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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 1976-02-03 MinutesCITY OF COMMISSION MINUTES • _ -__ _OF ME • • • • • • TINS HELD ON rt. rii:iry i. 147h PREPARED BY THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK CITY MALL CITY OP MIAMI DOCUMENT INDEX IIMTINO Tel February 11111:4114DIT tatty?*RtCAT1ar 1SSION Armitta not No. COMMISSION ACt:tit)A ANn ctr? ct.t.RK REI Rt • ,, • MINUTES (AT SPECIAL AF,ET1A; CITY CoMMI3SIoN or MIAMI PLO RIDA On the 3rd day of February, 1976, the City Commissic,h of Miami, Florida, met at its regular meeting place at City Hall in said city in srecial session called by the Mayor to consider business of public import. The meeting was called to order. at 4:48 o'clock P.M. by Mayor Maurice A. Ferre, and the following members of the Commission were present: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. iteboso and Mayor Forte. Absent: None. 1. CITY MANAGER SEARCH: Mr. Norman C. Roberts of the firm of Arthur D. Little,Inc. 1)poarP6 and presented to the Commission a memorandum of his findings after having interviewed the Mayor and three of the City commissioners regarding the City of Miami, the City Com- misl: on. Job of the City Manager. and the Preferred Candidate Prc,'c1e. which findings were to serve as a guide in the deter- mipatic 1 of throw candidates who could most successfully per- f; ,rT th.• fu'_ies of City Manager in Miami. Af'<,r lisCussion the Commission expressed agreement .,, th the findings of Mr. Roberts, and in addition expressed ,! c ro di of a ,» ,.....-,alar. somewhere between forty and ,:ear, four weeks vacation, and the o , ;ry.,rt .!h of 'io in. oat eases to be left open. The Commission also requested Mr. Roberts to complete this search in less than 'the allotted time if possible. Mr. Roberts emphasized that the firm would make no recommendations as to order of preference when it submitted the names of candidates to the Commission for selection of a City Manager. 2. PRuPoSED HOUSING H(NL)S - SPECIAL ELECTION: An ordinance entitled - (, .- , . • - toi_ L#,f i,•1.. L AN EMERGENCY (. HDINANCE PRoV1DING FOR THE ILLDING i .F' A SPECIAL I3GND ELECTION IN THE CITY GF MIAMI, FLORIDA, ON MARCH 9. 1976, roN THE QUESTION OF ISSUING S25,000,004 V `. • %ID CITY: REPEALING IS NO. $ SPENSING WITH .TWIWISADIVO OP THIS OSSP- ARATS DAYS SY A VOTE OF NOT LE :mom - FIFTHS OF THE eOMMI SSION was presented to the Commission by the City Attorney, who stated that he believed the wording to be printed on the ballot was now satisfactory to the Commission. . 1 oft Mfg The Mayor inquired whether the lan,hiage to be used on the ballot WAS broad enough to enable the city to lige these funds not only to increase the security of obliqations to be issued by !mac County to acquire. construct and re- habilitate housing in the City of Miami Oh a self-liquidatine betas, but also to use these funds as matching fund in an application for federal funding, if available, to acquire. construct. etcetera. The City Attorney stated it was not! that he had not understood the Commission's desire to have such laticude in- cluded in the question. Mr. Plummer ext)ressed the opinion that language in the last line of the ouestion should be changed from "said bonds to be payable from ad valorem taxes" to read "said bonds to be guaranteed from ad valorem taxes", so that in the event the city should receive some revenue from any fu- ture housi114 opPrntionl it could be used to reduce the amount whch the tners wu7,-1 need to pAy. The City Attorney stated that in such event this would be donc: anyway, since any revenue which the city might receive would uo to the qenerat fun,i, and the bon4s were payable from tne general fund. The Commission recessed briefly and reconvened with all memblrs iresont. • 6or,iott tht thc "to incrvase thc iecurity of obio.at ns L be issne,A ._7ohnty" be de- leted thdt t.h4, w•,,h7 • '• 7 rf...),.."Ve'iS bC' 1.1:‘,1 4„-j3 ;if rf. , ;1' T.% t J. **! noI) 3' 4' " t't 'ft,. • 11-. )iiStrtlet - r • 1 • r ,-* * 4 t • • • • 4'',1 goo *( • g * ,e t' " *Jr t7` 'I) 1 t. t4 bc." ' • • .7n, , -n-t a., i rohab; 1t a*. t h or. * ; *_. • i • %:11 , !:icus las tn,4 1,is,s. ., 71a* Ci ids tv, •.,;,, -4 i 4, I 04tr ,,s ; 7 ur• l• 7 v 3 1 f ,r,;) t , CuL:t .:1,1 rehaut.itate h)usInu in tn, :,ty o 4ing b, • 4,141111,91r!r stated ne was calling a special meetlw. 400?',, , ' • I , , -'.: • . .1. ,t1 i e•bVil,)!-, 4, 197r), for the ur 4.011.1°1111 • ,e1.