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MINUTES
OF MEETING HELD ON October 14, 1982
(REGULAR)
PREPARED BY THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
CITY HALL
RALPH G.. ONGIE
CITY CLERK
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PROBLEM WITH LINES IN FRONT OF THE IMMIGRATION AND
NATURALIZATION SERVICE HEADQUARTERS IN DOWNTOWN MIA111I
(SEE ALSO LABEL NO. 17 IN CONNECTION WITH THE SA.*1E
ITEM).
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DISCUSSION ITEM: ARTICLE APPEARING IN MORNING PAPER
THAT MIAMI IS HIDING THEIR DRIFTERS, VAGRANTS AND
OTHER UNDESIRABLES FROM PEOPLE ATTENDING THE A.S.T.A.
CONVENTION.
3
DIRECT CITY MANAGER TO MEET WITH PROMOTERS OF AN EVENT
KNOWN AS "WIND —SURFING CHAMPIONSHIPS".
4
MOTION OF INTENT TO GRANT REQUEST FOR FINANCIAL
ASSISTANCE $10,000 TO DR. EMILIO CABALLERO FOR REFUGEE
PROGRAM, REFUGEES WHO HAVE NO SPONSORS.
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BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: UNFAVORABLE ARTICLES REGARDING
MIAMI APPEARING IN "EL MUNDO", CARACAS, VENEZUELA.
6
BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: DUPLICATING ADS CONCERNING
POLLING PLACES FOR UPCOMING ELECTION APPEARING IN
"THE MIAMI NEWS".
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PERSONAL APPEARANCE: REV. JOHATHAN ROLLE.
6
PERSONAL, APPEARANCE OF SEVERAL PERSONS REGARDING
PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION OF OVERTOWN SHOPPING CENTER.
("MATTER REFERRED TO THE CITY MANAGER).
9
PERSONAL APPEARANCE: CHARLES HARRISON PAWLEY—
AUDIO VISUAL PRESENTATION OF ALTERNATIVE TO ORANGE
BOWL REMODELING/REJUVENATION.
10
OFFICIALLY GOING ON RECORD TO SUPPORT COUNTY —WIDE
PROPOSED ONE CENT SALES TAX REFERENDUM TO BE HELD
NOVEMBER 2, 1982.
11
AUTHORIZE ALLOCATION OF $7,900 TO W`YNWOOD COMMUNITY
ECONOMIC DEVELOP -.'ENT PROGRAM, WITH PROVISOS.
12
MOTION OF INTENT TO AMEND PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE —
CHARTER AMENDMENT .
13
GRANT REQUEST OF UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND
(PANHELLENIC COUNCIL) FOR USE OF COCONUT GROVE
HALL ON OCTOBER 31st.
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DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL —OPERATION TICK —TALK WIRE—
TAP PROGRAM`', OF POLICE DEPARTMENT.
15
REPORT BY COXO.-!ISSIONER PLUMMER REGARDING STATE.*M.ENT BY
'tkYOR STEVE CLARK NOT BEING ASKED TO SPEAK AT OPENING
CERIMONIES OF A.S.T.A. COWENTION.
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APPOI ,TTME N"TS OF FOUR INDIVIDUALS TO THE "PROCUREI-1ENT
CO*NITTEE" .
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PERSONAL APPEAR.i.NCE: JOE 110WAH:TO' , DISTRICT DIRECTOR
OF I. N.S. OPERATIONS IN MLAb1I,
DISCUSSION 1-3
DISCUSSION 1 3-4
M-82-895
M-82-896
DISCUSSION
4-6
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DISCUSSION 11
DISCUSSION 11-12
DISCUSSION 12-19
DISCUSSION 20-22
R-82-897
M-82-898
I M-82-899
122-23
123-24
124-25
M-82-900
25-26
DISCUSSION
27-23
DISCUSSION
28-29
M-82-901 29-30
DISCUSSION 130-35
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DISCUSSION ITEM AND AUDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATION OF THE
OFFICE OF INFORMATION AND VISITORS.
PRESENTATION, PLAQUES, KEYS TO THE CITY AND SPECIAL
ITEMS.
OPEN SEALED BIDS: BUENA VISTA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT -
PHASE I-B-4475.
AUTHORIZE $60,000 TRANSFER OF FUNDS TO DOWNTOWN
DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY -SAID FUNDS TO BE REPAID.
REAPPOINT METRO/DADS COUNTY COMMISSIONER BARRY D.
SCHREIBER TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF D.D.A.
GRANT S10,000 REQUEST FOR FUNDING AND IN -KIND
SERVICES FOR "ORANGE BOWL" -MARATHON".
REQUEST OF THE CITY CLERK TO SEND ALL COPIES OF
JACAROL MATTER TO U.S, ATTORNEY GENERAL AND PLACE
ADVERTISEMENT FOR PUBLIC HEARING AT THE NEXT MEETING
REGARDING ORDINANCE WHICH WAS DECLARED INVALID.
CONFIRM ASSESSMENT ROLL-"CRESTWOOD SANITARY SEWER
IMPROVEMENT - SR- 54 32-Cl
ORDERING RESOLUTION: "EAST ALLAPATTAH HIGHWAY
I'TROVEMENTi 1i-4481".
DISCUSSION OF SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAMS:
(A) TRANSPORTATION REQUIREMENTS IN THE ALLAPATTAH
CO%, ML'NITY AREA.
(B) RESOLUTION ALLOCATION ADDITIONAL ONE -TWELFTH
(1/12TH) FUNDING,
:ALLOCATE S8,975.49 TO THE BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE
FOR THE REPORT OF THE CUBAN DEMONSTRATION OF JAN'V,. NY
14, 1982.
DEFERRAL OF CONSIDERATION OF MARTIN FINE'S REQUEST FOR
VARIANCE APPLICATION FEE WAIVER.
BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: NEW SIGN FOR "J.P.'S
RESTAURANT" ADJACENT TO BAYSHORE DRIVE.
APPROAL IN CONCEPT TRAM SERVICE FROM F.E.C. PARKING
LOT AREA TO POINTS IN DOVNTOtN\ MIAMI.
FIRS?' READING ORDINANCE: NEW TRUST AND AGENCY
PROGR,' : CP-ARRON VILLIAMS COLLEGE WORK-
QT'�'D PROGRA.'!.
A""ECRI7F '':AGER TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS -PERMANENT
CONCEPT STAGE FOR OUTFIELD WALL OF MIAMI BASEBALL
PERSC'';'.? APPEARANCE: ARTHUR J. CORMIER, MIAMI SCULPTOR
REG:?RDING DONATION OF UNSERVICEABLE GUNS FROM POLICE
DEPART'IENT FCR SCULPTURE. REQUEST DENIED.
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DISCUSSION 35-41
DISCUSSION
M-82-902
R-82-903
R-82-904
M-82-905
DISCUSSION
R-82-906
R-82-907
M-82-908
R-82-909
M-82-910
DISCUSSION
DISCUSSION
M-82-911
FIRST READING
R-82-912
DISCUSSION
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42-4 3
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45-48
49-52
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53-54
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CITYI�'h11SSIQJ OF M1AM1, FlDR1D4
REG: 10/14/82 RUCT
DEFERRAL FOR FURTHER STL`DY—REQUEST OF
TELECOMMUNICATIONS CABLE CO. TO PURCHASE 20"
OF MIAMI CABLE TELEVISION LICENSE OWNERSHIP.
DEFERRAL OF REAPPOINTMENT OF H. GORDON WYLLIE AND
DIANNE SAULNEY SMITH, AS MEMBERS OF THE OFF—STREET
PARKING AUTHORITY BOARD.
BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM, DETERIORATING PHYSICAL
CONDITION OT WATSON ISLAND DOCKS AND SEMINOLE
DOCKS. CITY `TANAGER TO RECOMMEND IMPROVE:fENTS.
APPOINTMENT OF MAYOR MAURICE A. FERRE AND COMMISSIONER
J.L.PLUMMER AS CITY REPRESENTATION OF THE
1RANSPORTATION COMMITTEE OF METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY.
DEFERRAL OF CONSIDERATION OF FIRST READING ORDINANCE
A.'fENDING CHAPTER 22 ENTITLED "GARBAGE, TRASH AND
RUBBISH", IN THE CITY OF MIAMI CODE.
APPOINT COMDSISSIONER J.L.PLU`.kMR AS THE CITY'S
LIAISON TO MIAMI "GRAND PRIX" RACE—;SIAMI
MOTORSPORTS, I.:C.
RE —NAME ENTIRE LITTLE HAVA.NA COT2,fUNITY CENTER COMPLEX
IN MEMORY OF MANUEL ARTIME ,
BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: NEIGHBORHOOD OMBUDSMAN
PROGF-*! .
AUTHORIZE CITY OF MIAMI PARTICIPATION IN "THIRD
INTEF—A%IERIC N SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL" SUBJECT TO AUDIT.
DISCUSSION ITEM: PROPOSED TRADE MISSION TO AFRICA.
ACCEPT AD'"INI S T R.3TION' S RECO`L*�`:DATION REGARDING
FUNDING REQUESTS FOR SPECLkL EVENTS.
AUTHORI'ZF "ANAGER TO PREPARE NEW RFP'S FOR "BUS
SHELTERS"
(A) '—,RANT 3'_ COS':—OF—LIVI'v(; INCREASE, EFFECTIVE
O CTOB R 1, lg82 TO POSITIONS OF CITY MANAGER,
CITY AI'TQR.;E'i �",D CITY CLERK.
Dl T`; TRUCT CITY MANAGER TO INITIATE STUDY OF FEES
! !L�,RGED ?:: OTHER CITIES FOR THE POSITIONS OF CITY
CITY ATTORNEY AND CIT'i CLERK.
F: -,-RE RECO'LMENDATION REGARDING
PE';S, STL'''. A^;D =LO':'EES HIRED AFTER
TO S30,000 FOR PREPARATION
?;RC'CHL';E FOR L'PCG`?I'.TG CHARTER
'?RST t�EA:)1 c:i�Dlti:�;CE: NE7,� TRUST AND AGENCY FUND
:_.;T.i':T' Ss!S-v;CE pso(,RA_`!" 1982-1983.
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SOLUTION Nos PACE NO.
1�f-82-913 85-86
M-82-914 87-88
DISCUSSION
?-82-915
M-82-916
R-82-917
M-82-918
M-82-919
DISCUSSION
M-82-920
DISCUSSION
I M-82-921
1 M-82-922
*1-82-923
:1-8_'-924
IM-82-925
IM-82-926
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90-91 =
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92-93
94-95
95-96
96-98
99-100
101-10,
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107-10
108
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REG: 10/14/82 RUCT
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: MISCELLANEOUS FEES
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: NEW TRUST AND AGENCY FUND
"OFFICE OF INTER -GOVERNMENTAL LIAISON FY-'83".
AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AGREEMENT CONTINUING TV]
OFFICE OF INTERGOVERNITMENTAL LIASON FOR FY-'83, FUNDED
BY THE SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING CONCORTIL
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: NEW TRUST AND AGENCY FUND
"CUBAN-HAITIAN ENTRANT IMPACT AID PROGRA.1".
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: INCREASE APPROPRIATION TO
TRUST AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED: " RECREATION PROGRAMS
FOR THE MENTALLY RETARDED -SIXTH YEAR".
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: NEW TRUST AND AGENCY FL711D
'HiRoUC;H ;1DAP'f}'1) LEISURE".
FIRST READING ORDINANCE: NEW TRUST AND AGENCY FUND
"CONTIL'U'l OF ADAPTED RECREATION EDUCATION".
AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO ACCEPT GRAN7 $81,983. FROM U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION OFFICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION
AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES
FIRST READING ORDINA:CE: AMEND FUNDS APPROPRIATED
FOR TRUST AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED "SU`1-a1ER FOOD
SERVICE PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN-1982".
AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO ACCEPT ADDITIONAL GRANT
$2 2 , 41= . FROM U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICL'LTUR.A FOR
"SUMMER FOOD PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN".
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FIRST READING ORDINA.'vCE: REVISE FEES CHARGED FOR CHILD
DAY CARE PROGRAM.
AUTHORIZE DADE COUNTY H.U.D. TO UTILIZE ANTICIPATED
FEDERAL LAND REUSE PROCEEDS TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL
SCATTERED PUBLIC HOUSING SITES.
ALLOCATE $162,161. GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND FUNDS
TO METRO H.U.D. FOR PUBLIC HOUSING SCATTERED SITES
PROGRAM.
AUTHORIZE TRANSFER OF $25,000. 8TH YEAR C.D. BLOC: GRANT
FUNDS TO "MIAMI DESIC"� PLAZA PROJECT".
AUTHORIZE EXTENSIO`; OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
AGREEMENT WITH E.P. IACONIS C.P.A.
;;A7VE CITY' S ORANGE BO;sL STADIUM FEE OF 311% OF GROSS
CONCESSION SALES UPON THE SALE OF RECORD ALBUMS BY
"PARTNERS FOR YOUTH ORGANIZATION" DURING 1982
CIF `A?.a.�!I AND MIAMI DOLPHINS GAIT-S.
�L'iHOkiSE Cl-, M+A:,AGER TO ACCEPT GRANT-FLORIDA
DErA^-. `.`i;C 0 EL''L'C ;T?0v FOR "CHILD DAY CARE FCOD
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R-82-927
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R-82-928
FIRST READING
R-82-929
FIRST READING
R-82-930
R-82-931
R-82-932
R-82-933
R-82-934
R-82-935
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111
111-112
112-113
113-114
114-115
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1117-120
1120-122
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1125-126
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REG: 10/14/82 SUCT
ALLOCATE SUM NOT TO EXCEED S20,000. FOR A SERIES OF
PROGRAMS ENTITLED; "SUMMER SPLASH DOt•,TN-1982".
CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER ENTERING INTO AGREEMENT
FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.
CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER -AUTHORIZE EMERGENCY
APPROVAL FOR PRINTING OF 5,000 OF "MIAMI-ITS
GOVERNMENT".
AUTHORIZE AGREEMENT SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT AND
TRAINING CONSORTIUM TO OPERATE FEDERALLY FUNDED JOB
TRAINING PROGRAMS DURING FY-1983.
AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO EXECUTE INTER -GOVERNMENTAL
COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH METRO FOR OVERTOWN
UR$AN INITIATIVES RE -DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
CLAIM SETTLEMENT: CHARLES TUFF AND LUCILLE TUFF.
CLAIMS SETTLEMENT: STEPHANIE THOMPSON AND HER MOTHER
AND NATURAL GUARDIAN FLORA BELL THOMPSON DANSEY.
ACCEPT PLAT: "PORT OF MLAMI EXPA.NSION-..ETROPOLITAN,
DADE COUNTY".
C0NSE:;T AGENDA ;
ACCEPTANCE OF $9 , 608. GRANT FROM DADE COUNTY TO PROVID]
DAY CARE TO CHILDREN FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES
ACCEPIAINCE OF S35,478. GRANT FROM DADE COUNTY TO
PROVIDE DAY CARE TO CHILDREN FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES
ACCEPTANCE OF A $27,000 GRANT FROM THE STATE OF
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
FOR CHILD DAY CARE PROGRAM.
BID ACCEPTANCE: OFFICE SUPPLIES FROM:
A.LPERSTEIN BROTHERS, INC.
BAR.NETTS OFFICE SUPPLY
CLASSIC STATIONERS,INC.
CO*!*!ERCIAL OFFICE PRODUCTS
EXECL71%E OFFICE PRODUCTS
ASHUA CORPORAT :GNP
ROY'T'YPE,INC.
GATOR TAPE,I`C.
i . B . M. CORP
OF FTC Si_ PPI.�,
BID ACCEPTANCE: MAIL ROOM EQUIPMENT FROM INTERNATIONAL
MAIL SERVICES, B:A i DER BUSINIESS SYSTEMS, AND FRIDEN
ALCA:'EL .
ID .CCEPT NCE:
JFTICF FL':IT:;RL C0�`�'ONEN.TS FROM THOMAS RUFF OF FLORID
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R-82-936
R-82-937
R-82-938
R-82-939
R-82-940
R-82-941
R-82-942
R-82-943
R-82-944
R-82-945
R-82-946
R-82-94 7
R-82-948
R-82-949
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76.8
76.9
76.10
16.11
76.12
76.13
76.14
76.15
76.16
76.17
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BID ACCEPTANCE: 200 HAND GUNS FROM JONES EQUIPMENT
COMPANY,
PURCHASE OF FIRE APPARATUS FROM FMC CORPORATION
FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE, AND INSPECTION
SERVICES AT A COST OF $454,514.
BID ACCEPTANCE: 12 PORTABLE RADIOS FROM MOTOROLA,INC.
WAIVING REQUIREMENT OF SEALED BIDS FOR ONE DUAL ACCESS
KIT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE AND AUTHORIZING PURCHAS
FROM DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION AT COST OF
$6,417.75.
WAIVING REQUIREMENT OF SEALED BIDS FOR ONE USED 16mm
MICROFILM CAMERA ATTACHMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
COMPUTERS AND AUTHORIZING PURCHASE FROM 3M
MICROGRAPHIC PRODUCTS AT COST OF S5,500.
BID ACCEPTANCE: FUELS AND LUBRICANTS FROM BELCHER OIL
CO., MARCH CORP., ROSS OIL CORP., AMOCO, INC., BARKETT
OIL CO., HOLMAC INTERNATIONAL, GULF OIL CORPORATION,
CHEVRON, U.S.A., INC, J & J OIL CO., UNION OIL CO.,
AND RANCO OIL CO., INC.
BID ACCEPTANCE: APPROXIMATELY 65 ITEMS OF OFFICE
FURNITURE COMPONENTS FROM THO?AS W. RUFF & CO.
ACCEPTING 13 DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES
ACCEPTING BID: VIRRICK GYM RENOVATIONS, MIAMARINA, &
WATSON ISLAND BY FRANK J. MORAN, INC.
BID ACCEPTANCE: GARAGE FLOOR SLAB REPLACEMENT FROM
PATCHARD AND CO., INC.
BID ACCEPTANCE: CENTRAL SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT FROM
LANZO CONSTRUCTION CO.
ACCEPTING CO'\TLETED WORK OF BID "C" LITTLE "0" PAVING
AND EQUIP"EtiT RENTAL COMPANY FOR CULMER C.D.
PA`:i;G PROJECT -PHASE IV FOR $296,976.63.
INCREASING THE CO',:RACT WITA IN7ERCOUNTY CONSTRUCTION
CORPORATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF RIVERVIEW STORM
SEWER PROJECT PHASE I. (2ND BIDDING) BID "B".
INCREASING THE CON":RACT OF D.M.P. CORPORATION FOR
JiE CONSTRUCTION OF NORTHER DRAINAGE PROJECT
ACCEP-l';G CO'.PLETED WORK OF SUNSET ENTERPRISES,INC.
;'R �'_`.RI';E ST..`P .DIUM-BOAT RAREPAIRS-1982.
ACCEPTING CO�TLE:' ED WORK OF J & G ASSOCIATES,INC.
Htll EL`;c.:;CE OFFICE RENOVATIONS- 1981.
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R-82-951
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R-82-952
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R-82-953 140
R-82-954 140
R-82-955
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R-82-956
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R-82-957
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R-82-958 141
R-82-959 1 141
R-82-960 141
R-82-961 142
R-82-962 142
R-82-963 142
R-82-964 142
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ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK OF GOLDEN EAGLE ENGINEERING '
CONTRACTORS,INC. FOR Wi-NWOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
PAVING PROJECT —PHASE VI.
ACCEPT COLLETED WORK BY P.N.M. CORPORATION FOR
RIVERSIDE PARK —COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
ACCEPTING COMPLETED WORK OF REDLAND CONSTRUCTION CO.
INC., FOR WYNWOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAVING PROJECT
PHASE—VI—BID:"A" (HIGHWAYS).
FEE WAIVER FOR MIAMI STADIUM FOR CEREMONIES IN HONOR
OF JOSE RAMON LOPEZ.
CITY'S CONCERN OF FILTHY CONM ITIONS IN THE MEDIAN
STRIPS OF CITY HIGHWAYS AND STREETS UNDER THE
JURISDICTION OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
PROPOSED RESOLUTION: NEW ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY TO BE
CONSULTANT ON POLICE WIRE —TAP (MOTION FAILED).
AMEND ADVERTISING FOR DECEMBER 14, 1982 ADDITIONAL
SALES TAX ELECTION TO INCLUDE PROPERTY TAX RELIEF
PROVISION.
AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO PLACE ZONING ITEM CONCERNING
"VILLA REGINA" ON DECEMBER 9TH REGULAR COMMISSION
MEETING.
DISCUSSION ITEM: FUNDING REQUEST FROM PLAYERS'
STATE THEATRE —REFERRED TO CITY MANAGER FOR
RE CO'^EN'DAT I ON .
CONTINUED DISCUSSION: WIRE —TAP INVESTIGATION
THAT WERE DISMISSED BY COURTS FOR LEGAL REASONS.
BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: AMENDMENT TO PROCUREMENT
ORDiN.V;CE (NOT ACTED UPON).
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R-82-967
R-82-968
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R-82-970
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M-82-971
M-82-9 7 2
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MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF THE
CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
On the 14th day of October, 1982, 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 9:35 A.M., by Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
with the following members of the Commission found to be present:
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
ALSO PRESENT WERE:
Howard V. Gary, City Manager
Jose Garcia -Pedrosa, City Attorney
Ralph G. Ongie, City Clerk
Matty Hirai, Assistant City Clerk
An invocation was delivered by Commissioner Demetrio Perez, who then
lea tnose present in a pledge of allegiance to the flag.
On motion duly made and seconded by the City Commission, the Minutes
for the meeting(s) of July 29, 2982 and September 9, 1982 were approved.
1. PROBLEM WITH LINES IN FRONT OF THE L`24IGRATION AND NATURALIZATION
SERVICE HEADQUARTERS IN DOWNTOt.;` :1IA:`SI. (See also label No. 17
in connection with the same item).
Mayor Ferre: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, this is a Regular City
of Miami Commission Meeting. I have been informed by one of our colleagues,
Commissioner Joe Carollo, that he cannot be here this morning. He sends his
apologies. He asks that item 53 and M be held, if at all possible, because
he would like to participate in those items. We are going to get into the
Committee of the whole, but first of all pocket items, Mr. Plummer.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I have really not pocket items but two things I
want to bring to the Commission. Mr. Manager, you better listen to this.
Mr. Mayor, it was you who made a motion before this Commission approximately
one month ago addressing the problem of immigration. I just went by the
Immigration Department on my way here this morning.
Mr. Dawkins: Me too.
Mr. Plummer: And I want to tell you, Mr. Mayor, that it is atrocious. It
was my understanding that the intent of your motion that the Federal Government
must recognize their responsibility as to carrying forth a orderly process
and not to treat people that are waiting for their services like cattle.
Nor should they inconvenience the people of our community who have to go
downtown to go to work who cannot traverse on the sidewalks of that avenue
because the other side is an expressway. When you throw in the people who
are down there hustling the line trying to get business for outside businesses...
and I looked there and see that we are having to provide two or three policemen
to keep somewhat a semblance of order, I think the intent of your motion,
Mr. Mayor, has not been followed.
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Mayor Ferre: I think you are fight.
Mr. Plummer: And I think that the Manager needs to instigate immediately. I
concur with your proposal before that either the Immigration provide space
for these people off the right-of-way or your other alternative of providing
some kind of a ticket or a piece of paper indicating a date, a time, and a
number. But I want to tell you that what is existing there today is something
that none of us are proud of. Mr. Manager, I think you have the policy set by
this Commission by the Mayor's motion. I would only ask you,. sir, to observe
for yourself and immediately clean that matter up so that Ohe people both
concerned could be straightened out for the betterment of all. Mr. Mayor,
the second pocket item....
Mayor Ferre: Wait, wait, we have to take some action.
Mr. Plummer: You have already taken it. You set the policy by your motion of
a month ago. If you want a motion, I'll be happy....
Mayor Ferre: I tell you, I think we have to get strong on this. Howard, there
is only one way that you can really get this thing cleared up. You have to
get Cesar or whomever, or the Law Department has to call the head of I.N.S.
and tell them that as of next Monday there will be no lines. There will be
pro lines on City of Miami streets. There is a very simple way for them to
solve their problem. I put that in my memorandum. That is, if an individual
wants to go and be heard by the I.N.S. he walks in and he picks a number, just
like when I go to the shoe store to see when they can take care of me. It will
be number 84, then they go to 84 and tell them, "You come in here next Thursday
at 9:15." That is the end of the lines. But I mean, it is disrupting the whole
thing and all these vendors are creating serious trouble.
Mr. Cesar Odic: Mr. Mayor, the Manager instructed me to meet with I.N.S. to
take care of this problem.
Mayor Ferre: When?
Mr. Odio: I have contacted Joe Harrington's office, the director of I.N.S.
He has been out of town. They promised me when he comes back that he will meet
with us.
*favor Ferre: We don't have time to wait.
Mr. Odio: I have been checking the line this week on my way to the conference
center. The line has been absent this week until this morning. When I went
to the T.D.C. meetiwy there was a line around the corner, which was very bad.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Odio, I tell you what. The City of Miami has taken a position
officially. That policy of the City of Miami has not been implemented. What
Plummer is telling you is that this Commission is instructing you to implement
_ Mr. Gdio: Yes, sir. It is my fault because I should have met with Harrington,
but I was not able to....
Mr. Dawkins: You cannot meet with him if you cannot find him. It is not
your fault.
Mr. Odio: But I will find him.
Mr. Dawkins: It is not your fault. Ybu cannot meet with him if you cannot
find him. Kow are you going to meet with him if you cannot find him? So
do not take his blame.
Mr. Gdio: Yes, sir, but....
Mr. Dawkins: It is not your fault.
4r. Gdio: W7iat I meant was I should have gone down there and met with somebody
e_se.
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Mr. Plummer: I think, Mr. Odio, what you have to do is go with some clout.
Clout means, like the Mayor said, you inform them as of next Monday there
will be no more lines on City sidewalks tying them up. If the problem ocurrs
because of their lack of inaction, it will be their fault, not this City's.
We have given them at least five days' notice.
Mr. Odio: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. City Attorney, would you make sure that whatever we do is
totally within our rights in the law and what have you. O.K., Mr. Plummer,
go on.
2. DISCUSSION ITL!: ARTICLE APPEARING IN MORNING PAPER THAT MIAMI
IS HIDING THEIR DRIFTERS, VAGRANTS AND OTHER UNDESIRABLES FROM
PEOPLE ATTENDING THE A.S.T.A. CONVENTION.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, the second thing I want to put on the record as
I did just now for the T.D.C. I am sure we are going to get into it later,
but the one thing I have to do is for the record to make my feelings known
about an article which appeared not just in the paper this morning, but on
the front page of this paper. Mr. Mayor, this town has gone all out....
Mavor Ferre: What article is it?
Mr. Plummer: There was an article relating to the fact that Miami is hiding.
Mayor Ferre: Hiding'.
Mr. Plummer: Hiding our drifters, I think was the article. You know, I sit
here and listen to the criticism of why this town is not doing well and why
this town isn't doing this and doing that. I think that everybody this week
has tried to portray and done a tremendous job of what this stands for in
good of this community. To have an article on the front page of which I
guarantee you those who for devious reasons want to go back home and not
sell Miami, that article will be the one thing they carry home from this
community.
Now, conversely, I want to say to my Police Department, I think they
have done a great job. I think that the Police Department of the City of
Miami has made an environment of which we were proud for these people who
came here as our guests, who this community went to every extreme to bring
here. I just wonder why the same positive type of environment could not
be forthcoming from them, who are so quick to criticize in trying to help
this community. For the life of me, Mr. Mayor, I just don't understand
why we must have on the front page this negativism.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, I would like to enlarge on what Mr. Plummer has said.
That same organ was the one who came out here and pressured us to come up
with 50 policemen. Now we have the policemen. As Plummer said, the policemen
have done a tremendous job. They have kept the area free. They have kept
traffic flowing at a trying time. They ought to be commended! But I resent...
and I want Mr. Zaldivar and the other gentlemen to tell the editor of the
Miami Herald that I resent the article and I resent all of the negativism that
the;: put their paper in an effort to kill the City of Miami. It appears to
Miller Dawkins that the Herald is more interested in dissolving the Citv of
Miami to make it Dade County, rather than help the City of Miami to improve
this i:ra,e and remain a Cit%.
`r. lu per: mall, I guess my only real displeasure is that I hope that the
Cite of Miami Police Department could and would continue this effort to keep
;fit; that kind of environment in the downtown area that we have seen for the past
five da,rs. :Sr. Mavcr, my final thing that I wish to....
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Mayor Ferre: Wait a minute because I want to react to that a little bit. -
Just two lines...I concur that it should not be on the front page because _
I don't think that it is a front page type of story. Now let me give you
the other side of it. I find myself almost stunned to have to defend the
Miami Herald. You know, there is not a day that goes by where the Miami
Herald doesn't have some devastating article telling us what a horrible
place this is and how bad life is here and what terrible people we are and
how bad our government is and how bad everything is going on. I don't know
whether you have noticed but today is Thursday and with the exception of
this I have not seen any negative stories in the Miami Herald for about a
week. I'm sure there must be somebody up there that is chewing his nails
or is on a nicotine fit or is probably going home and kicking his dog or
something because of the fact that they can ... I guarantee you this is a
record. I guarantee you if you go back and you were to give some researcher
$1,000 to go back for the last ten years that there is no other time...
and I have been here for 20...in the history of this community, where the
Miami Herald has abstained from saying bad things about somebody or something
for a week. This is a record! Now, I'm sure what happened was that editor
has insomnia, that he was about to have a nervous breakdown and he had to
do something probably it was to take that story and move it from the local
page where it belongs to the front page just to get a little bit even. So,
you have to take all these things with a grain of salt.
Mr. Plummer: Well, Mr. Mayor, I guess there are two reasons for it. The
picture in the paper is the arresting of a wino by the name of Jim Reid. The
second portion of it is ... I'm sorry, Commissioner Jim Reid, Vice Mayor. The
second portion —isn't it ironic that there is nothing herein stated about
near the Knight Center. It is now known for the article as the Miami Convention
Center, not the Knight Center. Isn't that ironic?
3. DIRECT CIT'i }L�:nGER TO �!EET 1,1ITH PROMOTERS OF AN EvENNT KNOT%N
AS " TND-SURFING CHAMPIONSHIPS."
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I don't know how to handle this and I am going
to leave it to the discretion of you and the Manager, but I was troubled
greatly this morning. I was approached by Woody Weisner, who is the man
who is building across the street the New Grand Bay Hotel and who runs
the Sheraton Hotels. They are doing a promotion. They are bringing the
World Championship Windsurfing contest to Miami at absolutely not a cost
of a dime to this City or to this community. It will draw nationwide
T.C."s. Veisner,approached me this morning and said, "Commissioner, I
want you to know that everybody in this community has been most cooperative
except your City." I said, "What is the problem?" He said, "We want to
have the grand finale in nationwide coverage at no cost to the City in
Kennedv Park. We were denied by your City."
Mayor Ferre: Why?
Xr. Plummer: Supposedly the excuse was they did not want that many people
in Kennedv Park. Now, I am not trying to pcint a finger and I do net
know what•was said, but let me tell you what does trouble me. V. are a
Commission who have to make the final decisions. I think it behooves the
Administration that whenever requests are made and denied that we know
about it. For that thing in my estimation, to be denied from a City of Miami
park, I am troubled greatly. Now, I do not know the mechanics. But I want
:cu to know anJ I don't think anyone else sitting here kncws that first there
was that promotion, nor second that it was denied. And we don't even have
the opportunity to speak because it never came here.
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Mayor Ferre: J.L., look, don't be troubled about that.
Mr. Plummer: I am.
Mayor Ferre: Let me tell you why you should not be. Woody Weisner is nobody's
fool. The moment he was denied something, he picked up the phone and called
you and got you all excited, and rightly so. I think you are totally right.
But you are bringing it up. There is an appellate procedure. The appellate
procedure is you pick up the phone and call a member of the Commission. That
is exactly what you have done now and brought it up on a pocket item. Believe
me if somebody gets his feet stepped on, he is going to scream bloody murder
to you,and to me,to Demetrio, to somebody. I think that is a healthy process
to follow. The thing to do is correct it.
Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you what the pit fall is.
Mayor Ferre: Make your motion on it.
Mr. Plummer: The pit fall that I see is that he was to a point of saying,
"The hell with the City of Miami. Metro is most cooperative. Everywhere
else is most cooperative."
Mayor Ferre: He is not going to do that.
Mr. Plummer: Well, O.K., you and I probably know that.
Mayor Ferre: He is not going to do that.
Mr. Plummer: It seems.
Mayor Ferre: His hotel is right here. It is not in Metro.
Mr. Plummer: It seems like to me that we should be going about the business
of trying to help these people.
Mayor Ferre: Absolutely!
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Manager, I would make a motion at this time that in particular
the Administration contact... I put him in touch with Mr. Odio, by the way...
that they get together with Mr. Weisner and try to accommodate him if at
all possible. In the future any of these promotions which would benefit this
City, that this Commission be made aware if in fact they have been denied.
I make that in the form of a motion.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: I second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll on the motion.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved
its adoption.
MOTION 82-895
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
MEET WITH PROMOTERS OF AN EVENT I�NIOWN AS "WIND -SURFING
CHA.'-IPIONSHIPS"; SAID EVENT TO BE HELD IN MIA -MI, AND
REQUESTING THE ADMINISTRATION TO ATTEMPT TO ACCOMMODATE
THEIR REQUEST FOR USE OF KENNEDY PARK.
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion was passed and -
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Maurice Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Gary: Since we have been accused of doing something I would like to know
who did Mr. Weisner talk to, because he did not talk to me.
Mr. Plummer: I will tell you off the record because I do not want to mention
any names.
Mayor Ferre: O.K., further discussion? J.L., anything else.
Mr. Plummer: Sir, I had something else but I got so wound up I forgot what
the other one was.
Mayor Ferre: That is probably good for you and for us.
4. MOTION OF INTENT TO GRANT REQUEST FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
S10,000 TO DR. EMILIO CABALLERO FOR REFUGEE PROGRAM, REFUGEES
WHO HAVE NO SPONSORS.
Mayor Ferre: Commissioner Perez.
Mr. Perez: Mr. Mayor, several weeks ago we instruced the City Manager to
create a set of guidelines on procedures of funding requests. But I think
that in case of emergency we must retain our option to provide on the professional
solution. I would like to request that you recongize these people from the
foundaton in favor of Cuban -American Raf,topec, T wc,116 like to call nr.
Emilio Caballero in order that he might have the opportunity....
Mayor Ferre: All right, Dr. Caballero.
Dr. Emilio Caballero: For the record, my name is Emilio Caballero. I am
an attorney. My law office is at 1647 S.W. 27 Avenue, Miami. Honorable
Mayor and Commissioners, I come here today as Commissioner Perez said, because
due to the great influx of refugees, Cuban, Haitian, etc., which shall have
arrived in our community in the past two years and due to the fact that many,
if not the majority of maybe all of them were homeless and had no one to claim
them; and further were unemployed. A group of members of the Organization
Alpha 66 and a group of citizens that were aware of this situation decided
to create a committee or a board or whatever you want to call it. The name
was Pat-:onato Social de Ayuda a Refugiados. It was in order to help the
community and those refugees. With that purpose we spoke to the owner of
an abandoned building which has been abandoned for more than five years. I
would say it is six or seven years before, which building is next to the office of
Alpha 66. Our idea was to rent that place with the purpose of providing
shelter for these refugees. Being that the building had been abandoned for
so long, it had deteriorated to the extent that it was not livable. A.11
electricity and plumbing had been pulled out, doors and windows removed, etc.
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Dr. Caballero (CON'T): When the board spoke with the owner of the building,
the owner agreed to rent it to them for the purpose of providing shelter to
these individuals. However, this committee, this board had to repair it at
their expense and make it livable. It had to be painted. The whole amount
needed to make it livable by ourselves... We undertook this task. Thanks
to various donations made by several individuals, private business, and around
$7,000 that Alpha 66 apported to this purpose we made several repairs and
accordingly the refugees moved in. In several instances, and I want to make
it....
Mr. Perez: Dr. Caballero, could I ask you a question?
Dr. Caballero: Yes, sure.
Mr. Perez: How many families, how many Cubans from Mariel have you served in
the last two years? About an idea.
Dr. Caballero: Well, I was going to tell you right now that frequently we
are receiving people from the different centers, the Catholic Center, the
Refugee Center, from the Krcme Center, and we have had......
Mayor Ferre: Are you serving one person, ten persons?
Dr. Caballero: Fifty persons, but I would say an average of 40 persons.
Mayor Ferre: Forty persons.
Mr. Perez: At a regular number of about 40 persons during these 18 months.
Let me ask him, how much are you requesting?
Dr. Caballero: I would like....
Mr. Perez: What would be ... I think you mentioned something that the cost of
the whole repair is between $15,000 and $20,000.
,
Dr. Caballero: :'es.
_ Mr. Perez: I would like in order to speed the procedure, fir. Mayor, I am very
familiar with the services that these people have rendered to this community.
I would like, I think they are requesting about $15,000 or $20,000. I would
like to make a motion to give to fund this program with $10,000.
Mayor Ferre: There is a motion on the floor. I assume that the motion would
have with it, after the study and concurrence of the City Manager that this
is both appropriate and legal and that they are doing the job and with proper
monitoring of their services. Is that correct?
Dr. Caballero: Mr. :Mayor.
Mavor Ferre: Wait a moment. Please do not speak now. Is that correct? Is
that part of the motion?
Mr. Perez: Yes. That will follow the regular procedure.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second to that motion?
Mr. Pl=er: Second.
uavor Ferre: Is there further discussion to that motion?
Mr. Dawkins: Discussion...I sit here. I say it in every Commission Meeting,
and no one seems to hear me or care. We do not have money to parcel out at every
Commission Meeting. I constantly tell you that we have a mechanism that this
Commission established that when a community -based organization is desirous of
money it should appear before this properly established board of functioning
or whatever you want to call it, and that board would make a recommendation
to the Commission as to what they should do. I constantly say this is not
the way to fly an airplane. No one seems to hear me. A11 last year I sat here
on. this Commission. Every time somebody appeared before this Commission
desirous of money, rather than bite the bullet, we sat here and threw it to
the '-tanager if it was controversial. If it was something that we could get
browr.ie points out of, we automatically went with it. Now, somewhere along
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Mr. Dawkins (CON'T): the lines, we have to be responsive elected officials.
We have to run this City in a fiscal, responsible way. In my opinion, it is
senseless to have a committee that we the Commission has said that these
people must appear before them before they come to us. Once they have
appeared before this committee, I have no problems with going along with
the committee's response. But I cannot, and I will not continue to sit up
here and run the City business like this.
Mr. Perez: Let me point out something, Mr. Mayor. I agree with the statement
of Commissioner Dawkins. But I don't think this issue has to go to the Festival
Committee. What they are requesting is an emergency social service. I think
that we are saving the funds of this City if we try to encourage programs like
this. Why? Because these people have about 40-50 persons out of the streets.
They have a campaign against crime. I thin". that this is the first time that
these people come before the City of Miami. These people are work, work, work,
for this community for more than 15 years in different activities. But I
understand 100/*o and I agree with the statement of Commissioner Dawkins. But
I would like to call the attention about the importance of this emergency
situation. 4!
Mr. Dawkins: O.K., O.K. '
Mr. Perez: Let me explain something else. These people have received a letter
I think from the Zoning or from some department of this municipality, that they
have to make some repairs and they do not have enough funds. I think that it is
better to help these people now than to close this facility that supports 40 or
50 people in our City of Miami against crime and I think it does not cost too
much.
Mr. Dawkins: all I am saying to you in this Commission is this. I understand,
but I will ask him. Did you or anybody in your group go to the City Manager
and have the City Manager refer you to anybody in the Administration to discuss
this project: r
Dr. Caballero: I do not whether you received two weeks ago, b Puse personally....
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, wait a minute. I think you speak perfect Eng.ish, O.K.
Did you or anyone in your group approach the Manager about this?
Dr. Caballero: I approached everyone because I brought a letter....
Mr. Dawkins: Let me cut through. Let me tell you where I am coming from.
This gentleman is asking for how much'.
Mayor Ferre: $?0,000.
Dr. Caballero: No, $10,000.
Mr. Dawkins: O.K., I have a proposal here in my hand, which I am not {prepared
to go along with. The Black Cross wC:.,ts $77,000 for a program to help Black
people in the Black neighborhood. So all I am saving to you is if I sit here
_ and give you $15,000, there is no way I can't give them $77*,000. So Where are
we? we are right back to square one. So, if we go along yith giving you
$10,000 this morning, 1 am going to bring up a motion... this is not firm, it
needs a lot of work, and I am going to recommend it be done. But I'm not going
to do it. I'm going to say that I recommend we give Black Cross $77,000, if
that is the way we are going to do business.
X Dr. Caballero: Maybe if I finish my exposition you can understand, sir, a
=1 little better.
Mayor Ferre: No, no! look, you are going to get the votes here and we have
a lot of things to do. As long as ,•ou get what you want, that is.your purpose,
isn't it'. We don't want to hear any speeches here because you are going to
get wnat you want.
Dr. Caballero: It is not the speech, sir.
Ma::or Ferre: iou are going to get your $10,000. Is there anything else that
you want li you want to make a speech, then I will give you some time later
on to make your speech.
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Dr. Caballero: Your Honor, I
Blacks and Whites. Because I
Black community. We have had
community.
Mayor Ferre: Doctor.
hate speeches, but I hate also to hear mention
don't like that. We have our office in the
our office for twelve years in the Black
Dr. Caballero: During the riots, the only place that was saved in that block
was our office. We get along very well. with Black people.
Mr. Plummer: I withdraw my second. The man does not understand. Maybe
he will understand now that he does not have a motion.
Mayor Ferre: That's exactly. COMMENTS IN SPkNISH. Let me say this in
English now so we understand each other. These people are rendering a
valuable community service. This is not a program that they wish to do.
They have been doing it for the last year a half. They have been taking
people off the streets and giving them a roof, these poor Mariel refugees.
If they did not do that, they would be out sleeping in benches, or sleeping
in doorways in Little Havana. This has been a humanitarian thing on their
part where they have been giving people refuge. Now, they have not come
here and asked us for money in the past. They have done this all by themselves.
Why are they here? Well, because the City of Miami's Inspection Department
went and said, "Your roof is leaking. Your plumbing is bad. You have to do
this. You have to do that; or we are going to close you up." So they went
out and got an estimate. The estimate says that for them to keep this place
open they are going to have to spend $1.0,000. What Commissioner Perez is
saying is that it is an emergency because they have to go ahead and fix
the place up. He is saying let's give them half of what they are asking for,
which is $10,000. They will have to go raise the other $10,000 somewhere
else. I think we are talking about helping 40 or 50 human beings that if
we do not help in this are going to be out on the street. Now, I submit to
you $10,000 is a lot less than what is going to cost us to incarcerate these
people because that is exactly what is going to end up happening. They are
working with these people to get them jobs to have them fed. I think it is
going to cost the society of this community a lot more than $10,000 if we
turn our backs on them. :Mind you what the motion was. The motion was -one
of intent. We are not passing a resolution here. This is a motion of
intent. The motion is that we approve the expenditure of up to $10,000
provided, however, that the :Manager approve it and that he has the people in
the proper departments look at it and concur. If he doesn't then he has
to bring it back to this Commission for discussion.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: First I want to make one thing clear. I did not in any way
imply that this organization was prejudiced or was practicing discrimination.
I could care less if the people you were serving were polka dotted. My
concern is that for one year next month I will have been in this Commission;
and for one year I have sat here and watched this committee dole money out
and tell the Manager to go find it. To me that is not the way business should
be done. I am not against your organization or any other organization. Had
you gone, just like they are sending you now, to the Manager, like we are
sending you now, and then the Manager has made a recommendation, which he is
going to do later, all this would have been avoided. All I am trying to do
}y is establish the process here now that we are going through that will save
you time. See? Like you say, you should not have to come here and then
be told to go to the Manager, like we are telling you to do now. Suppose
it starts raining again and your roof is leaking and it rains for three months.
You cannot get relief. So that is all I'm saying. I'm not against anybody
being helped. But we have to have a system and a procedure for doing it.
Mayor Ferre: Well, now, where do we stand on this? Demetrio, do you want
to make your motion again?
?r. i'e.ez: Please, ''r. Mayor, I want to make the same motion again.
mr. Dawkins. I second it.
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Mayor Ferre: The motion is now moved and seconded. Is there further
discussion?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I just want on the record that I withdrew my motion
because it was obviously the only thing that could be understood. As you know,
my long philosophy in front of this Commission, the monies that we spend first
and foremost go to take care of the sick and to feed the hungry. This, in my
estimation, well fits in that category. As far as I am concerned, it is money
well spent. But I just could not stand here and let a man, after you had
admonished him to go away as a winner, obviously did not appear to me to want
to go away as a winner.
Mayor Ferre: He wanted to make a speech. I've been trying to keep him from
doing that. But he does not understand that. So, what can I do?
Mr. Plummer: I just wanted you to know why on the record, why I withdrew my
second.
Mr. Perez: I would like, Mr. Mayor, that you emphasize to these people that
is the full criteria of this Commission, that unanimous criteria, and it
didn't have any opposition.
Mayor Ferre: Let's call the roll and then I will make a statement.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Perez, who moved
its adoption.
MOTION 82-896
A MOTION OF INTENT TO GRANT A REQUEST MADE BY DR.
EMILIO CABALLERO FOR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE NOT TO
EXCEED $10,000 FOR THE PURPOSE OF FUR�'DING A PROGRAM
FOR REFUGEES WHO DO NOT HAVE SPONSORS.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Coumlissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Maurice Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
:Mayor Ferre: COMMENTS IN SPANISH.
BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: UNFAVORABLE ARTICLES REGARDING MIAMI
2PF 1RT_.�G IN "EL MILNDO" , CARACAS , VENEZUELA.
Mr. Perez: I have, Mr. Mayor, two or three articles from the newspaper,
E1 'Mundo from Caracas, Venezuela. I would like for you to become familiar
with this article. This article makes strong propaganda against our city.
I would like to instruct the City Manager's office and the proper department
in order to give an official answer to all these articles.
F
�'.a:or Ferre: I do not
think you need to do that through a motion. You can
�o that individually.
Unfortunately, these articles were written by
one
.an, who for some reason or another has an absolute obsession with Miami
and continues to write
these articles. They have done a great deal
of harm
in Venezuela because they
happen to be published in a very important
newspaper
in the capital of that
country. They are totally biased. They are
totally
. acurate and thee: are
vicious attacks on Miami.
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6. BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: DUPLICATING ADS CONCEPUNING POLLING
PLACES FOR UPCOMING ELECTION APPEARING IN "THE MIAMI NEWS".
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, my only short comment I would like to make to the
Manager or whomever is responsible. You know, we talk about saving money
in this community and I just for the life of me, and I am not picking on
my good friends at the News but, Mr. Mayor, I want you to look at a full
page of the Miami Daily News probably costs in the neigbhorhood of $15,000 or
$18,000. I do not know why we have to take on our three Charter and there
is another full... just like this one...in the regular portion of the paper...
and publish four different times where the polling places are. This ad, in
my estimation could have been cut down to where the three Charter amendments
appeared and that list, which is that long, could have been inserted one
time. I think we have spent four times the amount of money that we needed
to spend. I think that we need somewhere along the line someone to coordinate
how these ads are going in the paper. Because this is money that in my
estimation is wasted. You bring the facts to the public. You publish once
where the polling places are. To go for over a full page of advertising
and mainly what in my estimation is duplication is totally unnecessary. I
hope the appropriate parties will take notice.
Mayor Ferre: All right, sir.
. PERSONAL APPEARA.;CE: REV. JONATIAN ROLLE
*savor Ferre: Mr. Dawkins.
Mr. Dawkins: I have two pocket items. One is I have a proposal that was
—� submitted to me by the Black Cross. But 1 am not going to take two wrongs
and attempt to make a right. I'm going to Reverend Rolle.. I'm going to submit
your proposal to the manager with these instructions: that the Manager work
with you and come up with a rationale that has some measurable goals and
objectives so that when this program is over you will know what you have
done and the City will be able to show us what you did with the money.
