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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 1977-04-14 Minutes.^•••-• • • •-•.•-,-• • --• ••:.t; • ir OF MIAMI OF MEETING HELD ON 4'11 14 " 7 7 PREPARED BY THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK CITY HALL RALPH 64 ONGIE CITY CLERK lND CIiNtSslr IARtm SIISJECT ORDINANCE ON RESOLUTION . 0 PAGE NO. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14, 15. 16. 17. 15. 19. PERSONAL APPEARANCE-GEORGE REED, ARCHITEGfi- REQ. USE OF 3IcENTENNtAL PAW PRESENTATION TO RAUL TEJEDA-REPUBLIC OF GUATEMA.A! WAIVE READING OF MINUTES: TRADE FAIR OF THE A;MERICAS - MOTION TO PROCEED: (see Resolution 77-347) SET DATE FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS TO CONSIDER RENAMING RAYFRONT AND BICENTENNIAL PARKS: ESTABLISH DATE FOR DEDICATION OF SCULPTURE IN BICENTENNIAL PARK: FIRST READING ORDINANCE -AMEND SEC. 39-49 OF THC CITY CODE PERMIT DOGS IN DESIGNATED AREAS or PARKS: FIRST READING ORDINANCE -AMEND. SECTION 1 OF ORD. 8345, BY ELIMINATING THE APPROPRIATION FOR PALM BLIGHT PROGRAM: RECEIVE SEALED BIDS- 28 MILLION GEN. OBLIGATION BOND PRESENTATION BY HOWARD GARY OF FIRST BUDGET ESTIMATE AND BUDGET MANUAL (FISCAL) 1977-197S PERSONAL APPEARANCE: MR. JOHN CORRIGAN (COUNCIL OF INTERNATIONAL VISITORS) REQ. ASSISTANCE: PROCLAMATIONS ,PLAQUES AND SPECIAL ITEMS: AWARDING BONDS- 13 MILLION SEWER, 3 Million POLICE HEADQUARTERS, 2 MILLION STORM SEWER 5 MILLION STREET AND }IIGHWAY: CONFIRM ASSESSMENT ROLL - STREET IMPROVEMENTS - S.W. 22ND STREET - HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT H-4639: SECOND READING ORDINANCE -ESTABLISH NEW DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION AND 'TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM SERVICES: SECOND READING ORDINANCE -AMEND SEC, 2-100,1: 2-100-2 AND REPEALING SEC. 2-100.5 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MI I--REASSIC ING COMPUTER SYSTEMS DEV. ACTIVITIES FROM MANFOWER SERVICES TO SYSTEMS SERVICES; SECOND READING ORDINANCE -DETERMINING FG' cTIONS OF THE DEFT. OF COMMUNICATIONS; REPEAL SEC. .-29 AND CREATING NEW L ECTIoN 2-29 CF THE corE OF T?iE CITY 9F MIAMI;FSTABLISHING TI3ESE T'U ;C.TICNS, SECOND READING ORDINANCE -MEND t: ORD, NO, 8589; ADD SEC. 9-A AUTHORIZE CITY YANAGER TO ADMINTSTRA- TIVELY TRANSFER FuNDS BETWT.IN TU. '•' :,R:OVS DEPARTMENTS; FIRST READING °RV -NAME -AMEND SECTION 1 OF ORD,, 857s; INCREASE FUNDS FOR 1ECHA I: A 1C'S fRoGRAtt M-77-303 M-77-104 I-77-305 M- 77.306 (1st reading 1 3 3 - 20 20 -21 22 (1st reading) 23 R-77-307 23- 24 24 34 35 - 37 37 - 33 R-77-308 38 R-77-309 39 8631 39 - 40 8632 1 +1 8633 41 8634 (1st TPad1 6) i r tax CCTlISSgEMPE 6tI14 iTEM NO, 20, 21. 22. 22. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. SUBJECT `fr INANC o� RtSOLUT1 ON ND I PAGE NO FIRST READING ORDINANCE -AMEND SUBSECTION 2 OF SECTION 39-13.1 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI; REVISE GOLF COURSE GREEN FEES AND CART RENTAL FOR THE St 1M1 R MONTHS: BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM -CONSIDERATION OF MELREESE GOLF COURSE PROVIDE FOR DISTRIBUTION OF $11.00 SPECIAL SUMMER RATE FOR COMBINED GREEN PEE AND CART RENTAL AT MIAMI SPRINGS GOLF COURSE: AUTHORIZE CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR OBJECTIONS TO ACCEPTANCE OF COMJ?LETED'CONSTRUCTION OF S.W. 22 ST. HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT PHASE II - H-4395 (HIGHWAY PORTION) BID "A": ACCEPT HIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY DEED FOR HIGHWAY WIDENING NORTHERLY SIDE OF N.W. 15TH ST. BETWEEN N.W. 8TH CT. AND N.W. 9TH AVENUE: ACCEPT RIGHT-OF-WAY DEED; FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES, THE NORTHWESTERLY 70 FEET OF LOTS 53 THROUGH 57, BLOCK "B", MARY AND WILLIAM BRICKELL SUBDIVISION (B-96): ACCEPT PLAT: AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO DIRECT BUILDING DEPT. TO ISSUE SPECIAL BUILDING PERMIT FOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT SERVICE FACILITY: AUTHORIZE PAYMENT OF $7,305.25 FROM PARKS FOR PEOPLE BONDS FUND FOR PARCELS NOS. 7095-1, 7095-2, AND 7095-6, CITY vs GISELE FASHIK, ET AL: 29. AUTHORIZE PAYMENT OF $8,200. FROM PARKS FOR PEOPLE BONDS FUND -PARCEL NO. 7091-3 - CITY VS. PLATO COX, ET AL: 30, BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: CENTRO MATER PROBLEM WITH LEASED PROPERTY: 31. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT- SEVENTH ANNUAL CHAMPION SPARK PLUG UNLIMITED REGATTA AT MIAMI MARINE STADIUM: 32, AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ADVERTISE FOR PROPOSALS CROWD CONTROL SERVICES DURING EVENTS AT THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM; 35, ISSUE PURCHASE ORDER FOR MYO-TONE BIOFEEDBACK MONITOR AND ALSO A CYEORG BIOFEEDBACK MONITOR FOR JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL (BURN UNIT) AUTTORIZE CITY MANAGER .AND CITY CLERK TO ENTER INTO AP AGREEMENT .ram I TH BOM,I OP C 01JNT't COMB MISSI oNF t3 FOR; PLANT NURSERY: 35, DENYING CERTAIN CUM !B AND INSTRUCTI G THE CITY ATTORNEY TO DEFEND ANY SUIT: (1st reading) R-77-310 R-77-311 R-77-312 R-77-313 R-77-314 R-77-315 R-77-316 43 43 ` 44 44 45 45 46 46 47 47 R-77-317 48 48 49 R-77-318 49 R-77-319 50 R-77-3 0 50 R-77-32I 51 R.77-9 5 ct4 !NE IS�I�i� IFi:�RiM 11Di NO. SUBJECT ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION NO PAGE NO, 36, 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44 . 45. 45. 47. 48. 49. 50, 51. 52, 55. 54 55. 56. CLAM SETTLEMENT: CITY OP MIAMI vs. RIPOLITO R. FIGUEROA, MC KESSON WINE & SPIRITS CO., AND CNA INSURANCE COMPANY: AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY CLERK TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT FOR SALE OF UNNUMBERED LOl SOUTH OP THE INLAND WATERWAY AND NORTH OF 17TH COURT! AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT GRANT -THERAPEUTIC RECREATION SPECALIST PROGRAM: AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT GRANT -NEIGHBORHOOD ARTS PROGRAM! AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER AND CITY CLERK TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENT WITH UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FOR USE OF ORANGE BOWL STADIUM: AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO ANY CONTRACTS OR AGREEMENTS TO INCREASE: FUNDING FOR PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM UNDER TITLE II UNDER C.E.T.A: AMUSEMENT RIDES PERMIT— EDISON CENTER INTERNATIONAL MASONS: APPOINTING — J.L. MUMMER, JR. AS REPLACEMENT TO CITY OF MIAMI RETIREMENT SYSTEM BOARD: DIRECT ADMINISTRATION TO PROVIDE A C.E.T.A POSITION TO BE SPLIT BETWEEN THE RETIREMENT BOARD PLAN AND THE RETIREMENT BOARD SYSTEM: APPOINTING — CARMEN ANN MORINE MORRIS TO THE YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD: APPOINT ADDITIONAL PERSONS TO THE CITY OF MIAMI COMMITTEE ON ECOLOGY AND BEAUTIFICATION: AWARD BID - SALVAGE AND DEMOLITION PHASE II — INCINERATOR NO. 1; AWARD BID — REMOVE AND REPLACE ROOF ON DINNER KEY EXPOSITION HALL: AWARD BID - UNIFORMS FOR FIRE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL: AWARD BID - PORTABLE BULKHEAD FOR EDISON POOL: AWARD RID - TURF MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT IN AND AROUND THE ORANGE BOWL AND OTHER CITY FACILITIES; AWARD 5ID - FURNISHING of 500 TOTE BARRELS; AWARD RID - TWO ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITERS FOR PL6N'NING DEPARTMENT AND POLICE DEPARTMENT; AWARD RID - 2OTH STREET WATER TANK DEMOLITION ?RN; AWARD RID - DZKOLITION CHEVRON STATION. 601 BISCAY'NE BOULEVARD; CONFIRMING RESOLUTION - ESTABLISH AD HOC ADVISORY COMMITTUTCOCDNUT CRAVE HICHWAY LMPROVEMENT; RR77-323 52 R-77-324 53 R-77-325 53 R-77-326 54 R-77-327 54 - 56 R 7 7-328 56 57 R-77-329 57 R-77-330 57 R-77-331 58 R-77-332 58 R-77-333 58 R-77-334 59 R-77-335 59 — 63 R-77-336 64 R-77-337 64 R-77-338 64 — 65 R-77-339 65 R-77»34Q 66 R=77-341 a6 R•77.342 �! R 77-343 6$ 1 CI INED ULARAETING t��oF 'IN% ituRIQ4 I'll NOS SLEJECT " g LU f UN PAGE NO 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 63 64 65 66. 67, 68. 69, w CONPIRMINO RESOLUTION = CHANGE CITY COMMISSION MEM FOR MONTH OP MAY 977: R-77-344 68 CONFIRMING REs0LUTIoN - ESTABLIsI DATE FOR DEDiCA't 0: OP SCULPTURE IN BIECENTENNIAL PARK (NUEVO MUNbN SCULPT itE: R-77-145 68 - 69 CONFIRMING RE50LUtION - SETTING DATE AND TIME FOR Ptt8LIC HEARING REGARDING RENAMING OP EICENTENN t PARK AND BAYFRoNT PARR: R-77-346 69 PERSONAL APPEARANCE .. JOE 0 SMITH CONCERNING CITY OP MIAMI SELF-INSURANCE PROGRAM: 69 - 70 PERSONAL APPEARANCE: PETER JOFFRE (SEE 'FIRST READ. ORDINANCE REGARDING AMENDMENT OF CITY'S GENERAL EMPLOYEES RETIR iENT PLAN (PAY BACK OPTION) (1st reading) 70 - 76 PERSONAL APPEARANCE - JESSE MCCRARY REGARDING P.I.' PAY -RECENTLY TERMINATED FOR THREE POLICE OFFICERS: 76 - 84 PERSONAL APPEARANCE - SPENCER MEREDITH (GROVE KEY MARINA) REGARDING ILLEGAL ANCHORING OF BOATS: 85 CONFIRMING RESOLUTION - TRADE FAIR OF THE AMERICAS: R-77-347 86 PERSONAL APPEARANCE - DELEGATION OF PERSONS FROM COCONUT GROVE TO DISCUSS PROPOSED ACTION BY THE SOUTH FLORIDA REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL REGARDING THE POSSIBILITY OF DESIGNATING THE COCONUT GROVE AREA AS AN AREA OF CRITICAL STATE CONCERN (A. C.S.C.) M-77-348 87 97 DISCUSSION ITEM: - APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL TO ASSIST THE LAW DEPARTMENT FOR FEC CONDEMNA- TION CASES: M-77-349 97 - 98• PERSONAL APPEARANCE —GENE NAPLES - REGARDINC ATTEMPTED REPEAL OF "HEART BILL" 98 - 100 BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM - RECEIPT OF LETTER FROM DR. RALPH MERKS REGARDING REPLOTTING: 101 COMMISSIONER ROSE GORDON ADVISES CITY COMMISSION OF HER APPOINTMENT TO A COMMITTEE: INSTRUCT CITY MANAGER TO MAKE FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR TRAVEL TO ANNUAL CONVENTION OS SISTER CITIES: M-774350 01 02 MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI) FLORIDA ON THE 14TH DAY OF APRIL,11977) THE CITY COMMISSION OF HALL/ 35UURFAN A.MERICANTIRIVEJ MIAMI.. LAR ORIDADE ININ THE REGULARiTY SESSION. THE MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER AT 9:12 O'CLOCK A.M. BY MAYOR MAURICE Al IIRRE WITH THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION FOUND TO BE PRESENT: COMMISSIONER J. L. PL MMER, JR COMMISSIONER RO-E (JORDON MAYOR MAURICE A. FERRE ALSO PRESENT: ABSENT: J SE H R, CRA SIE, CITY MANAGER R, , t'OSM EN ASS! TANT CITY MANAGER KAORGE 1. KNOX, Ljj,TY A TORNEY LP G. OWE) CITY LERK MATTY HIRAI, ASSISTANT ITY CLERK COMMISSIONER MANOLO REBOSO VICE -MAYOR IHEODORE GIBSON AN INVOCATION WAS DELIVERED BY MAYOR FERRE WHO THEN LED THOSE PRESENT IN A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG. READING OF THE MINUTES: MOVED AND WAIVED, 1. PERSONAL APPEARANCE: GEORGE ii� RCH TE T - REQUESTING FOR USE OF 1TENNIAL PARK. mayor Ferre: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, this is a regular City of :Miami Commission Meeting. At this time we're going to take two things, that have been requested, out of the agenda and one of them is Mr. George Reed, who would like to ask for permission to use, George.if you would, Bicentennial Park Restaurant for a party. I think you need some kind of a waiver of some kind, right? Mr. George Reed; Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for allowing me to be here this morning. Mr. Plummer; Excuse me, tor. Reed, before you do. There's no one sitting in that chair and I want to know who is going to be sitting in that chair. Mr. Grimm' vr, Plummer; Well l'm r.ct designating you 45 City Manager, sir, but from what the sllec; is going to be 'm sure we're going to have to have some answers from the Administration, Wier Pere; Alright. 4eorge. go ahead. mr, Reed; Occasionally, opportunity exists to cause an influent.* on the Mane of events that expands beyond the initial effort exerted and one such oFFort" nity e4ists today and that's what Causes me W be here, Only s few weeks 4,4 ' stood before you and we discussed among ourselves Ways to have people be aware about Bicentennial 1 APR 14 lin 1 Park. You probably reaali that. A ohl there lines, it's my strong feeling that all of the architects in fide eomm ihity should have the experienee of that park first hand. They should experience the space, they should experience the green and they should do it now. It wrrstiid be opportune, t think, therefore, for the eommuhity if file ;architects could be caused to gather on that site. Now t would propose that the Florida aauth Chapter of the American League of Architects meet there on a Priday afternoon, perhaps May 12th at S:db► in your park and they would have a catered picnic. They would have hamburgers and hat dogs grid they'd bring their children, they'd have a Dixie Land an the Mayor and the dammissianers world be invited to eeme... .Mayor Perrot That's a Friday, George. Mr. Reeds tt would be a gayia event, it Could tang remembered as a very special evening, a very special occasion. but to do so t respectfully request that the Commission waiver the policy of prohibiting alcoholic beverages iii a park to allow possibly beer and wine to be served during the picnic. Mayor Feria: I think that's perfectly reasonable. Mr. Peed: tt would be for a period of 2 or 1 hours. We world not use your kitchen and I think that such an occasion would resemble that of a small pebble falling into a pond because of the widening ripple of good will regarding this park, the use of the park, along with the first hand experiences that would take place, and the ability of the architects to significantly describe their experiences to others and to perhaps enhance it even in a public way. Mayor Ferret George, t think that's a wonderful suggestion and . .., how do you feel about it? Rose evidently seems... (INAUbIBLt) Mr. pruner: When you say the use of the restaurant, now are you going to actually utilize the restaurant physically? Mr. Reed: No. 4r. Plummer: Are you going to do it very similarly to what the opening of the park originally did and that was just to set tip.... Mr. Reeds We will not use your kitchen in anyway. It would be completely catered, it will be brought in, picked up... Mayor Ferro: Look, it's very simple. He wants to have the architects meet there on Friday,May 13th and have wine and beer. Do you want to do it? Yes or no? Mrs. Gordon: I think it's a good idea. I'm in favor of it and I move it. Mr. Plummer: I have no objections to that, I'm only asking for what problems have been created in opening a building which has never been opened. Mr. Reed: Nowe would not do that. Mayor Ferro: Alright, it's been moved by Rose Gordon. Are there any legal ,problems? Mr. Knox: We could probably just clarify for the record that there is an ordinance, an ordinance which prohibits the consumption of alcoholic beverages in parks. Now if this is associated with the restaurant operation, of course we have permitted alcohol in association with restaurant facilities. .Mayor Ferret It is associated with the restaurant. Fiat's what he said, he wants to use the restaurant and that's where the wine and beer will be served. You're not going to serve it at the entrance of the park or anything else, right? M. Reed: Yes. Mayor Ferret c orge, is that okay? +? tan The follow adoption: Maticlift was introduced by Commissioner dordcn, whaawed ita MOT= gO. /7o102 A MOTION STAMM TH2 INTENT OP TR2 CITY COMMISHION TO PtAMIT TH2 USE OP HIC2NT2NNIAL PARK MAY 13, 1077 POA A Pt= COMN2=0 AT APPROXIMATHLY S:00 O'CtOat P.M. HY AN A2HOCIATION OP AACHTT2CTS, Agb AttOWrgd 2.i•H2 Ott OP TRH MAK AESTAUAANT POA CONSUMPTION OP WINE Agb tt2A =Its THE tUttb/Nd ORLY. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: MS: Commissioner C. L. Plummer, :r. Commissioner Aote rdon Mayor Maurice A. Perre NOES: None. ABStNT: CoMMissioner Manolo Raboso Vice -Mayor (Vev.) Theodore dibson MATHERInS.CUSSION: Mr. GrimMt Mr. Mayor, I presume that you will require to comply with all City rules and regulations, mayor Ferret Absolutely and you'll be responsible for make if any of those architects get drunk and knock ove otherwise. Mrs. Gordon: 4:00 did you say? Mr. geed: It would start about 5:00. Mayor Ferret We'll all be there. Mr. Reed: Thank you very much. Mayor Ferret If you send us an invitation. Mr. Reed: We will. Mr. Plummer; What's the date? Mr. Reed: Friday, May 13th. the architects any damages you r palm trees or 2, PRESENTATION TO RAUL TUBA - REPUBLIC OF GUATEMALA: mayor Ferrel Ladies and gentlemen, we have with us today Mr. Raul Tejeda who is the Director of National. Export for the Republic of Guatemala and he honors us with his presence. He is a distinguished professional who is well recognized throughout the Americas for the job he has done in his own country and at this time I would like to ask him to stand forward because we want to give him the keys to the City in recognition and to welcome him to our community. NUL5c note that at thi4 t4me, 9:20 A.M., tace-Maywc Gib4on and Commi444ane' o,so ente.ted the meet44,1 3. WAIvE READING OF MINUTES. upon 4 motion offered by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Vice -Mayor dibsonf the reading of the m4nutes was waived by a 444:1441044 'mut th* C.9mmission. 3 1.1111 f4-11, • • • .4, 4 et • 41 TRADE FAIR OF THE AMERICAS - MOTION TO PROCHDI Mr. draggiei Mrs druMptdft, Mrs Mayer, will report oft thil and poatibly EVelio try also. Mr. drumpteht Mr. Mayor, demmietiohera, this ie your Trade Pair of the Ameridas that you have been workihg sire latt auly, It you will recall ih beet:Met of le7S, the &Werner, the Mayor and timbers Of this dommiasion and people from all over the etat e of Merida toured Vefteftela and doldebia, partieularly daeadat and !levee and out of that daft a reaffirmation of the demmitment that this area must projedt itself into the arena of the hemiapheric capabilities tor trade and activities, Pram that reaffirmation we decided to explore the possibilities of a trade fair. This we began. We had a workshop thi6 past becember ih which 21 of 24 of the 6tganieation et Ameriean States countries partidipated. Prom that it was indicated that yes, a trade fair Or aoffiething like that would be very beheficial to the countries as well as to the RiaMi area. Prom that we employed the firm of Evelio Ley and Associates as Out coordinator to help us with this particular protest. Last CoMUSSiOn meeting we adopted the location of the fair to be at the Miaxni Merchandise Mart out at N.W. 7th Street and 72nd Avehue. Today ue have before you a proposed budget of this trade fair. iteeping in mind that this particular fair is uniqUe, it'S not like the togota fair, it's not like the fair that MexiC0 has in San Antonio and to our knowledge it's not like any tair that exists anywhere and to our knowledge this is the first fair of its kind to take place not only in the Miami area or FlOrida or the U.S. but to our knowledge, in the world. This is the first of its kind because of a huMber of reasons ne, it is unique in that it is for the benefit of the member countries of the Organization of American States. The United States is, Of course, one of those members. It is also a fair that will be for the display of the Consumer goods, certain consumer goods of the member OAS nations only. It is not an International reit per se. It will also be the fair that comes to this locale in March of 1078. The budget that you have before you is $1,00,000. As to the total budget of the fair, you can find that on page 6 of your partieular document that's ih your packet. The estimated revenues which we feel are on the conservative side are $688,000 which, of course, gives a differehtial of excess of estimated expenses over revenues of somewhere in the neighborhood of $380,000. Now these numbers are the best that we can do with the information that we have and the inquiries that have been made. We have conferred with Mr. Oscar Peres who is the Executive Director of the Bogcta Fair. We have limited information from the San Antonio Fair that the Mexican Government is involved in. It's a pragmatic approach. The numbers are the best that can be done at this time. We have certain indications of the revenues of participation by the State of Florida. Governor Askew has, in his recommended budget, $150,000 earmarked for this particular fair. That is in the discussion processes, in the budgeting processes now with the State. Dade County is reviewing their participation in a combination of ih hind and cash that has been indicated to us of approximately $150,000. Today, we feel, is somewhat 'decision day: We're asking the Commission to guarantee at least or up to $350,000 for this project which is the difference between the estimated revenues and the projected expenses. We've also found that with cash flow that many of our revenues will not be coming in until July, October cr after the first of the year, that we need to establish a reimbursable fund of $750,000 that must be established and funded at this time to pay the iamediate and ongoing expenses up until the time of the fair when the revenues begin to come in to offset this. So between the City's guarantee and an estimated $400,000 of these funds which will be reimbursed to the City by the end of March 1978, we feel that this is the time of decision. It's somewhat like a little story that goes of, you recall, Porky Pig and Henny Penny as they were walking down the street and they saw the sign in the restaurant that said. "Ham and Eggs - 690" and Henn' Penny turns to Porky and says, "Now isn't that great that we, the small barnyard animals, can contribute to the sustenance of our humen being," and Porky lacks at !fenny and says, "Yes, Henny, but yours te a donation but mine is full commitment," well today ts the day of full commitment, We feel that we have come to a critical luncture of where we need to make a decision to either make this commitment and proceed or stop. This is where we are, we're asking that the City guarantee ep to $350.000 and establish 4 reimbursable fund of $750,000 and fund it now, We have looked into the possibilities of where the $750400 can come. 2've explored this with some of the financial people in the community as well as our own Finance Director and we feel that it can be borrowed from one Of the City's any funds such as the Capital Improvement or :nsuranoe 'Fund or many of the construction funds as a 10an at the going rate of percentage that exists now with those now leech less expensively than we meld if we went to 4 commercial bank and we have explored that and they v*ry anywhere from prime. which ie somewhere now from ,04 up t* 2 pointe over prtme and with a guarantee by A APR 14 1977 the dity of the entire $7t0,00 Again it says the banking community► if you have your money end you have your collateral they'll loan you money, Mayor tome: Is that your specific recommendation' Mr. drumptont My recommendation appears on the second page of this report and t stand by that recommendation. sir. Mayor Perrot Are you finished? Mr. drumptent Yes, sir, t'tt finished. Mayor Perre: Mr. Brassie, t noticed that your initials were on onn of these docents so I assume that that means that you are subscribing to the new recthmmendments . Mr. Gtassies Yes, I thihk that this is as realistic a budget, Mr. Mayor, as we can achieve. I think that a couple of points need to be made. If you've noticed on page 6 of the report that you have in front of you, we're talking about a budget of slightly more than a million dollars with revenues of $688,000 and con- sequently you end up with our famous bottom line, in this case it shows t381,000. Mr. Eton is talking about $150,000 as a eommitttent from the City. We should understand this as a City project and in consequence, if everything turned out wrung... That is, if expenses were higher than expected and income even lower than these conservative estimates, we have to recognize that it's our project and it's just like starting to build a building. At some point you get into it so fax that you've got to stick with the probler of funding that particular activity. I say that simply that we all recognize that while we are establishing a budget expectation here and I think that it has been done in a conservative way and I should tell you that it started out being a 21 million dollar budget and it has come to what you see now so that we're not simply giving you the first idea that came off the drawing board. to spite of that, we have to recognize that there is a certain risk that we are taking even above the $350,000, roughly, that we're talking about being committed to by way of support. Mayor Ferret Do you feel that this is something in the public interest, in the interest of this community? Mr. Grassies I think it is definitely in the public interest and the interest of this community. I am concerned about only one aspect in this regard and that is the way in which the fair is developed and promoted within the United States. I think that the general direction that we are taking abroad is good for this purpose. I'm still concerned with the approach we are taking within the United States. I think that has to be looked at very carefully but with that reservation, yes, I think that the purpose of the fair is certainly a very valid, worthwhile and far- reaching sort of a project for this community. Mayor Ferrel The reservation that you have, is there a reasonable expectation that that can be overcome? Mr. Grassie; Yes, we have to take some hard decisions in the very short run but yes, I expect that it can be overcome. Mayor Ferrel and the budgetary deficit of $350,000 is something that you feel that you're going to be able to live with in the budget that you've going to be proposing': Mr. Grassie; We're talking about a project whioh will cover more than one fiscal year. rater on in your agenda, the committee of the Whole, you will see that we will be describing for you some very serious budget problems. ".ayor 'errs; That's why I'm asking You ta'he question. Mt, Groasie; Having said that, because of the importance that the City Commission has given and that I think this has for the community, this type of activity, which 1.3 basica.ly a serious effort to develop economic base for Miami, because of the importance tance of that kind of activity, : think that we have to face up to the fact that this is going to be another demand on cur budget and we're going to have to acmommodate it but Z don't want to tell you in ny way that that's going to be easy to do because ;it is going :to be veer difficult. MoYOr Ferro; Mr. Cr ptc , : see t;3a; Mr,:toy is hare and I would aloe lire to extand a welcome to Qua tiagui$ ed visitor from satamala 01.41 : linow oheo all. APR 4 1977 Of the national trade offidera of the AMefidan republics are going to be Meeting if ddatsMsia in May, As a Matter of feet, we passed a fesolution authoriri i the ComMissioh to travel to that meeting, When is it The 24th of May, At chit time t wwu d like to, if it's alright with you, ektefld an invitation perhaps first to Mr, Ley tds express hie opinion and theh through hit to our distinguished visitor, Mr, 're jeda from f uiataf a2a, Mr, Evelio Ley Mt, Mayor, Coffiftissioners, t think today we have here maul 'rejects who arrived in town yesterday On His way to the f omihican Republic and he was looking forward to getting together with, say► the board of Director of the fairs and with the City C6MMissi6ners and the City Manager and he wrote erne messages, We had been talking about: the participation of the countries► the Cott it:tent of eaMe of the countries and he has been very much sur ,riled of the official comttita tent that we had been receiving already from tatin America and fret, Most of those countries, t would like to express the point that in the last 6 or 7 :oaths that we had been working on this ► sine 8eptefnher, all these ideas have been developed now into reality and now, certainly, as the City Manager has said and Mt, Crompton has said is the point where we have to make a selection. Tither we go ahead or we don't. z think it may be a good idea if the City Conission would like to ask some questions to Mr, 'Iejeda about what his feelings would be, Mr, Raul Tejedat Mr, Mayor, Commissioners, thank you, I'm very happy to be here with you today even though 2 was eompietely unaware that I was going to be here. As a participating country in the fair of the Americas, I would be most happy to express my opinion to some of the questions that you may still have with regards to the organisation and participation in the fair. I can only speak for Guatemala but I have been in the business of organizing fairs in the past and as Mr. Ley mentioned, I was happily surprised to see that you have almost a 30% commitment from the countries which for us Latins with almost a year before the event is to take place I think is very good so l was very happy. Mayor Ferret Do you feel, Mr. Tejeda, from what you've seen of the projections that we're going to have a successful fair/ to you think that it locks like we Might have a successful fair? Mr. Tejedat I would say, Mr. .mayor, that you can almost guarantee a successful fair. We all look towards Miami as the port of entry for our products to the united States market and therefore I think that we're going to have quite a few people coming. Mayor Ferre: Has your government decided to participate? Mr. Tejeda: Yes, sir. Mayor Ferre: So Guatemala will be represented. Mr. Tejeda: I personally committed my country. Mayor Ferre: Do you feel that we will get ample representation from the other 24 republics and nations in the hemisphere? Mr. Tejeda: Yes, I believe you will, Mr. Mayor, and with the new location that has been decided for the fair, there is quite a bit more space. mayor Ferre: have you seen the location? Mr. Teleda; No, but the information that T. have gives us rnuch better possibilities than we had in December when we were talking about Dinner ICey Auditorium. Mayor Ferre: Nave you looked at the proposed budget? Has Mr. Ley showed you that; M^. . Tejeda; NO, sir. mayor Terre: DC you envision an expenditure of a million dollars a reasonable expenditure f;r a fair of this nature? Mr. Te;eda►; : was surprised to see the figure thet low, Mayor rem; you thank it's low? Mr, 'Wade; i thought a, Y . was going to be much Maher, 4ayor Verse; What, ire your opinion, should something , i!ce 5 nQ A.PR 1977 Mr. Tejedat Well it diffiattlt to say but t was thinking it would go oiaser to two mitlian dollars. Mayor Perm ' all that's owe of the fears that we have is that it would go tip to two million dollars but we've got to make sure, Mr. tey, that if this is approved by the Commission today that these budgets are realistic acid kept acrid that we Can have soitteth h§ that we're not Bing to be ashamed. A million dollars Le a lot of money but as Compared to what? Most of these major trade fairs in turope whidh they hold every other month rut into L 4, S million dollars and we Can't dompete With Antwerp and Amsterdam and all of the big cities in tutope who have this as a going business but I would hope that we would do something that would be meatingful and have a lasting impact and establish something that .is tong overdue in this Community but we need to snake sure that we're approaching it in a very conservative, proper form and your opinion is important to us because this is obviously something that you're involved in. Do you think that in Guatemala we'll have the support of the people that we'll be meeting there Mr. Tejedat Well yes, f think that there will be more commitments, maybe, made in t;uatamala. to Dee-01bn of last we didn't really have anything to base our decision on and there will still be some questions but I'm sure the Commissioners and the Mayor will be able to answer them and that will clear the path undoubtedly. You might not Bret a full commitment fro them then but, again, as Latins, We always wait until the last Mithute. mayor Perret tf this fair is successful, .ir. Tejeda, this is the last question t have of you, do you, feel it will have an important economic impact in trade for the Miami Community? Mr. Tejedat Definitely and I would also say that the tourists and the people moving into :4iami, there will be a lot of traffic coming in from Latin America in March. Mayor Ferro: Does anybody else have any questions of Mr. Tejeda7 Mr. Plummer: Speaking on the optimistic side before I get to the negative, I think in our conversation last night it might be important for you to relate, for the record and to this Commission what you did in conversation with me last evening and you made a comment that you felt that there would be more commitments than what could be accommodated from just your country. Of course, that's the only one you could speak of. As I understood your conversation with me, you felt that there would be more request from the people of Guatemala than what the fair could accommodate. Did I understand you correctly? Mr. Tejeda: More or less. Let's put it this way, Mr. Plummer. What I mentioned was that if we get a definite and limited space allowed to each country and we cannot rent additional space, we will probably be in trouble in trying to locate all of the different exhibitors. Mr. Plummer: In other words, it was your feeling or it is your feeling, from your country of Guatemala, that there probably would be more requests for space than what could be accommodated in your allocation, Mr. Tejeda; Last December we were talking about 1,0O0 square feet. We can accommodate a certain amount of people within that area but we'll have to rent additional space because I'm sure that we'lihave quite a few more exporters that we usually are able to convince going to other fairs in Zurope. Mayor Perre; What's the total square footage that we have available for the whole fair? Mayor Ferro; 100..000 square feet, Mr, Tejeda; We have 100,000 square feet plus, to addition to that 100,000, we have the V, , , row, tie conference room for the seminars, the additional space where the theater will be going on with some films and in addition to that, 4:.1 the necessary ;Face for rest rooms storage and so forth, ;Mayor 'erre; :relic, let me ask you this questtcn hooetase this is something that concern; Me, Mat of these successful fairs have , 3 or 4Q, Q00 spare feet of exhibition $Vi a, gaA we pa CA a aucces4F41 fat= with 04, c00 square feet and a Million dollar, budget? 1 APR 4 1377 Mr, Levi Mr, Mayor, this has beet deeply diteusted with the director of the International pair et Wel ta moat Pere t and he WAS awate � uf dandath tea gardim Odf budget and he'las aware 6t otif concern that we do not 60further that we dah Wale them at the present time, We do hot Waht to doffiiftt oiirdeiVe§ More than we should, And then this is the beginhing, this is the first time, aire the bagihning, he reeammehded ta use for expOiition 10000 §4uare meters which is equivalent ta this, Ahd also the budget, the reason that they're surprised at the law aMouht of the budget is because it has been retied as much as possible and hal been plahhing to da it ih a mart difficult way ih trying to save at MUdh money At podaible but he id complying completely to whatever it necessary ta have this fair, May t mention two things, Mr, Mayor, 2 thihk maybe it will be of interest to the City Commission, A meeting that we recently had ih Wathingtah where the Mayor was preseht, or maybe the Mayor would like to make reference to this meetihg, was with the President of the Inter -American bevelopment Bank, Otti2 Meant, and also was participating was CahlretOth Pepper and also the representative from the offioe of CahlrettMah ratdell who was in atUbadoMMittee meeting at the tiMe, and the President of the thter-Americah boveloemeht Battk was extremely ihterested in this fair and also made the commitment.that the -participation of the bank; and they are studying right now how they will be participating financially in trying to help in se way those countries partici- pating in the fait. think one of the other comments regarding the question that a City Commissioner asked ta the City Manager is about the interest to the community. Maybe it has been very much developed by the excellent coverage that we have been having from the Miami Herald, from the Miami Hews, from mrtarry terger# who is here with us today, and also from Mario Las Americas and all the local newspapers, Mayor Ferrel Z might reaffirm that Meeting. % was frankly very surprised. I haven't told you this because the Inter -American Bank is not a small organization. That is an agenay, a bank backed 40% by the United States that lends. every Year, abOut 5,000,000,000 in Latin America, mostly to qovernments. It's mostly a qoVernmentai bank type of a thing. They have three building in Washington, it's a very large institution. I thought they were going to be nice to us and shake our hands and say good-bye and when we walked in, Claude Pepper was there and the President received us, we sat down and we were helped by a friend of Mr. Evelio Ley... Mr. Ley: Mario Vierke, Director of Central. America... Mayor Ferret He's the representative of Central America that has regional repre- sentatives on the Board. And the President said, we look with great sympathy to your project, we think it's an important project, we're going to back you, we'll help you as much as possible. And I said, well, Mr. President, that's all very nice but can we talk about money and he said, well the bank cannot make any loans to the City of Miami but we certainly can work with our member countries, every country is a member of this bank and certainly we would be happy to work with them in conjunction with them and we might be able to finance some studies that need to be made so that we can identify the market. You see, the whole key to what we're talking about is that Miami has got to become a trade center. It's that a.little bit but it really hasn't happened as much as it should. This should be a trading post. You know, you take a place like Dallas, Texas, a large, important City. There's no reason for Dallas to exist. I'm sure they wouldn't like my saying that but it didn't have oil, it's not the cattle center, that's Fort worth. The reason Dallas has become a major metropolis is because it became a trade post, that's where people came and gathered to buy and sell things. Miami has a historic role which we have not begun to meet. This is a place where people should come and buy and sell things, this should become a trade post. Most trade centers in the history of mankind have happened because they're on rivers or be- cause they're on important ports because that was the for that people used to travel in in antiquity up until 30 or 40 years ago but now, in the modern world, you don't need rivers and ports, what you need is airplanes because that's how people travel. Miami happens to have, tust because God gave us that geographical location, a perfect place, it's at the tip of a finger that points to the Caribbean and Latin AMOriC4 and as a consequence, if you take a map and you take a 3,000 mile circle around it. iyO4 go 411 the way from waohinqton, Or a 2,000 Mile circle, yO4 go :rOm Washington to Mexioo, most of Central America with the exception of 124A4M44 Columbia and Venezuela, ;n other words, within A flying hours oi Miami ;national AiRoort, there are 200400,000 people that live. Certainly we cannot think of a more propitious place to become a trade center but Ood helps those who helps themselves and think we need to, probably for the first time, recognire that we've got to put 4 litt,le W; of nmothing into pUMP prime tr becaUse it's not going to happen all by itsalf and tt needs to be one, Now ilevels the key point= rOr Mitmi to IMMO atrade center, you hove to bring two _ 5 Os APR ' 1977 natural ingredients * those that want to buy and those that waist to sell, NOW 'those that want to sell► for the most part, have sever looked upon Miami as a plate to sell shoes or flowers or whatever it is that is being said, for example, .you take our Sister Cities togata► or the Republic of Columbia. Today the Columbian Growers a000unt for 40t of dut flowers that come into the United States and that are sold in this country, Now t have a friend who is in the business, There are over /O,OOO people employed ir► the flower business in Columbia and it amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars of carnations and out flowers that Come through Miami but the Center of the out frier business in the world, in the country, is in Colorado, Why/ Well that's because that's where cut flowers were grown before the importation of Columbian flowers. Well Miami should really become a major trade center for that business. This should be the point where people who are buying Cole to buy and this is where the people who sell Can sell best and right now we're being bypassed and that doesn't make any sense. ,tow the same thing is true of the shoe business and all types of leather products, the textile business, and it seems to the that what we heed to do is to attract the buyers. Well who are the buyers ..or most of these consumer goods? Well the buyers, for the tttbst part, are in the eastern part, mainly around the New York Metropolitan area and around the Chicago area in the midwest and we're talking about large institutions. t'or example, Allied Stores, Well heck, Federated and Allied stores have major investments in the Miami area and t'nt sure that these buyers would look with interest to come to sunny plorida at the end of pebruary, the beginning of March and if we can attract these buyers and we can orgainre the sellers from Guatamala and all these other friendly republics to the South of us, I think we can begin to plant the seed that Miami really is a place where they should cote and sell and buy goods and hopefully that's the main purpose of what this trade fair is all about. This is a beginning step that once this is successful, hopefully we can go onto other important moves in that direction. I would like to, before we end up here. I see that Mr. Lauredo, who works with the Department of Commerce► is in the audience. An important ingredient, Mr. Lauredo, is that the Governor fulfill his commitment, and he has a commitment that he has put into the budget and that the Legislature fulfill its commitment to fund this for $150,000. Also, it's important that Metro fulfill its commitment for $150►000. I know you don't speak for metro but since you do work for the Iepartment of Commerce, perhaps you might want to make a comment. Mr. Louis Lauredo: As you know, the procurement of the funds is in the hands of the legislature. It was a milestone of the step that the state executive branch took notice through the Governor of the importance of this event to the State of Florida, not to Miami, to the whole state of Florida, and recommended, as you said, $150,000 in this year's budget. I have been informed that some of the key Senators have said that they are going to be able to get double that amount. Now that's an expectation that I hope will be fulfilled but we are extremely interested in working, I have had several meetings with Mr. Ley and tomorrow morning we will have our full staff and his full staff spend a working two or three hours to determine the roles that we can play so it's not only the commitment in terms of monetary contribution but a whole staff of 9 people here who have quite a bit of experience in the things that you're getting into. We're going to be fully committed to the success of this, Mayor Ferret Well, Mr. Lauredo, let me ask you this question. I notice that the Chamber of Commerce is not represented here today and Mr. Ley, perhaps you can address, or Charlie... I think it's important for the record to point out why they're not here. M. Crompton; me Chamber has committed themselves to support of this particular project. They're not here today because they're in Tallahassee working on the programs... mayor Ferrel s this one of the things on their program? Mr. C. pton; This is one of their key items that they're supporting is to have these particular funds placed in the State budget for this particular feir. Mayor Perm This is their annuel trip to Tallahassee where the President and the 5card and everybody who an goes up to Tallahassee and goes to see the legislature and goes to see the Oovernor, Is that cor=eot° `'Mr. Crompton; That's correct. that is my understanding. Mayor Ferry; They do support this Treilzct7 Apo 41377 . dtuMptohl They support it oftpletelyi yes ► tit, Mr, PLUM!: Only morally, Mayor Pare: Well has else does the Chamber of Comerce support things/ Mt, Plummer: Finaneially, Mayor Ferret bo you know of any situation where the Chamber of Commerce has supported any projeot financially? Mr. Plummer: you raise a good question. Mayor Ferret They always give moral support but they never come up with any money. Mr Plummer: Well if that's all t was being asked for I'd be all for it too. Mr. Ley: Mr. Mayor, may t correct a couple of things. Reeentiy, the City Manager filled out the application for an ee0hOthid development grant to the Department of Commerce in Washington and we sent tote letters to some of the local organisations like the Latin Charier of Commerce, the Greater Miami Chamber of Ccmieroe, tankers Advisory Board and others and all those letters were giving the support together with the Cbvernor's letter were giving support to this projeot to the Office of the City Manager. Rev. Gibson: We have the Chamber committed morally, t wish they were here or certainly if they were not here, somebody of that office was here taking What about the County? 