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OF MEETING HELD ON October 25, 1983
PREPARED BY THE OFFICE OF THE' CITY CLERK
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RALPH G.. ONGIE
CITY CLERK
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ITEM NO.I REGULAR
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SUCT OCTOBER 25, 1983
1 FORMAL CEREMONY TO HONOR LOUISE VASQUEZ NAMED
POLICEWOMAN OF THE YEAR
2 APPROVE INTER LOCAL AGREEMENT ON THREE CENT ADDITIONAL
TOURIST TAX.
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4
5
7
9
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF RICHARD HORROW TO THE MIAMI
SPORTS AUTHORITY.
BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM -POLITICAL SIGNS.
REFER A REQUEST FOR FUNDING TO THE CITY MANAGER FOR STUDY
AND REPORT FROM THE BLACK TOURIST CONVENTION AUTHORITY.
ALLOCATE $10,000 TO THE LATIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR THE
HEMISPHERIC CONGRESS OF LATIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AFFILIATES WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY 27 MEMBERS.
REQUEST FOR FUNDING FOR THE 1984 CALLE OCHO FESTIVAL AND
THE EXPANSION OF THE FESTIVAL AREA BY FOUR BLOCKS.
(MATTER REFERRED TO THE CITY MANAGER).
REQUEST FOR FUNDING BY MR. JOSE FEITO, REPRESENTING THE
CUBAN DOCTORS TO GIVE OF THEIR FREE TIME TO
UNDERPRIVILEGED PERSONS FOR FUNDING.
(MATTER REFERRED TO THE CITY MANAGER).
REQUEST FO MR. MANUEL ARQUES REPRESENTING N.E.D.A.
NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION FOR FUNDING.
(MATTER REFERRED TO CITY MANAGER).
A MOTION OF CONDOLENCES TO THE FATHER OF SERGIO PEREIRA.
CONDOLENCES TO FORMER METRO COMMISSIONER ED GRAHAM
CONCERNING THE PASSING OF HIS WIFE ETHEL EVANS GRAHAM.
INSTRUCT CITY MANAGER TO RETURN A CHECK SUBMITTED IN ERROR
BY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CUBAN MUNICIPALITIES IN EXILE
FOR RENTAL OF LITTLE HAVANA COMMUNITY CENTER.
ALLOCATE AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO ONE DAY'S RENTAL OF COCONUT
GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER FOR USE BY THE PAN-HELLENIC COUNCI
AUTHORIZE THE CITY ELRK TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH
DELOITTE, HASKINS AND SELLS, CERTIFIED PUBLIC
ACCOUNTANTS FOR OUTSIDE COMPUTER AUDITING SERVICES,
CITY OF MIAMI ELECTION NOVEMBER 8TH AND 15TH, 1983.
APPOINT MR. SKIP SHEPPARD AS A MEMBER OF THE MIAMI SPORTS
AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY.
DISCUSSION ITEM REGARDING CANDIDACY OF RICARDO
RECHANI, CANDIDATE IN GROUP II. (SEE LATER FORMALIZED
RESOLUTION 83-891).
RESOLUTION CHANGING THE DATE OF THE NOVEMBER CITY
COMMISSION MEETING.
RESOLUTION CHANGING THE DATE OF THE DECEMBER CITY
COMMISSION MEETING.
9 AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH BUS
BENCHES COMPANY FOR INSTALLATION OF BUS BENCHES WITH AND
WITHOUT ADVERTISING IN THE PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY
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DISCUSSION 1-5
R-83-884 5-7
R-83-885 7-8
8-9
M-83-886 9-11
M-83-887 11-12
DISCUSSION 13-16
DISCUSSION 16-19
DISCUSSION 19-20
R-83-888 20
M-89-889 22
M-83-890 22-23
M-83-891 1 23-24
M-83-892 24-25
R-83-893 25-26
DISCUSSION
R-83-895
R-83-896
R-83-897
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29-32
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REGULAR SMCT OCTOBER 25, 1983
BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: ADVERTISING REQUIREMENTS.
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ORDINANCE
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ALLOCATE $3,000. TO THE JOINT CENTER OF ENVIROMENTAL
AND URBAN PROBLEMS TO RESEARCH THE EFFECT OF THE PROPOSED
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT KNOWN AS PROPOSITION ONE.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH WALTER
ALVAREZ FOR SHOWING CLOSED CIRCUIT PRESENTATION OF HAGLER
VERSUS DURAN FIGHT.
ACCEPT PROPOSED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FLOAT GUIDELINES.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE FUNDING FOR ONE
ADDITIONAL MONTH OF CONTINUED OPERATION OF THE METER BEATE
TRAM SERVICE IN DOWNTOWN.
DISCUSSION ITEM -CONTINUING AND WORSENING TRAFFIC
CONDITIONS IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
APPOINT MR. WILLIAM HARRISON AS A MEMBER OF THE WATERFRONT
BOARD REPLACING STUART SORG.
STRONGLY OPPOSING A PROPOSED METRO ORDINANCE REQUIRING
ALL CITY OWED MARINAS TO OBTAIN PERMITS FROM DADE COUNTY.
BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM -POSSIBLE USE OF LOCAL BOND COUNSEL.
BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM -POSSIBLE LOCATION FOR MOUNTED
PATROL AND CANINE POLICE UNITS.
APPROVE A PROPOSAL BY INTER-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
IN THE AMOUNT OF $100,000 FOR JOB TRAINING AND PLACEMENT
IN THE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT TRADE TO BENEFIT LITTLE
HAVANA AREA RESIDENTS.
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH NEW REVENUE FUNDS
RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED-8TH YEAR.
APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM FY'84: COMPREHENSIVE JOB
TRAINING PROGRAM FY '84. TEMPORARILY DEFERRED.
(SEE LATER SAME MEETING, LABEL 54).
PROVIDING FOR ISSUANCE AND FIX
ING AND DETERMINING THE DATE
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT, MATURITIES, INTEREST RATES AND
REDEMPTION IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NO EXCEEDING
$16,000,000. OF PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS.
IRREVOCABLY CALLING $8,375,000. AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
OF THE PARKING FACILITIES REVENUE BONDS SERIES 1980.
PLAQUES, PROCLAMATIONS AND SPECIAL ITEMS.
RECEIVE, OPEN AND READ SEALED BIDS FOR ALLAPATTAH
INDUSTRIAL AREA SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5497-C IN ALLAPATTAH
INDUSTRIAL AREA HIGHWAY PHASE I, H-4485.
RECEIVE, OPEN AND READ SEALED BIDS FOR GRAND AVENUE
SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENT H-4483.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE-AUNICE LIBERTY REGARDING A YOUTH
PROGRAM. MATTER REFERRED TO THE CITY MANAGER.
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DISCUSSION 37-38
R-83-898 38-39
R-83-899
M-83-900
M-83-901
DISCUSSION
M-83-902
R-83-903
DISCUSSION
DISCUSSION
M-8�-904
ORD. 9689
DISCUSSION
R-83-905
R-83-906
DISCUSSION
M-83-907-A
M-83-907-B
M-83-908
DISCUSSION
39-40
41
41-42
43-44
44-47
47-48
48-49
49
49-50
50-52
52-58
59-60
60-61
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63
64-66
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AUTHORT7.F. CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE $75,000 PURSUANT TO A
REQUEST BY THE NEW WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ADVISORY BOARD,
WITH CONDITIONS.
CONFIRM ORDERING RESOLUTION AND AUTHORIZE CITY CLERK TO
ADVERTISE SEALED BIDS CITY WIDE SANITARY SEWER
IMPROVEMENT EAST LITTLE HANAVA SR-5498-C.
CONFIRM ORDERING RESOLUTION AND AUTHORIZE CITY CLERK
TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EAST
LITTLE HAVANA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT -PHASE I-H-4487.
RATIFY EMERGENCY ACTION TAKEN BY THE CITY MANAGER IN THE
PURCHASE OF SPEAKERS FOR THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM.
AUTHORIZE INCREASE IN CONTRACT NOT TO EXCEED $51,000
M. VILA AND ASSOCIATES, INC., GARMENT CENTER COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT PAVING PROJECT B-4471.
WAIVE REQUIREMENTS AND PROHIBITION CONTAINED IN CITY CODE
SECTION 2-302 TO PERMIT GALE REMBERT RIVERA, AN EMPLOYEE
OF PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE
HOME RENOVATION AND REHABILITAION PROGRAM.
WAIVE REQUIREMENTS AND PROHIBITION CONTAINED IN CITY CODE
SECTION 2-302 AFTER DULY ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING TO
PERMIT GLORIA SAWSON, AN EMPLOYEE OF COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HOME RENOVATION AND
REHABILITATION PROGRAM.
WAIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR FORMAL SEALED BIDS AFTER DULY
ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE PURCHASING OF AERIAL
LADDER TRUCK PARTS FROM AMERICAN LA FRANCE, THE SOLE
SOURCE.
WAIVE BY FOUR -FIFTHS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE AFTER DULY ADVERTIS
PUBLIC HEARING PROHIBITION AGAINST THE APPEARANCE OF A
FORMER CITY OF MIAMI EMPLOYEE, MARK VALENTINE, ESQ.
RATIFY AND CONFIRM BY FOUR -FIFTH AFFIRMATIVE VOTE,
APPROVING THE PURCHASE FOR INSTALLATION OF PLAYGROUND
EQUIPMENT FROM RNM CORPORATION, FROM ESPLANDE
CONSTRUCTION, INC.
APPROVE AND CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER BY FOUR -
FIFTH AFFIRMATIVE VOTE AUTHORIZING PLACEMENT OF HALF -
PAGE ADVERTISEMENT IN THE LONDON FINANCIAL TIMES.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$850. FOR ONE DAY'S RENTAL OF GUSMAN CULTURAL CENTER
PURSUANT TO A REQUEST BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEAF
SERVICES BUREAU.
DISCUSSION AND FAILURE OF MOTION OF REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL
FUNDING BY THE UNITED WAY OF DADE COUNTY.
DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE $25,000 TO GREATER MIAMI
UNITED WITH CONDITIONS.
DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE $20,000. TO THE HISPANIC
HERITAGE FESTIVAL FOR PROMOTION OF 1983 OTI-USA SONGS
FESTIVAL.
M-83-909
R-83-910
R-8 3-911
R-83-912
R-83-913
R-83-914
R-83-915
R-83-916
R-83-917
R-83-918
R-83-919
M-93-920
DISCUSSION
M-83-921
M-83-922
66-68
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71
71-72
72-73
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73-74
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76-77
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ITEM NO. URDINANCE OR
REGULAR OCTOBER 25, 1983 SOLaloN No PAGE NO,
54 EMERGENCY ORDINANCE -ESTABLISH THREE NEW SPECIAL FUNDS
ENTITLED,"APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM FY '84 COMPREHENSIVE
JOB TRAINING PROGRAM FY '84 AND TRAINING FOR INDEPENDENT
LIVING PROGRAM FY '841t. I ORD. 9630 80-81
55
611
57
58
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60
61
62
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66
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE. ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND
ENTITLED "OFFICE OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL LIAISON FY'84" ORD. 9691 81-82
AND AUTHORIZE ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT AWARD.
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE. AMEND CAPITAL APPROPRIATION
ORDINANCE BY INCREASING APPROPRIATIONS FOR MANOR STREET
IMPROVEMENTS PHASE III. I ORD. 9692 82-84
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE.ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND
ENTITLED "ENTRANT IMPACT AID 1983-84". 1 ORD. 9693 84-85
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE. ESTABLISH TWO NEW SPECIAL REVENUE
FUNDS "SELECTIVE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT PROJECT FY 183 AND
SELECTIVE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT PROJECT FY '84". 1 ORD. 9694 85
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE -INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS THROUGH
TRUST AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED "POLICE SECOND DOLLAR
TRAINING". I ORD. 9695 86-87
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE. INCREASE APPROPRIATIONG FOR THE
GENERAL FUND SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS FOR FUNDING
THE CONTINUATION OF THE FOOD AND SAFE HOUSING PROGRAM
FOR THE LITTLE HAVANA ACTIVITIES AND NUTRITION CENTER
OF DADE COUNTY INC. AND PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING
TO ACTION COMMUNITY CENTER, INC. I ORD. 9696 88
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE. AMEND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE
BY MAKING TRANSFERS TO CORRECTLY REFLECT EARLIER
TRANSFERS OF RESOURCES TO THE JAMES L. KNIGHT CONVENTION
CENTER ENTERPRISE FUND. ORD. 9697
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE. AMEND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE
BY MAKING TRANSFERS TO CORRECTLY REFLECT EARLIER
TRANSFERS OF RESOURCES TO THE JAMES L. KNIGHT CONVENTION
ENTERPRISE FUND. I ORD. 9698
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE. ENLARGE MEMBERSHIP OF THE MIAMI
AUDIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND DELETE PORTIONS OF CITY
MANAGER'S APPOINTMENT.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE. AMEND ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS
ORDINANCE, INCREASE ENTERPRISE FUND FOR THE ORANGE BOWL
STADIUM FOR INSTALLATION OF TURNSTILES.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE. AMEND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
APPROPRIATIONS -ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH FUNDS FOR THE
PURCHASE OF LITTER CONTAINER DUMPSTERS.
SECOND READING ORDINANCE. ESTABLISH SPECIAL REVENUE
FUND ENTITLED "RECREATION FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED
8TH YEAR".
67 SECOND READING ORDINANCE. AMEND SUMMARY GRANT
APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE BY INCREASING APPROPRIATIONS
TO TRUST AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED "ENTRANT ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM 1982-83".
89-90
90-91
ORD. 9699 91-93
ORD. 9700 93
ORD. 9701 93-94
ORD. 9702 95
ORD. 9703 95-96
ITEM NO.
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CIIYtlSSI(iJ HAF&DA
REGULAR SUCT OCTOBER 25, 1983
68 SECOND READING ORDINANCE. INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR
TRUST AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED "SUMMER FOOD SERVICE
PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN 1982".
69 AMEND CHAPTER 14 OF THE CODE ENTITLED "DOWNTOWN
DEVELOPMENT" BY AMENDING DIVISION 2 TO PROVIDE FOR AN
INCREASE IN THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT
BOARD FROM 15 TO 17 MEMBERS.
70 DEFERRAL OF CONSIDERATION OF A PROPOSED SECOND READING
ORDINANCE WHICH WOULD AMEND CHAPTER 42 OF THE CODE
REGARDING TOWING OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
71 ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED "ENTRANT
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 1983-1984".
72 DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED SECOND READING ORDINANCE MAKING
APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE D.D.A. FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING
SEPTEMBER 30, 1984 AND SUBSTITUTING A MOTION WHICH
PROVIDES FOR ONE MONTH'S FUNDING.
73 FIRST READING ORDINANCE. AMEND ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS
ORDINANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FUNDING FOR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO HIRE ONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
SPECIALIST TO WORK IN THE CITIZEN'S RESPONSE CENTER AND
INFORMATION VAN.
74 FIRST READING ORDINANCE. ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE
FUNDING ENTITLED "PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM".
75 AMEND CHAPTER 52 ENTITLED "GARBAGE AND TRASH" TO CODE
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA BY AMENDING SECTION
22-12 ENTITLED "WASTE FEE TO CONSTITUTE SPECIAL
ASSESSMENT LIENS AGAINST ALL IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY".
76 PURSUE CREATION OF A LEGAL PROCESS SIMILAR TO THE ONE
USED IN HIALEAH REGARDING THE ILLEGAL DUMPING OF TRASH
AND GARBAGE ONTO THE STREETS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI.
77 SET FORTH POLICY OF ENFORCEMENT RELATED TO UNSAFE
CONDITIONS FROM UNLAWFUL DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE AND'WASTE
IN THE CITY AND UNSAFE UNSECURED BUILDINGS.
78 BRIEF DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL; OF TRANSFER OF
$6,500,000 IN CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND, ETC. FOR
ACQUISITION OF FOUR SITES IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE
AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
79 AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE A WARRANT TO CHARLEY/
PALACIOS AND COMPANY FOR THE PURPOSES OF A ONE PAGE
ADVERTISEMENT IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE OF FRENCH VOGUE.
80 ALLOCATE $6,000. TO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC.
IN LITTLE HAVANA OUTREACH CENTER.
81 DESIGNATE PLANNING AND DESIGN SERVICES FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF BLUE LAGOON PARK AS A CATEGORY B PROJECT.
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ORD. 9704 1 96
ORD. 9705 1 97
M-83-923 1 98
ORD. 9706 1 99
M-83-924 1 99-102
FIRST READING 102
FIRST
READING 103
FIRST
READING 103
M-83-925 1 105-106
R-83-926 1 107
DISCUSSION 1 108-110
R-83-927 1 110-111
R-83-928 ! 111
R-83-929 1 112-113
ITEM NO.
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83
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REGULAR S.LEcr OCTOBER 25, 1983
AMEND SECTIONS TWO AND THREE OF RESOLUTION 79-56 BY
CLARIFYING.AND LIMITING THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI/UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI JAMES L. KNIGHT
INTERNATIONAL CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO SELL ONE 1952 PETER PIRSCH
SURPLUS FIRE TRUCK, I.D. NO. 19790 TO THE GREATER MIAMI
CODE #1 ASSOCIATION.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE BUILDING PERMITS FOR
EXPANSION OF RUSTY PELICAN RESTAURANT.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH GARCES
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, JAMES E. SCOTT COMMUNITY
ASSOCIATION, INC.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH MIAMI
DESIGN PLAZA MERCHANT'S ASSOCIATION (MDPMA) FOR PROMOTION
OF ANNUAL EVENT "MIAMI MARKET DAYS".
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH
HAITIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF DADE COUNTY,
INC. (H.A.C.A.D.) MANPOWER EMPLOYMENT SERVICES FOR HAITIAN
ENTRANTS.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXERCISE RENEWAL PROVISION IN
EXISTING LEASE FOR OFFICE SPACE AT CULMER/OVERTOWN
NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT
OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, OVERTOWN JOBS PROGRAM.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND SECTION 1 OF RESOLUTION
83-717 FOR THE PURPOSE OF OVERHAULING AND UPGRADING THE
UNINTERRUPTED POWER SUPPLY EQUIPMENT OF THE NEW COMPUTER
CENTER.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO SOLICIT PROPOSAL FOR CONTRACT
WITH INDIVIDUALS, FIRMS, JOINT VENTURES, OR PARTNERSHIPS.
PROVIDES OF GOODS AND SERVICES, PROCUREMENT AND
CONTRACTING WITH THE CITY OF MIAMI, 1973-83 FOR THE
PURPOSES OF THE PRODUCTION OF A REPORT.
DISCUSSION ITEM. SENDING OF A TELEGRAM TO THE PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES REGARDING HIS INITIATIVE ACTION
IN GRENADA.
POSTPONING PLATTING OF VIRGINIA KEY TRACT "A"
PENDING A PERFECTED OPINION OF TITLE AND AUTHORIZING
ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMIT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF HORATIO's
RESTAURANT.
GIVE FINAL APPROVAL OF THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
BYLAWS FOR THE INDEPENDENT NON-PROFIT COMMUNITY ACCESS
CABLE CORPORATION KNOWN AS THE MIAMI CABLE ACCESS
CORPORATION. (MCAC).
STRONGLY URGE FLORIDA STATE LEGISLATURE TO ADOPT
LEGISLATION CLASSIFYING THE OFFENSE OF KILLING A POLICE
OFFICER A CAPITAL FELONY.
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KESOUJTI ON
R-83-930
R-8 3-9 31
R-83-932
R-83-933
R-83-934
R-83-935
R-83-936
R-83-937
R-83-938
M-83-939
R-83-940
R-83-941
R-R3-942
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114-115
115-116
116-117
117-118
118-120
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122
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125-127
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96
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100
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102
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104
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106
107
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109
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&UCT OCTOBER 25,1983
ALLOCATE $39,161 — 1981-1083 F.R.S. FUNDS TO LITTLE HAVANA
ACTIVITIES•AND NUTRITION CENTERS OF DADE COUNTY AND ACTION
COMMUNITY CENTER, INC.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXPEND FUNDS NOT TO EXCEED
$35,000 TO COVER COST OF METRO MIAMI ACTION PLAN
CONFERENCE.
AUTHORIZE INCREASE IN CONTRACT BETWEEN CITY OF MIAMI AND
ACI—CENTURY, INC. FOR CONSTRUCTION OF MMPD GARAGE
FLOOR RESURFACING.
RATIFY, APPROVE, AND CONFIRM CITY MANAGER'S ACCEPTANCE
OF A GRANT FROM STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN
AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS TO CONDUCT A CHILD DAY CARE PROGRAM.
RATIFY AND CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER IN APPROVING
EMERGENCY PURCHASE OF TEN PEDESTAL DRINKING FOUNTAINS
FOR DEPARTMENT OF PARKS.
AUTHORIZE THE CITY COMMISSION TO RATIFY ACTION OF CITY
MANAGER APPROVING A LOAN PAYABLE TO THE COCONUT GROVE
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
AUTHORIZE PURCHASE OF 10,000 TONS OF ASPHALTIC CONCRETE.
AUTHORIZE PURCHASE OF 113 SIDE CHAIRS FROM THONET, INC.
FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTIONS.
ACCEPT BID. DEMOLITION OF 11410 APARTMENT BUILDINGS.
ACCEPT BID. 2 THREE —WHEELED TRUCKSTERS AND SPARE PARTS
FOR FIRE RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES.
ACCEPT BID. MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS.
ACCEPT BID. OFFICE SUPPLIES CITY WIDE.
ACCEPT BID. AUTO AND TRUCK BATTERIES CITY WIDE.
ACCEPT BID. LEASING OF 60 GOLF CARTS.
ACCEPT BID. 220 ITEMS OF OFFICE FURNITURE FOR COMPUTERS.
ACCEPT BID. ARMED SECURITY GUARD SERVICES AT THE MANUEL
ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER.
ACCEPT BID. KINLOCH SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT BIDS
"An AND "Boi
ACCEPT BID. KINLOCK SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT BIDS "C"
1131 CONSENT AGENDA
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SOLUTION
R-83-94 3
R-83-944
R-8 3— 94 5
R-83-946
R-83-947
R-83-948
R-83-949
R-83-950
R-83-951
R-83-952
R-83-953
R-83-954
R-83-955
R-83-956
R-83-957
R-83-958
R-83-959
R-83-960
DISCUSSION
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128-129
129-130
130-131
131
132
133
133-134
134-135
135
136-137
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138-140
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ITEM N0,
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113.1
ORDERING CITY-WIDE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT.
R-83-961
149
113.2
ORDERING S.W. 16TH STREET HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT.
R-83-962
149
113.3
ORDERING OVERTOWN HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT -PHASE I.
R-83-963
149
113.4
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR KOUBEK SANITARY SEWER
IMPROVEMENT.
R-83-964
149
113.5
DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES.
R-83-965
149
113.6
BID ACCEPTANCE: RUSSELL, INC. FOR CITY WIDE PAVING.
R-83-966
150
114
ACCEPT BID MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE III- H-4484.
R-83-969
150-152
115
FORMALIZING RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $40,000. TO SUNSTREET
FESTIVAL 1083.
R-83-970
153
116
FORMALIZING RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $10,000 TO HISPANIC
HERITAGE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE IN CONNECTION WITH SAID
FESTIVAL TO BE HELD ON OCTOBER 6TH TO THE 16TH.
R-83-971
153-155
117
APPROVE IN PRINCIPLE PHASE I OVERTOWN TRANSIT STATION
IMPACT AREA REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR SOUTHEAST PARK WEST
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AREA.
R-83-972
155-173
118
DESIGNATE $11,000,000. OF CITY OF MIAMI GENERAL OBLIGATION
HOUSING BONDS PROCEEDS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF LAND
AFFORADABLE RENTING HOUSING IN SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/
PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA.
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APPROVE THE INTENT TO UTILIZE 2.1 MILLION OF AUTHORIZED
1980 STREET AND HIGHWAY BONDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST STREET IMPROVEMENTS, INC.
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AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE A GRANT APPLICATION TO
HUD FOR A $7,000,000. LOAN UNDER HUD SECTION 108 LOAN
PROGRAM.
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REQUEST BOARD OF DADE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO ALLOCATE
$4.2 MILLION FROM DADE COUNTY HOME OWNERSHIP ASSISTANCE
LOAN PROGRAM FOR SECOND MORTGAGE PROGRAM FOR OVERTOWN
SEGMENT OF SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AREA.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE AND SUBMIT APPLICATIONS
FOR ASSISTANCE TO U.S. DEPT. OF HOUSING 7 URBAN
DEVELOPMENT UNDER GRANT PROGRAM FOR PROJECTS REQUIRING
FINANCIAL AID IN PHASE I OVERTOWN TRANSIT STATION
IMPACT AREA.
ENDORSE CONCEPT OF AN OVERTol4N HISTORIC VILLAGE AS PART
OF SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
PROGRAM.
DECLARING THE POLICY OF THE CITY COMMISSION CONCERNING
THE TAKING OF PROPERTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE OVERTOWN
URBAN INITIATIVE PROJECT.
APPROVE THE OVERTOWN URBAN INITIATIVE PROJECT PROPERTY
OWNERS EQUITY PARTICIPATION PLAN POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.
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A RESOLUTION SETTING OCTOBER 27TH AT 9:00 O'CLOCK AS
THE TIME FOR HEARING THE MATTER OF THE RESIDENCY OF
RICARDO J. RECHANI, CANDIDATE IN CITY COMMISSION GROUP
II.
APPROVE SELECTION MADE BY COMMITTEE REPRESENTED BY MR.
URRA FOR THE LOCATION OF THE ALLAPATTAH ACTION AGENCY
ELDERLY CENTER TO BE LOCATED IN CURTIS PARK.
DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO LOAN SURPLUS CITY OF MIAMI
OFFICE EQUIPMENT TO THE INTER-AMERICAN CENTER FOR
MUNICIPAL COOPERATION.
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE -AMEND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS
APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE
EXPANSION OF THE FIRE ALAP14 OFFICE.
MOTION OF INTENT TO RENAME CITY OF MIAMI WOODSON PARK
TO BE KNOWN AS MIAMI DESIGN PLAZA.
ALLOCATE 486,366. OF FY 183-'84 F.R.S. FUNDS TO
PROVIDE FOR 1/12TH FUNDING FOR SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO TRANSFER AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED $8,000,000. FROM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND,
ON TEMPORARY BASIS TO FUND ACQUISITION OF FOUR SITES IN
CONJUNCTION WITH THE AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPM
PROGRAM.
A BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: FUNDING REQUEST FROM SALESMEN
ASSOCIATION OF STATE OF FLORIDA; REFERRED TO MANAGER.
EXPRESS INTENTION TO ATTEMPT TO BRING NAVAL VESSELS TO
MIAMI FOR LIBERTY AND GOING ON RECORD IN SUPPORT OF THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE METROPOLITAN WATER BORNE
TRANSPORTATION BOARD.
CLAIMS SETTLEMENT -AUTHORIZE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO
PAY ROSA MOREY AND SAMUEL MOREY $10,000.
CLAIMS SETTLEMENT -AUTHORIZE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO PAY
$35,000. TO NATHALYN MILLER AND DAVID MILLER.
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MINUS OF REGULAR MEETING OF THE
CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
On the 25th day of October, 1983, 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 9:12 A.M. by Mayor
Maurice A. Ferre with the following members of the Commission
found to be present:
ALSO PRESENT:
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.*
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
Howard V. Gary, City Manager
Jose R. Garcia -Pedrosa, City Attorney
Ralph G. Ongie, City Clerk
Matty Hirai, Assistant City Clerk
*arrived 9:30 A.M.
An invocation was delivered by Attorney -General Jim Smith,
who then led those present in a pledge of allegiance to the flag.
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1. FORMAL CEREMONY TO HONOR LOUISE VASQUEZ NAMED
POLICEWOMAN OF THE YEAR.
Mayor Ferre: Ladies and Gentlemen, the special occasion to bring
both the Attorney -General and the State Attorney and so many
distinguished police officers to City Hall is the recognition of
one of Miami's very best - Louise Vasquez, who has been honored
and is the first woman in the State of Florida that has been
selected as the police officer of the year, nationally. Louise
has been in Homicide for 17 years and along with her partner, a
person we all know and respect, Mike Gonzales who has spent 27 of
32 years in the City of Miami Police Department in Homicide, has
certainly made a name for themselves, not only in the City of
Miami and in the State of Florida, but nationally, and I am sure
I speak for Mike when I say that ... I can see from the quality of
his file that he just couldn't be prouder and happier that Louise
is getting this recognition. I had the occasion, I don't know
whether it was six months ago or some time during this year, to
stop by Louise's home one Saturday afternoon when she was having
a barbecue with her family and friends, and I just want to tell
you that the warmth that emanated from that homestead was a lot
warmer than the heat of the barbecue. That was just a place
fully of human friendship and fellowship and compassion and it
was really was a happy family. I think that we in Miami are
particularly proud that one of our very own has distinguished
herself and has been at last recognized for the tremendous quali-
ty of the work and dedication. She is one of the best police
officers, and she .is a public servant in the best sense of that
word, and in the best sense of that tradition. Louise, today we
honor you. We are proud of your accomplishments and it is my
pleasure at this time to ask you to step forward, if you would,
at this time. I will later ask Mike and others to join, but at
this point I would like for you to step forward, if you would and
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join us up here at the dais. And now, Ladies and Gentlemen, it
is my pleasure to introduce to you a man who needs no introduc-
tion, certainly at City Hall, a man who for almost 8 years has
been doing an exemplary job as Attorney General of the State of
Florida, who has been fighting battles that many would fear to be
involved in because he has the courage and the convictions to
fight those battles, and in addition to which, he has been ex-
tremely successful as he takes on these battles. It is certainly
a pleasure and an honor for me to give to you at this time, the
great Attorney General of the State of Florida, Jim Smith.
Mr. Jim Smith: Thank you Mayor, it is certainly an honor and a
privilege for me on behalf of Governor Graham and the Florida
Cabinet to make this presentation to Louise, and I will read the
resolution.
"Whereas Office Louise Vasquez has served the City of
Miami as a police officer for 18 years and whereas in
13 years as a homicide investigator, Officer Vasquez,
through her dedication and ingenuity has solved many
difficult cases, establishing a reputation for
professional competence, and whereas on a number of
occasions Officer Vasquez successfully carried on her
work in the face of personal danger, and whereas
Officer Vasquez' distinguished career as a police
officer has gained international recognition by her
selection of policewoman of the year by the Interna-
tional Association of Woman's Police, and whereas
Officer Vasquez has by her professional achievement
brought credit upon her Department, her City, and
her State, now therefore be it resolved that the
Governor and Cabinet of the State of Florida do
hereby extend their congratulations to Officer
Vasques for the honor she has received and express
their appreciation for the international recognition
award has brought the Law Enforcement in Florida;
and now be it further resolved that a copy of this
resolution be forwarded to the City of Miami so that
it can be displayed as an inspiration, an example to
her fellow officers".
I might add that in the light of the controversy we have been
having in Tallahassee about the unitary tax and other matters,
this has been one of the few unanimous votes that we have had on
the Cabinet for some time, but we are proud, I guess is the best
word to describe an honor that Louise has received, and proud
that really before I guess women's rights were in vogue, she was
able to begin a career in Law Enforcement, I am sure when it was
a lot tougher than it is perhaps now. I am delighted to see so
many of you women here today to honor her. It is a great thing
that she has accomplished. Congratulations!
Mayor Ferre: That is yours to keep. This one here, we are going
to prominently display, Mr. Manager, here at City Hall for a
while and then the Chief will send it down to you and we would
like for you to display it in the lobby of the Police Department.
I think it is something that is a point of pride for all of us,
and I think we should cherish it. At this time, it is my
pleasure to introduce to you another person who needs no
introduction, a woman who has throughout her public career
distinguished herself like Louise has as a tough crime fighter, a
person dedicated to the well being of this community, a woman of
tremendous integrity, and tremendous courage, and I think that
this has been proven over the years, and a person who is deeply
concerned for the well being of the people of Miami and of
Metropolitan Dade -County, and I give to you the State's Attorney
of this region, Janet Reno.
Ms. Janet Reno. Ten years ago this summer, I met Louise Vasquez
when she came to the Grand Jury to present a capital case. Some
people you can rely on no matter what they say, and Louise has
never, ever disappointed me. She has come to Grand Jury, she has
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come to my office. Ole told it like it was wiLn courage, with
thoroughness, with preparation. I know of no police officer, no
public servant that so exemplifies what the people of this coun-
try want public servants to be, and I think this reward is just
really so deserving. Congratulations!
Mayor Ferre: At this time, Mr. Manager, if it is all right with
you, I would like to ask the Police Chief to represent the Admin-
istration in saying a few words about the achievement that we
celebrate here today - a man who again needs to introduction, who
has, since his early days in Riverside Military Academy, and I
have heard a lot about that, and always wanted to be a police
officer, and who started in the City of Miami and worked his way
up and I think in the past few years, especially in this year he
has certainly shown a quality of leadership in the ability that
he has as the Police Chief, and it is my pleasure to introduce
now the Police Chief of the City of Miami, Ken Harms.
Chief Ken Harms: We are honored by Louise's accomplishments and
I think the greatest honor that she will have as she goes through
the next several weeks of public accolades and commentary from
her friends, is the support that she has received and will con-
tinue to receive from those of you that are here today. How
about all the City employees standing up, those of you that have
attended for this program? Thank you very much. I think once
again it is a tremendous honor for this community, for Louise and
for you that work so hard along with her and should be recog-
nized. Thanks again, and Louise, congratulations to you.
Mayor Ferre: Now, at this point, and after we sit down, the
members of the Commission I am sure have a few words to add or at
this time I would like to ask Louise to say a few words, and the
Attorney General does have a 9:30 appointment, and he has to
leave in a second. Louise ... oh, we have two more presenta-
tions?...All right. Why don't you come up? Any more presenta-
tions? We have got one from the City of Miami and somewhere in
between the Department and City Hall. This is one more reason
why we need to consolidate all of our Departments in one build-
ing.
Ms. Mary Stair: I am Mary Stair. I am the President of the
Miami Association of Women Police. Our organization was formed
just a short time ago. The goals of our organization is to
further professionalize woman in policing to encourage the sup-
port of the community and to bring recognition for the accom-
plishments of our female police officers. One of our first
meetings was held early in the summer, and we got together and
nominated Louis Vasquez for the International Association Woman
of Police - Officer of The Year. Major Putnam endorsed that in
the name of Chief Harms. The nomination went forward and with 86
other candidates, Louise's name was considered. She w-as noti-
fied in August that she had in fact received the International
Association Woman of the Year Award. We are very happy that we
had a part in this nomination. We would like to thank Mayor
Maurice Ferre for his encouragement and support in permitting the
female police officers to go forward and attend that conference
which was held in October. We would also like to thank Howard
Gary for his support and encouragement in attending that confer-
ence. I would like to present both of them with an honorary
certificate for the Miami Association of Woman Police.
Mayor Ferre: Why don't you join us up here?
Ms. Stair: We would also like to present to Chief Kenneth Harms
for his support of Louise Vasquez the International Association
of Woman's Police plaque, honoring Louise Vasquez as Officer of
The Year.
Mayor Ferre: All right, I would now like to add Louise's husband
and members of her immediate family. I won't say family, because
everybody will come up - her immediate family to step forward, if
they would, for a picture taking, and Mike, why don't you join us
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up here too, would you please? We want you up here, Louise wants
you up here. Now, one person in the audience, who in my opinion
represents and has been one of the strongest advocates, sometimes
a little bit too strong...perhaps there is no such thing as being
too strong for a human right - Roxie Bolton is with us today, and
if anybody ... come on up! If anybody has fought for the rights of
woman, there she is! I would also like to ask Commissioner Jim
Redford of the Metropolitan Dade County Commission, who I know
shares in the happiness of this occasion to join us, if you
would, Jim: Now, last week there was a person on the City of
Miami Commission for, I guess it was almost 8 years, 7 years,
while Louise was doing a lot of the great work that she and Mike
were doing, Athalie Range was sitting right in that chair, right
there, and she happens to be in the room, and I would like Mrs.
Range, also a great woman, to step forward. Mrs. Range. All
right now, one last thing, let me have the plaque, we finally got
the plaque.
"To Louise Vasquez, we congratulate you upon your
selection as International Women Police of the year
by the International Association of Woman Police
following our nomination by the Miami Association
of Women Police from among 85 candidates, presented
by this City of Miami Commission"
and Ladies and Gentlemen, even though this is something that I
very much want to do, I am going to forego the honor, the person-
al honor and privilege of presenting this, and let our Police
Commissioner do that for us, so J. L., if you would.
Mr. Plummer: I heard you, Roxie, I heard you! Mr. Mayor, and
members of the Commission, Ladies and Gentlemen - Louise has been
more than just a dedicated servant to this community. I think it
is with her efforts and people of the Department, which I am sure
she shares this honor with that these are the kinds of people
that make this City great and continue to strive to make it an
even better place to live. Louise, on behalf of this City Com-
mission, we would like to present you with this plaque, remem-
brance of this day, and we only ask you to work twice as hard as
you have in the past!
Ms. Louise Vasquez: I want to thank you all, especially all 100
policewomen that we have in this Department. It was really an
honor in Vancouver over to represent the Miami Police Department.
We have a good Department, and there is no reason next year why
one of our own can't be nominated again. Thank you.
Mayor Ferre: All right, now Louise, we are not
What I would like to do is ask the rest of you -
for joining us, and Chief, General ... we know that
appointment. Mrs. Range, thank you for joining us
Louise, don't go! We need to take a picture with
the City Commission and at this time by order of
Carollo is the most senior after J. L. Plummer, so
you say a few words?
finished yet.
Jim,'thank you
you have your
up here. Now,
the members of
seniority, Joe
Joe, why don't
Mr. Carollo: I think everything that needed to be said has been
said. I would just like to say congratulations again, Louise.
Mayor Ferre: "D" is before "P", so Mr. Dawkins, you are next.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, I guess you say the same thing about the
Police Department that my wife says to me. Usually you hear
people say that behind every man stands a good woman, but my wife
says that beside'.every good man stands a good woman, so I am
saying on the side of every male policeman, we have a dedicated
female policeman.
Mayor Ferre: And now, last, but certainly not least, Commission-
er Demetrio Perez.
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Mr. Perez: I think that a house divided cannot stand, and we
chose today that City of Miami is united in favor of the people
of the City of Miami, and that is what I want to proclaim today.
Mayor Ferre: Thank you very much for sharing this happy moment
with us.
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NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Minutes of July 18th, July 28th and Septem-
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2. APPROVE INTER -LOCAL AGREEMENT ON THREE CENT ADDITIONAL
TOURIST TAX.
Mayor Ferre: Ladies and Gentlemen, out of Legislative courtesy,
always taken up any other member of government out of turn, and
at this time I see that our colleague Jim Redford is in the
audience. Mr. Redford, is there anything we can do for you, sir?
Mr. Jim Redford: This is somewhat of an emergency item. Last
Wednesday the City of Miami Beach approved the inter -local agree-
ment between Dade County and itself for the collection of the
three cent, or their portion of the three cent tax tourist tax
passed in the last Legislature. The hurry comes on the part of
Miami Beach. They had an election, but they have not had time to
put this item on as an item on their election, which is required
normally by law, their law, being any bond issue over $250,000
must go to the electorate, so in addition to passing the inter -
local agreement, they have asked Dade County to issue the bonds
for them, and we will contract with them for the revenues for the
tax plus the additional revenues, which they will have to pledge,
since the tax is not sufficient for the project. The speed that
is necessary comes because now we must get this done prior to the
next legislature because we know that there is a very good chance
that this tax would be revised in some manner or other at the
next legislature, since it did not go through the appropriate
legislative committee, but came in at the last moment. There-
fore, we want to get at least their issue and this whole issue,
since the two cities are really bound together - it is a three
cent tax and the proceeds split, this is where the bill reads.
We want to going so that the portion of the tax will be pledged
and therefore the tax will become inviolate and will not be able
to be changed by the Legislature. We are therefore asking you to
approve the same inter -local agreement that City of Miami Beach
approved. This will be brought back to the County Commission if
it is passed here, as certainly the Miami Beach's portion will be
for approval November 1st - it will be before the Finance Commit-
tee October 31st. Essentially what the plan does, since there
had been no enforcement section, or no collection section in the
State Law that we have had to improvise. As you may remember, the
opinion of the Attorney General was that the State could not
collect the tax for us. So therefore, we are endeavoring to
collect the tax. It is going to make some confusion, because
there will be three different entities in Dade County collecting
tourist tax, but we need the money. We are only asking that you,
and the City of Miami Beach share the cost collection - collec-
tion only, since this task will be a pass through, and we are
going to have collect it because the State will not. We hope
sometime in the next session, and I believe Barry Kutun has bill
whereby the State will be able to take over and we hope that is
the case.
Mayor Ferre: Jack Gordon has agreed to do that, and I think
Senator Gersten, the Chairman of the Dade Delegation has also
agreed, so I think we have a full agreement, don't we?
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Mr. Redford: Yes. Well, we will certainly push for it, because
the way it sets up, the two cents is collected by the State, the
three cents will be collected by us, and Miami Beach will be
collecting their own, as it is now and it is pretty much of a
mess and we want to put it back together. All right, Commission-
er, thank you for your leadership and your understanding in this
whole thing. Mr. Manager, this has your recommendation?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. City Attorney, this has your recommendation?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Is there any discussion on it?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, the only discussion that I have, as you
know, it is something that is very vital to this City and we must
move forward if we going to have a successful Convention Center,
and whenever you are ready Mr. Mayor, I would feel it an honor to
move this item.
Mayor Ferre: Any further discussion?
Mr. Redford: One thing I failed to offer - since we are doing
this, issuing a bond for the City of Miami Beach, we can do no
less than to offer that same service to you, should it be needed.
Mayor Ferre: Thank you. All right, are there any further com-
ments from the Commission? Let me say that I am particularly
proud of our two Ricks - Rick Horrow, and Rick Sisser, who were
instrumental in Tallahassee, working with our Dade Delegation, in
particular, a very deep sense of gratitude goes to Senator Jack
Gordon, and Representative Barry Kutun and to the other members
of the Delegation that worked diligently. I would also like to
mention Clark Merrill, who spent many hours of hard work involved
in getting this thing properly passed, and to all of the people
who supported this. I want to assure you, Commissioner, because
I know you have had a lot of concern about our going in twenty
different directions, that the City of Miami will always be ready
to work in unity with both the County and Miami Beach, and it is
certainly not our intention to divide in any way this community,
but that we will be as cooperative and as positive in our ap-
proach as can possibly be expected, and that we certainly look
forward to moving forward as a united community in the important
usage of these monies for the wellbeing of both the convention
and tourist industry of this community. I would also like to to
thank the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority for what we
expect to be a tremendous work. Who have I missed, Mr:,Manager?
Well, I think that is known, that we were along with...oh, yes,
along with Steve Ross and Steve Muss and Sid Levin and Ronnie
Fine and Eli Feinberg, intellectual authors of all of this, and
we are very happy to recognize them, and I think at the appropri-
ate time, Mr. Manager, I would ask that all of these people be
brought forward to the Commission for a proper plaque to be
presented in recognition and thanks. At this time, then, I will
recognize that Mr. Plummer moves that this resolution. It reads:
(MAYOR READS RESOLUTION INTO RECORD) Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Commissioner Perez. Is there further
discussion? If not, call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-884
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO
AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY
AND MIAMI BEACH TO PROVIDE FOR THE COLLECTION AND
DISTRIBUTION OF A CONVENTION DEVELOPMENT TAX TO BE
DISTRIBUTED TO A CITY OF OF MIAMI BEACH AUTHORITY AC-
CORDING TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS SET FORTH IN
THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT AND DIRECTING THE MIAMI SPORTS
AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY TO REIMBURSE THE CITY FOR ANY
COSTS INCURRED UNDER THE AGREEMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on
file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
3. APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF RICHARD HORROW TO THE MIAMI
SPORTS AUTHORITY.
Mayor Ferre: There is a related matter which we may as well take
up. Now, Mr. Manager, we have here a resolution from your office
initialed by you. It says "Resolution approving Richard B.
Horrow as Executive Director of Miami Sports and Exhibition
Authority. Does this have your recommendation?
Mr. Gary: Yes, it does, Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Dawkins: At what salary, Mr. Gary?
Mr. Gary: The salary currently... the Board voted for $60,000
salary.
Mr. Dawkins: And you concur with that?
Mr. Gary: What I can tell you about the salary, is that Mr. Rick
Horrow presently makes under the City, with 8% increase,
$53,851.20. The increase he got is a little over 10%.
Mayor Ferre: Is that similar to what we are negotiating with the
Police and Fire Department?
Mr. Gary: No, sir, for the mere fact he...
Mr. Dawkins: is it similar to what we negotiated with the Sani-
tation Department? Hell, no!
Mr. Gary: Well then, let me clarify the point. We are current-
ly ... the Police and Fire Department are in the process of negoti-
ating a salary increase and they have not received the salary
increase, whereas Mr. Horrow, under the City, has already re-
ceived 8%.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, further discussion? There is a resolu-
tion here that reads as follows:
"A resolution approving Richard B. Horrow as Executive
Director of the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority."
It makes no mention of the salary in it. Is there a motion on
this?
Mr. Plummer: So moved.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Commissioner Perez. Further discussion.
All right, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-885
A RESOLUTION APPROVING RICHARD B. HORROW AS
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MIAMI SPORTS AND
EXHIBITION AUTHORITY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here
and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
4. BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM - POLITICAL SIGNS.
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Mr. Gary: Just two things - first of all, the Off -Street Parking
Authority Board has asked me to convey to you that they would
like for their matter to be postponed for a little time until
they get here, they are in a special meeting right now.
Mayor Ferre: Okay.
Mr. Gary: Secondly, Mr. Mayor, I have placed before you a re-
straining order with regard to political signs which was imple-
mented this morning and approved by Judge Gersten and for your
information, the Commission's information, we had an enforcement
policy that was going to go into effect today. This authors that
enforcement policy, and it effects residential and commercial,
however, City Staff is out right now. Any sign that is in the
right of way, on poles, we are taking down.
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5. REFER A REQUEST FOR FUNDING TO THE CITY MANAGER FOR STUDY
AND REPORT FROM THE BLACK TOURIST CONVENTION AUTHORITY.
Mayor Ferre: All right, at this time there was a request by Mr.
H. T.Smith (Is Mr. H. T. Smith here?) representative of the Miami
Dade Tourist Authority, 1984 proposal. You have each received a
copy of the Miami Dade Tourist Authority, Inc. Is request dated
October 20th, signed by Mr. H. T. Smith, Esquire, Vice -Chairman
of the Board of Directors. The Chairman, Sonny Wright could not
be here and neither could Attorney Smith. Mr. Wilbert Holloway
is Secretary; Neal Daughtry is Treasurer. We have -----------,
Mr. Dodson, Thelma Gibson, Henry Gibbons, George Knox, Mayor
Helen Miller and Otis Pitts as members of that authority, and Mr.
W. Charles Jackson is Executive Director. Mr. Jackson.
Mr. Jackson: Miami Dade Tourist Authority is respectfully re-
questing matching funds from the City of Miami to expand its
efforts in terms of tourism within the Afro-American community.
We recognize the fact that, a) There are only 1,115 Black profes-
sional organizations throughout the United States. Secondly, we
recognize that there are 1,942 minority organizations nationally
throughout the United States. Thirdly, we recognize that Black
Conventioneers travel last year numbered approximately eleven
million, which has been approximately $4,400 per conventioneer.
The Miami Dade Tourist Authority is beginning to emphasis in
terms of Black tourism, as well as conventions here in the City
of Miami, coupled with working with our local organization, Black
local organizations within the Black community expressing the
need for us as Blacks beginning to get involved in tourism. Mr.
Mayor, we are respectfully requesting again, matching funds to
continue to expand this organization.
Mayor Ferre: All right, there is a request for $61,284. The
budget has been proposed. Mr. Manager, I understand that Staff
has had the opportunity to look into this?
Mr. Gary: I am not so sure that is the same proposal that we
have been reviewing, because we have a different proposal, Mr.
Mayor. We have been sitting down with Mr. Jackson and under the
authority of the Manager, at the direction of the City Commis-
sion, we reviewed that proposal, and we have granted Mr. Jackson
$4,500, which is paid in installments. We have also required
that that be tied into the Convention Bureau activities to assure
that all of our efforts are coordinated. I would like to say Mr.
Mayor, for the record, I think what they are proposing initially
it needs a lot of improvement, and I would assume that the cur-
rent proposal is an improved proposal. I would like to inform
the Commission that this is again another example of the City of
Miami being asked to do something that another governmental
jurisdiction should perform. We did one on the school crossing
guards. We do things on after school programs, and this tourist
development, as you recall, this City Commission voted about 3 or
4 years ago to turn over all tourist activities to Dade County.
We gave them our Staff, they get all the money, and Mayor Clark
came to me sometime ago and he thought this was a good idea and
he wanted us to fund it and I told Mayor Clark at that particular
point in time, that I thought this was an appropriate expenditure
of the Tourist Development tax funds, for which the City of Miami
contributed more money than any other City in Dade County, and
that they should •utilize part of that fund which the City con-
tributed to fund finance this, thing. I think $61,000 from the
City of Miami is unreasonable in view of not only the other
emergency --------- and constraints the City is confronted with,
particularly in view of our policy to add additional police
officers at the expense of other things that we have been cutting
in the City and I constantly get complaints about not being able
to cut the right-aways, not being able to maintain parks, and I
think that this is $61,000 that the City of Miami cannot afford.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, comments from members of the Commission?
Questions?
Mr. Dawkins: I move that we adhere to the Manager's recommenda-
tion.
Mayor Ferre: Well, there is a motion on the floor. Could we,
Commission, do it this way - say that we approve in principle the
idea - the Miami Dade Tourist Authority, Inc., and leave the
negotiations .and the implementation in the Manager's hands?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, but I want to also tell the Manager that, just
as he said, this is a responsibility of the Tourist Development.
It is dealing with tourists, and it is time that the Tourist
Development realized that nobody can recruit Blacks better than
Blacks and that the Tourist Development has to fund a Black
agency to get out there and bring in Black people. I don't think
that it should be responsible for the City of Miami to foot this
bill when we are already contributing funds through the Miami
Tourist Development.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: You are the one who appointed me to wear two hats,
so I've got to speak on the other hat. As a member so appointed
by this Board as a member of the T.D.A., I do sit there, and Mr.
Mayor, this year we did in fact, give $250,000 to the City of
Miami for its conventions. I do feel that this matter should be
referred back to the Manager, that that money was solely dedicat-
ed for bringing conventions to this community. I think Black
conventions are just as important as any other convention to this
community, with the sole instructions that any monies used from
the City of Miami's funds would have to be understood that those
conventions which you brought to this community would be at the
Knight Center, which we are all about. Mr. Gary, I do feel, with
certain allocations...I do not disagree with your premise that it
should be tied in and a part of the Convention Center that is
ongoing - to have a segment of that dedicated to bringing Black
conventions I think has merit and I would move, Mr. Mayor, at
this time that this matter be referred back to the Manager for
further consideration.
Mayor Ferre: Well, we have a motion on the floor. All right,
the motion has now been withdrawn. There is a substitute motion,
or there is a new motion. Is there a second to the new motion?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there further discussion? All right,
I would like to say into the record, Mr. Manager, that in my
opinion, I am for the request, provided however, that it be
matched on a dollar per dollar basis by Metropolitan Dade County.
We do have, I think, a special responsibility, and by that I mean
out of their pocket, not out of the tourist - what they get out
of it in joint tourist funds is something else. I feel that we
have a very special obligations in the City of Miami in dealing
with the Black community to support Black projects that are both
constructive and creative and I think that this is both, and
therefore, let me say into the record that my vote on this is on
the premise that you and through your office negotiate with
Metropolitan Dade County an equal funding out of our respective
budgets.
Mr. Dawkins: Let me go on record by saying that I do not in any
way hope that my vote or my voicing my opinion in any way can be
interpreted as not being supportive of what is being done, but as
we have said before, somewhere up here, somewhere, somebody has
got to realize that we do not have anybody in the parks to have
structured programs for children after school; we do not have
proper health care services in the City of Miami. As J. L.
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Plummer says, we are not feeding the hungry that we are supposed
to be, and somebody else is got to realize that all these things
that come up here asking for money are secondary, in my opinion,
to the welfare and health and the care of the citizens of Miami.
That is all I've got to say.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Jackson, do you want to say something before we
vote?
Mr. Jackson: the only thing I wanted to say is that as we recog-
nize that number one, this Tourist Authority is geared towards
increasing like this in the tourist and convention industry. If
you have a convention down here in Miami, it will be at the
Hyatt -Regency Inn or Dupont Plaza. You don't see any Black
beauticians in the place. You don't see any people in the laun-
dry picking up laundry and dry cleaning. You don't see Black
entertainers. Our concern is Number one, dealing with the Black
community, as we recognize that there is a need from an economic
base, coupled with identifying and persuading those 1,000 plus
professional Black organizations throughout the United States to
begin to look at Miami, and that we are concerned with programs
that begin to negate the negative image that we have known as
happened in Miami from a Black perspective, as well as getting
our Black brothers and sisters and our businesses in the communi-
ty involved, whether it be on posters and brochures, or even
whether they be on other type of advertisements, because we feel
that we are part of Miami, but our kids go down the street and
see other cultures on signs; they see other cultures on bill-
boards and brochures, but our kids, our Black folks are not. In
order for us again to be a part of Miami, we got to be a part of
the total Miami, therefore we respectfully again request your
assistance in this regards. Thank you, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? All right, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-886
A MOTION TO REFER A REQUEST MADE BY MR. JACKSON,
REPRESENTING MIAMI-DADE TOURIST AUTHORITY AND A
REQUEST FOR MATCHING FUNDS TO THE CITY MANAGER
FOR EVALUATION AND FUTURE RECOMMENDATION TO THE
CITY COMMISSION; FURTHER STIPULATING THAT THE
CITY MANAGER IS DIRECTED TO NEGOTIATE WITH METRO-
POLITAN DADE COUNTY FOR EQUAL FUNDING.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the mption was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
6. ALLOCATE $109000 TO THE LATIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR THE
HEMISPHERIC CONGRESS OF LATIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AFFIL-
IATES WHICH WAS ATTENDED BY 27 MEMBERS.
Mayor Ferre: All right, at this time we have the President of
the Latin Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Aloy Gonzalez, and also Cap-
tain William Alexander and they have a presentation. All right,
Captain Alexander, you are going to make the presentation.
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Capt. Alexander: Mr. Mayor and City Commissioners, we are more
than happy and let me use the opportunity to say that in the name
of the Latin Chamber of Commerce, thanks to all of you for the
vision and the understanding that had to make possible the fall
convention of Latin Chambers of Commerce. We have 27 countries
represented in this convention. Naturally, when we requested
last year the budget to fund the permanent sacretariat of the
convention. We were taken away $10,000 at that time. We think
that we can do it without that $10,000. We come to tell you that
we can't do it. We need $10,000 to keep doing the program during
1983-84.
Mr. Plummer: You know, I ought to vote against you. I told you
before you were making a mistake, that the money was going to be
needed. I went through that program with you. It is a good
program.