Number two, I want them to work with your staff and develop job specifications
and some measurable objectives for them also. I want them to also work with
your staff to spell out the requirements of those jobs to insure that salaries
are equal to the job performance. Then I want to give a cost explanation
of the items you have here in your budget and bring it back. Let the Manager
bring it back at the next Commission with his recommendations. Is that
X% agreeable to you, Rev. Rolle?
Rev. Jonathan Rolle: Greetings, Commissioners, Honorable Mayor, with all
respect, first thank God for being here. I sit patiently.:. For the record,
I'm sorry, my name is Reverend Jonathan Rolle. I am the President of the
Black Cross Liberation Movement. I sit there patiently to listen to what
happened to the need concerning the Latin situation. From what I heard
it is a very good program. Anytime you try to help somebody that is good.
Because it takes God to be in your midst to help somebody when they are
not able to help themselves. I hope that the City Commission so that there
will not be so much frustration of misunderstanding between the Commissioners
and the organizations that come before them seeking for funds...I hope the
C0=16sioners find some tape of solution that was also stated by Commissioner
Miller Dawkins, so that it won't be looking in such a bad shape or form in
front of to public because one Commissioner cannot get one issue and other
Caemiss_o:.e:rs are for an issue. It is good to debate but when you hear that
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Rev. Rolle (CON'T): your heads are not together, that does not look good
in the sight of the public, especially when an organization comes before you
seeking for funds. As a matter of fact, these things should have been done
before. you can send letters out to organizations letting them know what
the procedures, etc. they must go through in order for them to come before
you. But right now as I see this, there is a misunderstanding here in some
type of way. But I am glad to be here because I am here to help somebody.
I have been helping someone for over ten years in which I have been involved
in the community criminal justice system. I have had over 3,000 under my
custody alone. I have letters of re....
Mr. Dawkins: Do not sell your project to us. Sell it to the staff. I know
what you have done.
Rev. Rolle: My record speaks for itself.
Mr. Dawkins: O.K., thank you.
Rev. Rolle: Understand? And I....
Mr. Dawkins: Let it go at that.
Rev. Rolle: I want to say to you, Commissioner Dawkins, how long will it be
before I can get with....?
Mr. Dawkins: Go over and ask the Manager.
Rev. Rolle: Thank you. God bless you.
8. PERSONAL APPEAR-�tiCc. OF SEVERAL PERSONS REGARDING PROPOSED
CO:,STRUCTION OF OVERTOL-N SHOPPING CENTER. ('fatter referred
to the City `tanager).
Mr. Dawkins: My second issue, Mr. Manager, deals with the Overtown Shopping
Center. I am a layman. I would like for Mr. Levi Johnson to come to the
mike, please. Mr. Manager, would you get somebody on your staff to review
what he says, please. Would you tell me exactly what happened?
Mr. Levi Johnson: O.K., I'm Levi Johnson, president of Levi Johnson Construction,
Inc., 4604 N.W. ; Avenue. Sometime ago, the Overtown Economic Development
Corporation awarded contracts for the design and construction management for
the Overtown Shopping Center, with stipulations that all efforts be made for
all the construction to be completed by Black contrators. The construction
management contract was given to M.R. Harrison. They solicited bids recently
to construct this shopping center. In addition to subcontracts, they also
said that they would entertain general contractor bids. Upon receiving the
bids, I noticed the bid documents were slanted very heavily towards sub-
contracts only. So I called the staff at M.R. Harrison and also Mr. John
Harrison called me twice long distance since he was out of town and told
me the., were interested in general contract bids. I bidded the job as a
general contractor. It was the only general bid received. My bid was
S1,121,000. They called me in and told me I was 20". over their estimate
and offered $89,000 in subcontracts, which I refused. Subpequent investigation
by myself, I found out that the architects' estimate was really $1,197,000.
I was less than c4.000 over the estimate. I bring that to the Commission in
that I think my bid was a viable bid. Any items subcontract items that they
thought were high, low I think was my responsibility in the lump sum type bid
as long as my bid was within the perameters of the budget. It is my responsibility
to deliver finished products. I did tell them that if they had from their
subcontract a bid, any bids which were lower, that my company would be
willing tc use them. I also contacted my bonding company at the price in
the bid for the bond. You have also received letters from me, allied
Contractor Association noting many discrepancies in the way the bids were
opened, wherein the; did not allow the bidders to be present when the bids
were opened at their office. We had to basically force them to allow
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Mr. Johnson (CON'T): .... the president of the Association stay there and
he was not allowed to copy any numbers down or use any of the materials
that they had.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Johnson, let's see if we can cut through all this and
get an answer. Mr. Manager?
Ms. Charlotte Gallogly: There are a number of things that have been mentioned.
I've asked this morning to have John Harrison here, who is the general
contractor and also Joe Wilson, from the Overtown Economic Development
Corporation, who will be the landlord for this facility to respond to
these questions.
Mr. Dawkins: Just a minute, now. Hold it. Mr. Harrison is the general
contractor over this job?
Ms. Gallogly: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: This Mr. Harrison?
Ms. Gallogly: He will be managing the construction for us as the....
Mr. Dawkins: Wait now, but see I have to get clear in my mind... he bidded as
the general contractor for the entire job. Am I right?
Ms. Gallogly: Yes, that is correct.
Mr. Dawkins: And he is the general manager of what now? —
Ms. Gallogly: He is the contract manager for the construction of the shopping
center.
Mr. Dawkins: Who is paying him?
Ms. Gallogly: The Office of Economic Development Corporation, which is
receiving its funds from the City of Miami.
Mr. Dawkins: So` he is ....
Ms. Gallogly: He is managing the total project for us from a construction
standpoint.
`1r. Dawkins: O.K., go ahead.
*is. Gallogly: So may I ask Mr. Harrison to come up and respond to the
specific items that have been mentioned? _
Mr. Dawkins: By all means!
Mr. Plummer: But I think ... wait a minute. I think that one thing that
disturbs me to no end is a little deeper. That is the allegation that
thev were not allowed to be present when the bids were read. Now, that
to me is public record. How can anybody be denied the right of being
present when the bids are being opened?
Ms. Gallogly: O.c:.
Mr. Plummer: I would like that in particular... and that is'not for Mr.
Harrison to address. I think the City must address that point. First
of all it is an allegation. I was not there. You were not there. I
would like to know from the Administration if in fact the allegation is
true. If so, how do they justify it? I do not know how they could justify
such a thing.
'iavcr Ferre: Is t!:at true ... that the bids were not opened in public?
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fir. Plummer: Sir, did you not make the coaQnt?
Mr. Johnson: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Would you repeat what yoL44ast said, that you were not....
Mayor Ferre: No, he does not need to repeat it, J.L., ple4se. It is
10:30 and the fact is that the statement was made the bids ... they were
not allowed. What is the answer?
Ms. Gallogly: I was not there at 2:00 o'clock. I would like Mr. Harrison
to respond.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Harrison, where'is Mr. Harrison?
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute now. Woa!
Ms. Gallogly: He managed the bid opening for us.
:Mayor Ferre: Let the man answer.
Mr. Dawkins: Are you Harrison?
Mr. John Harrison Jr.: Yes, I am.
Mr. Dawkins: Who are you? ,
Mr. Joe Wilson: Joe Wilson. 4
Mr. Dawkins: Joe Wilson, O.K. Come up, Mr. Harrison.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Harrison, come up and explain to us. Is the allegation
true? Yes or no. If yes, why?
Mr. Harrison: My name is John Harrison, Jr. I represent M.R. Harrison
Construction Corporation, 1000 N.W. 54th Street, Miami. We were hired
a year ago as the construction manager on this project. Our contra.:. is with
Overtown Economic Developm;nt Corpora*ion. Our minority hiring goal, specifically
Black -owned firm hiring goal, is 75/'0. We worked with Ronald Frazier, who
is subcontracted with us for architectural and engineering services on this
project and had been working for the past eight to ten months to set up a
set of bid documents for this project. The bids were taken on September
30th. The bid form was set up so that 18 subcontract bids were taken on
the project. We knew at the time that die bid form was being set up. It
would be very difficult to obtain totally responsive bids. We did receive
approximately....
Mr. Dawkins: Well, if you knew that, why did you.... I hate to cut you off,
if you knew that, why did you set them up like that?
Mr. Harrison: In an effort to promote as much minority participation in
the project as possible, recognizing....
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it. back up now. This was in order to promote as much....
Mr. Harrison: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: But yet I have a general contractor who is a•minority, who
a: you say you were trying to promote, but you did not hire.
r; Mr. 'Harrison: Mav I respond to - that?
Mr. Dawkins. Yes.
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Mr. Harrison: Our goal written into our contract is that we use 75%
minority firms in subcontracting the project. We divided into 18
subcontracts. We have 15 of those 18 subcontract bidders being awarded.
We hope to obtain a notice to receive this afternoon to Black -owned firms.
That reprecents 83% of the construction of the dollar amount being awarded.
There is (of the total low bid)...Mr. Johnson submitted a bid for $1,201,000.
The sum of the low subcontract bids is $1,087,000. Of those $1,087,000
in subcontracts, $971,000 are being awarded to Black -owned firms. That
represents 89% of the subcontracts being awarded.
Mr. Dawkins: In the subcontract area, list the areas like brick -laying,
electricians —that Blacks are in.
Mr. Harrison: There are 18 subcontracts.
Mr. Dawkins: Right.
Mr. Harrison: Subcontract No. 1 is structure.
Mr. Dawkins: Structure goes to whom?
Mr. Harrison: Bavard Construction, a Black subcontractor.
Mr. Dawkins: In the City of Miami?
Mr. Harrison: Yes, sir. Subcontract No. 2 is masonry. It is being awarded
to a McKin Construction for $65,000. It is a Black -owned firm.
Mr. Dawkins: Go ahead.
Mr. Harrison: Subcontract No. 3, structural stee. I can list all 10
if you like.
Mr. Dawkins: I would, yes. I have time.
Mr. Harrison: 0.K. Subcontract No. 3, striictiiral steel.....
Mr. Dawkins: To whom":
Mr. Harrison: ....is going to be awarded to Bavard Construction also.
Subcontract No. 4...let me get my recap.
Mr. Dawkins: O.K., that is all right, let me stop and say this. I am
very disturbed about this. I am very angry that a Black contractor, where
you had promised. See, this is what irritates me with the White power
structure. You say you are going to help us. You say you are desirous
of helping us upgrade ourselves, but yet when time comes where you can
make the bigger part of the money you do not share. See? So now, wait
one minute, Mr. Johnson. I want it understood by the Manager and by
everybody under the Manager that if minorities do not share in the bigger
piece of the pie, I will be fighting tooth and nails from affordable
housing to anything else. I am tired of sitting here. Here is a Black
man, who is trying to become a prime contractor with the City of Miami.
In all of its history, from 1896 a Black contractor has never had a prime
contract with the City of Miami in anything. It is time that we have one!
Here is a man that is Black trying to get one and nobody wants to help him.
Mr. Harrison: Of low bids received, sir, 15 of the 18 subcontract bids
Ca::�:i ns: in the first place M.R. Harrison never should have had it.
har is my first beef. ill right, M.R. Harrison never should have had it
is this is a Black contractor here. But that is my personal belief. If
you had never had it, then this man would have had it with a G.C. and he
would have got minorities. whether they were Latin or Black, I could not
::a;e cared less. Now, that is my personal belief, sir.
'::. Gar.. li I ::a•.
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Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir, Mr. Manager.
Mr. Plummer: I still have not had an answer to my question.
Mr. Johnson: I need to make a comment.
Mayor Ferre: Wait, wait. If the :tanager wants to say something, I think
it is appropriate for him to say it. Then I will see to it, Plummer, that
your question be answered. Mr. Manager.
Mr. Plummer: Commissioner Gary.
Mr. Gary: In an effort not to lose two votes on the Commission by my comments,
I would like to first of all say that it is important for us to understand a
little history about this project, which will shed some light, Commissioner
Dawkins, before you got here, in terms of why we are where we are today.
First of all the process has been a community -based, Black -oriented process.
The process began with us awarding the grant which we received from the
Federal Government to the Black local C.B.O. in that area, O.E.D.C. That
Black, local organization selected M.R. Harrison as the best qualified
applicant in this particular project. Secondly, it is important to know
that the process that was followed with regard to this particular project
is the same process that we follow with other projects. It is the same
process that we have to follow to be in compliance with State 13w. That is
you must take the lowest bid. The sum of the subcontracts is less than
the cost of the total general contract. Let me finish. I did not interrupt
you.
Mr. Johnson: There is a point there that's....
Mr. Gary: Let me finish first. The third thing is that the requirement
was that 757.' of the contracted work had to be Black. You just heard that
831. is going to Blacks. It is not devoted strictly to traditional labor,
mason oriented projects, which leaves the last issue, which I think is the
only issue that is before us today. That is did we ccmply with the bidding
requirements in terms of the public having access to that process. I would
like to respond by having the person from O.E.D.C. who is contracted with
the City, mind vou, to make sure that this project works.
Mr. Johnson: Can I make one comment before we go to that.'
Mayor Ferre: Not yet, I will recognize you next. The Manager has requested
an answer. ticw we are going to get an answer. Then we are going to go to
Plummer's question.
Mr. Plummer: This is my question.
:Mayor Ferre: Then I will go to you.
Mr. Joe Wilson: My name is Joe Wilson. I'm Director of Overtown Economic
Development Corporation. At the time of our bid openings we had one
representative, Mr. Ed icing, who said he represented Allied Contractor
Association. We permitted him to be there at the bid opening.
Mr. Dawkins: hold it, let me ask you...hold it right now. Did you ask
all other bidders in there to leave and then allow Mr. King to stay?
Mr. Wilson: We request.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you. Let's say it like it is.
Mr. Wilson: I think there are some other things that should be said here
this morning.
Mr. Dawkins: A-li I want to ask you is, did you ask the other people to
leave? Ycu �L,: not say that in your statement.
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Mr. Wilson: We did not have a closed bid. We had them there because he
said it was totally necessary so we had him there. I think at this time
we should bring up the point that originally when we went out for bid for
general contractors, Mr. Levi Johnson at that time was the principal officer
in Ebony Construction Company. Now they are coming back and saying that we
denied them the right to bid. .That was wrong. They bidded. Their bid was
out of line. He was with another company at the time. That company dissolved.
He came in. We do not have $120,000 to give to any contractor, if he is in
overbid.
Mr. Dawkins: O.K., let me say this. Mr. Mayor, in the essence of time, as
you said, I'm going to make a statement.
Mr. Plummer: No, no, no, no, no.
Mr. Dawkins: O.K., I'm sorry. Go ahead, Mr. Plummer wants an answer.
Mr. Plummer: I still have not heard the answer to my question. Were they
denied the right to be present at the bidding?
Mr. Wilson: They were not denied the right to be present.
Mr. Plummer: You did not ask them or request to them to leave?
Mr. Wilson: There were a number of them there....
Mr. Plummer: Yes or no?
Mr. Wilson: Let me explain. We did not tell them to leave?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I have heard 15 minutes of conversation and yet I
am to hear the answer.
Mayor Ferre: The man said no, He wants to explain why.
Mr. Plummer: I tell you what. I am going to shut up. But baby, when this
thing comes up this afternoon I am going to make the motion to throw the bids
out.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you, amen, all right.
Mr. Plummer: You want to play the game that way, you either give me a
straight answer or you are going to get a straight denial. I know how to
play straight.
Mayor Ferre: Now conclude your statement. The Commissioner asked you a
question.
Mr. Wilson: The question was....
Mayor Ferre: Were the people denied the right to look at the bids.
Mr. Car.:: Let me respond. Let's see if I cut through all this. According
to :'.r. Harrison they were permitted to be there when the bids were opened.
.._c-~rdinz_ to Mr. Harrison, Mr. Levi Johnson agreed to allow Mr. Ed King,
;io is a representative from Allied, to represent him during that opening
process. So everybody had opportunity to be there.
Ma%,cr Ferre: That is a very significant difference!
:'.r. FIu=ner: Was Mr. Johnson denied the right of being there?
Mr. No, not according to Mr. Harrison.
Jo;:::sun: I was asked to leave. I said, "Well, O.K., I will leave."
asked to leave by whom?
it was Mr. Harrison and Mr. Nickelu, of M.R. Harrison.
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Mr. Plummer: Mr. Harrison.
Mr. Harrison: I would like to respond to that. Let me first of all preface
by saying that I did ask Mr. Johnson to leave. I would like to explain, if
I may. It is very difficult in this forum to have an accurate understanding
of what went on at the bid opening. Mr. Johnson agreed that Mr. Ed King,
head of Allied Contractors, could represent their group at our bid opening.
The reason for asking Mr. Johnson and several other contractors there not
to be present at the bid opening is not because we were trying to hide anything.
There were many representatives of the City there. Mr. Jim Licanic was there.
Charlotte Gallogly was there. Representatives, the owners were there.
Mr. Ed King of Allied Contractors was there. A11 bids, responsive or
otherwise, were opened and read aloud and posted. The reason that we
wanted to minimize for participation on the part of the subcontractors was
because there were 18 separate subcontracts being bid. We knew up front
that many of these subcontract bids were not going to be responsive; that
it was going to be impossible to establish who was the low bidder, who had
a responsive bid at the bid opening. Keep in mind now we read aloud over
120 bids and posted them in 18 separate subcontract categories. I would
say of those 120 bids probably over 50% were not responsive to the bid
items. It was therefore impossible to establish the low bidders in the
subcontract areas at the bid opening. In an effort to minimize confusion
as much as possible and with the prior approval of representatives of the
City and of the owner, Overtown Economic Development Corporation, the bid
opening was held in this manner.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Harrison, sir, you are of the private sector. I respect
and I have for the past twelve years defended the right of the public
enterprise system over this microphone and I always will. But sir, you
are not dealing with private money. You are dealing with public money,
tax money. Unfortunately, or fortunately, you have to comply with the
request and the demands set forth on how those tax dollars will be disbursed.
We have laws, and I'm sure that the City Attorney is going to speak to,
that under public bidding, under public records, you cannot deny the right
of anyone to be present. You know, in the private sector you can do that
all day long. That is the way business operates. I am a strong defender.
Sir, we are not dealing with private money. We are dealing with tax money.
when tax payers' money is being spent, they have the right to know, under
the public record law, if nothing else. I want to tell you that what your
track record...and I am assuming what you are reading to me is true... is
great: 83-89`. minority contractors. I understood what you told me that
Mr. Johnson's bid was more than all the subcontractors combined. I under-
stand that. But I also understand, and I think the City Attorney is going
to have to make You understand, that sir, it is tar, dollars, and as such,
you have violated the bidding procedures.
flavor Ferre: All right, let's move on.
Mr. Dawkins: I want to say one thing and then I will be finished. Mr. Gary....
:.;r. Johnson: There is one point that needs to be clarified.
`".r Dawkins: 0.:.. , *Mr. Mayor had said he would hear you.
�= Mr. Johnson: They stated that all the subcontracts came in at $1,083,000,
my bid. I do not doubt that. But if you add the superintendents
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3' that he has to provide to these subcontractors and the overhead, I think
vcu will find that he will spend as much as my bid or more.
'!r. Dawkins: 0.K., thank you. Mr. Manager, this is my problem. For some
reason we are not able to give big, substantial contracts to minorities.
I have to �a-: t::is. ror some reason we get Blacks hung up in positions
that t'-u% ior._et they are Black. One of them is Dr. Simpson. We gave
Jr. f= son assistance to develop the Shell City site Then the Blacks
na_4 to go and picket him because he had no black involvement. I do not
d i d ti:at . tiow I come here again, we have a project in the middle
ni bi:ack co= unit: and yet and still the Black contractors can't get
it i� Because it is such a thing as sharp bidding. You
are dares-_. ri i,t : r wa able to beat his bid. Because what they do is they
icok, :-sere is a Black guy here and he's hungry. This
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Mr. Dawkins (CON'T): guy is going to lay the blocks for $60,000. If you
lay them for $55,000, I will give you the job." What is the guy going to
say? He is going to take the $55,000... and don't indulge in shcp bidding.
This is how we lose out. Thank you. Move on, Mr. Manager.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I want it on the record that I have not spoken to
Mr. Johnson and I am not here defending Mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson would
have to do such through his own procedures of proper bidding. The point
that I am making is not to...whatever company he represents in any way
shape or form. I am speaking strictly to bidding procedures. -
Mr. Peter Joffre: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Joffre: Peter Joffre, secretary of" the Allied Contractors Association.
On this bid opening, I couldn't attend.
Mr. Gary: What union are you with?
Mr. Joffre: Allied Contractors. Let me explain this. My understanding....
Mr. Plummer: He is wearing a different set of hair today.
Mr. Joffre: I gathered from Mr. King at the Tuesday night meeting
that three contractors were there, Mr. Ed King, Mr. Levi Johnson, and
Frank Mantori. A11 three of them were refused to be allowed to go in for
the bid opening. After that it was agreed that only one man would be allowed
to go in. That is when the Association President, Mr. Ed King, went in. It
is also my understanding that bids were supposed to be in by 2:00 o'clock.
It was my understanding that bids were taken over the telephone, which breaks
all rules. When documents come in you have special forms that documents should
be in. The association feels that this whole procedure of bids should be
thrown out.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Harrison: May I respond to that briefly
Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Harrison, and then we need to move along.
Mr. Harrison: Yes, sir. I received this morning a copy of a letter from
Allied Contractors Association. The bottom line of the letter: there are
three points reco=ended by Allied Contractors. One is that all bids
received after the 2:00 P.M. deadline be kicked out. Two, all bids not
submitted on proper bid documents, executed properly should be considered
nonresponsive and kicked out. Three, all bids not coverning entire sub-
contract per plans and specks be considered nonresponsive and kicked out.
To one, I would like to say that no bids received after 2:00 o'clock
were accepted. The only sealed bid received is still sealed. It is right
here. It is marked 3:30 late. Two, no bids not received on the proper
bid form were accepted. Three, bids that were nonresponsive and in compliance
with plans and specs were not accepted. So we have, to the best of our
ability, complied with the wishes of allied contractors.
Mayor Ferre: Ail right, thank you. Mr. Manager, if you will once again
review this. This will come up later on today, I think.
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9. PERSONAL APPEARANCE: CH.ARLES HARRISON PAWLEY -
AL'DIO VISUAL PRESENTATION OF ALTERNATIVE TO ORANGE BOWL
REMODELING/REJUVENATION.
Mayor Ferre: At this time I would like...I do have four pocket items. The
first of which is Mr. Charles Pawley. Mr. Pawley, you are recognized. Mr.
Pawley, do you need the lights out?
Mr. Charles Harrison Pawley: Yes, I do. I only have seven slides, so it
is not very much. Mr. Mayor, Commissioners, my name is Charles Harrison
Pawley. I am an architect. My office is at 3011*','+'. 28th Lane. I'm here
because for the past six months we have been watch4,.g this conversation
of the Sports Authority and the Orange Bowl and wh : is going to happen to
it. Today I have noticed that the Commission is dealing with dollars being
allocated to various people. There is very little money to go around. The
County is spoon feeding us this business about what should be done in the
Orange Bowl. It is my understanding that eventually it will have to come
back to you, as the City Commission. So I would like to spend a very few
minutes, under ten, showing you another alternative for you to consider
when you start reconsidering the Orange Bowl Policy.
Mayor Ferre: Go ahead.
Mr. Pawley: Right now the City of Miami owns enough land to park more than
10,000 cars at the Orange Bowl site without buying stick of property. So
that if the City of Miami chose to upgrade the Orange Bowl and make it
something very special, they could do anything that they wanted to do on
what they already own. They would not have to buy anything at all. In
addition to that they could make the stadium as lovely as any stadium
anywhere in the world. Here is a concept that shows the stadium wrapped
with a 10,000 car parking garage. Actually it breaks down to three
3,000 cars so that you are not dealing with all those cars;'i.n one system.
It also has 360 sky boxes, which are shown here. Again, Lae County keeps
talking about $35,000,000 of income from the sky,--,-ces, which sounds like
a wonderful idea. I believe in it also. But what I would hope the City
might propose is before they propose taxing the people that they say,
"If those sky boxes are such a wonderful idea, why not presell them and
make that $35,000,000 and put that in the bank and start earning interest
on that before you tax someone for it?"
That is the roof section I will come to. You will see that with this
particular solution, and there are many, but this one completely roofs all
the seating space, has three levels of sky boxes. All the seats would be
rejuvenated and be the comfortable seats that everyone wants in the Orange
Bowl. My final point is that if you tear down the Orange Bowl, or if
someone else does, or tries to do that, you are giving up $5D,000,000.
If you remodel the Orange Bowl you can do what they are talking about doing
for $114,000,000 plus the $25,000,000 tha.. they don't have to,build the
parking garage, $140,000,000 for around 90. So you save $50,000,000
plus the cost of the land and you have almost twice the parking and
you have a better field. Beyond that, that particular drawing shows
the land that the City of Miami already owns. What you do is there are
a couple of short connector roads that are cut off so that those blocks
are connected. But it all works. It is something that I hope when it
comes back to you that the City will look at very carefully, because
the Orange Bowl is something special. 1 works very well and we can '
make it into something that is gorgeous. That's the way it could look
one wa,:. 1 thank you very much for your time. '
Mayor Ferre: Charles, let me ask two questions. You say that your proposal
woul"4 cost $90,000,000 including the parking?
Mr. Paw 1e:: What we show....
Ma;;cr Ferro: Including the sky boxes':
Mr. Yes, including the sky boxes.
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:Mayor Ferre: How many sky boxes does that come out?
Mr. Pawley: There are 360-some sky boxes.
Mayor Ferre: How much, at the current rate? Have you talked to Rick Horrow?
Mr. Pawley: No.
Mayor Ferre: You ought to talk to him to see at the current rate how much
money does that mean.
Mr. Pawley: It means in the cost of the sky boxes, or the return to us....
Mayor Ferre: Dollars, in other words.
Mr. Pawley: They have been throwing around figures of somewhere between
$100,000 and $200,000 per sky box.
Mayor Ferre: That is what I'm getting at. Could we raise $20,000,000 or
$30,000,000 that way?
Mr. Pawley: I think you could raise $20,000,000 more than the sky boxes
would cost. In other words, you could pay for the sky boxes and have
$20,000,000.
Mayor Ferre: That is my question.
Mr. Plummer: Maurice, the figure is the cost is roughly 20 and the return
is 45.
Mayor Ferre: So in other words, you are talking about $12,000,000/$15,000,000.
The next question I have is what would the parking be used for when the eleven
football games that are played there are not played; in other words, the other
days. Do they sit idle?
Mr. Pawley: They could again... you have...I'd rather let you answer.
Mr. Plummer: Well, the proposal that is the best proposal is that we could
do more than 10,000,000 by the simple cost of the pedestrian bridge across
the river. a pedestrian bridge would allow us to gain 2,200 more spaces
over at the court buildings. Likewise, conversely, when the Orange Bowl
is not being used the tremendous problem of traffic and parking around the
Metro Justice building would then go the other way and be utilizing this
parking, of course, by the Off -Street Parking authority.
Mayor Ferre: Now, the next question I have is...well, I have two more
questions. Is there a baseball field configuration?
Mr. Pawley: No, there is not. That is, from my point of view, is on
purpose. I personally do not think that the —as a matter of fact,
more than think ... we know by our investigations that a baseball field
and a football field in the same location do not work well together.
This particular stadium, unless you were to really rip it apart, will
not house it.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, let me answer that.
Mayor Ferre: One last questions. You want to answer?
`1r. Plummer: well, let me add to what he just said. It is a proven fact
across the United States in stadiums that if you put two major sports in
the same stadium they; both suffer. I think the other thing that has to
be considered in the Superdome in New Orleans, they spent some $15,000,000
so tie;: could push a button to change the configuration from football to
baseball and that button is yet to be pushed.
`ia;or Vrrc: It does not. work.
Mr. Plur=tcr: So, it work;. They just never had any baseball. They never
got tn.: -rdincnisc.
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Mayor Ferre: Mr. Pawley, I thank you for being here. I think that it is a
little bit premature, but nevertheless I thank you for sharing your thoughts
with us. Should after November the 2nd this matter not be concluded by the
voters of Metropolitan Dade County, of which 22% live in the City of Miami,
then this City will be dealing with this problem and will be calling upon
you. I am going to ask Commissioner Plummer, and he in fact is dealing with
the naming of a committee, that will be a Sports Authority. On November the
3rd, I intend calling a Special Commission Meeting, should the November 2nd...
I'm sorry, when is the election?
Mr. Plummer: The time frame, Maurice, that you set out ... the election is on
November 2nd. We will know the results on November 3rd. This Commission meets
as a regular body on the 4th. I am proposing that a meeting of that committee,
if necessary, be called at 9:00 A.M. on November Sth.
Mavor Ferre: That's it. Right, so we will be talking to you if it is necessary.
Mr. Pawley: I appreciate it. I have made copies of this presentation, which
I would like to give to you so you have it.
Mayor Ferre: Why don't you give them to Commissioner Plummer?
Mr. Plummer: I would suggest to you to just hold them. Mr. Mayor, may I
give you a brief report? I am most gratified by the response of people who
have volunteered who want to serve on that committee, some very outstanding
names on this community. unless I hear on the contrary to the proposal, I
am trying to fashion it as much as possible after the Sports Authority. I
am going to proffer to this Commission, if necessary, 18 names of wnicn I
hope 12 would be selected, or 11. Let me also state to you that I have
contacted Mr. Earl Worsham and told him to be prepared with his program on
the 5th. Likewise, I have contacted Mr. Kunde for his proposal and Mr.
Pawley you are now on record.
Mr. Pawley: Thank you very much, sir.
i0. OYFICIALL`i GOING ON RECORD TO SUPPORT COUNTY -WIDE
PROPOSED ONE CE::T SALES TAX REFERENDL7M TO BE HELD
NOVEMBER 2, 1982.
:Mayor Ferre: Mr. Plummer, I do have four pocket items. I hope I can get
through rather quickly. Let me bring up the first one. It relates to this.
The City of Coral Gables this week went on record favoring the 1C for one
year sales tax for the sports facility. We have not officially done that.
Even though you, being our representative on the Sports Authority, have
been dealing with it. I think as a show of good faith on the City's part,
so that we do not get into any problems, we should go on record officially
supporting the 1G. Because I have told the members of the Commission,for example,
Clara usterle, and some of the people that are rather stubborn about
the Count: -City relationships, that come November the 4th, if they have
not made it, that I expect their full support in our bond issue. I expect
that will happen. But I think that as a sign of good faith we ought to
go along, like Coral Gables did, and make a motion to that effect. Go
ahead.
Mr. Plu weer: Mr. Mayor, 1 would be happy to offer such. I think it is
the spirit of cooperation. I think that it is a golden opportunity for
t i5 co^-Munity. I hope the people will read that and will vote accordingly.
I would like to make a motion at this time that this City Commission urges
all of the residents of the City of Miami to get behind this issue and to
vote favorably for a better community.
Mr. DaWi:i::5: i second for the point of discussion.
�a;c_ rcrrc: al right, it is under discussion; Commissioner Dawkins.
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Mr. Dawkins: I too am in favor of the lc sales tax. But I am not in
favor of the 17% that they want to ear mark for minorities. I think
that the City of Miami is made up of minorities. Fifty percent, 25% for
Blacks and 25' for Latins in construction, in concessions, and in management -
be set aside up front; and that we get our share off the top so that we will I
not have the situation like the rapid transit where when it runs out the
minorities got the short end of the stick. With that change in the ordinance
from 17% to 25% for both minority groups, I would be in favor. Other than
that I would work to defeat it.
Mayor Ferre: Do you want to vote on it? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION' NO. 82-897
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI ENDORSING THE ADDITIONAL ONE -CENT SALES TAX
AND URGING THE CITIZENS OF DADE COUNTY TO VOTE IN
SUPPORT OF SAID TAX IN ORDER TO FINANCE A SPORTS
STADILTM, A MIAMI ARENA/EXPOSITION CENTER, A MIAMI
ARENA/EXPOSITION CENTER, AND OTHER FACILITIES FOR
SPORTS, ARTS, RECREATION AND CONVENTIONS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plumper, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mr. Plummer: Let me inform the Commission that I no longer sit on a Sports
Authority because it is nonextistent.
11. AUTHORIZE OF $ 7 , 900 TO WYN,'WOOD CONL%fUNITY ECON
IZE AOMIC
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, WITH PROVISOS.
Mayor Ferre: The second item is a letter written to me by Jose Mendez,
Executive Director of Wynwood Economic Development Program. "Dear Mayor
and Co =issioners..." in effect he is requesting an increase in his current
allocation of $50,000 in the amount of $7,900 to be utilized as follows:
an increase of $4,000 for 20 pay periods October through June; $2,100
for three staff October through June; and �1,6UO for nine months. The
Tanager '-as discussed this with Mr. Mendez. Mr. Manager, what is your
reco=endation on this?
Mr. Gary: Mr. ?favor, I am recommending that we allocate those dollars
with m•: office identifying the details as to how they are to be expended,
with the condition that if Mr. Mendez receives a grant from the State, that
we he reimbursed the amount from the State Grant that he receives.
Mavor :crre: is a .r.ocion?
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Mr. Dawkins: So move.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced b;r Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption.
MOTION 82-898
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ALLOCATE
AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $7,900 TO THE WYNWOOD COMMUNITY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM TO BE UTILIZED AS FOLLOWS:
1. $4,000 - for 20 pay -periods (from October though June)
2. $2,100 - for three (3) staff (from October through June)
3. $1,800 - for nine (9) months;
SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE ADMINISTRATION WITH THE PROVISO
THAT IF SAID PROGRAM RECEIVES A GRANT FROM THE STATE, THAT
THE CITY BE RELHBURSED UP TO THE AMOUNT RECEIVED FROM THE STATE.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Maurice Ferre
,NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice "favor Joe Carollo
=Z ?i0Ti0' OF ZtiTEST TO AMEND PROC�R-7%IF:NT ORDINANCE- CHARTER
°:ayor Ferre: There is a problem with our procurement. Is Mr. Garcia -
Pedrosa available or are you ready to answer this, Madam City Attorney?
.s. Lucia Allen: This is in connection with the amendment that you proposed?
Mayor --erre: 7 Yes.
Y XS. .._Ian: es.
*'ayor Ferre: I'm not going to mention the individual, but someone will be making
a reco=. endation to the voters as to whether or not a procurement ordinance
has any sense and whether or not we should vote for it, has brought up the
subject that we are bypassing the Manager, which was a concern that I think
`tiller Dawkins came up with even though he did vote for it. In the interest
of unit,. and in the interest of trying to get as many people on this band
because it is going to be tough to pass that thing anyway, I will
re•:erse my previous position and will go along with the premise that if
",:ter tt:e Manager comes to the Commission the Commission rejects the proposal
or proposals of the *tanager. But rather than it go back to the committee
ant b.: pass the Manager, that it go back to the Manager for reconsideration
re.roposal. I have no problems with that. I think that if that brings
ceace an. concurrence, I have no major... that to me is a minor item in a
ajor issue. Therefore, Mr. City attorney, do you have the language that
,cu accouplish that. Tell us what the procedure would be.
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Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Mayor, the new language is presently being typed.
I wonder if it would be the desire of the Commission to go on to something
else and come back to it, or what do you wish to do.
Mayor Ferre: Let me do it this way so that you have it on a formal basis.
I will move, I pass the Chair to Commissioner Plummer and I would like to
make the following motion. That the City of Miami go on record that in
the ordinance which was previously passed, that portion dealing with
procedure, should the Commission reject the recommendation of the Manager
be amended so that it go to the committee but through the Manager. In
other words that the item be deferred back to the Manager for another
recommendation so that the Manager is not cut out from the process.
Mr. Plummer: Is there a second?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mr. Plummer: Is there any further discussion? Motion understood, call
the roll.
The following motion was
The following motion was introduced by Mayor Ferre, who moved
its adoption.
MOTION 82-899
A '.MOTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION GOING ON RECORD AND
DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE A NECESSARY
AMEINTMENT TO ORDINANCE 9489, PASSED AND ADDOPTED BY
THE CITY COMMISSION AT ITS MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 17,
1982, CONCERNING PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1
(PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES) STATING THAT 'IF AFTER THE
,MANAGER COMES TO THE CITY COMMISSION WITH A RECOM-
MENDATION, THE COMMISSION REJECTS THE PROPOSAL OF
THE MANAGER, THEN, RATHER THAN GO BACK TO THE
COMMITTEE BYPASSING THE ;MANAGER, IT WOULD GO BACK
TO THE '.MANAGER FOR HIS RECONSIDERATION A,\'D/OR ANOTHER
PROPOSAL PRIOR TO IT BEING SENT BACK TO THE COMMITTEE
THROUGH THE MANAGER.'
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor 'Maurice Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
1 . GR.aJ:T REQUEST OF UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND (PAN-HELLENIC
COUNCIL.) FOR USE OF COCONUT GROVE El11IBITION HALL ON
OCTOBER 31st.
�'ayor Ferre: The Panhellenic Council has written a letter to my assistant,
Carol Taylor. They have planned a community service party for the year
at the U'nited...what's the U.N.C.F.? Is it United Negro College Fund?
Thy. Panhellenic CoLmcil is the coordinating body for the local sororities
and fraternities. This activity is scheduled for October 31st from
:bo to u :vu at ::inner Key auditorium. They expect to have 42 schools
present. `::;u gcal is to provide information and guidance for senior
High school st.:cents and parents that will encourage and assist pursuing
education. Frai:kl,;, 1 can't think of a better thing. Miller, do you
want to move tnat
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Mr. Dawkins: Yes, go ahead.
Mayor Ferre: What they are asking for is a waiver. So we will give them
the money that amounts to the waiver and they will have to pay for the
cleaning and ... In other words, Howard.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: In other words, like everybody else. They will pay for the
electrical, the lights on, the cleaning of the place, the basic things.
What we are waiving for them, like we do on other things, is the fee.
Is that correct?
Mr. Gary: No, that is not what they are recommending. This is a non-
profit, no -money transaction kind of project. What they are trying to
do is to interest students locally in colleges nation-wide and bringing
them together to get students to enter into college.
Mayor Ferre: In other words, we are going to pick up the full tab.
Mr. Gary: Exactly.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Miller Dawkins moves. Is there a second? Plummer
seconds the request of the :Miami Panhellenic Council. Further discussion?
Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved
its adoption.
MOTION 82-900
A MOTION GRANTING A REQUEST MADE BY THE UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE
FUND (PANHELLENIC COUNCIL) FOR USE OF THE COCONUT GROVE
EXHIBITION HALL IN CONNECTION WITH AN EVENT TO BE HELD
OCTOBER 31ST BETk-EEN THE HOURS OF 3:00 P.M. AND 6:00 P.M.
TO ENCOURAGE A.\'D COUNSEL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN' CONNECTION
WITH COLLEGE CAREERS.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner :Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Maurice Ferre
FOES. None.
ABSENT: Vice uavor Joe Carollo
Xr. mar,.. Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes.
Xr. Gary: Just one little side rote that this is more appropriately the
responsibility of the school system. We will ask the Panhellenic Council
to get the school system to endorse it and then to give us the money for
those expenses.
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14. DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL - OPERATION TIC TOC WIRE -TAP PROGRAM
OF POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Mayor Ferre: The last thing that I have here is a resolution which is a
substitute to the one that I sent you on Friday with regard to Operation
Tic Toc. I would like to explain what the purpose of all this is. Mr.
Manager, I'm going to need your opinion on all this in a second. I just
want to go through the process. I do not want to, in any way cast any
directly or indirectly any shadows on either Janet Reno or the Police Chief.
This is not my intention. I happen to think that Janet Reno, despite some
set backs, is probably one of the better State Attorneys that we've had in
the State of Florida. I also happen to think that the Police Chief of the
City of Miami has more positive things going for him and is doing an
incredible, a good job for the City of Miami. This has nothing to do with
individuals.
The fact, however, is that the City of Miami and the taxpayers of the
City of Miami, in my opinion wasted $100,000 of our money in an investigation
which went down the drain because of a legal technicality. I'm not a lawyer.
I'm not going to pass judgement on Judge Koegen. But we have a system. The
system says that if you don't like it, you appeal it. I understand Janet
Reno said that she thought that Judge Kugen was wrong, but she was not going
to appeal it. That may be fine, but she did not appeal it, which leads me
to believe according to what attorneys have told me that there's no way we
could ever win that on appeal. The reason we cannot win that on appeal is
because we did not go through proper legal process.
I am concerned that the City of Miami, now that we are getting into
very difficult areas in the drug world and the drug underworld. And the
business of crime is becoming such a complicated thing. It is my opinion
that we ought to have a qualified criminal attorney on board serving the
Police Department in the City of Miami so that we do not commit these type
of mistakes in the future. You say, "Well, that's Janet Reno's job."
Well, it becomes Janet Reno's job when it becomes an official investigation.
But up to that point I do not think the Police Department is calling upon
Janet Reno to solve these problems.
So that there is no implication of impropriety or politics, or political
interference, I would like to do it in such a way that the City Attorney and
the Police Chief would be involved jointly. I would want the City Police
Chief to have someone serving in that capacity reporting to him; that is
someone of his choice with the concurrence of course of the City Attorney,
that that person is properly and legally qualified. The only requirement
that I would have is that the person chosen have at least three years of
a specific experience in criminal law. Now, I think that if we do that, the
Police Department and the City of Miami is going to be best served. The
resolution that you have before you that was a substitute for what was handed
cut on Friday. The title reads as follows:
"A Resolution requiring that all information and documentation
intended to be used in the Police Department in making applications
for wire tap orders first be submitted to a specially designated
Assistant City Attorney for review in compliance with all applicable
legal requirements and providing a procedure thereof."
'w7;at in effect this does and you will notice in it that it specifically
says that no application for a wire tap order shall be made by the Police
Department without first obtaining the written approval of said special
designated Assistant Cit,: Attorney. That Assistant City Attorney shall
have no fewer than three years of experience in criminal law and shall
be appointed by the City attorney from a group of one or more attorneys
reco=ended by the Chief of Police and acceptable to the City Attorney.
Such sreciall.• designated City Attorney shall review all information and
documentation the Police Department may propose to submit to the State for
a wire tap order. he will also keep in file, which of course has to be
ccn:fiu�::tial if it is a criminal investigation, and will not constitute a
public recori except such extent as provided by applicable law, so that
once tl-ne investigation is concluded that the information would be available
if State ia•.: would permit it to the press and therefore to the public.
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Mayor Ferre (CON'T): Lastly, in the absence of a written signed decision by
the Assistant City Attorney that all applicable legal requirements for a
wire tap order have been met by the Police Department no submission shall be
made by the Police Department to the State Attorney's office. The reason
we are doing that is so that there won't be any excuses that we were not
complying with the law within the Police Department.
Lastly, once the State Attorney has taken over, wait a minute —you don't
have that. And lastly upon the decision of said special designated Assistant
City attorney that all such requirements have been met, his function shall
be at an end. The submittal of information and documentation support of an
application .for a wire tap order by the Police Department shall proceed in
conformance with current procedures or with such amended procedures as may
hereafter be established by law.
The purpose for that is to make sure that the State Attorney does not
feel that we are in any way interfering with proper procedure. Mr. Manager,
you and I have discussed this and I have discussed it with the Police Chief.
For the record, I would like to have your input on it.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, we discussed this. Basically I was in approval of the
concept. However, I have some problems with the way the resolution is
written.
Mayor Ferre: All right, then let's do it this way. I do not want to hold
anybody up at this time. I will bring it up towards the end of the day
after you and the City Attorney have a time to work out the proper language.
O.K., I do not have any other....
AT THIS POINT THIS DISCUSSION IS MOMENTARILY DEFERRED. (See Label 81)
15. REPORT BY COMMISSIONER PLt:.-DIER REGARDING STATEMENT BY MAYOR
STEVE CL RK NOT BEING ASKED TO SPF-,tK AT OPENING CEREMONIES
OF A.S.T.A. CON,'ENTION.
Mr. Plummer: :•!r. Mavor, let me only bring one thing to your attention.
1 would like either the Public Information or the City Manager or both...
Mayor Clark, in speaking to him this morning was offended, and I think
rightfully so that at the opening of the A.S.T.A. convention he was not
asked to speak and was not even recognized as being there.
=favor Ferre: That is not so. I recognized him.
`:r. Plummer: well, I'm only going on what he said. I would hope, Mr. Manager....
'.:avor Ferre: I would not lie about that. Believe me, I was there and I
recognized him.
Mr. Plummer: Maurice, I was not questioning your word. But what I am saying
w< do have to work in the spirit of cooperation. They put up a lot of money
as we put up a lot of money. I wish that the administration would make it
clear that we did not lay out the agenda or the format. The A.S.T.A.
people were in charge....
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Ma•.or Ferre:
I think that is
a good idea.
?el
+:. Plummer:
..ti:at we will
try to do what
we can in the future
to make
recognition
of those people who
supplied the very necessities
of bringing
a'co ;t these
things.
Ferre:
J.L., I was not
going to bring
it up. I think
you did the
t:ring.
_ t:.-nr you are
right. I think
we ought to do
this in a
letter from
the Manager and
what have you.
Mr. Manager.
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Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Skippy Sheppard came to me over the week -end and said that both
Steve Clark and Clara Oesterle were highly offended, and Beverly Phillips.
Because at the opening ceremony the Governor spoke on behalf of the State.
I spoke on behalf of the City and the local governments because realizing
that Steve was not going to talk, I mentioned his name specifically of the
County. I said, "I'm here to thank you on behalf of the City and Metropolitan
Dade County whose Mayor, Steve Clark, and Members of the Commission are
present here tonight and welcome you to this community." The main address,
of course, was General Haig. The problem is that they took umbrage
at this whole thing and to the extent that they wanted almost make a
resolution to pull the money. They were very, very offended. The problem
is we had nothing to do with it. Lynn Forester, who is the Chairman,
specifically told me, "We cannot put any more speakers. We will give
Mayor Clark the opportunity at what I think will be the highlight session,
which is when Madam Sadat comes here. Steve Clark will be the only speaker
at that time. Well Steve now refuses to go. He says he is not going to go.
He says he is going to go to the opening of Epcot instead and what have you.
The thing that concerned me was that Skippy specifically said that Steve
had blamed Cesar Odio for that. He said that it was Cesar on behalf of the
City who had engineered this whole thing. I said, "Come on, Skippy, that
is so farfetched it is absurd. You know that we would not do it. Why would
we do something like that? It does not make any common sense. Why would
we gratuitously slap anybody? It does not cost anything to recognize some-
body." I thought that it had been cleared with Steve. I talked to him
about it yesterday. I talked to Clara about it the day before. But evidently
since he did mention it to J.L. it is still bothering him, so I think that
we need to get it clarified; write a letter and explain that we had absolutely
nothing to do with it.
16. A2POItiifEN:S OF FOUR INDIVIDUALS TO THE "PROCUREmE\'T COMEAITTEE".
Mayor Ferre: The last thing that I have here is the appointment of a
committee on this procurement Charter amendment. It is such an important
Charter amendment for us. I think we need, even though the Chamber of
Commerce has graciously endorsed it unanimously, I understand. I think
we need a committee of high visibility, high credibility people in the
community, that can go talk to the various editors of the various newspapers
and the television stations here to see if we can get support from them.
Therefore, I would like to appoint, I would like to make a motion to appoint
Armando Codina as Chairperson of that committee, Mack Wolf, the Chairman
of the Board of Southeast Bank, Mr. Ron Frazier, the President of the Miami
Chamber of Commerce and a prominent local architect, and Mr. Bill Reuben,
the Chairman of the Board of Jordan Marsh and currently President of the
Greater 'Miami Chamber of Commerce, as a committee of four to undertake this
�:.. P: , per . Is there a second'.
r�!:.: I seco,
".r. n'_ :cr::er: Win,: further discussion? Motion understood? Call the roll.
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The following motion was introduced by Mayor Ferre, who moved
its adoption.
MOTION 82-901
A :'LOTION APPOINTING THE HEREINBELOW INDIVIDUALS TO
THE COMMITEE FOR NEW PROC=IENT PURCHASING PROCEDURES
FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI:
1. AR'MANDO CODINA
2. MACK WOLFE
3. RON FRAZIER
4. BILL REUBEN
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Mayor Maurice Ferre
NOES: :None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
17. PERSONAL ?,PPEAKA-NCE: ,10T, 110WAl• :o' ', b"ISTRIC I)TRECTOR OP
I.N.S. OPER .TIONS IN MIA:•?I .
