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CITY OF MIAMI COMMISSION MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON F'EBRUARY 18, 1988 (RECUT ARC PREPARED AY THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK CITY HALL !TATTY HIRAI City Clerk INDEX MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA FEBRUARY 18, 1986 ITEM SUBJECT LEGISLATION PAGE NO. NO. I. - PRESENTATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS AND DISCUSSION - 1 SPECIAL ITEMS. 2/18/88 2. ALLOCATE $15,000 IN CONNECTION WITH ST. R 88-114 1-2 PATRICK'S DAY PARADE. 2118/88 3. PRESENTATION TO MAYOR SUAREZ BY DISCUSSION 3 GOVERNMENT DIGNITARIES FROM GUAYAQUIL, 2/18/88 BCUADOR. 4. PRESENTATION TO THE CITY COMMISSION BY DISCUSSION 3-4 REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE COCONUT GROVE 2118/88 ART FESTIVAL. S. RAISE FUNDS FOR CHARLIE DELUCA, M 88-115 4-5 RESIDENT PROFESSIONAL AT MELREESE GOLF 2/18/88 COURSE. 6. EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE FROM THE CITY DISCUSSION 5 COMMISSION ON NOT BUSING CHILDREN FROM 2/18/88 COCONUT GROVE TO A DIFFERENT AREA OF THE CITY. 7. DESIGNATE JACK FADS INTERIM MANAGER IN R 88-116 5-6 ABSENCE OF CITY MANAGER, CESAR ODIO. 2/16/88 8. CONSENT AGENDA 2/16/88 6-7 8.1 TRANSFER CONFISCATED WEAPONS AT NO R 88-117 8 CHARGE TO OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT 2/18/88 AGENCIES. B.2 ACCEPT DONATION OF TWO VIDEO CASSETTE R 88-118 8 RECORDERS FROM C.C.A.L. CORPORATION FOR 2/18/88 USE BY PARKS DEPARTMENT. 8.3 ALLOCATE $10.000 IN SUPPORT OF CRIME R 88-119 8 STOPPERS ANONYMOUS OF DADE COUNTY. 2/18/88 8.4 ALLOCATE $36,000 TO COVER NECESSARY R 88-120 8 EXPENSES REGARDING ACCREDITATION OF 2/18/88 POLICE DEPARTMENT. 8.5 ACCEPT BID: CENTURY INDUSTRIES, INC. R 88-121 9 FOR ONE MOBILE STAGE FOR PARKS 2/18/88 DEPARTMENT. 8.6 ACCEPT BID: COCONUT GROVE LOCAL R 88-122 9 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INC. FOR 2/18/88 GROUNDS MAINTENANCE SERVICES AT COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER. 8.7 ACCEPT BID: VAN TOPOLE CONSTRUCTION, R 88-123 9 INC. FOR FIRE STATION NO. 2 WASHROOM 2/18/88 MODIFICATIONS. 8.8 ACCEPT DID: DELGADO PAVING, INC. FOR R 88-124 10 CITYWIDE SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT PROJECT - 2/10/88 PHASE II (THIRD BIDDING - 3-4534). 8.9 AGREEMENT WITH GREATER MIAMI UNITED. R 88-125 10 INC. - CONTINUE CITY'S SUPPORT AS 2/18/88 FUNDING PARTNER IN THE LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORPORATION/MIAMI PROJECT. 6.10 AUTHORIZE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT GROUP, R 88-126 10 INC. TO PURCHASE AND INSTALL A FIRE AND 2/18/88 VOICE ALARM SYSTEM AND REFURBISH MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER. 8.11 PARTICIPATE WITH CITY OF CORAL GABLES R 88-127 11 IN A PROPOSED MEDIAN LANDSCAPING 2/18/88 PROJECT ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 1 - EXECUTE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. 9.12 ACCEPT 15 DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR R 88-128 11 HIGHWAY PURPOSES. 2/18/88 8.13 RESCIND R-97-3 ORDERING DOWNTOWN R 88-129 11 HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II (H- 2/16/88 4521); REORDER SAID HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT AND DESIGNATE SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS. 8.14 ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE: AUTHORIZE R 88-130 11 STREET CLOSURES, PEDESTRIAN MALL AND 2/16/88 AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS. 8.15 DESIGNER'S SHOWCASE '88: AUTHORIZE R BB-131 12 STREET CLOSURES, PEDESTRIAN MALL AND 2/18/86 AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS (MARCH 12. 1988). 8.16 APPOINT JESSE DINER TO BOARD OF R 88-132 12 TRUSTEES OF CITY FIRE FIGHTERS' AND 2/18/88 POLICE OFFICERS' RETIREMENT TRUST. 8.17 CONSENT TO THE TRANSFER OF MR. RAUL R 88-133 12 MASVIDAL'S LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTEREST 2/18/88 IN BAYSIDE CENTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP TO MR. NATAN ROK. 9. ACCEPT DONATIONS OF SURPLUS FURNITURE R 88-134 12-13 FROM SOUTHERN BELL TO THE OVERTOWN 2/18/88 COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS FOR OVERTOWN MINI STATION. 10. EXTEND EXISTING CONTRACT WITH POWER R 88-135 13-15 FEDERAL DETECTIVE BUREAU FOR SECURITY 2/18/88 SERVICES AT THE MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER (SEE LABEL 12). 11. ACCEPT $750,000 GRANT FROM FLORIDA R 88-136 16-17 LEGISLATURE FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH 2/18/68 END OF BAYFRONT PARK. 12. CLARIFICATION IN CONNECTION WITH DISCUSSION 17 39CURITY SERVICES AT THE MANUEL ARTIME 2/18/88 COMMUNITY CENTER (SEE LABEL 10). 13. NEGOTIATE AND E MCUTE AGREEMENT WITH R 88-137 17-21 RPPW. INC.. AND PERKINS AND PARTNERS - 2/18/88 ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE OMNI REDEVELOPMENT AREA PROJECT. 14. AGREEMENT WITH CHESAPEAKE GROUP. INC. - R 68-138 21-22 ECONOMIC AND MARKETING FEASIBILITY 2/18/88 STUDY FOR THE BISCAYNE BOULEVARD CORRIDOR. 15. COMMISSION DIRECTS ADMINISTRATION TO DISCUSSION 22 PROVIDE INFORMATION ON MONIES SPENT ON 2/18/88 VARIOUS FEASIBILITY STUDIES IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE CITY. 16. DEFER PROPOSED AGREEMENT WITH CANNON, M 68-139 23-26 STIERHEIM, BUSUTIL MANAGEMENT 2/19/68 CONSULTANTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF CITYWIDE EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION PROGRAM (ESP) FOR PURPOSES OF FURTHER INFORMATION. 17. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL DISCUSSION 26 OF REQUESTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE TOUR 2/18/88 OF THE AMERICAS 188 EVENT (SEE LABEL 70). "18. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL OF (A) DISCUSSION 27-29 AGENDA ITEM 25, PROPOSED EMERGENCY 2/18/88 ORDINANCE TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD AND (B) AGENDA ITEM 26, PROPOSED RESOLUTION REAPPOINTING AND APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDIUALS TO THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. 19. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE 29-30 10347 - ESTABLISH "BAY VISTA MARINA" 10383 PROJECT. 2/18/66 20. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION ORDINANCE 30-31 1 OF 10269 - INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS 10-384 FOR THE "RECREATION PROGRAMS FOR THE 2/18/68 MENTALLY HANDICAPPED - CONSOLIDATED" FUND. 21. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE ORDINANCE 31 SECTION 54.5-8 - "PLATS AND PLATTING- 10385 PROCEDURE -FINAL PLAT". 2/18/88 22. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION ORDINANCE 32 1 OF 10289 - INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS 10386 FOR THE "NEIGHBORHOODS JOBS PROGRAM (FY 2/18/88 '88)" FUND - ACCEPT GRANT. 23. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL OF M 88-140 33 PROPOSED SECOND READING ORDINANCE 2/18/88 REGARDING ESTABLISHMENT OF THE "SUMMER TOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAM - 1988/JTPA II-B" SPECIAL REVENUE FUND - REQUEST FROM ADMINISTRATION MODEL PROGRAM IN COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL REGULATIONS. 24. SECOND READING ORDINANCES AMEND CODE ORDINANCE 33-34 SECTION 31-48(1) - PROVIDE THAT 10387 INSURANCE COMPANIES SHALL BE SUBJECT TO 2/19/88 THE CITY'S OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE TAX. 25. CONTRACT WITH THE FLORIDA LEAGUE OF R 88-141 35-36 CITIES - LEAGUE TO COLLECT A CITY 2/18/88 LICENSE TAX FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS WITHIN CITY LIMITS. 26. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND ORDINANCE 36-37 SECTIONS 1 AND 6 OF 10321 - INCREASE first reading APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DINNER KEY MARINA 2/18/88 ENTERPRISE FUND FOR PURPOSES OF FY 188 DEBT SERVICE PAYMENTS ON MARINA IMPROVEMENTS. I r r 27. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTIONS ORDINANCE 37 2 AND 6 10321 ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL first reading REVENUE FUND "COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2/16/88 BLOCK GRANT APPROPRIATION - FY 188 - TO CARRY OUT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES. 26. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE ORDINANCE 37-39 SECTION 62-61 - "SCHEDULE OF FEES" first reading (ZONING AND PLANNING) - CHANGE ZONING 2/18/88 AND PLANNING FEE SCHEDULE. 29. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE ORDINANCE 39-40 SECTION 2-75 AND 2-76 (SETTING FEES FOR first reading EXAMINATION OF PLANS AND ZONING 2/18/88 CERTIFICATES OF USE) - ADD FEES AND REVIEW OF PLANS FOR SPECIAL PERMITS AND PUBLIC iMEARING. 30. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION ORDINANCE 40 S OF 6145 (ESTABLISHING FEES FOR first reading BUILDING,.PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, ETC.) - 2/16/68 ADD AN INCREASE CERTAIN FEES TO COVER THE COST FOR ENFORCEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA BUILDING CODE. 31. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE TO ORDINANCE 41-42 PROVIDE FOR REGULATION OF BUS BENCHES first reading AND SHELTERS ON PUBLIC RIGHTS -OF -WAY; 2/18/88 SET MINIMUM BID AMOUNT. 32. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL OF DISCUSSION 42 PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE 2/18/86 ABOLISHING THE COMPUTERS DEPARTMENT AND CONSOLIDATING ITS FUNCTIONS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE. FOR PURPOSES OF SEEKING FURTHER INFORMATION FROM THE ADMINISTRATION. 33. DISCUSSION OF A PROPOSED FIRST READING DISCUSSION 42-49 ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A STORMWATER 2/16/88 UTILITY SYSTEM FOR THE CITY (See label 37). 34. EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH HOLLAND AND R 88-142 49-50 KNIGHT. P.A., FOR PROFESSIONAL 2/18/88 LEGISLATIVE CONSULTANT SERVICES. 35. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH NEW ORDINANCE 50-51 SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ("BLACK ARCHIVES - first reading OVERTOWN HISTORIC VILLAGE") - 2/18/88 APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A !MASTER PLAN FOR THE OVERTOWN HISTORIC FOLKLIFE VILLAGE - ACCEPT GRANT. 36. ALLOCATE $17,000 FOR A MASTER PLAN FOR R 88-143 51-54 THE OVERTOWN HISTORIC FOLKLIFE 2/18/88 VILLAGE - AUTHORIZE AGREEMENT WITH THE BLACK ARCHIVES HISTORY AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION. 37. (A) CONTINUED DISCUSSION AND M! 68-144 54-59 RECONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED FIRST 2/18/68 READING ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A STORMWATER UTILITY SYSTEM FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI. (3) FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH A STORMWATER UTILITY SYSTEM FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI. (See label 33). 38. AMEND AGREEMENT WITH PRIEDE-SEDGWICK, R 68-145 59-61 INC. - EXTEND TERM FROM ONE TO THREE 2/19188 YEARS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE STORM DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN. 39. ACCEPT BID: LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE R 88-146 62-64 COMPANY FOR FURNISHING ABSTRACT 2/18/88 SERVICES FOR A SIX MONTH PERIOD. 40. AGREEMENT WITH METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY R 88-147 64-65 FOR ENGAGEMENT OF CITY OF MIAMI TO 2/16/88 PROVIDE FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AT THE PORT OF MIAMI. 41. (A) DEFER PROPOSED RESOLUTION TO R 88-148 65-66 PURCHASE OR ACQUIRE THROUGH EMINENT 2/18/86 DOMAIN A PROPERTY LOCATED APPROXIMATELY BBTNEEN NW 1ST AVENUE AND NW 2ND AVENUE AT NW 34TH TERRACE. (3) AUTHORIZE APPRAISALS ON PERTINENT PARCELS - ESTABLISH A CEILING FOR COSTS IN CONNECTION WITH SAID APPRAISALS. 42. ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO THE LITTLE R 88-149 68-69 HAVANA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, INC. FOR 2/18188 USE OF A PORTION OF MAXIMO GOMEZ PARK FOR PUBLIC RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION SERVICES. 43. GRANT $90,000 IN SUPPORT OF A PUBLIC R 88-150 69-70 RECREATIONAL AND INFORMATION SERVICES 2/18/88 PROGRAM AT MAXIMO GOMEZ PARK TO BE OPERATED BY THE LITTLE HAVANA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, INC. 44. PETITION THE COMMISSION TO ENFORCE THE DISCUSSION 70-75 LAW TO PREVENT INDIVIDIUALS FROM 2/18/88 DRINKING AT LUMMUS PARK (See label 50). 45. APPOINT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE R 88-151 76 CITYWIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY 2/18/88 BOARD. (APPOINTED WAS: MS. MARGARET MILLER. ONE APPOINTMENT STILL PENDING.) 46. DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED DISCUSSION 76-77 APPOINTMENTS TO THE CITY'S CODE 2/18/88 ENFORCEMENT BOARD. 47. APPOINT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE R 88-152 77-79 HERITAGE CONSERVATION BOARD. (APPOINTED 2/18/88 WERE: RICHARD RICKLES, RAUL RODRIGUEZ AND MARWIN CASSEL.) 46. AGREEMENT WITH ERN -SOUTH, INC. FOR R 88-153 79-80 SCIENTIFIC TESTING AND CONSULTING 2/18/88 SERVICES RELATED TO THE VIRGINIA KEY RUBBISH DISPOSAL PIT AND DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ON SAID SITE. 49. EXTEND DEADLINE TO INITIATE R 88-154 81-88 CONSTRUCTION ON PARCEL 37 (SOUTHEAST 2/18/88 OVERTOWN/PARK WEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT) (DEVELOPER: CAN- AMERICAN REALTY CORPORATION); WITH PROVISOS. 50. INSTALL SECURITY LIGHTING AND DEMOLISH M 86-155 88-69 BUILDING AT LUMMUS PARK (SEE LABEL 44). 2/18/88 51. A) CHALLENGE NEW WORLD CENTER ACTION M 88-156 89-96 COMMITTEE TO FIND NEEDED FUNDS BY THE R 88-1S7 ST. JOHN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 2/16/88 CORPORATION. S)EXTEND DEADLINE TO INITIATE CONSTRUCTION ON PARCEL 55 (SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT) (DEVELOPER: CIRCA/BARNESS/SAWYER); WITH PROVISOS. 52. EXTEND DEADLINE TO INITIATE R 88-158 96-99 CONSTRUCTION ON PARCEL 24 (SOUTHEAST 2/18/88 OVERTOWN/PARK WEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT) (DEVELOPER: CRUZ DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATES, LTD.); WITH PROVISOS. 53. ESTABLISH DEADLINE TO INITIATE R 88-1S9 100-110 CONSTRUCTION OF PARCEL 46 (SOUTHEAST 2/18/88 OVERTOWN/PARK WEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT) (DEVELOPER: INDIAN RIVER INVESTMENTS OF MIAMI, INC.); WITH PROVISOS. S4. BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION 110-112 FUNDS BY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE QUEEN OF 2/18/88 THE WORLD PAGEANT. 55. ALLOCATE $50,000 TO BAYSIDE MINORITY M 88-160 112-115 FOUNDATION FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO 2/16/88 BAYSIDE MINORITY TENANTS. 56. PERSONAL APPEARANCE: MR. JACK YANKS DISCUSSION IIS-122 PETITIONS THE COMMISSION TO TAKE ACTION IN CONNECTION WITH DRUG SALES AND PROSTITUTION. 57. SUPPORT AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY/BREAST R 88-161 122-123 CANCER DETECTION AWARENESS PROJECT 2/18/88 (MAMMOGRAMS); ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION BY PRIVATE BUSINESS: URGE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE TO COOPERATE. 58. (A) 1988 MIAMI MAGIC FESTIVAL: CLOSURE R 88-162 123-125 OF DESIGNATED STREETS, ESTABLISH M 88-163 PEDESTRIAN MALL. (TO BE CONDUCTED BY 2/18/88 THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREATER MIAMI, INC., APRIL 23, 1986.) (B) REFER BACK TO ADMINISTRATION REQUEST FROM JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIAMI IN SUPPORT OF MIAMI MAGIC FESTIVAL TO TRY TO COT DOWN THE COST OF CERTAIN REQUIRED IN -KIND SERVICES. 59. (A) PREPARE LETTER TO ROBERT GALLAGHER, M 88-164 126-142 CHAIRMAN OF THE SURTAX BOARD, ADVISING M 88-165 CITY'S INTENT TO CONVEY CERTAIN PARCELS 2/18/88 OF PUBLICLY -OWNED LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING. (B) DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO PREPARE REAL PROPERTY REIMBURSEMENT ALTERNATIVES REGARDING INTENDED DISPOSITION OF THREE PARCELS OF PUBLICLY -OWNED LAND. 60. GRANT REQUEST BY THE EXOTIC AND SPORTS M 68-166 142-147 CAR SHOW FOR WAIVER OF RENTAL FEES AT 2/18/88 COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER IN EXCHANGE FOR A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF GROSS (SEE LABEL 73). 61. ALLOW SOUTH FLORIDA ORCHID SOCIETY, R 68-167 147-148 INC. TO EXCHANGE SUITABLE AND 2/18/88 ACCEPTABLE LANDSCAPING FOR RENTAL FEE INVOLVED AT THE COCONUT GROVE ' EXHIBITION CENTER (MARCH 19, 1988)- 62. APPROVE REQUEST TO CODESIGNATE A M 86-168 148-155 PORTION OF 36TH STREET AS "DESIGN 2/16/86 BOULEVARD" AND A PORTION OF N.V- 5TH AVENUE AS "FASHION AVENUE" - SCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING. 63. APPROVE REQUEST BY CABLE CHANNEL 43 FOR M 88-169 155-158 TELEVISING CITY COMMISSION MEETINGS 2/16/98 _ LIVE, AT NO COST TO THE CITY, WITH CERTAIN PROVISOS. 64. URGE STATE LEGISLATURE TO PLACE MORE M 88-170 158-162 IMPORTANCE AND TO ALLOCATE NECESSARY 2/18/86 FUNDS FOR RAPE TREATMENT PROGRAMS IN OUR COMMUNITY. 65. DISCUSS AND CONTINUE STATUS OF DISCUSSION 163-169 CLAUGHTON ISLAND HOUSING PROJECT 2/18/88 (LOCATED NEAR VIZCAYA METRORAIL STATION) TO THE FEBRUARY 25, 1988 AGENDA. 66. ADMINISTRATION DIRECTED TO IDENTIFY AND M 88-171 169-176 ALLOCATE $60,000 TO ST. JOHN COMMUNITY 2/18/88 DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION REGARDING THEIR PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF LOTS 10 AND I IN OVERTOWN. 67. LEASE CITY PARKING SPACE TO OFF-STREET R 88-172 177-181 PARKING TO SATISFY PARKING REQUIREMENT 2/16/68 BY MIAMI HEAT - PROVIDE REPLACEMENT PARKING IF SAID SPACE IS NEEDED WITHIN FIVE YEARS FOR REDEVELOPMENT BY PHASE II OF SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST PROJECT. 68. AMEND R-87-376 - INCREASE ALLOCATION R 88-173 181-187 FOR FUNDING OF IN -KIND SERVICES IN 2/18/88 SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK MAYORS - CHANGE IN -KIND SERVICES ALLOCATION TO A CASH GRANT. 69. SCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE MARCH M 88-174 187-189 24TH AGENDA CONCERNING THE 'GATEWAY 2/18/88 PROJECT" IN LIBERTY CITY. 70. CONTINUED DISCUSSION IN CONNECTION WITH R 88-175 189-190 THE •TOUR OF THE AMERICAS '88" EVENT 2/18/88 GRANTING CLOSURE OF STREETS, RTC. (SEE LABEL 17). 71. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND MIAMI ORDINANCE 190-191 COMPREHENSIVE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN - 10388 CHANGE DESIGNATION OF PROPERTY LOCATED 2/18/88 AT 23-47 N.V. 32ND PLACE AND 34 N.W. 32ND COURT FROM LOW MODERATE DENSITY RESIDENTIAL TO MODERATE HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL. 72. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND ZONING ORDINANCE 191-192 ATLAS ON PROPERTY LOCATED AT 23-47 N.W. 10389 32ND PLACE AND 34 N.W. 32ND COURT FROM 2/18/88 RG-1/3 TO RG-3/6. F 73. AMEND M-68-166 - ALLOW EXTENSION OF M 88-176 191-193 DEADLINE BY WHICH EXOTIC AND SPORTS CAR 2118/88 SHOW SHALL PAY TO THE CITY RENTAL FEE OWED FOR USE OF COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER (SEE LABEL 60). 74. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND 10272 WHICH ORDINANCE 193-195 AUTHORIZED ISSUANCE OF GENERAL 10390 OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES 1987 2/18/86 (S60.000,000) - REDEFINE TERM "ORIGINAL PURCHASERS" - RESTATE ELIGIBILITY CRITERION FOR APPOINTMENT OF ESCROW AGENT AND BOND REGISTRAR. ETC. 75. BRIEF COMMENT BY COMMISSIONER PLUMMER DISCUSSION 196 SUGGESTING THE COMMISSION MEET TO 2/18/88 DISCUSS PROPOSED METRO CHARTER AMENDMENT. MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA On the 18th day of February, 1988, the City Commission of Miami, Florida, met at its regular meeting place in the City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, Florida in regular session. The meeting was called to order at 9:06 a.m. by Mayor Xavier Suarez with the following members of the Commission found to be present: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez ASSENT: Commissioner Victor De Yurre ALSO PRESENT: Jack Eads, Interim City Manager Lucia Allen Dougherty, City Attorney Matty Hirai, City Clerk Walter J. Foeman, Assistant City Clerk ASSENT: Cesar Odio, City Manager An invocation was delivered by Mayor Suarez who then led those present in a pledge of allegiance to the flag. 1.PRESENTATIONS, PROCLAMATIONS AND SPECIAL ITEMS. COMMENDATION presented to James Potter and Joseph Shepherd for the most outstanding officers of the month of December, 1987. PROCLAMATION presented naming March 17, 1988 as "St. Patrick's Day. " NOTE FOR THE RECORD: COMMISSIONER DE YURRE ENTERED THE MEETING AT 9:08 A.M. 2. ALLOCATE $15,000 IN CONNECTION WITH ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, while they are coming up, there is an item, 21 on the consent agenda, which does close the streets for this magnificent parade. Unfortunately, their request for funding, which was to cover certain in-house expenses was not included. I would like, if I could at this time, to offer a motion that item 21, as it is presented, be passed with the additional amounts of $15,000 to cover the expenses, which are all in-house expenses. I would so move. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. !Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll? 1 February 18, 1988 The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-114 A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $15,000 FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND, TO COVER THE COST OF CITY SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF THE SAINT PATRICK'S DAY PARADE TO BE HELD MARCH 12, 1988; SAID ALLOCATION CONDITIONED UPON SUBSTANTIAL COMPLIANCE WITH CITY OF MIAMI ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY N0. APM-1-84, DATED JANUARY 24, 1984. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed 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. ASSENT: None. COMMENTS ON ROLL CALL: Mr. Dawkins: Why did Plummer say "yes" so loud? Mr. Plummer: Because they are Irish! Mr. Dawkins: We are hard of hearing, Commissioner. I'll say "right on!" COMMENTS MADE AFTER ROLL CALL: Mr. Plummer: "Yes, or right on. Mrs. Kennedy: shout at me. Mayor Suarez: I need to extract a promise that I won't get any more correspondence from this issue, from someone who shares the same office building as I do, and writes to me on a daily basis, sometimes two letters a day. 3. PRESENTATION TO MAYOR SUAREZ ST GOVERNMENT DIGNITARIES FROM GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR. Mr. De Turre: Mr. !Mayor, before we get onto the items, as you know, I vent to Ecuador last week, on a trip with CANACOL representing the City of Miami, and there we had the opportunity to seat with the Mayor of Guayaquil, Mr. Jorge Perrone, and he gave oe a commemorative coin to give to you, as Mayor of the City of Miami, commemorating the 450th anniversary of the foundation of the City of Quayaquil, and I have this here for you. Additionally, I have a book with the history of the commerce of Guayaquil, dedicated by Jorge Perrone, to you, also as Mayor of the City of Miami, so I want to give this to you. 2 February 18, 1989 --------- — ----- - — -------- — --- — -- — -------- — ------ 4. PRESENTATION TO THE CITY COMMISSION BY REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE COCONUT GROVE ART FESTIVAL. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, before we start the agenda, there are two things that I'd like to bring to the Commission's attention. Number one, as most of you are very, very such aware, because most of us live in Coconut Grove, this past weekend we were afforded one of the largest and the best festival that ever took place in the Coconut Grove Art Festival. They have all kinds of projections, and it depends, I guess on who does the projections, but I think easily, everybody would agree there was an excess of a million people, without, to my knowledge, a single incident that took place. It was very well organized, it went very smooth, except for the Mayor doing the bad portraits. Mayor Suarez: I was going to may, the only incident was the ones you were Involved in. Mr. Plummer: Yes, that's true. Somebody asked me what was my job, I said: "To put our brush fires," and they said: •What is that?" I said: "You see any brush fires? I must be doing my job." Mr. Mayor, also in congratulating the people of the Art Festival, this City did in fact sponsor for the first time, with a tremendous success with nationwide exposure, the sculpture contest that was held in the Meyers Park. As you know, that money came from Art in Public Places in the redoing of the Dinner Key Auditorium. The judging contest was unable to decide on a single piece, and in fact, there were two. As the agreements call for, those two pieces, or the winners, would in fact, come to the City of Miami, and today we have Mr. Ben Kuehne, who is the chairman of the board of the Art Festival, who would like to make the official presentation of those two pieces to the City of Miami. Mr. Benedict Kuehne: Mr. Mayor, and Commissioners, Ben Kuehne, Coconut Grove. As president of the Coconut Grove Association, the founder and sponsor, proud sponsors of the 25th anniversary Coconut Grove Arts Festival, I want to personally thank each one of you for your invaluable support in making the City of Miami and Coconut Grove a better place to be, through the Arts Festival. The City sponsorship of the first Miami exhibition and competition for sculpture has given the community a lasting piece of art, two pieces, in fact, to be placed on permanent display for the benefit of the public. I'm pleased to present to the City of Miami, the two award winning sculptures, which I know will be enjoyed by many generations of residents and visitors to the community. The two pieces, neither of which I have with me, because they are rather large, and I haven't been working out... one was created by a local artist, Miami artist Ron Fondeau, called "Naous," and the other work of John Toung, from the other end of the continent, Seattle, Washington, is called the "Burglar Winds," both of which still are erected in Meyers Park. We know that you and the residents of this City and our tourists will find them exciting, provocative, and visually appealing and it is our hope that you will have these works erected in a prominent location to enhance the visual atmosphere of the City. I have given all of you a brochure, which includes a photocopy, a photograph of the two award winning works, and we formally present them to the City at this tim. In addition, as a sponsor of the Coconut Grove Arts festival, we are proud to present the City with a festival poster, recognizing your sponsorship, and we thank you very such for your invaluable support. Mayor Suarez: That's a beautiful poster. Did we out -draw every other year, presumably? Mr. Plummer: I can tell you, Mr. Mayor, on the Saturday, the first day of the festival, they had more people on that Saturday then they have ever had, and I think it damn near came close to being the same attendance as what they had on Sunday. I would say it did out -draw all previous. Mr. Kuehne: Saturday was a record day according to the expert statisticians at the Police Department and the City Manager's office. Sunday was excellent, and Monday was excellent, as well. Mr. Plummer: Now, let interpret that for you. That interprets, Mr. Mayor, that on Saturday... 3 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: Somebody made a wild guess! kegs of beer. On his Plummer* the O soldturday a year ago, they sold 400 kegs of beer. Nov that Is t how they come about Saturday, the Satayy, y statsl Mr. Dawkins: I would like to go on record stating these art pieces that are placed in public places - Overtown/Park Vest is a public place, and as we begin to develop Overtovn/Park Vest, I would hope that some sculpture or something would be put over there, that has a black image, or what have you. Mr. Plummer: well, I don't think there is any problem with that, because according to the County ordinance, relating to art on public places, we only have to place one piece at this locale from which the money, came, and the other one, Mr. Dawkins, you could choose, and send over to wherever you want it. Mrs. Kennedy: We also have the new substation in Liberty City. Mr. Kuehne: Commissioner Plummer, there is a secondary matter which I believe is involved in you bringing the Coconut Grove Association here, that is the adopt -a -park donation. Mr. Plummer: Are you ready to make that? Mr. Kuehne: Yes, sir. Mr. Dawkins: Hold it, hold it, before you make that. If you are going to give... adopt Sayfront Park, let me go out the room. Mrs. Kennedy: There we go again! Mr. Kuehne: No, sir. Mr. Plummer: No, sir, Commissioner Dawkins, this is a commitment that was made by the Jaycees to this Commission about two years ago, and it is an ongoing thing with them. They were the ones, the keeper of the kegs, and I so I think that is where it is coming from. Mrs. Kennedy: Besides, Mr. Noguchi's ego would not permit any other sculpture there. Mr. Kuehne: Mr. Mayor and Commissioner, with me is Debbie Saunders from the Coconut Grove Jaycees. Together with the Coconut Grove Association, we operate parking for the Coconut Grove Arts Festival. The proceeds of that parking are used, and given by the Jaycees and the Coconut Grove Association to the City of Miami's adopt -a -park program. we are proud to have given to the City Manager's office $16,000 to be given to the City of !Miami adopt -a -park program. Over the last two years we have been doing that. Ve have given a total of 427,000 to the City of Miami adopt -a -park program and we are very pleased to have been able to make that substantial contribution. Thank you. Mr. Plummer: And we accept it with all humility, and want more! Mayor Suarez: Thank you and congratulations for your fine work, Sen. Mr. Dawkins: And continue the good work. Mayor Suarez: And continue the good work, as the Commissioner says. S. RAISE FUNDS FOR CHARLIE DELUCA, RESIDENT PROFESSIONAL AT MELREESE GOLF COURSE. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, one other very brief... I don't know if any of you have been made aware that a man who has devoted his life to the Melreese Golf Course has been stricken with a very serious heart attack, Mr. Charlie DeLuca. They are trying to put on a fund raiser to raise money for his medical 4 February 16, 1968 expenses, and it has been requested, and I would like to move at this time, that the fees for a one day event for fund-raising for that be completely waived, so that all of the proceeds go towards the recovery of Charlie DeLuca, and I so move. Mr. Dawkins: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. What facility?... the park itself? Mr. Plummer: Melreese, where he is the Pro. Mayor Suarez: OK, moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 8o-115 A MOTION DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO WAIVE USER FEE AT THE MELREESE GOLF COURSE FOR A ONE DAY EVENT TO RAISE FUNDS FOR CHARLIE DELUCA, (MELREESE'S RESIDENT PROFESSIONAL GOLFER), WHO RECENTLY SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK AT SAID FACILITY Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ASSENT: None. _ 6. EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE FROM THE CITY COMMISSION ON NOT BUSING CHILDREN FROM COCONUT GROVE TO A DIFFERENT AREA OF THE CITY. Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, before we start, while we are giving thanks to so many people, let me also bring something up. In January, my office was contacted by several community leaders, along with some of your offices also, I understand, regarding 27 kids who were going to be bussed to some of the INS head start program in Coconut Grove to Liberty City. My administrative aide, s Marta Martine&-Aleman, met with them and with the Headstart people, and finally the kids are back, and I just rant to take a second to thank the Building and Zoning Department, the Fire Department, for getting all the fire Inspections in time, and the Assistant City Manager Angie Bellamy, who worked Incessantly with Marta for a week to get the kids back. 7. DESIGNATE JACK FADS INTERIM MANAGER IN ABSENCE OF CITY MANAGER, CESAR ODIO. Mrs. Dougherty: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Yes, Madam City Attorney. Mrs. Dougherty: Could we entertain one more item before you start your agenda? Mayor Suarez: And I guess we also... 5 February is, 19ee r e Mrs. Dougherty: In the absence, or illness of the City Manager, the City Commission must designate somebody else to act in his place officially, to sign contracts and ate., and we would ask that you so designate Jack Eads to that he can sign two contract. One is for the special events, Runners International contract, and the secondly, the waiver of the 4,000 seat limitation in the amphitheater. Mayor Suarez: OK, I entertain a motion to that effect, to allow Mr. Eads to serve in that capacity. Mrs. Kennedy: So moved. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: We are not getting into the merits of the contracts, we are just... Mrs. Dougherty: Correct. Mayor Suarez: OK, so moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-116 A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER JACK FADS AS CITY MANAGER IN THE ABSENCE OF CITY MANAGER CESAR ODIO; SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING HIM TO ACT ON BEHALF OF SAID MANAGER IN PERFORMANCE OF CERTAIN DESIGNATED DUTIES WHICH SHALL INCLUDE THE SIGNING OF TWO CONTRACTS ASSOCIATED WITH SPECIAL FVENTS, NAMELY, ONE INVOLVING RUNNER'S INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT, AND A CONTRACT IN CONNECTION WITH THE WAIVER OF THE 4,000 SEAT LIMITATION FOR BAYFRONT PARK AMPHITHEATER. (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. ASSENT: None. S. CONSENT AGENDA. Mayor Suarez: Items 1 through 24 comprise the consent agenda. Does anyone from the general public wish to be heard for or against items 1 through 24? Mr. Dawkins: Pull 2, 13, and 14. Mayor Suarez: Items 2, 13, and 14 excluded, the request of Commissioner Dawkins. Mr. Plummer: I have a simple question on number 20. Mrs. Kennedy: I don't have any today. Mr. De Yurre: Number 6. 6 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: 6. Mr. Plummer: 6? Mayor Suarez: Removed from the consent agenda at the request of Commissioner De Yurre. Do you want to make your clarification on item 20? Mr. Plummer: The only thing on 20 I wanted to know is, is this group a nonprofit group? Mr. Dawkins: You on 20? Mr. Plummer: On 20. Mayor Suarez: He was going to do a clarification to see if we couldn't perhaps just pull that. Mr. Dawkins: Two of them are Is it a nonprofit organization? Mr. Plummer: I'm asking if it is nonprofit, that's all, because they have restriction of peddlers. INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mayor Suarez: Lori, you are not going to vote on the consent agenda. Ms. Lori Weldon: No, I just have a question about one item. Mayor Suarez: Which item? Ms. Weldon: 12. Mayor Suarez: OK, we will pull 12. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, go ahead and proceed, and they can get my answer for me. Mayor Suarez: OK, I entertain a vote on... Mr. Plummer: So moved, the remaining... Mayor Suarez:... items 1 through 14, with the exception of 2, 6, 12, 13, 14 and 20. Mr. De Yurre: Also 15, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: And 15. With those exceptions, does anyone wish to be heard on Items 1 through 24? Let the record... Ann Marie? Ms. Ann Marie Adker: Item 2. Mr. Dawkins: We pulled 2. Mayor Suarez: We are going to get to that one. With the exception of 2, 6, 12, 13. 14, 15, and 20. Lot the record reflect that no one has stepped forward. We have a notion and a second. Call the roll on the consent agenda. THEREUPON, THE CITY COMMISSION, ON MOTION DULY MADE BY COMMISSIONER PLUMMER AND SECONDED BY VICE MAYOR KENNEDY, ADOPTED THE HEREINBELOW RESOLUTIONS 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. 7 February 18, 1988 8.1 TRANSFER CONFISCATED WEAPONS AT NO CHARGE TO OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. RESOLUTION NO. 88-117 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO TRANSFER CONFISCATED WEAPONS AT NO CHARGE TO OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT FOR THE PROPER TRANSFER OF THESE WEAPONS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-51.4 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 8.2 ACCEPT DONATION OF TWO VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDERS FROM C.C.A.L. CORPORATION FOR USE BY PARKS DEPARTMENT. RESOLUTION NO. 88-118 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE DONATION OF TWO (2) VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDERS, VALUED AT $300 EACH, FROM C.C.A.L. CORPORATION FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 8.3 ALLOCATE $10,000 IN SUPPORT OF CRIME STOPPERS ANONYMOUS OF DADE COUNTY. RESOLUTION NO. 86-119 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($10,000) FROM THE SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND, ACCOUNT CODE 921002-270; IN SUPPORT OF CRIME STOPPERS ANONYMOUS OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 8.4 ALLOCATE $36,000 TO COVER NECESSARY EXPENSES REGARDING ACCREDITATION OF POLICE DEPARTMENT. RESOLUTION NO. 88-120 A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED THIRTY SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($36,500) FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND TO COVER THE NECESSARY FEES AND EXPENSES TO BE INCURRED BY THE ACCREDITATION OF THE MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT BY THE COMMISSION ON ACCREDITATION FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, INC., UPON SUCH FEES, COSTS, AND EXPENSES HAVING BEEN APPROVED BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 8 February 18, 1988 8.5 ACCEPT BID: CENTURY INDUSTRIES. INC. FOR ONE MOBILE STAGE FOR PARKS DEPARTMENT . RESOLUTION NO. 88-121 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF CENTURY INDUSTRIES. INC. FOR FURNISHING ONE (1) MOBILE STAGE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND PUBLIC FACILITIES AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $43,142.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE PRIOR YEAR RESERVE FUND ACCOUNT CODE •490301-907 ($41,000.00) AND 1987-88 OPERATING BUDGET ACCOUNT CODE NO. 580301-640 ($2.142.00); 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 Clerk.) 8.6 ACCEPT DID: COCONUT GROVE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INC. FOR GROUNDS MAINTENANCE SERVICES AT COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER. RESOLUTION NO. 88-122 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF COCONUT GROVE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INC. FOR FURNISHING GROUNDS MAINTENANCE SERVICES AT THE COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $10.536.96; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER ENTERPRISE FUND ACCOUNT CODE 0580407-340; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO - ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 8.7 ACCEPT DID: VAN TOPOLE CONSTRUCTION, INC. FOR FIRE STATION NO. 2 WASHROOM MODIFICATIONS. RESOLUTION NO. 88-123 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE DID OF VAN TOPOLE CONSTRUCTION, INC. IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $25,480.00, BASE DID OF THE PROPOSAL, FOR FIRE STATION NO. 2 - WASHROOM MODIFICATIONS; WITH MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE 1988 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE NO. 10347, PROJECT NO. 313018 IN THE AMOUNT OF $25.400.00 TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH SAID FIRM. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 9 February 18, 1988 8.8 ACCEPT BID: DELGADO PAVING, INC. FOR CITTWIDE SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT PROJECT - PHASE II (THIRD BIDDING - 3-4534). RESOLUTION NO. 88-124 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF DELGADO PAVING, INC. IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $474,100.00, TOTAL BID OF THE PROPOSAL, FOR CITYWIDE SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT PROJECT - PHASE II (THIRD BIDDING) B- 4534, WITH MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE 1988 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE NO. 10347, PROJECT NO. 341152 IN THE AMOUNT OF $474,100.00 TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH SAID FIRM. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 9.9 AGREEMENT WITH GREATER MIAMI UNITED, INC. - CONTINUE CITY'S SUPPORT AS FUNDING PARTNER IN THE LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORPORATION/MIAMI PROJECT. RESOLUTION NO. 88-125 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, WITH GREATER MIAMI UNITED, INC. (GMU) IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($70,000) FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTINUING THE CITY'S SUPPORT AS A FUNDING PARTNER IN THE LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORPORATION (LISC)/MIAMI PROJECT, WHOSE OBJECTIVE HAS BEEN TO PROVIDE LOAN AND GRANT FUNDS TO LOCAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS (CDC) OR COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS (CBO), USING MONIES THEREFOR FROM THIRTEENTH (13TH) YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 8.10 AUTHORIZE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC. TO PURCHASE AND INSTALL A FIRE AND VOICE ALARM SYSTEM AND REFURBISH MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER. RESOLUTION NO. 68-126 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC. VFW), PURSUANT TO THE AGREEMENT DATED APRIL 1, 1962, TO PURCHASE AND INSTALL A FIRE AND VOICE ALARM SYSTEM, AND TO UNDERTAKE A REFURBISHMENT OF THE MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER, WITH FUNDS THEREFOR HAVING BEEN APPROPRIATED UNDER THE FY'68 CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE NO. 10347, PROJECT NO. 420010, ENTITLED, OMIAMI CONVENTION CENTER - FIRE ALARM REPLACEMENT", AND PROJECT NO. 420011, 'MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER - RE*FURBISHMENT". (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 10 February 18, 1999 9.9 ACCEPT BID: DELGADO PAVING, INC. FOR CITYWIDE SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT PROJECT - PHASE It (THIRD BIDDING - B-4534). RESOLUTION NO. 88-124 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF DELGADO PAVING, INC. IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $474,100.00, TOTAL BID OF THE PROPOSAL, FOR CITYWIDE SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT PROJECT - PHASE II (THIRD BIDDING) B- 4534, WITH MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE 1988 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE NO. 10347, PROJECT NO. 341152 IN THE AMOUNT OF $474.100.00 TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH SAID FIRM. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 8.9 AGREEMENT WITH GREATER MIAMI UNITED, INC. - CONTINUE CITY'S SUPPORT AS FUNDING PARTNER IN THE LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORPORATION/MIAMI PROJECT. RESOLUTION NO. 88-125 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, WITH GREATER MIAMI UNITED, INC. (GNU) IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($70,000) FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTINUING THE CITY'S SUPPORT AS A FUNDING PARTNER IN THE LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORPORATION (LISC)/MIAMI PROJECT, WHOSE OBJECTIVE HAS BEEN TO PROVIDE LOAN AND GRANT FUNDS TO LOCAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS (CDC) OR COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS (CBO), USING MONIES THEREFOR FROM THIRTEENTH (13TH) TEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file In the Office of the City Clerk.) 8.10 AUTHORIZE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC. TO PURCHASE AND INSTALL A FIRE AND VOICE ALARM SYSTEM AND REFURBISH MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER. RESOLUTION NO. 88-126 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC. ("FMG"), PURSUANT TO THE AGREEMENT DATED APRIL 1, 1982, TO PURCHASE AND INSTALL A FIRE AND VOICE ALARM SYSTEM, AND TO UNDERTAKE A REFURBISHMENT OF THE MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER, WITH FUNDS THEREFOR HAVING BEEN APPROPRIATED UNDER THE FY188 CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE NO. 103470 PROJECT NO. 420010, ENTITLED, "MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER - FIRE ALARM REPLACEMENT", AND PROJECT NO. 420011, "MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER - REFURBISHMENT". (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 10 February 18, 1989 9.11 PARTICIPATE WITH CITY OF CORAL GABLES IN A PROPOSED MEDIAN LANDSCAPING PROJECT ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 1 - EXECUTE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. RESOLUTION NO. 88-127 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY OF MIAMI PARTICIPATING WITH THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES IN A PROPOSED MEDIAN LANDSCAPING PROJECT ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY NO. 1 BETWEEN RED ROAD AND DOUGLAS ROAD, AND AUTHORIZING THE EXPENDITURE OF CITY OF MIAMI FUNDS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $60,000 FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI'S SHARE OF SAID PROJECT, FROM C.I.P. PROJECT NO. 341160, SUBJECT TO THE CITY OF CORAL GABLES EXECUTING AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 8.12 ACCEPT 15 DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES. RESOLUTION NO. 88-128 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PROPER OFFICIALS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO ACCEPT FIFTEEN (15) DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES AND APPROVING THE RECORDING OF SAID DEEDS IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 6.13 RESCIND R-87-3 ORDERING DOWNTOWN HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II (H- 4521); REORDER SAID HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT AND DESIGNATE SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS. RESOLUTION NO. 88-129 A RESOLUTION RESCINDING RESOLUTION NO. 87-3 ADOPTED ON JANUARY S. 1987 WHICH ORDERED DOWNTOWN HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II H-4521, REORDERING DOWNTOWN HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II H-4521, AND DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY AGAINST WHICH SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS SHALL BE MADE FOR A PORTION OF THE COST THEREOF AS DOWNTOWN HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT - PHASE II H-4521. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 8.14 ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE: AUTHORIZE STREET CLOSURES, PEDESTRIAN MALL AND AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS. RESOLUTION NO. 88-130 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE SAINT PATRICK'S DAY PARADE TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE SAINT PATRICK'S DAY PARADE, INC. ON MARCH 12, 1988 PROVIDING FOR THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, ESTABLISHING A TEMPORARY PEDESTRIAN MALL SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES; FURTHER ESTABLISHING AN AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS DURING THE PERIOD OF THE EVENT; CONDITIONED UPON THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY AND UPON ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR ALL NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES. 11 February IS, 1988 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the•Office of the City Clerk.) $.IS DESIGNER'S SHOWCASE '88: AUTHORIZE STREET CLOSURES, PEDESTRIAN MALL AND AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS (MARCH 12, 1988). RESOLUTION NO. 88-131 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE DESIGNER'S SHOWCASE 188 TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT ASSOCIATION ON MARCH 12, 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 REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITYi CONDITIONED UPON THE ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR THE NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES ASSOCIATED WITH SAID EVENT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 8.16 APPOINT JESSE DINER TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF CITY FIRE FIGHTERS' AND POLICE OFFICERS' RETIREMENT TRUST. RESOLUTION NO. 88-132 A RESOLUTION APPOINTING JESSE DINER TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF MIAMI FIRE FIGHTERS' AND POLICE OFFICERS' RETIREMENT TRUST AS PROVIDED FOR BY CITY CODE SECTION 40-202(A)(1)(D) FOR A SPECIFIED TERM OF OFFICE. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 8.17 CONSENT TO THE TRANSFER OF MR. RAUL MASVIDAL'S LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTEREST IN BAYSIDE CENTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP TO MR. NATAN ROK. RESOLUTION NO. 88-133 A RESOLUTION CONSENTING TO THE TRANSFER OF MR. RAUL MASVIDAL'S LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTEREST IN BAYSIDE CENTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP TO MR. NATAN ROK, PURSUANT TO SECTION 5.3 OF THE AMENDED AND RESTATED LEASE AGREEMENT (RETAIL PARCEL) BETWEEN DAYSIDE CENTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AND THE CITY OF MIAMI DATED OCTOBER 17, 1965, AND SECTION 5.3 OF THE LEASE AGREEMENT (PARKING GARAGE) BETWEEN BAYSIDE CENTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AND THE CITY OF MIAMI DATED JANUARY 14, 1985. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 9. ACCEPT DONATIONS OF SURPLUS FURNITURE FROM SOUTHERN BELL TO THE OVERTOWN COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS FOR OVERTOWN MINI STATION. Mayor Suarez: Item 2. Ms. Ann Marie Adker: Ann Marie Adker, 407 NW 5th Street, and that's in Overtown. I would like to request the Commission to reword this, so that the furniture that was donated for the mini -substation will remain a part of Overtown. 12 February le, 1988 Mr. Dawkins: Madam City Attorney, can we reword the resolution to say: "Accepting the donation of surplus furniture items from Southern Bell to the Overtown Community Activists," rather than "through," and that would allow the Overtown Community Activists to retain ownership, because if we say, "through," it would appear that we are accepting it through them for the City and then the City would inventory it and it becomes City property, In that a... Mrs. Dougherty: We can accept a donation with any kind of condition attached to it, so I assume if that is their condition, we can accept it with it. Mr. Plummer: You mean Southern Bells? Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Williams, do you have any problem with that? Mr. Ron Williams: (OFF MIKE) No. No, I don't Commissioner. Mr. Dawkins: OK, I move that we change the wording, "through" to "to" and I move item 2. Mr. Plummer: Second., Call the roll. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-134 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE DONATION OF SURPLUS FURNITURE ITEMS FROM SOUTHERN BELL TO THE OVERTOWN COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS FOR USE IN THE MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT/OVERTOWN MINI STATION. (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. 10. EXTEND EXISTING CONTRACT WITH POWER FEDERAL DETECTIVE BUREAU FOR SECURITY SERVICES AT THE MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER (SEE LABEL 12). Mayor Suarez: Item 6. Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, my question basically with this item, and I guess it is a matter of finding out what the procedure is, here we are talking about an extension of this contract on a month to month basis, for a cost of $26,000. Now, was this an item that went out to bid, and then... now, we were going originally on a bid, the original contract, and now we are giving an extension? And I'd like to know what the procedure is for someone to get a contract, and then without going through, if it is a bid process, without going through the bid process to get now an extension all the way through September, which is almost, about 6-8 months, with nobody else having an opportunity to bid. I'd like, for my own edification, to find out what kind of a procedure this is. Mr. Eads? 13 February 16, 1996 Mayor Suarez: Why are we doing this. Frank, or Ron, or somebody? Mr. Castaneda: Commissioner, the reason that we are asking that it be held over for a month to month basis, because we are looking at a saving money in the security contract, and right now, the security system is from 5:00 o'clock at night, to 8:00 o'clock in the scorning, and we are considering the possibility of we establish a security contract from 5:00 o'clock to midnight, and eliminate the midnight to 5:00 o'clock in the morning, and we are looking at that as a method of saving money. As to why it is extended... Mayor Suarez: You are saying it is month to month?... not necessarily through September 30th? Mr. Castaneda: No, we just want to mane it... we are looking at the Information as to what activities are carrying in the center, to see if we can reduce the hours of the security service, to eliminate the midnight to 6:00 o'clock in the morning area. Mayor Suarez: And at that point, you will go out to competitive bidding. Mr. Castaneda: Yes, and I believe that the contract has something that permits an extension. Mayor Suarez: Yes, they always have an extension clause, but you know, the Commission may not want to extend this through September 30th. You want to shorten it? Mr. De Yurre: Well, my question now is, how long is it going to take you to find out your answer? Mayor Suarez: To get your RFP and put out for bids. Mr. Castaneda: We will know within the next 30 days. Mr. De Yurre: Well then, why extend it to September? We'll extend it for 30 days... Mr. Eads: Commissioner, could you give us 60 days, just to give an opportunity to go through the process, if we have to? Mr. De Yurre: OK, 60 days. Mayor Suarez: We agreed on the monthly price, that's not an issue. We know what that is. Mr. Williams: That's no problem, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: It is always a concern, because you are trying to get the lowest price, obviously, and the traditional, correct, proper way to do that Is by competitive bidding. Mr. Castaneda: We did not want to stop the service, and while we were making It efficient, because then we needed the security... Mr. De Turre: How long have you been doing the study? Mr. Castansda: We started a month and a half ago. We are looking at every possible way that we can do to save money in the Little Havana Community Center, and this is one of the issues that we are looking at. Mr. De Yurre: When does the contract expire? Mayor Suarez: By October 1st. Mr. Williams: December 11, 187, I believe, Commissioner. Mr. De Yurre: So then you started studying this after the contract expired. You know... Mr. Castaneda: I guess so, yes, sir. 14 February 18, 19S9 Mr. De Yurre: You know, if you have some hindsight, you know, if we start doing this a few months before, then you are going to run into an extension situation. Mr. Castaneda: OK. Mayor Suarez: OK, with a limitation of 60 days, I entertain a motion on item 6. Mr. De Yurre: So moved. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-135 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING CONTRACT. WITH POWER FEDERAL DETECTIVE BUREAU TO PROVIDE SECURITY SERVICES AT THE MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER APPROVED ORIGINALLY ON RESOLUTION NO. 86-980, BID NO. 86-87-005 TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR SIXTY (60) DAYS AT AN ESTIMATED COST OF $6,000,000.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1987-88 OPERATING BUDGET INDEX CODE NO. 450301-88 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 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 i NOES: None. ASSENT: None. Mayor Suarez: Out of curiosity, Frank or Ron, who is the principal of that corporation, since we are always trying to clarify, on item 6? Mr. Williams: Let me get the file, Mr. Mayor, and I'll bring the answer right back to you. Mayor Suarez: None of your relatives, by any chance? Mr. Williams: No. Mayor Suarez: Or Frank's relatives?... or Hispanic...? Mr. Williams: I don't think so. I will give you that information in a minute. 15 February IS, 1989 --_---M_M-------------------- --- M-------- ---------------- _-- 11. ACCEPT $750,000 GRANT FROM FLORIDA LEGISLATURE FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH END OF SAYFRONT PARK. -----------���-_-_-------.---------- --------------------------------------- Mayor Suarez: OK, item 12, in the meantime. Mr. Dawkins: Who pulled 12? I pulled 13 and 14. Mayor Suarez: Somebody wanted clarification? Oh, Lori Weldon, our sixth vote! Ms. Lori Weldon: Lori Weldon, 160 NW 44th Street. I just wanted to ask, I realize that when it comes to City funding, any money spent on Bayfront Park must be matched in the other area parks. I don't know if the resolution calls for anything... for matching funds for other sources of revenue, so I just want you to know, will the other neighborhood parks be receiving $?50,000? Mrs. Kennedy: Let no answer that for you. This In the money, if it is accepted, a grant fr6m the State Legislature. It was established before we came out with the program of matching funds to the community parks and it can only be used for Sayfront Park, and has that stipulation. Ms. Weldon: OK, fine, just wanted to know that. Mayor Suarez: It might be, Lori, this is a direct grant from the State, and It is supposed to be in two portions, and I don't mean to reduce the chances that we will get the second portion, because I know how key it is to the park, but it might be that we ought to ask the Legislature this year, for some funds, of this sort, for other kinds of things, that are a little bit more needed in the community, such as, and one that I had in mind, I think others In this Commission have expressed interest in it is, a satellite facility for Jackson Memorial Hospital so that people don't always have to drive to Jackson, and we could have some, you know, clinics in our neighborhood, that are free of charge, and if Senator Gordon was as effective... is as effective In getting us that money as he was for this, we might see some interesting monies coming into our community for... Mr. Dawkins: Well, I'll be up there lobbying for $750,000 for the inner-city parks, just like we sent up there last year and lobbied to get $750,000 for the downtown parks. Mrs. Kennedy: That's right, and I said I would too, and I will. Mr. Dawkins: That great, and Commissioner Kennedy and I both will be up there lobbying for that. Mayor Suarez: OK, I entertain a motion on item 12. Mrs. Kennedy: Move it. Mr. Dawkins: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 86-136 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A DIRECT APPROPRIATION GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $750,000 FROM THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE, FOR THE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUTH END OF SAYFRONT PARK, CAPITAL PROJECT NO. 331305; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT IMPLEMENTING SAID GRANT AND TO IMPLEMENT SAID PROJECT, SUBJECT TO APPLICABLE CITY CODE PROVISIONS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) 16 February 18, 1988 Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, 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. 12. CLARIFICATION IN CONNECTION WITH SECURITY SERVICES AT THE MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER (SEE LABEL 10). Mr. Ron Williams: In..response to your earlier question regarding the principal In the security firm. The president is listed as Mr. Humberto Diaz. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Ron. -------------------------- 13. NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH RPPW, INC., AND PERKINS AND PARTNERS - ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY STUDY I`OR THE OMNI REDEVELOPMENT AREA PROJECT. ------------------------------------------------ Mayor Suarez: Item 13. Mr. Dawkins: Item 13, who is RPPW? Mr. Matthew Schwartz: RPPW is a planning consulting firm in Tarrytown, New York. Mr. Dawkins: Where? Mr. Schwartz: From Tarrytown, New York. -! Mr. Dawkins: Well, OK, go ahead. Mayor Suarez: I entertain a notion on 13. Do you need any more? !; Mr. Dawkins: I need more, yes, I need more. And then what? What In the ethnic makeup of the group? It i Mr. Schwartz: Mr. Kastarlak is from RPPW, who can discuss the makeup. s: Mr. Dawkins: Where is be? Mr. Schwartz: Perkins and Partners, their contract... they have hired Perkins and Partners, which is a local Miami firm, they are located on HE 18th Street, It is an a planning and architectural firm for approximately 30 percent of the contract. It is minority owned. Mr. Dawkins: No, not approximately, or 30 percent? i Mr. Schwartz: Well, I think Mr. Kastarlak can respond to... 1 Mr. Dawkins: No, no, I don't need no "approximates!" Mr. Schwartz: Mr. Kastarlak? Mayor Suarez: Do you want to come up to the mike and tell us how you shared this contract with the local participant?... or co -venture? You might move the mike up, and give us your name and address. 17 February IS, 1988 Mr. Bulent Ksstarlak: Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Commissioners, Vice Mayor. it is a privilege for us to be here today, and we are certainly are looking forward to the opportunity of serving the people of Miami. In this particular case, the invitation... Mayor Suarez: Give us your name and address, please. Mr. Kestarlak: 555 White Plains Road, Terrytown, New York, which is shortly up from Manhattan. Mayor Suarez: And your name, sir? Mr. Kestarlak: My game is Sulent Kastarlak, and I am a vice president with the firm, and I will be the supervising principal in charge of the project at this particular location. If I may, I can perhaps summarize the circumstances, bow this project has been put together. At the invitation of the Department, we have looked into the subject matter, which is very such the type of thing we have been doing for the past 33 years. We had an economic development, urban revitalization, and community consensus study in making consulting firm. In addition, we do perform other feasibility studies, market studies, about certain investment projects and we felt that this is something of our line, but we wanted to have definitely, and very much, local input to this effort, and we do not take this lightly. We looked around, and we found the partners that we are with, Perkins and Partners, and we gave them a very major roll to play in this project. In terms of monetary terms, the project consists of something like $35,000, and we have one third of this project go to Perkins and Partners. Now, for this, they will be providing the survey of the entire area. They will be providing community consensus, community participation in terms of providing input to the project. They will be helping us identify investment opportunities in this area, and also they will be aiding us with the physical urban design, with the process. Mr. Dawkins: I note sir, that you are not going to pay them one-third to sit down, that's why I wanted to know how much. If you are giving them one-third of the contract, they are going to earn it. All right, OK, that's... thank you, sir. All right, on 14... no, hold it. Thank you, I'll get back to you In a few minutes, sir. 14, who is Chesapeake? Mr. Schwartz: Chesapeake is a consulting firm from Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Dawkins: Where are they? Mr. Schwartz: I believe they are not here today. This is a... Mr. Dawkins: All right, they are from Baltimore, Maryland, right? Mr. Schwartz: Right, they have done a number of studies previously, but... Mr. Dawkins: Vhat is their ethnic makeup? Mr. Schwartz% The majority of the firm are minority. It is a very small firm, I believe there are about five members in the firm, three of them are minorities. Mr. Dawkins: What kind of minorities? I Mr. Schwartz: Hispanics. i Mr. Dawkins: Eskimos? Mr. Schwartz; Hispanic, I believe. Mr. Dawkins: OK, $4,500, all right. Now, let's go to 44. I'd like to move... I'd like the Commission to go to 44. Now, here we have... we are going to accept $17,000 from the National Endowment for The Arts, for a master plan for the Overtown Historic Village, and authorizing the City Manager to accept the aforementioned grant. Now, when it comes to Overtown/Park West, you want a grant, but when it comes to 13 and 14, you go to Community Development, and get money for economic development action, OK? Nov, that's to me, is putting the cart before the horse. This same gentlemen... come back, where is the gentlemen from Tarrytown? What did you say your firm's specialty is, sir? 18 February 18, 1988 Mr. Kastarlsk: Economic development planning, urban revitalization, community consensus, urban design. Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Bailey, are these the things that we need in Overtown/Park West, sir? I mean, would this be a kind of a study we would need? Mr. Bailey: (OFF MIKE - INAUDIBLE) Mr. Dawkins: OK, so I would, when we get there... I'm going to move it now! I move that $20,000 be found from Community Development and that this RPPW's contract be extended to include Overtown/Park West and that they do the same... go ahead, Herb. TAPE Z Mr. Baileys Commissioner, we have already spent in excess of 560,000 or $70,000 on studies in Overtown Park West. Mr. Dawkins: Well, why in hall don't we produce something? Mr. Bailey: Well, you have, because, we go back three to four years ago, we were not able to determine what the development mix was going to be until we did $45,000 study between the County and the City, with Hammer, Siler & George, to determine that we would have a residential mixed use community. That was done in 1983, and that data is still being used. The Black Archives, the $17.000 grant is also a part of more money that we are spending on studies and... Mr. Dawkins: We are not spending it. It is a grant. See, this is what gets ee. Mr. Bailey: well... Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Bailey, we are not... the City of Miami is not spending money in Overtown/Park West for this. It is a grant for the State of Florida. Mr. Bailey: That's in addition to $23,000 that we already have for the Historic Village from the City's coffers. Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, I am going to do this, Mr. Mayor. I am going to move 13. Mayor Suarez: 13 has been moved. Do we have a second? Mr. De Yurre: Second. Mr. Plummer: wall, the only question I have, is why is one an economic development for Omni, at $35,000 and the other study which is being done on Biscayne Boulevard corridor, is only $4.500. Mr. Baileys Well, to go back to what happened in these redevelopment districts. As I said before, we spent initially, $45,000 to do the study for Overtown/Park West when we got the redevelopment area. We just got the redevelopment area for Omni and we have go through the same type of study to determine the industrial use for that redevelopment district. It just so happens this time that a lot of the data that is needed has caused this particular expenditure to be a little less than what it was when we did Overtown/Park West, so we have to do these market studies and I think this Commission has always indicated that you need a market study so you know what you are going to do, so this In the same market study for Omni that we have done in the past for Overtown/Park West, but it just $10.000 cheaper. Mayor Suarez: Herb, is the Biscayne Boulevard study going to include a consideration of the linkage ordinance that we have been kicking around for a couple of years now? Mr. Bailey: ?es, in fact, that community, from time to time often say we are not doing the thing to determine what we can do for the Biscayne Boulevard. It just so happens that the Chesapeake Group has done studies for the Black Grove, it has done studies for other parts of the City, and they are familiar with the kind of neighborhood orientation that the Biscayne Community is requesting. They have met with that community, that community has suggested that they be used, because they feel that they are a little more familiar with what their problem is. That is the reason they were selected. 19 February 10, 1988 Mayor Suarez: Let me ask the same question to the gentleman that is going to be doing the Omni area. Have you... are you familiar with linkage ordinances such as the one that exists in the State of Massachusetts, implemented in Boston and somehow, OK... Mould you build that into your consideration of what could be done in the Omni redevelopment district there? Mr. Kastarlak: Very much so. This is one of the techniques which we will try to transfer, our knowledge and expertise from other areas, including the Boston area, with Mayor Flint, as you may know, very closely, has been doing a wonderful job in this, and would like to transfer that knowledge to Miami, if we can. We will try to best for that. Mayor Suarez: Well, the reason I mentioned it, the first time I proposed it, I was told that it was unconstitutional and improper and immoral in the City of Miami, and then we found and ordinance and statute in the State of Massachusetts and they managed to do it in Boston, so I guess we can do it here, and the FAR north of the Omni is fairly low, and we haven't been able to engender any kind of development to speak of on Biscayne Boulevard, no matter how ■any adjustments have been made, they're minor adjustments to our zoning, and it is about time for some major adjustments, north of the Omni. Mr. Plummer: Now many firms were interviewed? Mr. Schwartz: For the Biscayne Boulevard? For the Omni, there were six firms interviewed. Twelve firms responded to the RFP. We sent out probably 100 RFP's nationally, and made a major effort to get local involvement in the project. Mayor Suarez: Did we take a vote on 13 already, Madam City Clerk? Ms. Hirai: No, sir. Mayor Suarez: Did we have a motion and a second? Ms. Hirai: Yes, sir. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll... are you OK on 13? Mr. Dawkins: Yes. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-137 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND RPPW INC., IN CONJUNCTION WITH PERKINS AND PARTNERS, FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES RELATED TO CONDUCTING AN ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE OMNI REDEVELOPMENT AREA PROJECT, WITH FUNDS THEREFORE IN THE AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $35,000 BEING MADE UP AS FOLLOWS: $15,000 FROM THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BUDGET AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $20,000 ALLOCATED FROM THE 13TH TEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIONS. (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: 20 February 18, 1989 e 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. 14. AGREEMENT WITH CHESAPEAKE GROUP, INC. - ECONOMIC AND MARKETING FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE BISCAYNE BOULEVARD CORRIDOR. Mayor Suarez: Item 14 is actually within the Manager's authority. Did you put it on here because you wanted us to know about it?... or in case it is $4,501, or something here. Mr. Bailey: Well, Me. Mayor, what has happened is that the Manager, in some Instances, because of the proliferation of $4,500 contracts, would not prefer to have too many of them done without this Commission knowing about it, so we thought it would be appropriate to bring it before the Commission so you could express your views. Mayor Suarez: I understand. I entertain a motion on 14. Mrs. Kennedy: I move it. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll on 14. Mr. Dawkins: How are you all going to move my item? I'm the one pulled the Item. Mrs. Kennedy: Oh, you are? Mr. Dawkins: Yes, I did, I pulled the item. Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry, Commissioner Dawkins... Mr. Dawkins: Yes, I pulled the item, I'm the one that has got to be satisfied on it. Mrs. Kennedy: OK. Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins on 14. Mr. Dawkins: I move it. Mayor Suarez: Moved. Do we have a second? Mrs. Kennedy: I'll second, no problem. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Call the roll. 21 February IS, 1988 The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-138 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND THE CHESAPEAKE GROUP INC. FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES RELATED TO CONDUCTING AN ECONOMIC AND MARKETING FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE BISCAYNE BOULEVARD CORRIDOR OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, WITH FUNDS THEREFOR IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $4,500 ALLOCATED FROM THE 13TH YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS WHICH WERE PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIONS. (Hare 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: 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. 15. COMMISSION DIRECTS ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON MONIES SPENT ON VARIOUS FEASIBILITY STUDIES IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE CITY. Mr. Dawkins: Before we get to item 15, Mr. Manager, I would like for you to provide my office with economic and feasibility studies done for Little Havana, and how much money was spent, and the... for the lack of a better word, and the goals set by that study. I want you to do the same thing for West Grove - let me know how much money has been spent out there in economic development studies and feasibility studies. I want you to let me know how such stoney has been spent in Overtown and what firms did its and what the projections are, goals and objectives that ware not. I want you to let we know how such money was spent in Wyawood on economic development studies, what the goals and objectives were and what we have been doing about them. And also, I want to know how such money you spent on 15th Avenue in Liberty City on economic development. I want that, and bring it up for discussion at the April 14th mating. Mr. lads: Ten, we will have it for you. Mrs. Kennedy: Let so ask you, the Manager is always talking about streamlining. Do we really need this contract? Mr. Bailey: It just so happens, Commissioner, that streamlining had some Impact on internal staff. We have determined that in many instances it is cheaper to go out for a specific job, rather than to have staff to do it, and this is what is happening, in most cases. Otherwise, you would have a staff that you would pay them that forever, on an item, in terms of fringes and everything else, so we are going out in many cases, rather than increasing the staff. Mr. Dawkins: Include Allapattah in that, Mr. Bailey, please. Mr. Bailey: Allapattah will be included, yes, sir. 22 February 18, 1908 16. DEFER PROPOSED AGREEMENT WITH CANNON, STIERNEIM, BUSUTIL MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF CITYVIDE EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION PROGRAM (ESP) FOR PURPOSES OF FURTHER INFORMATION. Mayor Suarez: Item IS. Mr. De Turre: Too, my first question is, how much money do we spend annually on studies here in the City of Miami? Mr. Carlos Smith: I couldn't tell you right off the bat, I don't know. Mr. De Turre: Well, I'd like to have that answer. Mr. Rods: Too, sir. Mr. De Turre: Just out of curiosity. Now, number two is, we are getting here a proposal, on a phase II, when I don't even know the first thing about phase I. We are talking about implementation in phase II of something that I have not been appraised of, that I have no idea what it is that they are trying to do, and before I can vote on phase 11, and spending up to $45,000 on another semi -study, or implementation of a study, I would like to be made aware... I don't know, maybe some of the other members of this Commission have been made aware of this phase I, but I certainly haven't and before I could vote on this, I need to be made aware of what we are talking about. Ms. Judy Cannon: My name is Judy Cannon, and I am a principal of the company that is involved in this study, and I don't believe you were in office at the time that phase I was done. That's probably why you were not aware of it, but I'd be happy to let you know. All right now, the first phase of the study was part of a... Mayor Suarez: Why don't you tell us what an employee suggestion program is? Just from the name, I've got problems with it already. Maybe you can convince me. Ms. Cannon: All right, an employee suggestion program, basically is where employees would be encouraged to put into writing, to formalize ideas that they have while doing their job in a department or wherever they are in the City, to formally submit them to a coordinator, who in this instance, and we believe appropriately placed, is in the Manager's office, that would be Liz Sierra. Therefore, the suggestion does not go through the department and maybe die on the vine somewhere, but it goes directly to the Manager's office, and the coordinator would review it for whether it is a good idea, does it fit the criteria, and so forth, if it is an appropriate suggestion, that fits all the criteria of an employee suggestion. We are not talking like, for a:ample, If it is something to do with bargaining, or better wages or anything that would go to a labor relations table. That is not appropriate. We are talking strictly about operational. Mr. De Turre: Are you explaining to me now the results of the study? Ms. Cannon: OK. Mr. De Turre: No, is that what you are saying now? So I can understand. Ms. Cannon: No, no, the Mayor asked me to tell what an employee suggestion... what does that mean. Mayor Suarez: Yes, I wanted to know what NSP was. I've heard of ESPN, I've heard of all kinds of things that sound like this. Mr. De Yurre: I've heard of ESP, but... Mayor Suarez: And ESP and other senses there. Ms. Cannon: All right, well... so the suggestions, once they are implemented, and the employee would be awarded for the suggestion, if it is a tangible award, and it saves the City dollars, they would be awarded a percentage of 23 February 18, 1988 the savings. They would get a cash award. If it is an intangible saving, there is a governing committee that is set up with the department directors from certain departments in the City that would rule on what the award would be, whether it would be a day off with pay... with pay right, without pay, that wouldn't be very rewarding... or a cash award, maybe they would set a max, like, say between $50 or $500, depending on the quality of the suggestions - would it save lives, does it improve morale, you know, it sort of, they would make determination as to the value of the suggestion. Nov, to get your question - the first phase of the employee suggestion program that we have completed, was set up the organizational structure of the employee suggestion program, which has been completed, to select people to be on the governing committee and set up that. That has been completed. To go into - every single department and interview who the department director thought - would be the best liaison. That would be someone that would work with Liz Sierra. should there be a problem, or an employee... sometimes employees have _ super ideas, but they may be deficient in writing it up. That liaison would function as a help so that the employee could go to the liaison and help write It down, and calculate the savings and so forth, before sending it formally to the Manager's office. All that has been completed, and now the second phase Is to develop the rules of the program, the goals of the program, all the actual procedures for submitting a suggestion, for marketing a suggestion in each department that has to be done, so that it is up and running. A lot of employees have already expressed a great interest. They've their suggestions ready to go, and then we would continue to work with Liz to help field those suggestions, help her get used to her roll and so forth. I've probably missed a lot of things in between, because I am not used to talking before a Commission and I'm a little nervous, so please excuse me. Mr. De Turre: OK. Mr. Plummer: Yell, let me just state one thing, because I was one of the ones who brought it to this Commission. Metropolitan Dade County started this program. In their first year, Victor. they claimed that they had savings of In excess of $1,000,000 - that employees came forth, those who knew what was going on the best, of ways of saving money, better ways of doing it, safer ways of doing it. They put in this program. If it saved the County $35,000 a year by doing it a different way, they were given a cash award. It was an Incentive to find ways from those who knew best, the ways to cut costs and still do a better job. In some cases, it didn't cut costs, but it deliver a better service to the public. For that, it was an incentive program. Ms. Cannon: May I add to that, that Phoenix also has a very successful program, and they are saving over $900.000 a year in savings, and Hanniphen County, Minnesota. It is in the public sector now, and it is doing very well, and the private sector - IBM, and places like that, they are going into beaucoup billion dollars in savings from these kinds of programs, and it has = been very successful, but it has to be managed properly. A lot of cities just throw up a suggestion box, and die right there in the box, and nothing ever... and frustrates the employees, and this is a way to keep it, you know, alive, and make sure the right people see the suggestions and it In pushed through the process ■ Mr. De Turre: Does the program include Commissioners too? Me. Cannon: Unfortunately not. Probably would be inappropriate! Mr. De Turre: I have a problem with the fact that with the monies that our employees are paid in this City, which is. I think they are very well paid, I _ think that there should be an incentive right then and there. and I've only been here three months, and I come from the private sector, I've got my own law firm and maybe it is a different ball game out there, but there seems to be a lack of incentive to get things done in this City, a lack of drive to accomplish things, and again, be creative, and I just... when I think of the _ concept of paying people additionally to do their job, it just... it rubs me the wrong way! Ms. Cannon: Commissioner, that would be an invalid suggestion, because what we are doing is not... one of the rules is not to award employees for what their job requires. In other words, if a garbage collector came up with an Idea for the Police Department to improve efficiency, that is a very valid suggestion, but if he came up with an idea that you know, is part of his job description for picking up garbage, then that would not be a valid suggestion. Those kinds of judgements will be made at the time. 24 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: Judy... Ms. Cannon: Yes, sir. Mayor Suarez: ... were you at all involved in the County's implementation of the 7 Ms. Cannon: Prior to my leaving the County to get married, I set up the Initial research for putting the program in place, and my partner did a lot of the training for the liaison and the coordinator and so forth. Mayor Suarez: Do you know how much the County Attorney gets paid? Ms. Cannon: The County Attorney? Now, I believe he gets paid a little bit more than the Manager and the paper said the Manager got paid $111,000. Mayor Suarez: You could save... the County could save from its budget about $40,000 or $50,000, just by paying a reasonable amount of money to the County Attorney, who gets paid now almost $130,000, so I'd be very skeptical in accepting anything because it somehow saves $1,000,000 from the County. I could save $1,000,000 from the County's budget of one and one-half billion dollars, just by... well, by as many different ways that I am not going to get Into here, but... Mr. De Yurre: I'm just not prepared to vote on this matter right now. I'd like to in fact, just mention that I'm sure you'd missed a number of things that are a part of this program and you weren't prepared to express right now, and I'd like to defer this until I'm better satisfied with what we are dealing with here. Mr. Dawkins: Second. Mayor Suarez: We have a motion to defer and a second. Mrs. Kennedy: Let me just ask you, what if the savings do not exceed your fee? Ms. Cannon: We would refund the fee. That's part of... we are the only firm that I know of that makes that commitment and we have been very successful everywhere we have done. We have done work for Miami Beach, for Deltona Utilities. We've done work for Broward County. We don't just do employee suggestion programs, that is part of what we do, it In one of our specialties, but we also do productivity studies and we've, you know, done very well, to far. Mr. De Turre: How such have you been paid for this phase I?... for this study? Ms. Cannon: $7,024. Mr. De Turre: $7.024, OK, thank you. Mayor Suarez: We have a motion to defer, we have a second. Any discussion? Call the roll on the motion. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner De Turre, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 88-139 A MOTION TO DEFER PROPOSED RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH CANNON, STIERHEIM BUTUSIL MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF A CITYWIDE EMPLOYEE SUGGESTION PROGRAM, FOR PURPOSES OF FURTHER CLARIFICATION AND INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH SAID ISSUE. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: 25 j -- February 18, 1988 s 11 AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner !filler J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. COMMENTS DURING ROLL CALL: Mayor Suarez: I'm going to vote "yes" on the motion. I typically don't like to defer items, but it is either "yes" at this point, I mean, vote to defer, or just vote against the item. I'm sure you prefer for ne to vote to defer. 17. ZRIEF DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL OF REQUESTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE TOUR OF THE AMERICAS 188 EVENT (SEE LABEL 70). -- Mayor Suarez: Item 20. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I am finding that item 20 is a for profit organization. Mayor Suarez: Nov does that square with our policy of... Mr. Plummer: I inquired if they are for profit, what is the return to the City for the use of public streets, and I find there is no return to the City. Am I right, or am I wrong? Mr. Castaneda: You are correct. Basically, it is not costing the City anything, they are paying for all of the services... Mr. Plummer: It is not a matter of that. The City is... Mr. Castaneda: But there is no profit. Mr. Plummer: There is a profit, it is a profit making organization. Mr. Castanada: Right, not for the City, that's what I said. Mrs. Kennedy: Profit for them. Mr. Plummer: Yes, for them! And when is this event scheduled for? Mr. Castaneda: February 28th. Mr. Plummer: Well, I just think if they are going to use our streets and use our facilities and somewhat put out the local people, I think the City is entitled to some return, if it is a profit making thing. Mrs. Kennedy: Do you want to table it until the afternoon, and maybe Frank can talk to than? Mr. Plummer: That's fine with me. Mrs. Kennedy: OK. Mayor Suarez: OK, tabled until the afternoon, is a good suggestion. 26 February i8. 1988 �i ---------------- ----------------------- ------------------- - - - -- -- 16. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL OF (A) AGENDA ITEM 25, PROPOSED EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY _ BOARD AND (H) AGENDA ITEM 26, PROPOSED RESOLUTION REAPPOINTING AND APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. Mayor Suarez: Item 25. Mr. Eads: DDA item. Mr. Peter Andolina: Peter Andolins, deputy director of the Downtown Development Authority. This item is an amendment to the City Code. Mr. Dawkins: What's your title? Mr. Andolins: Deputy director of the Downtown Development Authority. Mr. Dawkins: Tou know, this is ridiculous, utterly ridiculous. Five years I sit up here and ask :them to get a minority over there in that firm, and they still go hire another white fellow as assistant to the director. Defer this until the next sleeting. Mayor Suarez: We have a motion to defer item 25. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Mr. Plummer: And Mr. Mayor, in the deferment, since they are going to Increase the size of that board, I would like to have consideration given to Increase it to 29, rather than just by two, that would give each Commissioner two more appointments to that board, so I would ask that consideration be given when it be brought back. Mr. Eads: Table item 26 also. Mr. Dawkins: What is the ethnic makeup of the board now? I'm going to go further than that. Now many blacks on the board? Mr. Andolina: Right now there are three. Mr. Dawkins: Three? Mr. Andolina: Garth Reeves, Evonne Raglin, and... Mr. Dawkins: And Mr. McKinnon? Mr. Andolina: Teo, Douglas McKinnon. Mayor Suaraz: The problem with expanding beyond 19, I think, is that the only reason we ever would go from 19 to 21, is that the two, the representatives from the City and the County are being made ex-officio without voting, the •onagers, and I don't know what it would take to expand beyond 21. Do you know, Peter? - off the top of your head? Mr. Andolina: There is no restriction against expanding further, except for the size of the conference room. For the record, may I just state that I have been the deputy for eleven years at the Downtown Development Authority? Mr. Plummer: That gives Miller Dawkins good food for thought and say you have been there too long! Mr. Dawkins: No, no, Mr. Mayor, I have been hearing that ever since I've been here, ever since I've been here. "Don't worry, Miller, we are going to correct it. Don't worry Miller, come back. Don't worry Miller, we got it •lade." OK? Now, all right, I'm going to show you, I've been here, what?... since 181. I've been arguing with Roy McKenzie since '81. Now, I am going to take this through you. How many blacks in DDA in... 27 February 18, 1988 I Mrs. Kennedy: In top management positions. Mr. Dawkins: I'm talking about in the salaried positions. Mr. Andolina: There are two, our accountant, and our receptionist. Mr. Dawkins: Deg pardon? Mr. Andolina: The accountant, and the receptionist. Mr. Dawkins: All right, a receptionist, OK? How many Latins? Mr. Andolina: Two. Mr. Dawkins: Two. Mr. Andolina: Excuse me, three. Mr. Dawkins: What are the positions? Mr. Andolina: The street coordinator, our economic development coordinator, and one of the secretaries. Mr. Dawkins: What is the salary of the economic development coordinator, whatever the hell it is? Mr. Andolins: Approximately $40,000. Mr. Dawkins: All right, what is the director's salary? Mr. Andolins: The director is approximately $96,000. Mr. Dawkins: Plus perks? Mr. Andolins: Fringe benefits, yes. Mr. Dawkins: Up and over $100,000. All right, what is your salary? Mr. Plummer: No wonder he doesn't want to be County attorney! Mr. Dawkins: What's your salary? Mr. Andolina: $66,700, I believe. Mr. Dawkins: All right see, and then go down, OK? And you know, I've just had it with this apartment over here, OK? Then all of a sudden, I tell you to get somebody, to go get somebody, and we have to pay the salary up here. You know, when is this thing going to... when are you going to stop? Mrs. Kennedy: How may women do you have in top management positions? Mr. Andolina: There is our office manager and our director of marketing that are females. Mayor Suarez: Who is the director of marketing? Ms. Andolina: Kitty Roedel. Mrs. Kennedy: Your favorite! Mayor Suarez: What is the salary of the director of marketing? Mr. Andolins: Approximately $65,000. Mr. Plummer: Call the roll. Mayor Suarez: We have a motion to defer. Do we have any further questions from the Commission? Mr. Eads: Mr. Mayor, you want to defer 25 and 26 both, I assume. They are companion items. 28 February IS, 1988 Mr. Plummer: you have to. You can't do 26 which puts new appointees in. Mayor Suarez: Move to defer 25 and 26. Want to include 26 in your motion? Mr. Dawkins: Yes. Mayor Suarez: include 26 in your second? Mr. Plummer: Yes. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. MOTION TO DEFER. UPON MOTION DULY MADE BY COMMISSIONER DAWKINS AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER PLUMMER, THE COMMISSION DEFERRED AGENDA ITEMS 25 AND 26 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: Mayor Suarez: I am going to vote yes. My principal concern is the one voiced as to item 25, and specifically the concern voiced by Commissioner Dawkins and we are going to negotiate this and not bring this back until that has been — resolved. Please inform Mr. Kenzie that I've got some ideas on how to resolve that, and in item 26, I'd be ready to vote for it, but I guess it makes sense, since we haven't. actually expanded the board to get that resolved and then vote on all the new appointees. 19. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 OF 10347 - ESTABLISH "BAY VISTA MARINA" PROJECT. Mayor Suarez: Item 27. Mr. Dawkins: Move it. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Call the roil. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 10347, ADOPTED OCTOBER 22, 1987, THE CAPITAL APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE, BY ESTABLISHING THE PROJECT ENTITLED "BAY VISTA MARINA", PROJECT NO. 354009, IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $1,000,000 AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $750,000 FROM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND - FUND BALANCE; AND $250, 000 FROM THE DOWNTOWN PEOPLE -MOVER EXTENSION PROJECT DEPOSIT - INTEREST INCOME; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner Plummer, for adoption as an omrgency measure and dispensing with the requirement of reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the following vote: 29 February 18, 1988 i 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. Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner Plummer, 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. 10383. The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. Mr. Plummer: What was the reason for the emergency? Mrs. Dougherty: The closing is this Thursday. 20. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 OF 10269 - INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE "RECREATION PROGRAMS FOR THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED - CONSOLIDATED" FUND. Mayor Suarez: Item 26. Mr. Plummer: Move it, with pleasure, accepting money! Mayor Suarez: Item 28 has been moved. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE - AN ORDINANCEAMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 10269, ADOPTED MAY 14, 1987, CONCERNING THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED: "RECREATION PROGRAMS FOR THE MENTALLY HANDICAPPED - CONSOLIDATED," BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATIONS TO SAID FUND BY $279,537 COMPOSED OF $234,537 FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES AND $45,000 FROM FISCAL TEAR 1987-86 SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, MATCHING FUNDS FOR GRANTS, TO CONTINUE THE OPERATION OF THE AFOREMENTIONED GRANT PROGRAM; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE ADDITIONAL GRANT AWARD AND TO ENTER INTO THE NECESSARY CONTRACT(S) AND/OR AGREEMENT(S) TO ACCEPT THE ADDITIONAL GRANT AWARD; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. 30 February IS, 1988 Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of January 14, 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 ROES: None. ABSENT: None. THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10 304. 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. 21. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE SECTION 54.5-8 - "PLATS AND PLATTING -PROCEDURE -FINAL PLAT". Mayor Suarez: Item 29. Mrs. Kennedy: Move it. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 54.5-8 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI. FLORIDA, AS AMENDED. "PLATS AND PLATTING -PROCEDURE -FINAL PLAT", BY ADDING A NEW SUBSECTION (E). "APPROVAL BY CITY COMMISSION", PROVIDING A TIME LIMITATION FOR RECORDATION OF PLATS AFTER APPROVAL BY THE CITY COMMISSION; PROVIDING FOR RECISION OF APPROVAL OF PLATS BY THE CITY COMMISSION; PROVIDING FOR AN EXTENSION OF THE TIME LIMITATION; CONTAINING ♦ REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVBRABILITY CLAUSE. Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of January 14, 1986, 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: 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. THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10365. 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 February 18, 1988 22. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 OF 10289 - INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE "NEIGHBORHOODS JOBS PROGRAM (FY '88)" FUND - ACCEPT GRANT. Mayor Suarez: Item 30. Mr. Plummer: Move it. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved, seconded. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE 10289, ADOPTED DONE 25, 1987, BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATION TO THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED 'NEIGHBORHOODS JOBS PROGRAM (FY'68)" BY $35,597, THEREBY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED "NEIGHBORHOODS JOBS PROGRAM (FY'88)" TO $517,197 FOR THE OPERATION OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS JOBS PROGRAM; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE GRANT AVARD FROM THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND TO ENTER INTO THE NECESSARY CONTRACT(S) AND/OR AGREEMENT(S) VITH THE SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT? AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM (SFETC) TO ACCEPT THE GRANTS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of January 14, 1988, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On notion 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 HOES: None. ABSENT: None. THE ORDINANCE YAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10386. The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the mmbers of the City Commission and to the public. 32 February IS. 1988 i ------------------------------------------- 23. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED SECOND READING ORDINANCE REGARDING ESTABLISHMENT OF THE "SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAM - 1988/JTPA II-B" SPECIAL REVENUE FUND - REQUEST FROM ADMINISTRATION MODEL PROGRAM IN COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL REGULATIONS. Mayor Suarez: Item 31. Mrs. Kennedy: Move it. Mayor Suarez: Summer Youth program, second reading, it has been moved. Mr. Plummer= Mr. Mayor, I met with Mr. this morning. They have serious problems with that, which the City had requested in relation to putting these kids to work in cleaning up this community. There is some areas In which supposedly, is in conflict with the Federal regulations. I asked them if they would come back at the text meeting, with a total program, which they felt would, in fact, meet with the requirements and they have offered to do so, so at this time I would ask that that item be deterred, allowing them to bring back a model program, which this Commission could look at and decide upon at that time, so I would ask that this be deferred. Mrs. Kennedy: All right, second. Mayor Suarez: So moved, seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 88-140 A MOTION TO DEFER CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED SECOND READING ORDINANCE REGARDING ESTABLISHMENT OF A SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED "SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING PROGRAM - 1988/11-8", UNTIL THE NEXT CITY COMMISSION MEETING PRESENTLY SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 10, 1988, UNTIL A COMPLETE MODEL PROGRAM TOTALLY CONFORMING WITH FEDERAL REGULATIONS CAN BE PRESENTED TO THE CITY COMMISSION. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 24. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE SECTION 31-48(l) - PROVIDE THAT INSURANCE COMPANIES SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE CITY'S OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE TAX. ----N------------N---N-------------------- ---------- ----------NN-------- Mayor Suarez: Item 32. Mrs. Kennedy: Move it. Mayor Suarez: Moved. Mrs. Kennedy: This is second reading. 33 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: Imposing occupational license tax on insurance companies Insuring anyone in the jurisdiction. Do we have a second? Mr. Plummer: This is on 32? Mrs. Kennedy: Tex. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, this of course, is the item which I brought to you from the Florida League of Cities. it is a source of revenue, and it considerably in this community could be a tremendous source of revenue. You, In 33, will be selecting a company used by the Florida League, that if they don't collect, you don't pay them. So I think it is a great program, it is a legal program, and I with pleasure move item 32. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 31-48(I), OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TO PROVIDE . THAT INSURANCE COMPANIES WRITING ANY CLASS OF INSURANCE UPON ANY PERSON, INCORPORATED OR UNINCORPORATED BUSINESS ENTITY OR PROPERTY RESIDING OR LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE CITY'S OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE TAX; FURTHER SETTING FORTH THE RATE FOR SAID TAX; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of February 18, 1988, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On siotion 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: ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre 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. 10387. 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 February IS, 1988 25. CONTRACT WITH THE FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES - LEAGUE TO COLLECT A CITY LICENSE TAX FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS WITHIN CITY LIMITS. �----NNMM-NNM---- Mr. Plummer: I move 33, which In a Companion, selecting Florida League to do the work. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Mr. De Turre: Mr. Mayor... Mayor Suarez: Commissioner De Turre. Mr. De Turre: ... just out of curiosity, I'd like to know how can we enforce this type of ordinance? Mr. Plummer: We enforce it, but it is just like the rest of the cities in the State of Florida have been doing, the legislature created the vehicle for it to be done, and it just a matter of all other cities have been collecting it, and we haven't been. Mr. De Turre: Well, I mean... Mayor Suarez: How? Mr. De Turre: ... how are you going to do it? How are you going to take a company that is based in Hialeah for example, and sells and auto insurance policy to Joe Slow here in the City of Miami, how are you going to tax that? Mr. Plummer: Well, they audit it through the State Insurance Commission office in a computer readout. It is a very simple program. Mayor Suarez: They have a mechanism set up with the insurance commissioner's office? Mr. Plummer: Oh yes, it has been in place for over ten years. Mayor Suarez: Have we got the ordinance? Mr. Plummer: No, item 33 is a resolution. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on the resolution. Do we have a notion and a second, Madam City Clerk? Ms. Hirai: Tes, sir. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-141 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH THE FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, PROVIDING FOR THE LEAGUE TO COLLECT A CITY LICENSE TAX FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES SELLING INSURANCE IN THE CITY BUT WITH OFFICES OUTSIDE OF THE CITY, WITH REMUNERATION TO THE LEAGUE OF ONE-HALF OF THE LICENSE TAX COLLECTED BY IT. (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: 35 February 18, 1988 9 4? 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. ------------------------- w - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 26. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTIONS I AND 6 OF 10321 - INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DINNER KEY MARINA ENTERPRISE FUND FOR PURPOSES OF FY 188 DEBT SERVICE PAYMENTS ON MARINA IMPROVEMENTS. Mayor Suarez: Item 34. Mr. Plummer: Move it. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. When is the work going to begin? Mr. Jack Eads: The work is actually under way now, Mr. Mayor. The contract Is in the process of off site pouring of tilings and they will bring them in precast. Mayor Suarez: And Jack, when is the completion of the prior work back here going to be? - at last. Mr. Plummer: I've been looking at bulldozers for a year. Mr. Eads: Yes, right. That contract should be complete, Mr. Mayor, within about four to six weeks. Mr. Plummer: There is nothing holding it up except normal routine? Mr. Eads: Not that I am aware of right now. Mayor Suarez: OK we have a motion and a second. Read the ordinance. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 1 AND 6 OF ORDINANCE NO. 10321, ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 22, 1987, THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 22, 1988; BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DINNER KEY MARINA ENTERPRISE FUND BY $450,000 AND BY INCREASING REVENUES IN THE SAME AMOUNT FROM DINNER KEY MARINA REVENUES THE PURPOSE OF FY'88 DEBT SERVICE PAYMENTS ON THE $12,100,000 LOAN FROM THE SUNSHINE STATE GOVERNMENTAL FINANCING COMMISSION FOR DINNER KEY MARINA IMPROVEMENTS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Kennedy and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 36 February 18, 1988 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. 27. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTIONS 2 AND 6 10321 - ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND •COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT APPROPRIATION - FY '88 - TO CARRY OUT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES. mayor Suarez: Item 35. Mrs. Kennedy: Item 357 35 is not new money. I move it. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 2 AND 6 OF ORDINANCE NO. 10321, ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 22, 1987, THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30. 1988; BY ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED: "COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT APPROPRIATION - FY188", APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR ITS OPERATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $13,850,000 FROM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS AND PROGRAM INCOME FOR THE PURPOSE OF CARRYING OUT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE CITY OF MIAMI; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy and seconded by Commissioner Plummer and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. 28. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE SECTION 62-61 - •SCHEDULE OF FEES" (ZONING AND PLANNING) - CHANGE ZONING AND PLANNING FEE SCHEDULE. ------------------------------------------------------------- Mayor Suarez: Item 36, scheduled fees. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I want to ask a question, why these fees are not realistic? They seem very low to me, even though it is an increase, it doesn't seem that the increase is off setting the cost of doing business. It seems like to no there ought to be more, and that goes for 36, 37, and 38. Mayor Suarez: That's the best you are going to get me to vote for at this point. 37 February 18, 1988 Mr. Sods: Commissioner, we can't do that as a profit making venture. We have to do it purely on a break even basis, and that is what our estimates indicate that will be. Mr. Plummer: Well, if that is the best you can do, then that is it, I'll move It. Mayor Suarez: item 36 has been moved. Is there a second? Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Mr. Dawkins: On discussion, why... Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins. Mr. Dawkins: ... is this the best we can do? Mr. Eads: because, Commissioner, in a situation like this, the best that the fees can do is off set the expense. We can't do it to produce revenue for the City. We are prohibited by State law. Mr. Dawkins: So what you are saying then, is that by doing this, when budget hearing comes, I will not have to appropriate any general funds for the operation of this department because it will sustain itself, because we have done the best we can do here. Mr. Sods: Hopefully by that time we will have a track record and if we need to adjust those fees, we will be back to you, adjusting them. Mr. Plummer: Yes, but you see, what they are not saying, one thing I guess that really bothers me. All of us are very such aware that they could use more inspectors, and they don't have them. We are talking about weekend Inspectors. They don't have them. After 5:00 o'clock at night, inspectors, they don't have them! They have a committee right now that is going through the entire book of building codes and inspections and all of that, and I can tell you that one of the things that is going to come out of that study, is the fact that they need more people in that department to expedite their plans, to bring them to a conclusion quicker. Mayor Suarez: but those are not necessarily related to the new construction, and as pointed out before in the prior discussion of consulting fees, you take one of those consulting agreements that we just summarily passed this morning, and some of which we didn't. $11,000, or $12,000, or $13,000, and you have got an inspector out in the street, so where we come up with the stoney to provide more inspectors, and I fully agree with you there — we should. In an Interesting question and one place to begin looking might be the study requested by Commissioner De Turre on all the consulting fees we pay out, because I bet we could put a heck of a lot of inspectors out on the street with that stoney. Increasing the fee to be paid for, by particularly small developers and small builders for new construction in the City and expect this department to somehow be self sustaining, to me sakes no more sense than expecting solid waste to be self sustaining. Our departments are sustained by many, any forms of revenue, including the real estate tax. Mr. Dawkins: You know, I am so glad to hear the Mayor may that this morning, because every time somebody cosies up here who leaves the City, we hire them — back at $60,000 and $80,000 a year, as consultants and Miller Dawkins is the only one up here complaining! Now, all of a sudden I've got an ally this morning. He says from now on, when they come up he In going to suggest, right along with Miller Dawkins, that we don't hire him. Thank you! Mayor Suarez: That's exactly right. Maybe three or more of us will feel that way at this point. Mr. Dawkins: That's right, maybe if we get three of us, we got something going. Mr. Plummer: We are going to find out, aren't we? Mayor Suarez: I would not like to be the next applicant for... 38 February 18, 1980 Mr. Dawkins: J.L. - and soon. Mayor Suarez: And soon. OK, we have a motion and a second, item 36. Read the ordinance, please. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 62-61, ENTITLED "SCHEDULE OF FEES." OF CHAPTER 62, ENTITLED "ZONING AND PLANNING." BY CHANGING THE ZONING AND PLANNING FEE SCHEDULE; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Kennedy and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. 29. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE SECTION 2-75 AND 2-76 (SETTING FEES FOR EXAMINATION OF PLANS AND ZONING CERTIFICATES OF USE) - ADD FEES AND REVIEW OF PLANS FOR SPECIAL PERMITS AND PUBLIC HEARING. Mayor Suarez: Item 37. Mr. Plummer: Move it. Mrs. Kennedy: Second, it is a companion item. Mr. Plummer: Best we can do. Mr. Dawkins: Best we can do, second it. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Read the ordinance. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2-75 AND 2-76 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA. AS AMENDED, WHICH SET FEES FOR THE EXAMINATION OF PLANS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE ZONING ORDINANCE AND FOR ZONING CERTIFICATES OF USE; BY MAKING NECESSARY CORRECTIONS AND ADDING FEES FOR THE REVIEW OF PLANS FOR SPECIAL PERMITS AND/OR PUBLIC HEARING AND MAKING NECESSARY CORRECTIONS TO COVER THE COST FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Kennedy and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: 39 February IS, 1988 i AYES: Commissioner Victor De Turre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ASSENT: 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. 90. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 5 OF 6145 (ESTABLISHING FEES FOR BUILDING, PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, ETC.) - ADD AN INCREASE CERTAIN FEES TO COVER THE COST FOR ENFORCEMENT OF SOUTH FLORIDA BUILDING CODE. Mayor Suarez: Item 38. Mr. Plummer: Move it. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: I'm not sure if that last "yes" was a tired "yes," a reluctant "yes!" Item 38, we have a motion. Mrs. Kennedy: Yes. Mr. Plummer: I moved it. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 5 OF ORDINANCE NO. 6145, ADOPTED MARCH 19, 1956, AS AMENDED, WHICH ESTABLISHED FEES FOR BUILDING, PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, MECHANICAL (INCLUDING BOILER AND ELEVATOR) INSPECTION, PERMIT AND CERTIFICATE FEES, BY ADDING AND INCREASING SOME FEES AND CLARIFYING CERTAIN ITEMS IN SAID SECTION 5, TO COVER THE COST PRIMARILY FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA BUILDING CODE; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION, A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Kennedy and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez. NOES: None. JJ ABSENT: None. :II The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. r y j a k I a 40 February 18, 1988 ------- -------�-----------�-l---N--� -. -- --.. 31. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND CODE To PROVIDE FOR REGULATION OF BUS BENCHES AND SHELTERS ON PUBLIC RIGHTS -OF -WAY; SET MINIMUM BID AMOUNT. N--•--N-NNN�--N-MMM-- Mayor Suarez: Item 39, bus benches and shelters. Mr. Plummer: Mayor, I am going to move 39, but I'd like to amend it. I think that the both of them are coming under the same basic category. They serve the bus riding public, or the public in general, and I think that both of the RFP's should go out uniformly, and I what I particularly have reference to is the terms of the contract, to make them uniform, one five year contract with two renewal options and whatever the percentage is as deemed by the Manager of public service - one is 20 and one is 10, and I would let the Manager make that decision as to which of the two is fair, and with those provisions... or those two amendments, I would like to move that this be sent back to the Manager to send out RFP's. Mr. Cather: Mr. Commission, I had suggested instead of RFP's that we simply put out an invitation to bid. Mr. Plummer: All right, sir, fine. Mr. Cather: Is that all right? Mr. Plummer: I have no problem with that, I'm sorry. Excuse my terminology. Mr. Cather: And you want them both to be 10 percent? Mr. Plummer: No, sir. I said that is to be set by the Manager, whatever is fair, but equal for both. Mr. Cather: Yes, right, fine. Mr. Plummer: If it is 15 percent for both, that's fine with me, if it is 20 percent for both, that is up to the discretion of the Manager. I so move. Mr. Dawkins: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA. AS AMENDED, TO PROVIDE FOR REGULATION OF BUS BENCHES AND SHELTERS IN ADDITION TO PRESENTLY EXISTING REGULATION OF BUS BENCHES AND SHELTERS; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SET A MINIMUM BID AMOUNT FOR CONSIDERATION FROM FIRMS SEEKING TO PLACE BENCHES AND SHELTERS UPON PUBLIC RIGHTS -OF -WAY; ALSO PROVIDING FOR THE TIME PERIODS OF AGREEMENTS FOR SHELTER PLACEMENT; ESTABLISHING AN EFFECTIVE DATE; MORE PARTICULARLY AMENDING CITY CODE SECTIONS 54-56, 54-58, 54-59, 54- 61E 54-62, 54-63, AND 54-64; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITT CLAUSE. Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Dawkins and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 41 February 16, 19S8 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. -------------------------------- - 32. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE ABOLISHING THE COMPUTERS DEPARTMENT AND CONSOLIDATING ITS FUNCTIONS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, FOR PURPOSES OF SEEKING FURTHER INFORMATION FROM THE ADMINISTRATION. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Mayor Suarez: Item 40. Mr. Dawkins: I move that 40 be continued until the Manager can sit down and show me what's to be saved here. and how the City will be better served with the combination of these two units. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: It has been moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll on the motion to defer item 40. MOTION TO CONTINUE. UPON MOTION DULY MADE BY Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner, this item was continued 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. 33. DISCUSSION OF A PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A STORMWATER UTILITY SYSTEM FOR THE CITY (See label 37). Mayor Suarez: Item 41. Mr. Plummer: Move it. Mrs. Kennedy: I second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Under discussion. Mr. Plummer: I think this is the most painless way of getting accomplished what this City needs to do. Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Once again we take an expected municipal service and turn it Into a different kind of a fee collection, but that is my main problem with It. Commissioner De Yurre. Mr. De Yurre: I certainly have a problem with this, Mr. Mayor, and I'll tell you, when we talk about adding fees, we certainly know it is another way of taxing the public, and before I'll ever vote in favor of a fee, taxing our public, I want to make sure that we have streamlined our City of Miami and that we have cut out the fat and that we have got to the point we are in, we can say, there is no where else that we can save money within the City. we have to go back to the voters; and when we have alternative sources for capital improvement, and by alternative sources, numerous pieces of property that we have in the City of Miami, that just lay waste, they are not being used for anything, pieces of property that costs us maintenance costs, are not 42 February 18, 1988 on the tax rolls, and it is just sitting there. I think that we should make a study first of 611, to see what we have available, where we can come up with this $2,000,000 that you are talking about and try to fund it through that form of source. Additionally, I in good conscience, cannot go to voters and start charging them $30 annually. When I get these reports, and maybe it is just the way private, or the way public sector works, but you know, it just Irks me, again, to see that, to pick up an automobile at the dealer and to make keys costs $66.55. We are paying $40.70 an hour to have an automobile picked up. To have an automobile cleaned and washed and serviced, $61.40 - two hours, $40.70 an hour. To have... I guess it was Mr. Carollo's automobile returned to Warren Henry Volvo, labor costs, which amounted to five hours, $203.50. When we are talking about picking up an automobile at City Hall, servicing, cleaning and washing, and returning it to City Hall ... Mayor Suarez: Did you say $203.O07 Mr. De Turre: Two hundred three dollars and fifty cents. Mayor Suarez: That's my salary for two weeks working here! Mr. De Turret Labor cost to clean and wash an automobile and service it, $122.10. pick up Cadillac for cellular installation, checked and delivered, eight and one/half hours - $354.45, and the list goes on and on and on, and when I see things like this going on, and people getting paid at $40.00 an hour, I'd like to know who in the Administration would pay $81.00 to have his car serviced, cleaned and washed without putting any additional parts in it, or any oil, or anything of that nature, because that would get charged separately and it doesn't appear here, so until I am satisfied that we have done our job in making sure that we have streamlined financially the City of Miami, I will not be voting to raise, or go to the taxpayers for any additional money. Thank you. Mayor Suarez: I have a question on what may be another aspect of this. It has been told to me a couple of times, Don, I think in one of your presentations, that we are going to more equitably assess building owners than we do under the present system. The reason is that we are going to somehow take into account the amount of usage of water, I believe, right? Mr. lads: It is the amount of property, the building, a particular building covers on an existing piece of property, what percentage it covers. Mayor Suarez: I didn't hear that, Jack - the amount of what? Mr. lads: The amount of square footage, if you will, that a given building covers on a piece of property, on a percentage wise basis. Mayor Suarez: We are not actually going to measure the water, we are going to assume that there is a... Mr. lads: Instead of how such land is... Mayor Suarez: ... correlation, high correlation between square footage and usage of water. Mr. gods: Well, what we are saying is, the building covers so such land, therefore that land cannot absorb, is not available, for water, for storm water absorption. Mayor Suarez: OK, we are assuming a high correlation between the water to be disposed of, and the square footage of the building. Under the existing taxation system... Mr. lads: No, sir, the square... Mayor Suarez: Oh, the land covered by the building? - the footprint. Mr. gads: Tax, the footprint. Ten, I couldn't think of it. Mayor Suarez: Thank you. Now, under the existing system, we tax citizens for this service on the basis of debt service, millage rate, which of course is, in effect, an implied correlation with the value of property - simple correlation, and the value of property of course, is related to the footprint, 43 February 16, 1988 and the size of the building, and a lot of other things. Why is this more suitable than the existing system then? I mean, why is that correlation... mathematically, we can't prove it either way, but why is this one any better than the existing one? If the building is worth $50,000,000, we can assume that it has a much higher usage than a single home, you know, worth $150,000, or whatever. Mr. lads: Well, in a given situation... Mayor Suarez: That it might be roughly proportional to those values. It is not usage, it is the amount of water that seeps into the ground. Mr. Plummer: Store more. Mr. lads: Mr. Mayor, I sm sure there are flaws in both systems as evaluating... Mayor Suarers I am just not convinced that one correlation is better than the other for taxing people. Mr. lads: Taxing is related to given value of the building. We are trying to relate what it is we are trying to accomplish. Mayor Suarez: Do you have illustrative models to tell me how such a single family homeowner, with a 50 by 100 lot, and let's say 1,500 square foot home would be paying under this system as opposed to the existing taxation? Mrs. Kennedy: ?es, that was my question. Mr. Cather: All we have, is we have a rate of $2.50 a month for a single family. A mobile home, it would $1.10 per month, and a multifamily would be $1.55 per month, per unit. Now, these, your residential units, we have looked at the average lot, which is something like 2,147 square feet, and figured out the total impervious area and set that up as a measuring stick to apply to rest of the property. Eighty percent of the property in the City is residential, so they are going to be charged a f ixed rate based upon an average lot. Mayor Suarez: And that generates $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 annually? - $2.50 per single family residence per month? Mr. Cather: About $4,800,000. Mayor Suarez: Which is how much per year? Mr. Cather: $4,800.000 per year. Mayor Suarez: No, I Bean, how such per single family? Mr. Cather: $30 a year. Mayor Suarez: Thirty dollars. What is that in equivalent in, if it was debt service, millage rate? Mr. Cather: Is Frank here? I asked Frank May to prepare that figure for us, and he should be here shortly, but you know, in the case of the sillage rate, you don't sake any distinction between the... you sake distinction between a house that is say, worth $1,000,000 versus $250,000, and based on the assessed valuation of the house, presumably would be at 100 percent. In this case, we are measuring the impervious area of the house, and the amount of grass in the front of the house, to determine how such water In percolating when it rains back into the ground. Mayor Suarez: And it could result in a higher fee to be paid by a homeowner who has a very humble $50,000 home, but covers most of his property. Mr. Cather: Since all of the residential is based on an average, they all pay the same. All residential pay the $2.50 throughout the City. The only place we go and make a calculation and make a distinction is on commercial and other properties. 44 February IS. 1988 Mayor Suarez: Tes, but you are comparing one to the other, one home to the other, under the new system, but you are not comparing to the existing system versus the new system. That's the problem I have. I don't know if I am really doing anything more equitable with this then I... because you are not able to give me those figures, bon, at this point. Mr. Cather: Well, one of the things that you are not taking into consideration, is that this is a direct charge to be used and that funds Will be strictly appropriated for improving the flood control in this City, Improving the environmental conditions, improving the Miami River, and... Mayor Suarez: Now is it more direct than applying a debt service millage rate to the citizen? I don't understand, how is that more direct? Mr. Cather: Well, number one, this is an additional source of revenue. Mayor Suarez: Anytime you have a new tax, it In an additional source of revenue. That doesn't... how is more direct, because we are taxing this way than the existing way? It is very direct when you get your tax bill and it says: "Debt service millage rate, 2 point something percent," or two point something, not percent. Mr. lads: Mills. Mr. Cather: Two points. Mayor Suarez: Mills, really, yes. Mow is this any more direct? Because you are saying there is a better correlation between absorption of water, to the fees charged here than the existing system, and if no, prove it to me. Mr. lads: Well, Mr. Mayor, obviously, if we approach the ten mill limit on taxes and if we exceed that by applying additional millage, then we are talking about taking that to a referendum. Mayor Suarez: I don't intend to vote in favor of any millage rate that approaches a ten mill cap, not for this guy! Mr. Cather: Well, you have another thing that a cap... anything that has to do with the debt service has to be 25 years, and has to be capital Improvement. Mayor Suarez: OK, I'm interested in that. OK, how about the chronology of the payments here? On their debt service, we have to pay it in what form? - as opposed to this utility franchise fee, whatever you call it? Mr. Cather: On a debt service you have to have a 25 year minimum. Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry? Mr. Cather: You have to have a facility that is going to last for 25 years. Mayor Suarez: Right. Mr. Cather: OK? Mayor Suarez: Don't we think our storm sewers will last 25 years? Mr. Cather: Tes, we do. Some of them will not. Some of them will last more, depending upon the conditions. Mayor Suarez: So what is the difference, then? Mr. Cather: Well the difference is, that we are going to use half of this stoney to use for improved maintenance and operation and clean more storm sewers, keep them in better condition and better utilize what we have in the ground right now. We are also going to use it to upgrade... Mayor Suarez: Tau can do that with either system, either taxation system. That doesn't... Mr. Cather: We would have a tough time using... the one thing I would never ever recommend to anybody, and that would be to use capital funds... 45 February IS. 1989 Mayor Suarez: For operating needs. Mr. Cather: ... for operating and maintenance. - Mayor Suarez: but, you are saying that with this system we will be able to use capital funds for operating and maintenance. Mr. Cather: Absolutely, because you see what you... Mayor Suarez: Well, you are saying absolutely. Carlos is saying no. Mr. Cather: No, well. No, they are not capital funds. I'm saying we will use those for maintenance and operation. It is exactly the same thing... Mayor Suarez: We change the system and we don't call it a capital anymore, because it is some kind of a fee that comes in the water and sewer bill. Mr. lads: Well, basically... Mr. Cather: Its exactly the same thing that you have got in the Miami Dade Water and Sewer Authority, now the County department, where you have a water and sewer utility, irhich is charging you for the use of supplying you the water. They are also charging you another charge to dispose of that water on your monthly bill, or your quarter bill. Right now you have a garbage fee for collecting the garbage, which is $160 a year against $30. Mayor Suarez: Well, I was against that too, and I was against giving up... well, I wasn't around at the time, giving up the water and sewer facility. Mr. Cather: Well, I wasn't either. Yes, but it is a fact and we have to live with it. Mr. Plummer: Well, wait a minute now. Damn it I was around and let me tell you why it was done, and you better know the reason it was done. OK, we gave that facility away, because we were going to be put under an absolute moratorium for building in this community. The savage program is what prompted that whole thing, and you know it. Tou should stand up and defend it, because the "Fads" came down and said there will be no Federal money without a unified system, and the only unified system that you could get was combining the three and giving them to Metro because we had not had the millions upon millions of dollars to take and continue to operate Virginia Key. We felt that it was in the best interests of this community so that there would be no moratorium placed on building in this community, as well as others, that we give that system to them, let them operate it, and that's why it was turned over. We didn't want to turn it over, but we didn't have the money that the *Fads" were requiring to put in to sleet the standards that they had not. One standard in particular was to take that outfall line out from 500 feet to a mile and a half, and I think that cost there was prohibitive. Nobody wanted MEto give anything away, and Mr. Mayor, for your edification, at any time that that property which was involved, In not used by the water and sewer ' department for a period of six months, that property reverts back to the City of Miami. Tou know, I just... I didn't want to give it away. Mayor Suarez: Well, we gave it to the... in affect, although initially by an authority that was supposed to autonomous, and eventually the County gobbled It up, we gave it to the entity, the municipality that has the highest debt, I understand, in the entire country, and whose taxes fall upon us just as much as the Cities, because we have got to pay them too, as part of our tax bill. Mr. Plummer: I couldn't agree with you more, but there was a reason for it, and I just wanted that in the record. - Mr. Cather: Now, we are back to the situation where we are faced with a similar, not identical... we haven't got any moratorium yet, but we are going to be faced with score and more Federal requirements for treatment and containment of storm water and more outfall improvements. We are trying very hard, I think everybody in the City is trying hard to reduce the pollution in the Miami River. This is one step towards that. We discussed this in detail with the Metro Dade DERM, and they are saying unless we do something about these outfalis, that the Pods are not in a position, not going to be in a mood, shall we say, to do any more dredging at the Miami River. We have to do 46 February 18, 1988 both at the same time. We also have to keep these sewers, these storm sewers in good working condition. What we have got, we have enormous investment in there. The money isn't there unless we come up with some additional source of funds, the money just isn't there! Mayor Suarez: Don, if we are going to measure a footprint, are we going to do this on an individual basis for every single family residence in the City? Mr. Cather: No, we are not. We cannot go to that. We are going to make... Mr. Eads: Single family residents. Mr. Cather: We have already done a... Mayor Suaraz: We are going to and up with committees for the defense of the revolution pretty soon here. We are going to have block committees measuring people's footprints of their homes, you know, and we are going to have a bureaucratic... Mr. Reds: All residential properties on a fee, on fixed fee basis. Mrs. Kennedy: Right, let me just go through that again. A flat fee of $2.50 per month, for residential units will generate $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 annually, and then the nonresidential development will be prorated according to the impervious surface and the property, correct? Mr. Eads: Yes, Ma'am. Mr. Cather: The commercial property, OK. Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, nonresidential. Mr. Cather: Nov again, this money can be used for maintenance and operation, that is one of the biggest things about it. Mr. Eads: Mr. Mayor, can I respond to your question about the value of a mill In that relationship. One mill in the City of Miami represents over $9,000,000. If 1 can use $9,000,000... Mayor Suarez: Just about $10,000,000, yes, we are getting close. Mr. Eads: OK, we are looking at $4,000,000 to $5,000,000 annually, revenue from this fee basis... Mayor Suarez: Assuming half a mill. Mr. Eads: ... which would be approximately half a mill - a quarter to operations and maintenance, and a quarter to debt service. Mayor Suarez: So, if you have got a 850,000 home, and you have a $25,000 exemption, you've got $25.000 net, and half a mill applied to that, works out to be, how much? More than $25,000 net value. Mr. Eads: OK, one mill is... Mr. Odio: $25.00. Mr. Cather: $25.00. Mr. Eads: $25.00. Mayor Suarez: That is a full mill. Mr. Cather: That is a full mill. Mayor Suarez: Half would be 412.50. Mr. Cather: Right. Mayor Suarez: And you are going to charge them instead, $30.00. Mr. Cather: Well, wait a minute. The average household value here is... 47 February 18, 1986 Mr. Rods: Tes, the average household... Mr. Cather: ... a hundred plus. Mayor Suarez: But, I an worried about the $50,000 home, not the $160,000 appraised home, like mine. I hope that they don't notice that I've made some Improvements and increase the appraisal! OK, for a $100,000 home, you have got a $75,000 net and you have got three times that amount, so you will be right around $36, $37, $36 dollars, as opposed to $30 dollars, so we've come up with a regressive system. It doesn't take into account the low values of - people's homes, below $100,000. Mr. Cather: But remember, you have a great deal of duplexes... Mr. Reds: Both lower in value. Mr. Cather: ... and multifamilles that are only at $1.10, who would be a roughly $15.00. Mr. Rods: If you look at some of those lover valued homes in the neighborhoods, and tbey require a lot of storm drainage. I Mayor Suarez: The calculation that I wanted has just been done and I don't know what this says: 0$1,907.31 per month nonresidential." I'm sorry. (INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD) Mayor Suarez: This is a specific shopping center, is that what you are telling me? (INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD) Mayor Suarez: The fact of the matter is that a $50,000 home, appraised homeowner, will be paying two or three times more than what he is paying there. That's it. For my vote, that is it. Anything else from the Commission? Tou want to uphold the vote to try to get a complete Commission? - because it is not going to win right now, I'll tell you that. Mr. Eads: Why don't you read the ordinance? THEREUPON, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD, BY TITLE ONLY. MOTION DEFEATED. HEREINABOVE MOTION, DULY made by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Vice -Mayor Kennedy was defeated by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor Rosario Kennedy NOES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Mayor Xavier L. Suarez ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Mayor Suarez: Item 42... Mrs. Kennedy: What happened? Mayor Suarez: ... is this related to 41? Need we consider this at this point, Jack? Mr. Plummer: Well, 42 is tied to 41, and 43. Mayor Suarez: That is why I am asking, may be consider this? Do you want to table 42 and 43?... Mr. lads; Tes, sir, there In no point, as far as I know nov. Mayor Suarez: To expectation that at some point 41 may pass? 46 February le, 1988 Mr. Plummer: Why don't you just withdraw 427 Mr. Cather: We should to ahead with 42 and 43, because eventually this has got to come to a head. Mrs. Kennedy: Now can you go ahead, if you just heard the vote? Mr. Eads: Commissioner, we would like to table those two items at this point. NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AGENDA ITEMS 42 AND 43 WERE TABLED. 34. EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH HOLLAND AND KNIGHT, P.A., FOR PROFESSIONAL LEGISLATIVE CONSULTANT SERVICES. Mayor Suarez: Item 46. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, my only question on 46, I thought that was a two year contract. Mayor Suarez: I voted "no" on one year, on two, I'll vote double "no," so... Mr. Plummer: I know that you voted no, but it seemed like to me, that it was a two year contract. I recall discussion was that half of this year is already gone, and it is very late in starting and I don't think we want to go and be in that position again, so all I am saying is that it was my understanding that it was a two year contract, as it was in the past, rather than a one year with sa extension we were just going to make it two. To the City Attorney... Mrs. Dougherty: I think they always were one year. Mr. Plummer: The one before... Mayor Suarez: Well, did you envision that they would not be paid for the calendar year that began... not the calendar year, but the year that began at the expiration of the last agreement? Mrs. Dougherty: The term is from January 1, 1968 to December 31, 1988. Mr. Eads: Perhaps what you can do is... Mayor Suarez: And that includes the full legislative session, and even part of next years, huh? Mr. Plummer: Well, the problem, I guess, that I was thinking of, more Importantly is, that you know, it is not anymore just a two month contract, that's while they are in session. It is a year around contract because they are holding committee meetings every month, and it is my idea that if you are going to have a lobbyist who is going to lobby for this City, you have got to have his year around, and I don't want to see anybody coming on board late, as we have this time, so that is why it was my understanding it was going to be a two year contract. Mayor Suarez: If you are concerned about the fact that we have used up a month and a half of 1968, why not just give them the contract to begin today, February 18th through February 16, 1989? Why do you want to go to two years? Mr. Plummer: Well, because what I'd like to do, is get it started in October. Mr. Eads: If we do that, that would carry us pretty close to the next legislative session. Mayor Suarez: And if he started in October of 1987, then they are going to get paid for all of this, presumably they will back track and do a little extra work, and whatever they have missed, if they have missed anything. I thought they were working already. 49 February 18, 1986 Mr. Plummer: What I was going to suggest, maybe, Mr. Mayor, It not to go to a two year contract, but go to October of 189, which would put it in the regular fiscal year of the City budget, and I think that that is fair, and it would be a carry-over, and it would, in fact, do the advance work that needs to be done. I would... can I amend this, Madam City Attorney? Mrs. Dougherty: You can make another proposal and we'll propose it to them. Mr. Plummer: All right, I would make a proposal that this contract be in force with the same terms and conditions, as we understand it here, to September 31, 1989. I would so move. Mrs. Kennedy: I second it. Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Mr. Dawkins: What is that? What item are we on? Mayor Suarez: This is the lobbying contract, 46. Mayor Suarez: We want to extend it for another ten months or so. Mrs. Dougherty: If they accept your proposal, we will not bring the contract back. Mr. Plummer: Whatever is legal. The Mayor only gets a no and a half. Mayor Suarez: Yes, I've got a "no" and three-quarters, now. OK, any discussion? Call the roll with the modifications included. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 68-142 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE _ AN AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM WITH THE LAW FIRM OF HOLLAND AND KNIGHT, P.A., FOR A TERM FROM JANUARY 1, 1988 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1989 FOR _ PROFESSIONAL LEGISLATIVE CONSULTANT SERVICES; ALLOCATING THEREFOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $218,750.00 FOR SUCH SERVICES, AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $43,750.00 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.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, 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 NOES: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez ABSENT: None. 35. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ("BLACK ARCHIVES - OVERTOWN HISTORIC VILLAGE") - APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR A MASTER PLAN FOR THE OVERTOWN HISTORIC FOLKLIFE VILLAGE - ACCEPT GRANT. Mayor Suarez: We passed over items 44 and 45 until you got back, Commissioner, on the grant to the Black Archives, Overtown Historic Village, 44 and 45. Do you want to make a motion on those? First reading. Mr. Dawkins: 44 and 45. 50 February 16, 1988 —� a Mrs. Kennedy: It is • match in in -kind services. Mayor Suarez: First reading. Mr. Dawkins: OK, I move it. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED 'BLACK ARCHIVES - OVERTOWN HISTORIC VILLAGE"; APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE SAME IN THE AMOUNT OF $17,000 FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS FOR A MASTER PLAN FOR THE OVERTOWN HISTORIC FOLKLIFE VILLAGE; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE AFOREMENTIONED GRANT AND ENTER INTO A GRANT AGREEMENT WITH THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. 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 Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. *NOTE: Although absent at roll call. Commissioner Plummer later asked the City Clerk to be shown as voting with the motion. 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. 36. ALLOCATE $17,000 FOR A MASTER PLAN FOR THE OVERTOWN HISTORIC FOLKLIFE VILLAGE - AUTHORIZE AGREEMENT WITH THE BLACK ARCHIVES HISTORY AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION. Mayor Suarez: Item 45. Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Bailey, we've got $17,000. According to you, valve spent money over there, some as we spent in other areas to come up with economic development plans and etc., is that a true statement? Mr. Bailey: That's true, Commissioner. This Commission has already authorized $23,000 prior to this grant. We have already spent $4,500 of that, on various studies, and... Mr. Dawkins: We authorized how much, Mr. Bailey? Mr. Bailey: $23,000. Mr. Dawkins: Why are we spending it so slowly? Mr. Bailey: Well, this is in cooperation with the Black Archives and that nonprofit entity. One of the activities is the refurbishing of the theater. What is the name of that theater? 51 February 18, 1988 Mr. Dawkins: Wait a minute, hold it, wait now, back up. $23,000 refurbishing the theater is economic development? Mr. Schwartz: Commissioner Dawkins, last year, the City Commission, out of 12th year CD funds allocated, it was $23,000 from the Department of Development's budget, to be used in conjunction with development of the Overtown Historic Village. We had been working with the Planning Department •ery closely, and the Slack Archives in developing a program. The first thing we did, is a $4,500 market study done by Laventhol and Horvath, that the City paid for. We have a contract now, on the Artemus Brown House; on doing plans for the reconstruction of a building that is going to be demolished. This is at the request of the Archives. The $17,000 that this grant is for is for a study that has already been completed by Ron Frazier Associates to do a master plan for the Historic Village. Based on the master plan, when this is completed... Mr. Dawkins: Wait a minute. $17,000 was paid to Ron Frazier for what? Mr. Schwartz: This grant, the $17,000 from the NEA, Black Archives has requested that the City accept the grant and then contract with the Black Archives to provide the services. The grant was originally given by the NEA to the Black Archives. Mr. Dawkins: OK, forget about the NEA grant. The $23,000 that we have, what happened? Mr. Schwartz: OK, $4,500 went to Laventhol Horvath study. We spent approximately $1,000 on assisting property owners there and boarding up to cove the cost of boarding historic buildings in the area, to cover the cost. This was the Artemus Brown house and the D. A. Dorsey house. These buildings... the owners did not secure the buildings. This is a holding action. We have a contract for $3,500 with historical architects, who are doing a historical analysis. This is at the request of the Black Archives of the Artemus Brown house, which they hope to rebuild within the Historic Village, this was a building that the Archives... Mr. Dawkins: OK, hold it right there. Why is it, that we go through a piecemeal operation for Overtown/Park West, but when it comes to the Omni area, you put out a $35,000 grant to do one package. Why? - what's the difference? Mr. Schwartz: OK, the Omni area, we are talking about developing a program to expand $11,000,000 that is just going to be available with tax increment funds. Mr. Dawkins: How such are you planning to spend in Overtown/Park West, Mr. Bailey? Mr. Schwartz: Wa have a master... Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Bailey, how much are you planning to spend in Overtown/Park West? Mr. Baileys Much score than that. We have already spent thirty-two. 0 Mr. Dawkins: No, no. Now such... ghat is the total project? Mr. Bailey: The total project was... Let me get on the record. Mr. Dawkins: Of Overtown/Park West, yes, sir. Mr. Bailey: The total projected expenditure to the City, for Overtown/park West on completion is 100 million dollars. Mr. Dawkins: 100 million dollars, so you talking about 100 million dollars, so you are talking about 100 million dollars, and now you are going to come and tell me that the Omni area, with thirty, you are going to spend 20 million dollars. it equals out to spend 635,000 there, but it don't and out to go hire the same people to do the study in Overtown/Park West. 52 February 18, 1988 Mr. Bailey: No, no, I think that might be a slight apple and orange situation here. The process we have gone through at the Omni is the same process that we have done on Overtown/Park West. We need... Mr. Plummer: Careful, Miller, he is making fruit salad again. Mr. Bailey: I'm losing veighti We have to have the market study. I Dean, it is something that this Commission... Mr. Dawkins: I have no problems with that, Mr. Bailey, but everybody seems to be getting away from what I am asking. Mr. Bailey: Maybe I am not clear on the question you asked. Mr. Dawkins: Now, I am going to ask it again. Why is it that we had $28,000 to do a feasibility and a economic study, Overtown, and you are spending it at $3.000 a whack, you are spending it at $2,000, you spend it at $4,000. Mr. Bailey: No... Mr. Dawkins: You got $23,000, but when it gets to the Omni area, you take $35,000 and you spend it with one firm to come in and do one thing. Mr. Baileys In Overtown we have spent $45,000 for the same thing. _ Mr. Dawkins: But you evidentially didn't have what we needed, sir, because you came up and we gave you $26,000 more. _ Mr. Bailey: Because it was requested by this Commission and the County in terms of the historical nature of Overtown that we had a historical village. That requires an extra step and cause more money to be spent in Overtown than we had to spend it somewhere else. Mr. Dawkins: Nov many spots, Mr. Schwartz, such as where the Mary Elizabeth was, where Good Bread Alley was, where the Elks Rest was - how many of those spots have you designated as historical spots and you have plaques ordered to stick in the ground? - so that when my grandson walks through there, he will know that the Mary Elizabeth sat on this site. Mr. Schwartz: Commissioner Dawkins, there has been none ordered, and the reason for the delay in this... Mr. Dawkins: So now you got $28,000 and these are some of the things that the people over there want done, that should be done, and we are not doing itt Mr. Schwartz: Commissioner Dawkins, the reason for the delay in this project, and the Historic Village, since the inception of this in 1982-83, was the lead roll was played by the Black Archives in this project. The City was supportive of all. Right now, it is my understanding that Overtown Advisory Board wants to become more directly involved in this project and the Planning Department and our office are playing a greater roll. The trouble is the Archives does not have the staff to... Mr. Dawkins: OK, I am going to tell you now, I want the City of Miami Planning Department who we pay, you do not have a Brickell Avenue historical preservation; you do not have a Little Havana development archives; we do not have a Coconut Grove archives. All of this is being done by the Planning Department of the City of Miami and that is what I want done, Overtown. Mr. Schwartz: Yes, a number of the buildings have been designated. Mr. Dawkins: Sir? Mr. Schwartz: Yes. Mr. Dawkins: OK, thank you. Move 45. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: A motion and a second. Is it an ordinance or a resolution? Mr. Eads: Resolution. 53 February IS. 1988 Mr. Dawkins: Resolution? Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-143 A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $17,000 FROM THE •BLACK ARCHIVES-OVERTOWN HISTORIC VILLAGE" SPECIAL REVENUE FUND TO BE USED FOR A MASTER PLAN FOR THE = OVERTOWN HISTORIC FOLKLIFE VILLAGE IN THE CITY OF MIAMI; AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, WITH THE BLACK ARCHIVES HISTORY AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SAID PROJECT, SUBJECT TO AND CONDITIONED UPON COMPLIANCE WITH SUCH CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS AS MAY BE PRESCRIBED BY 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. Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy 37. (A) CONTINUED DISCUSSION AND RECONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A STORMWATER UTILITY SYSTEM FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI. (B) FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH A STORMWATER UTILITY SYSTEM FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI. (See label 33). Mr. Dawkins: I'd like to revisit 41. Mayor Suarez: Item 41? I entertain a notion to... do we need to reconsider something that was voted down, Madam City Attorney? Mrs. Dougherty: Yes. sir. Mr. Dawkins: OK, what? Mayor Suarez: All right, but I just wondering procedurally. and I know you are very interested in this passing. I just wanted to know whether we have to reconsider something that... Mr. Dawkins: That is already passed... Mayor Suarez: ... did not pass by a 2-2 vote. Do we need to... Mrs. Dougherty: It didn't pass. I would suggest that you reconsider it. Mayor Suarez: OK, it didn't pass, so it is still basically before us. All right, let's just do it anyhow. I'll entertain a motion to reconsider 41. Commissioner Dawkins, did you make that motion? Mr. Dawkins: Yes. I didn't get a second. Mr. Plummer: Second. 54 February 18, 1988 I t, Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following notion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 88-144 A MOTION TO RECONSIDER PREVIOUS VOTE ON THIS DATE REGARDING PROPOSED FIRST READING ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A STORMWATER UTILITY SYSTEM FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI, WHICH ISSUE WAS DEFEATED ON A 2 TO 2 VOTE. (NOTE Following this notion for reconsideration a new roll call was taken and the item was approved on a 3 to 2 vote on first reading.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the notion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Cossiissioner Victor De Turre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ASSEh`T: Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mr. Dawkins: I am... Mr. Plummier: You still got a problem. Mr. Eads: We are trying to solve that problem. Mayor Suarez: You want to put a particular hour on that motion to reconsider? Mr. Dawkins: OK, on 41... Mayor Suarez: I understand it has been thought out well, and now it is ready... Mr. Dawkins: I understand that it was a 2-2 vote, and since I am definitely anti -bonds, except for the school bond issue, and if we don't do this this way, we are going to have to pass a bond issue, and I said from day one, when this Commission sat here and said that they were not going to cut the millage and that they had enough money to do whatever they had to do, I said you didn't, and this is a perfect example, and to help the citizens understand what I was trying to say, I vote "yes.* Mayor Suarez: I guess we... do we have a notion and a second on the item? Ms. Hirai: You just passed a notion to reconsider. Mayor Suarez: OK. Mr. Dawkins: All right, I Hove... I vote, I move... Mayor Suarez: OK, move item 41. Do we have a second? Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Question. Now much of the plan involves environmental concerns, vis-a-vis the river? I mean, how such, what percentage of the total package is going to be for retro fitting outfalls, or somehow, avoiding storm water runoffs into the river that pollutes the river? Mr. Cather: 13 percent. Mayor Suarez: 13 percent. Mr. Dawkins: Now such is going to be spent to remove the backup water at 33rd and SW 8th, when it rains? 55 February 18, 1288 Unidentified Speaker: 36th. Mr. Dawkins: 36th and SW 8th, when it rains. OK, since you don't know, La Caretta, when the water back up in the door there, how such is going to be spent? Mayor Suarez: Or other flooding problems throughout the City? Mr. Cather: We are going to spend initially, $2,000,000 for capital Improvements, we are going to spend $500,000 additional for maintenance of these things... Mr. Dawkins: Tou know, if you guys would just answer questions, we could get out of here, OK?... but you want to go and be rhetoric... Tou know, I merely asked you, how such money are you going to spend to relieve the flooding at SW dth Street and 36th Avenue... Court. Mr. Cather: We believe that we have fixed La Caretta. Mr. Dawkins: Tou believe that? What about the other flooding areas in that... Mr. Gather: We have removed the flooding at 17th and SW 8th Street, and 12th Avenue, where that pumping station... Mr. Dawkins: All right, let me put it another way. Mayor Suarez: How are se doing... Mr. Dawkins: When we give you this money, what is the first two flooding areas you have targeted? Mr. Cather: I would have to look at the whole program, but I have right in front of you here, what... Mr. Dawkins: See now, well, if you don't get it, I am going to have to defer this until you bring it. Mr. Cather: Just one moment, sir, please. Mr. Dawkins: And this is... I want the citizens, I hope the press can tell... Mr. Cather: (INAUDIBLE, OFF MIKE) Mr. Dawkins: this, what address? Mr. Jim Kay: That is between NW 71st Street, and NE 2nd Avenue. Mr. Dawkins: NW 7th... what NW? Mr. Kay: NE 2nd Avenue at 71st Street. Mr. Dawkins: And that is a flooding problem there? Mr. Kay: That area to the SE is a flooding problem, yes, sir. Mr. Plummer: r in here about the street improvements and that the water was drawing it on their property. Mr. Reds: Commissioner, what we have tried to do with the whole program is Identify the major problem areas and address them in a priority order with this plan. Mr. Dawkins: OK, 1 am going along with it, because I want the citizens to know that they are being taxed, but its being slipped to them. OK, call the question. Mrs. Kennedy: Again, let the record reflect that it is a flat fee for residential property of $2.50 per month that will generate anywhere between 4 and S million dollars and commercial property is going to be prorated according to the impervious surface of the lot. 56 Yebruary 18, 1988 Mr. Dawkins: OK, now still under discussion as Commissioner De Yurre said that there is other money to be found. Now, in the event that this money is found, what happens? Mr. Cather: I think I would have to defer to the City Manager for that. 1 think any money he saves should be used to... I don't know, it is up to you. Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Cather: Mr. Dawkins: business? We are tired of bonds! We are tired of bonds! It is really none of my business, I mean, I'll save... Well, what is your business? You know, well, what is your Mr. Cather: My business is to try to do as good a job as I can with the streets and sewers. Nov, if he reduces costs in other departments, I think it is up to him to tell you what he is going to do with it, not me, sir. Mr. Dawkins: It is up to you to tell me why it needs to be done and why and what. Mr. De Turre: Mr. Mayor, I think that we should identify, like I mentioned before, the lands that are available that are of no use to the City, they are just sitting there, and I am sure we are talking about... Mayor Suarez: I know, I heard you mention that, before. I thought we were doing that. I thought we initiated that a year ago. Are we getting close to the point that we are going to get a recommendation on divestiture of City lands, so that we can... Mr. lads: Yes, we are very close to bringing that to the Commission. Mayor Suarez: And I presume that Commissioner De Yurre is leading the way on that, and being given all the information that he has been requesting on that, right? Mr. lads: Sure. Mr. De Yurre: I've been talking to Mr. Armada, who has been compiling Information, and the thing is that, you know, as opposed to just going back to the taxpayers at this point in time again, that we should make haste of this, and come back at the next month's meeting with a proposal what we have, and we can dispose of that, I am voting "no" on this, right now. Mr. lads: OK, two comments I'd like to make in that regard, Commissioner - one, this is an ordinance, and it will have to come back to you on second reading, and the second is, we will make aura that when we bring it back on second reading, we have that information on the land, the proposed available for proposed sale back to you, either before, or at the same time, and I do recall the direction was on the land to refer that information first to the Parks Advisory Committee, because there was a suggestion of keeping that money In that fund for the improvement of City parks. Mr. De Turre: But, there are certain lands that have nothing to do with parks. Mayor Suarez: Teo, i man, and that fund could be a huge amount of money, if we sold everything. Mr. Plummer: Well, somebody's memory In a little short. We have already started the action by the Watson Building downtown, and also the Police Department, the old Police Department on llth Street - the Justice Building, that has already been started. I mean, we have instructed it. Mayor Suarez: Tom, but those are isolated items. There was supposed to be a wholesale, universal, complete... Mr. lads: A comprehensive document. Mayor Suarez: ... that is the word, comprehensive review of all City property. 57 February 18, 1988 Mr. Dawkins: OK, I am not prepared to vote on this. i move that this be continued until the March 8th meeting, end then I will... Mr. Plummer: Trouble maker! Mrs. Kennedy: After all that running around! Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: What. by the way, if a bonding of this, would be done by whom, if the Commission eventually approves it? I want to just leave that questiont and if anybody has a simple answer to it. Mr. fads: I don't think we can answer that question now, sir. Mayor Suarez: Well. I see Carlos getting up to answer it. Mr. Carlos Garcia: I was going to say I don't have an answer. What does he wean by •whose?• - the underwriters, or what? We haven't selected any, you luiow, that is really... Mayor Suarez: OK. :and we would select by the usual painful process of seeing... Mr. Garcia: No, sir... we'll... it depends on how the bonds are sold. If the bonds on a competitive basis, we will just open up the bids here in front of you, and we will send the bonds to whoever gives us the lowest rate. Mr. Dawkins: Delaying this for a month, what will it do? Mr. Garcia: Sir? Mr. Dawkins: Delaying this for a month, what will it do? Mr. Garcia: Well, the City is counting over $70,000,000 in this year's general fund budget, it would be more and more difficult to bring those $2,000,000 into the general fund this year, if we keep delaying this process. Mr. Eads: Commissioner... Mr. Plummer: Can I urge my friend, this is a first reading? To proceed with the first reading, and then... Mr. Dawkins: OK, I move it on first reading. Mr. Plummer: ... on second reading, you can come back and make any of the points. Second. Mr. Dawkins: I reserve the right to change my vote at the second meeting. Mr. Pluaseer: We all do. Mayor Suarez: We have bond consultants, do we not? Mr. Garcia: We have financial advisors, yes, sir. Mayor Suarez: That's the word. What is their name? Mr. Garcia: Janes J. Lawrey, is the name of the company, of the firm. Mayor Suarez: Now long have they been our financial consultants? Mr. Garcia: I think since 1980, about eight years, now. Mayor Suarez: When does that contract come up for reconsideration? Mr. Garcias I think it is in April of this year. Mayor Suarez: OK. Any further discussion on this issue? We have a motion. Do we have a second, Madam Clerk? Read the ordinance. Mr. Plummer: It has already been read on the first go -around. 58 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. THEREUPON, THE CITY ATTORNEY READ THE ORDINANCE INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. BY TITLE ONLY. Mr. Plummer: Nov this is predicated on, that you will not spend any money on South Miami Avenue at 30th Road, and no money in the South Grove area. Mr. De Yurre: And in Little Havana, still, so... Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE< ESTABLISHING A STORMWATER UTILITY SYSTEM FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI; MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS AND DETERMINATIONS; ESTABLISHING A SCHEDULE OF RATES; ESTABLISHING A METHOD AND PROCEDURE FOR THE COLLECTION OF STORMWATER UTILITY FEES; PROVIDING GROUND AND PROCEDURES FOR ADJUSTMENT OF FEES; DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO KEEP RECORDS; ESTABLISHING STORMWATER UTILITY TRUST FUND AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Vas introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner Plummer and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy NOES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Mayor Xavier L. Suarez ABSENT: None. COMMENTS ON ROLL CALL: Mr. De Yurre: I am going to vote "no," and again for the record, I recognize the necessity of the work that needs to be done. I am just opposed to the way of financing it, and that is why I am voting "no." Mayor Suarez: No, I am still concerned about the regressive nature of this, and also the fact that we are switching what should have been a general taxation matter over to a whole different tax bill and I think in the process we are going to be confusing the taxpayers of the City of Miami, but I think what you are doing otherwise makes a lot of sense and I would have just done It by the simple way of increasing our debt service. Mr. Bads: Spacial obligation bonds. Mayor Suarez: Yes, right. The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and to the public. 38. AMEND AGREEMENT VITH PRIEDE-SEDGWICK, INC. - EXTEND TERN FROM ONE TO THREE YEARS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE STORM DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN. Mr. Plummer: I move item 42. Mayor Suarez: 42, related item. Do we have a second on 42? This is to Implement 41, I presume. Mr. Plummer: 42 and 43. Mr. Dawkins: iffy do you have to do it with Priede-Sedgwick? 59 February IS, 1988 Mr. Cather: This is the... Mr. Dawkins: Test why do we have it? - why? Mr. Cather: I hate to use the word, but their consultant has to finish the job that we gave him and not up all the financial... Mr. Dawkins% And it takes three years for him to do this? Mr. Cather: It has been three years at least, but this is the end of his contract now, and this is the final touch to put this thing into action. Mr. Dawkins: It says, extend the contract for three years. Mr. Cather: One to three years. Mr. Dawkins: One year. You got me. I'm not going to give him three years, I'll give him one year. Mr. Cather: Yell, you mean... but, we are only extending him one more year, right? Mr. Kay: Right. Mr. Cather: We are only extending it one more year. Mr. Plummer: That is not what it says on the agenda, Mr. Cather. It says one to three. Mr. Cather: From one, to three. Would you explain that? Mr. Kay: The first contract was a one year contract. We amended the contract to extend it to two years and it actually in the agreement, it never officially got extended to two years. That was overlooked, we are now extending it to three years for this third and final... Mr. Plummer: Are you in your third year? Mr. Kay: We are beginning the third year. Mr. Dawkins: Who paid, where did the money come from to pay him for the second year? - since it did not come to this Commission to be approved. Mr. Kay: It was, the amendment vas approved by the Commission. Mr. Dawkins: But, the second year? Mr. Kay: Yes, sir. Mr. Dawkins: And now we are approving it for one more year? Mr. Kay Teo, sir. Mr. Plummer: I move 42. Mrs. Kennedy: Second 42. Where is the Mayor? Call the roll. Mrs. Kennedy: Call the roll. 60 February 18, 1988 a 0 The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: #MS01=10H NO. 88-145 A USOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY !MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, WITH PRIEDE-SEDGWICK, INC., THEREBY in,,c iIMG THE TERM OF SAID AGREEMENT FROM ONE TEAR TO TIMM TEARS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A tSIVE STORM DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN AND INCREASING THE MAXIMUM TOTAL COMPENSATION ALLOWED BY $40,000 FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, USING FUNDS 9 Wro'OR PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED FOR PROJECT #352250. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Caeoissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed OW adopted by the following vote: ATES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez MOSS: Commissioner De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins ABSENT: none. COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL: Mr. Dawkins: You know, I sm boxed in, OK? I agree with the Mayor and De Turco that we are taxing the citizenry and now I am going to go and put on their bill, $40.00 consultant fee? It is just not fair. It is not fair, I have to vote 'no.' Mayor Suarez: If it is for the same program, "no." Mr. Rodriguez: Could I suggest that you take this item for the second reading, since he is going to cone? 41 is going to come for a second reading, and next time, you might want to consider this again. Mr. Dawkins: My vote then, as now, will be "no." If we don't have enough people in the department who can take what the consultant has developed in two fears and finish the project, than we really need to hire the consultant and get rid of some of the people that we got in the department. !Mayor Suarez: The $17,800 consultant fee is going to hold up your $200,000,000 boad Esau:, utility fund, whatever you call it? I doubt it. Mr. Rodriguez: This is the and of the contract, and we need to finish it, and otherwise we will be asking from you all, and I think it is important that we finish with a reputable consultant like we have now. Mayor Suarez: Are you saying this is... Mr. Cather: And the $17,000, Mr. Mayor, that you are referring to is the cost of programming to permit this to be built by Metropolitan -Dade County Water and Sewer Department. Mr. Plummer: That's 43. Mr.Cathr: That is in addition to the time that our own Computer Department will be spending on it. Mayor Suarez: This is our s:aster plan. Want to let it go to see how it goes om it? This is on the plan itself, not on the different taxation mode? OK, I vote •per' on that. 61 February 16, 1988 NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, AGENDA ITEM 43 (PROPOSED AGREEMENT WITH METRO DADE FOR DATE CONVERSION PROGRAM) WAS DEFERRED TO A FUTURE MEETING. NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, AGENDA ITEMS 47, 46 AND 50 WERE TEMPORARILY DEFERRED UNTIL 3:00 P.M. NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, THE MAYOR RECOGNIZES THE PRESENCE OF STATE REPRESENTATIVE ALBERTO GUTMAN. 39. ACCEPT DID: LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY FOR FURNISHING ABSTRACT SERVICES FOR A SIX MONTH PERIOD. Mayor Suarez: Item 51. Tea, sir. Mr. Carlos Garcia: Mr. Mayor, members of the City Commission, this is part of our effort to collect on Solid Waste delinquent accounts. We entered into a contract with this .particular firm two years ago. for 500 accounts. That contract has been used up. At this time we went out and requested bids from numerous companies, unfortunately, there is only one minority company, and that is a Hispanic company, and they were not able to bid and in spite of that, we sent requests to 15 different organizations, such as the Miami -Dade Chamber of Commerce, the Women's Chamber of Commerce, the Minority Business Development Center and so on. We do need this contract in order to proceed with our delinquent accounts, investigate those titles of those properties, so we can notify all the entities that have an interest in the properties, that we are going to take for our closure action on the property, not that we are going to take away the properties from the owner, but this is a collection tool that we use for purposes of collecting those past due bills. Mr. Plummer: Question. Mr. Garcia: Tea, sir. Mr. Plummer: If in fact, foreclosure does not take place, but a lien is paid, is this cost factor included in the lien? Mr. Garcia: Tea, sir, we can recover those monies. We will recover those monies. Mr. Plummer: I move item 51. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Mr. De Turre: A question on this. Are we talking about a computer print out service? Mr. Garcia: Similar to that, yes, sir. Mr. De Turre: Because we are not talking about an abstract. Mr. Garcia: We are talking about an abstract in every... it is not a pencil search, but a full abstract. Mr. De Yurre: Are you sure about that? Mr. Garcia: Yes, sir. Well, I think it is a computer search, as you mentioned, OK? Mr. De Turre: OK, well, you know. you have got to know what you are talking about. Computer searches... Miss City Attorney... Miss City Attorney? Mrs. Dougherty: Yes. sir. Mr. De Turre: Do we have... don't we have the computer service at the offices? Mrs. Dougherty: We do not. 62 February 18, 1989 Mr. De Turre: For $165,000... well, how long a period of time are we talking about? Mr. Garcia: We are talking, probably around three years. We are talking about 3,000 accounts, $50 per account. The other bid that was received was for $175 per account. Mr. De Yurre: OK, we can get... the City can get installed, the computer service... Mrs. Dougherty: I think that is worthwhile looking into, because we could use it not only for the selection of these waste liens, but demolitions, and everything also, so, maybe... Mr. De Yurre: Well, we are... Mrs. Dougherty: ... perhaps we should consider doing this on a for three years period of time. Mr. Garcia: Could we get it for just one year, for one-third of it, so we don't stop our process of collecting on these accounts. Commissioner. Mr. De Turre: Let me tell you what the procedure is, and again, you know, so we can move on this. There is no reason for it to take a year to decide whether we need it or not. If we are talking about analyzing $50... if you are going to charge $50, at cost, the actual raw cost, you can get a deal where it costs maybe $32, $35, tops, by installing the equipment at the City Attorney's office. If you are going to charge a $50 fee, then you know, we slake $15 a pop on these, that's number one. When you are talking about $165,000, you are talking about a heck of a lot of money. You are talking about 3,000 accounts - 3,000 accounts time 15, you are talking about what?... $450,000. Mr. Garcia: $45,000, yes, air. Mr. De Turre: $45,000? Mr. Garcia: Right. Mr. De Turre: OK, $45,000. Mr. Garcia: It In worth while, it certainly is. Mr. De Turre: I think it is. I would be in favor of voting for this, for no more than a three month period. That gives us plenty of time to make a decision within a month to contact Southern Bell, they have to install the telephone line, and to contact the company that comes here and installs the equipment, if we decide to go with that. Mr. Garcia: Could I ask the Commissioner to make it for at least 500 accounts, because what we would like to do is to do at least a batch of 500 at a time. Mr. De Turre: How long does it take to do 500? Mr. Garcia: It is taking us about a year to do the first 500. I think the second batch should go wore faster than the first one, but I would say it would take at least six months. Mr. De Turre: No, I'll to up to six months and that is it. Mr. Garcia: Thank you, Commissioner. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: 51 moved and seconded with that modification. Any discussion? Call the roll. 63 February 1S, 1988 The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, vho moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-146 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE DID AND AWARDING A CONTRACT FOR FURNISHING ABSTRACT SERVICES FROM LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF 850.00 PER COMPLETED LIEN STATUS SHEET AND $10.00 PER UPDATED PENCIL SEARCH; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $30,000 FROM THE 1987-88 OPERATING BUDGET INDEX CODE 260301-310; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon bola& seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution vas passed and adopted by the folloving 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. 40. AGREEMENT WITH METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY FOR ENGAGEMENT OF CITY OF MIAMI TO PROVIDE FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AT THE PORT OF MIAMI. Mr. Plummer: With pleasure I move 52. what we should be getting. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Dirty devils are finally paying us Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded? Any discussion? Call the roll on 52. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-147 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; AND 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 Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: 64 February 18, 1989 0 9 AYES: Commissioner Victor De Turre Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ASSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins _ Mr. Plummer: And let the taxpayers of this community know we did not, like other municipalities, give our fire service away to Metro -Dade County. Metro - Dade County is coming to us. It should set a precedent. Mayor Suarez: Very good. 41. (A) DEFER PROPOSED RESOLUTION TO PURCHASE OR ACQUIRE THROUGH EMINENT DOMAIN A PROPERTY LOCATED APPROXIMATELY BETWEEN NW 1ST AVENUE AND NW 2ND AVENUE AT NW 34TH TERRACE. (B) AUTHORIZE APPRAISALS ON PERTINENT PARCELS - ESTABLISH A CEILING FOR COSTS IN CONNECTION WITH SAID APPRAISALS. ` Mayor Suarez: Item 53. Mr. Plummer: What is this? This is on the... ? Mr. Eads: Clemente Park. Mrs. Kennedy: Roberto Clemente, eminent domain. Mr. Eads: This is the expanding of the... Mayor Suarez: Part of the parks improvement proposal. Mr. Eads: Yes, this item was deferred at the last meeting at Commissioner De Turre's request for some additional information. Mr. Plummer: That is what generated that nasty letter? Mrs. Kennedy: Are you satisfied, Victor, with... Mr. De Turre: Not really. I had a meeting a couple of days ago with Al Armada and a number of people and they were still up in the air as to where we were at. At this point in time, the only thing I'd be in favor of us is, voting to get appraisals of thane parcels, which, in order to stake any type of logical decision, based on the cost of these properties and so on, and so forth, we have to work with appraisals and I'd be in favor of voting for that. Mr. Eads: That would be... certainly move us towards... process. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Do you understand the costs of these appraisals? Mr. Eads: Appraisals have to be done anyway. Mr. De Turre: How can we vote to purchase land if we don't know what it costs? I mean, I think it would be ludicrous to just... Mayor Suarez: You know, when you want an appraisal, you want a full, complete appraisal, not just some... Mr. De Yurre: Well, I don't... Mayor Suarez: ... in-house determination of comparables in the area. What is an appraisal... Mr. Eads: No, they are asking for... I don't who the appraiser would be. 65 February IS. 1988 a: s Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Armada, over in Property and Leasing... Mayor Suarez: Right. Mr. De Turre: ... he has a budget specifically for appraisals, and if the money would come from that budget to have the appraisals made. Mayor Suarez: The reason I asked, because I was surprised when I first heard how much one of these usually costs. Mr. De Turre: He said it would cost $250 per appraisal. That was the - estimate that he gave me. Mr. Plummer: I'll bet you it will be more. Mr. Williams: On each of this, on each of these, Mr. Mayor, if I may, we - competitively bid these appraisals and... Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry to even raise the issue if it In anywhere near $250, but that's not the kinds of figures I've heard here in the last couple of years. Mr. De Turre: What have you heard? Mayor Suarez: I've heard figures like $20,000 for an appraisal of the property. Mr. Eads: No, sir. we are talking about residential lots. We are not... Mr. Williams: No, several of them come in well within that $250 range. Mr. De Turre: We have Mr. Armada right... Alberto, there he is. He can answer any questions that we have. Mayor Suarez: I just want you to know what we are talking about before we vote on an appraisal. Mr. De Turre: OK, well, I just want for the record, Mr. ... Mayor Suarez: How many lots are we talking about, and how much would they cost per lot, roughly, on an appraisal? That's what I want the Commissioner to know, because if he gets hit with a figure like that... Mr. Eads: I assure you it is not $20,000, Mr. Mayor. Mr. De Yurre: Well, Mr. Armada, the appraisals that we were talking about for this Roberto Clemente proposal, we are talking about approximately $250 per appraisal. Is that correct? Mr. Al Armada: That is correct. That is what it should come to, yes. They seem to be mostly residential... you know. Mayor Suarez: Now many other? Mrs. Kennedy: Now many lots? Mr. Armada: There are twelve lots. Mr. De Turre: Twelve lots. Mayor Suarez: Tou are talking $3,000 right there. Mr. Armada: Well, yes, if we wanted to get one appraisal for each lot. If we wanted to get... Mayor Suarez: Weil, do we need that? Mr. De Yurre: Well, you have the money in the budget. Mayor Suarez: Well, the reason I am asking is, if you have an appraisal of one lot, that might apply to the one right next to it, I mean... 66 February 18, 1988 Mr. Armada: No, no. We need to appraise each and every one lot, at least once. Mr. bads: Mr. Mayor, we would encourage you to authorize appraisals for each lot. Mr. De Turre: The thing is, some are empty lots. Some are like four unit apartment buildings, some are residential homes. Mayor Suarez: We are up to $3,000 minimum now, from a figure of $250, since you are talking 12 lots. Mr. De Turre: Tea, well that is it, $250 per lot. I've just have to have something to base my decision on, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: You are not going to come back with a $20,000 bill, or a $10,000 bill? Mr. De Turre: No, we can cap it at $250 per... we cap it at $250 per lot. Mr. lads: No, sir, we will not be back... Mayor Suarez: Or a $5,000 bill! Maybe? Mr. Eads: We think $250 is a reasonable estimate on what each lot will cost to have appraised, Mr. Mayor. Mr. De Turre: Well, I would move that we get appraisals made on the 12 lots, not to exceed a total of $3,000 for the 12 lots. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded, call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-148 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACQUIRE APPRAISALS FOR THOSE PROPERTIES GENERALLY LOCATED BETWEEN NORTHWEST 1 AVENUE AND NORTHWEST 2 AVENUE AT NORTHWEST 34 TERRACE IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA MORE SPECIFICALLY DESCRIBED AS LOTS, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, AND 24 OF BLOCK 5 OF WYNWOOD PARK SUBDIVISION (5-23), INCLUSIVE, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF POTENTIAL ACQUISITION FOR A PUBLIC PARK; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROGRAM, CL.EHENTE PARK RENOVATION PROJECT NO. 331056. (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. 67 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: Do you need a motion on the actual item? Commissioner De Turre, I guess why don't you... Mr. Ends: No, air, I think what you did is amend the actual item to provide for appraisals - come back to the Commission with appraisals. Mr. De Turre: Now then, we defer until we get the appraisals. Mayor Suarez: We need a motion to defer. Mr. De Turre: I move to defer 53, did you say? Mayor Suarez: This is the acquisition of the lots, right close to Clemente Park. We have a motion to defer, do we have a second? Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. MOTION TO DEFER. UPON MOTION DULY MADE BY Commissioner De Turre and seconded by Commissioner Plummer, -this item was deferred pending receipt of appraisals 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. Mayor Suarez: Does that make you feel any better? - that we are going to do an appraisal and you are going to be out there checking on our appraisals to see if they are realistic and if we are paying the right amount of money for that property, as a community activist in the area, that is somewhat sceptical of what we are doing in connection with this park. 42. ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO THE LITTLE HAVANA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, INC. FOR USE OF A PORTION OF MAXIMO GOMEZ PARK FOR PUBLIC RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION SERVICES. Mayor Suarez: Item 54. Mr. Ends: Mr. Mayor, 54 and SS are companion items relating to Domino Park and what we are suggesting is that... Mr. Dawkins: Move it. Mayor Suarez: Oh, please, yes. We have a motion. Do we have a second? Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded, any discussion? Mrs. Kennedy: Tea, let me just say, Mr. Manager, there are two or three tour buses that stop right at Domino Park. Could you perhaps persuade the operators to stop even a block away, so that we don't give a bad impression while the remodeling is going on? It is really awful. Mr. Eads: Teo, Ma'am. Mayor Suarez: Mr. Eads must stand there waiving them down, and flagging them down. Call the roll on 54. 68 February IS, 1988 The following resolution vas introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-149 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE A _ REVOCABLE PERMIT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED, TO THE LITTLE HAVANA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, INC. FOR USE OF 4,778 SQUARE FEET OF AREA COMPRISING THE CITY OF MIAMI'S MAKING GOMEZ PARK, LOCATED AT 1444 SW 8TH STREET, FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND CONDUCT OF PUBLIC RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION SERVICES BY SAID ORGANIZATION FOR AN INITIAL PERIOD OF ONE (1) YEAR; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO APPROVE SUBSEQUENT ONE-YEAR EXTENSIONS TO SAID PERMIT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution vas passed and adopted by the following votes AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. Mayor Suarez: Thanks to the Little Havana Development Authority for this. 43. GRANT $90,000 IN SUPPORT OF A PUBLIC RECREATIONAL AND INFORMATION SERVICES PROGRAM AT MAXIMO GOMEZ PARK TO BE OPERATED BY THE LITTLE HAVANA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, INC. Mayor Suarez: Item 55. Mr. Plummer: Move it. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved, seconded, thirded. Any discussion? Call the roll. 69 February 18, 1989 The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-150 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A GRANT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED S90,000 IN SUPPORT OF A PUBLIC RECREATIONAL AND INFORMATION SERVICES PROGRAM AT MAXIMO GOMEZ PARK, A NEIGHBORHOOD PARK LOCATED AT 1444 SW 8TH STREET, TO BE OPERATED BY THE LITTLE HAVANA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, INC. WHICH ORGANIZATION HAS OFFERED TO UNDERTAKE A PROJECT, UTILIZING SUCH FUNDS, CALLING FOR THE DESIGN, RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES IN AND IMPROVEMENTS TO SAID PARK; ALLOCATING FUNDS IN THAT AMOUNT FOR SAID PROJECT FROM MONIES PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED BY ORDINANCE NO. 10347, ADOPTED NOVEMBER 19, 1987, AS AMENDED, THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE FROM PROJECT NO. 331303 ENTITLED •CITY-WIDE NEIGHBORHOOD PARK RENOVATIONS"; FURTHER AUTHORIZING T412 CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT FOR SAID DESIGN, RENOVATION AND CONSTRUCTION, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED, BETWEEN -THE CITY OF MIAMI AND THE LITTLE HAVANA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, INC. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 44. PETITION THE COMMISSION TO ENFORCE THE LAW TO PREVENT INDIVIDUALS FROM DRINKING AT LUMMUS PARK (See label 50). Mr. De Turre: I think we have somebody who wants to speak on the item, Mr. Mayor. Me. Margaret Miller: I wonder if I might be able to speak for a moment. The same is Margaret Miller, 328 NW 4th Avenue. I am seeing, and happily, that you have found money for Domino Park. What I am wanting to know... Mayor Suarez: After such searching. Ms. Miller: What I am wanting to know is if further searching would find money for Lummus Park. Mayor Suarez: Lummus Park, I was afraid you were going to mention that. I've been by there a lot the last few days and the construction proceeds on the north side, of whatever the river drive is there, and Lummus Park still looks like hell. Are we going to get a recommendation from the City, from the staff, on what we are going to do about Lummus Park, and where we are going to find funds? The Commissioner has been proposing. He just walked out momentarily - there he is, that the City consider divesting itself from some of the major properties that it hasn't been using, that are not on the tax rolls and that the money, at least initially, be considered for the parks improvement fund. I have a feeling that I speak for the entire Commission when I tell you that Lummus Park is a very high priority, if not the highest priority, just like before we felt that Clemente Park and some of the other parks were also very 70 February 18, 1988 high priority. 1 think Lummus Park is as high in everybody's mind as any, and so we are moving in the direction that you request. Ms. Miller: I have a petition here today, and I will be giving each of you a copy of it. It is not a petition that I am turning in. Mine, there were some 400 names, but another person living in Park Towers Building, a person whose mother tongue is Spanish was able to reach 279 other people in the neighborhood, to now that means that we have close to 700 people signing petitions and one thing interesting about the petition is, that as our... Mayor Suarez: Are these the same people who petitioned us before to remove parking meters? Ms. Miller: Oh, that I don't know, but... Mayor Suarez: Because if they are, we had them removed, and we haven't heard that magic word of thanks, after a lot of... Ms. Miller: Well, I have not been concerned with the parking meters. I am concerned, however, with cars parked on my street that people are living in, and have been living in for two years, and using the surrounding area for bathroom... Mayor Suarez: Worthy of concern. Ms. Miller:... but this asks for proper care and maintenance of the Lummus Park and its surrounding areas, so we are not asking for swimming pools and so on. We are simply asking for care and maintenance, and I would like to, if I may, before I leave here, say something. It has been said a couple of times that Lummus Park isn't being used, and I know that you, Mayor Suarez, are familiar with the northeast, and others of you. You know then, that the New Haven Green has nothing but trees and grass and park benches, and that the little towns in Massachusetts and in Connecticut have nothing but trees and shrubs and park benches, so we are not asking for a recreation center, we are asking for an oasis, there, a green space, in the City. Thank you. Mr. Dawkins: All right, what are we going to do to ensure that when we... and I am talking to my fellow Commissioners and the administration, when we bring this park up to a level where it can be utilized by the citizenry, how are we going to rope it off, fence it off, or whatever, to ensure that when Camillus House moves in there, those individuals that move in with Camillus House, will not sleep and do everything else in the park? What contingency do we have, will we have? Mr. Plummer: Paddy wagon! Mr. Dawkins: Paddy wagon? I don't have room in the jail, J.L., unless you are going to take them to the Dade County... Broward Countyl... because for us to spend money to sake that park usable by the residents, and not take some steps to ensure that when the Camillus House moves within a couple of blocks of this park, that we cannot secure it, and keep it secured... we are just making another... what is that, HE 2nd Avenue? - for people to sleep... Mr. Plummer: lot Avenue. Mr. Dawkins: let Avenue, and sleep on, and what have you, so I think that should be considered, when we talk in terms of renovating this park. Ms. Miller: No, I am thinking in terms, if I say, Miller Dawkins, of laws. There is a law saying that the park is open from 6:00 o'clock to 10:00 o'clock, yet you have the shadowy figures there 24 hours a day, and also drinking laws. In the park, you have the needles used for drugs, empty wine bottles and beer cans. I think there is probably an ordinance against drinking alcoholic beverages in the park. We might start with enforcing some of these laws, I don't know. Thank you. INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mayor Suarez: Mr. Representative. Rep. Alberto Gutman: My name is Alberto Gutman, I'm with the Florida House of Representatives and I represent the area within Lummus Park, the area that 71 February IS. 1988 Lummus Park is My address is 2451 Brickell Avenue, Miami. Mr. Mayor, Honorable Commissioners, I am here, because a few weeks ago, I sat down with some of the residents from the Lummus Park area. Now, Lummus Park is in a situation where it is close to a polite station. It is a beautiful park. It Is green, everything you can want in a park, except it has got a problem, it's got crime. It is dark at night, people can't use it, because of the dark. The facilities aren't properly lit. We have s structure there that is all bordered up and it is currently being used by drug addicts to go in there and do their drugs, and bums to sleep in. I first started getting involved with Lummus Park problem recently, when four of my constituents called, and that's an awful lot for one week, and they complained. They were elderly residents of the area. They complained that they went to the... they were walking within their own neighborhood. What happened at night is, since the park is so dark, the people, perpetrators, will go out there and commit crimes, and they'll just run back in the park and hide, and you can't find them, and it is a serious situation. We needed some help. I called some of the officials in the Police Department, they were happy to oblige and send some high profile officers there, so the bums would know that they are being watched. That's good, and that helps, but what we need... Mayor Suarez: The high profile officer, that sounds like Walter Martinez. Mr. Gutman: That's rightt Mayor Suarez: Is that right? Mr. Gutman: Yes, sir. Mayor Suarez: Hit it right on the nose!... assistant chief. I Mr. Gutman: Assistant Chief Martinez, yes, sir, and Major Abraham. Now, the... we need do something with this area. I saw that Commissioner De Turre, which I have spoken with, and he is very interested in this issue. He recommended that signatures be taken. The residents of the area got together, they collected close to 300 signatures and all they want is proper care and maintenance of Lummus Park and its surrounding areas. With that in mind, I am going to go ahead and call the Department of Transportation and make sure that all the shrubbery around the expressways are properly cleaned, because again, - we have the problems of the criminals hiding in those areas, so we are going to go ahead and clean that up. We need the City to either knock down that building that is in Lummus Park, or fix it to the condition where it can be used. We need the City to go ahead and put proper lighting, and we need the City to direct the Police Department to be more visible in the area. We are talking... it is so ironic, because we are talking about a section that is only a few hundred feet away from the police station, and you can't walk out at night. That makes it a situation which is hard to understand, and hard to believe, but the residents of the area are suffering. Mayor Suarez: The park invites people with illegal intentions just by the look of it. I mean, it is... Mr. Gutman: That's true, Mr. Mayor. We... Mayor Suarez: It invites criminals. It is... Mr. Gutman: ... also have State statutes which prohibit drinking in public and every time you drive by that park, there is someone out there drinking, and nothing happens. I understand we have a situation with the jails, but we need to do something about that. We need to enforce those laws a little bit more and make sure that these people understand that we are not going to let them get away with what they are doing in the area. I'd like to pass out... I believe Ms. Miller has some copies of the signatures, I'd like to pass them out to each and every one of you. Mayor Suarez: You know, if I may make one other suggestion, am I wrong, or could the area use an organized citizen's crime watch type, as the one you are familiar with, with the walkey... the CB group, or some other group of that sort that will help us to identify these people, because as Officer N _ is saying back there, we do arrest people who are engaging in drinking in public, and they have got some time on their hands, the people in those projects there, and we need them to help us in the effort to eradicate the criminal element from the area... 72 February IS, 1988 Mr. Gutman: That is... yes. Mayor Suarez: ... in addition of course, to the improvements to the park, which we all agree have to be done. Mr. Gutman: That is a great idea and I will be happy to talk to the Florida... I am sorry, the National Crime Prevention Commission, or... I forgot what the same of the agency is... Mayor Suarez: Whatever the correct title is. Mr. Gutman: ... that they are in charge of that around the area. I will go ahead and speak with them and have them participate a little more in that area and maybe organize that area to defend itself a little bit, but you know, a lot of the residents are elderly, and they really need help, and Commissioner be Turre has spearheaded a move over there to get the people active in the community and try within themselves to resolve this problem. We need the City's cooperation. The State is going to go ahead and cooperate. I am 100 percent committed to this, and I hope that... I understand that... Mayor Suarez: We are going to get about a half million dollars from the State, do you think? Mr. Dawkins: Commissioner Kennedy and I will be up there lobbying you to get money to do just what we are talking about doing. Mr. Gutman: Understanding the legislative process, as all you do, you know that it would take a long time, and this is an emergency crisis situation. Mr. Dawkins: It didn't take a long time to get money last year. Mr. Plummer: We know you meet in April and May. That is a long time. Mr. Gutman: It goes into effect in October. Mr. Dawkins: Well, the governor does have... there is contingency funds our representive that the governor can just reach into. Mr. Gutman: No, I don't believe there is. Mr. Dawkins: I think there is. Mr. Gutman: OK, I will look into it, but I... I will be happy to look into It. Mayor Suarez: This is high priority for the City this year, as opposed to maybe you know, like in the past years they have gotten the impression that Sayfront Park, and soma other parks, I mean, the now it is the neighborhood parks, the inner-city parks that we are particular concerned about, and if you can convey that to your colleagues, since you are not bound by the Sunshine Law, we would appreciate that. Mr. Dawkins: We are going to meet with you at one of your legislative delegation meetings, Commissioner Kennedy and I, to convey this is one of our priorities... Mr. Gutman: I understand. Mr. Dawkins: ... for the delegation to take back. Mr. Gutman: I appreciate it, Commissioner, and I want you to know that we have an awful lot of respect for you in Tallahassee. Tou do come up every year, and you do a fine job lobbying up there, and the City of Miami, they get their money's worth with you. Mr. Dawkins: Thank you. Mr. Gutman: Now, this is... I believe you are still on item 55, correct? Mr. Dawkins: Ties. 73 February 18, 1988 Mr. Gutman: Nov, you are going into a fund that's... and using it for expenditures for the Maximo Gomez Park. I hope that you can also go into that fund and use some emergency expenditures in Lummuz- Park, and put it into shape. Mr. De Turre: Do we have any study made as to what needs to be done with Lummus Park and recommendations? Mr. Bads: Yes, sir, and there are some things that we can do on Lummus Park, Initially, fairly rapidly, that might make a change in there, including addressing the security lighting and some of those buildings in there that definitely need to be removed, get those removed and out of there. I think that, based on what I've heard this morning, would do a lot to alleviate the situation. Mr. De Turre: Well, how such money are we talking about? Mr. Reds: it is a guess Commission. I would say we could probably do that for somewhere in the neighborhood of $30,000... purely a guess though, right now, it could be $50,000. Mr. Plummer: What's,been allocated in the Parks Committee for Lummus? Mr. De Turre: Nothing. Mr. Bads: I don't believe any money was recommended by the Parks Committee for Lummus. Mr. Plummer: be interesting to know why not. Mrs. Kennedy: Has all the money been allocated, or certain funds still left there? Mr. Bads: No, there is approximately $500.000 in a contingency reserve here. Mr. De Turre: We are talking about the $90,000 for Domino Park is coming out of the contingency fund, is that correct? Mr. Bads: Yes. sir. Mr. De Yurre: Well then, I think it would be appropriate that we set aside you know, $50,000 of that for the lighting of Lummus Park and to address that immediate problem. Mr. Plummer: You can't light that place for $50,000. Mr. Dawkins: Set aside $100,000. Mr. De Turre: Well, we'll set aside $100.000, ten. Mr. Dawkins: And if there's any left over, we'll put it back. Mrs. Kennedy: Can you give us a report at the next Commission meeting? Mr. De Turre: Well, we will set aside a hundred, then. Mrs. Kennedy: Well, Mr. Manager, can you give us a more definite estimate at the next Commission meeting. Mr. Plummer: Yes, instead of guessing at that. Mrs. Kennedy: Instead of guessing, Sergio, 450,000, or $100,000, and then perhaps we can allocate part of that towards Lummus Park. Mr. Reds: OK, if I can, I'll see if we can give you some numbers this afternoon. Mrs. Kennedy: Perfect. Mr. De Yurre: OK. That way we can help Lummus Park and than my wife will be a peace, too. She is the one that is spearheading the drive over at Lummus Park. 74 February 18, 1988 Mr. Gutman: I want to thank you for the opportunity to present the issue on behalf of the Lummus Park residents, and I also want to comment that Vice - Mayor Kennedy does a fine job in Tallahassee too, and we look forward... Mrs. Kennedy: Thank you, I felt kind of left out there for a minute. Mr. Gutman: We look forward to having the rest of the Commissioners up in Tallahassee this year, and the Mayor, of course. Thank you. Mr. Dawkins: Thank you for coming too. Mayor Suarez: They do such a fine job, and I won't have to go up there. Mr. De Turre: Then, this afternoon, you are going to go give us some numbers on this? Mr. tads: I'll do my best to have it for you this afternoon, sir. Mayor Suarez: Our sixth vote is up at the mike. Ms. Hirai: Roll call on agenda 55 was interrupted on account of Ms. Miller's statement. May we call the roll again? Ms. Lori Weldon: And I have a statement before you continue that roll call. Mayor Suarez: Wait, wait. I'm sorry, Madam City Clerk. You are not entitled to interrupt the City Clerk, yet! Madam City Clerk, what were you telling us? Ms. Hirai: I was just requesting permission to call the roll on the item, since the vote was interrupted on account of Ms. Miller's statement previously. Mayor Suarez: Which item? Ms. Hirai: 55. Mr. De Yurre: We are in the middle of voting. Mayor Suarez: Oh, please complete the vote. THEREUPON ROLL CALL ON ITEM 55 WAS REPEATED, SEE R-150 HEREINABOVE. Mayor Suarez: Yes, now you got it - 30 seconds, was it on this issue we were talking about? Ms. Weldon: Yes, it is. Mayor Suarez: Well, you know we have a Park Advisory Committee. Ms. Weldon: Tea, I do, but why you are sitting here assigning money for parks and such, I just wanted to remind the Commission it has resolved to try to find money to build a new pool, or at least renovate the old pool in Range Park, and I thought that was the... Mayor Suarez: We are aware of that priority, too. Ms. Weldon: OK, I thought that was the priority and I wanted to know... Mayor Suarez: Yes, it is. Ms. Weldon:... not here and now, but I would like to remind them... Mayor Suarez: That was the other one that we asked the staff to get back to us on, you are right. Ms. Weldon: OK, just checking. NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, AGENDA ITEM 56 WAS DEFERRED (PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OF MEMBER TO SERVE ON PLANING ADVISORY BOARD). 75 February 18, 1988 ----------- --------- --------- ��------ - - - ----- -------------- 45. APPOINT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE CITYWIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD. (APPOINTED WAS: MS. MARGARET MILLER. ONE APPOINTMENT STILL PENDING.) Mayor Suarez: Agenda item 57, Community Development Advisory Board, two appointments to be made by Commissioner De Yurre. Mr. De Yurre: Margaret Miller. Mayor Suarez: OK, Margaret Miller is one nomination. I think you have got another one. Mr. De Yurre: (OFF MIKE) I want to hold off for the other one. Mayor Suarez: OK, I entertain a motion on Margaret Miller. I guess you Just did. I entertain a second. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 86-151 A RESOLUTION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE EIGHTEEN (16) MEMBER CITYWIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD IN ACCORDANCE WITH RESOLUTION 87-1006, ADOPTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION ON NOVEMBER 19, 1987. (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. 46. DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED APPOINTMENTS TO THE CITY'S CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD. Mayor Suarez: Item 58. Mr. Plummer: Whose appointments are those? Mayor Suarez: Code Enforcement Board. Do these have to be publicized, advertised, or not?... if we pass up on these today. Mr. Plummer: Who are the two vacancies? Mr. Castaneda: It was Victor De Yurre's appointments, and he had two appointments to the CD Advisory Board, which he has not made yet. Mr. Plummer: No, we are on 58, the Code Enforcement Board. 76 February 18, 1986 Mrs. Kennedy: The Code Enforcement Board. Mayor Suarez: It looks like I've got one, but I'm trying to figure out if... Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): What are we on now, fifty-eight? Mayor Suarez: Fifty-eight. Mr. Plummer: Vho were the two up? Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): Who got the vacancies? Mr. Rodriguez: My impression is that you were not appointing before anybody assigned to you. Tau know, that you appointed in general. Mrs. Kennedy: OK, can we table this until the afternoon, any problems? Mayor Suarez: Why do I see that Peter Padowitz is my appointment then and Rich Diaz is De Turre's appointment on 58, according to our backup here? Mr. Rodriguez: Because I think you started that - the set of appointments yourself. There ara'some boards in which there were no appointments fixed to anybody. Mayor Suarez: Ah ha. OK, we certainly have to clarify that. 47. APPOINT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE HERITAGE CONSERVATION BOARD. (APPOINTED WERE: RICHARD RICKLES, RAUL RODRIGUEZ AND MARWIN CASSEL.) Mayor Suarez: Item 59. Mr. Sergio Rodriguez: Fifty-nine, you have three vacancies. Mayor Suarez: Heritage Conservation Board. Mr. Rodriguez: Of the three vacancies, Commissioner Plummer mentioned that he would like to have Raul Rodriguez as the citizen. So we need now two more... Mayor Suarez: Who were my suggestions; you've conveniently forgotten to mention? Mr. Rodriguez: No... Mrs. Kennedy: I'd like... Mr. Rodriguez: ..