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CITT CONMieSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
APRIL 14, 1966
ITEM SUBJECT LEGISLATION PAGE
NO. NO.
1. PRESENTATIONS PROCLAMATIONS AND SPECIAL PRESENTED 1
ITEMS. 4/14/68
2. OFFICIAL ACCEPTANCE OF CITY CLERK'S R 88 277 1-2
CERTIFICATION/DECLARATION OF RESULTS OF R 88 277.1
SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION OF MARCH 8, 4/14/88
1988: (a) ISSUANCE OF $40,00O,000
STREET AND HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT BONDS;
AND (b) AUTHORIZATION TO LEASE CITY -
OWNED LAND TO DINNER KEY BOATTARD, LTD.
FOR A FULL -SERVICE BOATTARD MARINA.
3. FORWARD LETTER TO JACKSON MEMORIAL M 88-278 2-3
HOSPITAL COMMENDING THEM FOR 4/14/88
PROFESSIONALISM SHOWN INVOLVING
RECENTLY SLAIN MIAMI POLICE OFFICER
VICTOR ESTEFAN.
4. REQUEST CITY'S SAFETY COORDINATOR TO M 88-279 3-7
COME BACK WITH AN ESTIMATE AS TO COST 4/14/88
OF CONDUCTING ASBESTnS AIR SAMPLINGS IN
EXISTING CITY FACILITIES.
5. CONSENT AGENDA 7-8
4/14/88
5.1 ACCEPT BID: AMERICAN MICRO IMAGE, R 88-280 9
INC. - FOR FURNISHING MICROFICHE 4/14/88
EQUIPMENT FOR DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.
5.2 ACCEPT BID: PALM PETERBILT-GMC TRUCKS, R 88-281 9
IN. - FOR REFURBISHMENT OF FIRE 4/14/88
APPARATUS AERIAL I FOR DEPARTMENT OF
FIRE.
5.3 ACCEPT BID: INDUSTRIAL BUILDING R 88-282 9
MAINTENANCE CORPORATION - FOR 4/14/88
FURNISHING JANITORIAL SERVICES AT
MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER.
5.4 EXTEND EXISTING CONTRACT: MIAMI RUG R 88-283 10
COMPANY - FOR FURNISHING AND INSTALLING 4/14/88
CARPET AND RELATED MATERIALS CITYWIDE.
5.5 ACCEPT VARIOUS BIDS FOR VEHICLE R 88-284 10
EQUIPMENT AND ALLOCATE FUNDS FOR A 4/14/88
COMBINED TOTAL OF $1,685,768.52 FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION FROM FLEET MANAGEMENT
DIVISION AND PUBLIC WORKS FUNDS.
5.6 ACCEPT BID: PIFER, INC. - FOR R 88-285 11
FURNISHING ONE BATTERY OPERATED VEHICLE 4/14/88
FOR DEPARTMENT OF PARKS.
5.7 ACCEPT BID: AUDIO INTELLIGENCE R 88-286 11
DEVICES - FOR FURNISHING ONE ELECTRONIC 4/14/88
DIRECTIONAL TRACKING SYSTEM FOR
DEPARTMENT OF POLICE.
5.6 ACCEPT BID: FRAtn VOLPE CORPORATION - R 86-287
FOR FURNISHING ONE DAY/NIGHT VISION 4/14/68
STABILIZER MONOCULAR FOR DEPARTMENT OF
POLICE.
5.9 APPROVE PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL R 88-288
MICROCOMPUTERS AND PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT 4/14188
FROM BURROUGHS CORPORATION (NOW UNISYS
CORPORATION) FOR POLICE, FIRE AND
PLANNING DEPARTMENTS.
5.10 ACCEPT BID: ALFRED LLOYD AND SONS - FOR R 68-289
CITYWIDE SANITARY SEWER EXTENSION 4/14188
IMPROVEMENT - SW 8TH COURT.
3.11 EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH METROPOLITAN R 88-290
DAM COUNTY: 1) FOR DATA CONVERSION 4/14/88
PROGRAMS AND PROGRAM MODIFICATION
SERVICES PERFORMED BY MIANI-DADS WATER
AND SEWER AUTHORITY DEPARTMENT IN
IMPLEMEIiTATION PHASE OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI STORMWATER UTILITY PROGRAM; AND
2) FOR UTILITY BILLING AND COLLECTION
SERVICES.
5.12 EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH SYLVESTER A. R 86-291
LUKIS FOR PROFESSIONAL LEGISLATIVE 4114/68
CONSULTANT SERVICES REGARDING FEDERAL
LEGISLATION.
5.13 AUTHORIZE AGREEMENT WITH PLECO, INC. - R 68-292
PROVIDE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL 4/14/88
SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH THE
GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION PROBLEM
DISCOVERED AT THE SOUTH DISTRICT POLICE
SUBSTATION.
5.14 EXECUTE AGR88MENT WITH FLORIDA R 88-293
FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION - 4/14/88
FOR THE PLANNING. ORGANIZING AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE
PROMOTION OF THE MIAMI FURNITURE AND
HOME ACCESSORY INDUSTRY.
5.15 AMEND EXISTING CONTRACT WITH VALLE- R 86-294
AXELBERD AND ASSOCIATES. INC. - TO 4/14/88
ADMINISTER PSYCHOLOGICAL SCREENING
PROCEDURES FOR POLICE OFFICER
APPLICANTS.
5.16 AMEND LEASE AGREEMENT WITH SCHOOL BOARD R 88-295
OF DADE COUNTY FOR USE OF ATHALIE RANGE 4/14/88
PARK (DATED 12/19/87).
5.17 SELECT CAP FIRM OF TOUCIE ROSS AND CO. R 88-296
SUSCONSULTING WITH SHARPTON, BRUNSON 4/14/88
AND CO. AND GRAU AND CO. TO ANALYZE
SUBMISSIONS OF FINANCIAL QUALIFICATIONS
RECEIVED IN CONNECTION WITH THE
DEVELOPMENT OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN MIANI.
5.18 APPOINT ARTURO JORDAN TO THE AUDIT R 88-297
ADVISORY COMMITTEE. 4/14/88
5.19 ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO MICHAEL ALAN R 88-298
WOLF MEMORIAL CONCEPT HOUSE FOR USE OF 4/14/88
CITY -OWNED PROPERTY IN CONNECTION WITH
A SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAM.
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5.20
ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO CENTRO
R 88-299
HISPANO DATCARE FOR USE OF CITY -OWNED
4/14/68
!!!0"^.TT TO OPERATE A CHILD CARE
SERVICES PROGRAM.
5.21
AUTHORIZE OFFER TO PROPERTY OWNER FOR
R 88-300
ACQUISITION OF ONE PARCEL WITHIN
4/14/88
ALLAPATTAH CD TARGET AREA FOR
DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
5.22
MAKE OFFERS TO PROPERTY OWNERS FOR
R 88-301
ACQUISITION OF SIX PARCELS IN MODEL
4/14/88
CITT CD TARGET AREA TO BE USED FOR
DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
S.23
93MCVTR INSTRUMENT RELEASING AND
R 86-302
CANCELLING COVENANT AND AMENDED
4/14/88
COVENANT EXECUTED BY RONALD R.
FIELDSTONE, TRUSTEE ("EXECUTIVE
PLAZA").
5.24
ACCEPT DONATION FROM MCF CORPORATION OF
R 68-303
WHEELED COACH BUS FOR USE BY CITY
4/14/88
DEPARTMENTS AT AVIATION AVENUE
BUILDING.
5.25
APPROVE ADMINISTRATION'S ACCEPTANCE OF
R 88-304
DONATION OF MULTI -LEVEL CREATIVE PLAY
4/14/68
STRUCTURE FOR DOUGLAS PARK.
5.26
APPROVE DONATION OF COMPUTERIZED
4 88-305
SCOREBOARD/MESSAGE BOARD SYSTEM TO BE
4/14/88
CONSTRUCTED BY AMERICAN SIGN AND
INDICATOR CORPORATION AT FOUR CITY
FACILITIES.
5.27
ALLOCATE $100,000 FROM THE LAW
R 88-306
ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND FOR EXPENSES
4/14/88
INCURRED BY MIAMI POLICE COPS AND KIDS
ATHLETIC DRUG DIVERSIONARY PROGRAM.
5.28
PUBLISH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR
R 88-307
OBJECTIONS TO ACCEPTANCE OF COMPLETED
4/14/88
CONSTRUCTION BY MIRI CONSTRUCTION,
INC. - BUENA VISTA HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II "A" - DISTRICT
H-4506A.
5.29
PUBLISH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR
R 88-308
OBJECTIONS TO ACCEPTANCE BY M. VILA AND
4/14/88
ASSOCIATES, INC. - BUENA VISTA HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II "B" - DISTRICT
H-45068.
5.30
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: DOUGLAS N.
R 88-309
HIGGIMS, INC. - WINONA SANITARY SEVER
4/14/88
PROJECT PHASE I.
5.31
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: P.N.M.
R 68-310
CORPORATION FOR CITYWIDE SIDEWALK
4/14/68
REPLACEMENT PROJECT.
5.32
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: MIRI
R 88-311
CONSTRUCTION, INC. - CITYWIDE STREET
4/14/88
IMPROVEMENTS - BELLE MEADE TRAFFIC
BARRIER PROJECT.
5.33
STREET CLOSURE: PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED
R 86-312
BY CITY OF MIAMI COMMITTEE ON
4/14/88
BEAUTIFICATION AND ENVIRONMENT.
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17
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18
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18
19
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5.34
STREET CLOSURE: PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED
R 88-313
IT DELTA NU ALPHA TRANSPORTATION
4/14/88
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5.35
STREET CLOSURE: LAY DAY RUN 1989 TO BE
R 88-314
CONDUCTED IT GREATER MIMI RUNNING
4/14/88
ASSOCIATION.
5.36
STREET CLOSURE: PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED
R 88-315
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY IN COOPERATION
4/14/88
WITH CITY OF MIAMI.
5.37
STREET CLOSURE: CONCERNING
R 68-316
MANUFACTURERS HANOVER CORPORATE
4/14/88
CHALLENGE TO BE CONDUCTED BY GREATER
MIAMI RUNNING ASSOCIATION.
5.38
STREET CLOSURE: BUD LIGHT U.S.
R 88-317
TRIATHLON SERIES TO BE CONDUCTED BY CAT
4/14/88
SPORTS, INC.
5.39
DECLARE SIX CITY VEHICLES AS CATEGORY
R 88-318
"A• SURPLUS STOCK - DONATE TO NORTHEAST
4/14/88
CRIME PREVENTION ASSOCIATION SUBCOUNCIL
TO ASSIST IN THEIR CRIME PREVENTION
EFFORTS.
6.
ACCEPT BID: ABLE SANITATION, INC. - FOR
R 88-319
FURNISHING PORTABLE TOILETS AND SHOWER
4/14/88
FOR VIRGINIA KEY BEACH.
7.
ACCEPT BIDS: (a) LAWMAN AND SHOOTERS
R 88-320
SUPPLY, INC. - FOR FURNISHING 65 POLICE
4/14/88
AUTOMOTIVE PARTITIONS; AND (b) PUBLIC
SAFETY DEVICES, INC. - FOR FURNISHING
86 POLICE PATROL LIGHT BARS FOR
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION.
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20
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21
21
21
22-23
23-25
8. DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF DISCUSSION 26
PROPOSED EXECUTION OF AGREEMENT WITH 4/14/88
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION -
MAINTENANCE OF THE NON -ROADWAY PORTION
OF SW 8TH STREET BETWEEN I95 AND SW
27TH AVENUE (See label 87).
9. DISAPPROVE PROPOSED LEASE AGREEMENT M 88-321 26-28
WITH REPUBLIC NATIONAL BANK FOR LEASE 4/14/88
OF SPACE - INSTRUCT ADMINISTRATION TO
SEEK BETTER PRICE QUOTATION.
10. AGREEMENT WITH METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY R 88-322 28-30
TO ENGAGE CITY OF MIAMI FIRE DEPARTMENT 4/14/68
TO RENDER SERVICES AT PORT OF MIAMI.
11. AGREEMENT WITH CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER TO R 88-323 30-36
ADMINISTER FIRE FIGHTERS ANNUAL 4/14/88
PHTSICAL EXAMINATIONS FOR A ONE-YEAR
PERIOD.
12. AUTHORIZE RFP FOR UDP - DEVELOPMENT OF R 88-324 36-44
OFFICE AND/OR HOTEL WITHIN THE CIVIC 4/14/88
CENTER AREA AT 1145 N.Y. 11TH STREET.
13. DIRECT ADMINISTRATION NOT TO MAIL ANT M 88-325 45-47
MORE LETTERS TO PROPERTY OWNERS IN 4/14/88
CONNECTION WITH HISTORIC DESIGNATIONS
OF DOWNTOWN PROPERTY WITHOUT PRIOR
DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION IT THE
COMMISSION.
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14.
A. DESIGNATE PLANNING AND DESIGN OF
R 88-326
47-52
CITY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING PHASE II
DISCUSSION
AS A CATEGORY "B" PROJECT - ADVERTISE
4/14/68
FOR REQUIRED PLANNING AND DESIGN
SERVICES.
B. BRIEF COMMENTS IT COMMISSIONER J.L.
PLUMNER ON THE CHARTER BOAT FISHERMEN'S
CONTRACT (TO BE FURTHER DISCUSSED AT A
LATER TIME).
15.
DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF
N 88-327
52-53
PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT WITH
4/14/88
DELOITTE HASKINS i SELLS TO ANALYZE AND
DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE
CITY'S TELECOMMIMICATIONS EQUIPMENT
SYSTEM (SEE LABEL 45).
16.
DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF
DISCUSSION
54-55
PROPOSED ALLOCATION OF PROPOSED
4/14/86
ALLOCATION OF $30,000 IN SUPPORT OF
"KEEP DADE BEAUTIFUL, INCORPORATED"
(SEE LABEL 62)
17.
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 OF
ORDINANCE
55-57
ORDINANCE 10347 - ESTABLISH PROJECT:
10412
"SIMPSON PARK RENOVATIONS".
4/14/88
18.
AGREEMENT WITH BAYSIDE MINORITY
R 88-328
57-59
FOUNDATION FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF
4/14/88
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR
MINORITY TENANTS AT BAYSIDE.
19.
DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF
DISCUSSION
59-60
PROPOSED EMERGENCY ORDINANCE
4/14/88
ESTABLISHING NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND:
"RECREATION ACTIVITY - CONSOLIDATED"
(SEE LABEL 86).
20.
DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF
DISCUSSION
60-64
PROPOSED EMERGENCY ORDINANCE
4/14/88
AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE OF $2,500,000
SUBORDINATED PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE
BONDS - SERIES 1988. (NOTE: THIS ITEM
WAS LATER PASSED AND ADOPTED AS E.O.
10423. SEE LABEL 53.)
21.
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 OF
ORDINANCE
64-65
ORDINANCE 10203 - INCREASE
10413
APPROPRIATIONS FOR PRESCHOOL PROGRAM -
4/14/88
CONSOLIDATED FOR THIS OPERATION.
22. COMMISSIONER MILLER DAWKINS RECOGNIZES DISCUSSION 65
DADE COUNTY SCHOOL STUDENTS 4/14/88
PARTICIPATING IN THE "BOSS FOR THE DAT"
PROGRAM.
23. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH NEW ORDINANCE 66-67
SPECIAL REVZMZ FUND: "TRAINING SUPPORT 10414
EQUIPMENT" - REGION XIV FY187-88 - 4/14/88
APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THIS OPERATION -
ACCEPT GRANT.
24. EMOUCT ORDINANCE: AMEND ORDINANCE ORDINANCE 67-69
10252 - ESTABLISH APPROPRIATIONS FOR 10415
LAW ENFORCZk=T TRUST FUND ($520,000) 4/14/88
FROM SUCCESSFUL FORFEITURE ACTIONS.
25. EMERGENCT ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH SPECIAL ORDINANCE
REVENUE FUND: "SENIOR CITIZENS 10416
0&;1D YEAR :; 14 / 88
CONTINUATION" - ACCEPT GRANT.
26. CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER - ACCEPT R 88-329
SE3120R CITIZEN SPECIALIZED POLICING 4/14/89
PROGRAM GRANT TO EMPLOY 13 OFFICERS AT
SUITOR CITIZENS SITES AND PRESENT CRIME
PREVENTION PROGRAMS.
27.
DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF
DISCUSSION
PROPOSED EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO
4/14/88
INCREASE COMPOSITION OF DOWNTOWN
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD.
B. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY
DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED RECENT RESOLUTION
REAPPOINTING AND APPOINTING INDIVIDUALS
TO SERVE ON THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITY BOARD (SEE LABELS 63 AND 64).
28.
EMERGENCT ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH SPECIAL
ORDINANCE
REVZ19UZ FUND: "SUMMER FOOD SERVICE
10417
PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN - 1988" -
4/14/88
APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THIS
OPERATION - ACCEPT GRANT.
29.
CONDITIONALLY AUTHORIZE METROPOLITAN
R 88-330
DADE COUNTY TO ACCEPT BIDS FOR THE
4/14/88
PROVISION OF LUNCHES TO ELIGIBLE
CHILDREN DURING SUMMER, 1988.
30.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE
ORDINANCE
SECTION 53-161 - CHANGE RATE SCHEDULE
10418
FOR USE, OCCUPANCY OF AND SERVICES TO
4/14/88
BE FURNISHED IN CONNECTION WITH MIAMI
CONVMff ION CENTER.
31.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH
ORDINANCE
SPECIAL REVENUE FUND - "HOUSING
10419
DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM - 1987" -
4/14/88
APPROPRIATE FUNDS FROM HUD FOR THE
PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTION FINANCING TO
DESIGN MANAGEMiENT VII ASSOCIATES -
DEVELOPER/OWNER.
32.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND
ORDINANCE
SECTIONS 1 AND 6 OF ORDINANCE 10321 -
10420
INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS TO DEPARTMENT
4/14/88
OF PARKS, RECREATION AND PUBLIC
FACILITIES BY $378,000.
33.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION
ORDINANCE
1 OF ORDINANCE 10347 - ESTABLISH
10421
PROJECT: "MORTHYSST RIVER DRIVE
4/14/88
ACQUISITION PROJECT - EREIDT PROPERTY".
34.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION
ORDINANCE
1 OF ORDINANCE 10349 - SPECIAL REVENUE
10422
FUND: *EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (FY
4/14/88
'88)" - INCREASE APPROPRIATION BY
$32,000 TO A TOTAL OF $235.000 FOR
OPERATION OF SAME - FROM A USHUD GRANT.
69-74
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76
77-78
78-79
79-80
80-83
83-84
84-85
85-87
35.
DISCUSSION AND TmmwT DEFERRAL OF
DISCUSSION
PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE
4/14/88
APPROPRTATTW%- •a 4"%T*.nr•• �An� egc A4
BUDGET FONDS IN THE 12 YEAR CITYWIDE
MOLITION OF SUBSTANDARD BUILDINGS
PROJECT. (NOTE: THIS ITEM WAS LATER
TAKEN UP AND ULTIMATELY DEFERRED - SEE
LABEL 40).
36.
BRIEF DISCUSSION REGARDING PROPOSED
DISCUSSION
CREATION OF A CITY OF MIAMI "UNSAFE
4/14/88
STRUCTURES BOARD" (SEE LABELS 39 AND
58).
37.
PRESENTATIONS, PLAQUES AND SPECIAL
DISCUSSION
ITEMS.
4/14/88
38.
DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF
DISCUSSION
PROPOSED RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY
4/14/88
MANAGER TO SUBMIT THE GRANT PROGRAM
FINAL STATEMENT TO MUD REQUESTING FUNDS
FOR THE CITT'S PROPOSED CD PROGRAM
DURING 1966-1989 ($11,297,000). (NOTE:
THIS ITEM WAS LATER TAKEN UP AGAIN,
DISCUSSED, AND ULTIMATELY CONTINUED TO
THE MEETING OF APRIL 28, 1988 - SEE
LABEL 50) .
39. DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE REPORT M 88-331
IN CONNECTION WITH CREATION OF A CITY 4/14/88
OF MIAMI "UNSAFE STRUCTURES BOARD" (SEE
LABELS 36 AND 58).
40. DEFER PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE DISCUSSION
APPROPRIATING $801,955 ALLOCATED AS 4/14/88
BUDGET FUNDS IN THE 12 YEAR CITYWIDE
DEMOLITION OF SUBSTANDARD BUILDINGS
PROJECT (SEE LABEL 35).
41. CO -DESIGNATE S.W. 34TH AVENUE FROM R 68-332
FLAGLER STREET TO S.W. 3RD STREET AS 4/14/88
"COLONEL VICTOR ESTEFAN BOULEVARD".
42. AUTHORIZE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO R 88-333
ADVERTISE AND DISTRIBUTE RFP FOR 4/14/88
FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES TO THE CITY
OF MIAMI - APPOINT REVIEW COMMITTEE.
43. A) APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS R 88-334
TO THE LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD. R 88-334.1
(APPOINTED WERE: TESSI GARCIA, ARMANDO 4/14/88
CA LO AND PELAYO GONZALO FRAGA.) B)
APPOINT CERTAIN OTHER INDIVIDUALS TO
THE LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD.
(APPOINTED WERE: ROCKFALL SANCHEZ AND
RAUL HERNANDEZ.)
44. APPOIN NENTS TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION R 68-335
ADVISORY BOARD (APPOINTED WERE: DONALD 4/14/88
BENJAMIN, GREG BORGOGNONI AND LAWRENCE
CRAWFORD).
45. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EMPLOY R 88-336
DELOITTE HASKINS 6 SELLS TO ANALTZE AND 4/14/88
DEVELOP RECOMlRliDATIONS REGARDING THE
CITY'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT
STSTEM (See label 15).
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89
89-93
93-95
95
96
97-98
98-99
99-100
101-107
46
AFFIRM CITY MANAGER'S FINDING OF SOLE
R 88-337 108-109
MOORCE - APPROTE ACQUISITION OF 24
4/14/68
PORTABLE 6-SUSFLEET 800 :lN:.
RADIOS AND SATTERT CHARGERS "ON
MO'P DROLA COMMUNICATIONS AND
ELECTRONICS, INC. FOR DEPARTMENT OF
PARKS, RECREATION AND PUBLIC
FACILITIES.
47.
WAIVE PROHIBITION AGAINST TRANSACTION
R 88-338 109-110
OF BUSINESS WITH CITY OFFICIAL AS
4/14/88
APPLIED TO PAT SKUBISH U.S.
CONSULTANTS, INC.) (ZONING BOARD
MEMBER); AUTHORIZE AGRSMGW WITH P.S.
CONSULTANTS, INC. FOR PROFESSIONAL
MMVICES IN COMOCTION WITH PUBLIC
RELATIONS/MARKETING FOR PHASE I -
SOUT=AST OVERTONN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT. (NOTE: THIS ITEM
WAS LATER RECONSIDERED AND ULTIMATELY
ADOPTED, SEE LABELS 66(A) AND 74(A) AND
(B).)
48.
WAIVE COMPETITIVE SELECTION
R 88-339 110-121
PROCEDURES - FOR SELECTION OF
4/14/88
CONSULTANT TO PROVIDE
ARCHITECTURAL/ENGINEERING PROJECT
MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR "ORANGE BOWL
MODERNIZATION PROJECT" IN CONNECTION
WITH PHASE I OF SAID PROJECT.
(CONSULTANT SELECTED: KUNDE, SPRECHER,
TASKIN & ASSOCIATES, INC.)
49.
AUTHORIZE INCREASE IN CONTRACT WITH
R 88-340 121-122
MADSEN/BARR CORPORATION FOR
4/14/88
CONSTRUCTION OF CITYWIDE SANITARY
REPLACEMENT PROJECT - NW 8TH STREET
ROAD.
50.
CONTINUED DISCUSSION AND CONTINUANCE OF
M 88-341 122-127
PROPOSED RESOLUTION TO SUBMIT GRANT
4/14/88
PROGRAM FINAL STATEMENT TO HUD
REQUESTING $11,297,000 FOR THE CITY'S
PROPOSED CD PROGRAM (1988-1989) (SEE
LABEL 38).
51.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH
ORDINANCE 127-128
SPECIAL REVENUE FUND "COMMUNITY
FIRST READING
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (FOURTaENM
4/14/88
TEAR)" ($11,297,000 PLUS $1,045,000
FROM CDBG PROGRAM INCOME FOR A TOTAL OF
$12,342,000).
52.
RESCHEDULE SECOND REGULAR CITY
DISCUSSION 128-129
COMMISSION MEETING (PRESENTLY SCHEDULED
4/14/88
FOR MAT 26) TO MAY 19 (SEE LABEL 69) .
53.
smimoslCY ORDINANCE: AUTHORIZE
ORDINANCE 129-131
ISSUANCE OF $2,500,000 OF SUBORDINATED
10423
PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS, SERIES
4/14/88
1968 (SEE LABEL 20).
54.
ALLOCATE $30,000 TO NEW WASHINGTON
R 68-343 132-134
MK;IGMA?S COMMlUNITY DEVELOPMENT
4/14/86
CONFERENCE INC. - FOR CONSULTANT FEES
IN CONNECTION WITH NOTEL DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT IN SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
INCREMENT DISTRICT - ZXECUTE AGREEMENT.
55.
DISCUSSION ITO: GREATER BISCAYNE
DISCUSSION
SOUM.EVARD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE -
4/14/96
UTILIZATION OF SUSPENDED OFFi�;M "#R
DESK DUTY.
56.
DISCUSSION ITEM "THE INNER CITY
DISCUSSION
CHILDREN TOURING DANCE CO." -
4/14/88
REQUESTING FUNDS FOR PERFORMING ARTS
SUMMER CAMP PROGRAM.
57.
INFORM REPRESENTATIVES OF "DEVELOPMENT
M 88-344
FOR THE NEW WORLD SYMPHONY" GROUP TO
4/14/66
REAPPLY FOR $40,000.
58.
URGE METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TO AMEND
R 88-345
METRO CODE SECTION 8-5 - TO PERMIT
4/14/88
ESTASLISHMENT OF A CITY OF MIAMI UNSAFE
STRUCTURES BOARD. (SEE LABELS 36 AND
39)
59.
DISCUSS AND REFER TO ADMINISTRATION
DISCUSSION
REQUEST OUTLINED BY MR. DAVID FINCHER -
4/14/88
ISSUE TO COME SACK AT MEETING OF APRIL
28.
60. AUTHORIZE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED R 88-346
STREETS - IN CONNECTION WITH MEMORIAL 4/14/88
DAY SILENT PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED BY
VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS AND AMERICAN
LEGION.
61. DISCUSSION CONCERNING REQUEST FROM MR. DISCUSSION
KEN JANOSKI POSTPONEMENT OF 4/14/68
CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE CURB AND
GUTTER AT APPROXIMATELY 3698 WILLIAM
AVENUE.
62. ALLOCATE $30,000 IN SUPPORT OF THE R 88-347
"KEEP DADE BEAUTIFUL, INCORPORATED" 4/14/88
PROGRAM - EXECUTE AGREEMENT. (SEE
LABEL 16)
63. AMEND CODE SUBSECTIONS 14-26 (a) AND M 88-348
(c) - INCREASE COMPOSITION OF DOWNTOWN 4/14/88
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD - CHANGE
VOTING STATUS OF COUNTRY AND CITY
MANAGERS (SEE LABELS 27 AND 65)
64. A. APPOINT INDIVIDUALS TO THE DOWNTOWN
M 88-349
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD (APPOINTED
R 88-350
WERE: STANLEY DODD, ALEXANDER McW
4/14/88
WOLFE, JR., PEDRO PELAEZ AND GARTH
REEVES, SR.).
S. PORMALIZE APPOINTMENTS MADE BY
ABOVE MOTION, PLUS CERTAIN OTHER
APPOINTMENTS TO DDA BOARD (APPOINTED
WERE: LAWRZWX KAHN, III, MIRIAM LOPEZ,
JACK LOWELL, JEFlREY BERCOW AND MICHAEL
KOZNITSKY ) (SEE LABEL 27).
65. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE SECTION
ORDINANCE
14-26 BY INCREASING COMPOSITION OF
10424
DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD -
4/14/88
CHANGE VOTING STATUS OF COUNTY AND CITY
MANAGERS (SEE LABEL 63).
134-135
135-138
138-140
140
141-142
143
144-149
149-150
150-153
153-157
157-159
bi.
A. RECONSIDER PRIOR VOTE WAIVING
N 88-351
159-174
PROHIBITION AGAINST TRANSACTING
DISCUSSION
BUSINESS WITH A CITY OFFICIAL AS IT
4/14/88
APPLIES TO PAT SKUSIBM (P.S.
CONSULTANTS, INC.) AS WELL AS APPROVE
PROPOSED AGREEMENT WITH P.S.
CONSULTANTS, INC. (SEE LABEL 47).
DISCUSS AND DEFER UNTIL LATER THIS
MEETING PROPOSED APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT
WITH P.S. CONSULTANTS, INC. (SEE LABEL
74). B. DISCUSSION: MINORITY
PROCUREMENT (BILL PERRY)
67.
ALLOCATE $10,000 TO "CURE AIDS NOW,
R 88-352
174-182
INC." FOR PROVISION AND DISTRIBUTION OF
4/14/98
MEALS TO MOMEBOUND AIDS PATIENTS -
E33CJTE AGREEMENT.
68.
APPROVE BASIC TERMS OF AGREEMENT
M 88-353
183-205
PRESENTED BY MR. JOSEPH PORTUONDO IN
4/14/88
CONNECTION WITH PROPOSED AFFORDABLE
MOUSING PROJECT NEAR VIZCATA METRORAIL
STATION, WITH CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
69.
RESCHEDULE SECOND REGULAR CITY
R 88-354
205
COMMISSION MEETING OF MAY 26 TO MAY 19,
4/14/88
1988, TO BEGIN AT 4:00 P.M. (SEE LABEL
52).
70.
RESCHEDULE SECOND REGULAR CITY
R 88-355
206
COMMISSION MEETING OF APRIL 28, 1988 TO
4/14/88
BEGIN AT 2:00 P.M.
71.
ALLOCATE $5,000 TO "LA LIGA HISPANA
R 88-356
206-217
CONTRA EL SIDA, INC." (AIDS) FOR
4/14/88
LEASING OFFICE SPACE - EXECUTE
AGREEMENT.
72.
A. DISCUSSION OF SERIOUS CONCERNS
DISCUSSION
217-223
EXPRESSED BY FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
4/14/88
UNION REPRESENTATIVES IN CONNECTION
WITH ANTICIPATED BUDGET ISSUES WHICH
COULD IMPACT ON POLICE DEPARTMENT'S
OPERATION.
B. DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO HOLD A
PUBLIC HEARING WITHIN 2-3 WEEKS IN
ORDER TO GAIN SOME INPUT WHICH MAY
ASSIST THE CITY COMHMISSION IN
CONVECTION WITH PRESENT IMPASSES
REACHED IN LABOR NEGOTIATIONS.
73.
AUTHORIZE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED
R 88-357
223-224
STREETS - ESTABLISH PEDESTRIAN MALLS
4/14/88
AND DESIGNATE AREAS FOR RETAIL PEDDLERS
IN CONNECTION WITH: (a) 1989 CARNAVAL
MIMI PASEO, (b) THE 8K RUN, (c) THE
BIER DASH, AND (d) CAME OCHO OPM
MOM FESTIVAL - CONDUCTED BY THE
KIWANIS CLUB OF LITTLE HiAVANA.
74.
A. WAIVE PRONIBITION AGAINST
N 88-358
224-230
TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS WITH CITY
R 88-359
O►FICIAL AS IT APPLIES TO PAT SKUBISH
4/14/89
(P.S. CONSULTANTS, INC.) MEMBER OF
ZONING BOARD; B. EXECUTE AGRII04 MT
WITH P.S. CONSULTANTS INC. - FOR
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IN PUBLIC
RELATIONS/MARKETING FOR THE PHASE I
PORTION OF SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (SEE
LABELS 47 AND 66)
75.
APPOINT INDIVIDUAL TO THE MIAMI
R 88-360
230-236
WATERFRONT BOARD (APPOINTED WAS: MR.
4/14/88
JAMB WELLINGTON) - PENDING STILL ARE
NOMINATIONS TO BE MADE IN GROUP IV -
DEFERRED TO MAT 12, 1988.
76.
DISCUSSION CONCERNING STATUS OF
DISCUSSION
236-239
HELICOPTER USE PERMIT ON WATSON ISLAND.
4/14/88
(THIS ITEM WAS REFERRED TO THE CITY
MANAGER.)
77.
CITY ATTORNEY'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1987.
DISCUSSION
239
4/14/88
78.
AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE DEAL ON
M 88-361
240-242
THE TWO PROJECTS TO BE DEVELOPED AT THE
4/14/88
FERN ISLE NURSERY SITE - (a)
DEVELOPMENT OF A PUBLIC FACILITY -
"CASA PROJECT" - BY THE MUNICIPAL TRUST
FUND CORPORATION, AND (b) A HOUSING
COMPLEX BY THE ALLAPATTAH BUSINESS
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.
79.
COMMISSIONER DAWKINS REQUESTS
DISCUSSION
242-245
INFORMATION FROM THE ADMINISTRATION AS
4/14/88
TO WHY CERTAIN LAWS HAVE NOT BEEN
IMPLEMENTED IN LIBERTY CITY AREA.
80.
DISCUSSION REGARDING IRREGULARITIES AND
DISCUSSION
245-246
PERFORMANCE OF SOCIAL ACTION AGENCY -
4/14/88
ITEM CONTINUED TO MAY 12, 1988.
81.
SCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING IN CONNECTION
M 88-362
247
WITH PROPOSED CODESIGNATION OF NW 69TH
4/14/88
STREET FROM THE EXPRESSWAY TO 17TH
AVENUE AS "JOHN HENRY PEAVY, JR.
STREET".
82
DIRECT MANAGER TO AGAIN REVIEW THE
M 88-363
248-250
TERMS OF A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR
4/14/88
DEVELOPMENT OF A FULL SERVICE BOATYARD
MARINA AT 2640 SOUTH BAYSHORE DRIVE AND
COO BACK WITH RECOIIINEIDATION.
83.
DEFER CONSIDERATION OF THE CREATION OF
DISCUSSION
251-252
AN INTERNATIONAL TRADE BOARD OR
4/14/88
AVMRITT. (lIOTE: This item is later
taken up again and adopted on FIRST
READING - as* label 85.)
$4.
DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE
M 88 364
252-266
$100,000 TO THE BATFRONT PARK
4/14/88
MANAImm- TRUST TO ALLOY THEIR
OPERATION THROUGH THE END OF THE FISCAL
YEAR 1968.
0
0
•S.
FIRST RiADINO ORDMAMMi 2STABLISH
ORDINANO
266-266
NIANI INTtId1ATI0MAL TRAM BOARD -
FIRST RSAMO
U TIN0 FOR COMOSMON AND T2RNS OF
4/14/66
A CITY Omts620N APPOINT21 ADVISORT
BOARD (bit LAUL 63).
66.
—m 110ICT ORDINAMo MULISH IMUL
ORDINANCR
269-270
RKV N FUNDS "R2CR2ATION ACTITITT -
10425
COMMtDATBD" - APPROPRIAT2 $250,000
4/14/66
FOR ITS OMATION.
•�.
2=uT2 AQRlZMW WITH rMtDA
R 66-36S
210
DVARTMZMT OF TRANSPORTATION R20ARDI110
4/14/66
MAMMANC2 OF THS NON-ROADWAT PORTION
OF S.Y. 6TH STR22T Ss11f201 I-93 AND
S.Y. 27TH AVENUE.
66.
ALLOCATi $2,SOO IN SUPPORT Of TH2 MIAMI
R 66-366
2I1
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BAND IN CONNECTION
4/14/86
WITH THEIR TRIP TO SAM DOMINGO.
MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF THE
CITY COMMISSION Of MIAMI, FLORIDA
On the 14th day of April, 1968, the City Commission of Miami, Florida,
suet at its regular meeting place in the City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive,
Miami, Florida in regular session.
The mating was called to order at 9:15 a.m. by Mayor Xavier Suarez with
the following ambers of the Commission found to be present:
ALSO PRESENT:
Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
Ceear Odio, City Manager
Lucia Allen Dougherty, City Attorney
Natty Hirai, City Clerk
Walter J. Fooman, Assistant City Clerk
An invocation was delivered by Mayor Suarez who then led those present
in a pledge of allegiance to the flag.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: THE ADMINISTRATION WITHDREW AGENDA ITEMS 3,
22, 88, 91 6 94.
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1. PRESENTATIONS PROCLAMATIONS AND SPECIAL ITEMS.
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1. Newly appointed consul general of Chile, Hernando Chacon, who addressed
the Commission briefly.
2. PRESENTATION: Certificates of Appreciation for Calls Ocho Cooking Contest
participants.
3. PLAQUE presented "Save A Life Program" to honor Fire Rescue operators
whose telephone instructions saved lives while help arrived.
2. OFFICIAL ACCEPTANCE OF CITY CLERK'S CERTIFICATION/DECLARATION OF RESULTS
OF SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION OF MARCH 8, 1988: (a) ISSUANCE OF
$40,000,000 STREET AND HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT BONDS; AND (b) AUTHORIZATION
TO LEASE CITY -OWNED LAND TO DINNER KEY BOATYARD, LTD. FOR A FULL -SERVICE
BOATYARD MARINA.
Mayor Suarez: Madam City Clerk first order of business - is this in front of
me, on the special City of Miami election results, March 8, 1988, for...
Me. Hirai: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: What need we do on this?
No. Hirai: We just passed the resolutions. At the time of the last mating,
Metropolitan -Dade County had not completed the canvassing, and this is why we
doing it.
Mayor Suarez: Do we need a motion on accepting the results? Yes. sir.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
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Mayor Suarez: Moved. Do we have a second?
,,.. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suares: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolutions ware introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved their adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-277
A RESOLUTION OFFICIALLY ACCEPTING THE ATTACHED CITY
CLERK'S CERTIFICATION AND DECLARATION OF THE RESULTS
OF THE SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION HELD ON MARCH 6,
1988, IN WHICH THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED
$40,000,000 STREET AND HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT BONDS OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AND THE LEVYING OF A TAX
TO PAT THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST THEREON WAS
DISAPPROVED BY THE ELECTORATE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
RESOLUTION NO. 88-277.1
A RESOLUTION OFFICIALLY ACCEPTING THE ATTACHED CITY
CLERK'S CERTIFICATION AND DECLARATION OF THE RESULTS
OF THE SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION HELD MARCH 8, 1988,
IN WHICH THE QUESTION OF AUTHORIZING CITY -OWNED LAND
LOCATED AT 2640 SOUTH BAYSHORE DRIVE TO BE LEASED TO
THE DINNER KEY BOATYARD, LTD, WHICH WOULD OPERATE A
FULL -SERVICE BOATYARD, MARINA, RESTAURANT AND MARINE -
RELATED RETAIL FACILITY WAS DISAPPROVED BY THE
ELECTORATE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolutions were 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.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES. On motion duly made and seconded, the
minutes of the City Commission meeting of January 28, 1988,
February 11, 1988 and February 18, 1988 were unanimously approved.
S. FORWARD LETTER TO JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL COMMENDING THEM FOR
PROFESSIONALISM SHOWN INVOLVING RECENTLY SLAIN MIAMI POLICE OFFICER
VICTOR ESTEFAN.
Mr. Plummer: Mayor, before we go in to the regular agenda, I'd like to make a
motion of this Commission that we send to Jackson Memorial Hospital a letter
commanding them for the tremendous efficiency and professionalism that they
showed and the courtesies extended to this City and its community for the
tragic situation with Victor Estefan. Thank God with Parker still ongoing is
with Officer Craig, and I think that it should be noted that those people have
bent over backwards and done everything within their control and within their
power, and I would like to make a motion at this time that we send a letter to
Jackson Memorial Hospital, thanking them and commanding them for the good
works that they have done, and I so move.
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Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
Its adoption:
NOTION NO. e8-278
A NOTION OF THE CITT COMMISSION REQUESTING THE CITY
ADMINISTRATION TO FORWARD A LETTER TO JACKSON MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL COMMENDING THEM FOR THE TREM MMS EFFORTS
AND PROFESSIONALISM SHOW THROUGHOUT THE TRAGIC
SITUATION INVOLVING RECENTLT SLAIN MIAMI POLICE
OFFICER VICTOR ESTEFAN, AS WELL AS FOR THEIR
CONTINUING EFFORTS IN PROVIDING MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO
OFFICERS WILLIAM CRAIG AND THOMAS PARKER.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: Any report, update on Officer Craig?
Mr. Odio: I went to the hospital a weak ago, and his condition was still very
serious. They were waiting for some movement of some muscles in the face, but
I am afraid that he is in very bad condition.
4. REQUEST CITY' S SAFETY COORDINATOR TO COME BACK WITH AN ESTIMATE AS TO
COST OF CONDUCTING ASBESTOS AIR SAMPLINGS IN EXISTING CITY FACILITIES.
Commissioner De Turre: Mayor Suarez...
Mayor Suarez: Cosssissioner De Turre.
Mr. De Turre: I'd like to bring up an item, which I think it is very
Important for us here in the City of Miami, and I think you received, you all
received copies of this report, which is the asbestos report prepared by Mr.
Rodriguez, who is the safety coordinator for the City of Miami. It is has
cos» to my attention and certainly I am no expert in this field, and that's
why we have experts working for the City that can give us some direction, but
It has corns to my attention that a number of people here at City Hall have
been experiencing situations wherein normally they have never had that problem
before with eyes that are very sensitive, coughing when they don't have any
cold, or are not sick, and they have brought that to my attention. and I have
been trying to find out what the status is of any studies that have been made
within City Hall as far as asbestos. I spoke with Mr. Rodriguez and he
prepared this report on what asbestos is all about and how it works and the
dangers and when it is not dangerous and so on and so forth. And yet, from
what I have heard, there guy be an asbestos situation over at the Police
Department and certainly there may be some as far as moos of the fire stations
are concerned. I would like, at this point in time, to hear from Mr.
Rodriguez, and also, hopefully maybe we can prepare some type of program where
we can take sours air samples, throughout not just City Hall, but throughout
the City of Miami offices to see where we are at with this situation and I
don't know if there is a danger right now with this asbestos or not, but I
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think that it would be remiss on our part if we, once we are aware that there
may be a problem, that we don't follow up on this and find out exactly what
the P+tuatin" i•
Mayor Suarez: Surely.
Mr. De Turre: Mr. Rodriguez.
Mr. Alberto Rodriguez: OK, yes, you are right. There is asbestos contained
in materials in buildings.
Mayor Suarez: Mr. Rodriguez, give us your name and title, please.
Mr. Rodriguez: My name is Alberto Rodriguez, I am safety coordinator for the
City. The Environmental Protection Agency made a study throughout the nation
and found out that 730,000 public and commercial buildings of the nation has
some asbestos contained in materials in those buildings. it is not only a
situation of Miami. It is not only the City Hall of Miami. It is not only the
buildings of Miami. It is even my house, your house also, that has asbestos.
Asbestos contained in material is a product that you can find in your house
and in my house, from the roof all the way down to the floors. The material
that is used for roofing, the roofing material, the roofing felt, has asbestos
materials. The asbestos tar... the roofing cement has asbestos. The product
that you use for sheet rock, the shoat rock tape, the sheet rock compound,
they have asbestos. The floor tiles, they have asbestos. Acoustical tiles has
asbestos.
Mayor Suarez: You are talking generally, or are you talking specifically
about any particular building?
Mr. Rodriguez: I am talking about every building, my house. your house,
everybody's house, every building has some asbestos.
Mayor Suarez: But we are interested in the City buildings, this building, for
example, or any other City of Miami building. What can you tell us about them?
Mr. Rodriguez: They are not an exception. All buildings have some kind. The
majority of the buildings have some kinds of asbestos contained in material.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Rodriguez, however, improper removal of asbestos can be a
problem, so how do we do it safely?
Mr. Rodriguez: I am going to end up with that, OK? - because that is my final
recommendation. Everybody agrees now that we have asbestos in every building.
The problem is, if that asbestos is disturbed... if asbestos is not disturbed,
it doesn't cause any harm to the health of the people. In other words, it is
not the simple question of, do we have asbestos or not? Is that asbestos
damage? Is that asbestos freeable? Then, when we have to go ahead and make
the study about the asbestos, but just policing the asbestos contained in
materials of building and maintaining those materials in good condition
without damaging it, etcetera, they don't produce any harm.
Mr. Plums r: So we are not going to die?
Mr. Rodriguez: As a matter of fact...
Mr. Pluno r: Ve are not going to die.
Mr. Rodriguez: Of course not.
Mr. Do Turra: Mot yeti
Mr. Rodriguez: As a matter of fact, Commissioner Plummer, the Environmental
Protective Agency conducted a survey of the water of the United States, the
water system of the United States. Three quarters of the water system of the
United States has asbestos. Fifteen percent of that water has over 1,000,000
fibers per liter. That means that in an eight and one-half ounce glass of
water, you are drinking 250,000 fibers of asbestos.
Mr. Plummer: (OFF MICROPHONE) I only counted two forty nine.
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Mr. Rodriguez: The Environmental Protective Agency made the recommendation to
the Congress of the United States, to the Senate and the House of
on r:brzz y 22, 1 making recommendations about the
Asbestos. Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA). That is the one that
everybody is reading in the newspaper about schools, etcetera. The
recoonsendation that they made is to police the asbestos in public and
commercial buildings and don't do anything until they have experiences through
the school finding, and that is after three years, and I have copies of that
recossssndation here, and as a matter of fact...
Mayor Suarez: Well, everybody is particularly concerned with anything that
could affect the school system because you have kids growing up and so on, and
they may not be aware of the hazard, but we are dealing really with the City
now, and we don't run the school system, obviously.
Mr. Rodriguez: But, Mr. Mayor, if you read that law, and you and Mr. De Yurre
are both lawyers, you are going to see that that law is in force from first
grade to twelfth grade. What happens to the students of preschool, what
happens to the students of universities?
Mayor Suarez: OK, but we don't...
Mr. Rodriguez: In other words, even that law is a little bit dubious.
Mayor Suarez: We don't handle that here in the City, necessarily so.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, you know, my concern is that... and I don't know, Cesar,
have you looked in that room back there?
Mr. Odio: Teo.
Mr. De Yurre: You know what's there?
Mr. Odio: Teo.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, and though my understanding is that it is in a situation
where it is not dangerous to us, it could very easily become dangerous to us
when we have the air conditioning equipment right in there and there is
exposed asbestos, although it is not free.
Mr. Rodriguez: Incidentally, I checked that room, which is the air handling
room of the air conditioning system for this building. It is cleaner than the
one that I have in my house, in my central air conditioning. Another thing
is, that I took air samples...
Mayor Suarez: Wait, Mr. Rodriguez, wait, wait. Did you ask a question of the
Manager, you want him to answer that?
Mr. De Yurre: No, I just wanted to make sure that the Manager had seen what
was back there, and you are aware of what is back there.
Mr. Odio: Teo, and I was told it was inspected. I was told it was a minimum -
zero zero one, something like that.
Mr. Rodriguez: No, you didn't have any.
Mr. Odio: Any asbestos, it was...
Mr. Rodriguez: Less than 0.1.
Mr. Odio: Ten, 0.1 percent asbestos on it, so, besides that, we contracted
out with an air conditioning firm, and I believe that they are going to
eliminate any that is there, but it has to be done very carefully.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, well, what I am looking for, so we can wrap this up, is the
following: I am aware that if the asbestos in sealed, that if it is not free
flowing, that if it is contained, there is no danger. I am aware of that, I
think we all are aware of that. Now, my concern is that there may be some
that is not sealed, that it may be creating a danger to our employees in this
City of Miami. What I would like to move right now and see if we can get this
doing, is if we, for the May 12th meeting, you can come back to us and give us
an estimate of what it would cost to get some air samplings from our offices
5 April 14, 1988
throughout the City to find out exactly where we are at, and it is just a
concern of mine, and I'd hate... I've got a good friend of mine who is an
attorney, no has eecosw a millionaire, suing people for asbestos, And I'd hate
to have, you know, a situation like that happening to the City, and I
certainly want to get to be as old as Miller Dawkins some day, and you know,
you are talking about this thing affecting us 20 years down the road and
that's even before I get to his age, so...
Mayor Suarez: That's a couple generations down the road. That's
Mr. De Turre: That's right, so, I'd like to...
Mayor Suarez: Stick to what we got.
Mr. be Turre: ... move that Mr. Rodriguez come before us in the May 12th
meeting, with numbers as to what it would cost and how long it would take to
get those air samplings and for us to be sure of the situation that we are
dealing with.
Mr. Dawkins: And the Manager tell us where he is going to find the money.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? I presume also, Mr. Manager, that
you'll give us an idea if something like that can not be done in house. I
mean, it sounds like we have an expert here. We cannot take air samples in
house?
Mr. Davkins: Why?
Mayor Suarez: Why not?
Mr. Dawkins: The lire Department can't do it?
Mr. De Turre: Lucia, you were telling me that this vas done over at the
attorney's office?
Mr. Odio: Dade County has a...
Mrs. Dougherty: Dade County. We had Dade County come and do ours, because
Amerifirst Building does have aabestos and we did have the construction done
In our building, so Dade County came over and did it for a fee of about $15.
Mr. De Yurre: So ve are not talking about an exorbitant amount of money here.
Mayor Suarez: Maybe we can get the County to do some of the other buildings.
Mrs. Dougherty: I'm sure they would.
Mr. Plummer: As it is a courtesy.
Mayor Suaraz: They'll do it as a courtesy, Commissioner Plug r says. Well,
as long as we are not approving any funding, as long as it is just a matter of
the Manager looking at the situation and making recommendations as to how we
can do the testing and the sampling and so on, I'd have no problem with the
motion.
Mrs. Kennedy: So, Mr. Rodriguez, you will call the County and then come back?
Mr. Rodriguez: I am in direct contact with them already.
Mayor Suares: Any further discussion? Call the roll on the motion.
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The following motion vas introduced by Commissioner De Turre, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION N0. 88-279
A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER TO HAVE THE
CITY'S SAFETY COORDINATOR COME BEFORE THE COMMISSION
WITH AN ESTIMATE AS TO THE COST OF CONDUCTING AIR
SAMPLINGS AT EXISTING CITY FACILITIES, AS WELL AS A
TENTATIVE TIMETABLE AS TO NOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE TO
COMPLETE SAID AIR SAMPLINGS IN ORDER THAT THE
COMMISSION MAY BETTER ASCERTAIN THE FULL SCOPE OF THIS
ISSUE.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
5. CONSENT AGENDA
Mayor Suarez: Items 3 to 53 constitutes the consent agenda. Is there anyone
from the general public that wishes to be heard for or against any of those
items, and if so, would you tell us which item and give us your name.
Mr. Donald Benjamin: 28.
Mayor Suarez: Item 28 is removed from the consent agenda.
Mrs. Dougherty: I'd like number 23.
Ms. Gloria Rocio: 24.
Mr. Dawkins: 24?
Mr. Dick Kinne: Number 13, Mayor.
Mr. Dawkins: 13.
Mayor Suares: How about the Cosmiseion? Is there anyone else that wishes to
be heard specifically on any of those items constituted by the consent agenda,
which is constituted of items 3 through 53? Let the record reflect that no
one has stepped forward.
Mr. Plummer: I didn't hear the numbers. I might be duplicating, but 19 and
28.
Mrs. Kennedy: 23 and 28.
Mayor Suarez: 19 and 28, Commissioner Plummer.
Mrs. Kennedy: I have 17, 19, and 29.
Mayor Suarez: 17 and 29, Commissioner Kennedy.
Mr. Dawkins: I got thirty...
Mr. Odlo: Item 3 had been withdrawn, Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Plummer: Three has been withdrawn.
7 April 14, 1968
Mayor Suarea: Item 3 has been Withdraws. Ce iaaionar Miller hackies.
Mr. Dawkins: I'vs got it, to and 53.
Mr. he Turret Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Tes.
Mr. Do Turret I'vo got a whole list of these, because for soothe I've been
asking to got beforehand, a breakdown of the officers, the directors and the
owners of these corporations, and I haven't gotten them.
Mr. Pluso r: more, I just got it.
Mr. Do Turret Just now?
Mr. Plummer: I assume I just...
Mr. Odio: It is in the package that you gat, Commissioner.
Mr. Do Turret Well, I just had the package reviewed and...
Mr. Odio: It's right here.
Mrs. Kennedy: I've got it to.
Mr. De Turret Well, I also want 9 removed.
Mayor Suarez: Item 9.
Mr. De Turret OK, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: OK, with the exception of items 9, 13, 17, 19, 23, 24, 28, 29
and 53, 1 will entertain a motion on the consent agenda.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
ON MOTION duly made by Vice Mayor Kennedy and seconded by
Commissioner Plummer, the items comprising the Consent Agenda were
approved by the following vote:
ATIS: CowsIssioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plum r, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
pus: None.
ASS1W t None.
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$.1 ACCEPT line AMERICAN MICRO IMAGE, INC. - FOR FURNISHING NICROFICME
EQUIPMENT FOR DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-280
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF AMERICAN MICRO
IMAGE, INC. FOR FURNISHING MICROFICHE EQUIPMENT FOR
THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST
OF $4,557.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE
1988 OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNT CODE 0260201-940;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF
PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR
THIS EQUIPMENT.
(Here follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.2 ACCEPT BID: PALM PETERSILT-GMC TRUCKS, IN. - FOR REFURBISHMENT OF FIRE
APPARATUS AERIAL I FOR DEPARTMENT OF FIRE.
RESOLUTION NO. 68-281
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF PALM PETERBILT -
GMC TRUCKS, INC. FOR THE REFURBISHMENT OF FIRE
APPARATUS AERIAL I FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE,
RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AT A TOTAL PROPOSED
COST OF $39,940.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM
THE FIRE BOND ACCOUNT CODE #313222-289401-670;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT 278 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.)
5.3 ACCEPT BID: INDUSTRIAL BUILDING MAINTENANCE CORPORATION - FOR FURNISHING
JANITORIAL SERVICES AT MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-282
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF INDUSTRIAL
BUILDING MAINTENANCE CORPORATION FOR FURNISHING
JANITORIAL SERVICES AT THE MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY
CENTER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR
PITH THE OPTION TO RENEW FOR THREE (3) ADDITIONAL
OM3 TEAR PERIODS AT A TOTAL PROPOSED FIRST YEAR COST
OF $23,052.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE
1967-98 PROPERTY MAINTENANCE DIVISION ACCOUNT CODE
0421001-340; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCURMW OFFICER TO ISSUE A
PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE; FURTHER AUTHORIZING
IX3 CITY MANAGER TO EXTEND THE CONTRACT FOR THREE
(3) ADDITIONAL ONE YEAR PERIODS UNDER THE SAME
PRICE, TERMS AND CONDITIONS, SUBJECT TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF FONDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clark.)
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5.4 EXTOM EXISTING COMTRACTe MIAMI RUG COMPANY - FOR FURNISHING AND
INSTALLING CARPET AND RELATED MATERIALS CITTVIDE.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-263
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING
CONTRACT FOR THE FURNISHING AND INSTALLATION OF
CARPETING, CUSHION AND RELATED MATERIALS CITY WIDE
ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) TEAR TO MIAMI RUG
COMPANY, APPROVED ORIGINALLY ON RESOLUTION NO. 87-
306, BID NO. 86-87-040, TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF
$20,000.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-
88 PROPERTY MAINTENANCE DIVISION ACCOUNT CODE
0420401-670; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE
PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THESE MATERIALS, SUBJECT TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clark.)
5.5 ACCEPT VARIOUS BIDS FOR VEHICLE EQUIPMENT AND ALLOCATE FUNDS FOR A
COMBINED TOTAL OF $1,865,768.52 FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION FROM FLEET MANAGEMENT DIVISION AND PUBLIC WORKS FUNDS.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-284
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BIDS OF HEINTZELMAN'S
TRUCK CENTER IN THE AMOUNT OF $960.019.38, DEBRA
TURF & INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY IN THE AMOUNT OF
$73,786.00, BARRIE-REED BUICK GMC, INC. IN THE
AMOUNT OF $15,029.00, TRANSTAT EQUIPMENT IN THE
AMOUNT OF $32,289.00, PALMETTO FORD TRUCK SALES,
INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $63,381.85, METRO -TECH
EQUIPMENT CORPORATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $302,424.00,
NAVISTAR INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION CORPORATION IN
THE AMOUNT OF $72,624.00, HYDRAULIC MAINTENANCE INC.
IN THE AMOUNT OF $69,583.99, ADAMS-DEWIND MACHINERY
CO. IN THE . AMOUNT OF $21,400.00, H.F. MASON
EQUIPMENT CORPORATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $29,815.00,
W.E. JOHNSON & CO. IN THE AMOUNT OF $49,360.00. U.S.
AIRMOTIVE IN THE AMOUNT OF $17,930.00 AND SOUTHERN
TOOL 6 EQUIPMENT CO. IN TIM PROPOSED AMOUNT OF
$5,340.30 FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION FOR A TOTAL PROPOSED AMOUNT OF
$1,712.982.52; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASES
FROM JOHQN DEERE INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY UNDER
THE STATE OF FLORIDA CONTRACT NO. 760-000-67-1 AT A
PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $106,240.00 FOR THE PURCHASE OF
TWO (2) FRONT END LOADERS AND THE PURCHASE OF TWELVE
(12) 3 WHEEL UTILITY HAULERS FROM CUSHMAN MOTOR
SCOOTER SALES UNDER CONTRACT NO. 070-840-88-1 AT A
PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $66,546.00 FOR A PROPOSED GRAND
TOTAL OF $1,885,768.52; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR
FROM THE 1987-68 OPERATING BUDGET FLEET MANAGEMENT
DIVISION ACCOUNT CODE NO. 420201-850 ($1,867,838.52)
AND PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT PROJECT NO. 331302,
ACCOUNT CODE NO. 559303-840 ($17,930.00)N
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF
PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR
THIS EQUIPMENT.
(Here follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clark.)
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S.i ACCipT BID: PIPER. INC. - FOR FURNISHING ONE BATTERY OPERATED VEHICLE
TO DEPARTWWT OF PARRS.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-285
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF PIFER, INC. FOR
FURNISHING ONE (1) BATTERY OPERATED VEHICLE FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND PUBLIC
FACILITIES AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $5,510.00;
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1988 OPERATING
BUDGET ACCOUNT CODE $580405-840; 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.)
5.7 ACCEPT BID: AUDIO INTELLIGENCE DEVICES - FOR FURNISHING ONE ELECTRONIC
DIRECTIONAL TRACKING SYSTEM FOR DEPARTMENT OF POLICE.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-286
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF AUDIO INTELLIGENCE
DEVICES FOR FURNISHING ONE (1) ELECTRONIC
DIRECTIONAL TRACKING SYSTEM FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
POLICE AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $13,500.00;
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE LAV ENFORCEMENT
TRUST FUND PROJECT NO. 690001 INDEX CODE 290910-840;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF
PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR
THIS EQUIPMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.8 ACCEPT BID: FRASER VOLPE CORPORATION - FOR FURNISHING ONE DAY/NIGHT
VISION STABILIZER MONOCULAR FOR DEPARTMENT OF POLICE.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-287
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF FRASER VOLPE
CORPORATION FOR FURNISHING ONE (1) DAY/NIGHT VISION
STABILIZER MONOCULAR FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE AT
A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $7,750.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND PROJECT
NO. 690001 INDEX CODE 290910-840; AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT
OFFICER TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THIS EQUIPMEINT.
(Here follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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3.9 APPROVE PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL NICROCONPUTERS AND PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT
FROM SURRODOHS CORPORATION (NOW UNISYS CORPORATION) FOR POLICE, FIRE AND
PLANNING DEPARTMENTS.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-288
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL
NICROCOUTTRRS AND PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT FRO!!
BURROUGHS CORPORATION, NOW UNISYS CORPORATION, UNDER
AN EXISTING DADS COUNTY CONTRACT FOR THE ENHANCEMENT
OF: THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S ELEVEN -POINT PLAN; THE
FIRE DEPARTMENT'S COMPUTER AIDED DISPATCH SYSTEM;
EXISTING COMPUTER SYSTEMS IN THE PLANNING
DEPARTMENT; AT A PROPOSED COST OF: $148,000.00 FOR
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR
FROM THE DEPARTMENT'S CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT
NO. 312014, INDEX CODE 299401-840; $119,000.00 FOR
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE (5) YEARS
WITH A FISCAL TEAR 1987-88 PAYMENT OF $37,696.00,
ALLOCATING FUNDS FROM THE DEPARTMENT'S CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT PROJECT NO. 313212, INDEX CODES 289401-
$40 AND 890; $37,440.00 FOR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT
OVER A PERIOD OF FIVE ( 5 ) YEARS WITH A FISCAL YEAR
1987-88 PAYMENT OF $7,680.00. ALLOCATING FUNDS FROM
THE DEPARTMENT'S FISCAL YEAR 1987-1988 GENERAL FUND,
INDEX CODE 390101-880 FOR THE AMOUNT OF $4,640.00
AND FROM THE MIAMI COMPREHENSIVE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN,
ACCOUNTS 110039-380245 AND 125001-380246 FOR THE
AMOUNT OF $3,240.00; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE
PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THE EQUIPMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.10 ACCEPT BID: ALFRED LLOYD AND SONS - FOR CITYWIDE SANITARY SEWER
EXTENSION IMPROVEMENT - SW 8TH COURT.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-289
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF ALFRED LLOYD A
SONS IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $34,853.00 TOTAL BASE
BID OF THE PROPOSAL, FOR CITY WIDE SANITARY SEWER
EXTENSION IMPROVEMENT - SW 6 COURT; WITH MONIES
THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE 1988 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
ORDINANCE NO. 10347, PROJECT NO. 351274 IN THE
AMOUNT OF $34,853.00 TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST; AND
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT
WITH SAID FIRM AND DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO
PUBLISH A NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR OBJECTIONS TO
THE ACCEPTANCE BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION BY AUrRED LLOYD & SONS OF
CITY WIDE SANITARY SEWER EXTENSION 1WROVEMENT - SW
8 COURT UPON SATISFACTORY COMPLETION OF SAID
C i SI TRUICTION.
(Here follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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5.11 EXECUTE AGREa1ENT WITH METROPOLITAN DADS COUNTY: 1) FOR DATA CONVERSION
PROGRAMS AND PROGRAM MODIFICATION SERVICES PERFORMED By MIAMI-DADE WATER
AND SEWER AUTHORITY DEPARTMENT IN IMPLEMENTATION PHASE OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI STORMWATER UTILITY PROGRAM; AND 2) FOR UTILITY BILLING AND
COLLECTION SERVICES.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-290
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNET, WITH METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY 1) FOR DATA
CONVERSION PROGRAM AND PROGRAM MODIFICATION SERVICES
PERFORMED BY THE MIAMI-DADE WATER AND SEVER
AUTHORITY DEPARTMENT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE
DOLMONTATION PHASE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI STORNWATER
UTILITY PROGRAM, USING PREVIOUSLY ALLOCATED FUNDS IN
T!a AMOUNT OF $17,500 FROM THE 1964 STORM SEVER
M UMAL OBLIGATION BOND FUND, PROJECT N0. 352250,
CITYWIDE STORM DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN; AND 2) FOR
UTILITY BILLING AND COLLECTION SERVICES ESTABLISHED
AT $1.59 PER BILL; AUTHORIZING PAYMENT OF BILLING
AND COLLECTION SERVICE FROM PROCEEDS OF THE
MTORMWATER UTILITY FEE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.12 EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH SYLVESTER A. LUKIS FOR PROFESSIONAL LEGISLATIVE
CONSULTANT SERVICES REGARDING FEDERAL LEGISLATION.
RESULUTION NO. 88-291
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, WITH SYLVESTER A. LUKIS, FOR PROFESSIONAL
LEGISLATIVE CONSULTANT SERVICES CONCERNING FEDERAL
LEGISLATION WHICH IMPACTS ON THE CITY OF MIAMI;
ALLOCATING THEREFOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $45,000
FOR SUCH SERVICES, AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$3,000 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.)
5.13 AUTHORIZE AGRE8M=T WITH PLECO, INC. - PROVIDE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL
SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH THE GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION PROBLEM
DISCOVERED AT TIME SOUTH DISTRICT POLICE SUBSTATION.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-292
♦ RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER
=TKO AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATT'OMMY WITH PIECO INC. TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY
MWIRMIENNTAL SERVICES TO IS SUBNIT"M AND APPROVED
ST = FLORID♦ STATE DWARTME T OF ENVIROMmNTAL
REGULATION IN COMICTION WITH THE GROUNDWATER
CONTAMINATION PROBLEM DISCOVERED AT TIME 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 Tta STATE OF FLORIDA UNDER THE STATE
UIIIna R WAU ND PITROL.EaM ENVIRONMMENTAL RESPONSE ACT OF
1966 (SUPER ACT).
(Here follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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5.14 EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH FLORIDA FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION - FOR
THE PLANNING, ^RGANIZING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE
PROMOTION OF THE MIAMI FURNITURE AND HOME ACCESSORY INDUSTRY.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-293
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
AN AGREEMENT IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY WITH THE FLORIDA FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS
ASSOCIATION IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $6,000 FOR
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES THAT CONSIST OF PLANNING,
ORGANIZING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE
PROMOTION OF THE MIAMI FURNITURE AND HOME ACCESSORY
INDUSTRY, USING FUNDS TIQREFOR WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY
ALLOCATED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT FOR
ECOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES.
(Mere follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.15 AMEND EXISTING CONTRACT WITH VALLE-AXELBERD AND ASSOCIATES, INC. - TO
ADMINISTER PSYCHOLOGICAL SCREENING PROCEDURES FOR POLICE OFFICER
APPLICANTS.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-294
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN AMENDMENT OF THE
EXISTING CONTRACT WITH VALLE-AXELBERD AND
ASSOCIATES, INC., FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADMINISTERING
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCREENING PROCEDURES FOR POLICE
OFFICER APPLICANTS FOR AN ADDITIONAL TWELVE MONTH
PERIOD AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED FORTY-SEVEN THOUSAND
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS ($47,175) WITH
FUNDS THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT
BUDGET; SAID AMENDMENT TO BE 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.)
5.16 AMEND LEASE AGREEMENT WITH SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY FOR USE OF
ATHALIE RANGE PARK (DATED 12/19/87).
RESOLUTION NO. 88-295
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN AMENDMENT, IN
SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED HERETO AND IN A FORM
ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, TO THE LEASE
AGREEMENT DATED DECEMBER 29, 1987, BETWEEN THE CITY
OF MIAMI AND THE SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY FOR THE
USE OF ATHALIE RANGE PARK, LOCATED AT 525 NORTHWEST
62 STREET, TO EXPAND THE USES ALLOWED, TO INCLUDE
USE OF THE PAVED PARKING LOT ADJACENT TO THE
SWIIMIMG POOL, DURING SCHOOL HOURS.
(Here follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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S.17 SRUCT CAP FIRM OF TOUCHE ROSS AND CO. SUSCONSVLTING WITH SHARPTON,
BRUNSON AND CO. AND GRAU AND CO. TO ANALYZE SUBMISSIONS OF FINANCIAL
"IIITgf0-Agr-rr►S eECEIVED IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEDERAL
LAW ENFORCEMENT BUILDING IN DONNTOVN MIAMI.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-296
A RESOLUTION SELECTING THE CERTIFIED PUBLIC
ACCOUNTING FIRM OF TOUCHE ROSS AND CO. SUBCONSULTING
WITH THE MINORITY OWNED ACCOUNTING FIRMS OF
XMARPTON, BRUNSON 4 CO. AND GRAD 6 CO., TO ANALYZE
SUBMISSIONS OF FINANCIAL QUALIFICATIONS TO BE
RECEIVED IN RESPONSE TO THE CITY'S AND THE U.S.
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION'S SOLICITATION FOR
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN MIAMI; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED, WITH
SAID FIRMS; AUTHORIZING COMPENSATION AVAILABLE FROM
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT GENERAL FUND, OTHER
CONTRACTUAL SERVICES ACCOUNT, FOR SERVICES NOT TO
EXCEED AN AMOUNT OF $38,000 FOR ANALYSIS OF UP TO
SIX SUBMISSIONS PLUS OUT-OF-POCKET EXPENSES BILLED
AT COST NOT TO EXCEED 20 PERCENT OF PROFESSIONAL
FEES, FOR THE PERIOD COMMENCING UPON EXECUTION OF AN
AGREEMENT AND TERMINATING UPON COMPLETION OF
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, PROVIDING THAT 40 PERCENT OF
DUE AMOUNT FOR SERVICES BE PAID TO THE MINORITY -
OWNED SUBCONSULTING FIRMS PARTICIPATING IN THE
ANALYSIS OF SUBMISSIONS; AND FURTHER STIPULATING
THAT ALL COSTS OF PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTING SERVICES
BE REIMBURSED TO THE CITY BY THE SUCCESSFUL
PROPOSER.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.18 APPOINT ARTURO JORDAN TO THE AUDIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-297
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING MR. ARTURO JORDAN TO THE
CITY OF MIAMI AUDIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.19 ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO MICHAEL ALAN WOLF MEMORIAL CONCEPT HOUSE FOR
USE OF CITY -OWNED PROPERTY IN CONNECTION WITH A SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAM.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-298
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER'S ISSUANCE
CW ♦ REVOCABLE PERMIT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE
CITY ♦TTORNET, TO MICHAEL ALAN VOLF MEMORIAL CONCEPT
DOUSE, A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION, TO ALLOW THE USE OF
CITY -OWNED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 4850 NORTHEAST SECOND
AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, FOR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES
AND AN OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT IN CONNBCTION WITH ITS
SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAM, AT A USER FEE OF $100.00
PER YEAR; SAID PERMIT BEING FOR AN INITIAL ONE -TEAR
PERIOD, WITH SUCCESSIVE AUTHORITY BEING GIVEN FOR
SAID PERMIT TO REMAIN VALID FOR ONE -TEAR PERIODS,
SUBJECT TO THE CITY MANAGER'S APPROVAL.
(Here follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file is the Office of the City Clerk.)
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S.20 ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO CENTRO HISPANO DATCARE FOR USE OF CITY -OWNED
PROPERTT TO OPERATE A CHILD CARE SERVICES PROGRAM.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-299
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER'S ISSUANCE
OF A REVOCABLE PERMIT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THa
CITY ATTORNET , WITH CENTRO HISPANO DAYCARE, A
NONPROFIT AGENCY OF CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES, FOR
THE USE OF CITT-OWNED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 141
NORTHWEST 27 AVENUE, TO OPERATE ITS CHILD CARE
SERVICES PROGRAM, AT AN ANNUAL FEE OF $100.00 PER
TEAR; SAID PERMIT BEING FOR AN INITIAL ONE-YEAR
PERIOD, WITH SUCCESSIVE AUTHORITY BEING GIVEN FOR
SAID 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.)
5.21 AUTHORIZE OFFER TO PROPERTY OWNER FOR ACQUISITION OF ONE PARCEL WITHIN
ALLAPATTAH CD TARGET AREA FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-300
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO MAKE AN
OFFER TO PROPERTY OWNER FOR ACQUISITION OF ONE
PARCEL (PARCEL NO. 03-11) WITHIN THE ALLAPATTAH
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TARGET AREA AND WHICH IS MORE
PARTICULARLY AND LEGALLY DESCRIBED IN THE ATTACHED
EXHIBITS "A" AND "B", TO BE USED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
OF HOUSING AFFORDABLE TO LOW AND MODERATE INCOME
FAMILIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE CITY SPONSORED
SCATTERED SITE AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM; FURTHER DESIGNATING PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED
11TH TEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LAND ACQUISITION
FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,000,000 TO COVER THE COST
OF SAID ACQUISITION; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
ATTORNEY TO PROCEED TO CLOSE ON THE SUBJECT PARCEL
AFTER EXAMINATION OF THE ABSTRACT AND CONFIRMATION
OF OPINION OF TITLE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.22 MAKE OFFERS TO PROPERTY OWNERS FOR ACQUISITION OF SIX PARCELS IN MODEL
CITY CD TARGET AREA TO BE USED FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-301
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO MAKE
OFFERS TO PROPERTY OWNERS FOR ACQUISITION OF SIX
PARCELS (PARCELS 02-12, 02-25, 02-30, 02-31, 02-34
AND 02-41) WITHIN THE MODEL CITY COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT TARGET AREA AND WHICH ARE MORE
PARTICULARLY AND LEGALLY DESCRIBED IN THE ATTACHED
X MISITS •A• AND •B•, TO BE USED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT
OF HOUSING AFFORDABLE TO LAW AND MODERATE INCOME
FAMILIES IN CONNECTION WITH THE CITY SPONSORED
SCATTERED SITE AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM; FURTHER DESIGNATING PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED
11TH TEAR COIMtMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LAND ACQUISITION
FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $1, 000 , 000 TO COVER THE COST
OF SAID ACQUISITIONS; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY
ATTORNEY TO PROCEED TO CLOSE ON THE SUBJECT PARCELS
AFTER EXAMINATION OF THE ABSTRACT AND CONFIRMATION
OF OPINION OF TITLE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file In the Office of the City Clerk.)
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S.23 EXECUTE INSTRSR 2 RELEASING AND CANCELLING COVENANT AND AHMED
COr01ANT IXEC'nTn S? RONALD R. FIELDSTONE, TRUSTEE ("EXECUTITS PLAZA").
RESOLUTION N0. 68-302
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY
SWAM AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE AN INSTRUMENT
FORI=T RELEASING AND CANCELLING THAT CERTAIN
COWINAIR TO RUN WITH THE LAND AND AMENDED COVENANT
TO RUN WITH THE LAND EXECUTED BY RONALD R.
FIELDSTONE, TRUSTEE, CONCERNING THAT PROPERTY KNOWN
AS "EXECUTIVE PLAZA" AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 121 AT
PAGE 87 OF TIM PUBLIC RECORDS OF DADE COUNTY,
FLORIDA.
(Nor* follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.24 ACCEPT DONATION FROM NCF CORPORATION OF WHEELED COACH BUS FOR USE BY
CITY DEPARTHRUTS AT AVIATION AVENUE BUILDING.
RESOLUTION MO. 88-303
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE DONATION OF A 1996
WHEELED COACH BUS MODEL 1600 VALUED AT $38,000 FROM
MCF CORPORATION FOR USE BY CITY DEPARTMENTS
OCCUPYING THE AVIATION AVENUE BUILDING.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.25 APPROVE ADMINISTRATION'S ACCEPTANCE OF DONATION OF MULTI -LEVEL CREATIVE
PLAY STRUCTURE FOR DOUGLAS PARK.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-304
A RESOLUTION FORMALLY APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE
CITY NANAGER'S ACCEPTANCE OF THE DONATION OF A
MULTILEVEL CREATIVE PLAY STRUCTURE FOR DOUGLAS PARK,
HAVING A TOTAL ESTIMATED VALUE OF $75,000 FROM THE
KIWANIS CLUB OF LITTLE HAVANA, INC. AND FRITO-LAY,
INC. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY'S "PRIDE IN MIAMI
PARKS" ADOPT -A -PARK PROGRAM; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A
FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, TO IMPLEMENT
SAID DONATION.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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5.26 APPROVE DONATION OF COMPUTERIZED SCOREBOARD/MESSAGE BOARD SYSTEM TO BE
CONSTRUCTED IT AMERICAN SIGN AND INDICATOR CORPORATION AT FOUR CITY
RESOLUTION NO. 88-305
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE DONATION TO THE CITY OF A
COMPUTERIZED SCOREBOARD/MESSAGE BOARD SYSTEM, TO BE
CONSTRUCTED By AMERICAN SIGN AND INDICATOR
CORPORATION (AS&I) AT FOUR (4) CITY OF MIAMI PUBLIC
FACILITIES; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMIT A
LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED
FORM, AND TO EXECUTE SUCH DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM
ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, AS MAY BE NECESSARY
TO IMILEMENT SAID DONATION, WHICH DONATION RESULTS
FROM THE CONCERTED EFFORT IT COOGAN ENTERPRISES,
INC., AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF AS&I, SAID
REPRESENTATIVE BEING AUTHORIZED TO SECURE, AT NO
COST TO THE CITY, APPROPRIATE SPONSORS/DONORS OF
SAID STSTEM, ACCEPTANCE BEING SUBJECT TO THE
PROVISIONS AS SET FORTH IN SAID LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
AND IN THE ATTACHED SCHEDULE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clark.)
5.27 ALLOCATE $100,000 FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND FOR EXPENSES
INCURRED BY MIAMI POLICE COPS AND KIDS ATHLETIC DRUG DIVERSIONARY
PROGRAM.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-306
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING FUNDING NOT TO EXCEED ONE
HUNDRED THOUSAND $100,000) FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI
LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND TO COVER THE NECESSARY
EXPENSES INCURRED BY THE MIAMI POLICE COPS AND KIDS
ATHLETIC DRUG DIVERSIONARY PROGRAM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.28 PUBLISH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR OBJECTIONS TO ACCEPTANCE OF
COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION BY MIRI CONSTRUCTION, INC. - BUENA VISTA HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II "A" - DISTRICT H-4506A.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-307
A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH A
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR OBJECTIONS TO THE
ACCEPTANCE BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE COMPLETED
CONSTRUCTION BY MIRI CONSTRUCTION, INC. OF BUENA
VISTA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II (BID -A") IN
SUEIMA VISTA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT - PHASE II
(DID -A") H-4506A.
(Here follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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S.It PUBLISH NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEARING FOR OBJECTIONS TO ACCEPTANCE BY
N. •ILA AND ASSOCIATES, INC. - BUENA VISTA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE
II "DO - DISTRICT N-4S062.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-308
A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO PMTBLISH A
NOTICE OF PUBLIC !RARING FOR OBJECTIONS TO THE
ACCEPTANCE BY TIME CITY COMMISSION OF THE COMPLETED
CONSTRUCTION BY M. VILA AND ASSOCIATES, INC. OF
NUONA VISTA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE II (BID "B")
IN SURMA VISTA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT - PHASE
II (BID "B") H-45068.
(Here follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.30 ACCEPT COMPLETED WORXt DOUGLAS N. HIGGINS, INC. - WINONA SANITARY SEWER
PROJECT PHASE I.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-309
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF DOUGLAS
N. HIGGINS, INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF $122,534.50 FOR
WINONA SANITARY SEWER PROJECT PHASE I C.I.P. PROJECT
NO. 351169 AND AUTHORIZING A FINAL PAYMENT OF
$22,246.15.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.31 ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: P.N.M. CORPORATION FOR CITYWIDE SIDEWALK
REPLACEMENT PROJECT.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-310
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF P.N.M.
CORPORATION AT A TOTAL COST OF $217,646.00 FOR
CITYWIDE SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT PROJECT C.I.P. PROJECT
NO. 341152 AND AUTHORIZING A FINAL PAYMENT OF
$21,764.60.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.32 ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: MIRI CONSTRUCTION, INC. - CITYWIDE STREET
IMPROVIMTS - BELLE MEADS TRAFFIC BARRIER PROJECT.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-311
• RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF MIRI
CONSTRUCTION, INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF $57,133.75 FOR
CITYWIDE STREET IMPROVZKWTS - BELLE MIME TRAFFIC
HARRIER PROJECT C.I.P. PROJECT PD. 341152 AND
AUTHORIZING A FINAL PAYMENT OF $7,306.38.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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5.33 STREET CLOSURE: PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED BY CITY OF MIAMI COMMITTEE ON
BEAUTIFICATION AND ENVIRONMENT.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-312
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING A PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED BY
THE CITY OF MIAMI COMMITTEE ON BEAUTIFICATION AND
ENVIRONMENT ON RAT 6, 1988 AUTHORIZING THE CLOSURE
OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC;
SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE
DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND
INSPECTION SERVICES.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.34 STREET CLOSURE: PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED BY DELTA NU ALPHA TRANSPORTATION
FRATERNITY, INC.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-313
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING A PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED BY
DELTA NU ALPHA TRANSPORTATION FRATERNITY, INC. ON
MAY 20, 1986 APPROVING THE USE OF DESIGNATED STREETS
TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, SUBJECT TO THE
ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND
FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AND THE
CONDITION THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY
POTENTIAL LIABILITY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.35 STREET CLOSURE: LAW DAY RUN 1988 TO BE CONDUCTED BY GREATER MIAMI
RUNNING ASSOCIATION.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-314
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE LAW DAY RUN 1988 TO BE
CONDUCTED BY THE GRATER MIAMI RUNNING ASSOCIATION ON
MAY 1, 1988, CLOSING CERTAIN STREETS TO THROUGH
VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF
PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE
AND INSPECTION SERVICES; CONDITIONED UPON THE
ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR THE NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY
SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH SAID EVENT AND THE
REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY BE INSURED AGAINST ANY
POTENTIAL LIABILITY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.36 STREET CLOSURE: PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY IN
COOPERATION WITH CITY OF MIAMI.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-315
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE "SAT NO TO DRUGS" PARADE
TO BE CONDUCTED BY METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY IN
COOPERATION WITH TIME CITY OF MIAMI ON MAY 9, 1988
AUTHORIZING THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO
THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE
OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE,
RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES; AND THE CONDITION
THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL
LIABILITY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clark.)
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S.37 STREET CLOSURSi CONCERNING MANUFACTURERS HANOVER CORPORATE CHALLENGE TO
BE CONDUCTED BY GRUTER MIAMI RUNNING ASSOCIATTnw.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-316
A R;SOLUTION CONCERNING THE MANUFACTURERS HANOVER
CORPORATE CHALLENGE TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE GREATER
MIAMI RUNNING ASSOCIATION ON MAY 10, 1988, CLOSING
CERTAIN STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC,
SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENT
OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES;
CONDITIONED UPON THE ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR THE
NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH
SAID EVENT AND THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY BE
INSURED AGAINST ANT POTENTIAL LIABILITY.
(Mere follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
5.38 STREET CLOSURE: BUD LIGHT U.S. TRIATHLON SERIES TO BE CONDUCTED BY CAT
SPORTS, INC.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-317
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE BUD LIGHT U.S. TRIATHLON
SERIES TO BE CONDUCTED BY CAT SPORTS, INC. ON MAY 1,
1988, CLOSING CERTAIN STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR
TRAFFIC, SUBJECT TO TIM ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION
SERVICES; CONDITIONED UPON THE ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR
THE NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH
SAID EVENT AND THE REQUIREMENT THAT TH8 CITY BE
INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clark.)