;flavor Ferre: Are there any other pocket items? We have, Mr. Odic, the
head of the I.N.S. here.
Mr. Joe Howarton Good morning Mr. :Mayor, Commissioners. I understand
that you folks are considering or have passed this morning a motion concerning
lines....
Mr. Ongie: Give us your name, please, sir.
Mr. Jr-e l?ow.7,ri-on. District Director. lnmiQration and Naturalization
Services here in Miami; the whipping boy perhaps for Miami. But in any event
1 understand you have under consideration today a motion concerning lines in
front of Immigration. I am afraid in Florida there will be lines wherever
Immigration is. But what I would like to talk about is some of the things
that we have made an effort to do to take care of the lines. Basically
taking care of those lines is going to be to get them off the streets. But
that is not today or tomorrow, or even Monday. The Immigration Service is
being moved. At this point I do not know officially where it is being moved
t:. in the City of. Miami. however, the media has been giving considerable
play to 79th Street. I would like to say that wherever we are moved to
in the plans for such a wove are additional space for immigration to operate
is and a 6,000 square foot request for a waiting room to hold people who
are outside whatever building we are put into. Ihis 6,000 square feet, by
the various requirements and specifications should handle up to 400 people
waiting to then be distributed through wherever Immigration is moved to in
whatever configuration. This will basically get the people inside a building
w ere they .;ill have access to restrooms, water fountains, and be off the
streets with some protection. The intention at this point is to have this
wai.tin room open from 12:01 A.M. on Monday through close of business on
Frida•:. This means that in addition, of course, to the clients, if you will,
who come to Immigration, we would probably have some people wandering off
the streets so we plan to provide security to try to see that only the
people doing :business :with Immigration come into that waiting area. As of
last '.reek ha'7e at the cost of Immigration out of my budget for control
and enforce -Tent of the services mission, I now am paying for two Miami
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Mr. Howarton: (Cont'd) police officers to work the sidewalk in front of the I"iigratie
building and north along the businesses that are just north of our office
on Miami Avenue as well as around the corner which would be 2nd Street. They
are working that area to see that people are against the walls of the
building. I would like to say in some defense of why the people are
outside, in that about a year and a half ago everyone that was outside
was brought into the building in an effort to, let's say, clear the streets
and sidewalks. Roughly six months ago the City of Miami Fire Marshall said
we cannot put that many people in and did put caps on each of the floors
where we have people, which once again, puts them out on the sidewalks. It
is for this reason that in the moving plans we have the 6,000 square feet
basically to, maybe using the wrong word, but basically to warehouse people.
With that in mind, I would like to strongly suggest you consider tabling
your motion of no lines at Immigration, giving us a chance to get moved to
another location, which I have been assured will be within 90 to 120 days
after a contract for space. I have also been assured that contract for
space will take place no later than the end of this month. So we would
be talking about a move from 155 Miami Avenue to some other location, most liKely
within the City, by say February or March, 1983.
Mayor Ferre: What do we do in the meantime?
Mr. Howarton: Sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, let me make a suggestion to him. I, for one, have
no sympathy for Immigration in that Immigration created this problem. So
they have to bear the blunt of it. But there is no reason why ... and if I
am in error, the Manager and his staff can correct me ... that you should not
be able to rent from us space in our downtown....
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Dawkins: ....Bayfront Auditorium. We have enough space there where
we can rent you. The people can be there and they are off the streets.
This Commission wants the people off the streets Monday. This is one
time I an going to stick to my guns. Regardless of how the Federal
Government does it, they are going to have to do it.
Mr. Howarton: I see. Well, of course, Mr. Dawkins, your comments are well
made. I understand you feel Immigration takes the brunt of this.
Mr. Dawkins: They have not. I mean I am not talking to you. I am
talking to my Federal Government, who dumped this....
Mr. Howardton: I understand, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: ....in my lap, who has taken my tax dollars to support this.
Yet they still want me to continue to be subservient. I am not going to
do it. It is time that the Federal Government realizes that I have as
much right to protect the rights and lives of the City of Miami as they
do to go overseas and protect everybody else's rights.
Mr. Howarton : That's right, sir. I would also like to suggest, sir,
that the same body politic, if you will, are the ones that allows this
to happen to the State of Florida, allows this to happen to the City of
Miami as well as to this country. I am just one office and have made
ever_: e*fort and will continue to make every effort to do something
about it.
�Ia,:or Ferre: Let me ask you some specific questions to see if....
"-r. :iowarton: Yes, sir.
�Iavor Terre: Is there anv
way in other governmental offices when
there
art: a lot
of people waiting...
you go in and they have these little
numbers
(plastic
or paper) and you
pick it out. It may be 143. Then you
go over
to some secretary:
and tYiey
tell you, "143 will be next Thursday at
9:15."
T:;en that
person can leave.
That way they do not have to wait out
in
'_4:
t::e .
Is there ar.; way
that you can institute a system where
people
A
arC g:e:;
at least, perhaps
not a time but a day and morning or afternoon.
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Mayor Ferre (CON'T): Say, "You will be taken care of three weeks from now on
Wednesday in the morning. So get here at 9:00 o'clock." Then we don't have
all these lines of people just sitting there sometimes for eight and ten
hours just waiting to get in. I think it is inhuman.- It is creating havoc
in the downtown area. It's creating all kinds of problems. It's terrible
for people to be selling in places. There are fist fights. Switch blades
have been pulled. Threats have been made on women. They have been pushed.
That is not what we want in Miami. You do not want that either!
Mr. Howarton: Well, certainly, sir, it is not something that I want. Staffing
— limitations, of course, are not new just to the Federal Government. They have
been with us a long time, just like the City of Miami staffing. I would like
to point out that in the multitude of numbering systems that we have tried,
and appointment systems, we found that we have so many entrepreneus here in
Miami, that generally our number systems are printed across the street and
around the corner within about a day or two to where we have duplicate numbers
showing up. These things do happen because people pay an exhorbitant price
to try to get a place in line. That is one of the things that certainly the
City Commissioners helped in the passage two weeks ago. I think it was the
23rd of September... the ordinance to stop selling of places in line. Renting
chairs to wait. As to appointments I would like to point cut the problems we
have with that, if I could, Mr. Mayor. Our staffing in Miarli, which of course
is controlled by budgets right up to Washington, our work loads, which our
staff are able to handle, we're unable to keep up with that work load and
we are getting behind each month. Because the more we do the more we get.
Miami is drawing really the world, not just Cubans, not just Haitians, but
a mix from every country of the world. We are dropping behind from 2,000
to 4,000 units of work every month. So the appointments, starting today, we
calculate within two months we would be about six months behind on appointments,
so this too, sir, is not satisfactory.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, I understand. My heart really bleeds. I say that sincerely.
Mr. Howarton: Don't let it sir. We have to work together to accomplish
something.
Mayor Ferre: I really feel badly for you. I know it is terrible. There is
nothing much that you can do about it, except go through all the misery and
all the attacks. But the fact is that we cannot solve your problem for
you.
Mr. Plummer: Well, wait a minute. Let us not be be sure of that.
Mayor Ferre: We cannot simply let this continue. We have been as patient
as we could, but it is affecting the well-being of the City.
Mr. Plummer: fir. Ma%or.
Mayor Ferre: We have to get these people off the streets. How we do it
I do not know.
Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you a question.
Mr. Howarton: Surely, `!r. Plummer.
�:r. Plummer: I do not know the internal workings. We know the problem.
You know the problem. We know it. I do not think either one of us like
the problem. Is it possible if the City of Miami, for example (Mr.
Manager better listen because it is going to deeply involve him)if we
made available to you at a 101 rental, let's just say for the sake of
discussion, the baseball stadium. I do not think that it is being used
present!_:. I'm just wondering if we made that available, would that help
,;ou": In other words, you have a stadium over there. You have it inside.
It is behind gates. You could ... I do not want to say warehouse people...
but vou could have an orderly process. Would that help you? I think this
Cit..' ::ants to help you. But we cannot allow to continue what is going on.
1 crrtainl;: realize where you are coming from, Mr. Plummer.
is ba6i-Lilly the interest of everyone here.
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Mr. Plummer: I do not want to hide them.
Mr. Howarton: Basically, sir, let's....
Mr. Plummer: But I want them orderly.
Mr. Howarton: Let's call it like it is. Let us hide them. It is keep their
safety. Keep them organized and where they will not bother the business, they
will not bother the community groups, they won't bother the home owners
associations. That is one of the problems with Immigration. Let's face it.
It is these people that yell because you are going into their neighborhoods
and such. The problem: I still have only so many people to do the work. As
my operations are split, which has been suggested and looked into, as I split
my operation to try to have smaller groups to perhaps get into various places,
that takes staffing from downtown and still you have the same numbers of people
to do that work, so you have people waiting. This is what we are trying to work
on. In the last year we have increased —let me go back to the lines. There
are basically two types of lines. The quick line for general information.
Routine simple applications is on the first floor because that's the largest
volume. On the third floor are our complex cases, the benefits if you will.
These two lines each require so many people to do that work. The reason that
a year ago in November we went into what the papers and you folks are hearing
is up front processing, so that you may have to wait in line three to four
hours, at least you are getting a completion in a granting or denial of your
benefit that day. Where we were able there, with our limited staffing, to
do away with someone giving out appointmemts; someone writing letters to come
in; writing letters to get the benefit back to you. We eliminated that. So
we are doing practically twice the work load we were a year ago. Right along
with that, the more we did, now we have more and more people coming in because
they want that one day, even though they have to wait in that line.
Mr. Plummer: How can we help, sir?
Mr. Howarton: I know you have run out of patience. So I will not ask for
your patience. That is for sure. But we are being moved within 90 to 100
days. See, I'm not even my own landlord. I do not know where I am going.
I onlv know they tell me when I'm going. That is when I make the move.
Mr. Plummer: Joe, listen, you have to understand. We try to understand you.
You are trying to understand us. Do you realize that downtown Miami, most of
those merchants make or break during the Christmas season?
Mr. Howarton: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: That is what we are talking about, over the Christmas season.
:lave you considered maybe going across the street to the parking lot and making
people wait in the parking lot?
Mr. Howarton: Yes, sir, we negotiated with the City for ten parking meters
under the freeway, which would include an off duty police officer and portable
johns to take care of the people. That was not found acceptable. We do not
want to get back into the tent city. The people would still be seen. A.S.T.A.
was coming in so we do not want them where the passage way goes over. See,
unfortunately there is a lot of politics involved. But so, Immigration law is
politics, if you will, as well. So you try to analyze the political sensitivity.
In the place that you are getting the fewest yells from is where you end up going.
I attended an environmental impact meeting which turned out this was about two
months ago, which indicated we w-uuld probably be going to 79th Street. Well,
all of the groups opposing a move to 79th Street were there opposing that. If
you don't think it hurts you with the City, here I am with an Immigration office
and I'm being told coming into that office with a payroll of many dollars a
week with some real good employees that I'm degrating the neighborhood. That
hurts too, Mr. ?lummer.
�'.avcr F.r:C: Gentlemen, it is now past 11:30. We have not begun our 9:00
o'clock a cCC3. ,= must get on! Is there anything else that you need to
tio, sir. ::e are moving and if you say no lines on the street
on :'.c,nda.:, sir, I guess i will be seeing the Fire Marshall on Monday. Because
if t;-,ere are no lines .n the street, the lines are in the house. So it is just
rrc of the C__;: government is telling me to go which way. I'm trying
to W (" 1- w i to _.iar. is all I can say.
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Mayor Ferre: Well, we cannot obviously violate the Fire Code, because if
- there is a fire, God forbid! You would not want that kind of a tragedy.
That, of course, takes precedence over anything else.
Mr. Howarton: Yes, sir.
:Mayor Ferre: On the other hand, I do not think that this community can
_ any longer accept...we have gone on with it now for a year. It is getting
to a point where it is an intolerable situation. So you are going to work
out a system where once that office... I do not mind two or three people
waiting outside, but we just cannot have these long lines of people waiting.
Mr. Howarton: Sir, we will work at it. Unfortunately, we service all of
those people on the line. If they were to spread out during the daylight,
- they would still be serviced. But they do not. They feel like they have
to get there... All I can say is it has been a big help the last few weeks
having the City police.
Mayor Ferre: Awfully sorry.
Mr. Howarton: We will keep working on it. I only wish that you could pass
an ordinance, "No more aliens to Florida," perhaps or refugees, as no more
on the sidewalk. But that is something that we know you cannot do.
Mavor Ferre: All right, thank you very much for your concurrence and your
presence.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I hope that...Joe....
yr. Charles Hadley: I hope he does not leave here right away.
Mr. Plummer: I hope you leave here sir....
Mr. Hadley: I hope he does not.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Charlie.
Mr. Hadley: I have something to say.-.
Mayor Ferre: would you remain for a moment while....
Mr. Plummer: Joe, I hope that if you come up with some idea, that you would
immediately contact the Manager. I hope that the *tanager would work with
you to aleviate any confrontation on Monday. I think that wherever there
is a problem that if we have some imaginative thinking we maybe can come
up with the solution. I don't want you to go away thinking that we have
shut the door so tight that it cannot be reopened.
Nay: or Ferre: `tr. Hadley.
Mr. Hadley: Mr. Chairman and Mr. Mayor, Members of this great board, City
Commissioners, I had the pleasure of taking around a rider. He was here
for this convention that you have downtown. To his surprise and my
surprise, you only have three places, my friend, and you should take all
of these three places in consideration. His program, crowd; the food
stamp program, crowd; unemployment line, crowded! Don't pick one out.
Send them all out! The people that they have working in some of these
places, they think they own the government; or they think they own what
the•: are doing. I want to say to you, my friend, don't send them all
out to 79th Street. Don't send them away. You think they can't find
the facilities that they needed? I am talking about three groups. It
seems that ever• man that comes into this chamber, the only entrance that
he has or she has is cleaner than my own house. My friend, the worst thing
in the world that this City can do is trying to create the kind of image
that is: 1 love Miami. iver..time you walk the street, get over, get over.
You have enough. policemen now policing his job. And where are the rest?
Just out there. I don't think you should help these people being harassed
by policemen, and where they walk into this building, or rent in this
huildinb. '':;*_ 's ., t .3 : omrrune. my friend.I'm talking about the State
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"ir. Hadley (CON'T): Employment Office, at the Food Stamp. If you want me
to go further, I will go further. But I wanted this man to know he is not
the only person in this town with a gavel. I hope that he will find out
that he is not the only one with a gavel. He will act and he will be a
gentleman, like you people say, put the policemen back. You have every
one, eight hundred and some protecting him. You will see not a person in
the community where they should be. These people are here looking for freedom.
That is the reason they came here. They are not here for you to say, "Hey,
there Mister Mayor, thanks so much. Since we set you with twenty-five
policemen, you can get around the corner now because we love you." We don't
know where we are going. but we thank vnn for our City. My friend, I
want to tell you something. We rode all over this place yesterday. They
come here with what we have, people are coming back to this City to see
if there is any improvement. I want to tell you right now in regard to the
bond issue in 1966, "from the beach to the ghetto". All that
we got out of the ghetto is a post ottice across the street. That is all
we got. I took off from my job. I did not have the sense that I have now
since I have been sick,...(inaudible-not using the mike).
They will take you places. As soon as you get sick,.........
That's your own kin folk and your friends as well. You are not the only ones who
suffer, my friends.
Mayor Ferre: Thank you very much.
Mr. Hadley: (inaudible (not using the mike)
:favor Ferre: Thank you, Mr. Hadley. Than you, sir.
18. DISCUSSION ITEM A,D AUDIO-VISUAL PRESET=TATIOh OF TEE OFFICE
OF i vFOKUTIO.; A.N'D VISITORS.
Mayor Ferre: Now we have to start with our 9:30 agenda. The first item
is the discussion of the Office of Information and Visitors. Mr. Manager.
Mr. Gard: Mr. Mayor, before we begin I would like to also remind you that
we have a luncheon at 12:00 o'clock honoring Mr. Art Teale.
Ms. Aida Levitan: I will move as quickly as I can on this. I know you are
in a hurry to go. The City of Miami Office of Public Information, as it is
called now originated' from the.......
Mayor Ferre: Aida, excuse me, Dr. Levitan. We do have to break at 12:00
sharp, so this will be the only item on the morning agenda that we are going
to discuss. Obviously_ in 18 minutes we cannot take the other things. So
those of you that are here on other items will have to return with my
apologies.
Ms. Levitan: ....originated with the former Miami Metro Publicity and
Tourism Department. In 1979, this department was eliminated and Tourism
functions were transfered to Metropolitan Dade County. A new department
was formed in Metro Dade to handle tourism functions. Our office was
studied b: Hank Meyers Associates at that time. As a result of a number
of s.:rvc—ys, includi:h business executives from throughout the nation, it
was ec,ce b,: t,e City of Miami that this Office of Information and
':'isitors wculd two main functions. One, generate positive publicity
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Ms. Levitan (CON'T): ....about the City as an international center for
trade, commerce, finance and culture. In addition to that the office is
charged with the responsibility of generating information about the way
in which the City government works, the services that it offers, the different
ways in which citizens may participate in the government. Thus, making
government accessible to the residents of the City of Miami. Major accomplishments
for the last two years include the preparation of more than 1,000 protocol
documents. I am sure you are all familiar with these. They include proclamations
both in English and in Spanish, commendations, certificates, plaques, and
other such documents. In addition, we have provided protocol services for
City functions, for visiting dignitaries, and the coordination of the Sister
City Program. We have also provided photo coverage of City functions and
major events through 800 photo assignments. These include also dark room
services, the production of approximately 6,000 black and white prints as
well as color slides of the different events. Many of these photographs as
you can see from this collage have been published across the world giving
positive publicity to the City of Miami.
We also provide the sign and graphic art services to the City, agencies,
the Commission, the Administration through at least 35 projects per year.
These include the preparation of Cityscape, brochures, agency brochures,
different types of publications. We provide through our photographic
unit our two photographers work on the issuing of 108 film permits per
year. We expect to increase this as the film industry develops in the
City of Miami. They work very closely with both film and commercial producers
to make it easy for them to film in the City. We produce 250 press releases
in English and Spanish, sometimes in French per year. These are sent to 100
media sources, not only locally but also nationally and internationally. They
cover not only subjects dealing with City Departments with the different things
that are happening in City government, but also with the development of Miami
as a center of banking, with subjects such as the insurance exchange of the
Americas, you see an example of an article published as a result of one of
our press releases, the Miami Free Zone, the downtown construction boom,
and a number of other areas especially designed to promote positive publicity
about Miami. We participate in 25 T.V. and radio programs, produce 250 radio
announcements, and 250 P.S.?,.s per year, which are broadcast not only in
English and Spanish but sometimes happen to be broadcast in a variety of
languages including Japanese and Korean. We have also designed the Miami
Image of the 80's project, which does not cost the City any money. In fact
this project is funded, thanks to approximately $140,000 in contributions
from the private sector per year. As you can see in front of you and also
on the slides, as a result of the visit of 70 national and international
journalists we have been able to generate 180 articles in the national
and international media including such prestigious publications as the
Boston Globe, ABC in Spain, El Espectador, El National in Venezuela and
a number of other publications. These are hundreds of thousands of dollars
of free publicity for the City of Miami. Since our department does not have
and advertising funds this is our way of producing positive publicity at no
cost to City taxpayers.
We also produce approximately 125 articles per year that we generate in
the local media about City projects and services and events. In addition
some of these articles are published exactly as written by the O.P.I. staff.
In some cases you will not know that we are the ones who are producing these
articles or helping Commissioners....
Mr. Plummer: Woa! Woa! Back up one time. Wait a minute. In all fairness,
the one great feature of that newspaper is on the back page, and I do not
ste Where is the feature of that newspaper?
Ms. Levitan: We missed that one.
'-!r. Plu=.er: Where is the feature of that newspaper, Mr. Mayor? I want
tc tell you I would not miss a single publication.
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Ms.Levitan: I tell you Commissioner Perez has helped us get a lot of free
publicity, not only locally but now we are getting 30, I believe, international
newspapers that will publish information about the City of Miami.
Mr. Plummer: But it is the editorial on the back page, that photo....
Ms. Levitan: That I would not publish.
Mr. Perez: Let me point out something, Commissioner Plummer. That section
is something that was written with the cooperation of the department. With
them we have 30 papers who agreed to print in this column without any cost
to the taxpayers of the City of Miami.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but I know the real reason why they are publishing that.
That is all right, go ahead.
Ms. Levitan: We also have provided direct support services in terms of publicity
to festivals such as Goombay,Kwanza „ Hispanic Heritage Festival, Carnival Miami,
(As you can see here is a Brazilian newspaper publishing one of our articles
about Carvival), Calle Ocho, International Folk Festival, and a number of others.
We also provide translating services, and not only do we do this in English and
Spanish but also in French and in some cases we have handled the visit of
Brazilian dignitaries and have handled those in our faulty, but nevertheless
effective, Portuguese. We cover Commission meetings by providing Commission
highlights, which the Assistant Director and the Director publish every time
there is a Commission Meeting in several newspapers. We provide a number of
support services such as the coordination of the City under God program,
helping in park inauguration such as the Charles Hadley Park, also providing
services to the International Folk Festival in their marketing campaigns,
other park inaugurations, and events such as the United Way Publicity campaign.
We produce six issues of Cityscape per year, a total of 12,000 copies; 2,000
copies are distributed on a bi-monthly basis, not only to City employees but
also to leaders of key community organizations from all ethnic groups. As
a result Cityscape has received the national City Hall Digest award in
competition with other such publications in the nation.
Our office also produced for the first time the first City Annual Report
in English and Spanish which was released last year in Ocotber of '81 at the
State of the City Address, the Mayor gave this report to the community and
also explained the accomplishments of City government during the previous
fiscal year. This State of the City Address is also being coordinated by
O.P.I. The next one will take place on October 25th. We will release to
the public a new concept of the Annual Report called "Miami, its Government."
We also do publish a number of brochures about City government, "Miami
Information Brochure," the first of its kind, offers a comprehensive view
of City Departments, agencies and services. It has been distributed to
12,000 people within the last year in English and now it has been translated
so that it can be distributed in Spanish. Brochures such as the Interim
Assistance Program, are designed and written by our office. "Miami Centro
del Nuevo Mundo," produced in Spanish, was published at no cost to the City
in Vanidades magazine and released to 450,000 people across Latin America,
offering a comprehensive view of the City of Miami government and accomplishments.
Our future projections involve, working very closely with the Department of
Economic Development and the Department of International Trade Promotion,
to generate more positive publications and coverage for the City of Miami
as a business center. In other words, our emphasis will be increasingly on
business. O.P.I. will also work on delivering more information to the tax
j;
pa.:ers through publications such as one that we have planned called the
"City of Miami Taxpayers' Report," which we will let you know a little bit
'
more about in the future. The protocol section will be working again very
close!_: with Economic Development in strengthening the effectiveness of
the sister City Program and other protocol services. Miami Image of the
}
'80s Program will have a key emphasis on business events. For example,
"Miami `Market week" which is coming up on November 12 will have a Miami
Iwawe of the 00s program all for national journalists. O.P.I. will get
involved in the promotion of Miami as an international sports center.
For e.eam-,le, right now we are working on trying to get the community aware
of t`ie '!:ami 'rand Prix, its importance, the Argueyo/Prior fight, and
such in_r e.r .iaticnal sorts events, which again can offer a positive view
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Ms. Levitan (CON'T): of Miami. We have moved in the past two years very much
away from the area of tourism. However, unfortunately, because this office
was originally a tourism office, there are some people who still identify it
with a tourism -oriented office. It is not. We continue to get calls from
the community regarding tourism and we continue to refer them to the right
agencies that handle these calls. But I do want to emphasize that our main
focus will be on business and government and delivering that kind of information
to the local as well as national and international communities.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Gary.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: What is the ethnic make-up of the department that Dr. Levitan
just finished talking about.
Ms. Levitan: I will give you those figures in a second. Right now, as of the
present, this was different back in June 1982, when we were....
Mr. Dawkins: Wait, now. I do not want to know about June. Tell me about
yesterday and today.
Ms. Levitan: We have total of 2010 Anglo; 6.67% Black, that is only one Black;
73t0... .
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, don't give me percentages. Give me bodies, please.
Mr. Plummer: Wait, hold it, you are touching on a sore subject.
Mr. Dawkins: Sorry, give all the bodies to Plummer. Give me persons.
Ms. Levitan: Do you want me to break them down?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, please.
;is. Levitan: The Director....
Mr. Dawkins: Wait now, under you.... You are the head, under you....
Hs. Levitan: The Assistant Director is a Latin male. There are three Anglo
professionals, one Black professional, and six Latin professionals for a
total of ten. We have a total of one Anglo female, five Latin females which
include the clerical staff for a total of six. We have a total of approximately
I think it is fifteen employees right now. We have some vacancies.
Mr. Dawkins: I am not interested in your vacancies because you have not filled
them. My problem is last year when I came in you had two Blacks. I raised
hell with the Manager. I told the Manager I wanted some Blacks in this place.
Here it is exactly one year later and you have one. You lost one.
Ms. Levitan: I think the reason for that is because every time....
Mr. Dawkins: The reason for that is because you have hired no Blacks!
Ms. Levitan: Commissioner, we have not hired anybody because our positions
have been frozen.
Mr. Dawkins: How many openings do you have?
<.s. Levitan: we have right now two openings: Public Relations Specialist,
Public Relations agent. We would like to hire very much.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. "tanager, why are their positions frozen?
Mr. Gar,:: We are in a process, Commissioner, in attempting to reorganize
to provide those things that the City Commissioners have addressed....
Mr. Daw'Kins: Ttiiau's not...no....
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Mr. Gary: We want to wait until we determine how we are going to proceed
before we fill positions.
Mr. Dawkins: That is good enough. Thank you. If you are reorganizing, I
have no... now when you reorganize, let's organize some Blacks in there,
please.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you.
Ms. Levitan: I have already started recruiting informally a number of
resumes from some very qualified Blacks. If we do get the openings, we
have them.
Mr. Dawkins: I mean no offense to you, but in one year your beginning to....
Ms. Levitan: I agree, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: ....organize means nothing. I'm going to tell him right there
I'm putting... that's where the buck stops. When his evaluation comes up I
will talk about your department and the number of Blacks in it.
Ms. Levitan: We are reorganizing. I am sure that will be corrected.
:Mayor Ferre: Questions'.
Mr. Perez: Mr. Manager, could I ask how do you plan to apply the difference
or the increase in this budget from I think the last budget was S438,000 to
$500,000? You have a difference of $6-2,000. How are you going to increase
that budget? How are you going to expend?
Mr. Gary: The Commission, at the budget hearing...I guess I'm lucky to
still have that as a department since one of our Commissioners wanted to
_ cut it all out. The budget is established. You have approved the budget
as proposed. We will try to provide as much service as we can within that
budget. Whatever the budget is now...I think about $450,000 is the total
budget that we have allocated for that department.
Mr. Perez: $438,000, yes. But let me point out something about what
Commissioner Dawkins mentioned about the ethnic balance in the department.
I would like to have, if possible today before the end of this meeting,
the ethnic balance on the Fire Department, the Solid Waste Department, the
Planning Department and in the Management office.
Mr. Gary: You want the City `tanager's office?
Mr. Perez: No, not City_ Manager. Well, the City Manager's also, but I
would like to know what is the breakdown of the ethnic balance in all
the offices, because I think that I would like to have an ample point
of view before making any decisions in any particular department.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
�'.r. Dawkins: Commissioner Perez, may I add on the back of that: and the
number of openings?
Mr. Perez: That is right.
".r. Dawkins: So that we will know what we can work with.
,:r. Gar.. Yes, sir.
',r. Plummm&r: ?et, us go on, Maurice.
�1r. 6ur_:: If I cou]-d just add, Mr. Mayor, I applaud the Commission for
ie elopir--g the departmental review process. I think that it is healthy in
terms of iJentif ing those positive things that we have done, but also
to get same feed5ack from the City Commissioners in terms of whether they
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Mr. Gary: ....think we need to make some improvements. A lot of times, it
just as with the Herald, the departments get all negatives. There are
some positive things that our department is doing we would like you to be aware
of. But we would also, Mr. Mayor, like to get some feedback from you in terms
of where you think we should be making some improvements.
Mayor Ferre: Let me be very Candid, as I think I usually am, not all the time
but the majority of the time.
Mr. Gary: Most of the time.
Mayor Ferre: I think that Dr. Levitan and her staff have done a commendable
job. I think that the Image Program has been fruitful. I think that manv of
these projects that we have come out with, some of these reports are very
good beginnings. They were done under hurried circumstances and I think
there could be improvement. I think there will be improvement. I have not
seen this year's, but I assume it will be substantially better than last
year's. I think it is important that we not lose perspective of the theme;
that we not chase after ten tangental things at the same time. In other
words, the City of Miami has a fixed policy. It is pursuing certain goals.
I think that we cannot be chasing after every possible rainbow that is out
there in the fields of prosperity. We need to be a little bit more modest
and perhaps a little bit more...a simpler set of goals.
I have one particular problem. I do not know how I am going to deal with
this, because a very prominent banker, a friend of all of ours here, and a
very active man in this community wrote me a rather strong and almost nasty
letter about what the hell was the City of Miami doing wasting his tax payers'
monies advertising a foreign bank. Here it is again. In The Economist, the
City of Miami and Credibility International, Credit Suisse, incredibly Swiss.
Mr. Gary: May I explain that?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir. I'm going to have to explain it. So please explain
it to me so that I can explain it to a very angry tax payer.
Mr. Gary: That is not in Aida Levitan's domain. Three years ago, Mr. Mayor,
in an effort to publicize the positive projects and events that occur in Miami
from an economic standpoint. The Director of that time developed a program,
which was approved by this City Commission, which in essence goes to those
businesses that are located in Miami to get them to join in a joint advertising
campaign that highlights the economic positiveness of Miami. That ad, Mr.
Mayor, is not paid by Miami. It was an ad that we went out to the private
sector to get them to advertise what is happening in Miami.
*favor Ferre: Did Credit Suisse pay for this?
Mr. Car-:: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Thank you. That really gets me off the hook. The last thing
that 1 want to say, and Aida, this is not directed at you, because I am
totally convinced that in your particular case you were as you should be
not involved in the political process last election. There are several
members...and I have not made an issue of this or I would have done a lot
acre than I have...there are several members of your staff who not only
operated politically, they operated on City time, they were involved in
the. City !Mayor's race openly, continually, day -in and day -out, during
the working days, during the working hours of the day, designed brochures,
put them together, had them photostated, using City facilities, typewriters
and paper to do all of these things, using paper on the drawing board for
candidates that were running for public office. That is not the purpose
of the City of Miami Department of Information. I just wanted to tell you
on the public record that I have sat and done nothing about this, but that
is something that you must impose. But I want to tell you that the next
time : find any meaner of your staff or anybody else taking time off from
the Cit.; of Miami, using City facilities to design brochures, and discuss
politics of the City of Miami in your department, and that the Manager
wou'_d not do something about it, which I'm sure he will, I personally
will go to the grand jury and to the State Attorney and have these people
prosecuted criminally. Because that is what it is. It is a criminal offense.
ou 'r:ow exactly what I am talking about and exactly who I'm talking about.
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Dr. Levitan: I have had those reports, Mr. Mayor, but I did not witness
any such action myself. But I will certainly convey the message to all of
my staff.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager.
Mr. Gary: Along those lines, because I think that is an important subject,
Mr. Mayor. During the last campaign and for the next campaign and as long
as I'm here, I had a meeting of all the Department Directors including the
Assistant City Managers and established policies by which they could and
could not participate in political campaigns. One of the dont's was that
they could not utilize City time or City resources for political purposes.
I understand what you are saying.
Mayor Ferre: You cannot deny a person his constitutional right. When that
individual leaves the office at 5:00 o'clock he is entitled to go to the
democratic party to the Republican Party or the whatever party, or individual
or candidate and do whatever he or she wants to do.
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Mayor Ferre: (con't) I think it is not prudent for an important, or even
a less important City employee to involve himself or herself in the politics
of the City, in fact, in any other politics. There is one individual in
particular, and I am not going to name him, who is involved in every single
campaign that comes along. You think that that individual has nothing else
to do but involve himself, and I want to tell you that I see that individual
at campaign rallies in the middle of the day, lunches, events going on at
10:00 and 11:00 o'clock during the day and I am sure he is not off of City
time. I think this is dangerous precedent to set and I have not made an
issue of it, but, you and I know that my opponents brochures were designed
by someone within your department, and I don't think if I were to take that
to the State Attorney's office, that I could prove that point, and that man
would be charged criminally. All right, anything else?
Mr. Gary: No, sir, unless the City Commission has any more comment.
Mayor Ferre: I just don't want ... you know, generosity does not mean that
I am a fool.
Dr. Levitan: I understand.
THEREUPON, The City Commission went into a brief recess at 12:10 P.M.,
reconvening at 2:25 P.M. with all members of the Commission found to
be present.
IS . PRESENTATION, PLAQUES, KEYS TO THE CITY AN-D SPECIAL. ITEI!S .
1.. Proclamation b Kev
To Arthur Teale, President of U.M.T.A.
Z. Paintings By Spanish artist Joan Miro to Joaquin
Blava, General Manager for Channel 23,
and Victor Azria, Chairman of the Miami/
Ibiza Sister City Program.
3. Key To Jose Luis Rodriguez, "El Puma", world
reknown Venezuelan singer.
Proclamation Declaring National Executive Housekeeping
Association Week.
Co=endation To Blanquita Amaro, well known Cuban
actress. (Not present)
OPEN SEALED BIDS: BUE:.A VISTA HIGHWAY I:TROVr-v,.ENT - PHASE
I - B-4475.
This being the date and time advertised for receiving sealed bids
.or Buena Vista Highway Improvement Phase I, the -Mayor. -announced that the City
Ccr-pissicn was now read; to receive sealed bids;
The :cllowing: motion was introduced by Commissioner Carollo, who
MOTION NO. 82-902
lG T I'. ,. T c_. i�iC I'; E , OPEN, READ AND REFER TO THE CITY
IAEi:L T10": AND REPORT BIDS AUTHORIZED TO
') 7 1`"_ D TIE FOR: Buena Vista Highway Improve-
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Upon being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
BIDS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING FIRMS:
P. J. Constructors, Inc.
D.M.P. Corporation
Marks Brothers Company
FRE Construction Company
Pavex Corporation
Rob -El Construction Corporation
Garcia Allen Construction Company, Inc.
Weekley Asphalt Paving, Inc.
Hardrives Company
Capeletti Brothers, Inc.
MIRI Construction Company
Sims Paving Corporation
Stowe Paving Company
Campanella Corporation
Lanzo Construction Company
Russell Incorporated
P.N.M. Corporation
Joe Reinertson Equipment Company
Ocean Bay Incorporated
Mayor Ferre: What was the range, the high and the low?
Mr. Gar.,: We have got to come back to you.
Mr. Ongie: There are nineteen of them, so we will have to check it.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. "tanager, you let us know what the average was, the highest
bids and the estimates.
Mr. Gar;.: We have got to do the computations. We will come back to the
Commission.
Mayor Ferre: All right, sir. Now, are there any other legal requirements
that we have?
Mr. Ongie: No, sir.
21. AUTHORIZE S60,000 TRANSFER OF FL^.CDS TO DOWNTOVN DEVELOPMENT
AUTHCRIi:' - SAID FL.MS TO BE REPAID.
Mavcr Ferre: All right now, we are way behind in our schedule, and I am going
to try to do this as quickly as possible, if you will all bear with me. The
first emergency that we have....
Mr. P:u=:cr: I have one.
Maycr Ferre:....is Roy Kenzie, because he has to...Roy, come on and explain
wit,; this is ar. emergency that we have to do yours out of turn.
Mr. o_= K,enzie: Mr. Ha•:cr, if possible, since we have to make a bank tran-
fer before banking hours close today, we would like you to move on the...
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Mavor Ferre: You have made it ... the deadline...
Mr. Kenzie: Well, the bank officers are holding until a:00 o'clock so
that we can make the transfer so we can continue to operate. We usually
each year get a loan from the City until our tax revenues come in.
Mr. Plummer: What interest are you paying?
Mr. Kenzie: I think it is...last time it was 60% to the City.
Mr. Plummer: 6%?
Mr. Kenzie: Yes.
Mr. Plummer: Huh! Why are you bieng so cheap with us?
Mr. Kenzie: That is what you told us we had to pay.
Mr. Dawkins: Why did you negotiate such a low rate, Mr. Manager?
Mr. Plummer: Yes!
Mr. Kenzie: Your money comes right back to you.
Mr. Garv: Well first of all,..
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I move it.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second'.
Mr. Perez: I second.
Mavor Ferre: it has been moved and seconded. Yes, sir?
Mr. Gary: If I may try: to get the understanding of the Commission so we can
get a positive vote on this, first of all, we are talking about two public
bodies. We are talking about a public body which appears primarily on tax
dollars ul-,ich do not come in in November. Now, to the extent to which we
charge them a low interest rate, and to the extent that we don't have to
contribute more money to him to ------- operation, so we support this.
`!r. Kenzie: Thank you.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll please on Item *lumber 34.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-903
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF FUNDS IN THE
AMOUNT OF $60,000 TO THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVF.IXNTS FUND
AS AN ADVANCE PAYM ti'T OF AD VALORU?i TAX PROCEEDS TO BE
REPAID OUT OF AD VALOREM TAXES TO BE RECEIVED FROM DADE
COUNTY BY THE CITY OF MIAMI ON BEHALF OF SAID AUTHORITY
BEFORE THE END OF THE 1982-83 FISCAL YEAR, WITH INTEREST
TO BE PAID TO THE CITY AT THE RATE OF 6% PER ANNU`M.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the Citv Clerk.)
Cpcn being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was oassed
and adc-,ted by t::e following vote-
'i C: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
(:;= i ss cner J. L. Plummer, Jr..
Joe Carollo
"3 : er?aur i t e Ferre
`GCS: Commissioner ".i:'_er J. Dawkins
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22. REAPPOINT METRO/DARE COUNTY CO`21ISSIONER BARRY D. SCHREIBER TO
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF D.D.A.
Mayor Ferrre: Item ;lumber 43 - now what is Item Number 43, Mr. Kenzie?
Mr. Kenzie: Item Number 43 is reappointment of Commissioner Barry Schreiber
to the board of directors of the D.D.A.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a motion?
Mr. Plummer: Moved.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Demetrio Perez. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-904
A RESOLUTION REAPPOINTING METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY
COMMISSIONER BARRY D. SCHREIBER TO THE BOARD OF
THE DOw'NTOWN DEVELOP*ENT AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI FOR A TER`] EXPORING JUtiE 30, 1986.
(Here follows bcdv c' 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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: `:one
ABSENT: None
1 CRA::T $10,000 REQUEST FOR FINDING AND IN -KIND SERVICES FOR
"ORANGE BOTAL - :iA_RA1HON" .
Mayor Ferre: All right now, does anybody else have an emergency?
Mr. Piu=er: Yes, sir. I do.
Major Ferre: A11 rig:.t, Mr. Plummer?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Gary, please. Mr. Dan McNamara (and it is my fault, Mr.
Mayor for not getting it), is he present? Mr. Mayor, we are into a time
bind. As .;cu know, one of the greatest portions of the total overall Orange
Bowl Festiva], is the marathon. Mr. Mayor, they are in dire need of making
a brier presentation. The next meeting with be too late for them. What
thev basically are asking for is $10,000, a cash grant to put on this, which
is no•,a natior.wict publicity and in kind of the police and traffic barriers.
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I am willing to move it at this time. If you want any discussion, I will
enter into it, but there is no question, I don't think in anyone's mind
that this is a great supplement to the Orange Bowl festivities. Do you
want discussion or a motion?
Mayor Ferre: What would the motion be?
Mr. Plummer: The motion will be to grant the request for the Orange
Bowl Marathon in the amount of $10,000 cash and in kind for the police and
the barriers that are needed to protect the runners.
Mayor Ferre: All right, I assume you are going to make the motion.
Mr. Plummer: I will make the motion, if you want a presentation...
Mayor Ferre: Well. no. we don't want a presentation. but we do want to
hear from the Manager what his opinion is before you get the motion.
Mr. Gary: The Manager has laryngitis and can't talk.
Mr. Plummer: That's good. Silence gi,?es consent.
Mayor Ferre: Well now, is this an extra... this is something new?
Mr. Plummer: Yes, well, it is new to the request here today, Mr. Mayor,
but, the Orange Bowl Marathon has been put on for five years, as part of
the Orange Bowl festivities.
Mr. Dawkins: We have contributed each ...?
Mr. Plummer: No, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: But, is the $10,000, is that flat, or are you saying $10,000
plus the police?
Mr. Plummer: It would be the S10.000 plus the in kind.
Mayor Ferre: All right, look, I will tell you what I am going to do. I
am going to vote with vou. Dan, I have been talking about this for a
long time and I hope you dcn't take umbrage or offense, or your people. I
am gcing to vote with you. Next year, some time next year, I am not going
to vote for any other thing for the Orange Bowl until I feel that there are
at least a sprinkling of Blacks, Women and Latins in the Orange Bowl. Now,
I am member. Charlie, you are here, and I am a member of the Iron Arrow,
is that the name of it? And I have got to tell you, and it hurts me, and
Hal Reese is a good buddy of mine for thirty years. but, I think that it
is totally wrong in this day and age, in 1982 for something to exist called
the Iron Arrow, which is a great honor society in the University of Miami,
to exclude women. That just isn't real! Now, the Orange Bowl is a private
organization. It is a private committee, and just like the Riviera County
Club, or the Surf Club, or the West Side, you have got a right to reject
and have on your board whoever you want. I understand all that. But, the
problem is, you project the image of Miami in the world, and you are the
one thing... and everything we come up to this issue, going back to Irwin Christie's
days, as you may recall, we back off because you do such a great job. It is
such an asset to the community. It is such a great thing - the Orange Bowl
Parade, the festivities, and the what have you, but, one of these days, we
have dot to face the reality that we cannot continue to morally support some-
thinz whic,, is not reallv representative of the makeup of this community.
Mr. Curcil.u: I would suggest, '11r. Mayor, that we face the realities now.
Mayor Ferre: well, I don't think that we want to hurt this program and I...
".r. Csr..'.1.,: It is such a beautiful speech that I just don't want it to go to
L C L ,_, L! a'. .
Xa•:cr urrC: 1 know, but, I really think that we have got to give them
Some 1:1 :.: r::. l,.is is not something that is easily done.
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Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, let me say something, please.
Mayor Ferre: (INAUDIBLE) and two Cubans.
Mr. Dawkins: I agree with the Mayor and I have to agree with Carollo. You
are here asking for tax dollars. You are no longer a private concern with
your private rights. But, as they say, this is Miami and as you appoint
Blacks and Latins. (now, I don't ... they will have to speak for the Latins),
but, I hope you don't use those same old recycled Blacks that we always
get. Get some new ones. There are other Blacks other than those that you
people continue to name to committees.
Mayor Ferre: So what?
Mr. Dawkins: But, what I am saying is, I don't want them to keep naming
_ the same ones that I see recycled. This one is on this board and this
board and then you just keep running around. Get some new ones. There
are other Blacks out here other than those that you people keep appointing.
Mayor Ferre: Well, I am not going to argue with you Miller, but, let me
tell you. It isn't other Blacks, there is one Black!..Willy Robinson, as
I understand.
Mr. Dawkins: and if he wasn't president of Florida Memorial, he wouldn't
be on there.
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMIENTS NOT PLACED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Ferre: IN -hat? There are two, I am sorry.
- Mr. Dan McNamara: Mr. Mayor, inasmuch as we have been chastised and it has
been directed primarily at me, I would like to respond simply by saving that
this is an Orange Bowl event under the umbrella of Orange Bowl and Mr. Camp-
bell and myself appear here in behalf of the Miami Runners Club to produce
this. It is not an Orange Bowl produced event. It is under our umbrella.
I would also personally answer your question and the points that you have
_ brought up by saying that I have been there for thirty years and I know
what the system is for the selection of members and I know that the process
itself is what makes it very, very difficult for these things to happen
rapidly, but I also am not a member. Thank you.
Mr. Dawkins: Okay, well I will give them hell...
Mayor Ferre: Hey, Dan, I didn't mean to pick on you, and I don't mean to
pick on Charlie and I don't mean to pick on any of the members, but, the
fact remains nevertheless.........
Mr. Dawkins: That there are no Blacks.
Mayor Ferre: .... that after Irvin Cristie and Irvin Cristie raised holy hell
about this exactly fourteen years ago, and he said "How many Jews do you
hale"' well, in those days there were about two or three. Now there is
mere, and by God, you have done a job of bringing in some more Jews. In
those days there weren't any Blacks and there were no Cubans and no women.
And then through the years and through the decades, slowly there was a little
bit cf progress. There was one or two that got in and right now, in the
Orar,ce Bowl Co=ittee, as I understand it, there is a difference between the
standi.^.g members - there is a category and some of these guys are kind of in
line waiting to make it after somebody dies and I think that the point is
that e rca, ly ought to....
rrr�:....think- about what the implications of all that is and I know
ti.at you iL' a treat job and I you know that you have got my full support of
co, but, I -:ave got to say openly and publicly that I have got
a deep ._,cr ,: -r bier:: tii.-IL pets right to my gut, and I think...I know, I have
neard ail t!,e t':ireats, t_i;at you are going to move to Coral Gables and you
are c_cing to ;cu are going to do that. That's fine, but by
G d, 1 thine ju:nt got to tackle it and I want to tell you there are
nc surr,rAses. -nd of November, when the County comes up here and
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they passed that, I am going to vote for it to support it. When thev come
and ask us for our land in the Orange Bowl, I want you to know that one of
the conditions in the turning over of that land is going to be that the
Orange Bowl be desegregated so that we don't have an all White, Christian,
male operation going. In other words, in the future, if you want to deal
with us, well then you have got to deal with us the way this community_ ex-
pects for you to deal with us.
Mr. Dawkins: So that when you go on these junkets to look at these teams
to play in the Orange Bowl, there will be some Blacks in attendance - you
know, get some of these free junkets that you all take. That is my pri-
mary concern also.
Mayor Ferre: Well, the purpose is, not to belittle. It is just, I think,
to sound, not a warning, but, I want to tell you where I am coming from
because this will be an issue that we will be addressing in the next twelve
months and something has to be done and I am willing to bite the bullet
and lose the whole ball of wax. because I think what is involved here is
a very, very deep and crucial moral issue. All right. I am ready to vote.
Mr. Plummer: I move it.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: It has been moved and seconded. Further discussion? Call
the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its
adoption.
MOTION NO. 82-905
A MOTION GRANTING A REQUEST MADE BY THE PROMOTERS OF
THE ORANGE BOW1. MARATHON EVENT FOR A CASH GRANT OF
$10,000 FOR NATION-WIDE PUBLICITY AND IN -KIND SERVICES
TO INCLtDE POLICE OFFICERS AND TRAFFIC BARRIERS TO
PROTECT THE RUNNERS IN SAID EVENT.
Cpon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Co=issioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor :iaurice A. Ferre
NOES: Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
ABSENT: Ncne
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Agenda Item "B" was withdrawn.
':OTE FOR THE RECCRD: Agenda Item "M" was withdrawn.
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24. REQUEST OF THE CITY CLERK TO SEND ALL COPIES OF JACAROL '�ATTER
TO U. S. ATTORNEY GENERAL AND PLACE ADVERTISL. E:.T FOR PUBLIC
HEARING AT THE NEXT MEETING REGARDING ORDINANCE T••'HICH WAS
DECLARED INVALID.
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Mayor, item M has been withdrawn at the request of
Commissioner Dawkins. However, I would like to ask the City Attorney,
Mr. Pedrosa, thank you sir, what steps should be taken at this point
in time to have a public hearing on this subject.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Vice -Mayor, I think all you need to do is
to publish the ordinance by title only seven days prior to the next
Commission Meeting and have it placed on the agenda for the next
Commission Meeting at which time anyone who wishes to be heard on
the ordinance could be heard and the matter could be voted upon
again by this Commission.
Mr. Carollo: O.K., if I may ask the City Clerk two things now. One,
is that anything that has come before this Commission up to now or that
will come before this Commission in the near future pertaining to this
item, if you could make copies of them and sent them to the U.S.