Mr. Carollo: Moved.
Mayor Ferre: All right, there is as motion on the floor by
Commissioner Carollo. I will recognize that after Commissioner
Plummer finishes his statement.
Mr. Plummer: I second the motion.
Mayor Ferre: Is there further discussion? All right, call the
roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Carollo,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-887
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE
CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT
OF $10,000 PURSUANT TO A REQUEST MADE BY
CAPT. WILLIAM ALEXANDER IN CONNECTION WITH
THE EVENT ALREADY HELD OF HEMISPHERIC CON-
GRESS OF LATIN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, WHICH
WAS ATTENDED BY 27 DIFFERENT NATIONS IN ORDER
THAT THEY MAY CONTINUE THEIR TASK.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
ON ROLL CALL:
Mr. Perez: I vote yes, and I want to recognize this as a special
event. I think that the Inter -American Congress of Chambers of
Commerce is one of the best assets for international image for
this community, and I want to point out and leave on record that
concept.
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7. REQUEST FOR FUNDING FOR THE 1984 CALLE OCHO FESTIVAL AND THE
EXPANSION OF THE FESTIVAL AREA BY FOUR BLOCKS. (Matter re-
ferred to the City Manager)
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Mayor Ferre: All right, at this time we have Mr. Leslie Pantin,
Jr., who is here: Mr. Licea to represent the Calle Ocho and the
Carnival festivities, and the special request that they have, and
Mr. Frank Parades.
Mr. Mauricio Mazarola: Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission,
Ladies and Gentlemen, my name is Mauricio Mazarola, and I am here
on behalf of the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana, and we are here
to solicit City funding for the 1984 Calle Ocho Open House Festi-
val. In past years, the City has contributed approximately 60%
of the City Services to the Festival. This year, we come to you
asking for $25,000 for next year's festival. Now, in addition,
due to the recommendations....
Mayor Ferre: Which is the same that we funded last year.
Mr. Mazarola: It is the same percentage - in absolute amount it
is $3,000 more.
Mayor Ferre: I see.
Mr. Gary: We have given more money.
Mr. Mazarola: In addition, due to the recommendation of the East
Little Havana Task Force, one of their recommendations was that
the festival be expanded geographically. We have been studying
the feasibility of that idea and in order to expand the festival
from 12th Avenue where it now ends eastward to S. W. 8th Avenue,
and we are seeking an additional $25,000 for the expansion of the
festival. It would be an additional four blocks for a total of
18 blocks.
Mayor Ferre: All right, let me understand what is going on here.
What you are asking is two things - first of all, that we appro-
priate the same percentage as we did last year, which in effect
is a $3,000 addition. Is that correct? Let's take one at a
time, because I think with that one there is no problem, is
there, Mr. Manager?
Mr. Plummer: Except if they tie together.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Ferre: They are separate issues.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, the City Commission established a Festival
Advisory Committee, and that committee is operational. They have
met a couple of times. They spent a lot of time in developing
criteria and also in terms of selection process for these festi-
vals. I think it is appropriate for this festival, just as other
festivals that we have directed that festival committee go before
that Committee before they come before the City Commission.
Obviously, this City Commission and this Administration has been
supportive of this festival, but I think that in terms of struc-
ture and in terms of input and looking at the total City picture,
particularly in terms of scarce resources, that they should go
before the Festival Advisory Committee before coming here. I
would like to als6•state, Mr. Mayor, that I took off the agenda
30 items that were funding requests, until we had a chance to
evaluate the Festival Committee's recommendations, as well as the
total resources available to the City, which will be coming to
this City Commission the first meeting in November, and I think
it would be unfair to those 30 organizations that agreed to wait
until that process is completed for us to now consider funding of
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some other organization, and particularly in a volatile communi-
ty as we have, there are people in the various groups of this
community who will feel that we are not treating them fairly. I
would suggest that we go through that process, Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Mazarola: Mr. Mayor, as a point of clarification if I could
address myself to that. We sent a letter to the City Manager,
which was dated September 26th, and now that letter was rejected
because of the fact that a Festival Advisory Committee had been
established, but the letter was sent before, I believe the deci-
sion by the Commission to establish that Advisory Committee was
made.
Mr. Gary: That is not correct, Mr. Mayor. The Festival Advisory
Committee has been in existence since I have been City Manager,
and it has been operational and they have been meeting, and even
though he sent a letter, the other 30 organizations also sent
letters for which they are not on the Agenda and they have agreed
not to come before this Commission until we go through the total
process.
Mayor Ferre: All right.
Mr. Mazarola: Well, for...
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask a quick question.
Mr. Mazarola: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Have you gone before the Festival Committee in
reference to the first funding. Has that been done?
Mr. Mazarola: Not for this year, Mr. Plummer, but we have to the
Festival Advisory Committee for the past two years.
Mr. Plummer: Okay, but you haven't gone this year.
Mr. Mazarola: No, not this year, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Do you have a problem with the time? Is there a
time constraint problem?
Mr. Mazarola: Well, the problem is that, you know, especially
after the expansion aspect of Calle Ocho that is going to present
a tremendous logistical problem for us, and that is the reason
that we had come this early. You know, if we are going to ex-
pand, we are coming down to a do-or-die situation as far as
getting everything ready for the festival next year if we are
going to talk about four additional blocks and perhaps. five or
six more sites, it will present a problem - delay will present a
problem for us.
Mr. Plummer: Well, but that is, you know, that is fine for you,
and we understand your problem, but how do we say for the other
30 that have applications in, that there are certain that don't
have to go through the process. I think in fairness, you have
got to. I am supportive of you. I always have been. I think it
is a great festival, but either we are going to follow our own
rules, or we are going to abolish them. Now, you know? When
does the committee meet again?
Mr. Gary: November 24th.
Mr. Plummer: All right, is the delay of November 10th going to
hurt you that much?
Mr. Mazarola: Could we get a commitment or an agreement in
principle and something with regards to the expansion?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, I am going to give you one right now.
Mr. Mazarola: With regards to the expansion...
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Mr. Dawkins: No, I am going to give you a commitment right now.
Let me give you a commitment right now. I just finished saying
that we have got to cut ... and if they by any way give you money,
I am going. ..Mr. Gary, I want them to get just what they asked
for. I am not going to sit up here and deny certain people, and
certain people get! Now, if they get some money, Mr. Jackson, I
want him to get just what the hell they asked for. Okay, now
that is my suggestion.
Mr. Gary: Well, if I may ... I understand that, but I am the one
that has got to balance this budget. I hate just to give one
because of the other and that still doesn't solve the budget
problem.
Mr. Dawkins: But, it still....
Mr. Gary: I understand what you are saying.
Mr. Dawkins:.... all I am saying Mr. Gary is, that I am tired of
sitting here giving away money and nobody seems to care about it!
Mr. Gary: I understand that. I appreciate that! What I would
like to say, Mr. Mayor, is to request of this City Commission to
agree on festivals, extending of festivals, the amount of money,
in my estimation would be second guessing, or violating the
process or the procedures, or the functions of the festival
advisory committee. The City Commission would obviously have
that right when those proposals come before the City Commission,
but when of the problems we had in the past Festival Committee is
that this City Commission and this City Administration did not
follow the process by which this City Commission established, and
we kept second guessing them, and they felt that there was no
need to have a Festival Advisory Committee. That Festival Advi-
sory Committee is ethnically balanced. It includes people from
all walks of life, and every community, and the interests that
will be served for the Calle Ocho, the Goombay, and everybody
else in this community.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, when is that committee meeting?
Mr. Gary: November 24th.
Mayor Ferre: All right, I would like then to do the following.
I would like to accelerate their mee..ing for the first week of
November so that that would give you sufficient time to come back
on the November 10th - that is the first meeting in November,
because I think that the problem that a lot of these festivals
have is the time constraint. 1,
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, there are some festivals that are going to
occur way before Calle Ocho. Mr. Mayor, in order to follow a
process where we are being fair to everybody, we have to send out
notices to everybody so that they won't be coming before this
City Commission saying "I wasn't informed, I didn't have time to
do my proposal".
Mayor Ferre: Are you saying then, that the only way we can do it
properly, is to meet on the 24th?
Mr. Gary: That is correct.
Mayor Ferre: The 24th, of course is Thanksgiving.
Mr. Gary: Well, they agreed to it, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: To meet on Thanksgiving day?
Unidentified Speaker: The day before, or after.
Mr. Gary: He said the day before, or the day after.
probably change it.
They will
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Mayor Ferre: I would like to then do this. I understand your
point and I have no objections. The 24th obviously cannot be
the day since that is Thanksgiving day. I would like for this
matter to be accelerated to such an extent so that it will then
come before the City Commission on the second meeting of Novem-
ber. Now that is a matter of just a few days. I just don't want
to have this thing drag on beyond the second meeting of November.
Mr. Gary: We will do that. I just like to remind you that...
Mayor Ferre: Just choose a day before the second meeting in
November so that will give you sufficient time to get notices
out. Certainly a month should be more than sufficient time to
get the proper notices out, to hold a public hearing of the
committee to conclude, for the Administration to look at the
conclusions and come up with recommendations by the second meet-
ing in November. Is that all right with you, now?
Mr. Gary: Yes, we will sit down and talk to a private commit-
tee, you know, in terms of the time.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there anything else you want to add?
Mr. Mazarola: No, no sense arguing.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there any further discussion on this
item at this time? I don't think we need any motions.
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8. REQUEST FOR FUNDING BY MR. JOSE FEITO, REPRESENTING THE
CUBAN DOCTORS TO GIVE OF THEIR FREE TIME TO UNDERPRIVILEGED
PERSONS FOR FUNDING. (Matter referred to the City Manager)
Mayor Ferre: All right, the next matter to come before us is Mr.
Jose Feito. Mr. Feito, if you would step forward.
Mr. Jose Feito: Mr. Mayor and Commissioners, my name is Jose
Feito. I am here on behalf of Professio, Inc. I am the presi-
dent. Professio, Inc. is a non-profit corporation organized
under the laws of the State of Florida, exempt from taxes, which
attempts to serve the needy and the poor people, primarily in the
area of the City of Miami. We have been organized since 1981,
and we have been working mainly and basically with private fund-
ing. I sent to each one of you one of these brochures, and right
now we are soliciting from the City of Miami economid' help to
improve our conditions on these services that we are providing.
Our services include, and not exclude others, but basically,
everything we have is voluntary, all the doctors, the dentists.
We have social workers. We have volunteers for work without
receiving any pay and also, we provide to the needy, free dental
services, laboratory examinations, x-rays, and medicine. We feel
this is something needed in our community, and we want to
increase our services. We select these persons who receive help
following the regular established policy line, in which case, if
they are not eligible for any other sources of help. We also
provide some legal orientation to some of these people.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Feito, just to cut through so as not ... let me
see if I understand this. There is a group of Cuban, mostly
Cuban...
Mr. Feito: Any kind, basically it is Hispanic.
Mayor Ferre:.... doctors, Hispanic doctors, who are giving of
their time freely.
Mr. Feito: Yes, sir.
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Mayor Ferre: And are taking care of the needs of needy people in
Little Havana on a voluntary basis at a store front, and this is,
there are dentists...
Mr. Feito: Five days a week.
Mayor Ferre: .... that are helping and they are doing this on a
voluntary basis.
Mr. Feito: We have a referral in which we have about forty.
Mayor Ferre: You have about forty people working and in ef-
fect...
Mr. Feito: Forty doctors, which are...
Mayor Ferre: Forty doctors. In effect, it is a referral service
for somebody who has a medical problem. Now, what you are asking
is, you are asking the City of Miami for $109000.
Mr. Feito: That is correct, sir.
Mayor Ferre: $10,000, and these monies are going to be used for
what purpose?
Mr. Feito: For the purpose of increasing services, because we,
unfortunately have to say "no" to some people, because the medi-
cine costs, the lab costs,...
Mayor Ferre: How long has your organization been in existence?
Mr. Feito: Almost four years, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Four years. All right, how many patients do you
serve in a year?
Mr. Feito: Well right now, probably 1,000.
Mayor Ferre: How many?
Mr. Feito: 1,000.
Mayor Ferre: 19000. All right now, and you do not charge any-
thing for it?
Mr. Feito: No, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Are you getting any economic support Jrom any
private organization - Kiwanis Club, or any...
Mr. Feito: No, sir. We just basically raise funds by a dinner,
and then private funding by mailing.
Mayor Ferre: And private funding by mailing.
Mr. Feito: Mailing, yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: All right, now...
Mr. Feito: Our budget, yearly, we are increasing that to
$50,000, so we...
Mayor Ferre: All right, have you requested any funding from any
other governmental source?
Mr. Feito: No, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Okay.
Mr. Perez: Where do you have the headquarters of your organiza-
tion of this?
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Mr. Feito: The place is on 27th and 8th Street, the College
Shopping Center, almost at the corner of 27th and 8th. It is the
College Shopping Center.
Mayor Ferre: Let me repeat this for Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Perez: How do you afford the monthly rent?
Mr. Feito: Oh, we have funding.
Mr. Perez: By yourselves? By your own funds?
Mr. Feito: We pay that. We get money from people - private
people, and we pay for everything, including medicine. Our
budget is, as I said, $49,000.
Mr. Perez: You have for your own funds?
Mr. Feito: Yes, sir. Now, we need more money, and that is why
we are here.
Mayor Ferre: Commissioner Dawkins, this is a group of private
citizens who have a store front dispensary where they are servic-
ing about 1,000 people who come in off the streets, mostly His-
panics, but they have served Haitians, and anybody who walks in.
Mr. Feito: Any kind - right.
Mayor Ferre: And they have forty doctors and dentists who look
at the individuals and then refer them for medical service to
doctors who do this without charging.
Mr. Feito: Right, under private offices.
Mayor Ferre: They are doing this totally on their own without
any governmental auspices of any kind, and they are now in a
bind, and they are here asking for $10,000 from the City of Miami
Commission. Did I express that property?
Mr. Feito: That is correct, sir.
Mr. Carollo: If I may give some input, I think that what the
man has presented to us is certainly a very worthy cause, but I
don't have, unfortunately, enough information about your organi-
zation, and I can't, in all good faith, vote time and time again
for people who are coming to us for monies without being fully
informed.
Mr. Feito: I understand that.
Mr. Carollo: I will be more than happy to defer this for our next
meeting on Thursday, have you come to my office, and if you can't
meet with me, because of my schedule the way it is now, meet with
my staff.
Mr. Feito: I know. I've met Pete from your office.
Mr. Carollo: I know you left a copy there, but, I need for you
to meet at least, with someone in my staff and talk to them more
in depth and detail.
Mayor Ferre: All right...
Mr. Carollo: The problem that we are facing here, Maurice, is
that every meeting we are having more and more people come up.
Most of them have very worthwhile events or programs that they
are bringing up, but we just cannot keep giving a blank check out
to every one in this community that wants to come before us.
Mayor Ferre: Understand, and I agree. Is there a...
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Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, let me just very briefly, and
this ... please, do not take this personally. I think a lot of
these problems can be eliminated and time saved. This Commission
established a policy, and that policy was that the items would
not be brought up at this Commission until they had been present-
ed to the City Manager first, and I think if we go back and
adhere to that policy, we are going to save ourselves a lot of
time, a lot of effort, because when the Manager does his examina-
tion, he then will forward to us information pertaining to the
subject, and hopefully a recommendation, and I would say that
what we should do is get back to that policy.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Manager...
Mr. Perez: Let me say something. First, Commissioner Carollo
said that this is the first time that I hear about this service,
and I think that I am very active, especially in the Spanish
community and I never have heard anything about the center that
you have in the College Shopping Center, but I think that is an
outstanding purpose if it is what you say and I would like to
have the opportunity to meet with you and some members of your
organization, because I have, and I am sure all of our Commis-
sioner's offices have a letter requesting every day about social
service, about free medical service and I don't have any place
where we refer free of charge! I think that with contact with
your office - I would like to have the opportunity to meet you
next week in order to know more about service and I think as
Vice -Mayor Plummer said, it would be great that you present this
as your proposal to the City Manager's office.
Mr. Feito: Excuse my lack of knowledge, but I will do whatever
this Commission feels I should do.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Feito. All right, I think what is
being said here is that you should make your application to the
City Manager and then it will be presented to the Commission
after his review. Thank you very much for your ... and please,
understand, this is in no way anything but due process. We
highly recognize, and we are very grateful to the forty doctors
and dentists that are giving of their time freely and of the
citizens than are doing this to help 1,000 or more individuals
who have no other access to medical service, and we are grateful
to you for this act of charity.
Mr. Feito: I will get in touch with the City Manager, right?
Thank you very much.
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9. REQUEST OF MR. MANUEL ARQUES REPRESENTING N.E.D.A.'NATIONAL
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION FOR FUNDING. (Matter
referred to City Manager)
Mayor Ferre: All right, the last request that I have here is Mr.
Manuel Arques of the National Economic Development Association
(N.E.D.A.), and he will be representing the community in Lima,
Peru, where the members of the export/import bank, F.C.I.A., and
others will be meeting and he has a request of the City of Miami
Commission - Mr. Arques.
Mr. Manuel Arques: My name is Manuel Arques. My organization is
National Economic Development Association, 1803 Ponce De Leon
Boulevard. Mayor, Commissioners, the reason I am here today is
because for the lest three years, I have been doing trade mis-
sions and trade fairs in South and Central America and the Carib-
bean Islands. Also, I have been doing financial and technical
assistance to minorities in many aspects to obtain funds and also
to exporters how to do business overseas. In the three missions
that we had before, the company I represent sold more than
$10,000,000 in overseas. Now, I am going to Lima, Peru for the
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second year. Last year we represented 21 companies, minority
companies, most of them. My request at this time for the City of
Miami for $5,000 to take ten companies, minority companies with-
out any charge at all to try expose their products there through
a catalog show that I am going to have in the Trade Fair of the
Pacific next November.
Mr. Carollo: Manuel, I love you dearly. We are good friends,
but you know, to make it as soft on you as I can, if we had taken
the posture that we had with some of these other people today, it
is only right and proper that we asked you to go to the City
Manager also. Otherwise, we might as well open it up and start
voting the same for everyone here. Howard, how soon can you get
with him to give us your recommendation on this subject?
Mr. Gary: We can get with him this week and we can get back to
the City Commission at the next City Commission meeting. When is
the next one?
Mr. Plummer: Thursday.
Mr. Carollo: Can you do it with the Manager?
Mr. Arques: Yes, that would be when, on the 27th?
Mr. Carollo: Thursday, two days from today.
Mr. Arques: All right, because I am traveling next month. The
trade mission is November 16th, and really, I am not going to
have too much time to recruit these ten minority companies, so I
think I will have time for the next meeting.
Mayor Ferre: I will pass the information on to the Manager and
then we will be meeting again Thursday and we will take it up.
Mr. Arques: Thursday, okay. Thank you so much.
10. A MOTION OF CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF SERGIO PEREIRA
UPON HIS FATHER'S DEATH.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Plummer, do you have any pocket items?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I really...I don't consider them pocket
items, I think an appropriate resolution from this Commission
noting the passing of the father of a good friend of this Commis-
sion - Sergio Pereira, from Dade County, I think is in order, and
I so move, at this time.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-888
A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE DEEPEST SYMPATHY
AND SINCEREST CONDOLENCES OF THE CITY COMMIS-
SION ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF MIAMI AND ITS
CITIZENS TO THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF ANTONIO
PEREZ UPON HIS DEATH.
(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 Carollo, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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11. CONDOLENCES TO FORMER METRO COMMISSIONER ED GRAHAM CONCERN-
ING THE PASSING OF HIS WIFE ETHEL EVANS GRAHAM.
Mayor Ferre: We also have the sad news that Mrs. Edward Graham
has passed. Former Commissioner Ed Graham served this community
for many years as Pastor of Mt. Zion Church and served on this
Commission and I think it certainly would be appropriate for a
motion to be made.
Mr. Plummer: Moved.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: It has been moved and seconded. Further discus-
sion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 889
A MOTION OF CONDOLENCES OF THE CITY COMMIS-
SION AND THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO
FORMER METRO COMMISSIONER EDWARD GRAHAM ON
THE OCCASION OF THE PASSING OF HIS WIFE,
ETHELS EVANS GRAHAM.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
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2. INSTRUCT CITY MANAGER TO RETURN A CHECK SUBMITTED IN
ERROR BY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CUBAN MUNICIPALITIES IN
EXILE FOR RENTAL OF LITTLE HAVANA COMMUNITY CENTER.
Mayor Ferre: Commissioner Perez?
Mr. Perez: The only thing, Mr. Mayor, that I have, is check
from the Cuban Municipalities in Exile. It is a check for
$307 that they paid to the City of Miami on the first month
of the year, that is for the rent of the Little Havana
Community Center for the day at the election of the Cuban
Municipalities. We approved to grant the place free of
charge. They made a mistake, and they paid, and I would
like to request that the City reimburse rental fee to the
Cuban Municipalities.
Mayor Ferret Is there a motion?
Mr. Carollo: So moved.
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Mayor Ferre: Is there a second? Second by Commissioner
Perez. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Carollo,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-890
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO RETURN A CHECK SUBMITTED IN ERROR
BY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CUBAN MUNICIPALI-
TIES IN EXILE FOR RENTAL OF THE LITTLE HAVANA
COMMUNITY CENTER.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
13. ALLOCATE AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO ONE DAY'S RENTAL OF COCONUT
GROVE EXHIBITION CENTER FOR USE BY THE PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL.
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Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, I have one pocket item. Mrs. Powell,
will you come to the mike, please and state your request?
Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Powell, thank you, Ma'am.
Mr. Dawkins: Pull the mike down and give your name and address.
Ms. Sandra Powell: Sandra Powell, 1655 N.E. 115th Street, North
Miami. I am here on behalf of the Pan -Hellenic Council of Great-
er Miami. We have made some initial contact with the Commission-
ers, coupled with the City Manager requesting the use of Dinner
Key Auditorium on November 6th, from 2:00 o'clock until 6:00
o'clock P.M. He had developed and had successfully executed in
the past a college fair for minority youth and all youth in this
community. The Dade County School Board, too, has a large col-
lege fair during the same week. However, we have found that
minority youth in particular, has not been exposed to the larger
college fair on a whole, nor have they been exposed to financial
aid information and that is not a primary purpose for running the
college fair each year.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Gary, what can we give in the area of
what ... did you see their request, Mr. Gary?
Mr. Gary: I vaguely remember their request, if I recall, Commis-
sioner Dawkins, was to seek a fee waiver for the use of the
Coconut Grove Exhibition Center, and they are asking for a fee
waiver. You granted it last year. Your policy is you can't
grant the fee waiver. What you would normally do is give a grant
in lieu of the fee waiver. This is for a scholarship fund.
Mr. Plummer: So moved.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? You okay on that?
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Mr. Gary: And it has to be subject to availability of the facil-
ity.
Mayor Ferre: All right, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-891
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO ALLOCATE AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO ONE
DAY'S RENTAL OF THE COCONUT GROVE EXHIBITION
CENTER PURSUANT TO A REQUEST MADE BY SANDRA
POWELL REPRESENTING THE PAN HELLENIC COUNCIL.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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1W. `AUTHORIZE THE CITY CLERK TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT
WITH DELOITTE, HASKINS AND SELLS, CERTIFIED PUBLIC
ACCOUNTANTS FOR OUTSIDE COMPUTER AUDITING SERVICES,
CITY OF MIAMI ELECTION NOVEMBER 8TH AND 15TH.
Mr. Carollo: I would like to have the City Clerk bring up
the request that was made to him at a previous meeting by
myself with the Commission's blessing at the time, to hire
an outside auditing service to be used on election night.
Mayor Ferre: Okay, do you want to make the motion?
Mr. Carollo: According to the memorandum that we all have,
the maximum that we will be spending for both the primary
and runoff election will be $12,500, so I will make a motion
that the maximum that we spend is $12,500.
Mayor Ferre: No, Joe, I think you ought to make it more
complete. I think the motion should include the letter from
Deloitte, Haskins and Sells, dated October 20th, and that
that be part and parcel of the request. I understand, Mr.
Ongie, that is your recommendation?
Mr. Ongie: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: All right, there is a motion on the floor. Is
there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Commissioner Perez seconds. This
is using the auditing services of Deloitte, Haskins and
Sells, CPA, during the tabulation process for the Miami
election. I think this is an appropriate thing to do, so
that nobody would have any questions of anything being
misplaced. What is the cost factor on that?
Mr. Plummer: What is the cost factor on that?
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Mayor Ferre: From $8,500 to $12,500. Our fee for a single
election will not exceed $10,000. And the fee for perform-
ing the procedures, outlined above, for both the primary and
the regular election, if required, would not exceed $12,500,
for both elections. All right, the motion has been moved
and seconded. Now, any further discussion? It is recom-
mended by the City Clerk. All right, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Carollo,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-892
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY
CLERK TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH
DELOITTE, HASKINS AND SELLS, CERTIFIED PUBLIC
ACCOUNTS FOR THE PURPOSES OF PROVIDING OUT-
SIDE COMPUTER AUDITING SERVICES FOR THE CITY
OF MIAMI ELECTION TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 8TH AND
15, L9839 IF A RUN-OFF IS REQUIRED.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
15. APPOINT MR. SKIP SHEPPARD AS A MEMBER OF THE MIAMI
SPORTS AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY.
Mr. Carollo: The other pocket item that I have is I would
now like to name my appointment to the Miami Sports and
Exhibition Authority.
Mayor Ferre: All right, sir, go ahead.
Mr. Carollo: And I make my appointment Mr. Skippy Sheppard.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there a second to the motion?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mr. Plummer: I think we have got to talk about that one.
Is that the Skippy Sheppard from the Dupont Plaza? The
father of John?
Mr. Carollo: There is a rumor going around about that.
Mr. Plummer: I've heard about that rumor. Well, I know you
tried to get somebody good, Joe, but...
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENT)
Mayor Ferre: Yes, you are right. You are absolutely right,
about what?
Mr. Plummer: Call the roll in a hurry before we all change our
minds.
Mayor Ferre: Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Carollo, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-893
A RESOLUTION APPOINTING AN INDIVIDUAL TO
SERVE AS A MEMBER OF THE MIAMI SPORTS AND
EXHIBITION AUTHORITY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
16. DISCUSSION ITEM REGARDING CANDIDACY OF RICARDO RECHANI,
CANDIDATE IN GROUP II. (SEE LATER FORMALIZED RESOLUTION 83-
981)
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Mr. Ralph Ongie: Mr. Mayor, I just need some guidance from the
City Commission in one irregularity that has developed in connec-
tion with one of our candidates. It is unprecedented in the
conduct of these elections, but there is a candidate in Group II
that has on his application indicated an address which is not
possible for anybody to live there. I have had this verified. I
referred the matter to the City Attorney. He has instructed me
that I am without authority to act. There is a provision in the
City Code which permits the City Commission to act upon this
matter one way or the other. I am merely bringing it, to your
attention for appropriate action.
Mayor Ferre: Your recommendation - you say that it is impossi-
ble - that that address does not exist, is that what you are
saying?
Mr. Ongie: Yes, sir. It is strictly an office building. It is
an office building.
Mayor Ferre: it is an office building, and you have verified
this?
Mr. Ongie: It is an office building. Yes, sir. I have.
Mayor Ferre: All right. So therefore, the statement on your
part is that it is impossible for that candidate to reside at
that particular...*
Mr. Ongie: That is correct.
Mayor Ferre: Now, the City of Miami Charter - Mr.,City Attorney,
I think the Charter is very clear on that. Would you read the
section that pertains to that.
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Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Well, I think the Clerk was referring to the
code section in which this Commission is empowered to find that a
candidate for Mayor or Commissioner does not meet the qualifica-
tions of an elector as required under the Charter, and it then
says, and this is from Section 16-17(c). It then says "The
Commission may adopt a resolution so finding and directing the
City Clerk to refrain from placing the name of the candidate on
the ensuing ballot for such office.
Mayor Ferre: Now, who would have to make that determination?
Would the City Commission have to make that determination?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Yes, sir, and I think if you do that, you
need to find out exactly what the address is and get a little bit
more on the record.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Commissioner Carollo, since you are
involved in that particular race, I think the appropriate way of
doing this is that the City ought to have ... Mr. Manager, would be
appropriate for the City Police Department, or your office....
Mr. Plummer: Internal Security.
Mayor Ferre:.... directly - the Internal Security to verify this
and bring it up on Thursday, and at that time, if this matter is
verifiable, then I have no problems in voting in favor of the
remedy as determined by the City of Miami Commission.
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Mayor, I am all ears this morning, under the
circumstances, but just for a point of information, for the
record, if the Miami Police Department, or whomsoever my col-
leagues in the Commission see fit to investigate this further,
would care to take a little ride down to 6400 S. W. 109 Street,
you will find there is very nicely expensive home that was re-
cently vacated and if they would call the owner of that home, he
would be more than happy, I am sure to state that the individual
that was living there, up until about a week and one-half ago,
had rented that house approximately two months prior, is the same
individual that gave a P.O. box at a commercial property at 444
Brickell Avenue.
Mr. Plummer: Question - Mr. Clerk, I heard what the City Attor-
ney had to say. Is it possible at this date to ... if this Commis-
sion acts on Thursday, to withdraw that name from the ballot?
Mr. Ongie: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Okay, so then you will so notify the Elections
Department, not to print that ballot until this Commission has
had the chance to act on Thursday?
Mr. Ongie: That's right.
Mr. Plummer: Okay.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Manager, since obviously this is
going to be a serious legal matter, it is important that this be
properly and totally documented by the City of Miami authorities,
and Mr. City Attorney, I would like for your involvement in this
so that it is properly done and properly documented so that when
we take a vote on this on Thursday that we stand on firm legal
ground.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Mayor, may I suggest that you add to
your motion, an instruction to the Clerk, to attempt to give
notice to the person involved, that the Commission will take this
matter up on Thursday.
Mayor Ferre: Certified notice.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Yes, sir.
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Mayor Ferre: And that it be ... this Commission has subpoena
powers, doesn't it?
Mr. Plummer: That is what I was going to ... Mr. Mayor, if you are
talking about certified mail, it takes five days.
Mayor Ferre: I think this Commission has subpoena powers, does-
n't it?
Mr. Plummer: tinder Section 11 of the Charter, we can group
ourselves as a investigating body and under those terms, we can
issue subpoenas and I would say that would be the proper way to
do.
Mayor Ferre: All right, we now have a memorandum here dated
September 28th, which I have just received a copy of from Ralph
Ongie, City Clerk. It says "Per the request of the City of
Miami, a zoning inspector visited the above address on September
28, 1983, that is 444 Brickell Avenue, Suite 51-139. The subject
address is a letter drop only. Brickell Mail Receiving verified
that Box 51-139 is registered to Mr. Ricardo Rechani. Please
advise if further information is required". Now, I think I would
like to ask the Clerk's Office to also participate in this proc-
ess. That all these files be turned over to Internal Security
and that Mr. City Attorney, your office be involved. I think the
proper way of doing this, since this matter has now come up
before this Commission in a legal fashion, is that a motion be
made that Mr. Rechani be subpoenaed under the authority in the
Charter of the City of Miami to come before this Commission at
9:00 A.M. on Thursday and that by that time you, through the
Police Department from the City Attorney's Office and the City
Clerk be prepared to answer the allegations before us so that
this Commission can act as I guess in that instance we are an
adjudicatory body that would ... is that the proper term, Murray?
Close enough? Okay. So we would make the legal ... the determina-
tion, and act accordingly. Are there any questions about this?
Mr. City Attorney, because of the delicate nature of this matter,
would you word the motion, please?
Mr. Garcia-Pedorsa: Yes, I think the motion should be to first
of all agree to, first of all, agree to hear the matter that the
Clerk has presented to the Commission on Thursday, the 27th of
October at whatever time you say, Mr. Mayor. I think we need a
time certain.
Mr. Plummer: 9:00 o'clock.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: 9:00 o'clock? Mr. Mayor, is 9:00 o'clock
all right with you?
Mayor Ferre: What?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: 9:00 o'clock on Thursday?
Mayor Ferre: Now, I think what Plummer is pointing out, and I
don't know what the legal language is, but I think that I have to
appoint somebody on the Commission as a committee of one to be in
charge. Is that right?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: No, you have to sign the subpoena.
Mayor Ferre: I have to sign the subpoena?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: All right, I.have no objections.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: And I think your motion should further
include an issuance of that subpoena for the individual involved,
and I would suggest perhaps, Mr. Mayor, that you add to the
subpoena, what in law we call daces tecum, that is to say, to
bring with him any documents that bear on this question of resi-
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Mayor Ferre: Mr. City Attorney, you word the resolution, or we
are going to be here all day. You bring it back in a properly
worded manner, with all the material that you think is proper and
in the mean time I think this is an appropriate subject that the
City Clerk has brought up, and I will at this time ask for a
motion of intent and we will vote on this as a specific motion, a
resolution, once it comes back in legal form.
Mr. Dawkins: So moved.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second? There is a motion and a second.
Further discussion? Call the roll.
THEREUPON, THE FOREGOING MOTION pertaining to the
challange of the candidacy of Ricardo Rechani
duly introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and
seconded by Commissioner Plummer was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
ABSTAINED: Commissioner Joe Carollo
(LATER FORMALIZED BY RESOLUTION NO. 83-981.)
Mayor Ferre: Let the record show that Commissioner Carollo has
recused himself from voting on this item.
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17. RESOLUTION CHANGING THE DATE OF THE NOVEMBER CITY COMMISSION
MEETING.
Mayor Ferre: All right, we are now on Item Number "C", discus-
sion of changes in meeting date for the November and December
Commission meetings. Mr. Manager?
M.r. Gary: Mr. Mayor, the normal meeting would fall on the 24th,
which is a holiday, and it is appropriate for the City Commis-
sion to change the second meeting date in November.
Mayor Ferre: You are talking about the second meeting date in
November and the second meeting day of December. Is that what
you are talking about?
Mr. Gary: That is correct, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: All right, would you all look at your calendars and
tell me what days you want to meet - the second date of November?
Mr. Gary: Can I recommend the 22nd of November?
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Mayor, I think the November 10th meeting is
also a very inconvenient date to meet on.
Mayor Ferre: Inconvenient because of a possible runoff, you
mean?
Mr. Carollo: Well, I am trying to do you a favor.
Mayor Ferre: It may be yourself you are doing a favor for! All
right, I've got no problems changing both meetings, but I will
tell you this, but after the election, I do intend to take a
little time off, and I am certainly not coming - oh, I guess
Thanksgiving, we will be back.
Mr. Carollo: You are not coming?
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Mayor Ferre: I will be back here for Thanksgiving, yes, so we
could meet - I don't know what you are going to be doing, Joe,
you and J. L., but...
Mr. Carollo: We are going to be enjoying a runoff! (LAUGHTER)
Mayor Ferre: I am trying to be cordial to you now so we can get
a proper day for first and second meeting in November. I have
no problems on the 10th, except that I have got to go to Chicago
on the 9th, so it would have to be late in the day and I think I
would prefer really to make both meetings on the third week, or
the fourth week.
Mr. Carollo: Fourth week.
Mayor Ferre: That would give us a little time - you could go up
to Ocala, and I could go wherever. 21st?
Mr. Plummer: Well, Mr. Mayor, because of the problems incurred
by the holiday, may I suggest we could give consideration to
holding both meetings the same day?
Mayor Ferre: J. L., we have got so much backed up. Look at
this! I think we have to meet two days.
Mr. Carollo: I suggest we meet on the 28th, Monday and the 30th,
Wednesday. It would give us a day in between to rest.
Mayor Ferre: I've got no problem with that Mr. Manager, can
you ... can the City survive that long without a Commission meet-
ing?
Mr. Plummer: It will survive better without it!
Mayor Ferre: 28th and 30th are recommended.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I only have one problem. I am your
delegate to your National League of Cities Convention.
Mayor Ferre: When is that?
Mr. Plummer: That is over that weekend.
Mayor Ferre: Joe, we have got a problem on the 28th and the
30th. How about the 21st and the 23rd?
Mr. Plummer: That's fine.
Mayor Ferre: Joe, we've got a problem with Plummer on the 28th
_ and the 30th. How about the 21st and the 23rd?
Mr. Carollo: What, are you going to bury somebody?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, the City! No, Joe, I am supposed to be at the
National League of Cities Convention. I think Dawkins, aren't
you also going? There is two of us going.
Mayor Ferre: Where is that going to be?
Mr. Plummer: New Orleans.
Mr. Carollo: New Orleans?
Mayor Ferre: 22nd'and 23rd, you have any problems with that?
Mr. Carollo: I might be going with them, so I do have a problem.
Mr. Plummer: Okay, fine. How about 21st and 23rd?
Mayor Ferre: The problem with 23rd is that is the date...
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Mr. Carollo: That is Thanksgiving Day.
Mr. Plummer: No, that is the 24th. I don't care!
Mayor Ferre: Well, make up your mind. When do you want to have
it? I don't care, either one. 21st, 23rd, or 28th, or 30th?
Mr. Carollo: Can't we just hold off and have all of the meetings
the first week of December?
Mr. Plummer: No, the Charter says no.
Mayor Ferre: Absolutely no. Under the law we have to meet...
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, what about the 21st and the 28th?
Mayor Ferre: 21st and 28th? Plummer is leaving.
Mr. Carollo: I suggest that we meet on the 17th and 18th.
Mayor Ferre: Okay. How about 17th and 28th?
Mr. Dawkins: The only problem I have is...
Mayor Ferre: What is your problem.
Mr. Dawkins: Unless I get these agendas in October, there is no
way in hell I am going to stay up all night again reading those
agendas all night. Now, when we get two Commission meetings back
to back, I have to stay up all night to read these.
Mayor Ferre: All right.
Mr. Gary: What about the 17th and the 21st?
Mayor Ferre: I've got no problems with that.
Mr. Gary: 17th and 21st.
Mr. Carollo: I might be gone on the 21st.
Mayor Ferre: How about the 14th and the 17th?
Mr. Carollo: If you want to make it hard on yourself, Mr. Mayor.
We usually have the swearing in the day after the primaries, so
why don't we ... let's have it the 15th and the 17th? Is that all
right with you, Joe?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: 15th is runoff day.
Mr. Carollo: The day after the 15th.
Mayor Ferre: All right, so the dates therefore will be...
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: 15th is the runoff?
Mayor Ferre: The 15th is the runoff, so we will have it the 16th
and the 18th? Is that right? Anybody object to the 16th and the
18th, and then you can go after that. All right? Any problems?
Mr. Plummer: Not with me.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there a motion that the November
meetings be on the 16th and the 18th?
Mr. Gary: M.r Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Gary: With the condition that we are waiving the five day
rule.
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Mayor Ferre: On the 18th.
Mr. Carollo: So moved.
Mayor Ferre: No, not on the 16th - on the 18th. That is the
zoning....
Mr. Gary: The 18th, exactly.
Mayor Ferre: Okay, is that all right with you? Okay, with that
condition. Further discussion?
Mr. Perez: I have to be out of town the 16th.
Mr. Plummer: Better make it 15th.
Mayor Ferre: No, 15th is election day, J. L.
Mr. Plummer: How about the 16th and 21st?
Mayor Ferre: Okay, the 16th and the 18th. all right? All right,
there is a motion by Plummer...
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: And second by Dawkins that the meetings in November
be the 16th and the 18th. Is there further discussion? All
right, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-895
A RESOLUTION RESCHEDI,)LING THE REGULAR CITY
COMMISSION MEETING OF NOVEMBER 10, 1983, TO
TAKE PLACE ON NOVEMBER 16, 1983, AT 9:00 A.M.
AND THE REGULAR CITY COMMISSION MEETING OF
NOVEMBER 24,1983, TO TAKE PLACE ON NOVEMBER
18, 1983, AT 9:00 A.M.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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18. RESOLUTION CHANGING THE DATE OF THE DECEMBER CITY COMMISSION
MEETING.
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Mayor Fere: All right, in December, Mr. Manager, what is the
problem in December? Well, one problem is that I am leaving on
the 16th.
Mr. Gary: That is usually the problem. Most people leave early.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there any problem with having the
December meetings on the 8th and the 15th? Anybody object to
that? Do you have any problem with that? Commissioner Carollo,
do you have any problems in December, a meeting on the 8th and
the 15th.
Mr. Carollo: The 8th and the 15th? No.
Mayor Ferre: Anybody have any problems with that? All right, is
there a motion?
Mr. Plummer: So moved.
Mayor Ferre: Moved by Plummer. Is there a second? Second by
Perez. All right, any further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-896
A RESOLUTION RESCHEDULING THE REGULAR CITY
COMMISSION MEETING OF DECEMBER 22, 1983, TO
TAKE PLACE ON DECEMBER 15, 1983, AT 9:00 A.M.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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19. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH BUS
BENCHES COMPANY FOR INSTALLATION OF BUS BENCHES WITH AND
WITHOUT ADVERTISING IN THE PUBLIC RIGHTS OF MAY.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, now, I am going to take out of turn Item
Number "N", because Murray Dubbin has to go to the hospital. I
hope it is nothing serious, Counselor.
Mr. Murry Dubbin: Thank you, I appreciate it. It is not too -
it is just serious enough that I have to go to the hospital. I
think it will be okay after a while.
Mayor Ferre: Go ahead.
Mr. Dubbin: Mr. Mayor, we are here because we were told to be
here to discuss the bus bench contract.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, we are on Item "N". Would the Admini-
stration make its...
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, after long, lengthy negotiations and legal
questions with regards to bus bench shelters, we finally resolved
all of the issues that we prepared a contract for consideration,
and basically what this does is provide some control over our
current bus bench situation, wherein 1,000 bus benches will be
provided in commercial areas with advertising and 500 in residen-
tial areas without advertising. The City Commission passed a
resolution authorizing the City Manager to accept the proposal
made by the winning firm and negotiate a contract and assign that
contract. The reason I have it before you is because the City
Commission gave me certain conditions that had to be included in
the contract prior to me signing that contract, and those condi-
tions were, first of all, that no political advertising could be
on the signs, and secondly, that the bus benches had to be se-
cured permanently to the ground to prevent them from being moved
from one location to the other. With regard to the first condi-
tion, the winning contractor has not agreed to any restrictions
with regards to advertising in those commercial areas where
advertising will be on the bus benches. Second, is that there
are some areas of town wherein it is not feasible to secure bus
benches to prevent them from being moved. I must remind all of
you that those bus benches are made of concrete and it is very,
very difficult to move them. Some of them are put in right of
ways, and there is no way of securing them without having some
long chain, it is just... 11
Mayor Ferre: Well, you ought to see some of those bus benches in
Plummer's back yard and tell me whether they are easy to move or
nott
Mr. Gary: With regard to the second one, Mr. Mayor...
Mr. Plummer: Oh, no, no. That lady moved those benches without
any problem at all. She drove right through that funeral homelll
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, with regard to the latter condition, we
will work with the bus benches to secure those benches in those
areas where they can be secured, and I would suggest that that be
acceptable as meeting the criteria and conditions that the City
Commission established. With regards to the first ones, there
are some questions in the legal minds of...
Mayor Ferre: First amendment rights.
Mr. Gary: Right, with regards to the contract, as to whether or
not we can require that, or whether we should require that, I
would yield to Attorney Dubbin for comments on that matter.
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Mr. Dubbin: I will be happy to comment on it. There is some
very real constitutional issues involved, and I suspect that if
we refuse to handle political advertisements....
Mayor Ferre: Somebody would challenge you and...
Mr. Dubbin: .... and if we were sued, that we would lose.
Mayor Ferre: Yes.
Mr. Dubbin: So that is...
Mayor Ferre: Hold on, Murray. Do you concur with that? We have
a first amendment expert here of our own, so...
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Mayor, I have been involved with the
current issue concerning political signs, as you know.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, have you!
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: From time to time over the weekend, yes,
Commissioner Plummer. I don't disagree with Mr. Dubbin, Mr.
Mayor. I just haven't really focused on that particular aspect
of the problem dealing with bus benches, but I do think, as he
does, that there are some grave constitutional questions.
Mayor Ferre: Okay, that is all we needed to hear. Further
discussion?
Mr. Plummer: Well, yes, the policy of the Commission presently
is that there shall not be. What I am understanding the City
Attorney to say, he wants to review it. Is that correct?
Mr. Carollo: Where do you find the great constitutional ques-
tions, if I may ask? What areas?
Mr. Plummer: He stays up late at night to find them!
Mayor Ferre: You can't prevent people from having the right to
political ads on bus benches.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: You asked me, Commissioner...
Mr. Carollo: Oh, absolutely! I strongly agree with the City
Attorney, that you can't constitutionally.
Mayor Ferre: We are talking about bus benches, now, Joe, not...
All right, is there further discussion on any of these items?
Mr. Carollo: I know somebody that has at least fifty in a ware-
house somewhere.
Mayor Ferre: Well, that is all right, because all they have to
do is put Larry instead of J. L. on it, and those are the ones
that will not be...
Mr. Dawkins: In the County.
Mayor Ferre: That's right.
Mr. Dubbin: We simply want to pay the City over $50,000 a year,
so we are coming up on the other end of the coin from those who
come asking for money, to put us in a position...
Mayor Ferre: Mr. -Manager, are you recommending this, the way it
is presented to us at this time?
Mr. Gary: Yes, Mr. Mayor, but I would need a resolution of this
City Commission authorizing me to sign this contract without
those previously stated conditions.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there a motion?
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Mr. Carollo: There is a motion.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Carollo: If I understand it correctly, this is the only area
that really concerns me. The City is still going to get the same
percentage that was guaranteed to us originally. As far as to
what advertising goes on in there, as long as it is not porno-
graphic, I don't care what...
Mayor Ferre: You can't restrict that, pornography.
Mr. Carollo: You certainly can.
Mayor Ferre: We are getting into the First Amendment.
Mr. Dubbins: I am very pleased to say nobody has ever come to us
and asked to run pornographic ads.
Mr. Carollo: Well, Mr. Mayor, maybe you have had a change of
heart on it, but I haven't.
Mayor Ferre: No, I haven't had a change of heart, but there are
some constitutional areas that I don't think that we ought to be
getting into at this time.
Mr. Carollo: Well...
Mr. Dubbin: I would like to urge that the contract that is
before you, which is almost word for word the contract that was
set out with specifications was drafted by your staff, and which
calls for us to comply with the law and of course, which we will,
and urge that it be adopted as it is. I think it covers all the
problems.
Mr. Plummer: What item on the agenda?
Mr. Gary: "N".
Mr. Plummer: No, no. "N" is for discussion.
Mr. Gary: No, you previously approved it and authorized me.
Mayor Ferre: All right, there is a motion and a second. Who
seconded the motion? Is there a second to the motion?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, the only reason I am hesitating to
second the motion is the comments of the City Attorney, who wants
more time to study this thing, and I am just...
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: No, no, Commissioner - there is no prohibi-
tion.
Mr. Dubbin: Mr. Mayor, you have adopted a resolution. I'm
sorry.
Mr. Plummer: If he will say absolutely that that is fine, then
I have no problems seconding the motion.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: There is no problem with this contract,
because it does not have that prohibition in it.
Mr. Plummer: I second the motionl
Mayor Ferre: Is there further discussion? Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Carollo, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-897
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT IN THE FORM ATTACHED
WITH BUS BENCHES COMPANY TO PROVIDE BUS
BENCHES WITH AND WITHOUT ADVERTISING IN THE
PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY.
(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
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
20. BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: ADVERTISING REQUIREMENTS.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, we are now on Item Number "E", discus-
sion of the State legislation dealing with advertisement require-
ments. That is Item Number "E". All right, Mr. Manager?
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, this is Item "E", which basically provides
more stringent requirements with regard to our advertising. It
requires an increase from seven to ten days, and with regards to
zoning applications, it requires that we inform residents, which
is going to be more costly. I'd like Clark Merrill of my staff
to go into more detail.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Merrill.
Mr. Clark Merrill: Mr. Mayor and Commissioners, the State Legis-
lature has adopted a State statute which increases the amount of
time that the Commission must allow a public notice to be pre-
sented in the newspaper, giving the citizens and opportunity to
be heard before the City Commission and it extended from seven
days to ten days and it also requires some changes in the way in
which we deal with zoning matters. I have presented this to you
in the form that it was passed by the Legislature and if you have
any questions, I will be glad to answer.
Mr. Plummer: So how many days in advance do we have to...
Mr. Merrill: You have to have a notice in the paper ten days
prior to the final'adoption of any ordinance.
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask a question. Does the law say that we
have to go with a display ad, or can we use the regular classi-
fied, because the ads we are using now are huge.
Mr. Gary: It says that the required advertisement shall be no
less than one -quarter page and of standard size. It has the
specifications here, right here.
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Mr. Merrill: That is in zoning.
Mr. Gary: Yes, this is for zoning.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I understand that.
Mr. Gary: All right, let's go.
Mayor Ferre: Do you need a motion on this?
Mr. Plummer: No.
Mayor Ferre: Do you need any action?
Mr. Merrill: This is informative so that we can make our plans
for making advertisements for future meetings.
21. ALLOCATE $39000 TO THE JOINT CENTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND
URBAN PROBLEMS TO RESEARCH THE EFFECT OF THE PROPOSED CON-
STITUTIONAL AMENDMENT KNOWN AS PROPOSITION ONE.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, the next item to come before the Commis-
sion is "F", request from Florida Atlantic University Joint
Center for Environment and Urban Problems for financial assis-
tance in their efforts to conduct a research project in the
proposed citizen's choice constitutional amendment. Mr. Merrill.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager.
Mr. Gary: We are requesting that the City Commission participate
in a statewide objective evaluation of the pros and cons of the
effects of Proposition I, that can be disseminated to the public
which would, in effect give the public an objective view as
opposed to the left and right point of view in terms of the
effect of the Proposition I. The cost to the City will be
$3,000. There are governmental entities throughout this State
that will also be participating in a similar amount.
Mayor Ferre: Do you recommend this, Mr. Manager?
Mr. Gary: Yes, I do, sir.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there a motion?
Mr. Gary: This is companion Item 75, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: All right, take up Item 75. Is there a motion on
Item 75?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I move the matter and I want to give you
the following information that Mr. Merrill and I bring back from
the Florida League of Cities. The Florida League of Cities did a
poll, a random poll, as to the feeling of the people of the State
of Florida in Reference to Amendment I. It clearly showed that
the people were not completely familiar with what was being
presented, but those who did, Mr. Mayor, were in favor of Article
I. I think it is only right and fair that the people have a
right to know. They should know, and I think this is a good
study to produce that material to let the people know the full
effect of what this could do.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-898
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
PROVIDE FINANCIAL SUPPORT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$3,000 TO THE JOINT CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
AND URBAN PROBLEMS TO RESEARCH THE EFFECT
THAT THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
CURTAILING STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT REVE-
NUES TO THE 1980-181 LEVEL WOULD HAVE ON
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND ALLOCATING
SAID AMOUNT FROM THE CONTINGENT FUND.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
22. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH WALTER
ALVAREZ FOR SHOWING CLOSED CIRCUIT PRESENTATION OF HAGLER
VS. DURAN FIGHT.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, we are now on Item Number "H". This is
the discussion of the Orange Bowl rental for Hagler vs. Duran
fight. Item 69, Mr. Manager?
Mr. Gary: I'd like Mr. Odio to discuss this.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Odio.
Mr. Odio: The reason we brought it to you is that in order for
this promoter to be able to hold this event at the Orange Bowl,
we had to give them a certain break in the rate... what the
ordinance calls for and what we felt he could do to bring this
event there because there are many other facilities that would
want to have it there. The difference is that in the ordinance,
you get a percent of any and the total people that come to the
event. In this case we are saying that we will get a percentage
up to 15,000 people, and anybody above that, we would get one-
half a percent, instead of the full percentage. The difference
is that with the ordinance we would make $76,000 and with this
contract we will make $64,000 profit.
Mayor Ferre: $66,•800?
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: All right.
Mr. Odio: That is the basis of it.
Mayor Ferre: Any questions? All right, is there a motion, then
on Item Number 69?
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Mr. Dawkins: Discussion.
Mayor Ferre: Discussion? All right, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Odio, on the bottom of Item 69(e), it says "The
City will retain its concession and parking rights".
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: We do not have any parking...do we have parking and
concession rights?
Mr. Odio: We have the parking, yes. The concession we will keep
our percent of the concession. The part of the concession we
have...
Mr. Dawkins: See, I want the public to understand that Joe
Robbie has the concession and Joe Robbie will get the money.
See, don't say here that the City...don't say that the City is
going to get no money, because we are not going to get it. I
want it spelled out in the record, for my sake, please, and I
mean, it is no argument with you, because you didn't vote to give
Mr. Robbie these concessions, okay?
Mr. Odio: Let me explain the concession part. We will get our
percentage of the concession. Mr. Robbie will get the differ-
ence.
Mr. Dawkins: But, see, you say the City retains "its". We do
not have any concessions. Mr. Robbie has the concession.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: We will get our percentage of the concession.
Mayor Ferre: Okay, is there a motion on Item 69?
Mr. Plummer: Moved.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Dawkins: Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-899
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT SUBJECT TO THE CITY'
ATTORNEY'S APPROVAL AS TO FORM AND CORRECT-
NESS WITH WALTER ALVAREZ, INCORPORATED, FOR
THE PURPOSE OF SHOWING A CLOSED CIRCUIT
PRESENTATION OF THE HAGLER VERSUS DURAN FIGHT
IN THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM ON NOVEMBER 10,
L9839 IN SUBSTANTIAL ACCORDANCE WITH TERMS
AND CONDITIONS AS SET FORTH IN THE ATTACHED
AGREEMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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23. ACCEPT PROPOSED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FLOAT GUIDELINES.
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Mayor Ferre: We are now on Item "I", discussion on Community
Development Float guidelines. Mr. Manager?
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, this City Commission passed a policy to
implement the C.D. float which is a new program implemented by
the Housing and Urban Development that permits us to utilize C.D.
funds that normally would not be coming to this City until we
actually need them for projects. We have before you, if you
recall a C.D. float program for River Pare, and the City Commis-
sion went on record stating that it would want us to implement
the program provided that the program be targeted to the communi-
ty. We now have a program that limits funding of the float money
to target areas for capital projects and we are now asking the
City Commission to approve this program.
Mayor Ferre: All right, discussion.
Mr. Plummer: You recommend it?
Mr. Gary: Yes, I do, wholeheartedly.
Mayor Ferre: Moved by Plummer. Is there a second? Second by
Perez. Further discussion on Item "I", as outlined in the memo-
randum, and recommended by the Manager. Further discussion?
Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-900
A MOTION ACCEPTING PROPOSED COMMUNITY DEVEL-
OPMENT FLOAT GUIDELINES AS OUTLINED IN A
MEMORANDUM SUBMITTED TO THE CITY COMMISSION
THIS DATE.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
24. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE FUNDING FOR ONE ADDITION-
AL MONTH OF CONTINUED OPERATION OF THE METER BEATER TRAM
SERVICE IN DOWNTOWN.
Mayor Ferre: We are now on the discussion of termination of
meter beater trams. Mr. Carlton? Is Roger Carlton...?
Mr. Gary: No, Mr. Mayor. He is here, but he is trying to re-
solve some legal issues, or have a legal review of his bonds
right now, but basically what he is proposing, is that we discon-
tinue the tram service, which the City has been losing approxi-
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mately $1,200 per month, and as a result of discontinuing it, we
will gain $2,500 per month. We will lose 90 riders, which is
less than one-third, or 30% of the customers that now use the
facility. The City Administration is totally supportive of this
and the money that we generate from this project will go to
retire the loan obligation that we have for the Off -Street Park-
ing for the construciton of this parking facility.
