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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 2011-04-21 AdvertisementCITY NOTICE OF SPECIAL On April 14, 2011, the Miami City Commission, uled a special meeting .of the Miami 2011, at 9:00 AM, at Miami City Hall ami,'Florida. Thepurpose of this special OF MIAMI COMMISSION MEETING per Resolution 11-0143, sched- for Thursday, April 21, at 3500 Pan American Drive, Mi- is to consider the following: (11 _.'ci OFF'.,,... O.l u P. City Commission located meeting an emergency ordinance amending Chapter 62 Division 6, entitled"Billboards" of the Ciy Code;12) a resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a settlement agreement with South Florida'Eauitable Fund' LLC. ET AL: and (3) a resolution of.theMiami City Commission modifying the policy expressed in Resolution No. 09-0451, concerning the pilot program allowing 1.000 foot spac- ing of outdoor advertising signs along expressways in the City of Miami. No other business shall be conducted outside of that for which the'special meeting is called. Should any person desire to appeal any decision of the City Commission with respectto any matter to be considered at this meeting, that person shall ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings iscmade including all testimony and evidence upon which any appeal may be based (F.S. 286.0105). - In accordance with the Americans with. Disabilities Act of 1990, persons,need- ing special accommodations to participate in this proceeding may contact the ' Office of the City Clerk at (305) 250-5361 (Voice) no later than two,(2) business days prior to the proceeding, or at (305) 250-5472 (TTY) no later than three (3) business days prior to the proceeding. i - Priscilla A.'Thompson, CMC • (#14888) City Clerk EA 1 MONDAY. APRIL 18, 2011. HI MiamlMemld.com 1 THE MIAMI HERALD THE WORLD I MORE COVERAGE, 10A-11A ISRAEL Teens detained in brutal slayings of Israeli family E TWO Pales -Union teens accused of killing an Israeli family, Including two children and a baby, were arrested, Israeli officials said. BY EDMUND SANDERS Los Anodes Then JERUSALEM — Israeli security officials said Sim - day they had arrested two Palestinian teemgersas sus- pects in the grisly slayings but month of five members of a Jewish family, including three children, as they slept in their West Bank settle- ment home. Military officials said the two Palestinian youths, Ha- kim Awed, 17, and Amjad Awed, 18, who are cousins, onfessed to the killings. Palestinian officials said they suspected the confes- sions were coerced and complained that the two students had not had access to attorneys or relatives. The suspects live in the Palestinian village of Awar- ta located next to the hamar settlement where the March killings took place. They were arrested earlier this month. but a court order barred publication of the Dews until Sunday. "The murderers arc In our hands," said Col. Nim- rod Alessi. commander of the brigade responsible for hamar Military officials said the teens had not yet been for- mally charged. 1f charged, they world both be tried as adults in military court in the West Bank where the cut-off age for minors is 16, military officials said Israeli officials said the suspects had "nationalistic" motives and had stated dur- ing interrogation that their goof was to kill Jewish set- tlers living In the Wee Bank which Israel has occupied since 1967. Six other sus- pects — all pan of the came family — were also arrested for allegedly helping the teen dispose of the weap- on after the slayings, Israeli oRcials said Israel said the teen ap- peared to have acted alone in committing the killings and without support from any organization, though they said some of the teens' relatives were members of the militant group known as the Popular Front for the CITY OF MIAMI NOTICE OF SPECIAL COMMISSION MEETING On April 14. 2011, the Miami City Commission, per Resolution 11-0143, scheduled a special meeting of the Miami City Commission for Thursday, April 21, 2011, el 9,00 AM, al Miami City Hall located al 3500 Pan American Drive. Miami, Florida. The purpose of this special meetino is to consider the following' i11 an amemeno r ordinance amendino Chaoler 62. Division 6. entitled "Billboards" of the City Code' 121 a resolution authorizing the City Manager in, enter into a settlement aoreement with South Florida Eouaable Fund. LLC ET AL• and 131 a resolution of the Miami City Commission modlfvina the policy expressed in Resolution No 09-0451. co0cemino the Pilot oroarem allowing 1 000 foot soacino of outdoor adverti5ino skins alone ea0fessways in the City oi.ldismi. No other business shall be conducted outside of that for which the special meeting is called. Should any person desire to appeal any decision of the City Commission with respect to any matter to be considered at this meeting, that person shall ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made including all testimony and evidence upon which any appeal may be based (F.S. 286.0105). In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, persons needing special accommodations to participate in this proceeding may contact the Office of the City Clerk at (305) 250-5361 (Voice) no later than two (2) business days prior to the proceeding, oat (305) 250-5472 (TRY) no later than three (3) business days prior to the proceeding. 