Attorney's office. Secondly, if you can follow the instructions
of the City Attorney and place an advertisement under the directions
that he gave us so this could be brought before the Commission in
the form of a public hearing.
Mr. Ralph Ongie: Sure, I will.
® Mr. Dawkins: Mr. City attorney, I
to do to bring this before the City
Meeting and let the people who are
before this Commission and request
who are the opponents here so that
What do I have to do?
need something now. What do I have
Commission at the next Commission
owners of the Jacaranda Club come
a variance and to get the people
I can see if we can resolve this.
`ir. Garcia —Pedrosa: Commissioner, you voted to table the appeal from
the application of the Jacaral Bay Club. Until such time as there
was compliance with the resolution requiring disclosure....
Mr. Dawkins: I withdraw that. That was not the way I intended to
lay it on the table. I want to lay it on the table until the next
meeting and I want the people who own the Jacaranda Club to come
before us and present their case. I want the opponents to come
before the Commission to present their case at the next meeting.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Well, sir, you would have to schedule the
appeal at that next meeting.
.Mr. Dawkins: All right, Mr. Manager, would you schedule that appeal
and notify the appropriate people?
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Dawkins, number one, I think it is going to be
very hard to get the owners of the people over here like you are
requesting since that seems to be the problem that we are having.
'hev do not want to divulge who the owners are.
".r. Dawkins: That is a chance I have to take, Mr. Carollo. There
again, I don't have to have the owners in that we are operating with
an ordinance that my City Attorney has said is invalid. If I am
)perating under an ordinance that is invalid, it has no bearing on
hac I am doing.
'Ir. Carollo:: It is the resolution that we passed and that every
y,cm er of this Commission voted for and felt was a very good
resolution at that time until they became aware that it would
affect tti4a.6 particular project. It is that particular resolution
'_egsl, Mr. attorney?
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Mayor Ferre: Are you ready to move along? Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Yes, sir, in my judgement it is, Mr. Vice Mayor.
Mr. Carollo: A11 right, thank you.
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it now! It is legal ... no, is it invalid because of
its not meeting qualifications or regulations?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Commissioner Dawkins, I think we are talking about
two different things.
Mr. Dawkins: O.K., please clear me up. That is what we pay you for.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: The question that Vice Mayor Carollo asked me
related to the resolution that was passed at that same meeting. My
answer to him was that resolution is valid. The question you are
asking me or you asked me earlier related to the ordinance, and in
my judgement, as I have explained to you in the memorandum opinion
that I rendered to you....
Mr. Dawkins: I have not read it, sir.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: That ordinance must be published and voted upon
again by this Commission.
Mr. Dawkins: So it is invalid until...in other words, let me ask you
a question. Have we done anything illegal?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: No, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Then we have done everything right'.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: What makes it invalid'.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Commissioner, the action that was taken with
respect to the Jacaral Say Club....
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, no, no, no! I want to know... let's discuss the ordinance.
Is it legal?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: It is legal but it has not been finally adopted by
this Commission.
Mr. Dawkins: Then it is not legal?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Yes, sir, but you acted on the resolution rather
than on the ordinance. That was the clarification that was made with
the Mayor.
Mr. Dawkins: All right, now, what makes it illegal or invalid?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: The ordinance, Commissioner, was not adopted
pursuant to Section 166.041 of the Florida Statutes. However, the
action taken by this Commission was taken not under that ordinance,
but under a validly, and completely, and finally adopted resolution.
Mr. Dawkins: O.K., supposedly I wanted to stop everything and challenge
166 to see how legal what we have done according to 166 is.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Then you would not take the step that I have
suL ested that you take, if you want to adopt that properly and have
it be challenged as not complying with the State Statutes.
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Mr. Dawkins: Well, that is what I would like to do. How do I go about
doing that?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Well, sir, you defeat the....
Mr. Dawkins: I don't mind defeating it. I want to know how I do it.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: At the next meeting, when the Commission considers
the ordinance again if the Commission were either to decide not to
approve it at that time, or if the Commission were to decide that it
did not need to follow my opinion in that regard and you were to act
on the ordinance, it would subsequently possibly be challenged and a
court of law would determine whether or not that compliance was
necessary.
Mr. Dawkins: I do not want to go to court. I want to know what I,
as a Commissioner, who feeling that 166 has not been addressed, and
that in present, past, or future we have not addressed that. Now
how do I go about challenging everything that has been approved by
166 and get a reading on it.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: I would hope that you....
Mr. Dawkins: I am going to do that....
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: ....would not take that posture, Commissioner.
Mr. Dawkins: I am going to take that posture as a City Commissioner.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: You could ask me to render to you advice concerning
the status of matters previously adopted by this Commission not in
compliance with the 166.
'sir. Dawkins: Would you do that for me at the next Commission meeting?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: If you so request, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: I so desire.
Mr. Carollo: To clarify it even more, Mr. City Attorney, and I could
be corrected if I am wrong. I think what Commissioner Dawkins is trying
to say is how can the three votes that are already lined up for whatever
reasons in this Commission to vote for this project, the one project
that is asking for the most variances ever in the history of Miami,
that alone paid over $130,000 in variances, how can they vote to approve
this project as quickly as possible without them having to divulge the
-3 name of the owners?
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. City Attorney, let me take words out of my mouth
that were put in there by Commissioner Carollo. What I'm saying to
you is that we have enacted ordinances and resolutions, etc. under
166 illegally, including the one that I know I am going to have the
most people in here on, the Cable T.V. I want every one of them
looked at and to see if we have passed them legally and open up the
baz of Worms. That's what I am trying to do.
Mavor Ferre: That will not be the only can of worms you will open,
I want you to know.
Mr. Dawkins: That is good. Let's open up all of them.
'aa,:or Ferre: it will be not one....
"r. Caro llo: rood time to open up some cans of worms.
Xavor FCrrc: It wall be hundreds and thousands of cans of worms.
Some of theta will have a few snakes besides the worms. So can we
now Wove to item number 2
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Mr. Plummer: I congratulate this Commission for surfacing the Loch
Monster.
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Sir?
Mr. Carollo: If I may ask one question for the record from the City
Attorney's office. Mr. City Attorney, when this resolution and
ordinance was voted upon that would force anyone, no matter who it
is to divulge the names of all the owners of any property that is
coming up for variance before the City... to my recollection this
was over four months ago. ..did the people involved in this project,(Jacarol
Bay Club) the people that have the trust, at that time when they apparently,
like they do now, do not want to divulge the names of the owners,
did they withdraw the variance request or not?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: To my knowledge there has been no withdrawal,
Mr. Vice Mayor.
Mr. Carollo: O.K.
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OCT 14 1982
25. CONFIRM ASSESSME.,T ROLL- "CRESTWOOD SA14ITARY SEI.LR I11TROVE-
MENT - SR-5432-C"
Mayor Ferre: We are now on Item Number 2. Having asked if there are any
speakers at this public hearing on Item ;lumber 2, and hearing none, I ask
now for the motion.
Mr. Plummer: So moved.
Mayor Ferre: Moved by Plummer. Is there a second?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Seconddd. Further discussion on Item Number 2. This is Sewer
Improvement District S.R.-5432-C. Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-906
A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR CRESTWOOD
SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT IN CRESTWOOD SANITARY SEWER
IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT SR-5432-C (CENTERLINE SEWER); r'UND
RDIOVING ALL PENDING LIENS FOR THIS IMPROVEMENT NOT
HEREBY CERTIFIED.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
`.'ice -Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: 'cane
ORDERI`;G RESOLUTION: "EAST ALLAPATTAH HIGHWAY IMPROVE2IENT/
H- 4µ81"
Mayor Ferre: We are now on Item Number 3, which is the East Allapattah Improve-
ment Districts H-4.81. Is there anybody who wishes to speak to that here?
Al! right, let the record reflect that nobody stood up.
Mr. Dawkins: 'Moved.
Mawr Terre: It is :no.,ec by Dawkins. Is there a second',
nr. Plummer. ec�r:d.
'.-'_aver Ferre: Plummer seconds. Further discussion on Item Number 3? Call
ftu roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-907
A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION NO.
82-792 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO ADVER-
TISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF
EAST ALLAPATTAH HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4481 IN
EAST ALLAPATTAH HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
H-4481.
(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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
-, . DISCUSSION OF SOCIAL SERVICE PROGRAMS: (A) TRAI%SPORTATION
REQUIRE'lENTS II. THE ALLAPATTAH CO?2 UNITY AREA. (B) RESOLUTION
ALLOCATION ADDITIONAL ONE-TkTELF7H (1/12TH) MNDING.
Mayor Ferre: I will take up items where people raise their hands that they
are here on and will slip over those items where nobody is here to speak on.
-
I will take it in chronological order. Item Number 1 then, would be Agenda
Item Number "C", which is a discussion of Federal Revenue Sharing Funds for
social service programs. Mr. Manager. Are there any people who wish to ad-
dress the Commission on that issue? Raise your hands, those who want to
speak to this issue. (NOTE: Mayor counts speakers) There are three speakers.
Give your names to the Clerk. Go ahead, Mr. *tanager, the Chair recognizes
you.
Mr. Garv: Mr. Mayor, in your package you have before you, the recommended
allocation of social service funds by agency, it is important to note that
this year the result of an action of the City Commission. we are no longer
fundinc Dade Countv after schools or community schools. and as a result, it
is recommended that those funds be utilized to fund the Coconut Grove Family
Clinic, which was increased by the City Commission during the course of
this year to bring them back up to their previous allotment. The other is
another organization which deals with Centro Caribeno de Estudios Post-
Graduados, which is an educational program that the City Commission has
previously approved also and another is the funding of H.A.C.A.D. on a four-year
basis. with those modifications, we are recommending that the programs as
outlined in that memo be allocated for eleven -twelfths, because one -twelfth
cf the amount has already been allocated to cover this one month period.
We ;gave Xr. Castaneda from the Department of Community Development, who is
availablc to answer anv questions the City Commission may have.
'fir. Dawkins: 0kav, under the A.S.P.I.R.A., I need the goals and objectives,
measursb e ,goals and objectives, okay? I need a goal statement and a ra-
tiCna�i ILneed the :methodology that this is being done, and a performance
reco Or the Be-'fot:tr-Tacolc,;, I want to know - does the training lead
Lc' _. , _ .e::t , Or does i.t lead to retraining. I need their goals and mea-
surab,e .. jeLtives. I need a goal statement and a rationale to function
on the -:r e::s _ i are,a bein}, served, plus their performance record. The
�t`:oll `er:ice 0ureau, I just need their goals and measurable objectives
a;,* tt,e^.iet::uc?: 1 c : i r f allowing up. Under the Catholic Service Bureau, it
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says that they were supposed to have a certain percentage of the Overtown
children, and they didn't. I want something written into the agreement
where either they get the required neighborhood service area residents in-
volved, or they refund our money.
Mayor Ferre: Okay. Anything -else?
Mr. Dawkins: No, that is all.
Mayor Ferre: All right, any other members of the Commission?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, we are, just today...
Mr. Dawkins: Oh, I am sorry, Mr. Mayor, on this one, I want to stop it
_ in total, Mr. Manager. Where is that one for the Tacolcy Youth - something?
Oh - Miami Athletic Training and Sports Development Program. I want to with-
hold that, *ir. Manager, until they come in and show me their goals and ob-
jectives and what they have done and how he is doing it and then, I mean...
Mayor Ferre: Is that the S20,000?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes. And let him bring that in to your staff, Mr. Gary and
if you are satisfied with it, present it to me, okay?
Mayor Ferre: Okay.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, it is my understanding that all we are doing here
today is a thirty -day more payment, is that correct?
Mr. Gary: No, that is a full allocation.
Mr. Plummer: All right then, Mr. Mayor, I have to object. I have some
serious questions on the H.A.C.A.D. I have asked the questions of the
Department, and I am still awaiting answers. We are allocating $150,000
for round figures. Mr. Mayor, I am very concerned as I looked over their
evaluation. My concern is that they are out doing surveys. I don't think
the people of this community and the Haitian community in particular, need
surveys. I think they need housing. I think they need jobs and I think
thev need food and I looked over the evaluation, and as far as I was con-
cerned, there was a lot of questions in relation to salaries, in relation
to legal services without answers as to where the dollars were going and
until such time as we have those answers, I am not prepared to vote. I
just have, as you know, my basic philosophy is to feed the hungery and treat
the sick and we will talk about the rest. Surely, not in that philosophy is
surveys to find out the needs of the people. We know the needs of the peo-
ple. The needs are jobs, food and medical attention, so I am not prepared
to vote at this time.
Mayor :erne: Okay, any other comments from members of the Commission?
Mr. Perez: Mr. Manager, what is the total amount that we have available,
"--0,000?
Mr. Gary: Originally, it was $841,000 - you have already allocated....
Mr. $70,000:'
Mr. Gar-:: .... $70,000, so you have a balance of $770,937. It is on the front
page f the memo.
fir. Perez: rh at rand of procedure did you follow in order to make this
kind of decision. Do you have any public hearing also?
Mr. Frank Castareda: The procedure is the public hearings that we do have
hero. That is tine onl,, procedure.
riell, it is usually more than that, now. Usually you go
through a procedure cf worr:ing with the groups individually, do the evalua-
ti:Dns, and tfien you make a recommendation.
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Mayor Ferre: Yes, but I want to tell you something, which I think - J. L.,
you and I are the ones that have seen this. This is a great testimony
to the Administration, to this Administration. I can remember, and so can
you, the days when we had these hearings in the past to deal with allocation
of Federal Revenue Sharing Funds, that there would be five -hundred people
here screaming, and the fact that we are down to just four or five speakers
is certainly, I think, reflective of the fact that we must be working with
the community somehow.
Mr. Perez: But, did you announce in the media this allocation? Did you
have plenty announcements in the media?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir. We are required by Federal law....
Mayor Ferre: Federal law requires it.
Mr. Gary:....to not only advertise, but we have a public hearing, and I
would like to add that at that public hearing, nobody showed up. That has
been for the last three or four years.
Mayor Ferre: I will give three minutes to the four speakers here. That
ought to take twenty-five minutes.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, before he starts, I think we should announce to
the public that this Commission is under an obligation of this evening of
attending the affair hosting by the A.S.T.A. for this Commission and that
is at 7:00 o'clock, and this Commission will have to break no later than
6:30 P.M., but, I think you should tell people.
Mayor Ferre: Well, let's move along. Roger Biambi, you have got three
minutes.
Mr. Roger Biambi: Mr. Mayor and Mr. Commissioners, my name is Roger Biambi.
I am Executive Director of the Haitian American Community Association of
Dade. I would like respond to Commissioner Plummer's concern. Mr. Commis-
sioner, last year, when we came before this Commission requesting your
assistance, there was so much going on in the Haitian Community, that it
was not possible to tell you in a very authoritative manner the kinds of
- problems that could be documented. We built in in that proposal that was
presented to the City Commission last year a need of an assessment survey
that would allow us to determine on a more scientific basis working with
Florida International University in this venture to find out, to document
the needs of the Haitian population. That is a side product of this legal
project, but, I have here, and the City of Miami Department of Community
Development, also in their possession,I believe they have made it
available to you. We have, over the past period of eight months, provided
emergency food services to over four -thousand Haitians. We have also pro-
= vided...we have recorded over a thousand court violations in Little Haiti
for which the two attorneys working at H.A.C.A.D., have found ways to
rectify those court violations. We have also built in that proposal a in-
formation and referral service with people coming to us and we were not
able to provide that service. We did identify other agencies that could
assist them and we have served eighteen hundred sixty-six people in that
} information and referral category. In terms of total numbers of families
receiving emergency assistance, we have served sixty-three families, a
separate category from the four thousand single people receiving emergency
food.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, sir, but let me address that. That is exactly one or
the points that I am getting to. The last report which you filed, only
approximately 12.. of your money went for direct assistance to the people...
direct assistance, As I recall, and I don't have the figures with me, it
was S19,000 of money went to direct assistance to the people - people in
need. :;ow, let me make it understood, sir. I feel that your organization
is entitled to funding, but I feel that this Commission needs some input as
to how you fund and what you do. For example, I don't think that this Com-
mission should be paving for a $5,000 photostat machine. That was in your
last. rc;)ort. Tat doesn't: feed people. Now, what I am saying to you sir,
ar:d 1 an: speaking for one, not the rest of this Commission. I am happy
s,_c tt;e :ponies that we give to you, first and foremost going to feed
t,e ^cor and treat the ili. Now, I am saving to you that there are a lot of
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things in your proposal that I personally feel need to be changed. I don't
want you to sit here and tell me of the 750 people that you propose to help -
that a survey of going to their home was the way of helping them. Now, you
might want to do a scientific survey, but, a man with a hungry stomach
doesn't need a scientific survey. He needs food. Now, all I am saving to
you is, sir, I am not going to deny you in any way the funding to the Hait-
ian community, but, I think for one on this Commission, the manner in
which you are serving that community, this Commission needs some more input.
Mayor Ferre: Okay_, I think that is a valid request, but let me share with
you something. I don't know whether you have been down to Little Haiti to
visit H.A.C.A.D. I took the time to do it.
Mr. Plummer: I saw it on T. V., sir.
Mayor Ferre: I want to tell you, (and by the way I didn't tell the tele-
vision cameras I was going down there, how they showed up is beyond me).
One of them did show up and I asked him to wait outside, because he couldn't
fit into that place. I mean, there was an office there that you couldn't
stretch out your arms fully without touching both walls on both sides.
Those people are stacked up, it is like a chicken coop. I saw a bag of rice
and beans in the back of the place and someone come in with a cup and take
a cup full of beans and a cup full of rice and putting it into a little
brown paper bag, and I said, what is going on, and they said "Some of
these people, that is how they are living" - with a little cup full of
rice and a cup full of beans into a brown paper bag and these are human
beings that are living in this community. They are not on welfare, not
because they don't want to be on welfare, they can't be on welfare because
of our laws. They are not getting food stamps. They don't get unemploy-
ment. In the whole Haitian community, there are not one -thousand people
getting unemployment. It is not that high, because to get unemployment,
you had to work and you had to have this and this and that, and there are
a whole bunch of requirements for You to get unemployment. These people
don't meet those requirements, so they are not on unemployment, they are
not on welfare. They are not getting any kind of payments. The only
thing they are living off of is those that can work, and there are only
about ... you are talking about unemployment in the Haitian community, you
know. we hear about 40`.' unemployment with Black teenaeers - in the Haitian
community_ it is the reverse, it is 401"o employed. In other words, it is the
employed that theymeasure, not the unemployed, and the employed don't even
hit 46%! So, 60 _ or more of that community is unemployed, not because they
don't want to work. These are the most unbelievably hardworking people,
and those who are lucky enough to get jobs work like nobody else does in
this community, because they know how important it is to take home a pay-
check. and, these are people that are really at the end of their string
The Catholic Church has done a fairly commendable job, but they can't
do it all. Other religious agencies have helped, they can't do it all.
the County is helping and this is the only contribution that we are making
at the City level. I understand and I think they ought to be scrutinized
and we ought to tighten the belt wherever we can, but let's not tighten the
belt on the poorest of the poor.
Mr. Plummer: Okay, that is what I am trying to get to. If you look over
this thing from the community development, and I stand corrected, it is
$30,000. Your total funding, by the way, presently is how much, about
S350,000' Is that correct? I am showing, just salaries alone is $341,000.
(IN._�71I�LE CO!^!EN'IS NOT PLACED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD)
•= • = 1�.... er. I .=::,.. :our total grant sir, is how much from every
SouT�c'M
5634,000.
`:r • :'-urc i.. Ot.�.01- :;crds, better than half of your funding is salary,
_ • pia ..i. ?^!r,_:;tmate'_ about •`K.
r'. Pl;:=ne:-: wc11, no, sir. According to this now, unless the staff is
vnur total salaries are $34 1,440, which is better than 50°0 of Your
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total funding. That is going for salaries.
Mayor Ferre: But, that is what they are doing, J. L., you see what these
people are doing is getting jobs for these Haitians for these Haitians.
They are not out there feeding them. The feeding operation comes as an in-
cidental thing.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, let me disagree with you, okay? Mr. Mayor, a jani-
tor is not out there getting help for people.
Mayor Ferre: He has got to clean the place.
Mr. Plummer: Your telephone operators, all of these things here. Attorneys,
I ask for who are the attorneys and what are they doing? I haven't yet got
an answer.
Mayor Ferre: I've give you an answer. It is very simple. The two attorneys
are there because, you know what is happening in the traditional ... I don't
mean to accuse anybody, but the old property owners, some of them are red-
necks, some of them are Cubans and some of them are Blacks are gouging those
poor people and it is unbelievable what they are doing to those poor people,
and here they are, on the verge of starvation, having to work with the little
money they have, they are being so over -charged for rentals. They have to
have deposits; the abuses that are goin¢ on are unreal. Now, last month.
the month of September, H.A.C.A.D. had a grand total of services of over
2000 people; arrangements for employment, 131, clients hired 63.
Mr. Plummer: 2051 Mayor, was part of the survey, okay? 750 of those were
a survey, a scientific survey.
Mayor Ferre: That is the only way they can get the information....
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I disagree'.
Mayor Ferre: .... to get these people work. They have got to know if there is
a carpenter in the house. Does somebody know how to be a plumber. "Are
you a plumber?". "Yes, I am a plumber". All right, put down plumber.
"All right, now, can we get somebody a job for a plumber?. "Do you have a
job for a plumber?" That is what a survey is.
Mr. Plummer: That is p-1-u-m-b-e-r! Mr. Mayor, the point I am trying to
make is this. If you look down what the City money was spent for --publi-
cations, Publications! S1,500. Travel, $1;800. And you go right down
the line, the professional salaries. Look at fringe benefits. How many
of the recipients are getting fringe benefits of $12,000, just from the City
standpoint?
Mayor Ferre: You don't mind doing it with the cops.....
'fir. Plu=ner: What I am saying to you is this...
Mayor Ferre:....but, when it comes to poor people, and you don't want to
give fringe benefits! Come on!
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, the two items here of emergency, shelter and food
total $31,000. That is 5% of the total grant!
Mayor Ferre: Hey, J. L., any way you slice it...any way you slice it. in
September of this year, H.A.C.A.D. serviced 2,159 people and rendered them
counseling, information and referrals, followups, employment, etcetera,
etcetera, for 2,159 clients. Now, I agree with you that we ought to scruti-
nize it and tighten up, but I will tell you, when we have a City budget
which is close to $200,000,000, and when we have police officers who directly
and indirectly make $40,000 per officer and we go around and say "Absolute-
l.: - fifty more cops, more police equipment, more this, 20 more guns, a
100 this, get an armored car, redo that" and we are going around here doing
the type of things we do, and here are the poorest of the poor and we are
complaining because they get $1,500 or $15,000 or fringe benefits, hey,
listen, let's squeeze now some of the...if you want to squeeze, I am with
ynu, but let's squeeze areas. Let's look at some of these areas where there
isn't that much fat, and I commend to you, you go down to H.A.C.A.D. and you
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see the misery that those people are working under, you tell me, you know...
you want to tighten up? Let's tighten up. I have got no problems, and there
is a cop here, we shouldn't have a cop here. That's fine, I have got no
problems with that, but for God's sake let's also...
Mr. Plummer: I have no problem with tightening the belt. I have a problem
when an organization is spending $600,000 of taxpayers money and I can only
directly see those so-called poor people that you refer to getting less than
5%. Now, unless they have written their recommendation or their proposal
wrong, I am saying to you we need to get more bang for the buck, and let's
get it to those poor people and not be paying these high professional sal-
aries! $5,000 for a photostat machine! You know...
Mayor Ferre: How are you going to run an office without a photostat machine
when you are getting jobs for people? You are trying to get job applica-
tions. Mr. Manager, you had better pitch in on this thing, or I will tell
you, if you guys don't want to defend it, then I will just go vote against
it and I will join Plummer and tell those poor people to go back to Haiti
and...
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, under no circumstances do I wish or intend to take
the money away from the Haitian community. They are entitled to it, but I
think that the way the money is going to the recipients is where we need to go
into further.
Mayor Ferre: All right, I would like to hear from the Administration.
Mr. Gary: First of all, Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, I think
you would have to first look historically at the problems of the Haitian
community. In looking at it, you will find that one of the biggest problems
that we have had, and I think Dade County highlighted it, was that we, as
a community do not understand the total problems of the Haitian community.
We don't know the problems specifically and we don't know the magnitude of
the problems. I think also if you look at the problem historically, you
will find that with regards to the Blacks who were the only downtrodden at
one particular point in time, we had study after study to determine what
the problem is. Obviously, if you are not aware of the problem, it is very
difficult for you to address the problem. Secondly, with regard to the
legal assistance and the professional staff, we do have a chronic problem
in that neighborhood in terms of slum landlords and other property owners
taking advantage of people and as a result, we had those code violation
problems to the extent to which these attorneys and the professional staff
assist us in addressing those code violation problems, then obviously we
are going to -hire staff on staff to address that problem. The third thing
is that in regard to employment, it is necessary for them not only to have
copying machines, but also a means by which people can prepare resumes and
get them out to the appropriate people; also inform them of their rights
with regard to landlord-tenent relationships in terms of the benefits that
are available to them in terms of food stamps and other types of benefits.
I think they also need to have some legal assistance in terms of what is
transpiring nationwide with regard to Haitians. They also do referral ser-
vices for housing and food stamps, and I think, in my estimation, Mr. Mayor
and members of the Cortnission, that the of money that is being ex-
pended for the other services other than food and shelter, Commissioner
Plummer, are necessary so those people can survive. Because, once you give
char a joL, you give them food, if you got a slum landlord taking all of
their -onev because he is stealing from them invisibly, then obviously it
is a cyclical effect and you are defeating the purpose of those things you
have accolplished in the past. So, I think that what is recommended here
tcda, is what ::e should do now. If you feel that you would like for us to
review their priorities in terms of putting more emphasis on emergency type
services, then we need to do that. But, you also need to also understand
too, that with regard to emergency assistance, there is entrant assistance
program and we don't want them duplicating that either.
Xr. Plut:^::er: wG 1, Mr. Gary, as you know, you are proposing $150,000. I
have requested of the Ccm:r.unity Development, I want to see where that other
-4:6,000 is going, and what it is being spent for, and I don't think that
this Commission should, until we have a total picture, knowing fully what
ti,is organization is doing, and having the realignment, if it is the fact
of this CO=issic:n that in fact, we are spending social dollars. Now, you
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what you want, that is one man's feeling.
Mr. Carollo: J. L., I can't help but to grin. You are worrying so much
and where this $150,000 is going, and my God ... Howard,I could understand
why he was defending these people so eloquently. There alone, we have a
$130,000 a year in salary and fringe benefits. We should take five or
six or those people sitting in the left and we would probably hit the
$600,000 mark, salary and fringe benefits. Look at the Police Department,
and the rank of Captain and two Police Chiefs. The least one there makes
$50,000 a year in salary, and that is not including tens of thousands in
fringe benefits and none of those live inside the City of Miami. That
could go on and on into every single department. I mean, if we are going
to be looking at the bureaucrats that are going to be handling this
program, just because
better start looking a lot more closely at our bureaucrats here and what
they are making.
Mr. Plummer: I have no problems with that.
Mr. Carollo: Now, I will tell you, and I am not afraid to say it here pub-
lically. All these fancy bureaucrats that we got working for City making
$50,000, $60,000, $70,000, $80,000, and some hitting $90,000 a year in sala-
ry alone ... salary alone. If we kicked their behinds out of this City, they
could go get themselves a new job. my friend, they would be in the unemploy-
ment line, because they couldn't get a job that would pay them anywhere near
what they make here today. They would learn what the real America is like.
Mayor Ferre: All right, I am glad you are beginning to see it our way here.
Mr. Carollo: Well, Maurice, I will tell you, I have a lot of respect for
you, because you come from a different life style then all of us do here.
You are the wealthiest one on this Commission, but I will say this much -
you haven't forgotten what the little guy, you know, has to go through,
especially in days like today.
Mayor Ferre: Well, thank you, and I will be sure to send those words on
to your President. We have one republican that happens to maybe disagree.
`;r. Carollo: This is a poor republican talking, here.
*Mayor :erne: All right, now, I would like to recommend, Mr. Biambi, to you
and fir. to make an appointment with Commissioner Plummer and take
him to H.A.C.A.D. and show him what you do. Would you do that, J. L.?
Mr. Plum-ner: Mr. Mayor, I will do better than that. I have already informed
staff once they have gotten the questions that I asked in their offices and
had the opportunity_ to read those, I will then go myself there and I had told
stag` .hat.
N;lyor Ferre: Okay, that is the way to do it, so...
Mr. Carollo: w"hy dent you take your buddy Grace..what's-her-name with you.
'fir. Plummer: She might want too much of a grant.
Xaycr Ferre: All right, the next speaker is Dr. Jose Aybar.
Dr. Jose :,::bar: Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor...
Maycr Terre: 'fou saw what happened to the last speaker, Dr. Aybar, so measure
•:cur wcres carefull:.
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Poi :t . Questions have been raised regarding the ASPIRA
r.rccra^: c:
America, Cc=issioner
Dawkins, and I have full documents here to
that 1
think will answer most of them. The only items that
o
discuss at
..his point are two very brie. ones. The goals of this
farticulsr
program at
Ar:nonia' it is a community anti -crime program
build up
leadership training, to have admission and financial
aor=_;.._:ps,
r, increase
the crime prevention among disadvantaged youths in
Eciscn-Little
River and Wynwood areas. The past year we have
':.Uncrec
students and we expect to service five -hundred. The
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amount allocated so far by the Administration is $40,000, and we received...
we were evaluated by the Department of Community Development and we received
a very high evaluation from them, so we in fact, have gone through the Ad-
ministrative process, which is, I think, one of the questions which you
have raised. However, we do have a hedge, and this is why I am coming to
you and the hedge is as follows: for the past year the program "Sntre iguales"
which was paying for the executive director of the ASPIRA Inc. is no longer
going to be funded. In other words, we losing the salary of the executive
director for the entire program, so we are coming to you, in fact, request-
ing an additional $34,000 from this Commission to pick up the salary_ of the
executive director.
Mayor Ferre: What is the recommendation from...
Mr. Dawkins: Additional, what is the total funding you are getting from
the City?
Dr. Aybar: $40,000.
Mr. Dawkins: And you wart another additional $30,000.
Dr. Aybar: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: $39,000.
Dr. Aybar: $34,000. Well, I spoke with Mr. Castaneda before...
fir. Dawkins: So, coming back to J. L.'s premise, then all of the money you
are getting is in salary.
Dr. Aybar: Excuse me, sir?
Mr. Dawkins: All the money you are get goes into salaries.
Dr. Aybar: No, that is not true.
Mr. Dawkins: Okay, well, you need :coney for the executive director. What
do you need the other $30,000 for?
Dr. Aybar: Yes, sir, we have a budget here that will cover all the questions
that you are raising, but the majority...
Mr. Dawkins: Okay_, and this does not duplicate nothing else being done in
the City of Miami by nobody.
Dr. A',bar: That is correct, sir.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. "tanager, what is the Administration's position
on this? ... on the presentation.
`".r. Gard•. I = sorry, I wasn't following...
*savor Ferre: All right, well, he is asking for an additional $34,000. How
much funding did you...
`.r. C,ar.. Oh ... who is this"
rr. Aybar: 7 3m Dr. .Agar wish ASPIRA, Inc.
`:r. ,ar, . Acciticnal mine, .
a Dr. ... . Yes, Sir.
Mr. Gary: Oh, totall,: not. We don't have the money. We have allocated all
the money that see before you and it reflects the programs that this City
'"; Cccmissi :;: has approved inthe past. We don't have the money.
Ferre: The ���, C� could go for salaries?
IDr. ,y%_ Yes, sir.
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Mr. Gary: No, we don't have the money.
Dr. Aybar: And also to service ... it goes for two things; for the salary of
the executive director and for servicing an additional two hundred students,
which at this point, are not...
Mr. Gary: Are you talking about an additional amount over the the allocation
we are proposing?
Dr. Aybar: Yes, sir.
Mr. Gary: Oh, the answer is totally none. No, we don't have the money.
Mayor Ferre: He is asking for an increase of $40,000. He wants $34,000
more. It is an 80% increase. All right, any questions from any members of
the Commission? Dr. Aybar, if you could recommend which one of these programs
you would recommend that we cut, then I would be happy to consider the cut
of somebody's elses money so that you can pay the salary of the executive
director.
Dr. Aybar: Sir, that is something that I leave to the wisdom of the Com-
mission.
Mayor Ferre: Well, I don't have that much wisdom and I am very frank to
admit it, so you tell me who you want to take the money from and I will tell
you whether I think it is a good idea or not.
Dr. Aybar: No way am I going to say that.
Mayor Ferre: If you can think of it before the end of the day, let me know.
Okay? The next speaker is Karen Brown.
Ms. Karen Brown: Thank you, Mayor and Commissioners. I realize and I appre-
ciate what the City `tanager said in terms of funding of additional dollars
for programs, but I just wanted to take two minutes of your time to share
with you the impact of maintaining a consistent funding level for Federal
revenue sharing programs for four years in a row. I am with the Miami
Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged, the senior adult day center at
Legion Park, a program that this City has been funding since 1975. For
—
those of you that are not familiar with the program, this is a program de-
signed to serve the frail, older adult and as the Mayor has pointed out,
the poorest of the poor of those older adults. The average age of our
individuals in the program is approximately 81 years of age. What we
provide essentially, is a comprehensive program that affords these people
—
the ability to stay out of institutions by maintaining the same service or
the funding; level for the past four years. This year, we have had to cut
service. In the past, we were able to look at other sources of funding
and we were hoping that additional sources of funding would become avail-
able this year. Unfortunately, those have not come to fruition and that
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with the same amount, we will cutting our program by about 20% to 30%.
So, 1 would just like at this time, I realize there is a problem with
Federal revenue sharing funds. There are not additional funds, and I would
net want to take those dollars away from anyone else, but if any dollars do
become available, earmarked for older citizens or the older adults, I would
appreciate consideration. Thank you.
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMI-MENTS NOT PLACED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Ma,;or Ferre: All right, 'sir. Urra, I will recognize you.
*"r. Orlando Urra: Good evening, my name is Orlando Urra, and I am the dir-
ector of the community development in Allapattah Community Action Inc,
executive director. I talk today because we are needing in our community
' one van for transporation because we don't have any transporation in our
co=.11nity and we don't receive anything through the revenue sharing for
t ccm unit My community is Allapattah is in revenue
I reed van transporation because we do not have any
transporta-
tion In, t':z elderly program in the program of Allapattah.
'•r• Ja r._:: t ''r. 'tanager, do you have any recommendations?
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Mr. Gary: Well, first of all, again, and I will refresh your memory of
the budget process where this City Commission made certain decisions to cut
back funds so that we can provide certain other services. We have a tight
budget this year, first of all. Secondly, we don't have any more social
service money. Thirdly, Action Community Program provides transportation
in that area and that is part of their requirement of their agreement with
us that we provided year after year money for new buses...new buses...new
buses. The fourth thing is, we just recently gave him (his program, I re-
call him specifically) some additional money from C.D. in terms of feeding
the hungry, so he had transportation that is adequately provided by
Action and I would suggest to the City Commission not to honor his re-
quest.
Mr. Dawkins: Is there any way that Action could be directed, since he has
none, to make one or two buses or whatever they have available to him for
his inspection?
Mr. Gary: I think that is being done now, but we will talk to Action and
have him to do that.
Mr. Carollo: But, let me say this. I think Action is one program that
has done throughout the years an excellent job, however I have been at
the Allapattah Community Action Center on several occasions. In fact,
my place of employment is just blocks from there and that place is con-
stantly packed. I think the problem they are having is that even though
action is doing the best that they can for transportation, they are in
desperate need of getting at least one van to help with these people, and
all of them are sixty and over, so I think that what little money we
have anywhere in this budget, we should get a little bit of that for
this particular project. I don't think he is asking a lot. I think what
he is asking for is very reasonable and is something that is extremely
needed.
Mayor Ferre: All right, look, Joe, I agree with what you just said. I
think that the feedine of elderly human beings in this community has a
tremendous amount of importance. My only concern is that we don't start
duplicating things. Now, if Action is the entity that is presently being
funded by us to transport senior citizens, then I think they are the ones
that have get to do the transportation.
Mr. Carollo: I agree with what you are saying, Maurice, about duplicating
things, but I think just by approving funding for van to them, I don't
think this is really going to be going out of our way in duplicating it.
All we will be doing is providing one van to them. They are still going
to be needing a new
Mr. Dawkins: I agree with what is said, but if Action has vans, why don't
we make action provide him with two vans and additional money that comes
up, give it to him to feed additional people. That won't work? Okay, I
mean, we have the review of it. You are the servicing. We have to lean to
vou.
Mr. rra: We have in our programs food banks and we receive from the food
bani:s a few package - food packages and they are sent for the elderly, you know,
evt'ry week. We don't have any transportation for uses in that form. The Ac-
tica _,i.nish'cs the labor about 1:30 - 2:00 o'clock. My program is...
Mr. Dawkins: But, I don't think you are hearing me. I am saying that
Action make available to .ou two vans for you to use exclusively at your
place. _., _, is what I i saying.
Mr. _rra: 'nays riL:'r.t. That is what I want.
`:r. �a�.r:;::--- .: Ti:at is all I am saving. Okay.
I hope wh.: t %,ou are saying is to exclusively for their use, but
i-*hen they ,_:-e nct in use to put them to utilization wherever
t::c �•L'7i a' 'Ci: can 'Jr 7e:":'cc,
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Mr. Perez: Mr. Manager, let me ask you something...
Mr. Dawkins: But, all we are saying, I mean, I think the Commission is
saying, make a van available to use.. Now, Carollo says whether it takes
the money to do it, or,.(Inaudible, Off Like)
Mr. Perez: Mr. Manager, do you think it would be possible to have funds
for one bus out of this budget without affecting the other things?
Mr. Gary: Well, you know, we have a recommendation that we have made to
you. Obviously you have to make that decision. We recommend to you what
we think is necessary and you have got to understand that these people
have not had increases for the last two years, so everybody's budget is
tight. Now, I will tell you again that when Action came before you in
the past last year, you gave them additional money to buy new buses and
additional buses, and...
Mr. Carollo: How many buses do they have now, or vans?
Mr. Gary: Okay, I will tell you in a minute. But, one of the justifica-
tions for actions, because the Administration was concerned that they
didn't need the money, was the fact that they were going to provide ser-
vices to his organization, to some Haitians, to the Black community to
everybody in this community and based on that, we gave them the money.
Now we are talking about coming back and duplicating, wasting money, by
doing this again. And I am suggesting to you that it is not necessary.
Mr. Urra: WV 1 you tell me something? How many buses do you have in the
ederly program and the Black people?
Mr. Urra: How man` do they have in the Little Havana Community Center?
Mr. Gar;:: well, let me...
Mr. Lrra: The only program that has no transportation is Allapattah.
Mr. Gary: Do you want me to answer your question? First of all, we do not
fund those programs and I cannot be held accountable for something that
they do to other funding sources. What I am saying to you is the transpor-
tation agency that we fund is Action.
Mr. Carollo: But, we are funding them indirectly. Okay, maybe we don't
provide the funds for their vans or mini -buses, but we are providing funds
for something else and indirectly we are providing the funds.
:Mayor Ferre: When Rafael Villaverde and the Little Havana people were
supplying food in Allapattah, you came to me and you said "This is not fair,
because Rafael Villaverde is down in Little Havana and let him take care of
his people in Little Havana. You know, Mendez worries about Wynwood, and
I worry about Allapattah". That is fine. I think that is good. That is
apprcpriate and it to took us a long time, but eventually we got it. We
paid the county and now we are figuring out a way of looking for a place for
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you of your own to move into. That is your bag, that is what you do. That
is your thing. You feed senior citizens. Now, you want to do another thing.
You want to transport them. Now, this is not territorial, this is not the
turf. It isn't that Blanco is the guy that does the transportation and you
'
are the one that feeds them, but you know, we have an established procedure
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here, and this would be the first time that we would be breaking from that.
,'.
See, the moment you say that you want to have your own van, than everybody
around here is going to want to have their own van and I don't blame them!
But, �lou know, the agreement that we had with you and that I had with you,
is to support you, and I will support you all the way. If you want to find
a nei,: fire station or a new place for us to...these are the type of things
that you and I agreed you were going to do - find more activities, get a
bigger space so that the kitchen will function better - those are the things
that I cculd bt� supportive of. You want better transportation, fine. I
acres that tre 'Manager should assign somebody to make sure that that you are
recei:in, prover transportation. We have our transportation arm in the
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in the social services, it is run by Action. It gets very high grades from
everybody. They are well studied, so why do you want to start, you know,
getting a different arm. Now we are going to have two arms of transportation.
Mr. Urra: Mayor, if you want that, it's enough for me.
Mayor Ferre: We will get you transportation. I give you my word that we
will improve the transportation.
Mr. Urra: I need it! I need it!
Mayor Ferre: You need the service.
Mr. Urra: I need it. I need one van in my place, I need it. If you don't
want it, it is okay with me.
Mayor Ferre: No, no, we will find a way, as Commissioner Dawkins has said
to make sure that you have the transportation available that you need, but
if we start giving every agency now a van, we are going to have to then
dissolve Action, finish Action, and let everybody have a little van. How
many vans do we have?
Mr. Carollo: How many vans does...
Mr. Gary: We have eight vans. One is presently being repaired, so we have
nine total.
Mayor Ferre: All right, so in other words, we will take the nine vans and
we will give you one and somebody else one and HACAD gets one and Little
Havana gets one and the other one gets one and thats it! We will forget
about Action.
Mr. Urra: I don't want my van for transportation of people. I don't want
it for that.
Mayor Ferre: Well, what do you want it for?
Mr. Urra: Because we use it. We buy food in the food bank and we need it
for transportation every week. Sometimes we need to use it for different
programs in my community.
,Mayor Ferre: Yes, but the request here is $15,000 for personnel, $4,600
to operate it, and S9,000 for one - fifteen passenger van.
Mr. Perez: Mr. `savor, would it be possible to request a recommendation
from the *Manager for the next Commission meeting in order to know where we
can get the funds in order to try to buy one van. The kind of van that he
wants is something different, that is only for food. He doesn't want for
transportation. Vat is only for food, no? Is it possible to have recom-
mendations?
Mr. Carollo: But, I don't think the difference is going to be that great
if he has seats or he doesn't have seats. So, we are going to get a van,
we might as well get it with seats, so if he does need it for transportation
also, he can use it. It is only a few hundred dollars difference.
Mr. Well, 1 am under the impression... I've given my recommendation...I
a7 under the impression that the food that he gets new is being delivered.
m I correct.'
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ur. �arv: Case closed.
`:r. C'arcLla: I t ;inn the only: way, you know —we are all going around in
t;;irk the onlv thing tc, do is bring it to a vote and let the
chips fall where they ria•; . I make a motion that we find the funds and
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provide only one and only one van to the Allapattah Community Action Center
Inc. -
Mayor Ferre: And you are not going to fund the personnel or the operating
expenses?
Mr. Carollo: I think by my motion that should include the personnel, the
operating expense.
Mayor Ferre: $28,644. All right, there is a....
Mr. Carollo: $28,644.
Mayor Ferre:.... motion on the floor. Is there a second.
Mr. Perez: I second.
Mayor Ferre: I second. Further discussion.
Mr. Plummer: Under discussion, we have a full understanding, and I think
it should be noted that when you take money, which you are, that was not
allocated, where and who are you taking the counter -balance from. My question,
Mr. Manager, $28,000 more than was requested by Allapattah will now be going
to Allapattah. That means one of the others has got to be dropped, or a num-
ber of the others by $28,000. I think you have got to address that, because
we have only got "R"-number of dollars. Where is the additional money going
to Allapattah coming from?
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, I would like for you to take this under considera-
tion, bring it back to the Commission at the next meeting, tell us where these
funds are identified from, tell us what the results will be, if we take it
from where and let the Commission bite the bullet and decide where to take
it from
Mr. Gary: We can always take it from the garbage fee. By increasing the...
Mr. Dawkins: Like hell you will! Like hell you will!
Mr. Carollo: Either that or we could always make sure that police officers
that run funerals...
Mr. Dawkins: I could take it from the police overtime!
Mr. Gard:: Well, first of all, you have our recommendation. Now I think it
behooves the City Commission to identify where this money is going to come
from these other social service programs.
Mr. Carollo: Well, I think we are a little bit premature. We have got a
motion and a second and...
Mavcr Ferre: We have a motion and a second. Further discussion on this?
Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute. I had asked where the money is, because I think
it is a fair question to ask.
`".aycr Ferre: Sure.
Mr. Plur-ner: And that is, Mr. Gary, you hear the motion. If it passes,
where would you take this like amount from. I think it is a fair question
that needs an answer.
Mr. are::,:. ._ is a fair question, but again we are not talking about
thcusand dollars. We are talking about $28,000.
M yor ;err,: ':es, ^ut look. Dr. Aybar just came up a little while ago and
--.c :.: L: s fcr ASPIRE.. We turned him down on the premise that
t'nc mcne_: and we have got to take it from another program.
,nc�rst r.d tn: t this probably has priority over salaries for admini-
str�ti:e irectcr fcr ASPIRa, and that you have to understand that this is
t::at deals with human needs, okay? These are people that we are
t; t canes pricrity over anything else. The question is one of
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transportation. Now, I don't want to deny Mr. Urra his right to have trans-
portation. I just think there are other ways of solving this problem rather
than spending $28,000 and I don't see how in the world I am going to be able
to look somebody straight in the face and say "no" to the people of Coconut
Grove or anybody else who asks for a van in the future. How I can I vote for
one and not vote for the other? And at that point, we may as well dissolve
Action and just let everybody have one of those vans.
Mr. Carollo: Well, Maurice, frankly, with all respect, I don't think it is
as bad as you make it sound. I think Action has done an excellent job and if
we approve one van for one particular program that because of the amount of
people and work that he does, truly needs it, unlike other programs that
don't need it, I don't think this is going to be cutting into Action or
dissolve Action. I think we are going to have Action for a long time.
Mayor Ferre: Are we ready to vote?
Mr. Dawkins: No, because I don't think that Mr. Gary has answered Mr.
Plummer's question. Mr. Gary, where within the Federal Revenue Sharing for
social service programs will this $28,000 come from?
Mr. Gary: That is a policy decision. We have given you our Administrative
recommendation and you have to make a policy whether one more program is
more important than the other.
(INAUDIBLE BACRGROUNT COMMENTS NOT PLACED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, that is not what he is saving. What he is saving is
that he has given us his professional recommendation and that if we choose
to go against it, then we have to decide what to do. I think that is what
he is saving.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion before we call the vote?
Mr. Carollo: That is what he is saving, but that doesn't mean we have to
accept that.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion?
Mr. Dawkins: Hold it. Hold it! Yes, we do, I mean...
Mr. Carollo: I don't get paid no $90,000 and another $40,000 in fringe
benefits to make that decision. That is what we pay him for.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion. Call the roll.
Mr. Carellc: I think I have earned my $5,000 for the year.
MOTION DEFEATED. On motion by Vice -Mayor CArollo
and seconded by Commissioner Perez, the
foregoing moticn was defeated by the following
vote:
AYES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice -"favor Joe Carollo
NOES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Con-.issiener J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
ABSENT : None
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to Jtc "no".
Xr, Dawl_..,s tier r:nco :. »}:ere it is coming from - "no"
Nav-or rem: With a .ieal cf hesitation because of the high regard and
friendsi:i� that I hol:1 dear with Orlando Urra, I can't vote with this
.not I(n the wa . i t it "in,.. I ,: to no'
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Mayor Ferre: I would like to make a substitute motion. The motion is that
seeing that the Allapattah Community Action Inc. is in need additional trans-
portation, that the Administration work out with Action the proper scheduling
of a van to be available for the Allapattah Community Action Inc. If the
Administration deems that the vans are so utilized that there are no addi-
tional time available to them to go pick up their food or their senior citi-
zens, that the Administration come back with a proper thought out solution
and a recommendation for funding if another van is indeed needed. I so
move.
Mr. Carollo: There is a motion. Is there a second.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion. Mr. Mayor, does that include Action pro-
viding the driver and the van, or does your motion just include the van?
Mr. Urra: I don't have any interest in that plan.
Mr. Dawkins: Beg pardon?
Mr. Urra: I don't have anv interest.
Mr. Dawkins: No interest in that? You don't want that?
