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Home My WebLink AboutCC 1974-06-27 MinutesZ i TY OF MIAMI COMMISSION MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON JUKE 27 - 1974 PREPARED BY THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK CITY HALL H. D. SOUTHERN CITY CLERK RALPH G. ONGIE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA ITEM NO. SUBJECT 1. PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 64 PROTECTION AND REMOVAL OF TREES 2. AMEND ORDINANCE 8243- FEES FOR USE OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE CITY 3. AMEND ORDINANCE 8244 - ESTABLISH FEES FOR USE OF BANDSHELL, TORCH OF FRIENDSHIP, SNOWMOBILE 4. AMEND ORDINANCE 8245 - ESTABLISH FEES FOR USE OF TENNIS FACILITIES AT HENDERSON/MOORE PARKS 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 . 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. ' 18. 19. 20. 21. AMEND SECTION 27-17 OF CODE- FEES AND : CHARGES AMEND SECTION 2-82.2 OF CODE - FEES FOR THE PREPARATION50F COVENANTS TO RUN WITH LAND AMEND SECTION 2-86 - SAME -FINDING MATERIAL ERRORS AMEND SEC. 27-26 - SAME - FEES AMEND SEC. 2-87 - SAME: PERMANENT REFER- ENCE MONUMENTS NOT PROPERLY PLACED AMEND SEC. 27-3 OF THE CODE: SAMEt FEES - EXPIRATION AND RENEWAL AMEND SEC. 54-20 OF THE CODE: AGREEMENT AND BOND AS TO PAVING AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS BY PERSONS SUBMITTING PLATS AMEND ORD. 8290 - TRANSFER $5,500 FROM YACHT DOCKS DEPT FUND BAL. TO OPERATING BUDGET SEEK MERCHANTS COOPERATION AFTER BREAK-IN=S PROPOSED ORDINANCE PROVIDING STORE OWNERS TO FILE INOFRMATION WITH POLICE DEPARTMENT ADDITIONAL HOLIDAY- FRIDAY JULY 5, 1974 PERSONAL APPEARANCE- MR. THOMAS FERGUSON DIRECTOR, MODEL CITY SPORTS & CULTURE PROGRAM PROCLAMATION - FLAG DAY CONDITIONAL USE - LOTS ithru8, block 3, PARKDALE SUB ACCEPT COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION- BISCAYNE EAST HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4357 ENDORSING PROPOSAL IN PRINCIPLE FOR SERIES OF CONCERTS IN SUMMER AT THE MARINE STADIUM r• r ORDINANCE OR `AE NO RESOLUTION NO. PERSONAL APPEARANCE - F. H. RUSSELL, PRESIDEN1 DADE EMPLOY THE HANDICAPPED COMMITTEE PLAQUES, PROCLAMATIONS ETC. DISCUSSED & DEFERRED ORD. 8270 ORD. 8271 ORD. 8272 ORD. 8273 ORD. 8274 ORD. 8275 ORD. 8276 ORD. 8277 ORD. 8278 ORD. 8279 ORD. 8280 MOTION NO. 74-507 MOT.74-508 DISCUSSION DISCUSSION & MOTION RES.74-509 MOT.74-510 MOT.74-511 1 -- 11: 11 12 12 13 13 14 14 15 15 16 16 17--1 19 20--2 25 26- 44 44- 46- 49- ITEM NO. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26, 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36, 37. 38. 39. 40. 41, 42. 43. MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA SUBJECT BICYCLE TOUR OF COCONUT GROVE— pISCUSSION OF STREET CLOSURES ETC. JOHN B. ORR APPRECIATION DAY • OFF—STREET PARKING BUDGET WAIVE RENTAL FEE— MIAMI STADIUM ATHLETIC FEDERATION OF MIAMI PROGRESS REPORT OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CENTER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO STATUS REPORT OF THE S. W. 8TH STREET BEAUTIFICATION PILOT PROJECT APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS OF VARIOUS COMMITTEES IN CONNECTION WITH DOWNTOWN ZONING STUDY DISCUSSION OF ORANGE BOWL IMPROVEMENTS ESTABLISH DATE FOR PUBLIC HEARING ON COCONUT GROVE ZONING STUDY APPOONTMENT OF MEMBERS FO GENERAL CULTURAL HISPANIC COMMITTEE BEAUTIFICATION OF MIAMI FASHION DISTRICT PERSONAL APPEARANCE: SOL W. MEYERSON DISCUSSION OF HEALTH —SECURITY MEASURE UNDER CONSIDERATION BY CONGRESS APPEARANCE OF MEMBERS OF ALAPPATAH COMMUNITY ASSN REGARDING TREE REMOVAL —CITY AUTO POUND DISCUSSION OF URGING MTA TO EXTEND +B+ LINE TO C.T.A. TOWERS REVIEW OF DATA PROCESSING PLANS FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT PERSONAL APPEARANCE— MS. ATHALIE RANGE REGARDING RELOCATION COSTS MARTIN LUTHER KING LINEAR PARK DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE CLOSURE OF N. W. 54 STREET EXIT ON I-95 CONTINUED DISCUSSION OF STATUS OF MODERNIZ— ATION OF THE MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT AGREEMENT — PANCOAST ARCHITECTS INTERIOR DESIGN SERVICES NEW POLICE SERVICES 3RD YEAR CONTRACT—STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE PROPOSED AGREEMENT URGING M.T.A. TO EXTEND B—LINE SERVICE TO C.T.A. TOWERS (RESOLUTION) NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY SYSTEM SUPPORTING HR BILL 22 AND SENATE BILL 3 ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION NO MOT.74-512 MOTION 1ST READING MOT.74-513 RES.74-514 DISCUSSION RES. NO. 74-515 A—B—C—D DISCUSSION MOT.74-516 RES.74-517 DISCUSSION do MOT. 74-518 MOTION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION DISCUSSION RES.74-519 DISCUSSION DISCUSSION RES.74-520 MOT.74-521 RES.74-522 RSE.74-523 PAGE NO, 51-�-54 54 55--58 59 60--61 61--66 66--67 67--71 71--72 73 73--77 77--79 79--84 84 84--86 86--92 93 93--11 117 117 117-1 118 • MINUTES OF REGULAR MEMM6 CITY COPPIISSIM OF MIAMI, FLORIDA ITEM NO. SUBJECT ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION NO PAGE NO 44. 45 and 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62, 63. 64, 65. 66. 67, FILLING BAYBOTTOM LANDS- CITY ATTORNEY TO DETERMINE RIGHTS OF CITY UNDER HOUSE BILL 4018 - F.E.C. RAILWAY CO. CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS - F.E.C. AND PROPOSED SPECIAL COUNSEL S. W. 8TH STREET BEAUTIFICATION LATIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE STATUS OF WOMEN COMMITTEE - APPOINTING YVONNE Z. SANTAMARIA PLAT ACCEPTANCE - LANDMANS FIRST PLAT ACCEPTANCE - VERSAILLES PLAZA SROVE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT Sr-5257 APPLICATION FOR REIMBURSABLE FEDERAL GRANT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING -OBJECTIONS TO COMPLETED WORK-REID ACRES HIGHWAY IMP.H-4349 ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK- WYNDWOOD PARK SPORTS LIGHTING WATER & SEWER MAINS UNDERGROUND- REQUESTING COUNTY TO REVISE CODE TO PROVIDE CONSENT OF CITY IN LOCATION BIDS - REFINISHING 25 SHUFFLEBOARD COURTS EXTENSION OF EMPLOYMENT- HARRY PEARLMAN RETURN OF st25.140.96 OF BOND FUNDS MAGNOLIA PARK FUNDS FOR LIGHTING AT WYNDWOOD PARK AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURE STATUS OF WOMEN COMMITTEE -PROVIDING FUNDS BAYFRONT PARK AUDITORIUM -WAIVE RENTAL FEE FOR ARTS FESTIVAL BY DADE BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WOMANS ICLUB MILITARY SERVICE PAYBACK TO PENSION PLAN DELETING APRIL 1974 DEADLINE MIAMI RIVER WALKWAY (1st phase) AGREE IN PRINCIPLE WITH DDA FOR INCREASE IN SCOPE BALTIMORE BASEBALL CLUB- AGREEMENT ACCEPT BID - FENCING MATERIALS -PARKS DEPT. ACCEPT BID - 60 LENS FOR WIDE LIGHT FIXTURES ACCEPT BID - POLICE UNIFORMS ACCEPT BID - EMULSIFIED ASPHALT RES.74-514 DISCUSSION RES.74-525 MOT.74-5,26 RES.74-527 RES.74-528 RES.74-529 RES.74-530 RES.74-530 RES.74-532 RES.74-533 RES.74-534 RES.74-535- MOT.74-536 RgS.74-537 RES.74-538 1ST READING RES.74-539 RES.74-540 RES.74-541 RES.74-542 RES.74-543 RES.74-544 118-119 119-12 125 125. 126 126 126- 127 127 128 129 129 129 130 130 131 131 132 132 132 133 133 134 • ITEM NO. MEI MINUTES OF REGULAR REEVE CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA SUBJECT 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. ACCEPT BID - HEAVY EQUIPMENT - AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND ACCESSORIES ACCEPT BID = 500000 4-COLOR BROCHURES ACCEPT BID - MATERIAL' LABOR and EQUIPMENT TO FUMIGATE AND PLANT GRASS-MELREESE GOLF CS, ACCEPT BID - CASTABLE REFRACTORIES ACCEPT BID - CAMERAS FOR CIVILIAN I.D. BUR. CCEPT BID - JAWS OF LIFE RESCUE TOOL ACCEPT BID - FENCING & GATES -FIRE ST.No. 5 RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT ON SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENTS RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT DEPUTY CITY MANAGER CONCEPT HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANT REQUEST .CITY MANAGER TO STUDY FEASIBILITY OF INCLUDING CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH AS A SUPPLEMENT TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANT APPLICATION APPOINT J. L. PLUMMER AS REPRESENTATIVE TO DADE LEAGUE OF CITIES M.REBOSO-ALTERNATE STATUS OF COMPRENENSIVE MASTER PLAN DISCUSSION OF PROTECTION OF PRIVACY AND POSSIBILITY OF FORMING A MONITORING COMMITTEE ACCEPT BID - UTILITY VAN FOR POLICE DEPT. ACCEPT BID - NIGHT VISION SCOPE ACCEPT BID - TRACKING EQUIPMENT AND ALLIED EQUIPMENT ACCEPT BID - FM RECEIVER/RECORDER KIT AND ACCESSORY EQUIPMENT AUTHORIZE PURCHASE OF 800 COPIES OF THE LAW OFFICERS POCKET MANUAL ACCEPT BID - ROBERTO CLEMENTE PARK RESURFACE BASKETBALL COURTS ACCEPT BID - HEAVY EQUIPMENT PHASE V CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER- EMERGENCY PURCHASE OF 2 TRUCK CABS AND CHASSIS AUTHORIZE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT UNCLASSIFIED POSITION OF CHIEF OF FIRE RESCUE ORDINANCE _OR RESOLUTION NOS PAGE N RES.74-545 134�1- RES.74-546 ---- 136 RES.74-547 137 RES.74-548 RES.74-549 --- RES.74-550 RES.74-551 RES.74-552 RES.74-553 RES.75-554 MOT.74-555 RES.74-556 MOT.74-557 MOT.74-558 0 RES.74-559 RES.74-560 RES.74-561 RES.74-562 RES.74-563 RES.74-564 RES.74-565 137 138 138 139 139' 140 140 141 141 141-1 145-1 148 149 149 149 15 150 151 RES.74-566 151 RES.74-567 152- • IMEX ' MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING G CITY COMMISSION OF MANIA FLORIDA I TEN NO SUBJECT ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION NO, PAGE N 91, 92. 93. 94. 95. 96. 97. 98. AUTHORIZE CITY OF MIAMI TO SPONSOR A DOWNTOWN SUMMER STAR THEATRE RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT THE CLOSING OF N.W. 54 ST EXIT ON I-95 APPOINT ADDITIONAL MEMBERS TO THE CONSUMERS AND USERS COMMITTEE CREATE BICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE AND APPOINT MEMBERS THERETO AMEND SECTION 62-10 REGIONAL IMPACT ENABLING ORDINANCE ORDINANCE AMENDING ORD.8234 SEC. 62-26 PROVII FEES TO BE CHARGES FOR HEARINGS REGUIRED BY FLORIDA STATUTE SECTION 380.06 FOR DEVELOPMENTS OF REGIONAL IMPACT DRIVE IN TELLERS- AMERICAS BANK AGREEMENT - ARNOLD LIEBER- PSYCHIATRIC CONSULTATION SERVICES RES.74-568 RES.74-569 RES.74-570 RES.74-571 1ST READING ING 1ST READING RES. 74-572 RES.74-573 ADJOURNMENT 154 155'• 155 155-1- 157-1- 158 158 159 M/111116 OP REGULAR MEETING OF CV ''Y' COMMISSXON OP MIAMI, Ptoitm On the 27th day of June, 1974, the City Commission of Miami, Tlorida met at its regular meeting place in said City in regular session. The meeting was called to order at 9:10 A.M. by Mayor Maurice Perre. On roll call, the following members of the Commission were found to be present: Commissioner Rose Gordon Commissioner J.L. Plummer Commissioner T. Rev. Gibson Vice -Mayor Manolo Reboso An invocation was delivered by Reverend Gibson who then led those present in an invocation to the flag. On motion of Mr. Plummer, seconded by Reverend Gibson, it was unanimously agreed to waive the reading of the minutes of the previous meeting. 1, PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 64 - "PROTECTION AND REMOVAL OF TEES ` DISCUSSLON AND DEFERRAL Of gCT!,gN T94ULY 11_ _ _ Mr. Lloyd: Mr. Mayor, may it please the Commission and your honor, there have been some minor amendments made between the first reading and the second reading which I present to the Commission now. Basically, two new sections have been added. They are Section 64-16 which is entitled Fees and section 64-17 which is entitled Jurisdiction. These do not change the gen- eral overall substantive nature of the ordinance. It merely provides for some fees and actually explains the jurisdiction but they are amendments. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Lloyd, would you hold this, can we hold this for a few minutes? I think there was another memorandum that I had that I wanted to bring up, a minor change but I want to make sure that it hasn't already been included. Can we go onto the next item and then come back to this? Mayor Perre: All right. Mr. Andrews: One more matter, Mr. Mayor and Members of the Commission connected with this ordinance. Would you consider adopting an effective date of October let so that we can have gone through the budget process and you become acquainted with what will be required and how much, if any, to conduct the in- spections and so forth and then you will have the opportunity for modifications. Mayor Terre: Mr. Acton, let me ask you a question while Mrs. Gordon is looking for this. Mr. Acton, if for example, some- body wants to put up in a properly zoned property a three or four story office building or apartment house or whatever it is, and it just happens that all floor area where the building has to go is just full of trees, what exactly then would be the procedure? 1 Mr. Acton: (1) he Environmental Preservation Ordinance divider the City into two basic types of districts = those lands or properties in the City which are environmentally significant Which would be reviewed by the Environmental Preservation Board. The second is the rest of the City. If we say it is in the rest of the city then the site would be reviewed automatically by the Building Department. The indi- vidual within the Building Department who would also serve as the administrative assistant to the board would review this particular site and make recommendations to the owner basically as to whether or not there is any possibility of redesigning the building or whether the trees could be relocated. Mayor Ferre: Suppose the owner said to you, Mr. Acton, "That's very nice, Mr. Acton but I've paid X number of dollars for this property and I've got to proceed with an intelligent development. I cannot put a big hole in the building because you want us to save 4 trees." Then what do you do? Mr. Acton: The ordinance cannot be unreasonable, would never be upheld in court. We would let him, depending on the size of the trees and whether or not they could be relocated. We would suggest if possible that he relocated some of those trees in the site but still allow him to build his building on the site. What I'm saying is it defines... Mayor Ferre: Well do you have any power in here to say "No you cannot put up your building because we want you to save that tree."? Mr. Acton: The administrative assistant I believe can refer it to the Environmental Review Board. They can make a deter- mination that either yes or no. Mayor Ferre: So in affect, theoretically, the board could hold up the construction on a project because it wanted to save a particular tree. Mr. Andrews: There would be appeal then to the City Commis- sion as a matter for final judgement. Mayor Ferre: Suppose it is within this Environmental Area, Mr. Acton. Mr. Acton: Then it would be reviewed by the Environmental Re- view Board and those would be, I would say maybe 10% of the sites within the City of Miami or less, maybe 5%, and they would basically serve as a site review team to make sure the developer and his architect, landscape architect had tried to save as many of the trees as possible through the design of the particular project. They would review the site and make suggestions at a preliminary design stage as to how to best preserve the nature of the site. I'm thinking particularly, Mr. Mayor of sites along the bayfront, there aren't too many left now that have a hammock -like environment but if it did, for instance, there has been continuing interest in those lands which are south of Peacock Park. It is an R-1 District. Our department has continually recommended that it be a planned development cluster type arrangement. But the idea being that the developer and his architect through design should if at all possible conserve as many of the trees on the site as pos- sible and this would be the function of the review board who would be primarily composed of qualified landscape architects, architects, plus some lay people. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Acton, isn't it a fact though that in certain 2 110 instances the a inistrative assistant could take and approve something without the board's review? Is that correct? Mr. Acton: That is correct. Mrs. Gordon: 1 would suggest that if you're trying to indeed have an ordinance that is going to be effective and not come back to haunt us that we include this into the modifications and changes at this time that we require an application for tree removal permits to be reviewed by the 'entire Environmental Preservation Review Board or within 10 days after the granting of f permit by the administrative assistant require any such permit to be reviewed by the entire Environmental Preservation Review Board, such a review by the Environmental Preservation Review Board should supersede any action of the administrative assistant and constitute a final decision. This would then have the, the board would then serve a purpose. The way it is set up I don't think the board has a real purpose. Mayor Ferre: Not a final, you used the word final. The only final is the City Commission. Mrs. Gordon: No, the Commission doesn't rule on these per mits, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Ferre: But it can be appealed to the Commission if the permit is denied. Mrs. Gordon: It is true, appeals could, but this is a differ- ent thing. This is a simple case of where an administrative assistant can give an approval like we had over here on the highway. This is what caused this ordinance modification to come about and this could happen again and that's why the re- view board is being set up, to prevent that. I think that rather than pass it now on second reading I would rather that they reconsider this portion for an inclusion and then we'll have a second reading. Mayor Ferre: All right. I think that is something that has to be discussed and explained in detail. Mr. Acton: Mr. Mayor, may I just interject a comment on Com- missioner Gordon's comment? Your point, Commissioner Gordon was brought up during the public hearings in this matter at the Planning Advisory Board and I pointed out to the board at that time that to have the review board review all sites within the City of Miami that might have trees on them would be an overwhelming task. I would estimate, Mr. Ferencik, what some 5,000 building permits tat are issued per year? And of that amount I don't exactly know how many sites might have trees on it but we were trying to set it up so that the review board would be responsible for environmentally significant land but not get into what would be construed to be an almost full time job. We wanted to offer the protection of lands within the City of Miami by having a qualified administrative assistant review all sites that do have trees on then but not get the board involved in every particular site because then they might, it would be an overwhelming task. They would be reviewing probably a couple thousand sites per year. Mrs. Gordon: You do understand the merits of having it in- cluded but what you're saying is that administratively you can't proceed. You don't think you can get a board to do this much work. Is that what you're saying? Mr. Acton: Yes. We've tried to build in safeguards to insure the P resevation of significant land, significant trees within the City of Miami. We don't get into the problem where a developer might be allowed to take out trees that do enhance the City of Miami.. We wanted to divert the board's energy basically to reviewing those sites which are termed significant environmental sites within the City of Miami. For the most they are either over developed or underdeveloped hammock- like plans or have significant trees on them. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Acton, another part that I would like to bring up for discussion is the exceptions, can you speak to that under Section 64-12 C? Exceptions not involving new or proposed construction. The section either should be strength- ened or eliminated. As the law is written it would permit any landowner to bulldoze flat a whole tract of land by the simple statement that he did not propose to construction. A month later or a year later he could change his mind, certain- ly he could sell the land and the next owner could change his mind. Do you know what I'm referring to? If not, would you take this paper. There is another exception with kinds of trees. Do you think that this something we ought to accept or should we be the deciding factor, of some trees that are being excepted that possibly should not be excepted. Mr. Acton: Are you referring to subsection D? Mrs. Gordon: Yes, now I am. Before that it was C. Mr. Acton: Mrs. Gordon: The ones we have excepted are all poisonous... Australian pines are poisonous? Mr. Acton: Let me finish. Either poisonous or a nuisance type tree. In other words, those trees which proliferate and are a continual nuisance or those trees which are poisonous. We did not think it would be reasonable to have a property owner come down and request the removal of Australian pine or a poisonous tree if he desired to have that removed from the property. George Holland, 257 N.E. 79th Street: There is a provision in the new county budget for a tree bank. Could this be cor- related with that so that good trees could be preserved for use at another time rather than being destroyed? Mr. Acton: Yes. I think this could be a consideration of this ordinance. Mrs. Gordon: May we consider accepting 64-7 A for the time - being, A,B and C? Mayor Ferre: If it is alright with you I'd like to make a statement about this whole thing and then we can discuss it further if you wish. I address myself specifically to my fellow Commissioners here on this. I think it is an important item. Let me start off by saying that I'm in complete agree- ment that something has to be done and should be done. Let me then say, I don't know whether you've noticed, there were two things that came out in the newspaper in the last several weeks. One of them Rose, was an article by John Knight on Sunday where he writes that article, when he says the free enterprise system isn't so free anymore. There was a letter to the editor which a particularly well written letter in which this man was talking about how difficult it was becoming to do things in our world because of the overbearing structure of governmental, the imposing of governmental regulations. It 4 JUN27197 410 eeeine that everyday that we are adding more and more laws to eay what cannot be done. We're getting close and closet to what Rome used to be. Otte of the reasons why the Roman Empire declined was because they had laws telling the people, the citizens of Route exactly what they could and couldn't do in every occasion. Now I'm not here making a big right-wing speech or anything like that. I'm just talking about some- thing that I think speaks practically to a difficult question. The thing'that concerns me is that we are not adding one more bureaucratic level that has to be passed by anybody that wantS to put up anything. Now I recognize that we've got to do it and I'm not against this. I want you to understand that. Dona you see that there has been excessive abuses and I guess we have a tendency in this country to go like a pendulum from the abuse to the other extreme and then we fortunately, come back to middle. ground. Now I've read this ordinance careful- ly and I think that this is a very severe reaction to a very very bad situation. Now I'm willing to go along with it with the full understanding that maybe we can see how it works. But I want to state emphatically here as I told Mr. Andrews, or he actually told me yesterday, when I discussed this with him that we may have to come back and review this because I have a feeling that if properly applied this can in effect be a detriment to any further construction anywhere where there is a tree. Because in effect you can get to the extreme of either stopping or curtailing a great... And I don't mind using myself as specific example. Let me put it on the record because I think it is a good example. Now I happen to live, as you all know on Brickell Avenue. My, sister lives next door to me. There is no problem there because most of those lots are fairly clear, George. But we own right next to a 200 foot Brickell hammock property. Now my father has wanted to put a bulldozer to that property for 10 years. I told him you're a bad boy. I'm not going to let you do that and I'm not about to let him do that because I think that is a valuable asset to that whole property. Now the taxes that are being paid on all of those properties together, even though they are resi- dential, and even though at that time I had my attorney come here andprotest the changes, as you well remember, Mr. Acton. I said I have no intentions of tearing that house down, I want to live there and I don't want R-5, I want R-1. But this Commission, in its wisdom went ahead and changed it any- way on the basis that first, it was Bob High who said we'll make it alternate, you can have R-1 or R-5A as you wish. Well as time went on a lot of people went for R-5A and then the City said let's go R-5A. Now here is the point: I was told that the taxes weren't going to rise. Well let me tell you that the taxes in that area, and I know it's not because of zoning, I've heard that one before. "Zoning has nothing to do with it." But the fact is it does; And the fact is that the taxes have gone up from 2 or three thousand dollars a year to over $20,000 a year on one lot and that all 5 of those 100 foot lots are paying in excess of $50,000 in taxes a year. Mr. Plummer: Did you hear yesterday what is going to happen? Yesterday on the radio as of Friday, you've got a tax bill coming out of the mail showing an increase over all of Dade County showing an increase of 47 to 49% assessment increase. Mayor Ferre: All right. I'm not going on taxes, I'm going on the tree ordinance. The point I'm trying to make now is this and I'm putting this on the record. It is obvious then that our system is forcing me not to live in my home. Now it just happens that I live in an area that is very valuable. I didn't buy that property because it was going to be valuable. 5 JUN27197 I bought that le 20 years ago and it is 9 now to a point where it costs me a great deal, and my sister to live on that property. Obviously, the time will come when we have to tear the houses down whether I want to or not and I'm going to have a big battle with all of my kids because they love that house. But I'm going to have to bulldoze it down and it means that I either put up a building there or will sell the property and somebody else will develop it. Now if after 20 years of pay- ing taxes and some of them very expensive taxes the builder or the developer that we sell this property to comes to the City of Miami and you say you just cannot tear any of those trees down because that's a heritage of this community, then are you going to compensate us for all of the taxes that: we've paid plus the interest that that cost for the last 20 years? And at what point does it become confiscation without due process or without compensation? I'm not a lawyer but I would say, Mr. Lloyd, that there are an awfully lot of very basic con- stitutional questions. Now I know that we in this country are going about the revision of our thinking as to what the rights of property are and that the supreme court has in effect has begun to say that the right of property does not necessarily mean total distructive posession of that property and that the community at large has some rights too. But the only reason why we're paying taxes on that 200 feet of hammock is because eventually, I think, as a land owner that I will recouperate t hose taxes back because of the high value of the land. If in effect I'm not able to do that because of the limitations of such an ordinance then in effect this does become a confiscation without compensation which is what I re- call back in the days of England and the revolution about taxation without representation, there was a corollary argu- ment that caused the war. That's the end of my speech, but I really think that as we vote on this we ought to keep this in mind. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, why don't we take then your concerns are good, and Mrs. Gordon's comments are good, and let's do as we have with many ordinances in the past knowing that no ordinance is worth a tinker's behoot until it is tested and used, put a 6 months re-examination on this ordinance. Let's have a 6 month trial basis and see what has happened with the ordinance and in 6 months come back and see if there are any changes needed or updating or withdrawal. Mr. Michael Simonoff: I'm an architect and I've been pretty deeply involved with this ordinance since about a year and three-quarters ago when I saw a site on South Dixie Highway between 22nd Avenue and Natoma totally destroyed. Bill Hugget who is an attorney and I worked on this because we found out that the existing tree ordinance was not enforceable and it really was not a clear ordinance. Now you know obviously a tree is not a human being. Some people may disagree with that but as an architect having to work on sites and design build- ings around trees, I can say that. I do my best to save every tree tht I can. If I can't save it I move it. Most architects unfortunately don't seem to give a damn about it and if there is a tree there they don't even know about it until the bull- dozers have knocked it down. Now what I think the ordinance should try to do is not to restrict a person's use of the prop- erty but to make better architecture, and to make a better overall project out of it by making the people aware that the trees are there and that they should be used. Now what every- body, I think with the Planning Department and Bill and myself, and Mike, we've all gotten together and had many meetings over about a year and a half on this and I as an architect set up even before any ordinances were in affect that any site that has trees gets tree- surveyed. I go through a preliminary de- sign analysis and I try to incorporate those trees as best I can. Now what we try'to do is set up a two stage system where a preliminary design is brought in for evaluation and then either approved or rejected. Now these aren't arbitrary ap- provals or rejections. A board of experts, which I consider an architect, a landscape architect, a nurseryman, an environ- mentalist and a concerned citizen, I consider that to be a very evaluative type of a board and they would not make an arbitrary decision, I'm sure. There is just too much know- ledge of trees and there is not that much emotionalism involved in this procedure. Now to go further the Planning Depart- ment set up the environmental areas, the environmentally en- hanced areas with sink holes or rock outcroppings. That site on South Dixie Highway had beautiful sinkholes and really nice ledges. If I had designed a building on it I certainly would have taken all of those things into account instead of leveling it and then bulldozing down all of the rock. I think this is important and that somebody because they own the land can do something much better by taking these natural things into account than to just say "All right, we're going to start off with a level site." You know many architects would give their eye teeth for a site with levels and natural enhance- ments. This was really the purpose. Now, of course we met with the Building Department and the Planning Department and we see that there is a problem involved in having every single site within the City of Miami fall within the confines of a review board. So the idea was that the entire City would be examined and certain areas would be stipulated to fall before the Environmental Review Board. Other areas would go to a special person in the Building Department who would be train- ed and who would be knowledgeable in these facts. It is not an arbitrary thing there either where it just comes before the desk and somebody signs it, "Ok, take them down" That's the way,it seemed to happen before. So you have qualified people on both levels and I think that in going over some of these other areas, I agree with Commissioner Gordon that there should be a check on that administrative party and I'm going to talk back and forth between some of these, a lot of it is just a little background of how I feel and also to the ordin- ance because I don't think as an architect, and I've designed and I've built and I've done landscape architecture, that these things should be prohibitive measures against the prop- erty owner, but more or less to make the people aware that these things exist and that they should be taken into account. There is nothing really, that I see as an architect, in this ordinance that would disturb me if I were either building or I were designing. Mayor Ferre: Or as a property owner? Mr. Simonoff: Or as a property owner, and I think I fall into the three. Now I also feel that there are some areas of this ordinance that should be strengthened a little bit in relation to Mangroves and this is something that hasn't come about and I was talking to the County yesterday and they showed me var- ious ordinances they are in the process now of trying to re- evaluate theirs, and I do believe that somewhere in this we should have where there are beneficial Mangrove within a cer- tain number of feet of the shoreline, or the vegetation line those should be incorporated in some fashion. Mayor Ferre: I think that is a good suggestion. George, are you listening? 7 JUN 271974 Mt. Acton: Mat. Mayor. I would suggest the cone ieaion defer this second reading for two weeks and allow us to make those modifications that are important. Mayor Ferre: All right, but let him finish because I think that is a very valid suggestion about Mangroves. Mr. Acton: I agree. I wasn't trying to cut him off, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Simonoff: I think that is really about it. I feel strong- ly about an ordinance that's fair and enforceable and something that may make people use their brains rather than look at a blank piece of paper and put a pre -conceived building on it. If there is something natural there then they are forced to work within it and if I have to do it, I think everybody else should and I've done it by nature. Mayor 'erne: Mr. Simonoff, I want to say as I said before that I am basically in agreement with the concept. I just want to point out that you know, let's take for example, the protection of our civil liberties and our rights. You know there is always the case, unfortunately, we just have to live with it and live around it, that a criminal element will use the rights that the constitution gives all citizens in pro- tecting their rights, privacy and so on, they will use that as the basis for their criminal activity. Now I'm not imply- ing anything about criminal activity. What I am saying, I'm just using that as a basis as how it's not the positive aspect of it but the negative that sometimes causes more problems even though it may be very minute. Remember they had to get Al Capone on a tax evasion rather than on his real activities because he had so many rights protecting him and they could never catch him. Here is an ordinance which is good what I'm concerned about is not the thousands of properties that are going to be saved by this, and I'm all for that. I'm con- cerned about the misuse by one person or by a group of people, improperly, and use this as a form of harassment or a form of negative control. You say that's not likely. Well let me tell you that I talked to a builder the other day who was telling me about how in Metro they are using some of the more stringent regulations that they have in sometimes a very un- fair way. In other words because somebody has a particular dislike for a particular project that the process is being held up. In other words what I'm saying is that there is a bureaucratic misuse and application of a law which should not be applied the way it is being applied so as to hold up the growth.. In other words what I'm trying to say, and not ar- ticulating it too well this morning, is that sometimes laws are used for other purposes other than what they state in the books. Mr. Simonoff: This was really the reason that this was set up this way. It would become a board of experts that knew about it and knew about the trees and were versed in land- scaping and architectural design, and planting and natural enhancements and that would then become an appointed board that would be able to evaluate these things to take it out of the bureaucracy and then there would be an appeal. Mayor Ferre: That's bureaucratic. Anytime you set up a board of review you're setting up another bureaucratic struct- ure and as I said I'm going to vote for this because I think we have to do it. But I do it with that very large reservat- ion and concern over the impact this is going to have. I'm talking about as we proceed on these things, I think it is 8 410 *portant on threcord to point out the other side of it. Mr. Siitronoffs 1 agree that there are other sides but after having seeii some of the development that has gone on in this area, I was born mere and there has been an awful lot of change Wirer those years and most of it unfortunately, has been bad beoause we haven't had something at least to give a guideline so hopefully this will help. Mrs. Gordon: Mr.. Mayor, do you then entertain a motion to defer this for two weeks? Maybe Mr. Simonoff will get with our department and some of the things he's mentioned, maybe some that I've mentioned will be included. Mr. Perencik: I want to say oae thing with reference to this ordinance. We have enforced n'w for about 5 years a tree ord- inance. We started out when they passed the first ordinance and we really, they didn't add anything to our staff. We ab- sorbed the load internally and frankly, didn't do a very good job of dealing with the ordinance. Finally, a year or so ago they did authorize us to hire somebody into our staff who was specifically oriented towards landscaping and the subject of tree removal. Now if the City elects to adopt this ordinance and you expect effective enforcement of the ordinance then it is my opinion after dealing with this question for 5 years, and you're making the ordinance more complicated now than it ever has been, you are going to have to be faced with the fact of paying for the enforcement of the ordinance. You know I face this ordinance everyday. You face it for 45 minutes, I face it and my staff faces it continually. A man owns a site, it has a beautiful oak tree on it. The oak tree is 50 years old. It is right in the middle of the building site. The tree perhaps could be saved. You get 4 nurserymen, two of them say "Yes, maybe" two of them say "No, it will die." It is going to cost $1500 to move it and this so-called tree bank thing that they talk about is great except there isn't any such thing. There is no place to move that tree and now the man who you're telling to move it says I don't want the tree, I don't want to pay the $1500 to move it, or whatever dollars it is going to cost to move it. If the City and the County and whoeverelse is going to get into question of tree preservation that's great. I love trees. I designed my house in a grove of trees and maintained all but 6 of them. You've got to be prepared to pay for these trees. We had a great deal of controversy over a building where there was a Mango tree to be removed. A man wrote us a letter and told us that one of these trees that was destroyed was worth $300, a land- scape expert. I happen to have one Mango tree in my yard that had become a threat to my house and I called him up and I called him up and I said I'll make you a deal, I'll give it to you. Just come and get it and I'll pay for filling the hole up. It didn't work out that way. This tree grew from a little tree that's so big that it is threatening my house in 16 years. So this is fine, and I'm in favor of this thing too and I'd like to preserve the coastal hammock but you're going to have to be prepared to give me the staff inorder to do this. Mr. Plummer: I would like to get back to my point, Mr. Mayor. I'm hopeful that when this ordinance comes forward to us for approval that it will be on a trial basis for 6 months, if that is reasonable, and Bob I think would be the judge of that, a 6 month trial basis so that without question, without even, just automatically it will come back up before us for review at the end of the 6 month period. So I hope that that ordinance will contain that. 9 Mayor Ferret I ate no objections to that, Mike, because its effect that happens anyway. Anybody on this to mission that wants to bring it up on review can do that. That is not a MOM' pr-obleM. Mrs. Gordon: Its this period long enough? Do you think 6 ►nthe is long enough? We can decide that at the time that we hear it again. Mayor Ferre: I don't want to belabor this but I think this is important. You know we have a pattern around here of pass- ing, and I think this is natural for all legislative bodies, or trying to solve our problems by legislating them. We pass more laws, Tallahassee, or up in Washington, and we legislate a lot. But 1 think that what Ferencik is saying, and I com- pletely agree with him is that you have to recognize that as you legislate you create additional levels of bureaucracy whether they be review boards or people or what have you and that of course, costs money. Now I think that we ought to be prepared to pay the additional money but I think that when tax time comes around and we've got to talk about budgets this is why in effect, and now I'm talking about what Plummer is always talking about, and I'm not in anyway criticizing the Management but J.L., as you said the other day, that 10 years ago there used to be 5 people, or ten people in the manager's office and then to 15 and now there's 20 or what have you. And the reason is, it's not the manager's fault, is that as we go into creating all of these types of ordinances you've got to have the people o do it. You've got to have the government to do it. I don't know how many laws we have in our books that are completely unenforceable. For example, do you know that it is a violation of the law if a bar did not have a window in it that you can see in and out? Now how many bars do you know of in the City of Miami that don't have windows? They're all in violation and technically we could haul them all into court. Now what happens is that since it is a law that nobody pays attention to we just ignore it. So what is the value of having that law if in affect, it was a law that was important 30 years ago because the old man used to get the pay check and go to the bar and have a drink and the old lady would go catch him and look through the window and see him drinking and then pull,him out? Now that doesn't mean anything today. The point is that it is a law that has no meaning and in government we are just full of these laws that don't mean anything. Mrs. Gordon: I remember reading a memorandum, I think you sent it out, Mr. Andrews, to the Department heads asking them to make you knowledgeable about these obsolete laws. Maybe this is very opportune. You're speaking to it, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Ferre: The point I'm trying to make is, and I'm not criticizing Ferencik or the Manager or anybody else, but I ask the question= Could or would we have avoided that tragedy on U.S. 1 where they bull dozed those beautiful trees if the existing laws had been enforced with the proper people. That's my question. Mrs. Gordon: We couldn't have avoided it under the law that we had. This law we're adopting would have prevented that. Mayor Ferre: Do you agree with that Bob? What I'm saying is, I think what everybody is up in arms about that really was a major Iapetus was that property along U.S. 1 where the people came in and over night they bulldozed all those trees and they took down that ledge and so on. Now under the existing law, in 'JIM ^71Q74 had you had the toper personnel, etc., cou you have en- forced the law and was that a violation of that law? • Mr. perencik: The removal of a great many of those trees on that particular site was not a violations of the law because the law doesn't protect a tree that is under 4 inches in dia- meter. Mayor Ferre: Some of those trees were over 4 inches. Mr. Ferencik: The question that arises, we recently tried to take somebody to court over this ordinance, not on that particular site but we tried to take a contractor into court who went onto a site and they bulldozed all of the trees down and they claimed that they didn't realize that the building permit that they had did not authorize them to do this. We proceded through the Metro courts with it and or course one of the problems is that once it is done the evidence is gone. You would have to get somebody to testify as to what trees were there, identify them, and actually the State's Attorney who handled this case in the Metro Court advised us that we'd better not proceed with the prosecution because we really didn't have any evidence. The same thing would have applied to that site on U.S. 1. This was done and by the time it was finished we had no evidence. Had they come in ahead of time and asked us, Yes, we could have saved some of those trees. There is no question about that. Thereupon a motion to defer second reading on this ordin- ance for two weeks for the department to include whatever is deemed feasible into the modifications was introduced by Mrs. Gordon, seconded by Mr. Plummer and passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 2, AMD,ORD,8243 - FEES FOR USE OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE CITY.OFMANl.... An ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 8243, SUBSECTIONS (B) AND (D) OF CITY CODE, SECTION 39-1 ESTABLISHING FEES FOR THE USE OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, INSOFAR AS THEY ARE IN CONFLICT. passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 23, 1974, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Mr. Plummer, seconded by Rev. Gib- son, the ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the follwing vote - AYES: Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8270. 11 JUN 271974 • • AMEND ORD. 8244 SUBSECTION 39-2 CODE (a) ESTABLISH FEES FOR USE OF Mr. Plummer: Mr. Andrews, we have now received the new showaobile, is that correct? I think that it would be good not maybe this afternoon but at the next Commission meeting that it be brought up here and displayed as we do fire equip- ment and let the people see what they bought. Put it out- side here and let people see what they purchased. An ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE EMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 8244, SUBSECTION 39-2 (b) OF CITY CODE, ESTABLISH- ING FEES FOR THE USE OF THE BANDSHELL, TORCH OF FRIENDSHIP AND SNOWMOBILE, BY QUASI -PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, INSOFAR AS THEY ARE IN CONFLICT. passed on its first readinbg by title at the meeting of May 23, 1974, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Mr. Plummer, seconded by Rev. Gib- son, the ordinance was thereupon givers its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8271. 4, AMEND ORD, 8245-SEC,39-3 OF CODE_ ESTA ILISH FEES FOR USE OF TENNIS FAcal f . NMIksA_PARK Ate. tIPPRL PARK An ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 8245, SECTION 39-3 OF CITY CODE, ESTABLISHING FEES FOR THE USE OF HENDERSON PARK AND MOORE PARK TENNIS FACILITIES IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, INSOFAR AS THEY ARE IN CONFLICT. passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 23, 1974, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Mr. Plummer, seconded by Reverend Gibson, the ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8272. Mayor Ferre: Let the record reflect that all members of the Commission have been furnished with a copy of the ordinance and that copies are available to the public. 12 N 271974 40 • AN SEC. 27-17.OF CODE: "FEES t1D CHARGES". An ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 27=17 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, ENTITLED "PEES AND CHARGES" BY ADDING THERETO A NEW SUBSECTION (c) WAIVING PLAT PROCESSING FEES FOR GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES AND AGENCIES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS, OR PARTS THEREOF IN CON- PLICT INSOFAR AS THEY ARE IN CONFLICT; AND CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY PROVISION. passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 23, 1974, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Rev. Gibson, seconded by Mr. Plum- mer, the ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8273. Mayor Ferre: Let the record reflect that all members of the Commission have copies and also they are available to the public. 6, AMEND SEC, 2-82,2 OF CODE- FEES FOR PREPARATION OF COVENANTS TO ga Kit( TN,L.,D_ _ __ _ - An ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2-82.2 OF THE . CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, ENTITLED "SAME -FEE FOR PREPARATION OF COVENANTS TO RUN WITH THE LAND", BY ADDING A NEW PARAGRAPH WAIVING SAID FEE FOR GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES AND AGENCIES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, INSOFAR AS THEY ARE IN CONFLICT; AND CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY PRO- VISION. passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 23, 1974, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Rev. Gibson, seconded by Mr. Plum- mer, the ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Plummer,, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8274. Mayor Ferre: Let the record reflect that all members of the Commission have copies of the ordinance and that it is also made available to the public. 13 JUN 271974 411 1 AMEND . SEC. 2-86 "SAME -FINDING . MATERIAL .ERRORS" An ordinance entitled: AN O?*DINANCE•AMENDING SECTION 2-86 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, ENTITLED "SAME --FINDING MATERIAL, ERRORS", BY ADDING A NEW PARAGRAPH IN SAID CODE SECTION WAIVING THE FEE FOR GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES AND AGENCIES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, INSOFAR AS THEY ARE IN CONFLICT; AND CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY PRO- VISION„ passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 23, 1974, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Rev. Gibson, seconded by Mr. Plum- mer, the ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8275. The Mayor announced that each Commissioner had been furnished with a copy of the ordinance and that copies are available to the public. 8, AMEND RFC. 77-26 - "SAME - FEES" An ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 27-26 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, ENTITLED "SAME -FEES", BY ADDING A NEW PARAGRAPH IN SAID CODE SECTION WAIVING SAID FEE FOR GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES AND AGENCIES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, IN- SOFAR AS THEY ARE IN CONFLICT; AND CONTAIN- ING A SEVERABILITY PROVISION. passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 23, 1974, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Mr. Plummer, seconded by Reverend Gibson, the ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8276. The Mayor announced that each Commissioner had been furnished with a copy of the ordinance and that copies are available to the public. 14 JUN 271974 41/ AMEND SEC, 2-87 -SAME PERMANENT REFERENCE MONUMENTS NOT japPERLY PLACED An ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2-87 OF THE CODE.OF THE CITY OFMIAMI, FLORIDA, ENTITLED "SAME --PERMANENT REFERENdE MONUMENTS NOT PROPERLY PLACED", BY ADDING A NEW PARAGRAPH IN SAID CODE SECTION WAIVING THE FEE FOR GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES AND AGENCIES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, INSOFAR AS THEY ARE IN CONFLICT; AND CONTAIN- ING A SEVERABILITY PROVISION. passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 23, 1974, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Rev. Gibson, seconded by Mr. Plum- mer, the ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8277. The Mayor announced that each Commissioner had been furnished with a copy of the ordinance and that copies are available to the public. 10, AMFND SEC. 27-3 OF CODE; SANE -FEES. EXPIR,ATIONJ _RENEWAL An ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 27-3 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, ENTITLED "SAME -FEES; EXPIRATION; RENEWAL", BY ADDING A NEW PARAGRAPH IN SAID CODE SECTION WAIVING SAID FEE FOR GOVERN- MENTAL ENTITIES AND AGENCIES; REPEAL- ING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT, INSOFAR AS THEY ARE IN CONFLICT; AND CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY PROVISION. passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 23, 1974, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Reverend Gibson, seconded by Mr. Plummer, the ordinance was thereupon given its second and fin- al reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8278. The Mayor announced that each Commissioner had been furnished with a copy of the ordinance and that copies are available to the public. 15 JUN 271974 411 11. AMEND SEt, 54-20 OF CODE: AGREEMENT AND BOND AS TO PAVING AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS flY PERSONS SU lMttt1N�= PLATS. . - - an ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTK ON 54-20 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, ENTITLED "AGEEMENT AND BOND AS TO PAVING AND OTHER IMPROVE- 'MENTS BY PERSONS SUBMITTING PLATS, REPEATS, ETC., TO COMMISSION" BY ADDING THERETO A NEW•SUBSECTION (f) WAIVING PLAT PROCESSING FEES FOR GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES AND AGENCIES; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES, CODE SECTIONS, OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT INSOFAR AS THEY ARE IN CONFLICT;'AND CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY PROVISION. passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 23, 1974, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Rev. Gibson, seconded by Mr. Plum- mer, the ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8279 The Mayor announced that each Commissioner had been furnished with a copy of the ordinance and that copies are available to the public. 12, AMEND ORD. 8190 - TRANSFER $5,500 FROM YACHT DOCKS DEPT,FUND BAL, TO: YACHT DOCKS DEPARTMENT OPERATING BUDGET ETC. An ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPROPRIATIONS ORDINANCE NO. 8190 ALLOCATING AN ADDITIONAL $5,508.00 FROM THE YACHT DOCKS DEPARTMENT FUND BALANCE TO THE YACHT DOCKS DEPARTMENT OPERATING BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 1973-74 FOR THE SALARY REQUIRE- MENT OF H. LESLIE QUIGG. passed on its first reading by title at the meeting of May 23, 1974, was taken up for its second and final reading by title and adoption. On motion of Mr. Plummer, seconded by Reverend Gibson, the ordinance was thereupon given its second and final reading by title and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED ORDINANCE NO. 8280 The Mayor announced that each Commissioner had been furnished with a copy of the ordinance and that copies are available to the public. 16 JUN271974 4 1 SEEK MERcHAN'"S COOPERATION AFTER BREAK-INS s PROPOSED ORDINANCE Mr, Plummer: Mr. Mayor, t would like to bring up two matters. One I'll get shot for, the other one, I'll go into first. Mayor Ferre: J.L., before we do that let me explain on item 16 which is exactly 10 O'clock, that in the case of Mrs. Levy, it has been impossible because of conflicting schedules to meet with Dr. Norton and therefore, this is why this is being deferred until Mrs. Levy and Dr. Norton can meet. I think we can find a solution to the problem as expressed by the Commis- sion. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, the matter I want to bring up: Sun- day morning I was in church and a man came up to me, and I'm just giving you the story so I think you will know the need for what I'm going to proffer. He. said "You ought to go down on Flagler Street and see what's happening." I said "What is happening?" He said"Well a shoe store has been broken into right next door to Jackson Byron's." So,/ walked down there and when I got there, Mr. Mayor, there was a hole big enough for a 12 or a 13 year old kid to get through, a hole in the glass. Somebody had obviously thrown a brick and there was a little bit of humor involved because obviously a man of need had gone there and stolen one or maybe,two pairs of shoes and left the old ones right in front of the window. We all thought it was very funny until we saw some other people coming up taking their Sunday shoes. They were just continuously coming up and taking the shoes, so I immediately called the Police Department who informed me that they had been there that morn- ing and had had a policeman on the scene for almost four hours trying to locate an owner of the store and just could no longer hold, they did what they could around the sceneibut obviously they came back and just went right into the store. Now it was further complicated when I called Mr. Andrews who sv id he sould send City forces down there immediately which he did to batton the store up. That night I went back to town to buy a newspaper and when I did I saw a police car there that had three young juveniles who each had a big brown bag of shoes, that they had apprehended. They had re -broken into the store, the City forces had to come back down there, completely re - batten the thing down. Now that's the story. Now Mr.Mayor, we have a provision now in our Code or a suggestion or a co- operation which I think has to become mandatory. When occupa- tional license renewals which go out annually are sent to the owners of stores, they are asked to cooperate on the back in what they call a locator file for the Police Department. That is this thing right here. This is kept in the Police Depart- ment so in cases such as this the Police Department can immed- iately contact an owner to come down and secure his own store. Also, most of the merchants are asked to put a sticker in their window with their home phone number or somewhere they can be contacted. What I would like to do now, Mr. Mayor, is propose that it be mandatory that every store owner must file this form so that the Police Department can have the availability of information of notifying merchants and not tying up Police- men for these, 4,6,8, and 10 hours. We're trying to free the policemen up for more time on the streets and I think because of that, Mr. Mayor, we've got to make this locator file for merchants mandatory. So whatever is the normal procedure, I think that we have got to follow through. Mrs. Gordon: I always thought it was mandatory, J.L. 17 JUN 2 71974 1 Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor and Commission, I would like to carry Co nissioner Plumamer's suggestions even one step further and that is that we find someway, and I'll consult with the City Attorney to see if this is possible to do through ordinance, and that is that when we have these matters on file and we cannot contact owner, or cannot contact the person responsi- ble. that store, like on the weekend over Sunday, may remain in that condition over the entire weekend. The reason that I immediately went in and had the windows secured with City forces, I did this on the basis that this constituted public welfare. I did not want an incident to occur there that would have gotten far more serious than merely the taking of shoes because a store window was left open. Someone could get hurt or inadvertently shot because this was continuing and might continue on into the next store if you leave one store window broken.. Now we expended public funds and public energy on private property and that is a rather risky thing to do but I did it on the basis that it was public welfare. I think it is going to be important to get this in ordinance form that when we cannot contact the owner that we take this action and we keep track of the costs that the owner, we're really protecting his property, protecting his insurance rights and everything when we do this anyway, that if we can- not contact the owner then I think the discretion should be left with the City Manager or someone else, we could designate that in the ordinance, to make a determination that this sit- uation exists and public funds can be expended to secure the front window as it is in this case, and then billings be made to the property owner to cover the costs incurred. Mr. Plummer: I think it is a must. Would a motion be in order, Mr. Andrews, that I direct the City Attorney to draw such an ordinance for presentation at the next meeting? Mr. Andrews: Yes. Mr. Plummer: All right. Do you understand what we're trying to do? (1) Make it mandatory even to the extent that they not be issued their occupational license until this form has been surrendered. (2) If City forces are used that they will be compensated, the City will be compensated for the monies and the energies expended to protect his place of business. Mr. Lloyd: I wonder if I might have the indulgence, however, of making it the meeting after next because I would like to get a complete copy of the minutes so that I can properly get the intent of the Commission, and it will take the Clerk several days to get these minutes. If I could have that, or.... Mr. Plummer: Try it for the next meeting and if you can't then the following. It is something that needs to be done. Mrs. Gordon: I just want to tell you a little incident that happened to me. It happened in the middle of the night and I received a call from our Police Department that some vehicle had gone out of control and broken the front glass of my store and for me to come immediately down there. Ok. So what? If I went immediately down there what would I do? I think that what you're saying is that you would provide the security and charge the owner with the very effective way of handling a situation. That is exactly wbt happened. In my case, I hired a guard, private duty, to stand there through the rest of the night until the morning when I could have someone come in there and secure the premises. What you're saying is in fact a rea& ity, that even if you found the owner, in many cases the owner could not do anything about securing the property. 18 JUN 271974 410 Mr. Plummer: At least he is on guard, and it is his respon- sibility, or her's. The following Motion was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-507 A MOTION` REQUESTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE AND SUBMIT TO THE COMMISSION AT THE NEXT MEETING A PROPOSED ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE THAT EVERY STORE OWNER IN THE CITY OF MIAMI BE REQUIRED TO FILE INFORMATION WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AS TO WHERE HE MAY BE LOCATED IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERG- ENCY, AND THAT IF DAMAGE OCCURS TO THE OWNER'S PREMISES THE CITY BE EMPOWERED TO TAKE EMERGENCY SECURITY MEASURES AND THE OWNERS SHALL BEAR FINANCIAL RESPONSIBIL- ITY FOR THE EXPENSES INCURRED BY THE CITY IN DOING SO. Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mrs. Gorcb n, Mr. Plum- mer, REV. Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Absent on roll call: Mr. Reboso. Mr. Plummer: Mrs. Gordon, I've got a better suggestion to you. After 50 years of operation my funeral home was broken into two weeks ago. At such time they walked as far as the embalming room, they never took anything else and they left quite hastily. We couldn't find a thing missing. Nothing. They got to the embalming room and for some reason they de- cided they would go somewhere else and burglarize. Mrs. Gordon: You've got your own kind of insurance that we don't have. 14. ADDITIONAL HOLIDAY FRIDAY JULY 5. 1974 Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, at the sake of having Mr. Andrews not speak to me for 24 hours, I would like to bring up a subject that I've been approached by many City employees, we have the matter in the month of July that the 4th falls on a Thursday and the 5th is not declared a legal holiday. I would like to move, Mr. Mayor that as we have done in the past, that we give the City employees the 5th day so that they can have a long weekend. Mr. Andrews: I understand the position that the Commission is put in. I just have to remind the Commission that this is an expenditure of unanticipated funds and I recognize the.. Mayor Ferre: We've always done it, haven't we? Why don't we get around to recognizing it so we don't have to go through this. Mr. Plummer: We're doing tht in negotiations.... The following motion was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption; 19 JUN 271974 MOTION NO. 74-508 A MOT/ON DECLARING FRIDAY, jULY 5, 1974, AS A HOLIDAY FOR CITY EMPLOYEES. Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote- AYES: Mr. Plunnner, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 15, PERSONAL APPEARANCE - MR, THOMAS FERGUSON, DIRECTOR MODEL CITY SPORTS AND CULTURE PROGRAM Mayor Ferre: Miss Meek is the chairman for one of our Parks for People program districts and Mr. Ferguson is the very able director of a Model City Parks development program and the chair will now recognize you. Ms. Meek: Thank you Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission. I would like to say that today we would like to know how much time we have so we won't take too much time. Mayor Ferre: How much time do you need? Ms. Meek: About 10 minutes will do. Mayor Ferre: Is tint between you and Mr. Ferguson, the 10 minutes? Ms. Meek: Yes. Today I would like to assume three roles as I stand here and tell the Commission about a program which is very dear to me. (1) I speak with a personal interest and if the Commission will just indulge me just a few minutes I will tell why. First of all, my personal interest is that I represent over 300,000 professional recreators throughout the country. I am a member of the trustee board of the National Recreation and Parks Association. Another role that I'm as- suming is that I'm presently the chairman of district 3's City of Miami's Parks for People Program. I planned the 5- year comprehensive recreation program for the Model City Agency and I love Miami. We're here this morning to ask that the sports development program be given some financial assist- ance by the City of Miami. That is our main reason for being here. To us, recreation is not a luxury. It is a necessity thatthe City, the County and any other agency should be assist- ing in the delivery of these services. They are very import- ant. As a planner for the Model City Agency at one time we utilized as much of the open space in that area as we could. We wanted to give the people a chance to breath, a chance to Flay, a chance to see, and a chance to feel something beau- tiful within their own environment. Not only do we deal with physical resources but we deal with human resources. We are here this morning to say to the City of Miami that we are very much interested in you assisting us in perpetuating human re- sources. The Sports Development Program which Mr. Tom Ferguson is the project director of has assisted in the development of over 8000 young people for the last four years. If that's not a good perpetuation of human resources, if that's not what we call environmental protection, if that's not what we call ec- ology - I don't know what is. We're here because we need some help from you. We have received Federal Funds from Model City. They have been good to this program. We feel that we need some help from the City of Miami to keep this program going. We understand from Model City Authorities that this program will be phased down and that they will help in whatever way 20 JUN 2 71974 that they cart but it will not be on the same level that this program has been allowed to exist. Federal funds are fine but We feel that the City of Miami should invest in some of the human lives that live in and around this beautiful city. This investment hag to be more than lip service. This investment has to be more than saying we are very much interested in the physical rehabilitation of this area. It has to say that we are also interested in the human rehabilitation of this area and it cannot come about just by filling open spaces. We are very much interested in this investment. We're also in- terested in the fact that community based groups such as the sports development club have a share in the development of the delivery of recreation services. We're not saying that the Cit;. of Miami or Dade C-:1nty Parks can not assist. But we are saying that community based groups,are interested and they can deliver. We're also saying that even though it is the city of the municipality to deliver recreation services that these recreation services should be coobined with local re- sources. This sports development group is that type of del- ivery assistance. Precedents have already been set. The local man -power agency has any number of local groups assist- ing it in the delivery of manpower services. The council is another example. They have local community based groups assisting them in the delivery of health services. I submit to this Commission that the City of Miami has to cope with the fact that small community based groups can affect in a cooperative venture a delivery of recreation services. Sports Development does this. It takes the kids from the ghetto and they use not only sports, but they use everything that's avail- able to them because so many of these young people, this pro- gram is the only thing that they have to cling to. It is the only thing that perpetuates what you call theAmerican Dream that gives them a chance to participate, to compete, to learn something young enough and not in a haphazard way. You say well these poor people, they'll survive anyway. Why should the City be involved? I say because there's a ghetto to greatness syndrome which each of you have witnessed. This ghetto to greatness syndrome has been seen in a guy like Larry Little who came from Alley to greatness. If Larry Little had not had the advanta'e of a grand recreation pro- gram, one that was conducted at .... He certainly wouldn't have become the individual he has become today. If it were not for programs such as the Sports Development Pro- gram how we could we have spawned such people as Bob Hays? When he started to college he couldn't speak a straight sen- tence. He was non -articulate. Had it not been for a planned sequential type of activity for someone who took the chance to say here is a human resource, this is human ecology, let's preserve this resource. So this ghetto syndrome, we're asking you to indulge with us. We're saying two things to you, the action that we request... Is to give us the funds to keep this program operating on a neighborhood basis. Neighbor- hood groups in cooperation with the City of Miami and any other agency that will help us - We need money. We ask you in the proposal that we submitted just now for $171,000. This may sound big to you. It may sound like a luxury to you but it really isn't. We say to you like the Athenians used to say, "you delivered the City to us. We'll transmit it back to you not exactly like you gave it to us but in an improved state." I thank you. Mayor Ferre: Thank you very much. I might make this state- ment perhaps in the interest of time, Mr. Ferguson, ladies and gentlemen. First of all, and I'm speaking for myself and I'm sure for everyone on the Commission would agree that we sym- pathize and like the idea of helping over 3000 kids become 21 JUN 271974 • • healthily involved in sports programs. I don't think anybody would argue that. Secondly, I think it is probably one of the Most important things we can do and dollar for dollar we couldn't invest our money better for our future citizens than to do what you're talking about. There are two basic quest- ions that come up. One is; how to do it, how best to do it. We do have a City structure and you have not been a part of it. You see a basic question in this memorandum by Mr. Al Howard asking "who is Tom•Ferguson?" I'm not being critical of Al, he doesn't know. He's new in the community. He's only been here a year, a year and a half. But the point is, you're not involved with the City program. There is a question of in- formation, and if we are putting our money then we have to know exactly how it operates and that has to be done. Now the second thing that I wanted to point out to you is this: That this City Commission went on record several meetings ago that all of these Revenue Sharing Funds that were going to be com- ing in, that it was going to go to a committee and the commit- tee is a joint committee between Metro, the United Fund and the City of Miami. That Committee is going to review all pet- itions for the expenditures of money because as much as I'm in favor of your program, and I'm for it, there are other pro- grams that are also requesting funds and many of them are very very worthy programs. If you were sitting here you would want to help them too.... (audio interruption). And that is, you'll be back to this Commission, I'm sure. But it has to go through this process first. I will be happy to recognize you, you can talk for a little while longer if you want. We're not going to make a decision today because we cannot. This has to go through the structure. Now let re explain to you what the reason is for that. You see we hax;.e a responsibility for the kids that live in the City of Miami. There is no question about it. But you see, out of those 3000 kids many of them don't live in the City of Miami as you well know, and Metro has a similar responsibility. What we want to do is, we want to jointly attack this problem. Remember that 25% of Metro- politan Dade County are citizens of Miami and they've got a responsibility too, don't you see. So you will have to forgive the burden of the bureaucratic procedures but we have to go along. We have to do it that way. Now is there anything else that you'd like, or Mr. Manager? Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor, we can supply Mr. Ferguson with the letter outlining how this presentation application should be made to the City stating the program and the way it is funded and so forth following that foremat so that it can be eval- uated with the other requests and recommendations then made to the City Commission. Mr. Ferguson: Mr. Mayor, how could you tell 3500 poor kids about the process that we are going through now? Mayor Ferre: How do you want us to do it? Do you want us to avoid the process? Mr. Ferguson: No, I don't want you to avoid but I'm just try- ing to explain that and if Mr. Al had ever been in the Black ghetto as I'm quite sure he'd known about Tom Ferguson. I got two ministers here who is involved in this program, religiously with 3500 kids. We are here because we are trying to keep the kids out of crime and it seems like no one really cares until there is a riot or until... Mayor Ferree Tom, that isn't so. Father Gibson cares, Rose cares, Mr. Plummer cares, Reboso cares, I care, the administra- tion cares. We're going to do something but what we cannot do 22 JUN 27197 • we cannot just it here and unilatteraly and arbitrarily say that regardless of what monies come through and regardless of what anybody else has to say that we're going to go ahead be- Cause She's interested in senior citizens and so am I. She's interested in health care programs and he's interested in day- care programs and he's interested in all different kinds of programs that are all important and they all have to be done. At least I think they all•have to be done. We have to go through the process. Now you see for example, Mrs. Range is going to be here and she has a program which is very import- ant too. Are you going to tell me that your program is a better program than her's? Mr. Ferguson: Mr, Mayor, I'm not here to compare my program and any other program but you were at our banquet. We had over 700 kids at that banquet, the most that have ever been in Allapattah Junior High School. You saw ballet, you saw judo, you saw , you saw all the types of things that you yourself never realized that were existing in the Black com- munity. Mayor Ferre: What do you want me to do Tom? Mr. Ferguson: All I want you to do is give me some hope that we do have, as of the 30th of September these kids will be back out into the jungle. Mayor Ferre: You mean to tell me you don't think what we've said here gives you any hope? Is that your opinion? Mr. Ferguson: Mayor, I have hope and what you have said, I have hope in Father Gibson, I have Rosemary, but let's say those kids out there, they have to be convinced - I am con- vinced. I have to convince them and their parents and the community. That's who I have to convice. Mrs. Gordon: Tem, may I speak? I am familiar with your pro- gram because before I was a Commissioner I was involved in be- coming familiar with your program. The work you are doing is very worthwhile. The Mayor is not telling you to go home and forget about it. He's not saying that at all. He's saying we have set up a process, and I'm saying it as one person, I like your program. I don't what you're doing. I know what it's doing for the kids but we still have to follow the procedure because we won't make exceptions in any of these - we can't make exceptions and not follow procedures in yours. But as far as I personally am concerned, I am familiar with your program, I know what you're doing, I know what the kids are benefitting. It is indeed a people conservation program. It does prevent crime. It does help the kids from getting in- volved in drugs and other bad influences. So take courage in the fact that I understand and Father understands and the Mayor understands, and all of us, Mr. Reboso, Mr. Plummer, but we've got to follow procedure. Ok? Mayor Ferre: Tom, there is one last thing that I did want to mention to you. The important thing is the program. Right? Not the people Mr. Ferguson: That's the important thing, not comparing it with any other program. I don't want to get into any person- ality thing. But see, I am emotional because those kids out there are barefooted, they are breaking windows just like Com- missioner Plummer said. They don't have..., their morale is low. 23 JUN 271974 Mayor Ferrel: are the kids. Mr. Ferguson: Mayor Ferre: gram? Mr. Ferguson: Right. May I say sorething now? The important thing Right? Yes, sir. It is noA the people that employed by the pro - Mayor Ferre: All right. Now, so you understand, the City of Miami if it is going to pay, if it becomes a City program then it will be administered by the City. You understand that? Mr. Ferguson: Right. I understand that. Ms. Meek: I think that it is time that cities and municipal- ities realized that some of the old traditional package forms that have been used in urban ghettos are not pass. It is time now to think of groups in the community which can join hands with the City and say to them"Look, we haven't asked on programming in this area. We've worked with these young- sters for 10, 15 and 20 years. We can assist you in this type of program." We certainly didn't come here this morn- ing to tell the City how to run its recreation programs. We are a part of them. We are an exten*ion of the:City. We are an extention of any agency but we still would like to say to you that we're not here to tell you what monies to relegate to us. We're only saying to you that we need money, if it comes from Revenue Sharing or wherever it comes from, the source is not important to us. If there is a process to go through for Revenue Sharing, fine. We don't mind going through that process. What we're trying to point out is the urgency of this situation, that the summer is here and timeliness is very important and that if there is any money -we don't care where it comes from, from any source, if there is any process but we'd like to do it and we'd like to be involved right away. And as it regards to Tom Ferguson and this program, this is not Tom Ferguson's program -this is a people program. It matters very little to us as to whether Tom Ferguson has vis- ability. We want want this program have visibility and we want the City to recognize. Mayor Ferre: We're communicating. There is no misunder- standing. Reverend Gibson: Let me say this. I wasn't going to say any- thing but you know, I understand more than all of the other folk up here and when this comes to me, this sounds bad. I just believe that if I'm going to address myself to $100,000 even I, as much as I love you, I know that this..., I've just got to be concerned about how I give out the $100,000 and to whom I give it to. I hope you understand that much. What the Mayor is saying to you and I don't think you heard, and I could understand why you didn't hear because you're emot- ionally involved. I want you to note that while you were talking I was emotionally involved and I was, just like the paper said, I was doing one of those sleeping things, you know. All I suggest to you,' in good tradition, is you follow the direction. Now you have til September. You say after September if you don't get any money you ain't going to be. Is that right? All right now. This is June. We promise you that if you follow the process you may not get $100,000 but I am also concerned that if the County is getting my taxes, 25% of my tax or whatever the percentage is, and I constitute 25% of the population then the County ought to 24 JUN 271974 • • be a joint venture. Jo 'you understand? We ain't unaware and Our ears are not clogged up. I just want you to go out with charity and understanding. Beautiful. Mayor Ferre: Thank you very much, Ms. Meek, Mr. Ferguson. Samuel Rosenblatt?: It gives me great pleasure to hear talk about minority... I'm not here particularly on this project but I'm very much interested and very happy to hear this. What I want to add is that not only is it a question of money, it is a question of coordinantion of the community. Now where 1 come from I volunteered my services as a senior citizen to the development of tennis in the highschool and we did many things like that. Now I would like to see the Mayor or the Commission take this into consideration: not only is it a matter of money but a coordination of efforts to involve all citizens in the planning and in the development and do the same in coordinating Shennandoah or any other minority section like that. I for one have been looking for an opportunity for the past few years to cooperate in a movement like this. This is something, for instance, the City parks when the rec- reation question came up about Henderson and . There were no notices at all in the City parks about it. There are no organization of sports groups in the City to coordinate these things. I would like to see these things coordinated. We have clubs, we have organizations coordinating all of these things. I would appear before the board of estimate and give an idea of what was required and I would be glad to do it again if we have the opportunity. Mayor Ferre: Why don't you give your name and address to the Manager. Perhaps, Mr. Andrews, you can have someone in the Parks and Recreation Department contact this gentleman. 16, PROCLAMATION Proclamation - Third Century, U.S.A., designating Thursday, July 4th as Fly the Flag Day. 17, CONDITIONAL USE - LOTS 1 THRU 8, BLOCK 3, PARKDALE SUB (14-36) L uxeDl . PPnpX t MATE.LY .1920 S. { , . 2711 AVPAUE Mayor Ferre: Are there members here for item #17? Wi11 you step forward please, proponents, ---are there objectors? How many objectors are present to item 17. Would you raise your hands please? Nine. How many of you wish to speak? Two? How many proponents are going to speak? Mr. Robert D. Zahner: Probably not more than three. Mr. Simpson: This is the first appeal coming before this Commission that was initiated by the neighborhood. What I am telling you, the bank was the applicant for the request for the drive-in tellers. The Zoning Board granted them their drive-in teller facility. Within 15 days 10% of the neighbors presented a petition for this item to be heard by the City Commission, so that is the status. (In -audible question) Mr. Simpson: There is no filing fee involved for an appeal if 10% of the neighbors within 375 ft. file. This has been checked against the certified list of property owners. Mayor Ferre: How many of the proponents wish to speak? Mr. Zahner: Probably not more than three, Mr. Mayor. I believe that this is an appeal and subject to a ruling of your City Attorney. I believe then that the objectors are in the posture of being appellants, and the applicant who was successful with both the professional staff and your Zoning Board, would be in the posture of the appellee. Mr. Lloyd: Mr. Mayor I'll explain that. Under the new zoning rules, the new ordinance, either party may appeal from the decision. Now the objectors have appealed from the decision. You are sitting here almost in the nature of an appellate court. the decision being final unless somebody objects. so therefore inasmuch as the objectors. have appealed from the decision, they have the right to go first. Mayor Ferre: You all understand that now? Mr. Lloyd: Then of course. Mr. Zahner's group who got the decision, would go next and then the others would have a right of rebuttal. Mayor Ferre: You ladies and gentlemen understand that? So that means you go first. Rev. Gibson: Mr. Mayer I'd like to ask a question. Mr. Lloyd did you explain that to the people when you met with them, or when all this took place out there with those people? Let me say something that bothers me, ----now that appellee. and appellant and all that, the average citizen doesn't under- stand that. Mayor Ferre: I don't understand that, Rev. Gibson: --and I want you to know how confusing 26 JUN 2 719744' thie wee. and 1 one thing 1 am gong to do as lohg ae 1 am here, 2 think the language we use, needs to be understood by the average John 0, public, ----not you, mr. SiMpeof, I hear what you say. I bet those people right now could not tell you what you just said. Mr. Lloyd: If you will give me a moment I'll explain it, very simply. Rev. Gibson: Explain it in the laymen's language, not the lawyers language. Mr. Lloyd: All right, ----objectors, you have the right and duty to go first and present your reasons why you feel that the decision of the Zoning Board is wrong then the other side will go and rebut you. you then after that, have the right of rebuttal to come back, final. You go first and last. Is there any question? Mayor Ferre: Go ahead, your name and address for the record. Mr. Antonio Soto: My name is Antonio Soto, I live at 2801 SW 19th Terrace. Good morning, Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, this is the third meeting pertaining to this particular property, specifically the bank. The residents have turned out in fair amounts in all three sessions against this bank. They like I, feel this bank is going to harm us greatly, specially because of the character of this neighborhood. Now, the first hearing, the bank got a deferral, based on the fact that they were going to make major improvements in the traffic flow situation. I present that there no major changes which would have justified that first deferral which they got. The traffic is still going to do the same thing it did in the first hearing. Now I have with the minutes of the last meeting of the Zoning Board in which they granted this conditional use permit. In here they refer to the traffic flow and the right turn situations. They say they are going to have their guard keeping people from making a right turn. MayorFerre: Excuse me for interrupting you but in the interest of time, how long are you going to talk? I am going to have to limit you to, can you do it in 5 minutes? Mr. Soto: I'll try to squeeze everything I can. Mayor Ferre: The problem, is, that a lot of other people want to be heard. Mr. Soto: That is true, but I think in this case the neighborhood has to be heard, because according to the law, -- Mayor Ferre: According to the law, you can only speak 10 minutes. Mr. Soto: Right, but according to law they can also put this bank here, and we think it is going to destroy our neighborhood. Mayor Ferre: I'll let you go beyond 10 minutes, is that all right? 27 ,JUN 271974 Mr. Soto: They bring up the situation of the Sth lane. 'Chia they changed into a second set of plans. The Planning Department gave its O.K. rather its approval, of the plan►S based on the Sth lane. Mow .for a period of one year they cannot do anything with this 5th lane. This 5th lane provides landscaping between this bank and the residential area. After one year, ---I don't see anybody that is going to keep the bank from just tearing down the trees and making that Sth lane a Sth lane. --I don't see anybody that can enforce this. The architect constantly brought up this 60% landscaping where only 10 to 15 percent was required. There is only one way to explain why they were so generous. They are trying to camouflage this, because they know it doesn't fit there. Mayor Ferre: Go ahead. • Mr. Soto: Am I going to be heard, because if I am just going to stand here and talk to the wall, Mayor Ferre: You are being heard. Mr. Soto: Okay, thank you. They bring up the situation of 60% landscaping. why they are so generous when they only need 10%, they are trying to make somethig fit where it doesn't fit, they are trying to hide it with trees. They bring up this thing of the 24 hour teller, this is going to bring business 24 hours a day to an R-1 area. This is one family structures in this area. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, what I would like to say, he is making statements which are not correct, now do you want us to wait until he is finished to correct him, or do we correct him as he goes? Mayor Ferre: This is R-C, is what you want to say, ---- Mr. Plummer: That is the point sir, what you are talking for example, just using the one example. It is not an R-1 property, ----I'm trying to correct you, the property involved is R-C, residential commercial,okay, not R-1. You asked the question, and I think it should be answered. Why are they putting 60% landscaping instead of 10% where it is required? The answer is we have done this all over the City of Miami, it is called a buffer. That is your answer. I want you to be informed as to what is going on, and know why, because some of your statements are incorrect. I think they should be correct. So proceed, sir, ---- Mr. Soto: I am aware it is R-C,---I am saying it backs into an R-1 district. Mr. Plummer: It does that all the way up and down Coral Way. Mr. Soto: But look at the mess you got on Coral Way. Mr. Plummer: That is your opinion.- I am sorry, 27th Avenue, ----I stand corrected. Mr. Soto: Now, may I quote, there has been this thing of the problem of the business this bank is going to generate. They have this 24 hour Jack, so to speak, and I quote froC_1 the Miami Herald June 9th, an article, there is only one other bank in Miami that is presently carrying this 24 hour Jack. "The response to the devices has been fantastic according Adrian Cox, Marketing Officer for United Banks. In Dadeland en weekends we have people lined up and we are probably going to have to put in addition aamachines, she says. They personally plan about maybe three, ---one machine that works 24 hours a day, this 24 hour Jack." Here you have it, it brings in business, because these are limited machines, it is not all over the county, very limited. The parking situation, they only have 11 parking spaces. On this same property, they have a two story building. They say it is only going to have certain items in that building. They say they are going to have only three or four employees in that building, but for a two story building, I wager they are going to have more than three or four employees. In other words, they are going to use those 11 parking spaces for their employees, and are not going to have any further parking for their own customers, which come up to the walk-up teller and to the 24 hour Jack. These people are going to park in our residential area. They are going to park in our driveways, etc. Since the beginning they say they have been trying to work with the neighborhood. This I dispute fully, because they never came to us asking our opinions, or anything. They say they were sincere, they wanted to put a bank here which Mould be in harmony with the neighborhood. They never asked us what we wanted. When we presented what suggestions, they ignored us, or acted like they were listening to us, and from there on we never heard anymore about it. May I present something in the minutes here,--i Mayor Ferre: I want to point out to you, you have already talked 12 minutes. Mr. Soto:Okay, if you want me to give up, Mayor Ferre: I don't want you to give up, but there are other people who have rights besides you,--- let me tell you something, because you are being very cocky about this, and I want to tell you something, if this were Metro, or if this were the School Board, in the School Board they have some lights, have you been to the School Board? ---- they put a timer on you, and at the end of 4 minutes that buzzer starts to ring and the 5th minute you've got to get off. I am going to let you talk, but I want you to recognize that other people also have rights here. Mr. Soto: Okay, if you consider this opportunity for us to express ourselves, with limits, what can I say? Mayor Ferre: The Charter does, and the reason the Charter does that is because, otherwise, these cases would take night and day. That is why we have a procedure. an.administrative procedure,that is why we have Zoning Boards and Planning Boards, ---this is an appeal, you are appealing, and you have a right to appeal, you have a right to be heard, and I am letting you talk, I am pleading with you, please to be considerate of the rights of others. Mr. Soto: Fine, the final thing I might say, there is a petition signed by 53 people opposed to the bank, and I think that speaks for the neighborhood. Thank you. Mayor Ferre: I hope you don't misunderstand. You are very well informed and I Congratulate you for taking the time and effort and obviously you have done a lot of research and a lot of work before you got here and t congratulate you for not only you interest but your thoroughness. Mr. Johnny Harms: Mr. Mayor and members of the Board, my name is Johnny Harms, I live at 2720 SW 19th Street,let me assure you I believe in the framework of the law, and 10 minutes is all I want if that is what the law says, and as an opener I would like to hand out some hand-outs to you for your perusal, maybe be a little bit more informed on the situation. If you will be kind enough to go along here when we have about two minutes to go, I'd appreciate you warning me. Possibly I won't have to go that long. Mayor Ferre: Would you so inform him? Mr. Harms: Folks I've lived here at this address for 30 years now, and this particular area west of there of course is R-1 and down 27th Avenue is going the other way. I'd like to point out to the Board that now we have a Doctor's office on the N.W. corner with a two story building, and it is a problem right now as far as traffic and parking is concerned. This is just north of where the bank wants to go in for their entry. and they have also got one on the S.E. corner, a Doctor's office, and they just passed one onthe N.S. corner at the last Zoning Board meeting, and we are breaking the zoning situation quite a bit throughout this area. We also have a bus stop on the N.W. corner right by the Doctor's office which will be another hindrance for the entrance into this particular bank operation. We have a traffic light at 16th Street and 27th Avenue, we have a traffic light at 22nd Street and 27th Avenue. There is no doubt in my mind that this will put a traffic light at 19th street and 27th Avenue, so you will have a,----19th is where the bank is going up. Mayor Ferre: The upper or the lower. Mr. Harms: The upper onthe yellow,---19th Terrace would be the lower, so this will give you traffic flow, -- a three block traffic flow on the east side of 19th Street, and will stymie one of the major arteries in our city, as I visualize it. We asked for a traffic survey at the last Zoning Board meeting. They didn't have it, we asked for one since then and we didn't get compliance with it, so they don't want to touch it with a 10 ft. pole. I visualize 19th Street and 19th Terrace becoming oneway streets and deteriorating the neighbor- hood if this is allowed to go in there. There is no other way out as I see it. 19th Street is now pretty much of a thoroughway anyway from 32nd to 27th it is one straight shot, and from 27th to 22nd it is one straight shot, and is used quite heavily right now, the traffic is quite profound. The noise will be a problem, in that our bedrooms parallel this bank facility as far as the traffic is con- cerned, and its operation is now 24 hours a day,seven days a week, with this facility ---the Jack -box facility. Now, 30 JUN 271974 the normal operation will be from 7:30 in the morning till 6:30 in the evening, so that is going to cause one big problem, cars will be running about 10 ft. from fay window day and night. We have several banks within this location that they want. t can name them if you care, and be specific, but they are all within a mile of this area. and we certainly don't need it, or want another bank. The majority of the property owners neither want the bank, --we don't think it is in harmony with the surrounding property as far as the residential area is concerned, and we see problems with traffic. We feel the ingress into this property pre- sents a very large traffic problem because you have a great deal of east -flow traffic, and this is going to be from the north and from the south and how are you going to enter that property at all with a car sitting there waiting to cross 27th Avenue. There is just no way. The only way you can do it is make a one-way street around a block and come out and then I can't even park in front of my own property. So we have one large problem with the traffic flow, and I don't think it is responsible as I view it as a citizen for the Zoning Board to take the position they did without a report of the traffic, and the traffic situation. This is quite something as the traffic owners are concerned. Off street parking is nil, like I said, and this will be worsened. The lighting situation & night will pose a problem for us, this will give us glare, and what have you. I'd like to go into some quotes now, this is from the minutes itself, and this was made by Mr. Serrera?, he is the architect of the building. ----"So you have now approximately 12 parking spaces after you finish your bank facility, so people wouldn't be standing in the middle of the street blocking the street." Here is another quote, --"Here we have space for more than 50 cars." I'll challenge that back up, more like 30, or back-up facility." And you have 11 parking spaces for permanent parking spaces. For people that come down and walk-up to the walk-up teller, and for the 24-Hour-Jack, the 24 hour teller, I should call it. -- now, in the second floor, the bank will have a type of a facility for just business, and will not be for the public. They will have some type of facility to have clerical, and w ill probably be 3 or 4 people working there. So this in itself is an admission to me of the zoning ordinance, that in my opinion, it isn't being complied with in this particular case. We now have a bank there, we now have offices, and clerical help. We now have 24-hour-Jack, 7 days operation and this is more than the neighborhood can stand . Mr. Plummer: Let me ask a quick question, and make sure I am well within my thinking, because 1 want to do it as you are going along. I can ask it of you I am sure or the attorneys. Am I not correct they are putting in the bank up at 27th and the old chicken place. Isn't that where the bank is going, and this is detatched away from the main site? Mr. Harms: That is correct. Mr. Plummer:Thank you. Mr. Harms: I want to clarify that. I was talking about the structure they are talking about building now, which is a two story building, which I quoted from them 31 JUN 2 71974 which saye they are going to have clerical help in there. Mr. Plummer: But basically their primary business Of banking will be up in the old chicken place. Mr. Harms: That is true. Unidentified person: Eight minutes have elapsed. Mr. Harms: Thank you. This ordinance, 759, reads as follows,"banks and finance offices, exclusive of drive in tellers," ----now this is in section 1 of the ordinance of which I give you folks a copy there, and this is very clear to me, ----I am no lawyer, but banks to me, is plural, this means, 'are' and finance offices, and it says to me, you can have one or the other, but you can't have both, and they want the whole world, and when you go to a 7 days operation, around the clock, 10 ft. from the window, it is not fair, it is not compatible it is not harmonious with the neighborhood, and we've said, through petition, that we don't want any part of it. Thank you. Maya Ferre: Any body else want to speak onthis item? Mr. Samuel Rosenzweig: My name is Samuel Rosenzweig, 2620 S.W. 19th Street, I am interested in the safety factor of this ti* g, especially. Shenandoah is on 19th Street. and many of the children that go to Shenandoah pass along there. There are many new houses just built, --duplexes, two right across the street from me, where the people invested quite a bit of money, and put up beautiful homes. The Doctor's office that is located right on the corner of N.W. 27th Avenue, over flows his traffic problem in front of my lawn, and I have to go in there many times and complain about it. Now they have put another office right across the street from that, the one there, and they have one, a two story building right opposite the bank, proposal. Now, what are you going to do? Are you going to put an over -head pass there. Just recently there was a man killed on 27th Avenue, a pedestrian, on the 21st street crossing. If you are going to increase the problem, especially with more children coming into the neighborhood, I think you are not serving the purpose of the community. The Commission just gave a variance from 4400T--instead of 6,000 sq. ft. necessary, they allowed us a variance of 4400 sq. ft. for a Doctor's office. Are you going to disrrupt the neighborhood this way by allowing commercial enterprises to come into the area that are unprepared,--19th Street between 27th Avenue and 29th Avenue is full of trees, that cross the street from one side to the other.It is impossible to see the cars corning in from 27th Avenue. When the cars come from the 20th Street section, crossing the traffic at 19th Street, you are going to have a very bad problem because the cars are coming against them, will not be able to see them and I think the whole thing should be approved first by the police department, and the whole thing taken into consideration from the social side of it, of the safety of the people, 32 J UN 2 71974 a bank is not necessary there in my opinion because you have banks on S.W. 8th Street, Coral Way end you have many, Many banks, especially an unattended bank teller's place that would be a hazard in the deserted area of the evening, i think it should be taken of serious consideration before you approve it Mr. Robert D. Zahner: Mr. Mayor and distinguished members of the Commission, Z A H N E R, 45 Giralda, Coral Gables, representing the Americas Bank. First, I want to say we are not hiding or camouflaging anything. This probably is as open a zoning application as you will ever see. Mr. Hosea Sierra, our architect met with your professional staff on several occasions, so that they would be in from the beginning on what we want to do with the property. As you know this property is zoned R-C, it is on 27th Avenue, a busy arterial highway. The main facility for the Americas Bank is now in temporaty quarters but the main structure will be erected on the $.W. corner of Coral Way and 27th Avenue, some three blocks away. Now, the State of Florida has recognized that sometimes the remote facilities of a bank should be constructed not with the bank, or adjacent to it, but several blocks away, and it is on the basis of the recent 1973 law that we made this application. You can't change what is on 27th Avenue, and what we want to give them, we feel will improve the area, not cause any deterioration. For instance, without any variance whatsoever, we could construct a 6 story apartment with 24 two bedroom apartments which would require us to put in 42 parking spaces which we could without any variance whatsoever. It is our position that actually this would' really increase the area, it would not deteriorate it, because it would be a quiet type of operation, as has already been pointed out by the objectors, 60% of the property will be landscaped. We don't want to infringe on the neighbors in any way. Now such would not be the case if an apartment building with 24 two bedroom apartments were construdted on this: site, ---be no garbage, no pets, no children, no horns, and further, we think that there would be absolutely no traffic problem whatsoever, with regard to the 24 hours operation every bank in town now is impressed with the advertising gimmick that is started. As a matter of fact in Coral Gables, they are approving one for the Sun Bank on Ponce De Leon. Getting back again trying to hide, Mayor Ferre: What advertising gimmick? Mr. Zahner:--.this 24 hour Jack, every bank is going to do the same thing. You can be sure, once it is started every other bank has to carry through, so we'll be no different. We originally had five lanes going through, -- it was suggested by your professional staff, that the one lane adjacent to the R-1 property to the west be eliminated and substituting landscaping which we have done. I'd further like to introduce the people that are connected with the Bank to show you that we have been here for a long time, we intend to be here for a long time, and are not trying to do anything that is going to hurt the area. First, our President, Mr. Robert Lewis, one of our Directors, Mr. Ed. Bryan Allan, Engineer, Dr. Edward Pahan, distinguished 33 attorney, also Mr. Ed Saunders, Saunders' Hardware, the family has been here for years. His father Dexter is also on the Board of Directors, and 2 would like to introduce at thia time Mr. Hosea Sierra, the architect who will briefly show you what he is planning for this area. Mr. Sierra, ----- Mr. Sierra: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, first of all I want to tell you what was the design criteria that we established before. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Sierra will you speak into the mike so we can all hear you? Mr. Sierra: Yes, first of all I want to state to you the design criteria established before we go into the actual design, creating a garden -type of facility with as much green area as possible, second, concentration of building mass so as to accomplish to a maximum,-- --we have done that, the scaling of the building to keep it to a minimum, so as to be in keeping with the residential area that surrounds it, that we have done also. A building with good construction materials, as to accomplish a maximum of esthetic effect, to create a low -profile building, by using visual aids, --I've done this as you can see by creating in the first floor of the building a berm which actually diminishes the total height of the building visually. This again is to keep in reality with the rest of thehouses in area which are one-story high, to create a buffer zone to diminish any noise from drive-in to adjacent areas, we have increased this by Planning Dept. request from 5 ft. which we had at the beginning to almost 11 ft. which we have now. The use of low and medium landscaping plus increasing the wall which is alongside the back, ----the residential area from 3 to 5 ft. in height, increasing the buffer area I mentioned before, the bank agreed, and eliminated at this time one drive-in lane which was here (indicating), Mayor Ferre: Mr. Zahner, would you also turn around so that the people can see what you are Mr. Sierra: ---and which we had presented in the first and our second preliminaries. We also increased by moving the building 10 ft. from 19th Terrace, ----this is 19th Terrace here, moving it back this way, 10 ft. as to create more area in here, after the people finish their banking business, they are going to have more area here not to block 19th Terrace. That is what Mr. Harms I think was talking about when I said at the other meeting, and we also decreased the exiting here which we had before we had a 5 lane exiting, to a three lane exiting, in order to control the flow of traffic coming out of the side, and we also directed and this was done after we met, I met with Mr. Soto the first gentleman that was talking. I talked to him, and he said that he was afraid of the traffic coming into this area, turning into his street, and said this could be accomplished by diverting the traffic by slanting the exit, in such a way as to discourage traffic from turning into 19th Terrace. I think we complied, • talked three time with Planning, --- Mayor Ferre:----eight minutes have elapsed, ---- Mr. Sierra: I've talked to planning three times. and have done everything Planning required of us. Thank you very much. 34 JUN 271974 Mr. Zahner: I almost forgot to introduce one of our other Directors, Judge James Dunn, a Judge in the City of Coral Gables, former President of the O. Bowl, again I mention that all of these people have lived here a long time and they expect to be here a long time and don't want to put anything that would be a disgrace to the City. In closing I want to commend you on changing your zoning procedures, I think you did a wise thing, the City of Coral Gables did that a couple of years ago, we think it works out very well, but I would remind you of this, that you are sitting here today as Mr. Lloyd stated as an appellate body, that is a court, if there was a court, above a court or a tribunal below. The Zoning Board unanimously approved this 6 to 0 and we have the'fine recommendation from your highly competent professional staff, we only hope you don't try to substitute your judgement for that of those that heard it, ordinarily it would stop right there, that would be the end of it, except for the fact that there were 10% of the people in the area that could bring an appeal without paying an additional fee and bring it here today. We certainly thank you for your time, we feel our plan is good, and we certainly hope you uphold the Board. Thank you. Mayor Ferre: Mr..Plummer first, Father Gibson second,----- Mr. Plummer: Mr. Zahner I wouldayou to speak if you can so that they can catch it in rebuttal and hopefully, two points that come to my mind, number one, it seems like and I can appreciate the great concern of this being 24 hour operation, 7 days a week,it is a concern, why this could not be placed, this mechanical monster or whatever it is, at the primary location at 27th which is C-2 and it is more conjested, and things of that nature, number one, that is the first question I'd like you to speak to, and second would you hold this drawing, that one, Jim. has any consideration been given to, or can consideration be given to reversing, putting the building to the back and the drive-in tellers nearer to 27th Avenue, taking the traffic away from the residential area, do you understand what 1 am saying? 