5.39 DECLARE SIX CITY VEHICLES AS CATEGORY "A" SURPLUS STOCK - DONATE TO
NORTHEAST CRIME PREVENTION ASSOCIATION SUBCOUNCIL TO ASSIST IN THEIR
CRIME PREVENTION EFFORTS.
RESOLUTION NO. 88-318
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER, OR HIS
DESIGNEE, TO DECLARE SIX (6) SURPLUS CITY VEHICLES
AS CATEGORY As SURPLUS STOCK, AND DONATING THE SAME
TO THE NORTHEAST CRIME PREVENTION SUB -COUNCIL, AN
ORGANIZATION AFFILIATED WITH THE NORTHEAST CRIME
PREVENTION ASSOCIATION; SAID VEHICLES TO BE USED BY
THE NORTHEAST CRIME PREVENTION SUBCOUNCIL TO ASSIST
THE CITY OF MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT IN ITS EFFORTS
TOWARD DETERRING CRIME.
(Mere follow body of resolution, omitted here and
on file is the Office of the City Clerk.)
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6. ACCM DID: ADZE SANITATION, INC. - i:OR rURNISMING PORTABLE TOILETS AND
SMOWn FOR VIRGINIA KET SUCH.
Mayor Suares: Item 9 is Commissioner De Turre's request.
Mr. De Turrai Mr. Mayor, I've a question on this item, because time and time
again, you know, Virginia Key holds the only beach that we have in the City of
Miami, and when you drive out there to that beach and you see a string of
portable toilets, to ma it looks deplorable, that type of situation. I'd like
to know at this point in time, what can be done, if anything, about having
sass type of permanent facility with showers and bathrooms and things of that
nature, to provide for our citizens that use that beach?
Mr. Walter Golby: Right now it would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of
$575.000 to hook up a saver pumping station that would facilitate those needs.
We don't have the money.
Mr. De Turre: And that is the only thing that is holding it back?
Mr. Golby: Tom, sir.
Mr. De Turre: OK, and down the road, you have no idea when we could work on
this? It is not on the plans at all, or it is just sitting back and not doing
anything at all just because of the fact that it is going to cost $600,000?
Mr. Odio: No, sir, we have R!P's that have been prepared and this will be
heard by the Commission May 12th and hopefully some developer will bid on it
and that will be part of their investment in the island.
Mr. De Turre: OK, because we are talking about twenty-five thousand this year
and it is going to be another thirty thousand the next year. You know, you
are talking about a heck of a lot of money that could be used differently, if
we, you know, find out exactly what can be done and moved on that.
Mr. Odio: We have plans, they have been... like I said, the Request for
Proposal will be here May 12th and hopefully, we will have... I believe we are
going to have some bidders that will improve the island.
Mr. De Turre: We are just talking about one year, right?
Mr. Odio: This is one year.
Mr. De Turre: OK. I'll move it.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Item 9 has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the
roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Comissioner De Yurre, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 68-319
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF ABLE SANITATION,
INC. FOR FURNISHING PORTABLE TOILETS AND SHOVER FOR
VIRGINIA KEY BEACH FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS,
RECREATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES ON A CONTRACT BASIS
FOR ONE (1) YEAR WITH THE OPTION TO RENEW FOR ONE (1)
ADDITIONAL ONE YEAR PERIOD A TOTAL PROPOSED FIRST COST
OF $25,655.55; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1988
GENERAL FUND ACCOUNT CODE $580303-340; AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER
TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE; AND
FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXTEND FOR ONE
(1) ADDITIONAL ONE TEAR PERIOD UNDER THE SAME PRICES,
TERMS AND CONDITIONS; SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF
FUNDS.
(Here follow 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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7. ACCEPT BIDS: (a) LAWMAN AND SHOOTERS SUPPLY, INC. - FOR FURNISHING 65
POLICE AUTOMOTIVE PARTITIONS; AND (b) PUBLIC SAFETY DEVICES, INC. - FOR
FURNISHING 86 POLICE PATROL LIGHT BARS FOR DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 13.
Mr. Dick Kinne: For the record, my name is Dick Kinne, I am president of the
Fraternal Order of Police, Miami Lodge 20. In item 13, the first part in
regards to the partitions for police officer's vehicles, my concern is that if
we are going to go to the same type of partitions that we have now, that is
going to require certain holes being drilled in the interior of the car to
bolt these partitions in. My concern is that drilling holes in the interior
part of police cars gives you a little liability in regards to carbon monoxide
coming in in that vehicle. I understand there had been a bid received, it is
probably not the lowest bid and that is not why they are looking at it, but I
understand there was bid from partitions that do not require bolting in.
Mayor Suarez: Any response from staff on the concerns?
Mr. Williams: If I may, Mr. Mayor. He is absolutely right. These are the
same partitions that we've used,very successfully, the last couple of years.
We bid these out and this was the lowest, most responsive bid. I would like
to add, Mr. Mayor, that we have gone to a very aggressive carbon monoxide
control program, wherein we monitor both the exterior and the cabin of
vehicles, and basically with a tremendous amount of effort, we've gotten to
the point that we can almost bring a vehicle to zero parts per million within
the cabin of the vehicle, and of course, that is what we are most concerned
about. I would additionally like to add that...
Mayor Suarez: On the issue of the perforation, is there any other system that
could be used here that would not create a... isn't that what you are
concerned about, Dick?
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Mr. Kinne: Anytime that they destroy the interior of the vehicle by putting
holes in it, my mind gives you the potential of having a carbon monoxide '•ak
in it.
Mayor Suarez: I guess it depends what the holes lead to. If it leads to the
outside, it is not... where do these holes lead to?
Mr. Williams: Well, they are punched through the floor in order to anchor in
the cage itself, but Mr. Mayor, it is virtually... well, I won't say
impossible, very difficult to equip a police unit without some drilling. As
you know, we install a tremendous amount of communication equipment, mobile
digital terminals. There is equipment installed all over that equipment. We
think that the cage portion is a very minor portion of that drilling that has
to be done within the police unit.
Mayor Suarez: Do you want to take a little time, not necessarily subject to
our approval of this item, to spend with GSA, looking over what safety
precautions are taken to ask* sure we don't add to the possibility of carbon
monoxide seeping into the cabin of the automobiles on this particular issue?
That's the only thing I can suggest.
Mr. Kinne: In the same token, Mr. Mayor, on the second part of this item, is
the light bars. My understanding is in the bids, there was no specification
for the siren. Now, down stream, in the coming months or years, it is our
objective, and I think it is GSA's objective to some type of consolidation for
all the equipment that Ron has already told you is installed in the vehicles,
and we are trying to consolidate maybe into some kind of console or some kind
of order.
Mayor Suarez: That would make a heck of a lot of sense to do it with some
consolidation instead of piecemeal.
Mr. Kinne:... If in fact we do proceed in that direction, and achieve it, our
concern is that the sirens that are going to come with these light bars are
the same style and size that we already have, so that in the future if we do
get a console, then we are faced with a new siren that is the wrong size, and
won't fit, and we don't end up with a console.
Mayor Suarez: How do we know that won't happen, Ron?
Mr. Williams: Mr. Mayor, the sirens that we are recommending here, are
identical to the ones that you have on the street now, and to my
understanding, you are very pleased with them, and they've given tremendous
success.
Mr. Kinne: Yes, my concern was it wasn't in the bid, and we didn't have it in
writing, and you've made it public now that you are going to do it, so you
have squelched my concern.
Mr. Williams: That I'm going to do what?
Mr. Kinne: That you're going to have the same sirens.
Mayor Suarez: That the sirens are included in the bid. OK, it didn't seem
like it, from just reading of it, so if he is now satisfied, as the fact that
you have stated it publicly, I know you are not going to take it back, once
you have stated it on the record, so...
Mr. Williams: Well, I asked that question, Mr. Mayor, because I wanted to
make sure I understood what he said that I committed to. Clearly, the siren
is part of the light bar that we have in service, and we want to continue that
unit. It has been successful, it has been low maintenance and we have no
intentions whatsoever of disrupting that.
Mr. Kinne: Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: And keep clarifying anything that effects the safety and health
of our police officers. Don't hesitate to come up and clarify anything and
this is what these Commission meetings are for. Thank you, Dick.
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Mr. Williams: Mr. Mayor, if I may, I would invite Mr. Kinne to come and look
at What we doing in terms of that prevention program.
Mayor Suares: I guess he has a permanent invitation to do that, doesn't he?
Mr. Williams: Tea.
Mr. Odiot (OFF MIKE) He is going to do it whether they invite his or not.
Mayor Suarez: Right, he is going to do it whether you invite him or not, but
it is nice that you invite his, you know, I mean, he is the head of the union.
Mrs. Kennedy: He is going to do it anyway.
Mayor Suarez: Right. OK, I entertain a motion on item 13.
Mr. Pluso r: Move it.
Mayor Suares: Moved.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-320
A RESOLUTION ACCEPT:NG THE BIDS OF LAWMAN 6 SHOOTERS
SUPPLY INC. FOR FURNISHING 65 POLICE AUTOMOTIVE
PARTITIONS IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $10,066.55 AND
PUBLIC SAFETY DEVICES INC. FOR FURNISHING 86 POLICE
PATROL LIGHT BARS IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $49,880.00
FOR THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT AT
A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $59,946.55; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-88 OPERATING BUDGET FLEET
MANAGEMENT DIVISION ACCOUNT CODE NO. 420301-850
($57,007.07) AND SENIOR CITIZEN SPECIALIZED POLICING
PROGRAM GRANT PROJECT NO. 110034, ACCOUNT CODE NO.
290907-840 ($2,939.46); AUTHORIZING THH CITY MANAGER
TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE
PURCHASE ORDERS 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.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Cass issioner victor De Turre
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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�. DISCUSSION AND TZ"OR"T DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED MMCVTION OF AGREEMENT
WITH FLORIDA DEPARTMMfT OF TRANSPORTATION - MAINTENANCE OF THE NON-
ROADWAT PORTION OF SW STK STREET 3=41EN 19S AND SW 27TH AVENUE (See
label 97).
Mayor Suarez: Item I?.
Mrs. Kennedy: I pulled 17, because I just want to know where are the black
olive trees going?
Mr. Cather: The black olive trees are going to be disposed of. it would cost
much more money to take them out of the ground and save them, than it would to
buy new ones.
Mrs. Kennedy: Well, let ew ask, we have a lot of neighborhood parks in need
of trees. Can we hook up with the beautification committee in other way so
that these trees can be replanted in our neighborhood parka?
Mr. Cather: My people tell me it would be such more expensive to take the
trees out than to buy new ones.
Mrs. Kennedy: Can you come back this afternoon and tell me how expensive that
would be?
Mr. Cather: Certainly.
Mrs. Kennedy: Thank you, I'd like to defer this to the afternoon, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Item 17 is tabled.
9. DISAPPROVE PROPOSED LEASE AGREEMENT WITH REPUBLIC NATIONAL BANK FOR
LEASE OF SPACE - INSTRUCT ADMINISTRATION TO SEEK BETTER PRICE QUOTATION.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 19.
Mr. Dawkins: Item 19.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioners Dawkins and Plummer.
Mrs. Kennedy: And Kennedy also.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, Item 19, I've got a lot of problems with 19. First problem I
Sot with it is, how you can tell w that $12 per square foot is reasonable,
when you have in it, the $12 par rental square foot to be adjusted annually by
rent escalation, all right? Then you go over here on page 7 and tell w that
the rent will be tied into the cost of living index. Now, somebody over there
explain to mw how, if I have a mortgage on a building, and I am leasing space
from you, how my mortgage is going to be tied into the cost of living index,
so that you moat adjust your rent each year by the cost of living index.
Explain that to me.
Mr. Carlos Smith: Commissioner, Carlos Smith, technical services
administrator. Most of the leases that we have, I understand have that clause
In them, reflecting cost of living increases, reflecting operational expenses
Increases, and t"t is the way most of the leases are.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, I mean, I don't care what they have, explain to r why we
accept it. I don't care what they got in it. I can put anything in a lease I
want in it. It is up to you to negotiate out of it those things that are
profitable, or to our advantage.
Mayor Suarez: Now, when you answer that, in connection with the escalation
clauses, also answer for me, what is the term of the lease, and are there any
options to renew and so on.
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Mr. Dawkins: I got that, Mr. Mayor. They got a ten year lease with this
escalation clause, and ten more optional years, which means you are tying 1-1p
this property for 20 years.
Mr. Al Armed&: No, Commissioner, I beg your pardon, it is only three years
yes, the initial lease is three years. Yes, the initial lease is three years.
Mr. Dawkins: All right... no, no, not No way.
Mayor Suarez: We can't get into any long term leases with all these...
Mr. Dawkins: Bear with me, bear with met
Mrs. Kennedy: Cosssissioner Dawkins, while you look that up, let mt tell you,
if you want to table this to the afternoon, I can guarantee...
Mr. Dawkins: No, Ma'am, I am getting ready to table this until the next
met IngI
Mr. Plussbar: The problem I have is it is...
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, because 1 can guarantee that ve can come up with other
buildings at a much more reasonable price.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you, I agree with you, Commissioner. I agree totally.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you know, my concern and reason for pulling this, I don't
know why the hell we need it in the first place.
Mrs. Kennedy: Right.
Mr. Plummer: Second of all, to me the problem more so is that we have got one
more fragmented department out and away from... you know, a unified situation.
Nov, you know, there has been some flack before about Dupont Plaza, but we now
have about one or two floors down there... you know, people in this City
complain, and rightfully so, which building do we go to, where is it, and how
do ve get there. This is, you know, now we have one on Aviation, we are now
going to have one on Coral Way. We have got one on 32nd and Coral Way, we've
got buildings downtown. I just...
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: You've got the pension offices.
Mr. Odio: (OFF MICROPHONE) It is not ours.
Mr. Plummer: Well, it is our, OK? It is still part of the City of Miami.
Mr. Odio: (OFF MIK=) _
Mr. Plummer: All right, hey...
Mrs. Kennedy: Can you answer that very basic question, why are we moving the
people?
Mr. Odio: The reason why we have to move Internal Audit and Budget and the
Industrial snginearing office out of the Ousman hall Olympia Building is
because of the renovation program that you authorized and to start doing in
that building. We have to move out of that building. The reason that we are
only going for three years is that hopefully the new administration building
will be in process by that time, and we can move all the City offices into one
building, but the reason that we have to look for office space is because we
do have to move out of the Olympia Building.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, on page 10, item 15, parking. "The city will be provided
with 16 parking spaces and then there will be twelve other spaces at the
prevailing monthly contract parking rate of 440 a month. Such rate is subject
to change at any time on 30 day notice," which scans anytime in three years,
they give you a 30 day notice, and the $40 can go to anything, but even at the
present rate of $40 per month, for 12 spaces, that comes to $5,760. Add
$5,760 to $62,976, and you no longer got a space for $62,000, you got close to
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$70,000. Mr. Mayor, I move that this be stricken, and that this be put out
for bid and see if you can't come in with a better price than this.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suares: So moved and seconded. Staff want to say anything also? Mr.
Manager? Any discussion from the Comwission? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-321
A MOTION DISAPPROVING PROPOSED EXECUTION OF LEASE
AGRZEMZiT WITH REPUBLIC NATIONAL BANK OF MIAMI TO
LEASE SPACE AT 2103 CORAL VAT; FURTHER INSTRUCTING THE
CITY ADMINISTRATION TO PUT SAID CONTRACT OUT FOR BID
IN ORDER TO SEEK A BETTER QUOTATION ON THE SQUARE FOOT
PRICE.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion 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.
ASSENT: None.
10. AGREEMENT WITH METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TO ENGAGE CITY OF MIAMI FIRE
DEPARTMENT TO RENDER SERVICES AT PORT OF MIAMI.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 23. Madam City Attorney.
Mrs. Dougherty: Too, sir, Mr. Mayor and Commissioners. I don't know if you
recall, but earlier we had an agreement with Dade County wherein we would do
the fire rescue service, or the fire service out of the port. We had an
Indemnity in there that Dade County would indemnify the City. The Legal
Department of Dade County did not agree with that and said that we had to have
a cross -indemnity, that is, we indemnify them, and they indemnify us. The
truth of the matter is, we are only ones doing the work out there, so I am
recomonding that unless they agree to at least indemnify us for our worker's
comp. liability, that we think again about this contract.
Mr. Plummer: I don't think we ought to think again. I think we ought to just
tell them that if they don't provide it, buy their own $3,000,000 worth of
equipment, provide their own service.
Mrs. Dougherty: Then, with your recommendation, I'll go back to the County
and suggest that they... unless they do that then we don't have a deal.
Mr. Plummer: I so move that we instruct the City Attorney... you know, they
have had a free ride for a long time. They were paying us like $18,000 a year.
Finally, I screamed loud and long enough, where they are now paying us I think
$22,000 a month, plus for any extra, such as a fire, but that is on a standby
basis. The County wants it all their way. They can't have it that way. Now,
they have either got to indemnify this City against these things, or hey, tell
them to get their own.
Mrs. Doughertys I'■ suggesting an indemnity for the worker's comp. liability,
because that is the only real exposure that we have.
Mr. Plummer: I so move that the City Attorney be instructed to not ask, but
tell them it is either that, or nothing.
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Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded.
on a typical fiscal year, from...
Mr. Plummer: Originally?
Any discussion? Nov such were we making
Mayor Suarez: No, recently now. How much...
Chief Floyd Jordon: I can respond to that. Floyd Jordon, Deputy Fire Chief.
The last contract provided us with $15,000 per month. This negotiated
contract, there was a 33 percent increase to $20,000 per month. In addition
to that, any...
Mayor Suarez: You are talking about $240,000 a year.
Chief Jordon: A year. In addition to that, if there is an emergency over
there, the fee schedule goes in effect, which would pay us $1,200 per hour for
a pumper, $900 for an engine, and $600 per hour for the use of a rescue unit.
Mayor Suarez: For a particular incident.
Chief Jordon: Tee, but the basic service would be $20,000 per month.
Mayor Suarez: And what would your estimate be of what that might be in any
one year? Of course, I guess if we have to use the equipment...
Chief Jordon: A minimum of $240,000 per year. We've had some major
emergencies over there, which has totaled up to approximately $90,000 plus
that.
Mayor Suarez: So you are talking about $350,000 a year. I mean, I will vote
with the motion, because you are asking for it to come back, in putting some
tough negotiating indications into this, but I mean, I hope that we don't give
up totally on the...
Mr. Plummer: Well, it is not a matter of that, Mr. Mayor, it is the idea one
claim could wipe out all that you've made in the run of the year.
Mr. Dawkins: And we must make up our minds, either we are going to let the
County have everything it wants, or you are going to demand what the City is
entitled to.
Mayor Suarez: You won't get much argument from me on that, but I just want
to...
Mr. Dawkins: They are already saying you are beating up on them.
Mayor Suarez: That's right. I'll be a nice guy today with the County. I
mean I am just worried about losing the $350,000.
Mr. Dawkins: You are not going to lose it. You can't lose it, Mr. Mayor,
because you a member of the Fire Department? Anybody else here
from the Fire Department? OK, what would the equipment that we are using cost
to be replaced, Chief, off the top of your head? ... that they would have to
purchase additional...
Chief Jordon: Well, it would cost Dade County in excess of $1,000,000 to
operate a fire facility on Dodge Island.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, and they would have to staff it.
Chief Jordon: It is not cost effective for them to do that. There is only
approximately 110,000 responses a year over there. I'm sorry, 110.
Mr. Dawkins: Sea, anytime I think of the Cou:iy zapping me with the dumping
fee for the trash, I think that I don't owe them any favors. Now, if they
want to go back, Mr. Mayor, and renegotiate and say: "You know that is a
sister city and we should not zap it to them for dumping their garbage, which
we also tax their citizens for our Sanitation Department, then I am for giving
them a break, but until they do that, me, Miller Dawkins, I am not in favor of
letting them off the hook.
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Mayor Suarez: Do you think this is going to help you in the negotiating
Ci: , A:.:orney, or are you negotiating now?
Mr. Plummer: Will this help you in negotiating posture?
Mrs. Dougherty: I don't know.
Mr. Plummer: Too.
Mrs. Dougherty: Too.
Mayor Suarez: All right, based on your indication, I will vote for it. Any
further discussion from the Commission? Call the roll.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS FROM THE CITY
COMMISSION, THE CITY ATTORNEY WENT BACK TO METRO -DADS COUNTY AND
FINALLY OBTAINED THEIR CONSENT TO THE REQUIREMENTS HEREINABOVE
EXPRESSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION. (SEE R 322, p.2, 7th line)
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. e8-322
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH METROPOLITAN
DADE COUNTY FOR ENGAGEMENT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO
PROVIDE FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES IN
CONNECTION WITH THE OPERATION OF THE PORT OF MIAMI, IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN
THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT WITH THE ADDITIONAL CONDITION
OF A WORKER'S COMPENSATION INDEMNITY CLAUSE; FURTHER
PROVIDING THAT THIS AGREEMENT SHALL SUPERSEDE PRIOR
INTERIM AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE PARTIES AS AMENDED; AND
DELEGATING TO THE CITY MANAGER THE ABILITY TO MODIFY
THE FEE SCHEDULE BEING CHARGED FOR SUCH SERVICES, IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN
THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clark.)
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.
11. AGREEMENT WITH CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER TO ADMINISTER FIRE FIGHTERS ANNUAL
PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS FOR A ONE-YEAR PERIOD.
Mayor Suarez: Itsm 24. Gloria.
Me. Gloria Rocio: OK, my nams is Gloria Rocio, 3007 NW 7th Street. This is
just for the record. Lt. Willy cams over to our office. I don't know,
because we never wrote a letter to be part of this, but he came over and he
said, he would please... Dr. Rocelo will please give him some prices on some
madical tests, than we sat down with him, because I am the manager and have
been working with him for about 13 years, so I know, and you all have the
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letter to my response to Lt. Willy. First of all, when he went to my office,
they already have engaged with Cedars of Lebanon, the bids, so what is he
.um:..a tv .w :..., - . said Lv him. You know, I said, I am...
Mayor Suarez: Mall let's clarify that. Up to now, has there been any
agreement entered with Cedars of Lebanon on this service contract? Otherwise,
we are not doing it.
Chief Floyd Jordan: Chief Jordan again. The previous contract was with
Cedars. The contract expired November of 1987. We went out to bid again,
because of a problem where Mt. Sinai Hospital on Miami Reach, we rejected that
bid, and this time, we pursued professional negotiations. We contacted
Cedars, we contacted Occupational Health Services and we contacted Dr. Roselo
office. We requested a bid, or we requested a cost for doing the medical
physicals and they sent us a letter, they refused to do that. You've read the
letter.
Mayor Suarez: Did you get bids from the other two?
Chief Jordon: Tee, we did. The low bid was Cedars at $93,000, and
Occupational Health submitted a bill of $94,000. I'd just like to add that we
have to comply with labor contract, which requires that we provide medical
physicals. Cedars is centrally located, they have had good past performance
and they meet our medical specifications and they have the lowest unit price.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, didn't we, a few months ago, pass on a package for
physical exams or what was that?
Mayor Suarez: For the whole City? For our Citywide...
Mr. Odio: This is not..... they had nothing to do with the Fire Department.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, are they the same physical exams, or are they built
differently, or what?
Mr. Odio: No, they are not.
Mayor Suarez: Why wouldn't they be included in the Citywide program?
Chief Jordan: We provide medicals because of the labor contract negotiated
with local...
Mayor Suarez: You don't provide it. You are asking the City to pay $93,000
to a hospital to provide it.
Ms. Rene Jones: Rene Jones, assistant to the Director of Personnel
Management. The annual physicals that are conducted by Police and Fire are
more comprehensive than the pre -employment physicals that we do for...
Mayor Suarez: Who does police?
Ms. Jones: Police, that is done by Cedars also.
Mayor Suarez: In a separate contract?
Me. Jones: Teo.
Mayor Suarez: Wouldn't it muka more sense to have these under one contract?
Mr. Dawkins: I would agree.
Mr. De Turret Wall, what is the difference between the physical?
Ms. Jones: The physicals given to police and fire as a part of the annual
physicals is more comprehensive. It includes the strasa exam.
Mr. Plummer: Victor, it is because of the hypertension law, State of Florida
hypertension law.
Mr. De Turre: Well, my question the next question is, can't that be provided
by this other contract that we have for Citywide physicals.
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Mr. Pluener: Well, it is being done by the same outfit, so obviously it can
be.
Mayor Suarez: Well, the Citywide one has been determined, has it?
Mr. Plun•ser: Who is doing Citywide?
Me. Rocio: There is put in a way on the contract, that nobody could do it but
a hospital.
Mayor Suarez: Why?
Ms. Rocio: Because, first of all, they have... let me tell you something, and
I know a little bit about this.
Mayor Suarez: Tell us why.
Me. Rocio: They have three different stress tests now. If they do have an
EKG done to a patient, that EKG comes out negative, you go ahead, and you
could do the $120 stress test, they have another one for $600 and they have
another one for $900. If it comes out negative, you don't have a need to do
the $600, or the $900, and if it comes out...
Mayor Suarez: How does that favor a hospital as opposed to a private office
of a doctor?
Ms. Rocio: Because the $600 or the $900, a regular office, they don't have
the equipment, but I don't think they need it either.
Mayor Suarez: Do you have the equipment for EKG's in...
Mr. Rocio: Yen, and we have the regular stress test, but not the other two.
The way they put it is...
Mayor Suarez: You would like it to be divided in some ways so you could bid
on only the portion of it that you have equipment to provide?
Ms. Rocio: Mayor, at this point, I am not coming here to ask, you know, to
give... 1 am just telling you the money that is wasted, because to me this is
wasted money, definitely, because if it comes out negative, why do you do the
$600 and the $900? And if it should come out positive, then that patient
should go in the hospital.
Mayor Suarez: OK, Chief, do you want to answer that? We are getting to a
pretty technical area here, but...
Chief Jordan: If you look at the bid specifications, the regular stress test,
we do a minimum of 228, because everyone who is 40 years old and over, they do
a stress test, and that charge is $120. You only do the other test if it
necessary, if something is discovered.
Mayor Suarez: But you are saying the average is 228, because in some cases
the other two tests will be $120.
Chief: $120. No, 220 individuals who will take that test.
Mayor Suarez: Right. Oh, 228 individuals.
Mr. Jordan: But it is also important, the location because when firefighters
go to take their examination, they're on duty and it's important that they are
subject to call or whatever. And, also, the firefighters themselves, the
physical fitness committee, they go out and they actually look at the facility
because we don't want to give a test or medical exam that's less than what
we've been doing in the past. It's very important.
Mr. Plussser: Let r ask this question, did you inquire - was this done by
your seeking them out or was this on a bidding procedure open to the public?
Mr. Jordan: We seek them out. The first time we requested bids, the low bid
was Mt. Sinai Hospital but it would create a problem taking our units over to
Mt. Sinai, plus the bid...
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Mr. Plusimr: You're saying than, that in effect, that all of the local
hospital• turned it down except Mt. Sinai?
Mr. Jordan: No, we got two bids.
Mr. Plummer: Are you telling mf that Mercy Hospital did not bid?
Mr. Jordan: They bid the first time but they're charge were way excessive.
Mr. Plummer: But they did bid.
Mr. Jordan: Teo, the first time.
Mr. Plummer: Did Jackson bid?
Mr. Jordan: No, they did not.
Mr. Plusim r: But they had the opportunity?
Mr. Jordan: Yes, they did.
Mr. De Turre: Vhat I'd like to do, Mr. Mayor, I'd like to see a comparison of
this cost compared to the other physical exams. Apples to apples, you know,
without getting into the bigger ticket items. And I'd like to see if this can
be done by the company that we already have. You know, I hate to see, you
know, this... we keep dividing and dividing and we don't even know who does
what any more and in the sense that you got contracts all over town. I'd like
to get a report from the Manager stating if this can be done by the company
that's already doing our physicals and how much they can do and if it's less
or more and so we can make a more intelligent decision that just...
Mayor Suarez: Who is doing our other physicals, Family Health Center? And
are they... what kind of a contract are they on, do I remember correctly it's
a temporary contract.
Ms. Jones: Right, that contract expires on July 31st and we will be, at that
time, going through competitive negotiations for physicals.
Mayor Suarez: And is it your opinion at this point, and I'm asking a tough
question here, that it makes sense to continue to separate fire and police for
individual dealing as to those two departments as far as the medical testing?
Mr. Plummer: Vell, you've got to separate them, Mr. Mayor, because of your
pension laws in the State of Florida. Police and fire come under a special
bill known as the Hypertension Bill. That...
Mayor Suarez: If you want to litigate that in court, you can argue that side
and I'll argue the other side. I'm asking a technical question. I'■ sure
that legally it could be resolved, but how do you feel, you're our expert
involved in this. Do you think they should be separated? I don't mean one
from the other, I mean the two of them from the rest of the City.
Ms. Jones: Vell, if we do them, then we would have to specify that only
certain portions of the physical would apply to police and fire officers,
because as I msationed...
Mayor suares: Oh, yes, obviously, they have to have such more extensive
testing from what you're saying.
No. Jones: So, it's something that we will really have to research.
Mr. De Turre: Vell, that's good. That's what I want, research.
Mayor Suarez: That's where he's headed.
Ms. Rocio: Excuse me, when Lt. Villie was in the office and inspected
everything and he says, I want you to really give me an answer. I says,
Lieutenant, I cannot give you an answer, I'll give it to you tomorrow. At
that moment, I called Cedar's and I'm going to tell you how I did it. I make
believe I was a doctor, OK?, and I said I needed a job. And I told them that
I knew that they had the City of Miami Police Department and they told me,
yes, we do. I told you the truth.
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Mayor Suarez: I'm not sure what all that means.
Me. Rocio: Nov. if they •ant to say they didn't, that they were waiting for
us or for somebody else to give a quotation or whatever, that's what they told
me.
Mr. Odlo: I think she's perfectly 100 percent correct. We do have the Police
Department with Cedars. This is the Fire Department and...
Mayor Suarez: We're dealing here with the Fire Department.
Me. Rocio: So why do they come to us, then?
Mr. Odio: Because the Fire Department is different from the Police
Department.
Me. Rocio: No, no this is the Fire Department what I'm talking about.
Mr. Odio: The Fire Department...
Mayor Suarez: You said the Police Department, that's why.
Me. Rocio: No, no, no, this is the Fire Department.
Mr. Odio: The Fire Department contract was with Cedars.
Me. Rocio: I'm talking about Lt. Willie of the Fire Department.
Mayor Suarez: Well, they may...
Mr. Odio: The Fire Department contract was with Cedars. It has now expired
and we are negotiating with them again and with all the other parties.
Ms. Rocio: Well they told me that they had it.
Mr. Odio: They did, they had it.
Ms. Rocio: That they have it, that...
Mr. Odio: That is 100 percent correct, they had it.
Mayor Suarez: It's probably hopeful thinking on their part that they would
continue having it, I guess. In any event, the final question, I guess,
before we really ought to move on, unless Commissioner De Turre has some other
questions. What about, at least, Mr. Manager, joining the fire and the
police, I mean that sort of comes flying right out at you that maybe we should
be doing those two together in one bid package and since you haven't answered
the technical question, I suppose that Commissioner's going to want to hear
back on the recosseendation as to the whole package being one. Presumably,
there are some economies that scale even if they're slightly different or more
intense, more rigorous exams for the other two departments. I would be
disposed for myself, I don't know about the rest of the Commission, to vote on
this one. I'm not sure what we should have three years. Why couldn't we have
a one year contract here? I "an, it's more work for us to have to...
Mr. Jordan: Y011, it saves us time and effort and once you get a contract at
a certain price, it's cheaper in the long run to do it that way.
Mayor Suarez: But, was it specified, did it have to be three years in the bid
package, I mean they sticking to this price even if it's only one year?
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): I think it's...
Mr. Jordan: Well, through competitive negotiations this favors us. We wanted
a longer contract.
Mayor Suarez: But, I mean, if we told you now to go ahead and sign them up
for a year, is that going to increase the cost necessarily?
Mr. Jordan: It may.
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Mayor Suares: We to on two year cycles just as to who site in this particular
chair. You understand why we're a little concerned about three year cycles
for agreements, you know.
Mr. Jordan: Oh, I understand, I understand.
Mr. Odio: I need to look into this, Mr. Mayor, because I believe if the
police contract was given out, that's for three years, it will be another two
and a half years before you can hatch them.
Mayor Suarez: I'd be disposed to vote for this right off the bat for one
year. I don't know what the rest of the Commission - it's up to the rest of
the Commission. While we check out why we can't do it on a Citywide basis or
some other system...
Mr. Odio: The advantage of a three year contract is it guarantees you the
price for three years...
Mayor Suarez: I know the advantages...
Mr. Odio: ... where if you go for a year contract, it will go up every year.
Mayor Suarez: ... of a three years contract, we've heard that already. How
does the Commission feel, what do you want to do?
Mr. Dawkins: I'm inclined to vote with the Mayor simply because as he said,
we're looking at trying to combine it and if it will cost more for the first
year to tell that we will save money the next two years, then we have to pay
that cost for the first year to determine that we save money the second two
years.
Mayor Suarez: And it might not even cost us more the first year. And in an
effort to try to get moving here and get things done, it's...
Mr. De Turre: If that's the motion that's going to come up, I'm going to have
to vote no and I'm going to vote no because I feel that, you know, things keep
going and going on and if a change needs to be made, we got to do it now, not
wait for a year or so and certainly I feel that we need to know exactly what
we're dealing with, whether it can be done or it can't be done and if it can
be done, you know why don't we put the whole package out for bids when the
other bids are going to go out in the summer time. So, you know, I'd just
like to deal with it as soon as possible and another year, maybe two years,
and who knows, so I would vote no on that motion.
Mayor Suarez: You, I'll move the acceptance of the agreement but the only
term change would be that it's a one year term.
Mrs. Kennedy: There's a motion at the floor, is there a second?
Mr. Dawkins: I second.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, any further discussion? Call the roll.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, excuse me. Chief, do we have a present contract
running right now?
Mr. Jordan: No, we do not, it expired in November.
Mr. Plummer: Are they on the old contract until the new one is...
Mr. Jordan: No, we're not.
Mr. Plummer: ... there is no contract at all now?
Mr. Jordan: That is correct.
Mr. Plummer: OK, thank you.
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The following resolution was introduced by Mayor Suarez, who moved its
Adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-323
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITT Of MIAMI AND CEDARS MEDICAL
CENTER FOR THE ADMINISTRATION Of FIRE FIGHTER'S ANNUAL
PMTSICAL EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE
AND INSPECTION SERVICES FOR A PERIOD OF ONE (1) CALENDAR
TZAR; SUBSTANTIALLT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND
CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THE AGREEMENT; WITH AN APPROXIMATE
COST OF $93,705.00 WITH FUNDS TO BE PROVIDED FOR IN THE
FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES DEPARTMENT'S GENERAL
OPEMTING BUDGET.
(Mere follow 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:
ATZS: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
ABSENT: None.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: I'm going to vote yes because we've got to have some kind of
service available. I like Commissioner De Yurre's idea of trying to make a
change and I think he's made a very, very good point but we've got to have
some kind of a contract for ongoing.
Mrs. Kennedy: For those reasons, I vote yes also.
12. AUTHORIZE RFP FOR UDP - DEVELOPMENT OF OFFICE AND/OR HOTEL WITHIN THE
CIVIC CENTER AREA AT 1145 N.W. 11TH STREET.
Mayor Suarez: Item 28.
Mr. Dawkins: Under 28...
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager.
Mr. Odio: Yes, air.
Mr. Dawkins: Did we get an appraisal of this land or is it necessary to have
this land appraised prior to putting out a UDP so that we'll know what we're
going to take for this land and what we're not going to take for this land or
what is - go right ahead Mr. Gilchrist.
Mr. John Gilchrist: Commissioner Dawkins, let me answer you. We had earlier
appraisal done in 1964. We've now started the process to get two new
appralaerm on board. But what we appraise is the RFPa so we appraise the
value of the proposed development on the site, not just at the highest and
best use.
Mr. Plusser: May I inquire? I don't know where this concept comes from, it
was my understanding the direction of the Commission was, was to sell this
property.
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Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): No, no way.
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): Excuse me, one second.
Mr. Plumor: No?
Mr. Dawkins: The idea was to lease it so the... you see, what we're trying to
say is, if we sell it, the idea was to obtain some revenue for the City...
Mr. Plummer: Teo, of course.
Mr. Dawkins: ... so if you sell it, you get a one time amount of money, but
If we retain ownership and lease it, we got money from now on. I think that's
the general consensus here, I think.
Mr. Do Turre: Well, I think we got to understand what our...
Mr. Plummer: What was the...
Mr. De Turre: ... long terms plans are, if we're going to be building an
administration building and I thought that it was discussed that we would take
that money and start, you know, setting it aside for the administration
building.
Mr. Odio: We would set the revenues would produce enough revenues out of this
property that we could build the administration building with revenue bonds
out of... precisely the idea.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): I still remember, I hear what he's saying....
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Yes, I know but...
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): ... but I still remember that it was to be sold.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): I thought so too.
Mayor Suarez: You know, Mr. Manager, I am disposed to go ahead and air all of
our concerns and thoughts and ideas as to this land. I know that you have a
concern because of if we offer it for sale, the county will have, I guess,
right of first refusal.
Mr. Plummer: Why?
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): That's the charter.
Mayor Suarez: Under the...
Mr. Dawkins: home rule charter.
Mr. Gilchrist (OFF MIKE): The charter requires a new...
Mr. Odio: Home rule charter gives them the right.
Mr. Pluso r: go, they get the first right of refusal, make...
Mr. Odio: No, sir, they'll take the property and they will build there
whatever they want.
Mayor Suarez: Well, they pay us according to what rule, then?
Mr. De Turre: They got to pay the price.
Mr. Plummer: What was the '84 appraisal?
Mr. Gilchrist: There were two appraisals, one was 9.5 and one was 11 million.
Mr. Plummer: And so today I have heard...
Mr. Gilchrist: May get 14 tops.
Mr. Plummer: How much?
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Mr. Gilchrist: I think 14 Mould be tops you got.
Mayor Suarez (OTT MIKE): Oh, I see, I see the other matter, !`-!'z_e!_.
Mr. Plusser: Well, I heard 16. I'm not going to argue, what the hell is a
couple of million dollars, you know. The question is, if this City were to
get the - let's say 15 million for round figures, OK? Fifteen million dollars
a year for round figures moans that we have got to get a 10 percent return on
our investment or we've not made a good investment. So that means you've got
to bring in revenue...
Mayor Suarez: One and a half million bucks a years.
Mr. Plummer: ... one and a half million dollars a year. And I don't know
what you're going to put over there in the municipal kind of an operation
that's going to bring in that kind of revenue.
Mr. Dawkins: Put an Extra Store, we don't have an Extra Store in there.
That'll generate all the revenue you need.
Mr. Plummer: Extra...
Mr. Dawkins: Teo, an Extra, one of those food store, big Extra stores.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, oh, oh, oh. Well...
Mayor Suarez: Well, the other concern is, in addition to the return as
opposed to just selling it outright, which is something that a lot of us here
have been saying maybe we ought to be doing with some of our property, the
other concern is, and cuts the other May, is what, if the county puts the kind
of facility there that we don't want them to put there, can we keep them from
putting... Madam City Attorney, what is the latest of status on the issue of
what legal rights have we to preclude certain uses of, for example, this land
and I don't know that I have to state on the record what uses I'm concerned
about but this Commission has gone on record as to certainly as to jail
facilities.
Mrs. Dougherty: You mean, if you just sold it yourself?
Mayor Suarez: If.... to the county, right.
Mrs. Dougherty: If you just sold it outright as opposed to leasing it?
Mayor Suarez: Well, we sell it, it still has the same zoning restrictions on
It obviously. That doesn't change with our sale.
Mrs. Dougherty: Yes, it does.
Mayor Suarez: Now?
Mrs. Dougherty: I swan, you're absolutely right. You have an obligation to
zone it what it ought to be toned, taking into consideration all of the
characteristics and compatibility of the surrounding land uses. But, even if
you did well it, then they would come and apply for a special exception for a
jail facility; assuming that it did have the correct kind of commercial use.
Once they...
Mayor Suarez: And there we would apply what criteria in deciding whether we
want it to be done?
Mrs. Dougherty: Compatibility.
Mayor Suarez: Compatibility.
Mrs. Dougherty: Then, they have a right to go to court and the court is not
the same standard that any other applicant would have in trying to test
whether or not the...
Mayor Suarez: The county has a more favorable...
Mrs. Dougherty: Teo, their's is a balancing of interest test. Does the
interest that the City has in enforcing its zoning laws and compatibility, how
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does that balance compared to the county's interest in having a jail facility?
That's the procedure.
Mr. Plusser: Well, one of the other things that I was interested in which
won't happen if the county buys it, is that is to put it back on the tax
rolls.
Mr. Herb Bailey: Absolutely, that's one of the major...
Mr. Odio: It will be taken off the tax rolls, air.
Mr. Plueser: Wall, it's off the tax rolls now.
Mr. Bailey: Teo.
Mr. Pluaser: But one of the areas that I was looking into was not only
getting the lump sus for the City, but also back on the tax rolls which, if
the county has a priority to buy, would not occur.
Mrs. Kennedy: Right.
Mr. Bailey: Cossissioner, may I say something? One of the reasons we decided
to take this route, it alleviates all of the problems we've just talked about.
If we lease the land, we go out with a VDP and become a partnership, we don't
have to go through the problem of the county's prerogatives and having first
right of refusal. Not only that, we still own the land, we get a suitable
lease which we could use that revenue to bond out if we need to and the
improvements on the land will be taxable. If it goes the other...
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): You see, I've got a problem. I'm certain we
instructed them to put it up for sale.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): I am sure too...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, on that issue, could we not specify that we're putting it
for sale to entities that will pay taxes.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): And then they do what they want, that's what bothers
m!.
Mr. Bailey: No, no.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, wait, wait, don't everybody be lawyers here. Madam
City Attorney, could we not specify we want to sell this land to someone that
is taxable, to a taxable entity?
Mrs. Dougherty: Mr. Mayor, my recollection is, that this requirement...
Mayor Suarez: Like a funeral home.
Mrs. Dougherty: ... this requirement to sell to the county or to offer to the
county is only a City Code provision.
Mayor Suarez: It's a City Code provision.
Mrs. Dougherty: And, therefore, we can amend it. That's my recollection, I'm
just looking now. So if you don't want to Sall it...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, that changes everything if it's not a home rule charter
provision of the county that might take precedence or not depending on...
Mr. Plummer: Madam Clark, I would like a copy of the minutes when this
Comslesion set its policy in direction to this parcel of land. I think it was
coupled with also the Watson Building. Because I distinctly remember the
Instructions of this Cosmlesion was to proceed to sell.
Mr. Bailey: Commissioner, you're correct.
Mrs. Kennedy: I remember too, yes.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you see now, OK...
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Mr. Bailey: You're correct, we...
:i.. ... now let me tell you something. Herb, here's my problem.
This Commission made its policy yet you decided, you, the department, somebody
decided that that was not going to be the policy.
Mr. Bailey: No, we didn't decide, Commissioner. We, after researching what
the problems associated with that sale would be, came back before this
Commission and that's why we're here today to have this discussion.
Mr. Plummer: You brought this proposal back before this Commission?
Mr. Bailey: Wall today, is why it's here.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, no. That's not what this Commission instructed you
to do.
Mr. Odic (OFF MIKE): Well, you can turn it down...
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, no, no. I have a problem with the administration
doing other than what this CommLesion sots a policy. We set a policy and I'll
stand corrected if I'm wrong but as I remember it, it was clear, it was
concise, sell that property.
Mr. Odic: That is correct.
Mr. Plummer: Nothing ever about this proposal.
Mr. Odic: Fine, you can turn this down and we'll go and sell the building
tomorrow morning, start selling the...
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager, sir...
Mr. Odic: We just want to know if you would accept this alternative.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager...
Mr. Odic: If you don't accept this, we'll go ahead and sell the building as
you ordered us to do.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Sell it, sell it.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager, I am not arguing in this particular instance. I am
arguing the point that we, the Commission, set a policy. Before you ever did
any homework on this proposal, it would seem reasonable to me that you would
have come back to this Commission and may, hey, I think we have a better idea,
will you give us the flexibility to pursue another avenue?
Mr. Odic: Commissioner, you made your point, the next time we'll do it that
way.
Mr. Bailey: That's correct.
Mr. Plummer: That's the point I'm trying to make.
Mr. Bailey: Tou're correct.
Mr. Plummer: Now, I have now, and I agree with you, that I have somis concerns
if they're going to build a damn jail there. That's - OK?
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Mr. Plummer: OK. Now, I've got a problem there. Not only the problem that I
have that they're going to build a jail but I got the problem that it's not
going to be put back on the tax rolls. Now, I think, and have thought for
sometime, that a private developer would come in there and put in a shopping
center. It's needed, it's needed in that area badly. Another hotel, let me
tell you I u told that the Holiday Inn across the street from this property
is the only hotel in the City of Miami or Dade County that is running 105
percent occupancy because of the hospitals. Now, if in fact, what we're going
to do through this situation here is to assure, not necessarily in tax
revenue, but in revenue, that this City can get back its million and a half
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dollars a year investment or its revenue source, no jail will be built there,
then I like this idea, OK? Like this idea and we still own the property, of
.v4tse. All eight? So...
Mr. Odio: We're saying here we're going out for an RFP to develop a hotel
and/or office and both and retail space.
Mr. John Gilchrist: It's required retail on the ground level, air, I wanted
you to understand that.
Mr. Plummer: You make good sense, you only say...
Mr. Gilchrist: I went to the community meetings and I heard their interests,
you know, and this...
Mr. Plummer: Teo or no?
Mayor Suaraz: And we have been known to take, now arguing on the side of
that, to take something that produces, let's may one and a half million
dollars a year in streams of revenues, and bond it out and get the 50 million
dollars any how if we wanted it to have it up front so that we could use it
for what ever purpose. So, I suppose, there's some value in that,
Commissioner Do Turre, because of the possibility of the jail facility and the
opposition of this Commission and certainly the community to another jail
facility in that area.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, where are we at with - was he checking the code?
Mrs. Dougherty: I've chocked the code and there is nothing in the charter.
Mr. Clark now is checking the Dade County charter and the State laws, but
there's nothing in our charter that would require it, it's only our City Code.
Mayor Suarez: Teo, I had always thought that it was, if anything, it was a
county charter or a state provision.
Mrs. Dougherty: Well, he's checking that right now.
Mayor Suarez: Or a state provision that gave them some kind of a right - yes,
that's what you had told us.
Mr. Do Turre: Mr. Mayor, do you want to hold off on this or...
Mrs. Dougherty: It was in our own...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, let's table the item if we may on that technical question
and at least we're airing our views as to what we want to do with that
property so we'll give you clear instructions. I think we've been a little
conf... you know, giving you confusing instructions myself and I think it just
as well that we decide and I think all of the issues had to be aired. I mean,
we'd like to do some of these things without necessarily the county knowing
exactly what we're up to but... always not going to work any how. OK, the
next item is...
Mr. Donald Benjamin: Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Don.
Mr. Benjamin: Twenty-eight.
Mayor Suarez: Twenty-eight, yes.
Mr. Benjamin: Tom, I have...
Mayor Suarez: We've not sufficiently discussed the issue for your...
Mr. Benjamin: No.
Mayor Suarez: I mean, you got some other ideas?
Mr. Benjamin: Well, there are two points I want... I'm speaking, first of
all, as chairman of the Planning Advisory Board because this matter did come
to the Planning Board...
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Mayor Suares: OK, did you guys ask* a recommendation on it, Don?
Mr. Benj min: To deny. The recommendation... it came to the Planning Board
for us to determine a change in land use from government institutional to some
other to facilitate the transaction as proposed by the Commission in terms of
selling the property.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, prior to selling or disposing or leasing or whatever...
Mr. Benjamin: Right.
Mayor Suarez: ... that we would change the...
Mr. Benj min: The land use.
Mayor Suarez: The toning for.
Mr. Benj min: This is how it came to the Planning Board and we turned that
down.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKZ): It would have to be, 1 think its under a government
toned...
Mr. Benjamin: What?
Mr. Plummer: Isn't it a government zoning now?
Mayor Suarez: Why isn't that a good idea?
Mr. Benjamin: I am only reporting.
Mayor Suarez: Why isn't that a good idea if that's what the Planning Board
recommends?
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Mayor Suarez: Would it help to change prior to disposition of the property or
lease?
Mr. Gilchrist: It is currently zoned governmental use...
Mayor Suarez: Governmental, right.
Mr. Gilchrist: ... which allows jail and many other things. We believe,
however, under that and Joe !McManus may want to expand on that from the
Planning Department that the City Commission, under exception, can do anything
that they declare to be in public purpose under that zoning in the zoning law.
So, in order to lease, you wouldn't have to change the zoning. However, we
looked at it and also, you know, the community objected to the proposed zoning
that was to change it to institutional and I went to the public meeting where
they voiced a concern about getting shopping there. We could also change the
toning to CR which would be more clearly allowing what this RFP does and the
community would be supportive of that.
Mayor Suarez: That's presumably what the Planning Board was recommending,
along those lines, right. CR?
Mr. Benj min: Teo, because the community came out and was very strongly
opposed to any change and wanted to know what the City contemplated before
taking any kind of action and that's what we proposed.
Mr. Gilchrist: And I would recommend that we stove forward with the R!P
process to lease the land, that we would start a process to zone it for what
the community has said they want.
Mr. Benj min: This brings me to the second aspect now with respect to the
proposed RFP. I think Sams Commission meetings ago, I did point out that we,
St. John Development Corporation, has been using the $25,000 we got from Off -
Street Parking with the Florida Center for Urban Design and Research to look
at the two Metro Rail stations, Overtown and Culmer. And in that process, we
have been looking at the impacts that can be created from this development and
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one of the things we have been looking at is the extension of the Civic Center
development and we have been concentrating quite a lot on that very site. We
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Mayor Suarez: Where does it take you? What is your conclusion as to what
would make sense for this site?
Mr. Benjamin: Well, we haven't come to any conclusions yet, but...
Mayor Suarez: OK, well when you're ready, please let us know. We don't know
what we're going to do with it today, it sounds like we're not going to do
anything, and we're going to be continuing to study it.
Mr. Benjamin: But that's my whole point, Mr. Mayor. I'm hoping that before
you oaks a decision on this that we would have a chance to talk with the City
in tersss of utilizing what we have done.
Mayor Suarez: We certainly seem to be heading in that direction anyhow
because we're just looking at all the legal implications of whatever we might
do.
Mr. Odic: But, Mr. Mayor, could you...
Mr. Benjamin: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: So it sounds like we're all going to have plenty of time to
study more alternatives.
Mr. Odic: Could you not move this subject to the legal interpretation so that
we can continue the work?
Mr. Benjamin: No, no, no, please. That's my request, Mr. Mayor, that we have
a chance to talk with you fellows before you do that.
Mayor Suarez: You understand this process is quite lengthy and it can be
stopped at any time. I mean, we've seen that happen. Don...
Mr. Odic: It's a very lengthy process, so...
Mr. Gilchrist: Public hearing after public hearing.
Mr. Plummer: I'll move it because you'll have your bite at the apple many,
many times over.
Mr. Benjamin: Well, my only point is we have begun some work and you're
starting an RFP now to start all over again...
Mr. Plummsr: No, you'll work with them.
Mr. Benj min: Why can't you utilize some of what we have done?
Mr. Plumiser: You'll work with them.
Mayor Suarez: No, it sounds like you're moving in the s me direction that we
would be moving anyhow towards somthing like a CR classification and that
kind of a use for it, non institutionalized, non governmental. Isn't that
what you're saying?
Mr. Benjamin: Well, yes, that's what we're doing, that's what we're actually
doing right now.
Mayor Suarez: That's where it seems like we're headed with this.
Mr. Benj min: But...
Mayor Suarez: The only real question is, does the Commission want to just go
out and sell it with the potential that that would lead to some kind of a use
that we don't want or put it out for bid in a very lengthy UDP process where
there's all kinds of input with the hope that something will be done there
that will not only bring a return to the City, put it on the tax rolls, and
keep it from being the kinds of things that the people that have expressed
concern to you don't want it to be. So we're in same wave length, I don't see
what the problem is.
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Mr. Benjamin: No, I'• only saying, before you start all this, why don't we
DAL wvou . wily uun't your people...
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Mr. Benjamint Huh?
Mr. Dawkins: I second J.L.'s notion. As J.L. said, you're going to have time
to come see us, all right?
Mr. Benjamin: OK.
Mayor Suarez: Don, you're going to have plenty of opportunity.
Mr. Dawkins: Opportunity to see all of us, OK...
Mayor Suarez: This is Just the beginning of a lengthy process of UDP.
Mr. Dawkins: Move the agenda.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion, further discussion from
the Commission? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-324
A RESOLUTION DECLARING THAT THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS METHOD
TO DEVELOP CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS ON CITY -OWNED LAND 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
MAY 12. 1988, AT 2:00 P.M., TO TAKE TESTIMONT REGARDING
SAID RFP FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF OFFICE AND/OR HOTEL
INCLUDING GROUND LEVEL RETAIL USE ON CITY -OWNED PROPERTY
LOCATED WITHIN THE CIVIC CENTER AREA AT 1145 N.W. 11
STREET MORE COMMONLY KNOWN AS THE "MUNICIPAL JUSTICE
BUILDING PROPERTY"; 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.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Coss,issioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commiissioner J. L. Plume r, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Cosinissioner Victor De Yurre
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Although absent during roll call, Commissioner De Yurre
later requested of the Clerk to be shown voting with the motion.
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13. DI^"I "' •'.-:.•_:---.*.TIC:! NOT TO M.".:L ANY MORE !XTT=^£ T4 :'ROPERTY OWNERS IN
CONNECTION WITH HISTORIC DESIGNATIONS OF DOWNTOWN PROPERTY WITHOUT PRIOR
DISCUSSION AND CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMISSION.
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Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, wait a minute, let me continue jumping on the
administration
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Mr. Plummer: Tan. I want to get it all over at one time.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Good, forever?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I think we all read with interest in Sunday's paper
and it's the first time I heard about it, in which this City has sent letters
to forty locations in this community potentially designating them as historic
sites. I also read in that same article that many of the owners were already
giving tenants evacuation notices because of that letter so that they can tear
these buildings down prior to an enactment of historical site. I find
difficulty with that matter not coming before this Commission before those
letters were issued. I think that where there's possible harm to be done in
putting many tenants on the street when this Commission may or may not approve
a given site. Now, I guess my question is, why was that matter not brought
before this Commission prior to the issuance of those letters?
Mayor Suarez: Over whose signature did it go out to while we're at it?
Mr. Joe McManus: It vent out over Sergio Rodriguez's signature as assistant
city manager.
Mr. Plummer: Who?
Mayor Suarez: He's absent from here because he doesn't want to catch the
heat, right?
Mr. McManus: OK, on December loth, 1987...
Mayor Suarez: Very smart of his.
Mr. McManus: ... this Commission passed a resolution for a downtown Miami
development of regional impact, the development order. As you recall, that
was a very lengthy resolution with numerous attachments. That development
order instructed the administration to review the identified historic
properties that were listed in the development order and attachments and to
proceed to local and national designation. That is a matter of record as of
early December and now we are here in April, we have been...
Mayor Suarez: We really weren't aware that there were any specific sites
being contemplated, ware we?
Mr. Plummer: No.
Mr. McManus: There were specific maps and identification of properties and
listing of properties in December...
Mayor Suarez: No one had any idea there were as many as forty, that's for
sure. Did we?
Mr. McManus: That was all a matter of public record.
Mr. Plummer: Well, part of them shown in the Herald and I'm not using that as
gospel, but part of those were not in the CBD.
Mr. McManus: Well, as you recall, we had subsequent to that, Southeast
Overtown Park/West development order which 1 believe...
Mr. Plummer: I'm talking about out Flagler Street.
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Mr. McManus: Wall, between...
Mr. Plummer: Meii, it just deems reasonabie to me that if this City
Commission in the final instance has to make the decision before we find
landlords putting tenants out on the street so they can demolish their
building that it would come before this City Commission first, before those
letters went out. And this City Commission could may yes or say no.
Mr. McManus: Commissioner...
Mr. Plummer: Because we still have that right even with the DO.
Mr. McManus: Commissioner, let em remind you now, this is the start of a four
hearing process. It goes before the Heritage Conservation Board for two
hearings. It then goes to the Planning Advisory Board for a hearing.
finally, it cones to this Commission. This Commiasion, of course, has always
reserved its right to make the final decision on historic designations.
Mr. Plummer: I guess my problem is that with just the notice of that letter,
according to this article, many people were already evacuating tenants,
leases...
Mayor Suarez: Did they misread - on that issue, did they misread the contents
of the letter, do you think or did they take action that really wasn't
warranted by the letter or what happened there?
Mr. Plummer: We're not going to have any decision because they've already
torn the building down.
Mr. McManus: The most extreme condition that would be imposed by Heritage
Conservation designation would be a six months delay in demolition.
Ultimately, you cannot stop demolition of a building, you can put in a six
months delay. Now, I would think that one or two landlords are getting a
little bit panicky in this instance.
Mr. Plummer: According to that article, I don't know. I would make it, if
it's within order, Mr. Mayor, that before any more of these letters go out,
that it be brought before this Commission for either at least discussion if
not approval. I would so move.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: If no one else did, I would second. And the Manager should be
also pretty careful on the wording, Cesar, because of the implications as to
what actions will be taken by the people receiving it. I don't know that we
should allow any one department to send letters that have this kind of effect
out there. It certainly seem to lead to all kind of consequences that we
didn't envision. Any further discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
Its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-325
♦ MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER THAT BEFORE ANT
MORE LETTERS ARE FORWARDED TO PROPERTY OWNERS
PERTAINING TO ADDITIONAL HISTORIC DESIGNATIONS OF
DOWNTOWN PROPERTIES BT THE HERITAGE CONSERVATION
BOARD, THAT SAID ISSUE BE BROUGHT BACK BEFORE THE
COMMISSION FOR DISCUSSION AND/OR APPROVAL OF SAID
ACTION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
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ATES: Cosmissioner victor De Turre
Cosssissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. , :..
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
MOSS: None.
ABSENT: None.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: COMMISSIONER DE TURRE ANNOUNCED THAT THIS IS
THE FIRST TELEVISED CITY COMMISSION MEETING.
14. A. DESIGNATE PLANNING AND DESIGN OF CITY ADMINISTRATION BUILDING PHASE
II AS A CATEGORY "B" PROJECT - ADVERTISE FOR REQUIRED PLANNING AND
DESIGN SERVICES.
B. BRIEF COMMENTS BY COMMISSIONER J.L. PLUMMER ON THE CHARTER BOAT
FISHERMEN'S CONTRACT (TO BE FURTHER DISCUSSED AT A LATER TIME).
Mayor Suarez: We haven't done 29 yet, 29 then.
Mrs. Kennedy: Because, in the backup it says, in order to improve services
and consolidate all of the City's administrative offices in the government
center, a program development and needs assessment analysis is currently being
conducted. John, what I would like to see here is that we include a day care
center for City of Miami employees. The County's already doing it and I think
that it's time for us to do it. What I would like to ask of the Manager is to
conduct a survey, make sure number one, of course, if we need it. Then number
two, what would the employees like to see and how much can they afford so it
doesn't become a burden on this Commission. If you could do that, you know,
we can't just expect corporate America to be talking about it and for us not
to be doing anything. And then come back to us for a recommendation.
Mr. John Gilchrist: Vice Mayor, that may be misleading because this is meant
to hire an architectural firm through a competitive negotiation process, they
then...
Mrs. Kennedy: The needs assessment analysis?
Mr. Gilchrist: Then they would conduct an assessment analysis to the needs.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, bottom line is...
Mr. Gilchrist: So we need this first to get that process underway and we will
recognize it.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, whether it comes now or at another stage, I would like to
see this done.
Mr. Gilchrist: Tom, I would be more than happy to include that, you ma'am.
Mrs. Kennedy: Thank you.
Mr. Dawkins: I think you've already been told to - how such space is - how
many square feet of space is available in the parking garage? Somebody over
there.
Mr. Odio: I believe it was 35,000 square feet. Jack, is that correct?
Mr. Jack Mulvena (OFF MIKE): Too, it's at least that...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, and I think at one time somebody up here and if it
wasn't Commissioner Kennedy, somebody suggested that you look at that space to
be used as a day care canter. So, in the meantime, look at this canter to be
used as a day care center so that if you do build the building, you already
got the day care center operating and we can go from there. Because we got
this 35,000 square feet doing nothing.
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Mr. Odio: Commissioner, you're also at one time during the budget workshop
ordering me to negotiate with the Off -Street Parking to see if they would take
over this building and make it a part of the Otf-Street Parsing t%utnority and
I have insisted with Jack that this is one of my priorities for October lot so
that...
Mr. Plummer: Is this the building on first street?
Mr. Dawkins: OK, but if we're going to build a...
Mr. Odio: The parking garage across the...
Mr. Dawkins: If we're going to build a quote unquote administration building
or City whatever on the land close to the parking garage, it would seem to me
that you would hold a garage in order for, number one, workers could have a
place to park; number two, citizens who come down there could have a place to
park and you could also have parking available to bring in revenue, it would
appear to me, now I don't know.
Mr. Plummer: The problem is, as I screamed before and I'll scream
continuously, is that we're paying a million dollars a year subsidy to keep
that damn thing operating. Now...
Mrs. Kennedy: Teo.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, go ahead.
Mr. Plummer: Now, the problem that I have is, is I concur with Commissioner
Kennedy about that the space could be very well utilized for a day care, but
day care is not going to increase or decrease the subsidy and I have contended
and will continue that if it's a million dollars a year, we sell the damn
thing, if we can get a buyer.
Mr. Dawkins: Sell it to whom?
Mr. Plummer: But please stop this bleeding.
Mr. Dawkins: Sell it to whom?
Mr. Plummer: To who ever might buy it.
Mr. De Turre: To the county.
Mr. Dawkins: Who?
Mr. Plummer: You'll never know if you don't put it on the market.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, if you sell it to Off -Street Parking, the City of
Miami subsidizes Off-Streat Parking so what did you gain?
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Mr. Plummar: Sir, you're not going to sell it to Off -Street Parking...
Mr. Dawkins: Oh.
Mr. Plummer: ... they've already told you it's a bad deal, they don't want
It.
Mr. Odio (0" MIKE AND INAUDIBLE).
Mr. Plummer: Now, what I'm saying to you is...
Mr. Odio (0" MIKE): Wait, wait, Commissioner, he has not said that.
Mrs. Kennedy: Jack hasn't said that.
Mr. Plummer: Yell, a million dollar subsidy obviously is a bad deal.
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Mr. Odio (OP'! MIKE): Well, I felt that if they restructured the debt and they
refinance....
Mr. Plummer: Huh?
Mr. Odio (OFT MIKE): They can go out and rafinance and get it at lower the
debt service.
Mr. Plussser: What do you moan, they can. Why haven't they done it?
Mr. Odlo: Well, we're in negotiation.
Mr. Dawkins: And when we're paying them to operate garages.
Mr. Odio: We're in negotiations now.
Mr. Plumsser: I still may, I would like to see a report back in 30 days of
this meeting. Either we're going to find a way to eliminate subsidy or let's
sell the damn thing.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, sell it.
Mr. Plumsser: I mean, you know, try to @all it.
Mr. Dawkins: Sell it, I have no problem with it.
Mr. Plummer: And my concern, in Commissioner Kennedy's request, I don't want
to see us spend money to put in a day care center which would impede our
selling that structure if we could find a fool who would buy it. Well, maybe
it's convertible to an office space, I don't know.
Mr. Jack Mulvena: That's a terrible cue for me to have to say something about
an interest in the facility but...
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me tell you, we're the fool now. OK, we're the fool
because we're paying a million dollars a year just to keep that thing open
when we were absolutely stuck in the ear by Metropolitan Dade County. Let's
put that on the record. They guaranteed that they would use X number of
spaces in that building and they've never done it. Now, we did it based on
their promise of using X number of spaces and there would be no subsidy. Yet,
they chose to use on ground parking, which they didn't have to pay for, after
we built the building and a million dollars of taxpayers money is absolutely
going out the window and we're not doing a damn thing to stop it. Now, you'll
never know if you don't put it up for sale or you don't do something about it.
At budget time, I'm going to be screaming again and it's just going to be one
more year.
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, why do you say we're not doing anything about it?
Let his give you a report.
Mr. Mulvena: Basically, the City Manager has asked us to take a second look
at, not just the purchase of the garage but other things we can do with the
garage in the interim. One is that the upper part of the garage is, in fact,
being, or at least projected to be used by the City police for storage which
will help then defer their debt service in another area.
Mr. Pl%so r: Jack, that's fine.
about that?
Mr. Mulvena: Oh, I realize that.
Do you know bow long we've been talking
Mr. Plummer: Almost a year and not a damn thing has been yet signed, sealed
and delivered.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Sea, but this is all I'm saying, he's not helping us
at all. He is not helping at all to alleviate the problem.
Mr. Mulvana: Too, but I think you'll find something sooner.
Mr. Plummer: Now, I Wean, how long is it going to go on? If I took it out of
your pocketbook, it would have bean done yesterday. But because you're not
having to come up with the subsidy, we, the City, have to come up with the
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subsidy, it's not getting accomplished. All we're doing is talking. You're
talking about $100,000 almost a month while you're talking and nothing is
being accomplished. Nov, you know, something's got to stop somewhere. the
Manager's screaming poor mouth that he doesn't have any money. Well, this is
one of the reasons we don't have any money. Just to keep a damn parking
garage open that's not being utilized and spending a million dollars doesn't
make a damn bit of sense to me.
Mr. Odio: Which I didn't build and, believe me, we're close in negotiations.
Mr. Dawkins: I didn't bill it either, but I'm an elected official up here and
I get blamed for it so you're the Manager, so you get blamed for it, OK.
Mr. Odio: I know, Commissioner. I know, we are, hopefully, within 30 days
we'll have a solution.
Mr. Plus r: Is Mr. Gilchrist around? Mr. Gilchrist, I'm going to want to
bring up when the Mayor will let me this afternoon, I'm sorry and regret to
announce to this Commission that a year and a half of negotiation with the
charter boat fishermen is now back as an open sore again and I'm going to want
to bring that up again this afternoon. You talk about bureaucracy, I spent a
year and a half negotiating that contract and yet, today, that contract is now
back open and not signed and it's not this time the charter boat fishermen.
I'm going to discuss it this afternoon. So be here this afternoon.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, I'd like to point out to Commissioner Kennedy
concerning her...
Mr. Plummer: (OFF MIKE) It's not signed. They've now something about
Bayside. Bayside has raised their ugly head and they were sitting in on all
of the meel:ings that we had. We invited them there. What happened was some
minor changes were made by the lawyers, the rest....
Mr. De Turre: ... concern about day care centers facilities for employees.
As you know, we're working on the youth center concept that right now,
hopefully, by the and of the year we'll have something to bring before the
Commission. But part of the concept is providing day care service for the
City so, hopefully, we'll be able to work that into that total concept.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, let me know because this is something that I've been
working on for two and a half years and I would certainly like to hear about.
Mayor Suarez: Do you have any idea what amounts of money may be in the fund
that is set up for day care centers and that results from exactions that we
get from developers in connection with certain rights of way and so on.
Mr. Odio: I'll have to find out, Commissioner, I'm not sure.
Mayor Suarez: Could you give us an idea of - I have a feeling that not one of
those dollars has been actually applied to the day care center, have they?
And, if so we haven't been informed about it and that's kind of distressing, I
guaes, to constantly require those contributions and not find out whether the
money is actually used or if it's piling up and, if so, how much money we've
got there for it. Maybe Howard Gary has a fund some place, a hidden fund that
that money goes into or something. I have to be careful what I say now that
we have a camera. Why are you pulling the camera over there? Are we going to
get...
Mr. Plummer: Because Howard Gary negotiated their initial contract.
Mayor Suarez: Are we going to work out some kind of an understanding on
what's going to be filmed out here? I mean, I presume that we're...
Mr. Odio: This is live. Be careful what we may.
Mayor Suarez: I mean, at some point, I would hope the Manager would discuss
with them that there is some region of safety that we can go out and...
Mr. Plummer: Violate the Sunshine Law.
Mayor Suarez: ... violate the Sunshine Law? Strike that from the record.
OK, what item are we on, Mr. Manager7
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Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Twenty-nine, he said.
Mr. Odio: Fifty-three?
Mr. Plummer: No.
Mr. Dawkina: No. Tou finished, Cousissioner Kennedy, with 29?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Teo, I's finished.
Mayor Suarez: Anything also on 29?
Mr. Odio: Wall, I don't know if you passed 29. You have to page it. We need
a motion on 29.
Mr. Dawkins: We didn't take any action on 29.
Mr. Odio: We need a motion on 29.
Mayor Suarez: We need a motion on 29? Everyone's satisfied on it?
Mrs. Kennedy: I move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved. Do we have a second?
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-326
A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING AS A CATEGORY "B" PROJECT THE
PLANNING AND DESIGN OF THE CITY ADMINISTRATION
BUILDING PHASE II; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
ADVERTISE FOR THE REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL PLANNING AND
DESIGN SERVICES; APPOINTING A CERTIFICATION COMMITTEE
OF NOT LESS THAN THREE APPROPRIATELY LICENSED
PROFESSIONALS FROM THE CITY'S STAFF; AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO APPOINT A FOURTH CERTIFICATION
COMMITTEE MEMBER FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR SUBSEQUENT TO
RECEIPT OF THE PROPOSALS, AND APPOINTING JOHN E.
GILCHRIST, DIRECTOR, DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT AS
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMPETITIVE SELECTION COMMITTEE, ALL
IN ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA STATUTES SECTION 267.055,
AND CITY OF MIAMI ORDINANCE NO. 9572, ADOPTED FEBRUARY
10, 1993, WHICH ORDINANCE ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES FOR
CONTRACTING FOR SUM PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND ALSO
ESTABLISHED NEGOTIATION REQUIREMENTS WITH REGARD TO
THE FURNISHING OF SUCH SERVICES.
(Here follow 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:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Comsissionor Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
was: None.
ABSENT: None.
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15. DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED EMPLOYMENT 0AGREEMIENT WITH
DELOITTE HASKINS i SELLS TO ANALYZE AND DEVELOP RECOMIMIENDATIONS
REGARDING THE CITY'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT SYSTEM (SEE LABEL 45).
Mayor Suarez: Item 31.
Mr. Dawkins: Thirty-one, I move that 31 be continued until the next meeting
and that the Manager provide me with all of the studies that we have paid for
dealing with telecoamunicatIons in the Police Department, the Fire Department
and Computers because since I've been here, this is about the sixth study
we've done.
Mr. Plummer: Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: I move that it be continued until the next meeting and that I be
provided with the information I need.
Mr. Plummer: I will second your motion but I think we want to make it clear
this is not communications, this is just basic telephones. That's what this
is.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, we also bought a dish and it's not being used, we bought a -
what's that microhirsh or whatever?
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): A dish?
Mr. Ron Williams: Microwave, microwave.
Mr. Plummer: Microwave.
Mr. Dawkins: Micro... all that and it's not being used.
Mr. Plummer: Well, this has nothing to do with it. This is simply a
telephone system. That which we have is presently outdated, outmoded and this
In to purchase a new and total system.
Mr. Dawkins: And you need to pay a guy $35,000 to tell me what you just told
me?
Mayor Suarez: Why do we need to pay moms consultant to...
Mr. Dawkins: And you just told me what's wrong with it. And now they want to
pay somebody $35,000 to tell me the same thing you told me, J.L.
Mrs. Kennedy: Ron, what is this...
Mr. Plummer: I'll accept thirty-four nine.
Mrs. Kennedy: Ron, what will be the net effect - what are we going to gain?
Are we eventually going to have our own communications system, own it?
Mr. Williams: Vice Mayor, that's exactly right. This proposal is that
we're...
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): With a divestiture, you got no choice.
Mr. Williams: ... we'll receive the expertise and that we can go out and buy
all of our, what we call, premise equipment which essentially means the
telephones that are on our desks, the switching gear, which presently we pay
approximately $570,000 per year to rent. It is my proposal that we purchase
that equipment, whether we do it outright or some lease purchase arrangement,
but based on what we're paying, we can return that money or turn it over
clearly within 24 months. It it time, I believe, at this point to update, to
modernize, to move along with our telecommunicatLone environment so that we
can have same of the benefits of savings that are out there.
Mr. Dawkins: I agree in...
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Mr. Plusmar: It's time, it's time to call Southeast.
Mr. Dawkins: I agree in total...
Mr. Williams: Or GSA.
Mr. Dawkins: ... but I also feel that we have spent sole money, we got soma
equipment sitting around here that consultants told us to buy that we're not
using and I plan, between now and then, if it's there, I will locate it. If
It's not, I'll coma back and beg your pardon and move on.
Mr. Williams: Commissioner Dawkins, if I may comment on the microwave network
just briefly and I don't know if you wanted...
Mr. Dawkins: is that the microwave... is that the thing you all call the mitt
or the net or whatever it is?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): I net.
Mrs. Kennedy: I not.
Mr. Plummer: I not.
Mr. Dawkins: I not. You all have spent a hell of a lot of money on I not and
it's not in operation.
Mr. Odic: Commissioner, I...
Mr. Dawkins: And a consultant told us to do that, OK?
Mr. Odic: We had acquired I net from the cable communications...
Mr. Dawkins: I call the question and we will discuss it at the next meeting.
Mayor Suarez: We have a motion to defer, do we have a second?
Mr. Plummer: I second it.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
MOTION 88-327
ON MOTION DULY MADE BY COMMISSIONER DAWKINS AND SECONDED BY
COMMISSION PLUMlMR, THE ABOVE ITEM WAS DEFERRED BY THE FOLLOWING
VOTE.
AYES: Commissioner Victor Do Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ASSENT: None.
NOTE: TW ABOVE ISSUE WAS LATER TAKEN UP AGAIN AND ULTIMATELY PASSED AS
RESOLUTION 68-336. (SEE LABEL 45).
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16. n1stVSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED ALLOCATION OF PROPOSED
ALLOCATION OF $30,000 IN SUPPORT OF "KEEP DADE BEAUTIFUL, INCORPORATED"
(SEE LABEL 62)
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Mayor Suarez: Now we're up to item 53.
Mr. Plummer: Who pulled it?
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): I don't know. Nobody. I don't have it, who pulled
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Mrs. Kennedy: I think it's a wonderful thing. I move item 53.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins pulled it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): I pulled fifty...
Mayor Suarez: Fifty-three is the one I'm talking about, fifty-three.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, that's the one.
Mr. Plummer: Well, that's where we are.
Mrs. Kennedy: That's where we are.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, 53, all right.
Mr. Plummer: Dawkins wants to make Miami ugly.
Mr. Dawkins: No, not exactly, but you're allocating $30,000 for Keep Miami
Beautiful. You're taking it from the Solid Waste Department's budget and you
never put it back. Now if somebody tell we why is it that we're going to give
$30,000 to Keep Miami Beautiful and yet, when they're going into Overtown to
clean it up, they want the Sanitation Department to donate their time or do
something. Tell me why.
Mayor Suarez: Is this the same organization, by the way, as long as you're
going to answer Commissioner Dawkins' question, that gave a listing of all the
dirtiest places and managed to...
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): Yes, air, and...
Mr. De Turret We're supposed to get $30.000 worth of something back that
would stake this a wash and I don't recall exactly what it was.
Mr. Plummer: That was - no, we ware supposed to get more than $30,000...
Mr. De Turret Thirty-six.
Mr. Plummer: ... because they would be hauling X number of tons free of
charge where we pay so such a ton and what they were... transferring was more
than the $30,000 we were paid.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Right.
Mr. Plusmler: That was the way it was supposed to be.
Mr. De Turret That's it.
Mayor Suarez: OK, now I remember, yes. That was the argument an...
Mr. Dawkins: But yet, in Overtown Park/Vast which is a part of Keep Miami
Beautiful, they're not over there keeping it beautiful.
Mayor Suarez: That's a should Keep Miami Beautiful park.
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Mrs. Kennedy: Maybe we should ask the representative, the executive director,
to cosy before this board this afternoon and table it until then?
Mr. Dawkins: All right, I have... wall...
Mr. Do Turret They were supposed to do some work on some houses and it's just
a matter, I guess, for us to tell them what houses we want them to go into and
fix up so we can just...
Mr. Dawkins: Yell...
Mrs. Kennedy: Do you want to defer it until the afternoon, Dawkins...
Mayor Suarez: Want to table it until the afternoon?
Mr. Dawkins: Teo, until the next meeting and have the people from Keep Miami
Dade Beautiful cone before us, please. Thank you.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Manager, will you call them?
Mayor Suarez: Is there a chance that they could be here in the afternoon or
do you want to defer the item?
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): All right, so it doeon't...
Mrs. Kennedy: Let's try for the afternoon.
Mr. Dawkins: We can do it this afternoon, no problem. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Table the item.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Till this afternoon.
Mayor Suarez: Let us know if we need to defer it later.
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17. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE 10347 - ESTABLISH
PROJECT: 'SIMPSON PARK RENOVATIONS'.
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Mayor Suarez: That's the and of the consent agenda, item S4, emergency
ordinance.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Simpson Park renovations. Moved.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mr. Dawkins: This is from the $8,000,000...
Mrs. Kennedy: No.
Mr. Dawkins: ... or where is this thirty-five coming from?
Mrs. Kennedy: This is interest. Maybe we could find some more interest for
other City parks.
Mr. Dawkins: What park... what... Dawkins, yes go ahead.
Mr. Walter Golby: 1972 remainder bond funds.
Mrs. Kennedy: Can we find any more interest lying around?
Mr. Golby: That's it, that's the bottom of the barrel.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, who... you moved it?
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Mrs. Kennedy: Us hew.
Mr. Dawkins: Secoed.
Mayor Suares: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance.
Mrs. Dougherty (OFF MIKS): They're bringing up the commercial fishermen
contract which J.L. says has not been concluded. It's been a year and a half.
Mayor Suarez: She's negotiating again. Madam City Attorney.
Mrs. Dougherty (OFF MIKE): Don't tell me about it because I've got to read
the ordinance, just...
Mr. Plummer: What' the problem?
Mayor Suaras: Could you read the ordinance? Call the roll.
Mr. Plussar: Wait a minute, wait a ■inute, declare the emergency.
Mr. Golby: The emergency is to expedite repairs, reduce the chance of further
break ins.
Mr. Plummer: Further break ins?
Mr. Golby (OFF MIKE): Ten..
Mr. Plummer: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: It's kind of been a long standing emergency, but it is an
emergency.
Mr. De Turret Walter. Where are we at with the other monies that we have,
the 8.3 million, as far as putting them to work and getting our parks in half
decent shape?
Mr. Golby: We just put out a report a few weeks ago. You should have had a
copy of that which brought it all up-to-date. Where we were, how the bids
were taking place and that type of thing.
Mayor Suarez: You can paraphrase it in less than half a minute and tell the
Commissioner where we are, more or less? All of us?
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Do you really want to know?
Mr. Golby: Not without that report. But I'll be glad to take that report...
Mr. De Turret How soon do you expect to get working on this? I mean, actual
physical work on the parks.
Mr. Golby: A number of these projects will be wall underway within four to
six months.
Mr. Do Turret Four to six months.
Mr. Golby: Teo, sir.
Mr. De Turret OK, thank you.
Mr. Plu■sor (OFF MIKE): Ton words or less.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED-
A14 MaKU V-t uKuLNAW—;S AlluMINU SIBCTIU14 1 UY WWINANCE
NO. 10347, AS MUNDED, ADOPTED NOVEMBER 19, 1967, THE
CAPITAL IMPROVMNTS APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE, BY
ESTABLISHING T= PROJECT ENTITLED 'SIMPSON PARK
RENOVATIONS", PROJECT NO. 331346, IN THE AMOUNT Of
$35,000; APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM REVENUE
PROJECT N0. 395001, 01972 PARKS AND RECREATION
G.O.B."; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITT CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer 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 Do Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Whereupon the Commission on nation of Commissioner Plummer and seconded
by Commissioner Kennedy, adopted said ordinance by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plusmar, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10412.
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.
le. AGRE� WITH BATSIDE MINORITY FOUNDATION FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF
TSMICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR MINORITY TENANTS AT SAYSIDE.
Mayor Suarez: Vice Mayor.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, there are a lot of people here on item 74 and
they've eked if they could be hoard because they have to go back to work. It
has to do with the Bayside minority loan.
Mr. Dawkins: You move to hear 74 now?
Mayor Suarez: Too.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Do you move to hear 74 now?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Too.
Mr. Dawkins: I second.
Mayor Suarez: OK, 74, item 74. It's scheduled for the morning, is it not?
Mrs. Kennedy; Yes, it is.
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Mayor Suarez: It's Bayside Minority Foundation? What are you going to tell
us, Dr. Ruder?
Mr. Plummer (OFT MIKE): Seventy-four?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Eighty... seventy-four.
Mr. Albert Ruder: This is just coming back to you. It was here on February
18th.
Mayor Suarez: Make sure the record reflects the snicker from the City
Attorney when I...
Mr. Ruder: And we're bringing this back and we're recommending $50,000 of
which $28,400 would come from the remaining - what funds there are left in the
$1,000,000 fund and the balance which is approximately $21,600 would come out
of available Community Development funds to bring it up to the $50,000 that we
talked about in the past.
Mr. Dawkins: Why aren't you taking all of it out of the $118,000?
Mr. Plummer: Because it ain't there.
Mr. Ruder: Well, there's only $28,400 left. When we last discussed this, we
talked about a $50,000 figure but since then, Miami Capital has been asked to
set aside $50,000 for a possible minority tenant for Savannah Smiles. So, as
a result of that transaction, there's only $28,000 for...
Mr. Dawkins: So because of that transaction...
Mr. Ruder: There's only $28,400 left out of...
Mr. Dawkins: And how much you going to fund this with?
Mr. Ruder: We're talking about $50,000, that's what we discussed when this
last was before the Commission.
Mr. Dawkins: For what, for how long?
Mr. Ruder: It would be for what, a year or...
Mr. Plummer: Until the money runs out.
Mr. Ruder: Till the money runs out.
Mr. Dawkins: See now, all right, that's what I'm talking about. Now you're
talking about till the money runs out and you're talking about them helping
people in trouble and now you're going to take the money to bail out one
that's already in trouble, I mean, I don't follow the logic here.
Mr. Ruder: It's for one year or the - this...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, then, are you saying then if they run out of... that
we're going to fund them for a year and if they run out of money, we're going
to find more money?
Mayor Suarez: We're going to try.
