yurre: Let's make it fifteen, then.
Mr. Fernandez: Arguable, if you have six appointments to make and you want
them staggered in two, or three, or four year terms, two for three, two for
four, two for five - who gets the five, who gets the four, who gets the three?
Mr. Plummer: OK, may I make a suggestion? I would make a suggestion that if
this passes, that we are going to each have one, we pull from a hat, and one
of us will have a second one to choose.
Mayor Suarez: Fine. As to the nominations being made by the Commission, that
sounds very reasonable. Are you going to have staggered terms for the new
six? The existing five have staggered terms that are what?
Mr. Mulvena: The existing five are staggered. All of them serve five year
terms, but their renewal dates comes up at -three different times.
Mr. Plummer: Oh it is three different times, rather than each year?
Mr. Mulvena: Three different times, right. And I think we would like to
speak to that issue and some others.
Mr. Fernandez: So the changes, Commissioner Plummer, that you have
recommended, they would be properly in front of you the 23rd.
Mr. Plummer: The new six will be expanded... what?
Mr. Fernandez: The 23rd of June, we will have the language that you are
suggesting.
Mr. Plummer: Ok. Do we have any other problems with this?
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Mr. be Yurre: I just have one question.
salary?
Are these board members paid a
Mr. Mulvena: The board members are presently paid $50 a year.
Mr: De Yurre: $50 a year? OR, we are going to include that than, for the new
ones?
Mr. Mulvena: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Do they get free parking?
Mr. Mulvena: They get free parking if they come to the regular meeting:
Mr. Plummer: How come, we, the Commission, don't get free parking?
Mr. De Yurre: You didn't ask for it.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no. How come we, the Commission, don't get free
parking? If the members of that board do, why don't the City Commission get
free parking in the parking structures?
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, you do as of today, Cesar says. No, actually, you come to
the meetings, we'd be very happy to sign the cards too.
Mr. Plummer: I'm not talking about your meetings.
Mayor Suarez: All right.
Mr. Plummer: No, I haven't got an answer yet!
Mr. Mulvena: Honestly, Commissioner, if you would like to have some special
privileges in the garages that we own, and the garages that we manage, you can
certainly have that
Mr. Plummer: I'm not talking about special privileges, because that will be
written up the wrong way.
Mr. Mulvena: I'm sorry.
Mr. Plummer: I'm telling you that of all the things that I am called upon to
do in the downtown area, I am getting a little tired of paying $6.00 and $8.00
to go to a City function and represent the City and still have to pay those
fees. I don't consider that a special privilege.
Mr. Mulvena: I agree.
Mr. Plummer: Now, I think that you know, you would have to leave it up to the
judgement of each Commissioner, that he would only use that privilege or that
extension on City business, but I want to tell you, it gets a little heavy,
because no one around here that I know of is called upon more than these five
people to go downtown and to park continuously, so I don't consider it a
special privilege.
Mr. Dawkins: What J.L. says, and I've been over to see you, and I've got four
more now, we all park downtown, I put that sign in the window that says
Commissioner on City business and still got four tickets. Now...
Mr. Plummer: Hell, you are lucky they didn't tow you.
Mr. Dawkins: You know, it is ridiculous. I mean, if your people are not
going to respect the sign, tell me, so I can give it back to you, or give it
to whoever gave it to me, but I've got four tickets, and I will bring them
over there in the morning and let you see, parked right like J.L. says, where
people want to show me about we should not make this a historic building. I
park, go inside, come out and I've got a ticket, with the big sign, big old
brass sign saying Commissioner, and another sign saying, City Business, and I
get a ticket!
Mr. Mulvena: There are certain official business signs that our officers are
trained to recognize, and maybe that is not one that is on the list.
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Mr. Dawkins: Well, its got a number on it: it says, Office of Commissioner
Miller Dawkins, and it got a number on it. Why don't they call the number and
see if the car is registered? 1 don't know.
Mr. Mulvena: I will look into that for you, Commissioner:
Mayor Suarez: OK, with those provisos and other modifications,
Mr. Plummer: Do any members have any objections if the terms are staggered
beyond what is in this provision now? Do they want to speak to it? I move
it. I move 69.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second:
Mayor Suarez: Moved, seconded: Any discussion?
Mr. Dawkins: 69?
Mrs, Kennedy: 69.
Mr. Fernandez: That's 69,
Mr. Plummer: Increasing the size of the board.
Mr. Fernandez: No, it is more than just increasing the size of the board, 69,
Commissioner. 69 is in fact a referendum item going to the voters in
September and what we have done, is that we have broken down the will of this
Commission into three separate resolutions, each containing the individual
Issues that have been raised by this Commission and the City Attorney's office
has been instructed to prepare. It is a constitutional mandate that when the
voters are confronted with a choice in the booth, that they be addressing
individual or single topics, single issues in every question.
Mayor Suarez: OK, why don't you give it to us in order. Which is the one
that has to do with expansion to eleven and staggered terms?
Mr. Fernandez: Right, the first one has to do with increasing the size of the
board from five to eleven and now upon the recommendation of Commissioner
Plummer, we will make sure that the new six that are coming aboard also have
staggered terms.
Mrs. Kennedy: That has been moved and seconded.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion... oh, we have a motion and a second on
that. Why don't you call the roll on that, unless there is further discussion
on that. Commissioner De Yurre.
Mr. De Yurre: Yes, my question is, just how long are these periods lasting
for?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, good question, right?
Mr. Fernandez: Well, the existing terms already are five years. The existing
board members have a five year term staggered, and this is the will of. the
Commission to...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, but they, can't all be five, because otherwise, you can't
stagger them right off the bat.
Mr. Bib Clark: (OFF MIKE) Two for three, two for four,.and one for five.
Mr. Fernandez: That's right.
Mayor Suarez; Two for three, .two for four, and one for five, and thereafter
all for five?
Mr. Clark: (OFF MIKE) Two for five. The existing is two for three, two for
four, and one for five. What we intend to do is crake them two, for three, one
Mr. be Yurre: You know, 1 have a little problem with five years, even we are
not elected for five years+
Mayor Suarez: I'm not even elected for three years.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but the present board already is five years,
Mr, be Yurre: Well, if we going to start bringing it down.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, Well, hey, you know the old...
Mayor Suarez: How about = this is not going to change - make or break the
world, how about if we do two for three and four for four for three for three
years and three for four years?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but what are you going to do about the present ones already
there?
Mr. De Yurre: Well then from.,.
Mr. Fernandez: They will stay and complete their terms.
Mrs. Kennedy: They will stay as they area
Mayor Suarez: They go until their...
Mr. Plummer: Are you going to change their terms...
Mr. Fernandez: No.
Mr. Plummer: ... from five to four?
Mr. Fernandez: Whatever they have, we read that to be vested.
Mr. Plummer- No problem with that, but I don't see any problem with five
years.
Mr. Fernandez: I don't either, that's your will.
Mr. Plummer: Victor...
Mr. De Yurre: What's that?
Mr. Plummer: What's your big problem with five years?
Mr. De Yurre: I know, it's a heck of a long time.
Mr. Plummer: Maybe not long enough.
Mr. De Yurre: It's called dictatorship if it's longer.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I don't know how...
Mayor Suarez: It's three years longer than I have for a term, but then maybe
the voters will approve a four year term for Mayors.
Mr. De Yurre: An observation, you know.
Mayor Suarez: OK, anything further... does anybody want to try to
modification, you can try it if you want, Commissioner.
Mr. Plummer: Five's fine with me.
Mr. De Yurre: You know, if that's the will of the. Commission, I'have not,
problem with it, I just feel that five is kind of a long time.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Plummer: So then we understand of the six new appointees,, two would be
for three years, two for four years, and two for five
Mr. Fernandez Right,
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Mri Dawkins (OFF mjkt); The t6M Will be five years.
Mr. Plurffibr: the term is five years total.
Mayor Suarez: OR,
Mr, Plummer: You don't like the five years?
Mr. Dawkins (OPP MIKE): No, I mean, like you said, I don't have but four
years.
Mayor Suarez: OR, let's I'll go along with four years it you all want to
reduce it to four years:
Mr. De Yurre: OR, I move it to four years.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded.
Mr. Plummer: So then we.., then, for understanding of the new six, two would
be for ,two years, two for three, and two for four.
Mr. Fernandez: Right.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Plummer: Now, then that's going to have to change, the wording onthe
present board members because- when their terms come vacant, they would be
reappointed for four.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE) Yes. Or whatever.
Mr. Plummer: But you're going to have to change the..
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Or who ever, or who ever...
Mr. Plummer: But you're going to have to change the wording on the amendment.
Mayor Suarez: All right, ;to make it uniform they would have to reduce the
future terms to four years to'make 'it uniform, that's 'fine.
Mr. De_Yurre: Sure.
Mr. Plummer:Fine.
Mayor Suarez: Build that into the motion...
Mr. Fernandez: That's right.
Mayor Suarez: ... do we have a motion and a second?
Mr. Plummer: Fine. Second.
Ms. Hirai: Mr. Mayor, we have a mover, we need a seconder on the motion.
Mayor Suarez: OK, with those modifications understood, call the roll. Mr,
City Attorney, I hope you get all of that down.
Mr. _Clark (OFF MIKE); It's a resolution, it's a resolution,
Mayor Suarez: Call the .roll.
Mr. Fernandez; It,'s a resolution.'
Mr. Clark (OFF MIKE): It's a resolution, just call the roll.
Mayor Suarez: Please call the roll.
Mr. Plummer; Well, wait,:a minute, wait a`minute, Mr, Mayor,,bofore you call
the roll, Item 69 is charter amendment number two,
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Mayor Suarez: Well, we're just taking this resolution,
Mrs. Kennedy: We're getting to.., yes, we'll take a,,.
Mr. Plummer: But, wait a minute, should we not know what's in two, three and
four, which have just been presented to us,..
Mr. Fernandez: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: ... it might have a bearing on the vote on two.
Mr. Fernandez: No, they don't, Commissioner, they're all independent and
individual and they can stand alone each of them,
Mr. Plummer: But, I'm asking, what is the difference between two and three,
what is the difference between two and four?
Mr. Fernandez: Substantial, if you'd like to, before you take the vote, I
could explain to you three and four,
Mr. Plummer: I think we should know the total picture.
Mr. Fernandez: Certainly.
Ms. Hirai (OFF MIKE): That's 69 that they're moving.
Mr. Fernandez: The next one, number three, deals with the express wish of
this Commission to have the - in terms of the appointments, how does the
removal work? Presently, the charter contains language that for board members
to be removed, they have to be removed with good cause and they have a right
of appeal, if you want to call it that, to the Circuit Court. What we're doing
with that is that we're saying that for any board member appointed after
September of 188, that is, when and if this charter change passes by the
voters, then they would no longer have the right of recourse and they can be
removed by this Commission. And that's a simple change in the charter but we
consider that to be of substance, that's why we're preparing a separate
question on that issue.
Mr. Plummer: Do the board members want to speak to that? I mean, I... you
know, but we're really kidding ourself. Here you have five damn well
dedicated people of this community who could well spend their time doing
something else rather than getting this glorious $50.00 a year and we're
worried about whether they're going to go to Circuit Court or the City Com...
I mean that is, to me, is ludicrous. You know, let me tell you, Leslie Pantin
can make $50.00 in a half hour.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, I've been trying to get minorities on there for the longest
and it's not ludicrous to me, I've been trying to get minorities on this board
ever since I've been here and this appears to be the only way to do it. I've
been asking them to get some minorities and they can never hear me, and this
is one way for the voters to help me do it.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Commissioner, I'm speaking to the removal.
Mr. Dawkins: No, but see you're saying that the whole - I mean, I thought
you're saying the whole thing is ludicrous, OK?
Mr. Plummer: No, I said, you know, hey, all right, what's...
Mayor Suarez: What is the alternative being proposed instead of that whole...
Mr. Plummer: Instead of the Circuit Court, they come here for appeal.
Mr. Mulvena: Well, they not only come here but it states that you would be
able to remove a board member without reason.
Mayor Suarez: Without cause? I won't vote for that, I won't vote for that.
Mr. Plummer: No way,
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Mayor Suarez: Yes, we don't even have to take up that item. As Bob is
whispering back there, we could just deny this item and it won't be on the
ballot.
Mr. Plummers OX, what's four?
Mr. Mulvena: I think we would prefer that.
Mr. Fernandez: All right, but there is another provision as part of that and
that is the removing of the language of the right of the board member of going
to the Circuit Court and appealing your decision even if you find there to be
good cause for their removal. And this is something to the better reading of
other boards, it's not contained. If you want that to stay in the charter, I
have no problem with that. I'm just trying to do...
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you a question...
Mr. Fernandez: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: ... I don't remember anybody on this Commission bringing up that
issue.
Mayor Suarez: Which one now?
Mr. Plummer: About the removal.
Mayor Suarez: It was never brought up.
Mr. Plummer: Where the hell did it come from?
Mayor Suarez: It was never brought up.
Mr. Fernandez: Careful reading of the charter the way it stands...
Mr. Plummer: By who?
Mr. Fernandez: By your City Attorney.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Fernandez: And making sure that there are no inconsistencies in any
changes that you're making.
Mayor Suarez: OK, moot question unless somebody wants to take that one up.
Moot question unless somebody want to take... what's the third?
Mr. Plummer: Fourth, number four.
Mayor Suarez: Four.
Mr. Fernandez: Number four addresses the issue of the City Attorney becoming
the general counsel to the Department of Off Street Parking.
Mrs. Kennedy: That's where I have the problem.
Mr. Fernandez: And, furthermore, providing in that regard, that the
appointment of any special counsel be done with the consent of the City
Attorney, the director, the board and this Commission.
Mrs. Kennedy: And let me read you part of the resolution that says, and
providing that the City Attorney serve as general counsel to the board and
that any special counsel to the board be approved by the board and by the City
Commission. I mean, that's so cumbersome, you're actually going through two
boards.
Mayor Suarez: It sort of isn't, let me see if I can explain why I think it
may not be. There's two alternatives in a sense that we were considering the
day that this came up, One is the way it's been, which is basically totally
up to the board. The other one would be if it was totally to this Commission.
When it's totally up to this Commission, you know what happens. You get the
35,000 applications, people who want to do the representation and so on, and
that's why that alternative, even though this Commission indicated that it
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wanted to have a say in final approval of that counsel being chosen, is
sometimes very cumbersome. This is an in between one. Hopefully, if it works
right and I think that's why the City Attorney is recommending it, if you are
indeed recommending it, that you be general counsel or someone you appoint and
you basically, with this Commission's approval, choose the counsel for the
Authority.
Mr. Fernandez: That's exactly the language that special counsel to the board
and department as deemed necessary by the Miami City Attorney be approved by
the board, the City Attorney, and the City Commission.
Mr. Plummer: Look, let me tell you how I feel, all right? Let the board name
their own attorney subject to our approval.
Mr. Dawkins: No way.
Mr. Plummers No, no way.
Mr. Dawkins: The City Attorney should be the attorney for the board and that
way some minority, black and Latin firms will get some money. The Off Street
Parking spends a ton of money on outside counsel every year and they can't
name one black or Latin firm over there that they have spent a $100,000 with
in the last two years, let alone in one year.
Mayor Suarez: I think the consensus reflected by Commissioner Dawkins,
Commissioner De Yurre, who, I believe, is in favor of this, and myself would
be to go with this, this way.
Mr. De Yurre: How much money do you spend annually in attorneys' fees?
Mr. Mulvena: We have a $75,000 retainer and then there are special costs for
the various projects.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, how much did you spend last year?
Mr. Mulvena: On an average, about $300,000.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): No, no, no, total, tell him total.
Mr. De Yurre: What?
Mr. Mulvena: On an average, about $300,000.
Mr. De Yurre: $300,000 last year.
Mr. Plummer: Victor is going to resign as a Commissioner.
Mr. De Yurre: No, I'll work for the City.
Mayor Suarez: OK...
Mr. De Yurre: Is there any conflict there?
Mr. Dawkins: How many black firms made $300,000?
Mr. Mulvena: I don't have that information for you...
Mr. Dawkins: How many black firms made $300,000?
Mr. Mulvena: Well, I can answer that, no single black firm, but...
Mr. Dawkins: None! None! How many Latin firms made $300,0007
Mr. Mulvena: Well, all of the bond issues and what not that we float that
require bond counsel. We rotate the same selections that the Commissioners
do.
Mr. Dawkins: Oye. Ask him in Spanish.
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Mr, Plummer; You got to ask him in Irish, not in Spanish,
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Mayor Suarez: Representative Silver, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, by all means, my good friend from Tallahassee.
Mr. De Yurre: He's going to speak Spanish now:
Representative Ron Silver: 1 don't think so.
Mayor Suarez: Representative, as a...
Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead.
Mayor Suarez: ... partner in the firm that has been doing a substantial
amount of work for the Authority and for myself I'm speaking, we would be
delighted if the City Attorney, as general counsel, would continue working
with your firm to a great extent and I hope I reflect the feelings of the rest
of the Commission. So I don't know that you want to, otherwise, get too
involved in this, but it's up to you.
Mr. Silver: I wasn't even going to stand up but Commissioner Dawkins had made
mention of something. I'd probably be best to talk it over with him in
private rather than talk to him publicly about it now and express, you know,
what my concerns are because I'm obviously concerned with minority
participation as well.
Mr. Dawkins: But, you see, you've been concerned and you've been there and
nothing's been done about it. OK?
Mr. Silver: Well, I think you got to go through the whole process, we've had
black attorneys in the office, we've had...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, no. That's not what I'm saying, OK?
Mr. Silver: Yes..
Mr. Dawkins: OK? Now, how much money has Off Street Parking spent in outside
attorneys' fees last year? A total.
Mr. Silver: I don't know that. Mr. 'Mulvena made the...
Mr. Dawkins: How much, how much, a total, a total amount of money that was
spent with outside counsel with the Off Street Parking?
Mr. Mulvena: Last year. Like I said, the average would be $300,000.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, I don't want... see, damn the average, the total, the
total! How many averages do you have, five? So if you have five, it's five
times three.
Mr. Mulvena: No, no, no, wait.
Mr. Dawkins: If you have six, it's six times three. You have seven, it's
seven time three, if you average.
Mr. Mulvena: I would say the total of our legal fees were in the neighborhood
of $300,000 for all special projects and general counsel.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you. Yes. That's all, for the total project.
Mr. Mulvena: That's all. Yes.
Mr. Plummer: That all?
Mr. Silver: Mr. Mayor, I just wanted - on the question itself, the only
problem I have with it, I have no problem with the City Commission having
input into this selection process and maybe that will solve Commission
Dawkins' problem. I just have, on a professional basis, a problem with that
type of arrangement and it's not with me or who the City Attorney is or
anything, but I think that being subject to working for the City Attorney in
this capacity poses a professional problem because you have two separate legal
entities involved in the situation and that's why I think it would be more
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comfortable for everybody if it was employment by the board and approval by
the Commission. I just think from a professional standpoint that would be
better taking a political situation like...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, I would go along with that, Ron, if I had been able
to get some black people on the Off Street Parking with that same arrangement.
You know, recommendations from the board and approval by this. I have yet,
OK, so now in theory, it's wonderful but in actuality, it doesn't happen.
Mr. Silver: Well, if you're going to the eleven member board, obviously, I
think that would....
Mr. Dawkins: All right, so and if I go into eleven member board, then I
should go into the City Attorney for my attorney.
Mr. Plummer: But, if we, in fact, retain control as to the approval, then
this board would have more input that way than we would the other way.
Mr. Dawkins: I call the question.
Mayor Suarez: I am disposed to take a vote on this. I think I see a
consensus of three, maybe four developing. We do have a board member, I think
she ought to be allowed to make a statement. Diane.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE):: OK. I don't think so but we'll deal with you.
Ms. Diane Smith: Good afternoon, as I think, the oldest term member of the
Off Street Parking Board, I'm obviously...
Mayor Suarez: Definitely not the oldest, period, I mean, you know.
Ms. Smith: But I've been there the longest. I'm obviously black and a woman
and I have been working... and I'm also president of the State Chapter of the
National Bar Association, which, as you know, is the black bar. I'm not proud
of the fact that we are still running hard to catch up with a very unfortunate
history but I remember and I know how far we've come. I've been on the board,
I guess, 13 years which is much too long but I have never shunned an
opportunity to serve this community. I've been serving it for 25 years since
the day I set foot here and it's not until recently, that it hasn't been fun,
it's been difficult. I'm feeling like my integrity and unselfish service to
this community is, somehow, under siege and under criticism. Fifty dollars a
year, obviously we're not doing it for the money, we're doing it because we
care about this community. I think that our minority employment record stands
with any other government in this community and, in fact, is better than most.
I think all of the law firms need to make a great deal of strides in their
partners, in their law clerks for the summer, I mean, I just came from a
conference in Dallas talking about minorities and the law. This is a national
problem and, yes, we need to improve. John Pearson's firm has at least one
black associate but we do need to improve but there are an awful lot of firms
in this City that have no black associates and are still getting City and
County business. We need to combine our business with black firms. I think
that's the most effective way of doing it. It has been my recommendation, it
still remains that. But to say that we haven't done anything is not exactly
true. The latest thing we're doing and we have invited most of you that we've
been able to reach, is to bring the national convention of Black Lawyers to
this City in 1993.
Mr. Dawkins: What does that have to do with Off Street Parking?
Ms. Smith: It has to do with our commitment.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, no... you are a member of the Black Lawyers Association...
Ms. Smith: That's right.
Mr. Dawkins: The Off Street Parking is not a member and you're standing up
telling me how great the Black Lawyers Association are and how dedicated you
are to black, this is fine. That's between me and you and I don't mind
meeting with you the same as Ron wanted to meet with me and for me and you to
have a black on black conversation. But I am very disturbed for you to get up
here, as a black, and preach all this blackness about the Off Street Parking
as if you are the black savior for Off Street Parking and I resent it.
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Ms. Smith: No, I'm just saying# c6ftiinis5i6ner:46
Mr: bawkins: 1 resent it.
Ms. Smithi ::: that a great deal of progress has been made and 1 think that
we can stand on that record. And as the one black member, 1 could not sit in
the audience and not make that statement. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you. is the associate:+:
Mr. Dawkins: 1 call the question.
Mayor Suarez: Let me just ask one question to clarify...
Mr. Dawkins: 1 call the question again, Mr. Mayor. It's the second .- third
time I've called the question.
Mayor Suarez: All right, let's vote on the item. We have a motion and a
second, do we?
Mr. De Yurre: Second.
Mrs. Kennedy: What is the motion? Vote as it is?
Mr. De Yurre: Yep, City Attorney...
Mrs. Kennedy: Will you accept...
Mr. Dawkins: City Attorney.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, with the special counsel - that the special counsel be
appointed by the board and approved by this Commission.
Mr. Dawkins: No. I will not accept that.
Mr. De Yurre: No, at the discretion of the City Attorney. If they have a
need, they can address that. If the City Attorney feels there's need for
outside counsel, the, who moved its adoption:
Mr. Plummer: I can't vote for that.
Mayor Suarez: OK, as moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: I have problems.
Mr. Plummer: Well, just under discussion. Wait a minute, he called the
question, that cuts off discussion.
Mayor Suarez: Unless you want to move to open debate, I'm going to go ahead
and take a vote on this. Call the roll.
NOTE: AT THIS POINT, THE CITY COMMISSION, HAVING DIGRESSED FROM
THE MAIN DISCUSSION OF STAGGERED TERMS FOR BOARD APPOINTEES IN
CONNECTION WITH PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 2 ("EXPANSION OF
MEMBERS IN THE OFF-STREET PARKING BOARD"), PROCEEDS TO DISCUSS AND
VOTE UPON CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 4 ("CITY ATTORNEY TO SERVE AS
GENERAL COUNSEL TO THE OFF-STREET PARKING BOARD") WHICH, IN FACT,
WAS NOT THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR (SEE CLARIFYING DISCUSSION AND
ROLL CALL ON BOTH ISSUES - LABEL 35).
AYES; Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: Commissioner J.L. Plummer, Jr,
Vice -Mayor Rosario Kennedy
ABSENT: None
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL;
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Mr. Plummer: My negative vote on the motion is that I think we would have
greater control in the process of the board making recommendations to us and
we hold the approval, we can damn well, damn well control what's going on. I
vote against the motion.
Mrs. Kennedy: For the reasons stated before, I vote no.
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31. A - LINE ITEM TRANSFERS IN OFF-STREET PARKING BUDGET MUST FIRST BE
APPROVED BY COMMISSION. B - FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE SECTIONS
35-91 THROUGH 35-93 AND 53-161(3) - ESTABLISH RATES ON CERTAIN ON -STREET
PARKING METERS AND CERTAIN OFF-STREET LOTS - ESTABLISH RATES AT
MUNICIPAL PARKING GARAGES, WITH PROVISO.
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Mayor Suarez: Any other items on the Off Street Parking?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, you got about five or six.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, back to number 57.
Mr. Plummer: Including the five year plan.
Mayor Suarez: Five year plan but we've... we're going to shorten the five
year plan, you're going to shorten it to a five month plan, right?
Mr. Plummer: You're lucky to get five weeks.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, well, we have companion items before the Commission and
each one of them really is dependent, you know, on the other. Item 57 deals
with a rate ordinance that we want to put before the Commission for their
consideration. And the number 58 item has to do with our five year plan and
the 59 through 60 items have to deal with our own Department of Off Street
Parking budget and the budget for three of the garages that we run for you.
So, you know, we would at least, you know, would like to take them in order,
OK, if we may and, you know, entertain any questions that you have.
Mr. David Weaver: Mr. Mayor and Commissioners.
Mayor Suarez: David.
Mr. Weaver: For the record, my name is David Weaver. I am vice chairman of
the parking board and chairman of the finance committee. I want to explain
what I just handed out to you there. I had sent a letter to each member of
the Commission yesterday which turned out to be the first draft of a multi
draft document and it did not properly state that I was expressing in that
document, my personal opinions, not that of the department and not that of any
of the other board members. This is the fifth or sixth draft of that document
and if you would do me the favor, this is the one that should be the operative
document and I apologize to you and to my fellow board members. We're dealing
with two major issues here. The first is the implication of the proposed
expansion to eleven members and I think if you have read my letter, the issues
that I was most concerned with have been addressed in the session that's
already taken place. With respect to the proposed expansion, however, moving
from five to eleven members with six brand new members, well, it does have
clear roots in historical precedent, I believe that it might be preferable to
gradually move from five to eleven members rather than an immediate move. Not
just to protect commitments made by the existing board members, but because I
believe you want these commitments to be met just as much as we do. But
because we have made these at your behest.
Mayor Suarez: Your comments are noted for the record.
Mr. Weaver: I thought they would be.
Mayor Suarez: We do have a hundred and some items and this is what we call
sort of a fait acompli, so...
Mr. Weaver: I understand and I do want those comments in the record and I
appreciate the opportunity to put them there, sir. Thank you. Now, we have
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another issue which I do need to address and this leads into Jack's
presentation. That is with respect to meeting our commitments. You're aware
that we have a long list of projects which Jack is going to go over again that
have been approved by the parking board. We approved these projects in
reliance on our understanding that you had approved our five year plan. That
five year plan needs some combination of annual rate increases or some other
source of additional funds. The five year plan only works if we have 1.5
times our debt service and two million...
Mayor Suarez: Dave, with all due respect...
Mr. Weaver: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: ... as Commission Plummer said a little while ago, we're at a
point now that it's almost, you know, it could be a five year plan, you could
call it a fifty year plan, you can call it a five month plan, because it's
taking a heck of a lot of time to get these projects off the ground. I would
suggest, I mean, that we have approved these in principle last year and since
last year, I think there's one project that is close to coming to fruition
which is the parking program for the arena. Other than that, I don't know how
we're doing on Coconut Grove Playhouse but you can very easy... we have to
approve these as they come up, there's so many moments at which we have to
approve them anyhow. You can give us all the projections on debt service and
all of that but, really, my hope, for myself, is that some of these projects
will get off the ground in which case at some point it'll become apparent that
we have to maybe step back a little bit and increase rates or do something
else but, in the meantime, at a time when we've spent the last year and a half
or two years without getting one of these off the ground with the exception of
the Sports Arena parking program, all of this is almost just idle talk. I
mean, I...
Mr. Weaver: Mr. Mayor, if I could respond and I think your point is well
taken that we have, right now, to present to you, the final stages of a number
of these projects that have taken a period of time, perhaps too long, although
we don't feel that, to achieve. Our problem here - our problem sir...
Mayor Suarez: But each one will have to be approved as they come up. I mean,
won't the Latin Quarter have to be approved specifically when it come...
Mr. Weaver: No, I'll tell you what our problem, sir, is, we, as board
members, have a fiduciary responsibility, we are legally responsible and what
concerns us is the fact that we are going out there and committing to the
people who are involved in each of these projects and we don't have your
approval. Now, the problem with that is, if we do it on a case by case basis,
that's fine, but we can't make commitments and what we've been doing is making
those commitments. We feel that we are at a very high degree of risk and we
don't feel it's fair to be in that position. That we should, at the very
least, if we present to you a series of projects, that you say, OK, guys, go
ahead with those projects.
Mayor Suarez: One, for instance, there was a deal involving a Mr. Steve...
Mr. Weaver: Alesino.
Mayor Suarez: Alesino. Has that been finalized?
Mr. Weaver: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: OK. The problem with that deal, with all due respect is that
Mr. Alesino got the impression from some board resolution of the Off Street
Parking Board or a letter, or both, that you were ready for a closing with
him. That is not anything that this Commission did, we, if anything, can be
accused of taking, sometimes, too long in the final approval of something so
that was not anything that we messed up on. In each of these cases, this
Commission has been involved and, as you see, it's an activist Commission,
approving on a one by one basis, each of the projects. I don't see what the
problem is. If somebody's concerned. If you're really concerned, you know,
about the five year plan we can go into all of this. Otherwise, we have
approved generally these projects but each one will have to come before us.
Mr. Weaver: Well, sir, if we could then just present to you the seven or
eight or nine different projects we have, You approve them one by one and
we've just achieved the same thing. I don't care what we call it.
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Mr. Plummer: Well, I think the real problem that exists is that they have
gone ahead and made commitments based on the approval in principle of their
five year plan. If this is, in fact, not acceptable to this Commission, which
has been expressed with the 2500 new parking meters over five years, they've
got to back track and tell these people that these projects which they've
committed for, they cannot stand behind. It's just that simple. Now, you
know, we...
Mayor Suarez: Why don't they just bring them back one by one as we get close
to fruition. Don't make any final arrangements with anybody which is the way
you have to operate anyhow.
Mr. Plummer: Well, but you've made commitments. See, that's where we got
into a jamb with this guy Tederini. A commitment was made and in good faith,
they had to live up to that commitment. If this Commission, I would say to
you and I'm speaking for one, if this Commission does not approve your five
year plan, from which the funds were going to be made available for these
seven or eight projects, if you don't notify those people immediately, I mean
tomorrow, that the funding is in jeopardy, you have not done your duty.
Mr. Weaver: That, sir, is a totally...
Mayor Suarez: Well, but, as long as he's getting into it, let me point out
another for instance. You've got a perfect example, Commissioner, and I think
you were, in fact, and I may be wrong on this, you may be one of the persons
that is now hesitant to support one particular project which is very advanced
and I'm talking about the deal...
Mr. Plummer: Gusman?
Mayor Suarez: Right. Now, there's one where we have debated and discussed
and approved in concept and built it into the five year plan and been ready to
approve the bonding and at all times this Commission has been ready to pull
back if we're not satisfied. In fact, there's a whole new Commissioner since
one of the stages of the approval of that and you have that ability. Nobody's
holding you to your prior vote on it which I presume was in favor of the five
year plan. Maybe we just ought to take a few of these out of the five year
plan, is that what you want us to do?
Mr. Weaver: Mr. Mayor, that's precisely what we would like to propose to you.
We're not interested in you either approving automatically everything in the
five year plan or turning down the five year plan. What we want you to do is
look at the five year plan, look at each of the individual elements. If
there's something you don't like in there, tell us, we'll take it out but our
problem is we are spending money, we're spending other peoples' money to go
forward with projects that we know you want us to do but we are in a position
where, unless you say, go ahead with them, we are running a risk of taking
advantage of them and putting the City at legal risk.
Mayor Suarez: I see, I have no problem with your five year plan...
Mr. Weaver: And ourselves.
Mayor Suarez: ... because I've spent a considerable amount of time with you
and Leslie and Jack and I know that if we move as fast as the five year plan
indicates, it would be a great thing for Miami but I just don't have that hope
and I'm not too concerned about the debt service coverage on it because I know
that we'll be able to meet it, but if the other Commissioners have concerns
about it, if you want to get into...
Mr. Weaver: Sir, the only danger is that we are going to be moving so fast
now with the approval of all these things, that all of a sudden, debt service
is a concern.
Mayor Suarez: That's not necessarily the case with the approval of these
things, we approved the five year plan two years ago and a year ago. Every
year we approve your five year plan and we're still with the same five year
plan and there's only one project that is almost completed. So, do you think
now everything all of a sudden is going to start moving?
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Mr. Weaver: If you take a look and I believe Jack will respond to it, the
answer is yes.
Mayor Suarez: Now that is interesting. And I'm going to hold you to that
because about seven months ago, I told Jack and Leslie that I'd hope within a
year from that point, we'd have some of these underway.
Mr. Mulvena: Right. David Weaver accurately, you know, has portrayed that
certainly you've seen some of these items before on other five year plans but
it now has come to the point like in the Latin Quarter speciality center,
which was raised a little earlier, that we have, in fact, paid for a
feasibility study; it said it's feasible. We are very near closing on two
pieces of property. Once the environmental questions are answered, we need to
close on them and provide a million point three to buy the properties. That's
going to happen. Now, that doesn't mean there will be a Latin Quarter
specialty center there tomorrow, but it means we'll be there. The department
and the City will have control of the land, you already own Domino Park,
there's another interested party to go, the next step is a unified development
process and we're moving down the road but...
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, it seems that way. Jack and I meet every fifteen
days on the Latin Quarter in my office, consistently have been doing it for a
year and it's, at times, very slow but progress is being made and I agree.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes. And, honestly, if you do bear with us, we have put the
five year plan, OK, on one single piece of paper. We have lifted out those
items which are either completed, near completed or really need your attention
so that you can say, we agree, if only in principle, with that line item that
you should go ahead with it.
Mayor Suarez: When you say completed, you mean completing the financing for
it...
Mr. Mulvena: No, more than that
Mayor Suarez: ... or the planning
completing...
Mr. Mulvena: Yes.
for or the acquisition for not
Mayor Suarez: ... because Latin Quarter obviously is nowhere near completion,
it's not even starting in the sense of construction.
Mr. Mulvena: Let me go through some of these, you know, if I might. If you
do have the visual aid before you, you'll notice that in downtown...
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): I don't even know what I called five years.
Mr. Mulvena: ... OK, there are two projects on there called garage 1, garage
2 and garage 3. Well, you know, if there are going to be needs for parking in
downtown, OK, both the board and the Commission at its earlier reviews thought
it would be a good idea to get control of the property next to an already
existing garage so that if you need to develop a garage and we own the
property, and there are efficiencies in expanding a garage compared to
building one. Well, in the course of two years we now are in that situation.
Garage 1, garage 2 and garage 3 have land adjacent to it that we either
control or can control and we've had to go through the expenditure of money to
get control of these properties, OK? So...
Mr. De Yurre: Jack...
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, go ahead, Commissioner De Yurre.
Mr. De Yurre: Let me ask you something because last year when I ran for
office, the Off Street Parking Authority was an issue in my campaign. And I
looked at the five year projection that you had at that time and then I looked
at the actual numbers for that year. And in one particular year, I think it
was 185, it cost $700,000 more to produce $900,000 less than what had been
projected. You're talking about 1.6 million dollar change in that projection
and then the following year was more of the same. You know, when I look at a
five year projection, and based on the history that I have, it doesn't say
anything to me, you know, because there's so many factors here that affect it
that it's really meaningless when I look at it.
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Mr. Mulveha: Well, a...
Mr. De Yurre: Based on prior history. Have a you compared your actual
numbers to what was projected in years past?
Mr. Mulvena: Certainly, and the numbers have, as you've delayed, gone up
higher. You know, when we started, for example, the arena parking program,
with the board's commitment of $750,000. OK, we discovered as we got into the
project that it was going to be one million five and so that project now has
cost us, for the benefit of the City, 2.3 million dollars, which, by the way,
now is, you know, financed, we're building the surface lots, we're managing
four for the City and that's a reality. And that's in the five year plan and
by the way, Commissioner, if I might add, it now has to be paid for. See,
that's the kicker, you know, we only have so many ways to pay for money we've
expended. This is land acquired next each of our three garages, the arena
parking programs and commitments for the Coconut Grove Playhouse clear up to
perhaps two weeks from entering into a contract with the developer, OK, which
are neither going to be paid for.
Mr. Plummer: What about E1 Pub?
Mr. Mulvena: This is also very...
Mr. Plummer: What about the across from 65 S.W. First Street?
Mr. Mulvena: Are you referring to another site that was considered?
Mr. Plummer: I'm talking about the acquiring the property next to the present
garage there to expand. Isn't that part of one of your projects?
Mr. Mulvena: Oh, I beg your pardon, that's such a, if I might say, a project
which we completed so long ago, it's done. You know, we own the lots, it's
finished, we own it. Matter of fact, we not only own it, we're tied into a
contract there that if the person who sold us the property at a...
Mr. Plummer: For the air rights.
Mr. Mulvena: For the air rights. So they come to us with a tenant for 50
percent, you'll notice there's another line item in here for 3.7 million that
we have to put up so we can develop the garage and the air rights. You know,
David is accurate, you know, and it's perhaps an illusion that has taken a
while for some things to happen but they are happening now. And I can assure
you, that before the calendar year's out, OK, there will be some construction
in addition to arena parking which we're going to have to pay for. These are
called nice problems.
Mr. De Yurre: But, by issue...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I was going to say, that's a nice problem to have
actually.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. David Weaver: Could I just interject for one, I'm sorry, Commissioner.
Mr. De Yurre: No, my issue is that there's no basis, you know, this could
change. There's so many factors that could come into play here, that it is
meaningless. Now, this reminds me, and the Mayor will relate to this, when
you do a closing, a real estate closing, they give you a form, when you're
doing an adjustable rate mortgage, they give you a form projecting what your
interest payments are going to be and there's no way that you can project that
when you have a variable mortgage. So, I mean like, they're telling you
something that there's no basis for it and it is really unfounded.
Mayor Suarez: As a matter of fact, that particular variation comes into these
too because variable rates can affect what we do it, since the particular
window in which we issue a bond will be affected by the interest rate at that
moment.
Mr. Weaver: Could I suggest something because I understand the point that
Commissioner De Yurre is making and perhaps it's incumbent upon us and me, as
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chairman of the finance committee, to sit down with each of you and go through
the detailed analysis of how we get to these numbers. What might, perhaps, be
more to the point here is for you to be aware of each of the projects that we
are planning to go forward with and have you approve your willingness for us
to go forward with those projects subject to them being financially feasible.
Mayor Suarez: That makes a lot of sense that we alert the general public and
anyone dealing with the authority that each project, before they can rely on
any inception of negotiations, has got to be finally approved and we maybe
ought to come up with some very clear wording as to when something is
approved. That's the problem with the idea of a five year plan, it's such a
vague and difficult to pin down and, as the Commissioner was pointing out,
Commissioner De Yurre was pointing out, so maybe we ought to just be mindful
of the fact that this is a very generic acceptance even if we accept it on a
case by case basis. Keep bringing these back, Dave, if you're really ready to
go on them, I would...
Mr. Weaver: For final approval.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, for final approval. I would be ready to dispose of this
by taking precisely that approach that whatever we approve here would be very
much in principle. I think all of these are worthy projects and it's
difficult for us to prioritize unless we're forced to. And some of them may
never get off the ground, let's face it. We know of one that is awfully tough
to implement. I don't even know if you've got it included in the sheet.
You've taken it out.
Mr. Weaver: It's not...
Mayor Suarez: And the problem with sort of excluding that is that for the
next five years we're not going to do that is that's not the message we want
to send to that person either. That's Jackie Bell's project.
Mr. Weaver: Yes, I guess what we are... just to give one second worth of
background, the City Commission was concerned three or four years ago about
the fact that we were building reserves and building income and not doing a
whole lot with those reserves. And what we have tried to do is simply come up
with a mechanism to explain to you what it is we're trying to do. Now, we
call that the five year plan. If that's not...
Mayor Suarez: Well, we were trying to come up with a mechanism to use the
reserves and so all of this has worked quite well in many ways.
Mr. Weaver: Yes, you've got it, you've got it, you've got what you got now is
all these projects happening and the problem is that we don't have the legal
backup from you saying, OK, guys, go ahead and do it.
Mayor Suarez: Well...
Mr. Weaver: That's all we're looking for.
Mayor Suarez: ... that's one problem, the other problem is that I think a
couple of times, we could have been a little more careful in making certain
commitments to certain people with whom we were negotiating. You notice I say
we, because I don't like to lay blame. OK.
Mr. Weaver: I think that's entirely possible. It's entirely possible.
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you this question. If your five year plan is not
approved by this Commission, how many of those projects can still go forward?
Mr. Weaver: If we don't have a combination of rate increases and other
sources of funding, we cannot go ahead with all the projects on that five year
plan. We will have to start prioritizing and cutting from the bottom to
eliminate projects and that's why it becomes necessary to get your input.
Mr. Plummer: OK. What are the alternate sources of revenue? We know the 4
percent a year. We know your proposal to put 500 new meters a year for five
years. You said there's an alternative. What is it?
Mr. Weaver: We are not locked into 500 meters, we can take 6 percent, average
annual compounded increase.
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Mr. Plummer: Well, that seems like a helluva lot more accessible.
Mr. Weaver: Well, we would... if we could get, Commissioners, an indication
of your willingness to allow us to...
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me ask, of my colleagues that are here, instead of
going a five year plan with the meters, he's saying that we can go with a 6
percent rate increase for the nett five years and still do all of the
projects,
Mayor Suarez: Yes, in principle 1 have no problem with that..:
Mr. Plummer: Neither do 1.
Mayor Suarez: ... what worries me is that we don't know, of course, if the
market will bear that a couple of years down so we can set all the rates we
want now and two years from now maybe we'll have all kinds of people building
parking facilities...
Mr. Plummer: Miller, Miller, you got a problem with that?
Mr. Weaver: And that is a reasonable risk for you to lay off on us.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I much prefer, if it's a matter of stating a preference, a
rate increase, a healthier rate increase that's higher than, for example, the
inflation rate and the valuation increase rate of our properties, which is
about 4 to 4.3 percent in the last couple of years, is preferable to me than
making some commitment on X number...
Mr. De Yurre: Let me find out, this 6 percent, how much are we talking about,
actual dollars?
Mrs. Kennedy: In dollars and cents.
Mr. De Yurre: Net.
Mr. Mulvena: First of all, let me remind you that, you know, we haven't had
any rate adjustments for three years so the 6 percent we're kicking in really
is making up for the fact that an awful lot of our utilization is flattened
out. Some of our garages have not been utilized. Right now, we estimate that
this 6 percent will give us about a three hundred some thousand dollar revenue
that we're not anticipating now.
Mr. De Yurre: Is that gross or net?
Mr. Mulvena: No, that would be net.
Mr. De Yurre: Net, three hundred thousand.
Mr. Mulvena: Right. Three hundred and...
Mr. Plummer: Well, wait a minute, Jack, that's not giving it to you, that's
doing the special projects.
Mr. Mulvena: Oh, of course.
Mayor Suarez: Well, revenues available to do the project.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, revenue's...
Mr. Plummer: Yes, it's not additional revenue for them, it's to do the seven
projects that they've identified.
Mr. Mulvena: Exactly.
Mr. De Yurre: But how much is that going to generate?
Mr, Mulvena: That will generate about $325,000 in gross new revenues that we
have that...