Mr. Urra: No.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, bye! Good day.
Mr. Urra: Because I don't like that.
Mr. Dawkins: Good day.
Mayor Ferre: You don't want this? Then it wasn't a problem.
Mr. Urra: I use my car, don't worry. I'm not interested in this.
:Savor Ferre: Well, I make the motion anyway. The fact that he accepts or
doesn't accept it, that's okay.
Mr. Urra: Mayor, we don't receive that because we don't like..we want one
transportation in my organization is Allapattah Community Action Inc. That
is the petition. If you don't want that petition for Allapattah Community
Action Inc. for one transportation, it is okay to me. I don't want
the transportation...
Mr. Dawkins: Let me ask you one thing. We are making
transportation available to you, okay? We are making a van available to
you, but you want us to take money and go buy one and give it to you? What
is the difference?
Mr. :'rra: Yes, there is a difference, because....
Mr. Dawkins: Well, tell me! Tell me the difference.
"!r. Urra:... look, there is a difference because when I use my transporta-
tion at my place, we have transportation at 5:00 o'clock. If we need to use
it at 5:00 o'clock, I use it. The Action finishes the job at 1:30 P.M., okay?
`Sr. Dawrcins: Maybe somebody can explain it to you in Spanish. We are saying
to you... what I am saying to you is, a van be made available to you twenty -
:cur hours a da:. That is what I am saying to you! And that you have ac-
cess tc: it. I am not saying that...and I want you to understand and I think
t'-Ie Ccm issicn is not saying that a van be given to you at 8:00 o'clock in
t!!e morninc anc, at 5:00 o'clock in the afternoon it is no longer yours. That
41- _c.t l:a , we are saying and you still cannot live with it?
;ir. Car- I :a Ii t e question. Let's have a vote on it.
u r Terre: wait ,. minute. Do we have a second?
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Mr. Carollo: There is a second here.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, I seconded it.
Mayor Ferre: Okay. So anyway, Mr. Manager, come back with a solution.
And you know that Mr. Urra says that is not acceptable. Well, Mr. Urra is
one individual and he is one of the best public servants that we have in
this city, but he doesn't own the program. I think it is something that
we have to work out in a reasonable way, so let's find a reasonable solu-
tion.
The following motion was introduced by Mayor Ferre, who moved its
adoption.
MOTION NO. 82-908
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
MEET WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ALLAPATTAH COMMUNITY
ACTION, INC. TO HOPEFULLY OBTAIN USE OF A VAN FROM
"ACTION" FOR USE IN THE ALLAPATTAH AREA ON A 24-HOUR
BASIS FOR THEIR TRANSPORATION NEEDS: FURTHER INSTRUCT-
ING THE CITY MANAGER TO COME BACK TO THE CITY COMMIS-
SION WITH A RECO10 ENDATION.
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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice *savor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES- None
ABSENT: None
Mr. Lrra: Thank _.ou very much.
Mr. Perez: Now...
Mavor Ferre: Go ahead.
Mr. Perez: Mr. Mayor, Mr. Urra, would it be possible to try, your office
and you, try to arrange an opportunity that the Allapattah Community Center
meet with the Action Community Agency in order to try to promote better
understanding'.
Mr. Carollo: It's called co=unications.
`1r. Perez. Sure, that is right.
Mayor Ferre: I would advise that we wait at least twenty-four hours until
tempers calm down and then maybe on Monday or so, Mr. Manager someone...
Mr. Perez: I would like to promote that kind of better understanding within
bct:; groups .
Mayor Ferre : That is 17ir.e. Very good.
Mr. Carollo : You keel ccming up with ideas like that, Demetrio, you know,
we are cinc to have to senc you to school so you can get your degree and
becclme a reverenc.
``r. Or a funeral r.irector.
Ma_zc.r Terru: All right, I assume there are no more speakers. What is the
will cf t`.:;s Co-T-mission -n Item "C" now? Mr. Manager, what do you need from
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Mr. Gary: I need the City Commission to approve what has been recommended
by the Administrative staff.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a motion to that effect? With all the stipulations
and requirements and studies and...
Mr. Plummer: What item is it on the agenda?
Mayor Ferre: "C".
Mr Plummer: No, no. That is Committee of The Whole. What item on the
agenda?
Mr. Gary: Item "C". There is a resolution right behind it.
Mr. Plummer: No, Item "C" is for discussion only.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: No separate item.
Mr. Gary: I don't think that is the case.
Mr. Plummer: Appropriations of monies take an ordinance.
Mr. Gary: No, this is an allocation of money. It takes a resolution.
You have already appropriated this money by ordinance when you adopted the
budget.
Mr. Plummer: It is not an agenda item.
Mr. Gary: This is an allocation of an appropriation which requires a
resolution.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Gary, I thank you sir, for falling into the trap. Now,
I want to go back, Mr. Gary, and remind you...
Mayor Ferre: Hey, we have got to get out of here in two hours. We are
about five hours away from finishing this agenda.
Mr. Plummer: `:r. Mayor, let me tell you something. I want to recall to
this Commission's attention, when this matter came up for the allocation,
I said that we didn't want to allocate without knowing where the dollars
were going. I was told because of matter of procedure that the money had
to be approved then and there. I am now being told - listen to this - that
this monev has already been allocated.
Mr. Gary: No, that is not what I told you.
Mr. Plummer: What did you tell me, Mr. Gary?
Mr. Gary: Okay, I told you that a block of money, namely, eight hundred
fort,, - some thousand d-l.nrs had to appropriated. That the allocation
process occurred later. This is the allocation process. Now, if you
choose not to allocate it, then that block of money will stay right there
and nobody will get any of it.
Mr. Plummer: And you can do that on a discussion item?
Mr. Gary: Sure, if _•ou pass a resolution. The resolution is attached.
Mr. P!,_ ,cr: No public hearing, just a discussion item.
Mr. Gar;: The public hearing...
Mr. Plummer: I a^: going to remind you now. Be careful of your words, be-
cause I am loin:; to remind you of in other events that you are allocating
and rat; _:ln; tht spending of $841,000 without a public hearing, without an
ag,er.da ite,, without a resolution and you are passing it on a discussion
it _.... Now, is tihat what you are telling me'.
''r. G;r.. 'r.__. probably one of taose five things is correct. First of all,
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this is not a ratification, because we had not allocated the money to these
people. That is why we are here. Secondly, the resolution is attached.
Thirdly, the public hearing, which is required by the Federal government
only says that we have to hold a public hearing that determines how we'are
going to broadly allocate our Federal Revenue Sharing and we have to do that
in conjunction with the total General Fund budget. Those requirements have
been met.
Mr. Plummer: No, sir.
Mr. Gary: They have!
Mr. Plummer: No, sir.
Mr. Gary: Let me tell you how they have been met.
Mr. Plummer: We did not hold a public hearing on revenue sharing.
Mr. Gary: May I correct you. The requirement is...
Mayor Ferre: Let's finish up now.
Mr. Gary: The requirement is, Commissioner, is that a public hearing has to
be held by the City Manager before it comes to the City Commission. That
was held.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Manager, you have got Commissioner Plummer
concerned about this. We are way behind. This is going to be another
one-half hour of haggling back and forth on this, so just put this on the
next agenda on the 28th of this month, on the Zoning Agenda and we will have
to deal with it at that time.
Mr. Gary: You have got to allocate another one -twelfth or we will not be
able to give any money to...
`savor Ferre: Plummer moves.
Mr. Plummer: So moved.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves one -twelfth...
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Miller Dawkins seconds. You have approval for one more month.
Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82- 909
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $70,086 OF FY 182-83 FEDERAL
REVENT E SHARING FUNDS APPROPRIATED BY PASSAGE OF
ORDINANCE NO. 9481 TO PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SOCIAL SER-
VICE AGENCIES LISTED HEREIN IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
1/12TH OF THE TOTAL ALLOCATION TO EACH AGENCY FOR
FY '82-83, FOR THE PERIOD FROM NOVEMBER 1, 1982 THROUGH
NOVEMBER 30, 1982, AUTHORIZING THE FITY MANAGER TO
ENTER INTO AGREF-MENTS WITH THE AFOREX�ENTIONED AGENCIES.
(?sere follows body of resolution, omitted here and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk.)
,pen being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote-
,
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
':OEM : None
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Mayor Ferre: Howard, look at it this way.
times, you are all set.
If we can do this now ten more
28. ALLOCATE S8,957.49 TO THE BLUE RIBBOI: CO1211ITTEE FOR TEE REPORT
OF THE C> BAN DEMONSTRATI01; OF .1,%'XA1,,Y 1 6 , 1982.
Mr. Carollo: Can we take Mr. Milian now?
Mayor Ferre: All right, we are going to take up Item Number 5, because we
have an emergency here where these people have a 3:00 o'clock meeting, so
I am going to take up Mr. Emilio Milian, president of the Blue Ribbon Com-
mittee, presenting their final report on the evaluation of the January 16th
demonstrations.
Mr. Emilio Milian: Mayor Maurice Ferre, Commissioners Joe Carollo, Miller
Dawkins, Demetrio Perez, Jr., J. L. Plummer, City Manager Howard Gary, Ladies
and Gentlemen - last January this City Commission gave us an assignment that
was first to find the truth about the incidents between some demonstrators
and the Miami Police Department when the Cuban community protested the de-
portation by I.N.S. of Andre Rodriguez Fernandez. Second, to formulate
recommendations to avoid similar or worse confrontations in the future of
our City and third, to report our findings to this City Commission. Here
is the report of the Blue Ribbon Committee - the Blue Ribbon Committee that
you selected and I have to honor to preside. As the old aphorism says, "Jus-
tice often satisfies neither side", but this report contains what really
happened last January l6th. Personally, I feel very proud to have served
in this community with persons such as Reverend Anorga, Robert Cason, Emilio
Cabellero, Irving Goldaber, Benson McGhee, Leslie Pantin, Jr., Howard Ras-
mussen, Warren Wepman, and Elliot Abbott, our attorney who, with the others,
worked for free for this Blue Ribbon Committee. My gratitude to all of
them who are here toda•: and to all who in one way or another, helped us in
this time. We tried to make the best of a hard job. We trust this report,
and we stand by it, and the most important, I have the feeling that the
citizens of Miami support this final report that we are presenting to you
officially today. Finally, everybody else, we need some extra money to pay
the outstanding bills. You have in front of you the total cost of our final
report in detail and...
X,-ivr,r F,=rre: Okav, Mr. Milian, let's do this in proper order. Is there a
Mr. Care__... There is a motion.
Ma-.cr Ferre: All right, Commissioner Carollo moves. Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: I second
".Z3^cr Ferre: Further discussion on the additional monies needed to pay for
the work done bv this committee?
'.fir. :Polio: ...ie exact amount, for the record is $8,957.49.
:ta r Fir:e: :urther discussion.? Call the roll.
:": motion was introduced by Vice-`Sayor Carollo, who moved its
MOTION NO. 82-910
THE AMOUNT OF $8,957.49 TO PAY FOR
:?I: F X � . Si-' ' INCCRRED BY THE BLUE RIBBON COMMITTEE FOR
Cl- THEIR FINAL. REPORT ON "THE EVALUATION
T.i1: Cl i'...'; . I:`i0`dSON JANUARY 16, 1982."
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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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Chairman, let me say on behalf of the City of Miami that
we are very grateful to you and to your committee for the tremendous amount
of diligent work, the many hours of involvement, the concern and careful
approach, the balanced objective view that so many people started out
criticizing and thinking that this was going to be a political thing and
that it was going to be an emotional thing. You proved them all wrong.
You proved that it was not political, that it was objective, that you
could work as a team and you came up under severe limitations because we
could not give you subpoena powers and this City has never given subpoena
powers to anybody and I hope that this City will never give subpoena power
to anybody. That is a very, very strong instrument that the constitution
of this City has given only to the City of Miami Commission. I would hope
that this will serve as a lesson for many people, but for now, we accept
your report and thank you from the bottom of our hearts for a job well
done. We are all grateful for the many hours of work that you put into it.
Mr. Milian: Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Commissioners. Thank you, all of
you.
Mr. Perez: Mr. Mayor, i would like to request some kind of official recog-
nition for each one of the members of this committee....
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir. All right.
Mr. Perez: .... in order to be delivered at the next Commission meeting or
any other time that you decide.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Carlos, would you make note of that? And I will
tell you, while we are talking about recognition, we also need to have a
recognition of the Latin Chamber of Commerce who brought together twenty-
one countries...chambers from twenty-one countries here. I think some
forty some -odd chambers of commences that were present for the Third Inter-
national Conference of Chambers of Commerce that was a great success. I
-_ think we need to give them some recognition for the work they did, okay?
Thank you again.
Mr. Milian. Thank you.
Mayor Ferre: Thank you Reverend, thank you.
29. DEFERRAL. OF CONS IDEFUTION OF `fARTIN FINE'S REQUEST FOR VARIANCE
�.
�''PLIC...T .�,.. .__ WAIVER.
Mayor Ferre: Al_' right, we are now on Item Number "D", which is the dis-
cussicr, of Martin Fine.'s request for a variance application cf fee waiver.
M, . S*an.ey B. Price: �'r. Mayor and members of the Commission, my name is
Irailley P. Price. I am a member of the law firm of Fine, Jacobs and Block.
L have wcrkec with both the City Attorney's office and the City Manager's
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staff and they prepared a ordinance, which I believe addresses some of our
concerns. Time is short today. We would like the Commission to give us
favorable consideration on first reading and we are prepared to come back
in November and point out those portions of the ordinance which we have
some problems with.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, is there anyone on your staff today who can tell
me anything negative about this? ... because I really and truly don't want us
to sit up here and raise all kinds of fees, including garbage fees and
then all of a sudden here is one instance where we are not going to raise
the fee. I mean, I don't know what I am doing. That is what I am trying
to say to you.
Mr. Gary: Well, Mr. Commissioner, what this is attempting to do is to
treat developers fairly.
Mr. Dawkins: Okay, let me defer it, because I don't know about it. Defer
it until the next meeting and I can get with your staff and they can explain
it to me. Defer it. I wish to defer it, please.
Mr. Carollo: There is a motion for deferment. Is there a second?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: That is a request.
Mr. Gary: It won't be passed. It is first reading only.
Mr. Plummer: The request of my colleague is a courtesy usually extended.
I second the motion.
Mr. Carollo: There is a second. Hearing no further discussion, may we have
roll call.
THEREUPON, on motion duly made by Commissioner Dawkins
and seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the City
Commission DEFERRED CONSIDERATION OF THE ABOVE
MATTER BY THE'FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice-Mavor Joe Carollo
NOES: Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
ABSENT: None
3O. BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: NEW SIGN FOR "J. P.'S RESTAURANT"
ADJACENT TO BAYSHORE DRIVE.
Mayor Ferre: All right, we are now on Item Number "E". Is there anybody
here on "E"? Go ahead.
Mr.Wm.Pantuse:Okay, this is the picture of the sign that we are proposing
to put up for J. P.'s Restaurant.
Mr. Perez: Mr. Manager, we don't have any backup information on Item "E".
Mr. Gary: Well, let me just explain something to you. Under the
existing
agreement, Mr.
'+savor and Commissioners, I have authority to
sign
off on a
sin or allow
them to put a sign there and because of where
it is
going to
be located, I
thought it was important that they come before
you
to show
"'Cu the sign.
I really wanted you to see the sign and also
to agree,
not
only on the sign and design of the sign, but where they are
going
to have
s:
it located so
that the City Commission will be in agreement.
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Mr. Plummer: Can we get them to supply the City free of charge a decent sign
out front here?
Mr. Gary: If they want to volunteer that.
Mr. Plummer: Do you want to volunteer that?
Mr. Pantusa You will have to ask Jerry on that.
Mr. Gary: May I say something?
Mr. Plummer: That is the dinkiest thing I ever saw.
Mayor Ferre: You talking about the City of Miami sign?
Mr. Plummer: The sign out here for the Dinner Key Auditorium.
Mr. Gary: We will work on getting another sign with you.
Mr. Plummer: Boy, that is horrible.
Mayor Ferre: I will tell you Howard. I have been complaining... my first
complaint was to Mel Reese. That is how long ago that has been. It is
unbelievable that we can spend millions and millions of dollars and have
a junky little City of Miami sign like that.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, I will have you a proposed new sign and I agree with
you.
Mr. Plummer: And don't sell the advertising to Joe Robbie.
Mr. Gary: But, I don't think we ought to have any advertising on it at
all. If I may, Mr. Mayor, the only condition I want to place on this sign,
is that we have the right at any time to require them to move it if we de-
cide that we want them to do that.
Mr. Plummer: Now, that is not fair. If they are going to go out there...
for a reason!
Mr. Gary: For a reason, sure.
Mr. Plummer: Okay, right.
Mr. Gary: You may decide that you want to put your office right down there.
Mayor Ferre: And we may decide to put up a parking garage five years from
now and then we can't put it because there is a sign? Come on!
Mr. Plummer: With reason.
Mr.Pantuso : No problem. No problem.
Mayor Ferre: Now, where is it going to be? On on South Bayshore?
Mr.Pantuso : 27th and Bayshore. Right on the corner, there. There is
alread_: an area there where the shubbery is.
Mavor Ferre: Is that going to be neon lights and all that?
Mr.Pantuso : No.
(INAUDIBLE BACi:GRGL-rD COM2MENTS NOT PLACED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mr.Pantusc Just the logo back here will be illuminated from the back,
low lights and all that.
`".r. Gar,.,: Not all around.
'savor Ferre: I have got to tell you that it is not the most beautiful sign
and if I were to reallv... if you were to ask my opinion whether it is ugly,
I would have to tell you in my opinion it is ugly as hell, but that is a
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Mr.Pantuso . We had submitted another one and they said it was too much
like U. S. 1. They wanted something very low profile and in good taste.
Mayor Ferre: Well, I mean, can't you do something a little bit in good taste
rather than a gaudy thing with a...I mean, can't you get some good artist to
do that. I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but I mean, can't we get some-
thing in a little bit better taste than that?
Mr.Pantuso : I think if you see the sign, I mean once you see it erected.
I have seen it. The thing that happened here is...
Mayor Ferre: Well, I tell you, if it looks like that, in my opinion, it is
as ugly as it can be. That is exactly what we don't want to tell the ASTA
people and the other people that are coming here from Los Angeles and New
York, that that is what Miami is all about. I just don't think that is
the kind of...you know, we have got to say that we are a classy place.
That sign is not. Please forgive me. I have got to be very blunt. That
is not a classy sign. I mean, can't you do something - can't you get a
good designer to give you a good...I mean, here we go - great restaurant,
great place and put some junky sign on!
Mr.Pantuso : Well, the thing is, the requirements on the sign is what
they...I guess they got it from the City that it can't be over seven feet
wide and I don't think over three feet high.
Mayor Ferre: I don't care about seven feet or three feet. I mean, can't
you get a good industrial designer or some artist or some architectural
designer to give you a decent design except for some gaudy thing?
Mr. Plummer: Maurice, this was done by Noguchi!
Mayor Ferre: I dcubt that ve r; ^;uch. If it was done by Noguchi, I guarantee
you would have a first class sign. Noguchi, or anybody else who knows what
he is doing! Well, I mean, do what you want, but my advice to you is for
God's sake, if you are going to go spend your money to put up a sign, put
up a good sign. Okay, what do you need from us?
(INAU'DIBLE BACKGROUND CO*L"1ENTS N0:' PLACED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mr. Plummer: You hit him with a axe and (INAUDIBLE) what do you want
from us?
Mr. Gary: I just wanted to just inform you. I don't need a decision.
Mayor Ferre: Here we are, trying to create an atmosphere for Coconut
Grove and all of this...
Mr. Gary: That is why I brought it before you.
Mr. Carollo: Well look, we are the ones to get to approve it or not. If
you don't like it and the majority of the Commission feels that way, then
back to the drawing board.
Mayor Ferre: Hey, why don't you come back with a decent sign, would you?
Mr. Gary: If I can. They will come back with some more, and I will show it
to the Commission.
T', CONCEPT TR,=11 SERVICE FROM F.E.C. PARKING LOT AREA
IN DO4. ',TOV,: 11IAMI .
May' r The next item on the agenda - "F", discussion of tram service
parkin lot to the F.E.C. Roger, I am sorry we made you
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Mr. Roger Carlton: Your Honor, members of the Commission, we are pleased to
inform you that the F.E.C. interim parking facility will be open on November
15th. It appears that we have approximately 50% of the spaces sold at this
point, so I do believe it will be a financial success and help downtown out.
The question that is before you today is that the reaction of most of the
potential customers is that they want a tram service that would be an option-
al price for those people that park there that are not willing to walk all
the way downtown. This cannot be operated at a profit, and under the agree-
ment that we have with the City, if the loss at a certain point when the City
asked for the site back exists, then you would have to pay back the Department,
so we want you to know about this and to get your approval - the tram ser-4ice.
At worst, we feel it would increase the liability over a three period by
approximately $30,000.
Mayor Ferre: Well, what specificly do you want from us?
Mr. Carlton: Just conceptual approval of the idea of the tram service.
Mayor Ferre: I think that is a great idea. Do you have any problem with
it, Mr. Manager?
Mr. Gary: Well, I think the tram might be a good idea, but I would sug-
gest to the Commission that we do not implement a tram unless we break
even. He needs to determine whether or not he can charge a fee that will
make us break even.
Mayor Ferre: Can you break even?
Mr. Carlton: Mr. Manager and Mr. Mayor, we feel that the tram, in and of
itself won't, but it will get us more customers so that it might wash in
that way.
Mayor Ferre: You have got to look at it that way Howard, otherwise it will
never work. As far as I am concerned, yes you have got my full support put-
ting in tram service to that parking lot, because otherwise, that parking
lot is going to be a disaster.
`:r. Gary: Well, Mr. Mayor, I tend to disagree with that.
"savor Ferre: Fine'. Then you vote "no".
Mr. Gary: No, let me tell you why, Mr. Mayor. Just hear me out. I would
agree that we need a tram service. I don't agree that it would not be suc-
cessful with or without a tram service. And the reason I am saying that,
we all know that down on Dupont Plaza, the parking, we are having a shortage.
People are going to be scurrying around for parking spaces.
Mayor Ferre: The item is Item "F". The issue is very simple. The Off Street
Parking Authority is paving part of that lot. Now, the only way that they are
going to get people to go park there, in my opinion, is by providing a tram
service there. Now, that is must my personal belief. As far as I am con-
cerned, I am ready to make a motion.
Mr. Dawkins: Why is it that it was not put out for bids and we just arbi-
traril.. gave it to Boyd Sightseeing Trains?
Mr. Carlton: That was a proposal received. We intended to solicit other
proposals to insure that the best possible price is achieved.
':r. Dawkins: But now, you intended to, but now you have got this and you
wart me to okay it and it has no minority participation - no nothing. You
arbitraril,: decided that this'is what you want.
Mr. Plus: er: ;:ell, vou know 1 am opposed to it.
'`.r. C.r ,.,r:: Ccmrissioner Dawkins...
I am oi;posea to the whole thing. You know that.
Mi,-,cr 'urre: `Fell, I -don't know whether you have the votes or not, but there
_.. two az inst it
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Mr. Plummer: What is the tram service going to cost, Roger?
Mr. Carlton: The tram service is on an hourly basis of approximately
$35.00 an hour,
Mr. Plummer: What is it on a yearly basis?
Mr. Carlton: It would be on the range of about $45,000 to $50,000 a year.
Mr. Plummer: What is that...are the people going to pay for it?
Mayor Ferre: I accept the `Tanager's recommendation, which is that ... explain
it again, Howard. You are going to make it pay for itself'.
Mr. Gary: I am saying that whatever the fee is for the tram service for
people to utilize it should be sufficient enough to make it break even and
not have a deficit.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, but I think you have to give them at least six months, or
three months to break the thing in.
Mr. Dawkins: But, why should we go to Fort Lauderdale to get somebody to
deal with the City of Miami money?
Mr. Carollo: You got a friend or somebody that might be interested, Miller?
Mr. Dawkins: I mean, you know, why can't we get somebody in the City of
Miami and keep this money in the City of Miami instead of taking it to Fort
Lauderdale?
Mayor Ferre: Is there a firm in Miami that does this?
Mr. Carlton: Mr. Mayor, we will insure that every possible firm is contacted
and sought to do a bid before we award this contract.
Mayor Ferre: And give preference to Miami people if there are any that are
in this business.
'fir. Carlton: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Okay, now with those two conditions, I move the thing so we
can get along. Okay, I move it.
Mr. Carolic: Second. The Mayor moves. Is there a second.?
'Savor Ferre: Well, you seconded it. Plummer, you call the roll.
Mr. Plummer: Any further discussion? Hearing none, motion understood.
Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Mayor Ferre, who moved its
adoption.
MOTION NO. 82-911
A 'LOTION APPROVING IN CONCEPT A PROPOSAL FOR THE TRAM
SERVICE TO BE INSTITUTED FROM THE F.E.C. PARKING LOT
TO POINTS IN DOWNTOWN' MIAMI, WITH A FEE TO BE CHARGED
TO PERMIT THE TRAM SERVICE TO OPERATE WITHOUT DEFICIT
A.".'D REOUESTI':G THAT PREFERENCE BE GIVEN TO MINORITY
PARTICIPATION.
%on ',ein� seconded by Commissioner Carollo, the motion was passed and
aC�F'-Cep t:;e :Jllowing vote:
.'ie:.%._'trill Perez, Jr.
ioe 1
'Iaurice A. F,e rre
C,-r!nm:issioner Miler J. Dawkins
issior.tr _:. L. Plummer, Jr.
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ON ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: I am not in favor of the Toonerville Trolley - "no".
32. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: NEW TRUST AND AGENCY PROGRAM:
CH.ARRON WILLIAMS COLLEGE WORK-STUDY PROGRAI.
Mayor Ferre: All right, this is an ordinance. Who is here on Item Number
15? This is Charron Williams College work-study program.
Mr. Carollo: Moved.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Dawkins: I second.
Mayor Ferre: All right, it has been seconded. Is there further discussion?
Mr. Dawkins: Yes, the discussion is that the original grant was for
$28,849. The grant I just received is moved up to $31,648. I would like
to know where does that take us forty individuals. How many additional
individuals will be employed with the whatever it is - $2,000 and some
dollars?
Ms. Sylvia Bennett: Each individual...
Mayor Ferre: Your name and address for the record.
Ms. Bennett: Oh, I am sorry. My name is Sylvia Bennett. I am the director
or Charron Williams College. Each individual is awarded a certain amount
of money from a need analysis and the average is about $700 per participant,
so that an additional $3,000...not quite that much, should give us approxi-
mately three to four...
Mr. Dawkins: Fifteen plus.
Ms. Bennett: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: The other thing I have is, if these persons are not an asset
to the Cit,, - by that I mean they have poor work habits or what have you,
what do we do to eliminate them?
Ms. Bennett: Ycu have a right to let them go. You have a right to interview
them.
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you.
Xaver Ferre: Further discussion? All right, read the ordinance.
,V; .:,R,DI:;A:;CF. ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE ME','DING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 8719,
ADOPTED OCTOBER 26, 1977, THE SLTMM.ARY GRANT APPROPRIA-
T1021 ORDINANCE, AS AMENDED; BY ESTABLISHING A NEW
TRUST AND AGE?;CY F`U`ND ENTITLED: "CHARRON WILLIAMS
COLLEGE WORK-STI:DY PROGRA-M"; APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR
TIIE OPEr-%TION OF SAME IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $39,560;
S 1,o�S TO BE RECEIVED FROM CHARRON WILLIAMS COLLEGE
A;D 1i,912 FROM CITY FISCAL YEAR 1983 SPECIAL PROGRAMS
'Zi ACCOUI;TS - M.;TCHI";C MIDS FOR GRANTS; CONTAINING
Rr?EA1 ER ?Ri':1SI0'; A�;D A SEVEBABILITY CLAUSE.
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Was introduced by Vice -Mayor Carollo and seconded by Commissioner Dawkins
and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City
Commission and to the members of the public.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: The Mayor announced at this point that news had
been received that CBS will run story on picking up of Winos during the
A.S.T.A. Convention.
THERELTON, consideration of First Reading ordinance continued:
ON ROLL CALL:
Mr. Pedrosa: Now, Mr. Mayor, this is what... I think you wanted to revisit
the question of whether you wanted to have a second reading on an ordinance.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, we are not going to have second reading at this time on
any of these issues until we get some legal clarification on procedures.
_ Unless it's a super duper emergency and you really do that at the risk of
creating more problems than you can solve.
Mr. Bennett: We would like to implement it immediately because
this money was issued to us as of July 1st of this year in this amount of
funding.
Mayor Ferre: Madam, the Chair has ruled that we will only do this on first
reading and I am very sorry. It's reasons that are very complicated and it
would take me an hour to explain it to you. But just believe me, we are
lecally bound and we can't do it any other way. I'm sorry you will have to
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Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Gary: Because of the importance we don't want to lose this grant, can
we schedule the next reading for the second meeting in October?
Mayor Ferre: Yes.
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Item #16 was deferred to the meeting of
October 28, 1982.
33. AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS - PERIMANEivT CONCEPT
STAGE FOR OUTFIELD WALL OF MIAMI BASEBALL STADIL':i.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, We are now on Item 33. Is there anybody here on
Item 33? Alright, step forward please. Authorizing the Manager to advertise
for bids for the construction of a permanent concept stage in the out field
wall of Miami Baseball Stadium. Mr. Manager, Item 33?
Mr. Gary: First of all Mr. Mayor, I think it's important to note Walter
Golby, Cesar Odio and ether staff worked to get the strike insurance for
us, which will save us eight hundred thousand dollars a year. I just wanted
to acknowledge that while he is up here.
Mayor Ferre: well, I want to commend both you and Cesar odio for the diligent
job and the foresight that you had and it's going to save the City how much
money?
Mr. . Gary: Eicht hundred thousand dollars.
Ul;IDENTIFIEE SPEAKER: If. it goes the distance.
Mr. Gary• :f it goes the distances you know.
Mayor Ferre: I dcubt if it will, but if it does I think that's super.
X.r. Gaz:�: Ck, Walt Golby would like to explain what we are proposing to you,
Xr. hlaycr, or. this particular item.
`da': or Ferre: Yes, sir?
:,r. 'v:alter Golby: Cne of the big problems that we have had in the past
year is the lack cf revenue coming into Miami Stadium and in order to try
to increase...
y,3, : r . erre: _h:at the stage back there?
fr i}y Z . -Ir7it_r tc try to increase that revenue we are proposing a
Derr ar:e:. _ stage i:; the out field wall.
:•'.3': r Ferre. Hcw m,.;ch would that Cost?
r.cw we are estimating at two hundred twenty thousand dollars.
make sense to you Manager?
r Ferre. roc cu recor,L*ge:.?r.:g it?
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Mr. Golby: And we think we will bring in about two hundred fifty thousand
dollars worth of new revenue within the first year.
Mayor Ferre: And how... where are we getting the money from?
Mr. Golby: It's budgeted right now in the capital improvement fund.
Mayor Ferre: Ok, any other questions.
the Commission?
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Is there a motion by any member of
Mayor Ferre: It's been moved by Plummer, seconded by Dawkins, further
discussion, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-912
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO ADVERTISE FOR BIDS
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A PERMANENT CONCERT STAGE IN THE OUTFIELD
WALL OF MIAMI BASEBALL STADIUM.
(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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice-Mavor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
3-+. PERSONAL APPEARA:,CE: ARTHUR J. CORMIER, MIAMI SCULPTOR, RE-
GARDING DONATION OF UNSERVICEABLE GLITS FROM POLICE DEPARTMENT
FOR SC1LPT1,RE. REQUEST DENIED.
Mayor Ft=e: We are now... 38A is the next one that I have on schedule
herf>. Alright, sir, this is authorizing the Manager to donate to Mr.
Cormier a Miami sculpture unservicable confiscated surplus guns in the
possession of the Miami Police Department in order for him to make a
steel sculpture. Guns into art, that's all we need. Now, I'm sure that
CBS will pick that one up too. Yes, sir.
Mr. Arthur J. Cormier: I don't have any speeches... speech to make. I
would like tc answer questions about it.
Xr. P-1='Per: Well, I got a question, not of you, sir, but of the Manager,
ht: reccmmended such. Ms. Manager, in the past we have taken these
quns -and trade them and sold them...
Mayor Ferre: Nc, no, J. L., they are unusable, unworkable guns.
'`.r. T !";r..rl,cr: ':hear are non -usable weapons?
tf�i cr 1 e1-re: It saes ton-servicable. Unservicable.
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Mr. Plummer: And Oley cannot be cold for parts?
Mr. Gary: They can't.
Mayor Ferre: Well, I will tell you there is something that's a lot more
basic than that and I would like for the artist just to go through the
process with me. To build a monument with guns in my opinion is not exactly
the kind of imagery that we want to send out to the world. I guarantee you
this is going to be a front page story in the New.York Times and it's going to
make it... you know, I'm sure CBS will pick it up again and you know, the
capital and these guys are building monuments out of guns... building a
.monument to guns. I just... you know...
Mr. Carollo: May be what we ought to do is think about it a little bit,
I don't know.
Mayor Ferre: What are you going to. do with the sculpture once it's finished?
Mr. Cormier: Well, the sculpture is for you do to what you want and you
can put it where you want.
Mr. Plummer: That big place on the Bay.
Mayor Ferre: Where.
Mr. Cormier: I am interested...
Mr. Carollo: The Miami Herald.
Mr. Cormier: I'm interested as a sculptor, if you could come up with a
medium that nobody else has used to make a large sculpture you get attention
and you get recognition and at the same time whoever is behind the idea,
the City, get's equal recognition and attention. The statement that, you
know you could... you talk about medium, yot can say clay. Everybody says
clay, you make pottery out of clay. Clay you put a lot of water to it and
you have mud. Nobody says you make pottery out of mud. They say you make it
out of clay.
Mavor Ferre: But Mr.'Cormier, see the problem is could we give you some of
the City's old automobiles or may be some hub caps or some cranes or something,
but to make a sculpture out of guns. Can you imagine the puns and the...
this will be a front page story all over the world.
;as. Cormier: I have talked with many artists who understand the idea of
the medium being very important.
Mayor Ferre: The medium being important?
Mr. Cormier: The medium... the medium that you use to do any form of art.
Mayor Ferre: See, but I'm not worried about the artistic... you are an
artist -and you worry about the art of it.
Mr. Cormier: The medium is very important.
Mayor Ferre: I serve on the City of Miami Commission and I'm the Mayor of
Miami and I'm worried about the kind of stories that we are going to get
all over the Country and all over the world about the City of Miami taking
guns and making sculpture out of guns and they are going to say and can't
you see all this stuff about the crime capital and the... and I don't mean
to belabor the liberal press or any other kind of a press, but can you
imagine with the liberal press is going to do with this, they are just
gcan.g to have a field day.
!rs. Cc=ier: Dc yeu hear about the Mayor of San Francisco who had some
Tans melted down and forth... and cast into a cross and sent to the Pope.
Have •.,cu heard about that news item?
Ma':cr Ferre: Yes, out you are not doing that, you are taking guns and you
are cci::g :c maxe sculptures out of... you are going to make a sculpture.
Mr. Ccrmier: Nobody is going to pay attention to what I do out of old cars
anal wheels, because that's all been done before.
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Mayor Ferre: They are going to sure pay attention to what you are going to
do out of guns.
Mr. Cormier: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: And they are going to say "Miami the crime capital of America
builds a monument to guns", come on. _
Mr. Cormier: Miami the crime capital who has confiscated so many guns
instead of throwing them out in the brink has found a way of making them
into art.
Mayor Ferre: Into art. Can you image what... And I don't mean to belabor
the liberal press of America. Can you image what the Washington and the
New Times and others are going to do with that?
Mr. Cormier: You know you could twist anything to be anything.
Mr. Carollo: The vultures will be out.
Mayor Ferre: Huh?
Mr. Carollo: The vultures will be out.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, may I make a suggestion that the appropriate...
Mayor Ferre: The Miami Herald is bad enough, they will write it up as a
feature story tomorrow.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, may I suggest that this matter be referred to the
art in public places committee and they be the coordinator. That was in
this morning's paper.
(BACKGROUND COMMENT OFF THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Ferre: Hey, look, we will ;Hake available to you old cars and we will
make available to you some of these old seats from City Hall. We will give
you old microphones. The... how about the communications system? How
about some of those computers that Plummer likes so much. You can do some
great sculptures with a computer.
Mr. Plummer: That man won't live that long to use up all those computers.
Mr. Cormier: Nobody wants to see this, this has been done before.
Mayor Ferre: Sure, but we don't want to do it with guns. That's not the
imaae that Miami is all about. That's... we don't want to... I mean that's
one man's opinion. You are a nice fellow and you are a great guy and my
daughter who is an artist has the highest respect for you and told me what
a great artist you are, but unfortunately, I don't want to have any part
c:f doing a scul-ture out of guns.
Nr. Ccrmie:: I have a sculpture that I exhibited at feast exhibition this
Summer and it's made cut of a plow and a sword and a steel helmet and they
are put together to make a statement. Now, this... I made a sculpture out
of swords and it makes a statement that is not derogatory, it's not saying
look I'm glorifying the sword. I'm not glorifying the sword. I am not
making something to glorify the gun.
Mayor Ferre: Lock, you got two sides and they are both... people are very,
very hct on -)cth sides. The National gun association and others feel very
strcn-.1y al cut the right of Americans to carry guns. There are other people
•.cr.o feel very stroncly that nobody ought to have guns and guns are symbols
whether you are fer or against them and it's not the kind of symbolism that
in ttr: opi:,ior., whether you are on one side of the issue or the other that
Miami wants tc mane a statement to the world on. And I guarantee you that
this is gcinq to be a major statement to the world.
Mr . Sap--;' : _ ��:�, . r , z would like to withdraw this item please.
Mr. Gary, I would be very grateful if the
some consideration before you put these things
, r�-oval on, because...
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Mr. Carollo: Whet, is the Police Chief?
Mayor Ferre: You see, with all due respects we could have avoided the
headline of today's Miami Herald and tomorrow's headline too. I'm awfully
sorry. I would like very much to help you because you are a nice man and
a good artist. Alright, it's been withdrawn by the Manager, is there anything
else?
Mr. Carollo: Look, Maurice, may be... you know the man's intentions are
really honorable and he certainly is good at his work from everything I
have heard. What I would like to do is see if we could get together with
him may be we could work something out where he could do some kind of
sculpture using other means for the City in the near future. Can we instruct
the City Manager to either meet with him personally or assign somebody to
and may be we could work something out, you know, see what ideas he might
have where he could construct building a sculpture for the City out of other
materials we might have or that materials that we might be able to provide
to him.
Mayor Ferre: If he is interested. I mean, he may not be interested. We
would like to perhaps use your services in another piece of...
Mr. Dawkins: Another medium other than the guns.
(BACKGROUND COMMENTS INAUDIBLE)
Mayor Ferre: Great. We would like to help you get all the musical
instruments that are not in use.
(BACKGROUND COMMENT INAUDIBLE)
Mayor Ferre: Mr, Manager, could we have our departments of Cultural and...
Well, whatever it's called or the appropriate person on staff assigned...
I think Commissioner Carollo has got an appropriate recommendation.
Mr. Carollo: And then when you have some firm concrete recommendations then
bring them before the Commission again.
Mayor Ferre: Now, if there is anyway we could combine this with Demetrio
Perez's :arching band may be we could have a great combination. Alright,
thank you...
:r. Plummer: I understand that went by the way side because they couldn't
get scarface to agree to be the leader.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, now, thank you very much for your patience in waiting
all day.
3:. DEFERRAL FOR FURTHER STUDY - REQUEST OF TELECOMMLT.ICATIONS CABLE
CO. TO PURCHASE 20% OF Mk'lil CABLE TELEVISION LICENSE OWNERSHIP.
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Mayer Ferre: The next Item is 38. Is Mr. Martin J. Genauer, from Paul
Andy Bailey is here on Item 38.
.... 'agar__., _ . C,enauer. Yes, `Ir. ?Mayor.
:_r.ysr,in Genauer: we are asking for the City Commission to approve the
pui�:iase ny T.C.I. Development Corporation which is a wholly owned subsidiary
F Teleccmmunicatior.s Inc. Denver parent that's involved in the cable system.
we are asking for that subsidiary to be able to purchase the stock which is
t:re ent'_y owned by T.C.I. .aft Cable Associates, Cable Vision Associates
ir. ,rder to remcvE Taft 5rcadcastir.g Company from the Miami cable television
stem. The reason that we are requesting this removal is because Taft
is now negctiati::g the purchase of, I believe it's Channel 6 and under the
.C. Rules and under Section. 2'05 of the Ordinance, Taft is not permitted
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Mayor Ferre: Well, then who is buying Taft stock, T.C.I. itself?
Mr. Genauer: A subsidiary of T.C.Z.
Mayor Ferre: Who owns the subsidiary?
Mr. Genauer: T.C.I.
Mayor Ferre: Is it a wholly owned subsidiary? Hundred percent, ok.
Mr. Genauer: It's a wholly owned one hundred percent first tier
subsidiary ana it 1s a bigger, more financially strong subsidiary than the
one that presently is involved.
Mr. Carollo: Is the Miami Herald going to have any part of that?
Mr. Genauer: Excuse me.
Mr. Carollo: Is the Miami Herald going to have any part of that?
Mr. Genauer: No.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, Mr. Manager, what's your. What's the administration's
recommendation on this?
Mr. Gary: We support it Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Questions.
Mr. Carollo: I want to defer it and think about it.
Mr. Dawkins: I respect Mr. Carollo's right to defer it and defer it. I
second it.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, there is a motion and a second for deferral, further
discussion, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Carollo, who
moved its adopticn:
MOTION NO. 82-913
A MOTICN DEFERRING CONSIDERATION OF A REQUEST OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CABLE CO. TO PURCHASE 20% OF THE MIAMI CABLE LICENSE OWNERSHIP
INTEREST FROM THE TAFT CABLE CO. FOR FURTHER STUDY AND REVIEW.
Uncn being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed
and adcpted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
ViceMayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
LACES: None.
ABSE2:T: Ncne.
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36. DEFERRAL OF REAPPOINTXENT OF H. GORDON WYLLIE AND DIANNE SAULNEY
SMITH, AS ME.iBERS OF THE OFF-STREET PARKING AUTHORITY BOARD.
Mayor Ferre: Our next item that people will raise their hands on is 42A .
This confirmation of the Off -Street Parking Board. of H. Gordon Wyllie and
"B" Dianne Saulney Smith.
Mr. Dawkins: Before we get into this %r. Mayor, what is the ethnic make up
of this Office -Street Parking?
Mayor Ferre: How many members are there Roger? Roger, what's the make up?
Mr. Roger Carlton: Commissioner there are four members, there are four...
Mr. Dawkins: Only four members?
Mr. Carlton: No, I'm sorry, there are four White males and one Black female.
Mr. Dawkins: No, Latins?
Mr. Carlton: That's correct.
Mr. Dawkins: Ok, how does vacancies occur on this board?
Mr. Carlton: Mr. Commissioner, the average tenure on the Off -Street Parking
Board is now fifteen years. The last new appointment that was made of a
new person was six years ago and that was Mrs. Smith, who is a Black. This
has been discussed in our board and Colonel Wolfson wish me to make this
statement, that he gives you his personal commitment that the next appointment
of a vacancy will expand the ethnic mix.
Mr. Dawkins: The only way, Mr. Mayor, I will vote for this is that we tell
Colonel'Jolfson to increase the numbers to seven and let those extra two
be minorities, other than that I cannot support this.
�Ir. Carlton: Commissioner, that would take...
:-r. Plummer: '"hat's going to take a Charter change.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, whatever it takes to increase this board to seven, then
I want it... see because here he just told me that fifteen years is the
average length of service on this board. So, that means it's going to be
fifteen years before I can get a Latin on there. That's what he... that's
what I have been told.
mavor Ferre: See, but Roger, the problem is this. Roger, let me tell you
the problem is this. I talked to Mitchell about this ten years ago and he
said you are right. I said Mitchell you have got no Blacks, you have got no
Latir.s, ycu have got no women. So, he got a Blackwoman.
mr. Dawkins: So, that's two minorities he got in one.
x maycr Ferre: But you know, it's been ten years and it's the same people
:;ver and over and I know that it's a nice board and they go along just fine
and nobody makes any waves and it's a great board and I'm very, very proud
�i ti:e work t-ev have done, but I really think that there is a issue here.
r. �srltcn: :?r. Mayor, let me say, particularly Commissioner Dawkins,
I :eraonaiiy and Colcnel;dolfson are extremely cognizant of what you are
saying. If ycu will bear with me for one minute, I would like to give you
sor.,c recent statistics to show the commitment of the board and the administration
__f t Parr;irg
ti,ere is no question about your commitment, I know you are
question is, you know, who serves on up at the
.,ycu kn.;w Mi tc:,ell 'tiolfson has a great saying. He says the
sti:.�s in the iiead. Have you even heard him say that? He says the
fist:_tira:s at t::e heat. That means that the head is where the decisions
a, r.acr, ck: `Gw, if you want me in on the crash, then you got to have me
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in on the take off, you know. If you want me in at the end of it, if you
want me to be with you at the landing, you have got to invite me on the plane
when we take off. And so, the point of it is that you have got to have one
Latin there Roger. Hey, this City is sixty percent Latin, you got one Black
female. How many members total do we have?
Mr. Carlton: Five Board members.
Mayor Ferre: It's the Chairperson and four others. And of the five you
have got four males and one Black female.
Mr. Carlton: To accomplish that it would take without a change in the number
of board members one of the existing members to step down and...
Mayor Ferre: Well, that might not be a bad thing, you know. That might not
be a bad thing. May be we can do it by lots. I would hate to have somebody
who has been there for fifteen years step down, but on the other hand, hey,
this is a City that's moved along and for us to have a major board and not
have one Latin representative there and ten years is long enough.
Ms. Dawkins: That's right, I agree. I agree.
Mr. Perez: Mr. Mayor, let me ask him. Do we have to accept the recommendation
that the board makes or we can appoint as we appoint in the other?
Mayor Ferre: No, we cannot appoint, they have to come back with a name and
we don't want to appoint, we want the board and Mitchell to make up their
minds as to who they want.
Mr. Carlton: Sir, the process would be that if you do not accept a member
they would send you another name. I think you should discuss this with
Colonel Wolfson.
Mayor Ferre: well, but see,... but that puts the onus on us and I don't
want to turn down Wyllie Gordon, ck. So, I think the thing to do is just
to ask you to go back to your board and your Chairperson and say that we
have a little bit of a problem here and could you help us in figuring out
a solution to it, ok.
mr. Perez: But I think that we have a motion, now...
Ma-cr Ferre: :10 , there is no motion _
�Ir. Perez: You didn't make a motion?
mavor Ferre: Alright, now, what item are we on now? I mean to we...
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%'aycr Ferre: Well, now what do we do with 42A and 42B? Do we just defer it?
r. Plummer: You defer it.
mayor Ferre: Plummer moves or Dawkins moves and Perez seconds the deferral
cr. Item 42A and 42B for reasons stated. Further discussion, call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 82-914
A MCTICN TC DEFER CONSIDERATION OF THE RE -APPOINTMENT OF H. GORDON
vJYILIE AI.'D DIA*,'NE SAULNEY AS MEMBERS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI OFF
STREET PARKIt:G BOARD.
I_Ipci-, te,r.q seccnded by Commissioner Perez, the motion was passed
ac or;ted the following vote-
__.. Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
ViceMaycr Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
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37. BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM. DETERIORATING PHYSICAL CONDITION
OF WATSON ISLAND DOCKS AIM SEMINOLE DOCKS. CITY 11W:AGER
TO RECO121END I11PROVE -1ENTS .
Mayor Ferre: Take up Item "P".
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, this is a matter that was brought to me attention
by the conservation groups and the voting groups in this community. I would
merely ask that today that this Commission ask of the Manager, that in
particular at Watson Island and Seminole Docks that you come back in thirty
days and give us a report. The problem I think basically, not only are the
facilities, the docking facilities bad, but they are dangerous and I feel that
Mr. Gary, I need for you to come back to this Commission with, one, what you
can do to improve the facilities, two, what they will cost and three, how
you are going to fund it. Mr. Mayor, do you need that in the form of a motion?
I thank you for Item "P". It's finished.
Mayor Ferre: Is that it?
