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CITY
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June 12, 1986
OF MEETING NEI� ON (REGULAR)
PREPARED BY THE OFFICE G I HETY CITY CLERK
MATTY HIRAI
City Clerk
INDEX
MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING
CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
JUNE 12, 1986
ITEM SUBJECT LEGISLATION PAGE
NO. MO.
1. PRESENTATIONS. PRESENTED 1
6/12/86
2. CONSENT AGENDA.
6/12/86
2.1 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO R-86-417
ADVERTISE, RECEIVE AND ACCEPT 6/12/86
PROPOSALS FOR TEMPORARY NON
EXCLUSIVE CONCESSION PRIVILEGES AT
VIRGINIA KEY BEACH DURING THE CITY
SPONSORED 1986 SPLASHDOWN CONCERT
SERIES SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 29, JULY
27, AND AUGUST 24, 1986.
2.1A ALLOCATING $67,000.00 TO THE R-86-418
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION 6/12/86
FOR THE VIRGINIA BEACH FAMILY
SPLASHDOWN DISCO'86 SERIES.
2.2 DEED ACCEPTANCE: THIRTY ONE (31) R-86-419
DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY 6/12/86
PURPOSES.
2.3 PLAT ACCEPTANCE: B.D. GARDENS. R-86-420
6/12/86
2.4 AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO R-86-421
DISPOSE OF FURNISHINGS, WHICH WERE 6/12/86
ACQUIRED AS A RESULT OF LAND
ACQUISITION ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED
WITH THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARKWEST
REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
2.5 BID ACCEPTANCE: RADIO SHACK CO. FOR R-86-422
FURNISHING C.B. RADIO EQUIPMENT TO 6/12/86
THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE AT A TOTAL
PROPOSED COST OF $9,300.00
2.6 BID ACCEPTANCE: MONTE CAMPBELL CRANE R-86-423
FOR THE RENTAL OF FOUR (4) HYDRAULIC 6/12/86
CRANES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL
SERVICES ADMINISTRATION AT A TOTAL
PROPOSED COST OF $7,200.00.
2.7 BID ACCEPTANCE: P.A. SPORTSWEAR AT A R-86-424
TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $4,362.54 FOR 6/12/86
FURNISHING UNIFORM TEE SHIRTS AND
JULES BROTHERS AT A PROPOSED COST OF
$1,636.80 FOR FURNISHING BASEBALL
STYLE CAPS ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR
ONE (1) YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY TO
THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE AND
INSPECTION SERVICES.
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2.8 BID ACCEPTANCE: VENDEX INTERNATIONAL
CORP. FOR FURNISHING 3M BRAND "LIGHT
WATER 32/6%" AQUEOUS FIRM FORMING
FOAM ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1)
YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE &
INSPECTION SERVICES AT A TOTAL
PROPOSED FIRST YEAR COST OF
$4,659.00.
R-86-425
6/12/86
2.9 BID ACCEPTANCE: IDEAL ROOFING AND R-86-426
SHEET METAL WORKS, INC. FOR FIRE 6/12/86
STATION NO.4 — REROOFING.
2.10 BID ACCEPTANCE: P.N.M. CORPORATION R-86-427
FOR CITY WIDE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT 6/12/86
PHASE II B-4515.
2.11 BID ACCEPTANCE: JULES BROTHERS R-86-428
UNIFORMS FOR FURNISHING WORK 6/12/86
UNIFORMS ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE
(1) YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY CITY
WIDE.
2.12 ACCEPTANCE COMPLETED WORK: R-86-429
PENINSULAR ELECTRICAL COMPANY, INC. 6/12/86
FOR BICENTENNIAL PARK — PRIMARY
ELECTRIC DUCT.
2.13 ORDERING RESOLUTION: MANOR HIGHWAY R-86-430
IMPROVEMENT — PHASE IV H-4519. 6/12/86
2.14 AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO R-86-431
NEGOTIATE AN AGREEMENT WITH CERTAIN 6/12/86
LAW FIRMS TO SERVE AS PRIMARY BOND
COUNSEL FOR FURTHER INDIVIDUAL CITY
BOND ISSUES BETWEEN THIS DATE AND
THE DATE OF THE SECOND CITY
COMMISSION MEETING IN NOVEMBER,
1987.
2.15 AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO R-86-432
ENTER INTO A SETTLEMENT STIPULATION 6/12/86
IN THE CASE OF ROLLE, ET. AL, V.
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA.
2.16 AUTHORIZING' THE CITY MANAGER TO R-86-433
AMEND INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTUAL 6/12/86
AGREEMENTS WITH FOUR (4)
NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
ORGANIZATIONS.
2.17 RATIFYING, APPROVING, AND CONFIRMING
THE AMENDMENT NO. 2 DATED SEPTEMBER
26, 1985, AMENDING THE MARCH 1, 1984
AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND NEW
WASHINGTON HEIGHTS COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE, INC.
("NWHCDC").
2.18 APPROVING THE CITY ATTORNEY'S
SELECTION AND AUTHORIZING THE
EMPLOYMENT OF THE LAW FIRM OF
GREENBERG, TRAURIG, ASKEW, HOFFMAN,
LIPOFF, TOSEN & QUENTAL, P.A. TO
SERVE AS PRIMARY BOND COUNSEL FOR
THE ISSUANCE OF $22,000,000 CITY
GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, SERIES
1986.
R-86-434
6/12/86
R-86-435
6/12/86
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APPROVING THE FORM OF THE
R-86-436
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PRELIMINARY OFFICIAL STATEMENT
6/12/86
PERTAINING TO $22,000,000. OF CITY
OF MIAMI, FLORIDA GENERAL OBLIGATION
BONDS.
2.20
FIXING CERTAIN DETAILS CONCERNING
R-86-437
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$12,000,000 POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND
6/12/86
CRIME PREVENTION FACILITIES BONDS,
$5,000,000 STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENT
BONDS, $3,000,000 SANITARY SEWER
SYSTEM BONDS AND $2,000,000 STREET
AND HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT BONDS.
2.21
AUTHORIZING CONSULTANT SELECTION
R-86-438
8-9
PROCEDURES DESIGNING THE LAND
6/12/86
SURVEYING SERVICES FOR CITY OF MIAMI
PROJECTS - 1986 AS A CATEGORY "B"
PROJECT; APPOINTING A CERTIFICATION
COMMITTEE OF NOT LESS THAN THREE (3)
QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS; APPROVING
THE CITY MANAGER'S APPOINTMENT OF A
COMPETITIVE SELECTION COMMITTEE OF
NOT LESS THAN SIX (6) MEMBERS; AND
APPOINT JIM LEUKANECH P.E., AS
CHAIRPERSON OF THE COMPETITIVE
SELECTION COMMITTEE.
2.22
ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
R-86-439
9
FORTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS
6/12/86
($48,000.00) FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI
LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND TO COVER
THE NECESSARY COSTS AND EXPENSES
ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACQUISITION OF
CONSULTANT SERVICES OF A CRISIS
COUNSELOR, TO BE AVAILABLE FORTY
(40) HOURS WEEKLY AND TO PROVIDE
SERVICES ON A 24 HOUR ON -CALL BASIS
TO ADMINISTER TO THE NEEDS OF THE
MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL.
3.
BID ACCEPTANCE: MIRI CONSTRUCTION
R-86-440
10
INC. - CITYWIDE SANITARY SEWER
6/12/86
REPLACEMENT, DESIGN PLAZA.
4.
CONTINUE DONATION OF 36 GOLF TEE
RECONSIDER
10-13
MARKERS (SEE LABELS #21 AND 31).
AND
CONTINUE
6/12/86
5.
BID ACCEPTANCE: HELENA CHEMICAL CO.
R-86-441
13-14
FOR WEED KILLER.
6/12/86
6.
AGREEMENT WITH SYLVESTER LUKIS FOR
R-86-442
14-16
LEGISLATIVE CONSULTANT SERVICES.
6/12/86
7.
REPRESENTATION OF MIAMI IN
R-86-443
17
WASHINGTON, D.C. BY MARK ISRAEL.
6/12/86
8.
AGREEMENT WITH METRO-DADE COUNTY FOR
R-86-444
17-18
PUBLIC HOUSING SAFETY/SECURITY
6/12/86
IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.
9.
AGREEMENT WITH ALBERT R. PEREZ
R-86-445
18-22
ASSOC. FOR DINNER KEY MARINA
6/12/86
RENOVATION.
10.
A -RECONSIDER PROCURING POLICE CRISIS
M-86-446.1
22-23
COUNSELOR. B-RESCIND AND DEFER
R-86-446.2
PROCURING POLICE CRISIS COUNSELOR.
6/12/86
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DISCUSSION: LAND -RELATED LITIGATION;
DISCUSSION
24-25
LEASE WITH DOLPHINS.
6/12/86
12.
CREATE COMMITTEE TO STUDY TERM OF
M-86-447
26-38
MAYOR, COMPENSATION FOR COMMISSION,
6/12/86
STRONG MAYOR, AND SIZE OF COMMISSION
(SEE LABEL #58).
13.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: ALLOW
ORDINANCE
39-40
PLANNING ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS AND
10109
ZONING BOARD MEMBERS TO CONTINUE TO
6/3.2/86
SERVE AFTER TERM EXPIRE UNTIL
REAPPOINTMENT OR NEW APPOINTMENT IS
MADE.
14.
PUT HOLD ON PROPOSED INCREASE IN
M-86-448
40-48
HEALTH INSURANCE TO RETIREES.
6/12/86
15.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE;
ORDINANCE
48-49
APPROPRIATIONS FOR BUILDING AND
10110
ZONING DEPARTMENT.
6/12/86
16.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: ADOPT CITY
ORDINANCE
49-51
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAM.
10111
6/12/86
17.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ALLOW
FIRST
51-53
FINANCE DIRECTOR TO PURCHASE AND
READING
INVEST FUNDS PRUDENTLY.
6/12/86
18.
PURCHASE, SUPPLIES, MATERIALS AND
R-86-449
53-54
EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED
6/12/86
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STATES - BUY AMERICAN.
19.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: FEE
FIRST
55-56
SCHEDULES FOR MIAMI GOLF COURSES.
READING
6/12/86
20.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: TEMPORARY
FIRST
56
NON-EXCLUSIVE CONCESSIONS IN CITY
READING
PARKS FOR SPECIAL EVENTS PERMITS BY
6/12/86
CITY MANAGER.
21.
BRIEF COMMENTS: RECONSIDER DONATION
DISCUSSION
57
OF 36 GOLF TEE MARKERS.
6/12/86
22.
FEES FOR CONCESSION PRIVILEGES IN
R-86-450
57-60
CITY PARKS.
6/12/86
23.
DISCUSSION: (1) THANK GUY SANCHEZ,
DISCUSSION
60-61
FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT, FOR BAY
6/12/86
HEIGHTS LIGHTS; (2) LIGHTS IN ROADS
AREA ARE A PROBLEM.
24.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: RECREATION
FIRST
61
ACTIVITY 1985-86.
READING
6/12/86
25.
DEFER FIRST READING ORDINANCE
FIRST
61-64
PROPOSING FEES FOR BUILDING PERMITS.
READING
6/12/86
26.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ISSUANCE OF
FIRST
65-67
PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS.
READING
6/12/86
27.
OPEN BIDS FOR WEST LITTLE HAVANA
M-86-451
67-68
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE I.
6/12/86
28.
OPEN BIDS FOR WINONA SANITARY SEWER
M-86-452
68-71
IMPROVEMENT.
6/12/86
29.
CONFIRM ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR MANOR
R-86-453
71-72
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE II.
6/12/86
30.E
CONTINUE CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED
M-86-454
72-79
CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION FOR
6/12/86
BAYCREST HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE
II.
31.
A -RECONSIDER DONATION OF 36 GOLF TEE
M-86-455
79-81
MARKERS. B-ACCEPT DONATION OF 36
R-86-456
GOLF TEE MARKERS (SEE LABELS 4 AND
6/12/86
21).
32.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: CREATE NEW
FIRST
81-82
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND
READING
PUBLIC FACILITIES.
6/12/86
33.
ACCEPT GRANT OF $20,000 FROM DANCE
R-86-457
82-83
UMBRELLA INC. FOR RENOVATING THE
6/12/86
MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER
THEATER.
34.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: INCREASE
FIRST
83-84
APPROPRIATION FOR COMMUNITY
READING
DEVELOPMENT TO RENOVATE MANUEL
6/12/86
ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER THEATER.
35.
DEFER SELECTION OF MANAGING
M-86-458
84-86
UNDERWRITER IN ORDER TO OBTAIN INPUT
6/12/86
FROM PRIVATE SECTOR. (SEE LABEL #69)
36.
DISCUSSION: MARINA AND LAND KNOWN AS
DISCUSSION
86-88
FLORIDA YACHT BASIN TO BE USED FOR
6/12/86
PUBLIC PARK AND MARINA.
37.
SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES
M-86-459
88-100
APPROPRIATIONS.
M-86-460
6/12/86
38.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
ORDINANCE
100-101
(12TH YEAR) APPROPRIATION.
10112
39.
ALLOCATE $1, 479,902.OF 12TH YEAR
R-86-461
101
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
6/12/86
FUNDS.
40.
ALLOCATE $150,000 TO SOUTHWEST
R-86-462
102-104
SOCIAL SERVICES INC. FOR
6/12/86
CONSTRUCTION OF SENIOR CENTER IN
FLAGAMI PARK.
41.
AGREEMENTS WITH 11 NEIGHBORHOOD
R-84-463
104-114
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS
6/12/86
TO FUND PROGRAMS.
42.
AGREEMENT WITH GREATER MIAMI UNITED
R-86-464
114-115
FOR ASSISTANCE TO CITY FUNDED
6/12/86
COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS
INVOLVED IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
PROJECTS.
43.
AGREEMENTS WITH 11 NEIGHBORHOOD
R-86-465
115-116
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS
6/12/86
FOR IMPLEMENTING A COMMERCIAL FACADE
TREATMENT PROGRAM.
44.
DISCUSSION: AGREEMENT WITH
DISCUSSION
116-117
SANITATION UNION.
6/12/86
45.
DISCUSSION: HOLD HARMLESS AGREEMENT
DISCUSSION
117-118
WITH POLICE UNION. (SEE LABEL #68)
6/12/86
46. DEFER TO JULY LOTH APPROVAL OF DISCUSSION 119-120
r BUDGET FOR GUSMAN HALL AND OLYMPIA 6/12/86
BUILDING ( OFF—STREET PARKING
AUTHORITY).
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{ F`� COUNTY, HIALEAH, AND MIAMI BEACH TO 6/12/86
PARTICIPATE IN SOUTH FLORIDA
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM.
48. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: OFFICE OF ORDINANCE 122-124
INTERGOVERNMENTAL LIAISON (FY'87) 10113
AND MIAMI JOB DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS 6/12/86
(FY'87).
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49. DEFER ESTABLISHMENT OF ENTRANT DISCUSSION 124-125
ASSISTANT PROGRAM '86/87. 6/12/86
'+ 50. GRANTS TO PRIVATE INDUSTRY R-86-467 125-131
COUNCIL/SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT AND 6/12/86
TRAINING CONSORTIUM.
51. DEFER IMPLEMENTATION OF TRAFFIC M-86-468 131-140
s' PROGRAM IN THE BAY HEIGHTS AREA. 6/12/86
52. CALLE OCHO OPEN HOUSE FESTIVAL; M-86-469 140-141
K. CLOSE STREETS, DESIGNATION OF 6/12/86
r PEDDLER AREAS, AND FIREWORKS
Pz_ PERMITS.
53. DEFER CONSIDERATION OF FUNDING 1987 M-86-470 141-143
f' BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL.
6/12/86
54. DISCUSSION: ANNUAL GOSPEL SING OUT DISCUSSION 144
AGAINST CANCER. 6/12/86
55. GRANT PERMIT TO ERECT MONUMENT IN M-86-471 144-145
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Kt HONOR OF CUBAN WOMEN POLITICAL 6/12/86
MARTYRS.
rs' 56. FUND $30,000 TO HISPANIC HERITAGE M-86-472 5 145-15 FESTIVAL PAGEANT NETWORK COVERAGE. 6/12/86
57. A —FUND $12,000 FOR DOWNTOWN DESK M-86-473 155-161
DASH. B—RECONSIDER/RESCIND FUNDS M-86-474
ALLOCATED FOR DOWNTOWN DESK DASH.
58. CREATE A CHARTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE R-86-475 162-163
AND APPOINT INDIVIDUALS (SEE LABEL 6/12/86
#12).
59. AGREEMENT WITH AIDA LEVITAN FOR M-86-476 163-166
JOURNALIST TOURS TO THE MIAMI AREA. 6/12/86
60. $10,000 TO SEND DISADVANTAGED YOUTH R-86-477 166-168
TO SUMMER CAMP IN LAKE PLACID. 6/12/86
— 61. DISCUSSION: COMPLAINTS CONCERNING DISCUSSION 168-170
AREA AT 1513 S.W. 11 TERRACE. 6/12/86
62. $15,000 FOR 1986 SUMMER POPS CONCERT R-86-478 171-172
—_ SERIES AT MARINE STADIUM. 6/12/86
— 63. GRANT $200,000 LOW INTEREST LOAN FOR M-86-479 172-178
THE COCONUT GROVE PLAYHOUSE. 6/12/86
64. SUPPORT OF INTERNATIONAL YOUTH R-86-480 178-179
SOCCER TOURNAMENT. 6/12/86
65. REFER TO MANAGER REQUEST FROM THE M-86-481S 179-181
INNER CITY CHILDREN TOURING DANCE 6/12/86
COMPANY.
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66.
REFER TO MANAGER REQUEST FROM
M-86-482
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6/12/86
AMERICAN FOURTH OF JULY STREET
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CELEBRATION.
67.
REFER TO MANAGER REQUEST FROM EDDY
M-86-483
182-183
EDWARDS FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL
6/12/86
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JAMAICA AWARENESS FESTIVAL.
68.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: INCREASE
FIRST
183-186
FEES COLLECTED BY CITY FOR SERVICES
READING
OF OFF —DUTY POLICE OFFICES. (SEE
6/12/86
LABEL #45)
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69.
CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE FOR
M-86-484
186-190
MANAGING UNDERWRITER FOR ISSUANCE OF
6/12/86
CITY'S GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING
BONDS. (SEE LABEL #35)
70.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ISSUANCE,
FIRST
190-194
SUBJECT TO ELECTION, OF $8,000,000
READING
GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR
6/12/86
BAYFRONT PARK REDEVELOPMENT.
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71.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: PROVIDE FOR
FIRST
194-195
ELECTION (SEPT. 2, 1987) FOR
READING
$8,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS
6/12/86
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FOR BAYFRONT PARK REDEVELOPMENT.
72.
DEFER DISCUSSION REGARDING STATUS OF
M-86-485
195-196
ONGOING CONSTRUCTION AND FUNDING FOR
6/12/86
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BAYFRONT PARK REDEVELOPMENT TO
COINCIDE WITH SECOND READING OF
GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND ORDINANCES.
73.
STABLES FOR POLICE HORSES AT
M-86-486
196-200
VIRGINIA KEY SHOULD NOT EXCEED
6/12/86
$500,000.
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74.
APPROVE EMERGENCY CONSTRUCTION OF
R-86-487
200-203
ORANGE BOWL STADIUM PRESS BOX ROOF
6/12/86
TOP CANOPY.
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75.
ALLOCATE $15,202.50 FOR HALF PAGE
R-86-488
203
BLACK/WHITE AD IN TIME MAGAZINE
6/12/86
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT OF U.S. HISPANIC
BUSINESS.
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76.
DEFER POSSIBLE FENCING OF THE DEAD
DISCUSSION
204-205
END SECTION OF ROYAL ROAD AT
6/12/86
FRANKLIN AVENUE.
77.
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: PROVIDE
FIRST
206
METHOD FOR AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER.
READING
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6/12/86
78.
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK ON F.R.E.
R-86-489
207-208
CONSTRUCTION CO. FOR EDSISON HIGHWAY
6/12/86
IMPROVEMENT PHASE I.
79.
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK OF LANZO
R-86-490
208
CONSTRUCTION CO. FOR WEST FLAGLER
6/12/86
STREET SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT
PHASE II.
80.
AUTHORIZE REIMBURSEMENT OF $2,800
R-86-491
209-213
INCURRED BY SPARBER, SHEVIN, ROSEN,
6/12/86
SHAPO & HEILBRONNER, CITY LOBBYIST.
81.
DEFER APPOINTMENT TO AUDIT ADVISORY
DISCUSSION
213-215
COMMITEE.
6/12/86
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82. APPOINT ARMANDO PARES TO WATERFRONT R112/862 215-216
BOARD.
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MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF THE
CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
On the 12th day of June, 1986, 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 9:05 O'Clock A.M. by Mayor Xavier
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Suarez with the following members of the Commission found to be present:
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
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Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
ALSO PRESENT:
Cesar Odio, City Manager
Lucia Allen Dougherty, City Attorney
Matty Hirai, City Clerk
An invocation was delivered by Mayor Suarez who then Zed those present
in a pledge of allegiance to the flag.
1. PRESENTATIONS: (1) Florida Peace Rides Day: (2) Hispanic Employees -
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Vicente Sierra; (3) Major George Adams, retired Policeman; (4) Off-
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Street Parking contribution of Citywide Microwave 800 MHZ Communication
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System. (Other presentations later same meeting: Miami Northwestern
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High School; Monty Trainer, Host Committee Chairman; and members of Host
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Committee for efforts in Miss USA Pageant.)
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Proclamation:
PRESENTED Florida Peace Rides Day: To be presented to the two
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cyclist, Dristi I. Pliske and Tilvila M. Hurwit.
Proclamation:
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PRESENTED City of Miami Hispanic Employees Association: To be
presented to the President, Vicente Sierra.
Plaque:
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PRESENTED Retirement plaque to be presented to Major George
Adams: Retired from the Police Department in February
of 1986.
Presentation:
PRESENTED
Contribution
to Citywide
Presented by
Parking.
by the Department of Off -Street Parking
Microwave 800 MHZ Communication System.
Roger Carlton, Director of Off -Street
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: The minutes of the Regular Meeting of February 12, 1986
and the Planning and Zoning Meeting of February 27, 1986 were approved.
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2. CONSENT AGENDA
Mayor Suarez: OK. We have the Consent Agenda, Items 1 through 29.1. I would
ask the Commissioners if they have any items that they would like to remove
from the Consent Agenda. Otherwise, we will vote on it collectively.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, the only one that I want a breakdown on is the money
of security going to the County. Which one is that Al? I want to make sure
that all of those...Item 20. I will ask that that be removed for discussion
purposes.
Mr. Odio: Which one is that?
Mr. Plummer: Yes. Do I have a breakdown of what that money is being spent
for? As we recall that the last time in the great wisdom of the County, one
of their ideas for spending money of security was to do the waterfront. Do I
have a backup on that? May I look at it please? Mr. Mayor, that's the only
Item that I have to ... is this different than the last one?
Mr. Odio: Yes, it is. Go ahead, explain.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, you can't do that right now.
Mayor Suarez: Why?
Ms. Kennedy: I would like to take out also #11. I was told that it's way
over the City's estimate.
Mayor Suarez: 11 has been removed.
Mr. Odio: And I would like to withdraw 22.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Plummer, which one did you ask to be...
Mr. Plummer: 20.
Mr. Dawkins: Why are we pulling 22, Mr. Manager?
Mr. Odio: The director of the department doesn't feel comfortable with this,
and he wants to review it and then bring it back it if he feels. Ron
Williams, since he just became director, he wants to review it.
Mr. Dawkins: I want to pull 13 and 25, Mr. Mayor, please.
Mayor Suarez: You got 11, 22, 20, 13, and 25. Not particularly in order, and
I'm going to pull 18 and 19, having to do with the Washington D.C. lobbyist.
OK. I will entertain a motion that Items 1 through 29.1 with the exception of
Items 11, 13, 18. 19, 20, 22 and 25 be approved by this Commission.
Ms. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Before the vote is taken on these items,
is there anyone present who is an objector to or a proponent and wishes to
speak on any of the items on the Consent Agenda, other than the ones that I
have pulled out? Hearing none the vote on the adoption of the Consent Agenda
can now be taken, please call the roll.
Ms. Hirai: Roll call, Ms. Kennedy?
Ms. Kennedy: Yes.
Ms. Hirai: Mr. Dawkins?
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, I'm sorry pull 2.
Mayor Suarez: And leaving out Item 2, also.
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Mr. Plummer: 2?
Ms. Hirai: Mr. Dawkins?
Mr. Dawkins: Wait a minute, hold it. Wait, bear with me one minute.
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Mayor Suarez: Take one second please Madam City Clerk.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, that's the regular two. OK. All right, that's it.
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Thereupon, the City Commission on motion introduced by Commissioner
Dawkins, seconded by Commissioner Kennedy adopted the following resolutions by
the following vote-
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AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
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Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
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Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
2.1 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ADVERTISE, RECEIVE AND ACCEPT
PROPOSALS FOR TEMPORARY NON-EXCLUSIVE CONCESSION PRIVILEGES AT
VIRGINIA KEY BEACH DURING THE CITY SPONSORED 1986 SPLASHDOWN
CONCERT SERIES SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 29, JULY 27, AND AUGUST 24,
1986.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-417
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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ADVERTISE,
RECEIVE AND ACCEPT PROPOSALS FOR TEMPORARY NON-EXCLUSIVE
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CONCESSION PRIVILEGES AT VIRGINIA KEY BEACH DURING THE CITY -
SPONSORED 1986 SPLASHDOWN CONCERT SERIES SCHEDULED FOR JUNE
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29, JULY 27 AND AUGUST 24, 1986, FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE
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ISSUANCE OF APPROXIMATELY SIXTY (60) TEMPORARY CONCESSION
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PERMITS TO THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS PROPOSERS, IN SUBSTANTIALLY
THE FORM ATTACHED.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.1A ALLOCATING $67,000.00 TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
FOR THE VIRGINIA BEACH FAMILY SPLASHDOWN DISCO '86 SERIES.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-418
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $67,000.00
FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, QUALITY OF LIFE FUND, TO
THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION FOR THE VIRGINIA
BEACH FAMILY SPLASHDOWN DISCO '86 SERIES.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.2 DEED ACCEPTANCE: THIRTY ONE (31) DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY
M. PURPOSES.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-419
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PROPER OFFICIALS OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI TO ACCEPT THIRTY ONE (31) 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.)
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2.3 PLAT ACCEPTANCE: B. D. GARDENS.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-420
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A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE PLAT ENTITLED B. D. GARDENS, AS
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SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MIAMI; AND ACCEPTING THE DEDICA-
TIONS SHOWN ON SAID PLAT: AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE
CITY MANAGER AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE PLAT AND PROVID-
ING FOR THE RECORDATION OF SAID PLAT IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS
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OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA.
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(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
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2.4 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANGER TO DISPOSE OF FURNISHINGS, WHICH WERE
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ACQUIRED AS A RESULT OF LAND ACQUISITION ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED
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WITH THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-421
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO DISPOSE OF
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FURNISHINGS, WHICH WERE ACQUIRED AS A RESULT OF LAND ACQUI-
SITION ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOUTHEAST
OVERTOWN/PARK WEST REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND ARE NOT GENER-
ALLY SALVAGEABLE, BY DONATING THESE FURNISHINGS TO SOCIAL
SERVICE AGENCIES AND CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS SERVING
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2.5 BID ACCEPTANCE: RADIO SHACK CO. FOR FURNISHING C. B. RADIO
EQUIPMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF
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$9, 300.00.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-422
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF RADIO SHACK CO. FOR
FURNISHING C.B. RADIO EQUIPMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE
AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $9,300.60; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND; 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.)
2.6 BID ACCEPTANCE: MONTE CAMPBELL CRANE FOR THE RENTAL OF FOUR (4)
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HYDRAULIC CRANES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRA-
TION AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $7,200.00.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-423
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF MONTE CAMPBELL CRANE FOR
THE RENTAL OF FOUR (4) HYDRAULIC CRANES TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF
$7,200.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1985-86 PUBLIC
FACILITIES DEPARTMENT OPERATING BUDGET; 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.)
2.7 BID ACCEPTANCE: P. A. SPORTSWEAR AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF
$4,362.54 FOR FURNISHING UNIFORM TEE SHIRTS AND JULES BROTHERS AT
A PROPOSED COST OF $1,636.80 FOR FURNISHING BASEBALL STYLE CAPS ON
A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES.
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RESOLUTION NO. 86-424
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BIDS OF P. A. SPORTSWEAR AT A
TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $4,362.54 FOR FURNISHING UNIFORM TEE
SHIRTS AND JULES BROTHERS AT A PROPOSED COST OF $1,636.80
FOR FURNISHING BASEBALL STYLE CAPS ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR
ONE (1) YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY TO THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE,
RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AT A TOTAL PROPOSED FIRST
YEAR COST OF $5,999.34; ALLOCATING FUND THEREFOR FROM THE
1985-86 OPERATING BUDGET; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE PURCHASE
ORDERS FOR THESE SUPPLIES.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.8 BID ACCEPTANCE: VENDEX INTERNATIONAL CORP. FOR FURNISHING 3M
BRAND "LIGHT WATER 3%/6X" AQUEOUS FIRM FORMING FOAM ON A CONTRACT
BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
FIRE, RESCUE & INSPECTION SERVICES AT A TOTAL PROPOSED FIRST YEAR
COST OF $4,659.00.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-425
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF VENDEX INTERNATIONAL
CORP. FOR FURNISHING 3M BRAND "LIGHT WATER 3%/6%: AQUEOUS
FIRM FORMING FOAM ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR
RENEWABLE ANNUALLY TO THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE &
INSPECTION SERVICES AT A TOTAL PROPOSED FIRST YEAR COST OF
$4,659.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1985-86
OPERATING BUDGET; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT
THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR
THIS PRODUCT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.9 BID ACCEPTANCE: IDEAL ROOFING AND SHEET METAL WORKS, INC. FOR
FIRE STATION NO. 4 - REROOFING.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-426
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF IDEAL ROOFING AND SHEET
METAL WORKS, INC. IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $68,618.00 BASE
BID OF THE PROPOSAL, FOR FIRE STATION NO. 4 - REROOFING;
WITH MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM "FIRE DEPARTMENT AND
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES GENERAL FUND" IN THE AMOUNT
OF $68,618.00 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.)
2.10 BID ACCEPTANCE: P.N.M. CORPORATION FOR CITY WIDE HIGHWAY IMPROVE-
MENT PHASE II B-4515.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-427
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF P.N.M. CORPORATION IN THE
PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $394,459.13, TOTAL BID OF THE PROPOSAL,
FOR CITY WIDE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE II B-4515; WITH
MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM "CITY WIDE PAVING IMPROVE-
MENTS - FY '86' ACCOUNT IN THE AMOUNT OF $394,459.13 TO
COVER THE CONTRACT COST; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH SAID FIRM; AND DIRECTING THE CITY
CLERK TO PUBLISH A NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR OBJECTIONS
TO THE ACCEPTANCE BY THE CITY COMMISSION OFF THE COMPLETED
CONSTRUCTION BY P.N.M. CORPORATION OF CITY WIDE HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II B-4515 UPON SATISFACTORY COMPLETION
OF SAID CONSTRUCTION.
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(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.11 BID ACCEPTANCE: JULES BROTHERS UNIFORMS FOR FURNISHING WORK
UNIFORMS ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY
CITY WIDE.
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RESOLUTION NO. 86-428
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A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF JULES BROTHERS UNIFORMS
FOR FURNISHING WORK UNIFORMS ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1)
YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY CITY WIDE AT A TOTAL PROPOSED FIRST
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YEAR COST OF $80,912.81; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE
1985-86 OPERATING BUDGET OF THE USING DEPARTMENTS; AUTHORIZ-
ING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT
OFFICER TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THESE MATERIALS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.12 ACCEPTANCE COMPLETED WORK: PENINSULAR ELECTRICAL COMPANY, INC.
FOR BICENTENNIAL PARK - PRIMARY ELECTRIC DUCT.
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RESOLUTION NO. 86-429
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF PENINSULAR
ELECTRICAL COMPANY, INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF $34,505.00 FOR
BICENTENNIAL PARK - PRIMARY ELECTRIC DUCT; AND AUTHORIZING A
FINAL PAYMENT OF $3,552.51.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.13 ORDERING RESOLUTION: MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE IV H-
4519.
RESOLUTION N0. 86-430
A RESOLUTION ORDERING MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE IV
H-4519 AND DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY AGAINST WHICH SPECIAL
ASSESSMENTS SHALL BE MADE FOR A PORTION OF THE COST THEREOF
AS MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT - PHASE IV H-4519.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.14 AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO NEGOTIATE AN AGREEMENT WITH
CERTAIN LAW FIRMS TO SERVE AS PRIMARY BOND COUNSEL FOR FURTHER
INDIVIDUAL CITY BOND ISSUES BETWEEN THIS DATE AND THE DATE OF THE
SECOND CITY COMMISSION MEETING IN NOVEMBER, 1987.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-431
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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO NEGOTIATE AN
AGREEMENT WITH CERTAIN LAW FIRMS TO SERVE AS PRIMARY BOND
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COUNSEL FOR FUTURE INDIVIDUAL CITY BOND ISSUES BETWEEN THIS
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DATE AND THE DATE OF THE SECOND CITY COMMISSION MEETING IN
NOVEMBER, 1987, WHICH AGREEMENT SHALL BE FAIR, COMPETITIVE
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AND REASONABLE IN THE JUDGMENT OF THE CITY ATTORNEY; DESIG-
NATING SAID FIRMS IN THE FOLLOWING RANK ORDER (A) GREENBERG,
TRAURIG, ASKEW, HOFFMAN. LIPOFF, ROSEN & QUENTEL; (B)
HOLLAND & KNIGHT; (C) BROAD AND CASSEL; PROVIDING THAT
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SHOULD THE CITY ATTORNEY BE UNABLE TO SUCCESSFULLY NEGOTIATE
AND AGREEMENT WITH THE FIRM THAT HAS BEEN SELECTED IN* RANK
ORDER THEN THE CITY ATTORNEY IS AUTHORIZED TO UNDERTAKE
NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE NEXT -RANKED FIRM AND IF NO ACCORD IS
REACHED WITH SAID FIRM THEN THE CITY ATTORNEY IS AUTHORIZED
TO HOLD NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE REMAINING FIRM; FURTHER
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PROVIDING THAT THE NEGOTIATED AGREEMENT BE PRESENTED TO THE
CITY COMMISSION FOR APPROVAL PRIOR TO EXECUTION THEREOF.
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Office of the City Clerk.)
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2.15 AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO ENTER INTO A SETTLEMENT STIPULA-
TION INN THE CASE OF ROLLE, ET. AL, V. CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-432
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO ENTER INTO A
SETTLEMENT STIPULATION IN THE CASE OF ROLLE, ET AL. B. CITY
OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, WHICH LITIGATION CHALLENGED THE USE OF
CERTAIN LANGUAGE THAT HAD BEEN INCLUDED IN A NONSUBSTANTIVE
CITY CHARTER AMENDMENT ADOPTED AT A SEPTEMBER, 1984 REFEREN-
DUM AS CONSTITUTING AN ARGUABLY SUBSTANTIVE CHARTER CHANGE,
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SAID STIPULATION PROVIDING FOR THE RESTORATION OF LANGUAGE,
IN CERTAIN CHALLENGED CHARTER SECTIONS, WHICH EXISTED IN THE
ORIGINAL CHARTER PRIOR TO SAID REFERENDUM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.16 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTUAL
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AGREEMENTS WITH FOUR (4) NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANI-
ZATIONS.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-433
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND INDIVID-
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UAL CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT WITH FOUR (4) NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOM-
IC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE
CITY ATTORNEY, TO WAIVE THE REQUIREMENT TO GENERATE THE
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AMOUNT OF SIXTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED ($16,500) AS SPECI-
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FIED BY ARTICLE III, SECTION 3.3 OF THE FY 1985-1986 CON-
TRACT DATED JANUARY 22, 1986.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
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2.17 RATIFYING, APPROVING, AND CONFIRMING THE AMENDMENT NO. 2 DATED
SEPTEMBER 26, 1985, AMENDING THE MARCH 1, 1984 AGREEMENT BETWEEN
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THE CITY AND NEW WASHINGTON HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONFER-
ENCE, INC. ("NWHCDC") .
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RESOLUTION NO. 86-434
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING, APPROVING, AND CONFIRMING AMENDMENT
NO. 2, DATED SEPTEMBER 26, 1985, AMENDING THE MARCH 1, 1984
AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT") BETWEEN THE CITY AND NEW WASHINGTON
HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE, INC. ("NWHCDC"),
WHEREBY THE TERM OF SAID AGREEMENT WAS EXTENDED TO DECEMBER
31, 1985 AND NWHCDC'S BUDGET WORK PLAN WAS AMENDED; FURTHER
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A THIRD AMENDMENT TO
SAID AGREEMENT WHEREBY THE TERM IS EXTENDED TO MAY 9, 1987,
THE WORK PLAN IS AMENDED TO CHANGE THE SITE FOR THE PROPOSED
HOTEL DEVELOPMENT ("PROJECT"), AND THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
BUDGET IS MODIFIED TO ALLOW NWHCDC CONTINUE TO USE THE
BALANCE OF THE FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR THE MARCH 1, 1984
AGREEMENT; FURTHER EXTENDING THE TIME WITHIN WHICH NWHCDC
HAS TO PRESENT A FINANCIAL PACKAGE TO THE CITY IN CONNECTION
WITH THE PROJECT UNTIL MAY 9, 1987.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
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2.18 APPROVING THE CITY ATTORNEY'S SELECTION AND AUTHORIZING THE
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EMPLOYMENT OF THE LAW FIRM OF GREENBERG, TRAURIG, ASKEW, HOFFMAN,
LIFOFF, TOSEN & QUENTAL, P.A. TO SERVE AS PRIMARY BOND COUNSEL FOR
THE ISSUANCE OF $22,000,000 CITY GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, SERIES
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RESOLUTION NO. 86-435
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE CITY ATTORNEY'S SELECTION AND
AUTHORIZING THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE LAW FIRM OF GREENBERG,
TRAURIG, ASKEW, HOFFMAN, LIFOFF, ROSEN & QUENTAL, P.A. TO
SERVE AS PRIMARY BOND COUNSEL FOR THE ISSUANCE OF
$22,000,000 CITY GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, SERIES 1986, SAID
LAW FIRM TO RECEIVE PAYMENT FOR SERVICES AT THE HOURLY RATES
SET FORTH IN ITS MAY 1, 1986 CORRESPONDENCE TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY, SUBJECT TO A MAXIMUM PAYMENT OF $1.00 PER $1,000
OF BONDS ISSUED ($22,000) WITH THE MONIES THEREFOR TO BE
PAID FROM THE PROCEEDS OF THE SALE OF SAID BONDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.19 APPROVING THE FORM OF THE PRELIMINARY OFFICIAL STATEMENT PERTAIN-
ING TO $22,000,000 OF CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA GENERAL OBLIGATION
BONDS.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-436
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE FORM OF THE PRELIMINARY OFFICIAL
STATEMENT PERTAINING TO $22,000,000 OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND AUTHORIZING THE DISTRI-
BUTION OF THE PRELIMINARY OFFICIAL STATEMENT TO PROSPECTIVE
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PURCHASERS OF SUCH BONDS AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR
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TO EXECUTE THE FINAL OFFICIAL STATEMENT PERTAINING TO SUCH
BONDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.20 FIXING CERTAIN DETAILS CONCERNING $12,000,000 POLICE HEADQUARTERS
AND CRIME PREVENTION FACILITIES BONDS, $5,000,000 STORM SEWER
IMPROVEMENT BONDS, $3,000,000 SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM BONDS AND
$2,000,000 STREET AND HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT BONDS.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-437
A RESOLUTION FIXING CERTAIN DETAILS CONCERNING $12,000,000
POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND CRIME PREVENTION FACILITIES BONDS,
$5,000.000 STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENT BONDS, $3,000,000 SANI-
TARY SEWER SYSTEM BONDS AND $2,000,000 STREET AND HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT BONDS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA AND DIRECT-
ING PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF SALE OF SAID BONDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
2.21 AUTHORIZING CONSULTANT SELECTION PROCEDURES DESIGNING THE LAND
SURVEYING SERVICES FOR CITY OF MIAMI PROJECTS - 1986 AS A CATEGORY
"B" PROJECT; APPOINTING A CERTIFICATION COMMITTEE OF NOT LESS THAN
THREE (3) QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS; APPROVING THE CITY MANAGER'S
APPOINTMENT OF A COMPETITIVE SELECTION COMMITTEE OF NOT LESS THAN
SIX (6) MEMBERS; AND APPOINT JIM LEUKANECH P.E., AS CHAIRPERSON OF
THE COMPETITIVE SELECTION COMMITTEE.
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A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING THE LAND SURVEYING SERVICES FOR
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CITY OF MIAMI PROJECTS - 1986 A CATEGORY "B" PROJECT;
APPOINTING A CERTIFICATION COMMITTEE OF NOT LESS THAN THREE
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(3) QUALIFIED PROFESSIONALS; APPROVING THE CITY MANAGER'S
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APPOINTMENT OF A COMPETITIVE SELECTION COMMITTEE OF NOT LESS
THAN SIX (6) MEMBERS; AND APPOINT JAM LEUKANECH P.E., A
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MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS
(NSPE), DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, AS CHAIRPERSON OF THE
COMPETITIVE SELECTION COMMITTEE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ORDI-
NANCE NO. 9572 ADOPTED FEBRUARY 10, 1983, AND THE PROVISIONS
OF SECTION 18.52.3 OF THE CITY CODE, WHICH LEGISLATION
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ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES FOR PROCURING SAID PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES, AND ALSO ESTABLISHED COMPETITIVE NEGOTIATION
REQUIREMENTS WITH REGARD TO THE FURNISHING OF SUCH SERVICES.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
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2.22 ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED FORTY EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
($48,000.00 FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND TO
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COVER THE NECESSARY COSTS AND EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACQUI -
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SITION OF CONSULTANT SERVICES OF A CRISIS COUNSELOR, TO BE AVAIL-
ABLE FORTY (40) HOURS WEEKLY AND TO PROVIDE SERVICES ON A 24 HOUR
ON -CALL BASIS TO ADMINISTER TO THE NEEDS OF THE MIAMI POLICE
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DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL.
RESOLUTION NO. 86-439
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF
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FUNDS, AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED FORTY EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
($48,000.00) FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST
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FUND; MONIES TO COVER THE NECESSARY COST AND EXPENSES
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ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACQUISITION OF CONSULTANT SERVICES OF A
CRISIS COUNSELOR, TO BE AVAILABLE FORTY (40 HOURS WEEKLY AND
TO PROVIDE SERVICES ON A 24 HOUR ON -CALL BASIS TO ADMINISTER
TO THE NEEDS OF THE MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL;
FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREE-
MENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM WITH MELBRON E.
SELF FOR CONSULTANT SERVICES AS A CRISIS COUNSELOR FOR ONE
(1) YEAR, WITH AN OPTION TO EXTEND UNDER THE SAME TERMS AND
CONDITIONS FOR AN ADDITIONAL PERIOD.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the
Office of the City Clerk.)
3. BID ACCEPTANCE: MIRI CONSTRUCTION INC. - CITYWIDE SANITARY SEWER RE-
PLACEMENT, DESIGN PLAZA.
Mayor Suarez: Can we go to Item 11?
Ms. Kennedy: I understand that this is the only company that bid and the
estimate is way over the City's estimate.
Mr. Don Cather: This item was estimated by the department at fifty thousand.
It's a fairly small bid. It came in at sixty-nine thousand dollars which is
over the proposed, you know, limit that you put on it. However, it's a short
piece of work and it was a piece of work that was requested by citizens coming
in here on several occasions requesting that this work be done.
Mr. Plummer: What was our limit? Five percent or ten percent over bid?
Mayor Suarez: Five.
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Mr. Cather: Five percent. And we had only one bid for this work.
Mayor Suarez: Is there any urgency to proceeding with this?
Mr. Cather: Furthermore, the Metropolitan Dade County Water and Sewer Author-
ity is reimbursing us for the entire amount.
Mayor Suarez: That's a nice wrinkle on it.
Mr. Cather: And they have agreed to this price.
Ms. Kennedy: OK.
Mr. Cather: So, it cost the City nothing.
Sr: Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mr. Kennedy: OK. Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Satisfied. OK. It's been moved.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded, any further discussion from the Commission, call the
roll on Item 11.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-440
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF MIRI CONSTRUCTION, INC.
IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $69,877.50, TOTAL BASE BID OF
THE PROPOSAL, FOR CITY WIDE SANITARY SEWER REPLACEMENT -
DESIGN PLAZA - SR-5524; WITH MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED
FROM "CITY WIDE SANITARY SEWER EXTENSION IMPROVEMENTS - 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.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
4. CONTINUE DONATION OF 36 GOLF TEE MARKERS (See labels #21 and 31).
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Dawkins, wanted to reopen consideration of Item 2.
Mr. Dawkins: Who can speak to Item 2?
Mr. Odio: Jack Eads.
Mayor Suarez: Prior to taking a motion to reconsider, let's see if we can
solve the problem.
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Mr. Dawkins: It says that you are going to give golf scholarships. Where
will these golf scholarships go? What will they... I mean, what does it
consist of and what is it?
Mr. Al Howard: OK. The monies obtained from the tee markers to the Woman's
Club will go to the youth within the City of Miami for golf scholarships
either to F.I.U. or to the downtown Dade Campus for a two year scholarship.
Mr. Dawkins: How do they determine who?
Mr. Al Howard: It would finally have to be approved by the City.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, development of the Junior Golf where? Because I
don't see them developing it in my area.
Mr. Howard: At both Miami. ..yes, we do have it from the area over at Miami
Springs right now, as a matter fact.
Mr. Dawkins: You got a junior golf team in Liberty City?
Mr. Howard: Yes, we have children from Liberty City coming over being trained
right now in Miami Springs.
Mr. Dawkins: Coming over to where?
Mr. Howard: Miami Springs every Saturday morning.
Mr. Dawkins: How do they get over there, sir?
Mr. Howard: They are brought over there by volunteers. We have about twenty-
two children in the class now on Saturday mornings and they will go right
through the summer two days a week.
Mr. Dawkins: You got kids from Wynwood?
Mr. Howard: We have kids from Wynwood, all over the City basically coming.
We got them to the playgrounds and they are brought over and they are given
free instructions on Saturday...
Mr. Dawkins: When does this happen?
Mr. Howard: Also, with clubs.
Mr. Dawkins: Where does this happen?
Mr. Howard: At Miami Springs.
Mr. Dawkins: What time? When?
Mr. Howard: Saturday mornings.
Mr. Dawkins: What time?
Mr. Howard: About 11:00, between 9 until 11.
Mr. Dawkins: I'm going to pass this and I will be there 11:00 Saturday
morning. If I do not see kids from Overtown, Liberty City, Wynwood and the
other areas, then I will be ready to revisit this at the next Commission
meeting. I move 2. I mean, go ahead and put it in with the Consent Agenda.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Ms. Kennedy: I second.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I will second it for purposes of discussion, but as I read
on my agenda, we are not passing anything here about scholarships.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: No, we are not.
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Mr. Dawkins: "If the City were to provide these signs in - house, the cost
would be five thousand dollars for both clubs."
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Mr. Plummer: No, no, excuse me, Commissioner?
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Mr. Dawkins: Wait now. "In addition to maintenance, the Woman Golf Associ-
ation at each course will receive seventy-five dollars per sign. It is
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therefore, recommended that the City Manager be authorized to accept it," and
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then it goes on to tell me that what they are going to do with the seventy-
five dollars is give golf scholarships.
Mr. Plummer: Commissioner, I beg of you to read the item on the agenda. All
we are doing by the agenda item...
Mr. Dawkins: I move that Item 2 be continued until I can get a thorough
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understanding of what I'm talking about.
Mr. Plummer: ... is accepting 36 golf tee markers period.
Mr. Dawkins: I move that Item 2 be continued until I can get a good under-
standing of what I'm talking about.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: OK. We have a motion first to reopen consideration of Item 2
and it's been seconded. Can we treat it as such Commissioner, so we can go
through it?
Mr. Dawkins: I beg your pardon.
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Mayor Suarez: We move to reconsider first and then move to continue it, just
to keep the formality here?
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Mr. Dawkins: Yes, uh huh.
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THEREUPON A MOTION was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by
Commission Plummer to reconsider Item 2 and was adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Mayor Suarez: Yes, a motion to continue. Moved and seconded?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Is that correct? OK. Any further discussion please call the
roll.
{ THEREUPON A MOTION was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by
` Commission Plummer to continue Item 2 and was adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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5. BID ACCEPTANCE: HELENA CHEMICAL CO. FOR WEED KILLER.
Mayor Suarez: Item 13.
Mr. Plummer: 13?
Mayor Suarez: Somebody asked for that ... one of the Commissioners asked for
that to be pulled out from the Consent Agenda. Hopefully.
r Mr. Odio: What is the question on?
Mr. Plummer: Weed killer.
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, that's 13. Me, I pulled it.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Why is it that we do not have weed and feed fertilizer and put
fi it on the parks. If you go to any park in the City of Miami, all we got in
the grass is weeds, but yet we continue to purchase weed killer to put around
the post so that we ---which I understand ---so that we do not have to hire
F people to constantly move it, but why don't we purchase weed and feed fertil-
izer, because I live across the street from Hadley Park. It hasn't been
fertilized in five years. Now, if anybody can prove me wrong, I stand cor-
rected.
3 Mr. Walter Golby: Mr. Dawkins, in its operation we should have both items. I
mean, we need the weed killer for a specific item. I will be glad to check
into the weed and feed situation as far as the grass is concerned.
Mr. Dawkins: Since you just got the job, sir, I have to bear with you. All
right.
Mr. Odio: That's a good thing about being new.
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Mayor Suarez: I will entertain a motion on...
Mr. Dawkins: Move 13.
Mayor Suarez: ... 13 and...
Mr. Plummer: Second.
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Mayor Suarez:...Mr. Golby's new job. Moved and seconded, any further discus-
sion from the Commission? Please call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
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moved its adoption:
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RESOLUTION NO. 86-441
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A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF HELENA CHEMICAL CO. FOR
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FURNISHING WEED KILLER ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1)
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YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY TO THE DEPARTMENTS OF PARKS AND
RECREATIONS AND PUBLIC WORKS AT A TOTAL PROPOSED FIRST
YEAR COST OF $31,936.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM
THE 1985-86 OPERATING BUDGET; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER
TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER TO ISSUE PUR-
CHASE ORDERS FOR THIS PRODUCT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
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and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed
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and adopted by the following vote-
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
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Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
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ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
6. AGREEMENT WITH SYLVESTER LUKIS FOR LEGISLATIVE CONSULTANT SERVICES.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Commissioner Carollo entered the meeting at 9:28 A. M.
Mayor Suarez: Items 18 and 19, I have asked to pull out. Let me tell the
Commission what I feel about the respective compensation to Mr. Lukis and the
corporation that Mark Israel is a member of and which is called the National
Center For Municipal Development, that being included in Item 19. Mr. City
Manager?
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Madam Assistant City Manager, what was the compensation paid
last year to the National Center For Municipal Development?
Ms. Pauline Winick: The same as this year's. It's flat, twenty grand. There
is no increase at all.
Mayor Suarez: I would like to tell this Commission, that from my experiences,
Mr. Mark Israel, has been extremely helpful in my three trips to the Congress
_ and Mr. Lukis has been good in reporting the legislation and what's going on
in Congress, but not nearly as helpful as Mark Israel. who has been a fantas-
tic facilitator. I would like to propose that maybe we increase... can't we
- s increase the amount to the Municipal...
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Ms. Winick: Why do we want to, Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry.
Ms. Winick: With all due respect, why do we want to since it has not been
proffered by ... he hasn't asked for more money.
Mayor Suarez: He hasn't asked for more?
Mr. Odio: No.
Ms. Kennedy: He hasn't asked for anything has he?
Mayor Suarez: Well, I'm not going to give him anything he hasn't asked for.
Mr. Odio: He is very happy.
Mayor Suarez: How about the other firm under Item 18? How much did they get
paid last year?
Ms. Winick: Lukis?
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Ms. Winick: They got forty-five and they have asked for an increase of three
thousand dollars.
Mayor Suarez: Of how much?
Ms. Winick: Three thousand over the year.
Mayor Suarez: Now, didn't Mr. Lukis split up with former Congressman Kramer?
Ms. Winick: Yes. The history is that...
Mr. Odio: Kramer and Kramer.
Ms. Winick: Right, and the City of Miami formerly had a contract with Kramer
Haber and Lukis. it's really....we have gone through an extensive series of
research, checking into things and without disparaging either of those two
gentlemen, I think it's fair to say that the leg work and the brain power,
especially, on behalf of the City of Miami, was primarily performed by Mr.
Lukis, and that's ... he knows our stuff inside and out.
Mr. Plummer: Well, what about Kramer?
Mr. Dawkins: I have been to Washington and every time I have gone up there,
the only person that's gone any place with me to lobby has been Mr. Lukis.
Mr. Kramer sits in the office and waits for Lukis to bring the check back.
Ms. Kennedy: I would imagine Mr. Kramer could open some doors, and that's
probably his role in this. I don't know.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, he hasn't open a one since I have been up there, and the
U.D.A.G Grant that we are about to get through the generosity of Paula Hawkins
was lobbied and walked through by Lukis, and when I went in to talk with Mr.
Kramer, he did even know what the hell we were doing.
Mayor Suarez: I will defer to Commissioner Dawkins' experience with Mr.
Lukis. I don't think his compensation should be increased. I would leave the
figure what it was. For three thousand dollars, we are not going to argue at
this point, at least not from my prospective. I'm ready to vote on both of
these items.
Mr. Dawkins: Are we giving them the increase or are we keeping it where it
is?
Mayor Suarez: I guess.
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Ms. Winick: I'm proposing the increase.
Mr. Dawkins: I don't know, I'm asking...
Ms. Kennedy: I don't know why we should increase it.
Mr. Dawkins: I don't know, I'm asking ---I don't know, I say, well, we need to
say what we are going to do.
Mayor Suarez: No, I would take either figure. I would prefer to have
the
former figure, I mean, the smaller figure, what he used to get paid.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. We will take ... I have no...look, the way we have
been
trying to save money, I have no problems with that.
Mayor Suarez: That was forty-five instead of forty-eight?
Ms. Winick: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Can you reflect that the motion to be made would have
the
figure of forty-five for Item 18, instead of forty-eight.
Mr. Odio: Got it.
Mayor Suarez: Would somebody move that please?
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
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Ms. Kennedy: So move.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, please call the roll on Item 18.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-442
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANGER TO EXECUTE AN
AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH
SYLVESTER LUKIS ASSOCIATES, FOR PROFESSIONAL LEGISLA-
TIVE CONSULTANT SERVICES CONCERNING FEDERAL LEGISLA-
TION WHICH IMPACTS ON THE CITY OF MIAMI AND ITS
CITIZENS; ALLOCATING THEREFOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$45,000 FOR SUCH SERVICES, AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$3,000 FOR REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES FROM THE LEGISLATIVE
LIAISON GENERAL FUND.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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7. REPRESENTATION OF MIAMI IN WASHINGTON, D. C. BY MARK ISRAEL.
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Mayor Suarez: I would entertain a motion on Item 19 now, the related item.
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Mr. Plummer: So move.
Mayor Suarez: Moved. Second please?
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Mr. Dawkins: Second.
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Mayor Suarez: Seconded, please call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
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RESOLUTION NO. 86-443
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A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
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AN AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH
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THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT, INC.,
TO CONTINUE REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI IN
WASHINGTON, D. C. BY MR. MARK ISRAEL; ALLOCATING
THEREFOR AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $20,000 FOR SUCH
SERVICES, AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $4,000 FOR
REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND
ACCOUNTS, SPECIAL SERVICES, LIAISON, MAN IN WASHINGTON
PROGRAM.
( Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
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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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
S. AGREEMENT WITH METRO-DADE COUNTY FOR PUBLIC HOUSING SAFETY/SECURITY
IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.
Mayor Suarez: Item 20. It was pulled out of the Consent Agenda.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, that was myself, in reference to the security stuff
for the ---jointly with the County and I am satisfied that all of those items
here are, in fact, items which do relate to security and I would move Item 20.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So, moved, seconded and thirded, please call the roll, hearing
no further discussion from the Commission.
Id 17 June 12, 1986
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-444
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
AN AGREEMENT IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTOR-
NEY, WITH METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY FOR THE PURPOSE OF
IMPLEMENTING THE PUBLIC HOUSING SAFETY/SECURITY
IMPROVEMENT PROJECT; AND ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($250,000)
IN 11TH YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS
TO METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY IN CONNECTION WITH ACTIVI-
TIES TO BE IMPLEMENTED BY DADE COUNTY'S DEPARTMENT OF
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT; SAID ALLOCATIONS
CONDITIONED UPON METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY PROVIDING
MATCHING FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF TWO HUNDRED FIFTY
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($250,000) FOR THE PURPOSE OF UNDER-
TAKING THE SAID IMPROVEMENTS TO PUBLIC HOUSING
PROJECTS LOCATED IN THE CITY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez -
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: Congratulations to you, everyone worked very hard to put
together this compromise after we reached an impasse the last time around.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Item 22 was withdrawn.
9. AGREEMENT WITH ALBERT R. PEREZ ASSOC. FOR DINNER KEY MARINA RENOVATION.
Mr. Dawkins: On 25, was this put out for bid?
Mr. Don Cather: No, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Why not, sir?
Mr. Cather: Albert Perez was the original landscape architect working for
Greenleaf Telesca. When Greenleaf Telesca went broke, bankrupt, they were
owed approximately thirty thousand dollars. We attempted to negotiate with
Perez at the time. We were unsuccessful. I postponed until we needed his
services, and we have renegotiated it down to nine thousand two hundred
dollars to complete the work he did in the first place, plus some additional
work. We need to coordinate the land side with the dock side in the comple-
tion of the Dinner Plan so we can let them out for bid, and his services are
very much needed at this time. He was one of the original selectors ---subcon-
tractors for Greenleaf Telesca.
Mr. Plummer: But how do you circumvent the Charter that says anything over
_ forty-five hundred dollars has to be bid?
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Mr. Cather: It doesn't say it has to be bid for professional services. This
man has already been selected. We are just renegotiating his fee to complete
the work that was under the Greenleaf Telesca contract, just like we did with
the mechanical, electrical and structural, and we are completing the civil
work.
Mayor Suarez: Anything over forty-five hundred dollars has to be approved by
the Commission, but in the case of professional...
Mr. Plummer: Not professional, that's where I made the mistake.
Mayor Suarez:...services, not bid, I guess. All right.
Mr. Carollo: Commissioner Kennedy?
Mr. Plummer: What assurances do we have if we vote for this, that this is
going to be done and not like the last one? Is there a performance bond?
Mr. Cather: Well, number ... he has insurance and ---errors and admissions
insurance. We don't require...
Mr. Plummer: That's fine. Insurance isn't worth a damn on the last contract.
We lost our money.
Mr. Cather: We are not going to pay him, Mr. Plummer, until we get our plans.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Carollo: Commissioner Kennedy, is there anything else you would like to
say about, Mr. Perez?
Mr. Odio: Which Perez? _
Ms. Kennedy: That's a different Perez.
Mr. Plummer: If you have seen one, you have seen them all. ,
Mr. Dawkins: Well, I have got a problem with it, OK, because ... but since you
say that this is needed and what have you, but I want to see some Black folks
when you all decide to hand out some of these damn contracts without bid. I
don't never see one of them up here. You all don't never ... No, Mr. Manager,
you don't never find a Black contractor out there to hand a damn thing. OK.
And every time I look you can find no...I mean, you, administration can find
ways to do what they want to do. So, now let's find ways to do that, OK?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: For nonprofessional contracts in 1984 and maybe even 1985,
Public Works allotment of contracts reflected a zero per - cent Black partici-
pation.
Mr. Odio: Oh, there is not question that's wrong and we are going to change
that, but it just takes time to make them...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, the clock just stopped ticking, you have just run out of
time.
Mr. Odio: Yes sir.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. Move 25.
Mayor Suarez: Item 25 has been moved, seconded, any further discussion from
the Commission, please call the roll.
Id 19 June 12, 1986
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
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RESOLUTION NO. 86-445
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
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AN AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED
HERETO, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND ALBERT R. PEREZ
ASSOCIATES, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, TO PROVIDE PROFES-
SIONAL SERVICES RELATED TO THE LANDSIDE IMPROVEMENTS
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ASSOCIATED WITH COMPLETION OF THE DINNER KEY MARINA
RENOVATION AND EXPANSION PROJECT FOR A FEE OF $9,20O;
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE DINNER KEY MARINA
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RETAINED EARNINGS 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 Joe Carollo
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Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
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Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Odio: For the record Commissioner I was — just informed in the last
Commission meeting we awarded a million two hundred thousand dollars to Black
contractors. So,... '
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Mayor Suarez: A Public Works project?.
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: From the Department of Public Works?
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Mr. Dawkins: And it was bided.
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Mr. Odio: It was...
Mr. Dawkins: It was a bid?
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, it was a bid.
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: It was not awarded. He bid and won it.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. All right, now... see let's don't mix apples and oranges.
Mr. Odio: But even before with bids they never got any.
Mayor Suarez: Is that the first major one to a Black contractor, Don?
Mr. Cather: Yes, that is. That's the first time they have bid. We have had
subcontractors...
Mayor Suarez: No, I mean, is that the first....
Mr. Cather: Black subcontractors on contracts. This is a professional...
Id 20 June 12. 1986
Mr. Dawkins: OK. Let me ask you a question. All right, wait now, wait.
Let's don't mix apples and oranges. OK. You just said that this was a
professional contract and it didn't require bidding. Now, name me the Black
professionals that you have given a contract to, don't tell me about the Black
contractors who won the bid. Name me...
Mr. Cather: Ron Frazier, the engineer ---the professional people who did the
training center for the police stress unit. Another engineer...
Mr. Dawkins: What, what..# that wasn't bid?
