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MAYOR FERRE'S STATEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH THE SPECIAL COMMISSION
MEETING OF APRIL 28, 1981, SPECIAL POLICE TAXING DISTRICT
Mayor Ferre: Let me, since I'm the guy who surfaced this whole idea
3 years ago or more. Let me once again explain what the
pzemise of this thing is. We are now in a budget of $36,000,000, for
police budget out of $120,000,000 budget, 121. Now, that's in the
vicinity of close to 30%. In addition to that, we earmarked $2,000,000
as a safeguard, safety measure in case we needed it, and we have needed
it. And that $2,000,000, I'm sure, will be spent. Most of it is
already earmarked, 1,200,000, 1,300,000, 1,500,000 or whatever. So
I think ... We are in the middle of negotiations for labor contracts and I
hope we will make the right decisions and come to a hopeful, friendly
conclusion where we'll do the right and just thing and everybody will
be happy. But that, of course, will cost money. In addition to that,
is the commitment of this Commission, the majority of this Commission,
to have, and we have stated it is our intention to go up to
1,000 policemen. To go up to 814 to 1,000, that's an additional 200
policemen and you're talking about 5 to $6,000,000. All right, let's
say 7. So I guess what I'm saying is this, by the time we're through,
if we do all these things that we say we're going to do, assuming we
find the money and cut where the cuts are necessary, you're talking about
$47,000,000. Now, I submit to you that that is more than all the
tax payers in the City of Miami paid last year to the City of Miami.
In other words, that is more than the ad valorum taxes, every cent
of ad valorum taxes which was what, 40? See, my statement was this,
$47,000,000 is more than what we paid last, than what we collected
last year for ad valorum taxes. So obviously ad valorum taxes, unfortunately
are going to go up again. So you're talking about ... Mr. Gary is saying
$63,000,000 but that's an estimate since we have not adopted the budget
yet. And that's assuming that we can do this within the parameters of
State Law, even though the TRI*i bill is not going to affect us this
year. Okay? That's something that we need to get into in the next
few minutes when we get to the 5 o'clock portion of the discussion. But
I think the point of all of this is that if go to increase taxes,
as Mr. Gary says, and we get up to 63,000,000, then perhaps we might have
enough money to cover it. Now, when we got to 1.000
policemen which is the highest the City's ever had, we will be going up
to where we were, which is about 1.8 policemen. Some people say 1.6
policemen per thousand We're now beyond 2. When we get up to 1,000,
you're getting up there beyond 3. Now 3 policemen per thousand, we're
still below some major cities in America that have 3.7, 3.8, 3.9.
Atlanta, for example, is one of them. Philadelphia, Washington, New
York Baltimore, Buffalo, Cincinatti, you name it -And they all have
more policemen per capita than the City of Miami. The question then is,
we can't solve the criminal justice problem, alone. We've got to
do our fair share. Perhaps I can dramatize, and I just...somebody
asked me put 522,000,000, the drama of where'
we are in Miami with crime. I can't do it any better than to tell you
the DUPartment of Justice statistics out of every 100 crimes
perpertrated in America, 50 are not reported. Of the 50 that are
reported, 25 of them never get to court because the witness doesn't
show up, or thL' policy report isn't right or, whatever. Only 25 go to
court. Of the 25 that go to court, 15 are plea bargained. Only 10
go before a judge and a jury. And of the 10 that go before a judge
and a jury, half of them drop out before for technical reasons. When
you get down to convictions which there are 2 per hundred, and there is
1 person that goes to jail. That means that out of every 100 crimes'
committed in America, one person goes to jail. Now that's the
problem. That's the real crux of the problem. Now, the City of Miami
can't solve that. That requires a lot of rethinking and retooling.
And it's time for us to get on with this retooling job in America.
We, in the City, certainly are going to do our part by adding more
policemen because there's no question that that adds to a sense of
security. And I think that in itself is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Now, the question is this, will we have sufficient policemen if we get
to these levels, to take care of the very special needs of the following:
of the downtown community, of the Coconut Grove community, of the
Allapattah business community, of the Edison Center, the Garment District,
the Decorator's Row. They all want special treatment. They all want
Mayor Ferre (continued): their 2, 3 extra policemen. And when you
talk to them and say look we can't afford them. They won't pay for it.