Mr. Ruder: Teo, we'll try.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, OK, no problem, no problem.
Mrs. Kennedy: We'll try, I think that this has been a show case to help
minority businesses and we should try to help them.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: I so =vs.
Mayor Suarez: Item 74 has been moved and...
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Mrs. Kennedy: I second, I'm sorry.
Mayor Suarez: ... second.
Mr. Dawkins: Moved by Comrissioner Kennedy, I second.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Is it an ordinance?
Mr. Ruder: It's a resolution.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-328
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, BETWMCM THE CITY OF MIAMI AND THE BAYSIDE
MINORITY FOUNDATION, FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPLEMENTING A
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR MINORITY TENANTS AT
BAYSIDE; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
ALLOCATE A TOTAL OF FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($50,000)
VITH 7VENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS
($28,600) FROM THE UNCOMMITTED BALANCE OF
APPROXIMATELY ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
($118,000) THAT REMAINS OF THE ORIGINAL ONE MILLION
DOLLARS ($1,000,000) ESTABLISHED BY THE CITY FOR LOANS
TO MINORITY BUSINESSES AT BAYSIDE; AND TWENTY-ONE
THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS ($21,600) FROM THE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUND; FURTHER
DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND THE BAYSIDE
AGREEMENT BETVEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND MIAMI CAPITAL
DEVELOPMENT, INC., IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, FOR THE PURPOSE OF REDUCING ITS BAYSIDE
MINORITY FINANCING PROGRAM ALLOCATION AMOUNT;
CONDITIONING ALL OF THE ABOVE UPON RECEIPT OF FEDERAL
APPROVAL FOR THE USE OF SAID ALLOCATION FOR THE HEREIN
INTENDED PURPOSE.
(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:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Co missioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
MIOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
19. DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED EMERGENCY ORDINANCE
ESTABLISHING NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND: •RECREATION ACTIVITY -
CONSOLIDATED• (SEE LABEL 86).
Mayor Suarez: Item 55.
Mr. Dawkins: Fifty-five.
Mayor Suarez: Most eloquent this morning.
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Mr. Dawkins: Fifty-five. I would like, if my fellow Commissioners agree, if
not, I have no problem with it, to table .;Als — ►il .;.c no... :d2' J�u
can show me your plan for hiring life guards. Nov last year, we did not open
parks because you said you did not have life guards. You couldn't find
qualified life guards so if you had that last year, you should have something
in place now where you can rectify that to ensure that it doesn't occur again.
So I'd like to table this until the next meeting and you come show me where
you signed up and hired life guards for every pool and that you're ready to
open pools for the summer.
Mr. Al Howard: We have an &never.
Mr. Dawkins: I beg your pardon?
Mr. Howard: We have an answer.
Mr. Dawkins: You have it hers?
Mr. Howard: Since last year when that...
Mr. Dawkins: Do you have a list of certified water life personnel ready to go
to work when you open the pools, do you have that?
Mr. Howard: we'll supply you with that, sir. I'll have a list made up, yes.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, so you don't have it, right?
Mr. Howard: Yes, we do.
Mr. Dawkins: You have it?
Mr. Howard: We have the life...
Mr. Dawkins: All right, can you bring it back this afternoon?
Mr. Howard: Yes, air.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, I'll table it till this afternoon.
Mayor Suarez: Fifty-five is tabled till the afternoon.
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20. DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED EMERGENCY ORDINANCE
AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE OF $2,500,000 SUBORDINATED PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE
BONDS - SERIES 1988. (NOTE: THIS ITEM WAS LATER PASSED AND ADOPTED AS
E.O. 10423. SEE LABEL 53.)
Mayor Suarez: Fifty-six, emergency ordinance.
Mr. Plummer: Want to buy a garage?
Mr. Jack Mulvena: We're talking to the City Manager about that subject,
Cosaissioner.
Mr. Plusser: Well, then we'll talk to you when you finish that subject on
this item.
Mr. Mulvena: Well, it is an emergency item.
Mr. Plummer: He wants some clout, Mr. Manager?
Mayor Suarez: Go ahead and tell us the nature of the emergency and what
you're expecting us to do on this.
Mr. Mulvena: If I may, yes. Basically, the nature of the emergency item is
the commitment of the City and the Department of Off Street Parking to provide
4,500 parking spaces within the &ran& is fast approaching and if we're not
able to move ahead to finance at least the initial construction of the City
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blocks, we don't feel we'll be able to be ready at the opening of the arena on
July 1. So the neat...
Mrs. Kennedy: Jack, this is part of the five-year plan...
Mr. Mulvena: Oh, yes.
Mrs. Kennedy: ... that we approved, right?
Mr. Mulvena: Right.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK.
Mr. Mulvena: both of the items that we're asking the Commission to authorize
us to proceed ahead to issue bonds for - and I night add these are parking
revenue bonds - they're not City bonds, our resources will be committed to
paying these bonds. but they are part of the 5-year plan. Of course, our
board has approved it, the City Cosmsission has approved it. This issue before
you is to authorize us to provide a way to afford the construction of these
particular spaces and the acquisition of another piece of property located
near our garage 1 site which is an expansion program we have which is also
part of the five year plan.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on 56 unless Commission has any more
questions on it.
Mrs. Kennedy: This is not money for improvements, just land acquisition,
right?
Mr. Mulvena: Of the 2.5 million, the one million is designated for the arena
parking program which is the construction of parking on the four City owned
properties. The vast majority of the one million will go into those four City
blocks. The other 1.5 million is earmarked for the acquisition of a piece of
property adjacent to garage 1 which is located on 3rd Street between Miami
Avenue and N.V. lot Avenue.
Mrs. Kennedy: I move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved, do we have a second? Somebody second, please. Second?
Seconded, any discussion? Read the ordinance. Call the roll.
AT THIS POINT, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE BY TITLE ONLY INTO THE
PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Dawkins: I'll be voting no and the reason I'll be voting no is, I keep
telling Off Street Parking you do not have any Latin or women in high
echelon...
Mr. Plummer: Oh, oh, it's 4/5ths.
Mr. Dawkins: When they hired you, I demanded they get a black or Latin
assistant director. They didn't hear aw. Now you became the director and you
hired a white Anglo assistant manager which means that, again, we do not have
a Latin or a black and I don't seem to be able to get your attention, and,
therefore, this say be a way that eventually one time, I'll have enough votes
to get your attention. OK, call the roll.
Mr. Plummer: Wall, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is a 4/5ths.
Mr. Dawkins: That's right, when it's 4/5ths you got a little more...
Mayor Suarez: Do you want to answer that specific question while he mulls
over the issue of the 4/5ths needed?
Mr. Mulvena: Teo, if I might respond to that, the Department of Off Street
Parking, from its executive down to its part time help is 93 percent minority
on...
Mr. Dawkins: I've been through this with Carlton and now I'm going through it
with you.
Mr. Mulvena: Well, but we...
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Mr. Dawkins: I still say that in this area, with the population what it is,
that one of the two top positions should be a Latin or black ..:d : un
that and I've said it before but I don't ever get your attention. You come in
here and you're always able to got by, OK? Nov, I say to you, now it needs a
4/5the vote, if anybody feel like I feel and vote with me, then I've got your
attention. Then you might figure that the next time you may have to, you
know, listen to Miller Dawkins.
Mr. Mulvena: No, but Commiasioner, the information is inaccurate. The two
directors in my department who answer directly to me are Dan Morhaim who is
Anglo, I mean who is Hispanic, and Karen Wilson who is female and also
qualifies as a minority according to the City's definition.
Mr. De Turre: What's the name of that first individual?
Mr. Mulvena: Dan Morhaim.
Mr. Do Turre: And he's an Hispanic?
Mr. Mulvena: Morhaim.
Mrs. Kennedy (0!7 MIKE): Morhaim, not Morhaim.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes, right, right.
Mrs. Kennedy: Morejon.
Mr. Mulvena: OK? Nov, by the way, the...
Mayor Suarez: Be careful with that, we're on the record now.
Mr. Mulvena: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: veil, I mean... well, see that... I'm just using the top
echelon...
Mr. Mulvena: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: ... to get my point over, sir.
Mr. Mulvena: Teo, that's fine.
Mr. Dawkins: The whole department, I've been going through this ever since
I've been here, and you people over there don't care because you listen and
you laugh and I come up here and yell and scream and you say, "Av hell, we can
take that because they're going to pass our budgets, say, I can take that
chewing out because I'■ going to get what I want." So fine, but eventually
somebody's going to may, •You know, Miller's right and I got to go along with
Miller this time." OK?
Mr. Do Turre: Well, what I'd like to know is of the administrative positions,
what's the breakdown there?
Mr. Mulvena: Including myself, the top three administrative positions are
executive director, director and assistant director.
Mr. Dawkins: And who is the assistant director?
Kra. Kennedy: And who are they, yea.
Mr. Mulvena: I will.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, wait, pardon me, madam. Who is the assistant director?
Mr. Mulvena: OK, the assistant directors are...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, you may a assistant, now you're saying the assistants.
Now, how many assistant directors do you have?
Mr. Mulvena: We have six assistant directors.
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Mr. Dawkins: You have six assistants.
Mr. Mulvens: Teo, who, by the way, do...
Mr. Dawkins: I mean, you're the top echelon and the six under you, there's
nobody in between there who got any more clout than the other one.
Mr. Mulvena: No, the level is executive director, director of finance and
director of operations and then we have assistant directors for various parts
of our organization.
Mr. Dawkins: Uh huh, so now, in that director of finance and director of
whatever it is, what's the breakdown?
Mr. Mulvense OK, let me give you the breakdowns specifically.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, no. Get to the rest of it after you got through
this first layer, OK?
Mr. Mulvena: Too, I will.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, it's got you...
Mr. Mulvena: Right.
Mr. Dawkins: And then we got a what as a finance?
Mr. Mulvena: We have a director of finance, Dan Morhaim.
Mr. Dawkins: What is? Huh?
Mr. Mulvena: Don Mornaim, he...
Mrs. Kennedy: Morejon.
Mr. Mulvena: Morejon?
Mr. Davkins: OK, then you Rot a what?
Mr. Mulvena: OK, and then we...
Mayor Suarez: At that same level you have a director of operations.
Mr. Mulvena: OK, at that same level, we have a director for operations...
Mr. Dawkins: And that's a what?
Mr. Mulvena: ... who's female. Ok, now that's all...
Mr. Davkins: Uh huh.
Mr. Mulvena: OK, now that's all...
Mr. Davkins: What nationality? A white woman, a black woman or a Latin
woman?
Mr. Mulvana: Oh, shoos white; white woman right now.
Mr. Dawkins: White woman, all right, and you're white at the top. All right,
go ahead. That's one out of two, go ahead.
Mr. Mulvena: No, that's actually two out of three if you're counting me.
Mr. Dawkins: No, that's one out... huh?
Mr. Mulvena: If you're counting W.
Mr. Dawkins: Teo, I am.
Mr. Mulvena: Two out of three.
Mr. Plummer: Careful, Rosario's listening.
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Mr. Do Turre: Let W ...
Mr. Mulvena: Right. Now, on...
Mr. Do Turre: Let w suggest something. why don't you bring us for this
afternoon, your organizational chart with all the name and all the stuff and
then we'll bring this up again in the afternoon.
Mr. Mulvens: Teo, that would be, you know, all right with me.
Mr. Do Turre: OK.
Mr. Nulvena: So then you'd have the facts. We have provided that before but,
you know, I was very happy to provide it again because we're quite proud of
It, Commissioner.
Mr. Do Turret OK, that's great. Then, you know, we'll take it up after 2:00
today.
Mayor Suarez: Do you want to table it or do you want to vote on it subject to
that?
Mr. Do Turre: Table it, let's table it and bring in that stuff.
Mayor Suarez: Item is tabled until the afternoon.
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21. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE 10203 - INCREASE
APPROPRIATIONS FOR PRESCHOOL PROGRAM - CONSOLIDATED FOR THIS OPERATION.
Mr. Odio: This is for the pre-school program...
Mrs. Kennedy: ... school program.
Mr. Odio: ... that serves children between the ages of three to five years of
age, is self-sustaining, the revenues come from fees and USDA.
Mrs. Kennedy: The money comes from the federal government, right?
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: What's the nature of the ordinance?
Mr. Plummer: The nature of the amergency.
Mr. Odlot Is asmnding the ordinance concerning a special revenue fund
consolidating by increasing the appropriation by seventy-two thousand. The
emergency is, this ordinance was requested on an emergency basis so as to
provide iasdiate funds for the continuation of the program.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, when did you know that the funds were available?
Mr. Kevin Smith: We've been working on this ordinance and there was a
financial problem to get it on last month's agenda so it's reverted back to us
for refinement and that's why we're going with an emergency this time.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mr. Plumiser: Second.
Mayor Suaraz: Seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. Call the roll.
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Mr. Plus sr: Whoa, whoa, whoa, *boa, back up.
4r. Odio: Excuse ale, I think...
Mr. Plu■efsr: Sack up, back up, she read SS, we're on S7.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE FOR
ITEM Sg THEN READ THE CORRECT ORDINANCE, NO. 10413, PERTAINING TO
ITEM 57.
Mayor Suares: Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF
ORDINANCE NO. 10203, ADOPTED JANUARY S, 1907,
CONCENWING THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED "PRE-
SCHOOL PROGRAM - CONSOLIDATED," BY INCREASING TIM
APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF TEE SAID PROGRAM
BY $72,079 FROM PROGRAM PARTICIPATION FEES AND
DESIGNATED FOOD REIM3uRSEMENTS FROM THE UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE= CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND A SEVERASILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy and
Plummer, for adoption as an emergency measure
requirssent of reading same on two separate days,
following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner !filler J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ASSENT: None.
seconded by Commissioner
and dispensing with the
which was agreed to by the
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Kennedy and seconded
by Commissioner Plummer, adopted said ordinance by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plusmer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
was: None.
ASSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10413.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the mDeslbers of the City Comission and
to the public.
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--3WI33ION1R MILLER DAWKINS RECOGNIZES DADE COUNTY SCHOOL STUDENTS
PARTICIPATING IN THE "BOSS FOR THE DAY" PROGRAM.
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Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Before we go any further, I think, I was trying to wait until we
get a little more people. We have quite a few youngsters here from the Dade
County Schools of which KAPP and Dade County, according to my programs,
sponsors. But no where on there does it say that MAPP is funded by the City
of Miami. So again, J.L., we put up the money and somebody else get the
credit. So would all the youngsters who are here and the Boas for a Day
Program stand?
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): He's deviated for a minute.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, Mr. Mayor - the Mayor will welcome you.
Mayor Suarez: As Commissioner Dawkins stated, this is a program that the City
is supporting, not only the parent organization, through the subsidy that we
give but your own program and we're happy, of course, to have you. I got a
bunch of copies of letters from various members of the School Board saying
that they didn't want to participate or that weren't able to participate in
Some for a Day Program and I'm sort of puzzled by that. But, in any event,
I'm happy to know that and to tell you that the City is participating and
we're happy to have you and hopefully the proceedings: will make some sense to
you and, if not, we'll try to do a little better. Will they be here the
entire day, Mr. Dawkins? I know the ones assigned to us will.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): OK, mine's are over here. Mayor
over there.
Mayor Suarez: And Richard.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Is that Commissioner Kennedy? You were with
Commissioner Kennedy?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Yes.
23. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND: "TRAINING
SUPPORT EQUIPMENT" - REGION XIV FY'87-88 - APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THIS
OPERATION - ACCEPT GRANT.
Mayor Suarez: Item 58.
Mr. Plummer: What is training support equipment?
Lieutenant Joseph Longueira: Sir, we're buying same video equipment, some
projectors with excess money that's left over from region 14 funds.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance.
Mrs. Dougherty: I read it already.
Mr. Dawkins: Second. Um hum, you read the ordinance?
Mr. Plummer: She's already read it.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Call the roll.
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Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCT ORDINANCE ESTABLISMING A NEW SPECIAL
REVENUE FUND ENTITLED: `TRAINING MPPORT EQUIPMEMT"
REGION XIV FY '81-68, APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR ITS
OPERATION IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $2,660.00; AND
AUTHORIZING THE CITT MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE $2,960.00
GRANT AWARD FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA; CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION AND SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy, for adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the
requirement of reading same on two separate days, which wes agreed to by the
following vote:
ATES: Cosn�issioner Victor De Turre
Cosmissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plueer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ASSENT: None.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer and seconded
by Commissioner Kennedy, adopted said ordinance 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.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10414.
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.
24. EMERGENCT ORDINANCE: AMEND ORDINANCE 10252 - ESTABLISH APPROPRIATIONS
FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND ($520,000) FROM SUCCESSFUL FORFEITURE
ACTIONS.
Mayor Suaraz: Itm 59.
Mr. Plunn r: What is this fort
Mrs. Kennedy: I think this is accepting a grant for the senior citizens,
right?
Lieutenant Joseph Longusira: No, no, 59 increases the appropriations for the
Law Enforcement Trust Fund to fund several programs. One of them is the
second year we're going to have to match funds for the Senior Citizen Program
and that's also item 60 and 61, I believe. Also, the athletic program which
you funded under the consent agenda, this is money for the athletic program
also.
Mr. Pluno r: Now much is that!
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Mr. Longueira: The athletic program is $100.000, the Senior Citizens is
$180,000...
Mr. Plummer: That's $280,000.
Mr. Longuoirs: OK. our renewal contract for rental vehicles is coming up so
we want to get that stoney in the account and, of course, that contract •ill be
brought back before you.
Mr. Plummer: It has to be, it's on a bidding procedure.
Mr. Longueira: Teo. Also...
Mr. Plummer: How ankh is that, proposed?
Mr. Longueira: It's $160,000, and then, also, the Miami Police and Greater
Miami Urban league Drug Prevention program, the vehicle.... That's part of
the stoney that's funded out of here and that'll be coming back to you also.
Mr. Plummer: But how such is that?
Mr. Longuaira: That's $80,000.
Mrs. Kennedy: It's $520,000 altogether.
Mr. Plummer: You got 80 more to to.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, and you're asking for six.
Mr. Longueira: Well, that's just because we've confiscated that much money
and we want to put it into the fund and than everything will have to be
brought back to you on a program by program basis.
Mr. Plummer: No, that's not necessarily true. How much you need is how much
we'll appropriate. Is it $520,000? Is that the total?
Mr. Longuairs: That's what we've got here, sir.
Mr. Plummer: I move that the fund be established for $520,000 for those items
that have been outlined and any future items would come back before this
Commission.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 10252
ADOPTED ON APRIL 9. 1987 ESTABLISHING RESOURCES AND
APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE LAW ENFORCZKCNT TRUST FUND
RECEIVED AND DEPOSITED PURSUANT TO ORDINANCE 9257,
ADOPTED APRIL 9, 1981, WHICH CREATED SAID FUND, AN
AiMUSE IN THE AMOUNT OF $520,000 AS A RESULT OF
ADDITIONAL MONIES DEPOSITED IN SAID FUND DUE TO
SDCCESSFUL FORFEITURE ACTIONS= CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND 3EVE RABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer 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:
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ATES: Cosissioner Victor De :urre
Commissioner !filler J. Dawkins
J. L. Pl%awae., Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ASSENT: None.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer and seconded
by Commissioner Kennedy, adopted said ordinance by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Turra
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ASSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10415.
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.
25. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE:
SPECIALIZED POLICING
ESTABLISH
PROGRAM 2ND
SPECIAL REVENUE FUND:
TEAR CONTINUATION"
"SENIOR CITIZENS
- ACCEPT GRANT.
Mayor Suarez: Item 60. Thank you.
Mr. Plummer: That's Rosario's.
Mr. Odio: That's the scan program, Mr. Mayor, using part of the law
enforcement trust fund and a grant from the U.S. Bureau of Justice
Assistance...
Mrs. Kennedy: Vith pleasure, I move it.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Item 60's been moved, seconded. Any discussion? Read the
ordinance. Call the roll.
AT THIS POINT, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD BY
TITLE ONLY.
Mr. Dawkins: Under... wait, just a minute.
Mayor Suarez: Commisaioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: What constitute a spacial law enforcement - state certified law
onforcems nt officer, what is that?
Lieutenant Joseph Longueira: There's different categories, air. One is a
full certified law enforcement officer, one is an auxiliary officer, a reserve
officer, Off.
Mr. Dawkins: but what is a state certified law enforcement officer?
Mr. Longueira: Well, all law enforcement officers have to be certified by the
State of Florida after completing a certified training program that the State
dictates. Without that, they cannot be certified by the State as a law
enforcement officer.
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Mr. Dawkins: Well, if we're going to have 13 law enforcement officers, why
don't we use our own policemen?
Mr. Longueire: OK. We're providing this service at the Senior Citizen
Centers through a straight State grant and the law enforcement trust fund at a
such cheaper rate. This is only costing us about $18,000 per officer for
salaries. They're not full time officers, they're part time, OK. It would
cost us...
Mr. Dawkins: But, all right, but when you want...
Mayor Suarez (0" MIKE): But aren't they police officers in Miami?
Mr. Dawkins: But, when you want somebody to go for a dangerous drug sting or
you vast samiething else, you cams and get my police officers. But yet, when
you can tie us into a gravy train, than you start telling m* about a savings.
Why? I don't understand it. Nov, you going to tell me it's for $18,000, you
can gat this guy. But you don't use him on a police sting and all, he just
got a sop job.
Mr. Longusira: Well, it's because under the guidelines of the State grant...
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Longueira: ... we're get half of the monies paid by the State. We cannot
use them for these other things. We must use him at the Senior Citizens
sites. If we pull them out of the sites to do something also, we're violating
the grant.
Mr. Dawkins: All right.
Mayor Suarez: Let's clarify one thing, are they or are they not City of Miami
police officers, auxiliaries and so on?
Mr. Dawkins: No, no.
Mr. Longueira: Yes, they are that.
Mr. Dawkins: They are what now?
Mayor Suarez: They are City of Miami police officers.
Mr. Longueira: They are City of Miami police officers but they're not fully
sworn, they're auxiliaries.
Mr. Dawkins: Then they're not police officers.
Mr. Longueira: They are under the guidelines of the State, there's three
categories...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no - ... of the Charter of the City of Miami, are they
police n?
Mr. Longueira: Teo, because we recognize those categories. We recognize
those categories, as auxiliaries, they're policemen, auxiliary is policeman.
Mr. Plummer: Can they be used for other than... could they be used for
regular patrol?
Mr. Longueira: No...
Mr. Plummer: Well, that's the queotion I think he's asking.
Mr. Dawkins: That's right, that's it, that's all.
Mr. Longueira: ... because you're funding them under a State grant which
prohibits that.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, well then why don't we use Public Service Aides which
eventually could becosa policeman as we get openings?
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Mr. Longueirs: A lot of people that can» into this program came off the lists
that we had people waiting for Public Service Aide and Police Officer. We
didn't have openings at the time, we gave them this alternative. They went
into this program.
Mr. Dawkins: Nov, when we gat openings from the police department, do they
still move laterally into the police department?
Mr. Longueira: Not exactly laterally.
Mr. Dawkins: Why not?
Mr. Longueira: What's going to happen in this second year of funding is, half
way through the year, we're going to hire another group of C.A.T.E. trainees
to train them as C.A.T.E. officers. The group we have now, we're going to
give the rest of the training to bring them up to the full amount of hours
that the rest of us have and we're going to roll them into police officers.
Mr. Dawkins: Than they're not certified law enforcement officers then.
Mr. Longuaira: They are, air, but not to our standards. Our standards exceed
the State requirementa.
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, so you telling my senior citizens that you don't think
enough of them to give them a top notch policeman.
Mr. Longueira: Sir, I'd be glad to do it at a much higher rate.
Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead, I'm only kidding, go ahead.
Mayor Suarez: They're more than happy to get these State certified...
Mr. De Yurre: Well, let me ask this, what kind of training do they get right
now?
Mr. Longuaira: Right now, the new class will be getting about, I believe it's
about 540 hours of training.
Mr. De Yurre: How about the guys that are there now? How much training do
they get?
Mr. Longueira: The guys that are there now, I think they had about 400 and
something hours of training because the requirements were different.
Mr. De Yurre: How many total hours to do you need to become a police officer?
Mr. Longueira: I think we're about at about eight hundred and something hours
for full police officer.
Mr. De Turre: Do they get credit now for the four hundred they put in
already?
Mr. Longueira: The group that's moving up, yes, will get credit. We're going
to give them the difference and bring them up.
Mr. De Turre: So that's it because before it wasn't like that, before tney
pretty much had to start from scratch.
Mr. Longuaira: Well, there was a lot of discussion about which way to do it.
But we've determined that what we're going to do is give them the difference
and bring them up to full police officer qualifications.
Mayor Suarez: OK, anything further from the Commission? Chief, do you want
to add something?
Mrs. Kennedy: I think the Chief wants to add.
Chief Clarence Dickson: I just came down to answer soma of the questions that
Lt. Longuaira is trying to deal with to clarify the C.A.T.E. program if that
need to be done.
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Mr. Do Turre: basically, it's... remember, Chief, we talked about this a few
months ago as to what this group and whether they could become full fledged
police officers without having to go through the —!h,Ie -r
when they have already X number of hours in training to be where they're at
right now. And there was some discussion at that point in time that you were
trying to accomplish basically what he's saying now that they can get credit
for what they've put in already and they don't have to go and, you know, and
that duplicity could be avoided. So I just wanted to clear up that point.
Chief Dickson: Teo, they will get the additional training that they'd need
before becoming police officers by the Miami Police Department. That is the
concession that was made...
Mr. De Turre: OK.
Chief Dickson: ... in their behalf but they would have to have that training
before they could become full fledged police officers.
Mr. Do Turre: OK, that's the difference, I guess between the four and the
eight hundred hours that we're talking about. So they already get credit for
the first 400 whatever they've done up to now to get to where they're at. And
than you'll just pick up from there and take on.
Chief Dickson: Right.
Mr. De Turre: OK, thank you.
Mr. Dawkins: Chief, my concern is that if we've got quote unquote, certified
law enforcement officers, OK, and we're having difficulty filling, - and this
Is my interpretation and not nobody elses, - filling the classes at the
academy, it would appear to me that individuals who we have working in the
Senior Citizens Center as, quote unquote, certified law enforcement officers,
could go into the academy and get further training and become full fledged law
enforcement officers, that's all I'm asking. And what I'm saying, they should
have a head start, I don't know, Chief...
Chief Dickson: They're going to get the full fledged training. The City will
save a lot of money by not having now to put them through the academy, but to
be able to train them...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, I mean as the openings occur, I don't mean put them
through now. I'm saying as openings occur in the City of Miami police
department, since these individuals have already been drug tested and are,
quote unquote, drug free, you know, why do we go out now and recruit others
who we've got to go through a process of testing for drugs and etc. rather
than going right along and moving these individuals up into the academy?
Chief Dickson: Well, because that would rob the senior citizens of the
special police officers that we have assigned there now if we took them out
and put them into the academy, we would not have these people assigned to
protect the senior citizens.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, that's - I don't buy that because if...
Chief Dickson: It would also be in violation of...
Mr. Dawkins: ... we found some the first time, we could find, wait a minute,
Chief...
Chief Dickson: ... of the grant.
Mr. Dawkins: ... wait now, wait now. bear with me one minute. If we found
soma the first time, we can find some the second time. Secondly, if the grant
Is cut off, senior citizens automatically don't have anything.
Chief Dickson: Commissioner Dawkins, it's a little bit more complicated than
that and we do have obligations to run this program for the period of the
grant so we could not, at any interval, pluck them out of the program and put
Into the police academy or make them full fledged officers because that would
be in violation of what we agreed to with the grant. Nov what...
Mayor Suaraz: Unless you substitute them.
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April 14, 1988
Chief Dickson: Vales we substitute them with who, Mr. Mayor? We don't have
anybody to substitute them with.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Thank you, Chief...
Mayor Suarez: With new public service - I mean, with new auxiliaries or new
trainees.
Chief Dickson: Maybe the problem is this...
Mayor Suarez: I mean you can have a flow in and out of the system, can you
not?
Chief Dickson: Tao, the problem probably is this is the first time a police
department in the country has done this and it's a very innovative program.
The point is, is that there are unexplored territories ahead of us in this
area because we have nothing to look back on except our own anticipation and
our own experience. So, what we're looking at here is something that is new
and innovative and has not boon done before.
Mayor Suarez: And we're thinking...
Chief Dickson: At no cost to the City.
Mayor Suarez: It's a great system and we're thinking that as long as they're
there and they are quasi police officers and we are getting to see them on the
job, they're drug tested and so on, they're apprentices in effect if they want
to continue that, the route to full fledged police officers. That's all the
Commission is trying to do; because that way, Chief, we'ra getting to see them
In action, at least in an almost similar situation to other police officers.
Not perhaps exposed to the same situations, but similar in soma way and at
least ware seeing them out there and it's like an apprenticeship program,
It's what everybodys thinking.
Mr. Dawkins: That's exactly what it would be, Mr. Mayor.
Chief Dickson: Well we're... but the point...
Mayor Suarez: I mean, within the constraints of the law and than all the
other training they need.
Chief Dickson: Right, but we're doing that. We are doing that.
Mayor Suarez: We're all in agreement.
Mr. Dawkins: That's all I ask. You're doing it, that's all I ask.
Chief Dickson: Teo, yes, we're doing that.
Mayor Suarez: OK, that's item 59, right...
Ms. Hirai: Mr. Mayor, we need to call the roll on that.
Mayor Suares: Too, no, no, we need to read the ordinance, I think, first.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): No, no...
Me. Hirai: No, it's been read.
Mayor Suarez: OK, call the roll.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): My question came after the roll call.
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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A SPECIAL REVENUE
FUND ENTITLEDs "SENIOR CITIZENS SPECIALIZED POLICING
PROGRAM 2ND TEAR CONTINUATION", APPROPRIATING FUNDS
FOR ITS OPERATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $351,221'COMPOSED
OF $175,611 FROM THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF JUSTICE
ASSISTANCE AND $175,610 FROM THE CITY OF MIMI LAY
ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND; AND RATIFYING, APPROVING AND
CONFIRMING THE ACTION OF THE CITY MANAGER IN ACCEPTING
THE $351,221 GRANT AWARD FROM THE UNITED STATES BUREAU
OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE, THROUGH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT
OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION
AND SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy and seconded by Cosmissioner
Plussner, 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 votes
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.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Kennedy and seconded
by Commissioner Plummer, adopted said ordinance 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.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10416.
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 DURING ROLL CALL:
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Chief.
Mr. Plummer: This is on 59 or 607 Fifty-nine or sixty?
No. Hirai: Sixty, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Teo.
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26. CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER - ACCEPT SENIOR CITIZEN SPECIALIZED
POLICING PROGRAM GRANT TO EMPLOY 13 OFFICERS AT SENIOR CITIZENS SITES
AND PRESENT CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS.
Mayor Suarez: Item 61. Is this part of the same?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): It's part of the same, I move it.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on 61.
Lt. Joseph Longuaira: Sixty-one is accepting the grant.
Mayor Suarez: Sixty-one.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mr. De Yurre: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-329
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE
ACTION OF THE CITY MANAGER IN ACCEPTING A ONE HUNDRED
SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED ELEVEN DOLLARS
($175,611) SENIOR CITIZEN SPECIALIZED POLICING PROGRAM
GRANT FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS FOR THE PURPOSE OF EMPLOYING
THIRTEEN (13) LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TO PATROL
THIRTY-FOUR (34) SENIOR CITIZEN SITES AND TO PROVIDE
THESE RESIDENTS WITH CRIME PREVENTION PRESENTATIONS;
ALLOCATING FUNDS, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE
HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED TEN DOLLARS
($175,610) FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI LAW ENFORCEMENT
TRUST FUND FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING MATCHING FUNDS
TO IMPLEMENT THIS PROJECT; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT TO EMPLOY SUCH PERSONS.
(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 Turre
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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D14CUe.110" AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO
INCREASE COMPOSITION OF DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD.
B. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED RECENT RESOLUTION
REAPPOINTING AND APPOINTING INDIVIDUALS TO SERVE ON THE DOWNTOWN
DEVELOPMQiT AUTHORITY BOARD (SEE LABELS 63 AND 64).
Mayor Suarez: Sixty-two and sixty-three, I'd like to table till the
afternoon. The Brickell Area Association would like to be present, make a
presentation on their suggested nominees for those boards. Item sixty-four.
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask a question on 62. It was my understanding, Mr.
Manager, that this Commission by three votes did vote to increase that to 29.
Yet I see on this agenda we're back at 21. Now, I'm sure there's going to be
some discussion on that, but it was, as I recall that we did vote that this
would be increased to 29, yet 1 don't see the policy of this Commission
reflected in the agenda items.
Mayor Suaraz: I don't...
Mr. Peter Andolina: Commissioner Plummer...
Mayor Suarez: ... wait, before you answer, Peter, I don't believe we did that
and if we did...
Mr. Dawkins: Madam City Attorney, bring the minutes back for the last
meeting.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, wait, wait, let me tell you what I feel about this
because it would really be unwieldy to have 29 members.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, Xavier, excuse me, I'm not arguing the point, I'm
saying, I guess it's my bug that I've had all day.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I remember that issue came up. I don't know what action
we took, if anything.
Mr. Plummer: That we said twenty...
Mr. Andolina: There was no vote. The only vote that was taken was to defer
the item to the next Commission meeting.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I guess we instructed you then to make it 29.
Mr. Andolina: To look into... there was not vote taken, you asked if we would
consider going from 21 to 29.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I wasn't the only one, it was Rosario and Miller also.
Mrs. Kennedy: If I remember, we did discuss it, but maybe what you're saying
It wasn't done in the form of a motion.
Mayor Suarez: It wasn't formalised.
Mrs. Kennedy: There was discussion.
Mr. Plummer: OK, all right, I'll wait till this afternoon, I'm just wondering
why it appeared this way on the agenda.
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28. EMERGENCT ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH SPECIAL REVENUE FUND: *SUMMER FOOD
SERVICE PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN - 1968, - APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THIS
OPERATION - ACCEPT GRANT.
Mayor Suarez: Item 64.
Mr. Odic: This is the establishing a special revenue fund for the Summer Food
Service Program for the children of 1988. The appropriation is $156,286. It
will come from a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and you're
authorizing me to accept the grant and enter into the necessary agreements.
Mr. Pluasar: Last year we had a real hubbub about this thing.
Mr. Odic: Well, the hubbub wasn't about the grant, it was that...
Mr. Plummer: No, it was about the quality of the food.
Mr. Odic: ... the quality of the food and we rejected the bid and it went to
another bidder. That was a different...
Mr. Plummer: The question is, who is the contract going to this year?
Mr. Odic: We have to bid and then bring it to you for approval.
Mr. Dawkins: What item is this?
Mayor Suarez: Sixty-four.
Mr. De Yurre (OFF MIKE): Six four.
Mayor Suarez: We're not awarding the bid at this point, just establishing the
fund.
Mr. Dawkins: We never do.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Plummer: It's just establishing the fund.
Mr. Odic: No, it's just establishing the fund.
Mr. Dawkins: The City... the County does it.
Mr. Plummer: I'll move it.
Mayor Suarez: OK, moved. Do we have a second?
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mr. De Yurre: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Read the ordinance. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL
REVENUE FUND ENTITLED: "SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM
FOR CHILDREN - 1988" AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE
OPERATION OF SAME IN THE AMOUNT OF $156,288.00 FROM A
GRANT BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
(U.S.D.A.); AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE
GRANT AWARD FROM U.S.D.A. AND TO ENTER INTO THE
NECESSART CONTRACT(S) AND/OR AGREEMENTS) FOR THE
ACCEPTANCE OF THE GRANT; CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITT CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy, for adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the
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require at of reading sMe ea two separate days, which was agreed to by the
following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor be Turre
Cosinissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plusmer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ASSENT: None.
Whereupon the Co ission on motion of Commissioner Plummer and seconded
by Coss,issioner Kennedy, adopted said ordinance by the following vote:
ATES: Cosmissioner Victor De Yurre
Cosisissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plusimer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10417.
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.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: TWO ADDITIONAL STUDENTS WHO ARE
PARTICIPATING IN THE "BOSS FOR A DAY" PROGRAM WERE RECOGNIZED.
THEY WERE JAMES WASHINGTON, JR., NORTHWESTERN HIGH SCHOOL AND
ADRIAN ROGERS, CAROL CITY HIGH SCHOOL.
29. CONDITIONALLY AUTHORIZE METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TO ACCEPT BIDS FOR THE
PROVISION OF LUNCHES TO ELIGIBLE CHILDREN DURING SUMMER, 1988.
Mayor Suarez: Item sixty...
Mrs. Kennedy: Five.
Mr. Odio: Now 65 is authorizing us to...
Mr. Dawkina: It's a companion... move it.
Mayor Suaraz: Item 65 has been moved, do we have a second?
Mr. Pluno r: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Second. Any discussion? Call the loll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-330
A RESOLUTION CONDITIONALLY AUTHORIZING METROPOLITAN
DADS COUNTY ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO
ADVERTISE FOR, EVALUATE, AND ACCEPT THE BIDS) OF A
VENDOR OR VENDORS TO PROVIDE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE (USDA) APPROVED LUNCHES TO ELIGIBLE
CHILDREN DURING THE SUMMER OF 1988, AND FURTHER
AUTHORIZING METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TO ENTER INTO THE
NECESSARY CONTRACT(S) AND/OR AGREEMENT(S) WITH THE
SUCCESSFUL. BIDDER(S).
(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.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, ITEM 66, PROPOSED SECOND
READING ORDINANCE ABOLISHING THE COMPUTERS DEPARTMENT TO
CONSOLIDATE ITS FUNCTIONS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE WAS
DEFERRED BY THE ADMINISTRATION. THE COMMISSION VOTED UNANIMOUSLY
FOR THE DEFERRAL.
30. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE SECTION 53-161 - CHANGE RATE
SCHEDULE FOR USE, OCCUPANCY OF AND SERVICES TO BE FURNISHED IN
CONNECTION WITH MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER.
Mr. Plummer: Move 67.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Sixty-seven's been moved, seconded. Any discussion? Read the
ordinance. Second reading. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 53-161 OF THE CODE OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, BY CHANGING
THE RATE SCiR = FOR THE USE AND OCCUPANCY OF AND THE
SERVICES FURNISHED OR TO BE FURNISHED OR IN CONNECTION
WITH THE MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER; CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION, SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING
FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of March 10, 1988,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
motion of Commissioner Plusiser, seconded by Commisaioner Kennedy, the
Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed
and adopted by the following vote:
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ATES: Comissioner Victor De Turre
Cogmissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Cos siesioner J. L. Plt~r Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10418.
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.
31. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH SPECIAL REVENUE FUND - "HOUSING
DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM - 1987" - APPROPRIATE FUNDS FROM HUD FOR THE
PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTION FINANCING TO DESIGN MANAGEMENT VII ASSOCIATES -
DEVELOPER/OWNER.
Mayor Suarez: Item 68.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): You moved it last time.
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask a question. Who's item is this? Jerry?
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, I'm trying to do some fast math here. Do it for me.
You're talking about doing 125 houses for four million six. How much is that
per house?
Mr. Jerry Gereaux: (OFF MIKE) No, let me explain, Commissioner. This is a
125 unit apartment complex, congregate living facility for the elderly people
who need additional care other than just those elderly people that can live,
you know, freely without any problem.
Mr. Plummer: A hundred and twenty-five units divided into 4.6 million is how
much per unit?
Mr. Gereaux: Well, I don't have a calculator here, but...
Mr. Plummer: That's what I'm asking, anybody got a calculator?
Mr. Gereaux: It's 125 units.
Mr. Plummer: A hundred and twanty-five units...
Mr. Gereaux: Right.
Mr. Plummer: ... divided into 4.6, it seems excessive to w .
Mayor Suarez: $38,000 roughly, $37,000.
Mr. Gereaux: The average cost of constructing a residential unit in Miami
today in a high rise configuration is about $48,000. That's, you know, that's
non luxury kind of housing.
Mayor Suarez: What did Shell City come out to be or Edison Towers, I guess, I
shouldn't call it Shell City. Didn't it state at the groundbreaking it was
$45,000 per unit?
Mr. Gereaux: For Edison Towers cost $45,000 a unit, that's correct.
Mr. Plummer: OK, who will be making... this will be owned by who?
Mr. Gereaux: This will be owned by a private corporation.
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Mr. Plummer: Is it non profit?
Mr. Goreaux: it is a profit making corporation.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me?
Mr. Gereaux: It is a profit making corporation.
Mr. Plummer: And this money, when it's in the form of a loan, is paid back to
who?
Mr. Gereaux: It's paid back to the City. We get it for free from the federal
government if we can submit a proposal that meets their criteria. And then we
actually loan the stoney then to the developer.
Mr. Flu mor: And what do we know about this company called Design Management
VII Associates?
Mr. Geroaux: Well, some of the people in that company participated in the
developoent of Rio Plaza Condominiums, the East Little Havana project.
Mr. Plummer: Who are these people?
Mrs. Kennedy: Who are the principals?
Mr. Gereaux: Israel Bigelman is a principal and a gentleman named Maro
Hernandez is another principal. I think they're the two general partners.
Mr. Plummer: And do we have a complete breakdown of what is going to be
charged for the units?
Mr. Gereaux: Yes, we have.
Mr. Plummer: Where is it proposed that this will be built?
Mr. Gereaux: This project will be built on or about the corner of N.M. 7th
Street and 57th Avenue.
Mr. Dawkins: See, here we go again.
Mr. Plummer: Well, this is the one we talked about before.
Mr. Dawkins: Here we go again.
Mr. Gereaux:
Teo, we've
been here six times now on this. It's a lot of
procedures you
have to
go
through to satisfy.
Mr. Plummer:
How long
is
it before this loan will be paid back totally?
Mr. Gereaux: Thirty one years.
Mr. Plummer: And what interest is being charged to the developer?
Mr. Gereaux: It's a variable interest rate and lot as give you those numbers.
Mr. Plummer: How variable?
Mr. Gereaux: In years one to five, like many of these programs, there's no
repayment at all. If there needed to be, they couldn't do the project. In
years six through fifteen, it's one percent; sixteen through twenty, two;
thirty-one through thirty, soro; and year thirty-one is part of the principle
In the final payment of...
Mr. Plummer: What is the aggregate across the 31 years of the loan?
Mr. Gereaux: In terms of interest income?
Mr. Plummer: Too.
Mr. Gereaux: I don't have that calculated here.
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Mr. Plummer: Are we assured, as a City Commission, that these savings that
are going to be reaped by the developer are being passed on to the people who
will be the occu"09!•"'
Mr. Gereaux: Toe, this program is very tightly regulated, not only by us but
by the federal government and we're responsible for assuring that
administratively and working with the federal government if there ever becomes
a problem.
Mr. Plummer: Vho will make the decision who are the occupants and who do not?
Mr. Goreaux: There is a standard process that is used whenever you have to
use federal government money to build housing and it's an open process. They
have to advertise it in all over the place, in all the public papers and
establish a waiting list but it is...
Mr. Plummor: Do you think it is a good deal?
Mr. Gereaux: I think it's a great deal.
Mayor Suarez: Is this the ACLF?
Mr. Gereaux: I wish we had ten more of these in this City.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mayor Suarez: Jerry, is this the ACLF?
Mr. Dawkins: I do too but I don't want them out there where you're putting
this one.
Mr. Gereaux: I know and...
Mayor Suarez: That Blue Lagoon an ACLF?
Mr. Plummer: This is Red Road and 7th Street.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Plummer: I move 68.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So moved, seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. Call
the roll.
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND
ENTITLED: "HOUSING DEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM - 1987",
APPROPRIATING FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,650,000 FROM
THE O.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING CONSTRUCTION FINANCING TO
DESIGN MANAGEIEiT VII ASSOCIATES, DEVELOPER/ONNER OF
AN ONE HUNDRED TWZMTT-FIVE (125) UNIT RENTAL HOUSING
DEVEL0P=1T FOR THE ELDERLY; CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND SEVERASILITT CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of March 10, 1988,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
motion of Commissioner Plummer, seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the
Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed
and adopted by the following vote:
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ATES: Corissioner Victor De Turre
Coswissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Cosisissioner J. L. Plimmo• ••
vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOW None.
ABSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10419.
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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32. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTIONS 1 AND 6 OF ORDINANCE 10321 -
INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS TO DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND PUBLIC
FACILITIES BY $378,000.
Mayor Suarez: Item 69.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, I move that one with pleasure.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): I second.
Mr. Dawkins: Under 69, again I have...
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion, under 69 I have to ask you again, remove the
word, the department had to allocate $91,000 for the Belafonte Tacolcy Center
as a first time expenditure.
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Nov we assured, we told - again J.L. Plummer distinctly said
Tacolcy vas to be placed in the Park 6 Recreation budget.
Mr. Plummer: Correct.
Mr. Odio: It is and it will be, Commissioner. Yes, it is in the budget.
Mayor Suarez: So you're going to remove that...
Mr. Odio: Remove that word.
Mayor Suaraz: ... reference. With that modification, call the roll. I guess
the savant and the second have to accept the modification.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, yes, it's an ordinance.
Mayor Suarez: Read the ordinance.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): What time are we coming back this afternoon?
Mayor Suarez (OFF AND ON MIKE): I think we're scheduled for 2:30, I believe.
Two o'clock we're scheduled, unless you guys want to come back later. Call
the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 1 AND
NO. 10321, ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 22, 1987, THE ANNUAL
APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE, FOR THE FISCAL TEAR ENDING
SEPTEMEER 30, 1968, BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATIONS
TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND PUBLIC
FACILITIES BY $378,000, AND BY INCREASING REVENUES IN
THE SAME AMOUNT FROM DADE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD LEASE
PAYMENTS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of March 10, 1988,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
motion of Commissioner Plummer, seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, 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
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10420.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies ware available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
33. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE 10347 - ESTABLISH
PROJECT: "NORTHWEST RIVER DRIVE ACQUISITION PROJECT - KREIDT PROPERTY".
Mayor Suarez: Item 70.
Mrs. Kennedy: The money's in place and property in the property and lease and
enterprise fund, right?
Mayor Suarez: N.W. River Drive.
Mr. Odic: Teo, yes, Commissioner.
Mrs. Kennedy: I move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved on second reading.
Mr. Plummer: I'll second it.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded.
Mr. Plummer: Remind me again what this property was going to be bought. What
reason are we buying it?
Mrs. Kennedy: For whatever river related projects we decide to use.
Mr. Al Armada: Commissioner, this is a small piece of property that is
landlocked...
Mr. Plummer: This is not near the Jose Marti?
Mr. Armada: Yes, across the street.
Mayor Suarez: Across the river.
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Mr. Plusisar: OK, OK, I just... thank you.
Mayor Suarez: What are the source of the funds?
Mr. Plummer: The City Manager's petty cash.
Mr. Armed&: Property and lease management enterprise funds.
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): That's right, from the revenues of the lease.
Mayor Suarez: Read the ordinance. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE ADDING SECTION I OF ORDINANCE NO.
10347, ADOPTED NOVEMBER 19, 1987, THE CAPITAL
APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE, BY ESTABLISHING THE PROJECT
ENTITLED "NORTHWEST RIVER DRIVE ACQUISITION PROJECT -
KREIDT PROPERTY", PROJECT NO. 419002, IN THE AMOUNT OF
$34,000 AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FROM PROPERTY b LEASE
MANAGEMENT'S ENTERPRISE FUND - RETAINED EARNINGS;
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of March 10, 1988,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
motion of Commissioner Kennedy, seconded by Commissioner Plummer, 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 Millar J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10421.
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.
34. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE 10349 - SPECIAL
REVENUE FUND: "EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (FY 'SW - INCREASE
APPROPRIATION BY $32,000 TO A TOTAL OF $235,000 FOR OPERATION OF SAME -
FROM A USHUD GRANT.
Mayor Suarez: Item 71, second reading.
Mr. Plummer: I noted with interest last night on television our compatriot,
Raul Martinez, in fact, gave his grant to Dade County to administer. Yet, I'm
being told that we can't do the same.
Mrs. Dougherty (OFF MIKE): You ought to give it back to the U.S. Government.
He tried to but they wouldn't let him.
Mr. Odio: We tried to and we had to give it back to the government and
what...
Mr. Dawkins: We tried it and the Commission voted it down.
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): Right, what this ordinance will do is...
Mr. Plummer: OK, I'm just going to - no, the Commission didn't vote it down.
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Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): The CClrisaion...
Mayor Suaraz: Well, we did, OK, let's clarify...
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Tea, we did. Tea, we...
Mayor Suarez: We actually tried to do this on a different grant, a $41,000
grant, I don't know what happened on that. This one has been voted on by this
Commission.
Mr. Odio: This one, Christian Community Service Agency, will receive $173,000
to establish a shelter for the homeless and the Social Action of Little
Havana, $30,000 to provide a food distributorship. Now, of the $30,000, we
still have $9,000 that we're holding until the investigations are concluded.
Mayor Suarez: We're holding on because of that matter.
Mr. Dawkins: Now what is this now?
Mrs. Kennedy: And going back to Raul Martinez, he wanted to do it but the
Commission overruled him.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, did they?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Well...
Mr. Dawkins: OK, now what is this for?
Mr. Plummer: This is for...
Mr. Odio: This is just amending the ordinance...
Mr. Dawkins: What is it?
Mr. Frank Castaneda: They're giving us an additional $32,000.
Mr. Plummer: This is one more insult from the federal government so they can
get off the hook and say they've taken care of the homeless.
Mr. Dawkins: Nov, when you accepted the money, didn't we may that we are not
responsible for the maintenance and operation of this facility?
Mr. Odio: That is correct.
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Mr. Dawkins: I mean is that in the acceptance?
Mr. Odio: Yes, that is... yes, sir, we are not responsible.
Mr. Dawkins: So if next year the federal government does not give you...
Mr. Odio: This money.
Mr. Dawkins: ... $203,000 to give this facility, what happens to it?
Mr. Castaneda: That's their problem.
Mr. Odio: They'll have to find another grant.
Mr. Castaneda: That's their problem.
Mr. Dawkins: That's the homeless problem. It is not the homeless problem
because you created the shelter.
Mr. Odio (OFF AND ON MIKE): No, wait a minute, no, wait a minute... the
problem would become... they would have to find funding somewhere else.
Mr. Dawkins: They who?
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Mayor Suarez: Christian Community Services.
Mr. Odio: Christian Community Service Agency.
Mr. Plurmor: I would like to see a letter completely outlining and making
that very clear to this agency when you give than the initial check, that this
City cannot be responsible for federal funding in years to come.
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): We'll do that, air.
Mr. Plummer: Nor can the City pick up anything in the future.
Mr. Odio: Teo, air.
Mr. Dawkins: And a carbon copy to who ever gave this $203,000 so they will
know.
Mr. Plummer: Teo.
Mr. Dawkins: They'll be put on notice.
Mr. Plummer: The insultor. We're the insultees, right?
Mrs. Kennedy: I move 71.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO.
10349, ADOPTED NOVEMBER 19, 1987, WHICH ESTABLISHED A
SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED: "EMERGENCY SHELTER
GRANT (FY '88)", APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR OPERATION OF
SAME IN THE AMOUNT OF $203,000 FROM U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (USHUD), BY INCREASING
THE APPROPRIATION BY $32,000 TO $235,000.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of March 10, 1988,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
motion of Commissioner Kennedy, seconded by Commissioner Plummer, 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
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ASSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10422.
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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^ISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING AN ADDITIONAL $801,955 AS BUDGET FUNDS IN THE 12 YEAR
CITYWIDE DEMOLITION OF SUBSTANDARD BUILDINGS PROJECT. (NOTE: THIS ITEM
WAS LATER TAKEN UP AND ULTIMATELY DEFERRED - SEE LABEL 40).
mayor Suarez: Seventy-two.
Mr. Odio: Seventy-two, Mr. Mayor, was a scrivener's error. It was made in
the amounts additionally appropriated by ordinance 10368 on January 14, 186
and what this is doing is correcting the amount.
Mayor Suarez: OK, I'll entertain a motion on that.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Move, second.
Mayor Suarez: Seventy-two, seconded. Read the ordinance as corrected. Call
the roll.
AT THIS POINT, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD BY
TITLE ONLY.
Mr. Plummer: Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait. I understand the first part for the
$801,000. I'm questioning the second fund being established at $600,000.
Where is that money coming from and it doesn't say where it's going to be
used?
Mr. Frank Cestaneda: What it is basically doing is appropriating the income
that has been received from the liens collected in the building demolition
program and it goes into the building demolition fund. It's just
appropriating the money back into the fund. We cannot expend money unless
it's appropriated.
Mr. Plummer: But, wait a minute, is that part of the $800,000?
Mr. Castaneda: I think Bob Clark clarified the issue better.
Mr. Plummer: I mean, you clearly spell out what the 801 is going for. You
don't spell out at all what the 600 is going for.
Mr. Castaneda: All the money stays in the building demolition fund.
Mr. Plummer: It's not what it says.
Mr. Castaneda (OFF MIKE): As to the wording...
Mr. Plummer: That's not what it says, I'm sorry.
Bob Clark, Esq.: Mr. Castaneda informs me that the $600,000 was contained in
the earlier ordinance where the mistake took place. They had a set of figures
in the ordinance that this is adjusting and instead of making a correction to
that first ordinance, we have drafted an ordinance which corrects that
erroneous set of figures and carried over the $600,000. Whatever that
$600,000 was appropriated for in that first ordinance...
Mr. Plummar: It doesn't tell me here what it's for.
Mr. Castansda: It is all for building and we'll bring it back, Commissioner.
Mayor Suarez: The item is tabled until this afternoon. This Commission is
adjourned. Are we back at 2:00 or 2:30? We're scheduled to come back at
2:00. Is everybody OK on 2100?
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36. BRIEF DISCUSSION REGARDING PROPOSED CREATION OF A CITY OF MIAMI "UNSAFE
STRUCTURES BOARD" (SEE LABELS 39 AND S8).
Mr. De Turret Mr. Mayor, one question, now that we talked about demolition.
Mr. Plummer: Why don't you make it a Latin 2:00?
Mayor Suarez: No, no, let's specify, plasma.
Mr. De Turret Lucia, where are we at with the legal situation about creating
our own Unsafe Structure Board?
Mrs. Dougherty: Remember, I advised you that there is no legal prohibition
about us doing so except that Dade County has to permit us to by ordinance.
My understanding is Dade County does not object to us doing that so the last
thing I did was write to Building and Zoning and ask them to give you a report
how such that would cost us and I have not heard back from them.
Mr. De Turret OK, now Cesar, ware we supposed to get an estimate?
Mayor Suarez: I've got to be at a press conference, do you mind asking her
privately and we'll take that up in the afternoon?
Mr. De Turret OK.
THEREUPON THE CITY COMMISSION WENT INTO RECESS AT
11:57 A.M. AND RECONvl=D AT 2:17 P.M., WITH ALL
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION FOUND TO BE PRESENT.
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37. PRESENTATIONS, PLAQUES AND SPECIAL ITEMS.
1. Certificates of Appreciation were awarded to Coach Ernie Bell and the
sixteen members of the Carol City Chiefs, State High School Basketball
Champions for 1988.
38. DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING
CITY MANAGER TO SUBMIT THE GRANT PROGRAM FINAL STATEMENT TO HUD
REQUESTING FUNDS FOR THE CITT'S PROPOSED CD PROGRAM DURING 1988-1989
($11,297,000). (NOTE: THIS ITEM WAS LATER TAKEN UP AGAIN, DISCUSSED, AND
ULTIMATELY CONTINUED TO THE MEETING OF APRIL 28, 1988 - SEE LABEL 50).
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, let me ask a question. On the cosauunity development
money, is there going to be a public hearing today, Mr. Manager because
there's an awful lot of people here to speak on community development money
especially as it relates to social services and yet I find nothing on the
agenda...
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: Is it for discussion or what?
Mr. Frank Castaneda: This is the public hearing on community development...
Mr. Plummer: It is a public hearing...
Mr. Castaneda: It is a public...
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Mr. Plummer: ... and people •ill be allowed to speak. OK.
M•. P.ersnada: Teo, it has been duly advertised as such.
Mr. Plummer: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: So we are going to make recommendations today? Are we going to
hear from the advisory board and all of that?
Mr. Castaneda: Too, yes, Maria Elena...
Mayor Suarez: That's today?
Mr. Plummer: See, that isn't the way I understood it.
Mr. Dawkins: That's not what's on the agendal
Mr. Castanoda: This is the first public hearing on community development...
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it, hold it, hold it.
Mayor Suarez: It is the first public hearing?
Mr. Plummer: We'll have two?
Mr. Castaneda: If you wish.
Mr. Dawkins: Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Mr. Plummer: But one is all that's mandatory.
Mr. Castaneda: One is all that's mandatory.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): I don't know why, but Victor Estefan's wife and
family...
Mr. Dawkins: What number is this?
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): I saw her, I saw her. Sister, right? Or daughter,
eh?
Mr. Odio: Eighty-two.
Mr. Castaneda: Maria Elena Torano, the chairperson for the C.D. advisory...
Mayor Suarez: He was just wondering because, you know, making sure that the
item was on the agenda and that the people weren't here to waste their time
but we're going to go through... we intend to get to...
Mr. Dawkins: Too, but a lot of people who called my office, I told them that
this was not where we were going to award money. This was to accept the grant
and that the workshops and things had not bean held to award the money.
Mr. Castaneda: Well, last year, because of the confusion, you decided to have
workshops. If you want to proceed to have workshops with the Commission, we
can do that. We brought this item early so we would have time for anything.
The grant application doesn't have to be submitted till May 15, that's why we
came early to you.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. Mr. Castaneda, did your office present anything to my
office...
Mr. Castansda: Teo.
Mr. Dawkins: ... that says how such you were going to give each agency and
who it was going to?
Mr. Castaneda: Tom and it's this book that...
Mr. Dawkins: When did you all give that to so?
Mr. Castanoda: A week ago with the agenda back packet.
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Mr. Odio: It went out with the agenda.
Mr. Dawkins: Somebody... what's the name of that?
Mr. Castaneda: Eighty, I believe item 82.
Mr. Odio: Eighty-two.
Mr. Dawkins: Eighty-five, eighty-two what?
Mr. Odio: Item eighty-two.
Mr. Plummer: Miller.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no. What's the name of the item?
Mr. Plummer: City of Miami Community Development.
Mr. Dawkins: It was somebody in my office bring me the community development,
whatever they sent so that I can see the data it was stamped in my office,
please?
Mr. Castaneda: It went with the agenda and in addition, we sent you this book
which is background information. The book arrived on Monday, the package
arrived with the agenda.
Mr. Dawkins: Arrived !Monday?
Mr. Castaneda: The book? No, no.
Mr. Dawkins: Then I call the rule because you should have gotten it to me
Friday.
Mr. Castaneda: No, no, the book arrived on Monday. The agenda item for
discussion arrived with the agenda.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, no, no. If the book... all right, the book is what
you're talking from...
Mr. Castaneda: No.
Mr. Dawkins: ... and the book arrived - what's the date this vas come in?
Mr. Castaneda: We can talk from the agenda item, Commissioner.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I don't remember even that book arriving at my desk in the
last couple of.... did you get it?
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): It was in my office.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, this got to my office April 12th, OK?
Mr. Castaneda: Well, we can deal from the...
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): Maybe it was with the agenda package.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Today's the first day I saw it but I don't know when
It arrived.
Mr. Dawkins: So now you got - this is April 14th. That's not five working
days.
Mr. Castansda: No, no, we can deal from the agenda package that you had, item
82 on the agenda.
Mr. Plummer: Wall, wait a minute, wait, wait, wait. Why go through all of
this damn mechanics? If my Coswiseioner wants the matter deferred until the
next meeting, forget about all of this. OK, that's just that simple. That's
a long-standing rule of this Camaiasion that I've always adhered to. If one
of my colleagues say@ he needs more information to asks an intelligent vote,
he's got my vote to defer. And they've always honored me with the same
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unwritten rule. So let's don't have to go through this five day bit or
whatever.
Mr. Dawkins: The only thing that's got it is that we've got people here that
I would not want to inconvenience by having them come back. But it puts me in
a position where I'm not voting on nothing because I have not seen this, it
may be some items in here, I know there are some organizations in which I am
not satisfied with what you're giving them and I would want to see how to cut
and Siva others more money. There are some organizations in here that have
been left off that I'm concerned that they get some money. And I have not had
a chance to discuss that with nobody.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): I'm saying, but that's immaterial.
Mr. Dawkins: But, this...
Mayor Suarez: We're going to get to that item. It is on the agenda.
Mr. Dawkins: Is this the first reading?
Mayor Suarez: Tot...
Mr.
Dawkins: Is this the first reading?
Mayor Suarez: This is...
Mr.
Dawkins: Or the second reading or the final reading?
Mr.
Plummer: No, air.
Mr.
Castaneda: This is a public hearing to take input. As I said,
the
application doesn't have to be submitted till May 15th so we have plenty
of
time and we brought it early...
Mr.
Dawkins: Well, why bring the people here to discuss the distribution
of
the
money that we have not gotten? See, that's what I'm saying.
Mr.
Plummer (OFF MIKE): No, no, no, no.
Mr.
Dawkins: This is where we were supposed to authorize you to apply for
the
money.
Mr.
Plummer (OFF MIKE): No, we did that a month ago.
Mr.
Dawkins: Then, when the money comes, well then you got the money.
Mr.
Plummer (OFF MIKE): No, we did that a month ago.
Mr.
Dawkins: Beg pardon?
Mr.
Odio: Comsissioner, we did that a month ago.
Mr.
Plummer: We made the blanket application a month ago but no designation.
Mr.
Odio: Now, we made a blanket application. This is the first hearing.
We
are
prepared to make recosmandations on funding.
Mayor Suarez: You know what happens...
Mr.
Odio: If you don't want to hear it today, we...
Mayor Suarez: No, but you know what happens is the title that you've got, for
example, on the agenda, the implication is we're basically authorizing you to
submit a grant program statement and the implications we're basically applying
for the monies. Not that the actual allocations will be made at this
particular hearing and yet enough people apparently thought that this would be
the absolute final moment where that determination would be made, or hearing,
and so there's obviously that kind of confusion for them and what the
Commission wants to do is another question.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, also for the agenda, it does not indicate on the
agenda as normal - oh, it does at the top, I'm sorry, public hearing but not
down below. I stand corrected.
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Mayor Suarez: Of course the fact that very thick manual of information
receis..d _..ho..'- sufficien. 'Lime :o...
Mr. Odic: Mr. Mayor, it went out with the agenda April 8th.
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): OK. Apparently, according to Frank, it wasn't
obtained until Monday. Maria Elena, why don't we get to that item - we'll get
to it in it's due order. We're at 73, we'll be getting there very quickly.
Ms. Maria Elena Torano: Let me just say that perhaps and I agree, if you guys
are not familiar with the - if the Commission is not familiar with the book, I
think I'd definite defer it. However, we had a little visual presentation for
you to see number one, how the CDBG pie has been allocated with percentages
and also the recosimendations with amounts. And if you want to see that
visually and then just defer the discussion until the next meeting when you
have your data, it will be fine.
Mayor Suarez: From my perspective, it will make a lot of sense, but we will
want to see what the Commissioners want to do with the people who are here
expecting to be heard. I don't really know.
Mr. De Turre: Mr. Mayor, I think we have a problem with this confusion among
ourselves here as to what was supposed to be. Certainly, there are a lot of
people out there that didn't feel that they had to be here and if they
interpret this the other way, so certainly I think it would be prudent on our
part then to be fair to everyone that, you know, we defer this to the May 12th
meeting. And I'd like just to take the whole thing up at that time and if
Maria Elena has, you know, if she has some information that she wants to pass
on to us during this, you know, four week period, then, you know, get it to us
and than we'll be able to analyze your numbers.
Mayor Suarez: Unless the Commission wants to make that determination at this
point, I'd rather just go on with the rest of the items until we get to 82.
We're very close to getting there, we have a few appointments to make and a
few other things to do.
39. DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE REPORT IN CONNECTION WITH CREATION OF A
CITY OF MIAMI "UNSAFE STRUCTURES BOARD" (SEE LABELS 36 AND 58).
Mr. De Yurre: What we were talking about, Mr. Mayor was the demolition - the
unsafe structure board.
Mr. Pluasser: No, we ended on seventy...
Mr. De Turre: Well, that issue was part of the last item that we were on
and...
Mr. Plummer: We ended it on 72.
Mayor Suarez: Seventy-two rather. And then I know you got into...
Mr. De Turre: And then we got into the unsafe structure board.
Mayor Suarez: But we never finished on the questions on 72. What did you
want from the administration on the matter you were talking about,
Commissioner?
Mr. De Yurre: Well, I've been talking, I just wanted for it to be on the
record. It seeme like if there's a procedure for us to create our own board
and the estimated cost of the board would be approximately $300,000. Right
now, we're looking for is a vehicle to be able, through the lien process, to
fund this money so, accordingly, there's about a year overlap in the sense
that it takes about a year to get our monies with the sale of the liens so we
may have to, at the beginning, you know, put up the first three hundred, then
we get it back as the process continues.
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Mayor Suarez: So it begins to revolve. Did you get the package on that that
was being prepared by Jerry Gereaux because I haven't gotten it yet.
Mr. De Turre: No, I haven't seen it yet.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. De Yurre: But I think...
Mayor Suarez: Do you want to instruct the administration on this issue at
this point?
Mr. De Turre: Wall, I'd like to see if we can get a motion going to instruct
the administration to give some formality to this and we can, hopefully,
within the next two or three meetings we can not up the board and get it
rolling.
Mayor Suarez: Would the powers include all the powers that the county's
Unsafe Structures Board has or would you want to explore the different
alternatives?
Mr. De Turre: I'd like to have the necessary powers that we can get this
thing rolling and start taking care of a lot of these dilapidated properties
that we have throughout the City.
Mayor Suarez: Why don't you make a motion then - we'll entertain a motion to
instruct the Manager to report back to us - when do you want him to report
back to us on that possibility and any of the...
Mr. De Yurre: Well, May 12th would be fine.
Mayor Suarez: OK, the expenditures related thereto and how we might get it
going. Jerry had one other idea which was an in between idea. It didn't
reach as far as declaring something an unsafe structure and demolishing it,
but only to the point of boarding it up and he said that it could be an
appearance type ordinance.
Mr. De Yurre: You know, the thing is that these elements out there, you know,
they just move in and since they're boarded up they can carry on their illegal
activities without anybody realizing that they're in there and that goes on
today. So, you know, I don't think that's going to take care of the problem.
Mayor Suarez: There was one feature of that idea that would prevent anyone
from going in there but he ought to make a report to us at the appropriate
moment. OK, I'll entertain that in the form of a motion.
Mr. De Turre: Yes, I move.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved
Its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-331
A MOTION DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE A
REPORT IN CONNECTION WITH THE CREATION OF A CITY OF
MIAMI "UNSAFE STRUCTURES BOARD" WITH AN INITIAL
PROPOSED BUDGET OF $200,000, SAID REPORT TO INCLUDE
ALL NECESSARY DATA IN CONNECTION WITH THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF SAID BOARD, PLUS A BREAKDOWN OF
ANTICIPATED EXPENDITURES; AND FURTHER REQUESTING THE
CITY MANAGER TO BRING BACK HIS RECOMMENDATION AT THE
MEETING PRESENTLY SCHEDULED FOR MAY 12, 1988.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
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AT23: Cawaissioeer Victor De Turre
Co=aissioner hiller J. Dawkins
Ce Jssioner J. L. *111wo• '-
♦ice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOEB: None.
ABSENT: None.
40. DEFER PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE APPROPRIATING $901,95S ALLOCATED
AS BUDGET FUNDS IN THE 12 YEAR CITYWIDE DEMOLITION OF SUBSTANDARD
BUILDINGS PROJECT (SEE LABEL 35).
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Mayor Suarez: Item 72 then, Commissioner Plummer was inquiring...
Mr. Odio: I'd like to have that one...
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF NIKE): Mr. Mayor, be...
Mayor Suarez: ... Manager, Vice Mayor, Madam Vice Mayor...
Mr. Odio: May I have it deferred please?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Can I do something before we continue?
Mayor Suarez: You want to defer 727
Mr. Odio: Until May 12th, please.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. De Yurre: Which one is 72?
Mayor Suarez: Commissioners, does somebody want to move to defer 72?
Mrs. Kennedy: So moved.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
UPON NOTION DULY MADE BY VICE MAYOR KENNEDY AND SECONDED BY
COMMISSIONER PLUMMER, ITEM 72 WAS DEFERRED TO THE COMMISSION
MEETING OF MAY 12, 1988 BY A UNANIMOUS VOTE.
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41. CO -DESIGNATE I.W. 34TH AVENUE FROM FLAGLER 31P3ST TC S -11. '_ = ^.EET AS
"COLONEL VICTOR ESTEFAM BOULEVARD".
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suaress Vice Mayor Kennedy.
Mrs. Kennedy: I have a pocket item. All of us have been saddened with the
death of Officer Eatefan a couple of weeks ago while carrying out his duty as
a Mimi police officer. He was a man who took his job seriously and with
compassion. He was loved by everybody. Today his f roily is here and I would
like to propose a codesignation of S.W. 34th Avenue, from Flagler Street to
S.W. 3rd Street, as Colonel Victor Estefan Boulevard. And I so move.
Mayor Suares: So moved.
Mr. Plummier (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. 88-332
A RESOLUTION CO -DESIGNATING SOUTHWEST 34TH AVENUE FROM
FLAGL.ER STREET TO SOUTHWEST 3RD STREET, MIAMI,
FLORIDA, AS "COLONEL VICTOR ESTEFAN BOULEVARD";
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 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.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: MEMBERS OF COLONEL ESTEFAN'S FAMILY WERE PHOTOGRAPHED
WITH THE COMMISSION.
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NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AGENDA ITEM 73 WAS WITHDRAWN by THE CITT
ATTORNEY.
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42. AUTHORIZE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO ADVERTISE AND DISTRIBUTE RFP FOR
FINANCIAL ADVISORT SERVICES TO THE CITT OF MIAMI - APPOINT REVIEW
COMM I77 .
Mayor Suarez: Item 75.
Mr. Odio: This is to authorize the finance director to advertise and
distribute our request for proposals for financial advisory services for a two
year period and appointing a review committee. The existing contract is
expired. James Lowry had it and we need to proceed to replace the committee.
Mrs. Kennedy: Whose appointments are these?
Mr. Carlos Garcia: We would like every member of the City Commission to
appoint a person to the selection committee. If you don't have the names now,
you can give them to the Manager later on.
Mayor Suarez: Item 75.
Mrs. Kennedy: I have mine. Do I do it here or do I tell you?
Mayor Suarez: Why don't you go ahead and give us the name that you propose,
Vice Mayor Kennedy. That way...
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, Howard Glicken.
Mayor Suarez: What do you recommend?... finance knowledge, accounting, all of
the above, what?
Mr. Garcia: Financial knowledge mainly, someone that is knowledgeable of the
security markets and...
Mayor Suarez: Going to find somebody that is not involved in any of the
City's activities.
Mr. Garcia: I think Mercy_ mentioned that maybe Jeffrey Watson from your
office may want to serve in that committee.
Mayor Suarez: It is OK to have one of our own staff members?
Mr. Garcia: I would think so.
Mayor Suarez: I'd like to have Jeffrey serve on that. Anyone else? OK, I
entertain a motion on 75.
Mr. Plummer: So moved.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Pluoner, who
moved its adoption:
RRCArUTtON Nn 6e-133
A RKSOLUTION AUTMORIZING AND INSTRUCTING THE DIRECTOR
OF FINANCE TO ADVERTISE AND DISTRIBUTE THE ATTACHED
RsQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES
FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR A TWO-YEAR TERN PERIOD, AND
APPOINTING A REVIEW COMMITTEE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Comsmissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
43. A) APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD.
(APPOINTED WERE: TESSI GARCIA, ARMANDO CAZO AND PELAYO GONZALO FRAGA.)
B) APPOINT CERTAIN OTHER INDIVIDUALS TO THE LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD.
(APPOINTED WERE: ROCKFALL SANCHEZ AND RAUL HERNANDEZ.)
Mayor Suarez: Yes, item 76, we have five individuals in three categories to
the Latin Quarter Review Board.
Mr. Plummer: Who are they?
Mr. Odio: I believe Commissioner Dawkins has two appointments and Mayor
Suarez has one and Commissioner Kennedy has two.
Mr. Dawkins: What board?
Mayor Suarez: The Latin Quarter Review Board, your prior members were Armando
Cazo and Rudy Sanchez, according to this.
Mr. Dawkins: I'll reappoint them.
Mayor Suarez: I move to reappoint Pelayo Flags.
Mrs. Kennedy: I move to reappoint Tessi Garcia and change Carlos Mencio with
Raul Hernandez.
Mayor Suarez: OK, I entertain that in the form of a motion.
Mr. Plummer: So moved.
Mr. Dawkins: So moved, second.
Mayor Suaraz: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll on 76.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLVT!
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE
CITY OF MIAMI LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD FOR
APPROXIMATELY A TWO YEAR TERM OF OFFICE ENDING
FEBRUARY 27, 1990.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
MOTION 88-334.1
A MOTION APPOINTING RODOLFO SANCHEZ AND RAUL HERNANDEZ
TO THE LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motions were passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
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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44. APPOINTMENTS TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION ADVISORY BOARD (APPOINTED WERE:
DONALD BENJAMIN, GREG BORGOGNONI AND LAWRENCE CRAWFORD).
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Mayor Suarez: Item 77, we have individuals being appointed to fill vacancies
on the Affirmative Action Advisory Board...
Mr. Odio: Commissioner Plummer has two appointments. Mayor Suarez has two
and Commissioner Kennedy has one. Laverne Nolte, and another one was vacant
and Mayor Suarez had Jose Solana, and Roger Biambi, and Vice Mayor Kennedy had
Edna Martinez.
Mrs. Kennedy: Is Lawrence Crawford mine also?
Ms. Hattie Daniels: Yes.
Mr. Odio: Yes.
No. Daniels: Tax, that was a reappointment.
Mr. Plummer: I'll give you my two by the next mating.
Mr. Odio: That is an incumbent OK.
Mayor Suarez: I nominate, for my two, Patrick White and Greg Burginoni.
Ms. Daniels: Excuse me, Mr. Mayor. Patrick White is already a member of the
board, but his term has not expired.
Mayor Suarez: So, it there is no use appointing somebody who is still in and
active. OK, I am going to have to reserve one than. I'll nominate Greg
Burginoni, attorney. Anyone else?
Mrs. Kennedy: How about Lawrence Crawford? Is his term still current, or has
it expired?
Me. Daniels: No, Mr. Crawford's term has expired, and he wishes to be
reappointed.
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Mrs. Kennedy: I'll reappoint his.
Mayor Suarez: So moved. Don Benjamin, want to serve on the Affirmative Action
Advisory board?
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND CONMRNTS NOT ENTERED INTO TNI PUBLIC RECORD.
Mayor Suarez: What board are you on?
Mrs. Kennedy: And Narie tells him no.
Mr. Donald Benjamin (OFF NIKE): The Planning Advisory Board.
Mayor Suarez: Is that a problem? Can he be on Planning Advisory and
Affirmative Action?
Mr. Dawkins: I don't have any appointments, right?
Mrs. Dougherty: He may be able to, I don't know if the Affirmative Action
board, he would rise to the nature of an officer.
Mayor Suarez: Subject to that legal.... potential legal obstacle, I'd like to
Dominate you, if you would accept. Would someone put those in the fors of a
nomination?
Mrs. Kennedy: Novo it.
Mr. Dawkins: Novo it, second.
Mr. Plummer: Move, second.
Mayor Suarez: Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissionor Konnedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-335
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO FILL
FIVE VACANCIES ON THE CITY OF MIAMI AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
ADVISORY BOARD AND REAPPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO
SAID BOARD.
(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:
ATES: Commissioner Victor Do Yurre
Cosmissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Cossaissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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45. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EMPLOY DELOITTE HASKINS 6 SELLS TO ANALYZE AND
DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE CITY'S TE"LOMhudiLALAU vS
EQUIPMENT SYSTEM (See label 1S).
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Is Ron Williams here? Mr. Williams, what item did you say you
needed?
Mr. Ron Williams: 31.
Mr. Dawkins: 31? Let me look... no, wait a minute, now. I might be able to
help you, but let's...
Mr. Plummer: It's on the telephones.
Mr. Dawkins: That's on the telephones?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: It's against my better judgment, but I move 31.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded.
Mr. Dawkins: Hey, it is a consultant, I know, but he says he needs it, I
mean... he says he needs it.
Mayor Suarez: OK, we have a motion and a second.
Mr. Dawkins: He says he has got to have it, so I don't want to tie him up. I
move it and J. L. seconded it.
Mayor Suarez: An accounting firm is the ideal consultant to determine what
phone system we should have?
Mr. Plummer: Oh yes. Mr. Mayor, you are talking about a system that could be
in the neighborhood of everywhere from $600,000 to a $1,000,000 system, and
these systems today are complex as far as what features you have, what
features you don't have. It is just like going out and buying a computer.
You get somebody that is expert in the field, that advises you, and if they
are worth their salt, they will save you that much money.
Mr. Dawkins: Or also, he will consult and tell you how much you should spend.
Mr. Plummer: Or how much you just gypped.
Mr. Dawkins: And you see, I mean, I don't know, but what can you do.
Mr. Do Turre: Under discussion. Is his system to be used under the I -Not
system?
Mr. Ron Williams: Lot me, if I may, Commissioner, make a distinction. The I -
Not is a medium. We are here asking your approval to proceed with the
promise equipment side of it.
Mr. Do Turre: I know, but what system are you going to be using? What modem?
Mr. Dawkins: That's right.
Mr. Williams: I'm sorry? We will... this equipment will be with our present
essex system.
Mr. Do Turre: OK, I -Net has nothing to do with this?
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Mr. Villiams: Not at this point, no, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no. Mill it have something to do at a further point? You
say, not at this point.
Mr. Villiams: We are continuing to evaluate that and it is quite possible
that there will areas by which we may use it.
Mr. Odio: The first step of I -Not, Commissioner Dawkins, will be the computer
lines, which will save about $250,000 a year. The reason we don't we don't
have our network...
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, I've been hearing us saving money with
communications and computers ever since I've been here and every time I look
up, we ain't got no money.
Mr. Odio: Mr. Dawkins...
Mr. Dawkins: Now, what happens to the money we save?
Mr. Odio: The I -Not system has not been completed by the cable company, and
we have...
Mr. Dawkins: OK, tell you what I am going to do. Mr. Manager, I'm going to
tell you what I am going to do against my better judgment, because Mr.
Williams says he needs this, I'm going to go with it, and I am going to send
you a memo in the morning. At the next Commission meeting, I want you to
explain to me, ovary consultant we had, concerning telecommunications. I want
the report that we paid for that they did, and I also want to know what we are
getting out of the I -Net system, how much equipment we bought and is sitting
idly doing nothing, waiting until you... we decide that we are going to hook
into it and I want a full discussion, and at that time, we will know where we
are. Bring me that report off my desk, out there, somebody, about the last
communications report we spent money for, please.
Mayor Suarez: When was it?
Mr. De Yurre: While you are waiting on that, I am still not through with I -
Net concept. Now, I -Net, we got what, in 186 we got title to that system?
Mr. Odio: We didn't get title, because it hasn't been completed. When the
system is completed, we will be able to use it, and...
Mr. Do Yurre: Didn't this City negotiate with the cable company and we gave
up hundreds, if not millions of dollars in exchange for the I -Net system.
Mr. Odio: The City, in exchange for... that is correct, Commissioner.
Mr. Do Yurre: What are we getting, what do we get for the stuff, all the
money that we gave up...
Mr. Odio: We are finding the company... how much have we fined them already
for noncompliance on the contract? What was the amount?
Mr. Carlos Smith: I think we under, for arbitration, we have I think close to
$500,000.
Mr. Odio: We have $500,000 of fines. We are fining that company for not
having complied on time, with the system.
Mr. Smith: If I may, let me address a couple of issues on the subject.
Mr. De Yurre: Yes, but let me ask, that $500,000 is that the same as the
$900,000 that we forgave, about two years ago, the same concept?
Mr. Smith. No, the $977,000 is being held in abeyance. As a result of that
agreement back in 186, they are supposed to finish certain cross -sections of
the City as far as wires going through on top of the streets. They have until
November 18, I believe, of this year to complete that. If they are not
completed by that time, then we take that money back, but as part of the
agreement, they have until that time.
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Mr. De Turre: OK, the I -Net system that we got, we traded millions of
dollars, or our rights to millions of dollars, for a system that was given to
us that was not complete?
Mr. Odio. I think I need to clarify that, Commissioner, because it sounds
like we gave away millions of dollars. We have $3,000,000 that we are billing
the cable company, 1965-'84, and we, according to the law office and the
lawyers that we had in Washington have little chance of ever collecting those
$3,000,000; so when the negotiations went on in 186, we forgave the $3,000,000
in exchange for one of these things, that we needed to get the I -Net system,
which is supposed to save us around $250,000 to $500,000 a year.
Mr. De Turre: but, didn't we also have a right for a drug type program that
we would getting hundreds of thousands of dollars annually?
Mr. Odio: We ware supposed to get what? - $300,000 a year for the drug
program.
Mr. Smith: I believe no.
Mr. Odio: If my memory doesn't...
Mr. Smith: As you know, Commissioner...
Mr. De Turre: And there was no issue as to whether we had a right to that, or
not.
Mr. Plummer: Too, there was an issue.
Mr. Odio: There was an issue.
Mr. Plummer: Each one of these things, Victor, had an issue, and the real
issue resolved down to the fact of who had the right to franchise. Did the
County overtake the City's right through their minimum standard ordinance,
when the Federal communications said the most that you can collect on a
franchise fee is 3 percent. When you put all of these things together, it
came up to like 7 or 8 percent, so something had to give to be in compliance,
and that is where the argument on each and every one of these issues came in.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no.
Mr. Plummer: Or with the FCC.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, here you got Deloitte Haskins and Sells, to analyze,
and develop and recommend, OK? Nov, here you got a cable communications
management subcommittee preliminary communications system analyses, final
report, 1987. Nov, from the same group, now Mr. Smith come up and say, this
is free, this vas free. I keep telling you people, nothing is free! Every
time you come up here with one of these CPA firms who come in and do a study
to tell us how to save money, then you hire them to develop that same plan, so
this guy coises up and does something for free to tell you how you can save
money, now you are going to pay him $35,000. He developed this in order for
you to pay his $35,000.
Mr. Plummer: That's what's called soft dollars.