Mr. Cather:...did our work at Manor Park.
Mr. Dawkins: That wasn't bid?
Mr. Cather: No, those were all selected by the Consultant Selection Act.
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, but it was a selected bid?
Mr. Cather: No, it wasn't a bid at all, it was a consultant selection.
Mr. Dawkins: I tell you what now...I tell you what, take 25 and continue it
until me and you can sit down, and you can show me what you are talking about.
Mr. Cather: Certainly.
Mr. Dawkins: Continue 25.
Mr. Odio: Can I point something out, sir? If we don't finish this...
Mr. Dawkins: I know that, but you see ---I mean, all right, but he is going to
sit up...
Mr. Odio: We are going to lose the permit from the Corps of Engineers.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, that's fine. I went along with it and told you that
I could sit down and discuss it, but now he wants to discuss it here. So, I
don't have no problems with it. Ok?
Mr. Odio: No, no.
Mr. Dawkins: So, just continue it and then me and him can get together,
instead of you and me. Ok?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Now...
Mayor Suarez: We have a motion to reconsider...
Mr. Dawkins: No, that's all right. You need this?
Mr. Odio: If we don't do this, we are going to lose the Corps of Engineers
permits, if we don't get moving on this, and we have been working for five
years to get those permits.
Mayor Suarez: Is the told fee nine thousand two hundred dollars?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it and I will get with you and request that you let me.know
what we are doing on everyone of them and then I can see. Move 25 please.
Ms. Kennedy: Second.
— _— Mayor Suarez: 25 has been moved and seconded. I want to caution the Director
of Public Works Department that we have had trouble with his Department, as
stated before, in terms of minority participation in contracts. Commissioner
Dawkins is raising the issue of professional agreements, professional services
agreements, and he better get with Commissioner Dawkins and/or myself or other
Id 21 June 12, 1986
members of the Commission to straighten out the problem, Mr. City Manager,
because it's really quite disconcerting. At the N.A.A.C.P. meeting last
night, they were asking a lot about that. Moved and seconded, please call the
roll.
Ms. Hirai: The roll has been called Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you. We have finished the Consent Agenda.
10. A- RECONSIDER PROCURING POLICE CRISIS COUNSELOR
B- RESCIND AND DEFER PROCURING POLICE CRISIS COUNSELOR.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Commissioner.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, sir, I did not pull it because it's under a subter-
fuge. I would like to discuss this preacher for forty-eight thousand dollars.
Mayor Suarez: That's the subterfuge agenda.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I would like to pull from that 29.1. Before they were
honest and put on here that it was a preacher for forty -eighty thousand
dollars. Now, they are calling him by a different name, and I would like to
know if that went out for bidding, because this City is now spending almost a
million dollars in counselors and psychological testing, and when this was
formally on this agenda it was for a forty-eight thousand dollars which is an
awful lot of money. I would like to know what the background ... I would like
to ask that this item be deferred at this time. I would like to know what the
background is on this individual, and why we have to pay forty-eight thousand
dollars for a so-called...now he is called a crisis counselor before he was
called a minister. So, I would ask that this item be deferred at this time
until we can get further information.
Mr. Odio: Can he give you the information now?
Mr. Dawkins: This is about the fifth time we have deferred this item.
Mr. Plummer: I would still move to defer this until we can get further
information.
Mr. Dawkins: I second my colleague's motion to defer.
Mayor Suarez: Moved to reconsider and defer.
Mr. Dawkins: But this has been the fifth time that this one item has been
deferred.
Mayor Suarez: What happen to our City Attorney? Can I do that motion jointly
to reconsider and defer? I'm not doing it just because of one Item, but...
Mr. Plummer: The question Mr. Manager, that I want to know is the background
and the experience of this person as a guidance counselor or crisis counselor,
whether or not this item was bid. and I will be honest and on the record, I
have had calls from other Chaplains who have inquired, why is one Chaplain
getting forty-eight thousand dollars and the amenities and the others aren't,
and that's the kind of questions that I will be asking. Did you call the
roll?
Mayor Suarez: We have a motion to reconsider and continue.
Attorney, can we do it together?
Ms. Dougherty: Yes.
Madam City
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Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, any further discussion from the Commission?
Please call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-446.1
A MOTION TO RECONSIDER PREVIOUSLY TAKEN VOTE ON AGENDA
ITEM 29.1 (PROCURING PROFESSIONAL SERVICES FROM A
CRISIS COUNSELOR - POLICE DEPARTMENT); AND EXPRESSING
THE INTENT OF THE COMMISSION TO PASS A RESOLUTION
RESCINDING SAID ACTION AND DEFERRING SAME TO A FUTURE
MEETING.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-446.2
A RESOLUTION RESCINDING, IN ITS ENTIRETY, RESOLUTION
NO. 86-439, ADOPTED JUNE 12, 1986, WHICH HAD ALLOCATED
FUNDS TO COVER THE COST OF CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR A
CRISIS COUNSELOR SERVING THE NEEDS OF THE POLICE
DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL; DEFERRING FURTHER CONSIDERATION
OF THIS SUBJECT UNTIL A FUTURE MEETING OF THE CITY
COMMISSION.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
N= FOR THE RECORD: Proclamation presented to Miami Northwestern Senior High
School for their accomplishments in improving the scores of the State Student
Assessment Tests.
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11. DISCUSSION: LAND -RELATED LITIGATION; LEASE WITH DOLPHINS.
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Mr. Dawkins:
Mr. Mayor, I had one thing that
I really need for us to know and
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will need to know this.
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Mayor Suarez:
I have one thing I really need
and that's my chair.
Mr. Dawkins:
And you may have it. I don't
want to be the Mayor. I don't
want to be the
Mayor.
Mr. Plummer:
Boy, Miller, that's a subtle way
of telling him something.
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Mr. Carollo:
Yes, I guess the Mayor is always
afraid of losing his chair.
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Mayor Suarez:
Amen.
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Mr. Dawkins: The City Attorney sent all of us a package regarding some
y incidents that she was discussing, and this was the one that you all received
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x and it said land related litigation. Now, fellow Commissioners, the thing I
have a problem with here is, and it's number three, and it says, "Sam Rogers
and Delores Rogers versus the Miami Dolphin Limited in the City of Miami
f. Circuit Court. This case has an exposure of approximately one hundred thou-
sand dollars and etc. Now, the liability potential is for us now, because of
some technicalities and Joe Robbie, not paying insurance and our people not
paying it. So, I think that whatever the reason is, I would like for the City
'= Attorney to explain it to this Commission what happened, so that we can be
sure that the citizens of Miami are protected against liabilities like this.
Can you tell us what happened Madam City Attorney please?
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Ms. Dougherty: Yes, sir. When we entered into a lease with the Dolphins,
there was a clause in there that they would indemnify us. It was ambiguous to
the extent that it didn't necessarily cover the outside portion. The original
y* insurance binder that was submitted to the City did include the parking lots
and the maintenance responsibilities. Then a new insurance binder was submit-
ted to the City without the maintenance responsibility for the parking lots,
that also became part of the litigation that the City enter into with Joe
Robbie, and in the settlement of that litigation we now have insurance cover-
age for both the parking lots and the maintenance. So, there was a three year
period of time that there was no insurance covering the City of Miami for the
parking lot maintenance. That's...
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager?
Mr. Odio: Yes.
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Mr. Dawkins: Who is responsible for keeping up with our risks and being sure
i that we are covered?
Mr. Odio: The department of Finance under the division of Insurance.
Mr. Dawkins: Risk Management?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
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Mr. Dawkins: Can you give an explanation why with the money you are paying
those individuals over there, that for three years the City of Miami was not
-AM covered, and let me know why.
- Mr. Odio: I think we can tell you.
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Mr. Carlos Garcia: This item was litigated and the insurance company paid the
d total amount of a hundred thousand dollars to the City. That's my understand-
ing. Don, you address the...
Mr. Don Dunlap; Yes, Commissioner, we ... what happened in this particular
situation is the Dolphins unilaterally modified their insurance agreement,
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their insurance policy. We discovered it as a result of this claim and other
claims, and then assisted the City Attorney's Office in forcing the Dolphins
to put coverage back in. The exclusion was what they thought paralleled their
agreement. Our opinion was that the insurance provisions stood separate from
the agreement and should be enforce accordingly, and that was litigated in
court and we picked it up. Unfortunately, we picked it up after a lawsuit.
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Mr. Dawkins: OK. All right, what ---for my benefit ---what does unilaterally
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mean?
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Mr. Don Dunlap: That means they did it on their own with consulting us.
Mayor Suarez: Did the contract require them to provide copies of their
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insurance policies at all times?
Mr. Don Dunlap: It required them to provide a copy of the insurance certifi-
cate. Unfortunately, the certificate doesn't say what's in a policy.
Mr. Dawkins: So...
Mr. Don Dunlap: We now —by the way, we now ask for a copy of the policy to
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avoid that problem.
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Mr. Dawkins: Well, hell, he is gone. He has got his own stadium. What good
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is the copy is going to do us now? He has got his own stadium.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, that's not true.
Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead, J. L. Go ahead, J. L.
Mr. Plummer: He has got one more year here, maybe. Question? Are we in turn
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suing him for not providing the adequate coverage?
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Mr. Dawkins: Why not?
Ms. Dougherty: That was part of that litigation that we had with him and we
settled it. The answer is "no" because under the contract it was so ambiguous
that it could be read to do what he did.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. And I have to ask ... and I have to ask....
Ms. Dougherty: So, that's why it was part of the whole litigation and that
was the whole package that we settled.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, then let me ask the City Attorney, why would your
staff have an instrument that's so ambiguous that we don't know what the hell
is in it? Why would you staff bring that to this Commission, for this Commis-
sion to Ok?
Ms. Dougherty: Well, it wasn't my staff. That's lease existed long before I
or my staff was here. I can't answer that.
Mr. Dawkins: But you are telling me that legally, we cannot recover nothing
from Mr. Robbie. That's what you are telling me?
Ms. Dougherty: At this time, no.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. This is just another one of those perks that Mr. Robbie
got. I hope the County continue to be as good to him as the City was. Go
right ahead. Thank you, Madam City Attorney. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
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12. CREATE COMMITTEE TO STUDY TERM OF MAYOR, COMPENSATION FOR COMMISSION,
STRONG MAYOR, AND SIZE OF COMMISSION (See label #58)
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Mayor Suarez: Item 30, I believe is the next item and it has to do with a
City Charter Amendment proposal which would have two ... at least at this point
would have two elements to it. Can I ask how many people are here...I know
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Marty Fine is here on this and maybe Huber Parsons. Is he around?
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Mr. Dawkins: Yes, here is Mr. Parsons.
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Mayor Suarez: Anyone else that is here to address either one of the proposals
having to do with amending the Charter? - would you please raise your hand.
OK. Marty and Huber, I guess it's the two of you. Unless the Commission
wants to make any statements in advance of their presentation. I presume now.
Go ahead, Marty.
Mr. Martin Fine: Mr. Mayor, and members of the Commission, for the record my
name is Martin Fine, 2401 Douglas Road. I have asked Mr. Ruder if he would be
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kind enough to give you a copy of this proposal. I prepared it in March of
this year, at which time I was here and you asked that it be postponed to come
back here. I know you have a long agenda and rather than go through this page
by page, I would suggest that you just take my word for it. There are a lot
of good reasons why this Charter provision should be put on the ballot for the
approval of the voters. That is for their consideration, but I would just
mention a few to you which I would be happy to discuss if you have any ques-
tions about it. I think that stability in government is essential, and I
think having a Mayor that's up for election every two years lends itself to a
process of great instability. I think it relates to every agency, from bond
rating agencies in New York to more importantly from my point of view, local
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citizens who are always unsure of who the Mayor of this community is. For
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another, I think that there never has been a reason given to me, and I have
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read the Charter and gone back over minutes for many many years, and maybe Mr.
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Plummer, because of his vast experience would know it, but I never could find
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in any minutes or perhaps the City Attorney knows from some charter reading,
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why Commissioners are elected for four years and the Mayor is elected for two
years. It certainly couldn't be that the voters have more confidence in a
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Commissioner than whoever the Mayor is at the same time, or that the Mayor's
integrity is any more or less suspect than the Commissioners. Some
how or
other there must have been a fluke at some period of time and they did it for
two years. There is no sound, rational basis for that distinction, unless
some of you may know of it, in which case I would be glad to hear about it.
Let me also share with you what I think is another very compelling reason for
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this change, and it is that many of the projects which you undertake are done
over 8 period of man ears. For example,
P Y Y p , you have just approved an arena.
That type of project does not get built within a short period of time, or
negotiated, or implemented. or carried out. This great project at Bayside, I
added up recently ---I think the numbers are correct. The Bayside project has
been through four Managers, three City Attorneys, two Mayors and a host of
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Commissioners. It's very very difficult to do a hundred fifty million dollar
project with that kind of a partner. I think when Major institutions, banks
and others come to this community for a whole bunch of reasons, they want to
know that there is stability and continuity of government in all of our
elected officials for a reasonable period of time, certainly the Mayor, who is
the titular of the City, should be a person and he should be ---when I say he,
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obviously, I mean he or she ---that person should be one who can speak with not
only the leadership ---the mantel of leadership of the City, but can say to
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that individual or that agency 'that they are going to be there in office for
that period of time and be able to provide continuity. There are a host of
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other reasons set forth in this paper and I assure you...I just want to go on
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record again. I never discussed this when I prepared it with the present
sincumbent
Mayor. I had discussed it over the years with the previous Mayor,
not for any person, but rather for a principle. I also want to say that the
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one thing I do not want to personally get involved in is any discussion about
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whether we should have a strong mayor, or a host of other things. I saw that
procedure last time when there was a proposal for a four - term Mayor or
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whatever, it got so complex, so convoluted, so complicated that nothing ever
got on the ballot. That was primarily in my opinion, the responsibility of a
Commissioner who is no longer here, who used to sit in the place where there
is a lovely lady sitting now, and I really resented that. I really didn't
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feel as if there was an effort to let the citizens decide. Let me just close
by saying I have lived in this community for forty years, all of it within the
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City limits of the City of Miami. I care about this community. I'm concerned
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about this community, no more or less than any of you, I'm sure. I am abso-
lutely certain in my mind that this proposal is an important one and that you
have a win win situation. You put it on the ballot let the voters decide and
let it happen. Now I can y y p ,
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I'm not going to spend the time or the energy or the money to go out and get
Charter signatures, because I'm getting too tired to do some of those things,
but I would hope there would be other people who would do it, because I think
it is a very good one. Now, the last thing I want to say, if it gets involved
with these other issues, I would hope everyone has the right to put their
issue on the ballot. I mean, that ---pardon me ---to discuss it with you and
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you may put it on the ballot, but if you put it on the ballot, I would hope
you would do it as separate issues, for example, I think there is every reason
to ask the voters of the City of Miami to increase the salary of what was used
to be very limited part-time Commissioners, by the same token my impression is
is that won't pass, but I hope if you put it on the ballot it will pass. The
reason it won't pass is both very simple and very complicated and would be the
subject of another discussion. I beg you if you put other items on the
ballot, if you indeed decide to put this on the ballot, do it so we can vote
for each one of them as a separate item. I'm disappointed for example, that
that is not the case with the pending Charter change petitioned by the County
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as I understand it, and I don't want to get mixed up with that, but I think we
ought to have separate ones. Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, I would
be happy to answer any questions, but basically, I have no hidden agenda on
this. I did not do it because of the incumbent Mayor or anyone. I did it as
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a matter of principle, and I think it's important to do. I ask you to give
the voters an opportunity to vote on it.
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Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor? Go ahead.
Ms. Kennedy: Thank you. Marty, let me address one of those issues. Miami is
one of our larger cities in our State. I happen to think it's one of the
best. The problem is that we cannot continue to be a city that pays it's
Commissioner a ridiculous amount of money. This is something that really
hasn't been tackled by Commissioners previously, because they will be afraid,
perhaps, that the voters think they were greedy, but for example, Commission-
ers in Jacksonville get paid eighteen thousand six hundred and sixty-six. In
Tampa sixteen thousand. In Orlando ten thousand four hundred. In Hollywood
ten thousand. Even in our own Coral Cables ten thousand four hundred fifty-
two* You know, I think that for somebody who invested the amount of money
i that we put here, fifty to sixty hours a week, fifty-two weeks a year, it is
really ridiculous. Our own legislators get paid eighteen thousand dollars for
two months in Tallahassee. You know, that is something that I would be
{ willing to contemplate and to campaign very hard for.
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Mr. Fine: Let me just make my personal position clear. I don't even repre-
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sent the rest of the members of my family in their thinking here. I'm just
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speaking for myself. I haven't discussed it with them. The fact of the
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matter is, I think comparing it to the legislators is a very equitable ap-
proach. I like it. I would vote for it. I think it's appropriate. I think
it's fair, but I don't want to be perceived as coming here saying that, you
know, that all these other issues are things that I have given a lot of study
to. Personally, I think at one point along the line, we are going to end up
and before the end of this century, with full-time Commissioners. I believe
it's impossible to run County government with part-time Commissioners, and you
know, years ago it was a very simple procedure. I ... just to tell you how
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things have changed. I remember in the County very well when I first started
practicing law there were only five County Commissioners including the Mayor.
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They were all in one office. The four of them shared an office and the Mayor
had a tiny office on the second floor of the Dade County Courthouse. Now,
their responsibilities were very limited then. You all, operated Jackson
Memorial Hospital. You have the smarts to transfer it. You all operated the
Library and you transferred it, and you transferred everything you could
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possibly transfer to them and I think that's great.
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Mr. Dawkins: At their request
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Mr. Fine: I have no problem with that.
Mr. Dawkins: At their request. We didn't give it up on our own, you
know,
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like the Seaport and the Airport, you know. At their request.
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Mr. Fine: Miller, let me tell you, I'm not here to argue.
Mr. Dawkins: No, we are not arguing. I hope. Are we?
Mr. Fine: No. No, no.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Fine: I'm saying...I'm saying in effect, that government changes
and I
understand what you are saying, and I'm not arguing and you are not arguing,
yand
the fact of the matter is, I understand how much time...I think you all
are probably spending more than fifty or sixty hours, and I know you get
calls
on the weekends and at nights and you are under a lot of pressure, and I
would
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be perfectly happy to put that on the ballot. I think analogizing it
to the
legislator's pay is a very equitable procedure.
Mr. Plummer: Marty? Mr. Mayor, how do you want to handle this, because
I see
this in two parts? You want to go ahead and discuss this portion of it
first,
and then we will get to Huber as to the salary second?
Mayor Suarez: Yes. How ever the Commission wants to handle it. It
makes
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more sense in two parts. How ever you want to.
Mr. Plummer: OK. Marty, for discussion and you and I have already discussed
this to a certain extent, and please Xavier, don't take my comments as person-
al, but I think they have to be made. I think you make some very strong
points, but you talk against your points. The stability that the bond market
looks for in this City of Miami under our present form of government, is not
the Mayor. That's not the stability they look for, because we operate on a
strong Manager form of government, and the stability they really look for is
in the Manager, because he is the one who makes the decisions as to the
administrative policy, and I ... Marty, I don't know how in Gods name you can
take and discuss a four-year Mayor without discussing the strong Mayor,
because if what you are looking for is to place the stability of government on
the shoulders of the Mayor, which presently it does not, because if you go to
the Charter, the Charter clearly states that the Mayor's position is Commis-
sioner, one ---That's what he is in the Charter ---and it would not in anyway
change that which is referred to in the Charter as the ceremonial head of the
City. It doesn't change that. So, all you are saying to —and it makes
sense, is to change to the effect that says, that the Mayor would run for a
four - year period rather than a two year. It doesn't change all the other
things that you speak and I agree need to be changed.
Mr. Fine: Let me try to answer that.
Mr. Plummer: Sure.
Mr. Fine: I have more than a casual acquaintance with bond rating agencies
and with financial institutions. There is no one person in this City, with
all due respect to all of you, to whom those markets look for their stability.
They look to the City as a whole, to this fine Manager, but if you will follow
your logic, as many Managers as we have had in the last four years, we would
have a terrible bond rating and you know we have a good bond rating. They
_ look to people like Mr. Garcia, who is a super Finance director. They looked
at the history of whether you paid your bonds back on time. They don't look
to any one person. They look to everything, but I know that when companies
come from all over the world. which is what we are trying to do, that they
_ come to the Mayor, which as you say correctly, is the ceremonial head of the
City. I'm not saying that all of what you are saying is incorrect, J. L., but
I don't think they look to the Manager or to one person. Listen if they look
to anybody for stability, they would look to you, you are like the rock of
Gibraltar here.
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Mr. Plummer: God forbid.
Mr. Fine: I think that's great, you know. You bring a lot of stability to
this process and you are not the Mayor, and you have a four - year term, and
you should have a four year term, and let me just pick up on that. Wouldn't
it be ridiculous for you to have a two - year term, for any other Commissioner
who has just been elected to have a two year term. One of the things that I
recent, and then I'm going to finish my arguments as this. I think it is
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terrible, I think it is detrimental for this City for a Mayor to have to be
elected one year, and before that year is up to almost start campaigning
again. Now, that's destructive, that's counter productive, and it is a waste
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of my tax dollars, and I'm telling you I'm getting tired of paying them, and
I'm saying in effect, that citizens are more interested in government than
they have ever been in my opinion, in this County. We have a great County,
and we have learned by and large to disagree agreeably, but there are a lot of
things we agree on, and one of them is we want good solid public officials,
elected public officials and I think by and large we have them. And I would
like those that subject themselves to the election process, not to have to be
brutalized every two years to run for the Mayor of this City. I want to tell
you something else, the Mayor's Office ... the election of the Mayor in the City
of Miami brings out the very worst in people most times. We get these terri-
ble tensions. We get these terrible conflicts. We get enough campaign
contributions to finance half the State deficit. I think it's disgusting. I
think it is inappropriate for us to behave that way as a major American city,
and that's the reason that I want it changed to four years.
Mr. Plummer: OK. Since you don't want to discuss anything further and I
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respect that...
Mr. Fine: Oh, I do. I do.
Mr. Plummer: No. Marty, here again, it doesn't change this which is your
proposing, there is still going to be elections every two years.
Mr. Fine: I agree. Let me tell you about that.
Mr. Plummer: Whoah, whoah. Hey, hey. What I'm saying Marty.
Mr. Fine: I'm sorry.
Mr. Plummer: What I'm saying is simple. To propose a single facet of a total
problem, I don't see as accomplishing that much. I think that you have got to
go into this thing into ... and I read your thing here about studying something
to death, but I think really in fact, I have to disagree with you, because we
have seen this proposal go forth on at least two occasions, if not three, and
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I think that you just can't address one facet of a problem, and it is many.
To go back to your original statement, I was not here in forty-nine, I was
still in Junior High School. Thank you.
Mr. Fine: You were here, you just weren't big enough or old enough to be able
to vote.
Mr. Plummer: OK. I was at Ada Merritt. But I think the reason, Marty, that
I have always heard of the reason of having one of the five on a two year was
so that you always had a hold over and continuance of government, and I think
that was the reason for it. Whether you agree or disagree, that was the
reason.
1 Mr. Fine: Yes. I was going to say, you know, I wasn't going to raise this
point, but since you did, I might. I understand that continuity is the reason
( they have them in staggered years. I think if I had an opportunity to advo-
cate it, I would advocate that everybody be up for election at the same time,
we have it once every four years. Some of the so-called stability really is
instability. It wouldn't bother me to have everybody up at one time, that way
we would have fewer elections and we would be able to judge the Commission as
one entity, which it really is. Mr. Mayor, and members of the Commission, I
don't know how long this hearing is going to go on and I want to hear others
and hear you, but I'm going to have to leave in about twenty minutes. I
didn't want you to think I'm rude, I have got a hearing I have got to get to,
but I appreciate the opportunity to present this.
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Mr. Plummer: Well, let me on behalf of the Commission, if nobody else, Marty,
as you said this is something you did on your own as you have dedicated many
many hours to different things in this community which have all been good. I
want to say thank you for bringing it to the forefront. We might not com-
pletely agree or disagree, but at least a man of your caliber is interested
enough to come forth and take a brave position, because it has been over the
period of years a source of war, and for you to come here and I think that
adds to the credence and the credibility when you come here and make such a
proposal, and I thank you.
Mr. Fine: Thank you very much for your comments.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Marty. I would like to just say that as long as
this particular Mayor is here, at least, you have to admit that we were pretty
timely in getting to this item, and we have improved certain things, regard-
less of a four - year term or a two year term. Commissioner, do you want to
just proceed to the next... Huber, I presume you are going to address the
other issue. Why don't we do that so we can move on to the rest of the
agenda.
Mr. Carollo: Well, what other issue?
Mayor Suarez: On the Charter Amendments...
Mr. Plummer: Salaries.
Mr. Suarez: ... I believe Huber has asked to discuss the issue of compensation.
Mr. Carollo: Oh, OK. All right.
Mr. Huber R. Parsons: Mr. Mayor, and Commissioners, good morning. My name is
Huber R. Parsons, Jr., and I maintain offices at 799 Brickell Plaza in Miami.
I sent each of the Mayor and Commissioners a brief letter concerning this
item, maybe a couple of months ago. I want to apologize for not having been
able to see each of you concerning this item, because of scheduling problems
in the last couple of days, I managed to get a good size case of the flu and
wasn't handy. Should this matter proceed and should it come up again, I will
make sure that I get by to see everybody. I see the matter that I'm going to
present to you simply as a good government issue. I speak only for myself as
a citizen. I am not here at the behest of anyone. I strongly suggest to the
Commission that remuneration for the Mayor and Commissioners, be increased to
a realistic amount, and as well that expense and related items be more fully
reimbursed to the various members of the Commission in connection with all of
their expense items in and out of office, and that a realistic pension program
with some realistic vesting period be instituted as well for members of the
Commission. The current remuneration has not as I understand it, been in-
creased for perhaps a few decades. It is really a pittance and I would say an
embarrassment. Analytically, I suppose that it really only constitutes a
partial reimbursement for the expenses that all of you incur in connection
with your duties for our City and us as citizens. I suppose that the very low
amount of reimbursement reflects the historical view no longer realistic that
citizens would serve in the position which would take but a and modest
amount of time. As you know, as those who deal regularly with this Commission
know, and as all citizens know when they have an opportunity to come before
the Commission or bring a matter before the Mayor and Commissioners, this work
of yours requires a great amount of time and effort. I don't believe t:,at
this job is or ever should be a mandated forty hour a week prime employment
job, yet the reality is, is that I believe that most of you most of the time
year in and year out spend more than forty hours a week on this work. We have
in effect, more or less full-time Commissioners. That should be recognized in
terms of image remuneration and expense reimbursement, and in terms of ... for
those who achieve longevity due to the electorate turning them back, a pension
award. I do not believe that this proposal will fall on deaf electorate ears
for several reasons. I think first that this matter will appeal to many as a
matter of good government. I think secondly that this will appeal to many as
a way to avoid a structure which otherwise tends to push out persons of low
income to disincline them to even offer for office to begin with, and third, I
believe that this will appeal to many who had wished to see a strong image of
City government. Now, I have heard some suggestion that remuneration should
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be, perhaps, tired to a Congressman's remuneration, and I think that might be
a fair approach. It's hard to know what type of comparisons to make. I think
the comparison can be made with other cities. However, I think in looking at
Florida, for example, that a comparison to any other city would perhaps be
inappropriate. The reasons for this is that in this city, this is the partic-
ular place. It's a small city compared... it's the largest city in our County,
yet it's much smaller than the total number of persons in our County, yet this
is the particular place where our tri-ethnic community particularly meets
itself. This is the area where the downtown aspects of the City come into
play with all the issues that are involved and all of that, and this is the
City ... and this is the area where there are the greatest number of inner city
problems. I think that Mayor, and Commissioners, some differential between
the Mayor's remuneration and the Commissioners would be desirable. After
merely giving this a lot of thought over some months and in talking to a
number of people, I would suggest to you that the remuneration ought to be
perhaps, in the level of forty-four or five thousand dollars for Commissioners
and forty-nine thousand dollars or so for Mayor. I would urge you as Mr. Fine
said to put this on the ballot as a separate issue, should you elect in your
wisdom to proceed with the four - year mayoral item. I think they —although
the items are obviously somewhat related, they certainly each stand on their
own two feet as well. I think that the enactment of this should probably take
place after the second coming election, no particular pun intended, in that
that way no one will vote...be seen to have voted themselves into a raise
currently and all Commissioners, and all in the electorate wishing to offer,
would stand on their own two feet. I am sure that it is never a popular thing
for a politician, even prospectively, even if it might apply to vote himself
or herself a raise, but you are being paid a pittance. It's really unfair to
you with the amount of work that you or anyone who would have your positions
should receive. This is something that as a matter of good government should
be accomplished. I urge you to be brave and to go forward with the matter,
should you choose to. The electorate will decide. I thank you for your
consideration of the matter.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Parsons and Mr. Fine, I too would like to thank both of you
for taking time out from your busy schedules, but both of you are community
minded, and I have no problems with either of the suggestions, and I think the
only one up here who may have a problem, is J. L., because his business is a
little irregular, but the Mayor, Commissioner Carollo, Commissioner Kennedy
and myself, we do have full-time jobs, if we didn't have we would probably be
in jail. But we do put in long hours and in order to get this done, and it's
about time that the citizens in the City of Miami make up their minds. Either
they want quality and people who are accessible, or they want to continue in,
as you said, the old way of doing it, and that's what will happen if we don't
bring about some changes, and this is a full-time job. It's no way in the
world anybody can expect me to put eight hours a day at Miami Dade Community
College and then come here, and I'm here until 8 or 9 O'clock at night, and
it's just ... and then every Thursday, second Thursday, I have to take a leave
of absence from the college unpaid. So, we don't want the citizens to think
that I'm getting paid with tax dollars at Miami Dade and City dollars here.
So, it's something that should be bought to the voters, and I thank both of
you for coming here giving us the push we need to put it to the voters. Thank
you.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioners, would you ... just on last question Huber, if we
moved to propose this to the voters, would you have any suggestion on whether
it should be a fix amount in the Charter, or an amount to be determined either
by setting a cap or otherwise, but still leaving some discretion to the
Commission to set it.
Mr. Plummer: I don't know of a quicker way in the world to kill it.
Mr. Parsons: I must admit Mr. Mayor, my thinking is not that refined. I
would be glad to come back to you on that, but I suspect that giving the
voters something that clearly before them would be desirable.
Mayor Suarez: Is that what you mean, Commissioner, a certain amount?
Mr. Plummer: Oh, I think...Mr....
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Mr. Parsons: Yes. I would offer a couple of other thoughts incidentally. I
do not believe that ... I believe that the matter of remuneration is something
that needs to come before the voters as a matter of law and is a matter of
good politics anyway. I think to the extent, and I have not developed a list
and will be happy to do so for you, but to the extent of items that you are
currently funding directly or indirectly, that should be expense reimbursement
items, and with respect to pension items. I do not believe that that
needs...I believe that can probably be handled in a separate way and you might
want to give that some consideration. I would also suggest that there is...it
would seem to me to be appropriate to grind in a cost of living provision with
respect to this, even with a cap, so that it never could be, you know,...even
if there was a runaway situation that operated adversely to the Mayor and
Commissioners, you would suffer from it, that that might be something that
would be worthy of doing also.
Mr. Plummer: My personal opinion is is that whatever you offer in a referen-
dum, you have got to be definite to the voters and be honest with them. As
far as pension is concerned, I think that goes without saying that the system
that is presently here is the system that would be used, and I think it is
very important to hold faith with the voters, that you must in fact tie it to
a cost of living, an annual increase, is I think the way the legislature does
it, so that there would never be an opinion that this Commission or other
Commissioners could come in the next day and double the salaries without any
approval of the voters. If you tie it to a cost of living index by the
federal government, I think the voters would be assured and be guaranteed that
that would not happen as far as anybody coming in the next day and changing
it. I think the real crux of the whole matter, Mr. Mayor, I don't think
anybody, and I was surprised to see the morning tabloid even spoke in favor of
it, that the compensation that is presently paid today, and you note that I
don't use the word salary, because I think that's an insult. I commonly refer
to it as a partial reimbursement of expenses. I don't think anybody questions
that the sixty-four cents an hour that we presently receive is out of line.
So, I would say that what we have to come about as far as this Commission, and
I'm only speaking for one, is to what numbers do we put into that Charter
Amendment, and you know, you can go the full gamut You can go from
Jacksonville to Miami. I think Broward County, because they make forty-two
thousand, you know, it just really goes a long the lines of trying to come up
with a realistic number, and then you tie it to a cost of living and pension
involvement, I think is something that the people can sit back and easily
understand without clouding the waters.
Ms. Kennedy: That's why I came up with the eighteen thousand dollars and
leaving it part-time, which is by the way, the same amount that the ---those
who want to change the number of Commissioners in Metro estimated, eighteen
thousand.
Mr. Dawkins: Marty, don't leave, I want to say one thing before you leave.
Ms. Kennedy: I'm finished.
Mr. Dawkins: As Marty, pointed out, it is almost criminal for the amount of
money that's elected and spent in an election, and with the two year Mayor, a
Mayor has to ... he runs one year and he works one year and then he has got to
start raising money. So, I agree with you Marty and we are spending tremen-
dous amounts of money for a two year job and then every two years the Mayor
has to go back and do it again, and I think that's one of the things that
should be pointed out and made public, that you will no longer have to tap
your friends and everybody else, but, you know, every four years instead of
every two years. So, that's something that I think we definitely need to
explain to the public.
Mr. Carollo: I think you are all basically, saying the same thing. I think
Marty's intention comes from the heart. He has been working on this for quite
same time and he truly feels, and I agree with him, that it's in the better-
ment of the City. At the same time I think we have to be realistic about a
variety of things. One, I don't think you can discuss the issue of a four -
year Mayor without discussing other issues. I think you can't separate them,
you might be able to separate them on the ballot, but you can't bring one part
up now and then maybe one later on four, six, eight, ten years from now. At
the same time let's not kid ourselves, as our Mayor of Metropolitan Dade
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County said this week, at least, it was reported in the paper, He said that
politicians never stop running. He has always been running. At the same time
I realize that campaigns are quite expensive. I remember the first time that
I ran and got elected in 1979, I did in that primary with fifteen thousand
dollars. That's quite a difference now, but then again, everything has gone
up. Back then I could go to some television stations and for a hundred
dollars get an ad on prime time. Now they want like eight hundred or a
thousand dollars. That's quite a difference. But I wonder whether you really
save money or not from having two years to four years. That issue I'm not
quite sure is so valid, because I think what will probably happen Marty, is
that whatever money were not spent the first two years, then they are going to
double up and spend twice as much in the four years when it's up, but I think
most of the other points are basically valid. What I would like to propose is
the following: That this Commission appoint a five member panel, each member
of the Commission names one individual to study the following areas on a
Charter change: One, would be the term of the Mayor. Two, compensation for
the Mayor and the Commission. Three, an administrative Mayor or a strong
Mayor as some would call it, and four, the size of the Commission. And if
this committee would come back within thirty days and give a report of its
recommendations to the Commission. Now, I realize some might say well, there
is really not enough time, but this has been an issue ---all these have been
issues that we have been discussing and discussing for years. Recently we
have had some very extensive discussions and studies done where these same
very issues that I mentioned here at the level of Metropolitan Dade County.
So, I think the thirty days would be ample time for five civic minded individ-
uals to deal with these four areas and give a recommendation to this Commis-
sion. So, that we can then decide if we would place all the recommendations,
part of them or none of them in the November ballot.
Mayor Suarez: Well...Commissioner?
Mr. Plummer: Let me add to that and I will support that and the reason that I
will was for two reasons. Number one, there is no question that a thirty day
period has got to be interceded here for a public hearing. You have got to
have a public hearing on this issue. This is just a discussion. So, I would
like to see this independent panel come forth and study these issues, but I
would prefer ---Huber, more to you ---that they set the number rather than
having the Commissioners, who could be said that we are doing it for selfish
reasons, and I think if you have an independent panel who have some financial
background as well as political background, that if they were to come forth, I
think would hold more credence with the public, that here are five independent
people who have made this recommendation, and I don't see this as a slow down
procedure in anyway that they could be appointed. They could report back and
then the public hearing on, I assume, July the loth, and I think our problem
is timing.
Mr. Carollo: J. L., I didn't understand one area. You said they set the
numbers. You are saying on the compensation.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, sir.
Mr. Carollo: OK. Fine.
Mr. Plummer: Yes. I think that...
Mr. Carollo: I agree with that.
Mr. Plummer: I think, unless I hear any disagreement up here on that particu-
lar issue, the numbers need to be set, tired to a cost of living with the
pension.
Mr. Carollo: I agree.
Mayor Suarez: Well, let me just say for myself. I think both proposals are
totally common sensical, they make a lot of sense. I'm ready to vote on
either or both of them. I'm also ready to move on to the rest of the agenda.
I don't think either one is going to make or break this Commission and it's
functioning, certainly not from my particular intentions. I appreciate both
of you taking the time. I guess if I had to guess which one was more impor-
tant, in a sense, I would have to say that compensation to the Commission and
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the Mayor is probably more important in the sense that it would make our life
a lot easier, because it really is as Commissioner Dawkins said, quite diffi-
cult to do both things at the same time, make a living in the private sector
and function up here. The number of hours that each one of us is putting is
any where from forty to eighty hours a week, but I...you know, creating
another commission or another advisory committee or whatever is not really my
idea of how we should proceed on something as simple as a proposal to extend
the Mayor's term to four years, for whoever the next Mayor maybe, and or to
have a proper and adequate compensation and I would think that compensation
should be along the lines of Broward County. I don't think eighteen thousand
dollars with all due respect, covers the kind of work that we are doing here
and the requirements that the people of Miami are placing on us by constantly
asking us to go to a host of organizational meetings and ceremonial things and
digest and absorb some very complicated issues, and I would think more along
the lines of what Broward County is paid, the Commissioners are paid, at
least, forty or forty-five thousand dollars and the Mayor, some figure higher,
but not too high, and then maybe tied to the cost of living, although, that
always worries me, because if everyone ties their compensation to the cost of
living, then cost of living naturally increases. In any event, I would be
ready to vote on one or both of these and I will follow the Commission's
pleasure. The most important thing I think we ought to do is get on with this
agenda. Marty, did you want to...
Mr. Fine: May I just make one comment?
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Fine: Mr. Carollo, was kind enough to share with me that he was going to
mention this and if that's what you all want to do, fine. I know he doesn't
mean it that way, but my experience in this and other ... this area or this City
rather, is that these committees have a tendency to study it to death and we
won't get on the ballot. I can also tell you, and I hope this doesn't sound
presumptuous. I wouldn't want to serve on that committee. My position is
about a four - year Mayor. I'm concerned about a salary. Frankly, I would be
prepared if you all decided what it ought to be to put it on here now and vote
for it. If you all want a committee, fine. I also want to remind you, I
think you have some technical problems which Lucia can deal with. I would
hope you would establish a hearing date now for the second hearing of this
four year term as Mayor too, that might coincide with the other. Otherwise,
you have to go back again, I guess and establish a hearing date for all four,
and I know what's going to happen, some where along the line when you all
adjourn and everything else, things are going to get lost and it won't get on
the ballot.
Mayor Suarez: That's an interesting point. Commissioner Plummer, if you
wanted to have an advisory committee, would you be willing to entertain a
motion that would accept provisionally the concept, because this is a first
hearing and we need to have the second hearing prior to July ... when it is
Madam City Attorney, so that it would be on the November ballot?
Ms. Dougherty: We have to have to readings of an ordinance prior to that
time, and it has to be ... the seconding reading has to exist sixty days in
advance of that date which is September.
Mr. Plummer: Well, if you had the first one on July the loth.
Ms. Dougherty: That's fine.
Mayor Suarez: When would the second one be?
Ms. Dougherty: But I have to know what to write in the ordinance.
Mr. Plummer: OK. But I'm saying we would ... Oh, I see what you mean.
Mr. Fine: Sure, sure.
Mr. Dawkins: Is there anything that precludes us from putting this in a
resolution and bringing it back this afternoon and acting on it this afternoon
as a first reading and let the one on the public hearing on the loth be the...
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Mr. Fine: You can't do it, you have to advertise it Miller.
Mr. Dawkins: Second ... both read ... both of them?
Mr. Plummer: It's my impression you would have to ... if you were going to
discuss anything but a four year term, you have to go back and advertise it.
Is that right, Lucia?
Ms. Dougherty: No. The first readings are not advertised.
Mr. Fine: Very good.
Mayor Suarez: We could...
Mr. Plummer: Well, is there anything to stop us, let's say on July loth from
having both readings as an emergency ordinance?
Ms. Dougherty: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: There is.
Mr. Fine: Because there is no emergency.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, the deadline is the emergency.
Ms. Dougherty: Well, you could have it on July loth and July 24th as a second
reading.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, OK.
Ms. Dougherty: The problem is, I need to know what you want written for the
first reading.
Ms. Kennedy: (INAUDIBLE COMMENT).
Mr. Plummer: Yes, that's fine.
Mayor Suarez: That would work?
Mr. Plummer: Yes. We could have the first reading on the loth...
Mayor Suarez: The first reading July loth?
Mr. Plummer:...and the other one on the 24th.
Ms. Dougherty: But you all have to advise me what it is we are passing on
first reading.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Fine: I would hope that if you have that hearing on the loth, you do it
again at 9:30. so we can get it under way and get it moving, instead of these
evening meetings which just go on forever. If we can do it in the morning and
get it moving, the second hearing can be later on if you want it to.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. I accept that Marty, but let's do one at 9 in the morning,
and the next one for people in the afternoon who can't...
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Fine: The next one ... that's perfect. So, on July loth if you could do it
then, I would appreciate it.
Mayor Suarez: One should be in the evening, I think, so that people that
cannot come during the day are able to attend.
Mr. Fine: Sure, I understand that.
Ms. Kennedy: And is everybody ready to make their appointments today? No.
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Mr. Fine: Thank you very much.
Mr. Carollo: We need to make a resolution, I think Commissioner, to establish
this.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, let us first decide what we are doing, because I'm not...
Mr. Carollo: Again, the resolution that I'm making is that we each name one
individual to a board that will study the following areas and come back to
this Commission with recommendations within thirty days. One, would be the
term of the Mayor. Secondly, would be compensation for all the members of the
Commission.
Mayor Suarez: You say within thirty days, Commissioner. If you want it by
July loth, it's going to have to be a little quicker than thirty days isn't
it?
Mr. Carollo: Yes, well...OK. We got thirty days today, we will make it
twenty-eight days.
Mayor Suarez: Right. Prior to July loth.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, prior to July loth. Third would be administrative Mayor or
strong Mayor, and last but not least, will be the size of the Commission. I
so move this resolution.
Mayor Suarez: So moved...
Ms. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez:...and seconded. I have to tell you that as phrased I'm going to
have to vote against it. I'm not going to, for myself, involve the City at
this particular point in the whole argument of a strong Mayor. The other two
items, if you would accept a friendly amendment to that effect, I would have
no problem having them discussed on July loth.
Mr. Dawkins: I will have to vote again the motion. I think it's been studied
enough and I will not be appointing anybody to such commission.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I second the motion. I supported it, but I, here again,
if you don't have this committee and you all ---we all, us, set that number as
to the compensation, I think you are asking for certain defeat. I have got to
tell you that.
Mayor Suarez: I agree with that point, Commissioner.
Ms. Kennedy: That's the way I see it.
Mayor Suarez: I agree with that point. If the committee would come back with
a suggested figure on compensation, I would have no problem with the committee
for that purpose.
Ms. Dougherty: They just don't want the strong Mayor included in the study.
Mr. Plummer: Huh?
Ms. Dougherty: They just don't went the strong Mayor included in the study.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, I understand what you are saying, but the thing addresses
both issues. Well, call the roll and let's see what happens. If it loses,
then we will go back and discuss it again.
Mr. Dawkins: Wait a minute, wait a minute, hold it. Under discussion. If we
are going to give one ... I mean, if we are going to have a committee, have a
committee, if you are not going to have a committee, don't have one. Now, I
don't ... I mean, if the majority of the members say that they are going to have
a committee, then we will have a committee, then give them all four of the
issues. Let's don't start off...
Mayor Suarez: Well, except...
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Mr. Dawkins:...and let the people know that we are not even together.
Mayor Suarez:... except that, if I understand you correctly, Madam City Attor—
ney, we have got to, if we were going to pass these and put them on the ballot
in November, assuming that happens, which isn't all that clear, we would have
to specify at this point, what the ordinance would be, that would be adver—
tised, is that correct? At least the general terms of it.
Ms. Dougherty: The general terms, but it doesn't need to be advertised for
first reading. What you need to do is before July the loth, you have to tell
me what to prepare for that first reading. It doesn't have to be advertised.
You are setting a public hearing right now.
Mayor Suarez: So, we need the resolution now, not only creating the commit—
tee, assuming that that passes to give you an indication of what would be
advertised for the first reading. OK. Commissioners?
Mr. Dawkins: And that could come back... she can bring that back this after—
noon. I mean, we can act on it this afternoon, Mr. Mayor, but we tell her
what to draw up.
Mayor Suarez: We can act on it now. We can ... by resolution we can give her
an idea of what that ordinance would entail.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mayor Suarez: In fact, in that sense, the motion by Commissioner Carollo, is
proper, is that correct? Would that suffice?
Ms. Dougherty: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Say it again.
Mayor Suarez: The motion is proper in that sense. It is proper because it
does contain the elements of what would be advertised for July loth.
Mr. Plummer: So, what you are, in effect, doing is setting a hearing date for
the July the loth?
Mayor Suarez: And specifying that the items that would be considered for a
passing of an ordinance, would be as stated by Commissioner Carollo in his
motion, and at the same time we are asking for an advisory committee to advise
us on that vote.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, OK. All right, all right.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mayor Suarez: Isn't that the thrust of your resolution, Commissioner Carollo,
your motion?
Mr. Carollo: That's correct.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Carollo: We are going to be naming a committee to study these four areas
and to recommend to the Commission.
Mayor Suarez: OK, but you ... but the resolution has to also include, assuming
you want it to fulfill the requirements the City Attorney says have to be
fulfilled prior to July loth as a first reading, the motion and resolution has
to include that these three areas that you talked about will be considered for
an ordinance on its first reading on July loth.
Mr. Carollo: That's correct. Four areas.
Ms. Kennedy: And we are talking about four...
Mayor Suarez: Four areas, I'm sorry.
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Ms. Kennedy:...term of the Mayor, compensation, strong Mayor and the size of
the Commission. OK.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Plummer: Fine.
Mayor Suarez: Have we clarified it enough?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, any further discussion from the Commission?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes. I will participate and I will appoint someone.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Carollo, who moved
its adoption:
_.� MOTION NO. 86-447
A MOTION TO APPOINT A FIVE MEMBER PANEL (ONE APPOINT-
MENT PER COMMISSIONERS WHICH WOULD STUDY FOUR SPECIFIC
AREAS IN CONNECTION WITH A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT
TO INCREASE THE MAYOR'S TERM TO FOUR YEARS AND TO
INCREASE MONETARY COMPENSATION TO MEMBERS OF THE CITY
COMMISSION, AS FOLLOWS:
3,
(1) TERM OF THE MAYOR;
(2) COMPENSATION TO THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION;
(3) ADMINISTRATIVE AND/OR STRONG MAYOR; AND
(4) SIZE OF THE COMMISSION;
FURTHER DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION THAT THIS COMMIT-
TEE IS TO COME BACK PRIOR TO THE JULY 10, 1986 MEETING
WITH RECOMMENDATIONS, AT WHICH TIME A PUBLIC HEARING
WILL BE SET IN ORDER TO GAIN THE PUBLIC'S INPUT.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, are we going to appoint these people this afternoon so that
they can get to work and get back to us by the loth? Mr. Carollo, should we
all bring our members back by this afternoon?
Mr. Carollo: I would say so. Mine is going to be Mariel Miller.
Mr. Plummer: I will give you mind this afternoon.
Ms. Kennedy: I will give you mind this afternoon, too.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mayor Suarez: I will come up with my by the afternoon.
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13. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: ALLOW PLANNING ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS AND
ZONING BOARD MEMBERS TO CONTINUE TO SERVE AFTER TERM EXPIRE UNTIL REAP-
POINTMENT OR NEW APPOINTMENT IS MADE.
Mayor Suarez: Item 31?
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: We got a motion on Item 31.
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded, any further...
Ms. Kennedy: One second.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, one second.
Ms. Kennedy: One second, I said to get my book.
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry. We have got a group of people here that are on an
issue, and I'm not sure if it's on the agenda, but if we can take you out of
turn, if we can do something to get you going wherever it is you are going, I
would like to do that. Is this on the retired employees?
Mr. Ralph Parks: No, not Police, general employees.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Let me just take a vote on this item since we did move it
and then we will take...
Mr. Ralph Parks: It's on the agenda.
Ms. Kennedy: I second 31.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Moved and seconded, any further discussion from the
Commission on Item 31, call the roll.
Ms. Hirai: It's an ordinance, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Please read the ordinance. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 62-47, "SIZE OF BOARDS
AND TERMS OF OFFICE"; CHAPTER 62 "ZONING AND PLANNING"
OF THE CITY CODE TO ALLOW PLANNING ADVISORY BOARD
MEMBERS TO CONTINUE TO SERVE IN OFFICE AFTER THEIR
RESPECTIVE TERMS OF OFFICE EXPIRE, SUBJECT TO APPOINT-
MENT OR A NEW APPOINTMENT, CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of Mayor 7, 1986,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
motion of Commissioner Dawkins, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the ordi-
nance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE N0. 10109.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
14. PUT HOLD ON PROPOSED INCREASE IN HEALTH INSURANCE TO RETIREES.
Mayor Suarez: OK. What item was it that was on the agenda? I didn't...I
wasn't aware that it was on the agenda.
Mr. Ralph Parks: I have 82.
Mayor Suarez: Pardon? 4
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Mr. Parks: 82.
Mayor Suarez: Let's take that up now since I presume all of you are here for
that.
Mr. Parks: My name is Ralph Parks, president of the City of Miami Retired
Employees Association, and we are here to discuss the recent increase in
insurance of sixty-three percent, and I'm going to ask our attorney, Robert
Klausner to talk to you know.
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Mr. Robert Klausner: Thank you. Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, my
name is Robert Klausner, 28 West Flagler Street, Miami. I'm here today on
behalf of the Retired Employees Association, and as you look around you today,
you can see a room filled with almost a thousand years of service to the
citizens of the City and I want to tell you what's happening to these people.
Under resolution 86-327 which was passed by this Commission on Mayor 7th, you
have increased the premiums that these retirees pay for their insurance by
more than sixty-three percent. For some of these retirees, it's gone up much
more than that. Let me tell you what's happened specifically. Many of these
retirees that you see here today...
Mayor Suarez: Bob, excuse me. When did we do that?
Mr. Klausner: You did it on May 7th.
Mayor Suarez: This year?
Mr. Klausner: Of this year.
Mayor Suarez: Under my tenure?
Mr. Klausner: Under your tenure. And interesting enough, I went to the
Clerk's Office to look at the packet to see what kind of background material
that you had and you didn't really have any, and that's what's disturbing,
because for these retirees, who are over sixty-five, their insurance has
doubled, it's almost tripled. A retiree over sixty-five has an insurance c'
premium that went from twenty-three dollars and ninety-nine cents, to thirty-
nine dollars twenty-five cent increase, which means that they have gone up to €s
over to sixty dollars. A dependent over sixty-five is paying an additional
rate of seventy-eight dollars and seventy-two cents. Again, more than dou-
bling what these retirees are paying. For retirees under sixty-five the rates st
also increased a hundred ten dollars thirty five cent increase. For a depen-
dent under sixty-five, two hundred twenty-two dollar forty-six cent increase.
What you are talking about is adding the average retiree and additional twelve
hundred dollars a year in the cost of insurance. These are for people who are
on a fixed income. Traditionally, this City has co -mingled the rate for
retirees and for the active employees. In fact, that's provided by Section
112.0801 of the Florida Statutes, which provides for a single rate. According
to a letter which you received, which the general employees union received
from the Labor Relations Office in late September, it said that there was a
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need to increase insurance rates by thirty-six percent, yet the retiree rates
were increased sixty-three percent. If in fact, the rates had to go up
thirty-six per cent and in fact, they did for the active employees, why then
must people who are in the same group, the same rate group, suffer a sixty-
three percent increase? Your active...
Mayor Suarez: Maybe they transposed the figures, you know, it was thirty-six
and sixty-three.
Mr. Klausner: Well, they sure didn't transpose the figures on their retire-
ment checks.
Mr. Plummer: Well, lea's...
Mr. Klausner:
I will tell
you what the net ---what the net affect has been.
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You have retirees here who
no longer
receive a pension. What happens is,
their entire
pension check
is eaten by
the cost of the health insurance and
they owe the
City money every month in
order to maintain health insurance for
themselves.
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Mayor Suarez:
Let's see if
we can get
this resolved. Commissioner Plummer,
you wanted to...
Mr. Plummer: No, the
question I wanted to ask, because
I'm informed, you
filed a lawsuit. What
is the basis of your lawsuit?
Mr. Klausner: The lawsuit was filed four years ago over
a hundred percent
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increase that you did
then. The basis of that lawsuit was
twofold. One, is
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the self - insurance trust being managed properly?
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Mayor Suarez: Is that
lawsuit still pending?
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Mr. Klausner: We are
coming up for a hearing on the merits
in July. That
doesn't even consider
this rate increase. This is since
that time. That
other...that law...
Mr. Plummer: Well, I guess we have got to ask the Manager. Mr. Manager,...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, we better.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager, very simply why is this thing taking such a tremen-
dous jump? And as such we are self insured ... I assume it is the demonstration
of the claims.
Mr. Odio: That's is correct.
Mr. Carlos Garcia: Mr. Commissioner, yes.
Mr. Odio: We are all reading about hospital containment cost and all of that.
Mr. Garcia: That is true. At this time Commissioner...
Ms. Kennedy: And has there any attempt being made to offer the retirees a
higher deductible instead of these incredible hikes in the insurance?
Mr. Garcia: OK. Let me first address comments Commissioner Plummer made.
First of all, the self-insurance fund at this time is losing fifty thousand
dollars a month on the benefits related to retirees. The reason is...
Mr. Plummer: Fifty thousand a month?
Mr. Garcia: A month. Yes, sir, six hundred thousand dollars a year, and
based on that the trustees of the self-insurance fund hired the firm of
Johnson and Hagen who conducted a study, and they came up with the new rates
of sixty-three percent. Now, if you split those rates between those persons
under sixty-five, the increase would be only twenty-five percent and for those
persons over sixty-five, it would be three hundred percent. The reason is
very simple. Medicare cuts have transferred a lot of expenses to the City's
plan and that's what we have to absorb at this time. So, that is the reason
for the sixty-three per cent increase, which will make us hold through the end
of this year, if the increase had been implemented on January 1st ---the plan
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that we have at this time is to do it as of July 1st. It is a very high jump,
but there is no way that we can control our cost, you know, we are just
absorbing those costs at this time.
Mr. Plummer: What you are saying is that roughly six hundred thousand dollar
a year loss?
Mr. Garcia: Yes, sir. At this time we are experiencing a loss of six hundred
thousand dollars.
Mr. Plummer: All right, let me ask you as to regular general employees, where
is that as presently hired employees. Where is that fund? Is that in propor-
tion?
Mr. Garcia: I believe it is at this time with the increase of the thirty
eight percent, an increase that was passed recently. Now, as far as the
general employees, there is a clause in the contract that we cannot increase
their rates more than fifteen percent, and the City is absorbing the differ-
ence, but then you have a different situation between employ...
Mr. Plummer: But I mean is the fund balanced, is that what I'm saying?
Mr. Garcia: Yes, because the City's contribution has gone up, on both the
City and the employees.
Mayor Suarez: So, on active employees, we cannot increase their insurance
participation more than fifteen percent, contribution...
Mr. Plummer: Per year.
Mayor Suarez: ... but retired employees we can increase them sixty-three per-
cent?
Mr. Garcia: We don't have any contractual agreement with retirees.
Mr. Plummer: There is not contract.
Mayor Suarez: Well, I understand that. I understand that.
Mr. Garcia: Additionally...
Mayor Suarez: I'm thinking of the logic and the philosophy of it, not the
contract aspects of it.
Ms. Kennedy: How many increases...
Mayor Suarez: Or lack of logic.
Ms. Kennedy: How many increases have they had, let's say in the last four
years?
Mr. Garcia: None since 1983. This is the first one since 1983.
Mr. Klausner: But there were two in 1982 that exceeded a hundred percent.
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you, you are asking that the increase only be thirty-
eight percent. Is that what you are asking?
Mr. Klausner: Thirty-six. We are asking that if the rate...
Mr. Plummer: Instead of the sixty three.
Mr. Klausner: Right, we are asking that...
Mr. Plummer: All right, what does that do to your numbers?
not half, of course. Does it cut your loss in half?
Kr. Garcia: I would say just about in half, yes, sir.
Does it...it's
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Mr. Plummer: So, what, in effect, the retirees are asking for is the City's
contribution of an additional three hundred thousand dollars, because we have
got to make up the difference?
Mr. Garcia: Approximately, yes, sir. That is right.
Mr. Plummer: Somebody has got to make up the difference. So, what you are
looking for, in effect, this year alone., is three hundred thousand dollars
grant?
Mr. Klausner: Well, there is money coming back to the City that's currently
being paid on the part of retirees. You have put supplements into the pension
of a little over a million and a half dollars a year since about 1975 which is
that half a per -cent on the first three hundred dollars.
Mr. Plummer: Right.
Mr. Klausner: That ends, your obligation to pay that ends with this fiscal
year.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but that was strictly,...Mr. Klausner, that was strictly
for the purposes of equalization. That's all that was, nothing else.
Mr. Klausner: I understand that, but the City will still be realizing a
savings on it's payment to retirees.
Mr. Plummer: Well...
Mr. Klausner: The whole insurance process to retirees is part of the retire-
ment program. So, in terms of looking at the cost, I think it's important,
and I think it's appropriate to look at where the costs are spread. So, we
are not coming to you saying more, more, more. What we are coming to you is
saying there is money going back because the active employees through the Cola
Fund, which was created as a part of the Gates Retirement suit, and the excess
earnings of the pension are going to be going to picking up that cost rather
than a direct subsidy from the City.
Mr. Garcia: Is that a true statement, Mr. Garcia?
Mr. Garcia: No, necessarily, sir. That...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, thank you. Well, go ahead. Will you correct it?
Mr. Garcia: Yes. Well, the fact is that also...
Mr. Dawkins: I mean, don't correct it, but give us your version, because he
is entitled to his opinion.
Mr. Garcia: OK. It is true that next year we will not have to pay a million
dollars in Cola payments to retirees, but it is also true that the City's
contribution toward the regular pension plan are going up significantly. So,
we are saving a million dollars on hand and we are spending four or five
million dollars on the other. So,...
Mr. Dawkins: Is that a true statement?
Mr. Klausner: Yes, but that's not what's attributable to the, retiree cost.
Mr. Dawkins: Is that a true statement? Is that a true statement "yes or no"?
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Mr. Klausner: Is it a true statement? It's....
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mr. Klausner: It's a true statement if you are talking about apples and
oranges.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. No, no,...
Mr. Odio: Hey, dollar for dollar.
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Mr. Dawkins: And that's what we are going to do now, is break out the apples
from the oranges.
Mr. Klausner: What we are trying to do, is we are trying to break out the
apples and break out the oranges, and balance the fruit on the table.
Mr. Plummer: Yea. No, what you are, in effect, doing is mixing fruit salad.
Mr. Klausner: And we are trying to make sure everybody gets a bowl full to
eat.
Mayor Suarez: I have a feeling that we are going to have to entertain a
motion to continue at some point this item and get more information, but
before we do that...
Mr. Klausner: What we are asking you to do today is really delay the imple-
mentation date of July 1st, so that we can have some more study and give us,
at least, the Retiree Association some opportunity to participate with you in
whatever cost savings program we can develop.
Mayor Suarez: Because the reason I state that too, is that you said the last
time we acted on this issue, we didn't have any background information in our
package. This time we have even less, just a one sentence statement. I
didn't know we were going to consider something as complex as this, but I do
have a question for you which is typically, the retired employees that we see
here today and the ones that ---the group that we are talking about, what
percentage of their former salaries are they receiving in pension?
Mr. Klausner: Most of these retirees that you are seeing here are from the
times when much lower salaries were paid.
Mayor Suarez: That's what I'm...
Mr. Klausner: No one would argue with you that your salaries today, or for
anybody who has retired in the last five or six years is receiving a competi-
tive salary in the market place, but the people that you are seeing here
retired when ten, twelve thousand dollars a year was top pay, and so they are
receiving...
Mayor Suarez: Do you have a figure for an average or a median of what they
are receiving in pension?
Mr. Klausner: I would say these people are probably receiving no more than
six or seven hundred dollars. I doubt there is very many...
(COMMENT INAUDIBLE)
Mr. Klausner: Too, high. How many Ralph? What's the amount?. I'm told by
the president of the Retirees Association, that these people are receiving an
average retirement check of three hundred fifty dollars a month.
Mayor Suarez: Assuming that this Commission would see fit to postpone the
matter until we have more information, I would like to see that, you know, and
have actual figures. It would help me a lot, because out there people have
the impression that all kinds of City employees are retiring with eighty
percent or ninety percent of a seventy or eighty thousand dollar salary or a
sixty thousand dollars salary.
Mr. Klausner: Mayor, I agree with you...
Mayor Suarez: And I gather that this particular group is not any where near
that category.
Mr. Klausner: No. There is a lot of information to gain. We learned about
this increase after the fact. So, we also were caught in a situation, and we
would like an opportunity to more carefully digest the information from the
City's actuarial report, perhaps to do our own.
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Ms. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, I move to postpone this item until July loth for
further study and participation from the retirees.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion. Ralph, take the mike. You and I have been
through this each year, and each year, you and I promise ourselves that we are
going to see that this doesn't happen again.
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Mr. Parks: Right, sir.
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Mr. Dawkins: OK. So, now is it any way that we can get together before the
26th, so that we don't have to come back, and you guys don't have to come here
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with your hat in your hands next year?