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Mayor Suarez: And, of course, that's compounded because you're talking 6
percent, 6 percent.,.
Mr: Mulvena: Right, and then it's pushed forward, yes.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, I'm talking about net, not gross.
Mayor Suarez: What do you mean, net? That's additional new revenue...
Mr. Mulvena: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: ... by definition that would be net. It doesn't cost anything
for us to increase the...
Mr. Mulvena: Well, yes, the six...
Mr, Plummer: No, it costs money to collect it.
Mr. De Yurre: There must be some additional cost to some degree to generate
an additional 6 percent.
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): Just the rate increase?
Mr. Mulvena: No, no, no. Not in this scenario. If we had gone with the
meter scenario, there's a capital procurement and, you know, installation and
the time for it to start to earn money.
Mayor Suarez: And there is a variability there and I think the Commissioner
may be heading in that direction in the sense that, of course, we don't know
if it'll produce that because we don't know if the market will bear it. In
which case God knows what will happen.
Mr. Mulvena: Right. Well, as a matter of fact, well here's what we've
calculated. You know, when you start to change, and by the way, if you each
wanted individually, you know, we have analyzed how we're going to adjust the
meters so that they're more simplistic and standardized. How we're going to
adjust, you know, surface lots and garages. It's very meticulous. You know,
it's also variable, therefore, we estimate that by getting a certain amount of
increase in a garage, you're going to lose some people because of the extra
cost. All of that's been factored in to get what we're projecting to be an
across the board 6 percent increase for this year, which, again, will be
compounded as we get into the years forward.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, have you looked into cutting back on costs?
Mr. Mulvena: Oh, every year.
Mr. De Yurre: Every year.
Mr. Mulvena: As a matter of fact, in most of our fac... well, let's use this
year as an example. We reduced operating costs in the neighborhood of about a
quarter of a million dollars so that we could be in the posture to afford a
very questionable arena parking program. You know, a lot of people who aren't
in parking maybe can't appreciate it, but 4,500 spaces is double our present
inventory. You know, so there's a big risk we're taking on will it be used
for hiring staff but all of that's factored in. We need a 6 percent, you
know, increase in revenues which are generated by adjustments...
Mayor Suarez: And, if in fact, by the way, if we go with the 6 percent
increase in rates, there may be a situation where you might come up with
additional parking meters in areas of the City where they've been demanding
them.
Mr. Mulvena: Oh, absolutely, then it's a bonus.
Mayor Suarez: There are some areas like that which could substitute then for
the 6 percent or be able...
Mr. Dawkins: Question, question for information. What happens - I mean in
this 5 year plan, what happened to the agreement, plan, or whatever you were
doing with Jackie Bell? What happened to that?
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Mr. Mulveha: Oh, listeh, I'm glad you brought that up, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: And I am too.
Mr. Mulveha: Yes: At the present time, we are probably...
Mr. Dawkins: Where is it in the:.. I mean, this is your 5 year plan, it's hot
on here.
Mr. Mulvena: Right, yes.
Mr. Dawkins: It's not on here.
Mr. Mulvena: Well, it's because the Jackie Bell project does not cost the
Department of Off Street Parking any money. We own the land, we bring that to
the deal, we have General Electric, who is the other landowner who's shown
some interest and we have committed that land. By committing the land, that
has attracted the state in 12 point some million dollars to consider our site.
We're within a couple of weeks of them entering into an agreement to build a
1,300 space garage which now will allow Jackie Bell to use the air space and
the lobby space so this is one of the biggest bargains we've ever done without
any money other than land costs.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you.
Mr. Mulvena: And, by the way, it's another example of projects that are
happening this year that, you know, make it look as though, you know, we're
doing something for you.
Mr. De Yurre: Let me get back for a second to increasing income and cutting
back on costs. I saw something the other day in a local tabloid that is
disturbing to me and we spoke about it. And I saw a picture promoting the
signing of a contract with a public relations company to promote Off Street
Parking Authority and I would like to have an explanation as to why the Off
Street Parking Authority has to enter into this type of promotion at a cost
which you told me was $100,000.
Mr. Mulvena: We hope it will be a little less than $100,000 of a year's time.
Let me tell you the reason why that program got started, Commissioner. A year
ago, it suddenly dawned on us because the Commission was helping us understand
this, and as also people who were running for office were helping us
understand this, that we were the most misunderstood agency within the City
limits, OK? And it was costing us money. People were wondering, why do I put
a quarter in the meter, after I put my quarter in the meter, where does it go?
You know, is somebody getting rich on me? OK, we decided that we would start
a program geared at the man in the street, this has nothing to do with the
department, it's image, you or us. We want somebody to understand that the
purpose of parking meters are to manage a resource which, if it's not managed,
somebody's going to park there and take liberties with it. They won't move
their car. So, the City believes that we could manage the streets, it has a
cost, quarter per hour, sometimes up to a $1.00 per hour, but then we do
accrue money. Where does the money go? The monies go into the 5 year plan
and we want the fellow who puts the quarter in that meter to know that. And
it costs money, as you know, especially in a multi cultural environment, a
different socio-economic strata, to help them understand, OK, that we are not
a social agency, but we're also not Simon Legree or Scrooge. OK, we're a City
agency that happens to manage parking, makes money and we want to make more
money so more projects can occur. And that's the purpose of it.
Mr. De Yurre: But the problem with the misunderstanding is that when they
look at a parking meter, they think of this Commission.
Mr. Mulvena: They do?
Mr. De Yurre: They do, OK?
Mr. Mulvena: You know, but I...
Mr. De Yurre: And we have to bear the brunt of that and that's why, you know,
we have to do the things we have to do when the Off Street Parking Authority
isn't as responsive as it should be to our constituents. I, for the life of
me can't see facing the voters of the City of Miami and explaining to them
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part of the quarter that they'te puttibg in the parking meter goes to pay
$100,000 for publicity.
Mr. Mulvena: Commissioner; let me respond to that, see, you've just given me
two reasons, OK, why we need the program. OK, number one, when people think
of meters, they shouldn't think of you, they should think of me, OX? And if
they look at that article, they shouldn't say to you, how come you're spending
$100,000, they should come to me. And part of the program is something that
has this, it's like writing a letter to, hey, Jack, how come? And Jack's
going to say, here's the reason why. Listen, I don't think you all should be
troubled with that. That's our business and basically...
Mayor Suarez: Jack, the next time you need to improve your image, please
don't do it by spending $100,000 on marketing, I mean, that's, for myself...
Mr. De Yurre: I, you know... I have to...
Mr. Mulvenas It's not all marketing, honestly.
Mrs. Kennedy: Jack, I think what you should be doing is sit down with each
one of us individually.
Mr. Mulvena: I'd love to.
Mrs. Kennedy: We have 127 items, there are people who have been waiting here
for hours and then let us set the policies and guide you to the programs and
the projects that are important to us. And set the policies...
Mr. De Yurre: You know, the people are going to say, 2 percent of the
increase, if it passes, is to pay for publicity.
Mr. Mulvena: No.
Mr. De Yurre: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: I got to tell you something. As I look over this budget, I'm
not ready to approve it. You know, when I look here and I see something
called revenue sharing for $227,000, what is that?
Mr. Mulvena: Revenue sharing is generally giving money back to the people
that we manage facilities,.like yourself, the City. That's what it is, yes.
Mr. Plummer: You show it as an expense.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, that's the way we have to do it in our accounting system.
Yes, it is, it's expense for us, it's a benefit for you.
Mr. Plummer: Travel for thirty-eight thousand.
Mr. Dawkins: That's to go pick up money from the meters.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, they pay $22,000 for armored car. What's the
$38,000 for travel?
Mr. Mulvena: Basically, we have a, you know, a staff of 120. We, you know...
Mr. Plummer: Entertainment, $20,000. What are you entertaining? No, I'm
saying, I'm not ready to approve this budget.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes.
Mr. Plummer Dues and subscriptions, $22,000. Are you speechless?
Mr. Mulvena: No, I'm not speechless, I just...
Mr. Plummer: I'm saying...
Mr. Mulvena: You know, I don't know whether you want to go through this
because we do, you know, we are a technical field, we have engineers, we do
get publications that are,..
Mr. Plummer: Entertainment?
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Mr. Mulvena: No, I think ybu'll find that entertainment and the travel
probably fall under the category of sending some of our staff to conferences;
whether it's accounting* development, parking,..
Mr. Plummer: For fifty thousand?
Mr. Mulvehas No,
Mr. Plummer: The two of those together are $0,0007
Mr. be Yurre: Now much do you have, Jack, set aside for publicity in your
budget?
Mr. Plummer: $36,000. What do you print for $94,0007
Mr. Mulvena: Well, again, remember engineering, accounting... we also... hot
wait a minute.
Mr. Plummer: 1 said what do you print for $9400007
Mr. Mulvena: Well, we... parking tickets...
Mr. Plummer: $94,000 worth?
Mr. Mulvena: Oh, we give... no, we're not talking about the tickets you
get... we're talking about the... every single, I wasn't talking about you,
J.L.
Mr. De Yurre: The ones that Dawkins gets.
Mr. Plummer: Miller gets.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, yes. No, every person that comes into our garage, you
know, pulls a ticket. You know, there are literally millions of transactions
that go on in a year's time, tickets, we also, by the way, go back to selling
bonds, that's where some of the travel comes. You know, we... part of the
cost of it...
Mr. Plummer: $294,000 for maintenance of landscaping?
Mr. Mulvena: I think that we'll probably... yes, we have 60 lots, we have
garage...
Mr. Plummer: Is $45,000 for water to take care of the landscaping?
Mr. Mulvena: Right. And, by the way, well spent...
Mr. Plummer: $45,000 a year for the water?
Mr. Mulvena: To take care of, by the way, the 60 surface lots, the surface
lots in the middle of Biscayne, you know, I think if you look at the up side
of that, that's a heck of an investment for the City of Miami. That's where
we get our best compliments, J.L.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): And you also wash down inside the garages, Jack.
That's another point.
Mr. Mulvena: True, well you know that from being there.
Mr. Plummer. Well, hey, -guys, you got to show me a little bit .more
justification.
Mr. Weaver: May I suggest something, Commissioners?
Mayor Suarez; On that item, I think we're going to have to defer because
otherwise...
Mr. Weaver; I think that one of the most positive things that I have heard in
my, I believe it's been six years on this board, is the conversation that's
going on right now,
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Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Weaver: Because what's happening is, you are asking the questions that we
should be answering for you and if it were possible to do something, I would
propose that we come in to talk to each of you to detail with you what our
expenses actually are and we...
Mayor Suarez: And see, and that's free, Dave, you don't have to spend
$100,000 to convince us that you're doing all the right things.
Mr. Weaver: I understand that, sir and I think if we can do that, we'll make
a lot of progress. What I believe we need to try to do today is, number one,
get an indication from you with respect to two things. Number one, the need
for a 6 percent rate increase and, secondly, the willingness to let us go
ahead with the projects that we've detailed for you. And, all that subject to
us coming in and giving you a satisfactory response to our expenses, our
revenues and the financial feasibility of the whole thing.
Mr. Plummer: My pet peeve, the parking lot on 1st Street. How much subsidy
this year is in your budget? You get subsidy. Last year you got a million
dollars from the City of Miami subsidy. How much of that are you expecting on
that parking structure this year?
Mr. Mulvena: Oh, I see what you mean. You're referring to the downtown
Government Center garage.
Mr. Plummer: I don't know what the hell you call it.
Mr. Mulvena: The garage, yes, yes.
Mr. Plummer: I call it the million dollar baby.
Mr. Mulvena: It's got a million plus debt service, right.
Mr. Plummer: And that's what you're asking the City to pick up this year
again.
Mr. Mulvena: It's not ours. Remember, this is your garage that we manage and
if we were asked to build it, we would not have. As a matter of fact, I think
we chose not to because of those reasons.
Mr. Plummer: But if the garage was successful, it would reduce the amount of
debt service obligated by this City.
Mr. Mulvena: Well, it would and let me tell you how successful we've made
that, J.L. The downtown Government Center garage has 1,100 spaces in it. We
have 1,400 card carrying, paying customers. They, how are ever paying about
$55.00 as opposed to a higher rate. The location of that garage drives down
the cost of what we can get a month. Those 1,400 monthlies fill the garage up
to about the bottom ramp before you get to the top. We're presently securing
that for the use of the Miami police at no cost to us, now it's not going to
help your debt service but Cesar and I've talked, it's going to help his
overall debt service for them to use the top of the facility.
Mr. Plummer: You've been talking about that for two years.
Mr. Mulvena: Well, we're doing it.
Mr. Plummer: When?
Mr. Mulvena: It's underway.
Mr. Plummer: When?
Mr. Mulvena: This summer - I'll tell you - this summer, this is an invitation
to you, in August, we'll go over and look at the top of the garage secured and
you'll see police cars there and you'll see how all the doors are secured,
etc.
Mr. Plummer: And the City is still going to have to pay $1,000,000,
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Mr. Mulvena: Well... no, now wait a minute. If you put that in a five yeaf
plan, there is no more five year plan.
Mr. Odio: I don't know about five year plan, you know I don't have a five
year plan, but we were talking about you taking over that garage.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, and honest, we've run some numbers and it would "put us out
of business in other areas. But J.L., you know, we have, over the last years,
gone from, I'd say about a... we had 400 monthlies in that garage, we now have
1,400. We really improved the revenues, we're going to let the police use the
top but until the per cost, that is 55 gets to 65 or 75, you know that's a
debt service I think you're going to have to incur for a while. In other
words, we can't manage that one million away.
Mr. De Yurre: One last question, just for my own edification:
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner.
Mr. De Yurre: I was looking at your projections for your budget for '88='89
and it says, promotion and advertising, $36,000. Well, if we approve this
budget, you got to stick by it, is that correct?
Mr. Mulvena: Well, certainly if you approve the budget but I think what David
had mentioned is what we'd like you to do is to...
Mr. De Yurre: Well, no, I just... what I want to know is, how can you finance
or how can you pay for $100,000 worth of advertising and promotion when your
budget calls for $36,000 only?
Mr. Mulvena: Well, you know, we're paying for that out this current year, you
know.
Mr. De Yurre: How much is that for this year?
Mr. Mulvena: Well, see, as of now, we probably in an initial cost of probably
spend about forty to forty-five thousand dollars.
Mr. De Yurre: That's your budget for this going year.
Mr. Mulvena: No, this is our modified...
Mr. De Yurre: You got to bear with me because...
Mr. Mulvena: Oh, that's all right, no, that's all right.
Mr. De Yurre: ... I only have an accounting degree, a law degree and a master
of laws in taxation, so some of these things are a little bit difficult for me
to absorb. How much money do you have left from this year's budget?
Mr. Mulvena: Well, you know, what we do and I - Cesar help me with this - you
know we do the ability to...
Mr. Odio: Let me tell you what they do, once they approve the budget, he has
the authority to transfer line items to line items as the board approved
expense.
Mr. Mulvena (OFF MIKE): OK.
Mr. De Yurre: Is that like the City Manager?
Mr. Odio: Like the City Manager does, exactly.
Mr. De Yurre: Oh, OK. I just want to make sure that's how it works.
Mr, Odio: We do it all the time. But we have.to bring it to you for action.
He has to do the same thing with the board.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes.
Mr, De Yurre; Well, this $100,000 hasn't been brought to us, have to find out
about it in Panorama, a newspaper down at 8th Street.
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Mr. Mulvena: 1 was distracted, but if I can come back to the question that I
think I was attempting to answer before I got distracted. You know, we do
transfer from one line to another - yes, with the board's approval, and what
we did this year, by the way...
Mr. De Yurre: With the Commission's approval.
Mr. Mulvena: No, up to now, you haven't asked us to come back for a line by
line authorization.
Mr. De Yurre: So, what's the use of us authorizing a budget based on the
numbers we see if you guys can play around with it later and do whatever you
want?
Mr. Mulvena: I think with a $16,000,000 operation, you have to give us a
little leeway. That's the reason I think, yes. You know, honestly, I don't
think you'd want us with a $16,000,000 operation to keep coming back... yes,
and I'm also reminded we are audited each year and that's also shared with the
Commission. But, you know, if I might, the point I'm going to make is that
this past year, and I'm very proud of this from our own staff, most of the
staff, from cashiers to managers, did other peoples jobs so we could have
salary savings. So we saved some money because people did extra work, OK.
And out of that money, we began to pay for things like, let's help the man on
the street understand what the meter is. If we hadn't made those savings, we
would not have been able to afford this. This was not an original line item
budget item at the beginning of the year.
Mr. De Yurre: The man on the street is not - they know that the money goes
for something. The man on the street their concern is that they feel that the
street is public and they shouldn't have to pay for it and you're going to
have difficulty trying to tell them otherwise.
Mr. Mulvena: Well, that's why we asked for some help on this, it's a
difficult sell.
Mr. De Yurre: You can't, you know.
Mr. Plummer: I got to tell you, I'm troubled by the fact that we set your
budget and you can transfer by line item budget without us knowing it.
Mayor Suarez: Particularly when we had...
Mr. Plummer: OK, well there's an... no, there's an easy way to take care of
that.
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Any accumulated line item transfer that is more than 5 percent
in a given year, has to be approved by this Commission. That's simple.
Mayor Suarez: Particularly, Jack, when we had before, if you remember, on
capital projects, asked to see each one without even that threshold limitation
the Commissioner has just mentioned. So how, if you call something an
operating item like this, it can be taken from one account to another without
our approval when we had specified on capital projects that we wanted to
approve each one, regardless of size, and I remember my comments about maybe
we had gone too far because even to fix a roof, you'd have to come to us. And
now, a $100,000 is transferred back and forth, without our approval, that
really creates a problem for me and frankly, I'm very surprised about this
item.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, well, but let me just go through a little historical thing.
Again, I agree with Dave is this is a good sign. You know, you are interested
in what's going on, OK? You're very, you know, very responsible. Up to now,
our board who is also very responsible and keeps Dan Morhaim's feet and mine
to the fire, reviews our financial statements every month and they want to
know exactly what's happening on each item, OK? And they, in fact, are the
ones who oversee and authorize some of these. If you want another secondary
oversight, you know, certainly we would welcome it and I'm sure the board
would welcome it as well on larger items.
Mayor Suarez: Apparently that message is now getting through.
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Mr, Fluftnfnert No, it's going to get through.
increase is what you're asking is 4 percent?
Mr. Mulvena: I'm sorry, .i, L. ?
Mr, Plummer: item 51.
Mr. Mulvena: Might.
Mr, Plummer: is your 4 percent increase.
nifty=seveh is your rate
Mr. Mulvena: No, it's now 6 percent and I'll tell you,..
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKL): Six,
Mr. Plummer: What you're asking is four, and we're going to raise it to six. ,
Mr, Mulvena: Might and that's because of a lot of reasons, one
Mayor Suarez: But, wait, take out the parking meter increase.
Mr. Plummer: Yes...
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, one of the major reasons was we decided to not commit to
those 2,000 meters that you were concerned about and
Mr. Plummer: I move item 57 subject to that any line item transfer that
exceeds, in a calendar year, 5 percent has to be approved by this Commission.
I so move 57.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, that .is increased or decreased?
Mayor Suarez: Either way, I guess.
Mr. Plummer: Either way.,
Mr. De Yurre: Any change.'`
Mr. Plummer:Five percent change.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, then conceivably, you could take 4 percent and play.
around.
Mayor Suarez: Why don't you make it a fixed amount instead of a percent?
Mr. Plummer: Because you can't, all your line items are different amounts.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, you mean on a per line item amount?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Per line item, you're applying the percentage?
Mr. Plummer: Five percent. Five percent of $100.00.
Mayor Suarez: No, no, why don't you,.. no, that will kill us. That will
drive us crazy. You have to make it a fixed. threshold amount, like ten
thousand or fifteen thousand change or whatever you think is a good one.
Otherwise, we're going to go crazy.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you know, you can't do it. You've got some items here
like for security of over $300,000
Mayor Suarez But anything you change ten or fifteen thousand or twenty
thousand, we want to know about, otherwise the smaller items, I don't care if
they change them. I don't want to hear about it.
Mr. Odio: May I,
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Mr, Mulveha: Well, you're only c6hcefh6d they be changed upward, right?
Mr, Odio: May I...
Mr, Mulveha: If we're saving, you're not cohcethed,
Mr. Plummer: Well, h61 but the downward tells us you're taking it and moving
it somewhere else.
Mrs. Kennedy: Another place,
Mr. Mulveha: Well, we're saving it somewhere, that's true.
Mr. Plummer! OX, we catch you both ways.
Mr. De Yurre: Hold it, aren't we saving $100,000 in attorneys' fees?
Mr. Plummer: Well, I still like the percentage. I think the percentage is
easier to apply. That's what we used in the Florida League.
Mr. Mulvena: Did you say saving?
Mr. De Yurre: Huh? Hold it, aren't we saving $300,000 in attorneys' fees by
the City Attorney taking over?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Well, put a number, twenty thousand, we don't want
to....
Mr. Mulvena: You know, I haven't done the costing but I think that the
lawyers will still cost what a lawyer costs to get his projects.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Plummer: I'll amend that to say that any line item in excess of $5,000.
Huh?
Mr. Odio: Suggest over $10,000 because...
Mr. Plummer: Five.
Mr. Odio: OK.
Mr. Plummer: Let's see how that works. Any line item above $5,000 that is
subject to change of more than 5 percent in a calendar year has to be approved
by the City Commission.
Mr. Jorge Fernandez: You're talking ,now about item 57 which is an ordinance.
Mr. Plummer: But. I'm attaching that amendment to that ordinance.
Mr. Fernandez: Fine.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Do we have finally understood to - I don't think it has to
be built into the motion because it's really just a sort of a caveat to
announce to the world, the people you're negotiating with, maybe in bold
letters in any letter of intent or any beginning of negotiations, that
everything has got to be finally approved. But the fact that we have a five
year plan does not mean that they can rely, that we're negotiating with them,
and hold land available and later sue us for detrimental reliance or anything
like the fellow we were talking about before. You may have to alert the
outside world to that.
Mr. Plummer (OFF AND ON MIKE): Yes, Well, I want to attach it to the budget
but we're not approving the budget today. All right, Mr. Mayor, I'm getting
apples and oranges mixed. I make it as a separate motion, not attaching it to
item 57...
Mr. Fernandez (OFF MIKE): All right, very good.
Mr. Plummer; that any item of $5,000 or more that has a 5 percent
increase or decrease transfer in a twelve month period, has to come before
this Commission for approval. I so move.
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Mayor Suarez: So moved. Po we have a second, please, sof,ebodyl
Mr. Plummer: Five percent above $5,060s
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE) Second,
Mayor Suarez: Second.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Um humm, second,
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. be Yurre: What do you mean, 5 percent above $5,0007
Mayor Suarez: On any line item above $5,000) if there's a 5 percent change.
We're not going to deal with the ones under $5,000,
Mr. Plummer: That's the way you want it.
Mr. De Yurre: OK.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
Mr. De Yurre: You're talking about a maximum of or a minimum of?
Mr. Plummer: Minimum.
Mr. De Yurre: Five thousand or five percent.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-532
A MOTION STIPULATING THAT, IN CONNECTION WITH THE OFF-
STREET PARKING AUTHORITY BOARD BUDGET, ANY LINE ITEM
TRANSFER IN ANY GIVEN CALENDAR YEAR THAT CHANGES A
GIVEN LINE ITEM OF $5000 OR MORE THAN 5% SHALL FIRST
HAVE TO COME BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION FOR APPROVAL.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and.
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Plummer: I now move 57 at a 6 percent rather than four.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. Plummer: And understood that additional 2 percent is addressing the five
year plan and those special projects which have, in fact, been so designated.
That's not 2 percent additional for you to take andrunwith,
Mr. Mulvena: No, of course.
Mr. Plummer: All right.
Mrs, Kennedy: Second,
Mayor Suarez: And those rates still have to come back and be approved on a
year by year basis.
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Mr, thifftert That is the live year Dian
Mr. Mulvena: You have a rate ordinarite that''§ there that§ you ktibV -
Mayor Suarez: This is just as to,,,
Mrs Plummer: This is rates; OX,
Mayor Suarez: Right
Mr, Mulvena:
Yes, this i8666 yes.,,
Mr. Plummer:
l move 57 at 6 percents
Mayor Suarez:
So moved with that understanding.
Mrs. Kennedy:,
Second.
Mayor Suarez:
Seconded. Any discussion?
Mr. Fernandez:
OK, let me read it, it's an ordinance.
Mayor Suarez:
Read the ordinance.
THEREUPON, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD, BY
TITLE ONLY.
Mayor Suarez:
Call the roll.
Mr. Plummer:
That's at 6 percent.
Mr. Mulvena:'°
Six percent is...
Mr. Plummer:
It's
Mr. Fernandez:
Right, the rates... all right, so then it will read:
Authorizing :_the
Off - Street Parking Board to develop' experimental 'rate
structures and
initiate a.rate of,6 percent for...
Mr. Plummer:
Not .to exceed 6 percent.
Mr. Fernandez: ... not to .exceed six percent for new facilities during the
fiscal year;
containing.a repealer provision and a severability clause.
Mr. Plummer:
Right.
Mayor Suarez:
Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 35-01, 35-92, 35-93j
AND 53-161(3) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, BY ESTABLISHING RATES AT CERTAIN
ON -STREET PARKING METERS AND CERTAIN OFF-STREET LOTS;
ESTABLISHING RATES AT MUNICIPAL PARKING GARAGES;
FURTHER PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE OF OCTOBER 1,
1988, FOR THE HEREIN RATE INCREASES; RATIFYING AND
CONFIRMING ALL ACTS OF THE OFF-STREET PARKING BOARD
AND ITS DIRECTOR AS TO RATES HERETOFORE CHARGED;
FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE OFF-STREET PARKING BOARD TO
DEVELOP EXPERIMENTAL RATE STRUCTURES AND TO INITIATE
RATES FOR NEW FACILITIES DURING THE FISCAL YEAR;
APPROVING A PROJECTED ANNUAL OPERATING REVENUE
INCREASE OF SIX (6) PERCENT INSTEAD OF THE PROPOSED
FOUR (4) PERCENT INSTALLATION OF ADDITIONAL PARKING
METERS AS PROPOSED BY SAID BOARD IN ITS CURRENT FIVE
YEAR STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL OPERATIONS PLAN;
REQUIRING ADVANCE CITY COMMISSION APPROVAL FOR ANY
TRANSFER OF FUNDS IN EXCESS OF $5,000 BETWEEN LINE
ITEMS IN THE ANNUAL BUDGET OF THE DEPARTMENT OF OFF-
STREET PARKING FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER
30,1989; 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 Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
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.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. De Yurre: No, and no because you can save $100,000 here and you're saving
$300,000 attorneys fees and that covers the $300,000 plus you're trying to
tack on at that 6 percent.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, that would be done during the budget portion.
Mr. De Yurre: What?
Mr. Plummer: That would be done during the budget portion. We haven't
addressed the budget yet.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, but there's a savings there.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. De Yurre: Yes, if they're looking to have an additional three hundred and
some thousand dollars, here it is, $300,000 in attorneys fees you're going to
be saving and $100,000 in advertising, you won't advertise.
Mr. Plummer: I see your point.
Mr. Mulvena: You know, it's really a 6 percent revenue increase that we need
across a five year period of time,
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Jack, we've gone over this so many times now, we'd like to.
finish the roll call.
Mr. Plummer: Exactly,
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32, APPROVE AND ADOPT DEPARTMENT OF OFF=STREET PARKING VlVtE YEAR STRATEGIC
AND FINANCIAL OPERATIONS PLAN.
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Mr.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-533
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE CURRENT DEPARTMENT OF OFF-
STREET PARKING FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC AND FINANCIAL
OPERATIONS PLAN, AS AMENDED AND ATTACHED HERETO, AND
AS FURTHER SET FORTH HEREIN.
(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 Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
ABSENT: None.
33. DEFER PROPOSED ADOPTION OF THE ANNUAL BUDGET OF THE DEPARTMENT OF OFF-
STREET PARKING (FISCAL YEAR 1988/89).
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Mr. Plummer: I move 59 to be deferred.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved to defer 59. Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
ON MOTION DULY MADE BY COMMISSIONER PLUMMER AND SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER DAWKINS, ITEM 59 WAS DEFERRED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: When do you need that approved by, 59?
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Mr, Mulvena: Well, actually, you know, you've already approved the first
reading of the rate ordinance and that needs, I believe, a second reading
because it's an ordinance, right?
Mr. Plummer: lt's a resolution.
Mr. Jorge Fernandez: No, it's an ordinance, it needs a second reading.
Mr. Mulvena: Ordinance, so I believe, yes. So you can defer the budgets and
we would prefer you to defer our budgets to we could have the opportunity to
answer your questions.
Mayor Suarez: That's all 1 wanted to know that we were OK on timing.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, and then we'd be all right then.
34. A. DEFER ADOPTION OF DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET PARKING ANNUAL BUDGET
(FISCAL YEAR 1988/89) FOR OPERATION OF GUSMAN CENTER AND OLYMPIA
BUILDING.
B. DEFER ADOPTION OF ANNUAL BUDGET FOR OPERATION OF WORLD TRADE CENTER
GARAGE (FISCAL YEAR 1988/89).
C. DEFER ADOPTION OF ANNUAL BUDGET FOR OPERATION OF DOWNTOWN GOVERNMENT
CENTER GARAGE (FISCAL YEAR 1988/89).
Mayor Suarez: Item 60.
Mr. Plummer: Look at this.
Mr. Plummer: Gusman Hall for $900,000.
Mayor Suarez: Why is that always a separate budget item?
Mr. Mulvena: Well, it's again your facilities...
Mr. Odio: Our facility.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, and so therefore, just like the governments, we manage
it...
Mayor Suarez: You manage it but it's our facility.
Mr. Mulvena: ... right, yes. And the $900,000...
Mayor Suarez: Very intelligent of you, in view of past determinations by this
Commission refurbishing it and in view of the owner not wanting to take it
back and everything that you've kept this in the City's ownership.
Mr. Mulvena: That, as you know, has always been at best a break even and
sometimes the City's had to underwrite as much as a hundred nine, sometimes as
low as thirty. This bud...
Mr. Plummer: Where is the budget for the Off Street Parking or for the
Gusman?
Mr. Mulvena: It should be one of your packaged items, yes, G and 0 Enterprise
Fund combines both the theater and the building. Yes, and by the way, if you
wanted to defer that one as well for questions, we'd certainly welcome that
opportunity to address them for you.
Mr. Plummer (OFF AND ON MIKE): No, it doesn't give a breakdown. I move we
defer 60.
Mr. Odio: Mr. Mayor, I...
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Mr. Manager.
Mr. Odio; I would like deferrals of 61, I'm not satisfied with that budget
yet and...
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Mr P1utdbbt- Moved 61 be deferred also,
Mrs, Kennedy: Second,
Mr. Plummor: t#ow about 621
Mr, bawkns: Second,
Mr, Plummer: Well, let's just defer 62 also,
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr, Plummer: My motion is to defer 56, 57, - I'm sorry, no, no, t'm sorry,.,
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): No, 50.
Mr. Plummer: Fifty-nine, 60, 61 and 62.
Mayor Suarez: It's seconded?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Second,
Mayor Suarez: Any discussion? Call the roll.
ON MOTION DULY MADE BY COMMISSIONER PLUMMER AND SECONDED BY VICE
MAYOR KENNEDY, ITEMS 60, 61, 62 WERE DEFERRED BY THE FOLLOWING
VOTE:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
35. A. CLARIFYING VOTE IN CONNECTION WITH PRIOR ACTION APPROVING CHARTER
AMENDMENT NO. 2.
B. CLARIFYING VOTE IN CONNECTION WITH PRIOR ACTION APPROVING CHARTER
AMENDMENT NO. 4 (SEE LABEL 30).
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Mr. Bob Clark: Mayor, we've had a request from the Clerk and, it's
understandable. Prior tothe roll call vote on that motion with respect..
Mayor Suarez: Didn't catch the roll call on which item, Bob?
Mr. Clark: On the expansion to eleven with the two members for two years, two
for three years, two for four years, she needs a roll call vote on that
charter amendment number two.
Mr. Plummer: So move.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on that, please.
Ms. Hirai: It was originally moved by Commissioner Plummer, seconded by;
Commissioner Dawkins,
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer who
moved its adoPtioh:
RESOLUTION NO, 88-534
A RESOLUTION APPROVING, SETTING FORTH AND SUBMITTING
THE DRAFT OF A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT AMENDING
SECTION 23, ENTITLED "DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET
PARKING; OFF-STREET PARKING BOARD.", OF THE CHARTER OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, KNOWN AS CHARTER AMENDMENT
NO. 2, THEREBY EXPANDING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE "OFF-
STREET PARKING BOARD OF THE CITY OF MIAMI" FROM FIVE
TO ELEVEN MEMBERS, AND PROVIDING FOR THE DIRECT
APPOINTMENT BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE ADDITIONAL
SIX MEMBERS FOR TERMS OF FOUR YEARS AFTER INITIAL
STAGGERED TERMS AS WELL AS THE DIRECT APPOINTMENT OF
SUCCESSORS TO THE FIVE INCUMBENT BOARD MEMBERS FOR
FOUR YEAR TERMS OF OFFICE; MORE PARTICULARLY AMENDING
SUBSECTION (b) OF SAID SECTION; FURTHER CALLING AND
PROVIDING FOR A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD
ON THE 6TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1988 FOR THE PURPOSE OF
SUBMITTING CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE ELECTORATE
AT SAID ELECTION; FURTHER DIRECTING THAT A CERTIFIED
COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION BE DELIVERED TO THE SUPERVISOR
OF ELECTIONS OF METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, NOT
LESS THAN 45 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF SUCH SPECIAL
MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
(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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Clark: She also informs me that she would like to have the...
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, wait a minute, as amended.
Mayor Suarez: As amended.
Mr. Clark: As amended, as amended.
Mr, Plummer: To have staggered terms.
Mr. Clark: Correct.
Ms. Hirai: Actually, Commissioner, that will constitute an amendment to
charter number two.
Mr. Clark: Right.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Ms, Hirai: It is contained in charter number two.
Mr, Clark: Do you need anymore...
Ms, Hirai: Yes, we need a motion on charter number four.
Mr. Clark: All right,
Mr. Plummer: We voted on four.
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Mrs. Kennedy: We voted on Lour, it passed three to two.
Ms. Hirai: But there was no motion: I called the roll, but the Commission
assumed that we had a move and a second. And, actually, it was a move and a
second on that prior motion.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Right, is there a motion?
Mr. Clark: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mrs, Kennedy: OK, any further discussion? Call the roll.
Mr. Plummer: Rosario.
Mrs. Kennedy: I voted against...
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): I know, but she needs a motion.
Mr. Plummer: Oh.
Ms. Hirai: Yes, there was a vote but there had been no motion.
Mrs. Kennedy: The motion is for it.
Ms. Hirai: Yes.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-535
A RESOLUTION APPROVING, SETTING FORTH AND SUBMITTING THE
DRAFT OF A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT AMENDING SECTION 23,
ENTITLED "DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET PARKING; OFF-STREET
PARKING BOARD.", OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA, KNOWN AS CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 3, THEREBY
PROVIDING THAT THE CITY ATTORNEY SERVE AS GENERAL COUNSEL
TO THE MIAMI OFF-STREET PARKING BOARD AND DEPARTMENT AND
THAT SPECIAL COUNSEL TO THE BOARD AND DEPARTMENT AS DEEMED
NECESSARY BY THE MIAMI CITY ATTORNEY BE APPROVED BY THE
BOARD, CITY ATTORNEY AND CITY COMMISSION; MORE
PARTICULARLY BY AMENDING SUBSECTION (f) AND RELETTERING OF
EXISTING SUBSECTIONS (g), (h), (i) AND (j) OF SAID SECTION
23; FURTHER CALLING AND PROVIDING FOR A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL
ELECTION TO BE HELD ON THE 6TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1988 FOR
THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO THE
ELECTORATE AT SAID ELECTION; FURTHER DIRECTING THAT A
CERTIFIED COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION BE DELIVERED TO THE
SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS OF METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY,
FLORIDA, NOT LESS THAN 45 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF SUCH
SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
(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:
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AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Commissioner victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vito Mayor Rosario Kennedy
None.
Mr. Weaver: Excuse me, may I make one final comment before leaving?
Mrs. Kennedy: David, yes.
Mr. Weaver: I, on behalf of the four members of the board who are here, would
like to thank the Commission for giving us the opportunity to make this
presentation number one. And, secondly, our relationship, over the coming
months, is going to be a relationship which is much more closely and detailed
in the way we're going to be working with you. We would like to request the
opportunity to really get into as much detail as you're willing to spend time
on so that you understand these numbers and I think we can achieve a
tremendous amount over the coming year in the spirit of cooperation if we both
try to do that. So, we want to thank you very much and we appreciate it. We
think this has been a very positive meeting.
Mrs. Kennedy: Thank you.
Mr. Plummer: I wish you would give that philosophy to the Chamber of
Commerce, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. They might learn something.
Mr. Weaver: No comment.
Mayor Suarez: And in that same spirit for myself, we'll avoid making any
comments as to statements in the newspaper this morning figuring that they
probably didn't get them quite right.
Mr. Plummer: Do they ever?
Mayor Suarez: Anything else?
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36. CONDITIONALLY APPROVE IN -KIND SERVICES AND FEE WAIVER FOR USE OF
CONVENTION CENTER IN CONNECTION WITH SECOND NATIONAL YOUTH CRIME
PREVENTION CONFERENCE, SUBJECT TO FUNDS BEING IDENTIFIED THROUGH THE LAW
ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND.
Mr. Odio: May I request respectfully that we take item 97, there's the Youth
Crime Watch of America. They are young kids and they have to be taken back
home.
Mrs. Kennedy: Ninety-seven. The Manager has asked us to take 97. No, let me
just say that the Dade Public School students are bringing guns and other
potentially dangerous weapons 39 percent less this year than they have in the
past. And the school system's director has said that there's not one single
reason for this decrease but among the things that he mentioned was this
program.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Where's the money coming?
Mrs. Kennedy: The Youth Crime Watch of America.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Thank you for taking us ahead of time. Thank you all.
Mr. Plummer: How many people are coming?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: This is it.
Mr. Plummer: No, to this thing at the Knight Center,
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): Five thousand,
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June 9, 1988
UN1bENTIF1Eb 9PEAKE116 Oh, to the Knight Center? Five thousand is what the
capacity is, We had it last year and we had 3500 because they were only able
to give us a portion of the hall and we had it just about all filled up, five
thousand students.
Mr. Plummer.- Can this money come out of the law enforcement trust fund?
Mr. Odio.- 1 would have to check with the police department.
Mr. Plummer.- That's the only way 1 could vote for it.
Mr. Odio: That's the only way we could recommend it.
Mr. Plummer: If the money could come out of law enforcement trust funds, then
I have no problem with it. Other than that...
Mrs. Kennedy: When can you have the answer Mr. Manager?
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: Yes. I'll move it subject to the funds being made available
through the law enforcement trust fund.
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mrs. Kennedy: All right, is there a second?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mrs. Kennedy: Any further discussion?
Mr. De Yurre: How much money are we talking about?
Mr. Dawkins: $8,000.
Mr. Odio: The amount is $11,000.
Mrs. Kennedy: $11,000.
Mr. De Yurre: The whole package?
Mrs. Kennedy: Eleven thousand.
Mr. De Yurre: No, eleven, how much are we talking about?
Mr. Odio: Eleven thousand.
Mr. Dawkins: Eight thousand... seven thousand, seven thousand, seven
thousand.
Mr. De Yurre: Rosario, how much are we...
Mr. Odio: Eleven thousand, right?
Mr. Dawkins: Seven thousand!
Mr. De Yurre: Seven, eleven?
Mr. Plummer: $11,226.
Mrs. Kennedy: Eleven thousand, two hundred and twenty six is what...'
Mr. Dawkins: They told me they needed seven, now what do you need?
Mr. Odio: I'm sorry, Commissioner, the budget that I had here was eleven.
Mr. Dawkins: What do you need?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: No, we had said eleven, I had told you we requested
$8,400 last year, but our request this year because we're putting on a major
concert is eleven thousand,
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Mr. Dawkins: I'm going to amend this: I'll vote for this if you don't come
back next year. If y0u're coming back next year, you lose my vote.
Mr. Plummer: Call the roll.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: I don't know if we can promise that at this point.
Mr. Dawkins: Wait a minute, wait, I didn't get an answer on thy...
Mrs. Kennedy: Do you accept that amendment?
Mr. Plummer: What was the amendment?
Mrs. Kennedy: Provided that they don't come back next year.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, I will vote with it if they don't come back next year.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Well, can we just explain about the six or seven
thousand that we mentioned. The budget that we gave you, we asked for eleven
thousand dollars. We were asked...
Mr. Dawkins: No, I'm only...
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: ... you know, if we couldn't get the $11,000, what
would we settle for. I mean, what were the absolute important costs and
that's what we did but we need the $11,000 if we can...
Mr. Dawkins: No, we are committed to the youth and we think that something
constructive should be done but as I told you in my office, I will only vote
for this in the event that you and I cannot beg it in the community. Now,
that's what I said and that's what I mean, OK? We need something positive for
the youth and I'm all for giving them something positive to shoot for but as
many Whoppers as they buy, as many Big Macs as they buy, ain't no way in hell
you can't tell me that Burger King and MacDonald can't come up with $10,000.
OK?
Mr. Plummer: So you got to go out and hustle. I'll accept the amendment.
Mrs. Kennedy: Does the second accept the amendment? Oh, you seconded it,
right. OK. Any further discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-536
A MOTION CONDITIONALLY APPROVING REQUEST MADE BY
REPRESENTATIVES OF YOUTH CRIME WATCH OF AMERICA FOR
IN -KIND SERVICES AND A FEE WAIVER FOR USE OF THE JAMES
L. KNIGHT CENTER IN CONNECTION WITH THE 112ND NATIONAL
YOUTH CRIME PREVENTION CONFERENCE" SCHEDULED FOR
SEPTEMBER 30 AND OCTOBER 1, 1988, RESPECTIVELY,
SUBJECT TO THE CITY MANAGER BEING ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE
NECESSARY FUNDS THROUGH THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST
FUND, SAID CONCESSION TO BE MADE ON A ONE TIME BASIS
ONLY.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and adopted
by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES• None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Plummer: Lt. Longueira will have your check ready on Monday.
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UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Thank you very much.
Mr. Dawkins: And have a good time, OK?
37. INSTRUCT CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE LEGISLATION FOR PROPOSED G.O. BOND
REFERENDUM IN CONNECTION WITH CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW BASEBALL STADIUM.
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Mrs. Kennedy: OK, going back to...
Mr. De Yurre: Rosario, an issue came up by the City Attorney with reference
to the proposed bond issue for the baseball stadium and he expressed to me the
fact that so far as the timetable is concerned, that we need to approve, at
this point in time, directing him to start preparing the language for that
referendum that will come before us during the month of July for approval.
And I believe that he needs a motion from us directing him to start preparing
that.
Mr. Plummer: Will make it.
Mrs. Kennedy: All right, go ahead then.
Mr. De Yurre: OK.
Mrs. Kennedy: Make a motion.
Mr. De Yurre: City Attorney, Jorge, what do you need from us?
Mr. Jorge Fernandez: Yes, the steps are that you first need to make a motion
instructing the City Attorney's office to prepare the language by way of
resolution to come in front of you. There is no meeting scheduled for the
month of August and everything has to be done before the general meeting that
we have scheduled for July. So, unless you want to use both meetings that you
have in July, the zoning meeting also to consider this item, then you can wait
until the next meeting. But if you want to not do violence to that zoning
meeting in July which is going to be very heavy, the proper thing for you to
do would be to make a motion instructing the City Attorney to prepare the
language so that, at the general meeting in July, then you would have an
opportunity to deal with it.