1 would like to hear you speak to those two points. Mr. Zahner: In answer to your first question, I have Mr. Lewis the President of the Bank and he will answer your first question. Mr. Robert Lewis: My name is Robert Lewis, of the Americas Bank. The 24 hour teller, which is in question, is a system of banking for the convenience needs of the community that is evolving at the present time and has for approximately 10 years. I believe that every bank in the City will have this type of facility in the near future. When they advertise and talk about large lines, they are not talking about midnight;, large lines waiting for this facility to operate. Theysare talking about the normal peak hour operations, in which the people are using that rather than facing up to a teller inside a bank which is closed 35 JUN 2 71974 and this particular facility is limited by the banking statute. to house non -retail type banking services. You can only conduct an internal operation there, and I don't believe we will have many employees. It will be very limited and probably limited to the operation. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Lewis you haven't answered my question sir, my question is, why can't the 24-hour-Jack be placed at excuse my tetminology, the chicken place, what is it, ---- Mr. Lewis: 22nd Terrace, --- Mr. Plummer: --why can't the 24-hour-Jack be placed at that location rather than at this location. It is just a machine, because I know the one downtown, and it seems like to me there is no reason that it can't be placed down to the south there, rather than at this location because at the chicken place, there is no residences in the immediate area, but they are all businesses, it would not be objectionable to anybody, and you are still providing the service. That is what I am asking, and ask you to address to. Mr. Lewis: I don't believe it makes any difference to us where it is. Mr. Plummer: Fine, let's move it, I think you would move a lot of objection, I am not saying it is going to completely going to pacify the residents, but if you put it down there, there is nobody to disturb, if they come there at 2 o'clock in the morning. Mr. Lewis: I don't think it makes any difference really. It is a service to the community no matter where it is, we can implement it in one place or the other. Mr. Plummer: Has anybody beat that thing yet? Mr. Lewis: They have had a lot of malfunctions in the computer area of it. Mr. Plummer: Would you call me the next time it malfunctions. Bob, if you will address to the other, my thinking is, I can't talk in feet, but I am talking in the fact that if you reverse the situation, put the building towards the back where it doesn't create noise or problems, and put the budding to the back and brought the traffic in lanes, and out, closer to 27th Avenue, do you understand what I am saying. Mr. Sierra: By doing that Mr. Plummer, we are really getting too close to the intersection. We have to have some leeway, we need to have some leeway away from the intersection. Mr. Plummer: I notice here on this drawing, the first one, that you come out with a curve to the east, and I believe that you could do the same if you put the building out and make the curve to the west and then come out on to the street. Mr. Sierra: This is one of the things Mr. Soto objected to. He doesn't want the people to be turning into 19th Terrac 36 JUN 271974 towards the residentia]. area. Mr. Plummer: You can't remove that. They have got to come out on 19th Terrace. Come here with your drawing and let me show you. See what I am saying, that way you are taking at least another 40 or 50 feet away from the residential area, if you understand what I am saying. Mr. Zahner: If I may explain, you see here, you've got your building here, but if you put your traffic lanes here, I think you are going to create a more severe problem with the cars coming out there. What we did really, was eliminate one full lane here. we originally had five, eliminated four, and replaced it with landscaping which I feel is a better buffer, between the R-1 area than a two story building. Mr. Plummer: Well, but Bob look, we have to be fair here, what I am saying in all fairness is this, buildings do not generate noise and they do not generate confusion, and I think you can turn that around, put the building back towards the residences, and still have exactly what you are asking for. Speak to it if you will please. Mr. Sierra: Mr. Plummer it looks easy, but isn't so easy when you start to work with dimensions. When you put this building over here, first of all , you have to move that whole parking against this wall, then they will have less buffer than they have right now. Because we can do with a wall without even landscaping and whatsoever, because the Code allows us to do that, Mr. Plummer: I understand, Mr. Sierra: ---so you see, you have to have this parking over here. Mr. Plummer: Right. Mr. Sierra: This would move over there, we could probably have like you say, turn in such a way, creating a curve like, an S curve and going out west or east of the exit, but remember when we do that we are going to c reate according to the objections that the neibhbors have, then they are going to have a permanent parking facility against this wall. Mr. Plummer: The question I ask now by the elimination of that which you gave into, of the, 5th lane, ----what are we looking at right now, from tie edge of the asphalt to the fence? Mr. Sierra: This strip? Mr. Plummer: -What is the buffer strip? Mr. Sierra: It is 11 feet, the way it is there. It is actually a little bit bigger in the teller area. Mr. Plummer: How high is the wall? Mt. Sierra:--5 feet,--- we went from 3 feet, your 37 JUN 271974 Piannitig Department suggested that we went to 5, we made the change. Mr. Plummer: What is the vision level, --....- Mayor Ferret You have now taken about 16 minutes,-..- Mr. Plunger: No, they have not, that is on my time. Mr. Plummer: Is 5 ft. cut vision? Unidentified person: Yes. Mr. Plummer: Thank you. Mr. Acton:. The 5 ft height really is to screen the cars and the lights and whatever else might happen. Mr. Plummer: Thank you, unless you to want to address more to it. Rev. Gibson: I was at a conference of the Clergy where bankers were talking to us, the man in Orlando who was exceeding exciting to me in his presentation with all this new business, I don't want to go into that but you know what really worries me, I'm worried that the people who are objecting are not taking into consideration what can be built there now, I'm worried about that. I am interested in those two gentlemen standing up here and responding to this, if they can now build, ---how many apartments, ---let's talk about the apartment units and the people that can be housed. Mr. Simpson, tell me that, I mean Mr. Acton, ---sir, I want you to respond to this, because I am not so sure, as a layman, Mr. Acton: The use regulations permits such use as hotels, motels, ----which would allow basically I think it is, one Unit for every 200 sq. ft.--a site area, minus parking, it would allow apartment buildings and apartment hotel, a density roughly 72 units an acre, what it amounts to. What I am saying is, this particular facility is not nearly as liberal as some uses they could place on this site if they so desired. Rev. Gibson: Sir, what I was trying to clear up in my mind is this. you could get a worse situation there with what can be permitted, the hotel, motel business, the traffic permanent, and with all these people, than you can with the bank. I'd like for you to react. Mr. Harms: Is there any time limit, or anything, can I speak for a couple of minutes, is that the situation, I am not familiar with the procedures. Rev. Gibson: Just answer the questions as quickly as you can. Mr. Harms: The answer is we will take any one of them. Rev. Gibson: You will take any one of them? Mr. Harms: This 24 hour Jack scares the hell out of ate. 38 Rev. Gibson: J. L. gave us a solution. Maybe we can come to a compromise, middle ground. Why can't we agree to move the 24 hour business down on Coral Way and let's stipulate that. The 24 hour business will be on Coral Way and 22nd Lane, or whatever that is, and not up there. 1 see the bank being far less objectionable with the arrangements than all this other business. Mr. Zahner: We would accept a condition that would remove the 24-hour-Jack operation away from the remote facility. We have already agreed to take one lane out but in answer to your question, also to Mr. Harms, I would like to show you, what is in the area, and also what we can build there. Rev. Gibson: I know, I've been there, I understand, I am more familiar with that than you think. I would say to you as a commissioner, and you can tell I am dead in your corner, but they can build a worse situation there now with what is there, than if you got that bank. It seems to me that if you are willing, ---if you can be assured, that the 24 hour business is down on 22nd and Coral Way, where there is a public market, filling station and all of that, instead of having it at the remote center, that we ought to settle for that, knowing you could get a worse situation. Mr. Harms: I need more. Rev. Gibson: Let me play this with you, I want to give you more but I also have to protect his rights. Mr. Harms: I can understand that, but let me say what I've got to say, and maybe you can understand more the way I feel. As I've said before, our property line would be about 5 ft. from this noise, the fence will be 5 ft. off our bedroom window. I want an off -set of 12 feet on that fence, from that property line, and leave the trees that are already there, there. Put the fence inside the trees, this will throw the noise up, the trees will deaden it, and it might be a possibility of living with it. Rev. Gibson: Let the architect respond. I do not know what that means, what it will do to your plans, nor do I, ----I want to try, - Mr. Zahner: We feel we can't live with that, but we also feel that Mr. Harms is going to object to anything that is there. As a matter, of fact, if he were honest with you, he'd tell you now, he has objected many times to the small church that is now on the property, Rev. Gibson. Mr. Harms: That is true, it has been noisy from time to time, and I've written you folks letters as you well know. No question about it, I object to the parking, because it invades my home, and I hope you understand that. Mr. Plummer: Letb hear you respond to that one. Rev. Gibson: I hate noisy churches, but the Holy Spirit makes them make a noise once in a while. Mr. Harms 39 ,JUN 2719 out of fairness to ail, we want to be reasonable people here, and 1 am sure you want to be, and I am concerned about what happens to a man's home beeauae, I am building a Mine, and I said this is my lire's earnings, ail I've got, now, we have to be reasonable. They have moved, eliminated a lane, if they carry out that landscape, it does really give you some extra there, --- Mr. Harms: How about the 5th lane, is that going to stay out, or come in later on? Rev. Gibson: No, what we are saying, ---suppose we now agree to the stipulation there won't be the 5th lane, and then we will settle. Mr. Harms: I want time for rebuttal here before we go any further in negotiations.. Mayor Ferre: Go ahead. Mr. Harms: First of all I'd like to make the point to the Board, that we are not trying to hide anything either. I never even heard the word till this gentleman brought it up. In fact I was trying to be specific, to point out what they said, in fact I quoted them verbatim facts, they wanted a two story building, they wanted clerical work in there, blah, blah, blah,---and I say this is wrong, if they want their drive-in tellers, fine, give them a drive in teller, but it does not say anything about 24-hour-Jack, it does not say anything about walk-up, it says drive-in tellers are, and and, one or the other, but not the whole works. That is what is says to me, and I am no lawyer, and that is the way I view it, that is what I thought it said, -- the 6 story building I'll take it, they have parking, they furnish parking, I get relief, I get a couple of days of relaxation. This is my domocile, this is where I am going to die, if I can make it that way, and afford to live there, and I am sincere, because we have been living there 30 years, we have raised 3 children and they are mature citizens and they are living on the same street, some of them. As far as the building being moved to the west, if you do that, then it knocks out their expansion. They've had it. That is where the building is now, to the east. Now, as to the traffic, it wasn't 19th Terrace I was talking about per se, but that is a part of it, the way it was originally turned, is concerned, but 19th Street, the entrance is a problem, because of the east bound traffic. How can you turn in, if you h ave no opening to turn into, no way, it has to back up from 27th Avenue. You have to have a red light there, or you have problems. either that you have to make a one-way street, and enter from the east. then I can't get to my house period. The 24-hour-jack is a problem, he has aleviated that now, butthe traffic is a problem. the noise is a problem, he says no horns, the automobile itself, you can't keep people from blowing horns. The parking we don't have adequate right now. Mr. Plummer: One other question tothe bank, what are you providing in those three lanes for stack up, approximately how ntany cars? Mr. Sierra: Mr. Plummer, the criteria used here in most of the banks, they allow 100 ft for back-up. 40 Mr. Pluma+aer: Right. Mr. Sierra: We have 144 ft. for back up, four lanes, that would mean we would have around 40 cars, that would put cars three feet away from each other. Mayor Ferre: Ladies and gentlemen we have been on this item almost an hour, and there are other items waiting► would you wind up whatever you have to say? Mr. Harms: I'd like to finish off by saying once again We have to get back to the traffic situation, the parking situations, 19th Street per se is a dead end, down at 32nd. If anybody wants to stay within the framework of the law, the law says whatever, you won't hear a peep out of me, I promise you that, because I believe in it, and I think if we don't have this framework, we are going to have chaos, and that applies to the way I live. Mr. Rosenzweig: I haven't heard an answer to .what I mentioned about the fact that 19th Street is not a through street, fit for traffic at all, that the trees overhang. like in a little village, that traffic cannot be seen coming along, that you have a problem trying to run a big city in a little village section. If you want buildings like that, you should prepare an area for that. You have no curbings, the street is narrowing from one block to the next, so that traffic has to stop and pull over to one side to cross into the next. Now our street from 27th to 25th Avenue, is so narrow that two cars cannot pass. We have no traffic report on this and that is important to me. You have no provision for an overhead pass on 27th Avenue or traffic light or anything else. Prepare the real estate first before you accept new propositions like this. Mayor Ferre: Are there further comments from the Commission? Any further questions? Rev. Gibson: Mr.Mayor I want to make sure how do we have an assurance Mr. Lloyd, that the 24 hour operation will be on 22nd, and 27th. Mr. Lloyd: We prepare=a resolution putting that condition. in the resolution. Rev. Gibson: Sir, you may not agree with us, ---I am not always right, but I was concerned about this matter and I went on the scene, and drove up and down, came on up and I just believe, that if this property is not used this way based on what they could presently build, with the number of people, you would be better off with a controled situation, as these people are advocating, than you would be with somebody to build on that, ----and we just got to do it. Mr. Plummer: Father let me tell you one other thing that hasn't been said here this morning, this is temporary, it is on a one year approval. At the end of that year, if these people haven't done right, this Commission and the Board in its wisdom, can withdraw the application, so I think the bank better remember that. 41 JUN 2 71974 s • Rev. Gibson: You understand that sir? You can always cos►e back here at the end of a year if you are having unusual problems. Mr. Harms: We are talking about a question of degree here, responsibility and so on, and the operation itself. Let me make one point to you, I suggest, and these are some of my suggestions. Now, these go a little bit the other way, but here is my thinking. Instead of blowing this thing up to start with, 1 suggested operation on Monday, Tues and Wednesday, maybe 9 to 3, and of course, the off -set, go at it easy, and see what we can live with, instead of whole hog. and after we are there, you have a problem, you have a bad problem. You make a decision, I've got to live with it. Rev. Gibson: Here is what I think we could do. Why don't we go ahead and since they have a one year business, if it comes to the point that we would have to come back and make suggestions, to follow you all every other day, we'll face that as we come to it, provided it gets unbearable. Mr. Harms: I'd rather just start off a little bit first, then go the whole way. Rev. Gibson: Sir, I'm prepared to help both sides. You hear what is being said to us, you know the situation you know you got to come back in year's time, so we want you to go out there and try to live together. Is that fair enough? I'll offer the motion to uphold, with the full understanding, Mr. Lloyd, I want you to hear this, with a full understanding, that that 24 hour thing going, --- going to be down there by the Maryland or whatever it is, Mr. Harms: --the big bank, --- Rev. Gibson: ---right, and that at the end of a year, these people come back here, and they can't possibly live with that situation, that we are going to make a recommendation. You may not want to do it, but we know you are good citizens and they want to be good citizens. I offer the motion. Mr. Lloyd: What you do is, you pass that by motion, and then we'll draft the resolution, and present it to you before the end of the day. Rev. Gibson: You work out what is right. Mr. Plummer: So the neighbors will know, and I don't want you to go away with a misunderstanding, the one year starts the day of occupancy. It does not start today, from the day of occupancy, it is one year, then we review it. Mr. Harms: Understood. Mr. Soto : What nappens after a year, if they take the landscaping away and put the 5th lane in there, after one year. Rev. Gibson: Don't worry, we'll take care of that. If you come back here in a year's time, and they have not lived up to their agreement, you have every assurance as long as I am here, I'll keep my word. 42 JUN 271974 Mr. Plummet: That is from tie day of occupancy. Mr. Soto: Forget a out that one year. I mean after one year, they come in there and tear it down, and put in that 5th lane, who is to keep them froth doing .that? is that in the resolution? Mrs. Gordon: May I explain something. A conditional use accompanies a plot plan, and in order to change it they would have to come back for revidw. Mr. Acton will you verify this? Mr. Acton: That is correct. Mr. Harms: I don't quite understand this. Mrs. Gordon: The application that is before us today, is an application for a conditional use permit. This gives the City the control over the property, therefore this young mane concern, next year they will take out the trees, and put in another lane, cannot be done, unless this Com- mission or a commission sitting here, approved it, or the Board that proved it, and of course if you objected, you will come back for appeal before the Commission again, but there is an administrative process that must be taken before they can make any changes on that application. Mr. Harms: One point, and I'll sit down and shut up, that is, a hypothetical case here, after one year, we come back here with a petition, and we say the traffic is unbear- able, we say we have problems with parking, per se, it is u ndesirable,we want to ge.: rid of it, will you honor that request? Rev. Gibson: Let's explain, we can't just get rid of tie man's business. We would then have to take whatever action within reason, and possible, to correct the situation. I don't want the public to misunderstand it. Mr. Harms: That is the reason we are talking about it. Rev. Gibson:We can't say to these people, go build, and then say to them, we are going to make you close up your building. No, no, ---- Mr. Harms: That is what I am talking about, there is a lot of money invested here, and I think you ought to be real careful of a misunderstanding, and I would say go a little bit slow, that is me. Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you what it means, so you will know, it means that they are being granted this permission based on certain conditions, if they do notlive up to those conditions, yes, we will pull their permit. If they try to hedgedgn the landscaping, they don't put up the wall, they don't what is proper and in this conditival use, any violation of this conditions that are set forth, they will. get their permit pulled by this Commission, I can almost give you assurance. Mr. Harms: Well, I think we'v e had it as a neighborhood then, because I don't think the wall is satisfactory, and T 43 J 1N 271974 think the offs-aet there would help Out aomae, but right now, it is a patch on a patch, on a patch, and we are in trouble. Mr. Soto: Come back in 5 years and take a look at that same neighborhood, 1 bet you it is going be a lot different. Rev. Gibson: Let me say this, I can't live in 1974 like I lived in 1896 now, and I want to always be subject to change, review and look again and again. I want you to know 1 am in sympathy, The motion was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. (Resolution No. 74-572, granting conditional use was passed later during the meeting.) 18, ACCEPT COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION- BISCAYNE EAST HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4357 The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-509 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION OF MARKS BROTHERS COMPANY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF BISCAYNE EAST HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4357 IN BISCAYNE EAST HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT H-4357 AT A TOTAL COST OF $173,511.26; AND AUTHORIZING A FINAL PAYMENT OF $92,000.66 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson,Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 19, ENDORSING PROPOSAL IN PRINCIPLE FOR SERIES OF CONCERTS THIS SUMMER AT THE MIAMI MARINE STADIUM Mr. Lester Freeman: Mr. Mayor and Commissioners, I am here today on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce and the Miami Herald Knight Newspapers, and I am authorized to speak for both of t hose organizations. We are concerned about the fact that the traditional summer Pop Concerts which have been held in the Marine Stadium, are not going to be held this summer. Both of our institutions feel the responsibility of fill voids that exist or created in programs that benefit our visitors and citizens of our Community. In the case of these summer concerts, there has been a 44 JUN 271974 void created which we would like to discuss with you today. As you know these Marine Stadium concerts have been a very unique experience, not only in Miami but throughout the country. And they take advantage of the City of Miami's totally singular and unique Marine Stadium, added to the pleasure of the South Florida evenings, we all enjoy, therefore we are willing to join the City in co -sponsoring four stars -under -the -stars entertaining pleasant symphonic band concerts, featuring the band of Sammy Spear plus great guest artists in the Marine Stadium. More specifically on July 23, which is a Tuesday, we have Michelle Le Grand, who will be the guest artist featuring hits from the navies, on August 3rd, we will have the symphonic band of Sammy Spear and guest artist Lynn Anderson, on Autust 7th, which is a Wednesday, we are negotiating and feel like we will have Bobby Goldsborough on August 22nd which is a Thursday, we will have Scott Joplin, better known for the music from the Sting movie, so we have some outstanding guest artists plus our local very well known band of Sammy Spear, so we are here today to ask you frankly a couple of questions, one, do you think this is a good idea, and something we ought to do, and secondly. would you like to co-sponsor it, and third, if you do,would you ask the City Manager to cooperate with us as a co-sponsor in making the events successful, esthetically and financially. Mrs. Gordon: I'll answer yes, I don't know about the others, but I think it is a great idea. Mayor Ferre: Is there any action that needs to be taken this morning? Mrs. Gordon: Motion, or what? Mr. Andrews: I think the City Commission should adopt a motion indicating that you want me to cooperate with them, ---- Mayor Ferre: How much money is that going to cost the City. Mr. Freeman: I don't think it is going to cost the City any cash money. We asking for some benefits of use of the Stadium. The following motion was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-510 A MOTION ENDORSING IN PRINCIPLE THE PROPOSED SUMMER CONCERT PROGRAM AT THE MARINE STADIUM PROPOSED BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND IN- STRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER TO COOPERATE IN THE EFFORT Upon being seconded by Rev. Gibson , the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon. Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 45 JUN 271974 • 20, PERSONAL APPEARANCE - F. H. RUSSELLA PRESIDENT DADE EMPLOY THE HANDICAPPED COMMITTEE AND APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO THE ADVISORY C1MMI TTEE. FAR THE__ HANDICAPPED_ Mr. F.H. Russell, Dade Employ the Handicapped Committee: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission. good morning, when we were here some weeks ago, I said that the challenge of America's Third Century was to secure full citizenship and human worth for our disabled citizens. And I think the time and the place is appropo because Miami is to be one of the hubs for our Bicentennial celebration, and with some concern I hear about out plans for it, as being things related to, let's be sure we can get the Super Bowl, and other things that will attract tourists, and to me this seems to me, a situation and a time when we can look for something that is particularly ennobling to our nation and our spirit of independence. I pre- sented that as a challenge to you at the last meeting, and you accepted it by agreeing to establish an advisory committee on the handicapped, and asked us to propose members for that, which we have now done, they are in the hands of the City Manager, and I suspect in yours, and I would like to do three things here this morning, I would like to introduce some of the members of the Committee who are here and they would be available for questions afterwards. I would like to tell you what we have done in between, and I would like to make a couple of proposals. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Russell, excuse the interruption, --- we have a lot of people that have been waiting here like you have, patiently, I wonder, ---how long do you think this item is going to take in your opinion? Mr. Russell: About 21 minutes. Mayor Ferre: I was going to recommend if it is going to take 15 or 20 minutes, we make these other presentations and come back and spend as much time as you want. If it is going to be 211 minutes. go ahead. Mr. Russell: All right, don't keep track, but will be close to that. First, there are a couple of members who have been here and have left, I will mention them by name, Mrs. Naomi Benson, Dr. Bob Scanlon, and Dr. Mike Dunn. All of these people have some first hand and long standing interest and involvement, involving problems for the disabled. With me here are Mrs. Lefkowitz, Ron Smith, Esq. and Dan Holder. We have met with several of your Departments on the propositions that we made at the last meeting. Number 1, to make City buildings accessible to the disabled where ever possible. There has been a survey by your department representatives, we have discussed them with them, there are some things that seem to be solvable, making the first floors of your buildings accessible to those who can't climb steps. It doesn't look like it will be expensive or difficult thing. We are going to go over some more of their plans, but we certainly ask for your support in having this done as quickly as possible and providing whatever expense might be necessary. Making the 2nd floors accessible is going to be expensive and we would not push for that sort of thing. We have talked about ramping curbs, and in meeting 46 JUN 2 71974 with your people we found they are already planning to remp all of downtown► Miami. Where we find difficulty, with What is happening in ramping and incidentally this is the difficulty that is happening all over the country, is trying to get a ramp that really that serves the needs of the people that it is suppose to. Well, particularly serve, that is those that have difficulty getting up a curb, and so we have asked your design people, and we have given them suggestions about how a curb can be designed► but we don't want to leave it at that, we have asked them to build a couple of sample curbs, so we can actually put people in wheel chair;, people who are blind, those who are using walkers, or who have crutches, let them try and say this is a good curb or is not, and we want that to be done if you please, before we start building all these curbs downtown, because once we have built them, it is real hard to tjet them made agreeable to what should be done. We have also proposed some priority areas, lie the Civic Center, that should be ramped, like the area around Lindsey Hopkins, where people who are going to school there, have to go out into the street, and contend with the traffic in wheel chairs, in order to get from their parking area to the place where they are going to school. These don't seem to be difficult things in talking with your department, however I bring up the matter of design once again because of the fact, that in the memo, they talked about our design things, bit they talked in less than precise terms of saying we will build a sample curb to decide how it will work. So I ask you really, to authorize and to have sample curbs built so that our design will be right when it goes in. I have one more point. that is employment. The City of Miami is illegal in its requirement sfor employment. The concept,15 pages of physical standaris, is based on pointing up those reasons why we cannot hire the handicapped. It is against the Metro ordinance, it is against the State law, you specifically state physical conditions which the Metro ordiiu ce specifically says, must be hired on ability to do the job. Nobody is saying let us hire the handicapped because they are handicapped. We are saying just one thing, interview that person on the basis of his ability to do the job, don't even consider the disability. If he can't do the job, that is where he is disabled. It isn't be cause of a physical condition, In that regard, we have prepared a resolution and have given it to Mr. Andrews, and I believe it is in your hands, and you've had a chance to look over it, which says that it is the policy and purpose of Miami to hire the handicapped, and it says we will prepare the employment procedures, --- Mayor Ferre: Excuse me Mr. Russell, have you had an opportunity to see this. Mr. Andrews: Not that aspect of it, no. Mayor Ferre: Here is the resolution, ----it has been almost 10 minutes, and really have to move along now. Mr. Russell: Could it possibly be? I just ask one thing then, that you do pass this resolution, Mayor Ferre:----in principle, ---- Mr. Russell: It is a statement of principle. Mrs. Gordon: I would move that Mr. Mayor, I believe this Commission has already gone on record in being in favor of this kind of policy, JUN 2 71974 47 Mayor Perre: We have a motion in principle later on. Mr, Lloyd, you will have to prepare a specific legal language to Make sure it does not have any. -- Mr. Lloyd: 1 would prefer if 1 were given this with the direction of the Commissioh by a motion, to prepare a resolution to be presented for approval of this Commission. Mrs. Gordon: I move the motion. Mayor Ferre: Any further discussion on this motion? If not would you call the roll please. Thereupon the following motion was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: A MOTION REQUESTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE AND SUBMIT TO THE COMMISSION FOR ADOPTION A PROPOSED RESOLUTION PROVIDING THAT THE CITY CONSTRUCT EXPERIMENTAL CURB ACCESS RAMPS FOR PEOPLE IN WHEEL CHAIRS Upon being seconded by Rev. Gibson, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote- AYES: Mr. Plummer Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Russell, please forgive me for rushing you, we would be happy to have you, if you would stay with us, I'd be happy to recognize you again after we have made these different presentations, and get into more details if you wish. Mr. Russell: May I bring up one thing Mr. Mayor, as I understand it, the Commission is to consider appointing the people that we have proposed for this Committee. Mrs. Gordon: We have the names here before us. Mayor Ferre: There will be others that will be appointed also. Mrs. Gordon: We can do this as an initial phase. Mayor Ferre: How many people do you have here? Mrs. Gordon: They have here, I can read the names from the letter I have before me, Mrs. Naomi Benson, ---- Mayor Ferre: How many people are there on there? Mrs. Gordon: -Naomi Benson, Dr. Michael Dunn, Daniel Holder, Mrs. S. Lefkowitz, Harry Russell, Dr. Robert Scanlon, Ron Smith, and then they have some consultants to the Committee, Ray Makowski, and Andy Bax. Mayor Ferre: That makes 9,-- Mrs. Gordon: Two are consultants, 7 are Committee, ----- Ma r Ferre: Each member of this Commission will have the right to appoint 9 people,---- 48 JUN 271974 Mrs. Gordon: 1 would say, ----I don'tthink this group intends that it be closed off to arty other person, becoMing minabers of the Committee, this is your recommendation and MayOr Ferre: Any further discussion on thia? We don't need to vote on it. Mrs. Gordon: I am submitting this as a recommendation of this group that we ask them to come up with these recommendations and not necessarily people I know. I accept their recommendations. Mr. Russell: Mr. Mayor at the last meeting you asked us if we would propose someone. Mayor Ferre: The point is, there are others who want to serve, --- Mr. Russell: ---delighted, Mayor Ferre:---there are other people who want to be involved. Mr. Russell: The only thing is we would hope that you would give whatever official authorization there is to the present members who have been working, so they might go ahead with some feeling. Mayor Ferre: That is very important Mr. Russell, do we need official action on it? Mrs. Gordon: You are the Mayor, Thereupon the following motion was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-511 A MOTION CREATING A MIAMI ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE HANDICAPPED, AND APPOINTING MEMBERS THERETO (Here follows body of motion, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 21, PLAQUES. PROCLAMATIONS. CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION Mayor Ferre: I would like to ask Don Vicente Ramirez Montesinos to step forward with a delegation representing the Spanish Commercial Delegation and if you would address us, ---- Mr. Don Vicente Ramirez Montesinos: Mr. Mayor, Commissioners ladies and gentlemen, you know Mr. Mayor how strong is Spain industry in Florida, especially Miami. The Spanish government has been sending several commissions in the last year, and 49 JUN 271974 today we have a Spanish commission, who came to Miami as a fact-finding mission, and will spend 3 days in Miami. They come from New York and Washington and San Francisco, they have been visiting the rest of the country and they will stay 3 or 4 days With us. Mr. Mayor, and Commissioners, may I introduce to you Mr. Hosea Blass who is Chief of Commission, who will introduce you to the rest of the Commission. Mr. Hosea Blass:Mr. Mayor and Commissioners thank you for your hospitality, I am going to present to the rest of the Spanish delegation. Mayor Ferre: Thank you very much, ----you are welcome here, and are happy to have you in our midst. We feel very close to the Spanish nation, the people of Spain. In many cases we have common ancestral ties and we feel very pro -Spanish. We are happy to welcome you and your delegation to these shores. We hope your visit here will be fruitful and that it will enhance and further the commercial ties between the State of Florida and specifically the City of Miami and our nation with your nation. Thank you very much. I am pleased to make the presentations at this time, of the Scrolls of Friendship from the City of Miami, and I'll ask my fellow commissioners to accompany me so we can take appropriate pictures. Mayor Ferre: I would like to read the following proclamation dealing with the Muscular Dystrophy Month. "Whereas, the South Miami -Kendall Jaycees of the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America will sponsor a Bike-A-Thon against Muscular Dystrophy on June 29, 1974, and Whereas, there is no known cure for Muscular Dystrophy and its related disorders which strike thousands of people each year, most of them children, Whereas an appeal is being made to all citizens of Greater Miami to participate in the Bike-A-Thon effort to raise monies for research to help find a cure fot this crippling and fatal muscular disease, and Whereas, each participant sponsor will donate a pre -determined sum of money for each mile ridden and the goal for this one day event is a minimum of $75,000. NOW THEREFORE, I Maurice Ferre as Mayor of the City of Miami do hereby prolaim the month of nine 1974 as Muscular Distrophy Month." A plaque was presented to Dr. Demie Mainieri, Coach Miami -Dade Community College North Baseball Team for an outstanding season. A plaque was presented to Ron Frazer and the University of Miami Hurricane Baseball Team for an outstanding baseball season. 50 JUN 2 71974 22 BICYCLE TO OF COCONUT GROVE, DISCUSSION OF STREET CLOSURES ETC, Mr, David Baikih: I'm here today to promote a bicycle race and it is kind of fitting considering that there has been the Muscular Dystrophy Bike-A-Thon and the University of Miami and the Miami Dade successes in cycling and baseball. I think that Miami can become the sports capital of this country. The bicycle race that we want to promote is more than a race. We hope to promote a week of cycling activity prior to the race, symposiums on safety, how to ride bicycles, traffic rules for the motorist as well as the cyclist. I think this is all part of the City's responsibility towards the people who ride bi- cycles. On June 20th the Miami Herald had an article about cyclists risking death on the roads and how dangerous bikes are on the roads which are meant for cars, obviously. The article tends to make one believe that cycling is dangerous but the fact is that when you 'read the article, 8 out of the 15 people who were killed were hit by either people who were driving while intoxicated or hit and run drivers. It seems to me that under the best of conditions that there has to be something more done to protect all of us from these kinds of incidents. It's not only the cyclist. The article reads that the cyclists are the blame. The fact is, I don't know who is the blame. I would suspect that people who hit and run or who drive while intoxicated would be considered to be to blame. The fact is that all of my friends consider bicycles dangerous to ride and the fact is that they are really not that they are valuable as transportation devices, they work on the principle of momentum. That is if you get a bicycle to speed it will tend to stay at speed. That is the justification and reason for being for light weight bicycles. That is why they work so well. I think that most of the people who administer the laws don't understand that bicycles really do work and that it is possible to ride bicycles incredibly long distances without much fatigue if you can keep the bicycle at 12,13,14,or 15 miles an hour which is a pretty common speed that it attains. The reason that people don't use bicycles is because they are afraid for their lives. They get on the road and there are absolutely no accomodations to them so therefore, they say you're crazy to ride a bicycle. We plan to have a race with the National Champion in it. We have asked for a certain part of the Grove to be blocked off. Mayor Ferre: Dave, in the interest of time, we have all read this... Is there any problem or any objections on the part.. Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, the area of the activity over onto Commodore Plaza and up Grand Avenue and what we'd like them to do is to confine it to Fuller the way they operated last year in that if they do it they're sug- gesting that all the traffic coming up Main Highway, we have to block it up here and route them all through a residential area. With Commodore Plaza free we're able to bring the traf- fic up and through Commodore Plaza but with that being includ- ed that causes a problem. Is there any way you can confine the race to this area? Mr. Balkin: Well certainly we could. It would be to our benefit to make, you see, this is a criterion race if I may take a moment. We plan to invite some Latin American riders and the leading riders in the country to participate in this race. The race with Commodore Plaza is a 9/10 of a mile course and since Florida is flat it is very difficult to get major riders to come here and ride with this kind of an event with a 9/.0 of a mile course and these kinds of curves it would be more agreeable. 51 JUJN 71974 411 mt. plui r: Would you want to consider, and even Mr. Andrews Might want to consider extending it further Beat to 17th avenue to take it out of the heart of the chain stream of a very vital road? Mr. Andrews: We might look at another configuration of streets. Mr. Baskin: We have planned quite carefully in this and this is a community event and we haven't asked the City for any money. We're trying to raise all of the money ourselves about $10,000 to bring these people in and the community is going to do it and I would think it would be to the benefit of &he community to have it held in the center of the commun- ity. We can live with Fuller Street as long as we can get all of Grand Avenue blocked off. The fact is they are going to have to route traffic down to 32nd Avenue anyway and if you could perhaps close it down by Douglas and up 32nd, I'm not in the traffic planning department. Mr. Andrews: May I ask the City Commission to adopt a motion providing for the Fuller Street use rather than the Commodore Plaza and then we'll work with this gentleman and see what else might be arranged to improve this Bourse. Mr. Balkin: That would sound agreeable, certainly. The following motion was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-512 A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE SPONSORS OF "TOUR OF COCONUT GROVE" (COCONUT GROVE BICYCLE CLUB) IN AN ATTEMPT TO WORK OUT A ROUTE FOR PROPOSED BICYCLE RACE WITHOUT GOING ANY FURTHER SOUTH THAN FULLER STREET, AND TO DECIDE ON A ROUTE WHICH WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE TO ALL PARTIES. Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon the motion was pass- ed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Reverend Gibson, Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Mr. Plummer: Let me make sure of one thing. Where did I see somewhere, Mr. Andrews about Rickenbacker Causeway? Mr. Balkin: A second part of this race, inorder to make this an event of international importance, we need a second day. We need a day prior to the race to have a time trial on Ricken- backer Causeway. Mr. Plummer: Let me make my point because you made a point and I disagree with it. In my humble estimation there is no question of a safety factor as it relates to those bridges. Now there is just no ifs, ands, and buts about it. Mr. Balkin: What we're trying to do is a time trial and we would stop after the first bridge where there is no draw bridge. A time trial is not a race. It is simply a race against the clock and people go off on 30 second or 1 minute intervals. Mr. Plummer: How far is the time trial? Mr. Balkin: Ten miles. It would be from the Seaquarium per- haps around before the traffic circle and back. We've already JUN 2 71974 52 had contact with Metro, Jim Ravids in the Engineering beparta. ieent Spoke to it, David Hadley and Earl Shoemaker in Metro Planning and they Seemed agreeable because we want to hold it early in the Morning, about 7 O'clock on a Saturday morning. Mr. Plummer: And finish by when? Mr. Balkin: It will be finished by 11 or 10. Mr. Plummer: You see, here is the point I'm getting to. That Crandon Park right now on Saturdays and Sundays has just become... The radio last Sunday begged people not to go to Crandon Park it was so jammed on a Saturday and a Sunday. Now I really think you're just inviting problems by using those bridges in any way, shape or form on a Saturday or a Sunday. Now I offer that to you for a safety factor because there is no question in my mind, you narrow it down to a one lane bridge. Mr. Balkin: I ride those roads everyday. Mr. Plummer: Yes, and I get out and pull around and give him plenty of room so that I don't run over him too. Mr. Balkin: And I appreciate it. Metro told me there would be no traffic problem. I don't know how to respond to that because we're counting on having a two day event because this would allow us to bring some riders in who would ordinarily not participate in a short race that we want to make into an import- ant event. Mayor Ferre: Is that champion going to be down here? Mr. Balkin: Yes. John Howard who is the American champion has a co:nmittment to race in the race and we plan to invite and pay for all the other leading amateur riders. Mayor Ferre: Are you going to be in it? Mr. Balkin: I'm thinking about it but I'm not in the same category as those people. Mayor Ferre: I tell you the way I see you streaking down U.S. 1 it seems like you ought to win something. Mr. Plummer: Wouldn't it be feasible that you go to an air- port where there is no traffic and you could have a ten mile thing? Mr. Balkin: Well we're talking about Miami being a sports City. Now you have to take into consideration that we race, I race every sunday out at the Tamiami Airport, Old FIU and you feel like a second class citizen because simply there is no landscape, there's no nothing. We have difficulty getting FIU, we have difficulty getting anyplace to race bicycles. Mr. Plummer: You know, I would just rather have you a second class citizen alive. Mr. Balkin: Rickenbacker outstanding, Mr. Plummer: M. Balkin: I think that the traffic control with Metro on Causeway at 7 O'clock in the morning will not be will not be great. But it will be at 11. Perhaps. 1 10 . Mayor Forte: Dave, I want to tell you that even though Sometimes you get a little discouraged with us, t think that you are dealing with a Commission that is mindful of the needs of not only the sports community but those people that want to ride bicycles rather than automobiles, I'm sorry that we're not making any quicker progress, I think you have to understand that we're impared by a lot of other things. I hope that we'll be able to get some of these bicycle paths under way in the next few years and that we will slowly but definitely and surely make this community more bicycle con- scious. I think it is happening maybe in spite, or despite of us, I don't know which but perhaps with your efforts and thyough the general opinion of people, and I think somewhat because of our cooperation and our, at least interest, that we will see the day and money. Mr. Balkin: I appreciate your interest and your allowing me to talk before you. One last thought about this race. The week before the race, as I said earlier, we would like to make it into a symposium on cycling activities and for that we need the City's cooperation. We would like to educate not only the cyclists but the motorists because it is nobody's fault when some young person ties - it's not a matter of fault or blame anyway. Mayor Ferre: How do you propose doing that now? Mr. Balkin: We have a number of interested citizens who are going to try to disseminate and put together some information about cycling, about the rules of the road as it applies to both cyclists and motorists. I find that policemen as well as ordinary citizens are ignorant of the rules and we would like to find some place to hold meetings and we would like the City to publicize it. We would like the City to become if not more bicycle oriented as far as doing things, at least more bi- cycle oriented as far as dissiminating information. I think that that is the least of the responsibilities of the City that it doesn't require anything to tell people what... Mayor Ferre: I would be happy, we could declare National Bicycle Week and you can have as many of the facilities of the City as the Manager will let you have. You could use these rooms,.. Mr. Balkin: That would be fine. Mayor Ferre: You know, I'm an amateur enthusiast myself whenever I have time. I think it is very important. I hope we can cooperate every way possible. Mr. Balkin: I'll be back in touch with you and take advant- age of your offer because all we really want to do is just to put some information out and let people see it and use it and go from there. 23. JOHN B, ORR APPRECIATION DAY - Mayor Ferre: The Miami Torros Soccer Team is holding a Mayor John B. Orr, Jr. appreciation night Friday, June 28, 1974 in the City of Miami Orange Bowl to help defray the medical ex- penses of this dedicated public servant. And whereas a special committee comprised of Metropolitan Dade County Commissioner, Ed Fogg III, State's Attorney Richard Gerstein and attorney 54 JIJN 2 7 1974 Dan Pall I have raised more than $50,000 through ticket sales for John A. Orr Appreciation Night, and whereas the action of these three gentlemen.and the Miami Toros is an exa rtple of outstanding spipit and community effort which has made Miami and Dade County a great place in which to live, now therefore be it resolved by the Commission of the City of Miami, Florida, Section 1, we urge the residents of Miami to attend Friday night, June 28th Miami Toros Soccer game and give full support to this fine sports event which will honor one of greater Miami's public servants, John B. Orr, Jr. The motion was introduced by Mr. Plummer, seconded by Rev. Gibson and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 24. OFF-STREET PARKING BUDGET OGT,1,1974=SEPT, 30, 1975 Mayor Ferre: We have Mr. Richard La Baw here, of the Off - Street Parking Authority and as I explained earlier he was not here at 9 O'clock because he had his own authority meet- ing and I told him that we would take him out of turn when he got here. Mr. La Baw: Thank you, your honor. Mr. Mayor and Commission- ers we have prepared our annual budget for the fiscal year 1974-75 and submitted it in the proper manner to our parking consultant to the trustees, to the bond holders and you sched- uled the public hearing for today and we're asking that you adopt an ordinance, I believe on first reading today. Mr. Lloyd: Note that this is a continuation of the public hearing pursuant to the deferal as proposed by Commissioner Plummer. Mayor Ferre: Are there any objectors present? We asked that question this morning and there were none then. Now I have some questions. Does anybody have any questions before I ask mine? Mr. Reboso: I have a question, Mr. Mayor, regarding the dif- ference of about $200,000 that you have there. What are you planning to do with that money? Mr. La Baw: Sir this will be going into our general reserve fund and when we started the construction for our new garage that is under construction across the street from the junior college we were only able to issue bonds in the amount of a little over $3,100,000. The actual construction cost is run- ning over $4,100,000 and we had to borrow a million dollars from a local bank on a three year note and this money has to be repaid out of our general reserve fund. This $200,000 will be flowing into the general reserve to start the repay- ment of that $1,000,000 note. Mayor Ferre; How much is that now Richard, the general fund? Mr. La Saw: Right now we've only got about forty or fifty thousand dollars in it, sir. Mayor Ferre: Let me understand that rightly. You're tell- ing me now that we don't have any monies on deposit or cer- tificates, deposits or other investments or cash other than 55 • $4O # 000? 