Mr. Dawkins: I mean, it is just I mean... Mr. Williams, I just can't see what
you are doing, I really don't.
Mr. Williams: Let me again, Commissioner. We are talking about a medium
hare, when you talk about the I -Net. All I am asking you to do is to allow us
to proceed with the implementation of the telecommunications program, and as
the medium for the telecommunications program, we have an...
Mayor Suarez: Can we translate that to mean that we are going to get new
phones, is that what you are trying to say?
Mr. Williams: Absolutely, Mr. Mayor, that is all.
_ Mayor Suarez: OK, but the only thing I am saying, Mr. Williams, is that if
this company, through its generosity, did a study for free, OK?
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Mr. De Turret Sure it was for free?
Mr. Dawkins: All right, for free, to tell me what you are telling me, why do
;.,,� :...: ... cone back and I pay them $35,000 for them to tell me, as J.L.,
seye, whether I an getting $500,000 worth of service, or $5,000,000.
Mr. Williams: Because, Commissioner I am going to come back before you with a
package to ask you to spend approximately a million dollars to replace all the
telephones in the City, and I want to make sure that when I come before you
with that recommendation, I have &eked people who understand this industry and
know it and appreciate the technology of it, and I am on firm footing with
that recommendation.
Mr. De Turret Well, about a month ago it was only $500,000.
Mr. Williams: $500,000, Commissioner is the amount we are paying on an annual
basis for rental. I am talking about total exchange, about which I should pay
back the total commitment within 24 months. $570,000 is the exact dollar
amount.
Mr. Dawkins: Like I told you, I am doing this against my better judgment, OK,
but I guarantee you that when they come back with whatever you pay them
$35,000 for, if it doesn't spell out in clear, precise English, what we need,
what we are going to get, and that you don't need another 30 to 20 years, I'm
not voting for it.
Mr. Williams: I assure you that will happen, Commissioner.
Mayor Suarez: Let me ask you a couple of questions, and maybe we shouldn't
get too deeply into this, I suppose, it is a technical area, but what exactly
are we hoping to accomplish with the study, and presumably later, what will
probably be a large expenditure to re -due the system? I mean, are we trying
to get more capability, more overall capability of phone calls coming in and
out, or quicker response? What are we trying to accomplish?
Mr. Dawkins: What, trying to save money, or what?
Mayor Suarez: Well, are we trying to... exactly, are we trying to economize
in some way?
Mr. Williams: The first item, Mr. Mayor, is clearly to change our antiquated
equipment and move...
Mayor Suarez: That's not good enough. It looks antiquated, but it works
awfully well. I mean, that's not good enough!
Mr. Williams: OK, well but the...
Mayor Suarez: And some people might think it should be preserved for
historical reasons, God knows, I don't know.
Mr. Williams: The cost of that, Mr. Mayor, again is $570,000 rental per year.
I want to proceed...
Mayor Suarez: Of the one we have got?
Mr. Williams: Of the one that you got. I want to proceed to purchase that
equipment and add the newer technology and be completely free of rental
payment for telephone equipment within 24 years.
Mayor Suarez: So we think maybe by purchasing the existing equipment...
Mr. Williams: No, this is the...
Mayor Suarez% Oh, new equipment.
Mr. Williams: This is new equipment.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, you just told me what I need to do, now why do I got to
pay $35,000?
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Mayor Suarez: Teo, that's it, you see now he says that you told everything we
need to do, so why do we need the consultant for?
nr. wiiiiams: secause we are going into a very technical market wherein we
are asking people to come in and present to us a complicated package and we
want to make sure that when we come back before this board, you will clearly
feel that you got a full understanding of what we are asking you to approve.
Mayor Suarez: Is the basic purpose then, to economize? Do we have anything
else in mind?
Mr. Williams: The basic purpose is to economize, to reduce our
telecommunications cost.
Mr. Plummer: Well, now, that is the basic, but there is also, Mr. Mayor, the
system we have is outdated.
Mayor Suarez: In which sense? It looks old?
Mr. Plummer: It's old, OK? The system that is...
Mayor Suarez: It's fine for me if it works. You are looking older and older
every day, but we are not replacing youl Just yetl
Mr. Plummer: You better remember who the undertaker is.
Mayor Suarez: No, I mean, that's not good enough. What else? I mean,
presumably it is old, therefore it breaks down, therefore what?
Mr. Odio: Let me explain something that I just learned a few months ago. We
are paying a rate, for instance, and we have to have an expert that knows all
of this. We are paying a rate for having this system that we have when you
dial four numbers, we paid a rate to go downtown and then back here again, how
much did we pay that a year, just on that alone?
Mr. Williams: Oh, that was over $400,000, and we didn't even use that.
Mr. Odio: $400,000 a year to do that)
Mayor Suarez: But, if we tie into the I -Net system, do we not avoid that?
Mr. Odio: We are trying to... the I -Net will be an internal...
Mr. Smith: The I -Net is internal, you can't...
Mayor Suarez: That is the one he was just talking about, the four numbers
means internal. Don't confuse me, now.
Mr. Smith: The I -Net... that is correct, but the I -Net is all internal. You
still need the lines to walk by, you need the...
Mr. Dawkins: Just the budget.
Mayor Suarez: But he was just talking about the four numbers That's
internal. OK, now...
Mr. Odio: To do a complete study so we know what we are getting, because we
are not experts. We don't want to come here and...
Mayor Suarez: But you are sharp, logical, common sensible people, some of the
time.
Mr. De Yurre: Let we ask this question. Do you have... you must have a
breakdown of what it is going to represent dollar -via*, the new system,
compared to what we have today. Did you include replacement, because if we buy
It, then if that thing breaks down, we got to pay for the new one, which we
don't right now. You have all of those numbers, I presume.
Mr. Williams: What I have available at this point, is a projection as to what
the replacement, plus extended warranty period will cost. I do not have
future years, five, six years, to what it is going to cost to replace that.
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Mr. be Turre: Have we had a... I don't know if anybody else has seen those
numbers. You know, in order to make that kind of a decision, whether to spend
$35,000 in a study to buy a new system, I think that we should at least be
made ewer• of those numbers and...
Mr. Williams: We are not taking you to buy that system now, Commissioner. I
am going to come back to you with a proposal at that time. When I ask you to
spend $1,000,000 then, then I will provide to you all future expenses.
Mr. De Turre: Well, hold it, Ron. The study isn't this study to find out the
needs of each department as far as their phone equipment, what they need?
Mr. Williams: Not completely. We've asked you to provide us... we've asked
all of the Commisaion offices and the rest of the City departments, to provide
us that information. Of course, we need support in terms of interpreting that
data and turning it into a hard instrument that sits on your desk, but as it
relates to the complete analysis as to what systems need to talk to others,
the switching equipment, what package we actually need to come back to you,
and may: 'This is what we need to meet the City's needs," as compared to
something more or less. All right, we need the support to make that kind of
an analysis.
Mayor Suarez: Do you have any idea off the top of your head, which are the
most used numbers, or lines or anything, in the City of Miami? I mean, do we
have a problem with that? I know I have a problem with that.
Mr. Williams: Your office is one of course. We are doing...
Mayor Suarez: Is this going to solve that in some way?
Mr. Williams: We are doing traffic studies, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Is this going to tell people, please not to call as much, or to
call his office or something?
Mr. De Yurre: Redirect to the Manager's office.
Mr. Williams: No, the media will still be there.
Mayor Suarez: See, because it... I mean, some days ve get frustrated, because
it is true that all lines are busy and everything else, but some days I also
feel that maybe it is just as well, because it means that they are getting the
message that it just a bit too much out there. People are calling, Jerry
Parker is calling 10 times a day, Lorie Weldon, I don't know how many times.
Where is Lorie out there? I mean, yes, 10 times a week, at least.
Mr. Williams: Mr. Mayor, the hard equipment won't affect your...
Mr. Dawkins: You left out Anne Marie Adker.
Mayor Suarez: We've got a special line for Anne Marie. Do you have a
concern, as to, for example, my office, specifically, that we have an under -
capacity of lines? Is this going to solve this in any way, other than just
paying for more lines?
Mr. Williams: Again, Mr. Mayor, this is not the medium. We are doing traffic
studies to sake a determination as to whether or not...
Mayor Suarez: Just the equipment then?
Mr. Williams: We are talking equipment here, we are talking premise
equipment - equipment and switching.
Mayor Suarez: Are you going to get some of that fancy equipment that you have
to refer calls like I have in my law firm, that I can never figure out,
Instead of the nice stuff that you push the buttons and somebody is on the
same button, they can both hear at the same time and it works very easy and
logical and simple?
Mr. Williams: In those areas, Mr. Mayor, and we need sophistication, we'll of
course talk to you about that.
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Mayor Suarez: That sophistication is going to drive us crazy.
Mr. Williams: Hopefully we •ill go back to a very basic system and a low cost
Mayor Suarez: But, they have eliminated those systems, the nice push button
phones. you are not going to recommend those, are you? The ones, you know,
press all the way down, and if somebody else is on the same line, and they
press down, they also hear, and you can yell across the room, "Grab line 11,"
and both of you on the same line, with the same individual, resolving some
kind of a problem? We are not going to see those, are we?
Mr. Williams: I'm not certain what the recommendation will be at this point,
Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Tou are going to give us the nice, sophisticated stuff that
nobody understands how to work, and I can sae where we are going.
Mr. Williams: We hope that the system is basic and meets the needs of the
City, that is essentially where we are trying to go.
Mr. De Turre: Put it to a vote.
Mayor Suarez: OK, anything further on this item? Do we have a motion?
Ms. Hirai: Teo, sir, we do.
Mr. Dawkins: I moved it.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins moved it. Do we have a second?
Mr. Plummer: I seconded it.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Further discussion? Call the roll
on 31.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-336
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EMPLOY THE
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES OF DELOITTE HASKINS h SELLS TO
ANALYZE AND DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING THE CITY OF
MIAMI'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT SYSTEM FOR GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT, COMMUNICATIONS
SERVICES DIVISION; ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$35,000 THEREFOR FROM THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
DEPARTMENT OPERATING BUDGET.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clark.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Cosstissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Corisaioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
NOES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
ABSENT: None
Mayor Suaret: No, I can't see it. Thank you, Ron.
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46 AFFIRM CITY MANAGER'S FINDING OF SOLE SOURCE - APPROVE ACQUISITION OF 24
PORTABLE 6-euBr1.6NT $00 MFIs n(VNKED RADIOS AND BATTERY CHARGERS FROM
MOTOROLA COMMUNICATIONS AND ELECTRONICS, INC. FOR DEPARTMENT OF PARKS,
RECREATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES.
Mayor Suarez: Item 78.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Item 78 has been moved. Do we have a second?
Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Are these cheaper than what we are using now?
Mr. Williams: Teo, absolutely.
Mr. Plummer: Not only are they cheaper, but the problem has been with any of
these tremendously big activities of a million people or more, they have
always lost them, or things of that nature. This will set aside individually
for those events, special events.
Mrs. Kennedy: Right, and this can be used in the Orange Bowl, for big games,
right?
Mr. Plummer: Anywhere.
Mr. Williams: Absolutely, and other events, Vice Mayor.
Mr. Plummer: Anywhere in Dade County.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, radios are very valuable when you have big events.
Mr. Dawkins: You know, when we started this... here we go again. When we
started with this 800 megahertz, you spent a ton of money, and that was
supposed to be it. Now, we are coming back, spending another $50,000...
Mayor Suarez: Anything further on 78? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-337
A RESOLUTION, BY A 4/5TH 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 TWENTY FOUR (24)
PORTABLE 6-SUB FLEET 8000 MHZ TRUNKED RADIOS AND BATTERY
CHARGERS FROM MOTOROLA COMMUNICATIONS & ELECTRONICS, INC.
AT THE PROPOSED COST OF $43.000.00 FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
PARKS, RECREATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE 1988 OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNT CODE NOS.
580303-840 ($10,800.00) 580301-840 ($6,000.00) 580402-840
($19,000.00) 580403-840 ($3,600.00) 580407-840
($3,600.00); 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 Clark.)
Upon being seconded by Cosmissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
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Cosssissioner victor De Turre
Casaissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Wonn*dv
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
Commissioner Miller J.
WAIVE PROHIBITION AGAINST TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS WITH CITY OFFICIAL AS
APPLIED TO PAT SKUBISH (P.S. CONSULTANTS, INC.) (ZONING BOARD MEMBER);
AUTHORIZE AGREEMENT WITH P.S. CONSULTANTS, INC. FOR PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH PUBLIC RELATIONS/MARKETING FOR PHASE I -
SOUTHRAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT. (NOTE:
THIS ITEM WAS LATER RECONSIDERED AND ULTIMATEL ADOPTED, SEE LABELS 66(A)
AND 74(A) AND (B).)
Mayor Suarez: Item 79. Waiving the two year requirement as to Pat Skubish.
Mrs. Kennedy: Move it.
Mr.. Dawkins: Move.
Mayor Suarez: Do we have second? Do we have a quorum?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: What happened to the cameras that were here before? They
decided that it wasn't worth it?
Mr. Plummer: They couldn't get anybody to sponsor the afternoon session.
Mayor Suarez: No commercial sponsors for the afternoon. We have a motion and
a second. Any further discussion on 79? Call the roll..
The following
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO
Commissioner
A RESOLUTION WAIVING, BY A 4/5TH AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF
THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION AFTER A DULY
ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, THE PROHIBITION AGAINST THE
TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS WITH A CITY OFFICIAL AS SUCH
PROHIBITION APPLIES TO PAT SKUBISH AS PRESIDENT AND
OWNER OF P.S. CONSULTANTS, INC., WHO IS ALSO A MEMBER
OF THE CITY'S ZONING BOARD; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE
TO THB CITY ATTORNEY, WITH P.S. CONSULTANTS, INC., IN
AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $25,000 FOR THE ACQUISITION OF
PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS/MARKETING SERVICES FOR
THE PHASE I PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK
WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PROTECT; WITH MONIES
THEREFOR ALLOCATED FOR SAID AGRZIMWT FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT'S F.T. 1967-88 BUDGETED
FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
0
ATES. Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario wenneay
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES. None.
ABSENT: None.
COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL:
Mr. De Turre: Mr. Mayor, for the record, they are only scheduled to have a
half day. It was a trial thing to see if everything ran well, so...
Mayor Suarez: OK, we don't know how to...
Mrs. Kennedy: For every Commission meeting, or just as a try out? Will they
be covering only half a day?
Mr. De Turre: No, no, just today, they make sure... you know.
Ms. Kennedy: Oh, just for today.
Mr. Plummer: That's not true They didn't come here this afternoon because
they were talking bad about telecommunications.
Mayor Suarez: I thought you were going to point at one of the Commissionerst
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4S. WAIVE COMPETITIVE SELECTION PROCEDURES - FOR SELECTION OF CONSULTANT TO
PROVIDE ARCHITECTURAL/ENGINEERING PROJECT MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR
•ORANGE BOWL MODERNIZATION PROJECT" IN CONNECTION WITH PHASE I OF SAID
PROJECT. (CONSULTANT SELECTED: KUNDE, SPRECHER, TASKIN 6 ASSOCIATES,
INC.)
Mayor Suarez: Item SO.
Mrs. Kennedy: Orange Bowl modernization.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor... Cesar, do you want to do this, or do you want me
to? Mr. Mayor, as you know, we have had ongoing meetings with both the
University of Miami and the Orange Bowl Committee. Those meeting are going
along very, very, well, and commitments of long term are in the works and look
very, very good. One of the things that had been a stumbling block, which we
agreed is a stumbling block, even until the current contract of '91, is the
area of the press -box and the availability of that area for the press. What
item 80 does, in fact, is to correct those problems that presently exist in
the press box area of the Orange Bowl, and to get them completed prior to the
opening game in September with Florida State. I think that this will go a
long way to show good faith on our part, the City's part, to may to the
University of Miami, and the Orange Bowl Committee, that we are willing to put
our money where our mouth is, we will do this, but we are looking to you for
long term contracts with a very agreed negotiated settlement, so I move item
80, Mr. Mayor, with pleasure, and so that this work can get started, be fast
tracked and finished before the first game in September.
Mayor Suarez: Do we have a motion?
Mr. Plummer: I so move.
Mayor Suarez: Mr. Manager, I don't know if we are going to have a second for
this, at this point, but let me, on phase II... he is getting a second, I
$uses...
Mrs. Kennedy: Wall, the second is...
Mr. Plummer: On the Orange Bowl.
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Mrs. Kennedy: Oh, Yes.
Mayor Suarez: OK, on phase Ii, then, we have a second, so I guess we are at
Issue here. What is this talk about :n :...provem@nts?
Mr. Odio: This is two phases, the second phase would be the new ramps, new
bathrooms, more concession arees. I get more bathrooms than we have now. It
will be a total new Orange Bowl when we are through with it.
Mayor Suarez: OK now, in view of the fact that we don't have a professional
football team playing there - we have a college team and a once a year classic
event, do you seriously think that this community, as to my vote, can support
a total of $15,000,000 in renovations to the Orange Bowl?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I'm happy, sir and I didn't want to let this cat out
of the bag now, but I think...
Mayor Suarez: You are going to talk about how we are going to fund this?
Mr. Plummer: No, sir, I think it is funded, all right?
Mayor Suarez: Tell me about it, because we could use $15,000,000 for many
things.
Mr. Plummer: All right, I've got to let you know. I hope it doesn't goof up
the negotiations. I've got to tell him. We have come to a point of agreement
at this particular point, in which each one of the tickets sold at the Orange
Bowl will pay a ticket fee of $1.00. We have experienced approximately
960,000 tickets per year in the Orange Bowl. The money will be funded from
that source as a guaranteed source of revenue that is not yet completely
signed, but the thing that we are working on, and it seems as how everybody is
in agreement, that will not cost the taxpayers of this community $1.00. It
will be paid for solely from that source of revenue. Now, the things that the
Manager told you about are the things that we are talking about, in the other
Instance - more concession facilities, more doubling the bathroom facilities,
it makes major improvements to the seating, the new ramps, completely new
ramps, much wider, much bigger, much more spacious.
Mrs. Kennedy: Elevator?
Mayor Suarez: What is wrong with the existing ramps?
Mr. Plummer: They don't handle the flow, Mr. Mayor, and from a security
standpoint...
Mayor Suarez: We don't have too many games where we have 80.000 people at the
Orange Bowl anymorel
Mr. Odio: We had almost a million people went to the Orange Bowl, the
ramps...
Mayor Suarez: But, not all at the same timel
Mr. Odio: There is a safety concern about the ramps there. They were built
way back in the 1930's, 14019.
Mr. Plummer: One set will be elevators.
Mayor Suarez: What's the safety concern?
Mr. Odio: Well, I guess I have to... (INAUDIBLE)
Mr. Plummer: It is control, security control.
Mr. Odio: Would you like to have a presentation on that?
Mr. Plummer: Well, may I suggest to the Mayor, this. Mr. Mayor, this phase
today is just the press box phase. It does not speak to the $14,000,000
issue. We were going...
Mayor Suarez: OK, let's talk about the press box.
ill April 14, 1988
Mr. Plummer: All right, air.
Mayor Suarez: How such money have we spent recently on press boxes at the
Orange Bowl?
Mr. Plummer: To my knowledge, none.
Mayor Suarez: I thought we just put a whole new row of press boxes?
Mr. Plummer: Oh, you are talking about down below? I don't consider that
press box.
Mayor Suarez: Sven though we don't have a professional team anymore, which
is... what did we add? We just added one row at the top? What did we just
do, and at what cost?
Mr. Odio: We added a new club seat area.
Mr. Plummer: But that is not a press box.
Mr. Odio: No, it is not a press...
Mayor Suarez: You always used to call it a press box when you came into my
office to tell me about it.
Mr. Plummer: No, this is brand new.
Mr. Odio: $500,000.
Mayor Suarez: Presumably that was to keep the University of Miami and the
Classic.
Mr. Odio: Well, we are making more money in the Orange Bowl today, Mr. Mayor,
without the Dolphins, so I think that the people have clearly...
Mayor Suarez: You have yet to prove that to us, but you know, we will be very
interested in seeing those figures. Well, you didn't have them completed last
time, because we hadn't had a complete fiscal year since they left.
Mr. Odio: I will be glad to give you a report, Mr. Mayor, and the Commission
on that.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins. When Kunde, Sprecher, Yaskin and
Associates prepare as consultants, the plans and specifications for the
renovations, what construction company will do the renovations?
Mr. Odio: We will have to go out on bids, Commissioner, on public bidding.
We have to go out and get the lowest bidder.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, in the event that Kunde, Taskin and Associates win the bid,
do we deduct the $60,000 from them because they were the consultants?
Mr. Odio: They will not be doing the physical work. They are not contractors.
Mr. Dawkins: They're engineers.
Mr. Odio: They're designer engineers.
Mayor Suarez: They could be involved in....
Mr. Dawkins: They are also engineers.
Mr. Pat Taskin: My now is Pat Taskin, representing Kunde Sprecher, Taskin.
We are an architectural engineering firm that will prepare the design plans
and coordinate with a construction firm, the implication of the improvements
that we are talking about today, that would on a fast track basis. In order
to implement the improvements at the University of Miami is insisting on, we
would have to go to a fast track arrangement with a construction management
firs.
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Mayor Suarez: Let me ask Walter a question. Do you have any idea how much it
would cost to paint the stadium? I have heard a lot of complaints about the
paint.
Mr. Walter Golby: No, sir, I don't have a figure like that. I imagine Ron...
Mayor Suarez: Tell us the last time it was painted, Walter.
Mr. Golby: It's been painted, maybe in quarters, over the last four, five
years, but Ron Williams would have that.
Mayor Suarez: That is the one complaint that I've heard from the users
lately, I mean, other than the things that we were talking about at the time
that we were trying to retain the Dolphins, of course, which had to do with
better seating, and we've installed... how many new most@ have we installed?
Mr. Odio: Now seats?
Mayor Suarez: The last two and one-half years.
Mr. Golby: About 48,000, 49,000.
Mayor Suarez: And we have also done the press box, or whatever you call it?
Mr. Odio: The university...
Mayor Suarez: The club house too? I mean, I remember the first thing that
was approved... I'm sorry?
Mr. Odio: The pro club, the pro club, under the gate 14, yes.
Mayor Suarez: Right, I remember the first thing that was approved, when I
started serving in the City, was a deal whereby we gave up our lawsuit against
the County on the water and sewer board issues and I got an agreement from
them, I believe it was to be implemented with the tourism development tax, or
the resort tax, which by the way, here, somebody refers to as Metro -Dade
tourist bed tax. It doesn't sound to me like the right kind of tax. It is
not really imposed by Metro -Dade and it is collected on 47 percent of which is
collected in the City of Miami, so it is Metro -Dade only in the sense that
they levy it and do the collecting, but they don't impose it, it is imposed by
the legislature. And it was like a $2,000,000 expenditure and it was all
going to be going to the Orange Bowl, and I believe we spent the bulk of that
$2,000,000 now. That's in two years.
Mr. Odio: We have maintenance areas that we need to maintain, and our...
Mayor Suarez: But that's $2,000,000 in two years. You understand?
Mr. Odio: Right, and if we...
Mayor Suarez: See, if you take into account... when we may that we have made
money on the Orange Bowl, if you take into account the fact that we have
spent... we have no debt service, the property is ours, but we are spending to
maintain it, improve it, enhance it, whatever you want to call it. Basically,
since I have been here, we've spending about $1,000,000 a year.
Mr. Odio: We want to maintain a first class facility, which we, I think the
City deserves. We're going to have to make a commitment, long term, to
maintain this facility as a first class facility.
Mayor Suarez: Has anybody done... the other question, has anybody done a
analysis, or, is somebody planning to with Kunde and Associates, be capable of
doing an analysis of price elasticity? Suppose we increase the price of the
seating by $1.O0 and lose the equivalent number of people in a year?
Mr. Plums r: Well, both the university and the Orange Bowl took that into
serious consideration, and they did not feel that there was any reason for
concern, that the dollar would be that effective, or detrimental, I guess.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor I have to say that, you know, we always seem to be
playing catchup. Now, it appears that here we are trying to got a head start.
All of us know that structurally, there has to be some maintenance done at the
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Orange Bowl, so we are going to have to bite the bullet and do these repairs.
If not, when you look up the Orange Bowl and the University of Miami will have
us in the same box that the Orioles have us in, and then we'll be running
around to do the things that they want done with a gun at our head, to as much
as we all know that, is something that I don't know, but we are going to have
quite a few highschool games played in there, and we so... it is something
that we just have to bite the bullet, Mr. Mayor, I think, and go ahead and do
this, because if we don't, eventually the Orange Bowl will tell us... OK, I
mean not tell us, they will demand that we make certain things, or lose the
Orange Bowl to, I don't know where. And also, the University of Miami has
said that they really want to play in the Orange Bowl, and then they tell us
that they are going someplace also, and we won't have it, then we'll really be
up the creek.
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, they would have to... they agreed to extend the
contract for 15 years, if we do the renovation, yes, sir.
Mr. Plussaer: They have not done that yet.
Mayor Suarez: When does it expire, the present one?
Mr. Plummer: 191.
Mr. Odio: '91.
Mrs. Kennedy: Is there any way, Mr. Manager...
Mr. De Turre: Well, yes, there are a lot of "ifs" here. If I may, Rosario,
for a second.
Mrs. Kennedy: Sure, go ahead.
Mr. De Turre: You know, we are talking about the great possibility that there
will be the OK to have the extra dollar, which is fine, because what we are
talking about is getting the job done. It doesn't cost the taxpayers a penny,
unless they want to go to the game. OK? So, that's fine, I have no problem
with that. What I have a problem with is the fact that we are going to OK
something now, we are going to be paying $60,000 up front, to an engineering
f irm, to start doing the work. What if we don't get the OK for the dollar?
What then?
Mr. Odio: We are not making a commitment to the $14,000,000 today,
Commissioner.
Mr. De Turre: But, we are making it to the nine hundred and some -odd
thousand!
Mr. Odio: The improvements that we are making, we would have money from the
bad tax to pay for it. We have the money from the bed tax to pay for it.
Mr. Plummer: We already have the money from the bed tax.
Mayor Suarez: What are the constraints on the use of that money?
Mr. Plummer: No, all we are doing is the small project.
Mr. Odio: Is for the Orange Bowl maintenance and repairs and renovations.
Mayor Suarez: Based on what, Bob?
Mr. Bob Clark: Tourist related. It is part of the State statute that
recognizes this.
Mr. Plusrser: No, that... I'm sorry, excuse me, that is...
Mr. Clarks Sports and exhibition, I'm...
Mr. Plummer: No, there was a definite 20 percent of that money dedicated to
the Orange Bowl.
Mr. Clarks You are talking now about allocation. That is not...
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Mr. Plummer: I'm talking about the TDC, 2 parcentl
Mr. Clark: All right.
Mrs. Dougherty: (0" MIKE) That's under the settlement of that lawsuit.
Mr. Plummer: That was a definite 20 percent.
Mayor Suarez: That was a settlement in which it allocated 20 percent for the
City,$ exclusive use, in any way that we deemed proper for under the
definition under the State statute.
Mr. Plummer: Exactly.
Mayor Suarez: Which is any of the tourism related.
Mr. Plummer: Promotions, or related, yes.
Mr. Odio: Promotion, or Orange Bowl, repairs, maintenance and whatever.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, vaitl Tou keep bringing the Orange Bowl into this thing,
as if it were somehow an exclusive thing. The only way the Orange Bowl came
into it was because of the lawsuit settlement.
Mr. Clark: But, it was eligible under the State...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, sure it is eligible under the State statutes, so is
anything else that we could consider to be related to tourism.
Mr. Plummer: I'm sorry, it is the other way around, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Try, see if you can get it down.
Mr. Plummer: Originally, the State authorized 40 percent... I am sorry, 50
percent for tourist promotions, 10 percent for administration, 20 percent for
cultural, and 20 percent for Orange Bowl, it vas just that way. Nov, in the
lawsuit, the County allowed us to take back the words, Orange Bowl, and use
that money anyway we wanted, unrestricted...
Mayor Suarez: The County cannot allow us to do anything in regards to a State
statute...
Mr. Plummer: ... as long as...
Mayor Suarez: ... if that is what you say the State statute says, unless
there was an amendment.
Mr. Plummer: The State statute gave the County the authority and were the in
fact boss of that money.
Mayor Suarez: Because the definition was very general in the State statute,
that's what Bob is saying.
Mr. Plummer: No, it wasn't general, not to begin with. It is now.
Mayor Suarez: I know they can. We can also ask the Legislature to give us the
money directly. I u aware of the dynamics with the County. I know they
could cancel it anytime they wanted. We could also ask the Legislature to lot
us impose a tax ourselves. In fact, the legislation had been drafted already
to do that, in the hands of soma of our legislators. Who knows whether they
will push for it or not?
Mr. De Turre: What are...
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner.
Mr. De Turre: ... the demands that the UM wants, as far as improvements are
concerned?
Mr. Plummar: No more committeesl
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Mr. Odio: Well, honestly, they didn't come up and say: "We demand this."
They didn't demand it. They wanted to see a commitment from the City on a
long tens basis with the Orange Bowl. If not, they would have to make long
tam plans.
Mr. De Turret OK, but it doesn't have to... OK, we are talking about long
term improvements. It doesn't mean that we have to have it ready by September
let, for this coming season.
Mr. Odio: Tea, we have to have this new... the renovation of the press box by
September, because you cannot do that in pieces. Either we start now and
finish it...
Mr. De Turro: OK, now but why does it have to be done this year? We are
talking about long term improvements. Nobody is putting a gun to our head and
saying it has got to be done this year.
Mr. Plummer: OK, I can answer. Victor, let me answer for you. The University
of Miami is the one team in the United States. Last year, when they were not
quite number one, but were there, the facilities in the press boa were
Inadequate. They ware totally inadequate for the Orange Bowl, for the press.
We are trying to get the press in there to give more dateline Miami. We had
press that could not get in, because there was not sufficient room. What this
is doing, is making it adequate so that the number one team in the United
States, and the number one classic in the United States, will have adequate
press facilities, to send out more to the world, what a great City we are.
Mr. De Turret So, we are doing this for the UM, and we are doing it for the
Orange Bowl, we are doing it for Miami.
Mr. Plummer: That is correct, sir.
Mr. De Turret OK, now, the Orange Bowl committee, they haven't given us the
OK, yet, that they are willing to give us a dollar.
Mr. Plummer: We are right at the edge of coming to this Commission with a
full presentation and a full negotiated contract. We are that closet
Mr. De Turret May 12th.
Mr. Plummer: But, this, I can't say that, sir, since they have to go back and
answer the board of directors, OK? But, this one is the one we are trying.
This is just a very small segment of it.
Mr. De Turre: I understand that, J.L., but you know, the point, that I am
trying to reach here is the fact that here they are trying to hurry us up to
get this accomplished, and yet, they are not willing to move their rear ends
to accommodate us with the dollar that we are looking for.
Mr. Odic: Teo, they have. The University said yes. It's just that they have
to go back to the....
Mr. De Turret Well, they have got to go back to their board of directors
and... you know.
Mr. Odio: Rxcuse me, Coa:missioner, I guess... the Orange Bowl Classic, the
committee said they wanted to put the seat charge on. Unfortunately, it is
complicated in the fact that they are regulated by the NCAA, so therefore they
have to go back to Kansas, and negotiate with the NCAA, whether they can add
another dollar to their seat.
Mr. De Turre: No, that is a different ballgame altogether now.
Mr. Odio: So, that is the complications we are facing in the negotiations.
They want to do it, but they cannot do it, like yes, let's do it right now.
The University is committed to do this, to add the $1.00 a seat charge. If we
don't start this press box now, however...
Mr. De Turret OK, the UM is committed.
Mr. Odio: ... for the first game, September 3rd, we won't be ready.
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Mr. be Turre: The UM is coumitted, you are telling us.
Mr. Odic: The UM has said yes to the seat charge.
Mr. De Turre: OK, than in the worst scenario, all we would be losing is
$75.000 for that Orange Bowl game that they wouldn't get the OK for the extra
dollar.
Mr. Odic: Well, I don't think we are going to lose that. I think they...
Mr. De Turre: Well, I am saying, the worst case...
Mr. Odic: The worst case? Teo.
Mr. De Turre: ... means that we don't get that one game.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, he is following up your argument.
Mr. Plummer: Well, yes, that is what you would lose in dollars at hand, but
the press will not have the availability of space, I don't know how you
measure that.
Mr. De Turre: No, I understand that. Nov, UM has no problem, they don't have
to go to NCAA for this dollar charge?
Mr. Plummer: They had to go back to their board of directors.
Mr. De Yurre: Now, that is the end of that. OK, well... do we have a motion
already?
Mr. Plummer: Just for the record, we have only been working on this for a
total of 60 days. We've come that far.
Mayor Suarez: We have a motion and a second. Cesar, I can tell you for
myself, that it's difficult for me at this point to vote in favor of this, any
of it, because it hasn't been discussed with me. I met with the athletic
director a few weeks ago - Mr. Jankovich, we talked about all kinds of things
related to the Orange Bowl. He said he was extremely interested in
maintaining a relationship with us. He said he was extremely satisfied with
the things that we were doing. The fact that we charge for people to come to
the Orange Bowl, to use... in putting Sam Jankovich, in putting the money back
into that facility, is not... do you want to listen to what I am saying? ...
is not sufficient, because over time, the City has in effect, paid for that
entire facility, paid debt service on it. I think just the land is worth
about $35,000,000 and it may be that it is time now for us to get back a
little bit of that money and use it for all kinds of other purposes in this
community. It may be. I mean, in other words, it may be that the people of
this City wanted to take that $35,000 facility, just in terms of the land that
It is on, and get a little bit more back. I think the highest we have ever
made, since I've been around is like $600,000. with the Dolphins in town and
as tenants, principal tenants. We don't have it - the Dolphins net was...
Mr. Odic: In 186-187, we made $500,000 profit.
Mayor Suarez: I said $600,000 was the highest.
Mr. Dawkins: If you are going to count money made by the stadium, also count
the concessions. Joe Robbie kept and didn't give to the City.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Odic: Yes, sir, that they gave away to... yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Then you can talk in terms of how valuable, or less valuable it
is.
Mayor Suarez: So, you are not getting a...
Mr. Odio: Mr. Mayor, I get...
Mayor Suarez: Let me finish, let me finish, you are not getting a return even
on the land value, in terms of Commissioner Plummer's magic 10 percent return
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on our facilities, which I don't always buy, but in this case, I think I will
apply, because it is convenient for me for the argument that I am making.
Mr. Odio: Wall, Mr. Mayor, if I may, based on that philosophy...
Mayor Suarez: But, let me finish.
Mr. Odio: OK, I'm sorry, I thought you were finished.
Mayor Suarez: So, for you to come now, when Sam Jankovich, you know, for
example, has not come crying to my door, certainly, and maybe he has come
crying to Commissioner Plummer's door - that is fine, maybe he has to do it
with all of us - you know, about theme improvement• being so needed. When I
know we have spent in the last two - years, that is all I've been here - a
million dollars in each year in that facility, from a tax imposed on bed taxes
and the hotels of the City of Miami. That is where that money is coming from,
and it could be used for a variety of purposes, related to sports, related to
tourism, related to promotion of Miami many, many ways. And when I don't see
the crying need, at least Mr. Jankovich hasn't called about it - the Orange
Bowl committee, which is extremely pleased with what the City has done hasn't
come to talk about it, to me is premature. Now, maybe by the next Commission
meeting, if this fails today, I don't know, you know, I could be convinced.
They would have to come and talk and convince me. It is not good enough to
come and convince you on this thing and put... you know, have you put down
here, that you want to spend $15,000,000 on the stadium, when the many thrust
of everything that we have been discussing in relation to sports facilities in
this City, is trying to get a major league baseball stadium ready. That is
something that the citizens of Miami might very well be interested in
financing in some way or another. This may be one way to do it, to get the
Orange Bowl to subsidize that in some way, because over the years, the Orange
Bowl has been subsidized by the citizens of Miami, so...
Mr. Odio: Well, I guess it is a question of philosophy, Mr. Mayor, you decide
the policy.
Mayor Suarez: Sure it is a question of philosophy. It is question of policy,
and we decide policy.
Mr. Odio: You appointed Commissioner Plummer to a committee to review the
Orange Bowl. He has been negotiating with me and the Orange Bowl Classic, the
Orange Bowl... and the University of Miami, and the Sports Authority, who had
been present there, Bob Allen, had told me he had briefed you on this.
Mr. Plummer: That's what he told me.
Mayor Suarez: Bob Allen has briefed me on it and his briefing indicates that
he doesn't see why we need to spend $15,000,000 on this.
Mr. Odio: Well, Mr. Allen is entitled to his opinion, but I mean...
Mayor Suarez: You just mentioned Bob Allen's from the Sports Authority.
That's his opinion.
Mr. Odio: But he was supposed to have briefed you, that is why I didn't
take, briefing in detail.
Mr. De Turre: Today, we are just voting on the press box?
Mrs. Kennedy: On the press box.
Mr. De Turre: OK, I am ready to vote on the press box and then we will deal
with the rest of the millions, the $14,000,000, $15,000,000, down the road.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mrs. Kennedy: That will be another issue. Let me say for my part, that I
could not meet with them yesterday. They came to my office, unfortunately, I
just could not squeeze them in, so I am not ready at all to vote for the
$14,000,000. I think it is a.., but we are not doing that today, I
understand.
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Mayor luarea: Mall, but we are voting for a consultant that is going to look
at phase I and phase It. Now, do you want to vote on phase I and phase It for
the consultant to look at, or do you want to vote on a consultant to analyze
phase At
Mr. Olio: He is looking at phase I.
Mrs. Kennedy: Both phase• or one?
Mr. Plummer: Phase I Mr. Mayor, let as...
Mayor Suares: Does that reduce the total amount we have to pay the
consultant?
Mr. Plummer: Teo, Mr. Mayor, let me give every assurance to this Commission,
that anything beyond this press box area, once we have it fully negotiated and
fully in place, we will make a full presentation before this Commission.
Mayor Suares: Item 80, we have a motion and a second. Anything further?
Commissioner.
Mr. Do Turret Tos, it says here $850,000. Walter, didn't you all tell me it
was nine fifty the other day when we mat?
Mr. Golby: Between $850,000 and $950,000.
Mr. De Turre: Well, that is not reflected here. You know, $100,000...
Mrs. Kennedy: If it is somevhere between $850,000 and $950,000, why did you
Just put $850,000?
Mr. Golby: It should have been $950,000.
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh.
Mr. Golby: It was a typo.
Mr. Do Turret Typal $100,000 typo, OK.
Mr. Plummer: Bad typo.
Mayor Suarez: Anything further?
Mr. Plummer: As amended.
Mayor Suarez: As amended. Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
A RaSOLUTION WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPETITIVE
SELECTION PROCEDURES FOR THE SELECTION OF A CONSULTANT
TO PROVIDE ARCHITECTURAL, ENGINEERING AND PROJECT
MANAGMUNT SERVICES FOR THE "ORANGE BOWL MODERNIZATION
PROJECT"; RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE CITY
MANAGER'S WRITTEN FINDING THAT A VALID PUBLIC
EMERGENCY EXISTS JUSTIFYING SUCH WAIVER FOR SAID
PROJECT; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN
AGREEMENT IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY,
WITH KUNDE, SPRECHER, TASKIN 4 ASSOCIATES, INC., AS
SAID CONSULTANT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREPARING PLANS AND
SPECIFICATIONS FOR FAST -TRACK COMPLETION OF PHASE I OF
SAID PROJECT; ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$60,000 FROM THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED "METRO -
DADS TOURIST BED TAX", PROJECT NO. 195001, FOR SAID
CONSULTANT'S FEES FOR THE INITIAL PHASE OF SAID
PROJECT; AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR SHORT-TERM AND/OR LONG TERM
FINANCING FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TOTAL PROJECT
AND FOR THE BALANCE OF CONSULTANT FEES, SUBJECT TO THE
REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF SUCH FINAL ARRANGEMENTS 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.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mayor Suarez: On the strength of the recommendation of the committee
chairperson, and the Manager and the staff that this is necessary in the
ongoing negotiations with the university, I'm going to vote for it. Please
have them contact us, at least for myself, or I will contact them, because...
Mr. Odio: Wall, let mo answer that. Remember, Mr. Mayor, I invited you to
come to one of the meetings and you couldn't make it.
COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: All of the meetingsl No, don't invite him to one, invite him to
alll
Mayor Suarez: Well, why are you going to make me go to the meetings for? You
are going to go through all these presentations with people, and then you are
going to come back and say we need a consultant to tell us what to do.
Mr. Odio: I think that would have been very enlightening for you to be...
Mayor Suarez: You are not going to do that in Coral Gables. You are not
going to be, you know, going through all this analysis, logical and otherwise,
and then come back and ask the Commission to approve a consultant each time.
Why did God give us...
Mr. Odio: I guess you should know that this Saturday... Sunday, is a very
important day for the Orange Bowl. We have the World Cup committee here,
F.I.F.A., that will determine whether the Orange Bowl will be the site of the
World Cup, together with Joe Robbie's stadium, and they are going to be asking
what commitments we are making on...
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Mayor Suarez: Tog, well, I wouldn't Set too such into soccer. The last time
you Sot us into the winter •.m►• t ..e m%Or ..
Mr. Odio: No, no, no, this is the World Cup.
Mayor Suarez:
Tea, I know,
but
the
last time you Sot
us on your advice in the
winter games,
I don't know
how
much
money we lost on
that, but let's hope we
get the World
Cup, when we
have
done
everything in our
power to get it.
Mr. Odio: Well, see they went up and paid the Robbie stadium this year, very
successfully, so we lost something very good.
Mr. Plummer: 42,000 people.
Mayor Suares: And Robbie stadium is going to be there, I mean, it is going to
look nice whether we do anything with the Orange Bowl or not.
49. AUTHORIZE INCREASE IN CONTRACT WITH MADSEN/BARR CORPORATION FOR
CONSTRUCTION OF CITYWIDE SANITARY REPLACEMENT PROJECT - NW 8TH STREET
ROAD.
Mayor Suarez: Item 81.
Mr. Odio: This is authorizing an increase in the contract, an amount of
$30,000 in the contract with Madsen/Barr Corporation for the Citywide Sanitary
Replacement Project on NW 8th Street Road and this increase is required to
cover the cost of a full width asphaltic concrete surface overhead.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on 81. Does anybody from the
Commission have any problems with this? Anybody want to move the item 81?
Mr. Dawkins: Moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Moved.
Mayor Suarez: Moved, seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-340
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE IN THE CONTRACT
AMOUNT OF $30,000 IN THE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF
MIAMI, FLORIDA AND MADSEN/BARR CORPORATION DATED APRIL
23, 1987 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF CITYWIDE SANITARY
REPLACEMENT PROJECT - J.W. 8 ST. RD. CIP PROJECT NO.
351275, SAID FUNDS TO BE PROVIDED FROM FUNDS ALLOCATED
TO THE PROJECT; FURTHER RATIFYING THE CITY MANAGER'S
YRITTXN FINDINGS 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 follow body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clark.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
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AYES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Co®issioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
50. CONTINUED DISCUSSION AND CONTINUANCE OF PROPOSED RESOLUTION TO SUBMIT
GRANT PROGRAM FINAL STATEMENT TO HUD REQUESTING $11,297,000 FOR THE
CITT'S PROPOSED CD PROGRAM (1968-1989) (SEE LABEL 38).
Mayor Suarez: Item 82, finally. Community Development. What is the
Commission's pleasure in view of the prior discussion as to what we should be
handling today and what would be fair to the people who had been waiting, and
so on?
Mr. De Turre: Defer this to May 12th to where we can be better prepared to
deal with this and I am sure there are a lot of people out there that weren't
aware that we could be awarding, or might be awarding monies here today, and
think it, you know, if there is just one individual out there that misses out,
then I don't think it is fair to that one person, so I'd like to defer this to
May 12th.
Mayor Suarez: Is that in the form of a motion?
Mr. De Yurre: That's in the form of a motion.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Anything from Frank?
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion.
Mayor Suarez: What happened to the committee chairperson?
Mr. Castaneda: She left because she felt that you were going to defer the
item. If you are deferring the item, I would wish that you would use the
wording: "The continuation of the public hearing to specific date and time."
Mayor Suarez: Oh, yes, yes, we'll continue for a specific date and time so
people know exactly when we will be acting on this and taking public input,
assuming we don't do that today, absolutely.
Mr. Castaneda: The other issue is that I would prefer if you would pass the
ordinance on first reading. If not, next time I will have to come as an
emergency ordinance, and then you guys will jump all over me.
Mr. Dawkins: What page on this book, or on the other submission, on this one,
do you have the agencies that requested funds that you didn't give any. What
page is that on?
Mr. Castaneda: Commissioner, if you go to the memo, there are a number of
agencies specifically that asked for money that they did not receive, and some
of them that you referred to us and that is Hope Pre School, Cure Aids Now, I
believe that they are requesting $500,000 and I believe that they are also up
here at the personal appearance later on.
Mr. Plummer: (OFF MIKE) Remember that basically, every one of the allocations
had basically been reduced 5.2 percent, which is what we were reduced in the
amount of...
Mr. Castaneda: Basically, as Commissioner Plummer was saying, what we
recomsaended in social programs is the same agencies as last year, with a 5.2
or 5.3 percent reduction in funding.
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Mr. Dawkins: Did we give money to MAPP?
Mr. Piuser: Exectly what we ware reduced.
Mr. Dawkins: We gave money to MAPP?
Mr. Castaneda: I'm sorry?
Mr. Dawkins: Did MAPP get funding?
Mr. Castaneda: There is no funding for Metro -Miami Action Plan, and what...
Mrs. Kennedy: They are requesting two paid employees, correct?
Mr. Castaneda: Of the City of Miami, that's correct.
Mrs. Kennedy: For a total of...?
Mr. Castaneda: It is about $100,000. $100,000 was what they were allocated
last year for that.
Mr. Plummer: But it was not dollars, it was in -kind in employees.
Mr. Castaneda: All right, than, in -kind employees, but it is people which
make $100,000.
Mr. Plummer: All right, so we are not going to take public input today. We
are going to not a date, is that what we are doing?
Mr. Dawkins: I don't know, J.L. I mean, these people have taken the time out
to come here. I don't know, maybe some of them can't get back for the next
meeting.
Mr. Plummer: Tao, but you know, and I know that if this is a first hearing
and we've got to have a second, they are all going to want to be here for the
second, even if they testify today. Nov, you know... Let me ask you this,
where is that agenda guy?
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Mr. Plummer: Fine. Are we looking at our next meeting where we have been
starting like at 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon?
Mr. Odlo: (0" MIKE) No, no, 3:30
Mr. Plummer: All right, what does this next toning agenda look like? We are
going to start at about what time?
Mr. Odio: We should start about 4:00...
Mayor Suarez: If we are going to have this, we would start it earlier, if we
have to do it.
Mr. Plummer: That's my point.
Mayor Suarez: Too, absolutely.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Plummer: For the next meeting for zoning, what are you going to recommend
that we ...
Mr. Odio: 4:00 o'clock.
Mr. Plusar: 4:00 o'clock? Then why don't we start this at 2:00 p.m. and
have a definite tins of two hours prior to?
Mayor Suarez: Then we might actually have a recess. I mean, I know you have
a... you don't want us to leave, is that it?
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Mayor Suarez: We'll come back. I think the consensus is to...
Mr. Odio: I have an attorney here. He is tell me, why don't we start the
meetings at 9100 o'clock, and finish during the day, out ::ow i understood...
Mayor Suarez: We've done that. We've done that. If we have to go that early,
we can go that early.
Mr. Odio: I mean zoning meeting.
Mayor Suarez: Well, it depends on whether they cover, if the item in question
covers more than what, five percent, of the area of the City, then it has to
be after 5:00 p.m.
Mr. Plummer: Well, but we also out of courtesy, Mr. Mayor, we've tried to
hold...
Mayor Suarez: Plus that, I am sorry, you are right.
Mr. Plummer: ... zoning hearings in the evening when it is more convenient
for the people to come here and not have to take off from their work.
Mayor Suarez: Right, I guess the assumption is the zoning hearings always
affect someone They are never internal, so we always try to do them after 5:00
o'clock, although there are quite a few, we have been looking at it lately, to
try to streamline the agenda and to accommodate the Commissioners, there are
quite a few items that are purely internal and not required to be heard after
5:00 P.M.
Mr. Plummer: Can I ask this question? Of all the people that are here to
testify on this item today, is there any of you who cannot come back on May
26th at 2:00 p.m.? You cannot?
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor...
Mr. Plummer: Then I would suggest, since there is just one, that we take his
testimony today, and then we will carry over the rest of it until that meeting
in May at 2:00 o'clock.
Mayor Suarez: That is acceptable to me. Commissioner De Yurre?
Mr. De Yurre: Are we talking about the 12th, or the 26th?
Mr. Plummer: I'm sorry, the...
Mr. De Yurre: Or are you talking about April?
Mr. Dawkins: 26th.
Mr. Plummer: April 26th.
Mr. Dawkins: April 28th.
Mr. Plummer: I'm sorry, I am looking at the wrong...
Mayor Suarez: Two weeks from today.
Mr. Plums r: I'm sorry. What about the 28th?
Mayor Suarez: Now we have got another hand going up.
Mr. Plummer: Who can't make the 28th?
Mr. Dawkina: That's OK, that is all right.
Mr. Plummer: Tou can't make the 28th? April? Tony, April 28th, you can't
make? No one here can't represent you at that meeting? $ucuse me?
Ms. Tony Gary: (OFF MIKE) I can probably get
Mr. Plummer: Well, I would suggest, Mr. Mayor, what we do, is if Tony wants
to make her presentation, give her the two minutes, let her do it, and then
we'll continue it over until April 28th at 2:00 o'clock for the rest.
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Mayor Suarez: We have no problems with early testimony and I think all of us
will remember what you say, and we all know you and know what you are doine•
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Castaneda, on the Community Development Block Grant, on the
economic development, sometime before the 28th, I'd like to meet with you and
let you explain to se how three community rehabilitation assistance for
improvements, why is it important to give that $300,000 and only give Greater
United... I mean, I want you to explain it to me, I'm not telling you what you
should do. I want an explanation why you should...
Mr. Castaneda: Fine, no problem.
Mr. Dawkins: ... and why Greater United only got $50,000 and MAPP could not
get anything, but yet we put $300,000 into painting building fronts, I mean,
explain that to me, OK?
Mayor Suarez: Me. Gary - Tony. Take two minutes of testimony.
Mr. Plummer: While she is coming up, Frank, I would like to see a breakdown
of all of the rest of the money that is being used in-house and what it is
being used for.
Mr. Castaneda: In-house?
Mr. Plummer: In-house. In other words, we are talking...
Mr. Dawkins: Administrative cost.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, administrative I can understand. That's 20 percent.
The other monies that are not going to social services, and not going as
outlined ii this book, where are the other millions of dollars going?
Mr. Castaneda: Commissioner, I don't understand the question.
Mr. Plummer: I'll explain to you later.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: The Mayor acknowledged the presence in the
Chambers of students participating in "Boss for A Day Program,"
Including students Richard Gillen and Nashta Campbell.
Mayor Suarez: Ms. Gary.
Me. Tony Gary: My name is Tony Gary, I am the executive director of Greater
Miami United, a private, nonprofit, which for the past two and one-half years
has been operating a Technical Resource Center which has been funded partially
by the City of Miami through Community Development Block Grant and from
Metropolitan Dade County, once with a combination of Community Development
Block Grant funds and General Revenue, and currently, with General Revenue
funds. Through the Technical Resource Center we have been providing technical
assistance to all of the nonprofit community based organizations and community
development corporations, which are funded by the City of Miami, Metro -Dade
County and the State of Florida. We think that the impact of the program has
been to provide capacity to the CDC'S so that they can in fact, provide
housing for low income persons, revitalize their communities through
commercial revitalization and in some cases some specialized projects such as
Industrial park development and this year we are introducing a new thrust to
encourage the community based organizations to form for profit subsidiaries so
that they can in fact, become involved in for profit ventures and become less
dependent on local government funds themselves. We provide this project with
in-house staff and through what we call a consultant pool with a range of
technical expertise and consultants from throughout the country who come in
and work specifically with the CDC'S on a project by project basis. The
funding, which was recommended by staff would be cut in half. We feel that
that depth of cut will literally kill the project and the effect of the
services that we can provide to the CDC'S which are funded by the City of
Miami. There are about eleven, of which... eleven CDC's in the City of Miami
which we work with right now. I am not going to make any additional commants
except to say that we feel that our benefit is not measured directly through a
specific project which you can put your fingers on, but that through the CDC's
we feel that the impact has imsessurable and beneficial impact on neighborhood
revitalization. Thank you.
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Mr. Plusmmr: Well, let me ask a question of the department of "botellaa" 81
jefe of the 'Departmento Dotella." What is the justification or rationale,
last year Miami United got $100,000. As we read in your little memo, that
everybody was reduced 5.2 percent, from $100,000 to $50,000 moons like a lot
more than 5.2 percent. What was your rationale of cutting then 50 percent?
Mr. Castaneda: Commissioner, what happened is, we got cut $600,000. Social
service agencies go a half cap and have to be reduced by 50 percent.
Administration has a cap and it gets reduced by 5 percent. In the economic
development area, there is no cap. You can use as much for economic
development and so forth What happened was, we have maintained the economic
development agencies at the $50,000 level throughout the last five years, even
though our allocations. really was $14,000,000 four years ago, and now it is
$11,200.000. As the money is going down, something else has to be reduced,
and what we did is, we put Greater Miami United at the same level as all the
other coeasunity based organizations that are getting $50,000. They were at
$100,000.
Mr. Plummer: Well, of course, I think the rationale there, I don't agree
with. The reason I don't, a community based organization addresses a certain
segment of the community. Miami United addresses the total community, and as
far as I am concerned, I would like to see some way - this organization works
with the CDO's, it works with CD, and I think it is a very viable and a very
necessary ingredient in the makeup of this City, and I would hope that the
rest of the Commission would feel that way at the time of allocating the
funds.
Ms. Gary: Thank you for your attention.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I move that the remainder of this hearing be
continued until April 28th, starting at 2:00 p.m. in the afternoon.
Mr. De Turre: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-341
A MOTION TO CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULED FOR
THIS DATE REGARDING THE CITY'S SUBMITTAL OF THE GRANT
PROGRAM FINAL STATEMENT REQUESTING FUNDS FOR THE
CITT'S PROPOSED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM TO THE
MEETING OF APRIL 28, 1988 AT 2:00 P.M.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Ccams issioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
MOSS: None.
ABSENT: None.
O0m Is mum DORM FAM CALL:
Mayor Suarez: What does Miami Capital, a City agency want to tell us about?
Mr. Pablo Cisnaros: Yes, I just wanted to request at this time before we...
Mayor Suarez: Put your name on the record, Pablo, plasma.
Mr. Cisneros: Pablo Cisneros, I'm executive director, Miami Capital
Development Inc. What I'd like to address this Commission is the fact that a
recommendation has already been made and if we leave it the way it is right
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now, when we case back, we are going to have to ask for a change of that
recommendation, so at this time, I'd like that change to be put...
Mayor Suarez: Well, as of today, we are not hearing the merits of it, so
there is no pending... I mean, the recommendation is pending. Obviously it is
not going to change between now and 14 days from now, but, we have not taken
any action.
Mr. Cisneros: I realize that, Mr. Mayor, but as presented the way it is, it
can be erroneous. That is why I...
Mayor Suarez: It's going to be a.....
Mr. Cisneros: It is going to be erroneous. It can be wrong, right?...
because Community Development made a recommendation of $120,000 to cover the
deficit that Miami Capital is going to have, and the deficit is larger then
that, but we have to come up with a formula, so we don't have to ask for
additional funds, from community development or CD funds.
Mr. Plummer: You can argue that on the 28th.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mayor Suarers Yes, and you also have two weeks to try to convince him. There
is nothing that precludes you from changing your recommendations from today
until the 28th, right? We are not even hearing the recommendations. We
are...
Mr. De Yurre: You guys get together.
51. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH SPECIAL REVENUE FUND "COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (FOURTEENTH YEAR)" ($11,297,000 PLUS $1,045,000
FROM CDBG PROGRAM INCOME FOR A TOTAL OF $12,342,000).
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Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I would move that item 83, which is only first
reading for expediency, so it doesn't have to be at the last minute on an
emergency measure. I would move that it be passed on first reading today,
fully understanding that the public hearing will be on the 28th, and we
will...
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mr. Plummer: ... not delay the process.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance.
Mrs. Kennedy: And under discussion, let me tell you, Frank, that I think
every year we are going to get less money from the State, I heard the governor
say the other day, about building more jails and improving our educational
system and yet, all he was talking about was user tax. I think that we have
to address the Federal government.
Mr. Plummer: And no new tax.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yea, and no new taxes, so... our Federal government is going to
be the answer.
Mr. Plummer: He wants to be reelected.
Mr. Castaneda: You know, the City of Miami is in a tremendous crush. You
know we have the Aids problem, which is growing, we have homelessness, which
are on the agenda, we have the crack problem in the neighborhood. You know,
the social programs keep increasing and the Federal government has really
_ turned their backs on the cities, and you know, it is hurting the day care
programs. I am sure that a lot of the day care programs are going to be here,
because they are hurting the day care programs because of cuts at the Federal
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level. At the State level, the elderly program had to out the State in order
to get the fair amount of funding for the elderly programs, so you know, there
are a lot of difficulties out there, and you know. I can understand the issue.
Mayor Suarez: That is on item 83. We have a motion and a second. Read the
ordinance.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
Ali ORDIMANCEESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND
ENTITLED: "COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
(FOURTEENTH YEAR)," AND APPROPRIATING $11,297,000 FOR
EXECUTION OF SAME; AND ALSO APPROPRIATING THE SUM OF
$1,045,000 FROM FOURTEENTH YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM INCOME AS APPROVED BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF MOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD) FOR
A TOTAL OF $12,342,000; CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND A SEVRRABILITY 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 Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commiesioner 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.
52. RESCHEDULE SECOND REGULAR CITY COMMISSION MEETING (PRESENTLY SCHEDULED
FOR MAY 26) TO MAY 19 (SEE LABEL 69).
Mr. De Yurre: I am looking at the May schedule for a meeting, and the 26th, I
won't be in town from the 20th to the 30th, I'll be representing the City with
CAMACOL down in South America, and I'd like to see if we can accommodate, and
I won't drink the water this time, that's for sure.
Mr. Plummer: Don't drink the vatert Drink beer.
Mr. De Turret Sea, if we can, you know, move the meeting back, or up to the
19th and so I can leave...
Mayor Suarez: What day are you leaving in May?
Mr. De Turret It is the 26th. There is one the 12th and the 26th. Maybe we
could just move it to the 12th and the 19th.
Mayor Suarez: It is just that is the very next week. When are you leaving
for overseas?
Mr. De Turret With CAMACOL.
Mayor Suarez: When?
Mr. De Turret The 20th, and we will be back...
Mayor Suarez: OK, well, I guess that is it, then. It's the 12th and 19th,
because...
Mr. Plummer: Yes, that is fine with me.
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Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain that in the form of a motion.
Mr. De Turre: Unless you •ant to move it to...
Mr. Plummier: If my office •ill pick up and change the meeting in May, from
the 26th of May, to the 19th.
Mayor Suarez: From the 26th to the 19th? That is in the form of a motion?
Mr. De Turre: Teo, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Do we have a second?
Mr. Plusseer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: You seconded it? all right, call the roll.
MOTION NO. 88-342
TH19RWPON THE FOREGOING MOTION, duly made by Commissioner De Turre
and seconded by Commissioner Plummer to reschedule the second
meeting in May was passed and adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
(LATER FORMALIZED AS R-88-354)
53. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AUTHORIZE ISSUANCE OF $2,500,000 OF SUBORDINATED
PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS, SERIES 1988 (SEE LABEL 20).
Mayor Suarez: Item 56, what was the concern this morning? There's Jack.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, no. Oh, no!
Mr. Jack Mulvena: Good afternoon, Commissioners. As a reminder, this
morning, if you recall, item 56...
Mayor Suarez: Was it Commissioner Dawkins' request that we are dealing with,
for information as to the breakdown?
Mr. Mulvena: It was Commissioner Dawkins' concern, but Commissioner De
Turre's request, and we have provided that information, but the issue, of
course, before the Commission, is the authorization to allow the department to
issue 2.5 million dollars in parking revenue bonds, so that we might
underwrite the arena parking program and the procurement of a piece of
property adjacent to garage one. Both Commissioner De Yurre and Commissioner
Dawkins were concerned about the affirmative action program in the department
and I am happy to respond to that opportunity, because of the 135 full time
employees in the department, we have 93 percent representation of minorities.
Of our top 11 administrators, we have 80 percent minorities, and in our middle
management, and all of our supervisor categories, we are 100 percent minority.
Mrs. Kennedy: How about women?
Mr. Mulvena: Women, on our top management program, are six male and four
female, and all ofthem are in the...
Mrs. Kennedy: I'm sorry, can you repeat that figure again?
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Mr. Mulvena: Yes, of the 10 top officials of the Department of Off -Street
Parking, four are women, and the two directors who answer directly to me, one
Is a woman, one is a flan.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, you don't have nothing in here where it say... you got
executive secretary and executive assistant. You don't have nothing in the
slot for executive assistant. What should be in there?
Mr. Mulvens: Well, that position is open, and we expect to fill that...
Mr. Dawkins: You see, that's what I an talking about, you see? And that's
where a Slack or a Latin need to go. But you all keep B.S.'ing and what have
you. Now, I've said, this, OK? - and you've heard me may it. Every time you
cam before the Commission I say it, and yet you come here today with another
promise - "I'm going to do it."
Mr. Mulvens: Well, no, the facts I presented to you, Commissioner, are a
reality.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, wait now. Jack, please bear with me. This is not you.
This started with Roger Carlton, OK? - and I will say it here and anyplace
else. You have did more to put Blacks and Hispanics in the managerial spots,
in the short time that you have been there, than Roger Carlton did the whole
while he was there, OK? So, it is not you, but if I don't raise hall with
you, then you could become complacent and I don't get anything, OK? So, I am
going to tell you now, OK? - if you come back here for anything at all, I
don't care what it is, and this executive assistant has not been filled with a
Black or a Hispanic, I am going to continue everything you've got until it is
done.
Mr. Mulvena: It will be filled before the month is out.
Mr. Dawkins: Look, then don't you come back, if you don't fill it until next
year, don't come back until then.
Mr. Mulvena: No, before the month is out, that position will be filled.
Mr. Odio: (OFF MIKE) I have a few candidates I need to talk about.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, I move it.
Mr. Plummer: Do you want a couple of the City's "botellas"?
Mayor Suarez: Item 56 has been moved. Do we have a second?
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA,
AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF $2,300,000 IN AGGREGATE
PRINCIPAL AMOUNTS OF SUBORDINATED PARKING SYSTEM
REVENUE BONDS, SERIES 1988, OF THE CITY FOR THE
PURPOSE OF ACQUIRING LAND AND PAYING A PORTION OF THE
COSTS OF ERECTING AND CONSTRUCTING PUBLIC PARKING
FACILITIES WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI; PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF
AND THE INTEREST ON SUCH BONDS FROM (i) AMOUNTS ON
DEPOSIT IN THE GENERAL RESERVE ACCOUNT CREATED
PURSUANT TO ORDINANCE NO. 10155 OF THE CITY WITH
RESPECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF THE CITY'S $16,275,000
PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS, SERIES 1986; ON A PARITY
WITH CERTAIN OBLIGATIONS OF THE CITY ENTERED INTO
PURSUANT TO ORDINANCE NO. 10186 OF THE CITY WITH
RESPECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF THE CITY'S $2,000,000
SUBORDINATED PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS, SERIES 1986
(10 FROM OTHER AMOUNTS AS PROVIDED HEREIN; PROVIDING
FOR CERTAIN COVENANTS AND AGREEMENTS IN CONNECTION
THEREWITH; AWARDING THE SALE OF SUCH BONDS TO BARNETT
BANK OF SOUTH FLORIDA, N.A.; AUTHORIZING THE CITY OR
AN ENTITY APPOINTED BY THE CITY TO ACT AS PAYING AGENT
AND REGISTRAR WITH RESPECT TO SAID BONDS; AUTHORIZING
CERTAIN OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY TO TAKE
ALL ACTIONS REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ISSUANCE
OF SAID BONDS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
COMMENTS MADE DURING FIRST ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: Since the debt is being paid by the revenue from the garages,
I'll vote yes.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Dawkins and seconded
by Commissioner Kennedy, adopted said ordinance by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10423.
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.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD. APPLICANT DID NOT APPEAR FOR AGENDA ITEM 86.
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SA. ALLOCATE $30,000 TO NEW WASHINGTON HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CONr&PJW" in%.. - fUR CONauLTANT FEES IN CONNECTION WITH HOTEL
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST INCREMENT DISTRICT -
EXECUTE AGREEMENT.
Mayor Suarez: Item 85, New Washington Heights. Jackie Bell.
Mr. Plummer: We can tell her no in a hurry 1
Ms. Jackie Bell: Good afternoon, I'm Jackie Bell, I am the executive director
of New Washington Heights Community Development Corporation, 1600 NW 3rd
Avenue.
Mr. Odio: May I Jackie? We are going to hear the... we are recommending that
you be included in the CD funding, so maybe you should make your presentation
as part of the CD funding...
Me. Bell: No, this to not that.
Mr. Odio: Oh, you don't rant... OKI
Me. Bell: OK, when I say this is not that, we are being recommended in CD
fundings for that for administration money. This is the money that we will
take and hire Touche and Rose to put together the financial packages for the
hotel project. The project, that is a whole difference.
Mr. Plummer: How much are you talking about?
Me. Bell: $30,000 and we won't use it. Touche and Ross, if they think it is
not feasible, we will not have to pay. They will stop the process.
Mr. Odio: Well, like I was saying, we recommending that we give you $50,000
in the CD process.
Ms. Bell: Yes.
Mr. Odio: $50,000 was the recommendation of the department, and you could
take the $30,000 out of that.
Ms. Bell: Yes, but then, we won't have any administrative monies.
Mr. Odio: Wall, that is the only money we have, though. That is all the
money I can recommend.
Mr. Plummer: I saw 430,000 in the CD book.
Mayor Suarez: While they caucus over there, what is the status of the
project?
Ms. Ball: Oh, the project is...
Mayor Suarez: Tell us some good news. I sae a smile coming over your facel
Me. Bell: Yes, we are about 96 percent sure the State is going to buy... you
know, pay for the 1.200 spaces of parking garage. The negotiation with
General Electric is very favorable, OK?
Mr. Odio: Jackie, OK... they have written here, "We have the funds in the
Department of Development earmarked for this." So, we will recommend this,
Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: You will? OK, I entertain a motion on it.
Mr. Odio: Only for this activity, for the activity of the development of the
hotel.
Mr. Plumsser: Well, but, we will approve that on the 14th. I don't feel that
we should...
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Mr. Odio: No, it is in the budget of the Department of Development.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, ON, then, then I •ill move it.
Mayor Suarez: OR, it is moved, do we have a second?
Mrs. Kennedy: Which one is this?
Mr. Plummere For the New Washington Heights, out of economic development. It
Is not out of community development.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-343
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$30,000 TO THE NEW WASHINGTON HEIGHTS COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE INC. FOR ITS EXPENSE OF
CONSULTANT FEES RELATED TO THE FINANCIAL PLANNING
PHASE OF ITS HOTEL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT ON MUNICIPAL
LOT NO. 10 WITHIN THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST TAX
INCREMENT DISTRICT; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, TO IMPLEMENT SAID ALLOCATION WITH MONIES
THEREFOR ALLOCATED AS FOLLOWS: $22,000 FROM 13TH TEAR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS AND $8,000
FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT'S BUDGETED FUNDS.
(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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL:
Mayor Suarez: Teo of course, but at some point, but at some point we are
going to need to finalize.
Me. Bell: We only have six months.
Mayor Suarez: And you say it is ninety, OK... 98 percent... but you have an
automatic timetable, I mean, deadline, there, built in.
Ms. Bell: Oh yeal
Mayor Suaraz: All right, the 98 percent complete, that means the 2 percent
should be a matter of just weeks, days, almost, hours.
Me. Bell: Exactly, and the thing that we should be...
Mayor Suarez: Is Mulvena behaving OK in regards to that, now?
Ms. Sell: Teo, I think that this Commission needs to know and, let me
apologize for not bringing all of the pictures. I've been lugging them around
for days and they got me...
Mayor Suarez: How many entities do you have now? I remember Days Ian, the
Archdiocese, maybe Channel 4, Off -Street Parking Authority, City of Miami, the
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community agencies. Doesn't it concern you that at some point it may just be
too many entities? I mean I know where they...
Me. Bell: It could be, but, the way that it is now...
Mayor Suarez: And G.E. I don't know what their function is in all of this.
Ms. Bell: Well, they have some land. They have the piece of land adjacent to
the project.
Mayor Suarez: Wow.
No. Bell: That they are going to put in, so that we will have 1,200 parking
spaces for the State.
Mayor Suarez: And the State, right.
Me. Bell: Teo.
Mayor Suarez: And was that in the 1,200 parking space allocation, was that in
this year's budget, last year's budget, which budget?... next year's budget?
Me. Bell: It was in last year's budget, to the monies are all there from the
State.
Mayor Suarez: All right, 98 percent. Next time I hope it is 99.999 percent!
Ms. Bell: Wall, the thing that this Commission needs to know is, that I know
you all have been really good to New Washington Heights, you know, really
Navel But, we have been good to the City, because we have worked very hard,
but when this project opens, you are going to change the whole economic front
for minorities throughout this country, because there is not another Black
owned hotel operated in this country, and you are...
Mayor Suarez: The thing is, that we are judged as to how hard we have been
working, not by the little things that you and I know, but by whether we have
the visible thing to show for it, that is what worries me.
Ms. Bell: But, for the first time you got a project that there is no way for
It not to be successful, because it's in the mouth, the front door of the
sports arena.
Mayor Suarez: Well, Mulvena hasn't failed yet, let's see, and you haven't
failed yet, so...
Ms. Bell: And I thank you so very much.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Jackie.
Ms. Bell: OK.
SS. DISCUSSION ITEM: GREATER BISCAYNE BOULEVARD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE -
UTILIZATION OF SUSPENDED OFFICERS FOR DESK DUTY.
Mayor Suarez: Greater Biscayne Chamber of Commerce, where is Jerry? I think,
Mr. Manager, that I don't want to preempt your presentation, but we are moving
pretty well on this issue of the suspended officers, are we not?
Mr. Odio: The last time I got a report, we only had 18 suspended, and for
good reason.
Mayor Suarez: And those are not the kinds of people that could be used in any
way, desk work, anything?
Mr. Odio: We are not using them. The Chief is here, but the reason we were
not using them is because we felt that some of them...
Mr. Plummer: They're under current investigation.
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Mayor Suarez: And the kinds of things that they are being investigated,
because we have other people under investigation that are doing work in other
departments.
Mr. Plusmer: Most of these left are the river case.
Mayor Suarez: That's why... are they the kinds of things that we can even say
on the record?
Mr. Odio: Some of the suspended officers were brought back in and put to
work. Only...
Mayor Suarez: Since the last time we talked about this, Jerry, there has been
a few brought back. Last count was like 30, I think, or 29, and now we are
is, but...
Mr. Jerry Park: My concerns are taken care of then, if that is the case. I
felt out a place here today anyway. I wasn't asking for money.
Mayor Suarez: You know what happened was that we got into a discussion...
this is what happened literally. We got into a discussion in the morning. It
upset me a great deal, that we had not moved a little quicker and I know the
Commissionere expressed the same concern and we had a luncheon meeting,
actually, sort of preempted our lunch, and the Manager and the Chief and a few
of the high ranking officers met and came up with a plan, and put pressure on
the other authorities that are involved in the investigation. That is as
careful as I can state it, and I think we are moving pretty well. 19 is still
a higher number, but then...
Mr. Park: It is a lot less than it wasl
Mayor Suarez: Yes, and the situation is still a difficult one for us. I
mean, there is no police department that has had this high a percentage of
officers with these kinds of problems, that I know of.
Mr. Park: Mayor, I appreciate it, and I appreciate the action.
Mayor Suarez: It is nice to see a letter to the editor every once in a while
that compliments what we are trying to do, Jerry, and I think that we turned
the northeast around in many ways, and it is really because of the citizen
groups. We reciprocate your compliment.
Mr. Park: We have a good Commision and we appreciate it.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Jerry.
56. DISCUSSION ITEM 'THE INNER CITY CHILDREN TOURING DANCE CO.' - REQUESTING
FUNDS FOR PERFORMING ARTS SUMMER CAMP PROGRAM.
Mayor Suarez: Item •7, Inner City Children Touring Dance Company. They are
asking for a total budget. They want 643,130. Their budget is that, I don't
know Florene is going to...
Ms. Florene Nichols: We would like $43,120. I'm only kiddingl My name is
Florene Nichols, and I am the founder and executive director of the Inner City
Children's Touring Dance Company. I am here again to ask your assistance to
help cosponsor the Performing Arts Summer Camp Program, which is an exciting
opportunity for 180 inner city youths to participate in an artistic program
this summer. It is six weak program that begins on June 20th through July
29th. It is a free program, under the direction of professional instructors.
The children will take daily classes in ballet, tap, modern, African dance and
percussion. Our purpose is to assist these children with wholesome activities
during the summer, but also to prepare them for the talent programs in Dade
County public schools, in the New World School for The Arts.
Mayor Suarez: What did we do last year on this request? This is not the
first time we hear from you.
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No. Nichole: No, we were here last year. we got $4,300.
Mayor Suarez: $4►3001
Me. Nichols: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: The !tanager's authorized spending limit.
Mr. Odio: What did you may, Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Suarez: No, I was just wondering what we had done with this last year.
I remember them making a presentation.
Mr. Odio: We gave them $4,500, but this time I don't even have $4,300.
Mrs. Kennedy: What are you asking this time?
Ms. Nichols: $10,120. We have so far received $9,300 from the Junior League,
$3,000 from Southern Bell, $2,300 from the Dade Foundation, and we do need the
assistance from the City to help us with this program. Last year we had 30
boys in our program, which is unheard of in any other dance studio.
Mayor Suaret: Now many?
Ms. Nichols: 30.
Mayor Suarez: I couldn't tell if you said 13 or 30. You had 307
Ms. Nichols: 30, 30 boys in our program, and we would like to may over the 15
years that we've been in business, we've worked with over 5,000 children, and
during that time, only one child has been involved in a crime, so we use the
as a crime deterrent.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Manager, this is a real good program, is there any money
that we can find anyplace?
Mr. Odio: Mo, Ma'am. I cannot recommend it, we have no funds. We are
facing, we are still up in the air with the fee, and we are facing layoffs and
I certainly don't want to recommend any funds now for anything.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I hate to do this, but I think the only motion that is in
order is that we send it to the Manager to expend up to $4,500, if he can find
the money, but he has already stated there is no money to be found. The
cupboard is bare, the cupboard is bare.
Mr. Odio: We have in... the budget process begins in early September, and I
recosmmend to all these programs, since we do have about $200,000 allocated for
this type, that they come and apply...
Mr. Plummer: No, air, that is not a correct statement.
Mr. Odio: Well, I guess they are not a festival, but...
Mr. Plummer: No, that is not the point. The point of it is, you don't have
$200,000 to be all reallocated.
Mr. Odio: That is only about...
Mr. Plummer: 20 percent per year, $40,000 is more to be reallocated.
Mr. Odio: Tou are correct, 20 percent of the $200,000, about $40,000. But,
they should come and apply for that, instead of...
Mr. Pluismer: Oh, yes.
Mr. Odio: Because once the budget is in place... (COMMENTS OFF MIKE) ... you
know once the budget is allocated for the year, we are right now almost more
than half way through and we just don't have any funds.
Me. Nichols: I was told by the staff at Cossaunity Development that we had an
excellent program, and all the reports ware timely and accurate, and it is the
type of program that the City should consider for funding in the future.
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Mr. Odio: It is true.
Mr. Plummer: That's true.
Me. Nichols: How come then, I was not told now to come back and to reapply
and how to be a regular agenda item? We are talking about inner city children
who have no activities this summer, but to run up and down the streets, and to
get into trouble. I live in the City. I pay taxes in the City. The people
that come to my school pay taxes and we really would like for the City to
assist us, and I'm sure that if you look deeply enough, you will find $10,120
for our kids. I do not believe that it is not there. Sorry! I don't believe
It.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you know, I...
Me. Nichols: Every year I hear this?
Mr. Plummer: I promised myself I wasn't going to argue, but I've got to tell
You, OK? Teo, we could find that money, don't kid yourself one bit, but let
aye tell you where we are going to take it from and where it is going to have
to come from, and that is about 100 elderly citizens who are no longer going
to get meals, OK? When you have your money, you have got to split it up, and
this Commission is set in an impossible situation. Here, you've got a guy
sitting right here now, that is the only guy in this community that I know
that is working his .... off for AIDS. No one, no one can say that that is
not one of the top priorities in this community. And yet, we are having to
tell him, who goes out and delivers food to these people that can't. We can
take it from him and give it to you, yes. Yes, that is within our priority,
But let me tall you as one Commissioner, I've got to set my priorities, and
they have been set for the 18 years that I've tat here, and that is we are
going to feed the hungry, we are going to take care of the sick and anything
left over, we will talk about. I think that we are looking this year at
almost $6,000,000 in requests for just about $1,000,000 of money. There are
many good programs in this community, and God knows that we wish we had the
money to supply them all, but it is not therel And if I take it from
somewhere to give it to you, somebody else is going to have to do without that
has already been adjudged an ongoing program. I am sorry to get upset, but you
know, I am just saying, this is the name of the game. It is unfortunate.
There is that money that will be available and I am not going to sit here and
mislead you to tell you that if budgeted in October, that you will get a part
of that $40,000. But that money is set aside by this Commission two years ago,
for just that purpose, and I don't know how else to explain it to you and to
others. We have here, I've not counted this agenda, but let me tell you, the
last agenda, we had request of this Commission, legitimate requests, for
$670,000, in a single agenda. That's one out of 24 agendas. Now, you know,
we can't be all things to all people, we can't do itl We don't have the
money, I'm sorry. I'm not sorry, it is unfortunate. You heard the man
earlier. Frank stood up there and told you. We last year got $14,000,000 in
community service money, this year the Federal government has cut us down to
$11,200,000. There is no more Federal revenue sharing dollars, none,
absolutely novel
Mr. Odio: Comissioner, I was told on Monday...
Mr. Plummer: But, I've got Orlando Orrs, who is going to come up here and ask
sss for more money to food more people in Allapattah. I've got Bob Kuntz who
is going to cans here, I know what he is already going to say, he needs money
to deliver food to people who have AIDS who can't get out of their house. And
If I go right through this audience and look at this agenda, these are all
people that have been here before, and I an going to have to say no to some of
them, and it hurtal It hurts, but damn it, that is the name of it.
Mr. Odio: We notified on Monday, Washington, by our lobbyist that they are
going to cut Community Development 14 percent more, for next year, so...
Mr. Plumser: Mr. Manager, I didn't tell you, 15 years ago I said to this
Commission, sitting at that time, that one of the worst things that was going
to happen to us was Federal Revenue Sharing, because the day would come when
It was no longer going to be available and those people were still going to be
looking to us for that money. That day is here, and that day is a damn tough
day.
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Mayor Suarez: Anything further on this item?
Mr. Plunm r: Nothing I can say.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you for your presentation.
Me. Nichols: Thank you for your cooperation.
MOTE FOR THE RECORD: AGENDA ITEM 88 WAS WITHDRAWN BY THS
ADMINISTRATION.
57. INFORM REPRESENTATIVES 0! "DEVELOPMENT FOR THE NEW WORLD SYMPHONY" GROUP
TO REAPPLY FOR $40,000.
Mayor Suarez: Item 89, New World Symphony.
No. Barbara Gaynor: My name is Barbara Gaynor, I am with the New World
Symphony. I've brought Jeff Babcock, who is the executive director of the
symphony with me, and we would like to address the Commission, requesting some
funding for this new orchestra.
Mr. Geoffrey Babcock: Good afternoon, I am Geoffrey Babcock, I am the
executive director of the New World Symphony, come before you to request the
City's support for this new orchestra which is based here in Miami and which
Is already gaining national attention, national prominence, as a terrific
ambassador and representative of this City, and we have established... we feel
a very high level of artistic prominence this year, and we are expanding our
season next year to provide many free services and concerts for young people
in this community. We just finished a week, this week, of performing in the
public schools here, and we have expanded that service next year to both
performances and in school coaching and teaching of elementary through high
school students in the public schools. We are interested in continuing those
services and we are hopeful that the City will look with favor upon on request
for funding support for the orchestra.
Mrs. Kennedy: Can you tell us what you are doing as far as giving free
concerts and so forth?
Mr. Babcock: We are performing, as many of you know, we are performing
tomorrow evening, at the opening for the new Bayfront Park amphitheater, a
free concert. We expect probably 10,000 people to come to that program.
Mrs. Kennedy: That's not free. I'm talking of free concerts for the
community.
Mr. Babcock: We have been... we are performing, while we just finished this
week the whole series of free school concerts, and we are expanding that next
year to a total of 32 days of free concerts and up to three schools per day,
throughout the whole next school year.
Mr. Plusher: How much does the School Board give you?
Mr. Babcock: Zero.
Mr. Plummer: You are doing all of this for the schools and they give you
zero.
Mr. Babcock: We are doing this free right now, yes. We figure it is a good
investment. The only way you are going to raise audiences is to go out and
show them what you do, and to help work with them, and we are doing more than
performing, we are also providing coaching services for those schools that
request them - go in and work with their ensembles and to work with their
bands and their orchestras and so on. It is something that we do that most
orchestras do not do, so... and as well, and I would like to emphasize this,
we are carrying everything that goes out about us says that we are based here
in the City of Miami and we've received a lot of national attention already
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for the City and we expect that to expand and continue. We are looking to
major national tours in the fall of 1989, and we feel that we are good
representatives for the City.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I recommend that they reapply for the $40,000 set
aside by this Cosmsission for that explicit purpose, which will be in
September. I so move.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Let me just second for argument's sake. Would that help you at
all in September? I'd like to see if there is any May that we can help you. I
think that you are doing great things for Miami. You are a great promoters,
you have some of your students are from here and the Bayfront Park Trust...
Mr. Babcock: Sure, we have about a half dozen who....
Mrs. Kennedy: ... has chosen you to open the amphitheater so, you know, and
the other time we had this terrible funding crisis. now, Can you wait until
September for this?
