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HomeMy WebLinkAbout30948 - MINUTES - City Commission now SPcCIAL CITY COI2-[ISSIO"J MEIsTING HCLD IN THE DANIA CITY ConjfISSION ROOM, DANIA, FLORIDA ON OCTOBER 26TH, 1970. 1. ROLL CALL PRESENT MAYOR-COMMISSIONER ROBERT E. HOUSTON COMMISSIONERS ROBERT KELLY ® WILLIAM E. JACKSON JOSEPH THORNTON BOISY WAITERS CITY MANAGER WOODWARD HAMPTON CITY ATTORNEY CLARKE WALDEN POLICE CHIEF EDWWARD BAXTER ® BLDG INSPECTOR HUBERT WALKER CITY CLERK E. R. CLAY 2. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN SAID THE FIRST ITEM WAS AN ORDINANCE ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF MOVIE HOUSES IN DANIA. THE CITY ATTORNEY SAID HE • WAS ASKED TO DRAW UP AN ORDINANCE REGARDING MOVIE HOUSES. HE STATED THIS ORDINANCE COVERED THE BUILDING AND ZONING ASPECT, THE CITY ATTORNEY ASKED THAT IT BE PASSED ON FIRST READING THAT WAY AN APPLICANT COULD NOT COME IN AND TRY TO GET UNDER THE WIRE. HE THEN READ THE COMPLETE ORDINANCE. COMMISSIONER KELLY THEN MADE A MOTION THAT THE ORDINANCE BE PASSED ON FIRST READING, THIS WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER 0 WAITERS. ROLL CALL WAS FOUR TO ZERO. 3. THE CITY MANAGER SAID THE FIRST ITEM WAS ITEM NUMBER 1, AND THAT THE ARCHITECT SUGGESTED THAT THE STUCCO WORK BE HANDLED BY CHANGE ORDER. THIS WOULD THEN BE HANDLED BETWEEN THE CONTRACTOR AND MR FRANK R. HILL. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN BROUGHT UP THE QUESTION OF THE WORK THAT ® THE CONTRACTOR WILL NOT HAVE TO DO IT A CREDIT WILL BE ISSUED. THE CITY MANAGER SAID HE HAD TALKED TO THE SUPERVISOR AND HE SAID SOME CREDIT 'WOULD BE GIVEN. IT WAS ALSO DISCUSSED AND DETERMINED THAT THE 15� WOULD BE DUE THE CONTRACTOR PER THE AGREEMENT ON CHANGE ORDERS. THE CITY MANAGER WAS THEN INSTRUCTED TO GET TOGETHER WITH THE ARCHITECT AND THE CONTRACTOR AND DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF CREDIT DUE THE CITY AND BRING IT BEFORE THE COMMISSION AT THE NEXT MEETING, it. THE MAYOR THEN STATED THAT A WEEK AGO HE WALKED INTO THE CITY HALL AND SAW THE CARPET AND HE SAID HE WAS NOT A CARPET MAN BUT THAT HE THOUGHT THE CITY DID NOT GET A FIRST GRADE CARPET, THE CARPET JUST TISIDE THE FRONT DOOR WAS REPLACED AFTER THE AREA WAS FLOODED, BUT THE NEW CARPET IS A DIFFERENT SHADE, THE MAYOR ASKED THE CITY MANAGER TO HAVE THE ARCHITECT AT NEXT MONDAY'S MEETING. BUT TO HAVE THE ARCHITECT CHECK ON ALL THESE THINGS SO HE WILL HAVE THE ANSWERS. 5. THE CITY MANAGER THEN BROUGHT UP ITEM f 2, THIS IS IN REGARDS TO THE WATER LINES ON E. DANIA BEACH BLVD AND COVERED BY THE CITY ENGINEER IN A PHASE NUMBER 2. THE MAYOR ASKED IF THE FIRST PHASE WAS FINISHED AND THE CITY MANAGER SAID IT WAS BUT THAT NO BILL HAD BEEN RECEIVED, FROM H & H CRANE SERVICE, MR FARINA WAS HOME WITH THE FLU AND HIS ASSISTANT IAS THERE TO REPRESENT HIM. THE COST OF PHASE TWO WAS $11000, less AN 00UNT THAT COULD BE SALVAGED FROM THE OLD PIPE WHICH WAS ESTIMATED TO 504 OF THE OLD PIPE AND THE WOULD BRING THE ESTIMATE DOWN TO $7630. i COMMISSIONER THORNTON THEN MADE A MOTION TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO GO AHEAD