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OF MEETING H ELO ON September 23, 1982
(PLANNING AND ZONING) (SPECIAL -BUDGET)
PREPA RE O BY THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK
CITY HALL
RALPH G.. ONGIE
CITY CLERK
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PERSONAL APPEARANCE: HURRAY SISSELlLO.N, REPRESENTING
UNITED TEACHERS OF DADE REGARDING PARKING PROBLEMS
AT SOL'THSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
11-82-862
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AUTHORIZE CONTRIBL-TION TO J.N.D. MUSIC
FOUNDATION FOR CONCERT AT MIAMI CONVENTION CENTER
WITH PROVISO OF INVITATION TO LNDERPRIVILEGED
CHILDREN.
11-82-863
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PERSONAL APPEARANCE: GARTH REEVES, REGARDING THE
LATER
ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC FOOTBALL GAME.
FORMALIZED
(SEE LATER FOR.'lkLIZED R.82-884
R-82-884
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PERSONAL APPEARANCE: MIKE BRAZASKI, REPRESENTING
DOWNTOUN, :1ERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION REQUESTING
IN -KIND SERVICES FOR UPCOMING A.S.T.A. CONVENTION.
M-82-865
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PERSONAL APPEARANCE: PAULETTE NMCCLAIN, REQUESTING
USE OF BAYFRO;NT PARK FOR A FOLK DAY EVENT CONCERNING
THE EFFECT OF REAGONO?TICS IN MINORITY GROUPS.
DISCUSSION
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NON AGENDA ITEM CONCERNING FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
OF LATE; QUEARTER AREA OF THE CITY.
DISCUSSION
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GRANT REQUEST FOR IN -KIND SERVICES REGARDING OPENING
OF "CUBAN MUSEUM" ON SOUTh%EST 12TH AVENUE.
114-82-866
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G=iT REQUEST MADE BY ELIZABETH VIRRICK FOR A
ONE MONTH EXTENSION; OF BOXING CONTRACT, PENDING
RECEIPT OF AUDIT.
M-82-867
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GRANT REQUEST '.MADE BY METRO POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR USE
OF MARINE STADIUM FOR RECRUIT?=;T DRIVE.
M-82-868
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AUTHORIZE AND DIRECT CITY MLNAGER TO CONTACT DADE
SCHOOL BOARD DE`A-'IDING THEY ASSUME THEIR RESPONSIBILI
FOR FUNDING OF "AFTER SCHCOL CARE" PROGRAM.
M-82-869
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BRIEF DISCUSSION' ITEM: LEGAL OPINION REGARDING
JACAR01-
DISCUSSION'
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E%?RESS CONCERN; TO T:aE GOVERNOR OVER FILTHY CONDITIONS
OF MEDIAN STRIPS OF HIGHWAYS UNDER STATE JURISDICTION
WITHIN~ CITY LIMITES.
M-82-870
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BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: REQUEST LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE
Lii;DS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY.
ISCUSSION
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PEF?SONw4L APPEARANCE: DR. ALONSO, PESIDENT OF THE
"PROPERTY OWN ERVASSOCLATION OF LITTLE HAVANA"
REGARDING ECONOMIC PROBLEIMS IN TF?AT AREA.
DISCUSSION
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PLAQUES, PROCLAMtyTIONNS AND SPECIAL ITLMS.
DISCUSSION
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DENY APPEA-L OF '.ARIAN;CE PREVIOUSLY GRANTED BY ZONING
BOARD IN CONI,'ECTION WITH PROPERTY LOCATED
A?PROXIMATELY AT 1951 W.FLAGLER STREET.
M-82-871
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BRIEF DISCUSSION; AND TLITORARY BEFERP.AL: CONSIDERATION
OF CHANGE OF ZONING AT 3500 NW, 22:;D AVE, (SEE LABEL
NO. 19)
DISCUSSION
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FERSONAL APPEAR��rF' STUART SORG REGARDING
RECOV-KrE.NDATION;S uF PLE WATERFRONT BOARD IN CONNECTION
WITH 7HE BERT" NG OF :%SSELS ETC,
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(CONTINUED DISCUSSION) ; SECONND READING ORDINANCE;
CHANGE ZONING CLASSIFICATION FROM R-3 TO C-4; LOCATION
3500 NW. 22ND AVENUE (SEE LABEL NO. 17)
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PERSONAL APPEARANCE: MARTIN FINE CONCER14ING WAIVING
OF ZONING APPLICATION FEE -LOCATION: BAY POINT.
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SECOND READING ORDINANCE: CHANGE ZONING CLASSIFICATION
FROM R-2 TO C-5-LOCATION: 3200 NORTH MIAMI AVENUE.
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SECOND READING ORDINANCE: CiUNGE ZONING CLASSIFICATION
FROM R-3 TO R-5-LOCATION: 1471 r.4 17TH STREET.
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SECOND READING ORDINANCE: CHANGE ZONING CLASSIFICATION
FROM R-4 R-CC AND C-2 TO "SPD'6"-AREAS OF SW. 27TH
AVE. RIND SW. 28TH TERRACE.
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FIRST READING ORDINANCE: CHANGE ZONING CLASSIFICATION
FROM R-C TO C-1- LOCATION: 581 NE. 62ND STREET.
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FIRST READING ORDINk CE: CHANGE ZONI",G CLASSIFICATION
FROM R-4 AIND C-5 TO I-1; A.;F.A BOUNDED BY NNW. 3RD
CT. ; NW. 22 LANT; N1,% 5TH AVENUE AND Nw'. 22ND ST.
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VACATE, CLOSE CERTAIN AVV,-L ES, ALLEYS AND TERRACES IN
CONNECTION WITH TENTA7IVE PLAT NO. 1152-A, "MIAMI
FASHION CE:T ER -SECTION I".
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VACATE, CLOSE EAST WEST ALLEY IN VICINITY OF NW.
36TH STREET, 32ND AVENUE, 38TH STREET, 31ST AVENUE,
AS PART OF TENTATIVE PLAT NO. 1170-"REVISED PLAT OF
HANSON SUB"
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GRANT REQUEST FOR MODIFICATION' OF CHARTER REQUIREMENTS'
FOR SEVEN STORY APARTMENT BUILDING ADDITION TO BANYAN i
BAY APARnIEN'T COMPLEX-703 NE. 63RD ST.
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GRA:NT APPLICATION FOR CONDITIONAL USE FOR DRIVE-IN
TELLBRS-LOCATION:700 N`W. LEJEUNE ROAD. l
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ACCEPT PLAT: "MIAXI DADE CO?MIUNITY COLLEGE
NEW WORLD C£1?ER".
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ACCEPT PLAT: "U'.C.P. SUB".
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ACCEPT PLAT- "i;H.?WLY SUB".
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ACCEPT PLAT: "TIGERTAIL ESTATES SUB".
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ACCEPT PLAT: "HERALD PARK SUB".
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DISCUSSION AND DEFERRAL OF CONSIDERATION OF
ACCEPTANCE OF PLyT "PORT OF MIA ll E.'XPANSIO`"
DEFERRED FOR FL7THFR. STUDY.
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DISCUSSION ITEM: CITY OF MIAMI COMIM41SSION POLICY ON
STREET NAME CHANGES.
Wage #2
REso�i aN No, I PAGE N0.
ORD. 9492
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DISCUSSION
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ORD. 9493
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ORD. 9494
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ORD. 9495
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FIRST READING
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FIRST READING
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R-82-872
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R-82-873
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R-82-874
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R - 82-875
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R-82-876
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R - 82-878
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R - 82-879
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R - 82-880
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FIRST READING ORD LNANCE: PROPOSED SPECIAL CITY OF MIAM
ELECTION TO BE HELD DECEMBER 14, 1982 FOR THE
ADDITIONAL LEVY OF A ONE CENT SALES TAX.
FIRST READING
DISCUSSION ITEM -PRINTING OF BROCHURE AND DISCUSSION
OF ENGINEERING REPORTS, TECHNICAL GUIDELINES AND
LISTING OF RECO12M1EIDATIONS FOR REFURBISHING OF ORANGE
BOWL STADIUM.
DISCUSSION
CALL SPECIAL CITY OF MIAPII ELECTION ON DECEMBER 14,
1982 FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADDITIONAL ONE CENT SALES TAX
LEVY.
R-82-882
FIRST AND SECOND READINNG ORDINANCE: INCREASE SIZE OF
CITY OF MIAMI WRESTLING AND BOXING BOARD FROM FIVE
TO ELEVEN `EiMERS AND MAKING ONE APPOINTMENT TO SAID
BOARD.
ORD. 9496
M-82-883
FORMALIZING RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $42,745.00 AS CATCH
GRANT FOR "50TH AN74UAL ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC PARADE".
R-82-884
E%WRGENCY ORDINANCE: PROHIBIT STANDING IN LINE IN FRONT
OF OFFICES OR CO�2-ERCL1L ESTABLISh^_-01TS WITHIN CITY
LIMITS FOR PROFIT.
ORD. 9497
APPOINT ATELkLIE RANG E TO SERVE AS MEMBER OF BOARD
OF DIRECTORS OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOP?MNT AUTHORITY.
R-82-885
BRIEF DISCL'SSICN ITEM: SOCIAL SERVICE FUNDING/
FEDERAL REVEENNE SHARING FUNDS FY' 82-83.
DISCUSSION
ACCEPT RECO�12-SENDATION OF ADMINISTRATION TO DESIGNATE
LITTLE HAVANA TO BE INCLUDED IN7 THE "GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD
PROGRAM".
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SECOND READING ORDINANCE: ELIMINATE PERMISSIVE USE OF
BARBED ',SIRE FENCING IN: RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS.
ORD. 9498
REPEAL COST REHEtiSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE 6871,
AS AMENDED, AND SUBSTITUTE THEREFOR A NEW ORDINlANCE
IGQOWS AS "THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI,
FLORIDA".
ORD. 9500
AUTHORIZE nk.NAGiR TO E}0'AND CONTRACT WITH DR. ERNEST
BARTLEY FOR ADDITIONAL REVISIONS TO BE INCORPORATED
INTO THE NEW ZONING ORDUTANCE.
M-82-887
SECOND READING ORDINANCE: APPEALS OF ZONING BOARD
DECISIONS BY PROPERTY OW"INERS WITHIN 375 FEET OF
PROPERTY IN QUESTION: TO BE BORNlE BY APPLICANlT AND/OR
DEVELOPER,
ORD. 9499
AUTHORIZE GRANTING OF ONE MONlTH FUNDING NOT TO EXCEED
$16,500 FOR "FAIRBREAK, EDUCATIONAL TRAINING PROGFAW .
M-82-888
PRESENTATION BY THE CITY ADMINISTRATION! OF THE FISCAL
YEAR 1982-1983 BUDGET AND PUBLIC HEARING.
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INSTRUCT CITY MANAGER TO MAKE CERTAIN REDUCTIONS IN
THE APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE FOR THE FISCAL 1982-
1983 BUDGET.
M-82-889
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INSTRUCT CITY *SA:IAGER TO INCREASE BUDGET FOR
RECREATION DEPARTAENT BY $500,000.
M-82-890
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EXPRESS CITY CC�DIISSION POLICY ON GARBAGE FEE
AT PRESENT RATE OF $75.00,
M-82-891
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SECOND READING ORDINANCE: DEFINE AND DESIGNATE
TERRITORIAL LIMITS FOR PURPOSE OF TAY.ATION, FIXING
TENTATIVE MILLAGE AND LEVYING TAXES IN THE CITY
OF MIA -Nil FCR FY'62-83.
ORD. 9501
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ADOPT RECO}"IENDATION OF CITY MA'QAGER FOR FUNDING
OF FIFTY (50) ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS.
M-82-892
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SECOND READING ORDINANCE: MAKING TENTATIVE
APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTE`SBER
30, 1983 FOR THE CITY OF IMIAMI.
ORD. 9502
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SECOND READING ORDINANCE: DEFINE AND DESIGNATE
TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF TIE DOWNTOV.N DEVELOPIENT
DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI.
ORD. 9503
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SECOND READING ORDINkA CE: MAKE APPROPRIATIONS
FOR THE DO,v",%TOtdN DEVELOP..".ENT AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL
YEAR ENDING SEPTE-MBER 30, 1983.
ORD. 9504
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ALLOCATE S70,086 FY' 82-83 FEDERAL, REVENUE SHARING
FUNDS FOR PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SOCIAL SERVICE
AGENCIES (ONE TiiELFTH FUNDING).
R-82-893
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ACCEPT PLAT: "CHAIN--NEL 23 SUB".
R-82-894
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RUMS OP SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
MY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
On the 23rd day of September, 1982, the City Commission bf Miati,
Plaids, met at its regular meeting place in said City in Special Seaeion
to consider business of public import, namely, to hold its second public
hearing on fiscal year 1982-'83 budget.
The meeting was called to ,order at 7:10 P.M. by Mayor Maurice Ferre
with the following members of the Commission present:
ALSO PRESENT:
Commissioner -Miller X. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
Howard V. Gary, City Manager
Jose R. Garcia -Pedrosa, City Attorney
Ralph G. Ongie, City Clerk
Matty Hirai, Assistant City Clerk
51. PRESENTATIOIN BY THE CITY ADMINISTRATION OF THE FISCAL 1932-1933
BUDGET X D PUBLIC HEARI;G.
Mayor Ferre: This is the second public hearing to discuss fiscal year '83
adopted tentative budget. We have been in session all of this day. We have
already been through the prayer and pledge of allegiance and we will immedi-
ately begin. Mr. Manager, are you ready to start? This is the discussion
of the proposed millage rate and adopted tentative budget for the City of
Miami - percentage increase in millage over rolled -back rate. Mr. Manager,
through you, would you state for the record what the percentage increase in
millage over the rolled -back rate is.
Mr. Manohar Surana: 4.06X.
Mayor Ferre: Now, with regards to the specific purposes for which ad valorem
tax revenues are being increased.
Mr. Surana: Implementation of the Police Department civilianization program
through the hiring of 113 civilian employees cost $2,450,000, partial increase.
in internal service charges, $156,420, a total of $2,606,420.
Mayor Ferre: Okay. Now, we will be listening to responses and citizens com-
ments regarding the proposed millage increase and explaining the reasons for
the increase over the roll -back rate. .Subsequent to the public hearing, the
City Commission, if necessary will amend the adopted tentative budget. We
will publicly read the entire millage ordinance. We will adapt the final
millage rate and adopt the final budget. Perhaps it might be proper for me
to very briefly st:rmlarize what we, as I understand, did last time and Mr.
Colson, you were kind of the ring leader last meeting and you stop me now if
I si— arize this wrong. You correct me if I summarize this wrong. Ladies
and Gentlemen, at our first public budget hearing on Friday, September 10th,
moat of the discussion centered on the questions of additional police offi-
cers and how to finance them. I believe, Mr. Colson, you as spokesman for
the Miami Citizeas Against Crime indicated your support for past efforts to
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ekpdhd our police force; for our civilianitation program to release at least
74 experienced police officers from administrative duties for field duty; and
for a program to add 50 more officers this coming fiscal year, provided the
City Commission reiterated its commitment to achieve the goal of 3 officers
per thousand of population. The Commission, for its part, indicated its
support for 50 additional officers, but could not agree on a method of
financing that addition. It was pointed out that the City is levying the
maximum property tax allowed under state law, and that most of the its other
income sources are at maximum levels allowed by the law. The Commission dis-
cussed other possible sources of income to finance the cost of additional
police officers. In the face of no agreement on income, the Commission re-
quested the City Manager to analyze these matters and report back to the
Commission at this meeting. The City Manager has submitted such a report
and I now will ask him to summarize his report. He will then accept testi-
mony by all interested parties concerning the proposed '82-'83 City of Miami
budget. Under the law, Mr. Manager and J. L., I think this is something we
need to correct on the record. I think by law, we must adopt a budget tonight.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Is that correct?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: See, in the past, we have sometimes, when we bogged down „ we
have passed a temporary budget for a month until we had our arguments out.
Mr. Plummer: Well, Mr. Mayor, I would hope this Commission could in fact
adopt a budget tonight, but here again, if we come to a stalemate, I think
that the law provides that the budget shall be adopted by 1st of October.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, that is correct.
Mr. Plu—er: That is, in fact, and it doesn't preclude this Commission from
having another meeting between now and the first of October, so to say that
it has to be tonight...
Mayor Ferre: No, no. It has to be by October 1st.
Mr. Plummer: Okay, so we understand each other.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, is that...I assume that is correct. This is the
second officially properly advertised budget hearing?
Mr. Gary: That is correct.
Mayor Ferre: We can, of course, extend the hearing beyond tonight....�-
Mr. Gary: But not beyond October 1st.
Mayor Ferre:.....but, not beyond the 1st, all right. So, now Mr. Manager,
let's start with you.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, before you have a report, in response to your directive
to me to research or explore possibilities with regard to increasing the
revenue sources for the City of Miami to fund certain types of programs,
particularly with regards to the Police Department; what I attempted to do
first in your report is to identify all those items that require funding
and if you will note, on the first page it has the cost of 50 additional
police officers, four year funding, including the pension and equipment,
approximately $2,000,000. The neighborhood crime prevention program, which
was formerly funded by the State which runs out September 30th will cost us
$275,876, and in your package I have a description of their program which
has been very successful in organizing our community in terms of the private
community and the business community, with regard to crime prevention strategies
and programs. The third program requiring funding is our authorization to
allow police officers with three or more years of experience and live within
the City of Miami to take their vehicles home and that cost is $192,000. The
fourth is an expanded recreational program at a cost of $500,000 and I might
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add that the City Commission expressed a desire to fund half of that, $250,000,
for Florida Power & Light Capital Improvement Fund. The total cost of all of
the programs I mentioned is exactly $3,090,047. Now, we attempted to go through
all the revenue sources that exist within the City, and as I explained to you
before, this State, as opposed to many other states across the country, is re-
stricted in terms of how much it can increase its taxes and what new taxes it
can levy. With regards to existing revenues, we found that 90% of all of our
revenue sources are restricted by state law, which leaves only approximately
10% that is available for increases. In attempting to analyze how much revenue
we should increase for that 10 that was remaining, we attempted establish
some criteria. The first criteria was the legal authority to do it. The
second was the existing fee schedule. The third was to determine the date of
our last increase and the description of the increase and the magnitude or
impact of those increases in terms of our ability to function as a City. The
fourth was the number of dollars generated by the source compared with Dade
County and Broward County, because one of our concerns is that in our efforts
to develop our city economically, internationally, commercially and industrial-
ly, we want to make sure that we are not establishing impediments for that
development, which could lead to those industries or companies moving to
other cities within Dade County and Broward County which we are quite familiar
with, so that was another criteria. And the last criteria was, can the in-
crease in the fee be justified in terms of the services that would be pro-
vided for those services. As a result of that, Mr. Mayor, we have recommended,
and if increases in the fees are exactly $814,000 the fees as identified on
page... if you look at your report (attachment "b", sir). we are recommending
doubling in the fee, the administrative surcharge charged by the Police Depart-
ment. We are recommending an . increase in the cost of police reports.
We are also recommending an increase in a line and grade surveys, street, side-
walk and curb repairs, excavation utilties, false alarms and traffic permit
fees. This totals $564,000. In addition to that, we are proposing that the
F. P. & L. franchise fee dedicated to the General Fund be increased by
$250,000, in line with the suggestion made by the City Commission. So, with
regard to existing revenues, that is our proposal in terms of being reasonable,
justifiable and within the legal authority of the City Commission. With regard
to the possible new revenue, and this is probably one area, I might add, that
we probably need to study further during the course of the year, but we at-
tempted to look at those revenue sources that we discussed here and some of
the department heads have discussed and some of those revenue increases, as
I have explained in the memo, as an example, the impact fees, which was
brought out by one of the Commissioners, I think Commissioner Perez, pretty
much, first of all, was not legally enacted by the City Commission. We have
a consulting firm that is presently studying this matter and we have had
numerous discussions with the consultant who demonstrated his expertise in
this area, in other cities throughout the country, which are very limited in
terms of implementing impact fees. It is his opinion, and my opinion, as
well as the Law Department's, that if we implement these impact fees, that
those fees must be dedicated to the infrastructure that is being imposed as
a result of the higher level of development. In essence, if we are going to
allow a higher level of development as a result of the City Commission's
zoning decision, if that requires us to add extra sewers, extra streets,
gutter improvements, then that money has to be dedicated specifically for
that purpose and cannot be used for any other purposes. With regard to auto-
mobile tax, we are precluded frcm doing that by State law; personal income
tax, we are precluded from doing that by State law, so basically, in terms
of new revenue sources, other than those that we implemented over the past
year, such as the false alarm permit, we cannot find any revenues that would
be sufficient enough to impact on the problem that is before us. Another
one that we looked at, Mr. Mayor...
Mayor Ferre: Other than the $800,000.
Mr. Gary: Other than the $800,000 that is existing. On the new revenues, we
cannot. We also looked at another alternative in terns of charging people for
the boat ramps, or launching their boat ramps and a fee for that, and the
amount of money that would be generated would barely offset the cost of hav-
ing somebody - staff on the weekends - to manage that type of operation. We
also looked at the waste disposal fee, which is basically the only flexible
fee that the City Commission has that it can increase in a significient
amount to resolve the problem. Ycu should understand that the City's present
system of back yard collection is very labor intensive and as a result, is
very costly. Dade County presently charges $198 for curbside pickup, not
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Back yard pickup, and we ate chatging apptdximately $100 for out superior
back yard pickup, if the City charged the same as the County, Mr. Mayor,
aitd members of the Commission, we could generate approximately 1.1 million
dollars more. If we eliminated back yard completely, we could genrate
another 3 million dollars. Both of those alternatives would be adequate
enough for us to fund all of the expenditure requirements - additional ex-
penditure requirements that we have been discussing for the past two meet-
ings. On the last page, Mr. Mayor, and members of the Commission, I have
recommended alternatives. The first is, fund all of the suggested programs
that I mentioned before - the police officers, the crime prevention programs,
the recreational program and the take-home vehicles - fund all of those pro- .
grams by increasing the service fees, the 814 of existing service fees, and
by increasing the waste disposal fees from $100 to $132. Second alternative
is to fund all of the suggested program for an entire year, except fund 35
police officers for four years and 15 police officers for 1/2 year by in-
creasing the service fees as shown on attachment "b". and increasing waste
disposal fees from $100 to $128. In essence, this allows you to hire 50
people with 35 being hired immediately and 15 being hired for 1/2 year. The
bare alternatives is to fund all of the suggested programs for an entire
year, except fund only 35 police officers for a full year by increasing the
existing fees, increasing the waste disposal fee from $100 to $123. But,
basically those are the three alternatives that we are recommending that we
would like to have the City Commission make some decision on tonight. I
also have in the packet, Mr. Mayor, the description of the take-home vehicles.
Mr. Carollo....I also have a description of the crime prevention program. I
also have a description of what can be done for the police outdoor range, and
I would recommend funding that range and I think it is a good idea through
our Capital Improvement Program or through a police bond issue, which we are
now preparing. The last is a recommended program for the utilization of the
$500,000 for recreational activities, which attempts to address those concerns
that have been raised by the citizens to the City Commission during the cur-
rent fiscal year.