Mr. De Yurre: And you can prepare the language and then we would insert the
amount during the month of July because we don't know the amount right now.
Mr. Fernandez: Yes, exactly, then all that we would do would be preparing a
vehicle for you to amend and to discuss.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, I move that.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-537
A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE
APPROPRIATE LEGISLATION FOR A PROPOSED GENERAL
OBLIGATION BOND REFERENDUM IN CONNECTION WITH THE
PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW BASEBALL STADIUM;
FURTHER INSTRUCTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO BRING BACK
SAID LEGISLATION FOR COMMISSION CONSIDERATION AT THE
COMMISSION MEETING PRESENTLY SCHEDULED FOR JULY 14,
1988; SAID PROPOSED REFERENDUM BEING CONTINGENT UPON
THE CITY BEING AWARDED A MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM
FRANCHISE.
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was Passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None,
38. ALLOCATE $21,804 TO CAREY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, INC. FOR PURPOSES OF
PROVIDING A JOB DEVELOPMENT/PLACEMENT PROJECT FOR CITY RESIDENTS.
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Mrs. Kennedy: Sixty-three is money to provide job development programs,
that's where we left off.
Mr. Odio: This is authorizing the Manager to enter into agreement with Carey
Technical Institute in the amount of $21,804 to provide job development...
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved. Do we have a second?
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-538
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $21,804 OF FOURTEENTH YEAR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS PREVIOUSLY
APPROPRIATED BY ORDINANCE NO. 10436, ADOPTED MAY 12,
1988, TO CAREY TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, INC. FOR THE
PURPOSE OF PROVIDING A JOB DEVELOPMENT/PLACEMENT
PROJECT FOR CITY RESIDENTS; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENT WITH SAID AGENCY
FOR SAID PROJECT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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39. ALLOCATE $1,694,550 OF C.D. BLOCK GRANT FUNDS (FOURTEENTH YEAR) AND
$5,000 C.D. BLOCK GRANT FUNDS (THIRTEENTH YEAR) TO VARIOUS SOCIAL
SERVICE AGENCIES FOR APPROVED SOCIAL SERVICE PROJECTS.
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Mr. Dawkins: Move 64.
Mayor Suarez: Sixty-four's been moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-539
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $1,694,550 OF FOURTEENTH YEAR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS PREVIOUSLY
APPROPRIATED BY ORDINANCE NO. 10436, ADOPTED MAY 12,
1988, AND $5,000 OF THIRTEENTH YEAR COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED
BY ORDINANCE NO. 10287, ADOPTED JUNE 3, 1987, TO THE
HEREIN NAMED SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES FOR APPROVED
SOCIAL SERVICE PROJECTS; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENTS WITH SAID AGENCIES
FOR SAID PROJECTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY
(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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
40. AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS - IN CONNECTION WITH
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF AN APPROXIMATELY 250,000 SQ. FT. BUILDING TO BE
OCCUPIED BY THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND OTHER U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES.
Mayor Suarez: Sixty-five.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mr. Dawkins: This is Commissioner Kennedy's item.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, I just want to make sure that it clearly specifies that
the 34 percent has to made up of Hispanics, blacks and women. And each of
them no less than 5 percent. OK?
Mr. Gilchrist: No less than 5 percent. On second page of the memo... top of
the page, yes.
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Mrs: Kennedy: With that proviso, I second.
Mayor Suarez: Ready to vote?
Mrs. Kennedy: Ready to vote.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-540
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A REQUEST FOR
QUALIFICATIONS ON JUNE 22, 1988, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE
FORM ATTACHED, INVITING INTERESTED AND EXPERIENCED
DEVELOPMENT ITEMS TO SUBMIT PROFESSIONAL
QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN APPROXIMATELY
250,000 SQ. FT. BUILDING TO BE LOCATED ON A 12-LOT
LAND PARCEL BETWEEN N.E. 1ST AND MIAMI AVENUES AND
N.E. 4TH AND 5TH STREETS IN MIAMI TO BE OCCUPIED BY
THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE AND OTHER U.S. LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES; ATTACHED REQUEST FOR
QUALIFICATIONS INCORPORATING LANGUAGE CLARIFYING THAT
THE MINIMUM MINORITY PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENT IS A 34
PERCENT OWNERSHIP INTEREST IN THE FEDERAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT BUILDING AND FACILITIES HELD BY MINORITY
PARTICIPANTS REPRESENTING ALL OF THE MINORITY GROUPS
IN ANY COMBINATION THEREOF, BUT IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY
OF THE INDIVIDUAL MINORITY PARTICIPANTS HOLD LESS THAN
A 5 PERCENT OWNERSHIP INTEREST IN THE FEDERAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT BUILDING AND FACILITIES.
(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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
41. APPROVE DRAFT OF PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT (CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1) TO
PROVIDE FOR A FOUR-YEAR TERM OF OFFICE FOR THE ELECTED MAYOR OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI COMMENCING NOVEMBER 1989 - SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD
SEPTEMBER 6, 1988.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 66.
Mr. Odio: Sixty-eight, Mr. Mayor. We done 67.
Mayor Suarez: Sixty-eight,
Mr. Plummer: I think we ought to think about this one for a while. Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second,
Mayor Suarez Thank you, seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll,
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Mr. Dawkins: No.
Mr. Plumnert No.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoptions
RESOLUTION NO. 88-541
A RESOLUTION APPROVING, SETTING FORTH AND SUBMITTING
THE DRAFT OF A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT AMENDING THE
FIRST PARAGRAPH OF SUBSECTION (b), ENTITLED ELECTION
OF COMMISSION; TERMS OF OFFICE; RECALL." OF SECTION 4,
ENTITLED, "FORM OF GOVERNMENT.", OF THE CHARTER OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, KNOWN AS CHARTER AMENDMENT NO.
1, THEREBY PROVIDING FOR A FOUR YEAR TERM OF OFFICE
FOR THE ELECTED MAYOR OF THE CITY OF MIAMI COMMENCING
IN NOVEMBER 1989; FURTHER CALLING AND PROVIDING FOR A
SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON THE 6TH DAY
OF SEPTEMBER, 1988 FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING
CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE ELECTORATE AT SAID
ELECTION; FURTHER DIRECTING THAT A CERTIFIED COPY OF
THIS RESOLUTION BE DELIVERED TO THE SUPERVISOR OF
ELECTIONS OF METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, NOT
LESS THAN 45 DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF SUCH SPECIAL
MUNICIPAL ELECTION.
(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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
42. APPROVE ESCROW AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN SWIRE PACIFIC HOLDINGS, INC.,
VIZCATRAN, LTD., OCEAN BANK OF MIAMI, AND THE CITY OF MIAMI IN
CONNECTION WITH PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELDERLY -HANDICAPPED HOUSING
PROJECT.
Mayor Suarez: Seventy.
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, this is a good one. Wheee.
Mrs. Kennedy: Vizcatran.
Mr. Plummer: A noncontroversial item.
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, how lovely.
Mayor Suarez: For the record, there was a petition, let's see - dated June
9th, 1988 and purports to have 1184 signatures? Well, I can introduce into
the record a letter that refers to 1184 petitions, but I have to clarify that
I didn't get the 1184 signatures with this, I don't believe. In any event,
the letter's dated June 9th, 1988. Oh, OK. I thought you had left, OK.
You're going to have to bring them up if you want them in the record. OK.
Again, I can insert this into the record, the statement from the group in
question is that they, in fact, have delivered 1184 signatures against a
proposed building at 3200 S.W. 1st Avenue and against the escrow agreement
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resolution. I have not seen those petitions, but all I can do is introduce
this letter into the record and.., you certainly can introduce facsimiles of
it at this point or copies or the originals... OK, Madam City Clerk, have you
received those? OK, why don't you give her that for me, please. At least
we'll give her the cover letter. Mr. City Attorney, why don't you tell us -
Mr. Fernandez was just saying that this is a limited scope issue at this
point, we're just approving the escrow agreement. Why don't you put that on
the record so we know what we're dealing with here.
Joel Maxwell, Esq.: Yes, sir, the item before you now is simply the approval
of the escrow agreement and authorization of the City Attorney to sign that
agreement. You don't have before you today the approval of a building or
anything of the like on that particular site. In fact, the zoning has been
approved at a previous City Commission hearing.
Mayor Suarez: If I understand that correctly, and you might want to convey
this back to the signers of that petition, what we're agreeing to is something
that will have the effect of, I believe, reducing the maximum size of what can
be built there to eight stories and providing the City with an escrow...
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Nine stories.
Mayor Suarez: Nine stories and - nine stories?
Mr. Maxwell: Excuse me, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: No larger than nine stories, is that part of the...
Mr. Maxwell: There is a covenant attached to the agreement which will limit
the height of the building to nine stories and also there's a provision in the
agreement which is discretionary but would also provide for an amendment to
the covenant to limit the building even more but that's purely discretionary.
Mayor Suarez: And I presume that also hinges on setback variances being
granted, no?
Mr. Maxwell: That's correct.
Mayor Suarez: In any event, for those that are maybe not as aware as Joe of
what this agreement entails, it does have that. In other words, we have, in
effect, obtained a covenant from the landowner that at the highest that would
be built there would be nine stories as opposed to, I believe, thirteen.
You're shaking your head, we'll be happy to hear your comments and whether
that's not being done but that's what we're told that's being done. And
otherwise we're receiving into an escrow account a certain amount of money
from the Swire Company that may or may not lead to the development of some
kind of facility there and that if it doesn't happen, the City will end up
receiving the bulk of the principle amount and the interest is paid to the
owner to be able to do carrying charges on his property.
Mr. Dawkins: Question.
Mayor Suarez: That's the extent of the agreement. We're not approving any
particular project there. I just want to tell you that.
Mr. Dawkins: Question, Mr. Manager.
Mayor Suarez: If we approve it.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, where did the newspaper get the idea that the
Catholic Diocese would be given this land? Where did that come from?
Mr. Odio: I have no idea, Commissioner. I have no idea. They never called
me. I don't know where they have the... I read the story just as you did and
I was surprised.
Mr. Dawkins: And you don't know anything about it either?
Mr. Odio: No, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, maybe.,. Mr. Maxwell,
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Mr. Maxwell. During Mr. Portuondo's initial presentation of April 14th, he
indicated that the entity that would be applying for the HUD loan would be; if
everything went according to plan, would be the Archdiocese of Miami.
Mr. Dawkins: Who said that?
Mr. Maxwell: Mr. Juan Portuondo, I'm sorry, Joe Portuondo.
Mr. Plummer: ...,. microphone.,
Mr. Dawkins: Joe Portuondo?
Mr, Maxwell: Joe Portuondo is Mr. Delgado's attorney, is Vizeatran's
attorney.
Mr. Plummer: All right, look, this money's put into escrow. What happens if
this thing is not built within a certain time period? What happens to the
money?
Mr. Maxwell: If it's not built within four years, which is the outside period
of time, $350,000 would revert to the City of Miami.
Mr. Plummer: And the remaining money?
Mr. Maxwell: The balance of the money will go to Swire.
Mr. Plummer: To who?
Mr. Maxwell! To Swire Biscayne, Swire Pacific now, they're the ones that are
putting up the money.
Mr. Plummer: So, in other words, of $500,000, three fifty would come to the
City and $150,000 would go back to the donator or...
Mr. Maxwell: That's correct. In addition to that, the total amount of money
at stake here right now is $525,000. If the project is not built according to
the escrow agreement, they don't get a commitment from HUD and then if they
don't follow up on their commitment, what happens then is that the total one
seventy-five would revert back to Swire Biscayne; $25,000 coming from the
developer and the other $150,000 coming from the escrow agent.
Mr. Plummer: And the interest?
Mr. Maxwell: All the interest, until the termination date, would be disbursed
by the escrow agent to Vizcatran for their use.
Mr. Plummer: Well, why are they entitled to anything?
Mr. Maxwell: And that's a policy decision by this Commission, sir, to
determine whether or not they're entitled to the interest.
Mr. Plummer: And why four years? I remember we had some discussion about the
four years, but why four years?
Mr. Maxwell: Again, that's a policy decision.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, THE CITY COMMISSION DEFERS
AGENDA ITEM 91. (BY APPLICANT'S REQUEST)
Mayor Suarez: Remember to give us your name and address and...
Ms. Carolina Perez: My name is Carolina Perez.
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry, Commissioner Dawkins, I'm sorry.
Ms. Perez: OK.
Mr. De Yurre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins; I mean, why is it we have to give them four years, all right,
I've been waiting for this to go on since 1975, OK? They did not fulfill
their part of the agreement and now, with another $500,000, you're going to
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wait another four years. Why is it that this cannot be terminated in a year
or 18 months or something?
Mr. Maxwell: Well, the way the agreement is written right now, if they do not
get a commitment from HUD by December the 31st, 1989, the agreement would
terminate. But if they get a conditional commitment from HUD, they would have
four year from the date of this agreement. There is nothing really that
mandates that you give them their four years but they have indicated that
that's the time that is reasonable.
Mr. Dawkins: What happens if the Catholic Diocese already got a 202 which
they got ten thousand of them and they just decided to bring one of those that
they already got from the federal government down here. What happens then?
Mr. Maxwell: Well, again, the way the agreement is written, Mr. Dawkins, it
does not restrict them to the use of the Archdiocese of Miami. They can use
some other entity to apply for the grant and build the housing.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, thank you, Mr. Mayor - I mean, Vice Mayor.
Ms. Perez: My name is... oh.
Mr. Plummer: What happens if it's not the Archdiocese?
Mr. Maxwell: According to the agreement, nothing happens...
Mr. Plummer: In other words...
Mr. Maxwell: ... you just have some other entity building the housing.
Mr. Plummer: But this is to be affordable housing, correct?
Mr. Maxwell: Elderly housing.
Mr. Plummer: No, it was affordable housing.
Mr. Maxwell: The document you have before them...
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, no, forget about the documents. This was originally
passed as affordable.
Mr. Maxwell: That's correct.
Mr. Plummer: Now, how are they getting off the hook to allow it to be
elderly?
Mr. Maxwell: Your motion of...
Mr. Plummer: Who changed it?
Mr. Maxwell: Your motion of April 14th allowed that.
Mr. Plummer: I don't remember saying that this now had been converted to
elderly.
Mr. Maxwell: They indicated on the record that it would be elderly housing
and I think the reason that they did that was to pacify - now, I'm making
arguments to best probably should be directed to Mr. Portuondo.
Mrs. Kennedy: I believe that it was Mr. Portuondo who told us that he had
talked to the Archdiocese and they were interested during the last time that
this came out.
Mr. Plummer: See, I guess the question that I've got that nobody has been
able to answer, if this goes to the Archdiocese, why are they entitled to
$350,000 and not the City? They're asking us to let them off the hook. Us,
the City. Why wouldn't that money come to us and let the developer deal
with - let him deal with the Archdiocese or who ever he wants?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): They got more money than we have.
Mr. Plummer: Can anybody answer that? Why would that money go to them?
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Mr, Joe Wilkins: As I understand it, on January 14th the City Attorney stated
that the City had no More financial obligation from Swire.
Mr. Plummer: That's not the point: It is Swire who is today asking us to let
them off the hook. They're not asking Portuondo or the Vizcatran, they're
asking the City. So we must have some hook thereon. Why aren't we receiving
the $350,000?
Mr. John Guinness: OK, my name is John Guinness and the explanation furnished
by Mr. Portuondo...
Mr. Plummer: I'm sorry, go again.
Mr. Guinness: The explanation which was furnished by Mr, Portuondo at the
April 14th meeting was that if the money did not go to them, they would sue
Swire.
Mr. Plummer: dell, that's their problem.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, yes, they've been threatening that...
Mr. Guinness: I know.
Mayor Suarez: to sue Swire.
Mr. Guinness: That's one of the reasons I've checked too. That's
their problem.
Mr. Dawkins: I move that the money go to our housing conservation fund.
Mr. Plummer: You're talking about the $350,000?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Well, now, OK, you've got to go a step further. You just can't
make a motion.
Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead, J.L.
Mr. Plummer: Are you saying that that $350,000 would go to the City of Miami
Housing Fund and in return we are going to release Swire?Because that's
what... other than that, you're not going to get...
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, yes, well I personally do not believe that Swire is on the
hook. This Commission let Swire off the hook before.
Mr. Plummer: Well, they're saying they are, so let's don't talk them out of
it.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, but if they want to ease their conscience with
another $500,000, I'm in favor of accepting it to ease their conscience. Let
the City of Miami receive, yes.
Mr. Plummer: You're big hearted.
Mr. Dawkins: And that could go into...
Mr. Plummer: So, your motion is that the $350,000 be paid to the City of
Miami Housing Fund.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, that's..
Mr. Plummer; I'll second the motion.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded.
Ms. Perez (OFF AND ON MIKE): Wait a minute, may I say something? My name is
Carolina Perez. I live at 520 S.W. 29th Road. The thing is that I consider
that an escrow account is an escrow account. The interest from the money
should be keep in the escrow account and with the control of the City of
Miami.
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Mr, Plummer: We're taking the Fn6bey totally,
Ms, Perez: Yesi but h6t the 1ht6t6§ti And the interest is going to be,,,
Mr. Plummer: there'll be no interest, that's our money.,,
Ms: Perez: No?
Mr, Plummer: ... we take it and put it in the City's regular wallet,
Ms. Perez: And our opinion is that the best thing to do there is to open the
street that have been closed, but not permanently closed because they need to
have access to all emergency circumstances that could happen.
Mr.: Plummer: That's not what we're talking about right now. We're talking
about Swire has asked the City to let them off the hook.
Ms. Perez: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: We're saying, pay that $350,000 to the City and its housing
fund, OK? That's what we're saying. No interest involved, no escrow, pay us
the money, we let you off the hook.
Ms. Perez: OK, that's better.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, if you did that, no commitment that the building
will not be the height that it is now proposed if the owner wishes to build
that high there.
Mr. Plummer: No, it can only go as high as...
Mayor Suarez: The zoning that it has.
Mr. Plummer: That it previously had which was eight floors.
Ms. Perez: Six.
Mayor Suarez: How are you going to do that? Wait, wait, wait, how are you
going to do that? Wait, how are you going to do that?
Mr. Plummer: Well, whatever that zoning was...
Mayor Suarez: That was rezoned. We approved the rezoning.
Mr. Plummer: But they couldn't go any more than what it was previously
rezoned.
Mayor Suarez: How are you going to do that?
Ms. Perez: Well, no, is now.
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: For six.
Mayor Suarez: Sixteen.
Ms. Perez: They say sixteen but it was approved in 1986.
Mr. Plummer: What?
Mayor Suarez; Joe, explain on the recordo please...
Mr. Maxwell: You. might want to direct this question to the planning F
department, but it's My: understanding that under the present zoning there, as
recently approved, there's an _unlimited height on the building that can be f
built there.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, we got the Planning department.
Joseph Fortuondo, Esq.; May I be heard on this issued
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Mt. Dawkins: We got the planning department.
Mr. Plummer: The original proposal was eight floors.
Mayor Suarez: We'll get to you, counselor, to the owner.
Mr. McManus: Commissioner, Commissioner. They have the zoning...
Mayor Suarez: We gave them the zoning:..
Mr. McManus: RG-3...
Mayor Suarez: Sorry, Joe, wait a minute, Joe, we're hearing from the other
Joe.
Mr. McManus: RG-3/7 does not have a height limit, all right. We do have
those inward sloping light planes from the outer boundary of the property that
gradually slope in. So they are talking at least about a thirteen story high
apartment building. If they got a variance from the zoning board, from the
inward sloping light planes, they might be able to reduce it to nine floors.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I...
Mayor Suarez: Under the present proposal though, they're convening, they're
agreeing and putting it into a covenant to go with the land that they will not
exceed nine stories so that's a concession that they're making that is
important to the neighbors. I thought it was important to the neighbors,
isn't it important to the neighbors?
Mr. McManus: Mr. Mayor, I'd only point out that that is subject to a variance
from the City of Miami zoning board.
Mr. Dawkins: And this Commission.
Mayor Suarez: And the Commission, right. Possibly the Commission. I don't
know who to hear from, I mean I...
Mr. Portuondo: I don't know what's going on here. My name is Joe Portuondo,
I represent the land owner, Vizcatran, Ltd. and when I walked in here I
thought I'd walked into some kind of a time warp. It seemed like this
Commission forgot everything that we talked about two months ago and that we
entered into an agreement verbally that was going to be reduced to writing and
today, what we were supposed to do was come here today and ratify the
signature of the City Attorney on the agreement. This City Commission voted
on the terms of the agreement on April 14th. Since then, we have gone out and
relied upon that agreement which I considered to be a settlement of this whole
issue and made preparation to do this project. The only thing that was
lacking back on April 14th was that the writing had not yet been completed and
this Commission, by a motion, gave the City Attorney the authority to review
the draft of the writing and approve it in form and that would have been the
end of it and that was my understanding today. In fact, two of the parties,
that is the escrow agent and my client have signed it. The third party,
Swire, has already agreed to sign it but when they sign it they have to give
the check so they're waiting for the City Attorney to sign it. And the City
Attorney has had the draft now since April 29th and we're all sitting around
waiting for someone to sign it so we can go on and build this project. The
HUD application which was so critical, we talked about to make this project
work, when I came back here April 14th, I said, it's absolutely critical that
we have a resolution today because this whole thing will be lost and we'll all
end up in litigation. Well, we only got three working days to go, folks, and
we still don't have the money.
Mrs. Kennedy: Joe, let me just say that the way it reads in our agenda,
you're absolutely right. It is approving the escrow agreement and that's the
end of that. That's the way it is.
Mr. Portuondo: That's what I expected to happen here today.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, but let me tell you, what you expected to happen is just
like what I expected to happen. But, number one, I never intended for
anything to go in there but saleable housing, that's me. OK?
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Mr. Portuondo: I'm sorry, Commissioner, I didn't hear you.
Mr; Dawkins: All right, that's me,
Mr. Portuondo: I'm sorry, I didn't hear what you said.
Mr. Dawkins: 1 never intended anything to go in there but saleable,
affordable housing,..
Mr. Portuondo: Affordable housing,
Mr. Dawkins: I did not intend for any elderly housing to go in there, OK?
We've got 450 units of elderly housing now in the City. And every time we get
a 202, HUD makes us come up with affordable housing and we're in the hole now,
we can never catch up because we keep allowing developers to put in 202 and
they get away and then we get left holding the bag. So if you got my vote, if
you're going to put affordable housing, OK? But if you're talking... I
wouldn't care if you were going to do it with anybody and if I led you to
believe that, I'm sorry, but if you got three votes, you're in good shape, but
I cannot vote along with anything that will permit any 202 housing in that
area.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): This whole thing was based on Metrorail for people to
go downtown and go to work, not elderly.
Mr. Portuondo: Let me just say one thing about that, Commissioner. I
understand your concerns, I think they're very valid ones. When we came
before the Commission early on, I said my client is willing to build anything
on that property. It could be an office building, it could be affordable
housing, it could be low income housing, it could be whatever, in consultation
with the neighbors, we talked about that and from them we got the impression
that what they wanted for that site was elderly housing. And elderly housing,
I went to a lot of trouble to put the pieces together to do an elderly housing
project. Now, I will tell you that the Miami Herald reported today and
something that's absolutely true, there are 2,000 people waiting to get into
elderly housing projects sponsored by the...
Mr. Dawkins: You know how single families are looking for single family
homes?
Mr. Portuondo: Ah, I...
Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, then, well then give both sides an equation.
Mr. Portuondo: But, what I'm saying is...
Mr. Dawkins: Don't give one side of the equation, you know, give both sides.
We got X number of elderly looking for houses, we got X number of young people
looking for housing.
Mr. Portuondo: I appreciate your concerns, Commissioner, but I - no, I fully
agree there's a need for affordable housing. There's also a need for elderly,
I think, all the considerations weighing are for affordable housing and we
can't change now, it's too late.
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): You go ahead and make it.
Mr. Portuondo: I mean, we spent time and money on this, and we're going to
lose the project.
Mr. Plummer: Why don't we hear from the neighbors.
Mr. Portuondo (OFF MIKE): Go ahead, Joe.
Mr. Joe Wilkins: My name is Joe Wilkins, I represent the Miami Roads
Neighborhood Civic Association. On May 5th, our board of directors had an
evaluation of this situation by two attorneys, by real estate experts. This
is not an easy situation, to say the least. Our opinion at that point was
that we would not oppose the concept of elderly housing. We wanted certain
density, we wanted certain height, we wanted certain esthetics. But at this
point, of all the realistic options for that property which are private
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development which, again, the man just said, has unlimited height. 1f he
wants to go build his own private building, he can do it without a 'variance
and go thirteen, sixteen floors. We weren't in favor of that: We clearly
were not in favor of low income housing in this area and the other option was
a project...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, what is elderly... you know, 1 keep hearing low income
housing, what is elderly housing?
Mr. Joe Wilkins: 1 was told to look = 1 was told that it would be...
Mr. Dawkins! No, no, no, what is elderly housing? you know...
Mr. Wilkins: 1t seems self explanatory:
Mr. Dawkins: And I know it's not what's coming out is not what you mean, I
know you too well, Oft?
Mr. Wilkins: Well, the only...
Mr. Dawkins: But, when you come up here and tell me, low income housing, that
means black folks, we don't want you all in this area...
Mr. Wilkins: It means...
Mr. Dawkins: OK? Now, that's what it means.
Mr. Wilkins: Well, you can interpret it however you want to interpret it, I'm
telling you what our position is.
Mr. Portuondo: May I address that very briefly, Commissioner?
Mr. Dawkins: Hey, no, no, wait a minute, I mean, no... no, he's got the
floor...
Mr. Portuondo: I think he's going to have trouble with the legal issue.
Mayor Suarez: It's really directed at the neighbor, Joe.
Mr. Wilkins: I don't care if they want to bring elderly black folk in. The
difficulty with low income would be traffic density, parking and these issues
have nothing to do with race. OK.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, what I'm trying to tell you is, the elderly...
Mr. Wilkins: The elderly won't have the amount of traffic, they won't demand
the amount of parking, they won't bring the kind of traffic in, they can
utilize Metrorail. Those were some factors we looked at.
Mr. Dawkins: But the elderly units will rent for the same thing as the low
income units.
Mr. Wilkins: But they won't have the amount of cars, they won't need the
amount of parking, there are some advantageous... we had opinion...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, then say, we don't want the traffic and we don't need the
density...
Mr. Wilkins: We said that from the beginning, we have said that repeatedly.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, but, but, but... but, but, but don't put it on low
income housing!
Mr. Wilkins: We have said that fromthe beginning. Our concern with low
income is not the race of the people living there, it is with the amount of
traffic, the amount of parking, the size of the project as it was originally
described. Those were our concerns. This project seems to be the lesser of
the two evils. It seems to ameliorate at least a portion of those concerns.
Mayor Suarez: Are you able to say as to your association, duly constituted,
that you're supportive of this concept as presented to us today?
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Mr. Wilkins: We are saying that we are not opposed to this concept at this
point.
Mayor Suarez: OK, that clarifies that.
Mr. Wilkins: We will advocate...
Mayor Suarez: And, obviously, .toe, Joe, let me just ask another question.
Obviously, there are other neighbors...
Mr. Wilkins: Obviously...
Mayor Suarez: Wait, who may or may not be from the same neighborhood. I'm
sure some of them are from the Roads...
Mr. Wilkins: They are, they are.
Mayor Suarez: ... who are not necessarily included in your association that
did not participate in this vote. So we have...
Mr. Wilkins: Right.
Mayor Suarez: ... two different groups, I just don't...
Mr. Wilkins: In an issue this complex and in a neighborhood as large as ours,
we are not going to get an unanimous consensus...
Mayor Suarez: And you're...
Mr. Wilkins: All of us sympathize or empathize with the people that want no
building at all. We want pine trees and cows. We want a park in that area.
But, realistically, with Metrorail, we're not going to get - you know, there
are certain things...
Mayor Suarez: The membership of your organization is how many?
Mr. Wilkins: We have close to 200 member households right now. Those are
member houses after one year of being organized.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Where are we at, Commissioners, we have one motion to take
the $350,000 and put it right into the housing and conservation agency - I
just want to state procedurally where we are - which has been seconded. The
problem with that is that none of the parties, except for the City, if it were
approved, agree to that because we don't know that Swire would agree to that
and we presume the landowner certainly doesn't.
Mr. Portuondo: I have a settlement with Swire, I would sue Swire if he did
that, I would sue the City if you did that. I mean, we got to...
Mayor Suarez: OK, Mr. Portuondo, counselor, what would be the problem if we
were to approve that motion, sir? I'm sure you want to address that.
Mr. Portuondo: The problem with that is that Swire and I already have a
settlement to do it the way the escrow agreement is drafted. I also believe
that I have a settlement with the City based upon the last vote that this
Commission took on April 14th. We resolved it and you delegated it to the
City Attorney just to work out the drafting of the agreement that we would
come back here and sign it. We've got a settlement, folks, and so I mean...
Mrs. Kennedy: I thought that that's what you were here and everybody was in
accordance after several meetings they decided, everybody, all of you decided
that elderly housing was all right and I don't see the problem with elderly
housing because let me tell you, it's not the best place to be but considering
the alternative, I'm looking forward to being there.
Mr. Portuondo: I didn't expect to say anything today. I was going to sit
here and watch and Mr. Maxwell would say, I've drafted it, I find it's OK, in
accordance with the last vote, it's OK and then that will be the end of it.
Mayor Suarez: You're reducing to writing what you thought we had done the
last time. I too, so we can decide how we're going to go on this and we'll
certainly take more comments if you want to clarify or oppose. I'll entertain
a substitute motion to approve the escrow agreement as presented to us.
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Mrs. Kennedy (Ott MIKE): I so move.
Mr. De Yurre: I would move.
Mayor Suarez: We have a movement and a second. OK, that's the motion now on
the floor and then we could always go back to the first one if that one didn't
pass or either way. You want to address that now?
Ms. Perez: Yes, what I want to tell is that the neighborhood is not divided.
We all want the same thing, no building at all there, the street open again
and be rezoning as this was before. But we are not a neighborhood that is
split, as you consider. We are together. The only thing is, that if you want
everybody to be here, next time call for a new meeting or some other time that
we have been able to advertise and so everybody will be here. The association
and the people from the neighborhood that don't belong to the association, we
don't want any building because we have so many people in the area already and
we need this street open as it was in the beginning.
Mayor Suarez: Let me tell you two things to tell your group which is a little
bit less organized than the other one in terms of my being sure that the
message is going to get back. There are two problem with any other route than
the one we're taking today if this motion passes. Let me see if I can
remember both of the problems. One is that we have rezoned that property and
by doing this today, we go back, by agreement from the owner to a maximum of
nine stories. Am I right in that again?
Mr. Portuondo: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: OK. The other problem is that we have an opinion from our own
City Attorney that says, if you read today's paper you'll see that I happen
not to agree with that opinion but I'm not thinking as a lawyer here, I have
to try to be someone that follows our own City Attorney's position, but that
they say that we have no cause of action right now, we have no claim
whatsoever against Swire. And in this case, if they don't build what they're
going to build, at least we're going to get our hands on some of the money to
build affordable housing...
Ms. Perez: Some other place, but not there.
Mayor Suarez: Where ever, you know, some Commissioners might want to build it
there. You and I might want to build it in some place where the people
particularly want it, which ever. Now, that's where we're at, see, so if we
don't agree to this, then we really are regressing, from my perspective, and
that's why I'm going to vote for the motion as stated.
Mr. Plummer: Well, the question that still remains, why is Swire looking to
us to let them off the hook if they have no obligation to us?
Mayor Suarez: Because they don't want to get sued.
Mr. Plummer: That don't mean... well, why don't we, since they...
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): Anytime we can close debate.
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Mr. Plummer: Miami Today says that Claughton Island is going to come back
here and ask for 1,100 units in 188.
Mr. Wilkins: In other words, they don't want to feel they have it... it was
stated in January 14th, the City stated, well, you have no legal obligation,
you have a moral obligation. They feel this will render them free of their
moral, although I question that word, obligation, in this case.
Mayor Suarez: For myself, I don't even want to test it at this point. I
mean, we feel extremely happy of having put together, at least I do, two major
projects with 230 units.
Mr. Portuondo: I can just say one... let me just say one thing about
Commissioner Plummer's question. Swire has some pretty good lawyers, probably
the best people in the City, and they've concluded that they'd better pay this
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money or they're going to get sued because they have an obligation, to, I
mean, they've thought about it, Commissioner and...
Mayor Suarez: They don't want to get sued.
Mr. Portuondo: ... I mean, it would have been wishful thinking to think that
they didn't have to pay it but they've concluded the deal, we've settled it.
Mayor Suarez: I'm not sure who it is they don't want to be sued by, the
landowner who claims he has a claim although I sometimes wonder...
Mr. Portuondo: But I'd sue them for sure but I mean, it's settled.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): You made the motion. I'm going to call the...
Mayor Suarez: ... the City, which legal counsel tells us we don't have a
claim, which I don't agree with. In any event...
Mr. Portuondo: It's settled.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Is there a motion on the floor?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion
from the Commission?
Mr. Maxwell: Mr. Mayor, before you take the vote, there's one thing that
needs to be included in that motion if the Commission is so disposed to
approve it and that is that there was, we picked up a small discrepancy in the
legal description of the covenant so we do need to amend the covenant to
comply with that so if your motion will include our right to do that.
Mayor Suarez: With that amendment on the legal description. Call the roll.
Madam City Clerk.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-542
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE ESCROW AGREEMENT NEGOTIATED
PURSUANT TO MOTION 88-353, IN ESSENTIALLY THE FORM
ATTACHED HERETO, BETWEEN SWIRE PACIFIC HOLDINGS, INC.,
VIZCATRAN, LTD., THE CITY OF MIAMI AND OCEAN BANK OF
MIAMI, RELATIVE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELDERLY -HANDICAPPED
HOUSING NEAR THE VIZCAYA METRORAIL STATION; AUTHORIZING
THE CITY ATTORNEY TO EXECUTE THE SUBJECT AGREEMENT ON
BEHALF OF THE CITY; AND RELIEVING SWIRE PACIFIC HOLDINGS,
INC. CONDITIONALLY FROM ANY FURTHER OBLIGATION TO THE CITY
OF MIAMI TO PROVIDE LOW INCOME/AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
(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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
ABSENT: None.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: Absolutely not.
Mr. Dawkins: I think that elderly housing and low income housing is all
public housing so in order to facilitate and help everybody understand that
public housing is public housing, I vote yes.
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COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL:
Mayor Suarez: Ma'am, last statement.
Ms. Carmen Lopez: Senor Comisionado.
Mayor Suarez: We're going to need a translator.
Ms. Lopez: Perdon...
Mayor Suarez: We're going to need a translator it sounds like unless you're
just starting in Spanish, later to switch to English.
Ms. Lopez: Sir, could you please translate my words?
Mayor Suarez: You do pretty well in English.
Ms. Lopez: (TRANSLATED BY CESAR ODIO) Mr. Mayor, Commissioner, she lives on
1609 S.W 29th Court.
Mr. Plummer: No, that can't be right.
Mrs. Kennedy: 619.
Ms. Lopez: (TRANSLATED BY MR. ODIO) We want all of you to know that all the
neighborhood is totally united. They're completely united. What we're doing,
the people that have more free time available is diversifying their labor to
collect all the signatures and bring it to you. In respect to the last
meeting that they had where Mr. Attorney representing the owners was said that
the money that they had available would be put in a place in a bank account
and that the interest that would be accumulated would be used to pay the
property owned by Mr. Delgado. In respect to the planification proposed for
that particular site, is that that building plans, the designs, will be taken
to the planning department and then brought back to the City Commission for
action. At no time was there a determination on the final number of floors in
the building or the number of units in the building. And Mr. Plummer clearly
stated that he would take into consideration the will of the neighborhood as
what would take place in that site. What Mr. Dawkins cannot establish the
difference between elderly and low income, ask him when they refer to
elderlies is that the building would be given to the Archdiocese and for
everyone is to be known and well known that all the buildings that are owned
by the Archdiocese are well controlled, organized and clean and they control
who visits them, etc. And for them, they would prefer that the building would
be by the Catholic Archdiocese because they would not accept any other....
because he promises...
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, wait translate... well, you don't have to
translate, let me just tell you...
Mr. Odio: Well, you know what she said.
Mayor Suarez: Yes... no, no but maybe for the record.
Mr. Odio: I need to put a...
Mayor Suarez: Translate please......
Mr. Odio: We need you to finish your commentary, madam. AT THIS POINT, MS.
LOPEZ CONTINUES AND MR. ODIO TRANSLATES AS FOLLOWS: We all know that all
these buildings the first three months are models that could be exhibited in
any place like clean beautiful and..
Ms. Lopez: ... after three months it is a bunch of junk!
Mr. Wilkins: I just want to make one quick point about the zoning. We have
two questions regarding this property. One, which we've sort of dealt with
today is the use of the property, the other remains the zoning of the
property. You all sent this issue to the planning department for study. We
have given them their input. Obviously, this petition provides more impetus
as far as what the neighbors actually want on the property. This issue will
come up again and at that point we're going to address it. We have requested
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from the planning department, in writing, their rationale for their decision:
We are waiting to receive that and we will see you all again on this issue.
Mayor Suarez: OK, Joe, beautiful.
Mr. Dawkins: But you do still agree to elderly housing?
Mr. Wilkins: We agree as the lesser of all the evils we can see for this
property, we will not oppose it at this point. We will insist on proper
height, proper density, proper aesthetics, we will advocate for the elderly in
terms of protection for our neighborhood. These old people are going to need
safe streets, they're going to need a place to walk and at those terms, yes,
we will not oppose it at this point.
Mayor Suarez: OK, Joe.
Mr, Dawkins: Thank you.
43. ALLOCATE $8,000 TO THE WYNWOOD GROUP (INGRID GRAD) AND $8,000 TO THE
SOUTHWEST SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAM (ORLANDO URRA'S GROUP).
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Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, I have an emergency that I need to address at this
point in time.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner.
Mr. De Yurre: It has to do with the Wynwood Community Center.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, Wynwood. What happened?
Mr. De Yurre: Ingrid, come up for a second. I was going to bring it up back
with item 64, but...
Mayor Suarez: When we approved the CDBG the entire funding.
Mr. De Yurre: That's right. It's my understanding...
Mayor Suarez: I don't know why I have a suspicion that they're going to need
more resources.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yep.
Mayor Suarez: And I don't know where we're going to find the money.
Mr. De Yurre: Frank? Where's Frank Castaneda? He has a solution he told me.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Where are we now?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Pocket item, Ingrid Grau.
Mayor Suarez: There's a solution?
Mr. De Yurre: He said so. He had...
Mayor Suarez: What are you short, Ingrid?
Ms. Ingrid Grau: I'm short $8,000 and it came from the increases in all the
insurances.
Mayor Suarez: Office rent.
Mr. De Yurre: The insurance,
Mayor Suarez: Insurance, that's the story of our lives.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE); Liability insurance, all kind of insurance,
automobile insurance...
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Ms. Gram No, no ibburances; liability, general liability and workmens cofnp.
Mr. be Yurre: OX,
Mayor Suarez: Frank, you got a solution? You going to lend thm the fnohey
from your own pocket?
Mr, Frank Castaneda: Commissioner, as I was telling Victor, Commissioner ,lit,
at the last meeting had requested us to look for a solution of how to obtain
$50,000 to help the social service agencies: This is our solution, Last
year:..
Mayor Suarez: This is the solution you told Commissioner be Yurre?
Mr. Castaneda: I'm sorry?
Mayor Suarez: This is the solution that you were telling to Commissioner De
Yurre?
Mr. Castaneda: Right, the two solutions are related. Carey Tech was
classified as a social service agency last year, As you recall, this year we
classified it as an economic development agency...
Mr. Plummer: Correct,
Mr. Castaneda: ... so the idea is to move Carey Tech as an economic
development agency, reduce contingency and the... in the 13th year to cover a
new project and reduce the mini UDAG pool by about $3,000. That would free
$23,000 in the 13th year of community development for social services. The
other item is that a year and a half ago, the City allocated $75,000 for
senior centers out of special programs and accounts. When that program closed
last January, they had only spent $50,000 which leaves a balance of
approximately $25,000, is that correct? So the $25,000 on the $23,000 gives
you $48,000 which is basically, you know, close to what Commissioner Plummer
was looking for. Now, Ingrid's problem is $8,000 In order...
Mayor Suarez: And why you come up with forty-eight to solve an $8,000
problem, I don't know but go ahead and try us.
Mr. Castaneda: Well...
Mr. Dawkins: Hey, can we take $8,000 from the forty-eight?
Mayor Suarez: Thank you.
Mr. Plummer: Well, but wait a minute...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, I'll move it.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, wait a minute, Miller.
Mayor Suarez: Please, we got a motion.
Mr. Plummer: Miller, excuse me. You've also got Southwest out here who were
made the same promise.
r Mr. Dawkins; How much - for how much?
Mr. Plummer: Theirs is in the neighborhood of what?
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Mr. Plummer: Eight thousand also.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, so?
Mr. Plummer; And there's is matching money. If they don't get that $8,000,
they lose an additional eight thousand.
Mr. Dawkins: So eight and eight is sixteen from 48, I move it.
Mr. Plummer; No? no - well, OK, .
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Ms. Prahoena Brooks: No, no, hot but ingrid4t problem raiates to this year.
Mr. Dawkins: bki
Mr. De Yurre: That's right.
Ms. $rooks: She's talking about the 13th year, right?
Ms. Orau (OPP MIKE): Might,
Ms, Brooks: The shortfall that this year that ends June 30th,
Mr. De Yurre: That's right.
Mr. Dawkins: Right.
Ms. Brooks: Whereas, my understanding is Southwest is the problem that the
other food agencies had that where their funds were cut back because of the
shortfall in the CD altogether.
Mr. Plummer: But the fear is that they will lose matching funds. That's the
problem with Southwest.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Excuse me, the problem is not that all the agencies are
losing money, our's is. We used to get the matching from for all American
acts from United Way every year. This year, instead of giving us matching
fund, they decided to open, under our administration, a meal site in Kendall
so we lost the matching fund for this year All American Acts money and that's
around $8,000.
Mayor Suarez: You know, the details are really going to kill us here. Do you
need $8,000?
Mr. Dawkins: Mrs. Brooks, Mrs. Brooks...
Mayor Suarez: Do we have it in the year in ques... Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Mrs. Brooks, we have $48,000?
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Ms. Brooks: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: And if we take 16 from it, we have 32?
Ms. Brooks: Right.
Mr. Dawkins: And when we give away the 32, we'll have none.
Mr. Plummer: That's right.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Ms. Brooks: Right.
Mr. Dawkins: Ma'am?
Mr. Plummer: You're pretty good at math.
Ms. Brooks: The reason we was bringing up the subject of the 48 was to try to
solve the shortfall of the fifty -thousand for next year, beginning July 1.
But you can take eight, plus eight...
Mayor Suarez: Thank you.
Ms. Brooks; ... from that and that would leave...
Mayor Suarez; Thank you. I'll entertain a motion.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, I've made the motion, So what you're saying is that
we need to alert everybody next year that we got thirty-two thousand. Use it
fast or use it slow, when it go, we got no more.
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Ms, Brooks: The only thing, at the htxt meeting we had intended to come to
you with the recommendation that we had found this $48,000 which could help
restore the food programs, but now we`ll be down to thirty-two.
Mayor Suarez: Well, it's going to be down to thirty-two and he's saying to
let the other groups know about the thirty-two, which means the whole world
will be here.
Mr: De Yurre: I'll second.
Ms. Brooks: Might,
Mr. Dawkins: OK, moved and second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and second.
Mr. Plummer: That's $8,000 to Ingrid and $8,000 to Southwest, correct?
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded.
Mr. Plummer: I second the motion.
Mayor Suarez: Thirded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: You will vie for part of the thirty-two.
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Mr. Plummer: Yes, there's thirty-two left.