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Mr. Parks: The crux of the problem Commissioner, is that nobody in the City
cares to bargain with retirees. There is a silly Florida Law that says they
don't have to and most of the cities, municipalities grab hold of that law and
read it, they don't, must not instead of they don't have to, but the retirees
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like our attorney just said, what we want is a chance to sit down and talk
things over, because really we have some people amongst us that know more
about the City's insurance and other phases of it, than the people that are
now working in it, and we can come up maybe with some good ideas for the City.
That's all we are asking.
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Mr. Dawkins: But what I'm...no, no, no. But see, what I'm saying to you,
Ralph, is I don't want to sit down and come back and go through this next
-
year.
Mr. Parks: No, you won't...
Mr. Dawkins: See. Sitting down isn't worth a damn if I got to come back here
next year.
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Mr. Parks: No, sir, you misunderstood me. What I meant was that if we could
have chance to sit down with the trust ...the insurance trust and settle this
thing before hand it wouldn't come to you.
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Mr. Dawkins: OK. Now, you and I are on the same wave length. We are sitting
down in an effort to settle this once and for all.
Mr. Parks: Right, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. We are not sitting down to have a good ---feel good meeting
and next year we are coming back for the same thing.
Mr. Parks: That's right, sir. We should be able to sit down and bargain on
everything that pertains to...
Mr. Plummer: All right. Mr. Klausner, when is your trial?
Mr. Klausner: There is a motion —it's a class action. There is a motion set
to certify the class on July 5th, at that time a trial date would be set. So,
there is not a trial date at the present time. So, we are not up against
that. The only thing we are up against is the certification of the class, at
which time...
Mr. Plummer: Well, my concern is the City's position in your lawsuit in
delaying this situation here now.
Mr. Klausner: I would certainly...
Mr. Plummer: I'm not trying to help you in your lawsuit.
Mr. Klausner: No, I would represent to you now, and as an officer of the
court, which is what a lawyer is, that any discussions that we have are
without prejudice to the City's position...
Mr. Plummer: All right, fine.
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Mr. Klausner:... and that no discussions or conversations that are had whether
we are successful or not will be used against the City if, in fact, it becomes
necessary to try the case in the end.
Mr. Plummer: All right, sir.
Mr. Klausner: Fair enough.
Mr. Plummer: Fair enough.
Mr. Dawkins: I want the retirees to tell C. K. Smith, who's been knocking on
my door about this thing, that I don't see him down here, and don't knock on
my door no more. OK. If he can't take the time to come down here with you
guys to see how we are doing this, just because he lives around the corner
from me, don't stop knocking on my door. OK.
Mayor Suarez: I would like to invite you Bob and whatever leadership of the
association, to meet privately with each one of the Commissioners. I particu-
larly would like to spend some time on this issue and really get clear the
figures and how we can try to resolve it. It doesn't seem to be an easy
problem, but let's figure out a way to solve it.
Mr. Klausner: We will contact all of your offices and prepare the information
for you.
Mayor Suarez: And I know that if we don't work out a solution, you are going
to sue us again, so what...
Mr. Klausner: I...Mayor, as you know, as a lawyer also, I view litigation as
a failure of parties to reach a better solution and I'm a negotiator by trade,
as you know, you see me at the bargaining table on a regular basis. So, I
would much rather have a solution where everybody is maybe a little bit
unhappy, but walks away feeling that they got something that's theirs rather
than putting it in front of a third person, who doesn't ---where we don't have
to live with one another each day and let an outsider decide.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but you see...look, let's be honest and above board.
Mr. Klausner: OK.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Klausner: I always am.
Mr. Plummer: The person that you really need to negotiate with isn't going to
be sitting at that table and that's the person that's causing these cost
factors, that's the really problem and I don't know how you get around that,
because it's something that everybody is fighting. Everyone of us sitting up
here in business, whether it health insurance, liability insurance, automobile
insurance or what taxes or whatever, and I'm not getting any help, OK. My
automobile insurance just went up forty-six percent ---and guess what? ---I
can't argue. You know what they will tell me, fine, you are without it. OK.
Every insurance that I have got in my personal business has gone up and
skyrocketed. We had the people here the other day from Tacolcy. Their
liability insurance went up four hundred sixty percent in a single year, and
you know what, they didn't even want to write it. It's...and they talk in
Tallahassee about tax reform.
Mr. Klausner: Commissioner, though, we have an opportunity, because we have a
self - insurance trust to get to the heart of it. You have the...
Mr. Plummer: That has no bearing on it.
Mr. Klausner: It does have a bearing on it.
Mr. Plummer: No, it doesn't. It has no bearing on it. The cost factors
still have to be paid. That's the bottom line.
Mr. Klausner: But your Police and fire employees manage their own insurance,
and they have been able to hold their cost increases for this coming year down
considerably.
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Mr. Dawkins: Well, come on let's be realistic. Let's be realistic. The Fire
and the Police are putting more into their pension fund than retirees.
Mr. Klausner: Sure they are.
Mr. Dawkins: So, now don't lock these...
Mr. Klausner: But, but...
Mr. Dawkins: But don't lock these people into that. If they were to manage
their own fund they would still be behind the eight ball as J. L., said.
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;.., Mr. Plummer: No, J. L., didn't say that, but that's true.
Mr. Klausner: But Commissioner, when you run your own insurance plan you have
an issue of being able to get to the heart of it. We have the luxury of not
having to account to shareholders to make a profit, but rather to make the
fund run on an efficient and hopefully, fixed cost basis, and that's what we
want to help you do.
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Mr.
Dawkins: So, are you
saying to me, then that if the City of
Miami turn
over
to the retirees their
fund that you would not come back here ever
in life
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for
anything else?
Mr.
Klausner: No, that's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is
that with
self-insurance
trust funds,
you have more of an opportunity to grab
a hold of
the
cost problem and fix
it than when you are dealing with a third party
insurer.
Mr.
Dawkins: See, but you
want your cake, you want to eat it and
you don't
want
to leave the crumbs.
OK. What you are saying to me is give
you yours
and
let you take it and run
with it...
Mr. Klausner: That's not what I'm saying.
Mr. Dawkins: ... and if you run into a problem, I'm going to come back to the
City of Miami and say now looks —no, come on.
Mr. Klausner: No, Commissioner, what I'm saying is...
Mr. Dawkins: This has to be a partnership. OK?
Mr. Plummer: Hey....
Mr. Klausner: That's exactly what I'm saying.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Plummer: As far as I'm concerned, your argument is with the administra-
tion to prove that their figures are not true.
Mr. Klausner: And we are here.
Mr. Plummer: If the actual cost are there, that's what you have got to argue
with.
Mr. Klausner: But J. L., the reason we are here...
Mr. Plummer: That's it.
Mr. Klausner: Commissioner, the reason we are here is because we tried to
argue with the administration. We were told we would be involved in this
process and we find out about the raise after the fact, that's why we are
here.
Mr. Plummer: You are going to get thirty days to prove that their numbers are
not true.
Mr. Klausner: And we will do it in thirty days.
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Mr. Plummer: Fine.
Mr. Klausner: OK. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: We have a motion and a second, please call the roll, hearing no
further discussion.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-448
A MOTION DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION NOT TO IMPLEMENT
AND TO PUT A HOLD ON PROPOSED INCREASE IN HEALTH
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INSURANCE COSTS TO RETIREES UNTIL THE FIRST COMMISSION
MEETING IN JULY; FURTHER INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER
TO CONTINUE THE RETIREES PETITION FOR REDUCED HEALTH
INSURANCE RATES TO A FUTURE MEETING FOR FURTHER STUDY
BY THE ADMINISTRATION AND TO PERMIT SOME FURTHER INPUT
BY THE RETIREES.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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Mr. Parks: Thank you very much, Commissioners.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you very much. We are obviously going to spend a lot of
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time on this issue over the next thirty days to try to get it resolved.
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15. SECOND READING ORDINANCE; APPROPRIATIONS FOR BUILDING AND ZONING DEPART-
MENT.
Mayor Suarez: Item 32 is an ordinance on second reading.
Mr. Odio: This is an accounting type ordinance and this will amend the
appropriate sections of the annual appropriations ordinance to reflect the
City Commission's approved transferring of the Building and Zoning Sir? - and
this also establishes the budget for the new department to finalize this
fiscal year.
(INAUDIBLE COMMENTS).
Mr. Plummer: 32.
Mayor Suarez: 32.
Mr. Plummer: Building Department.
Mayor Suarez: Second reading of the ordinance needed to complete the set up
of the Building and Zoning Department under this year's fiscal, this fiscal
year. No.
Ms. Kennedy: So move.
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Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, any further discussion? Please read the
ordinance. Call the roll please.
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AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 10039
ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 17, 1985, THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION
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ORDINANCE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30,
1986, BY MAKING THE NECESSARY CHANGES IN THE APPROPRI-
ATION OF THE FIRE RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES
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DEPARTMENT FOR FY'86 TO REFLECT THE TRANSFER OF THE
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BUILDING AND ZONING FUNCTIONS TO THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED
BUILDING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT AS OUTLINED IN ORDI-
NANCE NO. 10089 APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION ON
MARCH 27, 1985; DECREASING THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE
FIRE RESCUE AND INSPECTIONS SERVICE DEPARTMENT,
INCREASING THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE BUILDING AND
ZONING DEPARTMENT, DECREASING THE APPROPRIATION FOR
SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS; CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 7, 1986, was
taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of
Commissioner Kennedy, seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the ordinance was
thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted
by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
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Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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NOES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
ABSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10110.
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The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
16. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: ADOPT CITY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAM.
Mayor Suarez: Item 32.
Ms. Dougherty: 33.
Mr. Odio: 33, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: 33, I'm sorry.
Mr. Odio: This reestablishes as the City's affirmative action plan.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Ms. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Have you given any thought at all Mr. City
Manager, to a system which would comply with the Consent Decree, but which
would not have a ... for example ... for police promotions, would not have a
register where people would be ranked all the way from number one to...you
know, and would not involve the determination that there is someone that did a
little bit better than someone else and would have more of a pass/failed type
nature or...
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Mr. Odio: I don't if we can do that legally. I think it has to do with Civil
Service rules and regulations and I don't ... I...
Mayor Suarez: Have you given any thought to a system that makes more sense
than having someone be told that he is number twenty-five on the list and...
Mr. Odio: No, sir, I have not looked into that at all.
Mayor Suarez: I see Bob wanting to... Well, I'm not saying that this is what
we should be doing right now. I understand that we are ready to vote on
reinstating or continuing your affirmative action program, but there has to be
a better system, and if you want to discuss it with me sometime, Bob, I will
be happy to do that. I don't know that the rest of the Commission might
agree, but having worked on that Consent Decree and knowing that it involves a
situation where people get passed on the register and the register that I'm
not sure makes much sense is what I worry about, and I know it's working as
well as any system I have ever heard of, but it's...the way that it affects
some people being on the register and getting passed up is something that
really is affecting the morale of the Police Department.
Mr. Plummer: It's affecting the morale of all departments.
Mayor Suarez: All departments.
Mr. Odio: That is correct.
Mayor Suarez: And a validated system might be something to be considered. Is
that what they call it in law...
Mr. Klausner: It's what they try to call it.
Mayor Suarez: The question is, can you ever validate one
Mr. Plummer: Did you call the roll on 33?
Mayor Suarez: No, we have a motion and a second. If you are interested, we
will talk about this.
Mr. Klausner: On behalf of the F.O.P., we are certainly prepared to discuss
that subject with you at any time.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you.
Mr. Klausner: And we have volumes of information on this.
Mayor Suarez: Please call the roll.
Ms. Hirai: (CALLS THE ROLL AT THIS POINT).
Ms. Dougherty: I didn't read the ordinance.
Mr. Plummer: Move 34.
Ms. Dougherty: I didn't read the ordinance.
Mr. Dawkins: Second it.
Mayor Suarez: 34 has been moved and seconded, Commissioner Kennedy will...
Ms. Dougherty: J. L., I didn't read the ordinance on that one.
Mr. Plummer: Go back to 33, the City Attorney said she would like to read the
ordinance.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, please read it. Call the roll.
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40,
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A CITY AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
PROGRAM AND ESTABLISHING AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICY
AND REAFFIRMING THE COMMITMENT BY THE CITY OF MIAMI TO
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INN THE AREA OF EMPLOYMENT; PROVID-
ING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION
DIVISION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AUDITS AND
REVIEWS; FURTHER PROVIDING FOR A HEAD OF SAID DIVI-
SION; INCLUDING DEFINITIONS, POWERS AND DUTIES;
FURTHER PROVIDING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROCEDURES,
MEASURES AND RESOURCES, TO IMPLEMENT SAID POLICY,
PROVIDING FOR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES; CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 7, 1986, was
taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of
Commissioner Dawkins, 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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10111.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
17. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ALLOW FINANCE DIRECTOR TO PURCHASE AND INVEST
FUNDS PRUDENTLY.
Mr. Plummer: Once again, I move 34.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Commissioner Kennedy, wanted to address
something, but let's take the vote.
Ms. Kennedy: We will do that, let me just ask you under 34, is there any risk
there?
Mr. Dawkins: Any what?
Ms. Kennedy: Risk?
Mr. Plummer: Risk? The only risk is that we get a higher rather than a lower
percentage.
Mr. Garcia: Commissioner, there is always a risk on any type of investments
you make, but we think the risk is very limited on these investments. In
addition to that we are going to have an investment committee that is going to
be looking at this situation very closely. What we are asking for is a little
more flexibility on our investments of City funds, and I think the additional
investment is ... the additional return is well more, it's much higher than any
risk we may have on any of these investments.
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Ms. Kennedy: Right, that's what I was leery, that you usually don't get
something in return for nothing. If we are getting two hundred fifty dollars
more annually, I was just wondering if there is anything...
Mr. Garcia: We are not only concerned on the return on the monies, but also
of the return on the monies.
Ms. Kennedy: OK.
Mayor Suarez: Of the instruments listed there or contemplated, what is the
riskiest of all the investments would you say?
Mr. Garcia: Well the one that has had some problems in the past are repur-
chase agreements with the famous E. S. M. case. The problem in that particu-
lar case was that collateral was not transferred when it should have been. We
know very well that collateral has to be transferred before monies will be
released. So,...
Mayor Suarez: Why don't we leave out repurchase agreements.
Mr. Garcia: If you wish to do so, that's fine with me.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, this is the first reading, I ... prior to the second read-
ing, we might want to consider leaving out one or two of these indentures or
instruments. Repurchase agreement sounds so complicated right of the bat,
that I wonder if we should...
Mr. Garcia: They are not really that complicated. There has been a lot of
misunderstanding about them in the past, at this time I think they are...
Mayor Suarez: Which resulted in some huge losses for some people. So...
Mr. Garcia: Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Any further discussion from the Commission? Please read
the ordinance and then call the roll. Call the roll please.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 18, ENTITLED "FINANCE"
OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED,
BY AMENDING SUBSECTION (b) OF SECTION 18-2 OF SAID
CHAPTER, PROVIDING BY SAID AMENDMENT FOR THE FINANCE
DIRECTOR'S AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE AND INVEST IDLE FUNDS
PRUDENTLY IN: BONDS AND OBLIGATIONS OF AGENCIES OF
THE UNITED STATES, PROVIDED SUCH ARE GUARANTEED BY THE
UNITED STATES OR BY THE ISSUING AGENCY; GENERAL
OBLIGATION OF STATES, COUNTIES, MUNICIPALITIES, SCHOOL
DISTRICTS, OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS; REVENUE
AND EXCISE TAX BONDS OF THE VARIOUS MUNICIPALITIES OF
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, PROVIDED NONE OF SUCH SECURITIES
HAVE BEEN IN DEFAULT WITHIN FIVE (5) YEARS PRIOR TO
DATE OF PURCHASE; NEGOTIABLE CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT;
BANKERS ACCEPTANCE DRAFTS; REPURCHASE AGREEMENTS; OR
PRIME COMMERCIAL PAPER; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVI-
SION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner
Dawkins and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
18. PURCHASE, SUPPLIES, MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED
STATES - BUY AMERICAN.
Mayor Suarez: Item 35.
Ms. Kennedy: OK. Before we get into 35 Mr. Mayor, I have a resolution that I
would like to introduce at this moment and it reads (AT THIS POINT COMMISSION-
ER KENNEDY READS PROPOSED RESOLUTION INTO THE RECORD). So move.
Mr. Plummer: Fine. Second.
Mayor Suarez: I had been shown...moved and seconded. Under discussion. I
had been shown the resolution just a couple of minutes ago, we have a standing
policy of not getting into pocket items, I presume you have good reason for
wanting this to be considered at this point as opposed to the next meeting.
Ms. Kennedy: Well...
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Mayor, your, you know, standard policy might be standard for
yourself, but it's always been the policy of the rest of this Commission to
always be able to present pocket items as you have when you desire so.
Mayor Suarez: I have no problem if the Commission overrules me. I'm just
saying what I'm trying to accomplish by way of getting through the agenda in
an orderly manner. The other thing that I was going to ask you, and I have
gotten an answer to the first question yet was, I suggested the wording "at
competitive, prices," did you incorporate that in the resolution?
Ms. Kennedy: Well, that's really under State law.
Mr. Carollo: Well, that's obvious.
Mr. Kennedy: You know, we don't have to...
Mr. Carollo: That's written in the State law now.
Mayor Suarez: Well, if it's so obvious, do you have any problem with includ-
ing it in the resolution?
Ms. Kennedy: Let me check with the City Attorney, but let me give her a copy
first.
Mayor Suarez: At the end of the first paragraph it said, "unless American
made supplies, material and equipment are not available or desirable at
competitive prices".
Mr. Odio: Fine. We have to go out for bids no matter what we are going to buy
according to the State law. So, it's understood.
Ms. Dougherty: This has nothing to do with whether or not you have to bid it.
Ms. Kennedy: OK. We leave it like that.
Mr. Carollo: Yes. I call the question.
Mayor Suarez: The understanding Madam City Attorney, is that they would have
to be competitive?
Ms. Dougherty: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: If it's otherwise required.
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Ms. Dougherty: They always have to be ... yes.
Mayor Suarez: Any further discussion from the Commission, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-449
A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE INTENT AND POLICY OF THE
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, THAT THE
NEEDS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR SUPPLIES, MATERIAL AND
EQUIPMENT BE MET USING ONLY THOSE SUPPLIES, MATERIALS
AND EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA UNLESS AMERICAN-MADE SUPPLIES, MATERIALS AND
EQUIPMENT ARE NOT AVAILABLE OR DESIRABLE; FURTHER
URGING THAT OTHER CITY GOVERNMENTS AND ALL GOVERNMEN-
TAL UNITS ON THE COUNTY, STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS
FOLLOW A SIMILAR PROCUREMENT POLICY FOR THEIR NEED
SUPPLIES, MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT; FURTHER DIRECTING
THE CITY CLERK TO FORWARD COPIES OF THIS RESOLUTION TO
THE HEREIN NAMED OFFICIALS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion after the vote.
Mayor Suarez: Are you going to let me vote? Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, that the Mayor has voted. Mr. Manager, in the event that
our housing authority does get into building houses, and we decide and you
decide that some of that material made in Korea or Taiwan or something, it
can't be used, because we are saying here now that it's got to be American
made.
Mr. Odio: No, sir, it says the word "desirable".
Mr. Carollo: No, no, that's why this was done in a way that, for instance,
like that we would still...
Mr. Dawkins: No, I want to use American made. I want to use American made.
Mr. Odio: The desirable covers that.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. I have no problem. I want to be sure.
Mr. Carollo: Well, sure. OK, Miller.
Mayor Suarez: I guess the word "desirable" there is such a catch off word
that it could...That word is so vague there that it covers a multitude of
sins. So. I don't think we have any problem on this resolution.
Mr. Plummer: All right, what item are we on?
Mayor Suarez: I'm not sure it accomplishes anything, but..
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19. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: FEE SCHEDULES FOR MIAMI GOLF COURSES.
Mr. Dawkins: 35, Mr. Plummer.
Mr. Carollo: 35.
Mr. Odio: 35.
Mr. Plummer: OK. On 35, I have got a question. The new head. I talked to
Al Howard ... let me ask the question. Is this the one that says strictly to
green fees or is this the one to the off premises carts.
Mr. Walter Golby: Off premise carts are not addressed.
Mr. Plummer: They are not addressed in this one. OK. Then I have no prob-
lem. How is this is competitive with the private golf courses?
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENT).
Mr. Plummer: Well, you know, I'm getting sick and tired because something is
owned by the City, we have got to give it for nothing. Now, are these fees
making us competitive with the private golf courses?
Mr. Walter Golby: According to Mr. Howard, yes.
Mr. Plummer: According to Mr. Howard, according...who said that Mr. Eads told
him that the Manager said that it was OK. Is that ... OK. All right, fine. As
long as you are telling me that it doesn't include this cockamamie thing for
off premises golf carts, I will vote for it in your assurance that it will, in
fact, bring us in competitive with the private sector and not above it.
Mr. Golby: Equal to.
Mr. Plummer: Equal to, that's all I ask. OK. I don't want the City to be an
unfair competition to private sector, that's all I'm saying. I move it, Mr.
Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Ms. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: When I heard that equal to, it reminded me of the time that we
defined or tried to define parallel, and then ended up having to redefine it
later.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, we didn't.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, call the roll.
Mr. Plummer: It's an ordinance.
Mayor Suarez: Read the ordinance and then call the roll. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUBSECTIONS (A) AND (B) (1) AND
(2) OF SECTION 30-53, ENTITLED "GREEN FEES" AND
SUBSECTION (A) OF SECTION 30-55, ENTITLED "SPECIAL
RATES", OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS
AMENDED, BY REVISING THE FEE SCHEDULES FOR CITY OF
MIAMI GOLF COURSES, AND PROVIDING THAT TIMES FOR
TWILIGHT GREEN FEES BE ANNOUNCED BY THE CITY MANAGER
FOR BOTH WINTER AND SUMMER SEASONS, WHICH SHALL BE NO
EARLIER THAN 2:00 P.M. AND NO LATER THAN 5:00 P.M.;
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE.
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Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
20. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: TEMPORARY NON-EXCLUSIVE CONCESSIONS IN CITY
PARKS FOR SPECIAL EVENTS PERMITS BY CITY MANAGER.
Mayor Suarez: Item 36.
Mr. Dawkins: Move.
Mr. Plummer: 36, second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, any further discussion, please read the
ordinance. I'm really getting a work out today.
Mr. Plummer: That, of course, has the provisions that any rock concert still
have to come before this Commission for approval?
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 38-45 OF THE CODE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER OR HIS DESIGNEE TO ISSUE TEMPORARY NON-
EXCLUSIVE CONCESSIONS BY PERMIT IN CITY PARKS FOR
SPECIAL EVENTS; FURTHER PROVIDING FOR THE CITY COMMIS-
SION TO ESTABLISH A SCHEDULE OF CONCESSION FEES AND
COMPENSATION FOR THE GRANTING AND EXERCISE OF CONCES-
SION PRIVILEGES IN THE PARKS; CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner
Plummer and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
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21. BRIEF COMMENTS: RECONSIDER DONATION OF 36 GOLF TEE MARKERS.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, before we get any further, the Parks and Recreation
say that they need Item 2 and I asked that it be continued. I would like to
reconsider it at this time please.
Mayor Suarez: A motion to reconsider is entertained, did you so move?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
' Mayor Suarez: Moved to reconsider Item 2.
Mr. Plummer: I don't know if the second accepts that. Let's think about it
until after lunch.
r Mayor Suarez: Unofficial motion to reconsider it during lunch.
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22. FEES FOR CONCESSION PRIVILEGES IN CITY PARKS.
Mayor Suarez: What item are we up to?
Mr. Plummer: I move 37.
Mayor Suarez: Item 37 has been moved.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Now, are we going to begin charging more for City
parks or are we ... is the effort here to reduce the fees for nonprofit, or what
are we trying to do?
Mr. Plummer: We are trying to meet expenses.
Ms. Susan McKay: Currently we are not receiving... Yes.
Mr. Odio: We are not receiving anything.
Ms. McKay: Currently we are not receiving any fees from all of these events,
or any compensation whatsoever from all of these events that are being held in
City parks when they are selling food and that kind of thing.
Mayor Suarez: Such as ... oh, you mean a fee just for use of the park?
Ms. McKay: No, it's not a fee for the use of the park. Currently our park
permit fee for the use of the park is only twenty—five dollars. So, someone
that goes into a park and has a big major event we want...
Mayor Suarez: So, that's what you are saying. You want to have a higher fee
for ---just for the use of the parks, not talking about sanitation employees or
police officers that maybe needed or any ancillary service, it's just for the
use of the park.
Mr. Jack Eads: Related to vendors.
Ms. McKay: Only as relating to vending.
Mr. Jack Eads: In other words, if somebody wants to come in and use the park
and not do it on a.....
Mayor Suarez: And have no vendors.
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Mr. Jack Eads: And not have sales or anything like that, the fee is still
twenty-five dollars, and I'm suggesting they change it.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, I see. And how is it set? I...how is the fee set depend-
ing on the vendors that are going to be expected or however, how do you
determine that?
Ms. McKay: Well, it's based on what kind of event it is, whether or not it's
a City event or City sponsored event, or whether or not it's sponsored by a -_
nonprofit organization or a for profit organization.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but isn't the purpose of this to try and break even on
maintaining the parks, isn't that what you are trying to do, plus somewhat of
a regulation?
Ms. McKay: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: And what is the fee? Twenty-five bucks?
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Ms. McKay: Well, right now it's twenty-five dollars. 4:
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Mr. Plummer: And it's proposed to be what?
Ms. McKay: This is a separate fee. This is not a park use fee.
Mr. Plummer: OK. What are these fees?
Ms. McKay: These fees are for one time events in the park which last any
where from one to seven days.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Ms. McKay: Where they are selling items.
Mr. Plummer: How much?
Ms. McKay: It depends.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. Let me take one for you here. I'm having a...
Mayor Suarez: That's a good example, July 4th.
Ms. McKay: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: On the 4th July. July 4th, OK.
Mr. Odio: No, they...
Ms. McKay: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, the Urban League wants to sell beer, now what does this do?
Ms. McKay: OK. If all they are going to sell is beer, then they will get the
beer and wine permit that you all have already passed for the three hundred
dollar fee.
Mr. Odio: And that's it.
Kr. Dawkins: Three hundred dollar?
Ms. McKay: Unless the Commission waives that fee.
Mr. Dawkins: No, we ain't waiving. So, now that's all they will need.
Mr. Odio: That's all.
Mr. Plummer: Hey, make it where this Commission can't waive that fee.
Mr. Odio: That's up to you.
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Mr. Plummer: Hey, because if you don't all you are doing is asking for people
to continuously come in here and let's don't play politics. Make sure that
it's written that that fee cannot be waived. Please avoid some of the head-
aches for us. I move it, 37.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Just as a clarification, the way it's
worded it almost states that a non-profit fund raiser pays less than a for
profit activity. Is that the intention?
Ms. McKay: Yes. Yes.
Mayor Suarez: It's a hundred fifty versus five hundred?
Ms. McKay: Ye sir
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Mr. Plummer: Well, wait a minute now. You know, I have got a probably Mr.
Mayor, with these people who come in here and get a waiver of fees, and then I
read about organization XYZ, what great amounts of money they gave to a
certain charity. Like hell they did. The biggest donor in that operation was
the City and we get no credit for it ---not that I'm looking for credit, but
you know, they come in here and they brow beat this Commission to get a
reduction. I don't know why if they are making a profit that the City
shouldn't realize its cost. Now I'm sorry. I don't think that, you know...
Mayor Suarez: I wish I hadn't asked. I ... a non —you know, a valid nonprofit
to really deserves and needs every possible concession break that we can give
them. The federal government gives it to them, the State give it to them.
They have tax exemption, and I wish I hadn't asked the question.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, that's why we are not going to exempt no
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Mayor Suarez: Yes, there is a distinction there and I'm happy with it. I
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will take back all my comments. I'm ready to vote on your motion.
'g Mr. Plummer: Well, I say that it be a standard fee, that's what I say.
Ms. McKay: The same for nonprofit events as for profit events?
w Mr. Plummer: If they are making a profit on the event, they have stepped out
of their category of nonprofit, and if such the City should be able to
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recover some of its cost. That's all I'm saying.
Mayor Suarez: These non -profits do turn back a lot of money into the City and
to the citizens whether they give us the credit ---they should or not, we can
deal with that and address that in some other way.
Mr. Plummer: All right, let's ... hey, if I can't get a whole cake, I can't get
j a full glass of beer, let me get a half a glass of beer. Co with what's there
tee, now. I will work on the rest later.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you. Call the roll.
Ms. McKay: The ... just ...
Mayor Suarez: Don't say anything more please.
Mr. Odio: Sit down.
Mayor Suarez: Remember big, all momentum here. "Big mo and little mo."
Mr. Dawkins: Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-450
A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A SCHEDULE OF CONCESSION FEES
AND COMPENSATION FOR THE GRANTING AND EXERCISE OF CONCES-
SION PRIVILEGES IN CITY PARKS
(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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
23. DISCUSSION: (1) THANK GUY SANCHEZ, FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT, FOR BAY
HEIGHTS LIGHTS; (2) LIGHTS IN ROADS AREA ARE A PROBLEM.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, may I take advantage and compliment good and bad?
Mr. Guy Sanchez is sitting in the audience. I would like to first give him
the good. I would like to thank him on behalf of the people of Bay Heights,
that he went in there in two days and I want to tell you, he got those lights
turned on, because as you know, they were having one hell ---they still are
not ---it's corrected tremendously now, the problem with purse snatching in Bay
Heights and the things that were going on, and I would like to thank Mr. Guy
Sanchez in behalf of this City for what he did. Now, are you ready for the
other one?
Mr. Odio: Liberty City. Liberty City...
Mr. Plummer: I want to tell you that the situation ---I'm almost ready to
apologize to the people of the Roads, because of what we have done to them.
Every one of those incidents that were taking place half between the Roads and
the other half in Bay Heights are now one hundred percent in the Roads. Guy,
I road through the Roads section last night, and I'm going to tell you that
you got at least ten percent of the lights are out in the Roads. I don't know
if many of you are aware, and I...you know, I hate to really go into anything
in depth, but I want to tell you that purse snatching in the Roads section is
gone completely out into orbit. You read in the paper this morning, Charlie
Whitched about the combat zone Miami has turned into. The people in the Roads
have been subjected for the last thirty days...let me tell you how brazen they
have gotten, yesterday at 4 p.m. in broad daylight in the afternoon on 3rd
Avenue which is Coral Way, they had a purse snatched right in the middle of
the street. Now, that doesn't address your light, but I road through there
last evening and it is bad. The Roads in general. So, if you would work on
that, I'm sure the people of the Roads would... Mr. Manager, I would ask you
to use the same consideration for the people of the Roads section as you did
for Bay Heights. I'm not saying take anything away from Bay Heights, but I'm
telling you that for two hours that I road through the roads section last
evening I saw one police car, one. OK. And that's the kind of situation that
those bad guys like, and I want to tell you I beg as I have asked you in a
memo today to give me the statistics for the past ninety days and I will hide
them from the press, but I would like to see for my own self personally.
Mr. Odio: You cannot hide anything from the press. It's public...
Mr. Plummer: Sure, I can hide it from the press. Watch me.
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Mr. Dawkins: Not from Bill Gjebre, you won't hide it.
Mr. Plummer: Any guy that wears a bow tie I can hide it from.
Mr. Dawkins: How is he going to hide something from you Gjebre? That's
public information. Tell him.
Mr. Odio: I see Sergeant Web hiding behind the ... see him hiding behind...
24. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: RECREATION ACTIVITY 1985-86.
Mr. Plummer: No. I was
talking about the problems in the Roads. The purse
snatching over there has
just gone out of question. I move Item 38.
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Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Item 38
moved and seconded, any further discussion from the
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Commission? Please read
the ordinance on 38. Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED-
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AN ORDINANCE
ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND
ENTITLED: "RECREATION ACTIVITY 1985-86", AND APPROPRI-
ATING FUNDS
FOR ITS OPERATION IN THE AMOUNT OF
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$100,000 COMPOSED OF REVENUES COLLECTED FROM PARTICI-
PATION FEES,
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE.
Was introduced by
Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner
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Dawkins and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
s Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
25. DEFER FIRST READING ORDINANCE PROPOSING FEES FOR BUILDING PERMITS.
Mayor Suarez: Item 39. It's been withdrawn and now wants to...you want to
consider it again, right?
Mr. Dawkins: Not yes, uh huh.
Mr. Plummer: My basic question has to be, are these fees paying the cost of
operationt if so, why not? In other words, do these fees generate sufficient
revenue that in fact it is paying for the operation and the cost factor that
they themselves create.
Mr. Jorge Ventura: Commissioner, I would like, because I was not involved on
this study. I received this on the last Monday and Mr. Connor Adams, that is
the acting chief of the special service, he was involved on study and he will
give to you the right answer.
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Mr. Connor Adams: Mr. Plummer, first of all ... Connor Adams. First of all,
the new additional fees that's being added to this fee ordinance are for the
purpose of doing exactly what you are asking, to try to more equitably show a
cost effective means of making these inspections. For instance, the
reinspection of existing building be...
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Mr. Plummer: Connor Adams?
Mr. Adams: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Briefly, do these fees as proposed cover the cost that they
generate?
} Mr. Adams: At the present time they will cover the cost that they generate
with these new additional fees added.
Mr. Plummer: Fine. Fine. I move Item 39, unless somebody else has another
question.
Mr. Dawkins: Say what now?
Mayor Suarez: He moved Item 39.
Mr. Odio:
I would like to ask for a deferment,
because
I think we did not
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consult the
industry, and I think it would fair to
consult
them.
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Mr. Plummer:
Well, you know the industry is going
to be opposed
to it.
Mr. Odio: Well,
but at least...
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Mr. Plummer:
And this is first reading. Let's have it on
first reading, and
if you want
to bring in all of those who are going
to have
to pay more and say
"no" I don't
want to pay no more...
Mr. Odio: OK, fine.
Mr. Plummer: ... I can tell you what they are going to say right now.
Mr. Odio: Fine.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, prior to my voting for it on second reading, if I was
going to do that, I would like to see some kind of comparative schedule to see
what effect it will have on the industry.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I think Mr. Mayor, what you also would like to see is the
justification that these fees that are being raised through this increase are
to cover the cost that they incur.
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Or that they will cover the cost, J. L.
Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you something, Mr. Mayor, you and I sat yesterday
and I'm going to get back to Bob Martinez, did you hear him announce yesterday
what his millage is?
Mayor Suarez: Four point four two.
Mr. Plummer: Four point four two and we are bumping ten at all times, and he
stated clearly in the record that one of the reasons his millage is so low...
Mayor Suarez: Is fees.
Mr. Odio: That's ridiculous.
Mr. Plummer ...is fees paid by people who create the cost pay the fee, and
buddy, let me tell youg the day this City comes to this, the better off we are
going to be to the ad valorem taxpayer.
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Mr. Dawkins: Well, that's what I wanted to ask J. L., how did we determine
that these fees will cover the cost?
Mr. Plummer: I just asked the question and the answer was "yes".
Mr. Odio: I will... I...
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, I don't mean "yes or no". I mean, tell me how you
got there.
Mayor Suarez: How?
Mr. Adams: Mr. Plummer, first of all, I would like to say that I don't think
when we went over these fee schedules that we went over them with the specific
purpose of answering the question you raised today. However, I think that's a
very important question, and I think that...
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me tell you something, if you go over them between now
and second reading and you find out that these fees don't cover the cost that
they incur, I want you to come back with a realistic schedule that says that
7 they will produce it.
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Mr. Dawkins: Hold it, hold it,
hold it.
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Mr. Adams: Are you talking about the specific cost of the entire Building and
s,
Zoning Department?
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Mr. Plummer: No, sir. These.
These that you are addressing.
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it, hold it.
Mr. Manager, how could you bring something
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here this morning and then have
a gentleman tell me that he is not prepared to
tell me how he arrived at these
figures and when he went over them, he did not
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go over them in the —with the
thought of knowing whether this will support
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the City of Miami or whether it
will cost the City of Miami money. He just
threw some fees together. How
in the hell could you do that, sir?
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Mr. Plummer: Well, you flip
it up in the air and you throw it through a
coffee can...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, have somebody explain that to me please, sir.
Mr. Plummer:...and you roll the dice.
Mr. Odio: Will you please explain.
Mr. Ventura: OK. Commissioner?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, sir.
Mr.
Odio: Get the microphone down.
Mr.
Ventura:
Commissioner, one thing that I did is when
I received these I
check
if all
that's asking of this department, they put a
... then put on this
one,
OK? and
it was not complete, and my recommendation
is to withdraw this
and
to study
it more, and to make the final recommendation
later.
Mr.
Plummer:
Well, how did ... I guess what we are asking is, how did it get on
the
agenda?
He controls the agenda.
Mr.
Ventura:
Well, it was studied by, for example, a
mechanical, he was
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involved in this and he can answer about this.
Mr. Dawkins: The County?
Mr. Ventura: Mechanical. He is the chief of mechanical section. But...
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, but you are saying here ... OK. See here is where you are
confusing me.
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Mr. Ventura: No, Commissioner, what I am saying, what I am saying...
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Mr. Dawkins: You say plumbing, electrical, mechanical, you say all of them.
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Mr. Ventura: Let me tell you one thing. Let me be frankly, it was no study
completed, when I found this and my recommendation is to withdraw to meet with
the contractors to study all of these change and to come back.
Mr. Dawkins: How much are you paying these two gentlemen?
Mr. Odio: Too much.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, but you see, you are the gentlemen who kept telling me about
what you are cutting salaries for efficiency. Now, you have laid off some
people, and I'm sure that...and now you bring two gentlemen before me in your
... your people OK. And it doesn't show up Mr. Manager.
Mr. Odio: We are in the process of reorganizing that new department Commis-
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sinner, but we did...and in one of our ... and Commissioner Plummer, will be
glad to hear that yesterday in one of the discussions we did have, we are
going to the enterprise fund on the Building and Zoning Department as soon as
we can develop that.
Mr. Plummer: Buddy, you better go. Let me tell you what you better do,
because if not, Mayor Suarez, is going to be embarrassed by Mayor Martinez.
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You better find a way to go every damn fund in this City a way of enterprise
funds.
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Mr. Odio: That's what...
Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you, if you want to see a classic example, go to the
Police Department and find out what it cost to write a single accident report.
OK. It is seven ... about seven or eight hundred dollars per report and yet, we
are doing that as a courtesy to the insurance companies, and they get that
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report for eight bucks. It might amaze some people to know that in the State
of California the police department do not write accident reports, the insur-
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ance companies do, because they are the only ones that want them and need
them, yet we spend something near seven hundred dollars to generate a report
which they buy for eight bucks and now they don't even do that, because they
bring their own photostat machine and do it for a dollar. I say the day has
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of to come in this City that you can no longer burden the homeowner and
subsidize these companies that are money making companies, you have got to go
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to more enterprise funds to pay for the expense of that which is being in-
curred for the benefit of those who are the beneficiary. So, what are we
doing with this item? We are deferring it? Mr. Manager?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
i Mr. Plummer: Are we deferring Item 38?
Mr. Odio: 39.
Mr. Plummer: 39.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir. I would rather defer it.
Mr. Plummer: I move that it be deferred.
Mayor Suarez: So, moved and seconded, any further discussion from the Commis-
sion? Please call the roll.
THEREUPON a motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by
Commissioner Dawkins to defer Item 39 and was passed by unanimous vote.
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26. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ISSUANCE OF PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS.
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Mayor Suarez: Item 40, first reading of an ordinance. This is for advance
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refinancing, is that what it is.?
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Mr. Odio: Refunding...
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Mayor Suarez: Refunding.
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Mr. Odio:... of the Department of Off -Street Parking System Revenue Bonds.
Mayor Suarez: It's really not refunding, it's really refinancing them.
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Mr. Odio: Well, refinancing.
Mayor Suarez: Whatever.
Ms. Kennedy: Is this an effort to take advantage of the current bond market?
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Mr. Odio: Yes, Commissioner.
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Mr. Dawkins: That's J. L.'s friend, let him move it.
Mr. Plummer: Do what?
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Mr. Dawkins: That's your friend, J. L. Move this for your friend.
Mr. Plummer: Who is my friend?
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Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Carlton.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, the car Czar. Oh, yes, I have seen him before.
Mr. Roger Carlton: The enterprise fund Czar.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, you got an enterprise fund all right.
Mayor Suarez: Was it moved and seconded? Or did I not hear a motion and a
second?
Mr. Plummer: I didn't hear the motion.
Mayor Suarez: Please move.
Mr. Plummer: Who made the motion?
Mr. Dawkins: You.
Mr. Plummer: I did?
Ms. Kennedy: I just asked a question.
Mr. Plummer: Oh.
Mayor Suarez: Nobody wants to move the item Roger.
Mr. Carlton: Does it have to be read, it's an ordinance.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, but...
Mr. Plummer: No, but you got to get it moved first. Mr. Suarez, we would
look to the wisdom of the center chair, would you like to move it?
Mayor Suarez: I almost passed the gavel and almost moved it. Yes. I will.
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Mr. Plummer: Seeing as the wisdom of the center chair has moved the item, I
would be happy to second such.
Ms. Kennedy: Under discussion, Mr. Manager,
Mr. Plummer: You dirty devil.
Mayor Suarez: You want the gavel so you can throw it at him?
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, give it...
Ms. Kennedy: No, but do you think you can prepare for us a list of the bond
issues and the interest we are paying and all that relevant information?
Mr. Odio: Yes, Commissioner, we will provide it.
Ms. Kennedy: OK.
Mayor Suarez: In case the entire audience here is confused, what is happening
is that the Off —Street Parking Authority is not necessarily the most popular
entity that we have to deal with, you know, they being in charge of putting
parking meters all over the City for one thing. So, we have a difficult time
approving some of their items here.
Ms. Kennedy: I have no problems with Roger Carlton.
Mayor Suarez: Except for Commissioner Kennedy, who...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, I do have problems with it, but go ahead. Any further
discussion?
Mr. Plummer: No, no, we get even in his budget, that's all.
Mr. Dawkins: Ohl
Mayor Suarez: Ohl
Mr. Plummer: Yes. Oh, yes. Yes, we will rattle his wallet.
Mr. Dawkins: Call the roll, Madam Clerk please.
Mr. Odio: I already did.
Ms. Hirai: It's an ordinance.
Mr. Dawkins: Madam City Attorney, read the ordinance please.
Ms. Dougherty: What did he say?
Mr. Plummer: Read the ordinance on forty.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF PARKING
SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA,
INCLUDING THE ISSUANCE OF AN INITIAL SERIES OF BONDS
IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT EXCEEDING
$18,000,O00 FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING AT THEIR RESPEC-
TIVE MATURITIES OR REDEEMING THE OUTSTANDING PARKING
SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS OF THE CITY ISSUED PURSUANT TO
ORDINANCE NO. 9618, ADOPTED ON MAY 31, 1983; PROVIDING
FOR THE PAYMENT OF SUCH BONDS AND THE INTEREST THEREON
FROM NET REVENUES DERIVED BY THE DEPARTMENT FROM ITS
PARKING SYSTEM AND CERTAIN INVESTMENT INCOME; AUTHO-
RIZING OTHER CLASSES OF INDEBTEDNESS TO BE SECURED AS
HEREIN PROVIDED; SETTING FORTH THE RIGHTS AND REMEDIES
OF THE HOLDERS OF SUCH BONDS; MAKING CERTAIN COVENANTS
AND AGREEMENTS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; AND PROVIDING
AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
Was introduced by Mayor Suarez and seconded by Commissioner Plummer and
was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
27. OPEN BIDS FOR WEST LITTLE HAVANA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE I
Mr. Plummer: Move 41.
Mayor Suarez: Let's accept the bids scheduled for 11:25, Item 55. OK. When
we say something is a public hearing to be heard at 11:30 that means anytime
after 11:30, but...
Mr. Roger Carlton: No, I'm sorry. The 26th for the second reading of this
ordinance.
Mayor Suarez: Oh.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. What are we ... what are the bids?
Ms. Hirai: Mr. Mayor, agenda 55 is bids for construction of West Little
Havana Highway Improvement Phase I.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, what item are you on?
Mayor Suarez: Item 55. We are going to receive bids on construction of West
Little Havana Highway Improvements.
Ms. Hirai: Phase I B-4110. First bid is from FRE Construction Company, total
bid two million a hundred seventy-two thousand six hundred nineteen dollars
seventeen cents. The second bid is from Miri Construction Inc., total bid two
million a hundred fifty-four thousand seven hundred ninety-five dollars
seventy cents. The third bid is from Garcia Allen Construction Co., total bid
two million four hundred sixty-eight thousand six hundred fifty-nine ... I want
to correct that number Mr. Mayor, two million four hundred eight thousand six
hundred fifty-nine fifty cents.
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Mr. Plummer: Read it again for the record.
Ms. Hirai: For the record, the bid from Garcia Allen Construction Co. is two
million four hundred eight thousand six hundred fifty-nine fifty cents. Next
bid is from Stone Paving Company.
Mr. Plummer: Who?
Ms. Hirai: Stone Paving Company, total bid two million seven hundred sixty-
four thousand, four hundred thirty-eight dollars seven cents. Next bid is
from B.N.M. Corporation, total bid two million three hundred eighty-three
thousand four hundred ninety-six dollars fifty-seven cents. Next bid is from
Williams Paving Co., total bid two million hundred fifty-six thousand two
hundred forty-eight dollars seven cents. Mr. Mayor, I need a motion to
properly refer these bids for tabulation.
Mayor Suarez: I will entertain such a motion.
Mr. Plummer: So move.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-451
A MOTION TO RECEIVE, OPEN, AND READ ALOUD SEALED BIDS
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF WEST LITTLE HAVANA HIGHWAY IM-
PROVEMENT - PHASE I B-4510.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
28. OPEN BIDS FOR WINONA SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT.
Mr. Plummer: Are we going to do 56 now?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, let's receive bids on Item 56 please.
Ms. Hirai: Bids on 56 are for construction of Winona Sanitary Sewer Improve-
ment Project B-4594.
Mayor Suarez: Where is the general location of this Don Cather?
Mr. Don Cather: This is in the far western end of the City and 67th Avenue.
This is Southwest 8th Street and this is Northwest 7th Street and it's this
section in here.
Mr. Plummer: It's in the Flagami area.
Mr. Cather: Yes, Flagami. West Flagami.
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Mayor Suarez: Will this push us up in the total amount of percentage of the
City that is sewered ?
Mr. Cather: Substantially.
Mayor Suarez: Because I know Flagami is one of the areas that is still
remaining and they complain about it a great deal.
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask one other question before she start reading. On both
of these projects, is the new penalties in place?
Mr. Cather: Yes, they are.
Mr. Plummer: They are both in place and it was so stipulated in the bid?
Mr. Cather: In the bids. We can check each one of them fnr the amnunt nf....
Mayor Suarez: Ron? Representative Ron Silver? I'm sorry go ahead. I just
want to recognize you before you leave, I got the feeling you were leaving and
I had not recognized you before and thank you for the help with the D.D.A.
bill. I'm sure that J. L. has thanked you already and I want to extend it on
} behalf of the entire Commission.
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Mr. Plummer: Well I thank you for three hundred and sixty-five days of
relief. I'm looking for three hundred sixty-six. OK.
4 Mayor Suarez: It's good to have you.
Mr. Plummer: Studabaker is paid off.
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Mayor Suarez: What would be the remaining part of the City to obtain sanitary
u sewers?
Mr. Cather: The biggest part is South Grove.
Mayor Suarez: Do they want them?
Mr. Plummer: Well, Mr. Mayor, that's not the question. OK.
Mayor Suarez: It's not?
Mr. Plummer: The question ... no it's not whether they want them or not, and
that's something this Commission is going to have to deal with. Mr. Mayor, if
you don't sanitize sewers in the South Grove, and there is going to be objec-
tions, and you are going to have to overrule, you are looking at a building
moratorium placed on the entire City. That's the equation that you are going
to have to deal with eventually.
Mayor Suarez: Obviously, if there is a technical reason or if there is a
scientific...
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mayor Suarez:...or a health reason why that has to be done....sure, I mean,
I...
Mr. Plummer: Well, see the County holds that power over this City, and if you
don't show a progressive program that you are trying to achieve one hundred
percent sanitary sewers, the County at any time can pass a total moratorium on
your building. So, I think you...
Mayor Suarez: They have to convince themselves and the citizens of Dade
-_ — County that it's needed, and at the appropriate time if they consider that,
they are going to have to deal with the opinions of a lot of people that don't
think they may be needed in certain areas, but I ... that's ... I just...
Mr. Plummer: Look, I have no problem dealing with the storm sewer, if they
want it and they don't want to pay for it, that's fine. A hurricane comes
along, they are in three feet of water, that's what they close to do, but Mr.
— Mayor, I don't think anybody in this right mind today could argue with sani-
tary sewers. You are dealing with public health and how anyone could...
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Mayor Suarez: No, I think there is still a raging argument on the issue....
Mr. Plummer: Yes, OK.
Mayor Suarez: ... but it depends a lot on the landscape and a lot of other
things. I'm not prepared to argue that point that's for sure, but I under-
stand what you are saying, if it's for health reasons it has to be done
regardless of what they want. Sure. Are we ready on the bids?
Ms. Hirai: On the bids for the Winona Sanitary Sewer, first bid is from
Douglas M. Higgins, Inc., bid "A," two million one hundred eighty-six thou-
sand...
Mr. Plummer: Could you give us the total bid first?
Ms. Hirai: This is a four part bid, sir, and...
Mr. Dawkins: Four part?
Ms. Hirai: A four part. There are four different amounts that I must read
aloud for each company on the project. There is a bid "A" and then there is
an additive bid "A" and then there is a bid "B" and an additive bid "B".
Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead.
Ms. Hirai: Bid "A", two million one hundred eighty-six thousand eight hundred
and eighty-five dollars. Additive bid "A", twenty-five thousand dollars. Bid
"B" is three million five hundred seventy thousand seven dollars. Additive
bid "B" is thirty thousand dollars.
Mr. Dawkins: What's the total? You don't have a total?
Ms. Hirai: No.
Mr. Dawkins: Give ... at two million twenty-five thousand you said ... you said
two million and then you said twenty-five thousand.
Ms. Hirai: Bid "A" was two million one eighty-six thousand eight eighty-five
and the additive bid "A" is twenty-five thousand.
Mr. Dawkins: Bid "B"?
Ms. Hirai: Bid "B" is three million five hundred seventy-seven thousand seven
dollars. Additive bid "B," thirty thousand. The second bid is from Rickman.
Bid "A," three million two hundred forty-one thousand eleven dollars. Addi-
tive bid "A," forty thousand dollars. Bid "B" is five million two hundred
eighty-three thousand nine hundred fifty-nine dollars. Additive bid "B" is
seventy thousand dollars.
Mr. Plummer: Is that a statement or a question?
Ms. Hirai: It looks like it's seventy-nine thousand dollars. It's hand
written and it's very...
Mr. Plummer: Yes, you can forget about that one. That's over eight million
dollars however you figure it.
Ms. Hirai: The next bid is from Roco Ferrera and Company, Inc.
Mr. Plummer: Ferre.
Ms. Hirai: Ferrera and Company, Inc., Bid "A" two million four hundred
fifteen thousand nine hundred eighty-seven dollars fifty cents. Additive bid
"A," fifteen thousand dollars. Bid "B," three million nine hundred seventy-
four thousand, two hundred eighty-five dollars. Additive bid "B," twenty
thousand dollars. The next bid is from Alonso Construction Company, bid "A"
two million three hundred forty-seven thousand four hundred forty-three
dollars. Additive bid "A," forty-five thousand dollars. Bid "B" is three
million eight hundred fifty-eight thousand hundred ninety-two dollars.
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Additive bid "B," sixty-five thousand dollars. Mr. Mayor, those are all the
bids.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Entertain a motion.
Mr. Kennedy: So move...
Mr. Plummer: To send them for calculations, yes. The way it is
right now
doesn't mean a hill of beans.
Mr. Dawkins: I second it and under discussion, Mr. Manager?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Before you award this bid, I would like to be made aware of the
minority participation by whoever the low bidder is.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Because, you know, we sit here and constantly you
guys keep
telling me what you are doing, and I go out there and all these
roads and
sewers I see, I see the Black people in the hole with the shovel and I don't
see none of them walking around as the big thing. So, I want to
see some
contractors.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, any further discussion, please
call the
roll for tabulation.
Mr. Odio: Yes.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who moved
xF its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-452
A MOTION TO RECEIVE, OPEN, AND READ ALOUD SEALED BIDS
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF WINONA SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT
B-4594.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
29. CONFIRM ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE II.
Mayor Suarez: I want to get back to the items that we were getting to before,
45 and so on, but on these public hearings scheduled for 11:30 on the confirm-
ing the assessment roll, 57 and 58, is there a large number of people that
wish to be heard on either 57 or 58? I wonder why? We shall know soon. Item
57, scheduled for 11:30 confirming the assessment roll, that's not the one?
(BACKGROUND COMMENT OFF THE PUBLIC RECORD).
Mayor Suarez: 58. OK. Do we have any problems with 57? I will entertain a
motion on 57.
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Mr. Dawkins: No, the department came out and had a hearing, isn't that
correct?
Mr. Don Cather: That's on Manor Phase IV, this is a confirming the completion
of the assessment roll for the completed Manor Phase II, which is about two
years old.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved.
Mr. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded, there is no one here that wants to be heard on Item
57? Call the roll.
S The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-453
A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR CONSTRUC-
TION OF MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE II IN MANOR
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT - PHASE II H-4473 AND
REMOVING ALL PENDING LIENS FOR THIS IMPROVEMENT NOT
HEREBY CERTIFIED.
(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 Joe Carollo
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Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
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Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice-Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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NOES: None.
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ABSENT: None.
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30. CONTINUE CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION FOR
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BAYCREST HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE II
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Mayor Suarez: Item 58. That's the controversial one apparently. Don, what
is this about?
Mr. Don Cather: This is the Baycrest, which is the area just off of 79th
Street right on the Bay between the Little River and 79th Street. There is
four or five streets that are very very low and we propose to regrade them.
We met with the citizens, explained what we did with them. We had a meeting
with them on June 5th at Legion Memorial Park. There were two hundred twenty-
two property owners were invited to the meeting, twelve people representing
nine properties were in attendance. The majority of people, ten at the
meeting reside in single family homes adjacent to Northeast Little River Drive
and Northeast 78th Street. These property owners object to the City's propos-
al to construct sidewalks and to widen the pavement to accommodate on street
parking. They do however, agree with the City's desire to rebuild and raise
the elevation of the two traffic lanes and the need to upgrade the drainage
system. The department is therefore, modifying the proposed improvements
within the single family area, Northeast Little River Drive and 78th Street,
as requested by the property owners, and no sidewalks or parking lanes will be
constructed on these two blocks. The City will rebuild the pavement, con-
struct, mountable curb and gutter to protect the pavement edge and to facili-
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tate drainage and upgrade the drainage system in the entire project area. The
department's proposal to improve the other streets in the district adjacent to
commercial and multifamily properties remains unchanged.
Mayor Suarez: You have heard the modifications. Are those pretty much what #
you plan to address and are those acceptable now to the homeowners?
Mr. Peter Schoenlank: Yes, except for on ---I don't know whether or not the
mentioned that on Northeast Little River Drive and 78th, you are not widening
the street are you?
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Mr. Cather: That's correct.
Mr. Schoenlank: Then we agree to that. -
Mayor Suarez: I want to say something. If as I gather, we have pretty much -
reached a compromise here or an agreement that this is ... No. OK. Why don't
you come up to the mike then, unless you are going to express his concern.
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Mr. Schoenlank: My name is Peter Schoenlank.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, and your address, sir.
Mr. Schoenlank: 1039 Northeast Little River. 7
r--.
Mayor Suarez: And you did participate in the other hearing or subsequently in
conversations with the department?
Mr. Schoenlank: Yes, I did.
Mayor Suarez: Do you speak on behalf of a number of the people who are here?
Mr. Schoenlank: Yes, thirty people.
Mayor Suarez: Can I have a show of hands of the ones that you speak on behalf
of? Thank you. That's leaves a few, I guess. Oh, you have some other
concerns, all right, and I guess he is going to express them, but I still do
want to compliment the department. I mean, this is the kind of procedure that
we need before we do public improvements in our City, consult the people in
the neighborhoods before we go on and start tearing up the streets.
Mr. Stanley Haves: My name is Stanley Haves, a property owner of 970 North-
east 78th Street. Northeast 78th Street has storm sewers on the corner of
78th and Northeast loth Avenue, and I regret to say that any time we have a
high tide, the high tide from the Little River Canal backs up through the
storm sewer and bubbles up out onto the roadway and we have, I would say
minimum, six to eight inches of water in that particular intersection at this
particular time. When we have heavy, heavy rains or storms, and we have a
high tide in the canal, the same situation exists. It is impossible to drain
that area because of the storm sewers. The storm sewers also because of the
bubbling up of the water take up the dryness and we don't have any water
seeping down into the ground surrounding that area. If additional road
widening is put in that area, we are going to have less area for drainage. We
are going to have more water standing on the streets and if the road elevation
is increased, then all of the properties on both sides of the road are going
to get the run off from the road and the property owners are going to have
stagnant water on their lawns for an indeterminate amount of time depending on
the rainy season, number one. Number two, as far as sidewalks are concerned,
we don't need sidewalks. There are no children remaining on 78th Street, and
there is very very few pedestrians that use that particular street. We have
ducks. We have more ducks in the roadway there than people. So, under the
circumstances we would not care to have sidewalks, and I think I speak for
everyone here, and we would not like to have the road raised or widened
because it would cause a tremendous inconvenience during hurricane, rainy
seasons, or high tides. Thank you.
Mr. Dawkins: Don, you can't repair the roads if you don't raise them, can
you?
Mr. Cather: We can repair roads, but...
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Mr.
Dawkins: I mean, you can't do what you want to here?
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Mr.
Cather: We can do what ... we can improve the drainage so that ninety nine
percent
of the time the streets will drain better, and the property will be €
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drained
and go out into the Little River Canal. We cannot stop high tides.
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Me.
Dawkins: OK. But...now, OK, but with American ingenuity and American
engineering, there is no such thing as a buffer or something that you could
put
in the sewers that when high tide comes it would shut off the entry, and
the
water will not back up and it will have to stay where it is. With Ameri-
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ingenuity, we can't do that?
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Mr.
Cather: No, because it comes right up through the ground. This property
is sitting
right at low tide.
Mr.
Dawkins: No. No, no, no, wait now, wait now. The gentleman said, and if
'.
I'm
in error he is going to correct me. The gentleman said at high tide the
water
backs up through the storm sewer system and comes up in the streets.
Now,
I'm saying that if this is the sewer, I don't know, but some kind of a
way
we should be able to put a or something here, that when it's high f
tide
it closes it off. Therefore, the water will not come back, and when the
'r
low
tide comes out, you got a floater....I don't know, you got a...
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Mr.
Plummer: That's why you are not the engineer and he is.
Mr.
Dawkins: Yes, but you... no...
Mr.
Cather: Well, you know...
Mr.
Haves: No, at the present time, they have that system.
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Mr.
Plummer: To block floats.
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Mr. Cather: With all respects to Commissioner Dawkins, we have tried several
solutions. We actually at one point and time had a bronze gate that would
open out and allow the water to flow out and then supposedly close when the
water started going the other way. However, if we had not be able to maintain
that so it works because it gets filled up with debris and street garbage and
everything else and it's been impossible to keep this thing in operation.
Mr. Dawkins: I have been saying every since I have been here, we need to hire
some more sanitation people. So, you hire a sanitation person to go over
there an clear it out.
Mayor Suarez: I agree with that.
Mr. Dawkins: I keep saying we don't have enough people employed. So, if we
don't have it cleaned, that means that there is nobody going to clean it. So,
let's hire somebody and put him there to clean it out so it will function.
Mr. Cather: However, we can do this and we are working on that. We are aware
of the problem, but we can't stop the stuff from coming up through the ground.
Mr. Dawkins: If you are working on it...
Mr. Cather: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: I beg your pardon? It's not what now?
Mr. Cather: I said we can't stop it from coming up through the ground.
Mr. Dawkins: Wait a minute, then. Hold it, hold it, hold it.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Co ahead.
Mr. Dawkins: No, wait a minute. Wait a minute now. It's nobody sitting in
here who does not know that water seeks it's own level and ain't no way in
hell water is going to come back up out the ground. OK. Now, the water ---the
ground may get saturated with water and gets to the water table, and is
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saturated and it won't take anymore, but no water is going to come back up out
the ground now. If it does, you tell me how.
Mr. Cather: Well,...
Mayor Suarez: Why don't one of you tell us...
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, Ma'am, but I don't care where you live....
Mayor Suarez: Co up to the microphone.
Mr. Dawkins: ... if you got grass and stuff, I don't think no water will come
back up.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioners Dawkins and all of us are anxiously waiting to
hear how the water goes up vertically. I do know...
Ms. Nancy Domeco: Well, I live...
Mayor Suarez: I do know of something called the capillary effect that I
studied in physics, but I don't think it applies here.
Ms.
Nancy Domeco: I am Nancy Domeco and I live
at 995 Northeast 78th Street.
On
the corner ... I live on the corner, and there
is a sewage drainage
right in
the
corner of my yard, and on each side of my
yard. Every time it
rains, I
get
the backup into my yard. I have it in my
yard now and it does
not come
out
of the ground, if comes out of the sewer system.
And I...
Mr.
Plummer: If it doesn't come out of the sewer
system, where is it
going to
go?
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Ms.
Domeco: I don't understand what you mean.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you are saying now that the water is coming out of the
sewer system and is going up into the yard?
Ms. Domeco: Right.
Mr. Plummer: All right, if it doesn't come out of there where is the water
going to go?
Ms. Domeco: I don't know.
Mr. Plummer: I don't either.
Mr. Dawkins: If it doesn't go in there, that's our problem. If it doesn't go
in...
Ms. Domeco: But every time we have a heavy rain or the tide is high, it gets
up in, at least six feet up into my yard and it kills my grass. We get the
salt water and the debris comes into my yard.
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me understand, are you saying you, the members of this
group, that you don't want this improvement?
Ms. Domeco: Well, we want the improvement.
Mayor Suarez: With the modifications?
Ms. Domeco: We don't want the sidewalks and that we don't want.
