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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 1973-07-12 MinutesMIAMI CITY COMMISSION MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON JUL 121973 PREPARED BY THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK CITY HALL H, D. SOUTHERN CITY CLERK RALPH G. ONGIE ASSISTANT CITY CLERK • • INDEX MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA ITEM NO, SUBJECT ORDINANCE OR p. RESOLUTION NO. PAGE NO 1. 2. 3. 3A 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. WAIVING READING OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING PROCLAMATIONS. CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION AND PLAGUES RESIGNATION OF M. L. REESE AS CITY MANAGER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI RENAME LE JEUNE GOLF COURSE LIFETIME PRIVILEGES FOR USE OF M. L. REESE GOLF COURSE REPLACEMENT OF CITY MANAGER WITH INTERIM MANAGER — DISCUSSION BULLETIN BOARD IN CITY HALL TO ANNOUNCE PUBLIC MEETI:!GS STATEMENT FROM M. L. REESE, CITY MANAGER ON THE SUBJECT OF HIS RESIGNATION AUTHOPIZE EMPLOYMENT OF MEL REESE AND ASSOCIATES ECR PART TIME CONSULTATION SERVICES WORKSHOP SESSION — RESTRUCTURING OF PLANNING AND ZONING SYSTEMS RECEIVE SEALED BIDS SAN MARCO SANITARY SEWER IMP.SR-5316—C RECEIVE SEALED BIDS VIRGINIA GROVE HIGHWAY IMP. H-4358 PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT ROLL —CONFIRM MUSA ISLE SANITARY SEWER IMP.SR-5308—C CONFIRM ORDERING RESOLUTION N. E. 4TH COURT HIGHWAY IMP. H-4360 OBJECTIONS TO CONFIRMING ORDERING RES. N.W. 29 STREET HIGHWAY IMP. H-4361 CONFIRM ORDERING RESOLUTION NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE HIGHWAY IMP. H-4359 CONFIRM ORDERING RESOLUTION NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5383—C (CENTERLINE AND SR-5383—S SIDELINE SEWER) CONFIRM ORDERING RESOLUTION LIBERTY SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT PHASE II SR-5377—C do SR-5377—S 1 1 73-517 73-518 73-519 1"4 73-520 5--8 73-521 9 10---1- 13 DISCUSSION 14--- 73-523 17 73-524 I7--I8 73—:725 18 73-526 18-- DISCUSSION 21-- 73-522 73-527 25-- 73-528 73-529 73-530 73-531 73-532 27 • INDEX MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA ITEM NO, SUBJECT ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION NO, PAGE NC 16. CONDITIONAL USE LOT 16r BLOCK 25► FROW HOMESTEAD 17. 1 WAIVER OF DEVELOPMENT OFF-ST.PKG.SPACES LOT 5,6rBLOCK 2r PHOENIX PARK 18. ' CONDITIONAL USE - LOT 8,9,10, BLOCK 41 FAIRMONT PARK 19. ' VARIANCE REQUEST LOT 3, BLOCK 58N - MIAMI B-41 20. REQUEST METRO TO REASSESS POSITION WITH RESPECT TO SPRINKLER SYSTEMS IN CONJUNCTION WITH CONCRETE PARKING GARAGES 21. CONDITIONAL USE LOTS 6 & 15, BLOCK 103N MIAMI B-41 22. CONDITIONAL USE LOTS 2r3+4,19,10,BLOCK 90 LAWRENCE EST. 23. I CONTINUED WORKSHOP SESSION - RESTRUCTURING ( PLANNING AND ZONING SYSTEMS LUNCH RECESS FROM 12;30 TO 2:02 O'CLocK P.M, 24. 1 CONDITIONAL USE - PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT LOTS 10,11,9 BLOCK 1 ALLAMANDA GARDENS 25. 1 PUBLIC HEARING - REVENUE SHARING FUNDS 26. PERSONAL APPEARANCE -MR. DAN PAUL TO DISCUSS SERVING ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN THE PRESS BOX OF THE ORANGE BOWL STADIUM 27. NEGOTIATE WITH SCHOOL BOARD FOR TEMPORARY PORTABLE BUILDING 28. PROJECT 049- 76 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM EDISON PARK TEEN CENTER 29. ' PUBLIC HEARING - PROPOSED RESTRUCTURING OF PLANNING & ZONING SYSTEMS 30. 1 DOWNTOWN ZONING STUDY -PRELIMINARY REVIEW 73-533 38 73-534 38 73-535 39--40 DISCUSSION 41--42 73-536 42--43 73-537 43 73-538 44 DISCUSSION 44 73-539 45--4 73-540 73-'5•t1 73-542 47-- DISCUSSION 75 73-543 76 DISCUSSION 76 DISCUSSION 78-- DISCUSSION 80 • • INDEX MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI, FLORIDA ITEM NO SUBJECT ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION NOI PAGE NO 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. SUPPER RECESS - APPROXIMATELY 1/2 HOUR PLAZA VENETIA — STATUS REPORT APPOINTING MRS. JULIUS ALEXANDER MEMBER OF BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE FUTURE USES OF CITY OWNED PROPERTY AT 46 WEST FLAGLER STREET ACCEPT PLAT — LEVERA SUBDIVISION ACCEPT PLAT — W. T. SUBDIVISION AMEND AGREEMENT — KLEBBA BAY ESTATES ACCEPT HIGHWAY RIGHT OF WAY DEED CONTROL DEVELOPMENT INC. FEDERAL GRANT APPLICATION ORGANIZED CRIME FIGHTING TEAM PROJECT PROVIDE PUBLIC HEARING DATE OFF—STREET PARKING AUTHORITY BUDGET EXTEND TERM OF PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS GROUP(DISTRICTS) 1, 7 do 9 EASEMENT — FIRST STATE BANK OF MIAMI ACCEPT BID — CASTABLE REFRACTORIES ACCEPT BID — AIR VACUUM SWEEPER ALLOCATE $29.914 FOR INSTALLATION OF LIGHTING IN CITY OWNED PARKING LOTS ACCEPT BID — EDISON PARK TEEN CENTER 1973 COCONUT GROVE INTERIM ZONING —DISCUSSION OF PROPERTY ON BAYSHORE DRIVE —HIGH RISE DEVEL. ORANGE BOWL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AUTHORIZE FUNDS TO IMPLEMENT RES.73-559 ACCEPT BID — 5000 POUNDS OF GRASS SEED PROVIDING FUNDS FOR PAYMENT DEMOLISH STRUCTURE-3812 N.W. 17TH AVENUE PURCHASE TRANSMITTER CRYSTALS MISCELLANEOUS DISCUSSION ITEMS DISCUSSION 73-544 73-545 73-546 73-547 73-548 73-549 73-550 73-551 73-552 73-553 73-554 73-555 73-556 73-55i 73-558 DISCUSSION 73-559 73-560 73-561 73-562 73-563 ADJOURNMENT 81 82 82--86 86 86 87 87 88 88 89 89 90 90 91 91 92- 94 95 95 96 96 97 97 • MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING CITY COMMISSION OF MIAMI. FLORIDA On the 12th day o6 Juty, 1913, the City Commission o6 the City 06 Miami., FLokida, met at .its negutan meeting ptaee at City Hatt .in said City .in negutan session. The meeting was caned to onden at 8:10 O' C.2ock A.M. by Mayok Maufl ce Fenne. On Rott Cat, the 6ottowJ.ng members o6 the Commission were bound to be pees ent: Mt. P.2ummen, Mn. Reboso, Revenend Gibson, Mu. Gordon and Mayon Foote. ABSENT: None. An .invocation was deti.vened by Revenend Gibson who then l.ed those pneaent .in a p.2edge o6 attegiance to .the F.2ag. 1, WAIVING READING OF MINUTES OF NEVIX MEETING. The following motion was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: A MOTION TO WAIVE THE READING OF THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS CITY COMMISSION MEETING Upon being seconded by Reverend Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 2, PROCLAMATIONS, CERTIFICATES OF APPRECIATION, PLAQUES ETC. A cen.z.i 6.ieate o 6 Appnee.iation was pees ented to BARBARA TERP bon hon e66o,t4 on behat6 o6 Coconut Grove School. ch.Udnen A Pnoe.2amat.ion was pnesen.ted DECLARING the week beginning JULV 14th as "STOP THE PUSHER WEEK" and commending the e66onta o6 the Cuban Amen.Lean Jaycees .in this pnognam A Key to the City was presented to Mn. Victor. F.iguedo, Vice Comsat o6 Uruguay bon the Min.isten o6 Fone.Lgn A66a.in4 o6 that Country 3, RESIGNATION OF M. L. REESE AS_ CITY MANAGER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI Mayor Ferre: I would like to first thank Mr. Reese for the many many years of service that he has rendered to this community. I think he has been a man of honesty, dedication, conviction. A man who has done for this community many things very quietly, unassumingly, with distinction without making a great deal of fanfare about how he approached problems and how he solved them. I think the best thing that I could say about Melvin Reese at this point is that the record stands on its own merits and I think the accomplishments of Melvin Reese during 131/2 years are evident throughout the City of Miami, especially in the fact that we have a healthy, viable community and City which has grown and prospered and is financially healthy so I certainly think that if anybody deserves credit for this accomplishment, its Melvin Reese. He has done a very difficult task, once in awhile losing his temper or getting a little upset here and there, sometimes with justification. As a matter of fact, I think most times with justification and I think all of us who served with him have been honored to have served with him. It has indeed been a pleasure and we are going to miss Melvin Reese. He is going to be a very difficult man to replace. 1 JUL121973 I think all of us are going to have a difficult task ahead of us, in looking for someone who has all of the qualities and qualifications that Melvin Reese so amply fits and are so essential to the continued growth and health of a vital City. Mr. Reese, I have received your letter of resignation. It is before this Commission at this time and I think it is appropriate that your resignation now be brought to the fIlor by any member of this Commission. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I echo your sentiments and for the record, I will move that we accept the letter of resignation of Mr. Mel Reese, our City Manager. Mayor Ferre: Is there a second? Mrs. Gordon: Second. Mayor Ferre: Second by Mrs. Rose Gordon. Is there any further discussion on the letter of resignation? Mrs. Gordon: I would just like to echo your sentiments and add a few of my own. I really feel that the City is going to have a great vacuum Mr. Reese, even though I have sometimes not agreed with you, I have always respected you and continue to do that and your ability is beyond question. I didn't know until I read the editorial this Morning that you are a Welshman. I have always admired Welshman so thats just a little more notch in my feelings toward you. Mayor Ferre: Well I might add that Mr. Reese probably has a little irish here and there. Sometimes I think he has a little scotch so I think its a good combination. We have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? If not, please call the roll. Thereupon the following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer Who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-517 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE RESIGNATION OF M. L. REESE AS CITY MANAGER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI EFFECTIVE AS OF MIDNIGHT, AUGUST 17, 1973 a (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Reboso, Plummer, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese, I think it is appropriate at this time that we offer some recognition of the fact that Melvin Reese has been a leader amongst men and left an indelible mark in this community and I in turning over the gavel to Father Gibson, like to make a motion we should in recognition of your services and of your hard work and of your accomplishments and dedication to the City of Miami, that we rename the Le Jeune Golf Course as Melvin L. Reese Golf Course. Mrs. Gordon: I'll second that. 2 JUL 121973 Mr. Plummer: Did you include in that a lifetime free pass? He never accepted them when he was in office. 1 think it would be appropriate now that he will be out of office. Mayor Ferre: I think he as our City Manager would say NO, no free passes but I think when he is no longer City Manager, I for one will move that he gets a lifetime pass to the Melvin L. Reese Golf Course. Thats part of my motion. Mrs. Gordon: I would like to wish him as I am sure we all do, many years of health and hapFiness to enjoy it. Mr. Plummer: And Mr. Mayor, I think should be included in that, I have never heard anyone with a swansong of us or anyone else that did not make notation of the person who stands behind that person and I think included because she has weathered the storm with him. All right, we will make a separate motion. The following resolution was introduced by Mayor Ferre who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-518 A RESOLUTION RENAMING THE CITY OF MIAMI LE JEUNE GOLF COURSE TO MELVIN L. REESE GOLF COURSE AND PROVIDING THAT AS OF AUGUST 18, 1973, MR. MELVIN L. REESE BE AFFORDED THE PRIVELEGE OF USING THE FACILITIES OF THIS GOLF COURSE WITHOUT CHARGE FOR THE REMAINDER OF HIS LIFE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file. in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None Rev. Gibson: Mr. Mayor, I don't know if this is the time or the place to say it but I hope when we the 17th of August comes that we would do something by way of having the City Manager present along with his wife, and I say this because I saw a piece of paper the other day that distressed me about this community. A man who served it and I am not debating it whether its right or wrong. I just don't like foi us to be ungrateful for the service of people. I would hope we would, in addition:.to the resolution that was passed. Mr. Reese I don't know what your attitude is on parties or luncheons or something like that. I think whether you like it or not, we ought to do it and invite Mrs. Reese and if you don't want to come, you don't have to come. Please let her come. I don't think we ought to ask you, I think we ought to do it and be positive about it. I just can't stomach what I saw in the paper about Mr. Stewart and how he left this community and seemed to have been so dejected as a result of our attitude. Now that was not the City Commission, that's another outfit but I don't want that said about us. Mayor Ferre; I think that is a very fine recommendation and I completely concur with it and I think for those of us on the Commission and the many citizens that admire and appreciate Mel Reese's work. We will all do this together. 3 JUL 121973 September might be a good time. Mr. Plummer: I think it would be best. Father Gibson, may I offer you a suggestion. I think if the Mayor at this time appointed Mr. Lew Price to coordinate such a luncheon I think it would be well fitting Mr. Mayor. Mayor Ferre: Well I am going to ask mr. Lew Price to help but I per- sonally,I think this is important enough for the Commission as a committee of a whole to take direct involvement of it and with your permission, as Mayor, I would like to invite all four of you and myself as a committee which I hope will be expanded to achieve its purpose sometime in September. Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor, aren't you going to let me say anything? Mayor Ferre: No we have 2 more resolutions to pass before you can talk. Go ahead Mr. Plummer. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, getting to what I said before, a person who not too many people know about but the person who has always stood behind the man in the chair and has suffered with him as this City has progressed, I think should also because she does endeavor in golf as he does, should be afforded the same priveleges that he is, and I would like that not only a lifetime pass be given to her to the M. L. Reese Golf Course but I would like some words of appreciation go out from this Commission to her as well as to Mel for the fine things that Mel has done that she has been at his side to do with him so I would make that in the form of a motion and hopefully since there will be a party in September or Luncheon, that it could be given to her at that time. Rev. Gibson: I second the motion. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-519 A RESOLUTION PROVIDING THAT AS OF AUGUST 18, 1973, MRS. MELVIN L. REESE BE AFFORDED THE PRIVELEGE OF USING THE FACILITIES OF THE MELVIN L. REESE GOLF COURSE WITHOUT CHARGE FOR THE REMAINDER OF HER LIFE (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. Gibson, Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None Rev. Gibson: I hope Mr. Reese won't be absent purposefully even though we haven't asked him what his schedule is. Mr. Reese you realize on or about the first of September we will be doing this and we expect you not to be away playing golf. No tournament at all. Mr. Reese: Tell me when I can speak. Mayor Ferre: Not yet, we have one more to go. I have another statement to make and then I think its certainly approp- riate for Mr. Reese. 4 JUL 121973 34%, REPLACEMENT OF CITY MANAGER AFTER EIS RETIREMENT WITH INTERIM CITY MANAGER - DISCUSSION. Mayor Ferre: Due to the resignation of Mr. Reese, effective August 17th, we have several choices that we can persue. One would be to appoint a Manager before August 17th. The other would be to appoint an Acting Manager from August 17th until after the Elections. It seems to me appropriate for the very simple fact that out of the 5 of us here, 3 have been appointed and there have only been 2 elected, that we wait until after the Elections in November to appoint a permanent Manager. Besides the fact that it is right, that gives the opportunity to the people of Miami to elect their Mayor F the 2 Commissioners that are up for election. I think its furthermore appropriate because whoever is going to take this and get this job, I think would feel a lot stronger and safer about it if it were a duly elected Commission that appointed him after being elected rather than being appointed at this time subject to the whims and changes of a future Commission, should it be different. Iam not saying its going to be different but should it be different, and therefore, my conclusion is that we not move on this matter today but rather we think about it for a short while and then certainly before the 26th or on the 26th at the latest, appoint an Interim Acting City Manager until after the November elections. Perhaps do it in such a way so it will be December 31 and that way giving the Commission after November a month and a half to finalize, Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Mayor - Mayor Ferre: on who the Manager should be. Mrs. Gordon: I need some information, a point of information. Mr. Lloyd - Correct me if I am wrong but its my understanding that the Manager is appointed for a 2-year period of time, each 2 years. Mr. Lloyd: No, no. The Manager is appointed and there is no specific term designated. He serves at the will of the Commission subject to the amendment to the Charter which provides that in the event that the Commission desires to dispense with his :services, they shall at such time as they dispense with his services, they indicate the reasons therefore and then he has the privelege of asking them to make specific charges and have a hearing if he wishes. That's the way I understand it. Mrs. Gordon: That's not the way I understand it. I may be wrong. Mr. Lloyd: And then its open to appeal. Mr. Reese: May I? Mrs. Gordon: Would you correct me please? Mr. Reese: When this amendment to the Charter was adopted which was at an election year, the first time it was part of the City of Miami's laws, it was necessary because of being an election for Mayor High to hold his organizational meeting which is a provision in the Charter for the Mayor to hold '.the organizational meeting, at which time they appoint the Municipal Judges, the City Clerk, the City Attorney and all of the appointed people that are appointed by the City Commission. Judge Balaban, then suggested that the nice and the courteous thing to do would be to appoint the Manager also so there can be no doubt in each and everyones mind that he is carrying the endorsement of the reorganized Commission. Mrs. Gordon: I see. Mr. Reese: This is where the 2-year appointment comes in, but its not necessary. Mrs. Gordon: Its just a courtesy? 5 JUL 121973 Mr. Reese: Its just a courtesy thing. Mayor Ferre: What it means then from a practical point of view is that if we were to appoint a Manager, then he would in effect actually be Manager and the only way -after that that you can remove him would be either to resign or for you to fire him which means then if he wanted to, we would have to have a public hearing and if he wished to appeal it, he could appeal it. Mr. Lloyd: We have the Charter provision right here that specifies thht. Mrs. Gordon: Would you read that? Mr. Lloyd: Removal of the City Manager. This is Section 15-A. The Commission shall appoint by a majority of its members a City Manager for an indefinite term and may remove him by a majority vote of its members at least 30 days before such removal shall become effective, the Commission shall by a majority vote of its members adopt a preliminary resolution stating the reasons for his removal. The City Manager may reply in writing and may request a public hearing which shall be held not earlier than 20 days nor later than 30 days after the filing of such request. After such public hearing if one be requested and after full consideration of the Commission by a majority of its members, may adopt a final resolution of removal. Mrs.Gordon: I see, then its the fact that we did a courtesy re -appointment so to speak that has been in my mind that it was an appointment for a 2-year period which is not so. Mr. Lloyd: That's why I had Mr. Reese explain that particular facet. All I was familiar:with. I knew that it existed but I wasn't aware of the exact details because its an administrative matter. I knew what the legal situation was. I just read you the Charter. Mayor Ferre: I am going on the record stating that in my opinion as Mayor, we should not fill the vacancy today #1. #2 that it should be an interim or acting Manager's title when it is filled and #3, that the job should be done by the newly elected Commission after the elections in November. Mrs. Gordon: Yes, under the circumstances that have been so specified that the appointment is for an indefinite period of time and not for a 2-year period of time. I can see the reasoning where we have a number who are not electedon this Commission, however I would like to express my point of view with regard to my thinking at least for the interim or Acting City Manager. Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Gordon before you do that and I will recognize you in a second. I think its appropriate to do this in a formal way so I am going to turn over the gavel to Father Gibson and then offer a resolution that we go on record as a Commission stating that at this time, we will not appoint a Manager, thatbefore July 26, we appoint an acting Manager or on July 26, until after the election at which time the Manager's job will be filled. Mr. Plummer: I'll second that motion. Rev.Gibson: Any discussion? Mrs. Gordon: I am going to have discussion now since I was going to have the same discussion before the motion was made. I would like my position at least to be known to the Commissioners and in this public manner to make it known. I feel that an Acting person certainly would be the proper procedure under the circumstances that have been reiterated, I also think that we should not look beyond the City Commission, present administration, for an acting person, and I just leave this thought with you because it is for such a short period of time. I am not going to make it in the form of a motion after your motion but I will wait till the 26th, at which time, I would hope that this Commission would think along the lines that I am. 6 JUL 121973 Mayor Ferre: Well I'll tell you. I didn't make it a part of my motion Father Gibson but I want to explain my feeling on that subject. I don't think it should be structured in the motion itself. I think anyone who has a possibility of being the permanent Manager should not take the role of Acting Manager for 2 to 3 months period. Mrs. Gordon: Why not? Mayor Ferre: I think there are good reasons for it. #1, if he should not in the long run become the Manager, then its a step down and we have had and I don't mean to call any names but you remember one individual in the Law Department where that happened and I think that created a lot of tension and ill feeling and I don't think that the man who is going to get the permanent job should in any way be acting. I think that creates a whole series of problems. I don't think its fair to him. 1 really don't. I think and I AGREE with you, I think the first respon- sibility of the Commission is to .,look within the City for the Manager. I absolutely and feel very strongly in that and I have made that statement publically and I am not in anyway backing off of that. I feel very strongly about that. That all consideration and priority must and should be given to people within the City, but I think it would be unfair to put someone in an acting position which might bias the future Commission should the Commission change. This is just a matter. We're not stydying this today and as I said, I don't want to make it a part of the motion but I just wanted to express my opinion like you have expressed yours. Mrs. Gordon: I would like also in regard to expressing opinions to express mine that at least the person we are thinking about, I am not saying, at least should be asked if they would object to that thought of a possible consequence. Rev. Gibson: Any further discussion? Cali the roll please. The following resolution was introduced by Mayor Ferre who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-520 A RESOLUTION GOING ON RECORD THAT THE CITY COMMISSION NOT APPOINT A CITY MANAGER AT THIS TIME; THAT AN ACTING CITY MANAGER BE APPOINTED ON JULY 26, 1973 TO SERVE UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTIONS TO BE HELD IN NOVEMBER AFTER WHICH TIME THE POSITION OF CITY MANAGER WILL BE FILLED BY THE THEN CITY COMMISSION (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, Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None NOTE: After adoption of the resolution, the Mayor resumed the chair. Mr. Plummer: I would like just so that there would be, open and above the table, and at a later date will not have any consequences to anyone including myself. Mr. Lloyd my question is to you Sir, to the Legal Department. You know we operate under a Sunshine Law which many people have taken to task. I personally think its one of the finest things that ever happened and because of that in no way do I want to violate that law. My question to you Sir is: Is there any provision , oh Mr. Rothstein, good morning Sir. 7 • • Mr. Rothstein, is there anything that prohibits under the sunshine law, or any other law, from any Commissioner sitting down on a 1 to 1 basis, to interview or to discuss with an individual their qualifications or desires of becoming City Manager of the City of Miami? Mr. Rothstein: No Sir. Mr. Plummer; In other words, I am free and every other Commissioner here is free to sit down and to hold personal on a 1 to 1 basis, interviews with anyone who I would like to consider for City Manager. Mr. Rothstein: That is correct, you can do that. I may say the Sunshine Law is for the purpose of preventing a decision making situation between a majority of Commissioners being done outside the public forum.. Now in the City of Miami where you have a 5-man Commission and a 3-majority vote, it becomes a question as to how many Commissioners. Certainly 3 cannot meet together anywhere outside a public forum and discuss City business. I have previously advised this Commission because of the fact of the 3-majority, that it would be my recommendation that 3 Commissioners even if they don't in anyway discuss City business, should never meet and have dinner together or be alone in a grouping because of the appearance of the requirements. The Supreme Court has specifically said however that the sunshine law does not prevent interchange of information between Commissioners outside of a Commission Meeting, but I would once again say for the sake of appearance and so that there can never be any misunderstanding, even though there can be outside interchanges of opinion, there should never be any meeting between any more than 2 Commissioners outside the Comm- ission Chambers in any circumstance and certainly - However once again, the Sunshine Law is, I am sorry if I am going into it but your question leads to it all. A lot of people have thought from certain statements being passed around and being bandied around that because of the sunshine law, Commissioners are prevented from even discussing issues privately with citizens, with interested parties, with anybody and both myself and the County Attorney have on several times told our respective Commission, that anybody can talk to a City Commissioner or County Commissioner about any public subject at any time and its not a violation of the Sunshine Law. Mr. Plummer: As I understand it, you can talk to anyone with 2 Commissioners or even 3- Mr. Rothstein: No no no. What I am saying is not in any circumstance should 3 Commissioners even have lunch together even if they are not discussing city business because there should always be avoided the thought of a violation of the Sunshine Law. The most that should meet would be 2 Commissioners in any circumstances. In any circumstance, any final determination of what you are going to do should not be determined outside a regular Commission Meeting. Mayor Ferre: Are there any further questions on that? If not, at this time, Mr. Reese - Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor if I could in the same vein while you are waiting for Mr. Reese. I would like to offer a motion at this time Mr. Mayor. 8 • • 41 BULLETIN BOARD I[N CITY _BALL TO ANNOUNCE PUBLIC MEETINGS Mr. Plummer: A motion that the administration immediately place a bulletin board at the front door of City Hall whether it be inside or out, making or bringing it to the attention of all those who pass in and out of that door, of all meetings which take place,public meetings, which take place in the Dinner Key facility. A situation arose yesterday. It was the first meeting of the combined Commissions of Miami and Metro and the question was raised that it was not known, that the meeting was not known to the general public. Well I surely told anyone who asked me and I was talking with that the meeting was taking place and because of it there was media here. There was no problem but I think MrMayor if we put a bulletin board at the front door of City Hall that any meetings that are scheduled here at City Hall would be placed on that bulletin board. It would be a very good thing and I move that it be done immediately. Mr. Reese: Any Meetings _or Commission Meetings? Mr. Plummer: Any meetings that would be public meetings, that are open to the public and as far as I know, all meetings are open to the public. Mayor Ferre: You have that information anyway. They all go through your office Mr. Reese. Is there a second to that? Mrs. Gordon: Second. Mr. Plummer: All right, Mr. Reese wantsit clarified and I think it should be. Any meetings that are meetings that should be open to the public that they would be placed on the bulletin board in advance so people could have notice. Mayor Ferre: I think that's a reasonable request. Any further discussion? Call the roll please. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-521 A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE CITY ADMINISTRATION TO IMMEDIATELY CAUSE TO BE PLACED AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE MAIN CITY HALL BUILDING, A BULLETIN BOARD GIVING NOTICE OF ANY PUBLIC MEETINGS WHICH ARE SCHEDULED TO TAKE PLACE IN CITY HALL (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES:- None 9 JUL 12197 • • Mayor Ferre: At long last Mr. Reese, we recogni.:e you now. 5, STATEMENT FROM THE CITY MANAGER ON THE SUBJECT OF HIS RESIGNATION --Vt. Reese: Mn.. Mayon and Membeu of the Commission: On Jay loth, I submitted to this Commission, a memonandum on a tettet Aesign.ing as City Manage/, os the City o6 Miami. 1 want to assure you that this was not done at a moment o6 haste on. without a tong tong time o6 ptanning and thought on my pant because when 1 came to the City o6 Miami, I came here with deti.in.ite commitments and ve&y very among convictions. 1 Seet with the eoopenation o6 the eteeted o 66.ic.iats , appointed o66iciats, department heads and att employees o6 the City o6 Miami, a tot o6 the objectives have been accompt.ished but .it wasn't Met Reese that accomplished them because no one pen.aon does this. It is onty the dedicated e66ont o6 the public employee that does it. He is the ind.ividuat that is exposed at all tames. He is teeognized as a target to be criticized, pubticatty chastized and people wilt exene,i,se the penoggative o6 ve&batty gutgitating on a public o66iciat it they can. He is an unrecognized. He is not adequately compensated and I have to do att this praising in btinging this out because these ate the .individuals that make you& community tick. It isn't one pen4on, but as the individual that had the executive &es pons.ib.itity Got the operation o6 the City, I have to take the blame on. the shortcomings and ; have enjoyed taking the Recognition lion the accomplishments. We have accomplished in the City o6 Miami, pants and pa&eel of public attitudes and changes that have never been thought about oR o#het communities in the State o6 Ftonida maybe didn't have these provisions in their chante' so they didn't have to make the connections. • • 1 know in 1960, we integrated the swimning pouts and nobody even knew they were being £ntegnated. There was no demonistnation. Thene was no objections. Everybody just accepted it and went along. We ats o nemoved the provisions in the Charters that set up the boundary tines o6 where certain people eoutd tine and others people couldn't tive. These are items that are not discussed. That was accomplishedand adopted by the people and the correction to the Charsten was by a tange vote. When you stan.t to took at these accomplishments, it was not in terms o 6 building monuments. It was not in terms o6 building buitding6, but its in tenors o6 building people and a pride in the City o6 Miami. This is what 1 mean in my tetten o6 resignation by saying that the community still a66otd4 a grseat challenge. I hope that the City o6 Miami Taxpayers recognizes that the City o6 Miami is an Intennationat City and Dade County is not an Intennationat community. The City .c.6 your international community and it cannot be be pant o6 a big community. It has to keep the identity where the people who understand it, can get to it, and teach it. This .is a among, stJ ong point. 16 you don't bet.ieve me, took at New York City today. It is .too big to do a tittle thing and it i.s r.'t big enough to do a big thing because they can't get to the problem. This is the .important thing in public ti6e and 1 plead with this Commission, don't let this 6att by the wayside because somebody said that General Motors was great because it got big. Stop and took at Genetat Motors. They ate spending mote Got administrative costs today .than they even did cotteet.ivety as individual conponate setups. This has been studied, estabV.s hed and 40 on oven the years. These arse prsinciptes and neatisms that you can't wash aside with emotion and when people have petsonat and ambitious axes to grind o6 .theirs own 6undamentat theories, you ate going to bind out that o6ten times 11 you get cnacka ,in the £oundatdon o6 your basic government which tis the community government. I want to thank you tcon the patience and totenance you have shown bon me at the momenta when I might have raised my voice. I might have demonstrated a temper and I want to assure you, .there .is no £n.i.sh in me and there .is no scotch in me. 1 have been btessed and cursed as being a We..4hman and at the same time, .it has been noted that the Wet4h are the onF y ones that can dea.L with the or.ientais and come out with a pretty good dea.b. Thank you very much. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese, both you and the press have stated that even though you are retiring from the City of Miami, and it is not your intention to retire completely from public life, and I think it is appropriate at this ..ime to specifically ask you whether or not, you would be available on a part time basis to consult with the City of Miami, on specific programs that the Commission might deem fit. Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor, in reply to your question. It is my plan to, in fact, last night I got with my Son who has drawn up the corporation papers and to set up the Mel Reese and Associates Consultants. This is being done for the purpose of acting as a solely owned corporation but I need not explain the tax provisions in that type of an operation so to answer your question, yes, but please only on a part time basis. Mayor Ferre: We understand. 