Mr. Babcock: Sure. We'd be happy to. We'd just like to have the support of
the City in aome fashion for what we are doing. We feel it is important and we
feel it is an important relationship that we have, and we would like your
support.
Mrs. Kennedy: All right.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. I want to...
Mr. Dawkins: What is the motion?
Mr. Plummer: For them to apply in September under that $40,000 that will
become available for this purpose. I've got to tell you on the record, have
you ever made application to the School Board for funding?
Mr. Babcock: We've just completed an application for next year, at their
request.
Mr. Plummer: OK, I would be very disappointed, where it seems to be that they
are the biggest recipient at this time. I would be very disappointed at the
School Board if they did not do some funding.
Mr. Babcock: So would I, but I will tell you that they just called us and
asked us to apply, because we were doing some of these, on our own initiative,
going after the schools.
Mr. Plummer: Good sign.
Mayor Suarez: Do one other thing. This is a suggestion. If you are able to
come by tomorrow at noon, to the Downtown Development Authority meeting, we
ought to know what your needs are and see what maybe the Authority members can
come up with.
Mr. Babcock: Terrific.
Mayor Suarez: That's... Barbara, I don't know if you are able to, either one
of you. OK, 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. 88-344
A MOTION INFORMING REPRESENTATIVES OF THE "DEVELOPMENT
FOR THE NEW WORLD SYMPHONY• GROUP THAT THEY SHOULD
REAPPLY FOR THE $40,000 BEING REQUESTED AT THIS TIME
AT THE CITY OF MIAMI SEPTEMBER BUDGET HEARING, AT
WHICH TIME THE CITY COMMISSION VILL DISCUSS AND AGREE
ON THE ALLOCATION OF FESTIVAL MONIES PRESENTLY SET
ASSIGNED BY THE CITY COMMISSION FOR SAID PURPOSE.
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Upon being seconded by Cogsaissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
,dootod by the following vots:
ATES: Cosmissioner Victor De Turra
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Co■missioner J. L. Plusmer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
:.a3ENT : None.
S8. URGS METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TO AMEND METRO CODE SECTION 8-5 - TO
PERMIT ESTABLISMUNT OF A CITY OF MIAMI UNSAFE STRUCTURES BOARD. (SEE
LABELS 36 AND 39)
Mr. De Turre: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner De Turra.
Mr. De Yurre: I have here a resolution going back to the unsafe structure
board that we were talking about a moment ago. I have a proposed resolution
here that will allow this City to go to the County and request them to grant
us the powers so we can create our own board, and I'll read it into the
record. (THEREUPON, Commissioner De Yurre reads resolution into the public
record. See hereinbelow.) I'd like to move on this.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Turre, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-345
A RESOLUTION STRONGLY URGING METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY
TO AMEND SECTION 8-5 OF THE CODE OF METROPOLITAN DADE
COUNTY, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TO PERMIT 728
ESTABLISHMENT OF A CITY OF MIAMI UNSAFE STRUCTURES
BOARD IN THE CITY OF MIAMI TO EXERCISE THE POWERS
RESPECTIVELY GRANTED TO IT BY THE SOUTH FLORIDA
BUILDING CODE, AS AMENDED, AND FOR SAID BOARD TO HAVE
EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OVER THE UNSAFE STRUCTURES
LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA; FURTHER
DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT A COPY OF THIS
RESOLUTION TO THE HEREIN NAMED OFFICIALS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Cosmissioner J. L. Plti r, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENTS None.
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59. DISCUSS AND REFER TO ADMINISTRATION REQUEST OUTLINED BY MR. DAVID
r1,r4q_naK - lbbus ru I:uME SACK AT MEETING OF APRIL 28.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 90. David Fincher.
Mr. David Fincher: Mr. Mayor, vice Mayor, members of the Commission, my name
is David Fincher. I am president of Mist Incorporated. This a Black security
firm located in Liberty City. We would like to very briefly articulate to you
some sense we had on a contract at the police station, substation at Liberty
City. We had an experience that we feel as though in the spirit of
cooperation, that some things happened to us that we don't feel as though was
fair. So wet felt we would bring it to your attention to let you all look at
It and plans* look into it and see whether or not we are right, and what
happened to us. We were approached... we had a meeting with a gentlemen, the
project manager, the substation on 62nd Street in November, 1987. We talked in
term of doing security services for the police station. We did agree on a
price. On January ll... no, January Sth, the gentlemen named Dave Webbly,
which is the project manager for 3-W Corporation, called us... yes, sir?
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Dave, am I hearing you correctly? Are you saying a
security service for a police station?
Mr. Fincher: Construction of it, yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, during construction, ah, OKI
Mr. Fincher: Teo, sir, The substation is under construction now, at 62nd
Street, between loth and llth Avenue.
Mr. Plummer: I'm sorry, I didn't hear construction.
Mr. Fincher: Yes, air. So, on the 9th of January, Dave Wobbly, which is the
project manager, called me and said they wanted service, possibly on that
Monday, so I said, OK, we could do that. So that evening, I believe about two
hours before the time for the service to start, he called us. So we did, we
complied with them. After we got there, we found that we had conditions that
we felt vary deplorable. Normally with a construction site, at least when a
guard is there, to have access to communications, which we did not: to have
lavatory facilities, which we did not; there was no running water, there was
no t*lephone, there was nothing there at the site. We asked them respectfully,
would they supply this. He said, no. We have a trailer there, that we looked
to be as... as we think of as Fort Knox gold. We were not allowed anyone
there, granted. We provided the service anyway, great difficulty, odds against
us, had to go to the convenience store telephone next to the construction
site, to use the phone to communicate along with our radio. All right so,
after we stayed on the site for some time, and after we were into the site
there for a while, about in February, they asked for a contract, no, now we
are into the site already, now they talk about a contract, so I said, "Well,
OK, wall, what is it?" So I go over to meet with them. They handed me a
contract, I sent to Commissioner Dawkins, and sent copies to the rest of the
Co lesion, about the process and what happened. So they gave me the contract
and told as to sign it then, I said, "No, I am not going to sign the contract
right now." So I have a contract myself. He looked at mine and said
unacceptable. I said, great, tell me why." but he never did. Mr. Judson
there, which was his project manager, was there, he listened to part of this
process here, so nevertheless, we did not sign the contract. So in other
words, and then a little later on, I talked to Joe Jones, which is 3-W, and
asked him, I said, "Could we have a meeting between us, we have some problems
with this guy, Dave Wobbly. He is your white project manager, but he is
talking to me as if - I don't know where he thinks I am from, but I am not
whatever he thinks I am, because he is talking to me very disrespectfully,
very arrogantly, and I don't like anyone to talk to me this way, because I
know I can present myself well, you know, to negotiate with anyone." Rather
than a meeting, I got a letter from Dave Wobbly, giving me an ultimatum. I
either be there and give his a signed contract, or he is going to put me off
the site. Then he said, "Plus, you don't have any insurance." Well, I had
insurance, because I am doing the Booker T. Washington High School, with the
same 3-W Corporation, had to have insurance for that, but this guy said I
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didn't have any insurance... never asked me, never asked anything about
insurance or whatever else. Then when he gives sk the ultimatum at that time,
to give his the insurance. I saT, "well, I have insurance." NO said, "Well,
what you have is not sufficient." Well, tell me, ghat is sufficient, we never
negotiated any insurance.
Mayor Suarez: Let mo stop you for a second, if I may, David. Unless the rest
of the Coymission is more advised on this than I am, it would make sense, in
view of what we have done to get that substation moving, to get 3-W to be the,
in effect the sole contractor, for the administration to meet with you and
require, of course, their attendant, and see if we can work this out. I don't
know which direction you are heading in, but it sounds like your relations are
not the way it should be, and they are not treating you as you perceive.....
Mr. Fincher: Wall, they put me off the site, in other words.
Mayor Suares: And give us a report, because that doesn't sound like we are
going to be able to determine today whether your version is the enact correct
one. It doesn't sound like they have acted the way we would like them to act,
particularly in view of what we went through to get him in there.
Mr. Fincher: Yes, air, that is correct, that's absolutely correct.
Mayor Suarez: You know, to give them the sole contract for that facility.
Mr. Fincher: You, air.
Mayor Suarez: And in view of your prior record, and the fact that you are
doing Booker T. Washington, and that, you have had no incidents there, no
problems there with security.
Mr. Fincher: No, sir, we are still there.
Mayor Suarez: Can we get something back by the next meeting, the 26th7... and
at a high level, I'm talking about. If you need any one of our officers to be
present, we'll send staff and they will be there ourselves.
Mr. Fincher: Yes, sir, well, we are advised, we've been to the City Attorney,
Miss Kelly. We also went to Mr. Judson, Mr. Judson said in the spirit of
cooperation, they did not do it. There was no question about that.
Mayor Suarez: OK, wall we are going to try to get the Manager's office
involved directly and any of our offices. I'm not...
Mr. Dawkins: Dave, and let him set up a meeting when you guy■ can...
Mayor Suarez: I'll send, you know, a staff person, if you would let me know.
Mr. Manager, let me know when that meeting is. I'd like to have somebody
present. Maybe I'll come by and sea why and if their attitude is the way you
are saying.
Mr. Fincher: Thank you very much.
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60. AVTMpRILE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS - IN CONNECTION WITH MEMORIAL
DAY SILENT PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED ST VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS AND
AMERICAN LEGION.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, we have a request from the American Legion to hold a
parade on Memorial Day. I've given it all to the City administration for the
closure of the streets. The Manager has said that it is up for approval and
no problems, and I would so move that the American Legion be granted that the
street closure for that period of time for the parade. I so move move.
Mayor Suarez: Have you been waiting all day for this?
Mr. Plummer: Teo.
Mayor Suarez: Moved, do we have a second?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion?
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 09-346
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING A MEMORIAL DAY SILENT PARADE
TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST
10212 AND THE AMERICAN LEGION POST 346 ON MAY 30,
1988, PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS
TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE
OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE,
RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES; CONDITIONED UPON THE
REQUIRENBNT THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY
POTENTIAL LIABILITY AND UPON THE 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 Clark.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AGENDA ITEM 91 WAS WITHDRAWN.
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61. DT4%M7cSTr*1 r'0+••0-voW••1� 9enrr"'* •' n" MR. KEN 1AVORYI POSTPON124E9T OF
CONSTRUCTION OF CONCRETE CURB AND GUTTER AT APPROXIMATELY 369E WILLIAM
AVENUE.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 92, Ken Janoski.
Mr. Ken Janoski: My new is Ken Janoski, and I live at 3252 Gifford Lane, and
I've got news for the Commission, because I am not going to ask for any money
today, and as a matter of fact, I am going to request to not spend some money.
I am here in reference to a project that I am doing along with a couple of
other people located at Williams Avenue and Douglas Road in Coconut Grove. We
are rehabilitating 20 apartments at 3696-95 Williams Avenue. I am requesting
a covenant to postpone construction of a curb and gutter until such time as
the City is ready to develop Douglas Road. That is City Code section 54-45.
My reasoning is the extra expense involved. This is project done with the
Community Development Block Grant. This money was not anticipated either by
the City or by the individuals involved with the project.
Mr. De Turre: Are you through, Ken?
Mr. Janoski: Yes, sir, for now.
Mr. De Yurre: OK. Mr. Mayor, I have been driving by this property just about
every day and the improvement is quite remarkable and certainly what Ken and
his associates are doing there is something that is needed in that section of
Douglas Road and Williams and I would certainly move that this... what is it a
covenant that you are asking for?
Mr. Janoski: It is a covenant to postpone construction of a curb and gutter
until such time as the City is ready to develop.
Mr. De Yurre: Based on his numbers, it would be...
Mayor Suarez: Until such time... I'm sorry, I missed what you just said.
Mr. Janoski: As the City is ready to develop Douglas Road. When they are
ready to put in the sidewalks, curb and gutter.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, let me may this before we go any further. Anytime
you get in the ghetto, you find reasons not to bring conditions up to
expectations, OK? Nov, you sir, decided that you were going to rehab these
units. Nov, you are rehabing the units, and it is OK for the people to have
when it rains, to have to walk in muddy water. It is all right for puddles to
settle in front of their homes, because you do not want to bring these homes
up to what you would do in any other neighborhood. So, I would be against
waiving this, because everybody coma up here and says... everybody, I may not
even get donations from the Latin builders, because I demand that when they
get this money to rehab, when you get HUD money, or whatever you get, you
agree to bring it up to standards, and when you develop homes and tell me that
you don't want to take the curbing and whatever you are supposed to put in
there, until the City gets ready to develop the street, that's wrong, because
those people should not be forced to come out into something that you are
supposed to have rehabed and stop in middy water, or have puddles of water in
front of their homes, air.
Mr. Janoski: Commissioner Dawkins, I am not asking to not put in the
sidewalk. The sidewalk I feel is a necessity. There have been exceptions in
other areas of recently done construction that I have photographs of in the
center Grove area, on Center Street, on West Trade Avenue, on Aviation.
Mr. Do Turre: You are putting the sidewalk.
Mr. Janoski: We will put in the sidewalk. We would put in the sidewalk, that
Is correct.
Mr. Do Turre: OK, and the area if I am correct, also, and correct me if I am
wrong, the area that you are talking about is not the front of the building,
it is the side of the building.
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Mr. Janoski: It is the side. The front already has sidewalk, curb and
gutter.
Mr. Dawkins: Mill kids be playing on the side of the building?
Mr. Janoski: No, sir, because that is right on Douglas Road. There will be no
children over there.
Mr. Don Cather: There is a school right across the street.
Mr. Plummer: Yea.
Mr. Dawkins: What is the setback from the road to his building, air? - on the
side that we are talking about?
Mr. Cather: The base building line on 37th Avenue is 35 feet, and on Williams
Street, it is 25 feet from the center line of Williams Street.
Mr. Dawkins: So it is 25 feet from the base of his building to the middle of
the road?
Mr. Cather: No, from his building, the face of his building, to the base
building line...
Mr. Dawkins: No, on the side, on the side.
Mr. Cather: ... on the side, is 7.1 feet, and on the other side, on Douglas
Road, he is 4.6 feet behind the base building line, with his building.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, I mean, I hear you, and I understand, OK, but it just that,
wherever you can show we pictures of, and they didn't do it, it is wrong. So
I can't sit up here and vote for something that I feel is wrong, because
some body else sat up here and voted to let somebody also get away with it sir,
that is all. That's just one vote.
Mrs. Kennedy: And I couldn't agree with you more, Commissioner Dawkins. It
Is not right.
Mr. Janoski: OK, one thing that I know Mr. Cather brought up was the fact
that there is a school across the street. I have been to Dr. VonBebe, who is
the principal. He said his only concern... he is not here to verify this...
Mr. Dawkins: He doesn't vote up here, sir.
Mr. Janoski: Yes, sir. No, but I know it is a concern of Mr. Cather that the
school is across the street, and Dr. VonBebe said his only concern is that
sidewalk go in for the safety of the children.
Mayor Suarez: You had asked for a postponement?
Mr. Cather: My priaary concern is the sidewalk. I also want curb and gutter.
I think these people are entitled to it.
Mayor Suarez: OK, you had asked for a postponement until when? I hear you
say, until the City develops, or until...
Mr. Janoski: When the City is ready to put in sidewalk, curb and gutter down
Douglas, we will be the first ones in line to sign up.
Mayor Suarez: Or until when? What was the other condition?
Mr. Janoski: No other...
Mayor Suarez: You had a double condition.
Mr. Cather: I would like to remind the Commission that we have a $40,000,000
bond issue that did not pass and we will not expanding any public money on
Douglas Road in the near future.
Mayor Suarez: Madan City Attorney, is there any need for us, if we were
disposed to vote for this, to may, until that development takes place, or
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until this Commission changes its mind? - and the fact that we want these
curbs to be put in, gutter or whatever?
Mr. Plummer: Or, you can temporarily give him a deferment and have him put
the like amount in cash in a bond, or in escrow.
Mr. Bob Clark: The Code provision provides that he may put it off, but he
must agree to construct or pay the cost of constructing the street improvement
when such construction is required by the Department of Public Works.
Mayor Suarez: So, in any event, we have a... any time we pretty much want to,
we have a second bite of the apple is what you are saying, right?
Mr. Plummer: Well, but you can also take that amount and they can put up that
amount in cash in escrow.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, sure, that is a much more...
Mr. Janoski: One of my reasons for coming before the Commission is it does
present a financial hardship to the project. It was not anticipated, either
by the City or by us individually. Do I have enough time, can I just read a
maw that I passed out to all the Commissioners? that came from the head of
housing for the City of Miami to Mr. Cather?
"Mr. Ron Janoski and Mr. Larry Schute, the owners of the above
referenced property have advised this agency that they have been
denied a covenant to postpone construction of the following
improvements: curb, gutter and pavement. The need for the
placement of the sidewalk on Douglas Road side of the property
appears eminent and would not deplete the financial resources for
the project, as would the required curb, gutter and pavement work.
Financing for this rehabilitation project is a combination of a
low interest rehabilitation loan provided by this agency, coupled
with private rehabilitation funds secured by the owner."
And it goes on, but basically the point is, it does create a hardship to the
project. We are going to run out of money.
Mayor Suarez: OK, so we can at any time require it, either Public Works
Department can do it, or the Commission can instruct the Public Works
Department to require it, obviously.
Mr. Cather: It is customary for us to have it done when the project is built,
and I don't generally postpone it, because I like to see curb and gutter and
sidewalk at the proper place at the proper time.
Mayor Suarez: I gather that. That is not my question, though. I am saying
if we were disposed to vote in favor of this, could we reimpose the condition
at any time that we want. That's all I am trying to establish, Don.
Mr. Plummer: Teo, I guess you can if it didn't go into foreclosure.
Mr. Cather: Or if we don't incur a lawsuit in the meantime, because we
haven't provided the standard curb and gutter on that street.
Mr. Plummer: (OFF MIKE) If you go into foreclosure, you can whistle "Dixie."
Mr. Cather: It is a lot easier to run over a person if there is no curb and
gutter than if there is a curb there to divert them.
Mayor Suarez: I would think so. Anything also from the Commission?
Mr. Dawkins: Teo, Mrs. Armbruster wants to say something.
Mr. Janoaki: There are five existing trees there, to act as a buffer for a
curbing.
Mayor Suarez: OR, Me. Armbruster.
Ms. gather Mae Armbruster: My nsms is Esther Mae Armbruster, I live at 3350
Charles Avenue. I an quite aware of the building that his company is in the
process of renovating, and if we have to go by the rules, I don't see why you
have to sake amendments or change for his benefit. Now, this particular
company is buying the property all over Coconut Grove and renovating any kind
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of flip flop way. you need to check on that, because I called the building
code downtown and you just simply ignored it, OK? Now, in the meantime again,
you have allowed his company to put barbed wire around the building. I have
been up here more times than I'm old, just about, trying to get barbed wire
put on sly fence and you won't let me do it, but you let his do it. Nov, will
you please tell me the difference? I would like to know why you let him do
It, and I can't do it on my fence. I'd like to know why. Somebody please
explain that to me, because I cannot understand it. I want them to explain it
to me, not you.
Mr. De Turret How such money are we talking about, Ken?
Mr. Janoski: For the curb and gutter?
Mr. De Turret Teo.
Mr. Janoski: I hove an estimate for $2,260 plus 25 percent, so it would be
about close to in excess of $3,000.
Mr. Do Turret Vhat if we were to give you a one year period to get it done? -
and you don't have to come up with the money right now, then.
Mr. Dawkins: Let so ask a question, Commissioner De Turre. Tou mean to tell
me that you are doing a project, and you went into a project, and you don't
have enough cushion in there to absorb $2,500?
Mr. De Turre: Well, I'm not going in no project.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, you are not building no project, I am talking to him.
Mr. De Turret OK, that is good to hear.
Mr. Dawkins: I'm not talking to you.
Mayor Suarez: How many units is it?
Mr. Janoski: It is 20 units. We are investing in excess of $319,000, so in
reference to Me. Armbruster, it is not a haphazard... this is going to be
brought up to excellent standard.
Mayor Suarez: Let me ask about her other question.
Mr. Odio: We didn't even charge interest on the loans.
Mr. Janoski: This is building will be the pride...
Mayor Suarez: What is the story about the barbed wire here?
Mr. Janoski: Regarding the barbed wire, we had soma security problems at the
beginning, and we did obtain the proper permit.
Mayor Suarez: OK, let me ask about that. When can you have barbed wire like
this in a property of this sort, a residential area? It looks to me like a
residential area.
Mrs. Armbruster: It is.
Mr. Cather: As far as I know, it is only a temporary fence for construction
purposes.
Mr. Janoski: That's correct.
Mayor Suarez: Can you get a temporary permit for construction purposes to put
barbed wire in a residential area like this?
Mr. Cather: I don't know, I know about the fence, but I don't know about
barbed wire.
Mr. Janoski: Mr. Mayor, it was required by Building and Zoning to get a
certain class "C• permit.
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Mayor Suarez: Oh, so now it is only a matter of... the permit is now, it is a
matter of it is required, he says.
Mr. Cather: That's what he said. He is required to put up barbed wire.
Mayor Suarez: By Building and Zoning?
Mr. Janoski: No, it is required to get a permit.
Mr. Cather: Oh, yes, to get a permit. I'm just asking, did they require you
to put in barbed wire at the top?
Mr. Janoski: No, we had the barbed wire put in after we had some vandalism on
the site, when we just started, and that's there in reference to Commissioner
Dawkins' with the extra money. We have had to expend money for a security
guard full time. We also had to pay for the fence, and...
Mayor Suarez: Why don't we solve the issue of the barbed wire. Now, do we
have, or do we not have a provision that allows for this kind of fencing,
barbed wire fencing according to what he is saying, that Building and Zoning
permitted it. Does anybody know, Joe, anybody? It is the most unsightly
thing that I have seen. It looks like a prison here.
Mrs. Armbruster. Right.
Mr. Joe McManus: Mayor, as I understand it, Building and Zoning will allow
barbed wire during the construction process. I am not clear whether we allow
that in residential areas and I would doubt whether it is requirement to have
barbed wire...
Mayor Suarez: Please check that out as to this property, Joe. OK, on the
other issue, you are saying that it is twenty -some hundred dollars and the
total project price is three hundred -some thousand dollars?
Mr. Janoski: $319,000.
Mayor Suarez: And your margin does not cover that?
Mr. Janoski: Well, I just finished reading Donald Trump's book and his guys
used to save a penny a brick, so, when you are dealing in low-cost housing,
low-income housing, the pennies add up.
Mayor Suarez: OK, anything else? Commissioners?
Mr. De Yurre: Well, I'll you right now, the most I'd be willing is to give
like a... you know, we are not talking about a heck of a lot of money, $3,000,
In the whole scheme of things and to tell you the truth, I thought it was a
lot more than just that amount I haven't read the book, OK?
Mr. Janoski: OK.
Mr. De Turre: Let me tell you that much, but the most that I would be willing
to go is not even a year. I'd say let me give you six months to get that
thing started and wrapped up. If that is good enough for you, then, you
know...
Mr. Cather: This is adding a cost to the project of about two-thirds of one
percent.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. De Yurre: Well, I've got my numbers too, but you know, that is about as
far as I am willing to go on this, to try to...
Mayor Suarez: OK, we have a motion. No, don't, this could go even worse for
you than it probably is going to go.
Mr. De Yurre: I'll put it in the form of a motion and see if it flies, to
give you a six month period in which to put in that curbside and the gutter.
Mayor Suarez: Do we have a second? Going once. Do we have a second? Do we
have a second?
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Mr. Janoski: Thank you.
No. Armbruster: I'm still with the barbed wire.
mayor Suares: Joe is going to look into and get back to you, or you get back
to his - Joe McManus, as quickly as we possibly can.
Me. Armbruster: Today?
Mayor Suarez: As quickly as we possibly can, I mean it is 4:39 p.m.
Me. Armbruster: All right, because I've been trying to get it, and you won't
do it.
Mayor Suares Right.
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62. ALLOCATE $30,000 IN SUPPORT OF THE "KEEP DADE BEAUTIFUL, INCORPORATED"
PROGRAM - WMCUTE AGREEMENT. (SEE LABEL 16)
Mr. Do Turre: Mr. Mayor, can we bring back item 53, which was deferred until
this afternoon?
Mayor Suarez: Teo. Go ahead, Commissioner.
Mr. De Turre: This was the issue of the $30,000 that Commissioner Dawkins had
concerns about, that was coming out of Solid Waste and we wanted to make sure
where we were getting it back and we have here a Miss Montes. She is supposed
to be... there she isl
Mr. Dawkins: Move it. Move it.
Mr. De Turre: OK, I will second.
Mr. Plummer: Call the roll on the money on that.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. We have a motion and a second. Any further
discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-347
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $30,000 FROM THE 1967-68
OPERATING BUDGET OF THE SOLID WASTE DEPARTMENT, IN
SUPPORT OF THE "MZEP DADE BEAUTIFUL, INCORPORATED"
PROORAN WHICH PROVIDES PROGRAMS AND SERVICES AIMED AT
ELIMINATING PROBLEM AREAS IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL
DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMMUNITY; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH SAID
ORGANIZATION IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNET.
(Here follow body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clark.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Turre, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following votes
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AYES: Commissioner victor be Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Unidentified Speaker: Thank you very much.
63. AMEND CODE SUBSECTIONS 14-26(s) AND (c) - INCREASE COMPOSITION OF
DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD - CHANGE VOTING STATUS OF COUNTRY
AND CITY MANAGERS (SEE LABELS 27 AND 65).
Mayor Suarez: We have also had item 62 and 63 on DDA and all the people and
parties are here. Is anyone here from Brickell area association, that
requested this? Please, are you going to... go ahead, I won't preempt what
you are going to say.
Mr. Max Payanik: I was really only going to speak if there was opposition to
the candidates for the board seats.
Mayor Suarez: I don't know of any opposition at this point, so you might want
to hold it. Item 62 is the DDA appointments that have been pending and have
been changed to accord with requests made by various Commissioners.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I am still in favor - I know that it is mixed
emotions - but I still think we ought to increase it to 29 members.
Mayor Suarez: Let me do this. We have a meeting tomorrow. Can we take that
issue up tomorrow, but at least let us have these appointments so we can
function. I mean, it has been pending for like five months. I don't want to
force a vote on it. I mean, I would be very happy to contemplate having more
members. twenty-nine is the largest board the City has ever had and it is kind
of unwieldy.
Mrs. Kennedy: We never passed a motion at that last meeting. We just talked
about addressing it. Correct?
Mr. Roy Kenzie: It was a discussion item.
Mayor Suarez: We can make a recommendation to you tomorrow, including the
people who each one of you have recommended over the years. The DDA might
convince you that is not such a great idea, I don't know.
Mr. Plummer: That's called lobbying.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, that is called lobbying. We are going from 19 to 21. You
have to admit we're going the right direction here.
Mr. Kenzie: Yes, item 62 replaces or asks you to amend and adopt an emergency
ordinance amending sections a and c of section 1426. Basically, changing the
status of the City and County Manager to ex officio non voting members from
voting members. Basically, due to attendance and ability to be there and they
felt better if it was a non voting basis so the board agreed to request that
you make that change.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion on that, 62.
Mr. Plummer: That's not the one that increases the board?
Mayor Suarez: To 21. yes.
Mrs. Dougherty (OFF MIKE): Yes, it does.
Mr. Kenzie: It increases it from 19 to 21. It changes...
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Mayor Suarez: Well, it make non voting members the two the county...
Mrs. Kennedy: Well, you're just, yes...
Mr. Plummer: Well, that's part of it.
Mrs. Kennedy: It's just replacing the two...
Mr. Kenzie: It takes the two members that you had earlier made voting members
and changes them to non voting.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Plummer (Off MIKE): No, but it's only increasing to 21. That's combined
in the notion, it's two phases.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): We want 29.
Mr. Plummer: And we want 29.
Mr. Kenzie: And consequently adds two voting members, changing the total
number to 21 from 19.
Mr. Plummer: There's a magic in 29. Mr. Mayor, I have no problem, sir,
waiting, if you want to bring this matter up again tomorrow at the DDA and you
want to defer item 62 and 63 until that time, until the next Commission
Meeting...
Mayor Suarez: Nope, nope, pope, nope, no, no, no. I won't defer the items,
we got to have these appointments, they've been pending. We've ask for input
from all the Commission and we've got to function. You know, we'll be happy
to come back, you can have members anytime, I mean, it's - we're going in the
right direction here by going to 21, you want to add another eight, we can
contemplate that. I got to measure the size of the table we'd need over
there.
Mr. Plummer: OK, well then I'll make a motion - let me go back to 62 here. I
will amend item 62 to change the voting status of the two managers and
increase the DDA from nineteen to twenty-nine. I so move.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. Dawkins: What is it? What's the motion?
Mr. Plummer: The motion is to change the status of ex officio on both City
and County Manager to a voting status and increase the size of the board from
nineteen to twenty-nine. That's...
Mr. Dawkins: That gives you thirty-one voting members, right?
Mr. Plummer: The same, the same...
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): No, the same.
Mr. Kenzie: Twenty-nine total.
Mr. P1ummstr: Twenty-nine total.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion?
Mr. De Turre: They'll all be voting? All twenty-nine?
*r. Plummer: We'll each have two additional, Victor.
Mr. De Turre: But they'll all be voting members.
_ Mr. Plummer: Oh, yes.
Mr. De Yurre: OK.
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Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
Mrs. Dougherty: This is an emergency ordinance.
The following notion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
Its adoptions
MOTION NO. 88-348
A MOTION TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF VOTING MEMBERS OF THE
DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD FROM 19 TO 29;
FURTHER CHANGING THE VOTING MEMBERSHIP STATUS OF THE CITY
MANAGER AND COUNTT MANAGER ON SAID BOARD TO NON -VOTING.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
ATESs Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
NOES: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Kenzie: Twenty-seven will be voting members, two will be non voting
members for a total of twenty-nine.
Mr. Plummer: The two Managers will not vote?
Mr. Kenzie: That's correct, they're ex officio non voting.
Mr. Odio: No, so there's 29 but 27.....
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mayor Suarez: Reflect twenty-seven instead of twenty-nine in the prior motion
as understood and voted on, everybody understood.
Mr. Plummer: Tea, sure, sure. Now, let me...
Mr. De Turre: Then what status did you change then?
Mr. Plummer: The statuses from 19 to 29.
Mr. De Yurre: But the two Manager remain non voting.
Mrs. Dougherty: Twenty-seven.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. De Turre: So, it's just like adding. Instead of changing you're just
adding.
Mr. Plummer: Did you vote before?
Mr. Odio: What happened is...
Mr. De Turre: OK.
Mr. Odio: ... we had a vote before. First of all, it's wrong that the
Manager would have to vote against the Mayor. Then second, we always have
representatives there so the representatives are not allowed to vote so may as
well not have a voting right at all.
Mayor Suarez: Teo, but I think that requires some other changes if you don't
want them to attend at all.
Mr. Plummer: Teo, that's true.
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Mayor Suarez: It doesn't affect it at all.
64. A. APPOINT INDIVIDUALS TO THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD
(APPOINTED WERE: STANLEY DODD, ALEXANDER McW WOLFE, JR., PEDRO PELAEZ
AND GARTH REEVES, SR.).
B. FORMALIZE APPOINTKMS MADE BY ABOVE MOTION, PLUS CERTAIN OTHER
APPOINTMENTS TO DDA BOARD (APPOINTED WERE: LAWRENCE KAHN, III, MIRIAM
LOPEZ, JACK LOWELL, JEFFREY SERCOW AND MICHAEL KOZNITSKY ) (SEE LABEL
27).
Mr. Plummer: All right, Mr. Mayor, I am going to ask of you to the DDA
tomorrow to make some recommendations so that, to me anyhow, I can't speak for
the rest of the Commission, that my two appointments would be giving some very
broad coverage to the DDA. I think at the present time where we need the help
is in the Brickell area, that is one of our fastest and expanding areas, so I
would hope that that consideration would be given that we give an overall
broad, but equitable, situation to all of the DDA including the Brickell area.
So I would hope that could be done.
Mayor Suarez: That should be absolute no problem. In fact, we want to hear
from the Brickell Area Association as to 63. Do you went to say anything on
it? These are your recommendations?
Mr. Max Puyanic: My name is Max Puyanic My office address is 59 S.W. 9th
Street and I'm president of the Brickell Area Association. I thank you for
allowing me to speak here today and thank you for your comments, Commissioner
Plummer. We also feel that there's more representation needed in the Brickell
area and want to bring to the attention of this Commission that at the time
the Brickell area vent in favor of being incorporated into the DDA, the
agreement was entered into with the former Mayor, Mayor Ferre, signed by Mayor
Terre, agreeing that we would have proportionate representation. That
agreement has never been ratified by the Commission and we had intended to
come back in a future meeting and ask for ratification of that agreement. I
don't disagree with your position for wanting more representatives to the
Brickell area for that reason. I hope that a 29 member board won't turn out
to be unwieldy and not be able to accomplish the job.
Mayor Suarez: Well, if it was really a concern of representation from
Brickell, you know, that's something we can always accomplish and if that's
the way to solve it, you know, we'd be happy to have members, we'll...
Mr. Puyanic: Thank you very much.
Mr. Plummer: All right, who are the three - are there three to be
reappointed?
Mr. Puyanic: There are three Brickell area representatives now, Larry Kahn...
Mr. Plummer: No, excuse me, I'm talking to item 63.
Mr. Puyanics Oh, there are additional members, two other additional members
who aren't Brickell members, the three that are Brickell members today...
Mr. Plummer: Who are the three that are proposed? Jeff Bercow is one.
Mr. Puyanic: Yes, he's not from the Brickell area.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, he's not from the Brickell area of recommendations though.
Mr. Plummer: I'm asking, who are the three that are...
Mr. Kenzie (OFT MIKE)s The three reappointments are Pedro Pelaez, Stanley
Dodd, and Alexander McWolfe.
Mr. Pluismor: What about Jeff Bercow?
Mr. Kenzie (OFF MIKE): That's a new appointment.
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Mr. Plummer: So he would come under then the expanded?
Mayor Suarez: No, no,no.
Mr. Plummer: Teo.
Mayor Suarez: No, no. He's fulfilling...
Mr. Kenzie (OFF MIKE): Tee, he comes under the expansion to twenty-one.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, the expansion for the Manager's, not the expansion of the
twenty-seven.
Mr. Plummer: Tell me, of those three names that you just mentioned, Pedro
Palaez is who's appointment?
Mr. Kenzie (OFF MIKE): I'm not sure whose appointment it was. Mayor's
appointment...
Mayor Suarez: We've not been doing it on the basis of...
Mr. Kenzie (0" MIKE): We don't do it - we've never done it on Commission
appointment basis.
Mr. Plummer: Haven't we?
Mayor Suarez: No, it's not the way the charter calls for. I don't have any
problem if you guys, you know, give recommendations, we could use good people,
you know, if you want to expand the board but we've not been doing it that
way.
Mr. Plummer: I have no problem with Pedro, who were the other two names?
Mr. Kenzie (OFF MIKE): Alexander McW Wolfe, Vice -Chairman, Southeast Bank and
Stanley Dodd, Dodd Realty on Brickell.
Mr. Plummer: I have no problem there. I move item 63.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: OK, we also have the Brickell area...
Mr. Plummer: We'll take...
Mr. Puyanic: Those are three new appointments.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Plummer: We'll take those and the expansion.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Moved and seconded as to those first three. Call the
roll.
The following notion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
Its adoption:
NOTION NO. 88-349
A NOTION APPOINTING THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS TO THE
DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD: STANLEY DODD,
ALEXANDER McW WOLFE, JR., PEDRO PELAEZ AND GARTH
REEVES, SR.
Note: R-88-350, which passed immediately following
the above notion, formalized appointments contained in
said notion, plus made other appointments to the
D.D.A. Board. Other appointments (at large) were:
Lawrence Kahn, III, Miriam Lopez, Jack Lowell, Jeffrey
Bercow, Michael Koznitsky.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
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ATBS: Cosimissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Comissio"er J. L. Pluamer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
MOBS: None.
ASSENT: None.
Mr. Peter Andolina: The only appointments that are dependent upon the
expansion today are Jeff Sercow and Mike Kosnitski. All of the other names
mentioned are part of the nineteen existing.
Mr. Plummer: I understand.
Mayor Suaraz: OK, now, who else do we need to appoint or approve the
appointment of?
Mr. Kenzie (OFF MIKE): The three to recommend reappointment, which we just
did...
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Kenzie (OFF MIKE): Then we have Larry Kahn, Miriam Lopez, Jack Lowell to
be appointed for new terms.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: Now that's still working within the twenty-one?
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, this is on the expanded.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): No, no, bring it back.
Mr. Andolina (OFF MIKE): No, this is... twenty-one only.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): No, no, bring it back.
Mayor Suarez: No, no, no, we're not going to bring it back. We're going to
vote on this today.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): We'll bring it back if I get three votes, we'll
bring...
Mayor Suarez: Well, you try for three votes but we're not going to bring this
back.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): All right then, all right then - I move that...
Mayor Suarez: OK, we have a motion...
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): ... I don't know who these people are...
Mayor Suarez: Rio ahead.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): The reason we expanded it was so that I could get
somebody on...
Mayor Suarez: We're not appointing the expanded board.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Wall, you Just said - he says ha's talking on
expansion. I said, is this 21 or 27 people you're discussing.
Mr. Andolina (OFF MIKI): Twenty-one.
Mayor Suarez: Twenty-one.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Well, that's what I asked and J.L. said twenty-seven.
Mayor Suarez: We will...
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Me. Hirai: Roy...
Mr. Dawkins (OFT' MIKE): If it were 21, Mr. Mayor, I have no problem with it.
If he's naming names for twenty-seven, I have a problem with it.
Mr. Plummer: Are you recommending these two names to be put on because of the
change about the Managers?
Mr. Andoline (OFF MIKE): Use the microphone.
Mr. Kenzie (OFF MIKE): Teo. Jeff Bercow and Mike Kosnitski are the two
additions.
Mr. Andolina (OFF MIKE): He's got to use the microphone.
Mr. Kenzie: Jeff Bercow and Mike Kosnitaki are the two additions replacing
the Managers.
Mr. Plummer: I oo, I so... those two are fine, they're very acceptable and I
move.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): I just had a motion to move...
Mayor Suarez: And who is the third? Isn't the third the recommendation the
Brickell Area Association?
Mr. Kenzie: The other...
Mr. Plummer: We don't have a third open.
Mr. Kenzie: The others are Brickell recommendations is Larry Kahn, Jack...
Mr. Plummer: But that would be into the expanded area.
Mr. Kenzie: No, that's still within the existing board.
Mayor Suarez: We had many, many reappointments to make and we have an
agreement with the Brickell Area Association to take X number of members that
they recommend and that's what we're doing.
Mr. Andolina: To complete...
Mr. Plummer: To*.
Mrs. Kennedy: Motion on the three names. Let me -amend the motion and
include the other two, Bercow and Kosnitaki.
Mr. Andolina: OK, but we would have to amend the code to include Bercow and
Kosnitski so we'd be...
Mrs. Kennedy: Too, that's what I just did. I amended my motion to include
these two.
Mayor Suarez: OK, the motion is to then appoint Bercow, Kosnitski...
Mrs. Kennedy: Kosnitaki, Lopez...
Mayor Suarez: Miriam Lopez.
Mrs. Kennedy: Who are the other two?
Mayor Suarez: Larry Kahn.
Mrs. Kennedy: Larry Kahn.
Mr. Andolina: Jack Lowell.
Mayor Suarez% And Jack Lowell.
Mr. Dawkins: All right that brings up to twenty-one?
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Mr. Kenzie (OFF MIKE): Teo.
Mayor Suarez: Do we have a second?
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Teo, I second.
Mayor Suarez: Second.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): J.1.. seconded it, I think.
Mayor Suarez: Do we have a second, otherwise I'll second it myself so we can
get the vote on this thing.
Mr. Plummer: Teo, I'll second it. The only question that I'm going to remain
open, we're going to have tan - that means we're only going to have eight more
appointmente.
Mayor Suarez: That's fine because I'll waive my two, you can each appoint two
more just so we...
Mr. Plummer: All right, that's fine, I'll second it.
Mayor Suarez: All right, moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-350
A RESOLUTION REAPPOINTING AND APPOINTING CERTAIN
INDIVIDUALS TO SERVE ON THE BOARD OF THE DOWNTOWN
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF MIAMI.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution 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.
65. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE SECTION 14-26 BY INCREASING COMPOSITION
OF DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD - CHANGE VOTING STATUS OF COUNTY
AND CITY MANAGERS (SEE LABEL 63).
Mr. Roy Kenzie (OFF MIKE): Mayor, item number 62 which amends the code was an
emergency ordinance.
Mrs. Dougherty (OFF MIKE): You don't have any authority to nominate those two
because we haven't passed the ordinance yet.
Me. Hirai: Mr. McKenzie, we cannot hear, would you kindly use the mike.
Mr. Kenzie: I'm sorry, item number 62 which was the changing of the Manager's
status increasing the number from 19 to 21 was an emergency ordinance. Now
you changed the 21 to 29, do you want to leave it emergency ordinance status
or come back the second time on that?
Mr. Plummer: Sixty-two or sixty-three?
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Mayor Suarez: On 62, we voted on, actually, a different matter than it was up
there because it was only up to 21. We voted on it and I think it got 4/Sths
anyhow so it could have been, but did you mean to make it an emergency
ordinance?
Mr. Plummer: I didn't state but I was going on what it was on the agenda.
It's listed...
Mr. Kenzie: All right, the agenda, it said emergency ordinance.
Mayor Suarez: Madam City Attorney, do we need to do anything on it?
Mrs. Dougherty: Teo, I need to read the ordinance. You need to pass the
ordinance.
Mayor Suarez: Do you want to move it as an emergency ordinance?
Mr. Plummer: Sure, as it is on here, amended.
Mr. Kenzie (OFF MIKE): Amended to twenty...
Mr. Plummer: Twenty-nine.
Mr. Kenzie (OFF MIKE): ... twenty-nine.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING SUBSECTIONS (a) AND
(c) OF SECTION 14-26 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, BY INCREASING THE COMPOSITION OF
THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD FROM 19 TO 29
MEMBERS; CHANGING THE STATUS OF THE MANAGER OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI AND THE MANAGER OF METROPOLITAN DADE
COUNTY TO EX-OFFICIO, NON -VOTING MEMBERS.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner
Dawkins, for adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the
requirement of reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by 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.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plusimer and seconded
by Commissioner Dawkins, adopted said ordinance by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor Do Turre
Cown issionor Miller J. Dawkins
Co Issionar J. L. Pluassar, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10424.
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.
ISO April 14, 1988
Mayor Suarez: I didn't vote on either reading, but I suppose I should vote
and I'm not going to vote...
Mr. Pita.— a�•..r bvu�OUt.
Mayor Suarez: Silence betokens consent, I know where that's taken from. Why
not, yes, what the hock.
66. A. RECONSIDER PRIOR VOTE WAIVING PROHIBITION AGAINST TRANSACTING
BUSINESS WITH A CITT OFFICIAL AS IT APPLIES TO PAT SKUBISH (P.S.
CONSULTANTS, INC.) AS WELL AS APPROVE PROPOSED AGREEMENT WITH P.S.
CONSULTANTS, INC. (SEE LABEL 47). DISCUSS AND DEFER UNTIL LATER THIS
MUTING PROPOSED APPROVAL OF AGREEMENT WITH P.S. CONSULTANTS, INC. (SEE
LABEL 74). B. DISCUSSION: MINORITT PROCUREMENT (BILL PERRY)
Mayor Suarez: What is it, ninety-three?
Mr. Plummer: Ninety-three.
Mayor Suarez: Ninety-three, Bill Perry.
Mr. Bill Perry: Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Bill Perry, 850 N.W. 7th Street Road.
I came here on a kind of a high note but I found out some things since I've
been here that kind of got me on a down note and I've long since learned that
when dealing with snakes, that you have to try to maintain a high roll. But
there's one thing that I'd like to have clarified before I begin to talk about
what I'm here for and that's item number 79 that was passed earlier that dealt
with Overtown and the - someone on the Zoning Board, could some one, staff,
explain that to me so that people in Overtown will understand what's going on
in that situation?
Mayor Suarez: What was 79, Bill?
Mr. Plummer: Pat Skubish and marketing.
Mr. Perry: Pat Skubish with something.
Mr. Plummer: Marketing.
Mrs. Kennedy: But, Mr. Manager, correct me if I'm wrong, she will resign from
the Zoning Board as I understand it.
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): Teo.
Mr. Perry: And what's the intent? Is the intent of that to give her a
contract with Overtown Park/Vast Developoent?
Mr. Plummer: Where's Mr. Bailey? Mr. Bailey.
Mr. Herb Bailey: Yes, Comniesioner, I'm looking for the item but I think I
can recall most of the components of it. Could I get the question again, Mr.
Perry?
Mr. Perry: I want to know the intent of item number 79, Pat Skubish resigning
from the Zoning Board, getting a waiver, is the intent of that to give her a
contract to serve the Overtown Park/Most?
Mr. Bailey: Tea, it is.
Mr. Perry: Well, as a s»abor of the Overtown Advisory Board and recently
elected chairman, I'm here to resent that. It has never come before that
board. I don't think Pat Skubish is the person that can adequately represent
that community. There is some resentment in the community on your intent to
appoint her to that position. I had breakfast with Miss Skubish yesterday and
she told ae she had talked to someone in the Manager's office by the name of
Schwartz, I think, and that he had called her in and offered her this job.
And after my discussion with her, she told us that she was going to come
downtown and ask that her name be withdrawn from that. It's my understanding
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from Miss Skubish that aha's not interested in that job until we have an
opportunity in the community to talk about it and put together a total package
to come before this Coeission with some additional benefits for Overtown.
I'd just like to express L::aL .s . ass.LLea ut Lecora and Kind of alert you to
the fact that if you move on it without sitting down with us, there will be
some subsequent consequences to that.
Mayor Suarez: Let me ask a couple of questions about it because I thought
basically, we were waiving the requirements as to someone... the prohibition
as to someone who's been in the City from consulting and otherwise contracting
with the City. What exactly was it that that compensation was supposed to
cover for her to dot Is this not part of the prior marketing that was being
done which I have always objected to actually.
Mr. Bailey: No, I'd just like to make a couple of corrections, one is that it
is not a position, it is a contract for professional services and it falls
within the purview of what we normally do in most departments when there is a
need to have other outside help to do certain things in the department. We
have not, at least to my knowledge, Miss Skubish did not come down today and I
was not ewer* that she wanted to remove her name from consideration.
Certainly, if that's the can*, that should be sent to the Manager in writing
and we can certainly entertain that. The Commission, this morning, did pass 5
to 0 the item, item 79 that would give us the authority to enter into contract
negotiations.
Mayor Suarez: Let me, maybe, short circuit some of this by moving to
reconsider that part of the item that has to do with the consulting contract
and I so move.
Mr. Plummer: Rosario, he made a motion.
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): To reconsider that, that part.
Mr. De Yurre: Second.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): To reconsider item 79. The Mayor.
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): Victor seconded it.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Did we get a second?
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): Yes, I thought it had to do with a waiver...
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, any further discussion? Call the roll.
Mr. Plummer: Wall, wait a minute, let me ask you, you say as it relates to
what portion, Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Suarez: As it relates to the granting of a consulting contract which is
what it sounds like to me until I'm much more aware of what the contract would
consist of. I thought we were waiving the prohibition against applying for
any consulting with the City and I notice that's the top part of the item but
I sea that the bottom part includes an actual contract. I'd like to
reconsider that.
Mr. Plummer: And, Mr. Manager, your justification for the need.
Mr. Odio: This is part of the contracts that we have had in the past in the
marketing of Overtown Park/Vest. We need it more than over now since we hope
that we'll be breaking ground soon and we still recommend that.
Mr. Plummer: Then, Mr. Mayor, assuming...
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): To reconsider it and then discuss it.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, assuming that the matter is, in fact, reconsidered,
then what would be the next motion?
Mayor Suarez: Possibly to give or to deny the contract but I want to know
what the contracts about a little bit more and delve into that.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, all right, you want more information.
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Mrs. Kennedy: You have to hear about it, yes.
Mr. Plummar: Very fine, I'll vote for the notion.
Mrs. Kennedy: Call the roll on the reconsideration.
The following notion was introduced by Mayor Suarez, who moved its
adoption:
MOTION N0. 66-351
A MOTION TO RECONSIDER PRIOR VOTE ON R-88-33e, WHICH
MAD WAIVED THE PROHIBITION AGAINST TRANSACTING
BUSINESS WITH A CITY O"ICIAL (AS IT APPLIES TO PAT
SKUBISM, A l=Gn OF THE ZONING BOARD) AND THE
CONSEQUENT APPROVAL OF THE PERTINENT AGREEMENT.
Note: This item was later passed and adopted as R-88-
350 and R-68-359.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Turre, the notion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Perry: I have a hard time understanding what you all do sometime but I
gather that that precludes Miss Skublah getting the contract until...
Mr. Dawkins (0" MIKE): No, we're getting ready to discuss it...
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, now it's...
Mayor Suarez: We're going to discuss it now.
Mrs. Kennedy: This allows us to discuss the item.
Mr. Plummer: Now, it's open for discussion again.
Mr. Perry: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: And we may or may not get into the issue of whether she really
wants us or not because that's what you're telling us she wants and it's
unusual that she would not be hare herself or would not have sent something in
writing.
Mr. Perry: Ve all know Miss Skubish is a political activist and people gat
paid off in various ways, but we in Overtown...
Mayor Suarez+ Wo11, well, Bill, but don't get into that, don't Set into that.
Mrs. Kennedy: You know, that's...
Mr. Parry: We, in Overtown, don't intend to allow...
Mrs. Kennedy: I resent that.
Mr. Perry: Wall, I resented her getting it in the first place.
Mayor Suarez: Well, but wait, the Commission...
Mr. Perry: So we're equal now.
Mayor Suarez: Bill, wait, wait, the Commissioner's not on that particular
Issue right now.
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Mr. Perry: All right, let me get to an item that I'm here to speak on today.
Mayor Suarez: Well, we'll be happy to discuss why you're here, maybe you can
address the merits of whether we should give this contract to Miss Skubiah or
not.
Mr. Perry: I just brought...
Mayor Suarez: That's one possibility, the other one may be that we'll defer
It until we all hear from her because if, in fact, she doesn't want it then,
you know, why even get into it?
Mr. Perry: Thank you. Let me get to what I'm here to speak about today, item
93.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, wait, Bill.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoal Seventy-nine is now an open
Item.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Plummer: It's either going to be approved, disapproved or it's going to
be deferred, but it's an open item, Bill.
Mayor Suarez: You asked for it, I mean you inquired into it.
Mr. Plummer: You asked that to be done. Now, before we go any further, let's
resolve 79.
Mayor Suarez: If that's the Commission's wish or postpone, whatever the
Commission wants to do on it.
Mr. Plummer: Well, but you got to take some action, it's an open item.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, absolute.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, I think that there's a lot of confusion with the
item and certainly Pat's not here to address it and I'd like to defer it to
where she can come before us and let us know what her wish is and we can take
it from there.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a motion to defer it, if that's what you want.
Mr. Plummer: If that, and I'm taking it on Bill's word that she has indicated
she doesn't want the job, I surely will second the motion.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Yes, but she told the Manager that she did.
Mr. Perry: Let s clarify that. It was not a matter of her not wanting the
job.
Mr. Plummer: Or she wasn't going to take it.
Mr. Parry: It was a matter of us sitting down and talking about it and
putting together a total package before the contract would be consummated.
Mr. Plusmaer: Well, hey, you know, the idea of - look, can you reach Pat
Skubish and have her come here? Why don't you try to reach her and we'll
defer it until such time as she arrives.
Mayor Suarez: The matter is tabled, go ahead, Bill, on your item.
Mr. Plummer: Table it till she arrives.
Mr. Perry: Item 93 dealing with the, I call it minority business enterprise,
you have such a long title it's too difficult for me to say all of that. Let
me just first may, as a matter of record that I am of the opinion that the
director of that office , Adrian* Macneth, has done an outstanding job, a
tremendous jobs particularly looking at the resources that shoo had to work
with. It has become pretty clear to some of us in the community that the
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•hole business of minority business enterprise is extremely low priority with
the City Coisaission. Now, I don't know if that's because you have given that
authority to the Manager to execute and operate that operation or because it's
your doing that minority business enterprise is a low priority with you.
There are several contractors in this community that happen to be minority,
both Latin Americans and African Americans who have been excluded from the
whole process of getting contracts with the City. I have looked at your
ordinance that establishes the procurement procedures.
Mr. Plu®er: Sill, bill, you know, I'm sorry, you and I are good friends and
we're going to stay good friends but the only way we're going to stay good
friends is when you make accusations, I'm going to ask you to put on the
record the names of those companies that have been denied and in the situation
In which they ware denied. because I don't know what you're talking about.
Now, maybe you have some factual information...
Mr. Perry: Well, I have one right here.
Mr. Plummer: OK, he's been denied, he had an application and he was denied,
In that cor...
Mr. Perry: Not denied. He was working with a particular company...
Mr. Plummer: Well, excuse me, your statement was, "minorities that have been
denied," I'■ asking please go on the record. If we're going to be able to
correct a situation that's wrong, we've got to know the particulars.
Mr. Perry: Maybe my language is a little too strong, Mr. Commissioner. I
don't necessarily mean denied, you know, after being in an experience in which
I've been denied so much, perhaps I use language that's a little too strong,
such as the language in the ordinance that talks about the Manager
implementing this thing in a full and forceful way. And sometimes we tend to
throw out words that, you know, have a different connotation depending on
where you're coming from. Perhaps I should have said rather than denied, not
having access to or not able to get contracts. I can only look at the bottom
line.
Mr. Odio: Mr. Perry, have you looked at our affirmative action record and our
minority procurement record before you come here and make that kind of
statements?
Mr. Plummer: Well...
Mr. Odio: I suggest you do, air.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, wait, wait, Mr. Manager, let him complete his...
Mr. Perry: I got it, I got it, you sent it to me...
Mayor Suarez: Let him complete his statement.
Mr. Plummer: All right.
Mr. Perry: I sent you a letter, let me find it here, in February of '87, Mr.
Manager...
Mr. Plummer (0" MIKE): I got a phone call on this yesterday, now I know what
It is. He's saying that he was denied based on an accusation - Asian.
Mr. Perry: ... I sent you a letter requesting such information. No, no, no,
you responded...
Mr. Odio: Tom, I did.
Mr. Perry: ... in February of '87 and I sent you the letter November the 6th.
Mr. Odio: Well, that's good. For City work, that's pretty good.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): but you see, he wants to be...
Mr. Perry: That's pretty good for you, the rest of us is working
bureauocracies have to respond in a more rapid fashion.
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Mr. Odio: Sir, you know we got a lot of agendas around here.
Mr. Plummer: Bill, Bill, this is the gentleman that called me yesterday,
right?
Mr. Perry: Who?
Mr. Plummer: This gentleman that you're saying is the one here.
Mr. Perry: No.
Mr. Tasnim Uddin: I don't think Mr. Perry pointed out to me, but I sure would
like to speak on this subject later on.
Mr. Plum:ser: What is your name, sir?
Mr. Uddin: My nave is Tessin Uddin.
Mr. Plummer: OK, this is not in reference to the minorities of Asians.
Mr. Uddin: It is.
Mr. Plummer: OK, now you see we're coming far afield, Bill.
Mr. Perry: What do you mean?
Mr. Plummer: Well, the far afield, the call that I got yesterday was from
Tasnim, OK? His contention is, not that he was denied, his contention is that
he was not considered a minority as an Asian, OK?
Mr. Perry (OFF MIKE): This is the gentleman I was pointing to.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I'm sorry, this gentleman was standing behind you when he
spoke, OK? Now, that is, you know, I can't say under, and I explained to that
gentleman yesterday that we, as I understood it, followed the federal
guidelines as to what constitutes a minority. He was questioning why this
Commission only set aside for Blacks, Latins and females and he could not have
a set aside being an Asian. And that's what my understanding was. Now is
that also your contention that...
Mr. Uddin: Yes, Commissioner, that's my contention and I...
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Uddin: ... do have some supporting documentation with me that I'd like to
present.
Mr. Plusesr: OK, all right, fine. But, Bill, that's not what you're speaking
to, I'm sorry. Bill, when I asked you to give me some names...
Mr. Perry: I understand.
Mr. Plummer: ... you pointed behind you and that was the gentleman was
standing behind you.
Mr. Perry: Vell, again, Commissioner, and we could go on and on with this, I
think Father Gibson a few years ago when he was alive and president of the
MAACP, did an excellent job of refusing to give up names when asked for names
because sometimes people suffer as a consequence of giving up names.
Mayor Suarez: That would not be a...
Mr. Perry: But, I can privately...
Mayor Suarez: Bill, that would not be a factor here, the only point really is
to be absolutely sure that we're talking about a specific case rather than a
generality. I guarantee you there's been no reprisals since I've been around
and I think there's unanimity in this Commission that there would be no
reprisals, in fact, the more we know about the matter, the more chance the
Individual has as far as we're concerned. I think that's a fair statement.
Now, occasionally, other things slip by and you may be pointing to soma of
them and we'd like to know that.
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Mr. Plummer: It's the only way we can look into it.
Mr. Perry: Let me *ova beyond that and I apologize for saying denied, if that
helps any. But I look at the bottom line results.
Mayor Suarez: Well, if you weren't accepted you were denied so I don't have
any problem with that, right.
Mr. Perry: These people have a problem with the word deny.
Mayor Suarez: If you didn't get the bid, you were denied.
Mr. Perry: Tea.
Mayor Suarez: I have no problem with that.
Mr. Perry: There's a problem with that. I withdraw that...
Mayor Suarez: There's no implication that it was denied in bad faith or
denied improperly, or anything like that.
Mr. Perry: I do know that there are some people that do not get contracts
with the City. I do know that, from my perception, the City does not use its
ability to leverage its power with outside developers to bring additional
resources into this community and particularly in dealing with minority
contractors. That rarely happens. But that's beside the point. I consider
your ordinance to have very vague language, in it and if I had the time, I'd
go through and underline some of it. But I'm not going to do that now. Let
me get to some specifics. I would like to make a recommendation to this
Commission that you consider some relief for minority contractors in this
community, particula:ly African American contractors and Latin contractors and
women as well, since that's a part of your ordinance. And I have drawn up
something on the two areas, one is under what I consider to be policy, the
other administration. I'll pass them out to you so you can see exactly what
I'm talking about. It was a matter of record, I would like to share with you
what I consider to be some policy changes that need to be made.
Mayor Suarez: Bill, before you do that, can I ask you a question?
Mr. Perry: Yes, air.
Mayor Suarez: Is it generally the case that what you're focusing in is not
contractors in the sense of public works, because I think the latest contract
that we awarded was a total black set aside and so on, or even public/private
projects in which we're dealing with contracting, subcontracting for building
particular structures and the reason I say that is, Commissioner Dawkins
carried out perhaps the most thorough and complete investigation of the sports
arena and I'■ not saying we were as successful as we want it to be but
certainly we delved into that. But that what you're really keen on and from
the meetings that we've had in the past, I remember is the whole issue of
procurement of supplies, equipment and such contracts, not construction
contracts, right?
Mr. Perry: Construction as well because, you know, we've met with some
African American contractors who are certified by the county through Milton
Vickers office who are not able to get contracts, construction contracts, with
the City of Miami. And they have been certified and continuously get work
with the county. So I think it's both our...
Mayor Suarez: What kind of contracts are they, public works department,
maybe?
Mr. Perry: I'm not a contractor, I'm not a contractor, I can't...
Mayor Suarez: No, I was just trying to get a general view of what you're
talking about because we've worked so hard on construction contracts per se
that I'm... I know that we're not doing very well on procurement, I'm aware of
that and I think we're doing better but if you have any suggestions, go ahead
and give them to us.
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Mr. Perry: Let me see what I consider to be suggestions. Under policy, if
you'd revisit in truth...
Mrs. Kennedy: Bill, excuse me a second, Mr. Manager, did you get a copy of
this?
Mr. Odic (0" MIKE): Yes.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK.
Mr. Perry: The minority and women business affairs and procurement ordinance
clean up some of the vague language. To include an analysis and assessment of
the NNE program is part of the Manager's mid year and annual evaluation.
Establish a bonding assistance program. Skip one. Direct the law department
to work with the NNE administrator to devise some creative solution to
problems resulting from ordinance 10332 and, for example, a drastic reduction
In the number of certifiable African American and Latin American contractors
as a result of them have to be certified. Centralize the NBE operation by
granting program control to the director along with commensurate authority and
have the director report directly to the City Attorney or to the City Manager.
To reestablish cossitted vigilant, sensitive watch dog committee comprised of
voters of the City of Mimi to oversee the operation. Relative to the
administration, mom changes that I propose, increase the staffing of the NBE
program by at least four and provide clerical assistance with a computer and
necessary software. It seems mating to me that Adriene has been able to do
as well as she's done as one person in that office hidden somewhere over to
GSA which she's very difficult to find.
Mrs. Kennedy: Aren't they three persons in that office?
Mr. Perry: I don't think she has a secretary.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Manager, Adriene. Mr. Manager, aren't there three persons
in that office?
Mr. Odic: We have added two more people to that office.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, there are three now.
Mr. Perry: When did that happen?
Mr. Odic: When I decided, that happened...
Mayor Suarez: Who do we have working that department, Adriene, who are under
you? Presumably under you, right?
Mr. Odic: We're making some moves to... and like you ordered me, Mr. Mayor
and the Commission, to strengthen... we will...
Mayor Suarez: We're just asking questions, would you please go to the mike,
Adriene and tell us who you have now working with you?
No. Adriene MacBeth: Mr. Mayor, what has happened is that the Manager has
authorized Ms. Bellamy, the assistant city manager, to work with me and as a
result of that, we have identified two additional positions and are in the
process of going through the register to select people for those positions.
Mayor Suarez: very good and we haven't hired them yet.
Me. MacBeth: We will be transferring people from within the City.
Mayor Suarez: But, I mean, we haven't hired them yet, you can't give me the
names.
Mr. Odio: I as* Mr. Perry is laughing, we are going to transfer some people
over to that office, Mr. Perry and it will be done as soon as we can identify
the people.
Mayor Suarez: What difference does it make whether he's laughing or crying?
Mr. Odio: No, I don't like him.
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Mayor Suarez: Mr. Manager, please. Now, we have recommended - Mr. Manager,
please - we have recommended, and I've done it by memo and I think the rest of
the Commission feels the same, that we have direct responsibility of the
minority procurement and minority contracting effort to the Manager. The
suggestion now comes in that it might be the Manager or the City Attorney.
Have you moved on that? I know I sent a memo about a month ago on that.
Mr. Odio: The office is reporting directly to the City Manager's office.
Angela Bellamy as an assistant city manager, has full responsibility over that
office.
Mayor Suarez: ..... reporting to an assistant city manager.
Mr. Odio: It's the same as reporting to the City Manager.
Mayor Suarez: Not in my book but...
Mr. Odlo: I don't want to play...
Mr. Perry: I hope you understand what some of the problem is.
Mr. Odio: Yes, you.
Mayor Suarez: Please, please, please, please.
Mr. Perry: It goes two ways.
Mayor Suarez: OK, any other ideas, Bill?
Mr. Perry: Yes, to provide that office with a budget. See, obviously, when
you look at an operation, it has absolutely no budget. It's clear to anyone
that can read, that that office does not exist.
Mayor Suarez: Well, the moment you go to three, you're going to have a
budget, a much larger budget, almost three times as much. What you're saying
is a little bit of autonomy is what you're saying though.
Mr. Perry: Absolutely.
Mayor Suarez: That's interesting, OK.
Mr. Perry: Have the director of the NBB program initiate ongoing training
sessions with mid level and top level management to sensitize them to the
expectancies of viable NBH and affirmative actions programs. And I think this
is critical because in order to implement a program such as this, your mid
level and top level management people have to understand what you're trying to
do. And I certainly think that the director should have the authority to do
that, even to the extent of training your manager.
Mayor Suarez: I can't imagine it to be any problem with that suggestion at
all or most of your suggestions actually.
Mr. Perry: So I submit the...
Mayor Suarez: When is that dated, Bill, that memo that you have here?
Mr. Perry: This is not a moo, I just brought this today.
Mayor Suarez: OK, because I thought some other people had had it in advance,
OK.
Mr. Perry: No, no, I just brought it today. I would ask that you give
careful consideration to these recommendations and direct the Manager to move
post haste on the implementation of same. Thank you very such. Just one
other comment. I did bring Mr. Agustin Barris here who has been having some
difficulty in dealing with TCI. As I understand it, his company, he's a cable
Installer and I would Just like for his to share some thoughts with you so you
see that it's not only African Americans that are having difficulty, that
there's some Latin Americans having difficulty as well. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Bill.
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Mr. Dawkins: Don't go any place, Bill.
Mr. Agustin Barris: Good afternoon, my name is Agustin Barris, president of
freedom Lommunicationa, 5529 S.M. 8th Street. We started working for Miami
TCI on January 25, 1968 doing cable installations. Ever since that time,
another company called Amec, it's originally based in Tennessee, has tried to
make our life impossible. Ma've been getting rumors and all of that they want
to get rid of us. They don't want us to work in the City of Miami. Through
the help...
Mayor Suarez: Who is this company, I'm sorry?
Mr. Barris: AMEC is...
Mayor Suarez: How are they related to TCI?
Mr. Barris: They are another contractors for Miami TCI.
Mayor Suarez: The same kind of contracting you do?
Mr. Barris: Teo, air. They are based in Tennessee and they do a lot of work
In the southeast United States.
Mayor Suarez: And how are they making life impossible for you?
Mr. Barris: We got rumors and all of that that they want to get rid of us,
they don't want us to work in the system in the City of Miami.
Mayor Suarez: OK, now but that kind of rumor in the private sector or semi
private in this case because the City is at least supervising or monitoring
what they're doing, is typical. I mean, that's competition...
Mr. Barris: Correct, I do...
Mayor Suarez: I mean unless you've got some specific allegation, you know,
there's not much we can do with rumors that they would like to drive you out.
Most people would like to drive others out in their business and have a
monopoly so that doesn't mean much. Go ahead.
Mr. Barris: I do agree with you, sir. Our company has performed very well
over the percentage of completions. Our installers have performed in a very
professional way and we still, two weeks ago, we were told that we could no
longer work in the City of Miami, that we can only work in the City of
OpaLocka. We were not given any reason why we can't work in the City of
Miami. I approach the marketing rep for Miami TCI, Ed Frieberger and I asked
him, wall, doesn't the City have a contract with TCI that you have to provide
work for minorities? He said, yes, but we're building the new warehouse here
and that takes care of all the money that is going to go to the minorities.
When they cut you from work, when you're performing a good work, that doesn't
make any sense to us.
Mayor Suarez: I misheard what you said. You had done some work for them
already?
Mr. Barris: Ve have been working as installers installing cable in the City.
Mayor Suarez: And they gave you no reason for...
Mr. Barris: No reason, sir, the orders here are that they come from above the
local management of Miami TCI.
Mayor Suarez: Mr. Manager, I'd like to know, for myself, and I presume the
rest of the Commission would like to know, what reason TCI gives for canceling
the contract with this particular contractor.
Mrs. Kennedy: And what can we do as the City Commission?
Mayor Suarez: Well, let's start by finding out why they think they say they
did it.
Mr. Odio: I'll have to ask them why they did it.
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Mr. Plus r: Let's look at the contract and it will tell you.
Mr. Barris: Let me add ammothint that when we case in, they just had gotten
rid of the other minority company that they had here.
Mayor Suarez: I remember that, yes, that was a lot of...
Mr. Barris: But we don't have any work problems. We have been performing
very well, we're completing over 95 percent of our work.
Mayor Suarez: That's why we're going to see what they say. And they are now
engaging to do the same work, a Tennessee company?
Mr. Barris: It's a Tennessee company and they just want to take over the
whole installation here in Mimi. They don't want to give anybody a chance to
perform. They just want to take all that money away from the City.
Mr. Plummer: Do you have a contract with the company?
Mr. Barris Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Does the contract say that you work in Miami?
Mr. Barris: Tea, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Or where they tell you?
Mr. Barris: In the City of Miami and vicinity.
Mr. Plummer: Well, vicinity.
Mayor Suarez: Tom, but you don't have like a long term contract that they
breached or anything, they just simply... they were contracting with you and
they stopped contracting with you.
Mr. Barris: We're still contracting in OpaLocka but our business cannot
subsist just on OpaLocka.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, is that what you're asking about, other parts?
Mr. Plummer: He's got a contract. You know, it's a simple...
Mayor Suarez: No, not a contract in the sense that it's a fixed amount of
time or anything like that. I mean that...
Mr. Plummer: I don't know, I haven't seen the contract.
Mayor Suarez: You were contracting with them, but, I mean, you didn't have a
one year...
Mr. Barria: It's a one year contract, sir.
Mayor Suarez: And they broke it before the end of the one year?
Mr. Barris: We're not getting any work in the City, air.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, is it like a...
Mr. Barris: It's a... the way I understand...
Mayor Suarez: ... open ended contract for whatever needs they may have or
what?
Mr. De Turre: I think, Mr. Mayor, the bottom line of this is that a company
from Tennassee is moving in here and taking over and when we're always trying
to find jobs with minority procurement and all this kind of thins, that it
seems that this kind of concept is defeating our purpose and I think that we
need to get some answers.
Mayor Suarez: If that's what it is, I fully agree with you.
Mr. De Turret We need to get some answers as to what's going on with TC1.
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Mr. Plummer (0" MIKE): We need to see the contract.
Mr. Barris: Mrs. Macbeth has really helped us sending letters to TCI and they
work only for a couple of days. After that, they just to, I guess, they go
down the drain.
Mayor Suarez: OK, well next time we're going to
going to get ourselves prepared and we're going
parson to answer some of these points. Is there
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Mr. Berris: That's about it, thank you.
Mr. Dawkins: Bill.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins.
do more than that, we're
to have TCI being here in
anything else you want to
Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead, sir, that's OK Mr.... Wait, Dr. Perry.
Mr. Perry (0" MIKE): I'm Bill.
Mr. Tasnim Oddim: Oh, I'm sorry, OK, go ahead. I thought...
Mr. Dawkins: Dr. Perry, I couldn't agree with you any more and those of us up
here, we've been fighting the same things that you're fighting, OK? And I
have said numerous times that we do not have an office of minority business
and the women affair, we have a person, OK? And a little disturbing to me to
have a citizen come down here and may to us the same thing I've been saying to
the Manager, OK? The Manager also has numerous other things that he's been
trying to do and now, I too, have the same problems you have receiving answers
to memos and it's not that the Manager is - not care. He has reorganized, cut
off, laid off and he just don't have no people. But you didn't ask him to do
that so that's not your problem, OK? So I have asked, which I will follow up
and I will send you a copy of, that the Manager bring on Milton Vickers who
wrote the minority procurement for the county to help us structure a program
and strengthen ours. So we'll be working with you and we appreciate your
taking the time out of your busy day because yours is just as busy as ours, to
come down here to help us right this wrong.
Mr. Perry: Thank you very much, Commissioner Dawkins, and I appreciate your
sensitivity to the situation. I know you might have a little more than the
other Commissioners because you've been that way, but, and then, I just hope
that we get some action very soon because there are a lot of contractors out
there both African American and Latin American who are not able to get
contracts with the City contrary to what the Manager might say, as well as
procurement and professional services. Thank you very much.
Mr. Dawkins: But most of it, Bill though, most of it is a problem that all of
us are fighting. Now you were with me, all right, we got shafted at Bayside
and we thought we had it licked then we case back to the arena and when we got
to the arena they said, "Black and Latin contractors had to get bonding from a
bonding company that was in the federal register on such and such a date." So
all these things we're working on but we can't do it without the help of this
community.
Mr. Perry: Thank you, the community is willing to be behind you and work with
you.
Me. MacBeth: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Bill. Adriene.
Me. MacBeth: Just a couple of comments for the record. And that is to say
that at the time the ordinance was passed, it was exactly at the time at which
the Manager was charged with reductions in the budget and which did sake it
Impossible to create the office. And I have, in fact, been fulfilling that
role singularly for the last year. At the time at which I was transferred to
the administrative authority of the assistant city manager we have been able
to work over the last month with the Manager's office with the budget
management office also, to identify those positions that are needed for the
office and they will be in place by June 1. The other thing that I think you
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should be aware of is the fact that since the City Manager has been appointed,
however, we have achieved a significant level of set asides as they relate to
housing construction, as they relate to design renovation projects for Parks
and police as it relates to both the north district and the south district
police sub stations both of which were minority set asides, totaling over
$6,000,000, as it relates most recently to the supplying of furniture for the
housing authority as it relates to a 4.5 million dollar Coconut Grove
exhibition and renovation expansion job, as it relates to two houses upcoming
in the Vynvood area, as it relates to the Virginia Key improvements, life
guard stations which was a black set aside, as it relates to, including
property appraisers in our natural process of appraising properties. Since
the 1986, 58 percent of the appraisers that we use were minority companies, as
It relates to demolition projects both for the south district police station
also for the north district police station and for a project here in Coconut
Grove, The Tiki Club, as it relates to the placement of approximately
$1,000,000 each in three banks, one of which is a black -owned bank, the other
was Hispanic and the other was female owned. And I think I would be remiss
and staff not to have pointed that out to you. And I think also that as of
tomorrow you should have a memorandum from the Manager which will, in fact,
indicate to you the status of what we have done as it relates to shoring up
the office, providing some funds for the office and beginning to provide me
with the administrative and the resource support that I need to make the
program effective.
Mr. Odio: And also...
Mr. Dawkins: But the things that Dr. Perry is talking about, I will give you
one example that we all up here are familiar with. A -one Tom Benjamin, Tom
Benjamin bid on the Bayside project, a black, licensed plumbing contractor.
He did not get it, OK? Now, Tom Benjamin bid on Bayside, then he turned
around and bid on the arena. He did not get it. Tom Benjamin, a licensed,
black plumbing contractor, has never been successful on a bid with the City of
Miami. I just use Tom Benjamin as one to demonstrate the areas that Bill is
trying to address. Set asides are not worth a damn if they don't produce jobs
and money.
Ms. MacBeth: Commissioner, I'm not trying to deny anything Mr. Perry has
indicated. As a matter of fact, I also thank him for indicating his support.
Mr. Benjamin will, however, be the plumber on the construction of the north
district police sub station. That contract he will be getting and that was a
set aside. I think the only point that I want to make is that...
Mayor Suarez: Which proves too, wait, wait, Adrian* - which proves that
precisely the kind of pressure, precisely the kind of monitoring, precisely
the kind of manpower that he's been talking about is needed...
Ms. MacBeth: Hxactly.
Mayor Suarez: And if it takes this Commission telling the Manager in no
uncertain terms that we have got to find monies in the budget. I don't care
who or what department gets reduced, for myself, that's the way I feel about
It and that includes almost every department in the City of Miami, let me not
may every because I have one department that I know we cannot make too many
cuts in, but we have got to find that money. And it might mean getting rid of
a few assistant city managers, it might mean getting rid of some of our own
staff members.
Me. MacBeth: Obviously, Mr. Mayor, I would very such appreciate that.
Mayor Suarez: You know, but we've got to find that money and the idea that
when we may that this is such a high priority, we get back some kind of an
answer to the effect that, you know, the budget doesn't allow for it, it's
just not acceptable and I'm not going to accept it for one and I want him to
know that.
Mr. Perry: Just one little footnote, Mr. Mayor, and Adriene, I'm impressed,
you overwhelm me. I just went down like that when you read off all those
names. But I'd suggest to the Commissioners that when you get that report
from the Manager, did you get a dollar value broken out as to what white
contractors got from the City, relative the equipment, relative to
procurement; that you did the same thing for Hispanics and you do the same
thing for women and get it broken out that way and see...
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Mayor Suarez: For history's asks, lot me just say, for all of you who have
been listening to this argumont, in 1983 and 1984, if I remember correctly,
the percentage of black contracting tram public works in the City of Miami was
zero percent. So, we had a long way to go in 183 and 184 and I presume we
still have a long May to go. I know, as to procurement of equipment and
supplies and so on, we still have a long way to go. On contracting for
projects, I think we're doing better.
Mr. Perry: And my last footnote, I constantly hear this cry of money and
short fall of dollars. It was my understanding when Mr. Gary left the
position of City Manager, there was a 30 million dollar in the black surplus
and it seems as if that's been dissipated.
Mr. Odio: Thirty million?
Mayor Suarez: I don't remember that. Of course, I wasn't around here, sir.
Mr. Tannin Uddin: Mr. Mayor, my name is Tasmin Uddin. I'm at 7811 Coral Vay.
Vhat prompted me to come over here today is we saw an advertisement which has
been sent out to the professionals in Miami which deals with the architectural
and engineering services set aside, specifically six projects set aside for
minority and it says minority is black, Latin and woman. I called Ms. MacBeth
to got a clarification because my firm, we practice consulting engineering and
surveying and have been certified by various agencies as a minority firm. Of
course, I represent the Asian American community. Today what I have is a
documentation with me which is put out by the Small Business Administration
which is an agency of the - it says United States Small Business
Administration. What it reads is that as far as the definition of the
minorities, it says, and I would like to submit this as a document over here;
black Americans, native Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Pacific
Americans, Asian Indian Americans have been officially designated, socially
disadvantaged.
Mayor Suarez: Let me ask our City Attorney a question. How does our
ordinance play into any federal regulations that have a different definition
of who are minorities or who should be favored in contracts or whatever.
Bob Clark, Esq.: To my knowledge, the categories that we have listed are
within the definition as defined by the federal government. I don't think we
have boon as all inclusive as the federal language.
Mayor Suarez: But we don't have to be as inclusive? Adriene.
Ms. MacBeth: As I understand, Mr. Mayor, if I might just add this point not
trying to be a Dinner Key attorney, but our ordinance was based on the fact
that we engaged the Urban League to conduct a study to indicate over a ten
year period what level of disparity had been experienced by various groups.
Mayor Suaraz: And I guess it reflects too the population of the work force,
does it not?
Me. MacBeth: Yes, sir, it does. The incidence in the population as well as
that, we...
Mayor Suarez: Do you have any idea of Asian Americans in...
no. MacBeth: ... there was less than 1 percent. ?here was less than 1
percent Asian American in the population.
Mayor Suarez: Lot me say, by the way, that, and interestingly and I think
just coincidentally, that at the department head level in the City of Miami,
the Asian Americans, up until recently, I guess, were something like 20
percent, 25 percent of all department heads in the City of Miami. Even though
In the population it's loss than what, less than 1 percent?
Ms. MacBeth: Less than 1 percent.
Mr. Odio: Mr. Mayor, before this item is finished, I just want to put on the
_ record that it was mentioned that Commissioner Dawkins has been very sensible
to the office of minority, but I feel that all of you have been. I have
received numerous memos about the office of minority and, hopefully, we'll do
something about it soon.
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Mr. Uddin: If I may continue. I would also like to indicate over here, I have
a letter from the State of Florida, Department of General Services, which
basically have also def iced ♦..0 W:...... �.J W.s.t1 NI ises as
lawful permanent resident of Florida who is black American, Hispanic American,
Asian American, native American, native Hawaiian, American woman, and
physically disabled persons. The same thing is with the Department of
Transportation which is the State of Florida and it has also been accepted in
the other counties. I have a letter over here from State of North Carolina,
so I think what I would really request the Mayor and the Commission to really
look into the minority ordinance the way you have it and I think it's kind of
a discrimination for a viable community which does contribute someone like
two - what we have here in the City of Miami. I'm not just talking about my
own firm, I recognize that's one consulting firm but I just put together
In about five minutes 12 different businesses which constitutes
consulting engineering, contracting, supplies and all that, you know. So...
Mayor Suares: Teo, but that is a list of businesses that may or may not have
applied for City work. So we don't know that, right, I means, it's just list
you've made up.
Mr. Uddin: Wall, the question yet is that you have projects that you are
coming out which specifically said that they are set aside for minority. If
they are set aside for minority, why only three minorities when you have more
than three minorities which has been accepted federally?
Mayor Suarez: Well, we gave you one reason I guess is the percentage of the
population, you know, but...
Mr. Uddin: Ten.
Mayor Suarez: ... if you have any individual applications at any point and
you would like for the Commission, the Manager's office, whoever, our staff to
monitor your application so you're not treated unfairly, we'd be happy to do
that too. Whether we now can create a category and allocate a percentage, I
don't know, it's going to be tough. We're at seventeen, seventeen, and
seventeen.
Mr. Uddin: Well, I do have a specific thing over here like. This
proposal, one is due tomorrow and the other one is due on the 27th. It does
say specifically set aside for a minority. Now, I am in very good relation
with the black American architectural firm, Perkins & Partners. We have been
working with them on the airport projects and the other projects in Dade
County. They specifically asked me, they want to include us as their sub
contractors to do engineering work and they were told that, no, it has to be
among these three categories. So right there, I'm a like, if you really go
down and start looking for how many black firms do you have who are doing
engineering, you'll basically and up with two firms in town. And I think
that's where, I'm a like, the effort here is to improve the minority program
and that's one of the things, OK, I think must be looked into. Ten.
Mayor Suarez: Very good.
No. MacZeth: Mr. Mayor, we have five...
Mr. Plummer: I would suggest that he turns over all of that documentation to
the City Attorney and ask her to report back to us.
Mayor Suarez: Adriene, do you want to add something, that's...
No. MacBeth: I was just going to say that we did have five black engineering
firms registered. I guess the only other comment I wanted to make and I guess
we're losing our audience here, but I'm remaining sensitive to the kinds of
problems that the Managers having in terms of the budget. And my only comment
would be that in the absence of the monies that are needed to do programs like
fund guarantee bond performance programs or revolving loan programs for
contractors which is what the crux of the problem has been for most black
contractors attesipting to get work, even ones that has been set aside, is in
the absence of that, I will be working with the law department to attempt to
come up with some policies that can be passed by the City Commission that
would create the same effect, but that would utilise the developers and the
general contractors with whom we're doing business to accomplish that.
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Mayor Suaraz: Got a little bit of input and Actually voluntary work in
monitoring help from the industry itself.
Me. Macbeth: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Would you prepare that and submit that to the Commission at a
later point. I think that would be very interesting to act on. It's actually
part of the recoomendations that Bill Perry made.
Me. MecBeth: That Mr. Perry was talking about, yes.
Mayor Suarez: Because he was suggesting a board and that will help us because
a lot of times we have to do all this work ourselves. When you don't have the
time to do it or when we get involved in it, for whatever reason. Thank you
for your statement. Go ahead and give everything to the...
Mr. Uddin: Mr. Mayor, may I submit this documentation and perhaps for your
consideration, I'm a like, I do have this, these copies available.