Mr. Plummer: You don't want sidewalks?
Ms. Domeco: No, because if I had a sidewalk going through my yard, it would
go through my front door, and I don't feel like people should be walking
through my living room.
Mayor Suarez: 78th Street you are talking about?
Ms. Domeco: Right.
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Mayor Suarez: And?
Ms. Domeco: And we don't need the street widened either. The street is wide
enough.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I have a problem with street widening and all this. Now,
this final wrinkle that they want to put on, can it be worked out? Would it
be beneficial for us to want to...
Mr. Cather: We have already agreed that we will not put sidewalks on those
two streets that I mentioned, or widen the street.
Mr. Odio: What's the problem?
Mr. Plummer: So, what's the argument about?
Mayor Suarez: So, what's the final remaining argument, it's just the back
water...
Ms. Domeco: The back water ... the back... something to do with the water coming
up?
(BACKGROUND COMMENT INAUDIBLE).
Mayor Suarez:
How high what?
I'm sorry.
Mr. Cather:
I haven't looked
at the actual elevation. We are not trying to,
you know, cause
more flooding.
We want to improve it so it does flow and when
it rains, it
drains as much as
possible. However, when you have a rain at a
high tide and
you live in a ...
you bought a house in an area that low, there is
no way to drain
it.
(BACKGROUND COMMENT INAUDIBLE).
Mr. Cather: Well, we are doing it for the whole area, not for that particular
corner where it comes up out of the sewer.
(BACKGROUND COMMENT INAUDIBLE).
Mayor Suarez: No, what he is saying is we have no proposed solution to that
particular problem or that particular corner. Ma'am state your name and
address, but we solved a lot of other problems here today.
Ms. Caroline Gaynor: Right. I'm very glad there is going to be a compromise.
My name is Caroline Gaynor, and I live at 960 Northeast 78th Street. Mr.
Dawkins, you wanted to know how the water comes up and it's a question of
grading. My property happens to be slightly higher in grade than the vacant
lot on the left of me and the vacant lot on the right of me. So, when the
River rises, it runs under my property and it comes out on the street beyond
me and it goes up to my neighbor George Clayton, practically up to his garage.
So, we have this effect of the water coming and going underneath a high spot
and coming out in a low spot. That whole area Northeast loth Avenue, North—
east Little River Drive and Northeast 78th Street are all very low, and so
when we go a conjunction of rain and tides, sometimes it's rain alone, and
sometimes it's tide alone. We do get flooding. Now, if we are going to raise
street level and sort of make a barrier, that's going to cause more severe
flooding on those properties that are by the River. It might...
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, we are not going to settle this matter here.
Mayor Suarez: All right.
Mr. Plummer: Why don't we send it back to the department, none of us are
engineers, and that we hear what the people want. They want the water problem
addressed, then let them come back next month and tell us how they can do it
without the widening of the streets and the sidewalks. Other than that, she
— is asking how high is high and how low is low and how much water is what.
Send it back to the department and tell them what to do.
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Mr. Dawkins: But they have already agreed with the department.
Mayor Suarez: In just about every aspect except for that one and I wonder if
it wouldn't be better to approve the ordering resolution with the idea that we
can catch up with this. If they can still work with Don Cather.
Mr. Plummer: How can you do it without their questions being answered?
Ms. Kennedy: If you put that in the form of a motion of will second that.
Mr. Odio: I will personally talk...I will personally work...
Mayor Suarez: Well, how do you want to do it. I mean, Commissioner Plummer
has suggested that we...
Mr. Dawkins: Let, let say something on the mike, please.
Mayor Suarez: Go ahead, say something on the mike. We are trying to solve
the problem at this point.
Ms. Phyllis Schoenlank: OK. My name is Phyllis Schoenlank and I live at 1039
Northeast Little River Drive. One of the questions that has not been answered
and I addressed it was the height. Some of the houses were built, I think
from 1932 on. Now, you can raise the street, but you can't raise the houses,
even if we fill in our yards. If we wanted the street raised, which is a good
idea so that we could drive, that would put the water into some of our living
rooms. We could fill in the land right in front of our house, but because of
where we live and because of the moving tide, the water is going to wind up in
our living rooms and apologies won't help us and we will never be able to sell
and get out. That's one thing. How would you deal with that? I mean, how
would you. How could you promise me my living room won't get wet if you do
that. It isn't worth it to me to let you do anything, because I understand
from the neighbors that have lived in the area, and the Claytons have lived
there for a very long time, I understand that before the storm sewers were
ever built there was not problem. It was an experiment, and the neighborhood
went along with it and it did a lot of harm, and I would like to invite you
out to the area during a heavy rain, and you can see for yourself through the
sewer it comes up and spreads before there is a flood, the water starts from
the sewer. We don't know exactly why, and we don't have to know why, we live
with the problem. It's not a new problem. I have been living there fourteen
years. If you could have corrected something like that in fourteen years, you
would have, I don't think that you are going to make the situation better for
us, you are going to be chasing out this very stable community. I would not
stay if you cause me that kind of heartache. OK.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, once again,...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I...
Mr. Plummer:...I say we are not going to accomplish this here. I'm sure it's
going to take mechanical engineering and all of that and I would suggest ... I
will make a motion at this time
Mayor Suarez: I will so entertain that motion.
Mr. Plummer:...that we send it back to the department to work with the neigh-
bors and to come up with some equitable solution that will work and then bring
it...once that's completed, bring it back before the Commission.
Ms. Kennedy: I second your motion.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. If you are this close to getting something
it sounds to me that is acceptable and please work with the department, I
believe they are willing to work with you to try to come up with a solution.
But we technically cannot even consider some of these things because we don't
understand a lot of it, you know, frankly they are quite complex .
Ms. Schoenlank: And if we are not satisfied with it, then will you vote it
down? I mean, is it up to the people? Isn't this supposed to be a vote?
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Mayor Suarez: Well, suppose you are ninety percent satisfied we might vote in
favor of it. I mean, I...
Ms. Schoenlank: OK. I'm asking you if we are all against it, will you still
go ahead with it? because I had to take time off from work. I'm a teacher.
Mayor Suarez: Well, I think you have the consensus of this Commission that we
want to have your concerns considered by the Department and we are once again
sending it back to them after quite a few modifications for more modifica-
tions. So, I think you have got the consensus of this Commission.
Ms. Schoenlank: And will you have more answers for us, as far as the height
goes will this gentleman tell us how high the street will be, because he
didn't tell us enough now.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, absolutely.
Mr. Odio: He will be
meeting with you, Ma'am.
Mr. Plummer: All of
those will be done before it
comes back here.
Mr. Reinaldo Cruz:
M name is Reinaldo Cruz.
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I live in 1040
Little
River
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Drive. I here today
in the same area. I live
in this I
here
today,
because I look at the
best for my property, that's
all. This is I
here
today,
I represent....
Mayor Suarez: Do you
want to make a statement to
that effect too,
Ma'am?
Mr. Cruz; Yes. I
call everybody here today
for this. The
best
for my
7
property, that all, because I live in this area because
I like the
best
for my
property, that's all.
Mayor Suarez: That's
exactly the way most of our
citizens feel.
Mr. Cruz: This is I here today. Thank you very much, the Commission.
Ms. Bonnie Clayton: All that I wanted to say, my name is Bonnie Clayton. I
live at 967 Northeast 78th Street. We have lived in this house since 1958,
longer than most anybody else that has been here today. We were there when
they put in the storm sewers. Before the storm sewers were put in, we might
have rain water standing in our yard for ---until it could drain out. When
they put the storm sewers in immediately we have...since then we have had salt
water backing up throigh the storm sewers into the yards, into the streets,
and whenever there is a high tide. Personally, the street is passable. It's
not in terrible condition, and I would be in favor of leaving it as is, and if
they can't do anything to stop the back flow, then just leave it as is, leave
us alone.
Mayor Suarez: We have got a motion and a second, please call the roll.
Ms. Hirai: Roll call, Mr. Plummer...
Ms. Dougherty: Mr. Mayor, would you continue this to a date certain, it's a
public hearing.
Mayor Suarez: Went do you want to have...
Mr. Plummer: July loth and we continue it again if we need to.
Mr. Cather: July 10. 1986 at 11:30.
Mr. Plummer: What?
Mayor Suarez: Sounds good. July loth?
--_ Mr. Dawkins: Wait. Mayor, wait. There is one lady who said that she had to
get off from work. Could we move it to 6 o'clock in the afternoon? Would
that inconvenience too many people? Would that inconvenience too many people?
OK. So, let's move it to 6 o'clock in the afternoon so that individuals do
not have to miss their jobs.
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Mayor Suarez: July loth at 6 P.M. it is included in the motion. Call the
roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-454
A MOTION TO CONTINUE CONSIDERATION OF A PROPOSED
CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION IN CONNECTION WITH
BAYCREST HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE II (H-4522) TO THE
MEETING OF JULY 10, 1986 AT 6:00 P.M.; FURTHER REFER-
RING THIS ITEM BACK TO THE ADMINISTRATION AND REQUEST-
ING THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR TO FURTHER WORK WITH THE
NEIGHBORS IN THE AREA AND TO COME BACK WITIH AN EQUITA-
BLE RECOMMENDED SOLUTION FOR FINAL CONSIDERATION BY
THE COMMISSION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Commissioner Plummer announced that he would leave the
meeting at 6:30 P.M.
WHEREUPON, THE CITY COMMISSION WENT INTO A LUNCH RECESS AT 12:02
RECONVENING AT 2:07 P.M. WITH ALL MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION FOUND
TO BE PRESENT EXCEPT COMMISSIONER CAROLLO.
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31. A- RECONSIDER DONATION OF 36 GOLF TEE MARKERS.
B- ACCEPT DONATION OF 36 GOLF TEE MARKERS (See labels 4 and 21)
Mr. Dawkins: While you are waiting Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: I would like to move Item 2 as it was on the agenda, because
they said we are going to have a problem if we don't.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So, moved and seconded, any further discussion?
Mr. Dawkins: Who seconded?
Mr. Plummer: I did.
Ms. Hirai: Mr. Mayor, we need a motion for reconsideration first.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, I move that we reconsider Item 2 please.
Ms. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So, moved and seconded.
Commission. Please call the roll.
Any further discussion from the
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-455
A MOTION TO RECONSIDER PREVIOUS VOTE ON AGENDA ITEM 2
(AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANGER TO ACCEPT DONATION OF 36
GOLF TEE MARKERS FROM THE WOMAN'S GOLF ASSOCIATION)
WHICH HAD CONTINUED THIS ITEM FOR FURTHER INFORMATION.
(NOTE: Immediately thereafter the City Commission
proceeded to, again, take a vote on agenda item 2 and
on motion of Vice Mayor Dawkins and seconded by
Commissioner Plummer, the item was passed and adopt-
ed.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Mr. Dawkins: I move Item 2, Mr. Mayor please as per the agenda.
Mr. Plummer: Commissioner Dawkins, I think it would be appropriate, sir, for
you to state on the record the reason why you have done a change.
Mr. Dawkins: For the record, the Parks and Recreation Department says that to
delay this would create problems that we don't need in that department. So,
therefore, I'm reconsidering...
Mr. Plummer: And they have assured you, sir, that they will meet with you and
resolve all the problems that you have at a later time so that you don't put
the money in jeopardy.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: That's what I thought.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you, sir.
Madam City Clerk.
Mr. Plummer: Is it an ordinance?
Mr. Dawkins: It's an ordinance?
Ms. Dougherty: No.
It's been moved and seconded, call the roll
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll please on Item 2.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-456
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE
DONATION OF 36 GOLF TEE MARKERS FOR THE TWO CITY -OWNED
GOLF COURSES FROM THE WOMAN'S GOLF ASSOCIATIONS OF
MELREESE AND MIAMI SPRINGS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
32. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: CREATE NEW DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND
PUBLIC FACILITIES.
Mayor Suarez: OK, item 42.
Mr. Jack Eads: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, item 42 is a recom-
mendation of the Administration to combine the Departments of Parks and
Recreation with the Department of Public Facilities.
Mr. Plummer: Let me understand of you one thing, and make sure. Mr. Eads,
even though we are combining these departments, that which we know as the
Marine and Yacht Enterprise Fund does stay as the Marine and Yacht Enterprise
Fund?
Mr. Eads: Yes, sir, that is correct.
Mr. Plummer: Those monies will not be mixed or thrown into the General Fund?
Mr. Eads: No, sir, co -mingled, not at all.
Mr. Plummer: They will not be co -mingled, so what you are doing, is to try
and streamline and reduce, but you will not touch those monies which have been
generated by that particular entity.
Mr. Eads: That is correct.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor...
Mrs. Kennedy: Excuse me one second. How much money will it save the City?
Mr. Eads: We estimate $154,000 a year.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, I have asked the Manager before and I still don't get it.
I would like for him to provide us with the new organizational chart. I
don't know about my colleagues, but I find it awfully hard to know what is
happening on first, when they are changing what is on third, so if you could
do that that please, I...
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: COMMISSIONER CAROLLO ENTERED MEETING AT 2:11 P.M.
Mr. Eads: OK, we will provide it certainly prior to second reading of the
ordinance.
Mr. Plummer: I move item 42.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Do we need to have the ordinance read
please?
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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, CREATING A NEW DEPARTMENT TO BE
KNOWN AS THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS, RECREATION AND
PUBLIC FACILITIES, THEREBY COMBINING THE DEPARTMENT OF
PARKS AND RECREATION, THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC FACILI-
TIES AND THE OFFICE OF MARINAS INTO A SINGLE DEPART-
MENT; PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A DIRECTOR BY
THE CITY MANAGER; PRESCRIBING THE RESPONSIBILITIES,
FUNCTIONS, AND DUTIES OF THE DEPARTMENT; TRANSFERRING
THERETO ALL PERSONNEL, RECORDS AND FUNDS PREVIOUSLY
BUDGETED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC FACILITIES TO
THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION AND TO THE
OFFICE OF MARINAS; FURTHER PROVIDING THAT ALL REFER-
ENCES IN THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS
AMENDED, TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC FACILITIES, THE
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION, AND THE OFFICE OF
MARINAS SHALL BE DELETED THEREFROM; 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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
33. ACCEPT GRANT OF $20,000 FROM DANCE UMBRELLA INC. FOR RENOVATING THE
MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER THEATER.
Mayor Suarez: Item 43.
Mr. Plummer: 43, I've got a question. I, of course, appreciate the fact that
they are donating $20,000, but in return, they are getting the use of the
facility for a period of...
Mrs. Kennedy: 250 days.
Mr. Plummer: Fifty days for five years. Now, is that just rent free? It
does not include the waiving of any costs, is that correct?
Mr. Castaneda: Yes, that is correct. They will still be required to pay any
insurance, security, any technical staff, stations.
Mr. Plummer: No, no. Any costs?
Mr. Castaneda: Right, any direct cost would have to be borne by the...
Mr. Plummer: OK, and normally, what is the rent for that facility per day?
Mr. Castaneda: $100.
Mr. Plummer: $100? So in return, they are getting S25,000, rent free for
$20,000 donation. That is fine, I think that is great. I move item 43.
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Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any further discussion from the Commission? Please
call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
,,. moved its adoption:
{,.., RESOLUTION NO. 86-457
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A
GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $20,000 FROM DANCE UMBRELLA,
INC. FOR THE PURPOSE OF RENOVATING THE MANUAL ARTIME
COMMUNITY CENTER THEATER AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE A REVOCABLE USE PERMIT TO DANCE
UMBRELLA, INC., FOR NO MORE THAN FIFTY DAYS FREE RENT
PER YEAR FOR A FIVE YEAR PERIOD OF TIME COMMENCING
UPON THE COMPLETION OF THE RENOVATION.
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(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
° Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote-
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
4 Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
34. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: INCREASE APPROPRIATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
TO RENOVATE MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER THEATER.
Mayor Suarez: Item 44 is a companion.
Mr. Plummer: I move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any further discussion from the Commis-
sion? Please call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 10039
ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 17, 1985, THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATION
ORDINANCE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30,
1986, BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPART-
MENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BY $40,000, CONSISTING
OF A $20,000 GRANT FROM DANCE UMBRELLA INC., AND A
$20,000 CONTRIBUTION FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI'S FISCAL
YEAR 1985-86 GENERAL FUND BUDGET; SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND
ACCOUNTS; MATCHING FUNDS AND GRANTS, AND BY DECREAS-
ING THE APPROPRIATION IN SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND AC-
COUNTS; MATCHING FUNDS FOR GRANTS $20,000, CONTAINING
A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Id 83 June 12, 1986
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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
35. DEFER SELECTION OF MANAGING UNDERWRITER IN ORDER TO OBTAIN INPUT FROM
PRIVATE SECTOR (See label #69)
Mayor Suarez: Item 45.
Mr. Plummer: Who does the Manager recommend?
Mayor Suarez: Are these stated in any kind of particular order?
Mr. Plummer: Or, who does the City Attorney, I guess.
Mrs. Dougherty: Which one is this?
Mr. Plummer: 45.
Mayor Suarez: The bond underwriters.
Mrs. Dougherty: These are the underwriters. These are not bond counsel.
Mr. Carlos Garcia: Mr. Mayor and members of the City Commission, we had a
selection committee made of five members of the Administration...
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, whoa! Why five members of the Administration?
It was my understanding that all selection committees would have at least one
outside from the private sector. Now, who are the members of the bond commit-
tee?... of this committee?
Mr. Garcia: We have Mr. Herb Bailey...
Mr. Plummer: Herb Bailey.
Mr. Garcia:... and Gary Houck, who is the Assistant Finance Director.
Mr. Plummer: Gary Houck.
Mr. Garcia: Annette De Lara who is a Financial Services Administrator.
Mr. Plummer: Who?
Mr. Garcia: Annette De Lars, with the Development Department.
Mr. Plummer: She works for Mr. Bailey?
Mr. Garcia: She works for John Gilchrist.
Mr. Odio: She works for Finance.
Mr. Plummer: OK, who else?
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Mr. Garcia: Adrienne Macbeth, as minority.
Mr. Plummer: She is on everything.
Mr. Garcia: And myself.
Mr. Dawkins: You know why she is on everything? She is the only Black they
got. If you get some more Blacks, you don't have to stick her on everything.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I would move that this matter be deferred...
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mr. Plummer:... and put it out, at least one, if not two people from the
private sector who can give input. I have asked for that every time. I think
it is most essential.
Mr. Odio: Well, can I ask you something better?
Mr. Plummer: Sure, ask anything you...
Mr. Odio: And I had a question on that issue. Why don't you appoint a
committee.
Mr. Plummer: No, sir, I don't want to be accused of playing favorites.
Mr. Odio: OK, then you want me to play favorite.
Mr. Plummer: I will accept anyone from the private sector that you consider
to be respectable and knowledgeable in the issue involved.
Mr. Odio: Very well, sir. I will do it. Yes, sir, I will do that.
Mr. Plummer: All right, sir. I want at least two from the outside. If the
majority is from the inside, I've got no problem with it, but I want some
outside input. Somebody from the private sector who has learned what the
word "incentive" means, OK? I move at this time that this item be deferred
until the next meeting.
Mayor Suarez: So moved, and I presume you are incorporating in the motion the
rest of the suggestion that two, or direction, really, that two outside...
Mr. Plummer: No less than twol
Mayor Suarez:... private sector people form part of this committee, and I
think it makes eminently good sense, really. It is a whole different way of
looking at life, Carlos, if you are outside the...
Mr. Garcia: That is true. My only concerns is that we have some deadlines
here.
Mr. Plummer: Fine, come back by the 26th and we will meet them.
Mr. Garcia: OK, very good, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: You can't make your deadlines on the 26th?
Mr. Garcia: Well, on the 26th we will be able to, yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: That's fine.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Any further discussion from the Commis—
sion? Please call the roll on item 45.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-458
A MOTION TO DEFER PROPOSED SELECTION OF A MANAGING
UNDERWRITER FOR ISSUANCE OF CITY OF MIAMI GENERAL
OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS, SERIES 1986 TO A FUTURE
MEETING; FURTHER REQUESTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO
PROVIDE A LIST WITH NO LESS THAN TWO NAMES FROM THE
PRIVATE SECTOR WHO WOULD GIVE THEIR INPUT TO THE
SELECTION COMMITTEE. (Note: See M-86-484)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
NOTE: THE HEREINABOVE MOTION WAS LATER SUBSTITUTED BY M-86-484.
36. DISCUSSION: MARINA AND LAND KNOWN AS FLORIDA YACHT BASIN TO BE USED FOR
PUBLIC PARK AND MARINA.
Mayor Suarez: Item 45.1.
Mr. Plummer: Cesar?
Mr. Robert H. Traurig: Mr. Mayor, my name is Robert H. Traurig, 1401 Brickell
Avenue. I would like to ask the Commission to withdraw this item from the
agenda, to be rescheduled at a later time. We are not prepared to make a
presentation at this time.
Mr. Dawkins: I would like to discuss it before you withdraw it please.
Mayor Suarez: Go ahead, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: Where is the owner of the property, Mr. Traurig.
Mr. Traurig: He is not present, Mr. Dawkins. I spoke with him about noon and
I told him that I would appear before the Commission to request the withdraw-
al of the item.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. Well, since you are withdrawing it and it will come
back ... the gentleman, the owner told me that this was a good deal and that it
would make money and everything and I'm prepared to suggest to my fellow
Commissioners, that if this is a good deal and as the gentleman says, it will
make money, then that he be prepared to sell us the property and we will give
him twenty-five percent down and he take the note and we pay him back out of
the receipts from the marina. Now, the reason I'm saying to do that is, we
have quite a few people over there who need the dock storage, and I wouldn't
want to be the one who stop them from being able to shelter their boats. But
if this is a good deal, as they say it is, and it's going to make money, then
we can very easily pay him for his land out of the receipts that this marina
makes. So, that's where I will be coming from when he comes back to discuss
it.
Mr. Traurig: I will pass that on to him and we will return to this Commis-
sion.
Id 86 June 12, 1986
Mr. Dawkins:
OK. Thank you.
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Ms. Kennedy:
Bob, may I assume that you will continue negotiations with the
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City Manager?
Mr. Traurig:
Yes, Ma'am, we intend to do that. We intend to come back to you
with a more
complete package so that you will have all of the facts and
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figures in front of you at the time you make a decision.
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Ms. Kennedy:
OK.
Mayor Suarez:
I just want to state Bob, so you know, that so far my position
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will be identical to Commissioner Dawkins'. I. ..you can negotiate all you
want with the City Manager, but unless he is willing to take the same risk
that we would be taking, I can't see the City going into this and spending
substantial amounts of money, for reasons that you and I have discussed and
Mr. has
been present.
Mr. Traurig:
That's worthy of consideration, Mayor, and we will discuss it
.,,...
and return to
this Commission.
Mayor Suarez:
Before you...
Mr. Carollo:
Bob, not only that, but we better see some clear numbers on
everything.
Mr. Traurig:
I understand that.
Mr. Carollo:
You know, we have to have before this Commission, clear numbers
to see what
they are making there now, what we could make in the future in
realistic numbers,
and where are we to locate the funds to buy the property.
Mr. Traurig:
I think we...
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Mr. Dawkins:
Well, are you saying, Mr. Commissioner, that they must bring
back figures
that will...that you and I can look realistically at and see that
this revenue
will be produced, if not, then...
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Mr. Carollo:
We need to look at figures before we can get into any actions
is the that
whether it's
this or anything else, and this one of requirements
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this Commission has always had, to look at figures.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, let me go on record.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Plummer?
Mr. Plummer: I would like to go on record, that as far as I am concerned, I
think it is a very valuable piece of real estate that I would like to see in
the City's possession, but I think we have to understand that this is proposed
to be on revenue bonds, and I think that what it is behooving upon the owner,
the present owner, that he can demonstrate in a financial projection that the
revenue bonds will be adequately covered by debt service predicated on that
financial statement. As you know that the bonds wouldn't even sell if there
was not adequate reserves and debt service build up. You know, I would love
to see this property in City ownership. It is a very unique and valuable
piece of property, but if we have to buy it outright, there is no way this
City could afford it. So, what I'm saying is, I think it is on the owner of
the property present, that he must be able to demonstrate that the revenue is
more than adequate to produce the sale of revenue bonds, because without it,
you will never sell the bonds and the City could never buy the property.
Mr. Traurig: We understand that and we are happy to have this item withdrawn
and we will return to you at a time when we can demonstrate what we think you
want to know.
Mayor Suarez: And ideally, on such revenue bonds that the City would not be
primarily or secondary liable, even if they were...
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Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, no. No, that's only on G.O. Bonds. That's why you
would have a tough time selling them.
Mayor Suarez: No,...Well, on revenue bonds the City could be secondarily
liable, but the idea would be if they are willing to share the risk or take
the risk...
Mr. Plummer: That's no full faith in credit.
Mr. Traurig: Shall I assume that this item has been withdrawn?
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: IN CONNECTION WITH AGENDA ITEM 30, MAYOR SUAREZ AP-
POINTED ROBERT TRAURIG AND COMMISSIONER PLUMMER APPOINTED CHARLES GOTTLEIB TO
THE CHARTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
j NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AT THIS POINT, PRESENTATIONS WERE MADE TO MONTY TRAIN-
ER, HOST COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN AND TO MEMBERS OF HOST COMMITTEE FOR EFFORTS IN
MISS USA PAGEANT.
37. SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS.
Mayor Suarez: Is it a good guess that most of the people who are here, are
here on item 62? Is that, Mr. City Manager? (COMMENTS IN SPANISH)
Mr. Odio: (COMMENTS IN SPANISH)
Mayor Suarez: Why don't we take up item 62.
Mr. Plummer: They are really here for 63, because 62 is a companion.
Mr. Surana: 63. Take both.
Mayor Suarez: OK, let me explain briefly that we have twice... this Commis-
sion has twice met, once in open hearing, and the other time in a workshop,
which was also open to the public, and to representatives from all the agen-
cies, and we have spent, probably more hours on this item, than any other
single thing that we have considered since I have been here and Commissioner
Kennedy has been here. We have tried our best to be fair in all the alloca-
tions of money, and at the end of this entire process, I can report to you
that we have no idea, yet, how we are going to distribute the monies and we
are not going to hear from members of the public, because we... except as
directed to the actual resolution before us; we are not going to hear on the
merits of each of the programs, because we have heard already, and we will
make a determination today for the simple reason that we cannot keep postpon-
ing it, because by the end of June, I believe, Frank, that all the contracts
expire. Briefly, in Spanish ... (BRIEF COMMENTS IN SPANISH) Mr. Castaneda.
Mr. Plummer: Which one of these options are you recommending?
Mr. Castaneda: Our recommendation in the application, and as a recommendation
that we came to you with is what appears under the twelfth year C.D. state-
ment. Option 1, you might recall, is the option that was suggested by the
Mayor, which would provide 80 percent of funding for food programs under
Community Development and 60 percent for the others. Option 2...
Mayor Suarez: Wait, Frank, let me just add a wrinkle there if there is a
wrinkle. Does that also provide a certain amount of money that can be dis-
tributed further?
Mr. Castaneda: Under option 1, you have 166 available. Under option 2...
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Mayor Suarez: How about monies not expended from prior years?... because you
have told me a figure of maybe $300,000, additional.
Mr. Castaneda: No, no. The $300,000 figure is that in option 4, which is the
new option that I believe I have given a copy to all of the Commissioners.
Basically, it is hard to determine right now how much money is going to be
left over from the allocations this year. Last year was $53,000, which was
reallocated. In option 2, basically what we did, we fund the top priorities
of the City Commission under Community Development, and that leaves a balance
of $320,000. In option 3, we took some of that money, and we increased the
allocation to J.E.S.C.A. and Little Havana.
Mr. Odio: And First United Methodist Church.
Mr. Castaneda: And First United Methodist.
Mr. Odio: And Gibson Memorial Fund.
Mr. Castaneda: No.
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mr. Castaneda: In option 4 is really the recommendation made by staff, and
option 4 at the end...
Mayor Suarez: That is the one that is under the headline?
Mr. Castaneda: Option 4... right.
Mayor Suarez: Under the title, "12 year C.D. statement?"
Mr. Castaneda: "12 year C.D. statement" is the recommendation that staff made
to the City Commission. Option 4 is a new option that we have developed, and
basically, what it does, it gives...
Mr. Odio: Under 12 year C.D.
Mrs. Kennedy: Option 4 is the 12th year C.D. statement.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, it is the 12th year C.D. statement, OK.
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, the title, you keep referring to it as option 4, OK. You
gave it a more elegant title than the other ones.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, we have
Mayor Suarez: You were saying about option 4?
Mr. Castaneda: There was another option added which is option 4, and I don't
know whether Commissioner Plummer, because he is looking at the original
package.
Mr. Plummer: I don't have that, do I?
Mayor Suarez: We have gone through so many options. You are going to have to
pass that out on if it's something different from what is in the package.
Mr. Odio: I think number 3 is the best - just what you want.
Mr. Castaneda: Basically. what that one does, it funds at a 50 percent level
to Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Centers, J.E.S.C.A., and H.A.C.A.D.,
throwing the balance to the bottom and then those...
Mayor Suarez: One other one, because I believe this was my option that I want
to consider - Belafonte Sports also, at 50 percent.
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
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Mayor Suarez: And provided $166,000, also, to be further distributed to
savings, yeah.
Mr. Castaneda: To be further distributed.
Mayor Suarez:...in savings.
Mr. Plummer: And ... you are saying option 4, Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, the one that is listed here under option 4. What did we
call it, Frank?.. 80, 50, or 80...?
Mr. Castaneda: 80 - 60, for everything under Community Development and then
it funded...
Mayor Suarez: The other programs, 50 percent.
Mr. Castaneda: The other programs, 50 percent.
Mr. Plummer: No, that is not true.
Mr. Castaneda: No, very specific programs. Little Havana Activity and
Nutrition Centers...
Mayor Suarez: J.E.S.C.A., H.A.C.A.D. and Belafonte Sports.
Mr. Castaneda: J.E.S.C.A., H.A.C.A.D., and Belafonte Sports.
Mr. Plummer: But, the only C.B.O. in the downtown area gets zero, is that
correct?
Mr. Castaneda: Under that option, that is correct.
Mr. Plummer: It gets nothing, absolutely nothing?
Mr. Odio: That is why they get...
Mr. Castaneda: No, Family Counseling would get $12,000.
Mr. Plummer: No. What?
Mr. Castaneda: Downtown Family Counseling Services would get $12,000.
Mr. Odio: First United Methodist.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, everyone gets at least 50 percent. No one is totally
eliminated under it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Frank, let me ask you something.
Mr. Plummer: No, First United Methodist Church, which is a food program, gets
nothing.
Mr. Castaneda: Right, under revenue sharing.
Mr. Odio: That is correct.
Mr. Plummer: Gets nothing.
Mr. Castaneda: But, you have $160,000 available here.
Mayor Suarez: For further distribution?
Mr. Castaneda: For further redistribution.
Mr. Plummer: And the Little Havana, which is the biggest program, you have
cut from $238,000 to $132,000, under that option.
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Mr. Castaneda: No, what we did under that option is, we cut that program by
50 percent of the combined total, therefore they get $132,000.
Mr. Plummer: So, conceivably, you are cutting out half the people of the
feeding.
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Mr. Plummer: Let me just ask for purposes... how do you come up with the day
care center at $73,000?... and you are cutting people out of food programs.
Mr. Castaneda: Which day care program are you talking about?
Mr. Plummer: Any one of them.
Mr. Dawkins: Holy Cross. Holy Cross, $73,000.
Mr. Castaneda: For programs funded under Community Development, that are non-
food programs, would get 60 percent. That would mean day care.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Castaneda...
Mayor Suarez: Let me just say on that point that that is based on what you
have stated before Commissioner Plummer, that you felt that day care programs
were not what you consider on your category of food?
Mr. Plummer: No, sir, only that part of the program which feeds the kids.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, yes, but that is really difficult to calculate. We
don't...
Mr. Plummer: No, not at all!
Mayor Suarez: Do we have any...
Mr. Castaneda: Well, what happens, Commissioner, is that the food is usually
funded from some other source, and what we usually fund for a day care is the
administrative cost of the staff, even though that program does provide meals
during lunch time.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but see, let me tell you, I know how I am going to vote,
OK? Now, I am looking here, and I am not going to mention any names. Anybody
who has got the paper can see it. I want to know how anybody sits up here and
says to a person who is hungry, I am not going to feed you, because I am
sending the kid to a summer camp. Now, if that makes sense to you, then I am
crazy! Now, I want to tell you something. Mr. Mayor, for 16 years I have
been consistent, and this is the 16th year I am going to remain consistent. I
am going to feed the hungry first. I am going to worry about the sick and
any monies left over, we will talk about it. Now, I realize that is a hard
bullet to bite, looking people in the eye for day care centers. I understand
that, but the monies are not here, and as far as I am concerned, that is where
I am and that is what I am going to vote for.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Castaneda.
Mr. Castaneda: Yes, Commissioner?
Mr. Dawkins: When you made what we have here, called 12th year C.D. state-
ment, did you take into consideration the things that Commissioner Plummer
just said?
Mr. Castaneda: Yes, sir. Now, but...
Mr. Dawkins: And that is how you arrived at these numbers?
Mr. Castaneda: We took the high priorities of the Commissioner, but believe,
me, we considered day care. We had to give some credit to feeding the kids in
the day care.
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Mr. Plummer: What is this thing that you call team?
Mr. Castaneda: Tenant Education.
Mr. Odio: Well, let me see, Commissioner Dawkins. I think what your ques-
tion... in regards to your question, I think option 3 is the one that answers
Commissioner Plummer's questions more directly.
Mr. Dawkins: That is true... that is what the Manager... well, what did you
do with your 12th year C.D. statement?
Mr. Castaneda: In the 12th year C.D. statement, Community Development
agen-
cies have priorities.
Mr. Dawkins: Community Development agencies have priorities. Not, the
food,
and the hunger, like we said?
Mr. Odio: That is correct, sir.
Mr. Castaneda: That is correct, but we gave the special treatment to
food
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programs under that category.
Mr. Plummer: I am really not worried.
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Mr. Dawkins: And that is the only one where we got no money left over, right?
Mr. Castaneda: That is the only one that you don't have any money left over.
Mr. Kennedy: Let me ask you something, Frank, just to throw some numbers
out,
if we had another... OK, based on Commissioner Plummer's recommendation,
which
I also believe - feed the hungry first, in these options there are
food
programs that are receiving 100 percent funding, but others that don't,
what
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if we have an option 5, where you give a 100 percent to the food programs, 80
percent funding to the health program, 70 percent funding to the child
care,
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and then others like ACCION would receive some funding also. Let me
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ive you...
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Mayor Suarez: When you say ACCION, are you referring to the new application
by... what do you mean by Action. Do you mean Action Community Center, or do
you mean...
Mrs. Kennedy: Action Community Center.
Mr. Plummer: According to your numbers, let me see if I understand them...
according to this, that you are talking about here, you would be 100 percent
funding for all of the food programs.. 80 percent, and we only have two, which
is the Coconut Grove Family Clinic, and Miami Mental Health, and the remaining
money on a 70 percent funding would go to the child care. I don't think I
have any problems, and then Action Community Center, is ACCION?
Mrs. Kennedy: ACCION?
Mr. Plummer: All right.
Mr. Dawkins: In that event, then under child care, what do we have for
Wynwood and Liberty City?
Mr. Plummer: Wynwood Elderly Care. you have $196,000.
Mrs. Kennedy: Wynwood is a good program.
Mr. Dawkins: Where?
Mr. Plummer: Up at the top.
Mrs. Kennedy: At the top, 100 percent funding.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, but that is food. What we have got down here now, we are
into child care, so we have got the same child care needs in Wynwood, and
Overtown and other areas that we have got in these three areas, these three
schools we have got here, so now, explain that to me, now.
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Mr. Plummer: Well, Commissioner Kennedy...
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes?
Mr. Plummer: Let me only ask you one thing, and you know, I really shouldn't
be up here, a good Catholic boy, protecting the Methodists, but I've got to —
feel that I have to. It is not 100 percent, because the First United Church
is not included in it, and you are talking about $10.0001
Mayor Suarez: And just about every option...
Mr. Plummer: The only one...
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Mayor Suarez:... we should be able to reinstate that $10,000. It is the only
downtown program, and I don't see any problems ... any of the options that
provide a little bit of extra money, as making it a part of the motion that
the first $10,000 in excess monies, which almost all of these have some. In
fact, the only one that doesn't have any excess money is your recommenda-
tions...
Mr. Plummer: Well...
Mayor Suarez: ... that we take the first $10,000, if the option includes that
extra to First United.
Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you where I am, Mr. Mayor. I can accept Commission-
er Kennedy's recommendation, even though I have problems with the child care,
in the way of distribution, because I think we have got to respect Commis-
sioner Dawkins, but I can accept the First two categories, if you will include
somewhere the First United Methodist Church, whether it is down at the bottom
from contingencies, or where, I can accept the First two.
Mrs. Kennedy: Why don't we put it under "other" and see how we can do that.
Mr. Plummer: OK, I have no problems with that. That is $12,000, something.
Where is it?
Mrs. Kennedy: $10,000.
Mr. Plummer: No, it is $12,000, Rosario. Here it is, $10,312.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, first I have to commend Commissioner Kennedy for attempting
to find a solution.
Mr. Plummer: I'll tell you, it is great.
Mrs. Kennedy: Greatl
Mr. Dawkins: And the only thing I would say is, take the Holy Cross Day Care
Center and divide it by three, and give some money to somebody in Wynwood, and
if there is somewhere else?
Mr. Plummer: Well, is Commissioner Carollo here?
Mrs. Kennedy: No.
Mr. Plummer: OK, Mr. Mayor, and I am not trying to take authorship on her,
but may I do this with your permission?
Mrs. Kennedy: OK.
Mr. Plummer: I would like to accept a motion at this point to accept the two
top, that is relation to food programs and health programs as submitted by
Commissioner Kennedy. I would move that that be accepted.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
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Mayor Suarez: I have no problem with the general direction you are taking,
but I wonder why you don't want to take the whole thing?
Mr. Plummer: Well, because they want to split up the third one, and I will go
along with that.
Mayor Suarez: But, just enough to get the $10,000 for the downtown Method-
ist...?
Mr. Plummer: No, it is my understanding that Commissioner Dawkins wants to
split up Holy Cross...
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Mr. Plummer: ... and give that sum to Overtown, and some to Wynwood. I'd like
to lock in the two.
Mayor Suarez: Are you sure you don't want...?
Mr. Plummer: That is accomplished and given.
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Mayor Suarez: I just thought that we may want to try to do the whole thing in
z one shebang, otherwise.
Mr. Plummer: I don't think you are going to do that way.
Mayor Suarez: All right, moved and seconded, the first two categories.
Mr. Plummer: Wait, excuse me. I will even, if it is agreeable, I will lock
in at this time, the food programs, the health programs and the now two items
of "other", that has been proffered by Commissioner Kennedy as given. Do you
accept that?
Mrs. Kennedy: Everything except the child care, I accept that.
Mr. Plummer: Everything but the child care.
Mayor Suarez: The second? You seconded? Do you accept that? OK, so moved
and seconded. Any further discussion from the Commission? Hearing none,
please call the roll.
THEREUPON, THE FOREGOING MOTION, duly introduced by
Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Vice -Mayor Dawkins
was passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo *
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
* NOTE: Although absent at roll call, Commissioner Carollo later asked of the
City Clerk to be shown as voting with the motion.
(LATER FORMALIZED INTO RESOLUTION NO. 86-461. SEE LABEL 39)
Mr. Plummer: Let me say for the record, in 16 years that I have been here,
she has accomplished more in one stroke of the pen, that I have ever seen,
where everybody is happy!
Mrs. Kennedy: Thank you, very much.
Mr. Plummer: Now, I would like to know if you would like to resign your
Commission seat and be head of Community Development?
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Mayor Suarez: Can you imagine Frank Castaneda on this Commission, and all
that?
Mr. Plummer: No.
Mayor Suarez:
All right, who do we have left to work out. scow?
Mr. Plummer:
Now, we have got the child care center to work out. We have got
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one, Centro
Mater, is Little
Havana. Little Havana is Little Havana.
Overtown Day
Care is Dawkins.
That is downtown. Holy Cross, what other do
we have? We
have Wynwood. Is
there a day care center presently existing in
Wynwood?
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS)
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Mr. Plummer:
Is there one that
was there funded before?
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Mayor Suarez:
Holy Cross is in
Wynwood.
Mr. Plummer:
OK, Holy Cross is
in Wynwood.
Mr. Dawkins:
All right, OK, so...
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Mr. Plummer: All right, what other area... what about the gentlemen that
comes here from the old fire station?
Mr. Dawkins: There he is, back there.
Mr. Plummer: All right.
Mr. Dawkins: I think we have got him in the...
Mr. Plummer: In what? I don't see him here. Is he the Overtown?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, he is Overtown.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, well then, he is adequately covered. What else are you
trying to cover?
Mr. Dawkins: Liberty City.
Mr. Plummer: All right, is there a day care center in Liberty City that
exists? I don't want to create a new program. What about Coconut Grove?
There is no... what about St. Alban's in Coconut Grove?
Mr. Dawkins: Well, take them instead of Liberty City, that will be all right.
Mr. Plummer: All right. St. Alban's?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Is that agreeable with everybody?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, with me.
Mr. Carollo: Sure. They have got a good program, there.
Mr. Plummer: Besides St. Albans, what other day care do we have to be
concerned about? Is there anything else? What is the request of St. Alban's?
Mrs. Brooks: They have not requested any funding.
Mr. Plummer: What was their past funding?
Mrs. Brooks: They were not funded this past year. Their funding expired
September of 1985.
Mr. Plummer: How do you want to do it?
Mayor Suarez: How much do you we have available?
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Mr. Plummer: Well, whatever you have available, is coming, as I see it, out
of Holy Cross.
Mayor Suarez:
OK, which is under the proposal...
Mr. Plummer:
Is $141,000 under the proposal. No, no, I am sorry. The option
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is $99,000.
Mayor Suarez:
$99,000. That is about $100,000.
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Mayor Suarez..
How much more has to be made up under Commissioner Dawkins'
request?
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Mr. Plummer:
No.
Mayor Suarez:
How much do you need for other programs that are not included in
that?
Mr. Dawkins:
We are just going to fund... well, whatever for St. Alban's,
take it out of the $99,000, and let's go for there.
Mayor Suarez:
How much was it for St. Alban's? What is their request?
Mr. Plummer:
Their prior request, as I recalled, was $65,000.
Mr. Dawkins:
No, we can't take that out of $99.000.
Mr. Plummer:
No, I understand that.
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Mayor Suarez:
Couldn't we find some monies elsewhere to resolve St. Albans,
without having
to reduce Holy Cross? They are down from $141,000 to $99,000.
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Mr. Plummer:
But, Mr. Mayor, I think in all fairness, and I am very much in
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favor of the
program, but I think it would be hard pressed - the highest one
besides that
is Little Havana, and that is $53.000. I would say, in fairness,
that we give
to Holy Cross the same as what we are giving to Little Havana,
and give the
remaining difference of there, to St. Alban's.
Mayor Suarez:
Which is what, $65,000?
Mr. Plummer:
No, it would be less - $53,000 from $99,000, would be $46.000.
¢
That is a suggestion.
Mayor Suarez:
Question. Can they survive with S46,000?
Mr. Carollo:
Gentlemen, I have been there personally in the past, and they...
Mr. Plummer: Centro Hater is there?
Mr. Carollo: Yes, but they are 70 percent funding.
Mr. Plummer: All right, what do you want to do? Hey, it is one of my
favorites.
Mr. Carollo: If there is one that I think should get 100 percent funding, it
is Centro Hater.
Mr. Plummer: Then you got a problem. Well, let's see...
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, but 100 percent...
Mr. Plummer:...that brings that up to $21.000 more.
Mayor Suarez: By the way, there is a good chance of getting at least 50
percent of the revenue sharing funds at some point, so we may be able to
reinstate some of these programs, and this is not closing the door forever.
Mr. Plummer: All right.
Mayor Suarez: You keep telling me not to say that, and I keep saying it. You
can say not to say that until you are blue in the face, and I will keep saying
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it, Mr. City Manager, because if there is the smallest
chance that we can get
some more monies out of the Federal
government, and if
there is hope for every
program, I want to try to fund every
program, so don't
tell me not to say itl
Mr. Plummer: Let me suggest then,
under Commissioner
Carollo, trying to be
the peacemaker here, bringing Centro
up to $70,000, putting
$28,000 in for St.
Alban's, and bringing Holy Cross to
$50,000 brings you
the same bottom line.
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Mr. Carollo: And bringing Holy Cross to what?
Mr. Plummer: Bringing Holy Cross to $50,000. Let me start from the top.
Centro Mater, at $70,000; Little Havana Child Care at $53,000; Overtown Day
Care, $21,000; Holy Cross, $50,000; and St. Alban's at $28,000.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, St. Alban's is the Grove. Holy Cross is Wynwood. Overtown
is Overtown.
Mr. Plummer: The only thing you haven't covered is Flagami.
Mr. Carollo: The problem is... if we bring Holy Cross to $50,000, we are
bringing it to about one-third.
Mayor Suarez: I don't know if they can survive on one-third. Is there anyway
that we can find funds anywhere else?
Mr. Carollo: Well, how much is Action asking for?
Mr. Plummer: Who?
Mr. Carollo: Action Community Center.
Mr. Plummer: Action is S231,000.
Mrs. Kennedy: $231,000.
Mr. Carollo: But, what we are asking for, is that 100 percent funding, or
what?
;Mayor Suarez: Yes, but, when you put that under the other, what percentage
did you apply to it?
Mr. Plummer: Now, $270,000 is what they had before, Joe. They had $270,000
before. Octavio, you are standing there. $300,000 is what we had before?
Mr. Castaneda: Before where?
Mr. Plummer: Sir, I am sorry. If I am wrong...
Mayor Suarez: Last year, is what he means.
Mr. Castaneda: $317,000 from Community Development.
Mrs. Kennedy: These figures are wrong.
Mr. Plummer: Well, then, you are ... excuse me. Your numbers are wrong. Your
numbers are wrong. $401,000 is what I am looking at, I am sorry.
Mr. Castaneda: Right. $317,000 from Community Development, and $83,000 from
revenue sharing.
Mr. Carollo: $317,000.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, so actually, they are down one-third.
Mayor Suarez: You are down two-thirds, yes.
Mr. Carollo: OK, now, Frank, let me ask this - that whole amount of money is
going for transportation?
Mr. Castaneda: Yes.
Mr. Carollo: OK, solely for transportation.
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(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS)
Mr. Carollo: Salaries, gas, and insurance, because you got the buses already.
Mr. Dawkins: And he...
Mr. Carollo: How about for maintenance, and things like that?
Mr. Plummer: That is acceptable to me.
Mr. Dawkins: And he transports people to eat.
Mr. Plummer: Do you got a problem with that?
Mr. Dawkins: No, that is the transportation that is provided for the people
to eat.
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS)
Mayor Suarez: Yes, at that level is probably the best we can do, and I have
to make that...
Mr. Octavio Blanco: I would appreciate it if you people tell me who do we
have to cut it... if we are going to cut the hot meals, or are we going to cut
the or what?
Mr. Plummer: I'd rather tell you don't cut anything, just work harder.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Blanco: Work harder? You are going to help us. You are going to be one
of those drivers.
Mayor Suarez: We are going to do a little driving for you, Octavio. Commis-
sioners Dawkins and Carollo had proposals left, and before we take a Einal
vote on this, having to do with the restructuring of some of the monies that
would otherwise go to Holy Cross, and maybe giving some additional to Centro
Hater, but that might kill your program.
Mr. Carollo: Are you from Holy Cross? Why don't you let her get up here?
Ms. Sylvia La Villa: We are talking about cutting half of the children we
presently have.
Mayor Suarez: Get a little closer and tell us your name.
Ms. La Villa: My name is Sylvia La Villa, I reside at 4010...
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Mr. Mayor. Excuse me, I am sorry. Mr. Mayor, I
don't mind hearing her. If we are going to open it up to the public, we are
going to open it up all the way.
Mr. Dawkins: That is right. We said that we would have nobody from the
public.
Mr. Plummer: Now, I want to tell you, if you want to hear her, then I am
willing and prepared to sit here until 6:30 p.m. and listen to everybody, but
it was understood, a gentlemen's agreement...
Mayor Suarez: Well, we heard a little bit from one and the other. This is
the one that may be...
Mr. Plummer: Any questions that are asked have been answered.
Mayor Suarez: This is the one that may be killed by this proposal.
Mr. Dawkins:. Well, what the hell, they are some out there that are already
killed.
Mr. Plummer: There is a hell of a lot of them killed.
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Mr. Dawkins: There is a hell of a lot of them already killed, so we just have
to kill another one.
Mr. Plummer: There are nine programs put out of business.
Mr.
Dawkins: I mean, come on nowt
Mr.
Plummer: You are still in business.
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Mayor Suarez: I agree with the thinking. If we are going to hear from one,
we
are going to hear from them all. It is just that under this particular
proposal
that we are close to a vote, and this is the only program that would
be
further reduced. Maybe it would make sense to hear if that program would
be
able to continue, or not. OK, what is the Commission's pleasure?
Mr.
Carollo: Well, I think based on the last go -around that we had, unless we
want
to take anything from anywhere else, I think we have to go with that.
Mr.
Plummer: Is that a motion? I will second that.
Mr.
Carollo: It is a motion.
Mr.
Plummer: All right, for the record, that means that Centro Mater is at
$70,000,
Little Havana is $53,000, Overtown is $21,000; Holy Cross is $50,000;
St.
Alban's is $28,000, and that brings that formula back in line.
Mr.
Odio: OK.
Mr.
Plummer: Is that correct? Frank?
Mr.
Dawkins: Well, where do we get the other from? Where do you get the
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other? Now, you have got to get the other?
Mr.
Plummer: The other is only $10,000.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, and that comes from where?
Mr. Plummer: I assume a contingency. Is there a contingency in this?
Mayor Suarez: Do you have any funds at all on contingency?
Mr. Dawkins: No, that has got to come from somewhere up top, here?
Mayor Suarez: Will you give $10,000 of your own money?
Mr. Castaneda: No, I am adding up...
Mr. Odio: Adds up to $4.00 more.
Mr. Castaneda: You are OK... you are $4.00 over.
Mr. Plummer: I'm sorry! Four dollars? Wait a minute, here.
Mayor Suarez: That we can resolve!
Mr. Carollo: The last of the big spenders!
Mr. Dawkins: Does that include the $10,000?
Mr. Plummer: I thought our friendship was worth more than $4.00.
Mr. Dawkins: And that covers the $10,000? The $10,000 we put in, you have
got that covered.
Mr. Odio: Yes, we are OK.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Plummer: Can you imagine a department head putting down a Commissioner
for $4.007 You don't think we don't need a salary increase? God, he makes
ten times, twenty times, the amount of money I do, and he calls me a liar for
$4.001 (LAUGHTER)
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Mayor Suarez: OK, Frank and Mr. City Manager, is that motion clear? Does it
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make mathematical sense? Do you have the money for it?
Mr. Plummer: I think it makes good sense.
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Mayor Suarez: I just want to make sure it adds up. Any further discussion
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from the Commission? Hearing none, please call the roll?
THEREUPON, THE FOLLOWING MOTION, duly introduced by
Commissioner Carollo and seconded by Commissioner
Plummer was passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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NOES: None.
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ABSENT: None.
(LATER FORMALIZED INTO RESOLUTION NO. 86-461. SEE LABEL 39)
38. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (12TH YEAR) APPROPRIATIONS.
Mayor Suarez: Is there a companion item that goes with this?
Mr. Plummer: Item 62 is first, and then this is 63, I think.
Mayor Suarez: OK, we just voted on...
Mr. Plummer: I will move 62, which is the first one. Yes, 62, I move.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Please call the
roll .
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 8719,
ADOPTED OCTOBER 26, 1977, THE SUMMARY GRANT APPROPRIA-
TIONS ORDINANCE, BY ESTABLISHING A NEW TRUST AND
AGENCY FUND ENTITLED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
(TWELFTH YEAR); AND APPROPRIATING $9,875,000 FOR
EXECUTION OF SAME; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND
A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of April 22, 1986,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
motion of Commissioner Plummer, seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the Ordi-
nance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer. Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10112.
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The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
39. ALLOCATE $1,481,100 OF 12TH YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS.
Mayor Suarez: Do we still have to move item 63?
Mrs. Kennedy: Move item 63.
Mr. Plummer: May I ask while we are here, where is Orlando Urra? Is he out
of the hospital?
Mr. Castaneda: No, he is still in the hospital.
Mr. Plummer: He is still in the hospital? That sucker can mastermind some-
thing from the hospital is the damnest thing I ever saw. God bless him! I
wish him well. Please tell him we all said hello, and wish him the best.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on item 63.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-461
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $1,479,902 OF TWELFTH YEAR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS PREVIOUSLY
APPROPRIATED BY ORDINANCE NO. 10112, ADOPTED JUNE 12,
1986, TO THE HEREIN NAMED SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES FOR
APPROVED SOCIAL SERVICE PROJECTS AND FURTHER AUTHO-
RIZED THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENTS WITH
SAID AGENCIES FOR SAID PROJECTS IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE
TO THE CITY ATTORNEY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: I just want to tell the people who came here on items 62 and 63
that we did the best we could with the funds that we have, and again, I've
thought about an item so much and worked so hard. Commissioner Kennedy came
up with a nice compromise.
IN= FOR THE RECORD: ITEM 64 VAS DEFERRED.
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40. ALLOCATE $150,000 TO SOtT!'BiIEST SOCIAL SERVICES INC. FOR CONSTRUCTION OF
SENIOR CENTER IN FLAGANI PARK.
Mr. Odio: Agenda item 65 is for the Southwest Social...
Mr. Plummer: All right, let's go into 65, if you are ready.
Mayor Suarez: We had approved that a long time ago, and then all of a sudden,
it seemed to have been disapproved, and...
Mr. Plummer: No, there is some provisions, Mr. Mayor, on 65, but let's talk
about the provisions that I asked to be protected, OK?
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Plummer: The City is not giving the property, is that correct?
Mr. Castaneda: That is correct.
Mr. Plummer: Do we have a copy of the lease?
Mr. Castaneda: It hasn't been developed yet.
Mr. Plummer: Well, how can you come up here and ask us to vote on something
without the lease?
Mr. Castaneda: Basically, what we are recommending, is the approval of the
allocation of the $150,000. Once that is approved, then...
Mr. Plummer: No, sir, you are asking for an authorization of a permit.
Mayor Suarez: The use permit is the...
Mr. Castaneda: A use permit, that is revocable.
Mayor Suarez: In lieu of a lease. We could not do a lease.
Mr. Plummer: But, Mr. Mayor, excuse me. How can I pay $150,000 without a
bona fide lease?
Mrs. Dougherty: It is our standard...
Mr. Plummer: You are allocating funds and authorizing a permit of issuance.
Mrs. Dougherty: It is our standard revocable permit.
Mr. Plummer: What?
Mrs. Dougherty: It is our standard.
Mr. Odio: You cannot have a lease, Commissioner.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me! How can I allocate funds without some kind of a
contract?
Mrs. Dougherty: It is our standard one we use.
Mr. Plummer: What?
Mrs. Dougherty: It is simply a permit we use.
Mr. Plummer: How can I allocate funds without having a bona fide use permit?
Mrs. Dougherty: It is our standard permit.
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Mr. Plummer: But, we don't have it in there with the protections that I have
asked forl I want something in writing, Frank. Look, I don't want to hold
this thing up in any way, shape, or form, but my friend, the City has to be
protected in writing! Now, where ... give me those things. I brought it out at
the last hearing, I wanted certain provisions agreed upon. Give me that
document, and I will move 65 right nowl To ask me, or any other Commissioner
to move on allocating funds without that letter of understanding, is wrong!
Now, if you can get that letter before this days ends, or 6:30 p.m., when I
leave, I will move it to make it a "go" item.
Mr. Odio: No, we cannot do it, then. We'll do it for the next meeting.
Mr. Dawkins: He is aware that you can't do it, that is why he is putting
the limitations on it. Go ahead.
Mr. Plummer: No, wait a minute. Hold on. Just defer it for a minute. Let
me read what he has got here. Go ahead on your agenda.
Mayor Suarez: Is there anything else, Frank, that we need to do regarding the
Community Development?
Mr. Castaneda: Yes, there are a number of other items, Commissioners - item
66...
Mayor Suarez: This is for the individual contractual agreements on the social
service side, for the ...C.D.'s?
Mr. Castaneda:.... on the Community based, and the Economic Development Organi-
zations. Right.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, excuse me. Mr. Mayor, item 65, a resolution, which
I did not have, so stipulates everything in here, except one thing I think is
different, Bob. How much did you get from the State? $100,000, or $150,000?
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS)
Mr. Plummer: OK, Mr. Mayor, let me read into the record, section three of the
resolution as before us:
"A revocable usable permit may be issued for use of said park by said
agency,"
That is the City.
"...said permit to come before the City Commission every two years for
reconsideration and revision; further stipulating that should the City
ask said agency to vacate said park, said agency would forfeit structures
and/or improvements built on said park by said agency."
And that protects everything in there that I was looking for. That is fine.
I move item 65.
Mayor Suarez: So moved. Do I hear a second?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Any further discussion from the Commission? Please
call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86 -462
A RESOLUTION FORMALIZING THE CITY COMMISSION'S INTENT
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TO ALLOCATE $150,000 OF TWELFTH YEAR COMMUNITY DEVEL-
OPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS PREVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED BY
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ORDINANCE NO. 10112, ADOPTED JUNE 12, 1986, TO SOUTH-
WEST SOCIAL SERVICES, INC., FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A
SENIOR CENTER IN FLAGAMI PARK; SAID ALLOCATION CONDI-
TIONED ON SAID AGENCY SECURING A GRANT OF $100,000
FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE
ISSUANCE OF A REVOCABLE USE PERMIT FOR USE OF FLAGAMI
PARK BY SOUTHWEST SOCIAL SERVICES, INC., SAID PERMIT
TO COME BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION EVERY TWO YEARS FOR
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RECONSIDERATION AND REVISION; FURTHER STIPULATING THAT
SHOULD THE CITY ASK SOUTHWEST SOCIAL SERVICES TO
VACATE THE PARK, THE AGENCY WOULD FORFEIT ANY STRUC-
TURES AND/OR IMPROVEMENTS BUILT ON THE PARK BY THE
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AGENCY; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER
INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED AGENCY IN A
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FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
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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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
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Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
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Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: ITEM 64 WAS AGAIN DEFERRED.
41. AGREEMENTS WITH 11 NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS TO
FUND PROGRAMS.
Mayor Suarez: Agenda item 66.
Mr. Castaneda: Item 66 is an authorization to enter into contract with 11
community based organizations.
Mayor Suarez: That is on the social services portion of the Community Devel-
opment?
Mr. Castaneda: No, the Economic Development - Economic Development agencies,
four of which we are only requesting contracts for a six month period. Under
our evaluations they did not perform up to standard, we are requesting a six
month period so we would evaluate them and bring them back to this Commission
in the fall.
Mayor Suarez: And the other seven for the whole year?
Mr. Castaneda:
year period.
And the other seven we are recommending contracts for a one
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Mayor Suarez: I will entertain a motion on 66.
Mr. Dawkins: I will move it.
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me ask this question, if I may.
second it for discussion.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded for discussion.
Mr. Plummer: What are you doing for Flagami?
All right, I will
Mr. Castaneda: We do not have an economic development group in the Flagami
area.
Mr. Plummer: Well, there is eight of them, is that correct? There is eight
C.B.O.'s...
Mr. Castaneda: There are eleven C.B.O.'s, and there are eight target areas.
Mr. Plummer: OK, eight target areas.
the top seven?
Mr. Castaneda: I'm sorry?
Mr. Plummer: Wynwood?
Mr. Castaneda: No, Wynwood is here.
Mr. Plummer: Where?
Mr. Pierce: In the top seven.
Mr. Castaneda: In the top seven, no.
Mr. Plummer: Why?
Who, what, target area is left out of
We wouldn't...
Mr. Castaneda: They are a new agency, and they haven't performed to our
standards, and we are putting them on probation.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but you see... let me tell you. You, have got two for
Allapattah, OK, and none for Wynwood.
Mr. Castaneda: That is right.
Mr. Plummer: That is not fair.
Mr. Castaneda: We are recommending that all be funded. The only thing that
we are saying is, that the four bottom one's would get a six month contract,
and at which time we will bring them back to the City Commission for recommen-
dations.
Mrs. Kennedy: You are talking about a six months probationary period?
Mr. Castaneda: Right, yes, and the four that will be on probation will be
Allapattah Business Development Authority, Allapattah Merchant's Association,
Wynwood Community Economic Development, and Overtown Economic Development
Corporation.
Mr. Plummer: OK. when they come back in six months, where is the other
$100,000 coming from?
Mr. Castaneda: Now, the other $25,000 is in the budget, and we have the money
to pay it. We have only requested authority to enter into a $25,000, six
month contract.
Mayor Suarez: It is like being held in escrow, in effect.
Mr. Dawkins: What criteria are you going to use to evaluate them, or what
evaluative tool are you going to use to be able to come back and tell me,
"This what we gave them to do, and this is how we evaluated them, and this is
what they did not do?"
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Mr. Castaneda: Well, we have work programs, and that is what we did this
year. We have work programs and we evaluate against the work programs. These
four agencies and...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, if you evaluated them last year and they didn't perform,
what gives you the idea that they will perform in the next six months.
Mr. Castaneda: Well, we are threatening with the recommendation of no fund-
ing, and we are meeting constantly with them in order to try to get them to -
improve.
Mr. Dawkins: Wait, a minute, hold it. Run this by me again. Your profes-
sional advice was no funding. Is that what I hear you're saying?
Mr. Castaneda: What I am saying is that the last four agencies did not
perform to standards.
Mr. Dawkins: And you your professional recommendation was no funding?... and
then you got political pressure to fund them?
Mr. Castaneda: I wouldn't say that. I would say that...
Mr. Plummer: Ha, ha, hat
Mrs. Kennedy: I love it!
Mr. Castaneda:... a six months contract would take this whole issue to Novem-
ber, or December. It would be separated from the issue of whether we are
funding economic development in the target area or not, and we will be able to
deal with the agencies separately. We feel that some of those agencies might
be able to perform to standard.