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In 2002. four (tamer settlers Were killed in an attack pertly car- ried out by one of the teen- ager's uncles who was later Mlled by Israeli soldiers, military officialsuid.Sever- al hundred Aware residents were arrested over the past month and a military curfew was periodically imposed, residents said Awaota Mayor Qpis Awed, who is from the same ex- tended family, questioned the legitimacy of the Israeli investigation and com- plained that Israel had re- fused to allow Palestinian participation. `I have very serious doubts about the Israeli claims." he said "They car- ried out their own secret in- vestigation. In the end, they came up with this story about the two boys These two are just boys, and they must have come under tre- mendous pressure and tor- ture during interrogation that forced them to confess to something they hive not done" The March D nighttime attack was one of the Davit brutal in years against West Bank sealers. Security offn- cials accused the teens of us- ing wire -cutters to break through an electric fence surrounding the heavily - protected settlement, and then stealing a rifle from an empty home Shortly thereafter, they broke into the home of Udi and Roth Fogel, tint killing two children. They. 10, and End. 4, and then stabbing and shooting their parents, Israeli officials said After fleeing the scene the pair al- legedly returned to the house, where they stole an- other rifle and stabbed the families 3-month old baby, Hades, who had begun to cry, Israeli officials said. Two other children in the house escaped harm. appar- ently because they were un- noticed. A sixth child, who had been away at a youth outing, returned home around midnight to find the house doors locked and alerted a neighboo WIKILEAKS Cables put focus on Iran • CABLES, FROM IA large blind spots about a country key to US. foreign polity. 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Together we are one addition to damaging our diplomatic elons, it puts in- dividuals' security at risk threatens our national secu- rity, and undermines our ef- forts to work with countries to solve shared problems. We do not comment on the authenticity of the docu- ments released by Wildleaka:' Bur the work of the "Iran watchers" brings attention to one of the realities that American decision -makers face — without an embassy and consulates inside Iran. most of what they know about that country is second and even third hand. In a world where such informa- tion helped mislead the Bush administration into as- serting erroneously that Saddam Hussein still had active weapon of mass de- struction programs In Iraq, the prospect tbatU.S. intelli- gence may be guided, even in a small way, by such re- ports unnerves some. Anyone who will talk to m Ion watcher 'Is someone who wants a IUS.I visa. who went, money, is an expatri- ate- or someone with an ex- plicitly anti -Islamic Repub- lic agenda," said Flynt Lev- eren, a former White House and CIA official who's now a professor of international affairs at Penn State Univer- sity. "The whole concept is really flawed," said Leverets, a long-time critic of US. Iran policy. "It's almost sructtr- a8y designed._ to male sure wegct akewedlnformation," The Iran war/lens' obser- vations generally appear above the signature Mother embassy officials. vials. though their identities do not seem to be a secret Assistant Sec- retary of State Jeffrey Felt - man named several, offering specific praise for their work in a cable that was la- beled unclassified. Never- theless, at the State Depart- ment's request, McClatchy deleted their names on the version of the cable that it posted on its website Of course. the Iran watch- ers are not the only source of information for the U.S. gov- ernment, which trades in- formation with its allies, most orwhom do maintain a diplomatic presence in Teh- ran, and presumably spies on the country through more cover means. Even so, the cables show, the US. of- ten has a difficult time knowing what is going on there The largest mass protests in the Islamic republic's his- tory -were unanticipated by most of us," Feltman ac- knowledged to the Iran watchers on June 26, 2009, two weeks after disputed presidential elections sparked massive demon- strations and rioting in a challenge to Iran's theocra- cy. "Without a post in Iran and given the Iranian go, eminent crackdown on its citizens. journalists, foreign diplomats and most modes of communication, our abil- ity to get reliable news and make sense of the situation here in Washington has proved most difficult."