• ; .." • . , ,,. t.h., if 40,01 li(, earn!' 0 t ft i ht. W,J3 CA;11:1,-1 J the Co:"Imi:.sioa t. c,;nsider 'akInq Q1k actions w.th rt-,4,11-.4 to Ow City's Oomminity Jov,lo!mcnt Proqram. it The i',ollowia4 motion was introauced by Reverend Gibgoi. who mf,ved its adttion: 4 Tit , "f1-1 2 A W,TIOZ1 C,F INTENT 71 ALL6CArE $175 000,00 F(..ik ORM(LITII N rSUoSTANDARD BUILDiNt..4S IN TH4CJ Upon bein sec)Alvfi by ilummer the lot-1 n ndLyteri unanimousy, • Th,2 ourrund.r# I f-10,L 1 t- , • Ro,ie Thu ft)liGwihq moti(*n moved its adeltion: 4 Aid/ Ho ;RAA Ari FuR , ..i;01./00j. 71:4V7 r 7 C.,N74NE ALL A'AriiIN THE NEXT .• ii3RTAIN FICM TdEM A DECISION •7 tit, T PHEY WISH ANY (..IF THE •41411.11 PRL.POSED ALLOCATIONS TO BE USED R S4RVICES, OR EcoNonic DEVELOPAENT ADECIN:,:l UNDER THE REGULATIONS OF THC FEDERAL H.j.b., AND IF THEY IX), AND IF THEY CLEAALY UNDERSTAND THE LIMITATIONS, RAMI FICA- TIONS AND DELINEATIONS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERN- MENT =LA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUNDING AS TO WHAT THEY CAS AND CANNOT APPLY FOR IN SOCIAL PRC)GRANS, THAT TUE ADMINISTRATION STUDY AND XECUMMEND TU THE CITY CUMMISSION WHAT ^,..:AL PROilRAMS COMPLY AND ARE RECOMMENDED BY THE ADMINISTRATION FoR THE COMMISSION'S CONSIDER- AT/ONs THAT THE TOTAL AMOUNT NOT EXCEED 10% oN A hmitGer AREA i'AS4 oF THE AMOUNT THAT IS ALLOCATED UNDER THE PROPOSED ALLOCATION: AND SWULD ANY AREA REJUEST, OR REQUIRE, ADDITIONAL MONEYS BEY..ND 10;:, AS oUTLINED IN TILE PROPOSED ALLOCATIeNS, THAT IT COME UV 10 THE COMMISSION FOR CONSIDERATION, DELIBERATION AND FINAL VOTE' AND TI T BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION FINALIZES THIS MATTER THE ADMINISTRATION PRESENT TO THE COMMISSION A *)RE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF WHAT CoNTINGENCIES MEAN Upon being seconded by Mr. &oboe° tae motion was adopted unanteneVrimmummulmm"mm.' d9:.000/ Prior to the aciuj,t1e i cussion occurred: )F �►• ,nc,Lh n the following dim Are Chario, • . :'+` i 3tt City Manager: When you say s►��-jj :-:1 .;�,,..,,;...,, • • 11�:� fol r-n1 regulations, the same process } 1 s f. edol rr1Y ^1 . l } , 1 l C .-rnumi c de elol ment,n- . 1 amend rev motion. Social setvtr es or r., n t. as dt:f i neci under the regulations of f . U. D. . 11'imr r: Mr. Mayor. I can't agree with all of your rti„ cyn because 1 would have to be told what local option is ::or a half a million dollars. Mayor Ferret Ducal o},tion--and I'll tell you. it's a contingency fund. Mrs. Gordon: Jt> we have any other contingency fund be- sides this? Mr. Crumpton: This is it. Mrs. Gordon: . mean funds in general. Do we have any other continyenc•• funds.' Air. P1'it-rw'r: ',.,;r i Tits .tom. We :Ire rushing this thing. Am 7 correct at o:(7: are rvrnov; , ; the not r fur land acquisition: O.K.. but why dc, '.•' +. hayc as , ar()f your , o,rtinyency fund. then. z'e1ocati on costs for land acquisition if you are not acquiring any property? Mr. Crumpton: Here again in some of the target areas for the purchase of land for mini -parks, which is a part of the priorities in some of them you may have to have some relocation. Also there are needs for relocation in the current first -year application that has no funds for that. Mr. Plummer: Charlie. as broad a coverage as a half a million dollars which this one sheet portends to put forth is not adequate in my estimation for this commission to vote on. Mr. Crumpton: All right, let me cite you the --I'll give you the regulations then. Mr. Plummer: You are saying here. source of new eligible projects. Who is going to determine what those new projects are? Mayor Ferret The City c: f Miami Commission. Mr. Plummer: I am sorry. but I want it more definitive for my honey. I want. for a half million dollars of my money, i want to know where that money is going, and it isn't here. This is talking in generalities, and I don't went it to be just where --- Mayor rerres Ali right. I'll amend my motion and wake a third qualifications that before we finalise, that the ad- ministration present to the Commission a more detailed decision of what contingencies wean. 1 Mr. Plummer: All right. The fourth ruin t that I want to make --and I have got to make --when is this Commission. in its wisdom, going to discuss the re -allocation, possibly, of the total amounts designated to the different project areas? Mayor Terre: Right after we vote on this motion. Mr. Plummer: When i shy the motion is backwards. Mayor Pierre: w.,•11 , 1 am just trying to Diet moving a lithe bit, and I think that gets us off the center anyway, because it sets the _miry, which we need to set right