1 happen to be one of the guys who sits here and watch that we just like fatening frogs for snakes. You know what that's like? You know, by and large we of the City of Miami will not really get but so much of this. I'm concerned, not disturbed but 1 am concerned that Metropolitan Dade County not run this show but they ought to be willing to put their money where their mouth is at and 1 mean substantially so since they are the Big Daddy, you know what I mean? They tell everybody they're the Big Daddy and I'd like to see Big Daddy, that's what 1 do about my grandson and I really feel strongly. 1 go into my pocket and say to his parents that, you know, Big Daddy really feels this way and this is the way it is. Mr. Ley: Commissioner Gibson, we had been in conversation at work and with Dade County and as Mr. Crompton informed you at the beginning, they made some type of oral commitment and the letter is over there at the office of Dade County Manager just for signature. Mayor Ferrer Let's get down to the nitty gritty. Let's ask the hard question. Mr. Grassie, do you think, under this recommendation that has your initials on it, that it's reasonable? That the defecit is not going to exceed $381,000? _ know nobody can guarantee it but do you think it's a reasonable... Do you think it could be controlled to that extent? :sir. Grassie s I think, Mr. Mayor, the approach that we have to take is the one that we would take to any budgeted project and that is that there is a specific amount of money allocated and the expense budget is going to live within that allocation. Now what is more difficult to guarantee is the estimate of revenues. For example, one of the items on the revenue estimate is $150,000 rental for commercial exhibit space. :low that is relatively conservative but it's possible that it not be reached. New that is more difficult to guarantee. mayor 'erne; I'm asking you that question. Mr, Grassie; The answer is that it is reasonable and that what we van control, which is the expenditure side of it, or at least t have eonf.dence that the staff will control that part of it, that is more possible for us to guarantee to you. Mayor rerawe; Do you think that the State and Metro axe going to come through with their respective $150, 000, in your opinion? r. 0r6ssie; :'' m as reasonably Confident as you can be about these things that are political decisions. Yes, Z am confident that the State will come up wits their money, You should be aware that the County coney is of two IcinCds, part trash and part services. I ,reel confident that they will come up with the services and 1 hope that they wit come 'gyp with the cash, APR 1497 • Mayor Petro: tet the ask you OM last efUdttifts tou're atkihg ud tO: prihCiple, approve procedure, NOW if the Couftty doetn't date through, and the lagialatUre will be through by what, May/ At the end Of May, tf, at the et d of May, we haven't got the $1S6,066 cash from the State and Matto hadn't &Ad forwatd, th My Opihioh, this project it dead WI/alit we dah fihd substitute ohied by that time, Now between now and the firat Week of :web What would it ftat, Mt, CruMptoh or Mr, Crania or whoever waits tO ahAtgef thial for ut t proceed to keep this thing alive between &OW and the fitat weak in :uhe because that'd really the hard veatift, What Pm tayihg iA the final dedisiOh iftt upon ut today, 1 think that deeiaiimi is made Wide we have the firm oOMMieMehtt of the other people that ate pitching ih, Mr. Granite: Well 1 thihk that While you are practically right, 1 think that we really have to disagree with that formulation, Mayot, because of this, 1 think that we dOOM the project, we guatantee its failUte if we ttart into it giving the impteasimi to ourselves an pattieularly to people who are supposed to participate that we doUld pull bank or that we mould nhahge OUt Mihde. Mayor Petra! Well, Mt. Craasie, let me ask you this hard question. What are you going to propose to this Comission tame the first of Jude if the legislature, in its adopted budget, has not included $150,000 for our project/ Mr. Cradaie! What 1 will propose is this. Pirat we would go back to the staff and say how will you manage this project if you're going to get by with $150,000 leas revenue, what will come out/ They will answer that and then we will have to take a look at their answer and see whether it had crippled the project, If it has crippled the project, theft we're at the deditiOn point. We have to say either We come up with new money or we kill the project at that point. Mayor Perrot Z12. tell you, t go bark to my question because I think if you're going to get the support, and I don't know who iz going to be for it or against it on this Conmistioh, but if you're going to get the support of this body here I think you have to have aspare safe point along the way and there's a point of no return but don't tell na that that point of no return is 5 weeks from now or six weeks from now. That point of no return has got to be well into 1977 and / ask you that if by June we don't have certain things committed to us o if we ought to reconsider this whole project and I think that's just only a practical... The City of Miami cannot, and I depress it here and I %ay it for the public but I think it's important that we, on the record, speci.ly that the City of Miami, which is a relatively small City of 364,000 people, cannot assume upon its shoulders completely establishing Miami as a trade center without the help of the other corresponding, local governments that are going to benefit from this. Now I can't go out and get Hialeah and Coral Gables even though I think we should try but I thinkdefinitely we absolutely have to have the backing of our own Chamber of Commerce strongly. We've got to have the backing of Metropolitan Dade County in hard cash and we've got to have the backing of the state and unless we get that kind of a commitment, I don't see how we can proceed with this all en our own. Now I think we're going to get it, I agree with you, 1 think this is something that will happen but I think this Commission needs to know... If we don't get it, we'll know by June and if that happens, we need to know how much money are we cut if, at the middle of June, we say okay, the project is no longer. Grassie: Well could 1 put It this way, mayor. If anything were to happen which would tend to increase your commitment past the $381,000 that you see on this budget, that would need to come back to you because... Mayor 'ere: That's not my question. Are you telling me that, it in the middle cf June, we say the project s no cre, we will have spent s381,000? mr. Grassie; No, what I'm saying is that if anything happens say in May which would have the result of eliminating the $150,000 worth of potential revenue, that question would have to come back to you i=mediately and you and you would have the decision,,, Mayor rera; Uassie: Mayor Vern; 00timate thAt the 5 on ;his June. Mr, qrassie, 1 know you don't want to answer my question W411 Tin trying to answer your question specifically, :'z loin to insiot on asking you on the record how much is your this City will be On Oi in the middle of June if 3 people out of 3oard decide that we're no; going to ContinUe this proect in mid= A.PR 1 4 In Mts dtatetet Weil if the staff has an antWet to that, t, of dOutdd, UtOrtf it but t'm trying tO make What t dOnAidet to be the Mote iMpOttant poiht that ih spite of the tut that you dah abort a projeot aftytime uhtil the day before the fair, theOtetidally, the point t'M tryifig to make is that 2 deet want td give you the imptessim that the addition we're asking you WO take today is a sort ct a eonditiohal Me, an easy one or a partial dhe, Mayor Pate; t know, t uhderstand your point and t wit you to understand my point. t addept that and t think you're right aid t agree with you that that's more Important. My pint nOW is that t think that this Commission and the publio are sntitled. the taximyers are entitled to know what it is that we're risking if the thin es through and What it is that we're risking it, by :tile, we don't get this bade County support and t, tor one# am telling you that it we don't see the handwriting on the wall very, very strongly and have a dOMMitMeht soMetiMd ih the next oouple of Months, t don't see that we daft dOhtiftue On this proleot. Mr. Grassier The estimate that I have, Mr. mayor, ih answer to your question is that through :une 1, 1977 we will have spent $1/0,000 total - the $4S,000 that has already been spent plus an additional $7S,0006 Mayor Ferret The additional it what I'm interested in because what's past it past. Mr. Grassiet $'75,000 additional. mayor Perret Okay, thank yoU. Mr. Plummet, do you have some questions? Mrs. Gordon: I have a question for information. tvelio or Charlie, t noticed in the budget estimate the income projected for the rental of space would be $1E0,000 and the number of square feet that you threw out before as being available is 100,000 square feet. Just as a division figure it comes out approximately $1.50 per square foot. That's not the way you have it broken down in the budget. You have it done differently. You have it done on the basis of stands and so on and so forth. My question is, it appears that maybe we're giving it a little too cheap or have we committed ourselves to that.price and is there a possibility of getting the same number of exhibitors if we raised our price somewhat, thereby lessening our prespective deficit? Those are a few questions all wrapped in together but all directed to... Mr. Crumptont Let me clarify one point that was made earlier of the 1,000 square feet per country. I think this is what you may be referring to. Mrs. Gordon: Not necessarily how many per country but the total amount of square foot available for lease and the total amount of revenue projected. Mr. Crumpton: The 100,000 square feet, of course, is gross square footage. Part of that has got to be set aside for traffic ways, isles, corridors and general public open space. So when we get down to the details of the space that is available for rental at a purpose they varied as we have indicated in the detail part of the budget. Mrs. Gordon; I saw that, Charlie. Between $5 and $3, you figure, per stand, square foot per stand. Would you elaborate on that? My main opleatinn is whether, I know you're giving a conservative figure on that but how conservative? Is there a flexibility? Are you prepared or could we be prepared to raise that income figure? Mx. Cr To a degree. This is what we have discussed with the countries at the workshop in December and also in our conversation with fairs, particularly the international fairs that take place in Europe that bring the Latin-American countries to them. we found this, that beginnings of these kinds of fairs, they paid 100% of the cost of bringing the countries and their exhibitors and gave them 100t free space. We told the exhibitors at the workshop or the member countries that this we could not do, we could not have everything free. We can give a little bit free and then we're going to have to have certain expenses that we've lot to take cars of and we arrived at pretty much this $30 to $50 per square meter 45 a variance depending upon location.., mrs, Gordon; Let's talk in square feet, mr, Crumpton; Alright, $5 to $3 per square foot as a reasonable one that we could at leas; begin with: We cannot. in our opinion. go too much beyond that or we may not have the exhibitors to take the space, 34'4' we did emPheetze tP them we c0411 hgt do it freewgritis, for nothing. APR I, 4 477 Ara, c °Wont Yesr t ktiOw bit this is a reasonable question because the Mayor's eancatrted' others are eatseerned here about the proposed dsfieit and I'm looking at haw wa could diminish that proposed deficits Ar, Crumptan: We will look into every nook and erahhy and ahy way that we possibly can to elate the gap. We're just as eoneemed with it as you are, Mrs. derdont 1 look at it this way. That's going to be a 12 day exhibit, mividihq the cost by 120 1 think it's a rather at.nimal amount of expenditure. I'm just wondering how much profit there might be if it for these exhibitors. 1 don't have that kind of information. I'm sure that kind of information is available somewhere. IA it usually a profit=makihq venture far the exhibitors? Mr. Upton: she profit -making Venture for the exhibitors may cone out of the relationship of the buying and selling process and at this particular time we do rot know the answer to that particular question because this has never been done before here it this way. Mrs. nordort 1 know, Charlie, but how about other countries? Have they found that the exhibitors cote out making a profit, a substantial profit or what? Mr. Captor: The objective of the fair is to be profitable to the exhibitors. When you're begining, you have clothing to gage it against except other type of fairs which we have. The Hogota Fair is a profit...it appears to be a good profit- caking process from the figures that were given to us, This is their twentieth year in the fair business Mrs. Gordon: I'm for the fait. Let's dear the air right here. 1 feel that we have to step forward and this is a good direction to start because hopefully we will have a permanent fair some day but 1 am concerted, as everyone else is, about the amount of the deficit. Is it possible to charge a minimum rental rate and then to be able to get additional income from the amount of sales per exhibitor? Is there any way of giving us some more income from that approach? ,lust as a thought. I'm not telling you to go change your whole format. Mr. Crumptons Surely, these are areas that we will be exploring and we will be exploring with the countries but 1 can't stand here right today and say, yes, we can do this. No, I can't say that. Mrs. Gordon: Have you explored it at all yet? Wvelio, have you explored it? Mr. Ley: Commissioner Gordon, let me elaborate a little bit on some of your questions. Regarding the amount of space, as 4r. Crompton explained to you, we have a total of 30% that should be reduced because we have to use it for rental. Out of that we promised to the countries, in order to attract their participation to the Trade Fair of the Americas in Miami, 100 square :peters will be given to the countries, space free. This 100 square meters, that is equivalent to 1,000 square feet, is for the national representation of the countries. Then out of that you are leaving about 50,000 that we will be selling to the private investors, to the private manufacturers in the Latin American countries. In order that those private manufacturers participate in the first fair that the City of Miami is holding, we have to give some of help in that fair and the help that the countries were asking, and this was asked to the Mayor and to the Commissioners in the workshop in December, was to give some kind of :yelp to come to the fair. The help that the City of Miami is giving to the fair is this special rate. she rate is not too far from the international rate that most of the fairs are charging but those fairs are charging those rates after being repeated 3 or 4 or 5 or 10 ties but thin ;.s the first time this is happening in Miami and the average rate of $30 to $50 is a very reasonable rate. don't think we can expect, in this first fair, any extra revenue from these countries and from the exhibitors. 1 think we have to attract exhibitors and snow to the exhibitors that with the number of buyers that we are expecting to have here, Miami i.s an attractive place for this fair. Regarding the buyers, maybe: this is a good piece of information. Recently 1 had meetings in New York with a group of AMC. with the group of Allied, with the group o€ Macey's because the ob$ect.ve of this fair i$ to promote trade. the cblect:ve of this fair is to have the buyers of the moat important depertment store groups in the united States looking to Miami as the place where they can meet with their resources that they have to sometiee look in Latin Aeri.ce and sometige have to o to =rope to look for %hone resources.. At the present time, those buyers ere oeeperatig with 'a extremely, They are reedy to go to Lati! Amerioaf to four different couhrriee so analyse goat Tr tares samples that will be resent d at the fair. The buyers arc helping gas, giving us the names. the proper persons that we na lr4 to address in everyone of these department stores. 1 think we have to look it 14 1577 At this first fair, from the pate of the united ptatee otir biggest participation will be buyers and froth the par as of Latin Nherida, of oaurse ► the biggest pattioipation will be the exhibitor§ of the resoutcas, Theta ia, t think, in a few words, maybe this eah answer some of your guestians, Mr, Plummer: Mr, Mayor, about a month ago t was adeused, and probably rightfully so, by an individual who stood before this Commission and stated the fallowing, that Alter is always the one when everyone is building ah airplane is building the paradhute, Well that parachute has kept me alive and t intehd to stay that way, t can't help brit wonder if it was by intent, by design er by eoindidence that item "t" was plaeed as item "0" et after item "1" because from the information, and it's rumored that t have, item 'b' should be draped in black, t think it best, based upon this docent which has been furnished to us here this morning, that any decision is premature based upon the lack of facts presented in this document because it is just very clear to me that this doesn't even speak to the fasts, it speaks to perimeters and possibly if come, as they say in the race track, and hope for the best. pirst of all, it's one thing to take an element of risk when you 6 have the money and you can safely take that element. tt's another thing to take an element of risk when you don't have the Money and unless I am completely out of left field, t have heard nothing from this desk over here but repeatedly, and t know to be a fact, that we don't have any money. Now before, t think, anyone on this Cotssion should vote for the simplest of figures of $381,000, because we have to remember that we're really not being asked for $J81,000 or $750,000. The outside figure is $1,060,00O which t have heard voiced here this morning and t will likewise, knowing how all City projedts go, that figure will be enlarged. Mr. Grassi§, t will assume my questions have to be to you, sir. don't want a stnorgasboard of where this money is coming from, t want to know exactly where this money is coming from. It has been proffered that probably we can rob the account of the Convention Center which, under no circumstances, will I stand still for, that is committed :Honey. I have heard that possibly we can rob from the capital Improvements and I, personally, don't know what that fund has in it and what is committed and what is uncommitted. I have heard that... Well, maybe "rob" is a bad word. Maybe we can "borrow". Maybe we can borrow from the Insurance Fund, and there's noway that I will go for that. ate are there on an egg crate. Cne hurricane means $500,000 additional in Sanitation for clean-up. I want to know exactly where this $381,000 is going to come from. Not hypothetically. Mr. Grassie: Is that a question, Commissioner? Mr. Plummer: Yes, sir. Mr. Grassie: The $381,000 will come from an appropriation that you will have to make partly in this year's budget as an amendment to this year's budget but mostly as an amendment to next year's budget. That means it comes from general funds of the City and it will have to appropriated by you in the budget to :sake that expen- diture. Mr. Plummer: And what denomination is from this year's budget and what is from next year's budget? .ir. Grassie; I think that possibly the rumors that you are eluding, I don't know the source of your information, but the rumor that you are eluding to is the recommendation that yr. Crrampton made and that is that the front end money, because much of the expenditure for the project will have to be in this fiscal year, the front end money he advanced by same fund that has available funds and that the subsidy of $381,00O be budgeted by the pity in next ,:ear's budget, that whatever *and advances the money be repaid at that time. Mr. Plummer: And you feel comfortable with that, Mr, Grassie; well., Co:atssioner, "comfort" is s relative state. Now you know that.,, Seriously, commissioner, as 1 started out by saying when 1 first intro- duced the subject, we are not talking about an easy kind of a process because we are talking about stoney which has to oQme out of scarce resources in cots►€etition with other things, Now if we use $381,000 for this purpose, it's obvious, it's a truism, but it"s got to come from something else that we're going to eliminate, now 1 aloe mentioned earlier that the report that is item "0" is going to outline for you, as early 49 we can do it, a vet serious budget problem for the coming year, "here's no getting around the fact t,het it's going to be diffiouit The reason that this is in front of you is; 1) that the schedule of this particular nr;a ect which is a ?rol ect approved by you, forces us *-. c his.•'.•ng it to ;'QU at this tire. We cannot wait in terms of this one decision,' we have to bring in to you tut we're trying to bring it to you within the context of the ;Honey problem that you're going to have, 7A APR 1977 Mr. PlUMMdit ice. dfassie. as l understand all Conversation, what we, it reality, ars loOki.Yg at as a battoM line is that it's going to cost this City $2a1, 6. That is hot refundable and based upon the preamble, that's what were talking ablaut, $261r066 that this City will be out of pocket if the thing goes as ache tiled. Mr Grassier That is correct, Mr. Plummet: :My question to you again, do you reel oottifortabie, do you feel you Can aCeotttp1ish $281,b06 ih nett year's budget not to the detrihent of teas other ors -going service or protect that we have? Mr. Grassier t view this, Commissioner, in the sate way that t feel a million dollar a year expenditure for promotion in tourism. It is aft investttent in your future. It is an investhent which, presumably, you're not going to live long without, Now if you ask me is this the right stock to buy, you're really getting into what legislation is all about. That's a tough question that's in front of you right now and it is a judgement call on your part. Ia this the place to put your money? Our recommendation to you is, yes, this is the place to put your money but you have to view it in the same way that you thew that million dollars you spent for promotion in tourists. Mr. Plummer: Okay. When will we have an answer from the state of ?'lorida3 Mr. Grassier We anticipate having that answer by the end of May. .1r. Plummer: once the legislature has appropriated the money by the end of May and the end of their session, is these anyone else besides the Governor who can cut it? Mr. Grassier No. They could make it difficult for us to collect but no, basically in terms of the appropriation, it will stand. Mr. Plummer: What is the breakdown of the County's money as of in kind as opposed to hard dollars? Mr. Grassiet 50 cash and 100 in kind. Mr. Plummer: And what is the in kind amount to? Mr. Grassier The transportation for buyers and delegates and a number of other things. Mr. Ley: One of the in kind services that the County will be providing to the fair will be all the personnel in one of the shifts of the fair. Put it this way. The fair will be open at 10:00 in the morning and will be closed at 9:00 in the evening. We will have two shifts working and we have been talking with Duane Little, as a Economic Director of the Economic Development Department of the County and that was one of the propositions, that the County will take care of all the temporary personnel of one of the shifts. That could mean even a reduction of cash money from this proposition of the budget. Mr. Plummer: You .speak, in this proposal, $100.000 for a study from the Federal Government which, in fact, would be a donation like from C.I.P.E.. My question is, if you do not receive the $100,000, is this study mandatory and is that an additional cost to the City or if the money is not received it is forgot about? r. Grassi*: Is the honey is not received, the analysis by C,:.,P.E. wig.l not be done. Mr, Plummer: Then ray question ran to be, is the analysis by C,I.P, I. ..mportant :sac, crass .ei 0. . . thinks so. Mr. Plummer; Wei1 the question then has to be, , Mr, Grasse; No, that's not a fioieious answer, Commissioner C.I,P.17, has its own money problems. They feel that they could oontribute sien ficaritly to the tae:kgrouusd for the study. We do no; feel that it i,s the kind of expense we wars; to wnderta±ce from our pocket. I: it is Pgssibie to support their activities based on their help in 9et.tih9 the grant, that gems reasonable but we're not go,nq to fund it ;UV 9i our pocket. " . '1t MMO ; _n other w;t-"C►s, WO don't feel it's ss important 44 k.I,,Z, foolo, s APR j4¶97 Mr, Grassiat That's correct. Mrs, Cordon Mr, Grassie. , . Mr. Plummet: Let me finish, Rose. Mrs, Gordont Re didn't answer your elUdatift you asked before and that waS, Whieh service will you be cutting out to make up this deficitt Mr. Plummer: No, he's saying that we're not going to do it if it's not a Federal Gramm, Mrs. Gordon: No. Mr, Grassie: Yes, Mr. Plummer: That's what he's saying, Mrs. Gordon: No, I'm talking about the three hundred and some odd thousand dollars. VI not talking about the $100,000..., Mr. Grassie: Did t answer your question, Commissioner? Mr. Plummer! You answered my question, I understood your answer. Mrs. Gordon: Okay, then your question wasn't as deep as i thought it was. The question then is the deficit and where is it going to be. Something else has to go... This has to be paid. something else has to go. What's going to go? Mr. Grassie: Within the hour we should be talking about deficits that run into millions of dollars. Mrs. Cordons Well why don't we talk about that and then come back to this. Mr. Grassiet No, I don't see any particular point in trying to identify a given set of services or positions to offset this kind of a relatively small problem in the context of the much bigger problem that we're going to be talking about very shortly. Mrs. Gordon: Okay, let's talk about it. Mr. Plummers Can I continue? Mr. Grassie or to Mr. Crompton, either cne, or to Mr. Ley, you speak of a commitment from private business and you speak of a commitment from the Chamber. I hope I understood the commitment from private business to be dollars and if so, what, at this time, is committed? Mr. Crumpton: Right now we have in the trusted agency fund a little over $5,000 but... Mr. Plummer: Is that from private business? Mr. Crumpton: That's from private -business. Mr. Plummer; That's in the till? Mr. Crompton: That's in the till. Mrs. Gordon: How much? Mr, Crumpton; A little over $5,000 if I recollect correctly. That was based upon what we got as a result of the workshop last December. Mr. Plum►er: And what do you anticipate? you show $75,QQQ. Po you have oral c; mmi.t'ents at this time for more? Mr. Crumpton; No, sir, r, plumme;; Mr, Gramsio, we know that most o; the people who will be attending this fair, in fact, will be staying on Miami $each, It is a known factor that the Latins will want to be close to the Qceen. St is 3 known fact that other than warn the .mayor Fero; Where was this scientifically established? le this something that the Vhiversity of Miami has made 4 away on that Latina like to be close to the water? Mere do you gat your.., Pi APR 1 7 Mr Plummer: too, it' a a store reaiietic and practical study of three years of history. t don't charge the City 't8 do these big, fancy Studies, t observe and My obgera vatiori tells me that they're going to want to stay on Miami Beach because let's admit the truth and the truth is, with the exception of about three hotels in downtown Miami, that's what we have and if they fill all of those, the numbers of people that we're speaking of, you know where they're going to go. My question, before i was interrupted, has the Miami Beach Tourist Authority, who have been so readily, in the past, to assist Miemi► have they been approached l) to contribute to this and if ao, why not ana in what emouire? .Mr. Eton: The tourist Authority, per se, has riot been approaehed as yet but they will. Mr. Plummer: Well don't you think that that should be prior rather than after the foot? Mr. Crompton: It will be before the fair. Mr. Plummer: t should hope so. Mr. Brassie: Commissioner.., Mr. Plummer: If the City's... Bxcuse me, do you want to address that question? Mr. Grassier T don't know whether it does any good to get into a relatively philosophical kind of a point but, in fact, every community in cur Metropolitan area takes on itself special responsibilities. "Thu know that Miami Beach levies a very significant amount of money in taxes against their citizens in order to promote tourism. Now, in fact, tourism on Miami Beach helps the City of Miami and whether it's Hialeah supporting a racetrack or whatever it is, we're going to ask them for help. The realism of it is that it's our protect and what we're presenting to you is as realistic a revenue budget as we can produce without in- flating it with fairly unrealistic promises. To put in that kind of proposed revenue, in my estimation, would be more wishful thinking that I think you want us to engage in. Mr. Plummer; Mr. Grassie, fortunately you do not have the scars of the past as it relates to South Florida, I do and 1 will remind others that will remember very vividly of a problem which Miami Beach incurred asking the city of Miami for help and how much trouble we had to try to get cur money back. That scar is very vivid. Mayor Ferrer Mr. Plummer, how many other questions do you have? Mr. Plummer: I have about three others. Mayor Ferre: Alright. Mr. Plummer: Do I understand correctly that if, in fact, either one or both of the State or the County does not come through with their commitment that basically this will not be a "go" item? Mr. Grassie: We're not saying that but what we are saying is that if either of those circumstances take place, it will be brought back to your next meeting and that would be a decision that you would have to take. That will be up to you, We would not kill the proaect without bringing it back to you. :sr. Plummer: My final question is, who will control the dollars? Mr, Grassier Well,, the City. Do you mean more specifically than that? M. Pl. aer; Will all major decisions come before this Commission or are we giving $75Q40Q of seed money and this Commission itself will not retain control; Mr. GFassie; we're willing to have you have whatever control you want, Mr, Plummer; lam asking that it be spelled out, Mr, Grassier Na would expect that the s ro ect would be handled as would be the ease with any City pr errt, Charlie CramPton would he the 'reversible staff person and he would see that al:. of the normal bgstiet tontteis are f slowed a td the aocovntang ' rOoeeaea are followed, ff you would like co have some special reporting process observed for this pro eott 1"m sure that that mad be done, ltas really whatever you want. APR 177 Mt. Plummer: thahk you. Mayor Perm Are these any other questions of the staff, the Wager tf not, gather Gibson, l:'it pees the gavel 6Vef to you and t would like to nova to you, sir, that this matter be approved as preeehted in ptineiple. I'd like to, in make my statement for t lie. say that Larry target, And l: hope you forgive me for doing this to you but he juet kind of... tlewepaper people just have a way of syhthesired things because they don't have that much apace. people like me end up rambling and talking too much but tarry eaid, it's a very simple question. bo you want to spend $281,000 to make Miami a Major trade tenter? 'That's it, it's just that simple. Do eau think $281,060 Le worth spending to make Miami something that it should have been a long time ago and it isn't becaue we haven't had the guts, the courage, the eohvictiah, the commitment to spend the kind of money that it requires to do these things. These things don't happen by themselves. Atlanta didn't become what it is because everybody sat or, their duff worrying about pars- 0hutes. Atlanta became what it is because there were people who had the courage to go and mute the peach tree center, who could have been a complete failure. who had the courage to do the thinge that grade Atlanta what it is, a major trade center. One of the things that Mr. 'ejeda from Guatantala said to me was, he said► you know. I've always been amazed as to how cotte l never hear from Miami. He says, you know who calls me all the time, ante a week get a letter, telegram or phone call from the City of Atlanta. All these cities are chasing after us to come to these fairs, you would think that Miami would have dohe this a long time ago. to other words, what he's saying is, what are we doing? Rear we are, God gave us all the advantages geographically, we've got the best air connections in the whole hemisphere, we've got a population of S00,000 Spanish-speaking people... I could rattle off 10 other advantages that we have and yet Atlanta is chasing after duateMala when..., For anybody to go to Guatemala from Atlanta, do you know what they've got to do? They have to take a plane to Miami and catch a plane to Guatemala. It's that simple. Do we believe in this or not? Yes or no I move it. Mr. Reboso: I second the motion. Mr. Plummer: Under discussion, Mr. Vice -Mayor. Mr. Mayor, I agree and disagree. I don't think, since you've taken the liberty of using Mr. Serger's name in proferring a question, I don't think Mr. Berger foolish enough nor would you be to guarantee that this will not cost in excess of $381,000. That is my concern. Number two, I have to ask you when you make a motion of intent of accepting in principle, what does it mean? Does this mean that the fund will be established tomorrow Mayor Ferrer It means that the staff is which, in our province, is called what? Mr. Grassier In this case it would have budget ordinance modification. instructed to prepare a legal document A Resolution? to become an ordinance modification, a Mayor Ferrel A budget ordinance modification specifically stating, number one, that we are specifically earmarking through the middle of June an additional $75,000 and that number two, we would be committing ourselves to proceed with the trade fair with the expectation that there will be a $381,000 deficit. Now I know you don't like that, Mr. Grassie, but I think we've got to have a step thing so that this Commission, if it wants to later on, will have the option to say, okay, the State didn't come through and the County didn't come through and... Mr. Plummer: mr. Mayor, if you can alter that motion or your intent to use the wording "not to exceed $381,000", I can accept that, Kayos Ferret I accept that, "not to exceed $381,000", Mr. Plummer; Let me only bring up one other thing which I'm sorry and this is not a question but a statement, Mr, Orassie, and to Mr, Cr• mpton and to ;sir, Ley, which 1 spoke this point to, 1 think one of the things that you have got to give some serous consideration to which is not in this particular budget or not shown in this pt;o ect on is that of entertainment at the fair, One or the reasons that 3ogota Fair is sQ aucoessfUl and draws some excess of 2,000,000 people is that each and every day of the fair., such as the Folk Festival, 4 different country puts on the entertainment and I think that that is where you are gong to be able to draw the people, not the buyers and not the sellers, but the people which you show $108,000 worth of revenue, 1 know you have discasse4 this in the previous discussions with the Directors but it is my opinion, and I have attended the logota ai e, 1 was there for the opening 1aet year reps eeenting this City at the 8ogota Fair and one of the things is the participation Qf the people end the countries end that helps, in my estimation, the revenue at the mission Bete, 1V APR 141977 Mayor pave: 41. Lay 1 (Wilt mtean to and t ddn't inteftd to get into art arlatent or diaouaaion on thin but i think it's irtportAht for the record that t make one ahrWet to that. The thrust of this fair is a do mereiai trade fair. The main purpose of it is not for the retail saiea or for the general ptblid in Miami. Now I accept your point and t agree with it. There is a Berta n artbtfnt df mfniea earmarked AA indorte that the people of Miatmi and rt. Lauderdale and tduth florid& and the touriata are going to pay for and we seed that as an it=,00tfte produder So therefore t agree With your s§tateMei t but i think it's important to put int6 the retard that the train thrust di this fair is not an entertaiftmeht canter far the retail trade but rather that the main... Thia fair will he successful if we have a deficit of $1t1►000 and we have attracted major sellers and major buyers of goods. This fair will be a failure if we end up making $160,600 surplus rather than a deficit and tt body has bought anything and nobody has sold anything, t would rather, for our dommunity, that we lose S3g1,000 out of the City's Monies and establish Miami as a major Made to done and buy and sell things rather than to end up making $1000000. Mr. Plummer: 1 don't disagree. Mayer eerret Now if we could end up doing both, hallelujah! But that's highly unlikely and that hasn't happened in Most fairs. As the memorandum specifically states, it takes two or three years to establish a trade fair. Now hopefully we can accomplish both things, d. L., but I just wanted, for the record, to say that the main thrust of this fair is as a trade fair. ReV. 0ibson: Alright, any other comments or objections? Mrs. Gordon: .dust a point of clarification on the hotels available, %7 are mere than just the Downtown hotels and I think the record ought to There are Quite a number of hotels that are near the fair site that we thought about and there are quite a few of them. The Marriott, dozens there. . L., there reflect it. haven't even of them out Mr. Plummer:. Rose, I hope you're right but that expressway is very convenient. Mrs. Cordons Yes, but they're there. I'm just simply saying that I know how I would feel about it. If I went to the fair, I'd want to be as close to the fair as possible so I could spend as much time as possible at the fair. At any rate, I just wanted the record to reflect that there are a great number of hotels. (TIE PREC"r.EDING MOTION WAS INTRODUCED BY MAYOR FERRE. SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER FESOSO AND WAS PASSED AND ADOPTED BY A UNANIMOUS VOTE. SAID MOTION WAS DESIGNATED MOTION NO. 77-304. SEE LATER RESOLUTION NO. 77-347). DISCUSSION: Mr. Ongie: Is that the motion, Mr. Mayor, I'm confused. I thought it was $381,000 and not to exceed. Mayor Ferrel That's right. Mr. Plummer; Well based upon the fact that a total commitment of this City will not exceed in the outmost, $381,000. Yes, 1 agree to that but we're not allocating $381,000. mayor :'erne: Wait a minute, The motion is that we're allocating $381,000 but that it's on a step basis so that in June it will not exceed $75.000. Mr. PlUMMex: Whet we're actually doing is a .locating, right now, $75,000, *'mayor Ferre: No, sir, Mr, Plummer, that was not the motion that I made, The motion that I made is that we accept, in principle, what has been offered here and t et is that we oat Purzelves to a deficit of $301,000 to proceed with the fair. Now to make it easier, 1 said that we should nit Wend. if by the muddle of Jura), anymore than or have committed more than $75,000. 'r, Plummer: Not to exceed, Mayor Ferret Not to exceed, APR 14 1977 Mr, tenet T oah still. buy that, Mrs, Cordon r, Mayor, the recommendations as they ate ih thes4 papers that were 'handed th ut Mite two clear reooehdations, Ate you mooring them? Mayor Ferret Let's read theta into the record. "I therefore recommend that the City guarantee up to $250,000 which is the difference between estimated revenues from projects expenses, a, that a reimbursement fund of $750►000 be established and fumed at this time to pay immediate and ongoing etrpenees, It is estimated that $400 000 of these funds will be reimbursed to the City by the end of March 1978," Mrs, Mordant la that what your Motion it them Mayor Ferret ices, Mrs. derdon t To clarify everything/ Mayor regret accept that rec6tMendation as made... Mrs, Gordon: This was made by Management. Mayor rerret Mr. Charles Crompton and initialed by the Manager on a document dated April 1, 1977 entitled "Proposed Project budget". And t added to that that we should not spend over or commit more than $75,000 by June 1S, 1977. Mr. Rebosot I think to have the Trade Fair of the Americas here in the City of Miami is a unique opportunity. Mayor Ferret Mr. Manager, just for the record, I think that because we are kind of moving into new grounds and you know that we're going to be subject to a lot of scrutiny and I think with good cause and reason the public should be very, very careful and should be well informed and well advised. I think it's important that we have a public release. I don't care whether you do it in memorandum form or you do it before this Commission but so that the public, through the Press, is informed on a monthly basis where are we, how much money have we spent, what are we committed to, where do we stand today, how many countries said they would come, where does the State and County stand. If you don't want to do it on a monthly basis, certainly it should be every six weeks for the next few months so that everybody knows where we stand. We are now in April and I would say that by the end of May we should have a report from you or from Mr. Ley and I would certainly think that by the end of June or the middle of July we should have another report. 