14r. La taw* In our general reserve fund, yes sir. Mayor Ferret in any .fund . Mr. Le Baw: We have the bond redemption account and the other.. Mr. Plummer: Uncommitted funds. Mr. La Baw: Uncommitted that's all, sir. Mayor Pierre: All you have in }the uncommitted funds is about $40,000. Mr. Reboso: Mr. Mayor, I was thinking what about the pos- sibility of improving Biscayne with that money, can we do it? Mr. La Baw: We want to. We did the one block and we would like to proceed further with it but we don't have funds now and as soon as we're in a position... Mr. Plummer: What you're telling me then is really this $200,000 is not uncommitted. Mr. La Baw: No, sir. It is not uncommitted because... Mr. Plummer: Why does it show that way in your proposal to us? Mr. La Baw: Because the natural flow of funds is into the general reserve account and that is where we show it.... Mr. Plummer: But don't you think it should be committed? Mr. La Baw: When we borrowed the million dollars we said that we would be paying that out of this general reserve. Mr. Plummer: I think if I sense the sense of this commission that in fact that funds are not loose funds they are desig- nated and I think this Commission would like to see in your report what they are designated for so that there is no mis- understanding. Now are you telling me that the monies that you're saving this for to pay the interest, the $200,000 is needed fully to take and pay the interest on these bonds? Mr. La Baw: Not the interest. This is on the million dollar note, the million dollars that we borrowed over and above the bonds. Mr. Plummer: Above and beyond? That's both principle and interest? What kind of a note is it? How long is it? Mr. La Baw; A three year note. Mr. Plummer: A three year note which means you're going to be paying off roughly $333,000 a year plus interest? Mr. La Baw: Yes, sir. Mr. Plummer: Well then you've only got $200,000. Where is the rest of it? Mr. La Baw: We don't have to pay it on a pro -rated basis year by year. It isdue in June of '76 and we have the pro- vision where we can prepay as we accumulate money in 56 JUN 2 71974 incrents of $10, 000. Mr. Plummer: Ok. 1 understand. But 1 think that that $200,000 should show ifi there not as a contingency but as a ddsignated fund a appropriated fund. I'll accept the terin- i.nology. Mayor Ferret In other words, Dick, what you're saying is that that $200,000 will be specifically used to pay off ex- isting debts. Mr. La Haw: Yes sir. Mayor Ferret Ok. Now let me ask.. Some people have asked me and I'll ask you, whether,or not we are using a suffic- ient amount of leverage, in other words, in recognition of the Off -Street Parking Authority is a very well run and a very conservative organism of the City. Are we using suf- ficient leverage to do as many things as we should in your opinion? I just want to get this into the record. Mr. La Baw: Sir, we have had to wait for the various issuances of bonds until we could meet certain debt service coverages because of the way that the bond ordinance is set up we have to meet an existing earnings test and projected earnings test before we can issue additional bonds. Now we're talking about additional facilities now but we won't be in a position to sell any more bonds until after the new facility has been in operation at least a year. Mayor Ferre: That's what I'm heading towards. In other words, for the record we can state here that we have borrowed the maximumamount of money that can be practically borrowed with- in the structure of what the Department of Off -Street Parking would permit. Is that correct? Mr. La Baw: Yes sir, and in order to explain that, in last April, a year ago this past April, if we were in a position to sell then the three million and one hundred thousand in bonds we would have because we needed over $4,000,000 for the construction. That's why we had to go out for the short term note. Mayor Ferre: So we're borrowing the maximum amount that we can borrow to do the job that is required of us and in your opinion we're doing the maximum. Mr. La Baw: Yes sir. Mayor Ferre: And to repeat Boulevard cannot be further you're replacing because at have sufficient funds. your statement that Biscayne improved other than the trees this stage of the game you don't Mr. La Baw: Yes, sir. That is correct. Mayor Ferre: But once you do have the funds it is your intent- ion to proceed with that. Is that one of your priority items? Mr. La Baw: Yes sir, it is. Mayor Ferre: In your estimate when do you think that we'll be able to improve one more block? Mr. La Baw: We won't be able to issue any more bonds for another year. If we could issue bonds in another year and 57 JUN 2 71974 pay off this outstanding million dollars then maybe in a year, year and a half time maybe we would be in a position. Mayor Ferre: All right. Now, Mr. La taw, on the record 1 want to make, and this is just one voice on this Commission, but I want to make one statement on the record to you and that is that t don't think it is acceptable to me and t don't think to this community that we have one block of Biscayne Boulevard improved every 5 years. At that rate it will take us 50 years to get Biscayne Boulevard properly beautified. It is certainly my hope that since it is, since those meters are yours and since those meters are a part of your bond en - denture and therefore we are not able to do anything With them, that it is your responsibility and since that is the single most important avenue visually, anyway of the City of Miami and since it is our face, if you will, that you keep very much in mind and even though it may not be a return on investment directly, that indirectly it is a very important project and that when we think about borrowing further mon ies or getting further funds that it will be dedicated to improv- ing more than one block of Biscayne Boulevard. God knows it needs it. Mr. La Baw: Our thought was to continue southward if this is acceptable as far as the Commission is concerned. We did the block between fourth and fifth and just continue south. Mayor Ferre: That was done two years ago. All I'm saying is that if you do the next one two years from now and if you do one every four years it will take you fifty years to finish it. I don't think this community should wait that long for some- thing that is badly needed now. An ordinance entitled: AN ORDINANCE MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 1974 AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1975 FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET PARKING; PROVIDING THAT IF ANY SECTION, CLAUSE OR SUB -SECTION SHALL BE DECLARED UN- CONSTITUTIONAL, IT SHALL NOT AFFECT THE REMAINING PROVISIONS; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. was introduced by Mr. Plummer, seconded by Mr. Reboso and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. The City Attorney announced that each Commissioner had been furnished with a copy of the ordinance and that copies are available to the public. THE COMMISSION RECESSED AT 1:00 P.M. AND RECONVEINED AT 2:10 P.M. WITH ALL COMMISSIONERS PRESENT. 58 JUN 271974 s 2S, WAIVENON AL MI M TADIUM- ATHLETIC FEDERATION OF MIAMI Mayor Ferret Mr. Acosta, would you wine forward please? l have a letter here, ladies and gentlemen from Mr. Orlando Acosta the General Commissioner for the Athletic Federation of Miami which reade as follows: Honorable Mayor: As you know, on Friday June 21 and Saturday June 22, a friend- ly match between the baseball teams of Puerto Rico and Free Cuba took place. By the way, who won? Tie game huh? This series consisted of three games, non-profit making, and the proceeds collected were destined to cover lodging and transportation expenses for the guests, and the remaining monies as a contribution to the Federation Funds. Unfortunately, the bad weather detracted from the success of the event, finding a necessity to call off the games of June 21 on the fourth inning, andaccrediting the tickets for that date to the following day, Saturday, June 22. Due to this circumstance, we are asking of your worthy admin- istration to exempt our Athletic Federation of the rent for the use of the Miami Stadium. Begging your attention to our request, we take advantage of this opportunity to thank you and the Commission for your backing and presence at the in- augural game and for the clamor and warmth with which you always handle the Latin civic affairs. Attentively, Orlando Acosta, General Commissioner. Reverend Gibson: Mr. Andrews, do you know about this? Mr. Andrews: Not at this stage. No. I was not aware that this took place in the sequence of everts as stated in the letter. I was not aware that the game was called off and so forth. Reverend Gibson: How long to you think it will take to make you aware? How long would it take to be aware? Mr. Andrews: I'm aware of it right now. I understand what the problem is now that I've gotten this letter but I was not aware of it until it was presented. Reverend Gibson: I just wanted to make sure, you know.... Mayor Ferre: Well, as I understand it and for the record, Mr. Acosta, this is a non-profit organization. Is that correct? Ok. As I understand it the fact that you were rained out one day caused you not to be able to charge for the tickets and therefore you are under the pressure. The following motion was introduced by Mr. Reboso who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-513 A MOTION WAIVING THE RENTAL FEE FOR USE OF THE MIAMI STADIUM ON JUNE 21 & 22, 1974 BY THE ATHLETIC FEDERATION OF MIAMI. 59 JUN 271974 Upon being seconded by Rev. Gibson the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 26. PROGRESS REPORT OF THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CENTER or THE UNIVERSITY of CHICAGO Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, this has been before you several times in the past and you have had several discussions as to the manner in which the testing program would be carried out. You'll recall at one session with the representatives and their attorney in reference to the suit that was brought before the City, other employee groups present. We debated as to the best procedure to be used in carrying out the testing program. At that time we were discussing having an interim sergeant's examination in the Police Department. At that meeting a new approach was formulated in which the Commission arrived at a conclusion in conjunction with the employee representatives and repre- sentatives of the Police Department that we should proceed to hold the new examinations with the new book:list which would be made available at the end of June or the beginning of July and that such an examination would be held in December. Mr. Plummer: Can I simplify this for you? Are you happy with what they've done? Mr. Andrews: I'm happy with what they've done but the cost of this has changed a little bit. Mr. Plummer: I read your memorandum. You're happy with this change? Mr. Andrews: Yes I am but I wanted to, in fairness to the Com- mission, come back and explain if you wanted any additional explanation to that which I have supplied to you in the memor- andum so that you have all of the information. Mr. Plummer: It is quite clear. Just for clarification and on the record, the sergeant's and the lieutenant's exam will be in December. The material will be made available as this Commission requested before the end of June. Mr. Andrews: Yes. The booklists are available right now. I don't want to release them until the Commission takes this action. Mr. Plummer: Now let me ask one other question. You're in favor, you recommend it? Mr. Andrews: Yes, sir. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Paulk, speaking for the Civil Service Board, you recommend that this thing be continued and it be finalized. Has anyone made con tact with the plaintiffs? I think if I remember correctly that they were all inaccord. Mr. Andrews: Yes. This is consistent with them and really the only reason that this is back before you is because of the rearrangement of the financing. Reverend Gibson: Let me ask a question. The Chicago people are here. Are you people satisfied with this? Unidentified person: Yes. Reverend Gibson: A11 right. That's all right. CO The following resolution was introduced by Mt. PluMMer who Moved ita adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-514 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AGREEMENT WITH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PREPARING ENTRANCE AND PROMOTIONAL EXAM- INATIONS FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND TO CARRY OUT THE OTHER REQUIREMENTS AS PROVIDED IN THE PARTIAL FINAL COURT ORDER, FUNDING OF WHICH WILL BE PROVIDED THROUGH FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING FUNDS. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's Office.) Upon being seconded by Rev. Gibson the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I would like for the record to make notation that these people I think have come along beautifully, parts of their people have not only been just in the Civil Service and in the Police Department but without mentioning any names, I have seen them on the streets walking with the Policemen and getting the ideas from the street level up. I think it is a good thing. Dr. Baer: Mayor Ferre, Members of the City Council and Mr. Andrews, may I say on behalf of myself and of my collegues here from the University of Chicago, how very delighted we are to have the opportunity to work with your Police Depart- ment here in the City of Miami. We feel that it will be a really rewarding experience for us and I believe in the kinds of frontiers in which we are working in the promotional exam- inations is one of the first in the country and I believe it really to be to the great advantage also of the City. I wish to thank you again. Mr. Plummer: Doctor, we enjoyed being number one. or Ferre: In sports and otherwise. Thank you very much. STATUS REPORT ON THE S.W. 8TH STREET BEAUTIFICATION - PILOT PROJECT Mr. Raul Alvarez, 710 Ridgewood Road: Mr. Fernandez was sup- posed to be here to make this presentation but he is out of the country and Mr. Descaso. He was supposed to have the opening words here so why don't you just take over. Mayor Ferre: I apologize. I didn't think you were coming. Mr. Descaso: I apologize but I was in another meeting with the Bi-Centennial Committee. In behalf of the Latin Chamber of Commerce we thank Mayor Maurice Ferre and Commissioners for this opportunity to help us in the beautification and change of 8th Street. Mr. Sabines tole me to give the pres- entation of this to architect Raul Alvarez so I would like architect Alvarez to do the presentation for the Latin Cham- ber of Commerce. 61 JUN271974 s Mayor Terre: As 1 understand it, make the graphic presentation and it with a statement. Mr, bescaso: That is correct. Mr. Alvarez is going to then you're going to close Mr. Alvarez: The interim report for the projects, ... go back a little bit in our thoughts so that we can share with you some of our thoughts of how the concept for the S.W. 8th Street was derived. As you know Miami has become the center of the traf- fic between Latin America and... Years ago when the DC-4's were the only planes connecting the United States with Europe we had to fly from New York to London. That was the shortest possible distance. Nowadays with the jets the distance from any of the Latin American countries to Europe through Miami is no longer than going through New York to London so what has happened is that Miami because of the jets has become the hub, the center, where practically everybody coming from Latin Amer- ca and from the south parts of the United States stops through Miami going on to Europe and forth. This is a map of the Unit- ed States showing the major cities and mostly where the tour- ist traffic comes into Miami from these places. That is a different map of the United States. As you notice we have shown the number of cities that are not usually pictured in most maps of tourism. What we have tried to show are unique cultural areas in the United States and cities that because of the history have a unique feature. Take for instance San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio with the missions. It has the Spanish buildings built there years ago that become a tourist attraction. San Francisco because of the Chinese culture and the Oriental influence is another unique city in the United States. The French Canadian part of the French influence in Canada becomes another idea of a cultural influence which is among the culture of the country. The northeast region of the United States, New England has its own character to build- ings, things that come to us from the past. New York has been a city where the influx of foreigners from all over the world have made that city a unique city. New Orleans with a French quarter has the old buildings and a particular char- acter that makes it different from other cities in the United States. Miami does not have some of those old buildings but it does have a living culture which is foreign to the culture of the United States. It is large enough that it creates a group of its own and similar in character to the Chinese in- fluence in San Francisco. That is why we have shown both with the same color. That is the Chinese, the oriental area in San Francisco gives it a particular character within the City and we feel that in Miami we have an area that has a foreign culture within the American culture that gives it a particular character. We have streets with all Spanish signs, a dif- ferent crowd day and night out in the streets. It has some- thing similar to what the French quarter has in New Orleans. It is a particular part of the city with a different kind of life that does attract tourists. We have special foods,unique restaurants, things with a feeling and a character that is completely new, completely different from anything in the United States. We have many many visitors from different parts of the world coming here, looking for things which are unique and different that makes Miami a different place. Folkloric or religious celebrations make these and parts of the streets something that you don't see anywhere. Shoppers and things that come from all over the world, again it gives it a feeling that is very much like the French Quarter in New Orleans, the quick cup of coffee in the street, those things are unique characterwise. There no old buildings but there is a different culture, a different people who 62 JUN 271974 creat this thing which ie alive. Like the French Quarter in New Orleans we have what we could call the Latin Quarter of Miami. People from different Latin American countriee and Spaifi do contribute to an area. We could call it from 27th Avenue to Brickell. That is about the heart of it. Cubans from all over, Columbians, Chileans, Puerto Ricans, they make this area again for any name, we could call it a Latin Quarter of Miami. We are studying a portion between 17th Avenue and 12th Avenue. We call it a pilot area. That area, we have selected as a sample of what could be done and extended west to 27th Avenue and east towards Brickell. This is a unique combination of streets, stores and businesses. A study made recently and approved at the public hearing is a study of the Latin Community Study that showed a parking and traffic study where some streets were made one way, and like for instance, 16th Avenue is a south into S.W. 8th Street. Fifteeenth goes north and so forth. We have shown on the south side what could be done. Now it is interesting of what happens with this traffic study. We're looking at this because the traf- fic study does influence what can be done with 8th Street. The study indicates that within the right of way a green area of trees, hedges and benches and lighting could be developed to create a more intimate space, again providing parking spaces. That is an idea of what happens when a proposed one way street going into S.W. 8th helps with the traffic and still provides some unique little plazas. Outgoing traffic is similar reversed conditions so it simplifies traffic in and out of S.W. 8th Street. A unique condition here, this is a highway, this is a major thoroughfare for Dade County besides being a street for the City so Florida DOT is very much involved in whatever happens with 8th Street. Those plazas could be developed into very interesting areas by changing pavements, by large trees and so forth. The dif- ferent intersections of the streets coming into S.W. 8th street could become like small hubs from where the develop- ment of the remainder of the street could h pen. Now what could be done with these things and a type (b) is an incom- ing traffic, large paved areas with fountains, pavers that will give character to the area, little open spaces that now exist, once the street can be developed quickly becomes a small nucleus for little gift stores and placesto eat. Night life is very much alive there so the use of lighting could be, besides the specific traffic, could be something unique. The buildings that could happen on both sides and on the adjoining streets could bring some of the characters, of archways, simplified to do it with our construction sys- tems. Some of the patios that do exist could be handled on a very tropical manner, a very unique manner, lanterns, a few hanging plants.' There is a restaurant on 24th or 25th street that, all it sells are steaks, just two doors from that there is a little narrow alley that looks just like that. It already has a lot of plants and nice lights, so things are already happening. With the use of some of the typical mater- ials like tiles and so forth, the adjoining areas could be developed into something very unique. Again, old bricks, materials and so forth, I can say that the Consul of Spain met with us at the Latin Chamber of Commerce and the Govern- ment of Spain is considering S.W. 8th Street as a permanent exhibition and they have the money allocated for fountains, paving materials, the names and numbers of the streets done in mosaic very similar as they did with the French Quarter in New Orleans. They donated these things. Those areas that are adjoining S.W. 8th Street could use many of these donated pav- ing materials and so forth. That is how one of the streets look right now and if you could close your eyes for a moment and think on the different things that could happen on that 63 JUN 27197 street, one of the highlights that we have seen that it could be is the Three Kingdom's Parade. Now this could be that street as it could look on Jar.uary 5th for the Kingdom's parade. That is one of the crowns. Now these things could happen. The major question if: how can we make this happen? We're looking at a diagram that tells us where we are and what we think we need to do. We are on June 27 at the interim report. Public works is working to get approvals of the Flor- ida DOT and Dade County on the one way streets and the right- of-way study already for S.W. 8th Street. On July llth the Commissioners are going to meet to approve the Latin Commun- ity Study that was approved in a public hearing. That was made by the Planning Department. If in July llth that is OK, by the Commission Meeting of July 25th there could be a budget which already exists and it could be adopted to the pilot area to get the approval of .the overall project from 27th Avenue to Brickell and the breakdown for the pilot area. On August 1st, Public Works could start with the drawings for the pilot area. Those drawings take time. We feel that by the end of October they could be completed and out for bidding on November 1st. It takes 15 to 30 days to get bids back and on November 21st there would be another Commission Meeting which we feel that with the proper drawings and the proper prices this could be approved and the contractor sel- ected could proceed with the work. We feel that by January 15, 1975 would be the Itest that construction of the pilot area could be started to have it in time for a July 4th com- pletion of the work. This is a very very tight schedule. We're working on these tight schedules, counting on not mis- sing any of the Commission's approvals and we're working very closely with the Planning Department and the Public Works Department. How this is going to be paid - there are several alternates which are being studied and it would be presented to the Commission for their study. Because S.W. 8th Street is a highway, a Federal Highway, monies from different parts could be worked out and the little plazas can be worked out with city monies and donations with the Government of Spain. We feel that this is, what we have done up until now, we want you to be aware of what is being done and we want to know if there are any questions. Mayor Ferre: All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Alvarez, Mr. Descaso. I would like to recognize the presence of the President of the Latin American Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Luis Sabines and Mrs. Maria Elena Torano representing Third Century. Mr. Descaso: In behalf of the Latin Chamber that we're work- ing on this project for a long time, we'll be requesting to Commission and the Mayor to approve these projects and espec- ially to approve the pilot plan that the architect Raul Alvarez, just to point out to you very clearly, this is a project that is endorsed by Third Century and we would like to have this done before July of 1975 like Mr. Alvarez just pointed out to you. We understand that the allocation of funds is available and we would like to work with you in any way. As you know, all the merchants are very interested for the City of Miami to approve this master plan from 27th to Brickell. We would like to hear from you if this is possible, to do it as soon as possible because we need this project to work. This pro- ject besides the Bi-Centennial Commission is approved by the Cuban Cultural Foundation and the 8th Street Merchants. These people are very anxious to see the City of Miami working on this project. So in behalf of Mr. Sabines who is right here, we please you to approve this master plan. Thank you. 64 Mayor Ferret Are there any quest iofe from the Commission? Do We have copies of the Plan? What he is asking us to do is in principle. Mr. Reboaos Right. Based on what we saw today, 1 move that we approve the project in principle. Mayor Ferret That we concur and approve the plan in general principle. In other words, tint this City Commission goes on record in urging the administration to cooperate and come back with specific formative plans. Mrs. Gordon: I have no objection to the improvement of 8th Street. Don't misunderstand my question. But you're asking an approval in principle and some of the audit was very dif- ficult to hear. Some of the presentation was most difficult to hear and also very difficult to see. So if it is possible, before the day is over you may give us an outline, please. Then we can make this motion so we know what we're doing. Mayor Ferre: Rose, do you want to wait until then? Mrs. Gordon: A little bit later. Yes. Just reduce it to writing and let me see what we're doing. I want you to know that seven years ago as a Planning Board member I recommended that 8th Street be improved and modernized in its Latin flavor. I'm not saying this because I'm opposing it. I just want to know what we're doing. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Descaso would you and Mr. Lloyd meet so we can get an appropriate wording on the resolution and then Mr. Alvarez, if you would make available. Do you have these drawings. Mr. Alvarez: Yes, we do have them but in the Planning Board of the City of Miami has these drawings too so we can take them from there. Mayor Ferre: If you would pass them to the Commission so that we can see them as a matter of principle... 'This in no way committs the City of Miami Commission to specific funds at this time. All it does is it encourages you to continue your planning with the administration and then the administration will come back with specific proposals at the appropriate time. The intent is clear. I would like to say this. First of all, I would like to com- mend Mr. Alvarez because he has done this on his own, he has not been paid for this. This is strictly volunteer. He is a professional who lives and feeds his family from the work that he does and yet he has taken of his own time to make these drawings and to cooperate and this is, I'm sure, if we had to pay for it it would be many thousands of dollars of work. And the same, of course, is true of the work of Mr. Descaso, Judge Fernandez and many others in the Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Sabines, Maria Elena Torino, and the whole Hispanic Bi-Centennial Committee and the others that are in- volved. I would like to make this point: A U.S. Senator told me several months ago that the reason why the road lobby in Washington is so powerful and the reason why roads are continually being built even though the mass transit people and some of the environmentalists are trying to stop some of these roads is because of the process of planning. In other words the different governments involved are today drawing and planning for roads that will be built 5 and 6 years from now so that it is almost impossible to stop the 65 JUN 271974 410 process because there have been millions and millions of dollars worth of work done in taking of land and drawings artd planning and it takes a long process and this is why the momentum of that is what puts that forward. I'm correlating that to this. It is planning and the developing of plans that will bring this to fruition. The efforts that you have ex- pended, Mr. Descaso, Mr. Alvarez, Maria Elena and Luis, all of you, is an important part of this process and I'm sure that we will reach the happy day even though seven years later that we will see some of this come to fruition. So my con- gratulations to all of you and encouragement from all of us in.the City to keep on working and planning and developing something which I am sure will become a reality. We will pass this later on in principle after we've had the oppor- tunity to see these. Thank you for your participation. 28, APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO VARIOUS COMMITTEES IN CONNECTION WITH THE _DOWNTOWN ZONING STjlll Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, at this time I only have two addit- ional appointments to make. One in the area of users will be a well known attorney in the downtown area, Mr. George Elias. On the architectural side I would like to proffer the name of Mr. Wayne Williams. That is all that I have at this present time. Mr. Southern: Mr. Mayor, they're all done except Mr. Plummer's appointments. You have prepared resolutions in front of you to adopt. Mayor Ferre: I would like to also announce that Mr. Wasmuth because of illness has not been able to accept the co -chair- manship, that Mr. Alvah Chapman, the president of the United Newspapers has accepted the co -chairmanship of the Users and owners committee. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-515A A RESOLUTION APPOINTING ADDITIONAL MEMBERS TO THE CONSUMER AND USERS COMMITTEE FOR THE DOWNTOWN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING PLAN. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's Office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-515B A RESOLUTION APPOINTING ADDITIONAL MEM- BERS TO TIE GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE FOR THE DOWNTOWN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING PLAN. 86 JUN 27197 411 4 (Here f011ows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's Office.) Upon being Seconded by Mr. Reboso the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mr. Plutcnmer, Mr. Reboso, Rev, Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. SS: None. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-515C A RESOLUTION APPOINTING ADDITIONAL MEMBERS TO THE LAND OWNERS & BUILDERS COMMITTEE FOR THE DOWNTdiN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING PLAN. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's Office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-515D A RESOLUTION APPOINTING ADDITIONAL MEMBERS TO THE ARCHITECTS AND PROFESSIONAL PLANNERS COMMITTEE FOR THE DOWNTOWN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING PLAN. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's Office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 29, DISCUSSION OF ORANGE BOWL IMPROVEMENTS Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, I want to report that the City has received proposals from 27 con- sultants to perform the consulting services on the Orange Bowl improvements. We're in the process of evaluating these and we will be reviewing the proposals with the user's com- mittee and after we have reviewed them with the user's com- mittee then I will be making specific recommendations to the Commission placing three of those 27 in an order of 1,2,3 for the Commission's consideration. When that is accomplished you will then adopt a resolution and I'll have such resolutions ready for you in blank form, a resolution then authorizing me to negotiate. You'll rank them, you'll receive my recommend- ations, you'll rank them and then adopt a resolution author- izing me to go ahead and negotiate with the first one, hope- 67 411 full.. and eucCes full. If not, on down through the second y Y 9 etd third one and I want to also, report that the City is re- ceiving fine cooperation from the users. We seem to have come to understanding and are all headed in the same direct- ion as to improvements for the Orange Bowl. Last Friday I met with the users and presented to them the plans for the washroom improvements. I can report that they were pleased with what the City is going to do as far as altering four washrooms to provide ladies restrooms on the 9 foot level right off the main walkway. This now is in the design stage and will be well under way with plans and hope to receive bids within the next several months. It was pointed out that the washroom construction can be carried out even if we're into the football season because it is off the area that is used by the public right now and will be connected to the walkway when construction is completed. Reverend Gibson: Mr. Andrews, you know I raised a question. I'm converted, committed to saying "capable local firms in- volved" not only giving free service but making some of that money. I just want to make sure everybody understands that. When we come back here I want every assurance - you see, it is all right for me to bring a New York firm down here to build but it is also important that these Miami firms make some money so they can pay these taxes. I just want to make sure that nobody misunderstands me and I don't have any friends in the business other than they are citizens who have to eat, sleep and pay taxes. I just want to make sure every- body understands that. Mr. Andrews: It is well understood. Mr. Plummer: Let me ask this question. What about the three other items that you haven't touched on today? Those other items as I recall was the re -doing of the lighting system, the sound system and the score board. Mr. Andrews: The scoreboard proposals are now out and we will be receiving proposals from those who are interested in furnishing the City with a modern electronic scoreboard and I don't have the specific date.... The 19th of August is the date when we'll receive proposals. That is the closing date on the scoreboard. The lighting is out for, the bidding for those fixtures, we will be awarding it on the llth. Mr. Plummer: The important th.ng is is it going to be in be- fore the first game? Mr. Andrews: I'm not sure that it is going to be in before the first game. I can't make that guarantee. If we receive it on July llth or award it on July llth, it depends on the delivery of those fixtures and as soon as they arrive we plan to install them ourselves. There is one more matter, the sound system. We have, and I've discussed the sound sys- tem extensively with the users committee and now I think they fully recognize the difference between the on -field sound system and the public address system which is already install- ed. The on -field sound system is comparable to the sound sys- tem that the Orange Bowl Committee has to rig up for each of their annual events to put on their half time show or pre -game show. We met with the engineering firm who will be supplying us with the proposal to carry out this work and had that con- sultant present with the users so that we discussed the sound system with the users quite extensively. Reverend Gibson: You know the festival, Rose, is a good 68 JUN 2719 411 410 example. i happen to be a strong advocate that the people who you hire, that is that we pay a regular salary to ought to be infinitely important to us and involved in some of the things that we're doing. I then raise this question: The people who are involved in our electronics, communications, I want to knIow if they are involved because I shall never for- get, we brought these people from Latin America and around and that sound system that we had at that festival was a dis- grace to the city. We either must go first rate or get out of the business. Now I hope our people meaning the people that we have on board with us, that they are intimately in- volved. I can't tell them what is wrong or how because I preach. But they are involved in that business and I hope they have an opportunity to look, see and talk. Mr. Andrews: And more than tht, make recommendations and be part of this whole process which we're doing. Reverend Gibson: Right because let me tell you what bothers me. They used to invite me quite often to give the invocat- ion at the football games and you know I used to hear that playback and that delay and I wondered sometimes if the Lord was hearing what I was saying. You know there was a delayed reaction to my prayer. Fortunately, I think he did finally hear me and they would win. But I would hope that that is not the case when we put in this system - who did you say that was? Mr. Andrews: The Communications Department, Mr. Demby. Reverend Gibson: I would hope that any consultants, you and all the rest of them sit down and talk with the man. He could avoid some pitfalls. Mr. Andrews: They have some very competent and capable people in that department. Reverend Gibson: I just want to make sure when you come now.. Mr. Plummer: Let me go one step further. Paul I think what he is saying is something we've been saying, that I think it has come time that this City, and I've said it with the com- prehensive plan and we're going to go back into that this afternoon. It is time that this City try to stop bringing people in from the outside who when their job is finished, receive their check and they're gone and we hive to live with the day-to-day. I think that as much as possible this stuff should be done by our people who will be here after- wards, who know what was designed, know what was put in, and so that they can be the ones that are going to have to cor- rect it. I think this is very important. You know I don't mean to name names but I think we have to. Yarger came in here, they did a fantastic job for the City but boy let me tell you something. They dropped it, got their check and run Venezuela and you are the very one that is living today with the day-to-day problems that they left us and I hope that is what Father Gibson is saying. Reverend Gibson: That's right. Mayor Ferre: All right. Paul, then so we can get a time frame on all of this, when are you coming back again with your recommendations? Mr. Andrews: As far as the Orange Bowl consultants, I hope that I can be ready on the llth but certainly no later than 69 JUN 271974 • the 25th, Mayor Ferre: And at that time we will be ready to, for to proceed to negotiate. And then when will we be ready you to eontradt if we choose someone on the llth? Mr. Andrews: I would say two weeks after that...,. have to be the first meeting in September. Mayor Ferre: Couldn't we get it can save those middle months? I really think that time is of the is not a Bi-Centennial.project I us ready by 1976 so that we will Bowl. you for It would by the 25th of July so we think it is important, I essence. Even though this would like very much to see have an improved Orange Mr. Andrews: I should also report to the Commission one sig- nificant step that we're taking and that is a new type of seat that has been brought to our attention, something that's newly manufactured. It is a substantial rest back seat with arm rests and the users are aware of this. We have selected four seats in the Orange Bowl that are not season seats and we're installing four of these chairback seats in the spacing that we have and these seats have been designed in such a way that they will fit into that spacing that we have that will not cramp the aisle or the seat arrangement in front making it comfortable for someone to use that type of chair seat. If this works successfully this will mean that we'll be able to provide the Orange Bowl with a new seating plan much faster than we had anticipated and with less of a reduction in seats if we consider the construction of the east end zone. What I'm trying to say is that if this experiment works with these new seats it is goingto materially improve and accelerate the installation of chair seats throughout all of the Orange Bowl. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Andrews, do you think that it is possible for us to have some dramatic improvements in our Orange Bowl by 1976? Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor, that is possible. That is going to depend to a certain extent on the users, whether they are willing to enter into long term agreements which would make a financing plan possible. They fully recognize this and under- stand this. Otherwise, if they do not enter into long term agreements then the City will have to provide the improvements as funds become available and the number of improvements we install per year will be somewhat less. Mayor Ferre: See, that is the crux of the matter and I want the Commission and the public to recognize what we're really talking to. Let's put it very specifically. The Dolphin's contract expires next year, doesn't it? Mr. Andrews: Two years, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Ferre: 1976. What I would be hopeful of is that they would initiate formal negotiations for a new contract before 1976 so that in effect we can use that as a basis for the funding of the improvements on a revenue bond basis so that as has been true in the past we will not use taxpayer's monies to make these substantial improvements that are going to cost millions and millions of dollars. I think that that really will be the crux of the matter. In other words what I'm saying is that the decision for the quantity and the quality of the improvements in the Orange Bowl goes back to the users and namely those users that use it the most which are the. Dolphins 70 in thin cane. It is very important that we all recognize that that is what we're waiting on eventually. We can go through all of these procedures of selecting committees, selecting architects and designers and some of these things we can do on our own and we can afford to do it on our own. But the big improvements, the change of the seats, etc. are going to be completely dependant upon the users and their will to have an improved stadium. If they want to cooperate with us we certainly, that will greatly simplify. Now if they do not want to cooperate that does not mean that we're not going to do it. It just means that it makes our task that much harder. Reverend Gibson: Mr. Mayor, I serve on a college board with a man from New Orleans and I was very interested in picking his brain because you know I remember what was said to us. Rose, I hope you hear this. This is what he said to me: "He said man, we haven't found out yet how much that stadium out there is going to cost us." 3 just want to play that here. Mr. Plummer: New Orleans? $173,000,000 now and it is still not completed. Reverend Gibson: He said to me we don't know yet and he told of a certain individual in public life who wanted to go down in history in creating that stadium. He said and they sure created a monster for us in our pockets. I just want to put that on the record. Mayor Ferre: Are there any questions or comments on item 25? 304 ESTABLISH DATE FOR PUBLIC HEARING OF COCONUT GROVE ZONING STUDY Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, it is my recommendation that you hold this meeting in the early part of September after everyone has returned from their vacation and children are back in school and that in addition to the September date that you consider a night time meeting when you hold this so that you can get the kind of participation that you need.and will want. When this was held at the Plan- ning Board level there were some 300 people in attendance, 20 speakers and it lasted some 5 or 6 hours. Mayor Ferre: Is that acceptable to everyone on this Commis- sion? Mrs. Gordon: I would like to ask Mr. Andrews since we know we're going to have more than one hearing why wait until September to have the first one? Mr. Andrews: Only to give consideration so that everyone is here. The Commission doesn't have to wait until September but it was just the thought that Mrs. Gordon: It appears to me that we shouldn't procrastinate and let's have one in July. That will give us the month of August to study the things that come up. Mr. Plummer: Rose, if I may interject, we do have a.letter on record from Mr. Jack Rice, the attorney of record for the major users, or a number of the major users on Bayshore Drive. He will be out of the country and has requested that it quite possibly could be better in September that he would be back 71 to represent his clients and also that a great number of the people in the Grove will be going out for summer vacations and September would be a More logical date. Pow if 1 don't do anymore than get that on the record that he did Bend, I think all of us a letter. You all do what you want, but I personally... Mrs. Gordon: I think it is going to take a lot of hearings, J. L. Mr. Plummer: Yes Rose, but you know what happened with Bay - shore improvement of the drive out here. We had four hearings and we still had people after it to come back and tell us they didn't know about it. You all do what you want. I could only hope, Mr. Mayor, that we will not have this in a regular Com- mission meeting that it will be a special meeting. Mrs. Gordon: All right. I don't care if you all want to wait until September. Mr. Plummer: I would like to see it around the middle of September if it is agreeable. Mayor Ferre: And schedule the meeting in the evening. Mr. Acton: Mr. Mayor, if you recall during the time that I brought before the Commission the interim Coconut Grove Zon- ing District which was basically to be applied to the central commercial, at that time the Commission instructed the depart- ment to bring back before such time as the interim zoning district ran out the new zoning for the central commercial area in the Grove. I want to alert the Commission that if the item is not heard, the plan plus the zoning for the central commercial district in Coconut Grove in July it will be nec- essary for the Commission to extend that district an addit- ional 6 months to safeguard against any type of undesirable development occuring in the area. Mr. Plummer: I wouldn't want to see a 6 month stipulation applied but I would apply the stipulation that until the conclusions and the decisions of this Commission. Mrs. Gordon: Would we have to take any action now or at the next meeting to extend it? All right. Mr. Andrews, will you prepare that'for the next meeting? Thereupon the following motion was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-516 A MOTION FIXING SEPTEMBER 19, 1974 AT 5:00 O'clock P.M. AS THE DATE AND TIME FOR A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE COCONUT GROVE ZONING STUDY. Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso the motion was passed and adopted by the follwoing vote- AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Mrs. Gordon: Can I commend our department, I would like to take the opportunity on the public record to say how effect- ively the boards are working, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Acton, you deserve to be given credit. I attended a Planning Board meeting and I was most proud to be there. It was done very well and a great credit goes to the persons that are administrating the program. 72 MIN 2715174 • 31, APPOINTMENT OE MEMBERS TO GENERAL CULTURAL HISPANIC COMMITTEE Mr, Rebosof Mr. Enrique Rodriguez Mayor Ferre: Would you give the name and address to the clerk? Father, do you have any appointments on that? Reverend Gibson: No, sir. Mrs. Gordon: I'll have some liter in the day. Mayor Ferre: All right. I would like to add the names of Mr. Raul Alvarez to that Cultural Hispanic Committee and also Mrs. Alfredo Duran in addition to those that have already been submitted. Mr. Antonio who? (Inaudible) Mayor Ferre: Mr. Antonio George. Yes. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Reboso who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-517 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI APPOINTING MEMBERS TO THE GENERAL CULTURAL HISPANIC COMMITTEE. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's Office.) Upon being seconded by Rev. Gibson the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 32. BEAUTIFICATION OF MIAMI FASHION DISTRICT pERSAPIpL APPEARANCE OF SOL W. MEYERSON Mr. Sol W. Meyerson: Good afternoon Mr. Mayor, Mrs. Gordon, Rev. Gibson, Mr. Reboso and Mr. Plummer. My name is Hop -along Meyerson. I've got a broken foot because of a hole in a City street which Mr. Grimm has so gratefully repaired and for the record I'm not filing any legal action against the City for not looking for this hole. Mr. Andrews and ourselves have been attempting to beautify the Miami Fashion District and I wish to take this opportunity to thank the Mayor and the City Commissioners for passing this resolution naming this Miami Fashion District and I wish to thank all of the members of all the departments involved in getting the signs up because it has been quite a bit of excitement about the fact that there is some direction towards the Miami Fashion District. I ve- lieve Mr. Grimm has set up some aerial photos for the beauti- fication of the district and if Mr. Grimm could come up here and show it to us and show it to the Commissioners, I have had a quick glance of it. We would like to see this particular Fashion District fashioned after the designer's section which 73 JUN 271974 is very acoeptae and very beautiful and 1 imagine quite acceptable to the City Fathers. Mr. Grimm. Mr. Grimm: Mr. Meyerson made ,a request several months ago for improvements of streets ir. the Fashion District and we've gone out and ridden that area that east of the expressway to LW, 2nd Avenue from roughly 22nd Land north to 28th Street with the ideas of what improvements might be done. Now those streets that you see colored in red are in such a state that they need to be completely rebuilt. Those that you see in yellow are such that the pavement surface can be widened, drainage installed and the whole street resurfaced. This would include sidewalks, curb and gutters. These photos that you see along the side are not from this area but from an area where we did a comparable type of improvement. This is up in Reid Acres. Our request to Mr. Meyerson was to circulate petitions in this area to see whether or not the people in here were favorable. This as yet hasn't been done but if the City wished we could order a highway improvement district at which time I would then write a letter to each property owner in this area, inform them of what we intended to do, give them an approximate cost, hold public hearings and then ap- pear back before the Commission just as we have done in past districts. Mr. Plummer: Let me understand you correctly. We have some- one that is coming here asking us to do it? Mr. Grimm: Yes. One individual, I might point out, Mr. Plum- mer. Mr. Plummer: We usually get crowds and crowds of people tel- ling us not to do it. Mr. Meyerson: Mr. Plummer, I have undertaken the chore of petitioning the people providing the City Commission will pass a resolution saying that they are in favor of it. I will get the land owners, a section at a time to say that as long as the City will pass a resolution and we apply the same methods used to Designer's Row and the same patterns used to Designer's Row which is very popular today, we will get the necessary petition without the City's expense. That will be my expense - though I don't work for nothing, it will be my expense. I will then cooperate the wayithe City Departments have worked very very nicely, Mr. Hays, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Grimm, the people in the sign departments have been very nice about moving signs around, getting things set but if we can get this resolution from the City Commission that they are in favor of beautifying this Fashion District sections at a time, I, as I said, I will undertake the job of getting these petitions signed by the necessary land owners and I can get them rather rapidly plus another thing. I will also supply to the City most, the greater portion of the names of the people that do a big re- tail business and most of the names of the people that do have manufacturing and industrial plants in the area. Now for further presentation, if we get this resolution, this is what we intend to build. I would like to introduce to you our architect, Mr. Seymour Drexler a member of the AIA. Mr. Drexler is holding and reviewing things. On N.W. 5th Avenue between 27th and 28th on a present structure that we have we are putting, and along side of the present structure we are putting this particular building. We look forward to break- ing ground sometime in October or November this year and have it completed and ready in the Fashion District with 24 hour security guards and everything you can possibly want in the building. In November 1975 well before the Bi-Centennial 74 JUN 27 1974 s • that is coming up. Mr. Plummer: When you say we are you talking about you as an individual or the Garnet District jointly? Mr. Meyerson: No, I am talking by myself. This is my project. I'm president of International Center of the Americas and this is something I have been working on for a long time. This is the present building as you can see and this is the parking facility and this is parking underneath the new building with all of the extras. The total amount of footage in the build- ing, in this particular building is 189,000 square feet plus the fact, this being the second floor of the building where you'll have sufficient parking for the building and probably a little short of parking where we have an additional parking facility to take care for that shortage within the proper dis- tance. In that very same building we have an International Tennis and Health Club which will be a businessman's club with a coffee shop and a restaurant, sauna baths, massage rooms, steam rooms, everything you can possibly want plus three ten- nis courts, three indoor tennis courts, if they wish to play in the gymnasium and what have you. That will be in that particular area. That keeps them healthy, Mr. Plummer. This is just a side view of the area. Now this going along with the beautification of the area will be the Miami Fashion Dis- trict Public Garage, 310 cars 31ong side of and pretty close by to the first building that I've shown you and frankly it has been fashioned after the downtown garage with the elevators and just because of lack of space. It will be a seven story project for approximately 310 cars. On I-95 and the most im- portant building in the area between 28th and 29th street is this beautiful building. This will consist of 118,000 square feet, 10 floors at 10,000 square feet each on I-95, N.W. 6th avenue between 28th and 29th street. It will also consist of four levels of parking and one street level of offices. Now the surprise coming in which I wish the Commission to take into consideration along with the beautification of the area is: I wish to offer this 8 million dollar project, this build- ing to the City of Miami for consideration for a possible new City Hall on I-95 where it will stand alone away from all of the other government buildings with a heliport on the roof and you have 118,000 square feet. In fact, you have more than that, approximately with the additional lot added to it this will be leased and after the lease to the Commission if they give us the go ahead after consideration, it will be yours. We don't want it. You don't have to spend a dime for it after you finish your lease. That is the entire package for the beautification and my offer for a new Miami City Hall to the city. Thank you. Can I get the resolution? I'm sorry to say that I'm very blunt. I am not a politician. All I want is a yes or a no. Reverend Gibson: Mr. Mayor, I want to ask a couple of quest- ions. I understand and I love your generosity and your civic pride, but you know in my business there is always a catch. I saw that chart Mr. Grimm displayed and whether we get the building or not or whether we build all of those buildings I'm sure we would want to do the improvements that have been asked for or discussed. I know how the average citizen feels about government being slow and not getting things done as quickly as private enterprise but I want to say to all of us while we admire this, one thing we want to be very careful of and I know we will, is when we send Mr. Grimm or put him in control that we protect both those who are desirous of or those who own and those who don't own. I want to be very careful of that. I want to do the other thing so to make sure that you understand that I'm with you. I would hope that at no time this city would drag its feet. I don't think we will but I just want to issue an admonition and I hope we won't drag our feet hearing what a businessman has said and yet at the same time don't be a captive. There is more wisdom in what I'm saying than what I'm saying. Mr. Meyerson: Reverend, if I may answer you, there is no catch to this. You lease the building and I'll probably be dead and buried after the years that you've leased the build- ing - it's yours. It belongs to the city. There is no catch to this because when I offered it and suggested it I just was out of town when you people, when this Commission said they were looking for a new City Hall. In fact, we had this ready and if I weren't out of town I would have tried to ask for a hearing at that time. Nevertheless, the most important thing, Reverend, I think you know me and we've discussed this, the Fashion District and how it affected your people and I researched it and I can only say that whatever we do about beautifying the Fashion District will help everybody and all people regardless of race, color and creed plus the fact it will help the City of Miami....and its in taxes. It will be recipient of a good deal of taxes. Reverend Gibson: Mr. Mayor, let me answer Mr. Grimm so he not misunderstand me. I don't want to let him get away with this, No, I want to get away with it. All I'm saying sir, I want you to note what I said. I said whether we get the building or we don't get the building, whether you build or don't build - I would hope at all times, at all times, the getting of signatures and notifying of people and all of this business is left to the people we employ to make sure that everybody, I would be voting everytime against doing other than that. Mr. Grimm, you didn't suggest that that would be done. I just want to say to my good friend that at no time I want to give up the protection of the public. Mr. Grimm: I would like also to inform the commission so there is no misunderstanding, what I've proposed here is basic- ally a highway improvement district. Beautification will not, will not be to the extent it is in the Design Center. These streets do not lend themselves to this. This is primarily an industrial area. We will put as much greenery and trees as we can but we can't go in there and wholesalely put planters in where people need this for parking and for access to their businesses and that we work out later. There will be land- scaping but the primary thing that I propose to do is a high- way re -building and widening project. Reverend Gibson: Let me try this one so that everybody will understand. I understand what you said, Mr. Grimm. What I am saying to the Commission and I hope everybody understands, is in our anxiety I don't want us to give up the right of the people. $r. Grimm: We can only do this through our standard procedures, Father. Reverend Gibson: I understand you but let me say this again. I hope you heard what Mr. Meyerson said. Ir. Grimm: I did. Reverend Gibson: Mr. Andrews, I hope you realize that you and I and the members of the Commission are the keepers of the public trust. 