now. Mr. 1i 1ummer: Do I understand, number one. that not to etceed ten t.,er ccnt. for social services? Mayor Ferret That's right. Mr. Plummer: Number two: that anything above ten per cent. would have to be brought directly before the Commission. Mayor Ferre: The whole thing has to be brought before us. Mr. Plummer: I understand, but anything_ beyond that ten per cent. Mrs. Gordon: As it pertains to each specific target area. Mayor Ferre: Target areas. Mr. Plummer: Number five: that they will give us a cost break -down on what is the contingency for a half million dol- lars. Mayor Ferre: Right. Ms. Deena Spillman: One question: you said to re -allocate the one hundred eighty-one thousand. four hundred dollars equally among the eight target areas? Mayor Ferre: No. I didn't say that. The motion I -- ONO Mrs. Gordon: Mt just said to delete it and add it to area projects. period. Mayor Ferre: I didn't say where, because if we get into that we are going to be here tor two hours. We are going to do that in a moment. because I think Plummer has some ideas about proportions here. ?hereupon the motion was adopted. title as above stated. Mr. Plummer. on roll call. stated he was going to vote yes. but that he did not think the notion went Ear enough: but that it was a step in the right direction. Mayor Ferre: I challenge my colleague and partner. J. L. Plus:wer. that if you don't think it is strong enough. then you wake a stronger motion. and we will start climbing the ladder. That's the way to climb the mountain. Mt's climb the mountain. That's the first step. Now pu take the second step. Make it stronger. in the meantime. while you are thinking about that. t'11 make this statement; Y think that the allocation as outlined here is not, in my opinion, completely equitable, and I recognize that other funds which I assume is Dade County community development funds ---is that right: Mr. Crumptont The other funds are predominantly coming from the City of Miami bonds; for street improvements. Mayer Ferret Where is the County funding: Mr. Crumpton: If you will look into your ' each of the projects, items. there is a l i st i n; side by side, of the City input and the County input, and it 73 in your package. Mayor F.rre: Well. irk 31,1 ;ask my question right off the 'prat. !row rocc,rt.ve only gets a hundred .»t..,'--r c ;. ��_ central part of the and set(.. .wc� th �va�-�t�r. .�•�, t7c'.� Lt ctrr� t 1 r city o: 1•• :turl '1l(.iusani,.i. . r. '2ru-,, tc;n: if •.•ou yo to the back t:aye of your pack- ; .,.tau wi l 1 t i rr? the formula, 1 iJttl j eve, that was used. an f` {: l yin;:tir.,n of %spur formula. and the eafliny nt the tot). This is a further exI_ l ana Lion of that. This is si>elled out again in the federal law in that yell must take these things into consideration to create a target area. and to create the fund- iny for this. You ntust take into consideration the number of ;.poor families within the target area; the overcrowded of units. the number of deficient housing units- the environmental characteristics, such as the conditions in the neighborhood! bad streets and the like: community facilities: population unserved by the facility, and open space, or the lack thereof. There are the criteria that are used as determinants for the Iarticular area. Then you have to go into the statistics which were coming out of the '70 census and up -dated in '72 as to the number of poor families mber of overcrowded units the deficient number o s, etcetera. and apt ly the statistics to t nd t you come to your con- clusion of a rated n is put into the factor of the total dollars we ha come up with these numbers: and that's the way it •wntown--yea, there are residen- crowded, but are its they are over- tial uses down t oos no ve as much as many of the other are. ern gut in these weighted situations you cone ur what is the a on your back sheet in the alloca- tion of numbers. Mayor kerre: I have no further questions. Who else has: (No response) I tell you, I just have a gut feeling. but I am not going to start superimposing my gut feelings over a su; fos- edly scientific method of allo•:atinq these funds. Ar. Plummer: is this spelled out by federal law that11140) shall. follow these guidelines: Who has profUered the formula 41117 Ms. Spillman; The first formula is the formula that the federal government used to allocate money to various cities thrc:uyhc:ut the country. It is not spelled out in the law that this has to be followed. We just decided this is the mutt equitable way we could do it. because the v.rogromr* art supposed to Le designed toward low and moderate income ! epl.lc•, Mr. Plummer: And designed u, C and D. Ms. Spillman; This was done last year in eonjunctiatl with ll_lde County. Mr. Andrews: To try to corny u1' with some rationale. Mr. Crumt,to 1: We ae mli.