5. SET DATE FQR PUBLIC HEARINGS TO CONSIDER RENAMING BAYFRONT AND bICENTENNIAL ARKS Mayor Ferre; Alright, take up item "3". I guess we can take up "3" & "C". The Bicentennial portion of this comes from the Chamber of Commerce themselves who, I guess you all have copies of correspondence that must be 3 or 4 months old now. The Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution asking us to change the name of Bicentennial Park to New World Park. Now as far as I'm concerned, a rose is a rose is a rose, it's still the same park, it served a very nice purpose for it to be called Bicentennial Park and now the new thing is the New World Park. I get con- fused with this. What's the name of this thing? The New World Center? Z3 that what the Chamber of Commerce calls us? Mr.. Grassie, New World Center Park is what they would propose. syor Terre; I thi:ak we obviously have to go through a public process. We've gc t a oouaai.ttee that should be involved in all of this but frankly I think that committee is important to us and we should follow it in the naming of streets and boulevards and Darks and all that and when you set to these t►a or parks li: a Peacock Park, let me remind you how that•happeneo. There were several groups in Coconut Crove who thought Beyfront Park should be renamed to Peacock Pa€k which is more meaningful. These names that ete meaningless like Beyfrcnt Perk, it seeme to me that we ought to have a na for parks rather than the park where all the pigeons,., Zn Spanish it's galled 'Pigeon Park, Bayfront Park is known in the Cuban community as the pigeon park. You know way? Because it doesn't have a nay and instead or cellins it Bgyaront Pa►a"k, they call it 'ise= Pak. 30w it seeMs to me that Bicentennial APR I 1977 Park served a useful purpose and that now perhaps a stew World Center Park,,, prank y, l think it's a rather doMplioated, long naive. Why don't we just pall it New World park? Why does it have to be Wew World Center? �Ir9, dordan i Can we Nat set the date and rove an to the r eSt iteM? Mayor Perre: hose, do you tildve that/ Mrs, dordo ?es, what date? We have to set a date, Mayor perre: We've got a new statue that we've got to ininaugurate. Mrs, Vordon: We are ift a discussion of setting a public hearing so therefore we have to have a date, Mayor perret '.hat date, Mt. Manager, do you want to redommend? Mr. Grassiei Well, on the assutption, Mr. Mayor, that you want to have a dedication for the sculpture in the park, we would have to have a name for the park before s.n some aitidipation of dedidatinq the sculpture and t'11 tell you the reason, The plague has to show the proper haute for the park so we have to know what the park's name is going to be. Mayor perret ►1el.1 when do you want to have it. The 28th? Mr. Grassier If we eoUld have the hearing as quickly as possible. Mayor Ferret The 27th? Mrs. Gordon: The 27th is zoning and we have a transportation hearing prior to it. mayor Ferrer ►e11 why don't we make it on the 28th then. Mr. Grassier The 28th would be good. Mr. ongie: Do you want to set an hour on this, Mr. Mayor? You want me to adver- tise this as a public hearing. Mayor Ferre: I guess in the afternoon. 3:00. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Gordon, who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 77-305 A MOTION ESTABLISHING THE DATE OF APRIL 23, 1977 at 3:00 O'CLOCK P.M. FOR A PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD IN THE CITY COMMISSICN CHAMBERS TO CONSIDER THE RENAMING OF BICENTENNIAL PARK TO "NEW WORLD CENTER PARK" AND THE RENAMING OF BAYFRONT PARK TO "PARK OF TM AMERICAS." Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gibson, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote; AYES; Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. 'Dice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A Terre WOES None. ASSENT; Commissioner Mamas, Reboso ATM 14 1977 11, ESTAtLISH DATE FOR P ULPTURE IN 'CENTENNIAL PARKA mr. draaaiet 'IOU know that the Von hle1pture has hOw been installed in tiaehtennial Park. The naMe Of the seulpture waa named by the acUiptor hiMaelf. tt happens tO dOih*ide ih Spanish with what ia being prespfted at the hate for the Park and t understand that's purely coincidental. Mayor Perm Well that's what Hank Meyer says but tim suspicious. Hank said he thought it up in the middle of the night One night and it lust to happen that that's the name of the sculpture. Mrs. Oordoni What about One of our ComMiaaion day a at lunch time, let' say, ih May. Mr. Grassier Well then we should take it the send Meeting ih May. Mayor ram The lOth 6i May/ Mrs. Gordon! Okay. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Gordon, who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 77-306 A TION ESTABLIsHINO THE• DATE OF MAI' 19. 1077, 12t00 NOON VOA IHE DEDICATIoN OP "NM° t40ND0 SCULPTURE" IN BICENTENNIAL PARK. Dpon being seconded by Commissioner GibsOh. the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYESt Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Perre NOES: None. ASSENT: Commissioner Manolo Reboso 7. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 39-49 OF THE CITY CODE PERMIT DOGS IN DESIGNATED AREAS OF CITY PARKS. AN ORDINANCE =TITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 39-49 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, TO PERMIT DOGS IN DESIGNATED AREAS OF PARKS ONLY WHEN SECURELY FASTENED TO A LEASH; PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY CLAUSE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS THEPEOF IN CONFLICT: CONTAINING A SEVEILABILITY PROVISION AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Ciibson and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote - Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev') Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Perre =ES; None. ASSENT; COmmissioner Manolo Reboso The City Attorney read the ordinance into the record and stated that copies had been furnished to the commissioners and that copies were available to the public, CI() APR 141977 olaougam Mayor Ferret You know, we aught to try to advertise this bedattad theft/8 a iot of people that walk doge and don't la to the parks beaaise thine are silts Sat we aught to let everybody khaw about this, Mt Brassie. FIRST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 or ORDINANCE Nok 8345)BY ELIMINATING THE APPROPRIATION POR PALM BLIGHT PR' A ORDINANdt TITh b= AN ORDINANCE AMtNb/NG StCTION 1 OP c Rb1NANCt NO. 8305, ADOPTED JANUARY 10, 107S, A6 AM=Dtb, ay ELIMINATING tt#EREPROM THt APPROPRIATION FOR PALM 8t.=CAT PROGRAM IN THt AMOUNT or $ 50 ► 010.10 AND REAPPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT POR PARKS MECHANIZATION RESERVE FUNDING TO St USED DURING FISCAL YEAR 1576=197' . Was itlttoduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Gibson and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote - AYES t Commissioner rase Gordon Commissioner w . L. Plumnmer, Or. Viceu.Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Terre NOES: None. ABSENT: Commissioner Manolo Reboso The City Attorney read the ordinance into the record and stated that copies had been furnished to the commissioners and that copies were available to the public. 9, RECEIVE BILS: $28,O00,000 GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Gordon, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-307 A RESOLUTION TO RECEIVE, OPEN, READ AND REFER TO THE CITY MANAGER FOR TABULATION AND REPORT BIAS AUTHORIZED TO BE RECEIVED THIS CATE UNDER RESOLUTION NO. 77-275 FOR THE SALE OF $13,000,000 SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM BONDS, $3,000,000 POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND CRIME PREVENTION FACILITIES BONDS, $5,000.000 FIRE FIGHTING, FIRE PREVENTION AND RESCUE FACILITIES BONDS, $2,000,000 STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENT BONDS AND $5.000,000 STREET AND HIGHWAY Z WROVE.'2NT BONDS OF THE CITY OF MIA` . (here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution wars passed and adopted by the following vote- AyFS: Commissioner Rose Gordon CQ isslaner J. . Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev,) Theodore Gibson Mayor Matz .Ce A. Fern e NOES; Gone. SENT: Commissioner anQ .Q RebQSQ APR 141 7 buctitam Mayor Perm Raw Many bidders did we have/ Mr. Ondiet S. Mayor rare: /au know, t gate to belabor the point but last year the City of Miami was increased in ita rating. Was it by standard 4 Poor or by Moody'a/ Wa went up to A+. We were A and how we're A+. Is that eorreet/ in Standard and poor we have an Al rating. to that correot3 is that reverse? Okay, i've got it backwards. Now the fact is that we get from our friendly Horning newspaper all kinds of editorials telling us how bad the City of Miami and how close to disaster we are and how horrible things are and for the record, may I once again point out that within a question of week the City of Miami and Metro went to market and this lithe piggy came out with 4.9 or whatever it was and the other little piggy came out with sales at interest rates higher than the City of Miami. Maw that has got to tell you something. The proof of the pie is in the eating and when it gets down to the wire, the City of Miami ends up getting lower interest rates and there are S bidders for $28,000►000. You know that there are major cities in this country who go to market, and I'm talking, for example, the City of Buffalo t think, last year went to market last year and got no takers. There are many cities it: this country who went to the market place and wouldn't have anybody even make a submission. We've got 5 and it sounds pretty good. Mrs. Gordon: Will you also explain in your analysis to me the benefit of the premium and how it's offset on the bid price specifically. Mr. a. Gunderson: We can't accept a discount, we tan accept a premium which is a reduction of the cost and then we come up with a net interest cost. Mrs. Gordon: 1 know, that's what I'm asking you to do. Mr. Gunderson: On the net interest cost we have to go down each of the years relative to the interest that's quoted and compute the amount on the principle. Mrs. Gordon: Okay, then what I'm asking you is to give us a rather complete analysis. 10, PRESENTATION BY HOWARD GARY OF FIRST BUDGET ESTIMATE AND 'BUDGET' MANUAL. (FISCAL 1977-1978) Mr. Howard Gary: Good morning Mayor and commissioners, I'd like to present to you the City Manager's first budget estimate for fiscal year 1977-78. Before you you have a package which, among other things, gives you the calendar of this year's budget, for the preparation of this year's budget and the budget estimate. tf you notice, on page 2 of the report, we're now in activity nuatber 3 whereby we're giving this presentation to the City Commission. after this meeting the City Manager plans to sheet with all the department heads to discuss the first budget estimate, the budget manual and all budget policies, procedures and guidelines, Cnce that has been completed, they will prepare their budgets beginning Msy 5, 1977 and ending ;une 13, 1977, :n essence, we plan to submit t to you the proposed budget as developed by the City Manager on August 29, 1977, Now if you return to page 4, this is a summarY of the revenues that will be generated by fund if we maintain the same sstillage rate in 1977 as we had in 1976.77, :f you will note that certain assumptions have been made regarding these revenues, Firstly, in the general fund, we are rssuming that we're going to have a 2,3 million dollar deficit in revenues, This deficit is attributable to loss and PPI revenues, Loss and manner revenues from the closing of the incinerator,,, Mrs, Cordon: Whet was the first loss you ust said, ;"fir, gar : Loss in eP . franchise funds., The total decreese in revenues for the general fund is two million, tree, In the pension fund there's 4 ,net revenue change o S86,421 plus, The net revenue change in Publicity and ;'eurisst as a APR 4' 77 positive $ dr648, to street lighting there's a riet revenue charge of minus $14,012, Mayor Pure: Not prisitive, You said "positive". Mr. nary: It's negative, The total net revenue dhah4e is $2,204,000, go to the next page., :Mayor rare: HOW come you don't have debt service in this Mt, dory: Okay, debt § wide is not donsidered on this page for the mere fact that we're talking about the total general operating budget minus debt service because it does not apply to the 10 twill cap. Mayor rare: Oh, okay. Mr, Gary: ff you turn to page 8, this is a Comparison of the 1076=77 appropriations to our estimated appropriations for 1977-78, The asstrnptibn in developing this appropriation is that We are assuming that we will maintain the same level of service, the same level of personnel as we have now in 1976-77. Some of the asstttptions regarding the appropriations is that we would provide 3h% salary increases for all employees, retto-active to October 1, in 1176 77. In addition, we are assuming that the same employees, or at least all of the employees will receive the same percentage increase in salaries as negotiatied with the Poliee and Pire. This assumption is being glade for the ttere fact that we would like the Commission to know the total impact of the budget at its worse. We've also provided for longevity and anniversary increases that are projected for employees for 1977-78. IA addition, the ton -payroll items, we've done an analysis and we've determined that the inflationary rate for 1977 will range between 5.7 and 6 and we are assuming that all non -payroll items, we are attaching a 6.6% inflation rate to those items. In addition, we have provided for the fall elections. If you go over to your next page, page 11, we are also asstuaing a 5939,000 increase in the pension fund, publicity and Tourism, they're assuming $107,SOS increase in their fund and this is due to a 6% increase in non -payroll items and also salary increases. The total net appropriation change, assuming that we maintain the same level in 1977-78 as we have in 1976-77, is $5,439,969. Please turn to page 12. Page 12 summarizes this. It gives you a comparison of revenues and estimated appropriations for 1977-78 maintaining the same 9.592 millage rate. If you will notice, under "I", the total revenues are projected to be $87,116,638. If you compare that to the appropriation or the estimated appropriation maintaining the same level of service as we have in 1976-77, is S94,76O►872. Our budget problem then becomes $7,644,234 if we maintain the same millage rate as we have currently. With this budget problem, the following reductions will have to be made by each department and they are listed below. Those reductions total $7,644,000 and that's a reduction assuming that they maintain the same level of services they have in 1976-77. If you turn to page 13, if the village rate is increased to the 10 mill cap, it would generate an additional $1,521,989. The budget gap is no longer $7,644,234 but $6,122,245. This reduction in the gap requires a less reduction in the departments and these reductions are listed underneath. Are there any questions so far? If you'll note mn page 14, a letter from she City Manager to the members of the City Commission whereby the City manager has requested of each department a submission of two budgets for fiscal year 1977-78. The first budget request will assume the same level of services that the departments are now pro- viding which would be the increase in salaries and also the 6% inflation rate for non -payroll items. The second budget request will take into consideration the budget gap. Turn to page 15, please, excuse me, 16. If, assuming that we have a 10 mill cap, the budget gap is $6,122,245 which is at the bottom of your page, if we apply that out of those reductions to ail departments and Publicity and Tourism, the new budgets, instead of $80,000,0O0 on page 15 above, would be $73,660,000 on the next page which is page 16, mayor 'orze; You moan vs. $50.020, 002? Mr. Cary; =es, sir. :Mayor 'ere; #see, New if you M . Cary; The difference between the two fivures is, the difference between lad t�'t millage whion we have now :and and a 11 mill cap, mayor Terre; Lots of luck, well S' 11 tell you my t44Cticn t4 itt : don't thin% it4s as had a; ; thought it was going c te,'m, fran. lay, =acedp, eel you +� si �rA 4 a4 !{r'iir�, i+4t4? ft0 c 44 tthe c ool board sayih9 that they *,ze a 2. cif and the; they hod to chop off $31,100,100, their bsid5et is nm000d 4 10chop on ours 25 APR 1 77 it& little bit More than this and 1 thoughto of doUrte t liter to the wrong people. There are some people ih the dowhtown arta' softie very well known prominent attorneys around here who, every time 1 see them, tell ma that the dity of Miami it going to be bankrupt next week. Of doUrS4 t should know that after 10 years of heating that that that just isn't the case but it not anywhere At heat as bad a 1 thought it was. That doeah't Mean that it's good but VI saying that I really thought.,. Mrs, dordoht t4here it the revenue sharing portion of dollarell me what page to turn to, Mr. dary. Mr. day: It's on page So item number 4. Mt, drassiet t wandeto dommissioher dordoho whether we're answering the question that you're asking, Are you asking what we expect the absolute revenue sharing amount ta be in revenue neat year Thie report Att6mpts tO do to thih4t6 Oftd# it attempts to show the projeotion for next year of bUr revenues and our proposed expenditures assuming a current level of activity and in simplest termswhat the report says is that our projettion is that revenues will actually be 2.2 million dollars less nest year, expenditures will be S.45 million dollars more. If ever*thihg stays constant. Now the things that you dah do to adjust that are, one, you oan go to the 10 mill. cap. After you have assumed that, then you still have the budget problem of more than $8,000,000 and what we are trying to show you in this particular presentation is not the estimate of all the revenUes, although we can do that if you wish, but rather to show you how revenues are changing from the current year to next year. In other words, the only thing we're showing you here is change on the assumption that you would understand that what we don't show you as change remains constant. Mrs. Gordon: Alright but that doesn't tell me, really, what I want to know and that's because last year we had available to us, if my memory serves me correctly, something in the vicinity of $15,000,000 total dollars which took up a lag that we had had for several years prior of abtalt $6,000,000 and I want to just know how much reVenue sharing... It's not broken apart that way in this. Is there included in these revenues that some total revenues that you have, how much, $9,000,000, $8,000,000? Mr. Gary: I don't have it here but I have the figure for you. We are anticipating 10.9 million in 1977-78. Mrs. Gordon: Alright, that one figure, 10.9 is the anticipated revenue sharing budget allocation and all of that is included in this paper? Mr. Gary: Yes, it is. If I may, 7.9 million of that is the normal revenue sharing. The 3 million is for counter cyclical revenue sharing. Mrs. Gordon: That's what I was going to ask you, where is thecounter cyclical but that's already in the 10.9, right? Mr. Gary; Yes. mam. Mr;. Gordon: And you've counted all of it in here in order to arrive at this? Mr. Gary: Yes, mam. (INAUDI3LZ) Mr, GAry; The entire 7.9. J. Mr, Plummer; I'm not talking about the capital outlays, I'm talking about how much of it is being used for general operation. Mr. 0ar7; This year's budget? Mx, Plammer; On this year's budget or anticipated on next year's since you're speaking to next year. Mr. 0ary; In this year's budget we have 0,8 Mr, Plummer; 04t of 15? Mr, 0or7; Y.45, Mr, Flogger; So you are already wing (nit Qf this year's budget more then Yos have to spend nest year so you really, in fond have another additional million dollar deficit, 26 tr- APR 1977 Mt, daryt Vas. Mr, PlUMMer: Maw Gaead it'S not shown here? Mr, Grassie: What you said is not true. Mr. Plummer: Then teas tee where I'm wrong. Mr. Brassie: because the estimate that is in this budget is an estilate of actual revenue which is less revenue than is being used in the budget for the current year. In other words, we're only assuming the money that we're actually going to get. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Brassie, tam told, if t understand correctly, that 8 million of this year's ionies ate being used for general operating Procedure. Mr. Grassie: Mt. Plummer: 7 million in That's correct. I AM told that next year on your projection that we will only have which to apply from federal revenue not designated money. Mr. Grassie: 2.8 and 7.9, that's correct. Mr. Plummer: That immediately creates a one million deficit from what we're doing this year. Mr. Gary: Okay, the exact figure is $941,988. Mr. Plummer: My friend, when we speak of hundreds of :pillions I'm not going to quibble about $10,000. Now why isn't that additional one million dollar loss not reflected? Mr. Grassie: But it is, that's the point that I'm trying to Make. Mr. Plummer: Well tell me where it is. Mr. Garyt It's on page 5, item number 4. Mr. Plummer: You are correct. Mr. Gary: Thank you. Mr. Plummer: Now, I appreciate this for one, this is something that has been long overdue and that is needed but more importantly to me is not what I'm doing tomorrow but what am I doing today. What is your projection for this year? Are we going to make ends meet? Are we now in a posture of a deficit? Where are we today? what, i3 our posture? Mr. Grassie; It's important that we answer that question very specifically for you because, particularly for two reasons, One, because we cannot and continue to be in the position that we have been in in the past which is that after the audit takes place we find that there were expenses in the previous year not accounted for. We're going to make sure, first, that that doesn't happen but more important than that, you know that the City has had the tradition for the last 4 years or so of budgeting salary savings. Two years ago we budgeted 21 million dollars of so-called salary savings as a revenue. This year we have cut that down to two million dollars. We propose to cut that down to 11 million dollars for next year. The point that I'm making is that if you show that as a revenue, during your operating year you have to mare very sure that, in `act, you have enough vacancies so that you make that saving because otherwise you're going to end up with a deficit and we have very close control over that particular factor in this budget so that we're going to be sure that we, in fact, do wake the two million dollars of salary savings that we have shown as a so-called revenue for the current operating budget. Mr. Plummer; Fine, now tell me where we ere today. Have we done.,.? i , Grassie; We're ahead of schedule in terms of making the savin s that ere necessay so that at the end of the year we will mane the two million dollars the; we anticipated, Mr. Pluj }er; QkaLyC,� _ Fwouldto� see say paper of that pQsitiOne j owe, Mt, garry, � e A;PAO k e f6' you oak ed f o or a r. G � 44;;?�! 794 4444d forthe 0f 4 4;1 s t:l M X@ ' p owo budgets. Number one is completely a ge#e., it QaA't be done. :a that correct? APR 141977 Mr, drastie: tt dahhOt be fundedtt can be done and it is important that the department do it because that is the only Verifidatioh of what, at this Stage, is aft estimate. We estimate that their coats are going up dh average 6% for &Wadi° tie t and we have cranked in the salary increases that we have told you about. Mow we want to take sure that there it not something MA there that the departments know that we -simply are not aware Ot 'SO that purpose of the first budget is td establish a base, a base for their operations which verifies the kind of estimate that you're seeing today. NOW assuming that we're close oh that ettimate, and t expect that we Will be very elate, then we have to5 face up tO the Vettidil Of the reduction and they will be doing this at the same time to that it is hOt a twice.. through process. We expect them tO go through this process Wide bUt we eXpedt the two estimates so that, in fact, we know that we have the solid base from which tO reduce. Mr. Plummer: Mr. drattie, in last year's budget you kept aside as a buffer roughly two million &Alert carryover money. ts that reflected in here? And if so, wherel Mr. Cary: Are you talking about the 2 million for anticipated salary sings? Mr. Plummer: No, sir, I'm talking about the two million dollars buffer. (tHAVO=2) Mr. derv: That's in the budget, it's on page S. tf you'll notice, we had three million dollars that was planned for fiscal year 1077-78, howeVer, that was reduced by $670,000 for social services program. Mr. Plumer: Where are It00 on page S? Mr. Gary: Page S, item number 4. Mr. Plummer: Excise me, where is the remaining? You tell me that you reduced it by $670,000 but where's the remaining? Mr. Gary: The remaining is in this year's budget. Mr. Plummer: In this year or next year? Mr. Gary: I m sorry, for next year's budget. Mr. Plummer: Well where does it show as an income? Mr. Gary: It won't show on here, it will show on my revenue sheets. Mr. Plummer: Alright, then what page is that on? Mr. Grassie: As I explained to Commissioner Gordon, Commissioner, this is a report on differences, it is not a report on all of the things that carry forward that you already know about. We can give you all the stuff that you already know about but the attempt is to isolate for you change. Mr. Plummer: Well, okay, then I understand that, Mr. Grassie, but then we have to understand each other and to say that this is not a total picture. Mr. Grassie: Well it is a total picture in the sense that it reflects total revenues, total anticipated expenses and change. Now maybe the question that you're asking is, t remember that we had 2.3 million dollars or whatever it was carried forward and is it till there? NOW if that is the VeStiOA, in the rederal Revenue Sharing rand do we still have that cushion or that mount of money that we have out aside fax next year's budget, is that still there? I operated on the assumption that the answer was "yes" but I want to make sure that ;ate true, We've done nothing to change it so I'm assuming that that is there. M. Cary; According to my budget expert, we will get the 2,33 millicn carry-over lag funds and that is anticipated in this budget. Mr, 004,0440; It is still there and we reflect it 40 the difference between the actual Federal Revenue Sharing money that we receive for the coming year plus this 3,3 million will make uo the total of federal revenue gharing of support -r the WOO* IS that correotT 3rt Pay; Yes 25 AP 1 4 197: 4 1 Mrs. dordont f otaMlidh will that be, total? Mr. Plummer: then, the question Hat to be asked aid idiot way. Mrs. dotdont Weil, let's get an anMwet one way. Mr. Plummet: Weil) let tie get an answer the other way because Mrs, dordon: ,to J.,, i asked Mr, Plummert dke then... t before. t haven't got it straight yet. .irs • O,oi'don t 10,9 I was given, it's the :,3 correct? Mr. Plummer: Yea, but where is what I want to kno0 going to be around here October $6,122, 000.00 (siat Million, one then not an aethirate aMOunt. Itt's that plus it? Is it reflected in the 7.6 Million or not, that's Mr. Gary, t just want to remind you I'm l or I intend to be to remind you of this figure of hundred twentytwb thousand dollars). Mr, Grassier Well, Willard, have we done anything to change the set -aside of 2.3 million dollars that was established in this current year's budget in the Federal Revenue Sharing r und, is anythiffig been done to change that? Mr. Willard: rto sir. Mr. Grassier Nothing has been done to change that, is it fair to assume then that that is a revenue that is available to Make next year's budget? Mr Willard: Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Willard: :ors. Gordon. Mr. Grassier Is it figured into the analysis? Does it show some place? Mr. Willard: No it's not in this report that you're discussing right here. Mr. Plummer: Well you see that's the point I'm trying to make. Does this ... let's assume that we don't make any change just for hypothetical argument of a deficit of S7,644,000.00 (seven million, six hundred forty-four thousand dollars). flow, am I to understand that it's $2,330,000.00 less than this figure or is it included in this figure? Mr. Willard: Mr. Plummer: Mrs. Gordon: Yes sir. Is it figured in into this analysis? It's .12,230,000.00 (two Million, three hundred thirty thousand dollars) Let me tell you what the Federal Revenue Sharing estimate is Mr. Plummer That isn't what I want. I asked it before. Mr. Plummer: I'm asking the question of the buffer money of 2.3 million. 2s that included in the 7.6 minion or is it not? Mr. Willard: Yes sir. Mr. Plummer: It is included. Mr. Willard: It is, but let me explain it. We have normally been receiving 5.6 million as a contribution to the General Fund. But the 2 3 million was also anticipated to he .P the city to fund the budget in the 77-76 and the 5.6 million plus the 2.33E 'i1 9li is your 7,9 million that ".r. Gary had given you. Mr. Grass}e; Then, what is the nature of the 5.6 million, a.a that the amo n; e4 Cae that we expect in the 77-78 budget from Federal Revenue r asing7 M. Willard; No sir, the :oral amount that we expect from redera;l Revenue Sharing is approximately. , . Mr, gr4ss3.e; Now revenue T'm talking About, I'm ^'; talking abgut anytbang trays past revenue, Mr, Wi.l ar di 'O'k. Fight, it's 9,8 million dollars is a t •]LE q-r4tf;;.gwe, s, Oordoh= Zs what you Anticipate receiving in F'.evenl:e S3 sr ng9 23 4 7 Mr, Allard! Yes ma'am, hdw Mifshey. NOW that don't ihdlude the countet,cyalidal, MTh otdon: And, does that include the countetsteyelital fuhdO Mt. Willatd: Me WAM. Mrs, Gordon: Wen, then if we add the dounteracydlidal, which was 2.2 Million, it we're goihg to eat% Up With 11.8 millien, dertedt Mr. drassie! May t suggest Mr, Mayor, that we're getting answers that are net helping they are donfusing the ittUe. Mayor Perm: Well, the reateh why that's happening Mr, Grass -id it because you're doing exadtly (with all due respects to the staff) exactly what you shouldn't be doing. Ail this is, is a budget ettiMate. And, I WOuldn't even dell it an eStiMate. It's a real, cut And OUt gUett. tt't A tdientifid guess at What you think is going to happen and t think that we are not in any position at this point, having received at five M1nUtet the re -at of this dadument other than ih A very general tense. Mat are you prepared to give specific answers. Mt. Plummer: Well, Mr. mayor, my question is very simple, t'm sorry. bees the projected anticipated deficit of $7,644,000.00 contain the $2,320,000.00 or does it not, that't a simple question. Mr. drassie! Yea, and there should be a simple answer. Mr. PlUMMer: 1 agree. And, nobody can answer it, that bothers me. Mr. Grassie: b4* can you or nOt If the answer is no, and you can't answer it, say so. The answer is 'fto' they tahnot answer the cuestion Commissioner. It is an important question, I appreciate your trying to get us off the hook Mayor. We're on the hook, it should be answered, it will be answered, but the fact it that they can't right now. Mr. Plummer: Ok. Well, Mr. Grassie, please, I'm not trying to put the staff down. Mr. Grassie: I understand. Mr. Plummer: I am merely trying to ascertain whether the proposed deficit is 7.6 million or is it 5.3 million, or is it 9.9 million? Mr. Grassie t Well, we don't have that many options Commissioner. We only have two options. 4r. Plummer: Well, you're either at it, you delete it, or it's included. Mr. Grassie: It is either the figure that you have or it is the figure that you have less than 2.3 million dollars those are the two options that we have and I trust that we will get you a specific answer to that question before the day is done. Mrs. Gordon: And a specific answer please, to the total. Revenue Sharing dollars anticipated for the coming year and the total counter -cyclical dollars anticipated for the coming year. me Gary: Alright,... .Mrs. Gordon: Accurate figure, because you know... Mayor Ferre: Would you do it in writing, so that we'll have it. Mr. Grassie; As 1 understand, the answer to that question wad yes' it is specific and they are included. Mrs. Gordon; Well, look, I'm not going bacX into the figures that were given to be, there's a difference in what was spoken and you know, to make someone give an answer of that sort pte the top of their head is not fair. So therefore, I would ask Chat C4044 questions be answered, whether in writing or not in writing is immaterial Mayor Ferro; No, 1' li:•co to ask llosa, that they be in writing so that we have information," Ars, Oordon; Today, or when, 1 mean Inummer; I'd like an oral COday.., ¥ ;411 ;educe writinc, ;4ter, Mayor 'e're; 5con, Cral answer V,9441, and then you put ' in writing afterward, pecific APR 14 77 its, rdof t 'That's wMt said, jyess ,Mayot 'ette: ®k. :fit, Pines: Mt, dory, iet me ask Wit Other t uestioti, assuring that we go to the 10 Mill dap we then ate faced With a defidit of 6 tiilionss, Mt, dary: $6, i 2, 4t. 00. fat, put er: alright, use your fides, $6,122,000, alright air, now, what you're theft saying} is that sorose the board cut of $ 06S1,000.O0 would brigs us within the 10 mill cap, is that d8rtedt/ Mt, diary: $7,644006,66 would bring you within the $9,502,00,00 cap,$6il1r,080.06 will bring you within the 10 :hill cap, Mr, Plummer: bk. Today, where do we stand (and t think this i5 important), whete do we stand today in actual incotte or revenue as ptOtected in the budget as of edtober i? Gary: I don't have that figure, but I can des that for you. t. Plummer: Well, I mean is it realistic We're beyond the Six ttonth point? .1t. Gary: Out analysis of revenue, if you will notice in the front section, except for those changes where we made tnodifications,we've analyzed these revenues and we've found that those revenues are on schedule. Now in terms of where we will be at the end of the year. We'll just have to make an assumption. Mr. Plumper: I understand that, but what l was saying is that t wculd like to be privileged tb the information that you have presently on revenues, not on ad valorem we know, ok. Now, all I'm saying to you is the other than ad valorem, where are we today in projection as to what we set October 17 Mayor Ferret I'll tell you what Mr. Grassie, T. think Mr, Plutttmer's question is a real valid request,and I think that we ought to have that figure for the next six months as we had in potential problems, you know, like other governments have, maybe ever other month or so, or every three months, or on a reasonable basis where you would cane and tell us how we're moving along in our income versus our expenses as compared to the budgetary process. Mr. Plummer: And, I will not ask you to give me an answer today or tomorrow, but I tht:ik one of the sleepers in this thing, and I hate to bring it out in public, but I think it has to be. We are all aware that no negotiations have taken place with G.E.A., and I'm sure that ,that can have a big bearing on budget, whether it's this year or next. I would like to know what consideration you have given to that problem, because it's dormant, but it's very :ouch a problem, so I would like to know that there has been some consider- ation addressed to this as : consider a problem. You can do it orally. Mr. Grassie: Yea, that particular... it is included in this report. Mr. Plummer: Yea, ok. Well, I don't see it specifically addressed. Mr. Gary, sc I don't have to get out my calculator sir, Mr. Gary: Ck. Mr. Plumper: Based upon a deficit of ,6,122,000,00, do I then understand that the 7.6!3' cut is across the board? :tt. Gary: Yes. *'fix, Plummer; 'Like Because that's where we usually $nd the :dminist.at on hive our big problems. Mr, GxaSsie; The vesctQ= that you asked previousi').CoI^hiss .0Ve,r aedressed en Cage 9, item C. Mr, simmer; Well, that is reference to salariee atone, I'm speaking, you khow, that Ot; at _ sale ti.'1,►Aq called service, when 90% or it is employees salaries and cost, the other doesn't leave much to worry abo4t, gut I'm saying "C" y speaks to the 4d„ ',tes, , yr. cr 5Qie• "C" speaks to sate;seta i,p" apee s to longevity, Qt'°.e }p+r Va . r.. That's n 1 t employee ;opt, that d e*n't *oak to the 10 F Pff th@ 'cuagetf that are left over, '+mat' g got ng to happen to t:t',Qpe' SS APR 14 7, Mr. Grassie: Page 10, item A, speaks to that. Mr. Plummer: MO payroll items, it correct, ak. Alright, t can see that already Mr, Gary is taking Oh the posture of being the most unpopular fan in Gity Mall► l had one other brief question, Mr. Gary, oh your page 4, ecpiain to Me why, let's use 6treet Lighting for example. you have transferred in the 77-78 total Cost of Street Lighting from nomad valorem to ad Valorem, flow of couree, we both realize that this is a juggling of figures, what was the advantage of doing such' Mr, Gary: Wow, what happened hete COMMittioner, if you look at the 76=77 coiuftti we will $85,617.00, the remainder rotas funded by ad valorem. Mr. Plummer: Correct, Mr. Gary: In 1577-78, there is non ad ValoreM takes for the mere fact that this $86,637,00 was a fund balance carried forward that we're not expecting this year, Mr. Plummer: bk. In the words, the question I'm asking,'why is it all being applied toward ad valorem and none being applied toward non -ad advalorem? Is there a reason for it? Mr. Gary: It's a special, it's a separate special tillage fund. Mr. Plummer: For Street tighting. Mt. Gary: Right, and no revenues are generated Mr. Plummer: Where do you anticipate, if any where, in increase, for example, in insurance cost, have you taken this into consideration? .ir.Gary: Yes, for group insurance we have. If I may, the group insurance cost is taken into consideration this year. We do not at presently anticipate any increase in group insurance for next year. Mr. Plummer: You gotta be kidding. Mr. Gary: Well, ... Mr. Grassie: This is above the increase that we have already cranked in the middle of this year. In other words, we're already made adjustments. Mr. Plummer: You're a dreamer. I hope you're right and I'm wrong, but ... In other words, you're not anticipating any additional premium in 77-78 after you have made the correction for 77? Mr. Gary: No we aren't. Mt. Plummer: Do you have a contract that extends beyond October 1, 1977? Mr. Gary: No, the contract, if I recall from the letter we got from Dean. it expires October 1st. Mr. Plummer: That is correct sir. and, can you at this time tell me where the insurance company stands as to pay out as opposed to premium? Mr. Gary: No I can't. Plummer: . Mr ' I'd like to know. Mrs. Gordon: One more question Mr. Gary, in this revenue source, hOw much of Florida Power ss Light funds are included? Mx, Plummer: 1t's spoken to Rose.., Mrs, Gordon: Well, you know, Ilst got this s M.Edf I so di: you, T. don't war; tP #4ave to read the whole .e doggone thing, :4r. Plummer; Yes, lt's on page 5, item # , the second paragraph, Mr, dart'; We have 2,5 million dollars, e•+ra, Oordof; You're figuring ,,, f + 32 APR 14 1977 Mr, PluMMert The rP 4 L COntfact is a SOadelled a.A#c" wand ift the dity) bUt it't getting Shorter and thotter.. Mra, dordont Wit'a the total atiouht that we regeived, anticipated to ragtive aboVe that IA Mr. dart: t'm laviftq theft iodate it on the detail. sheet, Mr. Plummer: Yea, beeauas PP t t Praftchiss last year was worth about $4,060,000.60 right Mr, drassiet tt was tort than that, Mrs. Gordon: Mote than that. Mr. drassie! Yea, it was more than. My recollection is 4.8 million last year and we Might be up to 5.2 million. Mr. Gary: Ok, not talking about total figures, we'te estimating in 107,-18 we will redeive 2.17 million dollatS, we have anticipated in this year's budget 3,0 million, Mrs. Gordon: low much M. Gary: 3.9 million dollars. Mrs. Gordon: Anticipated to receive. Mt. Gary: Yes. Mrs. Gordon: Total? Mr. Gary: Yes. Mrs. Gordon: And, it's all going into the General Fund? Mr. Grassier That's not all the receipts. That's what goes to the General Fund. Mrs. Gordon: I'm asking how much is the total amount to be received? Mr. Gary: According to my budget director, it's about 4.7 million dollars. Mrs. Gordon: To be received? Mr. Gary: Yes, total receipts, that's not all coming to the General Fund though. Mrs. Gordon: I know. I didn't ask that. I'm asking it for another reason, that I want to know what else are we getting, where is it going? Mr. Gary: I can get that for you. Mrs. Gordon: Oi. You can get that for later. Mr. Grassiet Well, you know, you have the details for the current year, of course in the current budget. Now, what it would be for next year is a question of preparing that detail for ycu and you would have all of that. It really is quite pre -mature at this sage to tell you that scrt of thing, you know, we simply don't know what it's going to be for next year. Mrs. Gordon: I know we have to gaze ourselves somewhere, everything is an estimate anyway, Mr. Cressie; Yea, and the estimate that we have commissioner in terms of rn mcnies that we will be only using 2,5 million dollars, out of my estimation something more theh S5,000,00040 which the city will be receiving, The rest of that mgney has been commit- ted by the City Commission on 4 lOhq term basis for capital pro7,ects, and that is why we are restricting..., if you remember this year's budget it includes 4 period of three years projection for their rr s fund, Gordonremember it very well, Mr. Grassier Thats why we restrict ourselves to 2,5 million dollars for next year. Mrs' ;7=ordon; BV41 704 knQw4 there's no need to 37e 't.PQ ;Cng 4 q911V4r$44,0n 3t01,1t tM,§ ncw, thinX it's better that we get mere information 3n4 we givet,144 stu4y it. ,Tersonally t feel that way, , a 33 APR t 1977 Mr. Grassie: Yea, no question about it. the basic purpesse that we're trying to serve IA first to bring you this level of estithation as early as possihie, recogrii2e the departiMents have riot finished, you kfibw, they're just barely starting, their protest; of estimating expenses for next year, And, it is early in the year ih terms of making revenue estimates for the following year, tut we wait to give you this as quickly as possible and give you an opportunity to study it and raise the kind of questiohs that you're raising now, Mrs, Gordon: This doesn't include ail of the revenues really. This only includes those revenues that are to he used.., .its'. Grassier That would affect the Geherai Pund and the f ilage .., that id correct. Mrs, Gordont fight, and there is other revenues and that's the answer i would like to have and that's what t was trying to get tb when t was asking for Revenue Charing, ciunters,cyclical, Plarida Power & Light, Southern Bell, whateVer, you know, and where are we putting those dollars? I know that requires more of an analysis than we have hare. Mt. Plummer: .Mr Gary, may I draw your attention to page 4, Pension Fund. Mr. Gary: Yes. Mr, Plummer: It's anticipated by you that the contribution this year or next year will be approximate S87,000.00 difference. 