Mr. Dawkins: But, in the event that they don't perform, what will we do with
the money that is left?
Mr. Castaneda: We would bring to the Commission a recommendation at that
time.
Mr. Plummer: You are telling me that the bottom four, according to your
present evaluation does not meet the recommended standards?
Mr. Castaneda: That is correct.
Mr. Plummer: Why in the hell would you be giving them anything?
Mayor Suarez: He is putting them on probation, is what it...
Mr. Castaneda: I'm putting them on probation and giving them a....
Mr. Plummer: Well, they have already been on probation. They had a year's
funding last yearl They didn't perform. Now, why in God's name would you go
back and do business with a company that is not shown in a year that they
could do business? Why don't you go out and find a new company in that
particular area? That doesn't make sense to me. To me, that is saying, "Hey,
here is $100,000, you do what the hell you want with it, and if you don't
perform... you didn't perform in 12 months to my standards, but maybe in six
months you might." Does that make any sense to you? It doesn't make any
sense to me. Nonel Now. I'd rather take this $100,000 that you are profess-
ing here, and add it to the companies that demonstrated they know how to do
business. I am assuming the top seven in your criteria did a good job, and
should be refunded.
Mr. Castaneda: That's right.
Mr. Plummer: So, why in God's name would we... why would we refund someone
that in 12 months has demonstrated that they are inferior?
Mr. Castaneda: The problem with that, Commissioner, is that out of the four
agencies that did not perform to standard, two of the agencies are in
Allapattah, and you would be leaving Allapattah without any C.B.O. One of
them is in Wynwood, and it is the only one in Wynwood, and the other one is in
Overtown.
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Mr. Plummer: OK, let me tell you how you handle that. You take and you
eliminate these four agencies. You take and put up here number eight,
Wynwood. You get an agency there that can produce, that is $50,000. You put
up your number nine, what was the other one?... Allapattah, and you put
$50,000. You get an agency that can perform, they get the money, but don't go
throwing money over an agency that has demonstrated in twelve months that they
don't know what they are doing! I think that is crazy!
Mayor Suarez: Well, I don't know that the evaluations indicate that they are
totally and absolutely incapable of doing anything.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, when he comes and stands before this
Commission and says that he recommends no funding based on their past 12
months evaluation, what else can you say? Is that what you said?
Mr. Castaneda: Well, we submit a copy of the evaluation to the Commission as
part of the package and these four agencies do not perform to standards.
Mayor Suarez: Did not perform to standards, therefore, you are recommending a
six month...
Mr. Castaneda: Oh, well, what we recommended was a six month extension to
see...
Mr. Plummer: What was your first recommendation? They get nothing, right?
That was your first recommendation?
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Mr. Plummer: And I am assuming that that recommendation was based on the 12
month's previous history? Exactly. Mr. Mayor, what I would like to do, OK,
leave the seven first intact, allocate number 8 for Wynwood, $50,000, of an
agency that they can find that can perform. Number nine, Allapattah, create
$50,000 for an agency that can perform, and we have then been fair and equita-
ble and across the board, and I would so move that, Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mrs. Kennedy: I second it. It makes a lot of sense.
Mayor Suarez: Moved, seconded and thirded.
Mr. Castaneda: You still don't have one for Overtown.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, sure you have one for Overtown.
Mayor Suarez: Which are the two that you are suggesting not be...
Mr. Dawkins: Well, we've got to put one in Overtown.
Mr. Plummer: You've got to put Overtown.
Mr. Dawkins: No, we've got to put one Overtown, we don't have one. Get an
agency, do the same thing, put the $50,000 up and get an agency who can do it.
Mr. Plummer: I'll add number ten, an agency number ten, Overtown; that you
find one that can perform, OK? And you are increasing by this amount of money
by $50,000. because you have got $100,000, correct? So, you do that without
any problem. At the end of six months... let me tell you what else. Since
you now will have a $50,000 reserve, that at the end of six months, we will
reevaluate and distribute that $50,000 to the top agencies only. Let's give
them an incentive to do a better program. There is nothing wrong with an
incentive. Sir?
Mayor Suarez: I've got to vote no on this.
Mr. Plummer: What is your problem? Tell me what your problem is. Maybe we
can straighten it out.
Mayor Suarez: You know what my problem is. My problem is that I think it
makes a lot of sense to give them six months funding. They have been insti-
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toted in those areas. We have been working with them. We now feel that they
are not performing up to standard, and we are giving them six more months
subject to this Commission reevaluating them. If you just put that money out
there for anyone, what you are going to get is a whole new entity, which may
or may not include some of the same people and most likely, they won't even
have the capacity of the people that are in there, instead of helping them
along to try to straighten up their act and giving them six months, we are
eliminating them. I just can't vote for it.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, that's one of the problems of inexperience, and I
don't mean that detrimentally to you, sir... in particularly with Overtown.
Let me tell you that my experience and my history tells me the problems, and
there stands Annie Adker, who can be the best testimony. The problem for
years was the argument, the internal bickering, the internal fighting. Maybe
it is better that we have a new entity. What I am saying to you is, our
professional staff has said that based on their 12 month history, they deserve
for the coming year, zero. That is what our professionals told us. We didn't
evaluate them!
Mayor Suarez: That is not the way I hear it, but if you choose to...
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, was that not your recommendation?... the first
recommendation you made?
Mr. Castaneda: The recommendetion...
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s Mr. Plummer: Hey, Frank every once in a while, you've got to bite a bullet.
Mr. Castaneda: Yes, they did not perform to standards.
Mr. Plummer: OK, now, and you recommended zero funding for the coming year,
is that correct?
Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Mr. Plummer: Come on Frank, either yes, or no!
Mr. Castaneda: Well, Commissioner, I met with the board...
Mr. Plummer: Either yes, or no!
Mr. Castaneda: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Thank youl OK, now, all I am saying to you is, that if the
demonstration of the past twelve months has said that they had not performed
to standards, don't fund them for another six months. That is crazyl If you
have a company that you are doing business with that in the last twelve months
has not performed adequately, if you are a businessman, you go get a new
company. There is nothing wrong with that. We are protecting Overtown as a
target area to $50,000.
Mayor Suarez: Well, the problem with that analogy is that it doesn't work out
in these situations.
Mr. Plummer: Well, it hasn't worked in the past.
Mayor Suarez: Well, the problem with the analogy is that there aren't a host
of other companies out there selling the same product from which you can buy
that product. I mean, we would have to institute one. You would have to get
the right, competent people who knew the neighborhood, and we don't have them
ready to go on line , so you are going to have $50,000 being waved out there,
and you may or may not get a good entity, which may be just as bad, and then
you are going to be confronted with individuals, and a whole new board that
may be worse than the ones that were not performing up to standard.
Mr. Plummer: Then you don't spend the money.
Mayor Suarez: Well, but you need to have economic development entities in
those neighborhoods, and I...
_ Mr. Plummer: And if need be, we can do like we did once before when the
internal squabbling got so bad, Community Development went in and ran it until
they could get themselves organized.
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Mayor Suarez: I've no problem with that. I have no problem with that concept.
Mr. Plummer: OK, I mean, you want business as usual for the next six months
based on what you had in the last 12?
Mayor Suarez: No, no. I like your last suggestion a lot better, you know, to
have Community Development go in there.
Mr. Plummer: I'll buy that. That is fine with me. Based on that, item
eight, nine, and ten would be run by Community Development until such time as
a group could demonstrate the ability to take over from Community Development.
Mayor Suarez: Can your department do that, Frank?
Mr. Castaneda: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: They did it before.
Ms. Ann Marie Adker: May I say something?
Mr. Ralph Packingham: My name is Ralph Packingham, I am the president of the
Allapattah Merchants' Association. We have at the present time within days of
signing a contract to redevelop the "Live and Let Live" project. Are you
telling me that you are going to take this out of our hands, after the three
years we have worked hard to bring it to this point. Am I to go back to
Allapattah, and tell the Allapattah community that the Commission said, "The
hell with the work that you have done?"
Mr. Plummer: No, sir, no, sir. That is not what you tell them. You tell
them exactly what we have been told. You go back to Allapattah and you tell
them that the professionals have evaluated that you have not done your job.
Mr. Packingham: The professionals...no.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me! That is not my voice! That is not my voice.
Mr. Packingham: Mr. Commissioner.
Mr. Plummer: The man who is, the man who we pay to do the directing of the
programs, and the man who we pay to evaluate the programs has said that based
on your past twelve months, you do not deserve funding! I didn't say that.
Mr. Packingham: Mr. Commissioner, I think that it would be wise for you and
the other Commissioners to look at the criteria on which this was based on,
and the reason for that particular statement.
Mr. Plummer: Be happy tot Be happy to.
Mr. Packingham: I would appreciate it, prior to.., prior to you making a
decision that you are attempting to make now.
Mr. Plummer: Be happy to.
Mayor Suarez: Well, let me ask you a question, Commissioner. Under the idea
that C.D. would operate these four, do you mean to imply that Community
Development can now maintain the same staff, or the same executive director,
or whatever?
Mr. Plummer: Oh, Mr. Mayor, no they cannot have the same director.
Mayor Suarez: No? I mean, they could be supplanting the board.
Mr. Plummer: No, sir. If you want to put in the Community Development to be
making the decisions, and the final decisions of that target area, I go along
with that, until such time as a group has demonstrated their ability to take
it over.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, because the local boards could function as an advisory
board to you, and you would be making the basic decisions, not changing
necessary, the structure of the staff, or...
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Mr. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, let me just... Commissioner Plummer, what about if
we...
Mayor Suarez: Excuse me, Commissioner Kennedy. I was just going to say that
that is very similar to what happens a lot of times in government, when the
Feds take over the operation of a bank, or whatever. They don't necessarily
replace all the employees or anything. They just come in and they make the
important decisions.
Mr. Plummer: It is called a coup de grace.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, it is a little coup de grace.
Mrs. Kennedy: How about if we continue to give them the $25,000 subject to a
very, very close monitoring by our Administration.
Mr. Plummer: Monitoring is not accepted.
Mr. Odio: Well, let me add the word monitoring.... something to that.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, monitoring is not acceptable.
Mrs. Kennedy: Mr. Manager, what do you suggest?
Mr. Odio: That we monitor them, but we also give them staff support and train
them to do a better job.
Mr. Plummer: No, sir. it is not acceptable to me.
Mr. Odio: OK.
Mr. Plummer: If you, the C.D., Community Development Department is running it
with their staff, I have no problem. Keep their people.
Mr. Odio: We keep their people and we train them to do a better job.
Mr. Plummer: And if they can demonstrate that they can up their evaluation,
then fine, this Commission will accept that at a later time, but monitoring
means that they still do what they want, and they look after you.
Mayor Suarez: No, wait. Maybe we are not saying different things now. If the
Community Development Department, the person, the director, or his appointee,
or delegate actually runs the board and actually makes decisions, do you have
any objections to that?
Mr. Plummer: Exactly.
Mayor Suarez: That doesn't take away the funding, doesn't take away the
staff.
Mr. Odio: But I think we should train them to do a better job.
Mr. Plummer: I have no problem with that, as long as Community Development
is making the final decisions.
Mayor Suarez: What we would be saying under that concept, and I understand
the political realities, you were looking for a compromise, is that the
person from Community Development would in effect, be sitting next to your
board. which could still function, but in an advisory capacity, in making the
ultimate decisions for a period of time.
Mrs. Annie Marie Adker: Well, who is going to evaluate your Community Devel—
opment or agency?
Mayor Suarez: Well, there is always this Commission. There is always this
Commission.
Mrs. Kennedy: You have to come here.
Mrs. Adker: Well, you need to look into that, number one, OK?
Mayor Suarez: You mean, until this Commission?
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Mrs. Adker: Yes, the Commission needs to look into the Community Development
Administration.
Mrs. Kennedy: I agree.
Mrs. Adker: OK, we have never been able to tie into who helps us with our
technical assistance.
Mr. Plummer: Is this an ordinance?
Mayor Suarez: No, it is just a resolution.
Mrs. Adker: You know, one of those things. There is a lot of deficiency
there.
Mayor Suarez: We will be monitoring them, I am sure, and reviewing the work
that they are doing, obviously. Now, Commission Plummer, would you make your
motion for the entire year, now, or just for six months?
Mr. Joe Jackson: Before... Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Plummer: Based on the Community Development Department of the City of
Miami, running the C.B.O. until such time as a demonstration of those within
the C.B.O. to be able to run the agency themselves, I base it on a one year
funding. I have no problem with a one year funding.
Mayor Suarez: OK, I just wanted to clarify what the motion would attempt.
Mr. Jackson: Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me?
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS)
Mayor Suarez: Well, we are putting that into a formal resolution and it might
be a little different from what you can see this being in place right now. Go
ahead.
Mr. Jackson: Mr. Mayor, my name is Joe Jackson, I am with Tacolcy Development
Corporation. Listen, I just wanted to point out some inconsistencies in what
is happening. There was a board appointed by this Commission to review these
applications and make recommendations. From what I understanding these
recommendations, I don't know if they have even been advanced to the Commis—
sion.
Mayor Suarez: No, no, that board was only on the Community Development block
grant monies. Did they have anything to say about these C.B.O.'s, Frank?
Mr. Jackson: This is the same funding.
Mr. Castaneda: They objected to us placing the C.B.O.'s on probation.
Mr. Plummer: They objected to what?
Mr. Castaneda: To placing the C.B.O.'s on probation.
Mayor Suarez: Well, we never heard. That is a good...
Mr. Jackson: They also recommended that Tacolcy Economic Development be
funded as well, and I want that to be on the record. Now, we have got ...
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, excuse me. You are on that board, of the adviso—
ry board?
Mrs. Adker: No, I am...
Mr. Jackson: No, I am not. I am on staff with Tacolcy Economic Development.
Mayor Suarez: That is a good point. Let me just clarify. The advisory board
recommended that these four be kept?
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Mr. Castaneda: Right.
Mayor Suarez: Did they also recommend additional funding for Tacolcy?
Mr. Castaneda: No, what they recommended was that Tacolcy be funded East
Little Havana and St. Johns' Church, and we recommended against that.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, OK.
Mr. Jackson: Well, I am saying they recommended that, but you are not saying
that, and the problem is,
Mayor Suarez: OK, now we did hear that...
Mr. Jackson: OK, but let me just...
Mayor Suarez: The recommendation on Tacolcy, we did hear, and frankly, there
was no consensus at all on this Commission to fund Tacolcy any more than the
$1,600,000 we had given Tacolcy, for...
Mr. Jackson: Well, that is not funding. That is money for a project specif-
ic, OK? What I am saying is that we had requested some administrative money,
so that we can continue to do business with the City.
Mayor Suarez: We did hear that recommendation and I guarantee you the Commis-
sion did not agree with it, but that is what an advisory board is for.
Mr. Jackson: Well, I am saying that the advisory board did make a recommenda-
tion to the Commission.
Mayor Suarez: I am glad that you brought up though, the fact that they
recommended in favor of the other four existing C.B.O.'s. That is...
Mr. Jackson: Yes, but see, you are talking about putting some people in
businesses and continue to work with them, when you have got proven organiza-
tions that are doing business with the City presently, that you don't want to
fund.
Mayor Suarez: To which we just gave $1,600,000 from other funds, but that is
because you are proven, frankly... Tacolcy, I mean, it is...
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I move at this time, that item 66, that we take the
top seven recommendations of the Community Development director, and the four
remaining be funded at the $25,000 level with Community Development operating
that target area with the staff presently on board. If after six months they
have been able to demonstrate the ability to take it back over, the Com-
mission will decide whether or not it can be done. I will go along with
that...
Mrs. Kennedy: I second that.
Mr. Plummer: ... as long as the director is basically going to be the president.
He is going to be making the decisions with the help of the advisory board.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. Under discussion. We will hear from
you, Mr. Permuy, because we heard from everyone else and we didn't give you a
chance.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, let him go ahead.
Mayor Suarez: Go ahead.
Mr. Jesus Permuy: Please, a point of clarification. My name is Jesus Permuy.
I am a consultant for the Allapattah Business Development Authority. It is
one of the agencies and the point of clarification is very simple. The
recommendation from the Community Development Department, which I am not going
to discuss at this time because I did it already with them for a long time, is
based on not one year of performance, Mr. Commissioner, it is based on the
first six months. They can testify that this particular agency, A.B.D.A.,
has performed much better in the last six months, because it put to work all
the programs started at the beginning of the year.
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Mr. Plummer: And I have no problems with that, and they will have six more
months to monitor.
Mr. Permuy: Pardon me, but their recommendations not based in the entire
contract for one year, it is based on the first six months.
Mr. Plummer: I understand that. I understand that, your point is well taken,
but they are going to have an additional six months to monitor, and they are
going to run it.
Mr. Permuy: Anyway, we happen to think that it is not fair to have a contract
for one year, and base the recommendation just on six months.
Mr. Plummer: Well, OK, then let's don't get into the argument, OK?
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion, Madam City Attorney, how do I say that, as the
fiduciary agency that this Commission, that this Commission does not want any
money extended to those borderline agencies, unless it is proven that there is
clear audit, or what have you, and that we are safe up here.
Mr. Plummer: You incorporate that in the motion.
Mrs. Dougherty: That you reserve...
Mr. Dawkins: Wait a minute! Wait a minute, now that I have heard from the
male city attorney, let me hear from the female City Attorney.
Mrs. Dougherty: There will be no disbursements of funds until the audit of
the prior year has been approved.
Mr. Dawkins: Will you accept that, J. L., the amendment? I mean, as an
addition.
Mr. Plummer: I will go along with her opinion. She is more or less right.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, will the seconder to the motion accept that?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mr. Carollo: Have you taken over as the male city attorney?
Mr. Plummer: Where is South Miami?
Mr. Carollo: I'll send a recommendation for you!
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Castaneda: Mayor, and Commissioners, two points of clarification.
Mr. Plummer: You better quit while you are ahead.
Mr. Castaneda: Does your instructions mean that we control their checkbook.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, sir.
Mr. Carollo: Why don't you come down for a minute?
Mr. Plummer: And it also means that you don't disburse any monies on those
four until such time as their audit is completely clean.
Mr. Castaneda: Second question. Overtown Economic Development has an audit
problem with a loan made by the City for the shopping center. Is that part of
the audit request?
Mr. Plummer: Is it part of these monies?
Mr. Castaneda: It is not part of this money, but it is part of the monies
that go to the organization.
Mr. Plummer: You said the clean audit.
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(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS)
Mayor Suarez: That Internal Audit Department really has to do a better job of
the outside organization. We have been saying that, and now it is specifical-
ly imposed. OK, we have got a motion and a second.
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS)
Mayor Suarez: We are about to call the roll. Ann Marie, please.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-463
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS WITH ELEVEN (11)
NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS, FOR
THE AMOUNTS SPECIFIED FOR EACH, TO CONTINUE ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, WITH FUNDS ALLOCATED THEREFOR
FROM THE TWELFTH YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Item 69 was continued. In connection with Item 30, Vice
Mayor Dawkins nominated Peter Roulhac to the Charter Advisory Committee.
Commissioner Kennedy said she would name her appointment later in the meeting.
42. AGREEMENT WITH GREATER MIAMI UNITED FOR ASSISTANCE TO CITY FUNDED COMMU-
NITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
Mayor Suarez: Item 68, Frank.
Mr. Castaneda: Right, that is authorizing us to...
Mayor Suarez: At the risk of losing your momentum.
Mr. Castaneda: ...to enter into a contract with Greater Miami United.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any further discussion from the Commis-
sion? Please call the roll.
1d 114 June 12, 1986
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-464
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
AN AGREEMENT IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY
WITH GREATER MIAMI UNITED (GMU) IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED $100,000 FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING SPECIAL-
IZED ADMINISTRATIVE AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO CITY -
FUNDED COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS INVOLVED IN
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS. THE ALLOCATION OF
SAID FUNDS WILL BE FROM THE 12TH YEAR COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT 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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
43. AGREEMENTS WITH 11 NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS FOR
IMPLEMENTING A COMMERCIAL FACADE TREATMENT PROGRAM.
Mayor Suarez: Did we vote on item 67?
Ms. Hirai: No.
Mayor Suarez: That actually gives you the authority to execute the individual
contractual agreements?
Mr. Castaneda: I'm sorry, you didn't skip to 67.
Mayor Suarez: That is a companion item to 66, I presume?
Mr. Castaneda: That's correct.
Mr. Plummer: Move 67.
Mayor Suarez: 67 is moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded.
Mrs. Kennedy: Any further discussion? Please call the roll.
Id 115 June 12, 1906
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-465
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
INDIVIDUAL CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS WITH ELEVEN (11)
NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS IN
SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED HERETO, UP TO THE
AMOUNTS SPECIFIED FOR EACH, FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPLE-
MENTING A COMMERCIAL FACADE TREATMENT PROGRAM; FUNDS
ARE ALLOCATED FROM THE TWELFTH YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOP-
MENT BLOCK GRANT 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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
44. DISCUSSION: AGREEMENT WITH SANITATION UNION.
Mayor Suarez: Are we going to announce something momentous that has happened?
Mr. Odio: Yes, we have an agreement with the Solid Waste Department, sanita-
tion workers, I am very proud to say, and I...
Mr. Plummer: Is that a ten year agreement?
Mr. Odio: It is a fourteen, at which... I am only...
Mayor Suarez: For ten years until Plummer is not on this Commission, which-
ever comes first.
Mr. Plummer: I'll buy that.
Mr. Odio: We will put it in writing and see if you want to ratify it during
the next Commission meeting, or if we have time, I don't know if you want to
do it today, or...?
Mr. Dawkins: I'd like to do it today, if you can.
Mr. Plummer: Naaawl
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes,l We have been waiting for this.
Mr. Plummer: Naaawl
Mayor Suarez: J. L. wants to have suspense. What is the Commission's plea-
sure?
Mr. Plummer: Well, if they can get us a copy of it...
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, we will ratify it this afternoon.
Mr. Odio: We will schedule it for June 26th, Commissioner.
with the membership and then bring...
He has to ratify
Id 116 June 12, 1906
Mr. Dawkins: OK, we can understand that.
Mayor Suarez: Congratulations to all the parties involved.
45. DISCUSSION: HOLD HARMLESS AGREEMENT WITH POLICE UNION (See label #68)
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask a question, Mr. Mayor. We have been thrown this
thing about the off -duty employment of policemen. I notice that you are going
up $3.00. Is that right, Mr. Manager?
Mr. Odio: What is that?
Mr. Plummer: Off duty employment of policemen is $3.00 that they are going
up?
Mr.
Odio: We
are going
up to $8.00 and $10.00.
Mr.
Plummer:
Yes, from
$5.00.
Mr. Odio: From $5.00... $8.00 and $10.00.
Mr. Plummer: OK, what does that hope to raise in the run of a year? How much
money?
Mr. Odio: The last figure was around $250... to...
Mr. Plummer: No, what will the increase?
Mrs. Dougherty: $176,000, I've heard.
Mr. Plummer: $176,000 a year?
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Mrs. Dougherty: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: And that will be in a special reserve fund?
Mr. Odio: Does that pay for the administration?
Mrs. Dougherty: No, that is... $5.00 will go into a Special Reserve fund.
Mr. Plummer: All right, does the $5.00 cover the cost of administration?
Mrs. Dougherty: The $3.00 covers the cost of administration. The $5.00 goes
into a fund to cover the liability claims, both workman's...
Mr. Plummer: All right, so what you are saying is, the $5.00 will create
$176,000 new dollars to be put into a reserve fund for liabilities. OK.
Mr. Dougherty: That is my understanding. Carlos Garcia is the one...
Mr. Plummer: Well, where is Carlos Garcia?
Mr. Odio: That is correct.
Mr. Plummer: And the $3.00 will go in for the administrative costs, and what
does that hope to generate in the run of a year?
Mr. Odio: I don't have that figure. I will have to check. I will get it for
you.
Mr. Plummer: Here is Carlos.
Mr. Carlos Garcia: We are talking about coming up with $300,000, which would
be $8.00, $10.00, total payment to the City of $300,000.
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Mr. Plummer: So, $125,000 of that goes to administrative?
Mr. Garcia: That is right.
Mr. Plummer: And $175,000 goes to the liability?
Mr. Garcia: That is right, yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: OR, is that liability kept in a reserve fund for only liability.
Mr. Garcia: It will be both liability and workman's comp.
Mr. Plummer: OR.
Mr. Garcia: For those claims arising out of the off duty programs.
Mr. Plummer: All right, what happens, let's say, after five years when that
funds reaches $1,000,000.
Mr. Garcia: Well, what we are planning to do, Commissioner, is, once a year
look at the fund and see what the status is. If we have a major claim, we may
have to raise that fee. If we don't have any significant claims, we may be
able to reduce it, but now we are just trying to leave it as is.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you can't... I would want it understood that that fee
could not be reduced until such time as that fund reached a $1,000,000 limit -
Mr. Garcia: That is fine. I don't think we will see a reduction in the
future.
Mr. Plummer: OR, thank you.
Mayor Suarez: You can act like an insurance company in this one. I hope it
works. OR.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I think, Mr. Mayor, you know...
Mr. Dawkins: We have a public hearing on this at 5:30 p.m., don't we?
Mr. Plummer: Yes. Well, OR, I just was asking for answers in advance, and it
is fine.
Mayor Suarez: That is why I wanted to be sure we're voting on it. If someone
wants to notify Commissioner Carollo that if we are not going to vote on this
item until later on, this is an item that he had expressed that he needed to
abstain on. That is why he walked out. That is why I wanted to clarify if we
are going to vote on it or not.
Mr. Plummer: I don't think that is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes, it is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, OR.
Mayor Suarez: I am glad you remembered, because I...
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118
June 12, 1906
46. DEFER TO JULY 10TH APPROVAL OF BUDGET FOR GUSMAN HALL AND OLYMPIA BUILD-
ING (OFF-STREET PARKING AUTHORITY)
Mr. Plummer: All right, where are we, Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Suarez: Item 46, otherwise.
Mr. Plummer: 46, otherwise. Let's go back... 46, the budget of the Off -
Street Parking Authority.
Mrs. Kennedy: Your favorite person.
Mr. Dawkins: I want to continue that until June 18, 1990.
Mr. Plummer: 1990, all nighty! In all fairness now, when is your regular
budget coming before us?
Mr. Roger Carlton: Well, the only budget before you now is just for Gusman.
Mr. Plummer: No, no. When is your regular budget going to come before us?
Mr. Carlton: At your first meeting in July.
Mr. Plummer: That is when I think this ought to be heard at the same time.
Why are you doing one now and one later? - to make it look better?
Mr. Carlton: No, sir. This is a separate fund. It is independent. It does
not relate to the parking budget at all.
Mr. Plummer: Sure it does.
Mr. Carlton: I don't think so.
Mr. Plummer: What about subsidy?
Mr. Carlton: The subsidy, well ... over a ten year period, the revenues of the
Olympia Building have been basically sufficient to subsidize Gusman. That
trend has not occurred in the past three years.
Mr. Plummer: Why are you doing this one in advance of the other one?
Mr. Carlton: It was the first one done, that is the only reason.
Mr. Plummer: Good, and we will see you again on July what?
Mr. Carlton: Whenever your first meeting in...
Mr. Plummer: July loth, Mr. Mayor. I would ask that this matter be deferred
until July loth, and we will have both budgets at the same time, because
whether Mr. Car Czar or not realizes it, I think both do tie together, because
let's remember that any excess funds of the other budget comes into the City
coffers. or can, so let's take them both up on July loth. I so move.
Mrs. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded. While we thinking of it, I just want to
ask one more question, Roger. on that point that was made. Just generallys
why has the building not been self-sufficient lately, if it had been in the
past?
Mr. Carlton: Two reasons Mr. Mayor, the first one is that the...
Mayor Suarez: I thought we would have more activity there, more events, and
more...
Mr. Carlton: The major tenant in the Olympia Building has been the City of
Miami, which has slowly, but surely moved out.
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0, ow
Mayor Suarez: Oh, I see, there are some vacancies in the building?
Mr. Carlton: There are vacancies. The second problem is that the big profit
items at Gusman, the... I hate to use the word "rock show", but the popular
music performer doesn't come to Gusman anymore, because they go to the Knight
Center with two - and- one-half times the capacity.
Mr. Plummer: And also Mr. Mayor, the problem further is complicated by the
fact that the few of those who do go to the Gusman Center now, this City
waives and pays for, and since our policy of no festival funding, we are no
longer paying for them.
Mr. Carlton: That is another factor, yes.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, yesl
Mayor Suarez: OK, I liked very much the first two explanations, I didn't like
the third one as much.
Mr. Plummer: Well, two out of three ain't bad.
Mayor Suarez: Two out of three, I am hitting 666. Call the roll on that.
MOTION TO DEFER
PON MOTION DULY MADE AND SECONDED,
CONSIDERATION OF THIS ITEM WAS
DEFERRED TO JULY LOTH MEETING BY
FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
47. AGREEMENT WITH DADE COUNTY, MONROE COUNTY, HIALEAH, AND MIAMI BEACH TO
PARTICIPATE IN SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM.
Mayor Suarez: Agenda item 47, P.I.C.
Mr. Plummer: I move 47.
Mayor Suarez: South Florida Employment and Training Consortium and Private
Industry Council.
Mr. Plummer: Who is our designated representative?
Ms. Angela Bellamy: Frank Rodriguez. He is the liaison, the representative
of...
Mr. Plummer: Who is our direct representative to that consortium?
Ms. Bellamy: The City Manager.
Mr. Plummer: And does the City Manager attend the meetings?
Mr. Dawkins: No.
Mr. Odio: Whenever he can.
Mr, Plummer: No, no, that is not my answer. That is not my question. Do I
pay him whenever I can?
ld 120 June Us 1986
Mr. Frank Rodriguez: The City Manager should answer that question.
Mr. Odio: Oh, oh, he's passing the buck to me?
Mr. Plummer: No, he is just taking away a great part of your salary, don't
worry about itl
Mr. Odio: What is the question, sir?
Mr. Plummer: The question is, does the City Manager attend the consortium
meetings of the...
Mr. Odio: No, I do not attend. We have staff that represents me there.
Mr. Plummer: I don't pay staff to represent me. I pay you.
Mr. Odio: I do not attend those meetings, because I don't have time.
Mr. Plummer: Is it not designated that the City Manager is the one who goes?
Mr. Odio: Or his representative - designee.
Mayor Suarez: Does the representative have a vote?
Mr. Odio: And the County Manager doesn't attend and the City of Miami
Beach...
Mr. Plummer: I don't pay the County Manager. I used tol
Mr. Dawkins: With the garbage increase...
Mr. Plummer: He wasn't a good boy, so I sent him to the County, and I got
stuck with you.
Mr. Odio: I think I can utilize my time better doing something else.
Mr. Plummer: OK, who do you send as a designated representative?
Mrs. Bellamy: Frank Rodriguez.
Mr. Odio: I think I used to send Frank...
Mr. Plummer: Well, I want to tell you something...
Mr. Odio: He has been doing it for many years, he has...
Mr. Plummer: ... it represents a lot of money to this City, Mr. Manager, and I
think it is well worth your while, that whenever possible you attend those
meetings.
Mr. Odio: Well, let me explain this to you. When there is an important vote
on money distribution, the staff meets with me, we decide the way we are going
to vote, and that is the way we do it.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but let me tell you something, OK? Let's put it on the
record. When that consortium... how many members, Joseph are of that total
consortium, five?
Mr. Odio: Five.
Mr. Plummer: OK, when you go sit in that chair, you know Sergio, and you know
Raul, and you know the others.
Mr. Odio: If they were there.
Mr. Plummer: I am telling you, OK? You got clout. It doesn't take away from
him. When I send my Manager, they sit and they listen and they look up•
Mr. Odio: I understand that, Commissioner, but most of the meetings are just
plain bureaucratic meetings. They have a meeting...
Mr. Plummer: So change itl
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•
Mr. Odio: Fine.
Mayor Suarez: OK, I entertain a motion on...
Mr. Plummer: I've already moved it.
Mayor Suarez: I'll entertain a second.
Mrs. Kennedy: I will second.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you. Moved and seconded. Hearing no further discussion
from the Commission, and hoping for none, please call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-466
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT SUBSTANTIALLY IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN
THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT WITH DADE COUNTY, MONROE
COUNTY, THE CITY OF HIALEAH AND THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT
AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM; FURTHER, CONTINUING THE
APPOINTMENT OF THE CITY MANAGER TO SERVE AS THE
REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI TO SAID SOUTH
FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM.
(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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
48. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: OFFICE OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL LIAISON (FY'87) AND
MIAMI JOB DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS (FY'87).
Mayor Suarez: Yes, item 48. Here we are receiving substantial funds, Depart-
ment of Labor.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: It has been moved.
Mr. Plummer: Second. How much of this money is going for administrative?
= Mr. Odio: You always ask the same questions. You better tell him.
Mayor Suarez: We are waiting for the day when the answer to that question is
going to be zero.
Mr. Frank Rodriguez: The $60.000 grant is basically....
Mr. Plummer; This is $622,000, right?
Id 122 June 12, 1906
Mr. Frank Rodriguez: Well, I am taking them one at a time. The S60,000 grant
is basically for administrative activities. The $622,000 is based on the
guidelines established by the consortium, approximately S50...
Mr. Plummer: Would you give me a... Mr. Odio, do me a favor, and everybody
else... a simple answer, how much is administrative? I don't need all the
editorials. You want to editorialize, go to work for the Herald!
Mr. Odio: The answer is $60,000.
Mr. Frank Rodriguez: I am not editorializing I am giving you the answer.
Mr. Plummer: Thank you. No, the answer is $60,000, is that correct?
Mr. Odio: You are welcome, sir.
Mayor Suarez: The City Manager know the system that's why he is still here.
OK, we have got a motion and a second.
Mr. Odio: For at least another month, right?
Mr. Plummer: He is the Manager of the month.
Mayor Suarez: There is some that say that is long by the standards of the
Miami City Commission. Any further discussion from this Commission?
Mr. Plummer: O.J.T.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING TWO NEW SPECIAL
REVENUE FUNDS ENTITLED: "OFFICE OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL
LIAISON (FY'87)", AND "MIAMI JOB DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
(FY'87)",APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THEIR OPERATION IN
THE AMOUNTS OF S60,000 AND $622,000 RESPECTIVELY FROM
THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, AND AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE GRANT AWARDS FROM THE
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND TO ENTER INTO
THE NECESSARY CONTRACT(S) AND/OR AGREEMENT(S) WITH THE
SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM TO
ACCEPT THE GRANTS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND
A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner
Plummer, for adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the require-
ment of reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the follow-
ing vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
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 -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 10113.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
49. DEFER ESTABLISHMENT OF ENTRANT ASSISTANT PROGRAM '86/'87.
Mayor Suarez: Item 49, another emergency ordinance.
Mrs. Kennedy: I was told that we would have a deficit. Now the Administra-
tion is recommending it. How come?
Ms. Angela Bellamy: Originally we thought that we were going to have a
deficit. Now we are projecting that we will have a surplus of approximately
$4 , 000 .
Mrs. Kennedy: Hmmml
Mr. Plummer: Of the $243,000, how much of it is administrative?
Mr. Frank Rodriguez: Approximately 50 percent.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me?
Mr. Frank Rodriguez: Approximately 50 percent.
Mr. Plummer: I move to defer - 50 percent administration! I move to defer.
Mr. Carollo: This is 49, right?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mr. Plummer: Somebody has got to come justify that for me.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, motion to defer. Prior to doing that,
would you tell us if there is any reason that it would be that high adminis-
trative cost? I mean, is there something peculiar about this that we don't
know?
Mr. Joe Alfano: Mr. Mayor, and Commissioners, $243,000 allocation will be
coming to the City of Miami through a performance based contract. In other
words, that is an allocation, which, if you will, is a paper allocation at the
present time. The flow of cash will depend on the success of the program in
terms of making the 100 placements in unsubsidized positions in the private
sector.
Mr. Plummer: Joe, that is not my problem. My problem is with 50 percent
administrative costs. That's my probleml
Mr. Alfano: In terms of my recollection of the budget, in that budget you
have pure administrators, as well as job developers, counselors, which are..•
Mr. Plummer: Fine, we will look at it.
-� Mayor Suarez: Anytime you get up to 50 percent administration of anything
likely, this sounds like we are providing jobs for...
Mr. Plummer: Sounds like O.J.T. is in-house rather than outside interest.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, that is the way it sounds, Joe, and we can use some of
that, don't get me wrong. We need a lot of on the job training internally.
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Mr. Alfano: About 40 percent or all the money is payable to employers for
wage reimbursement, and in addition to that, you have counseling, you have
supportive services, transportation allowances being paid.
Mr. Plummer: I will check with my expert. I move to defer.
Mayor Suarez: It has been moved for deferral and seconded. Any further
discussion from the Commission? Call the roll.
NOTION TO DEFER UPON MOTION BY
COMMISSIONER PLUMMER AND SECONDED
by Commissioner Carollo, this item
was deferred by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
50. GRANTS TO PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL/SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
CONSORTIUM.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, item 50.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager, this is not a grant of money that we are getting
from outside, this is your pocketbook.
Mr. Odio: This is the grant on S82,500?
Mr. Plummer: This is item 50, yes sir, $82,000. Where is it coming from?
Mr. Odio: The reason I agree with Mr. Alfano to go along with this is that he
said that he would get, for $83,000, $150,000 from the State to put to work
young people in the City of Miami.
Mr. Plummer: I think that is great. Now, where is our $82,000 coming from
when after you tell me we got no money.
Mr. Odio: Well, I found money because this is very important to us, and we
had, we have taken it out of special...
Mr. Plummer: And where did you find the $82,000?
Mr. Odio: Special Programs and Accounts.
Mr. Plummer: You told me there was no money in Special Programs and Accounts.
Mr. Odio: But we had salary savings and...
Mr. Plummer: You can't spend salary savings.
Mr. Odio: ...we put funds... what?
Mr. Plummer: You can't spend salary savings.
Mr. Odio: I can transfer funds from one account to another.
Mr. Plummer: You haven't done it yet.
Mr. Odio: We have the $82,000, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins; What item we on now?
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Mayor Suarez: Item 50.
Mrs. Kennedy: How many minority youth do you estimate you will be able to
place?
Mr. Plummer: 100 percent.
Mr. Alfano: It will be 100 percent minority. We will be serving a total of
79, 55 of whom will be retained in private sector jobs a minimum of 30 days.
Mrs. Kennedy: I am sorry, I didn't understand. You were too close to the
microphone.
Mr. Alfano: We are going to be serving 100 percent minority youths, 14 to 21.
We are going to be serving a total of 79 individuals.
Mr. Plummer: 79 individuals for $325,000?
Mr. Alfano: $232,000.
Mr. Plummer: $235,000, right, total?
Mr. Alfano: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: And for 71 people.
Mr. Alfano: 79.
Mr. Odio: 79.
Mr. Plummer: 79. Somebody got a calculator?
Mr. Alfano: About $4,225.
Mr. Odio: $3,008.
Mayor Suarez: $3,000, a little bit more than $3,000.
Mr. Plummer: All right, $3,000 per individual, and how long does this program
last for?
Mr. Alfano: The program will be lasting approximately six months.
Mr. Plummer: Six months?
- Mr.
Alfano:
Yes, sir.
=— Mr.
Plummer:
OK, that is fine. So, in other words, that is
$500 a month per
kid.
Mr.
Alfano:
Yes, sir.
Mr.
Plummer:
Is he getting that money direct?
Mr.
Alfano:
The kids...
�-�— Mr.
Plummer:
What does the recipient receive?
Mr.
Alfano:
The recipients will be receiving $3.35 an hour
for four hours a
__- day,
5 days
a week.
Mr.
Plummer:
How many?
Mr.
Alfano:
Four hours a day, five days a week.
Mr.
Plummer:
Five days? That is a twenty hour week.
Mr.
Alfano:
For 16 weeks. Subsequent to the 16 weeks...
Mr.
Plummer:
Whoa, Joe, hold on. They are receiving for a
twenty hour week,
— $3.50
an hour, would be $70 a week, times four, a little over four, is $280,
Now,
what is
happening to the other $220?
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Mr. Alfano: The other money is going to be paid in a portion of the O.J.T.
wages, and it is also going to be paying a staff that will be providing the
functional literacy that the youth will be receiving.
Mr. Plummer: So in other words, that is a 50 percent funding?
Mr. Dawkins: That is not what I was told.
Mr. Plummer: Is that 50 percent funding? In other words, for the O.J., for
the employers they get...
Mr. Alfano: 50 percent for twelve weeks, yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: So in other words, these kids are actually in fact getting $6.70
an hour. If they are paying from this fund $3.35, and they are getting 50
percent more from the employer...
Mr. Alfano: No, I am dealing with a total of $232,000. as opposed to the
$82,500. If you allow me to explain...
Mr. Plummer: Please.
Mr. Alfano: During the first 16 weeks, the youth will be working four hours a
day, they will be getting paid $3.35 an hour.
Mr. Plummer: Right.
Mr. Alfano: In addition to that, they will be attending classes on the
premises at the housing project four hours a day. Subsequent to the 16 weeks,
the kids will be tested. if the test results are acceptable, they will be
placed in on the job training slots. The pay will vary, will go anywhere
between $3.50 and $5.00 and hour. We will be reimbursing 50 percent of the
wages for a period of twelve weeks.
Mr. Plummer: Twelve weeks?
Mr. Alfano: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: What is the administrative costs of this program?
Mr. Alfano: Administrative costs? In terms of pure administration costs may
be in the neighborhood of 10 to 12 percent.
Mr. Dawkins: What happens to the money of those who don't test out?
Mr. Alfano: They will stay in work experience. They will continue to work
four hours a day. We will continue to pay until they pass the test success—
fully.
Mr. Dawkins: Those that pass the test get how much money a day after they
finish the test?
Mr. Alfano: Well, it depends on what the employer will be able to pay —
anywhere between $3.50. which is our minimum, and $5.00 an hour, which is very
close to the average.
Mr. Plummer: But, that is 50 percent level.
Mr. Dawkins: But, the monies, but, you are funded to pay S5.00 an hour.
Mr. Alfano: We will be...
Mr. Dawkins: So those you keep in training, you are not paying them $5.00 an
hour. What happens to the money?
Mr. Alfano; We will be paying them $3.35.
Mr. Odio: What happens to the money if you have any money left over?
Mr. Alfano: The money is being used...
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Mr. Dawkins: All right, that is not the way you explained it to me, but...
Mr. Alfano:. ..either for work experience at the rate of $3.35, or for on the
job training at the rate of anywhere between $3.50 and $5.00.
Mr. Plummer: But the twelve remaining weeks, they will be getting a minimum
of $6.50 an hour... excuse me, $7.00 an hour.
Mr. Alfano: No, sir. After the initial sixteen weeks, no more work experi-
ence.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. Alfano: Then the youth will be placed in a private sector job.
Mr. Plummer: Right.
Mr. Alfano: And we will use the grant proceeds to reimburse employees for 50
percent of the wage expense.
Mr. Plummer: Even if it is $3.35 an hour, or $3.50?
Mr. Alfano: Exactlyl Exactly, and if the wage is $10.00 an hour, we will be
paying S5.00.
Mr. Plummer: Then your numbers don't jibe.
Mr. Alfano: Well, this is a budget. The budget will be managed, and the
budget will be modified in terms of transferring money from one line item to
the other as needed.
Mayor Suarez: Same problem I have with the agency as I have been discussing
with you Joe, I mean, at one point, we talked in terms of you caning up with
$500,000 from some place that we would find it, and we would provide "x"
number of jobs for young people. Now, the way I like to calculate that is you
take the total amount and divide it by the number of participants, and that is
how much each participant would get. And these formulas you use, I see a lot
of the money going to counselors and training people and all that, and it just
doesn't seem like the beneficiaries receive an adequate amount. If I was
going to vote on this today in favor of it, I would at least want to get a
complete report from you as to all the money that you, jointly with the City,
and from other funds, put through your program, and how many young or old
people it places in employment on a yearly basis. I was asked... a state of
the City message was prepared where a certain statement was made about how
many people we had placed in so many different job sites throughout the City.
I asked where that figure came from. Nobody could tell me. I guess I should
ask the author of it, but the author probably knows least. And, you know, we
would like to know what the total effort is. Commissioner Plummer wants a
breakdown...
Mr. Odio: Yes, OK.
Mayor Suarez:...that makes sense, that we see the money actually going to the
people that it is intended to benefit.
Mr. Plummer: Joe, does it come down to a basis of so much per kid? Is that
really the...
Mr. Alfano: The bottom line in terms of negotiating a contract with the
State, yes. OK, we will be getting paid so much per kid per bench mark, if
you will, or per accomplishment. Now, if you are interested in a line item
budget, I am prepared to give you an idea of what is in that budget here
today.
Mr. Plummer: Well, my figures tell me that it is not $3,000, per kid, it is
$3,700. It is closer to $3,700, am I right? Anybody got a calculator? Where
is all my Indians?
Mayor Suarez: You mean just the simple division of the $223,000 by 79?
Mr. Plummer: Eighty into $235,000.
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Mayor Suarez: It can't be S3,700. There is no way. It has got to be right
around $3,000.
Mr. Plummer: I don't have a calculator with me.
Mr. Odio: What is it?
Mr. Alfano: $2,943.
Mr. Plummer: OK, you are right. So, it is $3,000 per kid. If you are paying
the $3.35 for the sixteen weeks, you are paying $3.50, 50 percent of $3.50 for
the remaining twelve, something is lost somewhere!
Mr. Alfano: Mr. Commissioner, let me address your comment or concern by
saying the following.
Mayor Suarez: You may be able to answer by answering a very simple question.
How much money is paid by P.I.C. directly to the participants over the entire
span of the program.
Mr. Alfano: Mr. Mayor, I don't know at this point, because I don't know how
much the employer that we will find four months from now will be able to pay
to that individual participant.
Mr. Plummer: That is a reasonable answer.
Mr. Alfano: It will be a minimum of $3.50 an hour. That we can guarantee.
Mayor Suarez: Is there any minimum total figure that you can give us?
Mr. Alfano: Our average wage at the time of placement at the present time is
in the neighborhood of $4.46.
Mayor Suarez: OK, but you are giving us that on a per hour basis. What is
that over the entire span of the program? On the average. It doesn't have to
be... you must have some assumptions as to how many get placed and what
different job categories and which ones could drop out and so on.
Mr. Alfano: Let me say that for this particular program, we are identifying
in the budget a total of about $60,000 for O.J.T. wages, the portion that we
will reimburse the employer, about $4,800 for transportation, about $11,700
for meals allowances that youth will be receiving during the classroom train-
ing component, special supplies in the neighborhood of $5,700. Special
supplies will include uniforms, books, testing materials, office supplies. We
will also be...
Mayor Suarez: So, in actual wages, you said how much? - out of $232,000, or
$223,000?
Mr. Alfano: In terms of actual wages payable to employers, will be $59,640.
In terms of wages payable to the youth, the four hours a day...
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Alfano:... the figure that I have here will be another $52,500.
Mayor Suarez: That is $111,000 total, for...
Mr. Alfano: That's correct.
Mayor Suarez: ...actual wages - roughly half of the total grant money.
Mr. Alfano: Plus F.I.C.A.....
Mayor Suarez: Plus and....
Mr. Alfano: Plus supplies and so forth and so on. Mr. Mayor, I want to
submit to you, sir, that we are going to also be paying some staff, and I want
to be up front with you.
Mayor Suarez: I understand that.
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Mr. Alfano: These kids are going to be subject to a regiment of functional
literacy, basic skills, without which they will not stand a chance of getting
a job in the private sector. To do that, we are going to be paying for...
Mayor Suarez: Joe, we took ten minutes to get to the answer we wanted right
off the bat, which is $111,000 out of the total, actually going in payments to
the young people, and now, I think what Commissioner Plummer is going to want
to figure out, if that checks back by calculating the hours that you specified
that they would be working a week, and the amount per hour, that is all. Is
it...
Mr. Odio: Mr. Mayor, I reviewed this program with Joe, and I will tell you,
if they could have more money, I would recommend this program because at least
we are paying these kids to become functional in our society.
Mayor Suarez: Absolutely, I would like to spend no less than $500,000 of the
City's money, as I stated before. I just want as much of it as possible to
get right to the recipients.
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me ask this question - in this document which was
furnished, it only speaks of 49 work experience participants.
Mr. Alfano: That is because some of the youths that we will be serving are
already high school graduates, able to compete in terms of functional skills.
That being the case, they will not be going through the 16 weeks of functional
literacy and work experience. They will be placed immediately on jobs in the
private sector.
Mr. Plummer: Explain to me the $7,600 for two H.U.D. supervisors.
Mrs. Kennedy: Excuse me a second before you continue. Do you have more
copies of this for us?
Mr. Alfano: Commissioner, I may have some.
Mr. Plummer: You are welcome to make a copy of this.
Mrs. Kennedy: Thank you.
Mr. Plummer: Joe, I am questioning the two maintenance supervisors, their
salaries, and fringe for $7,600.
Mr. Alfano: Commissioner, this is an in -kind contribution being provided by
Little H.U.D., Dade County. This is a matching requirement that we are
meeting with the State through an in -kind contribution from Metropolitan Dade
County. This is not cash. Incidentally, that is not part of the budget
either.
Mr. Plummer: It is in this document.
Mr. Alfano: That is the document going to the State of Florida, addressing
the matching requirements.
Mayor Suarez: Well, if it is in -kind, it is not part of the monetary part of
the budget.
Mr. Alfano: Exactly.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, as I look at this program, as much as we are not
completely satisfied, I think it does address 80 youths, and I would move at
this time that we approve this document and go forth. It might not be as much
as we want, but at least it is something that we can hang our hat on, and I
move item 50 at this time.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Joe, remember, please to try to get me some figures
on the total effort on a yearly basis, and maybe try to collaborate where
those figures came from that I was given by public information component of
the City, formally known as the Public Information Office. Any further
discussion from the Commission? Hearing none, please call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-467
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $82,500 FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI
FISCAL YEAR 1986 BUDGET; SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND AC-
COUNTS -MATCHING FUNDS FOR GRANTS, TO THE PRIVATE
INDUSTRY COUNCIL/SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
CONSORTIUM AS LOCAL CASH MATCH FOR A GRANT FROM THE
STATE OF FLORIDA UNDER THE JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP
ACT.
(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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Plummer: Very quickly, Joe would you send to my office - I would like to
know what the total funding last year, and proposed for this year of P.I.C.,
and what amount of money is the City of Miami's portion of that, please.
Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: I'd take a copy of that one too. That is an interesting
question.
51. DEFER IMPLEMENTATION OF TRAFFIC PROGRAM IN THE BAY HEIGHTS AREA.
Mr. Plummer: Is there any possibility that we can take agenda item 71 out of
order?
Mayor Suarez: You got it.
Mr. Plummer: Waldo, before you start, to the neighbors, one of the neighbors,
Mr. Mayor, and this is for the edification of my colleagues - one of the
neighbors, there are two sections involved, one is Bay Heights and the other
one is where Commissioner Kennedy and I reside, and that is known as Natoma
Manor. It seems as how the people of Natoma Manor feel that they were not
consulted at such time as this Commission, at a public hearing, I want that
understood, a public hearing that was duly advertised, that they did not have
their right of input, and they are concerned about the traffic pattern which
was proposed by this Commission the different alternatives. I think that they
are here today, they have circulated a letter among the neighbors and they
-- - would like to come here today and express their concern. To those who have
had the courtesy to come to my house and beat my head soft, I have said to
_ them, and I will continue to say as I did at the first hearing. I don't think
anything is chiseled in stone. I don't know that anything that we could have
here today is going to be the final or ultimate solution that will create a
-� happy residential neighborhood, and anything that we do, I would insist that a
90 day trial basis would be attached to it, and we would reevaluate after the
end of 90 days, and we would see if it needs alternation, or it needs chang-
ing, or even maybe completely cancelling. In final, the only thing that I
-- would like to say, that I think my neighbors and those of Bay Heights, and Bay
Heights is not represented now here today - I think that we both fight a
common problem, and that is approximately 3,000 cars a day, of people who
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traverse the streets of our so-called residential neighborhood, who do not
live in our neighborhood. The intersection of Tigertail and Halissee at the
last count of Metropolitan Dade County, which is a residential street designed
to carry 400 to 500 cars a day, carry three cars shy of 3,0001 2,997 cars was
the actual traffic count, so with saying that, Waldo, you can go ahead and say
whatever you want, and we will take it from there.
Mayor Suarez: Go ahead. State your name and address, and tell us...
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Dr. Waldo Ellison: Dr. Waldo Ellison,
I reside at 1623 Micanopy Avenue in
Coconut Grove. This is addressed to Mr.
Odio and the City Commissioners. I'd
just like to read this, please, and then
I have a suggestion.
"We have recently become aware of a
proposed realignment of street access
in the Bay Heights, North Grove area, which has been adopted by the City
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of Miami. We are firmly opposed to this scheme for the following rea-
sons. Number one, the plan was
adopted with no notice to the Grove
neighborhood, which is vitally and
adversely affected by the plan. Our
first knowledge in the scheme was
after its adoption, and by an article
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in the Miami Herald."
Now, with regards to your comments...
,;. Mr. Plummer: Stand corrected. It was advertised, but that is not a big
point. You were not here and have the right...
Dr. Ellison: Let me make an additional point. In the mail, people in the
area, people have received notification that Mercy Hospital is planning on
putting in an N.M.R. unit, which requires a change of status. This was placed
in the mail and sent to the people of the area. Basically, what we are saying
is, with something of this monumental importance, we would appreciate it as
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well, to receive some information in the mail, not just in some obscure
newspaper article someplace.
Mr. Odio: It cost $20,000, J. L.
Dr. Ellison: Number two... well, I think the issue, Mr. Odio, is the fact...
Mr. Odio: No, I think you should address the City Commission.
Dr. Ellison: Well, this is to all, in regard to the comment, we are here from
the Natoma Manors area and I would say everyone sitting here, at least 80
percent, were not aware of this meeting, so there must be something wrong with
the method of communication. That is what I am pointing...
Mr. Odio: Well, a normal mailing costs $20,000, and we cannot be mailing
every week, you know, a public hearing, so I would suggest you read the paper.
Dr. Ellison: Then let me say that if you are going to put up signs, that
signs be put up in an area that are going to be affected. If you take a look
at the study, it doesn't say the Natoma Manor traffic study. It says the Bay
Heights traffic study. It doesn't say Bay Heights and Natoma Manor. It says
Bay Heights. Now, let me continue, if I may.
"The City Commission responded to complaints of residents who live in Bay
Heights, and were disturbed by commuter traffic. Their remedy was adopt-
ed without any soliciting of opinions of the nearby residents in Natoma
Manor, whose streets might be adversely affected. There are at least
one-half dozen blocks that will have more traffic as a result of this
scheme. Number three, it is not the job of the Commissioners to redirect
traffic from one residential street to another residential street, unless
there are reasons beyond the desire of some residents to have a quieter
street. Number four, no plan was made to use independent consultants.
Planning was inadequate and capricious."
Now in regard to this, through the grapevine I have heard that the City of
Miami spent money and sent somebody to Washington or Oregon to learn how to
deal with cul- de- sacs, as an effective way of controlling traffic. I don't
know if this is valid or not, but I share this information. In summary...
_ "All of us who live in the North Grove have the problem of coping with
traffic. We recognize, however, that there is no way to eliminate traf-
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fic. It is the price we pay for living convenient close to the downtown.
We feel very strongly that one group, one vocal group of residents has no
right to demand that the City reroute traffic into a labyrinth, which
will only result in leading cars to somebody else's area. Surely the
Commission can do better than this."
Now, I have a suggestion and a comment to make.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute. Are you finished with your letter?
Dr. Ellison: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Because I would like to address your letter at the present time.
Let's talk about that, because I have a lot of disagreement with your letter,
OK? This Commission did not do this in one meeting. We went through it on
many meetings. We did go through this in such a manner, and I cannot accept
your premise that we can't do anything. I think we can. I think we can
address the problem, and I think we can find, if we worked together, a solu-
tion, but I don't accept your answer that says there is nothing you can do
about it, that is the price you pay for living close to town. I don't accept
that.
Dr. Ellison: I didn't say that. I said, "Surely the Commission can do better
than this."
Mr. Plummer: Yes, you... no, you said this Commission can't do anything, that
is the price you pay of living close to downtown.
Dr. Ellison: I didn't say that.
Mr. Plummer: Did you not? May you read your letter again. I think
you...OK? - now....
Dr. Ellison: It said, "Their remedy was adopted without any soliciting of
opinions of the nearby residents whose street might be adversely affected."
That is what I said.
Mr. Plummer: Did you not say in there that you can't do anything about it?
Dr. Ellison: Not I said, surely...
Mr. Plummer: May I see your letter, please? Maybe my ears are going bad.
Mrs. Kennedy: May I make a comment in the meantime?
Mr. Plummer: Sure.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK. let me also address...
Mayor Suarez: The problem was that...
Mrs. Kennedy:... Dr. Ellison, as a neighbor, I received also your letter, and I
agree with Commissioner Plummer that I think we acted in to much haste the
last time. I think that we should have a true public hearing, hear from
everybody, those who oppose it, and those who favor it, and then see how we
can help you, but I don't think we can do anything, you know, we should do
anything that would further balkanize our City. I think that a true public
hearing is what we have to have.
Dr. Ellison: I agree with you there. The only suggestion that I have at this
point, I know from our neighbors that I have spoken with, all that they want
to make sure is that these barricades are not put up, and the other suggestion
that we have come up with, which to makes more sense, is the fact that if you
take a look at the map, we are trying to go and reduce the traffic flow, and
one of the most effective ways of doing this is through the use of four-way
stop signs.
Mr. Plummer: Ha, hat You know...
Dr. Ellison: I'm talking about dealing...
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Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you something right now. I was the one who took the
heat for the four-way stop signs, remember Jim? Huh? OK, do you know you get
laughed out of court now when the policemen write the tickets? They don't
respect them. They just don't respect them - neither the general public, nor
the courts. Now, you know, we tried that. It didn't work. That was before
you moved into the neighborhood. It didn't work, so let's go from there.
Dr. Ellison:
I don't think that to say what didn't work twelve years ago,
when I moved
into the neighborhood - I know
that my neighbors surrounding the
area of Halissee and Tigertail would like a
four-way stop sign on that street
corner.
Mr. Plummer:
So petition for it. That's no
problem.
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Mayor Suarez:
I thought we just did four-way stop signs in Belle Mead, did we
not?
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Yes, in some of Belle Mead,
but that was behind other barri-
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cedes.
Dr. Ellison:
See, I am trying to see what
we can do to slow traffic down on
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Tigertail in
the Bay Heights area.
Mr. Odio: Well,
we have qualified traffic
engineers that did this planning,
and I would
like... if you want to, you can
hear from them. I don't know if
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Doctor... is
it a doctor for engineering, or,
for what?
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Dr. Ellison:
I am a doctor of psychiatry.
Mr. Odio: Oh, OK, so you are not...
Dr. Ellison:... which I might suggest, it may be of some value...
Mr. Dawkins: No wonder he is helping J. L.1
Mr. Odio: Sir, I am married to a doctor in psychology, so I don't need one.
Mr. Plummer: My condolences to both of youl
Mayor Suarez: Instead of public hearings, we need private sessions with a
certain Commissioner here, to resolve this whole problem.
Dr. Ellison: Basically, what we are saying is a very simple premise. We, as
Commissioner Kennedy said, we want to be a participant and a part of any
traffic studies.
Mr. Plummer: Fine. Besides the four-way stop, come up with a solution. So, I
told Dr. Welsh's wife last night.
Mayor Suarez: Let's hear from a...
Mr. Plummer: Hey, you got a solution, I am willing to listen.
Dr. Ellison: Well, you are saying at this point that you don't want four-way
stop signs.
Mr. Plummer: I'm saying they don't work.
Mayor Suarez: Wait. He is only speaking for himself, but that's...
Mr. Plummer: No, I live there. I experienced it.
Mayor Suarez:...so far, but you are still only speaking for yourself.
Dr. Ellison: All, I can say is, we don't have them presently. Let's see what
happens if we put them into Bay Heights and Tigertail!
Mr. Plummer: Let's come up with another solution.
Dr. Ellison: You want to widen South Bayshore Drive?
Mr. Plummer: You can't, it is a historic highway.
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funds on a historic highway.
Mr. Plummer: No, you can't do a historic highway. Next item.
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Kip, go ahead. Wait, we have got... If you want address us, take your turn,
please.
Capt. Dan Kipnis: For the record, my name is Captain Dan Kipnis, 1600
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Tigertail Avenue, on the corner of Alatka and Tigertail, you spend one day in
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my bedroom on that corner, with 3,000 cars going by and you will sell the
house, and it is unfortunately, because it is a beautiful neighborhood. I've
got to watch my child in the street. These are not people who live in our
neighborhood. I would spend another 20 minutes, coming and going, driving
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down to South Miami and back to get to my house, if I only had the people, my
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neighbors, driving in that neighborhood. I would do anything that it takes to
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avoid the situation on that corner, that I live on right now. I fear that
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my dog gets out of the fence in the morning, it is going to get run over. If
my child gets in the street, it is going to get run over, and the four—way
stop signs do not work. I have three running stop sign tickets for the three
that are no longer there on Alatka. You know, they disappeared? But, I did
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take them to court, because I slowed down and almost stopped. I didn't get
charged, no points. None of them stuck. Commissioner Plummer is absolutely
right, and it didn't slow people down and it still doesn't. There is a four—
way going in now to Bay Heights and everybody runs it, if you stand there and
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watch it they don't even slow down. It is just run. So, there is a way, I
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believe, in this type of neighborhood, through taking the beauty of a commuter
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cutting off of Bayshore, and scooting down Tigertail in the morning, or at
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it is not going to reduce the traffic, because they would rather stop for a
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sign four times on that one little bit of road, then spend 20 minutes sitting
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on Bayshore. It is still shorter, and I am all for any barrier, or anything
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that the City can do, no matter how it is, and what it makes me do to drive
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around to get back to my house. I am willing to pay that price in time and
f uel, not to have my bedroom rattled around 3,000 times a day, and not to
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worry about my daughter and my pets.