76 'JUN 271974 Mr. Andrews: Yee sir. We have, as you indicated when you started out, and 1 think Mr. Grimm said this, that even if Mr. Meyerson gets 100% of the people involved in the area to accept the improvements the obligation is ours to make etire that we communicate with everyone if he didn't do that. Reverend Gibson: Beautiful. Thank you, sir. We're together. Mayor ?erre: All right. What action do we have to take? Mr. Plummer: We have to make a motion to initiate.... Mr. Grimm: I'll do it. What I have to do is come back and create a highway district and get you to order it and after it is officially ordered then I'll go out and meet with the public. So don't worry about it. I'll take care of it. Mr. Meyerson: Can I get a public resolution for the record that the Commission is in favor of this..a general favor of beautification? The following motion was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-518 A MOTION APPROVING IN PRINCIPLE PLANS SUB- . MITTED THIS DATE BY SOL. W. MEYERSON FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MIAMI FASHION DISTRICT, AND REQUESTING THE CITY MANAGER AND THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS TO INAUGURATE A HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT IN THIS AREA. Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon the motion was pass- ed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Mr. Meyerson: Thank you, and now would you please be good enough to take into consideration at any future date you want to lease this City Hall building if you wish it? That is all up to you and if it's not for the City Hall then we'll get somebody else. Who knows, maybe the State might need it. 33, DISCUSSION OF HEALTH SECURITY MEASURE UNDER CONSIDERATION RY COHGRFSS Mayor Ferre: Mr. Gil Green and Dean John White of FIU, I don't see Max Serchuk here to discuss the Health Security measures under consideration. Before you start, let me read into the record a telegram that has been received by my office in response to a telephone call from Commissioner Rose Gordon which reads as follows: In response to your inquiry I want to affirm my strong support of House Bill 23s and Senate Bill 3, the original Kennedy -Griffiths Bill to provide a National Health Security System. After following the hearings of the House Ways and Means Committee on various bills now pending, I have concluded that the only bill those of us who want the people of this country to get comprehensive and decent health care can support is House Bill 22. I am one of the cosponsors of House Bill 22 and I have consistently supported that position since the early 1940's. My Senate Committee on Wartime Health and Education readily concluded in 1945 and 1946 that this is the only kind of program which can provide needed health care 77 for all the people of this country. Other programs now pro'- posed will be inadequate in meeting health needs of the peo- ple in this country and the enactment of any of these programa will retard rather than progress the enactment of House Bill 22. If you and the City Council feel that you would like to support House bill 22, an appropriate resolution of the Honorable Wilbur D. Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee would be very helpful and I would be most grateful for a copy of any resolution you may pass. Warm regards, Claude Pepper, Member of Congress. Mra. Gordon: I'm very happy to have that. May we all have a copy for our records? Mayor Ferre: I will give this to the Clerk, if you would have copies made and distributed. Mr. Dick Collins, Secretary of the Florida State Coalition for Health Security: I would like to apologize for the fact that Max Serchuk who is the chairman was unable to be here today. As you know he is the president of the Dade County Senior Citizens Council. I would also like to apologize for the fact that Dean White from FIU who is vitally inter- ested'in this as he Dean of Health and Allied Sciences at the university is unable to be here today. Max asked me to come and kind of pitch hit for him. I would like to ask my colleague Chip Dunn who is a student at Barry College and has been very active in this to give you some material that we have and I particularly would like to call your attention to some material that Chip is going to pass out. It is under the heading of the AFL CIO. The National Senior Citizens Council and the AFL CIO... Mayor Ferre: Dick, excuse me for cutting through all this because I think you're going to get a unanimous resolution on the part of the Commission. How long are you going to take in your presentation? Mrs. Gordon: Just for the sake of information. Mr. Collins: About 5 minutes. Mayor Ferre: I think we are all very aware of this and this is a matter, I want to state that I personally put in a phone call to Senator Kennedy and discussed this matter with him and I'm prepared to whole-heartedly support this at the Commis- sion level. Mr. Plummer: Likewise. I think we have all read it. Mrs. Gordon: But I think it behooves us to give 5 minutes to the public records so that anybody reading the public records may know why we voted for it. Mr. Collins: In reference to the material that I have given out to you I assume that Commissioner Gordon has already given you some of it. The other is a text of the message that George Heaney presented to the National Council of Sen- ior Citizens at the last national meeting several weeks ago and it points out how strongly and how urgently that we need support for H.R. 22 and S. 3, and based on the comments of what the Mayor said, I will cut my remarks. I urge that this body pass a resolution to support H.R. 22 and S. 3. Mrs. Gordon: Where would you want these forwarded to, Mr, 78 JUN 27197 Mills and his committee? Mr. Collins: Yes, with a copy to our congressman in our area. Mayor Ferre: To all three of our congressmen? And to our two Senators and to Max Serchuk as president. Thereupon a motion supporting House Bill 22 and Senate Bill 3 was introduced by Mrs. Gordon, seconded by Mr. Plum- mer and passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev.. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Pierre. NOES: None. Mayor Ferre: I want to thank you for your efforts and we're whole-heartedly with you, I agree with Rose Gordon's feelings and with those of our distinguished senator Claude Pepper in his fight along with yours to get a comprehensive health bill that will be meaningful. Unfortunately, as we know by the newspapers and personal contact, this is by no means done and over with. There is a difficult battle coming ahead. The President is totally opposed to this bill and has been trying to water it down any way possible and even the valiait efforts of Senator Kennedy have been somewhat watered, as you know because he at one time began to hedge a little bit and start- ed to back the Wilbur Mills version rather than the Griffith version. I might also ask the Clerk that a copy of this bill be sent to both, I mean of this resolution, be sent to Senator Kennedy and to Congressman Mills and Griffith. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Mayor, I have another idea that we could possibly help by sending a copy of this to the Dade League of Cities and the President is here, Mr. Plummer, and we would like them to consider our action. I thank it would be worthy that the Florida League of Cities be notified and also the National League of Cities, the Metro Commission orsany other public body that should be aware that we are in support of it. I think if all these copies are sent it may help. Mr. Plummer: It is on the agenda of July 11 for the Dade League of Cities and you're invited to come and give input. Mr. Lloyd: Before Mr. Collins leaves, I wonder, Mr. Mayor, if I might be indulged to have Mr. Collins step to the rear with us so as to assist us in preparing a proper and approp- riate written resolution with my assistant. 34,, APPEARANCE OF (EMBERS OF ALLAPATTAH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION gFGPfiNG TREF REMOVAL TN AREA SURROUNDING CITY AUTO POUND Mr. Steve Bolton: Thank you very much, Mayor Ferre. I'm here as president of the Allapattah Community Association and both Mrs. Keller and Mrs. Eberhardt are members of the association and have been particularly affected in this issue because they live right around the area where a lot of trees have been removed. This issue of trees has been the dominate theme in all of our meetings for the last couple of months. We have called several special meetings and heard groups of neighbors in the affected area. One of the main issues here is that even the funds for these improvements were voted on by the public the people affected are really finding out about the details of these tree removal projects and the street im- provement projects when the bulldozers come in and start tear- ing down trees. One general thing that we're interested in 79 • is having a little bit more advanced warning and having the neighborhood organizations and neighbors being in on the Planning, We feel that a lot of the trees that were taken dawn probably could have been left there through planning and at least the neighbors should have been warned of this. In going through this issue of the tree removal in the Civic Center area and the area around the auto pound we've also been alerted to the fact that the improvements are going to be made along 20th street from 7th Avenue to 27th Avenue. Now just recently the signs have gone up advising us of this fact and the Community Association would like to have some sort of input in the planning of this project especially as it.relates to trees. In other words, the issue of trees is kind of a hot issue among these people in Allapattah nowadays and we would like to bring this matter to the Commission. Both Mrs. Eberhardt and. Mrs. Keller who have more directly connected with this project than I have will bring some specific recommendations. Now quite often when we're trying to find out about this project there seems to be a confusion or a lack of a definition as to whether this is something that Dade County is supposed to take care of or something that the City of Miami is supposed to take care of. We feel ✓ that as Citizens of Miami we would like to bring this to this Commission for one of two things. Either a decision that this is a City of Miami responsibility and something the City could do for the area or for your support if this is indeed the responsibility of Dade County. Now I would like to have Mrs. Keller come to the microphone to present some specific requests on the part of the Allapattah Community Association. Mrs.Patricia Keller: As you know we represent the Allapattah Community Association and the Miami Lithuanian American Citi- zens Club. We are going to show the ecological blows that we have suffered in the Community of Allapattah. We're going to show where the responsibility lies and I hope that we're going to be constructive in our solutions that we're going to offer. Keep in mind that we're dealing with two projects here today, the widening of N.W. 14 Avenue and the resurfacing of N.W. 14 Avenue and the resurfacing and widening of N.W. 20 Street. I think most of you are aware by now that Dade County came in and fell some of the loveliest of our old trees. Some of these trees were planted by our grandfathers. Some of them as we saw it were wantonly cut down with no permit to do so. Over 95% of the trees could have been saved. This could have been done by making tree islands, jogging sidewalks, moving the trees a few feet, and so forth in accordance with our tree ordinance. Instead, despite the fact that petitions, letters and telegrams were sent to both City and County officials, the felling continued. This loss that we hve incurred can never be replaced. Who responsibility is this? What can we do in the future to prevent this ever happening again? We the people have the responsibility I'm afraid but we muffed it just as others but hopefully we're going to constructively criticize. The responsibiiity rests on their shoulders as well as ours. I think we've made some serious mistakes in our area. While we rose up in righteous indignation I'm afraid we didn't rise up quite as loudly as we should have and we've learned our lesson. We'll never do it again. We'll storm City Hall when we see our beautiful trees being raped and denuded from our area again. The second area of responsibility we see is City and County officials who chose to consider themselves immune from the restrictions of the tree ordinance. There are many restrictions I could inject here that were never carried out in this project. The present tree ordinance calla for barriers to be put around trees in the process of $0 • construction. I investigated this and I noticed in other projects dirt is sometimes piled around trees because it is a convenient area to pile dirt and for some reason, I don't know the answer behind it or what the biological reasons are, this kills the trees. The wise people who set up our tree ordinance knew this and they called for barriers to be set up around the living trees that were left living, and believe me there aren't a lot of living trees left in our community. These barriers never were set up. This sort of grips you right here when we see that our ordinance was laughed at and these particular barriers were not placed around our trees. In the future, to rectify this we are endeavoring to be con- structive. We would hope that our civic organizations would be notified when work of this magnitude is planned. What is our purpose here, to cry over spilled milk? To cry over our felled trees? Neither one. Our purpose as we see it is to obtain the cooperation of Dade County and the City of Miami in the beautification of our community. Dade County has seen its responsibility, has agreed to provide shade trees along N.W. 14th Avenue. Can you imagine how very beautiful that is going to be to have a center parkway of beautiful shade trees placed here along N.W. 14th Avenue? Dade County has given we, the community organization permission to help in the planning of this new median strip. Now we are coming up here hopefully, with what we consider a constructive aim in my being here. Now we are concerned with N.W. 20 Street. Dade County is about to, and is now proceding to widen N.W. 20 Street. This will be done from I-95 to N.W. 27 Avenue. This is a hideous looking street. I am sure each and everyone of you are ashamed of it as I am. Hopefully, we can get shade trees, I think it is important that we stipulate shade as opposed to palms, shade trees planted along the full length of the newly widened and newly paved roadway. We want to be in on the planning and hopefully you will allow us to be. Incidentally we want to thank Mrs. Gordon and the help that she and her secretary have given us.. I think they have shown a lot of consideration for us about the problems we have encountered. At any rate, the last point and the fourth purpose of our being here: Along N.W. 14 Avenue we have several areas that are being developed as the result of this widening of N.W. 14 Avenue. We would hope to hear our city will see fit to set up mini -parks with benches, shade trees, perhaps basketball backstops and so forth. These mini -parks, you might want to write them down, they are to be created on N.W. 14.Avenue be- tween N.W. 15 Street and 16 Street and on N.W. 14 Avenue at the corner of N.W. 13th Terrace. We would see the City of Miami doing this - quite frankly we don't care who does it as long as it gets done. On what do we base our requests? We based our requests on what we see as the responsibility of both the city and county here. .The county has acknowledge their re- sponsibility as I told you and has agreed to plant the trees along N.W. 14th Avenue. What are the further bases for our requests? We see the people as giving you people, our City Commissioners and representatives a mandate. As part of the task force as the Parks for People Program the people, as you know, saw an important priority in shade trees for our com- munity of Allapattah. Mini -parks were another high priority item listed. We are asking for these things today. Our third basis for our requests; the organizations that we represent here have mandated this. Quite frankly, if we notified all the interested people in our community they would be hanging from the roof tops here in City Hall. People are so very very much for this that it really amazed us. Finally and con- structively to reiterate, we request (1) City and County let the people know when work is going to be done in our com- munities in the future. (2) We request that the City of 81 • Miami plant shade trees on N.W. 20 Street from 1-95 to N.W. 27th Avenue. Shia could best be done, as we see it in con,. junntion with Dade County's street widening program nog. in . progress. (3) We wantMini-Parks as noted. I•thank you ever ao Much. Mr. Siutmnert Mr. Mayor, this letter was received by me ap- propriately so by me as well as others of the Commission, I'm sure and I immediately sent it as provided to the City Man- ager. He tells me he has looked into the situation and I think it would be appropriate that we hear from the City Manager at this time because he can speak very quickly and directly to some of the points that Mrs. Keller just made, Mayor Ferret Vera, did you want to speak? Mrs. Vera Eberhardt: I'm an executive Committee woman of Allapattah. I'm here to help to beautify Miami. I'm very much interested in Miami because it is my lovely place to live. I came from and settled and I'm interested in the rest of my life to spend here. Now I want to ask you people to help me. We had a meeting at the Lithuanian Club on June 12th and they asked me to come before you to see if we can't get lights on 34th Street. There isn't one light on 34th Street from 27th Avenue to 36th Street.. It is all dark. From 7th Avenue to 36th Street, there is no light there. Reverend Gibson: Speak in the microphone, the Manager doesn't hear it. Mrs. Eberhardt: There is no light from 27th Avenue to 36th Avenue on 34th Street. There are many lovely homes there. There are children there. They can not go out at night. The Lithuanian Club ha: many parties, very active people. The young people have weddings there. Mr. Plummer: Vera, that's not even in the City. Mrs. Eberhardt: That is in the City too, from 27th Avenue up to 34th Street. Mr. Plummer: No. Mrs. Eberhardt: I'm asking to see if you Commissioners can go up front and ask and see what we can do about that street. Mrs. Gordon: Even though it is not in the City I am sure we'll take that much of an interest to ask the County to do something about it. Mrs. Eberhardt: Please do that because it is very dark there. Mrs. Gordon: We'll try to do what we can. Mrs. Eberhardt: I do want benches, they're having new stop lights, new buses coming on, they're digging up everything. While they're doing that they can put benches and trees for the people who wait on buses. I think it is a shame to sit out in the sun and have all of the people in the sun. Mrs. Gordon: Is that the same area you're talking about now? Mrs. Eberhardt: This is loth Avenue and 14th Street, is where I live, right where the hospital is, where it is very congested. Its the Civic Center and should have benches at bus lines because there are a lot of people there. 82 JUN 27197 I se+a it here, I live tight there and I don't think it in fair for people to stand around waiting for a buss without benches and they should have them fixed like they have their fixed on 22nid Avenue. It is a beautiful street that they've fused. They thouid do the same for 14th Avenue northwest. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Andrews, have you taken note of these locations? Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission t want to state publicly for those who were not here earlier the con- cerns of the Commission with reference to protecting the trees in the City of Miami. Some 5 years ago you initiated a tree ordinance in order to insure that trees are preserved on both private property and in the public rights of way. This morn- ing you were considering another major revision of that tree ordinance to provide even greater protection. I want to point out that the public works department has exercised a great deal of care in planning our City streets and this is partic- ularly true in the Coconut Grove area where we provided new improvements and worked around large oak trees that actually the roots of those oak trees set out into the pavement rather than put curbs and potentially destroy the trees. The parti- cular trees on this improvement were reviewed by the City and wherever possible we attempted to preserve those trees. Along the Curtis Parkway we allowed the construction to come into the parks so that we wouldn't have to disturb the trees. The sidewalk was constructed in the park area so that we wouldn't have to remove the trees that were in the public right of way and place the sidewalk in that location. In addition to that we sat down guidelines for the County that wherever a tree en- croached into the public right of way by two feet we were to find a way of preserving the tree rather than remove it. The trees along the parkway at the Auto Pond were removed for, and cut down for two reasons - these were melaleucas. (1) We first accessed that if we moved those trees we found out that a cer- tain number of them would die. Secondly, we found that this was not the best place to put trees until we relocate that Auto Pound. We found that many children were Climbing those trees and getting into the Auto Pound area where we were try- ing to maintain a high security area as far as the impounding of private vehicles. We're very conscious of preserving trees in the public right of way. We're going to replace the trees that we removed at the 20th Street pound with other landscaping materials. I can't over stress that I and the Public Works Department and Parks and Recreation and the Planning Department are very conscious of preserving trees in the public right of way and on private property even to the extent that in the more up to date highway improvement pro- grams the Public Works Department has tried to accomplish the planing of trees as an adjunct to the street improvements. Reverend Gibson: Mr. Mayor, I hope the people who are here heard what Mr. Andrews said and I want to testify that what he said is absolutely true and correct. Out in our area some- times I wonder why in the world you didn't cut them down. They went to all kinds of pains to save trees and some of them, as a layman, I wouldn't have saved but they were most particular and I want to tell you that I think Public Works, that is our department, is most sympathetic and I would hope that you wouldn't look upon us as not concerned or as the enemy. I think if you would go to those men and ask them why, how come and when you will find that they are most re- sponsive and understanding. We hope that you will do that before you leave here today. We are your friends and we work for you and we want you to understand our problems, Now 83 JUN2(1974- rerea er what he said, he is going, as soon as feasible, he is going to have a planting program there and 1 think you neei to talk with hits before you leave so that you would not feel that you have visited us in vain. We don't regard this as a criticism. 1 tell you one thing, the fact that you came makes us more careful. Please go and talk with Mr. Grimm before you leave. Mayor Ferre: Father, can I say amen to thati Reverend Gibson: Yes sir. Mrs. Keller: We're going to get the trees along N.W. 20th Street, do I understand everybody correctly? Reverend Gibson: Talk with Mr. Grimm. He has the program worked out. He heard us and oneething I can say about that department - they listen and they are very responsive. I want to urge you to go, Mr. Andrews, show them Mr. Grimm please. 35. DISCUSSION OF URGING MTA TO EXTEND "B" LINE SERVICE TO C..T.A, TOWERS_ Mrs. Gordon: I have a petition here from the people who are in the C.T.A. Towers and they are asking us to come to their help. The "B" Line bus goes within 5 blocks of where they live and almost 300 people have signed this petition, each specified how many times they would use it during the week. It totaled to about one thousand to 1500 trips and I would like to move a motion that we prepare a resolution asking MTA to permit us to come to the next board meeting and pre- sent the case, that we're in favor of it. Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. 36. REVIEW OF DATA PROCESSING PLANS FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, if I might intercede because one of the main parts of item 31, I want to give you just a minute of background and that background being that you, Mr. Mayor, formed a committee of this Commission to look into the overall $20,000,000 Police Bond Issue. The only definite and concrete proposal which has come from that committee with the concur- rence of the City Manager is that we hire an outside consult- ant to look into the data processing needs of the entire City first as they relate to the Police Department secondly. This was done by this Commission approximately six weeks ago, we hired totally related to wh atelse they have done for the City, the firm of Booz Allen to come in and to make this study. It was requested of them that they look into all areas of need as it relates to data processing systems for this City. They have surrendered this week to us this booklet which is a pre- liminary report evaluation of data processing plans and re- quirements for the City of Miami. They will be making a final report in approximately 30 days. This report is something that I have felt for sometime was necessary. The gentleman who is here fran Booz Allen is a man who I would like to com- liment as a man who is willing to listen, a man who I think 8 ',SUN 2 71974 has put forth a great deal of effort to meet the deadlines set by thie CoMMiesion. I have the same rapport from the City Manager and if it is in Order at thie time, would like to introduce to this Commission, Mr, Barry Young of Booz Allen who will explain his report in detail. Mr, Andrews: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, before you hear from Mr. Young I would like to point out that the re- sults of this study affect several areas which in turn affect the Department of Police and I would like to go over those wib you real quickly because as you listen to Mr. Young you will have an appreciation of the things that will follow. The City has received computer bids based on specifications designed by the Stanford Research Institute. These bids have been received and evaluated and are ready for award, depending on the findings of the Booz Allen report we are prepared to pre- sent those to the City Commission on the July llth Commission meeting and recommend to you that we award the computer bids for two computers. Additionally the building design has to be taken into consideration. You will remember that one of the things that Commissioner Plummer pointed out when he asked that this matter be accelerated was that he wanted to be sure that the computerization fit the architectural design and the Mayor pointed out that the clock was running, our time was running and we were all aware of the need to expedite this study. In addition to that there is the matter on the agenda which is item #46 which is the building interior design, the interior design of the building which you must consider. In addition to that I must bring before the Commission a request that you consider a third year agreement with Stanford Research Institute. I sent to you the other day a draft of that agree- ment. I hope you've had time to read it and it is something I want to recommend after Mr. Young has completed his pres- entation. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, let me only add to that, and this is very brief, it is not in the way of an excuse but it is in the way of explanation. You have on numerous occasions asked me when the committee report was going to be made public. Mr. Mayor I have to tell you, today's presentation is one more reason that I have completed that report three different times and before I got it completed had to withdraw it because new additions had been made to it. This today is the furtherance or even really one of the recommendations as my final report as of last Friday. This is one of the reasons, Mr. Mayor that I have not and cannot give a final report to this Commission of the committee's findings. Mayor Ferre: We understand. I think it is important, Mr. Plummer that you hold back your final report until you're satisfied that you've gotten all of the information and in- put that is necessary gor you to complete your report. Reverend Gibson: Mr. Manager, did Mr. Young talk with the Police Department who are the users of this equipment? Mr. Andrews: Yes sir. Reverend Gibson: I think I saw the Chief out there. Mr. Chief, you talked to Mr. Young, didn't you, you and your men? Chief Garmire: Yes sir. Reverend Gibson; All right. Let me ask another question. Stanford Research people, did you talk with the, Mr. Young? 85 They know the game thing that you're going to tell ue. 3s that right? Whether they agree with you or not, they know. Mt. plunsuer: Oh do they know. Reverend Gibson: The only reason I'm doing that is I want them to tell me why you aren't right or why may not be right and you may be right. Do you understand? Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor and commissioners, I want to amplify that a little further. I think it is important for you to know that after the report arrived at 2 O'clock, without di- gesting the report that was given to me I transmitted it by messenger to the Commission as soon as I received it. From that point on I think that I spent at least 10 working hours between the hours of 8 to 5 for two days, partially alone with Mr. Young, partially with him and the Chief of Police and some of his assistants and then yesterday, about a three and a half hour session with Stanford Research Institute repre- sentatives, Mr. Young, the Chief and myself so that I could come to conclusions and rather definite recommendations as to what to recommend to you as far as this computerization is concerned. I'm prepared to do so but if you wish to hear from Mr. Young first that is perfectly alright. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Andrews and members of the Commission, I have a feeling that this item is going to take a good half hour or longer. We have Mrs. Athalie Range who was a disting- uished member of this Commission for many years and subse- quently served as secretary of community affairs for the State. How many people are here on that item? Would you raise your hands please? How long do you think, Mrs. Range, your item would take? Lester, are you here on the same thing? As a supporter, all right. If it is all right with the members of the Commission in the interest, if you will forgive me, Mr. Andrews and Mr. Young, Mrs. Range, the chair will recognize you for a moment, for ten minutes. • 37, PERSONAL APPEARANCE- MS. ATHALIE RANGE REGARDING RELOCATION rASTR - MARTI LUTHER KING BOULEVARD LINEAR PARK Mrs. Range: Thank you, Mr. Mayor and irembers of the Commission for allowing us to come at this time. I have two very short items that I wish to present to the Commission for your con- sideration. It was at the last regulat Commission Meeting that we were told by Mr. Andrews, I believe that we would be on the agenda for the selection of the architects of the African Square. We were invited to recommend and today we have brought our recommendations. I think this is the day that you're going to make your choice. If I may, I passed you those letters, and for the sake of expediting time I will simply read the names of the persons or the organizations we have recommended to you. We have recommended them in this order and do sincerely hope and trust that they will be con- sidered in this order: M. Paul Friedberg and Associates, Ronald E. Frazier and Associates, Ernest A. Edwards, Jr., and Associates - that's number 1. Number 2 is Edward B. Stone, Jr. and Associates, Robert Bradford Brown, architect. Number 3, William A. O'Leary and Viallanos Associates. Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Range, excuse me for interrupting you but are any of these people local people, say in number 1 - Paul Friedberg, Frazier and Edwards, are they local people? 86 JUN 2 71974 • Mt*. Range: We have a fascet of that organization which is local +,, Ronald E. Frazier and Associates. Mr. Frazier is well knt5an to this Com isaion, to the City and County for having done extensive work. He is at the present time working vary closely with the Joseph Kalish Center in the Model Citiea area so he would be the local person, this one. If you would like further explanation of why we have chosen Paul N. Fried- berg and Associates as our first choice, the Paul N. Friedberg and Associates is veryvery familiar with our total project in that Paul Friedberg and Associates including Ernest Edwards drew and have passed the City Commission and the County has accepted the Paul Friedberg plan for the entire boulevard. We think this is very very important in that he has worked with this plan from the very inception and knows all of the intri- cate parts of it. Ernest Edwards drew the schematics for the African Square. Mr. Ronald Frazier who is here and completely familiar with the area would also serve with this group, con- sequently, it would certainly be our hope that you would give these the first consideration. Mayor Ferre: A11 right. Excuse me, Mrs. Range. Mr. Andrews, you had some recommendations on this. Would you address us on this. Mr. Andrews: Yes I do and I'm going to present those to the City Commission in time for the next meeting and the reason I'm doing that is that the City Attorney has advised us that we must follow the State procedures in the selection process. I will be recommending three firms in the order of 1, 2, 3 for you then to consider the alignment in that fashion so that I can negotiate with the first... Mrs. Gordon: Mayor Ferre: Mr. Andrews: City Attorney the law by my Are you saying that you're.... You're not prepared to do that? I am but I would like to seek advices from the that we don't pre-empt the public process of giving you the recommendations right now. Mr. Plummer: I thought it was the other way around. I thought we the Commission gave you three recommendations so you could negotiate with A, then b, then c. Mr. Andrews: You do, but you do this in a public form by in- viting the people, listening to their presentations, arrang- ing them in an order but I have the priviledge of recommending based on my findings that they be put in a certain order but the obligation is to the Commission then to, and this is what the law says, that you shall have a public hearing, that you will have the representatives there, give them time to be interviewed by the Commission then you rank them. Mrs. Gordon: I want to ask you a question. Would that pre- clude that these names would be, that wouldn't necessarily mean that you would select three others, would it? Mr. Andrews: No. But I don't want to carry this process too far and jeopardize the legal process that we must follow. Mrs. Gordon: No. I'm asking you a pointed question. Are you, is your consideration then that you name three others? Is that what you're telling us? I'm not following you. Mr. Andrews: I can't give you a yes or a no answer but I can give you a qualified one that I at this moment.... 87 Ma. Oert All tight. Ok. Mrs. Range: Mr. Mayor and COMMiesioners.. . MIS. Gordon: Ok. I understand that we have to follow legal procedures. Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Range, 1 think we are going to have to do it this way so that matter will come up at the next Oommia s ion fleeting. Mrs. Range: Ok. I appreciate it very much. I only hope, this one thing and then I'm through, I only trust that we will get it over with at the next meeting. You know we have a deadline to meet for the Bi-Centennial and we're going to put it off today. Mayor Ferre: We will, Mrs. Range. That is a committment on our part. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, you're not going to do it. Don't let her go away from here thinking that. Mayor Ferre: Why can't we do it by the next meeting? Mr. Plummer: You explain to her thisi' legal procedure because we in the Dade League are fighting this thing. We think it is wrong. Mayor Ferre: Wait a minute. Let me understand. Let me go over it and review the procedures so that we understand it. You will advertise, Mr. Andrews that you will be recommending three names. Now those that want to be heard at that time, if we want to, we can extend it and hear whoever wants to make a presentation. Now at the end of that process then the Man- ager will have recommended 1,2 and 3. Now we can either accept the Manager's recommendation.... Mr. Plummer: No. Paul, he's wrong now. Mr. Lloyd: All you have to do is have three firms from which you pick and the Commission will pick them. We've already ad- vertised, there's already three people that can be considered, they can be considered at the next Commission Meeting and then the Commission can make a selection and you've complied with the statute. Mayor Ferre: I want to tell you that I've been through this process many times because the Interama Board has to go through the same identical process and it has never been a problem. Mrs. Range: Mr. Mayor, I agree with you that it need not be a problem but in all good judgement it seems that it is becom- ing a real problem with this particular project. We have fol- lowed the letter, everything you've asked of us and I guarantee you that we came here today with the expectations, and perhaps I left with the wrong understand at the last meeting, but we were invited to give you three names. We were told at the last meeting that the selection would be made today and the only problem is that we're really running out of time. I realize that you have a guideline to follow but I am just so very afraid that by the time ;the guidelines are followed the Bi-Centennial will be here. This is how slow the pace has been and I certainly don't intend to complain but this is it and if we can't get moving then we're going to be out of the ball game. I thinklought to tell you this. 88 JUN 271974 Mayor Ferret I repeat my statement, Mr. Range. 1 see no reason why we can't select by the next COMMission Meeting, M. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, 1 hate to be a stumbling block. 1'l only trying to tell you reality. If we can do it i'ia all in favor of it but under this new law let me tell you what you've got to do - and it is a ridiculous law. You have at the next meeting got to have public hearings. After that then this Commission must designate to the Manager firm a,b, and c and at the following meeting bring it back for final determination. Mayor Ferret That's good enough. I'm cure Mrs. Range under- stood it. We've got to go by the law. You know what that • means. That means that Mrs. Range: All right. I'm willing to go by the law. You know I have no choice. I'm willing to go by the law but each time it seems the law changes so rapidly. Mayor Pierre: We can't do anything about it, Mrs. Range. We will select. Mrs. Range. A11 right, Mr. Mayor. Thank you very much. Now I will go onto the next item. I have passed you a reso- lution and I'll trust that you'll bear with me as I read this. I simply want to say prior to my reading this reso- lution to you how very very important it is that we have action on this resolution today. Upon this resolution de- pends the life of the Martin Luther King Boulevard Corporation. That is whether it continues to go on or not. Our fourth year funding depends totally upon the passage of this resolution because it has in it the means for obtaining the monies for relocation. This is the only thing that is holding us up at this time. We have here along with the Model Cities repres- entation, Martin Luther King Boulevard representation, the greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Third Century. We are all here in support of this particular resolution. I will read it if you will: Whereas the City of Miami has always been a loyal and faithful supporter of the Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard development and whereas the City of Miami has evid- enced their support through resolution and a corporation of its departments and agencies and whereas the citizens of the City of Miami have supported the bond issue which includes $10,000,000 for the development of the Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard, and whereas the Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard is an official Bi-Centennial project set for completion by July 4th, 1976 and whereas a bond issue of the City of Miami did not provide for relocation costs relating to the park de- velopment and whereas a committment of revenue funding to cover such relocation costs is necessary inorder for the pro- ject to proceed now therefore be it resolved by the Martin Luther King Boulevard Development Board, Third Century U.S.A. and the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce that the Miami City Commission direct its City Manager to include up to $85,000 in the City of Miami General Reveue Sharing Budget to be pre- pared in October, 1974 for the purpose of relocation costs relating to park development in the City of Miami portion of the Dr, Martin Luther King Boulevard Development. This is our resolution and this is what we ask your kind consideration of at this time. Mr. Plummer: Mrs. Range, didn't I understand that this would be like in the form of a guarantee of money? Mrs. Range: Yes. Mr. Plummer: And that there would be, this would not be out 89 of the General Fund. It wou:d be just to back up the reloc &tiOn and it would be payable beck to the General Fund. Mrs. Range: It would be payable back to the General Fund. We don't need the money at this moment. Mayor Ferre: You will eventually. Mrs. Ranger Yes, we will eventually need the money but we're asking, 1 can't tell you gentlemen where to get the money from. We're suggesting that the General Revenue Sharing monies Haight be a good place from which it can be obtained but of course, 1 would not be so presumptuous as to say that it has to be. Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Range, let me see if I can put my finger on the essence of what this is. With this guarantee, as I understand it, then the Federal Agency will release to you approximately $190,000 which are the funds that are needed for the continuation of your program. Is that correct? Mrs. Range: Right. That is correct. Yes. Mayor Ferre: That is the main essence of this. Mrs. Range: Yes. Mayor Ferre: Secondly, I would like to point out that Dade County has already done what you're asking us to do. Is that correct? Mrs. Range: Yes, very definitely, to a greater extent as far as dollars and cents are concerned. Mayor Ferre: And thirdly, I want to point out that this has the full backing of the Third Century group of which this is a part. Is this correct? Mrs. Range: Right. That is correct. That is right, the representatives are here. Mayor Ferret Now in affect, what we are doing is we are guaranteeing by doing this, $85,000 and Mrs. Range says it doesn't matter where it comes from, we'll have to worry about that, for the purpose of relocation costs relating to park development in the City of Miami portion of the Dr. Martin Luther King Development so it is just in that portion that relates to the City of Miami and Metro is doing its share in the portion that deals with Metro. Now have I said everything accurately? Mrs. Range: I think so,..Ar. Mayor. I think it has been clearly stated. Reverend Gibson: Mr. Andrews, you heard what Mrs. Range said. I trust you fully understand her position. Mr. Andrews: Yes. Reverend Gibson: You are not opposed to what she is asking for? Mr. Andrews: I have been opposed up to a point where I find that at this stage apparently this is the only solution she has. I would under normal circumstances continue to oppose it because I think you are establishing something here that is precedent in nature and that is that you are spending the city funds for relocation. This has not been done in the City 90 JUN 27 V74 410 of Miami but t recognise that this is the adjunct to the linear park. When we go to look at the $2,000,000 in fronds we get opinions and rightfully so, that we cannot spend capital improvement monies from general obligation bonds for the purpose of relocating people. In order for the project to move ahead apparently someone has to take this step. I had written to the county, some several letters hoping that we would come forward because they have this authority and they have this responsibility to react to this. For one reason or another they have not been able to do this and now it has arrived at a crisis stage where Mrs. Range is appeal- ing to the Commission to react and act favorably upon this. The only source, I might add that I can see as a source of funding is that this Commission would have to commit that you would use Federal Revenue Sharing Funds. Reverend Gibson: All right. Now the reason I'm asking this, I want to make sure so it doesn't come back to haunt us. When these people walk out of this room I want it to be clearly understood that they know where the money is coming from and everybody knows how to tango. Understand? How to dance smoothly. That's what I'm talking about. I want to make sure because these people can go out here and if there isn't a proper understanding they are frustrated and I just want to make sure that I don't have to live with this after today. Mrs. Range: Thank you very much Father Gibson. Mr. Mayor, what we actually are going to need, we are going to need the letter of commitment from the City of Miami stating these facts. Reverend Gibson: The motion is going to carry all of the details and then he is going to have to work all that out. Isn't that what you're saying JL? Mx. Plummer: Yes. Mr. Lloyd: May I ask one question? Would it be sufficient for your letter of commitment to have an opinion by the City Attorney with a resolution attached that this amounts to a commitment? Mrs. Range:, I think so. Yes. That is good enough. We've simply got to have something to give H.U.D. in order that our Model Cities funds can... Reverend Gibson: Wait a minute, there is a gentleman there who... Wait. Yes, sir. Mr. Lester Johnson, Third Century U.S.A.: We have met monthly with all of the agencies involved with the development of Martin Luther King Boulevard and I want to throw a bouquet right now to the City agencies involved because from Parks to Public Works, the Legal Department to everybody else it is a concert in community action. Mayor Ferret I'm glad you said that, Lester and that give me the opportunity to ask both of you a question. There are people in this greater Miami area who think that the City of Miami should not exist. Nov I would like to ask you, and I'm in no way being critical of Metro, but Mrs. Range just recent said, or the Manager said that we were not able to get response on this important item. Now this happens all of the time and if the City of Miami did not exist and you only had to deal with one governmental agency I would just like to point out the distinction because I am sure the occasion will come again 91 'JUN271974 and again, and again where we have to either vote or where the exiatance of the City of Miami or the departments of the City are being questioned as to whether or not they should exiit and this is a good ease in point as to how the City of Miami it responsive to the needs of citizens as citizens pres- ent their cases before us. Mr. Johnson: Yes sir. That is 100% true. I might also add Metro is equally responsive in the working together between Public Works and the Parks Department, the City and Metro, and the whole thing is really a joy for me to be involved in. Let me say that at this point we're sitting there days away from completion*of engineering drawings of condemnation pro- cedings of going ahead, and there is one single thing that we need and that is the release from H.U.D. of these monies so that we have the last clear . H.U.D. says all we want from you is a letter sayingthat the City will do it. Mayor Ferre: Yes but Lester you didn't hear me right and I'm going to repeat it again. This matter of the $85,000 has been requested from Metropolitan Dade County where the respon- sibility really lies. Do you follow me? Now I want to ask for the record. Have you gotten a response to that request? Mrs. Range: Mr. Mayor, I have a response to it. All I would want to say very shortly is Long Live the City of Miami. Does that answer it? Mayor Ferre: Thank you very much, Mrs. Range. Reverend Gibson: Amen. Mr. Andrews: The City Attorney has expeditiously prepared the resolution and I suggest that you use the resolution and read it slowly so Mrs. Range.... Thereupon Commissioner Plummer read the resolution by title. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-519 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO INCLUDE IN THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 1974, AN AMOUNT OF $85,000.00, SAID SUM TO BE ALLOCATED FROM FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF RELOCATION COSTS RELATING TO PARK DEVELOPMENT IN THE CITY OF MIAMI PORTION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING BOULEVARD DEVELOPMENT. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's Office.) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote -AYES: Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. • 92 JUN 271974 • 38, DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE CLOSURE OF 1.W. 54 ST EXIT ON I-95 Reverend Oibeont Mt. Mayor, while Mr•s. Range is here and Mr. Johnson, I would like to make mention of a matter that I am sure she and he would be interested in. Some of you may have seen in the newspaper and certainly you heard on television and heard on radio the great concern about the 54th Street being closed by the Road Department. Now that project is in the City of Miami. Our citizens are affected directly. Those businessmen who are out there on 54th Street are terribly worried and I would like to call to the attention of my fellow Commissioners how important I think it is, having been at the meeting that we pass a resolution, shall I say to agree with you gentlemen Mrs. Range: I would certainly hope, Father Gibson that this Commission would see fit to publicly agree that the plight of the people in that particular area, I do know that a commit- tee has been set up and will be meeting on Wednesday evening next to make suggestions and hopefully that the State Road Department will look happily at these suggestions. You see right now we are in the kind of bottle neck over there on 54th Street that we in that area simply are not going to be able to live with. Mrs. Gordon: The motion is going to include what, Father? How do you want it worded? Reverend Gibson: Mr. Lloyd, this is the sense of it: We strongly urge the Department of Transportation to give ser- ious and in my profession and business, serious means even at the point of death, consideration to the closing of 54th Street. The motion was introduced by Reverend Gibson, seconded by Mrs. Gordon and passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Mrs. Gordon: Mrs. Range, when is that meeting you mentioned taking place? Mrs. Range: That meeting will be taking place on Wednesday night, I believe at 7:00. I'm not sure of the time but I would be glad to let all of you know, next Wednesday at the Mayor's conference room, Mayor Jack Orr's conference room. I will see to it that everyone of you is notified. 39, CONTINUED DISCUSSION -REVIEW STATUS OF MODERNIZING THE MIAMI POLICE.DEPT. Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, I would like to continue with just a few additional comments and remarks in reference to the Booz Allen study. At the conclusion of all of these meetings and the number of hours spent I discovered that basically both SRI and Booz Allen were recommending that (1) The Police Department definitely be computerized, (2) that there be two computers purchased immediately based on the specifications that we have prepared and that the approach of studying these computers, that's a poor word, of installing, testing and putting the computers 410 or bringing theM to a point of operational use in the Police Department was one where there was a difference of opinion between the two consultants. S.R. 1. has taken a very con- servative approach and they wanted a longer period of time to teet the computers to train our personnel and to get them operational in phasing with the construction of the building and movement into the building. Mr. Barry Young who Mr. Plummer: Paul, don't leave it at that now because you and I disagree on that point and there are other factors in- volved before we make a definite commitment of purchase and it is a dollar factor and those have to be some strong words before this Commission as to the commitment of dollars and how many dollars before we give a go ahead on the purchase of equipment. Mr. Andrews: It is still limited to the purchase of two com- puters. Mr. Plummer: At best. Mr, Andrews: At most. It could be at most. Mr. Plummer: It will be. Mr. Andrews: The major difference is in approach of making the computers operational. Booz Allen finds that the City could make the computers operational in a shorter period of time than S.R. I. In fairness, I think to the Booz Allen .firm, they did not have the time or the resources in the short period of time that they've reviewed this to understand all of the problems that the Police Department is facing and I have reached the middle ground between the two consultants in that there will be a time when the computers are arriving in the City of Miami and being installed and we will have received bids for the buildings to determine if there will be a suf- ficiently long enough period to go ahead and try to make the computers operational before we move into the new building. That is a matter that we will be discussing with the City Commission at the appropriate time. There are factors there that you'll want to know about in terms of cost before we would commit ourselves to that point. Mr. Plummer: But also cost of re -doing the present Police Station and transferring the new equipment to the other. So that's all factors that have to be taken into consideration before this Commission gives a go ahead. Mr. Andrews: the building go ahead, or Mr. Plummer: Now have the I'll have more comments on the computer bids and design and other matters but if you wish we can you can go ahead and listen to Mr. Young. Where do we stand today? The bids were put out. bids been received? Mr. Andrews: Yes, sir, and evaluated and a recommendation ready for the Commission. Mr. Plummer: All right, but at this stage of the game it is still an open minded thing as far as this Commissionis con- cerned? Mr. Andrews: Yes, sir. Mr. Plummer: Excuse me Barry, you want to make some of these copies available to the press? They had asked me for them and 9. l told them you we're going to get some for them. • Mr. Barry Young: Mr. Mayor and members of the Consnission, it is a pleasure to be here today. What I am going to try to do today is try to give you a preliminary report relative to one very specific question and that is -- what is Booz Alien's reco- tmnendations to the City with respect to the phase 1 procurment for the Police Department. Phase 1 procuikent being a multiple computer configuration that ii two computers and secondly the expenditure of approximately 4900,000 worth of cost for personel to install and make that system operational. Unfortunately, it is not quite as simple as dnly looking at that one partic- ular problem. The reason is that the City is now beginning to emerge much like many other cities across the country in the use of data processing to try to (1) reduce their costs to try to handle the impact of inflation with respect to salaries to try to make their operations more efficient and to provide more information to the managers so that they could in fact do a better job within the city. The impact thus of this sit- uation is that not only has the Police Department developed some detailed plans which are at this point quite innovative and almost to the point of being research oriented, but the Fire Department is as well looking at the impact or the pot- ential use of Data Processing and applications as we in the computer world call them, but systems that are very similar to what the Police Department wants to do. Third, the remain- der of the City as the Finance Department, Public Works, Plan- ning all have their own interests and potential applications for use of the computers, so what we have at this point is a kind of three tiered look at data processing, the Police Depart- ment with a very pointed and detailed plan, the Fire Department. thinking about and being prepared to do a study of data proc- essing and actually what we've been hired to do in addition to this piece of work is to look at other city operations and see what the impact of data processing will be on those. In the interest of trying to get this over in a shorter period of time I'm going to try and summarize the report that was made to you. Basically, by looking on page 9 of our report which kind of summarizes the issues that are facing the City the first is what are the tangible and intangible benefits which will result from the Police Department's development plan. We've first got to look at this particular problem, this particular issue to even say whether computers are even need- ed at all. If there are in fact benefits and the Police Depart- ment will improve its performance by the use of computers then we can second look at configurations. The second issue is how the Miami Police Department's plans compare with other city Police Department systems? The third then.is if in fact Miami goes ahead with this program how would it impact or change or relate to what Dade County or other people are do- ing? The fourth issue is whether the proposed configuration as proposed by the Police Department would in fact be expand- able or would in fact be capable of handling the remaining data processing requirements - these would be the city and the Fire Department in the most cost affective manner? The fifth issue is these back up provisions which were very basic to the configuration. The final issue that we faced is how does the phase 1 decision program the City for phases 2 thru 4? This is probably the most important and what I'm dealing with here is saying if in fact you go ahead with phase 1 which is an expenditure of approximately 1.7 million are you forced then into phases 2,3 and 4 which are expenditures of approx- imately 3.8 million or do you have some back off situations after you've in fact gone ahead with phase 1? It is important in order to understand what we're talking about then to look on page 6 to understand what the Police Department's four 95 JUN 271974 • phased plan is. First of ai`, let's look at phase 1 and just opposite page 6 is am implementation schedule which is taken from the SRI, from information that we got directly from SRI. First of all, phase 1 will result in the procurement of two computers as well as the appropriate soft -ware to do three specific functions - computerated dispatch, field support function and the message switch. Now I might back off a little bit and say that these are kind of technical terms and that if there are questions as we go along I would certainly be respons- ive to those. The other thing that goes on in phase 1 is to replace the current computer that exists in the Police Depart- ment which is the NCR 100 at approximately $33,000 per year. The next is to continue the in-house implementation of what is called investigation and intelligence and finally to operate this system in a test mode. The most important thing to rea- lize about this phase 1 at this point is that nothing at this point would be operational other than the conversion from the NCR 100, that is it would be necessary to go into phase III which is an expenditure of approximately 2.5 million dollars in order to get the real benefits from this procurement. This is something that we have looked at in a great deal of detail and disagree at this point with SRI in the sense, as the City Manager has said, we believe in an earlier imple- mentation and getting up foundation systems is important to the City to become operational so that (1) they start giving benefits as early as possible from a 1.7 million dollar in- vestment and (2) so that there is a back off position if in fact the Commission is not, does not desire to go ahead with the remaining procurement. It also gives the Police Depart- ment a chance to evaluate whether in fact it is appropriate to go ahead with additional procurements. If in fact, they have something that is operating they can then look at, exam- ining the cost benefits associated with either continuing on and further development or stopping exactly where they are. I'll skip now to what I called was a summary analysis of the Police Sytems Plans. I don't really want to go into all of the detail at this point. This is page 17. First of all, these are the things we found based on our 6 weeks study. Police Information Systems are effective, beneficial and with- in the state of the arch. If you look at other cities across the country, Kansas City, Oakland, San Francisco - we looke5 at several other ones including West Palm Beach, Huntington Beach, New York City, Dallas Texas, Seattle Washington. They have systems similar to what is being requested to be procured in phase I. They have operating systems similar to those. On the basis of the fact that those systems are operating, on the basis that those systems are declared to be beneficial by the actual.experience in those cities it is pretty easy for us to say, "Yes, those are good systems, they are effective and in fact since they are operating they are within the state of the arch." That is my second point which says that such systems have been successfully installed and are operating in several cities with similar or even greater work loads than would be required here in Miami. The third point is to summarize again the Police Department's plan after two years of development is at this stage. They want to purchase a system, both the hard- ware and soft -ware from a vendor. They want to operate that system in a test mode for 6 months to one year and perhaps longer if the building is delayed and I think that is another key issue. I think both SRI and Booz Allen agree that such a system could be operational in from 1 year to 15 months from the time a contract was signed. Mr. Andrews, you might agree with that or disagree with that but that's what our discussion was. We agree that we're on the low side that a system could be implemented, could be operational within 12 to 15 months from the time the contract was signed including the conversion. That process, depending on the time frame 96 JUN271974 110 of actually awarding the bids and assuming that is in Sept- ember that process could be to a system that could be operat- ional between 6 months and 12 months before that building is ready to be occupied. We would suggest and recommend that if that time period was at a minimum 12 months, that the Police Department could get substantial benefits by going operational during that 12 month period. This Mr, Andrews: This is so important and so critical and I don't want to interrupt you, Mr. Young and members of the Commission but I think that we had better discuss this point. This is one of the serious areas where the two consultants had a difference of opinion and I want to tell you the mid- dle ground that I arrived at based on advices from both. SRI approached this area where we would receive the computers, they would be tested by the vendor, turned over to the City of Miami and we would then at that point be ready to begin training our people and heading towards operational phase. SRI approached this area, and those computers would be locat- ed in the existing City of Miami building structure. SRI is approaching on the basis that they would be there to train the people, test it out but not to become operational in this phase because they foresee the movement into the new building within a 6 to 9 month period after the arrival and testing of the computers. Mr. Young is advising that in this same 6 to 9 month period if we chose we could begin some of the operation. The Police Chief and SRI in evaluating this are concerned that if they get this beginnings of operational phases here then switch to the new building with the equip- ment that there will be problems there. Now I have agreed that when we receive the bids, if there is any indication that that period of time when the computers are fully turned over to us and we're ready to occupy the new building, if that looks as if it is goingto be a 1 year time period then I agree we should begin thinking in terms of operating the computers in an operational way rather than just testing it and training our people only. We would be doing some things simultaneously and start getting operational. That was sort of a compromise that I thought both the Booz Allen people through Mr. Young and the SRI people agreed with. Now I'll let Mr. Young speak for himself. to Mr. Plummer: Well Paul:, another thing now if we're going to interrupt Mr. Young, I had agreed not to, but another point you're not bringing out that is very important and that point is that Mr. Young brought out to me is that SRI in their proposal to this Commission did not in any way indicate on- line operation of this until the new building, but much con- versely stated that they would have a two-year test period at which time they would re-evaluate the equipment and determine what additional equipment was needed. Now that is something that I've been opposed to all the way along. Mr. Andrews: I think, and we still even in the 10 hours that we met, discussed this matter, we had what I believe was a semantics problem, an understanding problem. I finally con- cluded that SRI and Booz Allen were saying the same thing ex- cept Booz Allen was perhaps making it a little more crystal clear and they were being alittle more forceful about the time element of becoming operational versus Stanford Research Institute. But they're both saying the same thing and that is to order two computers, to receive them, evaluate them and determine what other functions can be put on those two computers before you go too far in getting the third records computer as an example. 97 Mr. Youngs That's not exactly the understanding. The dif- ference is that we are of the opinion that the Police Depart- ment can bring up the major applications that they are buying with this procurement, that is the field support, the comput- erated dispatch and the message switching, that they could bring those up in a reasonable time frame within one year of purchase of the system. SRI wants to do that plus to do some additional work to develop additional systems to tie it together which involves a bit of research, involves a bit of redesign prior to going operational. Mr. Plummer: And even more so than that, Mr. Young, I would like to add, Mr. Andrews, and if I'm wrong, somebody correct me. The thing that we haven't spoke to that was jumped over when we went to page 17 that I think we've got to come back and speak very strongly to is page 14. Now page 14, Booz Allen has emphatically said that there is no need for a third mini -computer. As a matter of fact Mr. Young, I'm not telling any numbers out of school, has relayed to me that the main purpose of the second mini -computer is for the main pur- pose of back up and the record keeping of the Police Depart- ment but because sufficient research was not available to him, whether it is done or not done that in fact, a percentage of that second mini -computer could be used and applied to regular city processes and businesses, that in no way is the third mini needed. Do you concur with that? Mr. Andrews: Yes, I can't say that it's conclusive, I've listened to him as a consultant, I listened to SRI as a con- sultant too and I'm willing to say well let's wait and see. Mr. Young: Our position is this: We looked at the applicat- ions and the amount of analysi3 that had been done to just- ify the computers. The first two computers are really being justified on the basis of comprable systems in other cities that are operating on equipment that is either as large or smaller than what the City of Miami is requesting. The work load analysis that would define whether those two systems had additional capacity or were going to operate at full cap- acity had not been accomplished. There are also statements that have been made and it is clear from the specifications that that equipment that has been purchased is easily adapt- able to growth - it can get larger, it can handle more work load than even the amount that is being purchased now. If one were to go ahead and say, and we got into this battle with SRI and I might relay this. We indicated that our pos- ition was that there was no work load analysis that had been done to justify a third mini -computer and one of my recom- mendations were to eliminate the third mini -computer from the equipment plan. Mr. Plummer: Completely. Mr. Young: The response on that was "Well how do I know that since I hadn't done the work load analysis?" My posit- ion is that it wasn'.t my position to do the work load analysis that in looking at comparable systems in terms of the kinds of things that were going to be done in records, and let me say that that was not as clear as to exactly what would be done with that records computer. It wasn't made very clear to us and we looked very hard for it assuming that similar systems in terms of microfilm indexing which is about the most that I can understand at this point could be run on one of those other two mini -computers. In fact the plans are to test those systems out on one of those two computers. In regard to the fact there is no work load analysis and regard 98 JUN 27197 to the fact that our opinion those systems could well work on one Of those two computers, we are saying that there is no justification for any recommendation to buy a third com- puter. Mr. Andrews: And I'm not in disagreement with that. All I'm saying is that they're telling you at this time that there is no justification in buying a third computer and I'm saying so but that doesn't mean after we've gotten these two computers and we've analyzed the Fire Department and they can be placed on these computers, we've analyzed that the records aspect of the third computer could be added to these two computers that the intonation that we need for the rest of the information that we need for the rest of the City can b be added to these two computers that we won't say in the future some day that we won't have a third computer. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Andrews, for your edification which you already know cause you and I have discussed that of the record. I quote to you from the bulletin put forth by Stan- ford Research Institute to this Commission on the 28th day of February, 1974 roughly three months ago. In this docu- ment which they presented to us they're clear cut on page 11 as related to chart 9. It states there that they were going to buy three mini -computers and a, let me read: "We recommend and this recommendation was subsequently accepted by this Commission a configuration consisting of three small (or mini) computers and one (midi) computer together with the maximum use of the Dade County data processing system. Now this is something they have recommended. This is something that Hooz Allen is saying that they couldn't have recommended because the research has not been done. Now to me that is a damned big discreptancy. Now just for the record, Mr. Young, did you give or request of SRI for this back up information? Mr. Young: Yes sir. That was done two ways. We sent a note through the City Manager's Office to the Police Department which they subsequently gave over to SRI requesting all the back up materials and work load . Mr. Plummer: Did they have adequate time to respond? Mr. Young: We did it in two ways. We sent back a letter and they gave us what material they had here. We also met with them about a week later syiying that in approximately weeks to a month we would want to meet again and talk over the environment and talk over any problems that we might have or any data that we might need. They were given that amount of time. It is a short amount of time but we were only given 6 weeks to do the job ourselves. Mr. Plummer: And you did not receive such data? Mr. Young: No, we didn't. Mr. Andrews: I think you should then ask Mr. Young how many computers the City is receiving through/ its bid procurement and the recommendation that I'm going to be making to you. How many have we received? Mr. Plummer: I don't think that has any bearing on it. Mr. Andrews: Yes it does. Mr. Plummer: No it doesn't. This Commission based on the recommendation of SRI went on record for 3 minis and one midi 99 JUN 27197 at the tune Of A million dollars. AM 1 correct? Mt. Andrews2 Yea. Mt, Plummer: All right, sir. Now what Mr. Young is telling ua, that he Cannot justify a third mini or the midi based on the fact that the research to justify a third one has not been done. Mr. Andrews: l'm agreeing with you but the argument is that. SRI takinga very conservative approach planned for three cam- putere but they've only written specifications for two for purchase. I'm telling you that after 10 hours I'm beginning to discover all of this, that we're at that point... Mr. Plummer: This Commission record, is this Commission today on record of the SRI recommendation? Mr. Andrews: Yes they are. In fact, I think they are on record even considering a fourth one. Mr. Plummer: Are we also on record for the allocation of roughly 5'A million dollars? Mr. Andrews: Yes sir. Mr. Plummer: Is that figure completely out of question? Mr. Andrews: The figure will be considerably reduced if we only go to a two computer configuration. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Young, I would like to ask you for the record a series of four or five basic questions before we get to voting on this and I think.... Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, excuse me. There is no voting on this today. There is no voting because we don't even have bids surrendered to us for the new configuration or the cost factors involved. Mr. Mayor, if it is agreeable and I had agreed before Mr. Andrews spoke to hold anything until the end of Mr. Young's presentation. Mayor Ferre: Well why have you been doing it? Mr. Plummer: Well he spoke up and I felt I had to. All I'm saying is, I think in fairness to Mr. Young Mr. Andrews and I will have a gentleman's agreement to keep our mouths shut and let him finish. Reverend Gibson: Ok, gentlemen. Mayor Ferre: We've been going on for over half an hour now and I would like I certainly have no objection. Now wait a moment Mr. Plummer. Let's everybody hold off and I agree also to hold off my questions. Mr. Young, you can proceed without any interruptions. Mr. Young: I'm skipping around here just because of the fact that we're trying to get across a certain number of points. I've been on page 17 where I summarized point #3 which is the plan after two years was to purchase system from a vendor, operate that system in a test mode for at least 6 months and then to access the capabilities of the system during the init- ial 2 to 4 months of that test and redesign or potentially reconfigure the system if that was appropriate. What that meant was essentially that the Police Department would have 100 JUN 27197 the opportunity to evaluate the vendors, the equipment and software as well as to add to that its own additional require- ments and make an additional equipment purchase if that were required. The conclusions from that is that this plan pro- poses to create a research project and environment in which one computerated dispatch field support message switching are proven and operational systems. The hardware requirements can be satisfied by general purpose of specialized mini -com- puters in essence those two mini -computers can do the job that is required for phase I even to the point of making them operational. Finally, the software, the computer programs required to do those three basic applications are available and can be installed by a number of computer system vendors and the proof of that is that you've got 6 bids to in fact do that basic function. We're at the point here where we find that two computers can do the job as specified at the present time, that those computers have the potential for growth that because of the fact that the work load analysis is not avail- able and has not been done, any of the additional functions are subject to analysis in terms of what kinds of hardware it is going to take, what kinds of people it is going to take and what kinds of equipment it is going to take. It's our experience and if you look at other cities with comparable work loads to see that these systems can be accomplished on these two mini -computers. I would like to adjust you to two other major points the first is on page 12 and this was a question that was raised to us; Was Miami building a system that was completely redundant with Dade County? I think the answer to that is a little long winded but it takes a little bit of understanding. The law enforcement system across the country is very complex. It's the first non -department of defense system that is nationwide. That is we have states, counties, localities as well as the FBI on a national basis all hooked together. It is what is called the computer net- work. The Miami Police Department will communicate and have access to the Dade County computer, the Florida Crime and in- formation center and the National Crime Information centers so it will be a link in this entire network. Many applicat- ions, and this is where it gets a little confusing, many of the things that each of these agencies do are similar. For example, Dade County maintains a wants and warrants file, that is people who are wanted or there is a warrant for their arrest across the County. The Florida Crime Information Center maintains the same file but .they maintain people who are wanted intra-state, in the state of Florida. The National Crime Information Center which is the FBI's computer maintains also a wants and warrants file but those are people who are wanted in multiple states. While they sound the same, as you can see they deal with in fact different people and therefore there is not a redundancy between those three systems and as we find it, to make this again brief, there is not a redundancy between what Miami is doing today or plans to do based on this program and what Dade County is doing based on (1) what they're doing today or what they have under development today..I will finalize at this point with, just one other point. On page 16 there are several other issues, non -data processing issues, non -computer issues which will impact the development of the police information system. This new system will create a higher demand for communication services. If you read with me on page 16, that is policemen will have access to major files of information about people and about automobiles and about addresses based on the development of this new system, will start using it, will start increasing their utilization of the existing communication channels which as we have been told are already over burdened. It will become a critical issue in the sense that here you will have 1.7 million dollars 101 invested in computers and people and policemen out on the beat looking to get at this information► and no way to get in or out of it because the communication channels are all clogged. Thus as much effort in looking at new computers is needed to look at new communication capabilities. At the present time there are two real approaches to this. One is adding communication channels, and the second is the use of mobile digital terminals. We recommend and we will recommend in this area that both of those facilities be studied and some recommendations made by the communications people. The second issue is one that I think has been brought to your attention quite often, that you are building a very sophisti- cated system. You are going to need highly skilled and exper- ienced staff. They should have been here 6 months ago. If you don't get them here within the next 6 months you're going to find that you're going to be dependent upon a whole bunch of people who will come, give you a system and leave. As Mr. Plummer stated before, you'll only have yourselves to blame I think. The third point here is with respect to the staffing and cost analysis and the entire implementation plan. This program as I understand it has been delayed sig- nificantly. Major plans were drawn up. Due to this delay and due to some changes in assumptions there are several things that are no longer valid. First of all, the $900,000 figure for personnel for phase I as well as every other personnel figure is over stated by at least 100%. I'll clarify that at this point. The personnel costs in the SRI report were based on a worse -case assumption, the assumption that the City would have to hire using consultants, or hire consultants to do all of its new functions, that is to be key punchers as well as data preparation clerks, as well as programers and a systems manager. On the basis of that analysis they costed out that each of these jobs, as if they were city employees, used the Yarger factor, added 20% for fringe benefits and then multi- plied by 2.5 to get what their estimate of consultant might cost. That resulted in a cost of Phase I of $900,000 for people. As you can see, if you don't multiply that number by 2.5 that is seriously reduced. The second item that I've already mentioned is the timing for hiring and training the staff with existing plans. These people should have been on board a long time ago. The third is, at the present time you're going into a 1.7 million dollar, or maybe it is 1.3 million dollar procurement with absolutely no plans as to what you're going to do when you get that equipment. Mr. Plummer: Would you repeat tht please? Mr. Young: You're going into a, we might say a 1.3, if you reduce that $900,000 down to $450,000 with virtually no plans as to what you're going to do when you get that equipment. The reason is all of the plans are out of synch, and you might smile at that and say well who is messing up on this thing. I would say the Commission is to a large degree responsible for this. You can't ask people to plan and plan and plan and not make, and not get to moving. They get tired of planning. That is a serious issue right now and it is one of the reasons why we have the basic disagreement, I think between SRI and us. That reason is that everybody has planned until they're tired and nothing is valid. We have to start from this point. I'm going to give you my recommendations now and then I will take any questions. Starting on page 18, the City should shift the orientation of this project from research to operat- ion. We are in agreement with the idea of purchasing these two mini -computers in accordance with the current procurement. We think that the City would be capable of developing a plan to make these systems operational in a one year time frame, 102 • that is one year the time the order was placed. We think there is a need to accelerate the plans for utilizing or at least testing these mobile degital terminals the rationale be- ing that is one of the solutions to the communications problem. What I'm saying here is that at least get to the point where you're testing those terminals so you can make a reasonable decision. Finally, again I'm trying to impress upon you the need for accelerating and recruiting of the data processing director and appropriate staff. The second :.commendation is to eliminate the third mini -compute: from the current Miami Police Department's hardware procurement plan. What I'm suggesting here is there is so little data available, so analysis has been done on the need for a records computer or even a records system that a feasibility study be perform- ed on the automation of the records process - a feasibility study saying; How much does it cost to automate this process, what benefits do we get and what kind of hardware do we use and can it be on the existing equipment or can it be, on to require new equipment?. That is kind of what a feasibility study would tell you. Based on our own evaluation we say find it very difficult to understand how that records system could not be operated on the first or second mini -computer, analyze of course this records work load when a detailed design is produced. Fourth is something that impacts on the design of the building, very slightly though, that a computer operations for records should be co -located with any remain- ing hardware. Any if there was any requirement for another computer why separate it which requires more operators, more staff, it is costly from both the technical and economics standpoint. The third recommendation that we're making is to evaluate the potential for using the Police Department hard- ware to support Fire Department dispatching functions. They're both basically the same functions. Other cities, that is Huntington Beach, currently dispatches both Police and Fire from the same equipment and we think there is again a feasi- bility study to make rational decisions based on some hard data about what it is going to cost using several assumptions. That is I think some assumptions have to be made as to the use of the 911 communications environment, telephone environ- ment. The alternative computer configurations, that is whether you share the Police computer or use their own and third pur- chasing a package, that is purchasing something from a vendor which has to go on separate hardware for developing that sys- tem and putting it on the Police hardware. The fourth recom- mendation is to develop detailed designs for off line applica- tions prior to committing to the purchase of a medium scaled computer. What I'm saying here is that as a basic operating procedure within the city you have to get to the point where you know exactly what a system is going to do before you can really determine whether you need x computer or y computer or how big it is. You can't just say we're goingto do computer- ated dispatching normally, and say we're going to do it on a computer and go out and buy a computer. There needs to be a good deal of work done. You have to know how that system is going to operate, You have to know what volume of transactions it is going to handle. You have to know what size of files are going to be. There are all sorts of things that have to be documented prior to committing to hardware purchases. That is something that should be done from now on. Our fifth reco- mmendation is very serious. It is that (1) the city should develop a mechanism for controlling and assessing the develop- ment of emerging computer applications. There is no control at this point across the city in the Fire Department. You could be developing say for example the intelligence and in. vestigation system that could use two computers or could use one. There is no control in terms of some expertise going on 103 in evaluating whether you need to do all of the things that are planned to be done. There needs to be a control mechan- lam on expenditures in data processing just as it is in any other business. This is not magic, there is nothing unique about data processing business. We're not fairies, we're people, We can talk to you. Basically those are my recom= atendat ions . Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, may 1 just make one statement because he has brought up and he's not aware, and Mr. Young, I want you aware tht in fact I thick the dates in the memos to the Manager will prove this statement true. What you say is very true about this thing and the Commission's responsib- ility, that in fact it has been studied but obviously not studied in the proper channels. It was some 6 months ago, Paul if I'm not mistaken, that I originally sent you a flag of caution about the purchasing of computers.. I sent that flag back at tht time stating certain things, basically wrapped up - would this city be smart to install a computer department to look at the overall picture; and it has taken almost 6 months to get us to this point. So this City Com- mission has not sat back and done nothing. But some 6 months ago I initially raised these flags and asked for answers and did not get the answers tht I was looking for, so this Com- mission has been on top of it. Mr. Andrews: In fairness though, Commissioner Plummer, those answers lie in the new department that we want to create. Now we can set this up as a separate function underneath the City Manager. It is not the best way to do that but all of that area is very well covered in the services department. If you look at Booz Allen the other portion of their firm's recom- mendations you would find that this very area that this very area that you're attempting to address yourself to is set up in that area and of course I have been laboring with the Com- mission to try to get us into that arrangement for quite some time as you're aware and I'm not going to belabor that point. Mr.. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I have quite a few questions... Mayor Ferre: Well I have a whole bunch of them too but I have been patiently waiting... Do you have any questions? Reverend Gibson: Mr. Chief, you heard what this gentleman just said. I want you to react for my benefit. Chief Garmire: The gentleman said a great deal. What are you talking about specifically? Reverend Gibson: Here's what I'm talking about: Either we are going to do what he says or we're going to do what SRI says. Now you know what I'm talking about now. Chief Garmire: Yes, sir. Contrary to what seems to be the case, I concur with Mr. Andrews' opinion that the recommend- ations at least at the outset, the inception of the program are not in variance. In other words by that, they have reco- mmended both SRI and Booz Allen that we procure two mini- computers to start with. Now if you read the SRI report recommendations I think you will find reference made to a modular approach to the total program. This is what we had hoped for all along. Ultimately we may find that two mini- computers with the necessary equipments and attachments will be sufficient for our needs. We don't know that and are not convinced of that at this, time. It may be ultimately that we can get along with two but after we get into the program 104 JUN 27 197 1 i after it has been adequately analyzed and the work loads assessed it may develop that we could use and should have a third computer at some time in the future. All I'm suggest-- ing is that we proceed with the recommendations which are eon curred in by Boos Allen, that we procure two minicomputers at this time but leave our options open so that at some future date we can make a firmer determination based on more study and know where we are. At this point we really don't know where we are. Reverend Gibson: Two other things. I think I hear him talk- ing about operational. You know the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Chief Garmire: Yes sir. I agree with you. Reverend Gibson: I think that, is what I heard the gentleman say. Now let me raise one other question, Mr. Andrews, with the three of you - you, Mr. Yoing and the Chief. You know, the reason I like operation is these guys get up every night in the middle of the night, stand up in the bed and they have a far out yonder notion that they want to try something that hasn't been tried and I could understand that. But sometimes I'm not so anxious to have them try it on me. Let me put it the other way. Electronics is getting to the place where what is modern today, I'm talking about why I want to get to use the equipment that I'm going to spend the people's money for rather than research on the folk money; it might well be within 3,4 or 5 years after you've spent all of this money that instead of having an intercom you may have something else. Do you understand what I'm saying? Now Mr. Young, I want you to react to that because since you telling us what is. What I'm trying to say is: This field is so up and down fluent that we have no assurance ... What I'm trying to say, Mr. Young, if I understand rightly, it is most important that we become operational as soon as possible rather than waiting a period of time to become operational. Isn't that what you're telling us? Mr. Young: That is correct. We feel that the City should try to become operational as soon as possible. The issues on that though are, as the City Manager said, can be stated pretty clearly now. The fact is that you wouldn't go operat- ional for a three month period in the old building if, in fact you knew you were going to move into the new building. Reverend Gibson: Right. Mr. Young: What exactly is that time frame? It is going to be approximately at this point, as best as anybody can tell, 6 to 9 months. When you have a better feel, that is when you get the bids back on the building you'll know whether that period is 6 months or whether it is a year or whether it pot- entially could be a year and a half. What we're suggesting is we're giving you some guidelines. Our position is that any- thing over 9 months you should go operational and that is kind of a gut field because we don't know exactly what the costs are but we're also saying this; anything over 9 months you ought to go operational -below that we would concur that it probably isn't cost effective to start operating in the old building. It requires moving people out, It requires the making of space available. It requires buying some additional equipment. I think there is basic agreement on that. We would suggest that as part of the Police Department's prog- ram they develop a plan that they will know how long it is going to take to get operational eigher in the new building or the old building, that you'll know how much that is going to coat to get operational and that you shouldn't be surprised 105 JUN271974 1 6 months from now when ycu fincl out :it is going to cost an additional 100,000 or 50,000 to go operational in the old building and that you be prepared to do that. It seems to me that that is just good contingency thinking to be pre., pared for the delay in a building that has already has been delayed and where people know buildings get delayed. That is our position on that one. Mr. Plummer: In this proposal of SRI which was given to us in February, Paul, they made the outlay and I'm referring to the last page, of the 51 million dollars. Paul, can we agree that a round -about ballpark figure of what they have recom- mended and what you're ready to recommend to us now is about lh million dollars? Mr. Andrews: I don't want to make that commitment at this stage. Mr. Plummer: Is that a ball park figure? Mr. Young, can you? He quoted 1.8 and 1.3 million.. Mr. Young: ..where we're buying right now is $800,000 worth of equipment. There will an additional expenditure to get that equipment functioning in the new building. That estimate to do that was, in terms of equipment about $500,000. Now half of that money, of the $5,000,000 is for people although it is Police Department people and on -going cost even though it is implementation. That will continue at about half, at least half of what the current estimate is that is presented in that document. Mr. Plummer: Let me tell you what really alarms me. In this proposal of SRI given to us in February just recently it shows $5,500,000 dollars for systems development and equipment. Now they said that right there. That is what they're asking this Commission to spend. Over here we heard from SRI to put aside and don't spend it now - it's not perfected, the AVL, automatic vehicle locator. Nowhere did I see in this proposal of SRI, put aside one million eight for what we want to buy now and put over here in the reserve column the remaining three or four million dollars to purchase more equipment at a later date. The only thing they told this Commission to reserve was, was it $600,000, $600,000. Reserve that because it is not perfected and hold it for a later date. This was money spent. This was money reserved. Now all I'm saying to you is, and I've got to say it again and again, that the 5h million dollars is an over -play of what is needed. I tried to raise tht flag and nobody would agree with me and all I say, and I keep saying is, I concur 100% with yours and if that now is the conclus- ion of SRI to purchase these two, get them on line, get them in use and give the Chief the tools he needs but don't come here and tell me that I have to commit 51/2 million dollars if you want, put here in this column a million and a half or two million dollars and put over here three and a half - hold in reserve for future development. I'll buy that but that was not the proposal to this Commission. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Young, I have a series of questions some of which you have answered. I think my questions are, I hope simple and I hope they speak to the point that I think this community has wanted answers to. As I say, I know they are in the report and you've specified some but I want you,.. I'm going to go through a series of four or five questions and the purpose is, on the record, emphasize some basic con- clusions. (1) You have talked to the people in Metropolitan Dade County. Is that so? • 106 JUN 271974 Mt. Young: That is correct. Mayor Ferre: They have been involved in the process to that extent? Mr. Young: To the extent that we talked to them. Mayor Ferre: All right. In your opinion, is there any conflict or are there any duplications on what we are about to do and what Metropolitan Dade County has or will do? Mr. Young: There's no duplications with what Dade County is currently doing. There is no complications with what Dade County is currently in the detailed development of. I can not speak to two or three years development afterwards from now. I just looked at those dings. You can see long range plans 5 years out. Those did :sot impact on our look at today. Mayor Ferre: In your opinion,' with these two mini -computers will we be able to add hardware and software and extend the use of these computers? Mr. Young: The answer to that is yes. You're not guying com- puters at the upper end of the scale. You're buying down at the lower end so that you can add as you have more work load. Mayor Ferre: By that you mean other than the Police Depart- ment. Mr. Young: That is not exactly clear at the present time since I don't'know the total work load. Mayor Ferre: I'm not asking that. I said is it possible. I'm not asking for prabability. I'm asking for possibility. Is it possible? Mr. Young: That is a statement that we do make. There is a potential for the Fire Department as well as other City depart- ments to utilize those two mini -computers. Mayor Ferre: I would like to share with my fellow commission- ers and with the administration some comments on personal experience in the field of automation of data processing and camputers. The first one is that about ten or eleven years ago, Mr. Andrews, I concluded in my personal company that we were not efficient enough and I wanted to send a whole group of people to get into this modern world and learn modern techniques of management. So off went all of these vice- presidents to Harvard and to the American Management Insti- tute and other such fancy places of the modern world. When these gentlemen came back they proceeded to install all of the modern techniques that they had learned in school and we had evaluation charts and job discriptions and we had all types of performance records and follow-ups and all types of these modern techniques. In the meantime sales went down and product- ion went on and so I, somewhere along the line said "Well, we ought to be doing better. We've got all of these people highly educated now" and I went to one of the divisions of the company and spent a few days trying to investigate what was going on and I found out that these people were spending most of their time with their charts, evaluation charts, job descript- ions and they bad all kinds, and the top executives, I don't mean the vice-presidents, but all the managers were worrying about these things and they weren't worrying about getting the product out, about collecting the money and about selling the product. The point that I'm trying to make is that, and that peter principle is a real basic that you and I have to fight with and I'm saying that these things have a tendency to build 1974 107 in, if you're "careful, inefficiency. Efficiency studies and efficiency experts have a tendency to bring inefficiency rather than efficiency. Secondly, I want to point out eTphat- ically that the implementation of some of these things with modern equipment, computers and such will procreate the need, the dependence, almost incredible dependence on these machines so that you end up having people who instead, and I'm not in any criticizing the Chief or the department or the Police, but what you end up with is people who are so concerned with stat- istics and evaluations and computer runs and the efficiency of how long it takes a car to get here and return and the percent- ages of we do this and that, that we sometimes get so insnarled in the detail of what we're chasing that we actually forget the main impetus of the simple basic fact of whit it is that we're doing. It is like football players spending so much time going over plays that When they get on the field they forget that what they have to do is get the ball and run with it and get a touch down. That is what the whole thing is about. I think that is a basic problem. Thirdly, I want to make this state- ment to you, that as far as feasibility studies and evaluations are concerned I have reached the sad stage in business that I have concluded that the reason why we use feasibility studies is to justify financing. What we do is we get people who are making feasibility studies and we "Now look, we want you in four months to more or less come to this conclusion." "Now do you think that is reasonable?" They say, "Yes, that's reasonable but we're professionals. We can't do that. You've got to give us freedom of.." I say, "We understand that. You go ahead and be professional and you have freedom but hopefully at the end of four months here is where you're go- ing to be." Then they go off and that's where they are. The point, and I'm not in any way downgrading professionalism, but the point is that there is no substitute for common sense, and what we really have to do.is recognize with intelligence and common sense what it is that we're trying to achieve and not let the process of achieving it dominate us to the extent that we end up loosing the purpose of what it is that we're trying to accomplish. Let me lastly say one last thing about computers. I had the sad experience of having to throw all of the computers in my company. And the reason why, and it was a very very expensive process, and the reason, and listen to this very carefully, and the reason why was because we had a basic flaw and bac process in our accounting procedure and all computers was giving us our wrong answers quicker. Do you follow me? So what we really had to do was correct our account- ing procedure, our department before we went back to computer- izing it because to get information quicker and to have comput- ers, if your process is wrong is meaningless. The point is the computer is not a panacea, that the computrr w+11 lot cor- rect the evils that may be intrinsic in the system. In other words, what I'm trying to say is that a computer will not by itself cut down on the criminality of our community nor will in and of itself will it stop or reduce crime. It is only a tool and whit is important is how it is used and where it is used. I don't mean to get into a lecture about all of this but really, Mr. Andrews, and I address myself mainly to you on this and to the administration, when you get involved to talk- ing about computers and mechanizing and improving and modern- ising you are treading on very very thin ice. What you end up doing is, you end up perpetuating problems because they are harder to see. And because we end up worrying about the prob- lems of the computer and not the problems of the Police Depart- ment or of the City, if you will. I think it is a danger and I just cannot emphasize enough at this juncture, how dangerous it is for us to get into very highly sophisticated computers that may end up complicating rather than simplifying the proc- ems. Now I'm not in any way implying or saying, and I don't 108 JUN 271974 410 Went it to be Misunderstood, that I'm against the instal., Cation of meters in the Miami Police Oepartaent or in the City of Miami. I'M just saying that it is a very dangerous precedent. Sow I've forgotten to ask you one question - and that is, even though you've answered it but again on the record; these are the three basic questions. You have already answered that it is not in conflict with what Metro is doing. (2) ?ou've already told us that other departments can fit into, possibly into the outer and we can add laterally both in the hardware and in the software end of things. The third question that I have for you is whether or not this is pie in the sky, or whether or not what we're doing, are we tracking what other communities have done or are we going to the first to come out with a new adventure and we're going to be 2001 with computers?. Mr. Young: What you're tracking on are the basic applicat- ions that you are at this point buying from vendors. Once - established vendors -once we get outside of that environment in terms of the investigation intelligence issue and the records issue and the other kinds of applications like, I think there were mention of some modeling of police operations Those things are questionable in that they put you into this research mode. You have some basics that are, as I said in this report, that are in fact, comparable to what other cities are doing and you're trying to go one step beyond. As you can understand ny recommendations, are to bring up and make those systems that work in other cities work here and then if you want to do research, do research but get something working. Mayor Ferre: Let me stop you right there because Mr. Andrews, I just want to state my personal qpinion on this. Everytime, in the business world that I have ventured into being the innovator, the first, one of two things has happen- ed. Either I failed miserably or it cost me a fortune, liter- ally to get out of this thing because you end up being very scientific -you begin that way and you end up going into trial and error. And then to get out of trial and error and come out with a successful program is extremely expensive and only the very very wealthy corporations of America or geniuses can come up with these type, and we are not either wealthy, and I don't think any of us are geniuses. Therefore, I think that the proven way of making money and the proven way in my opin- ion to proceed in this is to always go along the path that is venturesome and forward but not to the extent of being unique because you trying to be the innovator -you've got to be awful smart or awful rich. I hope that as wesproceed on this that we go along proven paths. I don't want any monuments to any- body around here and I don't want any monuments to myself, to this Commission or to the City. I don't want somebody coming 20 years from now and saying "The City of Miami even though it went bankrupt led the way in this wonderful process which is now, after 20 years of struggling and suffering has finally been established." I don't want to be Flash Gordon. OK? Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I would like to conclude and I will do it very simply if I can get one answer on the record. What we are actually infect looking at right now is the purchase of roughly a million and a half dollars worth of computer to go into operation and that the remaining 4 million dollars is going to be either held in reserve or not used. Is that what we're in the general ball park? If it is, I won't ask any more questions. Mr. Andrews: I think it is but I'm not sure of the figures and that's why I'm reluctant to say a million and a half. You say about a million and a half and I would accept that unless 410 there's something that the Chie Mr. Young knows ... . knows that I do not know or Mr. Plummer: 1 said in the realm of a million and a half dollars. Mr. Andress: The thing that worries me about that is that 1 don't know if that included all of the councils that they need, if this included the radio channels and the digital equipment that would go into the vehicles that would sake this whole system complete. Mr. Plummer: I'm talking about computer systems and operation. Mr. Andrews Well see, operation now, Mr. Plummer, means tht you first, if you can't get the digital equipment in the vehicles you do something about the oral communication through radio channels and that is an expense that we have to go through and digital equipment, read out equipment, hard copy in the automobiles is another expense. Nov Mr. Young can assist us with that and assist you in the question you have asked. Mr. Plummer: In other words here again, I want somebody on record that in fact we are going to spend four million dollars less than what was proposed in February of this year, roughly. Mayor Ferre: Give or take a half million. Mr. Plummer: You can give or take a half million but I can't. Mr. Young: The answer to your question is you're committing to spend on this procurement for equipment approximately $600,000. It would be required, maybe $500,000 or $600,000 on additional equipment in order to make the move. If you make a move you then.... Mr. Plummer: That's a million 3. Mr. Young: That's a million 3. That is a million 3 out about 2 and a half million dollars worth of hardware that is in the February proposal. Mayor Ferre: Yes, but J.L., that's not the way it works. Mr. Young: The other thing is people. Mayor Ferre: Let me tell you how it works because I have been through this baby to the extent'"of the kinds of monies that you're talking about. I've done it personally, Ok? It isn't that I'a talking about something that I haven't experienced. All of a sudden your computer expert is going to case and he says, "You know if we could only spend another $30,000 and we get this machine which is software and goes with it, we'll be able to get all of these ddditional other information and will be able to use it'for these other pur- poses and then Mr. Andrews is going to say "Well, for $30,000 I think we can't argue with that logic." and of course we have forgotten it was $10,000 for the wan and $15,000 for this and it's not 30 it's 65 and when you get it in it works so well that you need two of they and then it is $110,000 and you know what I mean. We've all been there before. Ok? Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I'm atill going to go, and I want an answer on the record, that we're talking in the general ball park of roughly $4,000,000 less than what was proposed by SRI. 110 JUN 271974 Mt, Plussrer: /1Itn only speak es of today. or ► is a different game erLtirely. Zs that approximately correct, Mr. Andrews? Mr. Andrews: 11►ould you say that again? Mr. Plummer: That we are going to expend under today's rec- ommendations and proposals approximately $4, 000, 000 less than► what was proposed by SRI in February? Roughly. Mr. Andrews: We're going to talk about that some more before I commit.. If you would say... Mr. Plummer: Can I do what the Mayor says, and I hate to do it, but can I say that we are approximately $3,500,000 less? That gives you two, the half a million dollars to play with. Mr. Andrews: You say approximately and you recognize that the City is going to make every single effort it possibly can to work within the two computers but we have to add on all of the equipment and the software to go with it to make it fully oper- ational - I would agree with you. But please, let's make sure we're communicating. Mayor Ferre: Paul, let me ask you a question. Maybe the Chief might have the information. If we get digital computers in automobiles, all right, in other words for print out and all of that. Mr. Young: Digital terminals. Mayor Ferre: Digital terminals, excuse me. How much does one of those things cost? Mr. Plummer: Eighteen hundred dollars. Mr. Andrews: About two thousand dollars. Mayor Ferre: As I understand it, I just want to go through the process of what all of this means. Now obviously, cause we have some patrol cars with one man, you realize of course, if you go to a digital terminal you're going to need two men so obviously another guy has to operate or be there to receive the information. Mr. Plummer: You're wrong. Mr. Andrews: No. That's not so. Mayor Ferre: One man can receive it? Mr. Andrews: One man can. In fact, that's where it would be the greatest advantage.... Mayor Ferre: Will there be a man who will receive this? Look, I don't wean to exagaggerate but the point is will there be a man there worrying about the computer run and not chasing after the criminal? Chief Garaire: Mayor, there are two distinct types of criminals which will be mobile and put in the cars. A decision has not yet been made on whether it will be a CRT which is a cathode ray tube receiver or a hard copy print out type of gadget or terminal. These are both available. Some agencies throughout the country are using the CRT. Others are using what is known as a hard copy. 111 HUH 271974 410 Mayor Ferret MoW any people are using these systeMs now, approIti na tely. Chief tarmiret There must be a dozen to twenty throughout the country. It is a matter, if you have a two man operation those who operate with two man cars exclusively lean more towards the CAT reception. Those where they have both the two man, the one Man operations tend to lean towards the hard copy print out aachine. flow that decision is still down the road and we hope to, as Mr. Young has said go into a testing operation at the earliest opossible moment on this. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, the Chief is making arrangements as soon as I can find the time for me to go up to West Palm Beach which is in operation with the CRT and for me to look at that system together with so that we can come back and make reco- mmendations: (Inaudible comments) Mr. Young: Yes, they're off of a computer. Mayor Ferre: Is that computer tied into the FBI or whatever it is up in Washington? Mr. Plummer: No Chief Garmire: It goes through FCIC which is the Florida Crime Information Center. Mayor Ferre: Do they have a computer? Chief Garmire: Yes, sir. They certainly do. Mayor Ferre: The Palm Beach one is tied to that so that if a criminal, for example, or a person is apprehended and the de- scription or whatever it is is typed in. Is that how it is initiated or does he call it in by phone? Chief Garmire: It can be done either way but eventually it must be typed into the system. Mayor Ferre: All right. Then the information follows, it goes up to Tallahassee or Washington, Is that it? Chief Garmire: That is correct. Mayor Ferre: And suppose that description fit somebody's description and the computer pulls it out and it comes back to the man who is on the beat. Chief Garmire: That is correct. It would go, from that point it would be dessiminated throughout the state and in the NCIC in Washington and then become available nation wide - all term- inals throughout the country. Mayor Ferre: Does the county have a similar operation? Chief Garmire: Yes, sir. Mayor Ferre: No, Dade County, Metro? Chief Garmire: No, they don't have that kind of operation. They have a terminal as we do. Mayor Ferre: Can we hook into their terminal? 410 Mr. PluaMert We have been for years. Chief Car iret We have been working in both concerts with Dade County for many years. Mayor Ferret Will this duplicate or parallel what they have? Chief Garmire: It could parallel it but it is not a duplication &e such. No, sir. This is vital information that we must have instantaneously and we're speaking of micro -second response. Mayor Ferret You cannot get that through Metro? Chief Garmire: It would be conceivable that we could but I believe it would be as expensive or more so than to go on our own. Mr. Plummer: Chief, let me tell him one thing. What this man is faced with today. Mr. Mayor, is just unbelievable. I don't know that he has the records, but his men are faced today with down time from Metropolitan Dade County. What that means is when they call in for a check they can't get it because the County computer is down and he is`relying on them. That's what he is trying to tell you in a nice way, I believe. Chief Garmire: One.of the greatest assets that can accrue to my people through the installation of this system that we're talking about is personal safety by virtue of micro -second re- sponse to inquiries concerning individuals who are stopped and individuals who are at large in this community. This is one of the great advantages. Every plan that we have to go on this computer at the outset of the program is designed to expedite police service - every single operation that we're planning at this time. Mrs.Gordon: Why are we deliberating so long? It seems that everybody is in accord on what is needed. I know, but it seems that I've heard so much that goes in one direction. Mr. Plummer: Ok, well, let me tell you why. This is only one person's opinion. This Commission went on record some time ago of committed to the SRI plan which is this and now we've got to back track and we've got to refigure and reevaluate which is what we're doing today. Mrs. Gordon: Right, but it seems like everything I've heard since we started this discussion verifies the fact that we may have to backtrack. So what is the next step? What do we do? Mr. Plummer: The next step is, on the llth of July he will bring before us the bids for the selection of a system and hardware and software for this Commission to purchase. Mrs. Gordon: All right. Fine. But do we have to do anything today? Mr. Plummer: Just accept the report. Mayor Ferret What we could have done is stop the whole process which is whit we're not doing.. Mrs. Gordon: We don't want to stop it. Mayor Pierre: Well yes, but it is what we're not doing that is important if you'll forgive me for putting it that way. In other words this is a very important decision that this 113 JUN 9 71Q74 Commission is making for the City. Mr. Andrews, I think it is important now as we, that this is a conclusion, and I say this advisedly and I want this to be very clearly understood by the press and the public and those of us in the City; This is not a beginning or a middle point. We are now concluding a Very important step in this City. Now I would like for yen, if you would please to send a copy of this report to Mr. Ray Goode, the Chamber of Commerce, the editors of the two newspapers, the three major television stations and the major radios so that they will have time to deliberate and read what we are concluding here, how we've gone about it what the final conclusion is. I'm not saying that you do it today, I'm just saying that when you have it all together so that it is clearly understood what it is that we have concluded on and why we've concluded and what, you know the thousands of dollars and months of time and study that we have gone through so that this does not come out as has been implied and indeed even stated that we have done this inadvisedly, hurriedly without proper study, that this is another case of the City of Miami duplicating, that this nothing but a continuation of the City of Miami's efforts to be so independent that we are costing taxpayers millions of dollars. I don't think that is the case. Obviously this Commission does not think it is the case. The administration does not think it is the case. I want you to document this so that it stands simply and emphatically on the record. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Andrews, that also puts you under the gun to come back to this Commission at the same time with certain factors (1) Mr. Bertram, what is the clock running on if everything goes right? You made a statement the other day, sir in reference to how many days. As I recall we cane out the day the door will open for everybody to walk in and look at it about January of '77. Was I... Mr. Andrews: I'll let him answer it. Mr. Bertram: April will be the earliest possible time, April of 1976.if everything went perfectly. Mr. Plummer: That's got to be considered, the time element is the most important thing of the ordering and how long it could be on line and what it is going to cost this Commission, this City as to putting it into this building now because $50,000 is one figure but as the Mayor said we come out with the reality of $200,000 - I'm going to think an awful different way. So you have to bring those figures to us at the next meeting. Mr. Andrews: Not only figures but a carefully analyzed plan one versus the other so that we can make a proper decision. Mr. Plummer: You know Paul I'm not trying to say anything that shouldn't be said but I've heard from the Chief for a long time and I agree with him that he's bulging out of that build- ing now. Now if you're going to put two computers in there to bulge the building a little bit further you know this has all got to be considered. Mayor Ferre: Computers don't take up much space if they're properly... Chief Garaire: As it stands now we are due to turn the key on the new building about April of 1976. If this becomes more and more of a reality and we can do that then at this particular point in time I don't believe it will be feasible to go into a remodeling of the present building. Now we will have within 41, the next couple of Months a much better sight picture so far as the developments are concerned. One of the things that is going to be important of course are the bids on the new building. I would certainly remind you of that. My point is simply this. If our target and our timetable is deemed to be quite concurrent then I don't perceive the necessity of re- modeling the building. We should know that within the next 60 to 90 days and in the meantime I am going to prepare a contingency plan so that in the event we have a serious delay of several months that we will, through Mr. Andrews be present- ing a plan for remodeling of the current building. Mr. Plummer:k All right. Based on wht you just said and Mr. Young's statement to me, and listen to this, Mr. Mayor because this is, we're getting right down to the gut issue as to when this equipment will be ordered. You spoke, Mr. Young, of Quantas Airlines. One of the greatests wastes that you saw was trying to equate equipment to a new builing which saw delays. Let's not figure the delays. You have heard the statements of theChief that he doesn't feel or he may not feel with more input that it would not be feasible to put it into the old building. Do I recall your statement that being "Don't put it in unless you're going to put it in operation." In other words what I'm saying is if the Chief is correct and everything goes right we would be in the new building April of '76, then I would say we order the equipment in April of '75. Do you know what I'm getting at sir? Mr. Young: Yes, sir. Mr. Plummer: Would you speak to that? Mr. Young: The Police Department's plan at this point is to bring on this equipment and get it to the point where it oper- ates in a test mode and learn from that operation. If you did what you're suggesting, Mr. Plummer, and I take it that you would be willing to back off and say 6 months before that or whatever seems reasonable at that point. The Police Depart- ment would have no opportunity then to work on their additional plans, their additional development plans for improving this system. You then take away from them that opportunity and you have to go with the basics of this vendor -receive system. Their own analysis is that will not be totally sufficient for their uses. We are suggesting in our study that you could operate with that vendor supply system and evaluate based on the fact that you had reached a point where you had some operat- ional systems whether you wanted to do any additional work on out. The plan that they currently have is one to do just that - get some systems and if they go operational in the old build- ing then they'll have a chance to evaluate it and if they don't go operational in the old building they will be assured to a much greater degree that the transition will be much smoother and much easier to function in. Mr. Plummer: You really didn't answer my question. My quest- ion very simply, you heard the comments of the Chief that he feels based after 60 more days of study that we in fact will hopefully be in the building in April of '76. Would you sug- gest, hearing the statments of the Chief that we in fact at the next meeting order this equipment and hope to God for the best 22 months in advance or would we be smarter to wait until April of '75 and order the equipment? Let me tell you the only word of caution and you know I'm sorry I'm a conservative but I've got to say it. I have said all along and it has been no secret that I am just scared to death of what the estimates of that new building are going to come in which could completer 115 _., JUN 2 71SM alter the thinking of this ComMission and this administration. PtOw we have assurances that it is going to comae in, I think within 3% of $49 a square foot. Now 1 don't like the $49 but here again we're faced with reality. Suppose we cone up.. When are the bide received, Paul? Mr. Andrews: They should be received in October, Septeaber October. By October we should be awarding. Mr. Plummer: I think that is a little early. Isn't it, Mr. Bertram? Mr. Andrews: No. That's on schedule. Mr. Plummer: All right. We come in in October with bids that are completely out of picture, hypothetically. Ok. So we come in with bids then we've got to completely revamp our thinking to try to come in within something that we can afford. Maybe you've found $4,000,000 to help supplement the building but that's beside the point. Are we going to smarter to wait until we have these decisions to purchase the equipment based on wht the Chief has said? Mr. Young: The Police Department needs this equipment. They need these systems. It seems to me it doesn't matter whether they cove into a new building or they stay in the old building. This is a Police Department that is operating at a disadvantage compared to most every other major Police Department in the country. These are systems that will support and make Miami proud of their Police Department. You have an opportunity here at this point to buy about 6 months... Now just in your quest- ion as to if that building is going to be completed on time, you have an opportunity then to buy about 6 months of additional time in which you could properly test out that system. What you're saying, you're delaying a decision in which you're look- ing at the interest on about $800,000. The potential there is that you'd be loosing that money in inflation in terms of the additional cost of that equipment 6 months down the road. It is going, based on the state of the arch we can project pretty clearly that in 6 months we won't have the major change and the capabilities of computers. So what I'm saying then is that it does not buy you anything to put off that decision. In fact, you'd probably 1 ose by putting off a decision. Mr. Plummer: Then your recommendation as I understand it is buy it at the next meeting and tell the Chief to make room for it. Mr. Young: That is correct. 40. AGREEMENT - PANCOAST ARCHITECTS = INTERIOR DESIGN SERVICES NFW PAL/.CE._. FACILITIES The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer, who moved its adoptiont RESOLUTION NO. 74.-520 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY CLERK TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH PANCOAST ARCHI- TECTS ET AL., AMENDING AN AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO BY THE PARTIES ON NOVEMBER 2, 1973, PROVIDING FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF INTERIOR DESIGN SERVICES; AND SETTING FORTH THE SCOPE OF THESE SERVICES WITH PARTICULARITY, ACCORDING TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT ATTACHED HERETO; AND ESTABLISHING A RATE OF COMPEN- SATION OF EIGHTEEN THOUSAND ($18,000.00) DOLLARS (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 41, 3RD YEAR CONTRACT - STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE - CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE PROPOSED AGMT: The following motion was introduced by Mr. Plummer, who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-521 A MOTION REQUESTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE AND SUBMIT TO THE COMMISSION FOR CONSIDERATION A PROPOSED RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF AN AGREEMENT WITH THE STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ITS THIRD YEAR OF SER- VICES UNDER ITS PRESENT CONTRACT, AN AN ADDI- TIONAL COST OF $418,000.00 Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 42. URGING M.T.A. TO EXTEND ITS "B" LINE SERVICE TO C.T.A. TOWERS: The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon, who moved its adoption: 117 RESOLUTION NO. 74-i522 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI SUPPORTING THE REQUEST OF THE CTA TOWERS THAT THE 13 LINE OF THE METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TRANSIT AUTHORITY EXTEND ITS SERVICE SOUTH TO THE CTA TOWERS; AND DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO SEND COPIES OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE PROPER OFFICIALS OF METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY TRANSIT AUTHORITY (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Reverend Gibson the passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and NOES: None. resolution was Reverend Mayor Ferre. 43. NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY SYSTEM - SUPPORTING HR BILL 22 & SENATE BILL 3: The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-523 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTING U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BILL 22 AND U. S. SENATE BILL 3, PROVIDING FOR A NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY SYSTEM FOR ALL AMERICANS; AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO SEND COPIES OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE U.S. SENATORS AND MEMBERS OF THE U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPRESENTING THE STATE OF FLORIDA IN THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS; THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY; THE DADE LEAGUE OF MUNICIPALITIES; REPRESEN- TATIVE WILBUR MILLS; AND TO SENATOR EDWARD KENNEDY (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Reverend Gibson the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 44. FILLING BAYBOTTOM LANDS - CITY ATTORNEY TO DETERMINE RIGHTS OF CITY UNDER HOUSE BILL 4018 - F.E.C. RAILWAY CO.: The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon, who moved its adoption: 118 RESOLUTION NO. 74-524 A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO TAKE THE APPRO- PRIATE LEGAL ACTION TO SECURE A DETERMINA- TION OP THE RIGHTS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI UNDER HOUSE BILL 401S, WITH RESPECT TO THE FILLING OF BAY BOTTOM LANDS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS BY THE FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 45 & CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS - F.E.C. - PROPOSED SPECIAL COUNSEL: 46. Mrs. Gordon: I have asked the Attorney to find out if the F.E.C. ever applied for fill on the five -acre strip abut- ting this portion that we are talking abou to see if they had asked for fill on that. Mayor Ferre: I think they did, Rose, and were turned down. But let's make it a formal investigation. John Lloyd, City Attorney: We did call yesterday after- noon to the I.I. Board, and they didn't have that information then. They were supposed to call us today. They were research- ing it for us. They haven't called us yet. We will follow this up with a letter, too. Mrs. Gordon: Then with regard to the same situation in our suit, I would respectfully request that we have a profes- sional consultant enter this condemnation suit, and I would like to recommend Marion Sibley, who has, as I understand it, a good working knowledge of how to handle this sort of case, particularly with the Supreme Court. I would also like to ask respectfully that we ask the Attorney General to have the State of Florida join us in what is called a friend of the court, amicus curiae. Mayor Ferre: On the second one --I have no objections, and I think it's a very good idea to get the Attorney General's office as an amicus curiae involved, and that, if you want to make a motion to that effect, --- Mr. Lloyd: Just a minute. Let me speak to that first. I am talking about having the Attorney General join as an amicus curiae. If the Commission instructs me, I will write a letter to the Attorney General asking him if he desires to do so. That is the best I can do. Number one, I seriously doubt if he will. Mayor Ferre: That's his problem, John. Let him make that decision. I see nothing wrong, and I completely support this. 119 JUN 2 71974' Mrs. Gordon: All right, I'll move that. Thereupon the motion, introduced by Mrs. Gordon and seconded by Mr. Plummer, was adopted by the following vote - AWES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Mayor Ferre: Now, with regard to Marion Sibley, has he offered to do this? Mrs. Gordon: I haven't discussed this with him, because it is not my prerogative to discuss it with him, or anyone, regarding engaging someone, but I mentioned him because of his reputation, and because of the situation that is facing us now in the Supreme Court. As I understand it, his reputation is such that he excels in this kind of action, and for this reason I especially ask Mr. Lloyd to try to obtain him as a consultant. Mayor Ferre: We had a good friend of the City, and an outstanding attorney, by the name of Bill Colson recommend to the Commission someone to help us in consultant work, and I think, Mr. Lloyd, you accepteA that recommendation, and I think that was --- Mrs. Gordon: I didn't know we engaged him, though. I thought he was volunteering his services. Mayor Ferre: Oh, yes, we engaged him ---not by us --and by the way that's something that eventually I would like to find out how and who paid for his services. Mr. Lloyd: I can tell you now, and as a matter of fact, Mrs. Gordon will recall I informed you of that. The Parks for People Committee engaged, with my approval, Mr. Robert Orseck . the firm of Podhurst and Orseck, and after conference with Mr. William Colson on that, and in fact Mr. Orseck and I went up to Tallahassee together and split the argument. Mrs. Gordon: Don't interpret this as a belittlement. I know his value, and I know he is fantastic. He is one of the . most outstanding counselors in this field in the State of Florida; maybe further than that; I don't know. But what I think is that the City is obliged, whether they engage him offi- cially, or engage Mr. Sibley, I think it is the duty of this Commission to engage someone for consultation in this regard, because this case in important enough that we have special counsel for that purpose, and that's not to belittle you or your department, Mr. Lloyd, but there are certain specialists that have a particular, you know, keenness in this kind of a field, especially dealing in the Supreme Court. Reverend Gibson: I never cease to be amazed at the way we do this business here. I saw a case for some special coun- sel, some fees around here, that if I were running my church that way we would have been bankrupt long ago; and one of the questions I raised here that really gauls me is when we backed off from some condemnation business we had to come up with all that money. Now I am opposed, unalterably, and I am going to 120 • vote against it if you offer it, of hiring anybody special* t said then, and I am going on again, if we are in the busi- ness of condemning property we ought to go to work and get us a dog -gone good attorney to do nothing but that, in house. I am getting sick of this business. Mayor Ferre: Wait a minute. Based on what you said --and you stop me if I am wrong, Mr. Lloyd --we went ahead and did just that, and you took away from the U. S. Attorney, as I understand it, a very brilliant and capable lawyer that is going to be doing some of that work. Mr. Lloyd: He reports Monday. Mayor Ferre: What's his name? Mr. Lloyd: Robert Reynolds. Mr. Plummer: What does a lawyer get to appear in our be- half in front of the Supreme Court? Is it on a percentage? Mr. Lloyd: No, not necessarily. It could be a regular fee, or a percentage, whichever he should demand. Mr. Plummer: Let's use the Manager's ball park figure, with which I don't agree, but let's say fifteen million dollars to condemn that property. What would he get --and I am not speak- ing of Mr. Sibley. I'am speaking of what would a lawyer get to represent us, roughly? Mr. Lloyd: Well, if you had paid Hadley, he would have gotten 2% of that. Reverend Gibson: Let's get on the record what 2% is. What is that? Mr. Lloyd: Three hundreL thousand dollars. Reverend Gibson: That's the point I am making. Dog -gone it, we could hire a good lawyer for two or three years for that kind of money, and get far more results. Mrs. Gordon: I think you are all missing the point. Reverend Gibson: No we aren't, Rose. Mrs. Gordon; Well, let me make the point. When you go to a general practitioner for an examination and he finds you have a severe kidney ailment he sends you to a specialist, right? Well, we are in that point of this suit where we need that specialist. There is a need for it. Reverend Gibson: Let me make sure that everybody under- stands me, too. When I raised the question I raised the ques- tion with the intent and the express purpose that you get such a specialist, and he will be on --there are men here who are tired of some other things. Let us try. Mr. Lloyd is a legal specialist. Mr. Lloyd, are you telling this city that you are getting us a second rate guy to fill that position? 121 JUN 271974 Mrs. Gordon: That's not the point at all. Reverend Gibson: The point I am making is, Rose said, listen, I am just going on with Rose --Rose said you have got to have a specialist. I said to Mr. Lloyd that in the future I hope you will have a specialist on the staff to do this kind of work. Isn't that what I said, Mr. Lloyd? Isn't that what you assured me we were doing? Mr. Lloyd: Yes, sir. Mrs. Gordon: I want to point out another very important facet to you gentlemen if I might, because I think it is very pertinent to the point we are discussing, and that is on this map, if you will notice the map that was delivered to all of us with certain dimensions and schematics on it, there is a sec- tion which I referred to previously as a five -acre tract; had Mr. Ball applied or had he not applied for fill, and there was an opinion that maybe he did and maybe he didn't, but let me remind you, and a very important consideration that must be given to the whole concept of trade. Now, this easterly leg of the proposed Biscayne Boulevard will be crossing water a distance of 270 feet. I ask you to bear this in mind because I am not trying to be picayunish, I am simply trying to be informative, and that's all. Mayor Ferre: Rose, Oft IBM MI. Mrs. Gordon: Look, for two and a half hours I listened to a discussion that could have been concluded in twenty minutes. I was patient, and I want you to be patient, Mr. Maurice. Mayor Ferre: Rose, it's twenty minutes to seven. If you will commit yourself to stay here as long as all of us, and we will be here for another hour and a half. Mrs. Gordon: I will stay as long as you do. Now, I draw your attention to this matter, because in the event that this segment, easterly segment of Biscayne Boulevard, has to cross this water, this five acres which has not received permission for fill and which is in a unique position because of the I.T. Board's need for, let's say, agreement to fill, there would need to be a bridge on that portion of water. This is extremely important, because --- Mayor Ferre: Can we get an answer to that? Do you want an answer? Mrs. Gordon: I'll listen. Mr. Andrews: Approximately a year and a half ago, or a year ago, when we sat with the State officials from --the I.I. Fund was present, and others, relating to the ecology in that area of the bay, the State officials --my impression of that meeting was that they were not so concerned about the filling of the area that was twenty-two or thirty feet deep, but what bothered them was the filling of the area that is now exactly being filled by the F.S.C. because it has a shallow area and 122 UUN 2719 has grass and other things in it which they wanted to protect, and which our park plan left in that condition, but the area of deep water had no biological life in it and there would have been no problem at that time if we had been in a position to go ahead with our fill. Mayor Ferre: Let me state two things: Number one; that I have, personally, absolutely no doubt that if the City were to either buy or swap and end up with that property, including the water, that we would be permitted to fill those five acres. Number two; let me say that it is twenty minutes to seven, and we have so many other bridges to cross before we get anywhere near crossing that, and they are mwhere near being solved. We just had a meeting with the County Manager on this subject, as was instructed by the County Commission, on this very subject, and we have got three months of work ahead of us. They have got to come back with counter -proposals and estimates of bridges, and all types of things, and then we have got to get into the whole deliberation about Lummus Island --in other words we have at least five or ten major decisions before we get anywhere near this point, so I will promise you and submit to you that I will give you as much time as you want with this and other items that I am sure you will come up with, at the time that we get near crossing the bridge. We are nowhere near crossing it. Mrs. Gordon: We don't want to cross any bridge. We don't want a bridge. I draw your attention that when you get back to your respective offices that you look at the Stone Recreation Plan for Bayfront Park and yorx will see that that particular site is not designated as being filled in its entirety, as you just delineated for us Mr. Andrews. I hope you will reconsider this whole thing and go into court in a real attempt to get this by condemnation, and not in a half-hearted way; and hire someone who is capable of going --- Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Gordon, I don't want to get into a big battle with you. If you are referring to me I resent the fact that you are stating that anybody here, including myself, or any member of the administration, or this Commission, is doing anything with regard to Bayfront Park in a half-hearted way. We are proceding as we have in the past with the condemnation. It is my firm belief that we don't have anywhere near the money to accomplish all the great, glorious things that we want to, even if we are able to get out of court this year, next year, or five years from now, and it is the will of this Commission, as expressed in a vote of four to one, to proceed with all due haste and deliberation, and it was the instruction to the County Manager on the part of the Metro Commission that they also want to see this swap achieved, if possible, and they have asked for the Manager to cooperate in trying to work out something that is doable, and we are in the midst of doing that, and that does not in any way stop us from the court proceedings. It is now up to the court to establish a date for the court proceedings, and they have not done that. 123 Mrs. Gordon: All right, I need to clarify one point. Mr. Lloyd, did you state it would cost two per cent. of the acquisition cost to get Mr. Sibley in as a consultant? Mr. Lloyd: No, I didn't say anything like that; no, ab- solutely, I was asked --- Mayor Ferre: Excuse me, Mr. Lloyd, because we are going to spend an hour here figuring and arguing about things, and taking exaggerated words and taking them out of context. The question to you specifically was, how much does it cost, on a normal basis; what is the standard for a legal fee on condemna- tion cases, and the answer was two per cent. And Father Gibson then said, don't give me the two per cent. I want to know in money what it is; and the answer was three hundred thousand dollars. Mrs. Gordon: Then I, respectfully, whether it be the will of the entire Commission or a minority, would you determine what Mr. Sibley's fee would be for a consultant on this particular case. If my commission doesn't want to accept it, that's per- fectly all right. Mayor Ferre: You will have to make a motion, and it will have to be voted upon, because, in my opinion, I don't think that you, unilaterally, can instruct the City Attorney to pro- ceed in negotiating a contract with an attorney --- Mrs. Gordon: No; not negotiating. The question is to de- termine what kind of a fee it would be to hire him to intercede on this particular case at the Supreme Court level. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Lloyd, do you think you need someone other than the people that you already have to try this case before the Supreme Court? Mr. Plummer: Can I make a motion that I think will pacify everyone. I make a motion that at such time as the City Attorney determines, if he does, that outside counsel is needed to assist him, that he come before this Commission and so inform us. Mayor Ferre: I'll move that. Mrs. Gordon: I don't think that motion is necessary, Mr. J. L. Reverend Gibson: J. L., we are going back to the thing that we thought we got out of; until such time. That's why we are getting that man, I hope; aren't we? You don't need that kind of a motion, Mr. Plummer. My request to him is not in the form of a motion. It's as a single Commissioner. And I believe that as the attorney he is entitled to receive or get that kind of information for me. Whether you want to use it is something else again, but I am asking him as a single Commissioner to get that information. Would you please? 124 JUN L 7197 Mayor Ferret How do City Attorney? I have no if you don't, to do this, time, unless at this ti.me Plummer just pointed out, the assistance of Someone Court. we proceed on this, legally, Mr. objection, if nobody else does, and but in my opinion it is a waste of or at any time in the future, as Mr. you feel that you are going to need to take this case to the Supreme Mrs. Gordon: It's in the Supreme Court now. If you don'ts --- Mayor Ferre: To try the case in the Supreme Court. Mr. Plummer: Rose makes a very good point, and I see nothing --she as an individual Commissioner would like Mr. Lloyd to ask Mr. Sibley what he would charge. I don't see anything wrong with that. The only place it would fall apart is when he presents his fee to this Commission it might not accept it. Mrs. Gordon: It's on the public record. I have made the request. Once again, let me reiterate. This is not to say that Mr. Orseck is not qualified. He is qualified. But he has not been engaged by the City, and it is my opinion that the City should have special counsel engaged for this very important condemnation suit. 47. SW 8TH STREET BEAUTIFICATION - LATIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Reboso, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-525 A RESOLUTION APPROVING IN CONCEPT THE IM- PROVEMENT AND BEAUTIFICATION OF SW 8TH STREET, WITHIN THE CITY OF MIAMI, AS PRO- POSED BY THE LATIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, THE CUBAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION, AND THIRD CENTURY U.S.A. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 48. STATUS OF WOMEN COMMITTEE - APPOINTING YVONNE Z, SANTAMARIA: The following motion was introduced by Mr. Reboso, who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-526 A MOTION APPOINTING YVONNE Z. SANTAMARIA AS A MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN, TO FILL THE VACANCY CREATED BY THE RESIGNATION OF MRS. GRACE ROCKAFELLAR Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer the motion was adopted by the following vote - AYES; Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 125 6-27-74 49. PLAT ACCEPTANCE - LANDMAN'S FIRST: The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO, 74.527 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE PLAT ENTITLED LANDMAN'S FIRST, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AND ACCEPTING THE DEDI- CATIONS SHOWN ON SAID PLAT; AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE PLAT (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Reverend Gibson the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 50. PLAT ACCEPTANCE -VERSAILLES PLAZA: The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-528 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE PLAT ENTITLED VERSAILLES PLAZA, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA; AND ACCEPTING THE DEDICATIONS SHOWN ON SAID PLAT; AND AUTH- ORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE PLAT (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Pierre. NOES: None. 51. GROVE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5257 - APPLICATION FOR REIMBURSABLE FEDERAL GRANT: The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-529 A RESOLUTION RATIFYING AND CONFIRMING THE ACTION OF THE CITY MANAGER IN MAKING AP- PLICATION TO THE ENVIROAL PROTECTION AGENCY FOR A FEDERAL REIMBURSABLE GRANT UNDER PUBLIC LAW NO. 92-500 FOR THE GROVE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5257 AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PROVIDE WHATEVER INFORMATION IS NECESSARY TO APPLY FOR A FEDERAL REIMBURSABLE GRANT FOR THE GROVE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5257 AS REQUESTED BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA (Here follows body of resolution,cmitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 52. NOTICE FOR PUBLIC HEARING - OBJECTIONS TO COMPLETED WORK - REID ACRES HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4349: The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-530 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH A NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR OBJECTIONS TO THE ACCEPTANCE BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE COMPLETED CONSTRUCTION OF REID ACRES HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4349 IN REID ACRES HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT H-4349 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 53. ACCEPT COMPLETED WORK - WYNDWOOD PARK SPORTS LIGHTING: The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-531 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE COMPLETED WORK PERFORMED BY J. H. GRESHAM, INC. AT A TOTAL COST OF $17,194.65 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PROPER OFFICIALS TO PAY J. H. GRESHAM, INC. A FINAL BALANCE OF $1,908.15 AS FULL AND FINAL PAYMENT FOR ALL WORK PERFORMED AND ALL MATERIALS FURNISHED IN CONNECTION WITH THE WYNDWOOD PARK - SPORTS LIGHTING - 1973 IN ACCORpANCE WITH THE EXISTING CONTRACT 127 JUN 27197 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Prior to the adoption of the resolution the following discussion occurred: Mayor Ferre: Those people are complaining about the fact that they don't have any lights there yet. They say they don't have any playing lights. P. W. Andrews, City Manager: Maybe they were complaining before the installation was completed. Mr. Plummer: No, they are there. Are you talking about on the tennis courts and the basketball? Mayor Ferre: No, I am talking about the baseball field. You see, these are for the tennis courts. Mr. Andrews: We will have to look for some money for that. Mayor Ferre: It's very nice for you to have lights on the tennis courts, except nobody plays tennis there, but they all play softball. Would you report back to us, Mr. Andrews, as to whether or not you think you might be able to do that. 54. WATER & SEWER MAINS UNDERGROUND - REQUESTING COUNTY TO REVISE ITS CODE TO PROVIDE FOR CONSENT OF CITY IN LOCATION: The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-532 A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DADE COUNTY TO REVISE SECTION 32A-7 OF THE DADE COUNTY CODE TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSENT OF CITY OFFICIALS IN THE LOCATION OF WATER AND SEWER MAINS THAT ARE PLACED UNDERGROUND WITHIN THE CITY PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY; THE CITY AGREEING TO COOPERATE FULLY WITH THE MIAMI-DADE WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY, ITS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND ENGINEERING STAFF IN DETERMINING THE PROPER LOCATIONS FOR SAID UNDERGROUND UTILITY LINES, AND CONTINUING TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC INFORMATION PERTAINING TO THE UNDER- GROUND RECORDS WITHOUT COMPENSATION FROM THE MIAMI-DADE WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mr„ Plumper the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. .128 JUN 271974 55 . BIDS - FINISHING. 25 SHUFFLEBOARD _COURTS FUNDS: The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-533 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF $9,000.00 FOR REFINISHING 25 SHUFFLEBOARD COURTS AND REFAHRICATING A BANK COURT AT LUMMUS PARK FROM THE 1972 PARKS FOR PEOPLE BOND FUNDS, AND AUTHORIZING THE ADVERTISING AND RECEIVING OF BIDS FOR SAME (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 56. EXTENSION OF EMPLOYMENT - HARRY PEARLMAN: The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-534 A RESOLUTION APPROVING A ONE (1) YEAR ESTENSION OF EMPLOYMENT PAST THE AGE OF SEVENTY (70) FOR HARRY PEARLMAN, WATCH- MAN IN THE CITY OF MIAMI STADIUMS DIVISION, EFFECTIVE FROM MAY 28, 1974 TO MAY 28, 1975, WITH THE PROVISION THAT IN THE EVENT OF A ROLLBACK OR LAYOFF, MR. PEARLMAN, RATHER THAN A JUNIOR EMPLOYEE, WOULD BE AFFECTED (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Reverend Gibson the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 57. RETURN OF $25,140.96 OF BOND FUNDS - MAGNOLIA PARK: The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-535 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE RETURN OF UNALLOCATED FUNDS OF THE $25,140.96 ALLOCATION FOR MAGNOLIA PARK REMAINING IN THE 1964 RECREATIONAL FACILITIES BOND FUND 129 JUN 271974 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 58. FUNDS FOR LIGHTING AT WYNDWOOD PARK AUTHORIZING EXPENDITt: The City Manager stated that funds for lighting at Wyndwood Park, requested earlier in the meeting by the Mayor in connec- tion with Resolution No.74-531, could be provided from the return- ed funds authorized by the preceding resolution. Thereupon the following motion was introduced by Mr. Reboso, who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-536 A MOTION AUTHORIZING THE EXPEN- DITURE OF THE NECESSARY FUNDS FROM THE PROPER SOURCES FOR THE LIGHTING AT WYNDWOOD PARK Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer the motion was adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. %rdon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 59. STATUS OF WOMEN COMMITTEE - PROVIDING FUNDS: The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-537 A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FUNDS IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $50.00 PER MONTH FOR EXPENSES OF THE CITY OF MIAMI'S COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN; FURTHER PROVIDING THAT MRS. MARJORIE WHITE, SECRETARY IN THE MAYOR'S OF- FICE, BE PERMITTED TO DEVOTE UP TO FIVE (5) HOURS PER WEEK TO THE ACTIV- ITIES OF'THIS COMMITTEE, SAID TIME TO BE DEDUCTED FROM HER REGULAR WORKING HOURS (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 60. BAYFRONT PARK AUDITORIUM - WAIVE RENTAL FEE FOR ARTS FESTIVAL BY DADE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUB: 130 JUN 271974 The following resolution was introduced by Mr. plunger, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-.538 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PROPER OFFI- CIALS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO WAIVE RENTAL FEE FOR USE OF BAYFRONT PARK AUDITORIUM ON SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 1974, BY THE DADE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUB, INC. FOR AN ARTS FESTIVAL SUBJECT TO PAYMENT OF EVENT PERSONNEL, LIGHTS, INSURANCE AND OTHER DIRECT COSTS BORNE BY THE CITY Caere follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Reverend Gibson was passed and adopted by the following vote Gibson, Mrs. ordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso NOES: None. the resolution - AYES: Reverend and Mayor Ferre. 61. MILITARY SERVICE PAYBACK TO PENSION PLAN - DELETING APRIL, 1974 DEADLINE: An ordinance entitled - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CERTAIN SUBSECTIONS OF THE MIAMI CITY EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM (ORDINANCE NO. 2230, DECEMBER 6, 1939, AS AMENDED) AND THE MIAMI GENERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT PLAN (ORDINANCE NO. 5624, MAY 2, 1966, AS AMENDED) AS APPEARING IN CODIFIED FORM AS A PART OF CHAPTER 2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, 1957, AS AMENDED; MORE PARTICULARLY AMENDING SUBSECTION 6 OF SECTION 2-89 AND SUBSECTION 4 OF SECTION 2-107 OF SAID CHAPTER 2, BY DELETING THEREFROM THE REQUIREMENT THAT PERSONS ALREADY HAVING TEN YEARS MEMBERSHIP MUST MAKE APPLICATION BEFORE APRIL 1, 1974 IN ORDER TO BE ENTITLED TO PAY BACK FOR PRIOR MILI- TARY SERVICE was introduced by Mr. Plummer, seconded by Reverend Gibson, and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 62. MIAMI RIVER WALKWAY - (FIRST PHASE) - AGREE IN PRINCIPLE WITH D.D.A. & PROVIDING FUNDS FOR INCREASE IN SCOPE: The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer, who moved its adoption: 131 JUN 271974 RESOLUTION NO. 74-539 A RESOLUTION AGREEING IN PRINCIPLE FOR THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY TO INCREASE THE SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT WITH C. A. DAVIS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OP THE FIRST PHASE OF THE MIAMI RIVER WALKWAY IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,000: AND AUTHORIZING RINDS FOR THIS INCREASE gE MADE AVAILABLE FROM THE $1,800,000 AUTHORIZED FOR THE DOWNTOWN MIAMI RIVERFRONT DEVELOPMENT IN THE PARKS FOR PEOPLE BOND PROGRAM (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 63. BALTIMORE BASEBALL CLUB - AGMT: The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-540 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE BALTIMORE BASEBALL CLUB FOR THE PURPOSE OF HOLDING REGULARLY SCHEDULED BASEBALL GAMES, EXHIBITION GAMES AND PRACTICE SES- SIONS OF THE MIAMI ORIOLES AT THE MIAMI STADIUM FOR THE PERIOD NOVEMBER 1, 1973 THRU OCTOBER 31, 1974 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City clerk's office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 64. ACCEPT BID - FENCING MATERIALS FOR PARKS DEPT: The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-541 A RESOLUTION AWARDING THE BID OF FENCE MASTERS, INC. FOR FURNISHING ASSORTED FENCING MATERIALS FOR USE BY THE PARKS DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION AT A COST OF $4, 136.01, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS, FUNDS BEING PROVIDED FOR THIS 132 JUN 271974 • (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plur, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson ard Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 65, ACCEPT BID - 60 LENS FOR WIDE LIGHT FIXTURES The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-542 A RESOLUTION AWARDING THE BID OF RAYBRO ELECTRIC SUPPLIES, INC., FOR FURNISHING 60 LENS FOR FLOORLIGHTS AND 60 LENS FOR WIDE LIGHT FIXTURES FOR USE BY THE PROPERTY MAINTENANCE DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PROPERTIES, AT A COST OF 0 $4050.00; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR SAME, AFTER FIRST HAVING DETERMINED THAT FUNDS BUDGETED FOR THIS PURPOSE ARE AVAILABLE (Here: follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Reboso, Plummer, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 66. ACCEPT BID - POLICE UNIFORMS The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plurrer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-543 A RESOLUTION AWARDING THE BID OF LAMAR UNIFORMS INC., FOR FURNISHING UNIFORMS AS REQUIRED FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR THE PERIOD FROM THE DATE OF AWARD TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1975 AT AN ESTIMATED COST OF $144,000.00 AT THE UNIT PRICES AS PER ATTACHED TABULATION SHEETS; authorizing THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS, AS NECESSARY, AFTER FIRST HAVING DETERMINED THAT FUNDS BUDGETED FOR THIS PURPOSE ARE AVAILABLE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) 133 JUN 271974 Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, s. Cordon, Reverend tiibSon and Mayor Terre. NOES: None 67* ACCEPT BID EMULSIFIED. ASPHALT. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Gibson who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-544 A RESOLUTION AWARDING THE BID OF CENTRAL OIL ASPHALT CORP., FOR FURNISHING EMULSIFIED ASPHALT, AS REQUIRED, FOR USE BY THE OPERATIONS DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE. PERIOD FROM JULY 1, 1974 THROUGH JUNE 30, 1975, IN THE AMOUNT OF-300 PER GALLON WITH AN ESCALATION CLAUSE, AT AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $90,000.00; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS AS REQUIRED, AFTER FIRST HAVING DETERMINED THAT FUNDS BUDGETED FOR THIS PURPOSE ARE AVAILABLE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 68, ACCEPT BID - HEAVY EQUIPMENT. AUTOMOBILE PARTS & ACCESSORIES 'r. rlumuner: 'thy can't this come from federal revenue sharing? Mr. Andrews: Because we haven't appropriated the money for that purpose. Mr. Plummer: You got $200,000 from a fire computer that you aren't going to put in operation this year. Mr. Andrews: If we don't put it in this year, that money will continue along until we do get it. Mr. Plummer: This is the kind of thing Paul that should be in federal revenue instead of salaries. Mr. Andrews: We started switching that at the last Commission meeting. It's already appropriated this way. You are taking it out of one box and putting it in another - Mayor Ferre: That's very fine but there are a lot of people in this community that don't see it that way. Mr, Plummer: That's not true either Mr. Mayor. Now Paul, I told you before. Obviously you didn't understand me. This is a one-shot, buy it now, it's over with, okay? Next year you buy another ----. Salaries go on from year to year. s 134 JUN 97197 • This is the very point I am trying to make. Mr. Andrews: I understand Completely Cormigsioner Plummer, what you are saying as far as the use of the city funds and explaining to the public that we are using federal revenue sharing funds in one away to switch salaries but you have got to have equipment. We are equipment poor now. Mr. Plummer: I agree. I just disagree that you are buying it out of general when you can buy it out of the federal revenue and leave the salaries in the general budget. Mr. Andrews: Okay, I will do it whichever way the Commission wants to do it. I would prefer we do it the way we have it programmed. Mr. Plummer: I would prefer and would feel more comfortable - Mr. Andrews: Well don't defer it. Adopt this and make it subject then to appropriation ordinance change - Mr. Plummer: With that condition, I'll move it. 53. With the amendment that it comes from federal revenue sharing. Mr. Lloyd: Actually, you don't even need to amend the resolution. The Manager has been instructed and you pass the resolution as is because it says, the funds budgeted for this purpose are available. He will make the funds available from federal revenue sharing funds. The following resolution was introduced by. Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74--545 A RESOLUTION AWARDING THE BIDS OF ROUSE SPRING AND WHEEL, PITTS TRANSMISSION, CASE POWER & EQUIPMENT, KELLY TRACTOR, HARLEY DAVIDSON AND FLORIDA GEORGIA TRACTOR COMPANY FOR FURNISHING HEAVY EQUIPMENT, AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND ACCESSORIES AT AN ANNUAL EST- IMATED COST OF $93,000.00, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS AS NEEDED, FIRST HAVING DETER- MINED THAT FUNDS, BUDGETED FOR THIS PURPOSE ARE AVAILABLE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 135 JUN 271974 69, ACCEPT BID - 50,000 FOUR COLOR BROCHURES xis iv Mr. Plummer: I have to ask the same question. What fund is it Coning from? Mr. Andrews: These are budgeted funds . Mr. Plummer: Can it come from federal revenue sharing? Mr. Andrews: It comes from special millage funds. Okay, we can do it that way. You can approve it with that condition. Mr. Plummer: I just think, hey, I am only one but I just think personally that it should come from thing where it is a one-shot item, it's paid for and it's over with. That's the kind of thing that I want to see mostly come from federal revenue sharing. Somebody tell me if I am wrong. Mr. Andrews: It's not a question of wrong, it's that we are trying to catalog.* like things and like places for expenditure of funds and to identify the programs that were budgeted - Mr. Plummer: I am not opposed to the item. All I am saying- I'l1 move it subject to the money coming from federal revenue sharing. Rose, you were as strong on that as I was. Where is my helpmate? Mrs. Gordon: Only one thing I differ with you on and it is that I think Revenue Sharing has to go for programs for people and not just for things . Mr. Plummer: All 811 million dollars? Mrs. Gordon: Not, but a good percentage of it and I mean, like at least 50%, but not salaries. Well you see, that was the intent and thct is my feeling and of course, we agree that we don't want it for salaries. Mr. Plummer: I move it subject to federal revenue sharing - The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-546 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF EASTERN LITHO CORP., FOR PROVIDING FOR THE PRINTING OF 50,000 four color brochures ENTITLED: "WATER SPORTS AND FISHING GUIDE" AT A COST OF $3,100.00 AND PRINTING OF A RE RUN OF THE SAME BROCHURE WITHIN SIX (6) MONTHS OF THE ORIGINAL ORDER AT A COST OF $2,800.00 AT THE OPTION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLICITY AND TOURISM (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Reverend Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs- Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 136 JUN 271974 4 ACCEPT BID - MATERIAL, LABOR AND EQUIPMENT TO FUMIGATE AND PLANT GRASS 1'� _LREFS�,a Gd1.P Gnla�c� Mk. 1'Zummen: Subject, to iedenae hevenue Alta/Ling, 1 w.itL move it. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-547 A RESOLUTION AWARDING THE BID OF SOUTHERN TURF NURSERY OF TIFTON, GEORGIA, FOR FURNISHING MAT_ ERIAL AND LABOR AND EQUIPMENT TO FUMIGATE AND PLANT GRASS ON APPROXIMATELY 80,000 SQUARE FEET AT THE MELREESE GOLF COURSE AT A COST OF $4,000.00, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS, AS NECESSARY, FUNDS BEING PROVIDED FOR THIS PURPOSE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PARRS 1973-74 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Reverend Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 71, ACCEPT BID - CASTABLE REFRACTORIES Mr. Plummer: Subject to federal revenue sharing, I will move the motion. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-548 A RESOLUTION AWARDING THE BID OF GEORGE L. SIMONDS COMPANY FOR FURNISHING CASTABLE REFRACTORIES FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION AT A COST OF $6,211.00; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS, AFTER FIRST HAVING DETERMINED THAT FUNDS BUDGETED FOR THIS PURPOSE ARE AVAILABLE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) 137 JUN 271974 Upon being seconded by Reverend Gibson, the resolution was assed and adopted by the following Vote AYES: Meaar*. Reboso, lutr, ter, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 72, ACCEPT BID - CAMERAS FOR CIVILIAtt I. D. BUREAU The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoptions RESOLUTION NO. 74-549 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF FOTOMART FOR FURNISHING CAMERAS AND ACCESSORIES FOR USE BY CIVILIAN IDENTIFICATION DIVISION OF THE DEPART- MENT OF POLICE, AT A TOTAL COST OF $2.946.33, AND AUTHORIZING THE C)TY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER AFTER FIRST HAVING DETERMINED THAT FUNDS BUDGETED FOR THIS PURPOSE ARE AVAILABLE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mr, Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs, Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 73. ACF.PT BID - "JAWS OF LIFE" RESCUE TOOL Mr. Plummer: Subject to being used from federal revenue sharing funds, I will move it. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-550 A RESOLUTION AWARDING BID TO HURST PERFORMANCE INC. FOR FURNISHING ONE (1) POWER RESCUE TOOL KNOWN AS "JAWS OF LIFE" FOR USE BY THE RESCUE DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FIRE AT A TOTAL COST OF $4,160.00 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCH- ASING DIVISION TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR SAME, AFTER FIRST HAVING DETERMINED THAT FUNDS BUDGETED FOR THIS PURPOSE ARE AVAILABLE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) 138 • Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso, the resolution Was paeiled and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. PluMMer, Reboil°, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferro. NOES:- None 74. ACCEPT BID FENCING _AND GATES AT FIRE STATION NO. 5 Mr. Plummer: Subject to this coming from federal revenue sharing I will move it. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-551 A RESOLUTION AWARDING THE BID OF DADE FENCE CO. INC., FOR THE INSTALLATION OF FENCING AND GATES AT THE CITY OF MIAMI FIRE STATION NO. 5, AT A TOTAL COST OF $2,408.80 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER, AFTER FIRST HAVING DETER- MINED THAT FUNDS BUDGETED FOR THIS PURPOSE ARE AVAILABLE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Fevre. NOES: None 75 IgiipKtMUUMUU o^RS IANTA/ IATWTORMEY JWYMTO TTREPARE The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-552 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS TO CAUSE TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI IN THE NOVEMBER 5, 1974 STATE OF FLORIDA AND DADE COUNTY GENERAL ELECTION, A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT WHICH WOULD PROVIDE THAT THE CITY PAY A GREATER PROPORTION OF THE COST OF SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENTS PROVIDEDIN THE CITY OF MIAMI CHARTER (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) 139 • Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. PlutMIgr, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 76, RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE CHARTER AMENDMENT ON DEPUTY CITY MANAGER CONCEPT , The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO, 74-553 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS TO CAUSE TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY CITY OF MIAMI IN THE NOVEMBER 5, 1974 STATE OF FLORIDA AND DADE COUNTY GENERAL ELECTION,A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT WHICH WOULD PROVIDE FOR A "DEPUTY CITY MANAGER" CONCEPT IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, AS RECOMMENDED IN THE BOOZ, ALLEN AND HAMILTON STUDY (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYTES:vMr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Mr. Andrews: I have something important to discuss on "B",---I understand the Director of Finance has asked the City Attorney an opinion now as to whether we can continue to pay the existing Deputy City Manager as a result of this action, and I want the Commission to know if that is the case, if there is a problem there, then I am going to use the prerogatives within the appropriations ordinance to make whatever adjustments I feel necessary to continue what we have placeu Mayor Ferre: We give you a vote of confidence, you find Mr. Crouch. Mr. Andrews: Thank you. Mrs. Gordon: Who is involved? Mr. Andrews: Cliff Hays, -- Mayor Ferre: Let's take up 'C',---- Mr. Lloyd: No resolution is necessary. 77. HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRA(iT The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-554 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMIT AN HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANT APPLICATION TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 140 JUN 6411914 Mere follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer, the resolution wee passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: ReV. Gibson. Mfrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. Noes: None. REQUEST CITY MANAGER TO STUDY FEASIBILITY OF INCLUDING CENTRAL 78, BAPTIST CHURCH AS A -SUPPLEMENT TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANT APPLICATION_ The following motion was introduced by Mrs. Gordon, who moved its adoption: LOTION NO. 74-555 A MOTION REQUESTING THE CITY MANAGER TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF INCLUDING CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANT APPLICATION TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BEING SUBMITTED BY THE CITY OF MIAMI Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer, passed and adopted by the following vote Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson and None. the motion was - AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mayor Ferre. NOES: 79, APPOINT J.L, PLUMMER TO DADE LEAGUE OF CITIES AND MANnLn REBnsn AS ALTERNATE The following resolution was introduced by Rev. Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-556 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE APPOINTMENT OF J.L. PLUMMER, JR. AS THE CITY OF MIAMI'S DESIGNATED MEMBER TO THE DADE LEAGUE OF CITIES, AND APPOINTING VICE -MAYOR MANOLO REBOSO AS THE ALTERNATE MEMBER TO SAID ORGANIZATION (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Mrs. Gordon: J. L. when is your next meeting? Mr. Plummer: July llth. 80, STATUS QF COMPREHENSIVE MASTER P1,AN Mayor Ferre: Discussion on #61, Mr. Manager, that is your baby. Rose. you want to talk about this? 141 Mrs. Gordon: Yes, I went to know about that. 1 want us to move forward. We can no longer afford to procrastinate. We have held this item in abeyance for three months, un- necessarily. The only thing is, we are cQ ing to go with which of the consultants. I think zlr. Acton is in the best position to speak to this item, so I'll keep quiet at this point. Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, the Commission had expressed the hope that we might first do this in house, and second, if that was not feasible,to try to do it through local consultants.We have examined attempting to do it within our own capabilities, and we find this would be too difficult to try to accomplish, in house. The next best possible approach, is one in which we would find a local planning organization who normally would have been involved in a portion of the plan and invest in that firm the prime contract recognizing that they would make a contribution, and they in turn would hire all the expertise they would need. We are still of the opinion, I am, that the best route is to hire those firms and draw from those firms that have the major portion of all the capabilities and would then choose the local firm to assist them. Mayor Ferro: Now, look Paul, and you stop me, because this is your baby, if I say something that isn't what you've been saying. Paul, what Father Gibson says, and I concur with. that we do everything within our power to get local people to do the job. -if you cannot find local people, after a through and honest investigation, and to that particular expertise,there are no local people available to do the job, as is needed, then Father Gibson and thisCommission as I understand it, has no objection to you going, --- Rev. Gibson:---right,--- Mayor Ferre:--to other national firms if, after you honestly look and you can't find anybody here. Mr. Acton: Mr. Mayor, I would like to speak to this particular item, you know the Department of Planning lid extensive research prior to the time that it made a recom- mendation to Mr. Reese, during the time that he was preparing the Federal Rev. Sharing allocations. Now we are very much aware of the fact that the direction of this Commission is to use staff whenever possible, realizing, and I think it is a very good point, that the Commission wants individuals, preferably department heads answerable to the Commission when particular questions arise, pertaining to a particular problem which might come up after the project is done, but I want to point out to the City Commission that your staff, City Planning Department, has programmed 10,000 man hours of the estimated 30,000 man hours that we think will be required to produce the Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan. We looked into the capabilities of local firms, realizing the firm that we are after would have to be milti-faceted, would have to have a very large staff, would have to have very competent people, and there are no local firms outside of sub -consultants such as market specialists, transportation people, that could be used as sub -consultants to a national firm. We are looking for firms that have staffs of anywhere from, I'd say, 50 to 75 people, you dpn',t find that size urban planning consultants 3 142 JUN 271974 residing at the present time in the City of Mini. The ones that we had recommended to the Commission were from Philadelphia, Baltimore and Chicago, each one of those sub -consultants, you know, were scrutinized, as to who they would recommend to use as sub -consultants, without fail, they all selected local people, but nevertheless the point .t am trying to make is that, your staff would have the necessary in -put and would coordinante and guide this study, eo, when we get down to the end, we are not in a position where, we can't answer your questions, because we realize how important it is, What I am saying is, it has been 15 years since the City of Miami did a comprehensive plan, and based on that plan, the zoning ordinance was adopted in the early 1960's. Conditions have changed, --our zoning ord- inance is obsolete, we just don't have the in-house capability of attacking this problem on our own, we do think that it is incumbent on any department, if possible to guide the con- sultant effort, to understand the consultant effort, to be able to answer to the Commission after we get done, know exactly the type of answers that you are looking for, and you'd better believe, ---- Rev. Gibson: Let me make sure I understand for the record, are you telling us you don't have the staff to do the job, --- Mr. Acton: That is correct, ---- Rev. Gibson ----number 2, you said to us that there is no local firm capable,but---whatever firm we may select, they are going to have some local people involved. Mr. Acton: Absolutely, --- Rev. Gibson.I want to make sure we understand that, because I am a stickler for doing something about these local folks, --- Mr. Andrews: ----plus one-third of the effort will invested right with Mr. Acton and the Planning Department. Rev. Gibson: I want to make sure we understand for the record. Mr. Acton: This is the same format we used during the preparation of the Downtown Urban Dev. and Zoning study. We wanted to be sure that when the Commission had questions about the end result, which was a new set of zoning regulations that we would be able to answer the questions. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Acton, question, ---you worked with that firm downtown, and two others made recommendations, have you any'recommendation for us as to which firm we might consider? Mr. Acton: I said we gave the Commission, three, we feel that we would feel confident with any of the three because they are all competent firms. Mrs. Gordon: You worked with one, --- Mr. Acton: Right, but the firm of Wallace McRarg and 143 JUN VI1974 the_..._ firm ate both highly competent, we would be as f said, we feel both are qualified, but the only thing is, the Wallace McHarg firm did, ---- Mrs. Gordan: ---they are already familiar with the area, --- Mr. Acton: That is right, Mrs. Gordon: Can we move that now, Mr. Andrews: Just a minute now, you adopted a resolution, stopping me from proceeding with the interviewing process for the selection, remember? I was going to interview three, now you would want to adopt a motion to go back to that permitting Me to carry out those interviews and come back to the Commission with a recommendation. Mrs. Gordon: I move that, Mayor Ferre: All right, Mrs. Gordon moves, that the Manager be instructed to proceed with negotiations and come back with the recommendation to the Commission, --- Mrs. Gordon: ----at the next meeting, Mayor Ferre:---can you do that by the next meeting? Mr. Andrews: No, I can't do that by the next meeting. I'll try to get it for the following meeting. Mayor Ferre: July llth,-- Mrs. Gordon: --at the next meeting after that, --- Mr. Plummer: ----July 25th,---- Rev. Gibson: I am going to second it with the full understanding that those questions were answered. Mr. Acton: I hear you clear and loud, Reverend. Mrs. Gordon: On that same subject, just for information, provided you come back with your recommendation, ---we approve your recommendation, --when can we anticipate they go to work. Mr. Acton: I would say within 30 days. Mrs. Gordon: In other words, it will come to us with a recommendation to approve, is that it, in a month from now,----? Mr. Andrews: We will be ready to recommend to you and you will authorize me to enter in to a contract, -- negotiation. Mayor Ferre: Then we have to ratify the contract. Mrs. Gordon: We go into a month of vacation in August. I don't know if you will be working or on vacation. Mr. Andrews: I hope I am on vacation for a while, -- Rev. Gibson: Yes, I want that list compiled,--- 1 44 JUN 271914 Mre. Gordon: Is there any possibility -of your getting it here for the next meeting? So we can move forward more quickly. Mr. Andrew*: I'll do it as quickly as t can. Mrs. Gordon: You know we are anxious to move, okay. Mayor Ferre: Any further discussion on this item? Any questions or other comments? Call the roll, ---- Thereupon the following motion was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-557 A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PROCEED WITH NEGOTIATIONS WITH ZONING CON- SULTANTS AND TO SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE COMMISSION AT ITS NEXT MEETING FOR CON- SULTANTS FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI COMPREHENSIVE MASTER PLAN Upon being seconded by Rev. Gibson, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Mr. Andrews: Mr. Mayor, I'd like to report to the Commission that I met with County Manager Ray Goode and Vice -Mayor Fogg in reference to our Comprehensive Plan and they clearly understand the City's position and they are not going to impose restrictions or standards on the City that would prevent growth taking place in the City because we are unique. We have the sewers, highways, --- transportation will be here, and they are not going is impose artificial standards on us. 81. DISCUSSION OF PROTECTION OF PRIVACY AND POSSIBILITY OF FORMING A M0J1JORI .G CDMc"1L� Mr. Plummer: I passed out to the Chief, I passed out to the City Manager and to all of you, a clipping which is becoming more of a vital concern every day. Mayor Ferre: I'll submit it for the record, its called 'Protecting privacy', it is an editorial of the New York Times of Monday June 24th, and let the record reflect it is being submitted by Commissioner Plummer. Mrs. Gordon: It that part of what we are going to lie voting on? Mr. Plummer: Yes. I'm going to tell you of the concern I have of not only this, but also other items and other parts of a proposal. I think Mr. Mayor, ---I'll make it in the form of a motion for study, is the basic proposal. I want it understood that this is part of what I am thinking. 145 JUN 27197 • That there could possibly be areas of where in fact we are over -stepping, --I say we possibly could be,because I don't know, you don't know, I'm sure the Chief knows what he has but whether or not our estimation of what he has would be over -stepping or not, could be different. But you know, we are the ones who have to answer to the public, we are the ones who are expending funds for equipment of a sur- veillance nature, computers that will be obtaining information, security information, and I just thought Mr.Mayor, by the way, there is a federal bill been proffered by Senator Erwin addressing itself to this and presently before the U.S. Congress. If it might not be feasible to look into the forming of a committee, I don't to stipulate the number, or who would serve on that committee, ----- Mayor Ferre: Why not, a three-man committee, Mr. Plummer: Fine, I'll buy that, Mrs. Gordon: How about women? Mr. Plummer; --a three woman committee, I don't care, ---- I am not trying to be on the committee,but this committe would be in a sense a monitoring committee. This committee would at all times report to this Commission if they felt that there was an over -play, and I am just saying Mr. Mayor, that I think this kind of control has got to be executed by this Commission, ---please don't misunderstand, ---to interfere with the operation of the Police Dept. it is not my intention that this Committee would answer to the Police Dept. but answer directly to this Commission, and I think this is something, Mr. Mayor that I would like, if it is agreeable with the rest of this Commission, we send to the City Attorney and the City Manager, a motion asking them to study this proposal and come back and recommend to this Commission. Mayor Ferre: For the record, I think that as I under- stand it, and I have discussed this broad subject with you before,that there are provisions in the Charter for this type of committee, to be formed, that it is not in any way interference with the administration. You's better make sure and research this, address yourself to that, put it down one way or the other, whatever your conclusion is. Mr. Plummer: In no way am I trying to interfere with that department. Mr. Andrews: And the caution you'd have to exercise in researching this, Mr. Lloyd, is that the Commission would be appointing a lay group,( I am calling them lay, they might even be professional), but a lay group who would make themselves available to sensitive material that other- wise would be restricted. And you are going to haw to look into that to see if that is legally possible under the Charter. Mayor Ferre: You know what that means,sometimes, you are going to have the Miami Herald, News, and television stations at all these meetings. Mr. Plummer: This is something that has to be considered, when you come back and make a recommendation, and I want the two of you to do it. I don't want him to do it on his own. 146 JUN 271974 • Mr. Andrews: I understand, — Mr. Plummer: ----and I don't want you to do it on your own. I want you to come back with a recommendation, 'yea, it is feasible, and you feel it can be done' and this Commission will say yet or no, that it will. or will not be done. Mayor Ferre: J. L. I want to tell you this, I like the idea.and at this moment, if I were to vote, I would vote for it. I think it reasonable and makes sense, but I want to make this clear, at this stage of the game, Chief Garmire and his staff can be doing sensitive police work, investigating somebody, and that is a matter that's in the confines of the Police dept. and Ron Sachs, unless he hears about it, really is not going to be privy to it or anybody else in the media. The moment you have a creature of the Commission, which is an elected body, the moment you have a creature, in other words a committee, whether you or anybody else on this Commission will be on that committee, of they be appointed as laymen, then the press has a right to be present at any of these meetings, not a right but a duty. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor this would. I am sure be brought out by these two people as to what they feel, or the consequences. ----look, I'm not saying when the recommendations come back that I would vote for it, but I am saying it is worth looking into. Mayor Ferre: And I want you to know that everyday, I am becoming more and more of a believer in the 'sunshine bit' and there's a lot of things people are upset about, and in the long run it is a lot better, and its in the sunshine. I am not objecting to it, I just wart to make sure we understand the direction we are taking. My only disagreement with the Supreme Court on that terrible decision they made on the right to answer. Mrs. Gordon: If you are going to make a motion, please repeat it so I'll know what you are making. Mr. Plummer: The motion would be, that the City Manager and City Attorney be authorized to look in to the possibility of forming a committee, un-specified number. un-specified people, for the possibility of look in and monitoring, recommending back only to this Commission, the full surveillance, computer in -put and things relating to those which have been termed in the editorials as privacy of an individual. that. Mrs. Gordon: I don't think we need a motion like Mr. Plummer: You don't have to second it. Mra.Gordon: Can't you do like I did, I asked him to get me information on an attorney and there might possibly be a fee, you are setting a policy when you are setting it in a motion. Mayor Ferre: That is exactly the point, ---- Mrs. Gordon: But there's lots of ramifications when you make a motion. 147 Mayor Ferre: No, no, wait a moment. We are not establishing a policy. Mr. Plummer: No way, ---- Mayor Ferre: The honorable Commission is asking for a legal and administrative advice and concurrence with a recommendation that he has, and then we will decide Whether we will even take it up or not. Mr. Plummer:Twat is right. Mrs. Gordon: It goes against my grain, 1 don't know what it is. And I am going to vote against it. Thereupon the following motion was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: MOTION NO. 74-558 A MOTION REQUESTING THE CITY ATTORNEY AND THE CITY MANAGER TO STUDY THE PROPOSAL FOR PROTECTING PRIVACY CONTAINED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES OF JUNE 24, 1974, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF FORMING A COMMITTEE FOR THE PURPOSE OF MONITOR- ING AND RECOMMENDING TO THE COMMISSION ON THE SURVEILLANCE COMPUTER INPUT RELATING TO PRIVACY OF INDIVIDUALS Upon being seconded by Rev. Gibson, the motion was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr.Plummer, Mr.Reboso, Rev. Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: Mrs. Gordon. 82, ACCEPT BID - UTILITY VAN FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-559 A RESOLUTION AWARDING BID TO PALMETTO FORD TRUCK SALES FOR FURNISHING ONE (1) UTILITY VAN FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT AT A TOTAL COST OF $3,924.98: AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR SAME, FUNDS BEING PROVIDED FROM THE FENCING FEDERAL GRANT 4t72-21 -40 WHICH EXPIRES ON JUNE 30, 1974 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolutionvas passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Plummer Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 148 JUN 2719� • ItD ._ _ Mt 1T. VIS tON SCOPE The following , resolution was introduced by Mrs Gordon who Moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO, 74-560 A RESOLUTION AWARDING BID TO SMITH & WESSON/ GOEC FOR FURNISHING ONE (1) NIGHT VISION SCOPE WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE RELAY LENS FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF POLICE AT A TOTAL COST OF $5, 562.2,0; AUTHiORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR SAME, AFTER FIRST HAVING DETERMINED THAT FUNDS BUDGETED FOR THIS PURPOSE ARE AVAILABLE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 84, ACCEPT BID - TRACKING EQUIPMENT & ALLIED EQUIPMENT The following resolution was introduced by Rev. Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-561 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID OF WACKENHUT ELECTRONICS, INC. FOR FUFNISHING THE R.D.F. TRACKING DEVICES AND ALLIED EQUIPMENT FOR USE BY THE S.T.O.P. BURGLARY SECTION OF THE MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT AT A TOTAL COST OF $16,545.00, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR SAME, FUNDS BEING PROVIDED FOR TBIS PURPOSE IN FEDERAL FENCING GRANT NO. 72-21-04 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote- AYES:Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. Naar: None. 85, ACCEPT AID - FM. RECEIVER/RECORDER KIZ7'AND ACCESSORY EQUIPMENT The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-562 to A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID RECEIVED JUNE 25, 1974 FROM BELL & HOWELL COMMUNI- CATIONS COMPANY FOR FURNISHING TWO (2) 149 JUN 27 14 F.M. RECEIVER/RECORDER KITS isND ACCESSORY EQUIPMENT FOR USE BY THE MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PtRCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR THE W1'AL COST OF $3,360.00 FUNDS BEING PROVIDED FOR TNIS PURPOSE IN FEDERAL FENCING GRANT NO. 72-21-04 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Rev. Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboss, Rev. Gibson and Mayor Ferre. Noes; None. 86. AUTHORIZE PURL{ASE F 800 COPIES OF "THE LAW OFFICERS POCKET MANUAL' The following resolution was introduced by Rev. Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-563 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO PURCHASE 800 COPIES OF "THE LAW OFFICERS POCKET MANUAL" AT A TOTAL COST OF $2,200. FROM THE BUREAU OF NATIONAL AFFIRS, INC. WASHINGTON, D.C.; AND WAIVING THE NORMAL FORMAL BIDDING PROCEDURES DUE TO THE SINGLE SOURCE OF AVAILABILITY (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon b eing seconded by Mr. Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr.Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson and Mrs. Gordon, and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 87, ACCEPT BID - ROBERTO CLEMENTE PARK -RESURFACE BASKETBALL COURTS The following resolution was introduced by Rev. Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-564 A RESOLUTION AWARDING THE BID OF MARKS BROTHERS CO. (NOT INC.) IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $4,169. FOR THE ROBERTO CLEMENTE PARK -RESURFACING BASKETBALL COURTS-1974; ALLOCATING THE AMOUNT OF $4,169. FROM THE ACCOUNT ENTITLED "CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND - UNALLOCATED FUNDS" TO COVER THE ESTIMATED CONTRACT COST; ALLOCATING FROM SAID ACCOUNT THE AMOUNT OF $417 TO COVER THE COST OF PROJECT EXPENSE; ALLOCATING FROM SAID ACCOUNT THE AMOUNT OF $166 TO COVER THE COST OF SUCH ITEMS AS ADVERTISING, TESTING LABORATORIES, POSTAGE, ETC,; AND AUTHORIZING FTHE IRM CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH SAID 150 JUN 271914 t tY here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Cletk' a office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 18 , ACCEPT 8J 1l - HEAVY EQUIPMENT PHASE V The following resolution was introduced by Rev.Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-565 A RESOLUTION AWARDING CERTAIN BIDS RECEIVED ON JUNE 17, 1974 IN TEE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $545,253.19 FOR THE PURCHASE OF PHASE V, HEAVY EQUIPMENT FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PROPERTIES, CITY GARAGE DIVISION, FROM THE CITY GARAGE EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT RESERVE ACCOUNT, FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING FUNDS - SANITATION DEPARTMENT, AND FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING FUNDS -PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT; AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING AGENT TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS THEREFOR (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following, vote - AYES: Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 89, CONFIRM ACTION OF CITY MANAGER -EMERGENCY PURCHASE OF: 2 MUCK cABS AND CHASSIS The following resolution was introduced by Rev. Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-566 A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING AND RATIFYING THE ACTION OF THE CITY MANAGER IN APPROVING THE EMERGENCY PURCHASE OF TWO (2) TRUCK CABS AND CHASSIS FROM THE GMC TRUCK AND COACH DIVISION, AT A COST OF NINE THOUSAND; FOUR HUNDRED AND TEN DOLLARS ($9,410.00) EACH, F.O.B. EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, SAID EMERGENCY PURCHASE BEING NECESSITATED BY THE INABILITY OF THE EX- ISTING CONTRACTOR, THE FORD MOTOR COMPANY, TO PERFORM ITS OBLIGATION TO DELIVER SAID EQUIPMENT ON SCHEDULE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) 151 Upon being seconded k y Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, and - MayOr _Perre. NOES: Hone. AUTHORIZE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE CHARTER AMENDMENT- LaituatiFir PO5 mi OF GNits a E RESOLE The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-567 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS TO CAUSE TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI IN THE NOVEMBER 5, 1974 STATE OF FLORIDA AND DADE COUNTY GENERAL ELECTION, A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT WHICH WOULD ESTABLISH THE UNCLASSIFIED POSITION OF CHIEF OF FIRE RESCUE IN SECTION 62 OF THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Rev. Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote- AYES: Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. Mr. Lloyd: Before we leave this, on all of these resolutions, we are going to have to be on the November 5th General Election by virtue of State Law. We have no other alternative because of a recently enected State Statute but to go on the General Election, in my opinion. Some of these may have to be write-in ballots in case there's too many other balloted items on the regular printed ballot. The Manager wanted me to remind the Commission of that, but that is something over which we have no control. Mr. Andrews: But the consequences of that could be very serious because what you are asking the people of the City of Miami is to get involved in something that is difficult to explain and then you are going to have a write in ballot, --probably a write-in ballot. Mrs. Gordon: Are you saying then that anything we are doing today. Mr. Lloyd: ----not a write-in ballot, a paper ballot, -- Mrs. Gordon ----okay, I understand, but What I want to know is November the election that these things would appear, not before? Mr. Lloyd: No. Ctrs. Gordon: It can't come on one of the earlier elections? Mr. Lloyd: No, there is .a new state statute which 152 JUN 271974 we determined that should Make their appear on this election. Mrs. Gordotr: And that one only? Mr. Lloyd: Yes. Mrs. Gordon: lbw much time do you have between now and then to put in any other items, if you should so desire? -----between Mr. Lloyd:-120 days and 60 days before the election, and which would mean the last City Commission meeting in July. Mrs. Gordon: I understand, that is the last chance for any item to become part of the November ballot. Mr. Lloyd: The last City Commission meeting in July unless you had a special meeting, which would be more than 60 days before November 5th. There are two things you have to go by, first it is the Dade County Charter. which provides a time schedule, then the recently enacted State Statute which adds some additional things which have to be complied with also. Mayor Ferre: Jack, let me ask you a question. If we wanted to put something on the September ballot? Mr.Lloyd: I say it is highly dangerous, due to the fact that the new state law says 'general election', now the Metro charter is silent in that reapect but in an old case which I personally handled, the District Court of Appeal held that where a Charter provision is silent and there is an additional provision by a State statute the State statute also become a provision which must be complied with. Mayor Ferre: You are telling us the best way to do it is have it in November. Mr. Andrews: What I am trying to point out is, this is going to probably end up as a write-in ballot. Mr. Lloyd: A paper ballot, not a write-in ballot. Don't get that confused. Mayor Ferre: What is a paper ballot? Mr. Lloyd: In other words, you have your regular ballot, in the booth where you pull the levers, and then if they have too many items to go on that ballot, where you pull the levers, you have to have a piece of paper and they have to go out and mark the piece of paper. Mayor Ferre: That is what I am worried about. We are going to have a long and complicated ballot for November, maybe some of these things we can put on in September, but you said we can't do it. Mr. Lloyd; If you wish in the meantime, I will write for an opinion of the Attorney General and submit my suggestions to him which is what we have to do, and I will do that post-haste if you would like me to. 153 91, Mayor Ferret Do it very quickly because We have t do it 60 days before September loth. Mr. Lloyd: That is right. Mayor Ferre: That is July,llth, Mr. Lloyd: That is right. Mrs. Gordon: July llth means we don't have a meeting, we have a meeting that day. Mr. Lloyd: We have to get everything in July llth if we can go on September loth. Mrs. Gordon: You also at the same time are going to inquiring of him about joining the comdemnation, so you will have two items to ask at the same time. Mayor Ferre: So get a quick answer on both of those things, Mr. Lloyd:What I will do is, tomorrow I will call Jann the Assistant wrote an opinion generally of this nature on the home Rule amendment last year, we've already talked to her privately on some other matter, so I'll call tomorrow and maybe we can get an opinion over the phone. I'll call both of them. Mrs. Gordon: I think you might want to get an opinion right from Mr. Shevin with regard to the other, Mr. Lloyd: Yes, I'll talk to her about it on the election tomorrow , and Mrs. Gordon: ----and tell her that you want him to speak to you about the other. Mr. Lloyd : I won't talk to her about the other, and I'll write a letter to him about the other. RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING CITY OF MIAMI TO SPONSOR A 1l(iWHT(1WN SUMMER STAR THEATER The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-568 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF MIAMI TO SPONSOR A DOWNTOWN SUMMER STAR THEATER DURING A PERIOD SPANNING AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1974; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY ATTORNEY TO DO ALL THINGS NECESSARY TO EFFECT THE ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THIS RESOLUTION (Here ibllows body of resolution, omitted here and on file inthe City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon. the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. RebOSO. Rev. Gibson. Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mayor Ferre. NOW: None. rC 154 JUN 271974 92, RESOLUTION EXPRESSING CONCERN ABOUT CLOSING OF 54 STREET EXIT is 145 The following resolution was introduced by Rev. Gibson who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-569 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI SUPPORTING THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF GOVERNMENTAL REPRESENTATIVES AND LAYMEN'S CONCERN ABOUT THE CLOSING OF THE I-95 EXPRESS- WAY, 54TH STREET EXIT AND EGRESS, WITHOUT A PROPER SUBSTITUTE LOCATION FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS IN THEIMMEDIATE AREA (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted bythe following vote - AYES: Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 93, APPOINT ADDITIONAL ['EMBERS TO CONSUMER 8 USERS COMMITTEE The following resolution was introduced by Rev. Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-570 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI APPOINTING ADDITIONAL MEMBERS TO THE CONSUMER AND USERS COMMITTEE FOR THE DOWNTOWN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING PLAN (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 94, fRFATE BICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE AND APPOINT MEMBERS THERETO The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon Who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-571 A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI CREATING A BICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE AND APPOINTING MEMBERS THERETO (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk'soffice.) 155 JUN 2 71974 tin being seconded by Rev. Gibson, the resolution wee painted and adopted by the following vote - AnSt Mr.Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Perte. moss: None. The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-571A A RESOLUTION CREATING A COCONUT GROVE BICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE AND APPOINTING MEMBERS THERETO (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Rev. Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 156 JUN ? 71974 Upon being seconded by Rev. Gibson, the revolution w as passed and adopted by the bllowing vote - AYES: Mr. Reboso. Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer and Mayor Ferre, NOBS: None. 95 AMEND SECTION 62-10- REGIOPipL IMPACT ENABLING ORDINANCE MR. Acton: Mr. Mayor, these are ordinances th.t enable the City of Miami to hear the ordinances, in accord with the State statutes that require local public hearings and setting up fees for the necessary hearings for the D R I's. In other words, ---- Mr. Lloyd:These are amendments to 60-10 and 62-26, Mr. Acton: Claughton Island was scheduled for public hearing down in Key West in front of the S. Florida Regional Planning Council, on Monday in Key West, ----I understand that has been withdrawn, but neverthe less the City of Miami does not have any type of legislation in its ordinance on the books now that would be in accord with the State statutes that require that any development of regional impact must be heard in front of the local governing body, so what this ordinance does is to set up the legislation allowing the Commission and the Planning Adv. Board to hear the development regional impacts and also setting up the fee schedules for the public hearing in connection with the D.R.I. Mrs. Gordon: You mean to say our boards will be hearing it instead of the regional planning council? Mr. Acton: No, the State statutes require, I'm sure the commission knows that development over a certain size must, ----what it amounts to is an impact statement. These i mpact statements must be forwarded to the local governing body by the respective regional planning council, and they will make a recommendation on the particulat D R I which will be submitted to the local governing jurisdiction as a part of their consideration. Mrs. Gordon: I see, so what do you want of us? Mr. Acton: These two ordinances, Mrs. Gordon:I don't have a copy, George which comes first? Mr. Acton: The regional council makes the recommendation prior to it being sent on to the local public hearing. Mrs. Gordon: I see, then this permits us to hear it. Mr. Acton: In accord with a State statute. An ordinance entitled - AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 8234 BY ADDING A NEW SUB -SECTION (j) TO SECTION 62-10 OF THE CITY CODE, PROVIDING THAT THE PLANNING ADVISORY BOARD SHALL HOLD HEARINGS ON DEVELOPMENTS or REGIONAL IMPACT AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE CITY COMMISSION 157 JUN 271974 was introduced by Mrs. Gordon, seconded by Mr. Plummer, and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote - kYNS: Mr.Pluiaer, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Reboot, and Mayor rerre. NOES: None. ORD. AMEND ORD. 8234 SEC, 62-26 PROVIDING FOR FEES TO BE CHARGED FOR HEARINGS REQUIRED BY..FLORIDA STATUTE SECTION 380,06 'Fan -bFVtj„ aPtMFNTs OF REGIONAL IMPACT AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 8234, BY ADDING A NEW SUB SECTION (j) TO SECTION 62-26 OF THE CITY CODE PROVIDING FOR FEES TO BE CHARGED FOR HEARINGS REQUIRED BY FLORIDA STATUTE SECTION 380.06 FOR DEVELOPMENTS OF REGIONAL IMPACT was introduced by Mrs. Gordon, seconded by Mr. Reboso, and passed on its first reading by title by the following vote - AYES: Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon Mr. Plummer, Mayor Ferre. Noes; None. Mrs. Gordon; George how does these fees compare to fees the people have to pay to the regional Board? Mr. Acton: It is my understanding the regional Board has an open-ended fee, whereby the applicant is charged initial one thousand dollars and the meter starts running and what it amounts to is the applicant is charged on a T & M basis. They charge whatever staff time is in- volved, the actual fees that's involved in processing the D.R.I. whereas we are recommending a flat fee based on the amount of gross aq. footage of the particular project . Mrs. Gordon: I think thirty thousand dollars seems like a high fee, but maybe it isn't. Mr. Acton: I can assure you that the Planning Dept. probably spent at least that amount of money in staff time up-to-date just involving new ordinances. 97, DRIVE IN TELLERS - AMERICAS BANK - The following resolution was introduced by Rev. Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-572 A RESOLUTION GRANTING A CONDITIONAL USE AS LISTED IN ORDINANCE NO. 6871, ARTICLE XI, SECTION 1(5)(b), TO PERMIT DRIVE-IN TELLERS TO BE LOCATED ON LOTS 1 THROUGH 8, BLOCK 3, PARKDALE SUB (14-36). LOCATED AT APPROXIMATELY 1920 SOUTHWEST 27th AVENUE, AS PER PLANS ON FILE, SUBJECT TO SITE PLAN REVIEW BY THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, ON CONDITION THAT NO TWENTY-FOUR (24) HOUR FACILITY BE ESTABLISHED ON SAID SITE; SAID USE TO REMAIN FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR AFTER ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY; DRIVE-IN TELLERS TO BE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE AMERICAS BANK, LOCATED AT 2270 CORAL WAY; 158 JUN 2 71974 PROPERTY ZONED R-C (RESIDENTIAL OFFICE) (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Rev. Gibson, Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. 98, AGREEMENT - ARNOLD LIEBER - PSYCHIATRIC CONSULTATION SERVICES The following resolution was introduced by Rev. Gibson, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 74-573 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO ENTER INTO AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONTRACT FOR POLICE PSYCHIATRIC CONSULTANT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND ARNOLD L. LIEBER, EXTENDING THE EXPIRATION DATE OF THE CONTRACT FROM JUNE 30, 1974 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1974; AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE APPROPRIATE OFFICIALS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO PROVIDE THE NECESSARY FUNDS FROM UNFILLED STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE POSITIONS PRESENTLY IN THE POLICE OPERATION BUDGET. (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerk's office.) Upon being seconded by Mr. Reboso, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Mrs. Gordon, Mr. Plummer, Mr. Reboso, Rev. Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None. ADJOURNMENT: THERE BEING NO FURTHER BUSINESS TO COME BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION, THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 8:00 P.M. MAURICE A FERRE MAYOR ATTEST: H.D. SOUTHERN CITY CLERK RALPH G. ONGIE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK 159 JUN 271974 c:n'y OF 1Vi'IAMI -DOCUMENT MEETING DATE: INDE June 27, 1974 ITEM NO DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION 1 2 3 4 5 COMMISSION AGENDA & CITY CLERK REPORT (28 Pages) ACCEPTING COMPLETE CONSTRUCTION OF MARK BROTHERS COMPANY-BISCAYNE EAST HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4357 CREATING MIAMI ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR THE HANDICAPPED -APPOINTING MEMBERS AGREEMENT WITH INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO-PROMOTIONAL EXAMINATIONS FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT APPOINTING ADDITIONAL MEMBERS -CONSUMER AND USERS COMMITTEE -DOWNTOWN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING PLAN APPOINTING ADDITIONAL MEMBERS TO THE GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE -DOWNTOWN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING PLAN APPOINTING ADDITIONAL MEMBERS -LAND OWNERS & BUILDERS COMMITTEE -DOWNTOWN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING PLAN APPOINTING ADDITIONAL MEMBERS -ARCHITECTS AND PROFESSIONAL PLANNERS COMMITTEE - DOWNTOWN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING PLAN APPOINTING MEMBERS TO THE GENERAL CULTURAL HISPANIC COMMITTEE INCLUDE IN THE BUDGET FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 1974 $85,000.00 FROM FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING FUNDS -DR. MARTIN LUTHER KIND BOULEVARD DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT PANCOAST ARCHITECTS ET AL. - AMENDING AGREEMENT NOVEMBER 2, 1973- INTERIOR DESIGN SERVICES SUPPORTING REQUEST OF THE CTA TOWERS- B LINE METROPOLITAN TRANSIT AUTHORITY EXTEND ITS SERVICE SOUTH CTA TOWERS SUPPORTING U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BILL 22 AND U.S. SENATE BILL 3-NATIONAL HEALTH SECURITY SYSTEM FOR ALL AMERICANS CITY ATTORNEY -LEGAL ACTION TO SECURE RIGHTS CITY OF MIAMI UNDER HOUSE BILL 4018 COMMISSION RETRIEVAL ACTION CODE NO. R-74-509 M-74-511 R-74-514 R-74-515-A R-74-515-B R-74-515-C R-74-515D R-74-517 R-74-519 R-74-520 R-74-522 R-74-523 R-74-524 0099 74-509 74-511 74-514 74-515- 74-515- 74-515- 74-515D 74-517 111111 U1M1i.11ri1oi 1 II *QOCU ...ENT1NDE:t CONTINUED ITOl NO. DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION 1►CTION___ 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 APPROVING IMPROVEMENT AND BEAUTIFICATION OF S.W. 8TH STREET AS PROPOSED BY THE LATIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE APPOINTING YVONNE Z. SANTAMARIA- MEMBER COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN ACCEPT PLANT ENTITLED LANDMAN'S FIRST - A SUBDIVISION CITY OF MIAMI • ACCEPT PLAT ENTITLED VERSAILLES PLAZA, A SUBDIVISION CITY OF MIAMI APPLICATION ENVIROMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY - FEDERAL REIMBURSABLE GRANT UNDER PUBLIC LAW NO. 92-500-GROVE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5257 AUTHORIZE CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING -OBJECTIONS ACCEPTANCE CITY COMMISSION -CONSTRUCTION REID ACRES HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4349 ACCEPTING COMPLETED WORK-J.H. GRESHAM INC. WYNDWOOD PARK -SPORTS LIGHTING REQUESTING BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF DADE COUNTY TO REVISE SECTION 32A-7 OF THE DADE COUNTY CODE AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF $9,000.00 FOR REFINISHING COURTS AND A BANK COURT AT LUMMUS PARK EXTENSION EMPLOYMENT HARRY PEARLMAN- WATCHMAN CITY OF MIAMI AUTHORIZING THE RETURN TO UNALLOCATED FUNDS OF THE $25,140.96-1964 RECREATIONAL FACILITIES BOND FUND PROVIDING FUNDS FOR EXPENSES OF THE CITY OF MIAMI'S COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN RENTAL FEE BAYFRONT PARK AUDITORIUM- DADE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUB, INC. INCREASE THE SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT WITH C.A. DAVIS-CONSTRUCTION FIRST PHASE MIAMI RIVER WALKWAY AGREEMENT WITH BALTIMORE BASEBALL CLUB FOR BASEBALL GAMES EXHIBITIONS AWARD BID -FENCE MASTERS INC-FENCING MATERIAL - PARKS DIVISION AWARD BID-RAYBRO ELECTRIC SUPPLIERS INC- PROPERTY MAINTENANCE DIVISION R-74-525 R-74-526 R-74-527 R-74-528 R-74-529 R-74-530 R-74-531 R-74-532 R-74-533 R-74-534 R-74-535 R-74-537 R-74-538 R-74-539 R-74-540 R-74-541 R-74-542 PAGE # 2 CODE NO. 74-525 74-526 74-527 74-528 74-529 74-530 74-531 74-532 74-533 74-534 74-535 74-537 74-538 74-539 74-540 74-541 74-542 POCIJ ME NI N DEx CONTINUED eAGat3 ITEM NO.I DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION 32 33 AWARD BID -CENTRAL OIL ASPHALT CORP- AWARD BID-LAMAR UNIFORMS INC-UNIFORMS FOR POLICE DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS 34 AWARD BID-HARLEY DAVIDSON AND FLORIDA GEORGIA TRACTOR COMPANY -HEAVY EQUIPMENT AUTOMOBILE PARTS AND ACCESSORIES 35 ACCEPT BID -EASTERN LITHO CORP-BROCHURE ENTITLED "WATER SPORTS AND FISHING GUIDE" 36 AWARD BID -SOUTHERN TURF NURSERY OF TIFTON, GEORGIA-MELREESE GOLF COURSE 37 AWARD BID-GEORGE L. SIMONDS COMPANY- CASTABLE REFRACTORIES -DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION R-74-548 COMMIBsraN ` RETRIEVAL ACTION _._CODE No R-74-543 74-543 R-74-544 74-544 R-74-545 R-74-546 R-74-547 38 ACCEPT BID-FOTOMART-CIVILIAN IDENTIFICATION DIVISION -POLICE DEPARTMENT 39 AWARD BID-HURST PERFORMANCE INC.-RESCUE TOOL - DEPARTMENT OF FIRE 40 AWARD BID-DADE FENCE CO INC.-FENCING AND GATES-MIAMI FIRE STATION NO. 5 R-74-551 R-74-549 R-74-550 41 AUTHORIZING CITY ATTORNEY PREPARE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS -GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 5,1974 R-74-552 42 AUTHORIZING CITY ATTORNEY -PREPARE NECESSARY - DOCUMENTS -GENERAL ELECTION Nov. 5,1974- BOOZ,ALLEN AND HAMILTON STUDY AUTHORIZING CITY MANAGER TO SUBMIT AN HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANT APPLICATION TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CITY MANAGER STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF INCLUDING CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH IN THE . LIST OF KEY STRUCTURES IN THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANT APPLICATION 45 APPOINTMENT OF J.L. PLUMMER JR. AS CITY OF MIAMI DESIGNATED MEMBER TO THE DADE LEAGUE OF CITIES 46 AWARD BID -PALMETTO FORD TRUCK SALES - UTILITY VAN -POLICE DEPARTMENT 47 AWARD BID -SMITH & WESSON-NIGHT VISION SCOPE - POLICE DEPARTMENT 48 ACCEPT BID-WACKENHUT ELECTRONICS,INC- BURGLARY SECTION POLICE DEPARTMENT 49 ACCEPT BID -BELL & HOWELL COMMUNICATIONS CO.- MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT 50 PURCHASE COPIES OF "LAW OFFICERS POCKET MANUAL" FROM BUREAU OF NATIONAL AFFAIRS, INC. R-74-553 R-74-554 R-74-555 R-74-556 R-74-559 R-74-560 R-74-561 R-74-562 R-74-563 74-545 74-546 74-547 74-548 74-549 74-550 74-551 74-552 74-553 74-554 74-555 74-556 74-559 74-560 74-561 74-562 74-563 DOCIJ M EN1'i NDEY CONTINUEI ITEM NO. 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 AWARD BID -MARKS BROTHERS CO.- ROBERTO CLEMENT PARK -BASKETBALL COURTS ACCEPT BID -PURCHASE OF PHASE V-HEAVY EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PROPERTIES EMERGENCY PURCHASE OF TWO TRUCK CABS FROM THE GMC TRUCK AND COACH DIVISION AUTHORIZE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS GENERAL ELECTION-NOVEMBER 5,1974 SPONSOR A DOWNTOWN SUMMER STAR THEATER SPECIAL COMMITTEE OF GOVERNMENTAL REPRESENTATIVES -CLOSING OF THE I-95 EXPRESSWAY 54TH STREET EXIT APPOINTING ADDITIONAL MEMBERS TO THE CONSUMER AND USERS COMMITTEE -DOWNTOWN URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND ZONING PLAN CREATING A BICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE AND APPOINTING MEMBERS CREATING A COCONUT (ROVE BICENTENNIAL COMMITTEE AND APPOINTING MEMBERS CONDITIONAL USE -ORDINANCE NO. 6871-DRIVE-IN TELLERS-1920 SOUTHWEST 27TH AVENUE AMENDMENT CONTRACT FOR POLICE PSYCHIATRIC CONSULTANT-ARNOLD L. LIEBER AND CITY OF MIAMI- R-74-564 R-74-565 R-74-566 R-74-567 R-74-568 R-74-569 R-74-570 R-74-571 R-74-571A R-74-572 R-74-573 PAGE # 4 74-564 74-565 74-566 74-567 74-568 74-569 74-570 74-571 74-571A 74-572 74-573