4r. Gary: Yes. Mr. ?1irt;ter: Mr. Gary, using quick figures off the top of my head, the Police and Fire, which "are the only ones who have yet to realize an increase was 6%? Mt, Gary: I don't know the actual percentage. Mr. Plummer: What was their percentage of increase last year Mr. Grassie for this year? Mr. Gary: Salary increase,... Mr. Grassier 31/2%. r. Plummer: Just 31/2% is about how many dollars Mr. Gary for Police and Fire? What's payroll for Police and Fire? Mr. Gary: I don't know. 2r..Willard: about 18 million ... Mr. Plummer: Ck, the question that I'm raising is this. Mr. Grassie, in dealing many years with these figures, it doesn't seem to me that the normal actuary study will say that for 31% increase and that's all I'm speaking to that $87,000.00, additional dollars is needed for the _,aiding. Seems like to me that's a ridiculously low anticipation. And, I would like an explanation of how you came up with such a low figure. Because the unfunded liability keeps going, going, going. Mr. Gary, Ok, we haven't received actuary projections. We won't get those until May l5th. This, is the best protection that we could get at the time until May 15th come when we get the actual projection. Mr. Plummer: But, what you're saying is the $87,000.00 based on the 31% for Police and Fire doesn't seem low to you? now did you derive the figure? Grassie: The Finance Department, Well, the answer is the Finance Department did that parti.;ular revenue estimate as well as some Other revenue estimates having to do with ad valorem taxation. :f you would like, 1'.1 ask the Finance Zirector to come in and he can probably explain it to you in just a mintate. .r. Plummer: Well, instead of taking tip the time of the ;omission, Mr. 0underson, if e will forward to me, how he derived the figure of $87,000,00 just on,,, how he derived the figure because it seems low to me based on a 31/2% increase of just Police and Fire, pease if you would? Mr, Gary the only fault that I find with you sir, is 1 feel that this, 1 hope. next year will to 30 or 6Q days prior to this date next year than :.t is this year. i think this sS something that is long overdue. This is realism, we don't like e it, but it is a fact:, and we've got to address it, and the sooner we address it the 400ne we're going to he able to live with it, ,l compliment you and the Administrati. n for doing this, 34 APR 41977 ayor Ferre: it is 12: .S ft W, and f think, are there any further 4uestiOnA at this tiMe On this item? tf not,,. 1, PERSONAL APPEARANCE; '" N CORR I CAN (COUNCIL 8F I UTERt!ATIO AL vI tTQRS) REQUESTING ASSISTANCE, Mayor €erm t would like to recoaniae Mr. ,iohn Carrigan, first of all, :ohn on behalf of all of us in the City. I would like to express our dOndelende fat your father's recent passing. 1 know this must be a difficult tiie ter yet and 1 want to ekpres it for all of us here that you certainly do hate our deepest sympathy, 1 know you're here oh the matter of C.I.V.,C.I.v. ie something which ie close to the hearts of the City COMMittiOn and we're happy to recogni2e you at this tifte. Mr. Corrigan: Thank you Mr, Mayor, Mrs. Jordon, and Commissioners. With the is 'IAA McCartney, who is Esecttive birector of iI.i.V., the Coi3Yiei1 for International Visitors. And, f would like to refer to our application addressed to you March nth of this year. for C,E.T.A. funding, for two permanent positions, two full time positions with C.I.V. we have requested that you consider under the manpower Act, two C.E.T.A. positions at s10,00O.0O each for AdMinistrative trainee and ti..tingnal Airport Greeter. ;4e have also requested in our application that you consider grantiili C.I.V, office space at the Dallas Park Complex and that we of course, would enter into liaison with the Miami -Metro Publicity bepartttent for assistance in our publicity needs. The two positions in question, we have details concerning the parties that would be considered for the C..E.T.A.positions, they are residents of the City cif Miami and we stand ready answer any questions or to supply any further information concerning our application. Mayor Ferret uchn, let make sure I understand specifically what you're asking for is two C.E.T.A. positions, is that correct? Mr. Corrigan: Yes. Mayor Ferret Alright, Mr. Grassie, who makes the determination on C.E.T.A.,on people who are requesting C.E.T.A. positions? Mr. Grassies Well, the normal process Mr. mayor is that the Community Affairs Depart- ment receives requests from agencies and evaluates them in relationship to other requests that the city has. You may know or you nay expect that we have more requests for funding positions than in fact there is money. So, it always gets down to the question of making choices. Mayor Ferre: Mark Israel told me ... I see Vera Haas here, Hello Vera, we'll be with you in just a moment Vera dear. Mark Israel told me a month ago that it was his opinion that by sometime in late April we were going to have an additional allocation of C.E.T.A. positions, is that correct? Mr. Grassie: It is in the nature of a rumor at this stage Mayor, yes there is a lot of national discussion that this is going to Happen. :Mayor Ferre: But, what I''m trying to verify is whether that has been advanced any further? Mt. Grassie: Not to the level of certainty no. Mayor Ferre: We don't 'know anznore about it. Would you keep us informed on that? Mcw, I guess John, the only thing that we can do at this point is just, and dcn't think we need a resolution, but : would just say we will ,,. ''.r. Manager, and I'm just speaking for myself, C, l ,V. , :'ve served on I,V . , ,. '!row that the board or �. T your wire has, S don't know whether you've been involved Rose or 'hummer, , . , and there are 4 lot of people in t:.is community who knqw what C.I.V. is.and have worked with and relieve in it, and who have seen C,.,V, function effectively in servicing the co..mm ni;.ies, You know what it does, st greets Tnter'national. Visitors, Mostly officials, and i } serves the purpose of making Miami what we say we are, which is a ;tt43or gateway, and doorway to the world and I think it serves an important role, would hope that the sd'"•i.nistra ion would give it it's serious eonaiaeration, Qordon; I have no r t4ec ion to the tiequest, ycu said you had two people already prepared for the position, did you say tha=T ;r. Corrigan; That :s coned. PAO is already employed by c...v, and that position we are upgrading into an Administrative Trainee'' The Laker position, 9f course, is not funded, we ;annot handle it with o= a tat4ra finances and ,adage!, b14t we are ready and prepared to hire the person, 35 AP 177 Mrs, Gordon: You haVe petton for that toot Mt. Corrigan: Yes we do. MrA. 0Ordoht Rob What ie the general procedure tsM a little muddy on the procedure of filling C.S.T.A. slots. 1 know the agency makes rectuests. Prom that point, does the agency do their oWn hiring, do yOu do the hiring Who does what 142. Rob PAtkihti Th the past the agefteiei did their own hitiftgi but the candidates had to qualify Under the C.t.T.A. Aet. Now, howeVer, under Title Vt which is where most Of the Whey is coming there is a change of fillet Ahd t4d like tei discuss that with you. Mr. Corrigan: Yes. Pihe# thank you. Mts. dordon: Me&hih4 what Aobt Mr. Rob Parkins: The actual referrals now Are coning freirt the Vlorida 8tate Zmploy- Merit Service based oh a 1S..week unemployed status. there is a SO/SO rule in effect yeti can replace old publie service employee positions under the old rules on a 50/SO basis, but most of them have to fulfilled under the new rules. Mrs. COrdon: Ok. That telis Me something anyway, Mr. Plummer: Are you finished John, because this has nothing to do with yoU2 M. Corrigan: Yed4 Mt. Plummer: eke Mr. Corrigan: Thank you very much. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Parkins, let me ask a question sir, maybe my calculator has gone crazy, do all C.E.T.A. employees receive a minimum of S10,000.00? Mr. Parkins: No that's ceiling a maximum of $10,000.00. Mr. Plummer: There are those who receive less? Mr. Parkins: Yes. Mr, Plummer: And, what is the minimum? Mr. Parkins: Well, it can be an hourly rate of $3.50 an hour. Mr. Plummer: That's the minimum? Mr. Parkins: It could even lower than that, in the case of Summer Teen Zmployment, roughly $3.50 an hour. Mr. Plummer: No, I'm talking about for someone on a continuing basis. Mr. Parkins: The scale for C.E.T.A. participants within the city is determined by the Civil Service wage schedule, so it could range anywhere from the lowest Civil Service schedule for a laborer for example, on up to $10,000.00 cap. Mr. Plummer: So, in other words, it runs from $3.50 minimum? Mr. Parkins; Roughly, yes. mayor Ferre: Alright, any further questions? Alright thank you very much Mr, Corrigan? Mayor Fero; :s there anything else before we vree; Vera gees? Ts ;here anything else that you have an your Mr, qrassie; No sir, Mayor Ferro; : see Tel Fair in the audience. / see YOg here, I know that there are some meetings coming up in the next couple of days 4..1 the Culmer AX04, AY* 7P14 involved in those meetings? Well, / think it's very important since : sense Tal, that there's same fear in the ccrmunity, now you know, that people are worried, I think that • it's very itpeiftaht that ah open coMMUhiCatioht be maihtaihed so that people ddft't thihk that the dhatbet of dotterce is toVihg ih t� Move all the blaCk peOpie Ott of the dttMuhity, to Matte White heighbothodde ih, yint kh60, that kihd of a Attiff. Ahd, t thihk there IA Afte: dohderh, you kfto* that tuth bettef theh t (AO. tilt 2 jtAt welted tO egress tO you that 2 thihk, t certainly aft Wfid tth afe I Speak fbr everybody here dh the CoMbiasion and if therelt anything we Carl did we want td cooperate, but we're edhaerfted, ok. Ahythihg else to COffie up befofe this COMMiStion at this title, 12i PROCLAMATIONS) PLAQUES AND SPECIAL 'Tams. Mayor. Perret Vera, if yad would join re up here please W4 Prank, Cate on up. "Whereas, Vera Haat has been extremely loyal and trusted employee of the City of MiaMi for the past 22 year § . 260ihhihg iA the City Manager's Office in December 22hd Of 1'04, transferring to the MayOtst Office it November of 19S and having worked as eh AdtiniAtratiVe Secretary uhtil her tetirmeht, and whereat, she has rendered especially significant service in the Office of the Mayor duriftg which time she has capably served five Mayors, namely Randy Christmas, Robert Xing High, Steven P. Clark, David tenftedy, and myself, until her retirement oh April I4th. Whereas, Vera Haas, not only has proformed her duties in a toSt Confident professional manner, but has continually retained Sincere and COhteieritiOuS acid cheerful, thus helping create that atmosphere tOSt necessary in representing the Office of the Mayor before the public. Whereas, it is with profound regret and a deep sense of personal loss that we bid Vera Haas farewell. It is with an equal Sentiment Of joy and pleasure that we extend to her Our warmest regard for a continued good health and happiness while wishing her our sincerest gratitude this day,on April 14th,for her many contributions on behalf of the City of Miami. And, therefore, as Mayor of the City of Miami, I do hereby proclaim Thursday, April 14th, as Veras Haas Day". It is also my pleasure Vera, to present to you a plaque which reads to "Vera N. Haas, Office of the Mayor, in sincerest appreciation for over 22years of loyal, devoted, and dedicated service". On behalf of all the residents of this community and With best wishes upon your retirement presented by the City of Miami Commitsion. Vera Haas, 41, is the best dresser in the City, in all the people that work in the City of Miami, but aside from that Vera Haas has a wonderful smile, a pleasant welcome for everybody in this city. She is dedicated, she is loyal, she is discreet, she knows how to function as an txecutive Secretary, and Vera as you retire I want to tell you personally for the 10 years that i've known you out of the 22 that you've worked and for the 31/2,that I've had the pleasure of having you working with me. : want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, to tell you how really wonderful you've been and how grateful all of us in the city are for the wonderful job you've done for all of the people of Miami. (A letter which reads, mrs. Vera Haas, you will please allow Mrs. Pepper and me to join with your host of friends in sending warm best wishes upon your retirement. You have done a great job and you will be greatly missed. Cordial Greeting to You and all present. Claude Pepper, Member of Congress. Mrs. Vera Haas: All I want to say is thank you so very, very much, and you have no idea how 2 enjoyed being here, City Hall,for all these many years in the very same seat until two years ago. Thank you. Mayor rerres At this time I would like to make some presentations of a series of people that are retiring from the City of Miami.... Presentation of plaques to Police Department personnel upon their retirement: Lieutenant Hyman 3. Gorsetnan - 32 years Sergeant Kenneth L. Hamilton - 26 years Captain Victor S. Xennedy,ar. - :7 years Lieutenant Jesse Lee Nash :6 years Interpreter Clerk Rafael Garcia-21 yeara Praammation of a PlaVe to Lawrence Mansfield, Publicity and Tourism Department, upon his retirement after 22 years of service with the City of Miami, Presentation of a Certificate of Appreciation to Mr. Rene Jimenez and 4 !plaque to Aerocondor Airlines for their 4444-Stance in the Miami -Cali Ste; City Program, Presentation of 4 Proclamation designating Fire Service Recognition May in the gitY of Miami tO Chief Don flickman, Preeentetion of Private Property Week proclamation to Mr, aerome president of the Miami board of Realtors, teeenOn 474 4 Commendation tO Air rlorida and its President and Chairman of the Board, Tixoneri for transportins Mdent4 at !IC tO Tallahassee dtring the 1F17 State Legielative seesiont APR 14 Ira Pteaehtation of Oueen ElitAbeth ft Silver Jubilee bay Pfoclaff Lion to Mrs. Walter Sith ti, Pfeaic eht of the Bfitian Platidien Clubs Presentation of a ProclaMatioh and Cafinendatio t to "toey and Matcoidt, Jai* Alai player(, for Wihbing as a team the World Jai=Alai Touf ►Abetst of t§haTpiohar PrstehtAtion of a Pair t46u§iflg Month Praciamation to Mr. Leonard Fienberg of the Department of: Routing and Urban Development, Preaetttation of a Commendation to Mr, bavid Pincher, Pretident of the Miami= bade Chamber of Commerce, for hit nuWdefOua activities in benefit of the community, Proclaiming "Pan American bay" = 8 th Aft( ivertary of Sitter City Prngramt, 131 AWARDING BONDS $��IONAN SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM BONDS, ,O , OL.DE HEADQUARTERS & RIME PREVENTION FAC LITIES BONDS, $iO ,_Q TORM SEW R IMPROVEMENT $ONUS ,O©- UO STREET & KIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT tONDS Upon the recommendation of the City Manager and the Director of finance, the following resolution wee introduced by Commissioner Rebut) vho moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO, A RESOLUTION AWARDING BACHE, HALSEY, STUART, INC., $13,000,000 SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM BONDS, $3,000,000 POLICE HEADQUARTERS AND CHIME PREVENTION FACILITIES BONDS, $5,000,000 FIRE FIGHTING, FIRE PREVENTION AND RESCUE FACILITIES BONDS, $2,000,000 STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENT BONDS AND $5,000000 STREET AND HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT BONDS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AND SETTING FORTH THE RATES OF INTEREST AND OTHER DETAILS RESPECTING SUCH BONDS (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the. following vote - Commissioner .Manolo Reboso Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES; None. CN ROLL CALL: Mayor Terre: I'd like to ask Mr. Manager. I'd like to have a report, I got a partial answer from dr. Paredes, a couple of months ago when I asked you and you had him answer some questions for me, But, I would like for Mr, Gunderson from the Finance Department, a run-down of the last say, three or four years, actually, why don't you go back to 1970 of the bonds that we've sold and what the interest rates have been and so Qn. I'd like to say that I think that this bid • f 4,9 1/8 is about one of the lowest we've had in recent, in the last two or three years, Isn't that right Mr, Gunderson? I oon't remember an interest rate this low in the Fast, what, four years, three years? Mr, Gunderson; At least three, Mayor Ferro; At least three years, And, I'll I don't know I'm sure the press won't say a word about it, but I'm certainly very proud of the City of Miami and I want to thank your respective companies for your interest, and we'll take your check anytime you want, Alright what's next? Manager? 38 APR 14 1377 1)4 tip PENT ROLL - Sir IMPRM/VENTS SW. 22ND Sr, A HIGWWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT H-4639, tr. Brassies We can go Mr. Mayto the iteit 0 Oh your agenda, the public hearing &i street improvement, Mayor Ferrel Alright, now on item 49 of your agenda,tn my packet, if you turn ta tun This ia a public hearing. Wait a moment we have to get Sealed bid § for tilver bluff at 200, we should've done that, Mr, Gratsie: been withdrawn Mr, Mayor, Mayor Ferret Oh, it's been withdrAWn. Alright, we're nOW Oft ited #9, which is A public hearing. Is there anybody here oft this item/ Are there any objector, Of any proponent or speaker, does anybody want to be heard Oft item #4, the City Manager redomMends? rather Gibson: Moved, mayor ?erre: Moved by rather Gibson. Seconded by COmmisSiOner Plummer. rurther dis CudsiOn on this public hearing. It not, call the roll. the following resolution was introduced by Vice-MAyor(Rev.) Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION O. /7-309 A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR CONSTRUCTTON OF S.W. 22ND STREET HITAWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4369 IN S.W. 22= STREET HITAWAY =MOVEMENT DISTRICT H-4369 AND RE- MOVING ALL PENDING LIEns FOR THIS IMPROVE:MNT NOT HEREBY CERTIFIED. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES: None. and 15, SECOND READING ORDINANCE: ESTABLISH NEW DEPARTAENT OF INFORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM SERVICES, Mayor Ferre; And, the next i tem before us is item #10, which is on Second Reading, was moved on First by Plummer and seconded by Gibson. Zs there anybody here that wishes to address the Commission on this Second Reading, if not Commissioner Plummer moves. Mr. Pl=mer: No, Mr. Mayor, I'm going to have to vote against this item. Mayor Ferre; Alright, Father qibson... mr. Plummer; wait 4 minute, for the record. Mayor Fere; :Ill let you speak as 500n 45 1 get the motion on floor and Mr. Plqmmer; Alright. Mayor ?erre: Father Gibson moves. :g there 4 second? Seconded by Commissioner F.ebogc, Alright Mr. nummer, Mr, Plummer; Mr. Mayor. 1 first wan; to take the mortunity of thanicins the ;ity 1,41',4ger fPr re'r7f-lq to l4t in ;P74n wit:n me those r,:egf4.4 w e deeLvly involved in this item, 141fortunasely, 1 did net have the tiMe cc) Meet with those people to set more ITIQQ f,eFth with this time' So. 1 then have to revert back tp my pQ04U41 of whi4Z1 ee. ave 9r44; 54Q1946 doubts and regOPV4ti94; 40,0;M* 4414 because Qf that 1 will eve to vOtS 39 APR 1 4 ler oh 10,1,2, and 10 ih the he4ative. MayOk Vette: Are there any tutthet statements ok ditcussion0 tf hot, at t recall this has the tecoMmendation of the City Mafta4et, the Police Chief, the tike Chief, and All the thet members of the doffiffiittee Who have worked oh this iteffi tor 4Uite toffe tiffie. Purther disCuttion, Call the t4511 please. Mr, kftog: City Attbrney, read§ ordinance it ecOrd, later adopted ift the ffieetihg. Mayor rake: Call the roll, AN ORDINANCt ENT/TLEDA AN ORDINANCE CREATINd A NV DEPARTMENT OP INPORMATION AND TELECOMMUNICATtONS SYSTHN SERVICES TO St KNOWN At SYSTEM tERV/Ctti REASSICNINd =TAN COMPUTER AtStSTANCE AND DEVELOPMINT SERVICES AND ACTIVITtE8 PRESENTLY AS8=1= TO THE DEPARTMENT OP MANACENENT 8-Mt= TO SYSTEM SEAVtCES: PROVIDING POR THE APPOINTMENT or A COORDMATOR AND ASSISTANT COORD/RATORS OP SYSTEM SEAVtCtt AND mit THE OPERATION OP SYSTEM SERVICES AND PRESCRIttNO" THE FUNCTIONS AND DuTI2S THEREOPt PROVTDINC A SEVERAtttITY CLAUSE AND A REPEAL CLAUSE, Pasted oft its first reading by title at the meeting of February 24th, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Vide-MayOr(Rev,) Gibson, seconded by CommistiOner Reboto, the Ordinance was thereupon liven its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Mr, Reboso, Rev. Gibsoft• and Mayor rerre, NOES: Mrs. Gordon, and Mr. Plummer(the reason stated) ABSENT: None, THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8631. 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. 40 .PR 1 4 1977 110 16 SECCND SING OR D t AN ORMNANCE ENTtPt.EIia AMEND SECTION 240011J 240012 REPPEALINO SECTION 24,10015 O CODE OE THE LIT'/ OP MIAMI is REASSIGNING LOM'%RvSTbMS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES FROM MANPOWER seRVI IDS To SYSTEM SERVICES. AN =NANCE AMEND= SECTtd t 2.400.1 ANb SECTION 2.466.2 Or THE CODE Or THE CITY Or MUNI : REPEAIANO tEC'i'ION 2=160. S or THE Co= OP THE CITE or MIAMI; EEAEStCMNC CERTAIN COMPUIEREYETtNE tiEMOP., NEWT ACTtVITtEd ANDS COMPUTER Aattnuct =VELMENT SERviCES PRESENT Y ASStC Eb T TEE DEPARTMENT OE MANACEMENT SEAVItIEE TO SYSTEM SEttVICES s PROMO= A SEVERASIt,tTY CLAUSE ANb A EEISEAti CiAUtt. passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of Eebrtary 24► 1077► was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. do motion of Commissioner' Gibson, seconded by Commissioner Reboso. the Ordinance Was thereupon linen its second and final readifig by title and passed and adopted by the foilowing acts" AYES: Commissioner Manolo Reboso Vice -Mayor Theodore Cibsor mayor Maurice As Eerie NOES! Commissioner Rose Goidofi COMmissiOner a. L. Plufttner, Jr. ABSENT: None THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO.8632 The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City commis- sion and to the public. 17. SECOND READING ORDINANCE: DETERMMINING FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS' REPEAL SECTION 2-29 AND CREATING NEW ECTION Z�l OF THE DE OF THE LITY OF MIAMI ESTABLISHING THESE FUNCTIONS, AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE DETERMINING THE FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COr.VUNICATIONS; REPEALING SECTION 2-29 OF SSE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI AND CREATING NEW SECTION 2-29 ESTABLISHING THESE FUNCTIONS; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND A REPEAL CLAUSE. passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of February 24, 1977, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Commissioner Reboso, seconded by Commissioner Gibson, the Ordinance was there- upon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote- AYES: Commissioner Nanolo Reboso Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES; Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner,J. L. Plummer, Jr. ASSENT; None. THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8633 .he City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copes were available to the members of the City Commis- sion and to the public, APR r 1977 411 ING ORDINANCE, AMEND ORDINANCE 401 8589AID SECTION 94 s AU1HORI2E CID? MANAGER TO ADMINISTRATIVELY TRANSFER FUNDS tETwEEN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMEN S I AN ORDINANCE ENTITLEDm AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 8589, AS AMENDED, E ` ADDING SECTION 9mA AUTHORISING THt CITY MANAGER TO ADMINISTRATIVELY TRAMPER PUNDS tETWEEN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS AS MAY SE NEEDS TO FINANCE AN INTRA=GOVERt tENfiAL SERVICES rum to RE 014N AS "SVSTDI SERVICES FUND".; PROVIDING A SEVt A:RILIDY CLAUSE AND A REPEAL CLAUSE, passed Oft its first reading by title at the neetittg of Pebruary 24, 1977) was taken up for its second and final: reading by title and adoption. Oti notion of Commissioner Gibson, seconded by Commissioner Reboso, the ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by, title and passed and adopted by the following date AYES: Commissioner Matolo Reboso Vice4layor Theodore Gibson Mayor :Calif Lce A. Perre NOES: Commissioner Rose Gordon Cotoonissionet J. L. Pluttner, Jr. ASS: None. THE ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORD/NANCE NO. 8834. The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public fedord and announced that copies were available to the members of the city Coto- mission and to the public. 19 FAST READING ORDINANCE: AMEND SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE No, 8578; INCREASE FUNDS FOR MECHANIZATION PROGRAM, AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO.'8578, PASSED AND ADOPTED OCTOBER 7, 1976, WHICH MADE APPROPRIATIONS OF FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING FUNDS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1977, AS ANINDED, TO INCREASE FUNDS FOR THE MECHANIZATION PROGRAM BY AN AMOUNT OF $50,010; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH; AND CONTAINING a SEVERABILITY PROVISION. Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Commissioner Gibson and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote - AYES; Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner.I. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maari.ce A. Perre NOES; !Done. 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. APR 1 4 197 • 2Oi •i' WING NM RUNANCt ENTITLED& AmEND &it -SECTION 2 OP sitt N 3E3,1 OF THE CODe OF THe CITY OF MtAMY REWISe ooLF COURSE MEM r s AND CART RENTAL FOR THe tuMmER mONTHS1 AN ORDINANCE AMtNbINO StIndItd1 2 OF SRC=i'ION 30=12.1 OF THE CODE OP THE CITY OF MtAMt, runttA, FOR TRt PttRPOSR OP REVISING THE AMOUNT CHARC£ti FOR CITY of MIAMI GOLF COUPLE Gi EN FEtS REP€:ALINd ALL ORDINANCES ► COD€ SECTIONS OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, =SOMA AS I'Y AM IN CONFLICT; AND CONTAININC r SEVERALILITY PRoVtSION, Was introduced by Commissioner Plummer and seconded by Cow ssioner Reboso and passed on its first reading by title by the following 'WAWA A'!ES : Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, fir► Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre .LOES t ,tone. 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. 2 , BRiEF DISCUSSION Milt CONsIDERATION of MLREESE GOLF COURSE, mayor Ferre: On the subject of golf courses. Mr. manager, I've gotten an awful lot of letters for Mr. DeLucca who runs that golf course cut there. What's that all about? Is there a problem on that? Mr. Plummer: I think it's up for renewal. Mayor Ferre: by am I getting so many letters on it? Mr. Grassie: Because he has generated them. Mayor Ferret Is it up for a bid or... .Mr. Grassie: Yes, three concessions are up for bid -- the Pro Shop, which is what he has had traditionally, the Driving Range and the food concessions. Mayor Ferre: I would like for you, as a matter of just courtesy, to call Mr. Mel Reese who had an interest in all of this. Would you do that personally? Mr. Grassie: If you would like me to. Mayor Ferre: Yes, I think just as a matter of... He has taken the trouble to call. He must have called me four or five months ago and I really don't remember what the interest was, 1 think I talked to you about it at the time. Mr. Grassie: You did and he has not followed up en that interest. Mayer Ferre; He has .ot? >r. Grassie; No. ;Mayor Ferre; well just so he '.mows that we're not ignoring him or something like t-+at, Mr, Grassie; 1 should tell °ycu that what he was interested in a; the time, which was the driving range, is not something that he followed up on and it is, at this stage, too late. We've received the bids but 1'' s call him if you wieh, Mayor 'erne; It wouldn't be a bad idea as a matter of courtesy, I don't %now whether you've taped to him at any time, y, Grassie; do on 40;a0ien but .mostly because a sec phi ► sootally, 43 APR 141977 Mayor ferret terheps heAt tiMe y2511 se* hip socially you could do it that way rather than Make a speCial IsSue out of it, When does that thing with Mr, betudde dale up, Mr, dtantiei That, t anticipate, will be On our nekt agenda, 221 PROVIDE POR DISTRIBUTION OP MA SPECIAL SUMMER RATCOMBINED GREEN Pet AND CART REM. AT MIAMI SPRINGS GOLF CURS Mayor Pere t Manager recOmmends, a resOlution providing for disposition of $11,00 special summer rate for combining green fees and dart rentals at Miami Springs dolf COU1Se, waiving 40% payment to the City by the golf professionals at Miami Springs dolt Course. Mr. Plummer: t have to ask a questioft, Mr, Manager, if we're waiving a 40% pay, Ment to the City.,. Mayor ?ere: No, that's not what it says. mt. oraadie! In place of... Oh, let me remember this. Mr. PlUMMer! Underline, waiting 40% payment to the City. Mr. Grassiet Yes, that is true. The winter rate schedule, which is the one that you have just altered, has a higher fee and provides for a 40% rehtal payment to the City, Now you have just reftced the rate and incorporated carts, as I remember this item, incorporated carts within a package rate for the summertime. So if we are going to get the package rate, then we have to waiVe our participation in the cart rental. Mr. Plummet! The question I really am asking, does this have to go back out for re -bidding? Mr. Grassie: No, this is simply a temporary waiving. When winter comes back we will go back to the original schedule. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-310 A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF THE $11. SPECIAL SUMMER RATE FOR COINED GREEN FEE AND CART RENTAL AT THE MIAMI SPRINGS GOLF COURSE AND ALSO PROVIDING FOR A WIAVER OF THE REQUIRED 40% PAYMMNIT TO THE CITY BY THE GOLF PROFESSIONAL AT THE MIAMI SPRINGS GOLF COURSE FROM THE GROSS RECEIPTS or THE SPECIAL SUMMER RATE FOR COMBINED GREEN FEE AND CART RENTAL; SAID DISPOSITION TO APPLY AND SAID WAIVER TO BE EFFECTIVE BETWEEN MAY 1, 1977 AND NOVEMBER 30, 1977. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) uPon being seconded by Commissioner Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote- WIfS; Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner Rose 'Jordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson NOf5; NQAO. Agg=T; Mayor Maurice A. rerre 4 4 APR 1977 a AUTHORIZE WV CLERK TO PUBLISH NOTICE OP PUBLIC HEARING PCO outcrtom TO ACCEPTANCE OP COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION OP S.W. 22 ST1 HIGHWAY DIPROVEMENT PHASE It - H-43S5 (HIGHWAY PORTION) BID °Aili The follOWing tedoititioh was introduced by CoMmitsioher PluMMer, who Wed it adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77.-311 A ItAOLUTIOM =HO/at= TRt CITY CLEAK TO PUBLIAR A NOT= OP PUEL1C HEAPING Pa OBJECTIONA TO TRt ACdtPTANCt BY THt CITY commiattoN OP THE COMPLETED CONATHUCTION or t.w. 2/Mt ATP= HIGHWAY /MPOOMENT PHASE It = R.,4395 (R/GYWAY POPTION) BID 22ND ATP= HIGHWAY IMPPOVtNINT PHASt It MATH= H-4305 (HIGHWAY NATION ) BID "A". (Here follows body of reeoltitioh. Mitted here acid oh file ih the Office Oi the City Cierk.) tpet being seconded by Commissioner Aeboto. the resolution was pasted and adopted by the following vote= AYM COMMiseiOher Maholo Reboso Commissioner Hose Gordon Commissioner C. L. Plummer, Cr. Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson NOM NOne. ABSENT: Mayor Maurice A. ?erre 24. ACCEPT MIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY DEED FOR HIGHWAY WIDENING NORTHERLY SIDE OF N.W. IYI•H Sr. BETWEEN N.W. 8tH LT, AND N.W. 9TH AVENUE, The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoptions RESOLUTION NO. 77-312 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE HIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY DEED EXECUTED SY THE OPTHAMOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC. FOR HIGHWAY W/DENING, CONVEYING TO THE CITY OF MIAMI THE SOUTH 5 FEET OF THE EAST 85 FEET OF LOT 14, BLOCK 21, OF HIGHLAND PARK, AS RECORDED IN PLAT BOOK 2, AT PAGE 13, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA; AND DIRECTING THE PROPER OFFICALS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO RECORD SAY2 IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA. (Here follows body of resolution, emitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES; Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner Rose Gordon Ccmmiseioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson NOM None. ABSZNT: Mayor Maurice A. rerre APR 14 1$77 • 251 ACCEPT R!GfF 41AY ;P3;:.FOR H1GNWAA PURPOSM THt NORTHWESTERLY 70 FUT OF LOTt 53 THROUGH7, BLOCK Ti MARY AND WtLLI/44 BAICKELL SUBDIVISION Sae The foiiawih4 resoitttion was introduced by Co issioi er PIUMMet# whc Moved its adoption: RESO ►t TtON N6. 77.211 1 A PESObt,'TfON ACCEPTING THE AtaliTs6PaWAY ft= ENECUTEb ON JANUARY Pb, ig 7, SY AMERICAN tESM4 s DEVELOPMENT CORP. OP MaAMt C NVEYtNtO TO THE CIfiY OP MUA / POR HVIHWAV PURPOSES THE NORTHWESTERLY 70 rttt OP LOTS S2 TEiRt UCH S7, OP BL6 "S", MARY An WII .IAM tHICRELL SUSMMVIS1ON 02..96), A/tt/A 10O1 tRICRELL AVENNEt AN i OI tE'INO rat PROPER OPPtCIAL OP Tim CITY OP MIAMI TO EEC SAO SAME IN THE PtiiLIC RECOAtt OP bAbE =aw l =AIDA. (Here follows body of resolution, muted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner RebOsb, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Manolo teboso Cm:mission r Pose Gbrdnn Commissioner :. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson NOES: None. ASSENT: Mayor Maurice A. Perre at ACCEPT PLAT: : ALVAREZ HE! GHTS, The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoptions RESOLUTION NO. 77-314 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING TEE PLAT ENTITLED "ALVAREZ HEIGHTS", A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY or MIA I, AND ACCEPTING THE DEDI- CATIONS SHOWN ON SAID PLAT, AND AUTHORIZING MD DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE PLAT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote AYES: Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr, Vice -Mayor` Theodore Gibson NOES: None. ABSENT: Mayor Maurice A. ;'erre APR 41977 11/ 271 AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO DIRECT tUILDING DEPARTMENT TO ISSUE SPECIAL BUILDING PERMIT FOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT SERVICE FACILITY Mrs. dordoht Why is the ward ihsetted ih there spedial buildihg perMitn1 Mr. drassiet tedause the time is tudh that we .hhot go through the regular prodess so this is simply the issuance of a spedial permit by the City COMMittidh and the only thing that makes a ditterende is tiftle, You knoW that the area is toned Ear this purpose. toned tdr governmental plapatei there°t no problem except the issuance ot the permit. Mt. Plummer! Mt, drassiet hope that the City wtll remember that people in the private sector have those same kinds oi problems every once ih awhile and how that we have set a precedent by doing it for the City. t think we ought ta remember that we ought to help the private sector also when they're ih a tiMe bihd, when they get A ttderal draft. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-als A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO DIRECT THE BUILDING DEPOT TO ISSUE A SPECIAL WILDING PERMIT POP. TH2 CONSTRUCT/ON OP A HEAVY EQUIPMENT SERVICE FACILITY ON AN UNPLATTED CITY OP MIAMI TRACT OP LAND SUBJECT TO THE PLANS AND snctrzcATtoms MEtTINO THE sOUTH PLOP= BUttbiNd CODE AND =atm, TO THE PILING or A RECORD PLAT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAWS OP THE STATE or FLORIDA AND METROPoLITAN DADE COUNTY. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Reboot), the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES; Commissioner Manolo Reboao Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES: Ncne. 28, AuTHcRizE PAYMENT OF $7,305,25 FROM PARKS FOR PEOPLE BONDS FUND FOR PARcsLs Nos, 7095-1, 7095-2 AND 7095-6, Cuv VS. &SELF FAsHus,, ETA., The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-316 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE FINANCE DIRECTOR To PAY A TOTAL Or $7,305.25, PROM THE PARES ?OR PEOPLE =ND MUDS, IN ATTORNEYS4 FEES AND COSTS POR PARCELS NOS. 7095-1, 7095-2 AND 7095-6 Z THE cASE or CITY or MIAMI VS. GISELLE FASNIX, ET AT,. CIVIL ACTION NO, 74-21240, IN Acd0RDANd: WITH THE COURT ORDERS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk') Upon being seconded by Commissiontbson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the followinq votes, AYES; Commissioner Hanolo Reboso Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner a. L. Plummer+ Jr. Ince-Mayor (Rev') Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. rerre NOES; None, e 47 APR 141S77 21 Amon=PAY* F Mai PAM MR Ptah Sakes FuND a PmeaL No, 7 1 Ci .., , ro The following resolution was ihtrbdtuoed by Cofrnissionet di# son, who moved its adoption: RESOLUT10N NO. /7.317 A EESOLtiTTON AfiT tOR121N0 AND OtRECTtNO THE P NANCE trA2CTOR TO PAY A TOTAL Of' $ S , 200. 06 PROM T!E PARS POR PR0PL£ BOND MINIM !OR ATTt RNW S rtts ANO COSTS POR PARCEL NO. 701. Tit THE dAS2 Of CITY OP MXAi t VS. PLATO COX, ET AL., CT ill, ACTION NO. 74..4 2S, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ORDER OP THE COURT. (Hare follows body of resolution, omitted hare and on file in the Office of the City Cletk. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution wet passed and adopted by the following vote- AYES: Commissioner Manor, Reboso Commissioner Aose Jordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore dibson Mayor Maurice A. perre NOES: None. 30. BRIEF DISCUSSION ITEM: CENTRO MATER PROBLEM WITH LEASED PROPERTY mayor Ferret Mr. Grassie, as t understand it, Mr. Plato Cox has sent a letter telling the people of the Centro Mater tb vacate the premises. Now we spent a lot of money, we helped theta get those two abandoned school houses, wood frame buildings, put up a fence, there's been all kinds of improvement to that property. At the last Commission meeting r informed you that this was going on and 1 asked that the staff look into the possibilities of seeing what we could do to help those people so that that program would not be curtailed. Do you know where that stands as of now? Mr. Grassie: Yes, I'delegated that to Mr. Parkins and he is ready to report, Mr. Mayor. .Mayor Ferre: Well while we're on the subject, why don't you give us a brief report on this. Mr.. Rob Parkins: Very good. We met with Miriam Bowman and other members of Centro Mater last week. There is property contilucus to this property that belongs now to the School Board under lease and we're working out and trying to arrange with the School Board to see if that property could be leased to the City on a longer term and we've also put together a Title VI project application for the necessary baseball field, Mayor Ferre: Good. Will Mr. Cox give them a little more time before they vacate? Mr. Parkins; we haven't really approached Mr. Cox on that. We will if you recommend that we do so, Mayor Ferre; Well if you need to do it, 1 think you ought to be so authorized to, without taking any legal responsibility, help those people cut. Don't we have enough land in our own property? We bought some 3.arid there, ln't that sufficiently large enough to move to our land? Mr, Parkins; Yes, it is but they had a particular desire for property that would be more agreeable with what they were trying to do, Mayor Fevre: t see, they want to build a baseball thing and have play fields and all that. Well what are we going to do with our property, by the way, Mr, Manager? We've owned it now for three years, When are we going to start -':loving a little bit cn our proposed park there? Mr, Grassie; Well : don't know if you rem ez the acquisition problems thet we've had theta, 1411977 Mayor Petra: 6h, t know the AdqUisitioh problems but w6 owt1 the two propertieson either aide of Mt, dom. Mrs Grattiol You know that we've 152eh in CoUtt oh this bere, lOSt, our pot n is test than ideal. Mayor Pare: Well would you give us at update ire the memorandum as to where We stand, proper drawings and so on. Mr. Plmemer: t was going to suggest that it be put to the ajOr majorprojects list and keep update Mr. dtastie: That particular project? Mr, Plummer: Yds, this particular one. We've got a lot of money there, Joe, but would suggest we put that on the major projects to that it would be something We will keep after. Mtattie: Let the live you a summary report and then tee. Mayor Pere: Why don't you give us that and when you do, have someone make a little map for us because really it's sometimes hard to figure out which property is which. 31k AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER - SEVENTH ANNUAL CHAMPION SPARK PLUG TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT: UNLIMITED REGATTA AT MIAMI MARINE STADIUMi The following resolution was introduced by CommissionerPlummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-318 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITS MPION SPARK PLUG CON? Fort THE STAGING OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL CHAMPION SPARK PLUG UNLIMITED REGATTA AT MIAMI MARINE STADIUM ON MAY 20, 21., AND 22, 1977, IN SUBSTANTIAL CONFORMANCE WITH TEE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS SET MATH IN THE ATTACHED AGREEMENT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: NOES: ABSENT: Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre None. Commissioner Manolo Reboso V I. 49 APR 14 1977 fk 110 eAtimi% AUTHORIZE wrne,oNAGest TO ADVERTISE FOR flOriramuo * VAMWM uutlimOL SERVICES DURING EVENTS AT THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM' The following fedolUtiOn Was introduced by COMMittiOner PlUMMer, whO moved it a adoption: AND RECETVE PROPOSALS PROM PIM WITH THE NECESSARY EXPERIENCE, A RESOLUTION AUTHORI2INd THE CITY MANAdER TO ADVERTISE MR PERSONNEL AND PINANCIAL EACKdROUND TO ADEQUATELY FURNISH CROWD RESOLUTION NO. 77.010 CONTROL SERVICES DURINd MIAMI DOLPHINS MOTE= dAMES AT THE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file THE CITY OP MIAMI /S REQUIRED TO PROVIDE CROWD CONTROL PERSONNEL. ORANGE lOWT. STADIUM, AND AT OTHER ORM= EOM EVENTS POR VIHtCH in the Office of the City Clerk.) 