Mr. Castaneda: OK, but Commissioner, but just to clarify your memory, the
$50,000 according to the motion of Commissioner Plummer, was only for the food
programs that were receiving...
Mr. Plummer: Well, that's... Orlando's a food program.
Mr. Castaneda: Yes, I know, yes, but it's not open up to the whole world.
Mr. Dawkins: No, it's for food.
Mayor Suarez: OK, all right, so just notify them, please, yes. Don't notify
the whole world. Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-543
A MOTION ALLOCATING $8,000 OF THIRTEENTH YEAR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS PREVIOUSLY
APPROPRIATED BY ORDINANCE NO. 10287, ADOPTED JUNE 11,
1987 TO WYNWOOD ELDERLY CENTER, INC. AND $8,000 OF
THIRTEENTH YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
FUNDS TO SOUTHWEST SOCIAL SERVICE, INC. FOR THE
PURPOSE OF SUPPORTING THE FOOD PROGRAMS OPERATED BY
THESE AGENCIES; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER
TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENT WITH SAID AGENCIES FOR SAID
PROJECTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
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ASS: Cotnfin ssioner Victor be Yurre
Cofftissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Cori►missioner j. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOBS: Node,
ASSENT: None.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Thank you very much,
Ms. Grau: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Don't thank us, thank the Lord.
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44. APPOINTMENTS TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ADVISORY BOARD (APPOINTED MERE: JOE
BOLANOS AND LORI WELDON).
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Mayor Suarez: Item 71.
Mr. Odio: This is one appointment to the affirmative action advisory board
as...
Mayor Suarez: Affirmative Action Advisory Board, Commissioner De Yurre's
appointment. So you have an appointment'or do you want to...
Mr. De Yurre: For what board is that?
Mayor Suarez: Affirmative Action Board.
Mr. De Yurre: Yes, I have Joe Bolanos.
Mayor Suarez: Attorney Joe Bolanos. I'll entertain that in the form of a
motion.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Call the roll. Please, Madam City Clerk,
call the roll.
Mr. Plummer: Matty, call the roll. Seventy-one.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: THIS MOTION IS INCORPORATED AND FORMALIZED
IN RESOLUTION 88-544 WHICH APPEARS AT THE END OF THIS ITEM.
Mayor Suarez: Item 72. Are you going to direct yourself to one of these
appointment items?
Mr. Donald Benjamin: Yes, I wanted...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, I'm sorry, Don, go ahead.
Mr. Benjamin: I didn't have a chance to talk with you before but a few
meetings ago, you appointed me to the Affirmative Action Board
Mayor Suarez: And you have a problem.
Mr. Benjamin: I have a problem, so I certainly would like to withdraw from it
and make a suggestion as to replacement - Miss over there.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you. You're not going to nominate Lori - I mean, ask me
to nominate Lori Weldon, are you?
Mr. Benjamin: Yes, she's much more interested in it than I am,
Mayor Suarez: She's been known to wreck entire boards in their proceedings,
I will nominate from my appointment and to take your place as you; withdraw,
Lori Weldon.
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Mr, Dawkin§: Second:
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
The following re§olution was introduced by Commissioner be Yurre, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-544
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING TWO INDIVIDUALS TO FILL TWO
VACANCIES ON THE CITY OF MIAMI AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
BOARD.
(NOTE: Joe Bolanos was nominated by Commissioner De
Yurre. Lori Weldon was nominated by Mayor Suarez to
replace Donald Benjamin who withdrew from the 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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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45. APPOINTMENTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE BOARD (APPOINTED WERE: STUART
SORG, WILLIAM MESSETT AND WILLIAM ALEXANDER).
Mayor Suarez: Why do we have to vote on 73 again? We only need Commissioner
Plummer's appointments.
Mr. Plummer: Right.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, we have to formalize the whole bit. OK, do you have any
idea on your appointments, J.?
Mr. Plummer: I'll nominate Bill Messett, Bill Alexander, and Stuart Sorg.
Mayor Suarez: I thought his name was Bill Messett, no?
Mr. Plummer: Bill Messett, what did I say?
Mayor Suarez: Joe Messett.
Mr. Plummer: No, Bill Messett.
Mayor Suarez: OK, those three nominations and the approval of the
formalities. I'll entertain in the form of a motion.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Second.
Mayor Suarez: Second. Call the roll.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, let's make sure because I made an error last time.
Instead of naming Manny Gonzalez, I said Manny; Martinez.
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Even though it's reflected here Mandy Gohzalex, I just want to tiention that
into the record.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll with that clarification.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoptiont
RESOLUTION NO. 88-546
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE
SEVENTEEN MEMBER INTERNATIONAL TRADE BOARD ESTABLISHED
BY ORDINANCE NO. 10437, ADOPTED MAY 12, 1988.
(NOTE: The following individuals were appointed to
the International Trade Board:
* STUART SORG, BILL MESSETT, WILLIAM ALEXANDER
(nominated by Commissioner Plummer).
DARRYL SHARPTON (nominated by Comm. Dawkins)
TONY ZAMORA (nominated by Comm. Dawkins)
MARSHA SANDERS (nominated by Comm. Dawkins)
LEE SANDLER (nominated by Mayor Suarez)
HOWARD GARY (nominated by Mayor Suarez)
SATURNINO E. LUCIO, II (nominated by Mayor Suarez)
MANNY G. GONZALEZ (nominated by Comm De Yurre)
JOSEPH LORENZO (nominated by Comm. De Yurre)
OSMUNDO MARTINEZ (nominated by Comm De Yurre)
RAFAEL DIAZ-BALART (nominated by Vice Mayor Kennedy)
PEDRO ROIG (nominated by Vice Mayor Kennedy)
RAFAEL GARCIA TOLEDO (nominated by Vice Mayor Kennedy)
* - Denotes Commissioner Plummer's appointments made
at this time. R-88-546 further confirmed prior
appointments made by 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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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46. DISCUSSION CONCERNING PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OF AN INDIVIDUAL TO SERVE AS
A MEMBER OF THE PLANNING ADVISORY BOARD.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 72.
Mr. Odio: Seventy-two is an appointment for Commissioner De Yurre.
Mayor Suarez: PAB.
Mr. De Yurre: Yes, I would like to name Carlos Arboleya, Jr.
Mayor Suarez: Is he not still sitting as my appointment to the Code
Enforcement Board?
Mr. De Yurre; I don't know.
Mayor Suarez: Can he sit on the Code Enforcement Board and the PAB and I.,.
Mr. De Yurre; He can sit on one paid and one non paid, right?
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Mr, FerhAhdez: Might,
Mayor Suarez: I don't...
Mr. pluttimer: But oats he sit on both? Would he reaily want to sit on bothl
Mayor Suarez: You flight want to notify him that:::
Mr. be Yurre: No accepted the.::
Mayor Suarez: But I'm sure he wants to be on the PAB rather than Code
Enforcement so maybe he ought to resign from Code Enforcement and let me know
then I get another appointment.
Mr. be Yurre: OR, well, well, let's name him now to here, then he can get
them resigned:
Mr. Odo: The problem...
Mayor Suarez: But there's no legal impediment...
Mr. Fernandez As long as one is an advisory board, there's no problem.
Mayor Suarez: OR, we have a nomination...
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, I need a clarification because he did not apply...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, we got to advertise again.
Mr. De'Yurre: Well, then advertise and we'll go through procedure.
Mayor Suarez: OR, bring it back to us:
Mr. Fernandez: All right.'
Mayor Suarez: And in that process, somebody maybe contact him, Joe, and
explain to him that it may not be a'good idea, as Commissioner Plummer
suggested, it takes a lot of time to be on both of those boards and other
people do want to serve on boards.
47. APPOINT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD (APPOINTED
WERE: (A) RAUL HERNANDEZ, AND (B) HECTOR GASCA).
Mayor Suarez: Item 74. Latin Quarter Review Board. Commissioner Kennedy and
Dawkins.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, all we need; to do is send the application to my nominee,'
Raul Hernandez. Somehow it wasn't done, so...
Mayor Suarez: That doesn't need to follow any formalities, you can just
appoint him, can't you?
Mrs. Kennedy I believe so,
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I'll entertain that in the form of a motion.
Mrs. Kennedy: OR, so moved
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded, call the roll,
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The following fn6ti6h Wa§ introduced by Oomrilt§ioner 0h iedy, whs fnoved
Its adeption:
MOTION NO, 88-547
A LOTION APPOINTING RAUL HERNANDEZ AS A MEMBER Off' THE
LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD.
(NOTE: Mr. Hernandez was nominated by Vita Mayor
Kennedy. No application was ever filled out by the
nominee.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller is Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: Please, somebody remind Commissioner Dawkins that his
appointment is also up. Item 75, item 75, RFP.
Mr. Odio: This is the support of the Visions_2000_committee that was created
in Tallahassee by...
Mr. Plummer: How much?
Ms. Hirai (OFF MIKE): Miller, `,you have an appointment on 74. Do you want to
make it now?
Mr. Dawkins.(OFF MIKE): Seventy-four, what's 74?
Mr. Joe McManus: Commissioner,; we're receiving a..'.
Mr. Odio: No, we're receiving...
Mr. McManus ... a state grant.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, here you are.
Mrs. Kennedy: We've got a $41,000 state...
Mr. McManus We have $41,000 in a state grant. The purpose here is to go out
and hire the consultant.
Mr. Dawkins: I nominate...
Ms. Hirai: Excuse me, Mr. McManus, excuse me. Commissioner Dawkins is making
his appointment in connection agenda 74.
Mayor Suarez: Latin Quarter Review Board. So moved,
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The following th tift wab ihtrbduced by Commissioner bawkiht, who fnolied
its ad6ptien:
MOTION NO, 88-548
A MOTION APPOINTING HECTOR GASCA AS A MEMBER OF THE
LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD.
(NOTE: Mr. G$aca was nominated by Commissioner
Dawkins. No application was ever filled out by the
nominee.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES- None,
ABSENT: Commissioner Victor De Yurre.
48. AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF AN RFP FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - CONSULTANT
SUPPORT FOR CITY OF MIAMI VISIONS 2000 COMMITTEE.
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Mr. Dawkins: What are we on now, Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Suarez: Seventy-five is the item we're on, the Visions 2000 committee
RFP.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: This is from a grant from the state?
Mr. Joe McManus: Grant from the. state specifically for the Visions 2000
committee,....
Mayor Suarez: And we're just issuing the RFP to see who we're...
Mr. McManus: RFP for consultant services to provide staff support for the
committee.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on it, so moved.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Call the roll.
Mr. Plummer: I don't see the RFP.
Mr. McManus: The law department distributed the RFP with a dozen other items
as supplemental to your agenda. So, it's in the.
Mr. Plummer: The .sneaky Pete.
Mr. McManus; It's in the law department package.
Mayor Suarez (OFF.MIKE); This is an incredible agenda.
Mr, Clark (OFF MIKE); It's in that memo. we gave you, J,L,
Mr. Plummer: What memo?
Mr. McManus; I believe it's the next to the last item in the law department
package,
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Mr. Piurnrnen What item was it?
Mr. MtManuso I think it's the hoot to the last one.
Mr. Plummer: Seventy-five. Go ahead and tail the roil, let one look at it.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on 15.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88j-540
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE SUBSEQUENT ISSUANCE OF A
REQUEST FOR THE PROPOSALS FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
FOR THE PROVISION OF CONSULTANT SUPPORT FOR THE CITY
OF MIAMI VISIONS 2000 COMMITTEE IN ACCORDANCE WITH
ORDINANCE NO. 9512, ADOPTED FEBRUARY 10, 1983, WHICH
ORDINANCE ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES FOR CONTRACTING SAID
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: ALTHOUGH ABSENT DURING ROLL CALL,
COMMISSIONER DE YURRE REQUESTED OF THE CLERK TO SHOW HIM VOTING
WITH THE MOTION.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, THE CITY COMMISSION CONTINUED
TO JULY 14 AGENDA ITEM 76 (PROPOSED CO -DESIGNATION OF N.W. 12TH
AVENUE FROM N.W. 7TH TO N.W. 12TH AVENUES AS "JOHN HENRY PEAVY,
JR., STREET").
49. ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: M. VILA AND ASSOCIATES, INC. - FOR BUENA VISTA
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II (BID "B") - CIP PROJECT NO. 341108.
Mayor Suarez: Seventy-seven, accepting completed work.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mr. Plummer: Move it
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Any discussion? Call the roll.
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The following resolution was lntrbdueed by Commissibh6r Dawkins] who
finbV6d its adOption:
RESOLUTION NO, 88=550
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF M. VILA
AND ASSOCIATES, INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF $502,114.55
FOR BUENA VISTA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT _ PHASE It (1311)
01E1-) C.I.P. PROJECT NO. 341108 AND AUTHORIZING A FINAL
PAYMENT OF $3,113.26.
(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 Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: ALTHOUGH ABSENT DURING ROLL CALL,
COMMISSIONER DE YURRE REQUESTED OF THE CLERK TO SHOW HIM VOTING
WITH THE MOTION.
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50. RATIFY MANAGER'S FINDING OF SOLE SOURCE - WAIVE COMPETITIVE SEALED
BIDS - APPROVE ACQUISITION OF SERVICE FOR DIGITAL ASSEMBLIES OF PORTABLE
UNITS FROM MOTOROLA COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS, INC.
Mayor Suarez: Seventy-eight. Ratifying Manager's finding of sole source.
Mr. Dawkins: J.L. move.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. We need 4/5ths vote.
Mr. Plummer: On which item?
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Seventy-eight.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Pluffimef, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO, 88-551
A RESOLUTION, BY A 4/5THS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF THE
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION AFTER A DULY ADVERTISED
PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING THE CITY MANAGER'S FINDING
OF SOLE SOURCE; WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDS AND APPROVING THE ACQUISITION
OF SERVICE FOR THE DIGITAL ASSEMBLIES OF PORTABLE
UNITS AT AN ESTIMATED COST OF $47,000.00 FROM MOTOROLA
COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS, INC. (DCS/PORTABLE
INC.), PART OF THE 800 MHZ COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
MANUFACTURED BY MOTOROLA COMMUNICATIONS & ELECTRONICS,
INC. FOR THE DEPARTMENT GENERAL SERVICE
ADMINISTRATION/COMMUNICATION SERVICES DIVISION;
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-88 OPERATING
BUDGET ACCOUNT CODE NO. 420301-340-56000; AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT
OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE,
SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: ALTHOUGH ABSENT DURING ROLL CALL,
COMMISSIONER DE YURRE REQUESTED OF THE CLERK TO SHOW HIM VOTING
WITH THE MOTION.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Dawkins: Hold on, wait a minute.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, wait.
Mr. Dawkins: J.L.'s got to look at 78.
Mayor Suarez: I thought we had a motion here. Somebody moved it on your
behalf.
Mr. Plummer What item?
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): ... you moved 78, that's Motorola.
Mr. Odio: It's $47,000.
Mayor Suarez: He who hesitates...
Mr, Plummer: No, I'm trying to read something else. Yes, that's fine.
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): All right...
Ms. Hirai: This is moved by Commissioner Dawkins, seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy.
Mr. Dawkins; Commissioner Plummer.
Ms, Hirai: Plummer,
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Mr. Dawkins: Moved it, 1 second.
Ms. Hirai: Oh, all right.
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51. RATIFY MANAGER'S FINDING OF SOLE SOURCE - WAIVE COMPETITIVE SEALED
BIDS - APPROVE ACQUISITION OF FIXED SITE DIGITAL ASSEMBLIES FROM
MOTOROLA COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS, INC.
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Mayor Suarez: Seventy-nine.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Sole source, moved.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. Also needs 4/5ths.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-552
A RESOLUTION, BY A 4/5THS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF THE
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION AFTER A DULY ADVERTISED
PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING THE CITY MANAGER'S FINDING
OF SOLE SOURCE; WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDS AND APPROVING THE ACQUISITION
OF SERVICE FOR THE FIXED SITE DIGITAL ASSEMBLIES AT AN
ESTIMATED COST OF $48,000.00 FROM MOTOROLA
COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS, INC. (MIDWEST HIGH-
TECH CENTER) PART OF THE 800 MHZ COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM
MANUFACTURED BY MOTOROLA COMMUNICATIONS & ELECTRONICS,
INC. OR THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION/COMMUNICATION SERVICES DIVISION;
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-88 OPERATING
BUDGET ACCOUNT CODE NO. 420301-340-56000; AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT
OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE,
SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: ALTHOUGH ABSENT DURING ROLL CALL,
COMMISSIONER DE YURRE REQUESTED OF THE CLERK TO SHOW HIM VOTING
WITH THE MOTION.
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52. INCREASE IN CONTRACT WITH MARINA POWER COMPANY FOR ELECTRIC METERS AT
DINNER KEY MARINA,
Mayor Suarez: Eighty-one.
Mr. Dawkins: Eighty-one or 80?
Mr. Odio: We're withdrawing 80, we're withdrawing 80,.....
Mayor Suarez: Eighty's withdrawn according to this.
Mr. Dawkins: Eighty was withdrawn? Eighty-one, move it.
Mayor Suarez: Eighty -ones been moved. Emergency. Do you have to put the
nature of the emergency into the record?
Mrs. Kennedy: The funds...
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry, Madam Vice Mayor.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, I was asking, the funds do exist, right and they will be...
Mr. Plummer: Eighty-one has been withdrawn?
Mr. Fernandez (OFF MIKE): Eighty, eighty has been withdrawn.
Mr. Odio: Let me put on the re...
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Manager, the funds are to be recouped within 18 months.
Mr. Odio: Yes. Let me put on the record that nature of the emergency that
valid emergency is due to the fact that a delay to the installation will
result in an additional increase of $20,000 for labor and materials to the
detriment of the City's welfare and convenience.
Mayor Suarez: Item 81, do we have a motion and a second?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, we do.
Ms. Hirai: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-553
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE IN THE AMOUNT OF
$150,000 IN THE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND
MARINA POWER COMPANY DATED MARCH 17, 1988, FOR THE
INSTALLATION OF 399 CERTIFIED ENERGY CONCEPT ELECTRIC
METERS AT THE DINNER KEY MARINA, WITH FUNDS THEREFOR
TO BE TEMPORARILY PROVIDED FROM FUNDS ALREADY
APPROPRIATED TO THE DINNER KEY MARINA
RENOVATION/EXPANSION PROJECT, NO. 414005, TO BE
REPLACED IN THE SAME AMOUNT WITH MONIES FROM DINNER
KEY MARINA ENTERPRISE FUND RETAINED EARNINGS; FURTHER
RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE CITY MANAGER'S
WRITTEN FINDING THAT THE HEREIN INCREASE RESULTED FROM
EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES BY AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF
FOUR/FIFTHS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION, AND
ADOPTING THE FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS SET FORTH IN THE
PREAMBLE OF THIS RESOLUTION.
(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:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner 1. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: ALTHOUGH ABSENT DURING ROLL CALL,
COMMISSIONER DE YURRE REQUESTED OF THE CLERK TO SHOW HIM VOTING
WITH THE MOTION.
53, WAIVE CODE PROHIBITION AS IT APPLIES TO THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION
AUTHORITY AGREEMENT WITH HOLLAND AND KNIGHT TO RETAIN CHRISTOPHER KORGE.
Mayor Suarez: Item, Chris Korge, 82.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion.
Mayor Suarez: Under discussion, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: I have no problems with the .waiver, period. I want that
understood. What I do have a problem with is, that every time you look
around, somebody leaves the law department and goes some place else and it's
never a minority, OK? When Sechen left, he was the only one who knew about
the sports authority so we said that would not happen again. Then Chris Korge
came and I distinctly asked that Linda Kelly be assigned to work with Chris
Korge so that when Chris Korge got ready to leave, Linda Kelly would be an
expert in the sports authority. That has not happened, OK. Somewhere along
the lines, somebody has to realize that there must be some cross work or cross
training or cross something because I am fed up with everybody leaving here
with consultant jobs but us, OK? I mean and you can name it. They retire
with $80,000 and they get a consultancy for $60,000 and not a one of them look
like me. They don't look like you either.
Mayor Suarez: Thank God, there's no two in the world that look like him.
Mr. Dawkins: So I want to...
Mr. Plummer: They can't find attorneys that ugly.
Mr. Dawkins: So I'd like to say that - the waiver's fine. Anybody in America
should be able to leave a job to go to a better job. Anybody should be able
to do that. But somewhere along the line, I'm tired of sitting up here seeing
everybody leave here and it doesn't happen, OK? Now, let's take that a step
further. Where is the arena people, OK? I told you I've been sitting here,
the arena could not find enough Latins to meet the Latin quota on the
construction of the arena. They could not find enough blacks to meet the
construction quota on the arena and yet the whites got their quota and now you
got $144,000 contract that could have been given to a black law firm, a Latin
law firm....
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, no, that...
Mr. Dawkins; but yet, you give it to Holland and Knight which is not a
minority firm.
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Mr, Plumttert Noy that's h6t true ricws
Mr, bawkinst That is true,
Mr. Plumer! too, 6Xtuse me, let,.
Mr. Dawkinst It is true!
Mr. Plummert Let me correct the record, Mr. Dawkins, it it riot $144,000,
Mr. Dawkinst OR.
Mr. Plummer: You made the mistake, as others did, and read a newspaper
article: That is yet to be determined.
Mayor Suarez: But the mistake really was not made by Commissioner Dawkins,
the mistake was made by those that started talking about $144,000 a year.
Mr. Dawkins: And put it in the paper.
Mr. Plummer: That $144,000 was the number which was derived as to what it
costs the City Attorney's office last year to provide the same service.
Mayor Suarez: Not really, it was 12 times 12 is what it was, they were going
up to $12,000 a month.
Mr. Plummer: I was told, Mr. Mayor, that it was, in fact, the staff, the
cost, the fees, everything is what the hundred and forty-four.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, I will rephrase it so that I will not get into a
semantics discussion with my colleague, if he left for $12.50, the fact is
that not a one of us left here for $12.50.That's my problem, that's my
point.
Mr. Plummer: I understand.
Mayor Suarez: And if your point is a caution to the Sports and Exhibition
Authority or who. ever it is that makes that decision as to not awarding
$144,000 worth of business to any one law firm, particularly not a law firm
that has not shown us minority participation, then I join you in that caution `
because I hope that message gets to them.
Mr. Dawkins: That's my whole argument, Mr. Mayor. OK? And I don't how to
get it over and I keep saying it over and over and nobody seems to hear me.
Mayor Suarez: And the other point that you had made that I think is
important, I hope it gets to them is that the people in house who are being
trained to handle a lot of this work, I hope are also considered, Mr. City
Attorney, an empire builder, you may want to consider yourself in trying to do
some...
Mr. Fernandez: Yes, a point well made and well taken.
Mayor Suarez: OR.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: I say that in a...
Mr. Dawkins: No further discussion.
Mayor Suarez: .. humorous vein but, you know, you ought to really look at
some of these things. We've been talking in the past about trying to do more
of these in house and if Linda Kelly, in fact, has been trained to do this
work, well; we ought to try to do as much in house as possible. Item...
Mr. De Yurre; Mr. Mayor, I'll move the item.
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry, Commissioner.
Mr. De Yurre; I'll move it.
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Mr, bAwk1hb (OFF MIKE): It's boob moved.
Mayor Suarez: Moved,
Ms, Hirai: It's been rn6ved, it's bees roved,
Mr, Dawkins: ... under discussion.
Mayor Suarez: yes, just call the roil on it,
Ms, Hirai: Cali the roll.
Mr. Dawkina: Call the roll.
Mr. Fernandez: Excuse me, but this is a vote that requires 4/5ths of the
members of the...
Mayor Suarez: We've got four up here:
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): We got four.
Mayor Suarez: We got four.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-554
A RESOLUTION WAIVING, BY A 4/5THS VOTE OF THE CITY
COMMISSION AFTER A DULY ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, THE
PROHIBITION CONTAINED IN CITY CODE SECTION 2-302 AS IT
APPLIES TO THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY
AGREEMENT WITH HOLLAND AND KNIGHT FOR THE PURPOSE OF
RETAINING CHRISTOPHER G. KORGE AS GENERAL COUNSEL FOR SAID
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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
-Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mayor Suarez: Maybe I'll vote no and naw, I'm not going to do that. Yes.
COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL:
Mayor Suarez: As to the waiver again to clarify, not as to sanctioning
anything they might do with their legal representation.
Mr. Fernandez: That's correct. That's clear.
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54. STIPULATION BY CITY COMMISSION THAT PROPERTIES SOUTH OF THE EXPRESSWAY
BE EXCLUDED FROM PRESENTLY INSTITUTED BOUNDARIES OF THE DESIGN DISTRICT
IN CONNECTION WITH PROPOSED LEVYING OF A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT.
Mayor Suarez: Eighty-three. All right, item eighty-three. Miami Design
District. Where are we on this? After extensive discussion last time, is the
only issue pending now whether the entire area's included? 1 can't imagine
any Commissioner wanting to hear once again the basic arguments.
Mr. Matthew Schwartz: The purpose of this meeting...
Mrs. Kennedy: This is approving the special assessment district.
Mr. Schwartz: ... is to take testimony from the property owners concerning
the district. As a result of the last Commission meeting, we met with the
Beacon Council to see if we could get assistance from the Beacon Council.
They do not provide any priority consideration for this. They take each of
the twenty six SIC categories...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, have we heard that or have we not heard that in the past,
WOW.
Mr. Schwartz: They would assist in some of the marketing efforts. We had a
meeting with the property owners, we invited all the property owners. Those
in attendance expressed - the majority of them were against the establishment
of the district. Their major concern was that the property today is over
assessed in the area based on assessments that were generated on sales in the
area four or five years ago when the market was much better. That's a major
concern of the property owners. We also looked at the area south of the
expressway to see if that area should be included within the district. That
area is now 75 percent vacant, that's the area from I-195 to 36th Street. It
represents approximately 11 percent of the tax base of the area.
Mayor Suarez: Matthew, just to clarify, when you say 75 percent vacant, you
don't mean that there's just empty properties there, you mean that...
Mr. Schwartz: Empty buildings.
Mayor Suarez: You mean that...
Mr. Schwartz: Empty buildings.
Mr. Plummer: Empty buildings, the commercial property.
Mayor Suarez: You mean that there's some of the properties don't have
tenants.
Mr. Schwartz: Yes, the commercial property is 75 percent vacant in this area
today. This area expanded in the late 701s, early 80's as part of the design
district and as the design district retreated, that area...
Mr. Plummer: And of the 25 percent that's occupied, how much is at poverty
level?
Mr. Schwartz: The majority are related to the design district.
Mr. Plummer: But at the 25 percent, didn't we have a guy stand up here and
tell us the other day he's getting like $4.00 a square foot or $3.00?
Mayor Suarez: Do you have any idea what the rates are that are being charged
in that other 25 percent that are actually rented?
Mr. Schwartz: I don't have those figures.
Mayor Suarez: OK,
Mr, Schwartz: In the material that we provided you, we are recommending that
we establish the district to generate the $200,000. That this would result in
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an 11 percent increase in taxes for the property owners. In the original
thing we sent out to you, it's a mistake, it says 7.8 percent. It's a 3.6
percent mill increase which would result in 11 percent for each of the
property owners, There are some major property owners in the district that
would be impacted significantly; Mr. Fineman, I believe is approximately
$40#000, Charles LaLuce is about $10,000 and Mr. Plummer, which are the three
main property owners, Mr. Plummer is about $12,000. The other property
owners, they range from $154 to a few thousand dollars.
Mayor Suarez: Those three are all in favor or not?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): No.
Mr. Schwartz: No. We have diverse...
Mayor Suarez: Mr. Fineman is not in favor?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE)! No against it....
Mayor Suarez: Can you confirm that, Mr. Fineman? You against the district?
Mr. Art Fineman: Art Fineman, 39th St. and N.E. 2nd Avenue. I'm in favor of
reducing taxes. Is that what you asked me for?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, if you're in favor of the special taxing district,
Mr. Fineman: No, sir, I want to reduce the taxes.
Mayor Suarez: Ah ha. Gee, I thought the whole idea is that the design
district was behind it. If Mr. Fineman is not behind it, who...
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mayor Suarez: First of all, with all due respect, no one has really called on
you.
Mrs. Kennedy: What are you doing here?
Mayor Suarez: If you want to go up to the mike, get up the mike and give us
your name. And second of all, I was just asking as to Mr. Fineman, if anybody
knows. Matthew, of the three principal ones that you just mentioned...
Mr. Schwartz: Of the three principal property owners, two of them are
opposed, Mr. Plummer and Mr. Fineman.
Mayor Suarez: Who's in favor of the three principal ones, who's the one in
favor?
Mr. Schwartz: Mr. LaLuce.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, Charles LaLuce, he was one of the proponents of the whole
idea, of course.
Mr. Schwartz: That's right and the proposal was - the recommendation to
proceed with this has been through the Merchants Association which is
comprised of the merchants and the property owners as a mixture.
Mayor Suarez: Please, if you're going to make a remark, we're going to need
it on the record and not out of turn. OK..
Mr, Fineman; Could I...
Mayor Suarez: thank you, Mr. Fineman, I understand your position,
Mr. Fineman: Can I say,..
Mayor Suarez: I thought that you were part of the idea and that's why I was
surprised.
Mr, Fineman: Can I say something?
Mayor Suarez: We've got your position clarified but go ahead, sure.
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Mr, Fineman: From 1976 to 1988, taxes have increased 100 percent in our
district. Our three buildings compromising approximately 200,000 feet; 80
Percent is vacant today and has been for some while. Rents have gone down
almost 50 percent. You can inspect our books, you can inspect our buildings,
look at what's available that you need to know. Security police have gone up,
insurance has gone up, maintenance has gone up. I do not see improvements in
design center for sometime to come. 1 hope it does come back but 1 don't see
it for the present. Thank you very much.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you for your statement. Anything else, Matthew from you?
Mr. Schwartz: From the department of development standpoint, this seems to be
the only source of funds that we could tap on to provide some assistance to
marketing the area. That's the main issue.
Mr. Plummer: So what are you recommending?
Mr. Schwartz: The staff recommends that we implement the district.
Mr. Plummer: All the way to 36th Street?
Mr. Schwartz: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: You lost my vote.
Mayor Suarez: OK. You and then you, sir. Go ahead, make it quickly. We've
heard testimony on this already so if you can make it quick please.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Make it quick.
Mr. Gene Prince: The plan that you see in front of you here.
Mayor Suarez: State name and if you represent the association, tell us,
please.
Mr. Prince: Gene Prince, property owner over on 36th Street and at the last
minute, we found out that this was going to go forward. We were at the work
shop where unanimously every owner there present at that workshop was opposed
to it. Even Mr. LaLuce said that if the City didn't match funds, he was
against it, so...
Mayor Suarez: I see, so one of the principal proponents is saying that the
only way he would still be in favor would be if we matched it.
Mr. Prince: That's what he said that night, I don't know what he'll say
today. On this plan, these people were contacted...
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Where did that come from? I never heard that the
City was going to match it.
Mr. Prince: ... everything you see in solid red were property owners and 100
percent of the people contacted with one exception, well, he was undecided,
are all those that you see in solid red that are opposed. The ones that are
colored in, just with hash marks, are people that saw this out in the lobby
and came over and wanted their property put on it with the rest of the owners
that are opposed. Everything in red, lines and solid, were people that are
opposed to it. Mr. LaLuce's property is in yellow up in the corner, right
hand corner, because we don't know what his position will be today from the
last workshop. There are several property owners here that have different
points to bring up. Do you want to take it from here?
Mr. Gui Goveart: Mr. Mayor, member of the Commission, Gui Goveart, owner of
4100 N. Miami Avenue. I know the point is well made by just looking at the
map as to who is opposed and not all of those came. We patiently wait since
2:00 o'clock to have most of them talking but the point have been made I
believe. The question is, is that the proposal tax district is for promotion.
We would need promotion if we had our house in order. If one would just take
his car coming from I-95 and I take it every morning, and follow the guide
sign as to how to get into the district and go through the graffiti area in
the back to be guided back into the district, one that is discouraged to begin
with. When I bought this building, my idea was to open a Belgian Center as
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consul of Belgium. I did that, they're all gone. We have bullets in my
building that were happened daylight. We have cars stolen, we don't have
security coming into the area and it's very depressing and the problem of the
area is not a promotion at this point that would not help, it is the
infrastructure. It is the renewal of the area in the back of surrounding the
district where, hopefully, the effort of Miss Kennedy could continue there in
removing some of the crack houses and the effort maybe with Commission Dawkins
to improve a affordable area for many of the low income people there with
security. With security you could have a good area and promotion today, I'm
afraid, will not help anything. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, sir.
Mr. Don Spencer: Don Spencer, 3616 through 20 N.E. 2nd Avenue. Mr. Mayor and
Commissioners...
Mayor Suarez: You're south of the expressway?
Mr. Spencer: South of the expressway. I was the one that appeared before you
and told you about renting for $3.75 a square foot. The funny thing about
that is one of my tenants that rent for $3.75 a square foot can't even make
his rent. He met me out here in the lobby and gave me a partial payment for
this month. Mr. Plummer, you were very astute in one thing that you said
early today. If you don't have the money, you don't spend it. It appears to
us, the majority of property owners in the Miami design area, that if you vote
in this Miami design special assessment tax, that you gentlemen, ladies, are
guilty of the worst kind of politics. It appears to us that you've made
bedfellows with the Miami Design Merchants Association and through the
lobbying of this, without a doubt special interest group, are attempting to
tax the majority of the property owners in this area in order that the Design
Merchants Association can advertise, promote, have security, have an office
and staff to the tune of $180,000 which they told us in the workshop of April
26th and they also told us their computer was down, they need a computer. And
all this to benefit their own immediate businesses, not the majority of the
property owners. This is also predicated upon matching funds from the City.
I personally, my wife, have been in business in this area since 1954.
Whenever I had to advertise my services or my rental space, I did this at my
own expense. Never once did I think of coming to you people and saying, hey,
I would like to improve my business, I would like some more security for my
business, I would like a computer. What do you say you tax my neighbors for
it. People that live off other people are called parasites. Animals that
live off other animals are called parasites. The apparent collusive action
between the Commission and Miami Design Merchants Association must cease. The
many millions you have taken from the property owners in the design area since
the late 70's should be by far enough to support an office using general funds
if the City of Miami so desires to support the Design Merchants Association.
We don't. We, the people, the majority of property owners in the design area,
do not desire or want it. The same special assessment was attempted two years
ago and dropped as the majority of the property owners did not want it then
either. Business areas rise, business areas fall. The Miami Design Center is
no longer a crown jewel in the crown of Miami. It's a zircon and not a good
one. The area is now changing, gentlemen, let it change. Let it rise or fall
at the behest...
Mayor Suarez: Ladies, ladies and gentlemen.
Mr. Spencer: Ladies and gentlemen, pardon me. She left us.
Mayor Suarez: She's hearing.
Mr. Spencer: Those that want to advertise their own businesses at their own
expense and their own products at their own expense, let them do so. The area
will survive or it won't survive. Those that don't, will fail. A fact of
life. However, to tax those that cannot afford it and who will not benefit at
all in order to promote, advertise and protect the affluent with their
superstructures and their high priced tenants who pay up to $24.00 a square
foot, is a travesty. I'm almost done, your honor.
Mayor Suarez: I was hoping you'd say that.
Mr. Spencer: Yes, well. For approximately - well, we are ready for three
seventy-five and I brought up the amount of $24.00.
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Mayor Suatett We've heard rnd§t of the afguffients,,:
Mt. Spencett OK,
Mayor Suarez: .:. more than once, to please, wrap up.
Mr. Spencert Ott, I asked you to do... I'm at the very end.
Mayor Suarezt We know what you're asking.
Mr. Spencers I ask you these three things. One, that you do not approve this
special assessment tax requested by the special interest group known as the
Miami Design Merchants Center. Two, that you restructure the ad valorem taxes
in this area much more realistically and see that the public tax rolls truly
show properties that are sold for less than the assessed value which they do
not now reflect.
Mr. Plummer: It's not in our purview.
Mr. Spencer: All right, and, three, that you remove all properties between
the expressway and N.E. 36th Street from Miami Avenue to N.E. 2nd Avenue from
the design district and the design district tax rolls.
Mayor Suarez: We figured that that's what you want us to do.
Mr. Dawkins: Question, sir. Turn back to your first page, you said that we
would be in bed with the design district. Would you read that for me again so
that I don't quote you wrong.
Mr. Spencer: I said, it appears that you have made bedfellows with the Miami
Design Merchants Association.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, now if I agree with you, then does that mean that I've made
strange bedfellow with you too? I mean, according to your reasoning.
Mr. Spencer: No, I am saying... what I'm inferring.to is this. This,all.came
to the fore without the majority of the taxpayers in the area knowing about
it. We were hit with this at prior to the first meeting.
Mayor Suarez: But you're participating in it now before we approve anything.
Mr. Spencer:. Yes, but why weren't we considered at the inception?
Mr. Dawkins All I ask you, sir, is, if I agree with you, does that mean that
you and I are made strange bedfellows?
Mr. Spencer: I don't consider that, I...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, then well why would you say if I agree with them,
that I've made a strange bedfellow with them, sir?
Mr. Spencer: I said it appears because...
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Spencer: ... the rest of the property owners...
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Spencer: did, not know about this until it was almost sealed. In
fact, if you recall, at my previous statements ,to you, I even used that term
prior. I said it seems like the skids are greased.
Mr, Dawkins; Thank you.
Mr. Spencer: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez; That usually hurts your argument is the point the Commissioners
making. You know, when you come in and say..,
Mrs. Kennedy; Yes, it's a very offensive term,
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Mr. Spencer: Than I apologize.
Mayor Suarez: We accept the apology, I suppose. Ma'am.
Ms. Marcela Goldstein: My name is Marcela Goldstein. I'm vice president of
the Miami Design District Association and I'm going to make two line speech
and erase the rest of my speech. I also represent Charles LaLuce and he's
definitely, 100 percent, in favor of the special tax district. So, you know
where he stands now. I would just like to say that I resent being referred to
as a zircon, I always thought I was a diamond. I've been in Miami...
Mayor Suarez: Let the record reflect the Commission believes you're a
diamond. Go ahead.
Ms. Goldstein: I've been in Miami eight years, my first showroom was 900
square feet, we have over 5,000 square feet. I don't really feel like I'm
dying, I feel like I'm flourishing and I know that I'm flourishing and I feel
that the problem here is the major problem, it's what everybody seems to think
of the district, not what is really happening in the district. We have over a
thousand jobs in the district. We support, maybe, three thousand people in
other industries in the district. We turn over revenues of over $300,000,000
a year. I don't think that's a zircon, I think it's a thriving business and I
think it's very important to Miami and that it stays in Miami and we in the
district, I am not a property owner, I'm a merchant, but I have been paying
security dues for years to protect your property and where are you property
owners when it came time to put in the extra security that the district needs
that gave a bad name to the district and the bad name is crime flourishes in
Miami, even though it isn't true, it's just that we are victims of very bad
publicity and this is something we are trying very hard to overcome. Thank
you very much.
Mr. Plummer: It's the longest two lines I ever heard.
Mayor Suarez: Anybody, but quickly, please.
Mr. Donald Southern: Thank you, Mr. Mayor, I will be brief as possible. My
name is Donald Southern, I'm executive vice president of the South Florida
Letter Carriers Union. I live in the City of Miami, I'm a property owner in
the City of Miami. Our South Florida letter carriers represents over 5,700
City letter carriers, the majority of them carrying mail in the City of Miami.
Our Tropical Holding Corporation owns the Buena Vista post office building.
The address of that building is 70 N.E. 39th Street, we've been there over 30
years. We're a non profit organization. We provide representation...
Mr. Dawkins: I beg to differ, you get 25 cents a stamp.
Mr. Southern: The letter carriers union does not derive any revenues from the
postal service funds. We do derive revenue from the rents we receive from the
post office who are our tenants. However, our building is used solely for the
administration of our union as a meeting hall. We must oppose this special
assessment recommended for property owners and we do so for many obvious
reasons. First let me say that our union currently pays $30,000 per year in
taxes on our building. We have one tenant, that's the postal service and
their rental payments fall far short of paying even the taxes, let alone any
repairs or improvements. Our union absorbs the balance. Any additional tax
or assessment must be strongly opposed by our membership. While we strongly
support our community and our neighboring property owners, we can see no
legitimate reason for this special assessment. To ask a nonprofit
organization to pay a special assessment for the funding of business
development and marketing for the Miami design district is ludicrous. There's
no benefit to our organization to be derived from the assessment and as far as
we can see, there's no allowance for exempting property owners in our
particular situation. We strongly oppose the enforcement of the special
assessment that will do nothing more than enhance the profits of the private
businesses in the area, at other taxpayers' expense. We ask that the
Commission rescind the proposal entirely. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
(Applause)
Mr. Joe Pallant: Very nicely said.
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Mr. Plummert Go.
Mr. Joe Pallant: Yes. My name is Joe Pallant. I have a business on 4000
N.E. 2nd Avenue: I've been in the district 19 years. I own six buildings in
the area. They're not those in yellow but they didn't happen to put mine in.
The Miami Design District has petitioned to you to help the design district.
The watchword that I want you to remember is proud. We are proud to promote
the area. We are proud to promote the district. I am an insurance agent and
a property owner and I am proud to work in the area. I am proud to promote
the organization of the Miami Design District. We are hard working, we are
longsighted and we are progressive in our thoughts. I am proud, as a property
owner, to promote the design association and its functions. I'm also proud to
promote the Miami Design District. It is not called the district, it is not
called the design district, it's called the Miami Design District and we help
promote it, not only for ourselves and insurance agents, but the whole area.
We have a recognition in the City and we want to continue to promote that. I
am proud to state that our area is safer than it has been in a long time due
to private associations, our association helping to get our own funding for
our own private security. Let me tell you our needs. Our needs are money,
our needs are money for public awareness. One of those ways of getting public
awareness is a special taxing district. We need money to promote the
district, we need money to promote our organization, we need money to promote
the Miami Design District and Miami. We need money to promote safety. What I
want the City Commissioners and merchants to understand that we have to be
visionary, we have to look to the future, good times are coming, we can't now
say because our rents are lower to give up the association. We have to
collectively promote the district and the best way to do it is through this
assessment of myself and other property owners. None of the people that have
spoken before me are members of the association. They have not promoted the
association, yet they make at the residuals of our association and our work.
I am a member of the association, I'm a landowner, I am a business owner.
Support the Miami association, do not let it die, please.
Mrs. Kennedy: You know, you answered one of the questions I had, was how do
the ancillary businesses benefit from this? You are in the insurance business
and, obviously, benefit from it.
Mr. Pallant: I think that myself, it's a pretty place to work. Very few
places in the area, I'm sorry, in all of Miami, if you take a look at many,
many areas from Kendall to Coral Gables, you walk down our streets, our
streets are beautiful. We have beautiful sidewalks, we have good lighting,
it's a great place to work, it's a great place to have your business. I need
it to continue. I am a property owner and I have to promote my property and I
can't say in 59th Street or something, I'm in the Miami Design District and we
are promoting the district. I'm not promoting myself, I promote the district
and I don't want my tenants to move somewhere out of Miami. We are the Miami
Design District, we have to continue to be a district. Any other questions?
Thank you.
(Applause)
Mayor Suarez: OK, briefly, please.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Oh, no, you were first. You go ahead.
Mayor Suarez: The arguments are getting to be cumulative, it doesn't matter
to us who goes, go ahead.
Mr. Richard Plumer: I'm Richard Plumer, am I clear?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, yes.
Mr. Plummer: Not related.
Mr. Richard Plumer: No, that's right. Two m's, one m.
Mayor Suarez: Good side of the family, all right, go ahead.
Mr. Richard Plumer; We have been, you know, in the area for 63 years, since
1925. We've seen the ups and the downs. I'm only reacting to some of the
things that have been said, I really am sorry that any aspersion, intended or
otherwise, was cast in the direction of the Commission. I'm sorry for that, I
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apologize. I didn't do it and I know the chap who did didn't mean it really.