* no, you didn't have - the person that you asked us to contact we called several times and the person didn't express any interest. Mayor Suarez: Who was that? Mr. Rodriguez: Sylvia Diaz, I believe it was. Mayor Suarez: All right, Sylvia's not interested, you're right. Didn't appoint him in time to the one I wanted him, now he's not interested. Mr. Rodriguez: Right. So now... Mayor Suarez: I do have a very, very impressive resume from someone who just arrived and I'm going to get that to you. How many appointments do we have at this point? Mr. Rodriguez: In addition to Commissioner Plummer, two more appointments. Mrs. Kennedy: I'd like to nom... 77 February 18, 1988 Mr. Rodriguez: One is an historical architectural historian and the other one Is a citizen. And one more thing, of the three appointments, you have to clarify, in the case of the citizen, whether it is for a term that will expire In 189 or 190. Mrs. Kennedy: OK, for the citizen, I'd like to nominate Marwin Cassel who has shown an interest for several months to be on this board. Mr. Rodriguez: Marvin Cassel? Mrs. Kennedy: Right. Mayor Suarez (Off and on mike): I just got a letter on somebody that wants to serve on that. I'm going to get that letter that I just received, he's an employee of Miami Beach, I believe, and... Mr. Rodriguez: Richard Rickles. Richard Rickles. - Mayor Suarez: Right. Mr. Rodriguez: Very knowledgeable in history of.... Mayor Suarez: Can we nominate him now? Mr. Rodriguez: You can do it as an historian architectural here. That will be perfect. Mayor Suarez: OK, do you know him and you know he's qualified? OK. I'll entertain those two motions then. Mrs. Kennedy: I'll move it. Mr. Rodriguez: The only thing is that the citizens, one of them is 89 and the other one is 90, the term... Mayor Suarez: Flip a coin. Mr. Rodriguez: ... you have to decide now which one. Mayor Suarez: You flip a coin, you decide on it. Mr. De Turre: Do we have any more citizens? Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, we don't care. Mr. Plummer: It's immaterial. You choose. Mayor Suarez: You choose, you choose. Mrs. Kennedy: You choose, Sergio. Mr. Rodriguez: OK. Mayor Suarez: Flip a coin if you want to or whatever. Mr. De Turre: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Yes. Mr. De Turre: Do we have any more citizens or just one available? Mr. Plummer: Two. Mayor Suarez: Do we get any more citizens? Mr. Plummer: I appointed one and Rosario appointed one. Mr. De Yurre: I don't get any appointments on that? Mr. Plummer: Not on this go around. Mayor Suarez: They're not really by Commissioners, they're... 78 February 18, 1908 Mr. Plummer: This is by category more than by Commissioners. Mayor Suarez: Do you have any nominations that we can entertain? Mr. be Turre: Well, I had a gentleman that was very interested in it too as a citizen, Robert Parenti. Mayor Suarez: Bob Parenti? Do we still have any more slots to fill? Mr. Rodriguez: No, but you way have one within the next few months because we heard another member that sight resign. Mayor Suarez: I'd be disposed to include in the motion that the next available position we'll give to Bob. Mr. De Turre: OK, that's fine. Mr. Plummer: That's fine. Mrs. Kennedy: OK. Mayor Suarez: Entertain all of that in the form of a motion and a second. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. We've got two seconds and no motion. Mrs. Kennedy: He moved it. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-152 A RESOLUTION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE CITY OF MIAMI HERITAGE CONSERVATION BOARD. (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: ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre Ca Issloner Miller J. Dawkins C m missioner J. L. Plummier, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 48. AGREEMENT WITH ERH-SOUTH, INC. FOR SCIENTIFIC TESTING AND CONSULTING SERVICES RELATED TO THE VIRGINIA KEY RUBBISH DISPOSAL PIT AND DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ON SAID SITE. Mayor Suarez: That's it for the morning? Mr. Jack Eads: No, sir. One last item. Mayor Suarez: You guys are so quick whenever we're ready to adjourn ahead of time. 79 February 18, 1998 Mr. tads: Almost at the risk of shooting myself in the foot, we're going to ask for a consultant again. It has to do with Virginia Key. John Gilchrist Is... Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): This is the thing on Virginia Key, John? Mr. tads: Yes. Mr. Plummer: You got no choice on this one, I move it. Mayor Suarez: The definition of a split second is the time between which the Mayor announces that we're about to adjourn... Mr. Dawkins (Off sake): Move it. Mayor Suarez: ... and the time in which the assistant city manager raises his hand and says there's additional items. Mr. Dawkins: Move it. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-153 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, SUBSTANTIALLY IN THE FORM ATTACHED, WITH ERN -SOUTH, INC., IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 420,000 FOR SCIENTIFIC TESTING AND CONSULTING SERVICES RELATED TO THE SITE FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE "VIRGINIA KEY RUBBISH DISPOSAL PIT" IN ORDER TO ASCERTAIN INFORMATION RELATED TO DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ON VIRGINIA KEY, WITH FUNDS THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE CITY'S CAPITAL PROJECT #331044 ENTITLED VIRGINIA KEY PARK DEVELOPMENT PHASE I, WHICH FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE TO BE UTILIZED FOR SAID PURPOSE. (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: ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: gone. ASSENT: None. THEREUPON THE CITY COMMISSION WENT INTO RECESS AT 11:44 A.M. AND RECONVENED AT 3:02, P.M. WITH ALL MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION FOUND TO BE PRESENT. 80 February 18, 1988 49. EXTEND DEADLINE TO INITIATE CONSTRUCTION ON PARCEL 37 (SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT) (DEVELOPER: CAN- AMERICAN REALTY CORPORATION); WITH PROVISOS. Mayor Suarez: Do you want to handle Overtown Park/West first? We had postponed that item till 3:00 o'clock at the request of the Vice Mayor. Mrs. Kennedy (Off mike): Sure. Mayor Suarez: I presume everybody wants an extension of their disposition agreements and they're going to break ground no later than March lat. Well, almost. It's a big Boston developer that's going to start. What do we hear from on Ovartown Park/West, Herb, yourself? Why don't we do that item first so that we can get to the personal appearances. Mrs. Kennedy: That was 47, 48 and 49. Mayor Suarez: All right. Mr. Herb Bailey: Forty-seven, 48, 49 and 50. Mayor Suarez: You understand we have a brand new Miami Herald reporter who's struggling with the whole concept of Overtown Park/West, but he's slowly - his articles are shaping up and they're a little bit more accurate as they go along. Nice guy for a change. Mr. Plummer: Yes, but they figure once that a reporter figures out what Overtown Park/West is, then they transfer him to Metro. Mayor Suarez: Don't try to pronounce his last name, just first name is Craig, that's... and good old Gjerbre's here from the Miami News. He's been here since J.L. was elected, I think. Mrs. Kennedy: He's a nice guy too. Mr. Plummer: Who said he was a nice guy? Mrs. Kennedy: He's a nice guy. Mr. Plummer: Nasaa. Mrs. Kennedy: Yes. Mayor Suarez: I just said he's been here, I didn't make any comment whatsoever on his... Mrs. Kennedy: Tea, Bill is OK, he's OK. Mayor Suarez: What have we got, Herb? Mr. Baileys Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission, we are before you again to give you an update on the progress of the developers in our second phase in terns of securing the financing. We realize that we had a deadline to meet and because of some of the difficulties, all of which you have been apprised Of from time to time, and getting the private financing to complete. At least get the first phase of this project started, we are here again asking for an extension of time because we feel at this point, even through all of the difficulties we have encountered in getting the private financing, we are almost there. We have had a meeting today with the developers, each developer In here and can personally respond to any questions that you may have and will personally give you a brief update as to where they are and, in my way of thinking, some very realistic time frames in terms of when we expect to break ground and start the first 1900 units. At least start construction. Mr. Plummer: We ought to buy a tape recorder. Mr. Bailey: How's that? 81 February 18, 1986 • Mr. Plummer: We ought to buy a tape recorder. before. I mean, we've beard this story Mr. Salley: It is a story, Commissioner, that unfortunately, in this type of development and this type of environment where you have a considerable amount of private discomfort, you usually have to come back and do that. The difficulty that we've on... Mr. Dawkins: Nov do you explain public discomfort, because I don't know what the hell you're talking about? Mr. Bailey: I said private. Mr. Dawkins: Private discomforto explain that to me. I mean, break that down where you and I understand it. Maybe somebody else will understand it, I don't. Mr. Bailey: OK. Commissioner, I've said any number of times at these mating* that as we have approached the private lending institutions to join In and participate in this particular project, they have indicated a certain amount of discomfort and in terms of investing in the Overtown Park/West neighborhood. Mr. Dawkins: So that is not discomfort, that's just plain damn refusal to cooperate. Mr. Bailey: Well, I think we both mean the same thing. Mr. Dawkins: No, I'll be damned if it do, it's a difference. Mr. Plummer: Tea, but who makes a bid, I mean what man in business makes a bid without knowing about where his finances either in-house or out of house, is in the bank? Mr. Bailey: Well, that wasn't really the case, Commissioner, at the time and we had some unfortunate circumstances, the tax laws changed. If we had not had that unfortunate circumstance, today we would be in ground and almost half way completed. That created problems, not only for developers in terms of securing financing, it created some problems for us and as you realize, we went through a lot of lobbying in Washington through the good graces of some of our elected officials to ensure that we could hold at least in place, some j of those gains that we have made as it relates to the tax consideration. But, nevertheless, out of all of that, we have, at least the developers have, and along with the support of this administration and this Commission, has gotten 3 to a point where we feel absolutely certain that through another process, ► which is the long route, going through the federal route, that we will get financed. We are here today to ask for an extension up until June 15th because we teal very certain that as of and prior to that data, that all of the docusents that ara neaded to be, are reviewed and completed and the commitment letters that these developers will need, will be forthcoming very shortly and I will let them explain to you one by one as to where that process Is, that we will have the first nine blocks in a state of readiness to begin i the first phase, or the first increment, of their development. So we are asking for an extension of each davelopment to be extended to June 15th. We will also at, you know, at this tise and I would like to have each developer came up and address your questions and they'll give you a brief summary as to where they are in terms of the financing, the date in which they expect to break ground and any other technical questions that you may have. And the first one we will have will be Can -American; might be the other part of Craig's education because he did write the article and I would say that article created a lot of interest and that, oddly enough, it was a big help. Rick Kahn. Mayor Suarez: Gamoules, that's the last now. It takes a little time, you practice it and... Tea, Mr. Kahn, sir. Mr. Rick Kahn: Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission, I'm Rick Kahn representing Can -American Realty Corporation. Just to confirm the status of the project as of today... Mr. Plummer: Sir, are you a registered lobbyist? 82 February 18, 1988 Mr. Kahn: No, I'm part of the company. I am the developer. Mr. Plummer: You're representing them. Mr. Kahn: Tea. Mr. Plummer: Are you a lawyer? Mr. Kahn: I'm vice president of Can -American Realty Corporation, I... Mrs. Kennedy: He's the Can of Can -American Mr. Plummer: He's the Can of Can -American, all right. Mrs. Kennedy: Of Can -American. Mr. Kahn: I'm the American, I'm the American. This week, we have obtained a written commitment for the equity funds required from the project. The equity Investors are here in the audience today. They are residents of the City of Miami, local businessmen. We have that commitment in writing and they're prepared to proceed immediately to spend a significant amount of money from today forward to get the project closed. We will have a hundred percent working drawings and specifications done on this project in seven weeks from today. I talked this morning with the lender we're working with, it's a company called Carnegie Evans, a co-insurance company based in Greenwich, Connecticut. They said based on our present status, we should be able to close on our tax exempt bond issue secured by their co-insurance and start construction in three months. That's where we are and I'd be happy... Mr. Dawkins: Will you have your local investors stand so I can visualize them. Mr. Kahn: Yes. Mr. Plummer: And your names. Mr. Dawkins: OK. INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mr. Plummer: Would you come up to the mike, please. Mr. Geraldo Leyva: My name is Geraldo Leyva and local businessman of all different type of business. Mr. Carlos Ortega: My name is Carlos Ortega, also I'm a local businessman and Geraldo's partner. Mr. Orlando Gomez, Jr.: Hi, Orlando Gomez, Jr., I'm with Gomez Construction Company. We'll be the contractors on the project and we are part developers. Mr. Plummer: Are you the only three investors? Mr. Leyva: Is another person that In not present at this moment, is his father, Orlando's... Mr. Plummer: His father? Mr. Leyva: Yes. Mr. Kahn: I might just comment, Mr. Leyva and Mr. Ortega, their principal business is to be the exclusive distributor of appliances for Sears Roebuck in Central and South America and they have a local business in a big warehouse and they would welcome any City staff member or Commissioner who would like to visit and see the nature and extent of their business here in town. Mr. Dawkins: Who is the principal spokesman for the group behind you? Mr. Kahn: Who are the principal... Mr. Dawkins: Who is the principal, anybody could speak up... 83 February 18, 1988 Mr. Kahn: Of the investors? Mr. Dawkins: ... come up. OK? Mr. Kahn: Tea, sir. Mr. Dawkins: I am thoroughly against extending this for Can -American, OK? but because Can -American is the reason Cruz and I are at odds. Can -American went in and took the choice spot from Cruz and Cruz gave it up and he got on my list and has been on there ever since because he should not have participated with Can -American taking the choice spot of the three parcels of land awarded to him. And after this Commission gives them the choice spot, they are the ones who have participated less. Instead of being the one as a front runner who jumped out of the box and ready to go because they had taken the choice spot, they haven't done a thing. So I hope with some now local people involved who know that we are concerned about out community, it will be a different ball game. So, if you had not shown up, this is one vote they would not have for the extension. Mayor Suarez: And that spot is so choice as I was telling them the other day, they're right across the street from the arena. I mean, they could almost go without building bathrooms in that building, that's how close they are to that existing arena and use the arena's facilities. I mean, they're practically they have as a foyer, a $50 million dollar structure and that should be very attractive to any local developers and it's good that they found some local developers because it's... I think the Commission is just about to run out of patience on these extensions and you came at just the right time. Let's hope that you begin building by the next deadline. Otherwise, I don't think there will be an extension. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I think it's just in reverse, from what we heard the arena does not have adequate bathrooms and we want you to know in your building what they don't have in the arena, we will expect you to provide to make sure... Mayor Suarez: Depends if you follow NBA standards or City of Miami standards for number bathrooms that you need. Mr. Plummer: To give you this extension to get your financing in place is great. I would want a deadline as to when you must draw a building permit. Mr. Kahn: June 15th. In the resolution that's before you, we must start construction on June 15th. Mr. Dawkins: No, no, hell no, no, no, no. You must have something going April 30th. That's my personal feeling. If you people do not have a shovel In the ground and some bricks and mortar in the ground by June the 15th as he said, bang it up. Mrs. Kennedy: You should certainly have the building permits by March. Mr. Kahn: Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission, we will have, as I said before, 100 percent plans and specifications done seven weeks from today. To get a building permit from the City of Miami, those plans must first be completed. That seven week process is working day and night doing... Mayor Suarez: Mere thinking more of the permitting process. Mr. Kahn: We would be starting the permitting process.. Mayor Suarez: In other words... Mr. Kahn: ... simultaneously, but realistically, we will not be able, legally, to get a building permit from the City without having those plans. Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Kahn, may I ask you a question, sir? Mr. Kahn: Yes, sir. Mr. Dawkins: You had this piece of property how long in your possession? 84 February IS, 1998 Mr. Kahn: I believe, Mr. Commissioner, the Commission awarded the site in 1985, April of 1985. Mr. Dawkins: Eighty-five, April of '85. April of 186 is one year. April of '8? is one year. April '88 is two years. And in two years, you do not have a working set of drawings. it's obvious that you didn't intend to do anything. And Mr... Mr. Plummer: That's three years in sly book. Mrs. Kennedy: Three years, yes. Mr. Bailey: May I interject something here. Even though we went through the awarding, because of the court action, the property was not cleared for the period of time that we had made the award so that they actually have only had absolute authority to put something in the ground a little over a year. As you remember, we did go through a condemnation process. Mr. Dawkins: Say what? Mr. Bailey: We went through a condemnation process of which that was a jury award and we actually did not have all of our legal process taken care of until about a year ago. So we're... Mr. Dawkins: All right, at that time you came back and explained that and they were given a deadline to meet, right? Mr. Bailey: That is correct, we were given a deadline... Mr. Dawkins: Now, and in during that time, all of these things were getting In place, all right? Of course, they had difficulty getting funding, but you mean to tell we that they don`t have nothing, no working drawings at all and they got to start from scratch in order to get some working drawings done? Mr. Kahn: Mr. Commissioner, it'll be seven weeks from today to finish them but we have the drawings today that represent months of work that define... Mr. Dawkins: May I see them? Mr. Kahn: I wasn't asked to bring a set of them here today. They're somewhere in the possession of the staff, they're here in town. Mr. Dawkins: Well get them here. All right, defer this till I see the drawings. Go to the next one. Mayor Suarez: OK, anything else on this group? Mr. Dawkins: No, sir, not till I see the drawings, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Anything also from any other Commissioner on this one? Mr. Plummer: Well, yes, not on this one, but on all of them. Mayor Suarez: Yes. Mr. Plummer: It's fine that they're going to have a permit drawn by the 15th of June if, in fact, this extension is granted, but, I man, are they going to take 16 years to build? I think they got to be on a deadline to be completion. You know, it's fine to draw a permit... Mr. Dawkins% Mr. Kahn, just a min... Mr. Kahn! Tell Mr. Kahn to cane back. Mr. Plummer: ... and I can show you many of a structure around here that drew permits that haven't done a damn thing with them. Now, I mean, is two years reasonable or eighteen months a reasonable time to have a completion date? Look, the bottom line is not putting the shovel in the ground. The bottom line is opening the front door to tenants. Now, you know, I don't want to sit here under a misnomer and say, "OK, fine, we're going to give you till June the 15th and you got to pull a permit," and June the 15th of 1990, we're saying, "Why aren't they finished?" Now, I think if they want an extension of time, what this Commission needs to establish is a reasonable period of time for completion and if they don't, let's put them under a penalty. Now, you 65 February 18, 1988 know, the bottom line to the people who don't come down here like Annie Adker and know the day to day workings of what's going on, they're saying one thing. 61 see a hell of a lot of vacant property and nothing is being accomplished." And I'm not too sure that I don't feel the same way. Nov, all I'm saying to you is, it's fine to give them an extension if that's what you want to do, they've had problems and we acknowledge that. And it's fine to may they're going to draw a building permit out by the 15th of June of 1988, but damnit, when are they going to be finished? When are they going to be available to the public? Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Kahn, coming back to you, sir. Mr. Plummer: No, I'd like to get an answer. Mr. Dawkins: Well, that's what I'm trying to help us get, J.L. Mr. Plummer: All right, sir, fine. Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Kahn is following Commissioner Plummer's reasoning, in the event that you pull a permit by June lot, which I would be unhappy with, but just in case you did, what would be the completion date of your project? Mr. Kahn: In the case of our project, Mr. Commissioner, it would be - we have two towers in our plan, a sixteen story building and a 21 story building. The 16 story building would be open, available for occupancy in 13 months from the date that we start construction and the other tower would be completed probably in 17 months from the day we start construction. Mr. Dawkins: Well, we're not going to draw a permit from but one of them at one time, are we... Mr. Kahn: No, excuse ve... Mr. Dawkins: ... so let's talk about the 13 unit one. Mr. Kahn: Mr. Commissioner, we're going to draw a permit for both buildings at the same time. The only reason there would be a difference in completion schedule is the shorter building because it has less units, would simply take less time plus we're going to have the contractor do that building on an accelerated basis because we want people moving in here as soon as we possibly can. It's in our best interest to do that. Mr. Dawkins: OK, J.L., what kind of a... not J.L., not J.L., from ! administration, what kind of penalty can be placed on them? Mr. Plummer: Well, what I'm thinking is, you know, I'm thinking, give them 24 months... a $1000 a day. Give them 24 months and anything over the fact of 24 months, a $1000 a day including Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Kahn: Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission, I would accept that if that was the wish of the Commission to have that understanding. t Mayor Suarez: They're going to have an incentive... Mr. Dawkins: You said 13 months. Mr. Kahn: Thirteen months for the first building. Mr. Dawkins: All right, J.L. is saying 18 months, OK? I mean J.L. Is saying 24 months. So now, in the event a hurricane or something come, you still got your grace period of twenty... we don't have to say, you can't say I didn't finish because there was a hurricane because you said you could do it in 13 months. Mr. Kahn: Yes, Mr. Commissioner, I'm not asking for a grace period because I honestly believe in 24 months, we will long since have finished all these units. Even if there's bad... Mayor Suarez: Plus you're going to have debt service and a bunch of other carrying charges that it's going to be in your interest to finish quicker than that. 86 February 18. 1988 Mr. Kahn: Absolutely. it's very expensive for us to delay the completion of the project once we start. Mr. Dawkins: Well, I'm just going to speak for one Commissioner. I'll be monitoring your project at every step of the way and I sincerely hope that you do fulfill your promise and that we can get some affordable housing out here for the citizens of the City of Miami. Mayor Suarez: OK, do you want to move the item? Mr. Dawkins: No, let's hear the rest - this is just one? Mayor Suarez: To$. Mr. Dawkins: No, I don't want to move it. I may vote for it but I won't move It. Mayor Suarez: One of the Commissioners want to move the item? Mr. Plummer: As amended with the provisions accepted by both this Commission and the developer, I move item 47. Mr. De Turre: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll as amend... Mr. Plummer: Let's understand once again. That you must pull a permit, a building permit, by the 15th of June. You must be completed by June the 15th of 1990 or a self-imposed fine of a $1000 a day. OK? Mr. Kahn: That's correct, that's understood. Mr. De Turre: Are you going to require any bond for that? Mr. Dawkins: No, we hold his building. Mr. Plummer: We'll just take the building. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): They don't pay the fine. Mr. Eads: That will be bond... Mr. Kahn: We're leasing the land from the City, the City owns the real estate and would be able to legally enforce that claim against the real estate if we failed to pay it. Mrs. Kennedy: Call the roll. Mr. Plummer: it'll be the new City Hall. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-154 A RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE DEADLINE FOR INITIATION OF CONSTRUCTION TO JUNE 15, 1988, FOR PARCEL NO. 37 OF THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT; SAID EXTENSION TO BE MADE PAT OF THE LAND DISPOSITION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAHI AND CAN-AMERICAN REALTY CORPORATION; AND FURTHER DECLARING THAT IF SAID CONSTRUCTION DEADLINE IS NOT MET, CAN-AMERICAN REALTY CORPORATION, LOSES ITS DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS IN PARCEL NO. 37 OF SAID PROJECT. (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: 87 February 18, 1988 ATES: Commissioner Victor De Turre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ASSENT: None. Mr. Kahn: Thank you very much. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Rick. Good luck and God speed and everything else. S0. INSTALL SECURITY LIGHTING AND DEMOLISH BUILDING AT LUMMUS PARK (SEE LABEL 44). Mr. De Turre: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: I see Mr. Gomez has certainly gotten heavier than the last time I saw him. He must be more prosperous. Barely even recognize you. Yes, Commissioner De Yurre. Mr. De Turre: Tes, sir. I'd like it if we can, at this moment, go back to the Lummus Park question that we had this morning about allocating funds or finding funds to built the lighting and repair work for the park. I have a memo here from Mr. Golby wherein he states the following: The estimated cost for the improvement of Lummus Park which will include fifty 14 foot light fixtures for security at a cost of $75,000... Mr. Dawkins: Ask him is Howard Gary doing his financing? Mr. De Turre: ... with additional funds available from sixth year community development funds of $60,000 to demolish the existing Card Building restrooms and recreation office and the development of a meeting and community plaza. A total cost for the renovation will be $135,000, therefore, I am requesting $75,000 from the contingency fund from the Neighborhood Parks Improvement Program. So what they're estimating is, to do the whole thing would be a hundred and thirty-five; they've allocated already or they can find available sixty thousand. Jack, if you want to have further on this... Mr. Eads: Tes, sir, we... Mrs. Kennedy: That's a big difference from the guesstimate of $30.000. Mr. Plummer: Yes. Mr. Eads: No, we were guessing fifty thousand on the lighting and we weren't planning on taking all of those buildings down with that money since we found we could do it with C.D. funds. We'd recommend, at this point, that we go ahead and do all of those buildings that Commissioner De Turre just Identified. What I would appreciate at this point, is a resolution allocating the $75,000 for the lighting from the Parks Improvement Fund and the $60,000 to allocate for the building demolition. Mr. De Turre: I'd like to move on that. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. At least we'll do something about the park. Be February 18, 1908 The following motion was introduced by Commissioner De Turre, who moved Its adoption: NOTION NO. 88-155 A NOTION DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO INSTALL SECURITY LIGHTING AT LUMMUS PARK AT A COST OF $751000; FURTHER ALLOCATING $60,000 FOR DEMOLITION OF THE BUILDING AT SAID PARK AT A TOTAL RENOVATION COST OF $13S,000 TO THE CITY. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and adopted by the followings 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. ASSENT: None. 51. A) CHALLENGE NEW WORLD CENTER ACTION COMMITTEE TO FIND NEEDED FUNDS BY THE ST. JOHN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. B)EXTEND DEADLINE TO INITIATE CONSTRUCTION ON PARCEL 55 (SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT) (DEVELOPER: CIRCA/BARNESS/SAWYER): WITH PROVISOS. Mr. Herb Bailey: The next developer that will give you a summary of their progress is Circa/Darness, Mr. Wilson. Mr. William Wilson: Hello, Mr. Mayor, other Commissioners, how are you? Let me say hello... Mayor Suarez: Not as well as you. Mr. Wilson: We have everything finally in place. Our plans are a hundred percent complete. We've gotten our Class C building permit. We anticipate breaking ground in May of this year and we appreciate all the support and help that everyone has given. To that and, let me introduce one other person from Circa/Barness Sawyer who comes in when we finally think things are ready to go In the last month, is Bernatoro? who you'll probably see more of than I as this goes on to fruition. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): I would rather see more of her. Mr. Wilson: Tou spike wasn't on, I didn't hear you but I read the lips. Mr. Plummer: What do you need an extension for? Mr. Wilson: Well, technically, as of the 25th of this month is our deadline so that's what I need the extension for. Mr. Plummer: Are you willing to accept under the same conditions as the other one? Mr. Wilson: I think I heard most of what you said, I guess relative... Mr. Plummer: Very simple. Mr. Wilson: Go ahead. Mr. Plummer: Pull a permit by the 15th of June of 188 and be completed by June of 199. If... 89 February 18, 1988 • 0 Mr. Dawkins: Now many units for your building, sir? Mr. Plummer: Oh, I'm sorry, ninety. Mr. Wilson: Yes, we're building a hundred and... Mr. Plummer: If not, a $1000 a day fine. Mr. Wilson: Absolutely, I'll agree to that. We're building 169 units, sir. Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Wilson, did you find it difficult getting the local financial institutions to finance your project? Mr. Wilson: No, I didn't find it difficult, I found it impossible. Mr. Dawkins: Impossible. Mr. Wilson: To$. Mr. Dawkins: And you had to leave here in order to get the funding for the project, is that right, sir? Mr. Wilson: That's right, absolutely correct. Mr. Dawkins: And yet, the City of Miami puts it's money, the citizens' money Into these banks who refuse to finance these projects. Mr. Wilson: I understand you do and, yes, what you say would be correct. Mr. Dawkins: Thank you, sir. Mr. Wilson: Thank you. Mr. Plummer: I move 48 under the same terms and conditions as 47. Mr. Don Benjamin: Mr. Mayor, Commissioners. Mr. Dawkins: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Don, you want to say something on this particular project? Mr. Benjamin: Yes, sir. Actually, Mr. Mayor, I'd like to say something about this project, item 48 as well as 49. Mr. Mayor and City Commissioners, my name is Donald F. Benjamin. I live at 417 N.W. 6th Street in Overtown, the City of Miami. I am the past president of the Overtown Advisory Board. I am now the chairman of the Planning Advisory Board of City of Miami. However, I come to address you today as the executive director of the St. John Community Development Corporation in Overtown. The board of directors of the St. John Community Development Corporation, at its last meeting, authorized me to appear before the City Commission to express its concerns about the state of the Southeast Overtown Park/West Project. There have been delays and delays and delays and more delays. And every delay has been the lack of the capacity of the selected developers to get their financing in place. We do not wish to Interfere in the detailed development relationships between the City of Miami and the specific developers which are certainly already difficult enough for both parties due to weak local financial support and market conditions. But we do wish to express sympathy for the City because of its financial exposure and potential inability to draw down on UDAG grant funds already approved by HUD. If there is extensive delay in going forward the projects or if withdrawal of private developer commitments occurs in those specific projects for which ODAG monies were designated. It is clear to us that there is a great deal to be desired which make us aware of the continued uncertainties of development in this project. Nevertheless, we are strongly supportive of both the Southeast Overtown Park/West market rate housing endeavors and the arena. At the same time, we wish to file a statement of deep concern as well as offering help in solving some of the problems of concern. The most critical problems are the protracted housing project start-up delays and slow buildout phasing, we were just talking about this, the weekly finance housing ventures which you were just talking about, lacking the local lending institution and developer support which most successful Center City Market Housing Action programs have put in place and conflicts of sites, land use, and 90 February 18, 1988 transportation priorities stemming from the lately defined arena parking requirements and the fragmented planning responsibilities for responding effectively. It makes no sense to grant weekly finance projects not only for the extensions of time to start construction, but also the opportunity to hold onto multiple parcel development rites for long term build out at the leisurely pace. More logical actions are recommended. You should grant modest time extensions for the early sites and bring in strong local public and private support for the marketability and investment package. This will keep existing developers in place for purposes of the drawdown of UDAG monies while reinforcing their abilities to perform. An encouraging feature which will have direct positive affect on this project In the renewed interest of the Nov World Center Action Committee of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, which has undertaken to do everything possible to make this project work. Another encouraging feature In the work that is being sponsored by the St. John Community Development Corporation which has contracted with the Florida Center for Urban Design and Research to prepare development action plans and programs for the Metrorail stations sites at the Overtown and Culmer Stations. These development actions plans will be completed in April and will be presented to this Commission. May I remind you that it In this Commission which provided the funds from the Off -Street Parking Authority for the St John Community Development Corporation to undertake this assignment. So we are hopeful that you will be interested in the results. You should reserve later phase sites to be assigned to other stronger developers or to be awarded later to phase I developers as incentives for successful implementation of the ilitial sites. You should try to accelerate all development with the synergistic effects of parallel housing offerings and other support activity. In the event that either of the three sites closest to the Overtown station and arena are not able to go forward promptly with currently assigned developers and plans, the St. John Community Development Corporation requests the opportunity to help assemble a capable alternative developer investor team and through it, put together a feasible realistic package of mixed use residential, commercial and parking facilities development. In such event, the St. John Community Development Corporation would work closely with directly concerned parties, such as people in Overtown and people at Decoma, the business community and the City to make an earlier and economically feasible start to the commercial support facilities which will attract and give confidence to the arenas potential patrons and new residents. This has universally been a significant prerequisite for success in center city market -+ rate housing endeavors across the U.S. The availability of these support ' services, as well as the inherent jobs and business opportunities for existing Overtown residents, cannot be left to the schedule convenience for profit taking by the current developers as has been suggested to the reasons for delaying development adjacent to the transit station. All must work together to make this concept happen sooner. Thus, accelerating the patronage for housing, the arena and transit facility. It is, therefore, in this respect, that we urge you to be cautious about the commitment of these lands for development which has not been able to take place and which may just result in holding on to the land without being able to implement any development. Our =' interest is in those blocks adjacent to the Overtown station. Please give the St. John Community Development Corporation the opportunity to include these �} blocks in the development action plan for the Overtown Station site and the opportunity to attract substantial developers to work with us. Mr. David Crane is our consultant project director. Mr. Crane is an established architect and planner with a national and international reputation. He has a long record of putting together public private joint development ventures. Mr. Crane's professional credentials and potential role is outstanding in the packaging of alternative investment development teams and creating a high quality feasible design and public private investment package. I think I've attached a statement showing Mr. Crane's qualifications and background. We are extremely hopeful that the Florida Center, under David Crane's leadership, Will make a difference for the redevelopment and revitalization of the Overtown station site and the adjacent lands. The St. John Community Development Corporation would, quite naturally, place a supportive sole in such a venture in order to ensure appropriate economic benefits to the overall Overtown economic community. It should be noted that there have been Interesting precedents for CDCs participating as limited or special interest partners in mixed use projects. The most notable one, of course, is San Antonio's Riverfront Hyatt Regency. The resolution of the arena parking, -' transit housing and land use conflicts, at the Ilth hour, the NBA has imposed j a requirement of five to ten year guarantees of Off -Street parking in the amount of 4,500 spaces to support the success of the Miami Heat basketball franchise. If accommodated in single purpose parking facilities, this would _b 91 February 18, 1988 amount to approximately 31 to 37 acres of parking services in temporary lots or in more efficient, costly parking decks. The City is apparently moving with alacrity to respond to these demands through its Off -Street Parking Department, but the collateral priorities for housing and economic development are clearly going to suffer according to proposals we have seen. The Overtown organizations which I represent are particularly concerned with the proposal to allocate all of the proposed housing sites west of the Metrorail station in Southeast Overtown to temporary surface parking for five to ten years. This proposal has several very negative potential effects on the success of the residential and economic development objectives, including the following: Early phase housing startup activities in the Indian River and Circa/Barness/ Sawyer site will have 1-9S expressway on their west flank. It will be a small and isolated housing initiative separated from its primary access and support activities by a walk with perceived and actual dangers after dark. The Interim surface parking lot uses, adjacent to the Metrorail Station also thwarts the opportunity for building a mixed use complement on a timely basis. This would deprive the arena and housing users of needed support facilities as well as reducing opportunity for transit patronage from walk in users. The better alternative is to building a permanent parking deck for arena and mixed use center joint use. At the same time, emphasizing convenient pedestrian transit connections. The St. John Community Development Corporation and its consultant welcome the opportunity to work with the Miami Heat, the Off -Street Parking Department and the Department of Development on creative alternatives for response to the NBA without penalizing housing, economic development and transit priorities. The Florida Center has requested and is awaiting further Information from the Off -Street Parking Department on the proposed parking distribution and it is prepared to offer constructive solution options for discussion. Both those who participate in the historic Black culture and community of Overtown and those who have been left behind by neighborhood destruction, have a tremendous stake in what happens in the area from now on, both within and beyond the City's current redevelopment project boundary. This community has never had a meaningful role in the planning and development Process. That must change if the market rate housing and arena initiatives are to be successful. In operation for little more than a year, the St. John Community Development Corporation is already an active participant in economic development and new and renovated housing to address this community's needs. We are working now with several consultants, such as Policy Management Associates from Boston, Growth and Conservation, Inc. from Miami, the Greater Miami Neighborhoods , Inc., Greater Miami United, and the Florida Center for Urban Design and Research towards identifying an expanded priority action agenda for economic development, cultural restoration, balance and affordable housing for all groups, elimination of blight and more attention to the area's social service problems. These issues will not be addressed as isolated neighborhood concerns, but as problems greatly affecting the sound economic growth and social cultural vitality of downtown Miami as well as issues which affect the fuller utilization of Metrorail transit facilities. We will be proposing a greater partnership of the Overtown community with the Miami private sector and City and Metro -Dade governments. The proposed agenda and structure will be ready in a preliminary form for review and discussion within six to eight weeks. We are convinced that self sufficient, community based development capability can be created and that tangible support can be offered to the sarketing success and attractiveness of the Southeast Overtown Park/West project. Thank you. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Don. Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Benjamin, I hate to do this. Go back to the sentence of paragraph when you talked about the Greater Miami Chamber and you said something in your speech. Mr. Benjamin: Oh, yes. Mr. Plummer: It's all talk and no money. Mr. Benjamin: Tes, an encouraging feature which will have direct positive effect on this project is the renewed interest of the New World Center Action Committee. Mr. Dawkins: Stop. That's good enough right there. Where in the hell were they when we were trying to get these projects funded? This same - wait, no, wait now, I want you to bear with me, bear with me, OK? 92 February 18, 1988 1 Mr. Benjamin: I just can't answer that. Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, OK. Now, they're so committed and so concerned see, with verbiage, OK, and getting their name in the paper and planning and what have you. Every organisation that they went to is a member of that Chamber and not a one of them stepped forward to help. Now, I'm going to challenge whatever this action committee is that it get with St. John's and it come up with a funding policy and a project and we will identify any parcel of land you want there and St. John develop it. I, Miller Dawkins, challenge the Chamber to help you develop a funding plan, a project and a program to take any parcel of land there and purchase it and develop it. That's the challenge I give to the Chamber. Mr. Benjamin: Thank you. Mr. Plummer: Don't hold you breath. Mr. Benjamin: We'll accept it, I'm sure. Mr. Dawkins: No, not you, I want the Cham... not you, sir, no, no... Mr. Benjamin: I'm sure they'll accept it. We happen to be a member of the Chamber these days. Mr. Dawkins: All right, but you go to them and tell them to come right here to the Commission Chambers at the next meeting and tell me how you're going to do it. Mr. Plummer: Now, let's do it a different way. My good friend, Miller Dawkins, makes a motion and that motion is to be sent directly to the New World Chamber of the Chamber of Commerce of the City of Miami. Gentlemen, since you are so interested... Mayor Suarez: New World Center Action Committee. Mr. Plummer: Whatever the hell the name of it is. Since you are so Interested in the expression that you have given in the Park West Overtown, this Commission challenges you to find funding for which we will make the parcel available for St. John's Community Center. We hope to hear from you in the very near future. Mr. Dawkins: So moved. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mr. Bailey (Off mike): No, not one of these four. We got 240 acres, you get only one. Mayor Suarez: Any discussion? Call the roll. Mr. Plummer: Don't send it by mail. Hand deliver it, I don't want it to get lost anyway. Mr. Dawkins: And I'll bring your copy to you, Mr. Benjamin. Mr. Plummer: Let's see where their interest lies. Mr. Benjamin: Thank you very much. Mr. Dawkins: Yes, that's right, that's right. Mayor Suarez: And we'll be hearing from you on a little later item Don, I'm sure. Mr. Benjamin: Yes, definite, right. Mayor Suarez: I suspected that, and then we're going to hold you feet to the fire on that one. Mr. Benjamin: You bet your bottom bippy on that one. Mayor Suarez: Right. 93 February 18, 1988 0 0 Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Cru... Mr. bailey: Representative of Cruz Development. Mr. Plummer: I think there's a motion on the floor. Mayor Suarez: Cali the roil on that notion, I don't know that it's really necessary. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 88-156 A MOTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION CHALLENGING THE NEW WORLD CENTER ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE GREATER MIAMI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO FIND THE NECESSARY FUNDS REQUIRED BY THE ST. JOHN COMKUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION IN ORDER THAT SAID GROUP MAY IMPLEMENT THEIR PROGRAM IN OVERTOWN. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ASSENT: None. Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, let me ask you, have the other developers left? Mr. Plummer: No, they're still here. Mr. Dailey: Can -American has, I believe. They are anxious to get back and get started. Mayor Suarez: You mean they had a ground breaking without us? Mr. Dailey: Ground's hard, shovels... Mrs. Kennedy: Well, Herb, let me ask you something that... Mr. Dailey: I'll try to respond, yes. Mrs. Kennedy: ... perhaps you can answer. Mayor Suarez: Looks nice. Mrs. Kennedy: All of us, of course, are concerned with the completion dates of these units, but I would also like to find out from each of them, what are they doing to get... Mr. Dawkins: The left wing, this wing here is for the homeless. This wing here. Mrs. Kennedy: Excuse me, Miller, shut up. What are they doing to get the tenants so that when these units are completed, we have some tenants lined up. In other words, the arketing program, the whole idea is to bring the people who work downtown to move into these units. Mr. Dailey: Each developer has built within their development scenario a marketing effort, but in addition to there, the City of Miami, as granted by this Commission, has also enveloped their efforts with our own marketing effort for downtown. We have been granted a certain amount of money, $100,000, we've already printed a considerable number of brochures and we are contacting a considerable number of businesses and I have already looked at 94 February 18, 1989 some suggestions from this Commission as to how we can provide incentives to get people to move to downtown Miami and especially into these developments when they are finished. I think some of them are quite creative, but... Mayor Suarez: Including City employees. Mr. Bailey: Teo. But in answer to directly to your question, we have reviewed their strategy and marketing just as we have reviewed their strategy In financing and building the physical plan. We realize there's also a tremendous responsibility on our part to turn peoples' attitude around about downtown Miami. Tou would be surprised at some of the negative attitudes that we've heard. But one of the things that was very encouraging to us, as we went to various businesses and I talked personally to the Miami Herald and the editorial board, and they said that the reason we don't have people living downtown is because we have not built affordable units for those who work downtown to be able to move downtown. And if you look at the rent structures of the types of units that they move out to Kendall or drive out to Kendall to get, you'll find that they fall right in line with what these rent structures are being suggested at the completion of this development. We feel confident that there is a market. There are 98,000 people who work downtown. We only need tan percent. Mrs. Kennedy: OK, thank you. Mr. Plummer: Let me ask a question, Herb. That parcel of property to what I think is the east of the arena which was proposed to be for the exhibition center which we all know about now that will never come about. I mean there's just really no way. Is that parcel in any way committed or restricted from this Commission re reissuing that parcel out? Mr. Bailey: Well, we don't own that parcel, Commissioner. We... Mr. Plummer: Who does? Mr. Bailey: Still in private ownership. I don't know exactly, I think Mr. Arison owns a part of it and Camillus House owns some of it? Mr. Matthew Schwartz (Off mike): There are four owners, Cromer, Cromer Dry Goods, Arison owns about a third of the block, Camillus House... Ms. Hirai: Matthew. Mr. Schwartz: ... and Stanley Lear is a small parcel. There are four owners of that block, but the City does not own that. That's between 7th and 8th Streets. Mr. Plummer: OK, thank you. Mayor Suarez: Anything else? We need to take a roll call. We had a notion and a second, never voted on it, on item 48. Mrs. Kennedy: Teo, we voted. Ms. Hirai: On item 48 proper, yes, air. Roll call, Mr. Plummer. Mr. Plummer: On which item? Ms. Hirai: Forty-eight, sir. Mr. Plummer: With the provisions set forth, yes. 95 February 18, 1988 The following resolution vas introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION N0. 96-157 A RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE DEADLINE FOR INITIATION OF CONSTRUCTION TO JUNE 15, 1988, FOR PARCEL N0.55 OF THE' SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK VEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT; SAID EXTENSION TO BE MADE PART OF THE LAND DISPOSITION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND CIRCA/BARNESS/SAWYER A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP; AND FURTHER DECLARING THAT IF SAID CONSTRUCTION DEADLINE IS NOT MET, CIRCA/BARNESS/SAWYER A GENERAL PARTNERSHIP, LOSES ITS DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS IN PARCELS N0. 45, 55, AND 56 OF 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: ATE$: 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. 52. EXTEND DEADLINE TO INITIATE CONSTRUCTION ON PARCEL 24 (SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK VEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT) (DEVELOPER: CRUZ DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATES, LTD.); WITH PROVISOS. Mayor Suarez: On Cruz anything? Mr. Bailey: Mr. Cruz. Mr. John S. Cruz, III: Good afternoon, Honorable Mayor, and fellow Commissioners. I just want to say before I start off and give a status report, that we are very grateful for the opportunity, even though it has been difficult to get to this point that the City of Miami has afforded us. This will be our largest job and I think one that will significantly impact our future and put us in a larger category than we have developed before, so... Mrs. Kennedy: Sir, could you please place your name on the record. Mr. Cruz: by name is John B. Cruz, 111. I•m president of Cruz Developing Company, Boston, Massachusetts. Our status right now In that we are awaiting a conditional commitment from the FHA, Housing and Urban Development Department in Jacksonville. In talking to our mortgage bankers, we are about a week away from a conditional commitment. Once we receive a conditional commitment, it'll be 30-60 days to a firm commitment in closings, so we are projecting that we will be under construction sometime in May. I'd like to point out that at least our firm right now, we have 100 percent working drawings finished, our architect is here, we will be filing within a week for our necessary permits and we have, at this point, a million dollars invested In the project and I man cash out of our pocket, no staff time, nobody also, so we are serious about this. It has been far more difficult than we anticipated, we intend to stick it out to meet all of the affirmative action goals to be successful and to continue to develop in Miami and we have a contractor onboard, Gerrit Construction Company. They have consented at this stage to put up a temporary construction fence and trailers and once we get the permit processing, we will probably do an early start even before we have our final financing, that's not guaranteed, but at least they have expressed an interest in doing that. So we are anticipating that by May, we should be under construction. 96 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: John... Mr. Plummer: Approximately how long for completion? Mr. Cruz: We have a 20-month construction period that we're looking at 22 months, under which they call the FHA processing to complete the ... Mr. Plummer: runty -four months would be reasonable. Mr. Cruz: We have a larger project, I don't think what the other developers agreed to is reasonable, but if you want to put something like that, I think we need an additional six months or year because our project is much larger than the others and, you know, in case of some unusual unforeseen predicament, we do need more time. Mr. Plummer: Fine, I'll give you more time at a higher penalty. Mr. Cruz: No. it doesn't really make sense again, we do have the larger of the projects, I think we should have some more ti... Mr. Plummer: Now big is your project? Mr. Cruz: Your hundred and sixty-three units. Mr. Plummer: Nov high? Mr. Cruz: Thirty stories. Mr. Plummer: Shows 31 on the drawing. Mr. Cruz: The architect made a mistake in the rendering, what can I... Mr. Plummer: Are you making a mistake on your time? Mr. Cruz: No. I'm not but I am also a contractor and things can happen so I just don't want to get up where... I'm not the contractor on this one, but there could be, God forbid, a problem in a suit that could tie - you just don't know in construction. We will give it our earnest - anybody with this such money involved in a project is going to want it to close and proceed to a completion quicker than anyone at - any of the Commissioners really, this is a lot of money for our biggest investment of our life. I don't think anybody - wants it to be a success more than we do. Mayor Suarez: We've had conversations lately with the HUD director, the manager out of Jacksonville and he's told us that occasionally, the packages you're supposed to be putting together for your guarantees, or your insurance rather, have been a little bit delayed. Have you gotten all of that resolved now? Mr. Cruz: Tea, in that - sir, that was not a truth and I've got some material coming down to Herb to show him. Mayor Suarers He says the only person that can ask* you move is Senator Brook. The rest of us can't get you to move. Mr. Cruz: It's the reverse but anyhow... Mayor Suarez: Oh. Mr. Cruz: No, we have everything in now. Mayor Suarez: Is that the wrong person to have call you? Mr. Cruz: No. He seems to be the only one that makes HUD office move. Mayor Suarez: OK, we've worked awfully hard, all of us here... Mr. Cruz: And we appreciate it. Again. I think everybody's... Mayor Suarez: In getting all the UDAG grants and everything else we need, you know, for you to make sure that you've got all... 97 February 18, 1988 Mr. Cruz: We have gotten the utmost cooperation, it's just a very difficult financing project and I'd just like to say something in defense of all the developers. We are involved in other projects that have complicated financing like this and they all take a minimum of three years. It's the nature of the beast. If it was a project that was in a normal construction project, the large developers that are everyday developers in Miami would have been Involved in the project. It's very risk orientated. It's something that a firm that's - a lot of substantial firms don't want to get involved with, so you have to depend on firms that are looking to grow like my f irm and Rick Kahn and other firms down here that are willing to take on substantial risk. And I think we all are and we all have the intent of coming to you and Inviting you all to a groundbreaking this summer. Mayor Suarez: Herb, what would be a logical period of time, assuming we were going to be consistent and require a deadline for completion of construction and penalty otherwise as to this project compared to the other ones? Mr. Cruz: Tour Honorable Mayor, do we get an early bonus if we bring it in early? Mr. Dailey: Mr. Mayor, I would suggest... Mayor Suarez: Tou'll have an automatic bonus from the benefits you will gain from having it early. Mr. Bailey: I would suggest that each developer would have to come back before this Commission at the time certain - at expiration of the time that you have given them to give cause as to why they are not completed. To show cause as to why they should not be penalized. Mayor Suarez: That's very subtle, but we've already acted on the other two and given a specific concrete penalty. Mr. Plummer: We hope it'll never get to that. Mr. Bailey: Well, in defense of the Cruz project, it is the largest. It is four hundred... Mrs. Kennedy: Sixty-three. Mr. Dailey: ... and sixty-one units. It probably would make the largest footprint in new downtown affordable housing development and we all know in this business, things can happen. I would hope that, you know, you will take this into consideration and at least if you give some concession, you could stick to your 24 months but with a reservation to show cause as to why before you impose a penalty and you may not have to give - and at that point, you can slake another decision. Mr. Plummers I have no problem, June the 15th, 24 months, $1000 a day penalty. Mr. Bailey: With the provision on this particular one to show cause. Mr. Plummer: Tou bet your bippy they're going to be in here crying poor mouth It they're not going to sake it. Mayor Suarez: That really would apply to all of them, I mean. Obviously, if they showed cause, we're not going to impose a penalty. Mr. Bailey: And I wanted to, at the conclusion of all of the presentations, because I think as you listen to each developer, you are beginning to understand what it is that had to be on take and what we had to go through and there is not one of these developers and I think each one has mortgaged everything they have up to the hilt to get this project started and they stand to lose substantially. And I can assure you, knowing how things function in this business, they want to finish before 24 months because the debt service is very expensive. But you're not waivering, Commissioner. Mr. Plummer: I don't even want one dime of penalty. Don't want one dime. 98 February 18, 1988 9 Mayor Suarez: If you want to put a slightly larger deadline on this one because of the number of units? We're talking about four hundred and thirty... Mr. Plummer: Only if I extend the time. If they want to go to SO months, it's $2000 a day. Mayor Suaret: Only if you increase the amount, you mean. Mr. Plummer: That's right. Mr. Cruz, take your choice, we give you an alternative, a or b, sir. Mayor Suarez: It's better to have 30 months. You can always... Mr. Cruz: If I fail on this project, I want you to know I'm going to come down here and live because my father, beside kicking my butt, will throw me out of the company because... I'll take the... Mr. Plummer: You've got 461 units to live in, sir. Mr. Cruz: I'll take the June date with the caveat that, you know, God forbid, that if something happens beyond our control... Mr. Plummer: I move 48. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded on this item with the proviso. Any discussion? Call the roll. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Forty-nine. Mr. Plummer: I'm sorry, 49. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-158 A RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE DEADLINE FOR INITIATION OF CONSTRUCTION TO JUNE 15, 1966; ESTABLISHING A CONSTRUCTION PERIOD OF NO MORE THAN TWENTY-FOUR (24) MONTHS; SETTING A PROVISION TO LET THE DEVELOPER SHOW JUSTIFIABLE CAUSE AS TO ITS INABILITY TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT ON TIME AND REQUIRING A PENALTY OF $1,000 EACH DAY THE PROJECT IS LATE FOR PARCEL NO. 24 OF THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK VEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT; SAID TIME REQUISITES TO BE MADE PART OF THE LAND DISPOSITION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND CRUZ DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATES, LTD. FOR CONSTRUCTION OF 456 UNITS; PURTHER DECLARING THAT IF SAID CONSTRUCTION COMMENCEMENT DEADLINE FOR PARCEL NO. 24 IS NOT MET, CRUZ DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATES, LTD. LOSES ITS DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS IN PARCELS 24, 25 AND 36 OF SAID PROJECT. (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. ASSENT: None. 99 February 18, 1988 SS. RSTABLISH DEADLINE TO INITIATE CONSTRUCTION OF PARCEL 46 (SOUTHEAST OVERTOWNJPARK WEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT) (DEVELOPER: INDIAN RIVER INVESTMENTS OF MIAMI, INC.); WITH PROVISOS. Mayor Suarez: Last one of the projects. Mr. Herb Bailey: Mr. Whitesell, Indian River Investments. Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Mr. Cruz, is there any one else involved in your project besides your company? INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mr. Plummer: I'm sorry, Mr. Tom Welch of... INAUDIBLE CG!@ MS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mrs. Kennedy: Of Boston. t Mr. Plummer: Just the two. you're the two principals. OK. Mr. Ted Whitesell: Mr. Mayor, Commissioners, Ted Whitesell, President, Indian River Investment of Miami, developers of Poinciana Village. Our financing is set. Our plans are done. Our building permit In filed for and will be Issued, I assume, very shortly. There's only sort of two minor problems to the issue of the building permit. We're out for bid now. The bids are to be opened on the 23rd of this month. We have the FHA mortgage commitment finished and done for the buyers on the mortgages. We'll be starting actually to build in March, assuming the bids come in OK on the 23rd. Mayor Suarez: Twelve units. Mr. Whitesell: Right. That's the beginning of 152. Our's is a low rise project so we start on one corner and keep moving. Mayor Suarez: When do we get the other 136? Mr. Whitesell: Depending on the sales, we have restrictions as per sales, we have to have a certain number of sales before we can keep building. So it just depends on the sales. Mayor Suarez: What are the conditions in this case? You have to sell all twelve? Mr. Whitasell: No, we have... Mayor Suarez: Don't you have some presold, by the way? Mr. Whitesall: Yes, we do, we have six presold of twelve. We have to have, it's 70 percent. We have to have 70 percent sold of every unit that we start building. Mayor Suarez: So you used to sell two more. Mr. Whitesell: Not necessarily, we have the money in hand to start building the twelve now so that's no problem at this point. Mayor Suarez: No, I mean to approve the next phase. You said you needed 70 percent before you go to the next. Mr. Whitesell: You, you're right. Mr. Dawkins: You know, this is the only problem that I have. I'm voting no because I don't believe and I've said to Mr. Bailey, and I'm going to say it t to all of you, I don't want no piecemeal, either they're going to do the project or they're not and St. John out here saying they want to do the project. We got other people who saying they want to do it and I just don't feel right in forcing other developers to do the project in total and then 100 February 16, 1988 allow these guys to come in and say, I'm going to build four and if I sell that four, I'll build four more. If I don't I won't, if I build that four, I'll build four more and if I won't, I won't. I'm voting no, that's Just mY vote. Mr. Plummer: Well, here again, you make a good point. What is the absolute deadline for all 152 units? Mr. Bailey: Commissioner, this part of the development is somewhat different, as you know. And as you also know... Mr. Plummer: This is site what? Which one are we talking about right now? Mr. Whitesell: Block 46. This is a for sale project. Mr. Plummer: What site on this thing here? INAUDIBLE COMHENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mr. Plummer: That total site. And all he is committed for in the first phase Is twelve units. Mr. Bailey: No, that's not exactly the way it is... Mr. Plummer: Well, OK, I misunderstood. Mr. Bailey: ... he's committed for the entire - what is happening here, Mr. Whitesell was the only developer that could get a bank to finance for sale units. As you remember, we originally wanted this entire project to be for sale. When we began to talk to banks, they looked at us like we were crazy and said, we will never ever finance any more spec buildings in Miami. We've been burned too badly, according to banks by Brickeil Avenue. Mr. Whitesell, as his commitment to the proposal that he submitted, made a substantial Investment and risk in using his local bank to convince them that he could do and there would be a market for for sale units. And under all for sale unit type of development, you can only get financed enough to get the models in place so people can see them and make a commitment to buy additional units. And I would like to say, it is unfortunate because in the neighborhoods like Overtown Park/West that you... Mr. Plummer: Do you still remember my question because you haven't hit the answer? Mr. Bailey: Yes, I remember your question, I'm trying - one more little statement and I'll get to it. We would like to have all for sale units. The condition as to whether or not the whole 150 units are built out would be based on the saleability or the marketability of those units after the model has been built. He has the obligation to complete the entire project for that particular block under the number of units he has proscribed to build but they will be done on an "as bought" basis. That's why we cannot build them all at one time. Mr. Plummers Now, Mr. Bailey, would you answer my question? Mr. Bailey: Maybe, Commissioner. I forgot it and if I forgot it, it would Probably didn't... Mr. Plummer: I'm scared you have, no Its scared that's the problem, you forgot it. Mr. Bailey: And I'll be glad to listen to it again. Mr. Plummer: The question is, what is the absolute deadline for him to have the 152 projects completed? Mr. Bailey: The 24 months that you give everyone else. Mr. Dawkins: You can't do that. You can't do that. Mr. Plummer: Ahhh. Ahhh. Mr. Dawkins: You can't because the man's got... 101 February 18, 1988 Mr. Plummer: Not in groups of twelve. Mr. Dawkins: Tou just said that he can only get financing for what he has sold and if he didn't sell the rest of the units, he'd be a fool to build theca and lose money. He's not in this to lose money. Mr. Dailey: Well, there's an answer. I'll let Mr. Whitesell respond before I give you an answer. Mr. Plummer: Well, let me tell you my concern. Let's just hypothetically say that out of 152, he is able to do 50 percent of them. The other 50 percent of that parcel is still under his control infinitum. Where is the drop dead day? Mr. Whitesell: No, that's not quite true, Mr. Commissioner. Mr. Plummer: Weil, OK, let's hear what is true. Mr. Whitesell: We're only taking over half of the site in the beginning and we're only taking possession of half the site so if only half the units... Mr. Plummer: Possession, but you still have a commitment and a reservation and restriction on the other half and that's what I'm asking. How long does that run? Mr. Dawkins: Twenty-four months like everybody else. Mr. Whitesell: Tes, there isn't a definite date on it, it's based on market conditions. Mr. Plummer: So that means that my great great grandchildren might still be hoping because you have a commitment on that parcel, that it might be done scow day. That's wrong. Mr. Whitesell: Well, Mr. Commissioner, you've got to realize... Mayor Suarez: Wait, let's ask staff. Have you devised, because this one's a phased project as opposed to the other ones, have you devised something that let's us know that, if after a certain amount of timing, he hasn't begun on sore than 12 units... Mr. Dawkins: That's what we're doing now, we're advising that now, he's got 24 months. That's how we're advising him. Mayor Suarez: Tou're going to give him 24 months to complete them? Mr. Plummer: No, I don't think that's reasonable. Mr. Bailey: No, not for this particular project. Mrs. Kennedy: I don't think so either. This is totally different. Mr. Plumeer: No, it's a such better concept. I like the concept, OK? But I can't allow any scan to have control and restrict a piece of property infinitum. That's ridiculous. Mayor Suarez: Suppose, Herb, that he begins the twelve units, OK, and then we go a year without the beginning of any construction. Can we dispose of that and cancel the disposition agreement and go to some other builder? Mr. Bailey: I would suggest, Mr. Mayor, is that we not some monitoring time frame to determine how the market reacts and we can do it on a twelve month basis. That would, perhaps, be fair in terms of... Mayor Suarez: I wan, to, to... Mr. Bailey: We can then judge or have a barometer of what the reaction is going to be. Mayor Suarez: To extend it, right... To extend the disposition agreement. His is expiring right now too, right? 