11 Upon being seconded by Commissioner dihson, the resolution was pasted and adopted by the following VOtes, AYES: Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner 3. L. Plummer, Jr. Vide -Mayor (Rev) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Perre NOES: None. ASSENT: Commissioner Manolo Reboso 33, ISSUE PURCHASE ORDER FOR MYO-TONEBIOFEEDBACK MONITOR AND ALSO A CYBORG BIOFEEDBACK MONITOR FOR JACKSON METRIALFICGPITAL, (BuRN UNt7), The following resolution as introduced by CoMMistioner Plummer, who moved its adoptions RESOLUTION NO. 77-320 A RESOLUTION AUTHOR/ZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE A PURCIASE ORDER FOR ONE MYO-TONE BIOFEEDBACK MONITOR MANUFACTURED BY ISIS MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS INC., AT A COST OF $420 AND CANrrtt,KG THE CITY MANAGER'S AUTHORIZATION UNDER TESOLUTION NO. 77-102 ADOPTED JANUARY 27, 1977 TO OBTAIN A CYBORG BIOFEEDBACK MONITOR; FURTHER PROVIDING THAT THE SAID NYO-TONE BIOFEEDBACK MONITOR BE FURNISHED TO THE JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BURN UNIT FOR THE REHABILITATION EXERCISES NEEDED BY BURNED MIAMI FIRE- FIGHTERS WHICH NEEDED FUNDS THEREFOR HEREBY ALLOCATED FROM THE CONTINGENCY FUND. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by commissioner Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferro NOES; None. ABSENT: Commissioner Manolo Reboso 50 • APR 14 1977 341 AUTHOR121 CITY MANADER AND CITY CUM< TO EgrtR INTO AN AGREDENT wtTh BOARD OP COUNTY COMMMIONSRS PORI PM NMY's The fallowing resolution was introduced by CoMMIstiofter dordon, who moved its adoption: REEOLUTUN NO. 7/.021 A tmaommtom AUTH0112= AND ititAtCTINd THt CITY MANACEA AND TRt CITY CI= TO =EA =TO A ttA8t AdAttMtNT EETWEEN THE C/TY OP MIAM/ AND THt AOAAD or COUNTY commttatompa or DADE COUNTY, PLOAIDA, PROVIDINd tOP THE YEAR TO ?AP LEASE or CEPTAIN PAIMIEtt AT MIAN1 INTEANATIONAt AIPPOAT POft A PtANT NCAStAY btECAttED AND IN =ADA= WITH THE TEPMS AND CONDITIONE CONTAINED tN THt ATTACktD AOREtMtNT. (Here follows body of retiblUtihh, omitted here and Oh file in the office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the reSOititioh was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner AOSe Gordon Commissioner :6 L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Adv.) Theodore Gibson Mayor maurice A, Perre NOES: None. ASSENT: Commissioner Manolo Reboso 351 DENYING CERTAIN CLAIMS AND INSTRUCTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO DEFEND ANY SUITS' The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-322 A RESOLUTION DENYING CERTAIN CLAIMS AND DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO DEFEND ANY SUIT BROUGHT FOR THE RECOVERY OF DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF SAID CLAIMS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES: None. ABSENT: Commissioner Manolo Reboso 51 APR 1 4 1977 ^4k 361 CLAIM SEMIS' ClarY OP MIAMI VSHIPOUTO Ri7tamoA1 MdtstON WINS g SPIRITS 03 AND CNA INSURANCI COMPANY' Mr. Plummet: Mr. MOM, oh 28, obviously if they're offering us something that admits their guilt, Why are we accepting half of what we have involved/ Mr, Mom: Well one of the reasons generally that we mild is that it would cost us mare in litigation expenses to collect the full Mount of the claim. Mr, Plummer: Yes, but what I'm saying, every mice ih awhile shouldn't we shake these people up to let the know that we're not just going to lay back and let them offer us half' Mr, Itnox: Yee, sir, we'll shake them up every once in awhile, Mr. Plummer: Well should we do it by denying this orielYou know the case, I'm assuming. Mr. Kook: Well I am familiar with the date made,. Mr. Plummer: / mean, if it's going to be the accepted policy, well it's the City of miami, offer them StA and they'll Settle it, I... Mr, ItnoXt Well one of the things we have to consider, especially when we consider these accident claims is the concept of comparative negligence, Nov as I indicate from the temcrandum, we were, at least, perhaps, in the judgement of the City Attorney's Office, contributory to the amount of about S0%. The following resolution was introdueed by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption! RESOLUTION NO. 77-323 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO ACCEPT THE SUM or $aoo.00 IN PULL AND COMPLETE SETTLEMENT IN THE CLAIM OP THE CITY OF MIAMI VS. HIPOLITO R. FIGUEROA, McKESSON WINE & SPIRITS CO., AND CNA INSURANCE COMPANYt AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO EXECUTE A RELEASE RELEASING HIPOLITO R. FIGUEROA, McKESSON WINE & SPIRITS CO., AND CNA :NSURANCE COMPANY FROM ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS ARISING OUT OF THE ACCIDENT INVOLVED IN THE ABOVE CLAIM. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Terre NOES; None. ABSENT: Ccmmissioner manolo Reboso 52 APR 4 1977 371 AUTHOR= THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY CLERK TO ERMR INTO A CONTRACT FOR SALE OP UNNUMEERED LOT tOuTH OP THE INLAND WATERwAY AND NORTH OP 171H COURT. The followihg resolution was introdueed by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: AtSOLUTTON NO. /7=124 A AtaOLUTION AMON= AND brAECTINd THE CITY NANA= AND THE CITY CLERK TO ENTtA INTO THE CONTRACT ATTACH= REAM AND MADE A PART =MOP PAOVIMNO THAT THE CITY Witt ant TO MA, AL ELME AND BETTY BLAXE. HtS WtPE, TA T CERTAIN PARCEL OP LAND DESCRIBED IN THE CONTRACT. AND SHOWN AS EXHIBIT "A" ATTACHED THERETO. SUBJECT TO ALL OP THE CONDIT/ONS OP THE CONTRACT AND MATHER AUTRORItINC THE CITY 4ANA AND THE CITY CLEAN TO EXECUTE A DEED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERNS OF THE CONTRACT. (Hera follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Cordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following �te AYES: Commissioner dose Cordon Commissioner a. L. Plummer, :r. Vicei-Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. ?erre NOES None. ABSENT: Commissioner Manolo Reboso 38 AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT GRANT: - ThERAPEUTIC RECREATION SPECIALIST PROGRAM, The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Gordon, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-325 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A GRANT AWARD FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OP HEALTH AND REHABILITATION SERVICES, RETARDATION PROGRAM OFFICE, FOR A THERAPEUTIC RECREATION SPECIALIST PROGRAM AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS TO IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM UPON RECEIPT OF THE GRANT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gibson, the resolution was gassed and adopted by the following vote- AITS: Commissioner Rose Cordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. 'ere NOES; None, ABS;T; Commissioner Manolo Reboso 33 APR 14 477 AUTHOR! Crr' Ni'lwGER i"O ACCEPT GRANT: NEIGHBOMOOD ARTS PROGRAM, Mr. Plummer! Mr. Grassie, do we have $t0,000 to match this grant? Mt. Grassier The match, Commissioner, mill be in the amount of $Sa0,724, tt is what we eai a "sot Match". That is, no additietal money will be budgeted in order to Match this grant. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77,6326 A RESOLUTION AUTIORYtNG THE CITY MANAOEA TO ACCEPT A GRANT AWARD D rm TH2 AMOUNT OF $ S0 ► 000 P'! OM THE N 1TtONAL ENDOWMENT PO t THE ARTS POP:A NEIOReORMOOD ARTS PPOOPAM AND FURTHER AUTHORItI tO THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY OOmmers AND AGREEMENTS TO tMPLF MENT T fE PRO.► GRANT UPON REC ;IPT or THE OPAIQT. Were follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote` AYES! Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, ,fir. Vice -Mayor (Rev,) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES: None. ASSENT: Commissioner Manolo Peboso 40, AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER AND - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI FOR THE USE OF THE CITY CLERK TO ENTER INTO ORANGE BOWL 5TADIlM, AGRESINT WITH: Mayor Ferrel Mr. Grassier Is there a favorite nations' clause in this contract? No, sir. Mayor Ferrer The change that is in this contract is that they will make payment of $40,000 per year for 10 games. Is that correct? Mr. Grassier Mr. Plummer: Mayor Ferrer of publicity, That's correct and that they will... a minimum Wait a minute, it doesn't say that, that's one of my questions. And that $25,000 that we give them is going to be used for the purposes public relations and otherwise advertising. Mr. Grassier Yes, that's true. Mr. Plummer; Alright, now, the $40,000 is in the contract. I don't see anything about minimum games that they will play or, in fact, MayorFerro: It says 10 games. Mr. Plummer; goes yours say 10 games? ey0r Ferro: Yes, mine does, Mr. Plummer; Well mine doesn't. The University is sha3Gang them head "no„ '1r Ora►ssie; My recollection is, Mr. Mayor, that they're going to pay $40,000 regardless of whether they play two games or six games or what. ",r. '1 e : Yes♦ but it stands to reason, and hQPefully they're going to de better that if they have 10 games here, we're going to do a lot better than $404Q0 and that's wry questioning it, 54 fti. 4i1508n: 4e11, J, t.► At A sdhool md'ni,. Mr. Plummer: father, t'M asking that it be spelled %lit if it 10 met, if it's S'$$ Mr, Brassie: It is not the intention to oblige the to iveraity for 10 years to oat8ait themsaivea to 10 games a year, no, it i9r't the intention. Rev. dilation: I'm wing to +rate for them at any pride. Mr. PlUMMert to other words, there's nothing in this oantradt stating that they must play " C" nttlflber of games. Mr. drassiet The only thing that the contract says is that if they play games in Miami they will play in the Grange Bowl. r. Plummer: alright, let me ask you this question, it appears twice and I'm sorry tta have to bring this up. This gentleman came to visit with oe, Mr, Brassie, but unfortunately this was hot delivered to ate until last evening so t've not seen it and that's why t had to go over it itt a hurry, t want to ask, on the option of S years, why is it at the sale discretion of the University and not that of mutual, both ways. Mr. Orassiet Nornally an option is not an option if it is subject to the agreement of both parties. Mr. Pltai ert Well it doesn't state that here. Mr. Grassier No, it is .., .Mr. Plutnmer t It if did state that... Mr. Grassier If it did state that, it would not be an option. The point I'm staking is that for it to be an option, it has to be arbitrary with one or the other party$ Mr. Plummert Alright, I.11 go along with that. Alright, what reason... You spell out pretty clearly that they have the right to allow anyone else to play in that Orange Howl except the NET, with Sunday and Monday night games. Now they have to approve or disapprove of any other University playing in there. They have certain amount of days in which to notify us if it's a disapproval. What are the grounds for them to be able to disapprove? :4r. Grassie: My understanding, Commissioner, is that that basically is language carried forward from the old contract. Mr. Plummer: Well then tell me what the old contract... Mr. Grassie: I do not know what the reason was 10 years ago, I must confess, other than... In terms of what grounds they would use, I would presume that they would be reasonable but there is no guarantee in the language that they have to abide by any kind of standard for that denial. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Grassie, my concern has always been in the area of the scoreboard in which, their clause "QA" spells out that you shall not interfere in a televised Same for the purposes of that scoreboard. Now you and I know that the only way we're going to be able to provide that scoreboard for the people in that stadium is through advertising, that has been established, Now what is that going to do to you to negotiate out a contract with this in a present contract if anything? :4r. Grassier I think, relatively little, Commissioner. he impact of this para- graph, as S understand it, as 1 read it, is that the scoreboard will not be v,sed to interfere with or distract from the perforce that is put on between the game periods, That we will not do anything with the scoreboard which will take away from the band perforce that is normally put Qn. :Iow the advertisers would understand that and they're, 1 thin*, more concerned with visibility of their ads during the game when you're looking at the soon than they are during halftime when 'you're golly looking at the band so I don't think that this should have a material effect on our negotiations, Mr. fla men; okay, my final vestion, 'Jrder "if", and to to it's not really 4A "if", if a new ,stadina is built, as l understand it here, you a o guaranteeing in the lQ yews and the $ year option that even though we, re going to be oinking an APR 14 1377 awful lot Of money, it we are that ettipid, ifi A hew etadiuM0 that they will ife in there under the aid OOhttaet price/ Mt. drassiet No, air, that is hOt my underatanding. Mr. Plumer: Okay) wa have to give thefts one year hatides Mr. Crassie: That's cornet, Oh the event that you build a hew stadium) you have the right ta cancel this contract on a one year natiee. Mr. Plummer: t do have one other Vesti6h6 At the bottom of page 4, yau have ta supply them with a list t-140 hours prior to game time ot those personnel who are working/ bo you feel you can live with that/ Mr. drassie: This draft was prepared by Mr. Jennings and he felt that it could. Mayor Pena: Alright, t only have one question. tt, in the next 10, actually IS years because this contract is a 15 year tontract, ih the next 15 years the City of Miami or Dade County or what -have -you decides to build a new stadium, we're hot bound by this contract to keep the old stadium going. Mr, Crassiel No, the contract specifically provides that this contract, under those circumstances, cam be voided within one year. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-327 A RESOLUTION AUTHORZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE UNIVERSITY or MIAMI FOR THE USE OP THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM FOR THE PURPOSE OF PLAYING HOME VARSITY FOOTBALL GAMES BY SAID UNIVERSITY FOR A 10 YEAR PERIOD WITH AN ADDITIONAL 5 YEAR TERM RENEWABLE AT THE OPTION OF THE UNIVERSITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AS SET FORTH IN THE ATTACKED AGREEMENT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES: None. ABSENT: Commissioner Manolo Reboso 41. AUTHORIZE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO ANY CONTRACTS OR AGREEMENTS TO INCREASE: • FUNDING FOR PUBLIC SERVICE El- PLOMENT PROGRPM UNDER TITLE II UNDER C.ET.A. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Gordon, who moved its adoption; RESOLUTION NO, 77-328 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO ANY CONTRACTS OR AGREE:CMS wracm WILL INCREASE THE AMOUNT or FUNDS AVAILABLE TO THE CITY OF IAMND/OR EXTEND THE rpm= PERIOD roR A'PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM UNDER TITLE or THE CMPEMENSIvE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACT AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY ADDITIONAL CONTRACT(S) AND/OR AGREEMENT(5) NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT AND/OR CARRY OUT A PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM AS AUTHORIZED BY THE MANPOWER PLANNING COUNCIL or DADE AND MONROE COUNTIES WITH TITLE II AVAZZATUZ MPS. 36 (Here follows body of tesoiutior„ omitted here and on file i , the Office of the it dierk. ) 045h being seconded by Commissioner dibson, the resdititioh was passed and adopted by the following Votes Mat doissioner Rage Gordon COMMi{ gSioned. J. L► Plummer. Cr, Vide -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson None. Maurine A. Ferre (�yggp AE9ENrt Commissioner Manolo Rebosc 421 AMUSEMENT RtDES PERMIT: EDIS N CENTER N VATIOVAL- MASONS. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-329 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A PERMIT TO EDISON CENTER INTERNATIONAL MASONS FOR AMUSEMENT RIDES LI CONNECTION WITH ITS CARNIVAL TO BE HELD AT 5801 N.'.4. 7TH AVENUE bN DECEMBER 1st THROUW DECEMBER 11TH, 1977, SUBJECT TO CERTAIN TERMS AND CONDITIONS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - ?,YES: Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre .DOES: None ABSENT: Commissioner :4anolo Reboso 43, APPOINTING: J. L. PUi4 ER, JR. AS REPLACEMENT TO CITY OF MIAMI RETIRQrF T SYSTEM BOARD. The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Gibson, who moved its adoption: RrSOLUTION NO. 77-330 A RESOLUTION APPOINTING AND ELECTING COMMISSIONER J. L. PLUMMER, JR. AS THE CITY CC MMISSION' S REPRESENTATIVE ON THE RETIREPENT BOARD AND ON THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF :SIAMI EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM BOARD, EFTECTZVE APRIL 14, 1977* N THE PLACE, AND STEAD of C:ON:SISSICNER ROSE GORDON. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted hers and on file in the Office or the City Clerk.) upon being seconded by commissioner Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote- AY«S; Commissioner mango Reboso Commissioner Rose Qrdon Commissioner J, L, Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev,) Theodore Gibson S'2+1 t.*/r }gyp Mayor Maurice A. re re 3 E$; NQ; e. 57 APR 1 1977 44, DIRtOT A 1NIST M ION T PPOVIOE A C E tAI POSITION TO SE SPLIT SEEN The followihd MUM was introduced by CamMissiot er doid6h who toVed it§ adoption. MOT= NO, 77a33. A MOTION AUTHOAIttNd AN DtR:RRCTINd Mit CtTY MANAGER TO tuft btu POStTtON TO tut GHAtAPEASdms ar THt RETii £MEt T PLAN MAN) AN Tht tTIAEME T SYSTEM WAR , tCCH SiNdLt POtITION TO ttnt MTH BOA . Upon being seeo ided by Commissioner Gibson, the Potion was passed and adopted by the following Motes AYtt : Cdatbitsioner Manolo Moose. CoMmissioner J. L. Plummet Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Perre NOES : :tone. 45, APPOINTING: CAS Ate MORINE MORRIS TO THE you ADVISORY BOARD, The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Gordon, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-332 A RESOLUTION APPOINTING CARMEN ANN MORINE MORRIS AS A .MEMBER OP THE CITY OF MIAMI YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES: None. 46, APPOINT ADDITIONAL PERSONS TO THE CITY OF MIAMI CO M TTEE ON ECOLOGY AND BEAUTIFICATION The following resolution was introduced by Cossioner Plummer, who moved its adoptions RESOLUTION NO. 77-333 A RESOLUTION APPOINTING, FAN PRESMAN, H. LEWIS DORN► A PARC AREAS AND RAROLD L. iC NDIG TO THE CITY or MIAMI COMMITTEE ON ECOLOGY AND EEAUTI:ICAT.ON, (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here And on file in the Office of the City Cleric') ) Upon being seconded by Commissioner gordon, the resolution we; passed and Adopted by the fallowing vote- Al 5; Commissioner Hanolo Pebuso Commissioner Rose Gordon Cbmmisstoner J. L. Plummer, Jr, V ccemayor (Fev,) Theodore Ubscsz Mayor MeUgiCe A, 'e+ ';e NOES; We: 58 APR 1 a 77 47i AWARD 91 SALVAM AND DtMOLITION a F +, e II a INCINCAATOR The fallowing irasolution was ihtrodueed by CO asioner PluMmer, who Molted its adoption: RESOLt,'Ttlt4 NO, //s234 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTtU THE BM OP CUYAtic OA wAtatNG CORPORATION RATION TN THE AMOUNT OP ,S6 l ► 200 POR tNCtNERATOR NO. 1 SALVAdt & 6EMOLITtON (PHASE It) ALLOCATrNd THE AMOUNT OP $67,10O €`P,OM TH2 ACCOUNT ENTITLED "POLLUTtoN CONTROL AND I: aNERATOR PACILtTtES tat PUND" TO COVER TH2 CONTRACT COST; ALLOCATTNO PROM SAtb ACCOUNT THE ,MOUNT or 0,392 TO COVER Tht COST OP PROJECT 22DEt SE; ALLOCATINd PROM SAID ACCOUNT THE AMOUNT OP $1►344 TO CAR THE COST OP SUCH ITEMS AS ADVERTIStt4G► 1E8=0 LAEORATORIES, POSTAGE; AND AL'Tl#t:3RIEt:JG Tf#R CITY ;ti'.AMA= TO EXECUTE TE A CONTRACT DTI# SAID P IRf. (Hera follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Mano16 Reboso Commissioner Rose Gordon Cou issioner . `. L. Plummer, cr. Vice -Mayor (Rev.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre N0ESs :tone. 48• AWARD BID: REMOVE AND REPLACE ROOF ON DINNER KEY EXPOSITION HALLA Mr. Plummer: Mr. Grassie, On 38 1 notice that $101,000 roof and there is no spelled cut guarantee. Mayor Ferre: What do you mean? That it won't leak? Mr. Plummer: Well usually you get a 5-year guarantee with a roof or a 10-year guarantee. Is there any guarantee? 30 days? A day and a half? Mrs. Gordon: :his is a serious consideration. Mr. Grassie: Vince Grimm, who handled that, Commissioner, is not here. i can't answer the question. Mr. Plummer: We'll move to defer until he gets :ere. Mayor Ferro: We'll skip it until Grimm gets here, You get Mr. Grimm :sere, would you, please, Mr. Gr3ss;,es I've got him off in the middle of a project. :Mayor Ferre: Alright, do you want to get this thing passed or rot? You get Grimm here. Mx. Plummer: Well wait a minute. :f the man is busy, lees go ahead and pass it but I would like the question answered. Mayor Peres Well what is your question? mr, Plummer; My question is - Is there 4 guarantee? mead to spend $141,'Q4 and 30 days latter something happens, M. Gordon; More important than that is how does this A:, rll '; Well the architects recommended it, Mr, grassier she way this fits into the whole scheme is t .ter; t is the first contract and will ;assure that we get the pig egt tirade gay within the time limns that we haver,, 59 into the whole scheme? APR i'41977 Mayor Porte: Alright, this it the ti,t, beparthent of CoMbeted Bill. the ohe for our local Public Wofkt projects draft. Mr. dfait This IA the emergency Public Markt drant that we key, that is oorrect, an the Rumphtey have for binner MrS. dordont Is this roof in particularly bad donditioh? Leakihg very badly right now7 It that the reason for thtioh you're taking right now or jutt to solidify the grant money, Mt, drassiet You know that we're into a major 2.7 mi/lion dollar renovation of that facility, The roof. under any circumstance, would need te be. would have to be replaced, It is amply a miestioh of whether that is dehe first Ot later. tn the judgement of the architectsit should be dohe fitat, Mayor Porte: Theee ate V.A. bepartmeht of Commerce Monies that we're gettihg. Mr. arataiet That is detract, yes. Mrs, Gordon: t'm sure everybody at this table knows what went en at the Regional Planning Council Meeting of a week or so ago and the request to the State to take a position here ih CocohUt drove directs itself exactly to this and if this is indeed the reason why we ate rushing into this is to solidify that, then we are... mean, it's out on the table, that's exactly what it's for. Mayor ?erre: That's good endaqh for me, M2s. dordoh. I'm for it strongly, we had a public hearing, t know how you feel, you know how X feel... Mra. Gordon: I'd like to finish a sehtence, please, how about it. mayor Ferret That's alright. mrs. Gordon: Thanks. I just want this clearly understood that you're voting on this for a specific reason... Mayor Ferret Mrs. Gordons Mayor Perre: M. Graasie: No, mam, those are your words, not anybody else's. Well, the Managers words, I repeated them. Did you say that? No, Commissioner, you did not repeat my words. Mrs. Gordong Yes, you said to solidify the grants so that the work shall begin so there would be no more question about whether they can obtain it or not. You all go on and vote. I know how the vote is going to be anyway so go ahead. Mayor Ferret Mr. Grassie, do you want to say anything for the record? Mr. Grassie: Well, Mr. Mayor, as you and the City Commission knows, this City made a major effort to try and qualify itself and it did successfully qualify itself for $7,000,000 worth of emergency Public Works Grants, Now 3.7 million of that 7 million is represented by the grant that supports this Dinner Key Auditorium renovation. The roof is part of that renovation. One of the requirements on the City, and the most pressing, is that the work get started within 90 days, that we have labor on the site and that the work be continuous thereafter. Because of these two requirements, the architects and our staff have to determine first what piece of work is going to constitute the beginning of the project and second, they have to plan the project in such a way that work can remain continuously an the site, Now it has been their determination that the roof should be the first part of that project or what Z assume are Architectural reasons, It has noting to that I am aware of, with any considerations last week of the Regional Planning Commission. Thia is a project that you and the City have been involved in for months. for years. grs. Gordon; :ight Civic Aseociations appeared before that body and jointly asked the Counoil to petition the State to declare this area an area of criticel state concern and in fact, in addition to thug asked that this body place a maritorium upon any conatruction relative to this kind of development Until a determination ia made by the State, Now 'I' Unit expect that this body is going to do it and it'a on the table so that you may know what went Qn at that particular meeting and so that you all %now how feel about it bat that4s besides the point. The point io that the people who make Iv the majority of the eitigene of Coconut grove have, in group, come down end reputed that the State take control of thie ergs, 80 APR I 4 7977 Mayer Petrel Per the fedofd, t would like to state 'that this matter was fiery heatedly debated At tayfreht park AuditbfiuM three years A46 And that Auditorium was filled with people. The publid t earing was held in the evening for the reason that we wanted everybody to have an opportunity to get there and the record will reflect that there were as many people for as there were against and Vet talking Main people from Coconut drove, After that pubis heating whieh is the established, legal requirement for procedure on this, the City of Miabi Commission voted, on a 1_/ basis, to pradeed. Subsequent to that public hearing, theta have been two other pubiio hearings where arehiteetitrai drawings and models were revealed, there were opponents and there were proponents, the matter was voted tpoh on two different oaaasions by this Commission in the last three years, It has takeh us three years to get this off the ground, We are note the successful recipients of 1.7 million debars in public works,., tt would be, in my personas opinion, a tragid blow to the City of MiaMi for us to lose those funds after we Rave, for three years, tried to glove forward cn this prajeet. f further would like to point Out for the record that the Monies that were earmarked for the Dinner key tmprovetnent have now been transferred, by the action of this COMMittion. to the new Conference., Convention Center and that should we be knocked out of the box in receiving these Federal Punds, pate y 3., million dollars, it would nOt only db harm to the :inner ICey Expansion program and Dinner Frey Improvement Program: it would also do tremendous harm to the other ongoing, public projects of the City of Miami, specifically the Convention Center and I hope that we don't come anywhere near tampering with that. I think it would be completely responsible for the state because of tome people playing politics to do that kind of harts... Mrs. Gordon: tier, mayor, the Civic Associations aren't playing politics. mayor Ferret Mrs. Gordon, you asked me to let you finish your statement but go ahead, I'll let you interrupt. Go ahead with your statement, Mrs. Gordon: I: you want me to say it, I'll say it! Mr. Mayor, everything with you is politics. You don't see anything any other way. Mayor Ferret Is there anything else you want to say? Mrs. Gordon: No, because there's no politics involved in the concern of the people who live and have lived in Coconut Grove. These people have a real deep concern for the affect that that Auditorium is going to have upon the environment of this community and they are going to any extremes that they can to try to hammer that home to this Camctission. Mayor Ferret We had a public hearing... Mrs. Gordon: It's not politics! Mayor Ferre: We held a public hearing three years ago. The people of this community expressed their position, the Commission voted, the vote was 3-2. Mrs. Gordon: Well may I answer you what I feel the vote indicated and the people who came there indicated? The people who live in Coconut Grove were the ones who were opposed to it, those who were concerned with the businesses that they would be having on display in an auditorium who are under the impression, by the way, that they're going to have the same low rent scale after an improvement that they had before but more important than that, that isn't the point. The point is that you've got a very beautiful piece of waterfront land that has an enormous structure on it that obscures the waterfront. It's a poor place for such a building and this Commission has never considered perhaps moving it to some other location off oft e waterfront, The amount of money that's involved could be spent in constructing a new building. There is nothing worth saving over there and everybody knows it. Mayor t'erre; If we lose this money, it wall be lost forever, There is no way of taking that money and transferring it to any other project at any ether locetion, et's just that simple, Further discussion? Mx Fluor; Mr, 7prassie, I think you have an answer now for the geerantee, 1x, Crassie: Yes, The roof prejeet is, as you will note from the agenda, statement, not a new roof bat a repaired roof and in eonsequenee the guarantee on the roof is one year, Mr. Plummer; Now since everyone is mAking the record clear, may 1 just give this little brief thing, I voted against the redoing of the Pinner Xey Auditorium but the majority of his Commission voted for it and 1 feel that it is ay pl4e0 that 61 APR 141977 dice t have fought the good fight and losttd tty to see that theshiet &ft- AdMihisteted AS best As feasible and that's why t aft: voting in favor of putting the hew roof. Mrsdordent t appreciate COMMistiohet FluftMet Making the record cleat that he wee opposed to it and eertainly whatever teaS6ht impelled him at that time eould not have ehanged and the very feet that there ate others who don't see the things the same way that you do shouldn't be the reason why you auddeftly ehange your mind er feel that UM it a good deal. Mr. Plummer: I've never ehazed my mind, Aose, t still think, t wish it would ga away but it's not and the majority ef this COMMitSidh has voted to proceed with the improvements, t feel that these are the kinds of improvements that are hedetsaty And because we usually operate, and 1 say "ugually" by majority rule, t'm going tO go aleng with what t think is best Speht MOheyo Mayor ?erre: tutther discussion? Mrs, Gordon: Yes, oh further distUtsiOh and on a point of information. lee Manager, has this item been advertised'? bo people who are concerned with what you have revealed to us today been told that this item is coming up and the affect it would have upon the development of the property3 Mr. Crassiet I am not cleat, Commissioner, by what you mean by this item. Are you talking about the simple bid of a roof repair? Mrs. Gordon: A simple bid of a roof repair is the beginning of a development project Mayor Ferret Row can it be a beginning? Mrs. Gordon: Because the Manager said so. Mayor ?erre: We have been voting on this for the last 3 years consistently, Mrs. Gordon, and I didn't want to get into the middle of this but I would like to remind you that, and 1 will ask the Clerk to pull up the record and send a copy to Mts. Gordon, that in the past two years on at least 3 different occasions, Mts. Gordon has done exactly what she has accused Mr. Plummer of doing which is voting for ,some of the improvements on this project including the architectural, the vote on the architect, including the final approval of the recommended architect... I don't want to repeat myself about politics but 1 stand on that. mrs. Gordon: Mr. Mayor, may 1 rebuts you to this extent. Yes, I voted too with the same idea that Mr. Plummer had when I thought there was no other hope or when see now that there is another area that we can look to for relief to be able to get the State to take over and control the kinds of development Coconut Grove will have. Now there is a new ballgame. Up until two weeks ago I didn't know such a thing was possible. Mayor Ferret Mrs. Gordon, you would stop for everything if you could. The fact is that you have made your point and as far as I am concerned, unless there is further discussion or new points to be made, I will call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by commissioner Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-335 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID or SANDRON CORPORATICN IN THE AMOUNT or $3.01, 700 roR THE DINNER KEY RECREATION CENTER/EXPOSITION HALL - ROOF REPAIRS; ALLOCATING rums FROM THE U.S. DEPARTYZNT or COMMERCE, ECONOMIC =VELMN'' ADMINISTRATION, LOCAL PUBLIC WORKS PPOJECT GRANTS; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO rx:cuTs A CONTRACT WITH SAID F. 62 APR 14 1977 Mete fal ors bady Of resolution, gritted here and oil rile in the Gffide of the Gity Gietk. ) tlpeft being sedonded by edl isSior er PluMMer, the resolutioh was Massed afid adopted by the following '3 tee AYta: dOMMittiofter Manolo Reboso daldbiSeidner ?. PlUMMer, 3`r. VideaMayor (Aet'.) Theodore Gibson Mayor Malrioe A. Terre ROM d6MMissioiler ose Gordon ANENT: NOne. AOLL C ,LL_DtS4t'SSION i Mrs, Gordon: I Vote `'i1o" but the Manager never answered the whether there had been any advertisement at all. Mayor /erre: Mr. Manager, for the record, would you answer Mrs. Gordon. Mr, Grassie: Yes. There has been no unusual or exceptional. advertising. Mrs. Gordon: None at all. Mr. Grassier Hut every usual, every normal practice has been followed as you would expect. Mrs. Gordon: Are you aware, Mr. Grassie, that the civic clubs and a great number of citizens appeared before the Regional Planning Council about two weeks age, about 10 days ago? You must be aware of it because you sent a representative there. Mr. Grassier t have been informed by my planning staff that that had occurred. Mrs. Gordon: He was there and he spoke against it so consequently you are aware of this and this appeared and there has been no advertisement, no notification to the people who are concerned with what is happening here in Coconut Grove. Thank you. Mr. Grassie: : find your statement, Commissioner, to be... i will not characterize it. Mayor Ferret 2 think that was wise. Mr. Grassie: The fact is, Commissioner, you are making what 1 would consider to be an unreasonable point. There has been nothing unusual about the treatment of this particular case. It has been handled in a standard way, the way the City handles a bid process, as you would expect. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Grassie, this is not usual circumstances, this is an unusual, circumstance. That is all. ;Mayor 'erre: Mr. Grassie, are you following the recorded majority vote of this Commission that has consistently voted for the last 3 ;gears on this project to proceed full speed ahead? Mr. GraMie; Yes. Mayor f'erre; ... t;.at has been well known, We had public hearings, more than ore, It certainly has been given enough publicity in the press and we have been the successful recipient of 3,7 million dollars in this protect and we are ?roceeding, :s that correct? ;r. rassiei That .s correct, Mayor. 83 APR 141977 49. AWARD BID: UNIPOPMS FOR FIRE DEPART Nt PERSONNEL' The following resolution teas introduced by Commissioner Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 71.416 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE Rib OF LAtAR UNIDO M , INC. POR FURNISHING UNIPORMS, AS REQUIRED, AT A UNIT COST, POR TEE DEPARTS OP PIKE, FOR A ONE YEAR PERIOD; ALLOCATING PUNDS PROM THE 1076..1977 FISCAL YEAR btJUCET; AUTHORtZINC THE CITY MANAGER AND THE VUECtASINO AGENT TO ISSUE THE PURCHASE ORDERS Pa THESE MATERIALS' (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote- AYES! Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vioe.Mayot Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES! Note. 50 AWARD BID: PORTABLE BULKHEAD FOR EDISON POCL6 The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Gibson, who moved its adoptions RESOLUTION NO. 7 7 -3 37 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF BOILIERT SHEET METALS FOR FURNISHING A PORTABLE BULKHEAD FOR EDISON POOL FOR THE DEPART MENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION AT A TOTAL COST OF $6,613.00; ALLOCATING FUNDS FROM THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT Caere follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES; Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Terre NOES; None. 51, AWARD BID: TURF MAINTENANCE EQUIPMDvr IN AND AROUND THE ORANGE BOWL AND OTHER CITY FACILITIES, Mr. Plummer; I'll move it but I have a question, Mr. Jennings, does this figure here, --was this figured in the initial as upkeep and maintenance, of this, or is this beyond? Mr. Jennings; No, this is not part of the initial figure. This is addiitoial. 'what this amounts to is an attempt by me, to get my act organized. I reorganize my department, go that rather than have a staff at each facility. which is responsible for maintenance oft? the grounds, the fiord surf4ces, tha; i4 the baseball. 4u2lace and the 'Orange Bowl surface, and the foliageand grounds at the different facilities, 1 have organized my staff a little differently, 1 av using my turf manager e6 the supervisor of one staff which will function at 411 Tat;litias, This is eQuipment to ouppor' 64 APR 41977 that staff. Mrs Plummer: This then is not entirely erected by the nett turf. Mrs Jennings: No, air, and it doesn't only support the Orange Bawl. I supports three different >:ae1lities. The following resolution was introduced by Co issi finer 11ui er, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO, 77- 238 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE FOLLOWING BIDS FOR PtiRNTSUING TURF MAINTENANCE EQttMT FOR HE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLICFACILITIES: JONES EQUIPMENT FOR POUR PUSH -TYPE ROTARY CUTTERS AT A COST OP $859,801 BID OF DEBRA TURF AND INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT FOR THREE WHEEL TRUCKSTERS, ONt± POWER RARE, ONE VERTI-CuT ATTACBMT, TWO LEAF BLOWERS,ONE TRANSPORT TRAILER AT A COST OF 511,100.00; BID OF RECTOR TLC FOR FOUR CYCLONE SPREADERS, TWO GANG MOWING 1XNITS, Tt 0 HEDGE CUTTERS AT A COST OF $4,100,00, BID OF TIECO INC. FOR TWO CYCLONE SPREADERS, TWO TURF VACS, TWO 36" ROTARY CUTTERS AT A COST of $8,424.00; BID OF MASSY FERGUSON FOR ONE TRACTOR AT A COST 0P $6,445.00; BID OP DAVE =a & CO. PIA ONE SPRAY PAINT UNIT AT A COST OF $4, 73.00: BID OF RICHARDS LIPLEMENT CO. FOR ONE RAND OPERATED SPRAY GUN AT A COST OF S138.00; B/D OF CASE POWER AND EQUIPMENT CO. FOR ONE'ROT° TILLER AT A COST OP S1,375.00; FOR A TOTAL COST OF $36,714.80; ALLOCATING ?t1 DS FROM THE CAPITAL LMPROV►NT FUND, UNALLOCATED: AtUTHHOR/2=G THE CITY MANAGER AND THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE THE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR THIS EQUIPMENT (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Vice -Mayor Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote- AYES: Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES: None. 52, AWARD BID: FURNISHING OF 500 TOTE BARRELS, The following resolution was introduced by Vice -Mayor Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-339 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID FROM KEi.. ? $ALES SERVICE, INC. FOR FURNISHING 500 TOTE BARRELS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION AZ A TOTAL COST OF $6,475,00; ALLOCATING FUNDS FROM ITS 1976-1977 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET; AUTHORIZING THE CITY ;WAGER AND THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE THE PURCHASE ORDER FOR THIS EQUIPMENT (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file to the Office of the City Marls.) ) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Reboso, the resolution was Passed and adopted by the following vote-, AYES; Commissioner Menlo Reboao Commissioner .7, L. Plummer, Jr, Commissioner Ros€ Gordon Viu@,,Mayor Theodore Q4-F4G4 Mayor Maurice A, Ferro NOBS; bona, 1 53. AWARD BID: Two ELECTRONIC TYPEWRITERS POR PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND POLICE DEPARTMENT the following resolution vat introduced by Commissioner Rebota, loved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO, 77.440 A RESOLUTIoN ACCEPTING THE PAD PROM XEROX COR?ORATION POI runtsam TWO rum= TYPING SUMS POR THE DEPARTMENT OP PLANNTNG AND THE DEPARNENT OP POLICE AT A TOTAL COST OP $22,616.00: ALLOCATING runs PROM THE 1976-1077 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET OP THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND THE SECOND DOLLAR tUND ALLOCATED TO TRAINING OP THE DEPARTMENT OF POUCE: AUTHORIZING TEE CITY MANAGER AWD THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE THE putcust ORDERS POR THIS EQUIPMENT (Here follave body of resolution§ omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seConded by Commissioner Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following voted.. AYES: Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner tri L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES: None. 541 AWARD BID: 20m STREET WATER TANK DEMOLITION PROJECTI The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77- 341 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE WRITTEN BID OF CUYAHOGA WRECKING CORPORATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $19,850. FOR THE 20TH STREET WATER TANK DMOLITION PROJECT; ALLOCATING THE AMOUNT OF $22,430. FROM TH7 ACCOUNT ENTITLED "CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND -UNALLOCATED FUNDS" ACCOUNT TO COVER THE CONTRACT COST AND PROJECT MENSES; AND AUTH- ORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH SAID FIRM AS AN EMERGENCY CONDITION, WAIVING THE REQUIRMLNTS OF FORMAL BIDDING PROCEDURES (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES; None. E5, AWARD BID: DEMOLITION CHEVRON STATION, elm BISCAYNE BOUL VARDI The following resolution va introduced by Co issiotiet Ootdori, who &cited its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 7 i..542 A RESOLUTION ACCEPT/NO TILE RID OF RId (:RIFF, INC. IN TE AMOUNT OP $5,941. POR THE CHEVRON STATION DEMoLITIoN - 77 (SECOND RIDDINC); ALLOCATING TILE AMOUNT OP $5,941. PROM THE ACCOUNT tTTTLED "PARRS FOR PEOPLE EOM) FUND" TO COVER THE CONTRAct COST; ALLOCATING FROM SAID ACCOUNT THE AMOUNT OP 56$3. TO COVER THE COST OF PROJECT EXPENSE; ALLOCAttN d FROM SAID ACCOUNT THE AMOUNT OP $400. TO COVER THE COST OP SUCH t1t4S AS ADVtITISt4d, TESTING LABORATORIES, POSTAGE, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO =CUTE A CONTRACT WITH SAID PTRH (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Matiolo Reboso Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre tOESt None. 56, CONFIRMING RESOLUTION: ESTABLISH AD HOC ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR COCONUT GROVE BUS I NESS AREA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, Mrs. Gordon: The names of the persons that have been selected, ---or is this just establishing the committee. Mr. Grassie: This includes the names of the persons that were indicated by the City Commission at the time this was discussed. The names are Triester, Pancoast, Hingston,Fishko, Alexander, Simonoff and Prince. Mrs. Gordon: Is this a closed group or could we add. Mayor Ferre: Add, but don't go crazy adding a lot of names. Mr. Grassie. That is entirely a determination of the City Commission. Mayor Ferre: As far as I as concerned, you can add, Rose, anybody you want. Mrs. Gordon: Okay, I put the na:ae Claire Filer on there please. Mr. Grasse: Does he know about this? Mrs. Gordon: He does know. And Mx',Fred Stanton Smith. Mayor Ferre: Any other nazaes to be added' APR 41977 The foiidwittg resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO, 77443 A RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING AN AD HOC AbVISORY COMItTEE FOR THE COCONUT GROVE BUSINESS AREA HIGHWAY tokovattfr DISTRICT; DESIGNATING THE INDIVIDUAL TO SERVE ON THE CtITTEE; DESIGN NAttNG THE FUNCTION OP THE AD HOC COMMITTEE; A 6 PROVIDING THAT THE corm= BE DISSOLVED ON COMPLETION OF THE DESIGN POR THE COCONUT GROVE BUSINESS AREA HI AY ROV E.iT DISTRICT (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and ott file iu the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Hanolo Reboso Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Fevre NOES: None. 57, CONFIRMING RESOLUTION: CHANGE CITY COMMISSION MEETINGS FOR THE MONTH of MAY, 1977, The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption RESOLUTION NO. 77-344 A RESOLUTION RESCHEDULING THE REGULAR CITY COMMISSION MEETING OF MAY 25, 1977 TO MAY 18, 1977 AND RESCHEDULING THE REGULAR CITY COMMISSION MEETING OF MAY 26, 1977 TO MAY 19, 1977 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre. NOES: None. 58. CONFIRMING RESOLUTION: ESTABLISH DATE FOR DEDICATION OF SCULPTURE IN BICENTENNIAL PARK ("NUEVO NDO" SCULPTURE), The following resolution was introduced by Commissioner Gordon, who moved its adoption: 6S APR 1 4 177 RESOLUTION NO. 17,44S A RESOLUTION SETTINC MAY 10, 107/ AT NOON, FOR THE bEDICATION OP THE NUEVO MUNN SCULPTURE tN BICENTENNtAl PARE (Here follows body of rtsolution, omitted he ttid an. file in the Offiet of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by COMMittiaidt Plumtket, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote AYES: COMMittionet Mtiold Rebdtob COMmissidridt J. L. Plummet, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vie -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Fern NOES: None, 59. CONFIRMING RESOLUTION: SETTING DATE AND TIME FOR PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING RENAMING of BIMINI& PARK AND BAYFRIT PARK. The following resolution was introduced by Cotmissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77-346 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH A NOTICE OF PUBLIC NEARING TO CONS/DER THE RENAMING OF BIECNETNNIAL PARK AND BAYFRONT PARK ON APRIL 28, 1977, IN THE CITY COMMISSION CHAMBERS AT 3 P.M. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES: None. BRIEF RECESS 60. FERISONALAREARANCE: JoE 0, SMITH CONCERNING CITY OF MIAMI SELF-INSURANCE PROGRAM, Yayor Ferre: tTe are on item 51, the personal appearance of .70e O. Smith, Vice-presidetn of Stevenson Insurance Associates. Mr. Smith do you think it will take you more than 5 minutes to make your presentation. Mr.Joe O. Smith; I consider your allowing me this appearance a very stn7le honor. 4$ anyone connected with the insurance industry, much less, an agent or broker,is looked upon today with great disfavor, and especially n City Halls. We think however there may have been an endowed seer in your midst, because in 1972. the City of Miami officals, both elective and stsff, undertook positive steps to arrange for the City of Ni4Mi to become self -insured, The point here is not that the city MAP preparing to go self,,insursd in the fleet general liability area, but that it was 5 years prior to action taken by other political subdivisions and there is also another mayor point. All of your action was positive and it was not taken OP 4 pan I4 type ef 4CtiPA Whell 'or tr$.4ratIcc 40*; w@Pt 04; the roof, 45 happened to Macro -Pade School Board, and also to MOM Dada County. A;so ucep in mim4 that you started your self-insurance vehicle ix 197: and the state of Florida udret oke at i94 to pass 76348 vntfpl 1973 wh=ch became law in 1975, There again the City ef Miami Was three. or rws You's 69 APR 4 1977 ahead of the atate.ie have prepared a report which gives you the major chtonoiogicai steps in the effect of the aelbaineurance ptogtam from a monetary and 'ease of working stand port and we feel that you will agree that it is a significant program, The reports are available to you it Mr.dunderaonis office, and contains what f am saying to you now, only broader terms. ate designed a funding arrangement with the principles of funding and contract details rooted in our experience with similar plats in the area of fiscal properties and not 3rd party liability, and your basic self insurance plan started with the fleet and with the general liability of the City, hot it►+iluding the parks and playgrounds, and swimming pools. While this vehicle designed by us, has performed its original function, there ate certain steps that will be taken your city manager to better adapt your funding of your plan to liability exposures. We concur with Mr. Grassie, and Mr. Curtderson's approach and are working with them in this direction. The other major change, and 1 am sure it will be coming to you very shortly, is the adoption of the vehicular safety program, designed by you and patterned after the gansas City program, and the Kansas City program was one of the most effective programa in the country. So we know it is effective. And we think adopted by you, it will be very effective, A review of losses during the first 12 months of the self -insured plan indicated that the police department, --that the sanitation department and 3rd down the list, the fire department, were responsible for contributing the majority of the loss dollars to the program. So we believe that the institution of the vehicular program which you have already designed and have printed, would probably save the $68,000. a year that you are paying to administer the program now. That is to your attorneys, your claim manager, your secretarial staff. The other thing of significant importance is the question of the constitutionality of state statute 763-28, and its application to municipalities. t4e have always taken the position that it is a state statute passed in accordance with our legis- lative procedures and will remain so until changed or ruled upon by the courts, or amended by the legislature. 763..28 is the state statute that limits the tort liability of all political subdivisions in the state of Florida to 50 thousand dollars per person, 100 thousand per occuranee. Also limits attorney fees, recoveries and this sort of thing. You must keep in my that 763-28 applies to state courts only, and we in Miami have a definite federal court exposure which does not allow us to use the statutory limit of liability enjoyed in the state court. The federal court exposure of course is through our tourist and through our marine operations. In closing we would like to emphasize that the city officials of the City of Miami have taken prudent, non -hasty steps to provide the city with a stable insurance program.This action was taken by a responsive government, designed to help reduce the financial burdens placed upon its citizens by an unresponsive and negligent industry. The industry that has forgotten that its primary function is to collect premiums_, to distribute loss payments, and most importantly, assist in the control losses and not to manage money. Your actions and the similar actions of others will prove to be a boon to the entire insuring public of South Florida. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor and Commissioners, Mayor Ferro: Are there any questions the commission might want to address to Mr.Smith? ir. Smith: Copies are available in Mr. Gunderson's office. $r.Grassie; Only to say. Mr. Mayor I have not met Mr. Smith before, but we appreciate liii comments. Mayor Ferro; Thanks you very ouch for taking the interest and time to come here. 61 PEFSONAL, APPEARANCE: PETER JOFFRE (SEE FAST READING ORDINANCE RE* GARDINO AMENDMENT OF CITY' 5 GENEBAL EMPLOYEES RETIMMENT PLAN (PAY -max Q IQN) 4 Mayor :erne; All right, 4. Peter Joffre. Mr. Jo€ re; 404 afternoon, .Mayor and Commissioners, 5ringina 4P two ordinances, here. The firs; ordinance 1 bring wp, eras 4@fer€e4 on MA7cis 16, 1977. wos supposed 70 of APR 14 1977 to have coma back oft tadayameeting, I do not see the ordinance on the agenda, so I asked to appear to see what has happened in the changing of theme ordinances, One was the restoration or service credit to the employees, Mr, Grasaie said on March 16, that about April 14 he would have an answer to it, Mayor Ferret Sias people involved? Mr, daffre! Six people, right sir, Mayor 'erre:Mr. Grassie, got an answer for us? Mr, Crassie: The last time I checked with the finance director, whom you remember was doing the overall actuarial ana1ysis,eoordinatitig that actuarial analysis, he indicated to pie that the reports were not back to the City Commission, of the city at all. Mr. Gunderson: The reports we had promised ---it would take about two weeks to do that work. The actuaries responded and said yes it will take two weeks to do the work, however there is an antecedent obligation we have to the city, re- quired by statute and that is to meet the report deadline of May IS, annually that they have to,. -so they put that first. As a result they said they could not complete the work until after May 15 and would take two weeks after May 16, to that would be after, sometime the later part of May, before we would get the reports. :tr. Plummer: What you are telling us, you don't have an answer and you are giving us the reason why. Mr. Gunderson: Yes. Mr. Plummer: Is it safe to say, that Mr. Joffre and us, and you, will have the answer by the 28th? Mr. Gunderson: We will have the information back from the actuary at that time available for distribution • At that point we would not have put any effort into the package that they deliver to us, other than the initial request the way it went to them. Mr. Grassie: The answer we can give you the raw data by the 28th, but if you want it analyzed, it would have to be the next meeting, --following that. Mr. Joffre: Actually this ordinance, --really it is not a big change,it is not a benefit, it is just a house -clearance ordinance which will straighten out the 30 days, which is the right way to get it. At the present time nobody knows you only had 30 days to come back from the day you started to work. The way we have set it up now, it will be through a registered letter, which I think the city and the employee will benefit by it. I think the contribution, (the employee that terminated) --the contribution stays in there, so there can't be that much money involved in it. It is not a new employee or benefit. Mrs. Cordon: I think 3 or 4 employees. Mr. ,Joffre; Correct. This is that 30 days. Mrs, Gordon; We have held this up for I can't say how long. Mr, Joffre: It has been heard up since some time last year, Mrs. Gordon; Over a year. I agree there is a larger factor concerned with the other request, but this one certainly should not be held up any longer, I don't know how the other members of this commission feel. I feel that we could do no damage by moving ahead with this, because this one has been pending for e very long time. I would move it, Mr. Plummer; I don't know how you can move it without having the facts, Mrs, Cowen; It is s 30 day period form... Plummer; Are you talking about the notification by certified mail' Mt, Jeffro; Correct, 1 APR ?4 1977 r Mr Plummer: 1 have no problem with that. I second it. We Are moving the�ne about 30 day notifidationi Mrsrdon: That is the One t at mcving. Mr. Orassie: We have to be clear On what action yau are taking. We donit have anything in front of us at this stage. Hy recollection ef the two iteffla that we talked about, had a Coat in one Case of over 100 thousand dollars, and the other datte of 78 thousand dollars. Mr. Plummer: To notify by SO days? Mt. Grassiet That is why I am saying there is something wrong with the way you are describing this. Mayor ?erre: The point it this whole thing is, if we keep stalling this, and going around and around, we have to come to a conclusion on this. Mr. Grassie: The easiest thing in the world is to come to conclusions to give people money, and the city has been doing that successfully in last 5 years and you have gone from virtually no unfunded liability to over ISO million dollars of future debt to the citizens of the community. What is being proposed to you tight tow is one tote little piece, and the little pieces never hurt by themselves. Mayor Ferre: What is you recommendation Mr. Grassie? Mr. Grassiet That we ought to give you insofar as is possible, and believe me even after we have the actuarial reports, you are not going to have as complete a picture as I would like, but we ought to let you understand, what the size of the problem is, and what happens everytime you add more little piece to it, Mayor Ferret Okay. Mr. Plummer: I withdraw my second. I want to see how notifying people by certified mail can cost 78 thousand dollars. Mr. Joffre: It is not 78 thousand dollars. The actuary claims it is 67 thousand dollars. Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Gordon you have another second now. Are you still on your motion. Mr. Reboso: I second the motion. Mayor Ferret Your recommendation Mr. Manager is that we wait until the next meeting? Mr. Grassie: I hate to be in the position,because I have already agreed, with Mr. Joffre a month and a half ago, that the basic equity of what he is talking about, and what the board is talking about, is there. There is equity in terms of treating this handful of people as others have been treated. There is no argument about that. It does not get us away from the fact that we have gone for years in the present circumstance, and that the city has been forced by requests such as this, one at a time, sponsored by all sorts of different people, including past administrations, to give away things in the pension system. And you have gotten yourself into a 150 million dollar problem. What I see is simply more of the same. And I am telling you I can't recommend that kind of thing. Mayor Ferre; Okay. You are saying you are not going to change you position now, Or later. Mr. Graasie; I am not going to change my position with regard to the equity of these requests' And I said that the last time we discussed it. Mrs, Gordon; We have a Motion and a second, and we are on discussion with regard to the equity, The equlty ie in ny epininns not to keep these People weitinr, any longer. Mayor Ferro; Any further discussion? If no;, call the roll on the motion, 72 APR Mr. Ongie, City Clerks All you please state the notion? Mrs, Gordon: It is an ordinance. We have to move it by ordihaftee, "ascending the Miami City General Employees Retirement plan ordinance, 5624, May 2, 1056 as amended, appearing in codification form,part of Chapter 2 of the Code of the City of Miami as amended, more particular attending See. 109 as amended of said ehapter 2, providing that a former city of Miami employee who has rejoined the city's work force, may redeposit his contributions by filing within the retirement plan board, within 30 days of the employee's receipt of sane, a EOM which contains an election to pay back on redeposit said contribution, repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances its conflict therein, containing a severability provision and aft effective date"..wit is simply that those people that didn't file within the 30 days, if they waited 35 or 40, we are tot able to do that, and this will perit theta to do it. 4r. Plummer: Rose, would you also include in the lotion, Mrs. Gordon: This is ttot a motion, 1 read from the ordinance. Mr, Plummer: --would you also include what the cost factor is. Mrs. Gordon: It is a first reading, J.L. By the time you have the second reading you will have a cost factor. Mr. Plummer: That is understood you will not have a second reading until we get a cost factor? 1 don't want it to come up in 30 days and we don't have a cost factor. Mrs. Gordon: I can't produce a cost factor. Mr. Manager has to do that Mr. Grassie: The cost factor is $67,146.00. Mr. Joffre: I can't figure that out, ----well I am no actuary, but their money, of the employee is still in the plan. Mayor Perre:Any further discussion? Ca11 the roll. Wait a minute, there is discussion now.You were going to say something? Mr. Grassie: Simply to point out to the City Commission, that you are considering an ordinance which you do not have in front of you, you have not read, ---- Mrs. Gordon: I have it in front of me. Nobody else has it? Mr. Grassie: It is not on your agenda. You are taking up an ordinance based on comments from the floor. Mayor Ferre:Comments from the floor the 4th time. Mr. Grassie: You all got it a month ago. :ir.Joffre: It was deferred on March 16. Mr. Grassi*: But it is not in this agenda, Mayor Ferre; I beg to differ with you, it: is item 52 of this agenda, Its the same thing that we have been discussing. This is the 3r4 time we have been discussing it. Mt. Grassi*; The whole question Mr. Mayor is whether of not you are going to keep acting on these things out of context without knowing what is happening to the pension system. Mayor Ferro: Let sae put it to you another way, :',r. Crassia. The question is whether we are not going to do for these 3 people what we have done for many others. That is the question. The fact that we made a mistake, or somebody made a mistake, and T don't know who made that mistake in the pest. 040 side of the ummeat iS, are 'ou gain to continue to perpetuate that kind of miE4ake. The other Side is, why should you take 5 people and ostracize the from receiving the same benefits that yo4 decide to give other4, 73 APR 1' 71 Mr. Piummert That is not what he is saying. Mayor ferret Who is saying? Mr. hummer: That is tot what the Manager is saying. He is saying he teaiiaes there is an equitable position here, but he is saying he doesn't want this commission to move hdtit of in the future, on pension benefits without knowing the full impact. Mayor ferret t agree with that, but the full impact of it $67,iO1.00 and the question is if he agrees on the equity of it, and i certain agree with that, what else do you want to do? Mr. Plummer: 1 am going to vote in favor only because of the time so we can have first reading today, but it is fully understood that there will be no second reading until the Manager has had the opportunity to present all the fact to us. Mr. Grassier what 1 want to do Mayor, is ask the City GoUnssion to start exercising for itself in the area of pensions, the kind of discipline that we are going to have to exercise it the future. We cannot continue to consider these requests as they come up from any party. We have got to put the in context. Mayor Ferret Mr. Grassie, you have said that a bunch of times. We all heard you, 1 see your philosophical point . The question is, that this has come before us 3 tunes. You told me just tow, 5 minutes ago, that you are not going to change your position. Mr. Grassier In regard to equity. That does not have to do with a financial position of the City, and what is happening to your pension system. That is a different kind of consideration. Mayor Ferret That is very nice. That is like telling somebody that you agree with a philosophical premise that all men are created equal and that they have rights as citizens, but frankly you prefer, for the people who wear green ties to live on one side and the people who red ties to live on the other side. That is all very nice but it isn't enough for you to say you believe in something philo- sophically because what it really comes down to, and 1 hear you. You are talking about equity. 'fou say you agree with a position of equity, but you can't agree because of the fiscal responsibility of doing these things piecemeal. What does that mean? I don't understand that. If you believe in the equity of it, you believe in the equity of it. Then you do it. And if you don't think its equitable, then don't do it. The question of the fiscal responsibility, look, if you have a couple hundred people, or a thousand people that are recipients of this, and these 5 people have beenunjustlyleft out and you agree with the equity, it is hard. A lot of things are hard in life. Mr. Plummer: You are sure building a beautiful speech for Jessie McCrary. Mrs. Gordon: Call the question Mr. Mayor. Mr. Plummer: I vote yes with the understanding chat a second vote will not be taken until such time as all facts and figures and everything has been presented to us, by the Manager, I vote yes. AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE NIAMI CITY GENERAL EMPLOYEES' RETIRE= `fEN'T PLAN (ORDINANCE NO. 3624, MAY 2, 1956, AS AMENDED) AS APPEAR- ING IN CQ:`DIFICATION FORM AS PART or CHAPTER 2 OF THE CODE 9F THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, 1957, AS AMENDED, MORE PARTICLLARLY AM 'D/ G SECTION 09 AS AME.DED, OF SAID CHAPTER 2; PROVIDING THAT A FORMER CITY OF $I MI EMPLOYEE, WHO HAS REJOINED THE -CITY' S WORD FARCE MAY REDEPOSIT HIS CONTRIBUTIONS EY FILING WITH THE RETIRZIENT PLAN BOARD WITHIN 0 `JAYS OF THE EMPLOYEE'S RECEIPT OF SAME, A FORM WHICH CONTAINS AN ELECTION TO PAY SACK PR QSIT SAID CONTRIEVTIONS, REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PATS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREIN; AND CONTAINING A SEVERAEILITY 'RQVISION AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE 74 ir APR 197 Wes introduced by COMMISsiner Cordon and seconded by Commissioner boso and passed Of its first reading by title by the following vote. AYES: Committioter Mattoio keboso Commissioner Bose Gorddit COMMiddioner J. L. pluMMer, Jr, Vice.Mayor Theodore Gibson :mayor Maurice A. fertee NOES: None. The City Attorney read the ordinance into the public record and announced that copies were available to the members of the City ComA6 mission and to the public. Rev, dibsoti:Mr. Mayor 1 think we ought to get a time limit. The roan has been here the 3rd time acid we ought to ask the Manager, since he has to give the answer, ---Mr. Manager, when can we expect to have an answer so this man does not have to come in a 4th and 5th time? Mr. Grassie: The answer of the Finance Director is the only one I have Commissioner, which is, that the actuaries are expected to report to the City CotttmisSion two weeks from April 15 and within a matter of a few days after that, the staff would have a chance to analyze those actuarial reports, and would be able to prepare a response for you. That gets me to May 14th which is your next meeting, ---May 12, I am sorry. Rev. Gibson: Mr. Mayor it would appear to me that, so that the Manager would know what we expect, so this gentlemen wouldn't have to come back here as he has, I suggest that the first meeting in May, we now instruct the Manager to make this an item on the agenda for the first meeting in May. Mrs. Gordon: I second the motion. A motion to make this an agenda item for the May 12 meeting was passed and adopted by a unanimous vote of the Commission. Mt. Joffre: I have the other ordinance here, which a resolution was passed on February 24, 1977, supposed to be made into an ordinance, and has never been brought up, and this is the one about the laborer's pay back. It was my impression that the administration and commission agree to waive the interest on the laborers from 55 to 62. I also understand that this part is in the consent decree, that the city has 6 months to work it out. There are people involved of paying as much as two thousand dollars back. This took place 22 years ago, and tine is getting short for these employees to start paying back. There much be some guidance or which way to go with this. Rev. Gibson: Mr. Grassi* may I ask a question? Mr. Joffre; E:fcuse me, Father, may I say something?? Rev. Gibson: 1r. Grassie I think the same kind of condition would prevail. The man said that there was to be an ordinance drawn by the City Attorney. Row much time can, ----,.cap we take up both at the first meeting in May? Have the ord nanca and deal, with :acts pertaining to this item? Mr'.Grassie: I don't have personal knowledge of the schedule that that is on. I am asking the City Attorney right now. Mr, F,nom, City Attorney; Commissioner if I understand what Mr, Joffre i.s saying, the recently signed consent decree by Judge Baton provided that there are certain questions of pension 4s they relate to the collective barag.nig units that would be resolved within 6 months from the effective date of the consent decree, Is that what 'Feu are talking about' , Jo .; No. Mr, KA04, phis was not into the barga n ng, This was ;re laborers that were discriminated, not allowed to belong to tl a pe:asion Eros: April 1, 1955 to $ootember 30. 190:, ! fh ES 14d, Ott. tnott: That has been formulated, the effective date of the consent decree has just recently passed. 1 am cute we will, at we implement and attempt to enforce the consent decree, adhere to that provision silo. We have no sdhedule at this point because we ate now in the process of analysing the consent decree and what its impact is won the city. Mr. doffre: 1 ktow you pasted a resolution here ott yebruary 24 to adopt an ordinance, which i think you have the ordinance, to allow these fellows to pay back and waive the interest on that time. Rev. Gibson: What 1 art asking counsel is, how long is it going to take you to draw the ordinance? Mr. Itnoxt tf there is a resolution passed on the 24th, we can have an ordinance prepared pursuant to that resolution by the next commission meeting. Rev. Gibson: No, 1 want to offer that the ordinance be prepared for the first meeting in May, just like the other matter. 1 don't want to rush you, so when you come in, say I was overworked. 1 want to make sure we give you plenty of time, when you come here my brother, first meeting in May, we want both things. Mr. Joffre: Thank you. 52. PERSONAL APPEARANCE: JESSE (tCRARY REGARDING 13.1,81 PAY RECENTLY TERMINATED FOR 'THREE POLICE OFFICERS. Mayor Perre: Jesse, you are on. Mr. Jesse McCrary: Mr. Mayor, Vice -Mayor Gibson, members of the Commission, Manager, City Attorney, I took the liberty of writing to one of the commissioners with carbon copies to both the Manager and the City Attorney concerning what I thought was a, for want of a better word, an abortion. In the month of December I appeared before this commission requesting or seeking this commission to not take away from some 60 odd police officers, 10% of their pay. At that time the commission voted, after much heated discussion, and everybody airing their views, by a 3/2 vote with Mayor ?erre, Commissioner Gibson and Mr. Reboso voting to accept the recommendation of the City Manager of the proposed contract, or the contract as it existed at that time, Commissioners Gordon and Plummer, voting the other way. At that time it was my impression, that it was not the intent of this commission to then go back on what a previous administration had done, both by the commission at that time, the City Manager at that time, and the Civil Service Board of that time. What occured very briefly was, a law suit was brought by certain black officers who thought that certain inequities existed within the police department. The admin- istration and the commission being wise, came to grips with a very touchy problem and said in essence, yes, something is wrong, there are some inequities and we want to correct them. The commission did that. The Civil Service Board did that. The City Manager at the Commission's direction did that for 9 black police officers, and gave them the title of police investigator, giving to them a 107 increase in pay, given over a 2 year period, 5% salary, 5 for clothing allowance. The city then recognizing what could happen in the future, in 1969, said well, you .now something else is really wrong here because we have women in this department doing the same kinds of jobs, and there has been an certain kind of inequity towards them, They then took 5 women within the department and raised them to the rank of police investigator with the same pay increment. All of those officers and all of those women have either retired, they are deceased, they left the department, or for some reason are no longer connected with the department except for 3 people. Those 3 people 1 represent, Two black officer, aru one white female officer, At the time 1 appeared for the 60 some odd officers, at a sncsequent point met with teeth the City Manager and the City Attorney, showing to them the documents from the City, the memerapdums from Mr, 11-eese, the minutes of the Civil Service Board of Aril 11, 1967 of which I have copies here now, sot►e jQ pages pi it, dealing with this problem. Now, who; is the problem today? The ► anager along with the Cit ► Attorney, in my meetins with them on January 7. 1977 agreed, .....MCrery, you ara right, - ,those three peoplo should not have a Pay cut. It was immediately* reinstated to become PR 4 15,77 retroactive to the date it was terminated. Py telephone call. made March 18, 1977 in tallahaseee, t vas informed by the off iee of the City Attorney that the position of the administration was that the pay for these three people vas going to be Gut. Ott Monday ;larch 21, t eontaeted Mr. bean Mielke who confirmed this, that the administration was ttow going to out this pay and require prepayment of the money that had been tendered to these people because, as best t understand it, as t stated in my letter, and if t mis-stated it is only because t misunderstood. It was going to be nutbecause, the fraternal order of police had filed a grievance and if that is not the reason, it is for some reason t do not understand. The question is, without being emotional, did the city intend for those three offioers to have that pay cut when you have already, what mounts to in thy mind a contract, because the specific language of the City Manager at that time, as of Hay Z, 1967, said that the working title of police investigators shall be a red -tag position and once these teen leave the department, those positions exists no longer. t suggest you read the minutes of the civil Service meeting where both Mayor High, the City Attorney, every person concerned with this, thought that there was an inequity here and they said we have to do something about it. That we have now is a present administration,----t am going to characterize it this way, a present administration concerned about what POP is going to do. So if POP wants to agitate, let them litigate. PR 14177 tut the question is: is it tight for you to take away from these people 4heh you Bever+ intended it. Arid the position is, t think: cohtfactually, that the City Ceti find itself in court, And that's not a threat but 1 certainly think that based on these documents from the City where you made the agreement between those officers and those women officers of thigh three ate left out of 1/ now, that the City is bound to give them that 102 indte$se+ I km* that if I talk for 20 more minutes t am not going to say any more than what t have already said, and t think ah examination of the documents clearly shows that it was the intent **a oohtractual iftett** between the City and these of* fivers and the female officers that they should have those positions so long as they are within the Department with all of the rights, responsibilities, duties, emoluments of that office...that it would hold► t4e've agreed once and now the City is coning back and changing its mind. 1 think its unfair 1 do not apologize for the harsh language t used at the beginning of the letter because 1 think that's exactly what it is. Mayor 1erre: alright, does anybody else want to address himself to this point? tieutetiatt. Lt. Match: t'd be interested if the City :tanager or his representative intended to respond, and them t might perhaps have some comments. Mayor Terre: Well, just for the record, that Lt. Don March. Lt. March. In the absence of such a response then I will reserve the right speak briefly. mayor Terre: Do you want to answer Mr. Grassie? Do you want to make a state- ment? Mr. Grassier It seems to me, Mr. Mayor, that in the last I5 minutes, I've found myself three times in the same position. Basically, t find myself trying to work the City out of an old problem and I have two constituencies. I have on the one hand people who may not have received the kind of treat- ment they should have, in the past; and on the other hand, I have what you can characterize asthe City, the public interest. And, you know, there is no way of winning. Now, these have been 3 times in I5 minutes. Mr. McCrary knows exactly how t feel about this because we've talked about it at length, and I think that I agreed, to begin with, that the City should honor what was basically a policy commitment on the part of the last Administration and by that I mean, a past City Commission, and I propose to do that. Now, under the laws of the State of Florida and the status of the Labor Contract that moral commitment in fact is not a legal alternative, and that is the position that we are in. Nov, that's unfortunate, but that's where we are at. and it is our estimation that there is no way that Mr. McCrary or the City, hard as it may try, could win that case. Rev. Gibson: Let me ask you a couple of question. I understood...you mean to tell me a wrong committed, acknowledged, part of a record...that we thought we had righted the wrong--- that we don't have the obligation.... I hope this Commission isn't telling me that we don't have the moral courage and fortitude to honor a commitment. I'll tell you what I'm prepared to do, I'm prepared to offer a motion to reinstate the salary...because you now, I happen to know this a long ache and pain and let those who feel that we have violated the law, --that's what most folks do here, let them take it to court, let them go to court. You know what I learned in the Civil Rights Movement? The poorest people have always had to go to court. There has been very little starch in the backbones of those who enforce the law so that those who least were able to go-- you know, would be righted instead of letting the wrong continue. Now, I believe that this Commission, as men and woman, wants to do the right thing, they will reinstate them and say to the FGPs okay, go to court. And you know what you'll discover?.,.they've got all the money, they have the best legal minds at their command_ and., you now what?, it was no accident that they helped to negotiate out of the contract that very same amount of money. yayor Ferro, I'll put it to you this way. :here was a an named Demosthenes and he said, 2500 years ago. "a Just society i$ one in which those that are not agreed are as ton;ernad as those who are agreed,„ And that's what you are talking about. APR 14 177 b • are talking about, it's nothing new. Rev, Oibentat Right, Mayor Ferret Lieutenant, Lt. Matdh! Pdt eftlightehment purposes. I'd like to give the edMitidaiOn some background as to what has transpired in this particular situation, 8ubse4uent to our uftderatatding of the contract when grievance was filed, when Police Investigator pay uts reinstated for three officers only. tt teas our under., standing and our pursuance of this understanding was take a all the way to the level Of the City Mat:lag-trot which we had a meeting, and t at sure that as the result of that meeting Wd did not reach a consensus as to the understanding of the intentions in the Articles and the Agreement that was Of was not it volved. The contention WAS on the part of the Fraternal Order of Pnlice that in negotiating Article 22 'wages' of the collective bargaining agreement be= tweet: the Polite Officers and the City of Miami, the last sentence read: "the additional pay for police investigative duty will be discontinued effettive November 21, 1976. This as included in the existing donttadt, Consistant with that, it was our contention that there was an understanding reached of a verbal nature that should ..this pay be reinstituted for any one individual that would be immediately reinstituted for all people so categorized as police investigators. Whet the three officers were reinstated as Pat.'s, or given the additional pay on a retroactive basis, it was insisted by all those people who were similarly qualified...similarly classified and considered and assigned similar responsibilities, that they should then receive the ad- ditional pay and we initiated the grievance proedure. In our existing cona. tratt there is a provision for resolution of grievances at various steps. First step is at the Supervisory level, second step is at what is known as Divisional level, third step involves resolution of a problem at the level of Chief of Police, and fourth step involves resolution in the Office of the City Manager. Ve were unable to achieve resolution at any of those steps and then opted for the test of -which was arbitration, in which we asked that this be heard by an impartial arbitrator. We have a permanent arbitrator who is known under our contract as. 'an umpire', Mr. Howard Body, Satellite Beach, Florida. It is my understanding that this will be scheduled for arbitration. At step four, in the discussions, the alternative that we received vas one in which it was our perception that three members of the bargaining units, George Adams, Archie McKay and Senator Wildbacher would in a fashion be adversely affected. We could not sanction an agreement that would adversely affect them and I had a very long discussion with Mr. Mielke subsequent to the discussion we had at step four concerning my thoughts and the thoughts of bargaining union members as to how to approach a resolution of this problem. I, prior to going on step four, to the City Manager's office, I communicated to George Adams, who was involved, and said -George, it is my understanding that whatever happens here there is a strong possibility that you are going to be adversely affected. He said- in going in, we are not arguing the merits of whatever led to the decision on the part of the City to reinstate the pay of three people, basic- ally because I an not armed with the information and the logic behind such a decision. I still am not significantly armed with that logic. As far as what is before you right now, Mr. McCrary is coming forth representing three mem- bers of the barganing unit of which 1 am the President. I had a discussion with Sr, 'McCrary concerning whether or not the approach here is permissible under the existing statute --I am no; a lawyer, Kr. McCrary is infinitely more qualified than I am to resolve problems of this nature. I labor logic from ignorance, having flashes of brilliance that I can number on one hand, but in Florida Statute Chapter 447-301, Paragraph 3, says; "nothing in this part shall be construed to prevent any public employee from presenting at any time his own grievances in person or by legal counsel to his public employer, and having such grievances adjusted without the intervention of the bargaining agent. if the adjustment is not inconsistent with the terms of the collective bargaining agreement, then in effect, and if the bargaining agent has been given reason- able opportunity to be present at any meeting Called for the resolution of snth grievances," 1 444 418 confident that --and cannot offer the opinion,— as to wnether or not the approach here is consistent with the Statute, But Mr, McCrary did explain to no that the argument here is not one with the existing contract and I think he made the point that his contention is that there W44 4 previcaus- lY *XiStiAg ontract in the form of an agreement on the part 9f a preatiOUP City Commission acting in the interest of the City with these three PeoPle, as the 14$t rg=ng waers of ths grow with which that agreement was reached s9me 144e in Ow past, 1 AS only say that the eton -t9 04rg4i4 Away in the 79 APR 14 1977 atmosphere Of collective bargaining the additional pay for pOlide inveatigatiVe duty was not the Most popular thing that has been done ift the history of dolledtiVe bargaining betWeeti the City and the fraternal Order of Polide and it did adversely afftdt a large group af the bargaining unit. tut as to the existing dOnttadt* 1 Would ady that it is my understanding that such pay for the duration of degitradt shall not ...ithate is an agreement.... that it shall not be for the duration of the daittadt* but it is the dOtitetitibli Of the Praternal Order of Polide at is out- lined ift our grievande that at any time --this should be reinstated, it should be reinstated for all and it is flat acceptable to us that one va have made this point that the City should then resolve the grievance by having reinstated three people for a period of time then Cottle back and insist that it be paid badk. It adversely affects those three individuals and we cannot sanction that. This is the subject of �ur atbittatioft and we'll be sdheduled sedm. Rev. dibsoft: Lieutenant, let me ask you a question. Counsel just said that those three people were red..tagged. t.tert the Others reda,.taggedi Lt. March: The other police investigators? ReVb GibSOft: The people you ate talking about.o.were they red -tagged? Lt. March: Alright, when this occurred t was a fledgling police officer. I was worried about passing my probationary test, I aM not sure of all the things that occurred. But t do know, and I can speak and this is my opinioft but I think I am not alone in it* that this classification of 'police investigator' has been grossly mishandled through the years. The mishandling has led to these sort of problems* In the grievance itself and t would encourage you to seek out Mr. Mielke and see what it is that we propose but the third --we proposed thrte,-.. a tri-partite/type solution, the third suggestion was made that an audit be made of this position, that it be set up as something.. as A position that one can achieve through the Civil Service, that criteria be established that outlines the selection process. We long argued that the selection process has been improper in the past. And I'm not saying that it. has to be a promotion, I'm saying -set up some criteria, make it be something that one can aspire to become outside of becoming a Supervisor --it smacks of the dual.