Mayor Ferre: Any objections? As recommended by the Manager, and
Mr. Carlton, I assume you concur. Do you want to say something
into the record?
Mr. Roger Carlton: I am sorry - I was in the back room with the
City Attorney, but did it get read into the record, the request
for the D.N.D.A. to extend for one more month?
Mayor Ferre: No.
Mr. Carlton: Let me take one second, if I might. The Downtown
Merchants and Businessmen's Association requested that the meter
beater tram be extended for one more month. I don't know if
Willy Gort is here, but he said he would be. Their purpose is to
try to find an alternate that would have more business and yet
still be available to serve the downtown and not have any econom-
ic loss.
Mayor Ferre: All right, thank you, Mr. Carlton. We have here
Eli Feinberg, who is the president of the Downtown Merchant's
Association.
Mr. Eli Feinberg: Immediate past president.
Mayor Ferre: I'm sorry.
Mr. Feinberg: We met this morning, Mr. Mayor and we have a
request to the Commission that we defer this item for just one
month to be able to negotiate with Metro in trying to change the
type of vehicle.
Mayor Ferre: Okay, does the maker of the motion accept that?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Go ahead.
Mr. Gary: Under discussion - you know, we are losing money
downtown in our parking garage. We have got adequate parking
facilities downtown. We have a garage downtown in the Government
Center that is not being filled up. We have Metro now getting
ready to come up with a garage. You know, we are spending a lot
of money in capital expenditures that cannot meet debt service on
these garages. And now, we are talking about continuing our
service when we no longer need that service, in my estimation.
Now, we have given them adequate time to negotiate to get money.
They keep telling us they are going to go get this and do this
and do that and the City is caught with the tab. I think we have
adequate parking. We still are going to meeting two-thirds of
the ridership. The only person that has to carry the tab is this
City of Miami. I would suggest we do not continue this project,
for the mere fact that I am not so sure that we are going to be
able to meet the $203,589 of a loan that we owe Roger Carlton.
Mayor Ferre: All.right - Eli, go ahead, quickly.
Mr. Feinberg: We are asking basically for one month to try to
get a decent Metro type of vehicle to bring these people to the
downtown, and I understand the financial situation of the City,
but you Mayor, and your fellow Commissioners have been walking
down Flagler Street and you have seen how dead things are down
there and it would give us one more month to talk to the port
director and Metro to try and make this thing work.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, what is the will of this Commission?
Mr. Plummer: The maker of the motion extends for one month.
Mayor Ferre: All right, who is the seconder of the motion. Who
seconded?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Demetrio Perez just seconded it with that condi-
tion. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-901
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO ALLOCATE FUNDING FOR ONE ADDITION-
AL MONTH TO PERMIT THE CONTINUED OPERATION OF
THE METER BEATER TRAM SERVICE IN THE DOWNTOWN
AREA OF MIAMI.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
ABSENT: None.
ON ROLL CALL:
Mr. Dawkins: I have to agree with the Manager's profession-
al advice. We hire him to make decisions and sometimes I
agree with him and this time I vote "no" along with the
Manager's recommendation.
25. DISCUSSION ITEM - CONTINUING AND WORSENING TRAFFIC CONDITIONS
IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I still ... Mr. Manager, I harped on you
two weeks ago and I am going to harp on you again today. The
situation downtown - the traffic is worse today than it was when
I brought it up last time. I don't know what in the hell you are
going to do, but I want to tell you I was downtown yesterday, you
cannot move, it is frozen. the downtown is congested, and yes,
that is what I get, just moving the head back and forth, but
nothing seems to improve! I want to tell you...
Mayor Ferre: What do you want done?
Mr. Plummer: I want the downtown streets open for traffic. Now,
you know, it is getting to be highly impossible to even move to
get to the very expensive parking that you talk about we have so
much of. Mr. Manager, I will ask, sir, that you come back to
this Commission within ten days with a plan of the Police Depart-
ment of what you are going to do to expedite the traffic in the
downtown area ... between the People Mover, between the Rapid
Transit, between Roger Carlton springing up his little slot
machines everywhere on all of the streetsll...you know, let me
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tell you, I had a big fight with Roger, and I still am going to
take him downtown and show him - on 1st Avenue we are down to one
lane. He has put his slot machines on the left hand side of the
street, and he tells me there is two lanes. I defy anybody to go
down there and fine that bus lane open. There is one lane of
traffic open. Now, if you want to strangle downtown,and make
everybody go out to shopping centers, congratulations! You are
doing a hell of a good job! Now, that is not what we are about.
We are about bringing people back down to downtown, and I want to
tell you, unless we do something to encourage them, we are not
going in the right direction. I would like to see a report back
from the Manager in ten days.
Mr. Dawkins: I agree with you, and I would also like for the
Manager to include in that report, what the D.O.T. of the State
of Florida is doing. If you come off of the Expressway anytime
between 7:45 and 8:30 and attempt to come into the Biscayne/N. E.
2nd Avenue exit, that traffic is backed up unsafely on I-95, and
it is because of that construction in that area and I would like
for you to find out from the State of Florida what they can do,
because it is dangerous!
Mr. Plummer: It funnels... well, you don't have to go to the
State of Florida. Mr. Gary, my suggestion is that you talk with
the fine people of Southeast Bank, and I think if it is humanly
possible, that they should try to relieve now that the major
portion of their construction is over, to relieve one more lane
of that traffic. You are funneling down now off of three lanes
off of I-95 into one. You have got a right turn lane, the other
one is blocked, and you have got one lane. You know, I want to
make you go down there in the morning from 7:00 o'clock to 10:00
o'clock. Yes, you won't go, I know you are chicken! Ten days!
Mr. Dawkins: Or no 10% increase!
Mr. Plummer: No increase - a decrease!
Mr. Gary: I'll accept it.
26. APPOINT MR. WILLIAM HARRISON AS A MEMBER OF THE WATERFRONT
BOARD REPLACING STUART SORG.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, we are now on Item "K" on the Waterfront
Board. Mr. Chairman?
Mr. Gary: That is your item, Mr. Mayor.
Mr. John A. Brennan: For the record, my name is John A. Brennan,
and I am Chairman of the Miami Waterfront Board. The first issue
is a matter that the Commission selected two members for the
Board at a previous meeting who are not residents of the City of
Miami. According to the Legal Department, their selection would
precede a previous appointment.
Mayor Ferre: Okay.
Mr. Brennan: The Legal Department has decided that it should go
back to you for clarification whether or not you think these two
people who are not residents should be included, or...
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Portuondo and Mr. Allen.
Mr. Brennan: Correct.
Mayor Ferre: Okay, so what we need is the clarification and the
verification, and if they are not, they are not. It is that
simple.
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Mr. Brennan: Okay. According to the rules that you originally
established, they don't fit the perimeters. You have the right
to make the selection other than the basic rules which would
supersede.
Mayor Ferre: Whose appointments were they? Does anybody remem-
ber?
Mr. Brennan: Mr. Sorg appointed them about three meetings ago.
I am sorry, he recommended them and you appointed them.
Mayor Ferre: All right, do you have any recommendations?
Mr. Brennan: These are both fine fellows and we have to leave it
to you. They seem to serve well. We have to leave it to your
judgment.
Mayor Ferre: I don't even know who they are. That isn't Garcia
Allen, is it?
Mr. Plummer: No.
Mr. Brennan: Jimmy Allen is an architect who lives outside. of
the County and Juan Portuondo...
Mayor Ferre: All right, I will tell you - we are going to have
to defer this item, I think, and then we will have to deliberate
on this further.
Mr. Plummer: Well, refer it to the City Attorney to make a
determination.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: They are not eligible.
Mr. Brennan: The Attorney referred it back to you gentlemen, I
am sorry.
Mayor Ferre: It is our decision.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: They are not eligible, period! Now, if you
want to change the rules, that is a different story.
Mr. Plummer: Well, we have got to pick two winners, then.
Mr. Brennan: All right.
Mayor Ferre: All right, John, we are going to have to -deal with
this again. Mr. Manager, would you put this in next November, and
at that time I would like to ask the Commission to come up with
alternate names, if that is the will of the Commission.
Mr. Brennan: Okay, I have a suggestion for a replacement for Mr.
Sorg, who lives in the City of Miami.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Sorg - is his membership up?
Mr. Brennan: His membership is up, yes. He resigned three
months ago.
Mayor Ferre: He resigned from the Board?
Mr. Brennan: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: All right, what is your recommendation?
Mr. Brennan: My recommendation is a gentlemen named William H.
Harrison, who served for the City several years ago as Lease
Manager, and several other cities.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor...
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Mr. Brennan: He asked to serve, which is always a good sugges-
tion.
Mayor Ferre: He lives in the City and all that?
Mr. Brennan: He does live in the City of Miami, yes.
Mayor Ferre: I've got no objections to that. Yes, Mr. Manager.
Mr. Gary: I think in order to this proper, the Committee is
supposed to decide on names to recommend and they are supposed to
provide it to the City Commission to vote off a list. Has the
Committee reviewed these recommendations? The Waterfront Board?
Mr. Brennan: Are you talking about Harrison?
Mr. Gary: No, the Board - yes.
Mr. Brennan: No.
Mayor Ferre: John, just so that we do it on the uppity -uppity,
let's take it before the Board and come back with a recommenda-
tion. You've got my commitment to vote for Harrison at the next
Commission meeting.
Mr. Brennan: The Board did give me approval to pick anyone I
wanted to fill the spot.
Mr. Plummer: Let's do it the reverse. I move the name of Bill
Harrison subject to the Board's approval.
Mayor Ferre: Okay.
Mr. Brennan: The Waterfront Board?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Brennan: Fine.
Mayor Ferre: See, the way this is supposed to be - you are
supposed to recommend several names to us and then we choose one,
okay? Now, you are saying that you will want to recommend
William Harrison. I've got no objections to that, but so that we
can follow procedure, we do it one of two ways. Either you go
back to the Board and come back and do it the proper way, or we
will do it the way Plummer wants it - moving now, and that is we
move it subject to your Board going on record as recommending it.
Mr. Brennan: Okay, fine - no problem with that. 11
Mayor Ferre: Okay, is that all right, now? Is there a second to
Plummer's motion?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-902
A MOTION APPOINTING MR. WILLIAM H. HARRISON
AS A MEMBER OF THE WATERFRONT BOARD TO RE-
PLACE STUART SORG WHO RECENTLY RESIGNED FROM
SAID BOARD, SUBJECT TO RATIFICATION BY THE
WATERFRONT BOARD.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
27. STRONGLY OPPOSING A PROPOSED METRO ORDINANCE REQUIRING ALL
CITY OWED MARINAS TO OBTAIN PERMITS FROM DADE COUNTY.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, John, anything else?
Mr. John Brennan: Okay, we have a request from the Waterfront
Board that the City Commission take a position opposing the
County's proposed ordinance permitting all marinas.
Mayor Ferre: What does that mean?
Mr. Gary: We agree with it!
Mr. Plummer: So moved.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, that has your recommendation?
Mr. Gary: We agree with that 100%. We have been fighting that.
Mr. Plummer: They want to take over and preclude our rights.
Mayor Ferre: Okay, I've got you.
Mayor Ferre: All right, there is a motion by Plummer. Is there
a second?
Mr. Carollo: I've got a problem with it.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Perez. Further discussion? Recommended
by the Manager. All right with you now? All right, further
discussion, call the roll.
Mr. Brennan: Thank you very much, Gentlemen.
Mayor Ferre: All right, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
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RESOLUTION NO. 83-903
A RESOLUTION STRONGLY OPPOSING ADOPTION OF AN
ORDINANCE BY METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY REQUIR-
ING THAT MARINAS LOCATED IN THE CITY OF MIAMI
OBTAIN PERMITS FROM DADE COUNTY; FURTHER
DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO SEND A COPY OF
THIS RESOLUTION TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COM-
MISSIONERS OF METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
28. BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM - POSSIBLE USE OF LOCAL BOND COUNSEL.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, take up Agenda Item "Ll'.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, I don't want any action on this item until
I can sit down further and discuss it with the City Attorney.
What we are attempting to do is to increase the utilization of
local, or to add the utilization of local Bond Counsel in the
bonding process without jeopardizing the City's bond rating and
reputation in the bond market.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, I read the memorandum. I think it is
very well done. My only concern would be - I think the Law
Department ought to have involvement in this process.
Mr. Gary: We have no problem. They will be involved in the
process.
Mayor Ferre: Okay, there is no action required now?
Mr. Gary: We are not requiring any action right now. We will
sit down with the City Attorney and...
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: If there is no action, I have no comment,
Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Gary: Well, you can comment if you want to.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: If there is no action, I have no comment.
This thing is illegal, let me tell you something.
Mayor Ferre: Weli, let's not get into ... at this point we are not
going to discuss it, is that right? And this is just informative
in nature, is that correct?
Mr. Gary: That is correct.
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29. BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM - POSSIBLE LOCATION FOR MOUNTED
PATROL AND CANINE POLICE UNITS.
Mayor Ferre: All right, we are now on Item "M", discussion on
possible location for a mounted patrol and canine police units.
Mr. Manager.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, you have a memorandum before you that
basically addresses...
Mayor Ferre: Oh, I see, use of Virginia Key for various police
activities. Recognizing that the City would be occupying City
owned property in Virginia Key valued at $800,000. The City
should receive adequate compensation from the land of equal value
or direct payment ... you know, I am going to tell you. I don't
know how you all feel about it. That land is so valuable. Are
you recommending that we put horse stables there?
Mr. Gary: Well, Mr. Mayor, the area where we are recommending
putting horse stables is an area which is not planned for recrea-
tional activity anyway.
Mr. Plummer: Forget it! That is strictly improper.
Mayor Ferre: Why?
Mr. Plummer: That is a recreational area. That is what we are
trying to put over there is a recreational area.
Mayor Ferre: How many acres would be needed to put up stables?
Mr. Gary: Seven acres. Now, Mr. Mayor...
Mr. Plummer: What???
Mr. Gary: We are ... well, three to seven acres, Mr. Mayor. It is
going to be less than seven.
Mayor Ferre: Howard, why don't you defer this and go lobby the
Commission, because obviously nobody has had any time to think
about this.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Is that all right?
30. APPROVE A PROPOSAL BY INTER-AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN
THE AMOUNT OF $1009000 FOR JOB TRAINING AND PLACEMENT IN THE
HOTEL AND RESTAURANT TRADE TO BENEFIT LITTLE HAVANA AREA
RESIDENTS.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, we are now on Item Number 11011, discus-
sion of proposal for the Inter -American Chamber of Commerce jobs
program funding. All right, as I remember, this matter was
deferred previously, and it is now before us. Dena Spillman?
Mr. Manager, what is your recommendation?
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, I'd like Ms. Spillman to explain this item.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Ms. Spillman?
Ms. Dena Spillman: Mayor, if you recall, you and the rest of
this Commission requested that this group go back and change
their proposal because you did not feel it was appropriate.
While they submitted a new application for the same project,
basically. I will say that we feel it is a good program. There
is a need for it, and approximately 200 people would be trained.
Mayor Ferre: Are you recommending it, Dena?
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Ms. Spillman: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, are you recommending it?
Mr. Gary: Well, I think there is something that needs to be
stated for the record, and that is, first of all, when the pro-
gram proposal came before this City Commission, the City Commis-
sion raised the question as to whether or not this would be a
needed program that would lead to jobs. Now, the cover memo you
have before you states that a survey was done of 130 restaurant
owners, which concluded that they have a problem with regard to
getting well trained people to work in the restaurant business,
and based on that survey, Staff is recommending that it is a good
program and addresses the question that the City Commission
raised as to whether or not this was needed and would lead to
jobs.
Mr. Plummer: I move it.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second? Second by Perez. Further dis-
cussion? Call the roll. It has already been passed as an ordi-
nance, and all we are doing in effect is ... there is a question of
one of the programs - this is an answer, so all we need to do is
pass as an ordinance. This is a resolution saying that this
program is now acceptable.
Mr. Gary: Exactly, Mr. Mayor.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION 140. 83-904
A MOTION APPROVING A PROPOSAL BY THE
INTERAMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN THE
AMOUNT OF $100,000 FOR JOB TRAINING AND
PLACEMENT IN THE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT TRADES
TO BENEFIT LITTLE HAVANA AREA RESIDENTS.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
31. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - ESTABLISH NEW REVENUE FUNDS RECREA-
TIONAL PROGRAMS FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED - 8TH YEAR.
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Mayor Ferre: All,•right, we will now start with Item Number 22,
which is an Emergency Ordinance a new special revenue fund enti-
tled "Recreation Program for the Mentally Retarded - 8th Year."
Under discussion. Mr. Manager?
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: it has been moved by Plummer. Is there a second?
Mr. Carollo: Who is this going to be for, what organization?
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Mayor Ferre: There is a question, Mr. Manager. This is State of
Florida, Department of Health funds, isn't it?
Mr. Gary: This is a grant that we receive annually to train
mentally retarded citizens.
Mr. Carollo: Who will be training them, Howard?
Mr. Gary: Our staff. We have a staff.
Mr. Carollo: Okay, our own City organization?
Mr. Gary: Yes, in parks and recreation.
Mr. Carollo: Okay, fine.
Mayor Ferre: There is a motion by Plummy, s there a second?
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Carollo. .;.her discussion? Read the
ordinance.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW
SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED RECREATION
PROGRAMS FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED (8th
YEAR)", APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR ITS OPERATION
IN THE AMOUNT OF $356,348 COMPOSED OF
$3109348 FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA: DEPART-
MENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES,
$259000 FROM FISCAL YEAR 1982-183 AND $219000
FROM FISCAL YEAR 1983-184 SPECIAL PROGRAMS
AND ACCOUNTS: MATCHING FUNDS FOR GRANTS,
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A
GRANT AWARD FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA: DE-
PARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVIC-
ES AND TO ENTER INTO THE NECESSARY CON-
TRACT(S) AND/OR AGREEMENT(S) TO CARRY OUT
THIS PROJECT, CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION
AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by
Commissioner Carollo, for adoption as an emergency measure and
dispensing with the requirement of reading same on two separate
days, which was agreed to by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer
and seconded by Commissioner Carollo, adopted said ordinance by
the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE N0, 9689. 10/25/83
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The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
Citv Commission and tothe public._
32. APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM FY '84: COMPREHENSIVE JOB TRAING PROGRAM
FY'84. TEMPORARILY DEFERRED. (See later same meeting, Label 54)
Mayor Ferre: Take up Item 23, establishing three new special
revenue...
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: All right, moved by Plummer.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Perez. Further d'. sion?
Mr. Gary: Under discussion, Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes?
Mr. Gary: The CETA program, as we have known it in the past has
drastically changed, and this i:- 'ne new Federalism that the
Administration has and particul=,-':• as it relates to transferring
a lot of the responsibilities - .t have been currently that of
government to the private sc:.'._r. Now, I want you to fully
realize that as we give these funds, the City of Miami, and I am
talking about this City Commission has an extreme liability with
regard to performance. Let me give you an example. This
year, it is mandatory that we ... for all funds that we receive
with regard to training, that people must meet a placement goal.
If they do not meet a placement goal, the Federal Government will
not pay the bill. Now, that is good, but the liability is on
this City Commission, which means you have got to pay.
Mayor Ferre: It puts the burden on us That is all right.
Mr. Gary: And I want to let you know on the record that I, nor
my staff can guarantee that any of the CK 's that we give money
to, nor can I guarantee that our staff can find jobs for these
people, and I can tell you right now, that we probably would have
to be paying some money back.
Mayor Ferre: Well, I will tell you, if we are going to be paying
money back, I want to know up front where your feelings are that
we are going to be paying money back, because I want those people
to come up before us.
Mr. Gary: I am going to tell you right now, all of it. I am not
going to say whether it is going to be 50% or 60%. I will say
all of it. I think the program that current Administration had
is very unfair.
Mr. Dawkins: Okay, hold it right there, Mr. Gary. You have got
Item 23 in front of you?
Mr. Gary: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, now, the Apprenticeship, that is where
we are going to hire - now, we will hire those ourselves, won't
we?
Mr. Gary: There is no problem with that.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, okay, now. The next one, the Comprehen-
sive Job Training Program, where they are going to take
240 economically disadvantaged individuals and give them on the
job training, whatever percentage, 80% of that 240 is 124. Can
we absorb 124 people?
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Mr. Gary: No way!
Mr. Dawkins: I see. So that means that that one is almost dead,
right?
Mr. Gary: Correct:
Mr. Dawkins: All right, now, training for independent living...
Mr. Gary: Same applies.
Mr. Dawkins: Jobs where?
Mr. Gary: Nowhere.
Mr. Dawkins: Where are you going to place them?
Mr. Gary: That is the Catch-22 situation in the current Admini-
stration's proposal. There are no jobs, but then again, they are
requiring us - to fill ... put people in jobs in a Catch-22 situa-
tion.
Mr. Dawkins: So you recommend we don't accept the money?
Mr. Gary: I am telling you two things. If you decide to accept
this program the City can have a considerable amount of money in
terms of exposure, that you would have to pay. My professional
recommendation....
Mr. Dawkins: That is what I am after.
Mr. Gary: .... would be that other than the Apprenticeship Program,
we don't accept the money.
Mr. Plummer: Well, let me tell you what I think is maybe a
viable alternate, okay? ... and take the City off the hook. There
are some programs that I know of in this town that have a very
high placement guarantee. None of them are 100%, to the best of
my knowledge. Would it not be smart for this City to try to go
out and see if the private sector is willing to put their money
where their mouth is? Just reverse...
Mr. Gary: Let me tell you the problem with that.
Mr. Plummer: No, what I am saying to you, Mr. Gary is...is to
put out proposals for the private CBO'S, understanding that if
they accept a grant and approved by this Commission, 'that they
will stand liable, not the City!
Mr. Gary: Okay, it doesn't work that way.
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it! Number two, J. L, the City of Miami, Dade
County, Hialeah and Miami Beach are getting these funds. The
City of Miami, Hialeah, Dade County, are going for the same
participants. Therefore, all three of us are also looking for
the same places to place these persons and as Mr. Gary said, the
jobs just aren't here, so we are going to be with Dade County,
Hialeah, and the City of Miami, all competing for going out
telling industries we are going to do this, and they just don't
have it, and they just don't have the jobs.
Mr. Gary: In direct response, Commissioner Plummer, the agree-
ment we have, or the regulations that exist with regards to this
program, places the liability for CBO operations directly on the
subcontractor. The subcontractors are the five municipalities
that participate in the consortium, which means that if an organ-
ization such as a private CBO even though they may agree to
absorb that liability, the Federal Government is looking to us,
not the CBO, to fulfill that liability.
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Mr. Plummer: I will understand fully what you are saying. Mr.
Gary, let you tell me what my problem is. I hate to refuse a
gift horse. I think that it is possible to look into a CBO
giving a performance bond, that if they don't provide, the City
then would pick up the liability money from that performance
bond. You might not have any CBO's who want to participate, but
what I am saying is, I don't want to take and totally disregard
the possibility of Federal monies for jobs. Now, I think it
behooves us to solicit among the existing CBO's their potential
interest, if any, with the full understanding that they would
have to put up a performance bond then if they don't perform,
that money would be forfeited to the City of Miami to pick up the
liability. I just hate to see that amount of money go down the
drain.
Mr. Gary: I would respond to this way, Mr. Plummer. I agree
with the alternative. I can tell you what is going to happen,
_ because we have tried this. First of all, you have got to have
access to be able to get a performance bond.
Mr. Plummer: I understand that.
Mr. Gary: Secondly... tell you what - I will recommend, first of
all that you fully understand your liability. Second of all, I
would say if you accept this program, that we follow your proce-
dure with the performance bond, we make that a requirement.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Gary, without the performance bond, I would not
allow this City to put itself in a situation of where we would be
liable - I agree with Miller.
Mayor Ferre: I agree with both of you. I think it solves the
problem. If a CBO cannot produce a performance bond, then they
can't qualify.
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Mr. Plummer: If a CBO cannot produce the performance bond, then they can't
qualify.
Mayor Ferre: If they can't produce, then they don't get. I'm with you.
Are you ready to make the motion to that extent?
Mr. Plummer: As outlined, I make the motion.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Plummer,...
Mr. Plummer: Now, wait a minute, let's understand Mr. Mayor....
Mayor Ferre: Make a motion of intent first, Plummer and then before that
we will put off the reading of the ordinance until that... until the City
Attorney as the opportunity to place that into the ordinance itself. So, this
is just a motion of intent ric-ht now.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, not as it relates to the apprenticeship program for Mr.
Cox. That we are accepting without question.
Mr. Gary: No, you are partially correct. Item 23 only relates to City programs.
So, that means that the City of Miami has to come up with a performance bond also.
So, 23 only affects the programs that we are going to run.
Mayor Ferre: So, in other words, what Plummer is saying is he is not going to
do this for Item 23, he is going to move it as is?
Mr. Gary: Well, I think the City ought to also get a performance bond.
a Mayor Ferre: Oh, come on, from ourselves. To do what? We are going to
spend money getting a performance bond. Hey, you have control of it. If it
doesn't work, then...
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, I have just told you on the record. I will not accept
the responsibility of placing people in jobs where they don't exist. This is
going to be a guaranteed failure. I'm trying to tell you about the program.
I think this City Commission has got to recognize this liability up front just
like the CBO have to recongize it. I want you to understand there is going to
be some budget implications.
Mr. Plummer: Are there any stipulations as to what kind of jobs this money
can produce?
Mr. Gary: What do you mean, stipulations?
Mr. Plummer: Is there a stipuation in the grant as to what kind of training
or jobs this can create? ,
Mr. Gary: A job is a job and that's all they are concerned about.
Mr. Plummer: How about if we use our City money for the purposes of training
policemen? How about if we use our money for training sanitation workers?
Mr. Gary: You can't do that.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I asked was there any stipulation. A job is a job.
Mr. Gary: Well, no there is a stipuation.
Mr. Plummer: Well, now, you know, he who speaks out of both sides of his mouth
looks like a snake, acts like a snake...
Mr. Gary: And we both are.
Mr. Plummer: You better check the constitutionality on that one.
Mr. Gary: Check my employment.
Mr. Plummer: Or the lack of.
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Mr. Gary: More the lack of.
Mayor Ferre: I will tell you from now on any time there is a low blow the
chair is going to go like this.
Mr. Plummer: Seeing as how the Chair is an expert on low blows, I will accept
that.
Mr. Gary: I understand your question Commission Plummer. The answer to your
question is, there is no prohibition. However, we have experienced attempts
to get... use this programs for police officers and because of the criteria
in terms of income level educational level, we are not going to be able to
get people for that particular programs. We have programs designed to train
people, not only in English as a second language, but we have training programs
in terms of training people for carpentry work, auto mechanic work where the
demand--- lack of a better word--- demand exist in the private sector. So,
the answer to your question is there are some restrictions.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Gary, I want to tell you, sir and if you let a half a million
dollars go down the drain without making an earnest effort on behalf of the jobs
for this community I'm going to be very disappointed.
Mr. Gary: I don't want it to go down the drain. What I'm saying to you is
is that I have a fiduciary responsibility to explain to you that you have an
extreme liability which will affect the City's general fund budget. Not only
are you absorbing that liability for the program that we are going to be
administering, you are going to be absorbing the liability for the program
that CBOs are going to be administering and you need to be aware of that
liability and we have got to share in that liability. Now, if the City wants
to accept that liability I want it to be fully understood by everybody up front.
Mr. Plummer: I move 23 in principle.
Mr. Gary: Well, you can't do it in principle.
Mr. Plummer: You bet I can.
Mr. Gary: Well,...
Mr. Plummer: If I got two more votes I can.
Mr. Dawkins: I second.
Mr. Gary: To approve it in principle, in effect is saying you are killing
the program.
Mr. Plummer: No, I'm saying you are not going to kill it because you are going
to do both. You are going to do the private as well as the public.
Mr. Gary: What do you mean I'm going to do the private as well as'the public?
Mr. Plummer: You are going to find a way to do in the private sector the same
thing that you are going to do in the public. The only difference is in the
private sector you are going to demand that they supply a performance bond.
We don't need that same onus on us.
Mr. Gary: Well, that does not apply to Item 23. 23 is a program that the
City is going to run. Ok. Now,...
Mr. Dawkins: We are running all four of those.
Mr. Gary: We are running all four of these. Ok. Now, in your agends you
will have another item that deals with private CBO. What I'm telling you here
is that you are going to have a liability. We are going to,try do our best
Commissioner Plummer, but we got a liability. I think the goals that are
being profferred are unreasonable. Now, hopefully,... If I may Mr. Mayor. In
the past the federal government and this was under the Democratic regime has
had performance criteria goals and we didn't meet them and they waived them
at the end. I can't tell you what's going to happen here.
Mayor Ferre:
next year?
Wait a minute, this is for the fiscal year ending October of
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Mr. Gary: Yes, sir. I think it's July. No October. You are right, September 30th.
Mayor Ferre: Well, we will have a new administration after that and the rules
might change.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Gary.
Mr. Plummer: Is that a new administration locally or North of here?
Mayor Ferre: I don't know whether Mr. Gary is intending to move, but I think
we are talking about the chief'administrator up in Washington.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Gary, moving back to my question. Now, if you say that
these three programs are the City's programs on Item 23?
Mr. Gary: That's correct, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Where are you going to place eighty percent of two hundred
forty economic developed individuals who you are going to give the English
and occupational skill training on the job? Where are we going to place a
hundred forty-four people at eighty percent of two hundred forty?
Mr. Gary: Our intent Commissioner Dawkins was to do two things. First we
were going to attempt to place these people as they are trained in vacancies
in the City to the extent that we can. The second was to attempt po place
them in the private sector and hopefully through accommodation of those two
process we will be able to achieve our goal.
Mr. Dawkins: But getting back to what you said now that the job market is tight
and etc. Now, let go to the second one, training for independent living. Ok.
Mr. Gary: Yes, that's for the retarded.
Mr. Dawkins: This is border line, mentally retarded individuals and you are
saying that we are going to place twenty-five of them. Where?
Mr. Gary: Again, the same approach will be applied to this particular program.
Mr. Dawkins: Ok. And you are recommending this for us, but the other one in
here we are going to discuss that later. I mean with your professional
reservations.
Mr. Gary: Well, I agree with Commissioner Plummer, that it's very difficult
unless you are the City Manager to turn hack that kind of money. You know,
the community is in need of the money, but we are in a catch twenty-two situation.
We have unreasonable goals to achieve and a very, very tight economy where there
are very, very few jobs and we are being told you can take the money, but if
you do not meet these goals which are unreasonable, you got to pay us the money
back. Now, one thing I want the Commission to realize, if you accept the fact
that you can't turn that money back, you have got to also accept that liability.
And I want the City Commission to go on record doing that.
Mr. Plummer: Well, would our smartest move be then to try to put the entire
money out into the private and let them take the responsibility and let them
do the performance bonds instead of the City accepting any of it?
Mr. Gary: Well, I'm going to tell you right now and we went around to the
privates to tell them that we are going to hold them liable and the privates
are saying well we can't afford it, that's why we are in the poverty business.
We do not have the assets like AT&T. These people don't have any assets at
all Commissioner Plummer. They are operating from program to program to program.
You see it everyday when people come down here wanting money just for supplies.
Mr. Plummer: Alright, Mr. Gary, I don't want to prolong this thing, but you
know I just... I really got a problem sending money back to Washington. I really
do. Mr. Gary, let me tell you, I would even go to the extent. Somebody broached
a subject and just use this as explain last night. The possibility that Metro
is going to be using a tremendous amount of security guards, ok, for the Rapid
Transit and there was to be established an organization to do that training.
Now, why couldn't we use that money to do that training for them with a guarantee
from Metro that they would accept these people for employment. The same thing.
Now, Joe Carollo and I went to a meeting the other night and the one thing
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that I want to bring to this Commission is the security in and around the senior
citizens towers, that if we could get Mel Adams to commit that he would in fact
hire these people if we gave them the money for training. I 'just got to believe
that if you pursue this thing diligently that you could get guarantees up front
for people to actually make commitments. I don't know what else to tell you.
Can we defer this for another meeting?
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33. PROVIDING FOR ISSUANCE AND FIXING AND DETER*tINING THE DATE,
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT, MATURITIES, INTEREST RATES AND REDEMPIION IN
THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AIMOUNT NOT EXCEEDING $16,000,000 OF
Mayor Ferre: Let's take up item 2. This is a resolution providing for the
issuance of and fixing and determining the date, principal amount, maturity,
interest rates, and redemption and provision of the Parking System Revenue
Bonds, series 1983, as amended. All right, Mr. Carlton.
Mr. Roger Carlton: The City Commission authorized these bonds to be sold by
negotiated sale back before this summer at an interest rate not to exceed 10.5%.
The negotiations have been going on for the past couple of months and I am
pleased to inform you that we have been able to bring in these bonds below
10.5. The true interest cost that is negotiated is 10.4623, which is very
comparable to other negotiated sales that have been sold within the last couple
of days, both within Florida and nationwide. In fact, it is slightly less
expensive when you look at the fact that those other issues were insured and
this one is not. So, the Off -Street Parking Board met this morning and listened
to the underwriters and to our financial advisors,Shearson American Express,
and has recommended unanimously to the City Commission that this resolution,
bond purchase agreement at the negotiated rates be approved.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, for the record, I was opposed to the negotiated sale.
That is not the issue before us. That was resolved by this Commission, who
passed the ordinance to say yes. It is now up to us, I feel even including
myself, that we need do the best that we can with what is the instructions
of this Commission. I think they have done the best job that they can. I
move item 2.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Commissioner Perez. Is there further discussion on
the item that is presented? Mr. Manager, do you want to say anything into
the record?
Mr. Gary: We have no problem.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll on item number 2.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-905
A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF AND FIXING
AND DETERMINING THE DATE, PRINCIPAL AMOUNT, MATURITIES,
INTEREST RATES AND REDEMPTION PROVISIONS OF PARKING
SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS, SERIES 1983, OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA, AUTHORIZED IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
OF NOT EXCEEDING $16,000,000 PURSUANT TO ORDINANCE
NO. 9618, DULY ENACTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI ON MAY 31, 1983; PROVIDING FOR THE
DETERMINATION OF SINKING FUND REQUIREMENTS OF ANY
TERM BONDS; DESIGNATING THE TRUSTEE, PAYING AGENT
AND ESCROW AGENT FOR THE SERIES 1983 BONDS; DETERMINING
THE NEED FOR A NEGOTIATED SALE OF SAID BONDS; APPROVING
AND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY BY THE CITY
OF A BOND PURCHASE CONTRACT FOR SAID BONDS; AWARDING THE
SERIES 1983 BONDS; APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION
AND DELIVERY OF AN ESCROW DEPOSIT AGREEMENT, BETWEEN THE
CITY AND THE ESCROW AGENT; PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION
AND TRANSFER OF THE MONEYS AND SECURITIES ON DEPOSIT IN
THE FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS ESTABLISHED FOR THE OUTSTANDING
BONDS; APPROVING AND RATIFYING THE DISTRIBUTION OF A
PRELIMINARY OFFICIAL STATEMENT RELATING TO THE SERIES
1983 BONDS; AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION, DELIVERY AND
DISTRIBUTION OF A FINAL OFFICIAL STATEMENT; AUTHORIZING
THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF CLOSING DOCUMENTS; REPEALING
RESOLUTION NO. 83-690, ADOPTED BY THE COMMISSION ON
JULY 28, 1983; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
ABSENT: None.
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34. IRREVOCABLY CALLING $8,375,000 AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF
THE PARKING FACILITIES REVENUE BONDS SERIES 1980.
Mayor Ferre: Take up item number 1.
Mr. Plummer: Let's talk about First Avenue; the Roger Carlton slot machine.
Mr. Roger Carlton: Quickly, on that subject, the members of the Off -Street
Parking Board have instructed me, not only today but also on previous discussions,
that we will be more than pleased to meet with the Police and Fire Departments
and to help to resolve the traffic problem.
Mr. Plummer: I move item number 1.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second? While we are on the subject, Roger, and since
I see several members of the authority here, I would like to point out and I'm
sure Joe Carollo and Demetrio Perez can add abundantly to the discussion.
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Mayor Ferre (Con't): We have been going up and down on Little Havana and
Eighth Street in particular. Let me tell you, I know that you are under...
that you have to do your job and I'm not questioning that, but there are
several churches, particularly the Presbyterian Church and the Methodist
Church that have requested that at least in the entrance to their churches...
they have asked for five and I told them I thought that was unreasonable,
but I thought three meters... Now Carollo...Demetrio was not there, but
Joe Carollo was at one church in particular about a month or two ago, and
we made a commitment to the pastor and to the members of the...I think, is
it a Methodist Church? I think it is a Methodist Church... that we would
talk to the authorities and ask them please, in the interest of churches
not to put parking meters and at least give these people a relief.
Mr. Carlton: Mr. Mayor, both of the....
Mayor Ferre: Clinics, churches, and things of that sort....
Mr. Carlton: Both of those churches have had the meters removed. In fact,
within the entire S.W. 8th Street area, over 30 meters have been removed in
the past two months, particularly in front of residential units.
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Carlton, it is my understanding as I recollect that we have
a freeze on meters right now.
Mr. Carlton: Yes, sir, as a result of your request at the last meeting, we
have not installed any meters in new areas. We are going to present to you
in your November meeting a comprehensive plan for next year and a way to
improve relations with the merchants in the areas in which we intend to do
business, if that's possible.
Mayor Ferre: All right, further discussion? Call the roll on item number 1.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-906
A RESOLUTION IRREVOCABLY CALLING $7,775,000 AGGREGATE
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE PARKING FACILITIES REVENUE
BONDS (SERIES 1980), DATED AS OF APRIL 1, 1980, WHICH
MATURE ON OCTOBER 1, 1997 THROUGH OCTOBER 1, 2009,
INCLUSIVE, FOR REDEMPTION ON OCTOBER 1, 1990, AND
DIRECTING THE ESCROW AGENT PURSUANT TO THE ESCROW
DEPOSIT AGREEMENT FOR SAID BONDS TO PUBLISH NOTICE
OF SUCH REDEMPTION AND TO TAKE SUCH FURTHER ACTION
AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY THE ESCROW DEPOSIT AGREEMENT .,
AND BY THE ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS AUTHORIZING
SAID PARKING FACILITIES REVENUE BONDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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35. PLAQUES, PROCLAMATIONS AND SPECIAL ITEMS.
Presentation To the Honorable Carlos Andrade, Mayor of
of Keys: Quito, Ecuador, and the Honorable Ariel Correa,
Presented Mayor of Montevideo, Uraguay.
Commendation: Mr. Jim Barker, Southern Bell, for his involvement
Presented and commitment to our community.
Commendation: To Guia Hispana, Miami En Sus Manos, Mr. Miguel
Presented Pineiro.
Mayor Ferre: At this time the Chair will recognize Mr. Jose Garcia Pedrosa
to make some introductions.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, I am proud to
introduce to the Commission two new Deputy City Attorneys who have served and
continue to serve the City very well and who have just been promoted to their
position as Deputy City Attorney and they are here today for the first time.
I suspect strongly that you will see much more of them in the months to come.
They are John Copeland and Quin Jones III. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: I would like to commend you, Mr. City Attorney, for your intelligent
action typical of the way you are functioning as a City Attorney in moving up
people who are deserving of that recognition. So, I think the applause was
for the two new appointees, but I think it was also for you.
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36. RECEIVE, OPEN AND READ SEALED BIDS FOR ALLAPATTAH INDUSTRIAL
AREA SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5497-C IN ALLAPATTAH INDUSTRIAL
AREA HIGHWAY PHASE I, H-4485.
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This being the date and time advertised for receiving sealed bids
for City-wide Sanitary Sewer Improvement - Allapattah Industrial Area
SR-5497-C, the Mayor announced that the City Commission was now ready to
receive sealed bids:
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-907A
A MOTION TO RECEIVE, OPEN, READ AND REFER TO
THE CITY MANAGER FOR TABULATION AND REPORT BIDS
AUTHORIZED TO BE RECEIVED THIS DATE FOR: City-
wide Sanitary Sewer Improvement - Allapattah
Industrial Area SR-5497-C
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the Motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
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BIDS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING FIRMS:
FRE Construction Co., Inc.
Russell Incorporated
MIRI Construction, Inc.
D.M.P. Corporation
Golden Eagle Engr. Contr., Inc.
Joe Reinertson Equipment Co.
This being the date and time advertised for receiving sealed bids
for Allapattah Industrial Area Highway- Phase I (H-4483), the Mayor announced
that the City Commission was now ready to receive sealed bids:
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-907B
A MOTION TO RECEIVE, OPEN, READ AND REFER TO
THE CITY MANAGER FOR TABULATION AND REPORT BIDS
AUTHORIZED TO BE RECEIVED THIS DATE FOR: Allapattah
Industrial Area Highway - Phase I (H-4483).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
BIDS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING FIRMS:
FRE Construction Co., Inc.
Russell Incorporated
MIRI Construction, Inc.
D.M.P. Corporation
Golden Eagle Engr. Contr., Inc.
Joe Reinertson Equipment Co.
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37. RECEIVE, OPEN AND READ SEALED BIDS FOR GRAND AVENUE SIDEWALK
IMPROVEMENT H-4483.
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This being the date and time advertised for receiving sealed bids
for Grand Avenue Sidewalk Improvement (H-4483), the Mayor announced that the City
Commission was now ready to receive sealed bids:
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins who moved
its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-908
A MOTION TO RECEIVE, OPEN, READ AND REFER TO
THE CITY MANAGER FOR TABULATION AND REPORT BIDS
AUTHORIZED TO BE RECEIVED THIS DATE FOR: Grand Avenue
Sidewalk Improvement (H-4483).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
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BIDS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING FIRMS:
FRE Construction Co., Inc.
P.N.M. Corp
Rob -El Construction Corporation
Esplanade Construction, Inc.
Homestead Paving Co.
Russell Incorporated
Marks Brothers Co.
P. J. Constructors, Inc.
38. PERSONAL APPEARANCE - EUNICE LIBERTY REGARDING A YOUTH
PROGRAM. MATTER REFERRED TO THE CITY MANAGER.
Mayor Ferre: Ms. Eunice Liberty the Chair recognizes you at this time. You
are not an agenda item as I think you know, but out of courtesy to you and
the people that have come here I will recognize you.
Ms. Eunice Liberty: Thank you, very much. I did have my bid in from the 19th.
I walked it upstairs. I told the person then that the mail service in my
neighborhood was so poor that I brought it... walked it up there and they
took it on the 19th and it wasn't due until the 20th.
Mayor Ferre: On 19th. Ms. Liberty, did you give it to my office or to the
Manager's Office?
Ms. Liberty: No, I carried it where Commissioners...
Mr. Gary: She gave it to our office.
Ms. Liberty: Yes, and it should be on that 19th of September listing.
Mayor Ferre: I see.
Ms. Liberty: And I walked it up. At my age I had to walk it up because I
couldn't depend on the mail and I wanted to make a note...
Mayor Ferre: Now, let's make that clear so that the record is... You said the
mail not the Mayor?
Ms. Liberty: I said the mail.
Mayor Ferre: Ok. Because I don't want the record to say that you can't
depend on the Mayor.
Ms. Liberty: Why I said the mail...
Mr. Plummer: No, but they are just both about the same speed, slow.
Ms. Liberty: I want to tell you this. I want the record to reflect this.
You have a copy why I had to come, because I left a copy of the Miami Times
showing that the mail in our service was so poor that I had to walk it up.
That's why I came.
Mr. Plummer: Eunice, you have to understand that a twenty cent postage stamp
is three cents for the mail and seventeen cents for storage.
Ms. Liberty: Thank you. That explains it all. Thank you. I want to thank
you for hearing me today and I have made it crystal clear to the Mayor, to the
Vice -Mayor Plummer and also to Mr. Dawkins and I beg pardon to the other
Commissioners that I'didn't invite to come to my house, but I would like for
Commissioner Perez and also, Julio to come the next time. I have --not me --
but the National Council of Negro Women has a dire need for help. Now, we
have tried for three years to go the other way around from one agency to the
other of the city, but we didn't.make any progress. I'm pretty sure that
Ms. Marie Petit, Mr. Walter Pierce and one Mr. Joe , I can't think of his
last name, Erlantz I believe it is. The three of them and bear me out that
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I did try for three years. Now, we just came to the point with Tri-city and
they listen for a year and after the year they decided they would do something.
That's why you saw the house of the National Council of Negro Women in the
fix it was in when you were there, but I want to make it crystal clear to you
Mayor Ferre, I was sent to the Model Cities Program by Rev. Graham and the
former City Commissioner as representative for the City for Model Cities. Now,
I have a background on the property that I'm talking about. The property that
I'm talking about was a federal grant given to whoever the keepers. I think
it was the County to remodel this house and that's been less than ten years
ago. And when you came and you saw the condition of the house you can tell
that somebody somewhere along the line did not give the money where it was
supposed to have been to remodel the house. Now, this house I'm asking you
for help today... as I said the money came from the federal government to do
the job, but I'm asking you to help us stop the leaks, remodel the property
so we can use it. If you see these young people that we have here today,
we have been working with them for more than ten years and we have never been
before this body to ask for one dime. We tried to carry it on. We are paying
each month a hundred sixty-eight dollars which is a lot of money for us to come
from the Council members.
Mayor Ferre: Ms. Liberty, what exactly do you want the City Commission to do.
Ms. Liberty: I would like for you to do this and I really want you to...I didn't
bring a proposal, because I'm asking you to have someone that you hire to
help me write this proposal, because I don't want to have to come back the
second time.
Mayor Ferre: I understand Ms. Liberty.
Ms. Liberty: Will you do that?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, Ma'am.
Ms. Liberty: Now, before I... you are going to help me with that proposal and
that would come in with the price of the remodeling and all for the property.
Mayor Ferre: Ms. Liberty, we can't... I don't think anybody on this Commission
can guarantee you anything other than...
Ms. Liberty: No, no, no, I just want them to work with me.
Mayor Ferre: Let me finish now.
Ms. Liberty: Ok.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, I think I speak for everybody here in saying that
would you through, I would imagine Dena Spillman's office, assign the proper
people to help them write up a proposal so that they can make a presentation
to the Commission at the appropriate time. Is that alright with you. Anybody
have any problems with that?
Ms. Liberty: Well, let me remind them too, at the proper time. Remember it's
raining in the place now and I don't want to be another three years waiting
for the proper time. So, please give them a deadline on when they are going
to do it. We can't use the property now.
Mayor Ferre: Well, I will tell you that it will be very soon when we start
dealing with distribution of CD funds. Is that correct Mr. Manager?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Ok.
Ms. Liberty: May I soy one more thing now about the property. I would like...
and maybe these people will give us the same information so we won't have to
come back again. The property has not been used or anybody living in the
property for over three years. When you started your tax for the City there
wasn't anybody living there then and there haven't been anybody living there
now, but the waste disposal has cost us up to the point today is four hundred
dollars. Now, four hundred dollars to some people wouldn't be much, but we
don't have the money in the first place and there is nobody using and nobody
giving... they are not giving the service. So, in working with these people
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would you give them the right information to tell us.
Mayor Ferre: Ms. Liberty, someone who is qualified to make a presentation or
to prepare a presentation for you and your association will assist...
Ms. Liberty: In doing that?
Mayor Ferre: ... in doing that. Yes, Ma'am. And we will see you at the
appropriate time. As members of the Commission have been saying all day ---
you weren't here this morning--- we cannot take one request above another,
that we have many requests. We will take them all up at the same time. Alright.
Ms. Liberty: But please help us because we can't use the property like it is
with these children. Thank you.
Mayor Ferre: Well, thank you, very much for being here ladies and gentlemen
and Ms. Liberty, it's always nice to see you.
Ms. Liberty: Thank you. Thank each one of you.
39. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE $75,000 PURSUANT TO A
REQUEST BY THE NEW WASHINGTON HEIGHTS ADVISORY BOARD, WITH
CONDITIONS.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, we will take up Item 16. Mr. Manager?
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, if you recall Dade County and the City of Miami agreed
to allow New Washington Heights Community Development Corporation to participate
in assisting us in the redevelopment of Overtown. I have had numerous discussions
with Ms. Jackie Bell, who has been interested in development of all of Overtown
and I have conveyed to Ms. Bell that I thought that was too much for her to
bite at this particular point and time. And we agreed that we would assist
them in working on a one block area to develop a hotel. I also gave Ms. Bell
further conditions that I thought should be met before the City Commission
considers this particular proposal and that is that she would obtain the service
of a reputable developer, which she has done in the name of Mr. Tibor Hollo,
the she also get a competent attorney to assist her, which she has done. I
think in the name of George Knox, that she get someone who is familiar with
hotel operations, which she has done in terms of a person by the name of--- I
forget his name--- Derrick Maddock who is an operational side. A black gentleman
who has worked for Hyatt in a number of hotel chains. And what she has done is
to get them committed to this particular project. I would also like to say that
their participation in my estimation should not be free, because if it's free
you get what you pay for. And that they would provide a service th&t would be
based on enumeration and all of the liabilities and the conditions associated
with those enumerations. And even though the fee is small, it does say that
they are getting compensated for their services and we are in favor of this
particular proposal in terms of ensuring that some Black development occurs
in the Overtown area. Now, we need to work out an agreement, because I feel
that some conditions should be place on New Washington Heights just as we are
going to placing others in the area who will be developing, that they have
to perform within a certain time frame. We are in favor of this, Mr. Mayor.
The problem is is identifying where we are going to get the money from. We
think it should be an eligible expense under the UMTA money.
Mayor Ferre: UMTA.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, Jackie, you want to make a statement into the record?
Ms. Jackie Bell: I'm Jackie Bell. I'm Executive Director of New Washington
Heights Community Development Conference and I would like to say to the Commission
you all know me, know our Board of Directors. We have been working in that
community for the past ten years and we hope that this afternoon you will agree
with the Manager that we have carried out to the best of our ability today
the project. Thank you.
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Mayor Ferre: Alright, questions.
Mr. Plummer: Jackie, it hurts me and pains me to no end to have to agree with
the Manager, but once and a while he is right. I move the Item.
Mr. Dawkins: Second. Not for the same reasons, but I second it.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion on this item? If not...
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion.
Mayor Ferre: Under discussion.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, I'm looking here, I can't find it and I don't want
to detain Reverend Barry... Father Barry any longer, but when I do find it
and it comes up under the agenda here later, I understand that we are funding
everything possible out of a fund that's called... no this Hyatt Hotel some
kind of interest fund and every time I look we are dipping in it. So, let's
dip into that and find the seventy-five thousand dollars, sir.
Mr. Gary: No, that's a difference.
Mr. Dawkins: Ok, if you can't find it any place else let's find it there. If
you can find it some place else don't bother that.
Mayor Ferre: In other words, that you get it from the Ut2TA grant.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you. If you don't get it from the UMTA grant let's get it
from there. I mean, if we find... I'm just telling you now, we find everything
for the Hyatt, let's find something for Overtown.
Mr. Gary: Well, let me... Mayor, I can't let it go by. I got to correct it.
Mr. Dawkins: I don't want you to let it go by. I'm telling you what I want
done.
Mr. Gary: No, I got to give you the information, Commissioner, and that is that
that money is dedicated by the bond indenture that we sold for sixty million
dollars in 1980... When was that Mr. Mayor? That money is dedicated for that
particular purpose, Commissioner Dawkins and legally we cannot touch that for
any other purpose.
Mr. Dawkins: Ok, alright, then if that money is dedicated why is it every time
I see an agenda item you are dipping into the general fund or somewhere else
for money for Hyatt. Now, we got this money earmarked and then every time I
come up we got the Hyatt and then the... it's the general fund, it there. Ok.
Alright, so all I'm saying is can you find seventy-five thousand dollars for
me please, sir.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, wait a minute, before Marie... Ann Marie I don't want
to have any problems with you now. So, before you walk out of the room I just
want to make sure you don't have something to say, because I see...
(BACKGROUND COMMENT INAUDIBLE)
Mayor Ferre: I figured you did. Now, I don't want you telling me that Marie
and I had a combination to get you out of the room when we voted on it.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, before Ms. Adker speaks, I would like to first say that
the first that they were aware that this was going to be brought before the
City Commission is when I went out to Overtown last week before their board.
I would say that the motion should be conditioned upon us going before the
Overtown Advisory Board, which is a requirement under the agreement we have
with Dade County, the City of Miami and the Overtown Advisory Board that everything
would go through them first in terms of advisory capacity. So, I would put that
condition that we go through that process.
Mr. Dawkins: As the seconder to the motion I will accept that.
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Mr. Plummer: As the maker of the motion, I accept that.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, then that means you can now go out of the room, right?
Quietly. Alright, is there further discussion? If not, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its
adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-909
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE
AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $75,000 PURSUANT TO A REQUEST MADE BY
RICHARD BARRY AND JACKIE BELL REPRESENTING THE NEW WASHINGTON
HEIGHTS ADVISORY BOARD, CONDITIONED UPON THE CITY MANAGER
APPEARING BEFORE THE OVERTOWN ADVISORY BOARD TO OBTAIN THEIR
CONCURRENCE AND RECOMMENDATION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo.
40. CONFIRM ORDERING RESOLUTION AND AUTHORIZE CITY CLERK TO
ADVERTISE SEALED BIDS CITY-WIDE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT
EAST LITTLE HAVANA SR-5498-C.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, we will take up Item 7. This is confirming ordering
Resolution No. 83-790 and authorizing the City Clerk to advertise for sealed
bids for the construction of city-wide sanitary sewer improvement. Do you
want to speak to this issue, sir? You do. Alright, the Chair will recognize
you for making a statement.
Ms. Dorthy Scott: My name is Dorthy Scott.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, Ms. Scott, make your statement Ma'am.
Ms. Scott: Ok. This is on a general improvement of the East Little Havana
area?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, Ma'am.
Ms. Scott: And one problem in particular that's been there for several years
needs to be improved prior to any trees or new sidewalks and sewers. This is
a building that has been burned out since late January of 1983. It still stands
unboarded that a petition has been forwarded to your office on.
Mayor Ferre: I will tell you, Ma'am if you would step over to the Manager
over here and give him the address, we will get that building demolished
immediately. And I'm sorry that it's taken so long. Now, is there anything
else? It's a building that burned down and has been standing there for a long
time. Now, is there any other problem on Item 7? Can we now... Does anybody
else wish to speak on Item 7? Go ahead, sir.
Mr. Bill Gilbert: Ok, you are going to be redoing the sewer system there?
My name is Bill Gilbert. I live in the area. You have an outfall that runs
from the sewer system into the River that's plugged up and you are always
complaining about the area is always flooded because of the high tide and it's
not the high tide. It's the...
Mayor Ferre: Are you talking about... No, you are not talking about sanitary
sewer, you are talking about storm sewer.
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Mr. Gilbert: Storm sewer. Well, you are going to be redoing all of that area.
I went down to the Planning Department on 3rd Street and they said that their were
planning on doing all of that except for the outfall, because that lies pass
the City's jurisdiction pass through the Dade County area and anyway they don't
want to unplug it, but they think they are going to fix the problem by just redoing
it.