102 February 18, 1968 9 • Mr. Bailey: Yes. Mayor Suarez: At this point, to allow twelve units - when does your's expire? Mr. Schwartz: When this was approved, this... Mayor Suarez: We've always thought of it in phases, is that... Mr. Schwartz: This project was selected with the proposal that it was a 36 month buildout. We were transferring half of the block to him which accommodates about SO of the units and that was his first phase. There are about 80 units that come in a tower that... Mayor Suarez: Do we have absolute control over the rest of the block? Mr. Schwartz: We have absolute control of the rest of the block. It would be to retain the development rights on the western portion of the block could be contingent upon two or three years. Mayor Suarez: Now many units in the part that we have transferred to them? Mr. Schwartz: It's approximately... UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (Off mike): It's 55. Mr. Schwartz: Fifty-five units. Mayor Suarez: Fifty-five. And those units occupy how such of the total parcel? Mr. Plummer: Half. Mr. Schwartz: Approximately 50 percent of the parcel because the remainder part of it is in a tower. Mayor Suarez: OK, can we come up with a 24 month deadlines for those 55 units? Mr. Schwartz: Mayor, the one problem and I think in all fairness to this developer is that this block is probably the riskiest. it's located, although Bethel AME church is right across the street and it's a substantial structure, It's located abutting some other slum property. Mayor Suarez: OK, do you have any suggestion on how you want us to handle this? Mr. Schwartz: I would think to retain his development rights on the western half, to give him a period of 36 months which was included in his original proposal to build that out. To retain the development rights on the western half of the block. The other thing is, on his development proposal, it's not until later stages in this project where the developer makes a decent return. He's really losing money on the first units because of all the up front costs that he had to bear on this project. Mr. Plummer: That's called going to the poor house in a limousine with a loaf of bread under your arm. Mr. Schwartz: But he's our only local developer. Mr. Plummer: Wall, all I'm saying is, there's got to be some reasonable time on the second half of that block. Now, if you say that 36 months that he must have a permit drawn within 36 months on the second half or he loses his development rights, then I will accept that that is being fair and that anything beyond that 36 months that he wants, he'll pay a $1000 a day option to keep it alive for a period of one year. Mr. Whitesell: That sounds fair, I mean, but you said 36 months to start exercising development rights in the second parcel. _ Mr. Plummer: No, no permit drawn. Mr. Vhitesell: Permit drawn. Yea, it sounds fair. 103 February 18, 1986 Mr. Plummer: And I, you know, I'm using that as what you consider to be reasonable. Mr. Whitesell: I think it was in our original proposal anyway. Mr. Plummer: I would like to see it quicker. Mr. Whitesell: Tea, I think that was our original proposal. But it's been so long ago I kind of forgot the original proposal. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, if there's no other questions on item 50, I would move at this time that he must draw a permit on the f irst half of his f irst phase which is half of that parcel by June the 15th of 1988. He must have that phase completed by June 1Sth, 1990 and he would have an option on the second half until June the iSth of 191. Mrs. Kennedy: Under those conditions, I second. Mr. Dawkins: No, he's got 191, J.L., it's 191, it's not 190. Mr. Plummer: It's 191 on the second phase, Miller. Mrs. Kennedy (Off mike): Teo, that's what I'm saying. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): First phase. The first phase is 36 months. Mr. Plummer: No, no, the second phase he had - the first phase he has 24 months to complete. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): Well, 36 months, J.L. Mr. Whitesell: No, thirty-six. Mayor Suarez: In a sense, he's really got three phases because he's got the first 12 units and then up to fifty, what, five units and then... Mr. Plummer: Well, but that's still the first phase. First phase In half of the lot and 50 units. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): That's 36 months though. That's what his original agreement is. Mr. Whitesell: The original agreement was 36 months. Mr. Plummer: Is that what you want? All right. Then, let me reiterate. On item 50, he has until June the 15th to pull a permit. He mist have the first phase, the first half of that lot in 50, how many units? Mr. Whitesell: Fifty-five. Mr. Plummer: Fifty-five units completed within 36 months. At such time, he mist pull a permit for the second phase by June the 15th of 1991 or he loses his right of the option on the second half. Mr. Whitesell: Tea, that's correct. Mr. Plummer: And after June 15th, 1991, if you're not completed on phase one, then you're a $1000 a day. Mr. Whitesell: Yes. Mr. Schwartz (Off mike): Not completed. Not completed. Mr. Dawkins: Unless something comes up where the bottom falls out of the market or something... Mr. Whitesell: Yes. Yes, that can't work. Mr. Dawkins: ... and he buys out. Mr. Plummer: We'll appreciate your great gift to the City of Miami. 104 February 18, 1988 Mrs. Kennedy: unless there's an act of God. Mayor Suarez: We have a motion and a second. Do you want to make a statement about that motion or do you want us to... Mr. John White: Please, sir, about that motion. Mayor Suarez: Go ahead, sir. Mr. White: Mr. Mayor, John White, the Minister of the Greater Bethel Church and I think the project is across the street from my church, I have some very particularly interest in it. Mayor Suarez: Teo, Reverend. Mr. Whites And, maybe, it maybe wise at this moment and since he does not come under the mandates of the others, that this particular project could be deferred till we have an opportunity to look at it with the St. John Development Project. I think there are some very deep concerns and reservation about the project with the marketability at this particular time and the type of unit that's going in across the street from where we are. Mayor Suarez: You don't think that by us allowing them to proceed on 12 units, of which they have six presold, that we'll know that pretty soon if after those 12 they can't sell the next ones, they're not going to move on them. Mr. White: OK, I still have some reservations. If you all agree with that... Mayor Suarez: Shoot. Mr. White: ... I'll accept your mandate. Mayor Suarez: But, there's a good argument made by Commissioner Dawkins before that we should not allow him to split it up in phases but this is the one that seems to be ready to break ground, they're supposed to be very, very nice units for sale. People who are able to afford to buy them, it could in _ order to benefit the entire project, particularly if they're really going to... are you really going to break ground in March? You're not going to wait now because you've got a little longer period? Mr. Whitesell: No, as long as our bids come in, we're going to go ahead and break ground. Mayor Suarez: I've never heard of bids not coming in. Mr. Whitesells No, I'm sorry. Come in close to the estimates. Mayor Suarez: Oh. It seems like we'll have plenty of time to get quite upset with them and decide that they're not going to be able to complete the project, I don't know. And if you don't think we have enough safeguard and you want to suggest... but delaying is the one thing that's difficult at this point, I man, we've been waiting so long for this to... Mr. White: Well, this one is different from the others and I think that's very obvious and I'm not sure... Mayor Suarez: Yes, it's phased in, it's phased in. Mr. White: Yes, I'm not sure whether we benefit, you know, by putting another month, another time for us to take another look at it based on what he's proposing at this particular time. I'm not sure what that would make any difference. I think it may help the whole project for us to have some additional time to take a look at it. Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor, I have a question on this motion. What happens if, after that first phase, the first 12 units are built, the developer just sits on it till the 36 months are up? Do we have any power when we see that nothing is happening to move in and say, well, we have other developers that want to move in and take over. I mean, like we just can't flat out give a 36 month period wherein we can't do anything. 105 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: Tog, that's also your concern. To say that you're going to have 36 months to complete and for us to watch you do nothing, let's say, for the first 12 months or 1• months, we've got to have some other provision in there that says you've got to do something. Just like they're held to beginning by June the 15th. Mr. De Turre: How many, Mr. Mayor, how many units or 12 unit projects do we have, mini projects do we have, how many sections do we have in that first phase that we're talking about? Mayor Suarez: Hey. that's a good question. Are the other ones going to be also in groups of 12 or are they going to... Mr. Whitesell: No, they're not all the same groups, it depends on the configuration. This happens to be a corner that has 12, I think the next has 18 and it's just various different amounts to arrive at the SS. Mr. De Turre: Well. I would have to suggest at this time that for us to continue to honor this 36-month period, there has to be some type of continuance from the time you get the C.O. on the phase that you're building, there has to be a tiwe within, once you've gotten the C.O. that you have to pull the permit for the next phase. And that will guarantee that there's some continuity; you're not just going to sit on it. Mr. Plummer: Well, you can use his numbers if you want. He has said that they have 70 percent of the first units, then he must pull a permit within 60 days thereafter for the second set. I think we can use your numbers. Mr. Dawkins: Why don't we do this, you are building for sale... Mr. Whitesell: Correct. Mr. Dawkins: It's going to sell only if it's marketable. Mr. Whitesell: Correct. Mr. Dawkins: Nov, I think that if you were to meet with them and we look at what you're doing and then if it's not selling, they can tell you why, then we can modify the design to comply more in line with what they know will go in that area and that will help us all, I don't know. Mr. Whitesell: Yes, we're willing to meet with anyone, surketing is the problem. Mr. Dawkins: Is that agreeable to you? Mrs. Kennedy: Which is something that I was going to ask you as I asked the other developers. The whole idea is to bring the people who work downtown to live downtown. Other than what we, the City, will be doing to market these units, what are you going to be doing? Mr. Whitesell: Do you want see to answer? Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead, I'll wait till you're finished, Mr. Commissioner. Mr. Whitesell: Tea, OK. I man the typical type sales effort... Mrs. Kennedy: Which is part of that same question. Mr. Whitesell: Test the typical type galas effort, I man, you're going to have a sales office, you're going to have salesmen, you're going to have brochures you're going to distribute. you're going to advertise, I mean everything you can possibly do to sell. We have no magic formula and it's going to be the aame as everyone else in competition where we're just going to go head to head with people selling out in Kendall and try and talk people Into living downtown. We're going to solicit the people that work downtown. Mr. Dawkins: See, that's their concern. See, who in the hell In going to pay $80,000 for a unit across from Bethel when he can pay $80.000 in Kendall? That's his concern. 106 February 18, 1989 Mr. Vhitesell: Yes, well it's our concern too. Mr. Dawkins: So that's not a marketable product. Mr. Whitaseil: This was the guidelines that the City laid down when we vent Into the scheme that this was what they wanted. Mr. Davkins: Well, that's what this group is saying that the guidelines won't work. Mr. Plummer: The guy that's going to buy it, Miller, is the guy that's damn sick and tired of fighting that traffic every morning for 15 miles. Mr. Dawkins: You'll see, all right, OK, you'll see. Mr. Vhitesell: This was the concept to start off with was to bring the middle class back into downtown, the people that work there and this is what we're trying to do. Mayor Suares: Are you still getting started with a letter of credit from Southeast, is that what you've got? Mr. Dawkins: But it's not that many who look like me who are in that middle class who want to move back in there and retain ownership of that land, that's my problem. OK? All right. Mr. Vhitesell: No, Mr. Mayor, we're... Mr. Dawkins: Now you all go right ahead, I've made my . Mayor Suarez: You've got a different financing tool for the first 12 units? Mr. Vhitesell: We're putting up our own money. We raised our own money, we just couldn't work with the banks, it was just too difficult, so we're putting our own money. Mayor Suarez: OK, so even in this one, we couldn't get a local bank to even a $600.000. Mr. Whitesell: Not on proper terms. Mayor Suarez: There was a 4600,000 letter of credit at one point if I remember correctly for the first nine units, I think, or twelve, I forget. OK. Mr. Vhitesell: Right, right. So no, it's just which I think the Commission should appreciate that valve raised our own money, we're putting our own hard dollars into the project to build these first twelve. And I think, you know, consideration should be given because of that. I don't really understand the motion, it's been so long now, I don't want you to pass a motion that I don't really fully understand. Could someone read it again before you vote on it? Mr. Plummer: Veil, the motion very simply says that you must take out a building permit by the 15th of June, 1958. Mr. Vhitesell: Correct. Mr. Plummer: That you must have the first phase, the 55 units completed within 36 months. You must pull a building permit by June the 15th, 1991, or you lose any options you have on the second half of that block. If you do not complete by June of 1991 the first phase, you are under a $1000 a day penalty. Mr. Vhitesell: No, I don't think that was part of the original proposal. Mr. Plummer: Oh, yes, sir. Tea, sir. Mr. Vhitesell: I don't think... my advisors, the rest of the group may no. I swan, that wasn't in our... Mr. Plummer: Veil, sir, that's your option, you can accept it or not accept It. OK? We're giving you... 107 February 18, 1988 Mr. Vhitesell: If the first 55 are not completed... Mr. Plummer: If those 55 are not completed within 36 months, you're under a penalty of $1000 a day. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): unless you walked out and say I can't build them and you all can have your land back. Mr. Plummer: but at least we get it back. Mr. Vh1tesell: Yes, but see if they don't sell, we can't complete. Ve don't mind the restriction of losing the rest of the land. _ Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): Then you can Bay, veil, I can't complete the project, take the land back. Mr. Vhitesell: Veil, yes, I agree with Mr. Dawkins, but what happens with the $1000 a day? Mayor Suarez: You're able, in your case, because you're coming in in phases, you're able to come back, let's say, after the first 12 units. If you don't think you can finish the next group up to 55 units within the 36 months in question, you're able to come back and tell us that you won't be able to do It, that if we'd like you to complete in accordance with your disposition agreement, we're going to have to give you additional time. Once you start building them, you've got to get them finished within 36 months as of today, as of today's motion. I don't think that's too burdensome. Mr. Plummer: Not for 36 months. Mayor Suarez: I soon, as Commissioner Dawkins is saying, you can always just pull out and say I can't do this. You know, here's your property back. Mr. Vhitesell: Yes. Mayor Suarez: but this is obviously a favorable deal that the City has helped put together in the hope that you will build. Mr. Vhitesell: It's very complicated, because it's a For Sale project rather than for rental. I mean, it's a very complicated process. Mr. Schwartz: This is a Condo Association that takes over the lease. Mayor Suarez: Don't you have some presale requirements on your next groupings, your next phases? Mr. Vhitesell: Ten. Mayor Suarez: So you will know before you break ground on the next group how you're doing on your sales and if You're not going to be able to make the 36 month deadline, you come back to this Commission, some of us may still be here, I don't know, and we can maybe work out another deal. But in the meantime, we want to know that you're not just going to build 12 units and just sit there. That's the scary part. Mr. Yhitesell: Ten, we can't build 12 units and just sit there, no. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I don't know how long it's taken him to sell 50 percent of the first one but if you've already got 50 percent of them sold, it should be a good indicator that if you're talking about $5, that it shouldn't be any problem at all. Mr. Vhitesell: OK, we'll take your word on that, Mr. Plummer. Mr. Plummer: No, you're not taking my word, sir, I'm taking your word you got six sold. Mr. dhitesell: You're right, we have. Mayor Suarez: You can always come back if the market conditions have changed, you know, and assuming the same people are here, this 36 months is three years from June 15th, that's a long time from that. 108 February 18, Igo$ Mr. Whitesell: it's taken three years to get this far though. Mayor Suarez: I know, I know. Mr. Whitesell: Thank you, Mr. Mayor, OK. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, that's the best we can do. Do we have a motion and a second? Any discussion? Are you going to address that motion? Mr. Jack Yanks: Can I say something in due respect. Mayor Suarez: Give us your name and address. Mr. Tanks: My name is Jack Tanks. Mayor Suarez: Give us an address, Mr. Tanks. Mr. Tanks: 2277 N.E. 164th Street is my office. Mr. Plummer: I'm sorry, 277 what? Mr. Tanks: 2277 N.E. 164th Street, North Miami Beach. I'm sitting here and among coming up on the calendar In number, I think, 162, to talk on something else, but I'm a general contractor. I'm a licensed general contractor. I'm a licensed property manager, I have over 500 apartments in this are and I'm sitting here and my heart goes out to these developers and these people are trying to make something happen and nobody realizes that you're not going to make it happen. Why can't get to the money and I'm sitting here, I'll tell you why. Until you clean up the crime and the abuse that's in that town where we can walk down the streets and I'm talking about everybody could walk free without having a fear of having a crack dealer try to sell us drugs or ripping us off, nobody will loan money in this section of town. This is Miami, we are the people, we have lost the streets there and you're not going to sell the homes, you're going to have problems renting out the 30-story buildings, you're going to have problems bringing the people in from downtown to live there because it's convenient. The reason the people are moving out to the suburbs, not because they don't want it. There's less crime out there and I challenge this Commission to get some more police officers. Get rid of the ones that are off on vacations, we have a hundred officers on vacation, cut them loose and hire a hundred more police officers and you put it a hundred officers from Flagler Street, from I-95 to Biscayne Say to 86th Street and you put those hundred officers there for three months, then you'll get all the money you want from the local banks. The reason you got to go to the outsiders to get money is because the outsiders don't realize bow bad it is in this area. The local people say, there, I'm not going to loan money. You have to be a fool. And this is the problem with Miami and it tears my heart out because I went to Tech High, I played football on the Tech High team and our practice team was on 19th Street off of 2nd Avenue and now it's a park with some schools. Mayor Suarez: Give me an address, give me an address of property that you own In Overtown. Mr. Tanks: I have address at 305 N.E. 80th Terrace, 301 N.E. 80th Terrace, 3... Mayor Suarez: 80th Terrace? Mr. Tanks: Tes, sir. This is the same area. Mr. Plummer: No, Overtown. Mayor Suarez: Overtown? Mr. Tanks: I'm sorry, excuse me, when I used the word Overtown or the N.E. section of Miami, this is 80th Terrace. Mayor Suarez: OK, Yes, that's how well you know the area. OK. He has a parish over there, by the way, and all those people are participating in that - parish and are living there and we are confident that people are going to buy and are going to move into the area. 109 February 18, 1988 19 0 Mr. Tanks: I'm not questioning about buying. rime agree withr you with thatdpart rofgit. Anything else onoing to improve ecthis motion? Call e Suartzt Call the roll. i The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 68-159 A RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE DEADLINE FOR INITIATION OF CONSTRUCTION TO JUNE 15, 1988; ESTABLISHING A CONSTRUCTION PERIOD OF NO MORE THAN THIRTY-SIX (36) MONTHS; SETTING A PROVISION TO LET THE DEVELOPER SHOW JUSTIFIABLE CAUSE AS TO ITS INABILITY TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT ON TIME AND REQUIRING A PENALTY OF $1,000 EACH DAY THE PROJECT IS LATE FOR PARCEL NO. 46 OF THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST, PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT; SAID TIME REQUISITES TO BE MADE PART OF THE LAND DISPOSITION AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF MMIAMI AND INDIAN RIVER INVESTMENTS OF MMIAMI' INC. FOR CONSTRUCTION OF 55 UNITS; FURTHER DECLARING THAT IF SAID CONSTRUCTION COMMENCEMENT DEADLINE IS NOT MET, INDIAN RIVER INVESTMENTS OF MIAMI, INC. LOSES ITS DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS IN PARCEL 46 OF SAID PROJECT. (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 Turre 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, AGENDA ITEM 60 (PROPOSED APPOINTMENT OR REAPPOINTMENT OF INDIVIDUAL TO SERVE ON THE PENSION PLAN BOARD) WAS TABLED. 54. BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: REQUEST FOR FUNDS BY REPRESENTATIVE OF THE QUEEN OF THE WORLD PAGEANT. Mayor Suarez: Item 61. Mr. Perez. Is he here? Mr. De Turre (Off mike): Tes, be's back there. Mr. Plummer: He was here. Mayor Suarez: Waldo Perez. Mr. Plummer: Here he is. Mr. Waldo Perez: Mr. !Mayor, members of the Commission, my name is Waldo Perez -Perez. I live at 3642 S.W. 13 Terrace, Miami, Florida. I'm living here about 29 years and all the time I was in this community. I want to present to the Commission briefly a project that we believe is very important for this City because the City at this moment needs to bring here more people, more tourists and businessmen. I want to explain, as 1 said briefly, what is mean Queen of the World that I want to present here in Miami. Queen of the World Is primarily a concession for international promotion, trade and business activities for this City and Dade County. The goal is to promote business, 110 February 18, 1988 It • Increase tourism and to create a closer relation and better understanding among the whole City and the people of the world. As principal step in attracting and motivating the people of the United States, Latin American, Canada, Europe and other areas of the world to visit the country and the host city that would be Miami. We have the backing of the television, the satellite and the most beautiful girls of the world. Other similar programs also have proof of our value. We will present 85 beauties from all over the world that are scheduled to participate representing their countries in Queen of the World at a series of events and the final pageant. The primary objectives of this pageant Queen of the World In to bring the beauty of the participants and beauty of the state, Dade County and the host City. It reaches out to capture the interest of millions inside the country and more than 700,000,000 of televiewers in the world. This plan calls for a two hours telecast, the hour of which a significant amount of time will be devoted to attraction of the host City. Mayor Suarez: Mr. Perez, do you have any contracts with any of the networks or television stations to broadcast this? Mr. Perez: Ten, at this moment we are concentrating with Univision and NBC. They are very, very interested but they... Mayor Suarez: Do you have any letters of intent or letter of interest from either one of those two? Mr. Perez: Tea, I have some words but not here with me at this moment. This telecast will be in four language to cover all the world, in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese with an extraordinary artistic show with international movie and TV star. We promote the whole City in each country where the participant will comes. It's very important that we mention that prime time from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on network in your United States In equivalent to 50,000,000 in ad time, advertising time with a viewing audience of 65.000,000. In addition, telecast by satellite to 85 countries with a viewing audience estimated at 700,000,000. National companies will be the principal sponsors of the telecasts. In addition, to attract visitors to the whole City during this week period, a series of two packages will be developed domestically by International with a major tour operator and the airlines, travel agencies and the national organizer of the world pageant in each participant country. This award can be followed to the winter program being promoted by governmental agencies and the Department of Tourism here in this area. Also, the City can judge the contestants from the entire world to promote the City In photographs in various locations that can be used to promote the area and cultural center, zoological, historical places, shopping mall, beaches, golf courses, race tracks, etc. It is very important also that the participant can promote the City, the host City, visit in the cruise line, in the port and visits different restaurants, a day at the race, races, and we would have a series of tournaments, involving golf, tennis, in which the participants will compete with all residents. We said that the smile of Latin America, and her beauties, the smile of Europe and her beauties, and the smile of the rest of the world, and her beauties, it goes with the beauty and excitement of the host City, will bring things and positive results for the City. In addition, we prepared 30,000 brochures... Mayor Suarez: Are you wrapping up, Mr. Perez? Are you wrapping up, are you coming to a conclusion? Mr. Perez: OX. Wall, in conclusion now, and we prepared 30,000 brochures, will be ready soon after something is confirmed. They will be distributed through travel agents, airlines, hotels, and embassies all over the world. We would request from the City, as first step here an amount of $100,000, that as you, everybody knows here, that this kind of event that covers all the world is very expensive. You, the City of Miami, the officials of the City of Miami, two years ago, they have another similar event and they know how much cost, how much bring result was to the City. That's all that I want to explain, and to see this community, and to the Commissioners and the Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Waldo. Do we have a recommendation from the Manager? Mr. Eads: Mr. Mayor, we have to recommend against this. We just don't have those kinds of funds for that kind of event. Mayor Suarez: Anything from the Commission on this? ill February 18, 1988 Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, the proper place, i think that this application should be made, would be with the TIC, which is in the promotion business, keeping in mind that 47 percent of the bed tax that is raised comes from the City of Miami. Mr. Perez: That is a good point, Mr. Commissioner. I was talking with the people of this agencies. They told us that that is impossible, because the monies are used only to promote conventions and to _ official of this organization outside Miami area. They are not in position to promote any other events and they have big amount of money, $9,000,000 to promote the City. Mayor Suarez: Now much? Mr. Perez: $8,000,000. I have here with me, some... Mayor Suarez: No. they might hope to have $8,000,000, but they... Mr. Plummer: No. they have got a carry over. Mayor Suarez: The .last I heard, they had five point eight, unless they combined two budget years. Mr. Plummer: That's per year. Mr. Perez: No, no, no. Mayor Suarez: That is $5,800,000 a year, of which I don't know how much is committed. Mr. Plummer: And you know what, in the last 12 months, not a dollar went Into advertising. All went into salaries, administrative, furniture. They put a guy in London for S50,000. Mayor Suarez: OK, that is about the only thing the Commission is going to do, Is make a recommendation to refer you to the Greater Miami Visitors and Convention Bureau, as far I can tell. Thank you for your presentation. Does any other Commissioner have any other motion on this item? Mr. Plummer: There is no motion to be made if there is no money! Mayor Suarez: Thank you for your presentation. 55. ALLOCATE 450,000 TO BAYSIDE MINORITY FOUNDATION FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO BAYSIDE MINORITY TENANTS. Mayor Suarez: Item 62, Doctor Padron, Tal Fair. You don't look like Dr. Padron, or Tal Fair. Mr. Howard Gary: Combination of both of them. Mayor Suarez: Mr. Gary, former City Manager, in the good old days. Mr. Gary: Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, I am here representing Dr. Padron and Mr. Fair. Dr. Padron is sick in bed with pneumonia, and Mr. Fair" is at the City of Miami Pension Board meeting. We have submitted to the Mayor and the Commission a proposal on behalf of the City of Miami Bayside Minority Foundation, which is a foundation established as a result of the City's agreement with the Rouse project, and this project, at least the foundation, is a foundation which is designed to assist minority businesses and also for educational purposes to further economic development with regard to minorities. What we have proposed here because the funds of the foundation are going to be limited in the first few years, is to attempt to address the problems that are confronting minority tenants at Bayside, and that is one of technical assistance. Traditionally we have provided technical assistance to these programs prior to the implementation of the programs, but right after the program was implemented, there is no technical assistance. As 112 February 18, 1989 19 n a result, we have considerable failures. We've had one failure out of Sayside which was Savannah Smiles, which can be largely attributed to the lack of technical assistance, and we have a few others that are also in trouble, and what we are proposing here is, a program to begin to address those problems, particularly for those inexperienced businesses at Sayside, and the proposal Is basically one of providing technical assistance in the nature of economic mic Indicators to determine successes and failures prior to them occurring. foundation is proposing to put $60,000 of this money, the tenants would assume $66,000 of this cost, and we are asking the City of Miami to support their program by contributing also some $116,000. Mr. Plummer: How much? Mr. Gary: $116,000. Mr. Plummer: What about the money that vas not aside in the million dollars by Rouse? Mr. Gary: Well, as I said, that amount of money that has been set aside for Sayside for Rouse, is basically only $100.000 a year. The maintenance is not for us. Mayor Suarez: The million dollars is the money that was matched up with their four million to create the tenancy, and how such of that do we have left, by the way? We had a little bit left of the million, didn't we? Mr. Albert Ruder: (OFF MIKE) About $118,000. Mayor Suarez: $118,0007 Mr. Ruder: (OFF MIKE) In fact, there's a few deals in the works that may use... Mayor Suarez: It is pure coincidence that that $118,000 is very close to the figure he is talking about? Mr. Plummer: Well, but can that 4116,000 be used for what he is speaking about? Hey, what good In it to put a guy in there, if he can't stay? Mr. Costaneds: OK, the $16,000 was allocated for loans. Miami Capital is right now working, I believe, on two deals. Mr. Ruder: Yes, Miami Capital deal has a couple of deals which is going to take up a good portion of that $118,000, which could leave maybe roughly $50,000 or so, I would say at this point. There are two situations that are being worked out - the Savannah Smiles situation, and the Tavern on The Bay, where additional money is going to be needed for the new tenant to take over those two businesses. It is not clear at this point how such of that will be, but we anticipate that a good portion of the $118,000 left at this point... Mayor Suarez: How about that argument, Howard? Should we not keep that money available to actually help the tenant with improvements? Can you use that for working capital at all, Al?... the new tenant? Mr. Ruder: (OFF MIKE) Yes. Mayor Suarez: Or different declarations, whatever it is that didn't work for the prior tenant, presumably even inventory. Wouldn't it make more sense to get direct aid to the new tenant? Mr. Gary: Well, let me... Mayor Suarez: Of course, It the new tenant is not a minority, then we have lost the battle. Mr. Gary: Well, they may be at a disadvantage, since I wrote the contract. One of the problems is that Rouse's money is tied to the City coming up with $1,000.000, specifically for bringing in new business. That is the first thing. Secondly, when a lot of those existing businesses, were negotiating contracts, Rouse had set up a reserve fund of their money, which is being matched with the City fund, for inventory purposes. As an example, obviously designs change over a period of time, and some of the businesses may not have an opportunity to change that inventory system... 113 February 18, 1988 It 9 Mayor Suarez: I wasn't cvare of that. Hov much vas that fund? Was that part of the $4,000.0007 Mr. Gary: it was part of the $4,000,000. Mayor Suarez: Was there a separate allocation for that, or... Mr. Gary: if you look at each one of the deals that they made, they basically said to those minority tenants, when the inventory season changes, we will give you assistance and assist you in changing over the inventory, so that that business would not be with what you might call, stale goods. _ Mayor Suarez: And you understood that to mean financial assistance, not advise, or technical assistance. Mr. Gary: Yes, financial inventory assistance. Mr. Plummer: My question still remains, of the $50.000 you feel that will not be used, can we allocate that over to this program, coupled with the others and see how far that goes to give the technical assistance? That is what I would move at this time, that the remaining balance of that account be transferred over to technical assistance. Mr. Ruder: OK, we will just have to amend the Miami Capital Contract to do that, but we could do it with... Mr. Plummer: That's fine. Mayor Suarez: OK, so moved. If you are going to may something else, get closer to the mike, Al. We are not picking up what you are saying. Mr. Ruder: No, this is... Mayor Suarez: OK, do we have a second? Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved ' its adoption: MOTION NO. 86-160 A MOTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION PARTIALLY GRANTING A -_ REQUEST RECEIVED FROM THE EAYSIDE MINORITY FOUNDATION FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT TO IMPLEMENT A TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR MINORITY TENANTS AT BAYSIDE; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO GRANT $50.000 (FROM THE REMAINING BALANCE OF THE APPROXIMATELY $118,000 STILL REMAINING) OUT OF THE $1,000,000 ORIGINALLY ESTABLISHED BY THE CITY FOR LOANS TO MINORITY BUSINESSES AT BAYSIDE, SAID MONIES TO BE USED TO ASSIST THE BAYSIDE MINORITY FOUNDATION IN THEIR EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT SAID PROGRAM. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. Mr. Gary: Thank you. 114 February IS, 1988 J Is 9 Mr. Plummer: Nov long has Rouse been open? When did Bayside open? Mr. Gary: April 17th. Mr. Ruder: April 8th. Mr. Dawkins: 8th of April? Mr. Plummer: I would like personally to see the posture of how things are going. Some people I hear from, they go down there, there is nobody there. Other people tell me they went there, the place is packed. I have not seen anything. I don't know if anybody else on this Commission has, as to what in fact really is happening down there. Mr. Ruder: There is a recent report, this is just on the minorities, that was sent... Mr. Plummer: Not no, am talking dollars and cents. Mr. Ruder: OK, fine. Mr. lads: We'll get that for you - that information for you, Commissioner. Mr. Ruder: Weil get that for you. Mr. Plummer: I just, you know, don't you have monthly reports? Mr. Ruder: Quarterly. Mr. Plummer: Quarterly. I would suggest in the future that you send us those quarterly reports. But as of right now, give us for the first three quarters. Mr. Ruder: OK, fine. Mr. Plummer: Sall park - does it look good? Mr. Ruder: (OFF MIKE) As a matter of fact, I think we just got some reports today, which I will be happy to pass out. This is for the first three quarters. Mr. Plummer: That's good, that's beautiful. Mrs. Kennedy: What are these? Mr. Plummer: I asked for a posture on where Bayside is, and he just gave us the first three quarters report. Mr. Ruder: We are going to be analyzing, you know, this. Like I said, it was just Federal Air Expressed to us today. 56. PERSONAL APPEARANCE: MR. JACK TANKS PETITIONS THE COMMISSION TO TAKE ACTION IN CONNECTION WITH DRUG SALES AND PROSTITUTION. Mayor Suarez: Item 63, Mr. Tanks. Mr. Jack Tanks: Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioners, thank you for allowing at to come and speak in front of you today. I haven't been here in many years. I see new faces on the Commission. I am here today to present a petition and I use the word, "demand," for help for our area. I have a building over on 65th Street, HE 85th Street, 6th Avenue. It is a block east Of Biscayne Boulevard. We are losing the street. I have 50 units there. In order to move in there... we have children. I have a playground. The people that live there are family people. We rent to people with children. We have a swimming pool, we have a playground, playground equipment, slides, sandboxes, like we have a regular professional playground. The street has turned into hookers and crack dealers. It is continuously. We called the Police Department. They tell us they have more interesting things to take care of than patrolling this street. I have driven over to 63rd Street, off of 115 February 18, 1988 Biscayne Boulevard, about a month and a half ago. I was afraid to get out of my car to make an inspection at a building. I called the Police Department to ask them if they would come in and assist me to make an inspection of the building. They said they could not. This was about two months ago. The street over there is loaded with crack dealers. You cannot drive down the street, and an unfortunate incident took place since I filed this petition and asked to get on in front of the Commission to speak. That young child got killed by a drug dealer, shot, because the family wanted to run them off the street, the drug, the crack dealers... to run the crack dealers and the prostitutes off of the street. I plead with this Commission, as Mr. Plummer used to drive with the Police Department some years ago... Commissioner Plummer, you used to drive with the Police Department at some time. I don't know if any of the Commissioners, the Vice Mayor or the Mayor go out into the police cars today, or go into this northeast section to drive around - I hope you do. I have a petition that was signed... Mayor Suarez: Ve do better than that. Ve do it without the police. A lot of times I've driven out there myself, and I have been many, many times in the area you described, and the other area that you previously mistook for the area that you are in, the Overtown area, I've been out there three times in the last week or so, at 1:00 o'clock in the morning, by myself. Mr. Tanks: Great. 'Do you get out of your car and walk the street, or just drive down the street? Mayor Suarez: I do everything. I've talked to the people there... Mr. Tanks: OK, I will meet with you any time, but the petition I have here... Mayor Suarez: OK, what do you want us to do? We are doing the best we can with prostitution and drugs in the northeast. Mr. Tanks: Sir... Mr. Mayor... Mayor Suarez: In fact, that we have concentrated our efforts, really, as far as the reverse sting operation, is really in the northeast. Joseph, am I wrong there? Mr. Yanks: Mr. Mayor, I've got 68 signatures of citizens that had enough guts to sign a petition, and I would like to submit to you six pages to the Commission today... Mayor Suarez: They will be introduced into the record at this point, if you would like. Mr. Tanks: OK, I would like to. There is 68 signatures and they put down their addresses. For a person to sign a petition that says, "We, the residents and property owners and taxpayers of northeast Miami from 84th 10 Street to HE 66th Street, from Biscayne Boulevard to NE 8th Avenue, demand upon you, our elected City officers to instruct the City Attorney to either draw up an emergency ordinance, or enforce the existing laws of the United States, State of Florida, in the county governing, to stop the open illegal flagrant sale of crack coke, marijuana, and prostitution in our neighborhood." We need help. I called the Police Department. Nov, I took over buildings. My business is renting apartments and running apartment buildings, and back in 1978. there was a building called the Edinborough House on 4th Avenue and NE 64th Street, and it is a 68 unit building. It became a house of prostitution. It is a 68 unit, there were 32 hookers living in the building, and five pimps. You have a sergeant in the Miami Police Department, his name was Cox, Sgt. Cox, and he was in charge of vice in that area. Now, with the Police Department back in 1978, if they did not give me the assistance to clean up that area, I would have never bought the building, but I bought the building. It was rented out to people, not crack dealers, prostitution, but they cleaned up the area. The police can do it. They are saying their hands are tied, they have got to take care of murderers and criminals and everything else. We, the people, are begging of you, we pay taxes for the government to protect us. That gives... Mayor Suarez: That particular characterization cannot possibly be right, because I think of the entire nation, and of all the cities that I am familiar with, and all the mayors that I have talked to, and all the police chiefs, we've got the most aggressive, reverse sting operation in the entire country. 116 February 18, 1988 Biscayne Boulevard, about a month and a half ago. I was afraid to get out of my car to make an inspection at a building. I called the Police Department to ask them if they would come in and assist me to make an inspection of the building. They said they could not. This was about two months ago. The street over there is loaded with track dealers. You cannot drive down the street, and an unfortunate incident took place since I filed this petition and asked to get on in front of the Commission to speak. That young child got killed by a drug dealer, shot, because the family wanted to run them off the street, the drug, the crack dealers... to run the crack dealers and the prostitutes off of the street. I plead with this Commission, as Mr. Plummer used to drive with the Police Department some years ago... Commissioner Plummer, you used to drive with the Police Department at some time. I don't know if any of the Commissioners, the Vice Mayor or the Mayor go out into the police cars today, or go into this northeast section to drive around - I hope you do. I have a petition that was signed... Mayor Suarez: We do better than that. We do it without the police. A lot of time I've driven out there myself, and I have been many, many times in the area you described, and the other area that you previously mistook for the area that you are in, the Overtovn area, I've been out there three times in the last week or so, at 1:00 o'clock in the morning, by myself. Mr. Tanks: Great. 'Do you get out of your car and walk the street, or just drive down the street? Mayor Suarez: I do everything. I've talked to the people there... Mr. Tanks: OK, I will sleet with you any time, but the petition I have here... Mayor Suarez: OK, what do you want us to dot We are doing the best we can with prostitution and drugs in the northeast. Mr. Tanks: Sir... Mr. Mayor... Mayor Suarez: In fact, that we have concentrated our efforts, really, as far as the reverse sting operation, is really in the northeast. Joseph, am I wrong there? Mr. Tanks: Mr. Mayor, I've got 68 signatures of citizens that had enough guts to sign a petition, and I would like to submit to you six pages to the Commission today... Mayor Suarez: They will be introduced into the record at this point, if you would like. Mr. Tanks: OK, I would like to. There is 68 signatures and they put down their addresses. For a person to sign a petition that says, •lie, the residents and property owners and taxpayers of northeast Miami from 84th Street to NS 86th Street, from Biscayne Boulevard to NE 8th Avenue, demand upon you, our elected City officers to instruct the City Attorney to either draw up an emergency ordinance, or enforce the existing laws of the United States, State of Florida, in the county governing, to stop the open illegal flagrant sale of crack coke, marijuana, and prostitution in our neighborhood." We need help. I called the Police Department. Now, I took over buildings. By business is renting apartments and running apartment buildings, and back in 1978, there was a building called the Edinborough House on 4th Avenue and NE 84th Street, and it is a 68 unit building. It became a house of prostitution. It is a 68 unit, there were 32 hookers living in the building, and five pimps. You have a sergeant in the Miami Police Department, his name was Cox, Sgt. Cox, and he was in charge of vice in that area. Now, with the Police Department back in 1976, if they did not give me the assistance to clean up that area, I would have never bought the building, but I bought the building. It was rented out to people, not crack dealers, prostitution, but they cleaned up the area. The police can do it. They are saying their hands are tied, they have got to take care of murderers and criminals and everything else. We, the people, are begging of you, we pay taxes for the government to protect us. That gives... Mayor Suarez: That particular characterization cannot possibly be right, because I think of the entire nation, and of all the cities that I am familiar with, and all the mayors that I have talked to, and all the police chiefs, we've got the most aggressive, reverse sting operation in the entire country. 116 February 18, 1988 Is 9 Mr. Tanks: Sir, if we don't... Mayor Suarez: If that is not enough, you know... Mr. Tanks: If I could give you... Mayor Suarez: ... I can understand that you would think that it is not enough, but a lot of citizens feel that we should be doing more. I just want to tell you that that is where we stand in the rankings among cities in terms of... Mr. Tanks: I am not interested in other cities. I'm not interested in statistics. I'm only interested here in Miami, Florida. Mr. lads: Let me tell you what has happened in that particular four block area in the last three years. There has been 664 prostitution arrests and 98 drug arrests, and that is pretty significant. Mr. Plummer: Now, wait a minute. Tell him the important thing, OK?... because our Police Department catches bell and they shouldn't. They are doing their job. Mr. Tanks: I'm not complaining about the Police Department. Mr. Plummer: Well, listen to me for a minute. You would be interested to find bow long after the arrest, before they are back out on the street. You would be interested to know that the courts are not giving them any jail time. You would be interested to know, that in fact, some of those arrested, are arrested 10, 12 and 15 times, in the same month! Mr. Tanks: Tes, let's take it the same day! Mr. Plummer: No, no, sir... — Mr. Tanks: Sir, with all due respect, Mr. Commissioner, pleasel... I've — waited two months to come in front of you, and I understand your statistics. I am not finding fault with the Police Department. I'm saying we need more men to replace the hundred officers that are on extended leave. The Police Department are qualified to do a job, but they have got to have manpower. Now, we are asking you to get budget money to give the Police Department to — clean up that area. I am not interested in statistics how good the City of Miami is. It is not as good as it should be. It could be better, and we can do It. I'm interested in how many arrests were made, and how many people were arrested in one month's time. harass the drug dealers, harass the pimps, — harass the prostitutes, arrest them 15 times in a day. I do know one thing. Miami Shores connects at 86th Street to the City of Miami. I never see a = crack dealer there, I never see a prostitutes there... right on the same E boulevardl I don't see it. Why is it that this area has the name, that it could exist? because we don't have enough Police Department? I know what the constitution is. I'm not trying to take away anyone's constitutional rights, but the people have the right. I have to pay taxes. I have vacancies sitting in my apartment building, and what is going to happen, unless we get help from the You, people that are building these new hi -rise buildings will be like in ■ Chicago, they will be tearing then down in ten years, because of the crime situation, the crack dealersl We're losing the streets to the criminals, and the only one that can help us is the City Cossission, by telling the Police — Department, "Take your manpower and go clean it up." I'n not interested in - the big things that happen in other cities, I'm interested in Miami. I'm not — interested in the homicides, I'm interested in the poor little girl gets shot by a crack dealer with machine guns and they own the streets, and I'm Interested, if you ride in that area, you see apartment buildings, two stories, nice buildings that are boarded up, no one living there, and you see the place is a mess. This is what I am interested in. Is there any of the Commissioners... I'm not looking to challenge or aggravate you, but who lives In that area that works on the Commission? Where are the City people? They don't live in there, they moved to other section of Miami. We have the people, the working people of Biscayne Boulevard, that work downtown, because all my tenants, and I've got over 200 tenants, they work in this area, and they are afraid to walk from the bus stop to their home, which is two blocks off of the boulevard. This is what I am asking for, and the Commission can do It, and when I call the Police Department, they say, "Come to the Commission, 117 February IS, 1988 tell them for them to tell us and give us the manpower." The Police Department is doing a darned good job, and you fellows are doing a darned good job, but I am here... Mayor Suarez: Are you active, if I may ask you a question - are you active with any of the neighborhood, or civic associations in that area? Mr. Tanks: I am active to the point that if they need me for something, I call on them. I came here as an individual. I could have brought 68 people. I could have brought... Mayor Suarez: Do you know the president of the Greater Miami... the Greater Biscayne Boulevard Association? Mr. Tanks: Rockwell... I'm sorry, Grace Rockwell? I've spoken to her. Mayor Suarez: No, Grace Rockefellar has moved out of the City, I believe. She is no longer that active up there. Mr. Tanks: Sir, I'll tell you this - my daughter lived for years on 58th Street, two blocks off of Biscayne Boulevard, they had a beautiful home there. They sold it. Mayor Suarez: Well, the reason I asked you In, I was elected a couple of years ago. Right before I was elected, all the time before I was elected, I used to go to all the meetings, it seems like, of Belie Meade, and Morningside, and the Northeast Improvement Association, the one you referred to, that used to be run by Grace Rockefeller. We had a list of all the City _ staff people, and all the departments who were responsive, and their phone t numbers, including in some cases, home numbers, and we used to... you know, badger them about the things that were going wrong in the different neighborhoods. After the election, I think we have begun in the last couple of years, if not then, before then, and at all times trying to make sure that everyone in the City is responsive, but these associations have the names of people. Have you called my office, for example, to complain about any 1 particular crime situation in your neighborhood? - because we make sure that someone from his department goes out there whenever we get a phone call, and he knows how many calls he gets from my office, or any of the Commissioner's offices. Mr. Tanks: Sir. Mayor Suarez: The Manager's office, I mean I... Mr. Yanks: I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor, the call ain't.. yes, sir. Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Tanks, you are correct, OK? Mr. Tanks: I beg your pardon? Mr. Dawkins: You are correct, we have one hell of a problem, all right, sir? And you are the not the only one. I get complaints that the people in Coconut Grove cannot sleep, or walk the streets for the sale of drugs. I get the same Complaint from the people in Overtown. I get the same complaint... in fact, Just so you will know, and I am not bragging or beating myself on the chant. One day, two weeks ago, I rode to four drug related shootings in Liberty City where I live, with my policeman, OK?... and I was there at the shoot-out, and so sooner do we get to that one, good, we had to leave that and go to another one. We have a problem, but you also air, are aware that we have another problem, a bigger problem, and that is, as you said, we don't have 100 Policemen on leave. We have 100 policemen suspended, or whatever, all right? These officers are suspended and they can't go out in the field. The few Policemen we have are working overtime, double time, and what have you. We are working them to death in an effort to try to make the streets safe for us. Nov, the bargaining agent has a setup where, if a policeman is suspended, you can't release him until you either have to put him back to work, or you have to fire him, OK? Now, we cannot raise taxes to hire more policemen, so we have got these budgeted spots, and these policemen are not in line of duty, and this creates the problem, sir, that creates a vacuum for these people to operate in, and I cannot sit here and not agree with you, because we do have a problem. 118 February 18, 1988 Mr. Tanks: Thank you sir, for having the backbone to speak it the way it is. I appreciate it that, because telling me about other stuff, and telling me ve don't have that, that's all giving me... treating me like a mushroom, and don't treat s:e like a mushroom, but you have the backbone to stand there and tell me the truth. Nov we know what the problem It, you are the first guy who said it. Now, let's address the issue and figure out how we can cope with it. If we have to not the citizen's committee, like you have in North Miami Beach, where they have civilians riding around, and you have a police radio, and they are able to call the regular police to come and see something. They've cleaned up the town. I know that this Commission is the best damn Commission we've had in the last ten years. There has been no bickering among you, there has been no fighting, you guys get alongf We have a damn good Police Department. Let's put it to use. If we have a problem, don't hide it away. Don't think it is not going to come out and tell me about Chicago or any place else. Let's look at it here. The Police Department, I speak to them. Their bands are tied, and I was being polite when I said they were out on extended leave, and you came out and you said it, that they are suspended. I said they were on vacation because I was trying to be polite, but you are facing the issue, and soon as we face the issue, it is like one of the great politicians said, I think it was Winston Churchill. He says, "You only will have a nightmare until you wake up, then it is gone." We have a nightmare. Maybe by you addressing it now, we will wake up and get rid of the nightmare by figuring out a way, what the hell we have to do, but I will tell you this, If we don't, every one of these buildings on that side of the boulevard, which = was the main gateway into Miami for SO years, will be boarded up, they will be deteriorated, there will be fires taking place in them, and people are walking away. I read in a building the other day... in a newspaper, a man got killed In an abandoned building from a fire, because people are going to do the sauce thing that they... Mayor Suarez: Could you summarize your point and you've made a lot of good ones, but can you bring it to an end, so we can get to the next item? We have... Mr. Tanks: I am not qualified to summarize. It is up to elected officers to figure out... Mayor Suarez: OK, we'll summarize then, but can you finish? Mr. Tanks: I will finish, and if this officer here is a police officer, I'll be glad to tell him my problem. Mayor Suarez: He's the man, Joe Longueira. Mr. Tanks: But, what can he do? He will tell us to come back to the Commission, and by the way... Mayor Suarez: No, he might help you to organize a citizen's watch group that you have been talking about. We did that at Lutamua Park. We've got that in other parts of the City and some places are very well organized. Mr. Tanks: If we don't get rid of the streets back to the people, where every person can walk free, then no one is free in this country and we must give the streets back to the people, so they can walk down, not in the middle of the street, bolding their purse, feeling that they are going to be hit over the head or carrying a gun to shoot themselves... to walk free, that's what we needs Thank you, and I will turn in this petition of 68 signatures, and I could have brought 200 people... Mayor Suarez: By the way, you have got three... how many units do you have in the City? Mr. Tanks: I have 200 units in the City left. Mayor Suarez: No code violations in any of them right now? Mr. Tanks: No, sir. Mayor Suarez: Good. Mr. Tanks: No, sir. 119 February 18, 1989 It Ll Mayor Suarez: Just checking. Mr. Tanks: The tenants would keep we on the... they would object, if there is any. We don't want no code violations. We don't pay our garbage tax, though. Mayor Suarez: That's a violation. Mr. Tanks: Teo, sir, because it was a violation when you gave it to we for 30 years free, and then they decided to go out and... Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry I asked. OK, thank you. Mr. Tanks:... compete with private people and charge us for it, by saying we are not adding taxes. Spread it out over everybody and give the garbage to people free. Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make one comment. I wish there was some ray we could get the citizens of Miami to understand the load the present officers we have are operating under. We have guys with families that don't see them from maybe one day or three or four days to the next, because when the go to work, their kids are asleep, when they come home, they are asleep. And this City owes ! debt of gratitude to those officers who are out there protecting us. Nov, I rode with them four days, I mean, I go out constantly, but the other day, there were four shootings, and they were more concerned about the individuals and the trauma they were going through than they were about anything else, so you got a good Police Department and I wish those of you out there would realize it. Mr. Plummer: Also, let the record reflect that this Commission, in trying to address the problem that Mr. Tanks just brought before us, about three years ago, we passed a resolution which we were told was constitutional and had the right to do of setting minimum criteria for addressing what of the courts were necessary to do. As 1 recall, and don't hold me to the exact numbers, but a prostitute on first conviction was 15 days in jail. The second conviction was 30 days in jail, and all convictions thereafter, were sixty days in jail. It Is to the bast of my recollection that not one, not a single one, has served a 15 day period, and the constant thing that we hear back, is the fact that they don't have any jail space to put them, so what do they do? - they put them back on the street again, and again, and again. Nov, the only way that you are ever going to see the State of Florida has got to realize when they speak out of one side of their mouth and tell you that a thousand families a week... excuse me, a thousand families a day are moving into the State of Florida, someone has got to realize that 100 percent of those people are not all law abiding. There has not been a prison built in the State of Florida in ten years - ten years! To just go out and continuously to overload a system, doesn't accomplish anything, and Mr. Tanks, I would suggest sir, that you go meet with the chief judge and ask the chief judge why the minimum criteria set by this Commission has not been adhered to, and then I think you will hear what we bear, that our policemen are doing their job, doing it damn well, in arresting these people, but the breakdown is not with the Police Department. The breakdown is in the court system in which they are turned back out the same day. Mr. Dawkins: And Janet Reno will tell you... and I suggest you to see Janet Reno, because every time I go she tells me that she is not going to let a rapist or murderer go, to hold a prostitute and a drug dealer in jail, and to me, a drug dealer is a murderer. Mr. Tanks: Yes, sir. Mr. Dawkins: Right, but there again, we can only do so such here, and when I go sit with Janet Reno, and she is the... and the chief judge, when they tell me that they are going to release this party, and don't worry about the other, my hands are tied, I mean, and then I have to go back and thank these guys, because we can arrest the guy, and before you get back to 62nd Street, where you are arrested him, and he is back on the corner selling drugs. Why? He is no good sir, to the guy he is selling for, if he is not on the streets. So, therefore, the minute he is arrested, somebody is down to the jail, with bail, to bail him out so that he could go back to continue to sell drugs to make a profit for the guy he In working for, so It we can tighten up that system, and take Krone Avenue, and everybody that's arrested for drugs taken to Krone, and let him stay down there for three weeks before you bring him up here to trial, 120 February IS, 1988 4V 1P then we can get something done. but, when I suggested that to Janet Reno, it went over deaf ears. We are fighting because we know this is what you want, but we just fight by ourselves, and nobody goes and gives Janet Reno hell. The Miami Herald writes she is the best thing since high button shoes. OK, and nobody goes and tells the chief judge, "Hey look, you are letting people back out that our policemen spend 15 and 16 hours, stalking to arrest, and you turn him out in ten minutes." And this is a part of the problem, sir. Mr. Tanks: Gentlemen, Commissioners, I'll take your challenge. I'll go see Chief Judge Worthington, and I'll go see Janet Reno, but I'll ask the Commission another question. Now come Miami Shores, North Miami, North Miami Beach, they don't have the... Mr. Dawkins: They come in my area to buy drugs. Mr. Tanks: Then, let's do something of harassment. Mr. Dawkins: I have no problem in shooting their tires out, or putting tacks In the road, with I don't know, but let me tell you something, sir. You are right... Mayor Suarez: We --are not going to get more. We are hearing from the Commissioner at this point. Mr. Dawkins: All right, I live in Liberty City, OK? The cars I see buying drugs on my open flea market, which runs from ltth Avenue to 12th Avenue, on 61st Street, it is open drugs, I mean it's a flea market. You can buy any kind of drugs you want. The cars that I see do not live in my neighborhood. The individuals who are purchasing drugs over there do not live there, so how do I get people in, what did you say? - Miami Shores, Miami Gardens, Virginia Gardens, Coral Gables, to understand that their kids, and their neighbors and their relatives are coming into my neighborhood to purchase the drugs, and they should form some kind of a vigilante to help me stop it. Mr. Tanks: I'll give you the answer real quick. Have a police officer, after the car pulls in, and he sees it, let him pull him over to check his tail lights to see if he's got license tag, or if there is a cracked tail light, or harass them. Give it the old fashioned harassment that used to go on 30 years ago. Mr. Dawkins: I've got one better than that for you, and as the Mayor said, I have to shut up. I suggested that we purchase TV cameras, OK, and on 62nd Street, as every car comes in, video tape it, and then set up with the four, five, or six, TV channels, and on the news every afternoon, run this where — everybody went in there purchasing drugs, but... Mr. Tanks: Say... Mr. Plummer: You can't buy that such tape. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Tanks, thank you. OK, let me make... Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, wait a minute. Mayor Suarez: Teo, Commissioner. Mr. Plummer: Joe, I wish you'd invite him to go on the next reverse sting operation. I'm sure he'll sign the waiver. I want to give you just very quick... the last one I went on, 96 were arrested. These are people that had It in the car that we watched buy. You know how many went to jail that night? - nine. The rest were released because they didn't have room to put them. That's where your problem is. Mr. Tanks: You tell me my problem, Commissioner. I realize the problem. The last time I came in front of you... Mayor Suarez: No, he has done more than that. He has directed you to the court system... Mr. Tanks: No, wait, one thing... Mayor Suarez: ... to the State attorney, and told you what we are doing ... g... 121 February IS, 1986 Mr. Tanks: The last time I came was with was with Jackson... when you were down there at Bayfront Park and remember, they stole my CB out of my car, parked in front of the building. That was 1976. Nov... Mayor Suarez: Mr. Tanks, bye! Mr. Tanks: Thank you. NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, ITEMS 65, 72, 73, 74 and 79 WERE WITHDRAWN. NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, AGENDA ITEM 75 WAS DEFERRED. $7. SUPPORT AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY/BREAST CANCER DETECTION AWARENESS PROJECT (MAMMOGRAMS); INCOURAGE PARTICIPATION BY PRIVATE BUSINESS: URGE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE TO COOPERATE. Mrs. Kennedy: Let me take a moment to talk about a very serious problem that - is affecting over 2,900 women in the State of Florida every year. Breast cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths among women, and we think that early detection can help not only prevent deaths, but also with unnecessary surgery, so council woman Sally Heyman, Commissioner Nastasha Cejas Millen from Hialeah, Sally Heyman from North Miami Beach, and myself, have created a task force for women on wellness. The tests will be given to women who are having it done for the first time by the local hospitals. The whole idea behind it is for the hospitals to do it. It In a two months campaign, from [larch 14:h to May 15th, where mammograms will be given at 15 of the area hospitals for only $50 instead of the usual $125 or $150 they charge, so what I am looking today for is volunteers, and let me look for the date, to answer phones on Monday, March 7th, between 5:00 and 8:00 p.m. at the American Cancer Society. Mr. Manager, what I would like to ask from you, is a van so that we can meet here before and then be transported to the American Cancer Society. The campaign is five days long. That particular day will be the City of Miami day, so I need 20 woman volunteers. I urge you to get in touch with Thelma Edwards at my office and j oin me and my staff on that night. Mr. Eads: Tea, Ma'am, we can make that available. Mr. Plummer: Do you want to pass this resolution? Mrs. Kennedy: Tea, and then... Mayor Suarez: Do you want to move the resolution? Mrs. Kennedy: AT THIS POINT, COMMISSIONER KENNEDY READS RESOLUTION INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. SEE HEREINSELOW. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: OK, so moved and seconded. Any discussion, call the roll. 122 February IS, 1988 I It The following resolution Was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-161 A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION SUPPORTING THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY BREAST CANCER DETECTION AWARENESS PROJECT AND ENCOURAGING LOCAL BUSINESSES TO PROVIDE MAMMOGRAMS AS AN INSURED BENEFIT TO THEIR EMPLOYEES; FURTHER URGING THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE TO ENACT LEGISLATION PROVIDING THE EXPENSE OF MAMMOGRAM SCREENINGS BE CONSIDERED REIMBURSABLE BY ALL HEALTH INSURANCE CARRIERS DOING BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT A COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE HEREIN DESIGNATED OFFICIALS. (Here follows body of resolution, emitted 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. S8. (A) 1988 MIAMI MAGIC FESTIVAL: CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS, ESTABLISH PEDESTRIAN MALL. (TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREATER MIAMI, INC., APRIL 23, 1988.) (B) REFER BACK TO ADMINISTRATION REQUEST FROM JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIAMI IN SUPPORT OF MIAMI MAGIC FESTIVAL TO TRY TO CUT DOWN THE COST OF CERTAIN REQUIRED IN -KIND SERVICES. Mayor Suarez: Item 64. Ms. Linda Johnson: Mr. Mayor, Ms. Vice Mayor, Commissioners, spy name is Linda Johnson. I am here on behalf of the Junior League of Miami. Our address In 2325 Salzedo Street. I an bare today to request that the City of Miami cosponsor the Miami Magic festival, which is scheduled for April 23, 1988, With the Junior League of Miami, by providing in -kind services for this event. This is the third year for this festival, which promotes downtown Miami, and has been cosponsored by the City of Miami in the past two years. This year also, We are moving our festival to Bayfront Park, to promote the new park. We are also requesting street closures for the runways. Mayor Suarez: OK, I'll entertain a notion on the street closures, to get that out of the may. Mrs. Kennedy: Move it. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Cali the roll. 123 February 18, 1988 The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-162 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE 1988 MIAMI MAGIC FESTIVAL TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREATER MIAMI, INC. ON APRIL 23, 1988; AUTHORIZING THE CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS TO THROUGH VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, ESTABLISHING A TEMPORARY PEDESTRIAN MALL SUBJECT TO THE ISSUANCE OF PERMITS BY THE DEPARTMENTS OF POLICE AND FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AND THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY WILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY AND UPON ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR ALL NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, 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. Mayor Suarez: Now, what did we do last year for Miami Magic? What did we give you? Ms. Johnson: You underwrote the in -kind services for the festival during the day. Mayor Suarez: All of the in -kind services? Ms. Johnson: Yes. Mayor Suarez: I guess it is a... this is kind of a quasi -official City of Miami... Mr. Eads: Mr. Mayor, that represents $21,000 in expense to the City. Mayor Suarez: Are you sure we paid for the entire thing last year, or... Ms. Johnson: It was $25,000 last year, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Dawkins: You know, here we go now. What did you tell me this morning for all the other projects? Mr. Eads: Same thing, that we didn't have money to fund it, Commissioner. Mr. Dawkins: All right, so now... you said this morning you didn't have no stoney for those projects, right? Mr. Eads: Correct. Mr. Dawkins: OK, that's all I wanted to know. Mayor Suarez: Are you willing to post a bond and handle your own solid waste? Ms. Johnson: Yes. Mayor Suarez: Can we get that resolved? Mr. Plummer: The women's organization is going to do their own cleanup? - the sanitation... 124 February 18, 1988 J 4* Ms. Johnson: No, we won't do it, we will have to hire someone to do it, I fuppne. - pay the City to do that. Mayor Suarez: Wall, if you pay us, you got a $2,000 item here, for solid waste. Some people, some entities, or groups or organizations post a bond, and if they pick up their own waste, and they get to keep their own money, they don't have to pay us for it, we don't use our own manpower. Are you Interested in doing that? Ms. Johnson: Tes, we are. Mayor Suarez: OK. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, may I suggest, this event is not until April 23rd, that we send it back to the Administration and ask them to cut every corner they can and come back to this Commission at the next meeting. Mayor Suarez: I entertain that in the form of a motion. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mr. Plummer: You are not going to get all of this. Maybe there is some way they can cut down on expenses. Mayor Suarez: OK. Ms. Johnson: We have met with the City three times to get these numbers. Mayor Suarez: Maybe not with the direction from the Commission that they cut some corners a little bit, and try to bring this down. OK, moved and seconded. Any further discussion, call the roll. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 68-163 A MOTION REFERRING BACK TO THE ADMINISTRATION REQUEST RECEIVED FROM REPRESENTATIVES OF THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MIAMI. INC. FOR SUPPORT OF THE "MIAMI MAGIC FESTIVAL" IN ORDER TO SEE WHETHER THEY CAN TRY TO MINIMIZE IN - KIND SERVICES REQUESTED IN SUPPORT OF SAID EVENT; FURTHER REQUESTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO PLACE THIS ISSUE BACK FOR DISCUSSION ON THE MARCH LOTH AGENDA. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion 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. ASSENT: None. NOTE FOR THE RECORD: NO ONE APPEARED FOR AGENDA ITEM 66. 125 February 18, 1986 ..__� ----- - -------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 59. (A) PREPARE LETTER TO ROBERT GALLAGHER, CHAIRMAN OF THE SURTAX BOARD, ADVISING CITY'S INTENT TO CONVEY CERTAIN PARCELS OF PUBLICLY -OWNED LAND FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING. (B) DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO PREPARE REAL PROPERTY REIMBURSEMENT ALTERNATIVES REGARDING INTENDED DISPOSITION OF THREE PARCELS OF PUBLICLY -OWNED LAND. Mayor Suarez: Item 67, American Financial Corporation. Mr. Richard Sox: Mr. Mayor, my name is Richard Sox. We are going to defer to Item 69. Mayor Suarez: Tou want to hand it the other May? Both of you have, I would guess, the same problem. Are you here at our request, or at your request? Mr. Sox: To inform the City of the status of both the projects. Mayor Suarez: Was that at our request? Did one of the Commissioners request to know, or have you requested it? Mr. Sox: The City did request that we give an update, through Herb Bailey. Mayor Suarez: OK, do you want to go first? It is the same basic... Mr. Julio de Quesads: I guess the Commission is aware of the problems that we have been encountering with the surtax. There is simply no money in the surtax. Mayor Suarez: What was the last time they parceled out monies, Julio? Mr. de Quesada: Anyway... Mayor Suarez: Julio, when was the last time that the surtax actually distributed some of their funding? Mr. de Quesads: About eight months, to a year ago. They have been holding this forever. Mayor Suarez: I presume the pot is building up. Mr. de Quesada: Oh yes, they got 58,000,000 right now, available. Mayor Suarez: How much do they have? Mr. de Quesada: $8,000,000. Mayor Suarez: And they are bringing in about what? - ten or eleven a year? Mr. de Quesads: No, the eight... Mayor Suarez: From the surtax? Mr. de Quesada: No, the surtax, the $8,000,000 they now available, they have divided into two parts, approximately 50 percent... Mayor Suarez: Non profit CDC's, and... Mr. de Quesads: Right, but the thing... Mayor Suarez: When are they going to decide how to distribute it? Are they going to wait forever? Mr. de Quesada: No. Mayor Suarez: Until we give up? Mr. de Quesads: No, the RFP is out to the street now, and it has to be answered by March 15th, and that is what we are... 126 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: The RFP7 Mr. de Quesada: $es, they put out an RFP now. Mayor Suarez: An RFP for distribution of surtax funds? Mr. de Quesada: well, for the projects and of course, awarding the surtax... Mayor Suarez: I wonder if Senator Carrie Meek had that in mind when we got that bill through the legislature? Mr. Dawkins: No, she did not! Mayor Suarez: I don't think she did. Mrs. Kennedy: Because there is only so much money and so many projects. Mr. de Quesada: Those were exactly the changes that they did in all the procedures. Before, it was first come, first servev and the only reason they held up all these funds for almost eight months is because they were making up guidelines and procedures and now they come out with RPF's. Mayor Suarez: Now RFP's. we go from guidelines, criteria, to RFP's to parcel out monies to projects that have been awarded on the basis of RFP's issues by the City and vow! Mr. de Quesada: Not only that, projects like mine have been just sitting there. Mayor Suarez: OK, now what do we do with yours? Mr. de Quesada: OK, my project, realistically, I have... Mayor Suarez: Are you going to apply for a realistic amount of surtax financing, Julio? Mr. de Quesada: Yes, but I have to do it in two phases, phase I and phase II, and apply... we need 2.4 millions of surtax money to make it affordable. Mayor Suarez: That is not realistic at this point. Mr. de Quesada: That's not realistic, so consequently, I am dividing it in two phases - phase I and phase II, and apply for $1.000,000 in each phase, to be able... Mayor Suarez: OK, an you think that is viabie7 - that is realistic? Mr. de Quesada: OK, now that jacks up the monthly payment to the buyer by approximately $50 a month in some models. In others, $112. To be able to make up for that, I am requesting for the City to convey title at no cost to us, which would, translated in money, it means $50 or less, monthly for a taxpayer, it will compensate... Mayor Suarez: You want the land totally free, is that what you are saying? Mr. de Quesada: Correct. I thought... Mr. Plummer: well, Julio, look, you know, I have been into this problem, and I am going to continue to be into it, and I know it is going to make some people unhappy. The monies which are available for housing, and the properties that are available for housing, we just can't give them away scot free! If you do, the properties are going to dry up, there is not going to be any more available, and if this to be an ongoing and continuing program, which we want it to be, there has got to be a provision for monies to come back to the City so we can acquire more property. Now, I just... you know, I just can't go along with giving away a parcel free, because there are only so many parcels. Mr. de Quesada: Commissioner, we are facing a reality, the way this was set up on this project, the land was acquired beforehand. There's no alternative. You want to offer affordable houses to low income and to do what I'm requesting. Now, I agree with you, basically and philosophically, and what I 127 February 18, 1988 would do, and I have spoken to you privately on this before, I, the City of Miami, would implement our own surtax program for the future, but at this point in time, with this situation that we are living, I don't see how we can do it, with theme projects, but future project, instead of buying land as you did here, simply put up a City surtax program. Mr. Plummer: Well, in effect, you are asking the taxpayers of this community to subsidize housing. Nov, and Julio, I'm sorry that you are first, OK?... but you are in this to make a profit, and there is nothing wrong with that. Tou are not in this for your health. Tou make a reasonable profit, but you are making a profit, and you are making a profit off of subsidized land from the City of Miami. Nov, that I really don't have that much trouble with, but I do have a problem that we are going to give it all away, and there is not going to be... as I said to Mr. Benjamin today - he's got 28 units that he is proposing, greatl But, there is 28,000 people that need housing in Overtown and Park West. Now do we say to those other people, "The well is dry," there Is no more property and according to the statistics that we hear, you can't do these things without free property. There has got to be a provision that this City gets back something, or let's don't kid ourselves, this program has got to run dry. There is just no other way. Mr. be Turre: Commissioner, one thing that we need to find are alternatives to see if we can find a middle road attitude to address these problems. We think that maybe it is time that we start looking into possibilities wherein, If we were to give this land, and I'm opposed to giving it scot free for the same reasons that you are stating, but if we... and then understanding also, the fact that people can only afford to pay "X" amount of mortgage payments. If there is some way that we can give the land in a form, in a fashion wherein we can divide... get a per lot per unit cost of the land, and give it as a second mortgage, wherein they don't have to pay interest, but like within a ten year period we get that mortgage back... you know, something along those lines wherein we don't lose what we are giving out, then we can just turn it over and keep using it time and time again, the money. Mayor Suarez: That is not very different, actually, now that you mention it, from the disposition agreements in Overtown/Park West. They basically get the land without any return to the City for the first five years, typically, Herb? And then they begin to pick up at a very small... Mr. Herb Bailey: (OFF MIKE) There are leases and staggered... (INAUDIBLE) Mayor Suarez: OK, don't get too technical on us, now. Mr. Bailey: Tou are correct, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Plummer: There are all non -uniform, is what he is saying. Mr. Bailey: Tex, they are right. Mayor Suarez: Right, but I mean, their what? - their first five years typically is no payment at all, right? Mr. Bailey: No payment the first five years, I think one is in the first ten years, and depending on the amount of profit. Mr. Dawkins: If we give the land, Julio, to you free, what would the units cost? Mr. de Quesada: You are asking me what is the lowest cost? Mr. Dawkins: If the land were donated to you, dollar free, what would each unit cost? Mr. de Quesads: The unit would cost - the two bedrooms would be $45,000. Mr. Dawkins: $45,0007 Mr. de Quesada: Right. Mr. Dawkins: If we don't give you the land, and you have to pay $5000 per lot for the land, add 65.000 onto $47,000, and you are talking about 452,000. That's affordable. 128 February 18, 1998 Mr. de Quoted&: Excuse me, I made a mistake. it's $39,000 with no land. Mr. Dawkins: All right, Well, $39.000. Mr. de Queued&: OK, and $45,000 with the land. Mr. Dawkins: All right, $45,000. if we take a $45,000, and we take and add $7,000 for each lot, onto $45,000, that is $52,000 and that is affordable! Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, I lost something - $39,000, and you added six, what was the six? The six was the cost of the land. That's $45,000 total. Mr. de Queseda: No. we... Mrs. Kennedy: Did you have copies of it? Mr. de Quesada: Excuse me? Mr. de Queseda: Do you have copies for us? Mr. Plummer: Miller? Do you have copies for us? Mr. de Quoted&: No, I don't have copies, and the reason is, that we have two different approaches to this. My approach is what's affordable. Affordable to a person at the level of income we are talking is what he has to pay monthly, regardless of the cost of the land, of the project, because all construction costs are fixed costs, except the land. Nobody is going to give you away his wages, or his materials at a lower cost, because you are building a affordable housing. Mayor Suarez: We know all that, we know all that. The only thing that changes the cost... Mr. de Quesada: Of the land. Mayor Suarez: Wait, Julio. The only thing that would change the monthly mortgage payment, would be surtax subsidy. Mr. de Quesada: Exactly. Mayor Suarez: Leave that out for the moment. No surtax subsidy. You are saying that the units would cost 439,000 if you had to pay zero back for the land, if you got the land for free, and $45,000 if you had to pay for the land, the full price that we paid for it. Mr. de Quesada: Right. Mayor Suarez: Is that correct? Mr. de Queseda: That's correct, and... Mayor Suarez: OK, now do you want to argue the philosophy of whether $39,000, or $45,000 is affordable, or not? Mr. de Quesada: No, no. What I want to show you is that paying 50 percent of the land, which was our initial offer... Mayor Suarez: OK, that is the in-between solution. Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, I was going to ask... Mr. de Quesada: Yes, the monthly payment for the buyer will be $279. Mayor Suarez: Now, see, now you have gone to monthly payments and you probably built in there your $1,000,000 surtax financing. Mr. de Quesada: With $1,000,000 surtax financing. Mayor Suarez: But, you were giving us figures on per unit cost, instead of monthly mortgages. 129 February 18, 1988 • a Mr. de Quesada: Excuse me, I made a mistake. Mr. Dawkins: All right, well, $39,000. Mr. de Quesada: OK, and $45,000 with the land. It's $39,000 with no land. Mr. Dawkins: All right, $45,000. If we take a $45,000, and we take and add $7,000 for each lot, onto $45,000. that is $52,000 and that is affordable! Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, I lost something - $39,000. and you added six, what was the six? The six was the cost of the land. That's $45,000 total. Mr. de Quesads: No, we... Mrs. Kennedy: Did you have copies of it? Mr. de Quesads: Excuse me? Mr. de Quesada: Do you have copies for us? Mr. Plummer: Miller? Do you have copies for us? Mr. de Quesads: No, I don't have copies, and the reason is, that we have two different approaches to this. My approach is what's affordable. Affordable to a person at the level of income we are talking is what he has to pay monthly, regardless of the cost of the land, of the project, because all construction costs are fixed costs, except the land. Nobody is going to give you away his wages, or his materials at a lower cost, because you are building a affordable housing. Mayor Suarez: We know all that, we know all that. The only thing that changes the cost... Mr. de Quesada: Of the land. Mayor Suarez: Wait, Julio. The only thing that would change the monthly mortgage payment, would be surtax subsidy. Mr. de Quesads: Exactly. Mayor Suarez: Leave that out for the moment. No surtax subsidy. You are saying that the units would cost 439,000 if you had to pay zero back for the land, if you got the land for free, and $45,000 if you had to pay for the land, the full price that we paid for it. Mr. de Quessds: Right. Mayor Suarez: is that correct? Mr. de Quoted&: That's correct, and... Mayor Suarez: OK, now do you want to argue the philosophy of whether $39,000, or $45,000 is affordable, or not? Mr. de Quesada: No, no. chat I want to show you is that paying 50 percent of the land, which was our initial offer... Mayor Suarez: OK, that is the in-between solution. Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, i was going to ask... Mr. de Quesads: Yes, the monthly payment for the buyer will be $279. Mayor Suarez: Now, see, now you have gone to monthly payments and you probably built in there your $1,000,000 surtax financing. Mr. de Quesada: With 41,000,000 surtax financing. Mayor Suarez: But, you were giving us figures on per unit cost, instead of monthly mortgages. 129 February 18, 1988 Mr. de Quesods: With $1,000,000 surtax financing, and no land, it would 239 monthly with hat pfor $59the sore aon thamonth. buys, if that would go was not the to almost $300 case, and It could cost t person something dollars a month. Mayor Suarez: Right. Mr. plusimer: Wait, wait a minute. That's if you didn't get both. How much, if you got the surtax, which you had to pay for the land? Now much would it Increase it? Mr. de Quesads: I didn't figure it out that way, because simply, it is Infeasible. I will figure it out. Mrs. Kennedy: Julio, let... Mr. de Quesoda: Well, anyway, I can do it and discuss it with the staff later on. I man, that's just including it in the computer. We have that set up. Mayor Suarez: Well, you must have those figures, because when you first made your presentation to us, you were assuming that you were going to get your surtax, and you gave us a scale that indicated what your per unit monthly mortgage would be, if you had zero percent subsidy in terms of land, 50 percent, and 100 percent. You have all those figures from before. Mr. de Quesada: I have all those figures. Well, I have those figures. The reason I didn't bring it today, is precisely because figures basically don't change. Mayor Suarez: Well, put it this way. Very simply, Julio, you said $39,000, if we give you the land for totally free. You said $45,000, if we make you pay 100 percent, so if we make you pay 50 percent, it will obviously be $42,000, in between, all right? So, what does this Commission want to do? Mrs. Kennedy: OK, along those lines, based on the 50 percent land cost, what is the annual family income to get to the $239 a month? I can't speak today; I'm sorry. What is the annual? Mayor Suarez: What target group are you trying to reach, if you are able to get it down $239 a month? Mrs. Kennedy: I mean, somebody in the thirty thousand... Mayor Suarez: What kind of an income range of... for a family of two, let's say? Mr. de Quesada: They all qualify, according... they are all within the low Income range, at the medium, let'a say - everyone, including, if I pay for 100 percent of the land, because that... Mayor Suarez: Right, but you are presumably going to make the argument that this will exclude certain people that you would like to include. Mr. de Quesada: The argument... right, my argument... Mayor Suarez: What people are those in terms of their income now? We are looking at them from the income side. Mrs. Kennedy: From the other side, from the income side. Mr. de Queaoda: Right, my argument is that the way this thing is set up is deceptive, because you talk about the medium... Mayor Suarez: Right now it is not only deceptive, but confusing. Mr. de Quesads: The medium income is not what the people really can afford. Very few people, and especially low income people, none of them make the median income of... Mr. Dawkins: But, you are not building low income housing, you are building affordable housing. 130 February 18, 1988 00 A* Mr. de Quesada: Exactly. Mr. Dawkins: There is a difference. Mr. de Quesada: Well, there is a difference... Mr. Dawkins: You are not building low income housing, you are building affordable housing! Mr. de Quesada: Affordable housing. Mayor Suarez: Julio, the Commission wants to make a decision, that is a very simple decision, if you can give us the numbers. Mrs. Kennedy: Median income... Mayor Suarez: That is, if we take... if we require you to pay us back 50 percent of the value of the land, what kinds of income people will be able to buy, and if we require you to pay 100 percent of the land, what kinds of Income... that's it. Mr. de Quesada: My office is closed already. Mayor Suarez: Oh, you can do it all in your head, give me a break. You had It all down last time. You want to try, at us, the carpenter's union, we have the same decision to make, vis-a-vis you, right? Mr. Plummer: Roughly, you are talking about people with an income of $12,000 a year. That's simple. Mr. de Quesada: We are talking about of a bracket between $15,000 and $18,000 a year. Mr. Plummer: No, air, $12,000. Mr. de Quesada: Oh, $12,000. Mayor Suarez: By using what index? Mr. Plummer: Using what index, 25 percent of your income goes for your housing, OK? If you pay $250 a month, at the full value, that comes out to roughly $3,000 a year... a third, or a fourth of that, just multiply it, it is $12.000. Mayor Suarez: In fact, that is exact. Mr. Plummer: It is simple. Mr. de Quesada: I just think... Mayor Suarez: Julio, why don't you make the philosophical argument. You are trying to get people that are lover income than that, is that what you are trying to do? Mr. Plummer: Lower than $12,000? Mr. de Quesada: I am trying to get people in there within the range of $12,000 to 415,000. Mayor Suarez: Yes, but see, that is assuming, of course, that he gets surtax, and so far, he doesn't have that. Mr. Plummer: Yes, but, Mr. Mayor, even if he doesn't get the surtax, OK?... you are still talking about in the range of $300 a month, which in that figure, you are talking about $3,600, you are still talking $15,000. Mayor Suarez: Not what with a 445,000 per unit cost. There is no way he is going to be able to mortgage amount at $300 a month, PITS, no way. Mr. Plummer: Still, and I can't... I think Mr. De Yurre I idea is a good one. Give him a second mortgage at no interest, but we get our money back and continue the program to roll and roll and roll. 131 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: In other words, give him a break on the return to the City for the first how many years? Mr. Plummer: Five years, ten years, whateverf Mayor Suarez: They come in at a lover mortgage payment, because they don't have to pay the cost of the land for the first five years and then... or ten years or initially, there whatever. Julio, Interesting alternative. is manymortgages bei g structured likeFamily, that right now, variable mortgages, variable rate mortgages. Mr. Plummer: And you are talking about $6,000 for acquisition of property. Maybe in five years they can just wipe out the second mortgage. Mayor Suarez: Can we instruct the Commission, I mean the Manager's office to work out with them something similar to the Overtown Park hest schedule? Mr. Plummer: Is that legal? Sure it is legal. Mayor Suarez: in terms of, the subsidy we want, instead of saying either zero percent of subsidy, .,50 percent, or 100 percent, do it in terms of, we want eventually to get paid back for the land, but we are willing to give them the use of the land, in effect, for free for five years, ten years, very similarly to the Overtown/Park Vest disposition agreements. Mr. Bailey: These are rentals. Mr. de Quesada: No, no. Mr. Bailey: For sale. Mayor Suarez: And you have a problem if they re -sell to somebody else? Mr. Bailey: That's a problem, Commissioner... Mayor Suarez: We can put a clause in that if they re -sell, they have to pay us the entire value of our mortgage. Mr. Bailey: Well, I think the suggestion that Commissioner De Yurre made was one of the alternatives we have been sort of kicking around... Mayor Suarez: Which is...? Mr. Bailey: ... whereby you sell the land, but take it back in the form of a mortgage, and that does two things for us. It insures that we will get some repayment for the land, and it also finances it in such a way that it meets the income levels and the affordability to the tenant. The one problem with that it slows down our process of doing wore units, because the mortgage payments take a long time. The ones that we did in Overtown, just prior to my coming to City of Miami, there were no payments on the second mortgage, until the first mortgage had been paid off, and sometimes, you know, when people want to sell the house, they have forgotten all about they have a second mortgage, so we can... Mayor Suarez: Oh, I sea what you are saying. Even if we went to 50 percent under the prior concept, we would get paid the moment they did the closing. Mr. Bailey: Right, and in that way, it would assure that we will be Immediately ready to go out and start the process over. Mayor Suarez: Well, that is the trade-off the Commission has to make then. Which way do we want to go on that? I mean, we would get paid 50 percent, or some percent, right off the bat when they do their closing, or do you want to give the perspective buyers a break for five years, in which case we see no money whatever for five years, that's it. Mr. Plummer: As long as we have a second mortgage, so that we would protect our loss. Mayor Suarez: Yes, but there is no cash flow back into our system, is what he is saying. 132 February 18, Igoe Mr. Plummer: Well, we would hope, you know, that we could get more money up. Mr. Bailey: It would be a third mortgage. I'm sorry, I... Mayor Suarez: Third mortgage, yes, there will be a lot of mortgages ahead of us. Mr. Bailey: But, you know, as I look at the numbers, the difference in monthly mortgage, with SO percent recovering of the land cost is ... Mr. Plummer: We are talking about 100. Mr. Baileys 100 percent recovery? That does make it difficult, in terms of affordability. Mayor Suarez: 100 percent recovery - if you don't see any money for ten years, or five years, is not 100 percent recovery. I just don't want to say that, because then we... Mr. Bailey: Tou could get 100 percent, put 50 percent of it in the third mortgage, and then take 50 percent of that time to sell the . It only Increases the payment somewhere around $65 on 50 percent recovery, and you can slake the third mortgage as a lien on the property, and if it is ever sold, we recover our money. Mayor Suarez: That's right. That's the kind of thing that we are thinking about now, Herb, and what the... I don't think the Commission is ready to decide tonight which exactly is the index, as far as 50 percent, or 25 percent, or 75 percent, or whatever, because we don't have the exact figures of what it will look like. It is a very simply mathematical calculation. Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you a question. Do have any assurance that in the sale of these units that no one can go in and buy them up on speculation. What assurance do we have of that. Mr. de Quesada: The surtax people will take care of that. Mr. Plummer: I'm not worried about what the surtax people will do, Julio. I am worried about what we do. I mean, I think whatever we do with you needs to be written in, that these have to be individually owned, that we are not going to be creating an off -premise slum landlord, who doesn't give a damn about them, and if we are really trying to address the income people of $12,000, we need to proceed along those lines. Mayor Suarez: Jerry, what have we built in to assure us that they are going to be for residency by the homeowner? Mr. Jerry Gereaux: Depending on how... Mayor Suarez: Not spec. Mr. Gersaux: Teo, depending on how we are reimbursed and what we get back, we can structure the land transaction to put in a clause where the family, in order to take advantage of the City's ability to convey the site, at less than market cost, that if they sell at any given point in time, they will not get a windfall profit, in other words, I have to add the point of sale to next buyer. We would get some of our money back and that In the way we would structure it. That's the way we would have to structure it. Mr. Plummer: That's fine. That seems like a very, very good idea. I'm glad you came up with it, Jerry. Mr. De Turre: Are you talking about resale? Mr. Plummer: No, on resale, we'd be more or less guaranteed. Mr. Gereaux: Herb asked me to point one other thing out to you. If we take a third on the land, and there is a default on the first as a result of the split up of the purchaser family, and we were in third position, it is pretty likely that if that happened, we'd get wiped. We'd lose on the courthouse steps in the event of a foreclosure, if we took a mortgage, rather than a percentage. 133 February 18, 1989 Mr. Plummer: Unless we bought it. Mr. Gereaux: Unless we bought out the first... Mr. Plummer: Ah he, yes! Mr. Gereaux: ... or unless we bought out the second on the Surtax Board. Mayor Suarez: OK, can you put together this package and bring... Mr. Plummer: In other words, the Surtax Board is getting their money back. Mayor Suarez: ... back to us in a way that makes sense. Are we... Mr. Plummer: And you know why? So that they continue to make more monies available, and that is all I'm trying to do here. Mayor Suarez: Am I hearing that the consensus of the Commission is to get something less than 100 percent back, so they don't work on too many different variables here? Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I think 100 percent is fair return back to the City, it we are going to give them five years interest free. Mayor Suarez: But, you understand that he is saying that that may not be necessarily the beat way to do it, because we don't get any money right off the bat. SO percent up front may be better, anyhow, these... Mr. De Turre: These people can afford 50 percent up front. Mayor Suarez: And we get 50 percent, which we can use then to buy other lands, as opposed to waiting, God knows how long. Mr. Dawkins: Jerry, you had a mock-up that you showed me. Vill you pull it out? All right, with CODEC... Mr. Gereaux: OK. Mr. Dawkins: With no return on the land, what would the mortgage payment be on the...? Mr. Gereaux: If the City got... we took the average unit in each project in doing our analysis, OK. Mr. Dawkins: That's right, that's all I want. Mr. Gereaux: And the average unit cost is around $40,427 in this project, CODEC's project. With no return on the land to the City, these projects are marketable to a family whose income is around $17,300 a year, and that income represents 56 percent of the median of this area, the greater Miami area. Mr. Dawkins: What would the mortgage payment be? Mr. Gereaux: The mortgage payment would be $404 a month, give or take. Mr. Dawkins: Thank you. Now, if we got 50 percent of the land back, what would the monthly... I want to know nothing but the monthly payment. Mr. Gereaux: $469 on the average unit. Mr. Dawkins: So that is $69... that would add $69 to their mortgage payment, If we are to get 50 percent of the land back. Mr. Gereaux: Tex. $65. Mr. Dawkins: All right now, if we got 100 percent of the land, what do you have there? Mr. Gereaux: $535, would be the PITI. Mr. Dawkins: So, the first one was four what? 134 February 18, 1988 I Mrs. Kennedy: $404. Mr. Dawkins: $404, and the last one is five... what? Mr. Gereaux: The last one was $535. Mr. Dawkins: So, if I got 75 percent of the land, I would be coming in at about what? Mr. Gereaux: It would be coming back at about five. Mr. Dawkins: About $500 a month. OK. Mr. Gereaux: $500 a month, $500 a month... Mr. Dawkins: OK. Mr. Gereaux: ..o and that would be a family... that family Mould be characterized as having a low income. You know the way we talked about low and moderate and median, and all of that stuff. Mr. Dawkins: And al.l three of these figures you gave me would fall into what the federal government called low income. Mr. Gereaux: Correct. Mr. Plummer: Even the $535 would still be affordable housing under the Federal guidelines. Mr. Gereaux: Teo. Mr. Plummer: And that is without surtax? Mr. Gereaux: No, all these figures anticipate that CODEC will get... the Surtax Board has established a policy of no project getting over $1.000,000 for second mortgage financing, so we figured that in the financing arrangement. We figured that indeed, CODEC would get the $1,000,000. Mr. Plummer: In their second mortgage, in the surtax second mortgage, what percentage of that money do they get back? Mr. Gereaux: Well, the whole second mortgage goes back. It is deferred for the first few years, until the family gets... Mr. Plummer: but in other words, the surtax money goes back to the Surtax board, 100 percent? Mr. Gereaux: Teo. or. Plummer: That's all I am saying, and it is very simple why they do it. They want to continue to have these things. If they didn't get back a dime, surtax would dry up. There would be nothing. I think, Mr. Mayor, that what we ought to consider, or ask of the Administration, is to come back with some alternatives, where the developer could chose alternative (a), (b), (c), or (d). Mayor Suarez: Not that many. Mr. Plummer: Three alternatives, OK?, and it goes anywhere from what we spoke about before, of 50 percent recovery on property monies, with 50 percent of the stoney up front, to 100 percent of recovery for no... five years interest free, and we take a third position. I think you need to develop those alternatives. Mr. Gereaux: You want alternatives for a deal that works and targets the housing to the population we are talking about income wise, low income people. Mr. Plummer: Exactly, but, allows the City to stay in and continue these programs, and then just... if this Commission approves the three alternatives, the developer can chose which one he wants. 135 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: And give us three, but make your recommendation on one, please. Mr. Plummer: That's fine. Mr. Gereaux: I will. Now, I just want... there is one other point I want to make, if I Keay. These gentlemen are desperately working on applications that have to be... go before the Surtax Board and one of the things that they have to have in their package is some evidence of an option, or some other evidence of site control, and I would suggest to the Commission that the City Manager be authorized to write a letter to the Chairman of the Surtax Board, Indicating that while the land reimbursement question will be resolved soon, the City would intend, if they can make the project work for low income families, to convey the site, and I think that would satisfy the Surtax Board. Mayor Suarez: We have every intention - we can be a little stronger than that, we have every intention of conveying it to them as soon as we are ready to... Mr. Gereaux: OK, a letter by the Manager would be the way to... a motion to do that. Mr. Plummer: I'd like to see the letter. I'll be glad to move it... Mr. Dawkins: Beg pardon? Mr. Plummer: I'd be glad to move it, but I would reserve the right to see the letter. Mr. Dawkins: Well, do what you are going to do, then. Mayor Suarez: OK, move it with the reservation for all the Commissioners to sign off on the letter. Mr. Plummer: Very true. Mr. Dawkins: I second it. Mrs. Kennedy: And I'll second. Mr. Dawkins: And you must include... St. John need the same letter? Mayor Suarez: Tes, we are going to get to that item. Mr. Plummer: They all, all the ones that are applicants in the City. Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, no problem. Mayor Suarez: Are they going to be applying right away to the Surtax Board? Mr. Dawkins: Too, they are. Mr. Plummer: Wall, St. John's is going to abandon the 12 unit projects when the Chamber of Commerce comes through and does their multi -million dollar project. Mayor Suarez: All humor aside... Mr. Dawkins: Hold it, hold it, come one. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. Oh, I am sorry. Mr. Dawkins: Under the discussion... Ms. Vivian Brian. I just want to add... you know, I am Vivian Brian, president of the Board of St. John's Community Development Corporation, and all the applications from the CDC's are due on April lot, so we have an ambitious time table and the CDC's in the City are also competing with CDC's In the County that have the land free, and the letter, in order for us to be able to compete with those CDC's would have to very strongly worded, because most of those CDC's already have title to the land and don't have a promise, and if, as to whether they are going to get it for SO percent, or 75 percent, or whatever... 136 February 18, 1988 was County, ount Suarez: that anyonetbuilt the with the CountyProject, land thattway was given for free? that tothe A Cou y. CDC. Mr. Dawkins: Tacolcy? Ms. Brian: Tess Tacolcy, Opa-Locks. Mayor Suarez: Tacolcy? Ms. Brian: Yes. Mayor Suarez: Tacolcy was land we gave them. Mr. Dawkins: No sir! Mr. Plummer: No. Mayor Suarez: No, no. they... OK, wait, we funded a good portion of that to the tune of $1,600,000. Ms. Brian, Vest Perrino, there are a number of them, and all of the ones that have... Mayor Suarez: Totally free land? Ms. Brian: Free land. All the ones that have proposals in now, the land is free. Mr. Plummer: Tax, but you see, here is the problem. 96 percent of the City of Miami is developed. We only have 6 percent undeveloped land. The County has... I don't know what their statistics are, but needless to say, I would venture to say that it is nowhere near 60 percent. It is a big difference. They have a lot of free land that we don't. Mr. Dawkins: And also... Madam City Attorney, doesn't the Charter specifically say that the City of Miami must make available land available by bid? ... or put it out for bid? Mrs. Dougherty: The Charter used to say that. At the last election we did sake and exception to competitive bidding for housing projects. Mr. Plummer: That the city was involved in. Mr. Dawkins: But. the Charter says what, though? Mrs. Dougherty: It is exempt from competitive bidding, if you are putting up a housing project. Mr. Plummer: Low. Mayor Suarez: For affordable housing projects. Mrs. Dougherty: Affordable housing projects. Mayor Suarez: However we defined it. Mr. Plummer: And there is a second provision that says if the City is Involved. Mr. Dawkins: But the County can convey title of land free. Mrs. Dougherty: Tess they can convey title to land, not only for housing, but to any nonprofit corporation, unlike the City of Miami. Mr. Dawkins: OK, and the City of Miami. by Charter cannot do that. Mrs. Dougherty: Cannot do that. Mr. Dawkins: I mean, I need for that to be cleared up so that people will understand why Tacolcy and others get land free, it is because the County 137 February IS, 1988 Charter permits them to do it, and the City of Miami's Charter does not permit us to give the land away. Ms. Ann Marie Adker: We have a lot of vacant land right in Overtown that is owned by the County that they acquired with community development money, so they can give the land back. Mr. Dawkins: You are right, Ms. Adker, that is how they got... Tacolcy got It. That was Shell City land. Shell City was burned down in the riot and Federal funds were used, and the County acquired the title and the County returned... and there is, so there is land, and we just need to apply for it. Tex, Ma'am. Mr. Brian: In order for our application to be competitive, the scenario we are in, we would, you know, defer the payment on the land, would help us in being able to... Mayor Suarez: For how many years? Ms. Brian: Well, the surtax defers payments of ten years, unlike, maybe some of the surtax receives only $25 a month, for the first five years on the second mortgage ;that they give. They receive $50 a month for the next five years, for ten years. Mayor Suarez: Well, I'll say this, if we don't do something drastic... Ms. Brian: Then they are fully amortized. _ Mayor Suarez: ... if we don't do something drastic by way of a subsidy in Overtown, we are just not going to get the projects built, and that's going to be the worse thing of all, because we are going to be sitting around arguing about this for three years, or five years, or ten years. Ms. Brian: Our problem is a little bit different from the one at CODEC, because our land costs $10,000 per parcel, which adds $10,000 onto the purchase price for the house. Mayor Suarez: It is that much more burdensome if you have to pay 75 or 100 percent. Ms. Brian: Right, and while his is costing $5,000 per unit, we are in a more depressed area and our houses have to cost more. Mayor Suarez: Yes. Ms. Brian: And the payments are more, so... Mr. Plummer: Why couldn't we work out a program like the way the surtax money Is getting their back? What's wrong with that? Pay us $25 or $50 a month back on the land, the same way the... Mr. Gereaux: We can work out a program that works, Mr. Commissioner. Mr. Plummer: Fines Mr. Gereaux: Like that, we can come back to you and work out a program that hakes sense that will resolve the problem, but... Mr. Plummer: Sure, that's reasonable. Mrs. Kennedy: Make sure you included... Mayor Suarez: Can you give us that as an alternative for both of these, please? Mr. Gereaux: ... the letter is important for all three of these groups. Mayor Suarez: It fits all of the parameters, you know, the target group and so on. OK. Ms. Brian: Also, I just want to bring up too, that you know, Overtown is an area that has been targeted for tax increment financing, and we would like to 138 February 18, 1988 r- be able to use some of that, in our projects, because our situation is a little bit different from... Mayor Suarez: Veil, we are not going to be giving money that we don't have yet, and that tax increment fund is... Ms. Brian: Veil, a commitment would help... Mayor Suarez: Yet, that tax increment fund... Ms. Brian:... to may that when you get it... Mayor Suarez: ... the last time I checked, had a couple hundred thousand dollars in it and it there is not such bondable capacity in it, but there may be, you know, there Buy be. No. Brian: Well, if we are talking about a payment of something like what the surtax would defer, then if we could get a commitment that... somewhere down the line that... Mayor Suarez: •bsolutelyl Ms. Brian:... that tax increment financing could be used to write down the cost of the land... write it off, then we would... Mayor Suarez: That to an interesting concept that we commit that once it begins to come in. It is just that we don't have it to commit right now, and It would be kind of an illusion to sake any pledge. Ms. Brian: Is that something we can explore? And we have the deadline of ♦pril 1st to get our surtax package in for it to be competitive, and then... Mayor Suarez: Would it make any sense for us to slake any commitment on tax Increment financing on...? Mr. Donald Benjamin: Sure, why not? Mayor Suarez: No? Mr. Benjamin: Why not? Mayor Suarez: Other than the fact that we don't have any money in that fund... Ms. Brian: Is there a legal reason or is it just fallacy? Mayor Suarez: Please, please, one at a time, and use the mike and be recognized. Mr. Bailey: She reason that we cannot do tax increment financing, that whatever revenues we get from now until 1992, has to be used to retire the loan that we used to buy the land for the arena, and our calculations only Indicate that we have just enough to float a $7,000,000 to $9,000,000 bond in 1992. We have borrowed seven... Mayor Suarez: What's the back up for the loan to buy this site for the arena? Mr. Bailey: The CD allocations. Mayor Suarez: Where was the primary source of revenue? Was it tax increment? Mr. Bailey: HUD section 109 long. Mayor Suarez: Where did the tax increscent come in? Mr. Bailey: Well, tax increment won't come in until 1992. We... Mayor Suarez: No, I mean, the pledge. Where do we pledge that for the arena?... for the purchase of the site of the arena? Mr. Bailey: We pledged, yes, we pledged to HUD, through the use of tax Increment monies, we will be able to repay them for the $7,000,000 we borrowed to buy the land for the arena in 1992. 139 February 18, 1988 Mayor Suarez: And that is going to come off the top from the tax increment fund? Mr. Bailey: That has to come off the top of the very first part. Mayor Suarez: Well, we can begin pledging if we if we pledge that and HUD bought it. begin pledge after the $7,000,000, without, that would not create a problem. Mr. Bailey: Well, that decision won't come until 1992. Mayor Suarez: Well, you don't think we will create more than $7,000,000 anytime between now and 19927 - this billion point one project that I was supposed to sign away when I was elected, that had been promised the people of Overtown... Mr. Bailey: Well, you know I am an optimist... Mayor Suarez: ... is not going to generate even $7.000,000? Mr. Bailey: I am an mptimist, and I believe that would be more, but I have to take the conservative approach. Mayor Suarez: Yes, the basic answer is that we don't have that money to pledge, but once we... see, that is the only pledge we have made of it, right? Mr. Bailey: That is the only pledge. Mayor Suarez: And certainly, from the planning aspect of Overtown/Park West, It was meant to be used precisely for those kind of projects, and once we get through that particular pledge, or if we substitute that with something else, then we can give it to them. Mr. Bailey: Well, the new tax laws will only permit us to use it in certain ways. _ Mayor Suarez: But, none of the tax laws prohibit it from being used for affordable housing, Herb. Mr. Bailey: Well, let's just say if we did taxable bonds, we could use it for anything we wanted to, but if... Mayor Suarez: But, tax exempt. I was thinking. Mr. Bailey: Tea, tax exempt. Tax exempt, there are some prohibitions, but if this Commission decides, we can work out a method by which we can use tax Increment monies for what we call ancillary, or secondary housing, we can figure that out. Mayor Suarez: You would have my vote on that. I can't imagine that we would be able to vote on it today, because of the... it is a very speculative fund at this point, and apparently we have pledged $7,000,000 of it already. Me. Brian: The problem is, I don't think our application is going to be competitive, and that we follow... Mayor Suarez: Well, we are going to get to your item in a second. It may be that the Commission will decide on your particular item to go ahead and fix a lower percentage return to the City. I'd vote for it. I'd vote for zero percent, as I've told you. Ms. Brian: We'll wait, then. Mayor Suarez: We do want to make you competitive. Otherwise, we are not going to get the first of those type of projects with a CDC off the ground, in Overtown. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I'd move at this time that these three projects be sent to the Administration to develop alternatives and come back with their recommendation as well as the alternatives at the March loth meeting. :< 140 February le, 1986 Mayor Suarez: Pleasel Leave St. John's Economic Development out. We really haven't got to that item and they are saying that they have particular needs and their land cost are nigher and everything else. Mr. Dawkins: (OFF MIKE, INAUDIBLE)... same letter that we are going to give everybody else, give it to them, if they don't need it, don't use it. If they need it... Mayor Suarez: No, but the problem is, they need a lot more than that to be competitive, is what they are saying. Mr. Dawkins: (OFF MIKE) ... give it to them. Mayor Suarez: Oh, yes, we have no problem giving them the letter that says that. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: OK, as to that, the motion is made and seconded... Ms. Hirai: Mr. Mayor, we need to call the roll on the prior motion to write the letter to the chairman of the Surtax Board. We haven't called the roll on that motion. Mayor Suarez: OK, call the roll on the motion to recommend to the Surtax Board. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 86-164 A MOTION DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE A LETTER TO ROBERT GALLAGHEK, CHAIRMAN OF THE SURTAX BOARD, INDICATING THE CITY OF MIAMI'S INTENT TO CONVEY CERTAIN PARCELS OF PUBLICLY OWNED LAND TO AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL, INC., CODEC INC. AND ST. JOHN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION FOR DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO REQUEST THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SURTAX BOARD TO SO INFORM THE SURTAX BOARD STAFF; AND FURTHER REQUESTING THAT THE ADMINISTRATION BRING THIS ISSUE BACK AT THE MEETING PRESENTLY SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 10, 1988. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, 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: Yes, now to provide a letter with the terms that we have stated, as to three projects, we have a motion and a second. Mrs. Kennedy: Teo, and seconded. Mayor Suarez: I think you made it, and you seconded it, right? Mr. Plummer: Yes. Mrs. Kennedy: Yes. Mayor Suarez: Leaving for further determination the exact formula, but Indicating that the City will convey at the appropriate time, I guess getting back less than 100 percent return, right?... well at least, delayed return. 141 February 18, 1988 Mr. Plummer: Let's leave it open. Mayor Suarez: Vell, I don't... let's hope that that will do it for you, with the Surtax Board. Basically, what they are interested in is knowing that you are going to have the land in your hands at some point. Mr. Plummer: That's right. Mr. Sox: (OFF MIKE) Ve have to know also the numbers that we are dealing with, because if You... Mr. Dawkins: Sixty percent. Mr. Gereaux: We will be back, if we can, at the next... at the planning agenda meeting in two weeks, with our recommendations with alternatives, and our recommendations. Mayor Suarers Subject to that modification, and the final numbers, the motion is made and seconded. Call the roll. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 88-165 A NOTION DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE THREE REAL PROPERTY REIMBURSEMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR THE CITY COMMISSION'S CONSIDERATION WITH RESPECT TO THE CITY'S INTENDED DISPOSITION OF THREE PARCELS OF PUBLICLY OWNED PROPERTY TO AMERICAN FINANCIAL CORPORATION INTERNATIONAL, INC., CODEC, INC. AND ST. JOHN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, SAID RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REIMBURSEMENT ALTERNATIVES FOR EACH PROJECT SITE DISPOSITION TO RANGE FROM 50% REIMBURSEMENT TO 100% REIMBURSEMENT TO THE CITY. 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. 60. GRANT REQUEST BY THE EXOTIC AND SPORTS CAR SHOW FOR WAIVER OF RENTAL FEES AT COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER IN EXCHANGE FOR A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF GROSS (SEE LABEL 73). Mayor Suarez: Item 68. Mr. Leonardo Mendez: Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission. We are here before the Commission today requesting financial assistance in the form of direct advertising and promotional expenditures, and also for a waiver of the rental fees and costs associated with the rental and the use of the facility. We are talking about the Coconut Grove Exhibition Center. I was passing around earlier today a brochure that shows exactly what we are trying to accomplish here. The Exotic and Sports Cars Show is the creation of Mr. Enrique Kogan, who is the publisher and editor of Auto Mundo Magazine. It is the only Spanish language magazine published in the United States, right here out of Miami. The idea... Mayor Suarez: Leo, is this a for -profit entity? 142 February 18. 1988 Mr. Mendez: Eventually, it will be. Mayor Suarez: Well, I don't mean that it will actually make a profit, or anything. Is it structured as a for -profit. it is not a non... Mr. Mendez: Tea, it is not a charity, and it is not a nonprofit corporation. It is a for -profit entity. Mayor Suarez: And what would you want the City to do? Mr. Mendez: We are asking the City... Mayor Suarez: Other than give you the blessing, and send you away and tell you to do well, and sell many cars, and... Mr. Mendez: We are asking the City to help us financially, obviously, and to help us with the use of the facility, especially, in the early stages. This Is the first time ever that a show of this nature, is my understanding, is going to be held anywhere on this hemisphere. I think there is only one additional show, of this nature, that is help in Europe. The South Florida auto show that I believe everybody is very familiar with, is basically the type of show that prings in your average day-to-day automobile, which is geared to families and things of that nature. What we are trying to do here Is put together a show that will bring to Miami, to exhibit the exotic and the highly unique and unusual, and the very advanced sports cars that are out there in the industry. Mr. Plummer: Look, very simply, you are asking the City to subsidize you. What does the City get back? Mr. Mendez: Well, we are planning... our hopes are that this show will be held annually at this facility and if you will realize that the last show that was held by the City of Miami Beach, at their convention center, drew in approximately half a million visitors and that is not counting the exhibitors and the all the participants and all the manufacturers and national and International, that invested, I don't know how many millions of dollars in the rentals of hotels, and you know, that money eventually trickles down. Mr. Plummer: Are you willing to sign a two year contract next year for $30,000, and we waive it the first year? Mr. Mendez: We have not made the projections that far ahead, because, see we don't... the problem with this show is that it doesn't have any track record, doesn't have any kind of history whatsoever. It is in its infancy, and we need to establish it, we need to get this show the name recognition that eventually will give us the ability to pay and afford all the expenditures that we are projecting at this time. Mr. Kogan, would you like to... Mr. Earique Kogan: Good afternoon, my name is Enrique Kogan, I live at 6855 Howard Avenue, Miami Beach. Mr. Plummer, any of our cars, make a research of our cars, I started this magazine. It is the only car magazine in Spanish in the United States right now. I started with only 60 pages, give it to Little Havana, this magazine. Many people know about it. This has all my curriculum, as I said, and you... (OFF MIKE - INAUDIBLE). Mr. Plummer: Are you charging an admission? Mr. Kogan: Yes. Mr. Plummer: How much? Mr. Kogan: Only $5.00, and $2.00 for the children. Mr. Plummer: $25.00 per ticket? Mr. Kogan: No, no, 45.00. Mr. Plummer: $5.007 Mr. Kogan: Right, and $2.00 for children. We are going to give many tickets away. My project for next year, bring all the... 143 February 18, 198E Mr. Plummer: You had to bring my friend, right? Mr. Kogan: Right. Let me ask you something, Mr. Plummer, how do you like this car? You know what kind of car it is? INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mr. Kogan: You don't know, the people don't know. You know what kind of car It is? No. You want to go to the show if you want to see this car, right? Everyone wants to go, OK? That is what I want to show to the people. They want to see exotic cars. They go to the auto show, and they want to see exotic cars, that is what I bring, and the company that makes exotic cars, so they know where they are going to show, so we want to show in Miami is the place to show exotic cars, so you know how much they spend, the companies, they spend a lot of money, so you have to show the first time, that there is going to be nice, you know, good) So... Mr. Plummer: Now about if we do it on a percentage? Mr. Kogan: I beg your pardon? Mr. Plummer: Now about if we do it on a percentage? You are charging $5.00. You say you had a half million people on Miami Beach, lets say you get 100,000 here, that is five... Mr. Kogan: We are not going to have 100,000 the first year. Mr. Plummer: Now many will you have? Mr. Kogan: We are going to spend between twenty-five and fifty, that is my request for money for advertisement, was we are going to have 50,000 people, the first year. Mr. Plummer: All right, 50,000 people at $5.00, is $250,000, correct? Mr. Kogan: Yes, but the car advertisement money that I have to spend, people, policemen... Mr. Plummer: Well, but rental is also one of the expenses. How about if we do it on a ten percent basis? Mr. Eads: Commissioner, there is a couple of other questions we might like to ask. Are you selling exhibit space to people? Mr. Kogan: Well, we sell the space, but very really very cheap, not the price they will have here. Some of the people come free, like the Lamborghini, they bring the car... you know that Chrysler bought a Lamborghini? Mr. Eads: Let me get one... how many spaces do you intend, or how many exhibitors do you expect to have? How many have you sold so far? Mr. Kogan: We have 75 percent of the people here with a collection. We have dealers. Mr. Zeds: How any ... 7 Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager, my ten percent was predicated on his total gross, that includes the rental of the booths, the admissions, everything. Mr. Eads: Yes, sir, my concern is, this event is scheduled for March 3rd... Mr. Kogan: April 12th to 17th, excuse me. Mr. Eads: April 12th to the 17th, that is not a whole lot of time to pull this together. Mr. Plummer: Yes, he said he has got 75 percent of the booths sold. Mr. Kogan: We already started this in September. Mr. Eads: You have 75 percent of the booths sold? 144 February 18, 1988 J Mr. Kogan: Tes, you can call the Collection now, contemporary, most of the dealers. Mr. Eads: now such revenue is that? Mr. Kogan: Not too such money, because we have a lot free. Mostly, it is an advertisement. Mr. Mendez: Let me explain, we've sold the space basically with the promise _ that all the monies that we're getting from the rental fees that we are charging will be invested right back into the advertising that we're going to do for the show. So that's... Mr. Plussmer: Vell, that's why I said, not based on net but based on gross, OKI What you do with your wash is yours. Mayor Suarez: Are they seeking a... Mr. Plummer: If it's 7S thousand and you get 7S thousand, then we get 10 percent of that. Mayor Suarez: Are they seeking a rental waiver, is that the... Mr. Plummer: They're talking about rental waivers and what I'm trying to may, If you want us to rent, to put it on a 10 percent of gross. Mayor Suarez: Sure, that's the best... Mr. Eads: Commissioner, can, can... Mr. Plummer: That's fair. Mayor Suarez: Assuming we do this at all, yes. Mr. Plummer: We take a chance, you take a chance. Mr. Eads: And it's understood they would pay for the out of pocket expenses associated with that, the labor expenses. Mr. Plummer: Such as? Mr. Eads: Police, fire, the direct which is the... Mayor Suarez: We're talking about the rental waiver. Mr. Eads: Tes. Mr. Plummer: All we're talking about bare which they asked for was the rental. And what I'm saying is, that I think it's fair to take and take a 10 percent of gross. And that way, you're taking a chance, we're taking a chance. Mayor Suarez: And that's for one year. Ve don't want you to cone back at the end of one year and say, last year you gave us this deal, we want it again; this is just to get you started. Mr. Plumber: Vhat we want to hear next year is thank you, thank you, thank you. Mr. Enrique Kogan: Thank you. Let me ask you something, can be the S percent for the first year? Mr. Plummer: No, sir. Mr. Kogan: I've spent a lot of stoney already on this. Mr. Plummer: No, sir. Tes. I'll give it to you for S percent; $10,000 up front. Mr. Kogan: That's why I'm coming to ask you for money because I don't have the $10,000 up front. 145 February IS, 1988 Mr. Plummer: Well, you see, you can't have it both ways. Nov, you have faith in your show. We're trying to have faith in you and the show. Mr. Kogan: OK, we're going to give you for 10 percent for this year because you're a very nice person. Mr. Plummer: You negotiate a hell of a good deal. Mr. Kogan: OK, thank you very much. Mr. Plummer: I'll so move that we give them the rental of the auditorium based on a 10 percent of gross. Now gross means that if they get X number of dollars in advertising, that's part of gross. If they turn it back and use it _ in advertising, that's their business. But if they use it, that's net, our figures are off of gross. Mr. Leonardo Mendez: Just to make everything clear, you're talking about gross rental fees that we're able to charge for the space and... Mr. Eads: Gross revenues from everything. Mr. Plummer: You're an awful smart man and gross is very simple. There's no deviating on gross. 'Cross is whatever you take in in total dollars. Mayor Suarez: And Leo, open books, we want to see... Mr. Plummer: Oh, they have to. Mr. Eads: Certified statement. Mr. Plummer: Have to, that's a policy of this Commission. Anybody that gets anything from this Commission has to have a final report in to us within, what, 30 days? Mr. Eads: Thirty days, yes. Mr. Plummer: Thirty days, at your expense, unfortunately. Mr. Walter Colby (Off mike): Ve close at the end of the event. Mr. Plummer: Vhat? Mr. Colby (Off mike): On this type of deal, we close at the end of the event. Mr. Plummer: You get your money at then, but to verify, the books will be 30 percent. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Mr. Plummer: Walter Colby doesn't even look Chinese. Mayor Suarez: Do we have a second? Mr. Plummer: No tickee, no laundry. Mayor Suarez: The motion... Mr. Plummer: The motion is instead of waiving the rental, we'll get 10 percent of gross. We'll do a hell of a lot better. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mr. Kogan: With that, we were also requesting direct financial assistance, is that also... (LAUGHTER) Mr. Mendez: That's my real request, financial assistance for advertisement. We have all the planning for the advertisement here. Mr. Plummer: Boy! 146 February 16, 1988 _ Mayor Suarez: 1,11 have to tell you that since I've been here, this is the first time that we've waived rental of that facility for a for profit operation that I can think of, so I'm not even sure the motion's going to pass. Mr. Kogan: I know maybe you want to be in the open day. The people from Lamborghini when they bring the new truck Lamborghini, $120,000 truck, so you want to be there opening day. Mayor Suarez: Very good, well, maybe we will and maybe we won't. _ Mr. Plummer: , if you don't pay the bill we're going to sequester that damn truck. Mayor Suarez: Tea, I go to enough openings and enough events in this City. Call the roll before we change our minds. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 88-166 A MOTION GRANTING REQUEST BY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EXOTIC AND SPORTS CAR SHOW AND WAIVING THE RENTAL FEE AT COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER (APRIL 12TH THROUGH APRIL 17TH) SUBJECT TO THE CITY GETTING BACK 10% OF THE GROSS REVENUES DERIVED IN CONNECTION WITH THE HOLDING OF SAID EVENT; AND FURTHER SUBJECT TO A CERTIFIED AUDIT BEING PRESENTED TO THE CITY WITHIN 30 DAYS FROM TERMINATION OF SAID EVENT AT THE APPLICANTS' EXPENSE (NOTE: THIS MOTION WAS LATER AMENDED BY MOTION 88-176). Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: _ AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 61. ALLOW SOUTH FLORIDA ORCHID SOCIETY, INC. TO EXCHANGE SUITABLE AND ACCEPTABLE LANDSCAPING FOR RENTAL FEE INVOLVED AT THE COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER (MARCH 19, 1988). Mayor Suarez: Seventy, South Florida Orchid Society. Oh, I see. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, may I suggest that what we have done with this organization before, that we do again. Mayor Suarez: Two more personal appearances and we're out of here. ... what's wrong, there's one more. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): Which one is this? Mayor Suarez: This is seventy. Mr. Plummer: And what that we have done in the past is that the amount of the rental would be deducted back into the landscaping that they would give to the City in the like amount and I would suggest that we do that. It's a beautiful show, it is not for profit and we were the recipient last time of a tremendous amount of stuff from this show. So I would make a suggestion at this time 147 February 18, 1988 that we don't waive the rental but we take back in rental those amounts of monies determined by the administration in which they give us landscaping for like amount. How about that? Mr. Dawkins: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Mr. Plummer: That's what they've done in the past. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll before we change our minds. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-167 A RESOLUTION DECLARING THAT THE FEE TO BE PAID BY THE SOUTH FLORIDA ORCHID SOCIETY, INC. FOR ITS RENTAL OF THE COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER IN MARCH, 1988 SHALL CONSIST OF THE DELIVERY OF $6,000 WORTH OF SUITABLE AND ACCEPTABLE PLANTS FROM THE SOUTH FLORIDA ORCHID SOCIETY, INC. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. Mr. Plummer: And if I find one orchid hanging in Rosario Kennedy's office... Mrs. Kennedy: Let me tell you, I bought some orchids and they're all in bloom and they're beautiful and that's why he's saying that. Mr. Plummer: It's a beautiful show. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Thank you very such. 62. APPROVE REQUEST TO CODESIGNATE A PORTION OF 36TH STREET AS "DESIGN BOULEVARD" AND A PORTION OF N.W. 5TH AVENUE AS "FASHION AVENUE" - SCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING. Mayor Suarez: Tou were vary eloquent today. Item 72 has been withdrawn, item 71 and we've finished personal appearances so we can do this... Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, I had asked William Rios to appear for this board, he's the executive director of the Wynwood Community Economic Development Corporation. He's fairly new on the job, he's had a lot of faith in Wynwood and he needs the City's support. Mr. Plummer: You have 68 to go back to. Mayor Suarez: Anything specific or just general warm embrace type support? Mr. William Rios: No, specific. Mrs. Kennedy: Specific. 148 February 18, 1998 Mr. Rios: Very specific. Mayor Suarez: All right, try us. Mr. William Rios: Since I'm new, we're going to do this the whole way. Mr. Plummer: well, since you're new, remember, you want to grow old gracefully. Mr. Rios: I don't know the meaning of growing old gracefully. Mr. Plummer: Tou're going to learn. Mr. Rios: Mr. Mayor, Commissioners, my name In Hill Rios, I'm the executive director of the wynvood Community Sconomic Development Corporation. The purpose of this presentation today is to effectively arm this Commission with the necessary information to justify a comprehensive effort to assist the redevelopment of the area of Wynwood. The C.D.C. has undertaken a four months study of all the available information that would impact this much needed revitalization plan. The plan would be in concert with current development thinking that it would revolve around a self help initiative. The initiative, or Operation Bootstrap, if you will, would begin the process of a self help economic recovery of the area of Wynwood. In terms of priority, Wynwood's problems have been, and continue to be, the unusually high real and perceived crime image, as evidenced by table 1 of the City's Report on Crime where the City statistics indicate that Wynwood has led all target areas in part 1 crimes for the last seven years. And, in fact, during the first six months of 1987, IS percent of all the rapes in the City of Miami occurred in Wyawood. A major contributor to Wyawood's high crime rate has been its highly transient population as indicated by a 46 percent turnover of new residents within the first five years. This transiency is further evidenced by the high level of rental occupancy as 80 percent of the population of Wynwood is comprised of renters, which again contributes to the area's transiency and high crime levels. These problems, of course, affect negatively the ability of the area to contribute to the City's tax base and impacts negatively on the physical environment of Wynwood. The Fashion District, which has survived the South American economic holocaust and has begun to see a resurgence has suffered greatly from Wynwood's crime image. The needle trades industry in Miami is still the City's single largest potential employer and yet the industry continues to go on relatively ignored even during its heyday when it employed some 28,000 employees. And more importantly, it is the single largest entry level jobs market for immigrants within the City. In spite of this fact and the fact that the City will continue to receive greater numbers of immigrants In the future, very little has been done to help this industry. This labor Intensive natural resource of Wynwood must not continue to go untapped and unrecognized. We are, however, aware of various proposed efforts that have fallen short of their mark to assist this industry. Lack of support for a viable Merchants' Association and reliable information gathering to assist these merchants does not exist. Lack of concerted effort to promote the area and its betterment has also gone immaterialized. Minimal security measures to safeguard shoppers and employees of the district is also lacking. This month alone, there has been a dozen or more reported muggings and injured employees within the district. The crime problem has become so severe the labor shortages are not uncommon within the manufacturing areas. Ironically, there Is a major unorganized labor pool within the immediate area that goes untapped because of the transient nature. On a more positive note, however, during our mission to create a revitalization plan for Wynwood, we discovered a natural creative environment that has been developing within the Wynwood area. As evidenced by the artists that create furniture within the Design District, by the artists that design clothing in the Fashion District and the artists that paint and sculpture within the Bakehouse Art Complex, any plan that we develop should take these values into consideration and by following this belief, we found that we could also include the areas long time resident community, that being the Puerto Rican community which has long been synonymous with the area of Wynwood. Wynwood has been the host to many of the community's social programs and many of the areas businesses cater to the Puerto Rican palate. It became obvious that Wynwood had certain similarities to the colonial city of Old San Juan, such as the great artistic values, the food, the poor housing, transiency and high crime rates. But just as the old city rallied around its artistic virtues to become one of the Caribbean's most desirable and sought after locations, so does Wynwood. Our plan is simple, 149 February 18, 1988 comprehensive, doable and economically feasible. It calls for name changes, name additions, a Merchants' Association and a strategic beautification and landscaping project. These projects would make the area far more desirable to new low income residents, thereby reducing some of the out migration and transient nature of the community. Crime, as well, would be impacted by some of these changes. However, it would be naive to think that any effort to change the transient complacency of this community could be accomplished merely by changing a few names. Therefore, our request also includes several minor beautification efforts, along with related Old San Juan concept signages In the area. It is imperative that we complement and demonstrate the sincerity of our actions with some physical activity. We suggest that these beautification efforts be targeted to the neighborhood commercial area where It could have a greater impact and higher visibility allowing maximization of our credibility within the community. That we, the City of Miami, and Wynwood Community Development Corporation are contributing to the program. In addition, these changes would encourage increased commerce and activity along the local corridors. We believe that by creating a home ownership program in Wynwood, more of its current residents would generate roots in the area. This would also serve to develop a viable and much needed labor pool for the merchants of the Fashion District. This would also affect some of the crime problems facing Wynvood today. To assist the business district interests in the community, we propose several same changes, highlighting and further promoting the specific specialty areas found within Wynwood, such as the Fashion District, the Design District and the Bakehouse Art Complex. The name changes are specifically 36th Street between Biscayne Boulevard and N.W. 5th Avenue to be assigned the co -designation of Design Boulevard. Northwest 5th Avenue, between N.W. 36th Street and N.W. 20th Street to be assigned the co - designation of Fashion Avenue. These changes will serve to initiate an Interest by commercial foot traffic through the Design District, the Bakehouse Art Complex and into the Fashion District and vice versa. It would also provide much needed patronage of the ethnically oriented businesses located along the 2nd Avenue Corridor. We further recommend that a zoning overlay be created along the 5th Avenue from N.W. 36th Street south to N.W. 29th Street to encourage the continued influx of artists into the vicinity of the Bakehouse Art Complex. Our effort to correct some of the problems of Wynwood would not be complete if we did not speak to the issue of crime and our efforts to resolve them. In this regard, we will ask the Commission to favor the participation of the City in the recent State legislation known as the Safe Neighborhoods Act which will provide substantial assistance to the City's neighborhoods in the reduction of crime through environmental design, physical Improvements of streets and legislation that would also be coupled with the benefits of the enterprise zone. Consideration for these issues will be coming before this Commission at the next Commission meeting and correspondence for your information has already been forwarded. I would ask that the Commission undertake these modest recommendations. As Community Development staff has recommended them and they have been overwhelmingly accepted by the community. We further point out that over the last twelve years, Wynwood has received less than 5.5 percent of all available community development funding. Our intent here is to point out, not to antagonize, but to point out that the reasons for blight and current needs, not to make up for Past discrepancies, but to encourage future attention. I will conclude by extending an invitation from Wynwood Community Economic Development Corporation and the Fashion District Merchants' Association for the Commission to visit our midtown Miami Fashion District. See for yourselves the viability of this industry and its important to the City, of Miami. I would like to thank the Commission for this opportunity and I would be happy to field any questions about my presentation or the date of this proposed visit. Thank you. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Bill, you're doing a fine job with that agency and we've had some problems with the C.D.C. in the past and we hope those are behind us. Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Commissioner. Mr. De Yurre: I'd like to bring up, unless we have something to vote on... Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, we do. Mr. De Yurre: We do, OK. 150 February 18, 1988 Mrs. Kennedy: Let me do the easy stuff and move the cc -designation of the streets, from 36th Street between Biscayne Boulevard and N.V. Sth Avenue, to be to -designated as Design Boulevard and N.W. Sth Avenue, between N.V. 36th Street and N.V. 20th Street, to be co -named Fashion Avenue. And I so move. Mr. Dawkins: Second. Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Any discussion? Mr. Plummer (Off mike): I'm sorry, I'm... Mrs. Kennedy (Off mike): The co -designation of the streets. Mayor Suarez: Co -designating the streets to accord with the Fashion District to Vynvood. Mr. Dawkins: Co -designating streets for Puerto Rican leaders. Mr. Plummer (Off and on mike): Well, please, Mr. Mayor, I have no problem, but my God, we must have public hearings to do such. Mrs. Kennedy: OK, yes. Mr. Plummer: Because, you know, you're up here standing here... Mayor Suarez: OK, move it in principle, move it in principle. We'll go through all the proceedings. Mr. Plummer: Move it in principle with public hearings to be held before final decisions. Mayor Suarez: So moved in principle and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 86-168 A MOTION APPROVING IN PRINCIPLE THE CODESIGNATION OF 36 STREET BETWEEN BISCAYNE BOULEVARD AND N.V. 5 AVENUE AS "DESIGN BOULEVARD" AND THE CODESIGNATION OF N.W. 5 AVENUE BETWEEN N.W. 36 STREET AND N.W. 20 STREET AS •FASHION AVENUE"; FURTHER INSTRUCTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO SCHEDULE AND HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING IN CONNECTION WITH THIS MATTER BEFORE FINAL APPROVAL. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES. None. - ABSENT: None. Mayor Suarez: We're going to have to advertise that and we're going to have to take input from the general public. I can't imagine anybody opposing it, but you never know. Mrs. Kennedy: William, for the zoning overlay, what I think that you should do is meet with the City Manager and try to work that out and Mr. Manager, would you get together with him? Mr. Eads: Tea, ma'am, be happy to. 151 February 18, 1968 Mayor Suarez: Anything else? Mr. Rios: i would like a motion on the development of a Merchants' Association for the area. Mr. Plummer: Well that, you don't need our approval, you just start a Merchants' Association. Mayor Suarez: Go sign them up. Mr. Rios: It does if l would like some assistance in funding Mayor Suarez: What? What? Mr. Rios: We... Mrs. Kennedy: Como se dice funding? Mr. Rios: Como se dice funding, dinero. Mr. Plummer: Nov new are you? Mr. Rios: Not as now as you might think. Mr. Plummer: Well, you know, the monies for economic development monies that are given out each year are done in October. I'm sorry, in September, at the first of the year of the budget. And, you know, hey, it's nice, what did Wynwood get this year, Jack? Mr. Dawkins: Frank, what did we give Wynwood, Frank? Mr. Rios: Don't embarrass yourself by asking that. Mr. Dawkins: What did we give the Wynwood Development Corporation? Mr. Plummer: I think they got the same as everybody else, $50,000. Mr. Frank Castaneda: Everybody's getting $50,000 a piece. Mr. Plummer: $50,000. Mr. Dawkins: All right, well... take it easy, I knows it's late in the day, but take it easy. Mr. Plummer: Now, you know, if you're the ones that want to vie for that sooty, that's fine. Mr. Dawkins: Take it easy. No, the $50,000... Mr. Rios: I'm not asking for $50.000 for the Wynwood C.D.C. Mr. Dawkins: Beg your pardon? Mr. Rios: I'm not asking $50,000 for Wynwood C.D.C., I'm asking for start up soney for a Merchants' Association and I would really think that... Mr. Dawkins: Well, what the hell. If you'll let me finish, then I can listen to you. What did you do with the $50,000, then I can find out, you know, what the else we need to give you. Mr. Rios: I'm sorry, I was answering Mr. Plummer's question. Mr. Dawkins: OK, OK, well, you know, what happened to the $50,000? Mr. Rios: Which $50,000, sir? Mr. Dawkins: The $50,000 he say we gave you. Mr. Rios: That's for the Wynwood Community Development Corporation. Mr. Dawkins: All right, and now what do you want now? 152 February 18, 1988 5 Mr. Rios: I'm asking for start-up capital for a Merchants Association - Mr. Dawkins: A Merchants Association. Mr. Rios: Yes, air. Mr. Dawkins: Like how much? Mr. Rios: Like $30,000. Mr. Dawkins: All right, are they going to get $50,000 again? Mr. Castaneda: Yes... Mr. Plummer: That will be decided in September. Mr. Castaneda: No, no, that's decided now, the community development year starts July 1st so he'll be coming in front of you in May, I believe. Mr. Plummer: Tex, but they're going to have to vie, along with the C.D.C.. Mr. Castaneda: Sure. Mr. Plummer: That this Commission knows that we're going to allocate $50,000 to that area. That they want to get in there, they're going to have to fight for that portion which they want because I'm sure the C.D.C.'s going to be in bore fighting for theirs. Mr. Castaneda: Sure and they are the C.D.C. Mr. Dawkins: No, no, he's already - yes, he is the C.D.C. Mr. Plummer: You're now the C.D.C.? Mr. Rios: We are the C.D.C. I think that we're comparing apples and oranges. What I'm talking... Mr. Plummer: Tes, that's good for fruit salad but it's not for money. Mr. Rios: Exactly, and I think that what I'm talking about are two different entities. OK, I'm not even talking about two different entities, I'm talking about one. I'm asking you to help me start a merchants association unrelated to the Vynwood Community Development Corporation. The only association with the Vynwood Community Development Corporation is that I am the executive director and I am willing to go out and try and start a merchants' association. Now, what I'm asking for is not to become part of C.D.'s process for C.D. funding. What I'm asking is for start-up one time, one shot monies to start a serchants association. I'm asking that, excuse me? INAUDIBLE COKKENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mr. Plummer: Thirty. Mr. Rios: It's a project, yes. But it's one time, I'm not planning and I don't think that we need to come back. Mayor Suarez: Now ouch? Mrs. Dawkins: Thirty thousand. Mr. Rios: Thirty thousand dollars, sir. And I'm asking for that money, you know, more than anything else, for research because there is no viable information available to generate a merchants association. We don't know what's out there. Mr. Plummets Why don't you meet with the administration and see what we can do in-house to help you and maybe reduce that number. And possibly, we might be able to subsidize some, but I don't think this Commission is standing in a posture to do $30,000 at this time. Mr. Rios: OK, I would... 153 February 18, 1988 Mr. Plummer: I would say meet with the administration and see if they can help you with some statistics and data base that they already have. Mr. Rios: May I make a counter proposal? Mr. Plummer: May you what? Mr. Rios: Make a counter proposal relative to what you're asking me to do? I would like you to defer the recommendation for me to go to staff until, perhaps, you visit and find out what kind of viability we're talking about in terms of... Mayor Suarez: Well, we wouldn't defer then sending you to staff, I mean... Mr. Rios: Right, so... Mayor Suarez: We do both together. Mr. Rios: Exactly, what I'm... Mr. Dawkins: Now, I think the biggest problem here is, sir, that like J.L. said, you're view. Mr. Rios: Yes, sir. Mr. Dawkins: There's not a person up here does not know what is needed in Vynwood, does not know what's in Vynwood, and is not desirous of helping Vynwood, OK? Everyone of us up here and all of us up here will tell you we'll be the first one to admit that behind Coconut Grove, Vynwood received the least aid from the City of Miami. We realize that, all right? But, there again, we have to have a process with which to do this. You cannot short circuit the process. You have to go through the process so that we can work with you. See, so now when we ask you to go back to staff, we're asking you to go back to staff to come in with the product or the program that we're using. What you're asking us to do, we should have already done. We should have it on file from the people who were previous Vynwood C.D.C. people. It should be on file so that we can know where to start from and not go back and reinvent the wheel. That's all we're asking you. OK? Mr. Rios: Understood. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): At this particular time, I haven't even read the Goddamn thing. Mr. Rios: Understood. Do you have a question? OK, thank you. Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Yes. Mr. Plummer: All right, let me ask a question, I'm sorry, go ahead. Mr. De Yurre: No, go ahead, J.L. Mayor Suarez: Commissioner De Yurre. Mr. Plummer: Go ahead. Mayor Suarez: Everybody's being so courteous now. Mr. De Yurre: No, I just wanted to bring somebody up if you've got someone asked before. Mr. Plummer: All right, I want to ask a question, is Jerry still here? Mr. Mayor, the question I wanted to ask, when we worked with Julio before from Codec we instructed and he agreed to get together with the people from Allapattah, from the Allapattah Association. Jerry, when we spoke and worked with Julio before, one of the things that Commissioner Dawkins vas Instrumental in doing was getting a promise from them that they would work with Allapattah in developing something in Allapattah. Remember that? Mr. Jerry Gereaux: Yes. 154 February 18, 1989 Mr. Plummer: It is my understanding from Allapattah that there's not even beet contact made. That upsets me... Mr. Gereaux: That's surpr... Mr. Plummer: Because Commissioner Dawkins was the one who said, hey, you got to help these people and he said, fine, I'll do it. My understanding, and I want you to follow through on that. Mr. Gereaux: I certainly will. Mr. Plummer: OK? Thank you. Mr. Gereaux: Sure. _ NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, COMMISSIONER PLUMMER INSTRUCTED THE ADMINISTRATION TO FOLLOW THROUGH AND INQUIRE WHETHER JULIO DE QUESADA (CODEC, INC.) EVER WORKED TOGETHER WITH THE ALLAPATTAH GROUP, AS DIRECTED BY THE COMMISSION. Mr. Dawkins: Another thing, Mr. Mayor, before we go further, Mr. Manager, this morning, remember when I told you that Wynwood was one of the areas that are needed to put some of the Community Development, Economic Development funds Into? Will you get with Mr. Rio - I mean, Frank will you get with Mr. Rio and hake sure that the economic development funds, like we're doing on Biscayne Boulevard and in Omni, that a package is put together for him out there? 63. APPROVE REQUEST BY CABLE CHANNEL 43 FOR TELEVISING CITY COMMISSION MEETINGS LIVE, AT NO COST TO THE CITY, WITH CERTAIN PROVISOS. ---- ------------ -------------------------------- Mr. De Yurre: And, Mr. Mayor, I'd like for a moment to bring up Mr. Paco Lopez Borges and Manny Martinez who are representatives of TCI. Mr. Plummer: What number on the agenda? Mr. De Yurre: Two hundred and seventeen. Mr. Plummer: That must be next, right? Mr. De Yurre: It must be next. For a moment, they have a proposal that I think is very interesting for the City and for the residents sitting here with us. Mayor Suarez: Now, Commissioner, you wanted to entertain some proposal that are need to hear on? Mr. Da Yurre: I think it would be rather quickly. Yes, sir. Mr. Paco Lopez Borges: Yes, Mr. Mayor and Commissioners, my name is Paco Lopez Borges and I'm at 1725 S.W. 16th Avenue, Miami, Florida. I'm the president of Teletrade, Inc., that is channel 43 through the TCI system in the whole City of Miami. I come in front of the Mayor and the Commissioner because I need the authorization to televise live, every meeting that the City of Miami have - City Commission meeting have. Mayor Suarez: At our own risk. Mr. Borges: You don't have to pay nothing, we supply the camera, we supply all the system. The only thing is that we need the cable, the back and forth return that I think that the TCI will allow us to do it then. So there will be a very good service to this community to see how the City of Miami Commission is doing and serve this community and each of you will be televised live every time we have a meeting here. Mr. Plummer: That's what we're seared of. Mrs. Kennedy: Can you imagine how long the meetings are going to last? 155 February IS, 1988 Mr. Plummer: Do you promise not to use a vide angle lens? Mayor Suarez: Can you edit selected portions of it? J.L. goes off the deep end and you sort of... Mr. Borges: You better believe it, Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Very good. I have no problem, does anyone in the Commission have any problem with it? Mrs. Kennedy: Let we say this, I think... Mr. Plummer: I have one question - go ahead. Mrs. Kennedy: OK. I think it's a good idea basically because there's a lot of people who would like to attend the meetings but they can't for a number of reasons so it's a way of taking government to them. Mr. Borges: That's right, Commissioner Kennedy. Mr. De Turre: Yell, that's the idea, Mr. Mayor, we've been negotiating for quite a while and when the City can get this free of charge, and bring to the residents that all they have to do is pay their cable TV fee and if... I guess we'll have some people signing up in the near future to get this kind of service, but I think it's something that is very positive for the City, we have open government, people can flick on their TV set and see what's going on and I think it's important that we reach out as much as possible to our constituents and I congratulate these individuals for what they're offering because they're doing it at their own expense, it doesn't cost the City a penny and I think it's a great idea. Mr. Plummer: I have two questions. Mr. Borges: Yes, Commissioner. Mr. Plummer: First of all, am I to assume that there will be no commercials sold? Mr. Borges: No commission at all. Mr. Plummer: No propaganda. Mr. Borges: No propaganda, no commercial at all. Mr. Dawkins: Other than what we're doing. No propaganda but what we're doing. Mr. Borges: That's right. Mr. Plummer: Yell, I like the - no, I like the Latin... Mr. Borges: You're right, Commissioner. Mr. Plummer: No, I like the Latin word better than the English word. It's not advertising, it's propaganda. Mr. Borges: That's right. Mr. Plummer: Second of all, I would want assurances that this would be nothing but a live, direct broadcast. That there would not be any editorializing done nor analysis done by the station. Mr. Borges: That's right, Commissioner. What we're going to do is we put three cameras here and we televise live whatever is going here. Mr. Plummer: OK, but no editorials. Mr. Borges: No. Mr. Plummer: No analysis. 156 February 18, 1988 Mr. Borges: No, sir. Mr. Plummer: It's for the benefit of the public to see and to hear what is going on. Couldn't be better. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): Put J.L.'a number down there where.... Mr. Borges: Thank you very such, Commissioner, I will do that. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, do we need a motion? Commissioner, do you want to make the motion? Mr. De Turre: I'd like to.. Mr. Jack Tanks: Excuse se, Commission. Commission, I'd like to address one thing. Vould they be able to tape it and transmit it live but tape it and show it at another time the same in-house... Mayor Suarez: They'll be taping the entire proceedings. very possibly... Mr. Borges: Tes, we will do that. Mr. Dawkins: Vhen people are home from work, OK? Mayor Suarez: Right. Mr. Plummer: Let we ask another question. This will be a free channel, not a premium. Mr. Borges: Right. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Correct. Mr. De Turre: Mr. Mayor, I'd like - you got anything else? I'd like to move that we accept this proposal and that we start taping our ova Commission meetings. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mr. Plummer: Can I make an amendment to that... Mr. De Yurre: Go ahead. Mr. Plummer: ... which we usually do. I say that we do it on a six month trial basis and then we'll reanalyze after that, after the six months. Mr. Borges: That'll be wonderful. Mr. De Turre: That's fine. Mayor Suarez: OK, an a six month. Representative Luis Morse or state proceedings of the State house on cable? Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): Tea, 17, 17. Mrs. Kennedy: Channel 17 has them. Mayor Suarez: Or selected portions. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: The state proceedings are televised on Channel 17 but they're usually televised, not live, but at late hours. But still... Mayor Suarez: Not simultaneous live? Mr. Plummer: Channel two. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: ... it's no editorializing, no advertising and I think it's a wonderful idea to have this done in the City of Miami also. Mrs. Kennedy: I think it's 11:30 at night. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: I mean they do it for the county also. 157 February 1S, 1986 Mayor Suarez: Well, we've seen the county ones. Mr. Plummer: Well, the county does it and the school board. Mayor Suarez: At their own risk. OK, we have a motion and a second. You're not on, call the roll. The following notion was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 88-169 A MOTION APPROVING A REQUEST RECEIVED FROM CABLE CHANNEL 43 FOR TELEVISING CITY COMMISSION MEETINGS LIVE, AT NO COST TO THE CITY, ON A SIX MONTH TRIAL BASIS; WITH THE PROVISO THAT (A) NO ADVERTISING WILL BE SOLD IN CONNECTION WITH SAID TELEVISING OF MEETINGS AND (B) NO ANALYSES OF MEETINGS OR EDITORIALS WILL FOLLOW SAID PROGRAMS; FURTHER PROVIDING THAT THIS ISSUE WILL BE REEVALUATED AT THE END OF SAID PERIOD. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ASSENT: None. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Thank you very much. Mr. Borges: Thank you, Mayor, and thank you Commissioners for this opportunity. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Thank you. 64. URGE STATE LEGISLATURE TO PLACE MORE IMPORTANCE AND TO ALLOCATE NECESSARY FUNDS FOR RAPE TREATMENT PROGRAMS IN OUR COMMUNITY. Mayor Suarez: Mr. Aaron, let's get quickly through your item, sir. This is, by the may, item 66, but we've finished the personal appearance items and we've had a few withdrawals of the other discussion items, so I can announce those once again, Jack, do you have that list handy? Mr. Jack Reds: Items withdrawn were 65, 72, 73, 74 and 79. Mayor Suares: Ties, of the discussion items, 73, 74, and 79 have been withdrawn except that I know that Joe Wilkins and Company will want to make a statement as to item 74. Mr. Aaron. Mr. Ralph Aaron: OK, my name is Ralph Aaron. I live three blocks from here at 3275 Allamanda Street in Coconut Grove. And the reason I'm here is to address the letter that finally came from the County Commission through a Mr. Sherman Winn who is the chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee that overviews the Metro Department of Human Resources. I first would like to ask, have the Commissioners read this? Have you had a chance to read it? Mr. Plummer: I haven't seen it. Mr. Aaron: Never, never got it, OK. Mayor Suarez: Was that directed to you with copies to us or how did that... 158 February 18, 1988 Mr. Aaron: No, sir, this was directed to: Dear Mayor and Commissioners, and It's signed by Sherman. Mr. Plummer: Received when? Mayor Suarez: When was it dated? Mr. Aaron: It was received three days ago. It was requested by yourself July 23rd by a Representative Cumming. Mr. Plummer: I have not gone through my mail today. Mayor Suarez: I have not seen my copy of it. Mr. Aaron: Nobody now it. Well, let me just may this... Mayor Suarez: If, indeed, I have received a copy of it. Mr. Aaron: OK, I don't want to take up too much of your time because I know you have a long agenda, but let me say this. By way of preamble, in the last _ five years, there have been an average of 234 completed rapes - completed rapes, not attempts to rape, but completed rapes. That's 19 a month. Fortunately in 187, the number dropped to 169, although the incident of rape, according to the Rape Treatment Center, was the highest they ever experienced, _ 1675 cases for 1987. The City of Miami down and that's good, however, if you were to ask, what happens to a rape victim after the initial physical examination, the answer would be that, if the person's over 12 years of age they are examined and dealt with by counselors at the Rape Treatment Center of which there are not enough yet and it's what they call crisis counseling. After one or two visits at the most and in a few cases, a few more visits, they're on their way. If they're under 13 years of age, they fall under the purview of the Children's Intake and Evaluation Center and this came out of - Country Walk a few years ago and that is in the State Attorney's office, Janet Reno's office as an adjunct of her office. Now, unfortunately, you haven't - read this report, but let me kind of precis it for you real fast and then make my comments. According to Dr. Hicks of the head of the Rape Treatment Center, there is now an epidemic of rapes happening to children 11 and under. It's gone up to 57 percent of the number of the cases that they're dealing with and if I may make this comment, which sometimes it could be interpreted as a sensitive comment, on page three of Dr. Hick's section of this two part report that was sent to Sherman Winn, she says, only a few Hispanic patients were coming for help. There has been no appreciable increase in the number of adult Hispanic victims. May I then conclude that even though we have figures of an average of 234 cases a year, that if all these other cases that for other cultural perhaps reasons, other way of thinking, other sociological reasons were added, if these people did come forward for help publicly, that the figure of 234 would be higher per year and the figure of 19 per year would be higher. Right now, that comes to about 7/10ths of a rape a day which, if _ added to female on female and male on male from the prisons, is up to 9/10ths of a rape a day, almost one a day in the City of Miami. I've forgotten the county because I can't get any help from the board of County Commissioners. ® I've just absolutely forgotten them and I'm looking at the second largest community in the metropolitan area, yourselves, where I live. Now, what I'm concerned about in reading this report and it's been corroborated by Mr. Frank Castaneda, your own director of the Department of Community Development and his assistant, Francena Brooks. This does not address the problem that was discussed when I came forward July 23rd and at which time, thank you, - Commissioner Plummer, you had suggested that a representative do come forward to speak and address what is Metro doing by way of rape victim counseling, which includes our women apropros. Now, they procrastinated, they didn't send a rep, they were supposed to be here November the 9th. At the eleventh hour they sent a memo that said that Sherman Winn would like alternative dates, he asked Mr. Odio because he didn't feel it was an item that should be addressed by an ordinary representative but by he, himself, in his capacity of chairman of that subcommittee that overviews the Department of Human Resources. Now, he never showed up. Finally a report was supposed to be forthcoming and I pressured the Department of Community Development who kindly cooperated with me and we sent a letter, or they sent a letter, and finally the report came on the 16th. And here we are on the 19th, they finally got this report which you never got. And in reading it, and this is again... 159 February le, 1988 I J, -- k INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mr. Aaron: ... and the date is December of 187, thank you. Now, let me tell you, the first part tells what the Rape Center does and bottom line is they are a crisis oriented center. Then we get over to the other division and that division In the advocates for victims program and they deal with battered women and children, they deal with safe houses and they deal with rape victims. Let me read you the bottom line statistics, it's their statistics, not mine, I didn't fabricate this. They say that they deal with crisis counseling, that's short term counseling. OK, they say the demand for rape treatment services is secondary in relationship to spouse and child abuse, that's not their highest priority. And listen to this statistic, of the 22 rape cases referred for treatment last year, that's by police and everybody else, up to 22 rape cases referred for treatment, they dealt with 22 rape easesl They've got over a thousand countywide and we've got 234 in one year and they dealt with 22 rape cases on a short term counseling crisis basis. Mayor Suarez: But we don't know where the other cases go in terms of counseling. Mr. Aaron: That's the point, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: We don't know if they go to private, we don't know if they go to psychologists of their own choice. Mr. Aaron: Well, let me, let me... Mayor Suarez: We've been through this, Ralph, with you, you know, and, as always, I can tell you right off the bat the City does not have any real health services that we're involved in. We occasionally spend some monies on care of the aged or child care or food programs that come, you know, from monies that we get from the federal government community development block grant monies. Tou had been particularly concerned about rape situations with youngsters, underage... Mr. Aaron: Any anybody, anybody. Mayor Suarez: Well, but initially, at least when you talked to me was particularly, you know, underage people and... Mr. Aaron: I don't think it was just... Mayor Suarez: ... you know, we're trying to help you. We're trying to explain and work with you to... Mr. Aaron: Look it, can I make some - sir, you've repeated this, can I tell you what my suggestions are? Mayor Suarez: Tes, that what I'm trying to get you to do now. Mr. Aaron: This was preamble, now comes the hard hitting punch line. Mayor Suarez: OK, I was trying to get you to finish the preamble. Mr. Aaron: Because you've got to keep on going. Mayor Suarez: Exactly, I was trying to get you to finish the preamble and tell... Mr. Aaron: Because that's what's most concern, that's the most important. The important thing here is that I think that the City can put on its computer every case of a victim that's a resident of the City of Miami. If you haven't, every property is on computer for the Department of Waste, Solid Waste Management, I think you can do it for the victims in the City of Miami and to find out, through the Department of Community Development... Mayor Suarez: Oh, of course, with their own consent, with their consent, you understand. Mr. Aaron: Absolutely, with their consent. Mayor Suarez: Right. We would have that. 160 February IS, 1988 INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mayor Suarez: We have all that information in the computer. Mr. Aaron: OK, and secondly, this is on computer and I'd like to find out, for example, if my daughter's case is on computer and what has happen... Mayor Suarez: How long ago was it, Ralph? Mr. Aaron: I don't give a damn about how long ago it was. How would you like to know the latest statistics on her? Now about drug overdose, try to kill her... Mayor Suarez: Well, I don't know when our computer program was completed that that takes all of those and has them on, that's why... Mr. Aaron: Well, it doesn't have them on. It doesn't have them on. You're not monitoring the victims and what is being done by the county. Since it's a county band aid what's being done. I would like to see some pressure being put on the county. I can't do it. I've tried. o Mrs. Kennedy: OK, let me Just say something, Ralph, for statistics, do you know that out of the 2,000 rape victims treated at the Rape Treatment Center. Out of 2,000, half were under the age eleven. Mr. Aaron: Fifty-seven percent, it says right in the report. Mrs. Kennedy: Now, let me tell you another thing, I've been meeting with a group of women throughout the community after the article came out on the Rape Treatment Center. You know, sometimes out of bad and out of controversies, some good comes out and as a result of that, the Center has expanded and there's more staffing. Still, you know, that doesn't preclude from keeping the pressure on the county and I think that we should do it. Mr. Aaron: Well, do you think I can do it? Mrs. Kennedy: No, I think that we should do it. You can't do it alone. Mr. Aaron: How do you think that we should do it, Commissioner? Mrs. Kennedy: We can do it by calling the Commissioners, the Mayor, keep getting money. You cannot do it alone and I can understand that. Mr. Aaron: I can't do it period. I've gone through this, I've fought them for almost seven years. My daughter attempted rape on January the 21st and she attempted rape last - rape, what am I saying - she attempted suicide on the 21st of January, I won't tell you how. She tried it on May the 27th, that was pretty gruesome and it goes back, a history of suicide caused by a sultiple rape. And what did the county do? They abandoned the case. And what are they doing for other people? How many people case forward who are as direct action oriented as myself who say, we want some answerability. This Isn't answerability, Mr. Frank Castaneda agrees with me that they did not direct themselves to the problem. Now about Mr. Winn coming forward? How = about Mr. Winn coming forward? After all, let's protect our women. Let's take that posture, let's take that position, let's ask him to case forward and let's ask him a few questions. What's happening after they get rid of them? After they dump them off to a community mental health facility off in Homestead or somewhere and they see them once or twice on the part of a social work counselor and them all of a sudden, the persons adrift. Let's forget the ones who don't want to be involved. There are people who do, the next of kin, the family and there are some people who do want help. And what help is forthcoming? What psychiatric help, what psychological help, forget the social workers. Mayor Suarez: Thank you for your presentation. Mr. Aaron: Well, I haven't got an answer from anybody. Mrs. Kennedy: Well... 161 February IS, 1988 �71 Mayor Suarez: Vell, because in a sense you came to the wrong forum. I mean, Sherman Winn does not sit on this Commission. Mr. Plummer: Well... Mr. Aaron: No, no, no, you're the ones who put the pressure on. Mrs. Kennedy: We can call him. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor... Mr. Aaron: You're absolutely wrong. Mr. Plummer: I have met with Mr. Aaron and I have suggested to him in the past, I'm going to suggest again, whatever input this Commission can do needs to be done. There is a crying need, basically the Rape Treatment Center does not treat, they make an establishment of whether there was a rape or not and that's really unfortunately about the only thing that they do. Now, HRS is a state function. The reason we read, if it's true, is that they are inadequate In staff, they are inadequate in facilities, they don't have the monies and I would say that for to have Sherman Winn come here, he's going to basically say to you, what we don't do is because of the monies we don't have. I would say that this Commission could help in this matter more so by putting pressure on MRS in Tallahassee to try to get more funding down here and then we can hold them accountable because they cannot use the excuse, we don't have the funds. So, I would say that it would be we would inform our lobbyist that they do something in the area of the Rape Treatment Center for Dade County which is, as they say, a crisis outfit and try to get more funding down here with line Items for what that money is to be going for. Mrs. Kennedy: And I tell you that I will personally go to Tallahassee and lobby for this cause. Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain that in the form of a motion. Mrs. Kennedy: And I so move it. Mr. Plummer: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 88-170 A MOTION DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO PVT PRESSURE ON OUR LOBBYISTS IN TALLAHASSEE IN ORDER TO URGE THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO PLACE MORE IMPORTANCE AND ALLOCATE THE NECESSARY MONIES TO FUND RAPE TREATMENT PROGRAMS IN OUR COMMUNITY. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion 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. 162 February 18, 1986 0 0 -----------N-----------------��__�------ 65. DISCUSS AND CONTINUE STATUS OF CLAUGHTON ISLAND HOUSING PROJECT (LOCATED NEAR VIZCAYA METRORAIL STATION) TO THE FEBRUARY 25, 1986 AGENDA. Mayor Suarez: Item 74, we're hearing from basically from opponents who want us not to delay a decision, not a make a decision. Mr. Joe Wilkins: Just want set the date our case. My name is Joe Wilkins, I represent the Miami Roads Civic Association, many of whose members showed up here this evening as we saw earlier. Mayor Suarez: Can I have another show of hands to see how many people were able to last out these proceedings? Mr. Wilkins: Looks good. Mayor Suarez: That's what happens when you get a community organized, Joe. Mr. Wilkins: I've spoken with all of these people and many more who are not In attendance today and •any who have left who were here earlier and they're not here. Needless to say, the number of people and these people are from all areas of the Roads, we have people from 15th Road, from 9th Avenue, this is not just an issue which is centered around the Metrorail Station. This concerns our whole neighborhood. Our members have expressed an overwhelming concern about this project, a concern which again extends throughout our entire neighborhood. The most common, perhaps the kindest feeling expressed was that this project just lacks a fundamental common sense in the planing of this project. The selection of this site for low income housing is out of context for this area and it is an insult to the parts of the City, such as perhaps, Park/West where such a project is needed and where the area would benefit from such a project. The rezoning of this property was a mistake that occurred prior to the formation of our association and still met with formidable opposition from the residents. This rezoning allows for an Increase in density absolutely unacceptable in our single family neighborhood. The possibility of a 13-floor structure of any income housing threatens to destroy the character of our area. The traffic increase brought about by such a project would add to the already intolerable situation created by the new... Mayor Suarez: Let me ask a question about that. Mr. Wilkins: Certainly. Mayor Suarez: In the vicinity of this site, let's say within half a mile radius, Sergio, what would be the largest structure of multifamily residences In that area? Because I don't remember anything beyond what, four or five stories. Mr. Wilkins: Four or five at the most. Mr. Plummer: Third Avenue and 29th or 30th Road. Mr. Wilkins: On Coral Way itself, on Coral Way or perhaps on Brickell. Mr. Plummer: Tex, but that's about six or seven floors. Mayor Suarez: I mean, this will be like the Washington Monument in that area. Is there anything anywhere close to this? Mr. Wilkins: That's too honorable a description, but... yes, it's a large project. Mayor Suarez: In terms of height. Mr. Sergio Rodriguez: Tou're talking about the eight story height or the thirteen story high? Mr. Wilkins: Thirteen. Mrs. Kennedy: Thirteen. 163 February IS, 1998 Mr. Rodriguez: It will be the highest in this area. Mayor Suarez: Well, I know that but, I mean, what's the second highest in that area? Mrs. Kennedy: Where else? Mr. Rodriguez: The closest will be, it's an office building, and it's the old Terremark building that was in Coral... Mayor Suarez: Residential? Mr. Rodriguez: Residential, I don't recall anything close to this area. Mayor Suarez: because on Coral Way, you can obviously put something fairly high. Mr. Wilkins: Ten. Mr. Rodriguez: I will say probably from memory, when you go beyond Dixie Mighway on the other side, you will find the brickell area where you have very tall buildings, but It's a completely different neighborhood than this. Mayor Suarez: Yes, that's not really the area I was thinking about. So, we're talking four or five stories typically as the highest that I've seen in that area. OK, I'm sorry. Mr. Wilkins: And that is relatively acceptable. The traffic increase to be caused by this project would add to the already intolerable situation which has been created by the new I-95 exits, the Metrorail Station itself, the Rickenbacker alleged Lvprovements and the development along 8rickell and Coral Way. Our association is already working to deal with problem of minimizing the impact of the already existing traffic. A project on the scale proposed would also create an abominable complication to the parking problem in the 32nd Road area. We would have hoped that the Planning Department would have studied the project, but so far, we've been able to obtain no information of any type of study of the impact of this project in our area. We have not seen such a study. We need to also remember that this property is located not only at the cornerstone of our neighborhood, but also at the gateway to the palace of Vizcaya and to our Museum of Science. Any structure permitted in this area must be in keeping with the unique scale, style, and beauty of the area in order to best benefit not only our residents, but also the tourists and all the residents of Dade County which use these facilities. The plans which were described by the developer at the January 14th meeting were for a 13 floor building and the developer described that he had, quote, trimmed everything he could from the building which does not lead us to believe that we are dealing with a high quality structure here. Our association was formed to meet the needs of our residents, such as more parks, better beautification, more security, etcetera better solving the problems of traffic and parking. The project, as described, meets none of these needs and only adds to our existing problems. We hope that if the City feels the need to have the developer meet his financial obligations with regards to Claughton Island, that it will consider redirecting this project to an area which can benefit from it. we are willing to work with the City to try and find a use for the property as it 1s which will best serve the needs of our neighborhood and all the residents and tourists of Dade County. Thank you. Mayor Suarez: Does that conclude the presentation on behalf of the citizens? Do you want to make an additional statement? Mr. John Guineas: Tea, just a brief one, my name is John Guineas. I live at 125 S.W. 25th Road and one of the problems which led to the formation of a neighborhood association is the problem with information. We just don't get enough, we get it too late. The original project went through some 12 years ago... Mr. Plummer: The original project? Mayor Suarez: Well, the commitment, the commitment. 164 February IS, 1988 Mr. Guineas: The original deal, the original deal, I'm sorry, the original Claughton Island deal... Mayor Suarez: The commitment really. Mr. Guineas: ... went through about 12 years ago, is that not right? Mayor Suarez: Well, as far as the information, John, we should be able to solve that in terms of what is contemplated for there, at least to the extent that we know. Mr. Guineas: All right, the further problem... Mayor Suarez: I mean, any one of you can get through to, well, any Commissioner's office but you can certainly get through to my office and the office right next to mine is Herb Bailey's and he probably knows as much about this as anybody, so we'll walk you over there and we'll... Mr. Guineas: The problem is dissemination - right. The association exists... Mr. Plummer (Off mike): What's he talking about 12 years... Mayor Suarez: The initial commitment for housing. Mr. Plummer: Oh, oh, oh, OK, all right. Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry, go ahead, John. Mr. Guineas: In order to disseminate this information, all of this has gone through with very little public comment until fairly recently the association was formed a year ago and this is the purpose... Mayor Suarez: No, no, no, no. Let me correct you on that, there's been no determination made actually by this Commission since a little bit over a year ago, about a year and a half ago, I guess. Mr. Guineas: When the zoning... Mayor Suarez: At which time, and before that, when we actually allocated the monies for these projects and entered into an agreement we thought to build these three projects. At which time, there was an incredible amount of discussion and documentation put into the public record. Then we had the rezoning, at which time again, there was quite a bit of discussion and since then, this Commission has not yet acted. I want to clarify for the neighbors, we have not yet acted on this. At this point, it is a stalled project, there's different ideas being proposed. We don't really know exactly what the package might look like so I don't want you to feel that you know a lot less than we do because we don't know too such about what might be done there. We know what was approved before and we know that you don't like what was approved before. God knows, maybe we can go back... Mr. Guineas: And we'd like to have a voice in what comes next. Mayor Suarez: Well, you're doing that and very, very ably, I might add. Mr. Guineas: OK, well, thank you. Mayor Suarez: Nothing else? The rest of it you give it to me on Sunday at St. Peter and Paul, right? Mr. Guineas: That's right. Mayor Suarez: OK. INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mayor Suarez: St. Kieran's now. OK, well I'll have to avoid St. Kieran's for a couple of weekends. All right. Yes, ma'am. Ms. Diane Cidro: Good evening, my names Diane Cidro, I live at 228 S.W. 31st Road and I just have a comment about the lack of information. Eighteen months ago when this was passed, I wasn't sure if it was 16 months or a year, it's a 165 February 18, 1988 year or so, my husband and I were here along with almost a hundred other people who live in the area. At that time, we were informed by mail and we got together, we didn't have an association like we do now and we were Informed, we got together, we opposed this project at that time even though at that time you did approve it. What I'm asking now is, no, not you, OK - vent to St. Peter and Paul, by the way, when he was a kid. What I'd like to know Is why weren't we informed in January that this was coming up again? Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Inaudible. Mayor Suarez: We haven't acted yet. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): There's been no action by this Commission, a lot of discussion, but no action. Mayor Suarez: We're trying to figure out what to do and we haven't made any determination whatsoever. No. Cidro: because there are a lot of other people who were here at that time — who don't know we're even here this evening. I mean, they're not members of the - they live on the other side of 32nd Road and so... Mr. Plummer: This is scheduled to come back when, Mr. Bads? Mr. Jack Eads: A week from today. Mr. Plummer: A week from today. I would suggest, a week from today, we meet on next Thursday, that's right, damn, that close to the Grand Prix. I would suggest that Mr. Sergio Rodriguez who likes to have town hail meetings call a town ball meeting for next Tuesday around 7:00 o'clock in the evening to go and take with him all of the information that we have had up to this point and give it to those people so that when they come back here on Thursday to hear this presentation, they will be informed. Now, I want to be very honest with you, that there's just not a lot of information that we are, Commissioners are privileged to as I have said before, we've had a lot of conversation what could or could not happen, what may or may not happen, but we've not made a decision in any way, shape, or form at this point. Ms. Cidro: Well, one... Mr. Plummer: but I think you're entitled to information. Ms. Cidro: Well, one thing we do have. I can only pull this from memory because, well I've lived on that street for 30 years, but originally when Vizcaya Station was built and the rezoning proposal was made, that whole area, the highest density there was to be townhouses in that whole area of Vizcaya Station. Mr. Plummer: You man that's when the Rapid Transit was built. Ms. Cidro: Tes. Mr. Pluwatmer: That was in the corridors around the Rapid Transit, no question. No. Cidro: That's correct, so all of that was to be no more than townhouses. Then this proposal came up for this building, what I understand a year ago what was passed was seven stories. Mr. Plummer: Eight, as I recall. Ms. Cidro: Eight. Now, all of a sudden, it's thirteen. I mean, you know, It's getting bigger. Mr. Rodriguez: May I say something on the record? For the meeting that you are suggesting we have on the 23rd, I want to make clear that we haven't received any plans from the original applicant for any changes to go from eight to thirteen. All of this is like you're hearing hearsay. The only thing that we can do through that meeting, unless we receive additional Information, is to explain to the people from the area what's approved in the zoning at the time it was approved two or three years ago, and that... 166 February 18, 1986 Mrs. Kennedy: Teo, Sergio, because a lot of them didn't get to come and are not familiar with it. Mr. Rodriguez: There were a lot of people in those hearings, it was... Mr. Plummer: They were not here at January 14th meeting... Mrs. Kennedy: Some of them were not. Mr. Plummer: No, that's different, yes. Mr. Plummer: They were not here for the other meetings. Mr. Rodriguez: Sure. Mr. Plummer: All I'm saying is that you go there and anybody that's Interested can show up... Mr. Rodriguez: Sure. Mr. Plummer: And that you inform them and bring them up to speed as much as we are today. That's all I'm saying. And have the meeting here at City Hall. Ms. Cidro: Excuse me, Mr. Commissioner, don't you ordinarily have your staff Instruct developers to meet with the neighborhood residents and present their proposal and try to get the neighbors... Mr. Plummer: Tes, ma'am. Ms. Cidro: ... to go along with the project and say, oh boy, that's pretty, yes, that'll be nice in there. Mr. Plummer: But we've not... the point we're trying to make to you is that we don't know what proposal they're coming with. Ms. Cidro: Well, we don't even know who they are. They've never come to us and said, wouldn't you like to have this in your neighborhood? Mr. Plummer: That's why I'm suggesting the meeting on Tuesday. Ms. Cidro: Will they be there? Mr. Plummer: Excuse me? INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mr. Plummer: That's their choice, they can or cannot. All I'm asking is that you be brought up to speed as what we are today. INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mr. Plummer: Sure, you can have questions of Sergio and he can answer your questions. Like I just asked him of one question. Where you've gone from eight floors to thirteen floors, does it require another public hearing as to another, because I thought there was a height variance. Now, he's informing me that he doesn't think that that's the case because of the - it's the setbacks on the side rather than the height variance which is the prevailing factor. OK? Mr. Rodriguez: Teo, like my understanding, if I may, on this is that the applicant or the owner of the property or the developer claims that by going to a 13 story high building, they will not need any variances because they can make a smaller, thinner, you know, skinnier building and that way, they can nova back from the setbacks from the other, but we don't know. Right. Mr. Plummer: But that's what I want you to go to that meeting and tell them... Mr. Rodriguez: We can tell you that we can... Mr. Plummer: How it went from an eight to a thirteen. ; 167 February 18, 1988 i 9 Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, the idea is to show them - right - yes. Mr. Rodriguez: Sure. Mr. Plummer: Now all of these things came about so they'll be informed. They're entitled to that. Mr. Rodriguez: We will also mention it to the applicants if they want to come, you know, they will be invited to attend and we will notify them. It will be on the 23rd and it will be held in this room at 6:00 P.M. Ms. Cidro: No. INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. Mr. Rodriguez: Earlier? UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): Seven. Mr. Rodriguez: Seven p.m. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (OFF MIKE): Seven. Mr. Rodriguez: Seven P.M. So we'll be here on the 23rd at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday. We will invite the developer. DISCUSSION Mrs. Kennedy: before you all leave, let me just make a very quick pitch, I see a lot of women in the audience. I made it earlier, I'm asking for volunteers and I've got six so hopefully I can get a bunch more. Commissioners Sally Hayman from North Miami Beach, Natasha Milian from Hialeah and myself have created a task force for wellness, Womens' Task Force for Wellness. The reason being that breast cancer is the highest cancer death among women and we feel by informing them, not only can you prevent death but a lot of unnecessary surgery. What I need you for is we're launching a two - month campaign. I've written letters to all the area hospitals to do mammograms for only $50.00 instead of the $125.00 or $150.00 charge. Fifteen have already agreed, so we're going to meet here on March the 7th at 5:00 o'clock and we're going to go to the American Cancer Society and man the phones so that women can call and we give them information as to where to go. If you could call Thelma Edwards in my office, she'll give you the rest of the Information. I really appreciate it. NOTE FOR THE RECORD: VICE MAYOR KENNEDY ASKED FOR VOLUNTEERS TO CREATE THE TASK FORCE FOR WELLNESS (BREAST CANCER DETECTION AWARENESS PROJECT). Mr. Rodriguez: So again, the meeting will be held, there will be a town hall seating here on the 23rd at 7:00 p.m. and then you're also mentioning that you would like to bear this item again on the 25th, it's not on the agenda. Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Mr. lads just said that we were going to hear the... Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, he said it was... Mr. lads: Yes, we asked today that it be deferred till next Thursday. Mr. Plummer: Until the 25th, so it will be on the agenda. Mr. Eads: Yes. Mr. Rodriguez: OK, so it will be on the agenda on the 25th. Mr. Plummer: And make sure that all these people, as well as the people who attend the town hall meeting, are aware that it's on the 25th. Mr. Rodriguez: Right. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): And the individuals who left here earlier should know It's on the 25th. 168 February 1$, 1988 e 6 Mr. Rodriguez: You're aware you have a full agenda that day already. Mr. Plummer: OK. Mr. Wilkins: Thank you. Ms. Cidro: Thank you very such. Mrs. Kennedy: Thank you. Mayor Suarez: OK, we have what is really an emergency item and that is the parking, I'm sorry, we have - let's do 76, 76, I'm sorry, that's as much of an emergency as anything, St. John's Economic Development. I think we've pretty such told you which way we're heading but let's see what else is there is to... and then, we're going to take up the parking scheme. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, just for the record, if you're going to take up the parking, you've got a hell of a lot more documentation to bring me or I'll Invoke the rule. I have nothing in the form of a lease, I have nothing in the form of a commitment from Off -Street Parking Authority. Mayor Suarez: Because we're not at the stage of a lease yet. Mr. Plummer: Sure, we're at a stage of a lease. Mayor Suarez: Well, then they'll be able to explain that to us, I mean, if... Mr. Plummer: They have a commitment on the record of a return to the City. I don't have any of that in my possession. So if you want to discuss it without me invoking the rule, you'd better get whatever documents you have to me. Mayor Suarez: Well, try to satisfy yourself because if you invoke the rule I'll call a special session, I want to get this resolved tonight one way or the other. 66. ADMINISTRATION DIRECTED TO IDENTIFY AND ALLOCATE $60,000 TO ST. JOHN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION REGARDING THEIR PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF LOTS 10 AND 11 IN OVERTOWN. Mayor Suarez: OK, item 76. Ms. Vivian Brian: Well, we understand your position and we have a proposal that you would consider the scenarios that we have presented to you and provide us with the land at 20 percent of land cost. Our situation is a little bit different from Codec in that land costs a whole lot more and we're dealing with an area that's a lot sore depressed in Overtown. Our units would cost, at SO percent land cost, $57,000 because the City paid $10,000 for the land. So we would like for you to consider providing the land to us at a lower rate at the 20 percent land cost and also working to see if there's some way that that might be deferred so that we would be able to provide a product to... Mayor Suarez: Tou said twenty percent? Ms. Brian: Right. Mayor Suarez: Twenty percent return, is that what you mean on the value of the land? Ms. Brian: And also defer it in some way. Mayor Suarez: And defer it. Mr. Plummer: I, I told... Ms. Brian: Well, that's what was considered for Codec that you would... it would be a lien on the property. 169 February IS, 1988 i Mayor Suarez: Except the lowest figure I heard on that one vas 60 percent... Mr. Plummer: Yes. Mayor Suarez: ... and that one was not acted on, it was Commissioner Dawkins'. But I understand you have greater need and higher land costs. No. Brian: And your Overtown area, you know, is an area that's been targeted for special treatment and... Mayor Suarez: Defined under state law as slum and blighted and everything else. We certainly need to bend over backwards to try to improve it. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, how would this differ from the other projects that we spoke about? I mean, we're going to develop alternatives and then we will choose from those alternatives. Mayor Suarez: Except that maybe they want some indication from us which alternative we would choose in this case because you think that you're going to need that to be competitive for surtax. No. Brian: We are sad we need it by April let, that's the problem, we... Mr. Plummer: They're coming back at the next meeting which is next week, next Thursday. Ms. Brian: OK, that wasn't my understanding. Mayor Suarez: I'll tell you this, for myself, one vote. Let me put it on the record, let me tell the reasons why. In this particular case, I would go for zero percent. In other words, I would want to give you the land, the reason being Overtown/Park West itself has been a dream of I don't know how many years standing and still we haven't put one brick. The area in question is clearly the most needy. We've heard about Wynwood today and Wynwood has a high percentage of rental, but I'm sure it doesn't exceed Overtown in case anybody's able to even count Overtown which hasn't been done accurately by any kind of a census since I've been around and to me, it would be by way of almost like a pilot project. We just did that and I believe, did we not, Jerry or Herb, for the single family lots in the Liberty City area, didn't we do those on a zero percent return on the land? Mr. Gereaux: No. Mayor Suarez: What did we do that? Mr. Gereaux: We're saying like something... Mayor Suarez: We haven't decided yet on that either. Mr. Gareaux: $7,200 per unit to the land. Mayor Suarez: Are we postponing that decision too as we've been doing on these? Mr. Gereaux: That decision was already made. Mayor Suarez: OK. In any event, for myself, this is just that crucial. Your group is a very well organized one in an area that we haven't had any organization of this sort since I've been around and I think you're on track to do some good things there and from my perspective, if we could call it a pilot project so that other people don't think they're going to get that low a percentage, that's where I would be trying to push this Commission. Everybody will have their view and we'll hopefully reach a compromise, but maybe that will be done along with the next... Mr. Dawkins: Where is the guy from Off -Street Parking? Jack. Mayor Suarez: Jack Mulvena, here he is. Mr. Dawkins: May I see you a minute. I'm going to tell you, I'm going to be voting no. Because if you give one person free land, you're going to open the floodgates for everybody and as much as I am with you, it's just that there's 170 February 18, 1988 certain things that you just shouldn't do. Nov Jack, when this is the area that will be impacted by the parking and you're going to use three plats for parking, is that right? Mr. Plummer: Four. Mr. Jack Mulvena: You're referring to the four city blocks west of the Metromover? Mr. Dawkins: I wouldn't give a damn where they... for parking... Mayor Suarez: For the Sports Arena. Mr. Dawkins: For the Sports Arena. Mr. Mulvens: Yes, OK, yes, we're... Mr. Dawkins: Nov many, how many? Mayor Suarez: Now many lots altogether? Mr. Mulvena: Your city blocks. Mr. Dawkins: Your city blocks, OK? Mr. Mulvena: Right. Mr. Dawkins: How such are you planning to pay the City rent for those blocks? Mr. Mulvena: Well, we've already secured $150,000 in right of way for the expansion of N.W. 1st Avenue. That's going to go towards it. But we're also going to, after expenses, give the City 85 percent of the profits and the Department of Off -Street Parking had intended to keep 15 percent of the profits. Mr. Dawkins: All right, what would you project 85 percent of the profits to be? Mr. Mulvena: That would... Mr. Dawkins: Just a projection. Mr. Plummer: For the first five years, nothing. Mr. Mulvena: No, that's not true. Over the five years... Mr. Plummer: You're saying profits, are you speaking bef... Mr. Mulvena: Profits, yes, I'm sorry. Mr. Dawkins: Jack, Jack, number one, Jack number two, hold off a minute. Mr. Mulvena: OK, all right. Mr. Plummer: OK. Mr. Dawkins: OK, go ahead. Mr. Mulvena: All right, let me... it depends on how much we are required to put into the four blocks as to how much profit we can get back from the four blocks. If we put $1,000,000 into the four blocks, then we will get less profit. If we put 4300,000 in with, you know, less upscale blocks, the profit will be measurably increased. Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, all of us sit up here and say that we're desirous of helping St. John. Is it anyway we Could pre... you could prepay us or we could take from our fund, $60,000 and give to this firm, because I'm not giving up no land, OK? But is it anyway we could take $60,000 and make a grant to them since everybody up here say they're desirous of helping and all and give them $60,000 and let them go on with the plan. Could we prepay - you prepay it or something? 171 February 18, 1988 Mr. Mulvena: Veil, so tar, J.L. who has been a part of indirectly through the negotiation, has allowed us to set other things aside, like the right of way, so I don't see any reason why there would be an objection to participate in this as a set aside. Mr. Dawkins: It can be done, right? All right. Mr. Mulvena: It can be done, yes. Mr. Dawkins: Now comes the hard part. Vho's in charge over there? Vould $60,000 in the kitty now make this project go tomorrow morning? Ms. Brian: $60,000 would go a long way toward... Mr. Dawkins: No, Salem, see, you just like my wife, you're evading the answer. No. Brian: Let's just do some numbers. Mr. Dawkins: OK, take your time. Ms. Brian: OK. Mr. Plummer: Miller says his bank account is SO/SO with his wife. He puts it In, she takes it out. Ms. Brian: Well, we really need the $100.000 because the project still is not - the land just costs so such that it's still not feasible. - Mr. Dawkins: All right, then all right, if you want that, we'll do this then... Ms. Brian: Wait, OK, go on. Mr. Dawkins: All right we'll do this, we will loan you, and see, I was going to give you sixty, all right, we'll loan you $100,000 and you pay back... pay a $100,000 back. Mr. Plummer: Say that one again. Mr. Dawkins: We were going to try to give them $60,000, but they say that they need a hundred. Mr. Plummer: Tes. Mr. Dawkins: So it's the same way that the surtax get paid, I'm going to give them $100,000 and they repay it back like the surtax. Mr. Donald Benjamin: Veil, you give us the sixty and lend us forty. Ms. Brian: That's right. Now, that will be great. Give us the sixty and land us forty. Mr. Dawkins: Ott. Mr. Benjamin: Give us sixty and lend us a hundred. Ms. Brian: And lend us forty. Mr. Donald Banjamin: Ve really need... the total land cost is more than $200,000, so if you give us $60.000 and lend us a hundred thousand, we're pretty well on the way. Mr. Dawkins: I don't know where I'm going to get the hundred from. Mr. Benjamin: Oh, I didn't know that, you see... Mr. Dawkins: I mean, why let's do this, let's get the sixty and than we'll worry about where we're going. Mr. Benjamin: OK. 172 February 18, 1988 Mr. Dawkins: Can we do that? Mr. Benjamin: All right. Mr. Dawkins: Let's get the sixty and then if we get the sixty, let's worry about what also we're going to do. Mr. Benjamin: OK, fine. Mr. Dawkins: I would like to move, and I don't like... I move that from the money that we have cooing for the rental or whatever for what we are going to give to the Heats, that we give $60,000 to St. John. Mr. Plummer: No, I don't agree with that. I want St. John's to have it tomorrow because I'm going to tell you something, when you start talking about profit, once, you know, there's no profit until all their amortized costs are going to be out. You're talking about two or three years at best. I would like and I will go along with the Off -Street Parking Authority, the minute this lease is signed, gives them $60,000. Mr. Dawkins: The minute the lease is signed, OK. Mr. Mulvens: If I may, Commissioners I'm... Mr. Dawkins: Which lease now we talking about? Mr. Plummer: Well, that's what, you know... Mr. Dawkins: But see, see... Mr. Plummer: Tau haven't seen the lease nor have I seen the lease and I just found a copy of it. OK, the lease is between the City and the Off -Street Parking Authority about the four parcels involved. Mr. Dawkins: OK, all right, let's do it another way then. All right, I'll sake a substitute motion. Mr. Plummer: No, make whatever motion you want. Mr. Dawkins: You being funny buddy? Mr. Plummer: There's too much of that around here now. Mr. Dawkins: Since the Heat is the cause of this problem, let's see if we can get the Heat to donate $100,000 to St. John since for, for the C.D.C. Mr. Plummer: You know your chances with the Chamber of Commerce? They're less here. Mr. Dawkins: All right, but see... Go ahead, Mr. Bailey. Mr. Herb Bailey: I would just like to remind the Commission that on two of those blocks, they were bought with Urban Mass Transit monies and there is a stipulation that any revenue coming from those blocks has to to back to transportation related activities. Mr. Dawkins: Well then, so... Mr. Herb Bailey: We have two blocks that are not involved, but there are two of the four. Mr. Dawkins: So those two blocks would make up any short falls transportation Is parking automobiles moving is• transportation, the parking of automobiles is transportation so the revenue from those two lots would go back to Off -Street Parking to replenish anything they give us out of the other pot. OK, no problem. Mr. Bailey (Off mike): Right, in fact we got a tram service, you know that. Mr. Dawkins: OK, go ahead, Jack. 173 February 18, 1988 Mr. Mulvena: The other point I'd want to make though is that I wouldn't f etin a position to be able to write a check for $60,000 at the signing lease. All the leases are developed so that we don't begin to share any monby until it's made and clearly, the surface parking lots are not going available until the opening of the arena and I'm not authorized to write a check or even a set aside until we get some money coming back from the surface lots. Mr. Plummer: We baven't even gone over this lease. Mr. Mulvena: I agree with you, yes. Mrs. Kennedy: Jack, when is your next board meeting? Mr. Mulvena: I think it's March 17th although they do hold special board meatings. Mr. Dawkins: Who have you allocated money to from that fund, that surplus money? Who have you allocated money to already? Mr. Plummer: You're talking about the $5,000,000? Mr. Dawkins: Tom, any of it, yes. Why can't we borrow it from the $5,000.000 until you start making money? Mr. Plummer: It's $500,000, I'm sorry. _ Mr. Dawkins: Well, whatever. Why can't he borrow $60,000 from that until you start making money? Mr. Plummer: Because we gave it all out. Mr. Dawkins: Gave it all out... that's what I'm saying, where did we put it? Mr. Plummer: Wynvood. Mr. Mulvena: The $500,000 was given last fiscal year and I think it has been already distributed by the Commission at their wishes. Mr. Dawkins: Do we get $500.000 this fiscal year? Mr. Mulvena: No. Mr. Plummer: Do you want to bet? Mr. Dawkins: What do we get this fiscal year? What do we get this fiscal year? Mr. Mulvena: There isn't any additional surplus funds in the five year plan that was approved. If you'd want to take something out of the five year plan and create surpluses, that's certainly the prerogative of both the board and the Commission. Mayor Suarez: Have you used the amounts that you bad told us you were going to use to buy the property on which you would build the Latin Quarter? Has that closing taken place? Mr. Mulvena: As soon as the environmental impact study is done, it will be closed. Probably within a week. Mayor Suarez: The reason I ask... Mr. Mulvena: Tom. Mayor Suarez: ... is you remember sometime around September of 1967, when I was hoping to use that location for my campaign headquarters and I was told that, no, they were about to close. Mr. Mulvena: Commissioner Kennedy was also going to use it for later on. Mayor Suarez: They were about to close and give it to the City for this project, that's about six months ago and then... 174 February 18, 1988 Mr. Dawkins: OK, I'm going to cut this short, OK? i make a motion that we give $60,000 to St. John. Now we find money up here for everything and every place and soon as it come to certain areas, we start philosophizing and B.S.- ing and what have you, OK? Now, i make a motion that we get it either from there. from C.D. funds or from a contingency fund some place. That's my motion. Mr. Plummer: That's for sixty? Mr. Dawkins: Yes. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Mr. Plummer: And I second it. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. One place to start looking is the upcoming year's surplus, if you're already building a kitty on that, Jack. Mr. De Yurre: Mr. !Mayor, one thing that we can do and maybe we can test our fund raising ability. You know, why doesn't this Commission commit to raising X number of thousands of dollars; a cocktail party and we raise the money for that project. You know, I think if we're talking about 450,000 and we allocate $10,O0O for each one, we can each raise $10,O00. We can have a cocktail party at Ensign Bitters. Mr. Plummer: Huh? Mayor Suarez: You certainly... Mr. Dawkins: We'll have a cocktail party to replace the money we're going to give them from our funds. Mr. De Yurre: OK, how's that? Mayor Suarez: It's certainly welcome to use the terrace upstairs. Mr. Dawkins: That's right, beautiful and wonderful. Mayor Suarez: It's been used in the past to raise monies for other non profit assoc... what are you talking about, Anne Marie? Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): Yes. I agree with you, that's right, we can give it to them and then we raise it. Mayor Suarez: Other non profit associations and you're welcome to use it. Mr. Dawkins: I don't want to wait till we raise it to give it to them, let's give it to them. Mayor Suarez: People pay all kinds of money to be upstairs. Mr. Plummer: Please don't put in the record that we're going to hold a cocktail party. Mr. Dawkins: Why not? Mr. Plummer: On the terrace of the Mayor you're welcome to participate in an attitude adjustment session. But I can just see the Miami Herald tomorrow morning. Oh, my God, De Yurre with his character drawing with a big bottle of champagne. Mayor Suarez: In any event, there's a motion and a second without the additional modifications including character modifications. Mr. De Yurre: I'm on a diet and I'm not drinking nowadays. Mayor Suarez: Anything else on that? Call the roll. 175 February 18, 1988 The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved Its adoption: NOTION NO. 88-171 A NOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO IDENTIFY AND ALLOCATE $60,000 TO THE ST. JOHN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF LOTS 10 AND 11 IN OVERTOWN. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. Mayor Suarez: And we will give you the letter as drafted for the other two projects and help you with the surtax board. Just remind us. Ms. Brian: OK, we also need... Mayor Suarez: Who's the chairperson of the surtax board right now? Mr. Gereaux: Is Bob Gallagher still the chairman? Yes. Mayor Suarez: Bob Gallagher. Ms. Brian: Bob Gallagher, yes, Bob Gallagher. Ms. Brian: We also need the transfer of the site. Mr. Plummer: The what? Mr. Gereaux: I'm sorry. Ms. Brian: The commitment that the site will be transferred; we'll need that In our application to surtax. Mr. Gereaux (Off mike): You'll need... pardon me? He. Brian: We'll need a letter indicating that the site will be transferred. Mr. Gereaux (Off mike): That's what we're talking about, a letter transferring in principle that the Commission wants..... v Mr. Dawkins: That's what we're talking about giving you. r sa Ms. Brian: OK. Mayor Suarez: Right, yes, we basically acted on that when we considered the other two projects. Ms. Brian: OK. Mayor Suarez: OK. i j 176 February IS, 1988 _«. -_---------------------------- - --- - - - ----------------- : 67. LEASE CITY PARKING SPACE TO OFF-STREET PARKING TO SATISFY PARKING REQUIREMENT SY MIAMI HEAT - PROVIDE REPLACEMENT PARKING IF SAID SPACE IS NEEDED WITHIN FIVE TEARS FOR REDEVELOPMENT BY PHASE II OF SOUTHEAST OvERTONN/PARK WEST PROJECT. Mayor Suarez: Are we ready on the NBA? Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez% Tes. Mr. Plummer: I'm not ready. Mayor Suarez% Commissioner Plummer, when are you going to be ready? Mr. Plummer% Let me just ask, has anybody else on this Commission seen this lease? Mayor Suarez: I have seen enough about this project... Mr. Dawkins: No, I haven't seen it but I don't care about it. Mayor Suarez: I have seen enough about this to know that we have to act on this, Commissioner Plummer, like now. Otherwise, we're going to lose the whole thing. Chris Korge, Esq.: Mr. Mayor... Mayor Suarez: I mean, the terms of a lease on land that is not going to be used for the next five years is not my overwhelming concern. Mr. Plummer: My concern, Mr. Mayor, is a commitment by this City over things that we do not control. For example, one of the other factors that bothers me to no end is, how many lots of the private sector? Fifteen hundred to the parking spaces, right, or 3,000? Mr. Dawkins: No, that's ours, 3,000 is theirs. Mr. Korge: No, 3,000. Mr. Plummer: No, on the arena program parking... Mr. Mulvena: Right. Mr. Plummer: Nor many are the lots that are not owned by the City? What is that, 3,000 of the parking spaces? Mr. Mulvena: Approximately 3,000, yes. Mr. Plummers OK. In this lease or in this agreement if those private developers withdraw, this City is obligated to provide that parking. Where the hell are we going to get it? Mayor Suarez: Of course, we're going to provide the parking. Mr. Korge: Mr. Mayor, wait, wait... Mr. Mulvena: There's some other options though before that now. Mr. Korge: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Chris. Mr. Korge: The lease between the City and the Department of Off -Street Parking... Mr. Plummer: Correct. 177 February 18, 19SS Mr. Korge: ... is for a lease of parcels A through D which is approximately 1,600 spaces. At your Commission meeting back on December loth, this Commission passed a resolution authorizing the manager to enter into a five- year use agreement with the Department of Off -Street Parking for those four parcels. Mr. Plummer: Correct. Mr. Korge: Subject to certain conditions. The conditions were that number one, under no circumstances would this affect the development of the Overtown/Park West Development. When that land was ready to be developed, that it would be developed and that the City receive a fair return and last, but not least, that the City receive title before it obviously enters into a lease. The lease that I've given to Commissioner Plummer which has not been executed by the Manager, which the Manager pursuant to your prior resolution has the authority to execute, provided that he determines that it's a fair return, is only for 1.700 spaces. The resolution that's before you right now In a resolution which says that in the event in a five year period, and hopefully those parcels will be developed in year three, that the City is committing to replace the parking for 1,700 spaces, not for 4,500 spaces... Mr. Plummer: Understand. I.. Mr. Korge: ... for those parcels. But before you have to take any real affirmative action, number one, the first place we look to replace the parking would be a state garage which is anticipated and we're right this moment trying to work with the Governor to get a firm commitment to build at least the 1,200 car garage which would just about replace the entire 1,700 spaces. Mr. Plummer: But is not anticipated to be completed until 191... Mr. Korge: That's right. Mr. Plummer: ... the and of 191. Mr. Korge: That's true and we do not... Mr. Plummer: And we know how the state operates, it'll be 192 or 193, which Is the five years. Mr. Korge: But, the problem again, Commissioner... well, they have another problem. They have to because they're using bond money, they have to complete the construction within 3 years and Jack can speak to that in a second. But, the point is that they are presently planning to build and anticipate going out and getting the financing completed within the next few months, so I can't argue whether or not they're going to do that. Mr. Plummer: The question I have still remains. If, for whatever reason, those four parcels become unavailable, where does this City turn? Mr. Korge: The City will first turn to the state garage... Mr. Plummer: That's three year off. Mr. Korge: But, there's a firm commitment in the lease that the parking's going to be available on those four parcels for three years. Mr. Plummer: Is there a commitment to the Off -Street Parking Authority for the use of the arena? Mr. Korge: I'm sorry, I lost you, Commissioner. Mr. Plummer: it's a 1200 car parking garage, is the state willing to commit that they will, in fact, Commit to the arena for the 1,200 spaces? Mr. Mulvena: Tea, as a matter of fact, they're committing to us because we most likely will manage their garage no matter what their site, yes. Mr. Plummer: OK, but that's three years off, OK. Mr. Mulvena: Right. —` 178 February 18, 1988 Mr. Korge: The second place that we will look for replacement spaces and, - again, if any that's in a best case scenario that those parcels get developed In three years would be any other... Mayor Suarez: And, there's another very important condition that most likely will not take place which is that assuming that the NBA still wants us to have 4,500 parking spaces three or four years down the line, I just can't imagine that they would, but go ahead. Mr. Korge: but, again, the second place you would look is for any private or public parking that comes into fruition in the next three or four years that Is not part of the plan and there's an anticipation that certain private, you know, certain individuals will put parking on their land that are close to the arena so that also is a potential source of replacement spaces. Last, but not least, Commissioner Plummer's correct, if all things fail, and if three years from now we have to get off all four parcels, the City would have an obligation pursuant to this resolution, to replace those spaces in some way with the cooperation of the downtown Off -Street Parking Authority. The issue, I think, really is how comfortable do you feel that you're not going to have to go to the 1,700 spaces in three years. Mr. Plummer: We don't know. Mr. Korge: Well, this is what the NBA require. Can, may I also, so you understand what this all about also, the team has a five year probation period essentially from what I've been told. If they do not maintain 4,500 parking spaces for five years, the franchise can be... Mayor Suarez: Or until waived by the NBA. Mr. Korge: Yes, or until waived by the NBA. Mr. De Yurre: Chris, let me ask you something. What's the difference between running out of those parking spaces after the fifth year before the fifth year, physically? Mr. Korge: The difference is just what I told you, right now, in their franchise agreement, that is one of the conditions that they must fulfill... Mr. De Yurre: Yes, but I mean, what is the difference? I mean, like if you still keep operating the same business, the same people keep coming, does it matter whether you run out of space before or after the five years? Mayor Suarez: Oh, they want a five year guarantee, after that... Mr. De Yurre: Well, what happens after five years? Mr. Korge: The NBA has gone even beyond that, they want a ten year guarantee, but we can't even address a ten year guarantee. OK? Mayor Suarez: We hope to get by with a five year guarantee but he's right, I man, if in fact those spaces are needed for the first five years, they'll probably be wanting for us to keep them after the first five years. There's just five years in between that we can try to figure out other schemes, that's all, I man, but... Mr. De Yurre: That part of it doesn't make sense to me. I mean like, there's... _ Mr. Plummer: Well... Mr. De Yurre: ... why put a period of time on space requirement when that need is still going to exist after five years? Mayor Suarez: Well, it may or may not though. It may or may not. Mr. Korge: because the NBA does not essentially have any faith in anything but a firm contractual commitment, what's why. Mr. Plummer: Let me go in the reverse to that, Victor, a problem, OK? What happens if the 4.500 spaces are not used? i 179 February 16, 1986 Mayor Suarez: I am sure they will valve if the conditions are otherwise met. Mr. Plummer: No, no, the point is, I'm talking about from a financial commitment. That's the point I'm trying to make. Mr. Mulvena, what is the Off -Street Parking... you've seen this lease, I assume? Mr. Mulvena: Oh, yes. Mr. Plummer: OK. What is the Off -Street Parking Authority, at this particular juncture, willing to offer this City as a fair return? Mr. Mulvena: OK. We're willing to offer the City the best split of the net revenues of any of the public - well, even the private groups we've dealt with. In other words, the standard fare and all of our other 16 contracts have been after expenses, a split of the net revenues. That went anywhere from 50/50, 60/60, we're offering the City 85/15 which is the very best that we've offered to anybody in the group, and there's only one other that gets that, J.L. Mr. Plummer: All right, is that after expenses or total gross? Mr. Urge: It's after expenses. Mr. Mulvena: It's after expenses. Mr. Plummer: Tou're talking about all of the amortization of the Improvements? Mr. Mulvena: That includes amortization as well, yes. Mr. Plummer: So what we're looking at is for the first three years, we'll get nothing. Mr. Mulvena: Depending on what we put in the upfront construction. Let me address that if I may, J.L. We originally were looking at a five year term and we, therefore, put in a $1,000,000 commitment to bring them up to the DOSP standard. For a three year term, if the City allows for transient parking, we stay cut that back to a different standard. Still excellent parking, still as secure and as well lit as ever, but it will not be up to our usually landscaped, etc. type lot. If that's able to reduce, you will realize a profit and you'll get 85 percent of the split. I mean, it really plays that type of equation. Mr. Korge: On top of that, Commissioner, they have secured for us land which we're using for a 17 foot sidewalk right of way and that land value that they've secured is approximately $150,000. Mr. Plummer: Let see tell you, I sense it's going to pass here this evening. Let me slake a prediction to you. This City will not see a dime back in revenue. It can't be. There is no monies that are going to be available; once you pay to fix those lots up, and once you pay all of the management fee, I'm telling you that this City is not getting back a dime and it's wrong. You see, Mr. Mulvena, I can't find truck with you, but this City would not be in this damn jam if it hadn't have been for the Off -Street Parking Authority, whether through its director or otherwise, staking such a statement and a commitment. And now you're asking to use our property, not give us back a damn dime for the benefit of the NBA. Nov I have no problems to try to accommodate the NBA and I think my work in the past months has shown that. But, damn it, the taxpayers of community are entitled to something for the investment that they paid and I want to tell you right now they're not going to get it. It's absolutely wrong, it is absolutely wrong. Do what you want. Mayor Suarez: The 12th hour is approaching or the hour of reckoning or whatever it is and we're going to have to act on this. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, you go ahead, I'm not going to invoke the rule. Mayor Suarez: I appreciate that. Mr. Plummer: I sense what's going to happen here. I'm just making the record damn clear that I think this whole thing is absolutely a sacrifice to the City of Miami and it's not fair. And it starts back, what's in my craw, from the 180 February 18, 1988 arena to the Decome, the whole thing. This City has been dealt very, very badly. Mr. De Yurre: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Yes, Commissioner? Mr. De Yurre: I'm going to move that we adopt this resolution. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner De Yurre, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 86-172 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET PARKING, TO PROVIDE REPLACEMENT PARKING FOR PARKING WHICH IS TO BE LEASED FOR FIVE TEARS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET PARKING AND IS LOCATED ON BLOCKS 45N, 56N AND PORTIONS OF 2SN AND 36N IN THE EVENT THAT SUCH BLOCKS OR PORTIONS OF SUCH BLOCKS ARE REDEVELOPED PURSUANT TO PHASE II OF THE SOUTHEAST/OVERTOWN PARK WEST PROJECT PRIOR TO JUNE 1, 1993. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. ABSENT: None. Mayor Suarez: Let's hope that it all works out and that it will be the key to the development of Overtown/Park West, etc. Mr. Plummer: Congratulations. 68. AMEND R-87-376 - INCREASE ALLOCATION FOR FUNDING OF IN -KIND SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK MAYORS - CHANGE IN -KIND SERVICES ALLOCATION TO A CASH GRANT. Mayor Suarez: Item 77. Funding for the Black Mayors Conference. I've gotten so many calls from Mayor Ussery from Atlantic City on this. Mr. Plummer: Can I do one thing if nothing more? Mayor Suarez: Please. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, as I recall and I recall very well that the monies that this City allocated were in -kind. OK? Mayor Suarez: That was the motion that was passed. Mr. Plummer: Yes, sir. And I want the people at the editorial board at the Miami Herald who just conveniently left that out of their editorial this 181 February 18, 1988 l -_a 0 morning, to realise that this City was more than willing to live up to it's commitment and that was in -kind. Where we find the problem is outside of that commitment which was made, but I continue to tell the Miami Herald that they ought to be more careful what they put in those editorials because someday, somebody's going to take them seriously. So I just wanted to make the record clear that there was a commitment for in -kind. Mayor Suarez: Well, if every once in a while, they would call and get the facts before they write their editorials, that would really would be helpful. Mr. Plummer: Well, that doesn't sell newspapers. Mayor Suarez: OK. Mrs. Kennedy: Let we tell you, I also want to resolve this once and for all - but if Mr. Cooper wasn't put on by the City, nor by the Slack Mayors Conference, why do they keep coming back to us for money? You don't know, OK. Mr. Dawkins (Off elk*): Why what, why Rosario? Mrs. Kennedy: Why do they keep coming back to us with this... Mayor Suarez: The City was a cosponsor of this thing, we all... Mr. Plummer: Because they ran out of money. Mrs. Kennedy: .. in -kind services? Mayor Suarez: We all attended all of the functions, the City also. Mrs. Kennedy: ... about the sixteen thousand? Mayor Suarez: The City Manager's office without mentioning names, I guarantee you, dropped the ball on this thing in terms of following up on the expenses and we found out afterwards that the organizing group which worked awfully hard and that if we had paid them as consultants, because whatever you can say about Gladstone, Tony Cooper, he worked awfully hard together with the network group to bring the conference to Miami and it was a very successful conference. And they did that all at their own expense, they spent a lot of their time and effort and gave us this thing. Any other situation like this, somebody would show up and ask for $50,000 to promote this kind of event and It was and it was very successful... Mr. Plummer: Yes, but... you know I guess where I have the problem is the fact that this City made a commitment and we were more than willing to live up to our commitment but now they've painted us in a corner, making us look like the bad guys that we're not paying the outside bills. And I don't appreciate that. Now, you know, let's get it over with, one way or the other, let's get It over with. Mr. Dawkins: All right, before we go any further, who in here can tell me who got the tickets that it says here, $16.000 representing convention tickets furnished to the City. Who got them? You got them? Mr. Jack Eads: we don't know, Commissioner. Mr. Frank Castaneda: Commiasioners... Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, no, who got the tickets? Mr. Eads: We can't answer that question. Mr. Plummer: Frank, the man asked you a question, do you know the answer or you don't. Mr. Castaneda: No, I do not know the answer, but that might be immaterial. Mr. Dawkins: May be immaterial? Mr. Castaneda: It appears that there was a commitment... 182 February 18, 1988 Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, no, no. no. I don't want to know it. I done heard enough about appearance. Answer my question, who got the tickets? Mr. lads: We can't answer that question, we don't know. Mr. Dawkins: All right, there, that's number two. All right, what functions were the tickets for? Was it for a luncheon, was it for a dinner, was it for a dance? Mr. Plummer: Well, let we clarify the record. Mr. Dawkins: All right. Mr. Plummer: I don't know whether I received a... Mr. Dawkins: Nov many tickets the City received? Mr. Plummer: I don't know whether I got a ticket for the Opa-Locka or not or whether it was an invitation. I assume it was an invi... Mr. Dawkins: And who in my office received whatever ticket.... Mayor Suarez: What were the tickets for? I've never been able to figure out what was $16,000 of tickets for? Mr. Jeffrey Watson: I received the tickets, the tickets were... Mr. Dawkins: Now many tickets you received? Mrs. Kennedy: The 16 thousand? Mr. Watson: I received tickets for probably a hundred persons per... Mr. Dawkins: All right, a hundred persons. Mayor Suarez: For what? For what event, I... Mr. Dawkins: Divide it into 16, that's $6,000 a ticket. What do you get for $6,000? Mr. Watson: Excuse me? Mr. Dawkins: $600.00 a ticket. Tou got a hundred tickets. Mr. Watson: For five dinner functions. For a hundred persons, a function... Mr. Dawkins: Show me how - all I'm saying is, we keep being made the bad guy... IS Mr. Watson: For a hundred persons a function. Mr. Dawkins: I've been asking for a budget from day one. I've asked for ' anybody to explain to me what happened to the money, that's all the hell I ask. Mayor Suarez: Teo, I've never been able... Mr. Plummer: Well, no, let me ask another question. Jeff, you got the tickets, what did you do with the tickets? Mr. Dawkins: That's all I ask. How many tickets were given for $16,000, that's all I ask. Mr. Watson: The tickets were distributed to both City employees who wanted to go and from there, they were given to offices of Commissioners to distribute to people in the community. Mr. Dawkins: Well, who in my office got tickets? I mean, who in my office did you give the tickets to? Mr. Watson: I can't remember who was there at the time, but there were some People given tickets in your office. 163 February 18, 1998 Mr. Dawkins: Beg your pardon? Mr. Watson: Your assistant, Commissioner. Mr. Dawkins: No, nobody in my office got any tickets. Mrs. Kennedy: We didn't get a hundred tickets either. Mr. Watson: Yes, they got some tickets, Commissioner, you was in China, I believe. Mr. Dawkins: You were in Philadelphia with me. Mr. Watson: No, I didn't go to Philadelphia. I was here. I was here. Mayor Suarez: Well, roughly... Mr. Dawkins: Well, Waiter Pierce was up there and I asked Walter Pierce to get a budget in Philadelphia. Mayor Suaraz: Well,:Walter Pierce is precisely the person that didn't attend the settings that be was supposed to be attending but... Mr. Dawkins: All I'm asking is if somebody will tell me today what we got, how many tickets we got for $1600, what functions they were for, I'll be happy, that's all I'm asking. Mayor Suarez: There's a hundred tickets to a variety of functions. Each one worth about $160 for all... Mr. Watson: It was a hundred tickets a person... it was a hundred tickets for five functions that included a breakfast... Mr. Dawkins: Somebody divide 16,000 by 100 and see what you come up with please. Mr. Watson: ... a dinner, a lunch, a breakfast from Wednesday to Saturday, with various ranges of prices. Mayor Suarez: $160 roughly for the five events, is that the valuation of them? Mr. Watson: Yes, in a package. Mayor Suarez: I think he consumed most of them because I saw him at all the functions. Mr. Plummer: No, air, you saw so at one function and I don't know whether I got a ticket or an invitation. Mayor Suarez: You were dressed as an Arab at the time, if I remember correctly over there at Ops-Locks. INS Mr. Plummer: No, you were drunk. The only one I went to was Opa-Locka. Mrs. Kennedy: Televised Commission meetings, I can just see that. Mayor Suarez: No, as a matter of fact. I didn't get a drink that day and I remember you had one in your hand when I got to Opa-Locka to that function. Mr. Eads: Mr. Mayor, it would appear that if we'd gotten those tickets in the City, we probably have some sort of an obligation to pay them. Mrs. Kennedy: Yes. Mr. Plummer: But we don't know whether - all we, according to Jeff, is got was 500 tickets. Mayor Suarez: No, no it was a hundred tickets. 184 February 18, 1988 s i Mr. Plummer: A hundred per function and you said there were five functions, that's 500 tickets. Mayor Suarez: Did the ticket like entitle you to go to all the functions? Mrs. Kennedy: A hundred for all; for all five. Mr. Plummer: You got a hundred tickets and they're saying $16,000? Huh? Mayor Suarez: A hundred and sixty is what it works out to be. Mr. Plummer: A $160 a ticket? Mayor Suarez: For the five functions. Mr. Plummer: Oh, it can't be. Mr. lads: For five functions. Five meal functions? Mr. Plummer: Old country song about eating high off the hog. How much are they saying we ova them? Mr. lads: $42,000. Mr. Plummer: I move we pay the damn thing and let's get rid of it. — Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, let's get over with, I second. Mr. Plummer: I move we pay it. OK? I am sick and tired, this is about the sixth time it's come up. You know, the editorial isn't what's forcing me to pay it. Mr. Dawkins: Yes, it is. Mr. Plummer: I just don't think... I want to tell you... Mayor Suarez: Don't tell him that! We're never going to... Mrs. Kennedy: Don't start it! Mr. Plummer: I want to tell you, as far as I'm concerned... Mayor Suarez: Please, please. Mr. Plummer: ... when the Black Mayors come back, God help them. Mayor Suarez: I know one person that will not be in charge and I know one person from the City Manager's office that will not be monitoring it. We have a motion and a second, any further discussion, call the roll real quick. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): Under discussion. Mayor Suarez: Tea, Commissioner Dawkins. Mr. Plummer: It comes out of the Mayor's, budget. Mayor Suarez: It has nothing to do with me. Mr. Dawkins: Under the discussion. Mayor Suarez: I shouldn't have given you any tickets to this damn thing. Mr. Dawkins: You know, everyone, when you send this money to the Black Mayors Conference, or wherever you send it, put a letter in there that nobody down here had a problem with $16,000. We had a problem with not being able to account for $16,000. That's the problem. Mayor Suarez: Tea, we should... Mr. Dawkins: And that has been the problem constantly since we started. 185 February 18, 1986 Mr. Plummer: And I would also want in that letter that reiterate what was the City's original commitment... Mr. Dawkins: $25,000. Mr. Plummer: In -kind. Mr. Eads: In -kind. Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded, call the... Mr. Castaneda: Let we just clarify for the record... Mayor Suarez: No. Mr. Castaneda: ... that its only $16,000 to the Black Mayors Conference. The rest is... Mayor Suarez: Right, he moved the entire amount and you know which way it has to be allocated. Call the roll. The following .resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-173 A RESOLUTION AMENDING SECTION 1 OF RESOLUTION NO. 87-376, ADOPTED APRIL 30, 1987 WHICH RATIFIED AN ALLOCATION FOR THE FUNDING OF IN -KIND SERVICES IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,000 FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND, IN SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK MAYORS HELD LOCALLY APRIL 22-26, 1987, THEREBY INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING FROM $25,000 TO $42,462.69 AND CHANGING THE IN - KIND SERVICES ALLOCATION TO A CASH GRANT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: Commissioner Victor De Turre ABSENT: None. COMMENTS MADE DURING ROLL CALL: Mr. Plummer: Ahemmm. Mr. Dawkins: The Miami Herald make him say yes. The Miami Times made me say yes. Ms. Hirai: Mr. De Yurre votes no. Mayor Suarez: What's the count so far? Ms. Hirai: Three to one. Mayor Suarez: This is a ridiculous expenditure, I'm going to vote against this thing. No. I vote yes. Mrs. Kennedy: Jeff Watson for it. Mayor Suarez: Shades of the former Mayor. Mr. Plummer: Jeff Watson just turned white. 186 February IS, 1988 Mrs. Kennedy: Who got us into this? Mr. Plummer: He ain't going to worry about him at the Black !Mayors any more. �� ------ ------ -- ---------- - - 69. SCHEDULE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE MARCH 24TH AGENDA CONCERNING THE `GATEWAY PROJECT" IN LIBERTY CITY. MM---------------------- Mayor Suarez: Suarez: Item 78. Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, I asked this to be placed on the agenda. Back, after the riots of 1980, Commissioner Dawkins created the Edison Center _ Business District Economic Committee to establish economic development for the revitalisation of the Edison Center business district. This project has been promised for years, I just want to see what's happening. I want an update. It's a beautification project, sidewalks and streets and so you'll have a great entrance to Liberty City and I want to know what the problems are. Mayor Suarez: Mr. Waters. Mr. Elmer Waters: Thank you, Vice Mayor. My name is Elmer Waters, Assistant Director of Planning Department. Today I'm here to give you an update through the request of Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy. I'm here to present to you the Edison Center Gateway Project update. In 1965, the Tacolcy Economic Development Corporation (TEDC) submitted a proposal to the City of Miami to Implement this particular project. TEDC 's proposal was a comprehensive one and it incorporated a number of items. One, including a banner program, youth artists, street murals, street furniture, landscaping and brick pavers. In that submission, their proposed budget was approximately $115,000. TEDC requested that funding of this particular project come from various different sources. One of the sources that they at least requested was through the City of Miami. They asked the City for $30,000 out of the 14th year community development bloc grant allocation. They requested... Mrs. Kennedy: How about the county and the state? Mr. Waters: They requested also from Metropolitan Dade County another $30.000. They received from the State of Florida, or requested from the Florida Department of Transportation, $24,000 and 631,000 was to come from the private sector. Now, all of those funds total was to initiate the project. To date, what we have, and let me even back up, the project goes along N.W. 7th Avenue from 58th Street to 64th Street. Mayor Suarez: What is this intersection right here? Mr. Waters: That is a typical rendition of what the project is envisioned to look like and I'll explain it a little bit more. Let me go ahead with the presentation please. The other street was N.W. 62nd Street or MIX from I-95 west to northwest 12th Avenue. What we've done to date is, we've been working with the community in trying to stove this project. One of the overriding problems staff has had centers around a jurisdictional problem and that is, the Improvements that we are attempting to pursue comes under State of Florida DOT and also Metropolitan Dade County in terms of any Improvements that are rendered on, for instance, M.W. 7th Avenue that comes under state jurisdiction or M.W. 62nd Street, that's Metropolitan Dade County. What the State of Florida has told us is that they really... Mayor Suarez: Do we have the rest of the streets, the City? Mr. Waters: Yes, but they only, no... Mayor Suarez: Affected ones are... Mr. Waters: The affected ones are only 62nd... Mayor Suarez: One county and one state. Mr. Waters: Correct. What we have is the state has no problem with what is being proposed. However, they've told the City that if these improvements are 187 February 18, 1998 made within the public right of way, then they will require us to maintain them. And so, what we've attempted to do is to make certain that the requirements that the state has, we could meet those and right now... Mayor Suarez: Do we maintain the street or just the improvements we make? Mr. Waters: Maintain the improvements of the project. Nov... Mayor Suarez: Veil, somebody has to maintain it, so if we build these, I suppose we have to maintain them, right? That's logical. Mr. Waters: Well... Mr. Plummer: Well, can I make a suggestion and I'm remembering when we did this kind of thing in Coconut Grove. A lot of the people in Coconut Grove did not like it, OK? The problem was... Mrs. Kennedy: Really? Mr. Plummer: No, they didn't like it and the reason they didn't like it because it eliminated a lot of parking space. So, before you do anything, you better let it be known... Mrs. Kennedy: OK. Mr. Plummer: ... through a public hearing... Mrs. Kennedy: Let's have a public hearing. _ Mr. Plummer: ... that this is what the intent if this is what the Commission wants to do because this program, as I see it here on 7th Avenue, you've almost eliminated all of the parking. Mr. Waters: Well, the parking, if I may... Mrs. Kennedy: Have you ever had a public hearing on this project? Have you over held a public hearing? Mr. Waters: We've had numerous meetings with the community regarding the project. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): I'm talking about here. Mrs. Kennedy: This, about this... Mr. Waters: Here. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): This level. Mr. Waters: No, we haven't gotten to that point. Mrs. Kennedy: OK. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): How many parking spaces does this plan eliminate? Mr. Waters: There are no parking spaces along N.W. 7th Avenue that it's affecting. Those sisters were taken out a couple of years ago if I'm not mistaken. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Well, OK, I... you know, whatever plan you come forth with, I just think you ought to have a public bearing because you've got a lot of merchants in that area and to them, the most critical thing is not landscaping, but parking and I think that's very important that they have their right to be heard. Mr. Waters: OK, if I may say so, Commissioner, the Edison Center Merchants Association, the Miami -Dade Chamber along with Tacolcy Economic Development Corporation, Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation; all those entities that are representative of that area have been a participant in this process and they are in strong support of it. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Well, let's have a public hearing. Have the date. 188 February 18, 1988 Mrs. Kennedy: OK. Can you give me some dates before the next Commission meeting, of course? Mr. Waters: I'm sorry? Mrs. Kennedy: Does anybody have a calendar that... dates for a public hearing. Mr. lads: March the 10th, the Commission meeting of March the loth? Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Why don't you do it on the 24th7 I think you'd be better off and you got more time to notify the people. Mrs. Kennedy: All right. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): I second the motion. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Call the roll. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 88-174 A MOTION DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO SCHEDULE A PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE MEETING PRESENTLY SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 24 CONCERNING THE REVITALIZATION PROJECT (•GATEWAY PROJECT") OF THE AREA GENERALLY LOCATED BETWEEN N.W. 7 AVENUE FROM 58 TO 64 STREETS AND I-95 WEST TO 12 AVENUE. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Victor De Yurre Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ASSENT: None. Mr. Waters: Thank you. 70. CONTINUED DISC[ISSION IN CONNECTION WITH THE •TOUR OF THE AMERICAS '88" EVENT GRANTING CLOSURE OF STREETS, ETC. (SEE LABEL 17). Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Mr. Mayor, on item 20 which we deferred to the morning, reference to the Bicycle Race, I would move at this time that it be approved subject to that the race take place early on Sunday scorning where it doesn't affect the residents or the merchants and under those conditions, I move it as proffered. Mayor Suarez: So moved. Mrs. Kennedy: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any discussion on item 20 so modified? Call the roll. 189 February 18, 1988 The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 88-175 A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE TOUR OF THE AMERICAS '86 TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE TOUR OF FLORIDA SPORTS PROMOTIONS, INC. TO BE HELD FEBRUARY 29, 1998, 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; FURTHER ESTABLISHING AN AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS DURING THE PERIOD OF THE EVENT; CONDITIONED UPON THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE CITY VILL BE INSURED AGAINST ANY POTENTIAL LIABILITY AND UPON ORGANIZERS PAYING FOR ALL NECESSARY COSTS OF CITY SERVICES. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, 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. ASSENT: None. 71. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND MIAMI COMPREHENSIVE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN - CHANGE DESIGNATION OF PROPERTY LOCATED AT 23-47 N.V. 32ND PLACE AND 34 N.V. 32ND COURT FROM LOW MODERATE DENSITY RESIDENTIAL TO MODERATE HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL. Mayor Suarez: Item 80. Mr. Guillermo Olmedillo: Items 80 and 81 are companion items and these were brought about from the last planning and zoning agenda. This is a... Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Is there any objection? Anyone wishes to object to either 80 or 81? Let the record reflect no one caste forth... wait a minute, the City Attorney had a problem with a covenant. Mrs. Dougherty: Tes, sir, we've resolved that problem by them amending their application to delete the parcel of property that the covenant does not cover. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Tou're now satisfied. Mrs. Dougherty: Yes. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): I move 80... Mrs. Dougherty: And let the record reflect which parcel that is, that is now amended. Mr. Olmedillo: Test that is lot 22. It's no longer included in the application. Mrs. Dougherty: Is no longer included. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): I move 80. 190 February 18, 1988 Mr. De Yurre: Second. Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any discussion? Read the ordinance. Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE MIAMI COMPREHENSIVE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN AND ADDENDA (SEPTEMBER 1985); FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT APPROXIMATELY 23-47 NORTHWEST 32" PLACE AND 34 NORTHWEST 32ND COURT (MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN) BY CHANGING DESIGNATION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY FROM LOW MODERATE DENSITY RESIDENTIAL TO MODERATE HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL USE; !TAKING FINDINGS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of January 28, 1988, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Commissioner Plummer, seconded by Commissioner De Yurre, the Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote: ♦YES: 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. 10388. 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. 72. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: AMEND ZONING ATLAS ON PROPERTY LOCATED AT 23- 47 N.W. 32ND PLACE AND 34 N.V. 32ND COURT FROM RG-1/3 TO RG-3/6. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Move 81. Mayor Suarez: Moved. Mr. De Yurre: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Read the ordinance. Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE ZONING ATLAS OF ORDINANCE NO. 9500, THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, BY CHANGING THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION OF APPROXIMATELY 23-47 NORTHWEST 32 PLACE, AND THE PROPERTY LYING BETWEEN APPROXIMATELY 20 NORTHWEST 32 COURT AND 50 NORTHWEST 32 COURT, MIAMI, FLORIDA, (MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN) FROM RG-1/3 GENERAL RESIDENTIAL TO RG-3/6 GENERAL RESIDENTIAL BY MAKING FINDINGS; AND BY MAKING ALL THE NECESSARY CHANGES ON PAGE NO. 33 OF SAID ZONING ATLAS MADE A PART OF ORDINANCE NO. 9500 BY REFERENCE AND DESCRIPTION IN ARTICLE 3. SECTION 300, THEREOF; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of January 28, 1968, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On 191 February 18, 1968 notion of Commissioner Plummer, seconded by Commissioner De Turre, the Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and 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. THE ORDINANCE VAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10389. 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. 73. AMEND M-88-166 - ALLOW EXTENSION OF DEADLINE BY WHICH EXOTIC AND SPORTS CAR SHOW SHALL PAY TO THE CITY RENTAL FEE OWED FOR USE OF COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER (SEE LABEL 60). Mr. De Turre: Mr. Mayor. Mr. Eads: Mr. Mayor. Mr. De Turre: Before you go, call back number 68 for a second. Mayor Suarez: What is his name, Leo? Mr. Leonardo Mendez: Mr. Kogan. Enrique. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Thank you, J.L. Mr. Mendez: Enrique. Mayor Suarez: Every moment that he doesn't do what he's supposed to do... Mr. Mendez: Enrique. Mayor Suarez: ... he kind of lessens the chances that we might, counselor... Mr. De Turre: We're going home. Mr. Mendez: Enrique. Mr. Dawkins: Bye, adios. Mr. Mendez: He's talking to Mr. Plummer with the figures there for a second. Enrique. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): I have no problem with that. Mayor Suarez: He doesn't want the 10 percent of gross. Does he prefer to PAY... Mr. Mendez: We have a revised figures there that were given to us by the City concerning the... Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I have no problem with their proffer, that the monies that they have to pay for the expense personnel has to be paid in advance. They have been placed under a March lot deadline that it be April the lot. I have no problem with that, but, you know, no tickee, no laundry. OK. Mayor Suarez: OK, so moved. 192 February IS, 1988 Mr. Plummer: So move. Mr. De Yurre: Second. Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Call the roll. Don't say anything else, you're going to... We're liable to walk out of here. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved Its adoption: MOTION NO. 88-176 A MOTION AMENDING PREVIOUSLY PASSED !LOTION 88-166 AND DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO EXTEND TO APRIL 1ST THE DEADLINE BY WHICH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE EXOTIC AND SPORTS CAR SHOW SHALL PAY TO THE CITY RENTAL FEE FOR USE OF COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER IN CONNECTION WITH THE HOLDING OF SAID EVENT PRESENTLY SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE ON APRIL 12-17, 1988. Upon being seconded by Commissioner be 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. Vice Mayor Rosario Kennedy Mayor Xavier L. Suarez NOES: None. ABSENT: None. 74. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: AMEND 10272 WHICH AUTHORIZED ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES 1987 ($40,000,000) - REDEFINE TERM *ORIGINAL PURCHASERS" - RESTATE ELIGIBILITY CRITERION FOR APPOINTMENT OF ESCROW AGENT AND BOND REGISTRAR, ETC. Mayor Suarez: We have an emergency ordinance that the... Mr. Jack Eads: Yes, sir, Mr. Mayor, that's based on the advice of bond counsel... Mayor Suarez: Qu' eat-ce quo c'est? Mr. Eads: ... and the finance director. Mayor Suarez: Oh, it's a correction of what's going to be on the ballot for our $40,000.000 bond? Mrs. Dougherty: Teo. Mr. Guillermo Olmedillo: No, sir, it's... Mayor Suarez: Oh, not at all. Mr. Eads: No, sir, it's a... Mr. Dawkins: What is this? Mayor Suarez: Way off. Mr. lads: ... correction to a previous ordinance dealing with general Obligation bonds and it corrects language and it identifies the original purchasers. It's essentially a housekeeping item. 193 February IS, 1986 Mayor Suarez: You guys don't look very honest, but I mean, you're not pulling a fast one here? Mr. Carlos Garcia: No, sir, there are... Mr. gads: No, sir. Mayor Suarez: Correct what? What are we correcting? Mr. Garcis: There are three items that we need to correct. First of all, a ordinance, a hundred... Mr. Dawkins: Who was the escrow agent? Who are you making escrow agent? Mr. Garcia: We're not making anyone in particular, we just want to clarify the language. Mr. Dawkins: No, that's what you're doing so I keep telling you about these people who don't have no minority participation and you all want to slip this In. Mr. Garcia: No, Comadsaioners... Mr. Dawkins: I call the rule! Mrs. Kennedy: Did you give us some copies of that? Mr. Dawkins: I call the rule! Mr. Garcia: The City Attorney did yesterday. Mr. Eads: Yes ma'am, they were distributed this morning. Mrs. Dougherty: Yes, it is, yes, you did with this... Mayor Suarez: Why is this an emergency, Carlos, before... Mr. Garcia: Because... Mayor Suarez: ... they all... Mr. Garcia: ... the bond counsel working with the ordinance knows that there's some technical corrections that need to be made. One is specifically related to a reference within the ordinance which should have referenced section 10 and it referenced section 9, OK, and we're trying, because interest rates are coming down, we're trying to work on this refinancing again the $40,000,000 in general obligation bonds that were approved by the City Commission last year and we have some technical corrections that need to be made. Mayor Suarez: This is for the refinancing of the bonds... Mr. Garcia: Yes, they... Mayor Suarez: ... for... Mr. Garcia: ... that were approved close to a year ago. Mayor Suarez: ... the James L. Knight... Mr. Garcia: No, sir, not the James L. Knight. Mayor Suarez: Which ones? Mr. Garcia: The general obligation bonds... Mayor Suarez: G.O. bonds? Mr. Garcia: ... the 19851s. And Commissioner Dawkins, if I may, the language here, let me read it to you. It's very clear. What it says is that whatever bank we use, shall appoint the bank that has previously participated as a lender in City projects or City cosponsored projects. So that's the language 194 February 18, 1988 that the City Commission approved before and that's what we're trying to Incorporate into the ordinance. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): OK. Move it. Mrs. Kennedy: Teo, I move it, I have no problems and second. Mayor Suarez: OK, moved and seconded. Any discussion? Call the roll. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Thank you very much for all of you. Mayor Suarez: Please, go. Mr. Dawkins (Off mike): And sin no more. Mayor Suarez: Call the roll. AN ORDINANCE ZNTITLED- AN EMERGENCT ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 10272, ADOPTED ON MAY 14, 1987, WHICH AUTHORIZED THE ISSUANCE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES 1987, OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $40,000,000; MORE PARTICULARLY AMENDING SECTIONS 2, 13. 14. AND 19 OF SAID ORDINANCE NO. 10272, TO REDEFINE THE TERM "ORIGINAL PURCHASERS"; - ALSO RESTATING THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERION FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF THE ESCROW AGENT AND BOND REGISTRAR; FURTHER CLARIFYING THE DEFEASANCE PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN SAID ORDINANCE NO. 10271, 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: 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 Cossaission 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. 10390. 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. 195 February 18, 1988 75. BRIEF COMKM by COMMISSIONER PLUMMER SUGGESTING THE COMMISSION MEET TO DISCUSS PROPOSED METRO CHARTER AMENDMENT. Mayor Suarez: Do we have to may anything about the next Commission meeting, timing or anything, are we OK? Mrs. Kennedy: Five o'clock. Mayor Suarez: been scheduled for the appropriate time? Mr. Jack lads: Five p.m. on the 25th. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Mr. Mayor, may I suggest.. Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Plummer. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Ve only have one more meeting and this Commission has not discussed in aformal way the charter amendments by Metropolitan Dade County, that are on the ballot on March the 8th. Mayor Suarez: OK, I'll send off a memo on that. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): They are devastating, in some ways. I would suggest that this Commission meet at 4:00 o'clock and have the City Attorney come forth with all the memos that she's been sending us and let's have some kind of conclusion drawn by this Commission in the areas that... (AUDIO PROBLEMS: NOISE). Mrs. Kennedy: So be it. Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Damn you, Steve Clark. Mrs. Kennedy: It was you. Mayor Suarez: Tes, let's schedule that for 4:00 and would you report back to us in case we should take legal action and join the other law suit and give us the status of that. Lucia, you'll be up on the Lehtinen lawsuit and everything else. INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE RECORD. Mayor Suarez: What, what, what - what? Mr. lads: No problem, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: His mike is down anyhow, so he's got no role in this... Mr. Plummer (Off mike): Have the seminar from 4:00 to 5:00 and officially take action after 5:00. 196 February 18, 1988 r '� 1+EIliG NO IvIt!'iQ1t SOSIMMS To cm m CITi COWIBSIOt. m IOO nIG VAS ♦WOVAM AT 7:56 P.M. Xavier L. Suarez r♦T0R ♦T2ZST: Natty Ural CITZ CIAM Walter J. Toaeus ♦SSIST♦Nr CM CURK M 197 February le. 1988 CITY OF MIAMI DOCUMENT INDEX kvmTm QNx. FEBRUARY 18, 1988 PAGE I OF ALLOCATE $15,000 IN CONNECTION WITH ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE. DESIGNATE JACK EADS INTERIM MANAGER IN ABSENCE OF CITY MANAGER, CESAR ODIO. TRANSFER CONFISCATED WEAPONS AT NOT CHARGE TO OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. ACCEPT DONATION OF TWO VIDEO CASSETTE RECORDER FROM C.C.A.L. CORPORATION FOR USE BY PARKS DEPARTMENT. ALLOCATE $10,000 IN SUPPORT OF CRIME STOPPERS ANONYMOUS OF DADE COUNTY. ALLOCATE $36,000 TO COVER NECESSARY EXPENSES REGARDING ACCREDITATION OF POLICE DEPARTMENT. ACCEPT BID: CENTURY INDUSTRIES, INC. FOR ONE MOBILE STAGE FOR PARKS DEPARTMENT. ACCEPT BID: COCONUT GROVE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, INC. FOR GROUNDS MAINTENANCE SERVICES AT COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER. ACCEPT BID: VAN TOPOLE CONSTRUCTION, INC. FOR FIRE STATION NO. 2 WASHROOM MODIFICATIONS. ACCEPT BID: DELGADO PAVING, INC. FOR CITYWIDE SIDEWALK REPLACEMENT PROJECT - PHASE II (THIRD BIDDING-B-4534). AGREEMENT .WITH GREATER MIAMI UNITED INC. CONTINUE CITY'S SUPPORT AS FUNDING PARTNER IN THE LOCAL INITIATIVE SUPPORT CORPORATION/MIAMI PROJECT. AUTHORIZE FACILITIES MANAGEMENT GROUP, INC. TO PURCHASE AND INSTALL A FIRE AND VOICE ALARM SYSTEM AND REFURBISH MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER. OVAL CODE IM 88-114 88-116 88-117 88-118 88-119 88-120 88-121 88-122 88-123 88-124 88-125 88-126 DOCUMENT INDEX PARTICIPATE WITH CITY OF CORAL GABLES IN A PROPOSED MEDIAN LANDSCAPING PROJECT ALONG U.S. HIGHWAY 1 - EXECUTE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. ACCEPT 15 DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES. RESCIND R-87-3 ORDERING DOWNTOWN HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II (H- 4521) REORDER SAID HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT AND DESIGNATE SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS. ST. PATRICK'S DAY PARADE: AUTHORIZE STREET CLOSURES,PEDESTRIAN MALL AND AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS. DESIGNER'S SHOWCASE '88: AUTHORIZE STREET CLOSURES, PEDESTRIAN MALL AND AREA PROHIBITED TO RETAIL PEDDLERS (MARCH 12, 1988). APPOINT JESSE DINER TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF CITY FIRE FIGHTERS' AND POLICE OFFICERS' RETIREMENT TRUST. CONSENT TO THE TRANSFER OF MR. RAUL MASVIDAL'S LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTEREST IN BAYSIDE CENTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP TO MR. NATAN ROK. ACCEPT DONATIONS OF SURPLUS FURNITURE FROM SOUTHERN BELL TO THE OVERTOWN COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS FOR OVERTOWN MINI STATION. EXTEND EXISTING CONTRACT WITH POWER FEDERAL DETECTIVE BUREAU FOR SECURITY SERVICES AT THE MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER. ACCEPT $750,000 GRANT FROM FLORIDA LEGISLATURE FOR REDEVELOPMENT OF SOUTH END OF BAYFRONT PARK. NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH RPPW, INC., AND PERKINS AND PARTNERS ECONOMIC FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE OMNI REDEVELOPMENT AREA PROJECT. AGREEMENT WITH CHESAPEAKE GROUP, INC. ECONOMIC AND MARKETING FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR THE BISCAYNE BOULEVARD CORRIDOR. 88-127 88-128 88-129 88-130 88-131 88-132 88-133 88-134 88,,135 88-136 88-137 88-138 dp ... DOCUMENT INDEX CONTRACT WITH THE FLORIDA LEAGUE OF CITIES - LEAGUE TO COLLECT A CITY LICENSE TAX FROM INSURANCE COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS WITHIN CITY LIMITS. ALLOCATE $17,000 FOR A MASTER PLAN THE OVERTOWN HISTORIC FOLKLIFE VILLAGE AUTHORIZE AGREEMENT WITH THE BLACK ARCHIVES HISTORY AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION. AMEND AGREEMENT WITH PRIEDE SEDGWICK, INC., EXTEND TERM FROM ONE TO THREE YEARS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPREHENSIVE STORM DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN. ACCEPT BID: LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY FOR FURNISHING ABSTRACT SERVICES FOR A SIX MONTH PERIOD. AGREEMENT WITH METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY FOR ENGAGEMENT OF CITY OF MIAMI TO PROVIDE FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AT THE PORT OF MIAMI. (A) DEFER PROPOSED RESOLUTION TO PURCHASE OR ACQUIRE THROUGH EMINENT DOMAIN A PROPERTY LOCATED APPROXIMATELY BETWEEN NW 1ST AVENUE AND NW 2ND AVENUE AT NW 34TH TERRACE.(B) AUTHORIZE THE APPRAISALS ON PERTINENT PARCELS ESTABLISH A CEILING FOR COSTS IN CONNECTION WITH SAID APPRAISALS. ISSUE REVOCABLE PERMIT TO THE LITTLE HAVANA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, INC. FOR USE OF A PORTION OF MAXIMO GOMEZ PARK FOR PUBLIC RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND INFORMATION SERVICES. GRANT $90,000 IN SUPPORT OF A PUBLIC RECREATIONAL AND INFORMATION SERVICES PROGRAM AT MAXIMO GOMEZ PARK TO BE OPERATED BY THE LITTLE HAVANA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY,INC. APPOINT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE CITYWIDE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD (APPOINTED MS. MARGARET MILLER). APPOINT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO THE HERITAGE CONSERVATION BOARD (APPOINTED RICHARD RICKLES, RAUL RODRIGUEZ AND MARWIN CASSEL. =aw_ RE I NVAL ©ON No. 88-141 88-143 88-145 88-146 88-147 88-148 88-149 88-150 88-151 88-152 ram, ... DOCUMENT INDEX AGREEMENT WITH ERM SOUTH INC FOR SCIENTIFIC TESTING AND CONSULTING SERVICES RELATED TO THE VIRGINIA KEY RUBBISH DISPOSAL PIT AND DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES ON SAID SITE. EXTEND DEADLINE TO INITIATE CONSTRUCTION ON PARCEL 37 (SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST PHASE I OF THE REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT (DEVELOPER CAN- AMERICAN REALTY CORPORATION) WITH PROVISOS. EXTEND DEADLINE TO INITIATE THE CONSTRUCTION ON PARCEL NO. 55 (SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT) DEVELOPER: CIRCA/BARNESS/SAWYER WITH PROVISOS EXTEND DEADLINE TO INITIATE CONSTRUCTION ON PARCEL 24 (SOUTH EAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT (DEVELOPER: CRUZ DEVELOPMENT AND ASSOCIATES LTD. WITH PROVISOS. ESTABLISH DEADLINE TO INITIATE CONSTRUCTION OF PARCEL 46 SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST PHASE I REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT (DEVELOPER: INDIAN RIVER INVESTMENTS OF MIAMI INC WITH PROVISOS. SUPPORT AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY/BREAST CANCER DETENTION AWARENESS PROJECT (MAMOGRAMS); ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION BY PRIVATE BUSINESS URGE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE TO COOPERATE. 1988 MIAMI MAGIC FESTIVAL: CLOSURE OF DESIGNATED STREETS, ESTABLISH PEDESTRIAN MALL (TO BE CONDUCTED BY THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREATER MIAMI INC. APRIL 23, 1988). ALLOW SOUTH FLORIDA ORCHID SOCIETY INC. TO ENCHANGE SUITABLE AND ACCEPTABLE LANDSCAPING FOR RENTAL FEE INVOLVER AT THE COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER (MARCH 19, 1988). F m.OF� RETREVAL ©ODE NO. 88-153 88-154 88-157 88-158 88-159 88-161 88-162 88-167 va DOCUMENT INDEX LEASE CITY PARKING SPACE TO OFF-STREET PARKING TO SATISFY PARKING DEQUIREMENT BY MIAMI HEAT - PROVIDE REPLACEMENT PARKING IF SAID SPACE IS NEEDED WITHIN FIVE YEARS FOR REDEVELOPMENT BY PHASE II OF SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST PROJECT. AMEND R-87-376 - INCREASE ALLOCATION FOR FUNDING OF IN KIND SERVICES IN SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF BLACK MAYORS - CHANGE IN KIND SERVICES ALLOCATION TO A CASH GRANT. TOUR OF THE AMERICAS '88 EVENT - GRANTING CLOSURE OF STREETS,ETC. 88-172 88-173 88-175