€d the I3 ror!nul a lcc ed y. "hen we took an average between the A ftlralul,`1 an,! the :or.m,,1;}. which comes u}- with 'our C :1h' en 11''tl (1i1 .'tart i t e to the t]ol I zir . AI a .•tr. i'lltf;lf!1@r: ') tie C „{nt :71L-A'>f Crum: + t rc . :1+ 1 wor ic, w: l,_ , ,;"r, a ark. :;ayi :1u is that d rt...,a ' n�� t_ wi i i t,e totally devoid of .1•+t' right. Where Cru:ll titiye he,.: -, -,,-,• feet }:Itli.:+.. Mrs. tit, r vhatiwe sLart. haw ontE e..c.; :' LJi3:1t rt' 1.74 ,• ' , t ty thousand died, as desc. _Z 40 us, u Ind -ri!'li t_ ! _• 7�_rt _. tn. --"r lx t)t t`1-' , roblc m ci . !' 4-..1_ , :bi111 '44,4, 1 . ,,y(1 at "Ica.:i- . r!. t iln c::61 t er 'sns . th/ various iyt:t area.; '_:1.,:;‘, Wr,, requested so: ,tssi'tlflrLi. social RC ices, i ' V,A 'r1r!'1' i t,) say anything to us. They have been s• my f,at i !:t.; and I 'don't think have heard from them. Mayor E'•'rrt-: All right, let's follow an orderly Procedure. tJisl;,-Lit.t iRiv."r;' A vo l tic : t"ht y are not here. Mayor 1 t rre: wyndwuod? Ma. Spillman: Could i ask the chair pimple to please tell us, if it is su)t• i aI. ' rugrams, which particular programs. ♦ �_`►its.t zr * • ;•r r • minutes each, Maurice Mayor t•'erre • All r i yht. ,li scu:3:1tfg ,' •.•c+ :r. riori t:1es in your i lent i t i cation from :r:it''1 they wont, AS }'rior- h *7„ live them a few soe what you want to say. :�•I like to say is . w11.tt rn, Ir.ticular nee ds will fit into. was brow l;,. to thF mmutl i tv--I hate to cat, but we t . l ! . t. h 1 ., what we need the r' nt?rrr'r "y at t rc)+.'.?' . y r+ 101,•,• About it or ,1117; k, t•,11• . re a COu} le o<' t.,. *!lit Yart 1+":1:Jr • 1r, are 1 n r',,; i' ; ,71r r are prr '1 tr••r^ Mr. Crumpt6 r' why . -r t h r .t' ,._•')U Ire siyi nq tooether t,l,.='ral guide- • 2 want. and that X++1 you wore you have not • tc.. helsAiou we ,, �;•{11~ I s rr- ttc; a i rob l u t st o f ro.1 1:£3_•J2,424 w,+l; *,. : t•1• . !1 be iirviOrani ycu wt.! be t,ar•k , sure. .,'r t! roorams• la or Fr rrt : Now . n., . e xt area is Allapattah. ♦'" Dr. Mercedes Sandoval*? t t+1 bring to your attention again the fact that Al lac at t;1r; his no social services except my } rograr. and the fact that that it is not eligible for revenue sharing monies because----. !n the community of Allapattah identified as the number one was the l+rimary health care problem. Dade County has given us fifty thousand dollars out of the hun- dred thousand that we requested. That means that we need at least twenty or twenty-five thousand to operate quickly. and that will be a one-year shot. (,nee the equipment is purchased we won't need it any more. A second point I want to bring to your attention is the identified by the community: a need ,for a crime prevention facility• that through public Coruna and bi-lingual newspaper will bring the attention of the neighbors to collaboration with the police. This is a particular problem that was have worked out in the neighborhood. It only got twenty thousand dollars. but we requested fifty, to try to allocate twenty thousand dollars tor the clinic. and twenty thousand 1 i thousand dollars for that crime prevention lr.oyram. If you can get it from that hundred and fifty thousand dollars. and we got twenty thousand from , then we will be haply to jive ui twenty thousand dollars for food that we never" rep. ested. Mrs. Gordon: The request was for equipment. Will the guidelines remit us to do that? fs. Si- i 1 lman' Dr. Sandoval would have to al:l ly to for equi mrnt she will have to be turned dlown, at which ; oint the ..`ity' we cannot (live it to her• the City has to buy it install it and 'ontinue to own it. !•Ir. 'ru'dt' ton. i$ Ali inyt':1l . it :t l.f'.'t' •� 511aaint"a.- It • ;,•ne• , t Elvin ;)eon. , I am 1 i ke you . Mr. Aayur. 1r,i • u i. roct, s'= . 1,70111firnt rluestion is h :h '! :r ' r. +" ". ' 1 1 :4. t' •(1n !:1`. `'S `e•'lt:('r *Id we rt'nt1'):tt' 1 t"}1;1t ind do . ca o:'E rate this .•{• hundred and 11 f 1 (41t. S. hran Flo :•()C ♦ , t r . Cr'i^it t( '4r. t)ean'+ 41(1 I fid.t ores- 1 1 • r $' Mr. Crum[ ton: Yes. Mr. Plummer • Have you alp1 ied for it somewhere t 1 . Mr. Dean: No we haven't. ` uu have a *lie economic • i.' next i. � .1 of d'nt feet: Mr. Plummer: So we are establishing the eriter a you haven't applied somewhere else you cannot ;3; 1" hers. what you are going to say is out the window. Ms. Skillman: let me clarify something. We .in I: rogram in our budget before they have the t Ir: oi.i .'