Mayor Ferre: Alright,...
Mr. Gary: Have him to give it to Eads.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Eads, are you listening to what the gentleman is saying?
Alright, are there any other speakers as to Item 7? If not, is there a motion?
Mr. Perez: Move.
Mayor Ferre: Perez moves, Dawkins seconds, further discussion on 7? Call the
roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Perez, who moved
its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-910
A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION NO. 83-790 AND
AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR
THE CONSTRUCTION OF CITY-WIDE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT -
EAST LITTLE HAVANA SR-5496-C (centerline sewer) IN CITY-
WIDE SANITARY IMPROVEMENT -EAST LITTLE HAVANA DISTRICT SR-
5498-C (centerline sewer).
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file
in the Office of the City Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
41. CONFIRM ORDERING RESOLUTION AND AUTHORIZE CITY CLERK TO
ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EAST LITTLE
HAVANA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT, PHASE I, H-4487.
Mayor Ferre: Take up 8, it's the same similar thing in East Little Havana.
Are there any speakers on Item 8? Seeing no hands... Dawkins moves 8, Perez
seconds, further discussion? Call the roll on 8?
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
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RESOLUTION NO. 83-911
A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION NO. 83-658 AND
AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR
THE CONSTRUCTION OF EAST LITTLE HAVANA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT -
PHASE I IN EAST LITTLE HAVANA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT -
PHASE I, H-4487.
(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 Perez, the resolution was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
42. RATIFY EMERGENCY ACTION TAKEN BY THE CITY MANAGER IN THE
PURCHASE OF SPEAKERS FOR THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM.
Mayor Ferre: We are now on the Manager's first important item which is 15.
Is there anybody here on 15? 15A? 15B? Alright, Mr. Manager, 15B is your
first important item. This is for the speakers. Plummer, you want to move
that?
Mr. Plummer: You know, I got to move it, but here again, we are pouring money
down the drain.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves the money down the drain.
Mr. Plummer: We are patching a bad system. You know, one of these days...
we spent a hundred thirty-nine thousand dollars for a study.
Mayor Ferre: What do you want for forty-five hundred dollars, Plummer?
Mr. Gary: When we get more money from the Dolphins we...
Mr. Plummer: Why don't you... you are going to get what from the Dolphins?
Mr. Gary: When we get more we will put a top notch system up there.
Mr. Plummer: Yeah, right, as soon as you get the snow plows off of F1agler
Street.
Mr. Gary: I agree.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second? Demetrio Perez seconds, further discussion
on 15B, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced ')y Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-912
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING, BY A 4/5THS
AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION,
THE ACTION OF THE CITY MANAGER IN MAKING AN EMERGENCY PURCHASE
OF SPEAKERS FOR THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM SPEAKER SYSTEM IN
EXCESS OF $4,500 WITH FUNDS THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE 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 Perez, the resolution was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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43. AUTHORIZE INCREASE IN CONTRACT NOT TO EXCEED $51,000 M. VILA
AND ASSOCIATES, INC., GARMENT CENTER COM11UNITY DEVELOPMENT
PAVING PROJECT B-4471.
Mayor Ferre: We are now on Item 9, which authorizes an increase in contract
to an amount not to exceed $51,000 in a contract between City of Miami and
M. Vila and Associates. Ok. This has to do with the Garment Center Community
Development Paving Project and it increases resulting from an emergency
circumstances by an affirmative vote of two thirds. That's why we need this
vote. Is there a motion on Item 9?
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Moved by Dawkins, is there a second? This is the Garment Center...
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer seconds, further discussion on Item 9? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-913
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING, BY AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF 4/;,Ti,'S G-& THE
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION, AFTER A DULY ADVERTISED PUBLIC
HEARING, AND INCREASE IN THE CONTRACT AMOUNT OF $51,000 IN THE
CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND M. VILA AND ASSOCIATES, INC.,
DATED JANUARY 28, 1983, FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE GARMENT CENTER
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAVING PROJECT WITH FUNDS THEREFOR ALLOCATED
FROM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAVING PROJECT FUNDS; FURTHER RATIFYING
THE CITY MANAGER'S WRITTEN FINDING THAT THE HEREIN INCREASE
RESULTED FROM EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES, AND ADOPTING THE FINDINGS
AND CONCLUSIONS SET FORTH IN THE PREAMBLE OF THIS RESOLUTION.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file
in the Office of the City Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
44. WAIVE REQUIREMENTS AND PROHIBITION CONTAINED IN CITY CODE
SECTION 2-302 TO PERMIT GALE REMBERT RIVERA, AN EMPLOYEE OF
PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HOME
RENOVATION AND REHABILITATION PROGRAM.
Mayor Ferre: Item 10,...
Mr. Dawkins: Move 10.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second on Item 10? This man is receiving funds
to rehab his house and he is an employee and we got to give him a waiver.
Mr. Plummer: I second.
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Mayor Ferre: Seconded by Plummer, further discussion, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-914
A RESOLUTION WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS AND PROHIBITION CONTAINED
IN CITY CODE SECTION 2-302; BY FINDING, AFTER A DULY ADVERTISED
PUBLIC HEARING, THAT IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY TO
PERMIT GALE REMBERT RIVERA, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE PARKS AND
RECREATION DEPARTMENT, TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HOME RENOVATION
AND REHABILITATION PROGRAM ADMINISTERED BY SAID DEPARTMENT'S
HOUSING DIVISION THROUGH THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
GRANT PROGRAM OF THE U. S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT.
(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 Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
45. WAIVE REQUIREMENTS AND PROHIBITION CONTAINED IN CITY CODE
SECTION 2-302 AFTER DULY ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING TO PERMIT
GLORIA DAWSON, AN EMPLOYEE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE HOME RENOVATION AND REHABILITATION PROGRAM.
Mayor Ferre: 11 is the same thing.
Mr. Dawkins: Move 11.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer seconds, further discussion, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-915
A RESOLUTION WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS AND PROHIBITION CONTAINED
IN CITY CODE SECTION 2-302; BY FINDING, AFTER A DULY ADVERTISED
PUBLIC HEARING, THAT IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY TO
PERMIT GLORIA DAWSON, AN EMPLOYEE OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
DEPARTMENT, TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HOME RENOVATION AND
REHABILITATION PROGRAM ADMINISTERED BY SAID DEPARTMENT'S
HOUSING DIVISION THROUGH THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
GRANT PROGRAM OF THE U. S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT.
(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 Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
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NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
46. WAIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR FORMAL SEALED BIDS AFTER DULY
ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING FOF. THE FURNISHING OF AERIAL
LADDER TRUCK PARTS FROM AMERICAN LA FRANCE, THE SOLE SOURCE.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves 12, Dawkins seconds. This has to do with a
aerial ladder truck parts for the American La France. Further discussion?
Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-916
A RESOLUTION WAIVING BY AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF 4/5THS OF THE
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION, AFTER A DULY ADVERTISED
PUBLIC HEARING, THE REQUIREMENT FOR FORMAL SEALED BIDS FOR
THE PURCHASE OF AERIAL LADDER TRUCK PARTS FROM AMERICAN
LA FRANCE, THE SOLE SOURCE OF SUPPLY, AT A TOTAL COST OF
$14,001.66 WITH FUNDS THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE FIRE
APPARATUS ACQUISITION REPLACEMENT MODIFICATION FUND;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING
AGENT TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT, SUBJECT
TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file
in the Office of the City Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
47. WAIVE BY FOUR -FIFTHS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE AFTER DULY ADVERTISED
PUBLIC HEARING PROHIBITION AGAINST THE APPEARANCE OF A FORMER
CITY OF MIAMI EMPLOYEE, MARK VALENTINE, ESQ.
Mayor Ferre: Item 14 is a public hearing. It deals with waiving by 4/5th
affirmative vote of the City Commission the prohibition against the appearance
of a former City employee before the City Commission. This is Mark Valentine,
who was an assistant City Attorney who seeks to represent clients before this
board. Now, Mr. City Attorney, do you have any recommendations against this
and is this within ouz purview and do you recommend it?
Mr. Copeland: We have no objections to him. We recommend it.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Hold on, hold on. Is Mr. Valentine here?
Mr. Clark: Your Honor he can't be here because he is precluded by the
prohibition.
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Mr. Plummer: No, that's not right. He is not precluded from being here.
Mayor Ferre: Ok, who is Mr. Valentine going to represent?
Mr. Clark: That's set forth in the resolution and is in the Clerk's hands.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Valentine, will be representing people who come before this
Board with zoning variances and seeking variances. Since the City of Miami is
the only place where a Black attorney can get the training necessary to learn
about handling variances, that's why I move that it be waived so that this man
can be allowed to practice a trade which he has learned here. That's all.
Mayor Ferre: Miller, I'm not against it. I'm just trying to find out who he
is going to represent so that we can have it clearly on the record.
Mr. Clark: Do "A" and "B" of the resolution Your Honor.
Mayor Ferre: Ok. Now, the question is either there is a letter in our package
signed by Mark Valentine and the law firm of McCrary Valentine and Hanfield
that says.... it doesn't say who he represents.
Mr. Copeland: Your Honor, if you will look at the resolution on page two it's
indicated in subparagraphs 2A and 2B, two matters which are pertaining to
property. One is known as Executive Plaza and the other one is known as the
Hadley Garden Subdivision.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, let the record reflect that there are two specific
properties that he will be representing that have been submitted to the Commission
and are part of the resolution #14. It's been moved by Dawkins, is there a second?
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Seconded by Plummer, is there further discussion? Alright, call
the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83- 917
A RESOLUTION WAIVING, BY A 4/5THS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF THE MEMBERS
OF THE CITY COMMISSION AFTER A DULY ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING,
THE PROHIBITION AGAINST THE APPEARANCE OF A FORMER CITY OFFICER,
OFFICIAL OR EMPLOYEE DEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION WITHIN 2 YEARS
AFTER LEAVING CITY EMPLOYMENT AS SUCH PROHIBITION APPLIES TO
MARK A. VALENTINE, ESQ., WHO LAST SERVED AS AN ASSISTANT CITY
ATTORNEY ON JANUARY 29, 1982 AND WHO HAS ENGAGED IN THE F%ACTICE
OF LAW SINCE THAT DATE AND WHO NOW SEEKS TO REPRESENT CLIENTS
IN MATTERS COMING BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION FOR ITS CONSIDERATION.
(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 Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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48. RATIFY AND CONFIRM BY FOUR -FIFTH AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, APPROVING
THE PURCHASE FOR INSTALLATION OF PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FROM
RNM CORPORATION, FROM ESPLANDE CONSTRUCTION, INC.
Mayor Ferre: We now will take up Item 15 which ratifies...
Mr. Gary: It ratifies an emergency purchase on my part that had to be purchased
so that we wouldn't lose a grant which had to be expended by September 3, 1983.
Mayor Ferre: Now, a grant for what? This is the PNM...
Mr. Gary: This is a small business administration employment program which gave
us money to do improvements to parks and the money had to be expended and the
work had to be completed by September 30, 1983. The City Commission was on...
Mayor Ferre: And where was the thirty-six thousand dollars used? Is my question.
Mr. Gary: Playground equipment in various parks which I gave to you as the proposal
which the City Commission approved. Alright, are there any questions on this
item? Let the record reflect that in the packet this whole matter... project 1,
2, 3, and 4 for a total of thirty-five... I'm sorry ---for fifty-seven thousand
seven hundred....I'm sorry--- for thirty-five thousand four hundred seven.
Mr. Plummer: Are we talking about Item 15?
Mr. Gary: Right.
Mayor Ferre: Thirty-six thousand five hundred sixty that went through a bid
process and it is completely outlined in packet Item #15. It's been moved by
Dawkins, is there a second?
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Seconded by Plummer, further discussion, call the roll on Item #15.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-918
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING AND CONFIRMING THE ACTION OF THE CITY MANAGER
BY AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF NOT LESS THAN 4/5THS OF THE MEMBERS OF
THE CITY COMMISSION IN APPROVING THE PURCHASE OF SREVICES FOR THE
INSTALLATION OF PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT FROM PNM CORPORATION AND FROM
ESPLANDE CONSTRUCTION, INC. FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AT A TOTAL
COST OF $36,560; USING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE SBA PARK DEVELOPMENT
FUND.
(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 Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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49. APPROVE AND CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER BY FOUR -FIFTH
AFIRMATIVE VOTE AUTHORIZING PLACEMENT OF HALF -PAGE
ADVERTISEMENT IN THE LONDON FINANCIAL TIMES.
Mayor Ferre: Now, we advertise in the London, Financial Times and we need a
4/5ths vote. The Manager had to do this because there was a deadline on it and
there was no question we had to do it. The London Financial Times is a major
newspaper that is read heavily by the financial world. Twelve thousand five
hundred forty-four dollars. Is there a motion?
Mr. Gary: Plummer moves.
Mayor Ferre: Who does?
Mr. Gary: Plummer.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves, is there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Perez seconds, further discussion? Call the roll on 15A.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-919
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE EMERGENCY
ACTION OF THE CITY MANAGER, BY A 4/5THS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF
THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION, IN AUTHORIZING THE PLACEMENT
OF A HALF -PAGE ADVERTISEMENT IN THE LONDON FINANCIAL TIMES AT A
COST NOT TO EXCEED $12,544 WITH FUNDS THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM
THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE PROMOTION DEPARTMENTAL BUDGET.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file
in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
50. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$850 FOR ONE DAY'S RENTAL OF GUSMAN CULTURAL CENTER PURSUANT
TO A REQUEST BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEAF SERVICES BUREAU.
Mayor Ferre: Item 17.
Mr. Gary: 17 is a fee waiver at Gusman Hall for the deaf. We don't do anything
for the deaf. I recommend that we do that.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, is there a motion on the request by Mr. Richard D. Dirst,
Executive Director of Deaf Services Bureau, that the fee be waived at Gusman
Cultural Hall. Actually it is payment by the the City of Miami for.
Mr. Gary: A grant of eight fifty. Right.
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Mayor Ferre: Alright, it's been moved by Plummer, seconded by Perez, further
discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer who moved its
adoption:
MOTION NO. 83- 920
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE AN
AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $850 REPRESENTING ONE DAY'S RENTAL FOR THE
GUSMAN CULTURAL CENTER PURSUANT TO A REQUEST MADE BY MR. RICHARD
DIRST, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE DEAF SERVICES BUREAU FOR AN EVENT
TO BE STAGED AT SAID FACILITY.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
51. DISCUSSION AND FAILURE OF MOTION OF REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL
FUNDING BY THE UNITED WAY OF DADE COUNTY.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, 19, Mr. Gene Autrey, General Chairman of the United Way.
The reason we didn't do this was because Mr. Autrey was not here at the last time.
Mr. Autrey is a very busy guy trying to get money for United Way. We gave him
ten thousand and they asked for fifteen. What's your recommendation?
Mr. Gary: I recommend Mr. Mayor, that we give them ten as what we gave them last
year and he comes back for the additional five.
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it now. If we are going to give him fifteen, let's give him
fifteen.
Mr. Gary: Fine.
Mr. Dawkins: If we are going to give him ten, let's give him ten.
Mr. Gary: Fifteen.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a motion?
Mr. Plummer: No.
Mr. Dawkins: No.
Mayor Ferre: I move that the United Way of Dade County be given fifteen thousand
dollars. They do tremendous work for the poor and the disenfranchised of this
community. I know we have a lot of reasons and so on, but I don't think we ought
to quibble about five thousand dollars. They help a lot of people in this town.
Mr. Plummer: I quibbled about the first ten.
Mayor Ferre: Let me make my motion first of all for crying out loud and if there
is no second, then you can deal with it. I move it. Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Plummer: You are out of order. Is there a second to the motion?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mr. Plummer: Seconded. Is there any discussion?
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Mr. Dawkins: Yes, sir there is a lot of discussion.
Mr. Plummer: Commissioner Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Gary, how many employees does the City of Miami have?
Mr. Gary: Approximately thirty-six hundred, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Thirty-six hundred and each of those thirty... of the majority of
those thirty-six hundred already contribute to the United Way.
Mr. Plummer: No, over a hundred percent.
Mr. Dawkins: Alright. So, you know, now you are going to ask that those same...
I mean, that it's just double taxation. So, I'm in favor of the ten.
Mr. Plummer: Like wise the same services and the same organizations that they
sponsor, we sponsor. Why should we funnel the money through them to go through
more administration to have the receiving agency come out with less after they
have taken their fee out.
Mr. Carollo: That's the bottom line, J. L.
Mr. Plummer: I don't see any reason for it.
Mr. Carollo: That is the bottom line.
Mayor Ferre: Well, they do a better job than we do.
Mr. Plummer: No, I don't agree that they do a better job.
Mr. Gary: They do.
Mr. Plummer: They do a good job. We do a good job.
Mayor Ferre: Look at the record.
Mr. Gary: They do a better job.
Mr. Plummer: Any further discussion?
Mr. Carollo: I guest the Mayor was speaking for himself.
Mayor Ferre: You bet you I am.
Mr. Carollo: But I disagree strongly on it.
Mr. Plummer: Well, that's our right to do such, Joe. I disagree and so do you.
So, hey, call the roll.
THEREUPON THE FOREGOING MOTION pertaining to a request for additional funding
by the United Way of Dade County was introduced by Mayor Ferre and seconded
by Commissioner Perez and was defeated by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Dawkins: I recommend that we give them the ten thousand that we recommended
originally.
Mayor Ferre: There is a motion. Now, but the same speech isn't applicable to
the ten. It was applicable to the fifteen, right?
Mr. Plummer: Well, it is for me.
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Mayor Ferre: It is. So, you are voting "no". Ok. I understand. Alright,
is there a second to the motion?
Mr. Plummer: What was your motion?
Mr. Dawkins: I withdrew my motion.
Mayor Ferre: Is there further discussion?
Mr. Plummer: No, there is no motion. He withdrew it.
52. DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE $25,000 TO GREATER MIAMI
UNITED WITH CONDITIONS.
Mr. Gary: I would like to go to Item 21, sir. The Greater Miami United. They
are requesting twenty-five thousand as they received last year. We are very
supportive of this for the efforts that they have contributed to this community,
not only to City of Miami, but all of Dade County. Dade County is going to be
making...
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion on Item 21 as requested?
Mr. Gary: I would like to make a condition that Dade County contributes an
equal amount.
Mr. Plummer: So, included.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion?
Mr. Plummer: And also that they get a matching grant from the United fund.
Mayor Ferre: No, that they get the private sector... In other words, the motion
is the private sector and the Metropolitan Dade County will give an equal or
a larger sum. Further discussion, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer who moved its
adoption:
MOTION NO. 83- 921
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE AN
AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $25,000 TO THE GREATER MIAMI UNITED, CONDITIONED
UPON THEM OBTAINING EQUAL OR GREATER AMOUNT OF FUNDING FROM METROPOLITAN
DADE COUNTY AND FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
. Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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53. DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE $20,000 TO THE HISPANIC
HERITAGE FESTIVAL FOR PROMOTION OF 1983 OTI-USA SONG
FESTIVAL.
Mayor Ferre: 21A.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, this was an item that you and I discussed. We previously
gave the Hispanic Heritage Festival ten thousand dollars. They came back later
asking for twenty thousand dollars for the OTI-USA Song Festival. What I would
recommend Mr. Mayor, is that the... if the City Commission agrees that this
should be funded, that they fund it up to twenty thousand and that the City
Manager be directed to review the expenses associated with this to make sure
that the money will be expended properly for this particular purpose.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, is there a motion?
Mr. Perez: Move.
Mayor Ferre: Moved by Perez, is there a second?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Futher discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Perez who moved its
adoption:
MOTION NO. 83- 922
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE AN
AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $20,000 TO THE HISPANIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL FOR
PROMOTION TOWARD THE 1983 OTI-USA SONG FESTIVAL, SUBJECT TO THE
CITY MANAGER'S REVIEWING THE BUDGET AND ALL EXPENDITURES.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
54. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - ESTABLISH THREE NEW SPECIAL FUNDS
ENTITLED "APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM FY '84 COMPREHENSIVE JOB
TRAINING PROGRAM FY '84 AND TRAINING FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
PROGRAM FY'84".
Mayor Ferre: Alright, Mr. Manager, we are back to...
Mr. Gary: Item 23, sir.
Mayor Ferre: ...23. '-Alright, take up 23, establishing three new special
revenue funds entitled "Apprenticeship Program FY 184 Comprehensive Job
Training Program FY '84 and Training for Independent Living Program FY 184".
Appropriating funds for their operation in the amounts of thirty-eight thousand
three fifty, five hundred twenty-five thousand two hundred and one hundred
twenty-eight thousand respectively.
Mr. Plummer: I will move this Item 23, if the Manager agrees to let me work with
him on this Mr. Mayor.
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Mr. Dawkins: What Item is this?
Mr. Plummer: Item 23 in reference to those federal monies. I just want to
make damn sure those monies don't go back and they stay here in this community.
If we can't get anybody to give the guarantees, then we will have to come back
and report to the Commission, but I think we can.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Plummer moves Item 23, Dawkins seconds, read
the ordinance under the conditions established by Commissioner Plummer.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THREE NEW SPECIAL REVENUE
FUNDS ENTITLED: "APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM (FY'84)", "COMPREHENSIVE
JOB TRAINING PROGRAM (FY'84)"" AND TRAINING FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING
PROGRAM (FY' 84)", APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THEIR OPERATION IN THE
AMOUNTS OF $38,350 $525,200 and $128,000 RESPECTIVELY, AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT GRANT AWARDS FROM THE SOUTH FLORIDA
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED PROGRAMS,
AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO THE NECESSARY
CONTRACTS AND/OR AGREEMENTS TO CARRY OUT THESE PROGRAMS; CONTAINING
A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, for
adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the requirement of
reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer and seconded by
Commissioner Dawkins, adopted said ordinance by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9090
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
55. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND
ENTITLED "OFFICE OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL LIAISON FY'84" AND
AUTHORIZE ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT AWARD.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, the next item is easy. It's the consortium giving us the
money to administer the program... assisting the administration.
Mayor Ferre: Alright,.Perez moves, Dawkins seconds, further discussion on 24?
Read the ordinance. Call the roll.
ON ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: What's the reason for the emergency?
Mr. Gary: We have got people started being paid since October 1st and we don't
have the cash.
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Mr. Plummer: Just establishing it for the record. I vote "yes".
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND
ENTITLED: "OFFICE OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL LIAISON (FY'84)",
APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THE OPERATION OF SAME IN THE AMOUNT
OF $50,000, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A GRANT AWARD
FROM THE SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMXNT AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM FOR THE
AFOREMENTIONED OFFICE, AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER
TO ENTER INTO THE NECESSARY CONTRACT(S) AND/OR AGREEMENT(S) TO
OPERATE THIS OFFICE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner Perez, for
adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the requirement of
reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by
Commissioner Perez, adopted said ordinance by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9691
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
56. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - AMEND CAPITAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE
BY INCREASING APPROPRIATIONS FOR MANOR STREET IMPROVEMENTS
PHASE III.
Mayor Ferre: We are now on Item 25, which is an emergency ordinance adopting
capital improvement appropriation for the fiscal year ending...
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, it's been moved by Plummer, is there a second? Is there
a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
M Mayor Ferre: Seconded by Perez, further discussion?
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Gary, in the improvement of these streets... I think it says
here it's from 46th Street to 49th Street from 7th to 12th Avenue. Once these
streets are completed will the residents have to pay any money? Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre; Like everywhere else.
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Mr. Dawkins: No, you see, this... you know it's amazing how every time we get
some federal money and you all do all the streets and when you get over there
you run out of money and you got to pay.
Mr. Gary: If I might Commissioner Dawkins, most of the federal money, the CD
money that was used for street and sidewalk repair was done in the Black
community. Now, secondly,...
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it, hold it,.now that's incorrect. I mean,... Ok, I tell
you what defer this until you... I will defer this until the next meeting and
you prove that to me.
Mr. Gary: If I may....
Mr. Dawkins: I said
Mr. Gary: Well, there won't be a second meeting on this. The bids will be run
out.
Mr. Dawkins: I beg your pardon?
Mr. Gary: They bids will have run out and you are going to come in with a bid
that's going to be much higher. I guarantee you.
Mr. Dawkins: Ok, alright. Ok.
Mr. Gary: I would like to sit down and talk to you along with Mr. Cather to
explain, not only what we have done in the past, but why we have that current
policy.
Mr. Dawkins: No, I would like for you to sit down with the residents out there
who vote for me, who are constantly coming down here telling me that they are
getting shafted. That's who I want you to sit down with. Ok.
Mr. Gary: I will do that.
Mr. Dawkins: Alright. Go ahead let it go.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, who moved it?
Mr. Plummer: I did.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, Plummer moves.
Mr. Dawkins: I will second it.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, Plummer moves, Dawkins seconds, read the ordnance. Call the
roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 9534, ADOPTED
DECEMBER 9, 1982, THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1983; AS AMENDED; BY
INCREASING APPROPRIATIONS FOR MANOR STREET IMPROVEMENTS - PHASE
III IN AN AMOUNT OF $639,400 FROM THE 1970 AND 1980 HIGHWAY
GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND FUND AND IN AN AMOUNT OF $398,000 FROM
THE 1970 AND 1978 STORM SEWER GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND FUND FOR A
TOTAL INCREASE IN APPROPRIATIONS OF $1,037,499; CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, for
adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the requirement of
reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the -following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
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Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer and seconded by
Commissioner Dawkins, adopted said ordinance by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9692
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: AGENA ITEM 26 WAS DEFERRED.
57. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND
ENTITLED "ENTRANT IMPACT AID 1983-84".
Mayor Ferre: We are now on 27, which is establishing a new special revenue fund
entitled "Entrant Impact Aid" and appropriating a million three hundred eighty
thousand five hundred four. Now, these are federal funds that come down to us.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, this merely appropriates funds for the City Commission's
previously approved projects, which you have done...
Mayor Ferre: But they are part of the Entrant Impact Aid 1983-84.
Mr. Gary: That's correct. You approved the funding, but we never did do the
appropriation. This just merely appropriates the money.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, is there a motion on Item 27? Alright, Dawkins moves,
Perez seconds, further discussion on 27? Is there further discussion? Read the
ordinance. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND
ENTITLED: "ENTRANT IMPACT AID (1983-84)" AND APPROPRIATING
$1,380,504 FOF ITS OPERATION; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION
AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by Commissioner Perez, for
adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the requirement of
reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by
Commissioner Perez, adopted said ordinance by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
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SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9693
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
58. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - ESTABLISH TWO NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS "SELECTIVE
TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT PROJECT FY '83 AND SELECTIVE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT
PROJECT FY '84".
Mayor Ferre: Take up 28. Mr. Manager.
Mr. Gary: This is the DUI Grant.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mr. Gary: We are in jeopardy of losing the money.
Mayor Ferre: It was moved by Carollo, seconded by Dawkins, further discussion?
Alright, read the ordinance. Alright, call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING TWO NEW SPECIAL REVENUE
FUNDS ENTITLED: " SELECTIVE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT PROJECT (FY '83)"
AND "SELECTIVE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT PROJECT (FY '84)",
APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR THEIR OPERATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $191,261
AND $381,454, RESPECTIVELY, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
ACCEPT GRANT AWARDS FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AND
COMMUNITY AFFAIRS FOR THE AFOREMENTIONED SELECTIVE TRAFFIC
ENFORCEMENT PROJECTS, AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER
TO ENTER INTO THE NECESSARY CONTRACT(S) AND/OR AGREEMENT(S)
TO CARRY OUT THESE PROJECTS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND
A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Carollo and seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, for
adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the requirement of
reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Carollo and seconded by
Commissioner Dawkins, adopted said ordinance by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9694
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
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59. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS THROUGH TRUST
AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED "POLICE SECOND DOLLAR TRAINING".
Mayor Ferre: Alright, take up Item 29.
Mr. Gary: This item is appropriation of money that we received from the Florida
Statutes 943.25 by way of Dade County which assesses one dollar penalty for
every case that involves a capital or a,penal offense and this has to be dedicated
for police training.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mr. Dawkins: Question. Ok, go ahead, I will wait for the second.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, it's been moved by Commissioner Plummer, is there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Seconded by Perez. Alright, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion. Mr. Gary?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Is this money in addition to the Police budget already or is this
a budgeted item in the budget that we passed?
Mr. Gary: It's in addition to and it's a separate trust fund.
Mr. Dawkins: Ok. So, this moves the Police overall budget up to what? This
hundred fifteen thousand dollars.
Mayor Ferre: Three hundred forty-nine thousand two hundred seventy-two dollars
more. And this is one of many.
Mr. Dawkins: You know, see... Now, when you and your Police Chief comes before
us next time at budget time, I want you to take into consideration... I want to
know about all of these little goodies that...
Mayor Ferre: Just like you want from the DDA.
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, uh huh. Like I want from the DDA and I want from the Downtown
Development. I want to know about all these little goodies that are hidden, because
when they come up like this I may try to get enough votes to turn them down.
Mayor Ferre: Well, you don't want to turn... these are federal bucks right?
Mr. Dawkins: But you see they are federal bucks on top of my tax dollars.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I will tell you, I will take care of that. We will move
this item and restrict the money to Commission approval on any of these dollars.
That's the way my motion reads.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: All you are doing is adding a lot of work for yourselves.
Mr. Plummer: That's right, but we will know where the goodies go.
Mr. Dawkins: At least.we won't have a helicopter budgeted and pass funds or a
bond that didn't buy it and we don't know nothing about it.
Mayor Ferre: Read the ordinance. Call the roll.
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AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 8835
ADOPTED JULY 27, 1978, WHICH ESTABLISHED A TRUST AND AGENCY
FUND ENTITLED: "POLICE SECOND DOLLAR TRAINING"; BY INCREASING
THE APPROPRIATION FOR SAID FUND IN THE AMOUNT OF $70,750 AND
$44,363 FROM REVENUES RECEIVED FROM DADE COUNTY FOR FISCAL YEAR
1981-82, PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTES, CHAPTER 943.25(5) FOR THE
PURPOSE OF PROVIDING LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING AND EDUCATION;
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Perez, for
adoption as an emergency measure and dispensing with the requirement of
reading same on two separate days, which was agreed to by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer and seconded by
Commissioner Perez, adopted said ordinance by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9695
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
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60. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE GENER-
AL FUND SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS FOR FUNDING
THE CONTINUATION OF THE FOOD AND SAFE HOUSING PROGRAM FOR
THE LITTLE HAVANA ACTIVITIES AND NUTRITION CENTER OF DADE
COUNTY INC. AND PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING TO ACTION
COMMUNITY CENTER, INC.
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Mayor Ferre: The next item before us is Item #30. We are on
Item 30, Mr. Manager.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS i
AND 6 OF ORDINANCE NO. 9502 ADOPTED SEPTEMBER
23, 19829 THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE
FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 19839 AS
AMENDED BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATION FOR
THE GENERAL FUND, SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND AC-
COUNTS, IN THE AMOUNT OF $39,161; BY INCREAS-
ING THE REVENUE FOR THE GENERAL FUND,
INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUE, IN THE AMOUNT OF
$39,161 FOR THE PURPOSE OF FUNDING THE CON-
TINUATION OF THE FOOD AND SAFE HOUSE PROGRAM
FOR THE LITTLE HAVANA ACTIVITIES AND NUTRI-
TION CENTER OF DADE COUNTY, INC., AND PROVID-
ING SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING TO ACTION COMMUNITY
CENTER, INC.; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION
AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by
Commissioner Perez, for adoption as an emergency measure and
dispensing with the requirement of reading same on two separate
days, which was agreed to by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer
and seconded by Commissioner Perez, adopted said ordinance by the
following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9696.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
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i. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - AMEND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE BY
MAKING TRANSFERS TO CORRECTLY REFLECT EARLIER TRANSFERS OF
RESOURCES TO THE JAMES L. KNIGHT CONVENTION CENTER ENTER-
PRISE FUND.
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Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, 31 is mainly budget corrections.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion.
Mayor Ferre: Discussion, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Gary, this is that fund that I was talking
about. It says that we've got 7,000,000 revenue bonds and the
interest was appropriated fully to the parking garage and then I
look up and the parking garage is down here for money and it is
just ridiculous, I mean explain it to me.
Mr. Gary: Basically, this is to correct some scriveners' errors
for actions previously approved by the Commission....
Mr. Dawkins: Recommended by whom?
Mr. Gary: Recommended by the City Manager. This is merely to
correct all those errors. These are really accounting errors.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.
9534, ADOPTED DECEMBER 9, 1982, THE CAPITAL
IMPROVEMENT ORDINANCE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
ENDING SEPTEMBER 309 1983; AS AMENDED; BY
MAKING THE NECESSARY CORRECTIONS TO THE
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND TO CORRECTLY REFLECT
EARLIER TRANSFERS OF RESOURCES TO THE JAMES
L. KNIGHT CONVENTION CENTER ENTERPRISE FUND;
AND BY DECREASING, IN THE AMOUNT OF $97,100,
THE CITY OF MIAMI/UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI-JAMES
L. KNIGHT INTERNATIONAL CENTER AND PARKING
GARAGE PROJECT AND FURTHER APPROPRIATING SAME
AMOUNT TO ESTABLISH FLAGLER BUILDING RENOVA-
TION AS A CAPITAL PROJECT IN THE JAMES L.
KNIGHT CONVENTION CENTER ENTERPRISE FUND;
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Carollo and se.conded by
Commissioner Perez, for adoption as an emergency measure and
dispensing with the requirement of reading same on two separate
days, which was agreed to by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Carollo
and seconded by Commissioner Perez, adopted said ordinance by the
following vote- '
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
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NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9697.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
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2. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - AMEND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT ORD ANCF R
APPROPRIATING AN AMOUNT OF $135.000 FROM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUNS) TO
ESTABLISH GOVERNMENT CENTP,R PARKTNG t;ARA(;F VIRKTNG, CAPTTAT, REQUTREMENTS
PROJECT AS TTEM TX C. (ii) 3.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, take up Item 32.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, when we built the Convention Center Garage
and we built the Government Center Garage we entered into a
operational agreement with the Off -Street Parking Authority to
manage these facilities and this is the money to implement that
management agreement which is approximately six months behind,
they have been doing the work but we haven't been paying them.
Mr. Dawkins: Okay, Mr. Gary, let me ask a question. I just told
you that you've got $7,000,000 in revenue bonds with interest
coming from it. That is supposed to be going to the Downtown
Parking, whatever it is. Why can't you take this $135,000 from
that interest and since this is parking garage and since you just
told me that this money could only be used for a parking garage,
why can't you take that $135,000 from there instead of from the
General Fund?
Mr. Plummer: You're hitting some tender spots over here.
Mayor Ferre: Mel Reese, where are you?
Mr. Plummer: Yes. Gary is learning.
Mr. Gary: Commissioner Dawkins, in the bond indenture all moneys
that were deposited in the trust fund from the sale of those
bonds generate interest. The interest from those moneys were
programmed as a part of the schedule of operational and construc-
tion costs to be financed by that interest money. The Convention
Center Garage was a part of the total conferencq/convention
complex. The interest was to be utilized to pay for construc-
tion, operational cost, and the bottom line is any interest we
make reverts back into that fund for the utilization or the
operation of the Knight Convention Center and Knight Parking
Garage.
Mr. Dawkins: Okay, now, does the Downtown Parking, do they make
a profit?
Mr. Gary: No, they don't make a profit.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, then if they don't make a profit what do they
do then? Do they break even?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, under the law they have to.
Mr. Gary: We pay them, Commissioner Dawkins, for the operational
expenses, that is we don't use our people to run the parking
garage, to clean the garage, to monitor the cameras, to collect
the fees, to issue the tickets, to provide the security, they do
that and we pay them for doing that. And the reason we do is
because the Charter requires that all off-street parking comes
within the jurisdiction and management of the Off -Street Parking
Authority. This is to pay for an agreement that you already
approved.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, what is the will of the Commission on
Item 32? Is there a motion?
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF
ORDINANCE NO. 9534, ADOPTED DECEMBER 9, 1982,
THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIATIONS ORDI-
NANCE FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 309
1983; BY APPROPRIATING AN AMOUNT OF $135,000
FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND, 1982 FUND
BALANCE TO ESTABLISH THE GOVERNMENT CENTER
PARKING GARAGE WORKING CAPITAL REQUIREMENTS
PROJECT AS ITEM IX C.(ii) 3; CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by
Commissioner Perez, for adoption as an emergency measure and
dispensing with the requirement of reading same on two separate
days, which was agreed to by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer
and seconded by Commissioner Perez, adopted said ordinance by the
following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9698.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
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3• EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - ENLARGE MEMBERSHIP OF THE MIAMI AUDIT
ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND DELETE PORTIONS OF CITY MANAGER'S
APPOINTMENT.
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Mr. Gary: I'm withdrawing Item 33, Mr. Mayor, it has to be
corrected. The reason is because we keep putting the old one
which gives the Manager an appointment as opposed to the new one.
Mayor Ferre: yes, but Howard, this is the third or the fourth
time, I don't mean to pick bones with Mr.....
Mr. Gary: Well, you should pick bones with me because....
Mayor Ferre: Not you, you can't be responsible for all the paper
work around here but certainly whoever is putting this on the
agenda time and time and time again wrong ought to get it right.
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Mr. Gary: I'll take the responsibility, I'll pass the heat down.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, why don't you just go ahead and do it and
just leave out that the Manager, and scratch through there....
Mr. Gary: We can delete it.
Mayor Ferre: Delete it and make it 5 members and that solves the
problem. All right, Dawkins moves, Perez seconds. Further
discussion on Item 33 as amended? All right, Mr. City Attorney,
would you read 33 as amended?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Are you leaving it at 5 members then?
Mayor Ferre: That's correct, because if you delete the appoint-
ment by the manager you're down to 5 members.
Thereupon the City Attorney read the proposed ordinance into
the public record as amended.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: For the record, we're leaving out the 6th
member then.
Mayor Ferre: That's right.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE
NO. 9575, ADOPTED MARCH 18, 1983, IN ITS
ENTIRETY, AND AMENDING SECTIONS 2 -237, 2-238,
2-239, 2-239.1 AND SUBSECTION (5) OF SECTION
2-239.2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, DEALING WITH THE MIAMI
AUDIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE; 5 MEMBERS BEING
APPOINTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION WITH ALL
MEMBERS SERVING AT THE WILL OF THE APPOINTED
AUTHORITY; CHANGING THE ORGANIZATION-
AL/OPERATING STRUCTURE OF SAID COMMITTEE AND
SETTING FORTH THE BASIC RESPONSIBILITY OF THE
COMMITTEE; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION
AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by
Commissioner Perez, for adoption as an emergency measure and
dispensing with the requirement of reading same on two separate
days, which was agreed to by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Dawkins
and seconded by Commissioner Perez, adopted said ordinance by the
following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9699.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
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64. SECOND -READING ORDINANCE - AMEND ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS
ORDINANCE, INCREASE ENTERPRISE FUND FOR THE ORANGE BOWL
STADIUM FOR INSTALLATION OF TURNSTILES.
Mr. Gary: The next item, Mr. Mayor, is an appropriation to
purchase 75 turnstiles at the Orange Bowl which will be paid out
of TDA funds at a cost of $66,487.50. The current turnstiles are
very old and inaccurate and we can't get accurate tabulations
which affects the revenues .that come to the City.
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONS 1 AND 6 OF
ORDINANCE NO. 95022 ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 23,
1982, THE ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 19832 AS
AMENDED, BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATION FOR
THE ENTERPRISE FUND IN THE AMOUNT OF $66,487
FOR ORANGE BOWL STADIUM, AND BY INCREASING
ENTERPRISE FUND REVENUE IN THE SAME AMOUNT
FROM ADDITIONAL REVENUES EARNED IN FISCAL
YEAR 1982-83 FOR THE PURPOSE OF PURCHASING 75
TURNSTILES FOR INSTALLATION BEFORE THE FIRST
1983 SEASON FOOTBALL GAME; PROVIDING THAT THE
CITY BE REIMBURSED FROM THE DADE COUNTY
RESORT TAX FOR THE PURCHASE OF SAID TURN-
STILES; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of July
18th, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and
adoption. On motion of Commissioner Plummer, seconded by Commis-
sioner Dawkins, the Ordinance was thereupon given its second and
final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9700.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
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5. SECOND READING ORDINANCE - AMEND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPRO-
PRIATIONS ORDINANCE TO ESTABLISH FUNDS FOR THE PURCHASE OF
LITTER CONTAINER DUMPSTERS.
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Mayor Ferre: The Chair recognizes Mr. Bill Smith, or Peter, are
you going to make your statement? Either one of you. Item 35.
Mr. Peter Joffre: Peter Joffre, 319 S. W. 11th Avenue. Mr.
Mayor and Commissioners, the only problem I have, the litter
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container is fine but the dumpsters, I understand there are 12
four yard dumpsters to be installed around the City and I feel
that all they are doing with that is to be filled by contractors,
people with illegal materials. I think no one right at the
present time is going to take trash anywhere as long as you can
put it out in the front yards. All you're doing by putting these
dumpsters out is just to encourage people to come from anywheres
and dump because you're not going to have any policemen or any-
body to watch them. So I would ask that these four yards....
Mr. Plummer: Let's separate them, let's do the trash, the litter
barrels, that's needed, there's no question the people want them
and let's further look at the dumpsters.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager?
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, I would accept the recommendation of Vice -
Mayor Plummer, I would recommend that you approve the ordinance
in its entirety with the condition that none of the money be used
to purchase dumpsters until this matter is brought before the
Commission.
Mr. Plummer: I'll buy that.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves, Dawkins seconds with those condi-
tions, further discussion?
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE
NO. 95340 THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIA-
TION ORDINANCE FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEM-
BER 30, 1983; AS AMENDED; BY APPROPRIATING AN
AMOUNT OF $45,000 FROM 1970 POLLUTION CONTROL
AND INCINERATOR FACILITIES GENERAL OBLIGATION
BOND FUND BALANCE TO ESTABLISH THE PURCHASE
OF LITTER CONTAINERS AND DUMPSTERS AS ITEM
I.C.1. IN SAID FUND; BY INCREASING APPROPRIA-
TIONS IN AN AMOUNT OF $200,000 RECEIVED AS A
GRANT FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
NATURAL RESOURCES - FLORIDA RECREATION DEVEL-
OPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR BLUE LAGOON
PARK DEVELOPMENT, ITEM IX.B.(i)10., IN THE
CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND; CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of June
9th, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and
adoption. On motion of Commissioner Plummer, seconded by Commis-
sioner Dawkins, the Ordinance was thereupon given its second and
final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
ABSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9701.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
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SECOND READING ORDINANCE - ESTABLISH SPECIAL REVENUE FUND
ENTITLED "RECREATION FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED 8TH YEAR".
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Mayor Ferre: We're on Item 37, I'm going to go to the items that
the manager has marked as being more important, unless there is a
member of the public present. So we are now on 37, establishing a
special revenue fund.....
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A SPECIAL REVENUE
FUND ENTITLED: "RECREATION FOR THE MENTALLY
RETARDED (8TH YEAR)" AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS
FOR ITS OPERATION IN THE AMOUNT OF
$156,748.00 COMPOSED OF $131,748.00 FROM THE
STATE OF FLORIDA; DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
REHABILITATIVE SERVICES AND $25,000 FROM
FISCAL YEAR 1982-183 SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND
ACCOUNTS; MATCHING FUNDS FOR GRANTS, TO
CONTINUE OPERATION OF SAME; CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of JULY
18th, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and
adoption. On motion of Commissioner Plummer, seconded by Commis-
sioner Dawkins, the Ordinance was thereupon given its second and
final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9702.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
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7. SECOND READING ORDINANCE - AMEND SUMMARY GRANT APPROPRIA-
TIONS ORDINANCE BY INCREASING APPROPRIATIONS TO TRUST AND
AGENCY FUND ENTITLED "ENTRANT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM 1982-83".
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AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE
NO. 87199 ADOPTED OCTOBER 26, 1977, THE
SUMMARY GRANT APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE, AS
AMENDED; BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATION TO
THE TRUST AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED: "ENTRANT
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - 1982/83" BY $189257 TO
BE RECEIVED FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA: DE-
PARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVIC-
ES, TO CONTINUE THE PROGRAM THROUGH JUNE 30,
1983; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of JULY
18th, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and
adoption. On motion of Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commis-
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sioner Perez, the Ordinance was thereupon given its second and
final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9703.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
68. SECOND READING ORDINANCE - INCREASE APPROPRIATIONS FOR TRUST
AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED "SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM FOR
CHILDREN - 1982".
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AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE
NO. 8719, AS AMENDED, BY INCREASING THE
APPROPRIATION FOR THE TRUST AND AGENCY FUND
ENTITLED: "SUMMER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM FOR
CHILDREN - 1983" BY $116,468 WITH REVENUES TO
BE RECEIVED FROM THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF AGRICULTURE THROUGH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION
AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of July
18, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and
adoption. On motion of Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commis-
sioner Perez, the Ordinance was thereupon given its second and
final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9704.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
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69. AMEND CHAPTER 14 OF THE CODE ENTITLED "DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT"
BY AMENDING DIVISION 2 TO PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN THE
MEMBERSHIP OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT BOARD FROM 15 TO 17
MEMBERS.
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Mayor Ferre: Take up 40. Carollo moves, Perez seconds. Further
discussion?
Mr. Dawkins: Discussion. Is Mr. Kenzie here? Kenzie, I have
a sheet here in front of me, I just need some information from
you. You have an Executive Director, what is the race of the
Executive Director under....
Mr. Kenzie: That is on Item 43, this is Item 40.
INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION
Mr. Gary: This is to add two members to the DDA....
Mr. Plummer: Whoa, who are the two members that are going to be
added?
Mr. Kenzie: The members have not yet been selected by the
Board, we have been waiting for two things (1) for the Commis-
sion, it comes to the Commission for approval, the board selects
and brings those names to the Commission for approval as set
forth in the Code.
Mayor Ferre: That is the way the Code reads at the present time.
And furthermore, we have a commitment to the Brickell Avenue
Association that we are going to pay attention to their recommen-
dations. So it is a long complicated thing. All right, we're on
Item 40 now, further discussion?
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 14 OF THE CODE
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, ENTITLED:
"DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT, " BY AMENDING DIVISION
2 ENTITLED, "DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY,"
OF ARTICLE II THEREOF, ENTITLED, "DOWNTOWN
DISTRICT," BY AMENDING SUBSECTIONS (a) AND
(c) OF SECTION 14-26 OF SAID DIVISION, TO
PROVIDE FOR AN INCREASE IN THE MEMBERSHIP OF
THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT BOARD FROM FIFTEEN,
TO SEVENTEEN MEMBERS AND THE SETTING OF THE
TERMS OF OFFICE OF SAID MEMBERS; CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of July
18, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and
adoption. On motion of Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commis-
sioner Perez, the Ordinance was thereupon given its second and
final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9705.
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The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
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70. DEFERRAL OF CONSIDERATION OF A PROPOSED SECOND READING
ORDINANCE WHICH WOULD AMEND CHAPTER 42 OF THE CODE REGARDING
TOWING OF MOTOR VEHICLES.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, we're now on the towing bit.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, that, as you know, was my ordinance. I
received a conversation last evening. There is an attorney, I
think he is present - yes - who indicated to me that he had been
hired by the association to represent the association, that he
has not had ample time to prepare himself to put up their de-
fense. I told him to appear him today and normal common courte-
sy, this Commission has extended to counsel to get his act to-
gether. I don't know how the rest of my Commissioners feel, I am
informed by the administration that there is and has been a
concerted effort by the industry themselves to try and help and
write not only a practical ordinance but one which is enforcea-
ble. As long as that is the spirit of cooperation, I have no
problem, Mr. Mayor, of putting this off or making a motion to put
it off until the next meeting in November. I will, of course,
abide by my fellow Commissioners, but if no one has any serious
objection I would so move, Mr. Mayor, that it be put off until
the next meeting.
Mayor Ferre: There is a motion that Item 41 be deferred until
the Meeting in November. There is a second, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-923
A MOTION TO DEFER CONSIDERATION OF A SECOND
READING ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE TOWING OF
MOTOR VEHICLES WHICH WOULD AMEND CHAPTER 42
OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA,
PURSUANT TO A REQUEST MADE BY AN ATTORNEY
RECENTLY HIRED BY OPERATORS OF SAID TOWING
COMPANIES; THIS MATTER IS DEFERRED TO NOVEM-
BER 16, 1983•
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ON ROLL CALL:
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
Mr. Plummer: I'm voting yes, but I don't want anyone to have any
misconceptions, I am just as strong to the pursuit of this ordi-
nance, it is something that must be done. I am only affording
counsel the right to be prepared.
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71. ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED "ENTRANT ASSIS-
TANCE PROGRAM 1983-1984".
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Mayor Ferre: Item 42 is that Entrant Assistance Program again,
right, $720,000 bucks?
Mr. Gary: That's right, a state grant.
AN ORDINANCE -
AN ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW
SPECIAL REVENUE FUND ENTITLED: "ENTRANT
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - 1983/19849" AND APPRO-
PRIATING FUNDS FOR ITS OPERATION IN THE
AMOUNT OF $720,993 COMPOSED OF $6759380 FROM
THE STATE OF FLORIDA: DEPARTMENT OF HEAT'rH
AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, $8,000 CARRYO, R
FROM THE ENTRANT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - 1982/83
TRUST AND AGENCY FUND, AND $37,613 FROM THE
FY 183 GENERAL FUND: SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND
ACCOUNTS; CONTINGENT FUND; CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of July
18, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and
adoption. On motion of Commissioner Perez, seconded by Commis-
sioner Carollo, the Ordinance was thereupon given its second and
final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following
vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9706.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
72. DEFERRAL OF PROPOSED SECOND READING ORDINANCE MAKING APPRO-
PRIATIONS FOR THE D.D.A. FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER
30, 1984 AND SUBSTITUTING A MOTION WHICH PROVIDES FOR ONE
MONTH'S FUNDING.
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Mayor
Ferre: Take up 43, Mr. Plummer. This is one that you and
Mr. Dawkins have shown an interest in.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. mayor, I have in my posession a copy of that
which I had asked for as a report on a monthly basis, I will
readily admit I' have not had the time to read it because of
pressing matters but I am very thankful that we have it, I hope
it is going to be here in the future on the first of the month,
I'm assured that it is going to be and as such, I will move 43.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
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Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Go ahead.
Mr. Dawkins: On the first page, the Executive Director is what,
when it comes to ethnic?
Mr. Kenzie: Anglo male.
Mr. Dawkins: That's okay, stand over there. It's what?
INAUDIBLE, NOT USING MICROPHONE
Mr. Dawkins: An Administrative Aide/Office Man8ger is what?
Mr. Kenzie: Anglo female.
Mr. Dawkins: The secretary?
Mr. Kenzie: Latin female.
Mr. Dawkins: Secretary/Receptionist?
Mr. Kenzie: Black female.
Mr. Dawkins: On your second page, the Director is what?
Mr. Kenzie: Anglo male.
Mr. Dawkins: The Economic Development Coordinator?
Mr. Kenzie: Latin female.
Mr. Dawkins: Accountant?
Mr. Kenzie: Latin male.
Mr. Dawkins: On your third page, the Director?
Mr. Kenzie: Indian.
Mr. Dawkins: Transporation coordinator?
Mr. Kenzie: Anglo male.
Mr. Carollo: Excuse me, on that Indian, is he an American Indian
or an Indian Indian?
Mr. Kenzie: An Indian Indian.
Mr. Carollo: I wonder who recommended him?
Mr. Gary: Not me.
Mr. Dawkins: Urban Development Coordinator?
Mr. Kenzie: Anglo male.
Mr. Dawkins: On your last page, the Director?
Mr. Kenzie: Anglo female.
Mr. Dawkins: Your Public Information Officer?
Mr. Kenzie: Ang,lo male.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, this is my problem with this department. Now,
for the whole year I've been telling you this and you just failed
to do anything about it.
Mr. Kenzie: Commissioner, we have had hiring.......
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Mr. Dawkins: No, I don't want to know nothing about no excuses.
In a whole damned year you could have corrected some of this. I
will defer this until you and I can sit down and you give me some
timetables of how you plan to bring about a correction.
Mayor Ferre: All right, there is a substitute motion that
the.....
Mr. Dawkins: You know, this is a damned shame. What is this
total budget?
Mr. Kenzie: One million dollars.
Mr. Dawkins: A one million dollar budget and you don't have one
black up here where you're making $14,000 all the way up to
$92,000. This is ridiculous.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer, do you withdraw your motion, I assume, as
a substitute motion, Dawkins for funding for one month rather
than for the full year? Do you second that?
Mr. Kenzie: Well, we have to sign a lease on our new office
space which we have.......
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Kenzie, what you need to do is you need to sit
down with this here Commissioner, as Ernie Fannatto would say,
and talk to him.
Mr. Dawkins: For one year, I mean me and you have been going
through this for a year, Roy.
Mr. Kenzie: I made a commitment that the next person I hire, and
which will be at a professional will be a black.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, suppose I made a commitment to you that I'm
not going to fund your budget until you get one. You see, that's
not fair.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Kenzie, my best advice to you, sir, as the
Chairman of the DDA - smile, that's it, keep on smiling - you
come see this here Commissioner. There is no other way. Now,
there is a motion that the DDA be funded for the month.....
Mr. Dawkins: And give them the money they need to pay for the
building, I mean I'm not trying to be unreasonable.
Mr. Gary: Make the motion and bring it back.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-924
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO ALLOCATE AN AMOUNT EQUAL TO ONE -
TWELFTH FUNDING OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE
DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND DEFERRING
CONSIDERATION OF THE SECOND READING APPROPRI-
ATIONS ORDINANCE UNTIL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND THE CITY
MANAGER MEET TO REVIEW THE TIME TABLE FOR THE
CORRECTION OF MINORITY HIRING IN THE DOWNTOWN
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY STAFF.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio•Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
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Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mayor Ferre: That's not an ordinance, right?
Mr. Clark: Not now, Thursday we will formalize it, one -
twelfth.
73. FIRST READING ORDINANCE - AMEND ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS ORDI-
NANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT TO HIRE ONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST TO
WORK IN THE CITIZEN`S RESPONSE CENTER AND INFORMATION VAN
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Mayor Ferre: Take up 44.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, this is the request for appropriations to
establish a Haitian Citizens Response Person so that we can
provide referral and outreach services that we are currently
providing to all the other segments of the community with the
exception of the Haitian community.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTIONI OF ORDINANCE
NO. 9684 ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 29, 1983, THE
ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE FOR FISCAL
YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1984, BY INCREASING
THE APPROPRIATION IN THE GENERAL FUND FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE
AMOUNT OF $25,120 AND BY DECREASING THE
APPROPRIATION FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND AC-
COUNTS CONTINGENCY FUND IN THE LIKE AMOUNT
FOR THE PURPOSE OF FUNDING A COMMUNITY IN-
VOLVEMENT SPECIALIST POSITION TO WORK IN THE
CITIZEN RESPONSE CENTER AND OPERATE THE
INFORMATION VAN, SERVING AS A LIAISON WITH
THE HAITIAN COMMUNITY; CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Carollo and seconded by
Commissioner Dawkins and was passed on its first reading by title
by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
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74. FIRST READING ORDINANCE - ESTABLISH NEW SPECIAL REVENUE
FUNDING ENTITLED "PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM".