Mayor Ferre: All right, the majority of the people that have expressed a
desire to speak tonight, with the exception of Mr. Woodnxck and Mr. Alvah
Chapman, I think. I am sorry, there are other no -speakers. Now, I would
like to, out of courtesy to them, to give those who have not spoken an oppor-
tunity to speak first, because I think it is safe to say that the vast majority
of the people that are going to speak tonight are here on the subject of addi-
tional police. Now, I might say that I have read, and I was given it about an
hours ago, a ver.: carefully drafted, and I think, very well written letter by
Michael A. Goldberg, just so that the record reflects that I have read the
letter, and a letter of September loth by Archbishop McCarthy. I also think
that since the majority of people that are here are on this subject, and since
we left this undecided last time around, waiting for the Manager's recommenda-
tion, I would like to, at the outset of the hearing, try to see if we can get
a motion of intent on the part of the Commission, and I will wait for Miller
Dawkins to return. Perhaps we can find a solution to this. It might save an
awful lot of people a lot of talking time, and you can all go home. Let me
start by very briefly saying that I am not going to repeat what I said last
time, because it is in the record, and it speaks for itself. We all want
additional police. I, for one, made a commitment to several of you that are
here in the audience, that certainly I would try my very best and you have
my commitment to vote for additional police, and I will live up to that commit-
ment. The problem that we have at the present time, in its simplest sense, is
that although we received 10.2 million dollars, of which by law, 4 million is
dedicated to tax relief, there is 6.5 million dollars left and we are going to
get into the details of what is and isn't and how it works and the fact that
we have also given up the 7 million dollars in tax rights that we had in lieu
of that... in other words, if had not accepted the 10 million dollars, we would
have had the riz.:it to increase our taxes by 7 million dollars, but those are
all arguments that we could spend all night going back and forth and correcting
figures and trying to see, becuase we can look at the statistics any way -
there are 10 different ways to look at the statistics of the City of Miami and
the Police Department. The undeniable fact, hcwever is, that for much too
long, we have in effect, not increased anything in the City of Miami other
than fire and police and certainly for the past five years, we have departments
that have been cut almost to the point of extinction. Now, I know that it has
been the policy of some of the outspoken forces in this community to eliminate
the City of Miami as a viable governmental entity. At one time, those forces
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Moved fot consolidation) and they tried their very hardest to consolidate the —
City of Miami by eliminating it. They lost! They then came back and tried to
consolidate the police and fire departments. That also lost! Now, one sure
way of eliminating the City of Miami is by getting it a point where either it
is on the verge of financial insolvency, or when services are so curtailed
that in effect, all we have left is the police and fire departments. Now, the
City of Miami must render full city services and the Parks Department, for
example, who have hardly got an increase and their budget is down to
$4,500,000, is to a point where we have virtually curtailed all of the re-
creational programs in the parks of the City of Miami. If we do not increase,
and I frankly think that the Manager's recommendation is so sparse and so
tight, that in effect, we may as well not have a park and recreational pro- _
gram. And the end result of that, in my opinion, would be that you would
have more crimes, not less, if we do not have the opportunity, especially
for young people in the summer, to have the healthy sports activities in our
parks. Now, I am not going to lecture any more on all these statistics, I am
just going to get to the bottom line of this thing. As far as I am concerned,
Mr. Manager, you come up with $800,000. You have identified the need of
$3,500,000. In order of preference, my first preference for monies found is
50 police officers and monies beyond that, up to $500,000 is for youth, re-
creational and park activities, especially in our more depressed areas, and
then the automobile take-home plan, the crime watch operations that you
identified, and so on. Now, on this ladder that we have to climb, in other
words, what I am saying is, I for one am not willing to cut any of our City
activities as defined in the proposed budget. So, the only alternative we =_
have on all of this, is either to give up on the civilianization of the City
of Miami Police Department, which will cost close to $2,000,000, which I think
would be a major mistake, and I would not vote for it, or to find other sources
of revenue, and I personally would accept your recommended alternative number
two, which is fairly close to what we were talking about before, except, that
I wouldn't quite word it the way you worded it. I would like to word it
differently, and I will do it in the form of a motion, to see if we can get F
that off the ground. If we can't get that off the ground, then I am going
to see if anybody else has any other alternative sources of funding, and if �-
not, then we will get into the public hearing and we will go through the =�
procedure again. Page 3 of page 3 in the Manager's recommendation, recom-
mended alternative, alternative number 3 (Roman III, small 2). Now, let me
word it this way, and perhaps I can just do it in the form of simple motion,
and I pass the Chair to the Vice -Mayor. I do it this way: That the City of
Miami Commission go on record in the form of a motion of accepting alterna-
tive number 2 of the recommended alternatives of the "tanager (III, (2)) but
in the following way - that the $128 per year of waste disposal fees be
stictly used for the Waste Disposal Department, therefore relieving the
need of that department of any impacting on the General Fund to the same
amount as raised. In other words, I don't think we should tie one thing in with the other - it goes into the General Fund. Now, I would, from the
sources ... and I know that this is semantics, but, it is still the same thing,
I am not arguing on that, but I think the wording of it is a little better if
we do it that way, and from the General Fund, the first monies available would
be to i =ediately hire, as quickly as possible, 35 police officers and work
our way up before the end of the year, to 50 police officers and the second,
in my motion, the second sources of money from that would be used up to
$500,000 for the purposes of improving our Recreational Department. Number
3, that the third source of money that would be the next priority would be
the neighborhood crime prevention, and the next alternative would be the
ability to take home cars, each for $250,000?
Mr. Surana: $192,000.
Mayor Ferre: Well no, the take-home cars are more than $192,000.
Mr. Gary: No, it is $192,000.
Mayor Ferre: And how much is the crime prevention?
Mr. Gary: $275,000.
Mayor Ferre: Well, we are going to run out of money, Howard, so I would
make them on an equal basis kind of thing. Whatever monies we have left
over would be split equally between those two programs, and of course if
Ghete is money left over, we go up to $275,000, should there be sufficient.
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Mt, Gary: Where was your fee? You accepted Number 2.
Mayor Ferre: $128. This is your Item 2. Your recommended altatnative
number 2.
Mr, Gary: That is correct.
Mayor Ferre: $2,000,000 plus the $800,000 you had previously identifiedi is
$2,800,000. If I am not mistaken, the 35 would cost $1i2001000. The remain-
ing 15 officers would cost $600,000 more. - $500,000 more.
Mr. Surana : A total of $2,000,000.
Mayor Ferre: And the recreational program is $500,000, and $200,000 for the
automobiles and $270,000, so you have enough money to do it. You have enough
money to do all of those things, and I so move.
Mr. Carollo: There is a motion. Is there a second? There is a motion. Is
there a second? For the third and last time - there is a motion. Is there
a second? Hearing none...
Mayor Ferre: All right, I will recognize any member of the Commission that
wishes to address the Commission on this.
Mr. Carollo: Mr. Mayor, on the proposed alternative budget that you had
mentioned, or should I say that the :tanager had presented to us and you took
up, we are talking about raising the garbage collection fee from the present
$75 to $128.
Mr. Gary: That is correct.
Mr. Carollo: How much of that is going to be going to Dade County, in other
words, into paying Dade County for taking care of our waste disposals?
Mr. Gary: It is going to be 5.8 million of the money which goes to Dade
County.
Mr. Carollo: 5.8 million?
Mr. Gary: 5.8 million.
Mayor Ferre: Total?
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mr. Carollo: And, how much are we expecting to raise with $128..
Mr. Gary: We will compute that.
Mr. Plummer: But, that fee that goes to Dade County, goes without an increase.
Mr. Surana: $9,000,000.
Mr. Carollo: $9,000,000?
Mr. Gary: It is supposed to go out without an increase.
.Mr. Plu=er: 'without any increase. In other words, if the fee stays, it is
$100 as proposed in the budget, that 5.8 still goes to Dade County,
Mr. Gary: That is correct.
Mr. Plu=er: There is no difference on an increase,
Mr. Gary: That is correct.
Mr, Carollo: Are we expecting an increase from pale County for this next fis=
cal year, or not?
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Mt, Cary: Yens i,? Miilibh dollafs. this YeAf the ate paying 4,1 tilliah,
Mt. Carollo: 4.1 million,
Mt, Gary: They have increased it tip to 5.8 million,
Mr. Carollo: Okay, so that 5.8 that you gave me includes the inctease.
Mr, Gary: That is correct.
Mr. Carollo: So, we have a extra 3,2 million that we have from that pattioUl
lar budget. You gave me an estimate of 9 million that we expect to derive
from charging our residents $128 per household.
Mr. Gary: Correct.
Mr. Carollo: Out of which that 9 million, 5.8 million will be going to pay
the County....
Mr. Gary: Correct.
Mr. Carollo:....and we have a surplus out of 3.2. Now, Howard, I know you
live, and you have a house in the City of Miami. I know you pay the fee. I
have a house that I pay a fee on and I have a duplex that I rent that I pay
two additional fees on. My question is this, and I am not trying to embarrass
anybody, or be impolite in any way, but I just wonder how many of the people
who are here that might be looking towards us raising the garbage fee actu-
ally live inside the City of Miami and have to pay it like I do?. Or, if maybe
you do live in the City of Miami and you live over in Brickell, where you
don't pay it, because they take care of that through other means already.
Now, I tell you, Ladies and Gentlemen, the inflation that is hitting today is
hitting everywhere very hard, and the people that it is hitting the hardest
are the ores that can least afford it. And the people of Miami cannot afford
this constant increase. You hit them here, you hit them there and you hit
them with a garbage can. The one time that I have ever received the most
complaints since I have been on this Comission after three years, was when
we increased the garbage fee last year and if Dade County were to he charging
us $9,000,000 a year, I say fine, I would increase it to that, because we can
justify it, but, we are not justifying charging people $128 per year when we
only have to pay Dade County 5.8 million, and we still have 3.2 million left
over out of that. I think it is very unreasonable. What we are doing is,
we are at the verge of being in a gray area. It is almost to the point of
being illegal. I wonder if someone would challeng it in court if it would be?
Because, when people pay taxes on their homes, those taxes are supposed to
take care of all the services that the City provides. It is supposed to take
care of the police, the fire, and the sanitation services. And what we are
doing here is, we have already met the maximum we could charge by the law,
in our millage rate, so we are going around and going to the back door, and
we are sticking the taxpayers of Miami, the people like myself, that have to
pay it, once, and some of us more than once,.and we are getting stuck for the
bill, and I resent that! I am one of those that is considered a middle -income
American. My salary this year has risen very little like most people, and if
the Miami Herald would have their way, it would rise even less, but I just
cannot justify to the people who put me in office, not the ones that have
tried to get me out of office time and time again and never supported me to
begin with, but the ones that placed me in office. I cannot justify voting
for an additional garbage increase today when that money is not going to go
to pay the County for what they are charging us. It is going for other
service that we should be able to provide with the taxes that they are paying
for on their homes. Now, the Mayor made a point of it. I have to agree
with him in what he says. There are people in this community that would like
to see the City of Miami fold and for Dade County take us over. It is very
simple. If the City of Miami folds, every other city in Dade County is going
to follow suit right after us, then you will have one big metropolitan
government like some people in this town would like to see. Very few people
in the City of Miami, but some people outside of the City of Miami would
like to see that, and this is why there could be a possibility that some
people are over -reacting and saying we need so much of this, and we need so
much of that, Well, the truth of the matter is, the worst part of crime is
behind us, Two years ago, a year ago, is when we had the worst times that
this City ever faced. That is behind us now. Crime has been going down.
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We have finally got enough hold of out City Yes, we still have a lot of
problems, We still have a lot of crime. I am not satisfied what I see, but
the %yorst is behind us. In fact, when I was fighting this Commission to
acquire an additional 200 plus police officers, which we have today, because
I fought my colleagues in this Commission, and finally received the support
of the majcrity of them for it. There are very few other people that I see
here tonight that were screaming for that. And one of the things that comes
to mind is that a year and one-half ago, or so, when my goal and ironically
the goal that I wanted to see was the City of Miami to eventually by this
around have 3.0 police officers per thousand people and to achieve a goal of
having approximately 1200 police officers. Well, back then, what I do remem=
ber is that while on the national average, you did have a scale of 3.0 police.
officers per 1000 citizens, I do recall that for major cities - cities that
have a population of quarter of a million or more, the scale about a year and
one-half ago, was 2.5 per 1000, and up to this point, I haven't seen facts
that would bring to me all the major cities in the United States that have
a population of a quarter of a million or over, to show me that in fact,
the ratio is 3.0. It might have gotten that high in a year and one-half
from 2.5 to 3.0, I don't know. If that is the case, I would like to see the
figures. In fact, the last public hearing we had, I requested those figures
from some of the people that are here to day. But, I question that phase
on the figures that I had a year and one-half.
Mr. Dawkins: As I said before, I have yet to see any data which proves
that communities with three law enforcement officers per 1000 citizens have
less crime per capita than we do. That is, crimes per category, as rapes,
robberies and what have you. I have a letter here which says that Chicago
and Jersey City, which have 4.2 law enforcement officers per 1000 - do they
have less rapes, robberies and murders than Miami because they have these
extra police officers? Does Philadelphia, with 4.4 and St. Louis at 4.3
have less robberies, rapes and murders than we do per capita? Do you have
data to support the fact that these lower crime rates are directly proportion-
ate to the police citizen ratio and to not to some other community reasons,
such as high unemployment, truancy, high drug traffic. More police officers
is fine, but it will not relieve the high unemployment, which is a prime
cause of robberies and what have you. Our civilianization program gives
jobs to over 100 individuals. This is a tightening up on unemployment. We
also were going to hire 35 extra policeman, which meant that our program,
we were hiring 135 persons, but the Crime Commission is only concerned with
us hiring policemen. We as Commissioners, have to be concerned with the
total co=unity. There again, I still do not have data that can prove to
me that if we give this City of Miami 3 law enforcement officers per 1000
citizens, that is going to reduce crime. I cannot vote for taxing citizens
on their garbage fees for police protection, when the condos have private
garbage collection, mind you, we pick up their trash, but they pay a private
concern to pick up their garbage, so now you want them to tax them $128
to provide better police protection for them at the cost to the people, as
Joe said, who can lea3t afford it. We also need recreation for youth. If
we do not find wholesome recreation to involve youth in, then we are also
helping them to become delinquents. 3 in a 1000 is not an answer without
providing all of the necessary supportive services to insure that these
three per 1000 will indeed, reduce crime. Increasing the garbage collection
tax and not putting it in the General Fund, as the Mayor said, is semantics.
If I take $128,000 out of the fund and I take the garbage fee and put it
back, I mean, I an fooling the public. So, I am in favor of the 3 per 1000,
when I have been shown that this 3 per 1000 will indeed reduce crime, and
make Miami safe.
Mayor Ferre: Co=issioner Perez.
':r. Perez: First, I would like to ratify the position that I have taken at
the last public hearing about budget. I would like to say again for the
record that I favor the recommendation to have three officers for 1000 resi-
dents of the City of Miami, but I think that we have to find a way to get
the funds. The easiest way to raise the money needed is to increase the
garbage fee, but I am against that increasing. I think that the people of
of the neighborhood cannot be penalized for the service that would protest
the whole community. I think that the people living in Liberty City, in
Little Havana, in northeastsection doesn't have to pay for a service that
will cover the whole City of Miami. I believe that we have to find non-
essential services in order to find the funds for this service. One of the
suggestions that I sent to the Manager's office this morning was to study
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the possibility to Make a studyi or a proposal, of having only one police"
Mh per patrol car instead of the two officers that we have now. This allow
us to double the number of police vehicles on the road, and I would like to
hear from the union and to hear from the Manager and the Police Department
about this possibility. Also, I would like to hear the legal advice about the
other area where we can increase the service and we don't have to affect an
essential service to this community. That is my position. i'reiterate
that I share in full the idea of the 3 policeman per a 1000 resiaents, but
I think we have to be realistic at the time to find the funds. That is what
I want to request from the City Manager and I would like to have the answers
to these two questions.
Mayor Ferre: Do you want to address those now? I think I would like to give
the courtesy to Commissioner Plummer, if he wishes to make any kind of state-
ment at this time. Where did he go?
Mr. Carollo: Well, Maurice, the question that I would like to ask the Manager,
and possibly get some assistance from the City Attorney is that is there any-
thing in the present law, and if there is, how can be go about it to change
the law so that our Sanitation Department can go and collect garbage from a
lot of the big downtown establishments, the big condominiums, etcetera that
right now we are prevented from doing.
Mayor Ferre: Well, that is the third question that you have to answer. Mr.
Plummer, would you like to address the Commission and the public on any of
these issues now?
Mr. Plummer: Well, Mr. Mayor, not really, but I will take just a few moments.
I think everybody is aware that we are at the maximum that we can charge under
our millage, so we only have "X" number of dollars to work with, unless we
went to the fees as spoke about, which I think is now, at least I hope, put
to rest. The easiest thing in the world to do, politically, is to say "Sure,
we want 3.0 per 1000" and let the Manager work it out and let him be the bad
guy. I think 3.0 is a great figure and I would love to see this City come to
that situation. But, you know, I think 3.0 is a utopia that this City is not
really ready for. We find ourselves today with more policemen in the streets
than we had three years ago, and I think that you look, that you must have the
adequate backup, that unfortunately, this community doesn't have. We do not
have proper facilities. We find that our policemen are arresting more people,
more criminals than they have ever arrested in the history of this City, and
what happens with them? They are back out on the street. Either they are
back out on the street for one reason or another, or a Federal judge comes
along and says "Take 400 of the least serious offenders, we have overcrowded
jails". It is nice to believe that if we had more policemen, we would arrest
more criminals and our system supposedly would work, but, to overload and
do the utopia on one end of the system without doing the entire system, I
personally just don't think it is going to accomplish what this City is trying
to accomplish. There has got to be more money pumped into the State's At-
torney's office, into the courts, into the jails, unfortunately. You cannot
address just one point of the system and say that we are going to meet utopia.
I just don't believe it can happen. We are up to, I think 2.6, or 2.7, and
I think 3.0 is where this City Commission would like to be and I think that
what we have to do, as I have said every year with budget, is set our prior-
ities and go frcm there. We have "X" number of dollars to work with.
Mayor Ferre: All right, this is not a debate here at the Commission level
and I am not trying to get into a rebuttal, but I think, I have got to say, and
I don't mean to be defensive about this and then Mr. Manager, you have three
questions, coming, one from Carollo and one from Demetrio Perez to answer and
then we will get to the public hearing. It is not the Miami Crime Commission's
request, just for the record, (let me say it before someone else does) that we
raise the garbage fees. Now, this is a motion that I made, and we are not
going to debate it. Obviously, I am the only one that feels this way. If
you live in Metropolitan Dade County, you have to pay $200 a year to have your
garbage picked up, and there are middle class and poor people living in Dade
County, just as there are middle class and poor people living in Miami, and
there are people in Coral Gables and other parts of this community that may
not be so poor who also pay substantially more than the City of Miami charges
to pick up garbage. Now, the second thing that I want to point out with
regards to the garbage fee, is that in effect, with the present plan that we
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have; we ate wiping out the $40 pet household tax break that the aVetage house
is going to get: stow, I realize that, Let me tepeat that again4 ty law, the
millage that we have, since we have accepted the State money is limited. If you
multiply it all out, the average home in Miami will pay $40 a year less than
they did last year, and what in effect we are doing is, in effect, wiping
that out. I understand that, but the fact remains, nevertheless, that there
is no place that the Manager has come up with, or that anybody on this Commis-
sion has come up with, where we can reduce expenditures in the other depart-
ments of the City of Miami. In other words, in the Fire Department, I don't
think anybody is proposing that the $38,000,000 budget of the Fire Department
be reduced. Nobody is recommending that our Recreation Department of
$4,500,000 be reduced.
Mr. Plummer: To the contrary.
Mayor Ferre: Etcetera. Everybody is claiming that what we are doing is
starving them to a point where these departments are not going to be func-
tional. We get complaints from the City continually that we are not render-
ing a proper service. Now, the fact also remains that you cannot do something
with nothing and you cannot... zero and zero is zero. And the fact is that we
have a hundred and sixty some -odd million dollars of income, and the question
is, that we either must reduce the expense, or increase the income, it is
that simple! We cannot go into deficit spending under the constitution of
the State of Florida, so either we must reduce expenses or find new sources
_ of income to do this. Now, I would remind the Commission, it is not whether
or not we say that we...this Commission went on record unanimously, way be-
fore the Citizens Crime Commission ever existed to go to 3.0. It is on the
record! The motion was made by Commissioner Joe Carollo and it was seconded
Commissioner J. L. Plummer. And that was three years ago, and the fact is,
that we have increased our total police employment in the Police Department
by 51h in the last three years - 40'% in sworn officers and total police
personnel, 51%. I submit to you that there is no other city in America that
has increased their Police Department personnel by 51°10 in three years. None!
There is no other Police Department that has done that. Now, I don't give a
hoot what the Miami Herald editorial says in its typically wrong and mis-
informed and uninformed way, the fact remains nevertheless, that this City
has gone on record of increasing expenditures for the Police Department. We
have increased the employees by 51°e and Gentlemen, very simply, we have done
our part; we are on record that we want 3.0 police officers per 1000. We
have been on that record for three years and we must continue to achieve that
_ goal. I realize, Miller, that there is no proven record anywhere, because...
I might point out to you that the City of Washington, that has a crime rate,
other than in murders as high as the City of Miami, has 5 or 6 officers per
capita, and I don't see that their crime rate has gone down. And if you look
at Atlanta and the other cities where you see Part 1 crimes, there is no
direct correlation. Nevertheless, there is no question that Miami has sub-
stantial criminal problems, and there is no question, that even though Mr.
Colson, I don't think we do ourselves any favor by repeating over and over
again, and we are not the murder capitol of the world, but the fact is, that
the high murder rates in Miami, which are abnormally high, unquestionable
demand that we take special efforts to do it, and therefore, I am sorry, some-
body has to pay for these increases. I think we have to, in good faith, try
to reach that 3.0 that we have committed officially to do, and it has to be
done, and we just need to do it. We need to bite the bullet and get on with
it. Now, unless somebody else on this Commission comes up with a recommen-
dation as to where we can cut on the existing budget, or where we can in-
crease, then let's go and get on with this public hearing, because it already
8:00 o'clock.
Mr. Dawkins: I would like to say one thing before the public hearing. As you
said, Dade County charges more than we do for garbage tax and yet, Dade Coun-
ty is not as close to 3.0 per 1000 as we are. I just wanted to put that in
the record. They are getting close.
Mayor Ferre: They are getting close. Okay, we have three questions that have
been asked of you, Mr. Manager. Why don't you answer them and let's get on
with the public hearing.
Mr. Gary: Let me correct a comment I made earlier, because 1 am the budget
director for a long time, We have to adopt a budget at this public hearing.
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Mdyft Fette: Tell the why that is.
Mt•. Gary: Becuase, the last law that was passed by the State, Which is
the Trim bill, says that during the public heating this City C6mis9i6h
shall adopt a budget.
Mayor Ferre: We can continue the public hearing.
Mr. Plummer: We can continue the public hearing.
Mr. Gary: That is a decision that you and the City Attorney must make.
I am letting you know what my non -legal interpretation of the law is.
Mayor Ferre: That happens to be a very key question tonight, so let's get
that cleared right now. Mr. City Attorney, a very specific question. Under
the law as it exists tonight, would you look into your book and find out
whether or not we must adopt a City budget tonight. This is a public hear-
ing. There is no reason, and I am sure under the law, you will find out
that this body can extend a public hearing beyond... suppose we go beyond
midnight? You know, we could go on into tomorrow. Suppose we continue
that public hearing at 10:00 o'clock tomorrow morning? As long as we do
it before the 30th day of September - the 1st day of October. I think that
we are clear.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: Mr. Mayor, the Florida statute in question is 200.065
and all it provides for is that during the hearing, the governing body, the
taxing authority, shall adopt a final budget.