Mayor Suares: Teo, of course, we'd love to have that but you can go ahead and
give it to staff if you want and to us at the same time. They will report
back to us, the City Attorney's office as proposed by Commissioner Plummer.
Mr. Uddin: Thank you.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: ITEM 94 CONCERNING MIAMI JACKSON SENIOR HIGH
SCHOOL WAS WITHDRAWN.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: ATTORNEY JOSEPH PORTUONDO DID NOT MAKE AN
APPEARANCE CONCERNING ITEM 95. (SEE LABEL 68.)
67. ALLOCATE $10.000 TO "CURE AIDS NOW, INC." FOR PROVISION AND DISTRIBUTION
OF MEALS TO HOMEBOUND AIDS PATIENTS - E)ECUTE AGREEMENT.
Mayor Suarez: Item 96, Cure AIDS Now.
Mr. Plummer: We called and the man wasn't here.
Mr. Bob Kunst: My name is Bob Kunst at 525 W. 49th Street, Miami Beach. I'm
director of Cure AIDS Now and I'd like to say, first of all, I'm glad to be
here, Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission, I hope that you'll please bear
with me with an emergency crisis that's going on and that the tone of this
morning's...
Mayor Suarez: Let's have oam quiet in the chambers, please. Officer, I want
some quiet in the chambers.
Mr. De Turret Escuse on, Mr. Kunst.
Mr. Kunst: Teo, sir.
Mr. De Turret I'm a little bit disturbed and maybe you can clear this up for
me because, Lord knows, I've been misquoted by The Herald...
Mr. Kunst: Yes.
Mr. De Turre: ... though lately, they've been pretty good. But there's a
remark here that has been disturbing to me which I don't know if to take it as
a threat or how to take it about you bringing down AIDS patients and start
coughing here and I just want to clear that up whether that was made by you or
just what the story is.
Mr. Kunst: Sure. I was just going to start in with that, sir. I really feel
rather disappointed in what happened in this morning's paper. I spent over an
hour and a half yesterday trying to explain the crisis with the reporter who's
sitting here who was at my house. And instead of getting into what's going on
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In the community, he took a little bit of the other part and unfortunately, I
really feel that I'm here to present the threst that we're all faced with and
I'm not here to threaten you. I want to please clear that up right from the
vary beginning. And I understand...
Mrs. Kennedy: I'm very happy that you say that because let me tell you
that...
Mr. Kunst: Well, I was just as equally upset as you are, believe me.
Mrs. Kennedy: ... to me that sounded like a threat and this Commissioner and
this Commission...
Mr. Kunst: I understand.
Mrs. Kennedy: ... is not going to be blackmailed.
Mr. Kunat: No, I understand.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK.
Mr. Kunst: I would like to suggest that if each one of those...
Mr. Plummer: Can I read the article, I didn't see the morning paper. I don't
know whether I'm threatened or not.
Mrs. Kennedy: Tea, you are.
Mr. Kunst: Well, I would say that we're...
Mr. De Turre: Not that, let me tell you, not that coughing AIDS patients are
a threat, if people understand the way it works.
Mr. Kunst: That's right.
Mr. De Turre: OK7 So keep that in mind also.
Mr. Kunst: That's right. I would like to say that one hand having come to
this Commission a year ago and having received the best support, namely this
Commission, through Mr. Dawkins and then followed by Dade County, we were the
first community in the entire United States to offer food to feed people with
AIDS. 1 have been very pleasantly approaching the entire media that I've had
the pleasure of addressing as an international authority around the world with
the City of Miami's backing. So I'm not here as an antagonist, I'm here to
give you the reality of the crisis as we are facing today. Of course, last
time when I was here a year ago, we only had a handful of cases to deal with
and I'm here to tell you that the problem we're having right now is so
extraordinary and so bad and so awful and we are all threatened and i assure
you that if those 81 people had an opportunity to tell you what they were
going through, we would all feel very personally threatened. I was never
intimidating or intimating the fact that I'm here to threaten you. I need
your help and we all need to work together because we have a crisis that's so
severe. I want to tell you that since we opened up our headquarters on South
Dixie and painted up and have our sign out there, there's one tremendous
advantage to being up front and out in the open which is the fact that so many
people pass by everyday that they tap into our system of what is going on
where they actually have no idea of how to reach anybody else. One advantage
is that we get so many calls of urgent crises to even follow up what's going
on. The other problem is that we don't have the tools to deal with the
crisis. As of today, and I want to give you a little background on what's
going on here, as of today, we have 81 full time clients. That is, we are
feeding 81 people from age four to sixty. But...
Mrs. Kennedy: Bob, let me just interrupt you for a second on those 81
clients. You have a budget of close to $2,000,000 so $2,000,000 divided into
21 clients comes up to $24.691.
Mr. Kunst: OTC, let w correct that please.
Mrs. Kennedy: I wan, that's a lot of money.
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Mr. Kunst: No, no, lot at correct ghat we're talking about here. First of
all, the only thing that's keeping our patients going and Cure AIDS Now right
now is $8,000 worth of food from Jewish Family Services tnst .• on* " mm
funding. Dodo County January 19th gave us $50,700 to even deliver
the food. everything we have done, which is over 15,000 meals, we were doing
strictly volunteer. It's not just delivering the food, it's a question of
doing the social service and having to deal with every bit of the crisis that
these people are giving of falling through the system which I need to explain
to you here. The program that we're offering you now is that, based on what
has already happened with the fact that thirteen agencies right at this
second, are giving us referrals, OK? We have doubled the number of patients
that we are taking care of since January and if things keep on going the way
they are right now, by this sumear, we will have a minimum of 200 clients and
by the end of the year, we will have a minimum of 500 clients. So we are
giving you the projected budget based on the reality. I would like to tell
you right now that based on what we are seeing, that there are a thousand
people in Dade County today who are dying of malnutrition and AIDS who have
not even tapped into the system. We have a working relationship with the
Veterans' Administration. Those folks have told us there are fifty veterans
with full blown AIDS who are living in the streets. They don't even have a
place to live. We have already discussed, on several occasions with IV and
other drug agencies, of what's going on and we could pick up tomorrow 300 now
clients to food who are drug abusers that they know of. We cannot deal with
this thing in terms of the present circumstance, lot alone what's already
happening. Lot me try to address this in it's fullest context. The State of
Florida, by HRS admissions, says there will be 32,000 full blown AIDS cases in
the State of Florida in four years. You have to multiply times ten pre AIDS
cases which is 320,000 and we're talking about a minimum of two to four
million infections. Half of all of that is Dade County. What we are looking
at right now is that we can't even cope with the crisis we have now let alone
the fact of what's coming down the pike. We are not only stressed out, we are
beyond that level and what's happening here, which is even more freaky,
because we just did a demographic based on the people that we're feeding from
age four to sixty, and all of a sudden here, I just want to give you a little
basis, now this report we did for Dade County which I have a copy for each one
of you Commissioners. This was made up as of the end of March. Right now we
are feeding 25 people who are black, 26 people who are Hispanic, 4 Haitian and
21 Caucasian, including one German woman. Twenty-two of the patients are over
40 years of age. This is an enormous figure. Totally different from what's
happening around the country and eleven of them are over 50 years of age. And
we have 17 female, all heterosexual and we have five families we're feeding.
To deal with the problems of what's going on here is just absolutely
extraordinary because it's not just a question of what we have today. We lost
two people this week, two people the previous week, two people the previous
week before that. So the figures that I'm giving you right now - I'm going to
give you the latest state of what we're dealing with as of today - well,
anyway, we have about six people that went back in the hospital, we lost two,
one got off her program who's back to work and we have two more people that we
had to withdraw because of moving away. But, if you think that the problems
are just on that level - I swan every single day this thing is shuffling - we
got a phone call today and this is a very scary situation from another level -
this is from the prison for the criminally insane of a person who's been
incarcerated for eight years who has HIV, is getting absolutely no treatment
and tells us and we have already contacted these people, that at least 10
percent of the 200 people in this particular prison alone are HIV infected
with absolutely no treatment. To add to this complication, we are dealing
with a system that's completely chaotic in this whole mess. We are only
getting a handful of what is going on. We have gone to South Florida AIDS
Network which is funded through HRS and we have said, can't you give a single
piece of paper to everybody that comes into Jackson Memorial telling them the
following agencies with the following programs so that we keep a handle on
this thing that people even know how to tap into the system. They won't do it
because they claim it will violate peoples privacy. This is the most insane
politics and the worst thing I've ever seen. And we are the only people that
are even dealing with people who are infected. The whole political scene is,
well, we have no cure. therefore the only thing left is education. But anyone
who is hurting now is campletely ignored. We are the only program in Dade
County dealing with it and we're the only program in the country dealing with
minorities. What so crazy about this is that we have actually caught on to
other people around the country. We've had phone calls from the City of
Cincinnati, from the Health Department in the State of Connecticut. We are
going to be given a 43,0O0 check by a saw company from New York on Saturday in
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front of Macy's who heard about our program. Even the International AIDS
Commission wants us to appear in Stockholm to present how we're doing in our
grass roots level before 7,000 people from around the world. So we are very
gratified that we have a role model program. But, for God's sakes, give us
the tools to deal with. The problem here is overwhelming and that's just the
people who we're dealing with that we're feeding. We have several hundred
clients that we're dealing with who we're not feeding, and we're dealing with
the parents now who are totally freaked out on how to deal with the process.
Plus, every single day we get more and more and more people who need
information on what's going on from testing. We had two calls today from FIU
just to do presentations on what's going on. We had two calls from media to
do presentations, one in Palm Beach, one Channel 17. This thing just does not
end and we only have four people staff. Thank God we have 56 people who are
doing volunteer work or we'd be totally crazy. But we are all stressed out
and at the end. We cannot cope any longer and our food program ends in
exactly three weeks.
Mrs. Kennedy: Let me ask you, how much do you pay per client, per week for
the food service?
Mr. Kunst: It's $16.00 just for the food and we are now involved with the
Daily Bread program. We are working out a relationship with the American Red
Cross. We have several churches that are already doing fund raisers for us.
We already had one from Temple Beth Am, we have at least four other churches
that are working with us. But this is not enough to cope with the thing.
What I'm trying to suggest is whatever we have is only the tip of the iceberg
of what's going on in the community. What's very important to understand is
the relationship between food and nutrition and keeping people out of the
hospital. Every time a patient...
Mayor Suarez: Bob, Bob, we have a pretty good idea of the relationship
between food and keeping people out of the hospital so...
Mr. Kunst: Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: ... I want you to please wrap up so we can make a decision at
this point or move to the next item.
Mr. Kunst: OK, Mr. Mayor and members of this Commission, let me tell you what
we need. Based on the projected figures of what's going on in Dade County, we
are asking for $523,820. This covers strictly 250 patients and a full time
staff to handle it, strictly the City of Miami. I'm sorry to have to throw
this out but the bottom line is that all the figures that we're talking about
today cumulatively are all going to double by next year and double by next
year and double by next year. Our problem is that we're already four times
what we were last year at this time and we're double what we were just two
months ago. And we're not seeking business. This is what people are calling
up for us to deal with. So what we are asking for you is to help us to feed
the community at large right now, based on the fact that we're going to have
200-250 within the City of Miami limits by summer time. We have to deal with
these people because if we don't, and nobody takes care of them, they run out
In anger to rainfect the rest of the population and do everything else under
the sun. This is not just a prevention program but every single day a persons
In the hospital, it's a $1000 bucks a day to the taxpayer. This whole program
here is keeping 250 people out of Jackson Memorial just for two days. We
believe we're better than that. We believe we can keep them out 30 to 60
days. The problem here is that there's nothing that's being coordinated and
we're the only people that are in the trenches dealing with this life and
death struggle every single day and we can't handle any more.
Mayor Suarez: I don't at all agree with you on that but if you feel like that
way, we can go ahead and make that statement.
Mr. Kunst: In terns of serving food, Mr. Mayor, we don't have any competition
out there.
Mayor Suarez: Well, let me may one thing on that issue, by the way. We had a
program that was presented to us actually that we had some problems with
because of the food and they claimed that we have given them support to the
tune of $30,000. They claim they were serving 4,000 families by taking food
to their home. I mean that program, in fact I think it's on the agenda for
consideration a little later on. You might want to check with them on their
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logistics and where they get their food and how they arrange for that because
it's just amazing that they're able to do that.
Mrs. Kennedy: Right, the food is donated.
Mayor Suaros: You've got 92 patients or members in your organization or
clients, it you want to call them that, and you're asking for half a million
dollars so I just want you to be aware of their program. They're right back
there, I believe.
Mrs. Kennedy: These people get their food donated.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Kunst: Teo, from where? Who pays for it?
Mr. Plummer: Federal government.
Mr. Kunst: The federal government.
Mrs. Kennedy: If you stay around you can talk to them.
Mayor Suarez: We'll be getting to that in a second.
Mr. Kunst: Would you like to be able to feed the 92 patients? In fact, would
you...
Mayor Suarez: Wall, they're serving three or four thousand families, you
know, with...
Mr. Kunst: Would you like to be able to feed all of these people and we will
just do the referrals on the patients to everybody that has AIDS?
Mayor Suarez: Oh, I don't think I have any problem serving your ninety-two.
Mr. Kunst: In fact, I would like to suggest that now 36 percent of all the
clients that we have, have tuberculosis. Would you like to go and feed these
people?
Mayor Suarez: I'm not involved in the program.
Mr. Kunst: I would like to know...
Mayor Suarez: I'd have no problem doing it if I was but, they may.
Mr. Kunst: I would like to know how...
Mayor Suarez: Would you wrap up your statement and your request. We're not
going to get involved in a back and forth thing here, Bob, we just need - this
In your presentation, this is what you want us to do?
Mr. Kunst: Well, Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suares: Are you finished?
Mr. Kunst: No, I'm not finished.
Mayor Suares: Weil. you're going to be finished very quickly if you're not
finished so finish. you've got a half a minute.
Mr. Kunst: Well, you just spent a half hour on the last presentation and I'm
up here five minutes talking about life and death.
Mayor Suaret: We were discussing the minority procurement effort of the
City...
Mr. Kunst: And that you could give almost a full hour but here we're talking
like...
Mayor Suaraz: Too, air, and this is about the third time we hear from you
this year, now just finish up what you're saying.
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Mr. Kunst: I would like a commitment from this Commission to feed people by
the end of this contract that we have, that we're going to have with Jewish
Family Services. I would like to know that we're going to be able to continue
our program, which is a role model program that's taking care of the people in
this community who have AIDS.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Kunst: And we do not discriminate, we take care of everybody who needs
help. And I'd like to know what this Commission's going to do about it?
Mayor Suarez: All right, thank you for your presentation. Anyone from the
Commission?
Mrs. Kennedy: Why don't you come back from the...
Mayor Suarez: Madam Vice Mayor.
Mrs. Kennedy: ... when we have the community development block grants
hearing.
Mr. Kunat: But that's not going to happen until October and our food runs out
In three months.
Mrs. Kennedy: No,no, no, no, no... What was the date?
Mr. Kunst: I mean in three weeks.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): April 28th.
Mrs. Kennedy: April 26th is the hearing.
Mayor Suarez: Our hearings on this allocation of those monies are two weeks
from now. We can take note of all your presentation today for the record and
apply that to that request. Have they even gone through by filing an
application under community development? I wonder why not? It seems like we
saw him just a few months ago here.
Mr. Frank Castansda: No, they have not actually, but we are aware of their
existence and we have met with them.
Mr. Kunst: Mr. David's gone.
Mayor Suarez: That's the funds that we receive from the federal government
for this kind of purpose, obviously, and, by the way, you fit under the
criteria rather wall because, as Commissioner Plummer likes to enunciate and
does so very clearly, we try to take care in the allocation of those funds
first of all feeding people and, secondly, of taking care of their medical
problems. And you fit under both of those.
Mr. David Scott: Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, my name's David Scott and I live
650 86th Street, Miami Beach. I'm Bob's assistant. Foregoing Bob's salary
and sly salary and any health benefits and anything of that nature, gasoline
for the van, equipment, anything, we do need $75,000 immediately for actual
cost of food. Your suggestion does give us some hope. I don't know if
there's anybody else in Dade County that's actually feeding people who have
AIDS. These people may be feeding families, there's lots of church groups
that are getting free food from the daily food bank but they're not feeding
anybody with AIDS.
Mayor Suarez: That's where, by the way, I believe that's where they get most
of their food is daily food bank. That's where you do too.
Mr. Scott: What? Yes, we do too. We're getting about - we're actually
giving people...
Mayor Suarez: But they actually distribute them to the homes and they have a
very, or it seems like a very efficient program of...
Mr. Scott: We're giving frozen dinners, that's where the $18.00 cases in.
We're actually giving fifty or sixty dollars worth of food per week per
person. The remainder comes from the food bank. I have a creative solution
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I'd like to offer the council for that $75,000 which I •ant to emphasize is
the actual cost for food for 80 people, which is what we have now that we are
feeding, at $18.00 per person per week for the next 52 weeks is to donate part
or your puo►ic auction for automobiles from Dade County. I'd like you to
consider donating some of that $75,000 to us from that sale. I don't know if
that's legally possible or whatever.
Mayor Suarez: Well, it's just not our jurisdiction, Dade County, unless you
meant the City of Miami.
Mr. Scott: Teo, I meant the City of Miami. I think this is a City of Miami
auction. If you could - that's kind of a creative way of trying to find some
funds for the City of Miami for us to really deal with this food program. I
can tell you what's going to happen within three days to two weeks after the
food runs out, if we can't find food or we can't get food from what you just
suggested and get sufficient nutritional food which is Kosher meals in
addition to the daily food from the daily food bank. These people their
health is going to fail very quickly and it's going to inundate the system.
It's really going to inundate the hospital - people are going to get ill
quickly and they're going to go in the hospital. So my plead is, forget my
salary, forget other salaries if, at the bottom line here is give me $18.00
per person par week for as many weeks as you can hold us off on the program.
I'■ submitting seven proposals to HRS initiatives and submitting three non
competitive bids under ten thousand. I'm currently trying to get a bid from
the federal government, from the National Institute of Health, but right now
there's no money out here except if the City of Miami would do a fund raising
for us and help us in that or some other kind of creative way to get us that
money for food. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: OK, thank you for your presentation. That's it, Bob. We've
heard enough. Anything from the Commission on this matter?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I think it's rightfully so that they should be here
under the social monies. But I'm concerned that the continuation will be
interrupted. You're talking about 80 people, Bob, at $18.00 a week. Is that
correct?
Mr. Kunst: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Plus, I am assuming expenses for delivery, that cases out I'm...
the 80 people at $18, I case up with is it fourteen hundred or, no, it's
fourteen thousand, is that correct?
Mayor Suarez: No, $1400.
Mr. Plummer: $1400? I would like to make an allocation at this time, Mr.
Mayor, to make sure that we carry them over until they can make that
presentation at the community development. Bob, I want you to understand
fully what I'm going to say, I'm going to make a motion to allocate $10,000,
but that money can only be used for food and delivery.
Mr. Kunst: That's fine.
Mr. Plummer: OK? Now, that'll
scheduled for two o'clock,
Interruption of the program.
solely for the purpose of food
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. De Turre: Second.
get you over to community development which is
April the 28th. I don't want to see an
I so save, Mr. Mayor, that we grant $10,000
and delivery.
Mayor Suarez: Any discussion? Call the roll.
Mr. Dawkins: You know, under discussion...
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion. Tou see, this is what irritates Millar
Dawkins, OK? Now, we've had groups here all day long, I moan, I'm not against
this, OK, but we've had groups here all day long and all day long you say no.
Now, you come up with $10,000 after you tell everybody all day long you have
no money. People think we're crazy. They think we are out of our minds.
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(Applause)
Mr. Dawkins: We sit here all day long and say, the Manager, I have no money.
So you tell them, OK, we have no money. Now you come up and say we got
$10,000, OK? I mean, I'm as much in favor of it as anybody up here but
somewhere along the lines up here, you've got to stop making me look like an
Idiot. OK?
Mr. Plummer: To my good friend, Commissioner Miller Dawkins, people want to
look at you as an idiot, they're going to look at me, they're going to look at
us the way they want. I don't know of one request that came before this
Commlesion today that was denied in which I honestly and can truthfully may in
my heart that it was a life and death situation. This one is. This is a
true...
(Applause)
Mr. Plu_ers Thank you, Mother. This, in my estimation, is definitely a life
and death situation. It is the true example of an emergency and as far as I'm
concerned, I hope we can help them in community development but I'm not going
to sit here and guarantee it. But at least I want to give the opportunity to
carry them over to such time, at least to make their presentation.
Mr. Dawkins: I have no problems with it and I was going to may to Bob before
you said that. Bob, who's getting money in this City? Where is it going? Why
is it that your agency is the only one serving the people? I mean there's a
ton of money coming in here, Bob.
Mr. Kunst: All right, let me explain that real simple. First of all, Florida
has only allocated $13,000,000 while California has allocated a quarter of a
billion dollars.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Kunst: OK and the governor is only asking for a new $7,000,000, so we are
so short changed it's unbelievable. The people out there who are doing and
getting the money are the people who are doing so called education, so called
counseling and so called referrals. All the agencies are getting paid out
there and they all send us the clients, and no one gives us the money to deal
with it. And one reason why we don't get the money is because we are
complaining about the abuses of that's going on where people falling through
the system. We had a black man last week, 36 hours in the emergency room and
he dies in his wife's arms. What are we supposed to do? We're supposed to
keep silent with Jackson on that level? And they get 20 million bucks.
Mr. Dawkins: That's right.
Mr. Kunst: I man, I can't begin to tell you the hassle that's going on but
everyone says, you're not a tam player, you don't keep your mouth shut but we
sse the abuse.
Mayor Suares: You're also working against your own mowntum here.
Commissioner anything else?
Mr. Dawkins: No, no he's not working against his momentum, OK? That's my
concern. A ton of money comas into Dade County for AIDS and it all goes into
salaries and what have you. It does not get down to the people.
Mr. Kunst: You're right.
Mr. Dawkine: Every agency go and write an AIDS grant and get it funded and
they got all kind of personnel and there's no services. That's what we need
to be addressing, Bob.
Mr. Scott: South Florida AIDS Network, we have about 60 percent of the people
that we have referred from them - 60 percent of our clients is from Jackson
and South Florida AIDS Network. They're not giving...
Mr. Dawkins: UM - how such money does DM gat?
Mr. Kunet: We don't get a dime of that.
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Mr. Dawkins: I Man they don't - you...
Mr. Kunst: Not one dins. In fact the only proposal we were allowed to write
a grant for was for a counselor and we're saying we need food, we need people
full tile, they won't even listen to it. The State of Florida, we have to
have in seven grants by next Friday, only wants to pass out condoms, only
wants us to find out how bad the issue is with more surveys, wants us to do
more counseling but will not put a dime behind food and things that are going
to help people on a direct level. It's insane what's going on. In fact, I
would like to ask just one other consideration. I appreciate your motion,
air, which is that what we are offering here we should offer through your
lobbyist up in Tallahassee and your influence in Washington because this is
one of the few programs that's making a difference in the entire country.
Mayor Suarez: We will so...
Mr. Dawkins: We will do that. We will do that.
Mayor Suarez: With our lobbyist in Tallahassee. Anything further from the
Commission? We have a motion, do we have a second? Was that motion seconded?
Mr. De Turre (OFF MIKE): Second...
Mayor Suarez: It was seconded.
Me. Hirai: Yam, sir, it is.
Mayor Suarez: Any further discussion? Call the roll.
Mr. Dawkins: De Turre second it.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-352
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $10,000 FROM THE SPECIAL
PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND, TO CURE AIDS
NOW, INC., TO BE USED EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE PROVISION
AND DISTRIBUTION OF MEALS BY SAID AGENCY TO HOMEBOUND
AIDS PATIENTS; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, WITH THE AGENCY TO IMPLEMENT SAID
ALLOCATION.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Turre, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Scott: Thank you very such.
Mr. Kunst: Thank you very such.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 95. We missed you before.
Mr. De Yurre (OFF MIKE): Are you going to go back to 937
Mayor Suarez: Ninety-five. Just passed up a...
Mrs. Kennedy: I step out of the room for five minutes and...
Mayor Suarez: That's right. Five minutes out of the - they're going to
report on Vizcatran.
Mr. Plueaer (OFF MIKE): Do you want to put your vote in or not? We gave them
$10,000 for food and delivery on AIDS.
Mayor Suarez: Counselor.
Joe Portuondo, Esq.: Mr. Mayor, my name is Joe Portuondo and I represent
Vizcatran Ltd. who is the landowner of the Vizcaya site. I'm not going to go
into a long history of what this project is about, suffice to say that back in
'86 by resolution number 86-169, the Claughton Island Developers were released
from their obligation to build low income housing on that island in exchange
for paying 3.2 million dollars to be used for the Shell City and East Little
Havana Housing Project. In connection with that matter, the Claughton Island
Developers also had to - it was a strange resolution at best but they had to
contract with a developer who, at that point, was Mr. Carrillo, to build 104
units at the Vizcaya site. As you recall...
Mayor Suarez: It was 140 units, was it?
Mr. Portuondo: One hundred and four units.
Mayor Suarez: A hundred and four.
Mr. Portuondo: A hundred and four units and you'll recall that on January
14th, 1988, before this Commission, Mr. Carrillo came forward and announced
that he could no longer do the project and abandoned it. Following that,
there was a great deal of litigation threats among the various parties;
principally between Swire Biscayne, who wa■ the developer of Claughton Island
and myself representing Mr. Delgado who is the general partner of the limited
partnership. And we have reached a tentative agreement which we would like to
present to the Commission today and ask that the Commission approve in
principle the agreement. It has not been reduced to writing because there are
a lot of loose ends so to speak that need to be discussed here today but based
upon discussion that we have here today, we can forward and prepare the
documents.
Mayor Suarez: Counsel, when you may you have reached an agreement, what
parties are you referring to?
Mr. Portuondo: Swirs Biscayne and Vizcatran Ltd.
Mayor Suarez: Which basically you're talking about the owner of the property
and the people who made the commitment to build the units on behalf... we
think on behalf of the City, I don't know.
Mr. Portuondo: We think on my behalf.
Mr. Plummer: That's not really a true statement. That's on behalf of the
person who owns the property and on the person who, in fact, will buy the
units once they're completed. That was their obligation.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, we're talking...
Mr. Plummer: They're not building.
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Mrs. Kennedy! We're talking about Swire, Delgado, Carrillo...
Mr. Plummer: Carrillo'• out.
Mr. Portuondo: Mr. Carrillo's no longer involved. He withdrew from the
project.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, all right, so Delgado...
Mr. Portuondo: There •ill be no claim made against Mr. Carrillo in connection
with this tentative agreement.
Mrs. Kennedy: All right, can you refresh our memories and tell me the names
again.
Mr. Portuondo: Swire Biscayne was the developer who developed...
Mrs. Kennedy: Right, no, no, no, just the names...
Mr. Portuondo: Of Hernando Carrillo?
Mrs. Kennedy: The owner of the land is Mr. Delgado, correct?
Mr. Portuondo: The owner of the land is a limited partnership called
Vizcatran Ltd. whose general partner is Juan Delgado.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yea, I know the names, all I'm asking is for the general
partner's name.
Mr. Portuondo: Juan Delgado. Is there a question pending? No.
Mayor Suarez: How are we doing with the neighbors?
Mr. Joseph Wilkins: Is he finished? Is Mr. Portuondo finished?
Mayor Suarez: Oh, I want to know if you have an agreement - you know this...
Mr. Wilkins: Well, this came out of left field as far as we're concerned.
The last time we were here the Commission unanimously approved a planning
department study. We requested to know when the study would be done. We have
a letter, our latest communication from the City was a letter from Mr. Odio
saying that they wanted - the Planning Department wanted to meet with us in
May. We have scheduled a meeting of our association for April 28th, we're
sending 1500 flyers out, we're calling people, we're going to get the people
together before we meet with the Planning Department. We've got some things
In motion, now this - we had met with Mr. Portuondo, he was very generous with
his time and he not with us and we had more or less an agreement, the last we
had said we wanted to see it in writing and we had not. As he said, it's not
been prepared in writing. We can't stand here today and evaluate the proposal
that he's giving to us. We have to tell our membership - we want to finish
the process that was started here.
Mayor Suarez: Well, is it worth it from your perspective and it may still be
worth it from ours, even if it isn't from yours, to hear the basic elsmsnts of
It?
Mr. Wilkins: Yea, I would like to hear what it is, certainly.
Mayor Suarez: Can we have the basic elements of what the agreement might be
If everybody agrees?
Mr. Portuondo: Exactly Mayor, and as what I understand to be the last
stumbling block via a via the leadership of the homeowners, is that they want
a written guarantees and I'm providing those written guarantees by the
tentative agreement so I - I haven't had a chance to speak to them about the
written part of the guarantee but I did give them the guarantees verbally. I
have communicated with some of the leadership of the homeowners and evidently
we just had some miscommunications about that part. Manny Framil never got
back to...
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Mr. Wilkins: We're just waiting to see something written. You know, what he
sold sounded very good, we •ant to see it written down, we went to be able to
present it to our members and our neighbors.
Mayor Suarez: And from the perspective of this Commission and from staff, is
everyone here aware of the elements of what you're proposing?
Mr. Portuondo: Not everyone, Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: ON, does Commission want to hear this or do you want to have
them meet with the neighbors and read some...
Mr. Portuondo: Mayor, if I may proceed...
Mayor Suarez: Tom, go ahead.
Mr. Portuondo: I don't think we have the luxury of time for that given some
financing deadlines. Essentially, Mayor, when I met with the homeowners I
told them what my plan was and that is conaistent with their feelings for the
project...
Mr. Wilkins: It's getting awfully noisy in here.
Mayor Suarez: Can we have quiet in the chambers. Counselor, also, see if you
can put the mike so that you're speaking right into it, please.
Mr. Portuondo: Mayor, consistent with what I discussed with the homeowners,
they essentially did not like that the magnitude of the project. They wanted
to see something in a scaled down version. In order to accommodate that
without a huge financial contribution from Swire, I was able to get some
amount which I will discuss, the manner in which we had to structure the
agreement was to find a not for profit entity that would be willing to go into
that land and essentially be the sponsor for it thereby eliminating the middle
man profit, then we could reduce the size of the project. That middleman that
was eliminated was Mr. Carrillo. The sponsor for the tentative agreement is
the Archdiocese of Miami. I had meetings with Archdiocese of Miami personnel
Including Monsignor Walsh. As of 5:00 o'clock yesterday, we were given the go
ahead to come forward today and present, what we believe, is going to be
acceptable to the homeowners and to the Commission. And if I can just go
very, very briefly through it, then I can answer whatever questions might
arise. Essentially, the Archdiocese of Miami has always wanted to do an
elderly and handicapped project in that area of the City. A• you know, they
have Carroll Manor over at Mercy Hospital and they have no such site in Little
Havana. This is about as close as Little Havana as we're going to get for
such a project. If you know the history of the Archdiocean projects, they
have approximately twelve elderly and handicapped projects throughout South
Florida. They're very nice projects and they have always been successful.
Ordinarily, the Archdiocese of Miami does not build projects on land other
than the land that it owns because by...
Mayor Suarez: Other than what?
Mr. Portuondo: Other than the land that it already owns. By that fashion,
they don't have a land cost associated with the project and they can do a very
attractive building based on the fact that they're able to get a larger amount
of cash than needed from HUD financing, for example, and can make the building
more attractive. Because when the HUD financing comes through, they include
the value of the land, and that's the method by which they have first class
buildings. We don't have Archdiocean property here but what we have here is
sufficient capital being contributed by Swire that it essentially fills that
role. And I think all the numbers will be in place. Essentially what I'm
talking about, Mayor, if you know Carroll Manor, we're talking about doing
something exactly like Carroll !Manor exists which is next to Mercy Hospital on
the Vizcaya site for approximately a hundred units. As a matter...
Mayor Suarez: Can we have silence in the chambers, please. Go ahead.
Fir. Portuondo: As a matter of fact, the two key elements which make this a
viable proposal is the fact that we have the money from Swira, thereby
reducing the land cost of the project and the fact that we have Carroll Manor
close by which can provide the management for this new project so we don't
have the extra labor cost involved. Although it will be a different not for
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profit and we'd be funded separataly in practice what I perceive happening is
this •ill essentially be an annexation so to speak of Carroll Manor. I think
if any of the homeowners are familiar with the Carroll Manor Project, they
know it's a very nice building so, let me go ahead...
Mr. Wilkins: We have no problem with the proposal. Our problem is with the
timing and the fact that we have something - you know, I can't stand here and
judge this today and speak for the whole neighborhood. We have to...
Mayor Suarez: We're not going to hold you to it if that's what you feel, you
know it's - he's presenting the general outline of it.
Mr. Wilkins: We would like to have the time to get it. We would like to see
the proposal. We'd like to see it in writing. We'd like to present it to our
membership on the 28th when we meet and then present our feelings from that
meeting to the Planning Department in May, as Mr. Odio said in his letter.
Mr. Portuondo: If I proceed, Mayor, essentially, the mechanics will be as
follows: Swire will pay and please bear in mind that the escrow has not yet
been written and we cannot draft the escrow until such time as we get a
guidance from this Commission because I'■ not going to waste my time doing
that and I'■ not going to have the Archdiocese of Miami prepare a HUD
application which costs $5,000 without first getting an agreement in principle
here. Speaking to Monsignor Walsh, we're prepared to go forward with the
application process tomorrow morning. But, let me go through the steps which
I think you'll see what we're talking about. And they might vary in a very
small degree in finalized form, but this is essentially 99 percent of the
agreement. Swire Biscayne will pay into an escrow account a total of
$525,000, of that sum three hundred and fifty will be an outright grant of
money, a gift. The other amount will be one hundred and seventy-five thousand
which will be in the form of a no interest loan. While the money sits in
escrow, the interest income produced by that escrow will be used to pay the
carrying cost on the land. Half a million dollars does not produce sufficient
interest income to cover the carrying cost because the carrying costs are
approximately $60,000. Therefore, we have the additional $25,000 injected
Into the escrow so that the escrow agent can disburse monthly installments up
to, but not greater than $25,000 in order to carry the carrying costs. So
what we have basically is a situation where there will always be half a
million dollars in the pot, in the escrow and for the moment, there will be no
further losses on the property, the escrow will be self sufficient.
Mayor Suarez: You're saying only the interest would be disbursed until the
construction actually begins?
Mr. Portuondo: No, the interest will disbursed probably quarterly to meet the
taxes and carrying costs on the land.
Mayor Suarez: But I mean presumably only until construction would begin or...
Mr. Portuondo: Until closing. OK.
Mayor Suarez: Until closing, whatever closing is in this context, which
includes all kinds of parties and applications and everything else.
Mr. Portuondo: I'll describe that. Essentially an Archdiocean sponsored not
for profit corporation will...
Mayor Suarez: But in the m antime the principle is not going anywhere.
Mr. Portuondo: No, the principle is...
Mayor Suarez: It's sitting there in escrow.
Mr. Portuondo: There will always be a half a million dollars in the escrow.
At this time, then we'll... before the HUD application deadline comes, we'll
have to form a not for profit corporation sponsored by the Archdiocese of
Miami to make the application - eventually run the project. The escrow will
last - originally we had agreed to two years - but we felt that, for a maximum
of two years if needed, but we felt that given the slow response time of HUD
financing these days, Swire just today agreed to extend the escrow as long as
necessary in order to finalize the HUD closing so we don't have a problem with
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the escrow lapsing. What will happen at closing is that the money which is in
the escrow will be disbursed by the escrow agent in order to pay off the
existing liabilities on the land. There are a half a million dollars worth of
mortgages on that property. That's why we arriveo at tnat figure. bo, then,
therefore, you now have free and clear land which is what the Archdiocese is
accustomed to dealing with, you have free and clear land. We expect that the
land will be appraised at a minimum of $600,000 because typically HUD
appraisals will be between $6,000 and $6,000 per unit. We're talking a
hundred units here so it'll probably be $600,000. And, by the way, all these
calculations are the worst case scenarios. So we're looking at getting
$600,000 in financing for the land when added to the $350,000 contributed by
Swire, you have a total land financing so to speak of $950,000. The basis of
the landowner in that project is $860,000 so the way it will happen is, the
$950,000 will be... the property will be sold to the not for profit for
$950,000 - excuse me $850,000 but we have $950,000 of financing attributed to
the land thereby creating a surplus of $100,000. That $100,000 is important
because if you know the manner in which the Archdiocean projects are made,
they always reserve for a project this site at least $100,000 because they
want to use that $100,000 to enhance the appearance of the building. So, we
have $100,000 to put things like, you know, overhangs and the plants and
landscaping. Make the building attractive with that $100,000, which I think
is consistent with what the neighbors are looking for. We don't have a plain
old, you know, elderly handicapped building, we have an elderly handicapped
shall with $100,000 of attractive enhancements on it, so it's an attractive
building. Now, upon disbursements, and this is the point that we were
discussing with the homeowners, they wanted guarantees in writing restricting
the height of the building...
Mr. Wilkins: And the density.
Mr. Portuondo: Well, it's sort of the same same...
Mr. Wilkins: And the number, well...
Mr. Portuondo: Sort of the same thing, but...
Mr. Wilkins: Not always, but...
Mr. Portuondo: Tou guys want a smaller building. Right now, there are no
variances on the setbacks. We're dealing with a limitation for a tall
building which is basically designed for single family units, so I mean...
working with that restriction now, OK, working with that restriction of a
setback, which I don't think is reasonable, working with that, upon
disbursements, and the payment of the mortgages, at that point upon receiving
the money, the landowner will execute restrictive covenants limiting the
height of the building to eight livable floors and one parking level. All
right, now that's the worst...
Mr. Wilkins: Yell...
Mr. Portuondo: Just a second, Joe, please. Now, that's the worst case
scenario because we're dealing with probably parking that we may not need
because we're changing the nature of the project to elderly and handicapped
and, secondly, because we're dealing with a setback which is limited to single
family dwelling. both the general contractor which will be Mr. Delgado, and
who's also the landowner, and the Archdiocese would prefer to have the
building lover in height because it reduces the cost of the building so,
therefore, we would be in a posture of asking the City of Miami to grant us
certain variances which we hope it will give but we don't have to have it, but
by granting us a setback variances, we will at that point, likewise, issue a
restrictive covenant in proportion to the amount of floor space gained by the
addition of the setback variance. In other words, right now...
Mayor Suarez: because it's very hard to predict at this point what that might
be. The additional reduction in your density based on the setback.
Mr. Wilkins: And very hard to understand. I know...
Mr. Portuondo: We can't predict that because...
Mayor Suarez: Or height really, not density.
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Mr. Portuondo: Because we don't know what the Comieission will approve. Right
now, we're dealing with the worst case scenario, single family setback. So,
let's... we're dealing...
Mrs. Kennedy: Everything is great excepting instead of reducing the number of
stories you're adding one more.
Mr. Portuondo: No, I haven't...
Mrs. Kennedy: It's now eight plus one for parking.
Mr. Portuondo: Well, you have to have a certain number of parking. Now, I
believe that because of the parking regulations either of the City or HUD, I
think you only need 30 parking spaces for this building. I'm not guaranteeing
this, but I believe there will be sufficient parking around the land, in other
words, the area that the building does not sit... on the surface parking...
Mayor Suarez: You mean, surface parking within your own property?
Mr. Portuondo: ... to reduce it, but we're talking about, we want to gat a
variance, we want reduce the size of the building. Maybe we want to have a
short, fat building which I think is consistent with what the homeowners want
because they don't want the height, they want a shorter building. Also, by
having a shorter building, it costs less to build it.
Mr. Wilkins: We want a quality building, you know there are a lot of things
that the people have wanted. They've expressed a number of things and we're
not here really to deal with that specifically. If you have a specific
proposal, we can consider it, we can make our recommendations...
Mayor Suarez: Wall, I'm not sure what we're going to do. So far, it's just
the basic element.
Mr. Wilkins: The master plan calls for six floors, we're... you know, there's
a lot of different thing going on. We need the time to put it together.
Mr. Portuondo: So essentially now we're in a situation which the granting of
the original restrictive covenant, OK, or at least the drafting of the escrow
will be that taking the work...
Mayor Suarez: Once more, please quiet in the chambers, excuse me, counselor.
You got your work cut out for you, lieutenant. All the other officers please
help us. We appreciate your... that you're here on your own time but anything
you can do keep quiet in these chambers will be appreciated. Go ahead,
counselor.
Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, a lot of these things are going to have to come back
and maybe a lot of the points that he's making will not come back to us if
they gat together and they work things out. So I think it's kind of
redundant, this procedure that we have.
Mayor Suarez: It looks like, yes... it looks like you're pretty far away
from a...
Mr. Portuondo: Well...
Mayor Suarez: I moan...
Mr. Portuondo: ... lot M just say one thing, we have a deadline here that
we're going to lose this prospect if we don't resolve this right away because
the deadline for filing a HUD applications is coming close. And if you've
ever seen a HUD ap...
Mayor Suarez: When is that deadline?
Mr. Portuondo: They haven't been announced yet, but typically they're like
around May 15 and when you have to prepare a HUD application, I don't do them
but my partners do, and they're that thick and you have to have an architect
and proliainary plans and a lot of work goes into that. I'm saying in a very
real fashion that if we don't got somo sort of a feeling from the Commission
that we can go forward and finalize this deal on the general principles, this
prospect is over and we go back to square one with no building, litigation,
and hostilities again and no reduction in height.
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Mrs. Kennedy: Well, Jose, let me just suggest something if, Mr. Mayor, could
we schedule them for the next planning and toning in two weeks and in the
meantime...
Mr. Wilkins: Well, no, no, that's the night that we're having our meeting.
Mrs. Kennedy: What are you having?
Mr. Wilkins: We are going to our membership on the 28th, we've called an open
meeting, we're sending out flyers. We are meeting on the 28th...
Mr. De Turre: Have you sent out the flyers already?
Mr. Wilkins: Pardon?
Mr. Portuondo: Let me say...
Mrs. Kennedy: Well, can you meet before that?
Mr. Portuondo: No, let me say... can I address that issue for a second now?
Tou know I have done more than my fair share of trying to cooperate with
homeowners and with the City Commission and, quite frankly, I found myself
representing not only my client throughout this proceeding but the City of
Miami and the hoa»ownera. And I spoke to these people three weeks ago and I
gave them... everything that I'm telling you today, I told them three weeks
ago and they said at that point. "We like the idea. We'll get back to our
membership. We want you to tell us if you can guarantee us those things in
writing," and I says, I'm not a real estate lawyer, i don't draft documents,
but I will consult people and I will let you know. And soon thereafter, and
I'm talking days after, OK, we're talking back and three weeks ago, soon
thereafter I called Manny Framil and I told them, I called them I don't know
how many times, maybe five times, and everytime I called him , he had a
message on his phone...
Mr. Wilkins: I'm not going to speak for Mr. Framil, but the... just the...
Mr. Portuondo: Excuse no, just a minute, let me add... Joe, please, let me
finish. I want the issue to be clearly laid here as to what blame there is
for any delay that's caused here. I called him, I left a message on his
answering service I don't know how many times, I said, Joe, I've figured out a
way to give you the writing...
Mayor Suarez: Well, that's really a procedural point because that's not to
resolve the issue, but you are going to...
Mr. Portuondo: It... but...
Mr. Wilkins: As I understand the messages, he said...
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, wait, Joe, you're going to have to figure out a
better system to comiunicate than having his call Mandy's recorder and leave
his stuff on the recorder.
Mr. Wilkins: He said...
Mr. Portuondo: I also gave him my card to call me if he ever...
Mr. Wilkins: He said he could get us something in writing, he said we are
waiting for something in writing, we're still waiting.
Mayor Suarez: All right...
Mr. Wilkins: What more is to it than that?
Mayor Suarez: but...
Mr. Wilkins: He's going to get us something in writing, let us look at it.
Mayor Suaraz: It say have been that he was calling because he wanted to meet
with you to deliver it in writing. I don't know. Obviously, you're going to
have to come up with a better system...
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Mr. Wilkins: Obviously not.
Mayor Suarez: ... somebody who is by a phone, or somebody who is, you know,
you have an association, I know you...
Mr. Wilkins Well, we're told something is being prepared, we're waiting for
it, we could, you know, 1 don't see where...
Mayor Suarez: OK, some miscommunication there. We're not going to solve this
problem if you people are not able to communicate because other, you know, I
Man, if...
Mr. Wilkins: The communication seemed rather simple.
Mayor Suares: Right. And the Commission may just act at that point.
Mr. Wilkins: Too, maybe I'm ignorant of how these things work but...
Mayor Suarez: Joe, please.
Mr. Wilkins: ... we're waiting for a message, you know.
Mayor Suarez: You know, one good thing is you're both Joe. I guano that
helps, I don't know.
Mr. Wilkins: That could confuse.
Mayor Suarez: The Commission might act on this without consulting either
party and that might very well be the worst thing that could happen here or
the best, I don't know. What he's proposed are essential elements of a plan.
I don't know if the Commission can vote on it as a matter of principle. It
sounds, I don't know, what do you think, Madam City Attorney? Is it definite
enough that we could say in principle it might make sense to us in that they
ought to proceed?
Mr. Portuondo: If I could may make just one suggestion. I have to begin the
HUD financing application immediately. I cannot come back here for that.
Mayor Suarez: And for that, you want the Commission to...
Mr. Portuondo: I have to know that we're going to be able to sit down
tomorrow, prepare the HUD application, prepare the escrow documents which I
will have the City Attorney obviously review and then we can come back and
finalise it. But if you're sit here and tell me you're not going to get the
350, you're not going to get the interest, then we have nothing to talk about
and you'll never see me standing here again. I mean this is the end of the
road. We're going to lose this deadline and if the homeowners feel they
haven't been properly consulted, let me tell you, I've given them my card,
I've sat with them, I've called them on their intercom system and nothing that
I've said so far here today has been any different that what I told them three
weeks ago. The only difference was, that three weeks ago, I told them I vas
trying darn hard to get the Archdiocese of Miami to do the project. They
said, we like that idea and I got it. And I haven't bean able to...
Mayor Suares: Wall, but we're dealing with a citizens association. They
don't have a high powered attorney and...
Mr. Portuondo: We're going to lose.
Mr. Wilkins: We are not professionals, we're working for free. We're doing
this on our own time.
Mr. Portuondo: But, if I had a...
Mayor Suarez: Right, and...
Mr. Wilkins: Now, I'm sorry we don't communicate better, but that's, you
know, we are not professionals at this.
Mayor Suarez: And they have to go back to the general membership, they
probably don't even have a particularly good structure of being absolutely
sure that the membership approves and so on, you know, at...
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Mr. Wilkins: Wall, that's what the seating on the 28th is for.
::ayo: Suarez: I understand.
Mr. Portuondo: I can sympathize with all that but what I'm telling you is,
we're going to lose the deadline and this issue is going to becom moot.
Mayor Suarez: We're hearing you on that and we're trying to solve that,
that's why I'm asking the City Attorney. Is there something here, definite
enough, do you think that this Commission could, by approving it, if we were
disposed to approve it in principle, would give them something to sort of bite
Into and at the same time, not create a problem that they could sue us if we
later - if the whole thing just falls apart somehow?
Mrs. Dougherty: My question is, what is it you need from us to apply for the
NOD application?
Mr. Portuondo: What I need - part of the settlement between Swire and myself
Is that Swire has to be assured that by participating in this contribution of
funds, they are going to be released from their obligation via a via the
Vizcaya site. All right...
Mrs. Dougherty: I think you can may that.
Mr. Portuondo: Yes. That by participating...
Mrs. Dougherty: Because at this time, it was already my opinion that they
were already released, so I think that to the extent that you authorize them
to apply for this NOD application and commit, at this time, that if Swire
gives the 350 thousand and the hundred and fifty or a hundred and seventy-five
thousand loan, that they are then relieved of their responsibility.
Mr. Plummer: Question. What happens if this application doesn't go through
with HUD? You've let Swire off the hook for whatever X number of dollars with
an obligation to this company when, in fact, it would seem logical to me that
If this project is a no go, for whatever reason, that that money would revert
back to the City to put into another moderate or low housing.
Mr. Portuondo: My answer to that is you have to examine several elements
here. Number one, the Archdiocese of Miami has applied for HUD 202 projects
thirteen times. They have been granted HUD 202 projects twelve times. The
one time...
Mr. Plummer: I could...
Mr. Portuondo: Wait, let me...
Mr. Plummer: Joe, I could vote for the releasing of...
Mr. Portuondo: Swiss.
Mr. Plummer: ... the Claughton, whatever Cheezem...
Mrs. Dougherty: Swire.
Mr. Plummer: ... whatever the company is, if, in fact, that release to them
was either to your project and if a no go project, for whatever reason,
whether it's zoning or whatever, that money would be payable to the City of
Miami.
Mr. Portuondo: That's out intention.
Mrs. Dougherty: Yes, that's a good idea.
Mr. Portuondo: But I feel very... I man, I wouldn't have wasted everyones'
tim.. .
Mr. Plummer: Well, you got about 15 hurdles to get over.
Mr. Portuondo: I understand.
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Mr. Pluseer: OK?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): He's for Swire. He's the attorney for
Swire.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): Apparently not, apparently he negotiated the
agreement and...
Mr. Plummer: Now, one of those hurdles is toning, one of them is financing,
one of them is the church and I'm saying, for whatever reason, if that project
Is a no go, that money then would be, I'm assuming in escrow, would be payable
to the City of Miami. And then we would, in turn, turn around and put it into
a project such as Orlando Urre's project or one of the others that are of the
moderate or low income.
Mr. Wilkins: Does Swira not need to be represented tonight or are they out
altogether or what's the...
Mr. Pluser: Wall, it would be subject to... when you vote in principle, it's
nothing definitive.
Mr. Portuondo: 9wire asked to come here and represent their interest as wall.
Mr. Plusme r: Well, but they're not here to state that they're willing to put
the money in escrow, payable either to this project if go, if not, to the
City.
Mr. Portuondo: Yes, they are.
Mr. Plummer: Well, OK, if you're willing to may that for them...
Mr. Portuondo: That's what the escrow will say, eventually. Let me just say
one thing about the escrow... about this project and the likelihood that it
will go forward. Like I said, the Archdiocese applied for thirteen projects,
they've gotten twelve. The one they missed was five years ago on a
technicality in forming the corporation. In addition to that, the architect
which the Archdiocese will use, probably 99 percent will use is Ted Hoffman
who does this all the time. In addition to that, we have Mr. Delgado who is
currently doing a HUD 202 project Hallandale called Hurley Hall which is about
to close next week. And on top of that, the attorneys working on the
financing package are my partners who have more experience in HUD 202 than
anybody in South Florida.
Mayor Suarez: I hear, I hear...
Mr. Portuondo: It can happen.
Mayor Suarez: I hear Commissioner Plummer saying basically that if, in the
worst case scenario, we get back the principle. In the meantime, what we're
doing is releasing Swire of their obligation and allowing that money to be -
the interest to be used to alleviate your client's situation in the hopes that
all of these other things will take place.
Mr. Portuondo: Exactly.
Mayor Suarez: If that's the deal, sounds good to se.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Sounds good to see too.
Mr. Portuondo: All I want is a commitment in principle so that I can go ahead
and draft the documents consistent with what we've done here today and that I
don't embarrass my client applying for a HUD project which will turn out not
to be feasible because the CommLesion didn't agree to the use of the funds.
Mr. Plummier: All right.
Mayor Suaraz: That does not, in any way, Joe, in case you're concerned, and I
guess your are otherwise you wouldn't be up there, does not, in any way affect
whatever rights the citizens and the neighbors may have, if any, and does not
stop any of the other things that we have asked our staff to do. You're
welcome to pursue those - our staff hasn't been instructed to pursue as we can
as* from this letter, and we'll pursue all of the other things that are being
considered including the replanning of the entire areas. So, but...
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Mr. Portuondo: Well, let at just say one thing about that, Mayor, so Mr.
Wilkins who's not an attorney won't be mislead. I think the likelihood of
Jowu r.oniag :1a•L r.wr.rLy •re VLobebly zero. As you probably know, there has
never been a down zoning the City of Miami. But let me just say so...
Mayor Suarez: I don't give any opinion, I mean, don't may as I probably... I
have no idea. We've never done it, but you never know what could happen.
Mr. Portuondo: But the most important thing, we're not seeing the forest for
the trees here is that we're doing a de facto down zoning because we're
reducing the site of the project, almost a half. So, I mean, why go through
the needless exercise of something that basically they've accomplished, I
dean, they've won.
Mr. Plummer: But wait, whoa, you know you're getting far afield. If I sense
what you're trying to accomplish here this evening is one thing. That one
thing you're trying to get is the fact that we would release Cheezem...
Mr. Portuondo: Swire, yes.
Mr. Plummer: ... for the escrow of $500,000; if, in fact, your item is no go,
It is payable to the City.
Mr. Portuondo: Exactly.
Mr. Plummer: Now, when you talk about all the rest of this, as I said, you
got many hurdles to go. If for one reason you stumble and fall on any one of
those hurdles, that money is automatically payable to the City.
Mr. Portuondo: That's right.
Mr. Plummer: That, I can address.
Mr. Portuondo: But I will may one thing, I mean, if the City of Miami then
frustrates the project by, you know, zoning my property for a park, I mean,
you're not going to get that money. Or file a lawsuit to obstruct that
development some how, I mean, just don't...
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but none of that...
Mr. Portuondo: You can't talk out of both sides of your mouth on this issue.
Mr. Plummer: ... none of that escrow, none of the escrow can be touched until
such time as a final determination is made.
Mr. Portuondo: Of what?
Mr. Plummer: Of the five hundred thousand.
Mr. Portuondo: Oh, sure.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, sure...
Mr. Wilkins: Final determination of what?
Mr. Portuondo: Well, what do you mean a final determination of the five
hundred thou?
Mr. Pluno r: Huh?
Mr. Wilkina: Which final determination?
Mr. Plummer: The application for a building permit if they get to that point
of getting a building permit.
Mr. Wilkins: All right.
Mr. Plummer: OK? None of that money can be touched. What we're in effect
doing is we're releasing Cheeses for $500,000 with the commitment of this
Commission that if yours is a go, we will put it there. If it is a no go,
It's paid hers. I can live with that.
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Mr. Portuondo: but I want the Comiss... Commissioner, I want the...
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Mr. Portuondo: Coessissioner, I want one thing to be clear from the record so
I don't have some sort of a waiver argument against we or an estoppel argument
later, I'm talking like a lawyer now, but I want it absolutely clear that if
we enter into this escrow agreemnt with Swire, the City of Miami is not going
to take any action inconsistent with seeing the fruition of this project. If
you do that, then we don't have a deal. As a matter of fact, you have a
lawsuit.
Mr. Wilkins: Inconsistent with which again, which project are we talking
about. We still haven't seen a proposal...
Mr. Portuondo: The one we're talking about.
Mr. Wilkins: We still haven't seen a proposal in writing. We don't know what
project we're dealing with.
Mr. Portuondo: I just explained it to you, Joe. There is no writing until
such time as we get an agreement here. Then you'll have a writing.
Mr. Plummer: Hey, basically what I'm saying is, we're releasing Cheezem for
$500,000. It yet remains to be seen who that money will be paid to. If this
project is a go, fine. If it's not, we're the recipients. As I see it, we're
just agreeing...
Mayor Suarez: Well, you're allowing the interest from that to go to the
present landowner.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, no, no. None of that money can be touched...
Mayor Suarez: Did I understand that wrong?
Mr. Portuondo: No, it won't...
Mr. Plummer: ... until such time as the determination.
Mr. Portuondo: It won't work that way. The interest am produced by the
$500,000 in the escrow are applied by the escrow agent &gainst the taxes and
interest due on the property.
Mr. Plummer: If your project is a go, you get it all, the interest and the
principle.
Mr. Portuondo: It doesn't work because by not paying the interest... by not
paying the carrying costs on that property from the escrow, what that does is
ultimtely at closing that will increase the basis and the property will have
a higher land value. In other words, you'll have a higher land value and the
project won't work.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Tom, but if they delete that $500,000 fund, and their
project is a no go, then we got nothing.
Mr. Portuondo: No, you get... if there is no HUD closing...
Mrs. Dougherty (OFF MIKE): No, what I'm saying is that they can't spend it
until they have their HUD application approved, you don't...
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): No, because the problem that I see is more than just
a HUD application. That's just one more hurdle, follow me?
Mr. Portuondo: Tos.
Mr. Plummier: You've got a zoning thing, another hurdle.
Mr. Portuondo: I believe the zoning's in place now.
Mr. Plumer (OFF MIKE): OK, hey, I'm saying that they're talking about a
hurdle of zoning.
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Mr. Portuondo: What I'm telling you is - Lucia, did you have a question?
What I'm sayint is...
Mr. Wilkine (OFF MIKE): Me'd already said they haven't announced it yet.
Mr. Portuondo: ... the way in very - this is a very complicated situation and
I'll be quite frank with you, there is no solution to this thing other than
this, otherwise, what we have had is in...
Mayor Suarez: Well, there would be a solution, it would just be after a lot
of litigation that would not benefit anyone. Let's... Let's get back to the
elements and see if we agree on the elements. The elements are, the City
would release Svire from its obligation to build those units there upon
payment of - what is the exact amount?
Mr. Portuondo: $523.000.
Mayor Suarez: $525,000, into an escrow agent. Who would be the escrow agent,
the City?
Mr. Portuondo: It will probably be a bank. Probably the same bank that's
carrying the mortgages and we just transfer the funds from one account to the
other.
Mayor Suarez: An escrow agent acting on behalf of whom, the City and your
client?
Mr. Portuondo: That escrow agreement would be between Swire and myself and
the escrow agent.
Mayor Suarez: And the City. I mean the City's recognized as a party to that
escrow agreement.
Mr. Portuondo: You can if you want to but there's no purpose for it. What
would the City do?
Mr. Plummer: We'd protect our interest.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Yes...
Mayor Suarez: Well...
Mr. Plummer: Our possible interests.
Mr. Portuondo: The escrow instructions will say that upon no closing, the
escrow agent is directed to pay - make payment to the City of Miami. But, I
Man, if you want to sign it, that's fine but it's not going to give you
anything. I mean, if it's not in the instructions, you won't get the money,
It'll be in the instructions whether you're a party to it or not.
Mayor Suarez: And the terms now would be that the interest would be payable
to your client for defraying of taxes and...
Mr. Portuondo: No, the interest would not be payable to my client. He cannot
do what he... the interest will not be payable to my client, the interest
Income produced by the half a million dollars...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, five twenty-five.
Mr. Portuondo: ... solely, 525, and part of that principle will be used as
well - solely paid directly to the payment of the carrying costs. Ha's not
going to take and go on vacation with it and by...
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry, OK, by direct route to defray taxes owed by your
client because he's the owner of the property. And what else?
Mr. Portuondo: That's it. By doing that, you freeze the land cost at the
moment that you open up that escrow. OK, and that's the purpose for that.
Mayor Suarez: I wouldn't even get into all of those issues. Are those
figures exactly the same? I mean, is the interest exactly the seine as the
taxes? I man, what happens if...
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Mr. Portuondo: It is for one year. It is, if you have a ? 1/2 percent C.D.
on half a million dollars, you tet 535,000.
Mayor Suarez: Is that roughly the same amount as the taxes, is that what
you're @eying?
Mr. Portuondo: Teo, it's roughly, that's how we came up with that figure.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Portuondo: Now, after the first year, after that $25,000 worth of
principle is expired, than at that point, the income being produced, unless
the interests rates change, the income being produced by that $500,000 are
only going to be $35,000 and then we're going to have a problem because then
we're going to have to meet the difference in the carrying costs and that's
going to contribute to the cost of the land. Hopefully, they'll appraise the
land...
Mr. Wilkins (OFF MIKE): No, it's been legally closed. Once they close it,
they don't have to. This was legally done, sea, we got messed up before we
even got started, they did some things that are very hard to reverse. We
would have to go for having the street reopened and that was something we
talked about last night too. We had an emergency board meeting. We basically
just need more time.
Mayor Suarez: Well, if we haven't arrived at a final solution at that point,
It all has to revert back to the City for further determination. I don't see
what also we can do.
Mr. Portuondo: Oh, I'm saying the escrow is going to last longer than a year.
The escrow is going to last, for sure, longer than a year. I mean, we're
contemplating it's going to last maybe up to four years. That's the
outside...
Mayor Suarez: Well, but we've got to have a commencement time in which we
know you're going to do something.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Either that or they're going to eat up all the
escrow.
Mr. Portuondo: The commencement of the...
Mrs. Dougherty (OFF MIKE): No, no, the principle never leaves.
Mayor Suarez: No, the principle never leaves.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): I understand that. But we're entitled to the
Interest if they don't get it, that's why I'm saying but they're going to get
eaten up with it with carrying charges.
Mrs. Dougherty (OFF MIKE): Right, but they're spending it in the
Mr. Plusimar (OFF MIKE): They're spending the interest, not their own money,
they're spending money from the escrow account. Which I'm saying is, they get
It all if they got a go item.
Mr. Portuondo: The commencement of the escrow period will be upon execution
of the escrow and deposit into the escrow.
Mr. Wilkins (OFF MIKE): Not such, we did, we've been with him. We went
around through this before. I want to keep this more than what's ahead today.
They've given us some figures, but again, we can't...
Mr. Portuondo: The length of the escrow has been agreed to be, OK?
Mayor Suarez: OK, look, I've got an idea. It's a little bit beyond us right
now, I think.
Mr. Portuondo: OK.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Then they have to put it out.
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Mayor Suares: Let's do this, on the 28th, reduce to the simplest form of
writing, the basic deal that the City has to approve. in the meantime,
they'll have something in writing at the same .-Low -&:et L::ey can present to
their association which happens to be on the 28th also. We may go ahead and
act on the 28th on the part of the deal that has to do with you and us so that
you can go ahead and proceed with your application.
Mr. Portuondo: I can't wait till the 28th of...
Mayor Suarez: This month.
Mr. Portuondo: Of April?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yell, is there anything, Madam City Attorney, that we can do...
Mayor Suarez: Of this month, two weeks from now.
Mrs. Kennedy: Teo, but he's talking about tomorrow.
Mr. Portuondo: I'■ talking about the fact that we have to put together the
HUD financing package, we've got to get the architect, we've got to get the
preliminary... and we have a deadline...
Mrs. Kennedy: That's the problem, the dead...
Mayor Suarez: Well, I have no problem leaving it to the administration to
approve it on the general basis that we have discussed but there's still some
loose ends, Joe.
Mrs. Kennedy: That was my question, can you approve it if you meet with them
tomorrow based on all this information that and...
Mayor Suarez: Have we given enough to put into the form of a motion to leave
the details to you...
Mr. Portuondo: I've given you all the...
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, wait.
Mrs. Dougherty: You can delegate to me the responsibility to approve it but I
want to see something in writing as well.
Mrs. Kennedy: Sure.
Mayor Suarez: Right, no, no, but at least we would have delegated it to you
so we don't...
Mr. Portuondo: That's the idea.
Mrs. Kennedy: Tomorrow you can meet.
Mr. Portuondo: That's the idea.
Mayor Suarez: OK, I'll take that in the fors of a motion then.
Mrs. Kennedy: Sure, I so move it. To delegate to the City Attorney the power
to meet with them tomorrow and act on our behalf.
Mayor Suarez: But the basic parameters are as discussed here.
Mrs. Kennedy: Right, of course.
Mr. Plummer: No, we're in disagreement.
Mrs. Kennedy: Why?
Mr. Plummer: We're in disagreement because I don't know how long that thing's
going to run on and I don't know how such of that escrow account is going to
be eaten up to pay their taxes what they would have to do if this thing was
never established.
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Mrs. Dougherty: Designate Commissioner Plummer to also be there.
Mr. Plummer: My concern is if...
Mayor Suarez: You •ant to be designated to...
Mrs. Dougherty: To have me run it past him.
Mr. Portuondo: I can't hear what you're saying, maybe I could answer it.
Mr. Plummer: Veil, but they got - look, if this deal does not go through,
they got to pay their taxes .....
Mrs. Kennedy: She'll see us... tomorrow the two of you most. She'll come up
with the written proposal that you will give her and she will see us
Individually or will talk to us on the phone. Is that all right?
Mayor Suarez: Do you have enough to delegate to the City Attorney than
working out of the details?
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): For one year.
Mayor Suarez: Too?
Mr. Plummer: This is under a one year time frame.
Mayor Suarez: As far as commencement of...
Mr. Portuondo: No, no, the escrow...
Mayor Suarez: ... construction or approval of something...
Mr. Portuondo: No, no.
Mayor Suarez: You can't have just an indefinite...
Mr. Portuondo: No, that never got to that because I wasn't permitted to
finish. I was getting to the closing of the escrow.
Mayor Suarez: You will not guarantee that within a year there'd be something
there approved or happening that you could bring back to us, building permit
or something?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, at least building permits.
Mr. Portuondo: The way it works, you apply for HUD financing, probably about
the middle of May, OK. They haven't announced the deadline. It's coming up
vary soon, it always is around the middle of May. All right, you are given
a...
Mayor Suarez: Veil, what period of time are we talking about for
commencement? Not completion, commencement.
Mr. Portuondo: Commencement of what? Of the escrow period?
Mayor Suarez: No, no, of construction or of...
Mr. Portuondo: You can't, you can't do that.
Mrs. Kennedy: How about permits, building permits, at least?
Mr. Portuondo: No, you got a conditional commitment from HUD saying we
approve your project. You got that around October and then, probably by June
of 189, you know, a year from now, you get the final firm commitment.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Portuondo: OK? You will know by October, when they have a conditional
commitsent which says, basically, your plan is good, now give us the details
and by one year from now, you will know if you'll have your firm commitment.
Once you get your conditional commitment, you never, well, you could, but
hardly... 99 percent of the time you never lose the firm commitment.
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Mayor Suarez: Teo, ghat about 18 months then, basically the end of 1989
before you have to put together your financing package and be ready to go for
permitting.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): See, where I got a problem the interest they...
Mr. Portuondo: Mayor, please, please, please.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Why don't they pay their taxes up front and they get
to get it back if do they it. If they don't, then they've lost, just like the
other way. That's the only problem I got.
Mr. Portuondo: If I could just take a minute, I understand there's some
anxiety here about how long this escrow is going to last.
Mayor Suarez: That's the concern.
Mr. Portuondo: All right, what has been agreed to is a two year, originally a
two year escrow, OK? That gives us a chance to apply this year. If for
whatever reason, sometimes when HUD rejects an application, they may, We're
rejecting it because of this situation. And you can fix that by next year, in
other words, you are told - if we apply now, you are told in October why you
were denied and then you can apply again this time next year so we want to be
able to have a two year period within which to make the HUD application. Once
the HUD application is made in May, OK, you will know by October whether you
have a conditional commitment. Once you...
Mr. Wilkins: dell, we don't even know for sure when that is.
Mayor Suarez: How about a year to have your HUD commitment.
Mr. Portuondo: You can't have it in a year because we got to reach next
October. We're going to get the first shot...
Mayor Suarez: Your conditional commitment from HUD.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): The conditional commitment, yes.
Mr. Portuondo: No, we can't do it that way because of the financing cycle. I
don't understand what you want. You want to know - believe me, if I could
just...
Mr. Wilkins: Can I ask...
Mr. Portuondo: ... if I could just finish.
Mayor Suarez: Please.
Mr. Portuondo: You apply in May, you're told...
Mayor Suarez: Give us a period of time we can work with, don't tell us the
whole process.
Mr. Portuondo: It would be December of 1990. That will give you 18 months.
Mayor Suarez: For the conditional commitment?
Mr. Portuondo: For the conditional commitment.
Mr. Wilkins: If they can get that such time, why can't we get two weeks?
Mr. Portuondo: Because we're going to miss the application, Joe. Liston, the
way it works is that you have to have two bites at the apple because,
otherwise, you're walking on thin ice.
Mr. Plummer: I have no problem with any of that. The only problem that I
have is the owner of the property today if this deal is null and void, has to
pay his taxes himelf, OK? That's a given...
Mr. Portuondo: OK.
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Mr. Plummer: ... he owns the property, he's got to pay the taxes. I'm saying
to you to take the escrow account and no party touches that escrow account.
Mr. Portuondo pays his taxes this year. Next year I'll give him two and a
half years. If he is a winner, God bless him, he gets $500,000 plus all the
Interest accumulated. But, if he doesn't, then the $500,000 and the interest
cones to us.
Mr. Portuondo: It's wrong for two reasons. The principle one of which is we
can't sit there and hold on to that property for a HUD financing package for
two years.
Mr. Plummer: You're asking us to.
Mr. Portuondo: I've held it for two years because the City Commission of
Mimi didn't enforce the original obligation.
Mr. Plummer: You're asking me to wait until December of 1990. That's the
only problem I have, I'm willing to vote in principle to release Cheetem, OK?
Mr. Portuondo: Without...
Mr. Plumser: But I can't allow this thing to go on infinitum so that at the
time, if it's a no go for your client, that there's nothing left in the escrow
account.
Mr. Portuondo: No, the escrow account will always have a half a million
dollars.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, no, no. I understand, but the first year you've got
adequate interest to pay it. He's saying after the first year, you got a hell
of a problem.
Mr. Portuondo: After the first year, we begin to absorb approximately $30,000
a year. That $30,000 a year will be added to the land basis at the end of the
term. We will be in a position to move the matter along because it is costing
us money.
Mr. Plummer: Joe, you know where by vote is, OK? I'm only one.
Mr. Portuondo: Commissioner, I'm trying to understand, exactly, how I can
clarify your concern.
Mr. Plummer: I am fully understanding that that money is coming from the
Interest only...
Mr. Portuondo: Right.
Mr. Plummer: OK? But I'm saying that we're entitled to that interest if this
project's a no go. This gentleman...
Mr. Portuondo: Why are you entitled to the interest?
Mr. Plummer: The owner of that property has got to pay his taxes.
Mr. Portuondo: You've just heard a City Attorney tell you you're not entitled
to a penny from any of this.
Mr. Plummer: We're losing the interest which would be payable to us. What
stops m today from going to - is it Cheezm?
Mrs. Dougherty (OFF MIKE): Swire.
Mr. Plummer: Swire - and I say, OK, Swire, I, the City m going to let you
off the hook for $500,000. You're free and clear, pay the money to me.
Mr. Portuondo: That'e not a realistic possibility because Swire will not give
you the money without a release from me. And, secondly, you still have the
problem with the fact that I could put a thirteen story building on that
project without anybody's permission.
Mr. Plummer: Blind man's bluff.
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Mr. Portuondo: You're not going to get the money from Shire unless you get a
release from me. We're all in this boat together. So, I mean, you're not
going to get the money, it's not a realistic option.
Mayor Suares: OK.
Mr. Portuondo: If you get the money, then I'll sue Shire and sue you to get
the money back, I moan, it's not the option.
Mayor Suarez: You would have your conditional commitment, assuming all goes
well, by no later than when - 19907
Mrs. Kennedy: December of 1990.
Mr. Portuondo: December of 1990 would be the...
Mayor Suarez: OK, I would be Milling to entertain a motion, same terms
otherwise, that would allow you to wait until the end of 1990 for your
conditional commitment.
Mr. Portuondo: Right.
Mayor Suarez: If you don't have it at that point...
Mr. Portuondo: The escrow is expired.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): OK.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Portuondo: If we have it at that point then the escrow remains open until
closing. Now let me just check one thing now, I got...
Mayor Suarez: That's the best we can do and subject to the City Attorney...
Mr. Portuondo: Before you vote on that, let me just get authority.
Mayor Suarez: Right, and subject to the City Attorney working out any fine
points of what is really a complicated legal mess, as complicated as we've
ever seen in this Commission.
Mrs. Kennedy: And, for the sake of expedience...
Mr. Portuondo: Well, this is a complicated problem, I think I have a
solution. It wasn't easy. OK.
Mayor Suarez (OFF AND ON MIKE): You said December, 1990 or is it 189? I
guess I meant to say December 31, 1989, next year.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): He said 1990.
Mr. Portuondo: A year from this December.
Mayor Suares: Right. Whatever, 189.
Mrs. Kennedy: Two, oh, excuse me, OK, by December of eight... by next...
Mr. Portuondo: You're right, December 31st 1989.
Mayor Suarez: I didn't man to may 1990. right.
Mrs. Kennedy: To have what, the conditional...
Mr. Portuondo: To have obtained our conditional commitment from HUD.
Mrs. Kennedy: The conditional commitment.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Portuondo: From HUD.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
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Mrs. Kennedy: And I so move it, sure.
Mr. Portuondo: That will give us two bites. And I think with two bites we'll
be OK.
Mayor Suarez: We may be bitten to death by that time, but you're going to
have your two bites. OK, we have a motion, do we have a second?
Mr. De Turre (Off NIKK): Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? further discussion?
Mr. Plummer: Question.
Mayor Suares: Question, Commissioner Plummer.
Mr. Plummer: To the maker of the motion. Are you going to allow to be taken
from either the escrow or the principle, the monies to pay the private owners'
taxes?
Mayor Suarez: All interests would go into that.
Mr. Plummer: I'm asking the maker of the motion.
Mr. Portuondo: It has to be that way, otherwise...
Mr. Plummer: You will allow the interest to be used by the owner of the
property to pay his taxes, whether the project is go or no. I can't vote for
It, but I'm just asking for clarification.
Mr. Portuondo: It isn't that we're being greedy about that. The reason we
have to have that is to keep the land cost at its present cost. Otherwise,
the project becomes infeasible.
Mr. Plummer: Let we tell you why you're wrong, OK? The owner paying the
taxes, all that keeps the land cost is the taxes being paid.
Mr. Portuondo: Right.
Mr. Plummer: They're not worried who pays them, whether it's the owner or
this escrow principle account or whatever. I'm saying that that, to me, is an
Incentive to make you move quicker, I think it is only right...
Mr. Portuondo: The deadlines...
Mayor Suarez: They have to pay the carrying charges which are much larger
than the in...
Mr. Portuondo: We've got the deadlines, that's our incentive are the
deadlines.
Mr. Plummer: They got to pay that regardless of whatever the deal is.
Mayor Suares: Right. And they would otherwise file suit and we'd be in court
forever. OK, any further from the Commission?
Mr. Plussaer (0" MIKZ): It's probably going to happen anyhow.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved
Its adoptions
MOTION MO. 88-353
A NOTION APPROVING THE BASIC TERMS OF AN AGREEMENT
PRESENTED IN CONNECTION PITH MR.
JOSEPH PORTUONDO'S
PROPOSED AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROJECT NEAR THE VIZCAYA
METRORAIL STATION AND DELEGATING UNTO THE CITY ATTORNEY
THE PMR TO APPROVE SAID DEAL, AS
MORE FULLY OUTLINED
BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION ON
THIS DATE; FURTHER
STIPULATING THE CITY ATTORNEY SHALL
NEGOTIATE THE FINER
POINTS OF THIS DEAL AND THEN MEET
WITH EACH INDIVIDUAL
COMMISSIONER IN ORDER TO EXPLAIN THE
TERMS OF SAID DEAL;
AND FURTHER STIPULATING THAT MR.
PORTUONDO SHALL BE
ALLOURD UNTIL DECEMBER 31, 1989 TO
OBTAIN A CONDITIONAL
COMMITMENT FROM HUD IN CONNECTION
WITH HIS PROPOSED
HOUSING PROJECT.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Turre, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
ATSS: Commissioner Victor De Turre
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: For the reasons so stated, I vote no.
COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL:
Mr. Wilkins: Yes, I'd like a little clarification on exactly...
Mayor Suarez: Teo, basically the City is going to enter into...
Mr. Wilkins: ... what's going to happen to us in this, I got lost somewhere
in the legal jungle there.
Mayor Suarez: ... in effect, an agreement with them to allow them to use the
interest from a contribution made by Swire of $525,000 for a period that will
extend until the end of next year. During that time, we hope to see from
them, the kind of project that Mr. Portuondo has described which will be
further specified in the document that he and the City Attorney will work
together on, submit to you so you can tell your membership about it.
Hopefully, you guys will agree to it, if not, you can certainly come back to
the Commission and say, we're going to still proceed with all of your legal
resources which you have at your disposal, including the things that we have
already set in notion with our own City department. OK?
Mr. Wilkins: And I don't know what I can say, you know...
Mr. Portuondo: I want to be clear about one thing.
Mr. Armando Framil: May I...
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): No, no, no, Mandy. No, no, no, no.
Mr. Portuondos If the City Commission takes any action to frustrate that
project, the deals off.
Mayor Suarez: No, he just gets something in writing to you which you could
present to your membership on the 28th.
Mr. Framil: That's what we were waiting for and we never got it.
Mayor Suarez: We've hoard about that before you got here and we don't need to
get into that. He's going to present something in writing prior to the 28th.
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Prior to your meeting, because we have to see it prior to the 28th but we
don't have to see it any more prior to the 28th, but you do. Tou'll get that
to them, prior to the 28th, Madam City Attorney, counselor?
Mr. Portuondo: When I spoke to Matt Gorson at Mr. Traurig's office today,
he's the one I've been dealing on the mechanics of the escrow - in fact, I
have gotten two drafts, none of which are workable yet. We hope to have the
money in the escrow and the agreement done by the end of the month.
Mayor Suarez: He's close to something in writing that will be presented to
you prior to the 28th.
Mr. Wilkins: And if not?
Mayor Suarez: You have all your recourses, legal recourses and otherwise.
Mr. Wilkins: If it doesn't...
Mr. Portuondo: Joe, as soon as I get that done, I'll get half a million
dollars.
Mr. Framil: We are really hoping to use the Commission as a resource on this.
Mayor Suarez: Ten, absolutely.
Mr. Framil: People here are not off the hook. We would like you all to help
us out in trying to defend our neighborhood, OK?
Mayor Suarez: We're trying to...
Mr. Framil: I don't know what - I'm sorry I'm late, I thought the item was
going to be later on, but...
Mayor Suarez: Mandy, planes, you're going to have plenty of time to go over
what's taken place here. It's not the simplest item in the world. OK,
anything... We've handled the item.
Mr. Portuondo: I'm unclear as to what's happened here. Do I go forward or
not?
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry?
Mr. Portuondo: Do I go forward or not? I don't know what's happened.
Mr. Framil (OFF MIKE): That's what we need...
Mayor Suarez: We approved the essential terms of that agreement and you...
Mr. Dawkins: Joe, Joe listen, listen, Joe.
Mr. Wilkins: Excuse me?
Mr. Dawkins: Listen, listen to what we're saying here now.
Mr. Wilkins: I thought it was an...
Mayor Suarez: We approved the essential terms of that agreement and you're
going to work out the details with the City Attorney.
Mr. Portuondo: With the City Attorney, OK fine.
Mr. Wilkins: Say that again. I'm sorry, I thought it was over.
Mayor Suarez: We approved the essential terms of that agreement and he's
going to work out the wording with the City Attorney and submit it to you for
your own purposes prior to the 28th which is your meeting.
Mr. Wilkins: Prior to the 28th.
Mr. Dawkins: Then you come back here on the 28th.
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Mr. Prosil: is this agree at somthing that we've been shown before or is
this an agreemst...
Mr. Dawkins: That you will get on the 28th to look at and you're...
Mayor Suarez: See, you're not giving up any legal recourse today, I scan,
you're not giving up anything that you think you might have. So, we're only
trying to keep you advised of something that we're trying to reach with the...
Mr. Framil: But my point is, they're getting something already.
Mr. Dawkins: Too, but I sympathize with you because you weren't here. We've
discussed this for one hour and you weren't here. So we sympathize with you
but we got all these other people, OK?
Mayor Suarez: We got a lot of things to get to, Mandy.
(Applause)
Mr. Dawkins: Ve sympathize with you, OK?
Mayor Suarez: Please, please.
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69. RESCHEDULE SECOND REGULAR CITY COMMISSION MEETING OF MAY 26 TO MAY 19,
1988, TO BEGIN AT 4:00 P.M. (SEE LABEL 52).
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a notion on scheduling - the formalizing of the
regular City Commission meeting on May 26, 1988, is hereby rescheduled to take
place on May 19, 1988 at 4:00 p.m.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Second.
Mr. De Yurre (OFF MIKE): Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who
saved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-354
A RESOLUTION RESCHEDULING THE SECOND REGULAR CITY
COMMISSION MEETING OF MAY, 1988 TO TAKE PLACE ON MAT
19, 1988 COMMENCING AT 4:00 P.M.
(Here follow 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:
ATES: Comsissioner Victor De Yurre
Comsissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Cossfissioner J. L. Plusmsr, Jr.
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70. RESCHEDULE SECOND REGULAR CITT COMMISSION MEETING OF APRIL 28, 1988 TO
YY�... A• LiOO•�.
Mayor Suarez: And another motion scheduling formalizing the prior motion that
to the effect that the second regular City Commiasion meeting of April, 1988,
is hereby rescheduled to take place on April 28, 1999, commencing at 2:00 p.m.
Mr. De Turre (OFF MIKE): Move it.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. Just
scheduling the...
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Do Turre, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 68-355
A RESOLUTION RESCHEDULING THE SECOND REGULAR CITY
COMMISSION MEETING OF APRIL, 1968 TO TAKE PLACE ON
APRIL 28, 1988 COMMENCING AT 2:00 P.M.
(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.
71. ALLOCATE $5,000 TO -LA LIGA HISPANA CONTRA EL SIDA, INC." (AIDS) FOR
LEASING OFFICE SPACE - EXECUTE AGREEMENT.
Mayor Suarez: OK, what is the Manager's recommendation on the space?
Mr. Odio: We have four possible locations. One, fire station number two,
vacant; that's 1401 N. Miami Avenue. The Municipal Justice Building, 1145
N.Y. llth Street; the Solid Waste Incinerator at 1950 N.Y. 12th Avenue; and
the Manuel Artime Community Center, 900 S.Y. 1st Street.
Mayor Suarez: What does that incinerator building look like?
Mr. Odio: It's in bad shape, it's in bad shape.
Mayor Suarez: Is there any...
Mr. Dawkins: At the incinerator, who's going to pay to sake it - who's going
to pay to fix it up so they can use it?
Mr. Odio: They would have to do it.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, that's all I need to know.
Mayor Suarez: but, I mean, has anything been done to in the inside of that
since it used to be an incinerator building?
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Mr. Odio. There's some old offices there and where the ID offices used to be
or were or are.
Mr. flewirt..e. "-I1 1— — apt emmo+ping etraight get Into this. I
need one thing straight. "at are you providing for him, for them? Are you
providing a telephone for a hot line referral system or are you preferring a
site for a treatment center? What are you going to offer?
Mr. Odio: As I was instructed, this is only a site for a telephone system.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, no. I don't want to... all I want to know from you,
as the Manager, what are you providing?
Mr. Odio: A telephone hot line.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, that's all I need to know.