Mr. Plummer: Dr. Welsh, go ahead.
Dr. Robert C. Wells: You see how upset he is? He is so very upset, it is
unbelievable, and that is exactly what you are going to do...
Mayor Suarez: OK, before you get too upset doctor, why don't you give us your
name and your address.
Dr. Welsh: Robert C. Welsh, 1600 Onsway Drive, Miami — grew up and went to
Miami High. You bought your house there, realizing what the traffic was. I
live in Sleepy Hollow, which is the next block down. You are going to change
his setup to my exact setup with your change, thank you.
Mayor Suarez: We definitely...
Dr. Wells: And my wife is going to get after you, J. L.!
Mr. Plummer: That is every day, anyhow. Wait a minute, doctor, hold on.
Mayor Suarez: Well, we definitely have a balance of interest problem here.
Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you where you are wrong now, if you look at the map.
Mr. Dawkins: About your wife?
Mr. Plummer: No, she and I have disagreements every day.
Mr. Carollo: Excuse me, sir, what kind of doctor are you?
Dr. Mills: Optometrist.
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Mr. Carollo: Optometrist? - OK, psychologist, optometrist. Keeping track of,
you know, all the doctors. Thank you, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Pathologist?
Mr. Plummer: OK, I stand corrected. Doctor, look at this map. Let me tell
you where you are wrong, OK? All of the Bayshore traffic will not be able to
go by your house, because they can't do it. That is the design of this map.
Dr. Ellison: Commissioner Plummer...
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, I am talking to him. What I am saying to you is,
what this in effect has done with these barricades the way they are, the only
traffic you can get out around your corner, is Bay Heights traffic, that is
itl Now, this... excuse me, Mr. Odio.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: There was another, as I recall, another thing to this map. It
is not shown here, and that was half of the entrance at Halissee and Dixie.
Mr. Odio: Will be closed.
Mr. Plummer: But, if you see, that is not on this map.
Mr. Odio: No, but it will be closed.
Mr. Plummer: In other words, you will be able to go out that, but you will
not be able to come in.
Mr. Odio: In Halissee.
Mr. Plummer: OK, that was part of the option IV, but it is not on this map
that they have.
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, the barricades that were proposed and accepted by the
Commission were on a 90 day trial period. If they don't work, and create
other problems, they can be moved.
Mr. Plummer: No, wait, wait. Mr. Odio, you ain't going to do that to me.
No, I've got to live in that neighborhood for 90 days, sir. Now, what I would
like to do, OK? - to be in all fairness, none of the Bay Heights people are
here today. Now, I would like to have a meeting chaired by you, I don't think
any of the Commissioners should be there. I think you ought to call a meeting
between now and the 26th of June, of the Natoma people, and the Bay Heights
people. As I said to the Bay Heights people, I will vote for any compromise,
if you don't dump everything on Natoma, and I guarantee you that I will not
vote for anything that Natoma dumps on Bay Heights. It has got to be even. I
would hope that next week some time, Mr. Cather, that you could personally
hold a meeting of both the Natoma and the Bay Heights, with the final answer
that something is going to be done. The problem is going to be addressed in
some way. Hopefully, the people, reasonable people can disagree, but they
don't have to be disagreeable, can come back to this Commission with some plan
of action that is known to work. And if you come back here and tell me four-
way stops you think will work, I will buy it, but my honest opinion says that
it won't, OK? - because I have lived through it, and at this time, Mr. Mayor,
what I would like to do, is to defer any implementation.
Mayor Suarez: I was going to ask you to put that as part of the motion.
Let's defer implementation until we have...
Mr. Plummer: Defer any implementation until the meeting of June 26th, at
subsequent time, the director of Public Works will cause a meeting of both the
Natoma Manor and Bay Heights residents, homeowners, with the full understand-
ing that some solution is going to be addressed by this Commission, hopefully
with the concurrence of the majority - the majority, that is 50 percent. I
want the people of my neighbors that this thing was only about 53 percent
approved by the Bay Heights when polled. There were 47 percent of the people
didn't like it, but the majority still rules. If you want to say something,
come up... wait a minute, excuse me. That is my motion, if I get a second.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
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Mayor Suarez: OK, now you can talk.
Mr. Dale Keith: My name is Dale Keith. I live at 1690 Nacatee Drive. I am
the only resident of Nacatee Drive between 17th Avenue and Hilola, and I come
home from downtown, come down Bayshore Drive, and with all these barricades
and so on and so forth, I haven't yet been able to figure out how I am sup-
posed to get home. The second thing that I would like to bring up is you have
forgotten about the morning traffic. Seeing as I am 100 percent of the
population of Nacatee Drive from S.W. 17th Avenue to Hilola, I get sometimes
in the neighborhood of over 5,000 cars a day that turn right off S.W. 17th
Avenue, or left off S.W. 17th Avenue, go across in front of my house, then
take a left hand turn on Hilola, to exit out on U.S. 1 to avoid the traffic
light at U.S. 1, S.W. 17th Avenue. That has not been addressed by anybody.
Now, I have giant boulders in front of my house...
Mr. Plummer: Yes, we did. We did at the original hearing.
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Mr. Keith: All right, I don't have a sign in front of my house that says, No
right turn, local traffic only," or anything like that, so I hope that the
folks who are looking into this don't forget about that morning traffic,
because I have boulders in front of my house that people have run over, tree
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the lawn. The Florida Power Light have put about a 60 foot high pole there,
that is hidden in some trees, so if I get any more things over there, and I
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Mr. Plummer: Well, let's see if we can go a step further,Mr. Gather, can you
arrange and tell me right now what day next week you could have a meeting in
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these chambers? Let's give them a definite date. How about next Thursday.
We don't meet. Can you meet here next Thursday?
Mr. Cather: As far as I know, yes - at
1:00 o'clock?
Mr. Plummer: Is that convenient, say
7:00 o'clock
in the evening? Is that
convenient, 7:00 o'clock next Thursday?
Then, I will
depend upon you, sir, to
search through Anne Bannich in the Bay
Heights, and
I will personally want
you to hand deliver to every household a notice of this
meeting.
Mr. Odio: I am going to that meeting.
Mr. Plummer: You are going to go to that meeting? Don't you remember the
last one? We got our heads beat in?
Mr. Odio: I'm going to that meeting.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Odio: I live there.
Mr. Plummer: OK, so do I, but I will refrain. All right, Mr. Mayor, then I
will make...
Mr. Cather: You want hand delivered notices to Bay Heights and North Grove
home owners?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, sir, to all home owners.
Mr. Odio: I'll to Waldo to be left alone.
Mayor Suarez: That is up to 17th Avenue.
Mr. Plummer: OK, and get doctor to sign for his.
Dr. Ellison: Let's not make a mockery out of this farce.
Mr. Plummer: It is not a mockery, doctor. It is a mockery to the extent
that...
Dr. Ellison: It is a mockery to what was done here.
Mr. Plummer: No, sir.
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Mayor Suarez: Well, let's not argue about what was done. We are going to try
to...
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I respect his right to think that this is a mockery.
I also think that this is a Commission that is trying to address itself to the
concerns of a problem. It is easy to stand up at a microphone and scream and
holler without solutions, and if that is what you call a mockery, I respect
your right to have that opinion. I disagree with it.
Dr. Ellison: Commissioner Plummer, I am not addressing you with the mockery.
I think that Mr. Odio and I have to come to some agreement so we can go and be
friends and neighbors.
Mr. Plummer: I would hope so.
Dr. Ellison: This is something that I hope to do, and I share that with
everyone here.
Mr. Plummer: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: So, Odio is the problem there? Very interesting point. OK.
Mr. Carollo: You know doctor, sometimes they blame a lot of things on unhappy
childhood, as a psychologist, but I think J. L. has had an unhappy adulthood
too, so don't hold it against him.
Mr. Plummer: Thanks.
Mayor Suarez: Now we have analyzed psychological backgrounds. We have a
motion.
Mr. Randy Calimber: I just want to add one thing to the scope of the meeting
for next week.
Mayor Suarez: Just don't say it is a mockery, please, anything but that.
Mr. Calimber: What I would like to suggest to you is that you are dealing
either with the identification of an existing City policy for cul-de-sating
streets and dealing with residential neighborhoods in general.
Mr. Plummer: No, sir, no implementation until the meeting of the 26th.
Mr. Calimber: I'm sorry?
Mr. Plummer: No implementation of any of that.
Mr. Calimber: No, I understand that, but what I am trying to point out is
that what I think you are dealing with in the scope of that meeting is not
just discussion with Bay Heights residents, but the common interests of
residential areas in the City that have similar problems of traffic, and you
can expect to have residents approach you in the future to cul de sac their
streets, if you are going to block our streets in Bay Heights.
Mr. Plummer: Let me resolve your fears. This is not the first one, sir. The
first one was in Belle Mead, and I made that exact statement that you did at
that time, that the minute Belle Mead was done and approved, that I knew my
neighbors were going to be in here wanting the same. Any other area that
wants attention and deserves attention, I am sure this Commission will hear..
Mr. Calimber: What I am suggesting then is that the representatives for the
City who attend the meeting next week, be prepared to outline what the City
policy is, for cul-de-lacing streets, if there is a City policy. Are there
general guidelines that will be provided for blocking streets - 2,000 cars,
3,000 cars, 1,000 cars.
Mr. Plummer: No, sir, I think at this particular time, and I can't speak for
the department, but this Commission has been the deciding factor as to whether
or not it is needed, as the same way Coral Gables did on Bird Road, and in the
same way that Bay Point did up in Bay Point.
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Mr. Calimber: Right, I am suggesting that you are going to be in for some
fireworks in the future unless you come up with a policy, and it may be
helpful to use this form to come up with a policy.
Mr. Plummer: I agree with you, sir. Let me tell you one of the policies, Mr.
Mayor, that you and the rest of my colleagues - only Commissioner Rosario and
I have to fight. When I first went on this Commission 16 years ago, it used
to take my five minutes to go from my house to my office. Do you realize that
we have about a 12 or 13 second light at 17th Avenue and Dixie Highway in the
morning? You cannot get more than two cars through that intersection going
north on 17th Avenue, and Mr. Cather, I would ask you to invite somebody from
Traffic and Transportation to come to that meeting next Thursday night at 7:00
o'clock, because I want to tell you, in effect, what they are saying is, that
because I live in the City, I am going to pay a penalty to live in the City,
because they get four minutes or five minutes of Dixie Highway through traf-
fic, and 10 to 15 seconds for 17th Avenue, and I think it is totally unfair,
so I would hope that you would invite somebody from Metro Traffic and Trans-
portation to that meeting, and I want these neighbors to tell them about that
light on 17th Avenue and Dixie.
Mr. Calimber: Commissioner, as I recall, that was done as part of the H.O.V.
study, prior to Metrorail opening and that sequence was supposed to revert.
Mrs. Kennedy: Going back to your previous statement, I am afraid also, that
this can get out of hand. If every neighborhood would like to be secluded and
come and ask us to recruit it, you know, the routine would be really, really
hard, and we are here to set policy, otherwise we would just go crazy with all
these requests.
Mr. Calimber: I think we need to identify what policy is and that will help
everybody. For the record, I am Randy Calimber, 3220 Ah-We-Wa.
Mayor Suarez: OK, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion from
the Commission?
Mrs. Kennedy: The motion is to...?
Mayor Suarez: To hold a hearing and defer any implementation of the prior
traffic program, whatever, until the meeting of 26th of June, and in the
meantime, have a hearing here on the 19th, 7:00 p.m., where both sides can be
represented, and I either will be here in person, if I come back in time from
St. Thomas, or we will have a representative from my office, because I am very
concerned about traffic through Bay Heights myself.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, the bottom line that I want to make clear through,
OK? - and I hope I can express to my colleagues they will do such on the 26th.
We are going to do something, OK? In other words, I don't want it to go and
come back on the 26th and the consensus is, "We are not going to do anything!"
That is not what this Commission is about. We want you all to come back,
hopefully, with a majority opinion, with the department to say, "Hey, here is
a plan we would like to try for 90 days." No action is not acceptable to me.
Something has got to be done in that neighborhood.
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS)
Mr. Plummer: Sure, I said 7:00 o'clock.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, on the 26th.
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS)
Mayor Suarez: I told them it would be at 6:00 p.m., and it will probably be
later than that, because it is planning and zoning day.
Mr. Plummer: The 26th?
Mayor Suarez: No, 7:00 p.m. on the 19th, and it will be tentatively scheduled
for 6:00 p.m. on the 26th, but chances are it will be a little...
Mr. Plummer: Hopefully on the 26th, nobody is going to come back, because you
are all going to be in accord.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-468
A MOTION TO DEFER PREVIOUSLY APPROVED IMPLEMENTATION OF A
TRAFFIC PROGRAM IN THE BAY HEIGHTS AREA UNTIL THE MEETING
OF JUNE 26, 1986 AT 6:00 P.M.; FURTHER DIRECTING THE
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ADMINISTRATION TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING IN THE CHAMBERS,
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ON JUNE 19, 1986 AT 7:00 P.M., TO OBTAIN THE RESIDENTS'
INPUT; FURTHER DIRECTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO HANDLE
APPROPRIATE NOTICING OF SAID HEARING TO ALL AFFECTED AREA
RESIDENTS; AND FURTHER REQUESTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO
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INVITE SOMEBODY FROM THE TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION DE-
PARTMENT TO THE MEETING WITH THE FULL UNDERSTANDING THAT A
SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM WOULD BE FOUND BY THIS COMMIS-
SION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote-
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
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52. CALLE OCHO OPEN HOUSE FESTIVAL; CLOSE STREETS, DESIGNATION OF PEDDLER
AREAS, AND FIREWORKS PERMITS.
Mayor Suarez: Agenda item 70. We have the Little Havana Kiwanis. Did we
lose them?
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS)
Mayor Suarez: Do itl Item 70.
Mr. Carollo: Moved.
Mayor Suarez: It has been moved.
Mr. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Before you said anything, I wouldn't suggest you say anything!
Moved and seconded. Any further discussion?
Mr. Carollo: None.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Carollo, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-469
A MOTION APPROVING IN PRINCIPLE REQUEST RECEIVED FROM THE
KIWANIS CLUB OF LITTLE HAVANA REQUESTING CLOSURE OF
STREETS, DESIGNATION OF AREAS PROHIBITED TO PEDDLERS AND
EXTENSION OF FIREWORKS DEADLINE IN CONNECTION WITH THE
"CALLE OCHO: OPEN HOUSE FESTIVAL" SCHEDULED FOR MARCH
1987.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Suarez: See what happens when you are quiet?
53. DEFER CONSIDERATION OF FUNDING 1987 BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL.
Mayor Suarez: Item 72. Dr. Padron, where has he gone? There he is.
Dr. Eduardo J. Padron: Eduardo J. Padron, S.W. llth Street, Miami. Mr. Mayor
and Commissioners, I am here this afternoon on behalf of the board of Miami
Book Fair International, Incorporated, to first of all thank you, and congrat-
ulate you on the wisdom that you have demonstrated during the last two years
in becoming a partner with the Miami Book Fair International board in creating
which is definitely the most significant cultural happening in the City, one
that has received significant national and international attention. There are
more than 130 articles just last year, that were provided, also trade maga-
zines and journals from the trade business and publication business, which
have praised the Miami Book Fair International as the most significant affair
of its kind in this nation, as described by the newspaper, not only the Fair
attracted publishers from throughout the world, as far as away from Japan and
Argentina, but also, we have the most important literary gathering...
Mr. Plummer: Hey, Doctor, how much? Whewl It is bad enough you have got to
hit me for money, it is bad enough to listen to a commercial, or...
Dr. Padron: You are very familiar with it. You don't need me really to
inform you, because you have been very kind and supportive, and...
Mr. Plummer: We are not going to be now...
Mrs. Kennedy: How much is it going to cost us?
Dr. Padron: I am here to ask you to continue support of the fair in the same
amount as last year, which is $100,000.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager, you heard the request. You got the money?
Mr. Odio: For next year's budget, you have to approve that budget for next
year, right? As of this moment, I haven't finished my budget.
Mr. Plummer: OK, when is your event?
Dr. Padron: November, sir.
Mr. Plummer: That is after the budget, so we will see you again in October.
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Dr. Padron: The problem, sir, is, we really cannot wait until October to
decide...
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Mr. Plummer: Well, you've got a problem.
Dr. Padron: I'm sure, to decide on the fate of the fair, because, if all the
planning, all the contacting - it is an international fair, it involves
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publishers from around the world, it involves authors from around the world,
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and it is very difficult to plan an event without having the assurance of
having the funds to take place, so I beg for your understanding.
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Mr. Plummer: I beg you that there is no money in the budget. If we give you
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an answer now, the answer is no. Now, if that is what you want, that is what
you can have, but I don't think that is what you want. There is no money in
the budget. Now, if you want to come back in October, and you can prevail
upon the Manager to put some money into the budget for the coming year start-
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ing October 1, I think you might be in pretty good shape. I don't know about
$100,000, but you might be in pretty good shape, and I know that Miller
Dawkins is going to be around here beating the hell out of all of us.
Mrs. Kennedy: I think on behalf of the Book Fair, that it is a new event, but
one that brings... in its short history has brought prestige in national and
international circles. One event they put together, American writers and Latin
writers, female writers and male writers, and White writers and Black writers,
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I hope we can look and find the money.
Dr. Padron: Not only that, Commissioner, if I may add, it is an event that
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attracts a lot of people in the business, the publishing business. All
exhibitors bring delegations of three or four people. They use hotel rooms,
they consume, they stay in Miami. It is good economic development. It
attracts tourism. It is not just a cultural affair. It is truly an economic
development affair, which I think is very important to the City.
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Mr. Plummer: I move this item be deferred to the first meeting after budget.
Mayor Suarez: It is so moved.
Mrs. Kennedy: And I second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. If it helps you any in your planning, at the appro-
priate time, I will be voting in favor of the funding. I am not going to say
a figure at this point, but substantial amount of money. I think it is a very
important event.
Mr. Plummer: Doctor, for the record, what other funding do you get?
Dr. Padron: We get... the Fair costs about $450,000. We get substantial
amounts from the private sector. We get also the County; we got State funds,
not much.
Mr. Plummer: How much did the County give you?
Dr. Padron: $50,000.
Mr. Plummer: Wouldn't it be fair, I think we have a policy, don't we, Mr.
Manager, you realize our policy is that you can get no more money than what is
matched by the County from the City.
Dr. Padron: Well, last year, if you will recall, the agreement was that
because it was a City sponsored event, that the County would contribute, I
think that is what...
Mr. Plummer: OK, that does make a difference. All right, call the question.
Mayor Suarez Call the roll.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-470
A MOTION DEFERRING FUNDING REQUEST RECEIVED FROM MR.
EDUARDO PADRON ("1987 BOOK FAIR INTERNATIONAL") UNTIL
THE FIRST COMMISSION MEETING AFTER APPROVAL OF THE NEW
1986-87 FISCAL BUDGET.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSTAINED: Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
ABSENT: None.
ON ROLL CALL:
Mr. Dawkins: I have to abstain.
Mr. Carollo: You work for North Campus, not Downtown, Miller.
Mr. Dawkins: No, I work, well, it is Miami Dade Community College, period.
Dr. Padron: I want to clarify this is not a Miami Dade Community College
event. Miami Dade is a support, just as the City...
Mr. Dawkins: The City of Miami is a sponsor, and I know, but you and I, nor
the college, nor the City, needs any Miami media suggestion that there might
be any bit of impropriety, so therefore, I will just abstain.
Mr. Plummer: Dawkins, we well know about your junkets and all the free trips.
Mayor Suarez: We haven't heard who went to Oregon, though. That is the one
thing that was left over from the other item. Yes on the motion, and the
statement previously made. I know you can't take it to the bank, Doctor, but
it might give you some idea how the votes might go on it.
Dr. Padron: Thank you.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Doctor, I would like for you to pursue - I don't want
you to go home feeling comfortable, I want you to go home feeling uncomfort-
able, and uncomfortable means I hope you will pursue upon the D.D.A., which
now has some additional funding, it is a vital thing to downtown. I also hope
that you would prevail upon the new consortium of tourist promotion money for
downtown. I hope that you would prevail upon the Downtown Business Merchant's
Association, who we just gave $5O,0OO to, and you might be able to reduce, or
recoup, that less than the $1OO,000 that we will give you in October. So, go
home uncomfortable, and that will make you work harder.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: ITEM 73 WAS WITHDRAWN.
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tom'' 54. DISCUSSION: ANNUAL GOSPEL SING -OUT AGAINST CANCER.
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t Mayor Suarez: Item 74, American Cancer Society.
-., Mr. Miles Johnson: Good afternoon, my name is Miles Johnson, 2482 N.W. 66
Street. With me is Janice Orange, a staff member of the American Cancer
Society. I am a volunteer, and a member of the Board of Directors. For the
past four years, I have been chairman of a fund-raiser, the Gospel Sing -Out
Against Cancer, which in addition to being a fund-raiser, provides information
<' of cancer prevention and free programs that are offered to persons with
cancer. This year, we would like to bring a national artist that would
attract members of all communities. For the past two years we have held it at
the Joseph Caleb Auditorium, and the County Commission was kind enough to
'S waive the fee for using it. We are soliciting your support now in waiving the
fee to utilize Gusman Hall for the Gospel Sing -Out.
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Hall? We do not operate it. It is operated by the Off -Street Parking Author-
` = ity. Did you petition them?
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Mr. Johnson: We were not aware of that, which is why we petitioned you.
Mr. Plummer: No, we don't operate it, sir. No, sir, when Mr. Gusman gave the
t hall, it was given to the Off -Street Parking Authority and they have to run
+, Mr. Dawkins: Since you guys have made Miller Dawkins the honorary chairperson
...,. of this, I will lobby the Off -Street Parking and get back to you.
Mr. Johnson: Thank you very much.
55. GRANT PERMIT TO ERECT MONUMENT IN HONOR OF CUBAN WOMEN POLITICAL MARTYRS.
Mayor Suarez: OK, item 75, Ester Pilar Mora Morales, president, Presidio
Politico Cubano de Mujeres.
Mrs. Ester Pilar Mora Morales: (COMMENTS IN SPANISH, translated by Cesar Odio)
She is here presenting the Cuban prisoners...
Mayor Suarez: (COMMENTS IN SPANISH)
Mr. Odio: She is representing the woman, the ex -political prisoners, woman,
of Cuba.
Mr. Carollo: Let's see if we can expedite this.
Mr. Odio: And what she wants to do, I think I can do it for her. She wants
to have a monument to the prisoners in...
Mr. Carollo: In Jose Marti Park ... (COMMENTS IN SPANISH)
Mr. Plummer: That has been designated as Cuban Memorial Boulevard.
Mr. Carollo: OK, I make a motion that we designate Jose Marti Park for them
to construct that monument. Now, this is all going to be paid by them, as I
understand?
Mr. Odio: By them. The funding will be provided by them.
Mr. Carollo: OK.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Joe. Do they want it in Jose Marti, or what we
designate it as Cuban Memorial Boulevard?
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Mr. Odio: Jose Marti Park.
Mr. Carollo: They don't care where. I asked her if Jose Marti would be
appropriate, and she said she felt it would.
Mrs. Morales: (translated by Cesar Odio: They will pay for all the expenses
and... she is also selling it a book.
Mrs. Kennedy: (COMMENTS IN SPANISH) I am delighted, first of all, to be able
to help you, and I say this, because much too often, when we speak of politi-
cal prisoners, the image is of that of the man, and in so doing, we forget
those brave women who fought for the struggle to free Cuba of Communism.
Mr. Morales: (translated by Cesar Odio:) That is why she has a book that she
>. wants you to read, that you are all going to have it., The Women Have Been
Forgotten. They have suffered a lot, and they have lost a lot of women that
have been in fighting the Communist.
Mr. Plummer: Is that a motion, Commissioner? Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. Any further discussion? Hearing none,
please call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Carollo, who moved
its adoption:
`- MOTION NO. 86-471
A MOTION GRANTING REQUEST RECEIVED FROM PRESIDIO POLITICO
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COST TO THE CITY.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Suarez: (Comments in Spanish)
Mrs. Morales: (Comments in Spanish)
56. FUND $30,000 TO HISPANIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL PAGEANT NETWORK COVERAGE.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, Item 76 is my item. As your representative to the
Hispanic Heritage Festivals Committee, I asked that Mr. Eloy Vazquez bring
this matter before this Commission. This is the first year that the Miss
Hispanic Heritage Pageant will be covered on network T.V. As such, I felt
that it was appropriate that this City could be involved in any T.V. network
production costs, as we have been in the past. I think the request, as I
recall, was for $30,000. Is that correct? All right, Mr. Mayor, you know, we
did adopt that policy. This unfortunately carries the word "festival", but
this is not for the festival portion. This would be to cover the cost of the
production for the T.V., which is going out on the network. So, Mr. Mayor.
ask any questions that my colleague have. I personally feel as your represen-
tative, that it is money well spent for promotion of this community, and at
such time, if it is in order, I will hopefully make a motion that it would be
approved.
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Mrs. Kennedy: I am delighted that you see the difference between festivals and
festivals.
Mr. Plummer: No, it is not a festival. If it was a festival, I would vote
against it. I am not allocating...
Mr. Carollo: I think the...
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me. I am not allocating money as we had in the past for
the Hispanic Heritage Festival. No wayl
Mr. Dawkins: But if you give them money for the T.V. showing, then they take
money from somewhere else and fund the festival, so we are not really and
truly being fair.
Mr. Plummer: No, sir, let me tell you why there is a difference. The differ-
ence is that that network coverage will show as in other cases, the City of
Miami, and for that, we get our dollar value.
Mr. Carollo: Well, J. L., that is where I have a big difference in. Through-
out the years now, I have been sitting here, since we had the first Miss
Universe, that there is no question at all about that that brought us tremen-
dous value, because half of the homes in this country were tuned to that, and
then all together there were 700,000,000 people in the world were seeing it.
We received 45 minutes of prime time in their program. Since then, we have
had requests from, you know, every group that wants to put three females in a
beauty contest wants $100,000 or more from us, and it has gotten to the point
that it is really getting out of hand, and I think we have to cut it some-
where. Not only that, but I realize they are going to give the City some
exposure, but I question just how much exposure are we getting for the amount
of money we are putting in.
Mr. Plummer: All right, let me defend my position, Joe. If it was as it had
been in the past, just a beauty contest locally for local people with no
coverage, I would have never brought the issue to the table. I only suggested
that the issue be brought to this table because this is the first year that
they will be getting network coverage, and I do feel that is important. We
are not reaching 700,000,000 homes as Miss Universe, but we are not spending
$1,000,000. This is for $30,000.
Mr. Carollo: That did not cost the City $1,000,000, J.L.
Mr. Plummer: Well, OK, excuse me, I am sorry, I didn't even mean to interject
that. All I am saying is that I thought it was worthwhile for this Commission
to entertain the fact that we were having something going out on network that
would, in fact, show Miami.
Mr. Carollo: How much time is the City going to get on T.V.? Can that
question be answered for me?
Mr. Eloy Vazquez: Yes, sir.
Mr. Carollo: And what is going to be shown in the City?
Mr. Vazquez: OK, the program is going to have a very similar format as the
one for Miss Universe. I was working at the Miss Universe Pageant, as in Miss
Teen U.S.A., and as in Miss U.S.A. as the chairman of local talent and as
chairman also of the local judges, and...
Mayor Suarez: Sir, so just so we can make it a little quicker. If you worked
on those, you know how much of the total segment was spent actually...
Mr. Vazquez: Well, that is what I mean...
Mayor Suarez:.... covering the City of Miami. Can you tell us in this partic-
ular coverage, is it S.I.N. that is going to cover it?
Mr. Vazquez: No, it is channel 51, and it is on...
Mayor Suarez: Channel 51? How much of the entire coverage is going to be
dedicated to the City of Miami?
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Mr. Vazquez: Well, this is what I was going to explain to you. We have two
parts.
Mayor Suarez: But the answer is pretty simple. How many minutes? If you...
Mr. Vazquez: OK, we have a specific show, or a specific segment which is
going to be about four minutes, plus, you know, like Miss Universe, as you
know, we taped the program in different locations, on the swimming suit
competition, so it is going to be one and one-half hours talking about Miami
all the time.
Mayor Suarez: Well, but that is the generic thing. How much is actually
promoting Miami? Is there going to be something similar to the segments we
have seen in Miss U.S.A.?
Ms. Vazquez: Yes, we have a four minute segment.
Mr. Carollo: A four minute segment? Well...
Ms. Vazquez: Yes, in addition to the bathing suit competition that is going
to be...
Mayor Suarez: And the rest of the competition you are going to have in
certain locations?
Mr. Vazquez: Around Miami all the time.
Mr. Carollo: Our question has not been answered. We received 45 minutes out
of the Miss Universe, Miss U.S.A. Pageant, that Miami was shown in one way or
another.
Mr. Vazquez: OK, this is one -and one-half hours.
Mr. Carollo: Excuse me?
Ms. Vazquez: One and one-half hours.
Mr. Carollo: So you are saying we are going to get one -and -one-half hours of
Miami being shown constantly.
Mr. Vazquez: Yes, sure.
Mr. Carollo: How long does the program last?
Mr. Vazquez: One and one-half hours.
Mr. Carollo: The program is one and one-half hours?
Mr. Vazquez: Yes, sir.
Mr. Carollo: In the whole program you are going to have something different
of Miami being shown?
Mr. Vazquez: Well, there is no way...
Mr. Carollo: Outside of the stage that you are going to use.
Mr. Vazquez: Excuse me?
Mr. Carollo: Outside of the stage that you are going to use, you are telling
me that for one and one-half hours, we are going to have something different
of Miami being shown.
Mr. Vazquez: Sure, yes, sir.
Mr. Carollo: Well, then, would you agree...
Mr. Vazquez: It is a similar format as the Miss Universe.
Mr. Carollo: No, no, no. Sir, I want to compare apples with the apples. If
the whole program is going to be only one -and -one -half-hours, then I want to
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make sure... I want to do like did to us, I want to have a time
clock, and if we don't get our money's worth, you know, you don't get our
money.
Mr. Vazquez: Well, what I was going to tell you also is that I was working at
Miss Universe and I didn't see the 45 minutes. They are talking basically 45
minutes about, you know, about the pageant and about Miami all the time.
Mr. Carollo: No, sir, if you didn't see the 45 minutes, then you must have
been looking somewhere else other than the stage and the television set where
it was shown, because we did receive, and we counted 45 minutes all together,
of different segments of Miami being shown. Now, your whole beauty pageant is
going to last one -end -one-half hours on television, correct?
Mr. Vazquez: Right.
Mr. Carollo: Now, out of that one -and -one-half hours, are you going to have
any kind of commercials?
Mr. Vazquez: Yes, sir.
Mr. Carollo: So then, how can we have one -and -one-half hours when you already
have commercials coming up?
Mr. Vazquez: What I... you know I am not able to tell you right now how much
it is going to be. We know for sure right now that you are going to have a
segment which is going to be a promotional segment from Miami four minutes and
then during the whole program, we are going to mention all the time that it is
going to be televised in Miami. We are going to have the bathing suit compe-
titions outside of, you know, in different locations. It is very difficult
for right now to say, you know, how many...
Mr. Carollo: Yes, the other big difference is, in Miss Universe Pageant, we
picked the sites where they were going to show the girls in. I don't hear
that from this particular pageant.
Mr. Plummer: Joe, I was going to include in the motion that Mr. Odio would
work with this group to make sure that we got our dollars value out of it.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, but we don't even know how many homes this is going to be
shown in, how many millions of people are going to see it, or anything else,
J. L! All that I am hearing is, "Give them $30,000." You know, I mean, every
time that we have a damn television station in town, we are going to be
throwing money away, if they want to have a beauty contest.
Mr. Plummer: Look, let me make the motion. I tried. If the motion passes,
it would be a stipulation...
Mr. Carollo: You know, what I am saying is, since I have been here, and we
got into Universe Pageant, it is just one pageant after another. If you put
all the rest of them together, they don't even come to one -tenth of what this
City got in the Miss Universe Pageant. You know, frankly, showing this to a
handful of homes in a country, in another part of the world, that, to begin
with, limits their people to a very small amount of money they could take out
to come as tourists to the United States doesn't interest me.
Mr. Plummer: All right, I will...
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner?
Mr. Plummer: Go ahead.
Mayor Suarez: I am just going to say I am going to be consistent in my vote,
which is to go ahead and sponsor cultural, artistic entertainment activities
where we deem that something will be returned to the City and to our citizens
and the amount requested is reasonable, and since Commissioner Plummer recom-
mends it, he being such a promoter of these kinds of events, I will vote with
the $30,000.
Mrs. Kennedy: And I am also going to vote for it, because this is exactly
what I am have been trying to show my colleagues about events such as the
Miami Film Festival. We have to look at what we get in return.
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Mayor Suarez: Don't overdue it, because he is going to vote against his own
motion.
Mr. Carollo: Why don't you include it both together?
Mr. Plummer: The way you are cadging these words, I am going to vote against
my own motion.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, Plummer, you know, she has got a point! She has got a
point.
Mr. Plummer: I want to make it once again, and I have demonstrated and will
continue to demonstrate, that I would not, in any way, bring this to the
table, if it didn't have the network participation.
Mr. Carollo: OK, now, if I may, since you know, we haven't even gotten the
first question answered. The only questions that, or should I say, replies
that I have heard, is give them the $30,000 and run.
Mr. Plummer: Nope, listen to my motion.
Mr. Carollo: No, wait a minute. Listen to the one that I want you to make.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Carollo: He says that he got an hour and one-half. He first told me that
we had an hour and one-half coverage. Then, when I asked about commercials,
"Well, we got commercials." What I want is for the City of Miami, the City
itself, not some stage somewhere, where you only see the backdrop of some
stage, to have different parts of the City of Miami shown for at least 45
minutes out of that hour and one-half.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, I don't know if it can be 45 minutes, frankly, because I
really don't know that there was 45 minutes in any of the other programs, Joe,
Commissioner, I...
Mr. Carollo: Can you do that, or not, sir?
Mr. Vazquez: No, sir.
Mayor Suarez: 45 minutes...
Mr. Carollo: Well, you said before you were going to give us an hour and one-
half. You said no problem.
Mr. Vazquez: While using the same concept as the Miss Universe, they were
talking all the time that they were giving so much, because the whole broad-
cast, they were talking about Miami, yes. Now, during where I can say
Mr. Plummer: All right, let me make a motion that I think even Mr. Carollo
will accept.
Mr. Carollo: No, look, I want a set amount of time put in the record, and we
don't give the money out, J.L., until that is shown on T.V.
Mr. Plummer: I make a motion at this time that the City Commission adopt in
principle the proposal made by the Hispanic Heritage Committee for the purpos-
es of network coverage (you better listen to this, Mr. Manager).. for the
purposes of network coverage for the Miss Hispanic, that they must submit to
the Manager, the proposals subject to his approval, if acceptable, we fund the
$30,000. If it is less than that, he mould come back and recommend to this
Commission a less figure, predicated on what we get for our dollar type of
tourist promotion.
Mr. Carollo: Fine, but what I want to include in that motion, is at least a
set guarantee of how many minutes we are going to get.
Mr. Plummer; That is up to him. He will come back and tell us.
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Mr. Carollo: No, no, no. Mr. Manager, after you eat your cookie so you want
to choke.
Mayor Suarez: Why don't you make yours in the form of a motion, Commissioner
Carollo? Otherwise we will be here all day.
Mr. Carollo: No, we are not going to be here all day. We have got plenty of
time, Xavier, don't worryl
Mayor Suarez: He doesn't accept... so far, he hasn't accepted the modifica-
tion of your motion.
Mr. Carollo: Hey, J.L. can speak for himself. He don't need you to translate
for him.
Mr. Plummer: He just said it.
Mr. Carollo: He didn't say anything. Now, Cesar...
Mr. Plummer: That is what I heard.
Mr. Carollo:...what is the appropriate time do you think we should get, at
least in minutes, of parts of the City being shown?
Mr. Odio: I wish you didn't ask me that, because it depends. We just...
Mr. Carollo: Now, he said... he started saying it was an hour and one-half.
Mr. Odio: Well, Commissioner, let me...
Mr. Carollo: Now, 45 minutes is too muchl
Mr. Odio: I was just talking to somebody back here, to my staff, that we
should develop standards for T.V. time, because... but, for instance, we just
finalized a deal with Siempre en Domingo. Siempre en Domingo has an audience
of 170,000,000 people.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, it has got...
Mr. Odio: We have 15 hours of live television from Miami in the month of
August and it will cost the City zero dollars, but a total package of $100,000
to the Host Committee, B.C.A., T.D.C., and all of that, so.
Mr. Carollo: Sure, yes.
Mr. Odio It is money well spent, but you see, you are getting 15 hours, of
which I don't know what, how much time we will get to...
Mr. Carollo: But again, out of the hour -and -one-half, what do you estimate? -
I want this agreement before hand. We will go for it. How many minutes do
you think that it is fair for the City of Miami to get on the air? How many
minutes? - 20 minutes? He said 45 is too much, after he said an hour and one-
half. 20 minutes? That is less than half of 45.
Mr. Odio: The mini -documentary that we got from Miss Universe was three
minutes. The fun film was two minutes. I think it would be fair to get a
mini -documentary showing Miami as we want it to be shown, for five minutes, it
would be fair.
Mr. Carollo: OK, a mini -documentary for five minutes. Now, besides the five
minutes...
Mr. Odio: In a movie type thing, in other words, it would be edited, and so
forth.
Mr. Plummer: That's fine.
Mr. Carollo: OK, now...
Mr. Odio: Plus, they mention throughout the program that the program is being
originated from Miami Convention Center.
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Mr. Plummer: If we don't get that, I would never vote for itl
Mr. Carollo: Plus after that five minute mini -documentary, 15 minutes of the
girls being shown in different parts of the City of Miami?
Mr. Odio: That is what is was going to... that the swimsuit competition
normally is done on location, in other words, showing different aspects of the
area, and it does take...
Mrs. Kennedy: I will second the motion.
Mr. Dawkins: Can the gentlemen take $30,000, pay for the air time, and get
somebody to film the girls at these locations all for $30,000?
Mr. Odio: No, sir.
Mr. Vazquez: If you are talking 15 minutes, no.
Mr. Dawkins: OK, so, you know, I mean...
Mr. Plummer: No, wait a minute. What I think what he was saying was, that
that filming is going to be done anyhow, in location, in Miami, and it must be
done.
j Mr. Carollo: Sure, it is going to be done anyway. It has got to be done
anyway.
Mr. Plummer: It is part of the production.
Mr. Vazquez: Well, you know, the bathing suit competition is about four or
five minutes.
Mr. Carollo: So, as you stated, Mr. Manager, and you are talking about 20
minutes - five minute film documentary, which he was offering four minutes
before. You requested one more minute - five minutes, and then 15 additional
minutes for the bathing suit part, the different parts of the City can be
shown. I will accept that - 20 minutes.
Mr. Plummer: For exposure. It is City exposure, Joe, just...
Mr. Odio: Well, we have to know how many girls he has got there. If he only
has, I don't know how many girls... how many, 50?
Mr. Carollo: Fifteen minutes of City exposure, and five minutes of a documen-
tary for the City - 20 minutes.
Mr. Odio: He has 50 girls, so I think it would be comparable to the Miss
U.S.A. Pageant, whatever time it took for the...
Mr. Carollo: Well, it took a lot more from them, but you know, what I want to
do is get a minimum guarantee, and you are telling me of the 20 minutes, the
five minutes for the film documentary, and 15 minutes for other views of the
City of Miami will be acceptable?
Mr. Vazquez: Or mentions of Miami.
Mr. Carollo: Sir?
Mr. Vazquez: Or mentions of Miami, also, because...
Mr. Odio: Commissioner Carollo...
Mr. Carollo: Well, you started saying, air, an hour and one-half. Now you
are backtracking. and what I am hearing is, that you don't want to accept 20
minutes, which leads me to believe that we are not even going to get 20
minutes then. Now, you know, darn it, if all the people are coming here for,
is just sponsoring their own shows, so they can make their money on their
little activities, then they should go out and do it themselves, not come to
the taxpayers to fund the whole darn thingl We started with the man offering
an hour and one-half. Now I am hearing people budging at even 20 minutes.
Now, air, you know, just what are we going to get out of it? Can you explain
to me? If 20 minutes is too long, what in the heck is the City of Miami going
to get out of giving you $30,000?
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Mr. Vazquez: What I told you in the letter, we were talking about a segment...
Mr. Carollo: Tell me here, sir, verbally.
Mr. Vazquez: We were talking about a segment of four minutes and we were
talking also about mentioning Miami all the time during the pageant This is
what we were talking about. You are talking about 20 minutes, on a network,
you are talking about $300,000 in spots.
Mr. Carollo: Sir, now much a spot?
Mr. Vazquez: Probably $300,000.
Mr. Carollo: 43?
Mr. Vazquez: For 40 spots. You are talking about 20 minutes, you are talking
about 40 spots.
Mr. Carollo: No, no, sir. What I am talking about is, exactly what you said,
that we are going to have an hour and one-half . Instead of the four minute
documentary, the Manager said five minutes, and then the other 15 minutes, it
is not spots, is when you take the girls out to be filmed, that you will take
them out to some of the better sites that the City of Miami has, like Vizcaya,
places of that sort.
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, my answer that, we said that a minimum of five
minutes documentary, and that to leave it to the discretion of staff, what
else he can show. It is just that I don't want to be unfair to them, that
they can do the same thing Miss Universe did with the girls and so...
Mr. Carollo: Yes, but you know, 15 minutes of showing the City of Miami, I
mean, and the rest of the time, if they are going to talk about Miami, they
are going to have to show at least 15 minutes of something about Miamil
Otherwise, this is really not going to be showing Miamil I mean, think about
it! It is an hour and one-half program, five minutes for a documentary, they
have got an hour and twenty-five minutes left. If they are really going to do
an adequate job in promoting their own pageant in the City they are holding it
in, they should at least have 15 minutes of other views of the City of Miami,
where the girls are at.
Mr. Plummer: Joe, that is why I said we send it to the Manager, only approve
it in principle, and let him come back to us and say we are either getting our
bang for the buck, or we are not. I am not an expert.
Mr. Carollo: You are saying we are only going to approve it in principle, it
is going to come back.
Mr. Plummer: If it is up to the approval of the Manager, if he feels that we
are getting our $30,000, he will so approve. If he doesn't...
Mr. Carollo: But, he is bringing it back? you are saying for him to bring it
back anyway.
Mr. Plummer: He will bring it back if he feels that we are not getting our
dollars worth.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, but again, Cesar, what I am trying to at least get a
commitment for, is a minimum amount of time. See, what you are doing now,
J.L., you are telling this guy, "Hey, no matter what you give us, we are going
to give you $30,000 anyway."
Mr. Plummer: No.
Mr. Carollo: So he is backtracking already in what he originally said.
Mr. Plummer: No, that is not what I am saying. I don't speak for him.
Mr. Carollo: I know that is not what you are saying, but this is the message
that you are sending out to him.
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Mr. Plummer: Well, he has got to demonstrate to the Manager that the City is
getting its $30,000 of value. If he doesn't demonstrate it, then the Manager
will come back before this Commission and say, "Hey, we are only getting
$15,000, and that is all I recommend."
Mr. Carollo: The Manager stated a minimum five minute documentary. Now,
beyond....
Mr. Odio: Go from their Joe, I think that if we go from there...
Mr. Carollo: that, what is fair in showing the City of Miami? They are going
to have to film the girls somewhere in Miami, unless they are going to do it
in a warehouse, and you know, and they are going to advertise the warehouse,
then.
Mrs. Kennedy: Don't keep calling them girls. Call them contestants.
Mr. Odio: They are delegates.
Mr. Plummer: Well, if there are any guys in a beauty contest, I withdraw the
motion!
Mr. Carollo: Well, what do you want me to call them, Madam Commissioner?
Mrs. Kennedy: Female contestants.
Mayor Suarez: Women, is that a fair compromise.
Mrs. Kennedy: OK, go ahead, what is your motion then?
Mr. Plummer: My motion is, we approve it.
Mr. Carollo: Let the Manager come back. I want to get some times in there.
I want to get a guarantee of the time, using the motion, but with a guarantee
of the minimum amount of time.
Mr. Plummer: That is fine. I have no problem with that.
Mr. Odio: I would ask that you make it a minimum guarantee of five minutes
documentary.
Mr. Plummer: I have no problem with that.
Mr. Carollo: That is just the documentary.
Mr. Odio: And that I work with him in trying to get something more, but the
problem is production costs and I don't think they are capable of spending the
amounts of money that Miss Universe did spend in going out with all those
crews.
Mr. Carollo: In other words...
Mr. Odio: I like to say it here now, because I don't want to kid him, and he
knows it too.
Mr. Carollo: So, in other words, all we are going to get is five minutes, if
we are lucky..
Mr. Odio: I think $30,000 for five minutes is a fair statement to make.
Mr. Carollo: All we get is five minutes, and then the girls are all going to
be in one location for the whole rest of the show.
Mr. Odio: That is what I think they can do financially, because if he gets
$30,000 from us, and we would request him to film in different locations, it
is going to cost him $200,000 or more, so he might be better off walking away
without any money here today.
Mr. Carollo: Well, at least what I wanted to do, I have accomplished, flush
the quail out.
Mr. Odio: You will get. I think...
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Mr. Carollo: And all that we are going to be getting then is five minutes,
period.
Mr. Odio: That is what you can expect.
Mr. Carollo: And nothing else anywhere, no filming anywhere else.
Mr. Odio: I don't think you can expect any more. Would you say that? Say
that on the record.
Mr. Carollo: Well, originally that is what he was telling usl
Mr. Vazquez: Well, basically, the minimum is going to be five minutes - the
minimum. If we can make 15 minutes, we make it 15 minutes, but the minimum is
going to be five minutes.
Mr. Plummer: And if you get less than that, you get less than the $30,000.
Mr. Carollo: No, no. Can you include in the motion, that once we see the
program, and we time it, that we get our minimum of five minutes, then the
check will be issued.
Mr. Plummer: That is fine with me.
Mr. Carollo: OK, very good.
Mr. Plummer: It is acceptable to me.
Mr. Carollo: Only once the program airs, and we time it to see that there are
five minutes, you know, of the production, that we decide, then to give the
$30,000.
Mr. Plummer: That is acceptable to me. We have got to get our bang for the
dollar.
Mr. Dawkins: But, can he operate the festival and wait until we see whether
we got our time or not before he gets paid?
Mr. Carollo: Well, hey, we operated that way, in the Host Committee, and let
me tell you something, whenever Hearst from the Seaquarium timed it, and he
didn't get the amount of time that he wanted, he didn't give us the $50,000
that he was going to give us, and that could go on and on and on, and it was
myself and Monty Trainer and a handful of people that had to run all over the
place to make up for that money.
Mayor Suarez: Is that all incorporated into your motion?
Mr. Carollo: If they can't afford it, they shouldn't be in it to begin with.
Mayor Suarez: Is that all incorporated into your motion, Commissioner?
Mr. Plummer: Sure, fine.
Mayor Suarez: So moved. Do we have a second?
Mrs. Kennedy: I second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded, any further discussion from the Commission? Call the
roll.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-472
A MOTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION ADOPTING IN PRINCIPLE
A FUNDING REQUEST OF S30,000 RECEIVED FROM THE HISPAN-
IC HERITAGE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE REGARDING NETWORK
COVERAGE PROMOTING THE CITY DURING THE "1986 MISS
HISPANIC HERITAGE PAGEANT" PROVIDED AS FOLLOWS:
1) THE COMMITTEE SHALL PRESENT THEIR PROPOSAL TO THE
CITY MANAGER, WHO IS HEREBY CHARGED WITH THE RESPONSI-
BILITY FOR NEGOTIATION OF THIS DEAL,
2) IF, IN THE MANAGER'S SOLE DISCRETION THEY PRESENT A
WORTHWHILE PROPOSAL, FUNDING SHALL BE AUTOMATIC; IF
NEGOTIATIONS ARE LESS THAN DESIRABLE, THE MANAGER IS
TO BRING IT BACK FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION BY THE
COMMISSION;
3) THERE SHALL BE A MINIMUM GUARANTEE EXPOSURE OF FIVE
MINUTES TO BE OCCUPIED BY A MINI -DOCUMENTARY OR A
MOVIE TYPE RELEASE PROMOTING THE CITY;
4) THE CITY MANAGER IS HEREBY FURTHER URGED TO NEGOTI-
ATE WITH SAID COMMITTEE FOR AN ADDITIONAL EXPOSURE
TIME WHICH MAY BE ALLOCATED TO THE CITY DURING THE AIR
OF SUCH PAGEANT;
FINALLY STIPULATING THAT NO CHECKS SHALL BE ISSUED TO
THE ABOVE CITED COMMITTEE UNTIL THE CITY HAS PROPERLY
CHECKED THAT THE NEGOTIATED EXPOSURE TIME WAS STRICTLY
ENFORCED.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
ABSENT: None.
57. A- FUND $12,000 FOR DOWNTOWN DESK DASH
B- RECONSIDER/RESCIND FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR DOWNTOWN DESK DASH
Mayor Suarez: Item 77. DMBA.
Mr. Dawkins: Those youngsters, what are they for? I beg your pardon?
Mr. Odio: Let me say what they want.
Mr. Dawkins: What item number? What's the Item number?
Mr. Plummer: 80.
Mr. Odio: They are requesting twelve thousand dollars Commissioner to cover
City services from the Department of Police, Fire, Solid Waste, Parks and
Recreation for the Downtown Desk Dash to be held in downtown Miami, scheduled
for July 17, 1986. You already have approved the closure of the streets and
dispensing permits for alcoholic beverage. Based on the City's non -funding
policy, I'm recommending that we do not fund them at this time.
Mr. Plummer: We have already addressed "B" and "C"? We did that at the last
meeting, right?
Mr. Odio: Yes, you did.
Kr. Plummer: Why are they even back?
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Mr. Odio: They want money now.
Mr. Plummer: Well, no, the policy has not changed, so, why are they back
here?
Ms. Patty Allen: We are requesting in -kind services.
Mr. Plummer: No, I understand that, but you requested that before.
Ms. Patty Allen: No, you approved it in principle and told us to come back.
Mayor Suarez: Get closer to the mike and give us your name.
Ms. Patty Allen: Patty Allen, Marketing, Downtown Miami. You told us to come
back, you would approve it in principle, and to come back with what you wanted
from the City. And we are requesting in -kind, because this is an event also
for City employees.
Mr. Plummer: What you are requesting is twelve thousand dollars.
Ms. Allen: Exactly. To pay for City, Fire, Public Works, everything that it
would take to have the event on Flagler Street, for the merchants, for the
vendors, and for the people of downtown.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager, how much money in the till?
Mr. Odio: No, I don't have any money.
Mr. Plummer: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: I will make my symbolic motion as I always do. I move for
approval of your funding request, assuming, as I always do, that the City
Manager, if it's a worthy cause can find the money someplace. I'm not saying
it's going to pass, but I move it.
Ms. Kennedy: I have already been challenged, I have to go for it.
Mr. Dawkins: It's been..any further ... it's been moved and seconded, any
further discussion? Call the roll.
THEREUPON MOTION duly made by Mayor Suarez and seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy, foregoing Motion No. 86-473 to grant $12,000 to representatives of
the Downtown Desk Dash was approved by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
ABSENT: None.
NOTE: Motion 86-473 was inmediately rescinded by Motion 474.
Mr. Dawkins: Since we have said we do not have any money to fund any festi-
vals, I look as this as a festival, I have to vote "no".
Mr. Carollo: Well, wait a minute, the exposure that we are going to get,
right? we are going get people from all over the country seeing us,..,
Ms. Allen: Downtown. There is press release all over the place.
Mr. Carollo: ...people from all over the world seeing us. We will get more
than five minutes, right?
Ms. Allen: That's right. No, you get three hours downtown Flagler.
Mr. Carollo: (COMMENT INAUDIBLE).
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Mr. Dawkins: Three hours of people watching you run down the street with a
desk? Come on. Come on.
Ms. Allen: OK. No, no, not me. Not me. No, no.
Mr. Carollo: We are going to have ... and no commercials either, no commer-
cials.
Ms. Allen: No, no, no, they are not going to watch me. No. They are going
to watch Commissioner Kennedy. They are going to watch the City of Miami
Police. They are going to watch the City of Miami Fire. They are going to
watch Centrust Bank. They are going to watch Southeast Bank. They are going
to watch Miami. OK.
Mr. Carollo: That's right.
Mayor Suarez: Some people might pay that money just to watch Commissioner
Kennedy pushing one of those desks.
Ms. Kennedy: Let me tell you something, you guys, when I was sworn in I was
never told that I had to be a good basketball player, a good softball player,
a jet skier and now this.
Mr. Dawkins: Hey, I mean... everybody voted. What happened?
Ms. Hirai: I have a "no" vote from Commissioner Plummer and from Vice -Mayor
Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: And a "yes" vote from everybody else?
Ms. Hirai: So, it's three to two.
Mr. Carollo: Well, I...
Mr. Dawkins: OK. Hold it now. Hold it now. Wait,...no, no, no, that's
over. OK.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, excuse me? Did you vote for it?
Mr. Dawkins: Now, I want you all to know any damn body else who come here for
a ... anybody come here. Oh, OK, I'm sorry.
Mr. Plummer: Announce the results?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes. Now, announce the results.
Ms. Hirai: It's a three to two vote, it passes.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, but it's passed on the assumption that...Well, wait a
minute gentlemen. Gentlemen, you know, we are going to have national televi-
sion stations where this is going to be shown all over the Country.
Mr. Dawkins: No, I don't have no problem. No, no, no.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, you are predicating on it...
Mr. Carollo: This is going to be shown all over Latin America,...
Mr. Plummer: Are you predicating on their need?
Mr. Carollo: ... you know, the exposure that City of Miami is going to get.
Think about it.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, are you predicating that on their getting network
coverage?
Mayor Suarez: That wasn't the motion.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, I'm asking.
Mr. Carollo: Well, we are going to get all kinds of exposure, just like the
other guy.
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Mr. Plummer: I'm asking the question.
Ms. Allen: On the television...
Mr. Plummer: No, no, I'm asking it of my colleague.
Mr. Carollo: Patty? Patty, why don't you tell them the exposure we will get.
Ms. Allen: OK. All the television stations...
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Ms. Hirai: Please on the microphone. microphone.
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Ms. Allen: Oh, I'm sorry. OK. All right, most of the networks here locally,
OK, are going to be in the race. Most of the papers, OK, Miami Today is going
to challenge the Miami Review. The Herald is going to challenge the Miami
News. I mean, everybody is going to be in this race. This is downtown Miami.
Y;
Mr. Dawkins: OK. That's all right. I don't need anything else. I want the
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media, all three or two, four, five of you, Miller Dawkins is saying to
everybody who he turned down for a festival come get in line and get your
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money.
Mr. Plummer:
No, no, no, I'm ready to
make another motion.
Mr. Dawkins:
OK. That's right, that's
right.
Mr. Carollo:
Wait, wait. Gentlemen,...
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Mr. Plummer:
Mr. Mayor, I make a motion
at this time that we set aside a
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special meeting on the 25th day of
June to invite all the three million
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dollars worth
of festival people who
have made application to have their
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opportunity before this Commission.
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Mr. Dawkins:
I second the motion.
Mr. Plummer: I have said the day that the policy was broken I would make such
a motion, and I have got to live up to my.. you know, if you are predicating
that motion on the fact of coverage, on any kind of network coverage, I would
agree to it. I say that for you.
Mayor Suarez: That wasn't the motion. The motion has been...you can al-
ways....
Mr. Carollo: And you are going to have a beauty contest that day too?
Ms. Allen: No, no.
Mr. Carollo: Why don't you think about it.
Mayor Suarez: You can always move to reconsider if you want. I mean, you
know, we have had that ruling before from the City Attorney.
Mr. Plummer: All right, if that's what you want.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Dawkins: I just want everybody to get in line who want money. I have no
problem with that.
Mayor Suarez: The prior motion passed unless somebody moves to reconsider it.
Sol**
Mr. Carollo: If you all like, you know, we could open it up or reconsider,
whichever way you want, but the point that I'm trying to make out is you know,
the same way that we passed this other motion for thirty thousand dollars, you
know, a minimal coverage this City of Miami is going to get, it really comes
down to the same thing all around. In this activity..,I mean, we are probably
going to get more coverage out of this one event than we are out of that event
this gentleman said.
Mr. Plummer: Local coverage, Joe. I agree with that.
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Mr. Carollo: You know,...hey, period. All around.
Mr. Plummer: Joe, I'm not arguing.
Mr. Carollo: And that's the point that I'm trying to make, J. L. I'm tired
of, you know, seeing people come up here and get things not out of what they
are giving to the City of Miami, but on their political pull that they have,
and this is what it's coming down to many a times...
Mr. Plummer: Well,...
Mr. Carollo:...and it's not on what you give to the City, but you know, what
pull you have. So, every time you got a t.v. station to back somebody or a
radio station or a newspaper, you know, we based our votes based upon that,
and you know, I don't really give a damn how many editorials they get against
me, you know, it hasn't hurt me as of now in my eight year and it's not going
to hurt me in my next eight years.
Mr. Plummer: It's not going to hurt you in the future. I'm not...
Mr. Carollo: But you know, that's the point that I was trying to make...
Mr. Plummer: Joe, let me...
Mr. Carollo:...and this is why I pushed so much for at least five minutes
guaranteed from these people.
Mr. Plummer: All right.
Mr. Carollo: Now, if you want, we will reconsider this.
Mr. Odio: Would you please?
Mr. Plummer: I would hope you would, but I'm not going to sit here and lobby
you, and Joe, let me...
Mr. Carollo: Well, I have no problem in reconsidering.
Mr. Plummer: All right. Let...
Mr. Carollo: It's been my motion from the start, because I was the one that
brought up that we had spent over two million dollars the last time that we
took all the festivals and parties up, and I'm willing to again put a stop to
it like I have had in the past.
Mr. Plummer: You have got to make the motion. One of the prevailing votes
have to make the motion to reconsider.
Mr. Dawkins: Not under Masons.
Mr. Carollo: Not on the Masons.
Mr. Plummer: I will make the motion to reconsider the last motion.
Mayor Suarez: So, moved to reconsider the last vote. Is it going to die for
lack of interest or...
Mr. Dawkins: I second it. I...
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, any discussion from the Commission? A
motion for reconsideration, please call the roll.
Mr. Plummer: For the record, I withdraw my other motion off the floor.
Mr. Carollo: Under discussion.
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry.
Mr. Carollo: Under discussion.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, sir.
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Mr. Carollo: Mr. Manager, what...
Mayor Suarez: I missed...I'm sorry, Commissioner Carollo.
Commissioner Plummer, I missed it?
What did you say
Mr. Plummer: For the record, I withdraw the motion that I had made off until
this matter is resolved.
Mr. Odio: Thank you very much, sir.
Mr. Carollo: Patty, for the record, the twelve thousand dollars is going
precisely for what?
Ms. Allen: It's all for City, City employees. OK. It's Police, Sanitation,
Public Works. It's exactly what we need from the City of Miami to close the
street.
Mr. Carollo: OK. Now, Mr. Manger, can we do with them the same thing we did
for Goombay? Can we sit down with them and see if we could bring that down to
the minimum?
Mr. Odio: I can work with them to try to reduce where it's safe, the number
of police officers, etc., but and the Solid Waste, but I remind you money is
money. We...
Mr. Carollo: I realize what you are saying, but I think that we should be
able to cut that by at least twenty-five per cent.
Mr. Plummer: That's fine.
Mr. Odio: I will try to work with ... yes, I will work with them.
Mr. Plummer: Fine.
Mr. Carollo: OK. Now, as for the rest of the money, there will probably be
eight, nine thousand left that we won't be able to cut out of there. Can we
set the committee that has worked with some people in the past together with
the Host Committee, to see if we could find some additional sponsors that
would cover the other eight or nine thousand dollars that they are going to
need, and I will volunteer to help in that.
Mr. Odio: Fine. We will be glad to assign somebody to work with her and see
if we can do that.
Mr. Carollo: How much time do we have to find the money?
Ms. Allen: OK. The race is July 17th.
Mr. Carollo: July 17th? We got about a month. Patty, I will volunteer and
call people and try to raise eight, nine thousand dollars, and I'm sure the
City can knock off twenty-five per cent and bring those services to a bare
minimum.
Ms. Allen: Thank you.
Mr. Carollo: OK. I call the question.
Mayor Suarez: Do we have a second on the motion for reconsideration?
Mr. Carollo: Yes, Miller Dawkins did.
Ms. Hirai: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on the motion for reconsideration.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-474
A MOTION RECONSIDERING AND RESCINDING A PRIOR MOTION
WHICH APPROVED S10,000 IN CONNECTION WITH THE "DOWN-
TOWN DESK DASH" PURSUANT TO REQUEST RECEIVED FROM
REPRESENTATIVES OF DOWNTOWN MIAMI BUSINESS ASSOCIA-
TION.
(NOTE: No further action was taken by the Commission
following above action in connection with this item.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
NOES: Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
ABSENT: Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Suarez: Does anybody want to make any motions or you just going to...
Mr. Plummer: No action, no action...
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Manager? Mr. Manager?
Mayor Suarez: Reflecting the consensus of the motion for reconsideration.
Mr. Carollo: By Monday, can we have a meeting set up in my office Patty, our
staff, the Police Department and myself, to see what's the minimum that we
could have as far as police officers, sanitation people, etc.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir. No problem.
Mr. Carollo: So, that we know how much we will need to raise in the meantime.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Mayor, can...Mr. Manager, can you bring back to me the reason
why it is necessary when we have types of events in areas that draw people
there, such as when we had the Art Festival and when we had the Bed Race in
Coconut Grove and also, the other day when we had the Goombay. Now, we don't
have anything ---a place to park. So, the people come from distances away and
park, and I be damned if our police don't go around, and I saw a guy put three
tickets on one car because it was over parked. I mean, this is ridiculous.
If we are going to encourage people to come to these things and they are
coming to have a good time, what can we do to see that when we have these
events, that on that day Roger Carlton, that the parking meters are free?
Mr. Odio: Sir, I will correct that. I will talk to Off -Street and the Police
Department to make sure that when we do have popular festivals like that, that
we don't ticket people on meters.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
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58. CREATE A CHARTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND APPOINT INDIVIDUALS (See label
#12)
Ms. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Commissioner Kennedy.