Mayor Ferre: Precisely.
Mr. Garcia -Pedrosa: I agree with your statement that so long as you preserve
the integrity of the hearing, that you need not do it tonight.
Mayor Ferre: Thank you. Okay, you have got three questions before you, Mr.
Manager.
Mr. Gary: With regard to whether or not we can require non -users of City
Sanitation Services to utilize those services - first of all, it must be
pointed out that that was an act of this body to provide an option for those
people to use private haulers. The City Commission can change that ordinance,
but what in essence it will be doing, is it will be legislating the private
haulers out of the business. The third thing is that you must take into
consideration and I don't have the figures right before me, that once you do
that, and we are required to pick up from the private dwellings that are
now utilizing private haulers, there will be an additional cost to the City
in terms of additional equipment and manpower, so those kinds of things have
to be taken into consideration and require some study.
Mr. Carollo: Okay, now those points you are making on that, I would like to
give the opportunity to the people that are responsible for picking up that
garbage and trash in the Waste Department - not the Administration that is
going to give me the Administration line - I mean Patterson. I am talking
about the people that are there, the ones in charge of picking up that gar-
bage. I want to hear from them also.
Mr. Gary: Well, that is your right. My response to that, Commissioner, is
that, you know, if you give them that authority, I want them to have that
responsibility if it goes wrong too.
Mr. Carollo: Well, maybe everybody can just throw their names in a hat, and
if it fails, the people that pick up the responsibility, they go!
Mr. Gary: I have no problem with that alternative.
Mt, Carollo: Then we will see who stays, you know, the Administration or
the guy that is toting the garbage. I think could take you up on
that,
Mr, Gary: With regards to the one man patrol car vs, two -man patrol car,
that will require further study, but the Police Chief is here and he may want
to respond to that, with the understanding that, you know, he didn't come
prepared to discuss it.
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Mt, Gafollo: Well, again, that is one thing that in certain areasi it is
A must to have two people per car, otherwise 1 think it would be a safety hdk-
and to those officers, so 1 think that is the recommendation the Chief is going
to end up with. I think we will be in agreement on that.
Mr. Gary: Well, I would like to have the Chief respond to that question that
Commissioner Perez raised.
Mayor Ferre: Okay. All right, Chief, to the specific question of Commis-
sioner Perez with regards to (INAUDIBLE)
Chief Harms: Some years ago almost all of our cars were one officer patrol
units. As patrol work and police work generally became more dangerous, we
started increasing the number of two officer patrol units up until the cur-
rent time, where the majority of the units are in fact, two officer patrol
units. The reason we do that, quite frankly, is for officer safety and we
think that in almost each of those situations it is certainly warranted at
the present time, because we are training an awful lot of new officers that
are still on probation. In fact, double them up and they create or help
create that two -man patrol effort, so the response to the question is, we
try to have as many one officer patrol cars as we can. where officer's
safety is a consideration.
Mr. Carollo: Well, since the Chief is up here, I would like to ask him a
couple of questions, if I may. Chief, what is the average rate of police
officers that are usually subpoenaed into court by the State Attorneys for
accidents? Is it three per accident? Two? One? Do you have any idea what
their rate is?
Chief Harms: There should only be one officer that is subpoenaed, but no,
sir, I don't have the specific response to your question. Only the officer
that makes out the report should be subpoenaed into court, but it is entire-
ly possible that from time to time, the two officers in the car will be
subpoenaed, particularly if those officers were involved in the collection
of the physical evidence, the handling of the tickets, and so on.
Mr. Carollo: What I am afraid of is, many a times these have been complaints
that I have received. They could be completely erroneous, I don't know. Many
times, I am told, that you have an accident, and you have four or five police
officers responding to that accident and then a lot of them end up getting
subpoenaed lot more than they should get subpoenaed to go to that court hear-
ing, so that runs into additional overtime costs for the City.
Chief Harms: Yes, that is possible, but frequently, what would happen, is
on a criminal case, rather than a traffic case where several officers and
several units are involved, and each one become involved in some aspect of
the arrest, such as a search of the vehicle, maintaining a chain of custody
with the evidence, and so on. But, you hit on a very important point, much
of our overtime is in fact created by other elements of the Criminal Justice
System, the State Attorney's office, the Judiciary, the Court Clerk's office,
Public Defender's office - those players in fact, create overtime policy for
the Miami Police Department and the City of Miami without sharing the cor-
responding responsibility to help pay for that overtime. I think that if they
would hlep pay for that overtime, they might be just a little more sensitive
about how it is generated.
Mr. Carollo: Maybe this is one area that you could meet with State Attorney
Reno and see if some of the bureaucrats who work there might be a little
more helpful in always subpoenaing the people they really require.
Chief Hangs: Yes, sir.
Mr, Carollo: Thank you, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, any other further answers? If not, we will get on with'the
public hearing. The first person that was here last time, and I think out of
courtesy, since he did defer his time to tonight is Mr. Joe Woodnick, and then
I am going to take, Mr, Colson, the people from your group, starting with Mr.
Chapman. All right, Mr. Woodnick.
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Mayor Ferre: Fine, whichever way you want to do it.
Mr. .toe Woodnick: Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Woodnick, how much time do you think ... I am going to try to
be as generous as I can, but I tell you, I am going to break this meeting up
at midnight, and we have been on these hearings in past years until 2:00
and 3:00 o'clock in the morning, but I am going to try to keep the public
discussion reasonable as much as I can. How much time do you think you need?
Mr. Woodnick.: Well, I won't keep you until midnight. I would like about
6 minutes, possibly 7 minutes.
Mayor Ferre: Fine, go ahead and let's give him 6 minutes.
Mr. Woodnick: I would like to ask the Mayor and the Commissioners and the
City Manager if you have my envelope that was delivered to the City Clerk
tonight, which is in addition to my previous presentation. There are facts
and figures in there that you would have to review as we go over. When I
left the Commission meeting on the loth, I stated to you that Miami -Dade
County was the stolen property capitol of certainly the State of Florida,
perhaps the United States. I will give you those figures. I will relate
them to several different things. First, let me review part of the September
10 presentation. I assume that you have had an opportunity to read this. I
am asking for certain equipment for the Miami Police Department - one is a
portable robbery, burglar system that can be stationed throughout the City
in varying numbers of units to address crime trends as generated by the
crime analysis function of the ICAP system being implemented in the Miami
Police Department. I understand this equipment has been on the budget for a
couple of years. Perhaps it was somewhat premature at that time, with crime
analysis on screen, I feel like it is an absolute necessity. Also, this
backs up your comprehensive crime prevention program, your neighborhood pro-
gram, if you will, your crime watch program within the City of Miami, because
they are feeding the information back to Crime Analysis Unit. In turn, it is
coming through their means of information. There are 46 some areas within
the Police Department where they get information on crime and crime trends.
It goes back to the community to help with the eyes and ears of the Police De-
partment. Secondly, the body transmitters and receivers. I was rather shocked
at our task force, which includes our VIN Squad, our Vice Intelligence Narcotic
Squad has none. These are people that flash money to buy and make drug buys
As I attend this conference and crime prevention program meetings, I am find-
ing that the citizens, as they become more aware of what is going on in their
neighborhoods are seeing activities which indicate drugs sales in houses,
means of traffic in and out, new automobiles, etc. We are lacking, what I
feel, is basic equipment necessary for these units to address these problems.
I have stated in here that the alarm systems can be tailored to meet small
areas of the City, as well as large areas. This is necessary. We might hit
a small area such as Little River; we don't need the entire system set up.
The three systems that I have in my original letter is long. This needs to be
refined - perhaps two base units, with up to 100 monitor -sensors each. This
would allow the Police Department to zero in on crimes in progress. It is
going to affect the statute of your court cases, giving you stronger cases.
If you advertise this system properly, I would relate it to the Youth Crime Watch in
Dade County Schools. We may not have a great number of the students in fact,
in crime watch, yet, who knows? ... the fear will be a very highly preventative
measure. Also, this system, while the cost of this and bugs might equal the
cost of two or three new officers coming into the Department at their rate,
roughly $30,000 to $32,000 per year, in the long run adds officers. They are
invisible, but you are cost effective. I have some statistics attached to
that September 10 letter, and we might refer to those, along with my letter
dated September 23. The information in the September 23 letter, I would say
is exhibit "a". Stated in my original letter, I didn't think that more police
officers is necessarily the answer. I don't mean that to indicate to you at
all that I am fighting Miami Citizens against Crime, or your commitment to
3.0, I think there has to be some degree of balance in here, because evident-
ly we are between a rock and a hard spot. As I go through these figures, you
might consider if there is a possibility of a special tax of some type directed
to nothing else but reducing, what I will call invisible taxes that the citizens
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are duttdntly paying, It Makes your ptdpetty tases look pale, To give you
an Idea...
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Woodhicky you hate taken up fiOW 6 tainutes.
Mr. Woodnick: I will have to take about 3 or 4 more minutes.
Mayor Ferre: You have 3 minutes.
Mr. Woodnick: Okay, sir. Part of your invisible taxes here is drug money,
as Commissioner Carollo mentioned at the last meeting. Your realtors indica=
ted a $3000 average home increase, because of drug money investments. That
translated 161% interest over a 25 year mortgage to $12,000. Let's go to
the statistics marked "a", if you will. I will make it as brief as possible.
This will relate to your percentage of officers per 1000 population in
stolen property in the State of Florida. YOu notice towards the left, I
have '78 through '81, 6 months of '82, Dade County millions stolen. On the
right I have Miami stats. I only have the millions stolden for 6 months
of '82 in the City of Miami. However, in '78, where $67,000,000 total in
Dade County only reported to FDLE, Florida Department of Law Enforcement and
Uniform Crime reports. '79, you jumped to 97. '80, you jumped to 170.
'81, you jumped to 196. The first 6 months of this year in Dade County, we
are already to 165.5. Miami shares more than the average per capita of these
dollars. The first 6 months in Miami I have written down 32.3 that should
read 34.3. If the trend keeps going, within the City of Miami as it has
this first 6 months, you are going tc be looking at the neighborhood of
$70,000,000. These are taxes that are invisible, but we are paying these
taxes one way or the other. I want to also point out to you, that in 1981,
when we had so many new officers come on stream, we dropped our clearance
rate over 20%, which in effect, is an arrest rate. There is a relationship
there. 6 months of '82, we now up to 13.8. You can see what experience it
is doing to your arrest and clearance rate. If I had an option, I would
rather see a higher level of experience on that street officer. In looking
at these 2.1, 2.2, 3.0 figures, really, as the County has indicated to me,
they have 2.5 for the County population. But, when they take out people for
all their services, to other municipalities and other areas are down to
2.14. They had a minus 3.6 part 1 offense decrease. Miami had a static
level of Part 1 crime increase - zero, for the 6 months of '82. But, yet,
your stolen property is up 85%. I would like Miami Citizens Against Crime,
this Commission, to bear this in mind when you make your decisions. I think
I have some ,alid points here that should be considered by both of you.
Thank you.
Mayor Ferre: Thank you, Mr. Woodnick. All right, Mr. Colson, out of respect
for you and your co=ittee, I am going to take you next, although I had you
down here at the bottom of the list that was handed to me. You go ahead and
play it your way.
Mr. Bill Colson: Mr. Mayor, Mr. Vice -Mayor, members of the Commission. What
I would like to do, is to help with the speaking order here in an effort to
save time, and the first way to do that, with your permission, Mr. Mayor,
would be as a group without naming them, if I may ask those that are here in
support of more police, more police support, and all that, to please stand.
If you all would please stand, You can see that we would....
Mr. Carollo: I'd like to stand too, because I think we are all in favor of
that here.
Mayor Ferre: Sure! Let's all stand. I mean, that's the way to do It.
Mr. Carollo: The difference is...
Mr. Colson: Fine! Why don't we all stand up for that. I think that would
be fine.
Mr, Carollo: I think everybody here is in favor of that.
Mr. Colson: All right,
Mr. Carollo: Now, let's clarify the point you are trying to make. I tbUnk
the point you are trying to mace is that you have a group of people that
want to increase the size of the Miami Police Department to have thre_ offi-
cers per every 1000 citizens.
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Mt, Goison: More than that,
Mt, Carollo: Is that correct?
Mr. Colson: At. least that.
Mr. Carollo: Okay, can we have that same group of people that are ift factor
of that stand up again.
Mr. Colson: Well, let's don't make them stand up and down. I'd like to to
put it in focus, Mr. Commissioner. It is the first thing I was going to say
is that we were here two weeks ago and the Commission voted on two things,
basically. One was exactly what you were saying, you are 43.0, it comes
down how long a time does it take to do it. You voted, as I heard it, that
you would vote for 50 policemen in the next year, starting with 35, and that
your plan of the automobiles being taken home would be included, and that was
one motion and that was carried, so that is the point that I want to agree.
I think that we had now had some points made this evening that may disagree
with that, but let's assume that that is still your motion. The second part
was you instructed the Manager to go back and find some money, and to bring
that back to you, and that you intended to implement that. Now, what is
happened here this evening, and it is now 8:25 at the public hearing, is that
the subject of a garbage fee came up and four of you are very strongly against
the garbage fee. I want to put in focus, and I would like to take it back to
the subject of increasing the fee.
Mayor Ferre: `Sr. Colson, excuse me, because I think we are getting now ... you
are into your speech, and I need to know how much time, because, you know,
Mr. Woodnick said he wanted 6, he took 9 minutes. If I were to grant all the
people that want to speak 9 minutes, it is about three and one-half hours.
I need to know how much time you and 8 speakers that you have will be speaking.
Mr. Colson: Well, respectfully, sir, if I would even allow you to talk
respectfully back to a judge in a courtroom, when someone asks me a question,
I have to answer that.
Mayor Ferre: That's fine, but I am not a judge and this isn't a courtroom,
Mr. Colson. What we need to know is how much time you need.
Mr. Colson: I would like to reserve my time later for 5 - 10 minutes, but I
would like to introduce the order of speakers. That is all I wanted to do,
set up to do.
Mayor Ferre: How many...how much time? Do you need an hour? Do you need
one-half hour?
Mr. Colson: Oh, you mean for them? No, sir, I have no idea, because there
are a lot of people that were here last time that didn't get to speak and I
merely like to Suggest and order to you and then you set the amount of time,
_ and that will be fine.
Mayor Ferre: All right, I will do that right now. You and the speakers that
you have with you that you have outlined here have one hour. All right?
Mr. Colson: If you ask me "all right?", no, sir, I don't agree with that
to a public hearing on this issue being one hour. We will see what happens
at the end of the hour.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Colson, the Chair will grant you one hour. I will then go
on to the many other speakers who also have a right to speak, and then we
will come back to you, sir, and I will grant you as much time as you need up
until midnight. At midnight we will adjourn.
Mr. Colson: Thank you. I would like to suggest that there have been several
items mentioned here in the matters that you have brought up among the five
of you. One was the subject that it will take $2,000,000 to take care of
50 police. We would like later for the Police Chief, or someone from the
Police Department to answer that as to whether they agree with that. We
would like to have the first speaker to be Mr. Chapaman. Mr. Chapman would
like to have 10 minutes. On the subject of whether or not, Commissioner
Dawkins, that there has been showing at all from one of you that having 3.0,
we would like to call Admiral Van Edsel, who has been the Executive Director
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of this effoft, and he would like to have 5 minutes, with your perttiission. Oft
the subject of other costs of the programs, we would like to call Michael Gold -
bergs who would like 5 minutes. On the subject whether or not there is any
money to pay anything and whether or not this City Commission receives
$10,000,000 in sales tax that should be used and all that, we would like to
call Roberta Fox, who is in the legislature and worked on this problem. Then,
we would like to turn to people who didn't get to speak last time, to Mr.
Glieckel, who is the Little River Chamber of Commerce - I would guess that he
would be under 5 minutes, and to others - the University of Miami, Miami Beach
Chamber of Commerce, the Latin Chamber, in whatever order. Mr. Vasiley Anakokis
Then I would like to sit down, if that order is permissible with you. And we
will take each one of these issues that you brought up and speak to it.
Thank you.
Mr. Alvah Chapman: Mr. Colson, Mayor Ferre, members of the Commission, Ladies
and Gentlemen, I would like to put this whole problem in perspective and talk
about while we are here. I speak to you as a citizen of Miami, a taxpaper of
Miami and I do pay the garbage fee, but I am not here to talk about the garbage
fee. I am talking about its major problem that has enveloped this community,
a problem that was so bad that our wives were afraid to go to the Metro Court-
house to participate in the Crime Commission's problem as court observers, be-
cause they are afraid to go in the pakring lot; so bad that Burger King was in
the process of moving its headquarters out of the community; so bad that we
are on the cover of Time magazine; so bad that it brought a massive citizen
response, known as Miami Citizens Against Crime, and you know about that and
I won't take your time to get into it in any detail. But, a problem so bad
that when we, representing the people of this community, Miami Citizens
Against Crime, went to Washington and explained to President Reagan and Vice -
President Bush and Mr. Meade, how the people in Miami were living in the year
1981, the fear we were under, the problems we had, the crime we suffered in
all segments of this community, they realized that this was indeed, a national
problem and we have had, Ladies and Gentlemen, and overwhelming and magnifi-
cent national response to that problem. The Federal task force here has done
an outstanding job, and it helped us get a very positive recognition coming
our way. We then recognized the very problem that you are concerned with
tonight, that our municipalities do not have the money to deal with the kind
of problems that we are talking about, and therefore, or organization, along
with many others, and I know some of you are also interested in the increase
in the sales tax provides some $700,000,000 in the State to do many things,
but, a major part of which went to strengthen the Criminal Justice system,
the total system. And when we started on this program, the Governor was not
for it, the president of the Senate was not for it. The first State-wide
officer who was for it was the Speaker of the House. Finally, under the
leadership of the Dade Delegation, and finally with the support of the
Governor and finally with the Senate, the State sales tax did indeed pass
to provide some $700,000,000 to do many things at the State level. Commis-
sioner Plummer talked about a system, a balanced system. We have learned
early on that indeed there must be a balanced system, and there has already
been provided by the State, 83 new Assistant State's Attorneys that are going
on the job right now, Commissioner Plummer. There are 60 new Public Defenders
going on the job. They are 9 new Criminal Court judges that are already hold-
ing trials. And the Federal judiciary is beefed up with temporary Federal
judges in this area. The two new State prisons were part of this State sales
tax and in the 1982-'83 Metro Dade County budget there is a new 576 bed jail
that has been provided in that budget from the State Sales tax fund. In
addition, Metro Dade County has this year increased their police force by
279 sworn officers in the budget coming up. We are talking about a balanced
system. We have spoken as we are tonight, with many other municipalities
in this area. The only major City in all of Dade that is not at this time
taking a positive response and adding additional sworn officers is the City
of Miami. The only one that is not adding is a major city - the City of
Miami and that is why we are here. Now, we know and believe that you have
done your budget work and you don't want to cut other departments. We are
not here to tell you that you ought to cut this and you ought to add that.
We have confidence in your leadership that that has been done. But, we are
here to suggest to you with all the strength that we can implore that there
is a need for a balanced response to include the City of Miami and not ex-
clude the City of Miami, because at this point, th=re is actually no signi-
ficant response to the City of Miami to this massive problem. Let me also
to ask you to consider why the sales tax was passed. It was not passed
because a number of us made 10 or 12 trips to Tr.11i.aassee. It wasn't passed
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because Governor Graham wanted it. It wasn't passed because anybody else
wanted it. it was passed because the people of this State were overwhelmed
by this massive crime problem that was enveloping us. We took polls that cost
us $15,000 to tell us and to tell the members of the Legislature that the peo-
ple of this community and this State wanted to tax themselves to protect theta"
selves and that is what we here to tell you. People have already said that,
and by virtue of that whatever other problems you had to deal with, Gentlemen,
I would like to submit to you that you have $10,000,000 in your budget than
you would have had if the State sales tax hadn't passed and a major motiva-
tion for that was the need of the people of this community for protection.
They want it. They need it. They cried for it. They urged the Legislature
to pass the tax. The Legislature passed the tax. The funds have been provided,
and most of the governmental agencies at the local level have done a job in
response to this great community need, not what we are asking you to do, but
what the people have said they wanted. So, it is indeed a balanced response.
Let me give you, if I may, in whatever few minutes I have, three incidents
that will get very specific. Incident Number one - on the night the Legisla-
ture passed the final sales tax, I received a call from Representative Roberta
Fox. I believe she is here, she was coming. She is here, and Steve Pagett.
It was in the last hour before the House Conference Committee was working it
out. And there was some concern about whether there was enough restrictions
in the money that came from the local municipalities to insure that indeed a
significant portion of this would be going for strengthening the Criminal
_ Justice System in a balanced way. I told her that I did not think we needed
additional restrictions to handcuff our Commissioners at the City level and
the Metro Dade County level to force them to do what the Legislature wanted
them to do specifically. I said to Roberta that night "Our people are close
enough to this problem, close enough to the people who are getting robbed
and beaten and mugged and given great travail by this crime problem. They
will respond if they have the resources" Now, Gentlemen, you have the re-
sources. We would like to, with all the sincerity that we can say, urge you
to use these for the solution of this problem. 'Whether you do the garbage
tax or not, or however you do the other parts of the finances is fine as far
as we are concerned. This is the proper response for this community as a
part of an over all effort that includes the National government, the State
goernment and most local governments. And let me say just one other thing
that I think we all need to bear in mind. whether we like it or not, Miami
community, that involves all of us, we have a very bad image nationally and
internationally. We can move toward correcting that. We are already start-
ing to get some momentum that maybe we are a turned around city, and some
of the things that have happened are good, but we are talking about, Commis-
sioner Dawkins, employment of people by virtue of tourism. Tourists don't
come where they ar worried and concerned and frightened. We spent a lot of
money and a lot of time and energy this summer trying to raise $7,500,000
as a private sector response to the problems of Liberty City and I was very
much a part of that, worked hard at it, believed in it and was proud of this
community for that response. It was needed and I am glad we did it, but,
_ we are now tinkering with the tourist economy that is the driving engine of
this community and we must ... we must in the City of Miami not be penny-wise
and pound-foolish with the number one industry, with the number one employer
of people of all walks of life in this community - the tourist industry, by
not doing everything possible to continue this great response, a balanced
response to strengthen the Criminal Justice system that includes everyone so
far but the City of Miami. Thank you for this time.
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Mr. Van T. Edsel: I am Van T. Edsel, Miami Citizens Against Crime. I delivered
a letter this evening to you, one of which was from Archbishop McCarthy and on
the second page of that letter, it lists several cities and the number of
sworn officers that they have per 1000. Each one of those cities has 3.0 or
more, and most of them have above 4. Not shown in that letter are what their
crime statistics are, and that is a very pertinent point. It is not, as Mr.
Dawkins as others have pointed out, it is not fair to talk numbers of sworn
officers unless you can relate it to something. It either has to be related
to crime or to the deterrence of crime, so that is what I want to eliminate
for you. This afternoon I ran the statistics on those particular cities insofar
as crime rates are concerned and their average per 100,000 population is around
7000, that is 7000 crimes per 100,000 population. The City of Miami is, with
a sworn officer ratio of 2.5 presently, your crime rate is 14,832, in other
words, about double the average of those cities listed in Archbishop McCarthy's
letter. I realize that that figure, that crime rate is dependent upon the
population figure you used. I am certainly aware of that, although I did
calculate it again, using your 400,000 figure as opposed to the one in the
F,B,I, crime report, and it still comes out to 13,228, virtually still double.