. ; ,„.feeder Htil, will not release the money to u' until ke ti.•'t.' documentation to them. So we can f" rogram so i a 1 s,•r'.• i •e. s - however we woos' t get the money from HUD unt i i we rocess i t . Mayor Terre. That's all fine and 'lam y but what I wou1..; hate to see happen is for us to have nine milion dollars or six million dollars and for us to lose a ,million ioilars because we don't qualify under All these different regulations. 1 nrs. Gordon: Would we lose that money, or would they give it to us tr, use for sornethincj else.' Ms. SiJillman- 1 w,nulr3 suggest that if this happened, midtirn Ic..rhat3 six, months into thy 1 rogram here. if we haven't receivel th s turn-tlowr we w.).,11 then rel,rogram it into other activitries. 'sir. 1rumm ton. ` i thi n that target area. Mr. Plummer, if this is un1kr the yu4se of a social pro- gram. ',:s. 31 1111:Inn: ?t falls t1'1'J- r the o(!::1t ,er!'ices :art r,f the law. yes. 'lr. ; 1ummer is the Mayor's rent c a'oidi41'; here, of ten u r - r::1 t . .' r .., r+. .. •-ltt . town r • r 1.:ht 4_1107 t; 1 tli is . as �ot�<1 as %.:c r.z.,4 n. •rre: t'nl,.ss a total of four arithmetic tells -•unt. 1 am lust ink; about teen be use 1 .aaximum. x, , :1tlr {,f what yc,u 1.tS ':th•'rwise. : 1,Jmmer- So you don't mils : it : ; r;r; 1 :what you are ; roughly eighty rer cent. Ar total allocatic. n stir; !1 iu rnw r.is this, and this is why 1 1 asking. Stillman: we have requested a proposal on this. a7 we are not sure what the proposal is. and the City cannot s: loans and grants, and I am wondering what three hundred ani fifty thousand dollars is for if it is not for loans an grunts to businessmen. That has been one of our prl.lems with the s particular project. we don't know what it is. Mr. Dean. Let me just say this: The reasons we mentioned is number one. This is number three on our pr ority list out of fifteen items. The next thing is that I understand that ten fer cent. is about forty thousand dollars, but what I understand the Mayor is saying that we should Brake a request for that amount of money. and you say that what we need to do now is get a proposal to you. right? All right that will be forthcoming tomorrow. as long as we can deal with that aspect of it. Me. 8piliman: I just want to tell the omission that if we would fund an economic development center for three hundred fifty thousand dollars. plus all the other ten per cents. from these other areas it will bring the total city allocation for social services way above ten per cent.. and i don't know that we want to get into that. i Mr. glummer: Don't let him go away from here thinki.m one thing and then tomorrow you come in and tell him another, So let's get it all on top of the table. Mrs. Gordon: I heard that ten le r cent. is an arbitrary figure. Mr. Plummer: Wellit is arbitrary by the Mayor, but if you listened to teat she sa ris that ti':W isn't saying that it is arbitrary. Mrs. Gordon: She said before ten to twenty. The motion covered it, but the Mayor also said that in some cases we could -- such as your case. and make a determination on the merits of this. 4r. Plummer: rxcuse me did I not hear you say upstairs that HEW had set forth guidelines of a maximum of twenty per- cent.. but realistically it was ten, and you stressed, don't go above trn. Did you do that? Mr. Crumrton• Yes. That was before the Mayor made his motion. one other 40 thing. Rose. that T think has got to he r(!rnembered• that we are only making aptiications for these things. .it doesn't necessarily mean that H W is going to agree with this Commission, ani they might turn it down. Now my next question has to be: we have cut ul a r roject of cyx for fifty thousand dollars. HEW dons es that j. rogram. Do we have the right to re -allocate or re - all ly? Mr. Crumrton : Yes. Mr. Andrews: Yes. reverend Gibson: Let me ask a question. If I heard you. what about the small business administration? Mr. Andrews: That's who they first to get the turn -down: that would assist in this kind of have to get a di yai>t ro ��'� this. would have to ai j.ly to d be the logical agency my and they would u considered unoitar • Reverend Gibson: Not only that, let me q© ther.. Isn't it more logical for them to be dealing with those businessmen? Mr. Andrews: And the Commission should be aware that Mr Henry Givens of the business administration and Mr. Pinser have been working closely with Mr. Cruapton