1 WOULD LIKE to request the City Attorney to draft an appropriate legal document between Melvin L. Reese, between Mel Reese $ Associates for a period of 2 years to consult with the city of Miami as needed, not to exceed 1000 hours a year on a per annum basis and I would specifically recommend and I personally have in mind, in specific assignments, three areas that I think very very badly need attention and the full time but when Mel Reese gets involved in things, its not going to be any part time, I assure you he will put a lot of effort into it but I think that we need to push forward on this whole Parks and Bonds Program, Parks for People and the Sanitary Collection pngram that we studied, other than the home garbage collection but the other programs in the commercial areas etc. I think the downtown area needs some of his attention also so these are three specific areas where I think Mr. Reese, as special consultant, could be working for the City of Miami and I would like to make that part and parcel of the motion. I think you should pattern the contract on the one similar to the one that Admiral Stevens got from Dade County. In thatcase, Dade County contracted with Admiral Stevens specifically to be a consultant to Dade COunty. 12 JUL 121973 • • Mr. Rothstein: For the purposes of the terms of the contract, can we have included that Mr. Reese would have the opportunity in the course of his consulting to also make such suggestions to the Commission as he deems appropriate in the matters, not limited by the 3 items. In other words not giving him the responsibility but allowing him to give you advice. Mayor Ferre: Yes but I want to specifically cover those areas in the contract so that we have specific assignments but not limited to those assignments. As the Commission sees fit in the future to request Mr. Reese to do other things, then they can. Mr. Rothstein: Also, in a consulting situation. .Mr. Reese would have the opportunity to.do other consulting, I am sure. Mayor Ferre: Yes and I think that should be part and parcel of it. I would like however to put into the contract that we have first call on his services and that we would like up to 1000 hours of his time. If he wishes later to come back and change that, then at that time, I am sure we would be happy to consider it. Mr. Rothstein: Also to give him the opportunity not to be restricted to take a public position on certain items. In other words, as a public servant there were many times while working for the City where Mr. Reese and myself many many times have pointed out that the Commission sets the policy and he makes recommendations or I make recommendations but I think he would be in a different position as consultant to make the position that he feels very clear and public. I don't know if I'm making myself clear but what I am saying is, when you are sitting in these two chairs, you are very limited in the things that you can say and the approaches that you can take because you are working for the City;as an outside consultant he would have much more freedom to speak out for positions and that's the way the contract should be drafted but I just wanted to confirm it with the Commission, that it is their understanding. Mayor Ferre: Yes, I think that is clear. Everybody - Mr. Plummer: Its clear and Mr. Mayor, I hope that in no way, I know you have set a limit of 1000 hours but I hope in no way are you precluding other fields to be included. In other words, immediately what I am thinking of is this. This new committee which has been formed of the spirit of cooperation between Miami and Metro. I would like to see him be a working help in this committee. Mayor Ferre: He is on the committee now. Mr. Plummer: Well I mean so he can come back and offer information, advice and counsel to this committee, so I just hope that you are not limiting it to those 3 fields. Mayor Ferre: No Sir, I made that very clear. This does not preclude and that's the motion. Mr. Plummer: I'll second the motion. 6, AUTHORIZE EMPLOYMENT OF MEL REESE & ASSOCIATES FOR PART-TIME CONSULTATION SERV LCES The following resolution was introduced by Mayor Ferre who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-522 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE A PROPER LEGAL DOCUMENT WHICH WOULD PROVIDE FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF MEL REESE F, ASSOCIATES ON A PART- TIME BASIS BEGINNING AUGUST 18, 1973 AND TO RUN FOR A PERIOD OF TWO (2) YEARS AND WORK HOURS NOT TO EXCEED 1000 PER YEAR FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERFORMING CONSULTANT SERVICES FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI AS REQUIRED 13 JUL 121973 (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 Mayor Ferre: Mr. Rothstein, I would ask that this be drafted and finalized by the next meeting so we can act upon it. Mr. Rothstein: We will subject to the problem of checking the charter. If we can do that while Mr. Reese technically is still the Manager, so as to be sure not to interfere with - Mayor Ferre: Well his contract would not become effective until August 18. Mr. Rothstein: Lets put it this way. We will have it all drafted but how to implement, we will tell you after. 7, WORKSHOP SESSIQN - RESTRUCTURING OF PLANNING AND ZONING SYSTEMS The Commission took up for consideration the matter of the proposed re -structuring of the Planning and Zoning Systems of the City of Miami, consideration of which was deferred at the meeting of June 28, 1973. M. L. Reese,•City Manager: May I make a suggestion on this item, recognizing that this is identified as a work session? I would like to suggest to the City Commission that considerable time could be saved if the Commission would see fit to designate the City Attorney, the City Manager, and the consultant, to sit down and go over this document and do the necessary editorial changes. You will find that about ninety-five, or ninety-eight per cent. of the suggestions that are made are editorial changes. The substantive material would have to be resolved by the Commission, and the substantive material that is proposed, I think, can be brought out very sharply; highlighted, and even underlined in a document that you would have for the public hearing. Dr. Ernest R. Bartley, consultant in this matter, called atten- tion to the language on page 23, beginning with line 19 of the pro- posed document and carrying over to approximately the middle of page 24, which he stated represented a departure from the existinc; pro- cedure in the handling of variances and conditional uses. The City Attorney stated that this language would not be an un- lawful delegation of authority by the City Commission, since it did provide for an appeal to the Commission. Dr. Bartley stated that the City Manager had suggested that a reporting procedure be provided whereby the City Commission would be apprised of these matters for which there was no appeal taken, and that he concurred in that suggestion. After discussion, on motion of Mrs. Gordon, seconded by Reverend Gibson, it was unanimously agreed to include in this portion of the draft the language, "that the Zoning Board shall have final authority on the granting of variances and conditional uses, unless they are appealed to the City Commission." 14 7_12-73 Mr. Plummer made the following statement: Mr. Mayor, I must interject this. I did before, and you will just have to listen to me. I want to once again raise the point that I have serious reservations about this Commission making decisions before a public hearing. If we are'holding a public hearing on this thing, it is for the purpose of helping the public to come here and make --Mr. Mayor, I am sorry, sir; I still make this notation for the record. I am talking about us, as a Commission, going through this document; voting on this document, and then holding a public hearing afterwards. To me, the purpose of a public hearing is so that the public can be heard, who we represent, and then draft the final document. Mayor F3zre: Mr. Plummer, I am going to overrule you; and I'll give you the basis of the overruling, so that we can move ahead. All we are doing here is having a work session in which we, as a City Commission are taking a position --- Reverend Gibson: For the time being. Mayor Ferre: ---to present a temporary, unfinished document to the public as to what we have done. Then the public can speak, and if we change our opinion at that time --this is not a final draft; this is strictly the same format as the U. S. Congress follows; that the Legislature in Tallahassee follows, and it is a well -established legislative proceeding. That's all we are doing. Mr. Plummer: There is nothing to overrule. I am just making my statement known for the record. Dr. Bartley called attention to page 26 of the proposed docu- ment, and the question of how the Commission should proceed in the appointment of the members of the two proposed boards. He explained the proposals, constituting two alternate drafts, one providing for a nominating committee and the other providing that the Commission appoint the members without a nominating committee. The City Attorney expressed the opinion that alternate draft number one was an unlawful delegation of the City Commission's authority. He also expressed some doubt about the legality of the proposed alternate number two. After general discussion, on motion of Reverend Gibson, .seconded by Mr. Reboso, it was unanimously agreed (Mr. Plummer absent) to strike the remainder of the sentence on page 33 of the proposed draft, line 1, after the words "electors of the city". Dr. Murray Mantel, representing the citizens committee consider - ing this matter, appeared and suggested a third alternative to the method of selecting members of the boards, and the City Attorney expressed the opinion that the alternative was not legal. It was further agreed, after discussion, that the language on page 31, line 10 providing for soliciting and encouraging the public and professional or citizen organizations should be clarified to mean that a legal notice would be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Miami. 7-12-73 1) With respect to the reference to appointment of vacancies on the Planning or Zoning Boards, set forth beginning on line 35, page 31, and continuing on to page 32 of said draft, it was agreed that one alternative member be appointed to each board, but to serve for the sole purpose of replacing any member who might re- sign or die during his or her term on the board. The motion was introduced by Mr. Plummer, seconded by Mrs. Gordon , and adopted by a four -to -one vote, with Reverend Gibson voting no. Reverend Gibson expressed the opinion that this decision could very well come back to haunt the Commission. It was further agreed to approve several "housekeeping items" on page 32 of the proposed draft. NOTE: The matter was deferred until later during the meeting. 16 7-12-73 • RECEI F _SEALED BIDS - SAN MARCO SANITARY SEINER IMPROVEMENT SR-5316-C The City Clerk inquired if there was anyone else in the audience that had a bid for the above project and had not turned it in to the Clerk. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-523 A RESOLUTION TO RECEIVE, OPEN, READ, AND TABULATE AND REFER TO THE CITY MANAGER, BIDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF SAN MARCO SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5316-C PROJECT #74 - "76 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM" (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 .BIDS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING: Intercounty Construction COrporation Ebsary Foundation Co. Mr. Reese; Mr. Mayor make I make an observation. I want to bring to the City Commission's attention this project was brought up before the City Commission in 1962 for us to go in there and construct the sewer system and at that time a small group of citizens appeared before the Cu:nmission and the Commission voted the project down. In 1971, or 1969 we brought it up again at which time we made a federal application for assistance. It was confirmed and ordered in 1971 and in 1973, In 1969 May 27th we made application for federal funds. On May we got the results back that they would participate in this project 1973. This is the length of time and this is what is happening to the con- struction costs. They are going up constantly all the time ai:d here we are at the mercy of trying to move ahead, so this is why you don't have the sewers in the City as rapidly as you should have. 9, RECEIVE SEALED BIDS - VIRGIN_IA GROVE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4358 The following resolution was introduced by ,Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-524 A RESOLUTION TO RECEIVE, OPEN, READ AND REFER TO THE CITY MANAGER FOR TABULATION, BIDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF VIRGINIA GROVE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4358 PROJECT #133 - "V6" CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) 17 JUL 121973 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 BIDS WERE RECEIVED FROM THE FOLLOWING: Holland Paving Co., Inc. Marks Brothers Co., Not Inc. 10, CONFIRM PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT ROLL - MUSA ISLE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5308-C (CENTERLINE SEWER) The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-525 A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT ROLL FOR CONSTRUCTION OF MUSA ISLE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5308-C (CENTERLINE SEWER) IN MUSA ISLE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT SR-5308-C (CENTERLINE SEWER), AND REMOVING ALL PENDING LIENS FOR THIS IMPROVEMENT NOT CERTIFIED HEREBY (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 No objectors appeared in connection with the adoption of the foregoing resolution. 11, CONFIRR ORDERING RESOLUTION - ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS_ UR CONSTRUCTION CIF ICI,. 4 COURT HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4360 The Mayor announced the Commission was now ready to consider this item and asked if any objectors were present. Several persons appeared. Mr. Joseph Vitaile: My name is Joseph Vitalle, 5980 N. E. 4th Court. We have submitted to you a petition of a list of property owners between 58th and 60th Street on 4th Court. If you the Commission are acquainted with those streets, you will know we have no need for improvements. All that this improvement states that we need curbs and drainage is not needed on our street. Not quite 2 years ago it was resurfaced. We have no drainage problems and we have beautiful landscaping and I daresay we have two of the most beautiful streets in Miami. The people that I assume made this request live north of 6lst street. If you are acquainted with that neighborhood, you will find that they do have a problem. If I lived there, I would be the first to go for it. 1� JUL 121973 They live in a lake after a rainstorm. They have no street, no curbs, no landscaping. Its a sight, but why should we be involved in an expense which you know today, we have a tough time trying to meet other kinds of expenses and I wish the Commission would consider that because our streets from 58 to 60 St are beautiful streets and there is no need for us to go to any expense to beautify it anymore. Mr. Grimm, Dir.Public Works: As the COmmission knows, N. E. 4th Court is basically a semi -arterial street. It was authorized as a highway project from 54th Street north to 79th Street. We did receive a petition from this gentleman which is restricted to this particular 1-block between 59th and 60th. There were 20 signatures on this petition, 6 pf which were wives, so that gets it down to about 14 and of the 14, our records didn't indicate that 3 were owners of record. The only real objections we have had to this project were isolated in this 1-block. I personally feel that this is a worthwhile project. This is a redevelopment of the street providing full pavement, curbs and gutter, positive drainage, adequate lighting and landscaping and since the City has reduced the assessment by 75%, the taxpayers as a whole are paying 8 times as much as the individual property owners. I know that sometimes isn't a selling point but to me its a valid one and these people can pay for this over a period of 10 years. I realize its an expense item. I also know if the city were doing it for nothing we wouldn't have any objectors. It always gets down to a money matter. Mr. Vitalle: May I ask a question. Are you acquainted with that street? Do you think it needs improvement? Mr. Grimm: If the Commission will look, I have furnished each of you a book and in the middle of t}at book are photographs of the existing. You will see pictures that fairly well depict the existing conditions. Mr. Vitalle: We never have a drop of water even after the heaviest rainstorms. Its been newly resurfaced, curbstones, proper drainage and beautiful landscaping. Why should we be involved in a situation like this? Mr. Grimm: The area this gentleman is in, this is true. Its predom- inantly a residential section he is in. North of here is commercial on the westerly side and residential on .:he easterly side. I don't know how we could very well isolate 1 block out of the whole project. Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you - Mayor Ferre: Why not? Why if there is 1-block that meets your criteria and your satisfaction, can't you do this and the other part in the commercial area where obviously its needed/ Mr. Grimm: If that were going to be done Mr. Mayor, I would recommend that we start the project az 60th and go north and delete it all the way south of there. Mr. Vitalle: That's the way it should be. Mayor Ferre: Show us on the map what you are talking about. Mr. Grimm: If we were to delete any portion, I would not recommend that we delete 1 block but take it from this point here and delete it all the way back to 54 street. Mr. Plummer: You are talking about 6 blocks? Mr. Grimm: Yes Sir. Mayor Ferre: You would have a beautiful avenue. Mr. Vitalle: They couldn't make it more beautiful than it is now. Mayor Ferre: you know that is not so, you know it can be greatly improved. Mr. Vitalle: I mean under these circumstances. Why should we be involved when it does not need it? 10 Mayor Ferre: That's another argument. That I miOt go along with you but don't tell me it can't be improved. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Grimm, in any way will this situation alleviate the problem at 54th and Biscayne? That has always been like a bottleneck. Mr. Grimm: Yes Sir, we propose to come in and pro'ide an adequate barrier between the Biscayne Boulevard traffic and the 4th Court traffic which practically merges at that point. Mr. Plummer: Well then Mr. Mayor, I would not be in favor of dropping it as he says, all the way down because - Mayor Ferre: If you look at exhibit #2 in your books and #1, you are going to see that in my opinion, that portion which is the southernmost portion isn't beautiful and that certainly needs a lot of work. You then go on to exhibit #4, and get to that portion which is on 59th Street and you see the Palm Trees on either side and that's the portion that I think the people are here for today are residents of that portion of those 2 blocks, from 60th to S8th, is that right? Mr. Plummer: Yes but Mr. Mayor the immediate question that has to be asked is what is that going to do to the continuation of a project all the way down? I can appreciate these people's problem. If we take out 2 blocks of the thing, in your estimation, will it seriously hamper the overall good that the entire thing will do? Mr. Grimm: Well you are asking me something I will have to answer with an opinion. What you would have is a newly developed street on either end of a 2-blocks that didn't match. Anything can be done. Mr. Plummer: Are we talking about a street to drive down and all of a sudden, you have to be narrowed in? Mr. Grimm: No, that would not have to be the case. Mr. Plummer: Well then we can delete the 2- Mr. Vitaile: We have a beautiful wide street. Mr. Grimm: It could be done. I won't say thatit couldn;t be done. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Grimm, I think this is a beautiful portion of that overall area. Mr. Grimm: That is the best portion of the whole street Mrs. Gordon, there is no question about that. Mrs. Gordon: Why don't we just eliminate that portion and do the rest. Mr. Plummer:` Mr. Mayor, I think we have' heard the thing and we are all in accord, I will move we accept this deleting that portion between 58th and 60th Streets. Mrs. Gordon: I'll second it. Rev. Gibson: I just want to know technically, I am not going to worry about the beauty. I want to know about smooth operation of the entire system. Mr. Plummer: I just asked that question. Mr. Grimm: Technically, we can solve the problem Father. Mayor Ferre: I think what may happen eventually is that when you ladies and gentleman of the neighborhood see what a beautiful street you have on either side, you may be so happy with it, you may want to extend it. We have a motion. Call the roll. 20 JUL 121973 • The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-526 A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION NO. 73-192 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF N. E. 4 COURT HIGHWAY IMP- ROVEMENT H-4360 IN N. E. 4 COURT HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT H-4360 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Reboso, Plummer, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 12. OBJECTIONS TO CONFLRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION (N0. 73-193 N. W , 29 STREET HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4361 The Mayor announced the Commission was now ready to consider hearing any objections to confirmation of N. W. 29th Street Highway Improvement H-4361. Several objectors appeared. Mr. Griffin: My name is J. Wyatt Griffin. I am a Realtor and represent the Dade Mortgage and Builders investment corp on the corner of N. W. 7th Avenue and 29th Street. My objection is not to the project gentlemen. Its something on the same order. My objection is that we have a building and I would like to give you a picture of it on this corner. Mr. Plummer: Did you say the N. W. corner? Oh S. W. corner. Mr. Griffin: Our building is on the S. W. corner. We have a bar and numerous small stores running back to the alley. Our problem is we have 12.75 per sq.ft. for new sidewalks, curbs and gutters. We have already put these things in and paid for them. We are on the intersection. We aren't going to gain a thing in parking because they don't allow parking east of 7th Avenue. Our problem is parking which we know you can't solve because they allow no parking and no stopping in front of our buildings. We have asked the engineering department to when they come up to this corner, to not rip out our sidewalks and not rip out our curbs which have already been liened and paid for and if we have to rip them out and pay for them all over again, we will just have to rent on all those small stores over the period of time. The street is widened here but beyond -us there are parkways. Mayor Ferre: Lets here from the administration. Mr. Grimm would you tell us whether or not the specifications that you have for this improvement, whether the existing curb and gutters that they put in fits within those specs. If it does, it doesn't make any sense to rip it out. Mr. Grimm: We do not intent to rip out the sidewalks. We intend to salvage the sidewalks. Glance through the book and you will see it in the cross-section, how we propose to develop the street as it stands right now, its primarily a commercial st.reet with dirt parkways. We intend to come in and develop positive drainage, provide a paved parking and landscaping area similar to what you see in the Grove only 21 on an 80' cross section instead of a 50' cross section, so we will have 4 moving lanes of traffic with parking and landscaping on both sides. You see from the cross section that we intend to widen the sidewalk but not destroy it. Now that does not mean that there isn't a place some- where in this mile of street that we won't have to remove some existing construction. I can't promise you that. We aren't that far in the stages of details of design. Mr. Griffin: Mr. Mayor, may I say that our protest is that if they don't take out all of our stuff, they are going to charge us the same rate as places where they do. A separate foot frontage should be given to these properties where things we have already paid for are utilized. Its a reasonable request. We can't get an answer from them, that is why we are here today. Mayor Ferre: My personal opinion is that the matter should be looked into. I don't think we can hold this matter up today. Mr. Grimm: I will assure the Commission that we will not destroy any- thing that we don't have to. If that is recorded in his particular piece of property that we do not have to build curb and gutter or sidewalk, then he will not be assessed for it because this is done on, the basis of actual construction but I can't say to him that I won't tear it out today. Mr. Griffin: Thats another thing. They won't even tell us that they won't take it out. Mayor Ferre: But I think they will when they have the appropriate engineering done. Mr. Griffin: Well don't you think you should wait until you get the appropriate engineering done before you pass this project? Mayor Ferre: We have too many other important things and people to consider and the City as a whole and we are going to do it in such a way so that at least .you have that protection, if there is any. Mr. Griffin: 0ur things are important to us to and we in our little buildings do not try to decide them before we have all the facts. Mr. Plummer: The Mayor is telling you Sir, we are not overlooking it. We are going to pass it and if you have a problem with Mr. Grimm, come back to this Commission and we will see what we (scan do to rectify it. We are not overlooking you. Mrs. Gordon: If you don't tear up his sidewalk and have to rebuild it because it is already in there, should not in my opinion be wasted, will he still be charged a proportionate share of the overall improvement? Mayor Ferre: No. Mr. Reese: Not for the overall sidewalk improvement. Mr. Grimm: He will be charged only for those improvements which abut - his piece of property. Mr. Griffin: The paving which it may need. The curb and gutter which we have and I may object to the gutter a little bit because we have already paid for it but the sidewalks, if you have to widen it, we would probably paid for the additions. On this street, there is no need for a wider sidewalk. There is a need for a wider street but not a sidewalk. Mrs. Gordon: All right that clears it up. He would get credit for what is salvaged. Mr. Grimm: Yes Mam. 22 JUL 12197 Mayor Ferre: I n other words Mr. Reese, if they don't tear out in front of his property there, then he isn't going to be charged for a new curb and gutter. Mr. Reese: Unless he gets a new curb _ and gutter. Mayor Ferre: Now the sidewalk improvements, he has to pay his proportionate share, there is no question about that. Mrs. Gordon: You mean street improvements. He has already got his sidewalk. Mayor: Ferre: I think we all understand it. Mrs. Hayes: I live at 2900 N. W. 10th.Avenue. I have 100' on 29th Street. We have a storm sewer there right in front of the property and the drainage is good. The only thing that's necessary is from the road out to the sidewalk to be filled in. Other than that, I can't see spending 1275 dollars and I have a duplex there and the rent isn't that high that I can afford to spend that kind of money and all the ...,.neighbors are up in arms. They are mostly widows up and down the street and they certainly can't afford it either. The sidewalk is low on loth Avenue and the road is higher. That's where the water stands but other than that, 29th Street is fine. Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Hayes let me tell you, this is a problem that this COmmission sees at every single meeting. We see it with sewer•improve- ments projects and the same, and I forget who made that statement but everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die. That is the problem. Everybody wants improvements. We all want a better city and better streets and lighting in the street. We want proper sewage. We want to have nice green areas and beautify the city. We deserve that as citizens. The problem is the way this thing is established, the people who will benefit by the improvements have to pay a part of it. That's the way the law reads and what happens is when it comes your turn or my turn, we want the improvements but don't want to pay for them and If I have to pay for them, I don't want the improvements. That is exactly what you are saying in this petition as I read it. You are telling us that the taxes are high and you don't want to pay any more and I think you are absolutely right. I can't blame you for that but the problem is that if we take that position on every thing then the City of Miami couldn't improve anything. Mrs. Hayes: What should be done is the traffic there. My fence was run down 3 times. Once in May and twice in June. I just got a new fence up for the 4th time. Mayor Ferre: Will these improvements help the traffic with the gutter and all that? Mrs. Hayes: No they just want to beat the light there, there is a traffic light there. People don't even carry insurance so I hove to pay the first $50. Allstate is going to throw me out, I know that. Mayor Ferre: Well you see what our problem is. We are between, its a dilemma/ on the one side, we don't want to charge anybody anything extra and on the other side, we know we have to get on with these improvements and under the law the way it exists there is no other way to do it. Is that right Mr. Reese? Mr. Reese: I don't know of any other way. We have to assess for the benefit to the property. Mayor Ferre: I know its no consolation to you to tell you that your property is going to be more valuable by improving the streets. Mrs. Reese: Also Mr. Mayor, now you only pay 25% of the improvement cost on a front foot benefit basis and it used to be higher than that and also that there is a provision whereby these people can extend the payments over a period of time with a nominal interest rate. 23 JUL 12197 Mayor Ferre: Over what, a 10 year period? Mr. Reese: Yes. Mayor Ferre: Again, its no consolation. If you have to pay for it, you have to pay for it. But you have 10 years to pay for it and its at a very nominal interest. Mr. Reese: The law is not arbitrary and capricious. Mayor Ferre: Its very exact you see and we can't waive it for you and not waive it for somebody else. Mrs. Hayes: Why can't the city just fill in like they have been doing for years. When the cuttings are put out and the truck comes along and picks it up, they take some of that soil with them. Why can't they just fill in and leave the road as is? Mayor Ferre: You see, there is a lot more to it than that. We have a lot of improvments that are going to be made. Mrs. Hayes: We don't need shrubbery there. Mayor Ferre: I am going to give you this book and you know your neighborhood better than anybody else. Nobody knows it better than you. Look at 29th street in these photographs. You tell me whether or not you think that area shouldn't be improved. You see it every day but look at it in a photograph. We in the city can't be proud of that. Mrs. Hayes: Mr. Mayor, they have taken the worse of every street there. My property doesn't show up and I am right on the corner of l0th Avenue and 29th Street and you don't see it at all. Mayor Ferre: How many objectors vdo we have on this matter? .Raise your hands. How many want to speak. We are running very late. Defer? What are we going to defer it for? Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I think Mrs. Gordon has apoint. Lets defer this item and let the Commission go out and take a look. Mayor Ferre: These people have come here today and they have sat here for an hour. I think we ought to listen to them. I will set 10 minutes and we will cut this off. Mrs. Prara? 1145 N. W. 29th Street. Why do we have to pay for that parking on the street? We have a tree there and they couldn't take the tree out, its practically dead and I had to get the city police to remove the tree. I am asking now, why are we responsible for the parkway? This is the 2nd year that we have been overtaxed. Virginia H. Timm: I live at 856 N. W. 29th Street since 1941. Very frankly we have storm sewers that have been put in recently. Our sidewalks have been improved recently. They are wide enough for children to run up and down with their bicycles. The recent influx there, the area is quickly becoming a blight area. I do not feel that I am able.to afford 1275 dollars even over a period of 10 years when my income was 2300 last year and I have gone on social security this year. I can't afford to pay it I have to borrow $1000 every year to pay my taxes, realestate taxes on that and another small parcel of land left to me by my aunt. Now I had to put 2-$10,000 mortgages on my property to pay off where I had to borrow before so I would not lose my properties. I feel that this is a great hardship. I feel the taxes are too high for the way the neighborhood has run down over the years. That was a nice street when I first bought there. It was a thoroughfare, it is a wide street. We do not need an island down the middle with plants on it which create a hazard for the driving because cuban people do not know how to drive well enough, the ladies I am speaking of, that have recently got cars, they do not know how to drive well enough to miss the island. We do need the off-street parking that we now have. I'll admit its just ground and not concrete but I don't see why if they take the existing parking on the side and create the island down the middle, I don't see where 2k the cars will be able to park and I think this is some plan by somebody with holes in their head and we don't need this expense on 29th street in the blocks where we live, its residential. Mayor Ferre: Anybody else want to be heard briefly? Mr. Reese would you briefly reply to the lady about the tree? Mr. Reese: Well I think that the lady answered her own question by stating that it was a rundown and deteriorating neighborhood and the City is trying to make its contribution to counteract this first of all to go in there and do - a master facelift on that street, realizing its an economic impact on these people but I think that in the long run, the neighborhood would benefit by it because of the value and the potential use of the land in that area. I think this has to be looked at and of course when a person is in economic stress, its very hard to look that far ahead but this is a total benefit that has to be looked upon as the benefit of this overall improvement and I would like to make an observation to the lady. I am a Welshman and I have driven a car and won't tell you tot how long but I think I am about the poorest driver in the country so maybe the other fellow is a little bit better. Mayor Ferre: Is there a motion of any kind now? Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I will reiterate what I said before. I think we should take the time to go out and look at the street and then formulate this opinion. There isn't anything that is going to make or break this in 2 weeks. We have the thoughts of the people as they have expressed them and then lets go out and look and make a determination. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese, would you schedule this for September 13th meeting please? Mr. Grimm: excuse me Mr. Mayor, did you say September? Mr. Reese: July. Mayor Ferre: We aren't going to have time on the 26th, Well fine, put it on the 26th then. I frankly think if we can put it on the 26th, there is not anything to be by putting this off. are we? It was unanimously agreed to defer the matter to July 26, 1973. 13, CONFIRM ORDERING RESOLUTION - NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4359 The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer wi:o moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-527 A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION NO. 73-191 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE HIGH- WAY IMPROVEMENT H-4359 IN NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT H-4359 (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) 25 JUL 121973 Upon being seconded by Reverend Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Reverend Gibso-n, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 14, CONFIRM ORDERIM RESOLUTIONS - NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5383-C (CENTERLINE SEWER) & SR-5383-S (SIDELINE SEWER) The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved. its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-528 A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION NO. 73-426 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE SAN- ITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5383-C (CENTERLINE SEWER) IN NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT DIS- TRICT SR-5383-C (CENTRLINE SEWER) (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 The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-529 A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION NO. 73- 427, AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION NO. 73-512, AND AUTH- ORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT SR-5383-S (SIDELINE SEWER) IN NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT DIS- TRICT SR-5383-S (SIDELINE SEWER) (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 26 f 15, EQNEIRM ORDERING RESOLUTIONS - _LIBERTY SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT PHASE II SR-5377-C AND SR-5377-S The Mayor announced the Commission was now ready to consider hearing any objections to the ordering resolutions as described above. Several persons appeared. Mr. Willie Scott: Yes, I would just like to ask about that charge, a charge for treatment disposal sanitary sewer will be added to the water bill by the Miami -Dade Water and Sewer Authority for all prop- erties that can be connected to the sanitary sewer. This is called a surcharge and it is approximately 129% of the bill of water consumption. That 129%. Would that be the total overall for my connection or what is that 129%? Mr. Grimm: That is strictly thewater bill. Mr. Reese: The surcharge is for an example if you pay $i for your water, in addition to that, you then pay 29t which is the surcharge that is used to pay for the cost of taking your sewage from liberty city area over to the disposal plant and disposing of this sewage. This is the way the sewer disposal plant was funded and the water bill is used as a means of getting at a fair cost to everybody's fair share for paying because your sewage is usually in direct proportion to the water you use and this is how its arrived it and this is an explanation to you of what the surcharge is and what its used for. Mr. Scott: Do I understand you to say Sir, my water bill is $11, I pay 29¢ on each dollar of that? Mr. Reese: Yes Sir. Mr. Plummer: We are speaking of an area now where the common practice is when an apartment is rented, that the water bill is included in the rental. I assume that particular setup, that the landlord or agency is pays the entire water bill. Now, I can only see one thing, that rents are going to go up because of it. Is there any provision or should there be, of trying to protect the situation that could be out of hand? We have found some of these people renting apartments and they charge for electricity. They are adding their own surcharge to it. Could this happen? Or could it be built in that it cannot happen? Where a tenant, not an owner who supposedly has the water included in his bill for rental, that he is not going to be charged not only an additional rent, but also a surcharge on top of that for the landlord to process. Do you understand my question? Mr. Reese: I understand your question thoroughly and I thin you will find that landlords have all kinds of provisions, agreements and contracts as their costs increase, they also escalate the rental but I don't know if the City of Miami has the constitutional authority to adopt an ord- inance to regulate how a landlord would disperse the costs against the users in his property. I don't know if you have that authority. It would be worth looking at because this gets into price control and rent control theories. Mr. Plummer: With price freezes, I am not scared about it now but I remember reading very vividly about a trailer park where you didn't have individual meters at a trailer, the landlord was putting out a blanket X-number of dollars per trailer which in fact they were then paying a surcharge. Administrative cost is what they called it. Mr. Reese: Of course, there is a law in the State of Florida under the Public Service Commission that when you buy energy on a meter, you can't resell it. Mr. Plummer: What about water and sewage? 27 JUL 121973 Mr.,Reese: Not to my knowledge because the Public Service Commission doesn't regulate water and sewer in the City of Miami or set the rates. this could be and it might be feasible for Metropolitan area government to look at because they are now the rate setters of water and sewer. Mr. Plummer: I think its an important facet. In the Liberty City area there are a great number of rental units and I have driven by these rental units time and again and seen the billboard on the side of the apartment, your rent includes your water and electric and I can see where some games can be played in the interim there. They would say, my costs went up, your rents going to go up. Mr. Reese: Unfortunately, Mrs. Range knows this better than I do that a large number of those places are rented on a weekly basis and when that man comes around in the morning to collect that, this is sometimes when the rent is now 50¢ more, its now 25(t more and so on and this is where your built in costs are constantly going up, but again, the only way I would know is if the rate authority has the constitutional authority to regulate this, that world be the source of regulating. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Plummer, any further discussion? All right then, the chair recognizes Mrs. Range, Mrs. Athalie Range: Thank you very much Mr. Mayor, Father Gibson and Lady and Gentlemen of the Commission. I have come to speak from the aspect of the charge per 50' lot frontage for the improvement. We note in the letter that this charge $860.00 I realize that the cost of living and everything has really accelerated tremendously in the past few years but I myself would like to have this explained as many others who are interested, who could not be here today and let me make this clear. I am not attempting to represent the community but I feel that many many people are not here simply because they do not fully understand the impact of this $860 per 50' frontage for this improvement. I would like to make just one or two observations. We realize that this can be paid over a period of time. We realize this with a 5% interest charge on it. Nevertheless what is more important and what strikes me even more is the fact is that as septic tanks become non - usable, and permits are no longer issued for the repair of these septic tanks once the sewer line is put, its simply going to mean that people are actually going to have to leave their homes. There are many many home owners in this area who are beyond the age now of being able to support themselves, who are on social security or other means of limited support and when they pay the $860 foot frontage plus having to pay for the hookup from the lateral to their property line, its simply going to be a matter of impossibility for them. Its unfortunate that we have come at the time when the cost of living is higher than it has ever been to have our sewers put in at this particular time. I just left the Public Works Department and I noticed that as late as less than 2 years that there are areas sewered or put out foe far less for $3.80 per 50'frontage or $4, I am not quite sure but even though I agree with you that the cost of living has gone up, it strikes me that more than 100% is certainly bears some questioning and I would like to have your explanations on this. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese? Mr. Reese: I want Mrs. Range and everybody to understand that this is an absolute estimated figure and we have to come up with an estimated figure of what we t}ink its going to cost. The final figure and final billing is what our actual cost is and I think one of the good examples as I pointed out to the Commission earlier today of a case in 1962 that was before this City Commission for San Marco. If at that time, those sewers were adopted and the authority to do ahead, it would have cost between 6 and 700,000 dollars for the total project. Today in approving it, its going to represent a cost in excess of $1,300,000 and if we wait much longer its going up. Mayor Ferre: Twice as much, since 62? Mr. Reese: Since 62 and its even increased since we first made application for federal assistance and this was 1969 and since then it has constantly gone up on the estimates. 28 JUL 121973 1 I don't know how you can possibly keep these costs down and the only way is to get to work on the ground and recognizing that if we are so unfortunate that this does cost $800 for 50' lot, its going to rep- resent a cost of *80.00 a year to a taxpayer, its an impact but don't overlook the fact that you are improving that property and if that septic tank has to be pumped out once or twice in 10 years, you know the cost of that better than I do and in this market and you used to have a lot of problems along that line and some of these septic tanks I think I am right in saying, have to be pumped out at least every 3 months in that area, which is a cost item. Fortunately with sewers, you won't have to have that. Again, I can only extend the greatest sympathy possible but we have to face realism and this has been through the efforts of the Model Cities and everyone, made one of the top priority items of projects in the City of Miami, and we are even trying to make it the largest possible project in the City to make it the least costly so when a contractor does move in, he won't have to spend money for moving out and back etc, he will be there for a long enough time to get the total job done. Mrs. Range: I can appreciate everything you are saying Mr. Reese but in addition to this, what probably has not been said, I am not sure if I read this in the letter or not and it probably is here but when the time for the hookup comes, this is going to be a one time cash payment which is also a very and extremely high item to the property owner. I know in some areas where there have been hookups, a plumber is at liberty to charge whatever he wants. 3, 4, 5, 600.00. Maybe somebody on the Commission has had an experience, I don't know, but this would be a one time thing, the plumbers aren't going to allow the people to pay on a monthly basis and I am just trying to face reality as to what is going to be the problem when time for the hookup actually comes. Now the average person, you know we are accustomed in our area to living on installment plans. That's why were always in debt. Because unfortunately we have not considered the actual cost, we have only looked at the monthly payment so 1 realize its true when you say it can be extended over a period of years but the 5% interest rate only serves to keep us in debt continuously but what I am speaking about, when this is completed and its time for the hookup and we must get off the septic tank, then somebody is going to be having to come up with nies for the plumbing and 4 or 500.00 in some instances for many many people, this is a matter of impossibility. What is going to happen to these people when they simply cannot find the money? To hook into the line for clean sanitary living? Rev. Gibson: Did I hear Model Cities had something to do with this? Mrs. Range: It has not been my knowledge. Mr. Plummer: Model Cities as far as I know, Mr. Reese, but they did put some amount of money in for the sewers. Mr. Reese: Model Cities made it possible to hook up to sewers outside of the CIty of Miami . They financed that but for some unknoi'n reason when it comes to the city boundary lines, they stop. Now, this is a great inequity but I understand unfortunately they are not as free with the flow of cash as they have been, they have been restricted. This might be a possible solution for Model Cities to make a real plea on this and get additional funds out of special grants for this purpose. It isn;t impossible because they have created a precedent in their Model Cities area and they are not treating every one of the residents to the same degree as they treated others in the model cities area but it is only a possibility. The other possibility is there is a method under public housing or H.U.D. financing provision where a property owner can go to a bank and under a controlled loan, get the money for the house hookup cost. Again, this is a time payment deal but its the same procedure that most people today go through to acquire or get anything done. Mr. Plummer: They have to qualify, don't they Mr. Reese? Mr. Reese: Its agair.st the property. Mr .Plummer: Well Mrs. Range. I think you were aware some 2 years ago I brought this same problem home to bear. It came very vividly to me when I paid my $485 as my share of putting the sewer down the 2g JUL 121973 and then when I went to get the plumber to install from the street into my septic tank, I got bids ranging from $920 to $1400 and I said what good is it to put a sewer down the middle of the street when nobody is going to hook up to it. I then asked at that time that these matters be looked into and I got the same answers. I was under the belief and still am that the City whether it be the Water Dept or the City itself oould finance such a problem over a 10 year period and encourage people to hook up. I was hopeful at that time that it could be done through the water and sewer board. Mr. Sloan came back and said no, that the alternatives were thru Model Cities or Home Improvement loan which many said they couldn't qualify for or through this grant. Now Mr. Mayor, I was aware of the problem then and I am aware of the problem now. I think Mr. Reese was the one that questioned whether the city could finance such a proposal. If the City can finance, my argument was if they could finance the improvements to put them in, that in fact the city could finance the improvement from the street into the house and encourage at low interest for homeowners to do this. Mrs. Range all I am saying to you is we are not unaware of this problem, that I brought this up 2 years ago. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Reese with regard to the revenue sharing funds which are allocated to the city, can we consider a portion of that money for needs in an area where the residents truly prove that they cannot financially assist in the improvement for•the hookup and I think that if we could, that we should consider some expenditure from our revenue sharing funds for the most needy and if we took a group perhaps we could say the senior citizens whose fixed incomes prohibit them from even being able to live for the daily necessities of what they receive. Can we? Mr. Reese: That's a very difficult question for a yes or no answer because I don't see under the present priority system where it would be permissable but I don't want to say it is not permissable. This would have to be a question resolved by the city attorney but if I could make a personal observation, it is my feeling that this is not the solution. As Commissioner Plummer pointed out, this was brought up 2 years ago. Our present charter specifies what and how we can do public improvements. How we go about borrowing the money. What the money can be used for and what chargeback we make, the charter specifies that. If this City Commission is so inclined, they could have that provision changed whereby there could be a provision in that charter that would give this city commission the authority to borrow the money and use it for that purpose and then chargeback or run it on a time basis. This could be done by modifying the provisions in the charter. Mayor Ferre: Would we have to go to the voters to do that? Mr. Reese: Yes Sir but the voters in the City of Miami have been very kind and very generous in modifying our charter for the benefit of the people. It was only a few years ago where we modified it as fir as the front foot cost being brought down to 25% instead of a much higher figure .on the costs for improvements. Mayor Ferre: Let me ask you - Mrs. Gordon: Wouldn't they have to repay that? Mr. Reese: This is what I am saying. Yes but somewhere along the line, you could get it set up for a longer period of time. There is nothing magic about 10 years. It could be for 20 years. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese, I intended to ask the Walker Bros who were to come to receive a plaque we were going to present them but I think of FHA and the guarantee of the government of repayment of loans which has a fairly good record of collecting. Rather than the City of Miami act- ually going into the money lending business which I think it is out of purpose for the city, could we legislate and put on the charter some kind of a program where the city would guarantee loans by savings and loan institutions. 20 year loans for example of 1S and act as a guarantor therefore in hopes to put ceilings on interest rates etc. 30 JUL 121973 Mr. Rothstein: You are prohibited by the constitution. You can't lend your credit to anybody. Mayor Ferre: There is no way for the City to be involved in any type of guarantee - Mr. Rothstein: Not in that form, not in a guarantee because that is lending your credit -to an individual. Mayor Ferre: Well how c ould we actually do that in changing the charter? Mr. Reese: You can change the charter without putting the city in a finance position of incorporating in the cost of your sewer project the house connection, or to run it up within the boundary lines of the property. Mayor Ferre: Do we lay up that money in the bank someplace or is that against us? If somebody has $1000 to pay for the line, not the hookup and we give them 10 years at 5%. Is that our money or do we take that paper and lay it off at a bank someplace? Mr. Reese: No Sir, this is part and parcel of the general bond obligation. Mayor Ferre: That goes into the general bond obligation. Mr. Reese: What I am saying is, you could modify your charter whereby you could absorb into this overall public improvement, part and parcel of this house connection cost.. Now I would not recommend that you would go beyond the property line. You would run it up to the property line. This would absorb in most cases in that area about 2/3 of the sewer costs because the 1/3 would be within the property line. Some properties would be less. This would be part and parcel of the total cost and you would do this on a volume basis, it would be less expensive than it would for the individual plumber and it would be charged back on this 10 year theory. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Reese, I hate to disagree but one statement you made I think is totally in error. This will not cover 2/3 of it if you bring it to the property line Sir, using my house for the example. $485 was my portion of bringing that sewer down the street to my prop- erty line. I paid $980 for the plumber to bring it from the property line and eliminate the septic tank. Mr. Reese: Yes but 1 think I am on pretty safe ground when I say it costs approximately 2/3 from the property line out to the sewer to hookup and 1/3 in the average located property in the City of Miami today because with a 50' lot, you don't have the_setbacks, as you do in your larger lots. You have to keep in terms ofthe properties that exist. Mrs. Gordon: But its still true that the lump sum payment for the rest of the hookup is money that the people don't have and if we could get that money from revenue sharing for the hardship cases, I think we then could solve the problem pretty well. Mrs. Range: Mr. Mayor, I want to make - Mr. Reese: Listen I was trying my best not to get this over to the emotional side or anything else, we are trying to solve a problem. To talk about revenue sharing as a source for everything. I even question if you can use revenue sharing to go in on private property and make a capital improvement. This is what you are proposing you see and you have to evaluate it from that angle. 31 Mrs. Range: First of all, I want it made very clear and understood here that I have not come :simply because I have an interest there. I have block frontage on 17th Avenue that will run me several thousand dollars for the lien but I want it understood, that I have not come begging for myself or for anyone else in the area. I realize that we have to pay for these improvements as we go along. I realize, unfor- tunate as it is, that this paticular area was left unattended until we have reached an apex in our cost of living that's hardly believable but be that as it may, the fact of life now. What I would like to have this Commission actually consider before it goes into this improvement is that you and we the community is actually going to be faced with a situation where people,many of them, are not going to be able to hook up no matter how much they would like Via. No matter how much the law says you can. no longer have septic tanks, that the sewer lines are there now and you must hook up. Its the difference between having the money to do it and not having the money to do it. You are going to be faced with a situation where the sewer lines are there, the septictanks are not usable and the people have no method of sewage disposal. No means to pay for it and I think it needs to wait for some 2 to 3 years when these circumstances become realities and when you say you can't have your septic tank any longer and a homeowner looks at you and says, I simply don't have the money, what do I do now? Its going to come to that actual point. Rev. Gibson: What do you suggest Madam? You once sat here and you are there in the situation plus I lived through septic tanks and I had to hook up so. I want you to tell me what the solution is. Mrs. Range: When I sat there, I spoke from the same vantage point that I speak now. I am not speaking with tongue and cheek this morning. I said the same thing then didn't I Mr. Reese that I am saying now. The only thing I can say is, if there is a way, we have come to you because you are the city fathers and mother. We have come to you to ask you to help to work out a solution before the problem really becomes a reality. Do you not agree with me Father Gibson being of my kind, that there are going to be people out there who are absolutely under no circumstances going to be able to ,hook up unless there is some special provision made for those person who are not able, do you agree? Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Range, everybody agrees. Rev. Gibson: Mr Dear, the reason I turned to you is that I thought in your infinite wisdom you had a suggestion to give me and we want you to give it to us because we are in that predicament. Mayor Ferre: You have been in the predicament many times where you want to do something and you are searching for a way to do it and I concur with what Father Gibson is saying. I sat with you foi 31 years and we all know that you are not speaking any different now th.ln you have always spoken. We also recognize the problem that there is a need for a solution. Not 2 years from now but now. Our problem is that nobody here can come to grip with how do we solve it actually unless we turn to revenue sharing funds which Mr. Reese and the City Attorney have got to determine whether or not we can go into private property and improve it, whether that is in the purview of what revenue sharing can do. Now, I don't know what else unless you have a suggestion or a solution. I think you are absolutely right. I think that it is criminal, socially criminal, for us to not help people who cannot afford on their own to pay for need and let them, refuse to let them use their septic tanks and force them into a situation which is untenable. Mrs. Gordon: Ask Mr. Rothstein to give us an opinion. Mayor Ferre: Yes Mr. Rothstein, give us an legal opinion and Mr. Reese before I ask you to comment, lets go back to your thought now because I am afraid Mrs. Range that we aren't going to find any solutions where we can pay for one property owner and not pay for another so that if we do it in one section of the town, you have citizens right here that I can tell are going to come back and say, you did it for him, now do it for me because I am a taxpayer, so I think the only we will be able to do it is to figure a way to extend the period of payment and include 32 JUL 121973 in the financing portion of it, the private section from the property line to th:: house and instead of 10 years, perhaps ask for a 15 yr1 payout which for example $500.00, payments would be 30 or 40 dollars a year. Somebody could pay 3 or 4 dollars a month. Mrs. Range: Yes, you realize we are just really seeking a way. This is exactly what we are all doing. Mr. Rothstein: #1 It may be possible to work it out subject toa charter amendment approval that the time period for the payoff could be adjusted to the life of the general obligation bond for the improvement area which would give you a much greater time. #2 It is my suggestion that you indruct us to prepare a charter amend- ment to be presented to youi:at the next meeting when we will have other charter amendments in final form to be able to go on the ballot, certainly at the least along the lines of Mr. Reese's suggestion. If you haven't solved the whole problem, you have solved a certain portion of the problem, so you make the dollar number much much smaller when it comes time so I don't think you should wait to see how we are going to solve the whole problem. Mr. Reese has made an excellent suggestion and I think you ought to direct us and Mr. Reese to come up with a charter amendment covering that area we know is legal and while we are examining the other area, about doing something on private property. Mrs. Gordon: I'll move it. Rev. Gibson:, Second. Mayor Ferre: So we all understand the motion. What we are doing now is we are passing a motion instructing the City Attorney and the City Manager to draft up an appropriate Charter Amendment where the payments of the personal portion of the hookup is included in the financing, furthermore - Mr. Rothstein: Not in those terms Sir. It's bringing the lines to the property line. In other words having the sewer improvement include not only the sewer improvement of the street but bringing it to the edge of the property line as well. Mayor Ferre: Can't we go beyond that? Mr. Rothstein: Let us come with that amendment and secondly to explore the other area. Mrs. Gordon: Do we need separate motions then? Mayor Ferre: It can be in one motion but lets make sure we understand there may be two separate portions of this because we may not be able tc do one, we can do the other and that is something you will legally have to investigate. The intent is that in that portion from the property line to the actual hookup, in those areas where people cannot afford and can prove, Mr. Reese lets follow this because this is an important portion of it. Where people can prove that they are unable financially under normal circumstances and that you will have to struggle with, to pay for the hookup from the property line to their home, that this be a secondary loan also in proportion to the other loan and then the last part of it as I understood it is that the period of payment is going to be extended so that it is commensurate if not equal but perhaps commensurate with the actual time of the bond issue itself. Mr. Reese: For the life of the bond issue but I recognize Mr. Mayor that these are the motives you are reaching for but if we can't reach them all at one direct path, there might be alternate suggestions where we will accomplish the same mission so - Mayor Ferre: This is a motion of intent only. 33 JUL 121973 Mrs. Range: Mr. Mayor, I just noted one thing in your motion that I would like to clear up where you said in instances where the property owner cannot afford to pay. I am not asking thit anything be given to anyone. I am only asking for an extended period of time if this is what has to happen. I don't want anybody to get the impression that I am down here looking for welfare. We always get this. I am not asking for welfare but I am asking for a reasonable period of time. Mayor Ferre: that's what this motion includes but I think we have to in fairness, we have a person who is a dentist and who has a yearly income of $30,000. I see no reason why the City ofrMiami should go out and finance something - Mrs. Range: I want that very clear Mayor Ferre because I don't want to be saddled with having come down seeking something for myself. I am not saying this. Whenever the time comes, I will certainly see to it that my hookup is made but I am thinking about those thousands of people who will not be able, who are not here this morning and I am not attempting to represent them but I know its a fact of life, that this is what is going to happen because these people are not going to be able and its going to be a bigger problem then. Mrs. Gordon: Athalie, are you suggestion that we eliminate that from the motion? Mrs. Range: No not necessarily, I just wanted it clarified. Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor, I think I can respond to Mrs. Ranges concerns. That is that however the charter is amended, it will have to apply to everybody in the City of Miami and it can't be on class basis and the provision for the person who has a higher source of income or a greater reserve is that for these people the inducement is to pay it off on a lump sum basis and for the other people to be given the opportunity and we endeavor to accomplish it - Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese, I want to vote for this motion and I want to make it clear. This is only a motion of intent, you are going to investigate. I want the City Attorney to investigate that possibility because and I don't mean to be criticizing anyone but let me tell you a little thing that peeves me. The United Fund does a great job and I'm not knocking it. The United Fund for example subsidizes for example the boy scouts and I have 4 kids that are boy scouts and I because I serve on the Boy Scout Council for South Florida, I know that every time my kid goes to the Boy Scouts meeting, that for every dollar I pay, somebody is subsidizing me for 3 or 4 dollars and that isn't right because I can afford to pay, instead of paying $25, I can afford to pay $100 for my kid to be a boy scout and on the other hand there are other people that cannot afford it and should and need subsidy and all I am saying is that I think its wrong for me who can afford for my kids to be boy scouts to go on a free ride and Y don't think the United Fund should subsidize me. I don't need help from the United Fund. I can stand on my own two legs and you say, you want a welfare state but I don't. What I am saying is that those people who cannot afford it are the people who should be given primary consider- ation and what I am telling you Mr. Rothstein, in this motion as I understand it, that if it is possible, to do this on a basis of economic income, I personally see nothing wrong with it because I don't want to be subsidizing somebody who makes $100,000 a year and saying and have that man ride the City of Miami on a long period of time at low interest. He can do the same thing by .going to the bank and borrowing it because he has the borrowing capacity. Mrs. Range: I agree with you Mayor, that's what I want made clear. Mayor Ferre: It can't be done any other way, if its legally impossible we will cross that bridge then. Mrs. Gordon: The motion was made then of intent. 34 JUL 121973 • �bw"�•.MAN.t.y�., • Unidentified Man: Could I be recognized Mr. Mayor? Mayor Ferre: Yes Sir, your name? Mr. Markowitz: My name is Ben Markowitz. I am a property owner in Liberty City area under discussion. Also happen to be a plumbing contractor. the Mayor Ferre: That we know well, and a good one too. Mr. Markowitz: Thank you. I was up at the Sewer Department yesterday looking over the plans for this new installation and it appears to me as a part of the installation contract to be let, it included the connections up to the property line, so I think that part of your .problem is already solved. Now, if it is not, its very easy to,include that as a part of your contract documents and it should be actually a part of the city's obligation to put that sewer line up to the property line. Rev. Gibson: Mr. Mayor when we got it in the Grove, that is the way it was done. The hassle is not to the property line, the hassle is from the property line to where that septic tank is. For instance: Let me say a personal matter. When we built the rectory in 1962, the architect said to us. Put the septic tank in the front of the yard on the front lawn so it will be near the street and you wouldn't have to go all the way back there. Some of these houses have, the treasurer of our church, who had to bring his sewer line brought 150' and this is what Mrs. Range is talking about and I think what we are saying to everybody is what about the people who can't come from that 150' or whatever and need some extended time? Thats what she is saying. Mayor Ferre: I think its clear. We have a motion on the floor and a second and its been clarified so call the roll please. The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-530 A RESOLUTION DECLARING THE INTENTION OF THE COMMISSION THAT A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT BE PREPARED BY THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY ATTORNEY AND PRESENTED TO THE COMMISSION AT ITS NEXT REGULAR MEETING WHICH AMENDMENT WILL PROVIDE FOR THE CITY TO FINANCE A GREATER PORTION OF THE COST OF THAT AMOUNT OF MONEY ASSESSED AGAINST PROPERTY OWNERS AND THAT THE METHOD OF PAYMENT BE EX- TENDED TO BECOME COMMENSURATE WITH THE LIFE OF THE BONDS WHICH FINANCE SUCH IMPROVEMENT (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 Rev. Gibson: Please keep a watch on it and come back again. Mrs. Range: I shall, thank you very much. Mayor Ferre: Thank you very much Mrs. Range, Ladies and Gentlemen for being here. 35 Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, are we going to pass A y B? Mayor Ferre: We are in a moment. Do you want to be recognized on 15A? Mr. Snyder: My name is Richard Snyder. 810 N. E. 171 Terrace. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Snyder in the interest of time, let me clarify it for you. Mrs. Range don't :leave. We are going to vote on this now. I just want to make sure that if you have any objections that you be heard now. We are talking about Project 76, Liberty City Sewer Improvement, pHase II 15A is where we are. Does anybody want to be heard on that specific item? Mr. Snyder: You have made a motion, I don't know whether - Mayor Ferre: Nobody has made a motion on 15A yet. Mr. Snyder: I don't know if its 15A or B but in listening to Mrs. Range with respect to the ability of the residents to be able to come up with the money to connect to the sewer or even to pay the amount of the assessment, I think that some consideration. I do represent my mother who owns a store building on 62nd Street and was built by my father in 1940 and we have been there for many many years. We don't occupy it as a business but some consideration has to be made with respect to the ability of people who own property in the area or on a street like 62nd street who are unable to rent their property and by the same token Mr. Plummer says that when an apartment owner who has apartments is paying the entire water bill, he can go in and raise the rents of these people and they possibly have to pay. We don't have that ability to raise rents. In fact, we barely have the ability to keep our store rented and if you have been out in the area for any length of time, you would know that there are many stores that are all but abandoned on 62nd Street and very possibly in this particular perimeter of 7th Avenue to 17th Avenue, 54th Street to 71 Street. If you consider the business property and not the people that operate the business, as the Mayor says, somebody making $.100,000 can afford to pay, but a property owner might have property that would have an added burden of an assessment like this and a hookup which would cost him in the neighborhood of 500 to 1000 dollars. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Snyder, were you here about an hour ago when we talked on I won't make the speech over again but Mrs. Range, I think you hadn't come in yet and I'll just repeat the main version of what I said then. That is that every single meeting that we have, there isn't a time when we don't have somebody coming here and saying look we don't want that street improvement. They don't want to be taxed and they don't want to pay for that. They want improvements but they don't want to pay for them. Unfortunately, we in the City just can't stand still and these things are needed and they are needed in the community. I recognize that there are always inequities. There is always somebody wl,o is going to get hurt or somebody that isn't quite right that you have a building there. Its like taxes. I happen to live in a residential area that has been rezoned and my taxes as some of you may have read in the newspaper increased 50%. That's a lot of increase. I am a man who has money but its still a tremendous increase. When I go down to the Assessor to complain, he is going to tell me, look Mr. Ferre, this is a free country. Ifryou don't want to pay your taxes, the County will take over your property and I know I will have to pay the taxes and that's all I get for living in an area that has now become a high-rise area. What can I tell you? It hurts you and a lot of people are hurt by these things but we cant stop. Mr. Snyder: I just wanted to register an objection. I didn't want to stay outside and say, I didn't know what they are doing and spending money, without coming here and raising some kind of objection. I happen to be in concurrence with the Liberty City Sewer situation. I think it all should be sewered but I think there should be some relief, not only for the people who are residents or residents of apartment but for people who own business property. The area is very very depressed. 36 JUL 121973 Mayor Ferre: I wish there was a way of doing that. Rev. Gibson: I am not being impatient but, we'll never get out of here today, I wonder if we can move this itemand since you have already instructed the City Attorney and the City Manager to look into some possibilities of relief, that we will deal with the relief and later on ask the people to return. The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-531 A RESOLUTION CONFIRMINGORDERING RESOLUTION NO.73-428 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF LIBERTY SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT PHASE II SR-5377-C (centerline sewer) IN LIBERTY SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT PHASE II SR-5377-C (centerline sewer) (Here folloias body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-532 A RESOLUTION CONFIRMING ORDERING RESOLUTION NO.73-429 AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY CLERK TO ADVERTISE FOR SEALED BIDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF LIBERTY SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT PHASE II SR-5377 S (sideline sewer) IN LIBERTY SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT PHASE II SR-5377 S (sideline sewer). (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 Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor in order to assure these people of the faith of the Commission. We take sealed bids on these but set the date of receiving these sealed bids sometime after the election in November. Mayor Ferre: All right, duly noted. Thank you for being here with us. 37 • 16, CONDITIONAL USE - LOT 16. BKOCK 25 FROW HOMESTEAD (B-106) The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-533 A RESOLUTION GRANTING A "CONDITIONAL USE" AS LISTED IN ORDINANCE NO. 6871, ARTICLE XIV, SECTION 1 (21) (e) TO PERMIT'DRY-CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT AT LOT 16 BLOCK 25, FROW HOMESTEAD (B-106), BEING 3661 GRAND AVENUE; ZONED C-2 )COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL( DISTRICT (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 Mr. Leon A. Major appeared and urged adoption of the resolution. 17, The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-534 A RESOLUTION GRANTING APPROVAL FOR CONTINUED WAIVER OF 15 OF 29 OFF-STREET PARKING SPACES, FOR A PERIOD OF ONE (1) YEAR FROM THIS DATE, AS PROVIDED BY ORD- INANCE NO. 6871, ARTICLE XXIII, SECTION 2(3), ON LOTS 5 AND 6, BLOCK 2, PHOENIX PARK (6-80), LOCATED AT 73-97 N. W. 76TH STREET, IN CONJUNCTION WITH CONSTRUCTION OF A 23-UNIT APARTMENT FOR THE ELDERLY SITE ZONED R-3 (LOW DENSITY MULTIPLE) DISTRICT (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 38 JUL 1219 4 18, CNDITIONAL USE - L.QT. 8, 0, 10, BLOCK 4, EAIRN1ONT PARK 2ND AMD The Mayor announced the Commission was ready to consider this application of Sheehan Buick and asked if any objectors were present. Mr. Harold Kravitz representing Sheehan Buick appeared and stated his client accepted all the recommendations of the Planning Department and agree to conform to all of them. Mrs. Patricia Lonsdale: I live at 2220 S. W. 7th Street, and I am strictly against cutting off access from 23rd to S. W. 7th Street. Mayor Ferre: Mr..simpson, would you point that out? Mrs. Gordon: He is upstairs. Say that again Mam, I am not sure we followed your objection. Mrs. Lonsdale: I wasn't sure whether I understood the whole proposal or not. I am not against them using the lots on the corner for a parking lot but I am against them closing off access to the alley because its a public street and I use that alley constantly to get in and out of my yard. Mrs. Gordon: It won't be closed in any way whatsoever as far as I understand. This applicant would not be able to open a driveway into 7th Street. Mrs. Lonsdale: It says with no access from S. W. 7th Street or S. W. 23rd Avenue. I want access through S. W. 23rd Avenue. Mayor Ferre: Thats for him. What it means is that he cannot have access if I read it right from S. W. 7th Street or S. W. 23rd Avenue. Mr. Reese: The alley is going to be open. We are not closing the alley. Mayor Ferre: He can't come in that way, but you can. Mrs. Lonsdale: And I was representing all my neighbors there that were unable to come. We were under the impression that if they were closing off access toethat alley which has been a public street for 25 years that I have lived there and we need that alley to get through there. Mayor Ferre: You have this Commissions assurance and the administration that the alley will not be closed off and will be available to you and the neighborhood for access purposes. Mrs. Lonsdale: We also would like Sheehan Buick to stop using part of the alley as they have been doing now as a parking lot. Mayor Ferre; That is another matter. Mrs. Lonsdale: They have been doing that right against the wall and we have to almost knock our cars against those parked cars to get through there and they have been told repeatedly and repeatedly that it is against the city, law for them to park in that public street. It has no parking signs there. Mr. Kravitz: That is the main reason we have made the request that we have before you. Mayor Ferre: What happens I am sure is that it isn't the owner or the management of Sheehan Buick but might be employees and its easy. for them to park there and they park in the alley. Mrs. Lonsdale: They are all employees probably. I have no qualms or no hard feelings against Sheehan Buick. They are a very fine company but as people who are breaking the law and obstructing us from getting through the street there, I do object and so does every- body on the street. 39 4 Mrs. Gordon: Tam going to move approval and include in the approval that Sheehan agree not to permit any parking in the alley whatsoever and that's a condition of granting this use. Mayor Ferre: Is there a second to the motion? Mr. Plummer: Mayor, Iithink you are creating a situation where you are making Sheehan Buick a policeman. Mayor Ferre: No we want them to abide by the law. Mr. Plummer: Mrs. Gordon, I am in accord that Sheehan Buick and them and their employees shall not- fine, but you said, that there shall be NO parking in the alley and you are making him a policeman to enforce it. Mayor Ferre: No that's not what she meant. Mr. Plummer: I know thats not what she meant but that's what came out. Mrs. Gordon: J. L., if you want a clarification on my thinking, you are getting it. My thinking is that the area that is between Sheehan Buick property and there is a portion there that abuts both properties, that they shall control the parking there and I think they can control it. Mr. Plummer: NO. • Unintelligible conversation at this point -several persons talking at once. Mayor Ferre: Wait, wait, lets have some order and I will take the chair. Mrs. Gordon, wait a moment. Lets get this confusion clarified. Mrs. Gordon and correct me if I'm wrong and its very simple, is sayin g that Sheehan Buick will not park any cars in the alley. Obviously, she is not saying that Sheehan Buick is not going to prevent somebody that comes in from St. Louis. That's not Sheehan Buicks responsibility. I think its clear. We have a motion and a second. Call the roll. The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-535 A RESOLUTION GRANTING A "CONDITIONAL USE" AS PRO- VIDED IN ORDINANCE NO. 6871, article V, SECTION 1 (6) (b) TO PERMIT OFF-STREET PARKING LOT ON LOTS 8, 9, AND 10, BICK 4, FAIRMONT PARK 2ND AMD (11-63) LOCATED AT 2296 S. W. 7TH STREET, IN CONJUNCTION WITH SHEEHAN BUICK, LOT TO BE USED FOR EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS ONLY, WITH NO ACCESS FROM S. W.7TH STREET OR S. W. 23RD AVENUE; AND SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE WALL AND LANDSCAPING BY THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT; ZONED R-1 (ONE -FAMILY) DISTRICT; SUBJECT TO COMPLIANCE WITH LIGHTING REQUIREMENTS AS SET OUT IN ORDINANCE NO. 8115 FOR PARKING LOTS, SUBJECT TO THE APPLICANT PROHIBITING PARKING OF EMPLOYEES AND CUSTOMERS CARS IN THE ADJOINING ALLEY (Here follows body of resolutin, 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 40 JUL 121973 • 4 19, VARIANCE _REQUEST LOT 3 BLOCK 58N MIAMI B-41 Mr. Phaelan: My name is A. A. Phaelan, I am an Attorney representing the applicant. I have about a 7 minute presentation. Mayor Ferre: Could you make it 3? Mr. Phaelan: I could cut it to nothing if you would vote in the affirmative now. Mayor Ferre: I am not saying anyone here is because I want to know why the Department recommended denial. Mr. Phaelan: This request is the subject of a letter sent to all of the Commissioners this week, I believe you received either at home or at your office. I have talked, if you will look at the presentation on the board, I have talked to the owner of all the properties to the east along N. E. 7th Street. He has no objections. Mayor Ferre: We are not talking about objectors, let me see if I can expedite this. The only objection I want to know about is the department because I read the case. The case is very simple. The Department of Transportation said if they need 45' for turning and they only 371g' and in effect I think there is only 1 employee and he already has a place to park. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor looking at the departments recommendation, they recognize the fact that the immediate.area needs office space but I think they recognize the problem here but I think because of the book they have to recommend against, is that correct? Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor, may I read a memorandum that came from Trans- portation Planning Engineer. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese. Mr. Reese: Well briefly, although this department considers the proposed use as most reasonable for the subject location, this depart- ment still recommends denial of the requested variance as we are mainly concerned with future traffic flow on N.W. 7th Street and the potential future of the proposed building at the subject location. The paved area proposed and the setback area could be best utilized as a turnback area for the owners delivery vans thus eliminating backing into the street. This is sent over by the Transportation Planning Engineer of the Department of Transportation, Metropolitan Dade County. This is what the Planning Department is basing their recommendations on. Mr. Phaelan: Mr. Mayor, the proposed use we are proposing in a minimum use that could be made of this land. Any use we make is going to require a variance of some sort. The parking requirements generated by this use are very minimum. There is nothing we could do to make them any less. There is nothing we can do to this lot even if we turn it into a parking lot that would make it conform to the parking requirements. Mayor Ferre: The problem is, you can't get away from that recommendation "It is suggested that the applicant acquire use of another site in the area or of an adacent property in the area in order to meet the parking requirements" Mr. Phaelan: There is no other land available your honor. The only adjacent land is under a long term lease to the federal government. We would do anything we could to meet with the requirements but there is nothing we can do. This lot has been established since 1906 in its present form. This is what variances are for, to allow usage of small lots that were established many years ago. Instead of reading it, why don't you paraphrase it Mayor Ferre: What is the will of the Commission? Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I would like to go see it. I'll move to defer until we can go out and look at it. Mrs. Gordon: Second. Thereupon it was unanimously agreed by the Commission to go out and inspect the property in question and defer action on the request. 20, REQUEST METRO TO REASSESS POSITION _WITH RESPECT TO SPRINKLER SYSTEMS IN CONJUNCTION WITH CONCRETE PARKINNG GARAGES Mayor Ferre: I want to talk about something which I think affects you and possibly other people who are thinking about putting up parking garages. Yesterday I had a conversation with some people in the County including Commissioner Harvey Ruvin and as we all know, the County Commission recently passed an ordinance requiring sprinkler systems. I talked to several people in the fire department to get a clarification and the County passed that ordinano in such haste, they made several basic and substantial mistakes. For example: All of the insurance people and I talked to several yesterday and the experts on parking garages recognize that a sprinkler system is more of a hazard than it isa help in a parking garage for this reason. Parking garages are concrete structures and they are slanted, they have ramps. If there is a fire, the only kind of a fire you can have is with an automobile which means that there is gasoline involved. Where there is water on gasoline, the gasoline can go down the ramp quicker than it would normally and the water would not put out the fire of gasoline and all it would do is to spread the fire. The Fire Marshal of the City of Miami has gone on record and has written.a memorandum which I have not seen a copy of, but Mr. Reese, I would like the Commission to get a copy of the Fire Marshalls recommendation but I would like to make a motion to have the county reassess their position about the sprinkler law specifically as it relates to open concrete parking garages within the City of Miami and any other recommendation that the Fire Marshall of the City of Miami is recommending to the,COunty. Mr. Plummer: Second the motion. The following resolution was introduced by Mayor Ferre who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-536 A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THAT THE METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY COMMISSION REASSESS ITS POSITION WITH RESPECT TO SPRINKLER SYSTEMS IN CONJUNCTION WITH OPEN CONCRETE PARKING GARAGES IN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND TO RE-EVALUATE THIS MATTER AS IT RELATES TO FIRE PREVENTION (Here follows body of resdution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Offte) Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Reboso, Plummer, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 42 NOTES RIOR TO THE INTRODUCTION OF TH PRE EDING RESOLUTION, MAYOR �ERRE SURRENDERED THE CHAIR TO VICE MAYOR GIBSON AND FOLLOWING THE ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION, THE MAYOR RESUMED THE CHAIR. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese, the only purpose of that is, the County admits a mistake has been made and I think, I would hate to see this beaucratic structure that sometimes ensnarls us. I am not accusing Metro of anything but maybe t'•-is might help to expedite things. 21. CONDITIONAL U$E - LOTS 6 & 15, BLOCK103N IMAM B-41 Mr, Swope: My name is Ivan Swope, First Federal Savings and Loan Association and there are no objections on our part to the approval as was previously recommended. Mr. Plummer: Sir, do you stipulate that everything contained in here in this application is correct? Mr. Swope: That is correct. Mr. Plummer: Do you agree to the terms outlined in Resolution 73-462 of the Off -Street Parking Board? Mr. Swope: I do. Mr. Plummer: I move for adoption. Mrs. Gordon: Second. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-537 A RESOLUTION GRANTING A "CONDITIONAL USE" AS PROVIDED IN ORDINANCE NO. 6871, ARTICLE XV, SECTION 2 (8) (a) TO PERMIT CONSTRUCTION OF 7-LEVEL PARKING GARAGE ON LOTS 4, 5, 16, 17 AND E 1 LOTS 6 AND 15, BLOCK 103N, MIAMI (B-41), LOCATED AT APPROXIMATELY 245 N. E. 1ST STREET; SUBJECT TO LOT 8 OF PROUTS SUBDIVISION (B-65) TO BE DEVELOPED ONLY AS SURFACE PARKING; ZONED C-3 (CENTRAL COMMERCIAL) DISTRICT (Here follows body of resolutin, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 4s fi 4 22. CONDITIONAL USE - LOTS 2, 3, 4. 19 & 20. BLOCK 90. LAWRENCE ESTATE LAND CO. (2-46) The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-538 A RESOLUTION GRANTING A "CONDITIONAL USE" AS PROVIDED IN ORDINANCE NO. 6871, ARTICLE XII, SECTION 1 (33)(e) TO PERMIT COIN -OPERATED LAUNDRY ON LOTS 2, 3, 4, 19 & 20, BLOCK 90, LAWRENCE ESTATE LAND CO (2-46), LOCATED AT 328 S. W. 12TH AVENUE; BEING SOUTHERLY STORE IN BUILDING (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Officel Upon being seconded by Mr. Plummer, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Mayor Ferre, Reverend Gibson. NOES: None 23, CONTINUED WORKSHOP ESSION - RESTRUCTURING OF PLANKING & ZONING PROCEDURES The Commission again took up for consideration the matter of the restructuring of the City of Miami's Planning and Zoning proce- dures. Dr. Bartley called attention to the question of legal adver- tising for the planning and zoning matters, and after brief discussion it was decided, upon motion of Mr. Plummer, seconded by Mrs. Gordon, it was agreed unanimously that these advertisements, as mentioned on line 21 of Page 17 of the proposed Graft, be placed simply in a news- paper of "general circulation" , rather than endeavoring to arrive at a numerical figure designating the size of circulation. RECESS: The meeting was recessed at 12:30 o'clock P.M. until 2:00 o'clock P.M. this date. The Commission reconvened at 2:02 o'clock P.M. with all mem- bers present. 7-12-73 44 JUL 121973 Reverend Edward T. Graham appeared and accepted a proclamation proclaiming "BLACK CULTURE WEEK" in the City of Miami and photographs were taken. 24, CONDITIONAL USE - PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT - LOTS 1O 11 AND N. 1/2 LOT 9 AND Es _75 of S 1/2 LOT 9, BLK 1, ALLAMANDA GARDENS Mr. Ralph Aaron, the applicant for conditional use on property described above appeared before the Commission at this time. The item had been called earlier in the morning and the applicant did not answer. Mr. Aaron: Mr. Mayor, I want to thank you for allowing me to speak in behalf of my application at this time rather than defer it for another 2 weeks. I am here this afternoon to make request that you favorably consider my Planned Unit Development for 6-Townhouse Condominium Units in Coconut Grove immediately adjacent to and abutting Lemon Tree Village which is a 20-unit Townhouse Condominium project. There have been many PUDs in Coconut Grove in the R-2 zoning category. This is the second example of a PUD abutting a PUD. I did come before your Planning Dep- artment personnel for purposes of getting their tacit approval before going before the Planning and Zoning Board and they turned down 5 site plans in a row. Mayor Ferre: Until they approved this one. Mr. Aaron: They did not, they recommended denial sir, however, the Planning F, Zoning Board after deferring me from June 11 by a 6==2 vote against my objection, did on June 25 see fit to honor my request by passing by a unanimous 9==0 vote, over the denial of the Planning Department staff, which gave as its reason something quote- "entrinsic criteria", not enough meaningful open space. Now I am here to fight for the project because if I am reduced from 6 down to 5, the economics are wiped out and what sits there, remains there. I feel after 40 or 45 years. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Aaron in the interest of time, you well know that is not a cause for hardship. If you have other arguments then that is a different matter. I think , as a matter of fact as I recall one of the things you told me is that some of these objectors have waived their objection. For example Mr. Polizzi. Mr. Aaron: Mr. Pollizzi waived his objections and Mr. Dennis Jenkins president of the Lemon Tree Village Condominium Association came forward at June 11 meeting to represent Mr. Pollizzi to say that he had withdrawn. Mayor Ferre: Are there any questions? Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Aaron, how large is your lot? Mr. Aaron: Off the top of my head its about 19,600 sq.ft. Mrs. Gordon: Dimensions sir, front and rear. Mr. Aaron: Frontage of 125 by a depth of 150 and at the half -way mark back, its width of 150 by a depth of 75. Mrs. Gordon: Its an irregular shape? Mr. Aaron: It hash of 1 lot missing. Mrs. Gordon: Among the objectors were the neighbors on either side. 45 JUL 12197 We usually have a map to portray this and we don't have it right now so I have to ask you these questions. Mr. Aaron: No Mam, there was an objector on the next street. Mrs. Gordon: Anyone immediately abutting your property. Mr. Aaron: Accross the road, but they withdrew. Mrs. Gordon: Noone abutting your property? Mr. Aaron: Oh I am sorry, except to the rear. An old pioneer gentleman from Coconut Grove who said he was getting even because I made him get his grass cut four years ago. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Acton, what was your objection to this application? Mr. Acton: As Mr. Aaron stated, we felt that with 5-units instead of 6, there would be more open space on the site and would be a better neighbor to the existing development and accross the street. I believe there are 2 single family or duplex homes accross the street. Mrs. Gordon: Does he have any difficulty getting his parking and open space of sufficient amount in there with a 6-unit? Mr. Acton: No he still has open space and can accomodate parking. Mrs. Gordon: And he can accomodate the parking? Mr. Acton: Yes he can. Mr. Aaron: I would like to make one more comment. I went into the Planning Zoning Board files and I pulled out every PUD that was approved in the last year and a half and from that I made a table and that table indicated strangely enough that a Mr. James Redford who happens to be - Mayor Ferre: Mr. Aaron, that has nothing to do with this case. Now you address yourself to your problem on your property. We don;t want to hear about Mr. Redford or anybody else. That has nothing to do with it. Mr. Aaron: My project permits 1 unit for every 3,184 sq.ft. of lot area. The R-2 zoning category calls for 1 unit for every 3,000 sq.ft. of lot area. Other projects have been granted with much less. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Aaron may I ask you a question? The objector immediately to the west accross the street has withdrawn his objection? Mr. Aaron: Everyone has withdrawn. Mrs. Gordon: All right, I personally favor this type of development as a good utilization of land. The Planning Department has stated you do have sufficient open space and parking for the development. Mr. Aaron: He stated I don't have enough open space. Mrs. Gordon: He said you do. He just said you do. Mr. Aaron: Then why didn't he say that - Mayor Ferre: Mr. Aaron, lets not get into arguments as to what he said before. You just heard Mr.s. Gordon said what Mr. Acton stated so just keep quiet now. Go ahead Mrs. Gordon. Mrs. Gordon: I reiterate. It appears that those who have been in objection have withdrawn their objection. It appears from our Planning Department comments just now that you do have sufficient open space and parking. Apparently whatever objection they had before, apparently has been removed. Is that correct Mr. Acton? 46 JUL 1219?3 AbillAMMor Mr. Acton: No, what I stated Commissioner Gordc1L is that, he does have open space and sufficient space for 6-units. However we were of the opinion that a 5-unit development would be a better development. What is not mentioned is that we have discovered through the long process of Planned Unit Development in the R-2 zone that the smaller the area, the greater amount of space that is usually needed per unit, follow me? In other words in a large lot, you have accumulation of open space by the nature of the size of the land itself. What we are stating is that we just felt that if the project were limited to 5 instead of the requested 6, it would be a better develop- ment. Mrs. Gordon: I'll move approval. Mr. Reboso: I second the motion. The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-539 A RESOLUTION GRANTING A "CONDITIONAL USE" AS PROVIDED IN ORDINANCE NO. 6871, ARTICLE VI, SECTION 1 (4-A) TO PERMIT CONSTRUCTION OF PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT ON LOTS 10 AND 11 AND N h OF LOT 9, AND E 75' OF S OF LOT 9, BLOCK 1, ALLAMANDA GARDENS (6-72), LOCATED AT APPROXIMATELY 3255 ALAMANDA STREET, CONSISTING OF 6 UNITS IN 3 STRUCTURES AS PER PLAN, SUBJECT TO DEDIC- ATION OF RIGHT-OF-WAY ON ALLAMANDA STREET; ZONED R-2 (TWO FAMILY) DISTRICT (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 25, REPORT QF MAYOR'S COMMITTEE ON REVENUE_ .RING FOR 1973-1974 Mayor Ferre: The chair recognizes Mr. Dan Paul who is the Ci:airman of the Committee. Mr. Paul: Mr. Mayor and Members of the Commission, the task of your revenue sharing committee has been rather frustrating to say the least. Before we were appointed, the major part of the funds for last year were committed by the Commission and in January, the balance, we understand, were committed without any recommendation from the revenue sharing committee. However before we go on to the revenue sharing funds for the upcoming year, there is one question I would like clarified. If I understand the City Manager's letter of June 21 to the Mayor, there was still the possibility that $1,630,000 in proposed retroactive salary increases might be possibly available depending on action from the federal government and I wonder what the status of that matter is. Mayor Ferre: Mr. City Attorney, would you answer that. Mr. Rothstein: Mr. Reese has made the application for permission. Well we are working on the application, lets put it that way for the authorization prior to January from October through January. That will go routine through the Boards and if it is approved, its authorized. If its not, it won't be.. Mr. Paul: So I understand the application has not even been submitted yet? Mayor Ferre: The application has not been submitted? When will it be submitted? Mr. Reese: I would like to point out, its going to take from 5 to 6 more days before the entire payroll for October 1 through January loth is completely reconstructed and that is the part that has been holding this up. Mr. Paul: I would like now to address myself to the recommendation. One housekeeping matter first. I have to submit to the City Commission the resignation of Mr. James Angleton from the committee. We have no authority to accept or reject recommendations or to appoint replacements to the committee. I understand - Mayor Ferre: The resignation is accepted Mr. Paul. Mr. Paul: I also understand Mr. Henry has submitted his resignation directly to the Mayor. He advised me that he was resigning. Mayor Ferre: I have not received that in my office. Mr. Paul: That would leave two vacancies on the revenue sharing committee. Now to the recommendations made by the City Manager in the report of June 14, 1973 and before I start, I would like to say that the information supplied to revenue sharing committee on these recommendations does not allow us really to make a definitive recommendation one way or the other, however the committee has met and will indicate those projects that the committee feels they are in favor of in principle, as far as the actual amounts that have been allocated and the locations for which they have been allocated, the committee is not in a position to make a judgment on at this time with the information at its disposal. Item #1 under funding of cooperative programs with Dade County. The Day Care Centers. The committee is unanimously in favor in principle of funding the Day Care Centers. Our only comment is that it appears the amount of $400,000 is probably insufficient to do the job if the Commission is seriously interested in going ahead with Day Care Centers in anything more than a token basis. I might add it appears to us in general, that with the first recommen dations in category 'a', that the rest of the items are really items that in the large part belong in the operating budget of the City of Miami.to be funded in normal course by normal revenues and w. think its poor budgeting technique and poor planning to pick items out of the City Commission budget and stick them in the revenue sharing program. If that's what the COmmission wishes to do, then why not just take all the revenue sharing money and dump it into the general revenue fund? The social service programs and the programs originally recommended by your revenue �m mittee which are really people's programs, are clearly getting the -short end of the stick in these recommendations. $400,000 for Day Care Centers. $45,000 for Legal Services program. As I said we are not in a position from the information furnished to us to judge the amount. Our comment was that it appeared to be insufficient and its not clear to us from the report whether these are new day care centers you propose to establish. Several of the committee members have investigated these sites and find that day care centers do not exist at all on these sites. Maybe its planned to establish those. Mrs. Gordon: That's right. Mr. Plummer: Let me ask you this question. Since a great number of programs and especially those in the service type of programs, likewise Dade County received X number of dollars for federal revenue sharing as all municipalities did. Have you in any way been able to investigate the amount of dollars that other municipalities and Metro are expending towards these services? 48 JUL 121973 Basically, when you say something is too much or not enough. You have to look at an overall program. We are looking at the overall program of Dade County. As you are well aware of the fact, the City of Miami contributes 27% of the gaff of metro from the City of Miami. Do you have any idea what metro is going to spend in the day care operations? Is any of that money going to be spent within the city limits of the City of Miami? Here again, I don't see how you can derive any figure being sufficient or insufficient without knowing the total overall program. The last time I had the opportunity to inquire of Dade County, I was told by them. Is 10 million their figure for revenue sharing Mr. Reese? Mr. Reese: I wouldn't want to say but I think I saw 28 million in the newspaper. Mr. Plummer: Without terms of dollars or a given amount. We were told a t a meeting by Bill Hampton their budget director that metro was not going to spend the first dollar. They were putting it in reserve and holding it until they were able to see the overall picture. Now my question was, how are we going to be able to allocate our money to different types of programs without knowing what youre spending? Then all I say is have you have you had any opportunity to compare with other municipalities or metro about their spending? Mr. Paul: We have now investigated the situation in other municipalities since our charge is limited to the City of Miami and as I stated to begin with, the information feed to this committee is clearly insuff- icient for us to determine a specific amount. My comment relates to the fact that considering need of day care centers in the central city, the City of Miami, as pressing as it is, it appears to us that to allocate $400,000 out,of $7,828,000 is really only a token from point of view of the need. I have no information from the county or really no indication that the county intends to meet t}e City of Miami's day care need out of their revenue sharing money. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Plummer, may I say that there are a number of experts in the field here listening into this portion of the report that Mr. Paul is giving and I believe when he finishes his report, that there will be enough information furnished. Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Gordon, we will hear the other people at the appropriate time so at this point if there are no other questions of Mr. Paul, would you please proceed. Mr. Paul: Item #2, Cooperative Funding- the Legal Services Program. The committee does approve in principle. We have only one question. We have only one question. Why a service for the latin speaking commun- ity is the only one provided. We don't know but the question we ask the city is: Are the other legal services programs within the city limits of the City of Miami being adequately funded from other sources? Mayor Ferre: Mr. Paul let me answer that one. The reason why you find that in there is because Mr. Howard Dixon came before us along with an attorney from legal services and this is all they requested. They had not asked us for any other monies. Mr. Rothstein: They have their funding for their other offices in other areas of the city. This will satisfy the need in Miami. Mayor Ferre: As I understand it, all the legal services for Dade County are at present time, met by sufficient funds. Now, legal service didn't go to Hialeah and ask them to come up with money even though there are a lot of people in Hialeah who use legal services but they did see fit to come to the City of Miami and request funds and we have been happy to give them exactly what they asked for, which is half of $90,000. Mr. Paul: Now we come to the items beginning in "B" of the City Managers report in Parks and Recreation and the committee is in favor obviously of all these projects in principle but how could you be against them? 2 questions we asked is whether you should be allocating your revenue sharing money to perform these functions if you have already approved in principle, the transfer of the Parks and Recreation Department to the County. 49 JUL 121973 IT SEEMS to me that you should resolve that question before you allocate funds for this purpose. Also we wonder why items "B?, "C" or "E", the renovation of park structures and park bench program and the mechanization program are not funded out of the "Parks for People" bond issue or as I said earlier those seem to me to be on -going operations of the City of Miami and again, if we are using revenue sharing money to make up the deficit in the city budget by just picking items, then I think we ought to say so directly instead of leading the citizens to believe •that the revenue sharing money is really going to be used to fill the gap of social service programs that are needed in the City of Miami as opposed to supplementing the budget. On Item #4, the high intensity street lighting program. The committee was unanimous with one exception. Mr. Angleton objected on the grounds that the money should be used for higher priorities. Again however, that seems to be an item that ought to be funded out of the city budget and one question I had to ask as I read the Manager's recommendation is that the cost includes putting in the high intensity lighting in all areas including residential areas and I wonder if you are really serious about putting high intensity lighting in totally residential areas. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese, do you want to answer that specific question? Mr. Reese: Yes Sir, this recommendation is made up to put high -intensity lighting throughout the City where it is needed and there is a number of residential areas that will not permit or even recognize any need for it so we endeavored to try to measure those areas. For an example, there is a part of Coconut Grove, a part of the "Roads" section and other areas in the community that we are well aware of that will not, they didn't even want street lights let alone - Mayor Ferre: On the other hand, there are parts of the City of Miami which, this is a very high priority item. For example, certain sections of Coconut Grove that people come here all the time wanting lights. The other day for example, I was at Grapeland Heights. You remember that we talked in Grapeland Heights about the need for more lighting in certain parts of Grapeland Heights and these are neighborhood action committees who are requesting this. Now, I want you to know that in the meetings that I have attended, lighting is one of the very very top priority items that the people are asking for, so I think that is something we have to seriously consider. Mr. Rothstein: Mr. Mayor - Mr. Paul: We don't question the wisdom of the lighting except maybe in some of the residential areas. Its a question of whether its a proper use of revenue sharing money, it seems to me. Mrs. Gordon: I have another question to Mr. Reese. I understand Florida Power and Light has notified Edison Cente, people that they would not even be able to install the lighting for about a year and I am wondering how we expect to light the whole city in this years budget when they can't even provide what we'ordered before. Mr. Reese: Well I didn't know that the people in Edison Center were notified they would not get their lights. It is my understanding that the people in Edison Center were notified that they will be part of the lights to be put in, starting to be installed in September and there will be other segments that will not be able to be put in by the Florida Power & Light until several months later than this which is very true as far as the engineering is concerned and your lead time on the installation of these lights. Prior to this program being recommended to the City Commission, I talked to Mr. Autrey and I talked to Mr. Cook of the Florida Power and Light and I said, what impact would this have? He said the biggest impact would be to get the contractors but if we knew that this program was going through, we would endeavor to schedule it in this manner. 50 Mayor Ferre: All right, Mr. Rothstein. Mx. Rothstein: Yes, the questions raised by Commissioner Plummer and the report of Mr. Paul with reference to the report being in isolation of facts and figures between the City and the County is very significant matter that the Commission want to direct the Manager's office and our office or maybe Mr. Reese as a consultant. We are going to have to have the City reviewing and analyzing the County budget because certain problems arise. One of the items recommended in the County Manager's budget is for a contract with Florida Power & Light with Florida Highway Patrol as I understand it to do road accident work in a certain segmentof the iunincorporated areas but being charged in the regular county budget which means City of Miami citizens pay 27% of particular enforcement in a particular area while we are paying, our own citizens are paying taxes for our own police force. The significance of this is that Metro just passed an ordinance wherein they said that any excess of their citagette tax money which is beyond what they have programmed for their bonds and I understand its going to be a very very substantial amount, shall be put into a special allocation budget for the unincorporated areas. Which means in effect, they are taking money from the citizens of Miami, not only to pay for general county matters but policewise to pay for local matters in the unincorporated areas and then further when they get excess funds on funds collected out of the unincorporated area where its acting as a city, instead of relieving the citizens of Miami of paying, they are, putting it for additional services and additional matters into the county area and similarly in parks and recreation county bond areas. We are paying 27% of the bond issue and we are getting back 6% being spent in the City and the 6% that is being spent in the city is being spent in areas that are a county -wide matter such as Viscaya etc. The Dade County Auditorium improvements. I think that Mr. Paul's committee and the commission cannot work in the dark, that you have to see to it that we go ahead and look into the county budget because otherwise you can't make monetary decisions because somebody else may be paying for them. Mayor Ferre: All right, I would like to do this in a 2-fold way. First, we have a.joint committee which has been established and which Father Gibson chairs for the City and Commissioner Ed. Fogg for the County. I think that ought to be one of the first things on the agenda because as we agreed in the very beginning when this committee was set up, that it was going to be a 2-way street and we were going to talk about what the City could do to cooperate with Metro but also what Metro could do to cooperate with the City, and this is a specific example of the distribution and expenditure of tax funds, sometimes paid for by the City of Miami without getting any benefits for these taxes that are being paid. Mr. Rothstein: The point I was making is that you happen to have the facts. Mayor Ferre: The second aspect of it - Mr. Plummer: Let me just answer what you just said Sir because that was under discussion at our meeting yesterday. We have asked for the facts and figures and it will be the priority topic at our meeting on September 12. I think you should know the committee has looked into this matter. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Rothstein is recommending that we as a Commission as a matter of policy, instruct the administration and the City Attorneys Office to study the County Budget and come back with specific recomm- endations as to where these inequities exist, if they do in fact exist, and to what extent they exist. Does anybody want to make a motion to that effect? Mrs. Gordon: I would certainly because I think that if we want for the committee to take action and discussion, it will may be applicable to the 1974 budget but it will not be applicable to this years budget and so I would say this is a necessity that somebody with authority from the City of Miami immediately confer f',r some action with the County on this matter. 51 JUL 121973 Mayor Ferre: We have a motion. Is there a secc►.d to the motion? Mr. Plummer: Tell me that motion. Mayor Ferre: The motion is that we instruct the City Attorney and the City Manager to study the county budget and report back to this Commission and also to the Committee as to whether there are any tax funds that are being used by the County that are collected within the boundaries of the City of Miami that are not of benefit to the citizens -of Miami and to what proportion it,is, if it does exist. Mr. Plummer: I second the motion. Mayor Ferre: There is a motion and second, any further discussion? Call the question. RESOLUTION NO. 73-540 A RESOLUTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY ATTORNEY AND THE CITY MANAGER TO STUDY THE BUDGET OF METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY AND TO REPORT BACK TO THE CITY COMMISSION AND TO THE CITY -COUNTY GOVERNMENT ACTION COMMITTEE ON THE QUESTION OF WHETHER OR NOT ANY TAX FUNDS COLLECTED WITHIN THE CITY OF MIAMI THAT IN THEIR OPINION ARE OF NO BENEFIT TO THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI (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 - AYB: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None Mr. Paul: In Item SA, the School Resource Officer extension program. The committee is unanimously in favor of that program. The same is true with SB, the Threshold Program. The only question we have to ask is how does that fit in with the program already in effect at the Dade County Jr. College Training program there? Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese, do you want to answer that? Mr. Reese: This threshhold program is the idea to bring youi'q people into the police department and hoping to get them interested and introduced into police operations so that they will be in a position to go to Dade Jr. College. This is an idea of bringing in the minority groups in this special program as well as helping to be a concept of rehabilitation. Mayor Ferre: Is that part of that Explorer Group? Mr. Reese: No Explorer is a separate- this is different. People who have already qualified but they have to wait for an age. This is an idea of people that are young, bring them in and try to get them interested and oriented into the police so that when they are properly developed, they can go on to Dade Jr. College. Mayor Ferre: Does that answer your question Mr. Paul? Mr. Paul: Yes. Item "C", Police Training Program, the committee is in favor in principle of. Again, we wonder how that fits in with the program already in effect at Dade Jr. College. Apparently this is a different program from the one being conducted for police training at Dade Jr. College. 52 Mr. Reese: Dade Jr. College program is a progra;a that was instituted originally by the City of Miami to get a centralized training program for all of the cadets. This is a different and an additional program for on -job training and in the operational training. In the years gone by, the City of Miami and Dade County Police Officers who went through cadet school, graduated and were given their badges and that was the beginning and ending of their training. The idea of this is a continuous training program. On_the job training. This is in keeping with the work Stanford Research people are doing. Mr. Paul: The next 2 items. Sanitation and Fire Department Item "A" Rescue Service. It seems to us those are clear cases of shifting normal operating expenses of the City which should be funded in the budgeting process to revenue sharing. As far as 1 know you are adver- tising already that you have been picking up abandoned refrigerators and I guess now that you are going to fund something you already adver- tised you were doing in the past, if I read that request correctly. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese would you answer that. Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor I will answer facts, but I won't take the prerogative of answering somebody's interpretations. Mayor Ferre: We are just asking you for facts Mr. Reese. Mr. Reese: Yes Sir, we have always picked up along with the other trash in the City of Miami, items that are not trash. Let them be abandoned refrigerators, stoves etc. Under our own ordinance, we are not supposed to pick up those items and we got our trash program operating on such a program and a schedule, that the only place we're tied up, again is these solid waste items. In keeping with the concept of environmental protection and solid waste disposal, we then propose that we have a responsible setup and element whereby when people call in and have an item to dispose, we can then pick it up and not have it on the streets. Mayor Ferre: In other words, you have answered now for sanitation. Now why don';t you answer for Fire Dept. "A" Rescue Service. Mr. Reese: We have funded our Rescue Service throughout the City to the best of our budget ability. One of the priorities in the federal revenue sharing is to improve our fire fighting and our fire fighting function. Rescue is a part of that. We thereby can use this money and should use tilt so supply us with one more extra unit in this community and then we would be in a position to give the total coverage to the community. Mayor Ferre: In other words this comes within the purview of the - Mr. Reese: Yes Sir, there isn't an item on this suggested Iist that doesn't come in with the priority suggestions. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Paul, if you would Sir, for my way of thinking. You made a comment when you first started that you felt that only #1 was a service orientated type of service. Now, surely Mr. Paul, how do you differentiate between that and Rescue Service, not being a service type of thing? Surely it is a service to the people of the City. Mr. Paul: I think you misunderstood what I said Mr. Commissioner. What I said was that we thought that the revenue sharing money ought to be used to makeup the deficit in social services being provided in the City of Miami and institute new social services that were not now being provided but which were high priority items as supposed to funding deficits in the budget of normal operating services. I would hope that every service in the budget is in some way a service oriented. If it isn't, it shouldn't be there. Mr. Plummer: You didn't use the word before, social services. 53 JUL 121973 Mr. Rothstein: Mr. Mayor. May I just point that the Revenue Sharing Act and one of the purposes of it, and the statements in the act itself, are clearly set forth that one of its purposes is because of the squeeze on the property owners, that there be an alternative way of supplying increased funding to carry on certain high priority act- ivities in the City, which is what Mr. Reese is talking about, without putting a greater burden on the property owners. The Revenue Sharing Act, as Mr. Paul says, also has part of it, social services but the implication that Mr. Paul is giving to you in his statement which is why Commissioner Plummer asked the question, is when Mr. Reese lists these services, he is doing something outside the Revenue Act because this money is for social services. Well that is not accurate. The purpose of the Revenue Sharing Act was to have on a local level, more inputs of money that the local Commissioners can decide where this money should go to meet the increasing needs of the City without putting a big squeeze on the property owner. What Mr. Paul is saying is that we feel that the priority should be here, here and here but the implication that these listings are not proper within the Revenue Sharing Act, is not accurate. Mayor Ferre: Let me paraphrase it in layman's language. I think really what we are saying here Mr. Paul is that a lot of these functions here are social services. You sort of have to admit that Sanitation and Rescue Services are important services to people of this community. The question is: What priorities are you going to assign and what proportion are we going to give of the total amount of money? That is a subject that is open to discussion and we want to discuss here, but I don't think anybody here would say a Rescue Service is not a social service in this community. Mr. Paul: But it was not one that was funded by federal money before and you have now pulled it out of your operating budget and funding - Mayor Ferre: No, no Mr. Paul, excuse me. Let me answer that for Mr. Reese. This has not come out of the operating budget. We will have in the budget an amount, the same as last year or greater for these type of services. This is an addition. Is that correct Mr. Reese? Mr. Reese: That is correct. This is.a bra:ld new additional unit. Mr. Paul: It seems to me that is a distinction without a difference. All you are saying is that the higher cost of the services are now being funded by the federal government. Mayor Ferre: That is not what Mr. Reese --now wait a moment. Mr. Plummer, lets not get these things roff with words on a tangent. Mr. Reese, you correct me if I am wrong, I will repeat the statement. We will be in the September budget that we will receive, have itemized in there, an amount for Rescue Service which will be equal to or greater than the amount allocated to that same service in thi previous budget. Is that correct? Mr. Reese: That is absolutely correct. Mayor Ferre: So this is not to cover the additional expenses but is a completely new program that would not exist did we not have these - Mr. Reese: This is a complete and new and an addition, unit, to the previous services that we have not been able, previously to finance. Mr. Plummer: What I think it is in simple language I think. We have 4 units operating now at roughly 12,000 calls a year. The budget cannot stand a Sth unit to take some of the pressure off the 4 existing units. Taking the money from federal revenue and starting a Sth unit, would take some of the pressure and let them expand their services they are performing now. In the budget as I understand it will still be the monies for the 4 to operate on and money from the 5th unit would come from federal funds if I understood correctly. 54 JUL 121973 Mr. Rothstein: Mr. Mayor, apparently I didn't make myself clear. The point of the Revenue Sharing Act was not to say, operate your budget as such and get extra things. It was to alleviate the pressure on the property owners when in addition to additional services, when cost of living goes up, we need additional monies to run your city that you shouldn't keep putting the burden back on the property owners. That the property owners can get the services. That the community can get the services and these monies ought to help do it. Mayor Ferre: I'll tell you, you ought to go around with me to some of these community events and hear the people at Tamiami and Flagami and Grapeland and the other communities around here talk about these things and you would see how important what you are saying now is. Mr. Paul: Nevertheless, just in brief response to that. I don't think Revenue Sharing was intended as a cost of living adjustment to cities and if you read the Revenue Sharing Act, I don't think that was its purpose however, I certainly wouldn't quarrel with the City Attorney. Frankly you can use legally, if you want to stretch the Revenue Sharing Act, revenue sharing for any purpose you want, short of two or three, such as dumping it in Biscayne Bay or 2 or 3 other restrictions. I am not saying that you are violating any of these things legally. in any sense of the term. Mr. Plummer: Memphis Tennessee used 100% of their funds to build a new football stadium. Mr. Paul: I understand there is one city in Dade County that used it or a substantial part of it, to build new Tennis Courts. Mr. Plummer: There is also a city in Dade COunty that got so little amount they sent it back. Mr. Paul: Item 7B, Fire Alarm Systems. The committee is unanimously in favor of in principle. Item "C", General Government services. Item 8, the committee is unanimously opposed to a 3 million dollar contribution to continue finding the pay plan. When that was first suggested in the first year the committee sent the Commission a report pointing out and there is no need to take the time now, why we feel that is very unsound budget technique. Its unsound from the employees involved. They are clearly painting themselves into a corner and how are you going to fund normal operating salaries in the City of Miami when Revenue Sharing ends if you are going to continue to rely in such a major amount, this year in the extent of 3 million dollars to fund the pay plan? Mayor Ferre: We are running out of town. I will recognize you Mr. Plummer on this point later, go ahead Mr.Paul. Mr. Paul: Item 9, 10 and 11, in view of the shortness of time, again I will cover by one recommendation and that is we see no reason for shifting those operating expenses of the City of Miami to revenue sharing. It seems to me that at some time you are going to have to come to grips with balancing your budget with the millage limitation and existing revenues and that if you rely on revenue sharing money to make up that deficit, that 2 or 3 or 4 years along the way, you may find that you have a bankrupt city on your hands and I think itsa problem you ought to fact now. It's very unsound from a fiscal point of view in future planning of the City of Miami. That concludes our report as to the items. We again, urge the Commission to consider the items which the Revenue Sharing proposals which we made to the City in a written report some time back and suggested and particularly if you decide to put your salary increases in the budget. In fact if you are in that kind of a budget squeeze I would strongly recommend that you pull other items out of your city budget and put themin revenue sharing and put the salaries of City employees back in the normal budget where it belongs so the taxpayers know which way they are going and so you don't leave a bunch of policeman and firemen 3 or 4 years from now out on a limb without any funding at all. Thank you. 55 Mayor Ferre: Now, Mr. P;.ul wait a moment. Commissioner plummer- Mr. Plummer: I just want to go on the record. Mr. Paul some time ago you raised or I think you initially you raised about this funding of employees salary as being improper from federal revenue sharing. Now my question is to Mr. Reese, and for your edification. I immediately inquired of Mr. Reese and raised the same question to him your question, and Mr. Reese, is it still your thought as it was at that time as I recall your answer, that over the normal 5 year period, hopefully that the program would last 5 years, that the normal increase in the ad valorum taxes from the tremendous amount of construction in the downtown area, would more than compensate for this pay to the employees and at the end of 5 years would be able to be easily covered by the budget? Mr. Reese: That can't be answered with a yes or no. I would like to say when the City Commission adopted the budget in October and at that time stipulated that the salary adjustments based on the Wage Survey would be taken out of Federal Revenue Sharing. When that was done, the Commission asked me if it would be possible to absorb this in the up and coming budget and I said no, not in its entirety but we would be able to absorb a good percentage of it which we are absorbing and the balance or this 3 million dollars, I am quite sure in the next 2 budgets will be down to zero as being absorbed into the budget. This philosophical statement of preparing budgets and the position of the City and so on is done for no other purpose than to bring out a point. Now what the point isoI don't know, but I want to assure this City Commission that not one of these programs that has been proposed to you is pulled out of the budget or has been part of the budget. If it was and met the priorities, that would still be permissable and also, I would like to bring to the Commission's attention that there is a resolution on the City of Miami books that on committees that are in existence, they are supposed to keep minutes, supply these minutes to the City Commission and alsothe list of attendance at these meetings and the actions of these members as far as adopting anything that is recommended to the City Commission. I would like very much if the City would see fit to ask for such a set of minutes on this revenue sharing committee. Mr. Paul: The minutes on all previous meetings have been furnished to every member of the City Commission with a copy to the City Manager with the exception of the meeting which was held on Monday of this week and which the minutes haven't been written yet, however, furnishing them didn't seem to have much effect. Mayor Ferre: Nos Mr. Paul. Mr. Reese: All of the provisions of the resolution. Mr. Ferre: Mr. Paul, I just want to make one comment and then we will open the matter up for further questions from the Commission and some answers from Mr. Reese. The comment I want to make is this. That for the last dozen years or More, I have heard time and time and time again, how bad the City of Miami was and in what dire financial straits it was in and how the City of Miami had only another 2=3 years to go because it couldn't fund its budget. Now I think from my experience of serving 31 years on the City Commission and almost 3 months now as Intermin Mayor, that I have never seen the City of Miami in a stronger fiscal posture than it is right now. I think if you look at last years budget, the way it was funded, the surplus that we have and we c..rry over from one budget to the other, and I think the general posture of the City of Miami fiscally has in my experience, the City has never been stronger and I would like to ask Mr. Reese to specifically comment and address himself to that question because that keeps coming up and I don't thinkit should go unchallenged. 56 1 Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor, anything I say on that undoubtedly will be interpreted as self -servant. Mayor Ferre: You say it anyway. Mr. Reese: I think that you have to go and look at the financial statement and one of the best barometers of the City of Miami's financial position is look at the results every time we go into the bond market. Before you go into the bond market, you have to expose your entire financial record, your plans, all of your anticipated built in operating and capital expenditures, and it has to satisfy the needs or otherwise we wouldn't be able to sell bonds at a lesser price than Metro just sold them the other day for. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Bailey, I see you sitting back there Sir. Do you want to comment on this? Mr. Paul: May I just make one final statement Mr. Mayor? It seems to the Revenue Sharing Committee that in view of the informational infeed that we have had, that it serves no useful function to continue the committee any further and personally I should like to resign as chairman of the Revenue Sharing Committee. Mayor Ferre: Now, I would like to have a show of hands of the people that are going to speak today on this matter today of revenue sharing? 1-2-3-4-5-6. I will allocatate exactly 4 minutes because we are already 1 hour and lets make it 5 minute's for every one of the 6 speakers that want to speak. -Now Mr. Paul, I want to, since you have resigned, I assume is your resignation yours personally, or for the whole committee? Mr. Paul: I obviously can only resign for myself. It's my resignation personally. I have no desire to participate in an exercise in futility. Mayor Ferre: Let me tell you that I don't think that is exactly accurate. I don't know what has happened in the past because I wasn't part of that but I can tell you that your words here today, if you will have the patience of not condemning us before we have our day, that I think it is going to be rather obvious, the work of this committee is going to have some kind of an impact so your work is not in futility and I really think again that this is unfair case of pre -judging something without waiting for the final results. T of course with regrets accept your resignation and thank you for your services. Mrs. Range. Mrs. Range: Mr. Mayor, this has certainly come as a total surprise to me, being a member of the revenue sharing committee. I want to have you know that I would plead with Mr. Paul here in public to reconsider his resignation and to ask at the same time that this committee be given what we commonly some teeth, that we be ah1: to move on some of the issues without simply being an advisory committee to come and say things and then go away and not even know what is being planned by the Commissioners until we see it in the papers. We feel that it is an exercise in futility. I notice Mr. Reese pointedly asked that the minutes of this committee be furnished. I can assure you for one, that this committee worked very very hard toward what we feel is for the betterment of the entire City of Miami and I should feel that if this: reignation is allowed to go through now, I can't speak for every member of this committee but another member of the committee just suggested that we resign in mass. Certainly I do not feel that this would be the best thing for the City of Miami. If we are going to work for the betterment of the City of Miami, I think we should all work in unison and I am asking Mr. Paul to reconsider his resignation and that this City Commission be more ameanible to our dillemma in trying to help you solve these problems. Thank you very much., 5 7 JUL 121973 Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Range, I would like to responk, very briefly. You better than anybody else, having served on this Commission for 4 years certainly know that the way the government functions in this country and in Miami and Dade County, the final responsibility of any budgetary item or any funds that come here from the federal government must be determined by the public body which is the City of Miami Commission. We cannot give this duty over to anyone unfortunately. Sometimes I just wish we could pass the buck. Mrs. Range: I am not asking for that Sir. I am just asking for consideration of the items tht we bring to the Commission. I would certainly not go so far askance as to ask you to relinquish your duties to this committee. We are not asking for that Mr. Mayor, we are simply asking for the kind of cooperation we are going to need to make the thing actually work because it is the money of the taxpayers filtering back to us and we feel that, I personally feel that something can be worked oI.t between the Committee and the City Commission for the betterment of the people of this community. Mayor Ferre: Well I certainly hope that you don't subscribe to what Mr. Paul has stated here which is a pre -judgment of what we are going to do because I don't think anybody here. I am talking for myself but nobody here knows what Maurice Ferre is going to do today or tomorrow or whenever we vote on this matter so don't prejudge what is in my heart or in my head. I haven't made any statements one way or the other about any of these items. Mrs. Range: I am not prejudging. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Paul did. Mrs. Range: Well I am certain Mr. Ferre that we can understand that even though as you sit there as City Commissioners and we stand here as citizens, we are still all human beings and emotional elements happens to enter in no matter how much ve say that we leave emotions out of government, as longas we're human, cur emotions are going to surface at some time or other. I personally feel that this is what happened a moment ago and I know Mr. Paul's interest in this and the interest of all of us including yourselves and I just wish something else could be done other than accepting his resignation at this moment. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Paul , would you reconsider serving as chairman? Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Mayor, I would like to add my own comments. I hope that you do reconsider Mr. Paul. I do for one feel that you have aided me tremendously with your recommendation. Mr. Paul: It's not an emotional outburst on my part. It seems to me that the Revenue Sharing Committee doesn't really have any function if its a policy decision of the Commission to continue to fund the operating budget of the City of Miami out of revenue sharing money. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Paul, we haven't come to that decision yet. Mr. Paul: In dialog with the City Manager, that was this Commissions - Mayor Ferre: The City Manager does not vote on this commission. He has an opinion. Mr. Paul: I will withdraw my recommendation but I do sincerely state that I see no purpose of a committee to advise you on how to work the operating budget of the City of Miami and - Mayor Ferre: Why don't you hold back your resignation until we and this Commission take a vote and take a position on this matter? Mr. Paul: All right. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I think Mr. Paul and Mrs. Range and all and maybe even some of the Commissioners should be very cognizant of one thing. I think its been forgotten. 58 JUL 1219 Mr. Paul, when Mr. Reese submitted to us this paper which you quoted from, if I remember correctly, his words were, that this was merely a plan which would be submitted to the federal government, which had to be done by a certain date for the intent of these funds. Now, he made mention at that meeting when this thing came up and this proposal came up, that at the public hearing, you can rip this thing apart. You can tear it and you can tear it down and you can rearrange it but right now, to meet a federal requirement, I must submit some plan. This was the plan that he submitted. He readily admitted at that meeting that we could change it, we could alter it, I think his terminology was rip it up and down. Mayor Ferre: And I have a feeling we will. Mr. Plummer: And so you see, I think people are jumping at the gun. This is not what the Commission said we are going to do or what we want to do. I am sure there is a lot of things in hPr..teit we do. There is a lot of things that we don't but I think a pre -judgement has been made that this is the plan. This was only a plan developed to submit to the federal government by a certain date to follow their guidelines. I think the people have forgot that and I think its important. Mr. Paul" It seems to me though that an advisory committee can't serve a very useful function if we hear about it after the fact as Mrs. Range said. I am talking about even the Manager's recommendations. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Paul, let me tell you something. I as Mayor of this City received those recommendations the day before and we on this Commission said and its a matter of record that this in no way ties down this City Commission in any of these recommendations. All we are doing or had to do to fall within the law was to publish this, make it a public forum, call for a public hearing before we come to a vote. We had to publish something. I certainly didn't have the expertise nor did anybody on this Commission nor is it our function in the Charter to do this. Mr. Reese is the Manager of the City. He has come up with the recommendations, they were published. We are now holding a public hearing. They will now be discussed and eventually this Commission will go on record and vote. Mr. Paul: One other thing I neglected to mention. Several members of the revenue sharing committee are here and they wish to speak themselves. Mayor Ferre: I now have 6 people I am going to recognize to speak and we will take them, lets get those hands again, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9. Mr. Angleton, you can have your hands up a dozen times. I am going to recognize everyone in due course, including you. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Mayor, could we hear from some of the people that are here to furnish us some information on the Child Day Care Center portion which was a top priority item of the committee? Mayor Ferre: I'll tell you what. Since Mr. Angleton is so insistent we are going to recognize him first and I am going to give him 5, because he has been jumping up and down and I - Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor now wait a minute. Mayor Ferre: i am running this meeting Mr. Plummer. I am going to give everyone of these speakers 5 minutes. Mr. Angleton, you have exactly 5 minutes. Mr. Plummer: I then will question the chair and I feel Mr. Mayor that it is only appropriate that the members of the committee be allowed to speak first - Mayor Ferre: No Sir, this is a public hearing. Anyone who wants to be heard, can be heard. I will give them 5 minutes each. 59 JUL 121973 Mr. Angleton: Thank you Mr. Mayor. I haven't been jumping up and down and I haven't resigned. I wish you would read my letter again. I resigned, I offered to resign only if you thought it was a conflict of interest. Mayor Ferre: Oh, I don't think its a conflict of interest. Mr. Angleton: Well I would suggest you read my letter again because I haven't resigned. I want to serve my community. Mayor Ferre: I heard Mr. Paul say that he had the resignation of Mr. Angleton and he was not authorized to accept it. He gave it to me and I took Mr. Paul at face value that you had resigned. But lets not take time - Mr. Angleton: Yes Sir, you were quick to accept my letter but not Mr. Paul's. Anyway, I am still a member of the Revenue Sharing Committee or a past member and that's why I am here. I am appearing today in 3 different capacities. First as a member of the Mayor's Revenue Commission on Revenue Sharing with the consent and encouragement of Mr. Dan Paul, Chairman. Secondly, as a private citizen and thirdly as a man who hopes to fill the Mayor's seat soon and will therefore inherit the financial burdens and problems - Mr. Plummer: Mr. Angleton-- Mr. Ferre is too much of a gentleman but I am not I guess and I am not going to sit here Sir and listen to you or anyone else use this for a political platform. Mr. Angleton: Its not being used as a political platform. Mr. Plummer: Well Sir, you are saying what you want to do and things of this nature. Now I personally, Mr. Mayor, you call me out of order again if you want to but I will listen to you Mr. Angleton or anyone else who wants to speak to this thing here. I think I have got to be fair and under fairness, speak to this and I will listen to you Sir. Anything else I think is out of order. Mr. Angleton: Ok, I will accept that. It's not out of order. Mayer Ferre: Go ahead Mr. Angleton. Mr. Angleton: In all 3 capacities - Rev. Gibson:, Mr. Mayor before we, please I want to be fair to everybody. Mr. Mayor, I suggest that we appoint a timekeeper because we want to be fair and Mr. Reese, since you are the Manager, would you keep the time. 5 minutes please Sir. Mayor Ferre: He has already had 2 minutes. Mr. Angleton: If you just listen to me because this is a public forum and if you just listen to me, I would appreciate it because I have a word about how my money is being spent also. #1. In all three categories I stand opposed to using federal revenue sharing funds for employee pay raises for two reasons. (1) using these funds for pay raises were not '-_the intent of the federal revenue sharing program. The funds were and are intended to be used for people projects where all the citizens in the community benefit from projects too long delayed. #2 The state statutes expressly prohibit you from using any funds for retroactive pay raises. The City has already violated this law once with the money appropriated from last years allotment of $6,125,124 in federal revenue sharing funds and now the city government is breaking this law the second time. How can we ask the public at large to obey our laws if we indiscriminently break them at will on city administration level. Out of $7,828,767, it is proposed by the City Manager that we allot 3 million dollars for employee pay raises. At what sacrifice? By cutting down on the amounts of people programs and reducing them to token programs instead of realistic ones which will establish results. The City has embarked upon a dangerous path when it chooses to shift funds from one pocket to another instead of coming to grips with the 60 JUL 121973 financial problems of this City. Eventually we will run out of pockets and then our successors will inherit the financial crisis which we - Mayor Ferre: 2 minutes Mr. Angleton. Mr. Angleton: Yes Sir, which we created. Certainly our city employees should have raises to meet the cost of living but not at the expense of the people. Certainly not through any convenient method, whether legal or not. The Mayor's Committee on Revenue Sharing is an advisory board. All we can do is make our recommendations known to the Mayor and the City Commission. We as a committee cannot force them to accept our recommendations. We do however have other alternatives available to us in our roles as private citizens such as speaking out today and any other legal preventative means. I can only hope that the city fathers will not spend the money from federal revenue sharing funds contrary to the position of the committee and the law, and therefore oblige me as a private citizen to test my opinions in court. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Plummer: Mayor Ferre: Mr. Plummer: Mayor Ferre: Mr. Angleton: Mayor Ferre: Your name for Thank you Mr. Angleton. Now can we ask questions Mr. Mayor? I don't think so, not right now. Well I think there is a very important question here. We are going to come back to this. Thank you for your courtesies. Yes Sir Mr. Angleton. Maam, who is the next speaker? the record and you have S minutes. Ms. Wllson: Anne Wilson, a resident of Miami for 30 years. I have brought a sort of a homemade map of the park of Dade COunty. I am the Chairperson of the Status of Women for Dade COunty. As you know we brought a resolution a couple of weeks ago asking you to take some of this federal revenue sharing money out of the new money, not the old money because you have already recommended $400,000 of the old money. This is over and above that money that we are asking for and we are asking for expansion of the pre-school program that is presently in the City of Miami Parks and I just wanted to show you on the map where the present programs are located and the fact that in this center city, there are vast areas where there is no park program for pre school children at all, as you can see from this map. The red parks marked are where the programs are presently located. #1, we would like to call to your attention that the real world statistics are this. 44% of the women in Dade County work. Miami proper which comprises approximately 4 of Dade County's population, has a high concentration of families where both parents work or a single person is the head of the household. From this map which shows the present parks, the pre- school programs, you can see vast areas of the city which has no pre- school park program at all. We ask for expansion and upgrading of the present programs in the areas outlined in red for expansion wherever possible. We expect these fees to be charged. We don't expect this to be a charity program. It would be, we would hope it would be in middle income areas as well as low income areas and the fees would be charged on a sliding scale where it would serve both low income and middle income families and I would like at this time for those people who are here in support of this to please rise. There are other people that would like to speak to this. Thank you very much. 61 JUL 121973 Mrs. Gordon: Anne, would you more or less tell the backgrounds of most of the people that have just stood up. Ms. Wilson: Oh, there is a varied background here. There are working Mothers, people who serve on day care committees, and other functions. There are some who will speak. There are 3 or 4 people who would like to speak and be brief and this will be a cross section of these people. Mayor ferre: Thank you Mrs. Wilson for your presentation and for your briefness. Ms. David: My name is Alma David, I too have lived here for 20 years. I would like to speak in behalf of the 40 to 50- Mayor Ferre: Excuse the interruption but just for the record would you state your address. We need that for our records. Ms. David: Yes, I live at 8505 S. W. 48 Street. Mrs Gordon:Dr... David, also for the record, your occupation and your preparation of the presentation that you are making. Ms. David: Yes I am a Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Miami. I would like to speak in behalf of the 40 to 50,000 children of working mothers in Dade County who are under 6 years of age and who cannot speak for themselves. We as Mrs. Wilson says, have 44% of the working force in Dade County who are women *mut society ignores the problems of who minds the babies while these mothers are working. As she has said, we need day care for all levels of our society. There have been proposals for day care centers'in the low income areas and we approve of that and also want day care centers in some of the areas where there are many working mothers in the middle class. One of the things that we are aware of, is that we need a quality program for every phase of a child's development. Research has shown that 50% of the childs intellectual development takes place in the early years and if the child does not receive intellectual stimulation, in those early years, then this is a deFicit that may follow him throughout life. We also know that nutrition aid health affect the learning potential of the child as well as every other aspect of his development. We know too that psychological damage can result if a child has poor care or in some cases is left with no care at all if the Mother cannot find a place to leave the child. We know that quality care helps not only the child but the whole family and we endorse the kind of program that would involve the parent in these policy making of the center and in an educational program which would help them to become better parents. Therefore, a good program strengthens the family. We feel too that it would strengthen the community because business needs to have good care for the children of working mothers so that they can do a better job while they at work. We feel too that the community needs to bring all ages togethtr. We have one member in our group that is in charge of the grandparents program including them in day care centers as well as the parents but the greatest gain is an investment in the life of a human being who can either contribute to society or if neglected, can become a burden and end up in jail or psychiatric ward or become a drag upon society, so we endorse that the proposal to set aside $1,000,000 from the revenue sharing be spat in behalf of young children of the City of Miami. (Applause followed) Mayor Ferre: Ladies, we have had since I have been Mayor, about 5 public hearings. I have requested in the past that we have no outbursts of any kind so I will since:you are full fledged persons of society now, I am going to treat you the same as I have treated everybody else and will kindly ask you to refrain from applauding. Thank you very much Dr. David. Ms. David: I have a petition here endorsing the resolution also. Mayor Ferre: Who is the next speaker please? 62 JUL 121973 Ms. Pritcher: I am Mrs. Nathan Pritcher, Vice Chairman,Vice PResident of Community services of the Greater Miami Section of National Council of Jewish Women, 4200 Biscayne Boulevard. The National Council of Jewish Women has been vitally concerned with quality day care for many years. We feel very strongly that mothers in training, mothers who are the sole support of their families or contributing supporters of their families, should not be in a position of doing so at the expense of the emotional stability and mental health of their children and family units. This is frequently the case because of woefully inadequate child care facilities. The reality is that many working mothers must leave their children with one neighbor, then another, then another, one relative, then another. Often older children have the full responsibilities for their younger siblings. Baby sitters when they can be found give the quality of care dependent on thequality of the baby sitter. For those who can afford it, there are some proprietary care centers available on a limited scale but even some of these facilities merely offer custodial care because of the quality of the personnel. Some are actually repressant. Certainly it is far less costly to supply quality day care than to pay for care of many of these children who in the future will become dropouts, be emotionally disturbed, the troublemakers, the juvenille delinquents because of a lack of quality day care. We have a golden opportunity in the City of Miami to offer our children of working mothers and mothers in training or working fathers who are the sole person in the house that seems to develop to the maximum pot- ential in their formative years. It whets their appetite for future education. It helps channel their energies into constructive rather thandestructive paths. The National Council of Jewish Women of Greater Miami is involved in 2-Day Care Centers. One in Larchmont Gardens and the other, a new one in conjunction with the Ym-YWHA. We have had the opportunity to see first hand the benefits that can accrue to children in a quality facility with properly trained interested caring personnel. Quality day care is an investment in our future for certainly our children are our future. The question is not can we afford to spend 1 million dollars on day care. But can we afford not to spend this amount on a program that will be of great benefit both to our children and to our community. Thank you. Mayor Ferre: Thank you Mrs. Pritcher. Who is the next speaker? Ms. Zatinsky: My naite is Marilyn Zatinsky, I live at 6060 N. E. 5th -Avenue, Lemon City, in Miami. I have 2 children. One in early teens and one nursery school age so I have been a working mother for quite awhile. I really feel that I represent a large number of working women in Miami. I found out that there are 221,584 working women in Dade County. That is the 44% that has been mentioned before and for a lot of reasons, we need services that are not presently available. There are 70,000 families in Dade County with working mothers who have children under the age' of 18. Only about 10,000 of those are in the poverty category. There are lots of us. I make under $6,000 a year and I am ha,ring a really hard time. I just need a little bit of help but I am doing the best that I can to see that housing, clothing and provide for my children and raise healthy well adjusted ones but there were things like broadly distributed quality day care programs at prices that I and so many others like me could afford, it would be a tremendous load off and I really feel that so many of as working mothers are putting money into the tax pot, why can't we be some of the ones who get something back? Why can't we get a little bit of a fair share? From the revenue sharing thing. We don't want warehousing for our kids. We want quality programs. We want these things at times when our children can use them. We want something on a sliding scale as I said so we can all afford them, not only low income people. I don't qualify for assistance. I am not too far away from it but I don't Qualify. I really don't want. I would like to do it on my own with just a little bit of return of my tax dollar and I appeal to you and I hope there is some way in the City of Miami that some of these dollars can be returned to us. 6 JUL 121973 Mayor Ferre: Thank you very much Mrs. Satinsky. Mrs. Rockafellar. Mrs. Rockafellar: I am Grace Rockafellar, President of the Northeast Taxpayers Association. Now we agree with Mr. Rothstein when he said that the Revenue Sharing was intended to take some of the burden of the over burdened taxpayer. We agree with Mayor Ferre when he said the City of Miami is in a better financial situation than it has ever been. As taxpayers, we are opposed to the federal revenue sharing being used for salaries. Now on the national guidelines for salaries set down by the government, its 51% that most of us must adhere to. In private business if the business cannot afford a salary increase, its based on what it can afford. I think the City of Miami could base their pay increase for their officials on what the City can afford and not take it out of federal revenue sharing and we think this money should be used for the services that these ladies have spoken about and Mr. Paul spoke about for civic services that cannot be given unless you put an extra burden on the taxpayers, so hopefully we were against the last time that a great portion of this was used for salaries and hopefully that no more of this will be used for salary. Thank you. Mayor Ferre: Thank you Mrs. Rockafellar. All right Erny, oh excuse me, Mrs. Virrick. Mrs. Virrick: I won't take but a minute because I don't think its necessary to try to sell you on day care. If anybody in Dade County knows, I know because I have seen hundreds of times children left with the old lady in the neighborhood. They are running in the streets, paddled with a paddle, they were eating food left exposed to bugs and ants and I know how desparate the need in many of the parts of town are. I didn't come to sell you on that because I think its a foregone conclusion. I came up here to try to be a peacemaker to resolve the problem that seemed to come up today unexpected by any member of the committee and I am a member of the committee. It should •not have come up. It came up because the committee has not had time to do what it should do to study these problems and this was reflected in what Mr. Paul said. It apparently was not, you didn't get it, but that's what he was saying. We don't think $400,000 or maybe even a million is enough for the day care centers but before we say how much, we would like a little more study and I haven't been able to get to the Saturday morning meetings because I have been busy but if we could have a survey that would show where these parks are that the centers are to go, what they need, how much additional personnel would be necessary, we could come up with something to say yes or no to but we didn't have any of that. The things we made our decision on were the things that were given to us and we had neither the time nor the information to come up with concrete recommendations to you as to amounts and that sort of thing. I see no excuse or any reason for you all to get mad at us after we have worked so hard and we have worked without enough to work un and I don't blame him for resigning and if he resigns, I 'shall too and I think most of the committee will because its not fair. You asked us to give a service to the community. You asked him to submit minutes which he does at his own expense and then he comes up here and reports to you and every single word he says, you argue with him about. This isn't very polite of you. You haven't been very polite to -your committee and I don't want to resign because I am interested and I have very definite ideas of what I think revenue sharing should do and I would like to continue on it but if there is going to be this kind of unpleasantness, I am going to resign too. That is a promise. Mayor Ferre: Now Mrs. Virrick, I don't think anybody is trying to be mean to anybody else around here. The only thing that I took exception to strongly is that I think that it is wrong for anybody here to pre -judge what this commission is going to do. You don't know what we are going to do and my only quarrel with Mr. Paul today was that he came in here and got upset and resigned without knowing what it is that this Commission is going to do. 64 Mrs. Virrick: Maurice, put yoursel;pretend you ;.ere standing here and he was up there and if everything you said was jumped on the way you all jumped on him, you would have done the same thing. Mayor Ferre: Ok. You just be patient here as this thing progresses. Mrs. Virrick: Well you all give us a chance to make some good decisions and we'll do it, Mayor Ferre: All right Mrs. Virrick, thank you very much. Mr.Fannotto, keep it short please, Mr. Fannotto: Honorable Mayor and members of the Commission, Erny Fannotto and I am President of the Taxpayers League of Miami and Dade County. I think the basic purpose of the revenue sharing money was for two specific purposes. One is to help the City specifically to help the homeowners and taxpayer and lets do just that. Iam going to ask you to deduct 25% of the revenue sharing money and tell the people of the City of Miami,we used this money to reduce taxes. I am going to ask you to take 10% of the total money and use it to beef up our police force. I am tired of being in the City of Miami £, hearing candidates run and say, I am going to reduce crime. Let's do something about it. Lets take 10% of all the money and add policemen. Let me give you s specific illustration. Our principle industry in Dade County is the Hotel Industry and they work on two shifts from .12 to 4 and 4 to 12. They come downtown and take buses. You don't have one foot policeman after 11 or 11:30 on these streets and let me tell you something. And let me tell you that these people who work in hotels whether they are maids, whether they are secretarys or accountants, they pay taxes too. If you want to cut crime, put extra policemen during these hours. Go in Liberty City and give them some extra policeman. We know where the crime is and you folks know too. Mayor Ferre: Erny, you have 2 minutes. Mr. Fannotto: Ok Mayor, I am going to take the 2 minutes to say I think you are a good businessman Mayor and I trust and have confidence in you that you will spend the money in a good businesslike manner and again I am going to repeat, 25% to reduce taxes. 10% to fight crime and let's hire policeman and lets make our streets safe for the ladies, children and men of the City of Miami. Thank you. Mayor Ferre; Thank you Mr. Fannotto. Who is the next speaker now? Ms. Frazier: I am E. Frazier and I am President of and I am here today because I am interested in revenue sharing day care. There should be more money put into day care because we are all working mothers. We find we have many of us who would wark and even though working have to spend as much as $100 a month for day care. Therefore, you will find mothers working who are just above the poverty level when it comes to their struggling children and are struggling harder than would be if at the poverty level. I am encouraging that we do extend the day care centers into all parks in the City of Miami so that the working mothers can continue to work and be sure our children are being taken care of. Mayor Ferre: Thank you Mrs. Frazier. Ms. Liberty: My name is Eunice Liberty from the National Council of Negro Women. If you can read back, the National Council of Negro Women who have really spearheaded the original child care center in Washington D.C. so, we have a long record of doing a community job. I would like to also say to you because of the fact that many of our young people are now in jail, if you go to jails today, you will find 95% are there and if you talk with them, they will tell you where it started and right here where the child could have been protected at an early age. I have spent 37 years in Dade County working with young people. I have a young man who is close to a PHD level and when I talk with him, he is working with Dade county but when you talked with him when he was 5 years old, he didn't get the care. He is an educated 6� JUL 121973 person and you would be surprised to know his story, so take this one example for a .man who has really disturbed, couldn't stay with the wife, went in service, came back, working everyday trying to make it and if you see him tonite you wouldn;t believe it, how close he is to his PHD degree but at 5 years old he didn't have the protection. When you get ready to share your money, think of that particular person and really multiply it by many many more. Go to the jails tonight and 95% of them are black and 95% of them did not get the care. Think about it, they are in prisons too. Thank you. Mayor Ferre: Thank you very much Mrs. Liberty. We have 2 more speakers. Ms. I am Francis:o , President of Centro Mater a recreation center for children. We are running right now a summer camp. We have 250 children and we have no shelter. We have 2 shelters but they are open on the sides. We have a very small office and we run a day camp for the children from 9 to 5.. Due to the bad weather we have now, we would like to ask the City Commission if they could help us to get some portable classroom building. We have a problem there because there is going to be built, a park in the meantime, we need this shelter for the children. We would like and went to see Mr. Klein, Dade Co.Public School Asst.Superintendent and he sent us a letter telling us that they have:10 portables no longer of value to the Board and they are going to take this to a meeting on July 19, 1973 and they are offering this portable classrooms to the in a public auction and if it is possible if they could help to get us this portable or a way that we could get that portable. Mayor Ferre: I have a copy of the letter here which you gave me from the Dade County Public Schools. Mr. F. H. Klein, Asst.Superintendent of the Division of Business Services and Iam going to give this to the City MLnager and Mr. Reese if you would have somebody call Mr. Klein and find out exactly what type of shelters they have available and what .the cost is and that is something we will take into consideration when we get into these programs. I am afraid that we are not going to give you a quick solution. Ms. We need a quick solution because we tried to rent some - Mayor Ferre: It all depends on what kind of money you are talking about and if we could get somethingdetermined, perhaps we might find something within the City. How much do you think these units would cost? Ms. : We have no idea right now because- Sister Miranda has more information. Sister Miranda: Mr. Mayor and all the Commissioners. As far as.I know, the last time I talked to him he told me he could quote around $5,000 to bring them to Centro Mater where we are working and where is so needed, one day care center also. We cannot work where we are and this would be a help in order to continue our programs not only during the summer, but all through the year to expand our programs. We have no buildings. We are working in the garden. Mayor Ferre: Well if we can get sane kind of a response before the end of the day, then perhaps we would know what we are talking about right now till we know what kind of money. Mr. Reese, maybe someone could call before 5 and see what Mr. Klein has to say about that. Mr. Reese: He is offering these for bid sale, the school board is and this is within 30 days of July 19th they are offering them on a bid for the disposal of them. Mayor Ferre: We might be able to get those at a very inexpensive price. You mentioned several hundred dollars. That's what Mr. Klein said. Mr. Reese: No no, you said somebody said this. ��; JUL121973 A 4' Sister Miranda: No Mr. Klein said maybe they won start from $100.00 up. Mayor Ferre: Well let;s find out and if we can do that, we might find some money within the city if its a matter of a couple of hundred dollars to get these shelters right away. Sister Miranda: It is the transportation also. They move them to the place - Mayor Ferre: The trouble is, we can't determine that today so its a matter of following up and you have our commitment and I think I speak for everybody on the Commission that we will persue this and we are asking Mr. Reese perhaps this afternoon we may have some answers before we break up this evening. Mrs.Gordon: This is pertinent to Mother Miranda's problem and to the other speakers on Child Day Care because there aren't any other minor items of this kind that can be resolved quickly if we have a group of interested people who are willing to give their time and attention to it and we have such a group of people and Ms. Ann Wilson is here, the Chairperson of the Status of Women Committee, who has volunteered to serve as the chairperson of an ad hoc task force for this very same purpose so may [ move that we appoint her as chairper son of the task force that have volunteered and of course it is open to any other volunteers that desire to help on this program. They can handle these emergency problems and can save the Commission a lot of time and effort. May I appoint her at this time? I would so move. Mayor Ferre: Now tell me again. You are making a motion to appoint a committee? Mrs. Gordon: I am appointing Ms. Ann Wilson, Chairperson of a volunteer committee to help with the child day care coordination efforts that are being made in the community. Rev. Gibson: Mr. Mayor, Mr. Paul just got through arguing with us. Now if you don't need that committee, get rid of it. Mrs. Gordon: It's a different committee Father- Rcv. Gibson: You are talking about Day Care. These people have to deal with that Revenue Sharing money. All I am saying is, my bretheren, I am disturbed everytime this one comes here. Either we are going to be orderly or we are not going to be. I would suggest Mr. Mayor that you turn this matter over to that committee. If you don't need their recommendations, get rid of them. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Mayor, I don't think Father Gibson is listening. Rev. Gibson: I am afraid I listen too much. Mrs. Gordon: I think you have missed the point of what I have just said. Rev. Gibson: All right, let me hear you again because I am going to answer it. Mrs. Gordon: What I have said is there is a group of citizens who are specialists in early child development and educators and people of great knowledge and experience in ttis particular field. They are not going to tell us how to spend the revenue sharing funds perse. They are going to bring forth the kind of information that the revenue sharing committee will need in order to decide specifically how much money will be used for this portion of the revenue sharing funds. Rev. Gibson: Mr. Mayor, I want to again. I am not an educator. I preach for a living but I tell you this. I have some common sense and concern about procedures. 67 JUL12'1973 Dan Paul came here resigning simply because we :.ways circumvent that committee. Now if this is the way we feel, if t;;is is what you want done, you ought to say to the committee that Mr. Paul heads, Mr. Paul you have heard this matter, we want you to make a recommendation. Otherwise you are going to lose citizens committees every day. Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Paul, I appreciate your recommendation to -this committee has volunteered to aid the city in coordinating efforts to develop day care centers within the City of Miami and would you as the chairman of the Revenue Sharing Committee have any objections to such a committee helping the city in this regard? Mr. Paul: Mrs. Gordon, I don't think that is even a question that I can answer. (Rest of Mr. Pauls remarks were inaudible since he was in the audience and did not use the microphone) — Mrs. Gordon: A citizens committee to put their efforts and knowledge behind the formation of centers of course. I again would like to movethat this citizens committee be given some official status as a volunteer committee within the City of Miami for -the purpose of developing a network of child day day care centers. Mayor Ferre: There is a motion on the floor. Is there a second to the motion? Is there a second to the motion? Father Gibson, I will turn over the chair to you and I will second the motion for this purpose. I see no conflict in having a committee that is involved specifically with a very very important matter which is called day care centers. That does no violence in any way in my opinion to the Revenue SharingCommittee that Dan Paul heads. Mr. Paul has a specific task. His task is to recommend to us how we should use these funds. That doesn't mean that we are going to follow 1000 of anything that the committee recommends but we certainly are going to pay attention to it as I have said before because it is an important committee. They work hard and they deserve recognition. One committee has a specific task. This is a completely different matter. This is a committee tYat is dedicated to one specific specialized complicated subject and I don't see that there is any conflict between one and the other and I am certainly very happy. Mrs. Gordon: I want to commend you Mr. Mayor on your farsightedness. Mr. Plummer: Let me ask this. Are we under discussion? Mr. Vice Mayor? Rev. Gibson: Yes Sir. Mr . Plummer: Mrs. Gordon, is it also because I am looking here at 3 pages, 21 pages which already shows the Chairman on it. Mayor Ferre: Well now excuse me - Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Plummer, these first 2 pages - Rev. Gibson: Please, all of us can't talk at one time. Now Mr. Plummer - Mr. Plummer: Mrs. Gordon, lets say that approximately we have got as it stands today, 15 different allocations of where the monies are going to go. Now if we are going to formulate a committee for each and every one of these allocations of money and the committee is going to be as lengthy as this one, I hate to tell you but I don't think anything is ever going to get accomplished and there is not going to be any money after administrative to do anything. Mrs. Gordon: You are not going to pay anybody on this committee one single penny Mr. Plummer. Mr. Plummer: Indicate that so Mrs. Gordon, committees I was always thought, if you want no action, you make them large and if you want action, you make them small. Mrs. Gordon: May I explain the position of the, would you mind Father? 6b Mr. Plummer:,Iasked the question of Mrs. Gordon. Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Gordon, I think I can cut through quickly - Mrs. Gordon: I just want to tell him who is on the committee - Mayor Ferre: That would take 10 minutes. Mr. Plummer: I can read it. Mrs. Gordon: No you can't because the 3rd page is not on the committee. Those are simply consultants and Mr. Plummer, would you listen? Do you want an answer to your question? Mr. Plummer: I will ask you to answer my question. Is it your intent that every delegation from the federal revenue sharing - Mrs. Gordon: No Sir. Mr. Plummer: All right, that answers my question. Mrs. Gordon: No Sir, and an aside of this committee is necessary for the purpose of that it will split itself into smaller task forces to cover specific items that need to be covered. Mayor Ferre: I think by the facts, they speak for themselves. Look at the amount of ladies are here today and look at the amount of ladies that have been here everytime something has been discussed. Certainly I think it shows interest. This is an important and somewhat controversial item . I think we need some specialized guidance, help interest, involvement in this very specialized field. That doesn't mean we are going to get a committee on how to spend money for fire equipment or rescue squad because one has nothing to do with the other. This is a social problem that is affecting the community. There is obvious deep serious concern. I think there is room, indeed need, for this type of action. I am thrilled that citizens of Miami would give of their own time and put forth effort to contribute to such an important cause and I certainly think that we should not only recognize them but encourage it and thank them, so that's the end of my speech. Rev. Gibson: Please call the roll. Thereupon the following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-541 A RESOLUTION OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZING THE VOLUNTEER CITIZENS CHILD CARE COMMITTEE FORMED TO ASSIST THE CITY IN ESTABLISHING CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS AND APPOINTING MS. ?aNN C. WILSON AS CHAIRPERSON OF SAID COMMITTEE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mayor Ferre, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. Reverend Gibson voted NO. In casting his NO vote, Reverend Gibson stated: I vote NO because I believe the route is to go to the committee and I can see right now, we are going to have all sorts of problems. I am not opposed to day care, God knows if anybody ought to be on the side of day care, I ought to be because we gave a 5-acre tractof land for that purpose before you even had it in government and I just think 69 1 ■s that the procedure is wrong based on the complaint that you heard earlier. I am not opposed to day care. I am opposed to procedure. Mr. Jasper Andre: I represent citizens and homeowners of Grapeland Heights Civic Association and I would like to get something clear. I read in the newspaper that Mr. Reese had indicated that we were going to have some sodium lights in the city and by the same token I hear today that Mr. Dan Paul doesn't believe that the money should come from federal revenue sharing funds for the lighting system. If that is the case, I would like to know now because I have to direct myself in a certain way to approach this matter whereby the City has to recognize the direction of what I am going to ask. In our neighborhood and I want to make it clear this has no bearing , on the day care. I am not knocking it and I think I am going to help it. We have a pretty high rate of crime in Florida. We also have in Miami area. We have a bad lighting system and it has to be upgraded and according to what 1 hear today here that there is a sort of a misunderstanding may be but the lighting system from Florida Power and Light may not be available as we thought itwould be and yet there is money from the fund sharing to do this. Is this a true fact? Is it coming from the fund sharing? Mr. Reese: My recommendation to the City Commission in order to bring this improved lighting about within a reasonable length of time was to use Revenue Sharing Funds because this again is in keeping with one of the priority items. Mr. Rothstein: What this gentleman is really asking you is, in effect what is going to happen today if anything about the monies and the revenue sharing fund and I think the answer is that this Commission today does not have to act,really this is a public hearing to get input from the public preparatory and planning wise to the budget hearings which are coming up because its at the budget hearings that there will be a determination of how the monies of the City will be spent and included in the monies of the City is revenue sharing funds. Mayor Ferre: That's correct but this Commission hopefully is going to go on record on philosophy as to how these monies should be allocated because if we so state, then that gives Mr. Reese and the administration directive as to how these monies should be allocated when it comes time for budget. Mr. Andre: We have a very serious situation. We have like a mentioned before and think you kr..ow about, the lighting system in Grapeland Heights is very bad and I am not saying other parts of the city isn't. Of course we have a library, we have a ball park which is active with children night and day. We have a golf course and dog track and a methadone clinic, a drug situation and an Orange Bowl which collects people from all over and god knows Broward County, Palm Beach and the metropolitan areas of Dade County. We need lighting systems and we can't get any because there isn't enough funds in the revenue funds sharing we will be out of luck, what happens then? Mayor Ferre: Ok Jasper. thank you very much. Now that concludes all the people that want to speak today. Now are there any questions or comments from the City of Miami Commission? Mr. Plummer: #1 Mr. Angleton, is he still here? Would you come forward sir. Mr. Angleton in your presentation Sir, you made mention that something was done illegal. I revert back Sir, were you made aware of a memo dated May 9, 1973 and an answer by Mr. Rothstein to an inquiry of Mr. Dan Paul in reference to the legality of the spending of monies on city employees pay raises? Are you aware of the memo Sir? Mr. Angleton: I am only talking about retroactive pay raises. Mr. Plummer: Well just so the record will be clear. I was very concerned of anytime doing anything illegal and I would only like to quote from this memo in which it says and this is the City Attorney speaking" It is my opinion the salary adjustment plan for the City of Miami Employees is lawful and does not violate the provisions" I want the record to be clear Sir. 70 der Mr. Angleton: Well I like the record - Mr. Plummer: I will be glad to give you this copy for your perusal. Mr. Angleton: I would like to be put on record as having said that the pay raises that were retroactive is illegal. Mr. Plummer: I think if you will read further in that, it does clarify it sir. Mr. Angleton: I have done a lot of research on it and I am only talking through the research and my counselor and I intend on testing this in court. Mr. Plummer: All right, but it concerns me when you say its illegal because I was very explicit to make sure that we didn't. Mr. Angleton: I am sure that you wouldn't do anything illegal, knowing it. Mr. Plummer: Rest assured. Mr. Angleton: I didn't mean to, I know that Mr. Plummer. It's «c.L a personality, I am only talking here as a private citizen and a concerned citizen. I was told this was a public hearing and that's the reason why I am here as a concerned citizen. I don't like the rudeness and the way I was treated though. I don't appreciate it. Mr.Plummer: You had the right to speak and you were afforded the opportunity. Mr. Angleton: Okay, thank you. Mr. Plummer: My next question. Mrs.Wilson since you seem to be the spokeswoman, I will ask of you since Mrs. Gordon indicated that somebody would have the expertise answer that I requested and I never heard it. Are you or anyone else aware of what Metropolitan Dade County is expending for day care centers? Has there been a price proposed? How much of the monies they are allocating are going to be used for purposes in the City of Miami? Ms. Wilson: Sir, their budget hearing is Tuesday and they presently have allocated $1,250,000. Most of it being spent in the poverty areas. We are asking that the middle income areas which you saw a big lack of any park programs in that big center area of Miami and part of it is poverty area but a lot of it isn't. Its middle and lower income area but, not poverty. We are asking for some support for those people like the gal who makes under $6,000 a year. Metro's plan is to put it mostly in poverty areas as of this point but the budget hearing is not until Tuesday. Mr. Plummer: To your knowledge, is there any other municipality that are contributing monies for day care centers? Ms. Wllson: Not that we know of. I think the City of Miami is the only one so far that has earmarked any funds for that and I think that is a very sad commentary on the other municipalities. Mr. Plummer: In other words what you are telling me is you don't have any figures available as to what amount of that million and a quarter will be spent in the city limits of the City of Miami. Ms. Wilson: Not until its actually approved. They are making a survey at t is point and we can't give you anything definite until Mrs. Spitallmick could speak, she is the chairman of the Dade County Day Care Committee. She could tell you that right now - Mr. Plummer: Do you understand the basis of my question? Ms. Wilson: Yes I understand it, sure. If you remember our resolution Mr. Plummer,'we asked that there be cooperation of Dade COunty so there would he no overlapping of services and this is what we expect to be done. 7' JUL 12S7 • Mayor Ferre: I would like to make a statement here as to how I feel about this whole matter. I hope and I intend to see that this Commission today goes on record on the matter of philosophy as to what the allocation or percent*ges or appropriate amount must be for these sums. Now that does mean that this is a final determination as to where and how these monies are going to be spent. We might reverse at budget hearings and I want to make this very clear. This is just an intent as of now. I also want to make this statement which I don't think you are going to like about.Day Care Centers. I do not think we should create another beauracracy to make and service this function. I think that these monies should be expended by Metropolitan Dade County and the organizations that are already in existence for Day Care Centers whether they be servicing those specific pa~ks or not and I certainly want no part of the City of Miami starting ana competing with Metro or any other agency on something that already exists. Now I don't mind that we may have perhaps an administrative office with 1 or 2 people to make sure that the monies are being properly spent and that they are not going outside of the City of Miami and that type of thing but I certainly think we are not going to duplicate anything that exists as far as a beauracracy is concerned. That is just a personal opinion of mine. Mrs. Gordon: I would like to offer your comments by way of a motion. I would like to move that the City of Miami Commission go on record as favoring, as a recommendation to the Revenue Sharing Committee again, that we feel that at least $1,000,000 ought to be set aside for Day Care Centers and if possible that this $1,000,000 be in addition to the $400,000 previously mentioned. We feel that a network of Day Care Centers in the City of Miami could serve as a guide for all of the Dade County municipalities and Dade County itself because a million two for Dade County is a token amount and $400,000 for the City of Miami is a token amount. Really it should be a lot more so the motion was to try to allocate at least a and if possible a million plus the four hundred thousand. Mayor Ferre: Now Mrs. Gordon, I have heard the statement about tokenism and how the City of Miami is just giving token amounts but ycu know, I don't see Miami Beach or Coral Gables or Hialeah or any other city is giving even a token amount so I think the City of Miami is always getting clobbered and blamed for things that they don't do and when we do something, we don't get any recognition. For example, Mr. Howard Dixon was here awhile ago and everybody was all upset because we didn't come up with out $45,000 and the, moment we did, there wasn't a word said about it. That happens every single time. This City of Miami Commission has gone time and again on record over the past years as being actively supporting, cooperating and interested in all types of social and other programs in this community. There is a motion of intent on the floor and is not a binding motion to this Commission and its instructing the City Manager that at least . 1 million dollars of these revenue sharing funds go into - Mrs. Gordon: It was a recommendation- since the revenue sharing committee will be meeting again I know before our next Commission Meeting and will be going back over these - Mayor Ferre: Do you want to recommend this to Dan Paul's committee? Mrs. GordoN: Well Dan, are you going to meet again? (Mr. Pauls remarks again inaudible) Mayor Ferre: She said a'minimum of a million and hopefully up to $1,400,000. Mrs. Gordon: Yes in other words, hopefully we can have a million four but not less than one million. Mayor Ferre: We have a motion on the floor. Rev. Gibson: I will second the motion because its going by the route of the revenue sharing committee. I want to maize my position clear. 72 The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-542 A RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING TO THE MAYORS REVENUE SHARING COMMITTEE THAT IT CONSIDER ALLOCATING THJ3 SUM OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS FOR DAY CARE CENTERS IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, SAID SUM TO BE IN ADDITION TO THE $400,000 PRESENTLY SUGGESTED FOR THIS PURPOSE (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Offi ) Upon being seconded by Reverend Gibson, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messr. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None Mayor Ferre: I will tell you my opinion on this pay play and on this amount of money that is being allocated in your proposal, 3 million dollars. I for one feel that it is extremely important that we maintain the quality of services that the City of Miami has been rendering to the highest degree possible. You cannot do that unless we have well paid motivated employees. Now, I don't mind stating and I know Grace that this is a touchy subject but I want to tell you that I think that it is essential that we maintain adequate and appropriate pay. As I go around talking to people in different parts of the City, they all want their taxes lowered but they want those services improved. They want more policemen. They want better services. They want better parks. And everytime I ask these people. I say, Make up your Mind. What do you want, better parks, better police or do you want lower taxes because for 11 hour they talk about lowering taxes and for another hour they talk about all the things they want. They want lights, they want parks, they want better protection. .Now you know, you can't have one without the other.. I think in my humble opinion that the essential thing is that we properly motivate our employees and the only way you can do that is by paying them going wages. Mrs. Rockafellar: Mr. Mayor, you misunderstood me. Mayor Ferre: No let me finish Grace. What Mr. Paul says I think makes a lot of sense. but, I want to answer it this way. What is the difference how you skin the cat? I think Mr. Reese could come back and remove as Mr. Paul said, the 3 million dollars from the wages and put it in some other form and just monkey around and its all the same thing in the end. At least this way, we are openly, honestly stating what we are doing. I think its important. I think the key sentence was when Mr. Reese said that in his opinion answering Plummers question that within a 3-4-5 year period, the increase in natural growth of the City of Miami will easily absorb whatever increases we are giving at this time. Mrs. Rockafellar: You misunderstood me Mr. Mayor and this is a point I want to make clear. I did not object to the pay plan for our city officials because as I said before when we were down there in the park. I feel that our city officials should be paid and be paid a good salary. We thought as taxpayers is that it should not come out of federal revenue because you said yourself that the city was in a tremendous financial condition. We believe that too because you are taking in more money now than you ever did JUL 121973 tor Mayor Ferre: Grace, I have 2 pockets and I have ,honey in each one. Now do you really care which pocket I take for my coffee. Its all a technicality. Mrs. Rockafellar: That's not the argument. We felt as taxpayers that it should not be used since the City is in such good financial condition and since Mr. Rothstein said that this was to alleviate the burden on the property owners and it should not come out of revenue sharing. Mayor Ferre: Its a subterfuge. I think this Commission could instruct Mr. Reese not to put one cent, not one cent of revenue sharing into the pay plan, not one cent and he would come back and I think he could do it legally and completely with justification and bring funded projects from the budget and pay them from revenue sharing and put the pay increase in the budget and it comes out absolutely the same and in my opinion that would be a subterfuge. At least this way we are being open and honest about it. Mrs. Rockafellar: I want to make this point clear that I for one, and our Association are not objecting to any salary increases for our city officials have. We are very proud of them and we think they do a fine job and we think they are very deserving. Mr. Plummer: Not city officials, city employees. Mrs. Rockafellar: City employees, well I take in the.city officials too. Mayor Ferre: Thank you Grace. Erny the public hearing is over. Mr. Fannotto: Mr. Mayor, I'll show you how to reduce taxes. Cut out these appraisals. You have used over a million dollars in appraisals in this City last year and you didn't need them. Mayor Ferre: A11 right anybody else? THIS PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW CLOSED. 26, PERSONAL APPEARANCE - MR. DAN PAUL TO DISCUSS SERVING OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES I1_ THE ORANGE BMA& STADIUM PRESS BOX_ Mr.Vaul: Mr. Mayor, I understand this is next to your last meeting before your recess in August and there is one item I am advsed by the City Attorney that has not been settled and I refer to the question of clarifying the ordinance in reference to the serving of alcoholic beverages at the press box at the Orange Bowl. The football season is about to begin and as far as the Miami dolphins go, we are not asking you to amend it or change it out please clarify it so we don't have any more embarassing circumstances, do it whichever way you want it, its immaterial to us, but please tell us. The City Attorney tells me it would require an amendment to the ordinance whichcyou would have to adopt on first reading today. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese? Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission and Mr. Paul. I have to disagree with the City Attorney because there is a very simple and direct language in the ordinance that says you cannot serve or consume alcoholic beverages in the Stadium. That Press Box is not the stadium. It is an appendege. It is not attached to that stadium in anyway whatsoever and I am very sure that administratively it can.be determined that that is a function within the purview of that press box and you don't need the ordinance changed for it. Mayor Ferre: Well what's the difference, if it needs clarification? Mr. Reese: Now Mr. Mayor, there is a good reason. Mr. Rothstein: May I say this? '7 JUL 121973 Some time back, I had advised the Manager;s office that it is a factual administrative determination to be made. The Ordinance says, served in the Orange Bowl. I could not make a determination if the Press Box was an appendage or not. Only the Manager;s office could. Apparently the Manager has advised you that administratively as far as he is concerned, Mr. Reese: It can be done. Mr. Rothstein: It can be done and that is not part of the Orange Bowl. That is his peroggative so you don't have to do anything further and Mr. Paul doesn't. Mr. Paul: The Ordinance says at or in the stadium and that to me is certainly not clear. I am not trying to get you to go one way or the other. I just want to know what the answer is. As a Lawyer., if somebody asked me if the Press Box was at or in the Stadium, I would say it was at or in the Stadium but - Rev. Gibson: Mr. Mayor, I am not going to worry about the technicality. What I am worried about is the embarassment that it causes this City that didn't have to be and should not have been. I am glad its now up for discussion. I hope that all of the parties involved and even if it means posting a notice in that Press Box, that nobody else will go up in that Press Box and embarass the visitors of this City when they go to the Press Box. Its embarassing. I didn't think we had to have that unfavorable publicity all over the nation. People had to scrounge around and just duck out of that Press Box to avoid being arrested and I just hope that it is posted and that the Police Department be told that too, so that they know that and put it in writing so if they go up there, they ought to suffer the consequences. Mr. Rothstein: Mr. Vice Mayor, the Manager has just done that. So far as he is concerned administratively - Mr. Paul: As I understand it, its psrmissable. Mayor Ferre: As you understand it, it is allowable and permissahle. Mr. Paul: All right fine, that is all I wanted to know. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, before Mr. Paul leaves. Please clarify one thing and I think Mrs. Virrick already left. I surely hope Mr. Paul you don't construe my asking as trying to embarass you or give you a rough time. The we could ask questions during your presentation and that did Sir. I hope you don't construe. Mr. Paul: Not at all. I am delighted after sending 3 reports to the Commission. I am delighted to at last get a response. I felt like it was dropping a rose petal down the grand canyon and waiting for an echo. I am delighted to have a response from the Commission. Mayor Ferre: I want you to know Mr. Paul that since Mr. Angleton said we were very rude. We weren't trying to be rude. This is a difficult subject and there are a lot of emotions and we are just trying to move ahead quickly and unfortunately that is the only way you can move meetings forward so, I hope nobody took offense. Mr. Paul: I can take care of myself. Thank you Mr. Mayor. 76 may I you .questions Maycr said is what I 27, NEGOTIATE WITH SCHOOL BOARD FOR TEMPORARY PORTABLE BUILDING Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor, may I make a suggestion that you pass a resolution that could be directed to the School Board pointing out that you would like to have one of the temporary school buildings that would be suitable and you are willing to pay $100 to get it. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-543 A RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE POLICY OF THE COMMISSION THAT THE CITY MANAGER NEGOTIATE WITH THE METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION FOR THE ACQUI- SITION OF A PORTABLE STRUCTURE AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED $100.00 (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 28, PROJECT #49-"76" CAP, IMP, PRG, EDISON PARK TEEN CENTER -DISCUSSION Mayor Ferre: In the interest of saving Mrs. Eisenberg another trip I hope you will bear with me and Mrs. Eisenberg please make it very quick on item 42. Did these bids come in? Who is the low bidder? Mr. Reese: The same bidder that bid, before and he came in at a higher bid than he ::previously did but we also got 3 , a total of 4 bidders. He is high by $4,000 higher than he was last time but he is still the lowest bidder. This is the first time in the City of Miami's History that we went out on bids that it ever came back at a higher bid when we got more bidders. if it had been a single bid. Mrs. Eisenberg: This is how we are running in Edison Center. Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor, its all right to squeak the wheel of Edison Center but we are spending more on this center than we have oR any other center we have built and in being fair - Mayor Ferre: Nobody is criticizing the administration. Mr. Reese: In fairness for the record, it has to be pointed out. Part of this is due to design and requirements of material. I am going to recommend to the Commission that we reduce some of these items, they are alternates. Mayor Ferre: How much? Mr. Reese: Well I am not in that position right now. Mayor Ferre: Do you want a resolution of some sort? Mr. Reese: Before the day is over, I could come back with that figure of where we could cut it down without hurting the overall project. Mayor Ferre: Mrs. Eisenberg, our apoligies. We can't move this item. 76 Mrs. Eisenberg: The architect is here. Would you like to ask him questions? Mayor Ferre: No because I will tell you. We are now 1 hour and 23 minutes behind and there are people that have been waiting all after noon to be heard on this and your item comes up later on. I thought we could do it quickly. We can't. The Manager is going to recommend some cuts. Mrs. Eisenberg: What time? Mayor Ferre: Come back after dinner. We will be here a long time. We are just half way through. We will be here beyond 8. 7i 29, PUBLIC HEARING - PROPOSED RESTRUCTURING OF THE CITY OF MIAMI'S PLANNING AND ZONING STRUCTURE: The Mayor announced that the Commission was ready to proceed with an advertised public hearing concerning the proposed restruc- turing of the City of Miami's Planning and Zoning Procedures. The Commission continued with its workshop session on this matter, which was continued earlier during the meeting. The Mayor announced, however, that, since this was an advertised public hearing he would recognize persons who wished to speak on any of the items being discussed. With respect to the matter of posting signs on the properties proposed to be rezoned or changed in their use and the mailing of notices to everyone within a specified radius of the properties in question, the Commission engaged in considerable discussion with Dr. Bartley and the Assistant City Manager in order to familiarize them- selves with the subject. Mrs. Julius Alexander appeared and suggested that the Commis- sion establish some formula for the degree and amount of notification based upon the importance of the item under consideration. Mr. Harris Turner, Assistant City Manager, stated that the matter of notification needed to be uniform, and could not be varied upon an arbitrary decision of some person or board as to its importance. Marilyn Reed appeared and stated she was from Coconut Grove, and urged the Commission to publish its legal notices in the newspaper of largest circulation in the City of Miami, and also a display ad in one of the community newspapers in the area where the property might be located. After further general discussion it was agreed that the notice of public hearings on zoning and planning matters would be published in the Miami Herald, The Miami Review and one of the community news- papers; that notices be sent by regular mail to all property owners within a 375-foot radius, and that a sign of adequate size be posted on the property in question. The Commission next took up the question of whether or not the Planning Board office should be made a department under the direction and control of the City Manager. Mr. Mike Martinez, Chairman of the City of Miami's Planning and Zoning Board, appeared and expressed opposition to the creation of a separate department on the ground that such a procedure would be, in effect, asking the Executive Secretary of the Planning Board to "serve two masters". Mr. Gerald Silverman, representing the Planning and Zoning Board, appeared and stated that the existing procedure had proved to be very satisfactory, and that the Board would prefer to continue it. The City Manager expressed the opinion that if this office were established as a separate department of the City it should be done through an amendment to Chapter 2 of the City Code rather than under a zoning ordinance amendment. 7-12- 73 7b Mrs. Julius Alexander appeared and urged the Commission to consider this matter after it had decided upon the question of the two boards, and the adoption of the proposed changes as a whole. Mrs. Gordon offered a motion to create a separate department under the City Manager for the existing Planning Board office. There was no second to the motion. The City Manager expressed the decided opinion that the office of the Hearing Administrator provided in the proposed draft should not be a political appointment, but rather should be an ad- ministrative one. He expressed the opinion that if the Commission did not desire to create a department for this office the name be changed and that instead of referring to the head of said agency as a hearing administrator the name should be changed to be a secretariat. Marie Anderson appeared and suggested that the Commission adopt the recommendations as contained in the proposed draft with respect to this matter. After further general discussion Mrs. Gordon moved that the recommendation of the consultant in this matter be accepted, and that the title of the position be changed to that of Hearing Coordinator instead of Hearing Administrator. There was no second to the motion. On motion of Mr. Plummer, seconded by Reverend Gibson, it was agreed to defer this matter until the next regular meeting in order to afford additional time to study it. The Commission recessed briefly, and reconvened with all members present at 5:35 o'clock P.M. Mr. Lester Pancoast, Architect, appeared and expressed his endorsement of this entire proposal in a general sense. He stated he was speaking as a private citizen. Mr.. George Simon appea::ed and stated that he was speaking as a private citizen, although he represented a group of realtors, who felt as he did; that the present Executive Secretary of the Llanning Board should be under the direction and control of the City Panager. He stated his group felt that a single three-year term on these boards was sufficient, and that they be paid no salary. After further discussion, on motion of Mrs. Gordon, seconded by Mr. Plummer, it was unanimously agreed to change the language in Section 15 on page 12 of the second document of the proposed draft to provide a 90-day time limit instead of the 60 days as presently written. Mr. Erny Fannatto appeared and stated that he was President of the Taxpayers' League of Dade County, and urged the Commission to accept the concept of the two boards because of the increased work load and the growth in the City of Miami. 7-12-73 7, Mayor Ferre read a letter from Mrs. Grace Rockafeller, in behalf of the Northeast Taxpayers' Association and the Northeast improvement Association, stating that it was their feeling that the persons serving on those two boards should live in the City of Miami; that the boards should not be composed of professionals; that they were not in agreement with appointing a committee to make recommenda- tions for appointments to these boards; that recommendations should be obtained from the various civic associations throughout the City; and other than that the two taxpayers' associations were in full agreement with the proposed changes. After brief discussion the hearing was continued until the meeting to be held on July 26, 1973. Dr. Bartley stated it would not be possible to have the proposed ordinance in final form for adoption on its first reading on July 26th, as previously planned, but that he felt it could be made available by September first. 30, DOWNTOWN ZONING STUDY - PRELIMINARY REVIEW: The Commission next took up for consideration a preliminary review of the Downtown Zoning Study being conducted by the firm of Wallace , McHarg, Roberts and Todd. George Acton, Director of the Planning Department, introduced various consultants and officials who were present in the audience and concerned with this matter. Mr. David Wallace, of the firm of Wallace, McHarg, Roberts and Todd, appeared and outlined in some detail, using maps and charts, the proposed plan, as developed to the present point in time. He stated that the final report would be ready in the near future. Mr. Francisco Narona, of Beiswinger & Hoch and Associates, presented photographic slides and a tape recorded narrative of the proposed development with respect to traffic and transit facil- ities for the central business district. Mr. Jack Smith, of the firm of Haines, Lundberg and Waehler, appeared and outlined in some detail the zoning plan for this develop- ment. Mr. Acton emphasized that the charts and presentations made at this time did not represent the final working documents, but only preliminary drafts. After considerable further discussion, on motion of Mr. Plummer, it was agreed to schedule this matter for presentation in its final form at the meeting of September 27, 1973. RECESS: The meeting was recessed briefly. The Commission reconvened at 8:10 o'clock P.M. with all members present. 80 7-12-73 31. PLAZA VENETIA - STATUS REPORT: Mr. Tibor Hollo, representing Florida East Coast Properties, Inc., appeared and presented a status report on the Plaza Venetia Development proposed for the downtown area. He outlined the his- tory of this project, pointing out that up to this time the architect for this project had produced approximately one thousand drawings, and that it was expected that an additional one thousand drawings wou:.d be needed before the actual construction could get under way. Mr. Joseph Amisano, Architect, appeared and outlined in somo detail the plans for this project, using slide projectors to illus- trate his presentation. In response to a question by Mr. Plummer, Mr. Hollo stated that it was expected that construction would begin on the commercial portion of this project shortly after the first of next year, and that the construction of the residential portion of the project would begin approximately one year later, and that it was expected that the entire project would be completed in approximately thirty- six months. He stated further, in response to a question by the Mayor, that the entire land area comprised approximately seven hundred thousand square feet, and that the project would consist of approximately four million square feet. He emphasized that approximately fifty per cent of this square footage would be in off-street.parking. He stated further, in response to a question by the City Manager, that Florida East Coast Properties, Inc. would construct the residential portion of this development, and the International City Corporation of Atlanta would construct the commercial portion. He stated further, in response to a question by the Mayor, that the financing for the commercial venture was going forward satisfactorily, but that it was too early at this time to begin the arrangements for the residential financing. 