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`fhetefotey it Mould seem logical to me that if 4.0 or 3.0 is a good figure
fot those cities whose crime rate is half yours, then one may intuitively
follow that having more policemen has something to do with the deterrent and
elimination of crimes. Just to get you to the nation, for cities of your
size, that is, between 250,000 and 500,000 population, the national average
for crime rate is 5,880, as opposed to your 13 some odd. The national average
for sworn officers for cities of your size is 2.7. The average sworn officers
in south Atlantic states per 1000 population is 3.0. We never thought 3.0 was
magic. We always knew it had to be related to crime rates and your situation.
Fundamentally, you must ask your law enforcement officials - are they meeting
response time? Are they meeting quickly those things that deter and appre-
hend criminals? Most law enforcement experts that I have listened to say that
if you don't get the scene of the crime within 5 minutes, there is very little
possibility of apprehending the criminal at that point and as time ticks away
by the second, it gets geometrically worst. If you put on enough sworn of-
ficers that you are responding to crimes within 3 minutes or less (and maybe
that is too much) but, somewhere there is a figure which your law enforcement
officials will know better than we do. But, certainly from the statistics of
the nation, from the ones provided in Archbishop McCarthy's letter, which I
have now provided you the crime rate by which to compare, it would seem
quite clear to me that we don't have enough in our area. How does our area
stack up in the 1981 statistics which got a lot of play last year - the new
F.B.I. report covering 1981 is now out. In the last one, it listed Dade
County, which as a metropolitan area, was number one in the nation, followed
by Atlantic City, New Jersey. We are now number two. Atlantic City, New
Jersey is number one. I don't take much solace from that, that we are only
the second worst area in the country as far as crime, and therefore, I be-
lieve, as we thought from the beginning, 3.0 is simply a modest suggestion of
a way to get a handle on the problem, and if your law enforcment officials
or in your deliberations in the money situation, you believe that crime is
being handled properly, then of course, that is your decision, but it would
seem to me that the data doesn't substantiate that. Thank you.
Mr. Michael Goldberg: Mr. Mayor, Commissioners, my name is Michael Goldberg
and I too, live in the City of Miami and I for one, would not mind carrying
my garbage to the front yard. For the past nine months, I've spent the bet-
ter part of my time with the City of Miami Police Department, with the City
of Miami Administration, sometime with the consultant firm of Booz-Allen and
it has been a rather frightening experience for me, frankly. I'd like to
respond first to Commissioner Carollo's comment that the crime rate was
worse two years ago than it is today. As you pointed out, I drafted a letter
and sent it to all of you Gentlemen earlier today, but for the record, I
would like to quote from part of that letter, certain statistics, and without
getting too detailed, let me point out that in 1979, the City of Miami had
twice the number of murders by comparison to U. S. cities of comparable size.
In 1981, three times the average of comparable U. S. cities. In 1979, there
were 6800 violent crimes in the City of Miami. In 1981, over 11,000. There
has been a 4270' increase in Part 1 crimes from 1979 to 1931, and that is 50%
higher than the national average, and at the point of comparison, if one is
trying to deter-ine whether or not you need more sworn officers, we have
two times the number of Part 1 crimes than the average city of our size in
the U. S. In 1981, and again, this is a figure that is a justification for
additional police officers, in 1981, the average City of Miami police officer
was dispatched to twice as many calls as the average police officer from
Metro Dade County. The present ratio of sworn officers is 2.5 per 1000,
assuming we are using the 400,000 figure that I believe in the past you indi-
cated that you wish the Federal government...
Mayor Ferre: As long as all of you are consistent, because sometimes, you
know, on one side it is 400, then it is 350 on the others, so it has to be
apples to apples.
Mr. Goldberg: Let me say that all of these figures were based on a population
of 400,000, whether they are good figures or bad figures. If you consider
400,000, the ratio is 2.5, as Admiral Edsel pointed out. 2.7 is the national
average for cities of comparable size. Without boring you with details, if
ones goes to substantiate sworn personnel, simply by comparing the number of
Part l crimes per sworn officer, we should have 1606 officers in the City of
Miami. With regard to 3.0, if we add 80 officers this year, we go to 2.7,
and we are satisfied with the number :0, and that gets us to 2.66, and I be-
lteve that a phased approach to get the 3.0 would take something like three
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to four years. I think the biggest question is whether or not a problem real-
ly exists here, and 1 think those figures point out that in facto we do have
A problem in the City of Miami. I supported personally the sales tax in-
creases; I know many people did in the City because of the fact that we felt
that those were for funds predominently which would be generated and utilized
toward property tax roll back and new crime prevention and crime control
programs. We don't favor elimination of civilianization plan. We are not
simply for a 3.0 sworn personnel or population ratio. We favor the civiliani-
zation plan. We favor balanced programs. Specifically, I should refer to
the fact that over the last nine months in developing this program, this
program was given to us originally through consultation with the City; that
is the Police Department and City Administration. The original program,
which we recommended, was approximately $8,000,000. That $8,000,000 did not
include additional sworn personnel, because in January, when we originally
started this program, we were informed that sworn personnel were tentatively
budgeted for this year. When that program was ferreted down to a number of
80, we agreed on a number on 80, because we understood the importance of
the civilianization plan. With regard to crime prevention, as opposed to
law enforcement, approximately 1.7 million dollars of the ultimate 6 million
dollar plan was allocated toward crime prevention programs, such as the com-
munity crime prevention project, which I understand, in in jeopardy due to
elimination of Federal funds. Beyond that program, there is the Youth Of-
fender Runaway Program, which is not being funded, and that is a program
as well that has been in our total package. Additionally, 50 public service
aides, which I believe dollar for dollar, from my experiences both with Metro
Dade and with City of Miami Police Department, are the best dollars spent,
and I have heard nowhere any mention to public service aides, but there is
no need for a City of Miami policeman to be handling a minor accident when
a public service aide could be handling that. Again, this is not a program
that we dreamed up. In summary, I think I should point, that I have, as
well as you do, other things to do tonight, but I am here for self-preserva-
tion, frankly.
Mr. Eloy Gonzalez: Mr. Mayor, Commissioners and City Manager, my name is
Eloy Gonzalez. I am the secretary of the Latin Chamber of Commerce and
I left my papers, because I will be here as a citizen of the City of Miami,
with love for this City and this County. I am representing not only the
Latin Chamber of Commerce, CAMACOL, but also I have a second love, that is
the Boy Scouts of America. And we have in our district, Tequesta, the name
of the tribe of Indians, the central area of the City or Miami, plus
parts of Coral Gables, so I would like to represent us only the existing
hundreds of businessmen plus the 2000 boys and their families that live in
the City of Miami. And we realize that we have a problem and we have a
need, altogether, the Commission and the citizens and all the committees
that we have in this City of Miami. And we have the crime outside on the
streets and we are talking about people who are playing with figures and
budgets. That is realistic, because we have to make budgets for our busi-
ness, for our family, but what happens if we have the problem outside and
we are talking that we don't have this and we don't have that, and we have
to find money. As in our own home, our own business, we have to find the
money to cover this protection and as Mr. Chapman mentioned, we provide some
part of that money for that protection. Everybody is looking for protection.
Everybody is worried about the protection. And as I mentioned to the Mayor
about two months ago, and to the City Manager, you have to realize that there
is an explosive situation in the City of Miami. The businessmen are worried
about the situation that they have. They are very near to closing their
doors. They are very near to be in bankruptcy, so we better do something
when we have the time. We better take care of the problem that we have. It
is not something that we can plan within one year or two years or three
years in a normal situation of the normal city where the increase of the
population should be in the normal way. We have a problem. We are receiving
thousands or refugees. We are receiving people not only from Cuba and Haiti,
but from Bangladesh, we have a point of entrance to the United States. The
City of Miami has been the bridge of the Americas,and everybody is using the
bridge, and we have that problem. It exists right now - not next year, not
in two years. We have the people. The criminals don't have to make a budget
to go to your home. Your home, Mayor and my home, and the home of every-
body here. They don't make budgets. They are prepared to do their jobs, so
fn the name of our community, I am going to ask you to do your best to do
your duty for God and your Country and to protect the City of Miami for the
benefit of all of us - you and us, Thank you.
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Rep, Roberta Fox: Mt, Mayot, Commissioners# I aim State Representative Roberta
Foxy a member of the Dade County Legislative Delegation. Our chairman, Bob
McKnight regrets that he is unable to be here to express the sentiments of
the delegation on this issue, but he has asked me to appear in his place. On
behalf of the delegation, Senator McKnight has asked me to urge you, urge you
to devote the news sales tax money revenue that the City is going to receive
to expand the Police Force and the law enforcement capacity of the City of
Miami. There is no question in our mind but that the momentum to pass the
one cent sales tax came to us as a result of the crime problem, not only in
the City of Miami and in Dade County, but throughout the State. It was clear
to us, abundantly clear to us, that the people of this community, the people
of Dade County and the people of Florida were willing to tax themselves an
additional penny in order to secure dollars for crime fighting. The Delegation
is also aware that the sales tax legislation which we passed permits local
government to use the sale tax dollars as it sees fit, but the Delegation is
in support of the Miami Citizens Against Crime on this issue, and the Delega-
tion joins in that support and the citizen's efforts to make Miami a safe
city again. Thank you.
Mr. Dawkins: Ms. Fox, may I ask you one question? Did I hear you say that
the Legislature said for the municipalities to use the money as they see fit?
Rep. Fox: That is the way it is worded, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Okay, that is the law..
Rep. Fox: Yes, sir, but I would like to tell you and reiterate to you that
the decision not to restrict those monies was in essence a very, very close
vote, not only internally made by the Delegation, but throughout the Legis-
lature it was a very difficult vote for us. Ultimately, we decided to do that
because we were urged by local government and county governments and by very
responsible people from this community, that they trusted local and county
government as we did to make the proper decision to follow the people's
wishes and to use the dollars were available that we made available to do
crime fighting.
Mayor Ferre: Roberta, forgive me for doing this... let me ask you how you
voted on that?
Rep. Fox: When the Delegation vote was taken, candidly, Mr. Mayor, and it is
not a wound I care to open at this point, quite frankly, but the vote was
10 to 11, and I was one of the 10 who favored restriction. Thank you.
Mr. Ted Foote: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, I am president of
of the University of Miami and I have been in that capacity for a little
over a year. I came down here in the summer, a year ago, greatly privileged
to be president of a fine, strong, young university that you, Mr. Mayor, have
served so well for so many years years in different ways, because I believed
in the future of that university, but mainly, if I may say, because I believed
in the future of this part of the United States and of the world, quite liter-
aly. I cannot tell you, if I took the next hour (which I promise I won't,
Mr. Mayor) how deeply rooted I have been in the midwestern part of the
United States. I came down here some 1200 miles to this university and this
community at a time probably, at the City of Miami's worst difficulties,
at least in modern time, and I did so, contrary to the advice of a lot of
people and dear friends who said it would be better to stay home, because
I perceived from a distance an extrordinary vitality and energy in this
City that I thought was far more important than the press reports that we had
read from far away, and I came here, and I found, zrankly, to my surprise,
that there was in the community a malaise, a sense of defeat and a sense
of frustration which was disappointing. In the first few months that I was
here, I watched a community that was reeling. I watched a university that
was losing students because of the image problems of Miami and the United
States and abroad. I twatched a co=snity that dispite its unbelievable
potential, was in sad, sad, trouble. And then, I watched what I literally
believed in my brief span of years on this planet, is nothing short of a
political and social miracle. I watched a group of people whom I have been
privileged to work with in a small way for many, many months now - many in
this room, say to themselves, this community is too important to gave up and
walk away from, We are not leaving. We are not going to do what might be
easy to do. We are going to pull up ourselves and we are going to do every-
thing wn ;.r.n in this com=unity to make it a decent and fine place to live
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again and to take advantage of the potential that we see around us. Now, a
patt of what I saw is represented by the Miami Citizens Against Crime and you
have heard a lot tonight, and I am not going to duplicate that, but it was
only a part. I watched the private sector; I watched the public sector, at
the national and the state and the local level and step by step, week by
week, month by month, I saw one of the major problems in the united States
of America, be solved, not perfectly, we are a long way from home - but, from
the White House, to Tallahassee to public officials like you throughout this
community, I saw a democracy quite literally in action in a way that gave me
faith such as I have always had, but, I was glad to see reaffirmed in this
City. As I see now, to telescope a year of history that you all know better
than I, having been here longer than I, I see a city that quite literally,
a year or two ago was on the front pages of the world press as one of the
worst places for all of the reasons that you know, come through a period of
crisis in a manner that is the model of its kind for every city in the united
States. I was in New York City for two days and people that I saw every place
were talking about Miami, but, not like a year and one-half ago, as if it was
a place you don't want to go unless you have to, but, as a place where you
do want to go because they are doing things. I have been in Washington
within the last two or three weeks, and I have found the same thing there.
The curious coincidence, on the night, literally the very night that that
Time magazine article hit the streets here and around the globe, I happened
to be with some old friends of mine who are journalists, one being a senior
editor of the New York Times and another being one of the editors of Time
magazine and a relatively new citizen here, in one of the bleakest moments
of this city's modern history, I had the gall the suggest to my friends that
they ought to come back in a year; that I believed in this community and that
I was seeing the early stirrings of things in the public sector and the pri-
vate sector that would rake the story of last year in Time magazine, all that
business about paradise lost, which I thought was greatly premature, pale by
comparison with what ene city in one state in the United States in the 1980's
could do to help itself and what has happened since then is the miracle that
I have described, and you all, Gentlemen, have watched and have been a major
part of, as I have watched you with respect shouldering your unbelievable
burdens this past year. At the national level, 1 have been with the Vice -
President of the United States and I have watched as our colleagues, and you
and many others have talked to people from the White House to the halls of
Congress, and the Senate on down, and I have watched what has happened be-
cause of those efforts, and they have been just extraordinary. I have watched
the State level, and you know all that. Frankly, as I see it, although there
is still an awful lot to do, that effort, not just the Miami Citizens Against
Crime, because they were only privileged to have the name tags and to coordi-
nate and extraordinary outpouring of human ener-y. That effort, in its first
phase, is nearing its close. The successes have been extraordinary. The
challenges remain almost unbelievable, but, if I may suggest to be a little
bit... if I may look into the future for just a moment, I think most important
thing about this community is believing in ourselves, because the most impor-
tant thing about this community is its almost unbelievable and world unique
assets. That is what is important about this community and the crime and
the surface manifestations of what is happening in the world and the changing
patterns and the rest, which is flowing through the City of Miami as almost
no city in the world, the crime is a temporary, but terribly, terribly impor-
tant impediment that this City will get over and will get over I believe
with dignity, and with efficiency and with the rind of pride that I felt
- here when I moved myself and my family 1200 miles to have the privilege of
being here as President of the University of Miami and the privilege of now
addressing you who bear tremendous responsibilities for our future, and so,
I urge you with great respect for the many priorities that you have to jug-
gle to do what you can to support these recommendations to make this commun-
ity safe so that we can get on with the important business of becoming, as
quickly as we possibly can what our destiny holds for us, which is to become
one of the most important cities not in Florida only, not in the southeastern
United States, but quite literally, in the world, in our time and for genera-
tions beyond. I thank you for your time.
Mr. Jim McDonnell: President Foote is a tough act to follow. My name is Sin
McDonnell, I represent the 2iiami Beach Chamber of Commerce and I am Crime
Watch Chairman for the City of Miami Beach. In addition, I am going to be
chairman of the ASTA Convention and I know that it is tough to be raked over
the coals all the time, and I want to compliment this City Commission that
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that you have the fortitude and the wherewithal to go and go after the Aiteiti=
can Society of Travel Agents, which literally Controls hundreds of millions
of dollars of business and they have the guts to say we are going to put it
on in this city, the City of Miami, at a time when it was very difficult to
make such an invitation and feel that you were going to be competent enough
that it will be conducted in this city in a safe and orderly fashion, which
it will be. You have a fine Department, you have fine leadership and you
as Commissioners have been very responsive to seeing that tourism flourishes
within our community. As a member of the Miami Citizens Against Crime, I
only go ahead and bring forv:ard the major concern that ASTA has. I have been
in 65 hours of meetings on ASTA alone in the last twelve days. Alway when
meeting with these pceple, and that is only one group, the central issue
has always been "What about the crime in Miami". It is very difficult to
go ahead, after twenty-five years of being in the business, I can tell you,
to dissect the individual problems of crime and why it happened and all of
the problems that have been fostered on your community and not by your doing,
and as elected officials, you must deal with it. I can only say, that with
42% of our economy being based on tourists and with the enormous impact that
tourism will have here, the hundreds of millions of dollars that will either
come here or go elsewhere, based on our crime reputation over the next few
years, that it is imperative that you support, as a leading city in Dade
County, the proposition placed before you tonight by the Miami Citizens
Against Crime. Thank you.
Mr. Vasiley Anakokis: 'fir. Mayor, honorable Commissioners, my name is Vasi-
ley' Anakokis. I am a working citizen of the City of Miami. I am not par-
ticularly familiar with the complexities of the government of the City of
Miami, but I know one thing, that when I walk or drive through the t,ity,
I would like to have a feeling of security, that I will not be subjected to
any physical harm by anyone who may have selected this City as a bastion for
his illegal activities. When I see a policeman somewhere in this City look-
ing at me, I am relieved and relaxed that you, the fathers of this City have
provided for my protection. If you are satisfied that you have indeed pro-
vided for this protection, you have done your duty to the citizens of Miami,
but if you feel like I feel, more, much more, has to be done, then please,
give us the additional police force now, because if there is no sense of
security, no orderly society of man may exist, and no other program can
effectively be implemented. Thank you.
Mr. Atlee Wampler: I am Atlee Wampler and I practice law in the City of
Miami and I just want to reiterate one point concerning what 3.0 means to
law enforcement. 1.1 is response time. It gives the confidence of citizens
of police presense in their ability to appear to help them on the scene of a
crime. It is the ability of the police to arrive in time to do something
about the violent crime that is occurring at the home of the citizens. It is
the stacking time problems. It doesn't help a bit to arrive at the scene of
one crime and take a body away and then go to the next crime and just con-
stantly arrive, get at the scene, and never complete an investigation - that
is called the stacking time factor. You have got to be able to complete the
investigation in order to have a feeling of accomplishment by the police, if
they are doing their job and a feeling of competence in the citizens that
crimes are being effectively dealt with by the police. It is the mere pre-
sence factor, that criminals feel that they can't actively operate in an
area, because there are that many police that are on the beat, and it is the
reputation in the international criminal community that you can't come to
Miami as a place to literally bet away with murder. Thank you.
Mr. Warren t,.,etmar,: I am ;Darren Whetman, I am chairman of the Citizens
Crime Commission of Greater Miami. I am also a Miami resident, voter. I
pay the garbage tic, etc. I come to add my voice to the voices that have
been presented to you to day to point out to you respectfully that monies
have been made available through the additional one -cent sales tax. Those
monies are m,:�,de a•ailable to you for the purpose of fighting crime, that the
Citizen's Crime Commissicn urges you, along with Miami Citizen's against
Crime to utilize that money for crime fighting, for beefing up your Police
Department and urge you to utilize those funds that were made available to
you for that purpose for the project that is presented to you here today to
increase the number of sworn officers on your Police Force. Thank you.
Monsignor Bryan Walsh: Mr. Mayor, CCmm4SS4oners, my name is Monsignor Bryan
Walsh and tonight I am here for Archbishop McCarthy who could not be here him-
self, In the past six, seven months, I was away from '_Miami. During that time,
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I had the opportunity to talk to people in some fourteen different countries,
thvAtiablyi when it came out that I was from Miami, they had questions, they
had interest and it brought home to me just how important Miami is throughout
the world. We asked for help. This community asked for help from the Federal
government and the State government. I think that figuring the number of
policemen that have been mentioned here tonight and in previous hearings is
the minimum. How can we go to the Federal government, how can we go to the
State government and say "We need your help' if we are not, ourselves, willing
to do what is necessary. Safe streets, a safe community, is really the first
responsibility of government. Everything else comes secondary. Now, I have
spent my life here - 27 years in this community in social service. I am comp
mitted to human service. I can tell you that there is nothing that we can
do in social work community unless we have a safe environment to work in. I
urge your support.
Mr, till Stokes: Mt. Mayot, Members of the Commission, ladies and
gentlemen, I just want to take about 15 seconds and make four teal
quick points, What we have heard this evening is that crime is
still a major concern among all others. I don't have to elaborate
upon that. Number two, with the problems we have we just simply
cannot conduct business in its usual manner. We have heard this
evening that it is a total system. That is why we are addressing
you this evening, because you are a significant part of that system.
We are just about that close to the finish line in a major step during
this past year. We are trusting that you are going to make the kind
of decision that we have been presenting to you this evening because
we do need the additional personnel, the sworn officers, and the
equipment to put together this total system which will include the
local, the State, the Federal, the law enforcement agencies, the
State Attorney's office, the public defender's office, the judges,
and the correctional institutions. We are trusting that you are
going to make the decision this evening in the best interest of all
of us. Thank you.
Mr. Bill Colson: Ladies and gentlemen, we have ten minutes left on
your hour. I don't intend to use that. I would like to turn that back
to you but to ask if there is anyone else. We certainly do not pretend
to represent everyone here.I would reserve whatever comments I have.
I would of course ask that respectfully, that soy* -one move and that
you adopt what was two weeks ago; and that we have these police officers;
that we have this program of neighborhood crime services; and the public
service aides that we had; whatever the Police Department has asked in
their way of other support that you do make this available to the
community. I would like to turn it back to you.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Colson, we have some other speakers that do want to
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speak tonight. I have to recognize them. I am sure Members of this
Commission and maybe members of the Administration will want to answer
some of the statements that were made. For myself, let me just begin
to make just a few, very quick, one -sentence points. One, I think
the job that Alvah Chapman and the Miami Citizens Against Crime have
done in this community, not only for the criminal justice system, but
for bringing this community together, is unequalled in the history of
the City. I think it is a source of pride to all of us. Secondly, I
think that I may argue with an awful lot of the statements on detail
that have been made by your group. Certainly in the basic thrust of
wnat you are saying, I don't think there is a person on this Commission
that would disagree with what you are trying to achieve and the statements
in the general sense that have been made here tonight. Lastly, let me
say that the problem that we have is not one of intentions. The problem
that we have is one of implementation. The problem that we have is the
finding of the sources to do precisely what we are talking about. See,
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the City of Miami today spends 39% of its total budget in the Police
Department. You will look at the records of the City ... we can all rattle
statistics all night. There is not one City in America, not one, not
St. Louis, not New York, not Philladelphia, that spends 39% of its budget
on their Police Department. That is the highest percentage of any city
in the country. There is no city in America that has increased its
police force by 517o in three years. We have done that! So, you know,
for a while I was beginning to think, my God, we must be terrible people!
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Or we certainly have been terribly negligent. What have we done so
badly when three years aco we started to increase our Police Department
and now we are up to $60,000,000! When 1-came on the City of Miami
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Commission the total budget of the City of Miami was not $30,000,000.
Now we have a Police Department with $60,000,000. But we will get into
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all these discussions a little bit later on. The next speaker is
Albio L. Castillo.
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Mayor Ferre: Mr. Castillo, how long ate you going to need?
Mr, Castillo: Mr. Mayor, you should know by now I always stay §hdtt
to the point, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Fine, then we will give you five minutes,
Mr. Castillo: Thank you,.sir. The speakers of this have forgotten
something: that is revenue sharing assistance and the C.E.T.A. funds
that are available for police on section B in the agenda. 1 would
also like to say, can you approve a 3% amusement tax? Or put it on
the November 2nd ballot to raise the money that you need for this
and a few other things. I would also like to say that there is a
park that needs to be redone, which is Roberto Clemente Park due to
the City of Miami's not having the funds to rebuild it to a certain
degree. That is correct, Mr. Mayor and the Commissioners? How
do you feel about the amusement tax, a 3% amusement tax?