and Otto Reich trying to establish an economic development 1:rogran for various areas in the city involving the black community. Reverend Gibson: 1 see. I just thought when I heard ter say what she did that you were saying something that nobody seemed to be understanding. Isn't that right? You said earlier-- 1 you you Ms. Spillman. No. Reverend Gibson, Let me make surer 1 understand. I want to know how quick 1 ticked it up. You know what you said. said we cannot be 1 enci intl anyone any --- Mr. Crompton: Grants or loans. Reverend Gibson! I was on the key. mr. t1rumptbnt tf that in the heart of her t'rogram then we can't_ fund it because_ it is against the law to to so. Jackie i3e1i. May I answer this Oease . and may I make an explanation to all of the Commissioners why the Culmer Park area is in dire need of this economic development center. and what it will do for our community. First of ail the economic development center in the Cultner Park area will revitalize businesses in that nrea which have had twenty years to die. We have worked the t ast two years to come Ur with a plan to do something obout f,•ir ar'L,a. All ,,!e are asking the Commissioners and f-h,' ('itv task forco, the cf_,m uunity development staff --we begged th,,m last ,,-eur '-' h,'l us wi th this. they said to us we C‘':1ii i tJiin9 that we are trying to do 71111/11" Zip • r• 1•' t • • ' + •►' y� part':=1 t}' that has lied, and that . 't!e Aon ' t want to be aware ? t "f'ntf•r is. The economic de - first of all. Secondly n'3w businesses into r .►: c'i, ':hit are in our area. ;:� ? ,a , . Jm;�!�', , , • . ti :+ a coma lete economic •10^ri- a:; t •r m )n ri ties are concerned, wi l i - ',)meting, Competing • -1 •. 'T <_ t in :, u r ,.c'rnmu n i t ,• . 1+ It means all of ac;s that we have wit h<a'i in t r, _ ' unity since 1949 b'•on denied this. We only w;t' " tf, Flu redevelopment. t • flt.veloi ment--and it says, reds•,.,, ment of blighted ��fwr�ren�l 1ibson• Ilion if tha' th., what you said i s what yfou .,re asking. What I am nf.t .ey+: n . i Y; i ublic is what is henry cliens a cl those rlo i n`3 . Ms. Bell: fienry (liven and tiw3f' small 3 i tress adminis- tration. which can loan money to mi "lc r i t J cat:., finesses. We want to be able to R)ut together the long t ackaye3 for minority busi- nesses. They do not Rio it for us. We must have somebody who knows how to negotiate for minority businesses. Reverend Gibson; All right maybe we have a responsi- bility. Why aren't we telling Henry Givens that? Let me tell this Commission something. In the Latin community every dog gone time they want to do some business! want some money. they cone up with it. two fec raL i,rogrars to ; ut Latin 1-en fie who don't bay, •. • • l_ ��._ L• �a _ - _ together business Packaging for it. d Gibson! '.et me say this. T have no argument 'Pill :don't hear me. Is. i3e1d • Yes t do. F•'.-►ther. Reverend Gibson. What T am trying to say i s . maybe where the cat needs to be belled is where the cat is not being belled that's what t am saying. If it is imi.ort.3nt to cut Uati.n men in business to revitalize all southwest eighth street, man you knew, i have been here for plenty of years. born and bred hero, sixty years ago, it i s i im octant to revitalize it all. The IL yor said this. All they lid was demolish those buildings and not another dog gone thing. and we nerd to say to the small business administration —every once in a while T go to a cock- tail }.arty whore they are dedicating and ground breaking, and we need to say to them, you know you had better get busy and do somythi. in that black area for a change. '1s. ul' • ather. this is what we wani to do. That is C.r, •. ,!^�: t t''.. none!„.. the c')urt. til 1 ov<i . tel l :)t��Ci.'1• 1(aT'�" p(,t?4 no Zkt' _'.l'. ! . !-). eat . f . it ase in the wr(l w John Lloy(.3.'it+. :ttl,r�� •. that the wron 3 71 , iur hear %%'flat Y,-)u 3r':' '.e a.l 7'f. Mr. Dean- just want to yet this clear. The city has established an economic ticaveloi'ment center. right? Yes they have. 1 s your in ent also. Reich t.o try to get economic delve' 1o: vent. let's say. substations, out in the different areas, right; c tto Reich: As T ex! lained to you last week at the meet- ing the shai,e of the ! royram depends on how much funding we get. We are in the same situation you are in. in a way. We have to get funding for our r rogram. However. as I exi lained it to you last week, also, we believe that Culmer, among other areas has a tremendous need for the type of programs that you are proposing. U'e disagree in where the