40 32. APPOINT SELMA ALEXANDER TO BEAUT IF ICATION CO IMITTEE The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-544 A RESOLUTION APPOINTING MRS. JULIUS ALEXANDER AS A MEMBER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE (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 33. FUTURE USES OF CITY OWNED PROPERTY AT 46 WEST FLAGLER STREET Mr. G. Acton: Dir.Planning Dept.: Both the Planning Department and the Downtown Development Authority have sent the Commission separate reports on the proposed location of a Mini -Park at 46 West Flagler. Our report was fairly comprehensive and dealt with statistics and propose potential development of a mini -park in that location. I am going to extract some important statistics from the report such as the present employment estimates for the downtown park area places a week day employment total of 33,000 or approximately 13,000 or 40% total CBD employment within a block and a half radius of the site. 1975 employment projections forecast an additional 750 employees to be added to a 6 block area surrounding subject property. Mayor Ferre: In other words, its going to be well used. Mr. Acton: That's right, its right in the center of the employee, heavy employee location. We have recommended in the back of the report, a potential development of the park site, a development which would be in keeping with the heavy surrounding employment characteristics and very fervent in nature. We feltithat the park could be best utilized by introducing such facilities as tables or light snacks, benches for people to sit down and enjoy themselves, rest from shopping;towards the rear of the park, we have suggested an interesting display of water with fountains with colored lights for use at night plus also the potential does exist to work with the surrounding development to achieve useful ground level activities in future development and also perhaps for opening up the parki-ng structure located to the rear of the site for some type of ventillation for the park. Basically this summarizes our analysis and recommendation. Mayor Ferre: What's the next step Mr. Acton? Mr. Acton: I think you should hear Mr. Williams before we answer that question. Mr. Lucius Williams, Director Downtown Development Authority: Mr. Mayor and Commissioners. The Development Authority has similarly considered this proposal and without reciting the details of their consideration, it was their finding that they recommend that the absolute highest priority for this piece of property is its use as a MINI -PARK and they recommend strongly that the City Commission favorably consider the early use of the property for those purposes. 8w JUL 121973 a This is in recognition that we long ago established as an objective the creation of mini -parks downtown, all on small sites, such as this might be. The City of Miami and ;this Commission has acknowledged that premise in the Parks for People Bond Issue when you provided the total sum of $200,000 for the creation of mini -parks in downtown Miami. The utilization of these resources and the opportunity to begin the mini -park system at this urgent location is one that we recommend very highly and we think this is a good opportunity to start it. Mayor Ferre: Mr. Williams and Mr. Acton, just for personal observation. You have a long very narrow piece of property here and I don't think it ought to have any hidden corners from a safety factor point of view. You have restrooms and then behind there, you have a corner in there and I think you ought to be very careful in the design that we have. That back part might be just water or a pool or something. I don't think this is a place for public restrooms. I think it ought to be just as open and green with fountains where you can see every corner of that piece of property from the street. Mr. Acton: I agree Mr. Mayor, the plan you are looking at was just sort of a planning analysis site plan and not really not meant to be - Mayor Ferre: Its very nice and this would be fine for 1920 or 1930 but 1973,- Mrs. Gordon: Mr. Mayor, I want to say that I have long favored the acquisition of small site areas in downtown and unless you want further discussion, I am ready to move. Mr. Plummer: Under discussion. Now Mr. Williams, Its nice to say you are in favor of this. How much of the tab are you going to pick up for this Sir? Mr. Williams: Mr. Commissioner. The Bond Issue provides $200,000 for downtown mini -parks and I have always looked at the Development Authority funds to be supplemental, not to initiate. You can be sure that I will recommend the utilization of downtown development authority funds for the creation of mini -parks but I think it might be appropriate for you to start this first park with existing funds. If this would require negotiations, we are open to that. Mr. Plummer: Mr. Reese, what is the existing mortgage on this property? Mr. Reese: I can't answer that but first of all, your first step is you better hire somebody to do an appraisal on this and see what the value of this property is and when you do this, see how we are going to liqu&.date the debt that still applies to this property. Mayor Ferre: What are we going to get out of the appraisal nnw? Mr. Reese: Well I think in all fairness to the City of Miami, it should be appraised to determine the value of the property. Mayor Ferre: So we determine that its worth half a million dollars. Then what happens? Mr. Reese: Then you proceed to pay off the debt of the balance due to the pension fund and then you own title to it and the next thing, you will have to get a rented space to move the employees into that are now occupying the space. Mayor Ferre: But what does the appraisal do for us in paying the mortgage on it? Mr. Reese: I would think it would be something you would want in the record that this was the appraised value of it and you are turning it into a park because after all, this is something that was paid out of operating funds by the City of Miami over the years. Mayor Ferre: Okay, we'll get an appraisal just to have it on the record. is that it? Theres no other use for the appraisal? Mr. Reese: That's right, no other use. 83 JUL 121973 a a Mr. Plummer: Mr. Reese, are we roughly tacking about paying off a $100,000 Mortgage? $70,000?, $60,000 all right. Now Mr. Acton, have you come up Sir with any kind of a figure representing what demolition would be and what the improvements would be? Mr. Acton: We requested the Public Works Department to give us an indication of demolition and they indicated an amount from 10 to 15 thousand dollars. Mayor Ferre: That sounds reasonable. Mr. Plummer: What about the improvements? Mr. Acton: We haven't done Mr. Plummer - Mr. Plummer: So conceivably we are talking about $100,000 project? Mr. Acton: I would think so, at least. Mayor Ferre: More than that. Mr. Plummer: You did though indicate' that in no way, shape or form that this is the plan that would be used? I think it is a little inconceivable that we are talking about here a food service center here of 80'. Let me bring up my only other concern Mr. Mayor and I think it is something you are aware as I am. After the sun goes down, its going to turn into wino alley. I am very concerned about that that it could be a problem area for undesirable people to gather after the sun goes down. I am going to say this, if this does become a reality, I would definitely want a built in feature into this, that when the sun goes down, that it is locked and would remain locked because I'll tell you these dark alleys and corners and with trees in there, I just think we could be conceiving a very •bad thing in the evening. That's my only concern. Mr. Williams: George, I think that could be designed in, couldn't it? and be esthetic? Mr. Acton: We were convinced that it would have to be well lit at night. Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor, wouldn't it be appropriate to decide if you want to make a park out of this or not before you lock it up? Mrs. Gordon: I agree. I move we make a park out of it. The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-545 A RESOLUTION DECLARING THE INTENTION OF THE COMMISSION THAT THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS 46 WEST FLAGLER STREET BE DEVELOPED AS A MINI -PARK (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. JUL 121973 a Mayor Ferre: Now I think we need a resolution requesting the Manager to come back with the various departments with some kind of a proposal and also request the Downtown Development Authority to cooperate and see if within the DDA budget, you might scratch up 25000 or 50,000. Mrs. Gordon: Suggesting they do the improvements Mr. Mayor. Mayor Ferre: No to help. I think title to the land has to remain with the City of Miami. Mrs. Gordon: We provide the land, they do the improvements. Mayor Ferre: I don't think they would have the money Rose. Mr. Williams: Without undue elaboration, if we initiate the program, we may be able to come up with something unforseen. We have saved buildings in downtown Miami without a reserve program before. Mr. Reese: I would like to get the authority to proceed on the appraisal, and to use bond money for this appraisal. It will cost us somewhere between $750 to $1,000. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-546 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PROCEED TO OBTAIN AN APPRAISAL FOR PROPERTY KNOWN AS 46 WEST FLAGLER STREET, THE COST OF WHICH SHALL NOT EXCEED $1,000 AND FUNDS FOR PAYMENT OF WHICH SHALL BE TAKEN FROM "PARKS FOR PEOPLE BOND ISSUE" (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 Mr. Williams: There is another aspect to this. The entire ;natter was brought to this .Commission in view of the offer of an adjacenc owner to demolish the structure in return for the use of the property. Mayor Ferre: For how long? Mr. Williams: During his construction period. Mr. Reese: Mr. Mayor, may I recommend that this become a.negotiable item after you get the appraisal and make the decision, without going on record to accept his offer at this point. Mayor Ferre: When are you starting to build your building? Unidentified Man: We are already in construction. Mr. Reese: The offer was made by an attorney here that it would cost about $14,500 to demolish this building and if the City Commission would give them the right to use that for a construction site, they would proceed to demolish it but I think its something that is subject to negotiation because in this building, we have people working there and have to locate somewhere so all of these facts have to be taken into consideration. 85 JUL 121973 Mayor Ferre: Mr. Reese, let me express my opinion. I think that we ought to negotiate something but I think the negotiations should be in your hands and lets leave it at that. Does anybody disagree with that basic premise? Lets move on. 34, ACCEPT PLAT - LEVERA SUBDIVISION The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer whp moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-547 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE PLAT ENTITLED LEVERA, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA; AND ACCEPTING THE DEDICATIONS SHOWN ON SAID PLAT; AND ACCEPTING A COVENANT RO RUN WITH THE LAND POSTPONING THE IMMEDIATE CONSTRUCTION OF ASPHALTIC CONCRETE PAVEMENT, CURB AND GUTTER AND ONE STORM DRAINAGE STRUCTURE; 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 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 35, ACCEPT PLAT - W. T. SUBDIVISION THE FOLLOWING resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-548 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE PLAT ENTITLED W. T. SUB- DIVISION, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA; AND ACCEPTING THE DEDICATIONS 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 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 8 a 36, AMEND AGREEMENT KLEBBA.BAY ESTATES The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-549 A RESOLUTION AMENDING THE SUBDIVISION IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT KLEBBA BAY ESTATES BY WAIVING THE REQ- UIREMENT FOR SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION AS SET FORTH IN SAID AGREEMENT; ACCEPTING A COVENANT TO RUN WITH THE LAND POSTPONING THE IMMEDIATE CONSTRUCTION OF SIDEWALK AT SAID KLEBBA BAY ESTATES; WAIVING THE PROVISIONS OF ORDINANCE NO. 7990; ALL SUBJECT TO THE GRANTING OF A VARIANCE BY THE METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT (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 37, ACCEPT HIGHWAY RIGHT OF WAY DEED- CONTROL- DEVELOPMENT INC. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-550 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE HIGHWAY RIGHT OF WAY DEED EXECUTED BY CONTROL DEVELOPMENT INC., CONVEYING FOR HIGHWAY WIDENING THE WEST TWO (2) FEET, AND THE EAST TEN (10) FEET, ALL IN LOT 19, AS RECORDED IN VIRGINIA PARK, PLAT BOOK 10, PAGE 43, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA; AND DIRECTING THE PROPER OFFICIAL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO RECORD SAID DEED IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF DADE COUNTY (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 87 JUL 121973 a 38, FEDERAL GRANT APPLICATION - ORGANIZED CRIME 1IGHTING TEAM PROJECT The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-551 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMIT A FEDERAL GRANT APPLICATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, LAW ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION, TO CONTINUE FOR THE FOURTH YEAR A PROJECT ENTITLED "ORGANIZED CRIME FIGHTING TEAM PROJECT", AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY TO ACCEPT THE GRANT AND EXECUTE CONTRACTS AND AGREEMENTS NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE PROJECT IN ANTICIPATION OF THIS PROGRAM (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 39, PROVIDE PUBLIC HtARLN DATE FOR OFF-STREET PARKING BUDGET The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Reboso who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-552 A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PROPOSED BUDGET OF THE DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET PARKING OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 1973 AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1974 (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 88 JUL 121973 40. EXTEND DISTS1,7&9 The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-553 A RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE TERMS OF OFFICE OF THE PLAN- NING BOARD MEMBERS FROM DISTRICTS 1, 7 & 9 UNTIL SUCH TIME. AS THE MATTER OF RESTRUCTURING THE CITY OF MIAMI PLANNING AND ZONING PROCEDURES HAS BEEN RESOLVED AND THE NEW MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OR BOARDS PROVIDED FOR THEREBY ARE SELECTED (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office) Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 41. EASEMENT - FIRST STATE BANK OF MIAMI The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-554 A RESOLUTION CONVEYING A PERMANENT EASEMENT TO THE FIRST STATE BANK OF MIAMI COVERING THE NORTH TWO AND ONE HALF (211) FEET OF LOTS 1 AND 2, IN BLOCK 8, OF LITTLE RIVER GARDENS, PB 6/8 SAID EASEMENT FOR STORM SEWER AND DRAINAGE PURPOSES (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 8b JUL 121973 42, ACCEPT BID - CASTABLE REFRACTORIES The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-555 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE BID RECEIVED MAY 25, 1973 FOR FURNISHING CASTABLE REFRACTORIES FOR USE BY THE SANITATION DEPARTMENT FROM DEMOTT'S BOILER AND BURNER SERVICE, INC., OF MIAMI, FLORIDA. AT A TOTAL COST OF $5,584.00: AND AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTRUCT THE PURCHASING DIVISION TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDER THEREFOR (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 43, ACCEPT BID - AIR VACUUM SWEEPER The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-556 A RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE• -BID OF CLARKE FLOOR MACHINE COMPANY RECEIVED JUNE 18, 1973 FOR FUR- NISHING ONE SELF-PROPELLED AIR VACUUM SWEEPER FOR USE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION AT A TOTAL COST OF $4,565.25, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO CAUSE A PURCHASE ORDER TO BE ISSUED FOR SAME; ALLOCATING $4,565.25 FROM PARK AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES BOND FUND TO COVER THE COST THEREOF (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, Reverend Gibson, Mrs. Gordon and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 44, 4 G i CITY OWNED PARKING LOTS The following resolution was introduced '5y Mr. Plummer, who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-557 A RESOLUTION ALLOCATING $20,914 TO COVER THE COST OF INSTALLING MATERIALS FOR THE PROJECT ENTITLED "CITY OWNED PARKING LOTS - LIGHTING 1973"; AUTHOR- IZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDERS FOR CERTAIN WORK; AND AUTHORIZING CITY FORCES Td PERFORM THE BALANCE OF THE WORK (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 45, D - EDISON PARK TEEN CENTER - 1973 Mr. Reese: I passed out a resolution for the awarding of the bid. Mrs. Gordon: I'll move it. Mayor Ferre: Now what areas are you cutting out? Mr. Reese: Approximately $20,000 that were items that previously were recognized for possible deletion. In no manner reduces the size of the building or the architectural design or its shape. The following resolution was introduced by Mrs. Gordon who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-558 A RESOLUTION AWARDING THE BID RECEIVED JULY 11, 1973 OF CARL J. HOENES, INC., IN THE ESTIMATED AMOUNT OF $226,534 FOR THE EDISON PARK TEEN CENTER - 1973 (3RD BIDDING): allocating THE ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF $272,734 FROM THE "PUBLIC PARKS AND RECREATIONAL BOND FUND"; AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT THEREFOR AND TO ISSUE PURCHASE ORDER FOR THE NECESSARY FURNISHINGS (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 9i 46, COCONUT GROVE INTERIM ZONJRG DISTRICT- DISCUSSION OF PROPERTY ON $AYSHORE DRIVE FOR HIG}i RISE DEVELOPMENT Mrs. Gordon: I have a discussion that I think is very timely and very important for us to discuss and that is the property on Bayshore Drive that was the Ryder property or is. I ,inderstand that the Planning Board considered a replat of the property and I believe that they approved it on that level. My question is: As I understand it, if it was not re -platted or the re -plat was not granted, that the property could not be developed in as great an intensity as is being planned. Is that true or not? Mr. David Simpson: Exec.Secty.Plan.Bd: The re -platting has no bearing whatsoever on the intensity. Mrs. Gordon: Are you sure? Mr. Simpson: Yes Mam. The reason they had to re -plat. There was a small portion, I think it was the old school site or one portion of their entire ownership was an unplatted parcel and then they negotiated with Burton Goldberg on a swap property.' If you recall, I think he has a 12 or a 15' driveway right through the old school property and the Alliance property out to Grand Avenue. They swapped that property with a like square footage adjacent to his Sailboat development. This was a division of property that required re -platting also. They submitted a tentative plat for their entire ownership as of this time, there was no street closures involved and it was approved by the Plat and Street committee of. the City and the County. I had many calls from people in the Grove on this indicating that they were informed that there would be a public hearing in reference to the plat I had to tell them that the only time a public hearing is involved in the re -platting of property, is when you vacate publically dedicated right-of-way, that this plat will appear on the City Commission agenda when the final tracing has been perfected and ready for recording, just as the plats you approved tonight. Mrs. Gordon: Then it would make no difference to what would be permitted to them but this is the question now. Its an Interim Zoning District. Don't they have to submit plans for approval ? Under the interim zoning? Mr. Simpson: I am sorry Mr. Ferencik is not here because it is my understanding that plans were submitted prior to the effective date of the Interim Zoning District. Mrs. Gordon: You mean they already have a permit? Mr. Simpson: Yes Mam. Mr. Plummer: Well that's kind of obvious. They are doing a lot of work down there. Mrs. Gordon: Well how can they proceed with that building if they didn't get it platted? Mr. Simpson: Under the provisions of the ordinance, once the tentative plat is processed through the Plat and Street Committee of the City and the County and has the Board resolution, the Building Department can issue a building permit. Mrs. Gordon: Has a building permit been issued since the plat was approved? Mr. Simpson: I can't answer that. Mrs. Gordon: The point I am trying to make - Mr. Simpson: There was a portion of a building permit and I wish Mr. Ferencik was here but I understand that the portion for excavation and foundation was processed prior to the Interim Zoning on the Alliance Machine Company tract. Mrs. Gordon: But not for the entire thing? Mr. Simpson: I don't think so. Mrs. Gordon: Then the point is this. I believe that they ought to have to come in under the Interim Zoning because it is in that district and the people in the Grove are entitled at least to know that we are having some control over that development and we ought not to permit another permit to be issued until that is handled in that manner and I think that we have control over the whole situation because of the platting. How do we handle it? How do we legally go about it? Mr. Rothstein - Mr. Simpson: I can only tell you. I asked the question about the permit and I was informed by the Building Department that there were active permits on the property prior to the effective date of the Interim Zoning Regulations. Mrs. Gordon: They didn't have a plat. Mr. Simpson: It possibly could be on the platted portion. Now the old basic Alliance Machine Company tract was a platted parcel. Mr. Plummer: Dave, if they had never acquired this additional property after the building permits were issued. Let me rephrase that. If they had not acquired this property at all, they were entitled as I recall reading in the Post, that they were entitled to a building permit because they did not ask for any waivers or any variances or anything, correct? Mr. Simpson: That is correct. Mr. Plummer: So if in fact all they have done is acquired more property some of which will -- Why, Mrs. Gordon would it change the concept? If they never acquired the property at all -- Mrs. Gordon: You can't get a building permit on an unplatted •piece of ground, as I understand it. Mr. Plummer: No, he said that the ALliance building on which they are building was a platted piece of property. i,Irs. Gordon: Yes but as I understand it, the part they have acquired will become a part of the development scheme and do you see what I mean? If they were just acquiring it period and they weren't going to use it that's another story. Mr. Plummer: Now I don't understand. Mr. Acton: Well I think Commissioner Plummer what Commissioner Gordon is saying is that if in fact the developer acquired that extra parcel of land by trading off after the effective date of the Interim Zoning District, then it should have a bearing on the development of that project. Mr. Plummer: Why? Mr. Acton: Because he is modifying his building plans after the effective date -- Mr. Plummer: We are not talking about modifying building plans. .What I am saying is that the man obviously had his I.ermits in hand before he acquired the new piece of property. If he had his permit then and was entitled to build, why by virtue of acquiring more property would he not be able to build? That's my question. Mrs. Gordon: Because a piece of the original property he had, he traded off for a new piece and therefore its a new proposition. It's a new piece: of land. It has a new shape and a new size and therefore it needs to have a review of the building plan. I don't believe that permit is valid in fact. Mr. Reese: Mrs. Gordon, may I please be allowed to get into this tomorrow from one end to the other to determine - Mrs. Gordon: Yes, as long as whatever we have said here tonight will prohibit any issuance of any new permits until this can be totally resolved. Mr. Reese: On this particular site? Mrs. Gordon: Yes Sir. 47, ORANGE BOWL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM Mr. Reese: On the Ornage Bowl IMprovement Program, the City Commission instructed me at the last meeting to endeavor to get some engineering firms interested that would come in and validate our appraisals. We contacted 2 firms. One wanted $4,000 for just estimating the old part and another wanted $9,000 for the new construction work so then we went and interviewed some more and ended up with one that was willing to do it for $4,900 for the old and new work so it is my recommendation that we endeavor to work out an arrangement with them and see if we can't get the validation of the estimates. Mayor Ferre: The other people came it at 9,000. Mr. Reese: 9,000 plus 4,000 Mayor Ferre: And these people came in at 4,900 for both? Mr. Reese: Yes and another came in at $5,000 so 4900 is the lowest. The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-559 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE PROPER OFFICIALS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH CCNNELL ASSOCIATES TO RENDER PRO- FESSIONAL SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH THE REFINING OF THE PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES DEVELOPED FOR THE PRO posed 1973 ORANGE BOWL STADIUM IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $4,900.00 (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 8,1 JUL 121973 48, AUIHORIZE FUNDS TO IMPLEMENT RESOLUTION NO.. 73-559 The following resolution was introduced by Reverend Gibson who moved its adoption: • RESOLUTION NO. 73-560 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE PROPER OFFICIALS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI TO UTILIZE FUNDS FROM THE UNALLOCATED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUNDS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI FOR THE PURPOSE OF IMPLEMENTING THE PROVISIONS OF RESOLUTION NO. 73-559 PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS DATE (Here follows body of resolution, om!rtted 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: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 49, ACCEPT BID - 5000 POUNDS OF GRASS The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-561 A RESOLUTION AMENDING RESOLUTION NO..73-456 WHICH ACCEPTED THE BID OF CHAN W. BAKER FOR FURNISHING 5,000 FOUNTS OF LAWN GRASS SEED MIXTURE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION AT A TOTAL COST OF $2,730.00 BY INCLUDING A SECTION THHEREIN ALLOCATING $2,730.00 FROM THE PARKS AND RECREATIONAL FACILITIES BOND FUND TO COVER THE COST OF SAID MATERIAL (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 93 JUL 121973 4 4 50, DEMOLISH STRUCTURE - 3812.R. V. 17TH AVENUE The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 73-562 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PROCEED WITH THE DEMOLITION OF THE TWO-STORY CBS STRUCTURE LOCATED AT 3812 N. W. 17TH AVENUE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE JUNE 28, 1973 REQUEST OF J. H. MATTESON, SUPER- VISOR, SITE PLANNING FOR DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ATTACHED AND MADE A PART HEREOF AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH BEN HURWITZ, INCORPORATED, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $2,800 TO ACCOMPLISH SAID DEMOLITION (Here follows body of resolution, omitted here and on file in the City Clerks Office Upon being seconded by Mrs. Gordon, the resolution was passed and adopted by the following vote - AYES: Messrs. Plummer, Reboso, Mrs. Gordon, Reverend Gibson and Mayor Ferre. NOES: None 51, PURCHASE TRANSMITTER CRYSTALS The following resolution was introduced by Mr. Plummer who moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NC. 73-563 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER TO THE MOTOROLA CORPORATION FOR 25 RECEIVER TRANSMITTER CRYSTALS AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED $1,100; THIS IS NOT AN EMERGENCY PURCHASE (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 96 JUL 121973 52, MISCELLANEOUS DISCUSSION ITEMS The following items were briefly discussed by the Mayor and Members of the Commission: (a) Status of Obscenity Ordinances (b) Lethal Yellowing of Palm Trees (c) Amendment to Agreement Restaurant Associates was filed with the Commission by the City Attorney for their information. (d) Plans for development of parks in the City and information supplied to Grapeland Heights Civic Association (e) Metropolitan Insurance Company - length of time required to process claims (f) Lester Pancoast re: Design of new police facility ADJOURNMENT: The being no bun..then, bu4ine4.4 to come be5onc the City Comm.i,44Lon, the meeting was adjoun.ncd at: ATTEST: H. D. SOUTHERN City C,f ekh RALPH G. ONGIE A44is-tan•t City C.Zenh 9 : 40 O' CZock P.M. 9 MAURICE FERRE Mayon Mr. Plummer: Mr. Mayor, I would like to bring to the attention of the Commission, and I don't know if any of them have experienced it as I have, and I guess these things really never hit home until they hit you, --- Mr. Mayor I hate to tell you that the insurance division of the City of Miami I feel under present structure is totally inadequate. Let me tell you why. You submit a bill presently for hospitalization or any other kind of medical attention, and for some reason Mr. Mayor, these bills are taking anywhere from two to four months , to five months to process. I think it is unnecessary, I think it causing great delays to people's credit and things of this nature. I would like to propose at this time that the City administration come back to us with do explanation if it can't be that Metropolitan Life Insurance who is our carrier for hospitalization, why these bills can't be paid in a maximum of 30 days once they are presented, and I think something needs to be done becasue this problem is bad, and it doesn't seem to be getting better, --it seems to be getting worse, and Mr. Mayor, whether you want it in form of a motion, or Mr. Reese, the instructions to you,there is a bad problem existing. Mayor Ferre: Make it in form of a motion. Mr. Reese: I don't think it needs to be in the form of a motion. This is the first time I've heard about it, and for the last year and a half, Metropolitan Life Ins. has been paying these bills out of their Tampa office at their cost and we have not been processing them, other than sending them over there. And before we did this, it was with assurance that these bills would be paid within two weeks and no later than a month. If I would have known about it sooner, I could have done something about it.I assure you they will be paid or else we will pull it back here. It is not the fault of the insurance dept. Mr. Plummer: Please, I didn't infer that these girls were at fault. Mr. Rees I w s the Metropolitan Life Insurance who is doing, et NEUng and they are doing it out of their Tampa computer and this is supposedly going to be done very rapidly, but evidently is it not. Mr. Plummer:You will check on it and give us a report? Mr. Reese: I'll see that they are paid, that is better. *** *** *** 7/12/73 CITY OF MiM1 DOCUMENT MEETN DEX JULY '�-1973 ITEM NO DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION COMMISSION 1 RETRIEVAL ACTION 1 CODE NO. a.� 1 COMMISSION AGENDA & CITY CLERK REPORT (9 pages) 2 PUBLIC HEARING -PLANNING AND ZONING-JULY 12-197 3 PUBLIC HEARING -FEDERAL REVENUE SHARING- 7/12/7 4 I ACTING CITY MANAGER APPOINTED ON JULY 26-1973 TO SERVE UNTIL ELECTIONS HELD IN NOVEMBER 5 CONSTRUCTION OF MUSA ISLE SANITARY SEWER IMIPROVEMIENT SR-5308-C (CENTERLINE SEWER) 6 7 8 9 10 CONFIRMING RESOLUTION NO. 73-192-CONSTRUCTION OF N.E. 4 COURT IHIGIHWAY IMPROVEMENT H-4360 CONFIRMING RESOLUTION NO. 73-191-CONSTRUCTION NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE HIGHWAY IMPROVEMENT CONFIRMING RESOLUTION NO. 73-426-CONSTRUCTION NORTII BAYSHORE DRIVE SANITARY SEWER-SR-5383C CONFIRMING RESOLUTION NO. 73-427-CONSTRUCTION NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE SANITARY SEWER-SR-5383S CONFIRMING RESOLUTION NO.73-428-CONSTRUCTION LIBERTY SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT PHASE II SR-5377-C 11 CONFIRMING RESOLUTION NO. 73-429-CONSTRUCTION LIBERTY SANITARY SEWER IMPROVEMENT PHASE II SR-5377-S (SIDELINE SEWER) 12 CONDITIONAL USE -PERMIT DRY-CLLAN1NG- 3661 GRAND AVENUE 13 OFF-STREET PARKING SPACES-7397 N.W. 76TH STREET 14 CONDITIONAL USE -ORDINANCE NO. 6871-OFF-STREET PARKING LOT-2296 S.W. 7TH STREET 15 SPRINKLER SYSTEM IN CONJUNCTION WITH OPEN CONCRETE PARKING GARAGES IN CITY OF MIAMI 16 CONDITIONAL USE -CONSTRUCTION PARKING GARAGE- 245 N.E. 1ST STREET 17 CONDITIONAL USE -COIN -OPERATED LAUNDRY-328 S.W. 12TH AVENUE 18 CONDITIONAL USE -CONSTRUCTION- 3255 ALLAMANDA STREET • R-73-520 R-73-525 R-73-526 R-73-527 R-73-528 R-73-529 R-73-531 R-73-532 R-73-533 R-73-534 R-73-535 R-730536 R-73-537 R-73-538 R-73-539 0053 0054 0055 73-520 73-525 73-526 73-527 73-528 73-529 73-531 73-532 73-533 73-534 73-535 73-536 73-537 73-538 73-539 ITEM NO. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 ; 38 COIVIENTfNDEX.- PAGE # 2 COtCONT.I.NU IISiaN RETRIEVAL = _ DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION ACTION___ CODE PUBLIC HEARING -CITY OF MIAMI FEDERAL REVENUE • SHARING FUNDS-JUNE 19-1973 PUBLIC HEARING -PROPOSED NEW PLANNING AND ZONING PROCEDURES-JULY 12-1973 ALLOCATING THE SUM OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS FOR DAY CARE CENTERS IN CITY OF MIAMI R-73-542 NEGOTIATION CITY MANAGER WITH THE METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY BOARD PUBLIC INSTRUCTION ACQUISITION PORTABLE STRUCTURE R-73-543 APPRAISAL PROPERTY 46 WEST FLAGLERISTREET- FUNDS TAKEN FROM "PARKS FOR PEOPLE BOND ISSUE R-73-546 ACCEPT PLAT ENTITLED LEVERA - A SUBDIVISION R-73-547 R-73-548 CITY OF MIAMI ACCEPT PLAT ENTITLED W.T. SUBDIVISION - A SUBDIVISION CITY OF MIAMI AGREEMENT KLEBBA BAY ESTATES -SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION ACCEPT HIGHWAY RIGHT OF WAY DEED -CONTROL DEVELOPMENT INC R-73-549 R-73-550 FEDERAL GRANT APPLICATION -DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PROJECT "ORGANIZED CRIME FIGHTING TEAM" R-73-551 PUBLIC HEARING -BUDGET DEPT. OFF-STREET PARKING- R-73-552 FISCAL YEAR 1973-1974 EXTENGING TERMS OFFICE PLANNING BOARD MEMBERS- R-73-553 PERMANENT EASEMENT TO THE FIRST STATE BANK OF MIAMI-LITTLE RIVER GARDENS- R-73-554 DISTRICTS 1, 7 and 9- ACCEPT BID -FURNISHING CASTABLE REFRACTORIES - SANITATION DEPARTMENT FROM DEMOTT'S BOILER INC. R-73-555 ACCEPT BID-CLARKE FLOOR MACHINE COMPANY - SELF -PROPELLED AIR VACUUM SWEEPER-DEPT. OF PARKS AND RECREATION ALLOCATING $20.914-COVER COST PROJECT ENTITLED "CITY OWNED PARKING LOTS LIGHTING 1973" ACCEPT BID-CARL J. I1OENES INC.-EDISON PARK TEEN CENTER AUTHORIZE AGREEMENT -CITY OF MIAMI WITH CONNELL ASSOCIATES -ORANGE BOWL STADIUM IMPROVEMENT FUNDS FROM UNALLOCATED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND OF THE CITY MIAMI-RESOLUTION NO. 73-559 AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 73-456-ACCEPT BID OF CHAN W. BAKER -LAWN GRASS SEED MIXTURE- R-73-556 R-73-557 R-73-558 R-73-559 R-73-560 R-73-561 0056 0057 73-542 73-543 73-546 73-547 73-548 73-549 73-550 73-551 73-552 73-553 73-554 73-555 73-556 73-557 73-558 73-559 73-560 73-561 ITEM NO. 39 40 41 42 CONTINUE DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION COMMISSIONACTION AUTHORIZE DEMOLITION CBS STRUCTURE LOCATED 3812 N.W. 17TH AVENUE AUTHORIZE PURCHASE ORDER TO MOTOROLA CORP. FOR RECEIVER TRANSMITTER CRYSTALS PROPOSED ZONING DISTRICTS FOR MIAMI CBD AMEND AGREEMENT BETWEEN RESTAURANT ASSOCIATES, WALDORF ASSOCIATES AND CITY OF MIAMI R-73-562 R-73-563 PAGE #3 RETRIEVAL 73-562 73-563 0058 0059