Ms. Kennedy: I am ready to make my appointment to the new committee and it's
Norma Kipnis Wilson.
Mr. Carollo: Who?
Ms. Kennedy: Norma Kipnis Wilson.
Mayor Suarez: Do we...
Mr. Carollo: No, relation to Mary, huh?
Ms. Kennedy: Huh?
Mr. Carollo: No, relation to Mary?
Ms. Kennedy: No, none.
Mayor Suarez: Do we need a vote on that, on all these nominations, Madam City
Attorney?
Ms. Dougherty: Yes, sir.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Now,...
Ms. Dougherty: I have the resolution right here.
Mayor Suarez: OK. I think everyone has made a nomination. Why don't we take
that as a collective motion and have someone move and second it please.
Ms. Kennedy: So, move.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: The ... Mr. Clark, City Attorney tells me that the actual resolu-
tion we should pass as long as we have got it now in a formal mode here, is a
resolution that would read very simply, "Section 1. A Charter Amendment
Advisory Committee is hereby established for the purpose of making recommenda-
tions in the form of proposed legislation concerning possible City Charter
amendments dealing with the following: (a) A four year term of office for
the Mayor; (b) An increase in the compensation to be paid to members of the
Commission; (c) adoption of an Executive -Mayor form of City Government; and
(d) An increase in the size of the City Commission. Section 2. The following
individuals are hereby appointed to serve on said Committee:" We have already
nominated those individuals, their names are in the record. "Section 3. The
proposed legislation to be presented by the Committee is to be in a form
acceptable to the City Attorney and is to be submitted to the City Commission
at its July 10, 1986 meeting at 6:00 P.M."
Mr. Carollo: So move.
Mayor Suarez: Assuming there is any proposed legislation, I guess.
Ms. Kennedy: Second.
Mr. Carollo: So move.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded and thirded, call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Carollo, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-475
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A RESOLUTION CREATING A CHARTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND
APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO SERVE ON SAID
COMMITTEE; SETTING FORTH THE PURPOSE AND FUNCTION OF
SAID COMMITTEE; PROVIDING FOR THE COMMITTEE TO PRESENT
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ITS FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE FORM OF PROPOSED
LEGISLATION, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTOR-
NEY, TO THE CITY COMMISSION AT THE JULY 10, 1986 CITY
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COMMISSION MEETING.
(NOTE: Mayor Suarez nominated Robert Traurig, Esq.
Vice Mayor Dawkins nominated Peter Roulhac
Commissioner Kennedy nominated Norma Kipnis Wilson
Commissioner Carollo nominated Mary Ellen Miller
Commissioner Plummer nominated Charles Gottlieb
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
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Upon
being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the resolution was passed
and adopted
by the following vote -
AYES:
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES:
None.
ABSENT:
None.
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59. AGREEMENT WITH AIDA LEVITAN FOR JOURNALIST TOURS TO THE MIAMI AREA.
Mayor Suarez: Why are you here with that silly T shirt counselor?
(BACKGROUND COMMENT OFF THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Suarez: What is the Item? Back on the off duty? You have got a sick
child back there? Let's take the sick child issue. What item is it Aida,
Doctor Levitan?
Ms. Aida Levitan: 89.
Mayor Suarez: 89.
Ms. Aida Levitan: I really thank you.
(BACKGROUND COMMENT OFF THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Suarez: We are going to get to your item right away Ann Marie.
(BACKGROUND COMMENT OFF THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Suarez: She has a very sick child in the back, and she has asked to
have her item considered very quickly.
Ms. Levitan: I really thank you for that, because he did get a fever and I'm
getting a little worried. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, and Commissioners, I'm very
pleased to present to you the final report of Miami and New World Center
Journalist Tour Program. You all have received this action report, or you
should have received it that includes approximately seventy articles published
in Major Newspapers across the world representing over half a million dollars
in positive publicity for the City of Miami. Thanks to the faith you have
shown in this program, we have been able to generate more than two million
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dollars in positive publicity about Miami in very major publications, such as
Oglobal, Brazil, Chicago Tribune, and many other newspapers and
networks. This year we are hoping to do three tours that will be held in
November for the International Book Fair in December, for the Orange Blossom
Classic and in April for the Bayside Market Place opening. We have in our
plans to invite more than sixty national and international journalists for
these three tours. We thank you for your continued support, and if you have
any questions I will be glad to answer them at this time.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I make a motion at this time, and I want to tell you
from the beginning that I voted against this the first time it came up. I
think it has worked out very well. It has proven that I was wrong,...
Mr. Carollo: That's right.
Mr. Plummer:...and as far as I'm concerned ... I don't mind admitting when I'm
wrong. I move that this...
Mr. Carollo: I second that.
Mr. Plummer:... this contract be....
Ms. Kennedy: I was just going to second that.
Mr. Plummer: What that I'm wrong or that you approve this contract?
Mr. Carollo: Both.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded.
Ms. Kennedy: I think it's great to see a young Hispanic woman doing the
business that you are doing and I commend you for that.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, now, don't —hey come on, hey. She is doing a
fine job.
Ms. Kennedy: Don't over do it?
Mr. Dawkins: Who is the minority firm you are going to...I mean, you are
minority, but what's Black firm you are going to use?
Ms. Levitan: We will follow the same procedure as last year. We will inter-
view....
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, tell ... no.
Ms. Levitan: I haven't decided yet.
Mr. Dawkins:
OK.
Hold
it now. Hold it, hold it, hold it. Last year you
chose a Black
and
Mayor
Ferre made you give it up. I don't need that. Tell
me now who you
are
going
to negotiate with.
Mr. Carollo: You know, the guy that Mayor Suarez told her to pick.
Mayor Suarez: Give me about ten minutes and I will tell you who.
Ms. Levitan: We will interview three firms and we will let you know which
ones they are. Don't worry. OK.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, call the roll.
Mr. Carollo: When are you going to tell us who it is?
Ms. Levitan: We will let you know ... No, we will let you know which ones we
are interviewing, and then we will let you know of our recommendation before
we select one.
Mr. Dawkins: I would like for this to be approved in principle until she get
back with the others. When they get back with the other name, let us know who
it is and then we will go with it.
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Ms. Levitan: Well, I can tell you who I'm planning to interview if you would
like that at this point. I can give you that information. I'm planning to
interview Gladys Kitt and I'm planning to interview Loft and Seller.
Mr. Dawkins: Gladys Kitt always has a Black firm and she has got a contract
with the City, let's try another Black, we can't give it all to one Black.
Mr. Carollo: That's what I keep saying all the time, Miller.
Mr. Dawkins: That's right.
Ms. Levitan: Well, I will interview other firms if you want me to, I will be
glad to do that.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. No, no, no, but she has a contract. OK. So, I'm going to
help the rest of the Blacks to become known and get into this business. We
have to pass it around. We just can't give it all to that same Black.
Mr. Carollo: I agree.
Mr. Plummer: Let me resolve your...
Mr. Carollo: Let's remember that from now on Gentleman, and lady. Now, from
now on once one Black firm gets a contract, let's pass the gravy around.
Mr. Dawkins: That's right, and White, Latin, Black, Indian, Mexican, any damn
thing.
Mr. Carollo: Let's not forget the Eskimos.
Mr. Dawkins: And the American Indian.
Mr. Plummer: Let me try to resolve your problem. As I recall Aida, you said
that ten thousand of this was for the Black firm.
Ms. Levitan: It is, yes.
Mr. Plummer: That this be approved subject to the final ten thousand dollars
of this Commission approving who the Black firm is. I think that will take
care of it.
Mr. Dawkins: No, problem.
Ms. Levitan: Do you want to bring it back to a Commission meeting...
Mr. Plummer: Yes, you will have to.
Ms. Levitan: ... or just simply do it...
Mr. Plummer: You will have to.
Mayor Suarez: That's the way.
Mr. Carollo: Well, why don't we do the same thing with the thirty thousand
dollars, the Manager.
Mr. Plummer: In other words, we are approving thirty now, for you to get the
additional ten you have got to come back to this Commission with a...
Ms. Levitan: Oh, OK.
Mr. Dawkins: Before you can get one penny you got to come back, because you
will spend the twenty and then don't get nobody and the ten will be left.
Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mayor Suarez: The thirty, she is getting forty.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, whatever it is or any...before you get one penny, let the
total package be approved.
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Mayor Suarez: You want to amend your motion accordingly, Commissioner Plummer
so we can...
Mr. Plummer: Hey, I think we are not at any discord, the answer is "yes", I
will amend it to that.
Mayor Suarez: OK.
Mr. Plummer: Sure.
Mayor Suarez: So, moved and seconded, please call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-476
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A MOTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN
AGREEMENT FOR PROFESSIONAL CONSULTANT SERVICES, WITH
AIDA LEVITAN AND ASSOCIATES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CON-
DUCTING , TOURS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL-
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ISTS TO THE MIAMI AREA; SAID SERVICES TO COMMENCE UPON
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EXECUTION OF SAID AGREEMENT, APPROVING, AT THE PRESENT
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TIME, S30,O00 FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS,
CONTINGENT FUND, AND $10,000 AT THE TIME A BLACK FIRM
IS APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote-
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
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Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
60. $10,O00 TO SEND DISADVANTAGED YOUTH TO SUMMER CAMP IN LAKE PLACID
Mayor Suarez: OK. Ann Marie, what's your item? Let's get it resolved. You
got the...the young fellows are here for.
Ms. Ann Marie Adker: Yes.
Mr. Carollo: I move your Item Ann Marie.
Ms. Adker: (COMMENTS INAUDIBLE, NOT USING THE MIKE).
Mr. Carollo: How many do you want?
Mr. Plummer: How much are you asking for Annie?
Mr. Carollo: What reason?
Ms. Adker: (INAUDIBLE).
Mr. Plummer: How many are you asking for?
Ms. Adker: At least twenty-five.
Mr. Plummer: And how much per kid?
Mr. Dawkins: Three hundred and twenty dollars.
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Ms. Adker: Three fifty per kid.
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Mr. Plummer: Three hundred fifty dollars?
Ms. Adker: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Why is it three fifty?
Ms. Adker: (INAUDIBLE).
Mr. Plummer: Huh?
Ms. Adker: (INAUDIBLE).
Mr. Dawkins: Say what?
Ms. Adker: (INAUDIBLE).
Mr. Plummer: Is it three hundred fifty or what?
Ms. Adker: It's three hundred fifty dollars per kid.
Mayor Suarez: And you are asking for sufficient for twenty-five?
Mr. Plummer: Well, let's do it this way and let her work it out. Why don't
we approve up to a thousand dollars.
Mr. Carollo: No, no, no. At least...
Mayor Suarez: No, it's seventy-five hundred bucks for twenty-five...
Mr. Carollo: It's three hundred fifty...
Mr. Plummer: Oh, I'm sorry, ten thousand.
Mayor Suarez: It's almost ten thousand, yes.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, you better believe it. Ten thousand is right.
Mr. Plummer: Ten thousand. Yes.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Is that in the form of a motion?
Mr. Carollo: So move. Ten thousand dollars.
Mayor Suarez: So moved, ten thousand dollars is what has been moved and
seconded I presume. Hearing no further discussion and being not disposed to
hearing any, please call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-477
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$10,000 FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT
FUND, TO SEND DISADVANTAGED YOUTH TO SUMMER CAMP IN
LAKE PLACID, FLORIDA, JUNE 22 - AUGUST 23, 1986; SAID
ALLOCATION BEING CONDITIONED UPON SUBSTANTIAL COMPLI-
ANCE WITH CITY OF MIAMI ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY NO. APM-
1-84, DATED JANUARY 24, 1985.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
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167 j4pe 12, 1906
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
61. DISCUSSION: COMPLAINTS CONCERNING AREA AT 1513 S. W. 11 TERRACE.
Mayor Suarez: We skipped 78. Is there someone here on Item 78? Thomas I.
Jones. Yes, sir?
Mr. Thomas I. Jones: Mr. City Attorney, Commission, City Manager, Thomas I.
Jones residing at 1513 Southwest llth Terrace. I called the police...
Mr. Plummer: Why don't you pull the microphone up.
Mr. Jones: I called the police in December 1973, concerning a loud radio,
Christmas Eve. My neighbors retaliated with more noise and I have complained
over the last thirteen years about fire crackers, about go carts, about noise,
about cars blocking my driveway.
Mayor Suarez: What's the address of your neighbor.
Mr. Jones: My neighbor? My neighborhood? I live at 1513 Southwest 11th
Terrace, and I have been persecuted by the perpetrators of these crimes in
which I ---that I have reported. I have been oppressed by the government, by
the police that threatened to arrest me, and so...
Mr. Plummer: Has this matter been turned over to the administration for an
investigation by Code Enforcement?
Mr. Jones: I have gone to the Citizen Disputes Court twice.
Mr. Plummer: No, sir. We have Code Enforcement.
Mr. Jones: 1 have called the Code Enforcement and Code Enforcement ---I went
to the City Manager.
Mr. Plummer: Has Code Enforcement addressed the problem?
Mr. Jones: I went to the City Manager's Office, because there was a large
dump truck parked for sale and another car, and I was on my way to the licens-
ing bureau to get the information on those trucks and I noticed that the
mechanic there...
Mr. Plummer: Well, let's hear from the administration. What has the adminis-
tration done about the problem in thirteen years.
Mr. Walter Pierce: Well, Mr. Plummer, I haven't been with the City thirteen
years, but the first I heard of this was on May 5th, when Mr. Jones submitted
a letter to the Manager's Office asking to appear on the Commission agenda to
make some specific statements about violations at several addresses in his
neighborhood, and I immediately sent this out to Police, Fire, Building and
Zoning and Public Works Departments, because of the nature of the violations.
Each department went out and checked and I believe they, most of them also
spoke with Mr. Jones and...
Mr. Plummer: So, what's being done about it?
Mr. Pierce. -...the complaints that were verifiedo the complaints that were
verified were cited, corrections have been gotten and we can go through it by
detail if you wish, but we did get cite. Those that have not complied yet, we
are still monitoring them and getting compliance there.
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Mr. Plummer: Well, obviously, you haven't appeased Mr. Jones, or he wouldn't
be here. Now, Mr. Jones, what do you want them to do if they have cited them
for all of the violations?
Mr. Jones: I want law and order in my neighborhood.
Mr. Plummer: Well, Mr. Pierce, he wants law and order. Is there any viola-
tion of law and order?
Mr. Jones: I don't want people blocking the sidewalks, and anyone blocking my
driveway.
Mr. Plummer: Well, if they park on the sidewalk they can tow the car.
Mr. Jones: I don't want the young kids driving their go carts on the side-
walk. I don't want fire crackers, and I don't want to be the laughing stock
of neighborhood. I don't want to be told
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Pierce?
Mr. Pierce: Yes.
Mr. Jones: (INAUDIBLE COMMENTS).
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: I would like to speak.
Mr. Pierce: Yes, come on.
Mayor Suarez: Go ahead, Ma'am.
Ms. Francis Jones: Tom, enough. Sit down. The first thing I want to tell
you, I'm a Miami pioneer and I have lived in the house where we are fifty
years or more. My brother in the 1930s' was the Mayor of Miami. Now, I don't
want to leave Miami, but every time that we make a complaint of a violation,
we are vandalized. We have had gasoline thrown over our yard, just recently,
and the people across the street has thrown a rock, and I can go on and tell
you all the things they have done. I'm afraid to leave. I didn't approve of
Tom coming here. I didn't feel that it would do any good, but then I got to
thinking about it, something should be done about the situation. You are
putting a new sidewalk, then the people are coming and parking over the
sidewalk where older people and women with children have to walk out in the
street. We call the police, they don't do anything about it. Now, I'm not
running down a policeman because I have relatives on the Police Department,
but when I call them out the night that the rock was thrown, and I said don't
tell my son, I want to go out of town tomorrow and I don't want any trouble.
The policeman says, what can we do? You didn't see them do it. No, we don't
see these things being done, but now can't you do something? You are giving
out money to people, you are beautifying Miami, now, why can't you do some-
thing that we have peace in our neighborhood? Why do we have to stand this
vandalism? Now, that's all I want.
Mr. Odio: We will take care of it. Mr. Mayor, we take care of it. We will
have the night unit come by and...
Mr. Jones: The policemen have told me over and over for thirteen years there
is nothing they can do about it...
Mr. Odio: Mr. Jones, we will take care of it.
Mayor Suarez: This has been going on for thirteen years?
Mr. Jones: Thirteen years.
Mayor Suarez; OK. We will do the best we can, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, I admire you, because I would have shot somebody by now.
(BACKGROUND COMMENTS INAUDIBLE).
Ms. Jones: Now, wait a minute, let me tell you something...Now, listen I want
to tell you something. That is one thing that has me so upset. The people
there, the young people are walking down with guns. I do not want my son...A
policeman told him the night, why don't you shot him. I don't want that,
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Mayor Suarez: They were just kidding, believe me.
Ms. Jones: I don't care. It maybe kidding, but one of those young men came
one day with a toy gun.
Mayor Suarez: We are going to monitor the situation, and I'm going to take
down the address and my own staff will be out there. Maybe I will show up
there and talk to the neighbors and see what's going on.
Ms. Jones: Well, I would like , but with this talk of guns, and with
this young boy having a toy gun, and I told him a toy gun is just as dangerous
as a real gun. Now, you know that.
Mayor Suarez: Well, it is just as scary sometimes. Well, its not scary, and
I don't want...
Mr. Jones: Could I just add one thing, that I think that we are ready for the
Circuit Court. I think that's the only answer.
Mr. Dawkins: The Circuit Court won't help you, sir, get you a magnum.
Mr. Jones: I think that this City needs court orders. Policemen come and say
there is nothing we can do about it. I think the court...
Mr. Dawkins: I bet a magnum ... I bet if he shoots a magnum out there it will
stop everything.
Mr. Jones: Well, I don't want to take...that's what Chief told me ten
years ago, and I don't want to take the law in my own hands. I'm a free man,
and I can move to another city, another country, and nobody is going to
incarcerate me because of some small boys want to abuse me.
Mr. Dawkins: But you see, sir, that's the problem now. You see we have...
Mr. Jones: To persecute me.
Mr. Dawkins: ... let hoods and everybody take over our neighborhoods.
Mr. Jones: I didn't.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, I'm going to tell ... I will tell everybody here, I'm not
going to pay a mortgage and not be able to enjoy it. So, now if they think,
see, and I tell the paper boy, don't throw my paper, bring it and put it on my
porch, because if I see anybody throwing anything toward my house, I'm going
to shoot his arm off.
Mr. Jones: Well, we are ready to fight.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. All right.
Ms. Jones: I don't want to hurt anybody.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, you see, but you are telling me what you want, and then
you tell me that you are going to read the bible and sing and pray. I mean, I
can't help you.
Ms. Jones: Well, I do think prayer is going to do a whole lot.
Mr. Odio: Mr...
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mayor Suarez: OK. We will do the best we can. Thank you for your comments.
Id 170 June 12, 1986
62. $15,000 FOR 1986 SUMMER POPS CONCERT SERIES AT MARINE STADIUM
Mayor Suarez: Item 81. Did Jacques leave. Jacques D'Espinosse. He has
given up. All right, we will take him later. Item 84. Sam, who waited
patiently.
Mr. Plummer: We have already ... We have done 82.
Mayor Suarez: I believe 84 is the next after 81 and he is...
Mr. Odio: I am recommending Item 84, this is a good program for the City of
Miami.
Mayor Suarez: Pops by the Bay? I will entertain a motion on it.
Mr. Plummer: Now, how much is it?
Mr. Odio: Fifteen thousand in rent for the three shows, but what we...
Mr. Plummer: I saw the ad in the paper today and it doesn't show the City is
a sponsor.
Mr. Odio: Well, then ... Yes, it does.
Mr. Plummer: Let me see it. Did I over look it? That's not the ad I saw. I
saw a smaller ad.
Mayor Suarez: You know, while he is looking at that, I want to tell all of
you Miami police officers under forty, that the situation over there was
really bad the other day when you got beat by a bunch of old guys, including
myself, although, I am only thirty-seven for clarification here. So, I know
you were tired after the first game, but if you are going to be in those
Olympics, you better hustle up a little bit and get yourselves organized. I
don't think you did it out of charity to the Mayor or anything like that,
maybe that was it. And we didn't even have Warren Butler playing, let me tell
you and we got our real City Hall team. We will challenge the young team.
What is it the under ---any particular age? I guess just the regular team.
Are you ready for that kind of challenge Warren?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I make motion that we approve Item 84 subject to how
many tickets did we get for under privilege last year?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: I don't have that number, but I can give that to you.
Mr. Plummer: Did we get a ... was it a hundred or two hundred?
Mr. Odio: Two hundred.
Mr. Plummer: Two hundred. The same stipulation as last year.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes, you will get the same thing.
Mayor Suarez: OK. So moved subject to that provision, proviso. We have a
second? Please second. Commissioner Dawkins, you are my only second.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez:
the roll.
Moved and seconded, hearing no further discussion, please call
Id 171 June 12, 1986
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-478
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $15,000
FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND, TO
COVER THE USE OF THE MIAMI MARINE STADIUM ON JULY 4, 12,
AND 19, 1986 FOR THE 1986 SUMMER POPS CONCERT SERIES; SAID
ALLOCATION BEING CONDITIONED UPON THE ORGANIZERS PROVIDING
200 GRATUITOUS ADMISSION TICKETS FOR EACH OF THE THREE
CONCERTS TO THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNDER-
PRIVILEGED INDIVIDUALS AND UPON SUBSTANTIAL COMPLIANCE
WITH ADMINISTRATIVE POLICY NO. APM 1-84, DATED JANUARY 24,
1984.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
63. GRANT $200,000 LOW INTEREST LOAN FOR THE COCONUT GROVE PLAYHOUSE.
Mayor Suarez: Item 85. Arnold, you have been patient.
Mr. Plummer: Arnold, can we cut through this? You want two hundred fifty
thousand and a grant. The Manager says the most he can come up with is two
hundred thousand and a low interest loan. Mr. Manager, I think we got to ... we
know what his request is.
Mr. Odio: I will repeat it again, I told him this, I can only recommend that
we lend him the money and that he pay interest on that money, and we can only
lend him two hundred thousand ... I can only recommend that we lend him two
hundred thousand dollars at this time.
Mr. Plummer: Take it from there.
Mr. Arnold Mittleman: I'm Arnold Mittleman, the producing artistic director
of the Coconut Grove Playhouse. Over the last ... I have only been in Miami one
year, and I have been in charge of trying to bring the Playhouse back to a
sense of fiscal stability and look for its long term future. Next year is the
30th anniversary of the Coconut Grove Playhouse. It's an operation that has
close to a three million dollar budget, but in the last seven years has
develop an accumulated deficit. That accumulated deficit is in excess of one
million dollars. We were able to get eight hundred thousand dollars from
that...
Mayor Suarez: When you... let's see if we can cut through this a little bit.
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: What sense does it make to make it a loan if it's to cover
deficits? Shouldn't we...
Mr. Plummer: Because he is going to be getting a great deal of money from the
Off -Street Parking Authority in the near future and he can pay it back.
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Mayor Suarez: How about interest free for a couple of years. It will take a
couple of years, but...How long will it take Arnold for that whole setup to be
put together, assuming it all works out?
Mr. Mittleman: I hope that we are in operation within twenty-four months.
Mr. Plummer: Well, they have already got two hundred thousand dollars.
Mayor Suarez: You want to make it interest free for two years?
Mr. Plummer: I will make it interest free for two years based on the fact
that they will make at least one hundred tickets available per production for
underprivileged children, City children.
Mayor Suarez: What's the figure that you are putting in, two hundred or two
hundred fifty?
Mr. Odio: I only found two hundred thousand Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Suarez: Well, that's all we got then.
Mr. Mittleman: If it's a loan, why is there a problem with it being two
fifty?
Mr. Dawkins: Because we don't have it.
Mr. Plummer: We don't have it.
Mr. Dawkins: We don't have it, that's the problem.
Mr. Plummer: When you reach in your pocket and there is only two there you
can't give two -and -a -half.
Mayor Suarez: Two hundred thousand interest free for two years. and thereaf-
ter that three percent.
Mr. Dawkins: At prime, ten percent plus prime.
Mr. Odio: He should have his lease with the State pretty soon, and I think it
should be in full operation within a year to two years, and I think from the
bond monies that he will be receiving, he can pay this debt, and I think we
should get paid at ... if he doesn't pay interest now, he should pay the market
rate.
Mayor Suarez: Market rate, in over what period of time?
Mr. Odio: I don't know Mr. Mayor, I haven't figured it out.
Mayor Suarez: Because if we don't specify it's...the equation is not com-
plete. and unless we delegate to you the authority to negotiate further.
Mr. Odio: In two years. He said he would pay it back in two years. He can
pay it back in two years.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, but two years interest free and then pay it back in two
years?
Mr. Plummer: Well, I...look, sitting up here negotiating really is the worse
way in the world. Why don't we send him to the Manager, come up...I think we
have expressed what this Commission wants, and come back with a contract at
the next meeting. OK.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, come back to the Commission.
Mr. Plummer: You know, I have expressed myself, make the two hundred thousand
interest free for two years, he makes a hundred ticket per production avail-
able for underprivileged children, City Children and after the two years, the
normal rate of interest would apply. Amen.
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Mr. Plummer: That's my expression now. The rest of the Commission...
Mayor Suarez: Well, the only thing will have to be is the term.
Mr. Carollo: Why don't you sit down and negotiate with him and come back.
,Mayor Suarez: The only thing that will have be determined is the term. I
don't know if this Commission wants to give some indication over what period
of time it will have to be paid back.
Ms. Kennedy: Mr. Mayor, I'm sorry, I was in my office with a long distance
phone call and I couldn't hear what you all discussed, but every knows where I
stand on the Playhouse. I want to help them no ifs, ands or buts, but there
are a few things that I need to know like...
Ms. Kennedy: You want to pay it back yourself?
Ms. Kennedy: No, hold on a second. I need the information of all of your
current needs and the current needs that you might estimate will be for the
next year.
Mr. Mittleman: Yes. If we were to receive two hundred fifty thousand dollars
in addition to the eight hundred thousand dollars that the State has appropri-
ated, the Coconut Grove Playhouse would then be debt free. Next year starting
July 1 we begin a new budget. That budget will be probably be a rollover of
this year's budget, which will be about between two point five and three
million dollars. We will then be in a position to begin to raise and earn
that money, and we feel very comfortable that we can, now that we are begin-
ning in a process with the Parking Authority, make our annual budget on a
consistent basis. That budget usually requires us to earn about one -and-a-
half million dollars a year, and to raise about one point three million
dollars a year. That budget is makable about with community support, corpo-
rate support and the ongoing growth of our audience base which has been
terrific this year. So, my goal was to enter July 1 debt free, so that the
climate connected to the Playhouse would be clearly that of an institution
that had achieved the ability to be stable. I also, wanted to introduce to
the Commission the Chairman of my Board, Marshall Taylor from Ryder Corpora-
tion.
Mr. Marshall Taylor: If I could just add a few comments to what Arnold has
made already. First of all, what the City Commission is proposing in response
to our grant, I think it's safe to say ---fair to say that we are very pleased
with that. I would like you to consider some additional input in this pro-
cess, and that is that we raise each year from the private and corporate
sector approximately one point one million dollars. I would like to offer to
you to consider the possibility of reducing the loan that you are making to
us, to the extent that we can increase through the efforts of the Board of
Trustees, the unearned income coming from these sources. In other words, if
we have raised this year one point one million, if next year we can raise one
point two million, would you consider reducing that loan by a hundred thousand
dollars? To me, since we came in as for a grant, the loan, because of the
funding situation is the best way to go, but let's challenge the Committee,
both the Commission...excuse me, challenge the community, both the Commission
and the Board of Trustees in a challenge way, and to the intent that we can
increase our contributions, reduce the debt by a like amount.
Mr. Plummer: Sure why not? But the amount of tickets remain constant as long
as the loan is out.
Mr. Taylor: Absolutely, and I think we probably can do better than too,
Commissioner, on the number of tickets available.
Mayor Suarez: To clarify, what you are saying is if you exceed the one point
one million dollar figure...
Mr. Taylor: We will come back with an audited amount of what we did raise
this year.
Mayor Suarez: But the money doesn't come back to the City over the one point
one million dollars. I want the Commission to understand that. You are just
saying because of your efforts in raising monies for your operation, but the
money not coming back to us.
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Mr. Taylor: That's right. That's right, out of which...
Mayor Suarez: Right. Not paying back the two hundred thousand dollars.
Mr. Taylor: To the extent we increase the amount of unearned income, we would
reduce the amount of the loan that we owe the City back. It's kind of like a
challenge grant.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you have got to pay it back.
Mayor Suarez: No, no. But he is saying because...
Mr. Carollo: See, now what he said, he would not pay it back if they would
raise monies over...
Mr. Taylor: Have I totally confused everybody? Let me try it again.
Mr. Carollo: No, no, I understand it clearly. Us lay people do, it's just
the attorneys who don't.
Mayor Suarez: I don't think it's going to fly once it's clear what it is you
mean, but if you want to keep trying...
Mr. Carollo: In other words, he has come up with a formula where he won't
have to pay the money back.
Ms. Kennedy: I like that.
Mr. Taylor: But it's not without matching funds from the rest of the communi-
ty though.
Mayor Suarez: What you are saying is that if you go out there and raise the
funds from other places, that we would feel that for every dollar that we are
forgiving in the debt, that you have raised a dollar and therefore, we would
not ask you for the money back?
Mr. Taylor: I'm asking you to consider that.
Mayor Suarez: I'm not sure this Commission is in the mood for that kind of a
deal, but...
Mr. Plummer: That's not much of a loan.
Mr. Carollo: Well, I...
Mr. Taylor: It is if we can't increase the amount of funds that we are
raising.
Mr. Plummer: But that's not a loan.
Mr. Carollo: I would hope that...
Mr. Taylor: It's a challenge loan.
Mayor Suarez: It's a matching grant.
Mr. Taylor: You have just invented a new concept in...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, it's a matching grant that sounds like a loan.
Mr. Dawkins: Very creative. That's what you call creative financing.
Mr. Plummer: That's a one way. —no, no.
Mr. Taylor: But keep in mind that the name that is on the institution that we
are trying fund and trying to keep alive is Coconut Grove. It's not Arnold
Mittleman. It's not Ryder System. It's not any other people's name. It's the
Coconut Grove. It's known internationally. It's known nationally, and it's a
very important institution. So, whatever consideration you can give it to...
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Mr. Plummer: Well, I still went to send it to the Manager, and let him
negotiate a contract, and bring it back at the next meeting. You got to have
a contract for a loan.
Mr. Carollo: You know, hopefully, you could challenge yourselves where you,
instead of raising one point one, maybe raise one point five and you plenty of
money leftovers, and we can get our hundred thousand paid back right away.
That might be a possibility.
Mr. Taylor: That's not quite what I had in mind. Thank you.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you gave us your ideas. We will give you ours.
Mayor Suarez: You have to be admired for your creativity though, Marshall.
Mr. Carollo: I think that...
Mr. Taylor: So, where are we at?
Mr. Carollo: Where we are at is...
Mr. Plummer: You are going to the Manager to draw up a contract for a loan
which will be presented to this Commission and negotiate a loan which will be
presented to this Commission on June 26th.
Mayor Suarez: We have only given the general parameters of that.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, basically, what we are talking about is that we are going
to lend you the money so you could actually pay it back. OK. What more can
you want than that?
Mr. Taylor: If between now and then the Manager is able to find an additional
fifty thousand, are you giving him...
Mr. Dawkins: I will fire him. I will fire him.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no. Yes, yes, yes. If he finds it...
Mr. Dawkins: We will fire him.
Mr. Plummer:...and he recommends it, I'm with you.
Mr. Dawkins: No, I will fire him.
Mr. Plummer: God help him.
Mr. Carollo: Well, we gave thirty thousand of the fifty away already today.
Mr. Taylor: I saw that happen.
Mr. Odio: Arnold, I wouldn't stay awake waiting for other money.
Mr. Carollo: But basically, the bottom line is so that I think you could go
back feeling that you achieved what you wanted originally, is that you are
going to get the two hundred thousand, and I think once you sit down with the
Manager. he will be flexible enough to work something out that you won't have
to worry about paying that back until you get sufficient money coming in,
whether it's two or three years from now or whenever, but you know, by that
time I hope that you can do that.
Mr. Plummer: Plus the fact the Manager is going to have to request and demand
of you some kind of collateral to guarantee the City's money.
Mr. Odio: Yes, the parking garage.
Mr. Plummer: The parking garage is fine.
Mr. Dawkins: Oh. by the way....
Mayor Suarez: That's a good buy.
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Mr. Dawkins: By the way I would like to tell my Commissioners or my fellow
Commissioners, the State of Florida somebody in their infinite wisdom created
a board to deal with the construction and everything of the parking garage,
and everybody has a representative on it except the City of Miami.
Ms. Kennedy: You know, I was just thinking, we are here talking about the
negotiations of the loan and we still have not even voted on whether we will
permit the financial.. ..the I'm sorry, the parking facility that will ensure
further financial assistance. Mr. Manager.
Mr. Dawkins: This is why I'm saying, we are not even on the board that's
going to bring back whatever they want to bring back. Dade County has some-
body on it. Off -Street Parking has somebody on it. The Playhouse got some-
body on it. State of Florida got a representative, according to what was in
the paper Sunday. When the State of Florida gave the money they set up a
commission, a committee.
Mr. Taylor: I am not the responsible party to determine that board's makeup.
Mr. Dawkins: I was not speaking to your, sir. I was speaking to my fellow
Commissioners. OK.
Ms. Kennedy: Well, what do we do about it?
Mr. Carollo: Well, I'm backing Paula Hawkins, I don't know about you guys.
You are going to have to speak to the Governor about that. I don't think I'm
going to have too much say so this time around.
Mr. Dawkins: That's a low blow, Joe.
Mayor Suarez: We...
Mr. Carollo: No, you are not.
Mr. Dawkins: No, I'm not. No, it's a known fact that I'm not supporting Bob
Graham. I would not dare support a do nothing Governor to a do nothing
Senator.
Ms. Kennedy: This is City of Miami here, come on.
Mr. Dawkins: That's my personal opinion now. That's my personal opinion.
OK.
Mr. Carollo: We will make a Republican of Miller yet.
Mayor Suarez: Are we done?
Mr. Dawkins: If a Republican ... I will tell you what, anybody makes me a
millionaire they got me, Republican, Independent or Democrat. It don't make
no difference to me.
Mayor Suarez: Roger, I don't know. Do you need to address any of the state-
ments that were made? some of which may or may not be accurate, and some of
which are opinions on certain political figures that we are going to leave at
that.
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, that's Miller Dawkins's personal opinion now, make sure
that's carried.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Dawkins: That's my personal opinion.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, make sure you clarify it's not the Mayor's.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, well, I didn't say it, that's for damn sure.
Mr. Carollo: Well, I'm just trying to reinforce what you said Xavier.
Mayor Suarez: You still have a motion pending...
Mr. Plummer: Yes, to send it to the Manager and negotiate.
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Mayor Suarez: ... to have the City Manager negotiate along the terms that we
discussed? So moved, do we have a second? Please second.
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, any further discussion, political or
otherwise, please call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-479
A MOTION ACCEPTING IN PRINCIPLE A $200,000 LOW INTER-
EST LOAN FOR THE COCONUT GROVE PLAYHOUSE PROVIDED THEY
GIVE THIS CITY ONE HUNDRED TICKETS PER PRODUCTION FOR
UNDERPRIVILEGED CITY CHILDREN, FURTHER REFERRING THIS
ISSUE BACK TO THE CITY MANAGER REQUESTING THAT HE
NEGOTIATE A CONTRACT FOR SAID LOAN AND COME BACK AT
THE NEXT MEETING WITH HIS RECOMMENDATION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
r NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
64. SUPPORT OF INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SOCCER TOURNAMENT.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, can I bring up something that they wanted money, but
I told them it was too late, but I think if we do endorse the program, which I
was affiliated with, and that is the Youth Soccer, for the International Youth
Soccer Tournament which will be held in Miami, that this...I would like to
make a motion for a resolution at this time that this Commission goes on
record of backing this tournament and wishing them well. I think that resolu-
tion might, in fact, help them to get some sponsors and to get some other
things. So, I move at this time...
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. Plummer: Would you second the motion?
Mayor Suarez: Please second it.
Ms. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you. Moved and seconded, hearing no further discussion
from the Commission, please call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-480
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI COMMISSION EXPRESSING
ITS TOTAL BACKING OF THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SOCCER TOUR-
NAMENT TO BE HELD IN MIAMI AND WISHING THEM WELL IN THEIR
ATHLETIC PURSUITS.
(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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
65. REFER TO MANAGER REQUEST FROM THE INNER CITY CHILDREN TOURING DANCE
COMPANY.
Mayor Suarez: I skipped over Item 79 accidentally. Is there anyone here?
Please come up and get that resolved. I confused one item with the other. 79
with 60.
Ms. Flori Nichols: Hello, my name is Flori Nichols, and I'm the executive
director of the Inner City Children's Touring Dance Company, and this is Penny
Maas who is a volunteer with our project. The Inner City Touring Dance
Company is trying to provide a program this summer that's called the perform-
ing arts camp, which will enable one hundred inner city youths to participate
in the cultural arts program. We are looking for children that are from the
inner city that come from disadvantaged and low to moderate income families.
We will be providing a cultural program which will help the children to
develop there artistic potential, by involving them in programs in ballet,
tap, modern dance, African, and tap. It will not only be a cultural program,
but it will also be educational. We will provide films, documents on dance,
careers in the arts, such as costuming design and things such as that. One of
the focuses that we are looking at for this Summer is using this program as a
crime deterrent to keep children out of the streets. We are thinking about
the children that will be in homes, the latch key kids that won't be doing
anything this summer. possibly getting into some sort of trouble, and we will
be able to provide them with a supervised program with professional instruc-
tors able to teach them. and that's it. Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Has the City Manager reviewed this application and otherwise
informed of what the individuals, that what experience they have, and whether
this is something that would be recommended or not?
Mr. Odio: Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this at this time to be funded.
I believe in what they are doing, it's very good, but we cannot fund ---I
cannot recommend funding. We just don't have the money for this and...
Mayor Suarez: Well, is this the first time you hear of it? I mean, this is
not just a personal appearance. You have gone through...
Mr. Odio: I have...
Mayor Suarez: Have you met with them and have you talked to them about...
Mr. Odio: I ... no. I think they went to C.D.
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Mayor Suarez: Does that mean, no.
Ms. Nichols: We have come by to see the Commissioners.
Mr. Odio: I think they went to the Community Development Department, which is
usual, but the policy is not funding, and I am staying with the policy.
Ms. Penny Maas: We made an effort to see the City Manager, who was not
available.
Mayor Suarez: Well, he or one of his appointed representatives.
Ms. Nichols:
We are asking
for ten thousand dollars. We have already re-
ceived five
thousand dollars
from the Dade foundation to co-sponsor the
program, and
we need another
ten thousand to get the program going. We have
received assistance
from Dade
County and Florida Arts Council, but we have not
received any
funding from the
City of Miami for the past three years, and we
were hoping that
we would be able
to get some assistance to...
Mayor Suarez: Are you proposing this for this summer?
Ms. Nichols: This summer, yes, starting on June 23rd.
Mayor Suarez: You are cutting it pretty close coming here today on a personal
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appearance, unless you have the City's recommendation and blessing really, the
City Manager's. Commissioners, is it worth it to try to continue the item
until they have had more time to work through the system? It doesn't look
like it from what he is saying.
Ms. Maas: What do you suggest we do to work through the system?
Ms. Nichols: Because we have been by to see some of the Commissioners al-
ready.
Mayor Suarez: Well, we don't have any ... I have not heard anyone reporting to
us on any meetings with you.
Ms. Maas: We were in your office, Mayor Suarez.
Mayor Suarez: My office?
Ms. Maas: Yes, we were.
Mayor Suarez: Who did you meet with in my office?
Ms. Nichols: And we came by...we saw Rosario Kennedy's assistant and we spoke
to Joe Carollo's assistant. We have come by to see Miller Dawkins, nobody was
there to speak with us and I phone called Mr. Plummer, he did call me back,
but I was unable to get back to you.
Mr. Plummer: Yes. I would make a motion at this time we send it to the
Manager, and if he can find the funds he brings it back.
Mr. Dawkins: The Manager just stated he has no funding, Mr. Plummer.
Ms. Kennedy: I will second.
Mr. Carollo: We will send it to the Manager anyway.
Mr. Plummer: We will send it to him anyhow, if he finds it, he can bring it
back. If he doesn't find it, well that's the end of it.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Ms. Nichols: Could we ask...
Ms. Kennedy: But I think we are trying to help them.
Mr. Plummer: I so move,
Ms. Nichols: Could we ask the procedure for applying for funding for our fall
program, if there is no funding for the summer program?
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June 12, 1986
Mr. Plummer: Yes, it's call the T.I.C., Tour ---I'm on the Board. What the
hell is it?
Mr. Odio: Industry Coalition.
Mr. Plummer: Tourist Industry Coalition.
Ms. Nichols: Uh huh.
Mr. Plummer: They have a hundred thousand dollars or more for that kind of
funding, and that's where you apply.
Ms. Nichols: OK.
Mr. Plummer: I make a motion. I made a motion.
Ms. Kennedy: I seconded.
Mayor Suarez: So. moved and seconded, I'm going to also review my staff's
recommendations on whatever the tenure of discussions was with you. I don't
have that yet, unfortunately. Any further discussion from the Commission?
Please call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-481
A MOTION REFERRING TO THE CITY MANAGER REQUEST FOR
FUNDS RECEIVED FROM "THE INNER CITY CHILDREN TOURING
DANCE COMPANY" FOR ITS PERFORMING ARTS SUMMER CAMP
PROGRAM; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO TRY TO
IDENTIFY A SOURCE OF FUNDING AND, IF SO FOUND, TO
BRING THIS ISSUE BACK FOR CONSIDERATION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Suarez: At the very least that means he will more carefully consider
the whole item now that we have moved to have it directed at him and that will
be helpful.
66. REFER TO MANAGER REQUEST FROM JACQUES D'ESPINOSSE FOR HAITIAN AMERICAN
FOURTH OF JULY STREET CELEBRATION.
Mayor Suarez: Jacques, you are back there, you want to make a quick presenta-
tion?
Mr. Plummer: Oh, is this Item 81?
Mayor Suarez: 81.
Mr. Jacques D'Espinosse: Jacques D'Espinosse, 5175 Northeast 2nd Avenue. My
item is quick, it's for the fourth of July festivities, and done last year by
the City of Miami, and that's the second year for it. All we request is five
thousand dollars.
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Mr. Plummer: I move that it be sent to the Manager, if he finds the money he
can bring it back.
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, any further discussion from the Commission,
please call the roll.
;•h; The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-482
A MOTION REFERRING TO THE CITY MANAGER REQUEST RE-
CEIVED FROM JACQUES D'ESPINOSSE FOR CITY SPONSORSHIP
OF THE "HAITIAN-AMERICAN FOURTH OF JULY STREET CELE-
BRATION", FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO TRY TO
IDENTIFY SOME FUNDS AND, IF SO FOUND, TO BRING THIS
ISSUE BACK FOR CONSIDERATION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the motion was passed and
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adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Items 83 and 86 were withdrawn.
67. REFER TO MANAGER REQUEST FROM EDDY EDWARDS FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL JAMAICA
AWARENESS FESTIVAL.
Mayor Suarez: Item 87.
Mr. Odio: Eddy Edwards.
Mr. Eddy Edwards: I'm Eddy Edwards. I'm representing Jamaica's Awareness
Festival for Bicentennial...
Mr. Plummer: I move that the matter be sent to the Manager for his perusal
and if he finds the money bring it back.
Ms. Kennedy: Second.
Mr. Odio: Tell him, no.
Mr. Edwards: Well, you know, just seeing... What we are asking for...
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, I have a motion on the floor.
Mayor Suarez: So, moved and seconded, but we are going to let you make a
statement when you waited all day. Go ahead.
Mr. Edwards: Yes, what I was saying, you know, we have in front of us a
festival last year which drew a couple of thousand people. We revived the
Bicentennial Park which was dead and we got some life in it and this year we
are faced with a fifteen thousand bill from the City of Miami for services.
These are projected because of the success of last year's festival, they
project a much bigger crowd and so we figure that if we could work with the
City to get this figure smaller and the City could help us to fund it...
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Mayor Suarez: Do you have any funds from any other source?
`-: Mr. Edwards: Well, we are doing some funding from the private sector, yes.
Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Edwards.
Mr. Edwards: All right.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer$ who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-483
A MOTION REFERRING TO THE CITY MANAGER REQUEST FOR
FUNDS RECEIVED FROM EDDY EDUARDS, PRESIDENT OF JAMAICA
AWARENESS INC. IN CONNECTION WITH "THE SECOND ANNUAL
;
.
JAMAICA AWARENESS FESTIVAL", FURTHER DIRECTING THE
CITY MANAGER TO TRY TO IDENTIFY THE FUNDS AND, IF SO
FOUND, TO BRING THIS ISSUE BACK FOR CONSIDERATION BY
THE COMMISSION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
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Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
68. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: INCREASE FEES COLLECTED BY CITY FOR SERVICES OF
OFF -DUTY POLICE OFFICES (See label #45)
Mayor Suarez: Item 95. I think there is a few people here on it.
Mr. Plummer: 95?
Mayor Suarez: Let's take it out of turn and get it resolved.
Mr. Odio: Which one?
Mayor Suarez: I'm doing this partly because I know you are leaving in a
little while and I presume you want to hear it.
Mr. Plummer: The way it's drafted I have no problems with it.
Mr. Odio: Where is that item...
Mr. Plummer: 95, the off duty police.
Mr. Odio: 85.
Mayor Suarez: This is the off duty police...
Mr. Dawkins: You move it?
Mr. Plummer: Joe, wants to do it. I will move it or he can move it.
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, that's right. Move itl
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Mr. Carollo: I will be happy to, but I think I would have a conflict.
Mr. Plummer: Second. Well, let's just understand for the record. This is
going to derive, Mr. Manager, I'm basing it on the numbers that you are giving
me. The liability portion will derive approximately a hundred seventy-five
thousand dollars a year. The three dollar fee will derive at least a hundred
twenty-five thousand dollars a year for the administrative cost. The money
for the liability will go into a reserve fund until it hits one million
dollars, at such time then the monies will bleed over into the general fund,
as is the case for the normal insurance, self-insurance fund, and based on
those numbers, I think it's fair.
Mr. Odio: Right. Yes.
Mr. Plummer: I hope it works and let's go ahead with it.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded, any further discussion from the Commis-
sion?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, I will not vote until I get shirt.
Mr. Ken Nelson: Extra large or medium?
Ms. Kennedy: Two. Those were my campaign colors.
Mayor Suarez: He was thinking of Virginia's shirt. Call the roll. Strike
that from the record.
Mr. Plummer: Under discussion. Mr. Manager?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: I am questioning is, are we smart or have we considered, assum-
ing that we are going to derive this one hundred seventy-five thousand or
there around, has the administration looked in for the possibility of buying
an insurance policy for the first couple of years just in case we get hit with
another five hundred twenty-five thousand settlement. Now, I know liability
is damn hard to buy, but you can buy up to five million dollars worth of
liability under normal circumstances, and I don't think we have that bad of a
record. Excuse me.
Mr. Garcia: We don't think there is a market today for police liability.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I would like you to come back and discount it to me that
you couldn't find it, because I think it's worthwhile exploring under today's
conditions of what's happening in courts.
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, we will try it. If we can't, we will come back to
you.
Mr. Plummer: OK. Fine, sir.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUBSECTIONS (b) AND (c), REPEAL-
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ING SUBSECTION (d) AND RENUMBERING SUBSECTION (e) OF
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SECTION 42-8.1 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TO INCREASE THE FEE COLLECTED BY
THE CITY IN ITS ADMINISTRATION OF THE PROGRAM WHEREBY
EXCEPTIONAL AND NONROUTINE SERVICES OF OFF -DUTY POLICE
OFFICERS ARE ASSIGNED BY THE CITY AND PROVIDED TO
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:
PERSONS OR BUSINESSES REQUESTING THE SAME; FURTHER,
RECOGNIZING BY THE HEREIN AMENDMENT THE CITY'S ONGOING
RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE SELF-INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR
TORT LIABILITY AND WORKERS COMPENSATION CLAIMS ARISING
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OUT OF AND IN THE COURSE AND SCOPE OF SUCH OFF -DUTY
POLICE OFFICERS PERFORMANCE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT DUTIES
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DURING THE PERIOD OF SUCH ASSIGNMENT; CONTAINING A
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REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner
Plummer and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote-
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
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Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ABSTAINING: Commissioner Joe Carollo
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
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to the public.
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Mayor Suarez: You want to make a statement? You want to say something nice
and thank us at the risk of losing momentum, you know that works here.
Mr. Ken Nelson: At the risk of losing momentum.
Mayor Suarez: You got that grin on your face.
Mr. Nelson: For the record, I am Ken Nelson and I'm president of Fraternal
Order of Police, and on behalf of the entire membership of the F.O.P. we would
like to thank the Commission, the Mayor, and those people here from the
community that supported us, and particularly Mr. Bob Swiger...
Mr. Plummer: Don't give me mine until I vote dummy its going to be a bribe.
Mr. Nelson: Mr. Bob Swiger, who is the Director of Security for Winn Dixie,
Grace Rockafellar from the Northeast Homeowners section, Dan Richard, presi-
dent at Northeast Sub -council, and we have over a thousand signatures that we
collected from citizens in the community in support of our effort here and we
thank you very much.
Mr. Plummer: Did you call the roll?
Mayor Suarez: I thought I did. Didn't...
Mr. Plummer: Did you call the roll?
Ms. Hirai: Yes, sir, I did.
Mr. Plummer: Where the hell is my shirt?
Mayor Suarez: He voted "no" apparently. So, maybe you ought to...
Mr. Plummer: No, if I vote "no" I get two shirts.
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Mr. Nelson: We would also like to thank the City Manager and the City Attor—
ney and City Finance Director for their help and their support in this effort.
It was all through their efforts that made this all possible.
Mayor Suarez: I will extend thanks to my wife too, who lobbied me intensely
on this. Grace?
Ms. Kennedy: You see, if I say that about my husband I get into trouble. It
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got me into trouble throughout the campaign. You can get away with it.
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Mr. Plummer: Yes, would you put that shirt on his mirror.
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Ms. Grace Rockafellar: Mr. Mayor, I asked for one minute and I will contain
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it to one minute. For the record, I'm Grace Rockafellar, 814 Northeast 71st
Street. I came here to thank you for two reasons, one, that you have given us
back our police officers which we are very thankful for, and another one,
since you had a Commission meeting today, none of you could attend our press
conference that we had this morning. So, I'm going to thank you Mr. Mayor on
behalf of all the citizens, plus Jim Ingleton and the Biscayne Boulevard
Association meeting, and I also, want to thank all the Commissioners. We want
to thank the police officers for the splendid job they did. You know, they
even found a dead body in that building, he had his throat cut and his ears
cut off, maybe you read about it. But we have a special thanks for our City
Manager Cesar Odio and Walter Pierce who worked so ---who cooperated with us so
beautifully, and it was such a pleasure to see that building being torn down
today and we wish you could have all been there, and thank you again.
Mr. Plummer: Grace, you forgot the waiters and janitor and...
Ms. Kennedy: Your mother and father.
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Ms. Rockafellar: Well, we will let you pass that on.
Mayor Suarez: He is already asking for a raise back there because of that
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statement. It creates a problem for us.
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Ms. Kennedy: No, you will get another month.
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Ms. Rockafellar: Well, we do appreciate it. When you do something good for
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us, we appreciate it and we want you to know it. Thank you.
69. CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE FOR MANAGING UNDERWRITER FOR ISSUANCE OF
CITY'S GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS. (See label #35)
Mayor Suarez: All right, let's take up item 45. Why don't you give us an
explanation on item 45, why it is important, and do it quick!
Mr. Odio: On the record, what happens is if we don't chose today, we will not
have time to go to the market and refinance all of the...
Mayor Suarez: The reason we postponed it before, is the committee didn't
have any outside select...
Mr. Odio: The reason we postponed it before is that Commissioner Plummer
wanted to have some input from private, sir, and, but, what we are saying is,
if we don't select this today, we would not have any need to come back.
Mayor Suarez: Could, we... Commissioner Plummer, could I suggest that for all
future bond company selections, we incorporate your motion, or your sugges—
tion, but go ahead and select from these three?
Mr. Plummer: That is fine, Mr. Mayor, as long as we are not bound by the
committee recommendations.
Mr. Odio: Fine, I have no problems. All I want is one selection.
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Mr. Plummer: OK.
Mr. Odio: You pick whoever you want.
Mr. Plummer: I move that we choose First Equity.
Mr. Dawkins: Who the hell is First Equity? What list are you reading from?
Mayor Suarez: The choices are Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc., and so on...
Prudential Bache...
Mr. Plummer: That was the one I am recommending.
Mayor Suarez:... Securities, First Equity Corp. of Florida, Metro Equities
Corp... mostly local and Black firms... Drexel Burnham, Lambert Southwestern,
Capital Market, Inc., Hispanic, and Shearson Lehman, I didn't say, it was
Anglo, Black and Hispanic folks.
Mr. Plummer: I move...
Mayor Suarez: They are equally qualified from...
Mr. Carollo: Item 45?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. Carollo: Didn't we defer that?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, but they want to
Mayor Suarez: The City Manager's...
Mr. Dawkins: They say they need it, Joe.
Mr. Plummer: They are saying if we defer, we are going to lose it in the
market.
Mayor Suarez: Although we have stated that his suggestion will be incorporat-
ed in all future selections, and we will have...
Mr. Carollo: Why would we lose it in the market?
Mr. Dawkins: Which one did you move, J. L.?
Mr. Plummer: I moved Prudential Bache, coupled with First Equity.
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED IN PUBLIC RECORD)
Mr. Plummer: I didn't want to move it. And we don't want to be accused of
not going to the market.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. I hear a second from Commissioner
Dawkins. OK, any further discussion from the Commission?
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED IN PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Suarez: Yes, this is really not the way to do it at all. I agree.
There has got to be a better way. There has got to be a better way, but if we
are pressed...
Mr. Plummer: Hey, I don't like the idea!
Mr. Carollo: I don't know the first thing about any of this... We are
being asked to pick a firm to sell over $30,000,000 worth of bonds, and we
don't know a damn thing about them.
Mayor Suarez: Why don't we delegate the authority to the City Manager? We
can do that?... let him select from the three?
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Mr. Odio: I prefer not to.
Mayor Suarez: Based on...
Mr. Odio: No, sir, I prefer you...
Mr. Carollo: Well, you know, what...
Mayor Suarez: You don't want us to delegate the authority to you?
Mr. Carollo: What is happening here, Xavier, is that, instead of really
having a balance of different people to help us in guiding to pick these
firms, we had really one main nucleus. You've got the same bureaucrats that
always meet, doing the work for us, and if we pick anybody else they don't
have there, then we are bad guysl You know, it is ridiculous)
Mayor Suarez: That is why for other kind of contracts, we have competitive
bidding, but it is impossible for this kind of a thing, I mean...
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, but I don't know nobody on here.
Mayor Suarez: They are all qualified.
Mr. Odio: They are all qualified, I know, including Bear Sterns.
Mayor Suarez: Why don't we delegate back to the City Manager, negotiating, to
see who gives the best quote?
Mr. Carollo: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Can you do that?
Mr. Carollo: Yes, negotiate it.
Mr. Plummer: Is it negotiable?
Mr. Garcia: It is negotiable. We had a selection process based on certain
criteria. We can go through that criteria and show you...
Mr. Plummer: No, negotiate on price.
Mayor Suarez: On price.
Mr. Garcia: On price, and... that's... sure. All of this...
Mayor Suarez: OK, you have got itl
Mr. Garcia: All of these firms are top firms, and we can go with any of them.
Mr. Plummer: Who is the cheapest one?
Mr. Carollo: Excuse me, Carlos, can you hold on for a minute? You know, this
is absurd. Now, you guys are trying to rush us and we have got to have it,
but did any of you take out, even one minute of your busy schedules to see any
of us on this?
Mr. Garcia: No, sir, we did not, but we provided information to your aides
during the week. The reason we...
Mr. Carollo: Yes, you sent some little piece of paper like this that didn't
say anything, and that is _enough to write information for us. That would be
great if you worked for South Miami or Sweetwater, but not a City this size
when you talking about $30,000,000 plus dollars of bonds.
Mr. Garcia: We will be more than happy to talk to you about the various
choices. The situation we have today, interest rates have deteriorated during
the last two or three weeks. If we don't choose a firm at this time, it will
be impossible to sell the bonds two weeks down the road.
Mr. Carollo: Don't give me this stuff that it is impossible.
June 12, 1986
Mr. Garcia: Well...
Mr. Carollo: Interest rates might go up a little more, but it is not going to
be that drastic, where we can't sell the bonds. This might be what you are
telling us, but the damn firm that don't you pick could be the one that gets
it.
Mayor Suarez: If you can negotiate on the basis of price, maybe we ought to
try that in this particular case, but it sounds like this Commission will
never approve this again if you don't come back with a more properly consti-
tuted committee.
Mr. Carollo:
Yes, you know _the
motion that
I'll make? I
will tell you what.
They picked
three firms here,
it will be
one, two, and
three, even though
there were proposals made by, I
don't know how many other
firms. I will make
a motion, I
mean, if it is so
detrimental
to you, that
we pick one of the
other firms
that they didn't classify one,
two, or three.
I don't care which
it is.
Mr. Odio: Fine.
Mr. Garcia: That is fine with us. You know, any of these firms are excel-
lent..
Mr. Odio: Commissioner, that is fine with us. I said that you could pick any
firm that you want.
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me try this one on for size, Joe.
Mr. Carollo: You can negotiate with any of the other firms.
Mr. Plummer: Let me try this on for size, and I think this would be fair, and
I think even the Manager would approve of this - that the Manager be charged
with the responsibility of negotiating the best dollar value, and that is the
firm chosen.
Mayor Suarez: From all of the ones that...
Mr. Plummer: All of them!
Mayor Suarez: I like it.
Mrs. Kennedy: I do too.
Mr. Plummer: OK? I have no problem with that.
Mayor Suarez: You are going to have to work hard!
Mr. Plummer: Whatever you negotiate, the best price for the City.
Mayor Suarez: So moved. Do we have a second?
Mrs. Kennedy: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: What now? What are we doing?
Mr. Plummer: We are sending all of the lists to the Manager to negotiate the
best fee that he can get. That is who the winner is.
Mr. Odio: One condition, sir... with one condition, I will bring it back to
you.
Mr. Carollo: Then you can call each of our offices to get the final OK.
Mr. Odio: I will bring it back to you.
Mr. Plummer: Fine.
Mayor Suarez: By polling the individual Commissioners.
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Mr. Dawkins: Yes, by polling you can get it done quicker...
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Mr. Dawkins: Don't wait to bring it back here.
Mrs. Kennedy: That is right!
Mayor Suarez: No, don't bring it back to the Commission. So moved and
seconded. I am not sure what would happen if you tried to poll us and we
don't agree, but let's assume that it will work. Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-484
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
MEET AND NEGOTIATE WITH INTERESTED FIRMS OF RECORD WHO
HAVE EXPRESSED AN INTEREST IN BEING SELECTED AS
MANAGING UNDERWRITER FOR THE ISSUANCE OF THE CITY'S
GENERAL OBLIGATION REFUNDING BONDS SERIES 1986;
FURTHER CHARGING THE MANAGER WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY
OF IDENTIFYING THROUGH SAID NEGOTIATIONS THE BEST DEAL
FOR THE CITY, FURTHER STIPULATING THAT SUCCESSFUL
NEGOTIATIONS WITH SAID FIRM SHALL RENDER SAID FIRM AS -
THE CHOSEN ONE; FINALLY AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER
TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH SAID FIRM ONCE HE HAS
INDIVIDUALLY INFORMED MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION
OF THE RESULTS OF HIS NEGOTIATIONS.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
70. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: ISSUANCE, SUBJECT TO ELECTION, OF $8,000,000
GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR BAYFRONT PARK REDEVELOPMENT.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Suarez: Yes, Commissioner.
Mr. Plummer: I would like to if we could, take 93.
Mayor Suarez: Absolutely.
Mr. Plummer: And I'm only asking for that, because as you know, I'm leaving,
but more importantly, if we are going to meet a bond issue ... has the adminis-
tration developed what is the amount of the bond issue necessary to assure one
hundred percent completion of the Bayfront Park?
Mr. Gilchrist: Sir, what we have concluded is that it would take seven point
five million in the hard cost, soft cost to do it. Now, for the bond issue...
Mr. Plummer: Then I offer...
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Mr. Gilchrist: The bond issue, and I'm told by Carlos Garcia, a G.O. bond
issue would only add two hundred thousand dollars to that. So, I'm going to
give you a number of seven point seven million.
Mr. Plummer: This is on the bond issue to put on the referendum?
Mr. Gilchrist: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: To assure the completion of the Bayfront Park? I would move at
this time that the numbers be inserted in Item 93, to offer to the electorate
the amount of seven point seven million dollars...
Mr. Gilchrist: Why don't you round it to eight.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me?
Mr. Gilchrist: Round it to eight so that we have that, you know...
Mr. Plummer: Truthfully, I would rather go back to seven five.
Mr. Gilchrist: OR. I would understand that.
Ms. Kennedy: Commissioner, if I may, I agree with the eight. You know, we
have this Committee that is studying and by the way, our last meeting is on
Monday and then we will come with a recommendation. We are thinking also
along the terms of eight million dollars.
Mr. Plummer: You want to go eight?
Ms. Kennedy: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: OR. I'm going to tell you all up here, I will be working to
defeat it. I don't see why you can put eight million dollars in Bayfront Park
when I don't have nothing in Clemente Park, and none of the other inner city
parks. So, I will be out there in the streets working with people suggesting
that they vote against this.