funding should come from. And as I exi lained to you also last week, Dade County has just been fundei six positions on:3 by the i conotnic Development Administration in Wish i ngton--- Mr. Dean: Please. l:lease. just a minute. because everybody i 3 t i revi here --we went through that --what I am saying is --now we qc't this problem sometime; the City doesn't have funds and they say. take your program to the community development task force to get the money. I am saying. you don't have the money. We have the money that we want to use. Why can't we get together with you. then: Why should you give me three hundred and fifty vhosand dollars, then we get together so you could have some coney 7 so the City could develo!- a staff. and so we could have a staff also. r fi Mr. Plummer, Tell me just for ICY ;)wti what :he legal i:ammeters of calmer. (City Manager xhibitad itic't; an l tuJic.atiil•f) Mayor Perre Anybody here, frc:i ,.ent.ral. (No resf onse) Mayor Forte • Anybody here fr(t)rn Little Ilavana:r Mr. Armand,) t.,acasa- I'd like to congratulate tiler C'om- t'ill Fsion f-o!' h.-tvi ','• shown so much $etlsitit.mne."4-; tt' I),P a. rovin,4 t Ili:< ` ' ,'r cent.. ' ia! f ; . .' T. t ►✓ . , how can ♦v( )t'st aI ' ::it ii r:l i 11. hr re tha t ou,•i 1 I ' to ds`. t fit. i `; ' I1' i "III., 3 ':'lest on for your strtt • Nr. Cru:r toll. Would it i.t.. : ossibl.e under the act. because h.re 1 see tha- ---- - e l i u ible activities is shown budget; for t lanninr an(i admin <;+ •,•,t ;:.. Does that al; lv only to the primary sl onsor . or cool : , I'-»r i :i t3nce . could tha be used to create a sort of rdanur or .. ' ? an er ..OT artment: with the necessary nta n,:ia r the City to create such a t!I •)'. service t•ro1r. ams --- r)f thing or to ask rc ;raps and social $t.i l l man: An advocate Manner, . for the want of a • - It wo c1J ha,N2 to be a city position• someone who w:rkc• 1 for the city but would work out in the area, and we have not funded any of those for any of the target areas. Mr. Lacasal The reason for the question is this We have a multi -service :-enter which we are going to have a certain number of social service 1:royrams. and we realize that the city. neither the city nor 'Aetro, will have enough funds to solve all the social needs that we might have in the area- so the assistance of a planner who devotes full time to serve for other sources of funding. in federal or even in other types of institutions. such as the foundations, might be functionally very useful to our area as well as to any other area in the city. We in our particular case, with limited resources in the non-profit corporation of which 7 am the director, we have done so with some degree of suc- cess so maybe by this we will alleviate the burden. the econ- omic burden on the city an'l can transfer that burden to some other area. This is just a thought that I would like to throw in. Mr. Plummer! well. the question you are really asking . is there any prohibition against it. There is no prohibition against it so you could do i t . although you havon't designated money for it. Mr. crurnl.ton: Also thc.re is r'resently staff on board at the city. our grants i eople, who are constantly looking n'trl these Walidantaboomma-essip they can be assigned to look into Little Havanain particular but the'' have also got to take care of the balance of the city too. Tha f is on -going now. I Mr. T_„`ICasa • Yes, ,)(it we 1.. 1k Mr. Crum ton 1 know, but r7r_h of the tir(;et :32'(7..nq would like that each bloc i would 1 li'ce tha' all of the fifty different or 5caniz,c`I. ti'',n s within the w L' O like to have one. There lust isn't; t.hu "iton-- 7; 411A1. for evor4..bO+`. e„ 1 ; )rrc,ause r,tlt of our oWrt funds Wt. rnig12t e7,1!l a: il' I :t.. no i';71 thing is thi3- out of this ee ro !ra-ir i ne of funds that yen will have, T think frankly that Little llavana doesn't need to be included in the realloca- tion of those moneys that you have found by shifting. I think that Little Havana, we are well served this year --- Mr. Crum: ton - :lr. ' layor , whclt t understand is that a hundred and eighty-one thousand four hundred will be divided seven ways• not eiaht ways. Mayor Pe rre : We 1 1 that's up to you to come and recommend. It is a question of t;;riorit:•. Mr. i lumrner: My quest on i s that since this is a five- year program --is that correct: :•ir. Crum; ten: More is one more year. This is th,, second year and there is one more year that is funded by Con- gress- three years. Hol_efully they will fund other years, but there is no