1 do think the Commission, over a period of time, and I've probably
contributed to it some way, has been misled. I must say that the figures that
you heard today, $300,000,000, three thousand employees, and my Lord, you
know, we're dealing in a world of fantasy when we talk like that. Miami's
Design District is not a market in the sense that Chicago, New York, Dallas,
Los Angeles, or even San Francisco is. I can only say that I'm terribly proud
of where we work, it's a great part of Miami. The security question is, of
course, a serious one but isn't it that way everywhere, not only in Miami, the
City of, but in Dade County. But our property has always been beautiful, we
have five different buildings, we landscape them, we paint them, we're proud
of them and we'll be there no matter what happens. I have to urge you - now,
I've tried to believe in the Miami Design Merchants Association. We are
members of it. We pay dues to it and have never failed to pay those dues over
all the years of its existence. But it is wrongly directed. The design
district, and I think this is where you have been misled, has some how thought
that in appealing to the design profession, the decorators and designers of
which we are one, you see, that they would somehow make a magical huge volume
of business and a lovely tax roll and the whole thing. That has failed and
the management, so called, that has been given the program of promotion and
marketing is a failure and should not be spent any further money on, neither
the City's money nor our money. I propose, I've said it many times, instead
of all this phoney business about is it a wholesale district or to the trade
only district with only 5,000 possible users, and the public confused as to
whether it may come to it or not. Our store traffic, I might tell you, has
fallen probably 80 percent...
Mayor Suarez: Are you going to wrap up, Mr. Plumer, please.
Mr. Richard Plumer: Yes, sir. Eighty percent in 35 years of the existence of
this district. I simply strongly urge you to discontinue this whole thing of
City money. We will handle our own problems, we'll form such organization as
are necessary, provide the funds and do something that will bring the area to
where you want it to be. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, sir. Last one. Madam Vice Mayor.
Mrs. Kennedy: Let me just make a comment following his comments. The figures
that you refer to which Marcela used are even better than that, there's over
$56,000,000 in assessable property value which contributes $542,000 yearly to
our tax base and it's not $300,000.
Mr. Richard Plumer: Your appraisals are way out of date. We are overtaxed by
at least, well I...
Mayor Suarez: She's not talking about whether they're right or wrong, that's
just what the figures happen to be.
Mrs. Kennedy: I'm just saying the figures.
Mr. Richard Plumer: I think you're mistaken.
Mr. Hy Katz: Mr. Mayor, Commissioners, I know you're all tired. I can see
it's been a long day, it's been a long day for us too. We left our places of
business to be here and I have a four minute comment to say. Would you please
hear me out? Isn't it amazing how, for the first time, we see organization
amongst property owners. They're here and they're organized because it's
going to cost them some money.
Mayor Suarez: They're really organized on both sides of the issue, but...
Mr. Katz: Sir, I'm a property owner and I'm a merchant. My name is Hy Katz
and I'm the owner of Sofas and Chairs Unlimited. I operate a design showroom
in the district...
Mayor Suarez: What's the address so that we have some place to...
Mr. Katz: Thirty-five N.E. 38th Street, Miami. I also have a factory and
general offices on 27th Street that borders the district where I have close to
a hundred employees and I've been in the design area since 1957, that's 31
years. There are three kinds of people that are here, Mr. Mayor. The first
kind are the people that make things happen and the second kind, that watch
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things happen and the third kind are the ones that wondering what is
happening. The first kind that makes things happen are always the handful,
like the City Council, the Beacon Council, the Chamber of Commerce, they're
the people that make things happen.
Mr. Plummer: Hal
Mr. Katz: They're the doers. The second group...
Mr. Plummer: Did you say the Chamber of Commerce?
Mr. Katz: Yes I did. The Miami Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Plummer: They make things happen?
Mr. Katz: Yes they do, sir.
Mr. Plummer: You're willing to list those.
Mr. Katz: You don't read the Miami Herald.
Mr. Plummer: I don't read a damn thing in it. No, I don't.
(Applause)
Mr. Plummer: And if you believe it, you can sit down now, because I don't
believe you.
Mr. Katz: Mr. Plummer, I woke you up, I accomplished something.
(Laughter and applause)
Mr. Plummer: Sir, I was not asleep, I heard all three of your proposals.
Mr. Katz: Now that you're awake, the second group of people, are the
watchers.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Woke me up.
Mr. Katz: They remind me of a jury that after long deliberation, came back
and in their conclusion said, we decided not to mix in and therefore rendered
no decision. And the third group are the wonderers. They always watch the
parade go by and they say, if only this happened and that happened. So the
few of us that are here that are positive property owners, and in my case a
merchant as well, are here as doers. We must make it happen because the
alternatives are dismal. Now, the City of Miami, as far as I'm concerned has
been wonderful to the design district. These property owners seem to resent
the very help that you've given us. You've given us beautiful streets and
landscaping and lighting and they seem to resent what you've done for these
property owners. Now, I'm your number one cheerleader and these people are
against this proposition and they're well intentioned people, because to be
for this is to make a decision and decision means they have to reach in their
pocket and pay. They wouldn't be here if this was free and we all know that
nothing good is free. So, Mr. Mayor, I'm at the end of my speech, I ask you
and your fellow Commissioners, help us, don't let us down. Make us tax
ourselves and prescribe this medicine so that we can get better. The district
is geographically in the heart of Miami. I want you to know that I became,
Mr. Plummer, a member of the Miami Chamber of Commerce just recently and I
joined the Omni Venetia Committee. You know why? I don't live in Omni
Venetia but I'm concerned that Omni Venetia has got to go. It's got to be
great and they, in turn, their health is determined by downtown Miami because
we're all in this together. Just a minute, sir.
Mayor Suarez; OK, that's getting outside of the design district so if you can
wrap up please.
Mr. Katz: I'm wrapped. We're all in this together and we can provide the
miracle of Miami's rebirth and then, perhaps, the press will be positive
because they've been negative. So, please, help us so that we can thoroughly
enjoy and let's beat them.
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Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Katz. That was full of imagery, symbolists,
reminds me of the Bible.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Beat the press? Did he say, beat the press? What do
the Cubans say, either buy them or beat them?
Mr. Bennett Pumo: I'll make it quick, I won't even read this.
Mayor Suarez: Mr. Pumo, sir.
Mr. Pumo: Right. Bennett Pumo, we have a building at 4030 N. Miami Avenue.
I've heard a lot of talk about assessments and how much it's worth and
everything. I'd like to let the Commission know just as a point of fact, the
building I have was assessed at $303,000 last year. This year it is now
assessed at $145,000. That's half the amount that it was last year. So if
any indication of the property values in the area that were reflected, I would
say that this new reflection should indicate that the area is not quite what
it was.
Mayor Suarez: And so your taxes went down correspondingly by a factor of two.
Mr. Pumo: Yes, yes, sir. The rents...
Mayor Suarez: And maybe by having a little bit more taxation, we could do
some other things in the area that would bring the values back up.
Mr. Pumo: I don't think if the City has a nine point something mill and add
3.8 to it, a 40 percent increase in City taxes is well worth it. The rents
don't reflect it, the rents wouldn't support it. Let the City government
manage the City, let the property owners manage property. I hear about the
crown jewel of Miami, the crown jewel is tarnished, it does not exist any
more. In some people's eyes it still does. DCOTA is a fact, DCOTA is real,
they have plenty of room to expand. If we go retail in this district which is
a proposal, we don't have the parking to support the retail. We don't have
the access routes to come in. Every route that comes into the Miami Design
District goes through high crime districts. You're not going to afford high
clientele to come down. I don't know what else to say. I don't think extra
taxes in the area is the answer, I don't think the City promoting my business,
I can promote my own business, I'm not ready to pay taxes to promote a tenants
business. I'll promote mine, let the businesses promote theirs. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you. OK, I'll entertain a motion one way or the other on
this item.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): You got one more speaker.
Mr. Rudy Prince: Can I give 30 to 45 seconds and you can have your motion.
Mayor Suarez: Thirty seconds.
Mr. Prince: Rudy Prince, property at 91 N.E. 36th Street. We bought into the
area many years ago, not because of the design area, simply because of
logistics. It's a great area. You can get anywhere from there. Currently,
we've got a doctor in our building, a baby doctor; has nothing to do with the
design area, could care less. The area's good because of where it's at.
We're not in this other business but even if we were, we don't see that the
design association is representing our interests. The other property owners
are interested in getting together their own organization to do the things
that they're interested in which is primarily security and then it's good for
any business, whether it's design or anything else. But we are opposed to
this taxing district.
Mayor Suarez: I gather that. Thank you. Final statement, real quick.
Mr. Mike Valera: Yes, sir, I'm Mike Valera from N.E. 41st Street. I'm a
property owner there. I have a private residence. I have a low income
housing next door to me which I rent. The people cannot afford to pay any
more rent. If I get my taxes raised, I'll have to raise their rent and those
people will be down here complaining to you.
Mayor Suarez: Is there any residential at all in the district in question?
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Mr, Plummer: Well, he just said they were.
Mr. Schwartz: On 41st St. there are a number of residential uhits. As far as
the recommendation for the district is that they be assessed for land value
only. It is zoned for SPI=8 also:
Mr: Plummer: Wait a minute.
Mayor Suarez: Is that possible under the existing legislation to assess them
for land value only?
Mr. Schwartz: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Would you please explain to me of what benefit it is to the
people who are residential for money of a design district?
Mr. Schwartz: The recommendation is based on that all property owners, in
marketing the district, would increase land values within the district.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no. No, no, you understood my answer, you didn't
understand my question. Of what value is it to a homeowner residential
property for the money that is to be expended for the design district?
Mr. Schwartz: It will promote the district, by promoting the district it will
increase - it's anticipated it would increase land values in the area. The
bulk of the property on 41st Street, at the request of the property owners and
the Merchants Association, about four years ago was rezoned to SPI-8 to allow
for the expansion of the design district to that street.
Mayor Suarez: Wouldn't it make more sense to exclude that area altogether?
Mr. Schwartz: There are certain properties on that street that are parking
lots that are related to the design district but this is at the option of the
Commission. Residential could be excluded.
Mayor Suarez: No, I mean where a clear residential use...
Mr. Plummer: Well, fine, if they're a parking lot, then assess them. If you,
you know, as a part of it because it is beneficial.
Mayor Suarez: A clear residential use, I would not see making any sense to
include that in the district.
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me tell you how I feel. If you want me even to
consider voting for the design district, I'm telling you as I told you before,
you've got to change the boundary. I will not vote to tax the people south of
the expressway.
Mayor Suarez: OK, why don't you...
Mr. Plummer: To me, that is a Chinese wall, I don't care how you look at it,
they are just not going to benefit. So that's number one.
Mayor Suarez: I would go along with that delimitation, excluding that.
Mr. Plummer: I'll, move, at this time, that the property south of the
expressway be excluded from this plan.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Second.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
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Mayor Suarez: That doesn't mean that we're not going to...
Mr. Plummer: We're not finished yet.
Mayor Suarez: We're not finished on the rest.
Mr. Richard Plumer; - OK, well we have properties in both sides and I think
it's ridiculous. I think it's not good.
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Mayor Suarez: Well, but lets§ take them bile at a time because we agree oh the
south side of the expressway.
Mr. Plummer: We're trying to do those things we agree on, Richard.
Mayor Suarezt Right.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION N0. 88-555
A MOTION STIPULATING THAT ALL PROPERTIES SOUTH OF THE
EXPRESSWAY SHOULD BE EXCLUDED FROM THE PRESENTLY
INSTITUTED BOUNDARIES OF THE MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT IN
CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED LEVYING OF A SPECIAL
ASSESSMENT WITHIN SAID DISTRICT.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: ALTHOUGH ABSENT DURING ROLL CALL,
COMMISSIONER DE YURRE REQUESTED OF THE CLERK TO SHOW HIM VOTING
WITH THE MOTION.
Mr. Plummer: Now, on the other hand, I've got two areas of concern. How do
you tax a non profit? I just don't know how you're going to tax a non profit
institution such as the post office.
Mr. Matthew Schwartz: The post office, it's on the tax roll so it does not
have an exemption from Dade County. It is used...
Mr. Plummer: But the man is telling you that they're not even getting
sufficient rentals to cover their investment. I don't know how the hell you
can tax him.
Mayor Suarez: Are you talking about the federal...
Mr. Plummer: If he's losing money now, what are you doing to do, make him
lose more money?
Mayor Suarez: Are you talking about the federal post office, is that what
you're saying?
Mr. Plummer: The federal post office is owned by the postal employees union.
They are a non profit organization.
Mr. Schwartz: But it's taxable property.
Mr. Plummer: Now, you know, I guess you could maybe say if the design
district was generated more business, they'd have more postage...
Mayor Suarez: They probably would.
Mr. Plummer: Well, the second problem that I've got, somewhere, and I don't
know where it's come from, that there was a misconception in my mind about the
City was going to match these monies. Is there anything on record in which
the City Commission has made a commitment?
Mr. Schwartz: When this first came before the City Commission, it was
requested by the association...
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Mr. Plufifter: Oh; requested is one thing.
Mr. Schwartz: The City has never Made a commitment from the beginning, the
Manager has indicated that there is no funds available this year.,.
Mr. Plummer: OK...
Mr. Schwartz: ... and that we have gone out to look for funds to the Beacon
Council and other sources.
Mr. Plummer: The final question I have, Matthew, is there any breakdown in
writing that if the district were passed, how the monies would be spent?
Mr. Schwartz: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: I'm concerned about one of the persons comments about a
computer. I've not seen a breakdown.
Mr. Schwartz: OK, in the...
Mr. Plummer: First of all, tell me the total amount of money that would be
raised excluding the residential property and the post office.
Mr. Schwartz: If we excluded the residential and the post office...
Mr. Plummer: And south of...
Mr. Schwartz: ... and the , we would generate approximately about
$160,000 a year, that's a rough estimate. I know without...
Mr. Plummer: Now have... does anybody have a budget of how those monies are
going to be spent?
Mr. Schwartz: We were recommending that an advis...
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, excuse me. You know, sometimes you all don't
listen.
Mr. Schwartz: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: May I see it please?
Mr. Schwartz (OFF MIKE): Based on $200,000.
Mr. Plummer: Well, would be proportionately less. Is that correct?
Mr. Schwartz: Yes. And we are recommending...
Mr. Plummer: Just for my colleagues, if you'd like to know, it's only three
items. They show security at $36,000, management at $28,000, I don't know
what that management is for, management operation, what is that?
Mr. Schwartz: That would be to fund an organization there to promote the
Miami Design District.
Mr. Plummer: That would go to the association and pay salaries and the likes?
Mr. Schwartz: Right.
Mr. Plummer: They'd be paying.almost as much as security?
Mrs. Kennedy: How much for that, for the second...
Mr. Schwartz: The security is based on what they presently pay. I believe...
Mr. Plummer: Security is $36,000 for the association is $28,000, a marketing,
public awareness campaign at $36,000 and advertising includes real estate
promotion at $100,000. Now, that's based on $200,000 total, say it's down a
fourth of that. So all of those figures, I assume, would be down a fourth.
Mr. Schwartz: We would be recommending that an advisory board be set up
composed of the property owners and the merchants in the district to come out
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with the final plan on how the money should be spent so the property owners
would obviously have a direct say in where the money went. Vo are not
recommending that this be the City contract with the association to provide
these services. That is just a preliminary budget based on information that
we have based on what the marketing program has been for the district.
Mr. Plummer: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: OK, ready for a motion?
Mr. Valera: Excuse me, I have one more thing to say. I'd like to let it be
known that what their plans are, are to construct a gateway, a gateway into
the ghetto, landscaping which will be destroyed the next night, murals which
will be destroyed with graffiti the same night and a hundred installed banners
which will blow away the first night. All of these things...
Mayor Suarez: That's a very pessimistic view of life, but...
Mr. Valera: ... very pessimistic. When they start letting all the poor
people in the neighborhood, that was the doom of decorators row. It's moved
out, these people should face that fact. The City people working for the
City, Matthew, should recognize this fact and give it up because we're not
going to give it up. I'll come down here with all my neighbors and we'll end
this sooner or later. So you might as well quit spinning your wheels.
Mayor Suarez: If your properties are exempted as I think we're...
Mr. Valera: No, no they're not exempted.
Mayor Suarez: If your properties are exempted, which is the direction I think
this Commission is going in...
Mr. Valera: Then I can go home.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you.
Mr. Valera: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Well, that's the direction we're going in, so maybe you ought
to just sit down. OK. I'll entertain a motion. No more, we're not going to
hear any more so don't even get up. Whether you win or lose, that's it.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: ... may I ask for a show of hands of those people in the
audience that are in favor of this taxing? That's one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight, nine - Ted, you're not up there, are you?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): I go there a lot.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but you're not - it's not going to hit your pocketbook.
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Mr. Plummer: How many property owners or merchants who will actually be
taxed? Excuse me, excuse me - one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, all
right. How many people...
Mayor Suarez: Please, please, please, in the chamber, sir, you have not been
recognized.
Mr, Plummer: Now, we've already excluded from the expressway south so don't
you get in there. How many people that are in the district are opposed to the
plan? A like amount, roughly. OK, fine, fine.
Mayor Suarez: Those can be introduced into the record. I'll take those if
you want. For the.., do you want to have those on the record, those
petitions? Please take them to the City Clerk,
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Mr, Plummer. You see, I guess Mr. - Matthew; let me ask you one other
que$tion 6 In that district, I have seen seven hands in favor. How many
people are in that district excluding from the expressway south?
Mr: Schwartz: I believe there's about a hundred and = well, excluding the
expressway, there's probably about 170 businesses.
Mr: Plummer: A hundred and seventy and only seven took the time to come down
here express that they're positively in favor:
Mr. Schwartz: 1 believe that there were more people here before,
Mr. Plummer: You're saying no, what does no mean?
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Mr. Plummert Seventeen. I'll give you that, OK, which is 10 percent.
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Mr. Plummert OK, but I'm saying 10 percent of the people in the district have
shown the interest to come down here and express a positive attitude. You
know, you have to wonder where are the other 90 percent, except for the ones
that are here to oppose it, which is a like amount, 10 percent are here to
oppose it. Where are the other 80 percent?
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Mayor Suarez: That's not what he means, he means as to the hearing here
today.
Mr. Plummer: No, that's not, no, no, no...
Mayor Suarez: We've got your chart, we've seen the numbers. Please, please,
please. Anything further from the Commission? No motion? One way or the
other? You know, it's going to die for lack of interest. No motion means no
action. Which means we don't have to see you, Mr. Pumo, for a certain amount
of time. Item 84.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Madam Vice Mayor.
Mrs. Kennedy: While on the subject, I'd like to call on Bill Rios who has a
program - and don't leave yet because this applies to all of you, to explain
how to apply for a create a safe neighborhood plan and then get money from the
legislature. Bill, wherever you are...
Mayor Suarez: You want to recognize Mr. Rios?
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh, there you are. Tell us what you did in Wynwood, what
you're doing.
Mr. Bill Rios: OK, there is some recent legislation that an area can
designate itself and the Commission has already designated for example in the
area of Wynwood, a safe neighborhood improvement district and that
neighborhood improvement district can draw funds for certain activities that
involve planning and development of an area and provided that a viable plan
and the Commission would, of course, act as a board to that plan, draw money
from the - or ask for money from the state legislature in terms of
improvements and programs that might be available for the district if it was
so interested. You would basically have to take that on as an addition. I'd
be happy to discuss it with the Commission...
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, if anybody wants to pursue it, just call my office and
we'll hook you up with Bill.
Mr. Rios: OK,
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Bill,
Mrs. Kennedy: Thank you.
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55, RESCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING TO TAKE TESTIMONY REGARDING A UNIFIED
DEVELOPMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DESTINATION
RESORT FACILITIES ON CITY=OWNED WATERFRONT LAND ON VIRGINIA KEY (NORRIS
CUT FILL, SITE),
Mayor Suarez: Item 84.
Mr. Odio: Yes, we're asking for...
Mayor Suarez: We're just rescheduling a...
Mr. Odio: ... rescheduling of the hearing on the Virginia...
Mayor Suarez: OK, the UDP for that property,
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: So moved. Do we have a second?
Mr. De Yurre (OFF MIKE): Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-556
A RESOLUTION RESCHEDULING A PUBLIC HEARING FROM JUNE 9,
1988, AT 2:30 P.M. TO JULY 14, 1988, AT 2:30 P.M. TO TAKE
TESTIMONY REGARDING A UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT REQUEST FOR
PROPOSALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DESTINATION RESORT
FACILITIES INCLUDING HOTEL, RECREATION, RETAIL AND
ENTERTAINMENT USES ON CITY -OWNED WATERFRONT LAND KNOWN AS
THE NORRIS CUT FILL SITE, A 70-ACRE TRACT LOCATED AT THE
NORTHERNMOST PORTION OF VIRGINIA KEY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: THERE WAS NO APPEARANCE OF INTERESTED
PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH AGENDA ITEMS 85 AND 86.
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Mayor Suarez: Item $7, Paul Angelo.
Mr, Plummer (OFF MIKE): Eighty=seven,
Mayor Suarez: You're not asking for money, are you Paul?
Mr. Odio: No.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you; sir. Are you the author of that infamous memo that
I sent around to all the rest of the Commission that was totally
unintelligible and that no one replied?
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Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Do you still want me to up for the launching of that
boat? When is it, in the end of July?
Mayor Suarez: When is the launching of the USS Miami, Paul? Commissioner
wants to know.
Mr. Paul Angelo: The USS Miami, the newest and best nuclear attack submarine
in the U.S. Fleet will be launched on 30 July.
Mr. Plummer: And where?
Mr. Angelo: Groton, Connecticut.
Mr. Plummer: Groton?
Mr. Angelo: Maybe it's Groton.
Mr. Plummer: How do you spell it?
Mr. Angelo: G-R-0-T-0-N.
Mr. Plummer: And where would I fly into?
Mr. Angelo: Hartford, I believe, is the nearest airport.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Angelo: If you're interested, I have all the information regarding the
special VIP rate and telephone rooms.
Mr. Plummer: All right, the Mayor has asked me to go and I'm trying to make
arrangements. That's on the 30th of July.
Mr. Angelo: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Angelo: Erstwhile.
Mr. Plummer: You go to Ecuador, I go to Groton.
Mayor Suarez: I don't know if you want to say anything about the importance
of that but obviously, you can tell the Commissioner that. Are you going to
make a very brief report? Are you going to compress that?
Mr. Angelo; I'll speak quickly. I realize everyone wants to go home. Mr.
Mayor, Commissioners, good evening. My name is Paul Angelo, I am the naval
affairs liaison on the Mayor's staff.
Mayor Suarez: Unpaid. Unpaid, unpaid.
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Mr. Angelo: I'm here with several good things to say, it says here. Unpaid,
yes. This is a volunteer position. I do it because I like the City,
strictly. I've also come before you to briefly speak of how the City is
perceived by our local military personnel and the sea going military, both
foreign and domestic. Visitors, rather, from the South American, British and
European navies are always pleased to visit the United States. They now love
Miami like you wouldn't believe. Many have expressed an interest in spending
more money at Bayside the next time they come. They've been very impressed
with this particular project. They have said again and again that the people
of Miami are the most friendly and receptive that they have met throughout all
their American stops. Many of the sailors view Miami as the territory from
Orlando all the way down to the naval base at Key West so you have a lot of
pull. Their respective consulates inform these ships that Miami is the
premiere municipality, rather, in Florida, or at least, the east coast. Our
own navy, though it makes occasional calls to the Port of Miami and
Bicentennial Park, is experiencing a growing love for our City as well. Even
though the majority of U.S. Navy ports of call or rather calling ports, are
held in Florida at Mayport or Port Everglades, often Port Everglades ships
send their crews down to Miami where the good times are. Captains have,
however, repeatedly stated to me that - page two - calling on the Port of
Miami and the Bicentennial Park has, at times, lacked a lot of local support
as compared with the support granted by other great cities. I promised I
wouldn't ask for any money. I have distributed an information sheet, however,
just a moment ago. This information sheet is from Commander Bernie Haller of
the Naval Reserve Center, Miami, about a block away. It just suggests some
things that could be done, most of them are very low cost or low cost. In
closing, I would like to state that the Marine Council, commercial operations
division; the Miami Council of the U.S. Navy League and the Military Affairs
Committee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce have been extremely helpful
in promoting good will between the sea going services and the City of Miami.
I didn't say the Chamber.
Mr. Plummer: How much money is the Chamber of Commerce given you?
Mr. Angelo: I really can't say. I have no idea.
Mr. Plummer: It's none.
Mayor Suarez: No, no, no. That - nothing, they haven't given you any money,
Paul. Right?
Mr. Angelo: No, they've given me nothing.
Mr. Plummer: Zero.
Mayor Suarez: That's all he was asking.
Mr. Plummer: They've given you a pat on the back and says, good boy.
Mr. Angelo: Well, they've given us logistical support and they will be
supporting us financially...
Mr. Plummer: Logistical for what?
Mr. Angelo: As far as, let me see...
Mr. Plummer: To write this letter?
Mr. Angelo: No, sir. They have supported us in the sense that they have put
together receptions and participating in putting together receptions.
Mayor Suarez: And they have spent some money for the receptions and...
Mr. Angelo: Yes, sir, they have. They will also spend a certain amount of
money through the subcommittee named the Military Affairs Committee on the
Friday the 17th for the reenlistment ceremony which will be held in your
office, Mr. Mayor. I'll be sending a memo to the rest of the Commissioners
later in the week.
Mayor Suarez: We don't have a memo out to the rest of the Commission inviting
them yet? That's my staff. My paid staff's fault, not your's.
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Mr, Angelo! yea, sir, Yes, your paid htaff, air:
Mayor guaret; Are you wrapping up, Mr. Ahgeio?
Mr, Angelo: Yes, sir, f1th Wrapping.,,
Mrs, X6ftnedy: ghat do you want from us?
Mayor Suarez: Nothing,
Mr. Plummer: 'That's
Mrs. Kennedy: Just,,,
Mr, Plummer- ,. the basis.
Mr, Angelo: I'm sorry?
Mayor Suarez: I'm not going to let him ask for anything, I guarantee you,
Mr. Angelo: No, I'm very low budget.
Mayor Suarez: He's been foretold, preordained and warned and everything else
not to ask for anything.
Mrs. Kennedy: How refreshing!
Mr. Angelo: Let me see, just to expound again, at your request, on the USS
Miami, the USS Miami is a nuclear submarine. It is named after the City of
Miami. It is the third submarine affiliated with our area. We have the USS
Florida and the USS Key West. The Miami area needs to really get on the band
wagon and promote the good will from the City to this new navy ship. It will
be launched in the 30th of July. As of now, it has no authorization to come
to Miami in 1989 for its actual commissioning. We are working, we being the
marine council, the Miami Council of the U.S. Navy League and the Military
Affairs Committee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, to bring this ship
here next year. Erstwhile, unless anyone has any other questions, I'll
conclude my soliloquy...
Mayor Suarez: No, that is the same ship, the USS Miami, the model for which
is found in the hallway outside in the foyer...
Mr. Angelo: Yes, sir, it is, if anyone has a chance, it's outside in the
hallway.
Mayor Suarez: ..: for everyone to observe and it is a nuclear powered sub
although we don't think it is nuclear armed, right?
Mr. Angelo: No, sir, well...
Mayor Suarez: That's OK. You don't have to answer that, you don't have to.
answer that.
Mr. Angelo: The U.S. Navy policy is that, no, they can neither confirm nor
deny, but merely place no comment.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Angelo for your report, sir.,
Mr. Angelo: Thank you, sir.
Mrs. Kennedy: Thank you so much.
Mr. Angelo: Commissioners
Mayor Suarez: The reception for the reenlistment is on the.,.
Mr. Angelo:
_g Seventeenth of June, from 9;00 o'clock to 9;45 in your office.
Mayor Suarez: And all Commissioners are invited, It's going to be a - anyone
else, for that matter it's going to be in the terrace outside of my office.
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Mr, Angelo: ices, air, the food Will be ptbvided by the Greater Math Chafnber
of Cof"6rce.
Mayor Suarez: Miami Chamber of Commerce are going to pay fof the reception,
except for rent, we're hot collecting rent.
Mr, Angelo: 'Very big budget occasion,
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Paul.
Mr. Angelo: No, sir, Thank you, sir.
57. APPOINTMENTS TO THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN (APPOINTED WERE
ANITA RAFKY, LUISA M. GARCIA TOLEDO AND CONCHY TRELLES BRETOS).
Mayor Suarez: Commission on the Status of Women, request appointments, are
they here?
Ms. Blanca Galvezt Right here.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, I'm sorry.
Ms. Galvez: Blanca Galvez, chair of the Commission. I want to thank you for
your support and at this particular time request that you fill six vacancies
that we have in the Commission.
Mayor Suarez: Have we traditionally done it according to each Commissioner or
how have we done it?
Ms. Galvez: No, in general, we have made a recommendation and anybody that
wanted to make a motion has approved so.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, you have recommendations for us?
Mrs. Kennedy: What are your recommendations?
Ms. Galvez: Yes, as a matter of fact, all of you have received some resumes,
but I would be more than glad to read the names, it's Elizabeth Gaynor, Conchy
Trelles.Bretos, Maria Roche Arbelto, Anita Rafkey, Dr. Linora Gordon and Luisa
Garcia Toledo. These are not only community women, but also reflect racial
and ethnic composition of the City of Miami.
Mrs. Kennedy: I move it.
Mayor Suarez: So moved. Second? Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-557
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE CITY OF
MIAMI COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN TO SERVE
INDEFINITE TERMS THEREON.
(NOTE: Ms. Rafky was nominated by Vice Mayor Kennedy.
Ms. Toledo was nominated by Mayor Suarez. Ms. Bretos.was
nominated by Commissioner Plummer.)
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by CommissionerDeYurre, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
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NOES,
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Commissioner Victor be Yurre
Vice Mayor Rosario k6hhbdy
Mayor Xavier L, Suarez
None.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner 3, L. Plummer, Jr.
Robert Clark, Esq.: Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Clark: ... could we have a report from this chairperson as to the members
whose absences have made them eligible for removal. Would you make the report
on the record?
Ms. Galvez: Actually all the members that - the vacancies are people that
decided not to continue with the Commission.
Mayor Suarez: So you voluntarily have withdrawn their participation or
resigned.
Ms. Galvez: They resigned from the Commission, the six vacancies.
Mayor Suarez: Resigned, that's the word.
Mr. Plummer: Eighty-eight.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner.
Mr. De Yurre: On this vote, the thought of naming six people, some of which
we know but some of which we don't know, on this effort, I have kind of a, you
know, feelings going both ways in the sense that when we name somebody
ourselves, we appoint someone, that person relates to us as to what's
happening on that board. This way, I have nobody really that I can - that
would be reporting to me, telling me what's happening, what they need and
things of that nature. What I would like possibly is that we can divide this
up and if we're talking about six, at least we can each have one and wherein,
we can have somebody that's going to be our liaison as far as letting us know
what's happening with the status of women board.
Mrs. Kennedy: Do you have any problem with that, Blanca?
Ms. Galvez: Well, there are three members that applied to the Commission
actually nine months ago and it has taken us this long to get here and...
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): That's the thing, can you do it in the next round,
when the terms expire?
Mr. De Yurre: When is the next term?
Mayor Suarez: When are your next terms expiring so that we can start that
system of each Commissioner having certain number of appointments from that
point forward and go ahead and approve these six?
Ms. Galvez: Next March.
Mr. De Yurre: Next March.
Mayor Suarez: How many expire at that point?
Ms. Galvez; Well, actually, there's - the only restriction in terms of, time
has to dowith the officers, but there is no restriction for the members so
they can stay there forever if they want to.
Mayor Suarez; Oh, I see, I see.
Mr. De Yurre; So, where are we at?
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Mrs. Kennedy: NOW Many do YOU riled immediately to have a quorum?
Ms. Galvez: At least three,
Mrs: Kennedy: dell, can we do what:..
Mayor Suarez: I will yield my nomination to your three if that helps, because
that still leaves three others for three Commissioners who might want to
appoint somebody.
Ms. Galvez: OK, then can I mention the names again of the people that have
applied a long time ago so we can get them in and then leave three for you...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, tell us those three, maybe we can...
Ms. Galvez: OK, that will be Conchy Trelles Bretos, Anita Rafky and Luisa
Garcia Toledo.
Mrs. Kennedy: I nominate Anita Rafky.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, I'd just like to reserve one and I'll name them at the next
meeting.
Mayor Suarez: I'll nominate, either I'll waive mine, or I'll nominate Luisa
Garcia Toledo, unless somebody else wants to nominate. Do you want to
nominate the third that they need? What's the name of the third one that has
not been nominated?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Conchy Bretos.
Ms. Galvez: Conchy Trelles Bretos.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Say what now, what ,are we doing?
Mayor Suarez: The Commission on the Status of Women, they need appointments
to be able.to have a quorum.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): No, she's looking for the free ticket.
Mayor Suarez: We're going to leave one for you and one for Commission De
Yurre, but do you want to nominate the first one she named?
Mr. Plummer: Fine.
Mayor Suarez: Fine, OK, you get those three in the form of a motion and a
second. Call the roll.
Ms. Hirai: Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Plummer's appointment was who?
Mayor Suarez: The first one that she named. The name is awfully..
Ms. Hirai: Elizabeth Gaynor.
Ms. Galvez: I said Conchy Trelles Bretos, Anita Rafky, and Luisa Garcia
Toledo.
Mayor Suarez: And I nominated Luisa. OK, call the roll on those three.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-557.1
THE HEREINABOVE MOTION WAS INCORPORATED AND FORMALIZED
IN RESOLUTION 88-557.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the motion was ,passed and
adopted by the following vote:
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June 9, 1988
AYES: Cbftiesioner victor be Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. bawkihh
Cbffniaa oner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ASSENT: None,
Mayor Suarez: Yes, we still have two pending for the two Commissioners and
one maybe for the entire Commission as a whole, so if you submit that name to
the entire Commission for that one appointment that all of us will appoint,
maybe all will agree on that. And at least you have a better shot at your
quorum.
58. SUPPORT METRO-DADE COUNTY'S DECISION TO CO -DESIGNATE N.W. 7TH STREET
FROM N.W. 57TH AND 12TH AVENUES AS "LUIS SABINES WAY".
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Mayor Suarez: Item eighty-nine, codesignation of streets already codesignated
by the County.
Mr. Odio: Yes, Mr. Mayor, if I may, with respect, I haven't received a memo
from Dewey Knight, Jr. where they...
Mr. Dawkins: What is it?
Mayor Suarez: The county has already designated...
Mr. Odio: N.W. ,7th Street from N.W. 57th Avenue all the way down to_12th
Avenue and they're_ asking that the City Commission join in the dual
designation.
Mayor Suarez: It's a symbolic thing because if the County does it, I guess we
basically have to go along, do we not?
Mr. Odior Well, really, I think it would be ideal. I think it's...
Mr. Dawkins: I move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved. Thank you.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Second. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner. Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-558
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION CO -
DESIGNATING NORTHWEST 7TH STREET BETWEEN 57TH AVENUE
AND 12TH AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS "LUIS SABINES
WAY"; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT A
COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO ALL AFFECTED GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES.
(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 voter
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AYES, Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummet, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES, None.
ABSENT: None.
59. REFER TO CITY MANAGER REQUEST FROM THE VETERANS COUNCIL OF DADE COUNTY,
INC. FOR A VETERANS WAR MEMORIAL TO BE BUILT IN BAYFRONT PARK.
Mayor Suarez: Item 90, Veterans Council, Harold. Is that you?
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Spalding.
Mayor Suarez: Go ahead, sir, please. We're in a hurry. We've got a lot of
items.
Mr. Harold Spalding: At the Veterans Day and Memorial Day Ceremonies that
were held at the Torch of Friendship and now at the Bicentennial Park,
questions were raised by veterans and others at the ceremonies as to why we
did not have a permanent flag pole for bringing our flag down to half mast nor
did we have a proper war memorial in these parks to receive wreaths. Our
organization, the Veterans Council of Dade County, Inc., has been aware of
this for a long time since we first started to present patriotic ceremonies in
1981 at the Torch of Friendship. It took the remodeling and reconstruction of
Bayfront Park to bring this deficiency to a head. I have pressed for a war
memorial for the four wars that we have had in this century to be designed and
built in Bayfront Park. We have agreed with the department of development to
raise the required funding for this consecrated war memorial. Along these
lines, we have formed a veterans advisory committee for a war memorial in
Bayfront Park. This veterans advisory committee is made up of honorably
discharged veterans, reserve officers and the gold star mothers, all of whom
are dedicated to their task ahead. I've left you a statement from the
department of development that I received and I was there at this meeting at
February 27th, 1986, with the John E. Gilchrist and Juanita Shearer and we had
an understanding there that the location would be at Bayfront Park System
including from Bayfront Park to Bicentennial Park. The funding, the veterans
council of Dade County will be in charge of fund raising to cover all costs.
Design; a design competition to be administered by the City and paid for along
with all other costs through the fund raising efforts of the veterans council
administration through the department of development with assistance as needed
from other City departments. The meeting with John E. Gilchrist and Juanita
Shearer from the department of development on February 27th, 1986, I have an
addendum there of things we covered and agreed on that was not included above.
The addendum funding...
Mayor Suarez: Harold, I'm sorry to interrupt you...
Mr. Spalding: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: What are you asking the Commission for?
Mr. Spalding: We want the Commission to formally formalize the working
agreement with the City of Miami, department of development. Specifically we
ask the City Commission to direct the City Attorney to draft a proposed
ordinance providing for one, dedication by the City of land in Bayfront Park
for the site of the war memorial and two, the creation of a working
arrangement between the veterans council of Dade County and the department of
development to carry out the design and construction of the war memorial.
Mayor Suarez: And the funds to be provided by the veterans council.
Mr. Spalding; And then we agreed...
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Mr: Dawkihst Mt. Mayor# I'tfi,.,
Mayor Suarez: Yes, CofnmisSioher,
Mr. Spalding: We agreed to,,.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr, Mayor.,,
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait# wait, Harold# Commissioner,
Mn Dawkins: Mr: Mayor, 1 move that this be sent to the Manager,,.
Mrs, Kennedy: Right, I was going to say...
Mr. Dawkins: ... and when they get some money and the Manager understand that
they got some money to pay for what they're talking about doing, then the
Manager come and make us a recommendation,
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: I'll second and let me just say for clarification, there's
going to be a design competition to build the new monument. My preference I
was telling Juanita Shearer, was the restore the one we already have in
Bayfront Park. At this point, she doesn't know whether that's feasible or not
but there's $100,000 from the Bayfront Park redevelopment project budget set
aside for this so, Mr. Spalding, I think it would be great if you would
continue working...
Mr. Dawkins: And that $100,000 should stay there until he go find some money.
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me...
Mr. Dawkins: That.$100,000 should not be given to him to go find money with,
that's Miller Dawkins' opinion.
Mr. Plummer: Let me offer you some thought. It's going- to be almost
impossible from them to raise money if they don't have something of agreement
even in principle from this Commission to say, "Hey, you'll give me a dollar
based on the fact that the Commission has acted in good f aith," I think we've
got to do something or they're not going to be able to raise a dime.
Mr. Odio: If I may, can I have staff work with them and bring something back
more, you know, with more defined.
Mr. Plummer: Very definitely.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: But you've got to give them, as we did for the Maritime Museum,
all we gave them was an indication that if they did, in fact, raise the money,
this City would make something available.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, I'll do it better than that. Find out how many
veteran chapters of American Legion and the VFW there are in Dade County and
bring me a letter stating that you represent a majority of those chapters and
if they are in favor of what you're doing, then you've got me because we got
all of the veteran organizations working together but I just do not see going
out with one individual coming in and telling me that I am the Savior for -
and this is not derogatory - but I do not see one individual coming in and
saying, I speak for all veterans.
Mayor Suarez: Do you have any problem building into your motion,
Commissioner, along the lines of what Commissioner Dawkins is saying, that we
should contact all the other veterans groups and you understand that we'd be
working with everyone together and somehow, in a collective fashion, they
would have to come up with leadership that would be acceptable to everybody.
Mr. Spalding: Well, we had some of our people here today, they couldn't wait
this long, gold star mothers...
Mayor Suarez: We've also had some that preferred us to work with them and
would like to not work with you but let's see if we can bring them all
together somehow, Harold, I mean...
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Mr. Spalding: Well, I'm in contact with most of these organizationsi We have
a veterans advisory committee made up of about 25 veterans and...
Mayor Suarez: OX, well we're going to have to verify that because I know soa►e
would like to work independently of you and not with you, so...
Mr. Spalding: Yeah, yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Brother Ammons, come over, Mr. Ammons, we need to hear from you.
Mayor Suarez: OK, does that make sense? Is that too complicated a motion?
Mr. Dawkins: Wait a minute, discussion.
Mayor Suarez: OK, I'm sorry.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Ammons, you have something to add?
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Dawkins: You got something to add? You have something to add? Well,
please add it so we can go home, please, sir.
Mr. Ammons: Commissioners, the Mayor, I appreciate...
Mr. Dawkins: Pull the mike up, sir.
Mr. Ammons: I appreciate your giving me the opportunity to say this. I am
Herbert Ammons and I live at 15150 S.W. 107 Avenue, that's out in the
boondocks. And I am the commander of post 281 of the American Legion. I am
the veterans legislative officer for district 5 of the VFW. I'm also the
assistant legislative officer for the VFW for the State of Florida and we
have, in this county, let's see, I believe it's ten, eighteen chapters of the
American Legion. We have the same - about 18 chapters of the VFW and I have
gone out and talked to them and I've furnished you an information what they
signed, who they wanted to represent them so to speak and their plans. We
have somewhere...
Mr. Dawkins: Can you get them to meet with us, sir, and so that we can all
can coordinate what we're doing, Mr. Ammons?
Mr. Ammons: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, that's what we need.
Mr. Ammons: All right, yes.
Mayor Suarez: No one can be excluded, no veterans council can be excluded.
We've got to work with all of them.
Mr. Ammons: We will...
Mayor Suarez: Hopefully, we'll all agree on what the project should look like
and certainly we'll take all of their money.
Mr. Ammons: To the Mayor, we will come in and sit down with you any time you
say from these organizations and furnish you with our input. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Beautiful. Thank you, Mr. Ammons. Thank you, Harold.
Mr. Spalding: Right.
Mayor Suarez OK, that's in the form of a motion, do we have a second?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes,
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. s'
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE) Ammons. Post, Why didn't you come see me?
Mr. Ammons (OFF MIKE); What?
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Mt. Pluftftbt (OFF` MIKE): Why didn't you come see fie like you were supposed to7
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO, 88-559
A MOTION REFERRING TO THE CITY MANAGER A REQUEST
RECEIVED FROM THE VETERANS COUNCIL OF DADE COUNTY,
INC. TO HAVE A VETERANS' WAR MEMORIAL BUILT IN
BAYFRONT PARK; FURTHER REQUESTING OF THE CITY MANAGER
TO FIND OUT HOW MANY CHAPTERS OF VETERANS EXIST IN
DADE COUNTY AND TO INQUIRE WHETHER THEY ARE IN
AGREEMENT WITH THIS PROPOSAL; AND FURTHER REQUESTING
THE MANAGER TO COME BACK WITH HIS RECOMMENDATION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: Ninety-three.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager.
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, don't give me no more recommendations talking about
recommendation, no recommendation, OK? That don't mean nothing.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, you might as well say denial if that's what you're...
Mr. Dawkins: That's right, thank you.
Mr. Odio: Oh, because you're... I think it's unfair that he's getting my
notes.
Mayor Suarez: He's stealing them from you, public records law and all that
stuff.
60. DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO ASSIST OFFICER DAVE DONALDSON AND MS. JANICE HALL
IN FINDING AN APPROPRIATE USE FOR THEIR PROPERTY AT 202 NW 20 TERRACE TO
REDUCE THEIR LOSS FROM NOT BEING ABLE TO RUN A LIQUOR LOUNGE.
Mayor Suarez: Ninety-three, Mr. Helfman.
Steve Helfman, Esq.: Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission, my name is Steve
Helfman, I'm an attorney with Fine Jacobson, and with offices at One CenTrust
Financial Plaza. I'm here today on behalf of my clients, Dave Donaldson and
Janice Hall. I need to share a very brief story with you and ask for your
help. Janice and David have been attempting over the past year and a half to
establish a jazz bar facility in Overtown. They are born in this community,
have lived there in their entire lives and have ...
Mayor Suarez: What's the address, proposed address?
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Mt. Holtman: 2002, excuse me, 202 N.W, 20th Terrace. About a year and a half
ago they pulled a building permit...
Mayor Suarez: It's kind of the hotthern fringe of Overtown there.
Mt. Helfman: Yes. They pulled a building permit to renovate an existing
lounge. They spent approximately $180,000 towards that renovation. The
renovation is complete and done. Through the process, they are required by
the planning department to purchase some additional property for parking,
which they did, and they've expended a tremendous amount of time and funds.
Several days before getting a certificate of occupancy or use and occupancy
for the property, they were served with a notice from the zoning department
that their building permits had been revoked. It had been determined, after
going back through their files by the zoning department, that the property was
too close to another lounge in the City...
Mayor Suarez: By how much?
Mr. Helfman: By 500 feet - 500 feet. The difference was, they're 2,000 feet
from the other lounge, 2500 is required.
Mayor Suarez: Is the required? Twenty percent.
Mr. Helfman: They are also 500 feet from an elementary school and the
requirement is a thousand feet. So their permit was pulled. That was
approximately eight months ago and they have yet...
Mayor Suarez: The elementary school being Buena Vista?
Mr. Helfman: Dunbar Elementary School. Their permit was pulled. They have
been unable to this day, over the past eight months to occupy the facility.
We've met with the law department, we've met with the zoning department.
Everybody wants to help us but there's no way to help us.
Mr. Dawkins: Steve, before they started, they went and asked what they were
supposed to do, is this a correct statement?
Mr. Helfman: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: The City of Miami told them what to do, is that a correct
statement?
Mr. Helfman: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: They did what the City told them. Is that a correct statement?
Mr. Helfman: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Then after they did what the City told them, now the City's
saying, that's not what we told you. Is that a correct statement? OK.
Mr. Helfman: That's not entirely correct, no.
Mr. Dawkins: What is, what is, what is?
Mr. Helfman: The problem is, is that they supplied a liquor survey to the
City where the City determines whether you're the proper distance...
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Helfman: ... the liquor survey was not properly reviewed. Whether it was
entirely accurate or not, it wasn't properly reviewed because upon
investigation they went back and looked at it and they determined, oh my God,
they're too close.
Mr. Dawkins: But they had it in their hands when they said OK.
Mr. Helfman: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, it's not my fault that they didn't review it and it's not
his fault that they didn't review it, OK?
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Mr. Herman: It's not his fault, but it's his problem now.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, no, I'm getting ready to erase his problem, OK? Now,
we say that we want to revitalize Overtown, OK. We say we want to upgrade
Overtown, OK? Here's a resident go in and take $180,000 of his money and do
something in the area to make a business that where we can have somewhere to
go to spend our money and enjoy ourselves and then after he spend it, the City
say he can't do it? I move that whatever has to be done to give them the
permit, that we do it.
Mayor Suarez: So moved. Do we have a second?
Mr. De Yurre: Second. Second:
Mayor Suarez: Joel, do you want to tell us about the legal aspects of this,
if any?
Joel Maxwell, Esq.: Yes, sir, as Mr. Helfman pointed out just a moment ago.
He spoke with our office and we reviewed the situation and we determined at
that time that the only remedy that the City had at it's disposal was to
actually amend the code to allow for the distance separations to be changed.
That is the only remedy that you have right now.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, number one, I, for one, cannot understand why, when a person
wants to put a bar up, he or she observe the laws and the limitations of how
far to put it. But any time a store front church in my neighborhood wants to
go up, nobody says that that church can't go - has to observe these same rules
and regulations. Now, in my neighborhood, a store front church can go up next
door to a bar and nobody won't say a word. But let somebody come in and want
to put up a business, now all of a sudden the church and everybody gets holy
and they don't want it there. I move that whatever amendment has to be
amended for this one instance, for these individuals to attempt, I don't give
a... I understand, I understand, I don't care if we open the flood gates but
this is one time that I feel that these people have been wronged and it's up
to this Commission to correct it, Mr. Maxwell.
Mr. Maxwell: You have in your packet, Mr. Dawkins and members of the
Commission, you have in your packet two proposed ordinances that you can
direct staff, if you're so disposed...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, sir...
Mr. Maxwell: . to bring back to you on first reading. One would amend the
distance regulation...
Mr. Dawkins: Sir, sir, recommend to me, as the City Attorney, which one I
should recommend that you bring back to me, please sir, either one, either...
Mr. Maxwell: In order to solve the problem that you have before you now, you
would have to bring both of them back.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, bring them both back,'at what meeting, sir?
Mr. Maxwell: It would have to come back for first reading after proper notice
and that would take approximately - well, that would be at your next regularly
scheduled in July.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, I move that we follow the advice of the City Attorney
and that we amend whatever has to be amended and we bring it back and do
whatever has to be done in order to allow these people to open their business.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Ms. Ann Marie Adker: May I be of help to the Commission?
Mayor Suarez: So moved, wait a minute, Anne Marie.
Mr. Dawkins: Wait and see if I get a second.
Mayor Suarez: Do we have a second?
Mr. De Yurre; I'll second, but under discussion..,
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Mr, Dawkins: Victor seconded its
Mayor Suarez: Seconded.
Mr. De Yurre: 1 have a problem with this concept that we're dealing with.
Here we are dealing with a situation and we're trying to remedy the situation
because, equitably, it's the right thing to do. But yet, it goes on, you
know. What I would like to see is some kind of investigation, some kind of
reprimand, something as to what happened. You know, if we just allow - if we
have to solve these problems by going to the extent of having to change the
law to do equity, because of negligence, then I think we need to address the
problem as to who is at fault here and make sure that it doesn't happen again,
because you know, it is very easy for something to happen and we have to solve
it, we have to go through the trouble of doing something that really, I
wouldn't want to do, because who knows what other situations may be created
down the road, and certainly, you know, I feel that it is not correct that
this be the procedure that has to be used in order to remedy this situation,
and Cesar...
Mayor Suarez: Let me ask about that.
Mr. Odio: I think that there is a logical explanation for what happened
in...
Mr. Dawkins: Let's hear from Ms. Adker, before she said, and she has been
standing up here all day.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, Lord.
Ms. Anne Marie Adker: I'm Anne. Marie Adker, and I live at 407 NW 5 Street.
The address is 202 NW 20th...
Mayor Suarez: Terrace.
Ms. Adker: There has always been a bar there.
Mr. Helfman: That's correct.
Ms. Adker: There has always been a bar at that location, so maybe they need
to go back in and lookl There's always been a bar there.
Mr. De Yurre: OK.
Mayor Suarez: How could that have been, in view of the regulations, Joe?
Mr. Genuardi: Well, there was a bar there, but the license was moved a long
time ago, so now this would have to be...
Mayor Suarez: And so they lost their...
Mr. Genuardi: ... a new license.
Mayor Suarez: ... right to grandfather?
Mr. Genuardi: There is no grandfather because of that, but what happened is
that when we review an application for a liquor license, we ask that they give
us a certified survey, showing any school, church, or other licenses within
the distance, according to the City Code that restricts the license. When
they gave us this, the distance given to the school, we found later was an
error, and they left out one bar, which was existing within the restricted
district.
Mr. De Yurre: Who made the error?
Mr. Dawkins; Who?—. OK.
Mr. Genuardi: The surveyor that prepared the survey.
Mr. De Yurre: The surveyor.
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Mr, Dawkins: All right, but did you give then► permit to go on before you
discovered the error?
Mr. Genuardi: We gave them the permit to...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, so you didn't review... 1 mean, not you sir; but
whoever, did not review the permit, and find the error before they spent their
money.
Mr. Genuardi: Yes, well, there is two things too. The zoning ordinance for
that district permits a bar, but then the City code, which is separate from
the zoning ordinance gives the restrictions and there is actually two
processes.
Mayor Suarez: No, no, just so we don't confuse the records too much, the
zoning ordinance is the City Code: Now, if you are talking about another part
of the City Code?
Mr. Plummer: Exactly.
Mr. Genuardi:
Yes.
Mayor Suarez:
OK, thank you, because otherwise, we really have...
Mr. Plummer:
Well, wait a minute, let me understand. Are you saying that the
survey which
they provided to you, showed the distances as required, that
there was no conflict?
Mr. Genuardi:
Right, correct.
Mr. Plummer:
So, in other words, their survey is what was misleading, not
your interpretation.
Mr. Genuardi:
That's correct..
Mr. Dawkins:`'
Nol-
Mr. Plummeri
Well, there is a damn big difference here now!
Mr. Dawkins:.
OK, all right, well, how could ,you interpret... wait a minute,
how could you
interpret it, and don't interpret it until after the fact?
Mr. Helfman:'.,
What..'.
Mr. Dawkins:,
Now, had he interpreted it- had he interpreted it before the
fact,'I could
go along with what we are saying.
Mr. Plummer:
Let me...
Mr. Dawkins:
But, they interpreted, I mean, even though it was submitted in
error!
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, may,I say, when we,..
Mr. Plummer:
Now, .let me finish, if I may, I'm waiting for my, colleague to.
finish.
Mr. Dawkins:
OK, go ahead, J.L.
Mr. Plummer:
Mr. Genuardi, in the survey; which they provided to you,
certified,.did it show the proper distances as required by Code?
Mr. Genuardi;
The distances where in error that was showed on the...
Mr. Plummer;
I'm sorry?
Mr. Genuardi:
The distances that were shown were... I'was shown distances ,
to.., yes, they did.
Mr. Plummer;
Let the repeat the question, The certified survey that they
provided you,
did it show the proper distances in compliance with the Code? - r
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Mr. Gehuatdi: 'des, it did:
Mr. Plummer: bit, to then you wete not in error.
Mr. Gehuardi: That is right.
Mr. Plummer: That's a big difference how.
Mr. Odio: The surveyor was in error.
Mr. Plummer: That's not our fault. That was their surveyor.
Mr. Odio: Because he certified.
Mr. Plummer: Correct?
Mr. Helfman: J.L., no, it is not correct: What happened is, when somebody
calls the Zoning Department from the competitive bar, and this City goes back
and looks at the survey carefully, they say, "Oh, my God." The information was
there. It wasn't properly evaluated the first time around. The survey...
Mr. Plummer: No, no, that's not what he is saying.
Mr. Helfman: I know that is not what he is saying, but when they went back to
the file, they found...
Mr. Plummer: What he is saying is that the survey... do you have the survey
that was originally surrendered?
Mr. Genuardi: We have a survey. It shows...
Mr. Plummer: It shows in compliance with the Code.
Mr. Genuardi: Yes, it did show compliance, right.
Mr. Plummer:. And that was a survey provided by the applicant.
Mr. Genuardio. That is right.
Mr. Plummer: Then, the City of Miami did not in any way goof up.
Mr. Helfman: J.L., what I am saying is, there may have been misleading things
on there, but when they came back and reviewed their files because there was a.
complaint in the neighborhood, it was clear to them that they had improperly
issued it, because looking at the survey, we were too close.
Mr. Plummer: Thy issued based on the survey.
Mr. Odio: We received a call from another location saying you better check
the survey because it is wrong.
Mr. Plummer: That's immaterial. That is immaterial, OK? What is material
is, is that their surveyor got them in a jam. I am not going to let you put
the blame on the City of Miami. We predicated our decision based on their
survey, which they paid for.
Mr. Helfman: Absolutely correct.
Mr. Plummer: And their surveyor was incorrect. So, you know, you got a
fight? You go fight with your surveyor, not with the City of Miami. Had the
City of Miami group goofed up, I'm ready right now, willing and able to
reimburse him his $180,000, but we didn't goof up!
Mr. Helfman: The City of Miami, in evaluating the survey, the. information was
on the survey, because when they went back the second time to review .the
survey, they found the information that they needed.
Mr, De Yurre: This surveyor, you pick it at random, or does it have to be a
City accepted surveyor. Do you have a list?
Mr. Genuardi; It is a licensed surveyor,
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Mr: Plummer! Certified,
Mrs. Kennedy: A Certified surveyor.
Mr; be Yurre: So, that is all you are looking for? You don't eere, they
don't have to be on a list, or anything, from the City.
Mr. Genuardi: Igo, we have no list = as long as he is licensed.
Mrs. Kennedy: Joe, did you want to add anything else?
Mr: Genuardi: The information given on the survey, showed that they were in
compliance with the requirements of the Code.
Mr. De Yurre: Legally, could we treat this as a situation wherein they
received their license to have their bar operated, after the fact, it is
discovered that there is an existing bar within the distance. Is that pretty
much what has happened? They had their license already approved?
Mr. Genuardi: No, they had their remodeling permits approved. The license
was not issued yet.
Mr. De Yurre: So there is no license yet?
Mr. Genuardi: It wasn't approved yet, no.
Mr. Maxwell: No, the license comes from the state.
Mr. Dawkins: Wait a minute. Let me help Genuardi, OK? A certified survey
was submitted, is that right?
Mr. Genuardi: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, certified, which means that whoever they had to do the
survey, gave you... I'm sorry, the City of; Miami, .an instrument, and they
certified that this instrument was, accurate. Is that a correct statement?
Mr. Genuardi: That's correct.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, so therefore, J.L. is correct, we did not goof. Who
needs to be sued is his surveyor for giving him erroneous information, all
right?
Mr. Plummer: Exactly.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, that is squared away, OK? Now, don't anybody leave here
thinking that as J.L., said, that we are liable for an error made by his
surveyor, but that has nothing to do with the point that this guy got $180,000
invested that he needs to go in business to get his money back. That's my
concern, OK?
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me...
Mr. Dawkins But, J.L., he is right, he did not goof up, OK? His surveyor is
the one he needs to sue.
Mr. Plummer: OK, let me be honest with you. Anybody that knows that
intersection or knows that corner, you know, if I had my choice, .I would say
no more bars. I'm telling you that, but it is not the bar that is the
competitor that bothers me. It is that school, that's what bothers me, OK?
500 feet from a school; that bothers me.
Mr. Helfman: J.L., that's existed now since 1926, when that bar .was
originally established. The other thing is.,.
Mr. Plummer: A wrong, or two wrongs do not make a right, OK?
Mr, Helfman: OK, the other thing that's critical is that that corner
apparently, from what I understand, had the most purse snatching, and street
related crimes of anywhere in this City, and that is what the City...,
Mr, Plummer: A bar is not going to help encourage it,
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Mr. Helfman: Since we have built our facility, that has been virtually been
eliminated at that corner.
Mayor Suarez: Sy the way, we keep going to that bar. Is it a lounge,
nightclub, what is it?
Mr. Plummer: If they serve liquor, it's a bar. It's a lounge.
Mr. Helfman: It is a lounge, and it was intended as a jazz nightclub. They
have already made arrangements to have Miles Davis come to the opening, I mean
this is a significant thing for this community.
Mr. Plummer: That's great.
Mayor Suarez: Look, the other question along the lines of the additions from
the school - is there any way to limit the hours of operation if we were
disposed to grant this?
Mr. Helfman: Yes, absolutely, to non -school hours.
Mayor Suarez: What do you call non -school, beginning what time?
Mr. Helfman: Whatever regular school hours are, we would not operate during
those hours.
Mayor Suarez: No earlier than 4:00 P.M.?
Mr. Helfman: Six P.M.
Mayor Suarez: OK, one other question. I don't know if this would work, but
how about the limitation on the number of the term that this trould go f or, I
mean., just sort of leaving it open ended concerns me. I know that they have
spent a lot of money on fixing up the property and would like to see if they
can recover some of that expenditure, and at same, maybe make the
neighborhood... improve the neighborhood, by having activity there, at night
time and so on. I wonder, Joel, well, I guess we are all going after you at
the same time, but I wonder if there is any way to limit - supposing we were
disposed to agree to this, limit on a trial period for a year, or two years or
something.
Mr. Joel Maxwell: Sadly, Mr. Mayor, I don't think that you can do anything at
this time to directed...
Mayor Snaraz:. .Can we limit it to his ownership?
Mr. Maxwell: ... that would remedy this particular problem. 'Whatever you do,
is going to be City wide.
Mayor Suarez: I see.
Mr. Maxwell: Now, if you do adopt the ordinance, you can place conditions on
the ordinance, or within the ordinance that can require covenants to limit
hours and so forth.
Mayor Suarez. ♦re you saying that there is no tray to do a single situation
ordinance to do equity in a case? - that we have to do it City-wide? So, from
here on, everybody would 500 feet away from a school?
Mr. Maxwell: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Instead of what was it, 1,000 feet?
Mr. Helfman: No, let me tell you what we propose, and that is that anybody
who wants to vary from that distance has to come before this Commission, and
then, that would give our people... you see, the Code... it is within the
Code, and not within the zoning ordinance. So, unfortunately, there is no
variances. There is no opportunity for us to get to you to ask for relief.
What we are saying is, let's put that in the Code. Let's have a provision in
there that says, OK, we'll vary it from there, but first, you have got to come
to the Commission and show us that it is justified.
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Mr. Plummer: Yes, but you see, let me tell you, that is one of the problems
of being around here so long - it used to be that way. It used to be that way
for bars, and it used to be that way for filling stations, all right? And
this Commission found out that there vere more damn ways to measure 2,500 feet
than we ever thought were humanly possible: As the guy walks across the
street, as the crow flies, and every time they came in here, it was a
different calculation and even worse, every time they came in here, they
wanted 100 feet less than the guy before. Well, you set the precedent, OK?
And we got to the point where we said, hey, we are going to set a distance and
no variance from it, and that's where we are today, because it got to the
point where 2,500 feet was down to 25 feet.
Mr. Helfman: No, what we have done in this proposed ordinance is say between
2,000 and 2,500 after a public hearing, they may be granted. So, that avoids
the going beyond the 2,000.
Mayor Suarez: But the same kind of thing would also have to apply also to the
School.
Mr. Helfman: That would apply to the 500 and the 1,000, that's correct.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, that is the tough one.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but the unconstitutionality of it is, Mr. Mayor, if a bar
exists, a school can build Bart door. or a ctmrch =on build mnzt do=. Thst
was mme of the big problems that we had. We restricted the bar, if they
wanttd to start anew, but if it was the other way around, the school could
open up next door, or the bar could open up next door, or the church.
Mayor Suarez: I guess the idea was, you were protecting, you were protecting
in one direction and not in the other.
"r. Plummer: (OFF MIKE) Have the declared them unconstitutional, the filling
stations?
Mayor Suarez: They have declared them unconstitutional in some other cases,
huh? But you wouldn't file suit to void this.
Mr. Helfman.: No, that is the last thing I want to do. I want to try to do
this without suits.
Mr. Dawkins: (OFF BIKE) Well I think you better catch up with his surveyor.
Hr. Helfman: See, smfortunately, that doesn't resolve our problem. We have a
beautiful facility now, with people throughout the country that came to build
this. There is special bar equipment, and it is going to turn into a real
problem site. It is vacant, it can't be occupied, it can't be used!
Mr. Plummer: Well, it could be used, it just can't be used to serve liquor.
You could use it for beer and wine.
Mrs. Kennedy: Or day care!
Mr. Helfman: No, you couldn't use... beer and wine requirements are also very
similar, and would restrict us from... because we have other beer and wine
facilities almost immediately abutting.
Mayor Suarez: If no motion should pass to give them any other kind of
equitable result, I would be disposed myself to vote to have the City look at
what other uses we might give to this property, so that his losses would be
reduced, you know, by having some kind of possible cooperative effort over
there, whether it is child care, whatever, I don't know. I don't even know
what the structure looks like. If somebody wants to try that, have staff work
with them to see what else could be done there, where the City might...
Mrs. Kennedy: I'd love to move that, and see what else can be done.
Mayor Suarez: I don't hear that we are going to be able to give him any other
solution. A City wide ordinance of this sort, and your effort to make it so
that they would have to come before the Commission, actually is worse than
just flat out ordinance allowing it. I mean that's... somebody want to try
that? Otherwise we will got to the next item.
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Mr. Plummer: I will...
Mrs. Kennedy: Let's sit down with them and see what other uses tan be done in
that location.
Mayor Suarez: And what proposals can be made, whether the City might
contribute, or participate in whatever is done there so that... assuming of
course, that they are interested, so that their losses would be effectively
reduced.
Mr. Plummer: Does your client own the property, or lease it?
Mr. Helfman: Owns it.
Mr. Plummer: Owns the property?
Mr. fielfman : Yes.
Mr. Plummer: I would be expecting you to file a lawsuit against the surveyor
for the purposes of recovering your out of pocket expenses, which, if in fact
you want the City to try to help you and participate. that $180,000 would go a
long way.
' . liayor. c..ar=s AU -rift, ass ass -that .In tte farm of • wtinn as Zeiwain& it
to the Manager?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: What's the motion?
Mayor Suarez: To refer it to the !tanager to szplore what other uses might be
given to the property, including some where the City might participate and
then in a way, looking to try to reduce the losses from the mistakes made
here. OK, we have a motion, do we have a second? J.L., did you second?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved
Its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-56D
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY !'TANAGER TO
ASSIST OFFICER DAVE DONALDSON AND MS. JANICE HALL IN
FINDING A USE FOR THEIR PROPERTY, INCLUDING USES IN WHICH
THE CITY MIGHT PARTICIPATE, AT 202 NW 20 TERRACE IN ORDER
TO REDUCE THEIR LOSS FROM NOT BEING ABLE TO RUN A LIQUOR
LOUNGE DUE TO SAID PROPERTY'S PROXIMITY TO A PUBLIC
SCHOOL.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
Adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
ABSENT: None
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Dawkins: I don't know how I am helping him at all. I don't see how I can
help. I'll vote yes, so that I'll have a chance to bring it back.
Mr. Plummer: Return it to the Manager, yes.
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61. ALLOCATE $4,000 TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS IN SUPPORT OF THE 1988 SUMMER
RECREATION PROGRAM (SUMMER CAMPS), WITH PROVISOS.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: We've got quite a few youngsters in here. It looks like some of
them are going to sleep, I guess it is time for them to go home.
Mayor Suarez: Isn't that on 94?
Mr. Dawkins: Could we find out why they are here and what they are here for,
io they could set them out of here?
Mayor Suarez: Isn't that the next item we're going on?
Mr. Dawkins: It is?
Mayor Suarez: I believe it is.
ldr. Dawkins: OF.
91aTor Suarez: Ninety-four. Finally we got to the item.
Mr. Dawkins: Um hum.
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. William Johnson: Mr. Mayor and Commissioners, my name is William Johnson,
and I live at 736 NW 42nd Street. I am here representing the Culmer-Overtown
Advisory Committee, to request you to waive the fees for the summer camps this
summer. First of all, I'd like to commend the City'a Department of Parks,
Recreation and Public Facilities, for its continued and ambitious support for
our children and young adults in summer activities. However, as we have
received copies of the proposed summer camp fees and guidelines, we're
concerned that even with the sliding scale. A large number of Culmer area
children will be unable to participate in this much needed program.
llayaz .Suarez: Just so we know, because I think we may be disposed to vote
tavarably. What...
Mrs. Kennedy: What are you asking for?
Mr. Johnson: OK, what we are asking you for, Mr. Mayor, is to waive the fee.
Mayor Suarez: Waive the fees.
Mr. Johnson: Yes.
Mrs. Kennedy: Which is how much?
Mr. Plummer: For how many kids, and how much?
Mrs. Kennedy: How much per kid, how many kids?
Mayor Suarez: Is it staff, Al Howard?
Mr. Johnson: There was a sliding scale that was attached to the letter that I
sent to you.
Mayor Suarez: Howard, Al? Mr. Howard?
Mr. Dawkins: Somebody over there? How many kids are we talking about, Mrs.
Adker?
Mr. Al Howard: There is a maximum of 60 children at each park, allowed in the
camping program, and... 60 to each park, maximum, right.
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Mr. Dawkins: That is 60 it Williams, 60 at Gibsoh, and 60 at...
Mr. Howard: At Gibson, 60 at Hadley, 60 at...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, wait. We are dealing with Overtown right now.
Mrs. Adker: Tes, that's right.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Walking about Overtown.
Mr. Dawkins: That's 60 at Hadley, that's 60 at Williams and 60 at Dorsey. is
that right?
Mr. Howard: And...
Mr. Dawkins: That would be le0?
Ms. Anne Marie Adker: Right.
Mrs. Kennedy: And how much is it per kid?
Mr. Dawkins: And how much per...
Mg._ Howard; We baws i. alidiss scale for earth child.
ST. ll=mer: From what to what?
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, give me a figure!
Mayor Suarez: A sliding scale?
Mr. Howard: Yes, in conformance with the date...
Mayor Suarez: What, according to height or what?
Mr. Howard No, with the ability to pay, based on the day tare...
Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, none of them get paid. Give me the scale.
Mr. Howard: The scale is for two people in a household, it would be $10 a
week.
!lr..Dawkins: All sight, if nobody can pay,.sigbt?
Ms. Adker: No, no!
Mr. Howard: If they are making up to $9,600, and from $12,000 all the way up
to $24,000, it only costs them $10 a week, with two...
Mr. Dawkins: $10 a week, all right, so now, so we are talking about $10 a
week, how many weeks?
Mr. Howard: That would be for eight weeks.
21r. Dawkins: And so that $80 per youngster times 160, ghat is that?
Mr. Howard: That's a good question. It is about $9,000 or $10,000, in that
vicinity.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, $12,000, OK?
Ms. Adker: May I say something, please?
Mr. Dawkins: Go right ahead, Ma'am. You may lose my vote, but go ahead.
Ms. Adker: Hopefully not! The information that we got was that it would be
$25 per week per child, and $25 per week per child, and $20 for registration.
On the other hand, we got the information that they have what they call, a
scholarship. Now, if they can dub us into that scholarship, it might be
better for us. That's why we are asking for the fees to be waived.
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Mr. Dawkins: That is what we are getting to, but see, I asked hilt to give
me... he say they had a sliding scale, to I asked him to give me the scale at
the bottom where there was no income, and he said $10 per person. Now, if
those who pay $25 have some income, to we don't have no income, so we are
looking for $10 a person, Is that Correct? Is that a correct statement?
Mr. Howard: The scale is anybody over thirty-two...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, come on, I don't...
Mayor Suarez: No, we are assuming we are at the bottom of the scale here.
Mr. Dawkins: We are at the bottom of the scale, OK? We're talking about
$12,000, right?
Mr. Howard: $9,000, all to $9,000, yes.
his- Adker. X0, up.... nine.
Mr. Dawkins: No, but she may you got a registration fee, Mr. ...
Mr. Howard: There is a $20 registration fee for everybody, right.
Ms. Adker: That's right.
Vr. _bmvktus: iio7e ire talking about $12,000.
Mayor Suaret: Which is another three hundred and sixty.
Mr. Howard: It goes from... if there was zero, one to eight children in a
family, the cost is only, up to $24,000, only $10 per week.
19270T Sus"2I Tca ZOIQ Qs the bottom litre cost Is $1D, we just need a
multiplication. Somebody out there have a calculator? We are talking...
Mr. Plummer: Twelve thousand eight.
Mr. Herb Bailey: Mr. Mayor...
Mr. Howard: We do have a scholarship fund.
Mayor Suarez: $12,000, all right. Herb...
Mr. 3ailey: The request is $9,000 for 20 kids.
""r. Dawkins: Twenty kids? But we are talking about 190 kids, 21r. 'Bailey.
Mr. Howard: For an eight week period.
Mrs. Kennedy: How come we jump from 20 to 180?
Mayor Suarez: Now did we go from 20 to 180 kids in such a short span of time
here?
Mr. Dawkins: We got four parks over there, that's how we go to get there.
Mr. Plummer: Well, but they only ask to put"20 in the program.
Mr. Adker: You are on something else, Commissioner Plummer, don't mix them
up, please.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Bailey, Mr. Bailey, answer the Mayor... Adker.
Mr. Bailey: As we have it here, Mr. Mayor, it is a $9,000 request to send
kids to camp. It says the monies will sponsor approximately 20 children from
the Overtown area.
Ms. Adker: But that's my Send a Kid to Camp Program. Do you all want to take
that up too, at this time?
Mayor Suarez: No!
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Mr. Dawkins: No!
Mayor Suarez: No, no, no!
Mr. Dawkins: These are two different programs.
Mr. Johnson: We are talking about two different things.
Mr. Dawkins: I know that.
Mrs. Kennedy: I thought you were speaking on his behalf.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, the Mayor understands.
Mayor Suarez: but 94 is just the one, right, item?
Ar. JAhnsmz. What we are talking about now is the summer camp.
Mayor Suarez: OK, that is the only thing we are going to consider today, I
hope she...
Mr. Johnson: We ask you to vaive the registration.
Mayor Suarez: All right. I'll entatLin a jaction. .-Ara you gaisg to wake a
motion =.this before...
tlr. Dawkins: All right, hold it. Mr. Manager, what is that account that you
found that money in that time, and I told you I would be back to revisit it?
Mr. Odio: I have a very short memory, Commissioner, I forgot.
itr. Plummer: It is called tt+e tlanager's petty fund.
Mr. Dawkins: The Manager's slush fund?
Mr. Odio: If we are talking about the City's summer camp?
Mayor Suarez: The waiver.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mr. Odio: What I recommend is that case, that we waive the $10 fee. We don't
*aVe to give them...
tlr. Dawkins: Yes. all right hold it now. Tin see, ire ire going to waive the
$10 fee, all right?
Mr. Odio: For those kids...
Mr. Dawkins: Then when I get with you in budget, then I will run into
something about, 'Well, you know I waived the fees."
Mr. Odio: No, no.
Mr. Dawkins: Appropriate me some money and put it into the Parks and
Recreation budget, and then you can back it out, or do anything you want to do
with it.
Mr. Odio: We have received scholarships, Commissioner, from the private
sector to cover instances like this, so we will use those funds to cover...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, so you do have... all right, so you are going to take
that grant from the public sector and put into the Parks and Recreation
budget?
Mr. Odio: That is what they were given to us for, yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: And you got $14,000 for that?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Fourteen, four hundred.
Mr. Odio: Not yet, but we will be receiving those funds.
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Mr. Dawkins: Shut up, you Puerto Riean, you! (LAUGHTER)
Mr. Odio: Yes, let's send him back to Puerto Rico.
Mr. Dawkins! Test send him back to Puerto Rico.
Mr. Plummer: They don't want him.
Mr. Odio: They don't want him back there.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, so we are talking about...
Mayor Suarez: So we have to ethnic remarks on the record, send him back to
wherever he came from.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, so we can do that, huh?
or. Odto- Tes, sir.
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Mr. Dawkins: OK, well I move that we follow the recommendation of the Manager
and that he has found the money, and Ms. Adker... and these youngsters will be
able to participate in the summer camp.
Mr. Plummer. Ao. that is jL diiisrant story.
ie!!s: • Shays different story.
1 Mrs. Kennedy: That's a different item.
Mr. Plummer: That's a separate request.
Mr. nawkias: Well, sit down tben, so I'll bmaw Tou are not on this.
Mayor Suarez: OK, I'll entertain a motion on the summer program waiver of
fees.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Second.
oz. Plummer: Now such money are we waiving?
Mr. Dawkins: One hundred eighty.
Mr. Plummer: All right, the only question I have is, Mr. Manager, on the 180
kids that we are waiving the fee, how will we know, or what determination will
be used that these kids are of poverty level?
Mr. Dawkins: We will go to the schools and all those on free lunches, we will
take them.
Ms. Adker: If you find any rich kids in Overtown, let me know it.
'Mr. Tlmsmer: I didn't say rich! I didn't say rich, I am saying that the kids
that get it, are the kids of the poverty level.
Mr. Dawkins: We will have the schools identify the ones on free lunch, or
what have you.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I think an income tax would be proper.
Mr. Odio: That's what we were talking about.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Howard: They must submit that to us to get that.
Mayor Suarez: Which is it now, which is it, the school determination?
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Mr. Howard: The parents must bring in their withholding Statement and as long
as they're under that line, we will waive the fee.
Mr. Plummer: That's fine, that's fine, OK.
Mayor Suarez: But aren't those usually done by affidavits? They are not done
with income tax statements.
Mr. Howard: Well, that is what we normally get when we go to day care, they
bring in their withholding statement, and then we assess their level and give
them the fee.
Mr. Plummer: From that, yes.
Mayor Suarez: The withholding form? All right, whichever way we usually do
It.
Mr. Johnsams Va Asve zo problem.
Mayor Suarez: All right, call the roll on the motion before it is too late.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
IMSMUTIM 140. SB-561
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $4,000
FROM THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED "RECREATION
ACTIVITY - CONSOLIDATED" TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS TO
THE CITY'S SUMMER CAMPS OF THE 1988 SUMMER RECREATION
PROGRAM, AT A RATE OF $25 PER CHILD PER WEEK, FOR UP
TO TWENTY (20 ) CHILDREN P" :iID[ flUl DM ME TrM VEEK
PROGRAM CONDUCTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS,
RECREATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES; FURTHER PROVIDING
THAT SAID CHILDREN RESIDE IN THE OVERTOWN AREA AND
THAT FAMILIES OF SAID PARTICIPATING CHILDREN VERIFY
GRANT-IN-AID ELIGIBILITY LEVEL 1. IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE DEPARTMENT'S SUMMER CAMP FEE SCHEDULE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk)
llpoa bei.as maconded by Vice Mayor Kennedy, the resolution was passed and
.adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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62. DECLARING THAT THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS METHOD TO DEVELOP IMPROVEMENTS ON
CITY=OWNED VATERFRONT PARCEL IS BY UDP = AUTHORIZE PREPARATION OF RFP
FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A NOT -FOR -PROFIT OLYMPIC SAILING AND TRAINING CENTER
AT KENNEDY PARK (SEE LABELS 4.27 AND 16).
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.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, I'd like to revisit item 38, which we just heard for
the...
Mrs. Adker: No, mine,...
Mrs. Kennedy: Her item is right in front of us, it is crime prevention
program.
Mr. laawki". 327 :that is...
Mr. De Yurre: Item 38 was the RFP request for the sailing and training
center.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, excuse me. OK, I move it.
Mr. Plummer: What?
.. Mr. Me Sucre: OK. I was talking and I found out that it is going to be open
To the public.
Mr. Plummer: What item?
Mr. De Yurre: 38.
Mr. Dawkins: We are going to revisit 38. No, I left it open, that's right.
Mr. Odio: That's the Olympic training...
Mr. De Yurre: Yes, it has been explained to me that it is going to be open to
the public, so really, what is going to do, is enhance what is available over
there for the residents, so I am going to move.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mr..Plummer: Why.. Aid that Skiing go down?
Mr. Dawkins: -Tes, I brought it back up.. Second.
Mr. Plummer: Did it go down? .
Mr. Dawkins: No, we tabled it until you...
Mayor Suarez: We waited, that is the one we waited for you.
Mr. Plummer: OK, I'd like to move it, please.
Mayor Suarez: Well. let's reconsider... no, we don't have to reconsider.
Mr. Dawkins: No, we don't have to reconsider, I tabled it.
Mayor Suarez: All right.
Mr. Plummer: I'd like to move it.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved, seconded, thirded, any discussion? Call the roll on 38,
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
(moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION N0. 88-562
A RESOLUTION DECLARING THAT THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS
METHOD TO DEVELOP CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON AN
APPROXIMATELY 1.5 ACRE CITY -OWNED WATERFRONT PARCEL IS
BY A UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (UDP); AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE A DRAFT REQUEST FOR
PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR A UDP, AND CONFIRMING THE SETTING
OF A PUBLIC HEARING FOR SEPTEMBER 8, 1988. AT 2:00
P.M., TO TAKE TESTIMONY REGARDING SAID RFP FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF A NOT FOR PROFIT OLYMPIC SAILING AND
TRAINING CENTER ON A CITY -OWNED WATERFRONT PROPERTY
LOCATED AT THE SOUTHEASTERLY PORTION OF DAVID T.
KENNEDY PARK ADJACENT TO BISCAYNE BAY IN COCONUT
TROVE. AND AT THE CONCLUSIOiN DF Ti1E FIMI-71 ZEARING TO
AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF A RFP, SELECT A CERTIFIED
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM AND APPOINT MEMBERS OF A REVIEW
COMMITTEE TO EVALUATE PROPOSALS AND REPORT FINDINGS TO
THE CITY MANAGER AS REQUIRED BY THE CITY CHARTER AND
CODE.
(Hers• fol•iVW lend! -..Vf VWwlutim, =Itted Isere and on
file im the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upor being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Cammissinner !Sider J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
63. DISCUSSION CONCERNING REPORT ON THE YOUTH GANGS SITUATION. -
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, before we get to 95, if I may, item 120 has to do
with the youth gang situation report,' and in fact, I want to bring it up at
this point, because we have here Julio Balsera, with a victim of a youth gang
recently, and there are very serious problems over on Flagami. In fact, there
is a youth gang that meets every night on 53rd Avenue and it goes on, day
after day...
Mayor Suarez: What street, roughly?
fir. Be lame: S3rd... Julio.
Mr. Julio Balser& (OFF MIKE) Flagler and 53rd Avenue.
Mayor Suarez: Go ahead, come to the mike. We are going to make an unexpected
visit to this youth gang, one of these nights.
Mr. Julio Balsera: OK. Good evening. The most problem we have in Flagami,
one of the group, or the gang, goes to Flagler and 53rd Avenue, in the site of
the cemetery, on the site of the Henry Flagler Elementary. We had the problem
about eight weeks ago, some group gang came to the Henry Flagler Elementary,
and put a fire in three classes, and now...
Mayor Suarez: Are you saying this gang typically meets every night at that
address?
Mr. Balsera: Every night, or...
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Mayor Suaret: Nov late?
Mr. Balsera: After 5:00 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., or 10:30, or 11:00
o'clock, you know? I call for the Police Department for many times and the
police don't go to this place, you know? Sometimes when I call the police,
they want a very lot of information and they take about 15, or 20, or 35
minutes, and after that they say, 'We send the police car to this place, and
when the police car comes, about maybe one hour, the group, when the see the
police car, they move their cars and they leave, is the problem." Any another
problem is, these two girls, they are students in the elementary, and
about eight weeks ago, they go around to the house, back, you know, and the
problem is, some groups stop when they are on bikes, and she can explain to
you what is the problem they have weeks ago.
Mr. De Turre: Bring them to the mike.
We. Keaaadys era Lhey A=Sl h Lha raga aad jnt the -mh1efus, the yAmth gang's
emblems?
Mr. De Turre: Well, my understanding is that on their bodies, marks are put
on.
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh my Godl
#r. Be Terre: 10ll,-1go *head please.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute. Wait a minute, before you start, I would
appreciate that neither one of these girls give their name, or home address.
Ms. (Unidentified No. 1): OK, my name is...
Mr. De Yurre: No, don't give us your name. Just tell us what happened.
Ms. (Unidentified No. 1): We were walking by 60th Avenue, and going to a
house on bike.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute! Turn that TV camera off, please. Sir, we would
appreciate your turning that off. We don't want any retribution against these
girls.
lir. De Yurre: Just turn it away, they are not going to mention their names.
!lay= Suarez: You tan locus spa Commissioner Plummer, that is all right.
Mr. Plummer: Yeah, I'm the ring leader!
Ms. (Unidentified No. 1): We were walking...
Mr. De Turre: Speak up.
Ms. (Unidentified No. 1): I was walking by 60th Avenue with her, and she was
on a bike, and then this car pulls up in a red Trans Am and four tall
people... there was four, and three of them got out, one stayed in the car,
and started running after us and she fell down, and they weren't near us yet,
so I tried to see to get her up, and then they started running, and they got
us, and then to me, they hold me and then they threw me against the fence and
put a knife on my neck, and to her...
Ms. (Unidentified No. 2) One of them, when I sat down, one of them...
Mr. Plummert Speak a little bit more into the mike.
Ms. (Unidentified No. 2): One of them was in back of me and holding me and
the other one got in front of me and asked we for money. I told them I didn't
have any money, so they caught me by my arms and my legs, and then they told
me if that reminded me if I had any money. I told them that I already told
them that I didn't have any money, so they got my hair and cut it by the
front. Then the red Trans Am pulled over and the guys got back in the car.
Mr. Plummer: Did I understand you to say they cut you?
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Ms. (Unidentified No. 2): Yes.
Mr. Plummer: With a knife?
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: Did they cut you with a knife? Oh, they scratched you. What
did they use? Is this the same group around 53rd Avenue?
Mr. Balser&: I don't know.
Sergeant Joe Longueira: Where did it happen at?
Ms. (Unidentified No. 1): Near 60th Avenue.
Sgt. Longueira: That is close enough, 60th Avenue. Mayor, Commissioners, we
.have somebody from the Police Department who is an expert on gangs, right.
She h= &.heady dealt with this, referring it to i.he ;sag detail, and they are
going to follow up, she is going to get with this man also and follow it up.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, what I want to know is, what is being done, because I
have asked for two months for a report, and we didn't get to address this the
last month. I want to know what's happening. What are we doing about gangs,
because I don't see it getting any better at 'all. -We've had a -shooting
rseent ly, over the weekend -- Cocoant Grove, and f irst of all 9 it -used to be
graffiti, now we are talking about shooting, stabbings, and all kinds of
things and Ms. Wade, I know that you are very involved in this, and I'd like
to have some input from you as to what is happening at this point in time.
Ms. Barbara Wade: Should I address the latter, or the first question? I'd
like to take up the issue of...
Mr. Dawkins: Give your name.
Ms. Wade: My name is Barbara Wade, and I am the coordinator of gang
activities for the City of Miami Police Department, and I work for the Chief
of Police.
Mr. Plummer: Are you a sworn officer?
Ms. Wade: I am a social worker.
*fr. Plummer: Yvu are not a sworn officer?
Ms. Wade: No, I an not. I have been doing this since 19...
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, are there sworn officers assigned to this detail?
Ms. Wade: Yes, there are.
Mr. Plummer: Do they work for her?
Sgt. Longueira: No.
lir..P.12—er. OK, all right, I Just want to get the chicken straight here.
Mr. De Yurre: Go ahead.
Ms. Wade: I've been working gangs since 1960, starting in Chicago, and some
of the same gangs that we are dealing with now, are some of the same gangs
that were in Chicago. The markings that this young lady has on her arms are
markings of the Latin Disciples, which originated in Chicago. They frequent
the area of Flagami and on the other side of the 56th Avenue boys. This
morning, I had a discussion about this problem. We have already given the
assignment to the gang detail. Latin officers will be going out there and
will be reporting back first thing in the morning. We've instructed them to
talk to the parents and get on top of this and bring the culprits into the
station.
Mr. Plummer: You know what the problem, I think part of it is? You know, we
saw in Los Angeles, that the Mayor and the Police Chief out there declared war
on gangs. I mean, declared war! - in the newspapers! And I am wondering why
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we are not doing the same thing? (APPLAUSE) You've got to deal and talk to
them in a language that they understand.
Ms. Wade: Mr. Plummer, I sit on a national committee, as the only female, and
on March 3rd, we called in the Los Angeles Police Department, along w
ith
twelve other police departments. Los Angeles Department has 600 plus gangs in
the county alone, with a membership of over 70,000, and the city, 200 plus,
with a membership of over 15,000, and...
Mr. Plummer: And how many policemen do they have in L.A.?
Ms. Wade: Two hundred and fifty in the gang unit, and it goes upward in the
thousands for the police.