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Mayor Ferre: Take up Item 47. This establishes a new special
revenue for pre-school program and appropriates an operating
account of $120,000. It comes from the U. S. Department of
Agriculture Food Program. It is a grant.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL
REVENUE FUND ENTITLED: "PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM"
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR ITS OPERATION IN
THE AMOUNT OF $120,300 COMPOSED OF REVENUES
COLLECTED FROM PARTICIPATION FEES AND DESIG-
NATED FOOD REIMBURSEMENTS FROM THE UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOOD PROGRAM
DURING FISCAL YEAR 1983-84, CONTAINING A
REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins and seconded by
Commissioner Perez and was passed on its first reading by title
by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
75. AMEND CHAPTER 52 ENTITLED "GARBAGE AND TRASH" TO CODE OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA BY AMENDING SECTION 22-12 ENTITLED
"WASTE FEE TO CONSTITUTE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT LIENS AGAINST
ALL IMPROVED REAL PROPERTY".
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Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, this is an item that attempts to put some
type of enforcement procedures on our Solid Waste Fees. Current-
ly we have a lot of people that are not paying their fees and we
want to do this the same as we do assessments, that it puts a
lien on their property as a condition until they pay their bills.
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Manager, for the record one more time, what I
asked you a couple of budget meetings ago, and that was what
percent of this fee is going in actuality to pay what Dade County
is charging us?
Mr. Gary: What percent of the fee is going?
Mr. Carollo: In. other words, out of the total fee that we are
asking a person to pay, or a homeowner to pay, rather, what
percent of that is going to pay Dade County what they are charg-
ing us?
Mr. Gary: I don't have that figure right off the top of my head.
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Mr. Carollo: You at one time in the past had told me that a
figure in the neighborhood of 50 to 60%, that not all of it was
going to pay Dade County what they were charging us.
Mr. Gary: I recall that discussion but I don't recall the exact
percentages, I don't have that.
Mr. Carollo: Well, that was some time ago, Howard, I wouldn't
expect you to. I would hope that we could get that figure as
close as possible to the exact amount of what we're paying Dade
County. The way I look at it is that anything more than we would
charge a homeowner for picking up their garbage then besides what
Dade County charges us is really double taxation. By law, we're
limited in taxing people only as to what they pay in taxes,
they're assessed in taxes for their property, so we're doing
this, we're going behind the back door and now we're coming up
with these fees. Now, I could understand if we're charging a fee
that we reimburse us for what Dade County is charging us but if
on top of that we're charging even more so like we're charging
now I think we're violating the law and I tell you, if anybody
would challenge this in court I think the City of Miami stands an
excellent chance of losing this in court and we're going to end
up having to reimburse a heck of a lot of people for quite a few
years. So I would hope that the City Attorney's office research-
es this real good.
Mayor Ferre: This is on First Reading. Who moves this?
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 22, ENTITLED
"GARBAGE AND TRASH" OF THE CODE OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING
SUBSECTIONS (b) AND (c) OF SECTION 22-13
THEREOF, ENTITLED "WASTE FEE TO CONSTITUTE
SPECIAL ASSESSMENT LIENS AGAINST ALL IMPROVED
REAL PROPERTY", PROVIDING THAT ALL WASTE FEES
DUE AND UNAPDI FOR THE PERIOD FROM MARCH 1,
1980 UNTIL JANUARY 1, 1981 CONSTITUTE SPECIAL
ASSESSMENT LIENS; AND SETTING FORTH THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR PERFECTING SAID LIENS;
FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE DEPARTMENT OF SOLID
WASTE TO VERIFY THE AMOUNT OF WASTE FEES DUE,
IF ANY, UPON ANY PARCEL OF REAL PROPERTY;
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Perez and seconded'by Commis-
sioner Plummer and was passed on its first reading by title by
the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
ABSENT: None.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
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76. PURSUE CREATION OF A LEGAL PROCESS SIMILAR TO THE ONE USED
IN HIALEAH REGARDING THE ILLEGAL DUMPING OF TRASH AND GAR-
BAGE ONTO THE STREETS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI.
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Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, on the same subject, I was hearing a
radio talk show on WQBA with Garcia-Fuste the other day and he
was making mention of the fact that Hialeah has a provision where
the person dumps garbage or trash illegally on the street that
they can be fined and hauled into court and into jail and that we
don't have such a provision. I don't think that is the case is
it, Mr. Patterson? On the microphone, sir.
Mr. Clarence Patterson: No, sir, we can't take them to jail.
Mayor Ferre: Can you fine them?
Mr. Patterson: No, sir, we don't have the ability to fine them.
No, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Can you cite them?
Mr. Patterson: We can give them a citation but that citation
carries with it a provision where we have to take them before the
Code Enforcement Board and that Board makes a determination as to
what happens.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, I'1 move the gavel over to the Vice -
Chairman and I move you, sir, that the City of Miami immediately
pursue the creation of legal procedures similar to what Hialeah
and other cities have where in the City has a legal method in
which people who are blatantly violating the law by dumping
garbage out on the street, and by violating the law by illegally
dumping the trash on the street can be legally processed.
Mr. Plummer: There is a motion made, is there a second?
Mr. Carollo: I'll second it for the purpose of discussion. The
ordinance would be a fine ordinance, the problem is, as I under-
stand the law that is a misdemeanor and in order for us to be
able to fine someone for a misdemeanor it is my understanding,
and the City Attorney's Office can correct me if I'm wrong, it
either has to be committed in our presence or someone has to file
a signed affidavit.
Mayor Ferre: How does Hialeah do it?
Mr. Carollo: I don't know, Mr. Mayor, but I do i-amember when I
was in the Police Department that if a misdemeanor was not com-
mitted in our presence we could not arrest somebody for it.
Mayor Ferre: Commissioner, all I'm saying is, Mr. City Attorney,
investigate how Hialeah does it and if they have a legal handle
on it that is better than what we have been able to do, pursue
that. I'm not saying that this is the way to do it, I'm just
saying I'm asking that the City Attorney and the City Manager
pursue this matter and come back with a recommendation.
Mr. Carollo: I think you're heading in the right direction, I
just think we need to do a little more research because what is
happening now is we really don't have a system. You have people
that are blatantly laughing in our faces, they're dumping all
kinds of garbage, and nothing is being done, so you're heading in
the right direction, Maurice.
Mr. Plummer: Any further discussion? I have some, and let me
bring to your attention, Maurice, one of the problems. The main
problem is if a person throws actual garbage on the street, and
I'm assuming when you say the street you're talking about the
public right-of-way where it normally is put. The problem is
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existing, you're going to have to remember this when you write
the ordinance, is that there is no regular scheduled pick-up on
trash. Now, you're kidding yourself, we have an ordinance today
that says you cannot pout your trash out till the night before
the pick up. Who in the hell knows what day they're going to
choose to come by? Now, they gave me a list, and I want to tell
you something, that is a funny book. It doesn't exist.
Mayor Ferre: J. L., all this is is a motion of intent.
Mr. Plummer: Maurice, I agree but I want you to keep that in
mind.
Mayor Ferre: You know, we have to have a public hearing before
we get to it and....
Mr. Plummer: You have to have something practical to enforce,
I'm reminding you of that. There is a motion made, any further
discussion? Hearing none, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Mayor Ferre, who
moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-925
A MOTION THAT THE CITY OF MIAMI IMMEDIATELY
PURSUE THE CREATION OF A LEGAL PROCESS SIMI-
LAR TO THE ONE IN USE IN THE CITY OF HIALEAH
AND OTHER CITIES WHERE WE WOULD HAVE A LEGAL
METHOD SO THAT PEOPLE WHO ARE ILLEGALLY
VIOLATING THE LAW BY DUMPING TRASH ON THE
STREETS CAN BE LEGALLY CITED FOR SUCH; FUR-
THER DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO INVESTI-
GATE HOW HIALEAH DOES IT AND TO OPUTSUE THIS
MATTER AND TO COME BACK WITH A RECOMMENDA-
TION.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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77. SET FORTH POLICY OF ENFORCEMENT RELATED TO UNSAFE CONDITIONS
FROM UNLAWFUL DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE AND WASTE IN THE CITY AND
UNSAFE UNSECURED BUILDINGS.
Mr. Perez: Mr. Mayor, I would like to add something - I have a
resolution here directed to the unsafe buildings in the City of
Miami. We have a lot of unsafe property in the area that I think
that...
Mayor Ferre: The Chair recognizes you for reading a resolution.
Read the resolution.
Mr. Perez: (AT THIS POINT, Commissioner Perez reads resolution
into the public record)
Mayor Ferre: It has to be either repaired to comply, or be
demolished.
Mr. Plummer: And I hope that applies to City owned buildings
first!
Mayor Ferre: Do you second it?
Mr. Plummer: Oh, for sure!
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there further discussion?
Mr. Plummer: And that applies to the old fire station on South
Miami Avenue.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Perez, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-926
A RESOLUTION SETTING FORTH THE POLICY OF
GREATER ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY RELATED TO
UNSAFE CONDITIONS RESULTING FROM UNLAWFUL
DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE AND WASTE IN THE CITY
CITY AND MORE STRINGENT CITY ENFORCEMENT
ACTIVITY RELATED TO HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS DUE
TO UNSAFE UNSECURED BUILDINGS; FURTHER IN-
STRUCTING THE CITY MA14AGER TO IMPLEMENT THE
HEREIN POLICY PARTICULARLY WITH REGARD TO',
INSURING THAT UNSAFE BUILDINGS BE EITHER
REPAIRED TO CONFORM WITH BUILDING CODE RE-
QUIREMENTS OR DEMOLISHED.
(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 Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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OCT 25
78. BRIEF DISCUSSION AND TEMPORARY DEFERRAL; OF TRANSFER OF
$695009000 IN CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND, ETC. FOR ACQUISITION
OF FOUR SITES IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE AFFORDABLE RENTAL
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
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Mayor Ferre: Take up Item 54, authorizing the Manager to trans-
fer $6,500,000 from the Capital Improvement Fund.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, the City Commission authorized the use of
$8,000,000 in housing bond funds for the purchase of sites to
move the Affordable Housing Program forward. We are in the
process now of taking this property - and we have to deposit
money with the court to initiate the process by which we can have
these sites for our Affordable Housing Program, which October
24th was the date for the bids and I submitted to you those bids
we received. This is a measure by which we are borrowing money
from one capital fund fund until we sell the bonds for the hous-
ing bonds and it is appropriate to do such under general accepta-
ble accounting procedures.
Mr. Plummer: Tell me what the sites are.
Mr. Gary: Sites are on your first page - Civic Center site.
Mayor Ferre: The same sites they approved before.
Mr. Gary: You approved them.
Mr. Dawkins: No, they are not either!
Mr. Plummer: I've got a question.
Mr. Dawkins: No, they are not either. They are not the same
sites that we approved!
Mr. Gary: They are! Melrose Nursery, if you look on your second
sheet, N. W. 27th Avenue and 28th Street - 8.64 acres, Highland
Park, N. W. 8th Road, N. W. 20th Street, N. W. 11th Street and
7th Avenue, 3.7 acres - Civic Center, N. W. 18th Street and 14th
Avenue, 6 acres - Miami P.B.A., 2300 N. W. 14th Street, 8.5
acres.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Gary, let me tell you why I am asking ques-
tions. I went over the other day to P.B.A. What have you of-
fered or negotiated with them for the purchase of that property.
They have got a piece of paper from you that says that 'you esti-
mated that property at $3,200,000.
Mr. Gary: Let me just...
Mr. Plummer: Let's get it on the record, okay?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, please, because I want to know what you are
whispering about.
Mr. Plummer: Okay, let me tell you what I am talking about. I
went over to the P.B.A. the other day. I will ask a question
first, and then I will get it on the record. Ms. Spillman, what
have you offered., or what have you negotiated on the P.B.A.
site?
Ms. Spillman: Commissioner, we haven't negotiated anything. We
had two appraisals.
Mr. Plummer: What have you allocated for that site?
Mr. Gary: Commissioner, I would suggest that so that we will not
compromise the process of getting the fairest price possible for
the citizens of Miami, that we don't get into negotiations of
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prices here, because I think it is going to be putting us in a
secondary position.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, let me ask you a question, Mr. Gary.
Mr. Plummer: You are not...
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it! Let me ask a question, Mr. Plummer. What
makes Melrose 8.64 acres worth $2,000,000.
Mr. Plummer: Where do you see that?
Mr. Dawkins: In the front, here.
Mr. Gary: Two certified appraisals and it is comparable to the
fact.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, and 8.5 million is not worth the same
thing again in the City of Miami?
Mr. Gary: No, they are, it is the same thing...
Mr. Dawkins: Why not? Why not?
Mr. Gary: For the mere fact that your house is worth less than
my house.
Mr. Dawkins: But, I don't live near Joe Robbie's Orange Bowl.
No, that is a bunch of ... all I am saying to you is...
Mr. Plummer: No, he has trash pickup - you don't, plus you live
across from the Hadley Park.
Mr. Gary: We, by law and by procedure required to go through an
appraisal process which this City Commission approved. We se-
lected two appraisals, and based upon those appraisal prices,
that establishes a price, and that is based on the offer.
Mr. Plummer: Fine! Where is the appraisal?
Ms. Spillman: Commissioner, this was done by Dade County HUD.
If you recall...
Mr. Plummer: I don't care who did it. Where are the apprais-
als?
Ms. Spillman: Well, I can certainly furnish you with them. What
we are allowed to offer...
Mr. Plummer: Before I vote on this, you are going to furnish it.
Mr. Gary: If I may, Mr. Mayor, and members of the Commission,
this is not different than the posture the City Commission took
on the F.E.C. property.
Mr. Plummer: You are absolutely wrong!
Mr. Gary: If I may, we are asking that the City Commission go
through the quick take process so that we establish a time frame
by which land costs and value will be determined. The longer you
wait, the more the land is going to cost us. The court decides
what is a reasonable price. From Dena Spillman, she is told me
that the P.B.A. is*agreeable to go to court to determine what the
fair price is.
Mr. Plummer: No, they are not a ...
Mr. Gary: Well, they are telling you, telling us something
different.
Mr. Plummer: I want to know from you sir, what you have delegat-
ed. You first tried to take the property through a negotiation.
Correct?
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Ms. Spillman: Dade County did, Commissioner.
Mr. Plummer: Dade County. It was to be taken by negotiation,
correct?
Ms. Spillman: That we always start by negotiation.
Mr. Plummer: That is fine. that negotiation broke down, cor-
rect?
Ms. Spillman: Yes, sir. They wanted far more than the appraised
value of the property.
Mr. Plummer: They have in their possession a paper from your
office indicating what you think the value is.
Mr. Gary: That is an appraisal.
Mr. Plummer: No, sir. It is nowhere near what was negotiated.
Absolutely nowhere in the same ballpark.
Mr. Gary: Negotiated...
Mr. Plummer: Dade County negotiated and it broke down. You are
not going to put me in a box to where they have in their posses-
sion, whether it is right or wrong, but that is how the court's
decide - to twice the amount of money and make me vote for it
here today without showing me the appraisal. How in the hell can
you ask any member of this Commission to vote on something that
you won't even furnish me the fee appraisals on?
Ms. Spillman: Commissioner, this was voted on previously. We
asked the Commission if we could go through eminent domaine
proceedings. Commissioner, I notified the owners of every single
property. I told them what time to be at the Commission if they
opposed it, and no one came here.
Mr. Plummer: Dena, I love you, but I want to see the appraisals!
You have got two hours to bring me the appraisals.
Mr. Gary: Everything is closed up in Dade County.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, she has got them in her office.
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT PLACED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mr. Gary: You going to stop the whole process?
Mr. Plummer: Let's defer it for an hour. Skip over and come
back to this item.
79. AUTHORITY CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE A. WARRANT TO
CHARNEY/PALACIOS AND COMPANY FOR THE PURPOSES OF A ONE PAGE
ADVERTISEMENT IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE OF FRENCH VOGUE.
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Mayor Ferre: We are now on Item 56. Mr. Manager, the Chair
recognizes you.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, this is another advertisement which is...
Mayor Ferre: Like the London Times?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there a motion on Item 56?
Mr. Dawkins: Moved.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, moved by Dawkins. Second by Perez.
Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Dawkins, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-927
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CON-
FIRMING THE EMERGENCY ACTION OF THE CITY
MANAGER, BY A 4/5THS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF THE
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION, IN AUTHORIZ-
ING THE PLACEMENT OF A ONE -PAGE ADVERTISEMENT
IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE OF FRENCH VOGUE AT A
COST NOT TO EXCEED $7,500 TO CHARNEY/PALACIOS
7 COMPANY WITH FUNDS THEREFORE ALLOCATED FROM
THE SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT
FUND.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
80. ALLOCATE $6,000 TO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC. IN
LITTLE HAVANA OUTREACH CENTER.
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Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, go ahead and do Agenda Item 57, because
this was a previously approved action by the Commission•.. We need
to get the money.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves 57. Perez second. Further discus-
sion? You have any problem with that? Catholic Community Serv-
ices Inc. Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-928
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $6,000 FROM THE
GENERAL FUND - SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS
TO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC - LITTLE
HAVANA OUTREACH CENTER, AND FURTHER AUTHORIZ-
ING THE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND THE AGENCY'S
NINTH YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
CONTRACT TO INCLUDE THIS $6,000 IN THE TOTAL
ALLOCATION TO THE AFOREMENTIONED SOCIAL
SERVICE AGENCY, THEREBY INCREASING THE MAXI-
MUM COMPENSATION BY $6,000 FROM $679700 TO
$73,700.
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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 Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD; Agenda Item 58 was withdrawn.
81. DESIGNATE PLANNING AND DESIGN SERVICES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF
BLUE LAGOON PARK AS A CATEGORY B PROJECT.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, Carollo just moved Item 59. Is there a
second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call the roll.
Mr. Gary: This is a State grant to redevelop...
Mr. Plummer: This is not a State grant!
Mayor Ferre: Yes, it is!
Mr. Gary It is a State grant. $200,000 in advance and we will
get the private development to match the other and the other is
going to be in kind.
Mayor Ferre: Call the roll, sir.
Mr. Plummer: No, I am sorry. Whoa!
Item 59?
Mayor Ferre: We are.
Mr. Gary: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: And this is a grant?
Tell me again, we are on
Mr. Gary: $200,000 from the State. We are going to match it by
in house services which are in kind contributions.
Mr. Plummer: Sir, let me read to you. My 59 says designating
the planning and design services for the development of Blue
Lagoon Park.
Mr. Gary: You are correct. It is with the utilization of grant
money. This is the designation of...
Mr. Plummer: It doesn't say a word about accepting a grant.
Mr. Gary: I didn't say accept a grant. This is the utilization
of grant for the design committee to develop designs for the Blue
Lagoon Park, which will be brought back before the City Commis-
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Mayor Ferre: Are you ready to vote now, Plummer?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Carollo, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-929
A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING PLANNING AND DESIGN
SERVICES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF BLUE LAGOON
PARK AS A CATEGORY B PROJECT, AND APPOINTING
CARL KERN, DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF
PARKS, AS CHAIRMAN OF THE COMPETITIVE SELEC-
TION COMMITTEE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ORDINANCE
NO. 8965, ADOPTED JULY 23, 1979, WHICH ORDI-
NANCE ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES FOR CONTRACTING
SAID PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND ALSO ESTAB-
LISHED COMPETITIVE NEGOTIATION REQUIREMENTS
WITH REGARD TO THE FURNISHING OF SUCH
SERVICE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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82. AMEND SECTIONS TWO AND THREE OF RESOLUTION 79-56 BY CLARIFY-
ING AND LIMITING THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI/UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI JAMES L. KNIGHT INTERNATIONAL
CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
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Mayor Ferre: Is anyone here on Agenda Item 60? All right, sir,
step forward, Mr. Lon Worth Crow. All right, this amends Section
two and three which establishes the City of Miami, University of
Miami James L. Knight International Center Advisory Committee by
clarifying and limiting the duties and responsibilities of said
committee. All right.
Mr. Lon Worth Crow: My name is Lon Worth Crow, Jr. I am here
representing the Advisory Committee.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, -sir.
Mr. Crow: The Chairman of this committee, which was appointed by
the City Commission, Mr. Homer Marlow, was unable to be here this
afternoon and he asked and requested that I appear before you and
urge approval of this resolution. This is merely clarifying a
resolution which was passed in January 18, 1979.
Mayor Ferre: What is the intention of it, Mr. Crow?
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Mr. Crow: The clarification is to eliminate the requirement that
the Advisory Committee should approve the budget of the Knight
Center. We do not feel that we have enough of the expertise. We
have no responsibilities which were assigned to us in the origi-
nal resolution, and we feel that making us approve the budget is
little too much.
Mayor Ferre: All right, sir. Mr. Manager, do you have any
objections to that? Dena, are we all set? Okay, who wants to
move Item Number 60?
Mr. Carollo: Item 60?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir. That is the item we are on. It is
clarification. All right, Perez moves. Is there a second? ... as
explained by Mr. Lon Worth Crow, Jr.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer seconds. Further discussion? Call the
roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Perez, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-930
A RESOLUTION AMENDING SECTIONS 2 AND 3 OF
RESOLUTION NO. 79-56, ADOPTED JANUARY 18,
1979, WHICH ESTABLISHED THE CITY OF
MIAMI/UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI JAMES L. KNIGHT
INTERNATIONAL CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE BY
CLARIFYING AND LIMITING THE DUTIES AND RE-
SPONSIBILITIES OF SAID COMMITTEE.
(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 Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
83. AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO SELL ONE 1952 PETER PIRSCH
SURPLUS FIRE TRUCK] I.D. NO. 19790 TO THE GREATER MIAMI CODE
#1 ASSOCIATION.
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Mr. Plummer: I move Agenda Item 61.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Plummer moves 61.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call the roll
on 61.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-931
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
CONDITIONALLY SELL ONE 1952 PETER PIRSCH
SURPLUS FIRE TRUCK, I.D. NO. 19790, TO THE
GREATER MIAMI CODE 31 ASSOCIATION FOR THE
NOMINAL AMOUNT OF 410 PURSUANT TO THE TERMS
AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS RESOLUTION
AND IN THE ATTACHED BILL OF SALE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez,
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
the resolution
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Agenda Item 62 was withdrawn.
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84. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE BUILDING PERMITS FOR
EXPANSION OF RUSTY PELICAN RESTAURANT.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, sir, take up Item 63. This is instruct-
ing the Manager to authorize the issuance of a building permit
for the expansion of the Rusty Pelican Restaurant. This was a
matter that was approved by the electorate of the City of Miami
two years ago and they are now moving on it. Is that correct?
Mr. Gary: That is correct, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: It has your recommendation, does it?
Mr. Gary: Wholeheartedly.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there a motion on this item?
Mr. Carollo: There is a motion.
Mayor Ferre: It has been moved by Commissioner Carollo. Is
there a second?
Mr. Carollo: Subject to compliance with all requirements.
Mayor Ferre: Subject to compliance with all requirements. Is
there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second. -
Mayor Ferre: Second by Perez. Further discussion? Call the
roll on 63.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Carollo, who moved its adoption:
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RESOLUTION NO. 83-932
A RESOLUTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
AUTHORIZE THE ISSUANCE OF A BUILDING PERMIT
FOR EXPANSION OF THE RUSTY PELICAN
RESTAURANT, A PROJECT ALREADY APPROVED BY
REFERENDUM AND LOCATED ON CITY PROPERTY ON
VIRGINIA KEY, PRIOR TO RECORDATION OF A FINAL
PLAT, SUBJECT TO COMPLIANCE WITH ALL OTHER
REQUIREMENTS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
85. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH GARCES
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, JAMES E. SCOTT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION,
INC.
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Mayor Ferre: Take up Agenda Item 64. This is authorizing the
Manager to execute an agreement with Garces Commercial College in
an amount not to exceed $48,000 and the James E. Scott Community
Action Inc. in an amount not to exceed $25,000 for the purpose of
providing professional training and services in the areas of
English for speakers of other languages and remedial education
for the City of Miami's Comprehensive Job Training Program
participants.
Mr. Plummer: This is a good program?
Mayor Ferre: Whose members of the City of Miami Commiss}on?
Mr. Gary: Yes.
Mr. Carollo: Moved.
Mayor Ferre: Moved by Carollo, seconded by Plummer. Further
discussion? Call the roll.
Mr. Perez: Before voting, I would like to ask the City Attorney,
I heard a few days ago that owner of Garces Commercial College
and the owner of Martin Technical College and I have a joint
venture in one of my schools out for the City, and I would like
to ask you - I don't receive any benefits from this contract, and
I don't have any association with Garces Commercial College, but
anyhow, I would like to point out and leave in the record that I
have a joint venture with Martin Technical College. Do you think
that creates any conflict of interest?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Commissioner, based on the fact that you
gave me, I don't think you have a conflict.
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OCT 251983
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Carollo, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-933
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, SUBJECT TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY'S APPROVAL AS TO FORM AND
CORRECTNESS, WITH GARCES COMMERCIAL COLLEGE,
INC. IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $48,000 AND
THE JAMES E. SCOTT COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION,
INC. IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $25,000, FOR
THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING PROFESSIONAL
TRAINING SERVICES IN THE AREAS OF ENGLISH FOR
SPEAKERS OF OTHER LANGUAGES (ESOL) AND
REMEDIAL EDUCATION FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI'S
COMPREHENSIVE JOB TRAINING PROGRAM
PARTICIPANTS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
86. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH MIAMI DESIGN
PLAZA MERCHANT'S ASSOCIATION (MDPMA) FOR PROMOTION OF ANNUAL
EVENT "MIAMI MARKET DAYS".
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Mayor Ferre: We are now on Item 66. Is that on your list,
Howard?
Mr. Gary: Yes. Mr. Mayor, this item is an agreement that we
worked out with the Merchant's Association, Miami Design Center.
We normally give them money every year for their Miami Market
Week. We thought it was important, and Charlotte has been
working with them diligently to assist them in providing an
infrastructure that will assist them in meeting the needs of that
area, and also to preclude the efforts on the part of Fort
Lauderdale to attract them up from Miami. An agreement we worked
out is to give them funds to assist them in hiring a Staff person
that will coordinate the activities of that area to not only
attract new businesses, but to maintain the current business and
to work toward improving that area, and we wholeheartedly
recommend this also.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a motion?
Mr. Dawkins: Move, it.
Mayor Ferre: Moved by Dawkins.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Perez. This is Item 66. Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Dawkins, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-934
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, SUBJECT TO THE CITY
ATTORNEY'S APPROVAL AS TO FORM AND
CORRECTNESS, WITH THE MIAMI DESIGN PLAZA
MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION (MDPMA), IN SUBSTANTIAL
ACCORDANCE WITH TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET
FORTH IN THE ATTACHED MEMORANDUM OF AUGUST 5,
L983 FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, FOR THE PURPOSES OF
MEETING ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES ASSOCIATED
WITH THE OPERATION OF THE MDPMA AND FOR
PROMOTING THE ANNUAL EVENT "MIAMI MARKET
DAYS' (FORMERLY KNOWN AS "MIAMI MARKET
WEEK"), WITH FUNDS THEREFOR ALLOCATED IN AN
AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $48,000 FROM THE
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT'S FISCAL
YEAR L982-83 GENERAL FUND ACCOUNT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Miller J. Dawkins
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Joe Carollo
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
Mayor Ferre: I might just point out for the record that the
protection of, and the fighting for the Miami Design Plaza
Merchant's Association and the things they are doing is probably
one of the more important things we have to do in the City.
Several of the businesses we have outside of the downtown area
and the banking community is the design district and the fashion
district, and both of them are under severe pressures to move out
of the City of Miami and move up to Dania and to other parts.
There are hundreds of millions of dollars of jobs and investments
involved, and we must do everything within our power to protect
these people and help them to not only survive, but to prosper.
87. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH
HAITIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF DADE COUNTY, INC
(H.A.C.A.D.) MANPOWER EMPLOYMENT SERVICES FOR HAITIAN
ENTRANTS.
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Mayor Ferre: We are now on Item Number 67.
Mr. Gary: This is authorizing the City Manager to execute an
agreement with H.A.C.A.D. for Entrant Impact Aid Program - State
grant money.
Mayor Ferre: You recommend this?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a motion?
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Mr. Perez: Moved.
Mayor Ferre: Moved by Perez.
Mr. Carollo: Question - of the $145,000, Howard, will they be
able to acquire that money through the City of Miami?
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Mr. Gary: I didn't hear the question.
Mr. Carollo: In other words, sir, we acquired that money ourselves directly
from the State, or are they acquiring it through us?
Mr. Gary: Prior to this year, the State used to give the money directly to
them. Now this year the State is saying, we want the money to come through
you for you to administer it to them.
Mayor Ferre: Those are Federal Funds.
Mr. Gary: Correct.
Mayor Ferre: In other words, it's Federal Funds going to the State, who then
come to the City, who then go to H.A.C.A.D.
Mr. Gary: Right, before it used to be Federal, State, directly H.A.C.A.D.
Now it is Federal, State, so we can monitor it on the local level.
Mr. Carollo: Fine.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion on 57? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Perez,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-935
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
AN AGREEMENT WITH THE HAITIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
OF DADE COUNTY, INC. (H.A.C.A.D.) AMENDING THE EXISTING
AGREEMENT DATED AUGUST 8, 1983, TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXTENSION
OF SAID EXISTING AGREEMENT FROM OCTOBER 1, 1983 THROUGH
JUNE 30, 1984 IN SUBSTANTIAL ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROPOSAL
FROM H.A.C.A.D. DATED AUGUST 22, 1983 FOR THE PURPOSE OF
CONDUCTING MANPOWER EMPLOYMENT SERVICES FOR HAITIAN ENTRANTS;
AND FURTHER ALLOCATING TO H.A.C.A.D. A SUM OF $145,000
AVAILABLE FROM A $675,380 STATE OF FLORIDA GRANT TO PROVIDE
FOR SAID AMENDMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
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68. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXERCISE RENEWAL PROVISION IN EXISTING
LEASE FOR OFFICE SPACE AT CULMER/OVERTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE
CENTER FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, OVER -
TOWN JOBS PROGRAM.
Mayor Ferre: We're now on 68.
Mr. Gary: This extends our lease with Dade County for the use of the Neighborhood
Service Center for our Overtown Jobs Program.
Mr. Carollo: Move.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Moved by Carollo; seconded by Perez. Further discussion? Call
the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Carollo,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-936
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXERCISE
THE RENEWAL PROVISION CONTAINED IN THE EXISTING LEASE
AGREEMENT WITH METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY FOR THE LEASE
OF OFFICE SPACE AT THE CULMER/OVERTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD
SERVICE CENTER, LOCATED AT 1600 N.W. 3RD AVENUE, FOR
USE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, OVERTOWN
JOBS PROGRAM; SAID RENEWAL BEING FOR A ONE YEAR PERIOD
EXPIRING MAY 31, 1984 FOR AN ANNUAL COST OF $7,327.63;
AND FURTHER PROVIDING FOR EXPENDITURE OF 9TH YEAR
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS FOR THE ABOVE
PURPOSE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
* Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
ON ROLL CALL:
* Mr. Dawkins: I would like to remind Mr. Gary that the County is charging us
for the use of the use of this space. We should remember that when the County
comes over here and need something.
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89. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND SECTION 1 OF RESOLUTION 83-717
FOR THE PURPOSE OF OVERHAULING AND UPGRADING THE UNINTERRUPTED
POWER SUPPLY EQUIPMENT OF THE NEW COMPUTER CENTER.
Mayor Ferre: We are now on item 70.
Mr. Gary: Item 70, Mr. Mayor, is an increase in the previously approved lease
by the City Commission for the moving of our computer center. We found out
that because we have to have uninterrupted power supply to make sure that the
computer is always running for emergency purposes, that we needed another
$6,000 per year. This merely increases the lease amount by $6,000 per year.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there a motion? The Manager recommends.
Mr. Perez: Move. What item?
Mr. Gary: 70.
Mayor Ferre: Perez moves. Is there a second?
Mr. Plummer: That's for moving over here?
Mr. Gary: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer seconds. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Perez,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-937
A RESOLUTION AMENDING SECTION I OF RESOLUTION NO. 83-717,
ADOPTED JULY 28, 1983, BY AMENDING THE LEASE AGREEMENT
BETWEEN THE COCONUT GROVE BANK AND THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR
THE FACILITY LOCATED AT 2850 TIGERTAIL AVENUE, BY INCREASING
THE ANNUAL LEASE AMOUNT FROM $240,000 TO $246,000 ANNUALLY,
AN INCREASE OF $6,000 ANNUALLY, NOT TO EXCEED FIVE YEARS,
FOR THE PURPOSE OF OVERHAULING AND UPGRADING THE UNINTER-
RUPTED POWER SUPPLY EQUIPMENT FACILITY; PAYMENT OF THE
HEREIN INCREASE TO BE MADE AS FOLLOWS: ONE (1) ADDITIONAL
$6,000 ANNUAL PAYMENT TO THE COCONUT GROVE BANK FOR THREE
(3) YEARS AND AN ADDITIONAL TWO (2) YEARS IF THE LEASE
RENEWAL OPTION IS EXERCISED, WITH FUNDS THEREFOR ALLOCATED
FROM BUDGETED FUNDS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTERS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayop J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Plummer: I think we need to keep this in mind when we start talking about
the new Police Bond issue, that this is freeing up almost a whole floor of the
Police Station.
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90. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO SOLICIT PROPOSAL FOR CONTRACT WITH
INDIVIDUALS, FIRMS, JOINT VENTURES, OR PARTNERSHIPS - PROVIDERS
OF GOODS AND SERVICES, PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING WITH THE CITY
OF MIAMI, 1973-83 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PRODUCTION OF A REPORT.
Mayor Ferre: We're now on item 71. The Manager recommends.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir, Mr. Mayor. We have to do this in order to support our
minority procurement ordinance.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Miller, do you want to move that?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, I'll move that.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins moves. Is there a second?
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-938
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SOLICIT
PROPOSALS FOR A CONTRACT WITH INDIVIDUALS, FIRMS,
JOINT VENTURES, OR PARTNERSHIPS TO PRODUCE A REPORT
DOCUMENTING THE EXTENT MINORITY (HISPANIC AND BLACK)
PROVIDERS OF GOODS AND SERVICES HAVE PARTICIPATED IN
PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING WITH THE CITY OF MIAMI
FOR THE YEARS 1973-1983.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
91. DISCUSSION ITEM - SENDING OF A TELEGRAM TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES REGARDING HIS INITIATIVE ACTION IN GRENADA.
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Mayor, if I may, before we take another item up, as I stated
previously, I have to leave by 5:30. Before I go I would like to quickly have
a resolution passed that would be sent in the form of a telegram to the President this afternoon.
Mayor Ferre: Go ahead.
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Mr. Carollo: I will read it into the record. (At this point Mr. Carollo reads
the telegram into the record. Text appears in the motion which follows.)
Mayor Ferre: Are you making this in the form of a motion? Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mr. Carollo: It's a motion to be sent as a telegram to the President.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion?
Mr. Dawkins: I have a problem with the wording, but I don't have a problem
with the intent.
Mayor Ferre: Are we ready to vote on it?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, I am.
Mayor Ferre: Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Carollo, who moved
its adoption.
MOTION 83-939
A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT THE
FOLLOWING TELEGRAM TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COMMISSION:
YOUR INTERVENTION TO PROTECT THE LIVES OF
AMERICANS IN GRENADA IS DRAMATIC PROOF THAT
AMERICA HAS DRAWN THE LINE ON COMMUNIST
EXPANSION INTO THIS HEMISPHERE. THERE SEEMS
TO BE NO DOUBT THAT THE SOVIETS, WITH CUBAN
HELP, WERE BUSY CONVERTING THE TINY COUNTRY
OF GRENADA INTO AN UNSINKABLE COMMUNIST AIRCRAFT
CARRIER WHEN OUR COURAGEOUS TROUPS ARRIVED.
YOUR FORTHRIGHT ACTION SERVES NOTICE ON FIDEL
CASTRO THAT UHILE HIS BRUTALITIES HAVE SURVIVED
SIX AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, THEY ARE IMPERILED BY THE
SEVENTH. THE CITIZENS OF MIAMI, THE CITY OF MIAMI
COMMISSION, AND FREEDOM -LOVING PEOPLE EVERYWHERE,
SEND YOU HEARTFELT CONGRATULATIONS.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez,
adopted by the following vote;
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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92. POSTPONING PLATTING OF VIRGINIA KEY TRACT "A" PENDING A PERFECTED
OPINION OF TITLE AND AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMIT FOR
CONSTRUCTION OF HORATIO'S RESTAURANT.
Mayor Ferre: We are now back to Virginia Key.
Mr. Gary: This is similar, Mr. Mayor, to the Rusty Pelican We don't have
the plat. We are trying to perfect the plat. We need to be able to move to
proceed forward to implement the projects in that area.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer, are you all set on this?
Mr. Plummer: As far as I am concerned, yes.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-940
A RESOLUTION POSTPONING THE PLATTING OF "VIRGINIA KEY
- TRACT A" PENDING A PERFECTED OPINION OF TITLE; AND
DIRECTING AND EMPOWERING THE CITY MANAGER TO AUTHORIZE
THE ISSUING OF A BUILDING PERMIT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION
OF HORATIO'S RESTAURANT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
93. GIVE FINAL APPROVAL OF THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION BYLAWS
FOR THE INDEPENDENT NON-PROFIT COMMUNITY ACCESS CABLE CORPORATION
KNOWN AS THE MIAMI CABLE ACCESS CORPORATION - (MCAC).
Mayor Ferre: The next important item is 76, Mr. Manager.
Mr. Plummer: That was my problem. It's been resolved. I move 76.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves 76. This deals with Miami Cable Access Corporation.
Clark, I made a commitment the other day to one of the groups who was interviewing
candidates. This is a Black group who wanted to make sure that there was sufficient
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Mayor Ferre (Con't): input by the Black community in the Miami Cable Access
Corporation. The question to you is, how many members are on the board?
Mr. Clark Merrill: There are five more appointments....
Mayor Ferre: That is not my question. My question to you is....
Mr. Merrill: There are seven on there now. It's an initial board right now.
Mayor Ferre: How many of the seven are Black or represent Black institutions
like Florida Memorial College, for example?
Mr. Merrill: One.
Mayor Ferre: Florida Memorial College?
Mr. Merrill: Florida Memorial College, yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Now, the five that we are going to appoint in addition to that
will bring it up to twelve?
Mr. Merrill: Yes, sir, and then there are some exofficio members that will
serve.
Mayor Ferre: Who are the other? There are seven now? Read to me the seven,
please.
Mr. Merrill: University of Miami, the school board....
Mayor Ferre: The Dade County School Board?
Mr. Merrill: Yes, Barry College, Biscayne College, University of Miami,
Florida Memorial Hospital and Miami Dade
Mayor Ferre: That's six.
Mr. Merrill: F.I.U.
Mayor Ferre: That's seven. All those institutions have either Black deans
in one department or another. They have Black vice-presidents, and Hispanic
vice-presidents, they have women and so on. So I would want for you to send
a message. I want it in writing. I would like for it to be formal from the
Commission that we expect to have a balanced Miami Cable Access Corporation
that will reflect the make up of this community including men and women,
Black and White, Hispanic and English speaking, O.K.?
Mr. Merrill: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Would you bring it, so that all members of this Commission can
sign the letter?
Mr. Merrill: Sure.
Mayor Ferre: Put it on my letterhead but have everybody's names on it, so
that they'll know that we are serious about this.
Mr. Merrill: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a motion on 76?
Mr. Plummer: That's with the understanding that the other five members are
going to be appointed by this Commission, one each Commissioner, I move it.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Carollo: •Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion on 76? Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-941
A RESOLUTION GIVING FINAL APPROVAL OF THE ARTICLES OF
INCORPORATION AND BY LAWS IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM
ATTACHED HERETO FOR THE INDEPENDENT NONPROFIT COTOfUNIT1
ACCESS CORPORATION KNOWN AS THE "MIAMI CABLE ACCESS
CORPORATION" ("MCAC") TO MANAGE AND ALLOCATE THE USE
OF NONMUNICIPAL PUBLIC ACCESS CHANNELS OF THE CABLE
TELEVISION SYSTEM; FURTHER APPROVING THE COMMUNITY
ACCESS AGREEMENT TO BE ENTERED INTO BETWEEN THE CITY
AND MCAC IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED HERETO.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
94. STRONGLY URGE FLORIDA STATE LEGISLATURE TO ADOPT LEGISLATION
CLASSIFYING THE OFFENSE OF KILLING A POLICE OFFICER A CAPITAL
FELONY.
Mr. Carollo: I move 77, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Carollo moves 77. Is there a second?
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer seconds. Further discussion? I though we had already
voted on this thing.
Mr. Carollo: No, we haven't.
Mayor Ferre: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Carollo,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-942
A RESOLUTION STRONGLY URGING THE FLORIDA STATE
LEGISLATURE TO ADOPT LEGISLATION CLASSIFYING THE
OFFENSE OF'KILLING A POLICE OFFICER AS A CAPITAL
FELONY REQUIRING UPON CONVICTION THEREOF THE
IMPOSITION OF PUNISHMENT BY DEATH.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
95. ALLOCATE $39,161 - 1981-83 F.R.S. FUNDS TO LITTLE HAVANA ACTIVITI
AND NUTRITION CENTERS OF DARE COUNTY AND ACTION COMLfUNITY CENTER,
INC.
Mayor Ferre: Take up 78.
Mr. Gary: This is the allocation of previously approved funding by the
City Commission.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mr. Gary: You approved to allocate the money. Now you are officially
ratifying.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Call the roll on —who moved it?
Mr. Plummer: I did.
Mayor Ferre: Perez seconds, further discussion? Call up 78. Hold on.
Joe is leaving, is there anything you need before he leaves, Howard?
Mr. Gary: No.
Mayor Ferre: Keep on calling the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-943
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $39,161 OF FISCAL YEAR 1982-83
FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING (F.R.S.) FUNDS PREVIOUSLY
APPROPRIATED BY ORDINANCE NO. 9684, ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 29,
1983, TO THE LITTLE HAVANA ACTIVITIES AND NUTRITION
CENTERS OF DADE COUNTY, INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $36,661
AND ACTION COMMUNITY CENTER, INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF
$2,500 FOR THE BALANCE OF FISCAL YEAR 1982-83 ENDING
SEPTEMBER 30, 1983 TO BE TAKEN FROM SOCIAL PROGRAMS,
SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, FURTHER AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND THE FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING
AGREEMENTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1982-83 WITH THESE AGENCIES
TO INCLUDE THE ALLOCATIONS STATED HEREIN.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Commissioner Carollo left the meeting at 5:30 P.M.
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96. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXPEND FUNDS NOT TO EXCEED $35,000
TO COVER COST OF METRO MIAMI ACTION PLAN CONFERENCE.
Mayor Ferre: The next item is 81.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Perez; further discussion?
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion.
Mayor Ferre: Go ahead. It has to do with Metro Action Plan Conference
held at the James L. Knight Center when we came up with $30,000
Mr. Dawkins: Did it cost $68,478 for the two days, Mr. Gary?
Mr. Gary: No, my cost is....
Mr. Dawkins: Why all the ... did we agree to split it half way, or did we
agree to assume most of it, or how did we come up with the... The total
cost, according to the tally sheet here is for the food, the rooms, and
everything is $34,239. That's the total cost for everything that happened
that day. Why did we pick up the total cost?
Mr. Plummer: We're not, we're coming up half.
Mr. Gary: No, we're picking up the total cost. The reason we are picking
up the total cost is because Dade County expended over $150,000. They
went out and they had meetings in the community. They got university
professors to pay them to do the research and to prepare the report.
They spent over $150,000 on it. This is our share of the whole program.
Mr. Dawkins: The only problem I have with that is that here again you
had an entity that spent money foolishly. All they had to do was to go
to Ernie Martin at the County, pull the same Model City records and come
up with all this that they spent this $100,000 for. Now, because they
spent $100,000, you want to make me spend $38,000.
Mr. Gary: No, this was brought up to the City Commission. The City
Commission approved this. This is merely a ratification which you already
approved.
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Mr. Dawkins: And you already spent.
Mr. Gary: That you gave me authority to spend.
Mavor Ferre: Who moves it?
Mr. Dawkins: I move it.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins moves it. Plummer seconds. Further discussion?
Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-944
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING A SUM NOT TO EXCEED $35,000
FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND,
TO COVER THE COST OF THE METRO-MIAMI ACTION PLAN
(NMAP) CONFERENCE HELD JULY 29-30, 1983 AT THE MIAMI
CONVENTION CENTER.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
97. AUTHORIZE INCREASE IN CONTRACT BETWEEN CITY OF MIAMI AND ACI-
CENTURY, INC. FOR CONSTRUCTION OF MMPD GARAGE FLOOR RESURFACING.
Mayor Ferre: The next item is 82.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins moves. Is there a second.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mr. Gary: Plummer seconds.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer seconds; further discussion?
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-945
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE IN CONTRACT AMOUNT
NOT TO EXCEED $9,900 FOR THE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY
OF MIAMI, FLORIDA AND ACI-CENTURY, INC., FOR THE
CONSTRUCTION OF MMPD GARAGE FLOOR RESURFACING, AND
ALSO AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE NOT TO EXCEED $38,000
IN THE INCIDENTAL EXPENSE FUND FOR THE SAME PROJECT,
SAID AMOUNTS TO BE PROVIDED FROM FUNDS ALLOCATED FOR
THE POLICE PARKING GARAGE FROM 1970 POLICE HEADQUARTERS
AND CRIME PREVENTION FACILITIES GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND
FUND BY ORDINANCE NO. 9534 DATED DECEMBER 9, 1982.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
98. RATIFY, APPROVE, AND CONFIRM CITY MANAGER'S ACCEPTANCE OF A GRANT
FROM STATE OF FLORIDA DEPT. OF VETERAN AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS TO
CONDUCT A CHILD DAY CARE PROGRAM.
Mayor Ferre: The next item is 85.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, this is authorizing me to accept the grants, $16,000,
which is the annual contribution from the State to the Day Care.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mr. Plummer: We always take the money.
Mayor Ferre: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-946
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE
CITY MANAGER'S ACCEPTANCE OF A GRANT FROM THE STATE OF
FLORIDA, DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS,
IN THE AMOUNT OF $16,000 TO CONDUCT A CHILD DAY CARE
PROGRAM; AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE THE NECESSARY CONTRACT(S) AND AGREEMENT(S) TO
IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE CITY CODE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
99. RATIFY AND CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER IN APPROVING EMERGENCY
PURCHASE OF TEN PEDESTAL DRINKING FOUNTAINS FOR DEPARTMENT OF PARKS.
Mayor Ferre: We have a new 86, which is ratifying, confirming the action
of the City Manager in approving the emergency purchase of ten pedestal
drinking fountains from Peninsular Supply for the Department of Parks.
Mr. Gary: This had to be accomplished so that we wouldn't lose the grant
funds, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a motion?
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins moves. Perez seconds. Further discussion on item 86.
Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-947
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING AND CONFIRMING THE ACTION OF
THE CITY MANAGER BY AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE OF NOT LESS
THAN 4/5THS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION IN
APPROVING THE PURCHASE OF 10 PEDESTAL DRINKING
FOUNTAINS FROM PENINSULAR SUPPLY COMPANY FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AT A TOTAL COST OF $5,577.50;
USING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1972 PARKS AND
RECREATIONAL FACILITIES GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND
FUND AND THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
URBAN PARK AND RECREATION RECOVERY FUND.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller-J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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100. AUTHORIZE THE CITY COMvMISSION TO RATIFY ACTION OF CITY MANAGER
APPROVING A LOAN PAYABLE TO THE COCONUT GROVE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATION.
Mr. Dawkins: Move 87.
Mayor Ferre: Take up 87.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: It's been moved by Commissioner Dawkins. Is there further
discussion? Who seconds it?
Mr. Gary: Plummer.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer seconds. Further discussion?
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-948
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING THE AMOUNT OF $3,117.29 FROM
THE SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNT CONTINGENT FUND TO
THE COCONUT GROVE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (CGLDC)
TO SATISFY THE FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS OF CGLDC WITH
REIMBURSEMENT TO THE CITY OF MIAMI ON OR BEFORE
JANUARY 1, 1984.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
101. AUTHORIZE PURCHASE OF 10,000 TONS OF ASPHALTIC CONCRETE.
Mayor Ferre: We're now on item 95, authorizing the purchase of approximately
10,000 tons of asphaltic concrete from Brewer Company of Florida, General
Asphalt and Pan American Construction. Is there a motion?
Mr. Dawkins: Question before the motion, before we do anything. What
does total proposed cost mean?
Mr. Gary: Total proposed cost is that we may not utilize all of this.
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Mr. Dawkins: And it may cost more.
Mr. r ary: No.
Mr. Dawkins: It does not say here "up to."
Mayor Ferre: Let the record reflect that in this resolution, the number of
226,000 means up to that amount. Further discussion on this issue. Who moves
it?
Mr. Dawkins: I move it if that is the total.
Mayor Ferre: Moved with that clarification by Dawkins. Seconded by Perez.
Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-949
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF APPROXIMATELY
10,000 TONS OF ASPHALTIC CONCRETE ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS
FROM BREWER COMPANY OF FLORIDA, GENERAL ASPHALT COMPANY,
INC. AND PAN AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY UNDER A METRO-
POLITAN DADE COUNTY MULTIPLE AWARD CONTRACT FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF
$226,000.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE OPERATING
BUDGET OF THAT DEPARTMENT AND THE GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND
FUND; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING
AGENT TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THESE MATERIALS, SUBJECT
TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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102. AUTHORIZE PURCHASE OF 113 SIDE CHAIRS FROM THONET, INC. FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION.
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Mayor Ferre: There was a question, Nestor, you had on 96. Where is Nestor?
Authorizing the purchase of 113 side chairs from Thonet. Does anyone have
a problem with this? Is there a motion on 96?
Mr. Plummer: Move.to defer.
Mayor Ferre: Why?
Mr. Plummer: You said you had a problem.
Mayor Ferre: No problem. Moved by Dawkins, second by Plummer. Further
discussion on 96. Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-950
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF 113 SIDE
CHAIRS FROM THONET, INC. UNDER AN EXISTING STATE OF
FLORIDA CONTRACT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE
AND INSPECTION SERVICES AT A TOTAL COST OF $11,189.50;
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1981 FIREFIGHTING,
FIRE PREVENTION, AND RESCUE FACILITIES BOND FUND;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING
AGENT TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THIS EQUIPMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
103. ACCEPT BID - DEMOLITION OF TWO APARTMENT BUILDINGS.
Mayor Ferre: Take up 97.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves. Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call
the roll on 97.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-951
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF TREE MASTERS, INC.
FOR FURNISHING ALL LABOR AND MATERIALS FOR THE DEMO-
LITION OF TWO (2) APARTMENT BUILDINGS TO THE DEPARTMENT
OF FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AT A TOTAL COST
OF $26,000.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE FIFTH
YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE A
PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS SERVICE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
104. ACCEPT BID - 2 THREE -WHEELED TRUCKSTERS AND SPARE PARTS FOR FIRE
RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES.
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Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves 98. Dawkins seconds. Further discussion?
Mr. Plummer: Wait, wait, 98, what is that going to be used for?
Mayor Ferre: Three -wheeled trucks.
Mr. Gary: That's at the Orange Bowl.
Mr. Plummer: Why are we buying them, when the last ones were given by Joe
Robbie.
Mayor Ferre: Because he ain't giving too much these days.
Mr. Plummer: I just want to get it on the record, because that stuff has all
over through the great generosity of Joe Robbie and Miami Dolphins, save the
Miami people.
Mayor Ferre: Low blow, low blow, three in a row.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Plummer, you're out.
Mr. Plummer: Where's Suarez? Where's Mayor "X"?
Mayor Ferre: We don't want anybody X-rated around here.
Mr. Plummer: Would you buy a used -cart from this Mayor?
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Braman appreciates your sense of humor.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, in all honesty, what's wrong with the old carts?
Mr. Gary: They are not functional.
Mr. Plummer: Those are the two that were given to us free, right, by Mr. Robbie?
Mr. Gary: That's why they don't work. We have a liability here.
Mr. Plummer: Is he trading those for Don Shula?
Mayor Ferre: Put the money into your opponent's campaign.
Mr. Plummer: He's been doing that for a long time.
Mr. Dawkins: No, he's trading those for an apartment for Robbie, so that he
can give it to Shula to keep him from moving.
Mr. Plummer: The Robert King High towers.
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Mayor Ferre: Are we ready to vote on this?
Mr. Gary: Move it, let's go.
Mr. Plummer: The Joe Robbie's heartmobiles, I move.
Mayor Ferre: You don't have a campaign to run, but some of us do.
Mr. Plummer: As long as he's the first customer.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves 98. Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call
the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-952
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE, BID OF CUSHMAN JEEP OF FT.
LAUDERDALE, INC. FOR FURNISHING TWO (2) THREE -WHEELED
TRUCKSTERS AND ASSORTED SPARE PARTS AT A TOTAL COST
OF $11,169.50; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE
1983 TELEPHONE FRANCHISE FUND; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE A
PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT, SUBJECT TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
105. ACCEPT BID - MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS.
Mayor Ferre: Take up 99. Plummer moves. Dawkins seconds. Right?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-953
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF CEDARS MEDICAL CENTER
FOR FURNISHING MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS OF FIREFIGHTERS ON
A CONTRACT BASIS FOR THREE (3) YEARS TO THE DEPARTMENT
OF FIRE RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AT A TOTAL PROPOSED
FIRST YEAR COST OF $102,357.60; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR
FROM THE 1983-84 OPERATING BUDGET OF THAT DEPARTMENT FOR
THE FIRST YEAR; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT
THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THIS
SERVICE, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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106. ACCEPT BID - OFFICE SUPPLIES CITY WIDE.
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Mayor Ferre: Take up 100, office supplies.
Mr. Plummer: What company? My agenda doesn't ... does your agenda show what
company it is?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, all of them are minorities. ,
Mr. Plummer: Mine doesn't. I didn't know that was a name of a company.
My agenda doesn't say what company.
Mr. Gary: Yes, it does. Look at your back-up sheet.
Mr. Plummer: I don't look at that.
Mr. Gary: It's a number of companies, Commissioner.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: All white companies, Plummer. That's why you don't see
anything there. They're all white.
Mayor Ferre: Wait a moment, another low blow.
Mr. Plummer: You just won the "Grouch Pills of the Day" award. Would you
read into the record the name of the company?
Mr. Gary: There's a lot of them. You have Ace Office Supply, A & C,
Alperstein, Barnett's, Commercial, Gator Tape, I.B.M., Kemron, Professional
Business, Sutex, Type 'N Copy Supplies. That's a lot of them here, Ace,
Alperstein, Executive Supplies. There you go.
Mr. Plummer: I move item 100.
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Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Dawkins: I moved it.