Mr. Plummer: I promised to be brief.
38. APPOINTIMENT OF t'AYOR uAURICE A. FERRE Aiv'D CO11!•'_ISSI0NER
J. L. PLU:2-1ER AS CITY REPRESENTATION OF THE TRANSPORTATION
CO"111ITTEE OF METROPOLITAN DADE COt'NTY.
Mayor Ferre: alright, now, Clara Osterle and the County is asking for the
City to appoint two members of the Commission to their Transportation. Committee.
Hey, Plummer, listen. Now, are there any volunteers? You remember there is
a Transportation Committee. I think you were on it at one time. You and
Gibscn used to be the guys representing, and then Rose Gordon before you.
x:r. Plummer: +What Transportation Committee?
Mayor Ferre: The Transportation Committee in the County that deals with
Dupont Plaza bifurcated system...
's. P1ummEr: Nc, you and I were on it.
:,aver :erne: Alright, you wart to continue serving on it?
Xx. Plummer: If you ;wish, I will be happy to.
a*.av cr 'erre : Alricht, then Plummer and I will serve on the Transportation
Cc.nmittee, unless somebody else wants to volunteer.
Xz. Carollc: `.c, they are getting to many Plummers in there.
dy cr Ferre: Alri t:t, Dawkins move...
all means.
ierec seconds t:.at the representatives of the City of
:ia:, w.,. re luruner and Maurice Ferre, further discussion, call the
:.r fcil wi: noticr: was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
t_....
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MOTION NO. 82-915
A MOTION APPOINTING MAYOR MAURICE FERRE AND COMMISSIONER J. L.
PLUMMER, JR. TO SERVE ON THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE OF METROPOLITAN
DARE COUNTY.
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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
ViceMavor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
39. DEFERRAL OF CONSIDERATION OF FIRST READI14G ORDINANCE AHENDI.?G
CHAPTER 22 ENTITLED "GARBAGE, TRASH & RUBBISH", IN THE CITY OF
MIA.'II CODE.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, we are on Item :4. This is amendment to Chapter 22
entitled "Garbage, Trash and Rubbish" in the City Code. Mr. Manager?
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, this merely does two things. First of all, it formalizes
the action of the Commission during the adoption of the budget increasing the
garbage fee from seventy-five to a hundred dollars, as well as to make other
Code corrections of a minor nature that were out dated, plus the lien provision.
:+.r. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, I would like tell you and I'm going on record.
I taxed myself and my other residents in the City of Miami twenty-five dollars
or thirty-five dollars for police, ok. Ok, whatever the hell it was. Even
if this passes I will still be voting against it and I will out doing all I
can tc defeat _ t .
Mayor Ferre: Well, where is your three votes?
M_-. Gar_.,: Hell, t`is is really a formalization you have already passed it.
Mayor Ferre: well, who voted for it last time?
Mr. Gary: Dcin, fcr the budget. Commissioner Dawkins, you...
'Itr. Dawkins: When I voted for it in the budget you did not at that time
increase the garbage tax by twenty-five dollars to hire fifty policemen.
Mavcr Ferre: i move that this item be deferred?
'tr. Carcllc: !:here is a motion, is there a second? There is a motion,
t%ere any further discussion?
�cr' W,C] 1 , f iZ�t of all.. .
To -.f all you don't have three votes. Now, what's the
! ':c goi:.(I to let you know because you have a fiduciary
tt•r:n<, cf passing this ordinance...
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Mr. Carollo: well, don't get upset, Howard, you know...
Mr. Gary: I'm not getting upset, you know, the authority is yours not mine. -
Mr. Carollo: Ok, I just want to make sure of that.
Mr. Gary: This City Commission approved a budget of a hundred ninety-two
million dollars. Now, this requires that you make... this ordinance in
effect or...
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager?
Mr. Gary: Listen to me first, Mr. Mayor,--- or your budget is not in balance
and if your budget is not in balance, then you have got to go and have some
layoffs. '
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, I want you to know that you have my vote on this
item and on the record, I also want you to know that I know how to count
and I only count two, may be. I can't... I know one for sure and I think
you have got two, but I'm not sure. Now, that's not the majority of this
Commission. So, you talk to one of those three members that are not, that
don't constitute the majority... I mean that constitute the majority at this
point and solve your problem. I can't solve it for you, because I can't
whisper in Miller's ear.
Mr. Dawkins: He can whisper in my ear, both newspaper reporter are gone.
Mayor Ferre: So, you go whisper in Miller's ear and...
Mr. Carollo: I wouldn't do that, then Howard Gary will go and tell them.
Mayor Ferre: In the meantime I have deferred this item.
�Ir. Plummer: If you think that I'm going to let Howard Gary whisper in my
ear you are crazy.
Mavor Ferre: Call the roll, Mr. Chairman.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Ferre, who
moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 82-916
A MOTION DEFERRING CONSIDERATION OF A FIRST READING ORDINANCE
AMENDING CHAPTER 22, ENTITLED: GARBAGE, TRASH AND RUBBISH," OF
THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA.
"_cn 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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
ViceMayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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40. APPOUNT C0119:ISSIOPiER J. L. PLL�L* R AS THE CITY'S LIAISON TO
;1IA;iI "GP UND PRIX" RACE - MIAMI NOTORSPORTS, INC.
Mayor Ferre: Take up Item "B" on the Miami Grand Prix. Mr. Manager, Item
"B" has been deferred, but I would like to make an appointment. I would like
to appoint Commissioner J. L. Plummer to be the Liaison Committee with
the Miami Grand Prix and Miami Motor Socrts, Inc. and the New World Marinas,
Inc. on the :Miami Grand Prix. Do you accept that?
Mr. Plummer: I accept it, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, Miller Dawkins makes the motion, Demetrio Perez
seconds, further discussion, call the roll on my appointment of J. L. Plummer.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-917
A RESOLUTION DESIGNATING COMMISSIONER J. L. PLUMMER AS THE
CITY LIAISON TO THE SPONSORS OF THE MIAMI GRAND PRIX RACE, MIAMI
MOTORSPORTS, INC. TO SERVE AS THE CITY COMMISSION"S FORMAL
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SAID SPONSORS IN MAKING
ARRANGEMENTS FOR SAID RACE SCHEDULED FOR FEBRUARY 26 and 27,
1983.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file
in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seccnded by Ccmmissioner Perez the resolution was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner *filler J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
*ICES. None.
ABSENT : .'lone .
= 1 . RE-.;A:;E E:;TIRE LITTLE HAVANA CO2rX11ITY CENTER COMTLEX IN MEMORY
OF ?L•i:;= ARTI�E .
!"aycr Ferre: Now we are on "G", discussion of renaing of the Manuel Artime
Building. Well, what is the discussion?
Mr. Car'�;l.c. 'Dc you need the approval or...?
�!Z%" r Ft2rrt�: ;c, nc. Let me explain what the process was. The process was
in the good old days, somewhere in the past, I came up with the
i ec na:21ng a building for Manolo Reboso, remember him? And so we were
tc Name ore building for Reboso and then Commissioner Carollo came up
idv:: that perhaps we ought to name one after Manuel Artime, okay?
?., _�•..:ant_.^,-...
Artime was one of the individuals who was
and he was really a true member or the Brigade 2506.
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Mayor Ferre: I didn't know that the others were not heros and not died and
so when I found out that one of those members that a building was named after
was truly alive and was not a hero, then I think we have to kind of re -think
this whole thing, so I guess what we are doing here is to name the whole com-
plex after Manuel Artime and then go ... I think it is going to be too complicated
to have too many names and too many buildings.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, I agree.
Mayor Ferre: So, would one of you move that the complex be named.
Mr. Carollo: I so move that the whole complex be named after Manuel Artime.
Mayor Ferre: This motion rescinds the previous motion. First of all, we need
to move to rescind Motion Number M-81-1A.
Mr. Carollo: Okay, I move that we rescind that motion.
Mayor Ferre: All right, is there a second?
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Vice -Mayor Carollo, who moved its
adoption.
MOTION NO. 82-918
A MOTION RESCINDING M-81-1A, IN CONNECTION WITH THE NAMING
OF THE MAUNEL ARTIME BUILDING AT THE LITTLE HAVANA COMMUNITY
CENTER COMPLEX.
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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mavor Joe Carollo
Mavor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
Mavor Ferre: Now Mr. Carollo moves that the complex be named after Manuel
Artime who was a true hero of the Brigade.
Mr. Plu=er: Second.
Mavor Ferre: Seconded by J. L. Plummer. Is there further discussion.
Call the roll.
The followina, emotion was introduced by Vice -Mayor Carollo, who moved its
adopti on.
MOTIO": NO. 82-919
?, MOTION OF 1-HE CITY COMMISSION RENAMING THE LITTLE HAVANA
' C0* 1yff''I TY CENTER CO1.1TLEX AS THE "MANUAL ARTIME COMMUNITY
CENTER'' , IN HONOR OF A TRUE HERO OF THE CLEAN BRIGADE.
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.'pon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
.3d,nte.. the following vote:
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AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: The date of November 19, 1982, at 4:00 o'clock
P.M. was designated as the dedication date for all buildings forming part
of the "Manuel Artime Communitv Center" complex.
42. BRIEF DISCUSSION ITE?:: NEIGHBORHOOD OMBUDSMA:' PROGRAM.
*favor Ferre: Next item is the discussion of the neighborhood ombudsman program.
That is yours, Demetrio.
Mr. Perez: Yes, I have. But, I think that Dena Spillman is not here.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, you are right. Mr. Manager, since Dena Spillman is not
here, you want to put this off until the next meeting?
Mr. Perez: First, I had a meeting with Dena Spillman and I got all the infor-
mation and we talked about the possibility to have that mobile unit to try to
get more accessabilit.y to ombudsman in order to offer all the service of the
conmunit•.. First, I support the idea, I would only like to get information
about the cost. But, I support fully the idea and I think that would be a
great opportunity to be more accessible to the whole City.
Mr. Plummer: So, what do you want to do, withdraw it until the next meeting?
Mr. Perez: No. First, I support the project. What is the Manager's
reco=endation:
Mr. Gary: I don't have any money for buses today, but I think the idea of
a program For ombudsman - what we recommended, based on what Commissioner
Perez has recommended, we think it would work by utilizing existing civic
centers. Now, with regard to the bus...
Mr. Perez: Okay, do you think it will be possible to have formal recommenda-
tions for the next meeting?
Mr. Gar-:: Yes, sir.
Mr. Perez I propose to defer for the next meeting.
Mr. Car-71c: Do we need a motion for that?
Mr. Gar: No, sir.
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43. AUTHORIZE CITY OF MIAMI PARTICIP'.TIO;; IN "THIRD INTER-A:'-SERICAN
SUGAR CANE FESTIVAL" SUBJECT TO AUDIT.
Mr. Carollo: Let's do Item "I".
Mr. Plummer: Is there anyone here to represent the Sugar Cane Festival'.
Mr. Carollo: I don't see anyone here right now.
Mr. Gary: The Mayor is here. That is his item.
Mr. Carollo: We are on Item "I", Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Plummer: The Sugar Cane Festival.
:Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Frank Diaz-Pou? Yes, sir?
Mr. Frank Diaz-Pou: Yes, the seminar already has been held the past week,
because this Commission was supposed to be taking care of this item on the
September 9th, but they were not ready, because we asked them for more de-
tailed information regarding the proposed budget and more information
and at that time they were not ready. Afterwards they submitted the required
information.
Mayor Ferre: We have gone on record, as I recall, passing a motion of support,
but we hadn't specified the amount. Then they came and asked for twice as
much and you were going to come back and recommend what ... so what is your
recommendation.?
Mr. Diaz-Pou: Well, first we recommended that we should limit our involve-
ment to a minimum possible and our official involvement should be worked out
with them, because they just came very late the Commission.
Mayor Ferre: Right. In other words, this Item 3, "Our financial involvement
should be limited to reimbursing the organizers certain line budget items
not covered by the donations from other entities who cosponsored the seminar
and not to exceed our last year's financial involvment of $25,000". Mr.
Manager, is that your recommendation?
Mr. Gary: Yes, on one condition.
Mayor F erre: Yes, sir.'
Mr. Gary: That they give us a certified audit of what occurred during the
evert to determine whether they really need the money now or not.
Mayor Ferre: :%L1 right, that is acceptable to me. All right, is there a
motion?
Mr. Dawkins: ;•loved.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mawr :erre: It is moved and seconded. Further discussion? All right, call
the roll.
mot.on was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved its
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MOTION NO. 92-920
A MOTION ACCEPTING RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE CITY AD-
MINISTRATION FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI PARTICIPATION IN THE
"THIRD INTER-AMERICAN SUGAR CANE SEMINAR", AS MORE FULLY
EXPLAINED IN A MEMORANDUM FROM MR. FRANK DIAZ-POU TO THE
CITY MANAGER DATED OCTOBER 7, 1982, AND DECLARING THAT
THE CITY'S FINANCIAL INVOLVEMENT SHALL BE LIMITED TO
REIMBURSING THE ORGANIZERS FOR CERTAIN LINE BUDGET ITEMS
NOT COVERED BY THE DONATIONS FROM OTHER ENTITIES COSPON-
SORING THE SEMINAR AND NOT EXCEEDING OUR FINANCIAL INVOLVE-
MENT OF LAST YEAR ($25,000); ALL OF THE ABOVE BEING SUB-
JECT TO A CERTIFIED AUDIT OF THE EVENT BEING SUBMITTED TO
THE CITY MANAGER.
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 Mavor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
ABSENT: None
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Mayor Ferre: Now, look, Frank, I want to tell you I think this is one of
the most important things that we have got going in this community if play
it properly, because Florida is now becoming a major sugar cane area and
with the Caribbean and the President's C.B.I. initiative and all that,
Miami should really become a center for sugar cane and sugar technology
activities. However, you tell the organizers of this thing that for next
year, Mr. *tanager, that it is going to have to be in the City of Miami.
We cannot pay money for them to hold it at F.I.U. We understand that in
the past they had to do it that way because they couldn't find anybody
else to give them the space. Now that we have got a center and all this
other stuff, I think we need to tell them straight what they are doing and
we love to have the people here from Jamaica and Barbados and the Dominican
Republic and Costa Rica and India and etcetera, etcetera, but it has to be
in Miami.
Mr. Diaz-Pou: That was advanced to them when we talked to them.
Mayor Ferre: That is just for next year.
+=. DISCUSSION ITEM: PROPOSED TRADE MISSION TO AFRICA.
Mayor Ferre: All right, we are now on the trade mission to Africa. Mr.
:Manager?
Mr. Gar';: 'well, Mr. Mayor, we have discussed this on numerous occasions.
,e have postponed this trip I guess on three occasions. I think it will
hurt our image and maybe jeopardize our fair if we continue to postpone the
African Trade Mission. `fiat they had originally planned was the December
trip, however, there: may be a need to have the City Commission in town,
primarily for tl:e Caribbean Conference, as well as the one -cent sales tax
referendum, if that is necessary. So, we have proposed for you a January
trip .:rid we wcu'_d_ine to get the advice and consent of the City Commission
with regard to what we have proposed.
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r `erru: +�ii, I have news for you. We are leaving on Friday night and
n " _ n r:: t, Heathrow and I have been on that flight and when you get
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there, you feel like you have been through a paper • mache grinding. I mean,
you feel like there is nothing left inside of you, then you tell me that I am
going to hang around Heathrow Airport from 8:00 o'clock in the morning until
1:00 o'clock. Then you are going to load me on an airplane at 1:00 o'clock,
and then that night, at 10:00 o'clock, I am going to get to ... hey, I know some-
one who is going to be on that trip that needs to go into downtown London to
a place called Turnbull and Hasser to buy some shirts.
Mr. Gary: That is correct. I am going to hold to you that. We have it on
the record now.
Mayor Ferre: That is right. I have got a commitment to somebody who is on
that trip, so we are going to have to take him and buy him a...so he can com-
pete with the Minister of ... when he gets to Kenya, he will have the ability
to compete with the Minister, so...
Mr. Dawkins: You say this has been approved by the State Department? Is
there any way it can be dropped back a day in London and what have you?
Mr. Diaz Pou : No. No problem, but we already...
Mayor Ferre: Well, you understand why I am saying let's leave Thursday and
then we can spend Friday in London and then I don't mind flying off Saturday
to Africa.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Gary: If you approve in concept that we in January around these dates,
we will make sure that we will not jam you up on this trip.
Mr. Dawkins: So moved.
Mavor Ferre: Is there a second
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mr. Plu=er: Who is going'.
Mr. Carollo: What are we approving here now?
Mavor Ferre: It is a trade mission. I don't see what this Commission needs
to approve a schedule for.
Mr. Carollc: Is there going to be enough time here for you to meet with
Ian Smith over there?
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, you don't need a motion to approve a schedule for
a trip.
Mr. Gar.:: ':o. This was just to inform you that I need for this City Commis-
sion to agree that trade mission will occur and it will occur in January so
we can proceed forward.
Mayor Ferre: Well, the only change I would make in this is that we leave Thursday
to rive us one day rest and the rest of it is fine. Then we would be in Lagos
from Sunday and Monday and Tuesday we leave at 3:30 in the afternoon, right?
Mr. Gar, : :'hat is ri tit.
Mayor Ferre: And then we go to Nairobv, whicn is the 19th.
Mr. Ga Mr. Mayor ...
X--.;cr Ferre: Now hold on, let me make sure I understand this. Nairobi we
would bt: in t':e 19th and 20th and the 21st and 22nd and the 23rd. I
don't ogee with that. It seems to me that from what I can gather of things,
Satur2a.; afternccn at 1U:5j... I'd rather spend one extra day in Nairobi
Franr:ly, I think wt will t mire cut of Nirobi then we will get out of (IN-
At'DIdLL) so, Mr. Diaz-Pou, 1 think we had better spend three days in Nirobi
any ma%:�_-u two days in .rat:her than in the reverse.
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Mr. Carollo: Not only that, but you guys better be on your best behavior
over there at Zimbabwe. I am warning you now.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Carollo: Things are different there now.
Mayor Ferre: Yes?
Mr. Gary: We also need to know that members of the Commission that will be
gone on the trip and we hardly recommend that Commissioner Carollo be one
of those.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, everything but Zimbabwe. Cut we out of that one.
Mayor Ferre: Anything else, Mr. Manager you want to inform us of?
Mr. Gary: No, sir. We will stay in touch with the Commission in terms of
the final date.
45. ACCEPT ADMINISTRATION'S UCOT,!EN'DATION REGARDING FL�'DING REQUESTS
FOR SPECIAL EVENTS.
Mayor Ferre: The next item to come before us is procedure for processing
funding requests for special events. What is that all about?
Mr. Gary: Well, Mr. Mayor, we have been talking about procedures by which
we receive information, evaluate information with regard to various requests
from the public for various funding activities. And what this tends to do is
take all of the recommendations that the City Commission has made over the
period of time and formalize them in some document. That is what you have
before vou. It is basically what you said all along. It crystalizes it in
the form of a policy.
Mr. Dawkins: Is there anv wav that Item 3 could be increased to sixty days?
Mr. Gary: Sure. The more time we have to analyze the better off it is.
Mr. Dawkins: That is what I am trying to do - give us the lead time to
analyze it.
Mr. Plummer: Item 31'
`'r. Gary: Item 3 or Item "h".
P1urW er . On.
`"r. Gar-,: Also one of the important caveats of this also Mr. Mayor, is that
we are reeuiring as you have directed us to to help them go before the Dade
County Tourist Development Council as well as evaluate the program after they
have transpired to determine whether they are effective or not.
Mayor Ferre: It looks good to me. Anybody have any other recommendations
other than chanting, the cooling off period from forty-five to sixty days?
t
are -:ou going to also adopt the one that states that no
n;c id 'De e14z`!)7e for an application unless denied or to the T.D.C.?
`'.. r!-,-_ . I _ _s _n tt:ere.
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Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved its
adoption.
MOTION NO. 82-921
A MOTION FORMALLY ACCEPTING RECOMMEENDATIONS OF THE
ADMINISTRATION (AS MORE FULLY DEFINED IN MEMORANDUM,
DATED OCTOBER 6, 1982 FROM HOWARD GARY TO THE CITY
COr!MISSION) CONCERNING THE PROCESS OF FUNDING RE—
QUESTS FOR SPECIAL EVENTS; FURTHER MODIFYING THE
TIME REQUIREMENT THAT THE REQUEST BE PRESENTED AT
LEAST 60 DAYS IN ADVANCE OF THE EVENT.
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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
:favor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
46. AUTHORIZE %VLNAGER TO PREPARE 2NEW RFP' S FOR "BUS SHELTERS."
Mayor Ferre: Now we are on bus shelters. Walter? We have to start over
again, do we Mr. Manager?
Mr. Gary: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: wfiat happened to our last guy we were dealing with?
Mr. Gary: The shelters'. There is two of them now, one with bus benches and
one with bus shelters. We only had a problem with bus shelters. Bus benches
we are in the process of trying to get this contract signed.
Mr. Carollo: What seems to be the problem this time around?
Mr. Walter Pierce: Well, there were several problems back last year. When
we came to the Cosmission we had two bidders for bus shelters. One was
Convenience b Safety Corporation of America and the other was J. C. Nicole
of Paris. J. C. ',iccle's bid was not in compliance with the request for
proposals. Convenience d Safety was subsequently sold to Ackerly
Co=uni.cations. Acker'_y, in assuming that, then attempted to negotiate a
contract and after meeting with they: on occasion, they informed us that they
could not sign that contract because it would be their detriment financially.
They showed us prcjections where they would actually lose 30 some percent
over the life of the contract.
Mayor Ferre: :'es, but look. Let me say something. We have been wasting
now five ::ears. Do you know the first person that came to talk to me about
this' Steve Fisher. Gcd, that must be eight or nine years ago. It had
some firm up in New York. Then Dick Knight had somebody.
`Ir. That was Convenience ;, Safety.
) _ "J., - :erre: Then Kenn: Triester has this French outfit. Four or five years
;;,,_- i:-, Paris I went to see Nicole and I tell you, it is the most unbelievable
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thing in the world. Now, they now control the bus shelter business in France,
Germany, England, Italy, Portugal, you know, on and on! These people are
unbelievable and I can't help but think that if we had gone with them five
years ago, we would have the best and most beautiful street furniture in the
United States and it is a shame we didn't do it, but here we are!
Mr. Carollo: Are these going to have in any way, shape or form any kind of
advertisements?
Mr. Pierce: Yes. It is going to be necessary that you approve a new set of
guidelines and specifications in the RFP's.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, are they going to be allowed to have political signs on
them?
Mayor Ferre: Not legally. Maybe illegally.
Mr. Plummer: Just the Pussycat Theatre.
Mayor Ferre: Do you think Lasseville will respect any of those shelters?
Or do you think in election time he will plaster those things with more signs?
Mr. Carollo: I am serious now, because I was told there was some kind of
clause that we had that we not allow these companies to place any kind of
political advertisements. Is this correct or not?
Mr. Pierce: I am not aware either way. Maybe one of the attorneys can answer
that.
Mr. Carollo: Is there anv kind of clause that we have with any of these
companies that would prohibit them from selling space on those bus shelters
to any political candidate?
Mr. Gar,.-: To answer your question, because it is not fair to ask an attorney.
He hasn't seen the RFP's. If the City Commission desires that to be a con-
dition, we can do that if you authorize us now to go out and draw up new
RFP's to go out for another bid, which we have to do. What this is now tell-
ing you that we have to go back out for rebids. We want the authorization
of the City Commission to go out and develop new RFP's and come back to you
and go back out ."or bids.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: That was in a previous contract too, I am told, Mr. Perez.
Mayor Ferre: All right now, you know, we are just at the beginning of this
process all over again. All that is being asked now is that we authorize a
new and revised Request for Proposal for the selection of the providers of
bus shelters. Do you want to do it'. Yes or no?
Mr. Plummer: That we send out new proposals?
Xavor Ferre: Sure! Plummer moves! Who seconds?
Mr. Dawkins: I second.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins seconds that we go out for new proposals. Further
discussion so we can get out of here. Call the roll.
The ollowinq :notion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who mo-ed its
adoption.
MOTION NO. 82-922
A MOTION: DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PREPARE NEW AND
ir':ISED REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP'S) FOR THE BUS
HELTERS CONTRACT.
pcn bei:: svc_nded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
±ollowii:c vote:
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AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
CommissiotteLX J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: ;lone
ON ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plummer: For the proposals to see what comes back, "sure".
47.A) GRANT 8% COST -OF -LIVING INCREASE, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 1982
TO POSITIONS OF CITY MANAGER, CITY ATTORNEY AND CITY CLERK.
B) INSTRUCT CITY MANAGER TO INITIATE STUDY OF FEES CHARGED IN
OTHER CITIES FOR THE POSITIONS OF CITY MANAGER, CITY AT-
TORNEY AND CITY CLEP1:.
Mayor Ferre: Now, on the cost of living emolument, Mr. Manager, this is what
everybody else gets, right...in the City? City employees get cost of living?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir. You changed the policy that we can't get it automatic-
ly. We had to come back before you.
Mayor Ferre: And how much is that on a percentage basis?
Mr. Gary: I don't really know. What is it?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: 87a.
Mr. Garv: K' as of October 1st.
Mr. Carollo: What does that bring up all your salaries to?
Mr. Gary: I don't know. We can compute it for you.
Mr. Carollo: Yes, I like to hear the big numbers.
Mr. Gard:: Add 8/'0 on top of $82,000. Add 8% on. What do you make over there?
Mr. Plummer: Oh! Oh!
Mr: Carollo: Ralph,you are doing something wrong! He is getting almost twice
as much as you are.
Mayor Ferre: $82,000 times 8". Okay, is there...
Mr. Carollo: well, whv_ don't you bring Yauno Surana. We pay him about
$60,000 plus for that.
*favor Ferre: All right, what is the will of this Commission, so we can
move along?
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Mr. Pium e Mr. Ma,:or, we treat them as fair as we do anyone else. I move it.
Mr. Corolla:
well no, I tell you. I think that we talked about it before in
putting. a
limit and I think we talked about placing a limit in the time as
pertaining
to the assistant ciry managers. In other words, they just get an
increase
time and time and time again. I think that we should seriously
s
consider
placing some kind of limitation that is different from the regular
emplo_:eeS,
You know, it is a big difference when you are talking about some-
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haty
one tis
making $16,000 to $20,000 to someone that is making $90,000. And
ne:;t time
around they get the 57�, they are almost to a $100,000. You know,
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we art F:,
iri_- to have the !:ighest paid staff in this country the way it is
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Mr. Plummer: But, I hope we are differentiating between —this is not a
raise. This is a cost -of -living., and it was my understanding...
Mr. Carollo: J. L., cost -of -living raise, it all comes to the same thing.
They are getting more dollars.
Mr. Plummer: My understanding of this was, that it was not to be automatic,
that it was to be across the board applied uniformly and that is what it is
being done here.
Mr. Carollo: What I understand is this. That we are going to have to re-
consider some guidelines, since we are getting to some pretty big numbers.
That is what I am saying.
Mr. Dawkins: I second it.
Mr. Carollo: Which makes it some $80,000 plus dollars. That is just what
some people make the whole year!
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Gary: First of all, there is a scale for all employees starting from the
beginning up from the top down to the bottom. Those employees (first of all,
we shouldn't even be put in this position) but, those employees...
Mayor Ferre: Well, I don't think you should get into a discussion of it
defend it Howard,I don't think that is an appropriate thing right now. We
have a motion on the floor. It was moved by Plummer and it has been seconded
by Miller Dawkins. All right now, do you want to defer it? You have a right
to defer it.
Mr. Carollo: All that I am saying Maurice, and I think that the vast majority
of the people in this community, including Liberty City and Overtown and Lit-
tle Havana and Coconut Grove would side with me in this one - is that we have
to establish some guidelines for our top echelon positions that they are
going to be somewhat different then when we deal with the general employees.
Mayor Ferre: Joe, we have a motion on the floor and a second. Now, you can
do one of three things. You can vote with it, or against it. You can make
a motion to table, or you can make a motion to defer.
Mr. Carollo: I realize what I could do, Maurice. I realize what I can do,
but I think that, you know, I still have the right to make statements and
co=ents even though they might not be of liking to the Manager or someone
else here.
Mavor Ferre: Nobody is denying you that. So, at this stage of the game,
the question I am asking is, what is it you want to do?
Mr. Carollo: What I have stated, Maurice, is simply that I think that we
are going to have to establish a little more stricter guidelines in these...
Mayor Ferre: Ycu want to do it now?
Mr. Carollo: Well, we could do it now, or we could put it on the agenda for
the next time around. I just think that when you have got someone that is
getting to almost $100,000 in salary a year, these constant increases of
8 anc l0' the employees get, is just too much.
Ma_;cr :._rre: 'ies, but I don't know...
'�r. Car-.11c: I am not saying to do it now before we vote. We have got a
Mot ,!. It has been seconded. We will vote on it. I am saying for the
is what I am saying.
''._ v',r r, _-e: li right now, is there further discussion?
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Mr. Dawkins: I agree with what he is saying, because I have problems with
the pension plan.
Mr. Carollo: I don't care, look, Miller...
Mr. Dawkins: Okay, wait a minute. They listened to you.
Mr. Carollo: Go ahead. You know, I just want to put this in the record. I
don't care who the Manager, the Attorney, the City Clerk is today or tomorrow
or the next day. This is just the way I feel, you know, across the board.
Mr. Dawkins: And I am saying the same thing to you - that somewhere along
the lines, somewhere something has to be done! The pension plan is going
to be the thing that sinks the City of Miami! So, while we are looking at
this across the board for these top people, why don't we look at this pen-
sion plan and see how we can get out from under that, that is all I am saying.
Mr. Carollo: We are in the same wave length.
Mr. Plummer: I will tell you, Mr. Dawkins - go back nine years ago when
myself and a man by the name of Manolo Reboso were delegated that chore and
implement the thirteen points that we recommended.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, you dig them up and I will put them on.
Mayor Ferre: What were the thirteen points?
Mr. Plummer: I would have to get them, Maurice, but they only adopted two
of the thirteen.
Mayor Ferre: Well, where are we now? Are we going to vote on this?
Mr. Carollo: That is what I have been saying all along. Vote on it.
Mayor Ferre: All right, further discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its
adoption.
MOTION NO. 82-923
A MOTION GRANTING AN EIGHT (8*) PERCENT COST -OF -LIVING
ADJUSTY2NT TO THE POSITIONS OF CITY MANAGER, CITY ATTOR-
NEY AND CITY CLERK, EFFECTIVE OCTOBER 1, 1982.
L.pon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner *filler J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice "favor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSLNT: None
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O,i ROLL
Mr. Caro'_lc: "Yes",
now I want to do two things.
I want to
place at a fu-
ture agenda the ideas
of increases in the salary
in any way,
shape or form
c..r
to our to, -,echelon
officials, how we are going to
handle that
and Number two,
;`.
I would like, for
each member of the Commission to
have the
percentage in-
crease, together with
the total amount of dollars
that both
our City Manager,
Ciry Atternev and
City Clerk will be making as of
now, since
we passed this
inc re., s t-.
Terre: I .ote "ves", but now, Mr. ;Manager, I tell you I think that
we h :r u t to go abour this in a professional non -emotional non -personal
wa:. I would recomme::d t`iat we do the same thing as any industrial business
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group, that is pay an outside firm (it could be Booz-Allen if they happen to
be around anyway and they would make a survey of comparable wage and beciefits
for comparable city attorneys, city clerks and city managers for cities of
like size and the same like budget, because there may be differentials and
that we go about in setting the top and the bottom in a professional and
scientific way.
Mr. Carollo: I think that is some of the best money we will be spending.
;favor Ferre: All right, do you think that is a reasonable way of doing it?
And I don't care whether it is Booz-Allen or somebody else, or Arthur
D. Little or somebody who has confidence.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, you just did this about seven years ago with the
Yeager plan.
Mr. Plummer: We did it, boy and let me tell you, if one thing in this City
ever put that pension fund in jeopardy! lip until the Yeager pay plan, we
were only running about a two to three million dollar unfunded liability.
We went 23% across the board, and buddy, let me tell you, you almost immedi-
ately went to one hundred fifty million dollar unfunded liability.
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Mr. Carollo: That was seven years ago, or whatever it was, when three members
of this Commission were not here. This is 1982. I would like to see it started
before this year is over, if not finished.
Mr. Dawkins: The only thing that I'm saying is that I would like for staff to
bring me starting in 1985 where anybody that is hired by the City of Miami has
to go on another Pension Plan.
Mayor Ferre: I think that is a great idea.
Mr. Plummer: That was one of our recommendations.
Mr. Dawkins: And those who are in will be grandfathered in, but beyond that
we are going to have to get off.
Mayor Ferre: Just to formalize this in a way, I think that my concern at
this time...I'll do it in the form of a motion. I move that the City Manager
be instructed to talk to Booz Allen or a like comparable management firm
recognized nationally to do these studies to submit to us the fee that they
would charge to give us comparable rates under comparable conditions of
City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk fees so that we know how to set
these guidelines for the next coming years. I so move.
Mr. Carollo: There is a motion. Is there a second?
Mr. Plummer: I second it.
Mr. Carollo: Motion is seconded. Further discussion? Hearing none can we
have roll call, please.
The following motion was introduced by Mayor Ferre, who moved
its adoption.
MOTION 82-924
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER
TO ENGAGE THE SERVICES OF AN OUTSIDE CONSULTANT FIRM
SUCH AS BOOZ ALLEN OR ARTHUR D. LITTLE TO STUDY CITIES
THE SIZE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI WITH COMPARABLE MUNICIPAL
BUDGETS TO DETERMINE THE SALARY RANGES PAID TO THE POSITIONS
OF CITY MANAGER, CITY ATTORNEY AND CITY CLERK.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENI: None.
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48. CITY MANAGER TO :MAKE FUTURE RECO NENDATION REGARDING NEW
PENSION SYSTEM AND EMPLOYEES HIRED AFTER JANUARY 1, 1;
Mayor Ferre: I would also like to move that the City of Miami, that the _
Manager come back with a recommendation as soon as possible, to create a
new pension system.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. :Mayor, I think you have a problem.
Mayor Ferre: Legally we cannot do that?
Mr. Plummer: I do not think that legally you can. I think under the new
State law if you abandon or you do not further your own, you then have to
go to the State of Florida.
Mayor Ferre: Fine, I would like to move that the City Manager immediately
study, and if he needs professional help to study it, to come back with
a recommendation whether or not all new City employees starting on the
first of January of 1983....
Mr. Plummer: No, whenever the present union contracts are up.
Mayor Ferre: ....whenever the present union contracts run out to start
and be a part of the State Pension system. I so move.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I would be....
Mr. Eawkins: I second it.
Mayor Ferre: We are not concluding anything here. All I'm saying is we
are going to look into it. If at all possible, my only regret is that
I did not do this ten years ago.
Mr. Carollo: Roll call please.
The following motion was introduced by Mayor Ferre, who moved
its adoption.
MOTION 82-925
A `SOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER
TO STUDY AND *SAKE A RECOMMENDATION, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
REGARDING WHETHER OR NOT ALL NEW CITY EMPLOYEES STARTING
JA.NUARY 1, 1983 (or whenever the present union contracts
expire) COULD BE INCORPORATED INTO A NEW PENSION PLAN SUCH
AS THE EXISTING STATE OF FLORIDA PENSION SYSTEM.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner "filler J. Dawkins
Vice `savor Joe Carollo
Ma -.,or Maurice Ferre
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Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I would be happy, if you wish, to work with the
Manager. I served at this Commission's direction with the State Pension
Board. If you would like, Mr. Manager, 1 will be more than happy to make
a trip to Tallahassee to gather all of those facts for you.
Mayor Ferre: The Chair appoints....
Mr. Plummer: You do not have to appoint me.
Mayor Ferre: ....Commissioner PLummer as a committee of one, that his
expenses be paid by the City....
Mr. Dawkins: ....through acclamation....
Mr. Gary: Where are you going?
Mayor Ferre: To go to Tallahassee, a one-way ticket to Tallahassee.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, right, that is a return ticket.
49. AUTHORIZE ALLOCATION UP TO $30,000 FOR PREPARATION OF
EDUCATIONAL BROCHURE FOR UPCOMING CHARTER AMENDMENTS.
Mayor Ferre: The next item is discussion of public education program for
the proposed Charter changes. Mr. City Attorney, is that yours?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: We worked on it with some of your staff. Basically it
is the preparation of an educational brochure informing the public about
the nature and contents of the four Charter amendments that have been placed
on the November 2nd ballot.
Mayor Ferre: This is educational in nature. How much money is being
recommended?
INAUDIBLE BACRGROUN-D COM.'rMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, as I remember... Clark, the last time we went
through one of these things it cost us over $30,000; didn't it? We did
one that cost S16,000 and one that cost....
Mr. Gary: About twenty.
`favor Ferre: Hr. `tanager, do you recommend this?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir, up to $30,000, Mr. Mayor.
Ma,,,or Ferre: Is there a motion to that effect? Come on, fellows, so that
we can get out of here; will somebody move? The Manager recommends.
Mr. Perez: I move.
''` "tr. Plu::er: Yes, sir, 1 move.
Ferre: it has been moved and seconded. Further discussion? Call
G* - the roll.
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The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Perez, who moved
its adoption.
MOTION 82-926
A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO
ALLOCATE AN AMOUNT OF NOT TO EXCEED $30,000 TO BE USED
FOR THE PREPARATION OF ANI EDUCATIONAL BROCHURE TO BE
DISTRIBUTED TO THE PUBLIC FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES
CONCERNING THE DETAILS OF THE FOUR CHARTER AMENDMENTS
SCHEDULED TO BE VOTED UPON BY THE ELECTORATE ON
NOVEMBER 2, 1982.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and
adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
ON ROLL CALL:
Mayor Ferre: Up to $30,000.
;TOTE FOR THE RECORD: Agenda item No. 4 was withdrawn.
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50. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: NEW TRUST & AGENCY FUND
"E.NTR..ytiT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM" 1962-1983.
Mayor Ferre: We are on item number 8. Is there a motion? The City
Manager recommends.
Mr. Perez: I move.
Mayor Ferre: Demetrio Perez moves. Miller Dawkins seconds. This is
on first reading only. Mr. City Attorney, on first reading only.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Yes, sir. You are calling it an emergency ordinance,
.4r. Mayor.
"savor Ferre: On First reading, read the ordinance. It has been moved and
seconded. Call the roll.
OFW iN?.NCE ENT: TLED-
AN ORDINANCE AIMENTING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE
NO. 87/19 ADOPTED OCTOBER 26, 1977, THE SUMMARY
GRl"NT_ APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE BY MODIFYING THE
PREVIOUSLY ESTABLISHED TRUST AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED
"ENTRANT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - 1982/1983" BY INCREASING
THE APPROPRIATION THEREFOR IN THE AMOUNT OF $39,000
A:;D BY INCREASING THE REVENUES IN A LIKE A -MOUNT
FOR S ID M.DS FROM GENERAL FUND SPECIAL PROGRAMS
?.ND .ACCL)PNTS - CONTINGENT FUND FISCAL YEAR 1983;
C U'':AI.'".I'l(" A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY
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Was introduced by Commissioner Perez, and seconded by Commissioner
Dawkins and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor :Maurice A. Ferre
:DOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
Mr. Perez: Let me ask him something, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Manager, with the
phasing out of the refugee program, I think that you have transferred some
of the employees to the Entrant Program. That's right?
Mr. Gary: That is correct.
Mr. Perez: Do we have any lay offs or any terminations or any changes?
Mr. Gary: There are a couple of terminations.
Mr. Perez: Would it be possible to get next week all the information about....?
Mr. Gary: Sure.
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NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Agenda item No. 9 was deferred to advertise.
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51. FIRSI READING ORDINANCE: MISCELLANEOUS FEES.
`Savor Ferre: he are on item number 11, an ordinance.
Mr. Gary: This formalizes the revenue increases the City Commission passed
to adopt the budget.
:Mayor Ferre: On first reading.
`Sr. Gary: Public Works.
`lavor Ferre: Who moves this ordinance?
Mr. Perez: Did .,ou say first or second reading?
favor Ferre: 11, only, on first reading.
Mr. Dawkins: `love it.
Mavor Ferre: Dawkins moves. Perez seconds. Further discussion? Read the
ordinance on first reading.
Xr. Perez: I would lire to ask a question. I would like to know how much
additional revenue we will have to pay raising the fee?
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Mr. Gary: Total all the revenues came to about $540,000. I think this one
is totalled to about $100,000 to $200,000.
Mr. Perez: What would be the purpose of that....
Mr. Gary: This is what you approved on adoption of the budget. Do you remember
you did not want me to increase the....
Mr. Perez: 100% will be....
Mr. Plummer: Basically for the additional police.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Read the ordinance. Call the roll on
first reading.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS OF THE
CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED: SEC-
TION 2-98, ENTITLED "FEE FOR PREPARATION OF DOCUMENTS
CONTAINING COVENANTS TO RUN WITH THE LAND, WAIVER OF
FEE; RECORDING FEE"; SECTION 2-99, ENTITLED "CHECKING
AND RECORDING PLATS --FEE SCHEDULE; WAIVER OF FEE";
SECTION 2-100, ENTITLED "CHECKING AND RECORDING PLATS --
FINDING MATERIAL ERRORS, ADDITIONAL FEE; WAIVER OF
FEE"; SECTION 2-101, ENTITLED "CHECKING AND RECORDING
PLATS --PERMANENT REFERENCE MONUMENTS NOT PROPERLY
PLACED, ADDITIONAL FEE; WAIVER OF FEE"; SECTION 29-3,
ENTITLED "FILL PERMITS --FEES"; SECTION 29-27 ENTITLED
"FEES AND CHARGES"; SECTION 29-46, ENTITLED "PERMITS
FOR WATERFRONT IMPROVEMENT -FEES"; AND SECTION 54-27,
ENTITLED "PERMIT FEES FOR STREET EXCAVATION, SIDE-
WALK REPAIR, PAVING OR RESURFACING OF PARKWAY OR
SHOULDER AREA, BUILDING LINE AND GRADE SURVEY, SIDE-
WALK CONSTRUCTION SURVEY, DRIVEWAY CONSTRUCTION,
FLUME EXCAVATION, UTILITY POLE PLACEMENT, UNDERGROUND
UTILITY SERVICE CONNECTION EXCAVATION; PERMIT RENEWAL";
WITH ALL OF SAID AMENDMENTS PROVIDING AN INCREASE IN THE
AMOUNT OF FEES FOR SERVICES PERFORMED BY THE DEPARTMENT
OF PUBLIC WORKS; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, and seconded by Commissioner
Perez and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner :tiller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
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52. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: NEW TRUST & AGENCY FUND
"OFFICE OF INTER-GOVERTLMENTAL LIAISON FY-'83".
Mayor Ferre: Take up 12.
Mr. Gary: This merely appropriates C.F..T.A. monies for administrative
purposes.
Mayor Ferre: C.E.T.A. Consortium. Plummer, do you want to move that?
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Demetrio seconds. Further discussion? Read the ordinance on
first reading. Item 12. Call the roll on 12.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO.
8719, ADOPTED OCTOBER 26, 1977, THE SL:'yL*fARY GRANT
APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE, AS AMENDED,; BY ESTABLISHING
A NEW TRUST AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED: "OFFICE OF
INTERGOVER,'N, ENTAL LIAISON-FY'83," AND APPROPRIATING
FUNDS FOR THE OPERATION OF SAME IN THE AMOUNT OF
$57,000; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, and seconded by Commissioner
Perez and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner `filler J. Dawkins
Vice ~Savor Joe Carollo
'iayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: :done.
ABSENT: ~one.
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.
�3. AUTHORIZE M.A'-NAGER TO NEGOTIATE AGREEMENT CONTINUING THE OFFICE
OF I`:TERGOVERN ?ENTAL LIAISON FOR FY-' 83, FL -DED BY THE SOUTH
FLORIDA EMPL01 •iE."T AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM.
Ferre: Pick up 13, companion.
Ferre: Moves Dawkins.
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Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Perez. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-927
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE
AND EXECUTE AN AGRELKENT, SUBJECT TO THE CITY ATTORNEY'S
APPROVAL AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS, CONTINUING THE
OFFICE OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL LIAISON FOR FISCAL YEAR
1983 TO BE FUNDED BY THE SOUTH FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT
AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein 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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor '4aurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
54. FIRS; REP.DING ORDINANCE: NEW TRUST & AGENCY FUND
"CUBAIN-HAITI.VN ENTRANT i�IPACT AID PROGR,*I"
Mayor Ferre: Take up 14, Cuban -Haitian Entrant Impact Aid Program.
Mr. Gary: This is merely an appropriation to fund what you have already
allocated to C.B.O.s to run the Entrant Assistance Program. It is just
a formality of appropriating the money.
Mr. Dawkins: I move it and want to discuss it under discussion.
Mr. Perez: I second.
Mayor Ferre: It has been moved and seconded. Under discussion.
Mr. Dawkins: Under discussion, Mr. Gary, in the event that there is some
money somewhere, there is another group of Haitians around the Lemon City
area that I would 1-4?e to see us fund. if that money is found. O.K.?
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion'.
Mr. Pvrz: What department would be in charge of this program? We do
not have any back up information here.
Mr. ar•• . kh ch one?
`".ac r Ferre: one of thy things, Howard, that I heard when I went out to
is tr;;It a lot of the funds that are going from the County and
( ion5tlrt it,r. and others to supposedly Haitian -type programs
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sptznt :,: I .I.t:. and all that. Those people never go to the
aait;a:; _r,:m:,tati: t tought to ... the C.E.T.A. Consortium and
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Mayor Ferre (CON'T): ...the agencies that are involved in Haitian studies,
we should really call a summit meeting of all these Haitian funded type of
things and try to figure out who is doing what. You ought to ... I do not
know who is in charge, whether Dena or whoever... Somebody ought to really
look into that.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: The implication is that there is a lot of duplication going
on and there are a lot of things happening. Plummer may be right about
what is going on out there. Are we ready to vote or do you need to read
the ordinance?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: I need to read the ordinance, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO.
8719, ADOPTED OCTOBER 26, 1977, THE SUMMARY GRANT
APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE, AS AMENDED; BY ESTABLISHING
A NEW TRUST AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED: CUBAN-HAITIAN
ENTRANT IMPACT AID PROGRAM," AND APPROPRIATING FL-N-DS
FOR ITS OPERATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $1,708,800;
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, and seconded by Commissioner
Perez and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice :Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
_ announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
55. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: INCREASE APPROPRIATION TO TRUST
& AGENCY FUND ENTITLED: "RECREATION PROGRAMS FOR THE MENTALLY
RETARDED - SIXTH YEAR."
Major Ferre: We did 15 and 16. We are now on 17, which is recreation
program for the mentally retarded.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, items 17, 1°, 19, and 20 are all Federal grants to
continuc our recreational program for the handicapped.
"_avor Ferre: Mr. Dawkins moves 17.
Mr. Dawkins- 18 and i'l-4 .
'.'r. Plu::=er: Second.
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Mayor Ferre: Commissioner Perez seconds it. Further discussion? Read
the ordinance on first reading. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 8719,
ADOPTED OCTOBER 26, 1977, THE SL';`MARY GRANT APPROPRIATION
ORDINANCE, BY INCREASING THE APPROPRIATION TO THE TRUST
AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED: "RECREATION PROGRAMS FOR THE
MENTALLY RETARDED (6TH YEAR)" BY $78,944.00, COMPOSED OF
$67,444.00 FROM THE STATE OF FLORIDA: DEPAORTMENT OF
HEALTH AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES AND $11,500.00
FROM FISCAL YEAR 1982-83 SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS:
:MATCHING FUNDS FOR GRANTS, TO CONTINUE THE OPERATION
OF SAME; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, and seconded by Commissioner
Perez and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
:Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
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:Mayor Ferre: Take up 18. Dawkins moves. Perez seconds. Further discussion?
Read the ordinance. Further discussion? Call the roll.