Mr. Plummer: And what scares me is if we don't declare war, we are going to
be in the same category.
Ms. Yade: You are absolutely right. I wish somebody bad said that in 1984
when I tried to tell people that we had a problem.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I'm telling you now.
Ms. Wade: As for as the Coconut Grove area is concerned, we spent time with
the kids on Friday night. The Goombay Festival was uneventful; however, I
spent time with the kids on Saturday at the arms of -Douglas and -Percival, and
warned them not Lo sit here, barause we haazs! that -there arse going to be a
shooting from South fliami, and I think everyone needs to know that Coconut
Grove has not had a gang problem - gangs per se in Coconut Grove. What we
have are kids who band together out of fear and intimidation, and that is what
has been happening, since January 1, when the South Miami gang came in and
started shooting in the area. Now, what we have done, is that the students
themselves, after a grieving period at Poace de .Leon on !Monday the students
got togetber Lbemselves, and they called this project 'Doing something for
Darren." Fifteen of them came into Human Resources, they talked to Homicide,
which is great, and some things are happening. Today we had a big meeting.
The kids outlined what they felt the problems were and there were
representatives from the Commissioners there. The first thing that they need
to do, and they want to do that tomorrow morning, is to take the Chi -town
down. They insist that they are not a gang and the kids know that as long as
graffiti is there, and there is a territory named as a gang area, and the
group hang out, that these kids will continue to shoot at them, so tomorrow
morning we will take the graffiti down. They also are going to have mentors.
We had a responsive group, and these kids want to send a strong message to the
community, including their parents, that they don't like the gang warfare.
Mr. Dawkins: !Mrs. Wade, what can we do to insure that these two young ladies
Fare not intimidated in their area. What can we do to insure that those
individuals - now, I mean, we can't insure it - but what can we do to sort of
attempt to protect others like them from that gang element in Flagami? We
somehow have to get parents to understand that you got to know what the hell
your children are doing. You see, the biggest problem is that most parents
don't know where their children are, and what they are doing.
Ms. Wade: That is the problem.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, see, so some kind of way, are have got to set parents to be
responsible for their children.
Ms. Wade: Well, this was a recruiting effort here, with these girls, and
we've been into institutional denial for so long in this town, we don't want
to say that there is a problem, but I tell you, you are either going to pay
now, or pay later, because what we are dealing...
Mr. Dawkins: When you say, a recruiting, I mean, explain that to those of us
who don't understand what you mean.
Ms. Wade: Recruiting means that the gangs that we are dealing with are
extremely sophisticated. They came from another city, their organization has
been intact for over 30 years, particularly the Latin Disciples. They carve
out of the jails in Chicago, out of the prisons, and if we don't do something,
If we don't send some strong messages that Miami will not tolerate this
situation, we are going... this problem is going to get out of hand. It is
practically there now.
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Mr. Dawkins: OK, now, one more question and I'll be finished. Joe, knowing
that we do not have quote, unquote, adequate manpower, how do we address the
needs of a gang detail when we are stretched thin otherwise?
Mr. Plummer: I won't agree to that. I won't agree to that statement, I'm
sorry. We have adequate manpower. The priority of where it goes is the
problem. You know, I come back, and I'm sorry, I catch hell every time I make
this statement, but if you ask people of this community, are they are more
concerned about these gangs, or the 16 policemen that are writing tickets for
yellowtails out in the bay, there is your answer. Now, I'm sorry, I am going
to catch hell again tomorrow from the Marine Patrol, who are all friends of
mine, but when a guy comes to me and says they are writing a ticket for a five
inch yellowtail, instead of out here fighting crime, I'm sorry, to me it has
got to be prioritized!
Mr. Dawkins: But, you see, the priority must be set with the five of us. We
bsys allarred the police Department to put paople out there chasing
yellowtails, instead of chasing gangs. We cannot... me, I mean, I, for one...
cannot go along with the fact that I have allowed the Police Department not to
put people where it is needed, because you, every member of us up here, we get
calls every day about the response time. We get calls because they don't see
a policeman in the area, we get calls because we don't have nobody to stop
purse anstphing, and if the reason that we get these calls is becaisse people
are out writing tIchsts abaart yellowtails, tb t is v=r fault.
"r. Plumer: Yell, can I go one step further? I'll tell you, this has been
in my craw, and I've got to get it out. I am extremely upset, that my
department has not addressed in the media something that happened in this town
approximately three weeks ago, when The Miami Herald published a tour guide of
where to go buy your cocaine. They not only published a tour guide, they put
a slap shoring you if you don't know where to bwy eoeaine, the !term herald
will show you in a map. And I have not heard a response from my department,
and that has been three weeks ago. Now, I tell you, that upsets me, because,
you know what, unfortunately, it is in fact, true. You can go right now,
right now to Percival and Grand, and you can buy all the coke you got money to
buy. You can go to Oak and Grand and you can buy all you can buy. But damn
it, when The Miami Herald publishes a map, and shows the people, here, if you
don't know where to go buy it, we the The Miami Herald will show you, I think
is an absolute disgrace! What does bother me is, is that my department did
not respond, and admonish them for publishing such a thing in the newspaper.
fft. Dawkins: And It was four blocks from the police station.
"r. Tlw=er: That bothers. me!
Mr. De Yurre: Let me say that...
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner De Yurre.
Mr. De Yurre: ... the reason that I brought this forth is because ever since
I got elected, I've been trying to deal with the youth gang problem and I've
been meeting with Sergeant Rimondi and Ms. Wade, and they have given me their
formula for dealing with this, but for months, and I have been here now, I'm
into my seventh month, for months I've seen it grow worse and worse and worse,
And 1 don't think their formula works. You know, the formula is a passive
type of police work. Try to get the good guys out and find out who the bad
guys are, and now, it is not working. These groups, they don't see any danger
in what they are doing, because there is no detriments, there are no
deterrents for what they are doing. They keep rampaging all over town, and
there is more kids and more kids getting involved. Now, either we fish, or we
cut bait! And I think it is time that children like this right here, feel
that they are safe in the streets, and not that they get cut up like they did
recently. And I think it is time that the Police Department and Cesar, as
City Manager, I am asking you to get together with Chief Dickson, and let's
have a game plan to initiate immediately as to changing our tactics and
protecting our families and our children. You know, this cannot go on, and
these are two prime examples, which I would rather not have brought them here,
because I think this is a stressful situation for these two girls, but the
impact has to be brought forth before the Commission, and we have to be made
aware, of how serious this problem is, and it is not going to get any better
until we clean up our act and we really put this is our number one priority
and clean house.
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Sgt. Longueira: Commissioner...
Mr. Plummer: Joe, am I out of line, stating for the record, that we
experience approximately twelve purse snatches a day in and around Douglas and
Grand? Am I off base?
Sgt. Longueirs: Off the top of my head, I would have to tell you I would have
to go look. I don't think you are, because normally...
Mr. Plummer: Seventy sector, Sergeant?
Sgt. Longueira: No orally, you are not wrong when you quote those kinds of
things.
Mr. Plummer: I'm not too far off.
Sgt. Laagueira: ?on do lour homework.
Mr. Plummer: And yet, and yet, Joe, my problem is, we don't have a policeman
assigned to that location, knowing the high crime that occurs in that
particular location, and we don't have.a policeman there!
Sgt. Longueira: All right, first of all, Chief Dinkenn Jas met with everybody
on this subject. They are trying to deal with it. tlae of the ways we are
going tv have to deal with this, is the whole department is going to have to
address it. We are 'trying to educate all the officers on youth gang
activities. There is a lot to it, there is a very complicated network. They
have tattoos, they have secret handshake, a whole language to themselves.
They are an organized crime that is as sophisticated an any drug network we
have, and most. of them are into drug distribution, so the department is
developing thimis to Eet tie whole departrmnt Involved, but it is something
that doesn't happen very quickly.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but you know what the problem, Joe, is, OK? - these two
girls in effect, were lucky.
Sgt. Longueira: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: If we wait much longer, we are going to be in a crisis, because
the next two might not be so lucky. We can't wait any longer.
Sgt. Longueirs: I understand, Commissioner. We are going to proceed as fast
as possible.
Mrs. Kennedy: Now, let me also tell you on a positive note that the City
teemed up with the County to get funds from the Legislature, as you know, and
we were appropriated $200,000 for a you resource center to fight youth
gangs, crime and prevention in youth gangs, so that is going to be right here,
probably next to City Hall. We are working on getting the space. Maybe there
we have a facility, Mr. Manager, and we can get all these units and
concentrate on this problem.
Mr. Odio: We are also having meetings with the County. We have had three
meetings vith the County, with the County police Department, and we are going
to tow ine the efforts of both departments. It is worse in the County than it
is in the City today.
Mr. Dawkins: But, I'm not concerned but the County, OK?
Mr. Odio: But, we have to...
Mr. Dawkins: I'm not concerned about the County. Deal me with the City.
Mr. Odio: No, Mr. ... but we have to!
Mr. Plummer: Well, Miller, you have got to be concerned.
Mr. Dawkins: No, I'm not, J.L.!
Mr. Plummer: Because the theory of crime is the balloon, all right? If we
squeeze it here, it is going to pop above 79th Street, and you know what is
going to happen?
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Mr. Dawkins: And if they Squeeze it out there, it is going to pop in here, to
let me worry about it.
Mr. Plummer: They are going to pop it up there and squeeze it back here, so
you are just pushing it back and forth. You have got to do a coordinated
effort.
Mr. De Yurre: The bottom line is, that...
Mrs. Kennedy: And work with the State to give them stricter Sentencing.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, one at a time.
Mr. De Turre: Rosario, hold it. The bottom line is, I think, how many
officers are assigned to that youth gang detail? I think there is more than
seven.
Sgt. Longueira: Six, VT Seven.
Mayor Suarez: Six.
Mr. De Turre: Six? You are talking about a force of close to what, 1,100
men?
.Mayor Suarez: 1,059 personnel.
Mr. De Turre: 1,050, of which only seven are assigned to youth gangs, or six
are assigned to youth gangs. There is no way we can fight youth gangs with
six officers!
Sgt. Longueira: But that is not the way to fight it. The gray to fight it is
you get the whole department involved, and that is what we are trying to do.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, I haven't seen anything happening!
Sgt. Longueira: Commissioner, you just don't announce it at roll call. It is
a long process, an education process, is to go...
Mr. De Yurre: Well, by the time they graduate, it is going to be too late,
OK? It is going to be too late!
Mr. Plummer: Joe, the other...
t1r. Odio: Well. I think the Miami Police Department, I need to say this, was
a pioneer in the drug fighting war. They are now, and I know, because the
Chief and I talked about this and Ms. Wade, will testify we are getting geared
up the department to combat this gang...
Mr. Plummer: Cesar, we hear what you are saying, and we understand what you
are saying. Obviously, you don't understand what we are saying.
Mr. Odio: I understand, and I am going to be...
Mr. Plummer: We can't wait any longer. Now, we can't you know. I understand
.that the process goes along and we know that Un process in goverument
unfortunately goes slow, but we are telling you we think that that process is
got to be expedited. What's wrong with tomorrow morning, the City of Miami
declares war on gangs, and mean it!
Ms. Wade: Commissioners, if I may any something, we just finished training
the majority of the officers twice a week everybody went through the gang
training, but the problem is, is that we are dealing with two tiers. We are
dealing with the organized crime level here, and gangs, and I don't mean the
Maf is, it is even worse than that in terms of the rituals and the rules and
the laws and all of that, and then the ambassador, which touches base here,
with those guys, who got in touch with her, so what we have been doing,
Commissioner De Yurre, is that I have been working with this level down here.
We have not begun to even reach this, and that is what the Chief addressed the
other day, so it has got to be a departmental thrust, and that is what the
Chief is looking for now.
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Mr. Plummer: Well, I hope that you will do a second step, OK? -and that
second step is to follow these cases through when these people are arrested,
because let me tell you something. At this present time, to the best of my
knowledge, none of them have done any time.
Ms. Wade: Right.
Mr. Plummer: And I want to tell you, if we make public the arrests that we
are making and we show statistics of how much it is doing in good to try to
get then arrested and get them in jail, I think you are going to find some
amazing statistics. Let me just give you one, and I an deviating way away
from this subject of youth gangs, but Engleton, where are you? Jim, listen to
me, you come down here, and rightfully so, and complain about the prostitute
problem on Biscayne Boulevard. I have statistics that were pulled for the
month of January, and I want to give them to you briefly. There were 79
arrests in the month of January. Would you give me your wildest imagination
,Suess of bow many of those 79 served time? Fourl
tlayvr Suarez: No, zero.
Mr. Plummer: Your, no, I'm telling you, in fact, according to what the
statistics given to me, four served time, and I think it was less than three
days.
Mrs. •Kennedy: That's the oihar thing.
-Mr. Plumar: OK, now to me, you can go out and arrest the whole damn world,
but if they are going to turn them loose and put them back out on the street,
before we can do, and I am talking about youth gangs, I am back on that
subject, OK? - we've done nothing by arresting them except take them off the
street for a couple of hours.
'Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait. Commissioner, do you need anything else on this
topic? We've got many items and people have been waiting and we have to try
to get through and...
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I agree with you sir, but I don't know of anything
that is more important than this one right sow.
Mr. De Yurre: I don't think there is anything more important that this right
now.
Mayor Suarez: Do you have anything on this matter?
'Mr. De Turre. I rant to have Cesar, by zmxt 3hursdary, s ssme plea as to where
we are going with this. We need to have something. You know, we just can't
sit back and let it keep going and mushrooming.
Mr. Odio: When you say game -plan, so, I understand that, and I don't...
Mr. De Yurre: I want to have a game plan as to what is going to be done about
this, and it just can't be, you know, the same formula, even though Ms. Wade
has been at it for aeons, dealing with this, and she is an expert. She knows
that we are crossing dangerous waters right now, and if we don't...
MMIr..Dawkias: Tea, but as J.L. said, she is not a sworn officer. She does mot
have a gun. She is dealing with individuals with a gun.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but she don't hesitate to go down in the worst of it, I
know that.
Mrs. Kennedy: I tell you, they respect her.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, I know that, but see, we need somebody with her who got a
gun.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, that is what I am saying. I want the Police Department
to get... that is what I want, I want a game plan by the Police Department as
to how they are going to address this problem immediately.
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Mr. Plummer: Barbara ain't never backed off yet.
Mayor Suarez: OK, you can make that in the form of a motion.
Mr. De Yurre: And I'll put that... that's a motion.
Mr. Plummer: Can I add to that, Victor, to that motion, I would also like the
Administration, if they will listen, I would like the Administration to
explain to me, why, when The Miami Herald identified the sale of corners for
cocaine, why there has not been a police car assigned to that corner, and stay
on that corner, and if nothing more, make the map of The Miami Herald sarong.
I am talking about four locations in Coconut Grove, OK? And if you put a
police car there, I don't think any idiot is going to go buy. OK? I am
talking about three locations and the corner of Douglas and Grand.
Mayor Suarez: Well, one reason. Commissoner, is that for the ensuing two
weeks after The Miami Herald puts out that map, they are not in.those corners.
Mr. Plummer: No, they are there.
Mayor Suarez: And then they come back two weeks afterwards.
Mr. De Yurre: They don't read The Herald..
Maw. Suaras: Or m doing a.. .
Mr. Plummer: Maybe we'd be better off if we didn't!
Mayor Suarez: ... magnificant job of the reverse sting operations and a map,
if anything reflects that there are not that many corners in the City as
opposed to the rest of the County, whether the map is right or wrong; but if
we want to allocate more resources to the 7essth sung effort, let's give the
instructions to the Manager.
Mr. Plummer: So be it.
Mr. De Yurre: Thursday, 10:00 o'clock, in my office - 10:00 o'clock in the
morning.
Mr. Plummer: You want to do something? I'll tell you how to do it. Call a
press conference for next Thursday at 10:00 a.m. to announce what they are
going to do.
!Mrs. Xennedy: And let's declare the war.
Mr. Plummer: Exactly, get them out to get them the hell out of there.
Mr. De Yurre: And you know, it is a press conference, all the Commissioners
are invited and the Mayor, and let's have some results as to where we are
going.
Mayor Suarez: All right.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, Cesar, that's my motion.
Mr. bsmkims:, Wait • minute now, hold it. The press -conference is to declare
war on youth gangs?
Mr. De Yurre: And how we are going to do it.
Mr. Dawkins: All right.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, next Thursday, 10:00 o'clock in the morning, press
conference. You guys know it already, you are on notice.
Mayor Suarez: I will not be at the press conference, but I will be happy to
sign a declaration.
Mr. Plummer: Of war?
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
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Ms. Gloria Rosello: Just to say that 75 percent of those prostitutes that
have been picked up at Biscayne, or wherever the place is, they have been
tested for AIDS at the Health Department and 75 percent of them are positive.
Mayor Suarez: VOWI OK.
Mr. De Turre: That's Why I don't go there.
Mayor Suarez: Before we get to the issue of prostitution and AIDS... that is
the next war we are going to declare, and I will sign that one too.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: THERE WAS NO APPEARANCE OF THE INTERESTED
PARTIES IN CONNECTION WITH AGENDA ITEM 95.
64. ALLOCATE $15,000 FOR RENTAL OF MIAMI MARUZ STADIUM IN CONNECTION WITH
_. =M 2npS W M:M .W CONCERT SERIES.
Mayor Suarez: Item 96, Miami Herald, Pops By The Bay. Item 97.
Mr. Odio: No, wait, wait, or. Mayor.
lhyor SUSMz: Is, lace tiarcock going to snake • prese3rtatIM for The Herald,
or. ..7
Mr. Odio: On the Pops On The Bay, that is a City of Miami and The Miami
Herald sponsored event that is one of the best that we have in the Marine
Stadium. It is important to the Marine Stadium.
Mr. Plummer: Where do the proceeds go?
Mr. Odio: The proceeds? We get the concessions revenues from this, and...
Mr. Plummer: Where does the ticket revenue go?
Mr. Odio: I don't have the breakdown exactly.
Mr. Plummer: What?
Mr. Odio: The City.
Iir..14l=mwr. All of ttm revenue toes to the City?
Mr. Odio: Yes, we make...
Mr. Plummer: Well, why are they asking for a waiver, if we get all the
revenue?
Mr. Odio: They... ten percent goes to the City.
Mr. Plummer: Ten percent?
Mr. Odio: Of the...
Mr. Plummer: Where does the other 90 go?
Mr. De Yurre: Of the gross, or the net?
Mr. Odio: What, do you have a breakdown there?
Mr. Max Cruz: (OFF MIKE) I don't have a breakdown.
Mr. De Yurre: Go to The Herald.
Mr. Odio: But is one of the major events that...
Mr. Plummer: No, where does the money go?
Mr. Cruz: (OFF MIKE) They pay the expenses. All they want is the rental fee.
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Mayor $uaret: Just the rental fee waiver?
Mr. Odio: Just the rental fee waiver
Mr. Plummer: Are you saying that after the expenses, all of the money comes
to the City?
Mr. Cruz: (OFF MIKE) Except for the 10 percent ____ fee..:
Mr. Plummer: Where does the other money go?
Mr. De Yurre: Will you put it on the record?
Mr. Plummer: Don't shake your head, yes. Where does it go?
Mr. Cruz: To The Miami Herald.
Mr. Plumer: To 71he Berald?
Ms. Diane Johnson: Miami Herald Lend A Hand Program is to...
Mr. Odio: Lend A Hand. It is a nonprofit organization.
Mayor Suarez: The Lend A hand Program?
As:.Iahnsta: ALLaui herald Lend A Hand.
Mr. Odio: The Miami Herald does advertise it that...
Mayor Suarez: Lend A Hand Program.
Mr. Odio: That is A City of Miami...
Mr. Plummer: Well, but then it is the City lending a hand, not The Miami
Herald, which they'll take credit for.
Mayor Suarez: I wouldn't mind writing the article, that way we can say what
we want in one of the articles. 4
Mrs. Kennedy: How much money are we talking about?
Ms. Johnson: $15,000.
Mr. Odio: They don't get' any credit for it, and. it sentions this when they
are now advertising -for the City of Miami. This is one of the most popular
event, or events, because there are three of them.
Mr. Plummer: It is a super event, OK? - but when you ask for a waiver, you
have got to know where is the money is going. There.are proceeds. That thing,
the 4th of July is always sold out.
Mr. Odio: And the other two also.
Mayor Suarez: And we get ten percent of gross?
lir. Odio: We get ten percent of the gross, plus the concessions.
Mayor Suarez: Of what is it, of gross?
Mr. Odio: Plus the parking.
Mayor Suarez: Of gross?
Mr. Odio: Of the gross, yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Plus a dollar seat charge?
Mr. Odio: Plus a dollar seat charge this year.
Mrs. Kennedy: I move it.
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Mayor Suarez: So the rental waiver. if you fill it, is not really a waiver.
Mr. Odio: No, the rent is $5,000.
Mayor Suarez: We make a lot more than what we would have charged for rent.
It is just an alternative to rent, OK.
Mrs. Kennedy: So moved.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but they are taking in, remember, near $10,000.
Mayor Suarez: But, if they pay you rent, they are not going to give you 10
percent of gross.
Mr. Plummer: And any, remember, that we have the right to audit the books,
and we, the City Commission reserve the right before any of those funds can be
disbursed. It must come here for approval.
". Reimedy: Sc moved.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. De Yurre: Second.
llayar Call the r0l ]
!spar Suarez: That will clear $25,000, for the record.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
BFSGIMIGN NO. 88-563
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$15,000 FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT
FUND, FOR RENTAL OF THE MIAMI MARINE STADIUM FOR THE
POPS -BY -THE -BAY CONCERT SERIES TO BE PRESENTED BY THE
MIAMI HERALD LEND -A -HAND FUND, INC. -IN ZONnWMION
WITH THE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF FLORIDA ON JULY 4,
12 AND 19, 1988 AT SAID STADIUM; SUBJECT TO AND
CONTINGENT UPON SUCH CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS AS MAY
BE PRESCRIBED BY THE CITY OF MIAMI, INCLUDING RECEIPT
OF PAYMENT FOR ALL CITY SERVICES AND FEES REQUIRED FOR
'SAID EVENT; FURTHER PROVIDING THAT NO CITY FUNDS BE
MMElQDED UNLESS AND UNTIL SAID SPONSOR AS 2Hb7 7HE
CITY COMMISSION SHALL APPROVE IN ADVANCE ANY
EXPENDITURE OF PROFITS FROM SAID CONCERT AND THAT THE
CITY COMMISSION BE ALLOWED TO CONDUCT A POST -CONCERT
AUDIT.
(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:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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65. ALLOCATE $250,000 FOR THE REBUILDING AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE RAILROAD
CROSSING AT NW 1ST AVENUE AND NW 8TH STREET - URGE METRO-DADE COUNTY TO
EXPEDITE REIMBURSEMENT IN ORDER THAT THE LAND SALE AGREEMENT FOR THE
PORT BRIDGE MAY BE EXECUTED.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. !Mayor, there is another one here that's...
!Mayor Suarez: Yes, but I want to try to go through...
. , !!r. 21+Mdr: — very Important and this ralat" to the arana.
Mayor Suarez: Why don't you go ahead and move it. Is it controversial?
Kr. Plummer: Let me tell you the problem, very quickly. The problem... it
Is not. This is a problem that exists with the redoing of the railroad tracks
In front of the arena.
Mayor Suarez: .0�h. Tight, The $750,0007
"r. Tlu:muer: The $250,000 has not been forthcoming from the port. What I am
proposing. or being asked to propose by the Administration is, that we advance
the money, but fully understanding that we will not sign the final agreement
on the port causeway until we have been totally and fully reimbursed for that
$250,000, with interest taut I didn't iatlude. (NOTE AT THIS POINT
COMMISSIONER PLUMMER READS RESOLUTION INTO THE RECORD. SEE FIEREINBELOW) I so
move.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
XESOLUTION NO. 88-564
♦ IMSOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY "MAGER TO ALLOCATE
AN AMOUNT NOT Tp EXCEED $250,000 FROM GENERAL
OBLIGATION HIGHWAY BOND FUNDS ALREADY APPROPRIATED FOR
PHASE I SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST STREET
IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY FOR THE
REBUILDING AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE RAILROAD CROSSING AT
N.W. 1ST AVENUE AND N.W. 8TH STREET AND URGING
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TO EXPEDITE REIMBURSEMENT IN
THE ABOVE AMOUNT TO THE CITY OF MIAMI AS AUTHORIZED
AND PROVIDED IN RESOLUTION NO. 88-242, ADOPTED MARCH
10, 1988, SINCE THE PROPOSED LAND SALE AGREEMENT WITH
DADE COUNTY FOR THE PORT BRIDGE SHALL NOT BE EXECUTED
UNTIL TOTAL REIMBURSEMENT IS MADE.
(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:
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AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
66. ACCEPT BIDS: JUELLE, INC. AND TREE MASTERS, INC. - FOR FURNISHING
DEMOLITION SERVICES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING AND ZONING.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, I also have a pocket item. (NOTE: AT THIS POINT,
VICE lIATOR IMMMY IRE►DS SESOI=ION 33RTO THE YUB IC 88CGSD. SEE IIERE 31BELOW. )
And so I move.
Mr. Fernandez: Very good, Vice Mayorl
Mayor Suarez: Moved, do we have a second?
llr. Am*izs-. Second.
llsyor Suarez: Second. Any discussion?
Mr. Plummer: I invoke the rulel Not
Mayor Suarez: The rule has been invoked. The rule is withdrawn. _Are you OK
on this, Commissioner?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-565
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BIDS OF JUELLE, INC. IN THE
AMOUNT OF $19,708.00 AND TREE !!ASTERS, INC. IN THE
AMOUNT OF $4,944.00.FOR THE FURNISHING DF DEMOLITION
SERVICES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF BUILDING MID ZONING AT
A TOTAL PROPOSED.COST OF $24,652.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT* DEMOLITION
FUND ACCOUNT CODE NOS. 451320-340-799206 ($19,708.00)
AND 560502-340-110035 ($4,944.00); 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.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: You can always reconsider.
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61. DISCUSSION CONCERNING REQUEST FROM THE JAMAICA AWARENESS REGGAE FESTIVAL
FOR ASSISTANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR UPCOMING FESTIVAL.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 98.
Mr. Odic: Item 98, Mr. Robert is requesting $18,200 for the use of
Bicentennial Park, and City service for the Fourth Annual Jamaica Awareness
Reggae Festival, and we have to recommend that we do not fund this program,
because we have no money.
Mrs. Kennedy: How much are they asking for?
Mr. Odio: $18,200.
"r. 1P1=wmT- 1$11,V00 plas, or is that total?
Mr. Odio: That's and City services.
Mr. Plummer: And? - how much is City services?
Mr. Larson Edwards: No, -it A& ,SIG,4 0. vh3rk da -his; the Lft7 2mvices.
lir. Plummer: I'm just trying to understand.
Mr. Edwards: It is just the City services.
Mr. Odio: I'm sorry.
Mr. Plummer: Is this a nonprofit organization?
Mr. Edwards: Yes, sir, it is a nonprofit organization.
Mr. Plummer: How many years have you put this on?
Mr. Edwards: Four years.
Mr. Plummer: And what profit did you make last year?
21r. Zdwards : Ve hsveLn't been able to make any profit through all the times
the fees from the City have been...
Mr: Plummer: Where is it going to be held?
Mr. Edwards: Bicentennial Park.
Mrs. Kennedy: How many people do you attract?
Mr. Edwards: Well, last year, ve had about 40,000 people in the Park. It is
the biggest Reggae festival in...
Mrs. Kennedy: 400,000?
Mr. 'Edwards: 40,000.
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh.
Mr. Edwards: It is the biggest Reggae festival in all of the U.S.A.
Mr. Plummer: And how much do you charge admission?
Mr. Edwards: It is free admission.
Mr. Plummer: That's gone. No, I'm not kidding you. You are going to have to
charge! You have 40,000 people, you don't need to charge but 50 cents a
person.
Mr. Edwards: We don't think they even want to pay 50 cents, you know. That
would definitely reduce the...
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Mr. Plummer: If they want to come have a good day for 50 cents a person and
they don't want to pay that, tell them they got a bad day.
Mr. Edwards: You see, that is going to raise our cost again, because then we
are going to have to construct fences around to keep them out.
Mr. Plummer: Well, hey, I'll shut up, but I don't know where we got the
money. We don't have any money, so you can go ahead and talk. The Manager
has stated for the record that there is no funds available.
Mr. Edwards: The reason I asked the Commission...
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you, Mr. Manager - you know, I've talked to you in
the past about the barricades from the Grand Prix.
lir. Odic: (OFF MIKE) The concrete barriers.
"r. Plummer: •Tars. Two iencw, -Irouifn't it be unart for this CitT... Z`m going
to bring it up once again, to leave those barriers, and paint them properly,
so that we could have some control over that park. In events like this, if
they didn't charge but a dollar a person, they wouldn't need any City money.
Mr. Odio: (OFF !LIKE) You need cranes, crews...
..AX_jrjt ors Yo, no. I am talking about ieavi� them there year around!
Mr. Cdio: Oh, to leave them there?
Mr. Plummer: To leave them there. You know, I am not trying to save Ralph
Sanchez. I am thinking that he has to move them, at his is expense to bring
them back, but more no, could we vse thus as twrriers to ==tral that
Bicentennial Park? He's not going to charge us, I know.
Mr. Odio: I am very familiar with Bicentennial Park, and if you want to
control Bicentennial Park, with due respect, there is a very simple way to do
it...
Mr. Plummer: Well, if you control it, what I mean to say is, and there could
be a gate where they could charge a dollar admission.
Mr. Odic: There is very limited entrance to Bicentennial Park, because you
have areas, for instance, if you. did it where the baseball fields are, that is
totally fenced.
Mr. Plummer: Well...
Mr. Edwards: Well, it can't be held on the.baseball field, because then the
crowd is going to trample the baseball field and the City is going to charge
us for damages. Commissioner Plummer, one of the things I'm really concerned
about...
Mrs. Joanne Holtshouser: (OFF MIKE) Let me say something.
fir. Odic: :call, why don't they bold it right after the Grand .Prix, and ther.
art...
Mr. Edwards: The manner in which the fees from the City keeps just rising
astronomically each year.
Mr. Plummer: We understand that.
Mr. Edwards: And you know, it's difficult, this is our biggest item we pay
out.
Mr. Plummer: I just paid $33,000 for my boat race for police, fire and
security, and I know exactly what you are talking about. I paid $14,000 for
Insurance, and $6,000 for medical insurance. I know exactly what you are
talking about.
Mr. Edwards: Well, we know the City supports a lot of other events and we are
trying...
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Mr. Edwards:... and we are wondering, you know, if the City couldn't somewhere
find it possible to come in and support us.
Mr. Plummer: How much is the rental?
Mr. Odiot $17$.
Mr. Plummer: I'll be happy to move the rental fee for you.
Mayor Suarez: Joanne, did you want to say something on this item?
Ms. Joanne Holtshouser: Yes, I'd like to put it on the record again that we
need a place within the City of Miami where these events can be gated events
for several reasons. They can then charge money, they can then control beer
sales. and beer sponsors pay a lot of money. They can control the trawd, *hey
can tontrol the food vendors, they can have entertsimment. And I offer, what I
said before, not to you, Mayor Suarez, but to other people, if you would look
at Summerfest in the City of Milwaukee, I'll be glad to put you all in touch
with the people there. They have their own festival grounds, which they use
and make money, and they lease to other nonprofit groups and make money. I
offer it to you. It is on the lake, and it is filled, not during the winter
s►cnths, but Ws sauld -till AL_L2 --ths out Zf the nss. I':d lsre to Work With
yaps an 41. and 3st'a put these groups there and let them make their money.
fir. Plummer- Where is that?
Ms. Holshouser: Summerfest in Milwaukee. Wisconsin. It is on the lake.
Mayor Suarez: Nov do they restrict assess?
Ms. Holshouser: It is fenced in. It is owned by a nonprofit corporation and
it is totally fenced.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, that is the problem. We'd have to find a site that we
would not mind fencing in, because the other day I saw the fences over at the
Bayfront Park Amphitheater, and that is just the worst thing in the world to
see those over there like that.
Jig. Holshouser: Well. I grant you, but' one way or the other, the City of
Miami is going to have to do something about festivals.
iisTor Suarez: -Yes, there may be some property that right now the ideal kind
of shape, that fencing it in is not going to make it much worse than what it t
is. I can think of one right off the bat, right by the. bay over there, the FEC
property.
Ms. Holshouser: I'd be happy to help out, if you all want me to put you in
touch with the right people.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, the FEC property being fenced in wouldn't make it much
worse than what it is already.
Mr_ &1==ers ;tow such you talking about over there?
Ms. Holshouser: It will pay for itself and it will pay the City.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Joanne.
Mr. Edwards: The thing about it, in 1985, when we, you know, went over and
used Bicentennial Park, nobody was ever using it. It was like a dump site,
and because of our events, I mean, everybody is using Bicentennial Park.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, we are getting quite a few events over there now.
Mr. Edwards: Right, and you know, we opened up Bicentennial Park.
Mayor Suarez: And now everybody wants it for nothing, yes- Well, unless
somebody is ready to make a motion, we've got to go on to the next item.
Thank you for your presentation, sir.
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68. DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO COMMENCE THE PROCESS TO HAVE THE D.A. DORSEY
LIBRARY DECLARED A HISTORICAL SITE.
Mayor Suarez: Item 99.
Dr. Bill Perry: Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Commissioners. My name is Bill
Perry, I am presently the chairman of the Overtown Advisory Committee. You
probably are going to hear a lot coming from Overtown now. There seems to be
a lot of interest in the community, relative to what is happening in that
area, and what is not happening in that area, but this evening I come before
you as the great grandson of slaves, descendents who were brought here,
descendents of people who were brought here in chains and shackles, who had no
choice in coming into this country; also descendents of people who explored
South America sad Central America, centuries before Columbus got lost and came
up with his so* -called discovery of America. There is irrefutable evidence
that Africans landed in Central and South America, as explorers, sailers,
scholars, tradesmen, artisans, centuries before other folks set foot on this
soil. The African heritage presents a panorama of skills. from building of
the pyramids to tillers of the soil. These same skills brought to this land
In bondage were used to provide the labor that built this great nation. Our
achievements have cbeyondu
one muscle and b�raim to izcr*Aible esplaits of
intelligence. tacbm logy, smfl buman kind. As we look at Overt rnm and other
sections of this community, I often wonder how we as a people have gone from
builders of pyramids and to creators and dwellers of ghettos. I cannot help
but think that some of this is by design. If we look at the history of
communities like Overtown, we recognize that the City and County has used such
areas to get monies from the Federal government to do other kind of things in
this community that have nb direct benefit on the res"OntS of Overtown. I
try to put all of this in some historical perspettive because VTO coming to
you today to talk about a dwelling, a place in this community, a facility,
that was deeded to you, that you once used, and have allowed it to become used
as base house, or crack house. One member of this family came before this
Commission and spoke on a Thursday evening and the building had never been
damaged before, but it was rather odd that after she spoke, that same week,
the place was torched. Now, that's your building, and you heard Barbara Wade
talk about the evidence of gangs in this community and Barbara has been
talking it a long time. She is one of the most knowledgeable people in this
country relative to gangs, and just as an aside, one of your problems is, that
Miller taucbed on At is barbare is not a... officer, ghat do Tou call it?
Air. Dawkins: Sworn officer.
Dr. Perry: She is not a sworn office, and when a non -sworn officer tries to
tell sworn officers what to do, that's a problem, so that's one of the
problems in your department. Here is a sister that came out of the history of
the Pen stone Gang in Chicago years ago, and is trying to bring you
some information and knowledge that can be useful to you, but there are some
problems in the Police Department, but I think, what she was alluding to and
what I am trying to get to, there is some connection that if young people have
a sense of who they are and some sense of their history and recognize that at
one time that they were a great people, then they would not seek the kinds of
alternatives that they seek. We wouldn't eve the gangs out there iA the
streets,-aiid we wouldn't have the drugs in the street, so what I am talking
about, again to address that problem, indirectly. But let me just share a bit
of the history with you, that ties in to what I am talking about, relative to
African -American history and African history. There is a connection, but I
can't do it all tonight. In 1936, there was a lady in this town named Anne
Coleman, I understand, and there was no library in this community for African -
American children and adults. Sister Coleman had a building beside her house
that was used as a grocery store and she began to use that building as a
library, had books there that kids came and read and adults came and borrowed
and made use of, and that library became known... and she was a member of the
Garden and Civic Club of this community, which still exists. That building at
2059 NW 6th Court became known as the Dunbar Library. In 1938, it became an
official branch of the City of Miami Public Library System. Now, this
building got so much use and it became necessary for Mrs. Coleman to go to a
gentleman in this community, who happened to have been an African -American,
had some money, wealth, and convinced him to put up a building to be used
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exclusively for a library for those persons in this community that not have
access to it. That was D. A. Dorsey, and in 1941, that became the Dorsey
Mem;rial Library, located at 17th Street and 1st Avenue, NW, near a park, you
understand, it's called Dorsey Park. When the Homestead... was it the
Homestead Giants and the Kansas City Monarchs, all Negro baseball league used
to come in and play baseball. If you ever talk to some of the gentlemen that
used to live in Overtown, let them tell you about the times they went to
Dorsey Park and watched those baseball games, the Negro baseball league. Let
them tell you about the times they used the Dorsey Library on that corner.
And for your information, it was the first City owned building built
exclusively for the purpose of a public library. It was your library, you
accepted it. In 1961, that library got so much use, it was necessary to
relocate to the Dixie Park branch library, at 350 NW 13th Street, and
subsequent to that, in 1983, the County Commissioners passed a resolution
naming that library the Culmer-Overtown Library branch. I am just trying to
share with you the significance of that building that you have allowed to
become just a waste house. It is your property, and I am here today on behalf
Zf evvaral people sitting la the audience and the Ovtrtorm Advisory Board, to
encourage you to do something about that facility. It Is sr important part of
our past. The young people in Overtown need to have something to relate to
that is a part of our history. It is crucial at these times. We have been
circulating petitions and I am not ready to share them with you yet, it is a
unique kind of petition because we are not asking for voters to sign them, so
It might not turn you on. We are just asking for African -Americans in this
community that deer Avertoam to , be important, to Tat the issme -a the dotted
line .to let you know because they think a lot of their community. So what I
as really here to ask you to do, but before I do that, I rant you to know that
I am also a supporter in the Overtown Advisory Board is supportive of the next
item on the agenda, which happens to be the Dorsey House, that's all a part of
Overtown too, but there are several kinds of things we are asking for, number
one, we are asking that you immediately begin to secure that facility. Don't
let it deteriorate any more. It is too much a part of oar past.
Mrs. Kennedy: Does the City own the title, in fee simple to this property?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Dr. Perry: Certainly.
Mr. Fernandez: Yes, it does.
Dr. Perry: It does. I am asking you to not let a part of our heritage to
continue to deteriorate, to secure that facility. Secondly, after you secure
It, I'm asking, that you restore it. It is historical. It has significance -
it might not be important to you, but it is important to us and our children.
And after you begin to restore it, we are requesting that you place it on the
Miami City Register of Historical Sites. Then, beyond that, it would be
interesting, I am not asking for money, I am just asking you to take care of
your own. Then, beyond that, it would be nice if you could perhaps allow
community organizations to submit proposals of how they could use that
property and make it a self supporting piece of property, so we wouldn't be
down here every year, asking for another few dollars to maintain that
facility, because I think there are people in this community that have
creative ideas, as to how to use it, and it can become self supporting, so I
ask that you, you know, do this because at,time,,right now, I wouldn't doubt
if ,.there would be some people in that house free -basing this evening. So, I
encourage you to move on it as quickly as possible, and it would be nice if
you would take some action tonight, or at least, directive to staff and direct
staff to move on items that are being requested. I thank you very much.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Dr. Perry. Are you going to address the same issue?
Dr. Dorothy Fields: yes.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Dr. Fields: Dorothy Fields, founder chief archivist of the Black Archives
History and Research Foundation. Mayor Suarez, members of the Commission,
very briefly, I just want to add some historical points to what Dr. Perry has
said. Let me read from the packet of information that I've given each of you.
I've highlighted some things and I would appreciate it, the community would
appreciate it if you would look at them. "And it came to past, that after a
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while the artist was forgotten, but the work lives." And I am reading now,
briefly, from an article that was written over 40 years ago, and it says, and
I quote:
"Ground breaking ceremonies for erection of the Washington Heights
Library for colored citizens took place last Sunday. That
occasion, the heavens to weep for joy. About 200 persons attended
the ceremony. Four of our City of Miami Commissioners and their
wives were present, with each taking his or her turn in turning a
spade of dirt."
Let me just stop for a minute there and say that for white men to take their
wives into colored town in the 40's was indeed some big deal, enough so that
they put it in Mr. Plwmner's favorite, The Miami Herald. Judge Stoneman was
the editor then, Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' father. And so the four white
Commissioners from the City Commission attended with their wives. Also, Mayor
Reeder,
who was the Mayor of the City of Miami at the time, made a brief but telling
4Peech. "The late D.A. Dorsey. donor of the land, was remembered in the final
prayer.'
because he had died by this time. "Mrs. Guyton deserved the lions share of
the praise for bringing to pass the first step in our library erection. And
she deserves much credit for the increasing improvement of race relations."
So this building, although Dr. Perry 'said he doesn't know whether or not you
would feel it is a part of your history, understand, and you would not know
from this article that !Mrs. Avery Guytom was then I think president of The
!lismi stamens.,, club, which of zWw". �Ws tte sent* s3ub inr Whits ttaglo women
at the time. And the article continues:
`White people are not afraid of Negroes as they used to be.
Whether white or colored, law abiding citizens are harmless."
And then the articles continues, and you have a copy of it now, in your
package, so you can see it. The article continues and says:
"And of course, Mrs. Annie Coleman is the woman behind the gun and
Dr. Hawkins..."
who was a Black dentist:
too must be breathing a sigh of relief. To those who
believed that it was not going to be done, we are glad to proclaim
that the work has actually begun."
And so this building that you see on the front, is the Dorsey Library, which
is really near 20th Street, and if you are coming from the north, and not
using the expressway, it can be considered the gateway to the Sports Arena,
because if you are coming from the north and you don't use the expressway,
someone said you might make a wrong turn into Overtown, and we say, it will be
a right turn! I said that at Ocean Reef the other day.
!Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Dr. Fields.
Dr. Fields: It will be a right. turn. and so we want you to understand, that
clearly when the building was constructed, it vas the intent of the Mayor, the
Commissioners and citizens to construct this important building and preserve
It for future generations. This building qualifies for the City Register. It
was never nominated, because when we wanted to do it, the City of Miami was at
that time, not accepting individual nominations, but only doing it for the
district, and no, we are asking now that it be nominated because the City owns
this, so the City will have to nominate it, and certainly the Black Archives
will support it with the information that we have. We are also asking you to
set up a blue ribbon committee composed of community representatives. as well
-vf representatives of local eolliages and universities, including the School of
Architecture and Urban Planning, and The School of Business, to make
recommendations for the restoration of the Dorsey Library and to review
proposals, as Dr. Perry had said, from groups interested in relocating into
the Dorsey Library, with the understanding that they not only have a program,
but a financial plan, so that this important building can be continued.
Mr. Dawkins: Bill, we sit here and when this Commission sees fit to give
zoning variances, we usually see that the individuals who receive the zoning
variances, give something to the City, and I think it is about time that the
Overtown committee demand that when we give a zoning variance, or something in
the Overtown/Park area, that those individuals make a contribution to that
area and maybe one of the best first things we should attempt to get some
contributions for, would be this house.
Dr. Perry: Absolutely, I agree with you. We have Decoma Venture and The
Miami Heat, which are going to have a tremendous impact on that community, but
236 June 9, 1988
they also need us for protection, so I would start off by using your support
to try to get some benefits from The Heat and from Decoma Venture.