Mr. Plummer: I'll second it.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Mr. Manager, out of the $220,000, how much of it
are really minority companies? I see Black, American, Hispanic. I see six, number
of mailed, but the responses that I see is only one Black -American, Hispanic. I see six
Hispanic -Americans, right? On the new bidder's list. On the old list there
was zero Blacks and three Hispanics.
Mr. Gary: Well, we have one, two, three, four, five, six Hispanics,
no Blacks.
Mayor Ferre: There was only one Black -American new bidder. He didn't get
any?
Mr. Gary: No, we mailed it to him, but he didn't get respond.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, he did. He responded with new bidders. One Black
responded. Now what you are telling me, just so that we get the record
straight....
Mr. Gary: You are correct.
Mayor Ferre: ....is that out of all these bids, 220,000 none of them are going
to Black suppliers.
Mr. Gary: That is correct.
Mayor Ferre: We have five Hispanics, no Blacks.
Mr. Gary: Correct.
Mayor Ferre: How many Black suppliers are there in town? Has anybody checked
that out?
Mr. Gary: I think there are about two or three.
Mayor Ferre: Yet only one of them responded.
Mr. Gary: Right.
Mayor Ferre: I would like to have, Mr. Manager, you assign this to somebody
properly sensitized to the problem, to go and talk to the three Black supply
companies and return. It can be a verbal response, but I would like for you
in the future to come back and respond to the Commission as to why the Black
companies that are in town did not even take out a bid. I'm sure they want
the business.
Mr. Dawkins: I'm sure, because there's a new —the gentleman who used to
be with Ryder. What's his name?
Mr. Gary: Gillford.
Mr. Dawkins: Gillford. We'll work on that. That's why I didn't argue.
Mayor Ferre: I don't know about you, but I want a report back. It doesn't
have to be in writing. You can give it to me verbally, or any way you want.
Call the roll on 100.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-954
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BIDS OF SEVERAL SUPPLIERS, AS
INDENTIFIED ON THE ATTACHED TABULATION OF BIDS, FOR
FURNISHING SPECIFIED AND BALANCE OF LINE OFFICE SUPPLIES,
AS NEEDED, ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, PURCHASING DIVISION - CENTRAL
STORES AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $220,000.00;
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE 1983-84 INTERNAL
SERVICE FUND - CENTRAL STORES; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE
PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THESE MATERIALS, SUBJECT TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
107. ACCEPT BID - AUTO AND TRUCK BATTERIES CITY WIDE.
Mayor Ferre: Take up 101.
Mr. Plummer: What's the name of the company? $58,000 worth of batteries,
I should know who's getting it.
Mr. Gary: Chloride Batteries for 80 batteries; Douglas Battery Manufacturing
Co., 250 batteries; Electro-Services, 36 batteries; Hi -Volt; Interstate
Batteries.
Mr. Plummer: I move 101.
Mayor Ferre: Again I would like to point out that there were 3 Hispanic
bidders, no Blacks.
Mr. Gary: You need to be careful. You're right.
Mayor Ferre: It's the responses I'm worried about. The problem is that there
are four Black companies that sell batteries. The point is that none of them
bidded. That's what worries me. If there were no Black companies, then
there are no Black companies, you know. That's another problem. But the
fact that there are four Black companies itself; for some odd reason none
of them bothered to bid it.
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Mr. Dawkins: But that doesn't worry you, Mr. Mayor, half as much as it worries
me in that according to the Charter the Manager is allowed to award $5,000 bids
to individuals, so some of these damn batteries should have gone, like you said,
to some of these firms.
Mayor Ferre: What it is going to require, Mr. Manager, is someone who is
sensitive to the problem to call and see that these people bid these things.
Mr. Gary: It requires my sitting with the City Attorney and developing the
legal strategy of what you are trying to do; and we plan to do that.
Mayor Ferre: You see, you know, I don't believe this old thing you can lead
a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. That ain't true. You can
make a horse drink. Have we voted on 101? Who moved that?
Mr. Ralph Ongie: Mr. Plummer moved it; we don't have a second.
Mayor Ferre: We don't have a second.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins seconds; call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-955
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BIDS OF CHLORIDE BATTERIES
AT A PROPOSED COST OF $2,032.52, DOUGLAS BATTERY
MANUFACTURING CO. AT A PROPOSED COST OF $9,358.00,
ELECTRO-SERVICES, INC. AT A PROPOSED COST OF $581.04,
HI -VOLT CONTRACT SALES, INC. AT A PROPOSED COST OF
$41,342.09, AND INTERSTATE BATTERIES AT A PROPOSED
COST OF $5,385.80 FOR FURNISHING AUTO AND TRUCK
BATTERIES ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE (1) YEAR TO
VARIOUS CITY DEPARTMENTS AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST
OF $58,699.45; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE
1983-84 OPERATING BUDGETS OF THE USING DEPARTMENTS;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING
AGENT TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THIS EQUIPMENT,
SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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108. ACCEPT BID - LEASING OF 60 GOLF CARTS.
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Mayor Ferre: Take up 102.
Mr. Plummer: Why are we buying the carts or leasing the carts when a private
company is going to get the profit? Why not let a private company go in there
and do it? Then we don't have the responsibility of it.
Mr. Gary: That may not be true. We manage those carts now. We run the carts.
We took over that business. We're getting the money now.
Mr. Plummer: We're in the cart business?
Mr. Gary: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, O.K.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves; Dawkins seconds 102. Further discussion?
Mr. Gary: It took me two years to have you allow me to do that.
Mayor Ferre: Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-956
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF E-Z-GO, DIVISION
OF TEXTRON FOR FURNISHING SIXTY (60) ELECTRIC GOLF
CARTS ON A LEASE BASIS FOR FORTY-EIGHT (48) MONTHS
TO THE DEPARTMENT OF RECREATION AT A TOTAL PROPOSED
FIRST YEAR COST OF $46,800.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE PRIOR YEAR RESERVE FUND FOR THE
FIRST YEAR; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT
THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR
THIS EQUIPMENT LEASE, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY
OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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Mayor Ferre: Take up 103.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves; Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call the
roll on 103.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-957
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF DESK CONCEPTS, INC.
FOR FURNISHING 220 ITEMS OF OFFICE FURNISHINGS TO THE
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTERS AT A TOTAL COST OF $29,361.80
ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE PRIOR YEAR RESERVE
FUND; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE
PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS
EQUIPMENT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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110. ACCEPT BID - ARMED SECURITY GUARD SERVICES AT THE MANUEL ARTIME
COMMUNITY CENTER.
Mayor Ferre: Take up 104.
Mr. Plummer: I want to tell you something on 104.
Mayor Ferre: Tell me something.
Mr. Plummer: Carollo and I were over the other night at one of these senior
citizens centers. They make a good point, and I think it is a point this
Commission has to take under consideration. If we going to provide security
at any one of these senior citizens centers, we have to be fair and provide
it to all. I personally don't think that it is the responsibility of this
Commission to provide security for housing when H.U.D. has that responsibility.
I think it is their responsibility to provide their own security service.
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Mr. Gary: This has nothing to do with the housing. This is for the center
at the Community Center.
Mr. Plummer: Why do we have a security service and an armed guard at a....
Mayor Ferre: Have you ever been there when things get hot, when your friend,
Garcia Rodriguez Quesada starts screaming?
Mr. Gary: This came up as a result of the refugees, and if I recall, you made
the motion that we get some security over there....
Mr. Plummer: Let's get three of them.
Mr. Gary: We started out with police. It was very expensive. You directed us
to come up with a cheaper service. As a matter of fact, this is your program.
Mayor Ferre: That's right.
Mr. Gary: That's correct.
Mr. Dawkins; All I have to say is I agree with J.L. If you all have one there,
I'm going to get some for all the other places and get me some security. That's
all I'm saying. If this Commission, like Mr. Plummer says, is going to provide
security at community buildings in the community, then we are going to provide
it for the total community, even for Grace Rockefeller, if she wants some at
the Legion Hall.
Mr. Plummer: The hookers don't need it.
Mr. Gary: See, this is the only community center that the City owns and
operates.
Mr. Dawkins: The only one?
Mr. Gary: The only one.
Mr. Dawkins: You are telling me this is the only community center, but we
also have parks that have centers in them where they have meetings at night.
All I'm saying to you, Mr. Gary, is I'm going to do no more there than I'm
going to do in the rest of the City. If you are telling me that this is
needed there, I'm telling you it is needed in the rest, even across the
street from me in Hadley Park.
Mr. Gary: If we have special meetings in....
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no, no, no, there ain't going to be 'if we have a
special meeting.' The place is going to be made secure in the event that
someone wants to have something. They are not going to have to come here
and tell me, "Commissioner Dawkins, we want to have something Wednesday
night; therefore, we want a guard." The guard is going to be there
Saturday through Sunday, then if they want to have something, it is
available, or you have it no place.
Mr. Gary: Let me, if I may.A community center provides different services than
parks. It is almost a 24-hour type of activity. You have people coming in
and out. You have Caleb Center. You have the Manuel Artime Center. You
have the Overtown Center. All of these other centers are run by Dade County.
They provide security.
Mr. Dawkins: Do you have a place called Tacolcy Center run by the City of
Miami?
Mr. Gary: No, we don't.
Mr. Dawkins: Anyway, I'd like... it may need a little security.
Mr. Gary: But that's not our center.
Mr. Dawkins: Whose center is it? It is.
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Mr. Plummer: But you know, you want to fight me about even having a P.S.A.
in City Hall. You have millions of dollars worth of security at the Police
Department, where they have a thousand policemen running around. But one
policeman in City Hall and you want to fight me on it.
Mr. Gary: They are valuable.
Mr. Plummer: You will pay for that.
Mr. Dawkins: All I'm saying is that if we are going to do it here, we're going
to do it everyplace.
Mr. Plummer: That's right.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a motion?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes sir.
Mr. Plummer: I make a motion to defer and let Mr. Gary think about it.
Mayor Ferre: No, don't defer it, J.L. You know this is an item of importance.
This is your baby.
Mr. Perez: I move the motion subject to paying equal attention to other areas
of the City under the consideration of the City Administration.
Mayor Ferre: Those people out there... there are a lot of old folks there.
They are walking in and out. I don't mind you doing it somewhere else, but
for goodness sakes, don't hold up this thing for something else. I mean
do this and then do the other one. So we have a motion by Perez. Is there
a second? Plummer seconds. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Perez,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-958
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF POWER FEDERAL DETECTIVE
BUREAU FOR FURNISHING ARMED SECURITY GUARD SERVICES AT THE
MANUEL ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER ON A CONTRACT BASIS FOR
ONE (1) YEAR TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
AT A TOTAL PROPOSED COST OF $31,277.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE 1983-84 OPERATING BUDGET OF THAT
DEPARTMENT; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT
THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THIS
SERVICE, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk) .
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
* Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
ON ROLL CALL:
* Mr. Dawkins: Yes, with the stipulation that we are going to provide it
anyplace else that it is needed.
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Mayor Ferre: Take up 106.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins moves 106.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Perez seconds 106. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-960
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF LANZO CONSTRUCTION
COMPANY IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $715,508, BID "C"
OF THE PROPOSAL PLUS ADDITIVE BID "C", FOR KINLOCH
SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT (2ND BIDDING) IN KINLOCH
SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT SR-5485-C&S
(CENTERLINE AND SIDELINE SEWERS); WITH MONIES THEREFOR
ALLOCATED FROM THE "KINLOCH SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT"
ACCOUNT IN THE AMOUNT OF $715,508 TO COVER THE CONTRACT
COST; ALLOCATING FROM SAID FUND THE AMOUNT OF $93,016
TO COVER THE COST OF PROJECT ENT ENSE; ALLOCATING FROM
SAID FUND THE AMOUNT OF $14,311 TO COVER THE COST OF
SUCH ITEMS AS ADVERTISING, TESTING LABORATORIES, AND
POSTAGE; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
A CONTRACT WITH SAID FIRM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
113. CONSENT AGENDA.
Mayor Ferre: Take up item 115, which is the Consent Agenda. Are there
any items in the Consent Agenda which any member of the public wishes to
speak to, or is there any item that a member of the Commission wishes to
remove from the Consent Agenda?
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AT THIS POINT THE CONSENT AGENDA IS MOMENTARILY DEFEM LD.
Mr. Dawkins: While we are doing that I'd like for Mr. Mitchell to come up
to the mike. I'd like to inform you that a few minutes ago before you came
up in here, this Commission passed a street improvement for the Manor Park
area. When I asked the Manager if the residents had to pay, he said yes.
This is the same thing we have been going through in our neighborhood. The
Manager explained to me that he could explain to me why you had to pay.
So I would like for the residents to demand that the Manager come out and
explain to you why have to pay. Because he said he was going to explain
it to me. He doesn't have to explain it to me. You vote for me. You know
what I'm catching hell about, you and the residents. You have him come
out and explain it to the residents why they have to pay.
Unidentified Speaker: Which item on the agenda was that?
Mr. Dawkins: What item was that on Manor Park?
Mr. Gary: 25.
Mr. Dawkins: Item 25.
Unidentified Speaker: I will get in contact with the responsible parties
who are involved in this matter.
Mr. Dawkins: Have them contact the City Manager.
Unidentified Speaker: They'll contact the City Manager.
Mayor Ferre: If you get angry, I want you to make sure you get angry at
Miller Dawkins and none of us. He's to blame. He's the only one.
Unidentified Speaker: No, we're old friends.
Mr. Plummer: Miller, look at 120.
Mayor Ferre: Manor Highway, oh!
Mr. Dawkins: See, here is another one. Have him explain that one to you
too, O.K.? When he comes out have him explain 25 and 120.
AT THIS POINT THE CONSENT AGENDA IS RESUMED.
Mayor Ferre: Are there any other items? Are there any members of the public
who wish to discuss any items between 115 and 123?
Mr. Plummer: Pull 120.
Mayor Ferre: Pull 120.
Mr. Gary: Hey! You're going to hurt the neighborhood. You're not going
to hurt me. The bids won't go out. The bids are going to expire on this.
Mr. Plummer: I didn't say we weren't going to pass it. We're just going
to discuss it.
Mayor Ferre: I'm sorry, 115 to 121. Item 120 has been pulled. Anything
else? Is there a motion on the consent agenda other than 120?
Mr. Plummer: So move.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Seconded by Perez. Further discussion? Call the roll.
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THEREUPON, the following resolutions were introduced by Commissioner
Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Perez and were adopted by the
following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
113.1 ORDERING CITY-WIDE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT.
RESOLUTION NO. 83-961
A RESOLUTION ORDERING CITY-WIDE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT
- S.W. 16 STREET SR-5499-C DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY AGAINST
WHICH SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS SHALL BE MADE FOR A PORTION OF
THE COST THEREOF AS CITY-WIDE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT
-S.W. 16 STREET SR-5499-C (CENTERLINE SEWER).
113.2 ORDERING S.W. 16 STREET HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT
RESOLUTION NO. 83-962
A RESOLUTION ORDERING S.W. 16 STREET HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT
H-4488, AND DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY AGAINST WHICH SPECIAL
ASSESSMENTS SHALL BE MADE FOR A PORTION OF THE COST
THEREOF AS S.W. 16 STREET HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT,
H-4488.
113.3 ORDERING OVERTOWN HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT -PHASE I
RESOLUTION NO. 83-963
A RESOLUTION ORDERING OVERTOWN HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT -
PHASE I, H-4492 AND DESIGNATING THE PROPERTY AGAINST
WHICH SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS SHALL BE MADE FOR A PORTION
OF THE COST THEREOF AS OVERTOWN HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT -PHASE I, H-4492.
113.4 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR KOUBEK SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT
RESOLUTION NO. 83-964
A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH A NOTICE
OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR OBJECTIONS TO THE ACCEPTANCE BY THE
CITY COMMISSION OF THE COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION BY LANZO
CONSTRUCTION CO. OF KOUBEK SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT IN
KOUBEK SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT SR-5477 C & S
(CENTERLINE AND SIDELINE SEWERS).
113.5 DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES.
RESOLUTION NO. 83-965
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PROPER OFFICIALS OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI TO ACCEPT FIFTEEN (15) DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR
HIGHWAY PURPOSES AND APPROVING THE RECORDING OF SAID DEEDS
IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA.
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113.6 BID ACCEPTANCE: RUSSELL, INC FOR CITY WIDE PAVING
RESOLUTION NO. 83-966
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF RUSSELL, INC. IN THE
PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $57,839, TOTAL BID OF THE PROPOSAL
FOR CITY WIDE PAVING PROJECT - S.W. 27 AVENUE AND N.W.
NORTH RIVER DRIVE; WITH MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM
THE "CITY-WIDE PAVING IMPROVEMENTS" ACCOUNT IN THE
AMOUNT OF $57,839 TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST; ALLOCATING
FROM SAID FUND THE AMOUNT OF $7,519 TO COVER THE COST
OF PROJECT EXPENSE; ALLOCATING FROM SAID FUND THE
AMOUNT OF $1,162 TO COVER THE COST OF SUCH ITEMS AS
ADVERTISING, TESTING LABORATORIES, AND POSTAGE; AND
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT
WITH SAID FIRM.
114. ACCEPT BID MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE III H-4484.
Mayor Ferre: For 120, Mr. Plummer, the Chair recognizes you.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Gary, would you explain to Mr. Mitchell what you are doing
to him?
Mr. Gary: Cather, why don't you give him the price scheme on that.
Mr. Dawkins: Your name ain't Mr. Gary, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, go right ahead.
Mr. Gary: I'll have Mr. Cather discuss the assessment.
Mr. Dawkins: All right.
Mr. Plummer: I didn't ask for Mr. Cather.
Unidentified Speaker: Pardon me, may I say something, please?
Mayor Ferre: Come on!
Mr. Dawkins: Your name and address.
Mr. Willy Mitchell: Yes, Willy Mitchell, from City of Miami, 1090 N.W.
49 Street. I see we decided on number 120, the Manor Highway Improvement,
Phase III, N.W. 46th through 49th street. Now 49th Street has already
been completed.
Mr. Dawkins: 7th to 12th Avenue.
Mr. Mitchell: Also 7th through 12th Avenue; but 49th Street has been completed.
I live on 49th Street, so this has to be an error.
Mr. Donald Cather: I'd have to have the set of plans to show exactly, but
this is to improve it from 46th to 49th Street, from 7th to 12th Avenue.
Mr. Plummer: The man says he lives there.
Mr. Gary: Does he live between 7th and 12th Avenue, though?
Mr. Plummer: Do you live between 7th and 12th Avenue?
Mr. Mitchell: My address is 1090 N.W. 49th Street. The corner of N.W. llth
Avenue and 49th.
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Mr. Dawkins: I live on 14th and 50th.
Mr. Cather: This is on 48th Street and....
Mayor Ferre: I live at 2501 Brickell Avenue.
Mr. Cather: This improvement is from 7th Avenue to 12th Avenue and covers
all of 48th Street, 47th Terrace, 47th Street. It includes portions of
11th Avenue from 49th Street South and from 46th Street north and those
other blocks on loth Avenue and on 9th Avenue. It does not cover 49th Street.
That's the northern boundary.
Mr. Gary: He said it covers the southern boundary of 49th. The northern
boundary is already done.
Mr. Cather: It does not cover 46th Street or 49th Street. Those are the
two north and south boundaries.
Mayor Ferre: Do you want to put this off, or what?
Mr. Cather: I'll be happy to show him this map here.
Mr. Gary: Don't put it off. You got the bid and you have to accept it
or it will run out.
Mr. Dawkins: You see, we don't need to see anything speaking of the taxpayer.
I don't need to see anything. But I just need to see that I'm tired of you
guys taking the CD Funds and getting done what you have to do and residents
like him and me everytime you get to my street, I have to pay. I mean and
every time I come up and ask you about it, I'm told there is no more CD
Funds, but yet and still, if there are no more CD Funds, I mean let's do
something. Let's get some relief here of some kind of a way. Let's do
something.
Mr. Cather: Do you understand, Commissioner, that you are only paying
a portion of the cost....
Mr. Dawkins: I don't give a damn if I want paying but a fraction of the cost.
I mean I'm tired of paying that when others are paying nothing. I mean, you
know, this is what gets to me. See, the more I try to tell you what the
people in the neighborhood do not want, the more you try to rationalize
and justify it as right.
Mr. Gary: Well, let's correct the record. About two years or two and a
half years ago, this City Commission held a public hearing. They made a
policy that CD Funds would no longer be utilized for street improvement.
That the money would be used for other capital needs in those target
areas. This City Commission adopted that policy. A public hearing was
held and people were invited to come down and hear that policy. The people
from those target areas agreed to it.
Mr. Dawkins: And the same people that did not want you to cut out the
citizens advisory board, you went right out and cut them out and these
people that could advise you were eliminated. It's just a rigamarole
where you come around and —what can I say? ... evade the people who make
the decisions. You're right! You're right! If it is made and it is
decided, and then the minute you get what you want, then you come back
and circumvent the people. Now, if you think I'm lying, ask Mr. Mitchell.
He lives out there. I'm not the only one. How do you feel about it, Mr.
Mitchell? Let me hear your personal views on it, sir.
Mr. Mitchell: Yes, I was hurt as anyone else who had to pay the fee, because
it was just quite a predicament to be in such a situation at a time like
this economic turmoil that we're in with this economy where you have to
all of a sudden had to pay money to have your street improvements done,
Other people use the CD Funds were used for neighborhoods who already
had street improvements and didn't have to pay a dime for it. So, it
was quite irelevant at the time that this was extra money out of your
pocket.
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Mr.JDawkins:
What about the advisory boards? How
do you feel about they
took away the....?
Mr. Mitchell:
Also for the advisory boards also.
They should have stayed
that way because it was more or less a direct line
to a representative who
had a voice in the City government.
Mr. Dawkins:
I rest my case.
Mr. Plummer:
What do you want to do with it?
Mr. Mitchell:
Thnk you.
Mr. Plummer:
Is there a motion to be made? Do we
have a Mayor?
Mayor Ferre:
I'm here. What is it that we need to do?
Mr. Plummer:
We need to pass 12O.
Mayor Ferre:
Is there a motion on 120?
Mr. Plummer:
Move it.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre:
Is there a second?
Mr. Plummer:
Yes, Demetrio.
Mayor Ferre:
Call the roll.
The following
resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its
adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-969
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF ROB -EL CONSTRUCTION
CORPORATION IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $945,565.50,
TOTAL BID OF THE PROPOSAL, FOR MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT -
PHASE III IN MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT H-4484;
WITH MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE "MANOR STREET
IMPROVEMENTS - PHASE III" ACCOUNT IN THE AMOUNT OF
$945,565.50 TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST; ALLOCATING
FROM SAID FUND THE AMOUNT OF $122,923.50 TO COVER THE
COST OF PROJECT EXPENSE; ALLOCATING FROM SAID FUND THE
AMOUNT OF $18,911.00 TO COVER THE COST OF SUCH ITEMS
AS ADVERTISING, TESTING LABORATORIES, AND POSTAGE;
AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT
WITH SAID FIRM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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115. FORMALIZING RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $40,000 TO SUNSTREET FESTIVAL 1983.
Mayor Ferre: The next item before us is item 122, Mr. Manager.
Mr. Gary: This is basically a formalization of a previously approved motion
by the City Commission for the Sunstreet Festival.
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Call the roll on 122. It's been moved by Plummer and seconded
by Dawkins. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-970
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING THE AMOUNT OF $25,000 FROM
SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND, IN
SUPPORT OF THE "SUNSTREET FESTIVAL 1983" AND AUTHO-
RIZING AND APPROVING THE AMOUNT OF $15,000 IN IN -KIND
SERVICES FOR MAINTENANCE AND POLICE SERVICES FOR SUCH
EVENT TO BE HELD ON DECEMBER 1-4, 1983.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
116. FORMALIZING RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $10,000 TO HISPANIC HERITAGE
FESTIVAL COMMITTEE IN CONNECTION WITH SAID FESTIVAL TO BE HELD
ON OCTOBER 6TH TO THE 16TH.
Mr. Gary: The same thing on 123.
Mayor Ferre: We are now on item 123.
Mr. Perez: Move.
Mr. Plummer: Wait, wait, wait! I want to know why we are giving one
outfit twice on the same agenda. We gave the Hispanic Heritage on item
21-a $20,000. Now here we are giving them $10,000.
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Mr. Gary: One of them is a festival. One is the Song Festival. The one
is a general festival that the Hispanics had. The second is the....
Mr. Plummer: The general festival was not held in the City of Miami. No, sir.
Mr. Gary: All I can say is that they came before the City Commission. You
granted them the money based on what they proposed to you. This is that
$10,000.
Mr. Plummer: Are you telling me that we are paying for a festival that was
held at Tropical Park?
Mr. Dawkins: Ah-huh.
Mr. Gary: I can tell you that you voted to give them $10,000 for the festival
they proposed to you.
Mr. Plummer: Did you bring that to my attention at the time of voting?
Mr. Gary: You didn't ask me.
Mr. Dawkins: We'll have a new Manager after the next election.
Mayor Ferre: All right, where are we now?
Mr. Gary: I have been told it was held throughout the City. Some of the
functions may have been held outside the City.
Mr. Plummer: This was the total for the overall?
Mr. Gary: This was the total for the overall. They came in with an additional
request. They contacted the City Commission. They wanted to do it on an
emergency basis. We told them they had to wait for the $20,000 additional
for the Song Festival. You approved the Song Festival on the condition that
they have to justify they spent the money, they met the objectives, as stated
in their proposal, and we would allocate the money to them.
Mayor Ferre: Are we ready to vote? Did we already vote on 122?
Mr. Ralph Ongie: We did on 122, yes.
Mayor Ferre: We are now on 123. Are we ready to vote on 123?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a motion?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves. Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call the
roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-971
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING THE AMOUNT OF $10,000 FROM
SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS, CONTINGENT FUND, IN
SUPPORT OF THE HISPANIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL HELD
OCTOBER 6-16, 1983.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
117. APPROVE IN PRINCIPLE PHASE I OVERTOWN TRANSIT STATION IMPACT AREA
REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR SOUTHEAST PARK WEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
AREA.
Mayor Ferre: We are now on the 5:00 o'clock public hearing. This is a resolution....
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, may I recall to your memory that we promised -oh,
this is a public hearing- Mr. Sorg that....
Mayor Ferre: I'm going to take up Mr. Sorg as soon as I finish the public
hearing. It will be a few minutes late.
Mr. Plummer: Thank you, sir.
Mayor Ferre: We are now on item 124, which is the 5:00 o'clock public hearing.
This is the Overtown Urban Initiatives Project Property Owners' Equity
Participation Plan Policies and Procedures, which is a major breakthrough
for this community, even though Mr. Simonhoff doesn't think so.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, we need to do those items 88 through 94, because that
relates to the public hearing.
Mayor Ferre: That's before the public hearing?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: I understand what you are saying. So the first item we take up
is item 88. Is that right?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Is that the sequence we go at?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Let's do that. Pick up item 88. It all ties together. Would
you put it in such a way, sideways, so that people can see it in the audience?
Those of you who want to see it that cannot see it, move over. Go ahead.
Mr. Herb Bailey: Mr. Mayor, Members of the Commission, what you are about to
see is the Phase I redevelopment strategy for the Overtown Park West Redevelopment
Program. The reason we are asking to have the item 124 held at the end of
this is because it"all ties in. For the past twelve months the Southeast
Overtown/Park West Redevelopment Office has been putting together the rede-
velopment strategy that will implement the redevelopment plan that was passed
by this Commission on July of '82 and was subsequently passed by the County
Commission on December 1982. What we are going to briefly go through here
and it will not be a long show is what we have come up with in terms of what
our plans are to implement the first phase of this redevelopment project.
The project is essentially located right on the heart of downtown. It is
between the central business district and OMNI and is surrounded by all the
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Mr. Bailey (Con't): development that is going on in the central business
district. The plan calls for a substantial residential development in the
center of downtown Miami. To sort of give you an idea, this is a overhead
shot, an aerial view of where the project sits and how it fits in relationship
to the central business district and the OMNI and the Port of Miami and the
other activities that are going around in the central business district.
This represents roughly 218 acres of downtown real estate.
To sort of give you a visual view of what that looks like in terms of
size, this is the front view looking at it from the east side to the west,
one from 5th Street to I-395, fronting the bay. To get a better view of it
we look at it from west point to east and can show you what kind of size
we are talking about in terms of this entire redevelopment project. It is
perhaps one of the largest redevelopment projects that I have been able to
find in terms of what is happening in this State and in terms of the initial
bond commitment from the tax increment to float this; it is probablv one of
the largest issues that will be done in the country.
The redevelopment proposal proposes a new residential community for
downtown Miami. The benefits of this residential community will provide
the resident component for downtown development. It will create a stimulus
for the redevelopment of the Overtown community. It will create new housing
opportunities for moderate income families. It will stimulate private invest-
ment, adjacent to the Overtown Transit Station, where we already have $6.7
million of Federal money and it will increase the tax base of the City of Miami.
The Ordinance passed by the County in December of '82 provided limited
redevelopment authority to the City of Miami. What we have here is essentially
a partnership between the City and the County to carry out this redevelopment
project. The ordinance stipulates that the City of Miami will be responsible
for the project's management, the project's marketing, the developer's selection,
the land disposition, the business relocation, public improvements, and we will
administer the redevelopment trust fund, and we'll sell the bonds to finance
the project. We will also be responsible in the dissemination of information;
we're responsible for all the citizens' participation.
Dade County has retained the right to review the developer's selection.
They will approve the utilization of the proceeds of the trust fund. Residential
relocation will be the responsibility of Dade County. They will be responsible
for the land acquisition.
The map here that you see gives us our first stage of how the project is
to be carried out through the public process. The part that you see in yellow
represents those parts of the plan that indicate the part of the real estate
that will be acquired throught the public process. We have 12 blocks in
Park West and there are roughly 11 blocks in Overtown. In the UMTA
the acquisition area we already have funds to carry out that acquisition and
relocation, which is represented by $6.7 million of UMTA Funds, $1.4 million
from the City, and $253,000 from the County.
The Park/West side we don't have any funds at the moment for acquisition.
That is what the other part of this proposal will represent. In our first
phase of redevelopment, we obviously cannot start with all of the.22 blocks
that you see there. We have determined that the best possible way'to proceed
with this is to be able to leverage those funds that we already have. So
we have decided in the first phase, we will target nine blocks for the
initial redevelopment. The four blocks that are there that will be acquired
by the use of UMTA Funds. We're requesting that the items, blocks number
3, 7, and 8 we will use funds from the City; and lot number 9 we will use
funds through the use of some CD applications. Lot number 4 is a block that
we already own. We intend to take those blocks, 4, 1, 2, 5, and 6 and
leverage it with the redevelopment that is happening around the transit
station, so that we can support the use of public monies for blocks number
3, 7, 8, and 9.
The redevelopment proposal, as we are presenting it, will produce 1,675
residential units downtown. Approximately 750,000 feet of commercial space
and hotel development. The market study has come back from Hamasol & George
and we have some concern about the possible use of commercial space. It is
indicated that at the moment, commercial space is rather soft and hotel space
is even softer than that. So we are perhaps suggesting this plan so that
we don't have more residential development than we have indicated here.
Then incentive to get this started will be land write downs
infrastructure improvements, infrastructure improvements, zoning incentives,
UDAG assistance and assistance in permanent financing where wanted, and
completed already.
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Mr. Bailey (Con't): We are requesting that the Commission consider the
utilization of the following funds to get this redevelopment project started.
We're asking for $10.5 million or up to $11,000,000 of general obligation
housing bonds for affordable housing; $2,000,000 worth of authorized street
and highway bonds. Dade County Home Ownership Assistance Loan Program, that's
under the dockage stamp tax of $4.2 million; and a H.U.D. section 108 loan
of $6,000,000; and an UMTA Grant, which is already in place of $6.7 million.
The total amount in the request is roughly $29.4 million. Of this $29.4
million, we will roughly stimulate $183.6 million in private investments,
coupled with UDAGs that we perhaps think can come about as a result of this
proposal. We are expecting the first phase to produce $241,000,000 worth of
development in the downtown area.
We had a variety of administrative and statutory requirements to complete
in the past twelve months, most of which have been started and completed. We
have the first draft of the market study, which has indicated the impact that
can be made based on a study made by I must say it is
impressive in terms of what we expect to do. It indicated that we do have
a market for what we are projecting. The urban design guidelines are being
done by the Downtown Development Authority. They are 80% completed. We are
just waiting on the final addition of the market studies, so the urban design
guidelines can be completed.
The completion of the financial strategy for phase I, which we have, and
is what we are talking about today. The special public interest zoning will
be ready by January 1984. The D.R.I. we hope to submit to the South Florida
Regional Planning Council in November of this year. The business relocation
plan you have already approved.
In the Overtown area, the market study which ties in with the Overtown
Park West side, the Urban Design guidelines, which also tie in with the Park
West redevelopment... We have the equitable participation program that has
been approved by the County Commission and will be before this Commission
for their consideration right after this presentation. The Phase I UMTA
acquisition for the four block area has already started. The appraisals
have begun. We have one set that hasn't returned. We are waiting on the
other two sets of appraisals to come back, so that the County can start the
acquisition process. The UMTA relocation will start after the acquisition
has been undertaken by the County. We will hope to see a developer for
Overtown and Park West sometime by the middle of 1984.
The team that comprises all of this activity that we have to carry out
is represented by the City of Miami, which is stipulated by the ordinance
that will take the lead in this entire redevelopment, the Metropolitan
Dade County, which has retained certain activities in terms of acquisition
and relocation; Downtown Development Authority, which on the contract has
to perform certain activities for the project area; the Park West Civic
Association, which we have several members of that association present here
today and will like to be heard; the Overtown Advisory Board, which is
represented here by its Vice -Chairman, Mr. Hunt, who would also like to be
heard in regard to this project; and the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce,
more so with the New Road Action Center Committee, all of these bodies have
been informed on a periodic basis as to what we are doing. We have received
the necessary approval from those that have been required by the ordinance.
Mayor Ferre: Well done, Mr. Bailey.
Mr. Bailey: With this redevelopment proposal, which is our Phase I strategy,
which we think can be adequately carried out based on the size of this project,
we are asking for several resolutions to be passed so that we can get started
with the first phase of implementation.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir, let's go! Are you ready to vote?
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute. I want to ask you about a comment that you made
in the paper. You made a comment or it was quoted. I want to give you the
opportunity to state whether you were misquoted. You made some comment about
the City buying or should buy six City blocks. Could you expound on that a
little bit, please?
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Mr. Bailey: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: First of all, was the statement correct?
Mr. Bailey: The statement is correct, but I think in terms of the application
of where those funds are coming from the statement is not correct. We are
in the process of buying four of those blocks through the use of UMTA grant.
That's from the $6.7 million. We already own one of those blocks. All of
those blocks are properties that are in the Overtown area. County ordinance
stated that we should do concurrent development. What we don't have and what
we are asking for today is permission to use City funds in the first stage
of development to acquire three blocks on the Park West side. The reason we
have to....
Mr. Plummer: Identify where those funds are coming from.
Mr. Bailey: We have requested the utilization of $11 million of general
obligation bonds. Bonds that were authorized in 1975 for affordable housing.
We intend to put affordable housing in the Park West side. We are asking for
permission to apply to the Department of Housing and Urban Developement for
a $6,000,000 loan through the Section 108 program, for which our financial
advisors, who have reviewed this plan, have indicated that we have reasonable
assurance that we can be able to float tax revenue bonds in 1987 to repay
that loan. We are asking for roughly $18,000,000 to be utilized to start the
acquisition process on the Park West side and to do some other public improvements.
Mayor Ferre: All right, sir, we have some people that want to talk to the
Commission. This is a public hearing. I think it is better if you speak
from this mike. Oh, it doesn't matter. It's all right.
Mr. Christy Wilson: My name is Christy Wilson. I'm an attorney with the firm
Brigham, Moore, Muir, Gaylord, Schuster, 6 Sachs. I'd like to speak at this
point because I think perhaps we might be putting the cart in front of the
horse. The proposal now before this Commission is a proposal that is inextricably
intertwined with the Black Equity Participation Plan, which will be heard later
on. I would ask that this Commission not make any ruling on any request in
accordance with that until they have heard the positions on the Black Equity
Participation Plan. Because that is inextricably bound up in this acquisition
policy.
Mayor Ferre: All right.
Mr. Bailey: I would just like to make a slight correction. In terms of what
we are asking for to be utilized in terms of funds from the City, that is not
involved in the Black Equity Plan. The Black Equity Plan is involved with
those monies that we have received from UMTA, which was a requirement from
UMTA and stipulated that the County pass a resolution that indicated that
Black property owners would be afforded the opportunity to get involved in
the redevelopment.
Mr. Gary: For the record, let's correct this. It is not Black Equity. It
is Property Owners Equity Participation Plan, which gives everybody the right
to participate.
Mayor Ferre: Whoever is a property owner.
Mr. Gary: Exactly.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Paul.
Mr. Dan Paul: Mr. Mayor, Members of the Commission, my name is Dan Paul,
1300 Southeast First National Bank Building. I'm here representing
Andevil le and • Posh, which has the largest manufacturer in the target
area that Herb has just shown you. We are all for your Park/West Redevelopment
Plan. But I want to urge you to consider a couple of things and make a suggested
modification. As I read your plan, at this point you only have $11 million
for land acquisition. That is if you go after the established businesses
in the area, you are going to have exhausted that and you are still going to
have all the surrounding run-down and dilapidated areas. Nobody is going to
rent an apartment or want to live there. What I strongly urge you to do
is not to target the going businesses which are providing employment in that
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Mr. Paul: area for the people. This particular operation is an up -scale
garment factory. It's non-polluting. It has about 200 employees; many of
whom live around in this area. If you run them out of this area in the first
phase of this project, you will be running them out of Dade County; because
there is no other place for the prices that you can afford to pay for this
property, to say nothing of the enormous relocation expenses where you have
all of these electrical connections and fancy electrical equipment that has
to be put in. There is no other place that they can possibly go. What you
are going to have, then, is a deserted warehouse, another place for vagrants
and everybody else to break in.
Mayor Ferre: South Beach.
Mr. Paul: Exactly. Leave this operating business, which is paying taxes
to the City, which is employing people in the area, leave it for the last
of your target area, when you actually have the money to redevelop. They
don't even have any appraisals on these properties yet. Herb tells me that
the only basis that they have come up with; they have just taken the assessed
value on the property and multiplied it by 1.8. Well, looking at these
figures, it's no where near the value of my client's property. They have
alloted approximately $50,000 to $100,000 to relocation expenses. That wouldn't
even pay for the electrical connections in a new plan. It is a question of
priorities and timing. All I am suggesting is that you go forward, but that
you work around the existing businesses, which are not polluting in the area,
which are providing jobs, which are paying taxes. Finally, let's hope the
project goes marvelously. Then you will be able to come back and pick those
up. But your $11,000,000 will go a lot further if you are condemning vacant
lots and derelict buildings in the area. There are plenty of them right
adjoining this particular target lot area. We strongly urge you that when
you adopt these resolutions to please exclude in the initial first phase the
the Andeville and the Posh properties.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Bailey, do you want to answer this?
Mr. Bailey: I'd be glad to. I think that what ought to be said here is that
Mr. Paul's concern at the moment probably should have been placed somewhere
in July and in December. The reason I'm saying that is because it was in
July that this Commission approved the redevelopment plan and established
the redevelopment area and subsequently sent it to the County Commission,
who did likewise and they passed it. What those two approvals did was to
give the City and the County the right through the threat of condemnation
to take whatever properties that fell within those boundaries. That included
not just some businesses in Park West; it included quite a few people who live
in Overtown, who had already made the decision that what should happen in
the City of Miami is that it should be redeveloped. Through their wisdom,
through the Overtown Advisory Board, they conceded that we will be in favor
of redevelopment regardless of what the consequences may be. I have been
here since last September. I have heard a lot of arguments about "Why me?"
"Why should I be moved?" They feel just as Mr. Paul here feels for his client,
that where I am is satisfactory and maybe I should be allowed to stay and
you should take somebody else's. We have to start somewhere. We have to
start at a point where we can most efficiently use public monies, where we
can most efficiently leverage those public dollars that have been provided.
In this particular case, it is around the Overtown Transit Station. To
develop around the Overtown Transit Station gives the City the best utilization
of its dollar. I don't agree that $11,000,000 will be expended and that we
will not have enough. We have conservatively calculated through our own in-
house projections that to acquire all three of those blocks will only cost
about $8,000,000. We have targeted somewhere around $25 a square foot. The
going rate, at the moment, for properties, if they can find someone to buy
them, are going for no more than $15 per square foot. We believe we have
adequate funds for the relocation. We have not determined, based on some of
the complexities ot.some of these buildings, what the exact relocation cost
is going to be. However, Dade County is working with us on that aspect of
the project. We feel very comfortable that we can, through the use of the
$11,000,000 from the Affordable Housing Bonds, from the $6,000,000 that we
will get from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, that we can
adequately and hopefully comfortably go through a relocation process for those
residents of the Overtown area who have to be moved and put somewhere else
and for those businesses that are in the Park West area that unfortunately
will have to be dislocated. I have had some discussions with the property
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Mr. Bailey: owners there. We have talked with every property owner in
Park West. We meet with the Civic Association every month. We provide
them with update reports, and we have yet to have any member of the Park
West Civic Association not be in favor of this redevelopment plan. They
all understand that redevelopment has to start and somebody will have to
be relocated at the beginning.
Mayor Ferre: I know, I'll take you in a moment, Mr. Paul. But, Mr. Bailey,
let me just say that in general I concur with your statement. Now I think,
however, if it is innevitable, because of the importance of the location of
the particular factory or the piece of property that is employing people,
that we have no choice but to take that one first, then that is the way the
ball bounces. We'll just have to live with it. On the other hand, there is
an argument that whenever there are properties that are going businesses that
are employing people, especially in that particular neighborhood, that if we
can leave them for last, I think that makes sense. Now, it may be that we
can't do it. It may be that an immovable object meets...what is the saying?
An irresistible force meets an immovable object. We are just going to have
to bite the bullet. If at all possible, I think there is some logic to the
point that there is an economic concern that is gainfully employing people,
especially those who live in that community. I think we should be very
careful in the process.
Mr. Bailey: Mr. Mayor, we did take all
member of the Park West community here,
in the area. I think he has something
could be heard.
that in consideration. There is another
Mr. Singer, who is also a businessman
o say. I would appreciate it if he
Mayor Ferre: All right, we will hear Mr. Singer, and then Mr. Paul, I'll give
you another chance.
Mr. Al Singer: My name is Al Singer. I guess I'm the grandaddy. I live in
Miami. I'm a native Miamian. Our business is 58 years in the community.
We're at 708 N.E. 1st Avenue. I think most of you have either had a light
bulb or a fixture from us at one time or another.
Mayor Ferre: At least once, and that goes back to my grandfather. My grand-
father used to stop in your place.
Mr. Singer: The first store was in 11th Street and 2nd Avenue, which was
blown out during the '26 hurricane. From there we went to the Congress
building and the war put us out of business for about two years or three
years. After that we moved to where we are now at 7th Street and 1st Avenue.
So we have seen a lot of changes in the City. Three years ago, approximately,
we were a company doing almost $3,000,000. Today we are a company who will
be lucky if we do $1,250,000. We had 40 people employed. Now we are down to
approximately 23. So economically we are not very pliable, as Mr, Paul so
stated for another company. I happen to be, besides being involved in my
own company, you are not getting anybody to Miami anymore. The only way
we are going to get people to Miami is to move them to Miami. That is what
we are fighting; people who live in South Dade, their borders are on to
Coral Gables. They don't even come past that. So I think it is time for
redevelopment. Being a native, I know the area. I'm for the Overtown and
Park West development. I think it is for the betterment. I would like to
see the City approve this project. It is time they get involved, like they
are going to have to get involved to get started, and start taking these
businesses out and residents and relocate them like they ought to be done.
Not necessarily how they should do it and who should come first or not, but
I think for the development of Miami and what you have been doing over the
period of years of all these buildings going on, you have to bring people back
to Miami. The businesses on Flagler Street are starving. It is a shame, as
a native to be able to drive down our streets and see it is boarded up at
7:00 o'clock. I think it is the most disgraceful thing that I've ever seen
in my entire life. 1 can remember as a child going down Flagler Street being
proud to go to the movies, the Capitol Theater, the Roxy, the State, the
Paramount. I can name them all. I can remember when we had railroad tracks
running right down 1st and 2nd Avenue; so I am familiar with the area. I
would be in favor that we redevelop it, and the quicker the better. Thank you.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Paul.
Mr. Dan Paul: Mr. Mayor, Members of the Commission, as I have stated, we
are not opposed to the redevelopment plan. We're all in favor of it. We
don't want to be excluded from the redevelopment in any possible sense. Keep
your area exactly as you have approved it. All we are saying is considering
and you look at these resolutions and how you are having to take a little from
this one and a little from this Bond issue and trying to assemble a little here,
make your money go as far as it can go with the maximum impact and don't use
it all up by buying the most expensive factory in the area on your first go
around. All you are going to have is a totally vacant factory when you
condem it, because you don't have enough money to develop. We're two blocks
north of the transit station. Obviously the first place you want to build
affordable housing is right around the transit station. Build you housing
there. You have a completely secured, beautifully maintained, non-polluting
business: exactly what I thought we were all trying to do, which was to get
businesses and mixed used all in the same area. Here we have an ideal situation,
and what are we doing? Running them out, not only of the area, running them
out not only of the City, but running them out of Dade County. When they are
gone, they are gone. Those 200 jobs won't be there for those people that you
are going to build those apartments for in the transit station. They will be
in some other county because there is no other place. We have looked. We
need an entire city block to relocate our operations. It just doesn't exist
at this particular point. It would be different if this were a fat rendering
plant, or a junk yard, or something. Go out and drive around and take a look
at it. It's beautifully maintained. It has a showroom where ladies come to
look at the clothes that are there to buy. It is exactly the kind of thing,
I would think, that you would want to keep in this particular area. But in
any case, that's a decision that you don't have to face now. All I am saying is
don't make it the first target. Make your $11,000,000 go as far as you can
go, and get some housing built. It doesn't make any sense to blindly fix on
some blocks as if you were playing on a Ouija board and just say, "To heck
with what's there. The heck with the jobs. Forget the fact that it's the
most expensive property in the area. We're going to grab it first even
though we don't have the money to build housing on all of that area at one
time."
Mayor Ferre: Again, Mr. Manager, the thing that concerns me is South Beach
syndrome. See, South Beach went about in a different area in a different way,
but on the same theory. They were going to use tax increment financing from other
sources of funding to do a redevelopment of a whole part of the city. It was
reaching to far. It was all planned. They didn't have the money and they
didn't implement. As a consequence what ended up happening is the place stood
still. After ten years nothing stands still. It got worse and worse and worse;
now we have a disaster in South Beach. Again, the point I'm trying to make is
I heard what Mr. Bailey said and I subscribe to what he said in principle. I
heard what Mr. Paul said. If indeed this piece of property is the single most
valuable piece of property, and we're strapped for money, the question is,
are we going to use the monies that we have to condemn a piece of property,
which in effect, Al Singer's property, I guess he left.
Mr. Paul: He isn't even in the first target area. I don't know what he's here....
Mayor Ferre: That's all right. But Al Singer....
Mr. Paul: Might feel differently.
Mayor Ferre: ....feels differently because his business has gone down and
he wants...he may want out. But here is a business that wants to remain viable.
I want to tell you I have serious questions as to whether or not that's the place
to begin the process, if we have other alternatives. If you are telling me we
have no other alternatives, and this is because this is the cornerstone piece
of property that absolutely must be in hand, then that's different.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, I remember a phrase that you constantly use; that is
everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. I learned it from
the Mayor. First of all, I can say that Overtown and Park West now are like
South Beach. Nobody is moving in. Nobody is buying land and developing it.
Those people that are buying land are at a small amount. You, this City
Commission, approved a process. First of all you approved the concept of
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Mr. Gary: tax increment financing for Park West/Overtown plan. We have gone
through years and years of redesigning the area, doing numerous market studies
after market studies. After you did that, Mr. Mayor, you, this City Commission,
established a process by which we would go about redeveloping this area. That
process included the establishment of the Overtown Advisory Board, the Park
West Civic Association, which included all the business guys. There was one
guy who was the leader of this group. I forget what his name was ... Bill Augden.
We had the Downtown Development Authority involved. We had Dade County Com-
mission involved. We went through the whole process. We had a plan; then
we re -did the plan, with everybody's input, Overtown Advisory Board, the people
who would be affected, the Park West Civic Association, the people who would
be affected....
Mayor Ferre: All right.
Mr. Gary: No, listen to me, this is important. And we developed a plan that
we thought would be economically feasible in terms of people being interested
in this particular area. I recall also in a zoning meeting, F.E.C. came in
and said, "It is so viable for us to put in redevelopment along the Overtown
Transit Station." It coincided with our policy that we were trying to
redevelop the neighborhoods by following that process. Everybody passed
this plan; no problem whatsoever. We come up; we have a plan now, Mr. Mayor.
It's been approved by Dade County. We have developers now saying it is to
our best interest to start around the area of Metro Transit Authority and
move in that direction. The most expensive piece of property is not his
client's property. It is the meat company, which we are now trying to get
money to buy. The only thing I can say to you, Mr. Mayor, is we need to begin
this process. I am not so sure, Mr. Mayor, when you start talking about taking
some other property first, anywhere in Overtown and in Park West, you have
some blight around you. There is no way around that. No way around that.
That whole area is blighted. Now, we can either take Mr. Paul's shotgun
approach, or we can take a comprehensive approach. We've been talking to
developers. We've been talking to the people involved in the process. They
say this is the area where they want to develop. We encourage you, Mr. Mayor,
to move along with this plan. Even if we took his philosophy, I want to put
residential people right next to his commercial piece of property. That's not
what the Pole Market Plan is all about. So why does he want to wait until
the next phase when we have some residential people who will be right next
to his property looking at a big, ugly building?
Mayor Ferre: Let me tell you again how I feel about this. This is like
saying that we have to go into reconstructive surgery. We have had an
accident and we have now a body, where there has to be reconstructive
surgery. What I'm saying is that if you can deal with the lip and part
of the face, and the liver is functioning or a lung that has collapsed can
be saved for a while, why take out the lung, where there are other parts of
the body that perhaps are less important to the totality of it. .1 have made
up my mind. I haven't told you that I'm for or against it. The thing that
concerns me is that I saw a bulldozer right next to the Mary Elizabeth Hotel
working, which I guess is part of all this.
Mr. Bailey: Yes, we have started demolition.
Mayor Ferre: I'm happy to see that, but when we see properties like the
Mary Elizabeth that are obviously boarded up and we know have to be taken
down, it seems to me that those are the places that we have to be concentrating
on, rather than those that are alive. Now, that goes... I'm just talking in
generalities now. Herb, I need to see a map. I need for you to tell me
exactly where this property is and why it is so essential that it be taken
now. If you are telling me that we have to remove this lung, because it is
absolutely essential to do it for the survival of the body, then I'm with
you. If you can't convince me that there are less important things that
have to be removed before we get to something that is a vital organ, then
I need to really think very carefully about this. You are, in effect, asking
us to remove a going business that has 200 people employed. I understand the
majority of them are people that work and live in Overtown.
Mr. Bailey: That is not correct.
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Mr. Dawkins: Before you go any further, let me say something.
Mayor Ferre: I'm just saying I have an open mind on it, but I'm worried.
Mr. Dawkins: It's amazing how everybody can come in our neighborhood and tell
us what is best for us, but us. They came through there, when I first came to
Miami, with Urban Renewal. They took land. They were going to do so much with
it. Then, when they got through with Urban Renewal, they started with I-95.
They came down through there; they didn't even put in exits at 20th Street,
where the hub of the Black community was. You either got off at Sth Street
or you got off at 54th Street. Now, the speculators, the land speculators
knowing that this was coming have gone in and purchased land and they are
holding it to develop it. You have area residents who have decided what they
want done over there where they live. Because individuals who do not live
in the neighborhood are not desirous of what the hell happens in the neighborhood
other than what benefits them, they are not concerned about the welfare of
people whose land has been taken for the last forty years, who had no say over
it, because the Federal Government decided that was what it was going to do.
Now, we go and give people false hopes over ... how long has this process been
going on, Mrs. Adker? Ten years? Then we sit down for ten years and plan with
the community and tell it, you tell us what we are going to do and we are going
to work with you and do it. Now these individuals are here before us and they
come with good faith and have worked with Mr. Bailey, who we have sent out to
work with them, and they are saying this is what we want. Mr. Mayor, somewhere
along the line, somebody is going to have to suffer. It shouldn't be the
people who have suffered up to now. We are going to have to hurt somebody's
feelings. It shouldn't be the people who are constantly hurt. Mr. Paul, I
agree with you in principle. You too have to sit down and agree with me that
this is an area that has been deprived and denied and the speculators are in
there. They are holding land. They are sitting back waiting until whatever
we decide to do. They are going to make a killing. These same individuals
who are sitting here asking us to help us develop this area so it will be
compatible with Park West and Overtown and we can bring people back into the
City. So, I'm hoping there is some kind of a way that we can find a solution
that these people who are here can be satisfied.
Mr. Paul: Instead of what the Manager said about people not buying, he doesn't
read his own bulletins. Here's his progress report. Just look: since January
through July of '83, you are right about the speculators moving in. Here is
one transaction, $250,000; another $700,000; another $600,000; another $330,000;
another $400,000. Devide those square footages out and Mr. Bailey, it's so
far off from how far his $11,000,000 is going to go, that he won't get to the
first block with those prices that the speculators have driven. This is the
property you ought to be targeting. This is the property you ought to lay
your hands on that is run down and is derelict and it is vacant, right within
a block. Go out and drive around this factory. There is a great'big block,
vacant to the south of it, closer to the transit station. Build your apartment
house there. We don't want to be out of the redevelopment area. We think it
is right. We want the security. But what is going to be better for you when
you build the apartment houses at the transit station? A deserted warehouse
which we have moved out of, which is nothing but a derelict and broken into
or a well maintained operating business. I agree. let's bring the people
back in the area. But don't you want jobs for them when you bring them back
in the area? You are going to run many businesses, which are non-polluting
not out of the City, but also out of the County. Wait until you do this
thing, so that your money will go the furtherest and you will have the biggest
impact and you will provide housing for these people and clear these derelict
places out.
Mr. Dawkins: I'm with you 100%, but I never was for tax increment financing.
That's not my baby.. This Commission went along with that; not me. I've been
against it, because -I'm like you. Private sector can do it. But they keep
telling me that now, just like you and I agree with you, that the tax increment
ain't going to do it. It ain't going to be enough money to do it.
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Mr. Bailey: I would like to make several responses. After the Manager has
something to say... this mike is not working.
Mr. Paul: My client has been in this area, in this factory for 27 years.
He's no speculator that has just arrived.
Mayor Ferre: Dan, hold on because I want to ask a question on this. Mr.
Paul, the 200 jobs ... what is this? Is this a factory? What do they do?
Make clothes?
Mr. Paul: They make clothes in this particular factory. These are seamstresses
and others.
Mayor Ferre: Where do those people that work there live?
Mr. Paul: They live mostly in the City of Miami. Some in the area.
Mayor Ferre: How many of them are Black?
Mr. Paul: A fifth of them are Black.
Mayor Ferre: 20%?
Mr. Paul: Right.