Mr. Odio: That's what we were told.
Dr. Vega: Mr. Mayor, Commissioner...
Mrs. Kennedy: Let me just state on the record...
Mayor Suaraz: Wait, wait, wait, wait, Madam Vice Mayor.
Mrs. Kennedy: It's an information, because we've had a lot of calls from
people in the community. It is merely a referral and information service.
Mayor Suarez: No treatment on site, obviously.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKH): No treatment.
Mr. Odio: No treatment whatsoever.
Mayor Suarez: Dr. Vega, do you want to add anything to that to explain what
the service consists of?
Dr. Vega: The information and referral service that we are trying to put
together is for the community that is not infected. We will be providing
information in Spanish. We will be providing information for the parents to
educate their children so they can speak to their children so their children
will not get infected with this terrible disease. This is not a treatment
center. It's only a center where we will provide information through a hot
line service so that people that feel that they do not have the capacity to
come in because it In a center that has the word AIDS attached to its name.
So they can feel free to do it anonymously through the phone; and if they
wish, we will send them correspondence through the mail, information on how to
prevent infection. We want to establish... we work with the Dade County
Public School System already. We do education in the public school system.
Ve want to do education to the Hispanic community in particular. That's why
we need to have the center in Little Havana or in the Hispanic neighborhood.
That's all.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I just wanted a description of the services, not
necessarily the philosophy of what you're doing. OK.
Mrs. Kennedy: Dr. Vega, what percentage of Hispanics in Dade County have
AIDS?
Dr. Vega: The Hispanics in Dade County are 24 percent of the cases actually
and our goals as an AIDS center is to keep that number at 24 percent or reduce
Lt.
Mrs. Kennedy: That's what we have to educate.
Mayor Suarez: OK, that's not the answer to the question as phrased, but I
guess what she's...
Mr. Dawkins: No, it'a not... I will not accept that as the answer to my
question.
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
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Mr. Dawkins: He made an answer but that's not what I asked his.
Dr. Vega: What would you like to know specifically?
Mr. Dawkins: All right, my question to you, sir, is, at the center that the
Manager and the majority of this Commission will make available to you, will
you do anything there other than tell people over the telephone where they can
go and what have you?
Dr. Vega: That's all that we are going to be providing, information and
education to the community.
Mr. Plummer: So, if that's the case, what... I'm sorry. If that's the case,
why does it really matter where you are if you're only talking over a
telephone?
Dr. Vega: Well...
(Applause)
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKERS: Rightl Rightl
Mayor Suarez: Please, please, please, please.
Dr. Vega: The importance of being in the Hispanic community is that it
legitimizes the issue within the community itself. The other alternatives
which we have given to us as location sites are not within an Hispanic
community. We need to be within our community to do adequate education.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): I beg to differ with you, I beg to differ with you.
I made a site available to you, sir, in the old Southern Bell building in
Hialeah on 54th Street and if Hialeah is not a Spanish, Latin community, I
don't know what is.
(Applause)
Mayor Suarez: Please, please, please.
Dr. Vega: We do not have the resources to pay high rent for this space. We
need the City to provide us with a space that has very low rent so that we can
provide education adequately.
Mr. Plummer: I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor, I thought it was my understanding, Mr.
Manager, even though there was a discrepancy in thinking on the first meeting
that at the last meeting, we told you to find space in the old police station
with four desks.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): We did not because I
said that I would not
accept
that. We did not order them to do this. That's
right.
Mayor Suarez: In fact, that was the only motion
that was made, it was
to not
use that particular space.
Mr. De Turre: What we asked for was to find
sites in the City of
Miami
available.
Mayor Suarez: And to sake recommendation to us,
right.
Mr. Odio: I just listed four sites.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I'm sorry, I was out of the room.
Dr. Vega: May I ask why I cannot go into the Artime Center if
I pose
absolutely no threat to anyone besides...
Mr. Mariano Cruz: Mr. Mayor.
Dr. Vega: ... the fact that I am causing them to be afraid of something that
they have to get information about, the community at large.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): Let see handle this.
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Dr. Vega: They're responding to fear and this is precisely what we're
trying...
Mayor Suarez: OK. Before the Commission gets into any other aspects of the
case, I guess you've asked the question why most of the people that are here
want to get into. I'm not sure it was the most logical question to ask, but
we may as well hear everyone as to that particular site. You've asked for
that particular site and I gather that's what you're here for.
Mr. De Turre: Well, Mr. Mayor, before, you know...
Mayor Suarez: Teo, I'm sorry, Commissioner, unless you want to handle it some
other way, if you've got a better way I'll...
Mr. Do Turret Too, I'd rather, if not, we could be here all night and Lord
knows, I don't want it to get out of hand either.
Mayor Suarezt If you've got a better suggestion, try it.
Mr. Do Turret Wall, the thing is that they've come to us for help...
Dr. Vega: No.
Mr. Do Turre: ... they need space, we give them space and that's it. You
know, we have sites available to choose from and then I think one makes more
sense than the other. My question right now is the following, I'm still up in
the air about a referral service.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): What were the four sites?
Mr. De Turre: A referral service is somebody going up to your door and
saying, you know, give me some information. That is going to be part of the
services you're going to offer, correct?
Dr. Vega: We are going to be doing referrals... yes, we're going to be doing
referrals, but basically...
Mr. Do Turre: So we're not just talking about a hot line where people are
just going to be calling in. You're talking about people walking up to the
business...
Dr. Vega: Not necessarily because the thing is that in AIDS, the majority of
the people usually ask for referrals through a hot line. All of the
existing...
Mr. De Turre: But it's not exclusive of that. It's not exclusive, you will
have people coming up to your door.
Dr. Vega: Just like there have people going to the social security office...
Mr. Do Turre: All I want is an answer.
Dr. Vega: ... that's across the street that go there and get their social
security stamps...
Mr. Do Turret OK.
Dr. Vega: ... and their social security done and there are people with AIDS
there, and just like people with AIDS...
Mr. Do Turre: Don't get...
Dr. Vega: ... go to the Catholic Center in Manuel Artima...
Mr. De Turre: Don't get defensive on me now.
Dr. Vega: ... and they go there also. They already have people with AIDS
going there.
Mayor Suarez; Well, what he's saying is that obviously you would have some
situations where someone would cows up to the office and knock on the door and
come in and got...
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Dr. Vegas Maybe, maybe...
Mr. be Turret And I'm not saying, you "vv...
Dr. Tell a: And they might say I'm infected and we might tell them, 9e11 So
here.
Mr. De Turret Doctor, doctor...
Mayor Suares: Right, that's all he's asking.
Mr. De Turret What i'■ saying, the point I's trying to clear up is the fact
that I have nothing against people going to your door. That's fine, that's
part of the service you're going to offer. I just want to understand what it
is you're going to be doing there because that plays a role into how much
space you need, where you're going to put it and what needs to be done...
Dr. Toga: We're just...
Mr. be Turret ... and that's what I'm trying to clear right now whether
you're going to have people walking up to your door. OK? Good.
Dr. Vega: Tea, we may have people coming into the center and saying, I need
such and such and we'll send them there.
Mr. De Turret How much space, Cesar, Cesar, at the incinerator how much space
do we have available?
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. De Turret How much space do you need?
Dr. Vega: I only need 250 square feet for this office.
Mr. De Turret Do you want S00?
INAUDIBLE COMMMITS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
(Laughter)
Dr. Vega: And in Little Havana.
Mr. De Turret What are your needs, and I'm going to see if we can accommodate
you.
Dr. Vegas It's very important that - one of the major needs is that it be in
a Hispanic neighborhood.
Mr. De Turret Well, you got it at 12th Avenue and 19th Street N.Y., It's
right there in the Jackson Civic Center, it's a Hispanic area so we have given
you more than the requirements you're asking for.
Dr. Vega: but there, 1 have to rehabilitate the building. Once again, I
don't have money to rehabilitate.
Mr. Odio: Wo11, I think they can move in and just hook up a phone and work
here.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKZ): Say what?
Mr. De Turret Clean it up and that's it?
Mr. Odio: They would have to clean up and do that on their own.
Mr. De Turret You can clean up, you know. broom that kind of thing. Is that
the kind of cleaning we're talking about?
Mr. Mot I'm not sure. Commisaioner, but I'm sure...
Mr. De Turret Put a little paint job and maybe that's it?
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Mr. Dawkins (OFF NIKE): Well, I need to know from you ghat you plan to do,
OK?
Mr. Odio: I don't plan to do anything.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): All right, than let as know because, see, I don't
vast to go over there and find people over there with a hammer and a nail...
Mr. Odio: No.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF NIKE): ... building up and putting up partitions when you
say you got no money.
Mr. Odio: No, that's not what we're going to do. That's not the instructions
that I have.
Mayor Suarez: Let's clarify that point. Are there any spaces in that
Incinerator building, for lack of a better term, that fit the description so
far that we've heard of...
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, but remember that that's where the bomb squad is.
Mr. De Turret OK, well...
Mr. Odio: The bomb squad is on the other side.
Mr. De Turre: OK, Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion.
Mr. Cruz (OFF MIKE): I'm going to talk about the incinerator building.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): All right, go ahead.
Mr. Cruz: Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, wait, wait. Commissioner.
Mrs. Kennedy: If we are considering that site, I really would like to hear
from the Police Department about it.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): No, sanitation, go ahead, go ahead.
Mayor Suarez: Well, if we go for the motion on that point, Mariano, you have
your say.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Wait and see which one we're going to get, Mariano.
All right, name them again, Mr. Manager.
Mr. Odio: Fire station number two, 1145 N.W. llth Street; the old Municipal
building...
Mayor Suarez: Where's fire station number two?
Mr. Odio: It's at 1401 No. Miami Avenue. It's right behind - near the Omni.
Mr. Plummer: It used to be used by ben Shepard and the Catholic Church as a
day care center. Yes.
Mayor Suarez (OFT MIKE): That's awfully close to Lindsey Hopkins.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Four blocks from our friend, Camillus House.
Mr. Odio: Solid waste incinerator, 1950 N.W. 12th Avenue and the Manuel
Artims Community Center.
Mr. Dawkins: And the other one - I'm sorry, Mr. Manager, after the fire
station, what? And the jail?
Mr. Odlo: We had the Municipal building.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Yes.
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Mr. Odio: The old Municipal Building and solid waste incinerator and the
Manuel Artime Comr4alty Center.
Mayor Suarez: What's your motion, Commissioner?
Mr. Odio: Or they can go and rent ...
Mr. De Turre: Mr. Mayor, I move that we make available to this organization
over at the old incinerator square footage anywhere between 250 and 500 to fit
their needs, when with the understanding that they move in there, they clean
it up, that they want to paint it, you know, the walls, wherever the interior
that's fine but they cannot do any structural work on that property and that
would be on a month to month basis in case we ever need the space.
Mayor Suarez: So moved. Do we have a second?
Mr. Plummer: Teo, I'll second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion, I'd like to hear from my neighbor, Mariano
Cruz.
Mayor Suarez: Mariano.
Mr. Cruz: Well, I live at 12th and 26th and you know it happens I live six
blocks from there. And already in Allapattah, we have Jackson Hospital take
care of AIDS patient and the human resources convalescent home at 22 and 26th
of the patients go there to die. And it happens that all the, most of the
county things that nobody wants in the neighborhood, they sticking it right
there. And that will be one more that people don't want, they're going to
stick it light there in our neighborhood beside the jails and everything else.
I mean, we are tired already of getting everything that nobody wants, social
service that serve the whole county. They say, oh no, put it right there in
Allapattah. Well, you can put in other place. And as you know, eight people,
they are not just from Allapattah, they are from the whole county and from all
over the place. So can use by the Omni place, nice place too, 14 Miami
Avenue. Oh, maybe close to Coral Gables to serve Coral Gables too. Or out
there.
(Applause)
Mr. Cruz: Right, right, rightl
Mayor Suarez: It's not...
Dr. Vega: I would like to know why...
Mayor Suarez: Please, it's not the first time that we've proposed using some
Coral Gables facility. You might remember when we proposed the Biltmore...
Dr. Vega: I would like...
Mayor Suarez: ... for a shelter for the homeless.
Mr. Cruz: There is another incinerator there, Old Smokey is around there.
Mayor Suarez: Right, right.
Dr. Vega: I would like to know why I cannot move into available space that I
would not have to rehabilitate in the Manuel Artime Canter?
Mayor Suarez: Let me just say...
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Because you don't have the votes up hare.
Mayor Suarez: Let me just say - yes, that's what Commissioner Dawkins...
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKZ): That's it, you don't have the votes up here.
Mayor Suarez: Let me just say for myself...
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Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE) The man asked a question, answer it for hint You
don't have the voteal
eir. Plummer (0" AND ON MIKE): Mr. Mayor - whoa, I want to make a solution.
Let me try. Everybody else has tried and has failed. They're asking for 250
square feet. That's not going to be exactly right, OK? I'll make a motion at
this time that we give them $5,000 and let them go out and rent their own
space.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): OK.
Mr. Plummer: Anywhere they want.
Dr. Vega: I'll accept that.
Mayor Suaraz: Let me say this, for myself, for my vote. That may or may not
solve the problem because we don't know what the neighbors in whatever area
they choose do and we don't know what they'll know about what you're doing. I
suppose if you have a store front and you have a name out there...
Mr. Plummer: They can go rent space tomorrow.
Mayor Suarez: Let me just finish what I'm saying.
Dr. Vega: There's absolutely no difference, I could move into right next door
and they would know I was there.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, wait, it's not your - wait, it's not your turn.
Dr. Vega: I'm sorry.
Mayor Suarez: I'll vote for any of the four places myself, I think it would
be fine in any of the four. I will also vote for that, if that makes sense.
I don't know that that's going to solve anything because we're throwing money
at it and it may come back to haunt us when you try to find a site and we go
through the same problem. It may be postponing the pain, that's the only
thing that worries me about that.
Mr. Plummer: It's for a year, for a year.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): No acceptance of the $5,000 mean he will not be back.
That if he doesn't find a place that's his problem.
Mrs. Kennedy: You know my only concern that the same hysteria that we
experience in this Commission, they're going to experience out there
and
renting a place is not going to be easy.
Dr. Vega: This is precisely what our mission is all about.
Mr. Plummer (0" MIKE): It's acceptable to him.
Dr. Vega: It's to stop this hysteria, we pose no threat to anybody.
Mr. Plummer: Tom, he said that... did you not say this was acceptable to
you?
Dr. Vega: I think that not giving me a space in the Artims is almost
like
discriminating against me for no reason at all.
Mayor Suarez: Well...
Mr. Dawkins (0" MIKE): He's entitled to his... you all keep forgetting
this
is America, he's entitled to his opinion.
Dr. Vega: There's no difference between what they did to the children in
Arcadia and what you're doing to us. There is no difference between when we
try to place children in the public school system, that the judiciary system
already said have to be placed in schools and we have to go out and educate
the community and educate the schools.
Mayor Suaraz: We know the philosophy and some of us agree with you and some
disagree with you. I happen to agree with you but it doesn't help any to keep
rehashing the philosophy of this.
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Hr. Odio: I just wonder if they had...
mayor Suarez: Mr. Manager.
Mr. Odio: ... if the group had asked Jackson Memorial Hospital and the county
for a small space at Jackson where most of the cases are coming to. That
would be the ideal site since it is a place that deals with the sickness
already. I don't know if that has been done.
Mr. Plummer: Yell, they'll have five...
Mr. Odio: Maybe we can help them go to the county.
Mr. Plummer: $5,000 to help them rent the space, Jackson always wants money.
Dr. Vega: We have space for our clinical services department in a building
already. Our clients are going to be going there. This is an education
referral system. The reason we wanted Artime is because we wanted to be able
to bring...
Mr. Dawkins (0" MIKE): I'd second J.L.'s motion.
Dr. Vega: ... children from the private school system into the
amphitheaters...
Mayor Suarez: I guess you'll be...
Dr. Vega: ... that are there at the system to educate...
Mayor Suarez: Doctor, doctor, under the proposal I guess you'll basically be
able to use the resources to fiid any...
Dr. Vega: I want to provide community service. I want to educate the
community.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Dr. Vega: I want to stop people from dying from AIDS.
Mayor Suarez: It may be that you have educated some people and may not be, I
can't tell. I mean, I'm at a loss to understand, frankly... why the students
from La Luz are here, why there's any uproar about this because I don't
understand that. I think that what you're doing, you could do and I'll repeat
It, if by any chance that falls through, you can do it out of the garage of my
home which has been fixed up as a recreation room. I've cleared it with my
wife, you can do it out of my office upstairs if it's otherwise legal. So I
have no problem with your presence but we've got to deal with solving problems
here. We've got police officers waiting on a matter, we've got people whose
Items have not been heard and...
Mr. Dawkins (0" MIKE): I second J.L.'s motion.
Mayor Suarez: ... we have a motion and a second that may pass, it may solve
the problem. Let's try it. We have a motion and a second, any discussion?
Mr. Plummer: He said it was acceptable to his. I heard him...
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. And if it's not acceptable, I guess you can
always give it back.
No. Hirai: Roll call on the substitute motion, Mr. Plummer.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption!
RESOLUTION NO. 85-356
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $5,000 FROM THE SPECIAL
PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND, TO LA L I GA
RISPANA CONTRA EL $IDA, INC., FOR THE PURPOSE OF SAID
AGENCT'S LEASING ADEQUATE OFFICE SPACE FOR ITS
INFORMATION/REFERRAL PROJECT DESIGNED TO EDUCATE THE
HISPANIC COMMUNITY ABOUT AIDS; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM
ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, WITH THE AGENCY TO
IMPLEMENT SAID ALLOCATION.
(Here follow 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:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: Wait, wait a minute. What did you say?
Me. Hirai: There was a motion prior to yours so I take it your's is a
substitute motion.
Mayor Suarez: I don't know if that was seconded, was it?
Ms. Hirai: Teo, it was.
Mayor Suarez: OK we have a substitute motion, do we not?
Ms. Hirai: Yes, we do.
Mayor Suarez: We vote on the substitute motion first.
No. Hirais Yes, exactly.
Mr. Plummer: Mine is a substitute. Yes, OK. I vote yes.
Ms. Hirai: Beginning roll... yes. Mrs. Kennedy.
Mrs. Kennedy: I will vote for whatever is needed to get them the space.
Therefore, I'll vote yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mr. Do Turret Now, we're giving them $5,000 and that's it, they can't go
spend the $5,000 and come back for another space.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no...
Mr. Jack Kirshner: I have a question. 1 have a question.
Mr. Plume r: ... it's understood that that $5,000 has got to be used for rent
of a facility. It's not going to be used for anything else. It's going to be
used for rent.
Dr. Vega: Right.
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Mr. Kirshner: What's to prevent them from staying in the same place?
Mr. Do Turret I have my reservations about that in the sense I don't think
..,,.1 a...ua I-v ilaw ;or $S,000...
Mr. Kirshner: Point of order please, Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Ya're going to get to your question in a second.
Mr. Plummer: Well, ghat they...
Mr. De Turret ... a space...
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Victor...
Mr. Do Turret ... that's their decision.
Mr. Plummsr: I'm figuring on $12.00 a square foot which is ghat DuPont Plaza
Is charging. They asked for 250 square feet, which is $3,000 and we're giving
him five.
Mayor Suarez: $3,600, yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, if, in the event now...
Dr. Vega: Is that per month or per year?
Mr. Plummer: For a year.
Dr. Vega: You're giving me $5,000 for one month... for a year.
Mr. Plummer: $5,000 for the year.
Dr. Vega: Teo, that's what I thought, OK. Just double checking.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, under, go ahead, Mr. De Turre, go ahead, Commissioner.
Mr. De Yurre: It's a one shot deal.
Mr. Plummer: We just went from an office to a penthouse.
Mayor Suarez: Absolutely.
Dr. Vega: I would like my question answered.
Mr. De Turre: OK, I vote yes.
Dr. Vega: As far as why they do not want me in the community center.
Mayor Suarez: No, no, no, no, we're not going to get into that. They're
going to ask another question, a point of clarification and I'm going to take
that...
No. Hirai: Escuao ms, Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: I vote yes, yes. For the reasons stated by the Vice Mayor. Go
ahead.
OOM HUTS KADM AF'PER ROLL CALL:
Mr. Kirshner: Mr. Mayor, we want to know what would prevent this organization
from taking this $5,000 and renting the place that they originally want to
rent on S.Y. lot?
Mr. Dawkinst Well, we will not rant it to them, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Well that facility is a City of Miami facility.
Mr. Dawkins: And than the residents of that area have to sake sure that the
landlords over there don't rent it. He will not rent any space from the City
of Miami in the Aroma Center.
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Mr. Kirshner: What about anything else in the proximity on that street?
Mayor Suarez: There's nothing to prevent that except the owners of the
property.
Mr. Plummer: Sir, they can go out tomorrow, if they have the money, and rent.
Mr. Kirshner: I understand that, I understand it. But with the City money is
like using the taxpayers' money same like using your own space and I like part
of this resolution to point out that the location of this office will not be
within the proximity of Le Luz School.
Dr. Vega: This is blatant discrimination against our organization.
Mayor Suarez: Vell, that's not even a motion before us so why are you giving
your opinion, you can give it to him privately afterwards, please. OK. The
roll is completed. This item is over unless any Commissioner wants to hear
further on it and I sure don't. Thank you.
(Applause)
72. A. DISCUSSION OF SERIOUS CONCERNS EXPRESSED BY FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE
UNION REPRESENTATIVES IN CONNECTION WITH ANTICIPATED BUDGET ISSUES WHICH
COULD IMPACT ON POLICE DEPARTMENT'S OPERATION.
B. DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING WITHIN 2-3 WEEKS IN
ORDER TO GAIN SOME INPUT WHICH MAY ASSIST THE CITY COMMISSION IN
CONNECTION WITH PRESENT IMPASSES REACHED IN LABOR NEGOTIATIONS.
Mayor Suarez: Mr. Klausner, help us as to why we have so many of Miami's
finest here gathered.
Mr. Bob Klausner: Thank you. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor, members of the
Commission. I'm Bob Klausner, I'm counsel for Fraternal Order of Police,
Miami Lodge 20. I'm glad you're recognizing, Mr. Mayor, it's Miami's finest
because I couldn't agree with you more. There is a dark joke in the station
that has arisen since all of the discussion about taking money out of the
general fund if the sanitation fee goes and it's, Welcome to Miami, where you
can be mugged in the cleanest streets in America.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Run that by me again. I didn't hear you clearly.
Mr. Klausner: I said there is a dark joke that perhaps there is more concern
about street clean of garbage than streets clean of crime and it's of concern
to your officers.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, well than that's the wrong assumption for this Commission.
Mr. Klausner: I think it is... that's why we're here.
Mr. Dawkins: So I would, no, no, no, I want... no, you don't have to think,
I'■ going to assure you ,OK, that that's a wrong assumption, all right?
Mr. Klausner: I hope so.
Mr. Dawkins: I've got too many guys out here, all right, who are helping keep
Miami safe to start talking about having them work more. So you don't have to
worry about that happening, OK?
Mr. Klausner: I'm glad to hear that, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): All right, go ahead.
Mayor Suarez: Go ahead, Bob.
Mr. Klausner: Thank you. You're going to hear tonight very briefly from four
of our brothers and sisters. There's a lot of frustration out there amongst
your police officers. Now the word was that we ware going to come down here
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and talk about labor contracts tonight. Ve're not here to talk about labor
contracts, we're here to talk about social contracts. That's the sacred pact
that goverment has with its people and also a pact that this City mist have
witn its police officers so that they know that what they do is appreciated,
respected and trusted. Emerson said, if you trust a man, he'll be true to
you. If you treat a was greatly he'll show himself in greatness. I think
your police officers, in the most difficult of times that I've seen in the ten
years that I've worked with this union, are in the most difficult of times and
they have shown themselves with greatness that bears no match in this country.
And I want you to hear from our brothers and sisters about why they're here
and why in their off time, they take away from their families and from their
private concerns to share concern that they have for the public and for the
future of this City. Sister Olon.
Lt. Nancy Olon: My name is Nancy Olon and I'm a lieutenant with the Miami
Police Department, executive board member of the Fraternal Order of Police and
a member of the Miami Association of Woman Police. I appear before you today
to ask you to show the same courage and strength that you ask your police
officers to have every day. I ask you to exercise the powers that have as
leaders of this community to ensure that we can exercise our powers for the
maximum protection of the citizens of this fine community. In my career at
the Police Department I have seen an ever changing view of what law
enforcement should be in the community. It is no longer time to decide what
it should be. It is time to decide what it must be. We have bean asked to
sacrifice and we have sacrificed. We now ask you to be of the same strength
and courage that you ask of us every day and to gather the resources necessary
to ensure that this department can fully serve the needs of this community and
that the tools given to my brother and sister officers meat the challenges
that you ask us to face and that we willingly face every day. As the late
Robert Kennedy said, "Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves."
What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement
It insists on. Thank you.
(Applause)
Mayor Suarez: Please.
Sergeant Gerald Darling: Mr. Mayor, Commissioners...
Mayor Suarez: Officer.
Sgt. Darling: My name is Gerald Darling, I'm a sergeant in the Miami Police
Department, an executive board member of the F.O.P., and president of the
Miami Community Police Benevolent Association. What we do in the street as
police officers every day is more difficult and more dangerous now than it has
ever been. The support of the community is more important now than it has
every been. But the most vital support now, more than ever before, is from
you, the leaders of the City of Miami. Va have been told that the Police
Department must learn to work with limited resources. Vo've been told that we
must do more with less. We have sacrificed and toiled and we have sacrificed
with blood. We ask that you have the courage to sacrifice dollars. It seems
a bargain at any price. A quote from Carl Sandburg goes like this and it
means a lot to the police officers who are standing here before you now,
"Crime and terror have a price. Law and order have a cost." Thank you very
much.
(Applause)
Mayor Suarez: Please. Thank you for your statement. Please.
Sergeant Jorge Manresa: Mr. Mayor, Commissioners, my name is Jorge Manresa.
I am a sergeant in the Miami Police Department, an executive board member of
the F.O.P., and president of the Miami Police Hispanic Officers Association.
In the last year, the community has pointed its fingers at us and said,
•Tou're not honest, you're not brave, you've not served the interest of this
commusity.• But all along, we have known better. Every day some of the best
of this City's work force have put their lives on the line to ensure the
safety and security of this community. The events of the last few weeks have
demonstrated the depth of our commitment. We are here today to ask you to
have the same depth of commitment. We ask you to make the difficult decision.
We ask you to have the courage, we ask you to put political considerations
aside. We ask you to go to the people of this community and to secure from
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them on our behalf, a commitment to a police force equipped to do the job.
Without your unqualified support, the work that we do is diminished and
sacrifices that we have made would be in vain. Please don't let this happen.
Words wl:: .... _...a_. ..., jam... :L :s lime ;VJ acL:un. The words of Miguel
De Cervantes Saavedra are as true today as they were more than 400 years ago
when he said, " Dal dicho al hecho hey gran trecho," It is a for cry from
speech to dead." Thank you.
(Applause)
Mayor Suarez: Please. That's a very good translation, wherever you got it
from. If you formulated it yourself, I have to congratulate you. Dick.
Officer Dick Kinne: He had that Spanish dictionary out going through it
saying... Mr. Mayor, City Commissioners, Mr. Manager, my name is Dick Kinne,
I'm president of the Fraternal Order of Police, Miami Lodge 20. I've stood
before you many times on many issues but today I stand before you for one more
important than any before. Our police force faces a crisis of confidence.
The last two years we've been battered in the press. The citizens have looked
at us and said, 'Can we trust you?" We have made it easy, we have made easy
scapegoats for the ills of society but not of our making. But throughout the
storm created by few, the many that are here and out on the street have stood
brave and steadfast quietly doing their job that you have asked us to do. Our
members have sacrificed their health, their families and even their lives to
make this community the great City we know it can be. But where are the
priorities? We've been told we must do more with less. We were told that
citizens just don't want to pay. Well, have you asked them what good law
enforcement is worth? Have you asked them what the lives and safety of police
officers are worth? I say, have more faith in the good citizens of this
community. If the $4,000,000 from the sanitation fee is lost, then the
general fund will suffer a loss it cannot sustain. Who will bear the
consequences of this loss? The very men and women who make this City run.
More than $10,000,000 lies unused in the bond interest funds despite the
existence of legal opinion that the money may be used for general fund
purposes. This union has also offered to support the City in an effort to
establish a bond to pay the pension costs and thereby freeing even more
millions to accomplish the task at hand. You cannot expect these men and
women to fight a battle against an increasingly dangerous element if your
priorities are elsewhere. We are here today to find out where you stand. The
citizens look to you for bold leadership not political responses. Your police
officers look to you to protect them, just as you look at us to protect the
City. You must make hard decisions to gather the resources and to dedicate
those resources to winning the war on crime in which we are the soldiers.
We've all mourned the recent loss of a brother but we cannot let his sacrifice
or the sacrifices of those today who lay in the hospitals or who have died
before to be in vain. Make no mistake, we understand the risks of this
profession but we accept those risks with the hope and belief that those who
ask us to make them appreciate them and recognize them. It is today that
support and recognition which is in doubt. Good government doesn't come free
nor the lives of your police officers. We're asking you to gather the
financial resources. Can dollars ever equal the sacrifice of a human life?
Can money every fully compensate the risk that even the most routine job may
harbor an unknown but fatal danger? We are meeting that challenge. You must
meet the challenge. We have looked in our hearts and we have been willing to
make a sacrifice. Look into your own hearts and look into the eyes of those
that are gathered here today. Can you meet the challenge? We await your
answr. In the immortal words of another hero, the Reverend Doctor Martin
Luther King, Jr., •We will not be satisfied until justice rolls like waters
and righteousness like a mighty stream." Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Please. Commissioners.
Mr. Plummer: Dick made a good point, I have, for years, tried to get the Fire
Department and the Police Department to lobby in Tallahassee, as Don well
knows and Dick probably when you ware president before. The problem that the
City has is the 10 mill cap and X numbers of dollars has to come out of that.
I still feel that if we could get the legislature to allow the pension for
employees outside of the 10 sill cap would be one of the best ways to do it
because it's not a bond that just does it for one year, two years, three
years, four years. And I have spoken to the lobbyist many, many times. Some
people won't believe that even though our pension problem is great there are
many greater pension problems in the State of Florida and if this was allowed,
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for exsmple, in St. Petersburg, every dollar that they pay an employee 68
percent has to be set aside for pension. I Mould still like to pursue that
avenue that the legislatures in session. But Dick has made another thought
that I'd never had before that maybe is worth considering and we could do so
in a very short period of time. Let's ask the people of this community if
they were willing to put up and have a bond that would pay the pension cost
that would free this City of dollars that we are now having to devote to
pension. I think you're basically freeing up the same dollars. I don't know
how you come about that, Dick, but our pension costs this year are running -
about how such - Mr. Manager, are pension costs this year about...
Mr. Odio: We have to contribute 25 million dollars.
Mr. Plummer: This year alone.
Mr. Odio: Teo, sir.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Odio: The Gates Case is 12 million but the total is 25.
Mr. Plus'sr: Wall, if you were to propose such a bond - first of all, I
assume, Madam City Attorney, it's legal, that we can.
Mr. Odio: Well, let... no, no, let me, if I may explain...
Mrs. Dougherty: No, let me just explain something too, we are...
Mr. Odio: Wave been working - go ahead, Lucia.
Mrs. Dougherty: We have been visiting with bond counsel about it. We can't
find a bond counsel in the City of Miami who is going to permit us to do it on
a revenue bond issue as a capital project. So it would, without going to the
State Supreme Court - in other words, we're working on it right now.
Mr. Plummer: Are you saying then that you think it's possible?
Mrs. Dougherty: It's possible.
Mr. Odio: Yes, we go to the Supreme Court and the unions have said they would
go with it.
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you for my information...
Mrs. Dougherty (OFF MIKE): Which would the cost.
Mr. Plummer: We know that this year's cost is 25 million dollars.
Mr. Odio: Next year you can add another 5 percent to the twelve.
Mr. Plunei r: OK, but I mean, would you be proposing that this bond issue
would be for a five year period of time, tan year?
Mr. Odio: No, for the total debt of the unfunded lia...
Mr. Plummer: What is the total unfunded liability now?
Mr. Odio: Two hundred and fifty million.
Mr. Plummer: Two hundrd and fifty million. So what you're then...
Mr. Odio (0" MIKE): Proposed to...
Mr. Pluesaer: I'm assuming, Dick, are you looking at the full total unfunded
liability?
Officer Kinne: Yes, sir.
Mr. Odio: Yes, air.
Mr. Plummer: Just asking. I think it's worth pursuing. I think it's
definitely worth pursuing.
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Mayor Suarez: Anything else, Cosmlaaioners.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor...
Mrs. Kennedy: Teo.
Mr. Dawkins: ... you know, I'd like to say that we're glad to see you but
we're sorry that your faith in us was shaken enough to bring you here. But
there again, the only way that you would know that we are with you is to be
here and hear it said, so, I guess it's good that you're here. To show you
that we are just as committed as we've always been, J.L. instructed the
Manager to find a million dollars with which to hire additional police or
provide what was needed at the Police Department. I didn't know, I've only
been informing the Manager that I want every officer's vest purchased. I did
not know that you had to come up with half the money for a vest which, to me,
Is very unfair and also this Commission sat here and suggested that the
Manager not Quibble over $700. If an officer felt that he was more secure on
a Marley than on a whatever it is, and it was only $700, then a man riding
that machine all day, it's worth $700 for him to have peace of mind and not
worry because he feels more safe and comfortable. And, as I said, we are
proud of you, the job you're doing. And you don't have to be too worried
because I sent the Manager a memo and I explained to him that before he
discuss any part of any budget for '68-69, that he explain to me how he's
going to fund fire, police and sanitation. Because those are three critical
services that we need and then after he shows me that, then I'm concerned
about the rest of his budget. And ve shouldn't have a crunch in the Police
Department. There are numerous positions in which the Manager will have to -
you brought to my attention, will have to show me where the money is for all
positions that we have left unfilled in the Police Department for any reason.
So, there is money in the police budget and I want the Manager to tell me
where it is so that we can tell you guys that we don't have - we really don't
have that much of a crunch in the Police Department. Now, if the Manager
tells me that it is, I'll get back to you and let you know we do have a
problem. But as far as I'm concerned, we don't have no problem .
Mayor Suarez: Anyone else?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, let me echo also the sentiments. There have been a lot of
articles written about the Police Department and for all the rotten apples, I
think that there In a lot of hard working decent police officers, just like
you here, working the streets. You have been working without a contract for
months and I think also that that is very unfair. So I think it's time to
have a public hearing and let's get some input. Let's solve this once and
forever and if I need a motion, Mr. Manager, I so direct you within the next
two or three weeks, to hold the public hearing and get on with the
negotiations. And I so move.
(Applause)
Mayor Suaroz: Vera you going to say something, Commissioner De Turre?
Mr. Do Turret First of all, I want to know where I can got one of those tee
shirts you're wearing, they look...
Officer Kinne: I'll have one to you tomorrow.
Mr. De Turret OK, large.
Officer Kinne: You got it.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): And a medium for his wife.
Mr. Do Turret That's right. Let me tell you, for years that I've been
Involved in cossaunity work, one of the things that I've admired the most is
the job that you guys do because I would not do it for any money in the world.
I wouldn't do it, I wouldn't put my life on the line the way your guys do day
In and day out. And just the thought that, when you may good-bye to your
spouse or your loved one in the morning, you may never ass them again or they
may never see you again. Just that thought is too frightening to want to bear
day in and day out. Unfortunately, and you have to say unfortunately, the
money is not there right now and that's what we've been hearing from the City
221 April 14, 1988
Manager and that's what we keep talking about up here that it's not there.
And it's a matter of somebody having to do this work and you all step forward
and may, this is our career, this is our vocation, we want to protect this
City, we want to protect our communit! •^'' •h•^y f,-.04 thIlt "Mil S��y• '^" "--9
to do that. We are in a position that we support you 100 percent I think that
that goes without saying and if there's money available and it's there for
you, we make it available to you. If it's not there we can't help it but
what's important is that you walk out of here knowing that whatever we can do
for you, we're there for you. And I feel that it's very important that you
walk out of here with that thought in mind that our doors are open for you
individually. I think that any one of us here has our doors open that you can
come if you have a problem and we can help you, we're there for you. And I
don't want you to walk out of here dejected - you see, I figured I'd get one
of these.
TMIDZNTITIED SPEAKIR: ... give you the shirt off our back.
Mr. De Turret Thank you.
Mrs. Kennedy: Now wait a second.
(Applause)
Mayor Suarez: You're here on our time now.
Mrs. Kennedy: Wait, wait, wait, what are we, chicken liver? Only one?
Mr. Ds Yurre: Nino quo no !tors..... That's right, huh? I want you to
understand that we're with you 100 percent and we'll work hard to make sure
that next year's budget meets your needs and we'll keep working together so I
just want you all to walk out of here with that thought in mind. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: I just have one bone to pick with counselor and Dick and that
is that you have not warned us in advance and asked to have the matter on the
agenda. That's a procedural requirement that I ask you to please comply with
just like we try to comply with the instructions that we get from you as we
drive through the streets of the City and otherwise abide by all the laws that
you are asked to enforce. Other than that, and by the way on that issue, I
guess I first heard about the fact that you would be here from Sgt. McHwen who
I see back there and, you know, I'd really like to hear more formally and have
you be on the agenda because we do have 110 items today. We're about as tired
as you can possibly be and there are many things that we could have done in
advance to prepare for this including finding out exactly what legal things we
should or should not discuss that may be related to collective bargaining.
Mr. Klausner: Mr. Mayor, give us the public hearing and we'll be happy to
tell you.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Wait, let me finish. I gather the underlying concern,
obviously, is the contract and benefits and the situation that you've got and
as stated by the Vice Mayor, this will be done very simply. If we should not
have and we will have, in the next month before the next regularly scheduled
meeting, an executive session to discuss that agreement and to make sure that
there is progress and when I say progress I mean really that we finish it up
in a way that's acceptable to both sides. I will call a special session and
we will air it publicly and at that time, you'll have an opportunity, of
course, to express yourselves and your views on how we do the budgeting. I
think the Commission is on record today and I want to endorse that and maybe
say it even more flatly and clearly is saying that and believing that, yours
Is the most important priority for us, the most important department for all
the reasons stated and that have been brought home to us in a very special and
tragic way in the last couple of weeks. And if that means letting go of a lot
of people in other departments and I mean in every other department, because,
to me, yours is the most important, lot it be. But please, give us the
opportunity over the next month to have that executive session and got back
with the union and otherwise I will call a special session and we can air it
in public. Thank you very such for your presence here today and lot us...
Mr. Dawkins: Before...
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Mayor Suarez: Teo, anyone else?
Mr. Dawkins: No, I vast to say, Don, you tell the fireman that we're just as
comaitted to them as we are to anybody else.
UNIDENTIFIED SP=AIMR (OFF MIKE): If you're not, we'll be out next creek.
Mr. Dawkins: Don't cone, you don't need to coos. Go ahead, Mr. Mayor.
Officer Kinno: Mr. Mayor, the only reason we didn't give you advance notice
Is the incidents that occurred that brought this to a head happened Tuesday
and we didn't have the time. Otherwise we would have and gave you forewarn
and set dawn and told you exactly what the problem is.
Mrs. Kennedy: Dick, while you're here, this morning I made a motion that
passed unanimously to co -designate the area where Officer Eotefan used to work
and around - I don't have the boundaries with me, around 34th and 8th, as Lt.
Colonel Victor Es... I Man, sorry, Colonel Victor Estefan's Boulevard.
Officer Kinno: Appreciate it, Rosario, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Thanks.
(Applause)
73. AUTHORIZE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS - ESTABLISH PEDESTRIAN MALLS AND
DESIGNATE AREAS FOR RETAIL PEDDLERS IN CONNECTION WITH: (a) 1989
CARNAVAL MIAMI PASEO, (b) THE 8K RUN, (c) THE BIKE DASH, AND (d) CALLE
OCHO OPEN HOUSE FESTIVAL - CONDUCTED BY THE KIWANIS CLUB OF LITTLE
HAVANA.
Mayor Suarez: Item 97. What do you need on 97? It's very simple, I gather,
Rafael.
Mr. Rafael It's the dates for Carnaval Miami, closing of the
streets...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, you want this year, you want it very early to get your
dates, right?
Mr. I Teo.
Mr. Plummer: How late? How late?
Mr. : How late to close it, I mean to...
Mr. Plummer: You're asking for an...
Mr. : There's no change from this year.
Mayor Suarez: The ssma time, he just wants to fix the date very early
because he's afraid of conflicts, I guess.
Mr. Pluoo r: But you're "king for an extension of the deadline of fireworks.
Mr. : The same one as last year, I think it was 11:00 o'clock, I
believe.
Mr. Plummer: I move item 97.
Mayor Suarez: So moved. Do we have a second? It's the dates for Carnaval
Miami. I think they're trying to got a headstart on any other event that
might conflict. They're wise.
Mr. Plummer: I mows item 97.
Mayor Suarez: You need a haircut too. Moved and seconded.
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Mr. De Turre: Second.
Vapor Buares: Seconded, any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-357
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE 1989 CARNAVAL MIAMI PASEO
TO TAKE PLACE MARCH S , 1989, THE BK RUN ON MARCH 10,
1989, THE BIKE DASH ON MARCH 11, 1989 AND CALLE OCHO
OPEN HOUSE FESTIVAL ON MARCH 12, 1989, TO BE CONDUCTED
BY THE KIWANIS CLUB OF LITTLE HAVANA, PROVIDING FOR
THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR
TRAFFIC; ESTABLISHING A PEDESTRIAN MALL SUBJECT TO THE
ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND
FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES; ESTABLISHING AN
AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS DURING THE PERIOD
OF THE EVENTS; AUTHORIZING THE SALE OF BEER AND WINE
IN CONNECTION WITH SAID EVENTS SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE
OF ALL PERMITS REQUIRED BY LAW; FURTHER RELAXING THE
LIMITATIONS ON THE DISPLAY OF FIREWORKS TO ALLOW THE
STAGING OF PYROTECHNIC DISPLAYS UNTIL 12:00 MIDNIGHT
FOR CARNAVAL NIGHT AT THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM ON MARCH
*, 1989 AND IN THE VIZCAYA AREA FOR A SPONSORS PARTY
ON MARCH 11, 1989; 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 ASSOCIATED WITH SAID EVENTS
BEYOND THE FUNDING PROVIDED BY FESTIVAL ORDINANCE NO.
10206.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Turre, 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.
74. A. WAIVE PROHIBITION AGAINST TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS WITH CITY OFFICIAL
AS IT APPLIES TO PAT SKUBISH (P.S. CONSULTANTS, INC.), MEMBER OF ZONING
BOARD;
B. E3MCUTE AGRXXNZNT WITH P.S. CONSULTANTS, INC. - FOR PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES IN PUBLIC RELATIONS/MARKETING FOR THE PHASE I PORTION OF
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COM1MUNITT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT (SEE LABELS
47 AND 66).
Mayor Suares: Item...
Mrs. Kennedy: There she is, there she is.
Mayor Suarez: OK, what item was that? Just so everyone can find it in their
packet.
Mrs. Kennedy: It think it was 79 or some... yes.
Mayor Suarez: Item 79, there was moms...
Mrs. Kennedy: Pat, Bill Perry stated before this board that you were not
Interested in this contract and we just wanted to hear it from you.
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Me. Pat Skubish: I'm interested.
Mayor Suarez: OK, Mr. Manager, what is the idea of the $25,000 consulting
agreement or contract in relation to the marketing of Overtown Psrk/Ne*t7
Herb, I remember at one point approving a PR firm - I might say over my
objections as you probably remember.
Mr. Herb Dailey: Mall, Mr. Mayor, we...
Mayor Suarez: And they got paid a huge amount of money.
Mr. Dailey: And they performed different things and what we...
Mayor Suarez: OK, did they accomplish anything from you...
Mr. Dailey: Teo, in fact you will have, perhaps within the next 30 days, the
results of all of the activity which is a marketing brochure and a piece that
will go Quite a ways to help us sell downtown Miami as a place that we think
people would be very pleased to live; very pleased to buy and rent those
condominiums of which we're not getting commitments on the financing.
However, from time to time, we've gone out with any number of consultants,
local, people from out of town and what we do for the kind of marketing and
community activity that we need, we try to get the best kind of consultants
that we can at the cheapest price. We have been told by this Commission more
than once that when we have a need to gat consultants involved in the project,
we should first try to get local people. We have completed, for the most
part, the major marketing program with our previous consultants and as...
Mayor Suarez: What was their term of contract, from what date to what date?
Wasn't it a specific time or interval of time?
Mr. Matthew Schwartz: The existing contract expired about eight months ago.
We are still vatting for the completion of the final materials. So for the
last eight months...
Mayor Suarez: In other words, part of the idea was that they were going to
produce certain materials.
Mr. Schwartz: Right, and it's... there was a video, a marketing package which
we have...
Mayor Suarez: Have we gotten some of that and we're missing some?
Mr. Schwartz: Oh, yes, we've gotten everything except the brochure which is
the main piece which has been in...
Mayor Suarez: Just to remember, how much was it that we paid for that?
Mr. Schwartz: It was $125,000 but the bulk of that money went to the actual
production of materials.
Mayor Suarez: Is that right?
Mr. Schwartz: The consultant received only about $40,000 in professional
fees, the rest of it was the hard cost.
Mayor Suarez: What was the name of the consultant, just for...
Mr. Schwartz: It was Gladys Kidd and Nikki Beare, a joint venture.
Mrs. Kennedy: Gladys Kidd and Nikki Beare.
Mayor Suarez: And Nikki Beare. Nov, is this an extension of that in some way
or are you saying it's a different deal, Herb?
Mr. Bailey: No, this is a whole different type of involvement, Mr. Mayor. It
Involves itself with setting up speakers' bureaus, to further take out to the
community, downtown and Overtown, the whole concept of the project, to talk
about the development that's been completed and the marketing of the units, to
talk to and target potential residents, potential investors, professional and
civic organizations that need to understand. There's a tremendous amount of
Information has to be put out in the community and as it involves this
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project. You wouldn't believe it, but for five years we've made two major
video presentations, any number of places of material that has been submitted
to the community and there's still a lot of people who don't understand and
have not heard, at least they say they haven't about the project and the
concept of it. So we have to continuously feed into the community, at various
times, information about this project.
Mr. De Turre: Teo, Herb, the thing is and the main problem that you find is
that how can you promote something that's not tangible? You start building
and developing and that thing will promote itself.
Mr. Bailey: That is...
Mr. Do Yurre: You know, if we're talking about, you know, about, you know,
I'm just trying to grasp the concept of what we're talking about here. You
know, my understanding from what I've heard, is that, you know, we spent
$125,000 on a video.
Mr. Bailey: No, we did not spend $125,000 on video.
Mrs. Kennedy: No, $40,000 was for fees.
Mr. De Turre: To make the video.
Mr. Bailey, No, no, no, we've had two videos - the first video was to attract
the investment community. That was completed in 1983, I believe, and that was
done by a firm in Ft. Lauderdale. Now, the first attraction was to get
someone to believe enough in downtown Miami to come and be a developer and
invest the type of money that we need to do this project. We also had to put
out a tremendous amount of written material to the various people in the
downtown area, the various comminitios, to explain the project. It was a very
difficult project to explain. The major portion of this last contract was
Gladys Kidd & Associates, was to market downtown Miami as a livable
environment with the residents that are being put there, and it is always an
ongoing process. There is some...
Mr. De Yurre: Who are you marketing that with? You know...
Mr. Bailey: We are marketing it to what we think might be the potential users
of the units, to the people who work downtown, to the people who would have
questions about downtown, to the people who live in the inner-city, because we
feel that the people who live in the inner-city have just as much of a right
to understand what we are building and have just as much of an opportunity to
come and get those units.
Mr. De Yurre: I don't know, maybe I'm just... my common sense is not the
Commission's common sense, or your common sense. You know, how can you
market, even when you are in the business of real estate and you are a
developer, the properties, the houses, the rentals, or whatever you are
promoting, does not start to sell until you have the models up. Until you
have actually something tangible people can walk in and see what is there.
All the rest of that money goes to waste, and I've had... that's what I deal
La. all I do !a real estate in my law firm. Time and time again, the
developer cannot sell, they can hardly sell one unit they have some models up
and people can see actually what they are getting into. I think, you know, to
a great degree, it is a wute of time and a waste of money to go downtown and
so to people to show then where they could live some day, that if people
listen to and read the paper and listen to what is going on, they have no idea
when it is going to be up.
Mr. Dawkins: I would may that was true, if I did not have Edison Plaza to
Point to, but Edison Plaza was just completed in Liberty City and because they
had a marketing firm, it is completely rented out now, and that is a unit that
was put up for rent and it is just... in theme areas that we are talking
about, we need a marketing strategy to let people know that they got something
available. Now whether that's what we are going to get or not, I don't know,
Commissioner, but I an just saying that that is one of the examples of what he
Is supposed to be trying to talk about.
Mrs. Kennedy: I am agree, it is an area that is not easy to sell, and the
more we do, we have to start iamedistely. This is... you know, we are talking
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about the whole revitalization of downtown, the Miami Arens, Bayside, Boyfront
Park amphithester, it is all part of the Overtovn/Park West, the whole of...
we have to start.
Mr. Baileys you know, Commissioner, and I understand what you said. In
conventional real estate terms, that may be true, but in redevelopment, when
you are going to through an urban renewal process, and this is really urban
renewal. There is a lot that has to be done in terns of changing people's
attitudes about the area. you would be surprised what people say regardless
of what you put in that particular area. If they don't have a batter feeling
about, you'll not sell it. Believe me, we are selling downtown Miami as a
livable environment. We are sailing Overtown/Park West as a place that we
think is an attractive place to live. A lot of our efforts, a lot of
preliminary efforts has to go and changing people's attitude about that
particular environment. We have invested considerable amounts of money there,
just to prove to this community that their environment can be a place in which
Is suitable to live. We have a Metrorail station there. We've spent in
Federal money, in the State money in the City money, pretty close to
$28,000,000. All of that is what we call preconditioning, establishing value
somewhere where people think there is no value - even before we put the first
brick in the ground. It's very important that that happens in urban renewal
areas and areas where which people think that is the last place in the world
that ought to be.
Mayor Suarez: Well, that is the kind of philosophy of what we are trying to
do there, not necessarily whether this particular contract is going to
convince anyone of that. In any event, is there anything also from the
Commission?
Mr. Plummer: What In your recommendation, Mr. Bailey?
Mr. Baileys I recommend, Commissioner, teat we do this contract. We have to
have an ongoing process.
Mr. Plummer: I so move.
Mrs. Kennedy: I second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any further discussion from the
Commission? Call the roll.
Mr. Bill Perry: Mayor, may I speak to the issue? - since I brought it up.
Mayor Suarez: Well, you didn't bring it up. The issue was on the agenda, it
was voted on, we reconsidered it, we discussed the merits of it. I have no
problem with you making a statement. I tell you right off the bat that I...
Mr. Perry: I know you are going to vote for it, but 1'd still like to express
my concerns.
Mayor Suarez: Well, see, if you would let me speak, you would have heard
otherwise.
Mr. Perry: Well, speak.
Mayor Suares: I'■ going to vote against
it, for the
same reason I
think I
voted against it the lut time, when it was $125,000.
$25,000 is a
lot more
reasonable, and we could probably use
some help in
some aspects
of the
marketing of this, but I don't think that's the way to
do it, and there is no
disrespect to Pat Skublah at all, so that
is how I foal
about it, but
go ahead
and make your *tat ament.
Mr. Perryi you know again, Mr. Mayor and Commissioners, I think it is a
glaring example of putting the cart before the horse. See, I hear what Mr.
Bailey is saying, and he is a planner, he is not concerned about the social
welfare of the people who live in Overtown. There are people over there that
have been...
Mayor Suarez: I don't believe that is what he said, but...
Mr. Perry: Well, I mean, he has been saying he is proud of this. See, what
you are concerned about, is selling the people and marketing the people, to
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bring some people into that area. You built that arena over there and soon
you are going to be marketing that. What you need is some assurance that the
people that live in that area are going to tolerate what is coming in there.
to, I was just in a meeting you had the other day, up at the Omni, but the
consultants were in there trying to describe the conditions, what is going to
happen, and it was Omni, and they were looking at Biscayne Boulevard, what
kind of a corridor, but what they are really concerned about, was Overtown.
Now do we begin to protect the Omni area, which 1 don't know if you have ever
gone on a weekend or not, to see what it is like. How do we keep the
prostitutes and the pickpockets and the rip-off people from coming into that
area? Now, unless you begin to do something with the area adjacent to
Biscayne Boulevard, before doing something to Biscayne Boulevard, you are
wasting money. You are talking about building those apartments over there and
marketing that, investing money in that. What you are telling to the average
guy in the street in Overtown, the little people, is you don't give a damn
about them. You are going to put $25,000 into a contract with somebody to go
out and market a given area, but I doubt if you are going to get money to even
build some of the stuff you are talking about in there, but nevertheless, you
are talking about marketing that before you even break ground. What is going
to happen to the people for years that live in that neighborhood, and don't
even know what is going on, other than that they see some cranes and
bulldozers out there, constantly tearing down houses and disturbing the
neighborhood. I ask you, and I know the Commission to going to vote for it,
but for once, have some decency to give some consideration to the little
people that live in Overtown.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you for your statement. Anything further from the
Commission? Call the roll.
NOTION !AILED. HEREINABOVE MOTION, DULY !LOVED BY Commissioner
Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, failed by the
following vote of the City Commission (a 4/5 vote was needed)
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy.
NOES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
ABSENT: None
COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. De Turre: I'm going to vote "no," and I am going to vote "no," not at all
reflecting on Pat, because I am sure she can do the job, it is just that I
don't think it is the right time to do this effort right now. I think I'd
like to see something going up that will create the excitement and then this
will be a lot more effective.
Mayor Suares: "No," and I have one other reason, too, that I...
Mr. Perrys This is a payoffl That's what it isl
Mayor Suares Please, Mr. Perry. I won't even give the reason, but I would
have liked to have heard from the community affected.
Mrs. Kennedy: You are darned if you do, and darned if you don't.
COMMMS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL:
Mr. Dawkins: There are individuals in the community. We have to sell the
whole area. We can't think in terms of waiting until buildings go up. We also
have to change attitudes, but as it's been said up here all day, you can't be
all things to all people. We have to take a step at a time, and that is all.
Mr. Plummer: Hold on, that last motion did not pass. The one on Skubish; it
Is four -fifths, it is an emergency.
Mrs. Dougherty: It is not an emergency, you have to do it by four -fifths.
Mayor Suarez: If it needed four -fifths, it didn't pass.
Mr. Plummer: lour -fifths for the waiver.
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Mrs. Dougherty: It was all in one. it was all in one resolution, the waiver
&"d •L& ;.watract.
Mayor Suares: Why did it need four -fifths, hadam City Attorney? - as to the
contract to be given to someone?
Mr. Plummer: No, no, this is also the waiver of her contract.
Mrs. Dougherty: The waiver of the conflict has to be passed by a four -fifths.
Mayor Suarez: Well, that I will vote for. I mean, I have no problem with
that.
Mr. Do Turre: I Sot no problem with the waiver, it is just the contract.
Mayor Suarez: Why would it need four -fifths? - only because of the waiver?
Mrs. Dougherty: Teo.
Mr. Plummer: Teo.
Mayor Suarez: We can take it in parts if the Commission wants. I have no
problem with the waiver.
Mrs. Dougherty: Please do a separate motion on the waiver.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you. I'll entertain a motion on the waiver first.
Mrs. Kennedy: I'll move it.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So moved, seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-358
A RESOLUTION WAIVING, BT A 4/5TH AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF
THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION AFTER A DULY
ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, THE PROHIBITION AGAINST THE
TRANSACTION OF BUSINESS WITH A CITY OFFICIAL AS SUCH
PROHIBITION APPLES TO PAT SKUBISH AS PRESIDENT AND
OWNER OF P.S. CONSULTANTS INC., WHO IS ALSO A MEMBER
OF THE CITT'S PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS/MARKETING
SERVICES FOR THE PHASE 1 PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST
OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
(Here follow 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:
ATES: Coss.issioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
MOSS: None.
ASSENT: None.
Mayor Suares: Now on the contract, I entertain a motion on that.
Mr. Plummer: On on the contract? Tao, I will move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: I'll second.
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Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll.
The following :esolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-359
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
All AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, WITH P.S. CONSULTANTS, INC., IN AN AMOUNT
NOT TO EXCEED $25,000, FOR THE ACQUISITION OF
PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS/MARKETING SERVICES FOR
THE PHASE I PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK
WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT, WITH MONIES
THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT
BUDGETED FUNDS.
(Here follow 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:
ATES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
NOES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
ABSENT: None.
75. APPOINT INDIVIDUAL TO THE MIAMI WATERFRONT BOARD (APPOINTED WAS: MR.
JAMES WELLINGTON) - PENDING STILL ARE NOMINATIONS TO BE MADE IN GROUP
IV - DEFERRED TO MAY 12, 1988.
Mayor Suarez: Item 98, make it quick, please, Stuart.
Mr. Stuart Sorg: There are those names before you that have been approved by
the Waterfront Board. You may have some nominations, but I think we have got
a good selection for you now, and...
Mayor Suarez: Who are the names, now, Stuart?
Mr. Sorg: They are right there on your list.
Mr. Plummer: You know, I wanted to say that, but I didn't. Mr. Mayor, I'd
like to, based on this letter from the Friends of the Everglades nominate,
signed by Marjorie Stoneman Douglas, Mr. James Wellington is to the group
number III.
Mr. Sorg: He is already on our list for group number III.
Mayor Suarez: Good.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I understand that, but I am just making it official.
Mayor Suarez: He is giving additional weight to the recommendation, and who
else is being recos nd*d?
Mr. Sorg: We also have got Dr. Iva Brooks from the Audubon Society, and one
of the others, Pool*, from Holland i Knight's law firm, I think that's... push
that in, but what we have got there is a good slate...
Mayor Suarez: Who was the fourth?
Mr. Sorg: Pardon?... this is also for item number three, the Everglades, the
environmental group.
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Mayor Suarez: Who is the fourth nomination? You said you had four? Is that
:.,,. .....� ......:.r we have?
Mr. Sorg: We are filling group III, we are filling group IV, we are filling
position four, of group V, VI, then we are filling two alternate slots.
Mayor Suarez: So it is five nominations?
Mr. Sorg: Right.
Mr. Plummer: I nominate James Wellington, based on the Friends of the
Everglades' letter, for group III.
Mayor Suarez: What are the other nominees that you are proposing, Stuart,
please?
Mr. Sorg: Dr. Iva Brooks is coming from the Audubon Society and...
Mayor Suarez: Right, you said that. That is two so far. Who else?
Mr. Plummer: But, you only got one opening in that category.
Mr. Sorg: Right, so it is between Wallington and Dr. Brooks.
Mr. Plummer: That's why I said, I nominate Wellington, based on this letter
for the group III slot.
Mr. Sorg: Fine.
Mayor Suarez: So we need to take a vote on that? Those are exclusive and...
Mr. Plummer: Let's try to do them alll
Mr. Sorg: Let's package them all, if you want to. Do you want to vote on him?
You have got two people in that slot right now.
Mayor Suarez: Those are not in conflict? These are for the same slot?
Mr. Sorg: For the same slot.
Mr. Plummer: The two guys are, yes. I am recommending Wellington over
Brooks, based on this letter.
Mayor Suarez: Right, so let's vote on that first.
Mr. Plummer: I so move..
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it then, hold it a minute.
appointment to this board?
Mr. Plummer: More than one.
Mr. Sorg: Yes, sir, you do.
Didn't everybody have an
Mr. Dawkins: All right, then Henry Givens mine, and I don't know nothing
about who are suggesting down here and I move that this be put off until I can
present me a nominee to this board. I move that it be put off.
Mr. Plummer: Well, my good friend Dawkins, may I suggest that Henry Givens
was group number six, that you put off group number six, and I would back you
on that for that replacement of Henry Givens.
Mr. Dawkins: I have no problem with that. Thank you. So moved.
Mr. Plummer: I made a motion on group three, and I would ask for a vote.
Mr. Dawkins: I'll second it.
Mr. Plummer: So what we are doing right now, is group number three.
Mrs. Kennedy: Stuart, I don't know any of these.
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Mr. Sorg: Well, Dr. two Brooks is an environmentalist, who has been...
Mayor Suarez: OK, we •ill take a vote on that. I an not ewer* that thee* are
supposed to be nominated by individual members of the Commission. I have no
idea who...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, that is how it started.
Mayor Suarez: Right, and I have no idea, who of any of these people have ever
been nominees of the Mayor, or myself, prior Mayor or myself, so I mean, I'll
take a vote on that. It sounds like a good nominee, but... do you want to
call the roll on that, and then we may defer as to the rest of them, frankly.
Is that all right? The rest of the Commission, do you want to do that?
Mr. Dawkins: Too, sure.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-360
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL TO SERVE
ON THE MIAMI WATERFRONT BOARD FOR A TERM OF OFFICE
EXPIRING APRIL 18, 1988.
(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 vas 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.
COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL:
Mayor Suarez: I think it makes sense for us to get our act together here,
Stuart, and be ready at the next Comsission meeting.
Mr. Sorg: Mr. Mayor, let's vote on position four, group six, because that
is... Tony Descalzo is right here, and he is the only one running in that
position. He is from the Little Havana Development Authority, and I think he
In very can"tent and well qualified for that job. Nobody else has coma in.
Mr. Mayor, everybody in the community knew about it. They all got letters.
It is their job to submit...
Mayor Suavest OK, we'll take a vote on Tony.
Mr. Plummer: I move Tony Descalso for position four, to replace...
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suavest So moved, do we have a second?
Mr. Dawkins: Oh four...
Mayor Suarez: I'■ sorry.
Mr. Dawkins: You know I got four.
Mr. Plummar: Position four, not group four.
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Mr. Sorg: Position four and group sin, Mr. Dawkins.
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Mayor Suarez: Oh, Ron...
Mr. Dawkins: Ron Palkey?
Mr. Sorg: No, sir, that is the alternate position. Tony is the only one
running in position four, under group six.
Mayor Suares: This has got to be the most complicated board we have ever
dealt with, my Godt
Mr. Do Turre: What I'd like to know is, if this group,six, which has four
positions, there are four members representing the City Commission, I think
the question that was brought up before hasn't been anowered yet. Are these
appointed by each Commissioner gets one shot, or how does that work?
Mr. Sorg: The Commission gets the opportunity to appoint the four positions.
The others are nominated by various groups, the Tacht Club, the friends of the
everglades, and so forth, so this...
Mayor Suarez: But as to theme four, have they typically been one for a
Commissioner, or...?
Mr. Plummer: Teo.
Mr. Sorg: Right.
Mayor Suarez: Just the Mayor gets left out.
Mr. De Turre: So, it's each Commissioner gets one appointment.
Mr. Sorg: But, it alternates. I was Commissioner Kennedy's appointment last
year when we did this.
Mayor Suarez: That was the biggest mistake of all.
Mr. De Yurre: OK, well, my point is that I don't know who appointment this
Ronald Folksy is.
Mr. Sorg: Well, let's take position four, that is an alternate. We need to
take position four of group six on your page.
Mayor Suarez: That's what he is talking about. Whose appointment was Ron
Folksy, and now you are proposing Tony Dezcalzo for it.
Mr. Sorg: Tos, but Ron, no... Ron Folksy is in the alternate spot, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Oh.
Mr. Sorg: That's...
Mr. Do Yurre: Re is moving down to alternate.
Mr. Plummer: No, he is being replaced in group four of six.
Mayor Suarez: It looks like he is being replaced in group four of... in
position four of group six is what it looks like.
Mr. Sorg: Well, it is...
Mayor Suarez: It says, current representative. Right across it says,
nominations, Tony Descalso.
Mr. Plummer: With an asterisk.
IMAODIBLI BACKGROUND COMMIXTS NOT ZNTZRSD INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mayor Suarez: Well, what the Commissioner is trying to figure out, is who
would have been the person who nominated Ron lalkey, so that we could figure
out which Commissioner would...
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Mr. Plusseare Well, Roe Folksy is here, why don't you ask him?
Mr. Sorg: He is not a resident of the City, so he has got to move into to an
alternate position, so Tony is the nomination from the Waterfront board to
fill that slot.
Mayor Suares: I understand, but what we want to know is, who on the
Coaission nominated him? Whose choice, quote, unquote, was he, if anybody's?
Mr. Dawkins: The thing the Waterfront Board don't seem to get through its
head, is that every Commissioner up here has an appointment, and than after
that, the Waterfront board can make an appointment. That is the thing the
Waterfront board don't seem to get through its head.
Mr. Sorg: What is that, Mr. ...
Mr. Dawkins: That each Commissioner up here has an appointment, and than the
Waterfront board can make some of our suggestions.
Mr. Sorg: Tea, sir I understand that, but we just...
Mr. Dawkins: Tea, but you just keep saying, "This is what the Waterfront
board wants, this is what the Waterfront Board wants."
Mr. Sorg: Well, Commissioner, we want to bring this thing back to full
strength again and we need these two nominations tonight. What we do with the
alternates is something else.
Mayor Suarez: Can we establish who nominated Ron Folksy before?
Mr. Ron Folksy: If I may, Mr. Commissioner, my, name is Ron Felkey. I
resigned the board position, a group position, where I was appointed by a
Commissioner.
Mayor Suarez: Who was that?
Mr. Folksy: I was appointed by Mr. Dawkins. I resigned that position because
I had military conflict of duty and that has been taken care of. My name
appears down under the alternate position, which is not a position nominated
by a Commissioner, that is a position open at large to just about anyone with
an interest in the board, as has been demonstrated in the past.
Mayor Suarez: So you were Commissioner Dawkins'.
Mr. Folksy: I have not been nominated by a Commissioner for an alternate
position, but it is not required under the bylaws.
Mr. Dawkinse So, who did they put in your place?
Mr. Falkay: No one yet, you are trying to fill that position.
Mr. Dawkins: Where? Which way is that? What is that?
Mr. Sorge It is Tony Dezcalso, from the Little Havana Developmnt Authority.
Mr. Dawkins: No, well... so who appointed Henry Givens?
Mr. Sorg: You appointed his, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mayor Suarez: So he was appointing everybody there for a while.
Mr. Sorg: Right, you filled the board, Commissioner.
Mayor Suarez: It's your board.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, well, I'■ throwing this outs I'll bring you five... bring
you six names, if it is my board.
Mr. Sorg: Wo'vo kindly got... let's put Tony_ on the board, Mr. Commissioner.
Mrs. Kennedy: Wait a secondl
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Mr. Dawkina: No, problem, ain't no problem
board...
Mayor Suarez: It vas your board.
Mr. Dawkins: At the next meeting...
Mr. Sorg: We've got to have two people tonight.
Mr. Dawkins: Tou correct me, that's all right.
No probleml If this is my
Mayor Suarez: It was your board.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, you took it from me, no problem.
Mr. Sorg: Commissioner Kennedy, are you supporting Tony? We need to get him
on. We need two people tonight.
Mrs. Kennedy: Teo, sure.
Mayor Suarez: Well, we are trying to figure out what system is being used for
these appointments, Stu, and I guess we really haven't figured out anything,
because either that, or Dawkins was appointing everybody for a while.
Mr. Sorg: We've been meeting at Overtown for years.
Mayor Suarez: Look, it is the and of a day. It's been a long day. Unless the
Commission wants to valve the right to individually nominate for positions
one, two, three and four under group six, the beat thing we can do is postpone
It until next Commission meeting, so everybody has their appointments ready.
Mr. Sorg: But, why don't we just move on Tony tonight? We need...
Mayor Suarez: Because it is Commissioner Dawkins' appointment, presumably, at
least ,os parson he is replacing is Commissioner Dawkins' appointment and he
doesn't: want to nominate himl That's pretty simple.
Mrs. Kennedy: Good -by, Stuart.
Mayor Suarez: Byol
Mr. Dawkins: Plain English. If not, we'll give it to you in Spanish.
Mr. Sorg: So we are going to put it back on the agenda next month?
Mayor Suarez: Tao, I guess we will one you...
Mr. Sorg: Well, then you are going to pull Wallington off, until we can...
Mr. Plummor: No, that's approved.
Mayor Suarez: We've voted for his, and that's going to be Commissioner
Plums r'e appointment.
Mr. De Turre: What about the alternate positions? How are they appointed?
Mr. Dawkins: I don't know, but let's wait. We don't know... maybe somebody
can use these namea we got on here.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I'll gat some appointments...
Mr. Sorg: Let as just ask you a question. This has been on the agenda two
months in a row and why didn't the information got to you all, so you could
make this decision?
Mr. Dawkins: As the chairperson of the Waterfront Board, that is your job.
You find that out.
Mr. Sorg: I'll do it, I'll do it nest month.
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Mr. Dawkins: All right, OK, you need to visit each one of us and find that
out.
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76. DISCUSSION CONCERNING STATUS OF HELICOPTER USE PERMIT ON WATSON ISLAND.
(THIS ITEM WAS REFERRED TO THE CITY MANAGER.)
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Mayor Suarez: Item 99 will be very quick. Mr. Manager, particularly, if you
will just give w a moment of your attention. I just want to know what we are
doing on the helicopter leases on Watson Island. Are we going to open that
up? What's going on? I think the last time we heard, it seems like we were
waiting for the County to come up with sow kind of a master plan or
something, and we couldn't act.
Mr. John Gilchrist: First of all, there is not a lease on Watson. That is a
use agreasent, which the helicopter...
Mayor Suarez: Now, you are getting sophisticatedt
Mr. Gilchrist: No, no, I don't want it to become a lease because it is not a
lease.
Mayor Suarez: Whatever the hell it is that allows one individual to be out
there and operating and doesn't allow other people to compete for that.
Mr. Gilchrist: At any rate, it is a use agreement based on...
Mayor Suarez: Some people's use agreements are other people's leases. Go
ahead.
Mr. Gilchrist: We had before you sometime ago a proposal from the County to
cow in and help us fund and build a municipal heliport on Watson Island.
Mayor Suarez: And we were kind of holding off until...
Mr. Gilchrist: And they ware proposing to even operate that, so that it would
become professionally operated, but it was by the County and the Commission
voted not to pursue that.
Mayor Suarez: What happened on that?
Mr. Gilchrist: The Commission instructed me, I believe, not to pursue it with
the County. Now, we have...
Mayor Suarez: Shouldn't we then, as to the operating of a helicopter
concession, whatever you want to call it, on Watson Island, open it up for
bids so that people can compete?
Mr. Gilchrist: Tea, you can do that by instructing us to move forward with a
request for proposal for such an activity. The Commission can instruct us to
do that.
Mr. Plummer: To do what now?
Mr. Gilchrist: Tou could... the Commission could instruct... to &never the
Mayor's question, we can be instructed as staff, to put out a request for
proposal for the operation of a... we can call it municipal heliport, if you
want, by the private sector...
Mayor Suares: At least on a short term basis, on a yearly basis, you know, so
other people can cosq?ets. We've got one individual, he keeps sending letters,
he is going to file suit pretty soon, if we don't allow him to offer a bid.
Mr. Odio: We should not do it on a long term, because you ordered us to do a
master plan.
Mayor Suarez: Right. On a one year basis?
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Mr. Gilchrist: You can have in the agreement, the ability to end it at
periods of time, you know.
Mr. Plummer- Let me ask this question. The use permit that presently is
there, that is not an exclusive?
Mr. Gilchrist: Well, there is only one service with a use permit today, so
when you say exclusive, it is not exclusive.
Mr. Plummer: What? He allowed them to land there at present.
Mr. Gilchrist: Others can use it, yes.
Mr. Plusesr: The facility.
Mr. Gilchrist: Teo, air. He is under instructions and agreement that he has
allow others to use the facility.
Mr. Plummer: Well, what's the problem?
Mayor Suarez: The problem is that other people want to compete for a
helicopter concession on Watson Island.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, you mean a physical facility?
Mayor Suarez: Ten, where they can charge for people to go in and out, just
like the current one does.
Mr. Gilchrist: No, I am sorry, Mayor, he does not...
Mayor Suarez: And we have to decide if only one can use the entire island on
that basis, or two, or three, or whatever number.
Mr. Gilchrist: Let me correct one thing. The current operator does not charge
anyone for coming in or out. He is required to allow them to do that.
Mayor Suarez: All right, but he charges other people.
Mr. Gilchrist: He simply has the use of the facility in exchange for giving
us, the City, time in using his vehicles.
Mayor Suarez: And there are other people who are interested in bidding for
that opportunity and they are interested in paying us good hard cash.
Mrs. Dougherty: I just want to remind you, after that last referendum, any
new use permit, or any new lease has to go to referendum.
Mayor Suarez: Well, so then you have the existing one, going on a month to
month, forever and ever and you intend to do absolutely nothing to change
that, and to allow anyone also to compete?
Mrs. Dougherty: No, if you direct us to go out for an RFP, we would.
Mr. Plummer: And then it would have to go to a referendum.
Mayor Suarez: A referendum under...
Mr. Gilchrist: If I believe what the City Attorney is saying, that if we go
through the process of the RFP, select a single individual operator, then it
would have to go to referendum for approval.
Mayor Suarez: Wall, if the City...
Mr. Gilchrist: No, no, there in a Charter amendment on Watson Island
specifically.
Mayor Suarez: What if the City decides to hire someone under an agreement
that would be somehow to operate it there without having a lease that would
come under that amendmant?
Mr. Gilchrist: The City could build and have a facility... the governmental
development is exempt from that. Perhaps, and you might want to ask the City
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Attorney, if the City were to build a facility which we are exempt from, you
say be able to hire professional services to operate that for the City.
Mrs. Dougherty: You enter a management agreement.
Mayor Suarez: Mr. Manager, I Mould like, and I presume this Commission would
like your recommendation within the next 30 days as to what we should do. But
I think it is incorrect and highly unfair to allow the present arrangement to
go on just indefinitely, and we are going to get sued. I don't know if we
really need a motion on that.
Mr. Bill Terkeurst: Pardon me. May I speak to this, your honor? My name is
Bill Terkeurst, I am the present use holder of the thing. We are the only
people that pay for the use of the heliport. Everyone else uses it free.
Mr. Odio: You are not a lease holder.
Mr. Terkeurst: No, no, I didn't may that.
Mr. Odio: Let's clarify the record.
Mayor Suarez: You pay. What do you pay, Bill?
Mr. Terkeurst: Cesar, I didn't may that. I'm sorry if I did. It is a use
agreement.
Mayor Suarez: What are you paying now?
Mr. Terkeurst: We pay the use of ten hours per month, is what we are required
to pay. We pay considerably more than that.
Mayor Suarez: And you believe, I am sure, that other people should have a
right to compete for a similar arrangement, don't you?
Mr. Terkeurst: Just as much as they should have to outboard clubs to Chalks
to everything else on the island.
Mayor Suarez: Well, there is no one else that I know of that has that kind of
a favorable agreement, but...
Mr. Plummer: Oh, Chalk does. Chalk's got a better agreement.
Mr. Terkeurst: Well, very frankly, if you don't feel we are paying you
enough, we will be happy to give you more hours.
Mayor Suarez: No, we are going to put it out for competition the way things
are usually done.
Mr. Terkeurst: I think that we vent through a major problem many years ago on
this. More than operator doesn't work, and...
Mayor Suarez: So you just figure you are going to stay there for the rest of
your life, as long as this Commission doesn't do anything about it?
Mr. Terkeurst: I really don't know.
Mayor Suarez: Giving us ten hours... how such did you give us in the last
month of service to the City?
Mr. Terkeurst: One lament, I will be able to tell you precisely.
Mr. Plummer: (Oft MIKE) Do you know Chalk pays us nothing?
Mayor Suarez: I didn't know Chalk's paid nothing either.
Mr. Plus r: You know Chalk's claims they have a legislative act, they don't
have to.
Mayor Suarez: Maybe Chalk's has a legislative act, how do I know?
Mr. Plummer: Chalk's pays nothing.
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Mr. Terkaurst: Pardon?
Mayor Suares: No, we are talking about Chalk'e.
Mr. Terkaurst: No, they don't pay anything.
Mayor Suares: I didn't bring up Chalk's, he did. If they have a special
legislative act, maybe they have such a historic value, or something, I don't
know.
Mr. Tsrkeurst: Last month, we paid 9.2 hours. However, on a cumulative
total, we are 22.4 hours ahead. In other words, my rent is paid the next 2.2
months in advance.
Mayor Suares: Very good. Thank you, anything else you want to add?
Mr. Terkaurst: No, air.
77. CITY ATTORNEY'S ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1987.
Mayor Suarez: Madam City Attorney, item 100.
Mrs. Dougherty: Teo, sir, Mr. Mayor, this is our annual report to the City
Commission. I will be very brief. I just want to point out to you, this
Is...
Mayor Sua-ez: This is pretty similar to what you gave individually to us?
Mrs. Dougherty: Only you. Every case that you have that we settle over
$4.500, you are aver* of it. These are the cases that I have listed
individually. There are 77 of them that have been disposed by judicial
process. We want you to know that all but five, the City has prevailed.
We've tried nine jury trials in which zero award was given to the plaintiff,
and we only tried five in which the jury found for the plaintiff and the total
amount was $65,000. With the exception of that, the other thing that is
significant is through the efforts of the City Attorney's office, as well as
the administration, we've collected over 1.8 million dollar in collections and
forfeitures and the rest of it, you can look at your leisure.
Mayor Suarez: I think you are to be commended for the fine work don*.
Mr. Plummer: Are you asking for a raise?
Mrs. Dougherty: No.
Mayor Suarez: And the fact that you have still not lost, I don't think any
major case and just recently won another important one, a labor related one,
with Officer...
Mr. Plummer: Glover.
Mayor Suares: ... Glover.
Mrs. Dougherty: That I didn't include on this report. This report was done
before that.
Mayor Suarez: And the Risk Management functions have also been brought under
your office.
Mrs. Dougherty: Tess air.
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?S. AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE DEAL ON THE TWO PROJECTS TO BE DInWFEu
AT THE FERN ISLE NURSERY SITE - (a) DEVELOPMENT OF A PUBLIC FACILITY -
•CASA PROJECT" - BT TIE MUNICIPAL TRUST FUND CORPORATION, AND (b) A
MOUSING COMPLEX BY THE ALLAPA77AN BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.
Mayor Suarez: Item 102, Fern Iale Nursery site, is this item still on?
Mr. Odio: Pursuant to the City Commission motion , the Administration has
sought suitable space for the Municipal Trust Fund Corporation to develop
public service facilities, called Casa Project, and for Allapattah Business
Development Authority to develop a housing complex. We are recommending that
Fern sale Nursery site would be suitable for both public service facilities
and the housing project.
Mr. Plummer: So, what do you do to proceed?
Mr. Odio: That is up to the Commiaaion if you allow me to proceed, then we
will have to bring it back.
Mr. Plummer: I make a motion for the Manager to proceed and bring it back to
the Commission in somewhat of a final form.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Is that what you are basically try to
convince us to do? Simon? Counselor.
Mr. Simon Ferro: Yes, Mr. Mayor, members of the board. Good evening, my name
In Simon Ferro.
Mr. Plummer: If you speak, I am going to withdraw my motionl
Mr. Ferro: I'm... oops, wrong item, Commissioner. I do represent the
Allapattah Business Development Authority and basically, what we ask the
Commission to do, is to assign this project to the Director of Housing and
Development Agency, Mr. Gereaux, to proceed on the basis that ABDA would be
able to build at least a 60 HUD 202...
Mr. Plummer: (OFF -MIKE) You don't understand.
Mr. Ferro: I thought you might want more specifics on the item.
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Plummer: Call the roll.
Mr. De Turre: Hold it. Under discussion.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner De Turre ham a Question.
Mr. De Turre: How such is this land worth, Cesar?
Mr. Odlo: (OFF MIKE) Al, what is the value of the land?
Mr. Al Armada: (OFF MIE3) At least $1,000.000.
Mr. Odio: At least $1,000,000.
Mr. De Turre: And what are we expected to do?
Mr. Plummer: Expecting to gat money back, of coursel
Mr. Odio: It will be part of the...
Mr. De Turre: Ten percent annually, right?
Mr. Plummer: This is what... no, no, this Commission will determine what
percentage we think is reasonable to get back to buy other property to make
other projects available, but that is why we are sending the manager to
negotiate.
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Mr. De Turre: OK, because I ma not in a position to give things away and I
Jon't ih:a;k anybody is.
Mr. Plummer: All we are doing is sending it to him to come to some kind of
negotiation.
Mr. De Turre: ON, no problem.
Mayor Suarez: Wall, I gather the understanding is that it is going to be
coming back to us in a form to try to build some affordable housing. Isn't
that the idea? And if so, I think that Commissioner De Turre ought to be told
that. If he is thinking that maybe the property ought to be either be sold
outright...
Mr. Odio: Oh, no, no... what we are doing...
Mayor Suares: No, wait, wait, waitl Ifl
Mr. Odio: Ohl
Mayor Suares: You know, if he thinks that way, maybe he doesn't like the idea
of sending it back for that, or, if in fact, you know, we haven't done an
affordable housing project yet that we can get ten percent return, because I
happen not to believe in that, you know, for affordable housing, no, I don't
know, Commissioner, you may want to inquire further.
Mr. De Turre: Well, the thing is, I want to know what alternatives we have
and if one is selling, then that is certainly one that we ought to look at,
and maybe take other things into consideration. But certainly, if we are in a
posture that we need to come %p with capital money for certain improvements,
that capital improvements, you know, we just have to be in a position that we
have got to you know, re -group, and sell some property and use that money for
some of the other developments that we have in mind. Certainly, we've got to
come up with $4,000,000 to keep the Orioles in town, we have got to start
looking.
Mr. Odio: Well, but I think this is a very worthwhile project. It's been on
the works for a while, about a year and one-half. Housing is all one of
our... has been the priority of the City and affordable housing in that area
is needed. I cannot think of a better use for a piece of property like that
one, then what we are recommending.
Mr. Plummer: but we are not going to know until you sit down and negotiate
and bring it back.
Mr. Odio: We have to sit down and negotiate and bring it back to you.
Mr. Do Turre: All right, I got no problem with what is being proposed here
now, about taking and studying it and taking it from there, but I just want to
keep an open mind as to what we can do with that property.
Mayor Suarez: And don't forget that the last Lima that we vent through this,
and I'■ happy we did, and I hope we do it again on this land - we did not get
a fair return by any means. In fact, we gave to Melrose and the Civic Canter
sites, we gave a ten year... is fact, a 30 year mortgage for the first ten
years would be in substantial paymoats, no paysionts towards interest and
principal, which is why we are making that viable as affordable housing, and I
hope we do the sage thing with this one. That's what I want to clarify to the
Commissioner, that it doesn't sound to me like we are going to do something to
got quote, unquote, a return on the value of our land. We are going to try to
build some affordable housing for our people, which is a whole different
concept But if you have no objections on that basis, and a little better
understood hopefully, let's take a vote.