Mr. Plummer: Well, Commissioner Dawkins, I respect your right to do that, of
course, but I would hope rather than that attitude ---well, not attitude, but
that position, I would much prefer to have you come forth to this Commission
in the same manners and as you know, I was not one of the favorite people of
Bayfront Park, with a proposal to go before the public for Clemente Park and
for Wynwood Park and for all the rest of the parks of a program that would
approved by the public for improvements in that particular park, and then I
think we can all go out and work to improve all of the parks.
Mr. Dawkins: But what I'm saying is, if I went for eight million dollars in
each park none of it is going to pass, and I need eight million dollars in
every park out there to bring it up to acceptable levels.
Mr. Plummer: Well, Commissioner, let me only answer it this way. I think
that Bayfront Park is one of the few parks in this community that is what I
would consider to be a regional park. It's not a neighborhood park, and I
think it is the showcase of our community, and I feel that based on that it
would be justified. I don't think that you could spend eight million dollars
in Clemente Park if you tried.
Ms. Kennedy: That's right.
Mr. Dawkins: I guarantee you I could.
Mr. Plummer: Well, OK. Maybe you could.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. Now,...
Ms. Kennedy: We will make this, Commissioner Dawkins, the best park in
America, and it doesn't mean that we won't help the other parks, but this...
Mayor Suarez:
Well, I want to know, to tell
you the truth, if you are
going
to make it the
best park in America, I want to
know how you are going to
spend
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another eight million dollars? John, I have —if you want me to vote for it,
if you got three other votes that's OK, you don't have to answer any of these
questions.
Mr. Plummer: No, don't force the issue, what's your problem?
Mayor Suarez: All right, I have sat on top of the D.D.A. building there and
talked to Roy Kenzie about the park and you know, you can see quite well from
up there and I said, What elements are missing in funding for us to be able to
complete the proposals here? - because I see a lot of work taking place. I
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know of all the different elements of the package. I never get from anyone
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here a nice little itemization ---don't tell me it's in the package and I
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haven't read it, because that will be embarrassing. Now,...and he says there
is nothing really missing except maybe at the south end of the park right
close to the Pavilion Hotel, and I'm hearing from Commissioner Kennedy about
her committee and it worries me that the idea of spending another seven or
eight million dollars in this park is going to be tied into a proposal that we
make that amphitheater some how restricted, or spend all kinds of money on
what should have been just a grassy slope with some benches or whatever.
Ms. Kennedy: That is the purpose of this committee. It will not be restrict-
ed. It will be open to the public. That's is the consensus and one of our
goals.
Mayor Suarez: Well, what do we need eight million dollars for then, if we are
just going to have a little grassy hill there, which is almost already in
place, some benches. It can't cost that much money. Where do we need another
eight million dollars? We have got the U. S. Army Corps of Engineer money.
We have got donations for marble. We have got...
Mr. Dawkins: All of Claude Pepper's money.
Mayor Suarez: Claude Pepper's money that he got from the Federal Government
for the fountain.
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Mr. Gilchrist: Yes, except that we are still two million shy roughly on doing
that. The Corps is only building the base of the...
Mr. Dawkins: The of all the money that was raised b the Y g Y y public sector to
tear down the library.
Mayor Suarez: Two million shy for what?
Mr. Gilchrist: For the Pepper Fountain.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Well, that's two million, let's say.
Mr. Gilchrist: OK.
Mayor Suarez: That's not what Roy said, but that's two million.
Mr. Gilchrist: Well, I have my own numbers which is one point seven million
and the architect's numbers which is two point three and...
Mayor Suarez: Well, let's assume it. Let's assume it, John.
Mr. Gilchrist:... you know, and we are around that. OK.
Mayor Suarez: How do we get to eight from one point...
Mr. Gilchrist: The south end of the park is two point six million to finish.
Mayor Suarez: To finish and do what?
Mr. Gilchrist: We have nothing...
Mayor Suarez: And to do what there?
Mr. Gilchrist: There is nothing built in the redevelopment south of the
Flagler Street alignment...
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Mayor Suarez: The south end of the park. You mean where the palm trees are
being grown there.
Mr. Gilchrist: That's a nursery hold for the...
Mayor Suarez: Right. You take all the palm trees, you put them where they
are suppose to be and you resod it.
Mr. Gilchrist: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, no, no, no. No, no, we got to build a big wall there to cut
off the Pavilion so they can't see the park, because they didn't come up with
their million that they promised.
Mayor Suarez: Now, that ... see, now that I would have approved, a million
dollars. Seriously, what do you have to do there other than take those palms
out of there John?
{' Mr. Gilchrist: It's based on a design by Isamu Noguchi to build and elaborate
facility on the south end of the park.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, John, may I offer you and the Mayor a little relief,
} because I got to leave. OK? Mr. Mayor, this is first reading. If between
now and second reading if you don't like his plan and you can't alter it, then
we cancel it. Is that agreeable?
Mr. Gilchrist: I would like to go over this with you. I don't want to
embarrass you and say I gave it to you.
Mayor Suarez: You are going to have a tough time explaining to me how we are
going to spend six million dollars more to do whatever we are supposed to do
with those palm trees and resod that part of the park, because that's all I'm
ready to approve at this point. Now, maybe I don't reflect the consensus of
the Commission, but...
Mr. Gilchrist: Mr. Mayor, if you only sodded and took the...that is that
money, but there is a plan to build an elaborate south end of the park, and I
will be glad to show you that.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, I know of all kinds of plans to build all kinds of things
in that park, but not necessarily the kinds of plans that I can go and sell to
the community, just like Commissioner Dawkins said.
Mr. Gilchrist: I'm not arguing.
Ms. Kennedy: OK. Believe me that this one you will be able to sell, and all
I'm asking is for time until Monday that we finish our proposals and we can
come back to this Commission with our recommendations.
Mayor Suarez: No, problem.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you still got... the City Attorney tells me between now
and second reading you can increase the bond issue or you can decrease it, but
we have got to have the first...
Mayor Suarez: OK. That's why I'm ready to go with the motion.
Mr. Plummer: OK. I so move.
Ms. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, any further discussion, call the roll.
Ms. Hirai: It's an ordinance.
Mayor Suarez: Ordinance. Read the ordinance.
Mr. Plummer: So, that there is no misunderstanding .... presently inserted is
the number eight million dollars. Now, that can change.
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Mr. Odio: That can change, up or down.
Mr. Plummer: Up or down.
Mr. Odio: That's right.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED-
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AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE, SUBJECT TO THE
ELECTION HEREIN PROVIDED FOR, OF $8,000,000 GENERAL
OBLIGATION BONDS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, FOR
THE PURPOSE OF PAYING THE COST OF DESIGNING, CON-
STRUCTING, DEVELOPING, EXTENDING, ENLARGING AND
IMPROVING THE BAYFRONT PARK OF THE AMERICAS IN THE
CITY OF MIAMI, INCLUDING FACILITIES PROPERLY APPURTE-
NANT THERETO, AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF LAND FOR SUCH
PURPOSES AND THE ACQUISITION OF EQUIPMENT THEREFOR,
ALL SUCH ACTIVITY CONSTITUTING THE BAYFRONT PARK
REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT; PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY AND
COLLECTION OF AD VALOREM TAXES TO PAY SUCH BONDS.
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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
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ABSENT: None.
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The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
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71. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: PROVIDE FOR ELECTION (SEPT. 2, 1987) FOR
$8,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR BAYFRONT PARK REDEVELOPMENT.
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Mr. Plummer: I move 94, which is the mechanics of the thing.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded. Do we have to read that one too? I guess we do.
You're still begging for nine yards. You want to pay those guys...
Mr. Plummer: Who?
Mayor Suarez: The law firm that's been doing the lobbying.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, no, no, no, no.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE HOLDING OF A SPECIAL
MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, ON
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1986 WITH RESPECT TO THE ISSU-
ANCE OF S8,000,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR THE
BAYFRONT PARK REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner
Carollo and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
72. DEFER DISCUSSION REGARDING STATUS OF ONGOING CONSTRUCTION AND FUNDING FOR
BAYFRONT PARK REDEVELOPMENT TO COINCIDE WITH SECOND READING OF GENERAL
OBLIGATION BOND ORDINANCES.
Mr. Plummer: I move Item 92 be deferred to second reading of these issues.
Mayor Suarez: That was deferred from May 22nd Commission Meeting. We are
deferring it one more time? At least that's the motion.
Mr. Plummer: Until the second reading...
Ms. Dougherty: July loth is fine.
Mr. Plummer:...of the other two issues.
Mayor Suarez: The second reading, right.
Mr. Dawkins: What item are we on now?
Mr. Plummer: 92.
Mayor Suarez: 92.
Mr. Plummer: I moved to defer until the second reading of Item 93 and 94.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded. When are we going to get the report
Commissioner, from the committee?
Ms. Kennedy: We are going to get it on our next June 26th meeting.
Mayor Suarez: Are we going to get it verbally at the Commission meeting or
can we...
Ms. Kennedy: We are going to get it in writing and verbally.
Mayor Suarez: Can we get it prior to the Commission meeting?
Ms. Kennedy: Sure.
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Mayor Suarez: Thanks. Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-485
A MOTION DEFERRING CONSIDERATION OF DISCUSSION REGARD-
ING STATUS OF ONGOING CONSTRUCTION AND FUNDING FOR THE
BAYFRONT PARK REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT, TO COINCIDE WITH
THE SECOND READING OF AGENDA ITEMS 93 AND 94 (ISSUANCE
OF GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FOR FINANCING OF SAID
PROJECT; AND PROVIDING FOR THE HOLDING OF A SPECIAL
MUNICIPAL ELECTION WITH RESPECT OF SAID ISSUANCE OF
GENERAL OBLIGATION CITY BONDS, RESPECTIVELY).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
73. STABLES FOR POLICE HORSES AT VIRGINIA KEY SHOULD NOT EXCEED $500,000.
Mayor Suarez: We are sort of working our way back according to...
Mr. Plummer: All right, Mr. Mayor, the only other item that I have that I
would like to take up, because I was deeply involved in the negotiations is
Item 91. Item 91 Mr. Mayor, was a land swap that we did with the County in
reference to the stables and the K-9. I was sent to do the negotiation and we
had a lot of negotiation, and Mr. Mayor, we went to the inth degree and built
in a tremendous contingency fund for the stables over on Virginia Key. Now,
unfortunately, this thing came out as a lot of them have come out, and the
Police Department have proposed a set of plans that they have overbilled in my
estimation, and I'm telling it like I see it. Mr. Mayor, it is proposed and I
negotiated out five hundred thousand dollars, a half a million dollars for
stables. That's a hell of a barn. OK. Now, the Police Department comes back
and explains to me and says they need eighty-nine thousand dollars more,
because they want to have a lounge, and I went back to Sergio because of
certain cost of approximately...
Mr. Odio: Pereira.
Mr. Plummer: ...Sergio Pereira ---approximately thirteen thousand dollars for
some lighting and he said Mr. Manager, he would work that out. Now, I just
cannot in good faith approve anything for a stable in excess of a half a
million dollars, and as far as I'm concerned it's on the agenda, if my col-
leagues want to put another lounge, in there, lockers and lounge...I told them
the terminology was bad to begin with, but I just don't know how you can come
before a Commission or I could justify to the taxpayers that we are building a
barn for five hundred eighty-nine, is that ... what's the exact figure you are
asking for, five eighty-nine?
Mr. Joe Loguero; The total would be four hundred ninety-nine thousand, but on
top of that you have the hundred nine thousand that the County is charging us
for fees.
Mr. Plummer: OK. But Willie what's the total cost? Five ninety-nine? Plus
a hundred and nine?
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Mr. Odio: No, th3t:'s fees.
Mr. Joe Loguero: No, a hundred nine is included in the five ninety-nine.
Mr. Plummer: All right, what's the bottom number?
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Mr. Loguero: The bottom number total what we are asking for is six hundred
twenty thousand.
Mr. Plummer: OK. Six hundred twenty thousand for a barn. Now, I just can't
in good faith justify to the taxpayers of this community six hundred twenty-
two thousand dollars. After...I went to every extreme to get the five hundred
thousand, and I was accused of going too high for a barn for that. Now, I
just got to be, you know, if somebody wants to make the motion to go above the
five hundred thousand dollars, I'm voting against it, because I just can't in
good faith in any way, shape or form, justify it in my mind. So, I leave that
with you.
Ms. Kennedy: As I understand it, and I would like to hear the presentation,
they really need this locker.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you know, Commissioner, and I will allow them to make
their presentation, of course, but I think you have to go back and look, not
at the locker, but at what you have for the original half a million dollars.
You can build a orig... you know, a lot cheaper than what they have got
proposed in there. OK. And I'm just saying that I don't know, you go
to...what is it six hundred and what?
Mr. Loguero: Six hundred twenty.
Mr. Plummer: Six hundred twenty divided by how many horses?
Mr. Loguero: Twenty-five.
Mr. Plummer: Twenty-two I thought.
Mr. Loguero: Twenty-four, sir.
Mr. Plummer: OK. Twenty-four. We can get a condo on Brickell per horse. I
just ... I'm sorry, it is completely. ..the instructions to the administration
and I don't find fault with these guys ---the instructions to the administra-
tion was you have got a half a million dollars. Now, come back and tell us
what you can give us for half a million dollars. That's not what they did.
Once again, just like the substations they have come back to us and said to
us, six hundred twenty thousand dollars. I want to make a motion to send them
back and tell them again, five hundred thousand dollars for a barn is enough
money.
Mr. Dawkins: And put your lounges and all in the five hundred thousand
dollars.
Mr. Plummer: Exactly. Now, go ahead, you want to make the presentation. Go
ahead.
Mayor Suarez: Colonel?
Mr. Joe Loguero: I can't disagree with anything that the Commissioner says.
The only thing I will point out to you is that when the negotiations were
going on we did not anticipate having the stables at Virginia Key which
requires tremendous site preparation. We did not anticipate the administra-
tive charges that the County would...
Mayor Suarez: Why the site preparation?
Mr. Loguero: We have to build a two hundred...
Mayor Suarez: The foundation?
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Mr. Loguero: Four hundred fifty foot road just to get to the site, which was
not apart of the original negotiations. and I appreciate what Commissioner
Plummer...
Mayor Suarez: How much is that just roughly? The road?
Mr. Loguero: It's about fifty thousand dollars. In addition to that Virginia
Key requires extensive site preparation and a hundred nine thousand which are
County administrative charges which were not anticipated, when you add these
in you can understand the reason...
Mayor Suarez: Administrative charges you said?
Mr. Loguero: They have a certain percentage that applies. It's a standard
that the County has. Architect fees, inspection fees, all of that is included
within the five hundred thousand.
Mr. Plummer: The County wanted to retain supervision to be assured that
they —here, all of this started ... let me bring you up to date. All of this
started because the County needed the stockade. OK? They needed it, where
our present stable...where our stable was, they needed that territory. So, we
went into negotiation. They presently are at Tropical Park on a temporary
basis until we could get this built. The County said, "We will go in there
and we will build this, but we want to do the supervision to be assured that
we get you out." Now, that's why they retained the supervision rather than an
outside contractor.
Mr. Loguero: That's absolutely...the situation is that the County has let the
bids for estimates... the County has gotten them back. We are in a position
requiring us to tell the County to go ahead with a basic package or a subse-
quent list of things that were recommended to us. So, we have one shot before
the Commission before we go back to the County, and they are the basic con-
tractor if you will, to build this facility for us. The big situation that we
are dealing with is the additional cost that were unanticipated. Commissioner
Plummer, is absolutely right and he should be commended for what he was able
to accomplish. However, there were additional cost that were brought into it
that were unanticipated.
Mayor Suarez: What happens if we actually ---Colonel. actually limited it to
the five hundred thousand as proposed in the motion?
Mr. Loguero: Basically, where we are at right now Mr. Mayor, is that the only
object or the only part of the building that's going to be reduced is a lounge
area that's very small square footage, eleven by seventeen, which is an area
that ... and a locker room, which is an area that would allow our police offic-
ers to change. The point there being the officers who are in the mounted
patrol do go out there and work before they take the horses to the beat. We
feel there is a need to provide a place for them to change. That addition to
the existing building or the area that's in question, if you will, is approxi-
mately fifty thousand dollars.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I make a motion at this time that we reiterate our
position previous and tell them to build it for five hundred thousand dollars.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: So moved and seconded, any further discussion from the Commis-
sion?
Ms. Kennedy: I have to go against this.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, that's five hundred thousand if they can get anymore
money from the County that's fine. OK. I have no problem with that and I
think I have got Sergio up a few more dollars, but I think that there is just
no way to justify it otherwise.
Ms. Kennedy: But see, they were not counting with that road Commissioner.
Mr. Plummer: Rosario, I fully understand. I really do.
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Mayor Suarez: Does that road serve any other purpose?
Mr. Loguero: No, sir, it goes...
Mr. Plummer: Not at this time, it will later.
Mr. Loguero: It does not at this time, no. It goes.
Mr. Plummer: It will under the master plan.
Mayor Suarez: Well, wait, we got something here. It will?
Mr. Plummer: Under the master plan it will, yes.
Mayor Suarez: It will later. How much was the road again?
Mr. Plummer: It's about fifty thousand.
Ms. Kennedy: Fifty thousand.
Mr. Ken Harrison: Off site work is forty-eight thousand dollars.
Mayor Suarez: Would you accept an amendment to your motion to make it to five
hundred plus the road?
Mr. Plummer: If the County will pay it.
Mayor Suarez: Well, that doesn't really change you motion, because...
Mr. Plummer: No.
Mr. Ken Harrison: If I might for the Commission's benefit. We had suggested
that funding for these add ons, if you will, could be provided by the interest
earned from the current bond issue.
Mr. Plummer: What current bond issue?
Mr. Harrison: The twenty million dollar bond issue that's current...
Mr. Plummer: You are going to need every penny of that to open the door to
those substations, Kenny, you know that. There is not even going to be
adequate amount. It's just not going to be adequate.
Mr. Harrison: Well, Commissioner Plummer, I understand that. I...
Mr. Plummer: Look, let me tell you what, go ahead if you will...
Mr. Harrison: I disagree with that position though. I think we will open
"m those doors.
Mr. Plummer: No. Well, yes, fine, but...
Mr. Dawkins: You are right we are going to open them and you are not going to
take a penny from it. Not one penny from that bond issue you are going to
take to do a damn thing but build a substation. OK. So, now that's out!
Mr. Harrison: We are saying that the funding could be provided from the
interest earned Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, if you have got some interest earned I will put some
flowers and stuff around my substation. OK?
Mr. Plummer: You better talk about the hundred sixty-eight personnel that
they are going to put in each one to staff them. Look, let me do this, let's
pass it if you will on the five hundred thousand as I recommended. I person-
ally will make a visit to Sergio to see if I can do any better. I got him up
to thirty or fourteen, but I ... just to go beyond that, I...
Ms. Kennedy: You want to try that? I think that's logical. I will go for
that, I will second that motion.
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Mr. Dawkins: That road is going ... can we use ... that's the road that's going
to be used to go to our...to the...
Mr. Plummer. Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, what about the firing range you were going to put over
there? Where the hell is that? What happened to that? —
Mr. Plummer: You will never get a firing range over there. Forget it. The
environmentalist will kill you. Call the question.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, any further discussion, hearing none.
please call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 86-486
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A MOTION REITERATING THE CITY COMMISSION'S POSITION
THAT, IN CONNECTION WITH THE ESTIMATED COST OF CON-
STRUCTION OF NEW STABLES FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AT
VIRGINIA KEY, THE AMOUNT TO BE ALLOCATED FOR SAID
PROJECT SHOULD NEVER EXCEED $500,000.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Kennedy, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy —
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Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
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74. APPROVE EMERGENCY CONSTRUCTION OF ORANGE BOWL STADIUM PRESS BOX ROOF TOP
CANOPY.
Mr. Plummer: Do you need me for any other reason, I'm about ready to walk out
the door.
Mayor Suarez: 61 is a four fifths or 51?
Mr. Plummer: 51?
Mayor Suarez: They marked 51 here.
Mr. Plummer: Are you talking about 51 or 61?
Ms. Dougherty: 61
Mayor Suarez: I guess both are four fifths. I don't know which is more
important to the staff.
Mr. Plummer: No, four fifths is 51.
Ms. Dougherty; 61.
Ms. Kennedy: And 61, too.
Mr. Odio: We need 51.
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Mr. Plummer: I move 51.
Mr. Odio: Thank you very much.
Mr. Dawkins: Fifty what?
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Mr. Plummer: The press box at the Orange Bowl.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Ms. Kennedy: Oh, second.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded.
Ms. Kennedy: Let me just ask you, why has it taken so long to go to the
Tourist Development Council for reimbursement?
Mr. Plummer: Oh, because it's a hassle.
Ms. Kennedy: OK.
Mr. Odio: No, we had a problem —well, well...
Ms. Kennedy: All right, second.
Mr. Plummer: A lot of that's going to be dissolved in the future.
Mr. Odio: It was...so with the...
Mr. Plummer: You bet your hippy.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. Call the question.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-487
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING BY A
4/5THS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF THE CITY COMMISSION THE
ACTIONS OF THE CITY MANAGER IN MAKING FINDINGS THAT AN
EMERGENCY NEED EXISTED AND IN APPROVING THE CONSTRUC-
TION OF THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM PRESS BOX ROOF TOP
CANOPY FOR THE 1985 FOOTBALL SEASON AT A TOTAL COST OF
$91,898.01 OF WHICH $61,737.86 REPRESENTS THE COST OF
THE EMERGENCY PURCHASE OF SAID CANOPY FROM THE ORION
CORPORATION AND $30,160.15 IS THE FEE FOR PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES IN THE PREPARATION OF FINAL PLANS, SPECIFICA-
TIONS, COORDINATION OF THE PROJECT AND OVERSEEING THE
FAST -TRACKING OF THE PROJECT BY KUNDE, SPRECHER,
YASKIN AND ASSOCIATES; FURTHER ALLOCATING SAID TOTAL
AMOUNT FROM THE FISCAL YEAR 1985-86 ORANGE BOWL
STADIUM OPERATING BUDGET.
(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 -
Id 201 June 12, 1986
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Dawkins: While we are on this Mr. Manager.
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, second reading, right?
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, you are right. I'm sorry, Mr. Plummer.
Mayor Suarez: We don't need a second reading for a resolution.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, four fifths.
Mr. Plummer: Is it a second reading or just four fifths? Oh, OK.
Mayor Suarez: But it's just a resolution.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Ms. Kennedy: And 61 also is four fifth.
Mayor Suarez: 61.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, what do we plan to do to the Marine Stadium in
order to encourage the Baltimore Orioles to stay in Miami?
Mr. Plummer: Not the Marine Stadium. The Baseball Stadium.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, Miami Stadium. Now, I have gone up stairs and I will not
walk from the main building to the press box, because it look like it's going
to fall down. What are you going to do to encourage the Orioles to stay here?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir. We...the press box will be completely rebuilt.
Mr. Dawkins: OK.
Mr. Odio: A brand new press box. The drawings from the architect has been
completed and it will be ready for the next season.
Mr. Dawkins: Just the press box?
Mr. Odio: Just the press the box. Now, the other...I had breakfast this
morning with the owner of the Baltimore Orioles, Edward Bennett Williams and
the one thing he is very concerned about is the roof, and I talked to Jack
Eads and Walter Colby this morning, to get an estimated on what it would take
to replace the roof and see if possible to do it for this season, if not, for
the other season, for the upcoming...
Mr. Dawkins: OK. Send me a memo, sir, as to what your plans are so that we
can inform them of what we plan to do, so that we can let them know that we
appreciate their being here.
Mr. Odio: Yes. Their other concern was the area where the stadium is at, and
I think the Mayor stopped by at that moment and contributed that idea and that
he also had of having a ramp off I-95 come directly to the stadium and then
light the parking lot and that would really help that stadium. He also
encouraged us to continue the fight to bring a major league team here to
Miami. He thinks it's an ideal site for baseball, that if we had the right
facility with around forty-five thousand seats, that we could get an expansion
team here.
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Mr. Dawkins: It gets hot here in August. I'm not going to sit out there to
watch a baseball team.
Mr. Odio: Yes, well, that's ... he said that. He said that we should play
night games.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. OK. All right, now just get that ... will you give all of us
a notice of what you are planning? Thank you.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir, I will do that.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, I will take a copy of that.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
75. ALLOCATE $15,202.50 FOR HALF PAGE BLACK/WHITE AD IN TIME MAGAZINE SPECIAL
SUPPLEMENT OF U.S. HISPANIC BUSINESS.
Mayor Suarez: Any other items that...
Ms. Kennedy: 61.
Ms. Dougherty: Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Suarez: Another one requiring four fifths, is 61 as long as we have got
four of us here.
Mr. Dawkins: Joe, is here. Move 61.
Mayor Suarez: So moved.
Ms. Kennedy: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded, any further discussion from the Commission? Call the
roll on 61. You want a minute Commissioner?
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-488
A RESOLUTION WAIVING, BY A 4/5THS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF THE
CITY COMMISSION, COMPETITIVE BID AND REQUIREMENTS AND
ALLOCATING AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $15,202.50 FORM SPECIAL
PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND, TOWARD THE COST OF
ACQUIRING SPACE FOR A HALF PAGE BLACK AND WHITE ADVERTISE-
MENT IN THE TIME MAGAZINE SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ON U.S.
HISPANIC BUSINESS; SUBJECT TO METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY
CONTRIBUTING AN EQUAL AMOUNT TO COVER A TOTAL ADVERTISING
COST OF $30,405.00.
(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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
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76. DEFER POSSIBLE FENCING OF THE DEAD END SECTION OF ROYAL ROAD AT FRANKLIN
AVENUE.
Mr. Odio: Mr. Mayor, she has been here waiting patiently on 88.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, I'm sorry. It wasn't listed as a personal appearance.
Ms. Esther Mae Armbrister: No, I'm not here for a personal ... I don't know
what you are going to do about it and who is down here to discuss this.
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Mayor Suarez: OK.
Ms. Armbrister: It dead ends in my street.
Mayor Suarez: OK. Why don't we take up 88. Fair enough. Did I...
Mr. Don Cather: We have a request from the pastor of Saint Hugh Catholic
Church enclosing a petition signed by the neighbors requesting the City to
fence the dead end section of Royal Road. We are not requesting to block off
the street, just erect a fence. We put barricades at the end of dead end
streets. We have never put a fence at the end. A fence is the same as a
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barricade except that we would have to protect it with a barricade. The
question is, does the Commission want to start a policy of fencing the ends of
streets off? There are, you know, hundreds of dead end streets in this city.
Mayor Suarez: The dead end section of Franklin Avenue. I'm trying to remem-
ber...
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Mr. Cather: It's Franklin and Royal Road. It's just up from Devon on
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the...right pass Saint Hugh Catholic Church off of Main Highway.
Mayor Suarez: Yes.
Mr. Cather: There is one little dead end section there and apparently they
have had trouble and people run through the road there onto the next block.
Mayor Suarez: Can it be as a ... can it be done as a temporary thing just to
try it out?
Mr. Cather: Well, the cost of a temporary fence is about the same as a
permanent fence.
Mayor Suarez: Or barricades.
Mr. Cather: Barricade? We always put barricades at the end streets so that
people don't run through them.
Mayor Suarez: Do they have them there?
Mr. Cather: I presume they do. Yes. I haven't gone...
Mayor Suarez: I don't remember seeing them there. You want to...
Mr. Cather: Yes. But the barricades are easy, but they don't want a barri-
cade. They want a fence so that pedestrians can't run.
Mayor Suarez: Well, but maybe they don't get a fence just yet, maybe they get
a barricade. Ma'am do you want to...
Ms. Esther Mae Armbrister: The owners that live in the townhouse on Franklin
Avenue has put up a grill iron petition that connects my fence with their
fence to keep the boys from running through there, when they steal and run
through... snatch jewelry and purses.
Mayor Suarez: Why don't you tell us your address and also your name.
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Ms. Esther Mae Armbrister: My name is Esther Mae Armbrister and I live at
3350 Charles Avenue. Royal Road dead ends at the back of my house. Now,
there is a fence about eighteen feet high and my fence is only five feet high.
So, since they have cut off that path so they can't run through there so
easily, now, they still climb that high piece that's been added in there and
walking on my fence. Now, I have told them that the next time I see one doing
it, I'm going to put some nails in a board and tie it on my fence and when
they step on that they will know they have been had. Now, I'm not going to
have that and see what happens too, they...I'm not kidding! I've got to
protect myself, because you don't do it. Now, the police have been com-
ing ... Friday, Saturday and Sunday night we cannot rest for them snatching
pocket books up there to the Taurus and running through. The same thing
happens at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, and they don't live in the Grove, they
live Overtown and run right straight on through, because they know where to
run and get on the motor rail and go about their business. Now, I don't see
how you are going to fence that off. I really don't. The only thing I know
you can do know now is put some barbed wire on the top of my fence to keep
them from climbing. That will slow them down for a while, and I just feel
sorry for the people who are living in townhouses. You can't do it. I don't
see you cutting off. If you barricade the street, then the people got to get
into the townhouses. See, there are people living back there... You need to
see it before you can...
Mayor Suarez: Yes, you got.
Ms. Armbrister: You got to see it.
Mayor Suarez: I'm going to move to defer this item,...
Ms. Armbrister: You got to see it.
Mayor Suarez:... pass the Chair to Commissioner Dawkins and I'm going to want
to go see what that looks like over there.
Ms. Armbrister: Right.
Mayor Suarez: Move to defer. You want to second?
Ms. Armbrister: Thank you.
Mayor Suarez: Commissioner Carollo, you want to second the motion to defer
this item?
Mr. Carollo: Sure
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, call the roll.
THEREUPON a motion was introduced by Mayor Suarez, and seconded by
Commissioner Carollo to defer Item #88 and was passed and adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
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77. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: PROVIDE METHOD FOR AMENDMENTS TO CHARTER.
Mr. Don Cather: 59 and 60.
Mayor Suarez: You are begging for 59 and 60, what do we got there, assessment
rolls?
Mr. Cather: No, pay the contractors.
Mr. Odio: Pay the contractors, sir.
Mayor Suarez: We are hanging by a thread here. We barely have a quorum.
Mr. Odio: Accepting the completed work of FRE.
Ms. Dougherty: Mayor, don't forget my Charter Amendment. My Charter proce-
dure ordinance.
Mayor Suarez: Oh. Let's do that real quick. Madam City Attorney? Commis-
sioner Carollo, Madam...Madam City Attorney. Lucia has suggested that we pass
an ordinance that will enable us to do what we wanted to do on these Charter
Amendments. Can you explain why you want us to do this?
Ms. Dougherty: It's simply a procedure that is going to be established by
ordinance about Charter Amendments. We don't have one. The Dade County
Charter requires us to have one, and we haven't had one, and I would suggest
we pass it on first reading today.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: So, you figure you would spring it on us today as long as we
were dilly dalling around with the Charter, right?
Mr. Dawkins: OK. Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, do we have a second? Joe?
Mr. Carollo: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING A METHOD BY WHICH AMENDMENTS TO
THE CITY CHARTER SHALL BE DRAFTED; REQUIRING CITY
COMMISSION APPROVAL OF THE AMENDED CHARTER TO BE VOTED
UPON BY THE ELECTORATE; SETTING FORTH TIME REQUIRE-
MENTS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION, AN EFFECTIVE
DATE AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner
Carollo and was passed on its first reading by title by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer. Jr.
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and an-
nounced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission and
to the public.
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78. ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK OF F.R.E. CONSTRUCTION CO. FOR EDISON HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT PHASE I
Mayor Suarez: Item 59 now. Authorizing final payment and accepting the
completed work.
Mr. Cather: Edison Highway Improvement Phase I.
Mayor Suarez: I'm sorry.
Mr. Cather: I said
this is Edison Highway
Improvement Phase I. The contract
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has been completed and we still owe them.
Mayor Suarez: Item
59. Edison Highway.
Now, what...was that 12th Avenue?
You told me the work
is finally completed up
there.
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Mr. Cather: This is 62nd to 67th Street
between Northwest 2nd Avenue and
Northwest 4th Court.
The bids were received
in 10/84...
Mayor Suarez: East of the expressway.
Mr. Cather: Yes.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, that was a mess, yes. That's finished. The work up there
is finished, North of 62nd Street?
Mr. Gather: Yes. Yes* sir, it was completed 1/2/86.
Mayor Suarez: Wow, that's the best news I have heard all day. All right.
There was so much dirt out there. I will entertain a motion on Item 59...
Ms. Kennedy: I so move.
Mayor Suarez:... accepting the completed work and making the final payment.
Ms. Kennedy: And authorize final payment.
Mayor Suarez: So, moved.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Suarez: Seconded, any further discussion, call the roll on 59.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-489
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF FRE CONSTRUC-
TION COMPANY AT A TOTAL COST OF $683,032.81 FOR EDISON
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE I (BID "B") IN EDISON HIGHWAY
IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT H-4494; AND AUTHORIZING A FINAL
PAYMENT OF $59,640.93.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote-
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AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ASSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
79. ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK OF LANZO CONSTRUCTION CO. FOR WEST FLAGLER STREET
SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT PHASE II.
Mayor Suarez: Item 60.
Mr. Cather: This is the West Flagler Street Sanitary Sewer Improvement Phase
II, Centerline. The final payment is sixty-four thousand dollars.
Mayor Suarez: We spent a little less than we expected?
Mr. Cather: No, this is the final payment.
Mayor Suarez: The total cost was less than the original contract amount is
what I'm saying right?
Mr. Cather: The original contract was three seventy-one and we ... completed
amount was three sixty-three. It was eight thousand dollars less than the
contract, yes.
Mayor Suarez: That's always good news. I will entertain a motion on Item 60.
Ms. Kennedy: So move.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Suarez: Moved and seconded, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-490
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF LANZO CON-
STRUCTION COMPANY AT A TOTAL COST OF $363,672.40 FOR WEST
FLAGLER STREET SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II IN
WEST FLAGLER STREET SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II
DISTRICT SR-5495-C (CENTERLINE SEWER); AND AUTHORIZING A
FINAL PAYMENT OF $64,733.44.
(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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
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80. AUTHORIZE REIMBURSEMENT OF $2,800 INCURRED BY SPARBER, SHEVIN, ROSEN,
SHAPO & HEILRONNER, CITY LOBBYIST.
Mayor Suarez: Now, you are going to try it again? Now, he is gone now, you
might want to get up there... No, really, seriously, on Item 90 is what you
are concerned about. We have some payments that we absolutely contractually
have to pay.
Ms. Pauline Winick: I want to assure you that we have not paid anything.
Mayor Suarez: Right. But I mean, we have some that if we didn't pay we would
have a nice lawsuit in our hands, because work was done and certain costs were
incurred.
Ms. Winick: I agree with you. That's why we need to
Mayor Suarez: Now, ... but you are not asking us to pay the entire amount for
the whole year?
Ms. Winick: No, no, no, that comes out... We haven't paid any.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Ms. Winick: They give us ... send us a monthly bill.
Mayor Suarez: How much are you asking for at this point?
Ms. Winick: As of now they have invoiced us twenty-eight hundred dollars in
expenses. Approximately twenty-eight hundred.
Mayor Suarez: Well, we certainly ought to pay that. I mean, I don't...
Ms. Winick: They won't sign...
Mr. Odio: It would be easier if we did it up to ten thousand.
Ms. Kennedy: But wait a second, twenty-eight hundred dollars each one or...
Mr. Odio: That's what they have turn in so far in expenses.
Ms. Winick: We are at a philosophical impasse is what it is, because they ---
and I think you would agree Mr. Mayor, it's typical when you do fees with a
professional that there is a fee, and what we have not paid them and what the
stumbling block is any out of pocket expenses. So, and when we listened to
the tapes it never expressed anything on expenses. So, they don't want to
sign contract because the question of XEROX or phone calls or zap mail is not
addressed.
Mayor Suarez: Have we paid them any fees so far on the contract?
Mr. Odio: No.
Ms. Winick: No, sir we haven't even signed the contract.
Mayor Suarez: And they don't want to sign it?
Ms. Winick: They do not...
Mayor Suarez:... having received no payments for cost or fees, and there being
some ambiguity as to cost and addition to fees, and there being other problems
with principles of the law firm and they don't want to sign the contract?
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Ms. Winick: That is ... you have just succinctly stated it. Yes.
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Mayor Suarez: I'm not even going to comment on that except, if I were them, I
would sign the contract.
Mr. Carollo: Why don't you bring it back at the next Commission meeting.
Mayor Suarez: You want to approve even the payment of cost. I mean, I...see,
I guess if we approve the payment of cost impliedly we are saying that that is
a separate item from the rest of the...
Ms. Winick: Well, I think in all fairness to the law firm we agreed, we, you
know, we stated as a public body, you all voted on that contract. I mean, you
know...
Mayor Suarez: Yes. I voted against, but go ahead.
Ms. Winick: Well, all right, but I mean, it was the will of the City Commis—
sion and it really...
Mayor Suarez: That was, and it was a hundred forty thousand wasn't it?
Ms. Winick: Yes, it was.
Mayor Suarez:
And we didn't specify whether
that meant including cost or not?
Ms. Winick:
We went back several times and
listened to the tape.
Mayor Suarez:
Wow.
Ms. Winick:
And I think that...
Mayor Suarez:
And the agreement that we are proposing for them to sign says
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that it includes
cost, that they cannot bill
us separately for cost?
Ms. Winick:
No. We are asking for you to,
with the Manager's prior approval
that we should
pay ordinary expenses.
Mayor Suarez:
As a separate item.
Mr. Odio: It's a normal thing to do.
Mayor Suarez: Even though they have an office in Tallahassee. So, they don't
have any travel included in there I presume, right?
Mr. Odio: They are very —they have turned in very low bills...
Ms. Winick: No, when Linden Cary Rutledge come here, I think that that's an
appropriate expense for us.
Mayor Suarez: When they come here you said.
Ms. Winick: Right.
Mr. Odio: They come here to...
Mayor Suarez: Well, have they come here so far?
Mr. Winick: They have come for the legislative...
Mayor Suarez: Oh, because I have only seen them up there in Tallahassee.
Ms. Winick: No, they have come down for the Legislative Task Force.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, I...
Ms. Winick: I think there is XEROX expenses and things like that. Right.
Mayor Suarez: That's right, I guess I don't go to those meetings, but they
were quite useful in Tallahassee, I have to admit.
Mr. Odio: Yes, they were.
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Ms. Winick: And I really think that that is really the normal...
Mayor Suarez: Not a hundred forty thousand dollars useful, but they were
useful.
Ms. Winick: Well, the year is not up yet. But I think that that would be an
ordinary thing that we should agree to pay them out of pocket expenses.
Mayor Suarez: What's the Commission's pleasure? You want to...
Mr. Carollo: Well, I think that you should spend more time with them in
Tallahassee so they can gain some experience. What are you requesting Commis-
sioner?
Ms. Kennedy: What do you recommend?
Ms. Winick: Well, I'm recommending that with the Manager's prior approval,
that we pay out of pocket expenses. I think you should take heart in that
they have only submitted bills for twenty-seven hundred dollars so far, and if
the Manager can have your approval up to ---let's say ---ten thousand dollars...
Mr. Carollo: Yes.
Ms. Winick: It's typical on all those other contracts, for instance, that we
have had prior.
Mr. Carollo: How much did Rick Sisser spend in, you know, out of pocket
expenses in the past?
Ms. Winick: Forty...well, it's forty-eight, plus I think five. I think it
was about five thousand. It's between three and five thousand dollars in out
of pocket expenses. And Marilyn Reed has that. I mean, that's really...
Mr. Carollo: What do you think that we approve? Ten thousand you said.
Ms. Winick: Up to.
Mr. Carollo: Up to ten thousand for the Manager.
Ms. Winick Up to with prior approval by the City Manager.
Ms. Kennedy: You know, I thought I had misunderstood, and I just asked the
Manager. I was concerned yesterday that they would come up with, I don't
know, fifty thousand or...
Mayor Suarez: Well, but they haven't yet, because they haven't hit us with
the fees yet.
Mr. Odio: Yep.
Ms. Kennedy: Yes, but the twenty-eight hundred is collectively just for cost.
Mayor Suarez: This is just cost.
Ms. Kennedy: Yes, but, I don't know...
Mayor Suarez: We don't know what they demanding in terms of fees.
Ms. Winick: Fees are a separate issue.
Mayor Suarez: Right.
Ms. Kennedy: Yes, I understand.
Ms. Winick; We know what the fees are.
Mr. Odio; No, we know what the fees are.
Ms. Kennedy: The fees we approved.
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Ms. Winick: You passed the fees.
Mr. Odio: No. no, the fees are set.
Mr. Carollo: They are a hundred forty. Yes, they are set. They can't change
that.
Mr. Odio: The only problem we had was that you did not. ..and I guess we did
not inform you at the time that they have to pay out of pocket expense, and we
left it out.
Mr. Carollo: Is that a one year or two year?
Ms. Winick: One year.
j Mr. Odio: One year.
Mr. Carollo: One year.
Mayor Suarez: I once again would say that if I were them I would sign that
contract and...
i Mr. Odio: Me too, but you know...
Mayor Suarez:...and assume that the fee ---the cost were included in the
hundred forty thousand dollars. I...
Ms. Winick: But Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Suarez: If this doesn't prejudice our legal position on the con-
4 tract... anyhow, Commissioner, are you going to make a motion to pay the cost?
Mr. Carollo: Well...
Mayor Suarez: Why don't we just make a motion just to pay the twenty-eight
hundred dollar invoice without prejudicing our position as to the interpreta-
tion of what this Commission did?
Ms. Winick: Well. I would ask your City Attorney, who's advice...
Mr. Carollo: Madam City Attorney?
Mayor Suarez: Would that prejudice our position?
Mr. Carollo: Can we hear from Mount Olympias.
Ms. Dougherty: We don't have a contract with them. We approved a contract
that we felt included cost unless specifically authorized by you to not
include the cost, and that's why we are here today. It's up to you to do with
as you want. They have an option of signing the contract with the costs
included or having you approve the cost as extra.
Mayor Suarez: And so they come to us for payment of the cost only without
signing the contract in the hope that we will pay him the cost and then he can
say that was part of the...
Mr. Odio: No, because...
Mayor Suarez: That was a separate item.
Mr. Odio: No, let me see if I...
Ms. Dougherty: There was a misunderstanding as far as they are concerned.
Mr. Odio: Yes.
Ms. Dougherty: They always thought that the cost would not be included in the
contract. You did not specifically authorize the cost to be extra. There-
fore, we interpreted it to be included in the contract. Now, it's up to you
to exclude it or include it.
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Mr. Carollo: Well, we could approve the twenty-eight hundred if you want and
take it from there or take their suggestion, whichever one you want.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, cause the implication of not paying cost is that they have
not fairly incurred them and that really is a problem for me, because I have
seen them work up there.
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Mr. Carollo: No, haven't, there is no question about that.
Mayor Suarez: OK. You want to make that in the form of a motion Commission-
er? Just the invoice for cost.
Ms. Dougherty: By the way, we will also have to pay the professional services
that they have incurred during this period of time, if they don't ... if they
don't...
Mayor Suarez: Well, we will see later what we pay given the cost that we are
paying them at this point. That's all the invoice is for and that's all we
are paying. Moved and seconded, any further discussion from the Commission?
Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Kennedy, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-491
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE REIMBURSEMENT OF OUT-OF-
POCKET EXPENSES IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,800 INCURRED BY THE
LAW FIRM OF SPARBER, SHEVIN, SHAPO, HEILBRONNER & BOOK,
P.A., THE CITY'S LOBBYIST WITH MONIES FOR SAID EXPENSES
BEING ALLOCATED FROM ACCOUNT #920216-270 SUBJECT TO THE
APPROVAL OF THE CITY MANAGER UPON HIS RECEIPT OF ITEMIZED
INVOICES.
(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 Joe Carollo
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
81. DEFER APPOINTMENT TO AUDIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
Mayor Suarez: Any other items that... well, let's just keep going as long as
we have got the energy here. 52.
Mr. Odio: We don't have many left.
Mayor Suarez: We have got. Really these are...
Mr. Odio: It's appointment...
Mayor Suarez:... appointments...
Ms. Kennedy: Who's appointments are they?
Mr. Odio: OK.
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Mayor Suarez: I had appointed Daryl Sharpton to this committee.
Mr. Odio: You need to appoint three members. Although, the City Code allows
each member of the City Commission to recommend one member, all resigning
members were originally recommended by Mayor Ferre.
Mr. Carollo: Mayor who?
Mr. Odio: Mayor Ferre. Maurice A. Ferre.
Mr. Dawkins: At least eight of them.
Mayor Suarez: No, we are talking about 52, right?
Mr. Odio: 52. So, you...
Ms. Kennedy: But who's appointments are they?
Mr. Odio: They were Ferre's appointments. They all resigned. So, the...
Mr. Dawkins: So, now they are Xavier's appointments.
Mr. Carollo: No, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What do you
mean Ferre's appointment, all three?
Mr. Odio: That's what the note that I...
Mr. Carollo: OK. There are ... he has got three appointments to where? To the
Audit Committee?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Carollo: No, no, how many members do we have there?
Mr. Odio: What is the total number of...
Mr. Carlos Garcia: The total ... A total of five members. Right now we...
Mr. Carollo: What do you mean Ferre has got three members?
Mr. Carlos Garcia: Well, he did recommend all five members. That's what the
record indicates back then and the City Commission approved that. Of those
five members, we have two left, Daryl Sharpton and Fred Santiago.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, well, wait a minute. Let me explain to you the way things
work in this City. Ferre recommended them because he knew that some of the
others here wanted them. Otherwise, Ferre, would not have gotten all three of
them.
Mayor Suarez: All five.
Mr. Carollo: OK. So, let's straighten that out.
Ms. Kennedy: OK. So, then we all have.. what you are saying we all have to
get together on this and tell the new Mayor...
Mr. Carollo: Well, what I'm saying is that there are three members to ap-
point. I suggest that each of us would come to the next meeting and bring
some names and hopefully, we will come to a consensus.
Mayor Suarez: And who is presently on it?
Mr. Garcia: Daryl Sharpton is one, and Fred Santiago is the other one.
Mayor Suarez: And how much long do they have to serve?
Mr. Garcia: Indefinitely.
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June 12, 1986
Mr. Carollo: But also there are some guidelines that we have to meet. We
needed some people that...
Mr. Garcia: Yes, sir. They should have a financial banking or accounting
background.
Mr. Carollo: Exactly. Well, why don't you give to each member of the Commis-
sion the requirements that are needed for the individual people, because we
wanted to have a balance in there, not just...
Mayor Suarez: You know, I have another suggestion here, if it's five members,
if they have indefinite terms, why don't we just go ahead and assign to each
Commissioner one nomination, and we can go ahead and name all five.
Mr. Carollo: OK. I will take mine and bring a name.
Mayor Suarez: I don't mean we necessary have to do now, but maybe after we
have had a chance to look at the criteria that are suggested by you.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, if the Mayor has got...if Mayor Suarez puts Sharpton, I
will accept Santiago as my appointment. So, all the other three will have one
appointment.
Mayor Suarez: OK. I will nominate Haydee Ceballos, who is a CPA.
Mr. Carollo: Well, wait a minute, Miller has just said that you were going to
take somebody else...
Mr. Dawkins: OK. No problem.
Mr. Carollo: ... so the other three would have one.
Mr. Dawkins: No problem...
Mayor Suarez: Santiago, you said.
Mr. Carollo: Miller take Santiago, you take Shaft.
Mr. Dawkins: No, I said Sharpton, but that's OK. No problem.
Mayor Suarez: Oh, no Daryl Sharpton. I'm not sure that Daryl can even serve
anymore. He has been involved in doing work for the City directly. Can Daryl
serve? All right, we will just.
Ms. Kennedy: I will bring mine next time.
Mr. Dawkins: OK. Leave it alone. Leave it alone until the next meeting.
Mayor Suarez: Yes, let's look at it ... and do get that criteria to us Carlos,
as Commissioner Carollo requested.
82. APPOINT ARMANDO PARES TO WATERFRONT BOARD.
Mayor Suarez: 53 is Carollo's appointment pending.
Mr. Carollo: That's right, and I want to name Armando Pares.
Mayor Suarez: 53.
Mr. Dawkins: I will second.
Mayor Suarez: Call the roll on that appointment, nomination.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Carollo, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 86-492
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS TO SERVE ON
THE MIAMI WATERFRONT BOARD.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Rosario Kennedy
Vice -Mayor Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Xavier L. Suarez
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mr. Carollo: I understand that that individual is going to be heading the
Watson Island Committee for the Waterfront Board. So, that's quite an impor-
tant appointment.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Item 54 was deferred.
THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS TO CONE BEFORE THE CITY
COMMISSION, THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 7:02 O'clock P.M.
ATTEST:
Matty Hirai
CITY CLERK
Xavier L. Suarez
M A Y 0 R
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IAR
ImfY OF PAAMI
DOCUMENT
MEETING DATE
JUNE 12, 1986
NDEX�
DOCL*VIT IDENTIFICATION I COACTIONON An. CODEIEVAI O.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ADVERTISE, RE-
CEIVE, AND ACCEPT PROPOSLS FOR TEMPORARY
NON-EXCLUSIVE CONCESSION PRIVILEGES AT
VIRGINIA KEY BEACH DURING THE CITY SPONSORED
1986 SPLASHDOWN CONCERT SERIES SCHEDULED
FOR JUNE 29, JULY 27 AND AUGUST 24, 1986;
ETC...
ALLOCATE $67,000. TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
PARKS AND RECREATION FOR THE VIRGINIA BEACH
FAMILY SPLASHDOWN DISCO '86 SERIES.
AUTHORIZE OFFICIALS OF CITY OF MIAMI TO
ACCEPT THIRTY ONE (31) DEEDS OF DEDICATION
FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES; ETC...
ACCEPT PLAT ENTITLED B.D. GARDENS AND ACCEPT
THE DEDICATIONS SHOWN ON SAID PLAT; ETC...
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO DISPOSE OF FUR-
NISHINGS LAND ADQUISITION ACTIVITIES,. ASSO-
CIATES WITH THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK
WEST REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND NOT GENERALLY
SALVAGEABLE; ETC....
ACCEPT BID OF RADIO SHACK CO. FOR FUR-
NISHING C.B. RADIO EQUIPMENT TO THE DEPART-
MENT OF POLICE ($9,300.60); ETC....
ACCEPT BID OF MONTE CAMPBELL CRANE FOR
THE RENTAL OF FOUR (4) HYDRAULIC CRANES
TO DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL SERVICES ADMINIS-
TRATION ($7, 200.); ETC...
ACCEPT BIDS OF P.A. SPORTWEAR ($4,362.54)
FOR FURNISHING UNIFORM TEE SHIRTS AND JULES
BROTHERS ($1,636.80) FOR FURNISHING BASEBALL
CAPS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE
AND INSPECTION SERVICES (FIRST YEAR COST
$5,999.34); ETC....
86-417
86-419
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DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION
ACCEPT BID OF VENDEX INTERNATIONAL CORP.
FOR FURNISHING 3M BRAND "LIGHT WATER 30/60
"ACQUEOUS FILM FORMING FOAM TO THE DEPART-
MENT OF FIRE, RESCUE & INSPECTION SERVICES
($4,659.00); ETC...
ACCEPT BID OF IDEAL ROOFING AND SHEET METAL
WORKS, INC. ($68,618.00) FOR FIRE STATION
NO. 4 - REROOFING; ETC...
ACCEPT BID OF P.N.M. CORP. ($394,459.13)
FOR CITY WIDE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE
II B-4515 TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST; ETC...
ACCEPT BID THE JULES BROTHERS UNIFORMS
FOR FURNISHING WORK UNIFORMS ON A CONTRACT
BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR RENEWABLE ($80,912.81)
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK OF PENINSULAR ELECTRI-
CAL COMPANY, INC. ($34,505.00) FOR BI-
CENTENNIAL PARK -PRIMARY ELECTRIC DUCT; ETC..
ORDER MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE
IV H-4519 AND DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY
AGAINST WHICH SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS SHALL
BE MADE FOR A PORTION OF THE COST; ETC...
AUTHORIZE TO NEGOTIATE AN AGREEMENT WITH
CERTAIN LAW FIRM TO SERVE AS PRIMARY BOND
COUNSEL. DESIGNATING SAID FIRMS IN THE
FOLLOWING RANK ORDER, (A) GREENBERG; TRAURIG;
ASKEW; HOFFMAN; LIPOFF; ROSEN & QUENTEL
(B) HOLLAND & KNIGHt; (C) BROAD AND CASSEL;
ETC...
AUTHORIZE CITY ATTORNEY TO ENTER INTO A
SETTLEMENT STIPULATION IN CASE OF ROLLE,
ET, AL. V. CITY OF MIAMI, FL.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND INDIVIDUAL
CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENT WITH FOUR (4) NEIGH-
BORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS
TO WAIVE THE REQUIREMENT ($16,500.)
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86-425
86-426
86-427
86-429
86-430
86-431
86-432
86-433
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CONTINUED
DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION
RATIFY/APPROVE/CONFIRM TH`8 AMENDMENT NO.
2 DATED SEPTEMBER 26, 1985 AMENDING THE
MARCH 1, 1984 AGREEMENT WITH NEW WASHING -
TON HEIGHTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CONFEREN-
CE, INC. ("NWHCDC").
APPROVE CITY ATTORNEY'S SELECTION AND AUTHO-
RIZE THE EMPLOYMENT OF HOFFMAN, LIPOFF,
ROSEN & QUENTAL, P.A. TO SERVE AS PRIMERY
BOND COUNSEL FOR ISSUANCE OF $22,000,000
CITY GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS SERIES 1986;
ETC....
APPROVE STATEMENT PERTAINING TO $22,000
OF CITY OF MIAMI GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS;
ETC....
FIX CERTAIN DETAILS CONCERNING $12,000,000.
POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND CRIME PREVENTION
FACILITIES BONDS, $5,000,000. STORM SEWER
IMPROVEMENT BONDS, $3,000,000. SANITARY
SEWER SYSTEM BONDS AND $2,000,000. STREET
AND HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT BONDS OF CITY OF
MIAMI; ETC...
DESIGNATE THE LAND SURVEYE SERVICES FOR
CITY OF MIAMI PROJECTS - 1986 AS A CATEGORY
"B" PROJECT; APPOINT A CERTIFICATION COMMITTE
OF NOT LESS THAN THREE QUALIFIED PROFESSIO-
NALS; APPROVE CITY MANAGER'S APPOINTMENT
OF A COMPETITIVE SELECTION COMMITTEE
NOT LESS THAN 6 MEMBERS; APPOINT JUM LEUKA-
NECH P.E. AS CHAIRPERSON OF THE COMPETITI-
VE COMMITTEE.
ALLOCATE $48,000.00 FROM CITY OF MIAMI
LAW ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND TO COVER NECESSA-
RY COST/EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACQUI-
TION OF CONSULTANT SERVICES OF A CRISIS
COUNSELOR TO BE AVAILABLE FORTY HOURS WEEK
AND TO PROVIDE SERVICES A 24 HOURS ON -
CALL BASIS TO ADMINISTER TO THE NEEDS OF
THE MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL.
ACCEPT BID OF MIRI CONSTRUCTION, INC.
($69,877.50) FOR CITY WIDE SANITARY SEWER
REPLACEMENT - DESIGN PLAZA - SR-5524 TO
COVER THE CONTRACT COST.
86-434
86-435
86-436
86-437
86-439
86-440
DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION
ACCEPT BID OF HELENA CHEMICAL CO. FOR FUR-
NISHING WEED KILLER ON A CONTRACT BASIS
FOR ONE (1) YEAR RENEWABLE ANNUALLY TO
THE DEPARTMENTS OF PARK/RECREATION AND
PUBLIC WORKS ($31,936.00).
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREE-
MENT IN THE ATTACHED FORM WITH SYLVESTER
LUKIS ASSOCIATES, FOR PROFESSIONAL LEGISLA-
TIVE CONSULTANT SERVICES CONCERNING FEDERAL
LEGISLATION WHICH IMPACTS ON CITY OF MIAMI
AND ITS CITIZENS ($45,000.00).
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREE-
MENT IN THE ATTACHED FORM WITH NATIONAL
CENTER FOR MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT, INC.
TO CONTINUE REPRESENTATION OF CITY OF MIAMI
IN WASHINGTON D.C. BY MR. MARK ISRAEL
($20,000.). (LIASON MAN IN WASHINGTON PRO-
GRAM) .
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AND AGREE-
MENT WITH METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY FOR
IMPLEMENTING THE PUBLIC HOUSING SAFETY/SECU-
RITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT ($250,000.00);
ETC...
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREE-
MENT IN THE FORM ATTACHED HERETO WITH ALBERT
S. PEREZ ASSOCIATES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
FOR DINNER KEY MARINA RENOVATION DAN EXPAN-
SION PROJECT ($9,200.00); ETC...
RESCIND IN ITS ENTIRETY RESOLUTION NO.
86-439 ADOPTED JUNE 12, 1986 WHICH HAD
ALLOCATED FUNDS TO COVER COST OF CONSULTANT
SERVICES FOR A CRISIS COUNSELOR SERVING
POLICE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL.
EXPRESS THE INTENT OF THE COMMISSION OF
CITY OF MIAMI NEEDS FOR SUPPLIES/MATERIAL
AND EQUIPMENT BE MET USING ONLY EQUIPMENT
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
ESTABLISH A SCHEDULE OF CONCESSION FEES
AND COMPENSATION FOR THE GRANTING AND EXER-
CISE OF CONCESSION PRIVILEGES IN CITY PARKS.
86-441
86-442
86-443
86-444
86-445
86-446.2
86-449
86-450
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CONTINUED
DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION
CONFIRM ASSESSMENT ROLL 'FOR CONSTRUCTION
OF MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT DONATION
OF 36 GOLF TEE MARKERS FROM THE WOMAN'S
GOLF ASSOCIATIONS OF MELREESE AND MIAMI
SPRING.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A GRANT
($20,000.00) FROM DANCE UMBRELLA, INC.
FOR RENOVATING MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY
CENTER THEATER; ETC...
ALLOCATE $1,479,902. OF 12TH YEAR COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS PREVIOUSLY
APPROPRIATED BY ORDINANCE NO. 10112 (JUNE
12, 1986) TO THE HEREIN NAMED SOCIAL SERVICE
AGENCIES FOR APPROVED SOCIAL SERVICE PROJECT;
ETC...
INTENT TO ALLOCATE $150,000.00 OF 12TH
YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
FUNDS PERVIOUSLY APPROPRIATED BY ORDINANCE
NO. 10112 (JUNE 12, 1986), TO SOUTH WEST
SOCIAL SERVICES, INC. FOR CONSTRUCTION
OF A SENIOR CENTER IN FLAGAMI PARK; ETC...
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREE-
MENT WITH GREATER MIAMI UNITED (G.M.U.)
($100,000.00) TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO
CITY FUNDED COMMUNITY BASED ORGANIZATIONS
INVOLVED IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECT;
ETC....
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE INDIVIDUAL
CONTRACTUAL AGREEMENTS WITH ELEVEN (11)
NEIGHBORHOOD ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZA-
T.IONS IN THE FORM ATTACHED HERETO FOR IMPLE-
MENTING A COMMERCIAL FACADE TREATMENT PRO-
GRAM.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREE-
MENT WITH DADE COUNTY, MONROE COUNTY, THE
CITY OF HIALEAH, AND THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH TO PARTICIPATE IN SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOY-
MENT; ETC....
I
86-453
86-456
86-457
86-461
86-464
86-466
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ENT,mlcN DEX
CONTINUED
COMMISSION RETRIEVAL
DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION I ACTION AND CODE NO.
ALLOCATE $82,500. FROM CITY OF MIAMI FISCAL
YEAR 1986 BUDGET S P A M F FOR GRANTS TO
THE PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL/SOUTH FLORIDA
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM AS LOCAL
CASH MATCH FOR A GRANT UNDER THE JOB TRAINING
PARTNERSHIP ACT.
CREATE CHARTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND AP-
POINT: ROBERT TRAURIG, ESQ.; PETER ROULHAC;
MARY ELLEN MILLER; NORMA KIPNIS-WILSON
AND CHARLES GOTTLIEB TO SERVE ON SAID COM-
MITTEE; ETC...
ALLOCATE $10,000.00 TO SEND DISADVANTAGED
YOUTH TO S;?MMFR, CAMP IN LAKE PLACID, FLORIDA,
JUNE 22 - AUGUST 23, 1986.
ALLOCATE $15,000.00 TO COVER USE OF MIAMI
MARINE STADIUM ON JULY 4, 12, AND 19, 1986
FOR THE SUMMER POPS CONCERT SERIES.
SUPPORT OF INTERNATIONAL YOUTH SOCCER TOUR-
NAMENT TO BE HELD IN MIAMI AND WISHING
THEM WELL IN THEIR ATHLETIC PURSUITS.
APPROVE EMERGENCY CONSTRUCTION OF ORANGE
BOWL STADIUM PRESS BOX ROOF TOP CANOPY
FOR 1985 FOOTBALL SEASON ($91,898.01);
ETC....
ALLOCATE $15,202.50 FOR A HALF PAGE BLACK
AND WHITE ADVERTISEMENT IN THE TIME MAGAZINE
SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT ON U.S. HISPANIC BUSINESS;
ETC...
(ACCEPT THE COMPLETED WORK OF THE FRE CONS-
T12UCTION COMPANY ($683,032.81) FOR EDISON
HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT - PHASE I (BID "B")
DISTRICT H-4494; ETC...
ACCEPT THE COMPLETED WORK OF LANZO CONSTRUC-
TION COMPANY AT A TOTAL COST OF $363,672.40
FOR WEST FLAGLER STREET SANITARY SEWER
IMPROVEMENT - PHASE II DISTRICT SR-5495
C (CENTERLINE SEWER); ETC.....
86-467
86-4 75
86-477
86-478
86-487
86-490
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CONTINUED
DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION ACTION AND CODE NO.
AUTHORIZE REINSBURSEMENT OF OUT-OF-POCKET 86-491
EXPENSES ($2,800.00) INCURRED BY LAW FIRM
OF SPARSER, SHEVIN, SHAPO, HEILBRONNER
& BOOK, P.A., THE CITY'S LOBBYIST; ETC...
APPOINT: ARMANDO PARES TO SERVE ON THE 86-492
MIAMI WATERFRONT BOARD.