Mayor Ferre: We will get to all these answers after everyone has
spoken.
Mr. Castillo: All right. What about the zoning laws? Since you are
enforcing the porno laws so great, why do you enforce the 1979
zoning laws, which you are neglecting? I would like to say that there
are a lot of buildings in the downtown that do not need the 1979
zoning law. If a hurricane comes, those buildings are not going to
be standing. You are going to have a major disaster. Thank you.
Mayor Ferre: The next speaker will be Mr. Bill Quesenberry. Is that
correct?
Unidentified Speaker: Close enough.
Mr. Bill Quesenberry: My name is Bill Quesenberry. The point, getting
back to the financing of the police, the point that keeps getting avoided
by the Commission is that the $2.6 million outlined in section 1(b) of
the agenda and the other programs mentioned by Mr. Gary, and the $1.9
million that would be necessary to fund 50 new police officers at
$38,000 per man only add up to $5.7 million. Your $2.6 million and the
$2.1 for the other programs were budgeted before you knew you had
10.8 million coming from the State sales tax. What I don't understand
is if you had projected a deficit which was going to result in a millage
increase of 49e, or 7ro if you did not have the new monies...7 is what you
said at the beginning of the meeting ... and we bring in $10 million, why
are we not talking about reducing taxes?
Mayor Ferre: Who is "we"?
Mr. Quesenberry: "We" is the State sales tax money, which as Roberta
Fox pointed out was with the intent, if not the designated intent, that
a significant portion go to fighting crime. We are asking for you to
designate $5.7 million to crime and other programs out of $10.8. It
seems to me that your budget is covered and that you are not really
playing fair with the public in acting like you have to raise taxes
to cover these new programs which were brought to you after the money
was brought to you.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Qeusenberry, let me just, again on a one—liner, give
you the what would probably happen. We would have probably increased
taxes $7,000,000. Or we would have reduced services like we may end
up doing tonight in other areas. We may end up cutting all the support
to all the international trade fairs, to all CAMACOL, to the activities
that we have for recreation. These are areas that we may have to cut
tonight. Because we cannot invent the money. We either have to cut
the proposed budget or we are going to have to increase the income.
Mr. Mariano Cruz.
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Mayor Ferte: How much time do you need?
Mt, Cruz: Maybe not quite ten minutes.
Mayor Ferre: You have five minutes.
Mr. Cruz: Ten minutes because they use about one hour there.
Mayor Ferre: But there were ten of them,
Mr. Cruz: All right. State name and address. First thing my name is
Mariano Cruz. I live 1227 N.W. 26 Street in the City of Miami. I have
been a resident of the City for the last 20 years. Maybe tonight I am
going to talk against motherhood and apple pie. I am talking against
what you are talking about: more police. I don't believe in a police
state, first. Crime is a social problem. Let's take an attitude of
fighting the whole crime. Why all these murders, multiple murders?
The murders are a biproduct of the chemical society that we have. It
is also a product of the free enterprise system. It is a dope problem
because people are consuming drugs. The cocaine dealers come here and
they fill the void . You know, free enterprise: demand/supply.
If we eliminate from the !statistics of the police all these directly crine-
related murders, we find that crime of the City of Miami, that percentage
is not that high, not that many murders. Because I live close to the
Miami Stadium, two blocks from the Miami Stadium. I walk to the Miami
Stadium. I walk in my neighborhood. I go to the parks at night time,
day time, anyplace. I walk the neighborhood. Nobody bothers me.
When I read about the Miami Stadium, they talk about two people
that were killed there about two years ago. But in no place do I read
that people should not go to Dadeland or to Westland because people
have been machine-gunned there during broad daylight. I never read
that!
The percentage of the crime, Miami, capital of the crime. This is
press. Press has a lot to do with that! My wife is French. She has
family in France. The other day she received a letter from Dijon...
her family writing: "we are upset. You live there in Miami. Nice
people get killed in Miami. You know, the Carl Brown murders and all
that." Actually that did not happen in Miami. That happened four
blocks west of the City limits. In no place that press had a line
about Dade County. They said Miami. People get killed in South Miami;
they say Miami. People get killed in Hialeah, they still say Miami.
So why all this about needing more police? You have to keep a
balance in the whole system. You are talking about the whole criminal
system. They want more police. Police arrest more people. More are
prosecuted. They put more people in jail. Now the State is trying to
build a prison in West Dade, West Miami. Everybody is opposed to that
prison. Everybody! They do not want th prison. We, in Allapattah
where we live, most of the prisons of Dade County are located there.
The Metro Jail, the Annex, Women's Center, the Juvenile Hall, Halfway
Center, Baker Hall... everything is there! We are not afraid of the
people in there. You have to be afraid of the people out on the street.
That's true. Now the people, if they want more police and more prosecution
they have to live with more jails in their neighborhood. You can keep
a jail in Kendall, Key Biscayne, any place. You can build jails if there
is money there. Build the jails to put the people in there.
Another thing, if you take all that money that is supposed to be
in the budget for us to provide services. Service for the people is
not just police service. You have to have the recreation program. You
need the social programs. If you eliminate the recreation program, you
will have a lot of problems with the young people in the street. When
they could be channeling those energies in basketball playing or
baseball playing, and so forth —they will be thinking what to do.
If they see an old man going by; O.K., let's mug him and get some
money to play Pac.Man or whatever.
Now, if we keep money, if we put more money, actually you are asking
for a half a million dollars for recreational services. That's very little,
You should put more money in recreational services. It is an old saying,
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Mr, drug (CONOT)! "a sound mind is a sound body," When people grow
with that and grow with group activities, they learn social discipline.
They learn social abilities to deal with other things. But the people who
don't have that competition or those main activities...it is very hard
especially for young people with all the influence they are getting from
the media and from every place. One thing, a lot of people come here
from all different municipalities all over Dade County to ask City of
Miami, which the main thing of the City of Miami is for the City Commission
to represent the voters, the residents, and the tax payers in the City
of Miami. My work takes me to Biscayne Park, North Miami, Miami Shores.*
I work the streets of those cities. I would be laughed out of City
Hall if I go there and tell them what to do with the monies they get
from their city tax payers. So, the main thing, whenever ... do you want
to keep Miami as political entity? See, I know, you never said that to
me, Mr. Colson. When you say, you want to keep Miami as a political
entity, try to keep a balance between the different departments of the
City; not tilt the whole thing in favor of the police system. Even as
a way... the other day I called the Miami Police Department. The officer
did not want to get out of the car. I wrote a letter to the Chief of
Police on August the 2nd. I am still waiting for the answer. That is
me, who knows how the system operates! What about somebody, some of my
neighbors..? He writes to the City. Maybe next time I should write to
him at 7800 75 Avenue? Thank you.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Al Slasler and Willy Marshall; are they still here?
5514 N.W. 6 Avenue, Parks and Recreation. I guess they left. See
Mr. Foote, they weren't like you. where is 1r. Foote I guess
he left too. Mr. Richard iilind, is he here? 748 Nebar, Coral Gables.
He left. I think that is all the speakers that I had here. Oh, I'm
sorry. Mr. Rizikov, I did not have your name here and I apologize for
it.
Mr. Maurie Rizikov: My name is Maurie Rizikov.
Mayor Ferre: How much time do you think you need?
Mr. Rizikov: Two minutes. I have lived in Miami for 18 years. It is
the second time that I have come to the City of Miami to a meeting. I
still do not know what we are doing here. The last meeting, two weeks
ago, I think we finished after three hours of speeches without any
conclusion. Today, 9:30 P.M. more or less, we are in the same shape.
If the Commissioners feel like Miami does not need more police because
we are safe, I think we all agree with that. I do not think the
Commissioners think in that way.
' You expressed, Mr. Ferre and the Commissioners ... for the 3.0
policemen per 1,000. We have only one problem: money. Why don't we
put together our minds to look for the money as soon as possible.
Don't waste more time with speeches and get a result for the benefit
of all of us. Commissioners on one side and the people in the other
side. I think we are the same and we are all afraid of the same
problem: to keep our families in good shape and without any problems
on their streets. Thank you.
Mayor Ferre: I hope I did not ignore anybody. Is there anybody who
has not submitted their name to the Clerk who does wish to speak tonight?
Yes, anybody, especially if you have not spoken before.
Mrs. Mariano Cruz: I am Mrs. Cruz. I do not want to take much of your
time. I use the park a lot with my children. Now, we cannot even go
to the park because the bathrooms are closed, the park deteriorates,
there is no more tennis, people thorw bottles cn Sunday
they have dance, whatever, you name it. We cannot use the
park because we don't have attendants. I am sure that if we enough
attendats, which would cost a little percentage of all the money, all
of us people could take our children and enjoy the park. Another
thing I am going to say which will take one second. Most of the people
here that speak in favor of the police, which I am not against. Don't
get me this way, but also these people don't even live in the City
of Miami'. If you would ask all of these people who live in the City
of Miami, you would see maybe three or four. Maybe that would be too
much, Thank you.
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Mayor Ferre: Thank your Mrs. Ctut, Mrs, Ctuti let me say that you
are also fight. I think that we have been:., f do not accept in any
way.,.As a matter of fact, I resent a little bit any implications
that the City Commission has been in any way negligent in.our obligation
to increase our Police Department because we have done it more than
anybody else has in this town for the last three years. So, I do
not make any apologies for that. However, when it comes to parks,
I must make an apology, because we have been negligent. I think
we have not kept up with the recreational needs of this community.
I accept that as a constructive criticism. You are totally correct.
I think that we have a need there in my opinion, I won't say as important
as getting more policemen because that is really our first need still,
But it certainly is one of our most important needs. Is there anybody
else who wishes to speak? We are about to end our public hearing portion
and get into Commission discussion.
Mr. William Fabray: My name is William Fabray. I have an office in
the Dupont Building. I represent the Miami Civitan Club. The
club was formed in 1921 to serve the community in numerous ways trying
to elevate it, standards, and making it a better community. Our
emphasis right now is trying to work through the young people to make
them more aware of the importance of better citizenship and so on. If
the Commission, Miami Crime Commission, Miami Citizens Against Crime
feel that a minimum standard of 3 per 1,000 policemen is necessary,
and they have no doubt given considerable study to this subject, I
think that the Commission ought to give this very serious consideration
and do whatever is necessary to achieve that goal. Thank you.
Mayor Ferre: I assume that everyone has had an opportunity to speak.
Does anybody? Yes, ma'am.
Ms. Karen Letterer: I'm Karen Letterer. I live here in Miami and I
practice law here in :Miami as well. I'm a member of the Miami Citizens
Against Crime representing the American Jewish Committee. I did not
intend to speak. But every time I hear the needs of the people expressed
and the previous actions of the government given out as an answer on the
other hand ... when I need a guard, and the women in my law firm need
guards to walk them to their cars at night because it is not safe to
walk downtown. Wherever I am in Miami, I do not feel safe. It does
not matter if 100`: of your budget is expended on crime. If people
do not feel safe, we need more. We need to do whatever it takes to
get more money. Regardless of how much percentage increase, or
how much percentage we spend, we need more now. The tax money that
came in to us from the 1C sales tax was intended to cover this. I
think we should not cloud the issue by saying to the people that we
have to raise the garbage fees to cover crime. Let's raise the garbage
fees to cover the other programs, the parks, or whatever. But let's
use the sales tax money for the purpose for which it was intended:
fighting crime. It does not matter what percentage of the budget you
are using. If it is not enough, we need to find more.
Mayor Ferre: Does anybody else wish to address the Commission? Mr.
Colson, do you want any rebuttal time? Or any additional tine? Or
any further statements?
INAUDIBLE BACKGROT.M CoMl E:TTS NOT ENTERED INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, since the closing line is that we adopt,
and I don't think that is what Mr. Colson means because I do not
think that is the way it is going to come out. I think what he
means is that we adopt the proposal as they recommended it. But
nevertheless, if you want to go through that, we can go through
the request of the Police Department. Does anybody else wish to speak
before we close the public hearing portion?
Mr. Phil Weinback: My name is Phil Weinback. I am president of the
Public Relations Society.
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MAYot Pette: About how lbhg would you like to speak?
Mt. Weinback: About two minutes. My name is Phil Weinback, I am president
of the Public Relations Society, the Miami Chapter. I am active in the
National Association of the Public Relations Society of America. I am
committed to the entire Miami area. I represent Public Relations people
for the entire Miami area. The City of Miami is the namesake for this
entire area. What the City of Miami does reflects for the entire area.
It is important that the image of this entire community, the City of
Miami, and all of the area, be carried forth nationally and internationally
for all of the wonderful things that it has and not be demeaned by a
negative meaning associated with crime. That is all I have to say.
Mayor Ferre: Are there any other speakers at this time?
Mr. Plummer: I move that the public hearing be closed.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion on the motion that was made? Call the
roll.
THEREUPON MOTION DULY MADE AND SECONDED, THE COMMISSION
ENDED THE PUBLIC STATEMENTS PORTION OF THE HEARING.
Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Manager, I think we can cut though an awful
lot of speeches and all go home. You have come up with $800 and what?
Mr. Gary: $814,000.
Mayor Ferre: $814,000. What these people are here for... the last time
we were here, Mr. Colson, you said, as I remember the request, it was
50 police officers. We are at 836,000, was it? What we are basically
short of is $400,000. Is that correct, Mr. Manager, to come up with
that initial, specific program?
Mr. Gary: For 50 police officers; if you take the 35, 50 during the
year....
Mayor Ferre: Precisely....
Mr. Gary: $2 million.
Mayor Ferre: Those are not the figures now, Howard ... We were going to
start with 35 and work up to 50 by the end of the year.
Mr. Gary: Mr. Mayor, you need $2 million.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, the figures that have been used, and I think
they are rather generous figures, is $38,000. That is the deployment
of the equipment and all of the benefits and on and on. 50 x 40 is
$2 million. If you are going to start with 35, and you know you are
not going to get 35 on October 1st, when you start deploying that and
you work up the end of the year by 50, it cannot possibly mathematically
be $2 million. The last time we said it was $1,250,000. Now, it will
cost you $2 million in the following fiscal year. There is no question
about that. I do not have any arguments with that.
Mr. Gary: It will cost me more.
Mayor Ferre: I'm saying if you stagger this thing so that we can make
a commitment here tonight that by the end of the next fiscal year we
will have 50 additional police officers...as Porter Homer said, "I
think you are getting away pretty cheap."
Mr. Gary; Mr, Mayor, give me a minute to calculate those figures.
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Mayot Fette: He said, "If you can ouy peace for au police o=iicers,
YOU are coming out a heck of a lot bettet than I thought you would
come out." I have to say amen to that!
Mr. Plummer: Well, Mr. Mayor, let me ask this question. 'What about
the increase in the parks and recreation? We are talking....
Mayor Ferre: We are going to deal with that also.
Mr. Carollo: Well, presently, what amount is being assigned to Parka
and Recreation out of the original budget that we had, without the
increase in garbage fees?
Mayor Ferre: $4,500,000 out of $160,000,000.
Mr. Carollo: $4,500,000 for Parks and Recreation.
Mayor Ferre: That is about 2.5%
Mr. Carollo: How much of that is going directly for recreational
activities for young people?
Mr. Plummer: Little.
Mr. Carollo: That is what I want to get from the Manager.
Mayor Ferre: Well, we may have to stop help to the Orange Bowl Committee,
Calle Ocho, festivals....
Mr. Carollo: What percentage of that amount is going to Parks and
Recreation out of the original budget without the garbage increase
is going for recreational activities for young people.
Mr. Gary: I do not follow your question.
Mr. Carollo: Out of the amount that we have put aside in the original
budget that we had made, not including the additional funds we would
have if we would increase the garbage fee, the amount that we put
aside for Parks and Recreation, how much of that is going for
youth recreational programs for the young children of the City of Miami?
Mr. Gary: Our Recreation Department budgets $3 million. You can
assume that all those funds go for recreational programs. On the
other hand, the Parks Department, which maintains the parks, is
$4.6 million. What the Mayor is recommending and what the City
Commission is considering is adding an additional $500,000 to that
budget. In view of the fact that over the last two years you
probably cut to about 160 people out of the Parks and Recreation
Department budget.
Mr. Carollo: Out of the Parks budget there are $4.6. Is any of that
earmarked for recreational also or not?
Mr. Gary: No, it is for the maintenance of the parks.
Mr. Carollo: Just the maintenance of the parks?
Mr. Gary: Exactly.
Mr. Dawkins: How much of the budget for recreation is earmarked
for personnel?
Mr. Gary: I will do a quick calculation for you,
Mr. Dawkins: Thank you,
Mr, Garry; Probably about 50:,
Mr. Dawkins; 80%11 That is close enough,
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Mt. Oary: As a tnattet of fact, that is what it is,
Mt, Dawkins: So the answer to Commissioner Carollo's question is
20% will be direct services to the youth, approximately.
Mt. Gary: Well, no because obviously the staff provides direct
services in terms of instructional programs, teaching people how
to swim, coaching them with regard to baseball, soccer. In terms
of supplies that are directly provided, you can assume 20% goes,
but the personnel cost is 80%.
Mr. Plummer: Yes, but I think also to keep in mtnd that out of the
total budget, only about 2.5% of the budget is going to parks and
recreation.
Mr. Gary: Exactly.
Mr. Carollo: How much money did we spend in this fiscal year on
giving monies to chambers of commerce for activities, different
community groups that were putting on a show or an affair and wanted
money from us?
Mr. Gary: I did not calculate that figure, Commissioner. But I can
ask you to turn to your special programs and accounts section, where
you will see that we spent considerable amounts on festivals and
other types of community activities.
Mr. Carollo: Do we have a total amount?
Mr. Gary: I would have to compute that for you because during the
year, we borrowed money from other places also.
Mr. Carollo: What is the estimate that we spent this year?
Mr. Gary: The Quality of Life Program....
Mr. Carollo: I would like to have that for the record.
Mr. Gary: ....last year, Commissioner, we had budgeted $495,000.
Mr. Carollo: $495,000.
Mr. Gary: Exactly. We are recommending this budget a considerable
reduction of $265,000.
Mr. Carollo: $265,000.
Mr. Gary: Exactly.
Mr. Carollo: These monies will be going again for people that request
funds for whatever activities they are putting on, correct?
Mr. Gary: That is correct. The majority of it goes to the Festival
Advisory Committee for recommendation to the Commission.
Mr. Carollo: You are saying that the majority of it goes to the Festival
Committee?
Mr. Gary: I'm sorry, sir?
Mr. Carollo: Out of that $265,000 the majority goes to the Festival
Committee?
Mr, Gary: That is correct. $186,000 of that goes to the Festival.
Advisory Committee.
Mr. Carollo: Q.K.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Manager, I think there are plates withia that budget
and it may have to be that we may have to trim down on some of our
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Hayor Perre (CON'T): .:.:festivals, We may not be able to help
Pavaiotti come to Miami, Let hits go to Brbward County and Pala Beach,
br let the chamber of somebody else finance it. We may have to cut
dbWn on a lot of these other activities. You have ways finding that
you are talking about $400,000 additional.
Mr. Dawkins: I take issue to the Manager having to find money. It's
time ... Let's bite the bullet up here! If we are going to cut out the
$265,000, cut it out! But let's not put the monkey on the Manager's
back, telling the Manager: "You go somewhere and you find the moneys
and you bring it back." Yes, well, let him tell me now where it is.
And if he does not have it, let him tell me now he does not have it!
Mr. Gary: If I can suggest that we move one step at a time. First
of all, through a phase in the process of hiring 50 additional police
officers, it is my estimation over the next year, by April of 183
we can hire 50 police officers at a cost of $1.1 million.
If the City Commission accepts the $814,000 recommendation that
I made in my report, then we are short approximately $300,000. If
the City Commission wants to go further to reduce the budget to
come up with that $300,000 shortfall, then the alternative is that
Quality of Life Program, which is approxiately $265,000, which makes
us about $35,000 short. I could recommend to you that we take
$35,000 from the African Trade Fair.
Mr. Dawkins: Fine, I don't care where you take it from. Just tell me
now where it is coming from so that....
Mr. Gary: That would be my recommendation.
Mr. Dawkins: O.R., so that when these other people come up here all
next year saying that "we want," and including Florida A.M. for the
Orange Blossom Classic, Goombay, Calle Ocho, and what have you, I
will tell them we have no money. I don't want anyone telling you,
Mr. Manager, go over in category B, under line item 6 and find it.
Mr. Carollo: I think we should just make a policy that there is no
money for anybody, period.
Mr. Dawkins: That is what I want the Manager....
Mayor Ferre: It might be that the Manager might find some other money....
Mr. Dawkins: Then if he finds it, I want to hire more garbage collectors.
Mr. Carollo: Let me see if I can help the Manager out. Mr. Manager,
we could get Mr. Surana with his pen, paper, and calculator to see if
my figures are right. Who would do away with the Office of Information
and Visitors? That would save us $599,306 in personnel and $140,720
in expenses. If we would do away with the Office of International
Trade Promotions; that would give us $155,5219 in personnel and $129,159
in expenses. If we would do away with the Office of Economic Development,
that would give us $149,504 in personnel and $54,150 in expenses and
$2,915 in capital outlay. If we would do away with City—wide events,
that would be $55,565. If we would do away with the Festival Committee,
that would be....
Mayor Ferre: No more festivals.
Mr. Carollo: All the parties are over, guys. That would be $186,000.
If we would do away with the fee waivers, like we stated, that would
be $22,070. If we would do away with giving $170,000 to the New
World Festival Committee....
Mr. Manohar Surana: We don't have that next year, sit',
Mr. Plummer: That's out, that's only one shot.
Mayor Ferre: Thank God!
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Mrs Catollo: Then if we jump to the trade fairs, if we would do away
with giving any more money to any trade faitsi that would be $3000000
we would save. If we would do away with the Office of Professional
Compliance, that would be $166,691. Subtracting that $175,000 that
I thought would be in there, that comes to a little over $2 million,
I believe. Pretty close to $2 million. I don't know if these
$79,000 minus that $186 that the Manager was talking about before
is included in these City-wide events or not, but anyway, with the
figures that I gave you I think that comes pretty close to $2 million.
Mayor Ferre: Well, we may have to do all that, but that is an awfully
high price to pay for 50 police officers. I'm not willing to do that.
Mr. Carollo: Now, the City of Miami police Department, which by the
way if I could have the Record again, what percentage of our present
budget is going to the Police Department?
Mr. Gary: 39%.
Mr. Carollo: 39%. Last year there was $2,450,714 spent for overtime.
The projected overtime for next year's budget is $2,391,000. I think
if we are willing to find $2 million by doing all this, I think between
maybe our Chief and his staff in the recommendations of our consultant,
we could cut that overtime back drastically; maybe come up with another
anywhere between a half a million to one million dollars. So here we
have anywhere from $2.5 million to maybe $3 million.
Mayor Ferre: I go along with that one. If we cut a half a million
dollars for the overtime budget on the Police Department. If anybody
wants additional overtime pay, let him pay an additional fee for it.
Mr. Carollo: There are departments in the Police Department that I
think are deserving of the extra hours they place and the overtime
that they have spent and are requesting for next year. But there are
also many departments there that I really question what they have
received this year and what they are asking for next year as required.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, with the 50 additional policemen we really shouldn't
have a need for so much overtime, Joe.
Mr. Carollo: That is what I'm saying. So, with the monies that we
have here, we really have more funds than we need.