guarantee after the third year. rir. Plummer: Is there a long-range y rogr. am by the City of what is going to be. 1 heard Mr. Andrews say, OK, maybe wo can't take care of all their needs this year. but next year we will look at it and we will re -direct a little bit more to he1, their needs. Keep in mind it is an X number of years ; rogram. Now. am I also to believe that --did I answer that question cor- rectly Ts there a long-range plan for this program- anything beyond this year? Mr. Crum! -.ton: No, we had hoped that we would Le able to do some of that as a part of the funds in the investment process, which has been ddleted. Mr. Plummer: Let's go to the other ''oint. Am 1 to assume that from this point forward that this formula which you and JiCW have devised ioint1't' w;th Metro will al}.ly to all future years. Mr. Andrews- Not vecessari ly. Mr. Plummer. well, if the E.ol ulation stays thc same :,',d the run-down h',use s stay the same. aren't we then to : 0_-* the ratio is =i, i n l to, stay about the same,' '4r. '_run ton: Using these kinds of ratios. :assuming that the ; ro ortions remain the same • yes, :sut you don't have to us., that you can use your own. You can give one dollar for this tarjet area and five million dollars for this target area if you so de s i re+. PAnPOSED 1100$0 3011D. ISSUE: Mayor Perre: Rose Gordon and I, and —Well we are all involved in--t am involved in the Jackson campaign and you are involved in the jackson caml,aign and 1 have to go to Puerto Rico and New York, and you have been in Nicaraguayou have got business. and we all have all these iroblems. Now. this cam- paign --I am concerned about this bona issue 1,assing--1 think we have a serious problem. As you remember last time arun! th, Chamber of .!ommerco enthusiastically suilorted our boni Alvah chapman from the Miami Herald took the ledi. aiv! came 13111 (!olson, and he was co-chairman, and all thi 7!1 they raised money and thol, asses.iel leolle-mthe '..111mher g(:t fully behind thi 1-1 they raj-1(.1 n!I kinds of mw1,7y they hired :11131c 7' • ;e t 1'harey Hadley. tTh !; an! 4-h -2- t thnt , rrYi thr thi And they e7,f. „ money .ioinq it. Now, we have not gotten off the have called the construction i.ndustry fund trying -1,7:. They don't have any money. ney have made a com- .1it-1,ntt the county for their wator d sower bond issue. and we nre flat on our back. and my Friends we have only got six .,.eekl loft, less then thatnnd this bond issue is a very, very irm,ortart thing for this c.nmmuhity. 'ow Are Lloyd, I think we need to ovnt' tv tr !romote the bond issue, be- cause we can't do tht 1 y. but to inform the citizenry of what it i3 7. (:). Now there is a big, big distinc- tion, and r t' ;ZIS: a resolution. or have somebody offer a resolut4on, tnat of Yiami flocat u. to, what, tir7uaan,.3 Jollars 1aul 1 think this is n biq enough n1 imlnortant enough thing that we ought to slum.] some money in informing the what they ary %,otif,q • Ion't know --we may not be abe to s!cnd it in a,ivortisinA. You ar, going to have to research this legally. How mu.7h morly need to 3v.en.iThirty thousand dollars: Mr. Plummer: Ltt's ask it another way. What can afford to give to this, knowing the urgency and need of it: Mr. Andrews: perplexing area that I have. and I think if iL1 a motion int,.!nt ',Hth,)ut specifying t1' arnoUnt thi time an.; ;:%.e r. • Mr. ; 'Inybi 'ha- ' 1. /1.V.N. • • r, I ' •- r -^ • : • • to — • i solisemOmmisiftwalb • • 111, . ' ' '4 '" ..',i‘j.4 " t ;4 !P' i 4 ' 41 '.1.e r "/4 .... ' r i •i• ' .11 , r) • . r.' at I • ".. .1'1"11)(' r , ,, 14 1 I "it s r n ,,,.-, ., : n i f ;if ..., I,. F:, , . .,..,. _ft t .it • on tomurroW night we will find out the value, !'ll second the mo •• NI% f,-)r that kind ,•a•n} i.• h.-1-,•• tho • a 1+.., rt.ro• not for the ,.77ity of Miari, t1- kinl simily be an educational cam! aign. ,•Iayor Ferre, ( f bonl q3210. Mr. 1)i1ey 1 think T lia‘%! don( a .,uni issue vote on it. and 1 have certainly done tax reassessmen4_. So I know that there in precedent for it, and I believe that the County has paid directly on it. I don't recall having gotten funds directly from the city. :,layor Ferret Would you talk to Ray flood° about this and find out exactly What ha3 been done in the County. and let's follow that 14ittr!rn, ecause, ,Hth all due resect to our friends who aro o,..i‹.1k t the '..7ity of Miami if r.letro has done it tey critH,7ile . WcW ju•3t foliow that yattern. we 70 1,,tro has done it in the • . r :•• samoolos' N!,11N • ;:wetIn(i was adjourned at 6,57. • 7). '7711:i" • •