AIN ORDIN.ZCc ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 8719
ADOPTED OCTOBER 26, 1977, THE Sb%-ARY GRANT APPROPRIATIONS
ORDINANCE, AMENDED BY ESTABLISHING A NEW TRUST AND AGENCY
M,.'D ENTITLED: "RECREATIONAL EXPERIENCES THROUGH
ADAPTED LEISURE", AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR ITS
OPERATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $126,192.00 COMPOSED OF
$88,334.00 FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, URBAN
PARKS AND RECREATION RECOVERY PROGRAM AND $37,858.00
FROM THE CASH MATCH ACCOUNT; CONTAINING A REPEALER
PROVISION ',-ND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
',;as introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, and seconded by Commissioner
Per-�2:! and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Comsissioner :Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Ma"; car Jce Caroll o
�:avor `^auri, L A. Ferre
any ,
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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.
57. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: NEW TRUST S AGENCY FU:`-i "CONTIUUM
OF ADAPTED RECREATION EDUCATION'
Mr. Dawkins: Move 19.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins moves 19. Plummer seconds. Further discussion? Read
the ordinance. Call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 8719
ADOPTED OCTOBER 26, 1977, THE SUI0MY GRANT APPROPRIATIONS
ORDINANCE, AMENDED BY ESTABLISHING A NEW TRUST AND AGENCY
FWD ENTITLED: "CONTINUUM OF ADAPTED RECREATION EDUCATION",
AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR ITS OPERATION IN THE AMOUNT
OF $116,983.00 COMPOSED OF $81,983.00 FROM THE UNITED
STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND $35,000.00 FROM THE
CASH MATCH ACCOUNT CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, and seconded by Commissioner
Plummer and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner :filler J. Dawkins
Vice *Savor Joe Carollo
`savor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES. Ncne.
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.
AUTKORIZE MANAGER TO ACCEPT GR.�.tiT $81,983 FROM U.S. DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION OFFICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REHABILITATIVE
SERVICES.
Xavcr Terre: "arollo moves 20. Plummer seconds. Further discussion?
C.a:1 _.:e roll.
:r :ollowinz resolution was introduced by Commissioner Carollo,
w11G mo'Jed ..ts adGpCiOn:
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RESOLUTION NO. 82-928
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT
A GRANT AWARD IN THE AMOUNT OF $81,983. FROM THE
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, OFFICE OF
SPECIAL EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION SERVICES AND
FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
THE NECESSARY CONTRACT(S) LND/OR AGREEMENT(S) TO
IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
59. FIRST READING ORDINA:;CE: AXEND FL,NDS APPROPRIATED FOR TRUST
S AGENCY FUT'D ENTITLED "SU`24ER FOOD SERVICE PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN
-1982".
`savor Ferre: Carollo moves 21. Dawkins seconds. Read the ordinance.
Call the roll.
AN ORDIN:-NCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 8719,
ADOPTED OCTOBER 26, 1977, THE SUMMER GRANT APPROPRIATIONS
ORDINANCE, AS AMENDED: BY AMENDING THE FUNDS APPROPRIATED
FOR THE TRUST AND AGENCY FUND ENTITLED: "SUMMER FOOD
SERVICE PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN - 1982", BY INCREASING
APPROPRIATED FUNDS FOR THE OPERATION OF SAME TO THE AMOUNT
OF $106,824, CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE.
Was introduced by Commissioner Carollo, and seconded by Commissioner
Dawkins and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner ;filler J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mavor Maurice A. Ferre
None .
AL'-7t.... .one.
The Cit., attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
annclncL� that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
to tl,e pu"�-lic.
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60. AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO ACCEPT ADDITIONAL GRANT S22,414 FROM
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULATURE FOR "SUMMER FOOD PROGRAM
FOR CHILDREN".
Mr. Dawkins: Move 22.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins moves 22.
Mr. Plummer: Plummer seconds.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer seconds. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-929
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT AN
ADDITIONAL $22,414 FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOR A SUMMER FOOD PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner :Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
;Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
61. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: REVISE FEES CHARGED FOR CHILD DAY
CARE PROGRAM.
Mayor Ferre; Did we do 25?
Mr. Ongie: No.
Mr. Plummer: That's to revisit, Mr. Mayor, I think at the request of some
people who left, 25.
Mayor Ferre: We are on 25? Mr. "tanager, is Al Howard around?
Mr. Gar-:: 'Mr. Mayor.
`layer Ferre: Yes.
Mr. Car,:: This complies with the direction given by the City Commission
of the last two or three years that we move the day care operations closer
to a self sustaining basis. This attempts to do that.
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Mayor Ferre: Is there a resolution?
Mr. Gary: It is an ordinance.
Mayor Ferre: Then we do it on first reading, right?
Mr. Gary: Right, you still have a chance on second reading to have further
discussion.
Mayor Ferre: On second reading I am sure we will hear from other people. Does
somebody want to move that now?
Mr. Plummer: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves it on first reading. Dawkins seconds it. Further
discussion? Read the ordinance. Under discussion how about St. Alban's?
How come we are giving them $75,000? What is that all about? St. Alban's
Day Care Center? That is not included in any of this, I know.
Mr. Plummer: Neither is Catholic charity for sixty some.
Mayor Ferre: But is that for day care?
Mr. Plummer: Sure.
Mayor Ferre: How can we be inconsistent? How can we have sauce for the goose
and not sauce for the gander?
Mr. Gary: I do not understand the question.
Mayor Ferre: The point is this. Al Howard is now coming up with the recommendation
that we make these things self supporting. So we are doing it with those things
that he is involved with. But in St. Alban's we are giving them $75,000 and
we are not following that same theory. So how come we are inconsistent?
Mr. Gary: No, the policy of this Commission was that the day care programs
that the Cit-: of Miami ran had to become self sufficient. You did not have
that as a stipulation for those that were run by other people.
Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you. I learned a lesson from the City of Orlando.
Do you know that the City of Orlando will only give a grant to an organization
for one year? That is money to get them started and by the second year they
should be on their feet and shall be running on their own steam.
Mr. Gary: Good luck!
Mr. Plummer: Very interesting concept.
Mr. Gary: Good luck in this Commission!
Mr. Carollo: that is he moving?
Mr. Perez: Mr. Mayor, I want to point out something. Several months ago,
we instructed the Manager's office to get a feasibility study in order to
know the probability to transfer this service to the private sector. We
have never received any recommendations.
Mr. Carollo: are ::ou surprised?
Mr. :'erez: Yes.
Mr. Cesar Odio: Are you speaking of our day care centers? We tried doing
t:.at a :•ear a:(D. Nobody wants them. I think that also.
•ies, because they lose so much money.
But "fin"',
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Mr. Odio: Because day care is a social service that is badly needed by
our poor people in the City so that the women can go to work. It is not
a profit making operation. Nobody wants to get into a private business
that does not make any money.
Mr. Perez: It depends, Cesar, we gave some information about six or seven
months ago. The Manager, I know had a concern and I asked him about
the possibility to transfer the service to Dade County. I do not think that
you are very familiar with that system. If we take into public bidding, I
think that maybe we can get a better deal.
Mr. Odio: But I have to recommend against that. Because I think that what
we are providing to the poor women of this City is badly needed by them.
We should maintain the services controlled by the City so that they do not
keep raising the fees so they could not afford to get their kids to day
care centers.
Mr. Plummer: You can sure tell who the new fathers are around here.
Mr. Perez: But we can serve for more people if we have a contractor in
different areas of the City in order that these people don't have to go
to only three, four, six or seven places.
Mayor Ferre: What he is saying is, do it but let the private sector do it.
Mr. Odio: We can look into it.
Mr. Perez: But about seven months ago —but I would like to have a formal
recommendation study on this matter.
Mr. Carollo: You have a lot of the private....
Mr. Odio: If you are asking for my recommendation, I would recommend that
we keep doing what we are doing because we are providing a badly needed
service to the poor people of our City. But I will look into what you are
saying.
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Manager, you ought to look into some of the private schools.
They might be able to handle some of this stuff.
Mayor Ferre: All right, you have your instructions on that. Mr. Manager,
I just want to go on record that you notify both Catholic charities and
St Alban's on what the City's policy is this year with our own day care
centers; and that maybe next year we might be looking at them. We would
like for them to talk to the appropriate people in the City to see if
we can help in any way and show them what we have done. Perhaps they can
follow our example.
Mr. Ongie: ?Ir. Mayor, we have to call the roll on 25.
Mavor Ferre: I'm scrry. Call the roll on 25.
ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 30-26 OF THE CODE
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, FOR THE
PURPOSE OF GEtiERALLY INCREASING THE FEES CHARGED
FOR THE CHILD DAY CARE PROGRAM; CONTAINING A REPEALER
w
PROVISION' AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
.as introduced by Commissioner Plummer, and seconded by Commissioner
Dawkins and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote:
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AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
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AUTHORIZE DADE COUNTY H.U.D. TO UTILIZE ANTICIPATED FEDERAL
LAND REUSE PROCEEDS TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL SCATTERED PUBLIC
HOUSING SITES.
Mayor Ferre: We are now on item 26.
Mr. Dawkins: 26 I have a discussion.
:Mayor Ferre: Go ahead.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor and fellow Commissioners, every time the City and
the County is desirous of putting public housing in areas they can only
find Allapattah or model cities of Wynwood area. We have now where a group
of citizens in the Overtown area petitioned Dade County the same as residents
of Dade County did, not to put public housing in their neighborhood and it
was done. I am voting that this does not go through and that there is to
be no more public housing put in Allapattah, Coconut Grove, Little Havana,
Model Cities, or any other city area until they put some in the County. I'm
just tired of every time they go to the White affluent neighborhood with
public housing it is voted down. But then you go to the areas where the
people cannot fight who have to work, who cannot come down here and fight
for themselves and we jam it on them. So I recommend that this be turned
down and it go back to the County and ask the County to accept half of
these housing and we put half of them in the City.
Mr. Jerre Gereaux: Commissioner Dawkins, we are here to get approval on a
project that was started by the City Commission way back on the Spring of
1980 when the City Commission authorized and made a proposal to the
Federal Government that $4 million in housing bond funds will be spent in
return for a public housing allocation. We did get approval from the
Federal Government for those bonus public housing units. We have about
58,O00 families in need of this kind of housing just in the City. But
shortly thereafter, we went through a very, very extensive neighborhood
citizen participation process to secure all of the approval of all of
these neighborhoods for this public housing program.
Mr. Dawkins: And you went to Flagami with this same problem, with this
same program I wean, and Flagami did not want it.
ur. .aereau::: !Nat is correct.
:ar. Dawkins: �o you did not force it on them. But still it is just overloaded
_^ :: area with public housing. And all you people tell me is that my people
are t:;r onl,: ones that need it. Why the hell can't they move in other areas?
71ev can't just: have to live in Liberty City. Just because they are poor
anti "u wart tc give them public housing, they just have to live in Liberty
ci:-.' Tire.: Can live anyplace! But you still come back and tell me that
i w: i, not put these houses in Liberty City poor, little, Black, innocent
pec.-.tt ill have na place decent to stal.. I cannot buy it. If this was
I hot here, then if there is any way I can get three votes to
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Mr. Dawkins (CON'T): ....undo it, I have no problem with that. You people,
all of us have to realize that those people living out there in my neighborhood
are human. We do not want to be crowded and overcrowded with public housing.
If other areas have the right to be heard and can get their commissioners
not to bite the bullet, I don't see why this commissioner has to bite the
bullet.
Mayor Ferre: I tell you, Miller, I understand your point. This has been
something that we put four years and a lot of work on. I hate to have to
see it go down the drain. If you want to scratch out Model Cities or
something like that ... but for goodness sakes, don't kill it for Little
Havana and Coconut Grove and Wynwood and Allapattah and Buena Vista. Don't
kill the whole program everywhere. Because these are areas where I think
the people do want the housing. We worked it out. If you want to strike
Model Cities I have no problem.
Mr. Dawkins: O.K., strike Model Cities and make sure you do not put any
in the Overtown area, period.
Mayor Ferre: O.K., strike Model Cities and do it for the rest. Do you
have any problems with that, Jim?
Mr. Dawkins: Model Cities is in the County. Why do you have to stick it
in the City's part of Model Cities?
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mr. Dawkins: I am saying our part. There again, you are going to come
to my part of Model Cities, which is a city, and they will not put it
in that part of the County that is Model Cities. You see? That's what
I do not understand.
Mr. Jim Reid: we are in agreement with Commissioner Dawkins' position
that the neighborhood should approve of the housing within their neighborhood.
The fact of the matter is that before the City Commission adopted these sites,
the neighborhoods did approve of these sites. We are just carrying out a
policy that has been approved by the City Commission, that has been approved
at the neighborhood level, and the consequences of not moving forward on
these units....
Mr. Dawkins: At the Model Cities... pardon me for cutting you off, Mr. Reid.
Mr. Reid: Sure.
Mr. Dawkins: At the Model Cities hearing, how many residents were there?
Mr. Reid: There were...I could not give you the exact number, but there
were hearings held in the Model Cities neighborhood and hearings held before
this City Commission. Residents were informed.
Mr. Dawkins: O.K., I'm going to tell you what I am going to do. I am going
to go with this. But I guarantee you on this scattered housing from now on
this is the last time; and on this thing that you have coming up ... what do
you call it, affordable housing? If you do not distribute it equally we
are not going for it. Wnen you put it in the Model Cities area and Liberty
City, you make damn sure you build a house to put people in before you move
them out.
Mr. 'lu=er: Whar site' Where is the list of sites? No, I do not have
a list of sites.
Mr. Da::ki::s: It is in there. They have Allapattah.
`".r. Plu=er: No, no, no, not sections, sites.
+r. 'mV1':: The sites were approved by the Commission. All we are doing
i5 aut'10r_Zing the CXpenditurc of funds.
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Mayor Ferre: We approved it. Dena came here with the map. It was a green
map, I remember. Right?
Mr. Reid: That is right. Every site has been approved.
Mayor Ferre: We argued about the whole thing. Plummer, we have been discussing
these sites for four years. I tell you, the thing that really burns me up is
how long it takes to get anything done in this City. Good God! We have
approved these sites, and approved them and approved them. Let's go!
Mr. Reid: It has been almost two and a half years, Mr. Mayor. The sites
were approved in May 1980.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer, we have been over the sites so many times. If Dena
brought the map back you would recognize it. It has your fingerprints on
it and everybody else's. All right, who is going to move it? Are you
ready to go? I will move it. Let's get out of here!
Mr. Plummer: Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: I second.
Mr. Plummer: Is there any discussion? Motion understood? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Mayor Ferre,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-930
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING DADE COUNTY'S DEPARTMENT OF
HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT TO UTILIZE ANTICIPATED
FEDERAL LAND REUSE PROCEEDS TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL
SCATTERED SITE PUBLIC HOUSING SITES; A110 LIMITING
THE CITY'S LIABILITY TO COUNTY FOR LAND ACQUISITION
AND RELATED COST TO $4,000,000.00 PLUS I-ALND USE
REIMBURSD'IENT PROCEEDS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein 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:
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Commissioner .'Miller J. Dawkins
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63. ALLOCATE $162,161 GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND FUNDS
TO :tETRO H.U.D. FOR PUBLIC HOUSING SCATTERED SITES PROGRAM
Mayor Ferre: We are on 27, public housing scattered site program. Is there
a motion?
Mr. Plummer: Moved by Ferre. Seconded by Perez. Any further discussion?
Hearing none, call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Mayor Ferre,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-931
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $162,161 OF GENERAL OBLIGATION HOUSING
BOND FUNDS TO METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY FOR ADMINISTRATION
OF THE PUBLIC HOUSING SCATTERED SITE PROGRAM BY DADE COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ON BEHALF OF
THE CITY FOR THE CONTRACT PERIOD WHICH COMMENCED JUNE 16,
1982, AND EXPIRES JUNE 15, 1983; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT, IN ESSENTIALLY THE
FORM ATTACHED HERETO, WITH METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY FOR
THE AFOREMENTIONED PURPOSE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein 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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
`favor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Ma,,or Joe Carollo
Commissioner Miller J. Dawt:l s
.. AUTHORIZE TRANSFER OF $25,000 8TH YEAR C.D. BLOCK GRANT
FUNDS TO "MIA.MI DESIGN PLAZA PROJECT".
Mayor Ferre: 28.
Mr. Gar•.: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Ves, sir.
Mr. Gar.:: ;,'hat this does is allow us to develop approximately 0.4 acres
of City owned land in the interest of Miami Design Plaza, which is in
deplorable condition and is a deterrent to the plans for improving that
area. we recommend that we use $25,000 of 8th year C.D. Block Grant Funds
for ti:e....
Mayor r�rre: I am all for it. ;.xybodv want to move that?
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Mr. Perez: I move.
Mayor Ferre: Demetrio Perez moves 28. Is there a second?
Mr. Gary: Plummer seconds.
Mayor Ferre: Is Plummer seconding?
Mr. Plummer: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Perez,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-932 0
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TARANSFER OF $25,000
OF EIGHTH YEAR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS
FROM THE DISCONTINUED EDISON—BUENA VISTA ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, TO THE MIAMI DESIGN PLAZA PROJECT,
SAID TRANSFER COVERING CONSTRUCTION COSTS OF WOODSON PARK.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. -
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Joe Caro?.la
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
65. AUTHORIZE EXTENSION OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH
E.P. IACONIS C.P.A.
Mayor Ferre: Item 29 for professional services for six months. Plummer,
do you want to move that for Iaconis"
Mr. Plummer: For Iaconis? Oh, why sure! Keep him.
Mavor Ferre: Plummer moves. Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call
the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-933
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXTEND FOR
SIX (6) MONTHS THE TERM OF THE EXISTING PROFESSIONAL
SERVICES AGREEMENT DATED OCTOBER 30, 1981, WITH E.P.
IACONIS, CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT, FOR COST REVIEW AND
AUDITS, AS NECESSARY, AND AS DETERMINED BY THE ASSISTANT
CITY MANAGER IN CHARGE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI/UNIVERSITY
OF MIAMI JAMES L. KNIGHT INTERNATIONAL CENTER PROJECT
OR THE PROJECT DIRECTOR; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE
EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS FOR THESE SERVICES, INCLUDING
EXPENSES, NOT TO EXCEED THE ORIGINAL AUTHORIZED
AMOUNT IN THE EXISTING AGREEMENT UNLESS FURTHER
EXPRESSLY AUTHORIZED BY THE CITY COMMISSION.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk).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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
66. WAIVE CITY'S ORAINGE BOWL STADIUM FEE OF 311% OF GROSS CONCESSION
SALES UPON THE SALE OF RECORD ALBUMS BY "PARTNERS FOR YOUTH
ORGA..NIZATION" DURING 1981. UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI AND MIAMI DOLPHINS
GA'*tE S .
Mayor Ferre: Partners for Youth Organization.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, what this primarily does is waive the 31% concession
sales revenue to the City for Partners for Youth.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
~favor Ferre: Dawkins moves.
Mr. Plummer: Vnat number?
Mr. Gary: 30.
Mayor Ferre: Perez seconds. Further discussion on 30? Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-934
A RESOLUTION WAIVING THE CITY'S ORANGE BOWL STADIUM
FEE OF 31% OF GROSS CONCESSION SALES UPON THE SALE
OF RECORD ALBUMS BY THE PARTNERS FOR YOUTH ORGANIZATION
DURING 1982 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI AND MIAMI DOLPHINS
FOOTBALL EVENTS AT THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM IN
CONJUCTION WITH THE CONCESSIONAIRE'S AGREMIENT TO
PERMIT SAID SALE.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein 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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
67. AUTHORIZE CITY 'LLNAGER TO ACCEPT GRAI;T - FLORIDA DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION FOR "CHILD DAY CARE FOOD PROGRA,T'.
:Mayor Ferre: Take up 31.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mr. Perez: dove it, second.
Mayor Ferre: :loved and seconded. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-935
A RESOLLTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT
A GRANT FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION FOR
A CHILD DAY CARE FOOD PROGRAM; AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANNAGER TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY CONTRANCT(S)
AND AGREEMENT(S) TO IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
or, file in the Office of the City Clerk).
;j;on :being seconded by Commissioner Perez, the resolution was
and adopted by the following vote:
Commissioner .I. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mavor "Maurice A. Ferre
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68. ALLOCATE SUM NOT TO EXCEED $20,000 FOR A SERIES OF PROGR,*IS
ENTITLED: "SU:LMER SPLASH DOWN - 1982"
Mr. Dawkins: 32, since we have already spent the money, move it.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins moves 32. Perez seconds. Further discussion. Call
the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-936
A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING A SUM NOT TO EXCEED $20,000
FROM SPECIAL PROGRAMS AND ACCOUNTS - CONTINGENT FUND
FOR A SERIES OF PROGRAMS ENTITLED "SUMMER SPLASHDOWN
'82", AS DESCRIBED HEREIN, CONDUCTED JULY 25, AUGUST 8
AND 29, 1982 AT VIRGINIA KEY BEACH; FURTHER RATIFYING,
APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE CITY MANAGER'S EXECUTION
OF THE NECESSARY IMPLEMENTING CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS
FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SAID PROGRAMS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
*favor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
69. CO%F.R`? ACTION: OF CITY MANAGER ENTERING INTO AGREEMENT
FGR D,IERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.
M. vor Ferre: Take up 35.
Mr. Gar:: Mr. Mayer, this is basically the contract that we have normally
had with Jackson Memorial Hospital to comply with State law that we have
a doctor on hand to give us medical advice as we are providing.
Mr. Plummer: dove it.
M.a-.or Ferre: Plumrier muVEs. .s there a second?
Mr. Da-;*K.n5: Scco^�.
Mayor Ferre: Further discuss `n! Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-937
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE
ACTION OF THE CITY MANAGER IN ENTERING INTO THE ATTACHED
AGREE:MENT WITH THE PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST OF DADE COUNTY,
FLORIDA, WHICH OPERATES JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, FOR THE
COORDINATION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE
RESCUE DIVISION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI FIRE, RESCUE AND
INSPECTION SERVICES DEPARTMENT, FOR THE PERIOD OF ONE
(1) YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 1982 THROUGH SEPTEMBER
30, 1983, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
SET FORTH THEREIN; WITH FUNDS THEREFOR IN THE AMOUNT
OF $15,000 ALLOCATED FROM THE FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION
SERVICES DEPARTMENT'S GENERAL OPERATING BUDGET AND
OFFICIAL REVENUE BUDGET.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
:Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
0. CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER - UTHORIZE EMERGENCY APPROVAL.
FOR PRINT11;G OF 5,000 OF "MI —1I-ITS GOVERNINENT" .
Mayor Ferre: Take up 36.
Mr. Dawkins: 36, if I can, yes.
'layer Ferre: It has been moved by Dawkins. Is there a second?
Mr. Carol'_o: Is this being printed by our staff?
Mr. Gary: No, this is outside. This is the City's Annual Report that
w,e tried to get the appropriation for the Mayor and City Commission's
State or the Union message. The City Commission was polled and we got
more than three votes to get it done. This is ratification.
�1.ayor Ferre: Moved by Dawkins. Second by Perez. Further discussion?
Cali the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-938
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE
ACTION OF THE CITY MANAGER IN AUTHORIZING EMERGENCY
APPROVAL FOR THE PRINTING OF 5,000 COPIES OF THE
MIAMI-ITS GOVERNMENT AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED
$12,700 USING MONIES THEREFOR FROM THE SPECIAL PROGRAMS
AND ACCOUNTS - GENERAL FUND.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein 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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
71. AUTHORIZE AGREEMENT SOUTH FLORIDA L%PLOYME:;T AND TRAINING
CONSORTIUM TO OPERATE FEDERALLY FUNDED JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS
DURING FY-1983.
Mayor Ferre: Take up 37.
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Moved by Dawkins. Seconded by Perez. Further discussion?
Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-939
A RESOLUTION CONDITIONALLY AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER
TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENTS, SUBJECT TO THE CITY ATTORNEY'S
APPROVAL AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS, WITH THE SOUTH
FLORIDA FIMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING CONSORTIUM, TO OPERATE
FEDERALLY FUNDED JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS DURING FISCAL
Y Er.R 19 8 3.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein 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:
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AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: None.
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72. AUTHORIZE MANAGER TO EXECUTE INTER-GOVERNMI ENTAL COOPERATION
AGREEHEN1 WITH METRO FOR OVERTOWN URBAN INITIATIVES RE-
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
Mayor Ferre: We are now on 38-b. Authorizing the City Manager to execute
an Intergovernment Cooperation Agreement with Metro to carry out the Overtown
urban initiatives redevelopment. Mr. Reid.
Mr. Jim Reid: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Did you get all the language out of there that was objectionable?
Mr. Reid: Mr. Mayor, I think we have an agreement that will be acceptable
to the City Commission. It does three things for us. Number one, it says that
the City will be the day to day manager of the project. This clears up the
point that Mr. Teale raised, who is in charge. Number two, it says that
the City and Dade County will jointly prepare the budget, so no budget dealings
can go on at the Federal Government level without us being fully involved.
Number three, and 1 think most important particularly with the concern with
the concern with respect to the Miami Beach redevelopment, the County would
delegate to the City the land disposition choice, who what developer would
develop the property, 1 think that is very important. It is conveyed....
*favor Ferre: W'ho owns fee title to the land?
Mr. Reid: The title would be conveyed to the City and then to the developer
at time of sale.
)savor Ferre: If the City_ decides not to sell the land, but to lease it. Who
has the fee title to the land?
`:r. Gar::: Same thing.
Mr. Reid: If the City_ decides to lease it, as I understand it, we would keep
title.
Mayor Ferre: The City, not the County.
Mr. Reid: The City would keep title.
Mayor Ferre: Look, let me be very blunt and specific about what this means.
If a Black owner of a piece of property in Overtown. We want to redevelop it.
The traditional way that happens is that the government comes in and takes
tae property. It has an appraisal made. The property is worth $20,000.
The government announces that it is going to do. a this and that project.
Ail of a sudden that land is worth $100,000. Now the government comes in
and sa::s, "31l right, now we have all the land together. We are going to
put it out for bids." The land is now worth $100,000. None of the Black
oar: yid on it. Just white folk come bid on it. Then everybody wants to know
the Slacks did not bid on it. Well, the Blacks did not bid on it
ec.au they do not have the money. Why did they not bid on it? Then some
of r11t: ceoplc say, "Black people have the same rights as everybody else does.
frut, country. If they want to bid on it, they can bid on it."
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Mayor Ferre (CON'T): It does not work that way. So the only way that we
can protect this, Mr. Reid... I'm going to tell you how I see it. I do not
think we are going to be selling any of that land. Because if you go out
and sell it....
Mr. Reid: I think we will be writing down the cost of it, Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: I think if you go out and sell it, there is no legal constitutional
way that you can deny selling it to people who are going to come up with the
money. Since the land is going to be very valuable, none of those Black
folk are going to be able to bid on it. So the only way you could circumvent
that is by doing it on a lease basis. On a lease basis then it makes it
easier and you will have people who will be bidding on it who will be able
to bid on it.
Mr. Reid: The second way, Mr. Mayor, is to write down the land cost and include
in the land disposition agreements that property owners in the Black community
have first priority in the bid disposition process.
Mr. Dawkins: I prefer the way the Mayor just said it. I do not want to go
that route.
Mr. Reid: We have both options under this contract.
Mayor Ferre: What you may want to do is sometime...I mean you should preclude....
Mr. Dawkins: Then you go to the point where you come back to what you said,
Mr. Mayor, that the Black all will be priced out of it because he cannot develop
it and he is going to lose it.
Mayor Ferre: In other words, there may be a legal way of giving previous
owners in the area priority. But that is a legal matter that we....
Mr. Reid: Exactly, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: ....can't determine because it is constitutional in the question
that it poses. All I want to make sure, Mr. Reid, is that the future City of
Miami Commission has ....
Mr. Dawkins: It is 6:30.
Mayor Ferre: ....will have... Well, do you want to stop now? That the
future City of Miami Commission will have a right to deal with the issue.
So my question to you is, and I am only voting on this if you tell me on
the record that you de facto know that the title is going to go Lo the
Citv of Miami (of the land).
Mr. Reid: Mr. Mayor, I can simply read from the agreement. The agreement
says: "promptly after the selection of the developer by the City Commission
- the Countv Commission shall authorize the conveyance of the land to the City
at no cost." So the land is conveyed to the City as soon as we select the
developer.
Mayor Ferre: O.K., Mr. Reid, I will not ask you the question. Mr. Garcia -
Pedrosa, my concern as Mayor of the City of Miami is that the City of Miami
have fee title to the property and that it is we who not only decide who
will develop it and how it will be developed, but whether or not we are
going to sell the property and if we do not sell it and lease it, that we
retain title to it. Does this document properly safeguard that position?
mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: It does to the extent that, Mr. Mayor, of insuring that
ti.e City get title to the land.
Yiavor Ferre: That is all I ....
+.r. Garcia -Pedrosa: As far as the leeway that you have, I have to look it
over For a moment in terms of what you want to develop it for.
ma or Ferre: I don't mind voting on this on a tentative basis because it
is in t:ne record as to what the legislative intent is. Let the record
reflect that the legislative intent of this Commission in approving this
resolution is very clear as to the question of fee title of the property.
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Mr. Reid: Mr. Mayor, before you consumate this matter, this has been reviewed
by the County Manager and their staff. They are recommending one additional
clause to section A-1 of the agreement as follows: that when the City
conveys the land to the developer the proceeds from land sale shall be
sent to the county for use in accordance with a City/County project budget.
That simply means that the proceeds from land sale go back to be used as
the City and County have determined.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: But it does not say what he wants.
Mayor Ferre: That is acceptable. Does anybody have any problems with that?
Is there a motion, then on 38-b as stipulated? Is there a motion so we can
get out of here?
Mr. Perez: I move.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Perez moves 38-b. Is there a second?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Seconded with the stipulation.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Mayor, before you vote on it, I do want to point
out to you on reading this contract that the land disposition guidelines
and procedures are subject to the approval of the County Manager. I do
not know if that totally answers your question or not. But while you do
have the right to set up :our own disposition guidelines, the contract
does call for the County Manager's approval of....
Mayor Ferre: Do we have another camel here?
Mr. Garr: No, we don't. Obviously, if the County is receiving the funds,
they have to have input in terms of the procedures to make sure it does
not violate the law. So he is going to have those procedures that were
developed by us reviewed by him for approval.
Mayor Ferre: O.K., I got you. Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Perez,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-940
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE
AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM
ATTACHED HERETO, TO CARRY OUT THE OVERTOWN URBAN INITIATIVES
REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein 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:
..'i c5 : '�,o=4 ssioner J . L. Plummer, Jr.
(.omsissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
cc ?ay or Joe Carollo
"Iaurice A. Ferre
i)nl: '•E l ler J . Dawkins
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73. CLAIM SETTLDfEN: CHARLES TUFF AlN`D LUCILLE TUFF.
Mayor Ferre: Item 39. Perez moves. Plummer, do you want to second it?
Mr. Plummer: Sure.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer seconds. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Perez,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-941
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO PAY
TO CHARLES TUFF AND LUCILLE TUFF, WITHOUT THE ADMISSION OF
LIABILITY, THE SUM OF $43,000.00 IN FULL AND COMPLETE
SETTLEMENT OF ANY ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS AGAINST THE
CITY OF MIAMI, AND UPON EXECUTION OF RELEASE, RELEASING
THE CITY FROM ALL CLAIMS AND DMQMS, AND TO PAY BANKERS
INSURANCE COMPANY, WITHOUT THE ADMISSION OF LIABILITY,
$5,059 IN FULL AND COMPLETE SETTLEMENT OF IT'S COLLISION
SUBROGATION CLAIMS AND DEMANDS AGAINST THE CITY OF MIAMI
UPON THE EXECUTION OF A RELEASE, RELEASING THE CITY OF
MIAMI FROM ALL CLADIS A.N-D DELAN"DS .
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein and
on file in the Office of the City Clerk).
Upon being seconded by Comissioner Plummer, the resolution was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner J. L. Plumer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice "savor Joe Carollo
"savor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Co=issioner "filler J. Dawkins
CL�i`l� jET TLE'fE CT : STEPHAINIE THOMPSON AND HER MOTHER AND
GUARDI.�-N FLORA BELL T.HO`fPSON DANSEY.
Mr. Carollo: "love 40.
Ma•: cr Ferro.: Carollo moves 40.
Mr. Sec.'nG.
`,avor Ft--rc: Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call the roll.
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The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Carollo,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-942
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO PAY
TO STEPHANIE THOMPSON AND HER MOTHER AND NATURAL GUARDIAN,
FLORABELLE THOMPSON.DANSEY, THE SUM OF FOURTEEN THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($14,000.00), WITHOUT THE ADMISSION OF LIABILITY,
IN FULL AND COMPLETE SETTLEMENT OF ALL BODILY INJURY,
PERSONAL INFURY PROTECTION LIENS, WORKER'S COMPENSATION
LIENS, CLAIMS AND DEMANDS AGAINST THE CITY OF MIAMI,
RICHARD LUBOW AND LLOYD STONEBRAKER UPON EXECUTION
OF A RELEASE, RELEASING THE CITY, RICHARD LUBOW AND
LLOYD STONEBRAKER FROM ALL CLAIMS.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted herein 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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
75. ACCEPT PLAT: "PORT OF MI.*1I EXP?NSION - METROPOLITANN'
DADE COU'`,\ 1': "
Mayor Ferre: Plummer, you are the one that had a problem on 41 the last
time. Are you ready?
Mr. Pluaner: Go ahead and pass it.
"!r. Carollo: Move.
Mayor Ferre: Carollo moves. Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call
the roll on 41.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Carollo,
who moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-943
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE PLAT ENTITLED "PORT OF MIAMI
EXPANSION - METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY" A SUBDIVISION IN
THE CITY OF MIAMI; ACCEPTING THE DEDICATIONS SHOWN ON
SAID PL1T; AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER
A -ND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE PLAT AND PROVIDING FOR
THE RECORDATION OF SAID PLAT IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF
DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA.
(here follows body of resolution, omitted herein 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 J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
76. CONSENT AGENDA
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Mayor Ferre: We are now on the consent agenda, items 44 through 75. Does
anybody wish to speak to any issue or remove any issue on the Commission?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Sir, there are four matters.
Mr. Carollo: I want 53 out, Maurice.
Mayor Ferre: I want to remove item 70 from the consent agenda. Any other
items to be removed?
Mr. Carollo: Maurice, I would like item 53 to be removed and have someone
from the Police Department present to explain the item to us.
Mayor Ferre: Item 53 has been removed. Anything else?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Mayor, I think you want to remove 60, 71, and 73
as well.
Mayor Ferre: b0 is removed, 71, and what else?
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: 73.
Mr. Perez: I want to ask him about 47, 50, and 51.
Mayor Ferre: Ask him about 47, 50, and 51. Go ahead.
Mr. Perez: O.R., on .47, Mr. Manager, did you give....
Mayor Ferre: I would not leave, Plummer. There are some things coming up
in a moment. Go ahead.
Mr. Perez: Mr. Manager, on 47 were any minority firms included in the
invitations for bidding?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir. As a matter of fact, we got one Black firm, if you
read the memo it says there were eight potential Hispanic bidders, six of
which responded, three were low bidders for a total of $97,000. So we have
$97,000 going to Hispanics. There is one Black office supplier and they
were the low bid for a total of $4,637.
Mr r z: But I think that it would be very important that you try to
instruct, for example, the Information Department in order to make a
press release that the minority contractors be familiar with the procedure.
Thee do not know' how they have to apply for bidding. They do not have any
information. when I go to the Chamber of Commerce, they are asking for
more information about the bidding procedure. I think it would be great
if you -..;ere to send a special letter to these people and a press release
5` to i:ztruct these people. We have a lot of minority companies that do
not articipate due to lack of information.
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Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mr. Perez: Would it be possible to have a copy of the press release?
Mr. Gary: Not a press release. We will send letters out to the minority
vendors in the City of Miami.
Mr. Perez: About number 50, why don't we buy these products direct from the
manufacturer?
Mr. Gary: I tried to do that with the boat. You did not want me to do it.
We go out for bid, first of all. Most manufacturers will not sell directly
to you, but they go directly to the retailer who then therefore, bids.
Mr. Perez: But why, for example, do we buy directly from Motorola, direct
from the manufacturer? Why don't we buy....?
_ Mr. Gary: Because Motorola does not sell those particular radios that we use
from police to any common store in the City of Miami.
Mr. Perez: But is it not possible to buy from Smith b Wesson,
that kind of brand name?
Mr. Gary: Most of them you can't.
Mr. Perez: What kind of standard, or what kind of specification do you have
in item 50 that you awarded the bids to Jones equipment. But that is not the
lower bid.
Mr. Gary: The low bid was from Law Enforcement Equipment Company, but it was
for Ruger Black Hawk Guns, which do not meet the specifications as was bidded.
Mr. Perez: What kind of specifications?
Mr. Gary: The specifications for police hand guns.
Mr. Perez: Would it be possible to have information about what kind of
specifications you have?
Mr. Gary: Sure.
Mayor Ferre: are we ready now to vote? Mr. Manager, as I understand it,
we are pulling out items 53, 60, 70, 71, and 73. Other than those items
is there anybody else who wishes to speak to any issue before the City....
Mr. Gar:: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Gary: On item 53, I think that we need to address that to see if we
can get a reconsideration in terms of whether we can purchase it or not,
because that is a maintenance item for our computers. I would like for
Mr. Randy Rosencrantz to discuss it. This is not the Police Chief who
would get involved in this. It is the computer guy.
:Ir. Carollo: I did not say the Police Chief, just somebody from the Police
Department.
Mr. Randy Rosencrantz: What that is presently, when there is a problem with
one of the deck pieces of equipment ... we have four deck computers that
perform various functions within the Police Department. When there is a
problem with the number one deck computer, which supports the CAT system,
which is the Computer agent dispatch system, that system then fails
over to computer number two. To make that fell -over, to do that right now
requires a computer operator go behind the machine, unplug some wires from
computer number one and plug it into the computer number two. The system
we are t_lkina. about here will eliminate his having to unplug those wires
and will aut an automatic switch in there so that we can switch over to
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Mr. Gary: It reduces the down time.
Mr. Plummer: It goes from computer one, when that breaks down, to computer
two, when that breaks down, to computer three, when that breaks down, and
hopefully the fourth back up might work.
Mr. Carollo: That is the complete use that it will have. That will be
the complete use?
Mr. Rcsencrantz: yes, it is very much needed to maintain....
Mr. Carollo: That is fine, as long as it is explained. I was under the
impression that this one was another that was deferred some time back and
never came back to us.
Mr. Plummer: When are we going to get the Booz Allen study?
Mr. Carollo: 53 can be placed back in then, if the explanation that I was
given by the Assistant City Manager is correct.
Mr. Plummer: When are we getting the Booz Allen study? It is now overdue.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Mayor, there is one more item.
Mavor Ferre: Wait a moment,sir. We still have not passed the Consent Agenda.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: No, to be pulled, Mr. Mayor, please.
Mavor Ferre: What item'.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Item number 72 calls for your appointments of persons
and the appointments have not been made so you will need to pull that from
the Consent Agenda.
Mr. Carollo: 72 will be pulled then and 53 will be placed back in.
*favor Ferre: 53 is back on again?
Mr. Carollo: ':es.
Mavor Ferre: The items that we are pulling now are 60, 70, 71, 72, and 73.
Is that correct: Does anyone wish to speak on the issues that we are going
to be voting; on' If not, is there a motion?
Mr. Carollo: '•love.
Mavor rcrre: b; Carollo. Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: "Second.
Mavor Ferre: Second by Perez on the Consent Agenda. Call the roll.
THEREUPON-, the following resolutions were introduced by Commissioner
Carollo, seconde, b%, Commissioner Perez and were adopted by the following
vote.
A'YLS: Commissioner J.L. Plummer, Jr.
Conc.issioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Vice Mavor Joe Carollo
Mt':Or Maurice A. Ferre
NOE-: None .
wmiissioner `? ller J. Dawkins
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76.1 ACCEPTANCE OF $9,608 GRANT FROM DADE COUNTY TO PROVIDE
DAY CARE TO CHILDREN FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES.
RESOLUTION 82-944
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE
CITY MANAGER'S ACCEPTANCE OF A $9,608 GRANT FROM
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TO PROVIDE CHILD DAY CARE
SERVICES TO CHILDREN FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES PRIMARILY
FROM THE LIBERTY CITY AREA; AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING
THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY CONTRACT(S)
AND AGREEMENT (S ) TO IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM.
76.2 ACCEPTANCE OF $35,4-8 GRANT FROM DADE COUNTY TO
PROVIDE DAY CARE TO CHILDREN FROM LOW INCOME FAMILIES.
RESOLUTION 82-945
A RESOLUTION RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE
CITY MANAGER'S ACCEPTANCE OF A $35,678 GRANT FROM
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TO PROVIDE CHILD DAY CARE
SERVICES TO CHILDREN FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES; AND
FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE
NECESSARY CONTRACT(S) AND AGREEMENT(S) TO IMPLEMENT
THE PROGRAM.
76.3 ACCEPTANCE OF A $27,000 GRANT FROM TEE STATE OF
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
FOR CHILD DAY CARE PROGRAM.
RESOLUTION 82-946
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 $27,000 TO CONDUCT A CHILD DAY CARE
PROGRAM; AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE. CITY MANAGER TO
EXECUTE THE NECESSARY CONTRACT(S) AND AGREL'MENT(S) TO
L'1PLEMENT THE PROGRAM.
76.4 BID ACCEPTANCE: OFFICE SUPPLIES FROM: ALPERSTEIN BROTHERS, INC.,
BARNETTS OFFICE SUPPLY, CLASSIC STATIONERS, INC.,
COMMERCIAL OFFICE PRODUCTS, EXECUTIVE OFFICE PRODUCTS,
NASHUA CORPORATION, ROYTYPE, INC., GATOR TAPE, INC.,
I.B.M. CORP., kEMRON OFFICE SUPPLY.
RESOLUTION 82-947
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE SEPARATE BIDS RECEIVED FROM
SEVERAL SUPPLIERS OF OFFICE SUPPLIES FOR THE DEPARTMENT
OF FINANCE, PURCHASING DIVISION, CENTRAL STORES, AS
IDENTIFIED BY THE ATTACHED TABULATION OF BIDS, FOR
FURNISHING SPECIFICALLY DESIGNATED OFFICE SUPPLIES BY
PARTICULAR SUPPLIERS FOR USE ON AN AS NEEDED BASIS
FOR ONE YEAR FROM DATE HEREOF AT A TOTAL PROPOSED
COST OF $129,080.49; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM
THE 1981-82 INTERNAL SERVICE FUND -CENTRAL STORES;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER AND THE PURCHASING AGENT
TO ISSUE THE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THESE MATERIALS.
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76.5 BID ACCEPTANCE: MAIL ROOM EQUIPMENT FROM INTERNATIONAL, MAIL
SERVICES, BANNER BUSINESS BYSTEMS, AND FRIDEN ALCATEL.
RESOLUTION 82-948
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BIDS OF INTERNATIONAL
MAIL SERVICES FOR FURNISHING ONE MAIL MACHINE AT
A COST OF $2,849.00; BANNER BUSINESS SYSTEMS FOR
FURNISHING ONE POSTAGE SCALE AT A COST OF $2,930.00;
AND FRIDEN ALCATEL FOR FURNISHING 15 ITEMS OF MAIL
ROOM EQUIPMENT AT A COST OF $4,653.00; AT A TOTAL,
COST OF $10,432.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM
THE PRIOR YEAR RESERVE FUND; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER AND THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE THE PURCHASE
ORDERS FOR THIS EQUIPMENT.
76.6 BID ACCEPTANCE: OFFICE FURNITURE COMPONENTS FROM THOMAS RUFF OF FLA.
RESOLUTION 82-949
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF THOMAS RUFF OF
FLORIDA FOR FURNISHING OFFICE FURNITURE COMPONENTS
TO THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AT A TOTAL COST OF
$17,657.52; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM THE
PRIOR YEAR RESERVE FUND; AUTHORIZING THE CITY
MANAGER AND THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE A PURCHASE
ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT.
76.7 BID ACCEPTANCE: 200 HAND GUNS FROM JONES EQUIPMENT COMPANY.
RESOLUTION 82-950
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF,JONES EQUIPMENT CO.
FOR FURNISHING 200 HAND GUNS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
POLICE AT A TOTAL. COST OF $28,528.50; ALLOCATING
FL'\'DS THEREFOR FROM THE PRIOR YEAR RESERVE FUND;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER AND THE PURCHASING
AGENT TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT.
76.3 PURCHASE OF FIRE APPARATUS FROM FMC CORPORATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT
OF FIRE, RESCUE, AND INSPECTION SERVICES AT A COST OF $454,514.
RESOLUTION 82-951
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF FIRE APPARATUS
(100 FT. AERIAL LADDER & PLATFORM) UNDER A METROPOLITAN
DADE COUNTY CONTRACT; FROM FMC CORPORATION FOR THE
DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE AND INSPECTION SERVICES AT A
TOTAL COST OF S454,514; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM
THE 1981 FIRE FIGHTING, FIRE PREVENTION AND RESCUE
- FACILITIES BOND FUND; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER
AND THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR
THIS EQUIPMENT.
76.'� BID ACCEPTANNCE: 12 PRTABLE RADIOS FROM MOTOROLA, INC.
RESOLUTION 82-952
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF MOTOROLA, INC.
FOR FUR�JISHING A TOTAL OF 12 PORTABLE RADIOS TO
THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, RESCUE, 6 INSPECTION
SERVICES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AT A TOTAL
COST uF S11,154.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR
FROX THE PRIOR Y F-kR RESERVE FUND; AUTHORIZING
THE CITY '1=";nGER AND THE PURCHASING AGENT TO
ISSUE PURCiL:SE ORDERS FOR THIS EQUIPMENT.
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76.10 WAIVING REQUIREMENT OF SEALED BIDS FOR ONE DUAL ACCESS KIT TO
THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE AND AUTHORIZING PURCHASE FROM DIGITAL
EQUIPMENT CORPORATION AT COST OF $6,417.75.
RESOLUTION 82-953
A RESOLUTION WAIVING THE REQUIREMENT FOR FORMAT. SEALED
BIDS FOR FURNISHING ONE DUAL ACCESS KIT TO THE DEPARTMENT
OF POLICE; AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE FROM DIGITAL EQUIPMENT
CORPORATION; AT A TOTAL COST OF $6,417.75; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE PRIOR YEAR RESERVE FUND; AUTHORIZING THE
CITY MANAGER AND THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE THE
PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT.
76.11 WAIVING REQUIREMENT OF SEALED BIDS FOR ONE USED 16mm MICROFILM
CAMERA ATTACHMENT TO THE DEPT. OF COMPUTERS AND AUTHORIZING
PURCHASE FROM 3M MICROGRAPHIC PRODUCTS AT COST OF $5,500.
RESOLUTION 82-954
A RESOLUTION WAIVING THE REQUIREMENT FOR FORMAL
SEALED BIDS FOR FURNISHING ONE USED 16M MICRO-
FILM CAMERA ATTACHMENT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COM-
PUTERS; AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE FROM 3M MICRO-
GRAPHIC PRODUCTS DIVISION OF 3M CORPORATION; AT
A TOTAL COST OF $5,500.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS
THEREFOR FROM THE PRIOR YEAR RESERVE FUND;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY ;MANAGER AND THE PURCHASING
AGENT TO ISSUE THE PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS
EQUIPMENT.
76.12 BID ACCEPTANCE: FUELS & LUBRICANTS FROM BELCHER OIL CO., MARCH
CORP., ROSS OIL CORP., AMOCO, INC., BARKETT OIL CO., HOLDfAC,
INTERNATIONAL, GULF OIL CORP. CHEVRON, U.S.A., INC., J & J
OIL CO., UI7ION OIL CO., AND RANCO OIL CO., INC.
RESOLUTION 82-955
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BIDS OF BELCHER OIL CO.,
MARCH CORP., ROSS OIL CORP., AMOCO, INC. BARKETT OIL
CO., HOLMAC, INTERNATIONAL, GULF OIL CORP., CHEVRON,
L'.S.A., INC., J & J OIL CO., UNION OIL CO., AND RANCO
OIL CO. INC. FOR FURNISHING FUEL AND LUBRICANTS ON A
CONTRACT BASIS FOR ONE YEAR TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
BUILDING AND VEHICLE MAINTENANCE AT A TOTAL ESTIMATED
COST OF $2,313,350; ALLOCATING FUNDS THEREFOR FROM
THE 1982-83 OPERATING BUDGET OF THAT DEPARTMENT;
AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER AND THE PURCHASING AGENT
TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THESE MATERIALS.