Mayor Ferre: And the rest of them are what? Hispanics? Mixed?
Mr. Paul: I urge that you go out and look at it and drive around this area
and see all the sights that Herb has that are closer to the transit station
that are derelict buildings or vacant lots. We'll help you. We'll do anything.
That will only help us if you clear out some of that terrible mess that's out
there.
Mayor Ferre: Can you wait 30 seconds? I have to make a pit stop.
Mr. Bailey: I will be glad to wait, Mr. Mayor, because what I have to say
I think maybe you ought to hear.
THEREUPON THE CITY COMMISSION TOOK A BRIEF RECESS.
Mr. Bailey: To correct a couple of items that Mr. Paul said. I don't want
to get into a confrontation with Mr. Paul. I think that the problem now is
that we all understand and agree that what has to happen for downtown Miami
is that redevelopment has to take place. It has to take place in this area.
That's the only area in which it can take place. First of all, I,want to
remind this Commission that the redevelopment process that you have under-
taken here is not probably the easiest one in the world that you could under-
take. I don't agree that tax increment financing probably is not the best
route to take in terms of trying to get something done in an area where
nothing is happening. The only reason we are asking for up -front monies
from this Commission to get this development started is that in this
State, tax increment financing cannot take place until the public sector
put up, or someone who is sponsoring the development put up money first.
What has to happen in that kind of scenario is first of all, in putting
up the public dollars we have to make sure that where those public dollars
go, they will be done in such a way that the public sector will have the
minimum amount of risk and that they will be used in such a way that the
private sector, which has to do this development, will understand that they
have the support which is necessary to go into an area where it is extremely
difficult to start development. This is not a crazy strategy. It is not
something that we did on a Ouija board. It is not something that was done
haphazardly. We wrote this plan six times. For your information, the first
phase of development that we did six months ago included 15 blocks, for which
we already discovered that based on the amount of money that was required from
the public sector, that it was not viable with the money that was available.
So we have come in after rewriting the plan several times, taking everything
into consideration. We have targeted an area where we have the least amount
of risk in terms of the public sector, and an area where we can provide the
greatest amount of incentives to get the private sector to come out here and
invest. It happens to be this area, and it just so happens that someone here
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Mr. Bailey (Con't): has to be relocated because of that. We have 363
people in here who would have to be moved somewhere else, they have to
be physically dislocated from this area and moved somewhere else in Miami
In terms of not being able to have somewhere else to go for this business,
that is not true. We have, and I understand even before I came here, the
City of Miami has been working with Posh Industries to get them to relocate
in the Garment District, where the City of Miami has a facility or has an
environment that is suitable for what he is doing. We have nine acres of
land there that are still available. In terms of what goes on around this
area, I submit to you, it would not make any sense, and if I were a developer
I would not build housing here and leave that facility there, and you have
to go there at night to find out what goes on. I work in that area. I walk
that area. I go there seven days a week. If you think that we are going to
be able to put residential facilities in this particular area, where what goes
on here, because this area here has the same activity on this side of the
track that goes on this side of the track. If you don't believe me, drive
down there around 12:00 Noon and then go back around 7:00 or 8:00 at night.
We cannot go out to the private sector and suggest to them that they spend
$200,000,000 in an area that we have not insured that their risk will be
minimized. I understand your concern and you are right, we will perhaps
through this process relocate this industry. We will perhaps in this process
relocate a lot of people. Redevelopment has never been a nice thing that
everybody comes out happy. But what happens in this process that we are
doing in the final analysis will be good for Miami and we'll provide something
in the City of Miami that does not now exist. This strategy, when we go
through with this process and what you see here where the red lines are,
this entire area will be cleaned out. We will be willing to work with
Mr. Anderson. We will be more than willing to put forth whatever resources
we have through the Department of Economic Development, through the Planning
Department, Community Development to relocate him in the Garment District.
He does not have to leave the City of Miami. He's going to leave, perhaps,
because he wants to. We would prefer to retain those 200 jobs in the City.
We would prefer to have that industry stay in the City. We are not anxious
to go through this process and cause unnecessary discomfort to anybody in
this area. So this strategy that we have here has been carefully thought
out. It has been reviewed and approved by a variety of people. We have
had our financial advisors, J.J. Lowrey and Company out of New York to go
through the plan with a fine-toothed comb and they saw in their assessment
of the review process in terms of the best place to start in this redevelopment
area in terms of the economy to the City and the attraction of developers based
on what we have to offer. We have been assured that all things given, that
this is the best place to start in terms of where we start the redevelopment
in terms of what we already have here and what we can produce here. Our
first plan called for $49,000,000. You talk about cost. This plan calls for
$18,000,000. I submit to you, unless you have something that I don't know,
I can't think of a better way to start minimizing the cost of the City than
in this area.
Mr. Plummer: What guarantees that once you acquire the property, that you
have the property, that it will be developed?
Mr. Bailey: I'm glad you asked that, Commissioner. I think probably what we
ought to talk about here is the process and development. Under Chapter 163,
we are permitted to advertise this property as if we own it, even before we
go through the acquisition. We do not intend, with the exception of the
UMTA money, and we have to do that because the UMTA grant says you buy and
relocate regardless. But in this area where we spend City funds, we do not
intend to go through a process of acquisition until we get a developer on
line. That developer will have to be done in such a way that we will have
a signed disposition agreement, all cleared with insurance that development
will take place. Then we go through with the acquisition'process. We
cannot afford, because of the small amount of money that we have, to go out
and buy land and bank it. This is not your traditional, typical urban
renewal project. We don't buy until we have somebody who is going to build.
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Mr. Plummer: What about if the builder himself, the present owner, wants
to re -build?
Mr. Bailey: We have provisions that if the present owner wants to redevelop
it in accordance with the plan, he will be permitted to do that on the Park
West side.
Mr. Gary: On the Park West side, not the Overtown side, where we have to
spend the money now to buy the land.
Mr. Plummer: A man owns a piece of property in Overtown. He wants to
redevelop. Can he do such?
Mr. Bailey: If he is outside of the Urban Initiative area, he can redevelop
without acquisition.
Mr. Plummer: What if he is inside?
Mr. Bailey: If he is in the Urban Initiative area, for which we are spending
the UMTA funds now, he will have to make his decision. We will have to take
the property. He will be permitted first right of refusal to redevelop that.
Not first right of refusal, but he will be permitted to submit his plan to
redevelop that property in accordance with the plan after the acquisition.
There are various reasons for that. We will talk about that in the property
owner equity participation plan.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, I didn't understand. You are going to talk about
that when?
Mr. Bailey: When we discuss the property owner equity participation plan.
We have made provisions.
Mr. Plummer: I think we need to talk to that. It's the same ball of wax.
Mr. Bailey: O.K. In the Overtown section, as required by the grant from
UMTA, we have to design a set of guidelines that will afford the property
owners maximum opportunity to participate in the redevelopment. That
opportunity has been provided through an equity participation plan that
has been approved and passed by the County Commission last week. We have
heard a lot of testimony with regard to that. What it does, it affords
every property owner the right to participate in the redevelopment; not
just those who have more property than others. It doesn't matter if you
have $5,000 or $100,000, the way the R.F.P. will be structured, which
will instruct that every developer with successfull and gaining access
to this property, will have to afford the opportunity to every property
owner to have an equity investment. What we are not doing, and there
are several reasons for that, what we are not doing is permitting, redevelopement
to take place before we go through the acquisition. We are on a quick take
process for two reasons. First of all the UMTA grant specifies that you
go in and acquire the property. When I first came here in September, the
first question I heard was why haven't we started? That UMTA grant serves
two purposes. It serves the purpose of acquiring the property now; and it
serves the purpose of relocating those residents that have to be displaced
because of that acquisition. The County has the grant and UMTA has instructed
the County to proceed with that acquisition process. In order to insure
that those property owners who have to be bought out, we have come up with
the plan whereby that those property owners who decide to redevelop in
accordance with the plan, they submit to us a request for qualifications,
we review that request, and we put that particular lot that they want to
develop, and it has to be one acre or more, for a request for proposal.
They submit their proposal and they get first order ranking or first
preference in terms of being a prior property owner in that area. The
advantage of that, because of the way the guidelines are stipulating that
we dispose of this Property, we give John Q. $80,000 for his property. He
decides he wants to develop it. He submits his request and he qualifies.
He submits an R.F.P. and he wins the bid. He gets the property back for
a dollar to develop.
Mr. Plummer: Why are we ahead of the game with that kind of a plan?
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Mr. Bailey; We are not ahead of the game. I don't understand.
Mr. Plummer: What are we accomplishing by doing it that way?
Mr. Bailey: What we are accomplishing is that we are, first of all,
addressing an issue that is mandatory in the grant that we have to afford
the opportunity to the property owners that are being displaced without
the money to invest; so we have to come up with those guidelines. The
County Law Department has stipulated, and they are responsible for the
acquisition, that quick take process will be the process that they will
undergo because having limited funds, $6.7 million, plus the amount that
the City and County are matching it with, if we were to wait, no way
redevelopment would begin to occur if the prices go up.
I am afraid now that we have out of that $6.7 million, once we go
through the acquisition and once everybody takes us to court and it seems
that's what they want to do, that some property owners might be left out.
See, we don't have unlimited funds. UMTA did not give us unlimited funds.
Mr. Plummer: It doesn't surprise me when you talk about acquiring property,
and I'm sure that was a hypothetical figure for $80,000, and then turn it
back and sell it to the same owner for a dollar....
Mr. Bailey: To a developer; he's now changed characters and doing a lot
of other things.
Mr. Plummer: He could have been the developer on the parcel, if he agreed
to it before you bought it from him. I see that we, the taxpayers, are
losing something.you under tax increment finance, little or no taxes.
Mr. Bailey: We're gaining, but go ahead, I'll tell you how we're gaining.
Mr. Plummer: The point I'm making is where have we, the City, we the taxpayers
of the City, where are we ahead of the game? Where have we gained by buying
this property for $80,000 and giving it back to him for a dollar?
Mr. Bailey: Because the development that will go on that site will be
somewhere between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000. At the moment you are not getting
taxes. In most of these cases, you are getting little or no taxes.
Mr. Plummer: Herb, what happens if we say to the developer, you have six months
or one year, or whatever reasonable time period it is, we are going to re -do
this area. You can either be a part of it, submit a plan and we'll approve
or disapprove for your own personal property. If you don't we'll acquire
your property.
Mr. Gary: You know, we always talk about what people are going to do.
Mr. Plummer: No, I'm saying what are we doing to be ahead of the game.
Mr. Gary: No, what came in was suppose this guy wants to develop his piece
of property. That's what got us in the condition we are in today, particularly
in terms of Overtown. You go throughout this country in terms of urban renewal.
Somebody is going to do something with that property and it's never been done.
If he had the opportunity to do something with that property, he would have
done it long before now. That's why we are run down now. What we are saying
now is, we have a comprehensive plan that everybody approved. What we are
doing now is giving people incentive. The key thing that Herb said is that
he is no longer a property owner. He becomes a developer. They are two
different animals.
Mr. Plummer: You sell it back to him for a dollar.
Mr. Gary: If he ie a developer. If he has a successful development package.
You say how are we ahead of the game? I'm going to tell you how we are ahead
of the game. With him as the owner now, you're not sure whether he's going
to develop it. But with us owning it and putting it out for bid, we know
we are going to have a developer.
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Mr. Plummer: Mr. Gary, that's all wonderful. Fairy books are written every
day.
Mr. Gary: The fairy book is waiting for him to do something.
Mr. Plummer: No, you have a comprehensive plan for that area. You go to the
individual property owners and say here is what the City is going to do. If
you wish, within a twelve-month time frame, you can submit a plan as an owner
of that property and develop it. If we approve it, you own it, you develop it.
You don't buy his property. If he doesn't, he knows in twelve months that we
are going to take it.
Mr. Bailey: Commissioner, I understand what you are saying, but I think we
probably ought to back up a minute. First of all, planned development is
perhaps the only way we are ever going to be able to plan and develop this
area in concept of what the City decides to have. The composition of
property owners in this area, and we surveyed all the property owners;
we surveyed them all. We got an indication from them what their intent
was; 98% of the property owners are anxious to leave. They own parcels
that are not large enough to develop. They own lots, houses, and the
little lot next door. The type of development that has to go in here
has to be a minimum of one acre or half blocks. 98% of the property owners
in the area don't have that much land in contiguous pieces to be able to
develop on a particular block in accordance with the plan. Those property
owners, and some of those that say they would like to develop only have one
or two pieces for which they can develop, because the rest is scattered through
here that have been bought on the basis of speculation. Now, what we are
saying, we have a choice. The Manager said it quite clearly. This area
could have been redeveloped long ago through private initiative. But we
have nobody who wants to go here. We cannot afford to have a single property
owner or two property owners, for that matter, through what they may feel today
and find impossible tomorrow,to prevent us from redeveloping this area if
that is what the City will like to have done. We have gong through a process
for which we think we can give them that same opportunity. But what it does,
it prevents them from speculating on that opportunity, saying today, "Oh, I
think I will redevelop." And find out two years later that they don't, and
in the meantime the property is worth five times more than what it was. We
have no funds to acquire that property and development doesn't take place.
Mr. Plummer: Herh, you keep avoiding the subject that I'm trying to interject.
It's not a matter if he wants to or if he doesn't want to, it's a matter that
he has twelve months or a reasonable time frame in which to make a decision.
If he doesn't make the decision within twelve months, you've made it for him,
because you have a deadline and he didn't meet it.
Mayor Ferre: I think we are retreading over the same subject.
Mr. Plummer: I don't have an answer. Yes, we are retreading over the same
subject, but here again, let me tell you, my other fear is that you acquire
this property. You relocate all these people. I saw this happen on N.W. 5th
Street. I saw them tear down a livable apartment house an destroy it to
acquire the land. That was four years ago, maybe five; that land is still
vacant.
Mr. Bailey: Commissioner, I'm pretty sure you could probably find historical
references to some projects started and not completed all over the City, you
know, all over the State, for that matter. We don't feel that way. First
of all, you tie it into the condition of the grant. The grant says very
clearly acquisition will proceed and relocation will proceed using those
dollars. We are doing those with the Federal grant dollars, they are not
dollars we are using from the City of Miami or County dollars. That's the
stipulation of the grant. As I indicated before, when I first came here
that was the number one question on Art Teele's mind when he came here
he said, "When are you going to start spending our money?" The County has
an obligation with these people to go through the acquisition process
because they are now expecting it. We have people who have, in this area,
who are living in houses, that have substantial code violations that are
waiting for the relocation money so that they can have this property acquired
and move. The only way that we can do that is to carry out the dictates of
the grant or for some reason or another we might lose the grant.
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Mayor Ferre: Let's wind it up. Mr. Paul, you have a statement to make. The
other attorney has his statement to make.
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Mayor Ferre: Dan, from a practical point of view, you know what is going to
happen? I don't think that they're going to get around to doing your client's
piece of property for two to three years.
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Mayor Ferre: Well, put it into the record..
Mr. Bailey: According to the relocation guidelines that this Commission passed
prior to any taking of property on the Park West side, we have to give you
18 months' notice. That is prior to the taking. Now, if you take that 18
months, we haven't even gone out with an R.F.P., which doesn't go out until
the middle of 1984. And if we are lucky....
Mayor Ferre: Three years.
Mr. Bailey: We'll have a developer sometime selected by the end of '84 or
sometime by the early 1985.
Mayor Ferre: It's going to happen sooner or later.
Mr. Bailey: Now you are now into 1986 or '87 before we actually come to you and
say we are sorry, but we would like to go through the process of acquiring your
property. What I would like to see happen....
Mayor Ferre: And the other thing is they are asking for authority, that doesn't
necesarily mean that they are going to go to your piece first. They may find
out after the appraisals are in that what you are saying is totally correct,
which is exactly what they are going to find out. In my opinion they are going
to be easier, they are going to get more, more buying for their bucks by buying
properties less expensive. So I think for the practical point of view, Mr. Paul,
what you are saying is going to happen anyway. That's not the question. The
question is is this Commission now ready to bite the bullet? I really think that
we really have no choice. For me to vote otherwise...I can only speak for myself...
is to....
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Mayor Ferre: Fine, I have no objections, Mr. Paul.
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Mayor Ferre: Mr. Paul, I have no objections in voting for the request that
the Manager is requesting and passing a resolution that we go about this in
an orderly, logical way, and that within the guidelines of the general area
there are properties available that can be acquired easier, with less pain,
with more land, with less money, that that be the general guideline. But I
don't want to do that specifically into this piece of property by excluding
it in one of the resolutions. What they are asking for is general approval
of the City to proceed. I'm ready to vote for that.
Mr. James Hunt: Mr. Mayor, my name is James Hunt. I'm Vice Chairperson of
Overtown Advisory and also a concerned citizen of the area. I'm here on two
parts. One in support of the plan, which you had presented to you this after-
noon in terms of moving ahead with the process. You coined the phrase a few
minutes ago concerning not being able to take the horse and make him drink.
I think one of the things in the Overtown community is that many of the
residents never had the option put before them where they had to drink or
move away from the trough. I think with the plan that is being proposed,
those residents will have a chance to now look at it as it was said. When
urban renewal came in and I-95, many of the residents had the chance at that
time to try to develop, except they chose to move out. What we are saying
here, and as a part of the concerned citizen is the longer it takes for the
City to start this process, the more disadvantaged the people who are already
disadvantaged are going to be. There is no way they are going to be able to
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Mr. Hunt (Con't): survive as long as speculators are able to move into the area
and buy the property at a cheaper price and hold on to it until the City is
ready to move on with this process. So what we are asking you is to support
the City Manager's recommendation and move on with the process, deal with the
individuals that are being questioned here in a way that would be sensitive
to their needs, but the need of the community now, I think, outweighs that
of an individual. Thank you.
Ms. Elizabeth McDowell: My name is Elizabeth McDowell. I am a board member
of the Park West Association. I believe a lot has been said. We would just
like to pledge our support and hope that this does pass tonight. Thank you.
Mayor Ferre: All right, let's go. Oh, one more speech.
Ms. Dorothy Fields: I keep looking at that date up there, 1896. I have to
remind Commissioner Plummer that it was in 1896 that Blacks came and settled
in Overtown. We developed the area. We developed the businesses. We developed
the culture. We had a thriving and vibrant business. What we don't want to do
is to not give our property owners, as few as they are now, the chance to be a
part of the City's process. Yes, speculators can go on and do what they have
been doing over the years. We know that. But we feel since you took our land
from us with urban renewal and the State program and the I-95 and all of that,
give us the chance to be a part of this process, because we believe in progress.
Mr. Plummer: I have no problem with that. The first settlers were not in
Overtown. They were in Coconut Grove. I won't dispute you on that. But I
will dispute you to the effect of my fear that is a real fear, if you are
familiar with Overtown. That is when they came in and bought all of the
property, that property today is still vacant. It was never developed. It
was going to be housing. They tore down ... Annie, what was the apartment house
there on 5th Street, right at the I-95? It was a livable unit. I mean it
wasn't a shack. It was a good unit, about six, seven, eight years old. They
came in; they bought it. Today that piece of property is still growing nothing
but weeds. My fear is and remains you acquire the property, if you don't have
the incentive for developers, you are no more ahead of the game than you were
before, if not worse. Because now you have put all of this property into the
name and to the ownership of the City of Miami. It thus comes off the tax
rolls. I have just the fear. Fine, if the developers want to go in there,
they can go to other areas. They will go to the fringe of this, if it passes.
They always have done that. They always will. But I am asking for assurances
that if the Federal money comes in there and buys up the property, what assurances
do we have that it's going to be developed? That is all I am asking.
Ms. Fields: May I just say one thing? First of all, we have to believe in
the City. You are all we have, rather than the speculators, we have to believe
the plan that is here is not the best. Certainly there were other things that
we wanted., The Overtown Advisory Board for almost two years went gver and over
the plan trying to get the best thing for us. So, we have to put odr faith in
the City and work with you and monitor what's there.
Mayor Ferre: Thank you.
Mr. Plummer: Where is this City going to get the money?
Mayor Ferre: We need to move along now. It is almost 8:00 o'clock.
Mr. Plummer: Well, Mr. Mayor, look, you know, I hate to bring up a sore subject,
but I guess I'm going to have to. I heard this same argument on Bayfront Park.
This City was absolutely hoodwinked. You can put it no other way, unless you
want to go into stronger terms, that the private sector was going to come in
and they were going to raise the money, and they were going to see to it that
it was done. Yes, even to the extent that there was a Federal grant. And that's
all we got. We have nothing. That group of people who came down here and told
us of all of the great work that they were going to do, and they weren't speculators.
They were going to raise $10,000,000. To this day, four years later, there is
not a dollar in the bank.
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Mayor Ferre: Have faith, J.L.
Mr. Plummer: No, I don't have faith in people like that. And I don't have
faith when those same people turn around and say to us, "City, we have faith
in you. Put our $10,000,000 of private money in a bond issue. Let all of
the taxpayers pay for it. I'm sick of that. This City cannot stand it. I
don't want these people to walk out of this door, having faith in this City
that we're not going to have the money, if private development doesn't come
up with the money that it's not going to be anything but a hell of a big
weed patch. Now, what I'm saying to you, I think this City has an absolute
obligation to know that those developers are going to go in there and develop
it. We don't have those asurances.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, do you want to speak for the developers and give
us asurances.
Mr. Gary: There is a difference between Bayfront Park and this area.
Mr. Plummer: There is a big difference.
Mr. Gary: One big difference is that Bayfront Park started off with zero.
We're talking about $17,000,000.
Mayor Ferre: No, we started with $6,000,000 from Claude Pepper.
Mr. Plummer: And that's all we have.
Mayor Ferre: Fine, that's more than we had before.
Mr. Plummer: No, now we are $14,000,000 in debts. The City taxpayers have
to pick up what those highfalutin people who came down here with those big
speaches, and they were going to raise the money.
Mayor Ferre: Go ahead, Mr. Manager.
Mr. Gary: There is also another difference, Mr. Mayor, in that if you look
at the area, where you are talking about being developed, the area abutting
it is quite different than where Mr. Plummer realized. We have a whole new
Government Center over there, including his police facility. We have people....
Mr. Plummer: I will remind you that's mine.
Mr. Gary: You sure act like it.
Mayor Ferre: Hey, Plummer, man, you set yourself up on that one. I'll
remind you that you voted against that one too.
Mr. Plummer: I'll remind you you are getting ready to vote for another
expansion on it.
Mayor Ferre: I'm going to vote for it.
Mr. Plummer: If you had done it right the first time, you would not have had
to do it a second time.
Mr. Bailey: I would just like to sort of dovetail into something that
the Manager is saying....
Mayor Ferre: I'm glad to see that Roy Kenzie isn't the only one that does that
to the Manager.
Mr. Gary: And as you know, he'll learn just like Roy Kenzie learned.
Mr. Bailey: I get -the same treatment, I tell you.
Mayor Ferre: Go ahead.
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Mr. Gary: Furthermore, Mr. Mayor, we have a transit system, which has also
changed the character of this area, which also gives its people an incentive
to develop this area. Thirdly, Mr. Mayor, we have two separate issues in two
separate areas. The first area being Overtown. There was no accident that
they gave us $6,700,000 and they said we had to buy the land. Because experience
has told H.U.D. based on its past experience with urban renewal throughout this
country, that unless you go in and buy the land and give an incentive at a very,
very fair, small price to the developer, it won't be developed. The truth of
the matter is that's a Black area. Nobody wants to talk about it. That's
a Black area. People do not want to go in and develop a Black area. If they
did, it would have been developed up to now. We're talking about a number of
years. To talk about pieces of property, obviously we all know, we look at
Brickell, we know what they are doing on Brickell from the residential all the
way down to the business district. People buy land and tracts of land large
enough for redevelopment. You can't look at one little, small piece and expect
Tom Doe over here who owns a small, little shanty house to be able to develop
something without having some additional land abutting him. Tom Doe has not
been able, up to now, amass property abutting him in large enough tracks of
land to redevelop it. More importantly, Tom Doe is not developing it himself.
That's the key. That's what Mrs... -Oh, my God, we grew up together -my Black
historian just told you, Mrs. Fields. They have not done it up to now. Even
if you go to those Whites that have bought land, they have not developed it
up to now, Mr. Mayor. So, what we are saying is we want to get large tracks
of land abutting a very viable Govenment Center, which people will want to be
enticed to move into, because it is a Black area, they want to be safe, and
we are doing that.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, you cannot refute the logic in that. I am ready
to go.
Mr. Dawkins: I move that we accept the Manager's recommendation, because I'm
going home.
Mr. Bailey: There are a series of resolutions, 88 through 94.
Mayor Ferre: We have a series of resolutions. We have to start with 88.
The first one is approving in principle Phase I, Overtown Transit Station
Impact area from S.E. Overtown/Park West Community Development; authorizing
the City Manager to initiate project implementation. The City Manager
recommends. Is there a motion on 88?
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins moves.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Perez seconds. Under discussion, this is the general approving
in principle of Phase I.
Mr. Plummer: In principle?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: O.K., they have to come back?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir. Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-972
A RESOLUTION APPROVING IN PRINCIPLE THE PHASE I OVERTOWN
TRANSIT STATION IMPACT AREA REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR THE
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INITIATE PROJECT IMPLEMEN-
TATION.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
* Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
ON ROLL CALL:
* Mr. Plummer: I'm going to vote yes because it's accepting it in principle.
118. DESIGNATE $11,000,000 OF CITY OF MIAMI GENERAL OBLIGATION HOUSING
BOND PROCEEDS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF LAND AFFORDABLE RENTING
HOUSING IN SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA.
Mayor Ferre: 89 designates $11,000,000 in City of Miami General Obligation
Housing proceeds to acquire the land for the development of Affordable Rentdl
Housing. That's the next thing.
Mr. Gary: That's our $25,000,000 housing bond money.
Mayor Ferre: Howard, if we use $11,000,000 in this, we have a total of
$17,000,000 left. That leaves us $6,000,000 for the other sites.
Mr. Gary: Exactly. We think we are very liberal in those figures.
Mayor Ferre: That project that we...does this kill 1,000 units of affordable
rental housing?
Mr. Gary: No, it doesn't. In fact, don't forget we still have the •doc
stamp tax we still have to use.
Mayor Ferre: But it substantially bites into....
Mr. Gary: Kills ours.
Mayor Ferre: It bites into it, doesn't it?
Mr. Gary: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: So, in fact, we are really killing it. Aren't we?
Mr. Gary: Well, Mr. Mayor, I don't want to say killing it. What I want to
say is that we're doing what this City Commission wanted to do when it
passed affordable housing. This is where the largest amount of....
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Mayor Ferre: See, the question is that we put an awful lot of work in to do
that 1,000 units. I think by doing this one, in effect, we are killing it.
I'm not ready to vote on this yet.
Mr. Gary: No, we have the 1,000 units already, Mr. Mayor. We have money
taken out for the 1,000 units that you all refused the $6,500,000.
Mayor Ferre: No, no, we don't have $25,000,000. We have used $8,000,000 of
that. We are down to $17,000,000. If you use $11,000,000, we are down to
$6,000,000. Is this $6,000,000 enough to do it? There is $8,000,000 left?
Mr. Manager, can I ask Jerry Gereaux a question?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sure.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Gereaux, or Dena, I don't know, either one of you, in the
1,000 units of affordable housing, how much money is earmarked from the City?
Ms. Spillman: You have allocated $8,000,000. The resolution before you
for this program says the use of up to $11,000,000. If we need additional
funds for the affordable rental housing program, they will not have a full
$11,000,000 to deal with.
Mayor Ferre: O.K., so this doesn't kill the other one?
Ms. Spillman: Absolutely not.
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it, but the other one kills this one.
Mr. Gary: No.
Mr. Dawkins: The hell it doesn't. She just said, if you take it with you,
you don't have $11,000,000.
Ms. Spillman: It won't take sufficient amount to do any damage.
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, no.
Mr. Gary: If you would allow me to, I'll explain it to you.
Mr. Dawkins: Please do.
Mr. Gary: You started out with $25,000,000. R-83-483 appropriated $4,000,000.
Mr. Dawkins: For what?
Mr. Gary: For H.U.D.
Mayor Ferre: For H.U.D., Section 8 funds, and that's gone.
Mr. Dawkins: That takes us to $21,000,000 right?
Mr. Gary: Exactly. $1,400,000 was utilized in R-83-344. Then you have
$8,000,000 for your affordable housing that you are talking about, the 1,000
units, R-83-1173. That leaves you $11,600,000 left. We are talking about
$11,000,000 now.
Mr. Dawkins: But Dena just said that it may cost more than $8,000,000, Mr.
Gary. for the other 1,000 units.
Mr. Gary: If I may, Commissioner Dawkins, from the figures that I've been
given by staff, and the financial information I have from the Bond Counsel
and the financial advisers, the figures that we have in there for the $8,000,000
for the land we plan to purchase, we think is very liberal.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Gary, I believe Dena Spillman, I believe what you are saying.
I think what you are saying adds up right numbers. I'm ready to vote on this.
Mr. Dawkins: I'm not ready to vote until you asure me that there will be
$11,000,000 for this project.
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Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute. Let's get in to some brass tacks. Let me
tell you what I was talking about before. Mr. Dawkins, put your pencil
down. Let's read a few facts off Dena Spillman's memo. We're talking
about four locations or five. Let's come up with a subtotal here. We're
talking about the P.B.A., according to her estimate cost of acquisition
$3,300,000. We're talking about Civic Center, $1,092,000.
Mr. Dawkins: Melrose Center.
Mr. Plummer: We'll get to that one. Highland Park $753,000; Melrose Park
$2,000,000...well, these are her estimates here. Little River Nursery,
$375,000; the combined value of these sights is $7,500,000.
Mr. Gary: First of all, Little River Nursery is not in.
Mr. Plummer: That's the miror one of all of them.
Mr. Gary: That's fine. I will bring to your attention that we have done
appraisals on that land on an item that you previously deferred. This memo
was done before the appraisals were done.
Mr. Plummer: This memo will be used in court against you.
Mr. Gary: No, it will not.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. City Attorney, if the City of Miami itself issued a memo
showing an estimated cost of acquisition. What are your chances in court
of defending this for a lesser amount.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Vice -Mayor, I know that Dena will not be insulted in
this case particularly by telling you that I have some question about the
admissability of that because she is not really an expert in this field, and
I understand she is the author of that memorandum.
Mr. Plummer: That is correct.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Obviously, if the court were to admit it in evidence, it
could be used negatively to the City, but I don't know if that would be possible.
Mayor Ferre: I don't want to have an argument with my colleagues; certainly
not with Miller Dawkins or J.L. Plummer, but I want to tell you a whole bunch
of us worked out tails off to pass that $25,000,000 bond issue. I know that
I made a dozen trips to Washington, D.C. during both the Ford, the Carter
administration. I have not gone with the Reagan administration, because
that's just a waste of time. But I want to tell you that it is one of the
most important things that we have the potential of getting going„ We have
to move forward on these 1,000 units. I am convinced, personally,,that there
are $11,000,000 and I will so stipulate, Commissioner Dawkins, for the Over -
town project because there are $8,600,000 left for the housing and affordable
housing. I think that is what we need the way this program has been designed.
I don't know what Dena meant by what she said, but I think we have to move
forward on Overtown and we have to move forward on affordable housing. Part
of the affordable housing is going in Overtown, hopefully, if you do your
job right. I think you are doing your job right. I'm convinced that this
is going in the right direction. Now, what else do we need to argue about
here? Are we ready to vote?
Mr. Plummer: I'm not ready to vote untill somebody can show me where the
dollars are coming from.
Mr. Bailey: Commissioner, if I may speak, we did a lot of research in terms
of available dollars out of that bond issue before we even suggested to the
Manager that was perhaps the avenue that we should.take. We discussed at
length with the C.D. director and her staff. We have also done some other
research in terms of the County on this last concern that you had on the
$8,000,000. Our financial advisors have also done some research to assure
us that what we are asking for will be there. I think the point of contention
here is whether or not you are going to have a substantial overrun on the last
$8,000,000. What we have just gotten as some indication from H.U.D. for the
County, as the project stands currently at $7,066,000 out of the $8,000,000,
which means that you almost have another million dollars there to sort of
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Mr. Bailey (Can't): take up for cost overrun. We don't know. I mean, figures
are figures and they are provided to us by those who are involved in the process.
But we have an analysis here that says to date that the maximum cost, based on
the beet known values, is $7,066,000 out of there $8,000,000. There are
$11,600,000 left.
Mr. Plummer: Herb, did you not say in a statement previously about a lot
of the owners indicating to you that they were going to court.
Mr. Bailey: That happens in eminent domain, in most cases.
Mr. Plummer: I understand that. But the court can take one, two, maybe three
years.
Mr. Gary: That is why we are going to go on quick -take.
Mr. Plummer: But what I am saying to you...what you are doing, you are not
freezing the price.
Mr. Gary: On quick -take you do.
Mr. Plummer: No.
Mr. Gary: Yes, you do. If you recall on F.E.C. property, we went quick -take.
I think Dan Paul was the one who recommended to the City Commission. We went
on quick take at a time you deposit the funds in the court, the price is struck,
or the value is determined, based on that date and not any future date.
Mr. Plummer: Absolutely not, Mr. Gary. You will recall, quick -take is where
you establish a price; you put a deposit within the court; and the jury decides
how much you will pay.
Mr. Gary: I agree, but as of that date when you went in to court....
Mr. Plummer: The jury can come out with any price they want.
Mr. Gary: Yes, but Commissioner Plummer....
Mr. Plummer: Am I right or wrong?
Mr. Gary: You are right, but you are missing one point. You are trying to
confuse people. That is on the F.E.C. property, our value was determined as
of the date or the year that we went into court; not as of the date that the
court hearing took place, which was six years later. I think we must have
saved about $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 as a result of that.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Gary, since it was before your time, sir, I'm going to
bring a little history to you.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: This Commission, as was then, is being sold a bill of goods.
That bill of goods....
Mr. Dawkins: What else is new?
Mr. Plummer: Let me say to you, I will take you to the estimate made by Mr.
Saul Bennett. Mr. Saul Bennett made an estimate which told this City Commission
that it would acquire the F.E.C. property for $12,500,000. Mr. Gary, tell me
what that property was acquired for?
Mr. Gary: I'm going to tell you....
Mr. Plummer: No, a simple answer. It was $23,000,000.
Mr. Gary: You didn't give me a simple answer. I'm going to have to give you
a complex response. You cannot say out of context what that appraisal said
that he was going to buy the property for. You have to take what he said
vs. what we paid vs. what the value of that property was at the time that
we took it.
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Mr. Plummer: Mr. Gary, I think you are making a mistake, I want to tell you.
I think you are h,.peful. I want to tell you and I will tell everyone sitting
here it is a great plan, but it is going to be a disaster if it is not accomplished.
You are on marginal dollars here that you don't have.
Mr. Dawkins: I agree with everything you say, J.L., but it is about time that
we have a colossal flop in the Black neighborhood, therefore, I'm going to
move this.
Mayor Ferre: I want to tell you something. After it was all done, Everett
Dirkson went to the floor of the Senate and he said, "Gentlemen, this is
an idea whose time has arrived." And he moved the Civil Rights legislation
for Lyndon Baynes Johnson. The guy who really did it was dead. His name
was Martin Luther King. We don't have anybody who has died on this one, thank
God!
Mr. Bailey: I hope it's not me.
Mayor Ferre: I tell you, Mr. Bailey....
Mr. Plummer: I hope you are good friends with Mrs. Range, I want to tell you
that.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Bailey, I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but I don't
think you look like Martin Luther King. I know you don't talk like him.
Now, we have a motion on the floor on item number 89. Is there a second to
that motion?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: There is now a second. Mr. Plummer, do you want to die gracefully,
or do you want to die kicking?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I have made my point. I think it is no where near
sufficient monies. We do not have other ample monies to make up for it, if
this doesn't do it. I will be voting against the motion. I think you are
letting people go away here with a false hope and having faith in this Com-
mission that if this is not sufficient money, that this Commission is going
to find more monies. The monies are drying up.
Mayor Ferre: J.L., Anne Holloway, who became the Ambassador of the United
States to the Republic of Mali the first Black American woman to become
an Ambassador in Africa, one time I was talking to her. I was talking to
her about what was happening in a Black country, in Africa, obviously. She
said, you know, you White people have had dictators for a long time. Now
all of a sudden here is a country who is going through a process, and right
away you are going to condemn it because there is a dictator. I Oon't see
you complaining about dictators in the Phillipines, or South Korea, or a lot
of other places. So you know, perhaps it might be time for you to let a Black
country go through the difficult process of maturing, and have a little faith
that it is going to happen. I want to tell you that there is no guarantee that
Overtown is going to make it. There isn't anybody in the world that is going
to be able to absolutely, totally guarantee that. No more than there is any
guarantee that the dream of people like Charlie Rangle in Harlem is going to
make it. But I'm going to tell you something. Charlie Rangle in the Harlem
Development Authority are sure giving it a try. I'm going to put my money on
them. I think they are going to make it. Overtown is to Miami what Harlem is
to New York. I'm not telling you that anybody can guarantee that it is going
to succeed. I think that it is going to succeed. I think it is going to succeed
because its time has arrived, because of the transit station being built,
because of the geographical location, because of the people who care who are
involved in the process, because the money is there thanks'to the Art Teals
and others who have worked diligently to get those monies there. I think it
is going to work because the City of Miami is willing to take the tax payers'
monies and put $11,000,000 to work there. I think it is going to work because
we are lucky enough to hire Herb Bailey down from Philadelphia to spend a year
looking at this. I think it is going to work because we went to the best in
New York. We went to the Lowrey Company. The Lowrey Company fine -combed through
this thing and came back. It is not a $49,000,000 pipe dream. When Herb and
I talked about this on Marco Island, he scared me. He said, "You know, before
the end of the year you are going to have to bite the bullet for $49,000,000."
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Mayor Ferre (Con't): I said, "Mr. Bailey, where are we going to come up with
$49,000,000?" Now we are down to $18,000,000. We can come up with $18,000,000.
Hey, if the City of Miami and this community cannot come up with $18,000,000 for
Overtown, we'd better pack up and give up. I'm not about to give up. I think
we are just beginning. I think if I haven't given up, and I haven't, and I'm
not going to give up on that island —what's the name of it? ... Watson Island,
I'm not about to give up on this one. Watson Island is important, but this
is a hell of a lot more important to this community than Watson Island. So
I'm ready to go.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, would you be willing ... I'l tell you how I'll vote
for it...would you be willing to put a bond issue for,$10,000,000 additional
to housing dollars, in case this is not sufficient that we will have the money
and not give these people false hopes?
Mayor Ferre: I'll go along with that.
Mr. Plummer: Then I'll vote for it.
Mayor Ferre: I'll tell you, I'm willing to put that on. Obviously, we can't
do it for November.
Mr. Plummer: March, when we are putting the other bond issue.
Mayor Ferre: March is a perfect time to do it, because it is a democratic
primary.
Mr. Plummer: Fine, I go along.
Mayor Ferre: We have four votes there, Miller. How about that? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-973
A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING THE UTILIZATION OF UP TO
$11,000,000 IN CITY OF MIAMI GENERAL OBLIGATION
HOUSING BOND PROCEEDS FOR THE ACQUISITION OF LAND
FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING
IN THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AREA.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
ON ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: With the asurances that we have a chance to finish what we start,
I'll vote yes.
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119. APPROVE THE INTEtiT TO UTILIZE 2.1 MILLION OF AUTHORIZED 1980 STREET
AND HIGHWAY BONDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST
STREET IMPROVEMENTS, INC.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Vice Mayor, call the next item so that we can get out of
here.
Mr. Plummer: The next item is item 90. Is there a motion?
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mr. Plummer: Is there a second? Any further discussion on item 90? Call
the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-974
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE INTENT TO UTILIZE $2.1
MILLION OF AUTHORIZED 1980 ASSESSABLE STREET AND
HIGHWAY BONDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SOUTHEAST
OVERTOWN/PARK WEST STREET IMPROVEMENTS AND ALLOWABLE
COMPONENTS OF PHASE I OF THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK
WEST 9TH STREET MALL.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
120. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE A GRANT APPLICATION TO HUD FOR A
$7,000,000 LOAN UNDER HUD SECTION 108 LOAN PROGRAM.
Mr. Plummer: Item 91.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mr. Plummer: Dawkins moves it. Perez seconds. Any discussion? Hearing none,
call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-975
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE AND
SUBMIT AN APPLICATION TO THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT FOR A $7 MILLION LOAN
UNDER HUD SECTION 108 LOAN PROGRAM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
121. REQUEST BOARD OF DADE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO ALLOCATE $4.2 MILLION
FROM DADE COUNTY HOME OWNERSHIP ASSISTANCE LOAN PROGRAM FOR SECOND
MORTGAGE PROGRAM FOR OVERTOWN' SEGMENT OF SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK
WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA.
Mr. Plummer: Item 92 is moved by Dawkins, seconded by Perez. Any discussion?
Hearing none, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-976
A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
ALLOCATE $4.2 MILLION FROM THE DADE COUNTY HOME OWNERSHIP
ASSISTANCE LOAN PROGRAM FOR A SECOND MORTGAGE PROGRAM FOR
THE OVERTOWN SEGMENT OF THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT:
Commissioner Joe Carollo
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122. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE AND SUBMIT APPLICATIONS FOR ASSISTANCE
TO U.S. DEPT. OF HOUSING 7 URBAN DEVELOPMENT UNDER GRANT PROGRAM FOR
PROJECTS REQUIRING FINANCIAL AID IN PHASE I OVERTOWN TRANSIT STATION
IMPACT AREA.
Mr. Plummer: 93 is moved by Dawkins and seconded by Perez. Is there any
discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-977
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE
AND SUBMIT APPLICATIONS FOR ASSISTANCE TO THE U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSIHNG AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, UNDER
THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT ACTION GRANT PROGRAM FOR PROJECTS
THAT REQUIRE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE LOCATED WITHIN PHASE I
OVERTOWN TRANSIT STATION IMPACT AREA, OF THE SOUTHEAST
OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT AREA.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
123. ENDORSE CONCEPT OF AN OVERTOWN HISTORIC VILLAGE AS PART OF SOUTHEAST
OVERTOWN PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
Mr. Dawkins: 94. I move 94.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second? Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call
the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-97/8
A RESOLUTION ENDORSING THE CONCEPT OF AN OVERTOWN HISTORIC
VILLAGE AS PART OF THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM; DESIGNATING THE BLACK ARCHIVES
HISTORY AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA, INC.
A NONPROFIT CORPORATION, AS PROJECT COSPONSOR IN CONJUCTION
WITH THE CITY OF MIAMI.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
124. DECLARING THE POLICY OF THE CITY COMMISSION CONCERNING THE TAKING OF
PROPERTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE OVERTOWN URBAN INITIATIVE PROJECT.
Mayor Ferre: I have a resolution. I promised Dan Paul before he left.
I would like to move, Mr. Manager, Howard, help me word this, so that it
doesn't do any harm to anything we have done here. Herb, you help me word
it. I move that whenever possible, if does no harm to the master plan, that
as we proceed in the taking of properties, that we do so in a logical sequence,
so that we do the least amount of harm to those both residential and commercial
properties that are today viable and that -what else can I say?-
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Mr. Gary: Period, that's terrific. That's fine. That's broad enough.
Mayor Ferre: That are today viable and that we purchase those properties
where we can get more land for the dollar if, again it doesn't do any harm
to the master plan.
Mr. Gary: Fine.
Mayor Ferre: That covers it in general terms, but it shows good intentions on
our part. I so move.
Mr. Plummer: Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mr. Plummer: Seconded by Perez. Any discussion? Call the roll.
Mayor Ferre: Do you have any problems with that, Howard?
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The following motion was introduced by Mayor Ferre, who moved
its adoption.
MOTION 83-979
A MOTION DECLARING THE POLICY OF THE CITY OF MIAMI CITY
COMMISSION THAT IN CONNECTION WITH THE OVERTOWN URBAN
INITIATIVES PROJECT, PROPERTY OWNERS EQUITY PARTICIPATION
PLAN, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES THAT WHENEVER POSSIBLE THE
CITY OF MIAMI SHALL, IF IT DOES NO HARM TO THE MASTER PLAN,
TAKE PROPERTIES IN A LOGICAL SEQUENCE IN ORDER TO CREATE
THE LEAST AMOUNT OF HARM OR TO CAUSE THE LEAST AMOt'NT OF HAILM
TO BOTH RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES WHICH ARE
TODAY VIABLE; AND FURTHER STIPULATING THAT THE CITY OF
MIAMI SHALL PURCHASE THOSE PROPERTIES WHERE WE CAN GET
THE MOST LAND FOR THE DOLLARS.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote;
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
125. APPROVE THE OVERTOWN URBAN INITIATIVE PROJECT PROPERTY OWNERS EQUITY
PARTICIPATION PLAN POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.
Mr. Plummer: Herb, let me ask you a question. What we basically have here
in an UMTA grant or through the money is $17,000,000?
Mr. Bailey: We have $11,000,000 affordable housing bonds and the right to
submit an application to the Department of Housing and Urban Development
to borrow another $7,000,000.
Mr. Plummer: What I'm really getting at is that we will not be buying more
property than what we can afford.
Mr. Bailey: No, in fact, we will not.
Mr. Plummer: If the money runs out....
Mayor Ferre: We can't under the law.
Mr. Bailey: We will not.
Mayor Ferre: Wait a moment, one last question, you told me a month and a half
ago, and the Manager told me when I asked him on the phone what was going on.
Art Teale said it was all set up. We were going to get another $7,000,000.
I heard that they were killing that. I called you about it. I called Pepper.
Pepper called back. He said it is in the works. It is a matter of signing
the papers. Atlanta, is sending it back to Washington. That was a month and
a half ago. Where is the money?
Mr. Bailey: That is the same word that we're getting. We're getting the same
asurances from the County that the additional monies that had been requested
from UMTA in regards to the urban transit area is still in the process. They
have no indication that it will not be approved.
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Mayor Ferre: Why are we getting the run around?
Mr. Gary: Remember they voted at the last session at the last minute, when
we all went up for it to Washington for this nation-wide urban transit tax
to fix up the highways. Part of the agreement we made with the Reagan
Administration, or his officials, that we were going to do certain things
for a Senator of ours up there, and they would give us the monies for this
purchase land.
Mayor Ferre: Hey, Howard, if we get some of that money, you and I might even
say some nice things about President Reagan!
Mr. Plummer: Carollo would drop dead!
Mayor Ferre: If not, Carolina will. She's a republican. All right, what
else do we have? We have the public hearing at 124.
Mr. Gary: Master politician.
Mayor Ferre: And you wanted to speak to that. We are now on 124 and then
we have Stuart Sorg. We are on the public hearing item, 124, Mr. Manager.
Herb, do you want to say something on that?
Mr. Bailey: Yes, item 124, Mayor, is something we have alluded to in this
whole process. It is the property owners equity participation guidelines
that are required by the County as a result of that grant from UMTA. We
went to the County Commission last week and we had public hearings on it.
A lot of discussions were on the feasibility of these policies. The results
of all of that were that the County Commission approved it 4:2. I might also
say here that the grant that is provided to us from the UMTA acquisition is
managed by the County. The requirement for the property owner equity participation
was a requirement of UMTA and the County Commission has the responsibility of
developing those guidelines and then passing on it. What we have done here
tonight is to carry out an agreement in principle, in the intergovernmental
agreement that we presented to the City Commission, as well as the County
Commission. I just want to submit to you that the the County Commission has
heard extensive arguments regarding the implementation of these guidelines.
They passed it. We have it on this agenda for your review and consideration.
Mayor Ferre: Are there members of the public who wish to be heard at this
time? Go ahead.
Mr. Christy Wilson: Mr. Mayor, members of the Commission, my name is Christy
Wilson with the firm of Brighams & Moore. Mr. Bailey is correct. The Commission
did approve the owner equity participation plan. However, they did attach an
amendment to it, which Mr. Bailey did not mention, and which I would like to
bring before you this evening, as well, for your consideration. The idea to
accomplish redevelopment through owner participation, and especially Black
owner participation is a resourceful and creative idea. If you can carry
through this pioneering endeavor, it will be a milestone in government.
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Mr. Wilson: It's models will light the way for the future. It
is as different from the sterile ways of the past as day and
night. It will be as different in result as the South Beach
project, which failed in misery to successful development of the
Dupont Plaza in downtown Miami. But, it will only work if you
will keep the ingrained habits of past governmental ways from
defeating the goals. Hammer, Siler and Greenberg, Traurig have
come up with a plan, or came up with a plan for the owners to
remove blights and develop their own property before the govern-
ment stepped in to use the force of eminent domaine, and I would
refer you to pages 13 and 14 of the current equity participation
plan - suggested policy numbers 2 and 3. This was created - this
allowed the owner not to be pushed around and pushed out. Yes,
it assured the goal of redevelopment. It provided opportunity
for the least possible expenditure of public funds by avoiding
masses of up front takings from the owner. It allowed the public
funds to be used to encourage private development by the owner,
rather than to intervene and interfere in blight with condemna-
tion and substitution of the red tape of government for the
dynamic forces of the real estate market. If your goal of rede-
velopment through owner participation can be achieved anywhere,
it is in Overtown. That area is at the threshold of a boom. It
is the next area of Miami's Urban Center to develop as part of
this major international City. The owners there are on the verge
of enjoying the rewards of their lifetime of investments and
ownership like so many others have in areas in downtown, which
have boomed. I want you to attach onto this a safety zone as
originally proposed by the Hammer-Siler report, which would allow
the owner a period in which to develop his property in accordance
with the development plan.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, what is your reaction to that?
Mr. Gary: No questions.
Mr. Plummer: What they are saying is what I heard before, is
that you can't do it. That was the question that I was bringing
before, that if you didn't have to buy the man's property, you
would have, and get your same development to keep the property on
the tax rolls and you could go and acquire of the property.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Counselor?
Mr. Wilson: May I proceed, Mr. Mayor?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Gary: Well, you asked me a question? Do you want me to
respond?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir. I thought you had.
Mr. Gary: There are two areas, Mr. Mayor - as we said, in the
Overtown area where we have got the UMTA money, we've got to go
in and acquire the land. Secondly, in the Park West, we a re
going to only acquire as it is developed. But, more importantly,
Mr. Mayor, is that it has been years and years and nobody has
developed. This whole thing is still in development. The third
thing is, Mr. Mayor, property owners are not necessarily develop-
ers, but developers are always property owners.
Mr. Wilson: Mr. Mayor, may I proceed? I have a few more points.
The resolution in its present form snatches that opportunity away
from the owners by proposed policy Number 2 and 3 which I men-
tioned earlier. It allows them to participate only at the past
values and not in 'the -------- value increase, which they would
otherwise enjoy. The package of provisions are labeled "owner
participation" and they are truly intended to be such. But the
provisions proposed to substituted for the Hammer, Filer and
Greenberg, Traurig proposal will inevitably and realistically
defeat the goals of owner participation before it even gets
started. Why? Instead of allowing the owners to engage in
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redevelopment without acquisition by the public, all the property
is to be acquired at once, all together. The acquisition ap-
praisals are from $3.00 to $10.00 per square foot for the proper-
ty which, if left to the pressures of development would become
$112 per square foot in three years. Then the owner may partici-
pate if he or his redevelopment project are approved and awarded
in competitive bidding against giant corporations. Is there yet
any redevelopment plans specifics? No! Is there yet any redeve-
loper in the wings ready to go? No. Has the zoning occurred?
No. The redevelopment may be 3 to 5 years before it goes. So,
when the former owner participates with his 1983 $3.00 per square
foot, assuming that he didn't have to spend that money for living
expenses or the I.R.S. 2 year reinvestment requirement, in a 1987
project, who gets the benefit of the $100.00 per square foot land
value - the owner? No!. His equity is limited to a fixed non -
appreciable price reduced by inflation. No! ... it will be the
giant corporate developer again. Oh, the former owner may have
his name in the deal as a participant, but not the true value of
his life's investment. If he is even selected and able to par-
ticipate, and if in the world of giant financing, his interest
isn't wiped out by foreclosure, then he may have a minor inter-
est. What we would propose is that the owner could agree to fix
the valuation state at the fair market value as of the time that
this project gets under way. He would then be given a safety
period in which to develop this property. If he did not do so,
the County could step in and acquire the property at its 1983
value by stipulation with the owner. The county is moving ahead
with this project primarily, or was moving ahead primarily be-
cause there was concern that if it did the project piece meal,
that it would have to pay much higher values later on than it
would have to pay if it acquired the property up front. However,
this can be avoided by this agreement. The owners would maintain
their equity, which would take advantage of the increases in the
market, and in addition to that, if they didn't develop it, there
still would be that price, the same price which could be paid to
acquire that property at the end of the safety period and the
Dade County Commission did accept this and did attach this onto
its acceptance of the owner equity plan.
Mayor Ferre: All right, further statements? Yes, sir?
Mr. Jim Hunt: Mr. Mayor, Commissioners, City Manager, my name is
Jim Hunt, Vice -Chairperson of the Overtown Advisory - in looking
at the two items, items two and three, at the time that Hammer,
Siler and George proposed those guidelines, it was a viable plan
that one - at that particular time probably was the best exist-
ing, but what we have found in examining, in looking at the City
Staff plan, is that this plan did not take into consideration
that speculators would move into the area, buy up land from the
present homeowners - landowners, and hold onto that land until
something valuable came along in terms of redevelopment. What is
happening here when Hammer, Siler and George originated this
plan, they were talking to 36 landowners in the Black area. I am
sure if we went back and looked at those landowners and parts of
land, we would not find the same persons owning them, mainly
because the person could not afford to hold on to the property
until as they were saying, eighteen months passed before they had
to submit a plan. By the time the eighteen months passed, many
speculators had moved in and property that could have been valued
at $5.00 and maybe $5.25, was now being brought by speculators
for $3.25, so the killing is being made by speculators and what
we are saying as concerned citizens and members of the Board,
this may not be the best plan in the world, and it may not float,
but what we, as Black citizens feel, that if on Brickell Avenue
in South Dade, and all of the other places, they have had an
opportunity to fail, we feel in 260 years, we deserve the right
to fail also, and we would like to have that opportunity to fail
on our own. Thank you.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Principal, let me tell you that it isn't just
Black folk that feel that. There is some White folk and some
Brown folk that feel that way too.
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Mr. Hunt: I agree with you, and I did not mean to slight them,
but we would like to have the opportunity, as you said, to have a
colossal flop, and know that we participated in this flop. It
was not dictated to us.
Mayor Ferre: I can see that Booker T. Washington is in good
hands! All right, now, let the word go forward from this moment
on...oh, are you going to speak? ... but I was going to make my
punch line and that is, let the word go forward from this day on
that Overtown is coming alive. All right, Tom do you want to say
something?
Ms. Bernice Sawyer: Bernice Sawyer, 160 N. W. 7th Street. Being
a Black property owner in the area, still living there and suf-
fering, I do not want to stand in the way of progress. Let's
move on.
Mayor Ferre: Overtown is coming alive! Mr. Post.