Mayor Ferre: I would go along with the $.5 million of overtime cut.
That is going to make it very tight, but....
Mr. Dawkins: But we have 50 extra men, Mr. Mayor.
Mr. Carollo: The contingency fund that we have, the $600,000+....
Mr. Gary: If I could respond to the overtime situation. First of all,
a significant amount of that overtime is due to court appearances.
Another significant amount, particularly this year was due to the
demonstration we had downtown in the Immigration Office. There is
some overtime associated with our efforts to resolve major crime
cases.
If you read the newspaper article, you know, we were bad guys
for trying to effectively and efficiently manage the utilization of
this overtime. I agree with you that we need to manage that overtime
better. We have begun to do that. If you look at that overtime figure,
the increase that you see there is not sufficient to cover the same
rate of overtime payment that was incurred the current year. That
adjustment is due primarily to the fact that the increase in the
salaries that we pay to our employees on an hourly basis has increased,
that is what the increase is attributable to.
Mr. Dawkins: That is why I did not ask for $1 ailltoa cut and 1 went
along with $,5 million, Mr. Manager.
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Mr, Gary: Let me just explain another thing too. On the overtime
sheet that was given to you, if you look at it, it is broken down
in two areas. The first is paid overtime. The other is compensatory
overtime. Compensatory overtime is overtime paid not in terms of
dollar compensation but time off. So the real dollar cost for
'82-'83 is $1,245,000 as opposed to $1,146,000. In another circumstance
it might try to give you an impression that is not a cost. But it
is not a direct payment cost.
Mr. Dawkins: The reason that I didn't go along with $1 million, for
the simple reason that you say: we have to pay overtime for going to
court, we pay overtime for holidays and what have you. But by the
same token, if you are going to add 50 men, there has to be some
slack someplace. Secondly, in other places, we ask for people to
cut and make sacrifices. We are not adding, but yet we are treating
the Police Department as a primadonna and we are just not telling
them, "Hey, look, you have to tighten your belt and make a cut."
Everybody around here has to bite the bullet. We may as well start
with the Police Department. If we are going to add 50 people, then
somewhere you are going to have some excess something.
Mr. Carollo: I think the only .:ay you are going to accomplish that,
Miller, is by having a line item budget where even a paper clip that
going to be bought by the Police Department gets approved by this
Commission. That is the only way that you are going to control that
spending. The only way. Otherwise, just whistle in the air.
Mr. Plummer: :ir. Mayor, let me ask a question. When are we going
to hear?
Mr. Carollo: To give you an example of what I am talking about, and
I hate to bring it up again, you remember the patrol boats that we
are acquiring for the Police Department? I was the one that made
the motion that pushed to get the patrol boats. Let me go over with
the public here the story of the patrol boats. The personnel that
was assigned in the Police Department to acquire the patrol boats,
after they spent considerable amount of hours, paid hours, to go
and find the best type of boats they could at the best price, gave
us a price that my staff was able to find an equivalent type boat
with the same type of guarantees and equipment for a third cheaper.
We later found out that it was actually half cheaper, because those
boats that they were recommending for that price did not include the
motors. The people that we found included the motors. We saved the
City a tremendous amount of money by then placing it out to bid
because at that time the police was requesting that it would not
be placed out to bid. That is just one major example. We could
get into others right here. But if we are really going to cut back,
I think Commissioner Dawkins is right. We have to look at fat
within other parts of the Police Department also.
Mr. Plu=ner: Mr. Mayor, let me ask a question.
Mayor Ferre: J.L., would you make a motion if you can?
Mr. Dawkins: He can't make a motion until he asks his question!
Mr. Plummer: I'm not in the position at this point. The question
that I wanted to ask is that we have only heard from half of the
department heads. I want to know when we are going to hear from the
other half. I told you all the way along that I want to go in very
deeply into this Computer's Division.
Mayor Ferre: After we adopt the budget.
Mr, Gary: After you adopt the budget, I will sit down with you in
your home and go over the individual deparment budget.
Mr. Plummer: You will bring your own Apple Computer. No, that's
$3,2 million I want to talk about.
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Mayor Ferre: You are making our task a lot more difficult and a lot
harder. It is really a fairly simple thing. We have already $830,000.
The Manager has recommended $300,000. Let's get on with it. I
would like to make a motion, if I can Mr. Vice Mayor, that we accept
the Manager's recommendation for the funding up to $1,100,000 that
he has presently recommended.
Mr. Carollo: Is there a.second?
Mayor Ferre: I think this is a good recommendation. I accept it the
way it has been proffered. I think it solves one of our problems,
We are going to deal with the other problems in a moment.
Mr. Perez: Where is the money coming from..`?
Mayor Ferre: I am following the Manager's recommendation.
Mr. Perez: For the garbage increase?
Mayor Ferre: No, sir. Not the garbage increase. He did not say
garbage increase. He said he has come up with $830,000, as you
know in this report here.
Mr. Gary: $814,000.
Mayor Ferre: $814,000.
Mr. Gary: Increasing existing revenues, reduction of the Quality of
Life $265,000, take the balance out of the African Trade Fair.
52. INSTRUCT CITY .:A+AGED. TO IW:E CERTAIN .EDUCTIONS IN TLE
APPROPRIATIONS Or.DEW!CL FOR TKI: FISCAL 1932-1903 BUDGET.
Mayor Ferre: I so move.
Mr. Perez: What is the recommendation?
Mayor Ferre: Repeat the recommendation again, Mr. Manager.
Mr. Gary: $814,000 recommended in my memo to you today in terms of
increasing existing revenues; elimination of the Quality of Life Fund
in the amount of $265,000; and the balance to come out of miscellaneous....
Mr. Carollo: Gentlemen, excuse me, Harry, I just want to warn them
there was an editorial written about me because of that. I don't want
to get into any trouble here.
Mr. Gary: I repeat the by recommending $814,000 which would increase
existing revenues; elimination of the Quality of Life Program Account
by $265,000; the balance coming out of the African Trade Fair Account.
Mayor Ferre: I so move.
Mr. Carollo: When you say coming out of the African Trade Fair Account,
how much is coming out of the African Trade Fair Account?
Mr. Gary: The balance.
Mr. Carollo: Which is?
Mr. Gary: $60,000.
Mr. Carollo: Which will leave the African Trade Fair another $140,000
still.
Mr. Gary: That is correct.
Mr. Carollo: And the Trade Fair of the America$ $100*000,
Mr. Gary: That is correct.
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Mr, Lardllo: i VoUld just suggest that use do away with all the trade
fairs, period,
Mr, Gary: Let me just caution you on that for the mere fact that those
monies are dedicated from the State. So, if you do not use it for that
purpose, you have to return it to the State.
Mayor Ferre: Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Palm Beach, Ft. Lauderdale
are all in line waiting for it.
Mr, Carollo: All the monies for the trade fairs are coming from the
State?
Mr. Gary: That is correct, We have $200,000 coming from the State
for trade fairs.
Mr. Plummer: Excuse me, Mr. Vice Mayor, there is a motion on the floor,
Does it have a second?
Mr. Carollo: Not yet.
Mr. Plummer: Is the motion dead or alive?
Mr. Carollo: Well, it will be dead if nobody seconds it I gather.
Mayor Ferre: Let me make the motion again to make sure. I recommend
that we approve the Manager's recommendation as just stated so that
we can hire an additional 50 police officers.
Mr. Dawkins: I second it with the stipulation that you cut overtime
by $500,000.
Mr. Gary: Let me just clarify on overtime. This is the reason, Mr.
Mayor....
Mayor Ferre: I accept that. Wait a moment, just so that we get this
thing moving. I accept that as part of the second. I accept that
as part of my motion.
Mr. Carollo: O.K., there has been a stipulation that $500,000 should
be taken from the overtime funds from the Police Department. There
has been a second. Any further discussion?
Mr. Plummer: I have to hear from the Chief on the $500,000 deduction.
It seems that we are giving the Police Department something and we
are taking something away. How can you live with that?
Mr. Carollo: I tell you, here I have been, you know ... mean editorial,
throw me in jail, do all this to me and everybody talks for everybody
here. I don't know why they pick on me all the time! I hope somebody
from the Herald is taking notes on this. After all, you know, the
crime rate has gone down a lot, if nothing else to look into.
Chief Kenneth Harms: Commissioner Plummer, what was your question?
Mr. Plummer: The question is simple, respond to rt,rrm,i$,Rioner Dawkins
stipulation as part of the motion that $500,000 of your overtime money
be deleted from your budget.
Chief Harms: Most of the questions are. It is the answers that.are
a little more difficult. Yes, we will certainly try to manage on that
figure.
Mayor Ferre: You loop a little nervous.
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Mrs Carollo: Keti would it make it any easier if what we discussed
previously could be accomplished: that you have some of your staff
meet with Janet Reno's people and see if we.could get the bureaucrats
there to only call the really required police officers to come and
testify,not just all everybody around.
Chief Harms: We will certainly explore that, yes, sir, with not
only the State Attorney's Office but the Public Defender's Office
as well and the balance of the Criminal Justice System that is in
a position to make apperance demands on our officers.
Mr. Dawkins: Chief Harms, would it make it any easier if I change
the motion to say that you attempt to reduce the overtime? Would
that make it more palatable?
Chief Harms: Yes. sir, it certainly will.
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Mayor, may I change my second to say that? I will
second it on the recommendation that the Chief do all within his power
to reduce the overtime.
Mr. Carollo: Miller, you started with a big bat and you end up with
a lollipop. My God!
Mayor Ferre: Look at it this way, the Miami Citizens Against Crime
start out with a big bang and we are lucky to get away with 50! So
what are you complaining about?
Mr. Dawkins: You have to give and take.
Mr. Carollo: Can I get our consultant up here to give us his version
on the overtime.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Porter Homer.
Mr. Dawkins: You're on overtime, Mr. Porter Homer.
Mr. Porter Homer: Sir?
Mr. Carollo: Have you been able to find our through your studies of
our Police Department and the overtime situation? Do you think it is
adequate? It should be cut down? It could be cut down? It cannot?
Mr. Porter Homer: Well, we only started looking at that. We think
there are some problems there that might result in some savings, but
we are not in a point to give you conclusive answers today.
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Mk- PlIffnMet t What are We... let me ask this gUesti6h. Are Wd addeeggiho
.just the issue of the Police Depattment...
Mayor Ferre: That's right.
Mr. Plummer: ... and how that addition is going to be funded?
Mayor Ferre: That's right. That's our first priority, right?
Mr. Plummer: That's the only thing this motion speaks to.
Mayor Ferre: Ok, but that's not our only priority and I want you to khblw
that once we do that we are going to get five hundred thousand dollars for
the Parks Department too. For the Recreations Department, ok?
Mr. Carollo: For youth recreation.
Mr. Dawkins: On top of what we already have.
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr. Plummer: Then under discussion, Mr. Manager, where is the half a million
coming from Parks and Recreation.
Mr. Gary: At the last meeting Mr. Plummer, the City Commission intent was
to finance that half from the FP&L account and half from other sources of
revenues which I was supposed to identify.
Mr. Plummer: Identify them. That's what I'm asking you to do.
Mr. Gary: well, I identified the.n, but you didn't accept all of my recommendations
Now, if... obviously, if the waste fee is out I would have to go back through the
budget again and identify the additional two hundred fifty thousand dollars,
as well as to tell you what other service reductions have to be made to
finance that.
Mr. Dawkins: And it will not be in Sanitation.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Plummer?
Mr. Gary: No, guarantees.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, I take my second back.
Mayor Ferre: Mr. Plummer, I want you to know that the first time I ran for
Mayor and you remember, you were there, I had six opponents, seven opponents,
the Miami Herald and the Miami News said that Gloria Calhoun was much better
and I was just going to be a terrible Mayor and on and on. And I didn't
get their support the next time and then I had Rose Gordon a couple of times
ago and then I had Ma.nolo Reboso and the Miami Herald thought that Manolo
Reboso was going to he some great kind of a Mayor, and I want you to know
that thanks to Bill Colson and Luis Sabires and some of my other friends
we survived and I'm running again next year and I'm not going to put my
neck in the noose and please know that what I'm Coing here and what you are
doing and what we are doing is not a foolish thing and that we are not going
to get in problems with the neighborhoods on festivals and we are not going
to get in problems with my friend Cruz who probably helped me more than anybody
else did out there in Allapattah and we are going to be alright. We are not
going to make any bad mistakes.
Mr. Carollo: Can I help you out Mr. Mayor, if you are going to run again,
I suggest that you give tennis lessons to your campaign manager so that they
could play with the people in the Herald. I hear that, that's helpful for
endorsements.
Mayor Ferre: You think that will get me an endorsement? Well, ..,
.M..r. Carollo; It is helpful for endorsements I understand.
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My t Pdttet bk, are we ready to go and note flow? tet's have a little
faith and bite the bullet.
Mt. Carollo: No, further discussions, hearing honer may we have roll oalit
The following motion was introduced by Mayor Ferre ah d
WVed its adoption:
MOTION NO. 82-889
A MOTION ACCEPTING THE RECOkt,=10ATION OF THE CITY
MANAGER TO I.UU r REDUCTIONS TO TFX APPROPRIATIONS
070INANCE FOR FY-'82-183 BUDGET IN THE FOLLOWING
DESCRIBED AREAS:
A- $814,000 IN CON:ZECTION WITH THE INCREASE OF
EXISTING REVENUES;
B- $265,252 FROM THE QUALITY OF LIFE PROGRAM;
C- CUT "AFRICAN TRADE FAIR" BY THE NECESSARY AMOUNT To
ACHIEVE A TOTAL OF $1,100,000; AND
D- FURTHER REQUESTING Thy, CHIEF OF POLL TO ATTEMPT TO
REDUCE, BY WHATEVER MEANS, THE OVERTIME LINE ITEM
IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT BUDGET BY APPROXIMATELY
$500,000.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Cormissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
ABSENT: None.
ON ROLL CALL:
Mr. Plu-,=er: I got to vote "no". I just don't feel I'm all in favor
of the fifty policemen. I will vote for the fifty policemen before the
night is over, but I just don't like the method that we are going about
it. I think that there has got to be more of a rationale type of program.
�. We have got to address the problem in its full contents and we just can't
hope and wish. I can't vote with that, no.
Mr. Carollo: I vote "no". I just don't think the way to handle this
is just by going a little bit at a tme. Either we are really going to
start cutting back in the departments that we have cut back in all at
one time or I'm not going to vot for this. Now, there are many other
areas that we can cut back. I want to know the total amount of dollars
that we are going to save by cutting back in all the areas that we can.
I suggested many. Some could be accepted, some cannot, but I'm just not
going to, you know, vote a piece at a time.
53. 2;1STRUCT CITY 1,!A:'.AGE_ TO LiC%DSE DUD= FOR F C^.EATI011
DEPt,11 ':=1T BY 6Y500,000.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, Mr. Vice -Mayor, I would now like to move that the
City Manager be instructed to expend, to increase the budget for the
Recreation Department by five hundred thousand dollars.
Mr. Plummer: Second the motion.
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MAyot Ferre: Those monies to come from up to five hundred thousand dollars
ftoit Florida Power and Light, unless the Manager can identify in the faitly
heat future before the first two hundred fifty thousand is expended an
Additional two hundred fifty thousand dollars worth of source. And if we
need to deal with that mid stream...
Mr. Gary: Let me correct the record. I would like for you to turn to
your attachment "B" in my memo to you dated September 22nd. Now, if you
will look at the eight hundred fourteen thousand dollars that I was talking
about Mr. Mayor, that includes already two hundred fifty thousand coming out
of FP&L. Five sixty-four plus the two fifty gives you the eight fourteen.
Now, if you want...
Mayor Ferre: I do want. We will come back and deal with that two fifty later
on, but I do want... because that... you got it in there.
Mr. Gary: Can we take a two minute recess?
Mayor Ferre: Sure. Let's take a five minute break.
Mr. Dawkins: No, wait let's finish. Hold it, let me finish with this.
We are going to take five hundred thousand dollars from where?
Mayor Ferre: Florida Power and Light.
Mr. Dawkins: Ok. Now, how much do you have budgeted to spend at Hadley
Park?
Mr. Gary: One million dollars.
Mr. Dawkins: Ok, how much do you have budgeted to spend at Moore park?
Mr. Gary: Well, let me explain.
Mr. Dawkins: Explain it to me please.
Mr. Gary: The three million for recreation, the four point six for parks
comes to about seven point six, seven point seven is operational budget
for recreational programs and recreation maintenance.
Mr. Dawkins: Alright, so now we are talking about five hundred thousand
dollars on top of that.
Mr. Gary: Yes.
Mr. Dawkins: And this five hundred is to be earmarked for what?
Mr. Gary: I have that in you package, a series of programs which include
the opening of two pools ten months during the year to implement a swimming
program year round to reinstitute the tennis program year round.
Mayor Ferre: At Moore Park.
Mr. Gary: At Moore Park, Shenandoah and two other parks. We also have
summer concerts and year round concerts which we don't have. We are also
going to add the recreation leader Its to be able to open up those parks
that we had to close down over the last two years. That's about ten people.
So, that's basically the program. It's to improve recreational programs,
eighty percent of which were programs we had in the past that we had to
cut out due to budget cuts.
Mayor Ferre; That's all subject to change.
Mr. Gary; Oh, this is... that was a record
Mr. Dawkins: No, no, that's my point. That's my point, It is not subject
to change if I vote on it.
Mayor Terre: Now, now, Miller, wait.
Kr, Dawkins: No, no, Mr. Mayor# I want You to 13n ierstan�. , :
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Mayor fdtte: I want you to uhderstand what my motion ie:
kt, bawkins: Ok, what is yout motion?
Mayor Ferre: I want you to understand...
Mt, Dawkins: Ok, alright, that's why I want to uhderstAhd before I votes
Mayor Ferre: Now, we are getting into this with the recommendation that it
be two pools. We may want three pools: We may want one pool.
Mr. Dawkins: And we may want no pools, but not I'm not::4 well, no, fib, I
will not vote. I will not vote on that.
Mr. Carollo: Well, let me ask this, that statue that we are going to spend
six hundred thousand dollars on...
Mr. Dawkins: But... see, this is... no, wait. Toe, let me cut you off one
minute. You see, this is what irritates me. When you come to the damn
Police Department every dawn thing is written in stone, then when you go to
Parks and Recreation it's doubtful. No, no,
Mayor Ferre: But Cor=issioner, the reason that it's written in stone is
because it's a very simple matter. We are saying fifty police officers.
But when we get to the Recreation Department I don't think we thought...
so, it's not that simple. It's not fifty police officers. For example,
I don't want to spend any money on a music program. I'm sorry, I just...
I don't think. I'm talking about programs that get those kids in there and
they run around playing baseball or track or swirming or the type of
community activities that keep these kids interested and occupied. Now, and
I think for example that on a cost factor I'm not for expanding the swimming
thing in two parts for ten months. I think we need to get to the most cost
effective type of programs and I don't know what they are and I think we need
to go into that at a special two or three hour session that we are going to
have to decide what it is that is the... how do we use that five hundred...
I want to make sure, for example...
Mr. Dawkins: when you are on the prevailing side of a vote you can rescind
it. I would like to make a motion that we reconsider the police vote and then
we study that at the six weeks time when we are going to study the Park and
Recreaticn. That's all.
Mr. Carollo: Now, there is a motion, is there a second?
Mr. Plummer: Well, I wasn't on the prevailing side.
Mr. Carollo: Well, you second it.
Mr. Plummer: I can't.
Mayor Ferre: Well, can we get back to the... before this thing become unraveled.
Now, look, Miller, I want to be reasonable. Tell me what it is...
Mr. Dawkins: Ck, my only hang up is that we say now,henceforth and forever
_ more that the monies that we got in Park and Recreation will remain in Park
=- and Recreation and that it will be utilized in Park and Recreation. That's
all I'm saying. I don't want us to come up here at the end of the year and
_ then you say well you know, we took this from there and we didn't spend this
yet in Park and Recreation. so I'm going to take this out and put this in
another line item. That's all I don't want.
Mayor Ferre: i-iiiler, you sound like...
Mr. Carollo: You don't wart him to take it from Paul to feed Peter.
Mayor Ferre: Wait a minute. Miller, you sound like John McMullin in Watson
Island. I want to tell you that I give... here I am going to say it publicly
into the record. You know, even when I say it into the record John still
doesn't believe me. I want you to believe me. You have my word on the
record that I have absolutely no intentions during the full budget year of
transferring any of the monies from Parks and Recreation to any other department.
What I am talking about and I'm sorry, I apologize for not explaining it
properly, is that within the Parks and: Recreation Department I want to make
sure for exarrnle, that, that dive hundred thousand dollars is used, for example,
in the ghetto areas where I think that we need to spend the majority of the
money.
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Mki bAWkins: On the areas where we neglected, Yesf I buy that,
Mayor Ferre: We need to spend some money in Allapattah, We heed to apond
some money in Overtown.
Mr, Dawkins: And Little Havana.
Mayor Ferre: We need to spend some money in Wynwood. We need to spend some
money up in the Liberty City area. That's where... Now, you know, and with
all due respects I don't want to spend too much money in areas...
Mr. Dawkins: Mr. Manager, I want you to be sure and hear this so that when
some of these same people who come up here with these bleeding hearts stories
and we end up giving them money and we tell you to go find it that you do not
find it in Recreation. That's all.
Mr. Gary: Yes, sir.
Mr. Dawkins: Ok, thank you.
Mayor Ferre: In other words, to put it in another way, Mr. Manager on the
record. Instead of spending four and a half million dollars in recreation
we are going to spend five million dollars, but how we spend that five million
dollars I want this board to deal with in detail. I'm not too sure I agree
with the music program.
Mr. Gary: I would like to just for the record. It wasn't our intention to
say that the five hundred thousand had to be spent the way that we suggested
to you. This was a proposed program that obviously would have to be discussed
by the City Commission. I would like to also say Mr. Mayor, just for the
record so Commissioner Dawkins, won't be confused later. The Parks Department
is four million six, Recreation is three million. So, we are talking about
three point five million if you add the five hundred.
Mayor Ferre: I stand corrected. I'm sorry.
Mr. Gary: Ok, I just didn't want him to...
Mayor Ferre: From three to three point five million dollars. Thank you.
Mr. Dawkins: For Recreation.
Mayor Ferre: For Recreation. I still think of it the way it was before
and I apologize. Now,— and I want to address something to basically
Anakokis because I saw him going like this a couple of times on something.
I want to make sure that we understand each other, at least coming from
me. This City budget is as tight as this... as any City budget can be. In
my opinion it is so tight that it has gore beyond the fat and beyond the
muscle and it is down into the bone, ok. Now, we are... we are not collecting
garbage properly. We are not collecting trash properly. The Parks Departments
are abandoned. Our parks are in bad shape. our recreational... that three
and a half million dollars for a City ..his size is nothing, absolutely nothing
and I want you to know that this is as tight a budget, you know, it may seem
to you that we pay games loosely here with things and that... please don't
misunderstand. This is a... and this is as tight a budget is there is.
And you know, let me tell you, man does not live on bread alone and we have
got to have some of these programs, you know. And to get fifty more cops.
I'm not willing personally to cut out Trade and Commerce. Trade and Commerce
have been... you know, I don't mean to challenge Alvah's figures. He said that
our #1 industry is Tcurism. I don't think that's right. I don't think
tourism is our #1 industry. It was. That's not Miami 1982. According to
FIU and some of these reports we get there are two hundred forty thousand
people today that are working in international trade and commerce in this
community out of a working force of seven hundred sixty thousand people.