BID ACCEPTANCE: APPROXIMATELY 65 ITEMS OF OFFICE FURNITURE
COMPONENTS FROM THO'.MAS W. RUFF & CO.
RESOLUTION 82-956
RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF THOMAS W. RUFF & CO.
FOR FURNISHIN'G APPROXL'MATELY 65 ITEMS OF OFFICE
FURNITURE COMPONENTS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF SOLID
w:. TE AT A TOTAL COST OF $6 , 689. 00; ALLOCATING
F-hDS THEREFOR FROM THE PRIOR YEAR RESERVE FUND:
AUTHCRIIN.C, THE CITY MANAGER AND THE PURCHASING
-' CA:NT Ti; I SSU E A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT
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76.14 ACCEPTING 13 DEEDS OF DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES.
RESOLUTION 82-957
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PROPER OFFICIALS OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI TO ACCEPT THERTEEN (13) DEEDS OF
DEDICATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES AND APPROVING THE
RECORDING OF SAID DEEDS IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF
DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA.
76.15 ACCEPTING BID: VIRRICK GYM RENOVATIONS, MIAMARINA, & WATSON ISLAND
BY FRANK J. MORAN, INC.
RESOLUTION 82-958
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF FRANK J. MORAN, INC.
IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $28,915, BASE BID OF THE
PROPOSAL, FOR THE VIRRICK GYM - RENOVATIONS; WITH
MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE "ELIZABETH VIRRICK
GYM RENOVATIONS" ACCOUNT IN THE AMOUNT OF $28,915 TO
COVER THE CONTRACT COST; ALLOCATING FROM SAID FUND
THE AMOUNT OF $3,760 TO COVER THE COST OF PROJECT
EXPENSE; ALLOCATING FROM SAID FUND THE AMOUNT OF
$575 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.
76.16 BID ACCEPTANCE: GARAGE FLOOR SLAB REPLACEMENT FROM PATCHARD AND
CO., INC.
RESOLUTION 82-959
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF PATCHARD & CO., INC.
_ IN THE PROPOSED AMOUNT OF $20,450, BASE BID OF THE
PROPOSAL, FOR M.M.P.D. - GARAGE FLOOR SLAB REPLACEMENT;
i;'ITH MONIES THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE ACCOUNT ENTITLED
"POLICE PARKING GARAGE IMPROVEMENT" IN THE AMOUNT OF
$20,450 TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST; ALLOCATING FROM
SAID FUND THE AMOUNT OF $2,660 TO COVER THE COST OF
PROJECT EXPENSE; ALLOCATING FROM SAID FUND THE AMOUNT
OF $410 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.
70.1; BID ACCEPTANCE: CENTRAL SANITARY SEWER IMPROVE'VSENT FROM LANZO
CONSTRUCTION CO.
RESOLUTION 82-960
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF LANZO CONSTRUCTION CO.
IN THE PROPOSED A.MOUINT OF $639,026.75, BASE BID AND
ADDITIVE BID OF THE PROPOSAL, FOR CENTRAL SANITARY SEWER
IMPROVEMENT IN CENTRAL SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT
DISTRICT SR-5481-C (CENTERLINE SEWER); WITH MONIES
THEREFOR ALLOCATED FROM THE ACCOUNT ENTITLED "CENTRAL
SANITARY SEWER LMPROVEMEN+'T" IN THE AMOUNT OF $639,026.75
TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST; ALLOCATING FROM SAID FUND
THE COST OF PROJECT EXPENSE; ALLOCATING FROM SAID FUND
THE AMOUNT OF $12,780.00 TO COVER THE COST OF SUCH
ITEMS AS ADVERTISING, TESTING LABORATORIES, AND
POSTAGE; AND AL'THORIZI.NG THE CITY MANAGER TO
E,'.ECL;E A CONTRACT WITH SAID FIRM.
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76.18 ACCEPTING COMPLETED WORK OF BIG "C" LITTLE "0" PAVING AND EQUIPMENT
RENTAL COMPANY FOR CULMER C.D. PAVING PROJECT - PHASE IV FOR
$296,976.63.
RESOLUTION 82-961
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF BID "C"
LITTLE "0" PAVING AND EQUIPMENT RENTAL CO. FOR
CONSTRUCTION OF CULMER C.D. PAVING PROJECT - PHASE IV
AT A TOTAL COST OF $296,976.63; AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE
IN THE CONTRACT IN THE NET AMOUNT OF $5,249.13; ASSESSING
$5,500.00 AS LIQUIDATED DAMAGES FOR 11 DAYS OVERRUN OF
CONTRACT TIME: AND AUTHORIZING A FINAL PAYMENT OF $29,176.72.
76.19 INCREASING THE CONTRACT WITH INTERCOUNTY CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF RIVERVIEW STORM SEWER PROJECT PHASE I
(2ND BIDDING) BID "B".
RESOLUTION 82-962
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE IN THE CONTRACT
AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $30,000 IN THE CONTRACT BETWEEN
THE CITY OF MIAMI AND INTERCOUNTY CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF RIVERVIEW STORM SEWER PROJECT,
PHASE I (2ND BIDDING) BID "B" - (PU'iP STATION) FOR THE
ADDITION OF MODIFICATIONS TO HTE BAR SCREEN TO PROVIDE
BYPASS FLOW CAPABILITY AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS EXTRA WORK;
SAID FUNDS FOR THE INCREASE TO BE PROVIDED FROM UNUSED
BID ITEM MONIES AVAILABLE FROM BID "A" OF RIVERVIEW STORM
SEWER PROJECT, PHASE I (2N`D BIDDING).
76.20 INCREASING THE CONTRACT OF D.M.P. CORPORATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION
OF NORTHERN DRAINAGE PROJECT E-52.
RESOLUTION 82-963
A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE IN CONTRACT AMOUNT
NOT TO EXCEED $40,000 IN THE CONTRACT BETWEEN THE CITY
AND D.M.P. CORPORATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NORTHERN
DRAINAGE PROJECT E-52 WITH FUNDS FOR THE INCREASE BEING
ALLOCATED FROM STORM SEWER GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND FUNDS.
76.21 ACCEPTING COMPLETED WORK OF SUNSET ENTERPRISES, INC. FOR MARINE
STADIUM - BOAT RAMP REPAIRS -1982.
RESOLUTION 82-964
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF SUNSET
ENTERPRISES, INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF $9,672.00 FOR
MARINE STADIUM - BOAT RAID REPAIRS - 1982; AND
AUTHORIZING A FINAL PAYMENT OF $1,563.90.
ACCEPTING COMPLETED WORK OF J S G ASSOCIATES, INC. FOR CITY HALL
- FINANCE OFFICE RENOVATIONS - 1981.
RESOLUTION 82-965
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK PERFORMED
BY J & G ASSOCIATES, INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF $234,829.34
FOR CITY HALL - FINANCE OFFICE RENOVATIONS - 1981
(3RD BIDDING); A.NT AUTHORIZING A FINAL PAYMENT OF
._6, 5114 0.50.
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76.24
76.25
76.26
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ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK OF GOLDEN EAGLE ENGINEERING CONTRACTOR, INC.
FOR WYNWOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAVING PROJECT - PHASE VI -
(BID "A" - HIGHWAYS).
RESOLUTION 82-966
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF GOLDEN
EAGLE ENGINEERING CONTRACTOR, INC. AT A TOTAL COST
OF $238,734.70 FOR WYNTWOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAVING
PROJECT - PHASE VI - (BID "A" - HIGHWAYS); AND AUTHORIZING
A FINAL PAYMENT OF $23,873.47.
ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK BY P.N.M. CORPORATION FOR RIVERSIDE PARK -
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
RESOLUTION 82-967
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK PERFORMED
BY P.N.M. CORPORATION AT A TOTAL COST OF $388,038.46
FOR RIVERSIDE PARK - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
4TH BIDDING); AND AUTHORIZING A FINAL PAYMENT OF
$38,803.85.
ACCEPTING COMPLETED WORK OF REDLAND CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.
FOR WYNWOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAVING PROJECT - PHASE V -
BID "A" (HIGHWAYS).
RESOLUTION 82-968
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK OF REDLAND
CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF $360,456.37
FOR WYNWOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAVING PROJECT -
PHASE V - BID "A" (HIGHWAYS); AND AUTHORIZING A
FINAL PAYMENT OF S36,045.64.
FEE WAIVER FOR MIAMI STADIUM FOR CEREMONIES IN HONOR OF JOSE
RAMON LOPEZ.
RESOLUTION 82-969
A RESOLUTION' RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE
WAIVER OF THE FEE FOR THE USE OF THE MIAMI STAEIUM ON
AUGUST 4, 1982 IN CONFUNCTION WITH THE TESTIMONIAL
CEREMONIES AND ACTIVITIES IN HONOR OF JOSE RAMON LOPEZ,
SUBJECT TO THE CITY'S RECEIPT OF A FULL AND DETAILED
ACCOUNTING OF THE PROCEEDS REALIZED BY THE SPONSOR OF
THE SAID TESTIMONIAL.
CITY'S CONCERN ON FILTHY CONDITIONS IN THE MEDIAN STRIPS OF
CITY HIGHWAYS ANT STREETS UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE STATE
OF FLORIDA.
RESOLUTION 82-970
A RESOLUTION' EXPRESSING THE SERIOUS CONCERN OF THE CITY
Co.NISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI OVER THE FILTHY CONDITIONS
WINCH EXIST IN THE MEDIAN STRIPS OF CITY HIGHWAYS AND
STREETS 'WHICH ARE UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE STATE
OF FLORIDA A.tiD REQUESTING GOVERNOR ROBERT D. GRAHAM TO
TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO CLEAN UP THE SAID MEDIAN STRIPS
BECAUSE OF THEIR UNFAVORABLE IMPRESSION UPON TOURISTS
AND VISITORS COMING INTO THE AREA AND BECAUSE OF THE
HEALTH HAZARDS TO RESIDENTS OF THE CITY CREATED BY THE
FILTHY CONDITION OF THE MEDIAN STRIPS; FURTHER DIRECTING
THE CITY CLERK: TO FORWARD A COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO
GOVERNOR ROBER7 D. GRAHAM AND TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE
FLORIDA STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.
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77. PROPOSED RESOLUTION: NEW ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY TO BE
C014SULTANT ON POLICE WIRE -TAP (`lotion failed) .
Mayor Ferre: Now I have a resolution that I would like to present. It reads
as follows: "A resolution requiring that an Assistant City Attorney be
appointed to work with the Chief of Police with respect to wiretap orders
providing that said Assistant City Attorney be appointed from a group
recommended by the Chief of Police." Mr. Manager, on the record here, does
this meet with your approval?
Mr. Gary: As worded, yes, sir.
INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mayor Ferre: The intention of this is that I do not want any more foul ups,
screw ups, or excuses that it is the State Attorney's fault. We did not know.
It was not our fault. We were doing a legal tapping. It is somebody else's
fault. We have a City Attorney that is going to be properly trained and
knowledgeable that will help this Police Department not make these kinds
of mistakes in the future hopefully.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: As I have indicated before, I will vote in opposition. I
— think that there has to be a clear cut distinction between the confidentiality
of the Police Department's criminal investigations. That is why there is
a State Attorney's Office and that of a political arm of this City. You
will recall that first and foremost....
Mayor Ferre: Did you say political arm?
Mr. Plummer: The political arm, the City Attorney's office is a political
arm of this Commission.
Mayor Ferre: But the City *tanager is not.
Mr. Carollo: Jose, now you learn something. You just became our political
arm.
Mr. Plummer: If you will let me finish.
Mayor Ferre: The City Attorney is a political arm but the City Manager is
not a political arm.
Mr. Plummer: We speaking about the City Manager.
Mayor Ferre: Who does the Police Chief report to?
Mr. Plummer: We are speaking about the City Attorney. This does not speak
to the Police Chief. This speaks to the City Attorney. Mr. Mayor, the
City Attorney is appointed by this Commission. He is....
Mayor Ferre: So is the City Manager.
Mr. Plummer: The Charter is very explicit. Excuse me, the City Code.
Any and all Deputy City Attorneys regardless of where they are serving
art subject to and under the control of the City attorney. I would much
prefer, ratter than spending $50,000 to get a criminal attorney that we
gi-.rr that :none,: to the State Attorney's office to assure to act that this
dues not i,aipen a �-,ain. When you get too many fingers in the pot....
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Mr. Carollo: If that is the case I would rather go one step further and
give it to the U.S. Attorney's office.
Mayor Ferre: Why don't we give the Police Department to the....
Mr. Carollo: To make sure that he is definitely not political.
Mr. Plummer: Joe, I'm not saying... please, I do not want it misconstrued.
I did not say this was political. I said this City Attorney's office is
a political arm of this Commission.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Plummer, you and I know that ten years ago when I became
the interim Mayor of the City of Miami....
Mr. Plummer: Yes, sir, I voted for you, yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Thank you. It occurred at a time when... and it was not this
Police Chief and it was not this Attorney General, I mean State Attorney.
Mr. Plummer: I remember well, sir.
Mayor Ferre: After hundreds of thousands of dollars and all this investigation
in that particular case, it went right down the drain because of technical
legal difficulties.
Mr. Plummer: One out of 39 was convicted. Yes, sir, I remember that well.
Mayor Ferre: Here we go. Ten years have gone by. That I understand we
have not had any other major cases of wire tapping. Is that right, Mr.
Manager, or have we had wire tap cases other that we do not know anything
about?
Mr. Plummer: All the time.
Mr. Carollo: Major.
Mr. Plummer: All the time.
!Savor Ferre: Well I understand... I have heard some rumors. I want them
clarified, that we spent 10,000 hours on a major wire tap case of policemen's
time which was never used because again it was illegal. I want to know if
that is the case or not. I want that to be public information. I am asking
you specifically, whether we, not now because you cannot answer it now,
whether in the past ten years... in the past two years... in the past months
we have had any other wire tap cases that have been thrown out due to legal
technicalities. I understand that may have happened. I am not sure. But
for sure we lost one ten years ago. For sure we lost one this year. With
all due respects to Janet Reno. I admire her courage and her forthrightness
to say that it is all her fault and that she takes the blame and she accepts
it. Now she says, "I'm going to change my system. You fellows, I want you
to really trust me. Because this is not going to happen again. Even though
it happened ten years ago with another State Attorney and it happened this
year. All these things have happened. We are not going to let this happen
again." My answer to that is, hey, and I told Kenny, you choose the guy
so that you do not feel that there is any politics in this. You choose the
attorney. As long as he is qualified and he has three years of criminal
knowledge or working in a criminal -legal matters for no less than three years,
you choose him. I want the City Attorney to have veto to make sure that the
guy is techinically qualified as a lawyer and let him report full time to
the Citv Police Chief. I have no problem on that. But I want the next time
this thing happens, I want to haul up the Police Chief, may he be Gardmyer
or Headley: or i:ennv Harrns. And I want to Rav, "rhfpf, hnw did wa screw
u^ t�n this thine'"' And I do not want to hear that it was the State Attorney's
vault or anvbodv's fault because he has his own lawver right there.
!!r. bawIF, ins: `4r. Mayor, Mr. Mayor, may I have something to say on this?
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Mr. Plummer: May I pursue this one second further? Mr. Mayor, I would
appreciate and I think only right that we should consult with the State's
Attorney. It is my understanding, and I have not seen any formal document
on my desk about the tick -talk, but it is my understanding that another one
of the problems that existed was someone who was not bonded in her office.
Mr. Carollo: Excuse me, J.L., the phone.
Mr. Plummer: My customers do not have any rush. That in fact, that one
technicality would have thrown them out anyhow —the entire situation that
one person who was supposed to be bonded was on vacation to sign the order
and did not do it.
Mayor Ferre: J.L., look, as far as I am concerned that is something that
the City Attorney and the Police Chief can negotiate out with Janet Reno.
I'm not trying to embarass Janet Reno or anybody else.
Mr. Dawkins: O.K., I have problems with this. I have problems with it for
a number of reasons. The first reason I have with it is, as Plummer has
said, the City Attorney is political. The City Attorney is an appointed
position. This is no reflection on the present City Attorney. That is
just the way the system is structured. The man who is working for him,
if he wants to work may have to see things the way he sees them to continue
to work. I am not saying that this will be the way. But there is a
possibility of this happening.
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Mr. Dawkins: (con't) The second problem I have with this is lawyers can only
give opinions. Janet Reno, who was a lawyer gave an opinion and'a judge de-
cided that that opinion was wrong. When Jose Garcia -Pedrosa gives an opinion,
it has to go to a judge and if a judge feels like throwing it out, he can do
so and then we go to the Florida State Supreme Court and we can get another
ruling and then you go from there to the U. S. Supreme Court and that is where
you get your final reading. So, to tell me that if I hire an assistant attor-
ney who is schooled in the criminal investigative methods and that a judge is
not going to rule that he is in error, I can't buy it, because his opinion is
his own opinion and it doesn't necessarily mean that a judge is going to see,
just like this guy didn't see that Janet Reno was correct and I really wish
I had the confidence of Janet Reno to ask her some questions, like why
didn't you appeal? Did you think you couldn't win? Did you appeal because
you had other investigations on that you might have destroyed by appealing?
What were your reasons for not appealing. But, you see, I can only, just
like you say, assume that she knew that a jury and a judge would not rule in
her favor. Now, I am assuming it.
Mr. Carollo: That is the statements that were said.
Mr. Dawkins: But, there again, is that political? There again, but okay,
all I can say is that I do not believe that a judge sitting in judgement is
going to rule in favor of no guy I hire just because he is schooled in...
Mayor Ferre: I am not worried about what the judge thinks; what I am worried
about is the policeman going out and making a basic mistake, not knowing what
the law is, and I want to make sure trat when a cop goes out to do some-
thing, that he has a personal right to say "Hey, come here".
Mr. Dawkins: But, all I am saying to you...
Mayor Ferre: Because by tomorrow I want to be doing this. I am going to
appeal. I want to go talk to Janet Reno and when Reno becomes involved, then
it is her responsibility.
Mr. Dawkins: That is what she said. They went to her.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, then went to her...
Mr. Dawkins: They went to her and she gave them the go ahead signal.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, but I...
Mr. Dawkins: So you are telling me that I must have a special guy to go
out.
_ Mayor Ferre: Yes, but what I am telling you is this - that if Chief Harms
had said, ":Now, Janet, look. I understand where we are going, but you have
amk to comply with rule 34-82", or whatever it is, which evidently nobody looked
at. She said, i= you look at Judge Koegan's order, and I have read it four
times, and is you will read the statements made in the press, Janet Reno
is saving that a lot of things slipped by her. She is sorry! They made a
mistake. Well, that isn't good enough, as far as I am concerned and all I
am saying is, you better not make any more mistakes like that, that's all and
Im
I move the question.
!Mr. Plummer: To the maker of the motion - your intent. If, in fact, this
City Attorney were to be hired, it would be on a temporary basis, is that my
understanding?
Mayor Ferre: No siree boss!
Mr. Plummer: You are speaking on a full-time basis.
Mayor Ferre: Yes siree, and I...
Mr. Plumr.:er: And that in no way would this individual be reporting to the
City Attorney: until such time as an investigation is concluded.
Mayor Ferre: ;o! At all! I don't see any reason for the City Attorney to
be involved at all. I just want the... look, we have got $60,000,000 Police
Department and these guys just went and spent $100,000 of your money and my
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money, okay? And I am telling you it is a hell of a lot cheaper to have a
City Attorney around who is knowledgeable in criminal law, that will keep
them out of making these kind of mistakes and that is my only intention.
Mr. Carollo: Not only that, but I think that the whole investigation ran
about $200,000.
Mayor Ferre: No, it ran over $300,000. The $100,000 is just what we saw
the surface from us.
Mr. Plummer: So then, to understand the intent of the motion is that if in
fact this attorney is hired, that at no time will he be divulging to the City
Attorney any confidential matters relating to any activities or investigations.
Mayor Ferre: Hey, the man is to be functioning as a part of the Police Depart-
ment and he is responsible to the Chief, who has that responsibility. The
Chief is going to select the City Attorney. The reason why I did this and
have bent over backwards is so that I can clarify that there is no political
intent meant in this. This is a sincere attempt on my part to get the proper
representation of a good lawyer in the City of Miami departments so that they
don't make any mistakes. That is my only thing.
Mr. Carollo: Look. as I read it, the Mayor's intentions are to further help
the City of Miami Police Department. It is the only way I can read it. Fur-
thermore, what bothers me is that after we go and spend, between us and the
State (and it is still us, because the money the State gets, part comes from
us) spent a couple of hundred thousand dollars or more, whatever it was and
you see people that, at least in some cases, you know are involved in narcot-
ics go free. You know, I just can't believe it! It is really frustrating
to see people involved in this scummy world of narcotics go out free! And
I think that if we are going above and beyond the duties that the City has
to protect life and property and are putting extra money for investigative
type work like this, that we ought to be sure that we are going to get con-
victions. At least if we don't, it is not our fault. It is going to be
a jury's fault, or a judge's fault or somebody else's, but not our fault.
Otherwise, we might as well just turn these type of investigations like other
police departments that do to the Organized Crime Bureau of Dade County,
which we pay Dade County money for that and we get very little in return from
them, or to the State of Florida, or to the Federal government D.E.A.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Chairman, I call the question.
Mr. Carollo: There has been a motion and a second.
Mr. Perez: Could I ask a question of the City Attorney, Mr. Mayor? I would
like to know, Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa, do we have to modify Code Section 2-41 in
order to approve this resolution?
Mr. Plummer: That is the one that says that all deputy -City attorneys are
under the direct supervision and control of the City Attorney.
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND CM-L*!EtiT NOT PLACED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Ferre: It functions this way. There is an attorney over there who is
a legal advisor, but is not a criminal attorney. He reports to the Police
Chief.
Mr. P1ummner: But he also reports to the City Attorney and is under the direct
control.
Mayor Ferre: I don't want to do it any different than the way it is with that
Zimmerman, or whatever his name is.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Alfred Deutschman, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferrer: 1 don't want to do it any different than the way it is with
Deutscand 1 don't want to change anything in the ordinance at this time
and le:1ve it just that way. I think it is very clear what the intention is
and the law%'er will be selected specifically by the Police Chief with your
approve_, ; Sk, 1 leave it at that. The motion is before you.
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Mr. Dawkins: Okay, but to answer Mr. Perez' question, is it legal. Is
what we are doing legal?
Mr. Perez: Would it oe possible to get an answer to your question, please?
I want to know if it is legal to vote on this issue without modifying the
other.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: With the clarification made by the Mayor, and following
the language of the resolution, yes, it would be.
Mr. Plummer: That he is not answerable to you.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: No. The clarification made by the Mayor is that as
Mr. Deutschman is presently, he is answerable to me. He is under my super-
vision, but that the specific function that he would be performing, he would
not share the information with. That is different from being under my super-
vision.
Mr. Plummer: Second question...
Mr. Perez: But your advice is that we can vote on this issue.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: yes.
Mr. Plummer: Question. Are we then replacing :►r. Deutschman?
Mayor Ferre: No. It has nothing to do with Deutschman.
Mr. Plummer: So we are going to have two attorneys.
Mr. Carollo: That is right. I just can't understand what the problem seems
to be. Any police chief in the country would be glad to have another legal
advisor.
Mr. Plummer: Joe, I understand that, but I...
Mayor Ferre: I made the motion.
Mr. Carollo: There is a motion made. I will second the motion.
Mr. Plummer: "lotion made and duly seconded. Is there any further discussion?
Motion understood. Call the roll.
MOTION DEFEATED. On motion by Mayor Ferre
and seconded by Vice -Mayor Carollo, the
foregoing motion was defeated by the following
vote:
AYES: Vice -:Mayor Joe Carollo
Mavor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
%BSENT: None
Mr. Plui=er: Mr. Mayor, I would, in the same vein hope that you would ask
and invite the State Attorney to come before this Commission to have a full
airing c: the matter and to see what this Commission can do to assist her
and hopeful that this will never happen again, and I would hope that you
would ^ar:C that invitation to her, Mr. Mayor.
`".r. Car,,llo: I would go one step further. I think we ought to invite the
U. S. attorneys since there are going to be cases that are going to be right
Mr. "luminer: 'Mr. Car�'_lc, I have no problem with that.
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Mr. Carollo: And have everybody present.
Mr. Plummer: I have no problem with that. We were speaking here directly
to a case involving the City of Miami, in which the Mayor was addressing.
78. AMEND ADVERTISING FOR DECE`iBER 14, 1982 ADDITIONAL SALES TAX
ELECTION TO INCLUDE PROPERTY TAX RELIEF PROVISION.
Mr. Gary: On the one cent sales tax, we have one important issue related to
that matter and I'd like Mr. Clark Merrill to bring that up so that we won't
jeopardize the referendum.
Mayor Ferre: Go ahead.
Mr. Clark Merrill: Mr. Mayor, the State statute requires that any funds that
are remaining unspent go to property tax relief and the County has seen fit
to place that on the ballot and they are saying the remaining proceeds shall
be used solely for property tax relief. Our ballot does not contain that
language and I would suggest we add that.
Mr. Gary: We'd like to put that in it. It is part of the State statute.
"savor Ferre: Do you need a formal motion to that effect?
Mr. :Merrill: Yes.
Mayor Ferre: Somebody want to move that? Joe, do you want to move that?
When we advertise it as recommended by Clark Merrill, so that this is property
tax relief. It will be advertised the same as the County.
Xr. Carollo: So moved.
Mr. Perez: I second.
Mayor Ferre: Commissioner Perez seconds. Further discussion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Vice -Mayor Carollo, who moved its
adoption.
MOTION NO. 82-971
A MOTION DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO ?SAKE THE NECESSARY
AMENDMENT TO THE RESOLUTION CALLING FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION
FOR DECEMBER 14TH AND/OR THE ORDINANCE, IF NECESSARY, TO
INCLUDE LANGUAGE STATING THAT ANY UNSPENT SURPLUS FUNDS
REMAINING FROM THE TOTAL AMOUNT RAISED BY THE ADDITIONAL
ONE CENT SALES TAX FOR ONE CALENDAR YEAR SHALL BE USED
FOR PROPERT,' TAX RELIEF.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner, the motion was passed and
adopted b., the following vote:
AYES! Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
%. Mavor Joe Carollo
Ma,;nr Maurice A. Ferre
ASS EN Cor.�r:=:;s cnrr ".i:ler J. Dawkins
L. Plummer, Jr.
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79. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO PLACE ZONING ITE;1 C01'CERNING "VILLA
REGINA" ON DECEMBER 9TH UGULAR CO�I%fISSION ;IEETI`+G.
Mr. Gary: R5-A zoning for Villa Regina, we would like to have that scheduled
for December 9th meeting for the mere fact that a lot of closings on those
buildings will occur during that first month of December. This was a court
case with regard to Villa Regina variances.
Mr. Carollo: It is coming back?
Mr. Gary: Yes. You want to bring it back before December 9th, because they
want to take another route for the variance, so it won't be questioned in
court.
Ms. Janet Cooper: I'd like to hear what that is all about, because I am
unaware of it.
Mr. Carollo: Well, I think we are going to go into something that is going
to take a long time. We have to be somewhere. I'd would suggest you put it
in writing and send it...
Mayor Ferre: What are you recommending, that we bring the...
Mr. Gary: We are just going to schedule it for December 9th. to be heard.
Mayor Ferre: Fine! So what is the problem?
Mr. Gary: Nothing.
Mayor Ferre: You are just informing us. You don't need a motion from us,
do you?
Mr. Gary: No, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Fine, then do it.
Ms. Cooper: Mr. Mayor, I need to say that apparently I am not exactly sure
which item regarding Villa Regina he was talking about. But, I believe it
is a zoning item and that is supposed to be scheduled on the Planning and
Zoning Commission meeting, which would be December 23rd.
Mr. Gary: That is correct and that is why we are going to schedule it for
December 9th. It will be duly advertised and everybody will be aware of it.
Mayor Ferre: Do you need a motion to that effect? Do you need a motion?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir, give it to me, just for her sake.
*favor Ferre: All right! It has been moved by Dawkins. Is there a second?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Second by Perez that the Villa Regina item be scheduled on
December 9th. What is it?
s . Cooper: Is that on first reading.?
Mayor Ferre: Xr. 'Manager, the question is, is it on first reading?
Ms. Cooper: Or. December 9th?
Mayor Ferre: I would imagine so.
Mr. Gar%:: I am pretry sure it is, but we will advertise it, but I don't know
whether it is first or second cr emergency.
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Mayor Ferre: Is it first or second, Walter?
Mr. Pierce: It is first.
Ms. Cooper: It can't be emergency. Well, if it is going to be on first
reading, it is not going to come into effect until thirty days after second
reading, so that is not going to have any effect on the effective date of
the ordinance by pushing it to the 9th as opposed to the 23rd.
Mayor Ferre: I am not going to be here on the 23rd. Further discussion on
the motion? Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who moved its
adoption.
MOTION NO. 82-972
A MOTION DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ADVERTISE A ZONING
MATTER CONCERNING "VILLA REGINA" FOR THE DECEMBER 9, 1982
CITY COMMISSION MEETING.
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.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None
ABSENT: Cornissioner J. L. Plummer
Vice -Mayor Joe Carol.lo
NOTE FOR THE RECORD: Dedication of Kenny "avers Park will be
December 9, 1982, during the lunch break.
80. DISCCSSION ITE11: FL'�IDI?NG REQUEST FROM PLAYERS' STATE
THEATRE - REFERRED TO CITY MANAGER FOR
RECO*2~IENTDATION .
Mayor Ferre: All right now, Mr. Galto. The Chair recognizes you.
Mr. Galto: Thank you, Mr. Mayor and Commissioners. The Florida State Theatre
has for the first time instituted the Hispanic Theatre project, which I have
been very pleased to be directing since its beginning. We have obtained funds
and we have applied to the City of Miami for a grant for the festival. The
Council of Festivals is the proper name. We were turned down and we did not
receive any funds. Needless to say, I can't believe it. Now, the Florida State
Theatre is offering for the first time professional theatre as a source of
employment and as a bridge for the community in the City of Miami. We will
be having an event which will be with performances in Spanish as well as Eng-
lish, which will bring together what some of you know my movie did and it was
bringing people together, both communities. And I believe that is a commit-
ment that the Cit:, of Miami should support fully and I would like you please
to ... we understand there is $37,200 left on the budget and I would very much
Commission to approve some funds for this worthy cause.
`lavor t�:rrE.: ri:iat is :,our specific request?
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Mayor Ferre: We don't have $37,000!
Mr. Galto: I think the City of Miami should contribute with whatever the
scope of the City of Miami is to this type of an event, which is a cultural
event mainly aimed to bring the community closer.
Mayor Ferre: Listen, Mr. Galto, let me say that you are one of the great
artists of this community and you made a movie that some of you may have seen
called "The Super". I don't whether you ever saw it. The movie was a great
movie done on a very low budget. It won all kinds of awards and it was a
wonderful thing. Unfortunately, it is late in the day and the City has not
had proper time to look into this? Do we have enough time to have the Manager
look and review this matter and bring it up at the next meeting? Mr. Manager,
Commissioner Perez has brought this matter up for discussion here and I too
am supportive. I think this is a great opportunity. I don't think we have
$37,000, but I certainly think that we ought to look and see how we can be
of help. Would you report back at the next Commission meeting?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Assign it to somebody?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
81. CONTINUED DISCUSSION: WIRE -TAP INVESTIGATIONS THAT WERE
DISMISSED BY COURTS FOR LEGAL REASONS.
Mayor Ferre: All right now, Mr. Manager, with regards ... I have asked for and
will repeat again so that we don't have any doubts, that I want from the Police
Department an answer to my question as to whether in the last years, and I will
go back ten years, if there have been any wire -tap investigations where there
has been a substantial amount of hours expended that went under for legal rea-
sons that we may not know about.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
52. BRIEF DISCISSION ITEM. AMENNDMENT TO PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE
(NOT ACTED UPON)
Mayor Ferre: Before we break up, Mr. City Attorney, you had a resolution on
this procurement thing that we had to clarify. Have you done it? Remember,
i asked you for it and you said "I need some more time". That was at 11:00
o'clock in the morning.
fir. Garcia -Pedrosa: Yes, sir, that is the one I thought you decided that
:o: didn't want to proceed on. That was the amendment...
Mayer 17-t-rre: Well, where is it? I just told you that we wanted to proceed
two minutes agc, but I have changed my mind on that, because we need to get
the Heral�,'s endorsement on that. An ordinance amending Section 2 of proposed
Charter :Lnendment NL!mber 1 known as the Ordinance Number 9489, passed and
adoared September l;tt:, providing that the City Commission direct the City
"'.anarer to re-evaluate his recommendations to the Commission regarding the
selectio;: �* a unities development project in the event the City Commission
does not a-cept the initial recommendation of the City Manager. Mr. Garcia-
PedrLss, wou!C cu toll me what in the main body of the ordinance, what ex -
Mr. arci - ems_.: ,, , sir, the change consists of the following - once the
Cit,, Commission; rc::_ives the recommendation of the City Manager, if it decides
not to acrel't an} recotm;:endations of the City Manager, the ordinance as it now
�53 OCT 1 41982
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stands would refer the matter to the review committee for its recommendation.
The change consists of making that a rereferral to the City :tanager.
Mayor Ferre: I'll tell you what. I will go with the Herald's no vote, and
we will pass it with or without them or go ahead with Watson Island. If they
don't like it, it is just too bad! The Manager is the Manager, but not the
dictator of the City of Miami, and so as far as I am concerned, the Manager
has plenty of opportunities to impact on the system and as far as I am con-
cerned, if the Miami Herald editorial board wants to editorialize against it,
I am willing to accept it. If it goes down the drain, I am willing to accept
that and we are going to then go full steam ahead on Watson Island. That's
okay. I just don't think that there is ... the only other way to do this,
Howard, is which is Gibson's old theory is that we constitute ourselves as
a committee, but there is no intent ever of putting all of the authority in
the Manager. The Herald wants that, but that is not acceptable to me. It
has nothing to do with you personally, it has to do with the fact that the
City of Miami Commission is got to be the final say on these things.
(INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENTS NOT PLACED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Ferre: Yes, but it ends up being controlled by the Manager and sure,
if the Commission doesn't accept it and sends it back to you, so therefore,
(not you Howard, you the Manager) if the Manager ever wants to kill a project,
there is a simple way of killing it. There has got to be a bypass. Okay,
let it stand.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to come before the City Commission,
on motion duly made and seconded, the meeting was adjourned at 7:20 P.M.
ATTEST: RALPH G. ONGIE
City Clerk
MATTY HIRAI
Assistant City Clerk
MAURICE A. FERRE
Mayor
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154 OCT 1 41982
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ITEM NO
DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION
COMMISSION
RETRIEVAL.
ACTION
CODE NO.
1
OF 1: IC IAI,LY GOING ON RECORD TO SUPPORT (701'11'1'Y-;,'I nf:
I'ROPOSEI) ONE: CENT SALFS TAX RF.FERFNf)U'•I TO BE HFI.P
NOVEMB.EK 2, 1l)S2
R-82-897
82-897
AI' 11fORl l,}; y410, OOO 'I'1, •ANS1'I'.R OF FUNDS TO 1)O1-'N1'O1•;N
DF:\'I:L(11"1L"�'i' :\l"IHORI'I'1-S:\111 I-TNDS TO III: REPAID.
R-82-903
82-903
l
NEAPPOIN'I' ?t}:'IRO/D:1D1: CM`' TY CO"1"IISSIONER I;ARI\'Y 1).
SCHRIVIIRI:R TO THI: li))Al;ll ))1' I)1RL(:1'ORS OF U.O.A.
I;-8-c)0'a
82-90!,
CONFI R"1"C(tF5'!';001) S.1\ I f:1?11' 51::,'I:R
1"•?1'RO\'!:.'?}:"'til - SR- i'-('
P-82-9(
82-906
Si)I.1"11O':: !:151 .\I.I.:11':lflali L'I( IIl::A1
82-1)07
(A) 1 1::VNSP0! "I,',"f IW, ! OI'I f,I- l-"I S I": TIT Af.f-T ATTAF
0RFSO1•t" F IO"; ,ALLOC:11 11)", :AD!) 11* lO';Al. O"E-T';:1:1.1'1'lf
"•1-8�-908
rij
R-82-909
82-909
fO ADVFR'I ISF 1`01:
C()'XFPT SF,ACE FOP i)l'T IF1.1) !:ALL OF '•11A'1f I`rAS1:L'ALI.
STA1)II't
R-82-912
82-912
8
AP1)01`;"l CO"t,tISS1O";Ia: .l.L. ITUN'11:I, AS TIIE CITI''S
LIAISON TO "1A,11 (;R:A";I) PRIX ';ACI: - "11A"11 '10TORSPORTS,
INC.
R-82-917
82-917
'*!A%A(�I:R D) NEGOTfrATI: AGNIF .MEET CONTINUING
1'1f1: OI'FT("I: 01' 1^:'I I:R(;OV'laiA^1}:N"1':1L LIASON FOR Fti'-' 83
Ft'`:DF.0 P,THE HE SOt" H! FLOP I DA F',IPLOY ENT AND TRAINING
C.O"'SORT I I'°t
R-82-92 7
82-927
I O
:At"I'HO!:17.1: `t;A';AC1:1: TO ACC ITT (;R:UT S 8 1 , 9,53 FRWI 1'. S.
DFPART"11'Nl Of' EDUCATIO', OFFICE 01' SPECI:A1, I'DI'CATION
AND PHIAP,ILITAT1V1' SERVICES.
R-82-928
82-928
11
Al"I'HO!; ICI: D) ACCEPT ADM) IT I ONAL GRANT
R:' 14 . FR0'4 U . S , DI:I'AR'I'*11:NT OF AGR I('t'i.TURK FOR
"5t"111;I; 1'0O1) PRO(;RA%1 I'OR (:HII.I)RI'N".
R-82-929
82-929
I_
At-11101;I%I: DADF: COUNTY If.( 1). '1'0 UTILIZE, ANTICIPATED
IT.DE'RAL LAND REUSE PROCEEDS TO ACQUIRE ADDITIONAL
S(::11"ITRIA) PUBLIC 1!OI'SI`yG SITES.
R-82-930
82-930
1
ALLOCATI., fi 1 h 2 , 101 . (;I.NLRAL OBI,I CAT ION BOND FUNDS
TO "11:1I1\,O FOR I'I'I I.II: 11111!S1NG SCA'I'1'ER1:1) SITES
PROGPA,'1 •
11-82-9 31
82-9 31
Al"HIORl'l.1'_ TRANSIT],' OI' ti'_'S,fiOO - Will YEAR C.D. BLOCK
-�,r.)nt fun<i5 to 'ti.)r.�i �;�tiis�n P]nzr7 Prc�ject
R-82-932
82-932
1 DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION
AUTHORIZE: E\TENSTON OF PROFESSTONAi. SERVICES
AGREEMENT WI'I'll E.P. TACONiS C.P.A.
VAIV'F. CITY' S ORANGE L'OVI, STAUIVl FEE: OF '31 01:
CONCESSION SALEIS UPON THE SALT: OF RITOiD AI.BL'?1S BY
"PART\FRS FOR YOUTH ORGANIZATION" DURING 198�'
CNiVEIRSITY OF MIA`tI AN'D `t1A`t1 })OLPHTNS GAMES.
AUTHORIZE CITY 'L•\NA(;F.R D) ACCEM (RANT-i'I.ORIO:A
DEPARTMENT OF FIWCAT1ON FOR "CHILD DAY CARE: FON)
PROGRAM".
ALLOCATESI'`1 NOV 'I'O 1:\C1:i:O fi'0, O(IO FOR A SI:R i I:S OF
PROCRA`1S EN"1'i"Fl.L1): "SI"f`t!:It SPLASH i)Olr`: 1 J82"
CONF i R'l :A(:'I 10N OF C I I Y `P%NA(;FN I-N-1 I:R 1'•:(; INTO
O
AGRFF:11:.':'I' FOR 111:RCENCY '11'I)iC.AL SERVICES.
CO'�Fi R`! :A(:I IO': OV (' i I 'LA';;A( I'p -At* ViI R, I i:1' 1:.'11'1(;I:";('1'
APPROVAL FO1\1 1)RI';Il':G OF �,,OOO (1- 11A`':I ITS
GOVERN'.l.." I "
:Al!I HOR 1 ' L ACRF1:'.•tf':' l Si )l' I'H FLORIDA EMPLOYMENT AND
11:,11'�1 NC C.O,;SOR F 11''1 FO OPIT A"l l' FFnFRALLY FIND ;D .Wh
'I PAP"INC, N(, PROGRAMS 1)1'1\,i \G FY-1 9,53.
1%t, I'I?O1\ I Z1'. '•tANAG1:R 10 EXITI' l-F: I'�'1•f'R-GO1'F.It'�`tEN'I:11.
COOPI•:RAT i O'; 1,11"FRO FOR OVER'V 0l•;N
111 BA': i N ITI AT i VFS PRIM IT' S .
Ci.:Ai`! Si:T'1'i.F.>thNT— CHARi.ES TIFF AND IYCILLF
CLAIMS Si t" IT'ITNT: STITILV,* 1 E 'i HO`1PSON AND HER `!OTHER
AND NXI VRAL (;PARD IAN FLORA Bi 1.1. .1•}iOMPSON DA°;SFY.
AC E'I'T PLAT: "PORT OF M I A`i l FXPANS i ON ` I-TRO13M I TAN
DAM, COt'';TY"
ACCEP FANCE OF S9 , h0ti. GRANT YKO`t I) ADF COUNTY TO
PROV'I DF DAY (:ARV; 'f) CH 1 LDRFN FROM LOW 1 NCOMF FANI LI i:.
:A(;(:Ia''I`AN(:1: OF 35 , i 7 i . GRANT FRO`1 DADi: COPNTY TO
PROVIDE DAY CARE TO CII1LDR'FN 1-NO'•1 i.OW ]INCOME
1,-A'•11 1.1 I ' S
ACCEPTANT OF A ti_'_ 7 , 000. (;RANT FROM THE STATi. OF
FLORIDA DF.PART'•11;'NT OF VETERAN AND CO Ltlt'N 1'I Y AFFAIRS
FM\' CHILD DAY CART: PRO(;It:A'•1.
BID ACCl'P'IA'<(T.: OFFICE SUPi'LIES
L'II) ACCLPFANCV: '!All, FRO'-1
.'•L IL SV'RVICF.S, BANNER BPSINFSS SYSTEMS
KID ACCIT'IAN'Cl.: OPF ICE FURNI'll'RF CO^1PONENTS FRO'•1
'1 i1O51<AS RI'FV, OF FLORIDA
I'll) A('CEPTANCI.: -100 HAND GU:NS FROM .10NES EQUIPMENT
CO1'1P A!,Y .
R-82-9'33
R-82-9 34
R-82-938
It-82 -9 39
R-82-940
R-82-941
R-82-942
R-82-943
it-82-944
R-82-945
R-8'_'-94h
R-82-947
R-8'2-948
R-82-949
R-82-950
8--933
82-934
8-)-9 35
82-9 3h
8 2-937
ti_'-938
82-9 39
82-940
82-941
82-942
82-943
82-944
82-945
82-946
82-947
82-948
82-949
82-950
t DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION
PURCHASE O1' FTRE APPARATUS FROM FNc CORPORATION
FOR TIIF I)F.PARTMENT O1' FIRE, RESC:{'E, AND INSPECT[().'.
SERVICES eA'I- A COST OF S454 , 5 1 4.
BID ACCEPTANCE: I-) PORTABLE RADIOS FRMI NOTORONA , INC .
1:',\TA'IN(; REOUIR'DLENT OF SEALI:I) BIDS FOR ONE 1)PAL :ACCESS
KIT "I.O THE' UEPAR"1NEN'1 (W I'O1.10E AND AUTHORTZIN(;
P1'RCHASF PRO'l I)IC I'I•AL EOI' I P�TNT CORPORATION :AT COS I OF
1:':\TA'IN(" RI:Ut'IRE-'1I:NI OI' SEALED BIDS FOR ONE t'SI D 1hr)r
%11CROFII."' CA�IFRA :A"I'1•:ACH'•11:NI' To THE OF
AF l"HOR 1 % 1 N(; I't"R(:HASI: FRO'1 i',1
'•11 CROCR :11'll I C PROIWCTS :A] COS'l OF
:A';U lYPRI(::A'*IS FRO'•' hf:LCHf:I(
OIL CO., `"t\RICI! CORP. ')If CORPOR:AI l"" A'100)
lilt) A('('1'P'1:A1:(T: ,APPRO":I'�IA I ITT i15 M-Y'S OF WT I CI:
RUFF A" D CWTANY.
;ACCI:I'T P'"(; } i DITDS � )1'
AC(TP'1'IN(; t; I I): A'I RR l CK (;)"'1 RENOVATIONS,
.-AND 1•:AISO': ISLAND BY P'ANK .1. !-10RAN, INC—
fill) AC(TI)TANCE: (;AR:A(;F. FLOOR SLAB R1:}'LACI-MENT FROM
P,AICHEI) AND C). INC.
till) :ACCETTANCF: CI: 1,',AL SANITARY SEWER I'`1PROVEL 11:N'1' FROM
LANZO CONSTRt'C•I ION CO.
OF BID "C"
AND EOt' I P'IEN"1' RI:':I :AI. CWIPANY FOR Ct'L ,H-'R C.D.
PAA'IN(; PRO.IFC'I . PHASE IV FOR
1','CR'I'.AS1N(' 'Il{I: CONTR:ACI' l; 1'I'll IN'I.1:RCOt'NTY CONSTRUCIAON
CORPORATIW: F01: THE C(-)';S'I'Pt'CTION OF RIA'ERVIla•: STOW!
SEWER PRO.IECI PIIASI•: I (:?N1) BIOI)I';(;) Lill) "li".
P"C'RI:;ASIN(; I'l1l' CO';'IRAC OF D.M.P. C011110RATI(IN FOR
'1111" CONS 'IRUCT I ON' OF NORTIH:RN 1)RA I NACE PROA-ICT
1.-
:1C TPHN(; CO'11'1.1:'11A) 1•'ORI: Ol' SUNSET ENTl:1ZPRISI:S,1NC.
FOR MAR 1 N1'. S 1•AO I t"1. BOAT RAMP REPAIRS.
ACCf:I''11 :(; (:O"11'I.I:'I1:1) 1;OI;I: OI' .i t. (;\SSOCL:ATI:S, INC
FOR C H Y IIALL-FINANCE 01'H CT RENUA'A'1 I ONS. 1981 .
:ACCFP"I CW111-FITI) W(WT OF (;OLDEN I:A(;LI: ENGINEERING
C0';'1 PA(:TORS, I NC . FOR l:" )'N1•'0OD (:O tDTVN I TY nl:A'ELOP"LENT
I'AA'I!;(; P1\'O.i1'.CT- PHASE VI.
R-8_'-951
1 R-8 2-953
R-82-958
1:-82-959
R-82-960
R-8'2-961
R-82-962
R-82-963
R-82-964
{Z-82-965
R-82-966
82 —9 51
82-9)2
1 82-95•'+
8'2-9 i5
8-1-956
82-9 57
82-958
82-959
82-960
1 82-961
1 82-962
82-963
82-964
82-965
1 82-966
ITEM NO.
DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION
COMMISSION
ACTION
HLIRIEVAI
CODE NO,
49
ACCEI''I' COMI'Ll"TIT WORK BY P.N.M. CORPORATION FOR
RIVERSIDE PARK. COMMUNITY UEVELOPMI:NT PROJECT.
R-82-967
82-967
50
ACCEPTING COMPI.I:'I'1:11 WORK OF REDI AND CONSTRUCTION CO.
INC. FOR WYNWOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PAV i `;(;
PROJECT. PHASE VT .BID "A" (llI (;Hl:A1'S) .
R-82-908
82-968
51
ITI: WAIVER FOR MIAMI STADIUM FOR CI:RI:'A)NII.S IN DONOR
OF ,IOSI: RAMON 1.01'U'.
R-82-969
82-969
)_'
C Df i'' S CON(:FRN OF F I I.I•HY CONDITIONS IN Till: 111:1)TAN
STRIPS OF CITY HIGHWAYS AND STREEITS I'NDI:R THE
.IURISDICTION OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
R-8?-970
82-970