Mr. Dawkins: And now, another thing, Bill, don't you, or any of them, let
everybody forget that the arena is in Overtown/Park West. Nine parcels of
land was designated to be redone as Overtown/Park West, and the first one
finished is the arena, but nowhere do you see Overtown/Park West Miami Arena,
OK?
Dr. Perry: Absolutely. So, Brother Paul and the Overtown Advisory Committee
tend to remind them of that when they opened.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, Brother Paul is going to go to jail, if I can help it, OK?
All right, now Brother...
Dr. Perry: Don't lock him up yet, Miller, because we...
". Zwkins: -ies, well Brother.Paul has to understand that other peopled got
the
i�
igt" and rottmr Paul isn't ttm va3y s one atft]td to fife, litert7
pursuit of happiness.
Dr. Perry: Well, what we need some of is people to help us with Decoma
Venture and The Miami Heat, to wring some money out of them into Overtown,
because they don't respond too kindly to us. We tried. But coming back to my
question, though, taa we g,at JUNO AcLiaa cm.ths'raquasi of hem fie•
*myor Suarez: We are about to... is there any interest in the Archives taking
the property?
Dr. Fields: Not at this time. I mean, we, first of all, the Archives could
not do it alone. My answer to him is that we could not do it alone.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Dr. Fields: If the City was interested...
Mayor Suarez: Let me rephrase the question. Supposing that we gave
sufficient instructions to the City Manager to secure the property; that
obviously involves some expenditure, and then work with you to possibly deed
the property over to you and create the blue ribbon panel and all the other
things that you suggested.
Mr. field: We would still ask for your continued assistance.
liaror . Suarez:. Yes. I suspect it is not going to be quite as easy � as just
deeding it over, but it is a start.
Dr. Fields: That's correct. And then again...
Mayor Suarez: And I want to get that property secured right off the bat,
because it should not be used for.... yes, Bill, you don't agree with that?
Dr. Perry: I agree with that. I think what would help a lot, is your
leverage. We don't necessarily need money out of the taxpayer's dollars.
I
, liayor. Suarez: No, no. we will do...
Dr. Perry: We could leverage the Commission...
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Dr. Perry: ... with the developers to put the money in there.
Mayor Suarez: We ought to probably look at that trust fund that we have got
for housing too, from Brickell. I don't know if any of that money can be
spent.
Dr. Fields: Point of clarification, you cannot deed it.
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry?
237 June 9, 1988
Dr. Fields. The City owns it, but you cannot deed it. It has to be... come
explain, please. This is the...
Mayor Suarez: Mr. City Attorney, can we deed the property if we wanted to?
Mr. Fernandez: The City owns the property, so the City can dispose of the
property as it sees fit.
Mayor Suarez: We are not going to get into a legal argument, but I will
entertain a motion to secure the property, and have the Manager make a
recommendation to us at our first meeting in July as to whether we can deed it
to the archives, and/or work to set up a blue ribbon committee that you
suggested, Dr. Fields, and try to restore this property.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, the only thing I got wrong with blue ribbon, now, we
are coming down here just like white folks. Blue ribbon committee to study
what? We know what we need out there. We don't need no damn blue ribbon
enmmitt:e to come tell us what to dal And now we down here just like white
folks, give ins -a blue r3bbem so®mittes. rM ghat? You tsow what needs to be
done with the building. You don't need no committee to come back and tell you
that this is what has to be done with that building. As Bill said, we need
some money to make the building usable, OK? Now, if you make it usable, you
either make it usable as a museum, you make'it usable to teach ballet, or you
make it usable for something. You want to get a blue ribbon committee, you'll
be studying it for IS maths and you irta'i gaisle to_ bavA nothing done.
That Is my Xqinion.
Sr. Fields: !filler, we would ask that... we need to get the colleges and
universities. Again, we see this as a...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, then you get a blue ribbon committee together and you have
the blue tlbban committee tell you wbat to do. .Dom'i have the Co-' csion tell
you about a blue ribbon committees
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, would you like to move... forget the blue ribbon committee
now. Would you like to move to get back to the Manager, let them work out a
solution, if we can deed it, work together with them in project, and come back
to us. I think it is a wonderful idea that we can work together on.
Mayor Suarez: Secure the property to the extent that it is not.
Mr. Dawkins: And I will work with the Manager. OK, no problem.
Mrs. Kennedy: And -I'll -second that'motion, if you want to do it.
Mr. Dawkins: No problem.
Dr. Perry: Don't forget the Historical Register, now.
Mr. Dawkins: No, let's get it fixed first. Let's get it fixed first, then we
can make it historic.
Dr. Fields: While the City owns it, we would ask immediately that the City
nominate it to the City Register, and that would be Joyce Meyers, and Sara
Eaton.
fir. Dawki": Nothing can be destroyed, Dorothy,' unless this Commission votes
on it, OK? Now, a lot of people out there don't want their homes declared
historic, and we are not going to declare it historic, but I'm sure that Dana
is not going to complain if we declare this historic, and you don't need but
three votes on this Commission to declare it historic.
Dr. Fields: All right, now, the City owns... we are talking about the Dorsey
Library, and the City owns it, so by resolution, the Commission would have to
may that yes, you wanted it declared historic. You are talking about the
library?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, that is what I am saying. If you want to make a motion,
I'll second...
Mr. Plummer: And put it in the ownership of the Black Archives.
238 June 9, 1988
Dr. Fields: Well, that's another step. The historic is one thing.
Mrs. Kennedy: Work it out and come back to us next month.
Dr. Fields: it being historic is one thing, and there is enough evidence for
that to be presented to the...
Mayor Suarez: is the Commission ready to vote on designating it as a historic
site?
Mrs. Kennedy: I am.
Mayor Suarez: OK, is that part of the motion?
Mr. Plummer: Dana, are you in agreement with that?
!Mayor Suarez: It cannot be demolished, because it is...
14r. 'Davktim- "aw >re Iva lgv :g to -weke v=etfitv%- Mstvric that Tau baoe not
bought up to a condition that is usable? You want to make a site where a
building is partially destroyed and say that is historic?
Dr. Fields: Yes.
yr. Dawkins: Than who .... all right . Tau till . ZMM... I `s sat Nouns for
that, because...
Dr. Fields: No, and it is not feasible, Miller.
Mr. Dawkins: ... ain't no way in the world I am going to make a...
Mrs. Kennedy: All right, Ast's order the City Manager to start the -process to
make it historic.
Mr. Dawkins: If you are telling me that you want me to bring it up to
standards and then declare it historic, you got me. If you are telling me
that you want to make sure that we don't destroy it and that we bring it up to
code and after we get it up to code, then declare it historic, you got me.
But I can't sit up here and vote with you to take a piece of land where a
building on it is half destroyed and declare it historic!
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, let me try something else.
Dz. Fields: Miller, we are talking about two different issues. Dorsey House,
which you are reading on this paper, has already been declared historic. So we
are talking about the library, which is in a lot better shape, although it is
gutted inside, it is still in much better shape, and needs that historic
designation, you know, so that it won't be demolished.
Mrs. Kennedy: If Commissioner Dawkins would like to order the City Manager to
start the process and make it a historic house, I'll second that motion.
Mr. Plummer: I saw it on TV here the other day, it was an absolute disgrace.
Mr. Dawkins: So moved, if that's what they want.
lMrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, as to the library.
Mr. Dawkins: Call the roll.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on that designation.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-566
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
COMMENCE THE PROCESS TO HAVE THE D.A. DORSEY LIBRARY
ON 17TH STREET AND 1 AVENUE NW DECLARED A HISTORICAL
SITE.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mstar Yavlet 1.. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
�., . DI1LEc! an RMAGER ''0 STOP. TMMITIOIQ VFaW FOR TM MtSEY ROUSE FOR
160 DAYS - AND TO ENSURE NO ACCESS TO SAID PROPERTY.
Mayor Suarez: What else do you need from us?
Dr. Dorothy Fields: The Dorsey House.
Mayor Suarez: As to the Dorsey House, what do you suggest?
Dr. Field: The Dorsey House, located at 250 NW 9th Street. The issue is that
the Unsafe Structure Board has gone ahead and issued demolition orders and we
now have what we didn't have before, and that is a construction crew and an
urban planner who are with us tonight, who have agreed to go ahead and to
stabilize it, to submit construction plans, and to renovate the building, and
so we are &&icing the Commission to halt demolition of the Dorsey House by
entering into a covenant with the black Archives Foundation for 190 days to
give us time to stabilize it.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion to that effect, giving you an
opportunity to stabilize it.
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you a question. Dorothy, you appeared before Metro
the other day. What did you ask for?
Dr. Fields: The very same thing, because it was...
Mr. Plummer: What about the $30,000?
_-2r. fields: fie didn't got into money.
t,
Mr. Plummer: You ask for it.
Dr. Fields: No, we did not ask for any money.
Mr. Plummer: They told you to come to the City of Miami and get $30,000.
Dr. Fields: No, no, no. Well, we on there to ask for funds, but we didn't
because...
Mr. Plummer: And what did they tell you?
Dr. Fields: Let me answer. The letter requested, as yours did, funds, but the
Immediate question, because our time had run out, with the Unsafe Structure
Board, the immediate issue is stop halting the demolition, so we didn't get
any further with them, and in fact, Barbara Carey... it was referred to
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Barbara Carey's committee for funding, after we get the order stopped for
demolition.
Mr. Plummer: Did they not tell you to go to the City of Miami to get your
$30,0007
Dr. Fields: No money. Look at the transcript, there was no money discussed.
Mr. Plummer: I watched it on cable the other night.
Dr. Fields: There was no money discussed while I was up there.
Mr. Plummer: But they told you to go to the City of Miami.
Dr. Fields: For to stop the demolition. That was Ginsburg, the City
Attorney, who answered, but no money was discussed. We were there for
money...
lit.. T1�ner:
It is jest a very zwux_ontttrr vt !letrvpolitan Ztade County
sends people
to the City of Miami to get funding.
Dr. Fields:
Understand though. Mr. 2111mmex...
Mr. Plummer:
They are like the Chamber of Commerce, they give you a lot of
14, but no•soaey.
Dr. fields:
... the issue is for stopping of the demolition, asking this
Commission to
enter into a covenant with us for 190 days. We have...
Mr. Plummer:
I have no problem with it.
.Dr. Fields: _
. let �A& ; -t-0,41.— you .to Mr..Ted 1.y=5. adsa is the executive
director of the Carey Technical Institute. They have agreed to provide the
construction
plans and to do the work. We have...
Mr. Plummer:
Free.
Dr. Fields:
Yes. We have materials that are being donated and although it is
a historic site, it is going to take a little time, we are asking. Now, let
me ask... oh,
I am sorry, go ahead.
lie. Plummer:
I'll move It. We're moving to stop the demolition for 190 days.
Dr. Fields:
By entering into a covenant with she Black Archives.
Mr. Fernandez: 180 days.
Dr. Fields:
180 days.
Unidentified
Speaker: 180 days, that is a good number.
Mayor Suarez:
Does that need to be done in the form of a covenant?
Dr. Fields:
That's my understanding. Ed Knox is here. He will...
Air.Rl: rs
librothy, you will have to indeamify the City .from liabilities,
since we are
stopping, if anyone were to get hurt, you are going to have to
give an indemnification to the City.
Dr. Fields:
What does that mean in terms of...
Mr. Plummer: That means if somebody goes on that property and gets hurt, and
says, "City of Miami, you stopped the demolition. Had you not done that, I
wouldn't have got hurt," and they sue the City, you are going to have to
assume the obligation of...
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: Well, no, the indemnification, if we stop the demolition of an
unsafe structure, and somebody goes there and gets hurt, I don't think the
City of Miami should have to pick up the tab or the award, if given by the
courts. There is a potential liability if we stop that structure, which has
been declared unsafe.
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INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: You've got to indemnify the City.
Mr. De Yurre: Where is the deep pocket? What if they don't have anything to
indemnify us from?
Mr. Plummer: Well...
Mr. De Yurre: We get stuck anyway.
Mr. Plummer: ... deep pockets means that you could be out and you know and 1
know, $1,000,000.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, the indemnification isn't going to do much for us.
A{ayaz. Suarez:.• Uhat effect does it have if we do this vis-a-vis the unsafe
Structures Board? What sffert •iil It ?tarts in to them? ihit,• tit me see, if
I may, Madam Vice Mayor. Before we get into the issue of liability, I want to
know what effect it has.
Mr. Fernandez: Ed Knox has reported on how far he has proceeded. I believe
that there is an order from the Unsafe Structure Board of Dade County. Now,
the question is, whether the CiLy.•Co—issiaa.aaa-delay acting am Zhmct order,
mad the arder is as order to demolish?
firs. Kennedy: Shays what I...
Mayor Suarez: That's the question. I wonder what the answer is?
11r. Plummer: hare, you know what the County did? The Lounty. referred it to
committee, which they maid in"effect would take 18D days, right?
Dr. Fields: But, no, no, that was for funding. Ginsburg was the one who
answered me as for as the demolition was concerned, and his answer was that it
was now out of the jurisdiction of the County!
Mayor Suarez: Dorothy, let me do this this way. We are going to move to
instruct, how about this? - the City Attorney to take all legal steps to stop
demolition for 180 days. That's the best we can do.
.!lrs. Kennedy: I'm going to•sddress the Unsafe Structures Board next Tuesday,
so I am willing to plead this case with the City Attorney.
*r. Fernandez: Right.
Mayor Suarez: Maybe if further procedures are proper, the Vice Mayor can
bring that to their attention when she meets with the Unsafe Structures Board.
Dr. Fields: Thank you, but my understanding, and Mr. Knox, would you help me
with this, is that it now goes to the court. Please say something.
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Air. Slssmoer: $o arhat do we do, we instruct lbs LYt7 Attorney?
Mayor Suarez: Take all legal steps to...
Mr. Plummer: If in fact, we can't do it for 80 days, to do it.
Mayor Suarez: Right. That's right.
Mr. Fernandez: right.
Mr. Plummer: If you can't do it, you can't do it.
Mayor Suarez: We can at least... no, no, at least then we can get a sense of
this Commission to the Unsafe Structures Board so that they can take
appropriate action, very possibly. Why could not that not be done?
242 June 9, 1988
Mr. Bdward Knox: Edward Knox, from Building and Zoning. The case has already
been presented to the Unsafe Structures Board. They won't rehear the case.
Usually in a case like this, what happens is, the property owners either
appeal to Circuit Court against demolition for an injunction, or they work
with our Law Department and enter into a covenant with the land.
Mayor Suarez: Are we now the owners of this property?
Mr. Fernandez: No, not of the Dorsey House.
Mr. Knox: No.
Dr. Fields: There's a covenant.
Mr. Plummer: Well, doesn't the funding have to come from the City of Miami to
do it?
—Mr. -Enas. So do what?
Mayor Suarez: That is what they always tell us. Yes, that is a good point.
They always tell us all they do is order it demolished, or allow it to be
demolished, but then we have to pay for it, so if we don't pay for it to be
demolished, I don't see how it could be.
M r . P 1 umme r : Ye s , What bappR,ns if .Zhe • !laaage.r CM 0 t iiad - L!r sissy f or 18 0
days?
21r. Odic: 'No, sol Oh, OK. That's right, I'm...
Mayor Suarez: You can't find the money, Mr. Manager, for 180 days. Build
that into the motion too.
h • Mr.. Plummer: .1 mean. you know, that's a natural for you! It take you that
long to...
Mr. Odio: Well, it becomes natural, OK.
Mayor Suarez: You are very good at that. Build that into the motion, Mr.
Plummer, please.
Mr. Plummer: What.
Mayor Suarez: Build that into the motion.
flafor Suarez: So City sooniea appropriated for the demolition...
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no. I still have a problem with this indemnification,
I'm sorry. I am very much concerned if someone were to get hurt in that
structure between now and the time it is demolished.
Mr. Fernandez: We will take that up in the covenant also when we meet to
discuss of extending the...
Mr. Ted Lyons: I am from Carey Technical Institute. We plan on securing the
building right away, going in, and securing the building. As a matter of
iaci, la the aestZZW1e of days, we plan em doing that.
Mayor Suarez: OK, we will not put into effect the motion, bow about this?...
Mr. Lyons: It is not secure right now.
Mayor Suarez: ... we will not put into effect the motion until it is secured,
then. That will hopefully eliminate our liability. But you are going to have
to do it. When you any immediately, that means immediately.
Mr. Dawkins: Can Ted legally go in there without being.'.. can Ted go in and
do what he is saying?
Mayor Suarez: If the owner lets him.
Mr. Knox: The City, we have secured the property previously. The City has.
243 June 9, 1988
mayor Suaret: is it secure? I mean, secure secure. No chance of anybody
going in there'd
Mrs. Kennedy: It is secure. No, no chance, it is Secure.
Mayor Suarez: Doubly, triple secure?
Mr. Knox: We will make sure it is sealed, yes.
Mayor Suarez: OK, well, take whatever steps are needed. I'li entertain a
motion to that effect.
Mrs. Kennedy: So moved.
Mayor Suarez: So moved, seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved
a U Adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-567
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
STOP THE DEMOLITION ORDER FOR THE DORSEY HOUSE (250 NW 9
STREET) FOR 160 DAYS; FURTHER INSTRUCTING THE
ADMINISTRATION TO MjSURE THAT THERE WJU AE MO ACCESS TO
SAM 1R7PERTT • IN VRMM TO 2RD= . 3ffi:. LIZT AGAINST
POSSIBLE LIABILITY.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted 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.
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70. 'ACLTPT COlnnL1R`ED WORK: OCEAIO BAY CONSTRUCTION, INC. - FOR FORT DALLAS
PARK PLAZA - PHASE II - 1986.
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Mayor Suarez: Mr. Manager, you needed a motion on Fort Dallas Park, Phase II,
final payment? I'll so entertain it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
!Mayor Suarez: Seconded, call the roll.
The following Tesoiatien eras introduced by Commll simmT Remedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-568
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF OCEAN BAY
CONSTRUCTION, INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF $331,943.92 FOR FORT
DALLAS PARK PLAZA - PHASE II - 1986 C.I.P. PROJECT NO.
331035 AND AUTHORIZING A FINAL PAYMENT OF $33,196.88.
(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:
244 June 9, 1988
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
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71. APPROVE IN PRINCIPLE THE ALLAPATTAH BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TO
UNDERTAKE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIUM DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ON FERN
ISLE NURSERY SITE.
Mayor Suarez: Item 114, we absolutely should do that because they need to
ipsil �r 1Z. �t riiiaa J.51 b. ,i.t Lhia rrum i e e i an NAUZZ SO ,t t an It -
Mr. Dawkins: Vhat is it?
Mayor Suarez: It is Fern Isle is the...
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mrs. llennedy: Jos=and .
Mayor Suarez: !loved and seconded. Any discussion from the Commission? Call
the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-569
A RESOLUTION APPROVING IN PRINCIPLE, THE ALLAPATTAH
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY A NOT -FOR -PROFIT
CORPORATION, TO UNDERTAKE THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MEDIUM -
DENSITY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ON THE CITY -OWNED FERN
ISLE NURSERY SITE AFFORDABLE TO LOW AND MODERATE INCOME
FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS, INCLUDING THE ELDERLY; FURTHER
DIRECTING THE CITY ADMINISTRATION TO SIMMIT A PLAN
AMENDMENT TO THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOR RECLASSIFICATION OF
THE SITE AND ANY OTHER REQUIREMENTS NECESSARY TO MOVE THE
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT FORWARD; AND FURTHER DIRECTING THE
CITY MANAGER TO CONVEY TITLE FOR THAT PORTION OF THE SITE
REQUIRED FOR RESIDENTIAL USE BY THE SPONSOR/DEVELOPER
SUBJECT TO CERTAIN TERMS AND CONDITIONS, AS CONTAINED
HEREIN.
(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: Commissiaaer Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
245 June 9, 1988
12. DIRECTION TO INSTRUCT DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO RESTORE FUNDS
TO THE ALLAPATTAH GROUP.
Mrs. Kennedy: One second please, while I have the Allapattah group here, I
would like just to instruct Frank Castaneds to work out with them and see if
we can restore the funds that they lost, the $13,000. Where is Frank? Mr.
Manager, where is Frank Castaneda?
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, do you hear me? To work with them and see if you can
restore the funds that they lost.
73. BRIEF COMMENTS BY CITY ATTORNEY IN CONNECTION WITH THE MIAMARINA
LAWSUIT.
Mr. Fernandez: !!r. Xayor... Lhe City Attgraay has a sea:alntion for your
consideration. We are requesting your authorization for the Law Department to
fsrfag action, a lawsuit against...
Mayor Suarez: But we've been sued.
Mr. Fernandez: We have been sued and likewise we may need to counterclaim as
well as, bring In third parties in the Miamariss, and ee need your...
Mayor Suarez: And you need authority to... OK.
Mr. Fernandez: In the Miamarina.
Mr. Plummer: What are you talking about?
Mr. Odio: Let me...
lir. Plummer: I don't know what you are talking about.
Mayor Suarez: The Bayside Marina.
Mr. Odio: Let me... we Reed authorization so that the City Attorney can
proceed to sue the parties that we feel are necessary to...
Mr. Plummer: Who are the guilty parties?
Mr. Odio: The architect and the engineers
Mr. Plummer: You are not asking me to vote on that tonight?
Mr. Odio: That is what he was asking.
W. Fiwsser: I don't fie+e any report or anything on it.
246 June 9, 1988
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74. APPROVE IN PRINCIPLE USE OF TWO ACRES OF FERN ISLE NURSERY SITE BY THE
MUNICIPAL TRUST FUND CORPORATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A COMMUNITY SERVICE
FACILITY -•CASA PROJECT" - WITH STIPULATIONS.
Mayor Suarez: We are going to take up item 115, which is a companion to item
114. Please, I entertain a motion.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded, call the roll on 115. Madam City Clerk, please call
the roll on 115.
The following vesototion vas -iatrodnted by Coanniastoner Dsvki m, Vho
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-570
A RESOLUTION APPROVING IN PRINCIPLE, THE USE
APPROXIMATELY TWO (2) ACRES OF n[E CITY —OWNED FERN
ISLE NURSERY SIM BY -MM . DUIQTLTPAL 'TV= TOUND .
CORPORATION, A NOT -FOR -PROFIT CORPORATION, FOR THE
VEQELOPMEN'T OF A COMMUNITY SERVICE FACILITY 1NOWN AS
"CASA PROJECT"; FURTHER FORMALIZING THE CITY
COMMISSION'S INTENT BY AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER'S
ISSUANCE OF A REVOCABLE PERMIT IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO
THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR USE OF THE NOR331ERN PORTION OF
THE SUBJECT PROPERTY FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED PURPOSE,
SAID PERMIT TO COME BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION EVERY
TWO YEARS FOR RECONSIDERATION AND REVISIONS; FURTHER
STIPULATING THAT SHOULD THE CITY ASK THE MUNICIPAL
TRUST FUND CORPORATION TO VACATE THE SUBJECT PARCEL;
THE CORPORATION WOULD FORFEIT ANY STRUCTURES AND/OR
IMPROVEMENTS BUILT ON THE PARCEL BY THE CORPORATION;
FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY ADMINISTRATION TO SUBMIT A
PLAN AMENDMENT TO THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOR
RECLASSIFICATION OF 7M SITE.
(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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
x0ES: None.
ABSENT: None.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: Hold it, wait. What is this?
Mrs. Kennedy: We have 115.
Mr. Plummer: Hold it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Companion to 115.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner, we have a companion item to item 114, which is
115 and we are taking a motion on that.
247 June 9, 1988
Hr. Plummer: What is 115? 1 understand it is companion to 115. What the
hell is 114?
!Mayor Suarez: We approved it already.
Mr. Odio: It is approving the issuance of a revocable permit for use of the
northern portion of City owned Fern isle nursery site for the development of
12 acres of community service facility by the !Municipal Trust Fund
Corporation, instructing the administration to proceed to submit a
comprehensive plan snd toning changes.
AT THIS POINT TF:E CITY CLERK CALLED THE ROLL A SECOND TIME. SEE
RESOLUTION HEREINASOYE.
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DOCUMENT INDEX
IAETM QATL. JUNE 9, 1988
F AW 1 OF
DOCLNE f DENTMATION RETREVAL 00N N
ALLOCATE $4,500 TO ACQUIRE A PORTABLE
16 MM MICROFILM MACHINE FOR POLICE
DEPARTMENT. 88-488
AUTHORIZE PURCHASE OF TWO SCOTSMAN ICE
FLAKERS MACHINES FROM SALOMON
REFRIGERATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF SOLID
WASTE. 88-489
ACCEPT BID: DOTHAN SECURITY, INC. FOR
FURNISHING SECURITY GUARD SERVICES TO
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. 88-490
ACCEPT BID: ALISON COMPANY - FOR
FURNISHING VEHICLE DECALS AND
INSTALLATION OF DECALS TO POLICE
BEHICLES FOR DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION/MOTOR POOL
DIVISION.
ACCEPT BID: BROWARD ELEVATOR SALES AND
SERVICE - FOR FURNISHING ELEVATOR
MAINTENANCE TO DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.
ACCEPT BID: WEATHERTROL MAINTENANCE
CORPORATION - FOR FURNISHING AIR
CONDITION MAINTENANCE SERVICES TO DON
HICKMAN ADMINISTRATION BUILDING.
ACCEPT BID: DOWNTOWN RADIATOR SERVICES,
INC. AND LATIN AUTO GLASS,INC. FOR
FURNISHING RADIATORS AND GLASS REPAIRS
FOR DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION/FLEET MANAGEMENT
DIVISION.
ACCEPT BID: FEDAN TIRE CO. FOR
FURNISHING TIRE RECAPPING SERVICES TO
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION.
ACCEPT BID: PITNEY BOWES, INC. FOR
FURNISHING ONE ELECTRONIC MAIL
PROCESSING SYSTEM FOR USE AT CITY'S
MAILROOM.
ACCEPT BID: QUALITY'FIBERGLASS
PRODUCTS, INC. FOR FURNISHING 250
DOCK LOCK BOXEX FOR THE DINNER KEY
MARINA - PIER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
88-491
88-492
88-493
88-494
88-495
88-496
88-497
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DOCUMENT INDEX
ACCEPT BIDS: STOCKLAND COMPANY AND L.P.
INDUSTRIES INC. FOR FURNISHING TRASH
RECEIVERS AND CONTAINERS FOR DINNER KEY
MARINA - PIER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT.
ACCEPT BIDS: ALLIED UNIVERSAL
CORPORATION AND ASHLAND CHEMICAL
COMPANY FOR FURNISHING SWIMMING POOL
CHEMICALS FOR DEPARTMENT OF PARKS
RECREATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES.
ACCEPT BID: TRS, INC. D/B/A/ SECPA FPR
FURNISHING 12 ACOUSTICAL ENCLOSURE
UNITS TO BE USED AT BAYFRONT PARK
AMPHITHEATER FOR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
WORKS.
ACCEPT BID: MIAMI STAGECRAFT, INC.
FOR FURNISHING PORTABLE DANCE FLOOR
FOR BAYFRONT PARK AMPHITHEATER FOR
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
EXECUTE INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTUAL
AGREEMENTS WITH 13 NEIGHBORHOOD
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS
FOR CONTINUED IMPLEMENTATION OF
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.
EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH NATIONAL CENTER
FOR MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT, INC. TO
CONTINUE REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI IN WASHINGTON,D.C. BY MR.
MARK ISRAEL.
AUTHORIZE EXTENSION OF AGREEMENTS: (A)
MANUEL G. VERA & ASSOCIATES,INC. (B)
WEIDENER SURVEYING AND MAPPING P.A.
(C) E.R. BROWNELL & ASSOCIATES,INC.
(D) H.J. ROSS & ASSOCIATES, AND (E)
FERNANDO Z. GATELL P.L.S. INC. - IN
CONNECTION WITH CITY CONTRACTED
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
RESCIND RESOLUTION 88-292-ENTER INTO
AGREEMENT WITH ENVIROCARE, INC. TO
PROVIDE EMERGENCY ENVIROMENTAL
SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH GROUNDWATER
CONTAMINATION PROBLEM AT THE SOUTH
DISTRICT (LITTLE HAVANA) POLICE
SUBSTATION.
GRANT $30,000 TO CITY OF MIAMI YOUTH
BASEBALL ACADEMIES, INC. IN SUPPORT
OF THE 7TH ANNUAL YOUTH BASEBALL WORLD
SERIES.
PAW._ OF.
RETREVAL CODE NO.
88-498
88-499
88-500
88-501
88-502
88-503
88-504
88-505
EI151i11
4p
lws
DOCUMENT INDEX
APPROVE COST SHARING CONTRACT WITH
THE SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT
DISTRICT FOR RETRO FITTING STORM
WATER BASINS WITHIN THE CITY.
ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO CATHOLIC
COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. IMMIGRATION
SERVICES FOR USE OF SPACE IN THE
MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER TO
PROVIDE COUNSELING AND LEGAL ADVICE ON
IMMIGRATION PROCEDURES.
APPROVE AND ADOPT THE CITY OF MIAMI
COMPREHENSIVE ANNUAL REPORT FOR FISCAL
YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1987.
APPROVE ONE YEAR EXTENSION OF
EMPLOYMENT PAST THE AGE OF 71 FOR
EVELIO RIZO
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: RIC-MAN
INTERNATIONAL, INC. FOR CITYWIDE
SANITARY SEWER REPLACEMENT PROJECT CIP
PROJECT NO. 351170.
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: MAN CON, INC.
FOR OVERTOWN/PARK WEST SANITARY SEWER
REPLACEMENT CIP PROJECT NO. 351280.
AUTHORIZE ACCEPTANCE OF 65 DEEDS OF
DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES.
DECLARE IMPROVEMENTS ON 1.5 ACRE CITY
OWNED WATERFRONT PARCEL AS A UDP
AUTHORIZE RFP FOR A UDP SET PUBLIC
HEARING FOR SEPTEMBER 6, 1988 IN
CONNECTION WITH DEVELOPMENT OF A NON-
PROFIT OLYMPIC SAILING AND TRAINING
CENTER TO BE LOCATED AT THE
SOUTHEASTERLY PORTION OF DAVID KENNEDY
PARK.
AUTHORIZE STREET CLOSURE AND
ESTABLISHMENT OF PEDESTRIAN MALL
CONCERNING GRAND OPENING OF FIRE
HOUSE 4 AND A CHARITY EVENT TO
BENEFIT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
BURN CENTER.
ACCEPT FINANCIAL REPORT FROM THE
FLORIDA INTERAMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP
FOUNDATION REGARDING CITY'S GRANT IN
SUPPORT OF JIMMY BUFFET BENEFIT
CONCERT.
3
PAGE_ OP .
RET'RE;VAL CODE NO.
88-507
88-509
88-510
88-511
88-512
88-513
88-514
88.-515
88-516
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PURCHASE THREE PUMPER APPARATUS, ONE
QUINT APPARATUS, RELATED FIREFIGHTING
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FROM YOUNG
TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, INC. FOR DEPARTMENT
OF FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTIONS SERVICES
($1,168,156.70).
ACCEPT BID: MC LAUGHLIN GROUP - FOR
FURNISHING 1,200 CLEATS FOR DINNER KEY
MARINA - PIER CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH SAN-AI-KAI,
RICOH SANAI GROUP - FOR THEIR $330,000
CONTRIBUTION FOR THE RENOVATION OF THE
CITY'S JAPANESE GARDEN.
SET SPECIAL USE FEE AND EXECUTE USE
AGREEMENT WITH FEDERACION DEPORTIVA
NICARAGUENSE, INC. FOR USE OF BOBBY
MADURO MIAMI BASEBALL STADIUM FOR
PRESENTATION OF 60 AMATEUR BASEBALL
GAMES THROUGH DECEMBER OF 1988.
ORDERING RESOLUTION: LAWRENCE WATERWAY
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT (DISTRICT H-4536)
DESIGNATE PROPERTY FOR SPECIAL
ASSESSMENTS.
AUTHORIZE PAYMENT OF $50,000 TO
INDIVIDUALS FURNISHING INFORMATION
WHICH LEADS TO THE ARREST, APPREHENSION
AND CONVICTION OF THE OFFENDER
RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOOTING OFFICER JAMES
HAYDEN.
APPROVE ESTABLISHMENT OF A HOME
PURCHASE FINANCING LOAN POOL,
ALLOCATING $1.5 MILLION OF INTEREST
INCOME FROM 1976 G.O. HOUSING BOND TO
FUND IT.
APPROVE AND ADOPT DEPARTMENT OF OFF-
STREET PARKING FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC AND
FINANCIAL OPERATIONS PLAN.
CLARIFYING VOTE IN CONNECTION WITH
PRIOR ACTION APPROVING CHARTER
AMENDMENT NO. 2.
CLARIFYING VOTE IN CONNECTION WITH
PRIOR ACTION APPROVING CHARTER
AMENDMENT NO. 4.
• W 4 CW dI
RETREVAL CODE NO,
88-518
88-519
88-520
88-521
88-524
88-526
88-52 9
88-533
88-5 34
88,535
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S..or
DOCUMW DENTMADW RETR*VAL CODE NO
ALLOCATE $21,804. TO CAREY TECHNICAL
INSTITUTE, INC. FOR PURPOSES OF
PROVIDING A JOB DEVELOPMENT/PLACEMENT
PROJECT FOR CITY RESIDENTS.
ALLOCATE $1,694,550. OF C.D. BLOCK GRANT
FUNDS (FOURTHEENTH YEAR) AND $5,000 C.D.
BLOCK GRANT FUNDS (THIRTEENTH YEAR) TO
VARIOUS SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES FOR
APPROVED SOCIAL SERVICE PRJECTS.
AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF REQUEST FOR
QUALIFICATIONS - IN CONNECTION WITH
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF AN
APPROXIMATELY 250,000 SQ. FT.BUILDING
TO BE OCCUPIED BY THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S
OFFICE AND OTHER U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES.
APPROVE DRAFT OF PROPOSED CHARTER
AMENDMENT (CHARTER AMENDMENT NO.1)
TO PROVIDE FOR A FOUR YEAR TERM OF
OFFICE FOR THE ELECTED MAYOR OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI COMMENCING NOVEMVER
1989-SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD
SEPTEMBER 6, 1988.
APPROVE ESCROW AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN
SWIRE PACIFIC HOLDINGS, INC.
VIZCATRAN, LTD., OCEAN BANK OF MIAMI,
AND THE CITY OF MIAMI IN CONNECTION
WITH PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF AN
ELDERLY -HANDICAPPED HOUSING PROJECT.
APPOINTMENTS TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
ADVISORY BOARD (APPOINTED WERE: JOE
BOLANOS AND LORI WELDON).
APPOINTMENTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE
BOARD (APPOINTED WERE:STUART SORG,
WILLIAM MESSETT AND WILLIAM ALEXANDER),
UATHORIZE ISSUANCE OF AN RFP FOR
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - CONSULTANT
SUPPORT FOR CITY OF MIAMI VISIONS 2000
COMMITTEE.
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: M. VILA AND
ASSOCIATES, INC. FOR BUENA VISTA
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT. PHASE II (BID
"B"). CIP PROJECT NO. 341108.
88-5 38
88-539
88-540
88-541
88-542
88-544
88-546
88-549
88-550
DOCUMENT INDEX
PACE.b.. CW ammooft
• DOCUMENT DENM"nW RETREVAL CODE NO.
RATIFY MANAGER'S FINDING OF SOLE
SOURCE — WAIVE COMPETITIVE SEALED
BIDS — APPROVE ACQUISITION OF
SERVICE FOR DIGITAL ASSEMBLIES OF
PORTABLE UNITS FROM MOTOROLA
COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS INC.
RATIFY MANAGER'S FINDING OF SOLE
SOURCE — WAIVE COMPETITIVE SEALED
BIDS — APPROVE ACQUISITION OF FIXED
SITE DIGITAL ASSEMBLIES FROM MOTOROLA
COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS., INC.
INCREASE IN CONTRACT WITH MARINA POWER
COMPANY FOR ELECTRIC METERS AT DINNER
KEY MARINA.
WAIVE CODE PROHIBITION AS IT APPLIES TO
THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION
AUTHORITY AGREEMENT WITH HOLLAND AND
KNIGHT TO RETAIN CHRISTOPHER KORGE.
RESCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING TO TAKE
TESTIMONY REGARDING A UNIFIED
DEVELOPMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF DESTINATION RESORT
FACILITIES ON CITY OWNED WATERFRONT
LAND ON VIRGINIA KEY (NORRIS CUT
FILL SITE).
APPOINTMENTS TO THE COMMISSION ON THE
STATUS OF WOMEN (APPOINTED WERE: ANITA
RAFKY, LUISA M. GARCIA TOLEDO AND
CONCHY TRELLES BRETOS).
SUPPORT METRO DADE COUNTY'S DECISION TO
CO -DESIGNATE N.W. 7TH STREET FROM N.W.
57TH AND 12TH AVENUES AS "LUIS SABINES
WAY".
ALLOCATE $4,000. TO PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS
IN SUPPORT OF THE 1988 SUMMER
RECREATION PROGRAM (SUMMER CAMPS), WITH
PROVISOS.
DECLARING THAT THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS
METHOD TO DEVELOP IMPROVEMENTS ON CITY —
OWNED WATERFRONT PARCEL IS BY UDP
AUTHORIZE PREPARATION OF RFP FOR
DEVELOPMENT OF A NOT —FOR —PROFIT OLYMPIC
SAILING AND TRAINING CENTER AT KENNEDY
PARK.
ALLOCATE $15,000 FOR RENTAL OF MIAMI
MARINE STADIUM IN CONNECTION WITH THE
POPS —BY —THE -BAY CONCERT SERIES.
88-551
88-552
88-55 3
88-554
88-556
88-557
88-558
88-561
88-562
88-563
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DOCUMENT DENT*=TM RETREVAI CODE NO
ALLOCATE $21,804. TO CAREY TECHNICAL
INSTITUTE, INC. FOR PURPOSES OF
PROVIDING A JOB DEVELOPMENT/PLACEMENT
PROJECT FOR CITY RESIDENTS.
ALLOCATE $1,694,550. OF C.D. BLOCK GRANT
FUNDS (FOURTHEENTH YEAR) AND $5,000 C.D.
BLOCK GRANT FUNDS (THIRTEENTH YEAR) TO
VARIOUS SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES FOR
APPROVED SOCIAL SERVICE PRJECTS.
AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF REQUEST FOR
QUALIFICATIONS - IN CONNECTION WITH
PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF AN
APPROXIMATELY 250,000 SQ. FT.BUILDING
TO BE OCCUPIED BY THE U.S. ATTORNEY'S
OFFICE AND OTHER U.S. LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES.
APPROVE DRAFT OF PROPOSED CHARTER
AMENDMENT (CHARTER AMENDMENT NO.1)
TO PROVIDE FOR A FOUR YEAR TERM OF
OFFICE FOR THE ELECTED MAYOR OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI COMMENCING NOVEMVER
1989-SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD
SEPTEMBER 6, 1988.
APPROVE ESCROW AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN
SWIRE PACIFIC HOLDINGS, INC.
VIZCATRAN, LTD., OCEAN BANK OF MIAMI,
AND THE CITY OF MIAMI IN CONNECTION
WITH PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF AN
ELDERLY -HANDICAPPED HOUSING PROJECT.
APPOINTMENTS TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
ADVISORY BOARD (APPOINTED WERE: JOE
BOLANOS AND LORI WELDON).
APPOINTMENTS TO THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE
BOARD (APPOINTED WERE:STUART SORG,
WILLIAM MESSETT AND WILLIAM ALEXANDER),
UATHORIZE ISSUANCE OF AN RFP FOR
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES - CONSULTANT
SUPPORT FOR CITY OF MIAMI VISIONS 2000
COMMITTEE.
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: M. VILA AND
ASSOCIATES, INC. FOR BUENA VISTA
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT. PHASE II (BID
"B"). CIP PROJECT NO. 341108.
88-538
88-5 39
8 8-5 40
88-541
88-542
88-544
88-546
88-549
88-550
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PAN L. OF .
DOCt,ww conv C rw RETRE:VAL CODE NO,
RATIFY MANAGER'S FINDING OF SOLE
SOURCE - WAIVE COMPETITIVE SEALED
BIDS - APPROVE ACQUISITION OF
SERVICE FOR DIGITAL ASSEMBLIES OF
PORTABLE UNITS FROM MOTOROLA
COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS INC.
RATIFY MANAGER'S FINDING OF SOLE
SOURCE - WAIVE COMPETITIVE SEALED
BIDS - APPROVE ACQUISITION OF FIXED
SITE DIGITAL ASSEMBLIES FROM MOTOROLA
COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS., INC.
INCREASE IN CONTRACT WITH MARINA POWER
COMPANY FOR ELECTRIC METERS AT DINNER
KEY MARINA.
WAIVE CODE PROHIBITION AS IT APPLIES TO
THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION
AUTHORITY AGREEMENT WITH HOLLAND AND
KNIGHT TO RETAIN CHRISTOPHER KORGE.
RESCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING TO TAKE
TESTIMONY REGARDING A UNIFIED
DEVELOPMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF DESTINATION RESORT
FACILITIES ON CITY OWNED WATERFRONT
LAND ON VIRGINIA KEY (NORRIS CUT
FILL SITE).
APPOINTMENTS TO THE COMMISSION ON THE
STATUS OF WOMEN (APPOINTED WERE: ANITA
RAFKY, LUISA M. GARCIA TOLEDO AND
CONCHY TRELLES BRETOS).
SUPPORT METRO DADE COUNTY'S DECISION TO
CO -DESIGNATE N.W. 7TH STREET FROM N.W.
57TH AND 12TH AVENUES AS "LUIS SABINES
WAY"
ALLOCATE $4,000. TO
IN SUPPORT OF THE
RECREATION PROGRAM
PROVISOS.
PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS
1988 SUMMER
(SUMMER CAMPS), WITH
DECLARING THAT THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS
METHOD TO DEVELOP IMPROVEMENTS ON CITY -
OWNED WATERFRONT PARCEL IS BY UDP
AUTHORIZE PREPARATION OF RFP FOR
DEVELOPMENT OF A NOT -FOR -PROFIT OLYMPIC
SAILING AND TRAINING CENTER AT KENNEDY
PARK.
ALLOCATE $15,000 FOR RENTAL OF MIAMI
MARINE STADIUM IN CONNECTION WITH THE
POPS -BY -THE -BAY CONCERT SERIES.
88-551
88-552
88-553
88-554
88-556
88-557
88-558
88-561
88-562
88-563
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• I DommNT DENTFICAI'ION I RETRIEVAL CODE N0.
ALLOCATE $250,000 FOR THE REBUILDING
AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE RAILROAD
CROSSING AT NW 1ST AVENUE AND NW 8TH
STREETr-URGE METRO DADE COUNTY TO
EXPEDITE REIMBURSEMENT IN ORDER THAT
THE LAND SALE AGREEMENT FOR THE PORT
BRIDGE MAY BE EXECUTED.
ACCEPT BIDS: JUELLE, INC. AND TREE
MASTERS, INC. - FOR FURNISHING
DEMOLITION SERVICES FOR THE DEPARTMENT
OF BUILDING AND ZONING.
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: OCEAN BAY
CONSTRUCTION INC. FOR FORT DALLAS
PARK PLAZA -PHASE II-1986.
APPROVE IN PRINCIPLE THE ALLAPATTAH
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TO
UNDERTAKE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIUM DENSITY
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ON FERN ISLE
NURSERY SITE.
APPROVE IN PRINCIPLE USE OF TWO ACRES
OF FERN ISLE NURSERY SITE BY THE
MUNICIPAL TRUST FUND CORPORATION FOR
DEVELOPMENT OF A COMMUNITY SERVICE
FACILITY "CASA PROJECT" WITH
STIPULATIONS.
88-564
88-565
88-568
88-569
88-570