-ladder/type promotional thing in which an officer can stay within the operational theatre without having to become a Supervisor or Administra- tion and still get additional benefits. Rev. Gibson: But Lieutenant, my understanding is that when you red -tag two, three or four positions, you are saying that for the lifetime of those people or while they are there they no longer exist when they leave. Now, you tell me about the criteria and promotion and all that jazz..Look, I'm black. I was born right in this town, I know the history and I know when you coulAn't call black who were enforcing the law police. Now, we don't have to go through all of that, you know, the sensible reasonable thing is we bury all of that, all of us know why the three jobs are red -tagged --not those three, but that group-- and only three remain. If we were smart, this is the way I've tried to operate here, Man let's forget the past, we have made a settlement, let's quickly, peacefuly, lovingly, live with those unusual arrangements we've made and hopefully, that from here on in, we are going to be on an equal footing. Now, you know, the reason I want to say this Mr. Manager is because I want to tell you something ....the Sanitation people, now the Manager would not want me to tell you this, I don't suppose, the Sanitation people are faced with the same kind of argument that you are getting, and you know, it wasn't until this morning that it came to me crystal clear what those men were talking about, and I think, Mr.Mayor, that we ought to reinstate those men, those three people, or, if it will help you, go send for Mr. Mielke, let Mr. Mielke come up here and stand and refute all of this business, because you know, I am very upset that with all the 'know-how' some of these professionals have they know what is in the book, but they forget all those trials and tribulations that have brought us where we are. Lt. March; Mr, gibson, if I could just respond briefly. I understand your comments, but when you are red -tag a position and then continue to provide that same position —which was done --,,it would be one thing if they created 15 police investigator positions, red -tagged the 15 investigator positions and then as these people left the service they did not fill ;he, That wasn't done here, They continued to assign people to these duties, they continued to pay additional people, but didn't in effect proceed on a re4-tag basis, Now, when I come forth to you representing the Fraternal Order of Police, 80 APR 1 4 1977 represent a constituency just the lathe as you represent a constituency, and whet I went in to step 4 I was accompanied by a Latin, a black officer and a caudaeiatt officer, All of Which agreed with the stand that we were liking in pursuing the grievance: it is our cottentiot: that this affects across=the= board, this does tot just affect black people, this affects eveone. Aev, t ibsott it does not affect them now, but whet happened before ttou see, look, you ate talking to a guy....a lived this thing; I'm an authority on what you are talking about. And you know, tieing much difference now, .you know, tieing that much difference...and for you to go ahead and say you represent those backs..Matt, you know,. gets to be laughable, if that cat be said. Lt. March: Well, I don't code here to be laughed at. Bev. t:ibsott No, .o, I don't mean that. t meant when you tell me that simply because...you know, you are bargaining in the sense of...you know, all this business about seniority and all that jazz... these people were never in there, I remember so well when we had...you remember that Black Court on litt4 Grassie... you don't understand this...we had a Black Court on llth and 5th,..you don't understand that, that was the only place black officers could go. And for the benefit of all the public, t integrated even the concession stand at the brand new Pollee Headquarters which you no longer now use and t said to you, please, to inquire about it. Ask, the record is clear. t said to this Cot - Mission go on and give those three people their money, that white Wotan and these two blacks and these are the three...and you know, we don't have to go tell the world, just asuage your conscience, atone for our wrong and go peace- fully and live with it. Lt. March: One last response, Rev. Gibson, and back to your comments con- cerning my inability to represent blacks. I take very seriously the responsi- bilities I have as the President and I do recognize that my constituency is people with men and women whose cultures and heritages are very much dif- ferent from mine. But I would challenge you and ask you that you ask any one from any one of those cultures, any one of those heritages if I don't, in everything that I do, and most significantly since I achieved this Presidency, try to resolve things in light of what is fair, and as far as our pursuance of this grievance here, I repeat, it is across-the-board. We are trying to do what we understand is correct in light of the contract that we negotiated, and that's it. There is no race involvement, there is no ethnic or cultural involvement at all. Mayor Ferre: Well, we've heard both sides of this thing now and I would like to ask Mr. Grassie at this point, taking into account and into consideration I think the City's dilemma but taking into account the philosophy that the City Commission is going on, and what you expressed, what...there is no answer that will satisfy everybody but what is your best advice to us now and perhaps the City Attorney would give us a legal opinion on it. Mr. Grassie: There is an answer which will satisfy all of the plaintiffs - the answer is that you reinstitute P.I. pay. Rev. Gibson; Reinstitute what? :tr. Grassie; Reinstitute the 10: differential, reinstitute P.I. pay, but what is not being said to you is that the basic thrust of the FOP is to say that if the City gives P.I. pay to three individuals for historic reasons which I have already agreed to and have done, that if we do that, we give it to every- body. Basically, that's what they are saying. There is no way hiding that. Mayor Ferro; But that circumvents the basis: thrust to what tnis is all about. Doesn't .t? Mr. Grassie It also circumvents the Labor Contract, Mayor Ferro; It also circumvents the Labor Contract. But,..can't we just give it to these three?„,What you are saying is that legally you don't think we Can give it to lust the three. ?".r, Grassie; Paden the terms of the Contract, I do not "believe we can, mayor Ferro; So, we'd be challenged in court end then It baCoi es a legal APR 4 1977 ptableth, ,its ftc t what is jttst o you see 4sit's clot what's right, it's What you have to live under with the agreethent, Mr. Motsryt Mr, Mayor, could t just say one thing please/ Mt. Mar Mayor Perm: tee the problem is.., excuse the for philosophifng for just thirty seconds, YOU know, but that's the whole probleM of tiaek iistory in Aterica, tt isn't a question of what's right or what's wrong, but what the law gays is just or not just. And, you got to live by what the written word is aid you know, the problem is it's a diffieuit decision but t think we've got to do what's right, Mr, McCraryt Mr, Mayor, let the say this. You just answered the problem, Bere's what right, what this Cot:ttttission and the Civil Service Board did, i2 you tell rite -that you've got to live by the printed page here it is, i':ft day - in/ that this City can't negotiate a eontraot,to contraet these people rights away that you specifically outlined, t agree with the Mayor, Vou've got to do what the printed page say, what this Coftti'tission, what the Civil Service Board Say, every minute, every resolution that you pass, there they are. Mr. PluMmert Well, rather before you bake the motion, can Z... Mayor Ferret J.L. Mr. Plummer: Go ahead. I have rto objection► but I want to ask some cniestions. ok, so ask your legal opinion, fine. it's pretty clear to me where we stand. Mr, &lox: Mr. Mayor and members of the COn tistion. It's my understanding that well, as a matter of fact as' subscribed at the collective bargaining agree- tent whichwas entered into with the Fraternal Order of Police was lawful. One of the provisions of that agreement was that P.Z. pay shall be terminated at a date certain.1 For everyone who has been receiving P.I. pay. Now, as a practical matter, if that question goes to arbitration, the arbitrator is bound by the four corners of the document, the contract document which says what I Just quoted to your and is precluded from investigating or even entertaining evidence with respect to the printed materials and the suggest- ions that Mr. McCreary has made. On the other hand, if I understood the lieuten ant statements correctly,i.t s tote plan of the Fraternal Order of Police to submit the matter to arbitration in the eventuality that the P.I. pay that has been paid to these three individuals is terminated because it has an adverse effect upon these individuals as members of the collective bargaining unit. So, it appears that there will be arbitration in either case. And, the question before the Commission is not so much one of law because,unfortuaately perhaps,the law is clear and 2 just stated it to you regarding„the.contract and regarding the arbitration process. But, the question is one of equity id the Commission chooses to entertain it. There was a policy, a practice and a procedure which was adopted to inure to the benefit of certain individuals who were minorities by a previous administration and a previous City Commission. Again, the arbitrator would not probably address this aspect of the problem in arbitration. And that's the way the law is at this point as I understand it. rather Gibson: Alright, Mr, Mayor, I went to law school for one day.,. I'm sorry, go ahead Plummer. ;fir. Plummer; Father and aesse and George, this is not 4 rected at you tut it's directed at a principle. Mr. urassie, at the t:ne the :natter came before this Commission in reference to P.,*., pay as I recall on a 3/2 vote as recalled by Mr, McCrary, tr,is Cotrttission decided at that time to drop P.I. pay for all of those who were presently in that status, is that correct' Mr. Grassier I don't believe that it was voted on in that way Commissioner, tut maybe You're Thinking of it, something a little different than I ar►. Mr, Plummer; Weil, cic, let the try to made ita little clearer what ¢' in trying to drive at. Froth what I understand here, because a %new this was COMit7w I saw ris was coming, that's why I voted, one of the reasons I voted against it, x, Adams and the otter W .ldbacker and McKay, were they not dropped from p, I, additional IC% pay at budget? Mr, g assie They we;;e dropped from P.I, pay at the tizna that eVarYbOdY elae woo.w?en the provisions of the contract were put 441t9 effect, yes, '''�r, Plummer; Alright, now, my question bad tc be that tat was 4 policy of this S2 APR 4 197 7 COBIMISSion. Mrs dfa§Biet Nell, it Was ah ekedUtion of the contract language. Mt, PlumMer: tut a paid?, Mr. drattie: If you with, yet. Mt. Plummer: 'bk. And, this it going td be talking against you :essie, On what authority was these three individuals reinttated/ Ur. drattiel Very simply, that the Administration of thetlay Plan haS always been something that the AdMinittratioh has done. Now, the basit thing that was adeamplithed was to carry Out an earlier commitment of the City Commission in the case of thete three individuals, what we're finding ourselves with is that we n6 longer haVe the legal option of continuing that. Mr, Plummer: well, but you Seemy contentidft is had the policy of this ComMitsidn.,- and that wat t6 drop P.1, pay in it'A entirety-- been adhered to,we would not be in this problem today. NOW, aMen. NoW we speak to the equity of the Others, that's a different story. Mr. Otassie: You'd be in a different problem, Mt. Plummer: The point I'm getting to is that it was my understanding and I have never been informed subsequent to that that there had been a change of the policy, because it was my understanding that in fact all P.I. 10% pay would be dropped. Now, I will tell you truthfully that I am surprised when / find that threewere reinstated, and that's where I'm sulyrisedandI guess rm getting to a principle tow, let me ask it thle is possible beeause I think we have to find a solution, there is definitely an inecuity Jesse • on behalf of the three people, and only three people, who you represent who are of that remaining past, is there anything... Mr. Xnox,let merestate there are three people who are left in the status of the old history which nobody wants to re- hash,and only three people. Mr. Grassie is in an Impossible situation. Mr. March is in an impossible situation and needly to say that three effected people, because... we're damned if we do and we're damned if we don't. Is a solution pcssiblY for those three people who were adversely affected a lump -sum settlement. They qualify for a past discretion. The other, if I'm not mistaken fifty-seven, who were also affected by the drop were not of the past history. Now, I merely ask is it possible to make a cash settlement with these three individuals and I do believe that that is possible. Now, take it from there. Mts. Gordon: I got to ask you a question, is such a thing as longevity a factor here? Because apparently none of the others are in that category, in that, you know, the longevity of the position of these three people in an employment with the City, they are unique. None of the others have that qualification, is that true? Mr. Mc Crary: Commissioner Gordon, let me read to you from a memo dated May 5,1'1167 from City Manager, Mel Reese, page 2, paragraph 5, talking about those officers. "Longe- vity adjustments will be made as they accrue to the individual officers:' Mts. Gordon: That's the answer right there. Mt. Mc Crary; In other words, what could have happened had not the city made this kind of adjustment these officers and this lady officer might have taken another route, that wAS the whole purpose of this settlement, to settle this Iuestion once and for all as it relate to those people where we feel that there have been some inequities. Mrs, Gordon; parallel this in a 40450 with other longevity increases that we give 133 our employees in different categories and also with other benefits that we give to certain other administrative personnel who have special benefits. Mayoerre; Well, 149X, one way or the other, : think we've heard both sides. 1. don't thinX, all we're doing is retreading the 5=0 thtAggVerthe $4M0 thing and in we've sot to tome 1:o a COACIUSiOA, We've heard the Manager, we've heard the City Attorney, we've heard .7esse , we've heard Tit, March, Lt, March; 7.111 1 don't want to go back to., T want W offer 4 counter suggestion w 1414% offere0 by c0=1364444; Pl=mer, Mayer rerre; Z,1X. T'd like that, Tot, March; •Why don't you appoint a oOmM4ttee, wog4P% that the r4,1", tP 4119104 to participate and explore 4 resolution of this COnO@Pt with ;.44 V,t7! Mahauer4 prior 14$ arbitration. APR 14 1977 MAycit Petret essie, you agree with thatt Mr. 4c Crary: Well, 1 didhlt her him include the 8ee. that's What happens around had. 1 don't ever qet included ih any of this. Mt. Mayor, Mayor term Aey, hey, please, you know you're in to be 140 Mr. Mt draryt MO, I &Mit, 1 &et knOw anything 44, tot& MatCht Pleaseplease include Mt. MC Creary, pleadei Maye5r Peres: Now, he included yOu4 dk. Lt. Martht And. 11% not Saying that facetiously.1 apologize for overlooking you :assts. but Mrt. dordonwhat you MentiOned when you talk about lOngeVity,—, dOrdon: Yes. Lt. Mareht I'll get back just briefly tb the Comment 1 made concerning mishandling the position. People Were assigned to that over periods of years. Vranklin Cohen Who aceompanied me in step four in the arbitration, very Soon after George Adams and Arehie Hay achieved their status, very soon after that, achieved P.I. Status. Now, we're talking abut a lot Of longevity, a lot of people. Mayor Perms Alright, I would like to appoint... mrs. Gordon: Don, at the time that the resolutions and ordinances were passed way back then, they were also then under that category? Lt. MarCh: Franklin Cohen replaced one of the original ones very soon after the original appointment. Mayor ?errs! Look, Cesse , let's see if we can do it this way. Alright, I'd like to appoint a committee of you, Lieutenant, would you serve on the cotmittee? Lt. March: Absolutely. Mayor Pierre: Alright, Dean Mielke, is that acceptable? And Cosa Alvarez from the Law Department, is that agreeable? That's a four -person committee, Mr. Mc Crary: Mr. Mayor, in all due respect, let me be very honest with you. I'd rather not serve on that committee, because I know what I came here for, ok? The Commission needs or has to go with the F.O.P. position, go with the position I'm taking. We're wasting time, you know, somebody has got to bite the bullet, and that's what we ought to do. Mayor Ferre: Yes ,but you see, up until now everything is fine, but now you're not being fair, because ... Mr. Mc Crary: Mr. Mayor, / am being fair by telling you that if I go to that committee there'd be no contributions from me. I don't want to lie to you and tell you I'm going there to try to work out something. The only thing I'm interested in is what I came here for. I'm not going to waste your time and I'm not going.to lie to this Commission that I'm going there trying to compromise a position. I will not compromise this position Mx. Mayor, and 1 nderstandlthat's a hard position... Mayor Ferre; You :tust don't know what comes out of something like that,:es4e and I th,t4.1;c that I wouldn't want anybody to say that you're not a reasonable person dealing in ?cod faith. 1 know you are, so if we put this off for two more weeks it isn't going to make that much of a difference to anybody and that gives you plenty of time to air this whole thing out, Maybe you won't come up with anything, I'm going to tell you this, if you don't core up with anything we'll bring ;his thing to a vote on the tay of April. Thursday, And, I'd li4e to ask rather bson to chair the oommittee, would you chair that rather? rather 44-bum; ;le appy too. :layor rerre: Alright, 30 you 9ot 4 five person committee chaired by rather qibson, and rather you call them together and you come back and report to us and be prepared ape give us a recommendation 40 be voted upon by this Commission at that tire. rather son; n0440 give me 74 no,moa, address, telephone numberM before Y94 leave,. MAYT r947;01 Alright4 i* where anyv-hing ol#e 40 07440 41) on th44 M4t4411 417e APR 14 177 , PERSONAL APPEARANCE! SPENCER MEREDITH (GRovv Key %BARNNA►) REGARDING ILLEGAL ANCHORING OF IOATS Y Mayor Vetre: Mr, Spencer Meredith? Mr. Spencer Mereditht Cood afternoon Mt, Mayor and members of the CottMissionr I would like to very briefly bring your attention to a minor problem and propose hopefully a solution to it. Other A period of tame, a Number of boats have taken to anchoring itt this enclosed area here at Dinner Key. It has worked up to where there is anywhere from 25 to 30 boats anchoring in there, anchoring,in a very hap- hazard way, interferring withththannels, They affect the customers echo are using Pier 1, the members of Grove Key, and Merrill Stevens and some of the yacht clubs. It isi.according to the ordinance they are not supposed to be there at all, The eity sent a boat out a few days ago and ticketed all of them and they all left. This afternoon there are 5 there, walking into city gall, Pram our point of view =e really don't have an objection to having boats out there, for several reasons. One,they add to the visual attractiveness of the area. It is a nice thing to look at, and see boats out there bobbing in the breeze. Secondly, 1 am a member of the Marine Council and the Marine Council has pointed out that there is a great shortage of places to store your boat here in the county and that is really true. That area does have capacity for a certain number of boats to be moored. I would like to propose that you eonsider the idea of mooring a number of boats out there, whether it be 15 boats, 20 or 25, it could be done on either one of two Mays. It could either be done by the City, snaking some mooringsgnd putting them out and collecting rent on them, and forcing the boats that are anchoring out there, so they don't anchor out there, or it could be done by someone such as ourselves. We would be happy to do it, and include that in our revenues and pay the city a percentage. Mayor Perre: Mr. Manager, you have had the opportunity to review the letter from Mr. Meredith, Would you have a recommendation? Mr. Grassie: I think Mr. Mayor the problem that Mr. Meredith identifies is a real one. I do think we should investigate at least the two alternatives that he outlines, plus the possibility of one of the boat clubs doing this and get back to you with a specific recommendation. I think we do need to control the situation out there. Mr. Plummer: Call Mel Reese and let him steal their dinghies again. Mr. Meredith I will be happy to work with the City Manager and staff to put in whatever technical input we could. Mayor Ferre: You don't need a resolution on this Mr. Manager? Mr. Grassie: No. Just an indication from you as a body that you concur there is a problem, you want us to look at it. Mayor Ferre; Does anybody on this commission disagree with the fact that there is a problem of boats mooring out there without permission, without authority, and creating a health hazard and so on, and have the Manager look into this and come back witha recc*endation? I don't hear anybody saying no, so I imagine it is unanimous. stow are we coming along with our recommendation for expansion far the tsarinas out there Mr. Manager? Mr, Grassie: You ".snow that in your last meeting you authorized us to take $15,000 from Community Development funds to fund this study. Requests for proposals are being sought right now, Mayor Ferre; That is what I am asking. liave you round.=��•.•�-•s Mr, Orassie= No,. we do hot have a firm identified but ;he nroposals. we have asked for them and we expect ;he back. OVUM pepple a reasonable aunt of time, Mr, Plummer: Any of the clues chipped in any money? Mr. Grassie; No, Mr, Plummer; Just sskag, M yet V 4rM ?. t1.4ht : thank you v AP IA177 GL . CCNNR1tt1G Meta ttxA1 i TRADE FAIR OF THE AMERICAS1 Maxtor PerretAll right, that's the written agenda. %we have some rather things that have been placed before us. Mayor Ferre read the proposed resolution on funding the Trade Fair of the the Americas. Mayor ferret That is not eorreet. The motion was that na city expenditures or commitments or expenditures exceed $75,000. Mr. Planer: if you ate going to ehange it, then you have to change it also to state,'shall not exceed 75, —Othat was not by agreement even though I am eonsetvative, from this date till January l5, shall not exceed additional expenditures.' You have already expended $45,000. Is that in there, Mayor Pierreelintention was,----technieally, if you read this, legally, what that says, it will not be expended. But suppose we find out on June 15 that we have spent $75,000, and we have committed $150,000. What we are saying is that we are not going to spend or commit tore than $75,000. ir.Plummert I'll tell you something. I have great respect for Mr. Crumpton and Mr. Grassie and I think they know the feeling of this conission. I Will leave it it those capable hands. Mr.Grassie: We are not going to cotmit ourselves to expenditures that are to be trade after that date. Mayor Ferre.,relinquished the chair to Vice -Mayor Gibson. The following resolution was introduced by Mayor Ferre, who' moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 77- 347 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO CONTINUE HIS EFFORTS TO SECURE FUNDING FOR THE TRADE FAIR OF THE AMERICAS PROJECT, SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY COMMISSION, AND FURTHER EXPRESSING THE INTENT OF THE CITY COMMISSION TO APPROVE THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE SAID TRADE FAIR PROJECT AS OUTLINED IN THE ATTACHED MEMORANDUM DATED APRIL 1,1977 FROM CHARLES L. CA MPTON, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, TO JOSEPH A. GRASSIE, CITY MANAGER, AND MAKING CERTAIN RECOMMENDATIONS WITH RESPECT TO GUARANTEES BY THE CITY TO MARE UP THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ESTLMATED REVENUES OF THE PROJECT AND PROJECTED ECPENSES THEREFOR, AND FURTHER RECOMMENDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A $750,000 REIMBURSABLE FUND FOR THE PAYMENT OF IMMEDIATE AND ONGOING EXPENSES; FURTHER RECOGNIZING THAT MONIES FOR THE AFORE- SAID GUARANTEE ARE TO BE FUNDED IN PART FROM 1976-77 BUDGET FUNDS AND PARTLY FROM PROPOSED 1977-78 BUDGET FUNDS; AND FUR— THm PROVIDING THAT UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL CITY EXPENDITURES FROM THE DATE HEREOF THROUGH JUNE 15, 1977 EXCEED $75,000. (Hera follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the Office of the City Clerk.) Upon being seconded by Commissioner Rsboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES; Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner ,7, L. Plater, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Fevre .NOS a None. 86 APR 141977 551 ' 3% R iAL MINCE: GATION OP PERSONS Pitli COCONUT GROVE TO DISCUSS PROPOSED ACTION SY THE SOUTH FLORIDA REGIONAL PLANNING ICIL WARDING THEIDOSSISILITY OP DESIGNATING THE COCONUT GAOVE AREA AS AN AMA OF CRITICAL STATE WWI\ outsiCi)i Mr, Gtassie: of Commeree, Mayor Ferrer ;Mr. Adams: t, Mayor, Mr, Adams, President of the Coconut Grove Chathber had4asked if he could Say a word to the City Co:: issidn, Mr. Adams, Vet, there was an attidle in the Herald about the.statd that the... Mayor Ferre: well, await a f;ii.fiute Rote,Go ahead Mk, Adams, rofff C. Gr. ehAm%et c� f✓G+ Q _ Mr. Adams: I'm President of the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Plummer: Are you speaking for them or as an individual? Mr► Adams: No, t'm speaking for their. I am also a resident and 1 also have my business in the Grove area. The Chamber had to prior knowledge of the South Florida Regional Planning Council stand on the development of Coconut Grove and the Chamber reiterates their previous stand which was to support the :Master plan in regards to the proper control of the progress of develop- ment in the Grove and it just might have been that it was overlooked that we weren't brought into this;' what we would like to do is meet with the city, have representatives from the Chamber meet with the City and.... Mayor Ferrer The City's not involved, Mr. Adams, This is a state matter.% and my advice to you is you ought to write the appropriate... Mrs. Gordon: 1r. Barry Peterson and he'll forward it on to the proper party of the Regional Planning Council. Mayor Ferre: Send it to Mr. Peterson and say that you were not informed and tell him what your position is. This is not a City matter right now, it's a Regional Council and, Gene...I would not believe that they would take a position like that without informing the various interested parties that they would not just listen to one side of the issue. Is that what you are saying that they did? Mr. Adams: Well, we didn't know anything about it; we suddenly picked up the newspaper and.. Mr. Plummer: Wait a minute, wait a minute...I heard discussion here earlier that all eight clubs of the Grove were in favor of this petition. Are you here telling me, Sir, you didn't know anything about this item before this date? Mrs. Gordon: Well, I don't recall off of the top of my head which of those clubs, but I do remember some, Coconut Grove Civic Club, Tiger Tail Associates, Bayshore Property Owners, and..I don't know, all the others who were involved, whose membership expands into every facet of this community and how your orga- nization could not have gotten some word of it. This City Commission did not do any advertising on it, nor I, so, if you are interested in it. then you should make your interest known by communicating with the Regional Planning Council who. in turn I'm sure, will take your information and forward it to the same,..or as+for,an appearance beore the Council, either way. The City of Miami knew about because the Manager sent one of his Assistants. who is also a Planning Director. to the Regional Planning Council, Your point of view was represented, he did speak against it. . Adams; First I knew about it i$ when I picked up the paper. Mr, Plummer; I have heard word in here this morning that ell of the clubs of Coconut ;rove were in unison.. Nrs, vordon; , , 4 didn' t sad all.. 87 APR 1 4977 Mr, Plummer: Now 1 hear that the largedt.l.what 1 think to be the largest Club yin the drove does not know a thing, Mrs, datdont 1 did tot day all, 1 said eight, and 1 believe,,,Mauriee,,. how do 1 know if there are eight clubs ift Coconut drove, maybe there is a deft Aube ift Ceidehut drove,,, Mayor Perrot Rode, you.are right, 1 vas saying it just off the record, You go back into the record and you will find your statement was that 'all eight of the civic clubs ift eadOlitit drove were strongly,.. Mrs, Cordon: That's not a diVid elub, Mr, Mayor, t don't eondider the Chamber of CoMMette a civic elub. Mr. Plummere but the point Rose is* how can you elude anybody? Mrs, dordow All right, let's get the record straight right now, 1 had nothing to do with the application. t am a member of the Regional Planting Council. 1 reviewed it and 1 had the recommendation of the Councilla staff to go by and the Council's staff recommendation was given to the people who were there. There were people there and they advertised their hearings and if you all didn't know about it, there is no responsibility placed upon me, as a Commissioner, or any other Commissioner here, to make you knowledgable about it. You have the same resources as anybody else to find out anything you wish to find out. sorry'Lorraite your voice is not going out, if you wish to come to the microphone it'd be nice. 1 have no idea, t do not send notices, as a member if you have any complaints right to the Council. Mayor Ferret Well, my advice to you is, write to the Council, seed a letter to Mr. Peterson and all of you sign your names to it, those of you who are the Presidents, Vice Presidents, the Treasurer.. Mr. Plummer: Well, I'll tell you what t would like. I would like, Mr. Grassie, through you, to make inquiries as to who initiated this proposal. Mayor Ferre: You know what these things are.... Mt. Plummer: I'd like to know: .... Mrs. Gordon: Well, J.L., I do not remember all the names that are on that Petition, but I do remember a few. Mr. Plummer: I still would like to know. Mr. Grassie, is it possible that you can contact..... Mrs. Gordon: Why don't you ask Mr. Fosmoen?, he has all the information in his office. Mr. Grassie: I'll ask the Planning Director to provide the Commissioner with that. report. Mr. Plummer: Well, ail I'm saying is I would like to know how that thing was initiated. That's all I'm asking... Mrs. Gordon: Find out haw Mr. Fosmoen found out about it and then you'll know everything. You'll find out who, what, when and where, .tr, Daraiger: It's a shame really",my name is Dick Dantiger, it's a shame really that civic groups and Chambers of Commerce that are directly involved with the situation, that we are no; informed about it and that if you, as Commissioner, Mrs, Gordon, get preferential treatment or other Commissioners do and we do not get that information, the Commission or the City should make sure that we 84t some notification about it, I think it is an obligation of the City even though the State is handling this situation I think that ve, as a group, should know about it. I am also a member of the Coconut Grove Association and I am on the Board of Directors, and we did not know anything APR 14 About it either. Now, that's two oivie graupa that do an awful lot of good in this community and I think that also, that going back a little further, that I served on the MAStee Plan Advisory Committee and we worked a lot of Months oft that aro:ilzation getting that thing squared away, and we were oat notified about it, would think that the Planning and Zoning would know about it, Mr. George Acton would know about it, a lot of people don't know about it. Mrs. Gordon: What is your name? Mr._Danzieer: My tomtit Dick Danziger, _ _. Mayor Perre: Dick, 'caveat emptor', you already know about it, it's up to you now, the soueeky wheel gets the oil, now you've got a lot of people like Pile..and, what's the name of that other fellow/...you know, they ate all activists, there is about half a doer of them or a dozen..,. Mrs. Gordon: The speaker was Marlyn Reed.. Mr. Danziger: It's very interestiita that you should mention her naive because Mrs. Reed and Elizabeth Bettner were served on the Advisory Committee for Master Planning which was approved by the City in total. Oddly enough, we all reconcile the fact..this is what we want to do in Coconut Grove as. in;itte :taster Plan and all of a sudden you see this thing appear in the paper,...1 just want to give you this sort of a background which I feel is Necessary that you people know and when someone says that... oh, well, I found out about it,..well, 1 think it is a City obligation to get into it a little bit, as much as it can because you ate the City and you have the autonomy to a great extent of where your direction is going to be. Mayor Ferrel The City has got nothing to do with it, ... Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Grassie, if you would be kind enough to ask Mr. Fosmoen for the information which he has in -his file and if you should feel that it is the City's obligation to have advertised this, then it is the City's fault that they did not. It certainly isn't mine, because I am representing an entity other than this Commission by serving on the Regional Planning Council. I was not appointed to that Council by this Commission. Mr. Danziger: I just sincerely hope that future notifications to the dif- ferent civic groups involved, through Mr. Grassie, will be notified on future meetings because it involves all of us and we want to know. Mr. Plummer: That's not a fair statement because, let me tell you, if there was an action before this Commission we have always gone to extremes to notify the people involved, and I think you'll agree to that. Mr. Danziger: Yes, you are right J. L. Mr. Plummer: Now, I think really your problem is with this Regional. Planning Council. They are the ones that you should be up there telling, -hey, by God, if you are doing something to affect me let me know about it. Mrs. Gordon: But they advertised it J.L.? I have a copy of the ad. Mr. Plummer: Well, obviously Rose, whatever t.t is...but they advertised in the North Ojus journal in the last page....(L.UGIiTER),,:tow, all I can say to you is, you've got no truck with this Commission, we've always done what's right, even more so than necessary. Go there and scream at them. Mr, Meredith: Excuse, I'm Spencer Meredith. and I'm speaking now for myself, as a resident of the Grove. I found out it the same way, in the paper, Monday morning and I was very surprised. For almost two years now I've sac now on the South Florida Regional Planning Council Advisory Committee which is a Committee vf„ I don't %now, about leg people, so..skpposed:y making some input to all you who sit on this South Florida Fissional Planning Council and I can understand that ;ors. Gordon, really. it's not your fault that we weren't in- formed because you assumed that we all had been informed but, as a member of that Advisory Committee, I was not informed, so I called Derry Peterson who is a staff comer- of that thing and said, please, listen. do send me sn 4genda when you are going co do anything like this because :t affects the Steil wne-e I live. The staff is aware of where 1 live and what business we are in 89 Mrs. Gordon: Did you receive it? Mr. Meredith: I've not gotten a dopy yet but i am going to fallow up an it, I am going to follow upon it, I take;as a personal responsibility. We were concerned that we;s,anted to bring .to the Commission a attention today only that the entire Grove does not support the decision that was taken by the South Florida Regional Planning Council or its staff's recom- mendation, that's all, Mayor Perm Weil, I'm glad to hear that because to read the Miami Herald's article of Louise Montgomery and to Morgan of April Sth and to read the letter which I'm going to read to you from Mr. tarry Peterson, of A.I.P., which is the South Florida Regional Planning Council, and here is that is says, to Lt. Governor of the State of Florida: "Dear Lt. Governor Williams: At its April 4, 197 meeting, the South Florida Regional Planning Council unanimously adopted the attached Reso- lution requesting the study of Coconut Grove for designation as an area of critical state Concerti. We are also enclosing an article that appeared itt the Miami Herald subsequent to the Counci 's meeting that gives an idea of the strong Citizens' feeling in favor of such a designation. We appreciate your attention to this matter and will be happy to provide you with any further information you may need.'' Now, here is the way things happen around here, see? The article is a biased article, it is not factual, it is not representative of what the actual reality of the situation is and the next thing you know is that it was used as an authority by Mr. Peterson to the Lt. Governor telling him that we sub= resit to you, as our authority, an article in the Miami Herald which gives an idea of the strong citizens' feeling... and here we have citizens who say just the opposite. Mr. Meredith: Mr. Mayor, I was really stunned by that article and... (INAUDIBLE BACKGROUND COMMENT) Mr. Meredith: Yes, Sir, and there is a lot that we are going to do within our normal rights as citizens,...I think it is up to us as we've pointed out to you, to inform the Governor and his cabinet of our stand and we will try to be..... informed, I think. Mrs. Gordon: If you'll wait a few minutes I'll get my aide to locate my Agenda that I have from that day, if I locate it, I will read to you the organizations that sponsored that action before the Council. She went up to see if it is up there, if it is I'll be glad to read it to you. Mr. Meredith: That would be a real help. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, would a motion be in order? Mayor Ferre: Yes. Mr. Plummer: I would like to offer a motion at this time, that:this Com- mission urge the South Florida Regional Planning Council to, in any area, and specifically that referred to in the article of the Miami Uerald,.that the people who will be affected by that action be in fact notified, in proper manner, and that before any further action takes place, that a public hearing in which all, people can attend.., Mrs. Gordon; Now, why is a public hearing ' Mr. Plummer; Obviously these peop7.e,,,here is a man who is a member of the Committee and he didn't even know about it. Mrs. Cordon; Well, I don't know what Committee he is a member of. M. Plummer: Wail, he said, the Advisory Co ttee, All I'm saying is, if 1 can finish my motion. -- '.4 thought I vas =king s motion... '�.'... Mr, Dean: Mrs. Gordon, you are on the South Florida Regional Planning Council and you, I think... APR 4 1977 i Mr, Plummer; Row zeme Jj,,;,, " bean takes precedence over me? Mr, been: Wait a minute,,.and you, i think, by sitting in chat Counti1 you are representing me on that Council, t don't have an argument with it because t don't know anything about it yet. Mrs. Cordon: i will be giving you the names of the people who petitioned the Couneii and when t have that in my hands, then you can,.., Mr, Dean: gut don't you sit on that Council as a representative of this area? Mrs. Gordon: Of the City?, rto, t represent bade County, Mayor Ferret Well, look, Jimmy, with all due respect..,.J.L., t apologize to you, you had the floor and I've.... Mr. Plummer: To hell with it!, I move against it Mayor Ferret Come on, , . L. , please Mr. Rosenberg: My name is Sol Rosenberg. I own property on South Bayshore Drive. I wanted Commissioner Cordon to know that I am a member of the Tiger Tail association. I've never heard anything about this,..t read it.. Mrs. Gordon: Sol, don't blame me.... I -art "not a member, Mr. Rosenberg: No, no, but what I say is..we speak of eight...they mention in the article eight organizations and I have as yet to find one repre- sentative from any of these organizations who knows anything about it. Mayor Ferret blaming you, Mrs. Gordon: I don't know why you are taking the attitude that somebody is nobody is blaming you Rose... I just want to give people information, Maurice. Mr. Rosenberg: I think there is just one more item, Rose, and I'll back away and that was this mention of a two year moratorium, that was most distressing to us and, of course, we'd like to sit with a City Commissioner on that. Mayor Ferre: I want you to know that it wasn't me. I had nothing to do with it. Mrs. Gordon: All right, ladies and gentlemen, I have no special privileges I work a little harder than a lot of other people for less pay, okay? and that's a fact. (READING FROM A LETTER)"The Coconut Grove Civic Club, President, henry C. Alexander, Jr.; The Bayshore Homeowners Association, Inc. signed by Thomas V. Maeani President; The Sierra Club, Miami Group, signed by Steven N. Davis, Chairman; Coconut Grove Cares, Inc., signed by Elizabeth Virrick, Vice President; Tiger Tail Association, signed by Fred Stanton Smith, Presi- dent; Tropical Audubon Society, Inc., signed by Peter 4. Quincy, President; Central Grove Association, signed by Marilyn Reed, Co -Chairman; Dade Heritage Trust, signed by S. J. Boldrick, President." These people are the people who... Mayor Ferro; Most of those people don't oven live in the City of Miami, Mrs. Gordon; Well., their addresses are local, in the City, on this paper. I don't find out where they live, I didn't go to check out and 'stake sure they would sleep there. Rev. Gibson; Rose, I know some of the people whose names you called don't live within the City limits of the City of bade, Mrs. Gordon; I'm merely reading to you what was given to the Regional ?limning Council,.." I request to designate Coconut Grove as an area of critical state concern." I shall read further the cover sheet 91 APR 14 1977 "it Rebtuary of thie year, Mr.Cieare yiier, te4uested a meeting with ua to diseues the procedure for having the Coconut drove area desigtated de at area of ctitical state Goteertt Mr. Filer wee representing a ooesortium of neighborhood groups atd eivie aesoeiations it the Coconut Grove area. We expiaieed to Mr. flier that it order for aft area to be designated, a teem mendation must be trade by the Division of State Panning to the Adtttinistrae tint Coissiot which makes the decisions on A.C.S.C. . The law allow a Regional Planning Council to request that D.S.P. study the possi bility of designating an area as at A.C.S.C. It wee our auggeetion to fit. Filer that he come before you to diseuss the passibility and ask for your support = attachment 1, to facilitate this process we have developed fat your review a draft Resolution requesting that the Division of State Pat- ring utdertake the study to determine if they should nominate the Coconut Grove area as an area of eriticai state d.oncerti to the Administration Commission." So you see, it's a long way away from anything conclusive. Recommendation bit,- the Cotutcii's Planning staff was, adopt the Resolution requesting that the Division of State Planting conduct the study of the Coconut Grave area as a possible area of critical state concern, and that is exactly what was done, and that's the whole thing, per se. There vas an addition that was made by Mr. Rubin, t believe, which added --and this was not in the recotmmtendatien but it was added from the floor-- that there be a "hold back or moratorium on anything but singlefamily detached residences for a period until the study was determined, something like that. That was not unanimous, however, it did pass, and it was attached as an amendment to this Resolution and it passed unanimously. t want everybody here to understand exactly what has happened so that any concerns they have they can direct to the proper sources and this is not the one. Mayor Ferret Mrs. Gordon, even though you were not there representing the City of Miami, you are a Commissioner of the City, and just out of curiosity.. on that Rubin motion, how did you vote? Mrs. Gordon: I voted with the motion. Mayor Ferret I just wanted to know. Is there anything else? Mr. Danzger: Yes, I would like for J.L. to continue on with this motion... Mr. Plummer: The motion very simply is that we urge the South Florida Regional Planning Council to reconsider giving the opportunity to all of the people affected in the Coconut Grove area the chance to voice their opinion, period. And you might put as a sub —note that we have had a group of people from Coconut Grove who contend that they knew nothing of this until the action had been taken and because of that, we urge on their behalf, that they be given the opportunity to speak. Mayor Ferre: Is there a second to the motion? Rev. Gibson: Yes. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Plummer, on discussion, I think that your motion is nice but not strong enough. I would recommend that in that motion you...Well, let me advice him a little bit on this,...I think that the motion has got to be strong. I think that the motion has to be: 1. That the City of Miami strongly objects to the letter and the inference in the letter of Mr, Peterson, what is the date of that .enter?..April llth, implying, by citing the Miami herald article of April 5th, that the City of Miiami. Commission is not doing the will of the community; That the City of Miami has gone to great pains, in great length and at great expense and,wi;h the commmumity's full and open parti- cipation at mauy public hearings, has established a Master Plan for the Coconut Grove area subscribed to, almost unanimously, by some of the people who are opponents to that; and 3. That the City of Miami has. over the years, gone strongly on record as listening very carefully and following the recommendations of this activist community called Coconut; Grove and that we find it strange that after those see people who are now protesting have participated that they are taking this to another step; .and 4, That $omae of the people that seem to be involved in this are not speaking for the Coconut Oren area, I'm talking about smm;hh opganitations 92 APR I4 7' as the Sierra Club; Tropical Audubon Sodiety, and ea on, and that are not representatives of the community as such. They've gat their right to e = press an opinion but to then)be cast in the rote that the Sierra Club ie speaking for Coconut Crave, deems to me to be rather something unique, nov, they can represent the ehvironmentdlista' oauae, but to_.say' that they repre= sent the residents of the Grove is something ease, Mr. Plummer: Mr, Mayor, my learned counsel has informed me that my motion was not brief enough. Very simpty, „1aok, 1 r as always taught that you get more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Ali t an urging theta to do le to give these people the opportunity to be heard. They are affected by this. They contend to us that they did not have the opportunity, We urge the South Plorida Regional Planning Council to give these people the op- portunity to be heard, period. Mayor Ferret The people who represent thee., ou mean, another view point, Mr, Plummer: Those who are affected: Mayor Petra: All right. There is a motion and a second. Further discussion on the motion. Mrs. Gordon: position that Mr. Plummer: J.t., 1'm not sure I understand. Are you nov taking an advocacy you feel that certain people have hot beet informed?.... I'm taking their word. Mrs. Gordon: tell, 1 think it is the duty of these people to contact the Regional Planning Council and by petition or some other vay.. Mr. Plummer: All I'tt saying Rose is, these people are affected. These people leant to have input before a decision is made. They should have that right, it just... Mrs. Gordon: Well, they should, but they should have it with the proper body; now, it's a State body... Mr. Plummer: I agree... Mayor Ferre: Look, the point is this, doesn't it seem rather strange to you that all the people that represent one viewpointware.. all there, and they all knew about it, and they were all united,...but the people who represent the opposite point of view for some strange reason, they just never heard about it. Rev. Gibson: Mr. Mayor, not only that. I'd think that we, the Commission, have an obligation to those people who are sitting there, and not only to those people but to the people who live in the Grove and nothing of this kind should take place until such time as there is a public hearing and all of the people have their view there... Mrs. Gordon: And what does a public hearing have to.... Rev. Gibson; Rose, let me say this. I didn't know nothing about it and I'm on the Commission. I had to read it in the paper, Mrs. Gordon; Well, Mr. Grassi* should have informed you because he informed his Director of Planning. Rev. Gibson: Since I did not know, I'm a part of the protestation, okay? Mr. Plummer; What I'm crying to say is this Rose, you know and I know, if they proceed as they have planned to do a study, they could possibly be talking about $100,000, possibly, 1 say possibly. The people of Coconut Grove don't want it, Now, why should they go proceed with a study of $100,000 if the voice of the people •- or of the majority of the people say we don't want it' Now, Zia not saying that that is the case. I'm just saying that for anything to affect the lives of these people, and they have not had the opportunity to have their day in court or their day before there,. it's +ronommaybe kt4 s beca10e 'fie; here,a; this Commission, on, go so damn Far over -board to ;snits people notified by the r:ewspepers, by signg, by everything 9 that we feel very hurt when other people don't do the same, and all my motion simply says is that vs urge the South Florida Regional Planning cauneil to,abefsre any attiaa is taken, they give these people the epa pottunity to speak, that's all it says. Mrs. Gordon: I'm just telling you.they are going to be doing it again unless these people request another hearing. Mr. Plummer: �Mrs & Gordon: ►lr. Plummer:. to speak... Mrs. Gordon: the Lima of. Mr. Plummer: Mrs. Gordon: hearing. Mayor Petra: going to take happened here Mrs. Gordon: very strongly We are requesting it; ?Cu are requesting another hearing then, therefore,,.. `e are requesting that the public be given the opportunity ..theft you must say that in regards to the tatter of.... .we would like you to call another publie hearing, that's all. That's what we are saying. And I'm sure if you write to thew they'll all another public Weil, I'll tell you, you know, after this motion passes I'm it upon myself to write a letter expressing exactly what's and the ways I see it. Only one viewpoint has been heard. That's not true because Mr. Fosrnoen appeared and he spoke against the motion, or the Resolution. Mayor Ferre: Listen, I guarantee you that if they have another hearing you are going to see hundreds of people who live in Coconut Grove repre- senting another viewpoint there. dust give these people the opportunity. 4r. Fosmoen does not represent Coconut Grove any more than the Audubon Society represents Coconut Grove. Mrs. Gordon: He is your Planning Director and I think... Mayor Ferre: Does he represent Coconut Grove? Mrs. Gordon: Does he represent the City of Miami?...I mean, you know,... Ms. Prince:Commissioner Gordon, can I just ask you one question? I just want one question answered. Does the South Regional area have.. Mrs. Gordon: South Florida Regional Planning Council? Ms. Dunn: South Florida Regional Planning Council,..do they have the right to come in and upset all of the laws and the rules that the City has set down because I know I worked with Jack Luft and different ones in the Planning Department for the raster Plan. Every one did in the Chamber, and many people did in the City and the area of Coconut Grove...now. what I'd like to know is -can some State organiaatIon just come in and say that other people have been notified when we have absolutely not been notified.... and do away with all the good work that the City Commissioners have done? Mayor f'erre Not the City Cont. ssfoners, but you, the people of Coconut Grove, Mrs. Gordon: ,orraine,,, do you think that they are in conflict with what you want to do to preserve the Grove?,,.I`hey are not in conflict with that, they are in agreement with you,,, mayor Ferre; That's why they want s,rcgieafamil' residences and a moratorium and all. Ms, Frinc I etean, we've got a thick book on the Master Plans why don't they consult the City before they route out a lot of people .our of their homes.,. APR 141B7 Ayor Perrot tame they are using that as a vehicle to circumvent. Mal Prince: Evidently. Well, it's a good thing than ve found out in time ant viq certainly like to have a hearing, and t appreciate the Cammissiae's time. Mayor Perm Call the roll, The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Plummer, who moved its adoption, MOTION NO. 77...348 A MOTION REQUESTING TH SOUTH PLORtDA REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL TO HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING THE POSSIEttITY OP DESIGNATING THE COCONUT GROVE AREA AS AN AREA OP CRITICAL STATE CONCERN (A.C.S.C.) IN ORDER TI#AT ALL THE RESIDENTS AND INTERESTED PERSONS IN COCONUT GROG MAY HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS THEIR OPINION. Upon being seconded by Commissioner Gibson, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice Mayor (Rev.) Theodore R. Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES: None. ON ROLL CALL: Mrs. Gordon: I'm not going to vote against the public hearing, I am very much agreeable to anybody being heard, I'm sorry that you weren't informed by the City of Miami because they were informed. The Manager's Office received notification and sent a Director to the meeting. I'm sorry that you weren't informed any further than that. Mr. Plummer: It isn't our responsibility. Mrs. Gordon: I will vote with the motion. If you want a public hearing you should develop a petition,whoever it is that wants the public hearing, and furnish it to the City to furnish it to the Regional Planning Council. STILL UNDER ROLL CALL Sr. Danziger: May I ask you just one question? Why did you vote for the motion? ..in the South Florida Regional. Planning Council, why did you vote for the motion? Mrs. Gordon: Because I believe in it. Mr. Danziger: You believe in single-family houses of... Mrs. Gordon: No, Six, you are all mixed up on what I even voted for... Mr. Danziger; Well, what did you vote for, I'd like to know what you voted or. Mrs. Gordon: 1 voted to adopt a Resolution requesting that the Division of Stare Planning conduct a study of the Coconut Grove ao a possible area of critical state concern, okay? Then, Mr. Rubin: who is your County Commissions offered an amendment; the amendment was that during the time of the 'study that there should not be any violation of this possible..... to keep the density or to keep the Grove in a village atmosphere. This was the whole thing, to keep the Grove in a village atmosphere, to keep the height down which is exactly what our own City is doing with the overlay zoning that we put on everything and to keep Bayshore Drive from being widened which is par; of the concern of the people' mt.' Rubin said that he wanted an amendment to that because during that Period of aims ;hate would be no APR i41977 ConstruCtion. That's all, and that wag his amenditent, That amendment vas tacked on te thin AdidiStifts, 4.the whale body voted unaftitiOutly an the Amended ResolUtion, tf you want a hearing to be heard, yeu'll be heard. Mt, Plummer: Mr. Mayor, let ma tali you whit else bothers me, Ohe of the gentlemen said that he was a member of the Tiger Tail Association, ?out name Sit,l, Mr, Roaeftberg, are you inferring tO le, tit, that as a member Of -that oriabitation that in no way were you notified of an action possibly being taken by themth A11 right, Sir, that gets to my next point, Mrs, Cordon read from i-deicument that stated that the President of the Tiger Tail AA8t5diatiOtt appeared theta in favor of this application. Nov, what bothers me is that quite possibly the President appeared there representing an organization and you are stating to me, Sir, as a member of that organization, that you had no knowledge of it. Now, I think it behooves the City Manager, or the City Attorney, or someone, to inquire -t don't think we have any legal basis-- but to inquire of the President of that organization that he represented himself before this organization --or as representing this organization and members of this organization are here contending to us that they don't know anything about it, as a member. Now, that botherste. Mrs. Cordon: YOU know what bothers me, it?tf you ever fight with your wife you don't call your neighbor ii to settle it. So 1 think we should let the organization settle their own differences, I don't see any reason why we have to be become an intermediary in every family dispute., Mr. Plummer: When 1 beat my wife, she can't make it next AN5r. Now, it bothers me of people who stand before this COtamiSSi0h, possibly giving the illusion that they are representing people when they in fact are not. Now, that bothers me, and t'm going to tell you something, right now, when that individual who comes here the next time telling me that he represents the Tiger Tail Association I'm going to look at him straight in the eye and say, Mister, your credibility is shot, based on Mr. Rosenberg's discussion before this Commission. Nov, 1 think this needs to be resolved, either that tan appeared there representing Mr. Rosenberg and the other members of that organization or he did not. And 1 for one, until this matter is cleared up, whether he represented himself as an individual or represented the organization, 1 have to tell that individual that as far as I am concerned that he has no credibility with me, and the rest of this Commission can abide by their own decision. So, 1, as an individual, would like that matter cleared up, whether or not he appeared and did what he said or whether he didn't, and 1 think there are serious questions that have arisen here -and 1 think that there needSto be serious answers given. Now, one of the two of them is incorrect. Either Mr. Rosenberg is incorrect,...who is the President of the Tiger Tail Association, Rose? Mrs. Gordon: ...and you can check with them and find out how they notified their membership. Mr. Plummer: Who signed it? Mrs. Gordon: Tiger Tail Association, Fred Stanton Smith, President. Mr, Plummer: All right, either Mr. Fred Stantcn Smith making an allocution as President of the Tiger Tail Association is incorrect, or Mt. Rosenberg is incorrect. And if Mr. Rosenberg is incorrect, I want to know it, because next time he stands up before that microphone I'm going tell him he's got no credibility with me... Mts. Gordon; Maybe he throws some oi his mail in the can like a lot of us do. Mayor Ferro; All right, is there anything else on this item? Mayor Ferro; Is there anything else that the Administration has on the Agenda today. :it, Grassier No, except that Mt, Mayor / think that we have to make clear that thee@ agnostic= by Commissioner Gordon that wo have a responeibility 96 APR 14 i77 to notify everybody of the meetings of other orgaftieationt is eompletely unrealistic and ridieulous. Mts. Gordon: ttatty, t agtee with you 1062 because all of this talk vtIve heard today is plating a responsibility Oh the City to notify the for an anion of another agency. You are right, Mr. Orassie, absolutely. Mayor Ferret sell, that elatifiet...tim glad you ehanged your position. Mrs. Gordon: t have not changed my position, Sir, my position has been that vay all the tirne1 Mayor PerTe: You made a statament 13 minutes" ago that it as the responsi- bility of Mr. Postmen who represented the City and that the City should take the responsibility for these people not knowing... Mrs. Gordon: That's exactly right... Mayor Ferrel And Mr, drassie has just made a statement that that statement it ridiculous oft the face of it, Mts, Gordon: Of course it is, the whole conversation is ridiculous. Mayor Petra: And tlui glad you agree with it. Mts. Gordon: I agree with it because anybody who is coming to this Com mission today to complain to us that they did not know about the Regional Planning Council meeting is here in error. They are either here in error because they think we are responsible, and Mt. Gtassie says we are not responsible, so you are here in error. Mayor Ferret. Is there anything else? 60$ DISCUSSION alan: APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL. COUNSEL TO ASSIST THE LAW DEPARTMENT FOR F EC. CONDEMNATION CASES, Mr. lenox,. City Attorney: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission I think you have before you a memorandum and a resolution. Sometime ago I was instructed to speak to three attorneys who have reputations par excellence in the area of condemnation laws. To discuss it in the possibility of our engaging one of them for the purpose of assisting in the condemnation of the FEC property, I have made a recommendation. The City Attorney's office is recommending that Mr. John Ferrell be the individual who is selected to do this work on behalf of the City. The memo explains the proposals with respect to fees that each of the individual attorneys submitted and the basis primarily upon which Mr. Farrell was chosen in preference to the other two attorneys, is his experience in representing condemning authorities in litigation. Mrs. Gordon: Can you explain to me why, ----there is no objection to Mr. Farrell or any of the others that you have Mentioned? I.want to clear that right away, But I want to know why a fee is based upon 11/2%, or one and whatever percent of the highest appraisal. It would seem to me, that that in itself is a defeating way of approaching, ---- - Mayor FErre; I agree. Mrs. Gordon: --a fee. I think personally .1.t ought to be on an hourly basis and they be paid for the hours they put ill,. Mayor rem; I completely agree with Dan raul's recommendation on that. I think it ought to be on an hourly basis. I talked to him too, And 1think he is completely right that it ougth to be on per -hour basis. I would like to see the motion made this way, whoever is going to do this, that we follow your recommendetion. I would like to see you list l#2,31 and No, 3 i*.thinkwe should do it this way, that we will follow your recommendation and instruct you to negotiate with your first recommendee, and if not, then with the second, then with the third, depending whether or not you an ono to an agreement* Aad that it be done en a perialour basis, with 4 wawa 0;:$0c MMO, He has to petify the hours that he is Win to work, Mrs, Gordon; These are very fine Wet All of them are good, The corcept of the highest appraisal i6 wrong, 97 APR 14 1.977 Mr. Knox! Do you have a figure ift mind? Mayor Perm No, that is for you to negotiate. You ate the City Attorney. We are not going to do that..Yau mile back with a recommendation as to what you have negotiated, and ve will approve it or disapprove it. But in prineiple, I think this omission should go on record tailing you, Mr. City Attorney, go negotiate, do it on a peri.hour basia, have a maximum aff-set figura, and come bark with a final reeommendation. Start with No, 1. Your No. 1 is Mt. Farrell. Who is your No. 2/ Mr. RAM Probably once again) based upon the faet,there is other than the fee, No. 2, again)based upon his experienee, it the area, would probably be Mt, Leon t1aek. Mayor Perm: Therefore Mt. Brigham would be NO. 3/ Mt. Enox: Right. Mrs. Gordon: Would you bring this back in a couple of weeks? Mayor Verret No, what t think.we ought to do is instruct the City Attorney to proeeed to negotiate with your No. 1 person and cote back with a contract based on per -hour basis with a maximum off -set figure. That is my recommendation. The following motion was introduced by Commissioner Gordon who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 77-349 A MOTION AUTHORIZING AND INSTRUCTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE THREE PERSONS RE RECOMMENDED TO BE SPECIAL COUNSEL POR P.E.C. CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS ON A PER HOUR BASIS WITH AN OFP-SET FIGURE AND TO REPORT HIS RECOMMENDATION TO THE CITY COMMISSION Upon being seconded by Commissioner Reboso„ the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner J. L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice -Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A. Ferre NOES: None. 67. PER9164. AFFEVANCE: GENE NAPLES - REGARDING ATTEMPTED REPEAL OF "HEART BILL*" Mayor Ferre: Okay, Mr, Gene Naples. Mr. Gene Naples: Mr. Mayor and members of the commission, I came up here to ask a question of the commission. but I would like to preface it with just a little brief history. In 1965 the State of Florida, the legislature of the State of Florida, passed a law because of the high incidence of coronary problems, heart attacks, other diseases of the cardio-vescular systems and heart and lung for firefighters, passed a law that WO firefighters, ---made the presumption that when a firefighter had a heart attack, that it was presumed to be in line of duty. We have had this I say since 1965. In 1973 that was amended to incorporate the presumption into the workmen's compensation law, Qn March 29, just weeks ago a representative of the City of Miami, 4 person of Mr, Marshall Litvekoappeered before a joint legislative committee, dealing with some of the revisions that they thought were necessary in the workmen $ compensation law. 11*.Litvek appealed to the joint legislative committee to repeal the ifeat and Dill that effects firefighters. My question is very simply, to this body. and to maybe the administration and the Manager, if Nti Litvak was acting as a representative 9f the City. In my conversation with M. Litvek, he informed g4 that it had to do with something that was a request by Mr. Sittig of the Florida League of Cities, 98 APR 1 4 1977 Mayor Terre: Who? Mr, Naples: Ray Sittig s of the League of Cities, but in fact he was there as a representative of thla city, 1 am very curious to know whether his instructions were in fact from the City, or whether in fact he did this on his own. Rick Sisaer knew nothing about it, and the thing that reel y Oat me rasa gave he and non Stewart a ride to the Capitol and shoved them where they had to go to get to the meeting. t was late for my own committee meeting. Mayor Ferret 1 think the point is well taken. That is an important matter. I don't think an employee of the City of Miami should be going up to the legislature repre• seating to the legislature that he speaks or the City of Miami when in fact that is not a policy matter that has come before this Hoard. It is an important mutter. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor. let me te11 you where the problem might lie, Over the period of time, as you know I at seeond Vice -President of the Florida League of Cities. Over a period of time, it: Hatters in which they pertain to cities, committees have been formed by the Florida League of Cities, to lobby the legislature in items affecting all of the cities of the State of Florida. I think of one right off the bat, of the issue of sovereign Immunity, in which I made very certain that the City of Miami, had representation..Mr. ItnoX are you on that committee, or someone it your law department is? 1 have been very careful to make sure on areas in which I feel the city of Miami is vitally affected, that t get people on those committees to give input from the City of Miami. I don't recall any action being taken by the Florida League of Cities for the repeal of the Heart Bill. Is there such? :fir. Naples: That was what Mr. Litvak's appeal was. Mr. Plummer: The point I am making Gene is, I don't recall at any time Mr. Naples: ---they don't tell us about those things. Mr. Plummer: ----that the Florida League is a policy matter of trying to repeal the Heart Bill for firemen, or police. Now, if that is the case, I would have to question Mr. Sittig and I will do such 4n the morning as to why the Florida League was up there fighting the Heart Hi", No. 1:and No. 2 why they might have asked Marshall Litvak to appear as a witness in their behalf. Mr. Naples:''r;„Murray Dubbin, who all of you know I am sure, was there as a friend of 440 who is involved with the committee on revising Chapter 440.Murray said he was absolutely astounded. There is no reason for Marshall Litvak to get up there and speak on behalf of the League since Mr. Sittig and Mr. Bert Michaels are the two spokesmen for the League. Mr. Plummer: You are wrong, Gene,because it would be in order if he was appointed to a committee to go and testify as to his expert knowledge on any subject, not just this one. In the same way we have asked Mt, Don Stewart to be a member of the committee and I am sure that was on sogereign immunity and he will be asked to testify when this matter comes before a hearing. Mr, Naples: It was not an informational thing J.1.,.;4hat 1 am telling you is the man got up representing the League of Cities and said that they wanted to repeal the Heart and Lung Sill; Mr, Plummer: Let me just rest you of one thing, and rest this commission, that Monday morning I will be on the phone with Ray Sittig to get all the facts and details of it. Rest assured of that, I think it would behoove Mr, Grassie to inquire of Mr, Litvak as to why he was there and on what authority he spoke. Obviously, from what 1 am looking at you, you didn't know he was even there, Mt, Grassie: That happens to be true commissioner. 1 did not know he was there, but I should make one other general comment, 1 am sure that in the past, and also in the future, we will be asked, we the administration, will be asked by the League of Cities to help them on questions. As a policy matter, all the cities Qf the _ Stye of_jlQrida have_determined,would be something that they would push for in the State legislature. Our staff peopl€ where they happen to have special expertise will be asked to help and we would help. A number of the positions that will be taken by the Cities and by the League ore not going to liked by the employer orgenigatiens. APR 1 4 4377 Mr, Plummer: That is eotemon knowledge, Mr, Brassies This may be one of ahem. I don't happen to know what the background of this as is, but as a general proposition, the League of Cities will very often be emphaaiaing some kind of legislation that will tot be appealing to the organized employees. Mrs. Gordon:_ It maV.be a. eonflict:with vour._owrt thinking. _._._ Mr. Napless Mr. Grassie.inay 1 just say that I have no objection to anything like that and l have no concern, -wand I understand elcaetiy what you are saying. As a matter of fact, t informed Dean Mielke when some things were coming up that affected management as well as labor, in collective bargaining. I furnished him with certain information. Mr. Grassier He has told me that. that's true. Mr. Naples: t have no problem with that. Everybody takestheir own shot when they get up there, but this vas something that came out of the blue and it vas something that several judges of the Industrial Claims Court said if there was ever anything that was justified, that Came before industrial -claims, because there is not question of the high incidence of this type of problem in firefighters, the .residual action of carbon monoxides and everything else. Mayor Terre:Gehe,te can't get into the merits of that because I happen to agree with you and I happen to agree with that decision. That is not what is being discussed today, What is being discussed today is, whether or not an employee, ---- Mr. Naples: --was he representing the city? Mayor Ferre: ----by the name of George Litvak,can go before committee and make statements, was herepresenting the'city was, was he authorized by you? Mrs. Gordon: Apparently he was representing the League, you Gene? a legislative of Miami.And if he said, didn't you Mr. Naples: That is what he told me. I don't know that that was so. He and I wasn't there, but Mr. Dubbin told me. of up there Mayor Ferre: If he represents the League, and the League paid for his trip up there, and he was speaking for the League, then that is something else. If he was up there, paid by the City of Mrs. Gordon: That is a different thing. Mr. Plummer: 4r.Mayor,I have Mr. Sittig on the phone.Rap, correct me if I am wrong. Mr. Sittig is informing_me, that he knew of no committee hearing pertaining to the Heart Bill for Firemen this year. Mr. Naples; It wasn't the committee, it was on the Friendsof-44o.'it was a -joint legislative committee to revise workmen's compensation laws. Mr. Plummer: -(ON THE PHONE TO MR. SIT'TIG); On a a Bill to revise the workmen's compensation law, are you familiar with chat? Would you get me s full report or reduce to writing what you have just told me so we can get a copy to the Commission. I appreciate it. Thank you. He said the worka:en' a comp area is handled by Alice Whitman of that office. To his knowledge•he has no knowledge, of anything being proposed by the Florida League of Cities, Mr. Naples; That makes it one interesting ;hen. ;ir, Plumaer; W4 , -T have asked him to reduce to writips_y.#at he has just told zae. Mr. Naples; T viii talk to Ray Monday. :.• NIP R t4 177 68 mu DISC SSION tTCH: RECEIPT OF LETTER nom ot, RALPN MERRS REGARDINGREGARDtNG REPLAYING Mrs. Gordon: Two questions. t had a coupe of calls regarding this same matter. Sa I want to bring it to your attention ao you can find out just what procedure is being followed. This call is from a Dr. Ralph Merits who lives at 2475 S. Bayshore Drive. His call is regarding the property adjacent to him which is being replatted and he had no notification of it. Don't we notify neighbors if a piece of property ie being replatted? We had a lot of people screaming and hollering because the South Florida Regional didn't notify us to notify, -nor we didn't notify them. But here is something the City is doing.And here is a neighbor to a parcel, that is being replatted. Would you look into that Mr. Grassie? I give you this note. Mr. Graasie: Would you like to give us that address again, Commissioner? Mrs. Gordon: I'll write it down for you. 69 CaiHtSSIONER ROSE GORDON Af VISES CIT/ COMMISSION OF HER APPOINTMENT TO A COMMITTEE: Mrs. Gordon: The only other thing I would like to let you know is, that I have another assignment which have some consequence perhaps upon us in the City. I was appointed again for the second year to the Steering Committee of the Policy Making Employment and Intotme Security of the National League of Cities, and that group will be dealing with the Public 'Works Act and the CETA programs. And what ever you want me to bring to that policy -making body, I will be happy to do that. But you will have to let me know what you want. 70 INSTRUCT CITY MANAGER TO MAKE FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR TRAVEL TO ANC,+AL CONVENTION OF SISTER CITIES: Mayor Ferret Is there anything else to come before the Commission at this time? Mr. Plummer Mr. Mayor I really hate to be the one to bring this up. I am going to ask you to think about it until the next commission meeting. As you know I serve on the Sister City Committee at this commission's request and pleasure. This city has never sent a representative to the annual convention of Sister City programs. There is an expense involved, Mayor Ferro: Where is it? in Honolulu? Mr. Plummer:No, it is in California. I am really not interested in going. I will tell you truthfully. But I think it is only right that this city should have, (as deeply as we are in the Sister City program) a representative there, whether it be me or some other commissioner. Mayor Ferret None of this Sister City stuff. What is this? It's got to be Sister and Brother. Mrs. Gordon: Where is it? Mr. Plummer. It is is California. I am not sure where. If you feel that it should be, I will bring it up at the next commission meeting for the approval of sending a delegate to that convention. Mayor Ferret When it that going to be? Mr. Plummer: Mr, Mayor I believe it is is August or September. Mrs,Gordon; J. L. would that be in your budget of $2 .0OQ for the Sister City program? Mr, Plummer; Rose, way within the budget. Mrs, Gordon; 1 mesa that' part of that mosey? Mayor Ferro; It is a good program, It is meaningful, of 411 cities in the world. Militia putty besefits by a Sister Cif► Program for many many reasons, Your spending of the time that you have dope its the last three years, is mY 'PiaiPT ass brought literally millions of dollars of tourists into this community. The publicity that 101 • you got and all that. / am jdat glad you get it down there and not up here. Mt& Plummert Ail t am saying to you is, if this Commiasion wants tO send a reprem aentative, e'en la vie, I'll bring it up at the tOtt meeting, Mayor Ferrel 1 would so move, Mr. Plummer: 1 would prefer Mr, Mayor that you put in a motion that a delegate be sent to the oonvention, tf I ean go, fine, tf I eanst someone else can go. t think we should have a representative there. Mts, Gordon! do you want us to move it now, or do you want us to put it on the regular agenda1haveet any qualms about it. If you want to go, or somebody else wants to go1 don't, The following motion was introduced by Mayor Perre who moved its adoption Motion No, 77-350 A MOTION AUTHOR/ZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PROVIDE PUNS TO SEND COMM/SSIONta J.L. PLUMMER OR Hit REPRESENTAT/VE To THE ANNUAL CONVENTION OF "SISTER CITIES" TO BE HELD AUGUST 17-20 IN PALM SPRINGS, CAL/FORNIA Upon being seconded by Commission Gordon, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES; NOES: None. Commissioner Manolo Reboso Commissioner J.L. Plummer, Jr. Commissioner Rose Gordon Vice —Mayor Theodore Gibson Mayor Maurice A Ferre. ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business to come before the Commission at this time, the meeting was adjourned at 6:20 P.M. MAURICE A FERRE MAYOR RALPH G. ONGIE CITY CLERK MATTY HIRAI ASSISTANT CITY CLERK • c1..v OF MIAMI DOCUMENT INDE ITEM NO DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION 1 2 4 6 10 11 12 COMMISSION AGENDA AND CITY CLERK REPORT AMENDING SUBSECTION 2 OF SECTION 39-13.1 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO RECEIVE, MANAGER FOR RIZED TO BE TION NO. 77 OPEN, READ AND REFER TO THE CITY TABULATION AND REPORT BIDS AUTHO- RECEIVED THIS DATE UNDER RESOLU- -275 AWARDING BACHE, HALSEY, STUART, INC., $13,000,000 SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM BONDS. CONFIRMING ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR CONSTRUCTION OF S..W 22ND STREET HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT- H-4369 IN S.W. 22ND STREET HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT H-4369 PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF THE $11 SPE- CIAL SUMMER RATE FOR COMBINED GREEN FEE AND CART RENTAL AT THE MIAMI SPRINGS GOLF COURSE AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH A NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR OBJECTIONS TO THE ACCEP- TANCE BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION OF S.W. 22 STREET HIGHWAY IMPROVE MENT PHASE II-H-4395 ACCEPTING THE HIGHWAY RIGHT-OF-WAY DEED EXECUTED BY THE OPHTHALMOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDA- TION, INC ACCEPTING THE RIGHT-OF-WAY DEED EXECUTED ON JANt3ARY 20, 1977, BY AMERICAN DESIGN DEVELOP- MENT CORP OF MIAMI CONVEYING TO THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES THE NORTHWESTERLY 70 FEET OF LOTS 53 THROUGH 57, OF BLOCK "B" MARY AND WILLIAM BRICELL SUBDIVISION ACCEPTING THE PLAT ENTITLED ALVAREZ HEIGHTS, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO DIRECT THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT TO ISSUE A SPECIAL BUILD- ING PERMIT FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A HEAVY EQUIPMENT SERVICE FACILITY ON AN UNPLATTEP CITY OF MIAMI TRACT OF LAND SUBJECT TO THE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS MEETING THE SOUTH FLORIDA BUILDING CODE AUTHORIZING THE FINANCE DIRECTOR TO PAY A TOTAL OF $7,305,25, FROM THE PARRS FOR PEOPLE BOND FUNDS, IN ATTORNEY';S FEES AND COSTS FOR PARCELS NOB. 7.095e? AND 7095.,6 IN THE CASE OF :CITY OF MIAMI V, GISELLE FASHIK COP44ISSION ACT ON. R-77-307 R-77-308 R-77-309 R-77-310 R-77-311 R-77-312 R-77,-313 R-77-314 R-77.31E R 77z316 wriormisimmommis RETRIEVAL __GODS. ND,_� 0071 0072 77-307 77-308 77-309 77-310 77-311 77-312 77-313 77-314 77.-315 77=3 DOCUK1EN1tN DEX CONTINUED 1104 NO 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 DOCUMENT !DtNTX'!CAT•ON AUTHORIZING THR FINANCE DIRECTOR TO PAY A TOTAL OF $8,200.00 FROM THE PARRS FOR PEOPLE BOND FUNDS FOR ATTORNEY'S FEES AND COST FOR PARCEL NO, 7091=3 IN THE CASE OF CITY OF MIAMI V. PLATO COX. AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH CHAMPION SPARK PLUG COMPANY FOF THE STAGING OF THE SEVENTH ANNUAL CHAMPION SPARK PLUG UNLIMITED REGATTA AT MIAMI MARINE STADIUM ON MAY 20,21, AND 22, 1977 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ADVERTISE FOR AND RECEIVE PROPOSALS FROM FIRMS WITH THE NECESSARY EXPERIENCE, PERSONNEL AND FINANCIAL BACKGROUND TO ADEQUATELY FURNISH CROWD CON- TROL SERVICES DURING MIAMI DOLPHIN FOOTBALL GAMES AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR ONE MYO-TONE BIOFEEDBACK MONITOR MANUFAC- TURED BY ISIS MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS INC., AT A COST OF $420 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A LEASE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DADE COUNTY DENYING CERTAIN CLAIMS AND DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO DEFEND ANY SUIT BROUGHT FOR THE RECOVERY OF DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF SAID CLAIMS AUTHORIZING THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO ACCEPT THE SUM OF $300.00 IN FULL AND COMPLETE SET- TLEMENT IN THE CLAIM OF THE CITY OF MIAMI VERSUS HIPOLITO R. FIGUEROA, MCKES.,JN WINE & SPIRITS CO. AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO THE CONTRACT ATTACHED HERETO AND MADE A PART HEREOF PROVIDING THAT THE CITY WILL SEEL TO MR. AL BLAKE AND BETTY BLAKE, THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND DESCRIBED IN THE CONTRACT, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A GRANT AWARD FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND REHABILITATION SERVICES, RETARDA- TION PROGRAM OFFICE, FOR A THERAPEUTIC RECRE- ATION SPECIALIST PROGRAM AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A GRANT AWARD IN THE AMOUNT OF $50,000 FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS FOR A NEIGHBORHOoP ARTS PROGRAM caiirgraN Ag7ION R-77-317 R-77-318 R-77-319 R-77-320 R-77-321 R-77-322 R-77-323 R-77-324 R-77-325 R-77-326 1 77-317 77-318 77-319 77-320 77-321 77-322 77-323 77-324 77-325 77-324. CONTINUED IV NO4 DOCUMCNT IDeNTIPICATI N 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 3-7 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITS THE UNIVERSITY OP MIAMI POR THE USE OF THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM 'OR PURPOSE OF PLAYING HOME VARSITY FOOTBALL GAMES AUTHORIZING THt CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO ANY CONTRACTS OR AGREEMENTS WHICH WILL INm- CREASE THE AMOUNT OP FUNDS AVAILABLE TOPH CITY OF MIAMI AND/OR EXTEND THE FUNDING PERIOD FOR A PUBLIC SERVICE EMPLOYMENT PRO- GRAM UNDER TITLE II OF THE COMPREHENSIVE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACT. AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A PERMIT TO EDI.- SON CENTER INTERNATIONAL MASONS FOR AMUSE- MENT RIDES IN CONNECTION WITH ITS CARNIVAL APPOINTING AND ELECTING COMMISSIONER J.L. PLUMMER, JR. AS THE CITY COMMISSION'S REPAE- SENTATIVE ON THE RETIREMENT BOARD AND ON THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF MIAMI EMPLO- YEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM BOARD. APPOINTING CARMEN ANN MORINE MORRIS AS A MEMBER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI ADVISORY BOARD APPOINTING FANITA PRESMAN, H. LEWIS DORN, AMPARO CARDENAS AND HAROLD L. KENDIG TO THE CITY OF MIAMI COMMITTEE ON ECOLOGY AND BEAUTIFICATION COPttt SS I ON A-07-.327 R-77-328 R-77-329 R- 7 7 3 3 0 R-77-332 R-77-333 ACCEPTING THE BID OF CUYAHOGA WRECKING CORPO' RATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $67,200 FOR INCINERA- TOR NO% 1- SALVAGE & DEMOLITION (PHASE II). R-77-334 ACCEPTING THE BID OF SANDRON CORPORATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $101,700 FOR THE DINNER KEY RECREATION CENTER/EXPOSITION HALL -ROOF RE- PAIRS ACCEPTING THE BID OF LAMAR UNIFORMS, INC. FOR FURNISHING UNIFORMS, AS REQUIRED, AT A UNIT COST, FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE, ACCEPTING THE BID OF BOHNERT SHEET METALS FOR FURNISHING A PORTABLE BULKHEAD FOR EDISON POOL FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION AT A TOTAL COST OF $6f513,00 ACCEPTING THE FOLLOWING 5IDS FOR FURNISHING TURF MAINTENANCE EQUIPMENT FOR THE DEPART- MENT OF PUBLIC FACILITIES. ACCEPTING THE BID FROM KELLY SALES sERVTeEi INC. FOR FURNISHING 500 TOTE BARRELS FOR THE DEPARTMENT QF SANITATION AT A TOTAL COST QF $64475.00 R-77-335 R 77-336 R-77-337 R,-77-338 R.,77 -339 RE711=1111111111 77..327. 77-328 77-329 77-330 77-332 77-333 77-334 77-335 77-336 77-337 77-338 77-339 DOCUMENTINDEX CONTINUED Slargem.m."1"."NO‘DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION - 6:44M1S4r6N /"IIEVKLImm". __CONTINUED 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 ACCEPTING THE BID PROM XEROX CORPORATION FOR FURNISHING TWO ELECTRONIC TYPING SYSTEMS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OP PLANNING ACCEPTING THE WRITTEN BID OF CUYAHOGA WRECK,- ING CORPORATION IN THE AMOUNT OP $19,850 FOR THE 20TH STREET WATER TANK DEMOLITION PROJECT ACCEPTING THE BID OF BIG CHIEF, INC. IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,941 FOR THE CHEVRON STATION DEMOLITION -77 ESTABLISHING AN AO HOC ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE COCONUT GROVE BUSINESS AREA HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT. RESCHEDULING THE REGULAR CITY COMMISSION MEETING OF MAY 25, 1977, TO MAY 18, 1977 SETTING MAY 19, 1977, AT NOON FOR THE DEDI- CATION OF THE NUEVO MUNDO SCULPTURE IN BICENTENNIAL PARK AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH A NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE RENAMING OF BICENTENNIAL PARK, ON APRIL 28, 1977 AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO APPOINT AS A SPECIAL ASSISTANT, AND TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT RELATIVE THERETO, TO HANDLE THE FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY CONDEMNA- TION CASE. 42 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO CONTINUE HIS EFFORTS TO SECURE FUNDING FOR THE TRADE FAIR OF THE AMERICAS PROJECT SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE CITY COMMISSION. 11.-77.140 R..77-341 1;2-.77-342 R-77-343 R-77-344 R-77-345 R-77-346 R-77-347 77 340 77341 77-342 77-343 77-344 77.-345 77-346 0073