Now, there's 2 ways in doing this. We can do it on a voluntary basis
and we must commend the Cuban merchants on West Flagler Street who have
formed themselves a new association, have gone out and hired from the
private sector, guards. And by God, as I understand it, since they've
done that, the crime rates gone down in those particular areas. Now,
if we approach these particular areas, such as Allapattah and Coconut
Grove and downtown in this way, then I think we'll have a much better
chance of impacting these crimes. There's no question
that the presence of a policeman walking a beat and that
is something that eventually we have to discuss. The physical,
visible presence of a man wearing a badge and a gun at his side is a
deterrent. And that's where we're at. And believe me, the majority of
the homeowners in this community who are basically... this is a very
poor community. If you look at the average income of the City of Miami,
it is a community that has a very low per capita income as compared to
the average Floridian and the average national. The average homeoumer
should not, cannot, should not have to pay for it. So the questions is,
with all due respect to the Burdines, La Epoca, all the stores around
the downtown area, if you want that assurance, it seems to me that you
ought to be —you're going to have to bite the bullet. Lastly,
let me say that I really don't think that money as far as Burdines or
most of these stores are really the issue. For this reason, and I'm saying
this because I want to make sure that I put this into the record, I don't
want anybody to say, well, you know, those fat cat businessmen are
not going to spend money. That's not the point at all because I want
to point this out to the merchants, the bulk of this is going to be
paid by large offices and property owners and the hotels, not by the
merchants because they do not own the majority of the property. If
you take into account Burdines, and all of the stores along Flagler
Street as a percentage of the total assessment of the downtown area,
I guarantee you it's not the majority. In other words, it's not more
than 50%. So the big bulk of that is going to be paid by large
buildings and large commercial office buidings, and banks, hotels and
other structures of this sort. And if you look at the Burdines
costs, if we go to 16 sworn officers which basically I think is what
we're going to be getting in the beginning This is in addition. You're
talking about $4,834 a year. That's Howard Johnson's. Now Burdines
would cost $7,145. So obviously, for a company, I just read in Sunday's
Herald, that Dadeland, Dadeland alone sold over $100,000,000. $7,000
to make downtown a safer and better place for shoppers to come to is
a very small investment and the return on that is going to be 100
times that. So I'm pretty sure money is not the big issue.
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NAN O110ES DEPARTMENT
lim-1974
1980.1981
MONTHLY SALARY
1
1 -
#8031
MU
Exec.sect. i Director
Assist. to Dept.Nead
1
1
- 08083
#8082
Exec.Sect,
A4min.Assist. 1
$2.766.
$1,467.
i -
#1312
Personnel Spec. III
I
(Total)
t -
#132I
Personnel Spec. 11
5 -
#1320
Personnel Spec. I
1
- #8051
Asst. Director
$3,530.
1 -
2 -
floz !
#1028
Sect. III
Sect. It
1
- #8069
Director
64,50S,
2 -
f1012
Typist Clerk 111
2
- #1320
Sr. Personnel Off.
(1)
(1)
$1,967.
$2.168.
2 -
#1021
Typist Clerk i1
I
- #1331
Personnel Admin.
$3.052.
16
(Total)
I
- #132S
Asst. Personnel Admin.
S2,63S.
2
- #1322
Personnel Super.
(1)
S2.S10.
Total Personnel as of 1974 - 16
(1)
$2.168.
1
- #8089
Admin. Sect. II
$1,542.
Total Administrative
Personnel
2
- 01316
Personnel Assist.
(1)
$1.542.
as
of 1974
- ! -�
(1)
$1,330.
I
- #8062
Affirm.Action Coordinator
$2,609.
_
cl'1d7�, " �,: -41-J -
Y
S
- 01318
Personnel Officers
(2)
(3)
$1.619. (4$3,238}
$1.542. ($4,626}
]
1
- #1306
#1330
Adwin.Aide I1
$1,784.
-
Safety Coordinator
$2.064.
1
- #1326
Validation Super.
$2.390.
1
- #1310
Admin.Assist. II
$1,873.
1
- #1309
Admin. Assist. I
$1.699.
24
(Total)
Total Administrative Personnel as of 4/7/81 - 24
New Assistant Director added 4/18/8) 1
Total Administrative Personnel 79
Total Personnel as of 4/19/81 64
Total Administrative Salaries MONTHLY YEARLY
51.365 ►rii6,7,745
Plus New Asst. Director Approx!!_.3-OW._
(A. ;4, 365 70
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RESOLUTION NO. 8 0 ` 2 `
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI AUTHORIZING AND URGI13G THE BOARD OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, TO
ESTABLISH A SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICT FOR THE
EXPRESS PURPOSE OF PROVIDING ADDITIONAL POLICE
PROTECTION AND FINANCIAL ASSISTA14CE TO DEVELOP
A DOIdNTOWN PEOPLE MOVER SYSTEM WITHIN SAID
DISTRICT BOUNDARIES AS HEREINAFTER DESCRIBED AND
TO LEVY AN ADDITIONAL AD VALOREM TAX NOT EXCEEDING
ONE MILL ON ALL REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY IN
SAID DISTRICT; REQUESTING THAT THE QUESTION OF
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SUCH DISTRICT AND LEVYING
OF SUCH TAX BE SUBMITTED TO REFERENDUM AT THE
MARCH 1930 ELECTION; ACKNOWLEDGING THAT DADE
COUNTY IS PRIMARILY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OPERATION
OF THE DOWNTOWN PEOPLE MOVER IN THE CITY.