Mr. Tom Post: Mr. Mayor, Commissioner, I am concerned about the
same growth in the area that we have all talked about, but I am
concerned about the reality of what you are trying to do and the
way this plan approaches that. Now, we have supported the Over -
town Development program and the Park West Development program
all the way through and and it came down and testified in support
of that program, but the one key element in support of that
program was, the property owners who owned property in the area
would be allowed to develop their property as long as they did it
consistent with the program. Now, this body, along with the
County, spent $60,000 to let Greenberg , Traurig and Hammer,
Siler and Ron Frazier and Associates come up with an equity plan
that would make sure that there really was some equity participa-
tion. Let me just tell you what I see happening if you adopt the
staff proposal that is before you now instead of the proposal
that you paid $60,000 for. To begin with, Commissioner Dawkins,
let's take some of those property owners in Overtown. Let's take
Mrs. Woods, or Mrs. Mitchell, or Mrs. Curry - somebody who owns a
piece of property 50 by 150 feet, and they have a little house on
it, and that is all they have got in the world, and they've got
that property because they worked and they scraped for it, or
they inherited another member of their family, but they have had
it for all this period of time. What is going to happen to those
people under the proposed program is, that the County is going to
come in and it is going to buy that property and take it away,
and it is going to take it away at values that we have heard
expressed - $3.00, or $10.00 a square foot, and maybe more,
Commissioner Plummer, if the jury is well aware of the situation,
as I think other people are becoming aware of the situation as to
what the values really are at that property over in that area.
But, let's assume that they do take that plot, Mr. Mayor, and
that is all those people have, and let's set $5.00, which is in
the mid range now - that is $35,000 that people are going to get
for their homes and for their lot. Now, you ask yourself "How
are they going to participate in this plan, that the Staff has
proposed?" And I will tell you how they have to participate.
First of all, they have to apply to have a priority position in
the disposition of the land, ultimately. Then they have to wait
until the County and the City find a developer to develop the
property, if they can find one. And then, they are allowed,
allowed to put their $35,000 into that half block a one acre
development that these fellows are talking about., Now, just how
far do you think $35,000 is going to go, Mr. Mayor, in terms of
an equity participation in a half block development with a build-
ing on it the size of One Biscayne Tower? What are they going
to get, one one -hundredths of a thousandth of an interest in that
property? What is their equity? This is just another absolute
land grab. Now, I am in a position that I have a half a block of
property there.
Mr. Dawkins: Only one?
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Mayor Ferre: He is entitled. You....
Mr. Post: I have a half block, Commissioner Dawkins, and I've
come to you - and I have purchased part of that property primari-
ly from absentee landowners. The only parcels - I've purchased
two parcels from Black owners since 1976, before any of this
stuff was ever thought about, all right? When Jackie Bell asked
me to come in there and try to fix the stuff up and clean it up
and that is what we have done. We've made housing for people
where there was no housing. We have cleared up code violations
where there were hundreds of violations. We have put sinks and
stools and windows and doors on buildings were ransacked, but...
Mayor Ferre: You and Howard Gary!
Mr. Post: Well, that is true, and the City ought to be proud of
the fact that the City Manager was doing that, and there ought to
be a lot of people in this community that are proud of that
factor, and I wish we could get the Chamber of Commerce to do the
same type thing, Mr. Mayor. It is a terrific thing to make
housing available where there wasn't any. But, what I wanted you
to understand is, and Mrs. Fuller to understand, and Mrs. Simon-
ette, there is only one shot at this apple. I hope that you all
read what this plan proposes to do and if you haven't, I know you
are going to do this on a first time and then you are going to
come back on another bite. But, you read what the Hammer Siler
plan said, because there is only one shot, Commissioner Dawkins -
there is only one shot here! If they are gone, and if they are
wiped out, they have got $35,000, and with that $35,000, they are
going to have to find someplace else to live, and let's assume
they are smart enough to rent a place and put the $35,000 in a
proposed development, well that $35,000 isn't going to buy much
of a development, but I will tell you one thing - I represent a
lot of clients - a lot of property owners downtown in Miami, and
I represent widows, and I have represented orphan children in
property matters where the reason that they can afford the best,
and the reason that they have an income coming in for their life
and their children's lives which follow them, is because they own
a piece of the pie. They own a lot or a building in downtown
Miami, in an area that is zoned C-3. And what you have got next
to this Overtown Transit Station, and I am sure you are all aware
of it, because it has taken me two hours to think about this
tonight, and I say I support the plan, but I want you to make
sure that equity part of the plan is really there, and it is not
a sham because what you have got is an Overtown area that is on
the verge of the greatest development that downtown Miami has
seen in a long time. We have got the second tallest building in
all of Dade County - the County Courthouse - 32 stories, taller
than One Biscayne Tower. We have got the museum, we have got the
art center. We have got a State office building. We've got the
second phase of the State office building on the way. We've got
a police station. We have a multi -million dollar post office.
We have a City Administration building and we've got a new City
Hall under way, and we've got a proposal for a performing arts
center, and we've got a rapid transit line which is going to
bring all of this together. Now, they are correct. Overtown is
going to develop. It is going to develop because of its location
and because of its impact. All I ask you to do, Commissioners
and Mr. Mayor is to think about what this plan really does. Is
it fair to buy those people out at these type of prices and then
suggest to them, it is all right, we are going. to give you an
equity share of one one -hundredth thousandths of a program, and I
ask you - Gentlemen, there may be some things wrong with the
Hammer Siler report, but in my humble opinion, it is probably
closer to the reality of the equity participation than the Staff
report that you had prepared for you.
Mayor Ferre: Tom, all I can say is, I promise you between now
and Second Reading, I am going to personally once again go care-
fully over both of these items and I invite both of you to come
back and we will get into further discussion at that time.
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Yr. Post. There are scne great areas that t;;e City can accom�-
plis:l. ; he_� have the ^oney, but that i5 $5,r J, U�, any It 1S
nct cnly f Jr relocation. It is not only f or lanzJ acquisition,
but it was a prerequisite to the draft environmental impact plan,
was that yc'J had the zoning, you had the market study, and you
had the urban design plan ahead of time. Now, without any of
those functions, let me ask you, how are any of those people
going to have any possible chance of making a proposed develop-
ment when they haven'". even got the basic bait to get in there?
Mayor Ferre: Commissioner Dawkins:
Mr. Dawkins. ----- i an g:),,ng to sa'J tz) yz)',i t�iat you Piave got
my vote. I planned to star; out of respe:.ICI to hear you, but I've
got a headache I've had all afternoon, and lock like we are going
to be here with this until 10:00 o'clock, so after I say this,
we've now heard you, I a-, leaving. Mr. Post, and "Co everyone
else sitting out there, a person with a 50 by foot lot would
have little or no equity participation in anything. Now, as you
said, and we have said, this Commission, and I am proud to say
it, has more at heart than people think we have. You heard 'fir.
Bailey that before anything could be done, people would have to
be relocated. This Commission knows that a 60 year old person
with a 50 by 100 lot that you are going to give $35, 000 for it,
has no business accepting i35,000 to go and acquire a ,60,000
house at 16%. We are not stupid! But nothing precludes this
Commission from developing some housing as condominiums, where if
an individual decides that they want to trade their 50 by 100 lot
for a totally paid, interest free, loan free condominium, then
they may do that, and ; don't think anybody in the City of Miami
could say that the City of Miami beat these people out of any-
thing. If it could say anything, it would say that this City
Commission helped people who needed to be helped. So, don't
stand up here and tell me that you and no other developer or
speculator is concerned about anybody out there with a 50 by 100
foot lot. Now, when you start talking in terms of one-half a
block, blocks, acres and half acres, then you have got my ear,
okay? ... so I move whatever it is. I move 124.
Mayor Ferre: All right, this a resolution at a public hearing
approving the Overtown 'Urban Initiative Project Property Owner's
Equity Participation Plan and Procedures.
Mr. Dawkins: l am, going to move it in principle.
Mayor Ferre: Now, Mr. Manager, is there going to be a Second
Hearing on this?
Mr. Gary: This is a resolution, Mr. Mayor and this is a public
hearing and we have to submit this to...
Mayor Ferre: This is in the form of ... is this it?
Mr. Gary: This is it.
Mayor Ferre: We are not having a Second Hearing then.
Mr. Gary: No.
Mr. Plummer: Second it in principle. Now put in full forcement.
Mayor Ferre: Well, when does this go into full force? Don't we
have to have a...
Mr. Gary: Thirty days after.
Mr. Plummer: Not when you accept it in principle.
Mr. Post: Well, if that is the case, your Honor, we would just
ask you to table it until the next meeting to give you the time
to think about it.
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Mr. Gary: Well, wait.
him on his, but...
Mayor Ferre: Go ahead.
Mr. Mayor, I am trying not to respond to
Mr. Gary: I would prefer that we pass this right now, as it is,
Mr. Mayor. As I said to you before, we have followed a meticu-
lous process. We have got the Overtown people involved, the Park
West Civic Association involved, the D.D.A., the Chamber of
Commerce - everybody has agreed to this, Mr. Mayor, and I think
it is time to move forward.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Manager, let me ask you a question.
Since this is different from what the County has passed, won't we
have to get together with then to work out the difference?
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, I will respond to it this way. The differ-
ence, in my estimation, is very, very minor, and I think it will
be resolved with Dade County.
Mayor Ferre: All right.
Mr. Gary: I think the plan here, which is acceptable to the Park
West Civic Association and Overtown people should be approved.
Mayor Ferre: All right, we have a motion by Commissioner
Dawkins. Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: All right, there is a second. Is there further
discussion of approving this in principle?
Mr. Plummer: Only in principle. Not put it into full force at
this time.
Mayor Ferre: Well, it gives them their marching orders, J. L.
Mr. Plummer: It gives them their marching orders, but it still
has got to be brought back here.
Mayor Ferre: Well, let's be clear about this.
Mr. Plummer: That is what I am asking.
Mr. Post: No, Commissioner...
Mayor Ferre: Unless you reverse their marching orders, it isn't
coming back here.
Mr. Plummer: Then, why are you -accepting it in principle? This
is approving... it doesn't say in principle...
Mr. Gary: This is a resolution approving it.
Mayor Ferre: (AT THIS POINT, MAYOR FERRE READS RESOLUTION) And
here is what it is, and that is what you are approving and it
_ doesn't say in principle, because you are approving this. Now,
we can come back in a month, two months, six months, a year and
say this isn't working, and we are going to have to reverse, but
I think it is important that we clarify what it is that we are
doing here. All right, Mr. Post?
Mr. Post: I've heard a lot of things tonight, none of which I
find in the plan, also. I mean, I've heard that property owners
are going to be able to buy the property back for $1.00. I hear
that property owners are guaranteed the right to redevelop their
property. None of that stuff is in the plans you have got. None
of it is there.
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Mr. Gary: This is a ploy to delay this process. As I listen to
Mr. Post, I wonder if he is one of those original 1896 Overtown
settlers. Now, it is my opinion, Mr. Mayor, as I have stated
before the land is better in the hands of the City for develop-
ment than it is the speculators. Mr. Mayor, if we delay this any
longer, the only people that are going to make all the money are
going to be the speculators. We are not going to have any devel-
opers in Overtown.
Mayor Ferre: All right, sir.
Mr. Post: Mr. Mayor, may I say this - I have been developing in
Overtown since 1975. I am there now. We have put parcels
together for the purposes of developing.
Mayor Ferre: You've got every right to do that.
Mr. Post: I don't know what developers they have got in the
wings, but it seems a little difficult to me to understand... Mr.
Sawyer has been developing too in terms of he has been acquiring
property in that area. There is basically no guarantee from Mr.
Sawyer, or Mrs. Mitchell, or for anybody, that they are going to
be able to redevelop under this plan. There are some guidelines,
but the guidelines only suggest that a property owner may have
some type of priority, and that there is no method by which the
money comes back. There is no buy-out procedure set forth, and
what concerns me, your Honor, is the commitment that the communi-
ty made and support which it garnered from all the people in the
area on the commitment that set forth right within the plan, and
within the draft environmental impact statement upon which you
have got your money, which clearly says that you are going to
allow the people in that area to participate in the development
as long as they develop that property consistent with the plan.
Now, if you go and reverse that structure upon which you have got
your grant money, I don't know legally even, whether or not you
are going to be in a position to develop it, because the money
would generate (the 6.9 million dollar) was generated on the
assurances that people in that area would be able to develop
their property consistent with the goal and the rest of the money
would be used for the purchase of property where those people did
not want to participate in the development. Where you have got
people who are eager to see development or want to do something
with it. Why tear them out and throw them out to replace them
with somebody who is a question mark in the background someplace?
And, Mr. Dawkins, let me address that issue of little property
owner. The little property owner, in terms of this downtown
increases of price, is going to be benefited by the speculators
who come in there, or the developers who come in there if they
are allowed to work out their own deal, because the' -won't be
getting $3.75, or $4.00, or $5.00 a square foot for their proper-
ty. They will be getting $50.00 and $60.00 a square foot, just
like the Miami Hotel where they paid $112 a square foot for the
property. As long as they have got the key piece of parcel - the
key piece of property.
Mr. Dawkins: But they still have got to purchase some place to
live and they won't have nothing left. Now, you tell me some-
thing differently than thatl Tell me something... when they
move...
Mr. Post: At $50.00 a square foot, they can afford to buy the
finest.
Mr. Dawkins: When they move they are going to still have to have
some place to live and they are going to spend the money that
whoever gave them for their land and have nothingt
Mr. Post: Not at $50.00 a square foot, Commissioner. They are
going to have a substantial amount of money to reinvest.
Mr. Dawkins: You know, I love you, but don't stand up here and
belittle my intelligence!
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Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor...
Mr. Dawkins: Let's hear from Ms. Sawyer and then let's go home.
Ms. Sawyer, you have property over there. Would you want to say
something, Mrs. Sawyer?
Mrs. Sawyer: I just wanted to say that Mrs. Sawyer did not
acquire anything. Mrs. Sawyer's family had their property and he
has been trying like hades to hold on to it and you know, Mr.
Post, that it has been hard, because...I need not say anything!
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you. Can we move this?
Mayor Ferre: All right, there is a request that we vote on this.
Is there further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Dawkins, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-980
A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE OVERTOWN URBAN
INITIATIVES PROJECT PROPERTY OWNERS' EQUITY
PARTICIPATION PLAN POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
WHICH PROVIDE FOR THREE PARTICIPATION OPTIONS
FOR FORMER PROPERTY OWNERS; ESTABLISH A 50%
BLACK EQUITY INVESTMENT GOAL; PROVIDE A
PROCESS WHEREBY FORMER PROPERTY OWNERS WOULD
RESPOND TO A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS
WHEREBY THE OVERTOWN ADVISORY BOARD COULD
DISCERN SERIOUS INTENTION AND ABILITY FOR
CERTIFICATION OF PRIORITY CONSIDERATION;
PROVIDE FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO FORMER
PROPERTY OWNERS FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PROPOS-
ALS; PROVIDE FOR PRIORITY RANKING OF POSSIBLE
DEVELOPERS; AND REESTABLISH A COMMITMENT TO
MINORITY AND BLACK PARTICIPATION IN ALL
ASPECTS OF THE PROJECT; A COPY OF WHICH IS
ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
ON ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: I'll ask one last question. You are giving me
assurances, Mr. Bailey, that the present owners have a priority
to come back under this plan and be developed.
Mr. Bailey: It is in the redevelopment plan and it is also in
the guidelines that you have passed a priority....
Mr. Plummer: A priority.
Mr. Bailey: A priority - the order of ranking as stipulated in
the stipulated in the redevelopment plan, and it is also stipu-
lated in these guidelines that we are asking you to consider.
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Mr. Plummer: I vote "yes".
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Bailey, it is inferred in the Manager's state-
ment of five minutes ago that the difference is between the City
plan and the County plan are minimal in nature and can be ironed
out. If and when they are ironed out, I would want for you, Mr.
Manager, through Mr. Bailey to come back to this Commission and
let us know what the differences were that were finally ironed
out and where, if at any place we changed what we are passing
today.
Mr. Bailey: All right, I think it is a legal decision that your
Law Department has to research.
Mayor Ferre: Understand. When it is done, we want to know about
it.
Mr. Bailey: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: Okay, we want a full report on it.
Mr. Bailey: Right.
Mayor Ferre: All right now, as I said before, I've just got two
simple statements on voting, and that is the famous words of
Everett Derkson in the well of the Senate, when it was he who
wooed the civil rights legislation of 1965, and he said "this is
an idea whose time has arrived", and I think Overtown tonight is
coming alive - and I vote "yes".
126. A RESOLUTION SETTING OCTOBER 27TH AT 9:00 O'CLOCK AS THE
TIME FOR HEARING THE MATTER OF THE RESIDENCY OF RICARDO J.
RECHANI, CANDIDATE IN CITY COMMISSION GROUP II.
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Mayor Ferre: I've got a resolution setting October 27, 1983 at
9:00 A.M. in the City Commission Chambers at City Hall at 3500
Pan American Drive, Miami, Florida as the date, time and place as
the hearing before the City Commission to investigate the resi-
dency of Ricardo J. Rechani, a candidate for City Commission in
Group II pursuant to Section 14 of the City Charter, further
authorizing the issuance of a witness subpoena duces tecum to be
served upon said Ricardo J. Rechani requiring his attendance at
said hearing; also directing the City Clerk to cause notice of
the herein resolution to be given to said Ricardo J. Rechani as
soon as practicable. Is there a motion?
Mr. Plummer: Well, wait a minute. That is not complete. It was
my understanding that part of that was going to be failure to
appear would be the the withdrawal of his name from the ballot.
Mayor Ferre: That is a decision that the Commission will have to
make on Thursday, sir.
Mr. Plummer: How can you make a decision if he is not here to
testify? That would be his ploy.
Mayor Ferre: But I think you are (I am not a lawyer) but you are
precluding - you .are assuming he is not going to show up and you
cannot do that tonight. I think you are right.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Plus, you have other pieces of evidence
coming. I understand the Police Department is going to...
Mayor Ferre: The Police Department, the City Clerk and the City
Attorney are all going to legally document that this man, in
effect is not living ... Is there a motion?
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Mr. Plummer: Well, yes. There was a motion made this morning,
yes.
Mayor Ferre: Does that mean you are moving it? All right,
Plummer moves. Is there a second?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Dawkins. Further discussion?
Mr. Plummer: This does not preclude other violations of election
laws being taken up at the same time.
Mr. Dawkins: None whatsoever.
Mayor Ferre: None whatsoever and I am sure knowing the way
things are going around this town, there will be plenty of them
coming up. I am ready, myself! I've got all kinds of them. We
have got Jackie Floyd. I want to make sure that the Clerk has a
copy.
Mr. Ongie: Oh, yes.
Mayor Ferre: All right, call the roll on the motion.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-981
A RESOLUTION SETTING OCTOBER 27, 1983 AT 9:00
A.M. IN THE CITY COMMISSION CHAMBERS, CITY
HALL, 3500 PAN AMERICAN DRIVE, MIAMI, FLORI-
DA, AS THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE OF A HEARING
BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE THE
RESIDENCY OF RICARDO J. RECHANI A CANDIDATE
FOR CITY COMMISSION IN GROUP II, PURSUANT TO
SECTION 14 OF THE CITY CHARTER; FURTHER
AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A WITNESS SUBPOE-
NA DUCES TECUM TO BE SERVED UPON SAID RICARDO
J. RECHANI REQUIRING HIS ATTENDANCE AT SAID
HEARING; ALSO DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO
CAUSE NOTICE OF THE HEREIN RESOLUTION TO BE
GIVEN TO SAID RICARDO J. RECHANI AS SOON AS
PRACTICABLE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
194 OCT 2 51983
127. APPROVE SELECTION MADE BY COMMITTEE REPRESENTED BY MR. URRA
FOR THE LOCATION OF THE ALLAPATTAH ACTION AGENCY ELDERLY
CENTER TO BE LOCATED IN CURTIS PARK.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, we have a request by Urra...
Mr. Perez: Orlando Urra was requesting the use of the Curtis
Park site as the site for the Allapattah Community Action Center.
I think that it was approved in principle...
Mayor Ferre: All right, it was moved by Perez, seconded by
Dawkins - this is choosing the Curtis Park site as the locale for
the Allapattah Community Action, Inc. Elderly Center. All right,
is there further discussion on that item? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Perez,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-982
A MOTION APPROVING THE SELECTION MADE BY A
COMMITTEE AND REPRESENTED BY MR. URRA TO
LOCATE THE ALLAPATTAH ACTION AGENCY ELDERLY
CENTER IN CURTIS PARK.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
Miller J. Dawkins*
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
*Although absent on roll call, requested of the City Clerk to be
shown as voting with the motion.
128. DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO LOAN SURPLUS CITY OF MIAMI OFFICE
EQUIPMENT TO THE INTER-AMERICAN CENTER FOR MUNICIPAL COOPER-
ATION.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, there is a request here of surplus
equipment, which we will submit to the ... on the Agenda, A. L.
Mullins, September 14th memo, starting with a secretarial chair
four, worth $100... the total value is $1,190 in surplus office
equipment, which will be - the motion is by Commissioner Perez
that it be loaned to the Inter -American Center for Municipal
Cooperation. This is surplus equipment of the City of Miami,
which Commissioner Perez is requesting to be loaned to that...
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT PLACED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor. Ferre: Further discussion? Let those equipments be prop-
erly tagged so that we will get them back eventually.
Mr. Plummer: I think it should be put on the record that this is
for the people who work the congress. The congress was a huge
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success and they need these things to continue the work of the
congress.
Mr. Perez: That is for the office that we have received...
Mr. Plummer: It is a very important thing.
Mr. Perez:...the Ainsley Building downtown?
Mayor Ferre: We are getting a free of charge office in the
Ainsley Building and you will find a Kiki Burger anytime you
want!
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, whoa!
Mr. Perez: Former assistant...
Mr. Plummer: No, no. Kiki is not my assistant. That is the
task force of Demetrio.
Mayor Ferre: Call the roll!
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Perez,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-983
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY
MANAGER TO LOAN SURPLUS CITY OF MIAMI OFFICE
EQUIPMENT OF THE DOLLAR VALUE OF $1,190 TO BE
LOANED TO THE INTER-AMERICAN CENTER FOR
MUNICIPAL COOPERATION SUBJECT TO FINAL AP-
PROVAL BY THE CITY MANAGER.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins*
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
*Although absent on roll call, requested of the City Clerk to be
shown as voting with the motion.
Mr. Gary: This is with the understanding that I can give this
equipment to him now.
Mayor Ferre: So this is, what we are doing, is we are allowing
you to make the final decision.
Mr. Gary: Okay.
Mayor Ferre: The motion is a motion that you will have to have
somebody make sure that we are not ending up giving them a
$20,000 piece of carved furniture, even though I don't think
there is any such thing at City Hall, but...
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129. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE - AMEND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS APPROPRIA-
TIONS ORDINANCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE EXPANSION OF THE FIRE
ALARM OFFICE.
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Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, let me take up these other things - they
are quick. An Emergency Ordinance appropriating $125,000 to the
Fire Alarm Office. They have to have this money. You have a copy
of this in the Supplemental.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves, is there a second.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mr. Plummer: It is recommended, the attached emergency.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Perez. Further discussion?
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, you have got to read it.
THEREUPON, Ordinance is read into the record.
Mayor Ferre: It has been moved and seconded. Further discus-
sion? Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF
ORDINANCE NO. 9534, ADOPTED DECEMBER 9, 1982,
THE EXISTING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT APPROPRIA-
TIONS ORDINANCE, AS AMENDED; BY REDUCING ITEM
III.B.3, FIRE APPARATUS ACQUISITION, REPLACE-
MENT AND MODIFICATIONS, BY AN AMOUNT OF
$125,000, AND TRANSFERRING SAID AMOUNT TO
ITEM XVII.D.3, EXPANSION OF FIRE ALARM OF-
FICE; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by
Commissioner Perez, for adoption as an emergency measure and
dispensing with the requirement of reading same on two separate
days, which was agreed to by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins*
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
Whereupon the Commission on motion of Commissioner Plummer
and seconded by Commissioner Perez, adopted said ordinance by the
following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins*
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Joe Carollo
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*Although absent on role call,
Commissioner Dawkins later
asked of the City Clerk to be
shown as voting with this
motion.
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*Although absent on roll call, requested of the City Clerk to be
shown as voting with the motion.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9709
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record
and announced that copies were available to the members of the
City Commission and to the public.
130. MOTION OF INTENT TO RENAME CITY OF MIAMI WOODSON PARK TO BE
KNOWN AS MIAMI DESIGN PLAZA.
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Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, a resolution...
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves that Woodson Park be renamed the
Miami Design Plaza. It has been seconded by Demetrio Perez,
further discussion? Item 55, call the roll.
Mr. Plummer: Is that Woodlawn Park?
Mayor Ferre: No, Woodson Park.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-984
A RESOLUTION RENAMING THE CITY OF MIAMI WOODSON PARK
AT N. E. 36TH STREET AND 2 AVENUE, THE MIAMI DESIGN
PLAZA.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Joe Carollo
131. ALLOCATE 486,366 OF FY 183-184 F.R.S. FUNDS TO PROVIDE FOR
1/12TH FUNDING FOR SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES.
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Mr. Plummer: A resolution allocating 1/12th of the FY '83-'84
F.R.S. Sharing Allocations to various social agencies and servic-
es for the period covering November 1, 1983 to November 30, 1983.
It is a continuation of that funding.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Perez, further discussion, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
OCT 2 51983
RESOLUTION NO. 83-985
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $869366 OF FY'83-84
FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING FUNDS APPROPRIATED BY
PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE NO. 9684 TO PREVIOUSLY
APPROVED SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES LISTED
HEREIN IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 1/12TH OF
THE TOTAL ALLOCATION TO EACH AGENCY FOR
FY182-83, FOR THE PERIOD FROM NOVEMBER 1,
1983 THROUGH NOVEMBER 30, 1983, AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENTS
WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED AGENCIES, SUBJECT TO
THE CITY ATTORNEY'S APPROVAL AS TO FORM AND
CORRECTNESS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Joe Carollo
132. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO TRANSFER AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
$ 69500,000 FROM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND, ON TEMPORARY BASIS
TO FUND ACQUISITION OF FOUR SITES IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE
AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
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Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, would you take up the thing on Afforda-
ble Housing, I'd like to vote for it. I move Item 54.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second on Item 54?
Mr. Plummer: With a provision that the Administration does not
in any way obligate this City an amount of money to exceed
$8,000,000.
Mayor Ferre: Okay. Not, it is not $8,000,000, it is $8,500,000,
isn't it?
Mr. Plummer: $8,000,000.
Mayor Ferre: $8,0009000? All right, Plummer moves. Perez
seconds. Further discussion? Call the roll on Item 54 with that
proviso.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-986
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO
TRANSFER $6,500,000 FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVE-
MENT FUND, FISCAL YEAR 1982-83 FLORIDA POWER
AND LIGHT FRANCHISE EARNINGS, TO THE GENERAL
OBLIGATION HOUSING BOND FUND, ON A TEMPORARY
BASIS TO FUND THE ACQUISITION OF FOUR SITES
IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE AFFORDABLE RENTAL
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM; PROVIDING FOR
REPAYMENT OF SUCH TEMPORARY TRANSFER UPON
SALE OF UP TO $8,000,000 IN GENERAL OBLIGA-
TION HOUSING BONDS IN FISCAL YEAR 1983-84;
FURTHER PROVIDING THAT THE CITY ADMINISTRA-
TION WILL NOT OBLIGATE THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR
MORE THAN $8,000,000; FURTHER PROVIDING THAT
SAID AUTHORIZATION DOES NOT OBLIGATE THE CITY
TO EXPEND MORE THAN $8,000,000 FOR THE PUR-
POSE OF ACQUIRING SITES IN CONJUNCTION WITH
SAID PROGRAM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez
Vice -Mayor J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Joe Carollo
132.A BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: FUNDING REQUEST FROM SALESMEN
ASSOCIATION OF STATE OF FLORIDA; REFERRED TO MANAGER.
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Mr. Perez: We have Humberto Hernandez waiting here. *,He has a
petition on behalf of the Salesmen Association of the State of
Florida. They are going to celebrate the new congress this year
and they are requesting $35,000.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, have you gone through this? This is
another small request for $35,000. No, I haven't seen this.
Mr. Perez: Could you bring a recommendation for the next Commis-
sion meeting?
Mayor Ferre: When is the meeting? In December? Well, we have
some time. All right, Mr. Manager, would you add that to your
short lists of requests for funding for projects? And when you
put your hand in that little bag that you bring out all the
money, make sure...
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133. EXPRESS INTENTION TO ATTEMPT TO BRING NAVAL VESSELS TO MIAMI
FOR LIBERTY AND GOING ON RECORD IN SUPPORT OF THE ESTABLISH-
MENT OF THE METROPOLITAN WATER BORNE TRANSPORTATION BOARD.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Sorg, why don't you start, Stuart,
and by the time you get wound into it, J. L. will be here and he
is going to support you anyway.
Mr. Stuart Sorg: Stuart Sorg, from Coconut Grove. I want to
first of all, commend the Miami S.W.A.T. Team. Some weeks ago,
we had a training evolution with the Coast Guard, the British
commandos and the Navy Seal game, and they had some S.W.A.T.peo-
pie. They were fabulous. If Miami has ever been proud of some
of its personnel, they really ought to be commended, and Bob Apt,
who ran that group and through the helicopter, to fly that heli-
copter upside down and any place. I never seen a pilot like
that, so I can't say enough good things about the Miami S.W.A.T.
team.
Mayor Ferre: Okay go ahead.
Mr. Sorg: Some time ago at a Commission meeting you asked me to
work on retaining the Navy in the City of Miami. The Navy has,
about a year ago, joined forces with the Marine Corps and made
some sort of a tentative decision to go to Carol City. What is
happened, we have begun to work on them some more, and through
the request from Cinclanflt, we have gotten a strong support
letter from the Admiral that commands Atlantic Fleet on bringing
Naval vessels to Bicentennial Park. What is important about
this, it means that if we will ... what does this mean by bringing
Naval vessels to Bicentennial Park. The only thing they ask for
is - do we sewage disposal, do we have electricity, do we have
water, do we have garbage and so forth. We have checked that all
out. We have got all the plans. Bicentennial Park is ready
except for maintenance dredging to bring Naval vessels in. In
that little package that you have got, you will see that that is
$81,000,000 a year to the City of Ft. Lauderdale. That is a lot
of money. What we need to do is find a way to begin to find some
bids of something on maintenance dredging that sector. The
interesting thing was, which is Bicentennial Park.
(INAUDIBLE COMMENTS NOT PLACED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mr. Sorg: An interesting thing at the Transportation Committee,
the Chamber of Commerce the other day, when we were talking about
this, Post, Buckley came to me and said you can't dredge Bicen-
tennial Park because the County has already approved the tunnel
to run by there, and I thought that was interesting, because is
when I go to $81,000,000 potential to the City of Miami - I don't
know whether the City has agreed to that or not, but let me just
mention to you what has happened now. The Navy has given consid-
eration to staying in Miami, keeping the Reserve Center here,
keeping multimillion dollars of revenue, and also berthing ves-
sels here, but they are asking for concessions. They are asking
for someplace in the turning basin, and what I have done is, I've
shown you on the map three considerations. I've talked with ----
the other day and went over Bicentennial Park, which makes the
ideal site to move the Naval Reserve Center, if you can cut some
of that land out and put the Center there, you couldn't see it.
You would have 700 people there, twice a month. You would have a
Navy vessel berthed there, you would have people in the park all
the time and you ,would have a fabulous way to get the park in
good use and plenty of dollars coming back into the City. They
flew the Admiral down from Jacksonville the other day and his
interest was on Watson Island. This is in this corner, Watson
Island, where the bridge comes over. We also have some part of
the FEC property. We also have Bicentennial Park. And what the
Navy is interested in right now is, can the City give them some
sort of positive statement that they can find a place downtown at
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one of those three sectors. My choice is Bicentennial Park.
They have sent the Admiral down to look at Watson Island and FEC
property, that northern sector, is ideal for it. I don't see how
we can not say "yes" when we are looking at potential for tremen-
dous amounts of revenue - particularly flying the flag and hav-
ing their own ships here.
Mayor Ferre: Admiral Hydrofoil, I am with you, sir!
Mr. Sorg: Yes, sir! But, what I would like to do is, I would
like to have some ... I've talked it over with --- and I would like
to have some feelings from the Commission that I can get back to
Admiral Levy, but the Navy is staying in one of those three
areas. I think we have a wonderful opportunity to do many
things. The revenue in people incredible!
Mayor Ferre: Stuart, look. I think what you have been working
on is extremely important, okay, and I think it would be a great
coup for the City of Miami to get some Navy vessels coming into
this town, and I think that we ought to ... now, I can't tell you,
and I don't think the Manager can tonight, which one of those
four identifiable properties is the best. Now, we have environ-
mental considerations on the question of dredging and what we are
going to dredge. You've got turn basin problems with Carmen
Lunetta. You have got future developmemt projects, not only on
Bicentennial Park, but also on the FEC, PLO property, because
that is the possible site for a cultural performing arts center,
or for a maritime museum, which would fit into this, or an aquar-
ium, or I don't know, whatever is going to go there, so I think
if you take any major steps forward, you need from us...
Mr. Sorg: I need some go-ahead from you.
Mayor Ferre: I think what you need is a resolution from the
Commission, that one, it is the clear intent of the City of Miami
to do everything within its power to bring the Navy ships to
Miami, and two, that we instruct the Manager to assign proper
staff, and if we don't have it in house, to go outside and retain
a proper consultant that knows about these problems of what Navy
ships require.
Mr. Sorg: I've got all that.
Mayor Ferre: And make a specific proposal to the United States
Navy as quickly as possible.
Mr. Sorg: To keep the Reserve Center here.
Mayor Ferre: To keep the Reserve Center here and to ,bring the
Navy ships here in the future. Now, is that acceptabld? Okay,
is there a motion to that effect? Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: All right, moved by Plummer. Seconded by Perez,
further discussion. Now, Stuart, does that cover it?
Mr. Sorg: Yes, sir. I will communicate that back up the line.
Motion is made by the City Commission that they will keep the
Reserve Center in the downtown sector.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir. All right, and that we are going to try
to also get work toward getting Navy ships in Miami.
Mr. Sorg: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Now, we have got to vote on that. Ready? Call the
roll.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-987
A MOTION EXPRESSING THAT IT IS THE CLEAR
INTENTION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI CITY COMMIS-
SION TO ATTEMPT TO BRING NAVAL VESSELS TO THE
CITY OF MIAMI FOR LIBERTY AND DIRECTING THE
CITY MANAGER TO ASSIGN A MEMBER OF HIS STAFF
OR ENGAGE THE SERVICES OF AN OUTSIDE CONSULT-
ANT TO MAKE A PROPER PROPOSAL TO THE
CINCLANFLT TO ENCOURAGE THE RETENTION OF THE
NAVAL RESERVE CENTER IN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND
SPECIFICALLY IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Joe Carollo
Mayor Ferre: I vote "yes". All right, Stuart, what else do
you have?
Mr. Sorg: The second thing is, following the Post Buckley
study on the Hydrofoil, we began to look at the potential
for a water borne transportation system. The hydrofoil
could be a flagship, but I think we are looking at a lot of
other things. Other types of vessels to run back and forth
from Dinner Key to Crandon Marina, maybe motorized gondolas,
the City has a waterfront future. Its history is here. We
need to do something about it. What I would like to do is,
I've talked to the County. I've talked to Rob Parkins.
I've mentioned to the City Manager. I'd like to have the
support from the City Commission to form a Metropolitan
water borne transportation board of the County, the City of
Miami, and the City of Miami Beach to come up with a plan, a
recommendation, for a water borne transportation system that
would meet the needs of the County, the City and the City of
Miami Beach.
Mayor Ferre: Okay. Do you have any problems with that, Mr.
Manager? Do you need a resolution?
Mr. Sorg: I need a motion or something. I'll put the board
together and we will.
Mayor Ferre: Tell me what the motion says.
Mr. Sorg: The motion would say that the City of Miami goes
on record supporting the concept of forming a Metropolitan
water borne transportation board for the purposes of deter-
mining the value and implementation of water borne transpor-
tation.
Mayor Ferre: All'•right, Plummer, you all set? All right,
Perez moves, Plummer seconds. Further discussion? Call the
roll?
203 OCT 2 51983
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Perez,
who moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 83-988
A MOTION THAT THE CITY OF MIAMI GOES ON
RECORD IN SUPPORT OF A CONCEPT FOR THE ESTAB-
LISHMENT OF A METROPOLITAN WATER BORNE TRANS-
PORTATION BOARD TO BE COMPOSED OF A COALITION
OF MEMBERS FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI, THE CITIES
OF MIAMI BEACH AND METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Joe Carollo
134. CLAIMS SETTLEMENT - AUTHORIZE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO PAY
ROSA MOREY AND SAMUEL MOREY $109000.
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Mayor Ferre: All right, take up Item 79. Into the record quick-
ly, what is 79? This authorizing the Director of Finance to pay
to Rosa Morey and Samuel Morey $10,000 for complete settlement.
Plummer moves, Demetrio Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call
the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Plummer, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-989
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF
FINANCE TO PAY TO ROSA MOREY AND SAMUEL MOREY
TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) DOLLARS, WITHOUT
THE ADMISSION OF LIABILITY, IN FULL AND
COMPLETE SETTLEMENT OF ALL BODILY INJURY,
PERSONAL INJURY PROTECTIONS LIENS, WORKER'S'
COMPENSATION LIENS, CLAIMS AND DEMANDS A-
GAINST THE CITY OF MIAMI, KENNETH HARMS, AND
ROY BROWN AND UPON EXECUTION OF A RELEASE
RELEASING THE CITY OF MIAMI, KENNETH HARMS,
AND ROY BROWN, FROM ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted
here and on file in the Office of the City
Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution
was passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Joe Carollo
2` 14 OCT 2 51983
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135. CLAIMS SETTLEMENT - AUTHORIZE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO PAY
$359000 TO NATHALYN MILLER AND DAVID MILLER.
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Mayor
Ferre: All right, Item 809 authorizing the Director of
Finance to pay Nathalyn Miller and David Miller the sum of
$35,000 in complete settlement. Perez moves. Plummer seconds.
Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Perez, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-990
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF
FINANCE TO PAY TO NATHALYN MILLER AND DAVID
MILLER, THE SUM OF THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND
($35,000.00) DOLLARS, WITHOUT THE ADMISSION
OF LIABILITY, IN FULL AND COMPLETE SETTLEMENT
OF ALL BODILY INJURY, PERSONAL INJURY PROTEC-
TION LIENS, WORKER'S COMPENSATION LIENS,
PROPERTY DAMAGE CLAIMS, CLAIMS AND DEMANDS
AGAINST THE CITY OF MIAMI, AND UPON EXECUTION
OF A RELEASE RELEASING THE CITY FROM ALL
CLAIMS AND DEMANDS.
(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
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Joe Carollo
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to come before the City
Commission, on motion duly made and seconded, the meeting was
adjourned at 9:10 P.M.
ATTEST: RALPH G. ONGIE
City Clerk
MAURICE A. FERRE
Mayor
MATTY HIRAI
Assistant City Clerk
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205
135. CLAIMS SETTLEMENT - AUTHORIZE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO PAY
$359000 TO NATHALYN MILLER AND DAVID MILLER.
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Mayor
Ferre: All right, Item 809 authorizing the Director of
Finance to pay Nathalyn Miller and David Miller the sum of
$35,000 in complete settlement. Perez moves. Plummer seconds.
Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner
Perez, who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 83-990
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF
FINANCE TO PAY TO NATHALYN MILLER AND DAVID
MILLER, THE SUM OF THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND
($35,000.00) DOLLARS, WITHOUT THE ADMISSION
OF LIABILITY, IN FULL AND COMPLETE SETTLEMENT
OF ALL BODILY INJURY, PERSONAL INJURY PROTEC-
TION LIENS, WORKER'S COMPENSATION LIENS,
PROPERTY DAMAGE CLAIMS, CLAIMS AND DEMANDS
AGAINST THE CITY OF MIAMI, AND UPON EXECUTION
OF A RELEASE RELEASING THE CITY FROM ALL
CLAIMS AND DEMANDS.
(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
Vice -Mayor J.
Mayor Maurice
NOES: None.
Demetrio Perez, Jr.
L. Plummer, Jr.
A. Ferre
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Joe Carollo
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to come before the City
Commission, on motion duly made and seconded, the meeting was
adjourned at 9:10 P.M.
ATTEST: RALPH G. ONGIE
City Clerk
MAURICE A. FERRE
Mayor
MATTY HIRAI
Assistant City Clerk
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ITGY OF M&AMI
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MEETING DATE:
REGULAR: OCTOBER 25, 1983
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COMMISSION RETRIEVAL
DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION ACTION An CODE NO.
APPROVE'INTER-LOCAL AGREEMENT ON THREE CENT ADDITIONAL
TOURIST TAX.
R-83-884
APPROVE THE APPOINTMENT OF RICHARD HORROW TO THE MIAMI
SPORTS AUTHORITY.
R-83-885
A MOTION OF CONDOLENCES TO THE FATHER OF SERGIO PEREIRA.
R-83-888
APPOINT MR. SKIP SHEPPARD AS A MEMBER OF THE MIAMI SPORTS
AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY.
R-83-893
RESOLUTION CHANGING THE DATE OF THE NOVEMBER CITY
COMMISSION MEETING.
R-83-895
RESOLUTION CHANGING THE DATE OF THE DECEMBER CITY
COMMISSION MEETING.
R-83-896
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH BUS
BENCHES COMPANY FOR INSTALLATION OF BUS BENCHES WITH AND
WITHOUT ADVERTISING IN THE PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY.
R-83-897
ALLOCATE $3,000. TO THE JOINT CENTER OF ENVIROMENTAL
AND URBAN PROBLEMS TO RESEARCH THE EFFECT OF THE
PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT KNOWN AS PROPOSITION
ONE.
R-83-898
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH
WALTER ALVAREZ FOR SHOWING CLOSED CIRCUIT PRESENTATION
OF HAGLER VS. DRBAN FIGHT.
R-83-899
STRONGLY OPPOSING A PROPOSED METRO ORDINANCE
REQUIRING ALL CITY OWED MARINAS TO OBTAIN PERMITS
FROM DADE COUNTY.
R-83-903
PROVIDING FOR ISSUANCE AND FIXING AND DETERMINING THE
DATE, PRINCIPAL AMOUNT, MATURITIES, INTEREST RATES
AND REDEMPTION IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NO
EXCEEDING $16,000,000. OF PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE BONDS.
R-83-905
IRREVOCABLY CALLING $8,375,000. AGGREGATE
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF THE PARKING FACILITIES REVENUE
BONDS SERIES 1980.
R-83-906
CONFIRM ORDERING RESOLUTION AND AUTHORIZE CITY CLERK TO
ADVERTISE SEALED BIDS CITY WIDE SANITARY SEWER
IMPROVEMENT EAST LITTLE HAVANA SR-5498-C
R-83-910
CONFIRM ORDERING RESOLUTION AND AUTHORIZE CITY CLERK
TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF EAST
LITTLE HAVANA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT -PHASE I-H-4487.
R-83-911
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RATIFY EMERGENCY ACTION TAKEN BY THE CITY MANAGER IN
THE PURCHASE OF SPEAKERS FOR THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM.
AUTHORIZE INCREASE IN CONTRACT NOT TO EXCEED $51,000
M. VILA AND ASSOCIATES, INC., GARMENT CENTER
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAVING PROJECT B-4471.
WAIVE REQUIREMENTS AND PROHIBITION CONTAINED IN CITY
CODE SECTION 2-302 TO PERMIT GALE REMBERT RIVERA,
AN EMPLOYEE OF PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT TO
PARTICIPATE IN THE HOME RENOVATION AND REHABILITATION
PROGRAM.
WAIVE REQUIREMENTS AND PROHIBITION CONTAINED IN CITY
CODE SECTION 2-302 AFTER DULY ADVERTISED PUBLIC
HEARING TO PERMIT GLORIA SWANSON, AN EMPLOYEE OF
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HOME
RENOVATION AND REHABILITATION PROGRAM.
WAIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR FORMAL SEALED BIDS AFTER DULY
ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE PURCHASING OF
AERIAL LADDER TRUCK PARTS FROM AMERICAN LA FRANCE, THE
SOLE SOURCE.
WAIVE BY FOUR -FIFTHS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE AFTER DULY
ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING PROHIBITION AGAINST
THE APPEARANCE OF A FORMER CITY OF MIAMI EMPLOYEE,
MARK VALENTINE, ESQ.
RATIFY AND CONFIRM BY FOUR -FIFTH AFFIRMATIVE VOTE,
APPROVING THE PURCHASE FOR INSTALLATION OF PLAYGROUND
EQUIPMENT FROM RNM CORPORATION, FROM ESPLANDE
CONSTRUCTION, INC.
APPROVE AND CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER BY FOUR -
FIFTH AFFIRMATIVE VOTE AUTHORIZING PLACEMENT OF HALF -
PAGE ADVERTISEMENT IN THE LONDON FINANCIAL TIMES.
SET FORTH POLICY OF ENFORCEMENT RELATED TO UNSAFE
CONDITIONS FROM UNLAWFUL DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE AND WASTE
IN THE CITY AND UNSAFE UNSECURED BUILDINGS.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE A WARRANT TO CHARLEY/
PALACIOS AND COMPANY FOR THE PURPOSES OF A ONE PAGE
ADVERTISEMENT IN THE OCTOBER ISSUE OF FRENCH VOGUE.
ALLOCATE $6,000 TO CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES, INC.
IN LITTLE HAVANA OUTREACH CENTER.
DESIGNATE PLANNING AND DESIGN SERVICES FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF BLUE LAGOON PARK AS A CATEGORY B PROJECT.
R-83-912
R-83-913
R-83-914
R-83-915
R-83-916
R-83-917
R-83-918
R-83-919
R-83-926
R-83-927
R-83-928
R-83-929
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AMEND SECTIONS TWO AND THREE OF RESOLUTION 79-56 BY
CLARIFYING AND LIMITING THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIE!
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI/UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI JAMES L.
KNIGHT INTERNATIONAL CENTER ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO SELL ONE 1952
PETER PIRSCH SURPLIS FIRE TRUCK, I.D. NO. 19790
TO THE GREATER MIAMI CODE #1 ASSOCIATION.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE BUILDING PERMITS FOR
EXPANSION OF RUSTY PELICAN RESTAURANT.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH
GARCES COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, JAMES E. SCOTT COMMUNITY
ASSOCIATION, INC.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT WITH
MIAMI DESIGN PLAZA MERCHANT'S ASSOCIATION (MDPMA)
FOR PROMOTION OF ANNUAL EVENT "MIAMI MARKET DAYS".
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT
WITH HAITIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION OF DADE
COUNTY, INC. (H.A.C.A.D.) MANPOWER EMPLOYMENT
SERVICES FOR HAITIAN ENTRANTS.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXERCISE RENEWAL PROVISION
IN EXISTING LEASE FOR OFFICE SPACE AT CULMER/OVERTOWN
NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICE CENTER FOR USE BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, OVERTOWN JOBS
PROGRAM.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO AMEND SECTION 1 OF
RESOLUTION 83-717 FOR THE PURPOSE OF OVERHAULING AND
UPGRADING THE UNINTERRUPTED POWER SUPPLY EQUIPMENT
TO THE NEW COMPUTER CENTER.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO SOLICIT PROPOSAL FOR
CONTRACT WITH INDIVIDUALS, FIRMS, JOINT VENTURES, OR
PARTNESSHIPS, PROVIDES OF GOODS AND SERVICES,
PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACTING WITH THE CITY OF MIAMI,
1973-83 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE PRODUCTION OF A
REPORT.
POSTPONING PLATTING OF VIRGINIA KEY TRACT "A"
PENDING A PERFECTED OPINION OF TITLE AND AUTHORIZING
ISSUANCE OF BUILDING PERMIT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF
HORATIO'S RESTAURANT.
GIVE FINAL APPROVAL OF THE ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION
BYLAWS FOR THE INDEPENDENT NON—PROFIT COMMUNITY
ACCESS CABLE CORPORATION KNOWN AS THE MIAMI CABLE
ACCESS CORPORATION. (MCAC).
STRONGLY URGE FLORIDA STATE LEGISLATURE TO ADOPT
LEGISLATION CLASSIFYING THE OFFENSE OF KILLING A
POLICE OFFICER A CAPITAL FELONY.
R-83-930
R-83-931
R-83-932
R-83-933
R-83-934
R-83-935
R-83-936
R-83-937
R-83-938
R-83-940
R-83-941
R-83-942
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ALLOCATE $39,161.1981/1983 F.R.S. FUNDS TO LITTLE HAVANA
ACTIVITIES AND NUTRITION CENTERS OF DADE COUNTY AND
ACTION COMMUNITY CENTER, INC.
R-83-943
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXPEND FUNDS NOT TO EXCEED
$35,000 TO COVER COST OF METRO MIAMI ACTION PLAN
CONFERENCE.
R-83-944
AUTHORIZE INCREASE IN CONTRACT BETWEEN CITY OF MIAMI AND
ACI-CENTURY, INC. FOR CONSTRUCTION OF MMPD GARAGE
FLOOR RESURFACING.
R-83-945
RATIFY, APPROVE, AND CONFIRM CITY MANAGER'S ACCEPTANCE
OF A GRANT FROM STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF
VETERAN AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS TO CONDUCT A CHILD DAY
CARE PROGRAM.
R-83-946
RATIFY AND CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER IN APPROVING
EMERGENCY PURCHASE OF TEN PEDESTAL DRINKING FOUNTAINS
FOR DEPARTMENT OF PARKS.
R-83-947
AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO RATIFY ACTION
APPROVING A LOAN PAYABLE TO THE COCONUT GROVE LOCAL
- DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
R-83-948
AUTHORIZE PURCHASE OF 10,000 TONS OF ASPHALTIC CONCRETE.
R-83-949
AUTHORIZE PURCHASE OF 113 SIDE CHAIRS FROM THONET, INC.
FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTIONS.
R-83-950
ACCEPT BID. DEMOLITION OF TWO APARTMENT BUILDINGS.
R-83-951
ACCEPT BID. 2 THREE -WHEELED TRUCSTERS AND SPARE PARTS
FOR FIRE RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES.
R-83-952
ACCPET BID. MEDICAL EXAMINATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS.
R-83-953
ACCEPT BID. OFFICE SUPPLIES CITY WIDE.
R-83-954
ACCEPT BID. AUTO AND TRUCK BATTERIES CITY WIDE.
R-83-955
ACCEPT BID. LEASING OF 60 GOLF CARTS.
R-83-956
ACCEPT BID. 220 ITEMS OF OFFICE FURNITURE FOR
COMPUTERS.
R-83-957
ACCEPT BID. ARMED SECURITY GUARD SERVICES AT THE MANUEL
ARTIME COMMUNITY CENTER.
R-83-958
ACCEPT BID. KINLOCH SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT BIDS
"A" AND "B".
R-83-959
ACCEPT BID. KINLOCH SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT BIDS
nC��
R-83-960
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ORDERING CITY-WIDE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT.
ORDERING S.W. 16TH STREET HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT.
ORDERING OVERTOWN HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT -PHASE I.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR KOUBEK SANITARY SEWER
IMPROVEMENT.
DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES.
BID ACCEPTANCE: RUSSELL, INC. FOR CITY WIDE PAVING.
ACCEPT BID MANOR HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE III-H-4484.
FORMALIZING RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $40,000. TO
SUNSTREET FESTIVAL 1983.
FORMALIZING RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $10,000 TO
HISPANIC HERITAGE FESTIVAL COMMITTEE IN CONNECTION WITH
SAID FESTIVAL TO BE HELD ON OCTOBER 6TH TO THE 16TH.
APPROVE IN PRINCIPLE PHASE I OVERTOWN TRANSIT STATION
IMPACT AREA REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR SOUTHEAST PARK
WEST COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AREA.
DESIGNATE $11,000,000. OF CITY OF MIAMI GENERAL
OBLIGATION HOUSING BONDS PROCEEDS FOR THE ACQUISITION
OF LAND AFFORDABLE RENTING HOUSING IN SOUTHEAST/
OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA.
APPROVE THE INTENT TO UTILIZE 2.1 MILLION OF
AUTHORIZED 1980 STREET AND HIGHWAY BONDS FOR CONSTRUCTI
OF SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST STREET IMPROVEMENTS
INC.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE A GRANT APPLICATION
TO HUD FOR A $7,000,000. LOAN UNDER HUD SECTION 108
LOAN PROGRAM.
REQUEST BOARD OF DADE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO ALLOCATE
$4.2 MILLION FROM DADE COUNTY HOME OWNERSHIP ASSISTANCE
LOAN PROGRAM FOR SECOND MORTGAGE PROGRAM FOR OVERTOWN
SEGMENT OF SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AREA.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE AND SUBMIT APPLICATION
FOR ASSISTANCE TO U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING 7 URBAN
DEVELOPMENT UNDER GRANT PROGRAM FOR PROJECTS REQUIRING
FINANCIAL AID IN PHASE I OVERTOWN TRANSIT STATION
IMPACT AREA.
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R-83-961
R-83-962
R-83-963
R-83-964
R-83-965
R-83-966
R-83-969
R-83-970
R-83-971
R-83-972
R-83-973
R-83-974
R-83-975
R-83-976
R-83-977
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ENDORSE CONCEPT OF AN OVERTOWN HISTORIC VILLAGE AS PART
OF SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN PARK WEST COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT PROGPLxf.
R-83-978
DECLARING THE POLICY OF THE CITY COMMISSION CONCERNING
THE TAKING OF PROPERTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE OVERTOWN
URBAN INITIATIVE PROJECT.
R-83-979
APPROVE THE OVERTOWN URBAN INITIATIVE PROJECT PROPERTY
OWNERS EQUITY PARTICIPATION PLAN POLICIES AND PROCEDURES.
R-83-980
A RESOLUTION SETTING OCTOBER 27TH AT 9:00 O'CLOCK AS
THE TIME FOR HEARING THE MATTER OF THE RESIDENCY OF
RICARDO J. RECHANI, CANDIDATE IN CITY COMMISSION GROUP
II.
R-83-981
APPROVE SELECTION MADE BY COMMITTEE REPRESENTED BY MR.
URRA FOR THE LOCATION OF THE ALLAPATTAH ACTION AGENCY
ELDERLY CENTER TO BE LOCATED IN CURTIS PARK.
M-83-982
MOTION OF INTENT TO RENAME CITY OF MIAMI WOODSON PARK
TO BE KNO14N AS MIAMI DESIGN PLAZA.
R-83-984
ALLOCATE $486,366. OF FY '83-'84 F.R.S. FUNDS TO
PROVIDE FOR 1/1,2TH FUNDING FOR SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCIES.
R-83-985
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO TRANSFER AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED $8,000,000. FROM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND,
ON TEMPORARY BASIS TO FUND ACQUISITION OF FOUR SITES IN
CONJUNCTION WITH TEH AFFORDABLE RENTAL HOUSING
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.
R-83-986
CLAIMS SETTLEMENT -AUTHORIZE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO PAY ROSA
MOREY AND SAMUEL MOREY $10,000.
R-83-989
CLAIMS SETTLEMENT -AUTHORIZE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO PAY
$35,000 TO NATHALYN AND MILLER AND DAVID MILLER.
R-83-990