There are not two hundred forty thousand people working in tourism in this
town. And the point I'm trying to make to you is that we got too many roads
to take and too many things to do before we finish. There are just too many
things to do and we can't afford that hundred forty or hundred fifty thousand
dollars that we have in trade and commerce is a minimum effort. We should be
spending a million four hundred thousand dollars in trade and commerce. I
mean for a city this size that is a absolutely minimum effort. And I want
you to know that, that hundred forty thousand dollars has given us more and
to Mr. Chapman and to you Mr. Colson in particular who worry about us being
the murder capital of the world I want to tell you that you will be very proud
of your city in October when the economist has a cover story as you know
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dbtiftq out on Miami, And it's an upbeat story... sir? And there were many
of us that were interviewed for it and you probably got the sense of it
Alva and the sense of it is upbeat and I want you to know, I asked that
reporter a very telling question and his answer was... I said aren't you
writing about crime? He said oh, no, that was last year's story. I said
what's this year story? He said Miami as an international city. Now, that's
where it's at. That's our future. I1ow, we got to get on with stopping
the ridicule of the Latin Chamber of Commerce because these little businessmen
you know, from Flagler Street ended up bring twenty-two countries to this
City of Miami and a hundred thirty-six Chambers of Commerce had a member
representing them, you know and we kind of pooh, pooh this and think it's,
you know... and you know, we don't take it very seriously and the...
(BACKGROUND Co'lkM-NIT OFF THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Ferre: Ok. well, we got a long way to go, but we are going to chip
away at it. So, I think we now have a motion, Mr. Vice -Mayor. I don't
think there... was there a second?
Mr. Plummer: I seconded the motion on recreation.
Mr. Carollo: Ok, there is a motion and a second, any further discussion?
Hearing none, can we have roll call?
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Ferre, who
moved its adoption:
MOTION 140. 82-890
A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER TO INCREASE THE BUDGET
OF THE RECREATION DEPART:W'NT BY $500,000, SAID AMOUNT TO BE
TAKEN FRCM THE F.P.L. FL*ND UNLESS THE MA:3AGER CAN IDENTIFY, IN
THE RELATIVELY NEAR FUTURE, A.`IOTHER SOURCE OF FUNDING WHICH COULD
PROVIDE O�'E HALF OF THIS AILLOCATION TO ACHIEVE A TOTAL FOR THE
RECREATIC:: DEPART.1-E.;7 OF $ 3 , 500, 000 .
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plwrner, the motion was passed
and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Deznetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
ViceMayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
ABS M : None.
f P~r SS CITY =LMISSION POLICY ON GARPAGZ FEE AT P RESENT RATE OF
Mayor Ferre: knere are we, I don't know where we are?
Mr. Gars: We are on Item 1-D. It's on the agenda, right. And I'm
recommending... I'm suggesting :hat we take action on "D" Item #2 and "A"
Item ;F3 and by that time we will finish 41 and then we can go ahead and
do 41 and # a .
Mayor Ferre: I got you.
Mr" Carollo: Mr, Manager, Qn,,,
M.r. Gar,: Yes, six,
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Mt, Latollo: I'm sbtty,
a hundred dollars?
Mr. Gait': Exactly, sir,
On the tentative budget the garbage fee will be
Mr, Carol.los How many fonds do we anticipate out of that hundred dollars
Mr, Gary: I'm sorry, sir, I didn't hear the question.
Zit, Carollo: The total amount of funds that we anticipate getting out of
that hundred dollar fee.
Mr. Gary: 8.3 million.
Mr. Carollo: 8.3 million. In other words, we only would have gotten seven
hundred thousand dollars more with an increase of twenty-eight dollars?
That don't sound right.
Mr. Surana: Vice -Mayor Carollo, that 8,3 which is 1.8 equal to twenty-five
dollars and 6.5 that...
Mr. Carollo: Manchar, talk English to me, you know, just what is the total
amount we are going to get?
Mr. Surana: 8.3 million dollars.
Mr. Carollo: 8.3 million dollars is the total amount+ out of which we pay
Dade County how much?
Mr. Gary: 5.8.
Mr. Surana: 5.8.
Mr. Carollo: 5.8?
Mr. Surana: Yes, sir.
Mr. Carollo: Gentlemen, I'm sorry, but it seems every year our garbage fees
are going up now when we are only paying Dade County not quite two thirds
of what we are bringing in.
Mr. Plummer: What's your point, Joe?
Mr. Carollo: Well, my point is that the reason that we started charging a
garbage fee was... and this is what we told the public. The reason we gave
was that Dade County is charging us this money, so we got to pay Dade County.
Well, heck, with the additional twenty-five dollars increase from seventy-five
to a hundred dollars we are bringing in 8.3 million, but we are only paying
Dade County 5.8 million. So, why do we have to raise it an additional
twenty-five dollars? I mean if that's the case let's tell the public the
real truth, so much is going to pay Dade County and the rest is going somewhere
else.
Mr. Plummer: Well, as I see it we are raising 2.2... two and a quarter million
more on the additional twenty-five dollars per fee. What is your figure?
Mr. Surana: Co=issioner Pltznmer...
Mr. Plummer: Going From seventy-five to a hundred dollars.
Mr. Surana: That will give us 1.8 million dollars in the first year, then
the following year we will get more money because we do not receive all the
money in the first year.
Mr. Plummer; Ck, well, in other words, you axe still barking it on ninety
thousand units at twenty-five dollars?
Mr. Surana: Yes, sir.
X.r. Plummer: And Joe, your Point is that Xf we are getting 1.8 miilim more,,.
Isn't that exactly what we are paying pade County more this year?
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Mr, Gamy: 1.7.
Mt.luticner: 1,7,
Mr. Gary: Might,
tir. Plummer: Well, I'M losing something, doe.
Pair, Carollo: Well, J. L., the figures that they gave me is that With the
additional twenty-five dollar increase from seventy-five to a hundred dollars,
We will collect 8.3 million dollars total in the...
Mr. Plummer: No, additional.
Mr. Carollo: Total, total and what we are going to be paying Dade County is
5.8 million.
Mr. Surana: Out of 8.3 million dollars is 1.1 million dollars is collection
of prior year receivables. So, if you look at apple to apple, is 7.2 million
dollars what bring hundred dollars with revenues.
Mr. Gary: Well, let me shorten it up for you.
Mr. Carollo: Well, if it's prior years, you know, then we should be able
to give people a discount.
Mr. Gary: No, let me tell you what happened. The first year, Mr. Carollo,
the first year we implemented the tax our collection rate for the sake of
explanation was short 1.2 million dollars. You had to then take 1.2 million
dollars from someplace else. Now, you are getting paid back that 1.2 from
those delinquent taxpayers.
Mr. Plummer: So, in other words, what you are saying is the difference
between the 5.8 and the 9 million dollars is making up for the short fall
of the years previous?
Mr. Gary: When we implemented the fee approximately all of it with the
exception of about 1.2 million dollars went to Dade County and what I'm
saying to you is that of the difference between the 5.8 and the 8.3, 1.2 of
it is from prior years receipts.
Mr. Carollo: In other words, out of the 8.3, 1.2 is from prior years?
Mr. Gary: Exactly.
Mr. Carollo: Ck, so there is still...
Mr. Gary: That gives you 7 million.
Mr. Carollo: ... 7.1 million.
N.r. Gary: And 1.3 has been traditionally going 'to the Sanitation Department.
rIr. Carollo: So, in other words... .
Mr. Gary: Since the inception of the fee.
Mr. Carollo: In other wcrds, out of the twenty-five dollar increase, that
twenty-five dollar increase is going strictly to the Sanitation Department?
Mr. Surana: Yes, sir.
Mr. Gary: That's correct.
Mr. Carollo: :Not for the fee to Dade County,
Mr. Gary: That's correct.
1A".r, Carollo: I'm glad you guys are here in Miami and not ruining
Washington. Well, I think if that's the case then, you know, we ought to
tell the public how it is. You know, for the last two years we have been
telling t.':e public the reason that we are charging them a fee for garbage
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i§ bedause Dade County is charging us and we are charging Dade touhty.
'16U know, just tell them how it is, That we are charging them part to
fjAy bade County and the other part a good twenty-five percent to maybe
thirty percent is going to the Sanitation Department for additional service.
Mr, Plummer: So, we are going to have fifty additional garbage collectotO
Mr, Carollo: No, we are not. They want to get rid of two hundred,
Mayor Ferret What do you want to do now, Joe?
Mr. Carollo: Maurice, you all can make any motion you want, but I'm just
not going to go for anymore increases, you know, increases in my garbage
fee. Now, I will pay what we have to pay Dade County, but I'm not...
personally I'm not going to pay a penny more and I respect you all opinion
on it.
Mayor Ferret Well, where are we. Let's go fellows, come on, one way or
the other let's start making your motions and let's get out of here.
Mr. Carollo: I make a motion that the garbage fees stays at the same
seventy-five dollars that it's been out of which the total use of those
seventy-five dollars will be going to pay Dade County for what they are
charging us.
Mr. Plummer: Second the motion.
Mr. Carollo: Clarence, you got anything to say? You know, the Miami Herald
says that's a violation of the Sunshine Law. That's what Joe McMullin...
what's his name Dan Paul say.
Mayor Ferret Ck, we have got a motion let's vote on it. Ready to vote?
Let's see if we are going to stay up all night. Call the roll.
The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Carollo, who
moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 82-891
A MOTION EXPRESSING THE POLICY OF THE CITY COMMISSION
THAT THE GARBAGE FEE FOR CITY OF MIAMI RESIDENTS REMAIN AT
THE PRESENT RATE OF $75,00 PER YEAR; FURTHER STIPULATING
THAT REVENUE DERIVED FRCM THIS FEE BE USED TO PAY
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, SINCE THIS FEE REPRESENTS THEIR
PRESENT CHARGE TO THE CITY OF MIAMI.
(NOTE: Although this motion was passed, the Appropriations
Ordinance, which was later passed and adopted in this same
meeting, reflects a $25.00 increase in the garbage
fee, which meant an increase from $75.00/year to $100.00/year)
Upon being seconded by Cc=issioner Plummer, the motion was passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Stiller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. P1t=.=er, Jr.
Vice -Mayer Joe Carollo
NOES: Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
ABSENT: None.
Mr. Carollo: Now, let's do away with the Festival Committee, city wide
events fee waivers and maybe cut in to, if not all at least part, the Office
of Information and Visitors. Between the Festival Committee, the City wide
events and t!:e fee waivers, there is approximately two hundred sixty thousand
dollars,
r.r. Gary: yov.. have already cut that,
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R-r, tAuft6f: Let's do it the 'right way,
Mt, dafollo: bid you cut that cofiibldtdly? Are- y6U bUte.
Mt, da%y: Positive:
Mr, Carollo: Manohar.
Mr. Surana: Yes, sir.
Mr. Carollo: Ok. Alright, well, we got the Office of Information and
Visitors to start. They got seven hundred forty-one thousand plus dollars,
Mr. Dawkins: No, problem we are going to... we already got it on the ballot
and the people are going to vote to raise the garbage tax, so don't worry
about it.
Mayor Ferre: Well, we are back to ground zero.
Mr. Carollo: I make a motion that... Miller, are you there? Z make a motion
that we cut in half the expenses of the Office of Information and Visitors.
They have seven hundred forty thousand dollars approximately.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second?
Mr. Plummer: Well, Mr. Mayor, I will not second the motion at this point.
I will not do it piece -meal, Joe. Now, if you want to put a package together
and let's look at a package to see what the overall affect is, but I'm not
going to do it piece -meal. That's why I voted against the police situation.
I thought it was a very bad way of funding because you were doing it in
piece -meal.
Mr. Carollo: I would suggest the Office of information and Visitors,
Economic Development and International Trade and Promotions, that between
these three offices we could probably cut four hundred, five hundred thousand
dollars. You got seven hundred forty-one, two hundred in the other, another
two hundred eighty so in the other you got.
Mr. Surana: They all add up to 1.4 million.
Mr. Carollo: 1.4 is what the man says.
Mayor Ferre: The motion is that they all be cut in half, is that it?
_ Mr. Carollo: Well, what I would like to do is to see if we had come to
some conclusion that either we cut them all in half or we, again, combine
two of these offices in one or all three of them in one. Or just do away
with one of them and leave the other two there. Keep Economic Development
and International Trade and Promotions and do away with the Office of
Information and Visitors.
Mr. Surana: I'm scrry, it's 1.2 million, not 1.4.
Mayor Ferre: 1.2.
Mr. Surana: Yes, sir.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, what's your motion?
Mr. Carollo: My motion is that of the 1.2 million dollars that we have there
that ---actually a little bit more than 1.2 let's say...
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second to the motion?
Mr. Carollo: 1.25 is what we have of the twenty-five thousand, My motion
is that we cut the budget of all these three offices in half.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second to that motion?
Mr. Carollo: And if we find that we need the activities of anyone in those
particular offices, then take it away from one of the same other offices
mentioned here that we feel we can do without,
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MAY6k Perre: Ok; that's the fttiohl
Mf, Carollo: That's the emotion,
Mayor Ferret Is there a second? Is there a seo6hd7 is there a second to
that motion. hearing no second it dies for lack of a second. Altight0
where are we now?
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, may I make a suggestion to you? I would like to
Come to, I guess what I consider and this is no detriment to any of my
colleagues, a business like approach to this thing. We pay a Manager an
awful lot of money and don't know exactly what we pay a budget department,
we pay them an awful lot of money. Now, I don't think that I should sit up
here as a Commissioner and be forced to do their bookkeeping for them.
Mr. Carollo: Well, that's what's happening.
Mr. Plummer: I think that what we ought to do is to tell the Manager, here
is what we want accomplished and Mr. Manager, you come back and tell us how
you are going to do it. Now, that was the very problem I had with the
Police Department funding, to rob here and rob here and rob here without
looking at the consequences. You are talking about the capital improvement
funds of Florida Power and Light, those damn funds are tied up in the
Convention Center. They are obligated. Now, all I'm saying to you, I
think, Mr. Mayor, if you want my opinion, this Commission wants fifty
policemen, this Commission wants a half million dollars for Parks and
Recreation and I think what we ought to do is tell the Manager, sir, go
back hone your pencil, come back and tell us how you can do it and see if
we agree.
Mr. Carollo: And last, but not least this Commission does not want any
additional revenues as far as garbage collection.
Mr. Dawkins: Ck, I agree with everything that's said, the only thing I would
like to add is this, that when the Manager comes back with his first
option, second option and third option, that we accept option #1, we either
accept option #2 or we accept option #3, we don't go through this
again about, well, I'm going to take it from here and you take it from there,
no, no, no, I mean if we are we are just wasting our time. We are just...
you know it's exercising futility.
Mr. Plummer: Well, I think it also have to be balanced Miller.
Mr. Dawkins: I agree with you Mr. Plummer, but let him... that's his job
to balance it.
Mr. Plummer: Well, no, what I think is balance is, is this, you know,
because you still have to get three "yes" votes up here. I think that
what he needs to do is to come back to this Commission and say gentlemen
if I do this here is where it's going to suffer and if I don't do this here
is where it's going to profit. I think you have to have a balance. I don't
think you can do a hundred sixty million dollar budget in piece -meal and
that's what we are sitting here doing.
Mr. Dawkins: But we are saying the sarre thing. You are saying the same
thing when he canes back he would tell us this what's over here, but then
I will not tell hin, well, no that's my pet project. Alright, let's say
for the sake of discussion that he decides to cut --- Mr. Gary, you need to
hear this--- Do-vmtown Development, that's a pet project.
Mr. Plummer: Well, you can't do that because that's a special taxation
district, o,:.
Mr. Dawkins: See, that's what I'm saying, see.
M.r. Plummer: You just can't do it. You know the State has done it next
year, but we can't do it this year.
Mr. Dawkins: Well, I'm in favor of that and I'm in favor of going home.
Qh, by the way, you didn't take any money out of the Commissioner's budget,
We can take some out of there. Damn I forgot that.
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MAY6f Vettat I will go along with that.
Mt: Carollot The other thing that l would like to ask is the six huhdtdd
thousand dollars for that statue, where is that coming frost?
Mt. Gary: That's coming form the 1981 fund balance of FP&t.
Mr, Carollo: From the 1981 fund balance? Ok, now has we legally d6mittdd
in any way in buying that already?
Mt. Gary: No, sir.
Mr. Carollo: We haven't yet?
Mr. Gary: Vo, sir.
Mr. Carollo: So, that's an extra six hundred thousand dollars we could have?
Mr. Gary: Yes, but I would like to caution the City Commission, if we are
talking about capital funds for operational purposes, the capital fund should
be used for a one shot cost to...
Mr. Carollo: It should be, but do they have to be?
Mr. Gary: Well, it's not being fiscally responsible not to do that.
Mr. Carollo: What I wanted to know is, can we use the six hundred thousand
dollars for any projects that we want legally?
Mr. Gary: I'm going to give you a conditional, yes, and the condition on
that is that if we start making these decisions utilizing capital funds for
operational purposes you may solve your problem in the short run, but you
are going to create bigger problems in the long run when the Bond Counsel,
the Elating Companies begin to look us seeing that we are doing the same thing...
fiscally irresponsible things that got New York into trouble. So, I would
not recommend that you do that, Cormnissioner Carollo.
Mr. Plu.^ner: Mr. Gary, may I call your attention please to your attachment
"B" next the last item.
Mr. Gary: I seem to have lost that, let me see if I can find it.
Mayor Ferre: Ck, can we get some more action here so we can finalize?
Mr. Carollo: Well, look guy whatever conclusion you come to is fine, just
don't stick me with anymore garbage money.
Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I will make you a motion. I will make you a motion
at this time that we send back to the Manager, thank him for his budget that
he sent to us and to express to him that we wish that his budget shall change,
that we want fifty policemen additional, that we want a half a million dollars
dedicated to the Recreation Department and that he come back at his earliest
convenience and tell this Ccma:ission with alternatives as to how we can do
that and the pit falls and t..he dangers if we do or we don't.
Mayor Ferre: T:hat's fine if it's a motion of intent.
Mir. Plummer: it has to be.
Mayor Ferre: If, however, let me tell you what the next thing is. The City
Attorney came up to me and showed me the advertisement in the newspaper.
Would you hold that up for a moment. Now, if you will see in the bottom,
it says "A final decision ---in bold letters--- on the proposal tax increase
will be made at this meeting, at this hearing". Therefore, since we have
advertised that we cannot... Let me tell you what the problem is, the
County... Metropolitan Dade County Commission went through the same process
and the City Attorney there says you are in serious trouble if you do that
and they stayed until 3:30 in the morning until they passed the budget.
Mr. Dawkins: But we have already agreed that there will be no tax increase
because we said we weren't going to add anymore garbage. I mean, we have
accomplished that,
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MAydk Pdtre: Yes, but we have got to adopt the budget.
Mrs bawkinst Oh, well, then he didn't say that, He just said that thete
would be,.6 we would be sure there would be no tax increases todaya
Mr. Gary: t•ir. Mayor?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
Mr, Gary: In all due respect to the legal interpretation given by our
famous City Attorney, it is our belief based on our discussions with the
Plorida State Department of Revenue that we must adopt a budget tonight.
We must.
Mayor Ferre: We must. Well, that's what he just said.
Mr. Gary: No, I'm talking about from the earlier opinion in terms of
continuation.
Mr. Plummer: No, no. You know, let me tell you something, attorneys make
their living on semantics right. Let me tell you what this thing says and
I have no problem with it and I don't think anybody else does. It's a final
decision on this proposed tax increase. We have all agreed to that. It's
going to be 4.03, that's what's going to be finally decided at this hearing.
Not necessarily implementation.
Mr. Carollo: I could just see John McMullin playing lawyer tomorrow and
ask them to dump your behind in jail, Plummer.
Mr. Plummer: But I'm saying if we comply by setting the millage.
Mayor Ferre: Hey, I'm going to be guided... Plummer, I like you a lot,
you are a nice guy, but I'm going to be guided by the City Attorney.
(BACKGROUND CO:,%!EN. S OF: THE PUBLIC P.ECORD)
Mayor Ferre: Ck, now that, that's... Now, Mr. City Attorney unless you
tell me otherwise or Mr. City Manager, the Chair is going to rule and you
guys can overrule me if you want, but my... the Chair is going to rule that
we are going to conclude the budget tonight, according to your original
statement which ended up being right.
Mr. Gary: well, I will tell you what my professional opinion is based upon
the administrative body responsible for budgeting in the State of Florida
that we need to adopt the budget tonight.
Mr. Plummer: I can sleep here as well as you, after I come back from dinner
and a big drink.
Mayor Ferre: What did you say Plummer?
Mr. Plummer: I said. I'm preparing your bed, Mayor.
Mayor Ferre: Ok, where are we? You want me to...
us. Plummer: Sure.
Mr. Gary: Yes, let's take a break and come back and finish the budget.
Mayor Ferre: Are you going to be able to come back with a budget that
we can adopt after he has cut off that twenty-five dollars a year?
Mr. Gary: I tell you what, take a break for now and we will be back at
12 with our recommendations.
Mr. Carollo: Ok, and we are going to keep the garbage fee at the seventy-five
dollars, no problem.
Mayor Ferre: Well, that's the motion, it passed four to one.
1Kr, Carollo; What's right.
Mr. G;r; An hour break, i2 o'clock we will be ready,
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Mayor Terre: How long do you need to come back? 3
Mf. tary: Forty minutes, forty-five minutes.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, we will break for an halt hbUr,
Mr. Plummer: No, no.
Mayor Ferre: Forty-five minutes?
Mr. Plummer: No, break for the hour. I Vaht tb 90 eat M Uriee# I'M hilf IrY- ,
Mr. Perez: Yes, for an hour.
Mayor Ferre: For an hour.
WHEREUPON the City Commission recessed at 11:00 P.M. and reconvened
at 12:20 A. M., with all members of the City Commission found. to be
present.
SECOND PUBLIC HEARING ON THE FY-1982-1983 CITY OF MIAMI BUDGET:
THIS PORTION OF THE AGE14DA WAS SCHEDULED FOR AND ACTUALLY BEGUN
AT 7:00 O'CLOCK P. M.
55. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: DEFIZ E ;aiD DESIGNATE TERRIT09.IP.L LIMITS
FOR PURPOSE OF TAXATION, FIXING TENTATIVE MILLAGE A:tiD LEWI:,'G TPZ:ES
IN THE CITY OF MIA11I FOR FY'82-83.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, gentlemen, we have got here Item k... 7 P. M. agenda,
Item "D" the Millage Ordinance. Is there a motion?
Mr. Carollo: Move.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, the Millage Ordinance has been moved, is there a
second on second reading?
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Seconded by Ccr=issioner Perez, alright.. Is there further
discussion on the millage. It's the same millage as we had before, right?
Mr. Carollo: Right.
Mayor Ferre: Ok, read the ordinance. Ok, we have concluded with the reading
of the ordinance, is there any further discussion on the ordinance on the
budget... I mean, on the Millage Ordinance? Call the roll, please.
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING AND DESIGNATING THE TERRITORIAL
LIMITS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR THE PURPOSE OF TAXATION;
FIXING THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE AND LEVYING TAXES IN THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING
OCTOBER 1, 1982, AND ENDING SEPTEMB ER 30, 1983;
CONTAINING A SEVEP.A,BILITY CLAUSE.
WHEREAS, the City of Miami estimates that the nonexempt valuation
of taxable property, both rent and personal in the City Of Miami, Florida, for
the year beginning October 1, 1982, and ending September 30, 1983 is
V,152,470,504, and
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WHCREAS, at an election held September 2, 1925, the City of Miami
did anfiex certain territory unincorporated at the time of such election; and
did annex certain other territory incorporated at the time of such election;
and
WHEREAS, from time to time other territory has been included in the
corporate limits of the City of Miami by legislative acts;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF .
MIM1I, FLORIDA:
Section 1. For the purpose of this ordinance the "City of Miami"
is defined to be, includes, and designates the City of Miami as it now exists
with its extended territorial limits as set forth in the paragraphs prefatory
hereto.
Section 2. There shall be and hereby are levied upon the nonexempt
assessed value of all property, both real and personal, in the City of Miami as
described in Section 1 hereof, taxes at the rate shown below for the fiscal
year beginning October 1, 1982, and ending September 30, 1983, for the follow-
ing purposes;
(a) A tax of 9.0612 mills on the dollar for the
General Fund.
(b) A tax of 1.6682 mills on the dollar to provide
for the payment of maturing principal and
interest, and charges and requirements related
thereto, of indebtedness incurred subsequent to
the adoption of the Homestead Exemption
Amendment to the Constitution of the State of
Florida, and subject to the terms thereof.
Section 3. This proposed millage rate herein adopted by the
governing body exceeds the "roll -back" rate by 4.061V. This rate is determined
by calculating the percentage increase between the FY '82 rolled back revenue
and the FY '83 estimated revenue for the City of Miami.
Section 4. If any section, part of section, paragraph, clause,
phrase, or word of this ordinance shall be held to be unconstitutional or void,
the remaining provisions of this ordinance shall nevertheless, remain in full
force and effect.
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i'assed on its first reading by title at the meeting of Septembet
10, 1982, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and
adoption. On motion of Commissioner Caroolo, seconded by Commissioner
Perez, the Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading
and passed and adopted by the following vote! ,
AYES Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr. _
Commissioner J.L.Plummer,Jr.
Vice Havor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES! None,
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO, 9501. E
Era
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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56. ADOPT PECO.RSENDATION OF CITY MANAGER FOR FUNDING OF FIFTY (50)
ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS.
E.
Mr. Gary: Would you like for me to go through what I'm recommending?
Mayor Ferre: No, I don't want to hear it. If somebody else wants to
hear it they can ask for it.
(BACKGROUND COMMENTS OFF THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Ferre: I got no problems with Florida Power and Light.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, I do. Maurice, that's the money that's guaranteeing the
bonds for the Convention Center.
Mayor Ferre: No, what we are doing is, we owe seven hundred fifty thousand
dollars and what he is doing is, is he speading the payment of the debt over =_
a three year period.
Mr. Carollo: ?tight.
Mayor Ferre: That's acceptable. I got no problems with that. You can work_
that out without any detriment. Oh, ok. I will be very happy to volunteer _
my favorite project and give up the Miro Statue. You got it.
Mr. Plummer: Are we going to pump that six hundred thousand as a carry over?
Mayor Ferre: Yes. E_
Mr. Plummer: Fine.
Mayor Ferre: I'm willing to go along with that.
Mr. Plummer: That puts the six hundred into the black here. That's all we
got to do.
Mayor Ferre: You got the money that way.
Mr. Plummer: We got... what we are going to have to do... Hey, as I see it
it's simple, ok. We either got to go for the garbage tax or we got to go
for the cuts and that's really where are at.
Mayor Ferre: Good for you, Plummer. '
M'.r. Plummer: That's it. I mean, now that's the decision to make. Unless
you don't agree with these cuts then you got to go to other cuts and where
are you going to go?
Mr, Carollo: Ncw, that six hundred thousand dollars, Maurice, is going to
go into what area? Is there going to be gravy in here or...
N.r. Plummer: No, nct with 3....
Mayor Ferre: No, there is no gravy. Ain't no more gravy left.
Mr. Gary: Mx. Mayor?
Mayor Ferre: Yes, sir.
!"s. Gary; I would recommend that yoq not utlllge thAt sly dre4 L 1l uS3tld sAG
I'm going to tell you why.
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Myor Vdtte i What silt hundred thousand
Mf, Ga*, The six hundred thousand should go to retire the debt that 'we
We on the Convention Center.
Mayor Ferret alright, ok,
Mr, Gary: So, that six hundred thousand has got t6 §o back to retire that
debt,
Mayor Ferret I'll go with that. Ok, fine. That's fine and I accept that
too.
Mr. Carollo: Now, the retirees, we are reducing their contributiofi by
seven hundred sixty-five thousand?
Mr. Plummer: Hundred sixty-five.
Mr. Gary: No, a hundred sixty-five thousand.
Mr. Carollo: A hundred sixty-five thousand.
Mayor Ferret No, I won't go for that.
Mr. Plummer: You will have Gibson come out of the grave.
Mayor Ferre: I will go back... let's go back to twenty-five dollars in the
garbage. Better this year than next year buddy.
Mr. Dawkins: If... when I vote for the twenty-five dollars here and if
the voters also approve thirty-five dollars... what?
Mr. Gary: I'm sorry Commissioner Dawkins, would you repeat your question,
please.
Mr. Dawkins: Ok, I'm going for twenty-five dollars now, right?
Mr. Gary: Right.
Mr. Dawkins: Now, this ballot, if that passes what happens to that thirty-five
dollars?
Mr. Gary: That's for the 1984 budget.
Mr. Dawkins: That's 1980?
Mr. Gary: 1984.
Mayor Ferre: 1983-1984.
Mr. Gary: 1963-1984 which is not next year's budget, it's the year after
that.
Mr. Dawkins: Ok, alright.
Mr. Plu=er: Year after.
Mr, Dawkins: So, all I'm talking.,. I'm not talking about fifty-five dollars,
I'm talking about twenty-five dollars.
Mr. Gary: That's correct.
Mr. Dawkins: Or I have got to reduce the poor retirees a hundred sixty-five
thousand.
mr, Piurner; Plus the other stuff. Alright, let me ask you in a simpler
fora. if we vote for the garbage increase of twenty-five to a hundred does
that eliminate these cuts?
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Mr. Gary: That' eliminates all the outs Mr, Cditissionerf but you still would
have to do "A" which is the Vlorida Power and Light and the five sixty=€our.
Mr. Plummer: And the what?
Mr. Gary: And the five hundred Sixty-four thousand increase in curteht
revenue sources.
Mayor Ferre: We have already agreed to do that.
Mr. Plummer: Oh, we have agreed to that, that's no problem.
Mayor Ferre: Wait a minute, wait a minute. How did you get down to five
sixty-four it was six... it was eight hundred sixteen thousand before.
Mr. Gary: The reason it was eight fourteen because I added the two fifty
from FP&L there, but what I did is I put it all under line "A" now. If was
five hundred for Recreation plus two fifty for the police officers, so it's
seven fifty total.
Mayor Ferre: Well, why don't you put it back.
Mr. Gary: Fine.
Mayor Ferre: Why don't you put the two fifty back or whatever it is.
Mr. Gary: I will make it eight fourteen and that reduces "A" to five hundred
thousand.
Mayor Ferre: Ok.
(BACKGROUND COMMENTS OFF THE PUBLIC RECORD)
Mayor Ferre: You want me to make the motion again so I'm the bad guy? Alright,
Mr. Vice -Mayor I move that we accept the Manager's recommendation. Repeat
it again on the record, Mr. Manager.
Mr. Gary: The recommendations are to fund fifty additional police officers
at a cost of one million, one hundred thirty-nine thousand one hundred dollars,
to expand recreational programs by five hundred thousand dollars, to increase
the solid waste fee by twenty-five dollars from seventy-five to a hundred
dollars and by increasing the revenues that were mentioned in my September
22nd report totalling eight hundred fourteen thousand dollars and by increasing
the ccntribution of Florida Power and Light to the general fund by five
hundred thousand dollars.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, I moved it.
Mr. Carollo: You guys aren't being serious about this, there is other ways
to cut this without raising that twenty-five dollars.
Mayor Ferre: Ok, let's go. Call the roll. Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Carollo: There is a motion and a second, no further discussions, roll
call.
The following notion was introduced by Mayor Ferre, who
moved its adoption:
MOTION NO. 82-892
A MOTION ACCEPTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CITY MANAGER
FOR PURPOSES OF FUNDING 50 ADDITICNAL POLICE OFFICERS AT A COST
OF $1,100,000; EXPANDING THE RECREATION DEPARTMENT'S BUDGET
BY $500,000, AND INCREASING TI:E SOLID WASTE FEE FROM $75.00/
YEAR TO $100.00/YEAR.
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the motion was passed
and adopted by the follcwing vote;
AYES; Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre.
LACES: Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr. SEP 2 31982
vice-May.or Joe Carollo
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Mr. Carollo: Before t dote t Would like to say that at least t accomplished
two things tonight, one was raising the garbage fee from a hundred twenty=eilht
to at least a hundred and the other was that Ms. Gallogly finally took her
ear muffs off of the radio. I vote "no".
•'' 57. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: MAKING TENTATIVE APPROPRIATIONS FOR
". -� FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEbSBER 30, 1983 FOR THECITY OF MIAMI
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Mayor Ferre: Alright, is there a motion on the ordinance?
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, is there a second on the ordinance?
Mr. Plummer: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer seconds, further discussion on the ordinance? Read
the ordinance. Is there further discussion on the ordinance as read? Call
the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE MAKING TENTATIVE APPROPRIATIONS FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1983;
CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION; AND A
SEVERABILITY CLAUSE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of September 10, 1982,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
motion of Commissioner Dawkins, seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the
Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Pluam►er, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES: None.
THE ORDINXNCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9502
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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58. SECOND HEADING ORDINANCE: DEFINE AIM DESIGNF.TE TERRITORIAL LIMITS
OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF MIAMI.
Mayor Ferre: Alright, Item 2"A". Mr. Manager, what is the percentage
increase in millage over rollback rate of the Downtown Development Authority?
Mr. Surana: Zero percent.
Mayor Ferre: (B). The City Commission listens to response to citizens.
Are there any citizens that wish to speak? Hearing no citizens, then this
public hearing is closed. Is there a tentative budget... is there a motion
on the budget? No, wait a minute, publicly read the entire millage ordinance.
Is there a mction on the millage ordinance? Carollo moves.
Mr. Dawkins: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Dawkins seconds, read the millage ordinance in it's entirety.
Alright, call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE DEFINING AND DESIGNATING
THE TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF THE DOWNTOWN
DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI LOCATED WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL
LIMITS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR THE
PURPOSE OF TAXATION, FIXING THE MILLAGE
AND LEVYING TAXES IN THE DOWNTOWN
DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT LOCATED WITHIN
THE TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI, FLORIDA, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 1982, AND ENDING
SEPTEMBER 30, 1983; FIXING THE MILLAGE +
AT FIFTY ONE-HUNCREDTHS (.50) MILLS ON
THE DOLLAR OF THE NONEXEMPT ASSESSED
VALUE OF ALL REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
IN SAID DISTRICT AND PROVIDING THAT .
THE SAID MILLAGE AND THE TAXES LEVIED
HEREIN SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO THE FIXING
OF THE MILLAGE AND THE LEVYING OF TAXES
WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL LIMITS OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI, WHICH IS CONTAINED IN THE
GENERAL APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE FOR THE
AFORESAIC `ISCAL YEAR AS REQUIRED BY
SECTION 30 OF THE CITY CHARTER; PROVIDING
THAT THE FIXING OF THE MILLAGE AND LEVYING
OF TAXES HEREIN SHALL BE IN ADDITION
TO SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR IMPROVEMENTS
IMPOSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF M1An1 WITHIN THE TERRITORIAL LIMITS
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI: PROVIDED THAT THIS
ORDINANCE SHALL NOT BE DEEMED AS REPEALING
OR AMENDING ANY OTHER ORDINANCE FIXING
MILLAGE OR LEVYING TAXES FOR THE FISCAL
YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 19S2 AND ENDII4G
SEPTEMBER 30, 1953 BUT SHALL BE DEEMED
SUPPLEMENTAL AND IN ADDITION HERETO; AND
PROVIDING THAT IF ANY SECTION, CLAUSE OR
SUBSECTION SHALL BE DECLARED UNCONSTITO -
TIONAL, IT SHILL NOT AFFECT THE REMAINING
PROV I $ 10;;5 CIF = CRDINfm.
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WHEREAS, the -Tax Assessor of Dndc County, Florida
,i politledl subdivisioh of the State of Florida, has determined the
hullexeolpt agoregotc valuation of tdxable property, reel and perSohal, In
thy+ DtMhtdwh hev000meht District of the City of Miami Lo be Sl,l�g�t0��528�Q0►
NOWj THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE C0,11ISSION OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI , FLORIDA:
Section 1. For the purpose of this Ordinance the
"DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT" is defined to be and includes that area
described as follows:
"At the point of beginning at the centerline of
the intersection of N.;•J. 5th Street and N.W.
3rd Avenue, corner of the district, thence run-
ning southerly to the centerline of West Flagler
Street at the intersection of N.W. 3rd Avenue
and West Flagler Street, thence westerly along
the centerline of West Flaaler Street to the
centerline of the Miami River, thence south-
easterly, following the centerline of the Miami
River (meandering line), such line remaining
parallel to the southerly boundary of the Dupont
Plaza Center and the St. Joe Paper Company prop-
erty to a point southerly of the eastern bulk-
head line of the St. Joe Paper Company,thence
northerly along the bulkhead line of Bayfront
Park and the Bayfront Park Yacht Docks, continu-
ing northerly along the bulkhead line to a
point on the centerline of N.E. 17th St. extended,
thence westerly along the centerline of N.E. 17th
Street to the eastern right-of-way line of the
FEC Railroad, thence southerly along the eastern
side of the FEC Railroad right-of-way to the
centerline of N.W. 5th Street, thence westerly
along the centerline on N.W. Sth Street, to the
point of Beginning."
Said district is located within the territorial limits of the "City of
Miami" as it now exists, and the boundaries thereof were designated in
City of Miami Ordinance No. 7370, as &.mended.
Section 2. There shall be and is hereby levied upon
the nonexempt assessed value of all property, both real and personal,
in the Downtown Development District as described in Section 1 hereof,
taxes at the rate shown below for the fiscal year beginning October 1,1982
and ending September 30, 1983, for the following purpose:
A tax of Fifty One Hundredths (.50) mills on
the dollar for the purpose of financing the
operation of the Downtown Development Authority
of the City of Miami.
Section 3. The fixing of the millage and levying of
taxes in this Ordinance shall be in addition to the fixing of the milla9e
and levying of taxes which is contained in the general appropriations
ordinance for the aforesaid fiscal
year as required
by Section 30 of the
City Charter. $
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Section 4. The fixino of the millaoe and levying
of taxes in Downtown Develo-m ent District, as provided in this Ordinance,
shall be in addition to special assessments for improvements imposed by
the City Commission ,
Section 5. This Ordinance shall not repeal or amend —_
any other ordinance fixina millage or levying taxes for the fiscal year
beginning October 1, 1982 and ending September 30, 1983, but shall be
deemed supplemental and in addition hereto.
Section 6. If any section, part of section, para-
graph or clause of this Ordinance shall be held to be unconstitutional or
void, the remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall, nevertheless,
remain in full force and effect.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of September 10, 1982,
was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption.
On motion of Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Dawkins, the
Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and
passed and adopted by 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
THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 9503:
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City
Commission and to the public.
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59. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DOwT7TOWN
DEVELOP,ILNT AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTE.,MER 30, 1983.
Mayor Ferre: Now, wait a minute. Now, we got to get the... what that the
millage? Now, we got to get the budget, is there a motion on the budget?
Mr. Carollo: Is the budget going to be including the twenty-five dollar
fee, is that included in the budget?
Mayor Ferre: No, no, no. This is the DDA budget. The one we... on first
reading last time, this is second reading.
Mr. Carollo: ;:ove on the DDA.
Mr. Perez: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Further discussion, is that an ordinance? Read the ordinance.
Alright, call the roll.
AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED -
AN ORDINANCE MAILING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DOWNTOWN
DEVELOPNXNT AUTHORITY CF THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1983; AUTHORIZING
THE DIRECTOR OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
TO INVITE OR ADVERTISE FOR BIDS FOR THE PURCHASE OF
ANY MATERIAL, EQUIPMMM OR SERVICE EMBRACED IN THE
SAID APPROPRIATIONS FOR WHICH FORMAL BIDDING MAY BE
REQUIRED PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE
SUPPLE�IMXNTAL AND IN ADDITION TO THE ORDINANCE
MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FCR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING
SEPTE?BER 30, 1983 FCR THE OPERATION OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI, FLORIDA: PROVIDING THAT IF ANY SECTION,
CLAUSE OR SUBSECTION SHALL BE DEC:.ARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL,
IT SHALL NOT AFFECT THE REMAINING PROVISIONS OF THIS
ORDINANCE.
Passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of September 10, 1982
taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On
motion of Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Perez, the
Ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and
passed and adopted by the following vote:
,AYES: Commissioner Denetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre.
WE$: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins.
, 5p; ': None.
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"t.6kbn, kNCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDI,NA*NCE Y0._9504,
The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public tecotd and
announced that copies were available to the members of the City Commission
and to the public.
60. ALLOCATE $70,086 FY'82-83 FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING FUNDS FOR ;=
PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCIES (ONE "-6`:LFTH FUNDING). r'
Mayor Ferre: We are through with the budget right?
Mr. Gary: No.
Mayor Ferre: What?
Mr. Gary: Item 3, one month allocation for Federal Revenue Sharing Programs
until you make the decision for the...
Mayor Ferre: Plummer, it's your baby.
Mr. Plummer: Maurice, I don't like it, but go ahead. I understand we have
to.
Mayor Ferre: Plummer moves, who seconds? Item 3, which is... we have got
to spend seventy thousand dollars and which is a one month...
Mr. Plummer: It's one twelfth allocation of the year.
Mr. Carollo: Second.
Mayor Ferre: Seconded by Carollo, further discussion, call the roll on
Item 3.
Mr. Plummer: For the record, let's put it in the record that it's exactly
the same funding as last year of the same programs. I'm sorry, wait a minute
it's got to be corrected.
Mayor Ferre: It's not the same, it's seventy thousand dollars.
Ms. Spillman: It is minor the Dade School Program and additionally we had
funded the Centro Caribeno de Estudios Postgraduados. This was approved
by you previously Comrnissioners as part of the Federal Revenue Sharing
package for this year. You have previously approved that. You approved
it already. You approved it, believe.
Mayor Ferre: There is a motion and a second, is there further discussion?
Call the roll, please.
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-893
A RESOLUTION AL!=ATING $70,086 OF FY182-83 FEDERAL REVENUE
SHARING FUNS APPROPRIATED BY PASSAGE OF ORDINANCE N0. 9481
TO PREVIOUSLY APPFVvED SOCIAL, SERVICE AGENCIES LISTED HEREIN
IN All A14OUI.T NOT TO EXCFED 1/12TH OF THE TOTAL ALLOCATION TO
EACH AGENCY FOR FY'82-83, FOR T:'.E PERIOD FROM OCTOBER 1, 1982
THROUGH OC:OBER 31, 1982, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANGER TO EWER
114TO AGREE.'!ENTS WITH THE AFOREMMITIONED AGENCIES.
(Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file
In the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Co=nissioner Carollo the resolution was
Passed a:.d adopted by the following vote-
g1 V- SEP 2 31982
y
y Ctftissionet Miller J. Dawkins
C6iteissioner Demetrio Petei, Jt.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr,
Vice -Mayor Joe Caroilo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOEa: None
ABSENT.- None,
THERE BEING NO FURTHER MATTERS TO CONSIDER IN CONNECTION WITH
PASSAGE OF FISCAL YEAR - '82-'83 BUDGET, THE SPECIAL BUDGET HEARING
MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 12:40 A.M.
WHEREUPON, MAYOR FERRE CALLED FOR A CONTINUATION OF THE PLANNING
G ZONING PORTION OF THE AGENDA IN ORDER TO CONSIDER ONE FURTHER
ITEM WHICH FOLLOWS HEREINBELOW:
61. ACCEPT PLAT: "CHNNINEL 23 SUE".
Mayor Ferre: Alright, now we have to do Channel 23. Mr. Manager, Item 17,
which is the plat on Channel 23. Take up Item 17, is there a motion?
Mr. Dawkins: Move it.
Mayor Ferre: Is there a second on the acceptance of plat?
The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Dawkins, who
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 82-894
A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE PLAT ET:TITLED CHJA1ML 23 SUBDIVISION,
A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MIAMI; AND ACCEPTING TIM DEDICATIONS
'SHOWN ON SAID PLAT; AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER
AND 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 here and on file
in the Office of the City Clerk.)
Upon being seconded by Commissioner Carollo the resolution was
Passed and adopted by the following vote -
AYES: Commissioner Miller J. Dawkins
Commissioner Demetrio Perez, Jr.
Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr.
Vice -Mayor Joe Carollo
Mayor Maurice A. Ferre
NOES; None.
ALBS; None,
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SEP 2 31982
10hate being no further bUbih495 to tftd before the City Coftnibsi6hj
on Motion duly made end get6hd6di the mddti.hg was adjourned at 12e45 A.M.
MAURICE A. FERM
Mayor
AMSTt RALPH d. Wr=
City clerk
MAM HIRAI 01 *41C
Assistant City Clerk
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VACATE, CLOSE CERTAIN AVENUES, ALLEYS AND TERRACES IN
CONNECTION [dI7'II 'TENTATIVE PLAT NO. 1152-A, "MIAMI
FASHION CENTER -SECTION I".
VACATE, CLOSE EAST WEST ALLEY IN VICINITY OF N.W.
36111 STREET, 32ND AVENUE, 38TH STREET, 31ST AVENUE,
AS PART OF TENTATIVE PLAT NO.1170-"REVISED PLAT OF
1b\NSON SUB".
GRANT REQUEST FOR MODIFICATION OF CHARTER
REQUIREMENTS FOR SEVEN STORY APARTMENT BUILDING
ADDITION TO BANYAN BAY APARTMENT COMPLEX-703 N.E.
63RD ST.
GRANT APPLICATION FOR CONDITIONAL USE FOR DRIVE-IN
TELLERS -LOCATION: 700 N.W. LEJEUNE ROAD.
ACCEPT PLAT: "MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE NEW
WORLD CENTER".
ACCEPT PLAT: "U.C.P. SUB".
ACCEPT PLAT: "KHAWLY SUB".
ACCEPT PLAT: "TIGF.RTAIL ESTATES SUB".
ACCEPT PLAT: "HERALD PARK SUB".
CALL SPECIAL. CITY OF MIAMI ELECTION ONE DECEMBER 14,
1982 FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADDITIONAL ONE CENT
SALES TAX LEVY
FORMALI7.ING RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $42,745.00 AS CATC
CRA NT FOR "50TH ANNUAL ORANGE BLOSSOM CLASSIC
PARADE".
APPOINT ATIIALIE RANGE TO SERVE AS MEMBER OF BOARD
OF DIRECTORS OF THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY.
ALLOCATE $70,086. FY' 82-83 FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING
FUNDS OFR PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SOCIAL SERVICE AGENCY
(ONE TWELFTH FUNDING).
ACCEPT PLAT:"CHANNEL 23 SUB,"
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septeniber 23, 1982
COMMISSION
R-82-884
R-82-872
R-82-873
R-82-874
R-82-875
R-82-876
R-82-877
R-82-878
R-82-879
R-82-880
R-82-882
R-82-884
R082-885
R-82-893
R-82-894
RETR I EV
82-884
82-872
82-873
82-874
82-875
82-876
82-877
82-878
82-879
82-880
82-882
82-884
82-885
82-893
82-894