WHEREAS, the Charter of :letronolitan Dade County, Florida,
has emuowered the Board of County Commissioners of Dade County,
Florida, with the exclusive authority to create and establish
special taxing districts within 'etropolltan Dade County; and
iBHEREAS, the Laws of Florida and the Code of Nlotropolitan
Dade Count%,, Florida, recuirc. the governing body of a municipality
to approve the creation of a special taxing district if said
district embraces all. or part of the municipality; and
WHEREAS, Dade County has a duty to provide for the health,
safety, welfare and general comfort of its citizens; and
WHEREAS, the downtown area of the City of Miami is a
center for commerce, trade and tourism; and
WHEREAS, the City is only able to provide ordinary police
protection services which inure to the benefit of its citizens;
and
WHEREAS, the streets and ways of the central downtown
area must remain safe for the peace and comfor o citizefjs..ia d
tourists; and
ITEM NO.
WHEREAS, there is a need for providing extraor inar}•
police services wherein need has been expressed by concerned
citizens; and
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DOCUIVI.i'� E
FOLLOW„
CITY COMMISSION
MEETING OF
J A fJ : n
ftsouffON la 8 0 ' 2 '
WHEREAS, certain merchants and business persons have
also expressed a need and desire to facilitate the orderly move-
ment of people and traffic along the City's streets and ways by
the establishment of modern transportation system; and
WHEREAS, the City finds and determines a need for rendering
financial assistance to the development of a modern transportation
system to provide the orderly movement of pedestrian and vehicular
traffic upon its streets and ways:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA;
Section 1. The Board of County Commissioners of Dade
County, Florida, is hereby authorized and urged to establish a
special taxing district for the express purpose of providing
additional uolice protection and financial assistance for the
development of a Downtown People Mover System.
Section 2. The Board of County Commissioners of Dade
Count;, Florida, is hereby authorized and urged to levy an additional
ad valorem tax not excet2dino one mill en all real and personal
property situated in the above special taxinc district for the
above purposes: one-half (�) mill to be used for transportation
in the Fountown "E:r,; le tiictcr oystcm, as they Cout:ty Commission may
determine, ar,�' one half (':) mill to be• used for either incre+asec
r;olicc protection or transportation in the Downtown People rover
System, as the Comm ssior; of thu City of ::iami may determine.
S,-�ction 3. 71,e boundaries of said district shall be
described g e n e r a l l y a-, set forth in the schedule attached hereto,
designated Exhibit "A" and made a part hereof.
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Section 4. The Board of Dade County Commissioners is hereby
requested to submit to the electors residing within the boundaries
of the proposed district at the March 1980 election the question
of establishing the above district and of levying the above tax.
Section 5. Operation of the downtown people mover in the
City of Miami is hereby expressly acknowledged to be the primary
responsibility of Dade County.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 10 day of
ATTES
ALPH G. ONGIE, CITY CLEF,
PR -PARED AND APPROVED BY:
•AAA
J. ?;ICHAEL HAYGO0
ASSISTANT CITY ATTOR Y
APPROV TO FO.RM AND CORRECTNESS:
GEORGE F l,"'OX, jR.
CITY ATT NEY
-3-
January 1980.
MAURICE A. FERRE
M A Y 0 R
< < O ID
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SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICT
"At the point of beginning at the centerline of the
intersection of N.W. 5th Street and N.W. 3rd Avenue,
corner of the district, thence running southerly to
the centerline of West Flagler Street at the intersec-
tion of N.W. 3rd Avenue and West Flagler Street, thence
westerly along the centerline of West Flagler Street to
the centerline of the Miami River, thence southeasterly,
following the centerline of the Miami River (meandering
line) to the easterly right-of-way line of `Metropolitan
Dade County Rapid Transit Corridor, thence running
southerly along said eastern Rapid Transit Corridor right-
of-wav line to its intersection with S.E. 15th Road, thence
southeasterly along the centerline of S.E. 15th Road to
a point midway between Brickell Avenue and S.E. Bayshore
Drive, thence northeasterly to S.E. 14th Street, thence
easterly on S.E. 14th Street to the westerly bulkhead
(Dade County bulkhead) line of Biscayne Bay, thence
northerly along said Dade County bulkhead line following
the bulkhead projected northerly across the Miami River
to the Dade County bulkhead and the southerly boundary
of the DuPont Plaza Center property, thence northeasterly
on a line remaining parallel to the southerly boundary_ of
the DuPont Plaza Center and the St. Joe Paper Company
property to a point southerly of the eastern bulkhead line
of the St. Joe Paper Company, thence northerly along the
bulkhead line of Bayfront Park and the Bayfront Park Yacht
Docks, continuing, northerly along, the bulkhead line to a
point on the centerline of N.E. 17th Street 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 _,astvrn side of the FEC Railroad
right-of-way to the centerline of N.W. 5th Street, thence
westerly along the centerline of N.W. 5th Street, to the
point of beginning."
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EXHIBIT "A"
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