Ms. Hirai: We have a move and second. Roll call, Mr. Plummer.
Mr. Pluamor: Teo.
Mr. Dawkins: (O" MIKS) What om I voting on nowt
No. Hirai: Instructing the City Manager to proceed to negotiate, sir.
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Mr. Dawkins: Proceed with negotistions?
Me. Hirai: To negotiate...
Mr. Plumiser: And bring it back hers.
Me. Hirai... and come back to the City Commission.
Mr. Dawkina: Thank you.
Mr. Plummer: Send it to you to negotiate.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
Its adoption:
MOTION NO. 68-361
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
PROCEED TO NEGOTIATE AND PUT INTO FINAL FORM A DEAL ON
THE TWO PROJECTS PROPOSED TO DE DEVELOPED AT THE FERN
ISLE NURSERY SITE: (a) DEVELOPMENT OF A PUBLIC SERVICE
FACILITY KNO1M AS "CASH PROJECT" BY THE MUNICIPAL
TRUST FUND CORPORATION, AND (b) A HOUSING COMPLEX BY
THE ALLAPATTAH BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY; FURTHER
DIRECTING THE MANAGER TO COKE BACK BEFORE THE CITY
COMMISSION WITH A 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.
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Suarez: Tou were very eloquent today, counselor.
Mr. Plummer: He talks too much.
79. COMMISSIONER DAWKINS REQUESTS INFORMATION FROM THE ADMINISTRATION AS TO
WHT CERTAIN LAWS HAVE NOT BEEN IMPLEMENTED IN LIBERTY CITY AREA.
Mr. Dawkins: Before we get to that one and while we are waiting, Mr. Mayor,
we have some individuals here, that for the loan program, when we gave the
money for the Liberty City, there was "X" dollars, supposedly, Mr. Manager, to
establish a Citywide fund, and it was to be "X" dollars for each community.
to these people can go hone, when are we going to start that? - implement the
plan or the progru? OK, when we gave the money to Liberty City, there was,
what was it? - $250,000 for the...
Mr. Odio: $575,000 was the
Mr. Dawkins: For the rest of the community?
Mr. Odio: Then we had $250,000 left for the rest of the community.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, and from that $250,000, we were going to give "X"
dollars to "X" community.
Mr. Odio: Tao, air, we Citywide after that.
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Mr. Dawkins: OK, yes, but when we said Citywide, we also said that rather
than have the whole City fighting, we took it, I think... I think we broke it
__ p::... come up here.
Mr. Odio: I know what you are saying, Commissioner. If you want to, we
can... (OPP-MIKE)
Mr. Dawkins: Tou're paying Prank for this.
Mr. Castaneds: No, and it was never implemented.
Mr. Odio: See what...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, what is it we were supposed to do Prank? I know it
wasn't implemented. Vbat were supposed to do?
Mr. Castaneda: Ve bad approximately $230,000 for a Citywide program, but it
has been loft in limbo until we get some track record in the Model City loan
program.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, but didn't we make a motion, wasn't it passed, that
you put "X• dollars in each community?
Mr. Odio: No, it vas never done, Commissioner.
Mr. Castaneda: That was discussed, but it was never passed.
Mr. Dawkins: What, in each target area?
Mr. Odio: It never passed. It was never...
Mr. Castaneda: It was discussed, however, I think it would come out about
$30,000 per target area.
Mayor Suarez: So...
Mr. Plummer: As I recall, the final thing was that we would talk to it in the
budget in October and September.
Mr. Odio: What we really need to do is, if you want to try it, is we have the
$250,000, is go based on need, outside of the Model City area, where....
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Mr. Odio:..ve felt had the worst need.
Mr. Castaneda: If I recall correctly, I think your intent was to exclude
downtown and Model City from the program and basically spread the $250,000
between all the other target areas.
Mr. Dawkins: But, $250,000, between Wynvood, Edison, Little Havana, Coconut
Grove, Plagami, that's not a hall of a lot of money.
Mr. Castansda: Well, Plagami would not be a target area, but anyway...
Mr. Dawkins: Beg pardon? Plagami is not a target area?
Mr. Castanada: No.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, so what other target areas outside of Liberty City?
Mr. Castaneda: It will be Edison, Vynvood, Little Havana, Coconut Grove and
Overtown... and Allapattah, I'm sorry.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, so now, and what do you have to do to implement a program?
Mr. Castaneda: Yell, they are basically... this money is in Miami Capital,
right now, you know, if Miami Capital is going to do it, and the other
program, you created a loan committee and a screening committee, you know
those issues have never been addressed.
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Mr. Dawkina: All right, well, let m find out before we go any further. Is
It the consensus of this Commission, that we wait until the budget hearing, or
is -: :&&L •e La) to handle it nor? All right then... these
people over here, will you get with than Frank, out in the hall and work out
somthing? - because like the Mayor says, it is 8:24 p.m. and I an going home
at 9:00 o'clock.
Mayor Suarez: So, I should be leaving at 8:30, right?
Mr. Dawkins: Ten, I man, just talk, tell them what we are doing, either we
are going to implement it, or we are going to wait, or how long it is going to
be before they can apply, will you please? That's all!
Mayor Suarez: Conninsioner.
Mr. De Turre: Frank, why isn't Flagami a target area?
Mr. Dawkinn: The Federal government decided. Go ahead.
Mr. Castaneda: Flagami is not a target area because the income level in
Flagami area in the 1980 census did not appear as a low income area.
Mr. De Turre: Look, is it a requirement that you live in the target area, or
that you have a business in the target area?
Mr. Castaneda: No, no. The target areas were defined as areas of low or
moderate income concentration, in which more than 51 percent of the people
that reside in those areas are... what we had said was, we were going to do
this project, the target area for the City of Miami, and what I am saying is,
the Flagami area does not qualify. The businessman...
Mayor Suarez: Federal guidelines.
Mr. Castaneda: ... or the business owners do not have to reside in the target
area, but their business has to be.
Mr. De Yurre: Mall, the thing in, I don't think it is quite logical, because
I bet you the businesses on Flagler and 57th are about the same level as the
businesses on Flagler and 17th Avenue, and that is a target area. I don't see
the reason for exclueing one and including the other.
Mr. Castaneda: That might be...
Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait, very simply, do we have any say in that? Aren't
those Federal regulations?
Mr. Castaneda: The intent of the Federal regulation was to put our money in
those areas of biggest need, which are the target areas.
Mr. De Turre: Who determines the target area?
Mr. Castaneda: The target areas were determined about 13 or 14 years ago,
based on...
Mayor Suarez: Who determined the target areas? - not whenl
Mr. Castaneda: Planning Department.
Mayor Suarez: Mho?
Mr. Castansda: Planning Department with census information.
Mayor Suarez: The City of Miami, so conceivably, if we disagreed with those
conclusions, it could be changed by the City of Miami.
Mr. De Turre: Yes, I would like for you to work on getting Flagami included
there.
Me. : Corissioner De Turre...
Mr. Plumper: (OFF HIM You can work on it, but they won't qualify.
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Me. :... if I may may that it's the consensus that we've got information
that it is only four areas.
Mayor Suarez: You'd have to work that out with staff. There is a lot more
than four areas as target areas.
Me. : Did he mention Overtown as one of the areas?
Mayor Suarez: What was your question, Overtown?
Me. : Did he call Ovartovn?
Mayor Suarez: Oh yes, absolutely.
Mr. Castaneda: Tee.
Mr. Dawkins: Teo, he did.
Mayor Suarez: Overtown is the wet targeted area.
$0. DISCUSSION REGARDING IRREGULARITIES AND PERFORMANCE Of SOCIAL ACTION
AGENCY - ITEM CONTINUED TO MAY 12, 1988.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 103, what do we have to hear back on the Social Action
Agency?
Mr. Odio: Mr. Mayor, we have the other department working on this. We also
have HRS, Criminal Investigation Unit, and the Police Department and I feel it
would not be proper to release anything now on where we are, because they are
criminal investigations.
Mr. De Yurre: When are we going to complete our auditing of this agency?
Mr. Odio: We are still half way through the audit, and when we finish them,
they will have a right to an exit conference and then after that, we are going
to turn up anything that we find over to HRS and to the Internal Security of
the Police Department.
Mr. Plummer: But the question is, how long is it going to take?
Mr. Odio: About another two weeks, Commissioner.
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Odio: Two more weeks.
Mr. Plummer: Can we schedule this, then, for the next agenda?
Mr. Odlo: You cannot schedule, because the problem is, that whatever we find
will be turned over to HRS investigators and to the Internal Security of the
Police Department and it become a criminal investigation.
Mr. Pluon r: What about if you find nothing?
Mr. Odio: If we find nothing, then I will let you know.
Mr. Plummer: That's all we can do.
Mr. De Turre: OK, we are still freezing the money.
Mr. Odio: The money is frozen, yes.
Mr. De Turre: OK, and the thing is that I don't want this to become a forum
to deal with, with this issue. I think that you've got... there are
authorities that can deal with information that may have to do with this, and
you know, Carlos, if he had information if anybody else has information that
Is pertinent to this situation, that this Commission not become the forum for
getting this information out, disseminating the information.
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Mr. Olio: Commissioner, with due respect, if they have any allegations of
criminal wrongdoing, they should turn it over to the HRS investigators, and to
Internal Security.
Mayor Suarez: Wall, there may be allegations of mismanagement, and
allegations of bad food, that isn't criminal wrongdoing and certainly this is
the proper forum for that, but you don't intend to get into that today, do
you?
Mr. De Turre: No, no. Do you have anything to may about wrongdoing?
Mayor Suarez: These letters and support, we will do the same thing with
these, introduce them when we have the full scale hearing. No, we can
Introduce them to our record too. In fact, we could do it now, I mean, but
I... it might make more sense to do it at the time that we have a full hearing
on this issue.
Mr. Carlos D'Mant: I just want to may that we have some sworn statements by
the City of Miami, but this is not the forum to inform.
Mayor Suarez: Well, this may be the forum, but this is not the time, unless
the Commission specifically wants to get into this, and we've got a half hour
to do a bunch of other items.
Mr. D'Mant: It would only take a couple of minutes, Mayor, if you don't mind.
Mayor Suarez: The last time you said that, it took an incredible amount of
time. Unless he wants to hear it, we've got a status report that the City is
completing its audit?
Mr. D'Mant: There's a lot of irregularities. That is why it takes a lot of
time, you know.
Mayor Suarez: Well, but you are welcome to give them to each of the
Commissioners individually.
Mr. Do Turre: Who is in charge of this audit, Cesar?
Mr. Odio: Hattie Daniels.
Mr. De Yurre: Is he here?
Mr. Odio: She's here.
Mr. De Turre: OK, she is here, OK. Why don't they get together now, with the
information that you have, give it to her, and she can follow up on it, and
that way, we can expedite things.
Mr. Odio: Hattie?
Mayor Suarez: Go ahead Carlos, most with Dr. Daniels.
Mr. Julio 103 will no longer be heard, then? We can leave? 103 is
out?
Mayor Suarez: There is nothing that the Commission is going to delve into
now? What don't we take these back, Julio? I am afraid that we might... you
are welcome to introduce them into the record now, but it might be better at
the appropriate time.
Mr. D'Mant: Is there going to be another Commission meeting?
Mr. De Turre: I want it reset for May 12th, or set again for May 12th, so we
can have final determination of where we are at.
Mayor Suarez: Certainly by that time we should know and gat this resolved
once and for all.
Mr. D'Mant: All right, thank you.
Mr. De Turre: Thank you, Carlos.
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81. SClnMA PUBLIC NEARING IN CONNECTION WITH PROPOSED CODESIGNATION OF NW
$ M STREET FROM THE EXPRESSWAY TO 1?TM AVENUE AS "JOHN HENRY PEAVT, JR.
STREET•.
Mayor Suares: Item 104, codesignation of 69th Street, Expressway at 17th
Avenue, is there any... Commissioner Dawkins, this is your item, or...7
Mr. Dawkins: What is it?
Mayor Suares: John Henry Peavy Jr. Street.
Mr. Dawkins: 106? Oh yes, the students at Northwestern wanted to codesignate
69th Avenue is John Peavy Street. So I'd like to instruct the Manager to have
a public hearing at Northwestern, to see if the residents are in favor, and if
so, bring it back, so that we can do it.
Mr. De Turre: Second.
Mr. Plummer: At Northwestern. I want to see Pat Keller go up there and
complain. The brothers will be waitingl There is a motion and a second on
106. Schedule it for a public hearing.
Mayor Suarez: 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. 88-362
A MOTION DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO SCHEDULE A
PUBLIC HEARING IN CONNECTION WITH THE PROPOSED
CODESIGNATION OF NW 69 STREET FROM THE EXPRESSWAY TO
17 AVENUE AS "JOHN HENRY PEAVY, JR. STREET." IN ORDER
TO GAIN INPUT FROM THE RESIDENTS, AND FURTHER
DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO BRING THIS ISSUE BACK
BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION IF THE RESIDENTS ARE FOUND
TO BE IN FAVOR OF THIS PROPOSAL.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
♦ice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
N X51 None.
ASSENR: Nome.
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62 DIRECT MANAGER TO AGAIN REVItw TK& INKMb uF A anQusbT FOR PROPOSALS FOR
DEVELOPMPP OF A POLL SERVICE BOATTARD MARINA AT 2640 307M BAYSHORE
DRITE AND COME BACK WITH RSCONCINDATION.
Mayor Suarez: Item 105, the former Merrill Stevens site, where are we at on
this? It is listed as my item.
Mr. Plummer: What is on 105?
Mr. Odio: No, as for as I an concerned, the issue was killed.
Mr. Stuart Sorg: Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suares: Wait, wait. Mr. Manager. Was there not a Manager's
recommendation that we restructure in some way, or modify, since the last
tLm?... and was it this Commission's resolution that we make some
modifications and put it out for bids again?
Mr. Odio: Last Lima it failed. It failed, all motions failed and the...
Mr. Plummer: You only had a two - two. What is your recommendation, Mr.
Nanager?
Mayor Suarez: Before we get to the private parties, please.
Mr. Odio: I still feel that the RFP is a solid one, that we should advertise
and go out for bids. I have been talking to some of the members of the Marine
Council, and they felt that the only issue that really concerned them was the
terms. In other words, instead of you giving them more years, so that the
investment could be paid off and that they would have a chance of financing.
Otherwise, they felt that it vas a good RFP. Some other operators indicated
that the problem could be that they didn't want to operate a restaurant, but
they would have the option to bid and not bid on the restaurant, so...
Mr. Plummer: What is your recommendation, Mr. Manager?
Mr. Odio: I feel that maybe the terms should be looked at, that I... if you
give me the opportunity to review the RFP with some members of the marine
Industry, and see if the terms could be changed, as far as the years.
Mr. Plummer: I so move.
Mayor Suarez: Moved, do we have a second.
Mr. De Turre: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion from the Commission?
Mr. Sorg: May I speak up?
Mayor Suarez: Any discussion from the Commission? You are going to add
something?
Mr. Sorg: Mr. Mayor, what I was suggesting is, prior to the next Commission
mseting, why don't we have one public hearing by the Waterfront Board, let's
get some input in...
Mayor Suarez: That's up to you, you are the chairman of the Waterfront Board,
you can schedule that.
Mr. Sorg: Well, I'd just like to hold any decision by the Commission until
nest month, have input from the Cominlesion, from the Water...
Mayor Suarez: We are not going to have to make any decisions between now and
nest month, because all we are doing is having the Manager cam back with
recommendations.
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Mr. Sorg: And if it comes from the Waterfront board, we will hold a public
hearing, if it is good, we will coon back with all the suggestions to you
and...
Mayor Suarez: Sure. Absolutely. Anything that the Waterfront board
recommends is weighed heavily by the Manager and the Commission.
Mr. Sorg: Tine. Done that suit you, Mr. Manager? Sure, of course. We'll
have it in three weeks.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
Its adoption:
MOTION NO. 68-363
• MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER TO AGAIN REVIEW
THE TERNS OF A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF A FULL -SERVICE bOATTARD MARINA AT 2640 SOUTH
BATSBORE DRIVE, AND TO COME BACK TO THE COMMISSION
WITH HIS RECOMMENDATION. (Note in connection with this
issue, the City Commission directed the Administration
to hold a public hearing on May 12th.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the motion vas passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, THE CITY COMMISSION CONTINUED
ITEM 106 REGARDING FLORIDA INTERAMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
FOUNDATION TO MAY 12, 1988.
Mr. Odio: May I come back for a minute on the RFP on Merrill Stevens? Could
we schedule a public hearing for May 12th
Mayor Suarez: You mean like a workshop, or what kind of a... please clarify.
Mr. Odio: No, a public hearing so we can bring back the RFP, and if you...
Mayor Suarez: A staff public hearing.
Mr. Odio: A staff public hearing.
Mr. Plummer: What about if we don't like the RTP?
Mr. Odio: Then you send it back.
Mayor Suarez: Then we don't accept it.
Mr. Plummer: Teo, but then you don't want to have a public hearing, and ask
up people up here to come to a public hearing when we rejected it. They got
nothing to talk to, if we reject it.
Mr. Odlo: Right, I was just trying to save time, because if not, we would
have to wait until May, you know.
Mr. Plummer: Look, you got three elections, September, October, and November,
all right - so you are not on a deadline.
Mr. John Gilchrist: Sir, may I say something on that. You have to have 45
days prior to the election and you have to have 90 days to respond, by law, so
It will be 90 days and 45 days from the time the RFP is issued.
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Mr. Ply r: So then tell as ghat 135 days from May 12th is?
Mr. Gilchrist: I can't do that in my head.
Mr. !liner: I can't either.
Mr. Sorg: Well, let the Waterfront board conduct it with the City having an
Input.
Mayor Suares: We are going to let the Waterfront conduct whatever it wants,
to recosssend to us whatever it wants, Stuart. There is no need to discuss
that. You are going to have plenty of time to give us input. You always do.
Mr. Sorg: Right, but with one hearing rather than two.
Mayor Suarez: It's not going to work if you may that the Waterfront board is
going to have the hearing for input from the community, I guarantee you that.
It just doesn't work that way. We have to end up doing it and staff, or the
Cosssission, or somebody. The board just...
Mr. Sorg: We'll have the public hearing and bring the recommendations to the
Manager.
Mayor Suarez: Fine with me.
Mr. Sorg: Fine.
Mayor Suarez: No workshop?
M;. Odio: I'd like to schedule a public hearing on May...
Mayor Suarez: Like a workshop public hearing.
Mr. Odio: No, no...
Mayor Suarez: You don't mean where people are given the impression that the
Commission is all going to be present and the Commission is going to...
Mr. Odio: Tea, and discuss the RFP there.
!Mayor Suarez: Does this Commission want to do that?
Mr. Odio: by then, if I see that I don't have an RFP that is accepted, then
we can cancel it.
Mr. Plummer: Put it on the agenda as May 12th for discussion.
Mr. Odio: We put it in the agenda, we can always cancel.
Mayor Suares: May 12th, for the regular public hearing at a regular agenda
day.
Mr. Gilchriat: You can continue the public hearing.
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63. DEPER CONSIDERATION OR THE CREATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL TRADA BOARD OR
AOTMORITT. (NOTE: This item is later taken up again and adopted on
first reading - as* label $5.)
Mayor Suarez: Let me ask a question on 108, the proposal for an International
Trade Development Authority, or board, rather, does not carry with it any
proposal for funding at this point, and it is basically creation of a board.
Is there any Commissioner who has any problem with that, so we can get that
resolved?
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Mr. Mayor. It does contain funding. The one that I
have... only had from yesterday, the first I had on it.
Mayor Suarez: Why does that one contain any proposal for funding, when I
asked for that to be taken out so that we can get this board functioning and
not have any...
Mr. Plummer: Wall, I've got some other problems that I need to discuss.
Mayor Suarez: OK, you've got problems with the idea of the creation of an
International Trade Board or authority?
Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you what my greatest problem is. In the preamble,
it speaks that this is an advisory board.
Mayor Suarez: That's right.
Mr. Plummer: OK? Yet, when you go through and you delineate what is the
scope of the authority, they are not advising, they are doing. There is a big
difference now. If it is an advisory board, no sir, I have no problem with it
whatsoever.
Mrs. Dougherty: That's all it is.
Mr. Plummer: But as advisory, they cannot spend money, they can't do anything
without this Commission's approval, they advised us.
Mayor Suarez: That is why we took the provision... that is why we took the
provision of the budget out, so that it would be clarified that they would
not... that at this point, you would not be asked to approve any kind of
budgeting for it.
Mr. Plummer: Well, if the board...
Mayor Suarez: They can advise us to create a budget, and of course we can
agree or disagree, that is up to us.
Mr. Plummer: Well, but as an advisory board, Mr. Mayor, it is my
understanding, for the terminology, any action that they take, would only be
advisory in capacity.
Mayor Suares: Absolutely.
Mr. Plummer: I have no problem with that, but here again, when you go back
down here now, what is the scope, I don't think that is the intent.
Mayor Suarez: What's the provision... the offending provision that you think
creates a problem of interpretation on that issue?
Mr. Plusimer: Well, what I an looking at down here, it would be the purpose of
the board to promote international trade, to support the City's position as a
leading center of international....
Mrs. Kennedy: You are talking about a different item.
Mr. Plummer: Too, we are talking about 108.
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Mayor Suarez: No, I just jumped over to see if there was any objection to
108, because I've got to leave in a moment, but it sounds like he is going to
vast to discuss it.
Mr. Plummer: Tam, if the board is strictly advisory, I have no problem.
Mayor Suarez: Advisory at this point, and of course their advice might
Include creating an authority with all kind of increment budget and so on in
which came we will approve or disapprove at that point.
Mr. Plummer: Let me just get this on the record. Section three says, "To the
extent permitted by law,"... not permitted by this Commission, "the board
shall function in the roll of a catalyst, a promoter,"... they are not a
promoter, "s facilitator, and the creation of a holding company, a development
bank, that supports..."
Mrs. Dougherty: Ye will just insert, "to the extent permitted by law and by
the City Commission."
Mr. Plummer: But, it is strictly, as long as.... look, I am not trying to be
objectionable, I am just trying to may, that I can agree if it is strictly
advisory. They advise this Commission. All decisions are made by this
Commission, I have no problemt
Mayor Suarez: If the City Attorney has any problems with the wording given
your question that it is strictly advisory, you know, she can so advise us.
Mrs. Kennedy: The only problem that I have with this is that I haven't had
time to read it. I have just been given this, as all of you. Did you get any
documents?
Mr. Plummer: I got one yesterday afternoon, marked "draft."
Mrs. Kennedy: I didn't.
Mr. Plummer: As a matter of fact, the one I had yesterday had...
Mr. Dawkins: I don't even have one.
Mayor Suarez: I will table the item until the neat Commission meeting. Get
all the documentation to the Commissioners. I am not going to get into it at
this point, I mhould have left at 8:30 p.m.
84. DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE $100,000 TO THE BAYFRONT PARK MANAGEMENT
TRUST TO ALLOW THEIR OPERATION THROUGH THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR 1988.
Mayor Suarez: Item 107, Bayfront Park, we are going to have enough trouble
with that.
Mr. Dawkins: This is not Bayfront Park?
Mr. Alan Greere Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, Alan Greer, chairman
of Bayfront Park Management Trust. We have submitted to you a proposed budget
for the remainder of this fiscal year and a budget for the next fiscal year
with related planning documentation for the operation of the Trust, and I've
sat here all afternoon and listened to critical items on AIDS and the Police
Department. and I realise the problems the City has to face. Ye are here
talking about a park. It is a park, however, that is owned by the City. The
City has responsibility for it, and we are trying to propose a way to best
manage and operate that park to maximise its benefit to the community. The
City has entered into certain contractual agreements with Rouse and Decoma,
which first set the level and quality of maintenance and care that the park
will have to receive, which essentially under the agreement with the Rouse
Company, requires it to be kept as a golf course would be kept. Then there
are limitations under the Rouse contract, in terms of how much money, if they
exercised their options, for food services at the light tower and the rock
garden, would be received by the City. And the seating capacity of the
amphitheater, in terms of paid events by private promoters, which are limited
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to 4,000 max attendance. Given those restrictions, we have submitted a budget
that a series of five scenarios in it, to try to take in all of those
potential contingencies. The bottom line is that there vi11 be a deficit
during the iirat six month period, of approximately somewhere between $100,000
and $135,000. During the next fiscal year, the deficit can go anywhere from
$140,000 to a positive cash flow of $85,000. This is predicated on the fact
that the City is going to provide the maintenance for the park, the security,
utilities and police protection.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, now what would that... Mr. Manager, if the City provided all
what he is asking for, on top of the money he is asking for, what would that
make the budget?
Mr. Odio: Wall, you mean, if the City provided all of the services there?
Mr. Dawkins: No, he says that... say again, Mr. Greer, the things that the
City must provide.
Mr. Greer: The City will be providing for the maintenance, whether done by
Parks Department, or contracted out through private individuals.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Greer: It will be providing for the utilities, it will be covering the
Insurance under the City's insurance pool, and providing police security.
Mr. Dawkins: What will that make the total cost of operating this park?
Mr. Odio: The figure that I saw from the Parks Department will be $500,000.
Mr. Plummer: What am I reading here, Alan, on page two, where it runs from
what I see as total revenue am support, of $1,005,000? Because your expenses,
I understand, are $376,000, based on an annual look-see.
Mr. Greer: That's correct. You were looking at column four, which
presupposes that the Rouse cap... excuse me, the Decoma cap on seatings would
be negotiated up to a maximum of 7,000 people from 4,000.
Mr. Plummer: But, OK, even predicated on that, you are looking at a total of
$986,000 in that column, and I am not choosing that one column or another, but
we are looking at $1.000,000 a year for management and operating expenses.
Mr. Greer: That is correct, but that, Commisaioner, is predicated on a
maintenance cost item, which is the principal component of the budget, which
Is mandated by a contract the City entered into with Rouse to keep the park at
essentially a golf course level. That is a higher level of maintenance than
had been previously provided to the park in its earlier iterations.
Mayor Suarez: Of course, at that time it didn't have $30,000.000 worth of
laprovements, so really, I know some people feel that when you spend
$30,000.000, it should cost more to maintain it; I believe the opposite, and
unless somebody proves otherwise to me, you know, there is a lot of concrete
out there now, and there is some very, very hefty and solid structures, so my
feelings, actually it costs a lot less to maintain now, than it used to, but I
guess only time will tell.
Mr. Plummer: Well, what you are talking about Alan, is $1,000,000 a year,
give or take, I moan...
Mr. Greer: Give or take, yes sir, but that is not a new 41,000,000, I must
point out. Assuming this...
Mayor Suarez: It used to cost a certain amount of money to maintain that
park, obviously.
Mr. Greer: Maintain it, the utilities in it, the lights are essentially the
same, police protection, you have to have that before....
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Mayor Suarez: It's probably lose...
Mr. Dawkins: How such is it going to cost to maintain this park? A million
dollars?
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): A million dollars.
Mr. Greer: The total operating budget will be close to a million dollars.
Maintenance will be somewhere between five and sic hundred thousand based on
contractual obligations.
Mr. Dawkins: So we're saying a million five, or are we saying a million
total?
Mr. Greer: A million total.
Mr. Dawkina: All right, how many acres is to that park?
Ms. Voldon: Thirty-three.
Mr. Dawkina: Thirty-three? Who'e got a calculator? Divide 33 into
1.000,000. How much?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): $33,000.
Mr. Dawkins: So now, we're going to put a park - you got twenty - $33,000 an
acre and here's Allapattah Comstock which you got 9.2 acres, the City's
spending $58,726 a year. Bicentennial Park, which has 34 3/4 acres, the City
spent $296,793 on it. On Curtiss Park, which has 29.3 acres, we spend
$200,960; Gibson Park which has 7.9 acres, we spend $156,996; Hadley Park
which has 30 acres, we spend $171,881; Jose Marti Park which has 5.6 acres, we
spend $263,452; Peacock -Myers Park, which has 20 acres, you spending $210,544
and yet, Mr. Manager, you're going to spend a million dollars in this park and
then tell me today that you want me to cut costs and help you balance the
budget.
Mr. Odio: I don't think I said that. Did I?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mr. Odio: I said that? Oh, I'm sorry.
Mrs. Kennedy: If I could point out two things. First of all, you compared it
to Bicentennial, there's nothing in Bicentennial no, of course, it doesn't
cost any money.
Mr. Dawkins: What you mean, we... Mr. Manager, nobody goes in Bicentennial
and sweep it up and clean it and what have you?
Mr. Odio: Teo sir, they do.
Mrs. Kennedy: Teo, sure, they cut the lawn.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, all right, I have hors the Department of Parks,
Recreation and Public Facilities operating budget summary, OK? Now, according
to this, it says operating cost is... African Square Park, you spend $91,000,
according to this. Right? Allapattah Comstock, you spend $58,000, according
to this so Bicentennial Park, you spend $296,793, according to this. Now is
this accurate, do you actually spend this money?
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Mr. Dawkins: All right, so Commissioner Kennedy...
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): It's more than I thought.
Mr. Dawkins: ... so Commission Kennedy, they are spending this money in that
park, all right?
Mrs. Kennedy: It's more than I thought.
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Mr. Grears Cosaissioner Dawkins, doing some quick math in my head am you read
out those amounts, it would appear to me that the City is spending between
twenty to twenty-five thousand an acre on those parks on an average basis.
We're talking about spending about $33,000 an acre here where we have a pro
active park that has to be managed because you have an amphitheater that has
to be programmed.
Mr. Dawkins: But you see, the citizens did not ask us to put an amphitheater
In there. Nov you want the citizens to take their tax dollars and support it.
That's my only problem, OK?
Mr. Greers Commissioner Dawkins, the citizens, as represented by this
Commission, decided to put an amphitheater there. The Park Management Trust
did not decide to do that.
Mr. Pluaer (OFF MIKE): What's the total budget?
Mr. Greer: The amphitheater is there and in existence and has to be managed.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, wait now, let me cut you... let me cut you off, OK. We
decided to put an mphitheater there, all right? And we decided, this
Commission, to limit it to 14,000 seats, OK? Now, who wants to take it above
the 14,000 meat?
Mr. Plummer: That includes everything.
Mr. Greer: Four thousand seats.
Mr. Dawkins: I mean who wants to take it abovethe four thousand?
Mr. Greer: In order to earn...
Mr. Dawkins: Who want... no, no, no, sir, answer my - who wants to take it
above four thousand seats?
Mr. Plummer: Park maintenance? How much is total park maintenance?
Mr. Greer: The Management Trust, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, but yet you're going to say now that this Commission
is the one is dictating that what happens in the park. But it's you who wants
to take it above the four thousand.
Mr. Plummer: This will be 20 percent.
Mr. Greer: That's correct, Commissioner...
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Greer: ... in order to alleviate the financial drain on the City because
the more seats we are able to market in the amphitheater, the more money we
can earn to support the park.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKZ): I'■ going to ask you to make a recommendation.
Mr. Dawkins: Hypothetically.
Mr. Greer: Obviously, since we have no operating experience.
Mayor Suarez: Alan, if we told you that the basic function that the trust
should manage is the amphitheater, what are the figures for that by itself
look like?
Mr. Grears The basic figures for that is $376,000.
Mayor Suarez: On which side? Income?
Mr. Greer: On expense.
Mayor Suarez: What is the eatimated projected income that it would bring in
any one year?
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Mr. Greer: It could bring in up to 85-100 thousand dollars above the expense
cost.
Mayor Suares: All right, so that particular component should, could may be a
money maker.
Mr. Greer: Absolutely. Keeping in mind that the Rouse option and the Decoma
limitations. Those would have to be dealt with. but if those are dealt with,
the amphitheatar...
Mayor Suarez: I'm not concerned about that because like Commissioner Dawkins,
I feel that 4500 seats sold is plenty enough. In fact, I think sometimes it's
too many. It really wasn't my idea that we'd be selling too many seats in the
park for concerts. It would be basically free. So, but that particular
component can operate itself.
Mr. Plummer: Teo, but where's the money coming from for the maintenance, the
other $610,000?
Mayor Suares: The rest of the park is a park, it's a City of Miami park and
we have to maintain it whether we like it or not.
Mr. Dawkins: Yell, if it's a City of Miami park, we don't need a trust.
Mr. Plummer: but your maintenance....
Mayor Suarez: I don't think we need a trust for the rest of the park.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): All right, OK, all right, OK.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, if you ware not op...
Mayor Suarez: I think we would probably use the trust to manage the
amphitheater.
Mr. Plummer: If you were using it as a passive park, your maintenance
probably would be half of the six hundred and ten.
Mayor Suarez: I have no idea if any of those figures are correct, I want to
just try it and see how we can maintain it and - like we have to do any other
park, I mean, we fixed it and we built it and there it is and we want people
to use it and we have to comply with the agreement with the Rouse Company so
I'■ not too concerned about that part. The amphitheater is an interesting
component that, you know, a trust could manage, presumably bring in some
money, maybe even make a profit, they could turn around and give to the City
to contribute to the rest of the park.
Mr. Greer: That's correct, Mr. Mayor, but there are other elements that can
earn money too, the piers...
Mayor Suarez: Yell, we'll try to make money on all of them regardless of who
manages it, I guarantee you that, Alan.
Mr. Greer: There are people who want to use the park itself more than just
the amphitheater.
Mayor Suares: I'm trying to simplify your equation ...
Mrs. Kennedy: One second, Alan...
Mr. Grear: I'■ just trying to show that there...
Mrs. Kennedy: ... let me just explain and the Mayor brought up how we arrived
at the numbers and several members of the trust have expertise in different
fields and Maritsa Gomez did it in a pro bono basis based on all of these
information.
Mr. Greer: That's correct, Deloitte Haskins h Sells...
Mrs. Kennedy: The point is that it's not just a regular park. Every great
City has a great park and we have bayfront Park. It goes beyond the concept
of a park, it's going to have am amphitheater, the laser light tower, the
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fountain and I don't vast to run through the whole thing but you can't treat
it as any other park. So this is what this is for now.
Me. Lori Weldon: Excuse m:e, my ems» is...
Mayor Suarez: I was afraid we'd hear from you.
Me. Weldon: My name is Lori Weldon, 160 N.W. 44th Street. Before I continue,
I wanted to go on record, I am vice president of Bayfront Trust. That
position was appointed by Commissioner and at that time I stated that I would
always go on record taking the stand I had taken before the appointment. The
title did not change the feeling. Now, Commissioner Dawkins, on your
statement with the summary, the operating part budget, what you failed to
Include in that is that it's operating costs of the park, it includes
maintenance and programs in the park. So what he's saying is not exactly
coming out to $25,000 a square acre because you're looking at a Little Miss
Sweetheart Contest, youth fair participation, baseball, ceramics, summer
participation and what not going on in these parks. So, therefore, the money
utilized in these parks are covering a lot more than maintenance. Now
regarding Coss,issioner Kennedy's statement that there are people with
expertise on the trust to come up with these figures, Eloy Vasquez is an
accountant, CPA, has been for 30 years. His input and his budget I don't see.
Not to the extent it should be. Now I will may the trust is very polite to
me. They cooperate to the extent that it would be a lie if I stood up here
and said they could not cooperate, they did not cooperate. But, the input and
the questions I had concerning this budget were not met to my full
satisfaction and I was not going to sit in a room with 20 people and argue
that fact for three and four hours when I knew all I had to do was come here
and present it and get three votes. Now, as far as this operating budget is
concerned, if you want to accept $610,000 and realize that what was calculated
In there was two men cleaning a bathroom thirteen hours a day, 365 days a
year, you accept it. If you want to accept this budget of maintenance of
$610,000 without considering that they allocated for cutting of grass or
maintenance of grass in the winter as much as the summertime and everyone
knows that it is not necessary, you go ahead and accept it. If you want to
accept this budget without...
Mayor Suarez: Well, Lori, suppose we did and winter came and we didn't mow
the grass as often...
Ms. Weldon: I'm not saying not mow it...
Mayor Suarez: No, no, now I'm asking the question. Would we not be saving
all kinds of money and be able to turn around at the end of the year and may,
here's all kinds of money we have left to use for other things. I mean, it's
a hypothetical budget, I mean, obviously, if we don't need to mow the grass
that many time we're not going to do it. Now if you think that the budget as
proposed provides for a maintenance that's beyond what you think the City can
possibly do in view of the other parks and our other obligations, that's an
interesting argument.
Ms. Weldon: OK and that's what I'm saying, and you have to look at the
specifics of this budget. You're looking at - OK, let's go to operating...
Mayor Suarez: OK, you understand that, however...
Ms. Weldon: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: ... we do have an agreement with the Rouse Company that we're
going to maintain it up to a certain level...
Ms. Weldon: I understand it completely.
Mayor Suarez: ... and that the Rouse Company is paying monies with which we
have issued bonds...
Ms. Weldon: OK, I understand, I understand that. But as far...
Mayor Suarez: ... that are the ones that maintain our parks improvement fund
for the rest of the parks. I mean, you've got all kinds of interrelationships
here that we can't get out of.
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No. Waldon: OR and looking at that relationship, I understand that the Rouse
contract provided for this facility to be kept up to golf course level. The
operating ouagac of cne parks directors department, parks recreation, well,
directors department, $624,927 roughly. OK, with that budget they maintain
sine employees, 109 parka, 2 stadiums, one marina and two golf courses. So
you've got...
Mayor Suarez: Veil, not really. Most of those that you just referred to
are - a lot of those are enterprise funds that have their own fund.
Ms. Weldon: OK, but at any rate, that's what they're set at. I understand
the Rouse agreement. I have no problem with that. I have no problem with
that. I do believe that it should be maintained to specifics and contractual
agreements but I do not believe that it's going to take $610 to maintain it.
Mayor Suarez: I couldn't agree with you more.
Me. Weldon: Now, as far as the rest of the budget...
Mayor Suarez: But it is a proposed budget, I don't know.
Me. Veldon: ... OK, let's go into - let's get off maintenance because how I
look at it, it's the Parks Department should be responsible for the
maintenance of the park. Their budget should be supplemented by whatever
costs it takes to maintain the park so the expense will not be incurred and
held liable against other parks. Now, let's go into the rest of it.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Veil, whoa, whoa, where are you going to get that
money from?
Me. Weldon: You made the contractual agreement, I did not. I don't know
where it's going to come from. You're saying coming from up...
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): No, no, no, you say the money for operating and
maintaining...
No. Weldon: Without coming from the... without incurring costs of other
parks. I can't answer...
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Where is it going to come from?
Ms. Veldon: I don't know. I really don't know. I really don't know, but I
do not feel that kids in other areas should suffer for downtown. I never felt
that. I don't feel it today. OK, let's get off maintenance for a minute,
let's go into the other parts of the budget. If you want to accept the
expense that is going to be incurred from that budget without getting
specifics on the spending of the money for marketing and promotion, travel and
entertainment, who's going to be doing the traveling, to what extent; office
equipment...
Mayor Suarez: Vait, wait, wait, you got an interesting point. What travel
and entertainment?
Mrs. Kennedy: How much is... yes, what is... how much La...
Ms. Weldon: $10,000 for miscellaneous...
Mayor Suarez: You can start by taking off all travel and entertainment.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, how such is for traveling, I don't...
Mr. Greer: On page nine of the budget, there was posted...
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Twenty thousand.
Mayor Suarez: I strongly suggest, for my vote, it's not a matter of
discussion, you just take that off. No travel and entertainment.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, take it... We don't need that.
Me. Weldon: Fifteen thousand for professional fees.
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Mr. Plummmr (OPT MIKE): Let se ask this...
Mayor Suarez: I oon't cnina we need any professional fees either. If, by
that, you man attorneys fees, we've got a City Attorney's office for that.
Mr. Greer: We were looking at accounting and looking at...
Mayor Suarez: We got all kinds of accountants in the City.
Mr. Plug: (OPT MIKE) Why do you have, under operating expenses,
maintenance supervisor and a maintenance crew of four? I thought that would
have been under the other...
Mr. Greer: The other maintenance is for park lawn trees, you've got the
amphitheater, you have bathroom facilities, you have trash pickup. The Rouse
Company, for example, was very insistent when we met with them that their
contract included our keeping the park trash free and we tried to structure a
staff that would do that, keep the bathrooms so they would not become hospices
for the unfortunates of our City who are living on the streets so that the
park would be attractive and inviting to the general public.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): How many extra police are we going to put in that
park?
Mr. Greer: There is a police detail that was agreed to which I understand is
four officers.
Mr. Dawkins (0" MIKE): Mall, that means we got to take them from the already
short Police Department.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Your officers represent $250,000 a year.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Add that to the million, now we're talking about a
million two. Be sure you put that in the record.
Mayor Suarez: Nov, why couldn't we service this park in terms of police
protection with the officers that are serving Bayside. I mean, they're right
next to it. I think the force is 18 altogether? That's what I remember in
the documentation that we guaranteed the Rouse Company.
Mrs. Kennedy: I think it has six.
Mayor Suarez: How many altogether, in the entire detail?
Lt. Longueira: Sir, I believe right now there's like sixteen but the original
plan called for a total of twenty-seven, OK, for us to provide the...
Mayor Suarez: If we have sixteen now, right...
Lt. Longualra: The whole thing, Bayside and the park.
Mrs. Kennedy: And we have sixteen at Bayside?
Mayor Suarez: No, no, no. That's the entire force. At any one time, there
may be two, three, four, whatever.
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh, OK.
Lt. Longusira: Tom, that's...
Mayor Suarez: Plus a sergeant.
Me. Weldon: Can I ask a Question?
Mayor Suarez: Wait. Nov it seem to me really... it's up to the rest of the
Commission, but it seems to me that there's really no reason to budget
anything in particular for this park. I man, those officers are in the
adjoining property, they can certainly wall make the rounds of the park and to
the extent that we are now reopening portions of the park that were not open,
yes, we'll assign more police presence there and, you know, obviously we have
to do. But I man it's no reason for you to budget anything for that. I
wonder really why you did that?
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Mr. Groer: We did not budget for that we loft that being provided by the
City and I had assumed that it would be out of the same contingent.
Mr. Dawkins (Oft MIKE): That's another hidden cost the City will assume.
Mayor Suarez: Right, it is a hidden cost but I guess it's not so hidden since
we know that it will happen.
Me. Weldon: Was police protection in the Rouse contract because I'm not
completely aware.
Mayor Suarez: Teo.
Ile. Wieldos: OK, because I just wanted to state that the other parks aren't
being patrolled. but it is in the contract, I accept that.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, Mr. Mayor, I think that it's an interesting point for this
Cosstission to know that I asked the Parks Department to give me a figure, pick
out any year on bayfront Park, and give me the maintenance number. They
called me and there were still a few items to be added up but for the year
1983. the figure to maintain an empty deserted drug -ridden park was $397,300.
OK?
Mayor Suarez: Right. And those are 1983 dollars.
Mrs. Kennedy: That was 1983. So you tell me if this is a good deal or not.
Mr. Dawkins (Oft MIKE): It's not a matter of whether it's this a deal or not,
It's a matter that this deal causes the rest of the city parks to suffer in my
opinion. So, irregardless of how good a deal it is, good, bad or indifferent,
in my opinion this other parks are short changed now and we're going to take
another park and make it a quote unquote queen park and yet we don't do
anything in the other parks. That's the only problem I have with it,
Commissioner Kennedy:
No. Weldon: They definitely have not had 30 million dollars in renovation.
And, Commissioner, with that I want you to know a statement was made in the
trust that if money needed to be taken from other parks to support Boyfront,
so be it.
Mayor Suarez: OK, now the 30 million dollar too is that's capital, that's not
operating at this point. OK, anything further from the Commission?
Mrs. Kennedy: I'm ready to make a motion and accept this without excluding
the traveling and entertainment and what was that, professional fees?
Mayor Suarez: Take out all the frills.
Mrs. Kennedy: Professional fees.
Mayor Suarez: Professional fees, if that means accounting and legal can use
the City.
Me. WoldonAnd other.
Mrs. Kennedy: And, of course, if you can find any other fees.
Mayor Suarez: Pro bono.
Ms. Weldon: Can I just make one - as far as the management expenses are
concerned, the salaries, is that going to be - is the City taking care of that
using assigned City personnel because on that I wanted to add that on February
18th, when I saw these positions, I asked for job descriptions and comparative
salaries of what others would be making. And up at the last meeting is when I
got a brief description and not of the full crew listed. So you say want to
take into consideration those salaries there as also a figure that has not
been, at least in my opinion, totally thought out as to how such should be and
the park one, general manager, $40,000. That salary is above compensation of
what other managers seem to be getting - other park managers seen to be
getting.
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Mr. Greer: Mr. Mayor, we did a survey and it would seem that when you look at
Tropical and the other parks in the county and the City for this type of a
pro -active park, that is a mid -range salary. For example, it doesn't approach
the monies that are paid to the man who manages the Youth Fair.
No. Weldon: And Bayfront can't be compared to the Touth Fair.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): The manager of Tropical Park makes $27,000.
No. Weldon: You got that right.
Mayor Suarez: And you know, in terms of pro -active, I don't... a very busy
park, I Susan, as busy an any is David Kennedy Park and I don't know that we
have any manager there.
Ms. Weldon: Mr. Mayor, I am in agreement with you that the... oh, that's the
first, what day is it? That the trust should be utilized to operate or manage
the amphitheater and the rest...
Mayor Suarez: Ton, we may end up doing that. I don't know that ve'll do that
tonight.
Me. Weldon: ... should be left up to the City.
Mayor Suarez: Anything oleo, Commissioners? We've got a motion, do we have a
second? I'll second it.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Under discussion. Motion made by Kennedy and
seconded by Suarez, under discussion. Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, you said that if you did not get the street
cleaning fee, there would be a short fall in your budget of how much?
Mr. Odio: Your million dollars. Approximately four million dollars.
Mr. Dawkins: Four million dollars, OK? Nov... beg your pardon?
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): It's now five.
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): No, no.
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Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): I know, if you had the million for the Police
Department.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, no, no, no, I'm not going to *van discuss thin. So now
your* four million - you have a four million dollar short fall, is that
correct?
Mr. Odio: Too, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, now - because the fee is not going to be put in
place. I want you to tell ma how are you going to come up with this million
dollars in a budget that you already four million dollars short? And which,
as J.L. Plusiser says, make you five million dollars short, now how you going
to come up with that so I'll know, you know...
Mr. Odio: Well, I haven't learned how to print money yet.
Mr. Dawkins: Beg your pardon? Well don't, you'll go to jail for
counterfeiting.
Mr. Odio: I know - I honestly, Conmissioner,
Mayor Suarez: The answer is he doesn't know.
Mr. Odio: I have to wait and see what happens with the fee. As you know...
261 April 14, 1986
Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, then - no, I can tell you what's going to happen
with the fee. Tou got three votes here to kill the fee. The fee is dead.
Don't even think you got the fee, OK?
Mr. Odio: I cannot find a million dollars for the park.
Mr. Dawkins: Tou cannot find any money.
Mr. Odio: If the fee goes down...
Mr. Dawkins: So if this is passed tonight, then you are telling the trust now
that it's a white elephant because you don't have the money. Is that what
you're saying?
Mr. Odio: What I'm saying is, we're going to have to not some priorities on
what services you want to provide and then we'll cut accordingly.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, wait - OK, no, no, no, OK - OK, wait a minute now, I
want to be sure I Mar you. I want to hear you clear. Say that once again.
Mr. Odlo: Tou will have to set priorities and we will decide then according
to your policy, what services to cut so that we can come up with the money.
Mr. Plussser (OFF NIKE): Tou're speaking about 500 employees that will haw* to
be laid off.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, so now...
Mr. Plummer (Obi MIKE): year to recover.
Mr. Dawkins: Nov, wait a minute. So what you're saying now is that in order
to fund this there will have to be some adjustments, right?
Mr. Odio: Definetely.
Mr. Dawkins: So there's a possibility that the parks that have suffered
already for this park may get cut further because you don't have any money, is
that correct? Would that be a fair statement?
Mr. Odio: Well, we can finish the year in the Parks Department in perfect
condition whether we lose the fee or not. Nov, if you...
Mr. Dawkins: Sea, you either mixing apples and oranges or I'm hearing apples
and oranges, OK? Do you have means of coming up with the million dollars to
fund this Dayfront Park without cutting any services to the already short City
parks?
Mr. Odio: I said that we would cut the services that you wanted to cut. If
you'd rather keep the parks services, then we'll have to cut something also.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, OK, then lot M put it another way. Then you will
say to the Comission, that these are the dollars I have for parks. And you
decide, as a Commission, where to put them?
Mr. Odio (0" M=): Too, air.
Mr. Dawkiaa: All right. but really and truly, if they got three votes to
pass it now its no problem, they'll have three votes to cut the parks shorter,
right? I moan, it stand to reason, OK? No further discussion.
Mayor Suarez: Anything further from the Commission?
Mr. Do Turre: Yes, air.
Mayor Suarez: Commiesioner Do Turre.
Mr.
Do Turre:
I tell you, it's in
time of
crises like this,
people have to
got
creative
I can just envision looking at
that amphithoat*r
and look right
on
top of it
says, The burger Ding
City of
Miami Amphitheater.
We have to
go
- there's going to be a shortfall
here and
there's going to
be an eztensive
one.
We got
to go to the companies
and this
will be the laser
show sponsored
by
Lipton and
that by that and th*y'll
pick up the tab.
262 April 14, 1968
Mrs. Kennedy: Teo, we have discussed that, you're right.
Mr. De Turret Yell, that's the only way to go. Now, the way I feel right now
Is, I'm willing to look at the bese of what Sayfront Park has cost the City of
Mimi traditionally. That's one base I'm going to be looking at. Another
base I'■ going to be looking at in the average, like you came up with per acre
of all our parks and cone up with a figure. And I'm going to be using those
two figures as a base and then from there I'll add something to it because we
are talking about a flagship park. But it isn't going to be a heck of a lot
more. So, somehow, we've got to come up through some creative financing and
really going out there to get the money to come up with the shortfall and
that's my position so that's what I'm going to be voting on if it comes up.
If not, I have to vote no at this point.
Mr. Groor: Mr. Mayor, just so the record's clear, the million dollars you're
talking about is for a full year and that's...
INAUDIBLE COMMENTS BY MR. ODIO NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Greer: Yes.
Mr. Odio: Commissioner Dawkins, let me offer a solution because, like I said,
we only have four months left of this year.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): I don't need I don't need one, I'm not
voting against it. I'm going to let the voters come down here and
Mr. Odio: No, no, I'm not trying to convince any...
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): I don't want to know.
Mr. Odio: We are really not talking about one million dollars because we
are... our budget ends September at the end of the month of September. So all
we should be talking about is maybe $300,000. Finish the year and still I'm
going to have to find the monies somehow without the fee; somebody is going to
get laid off, I can guarantee you that.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, OK, now, in your discussions with your budget
manager, what are the projected shortfalls for the City of Miami budget, the
budget year 188-89?
Mr. Odio: No, you're talking about next year's budget?
Mr. Dawkins: Teo, air.
Mr. Odio: We did a three year budget and the first projection was 11 million
dollars for 189-90 and 18 million 190-91. However...
Mr. Dawkins: Right now, I'm only interested in discussing 188-89, that's the
nast fiscal year. What is your projected shortage shortfall?
Mr. Odio: Based on the assumption• that the budget director made was 11
million. Based on my assumptions, we will have a balanced budget by the end
of June.
Mr. Dawkins: Balanced budget, OK.
Mr. Odio: We will have to have a balanced budget by the and of June and the '
priorities will be...
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, Mr. Mayor... I mean, Mr. Manager...
Mr. Odio: Mr. Dawkins...
Mr. Dawkina: Mr. Manager, no, no. What - do you have a projected shortfall
for the nest fiscal year? Not that it's going to happen, projected.
Mayor Suarez: You had said four million.
Mr. Odio: Teo, I said.
263 April 14, 1988
Mayor luares (OPT MIKE): You had said four still, shortfall.
Mr. Odio: I'm talking •bout this current year.
Mr. Dawkins: No, I'm talking about next year.
Mr. Odin: Next year, we have projectad originally eleven million.
Mr. Dawkins: Eleven million dollars.
Mr. Odio: Based on certain assumptions.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, OK, assumptions.
Mr. Odio: However...
Mr. Dawkins: to now, you add another million for that... now, next year will
be a full year to operate the park.
Mr. Odio: Teo, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: All right now, OK?
Mr. Odin: but than...
Mr. Dawkins: That's next year will be a full year of operation which will
cost a million dollars.
Mr. Odlo: You are correct. Tea, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Unless we close it.
Mr. Dawkins: So now you got twelve million dollar shortfall, OK?
Mr. Odin: Wall, but, at least we have the workshops, the budget workshops
where we can sit down and look at all the funds that we have and begin
allocating the budget.
Mayor Suarez: Boy, I'm sure we will do that. OK anything also from the
Commission? We have a motion and a second. Let's hear - you're chair really.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Any further discussion by the Commission?
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): Close off all other debate. Call the roll.
Mr. Plummer (Oily MIKE): Call the roll.
ON MOTION DUTY MADE BY VICE MAYOR KENNEDY AND SECONDED BY MAYOR
SUAREZ, THE ABOVE ITEM FAILED BY TIM FOLLOWING VOTE:
ATES: Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: Commissioner Victor Do Turre
Co■missioner Miller J. Dawkins
Cosmissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
ASS]W t None.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Unless you change your vote, it didn't.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): No, I... Well, let's... excuse me, let me address a
different issue, OK?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF i ON MIKE): I can't believe it. Wait a second, Mayor,
please, one second.
Mr. Plummer: Lot me address a different issue. I am concerned, just as such
as everyone of you, about the million dollars. I do feel a responsibility
that we should consider the remaining four months of this fiscal year. Now
you're saying that was $135,000?
264 April 14, 1988
Mr. Groor: That's correct.
Mr. Plummer: All right. but, now, ghat did that $135,000 include because if
you rant to cut it down, OK, you rant to cut this director down, the general
manager down to $30,000; you want to eliminate some of these other things, I
vast to carry you through till the and of this fiscal year and I'm willing to
vote on that. but you got to do some cutting, OX?
Mr. Dawkins: And I'll make the motion that we carry through this fiscal
year...
Mr. Plummer: All right, no, let me do it and I'm going to throw the monkey on
their back, OK? You need $135,0007
Mr. Groere Excluding maintenance.
Mr. Plummer: Of course.
Mr. Greer: Teo, air.
Mr. Plummer: OK? I'm going to make a motion that wa give you a $100,000 to
continue for the rest of the year, of this fiscal year.
Mr. Greer: line.
Mr. Plummer: Where you cut is where you cut, I'm going to leave it up to you.
But I'm going to tell you right off the bat that if that general manager stays
at forty, I got a problem. I want you to understand where I'm coming from.
Now you go back - I want you to come to this Commission in two weeks and I
want you to tell me how that $100,000 is going to be spent. I'm going to make
a motion now to allocate $100,000 for the remaining fiscal year. OK? I'll so
mwve.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Second.
Mayor Suarez (OFF MIKE): Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
Its adoption:
MOTION NO. 88-364
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
ALLOCATE $100,000 TO THE BAYFRONT PARK MANAGEMENT
TRUST IN ORDER TO ALLOW THEM TO CONTINUE TO OPERATE
THROUGH THE END OF FISCAL YEAR 1988, THE EXPENDITURES
UNDER SAID ALLOCATION TO BE MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH
THE CITY COMMISSION'S STATED RESTRICTIONS AND
LIMITATIONS THIS DATE WHICH HAVE MODIFIED THE PROPOSED
BUDGET SUBMITTED BY SAID EVENT.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor Do Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commisoloser J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
MOSS: None.
ABSENT: None.
COHNXNT5 MADE DURING ROLL CALL:
Mr. Do Turre (OFF MIKE): How many monthe we got.....
Me. Hirai: Your, no?
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, I need to reconsider another...
265 April 14. 1988
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Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Mr. Mayor, SS, I held up SS and they've convinced me.
wall, I move SS.
Mayor Suarez (OFT MIKE): Is the vote over, Madam Clark?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): what is SS?
Me. Hirai: Just a minute, just a minute. He has a question.
Mr. Do Turre (OFF MIKE): How many months we Sot left... sin months left in
the...
UNIDRKTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): Your months.
No. Mirai: Four.
Mr. De Turre (OFF MIKE): ... fiscal year?
Mr. Plummer: Teo.
Mr. Do Turre (OFF MIKE): Does that beat three hundred?
Mr. Plummer: It's $25,000 a month.
Mr. Greer: Five months.
Mr. Plummer: $20,000 a month.
Mr. Do Turre: OK, OK.
85. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH MIAMI INTERNATIONAL TRADE BOARD -
SETTING FORTH COMPOSITION AND TERMS OF A CITY COMMISSION APPOINTED
ADVISORY BOARD (SEE LABEL 83).
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, Mr. Mayor, on item 108, my assistants have met with the
people in question and I'm ready to make my two appointments, I have it all
straightened out. So I move to reconsider 108, the International Trade....
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): All right, wait a minute. I'll move her two
appointments. I save her two appointments, now you've got to officiate...
Mr. Plummor: Madam Vice Mayor, I can go along with this as long as we
eliminate at this time, section three...
Mrs. Kennedy: Right.
Mr. Plummer: ... and that which speaks to the funding, the $300,000. This
one's different than the one they gave me yesterday.
Mrs. Dougherty (OFF MIKE): Lot me have that one, please.
Mr. Pluno r: This is not the one they gave me yesterday.
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): J.L.
Mr. Plumer: Too.
Mr. Odio (OFF MIKE): Page seventeen.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Could we have another copy of the...
Mr. Plummer: Vhat?
Mr. Odio (OFT MIKS): Seventeen, it's very important.
Mr. Pluomsr: The one I had, Tony had $300,000, then it was crossed out and
put in fifty.
266 April 14, 1988
INAUDISLS COMM-13 NOT =NTRRRD INTO THE MLIC RECORDS.
Mr. Plummer: No, that's not the one I've got.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF NIKE): Vall, that's the one we moved.
Mr. Plummer: This one here.
Mr. Dawkins (OT! MIKE): Teo.
Mr. Plummar: Excluding section three and funding. Too. Do you move it?
Mrs. Kennedy (OTT MIKE): To$, I move...
Mr. Dawkins (OT! MIKE): No, no, she's got to officiate, I move it. She got
to officiate.
Mr. Plummer: Ruh?
Mr. Dawkins (OFF NIKS): She's the Mayor now, the Mayor left. I move it.
Mrs. Dougherty: J., don't you want to leave number three in and put...
Mr. Plummer: No, I want to just take out that...
Mrs. Dougherty: ... to the extent permitted by law and by the City
Commission?
Mr. Plummer: No, take it out at this time.
Mrs. Dougherty: How about number four, should I put to the extent permitted
by law and by the City Commission?
Mrs. Kennedy: All right, we have a motion to reconsider 108, is there a
second?
Mr. Plummer: Vait a minute, wait a minute, I'm sorry. You've got to take out
at this time section three and four. No, there was nothing considered.
Mrs. Kennedy: Oh, OK, that's right...
Mr. Plummer: You don't have to reconsider.
Me. Hirai: It had been just deferred.
Mr. Plummer: I'll move.
Mrs. Kennedy: All right.
Mr. Dawkins (0" MIKE): I second.
Mr. Plummer: I will move 108 excluding section three and four and any funding
at this time. i so move.
Mrs. Dougherty: J., there's nothing left.
Mr. Dawkins (OTT MIKE): I second as amended.
Mrs. Kennedy: Any further discussion?
Mrs. Dougherty (OTT MIKE): Thore's nothing left.
Mr. Plums (OFF MIRS): Yes.... it creates the board, it makes...
Mrs. Kennedy: Call the roil.
AT THIS POINT, THE CITY CLiRK CALLS THE ROLL. ALL COMMISSIONERS VOTE TES
UCQT MAYOR SOAMM. VHO IS ASSOR.
Mrs. Kennedy: Now, do we make appointments now?
267 April 14. 1968
Mr. Dawkins: fifty-five. Ma'M, no sales, I'll dive them to you later.
Mrs Kenrolow ff% " y*"N: "ll right.
Mrs. Dougherty: Excuse me, this is an ordinance.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK. You moved it?
Mrs. Dougherty: This is an ordinance establishing... excuse me, guys. Madam
Vice Mayor. Madam Vice Mayor, this was an ordinance, let me read it.
Mr. Plus r: Read it.
Mrs. Dougherty: This is an ordinance establishing the Miami International
Trade Board, setting forth the composition, and the terms of the seventeen
member of the City Commission appointed advisory body providing for a quorum
setting forth the board's purpose and authorized activities?
Mr. Plummer: What is SS?
Mrs. Kennedy: Can you explain us?
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Al Howard, what is SS?
Mr. Plummer: Call the roll on 106.
Mr. De Yurre (OFF MIKE): We did already.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): We did.
Mr. Al Howard: Fifty-five is to put funds into the account, the recreation
account, so we can accept funds from the fees during the summer for the pools
and for the activities...
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): OK.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): So they can hire the life guards and what have you.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE MIAMI INTERNATIONAL
TRADE BOARD, SETTING FORTH THE COMPOSITION, AND TERMS
OF A SEVENTEEN (17) MEMBER CITY COMMISSION APPOINTED
ADVISORY BOARD; PROVIDING FOR A QUORUM.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner
Plummer and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
MOSS: None.
ABSENT: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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.
Mrs. Dougherty: Did you just pass fifty-five?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): Tots.
268 April 14, 1988
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SR EMRRMCY 0"IMANC0- R91!4*1_7c!! 4P8CIAL REVENUE FUND: "RECREATION
ACTIVITY - CONSOLIDATED" - APPROPRIATE $230,000 FOR ITS OPERATION.
Mrs. Dougherty: This is number 55.
THRltlUtON, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD, BY
TITLE ONLY.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Madam Vice Mayor, Madam Vice Mayor.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, all right.
Mr. Plummer: I think you're legal.
Mrs. Kennedy: Madam City Clerk, are you straightened out there?
Me. Hirai: Fifty-five, an emergency ordinance.
Mrs. Kennedy: All right.
Ms. Hirai: Do we still keep the same move and second? Would you request a
move and second on fifty-five because we had one for seventeen.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): I don't appoint no perverts.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): I move it.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): J.L., we need a second on 55.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Second.
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF MIKE): OK, call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL
REVENUE FUND ENTITLED: "RECREATION ACTIVITY -
CONSOLIDATED," AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR ITS
OPERATION IN THE AMOUNT OF 4250,000 FROM PRIOR YEAR
RECREATION ACTIVITY FUND BALANCES AND FROM ANTICIPATED
RECREATION REVENUE COLLECTIONS THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30,
1988; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner
Plummer, for adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the
requiresient of reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the
following vote:
ALES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
NOES: None.
ASSENT: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
Whereupon the Commission on notion of Commissioner Dawkins and seconded
by Commissioner Plusmar, adopted said ordinance by the following vote:
269 April 14, 1988
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ATIM Commissioner Victor De Turre
Co Iseioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vies Mayor Rosario Kennedy
NOES: None.
ASSENT: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10425.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies ware available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
$7. EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION REGARDING
MAINTENANCE OF THE NON-ROADYAT PORTION OF S.Y. 8TH STREET BETWEEN I-95
AND S.Y. 27TH AVENUE.
Mrs. Kennedy: All right...
Mrs. Dougherty: Seventeen.
Mrs. Kennedy: ... meeting's adjourned.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): Wait a minute, did we do 17?
Mr. De Turre (OFF MIKE): Seventeen?
Mrs. Kennedy (OFF AND ON MIKE): You need seventeen? Oh, God. All right, no,
we didn't do seventeen.
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): No, we did not.
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): Move seventeen!
Mr. Plummer (OFF MIKE): I second seventeen.
Mrs. Kennedy: All right, moved and seconded. Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-365
♦ RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE
AZTAC M AGREEMENT WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
TRANSPORTATION RELATING TO THE MAINTENANCE OF THE NON-
ROADVAT PORTION OF S.Y. 8 STREET BETWEEN I-95 AND S.Y. 27
AVENUE.
(Mere follow body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clark.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Cossmissioner Victor De Turre
Ca Lssloner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
NOES: None.
ASSENT: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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01. ALL)CATN $2►S00 IN SUPPORT OF THE MIAMI SENIOR NIGH SCHOOL SAND IN
COHNSCTION VITH THEIR TRIP TO SANTO DOMINGO.
Mr. Plummier (OFF AND ON MIKE): ... $2,500 for Miami Senior High School Sand
who is going to Santo Domingo which now...
Mr. Dawkins (OFF MIKE): If you say Miami, I'll vote for it, it's Miama, I
ain't gonna...
Mr. Pluasmer: I'll say whatever the bell you want, I so move itl
Mrs. Kennedy: OR, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plower, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 88-366
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $2,500
FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND, IN
SUPPORT OF THE MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BAND TO DEFRAY THE
COST OF THE BAND'S TRIP TO SANTO DOMINGO; SAID ALLOCATION
BEING CONDITIONED UPON SUBSTANTIAL COMPLIANCE WITH CITY OF
MIAMI ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY APM-1-44, DATED JANUARY 24,
1984.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clark.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy
MOSS: None.
ABSENT: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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CITY OF MIANN
DOCUMENT INDEX
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OFFICIAL ACCEPTANCE OF CITY c'LERK'S
CERTIFICATION/DECLARATION OF RESULTS
OF SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION OF MARCH
8, 1988:
(A) ISSUANCE OF $40,000,000. STREET
AND HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT BONDS; AND
(B) AUTHORIZATION TO LEASE CITY —
OWNED LAND TO DINNER KEY BOATYARD
LTD. FOR A FULL —SERVICE BOATYARD
MARINA.
ACCEPT BID: AMERICAN MICRO IMAGE,
INC. FOR FURNISHING MICROFICHE
EQUIPMENT FOR DEPARTMENT OF
FINANCE.
ACCEPT BID: PALM PETERBILT GMC TRUCKS
INC. FOR REFURBISHMENT OF FIRE AND
APPARATUS AERIAL I FOR DEPARTMENT
OF FIRE.
ACCEPT BID: INDUSTRIAL BUILDING
MAINTENANCE CORPORATION FOR
FURNISHING JANITORIAL SERVICES AT
MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER.
EXTEND EXISTING CONTRACT: MIAMI RUG
COMPANY — FOR FURNISHING AND THE
INSTALLING CARPET AND RELATED OF
THE MATERIP.S CITYWIDE.
ACCEPT BARIOUS BIDS FOR VEHICLE
EQUIPMENT AND ALLOCATE FUNDS FOR A
COMBINED TOTAL OF $1,885,768.52 FOR
THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION FROM FLEET MANAGEMENT
DIVISION AND PUBLIC WORKS FUNDS.
ACCEPT BID: PIFER, INC. FOR
FURNISHING ONE BATTERY OPERATED
VEHICLE FOR DEPARTMENT OF PARKS.
ACCEPT BID: AUDIO INTELLIGENCE
DEVICES. FOR FURNISHING ONE
ELECTRONIC DIRECTIONAL TRACKING
SYSTEM FOR DEPARTMENT OF POLICE.
88-277
88-277.1
88-280
88-281
88-282
88-283
88-284
88-285
88-286
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DOCUMENT INDEX
ACCEPT BID: FRASER VOLPE CORPORATION
FOR FURNISHING ONE PAY/NIGHT VISION
STABILIZER MONOCULAR FOR DEPARTMENT
OF POLICE.
APPROVE PURCHASE OF ADDITIONAL
MICROCOMPUTERS AND PERIPHERAL.
EQUIPMENT FROM BURROUGHS CORP.
(NOW UNISYS CORPORATION) FOR
POLICE, FIRE AND PLANNING
DEPARTMENTS.
ACCEPT BID: ALFRED LLOYD AND SONS
FOR CITYWIDE SANITARY SEWER
EXTENSION IMPROVEMENT -SW. 8TH
COURT.
EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH METROPOLITAN
DADE COUNTY: 1)FOR DATA CONVERSION
PROGRAMS AND PROGRAM MODIFICATION
SERVICES PERFORMED BY MIAMI DADE
WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY DEPT.
IN IMPLEMENTATION PHASE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI STORMWATER UTILITY
PROGRAM; AND 2)FOR UTILITY
BILLING AND COLLECTION SERVICES.
EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH SYLVESTER A.
LUKIS FOR PROFESSIONAL LEGISLATIVE
CONSULTANT SERVICES REGARDING THE
FEDERAL LEGISLATION.
AUTHORIZE AGREEMENT WITH PLECO,INC.
PROVIDE EMERGENCY ENVIROMENTAL
SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH THE
GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION PROBLEM
DISCOVERED AT THE SOUTH DISTRICT
POLICE SUBSTATION.
EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH FLORIDA
FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
FOR THE PLANNING,ORGANIZING AND
IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTIVITIES FOR
THE PROMOTION OF THE MIAMI FURNITURE
AND HOME ACCESORY INDUSTRY.
AMEND EXISTING CONTRACT WITH VALLE-
AXELBERD AND ASSOCIATES, INC. - TO
ADMINISTER PHYCHOLOGICAL SCREENING
PROCEDURES FOR POLICE OFFICER
APPLICANTS.
AMEND LEASE AGREEMENT WITH SCHOOL BOARD
OF DADE COUNTY FOR USE OF ATHALIE RANGE
PARK DATED 12/19/87.
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RETFAML CODE No.
88-287
88-288
88-289
88-290
88-291
88-292
88-293
88-294
88-295
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DOCUMENT INDEX
SELECT CAP FIRM OF TOUCHE ROSS AND CO.
SUBCONSULTING WITH SHARPTON, BRUNSON
AND CO AND GRAU AND CO.TO ANALYZE
SUBMISSIONS OF FINANCIAL QUALIFICATIONS
RECEIVED IN CONNECTION WITH THE
DEVELOPMENT OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN MIAMI.
APPOINT ARTURO JORDAN TO THE AUDIT
ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO MICHAEL ALAN
WOLF MEMORIAL CONCEPT HOUSE FOR USE OF
CITY -OWNED PROPERTY IN CONNECTION WITH
A SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAM.
ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO CENTRO
HISPANO DAYCARE FOR USE OF CITY -OWNED
PROPERTY TO OPERATE A CHILD CARE
SERVICES PROGRAM.
AUTHORIZE OFFER TO PROPERTY OWNER FOR
ACQUISITION OF ONE PARCEL WITHIN
ALLAPATTAH CD TARGET AREA FOR
DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
MAKE OFFERS TO PROPERTY OWNERS FOR
ACQUISITION OF SIX PARCELS IN MODEL
CITY CD TARGET AREA TO BE USED
FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
EXECUTE INSTRUMENT RELEASING AND
CANCELLING COVENANT AND AMENDED
COVENANT EXECUTED BY RONALD R.
FIELDSTONE, TRUSTEE ("EXECUTIVE
PLAZA").
ACCPET DONATION FROM MCF CORPORATION
OF WHEELED COACH BUS FOR USE BY CITY
DEPARTMENTS AT AVIATION AVENUE
BUILDING.
APPROVE ADMINISTRATION'S ACCEPTANCE OF
DONATION OF MULTI -LEVEL CREATIVE PLAY
STRUCTURE FOR DOUGLAS PARK,
APPROVE DONATION OF COMPUTERIZED
SCOREBOARD/MESSAGE BOARD SYSTEM TO BE
CONSTRUCTED BY AMERICAN SIGN AND
INDICATOR CORPORATION AT FOUR CITY
FACILITIES.
ALLOCATE $100,000 FROM THE LAW
ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND FOR EXPENSES
INCURRED BY MIAMI POLICE COPS AND KIDS
ATHLETIC DRUG DIVERSIONARY PROGRAM.
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F& I VAL COOS NO.
88-296
88-297
88-298
88-299
88-300
88-301
88-302
88-303
88-304
88-305
88- 306
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DOCUMENT INDEX
PUBLISH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR
OBJECTIONS TO ACCEPTANCE OF COMPLETED
CONSTRUCTION BY MIRI CONSTRUCTION,
INC. BUENA VISTA HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT PHASE II "A" DISTRICT
H-4506-A).
PUBLISH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR
OBJECTIONS TO ACCEPTANCE BY M.VILA AND
ASSOCIATES,INC. BUENA VISTA HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT PHASE II "B" DISTRICT
H-4506B.
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: DOUGLAS N.
HIGGINS INC. WINONA SANITARY SEWER
PROJECT PHASE I.
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: P.N.M.
CORPORATION FOR CITYWIDE SIDEWALK
REPLACEMENT PROJECT.
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK: MIRI
CONSTRUCTION IN.CITYWIDE STREET
IMPROVEMENTS - BELLE MEADE TRAFFIC
BARRIER PROJECT.
STREET CLOSURE: PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED
BY CITY OF MIAMI COMMITTEE ON
BEAUTIFICATION AND ENVIROMENT.
STREET CLOSURE: PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED
BY DELTA NU ALPHA TRANSPORTATION
FRATERNITY,INC.
STREET CLOSURE: LAW DAY RUN 1988 TO BE
CONDUCTED BY GREATER MIAMI RUNNING
ASSOCIATION.
STREET CLOSURE: PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY IN COOPERATION
WITH CITY OF MIAMI.
STREET CLOSURE: CONCERNING
MANUFACTURERS HANOVER CORPORATE
CHALLENGE TO BE CONDUCTED BY GREATER
MIAMI RUNNING ASSOCIATION.
STREET CLOSURE: BUD LIGHT U.S.
TRIATHLON SERIES TO BE CONDUCTED BY
CAT SPORTS, INC.
DECLARE SIX CITY VEHICLES AS CATEGORY
"A" SURPLUS STOCK. DONATE TO NORTHEAST
CRIME PREVENTION ASSOCIATION SUBCOUNCIL
TO ASSIST IN THEIR CRIME PREVENTION
EFFORTS.
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88-307
88-308
88- 309
88-310
88-311
88- 312
88-313
88-314
88-315
88-316
88-317
88- 318
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DOCUMENT INDEX
ACCEPT BID: ABLE SANITATION,INC. FOR
FURNISHING PORTABLE TOILETS AND SHOWER
FOR VIRGINIA KEY BEACH.
ACCEPT BIDS:
(A) LAWMAN AND SHOOTERS SUPPLY INC.
FOR FURNISHING 65 POLICE AUTOMOTIVE
PARTITIONS AND (B) PUBLIC SAFETY
DEVICES,INC. FOR FURNISHING 86
POLICE PATROL LIGHT BARS FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION.
AGREEMENT WITH METROPOLINTAN DADE
COUNTY TO ENGAGE CITY OF MIAMI FIRE
DEPARTMENT TO RENDER SERVICES AT
PORT OF MIAMI.
AGREEMENT WITH CEDARS MEDICAL CNETER
TO ADMINSITER FIRE FIGHTERS ANNUAL
PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS FOR A ONE-
YEAR PERIOD.
AUTHORIZE RFP FOR UDP. DEVELOPMENT
OF OFFICE AND/OR HOTEL WITHIN THE
CIVIC CENTER AREA AT 1145 N.W. 11TH
STREET.
A) DESIGNATE PLANNING AND DESIGN OF
CITY ADMINSTRATION BUILDING PHASE II
AS A CATEGORY "B" PROJECT -ADVERTISE
FOR REQUIRED PLANNING AND DESIGN
SERVICES.
B) BRIEF:COMMENTS BY COMMISSIONER
J.L.PLUMMER ON THE CHARTER BOAT
FISHERMEN'S CONTRACT.
AGREEMENT WITH BAYSIDE MINORITY
FOUNDATION FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR
MINORITY TENANTS AT BAYSIDE.
CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER -ACCEPT
SENIOR CITIZEN SPECIALIZED POLICING
PROGRAM GRANT TO EMPLOY 13 OFFICERS
AT SENIOR CITIZENS SITES AND PRESENT
CRIME PREVENTION PROGRAMS.
CONDITIONALLY AUTHORIZE METROPOLITAN
DADE COUNTY TO ACCEPT BIDS FOR THE
PROVISION OF LUNCHES TO ELEGIBLE
CHILDREN DURING SUMMER, 1988.
CO -DESIGNATE S.W. 34TH AVENUE FROM
FLAGLER STREET TO S.W. 3RD STREET AS
"COLONEL VICTOR ESTEFAN BOULEVARD".
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RETM AL CODE NO.
88-319
88-320
88-322
88-323
88-324
88-326
88-328
88-329
88-330
88-332
DOCUMENT INDEX
AUTHORIZE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO
ADVERTISE AND DISTRIBUTE RFP FOR
FINANCIAL ADVISORY SERVICES TO THE CITY
OF MIAMI AND APPOINT REVIEW COMMITTEE.
A) APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS
TO THE LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD
(APPOINTED WERE:TESSI GARCIA, ARMANDO
CAZO AND PELAYO GONZALO FRAGA).
B) APPOINT CERTAIN OTHER INDIVIDUALS
TO THE LATIN QUARTER REVIEW BOARD.
(APPOINTED WERE: ROCKFALL SANCHEZ
AND RAUL HERNANDEZ.)
APPOINTMENTS TO AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
ADVISORY BOARD (APPOINTED 14ERE:
DONALD BENJAMIN, GREG BORGOGNONI
AND LAWRENCE CRAWFORD).
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EMPLOY
DELOITTE HASKINS AND SELLS TO
ANALYZE AND DEVELOP RECOMMENDATIONS
REGARDING THE CITY'S TELECOMMUNICATIONS
EQUIPMENT SYSTEM.
AFFIRM CITY MANAGER'S FINDING OF SOLE
SOURCE. APPROVE ACQUISITION OF 24
PORTABLE 6 SUBFLEET 800 MHS T.
RADIOS AND BATTERY CHANGERS FROM
MOTOROLA COMMUNICATIONS AND
ELECTRONICS INC. FOR DEPARTMENT
OF PARKS RECREATION AND PUBLIC
FACILITIES.
WAIVE PROHIBITION AGAINST TRANSACTION
OF BUSINESS WITH CITY OFFICIAL AS
APPLIES TO PAT SKUBISH (P.S.
CONSULTANTS, INC.) (ZONING BOARD
MEMBER), AUTHORIZE AGREEMENT WITH
P.S. CONSULTANTS INC. FOR PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH PUBLIC
RELATIONS/MARKETTING FOR PHASE I
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
WAIVE COMPETITIVE SELECTION
PROCEDURES - FOR SELECTION OF
CONSULTANT TO PROVIDE
ARCHITECTURAL/ENGINEERING PROJECT
MANAGEMENT SERVICES FOR "ORANGE BOWL
MODERNIZATION PROJECT" IN CONNECTION
WITH PHASE I OF SAID PROJECT.
(CONSULTANT SELECTED: KUNDE,
APRECHER, YASKIN & ASSOCIATES, INC.),
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RE I REVAL CODE NO.
88-333
88-334
88-334.1
88- 335
88-336
88- 337
88- 338
88-339
DOCUMENT INDEX
AUTHORIZE INCREASE IN CONTRACT WITH
MADSEN/BARR CORPORATION FOR
CONSTRUCTION OF CITYWIDE SANITARY
REPLACEMENT PROJECT-N.W. 8TH STREET
ROAD.
ALLOCATE $30,000 TO NEW WASHINGTON
HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
CONFERENCE INC. FOR CONSULTANT
FEES IN CONNECTION WITH HOTEL.
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN SOUTHEAST
OVERTOWN/PARK WEST INCREMENT DISTRICT.
EXECUTE AGREEMENT.
URGE METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TO AMEND
METRO CODE SECTION 8-5 TO PERMIT
ESTABLISHMENT OF A CITY OF MIAMI UNSAFE
STRUCTURES BOARD.
AUTHORIZE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED
STREETS IN CONNECTION WITH MEMORIAL
DAY SILENT PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED
BY VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS AND
AMERICAN LEGION.
ALLOCATE $30,000 IN SUPPORT OF THE
"KEEP DADE BEAUTIFUL INCORPORATED"
PROGRAM - EXECUTE AGREEMENT.
FORMALIZE APPOINTMENTS MADE BY
ABOVE MOTION, PLUS CERTAIN OTHER
APPOINTMENTS TO DDA BOARD (APPOINTED
WERE: LAWRENCE KAHN,III, MIRIAM
LOPEX, JACK LOWELL, JEFFREY BERCOW
AND MICHAEL KOZNITSKY.
ALLOCATE $10,000 TO "CURE AIDS NOW,
INC." FOR PROVISION AND DISTRIBUTION
OF MEALS TO HOMEBOUND AIDS PATIENTS
AND EXECUTE AGREEMENT.
RESCHEDULE SECOND REGULAR CITY
COMMISSION MEETING OF MAY 26 TO
MAY 19, 1988 TO BEGIN AT 4:00 P.M.
RESCHEDULE SECOND REGULAR CITY
COMMISSION MEETING OF APRIL 28, 1988
TO BEGIN AT 2:00 P.M.
ALLOCATE $5,000 TO "LA LIGA HISPANA
CONTRA EL SIDA INC." (AIDS) FOR
LEASING OFFICE SPACE - EXECUTE
AGREEMENT.
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RE I REVAL CM NO.
88- 340
88-343
88-345
88- 346
88- 34 7
88-350
88-352
88-354
88-355
88-356
DOCUMENT INDEX
AUTHORIZE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED
STREETS. ESTABLISH PEDESTRIAN MALLS
AND DEISGNATE AREAS FOR RETAIL.
PEDDLERS IN CONNECTION WITH
(A) 1989 CARNAVAL MIAMI PASEO,
(B) THE 8K RUN, (C) THE
BIKE DASH AND (D) CALLE OCHO OPEN
HOUSE FESTIVAL CONDUCTED BY THE
KIWANIS CLUB OF LITTLE HAVANA.
EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH P.S. CONSULTANTS
INC. FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IN
PUBLIC RELATIONS/MARKETTING FOR THE
PHASE I PORTION OF SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/
PARK WEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT.
APPOINT INDIVIDUALS TO THE MIAMI
WATERFRONT BOARD (APPOINTED WAS:
MR. JAMES WELLINGTON) PENDING
STILL ARE NOMINATIONS TO BE MADE
IN GROUP IV. DEFERRED TO MAY
12. 1988.
EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH FLORIDA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
REGARDING MAINTENANCE OF THE NON -
ROADWAY PORTION OF S.W. 8TH
STREET BETWEEN I-95 AND S.W.
27TH AVENUE.
ALLOCAT E$2,500 IN SUPPORT OF THE
MIAMI SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BAND IN
CONNECTION WITH THEIR TRIP TO SANTO
DOMINGO.
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WMAL COOS NO.
88-357
88-359
88- 360
88-365
88-366