WITH PHASE NUMBER TWO AS AN EMERGENCY, THIS WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER KELLY. THERE WAS THEN DISCUSSION REGARDING THE INSPECTION OF THE JOB BY THE CITY ENGINEER AND WHAT THE CHARGE WOULD BE. THE MAN FROM BROOME & FARINA DID NOT KNOW THE ANSWER. COMMISSIONER THORNTON THEN ADDED TO HIS MOTION THAT 41% OF THE PRICE BE ADDED FOR INSPECTION 0 AND IF IT WAS ANYTHING DIFFERENT THE COMMISSION SHOULD BE NOTIFIED. ROLL CALL WAS THEN TAKEN AND THE VOTE WAS FIVE TO ZERO. } OCTOBER 26, 1970 (1) 00 6. I1Ys1/, ;` 3 WAS IN REGYARD TO THE WORK DONE BY HOSEY CONSTRUCTION CO. RUNNING SEWER LINE IN ALLEY BETWEEN S. E. 3RD STREET AND S. E. 3RD TERRACE. THE CITY MANAGER SAID IN HIS AGENDA HE HAD RECOMMENDED TO ASSESS PROPERTY OWNER FOR PAVING OF ALLEY INCLUDING FILLING, ROAD ROCK AND PAVING BUT THAT HE FOUND OUT THIS CAN ONLY BE DONE BY PETITION FROM THE PROPERTY OWNERS. MR NOSEY THEN CAME BEFORE THE COMMISSION, THE MAYOR THEN QUESTIONED 14R HOSEY REGARDING FILL USED AND SAID IT RUN WAY OVER THE ESTIMATE OF 1670 CUBIC YDS. THE MAYOR SAID ALL THE MINUTES WERE CHECKED AND THERE WAS NO MENTION OF FILL, HE SAID HE REMEMBERED MR. FARINA SAYING SOME FILL WAS NECESSARY SO MR HOSEY COULD GET HIS EQUIPMENT IN. MR NOSEY SAID THE FILL WAS NOT BROUGHT IN TO MAKE A ROAD BUT IT WAS USED TO PROTECT THE SEWER LINE AND BRING THE ALLEY UP TO PLUS FIVE. IT WAS THEN BROUGHT OUT THAT THE CITY ENGINEER WAS NOT CALLED IN TILL THE JOB WAS ALMOST COMPLETED. THE CITY ENGINEER RECOMMENDED THE BILLS BE PAID. IT WAS THEN DECIDED THAT MR NOSEY WAS NOT TO BLAME AND SHOULD BE PAID BUT AN EXPLANATION WAS DUE FROM THE GITY ENGINEER AS TO WHERE ALL THE FILL WENT. COMMISSIONER THORNTON THEN MADE A MOTION TO PAY THE THREE BILLS TO HOSEY CONSTRUCTION THE AMOUNT BEING $9,358-80, THIS WAS THEN SECONDED BY C0MMISSIONER KELLY. ROLL CALL WAS THEN TAKEN AND THE VOTE WAS FIVE TO ZERO. THE MAYOR THEN ASKED THE CITY ATTORNEY AS PART OF THESE BILLS WAS FOR BRINGING THE ALLEY UP TO FIVE PLUS WHETHER ALL COULD BE CHARGED TO THE SEWER FUND, THE CITY ATTORNEY RULED TO CHARGE IT ALL TO THE SEWER FUND. COMMISSIONER KELLY THEN MADE A STATEMENT THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE ALL LEARNED A LESSON ON THIS ONE, AND IN THE FUTURE THE CITY 14ANAGER SHOULD NOT HAVE THINGS DONE OVER THE ESTIMATE THAT COULD NOT ® BE ASSESSED TO PROPERTY OWNERS. 7. COIRrSSSIONER KELLY SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO COMMEND THE CITY ATTORNEY FOR THE ORDINANCE HE DREW UP REGARDING THE MOVIE HOUSES, THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN SAID HE WISHED HE COULD DRAW UP AN ORDINANCE WHICH WOULD COMBAT BOOK STORES. • R. COMiISSIONER WAITERS THEN SAID HE HAD READ IN THE PAPERS WHERE THERE WERE SOME VOTING IRREGULATIONS AS STATED BY COMMISSIONER JACKSON, HE SAID ATTORNEY HASTINGS WAS IN THE AUDIENCE AND WISHED TO BE HEARD, ATTORNEY HASTINGS SAID THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE INVOLVED SO THIS COULD BE CORRECTED IN THE FUTURE. THE CITY • CLERK THEN GAVE ATTORNEY HASTINGS THE TWO AFFIDAVITS ON THE TWO PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN HALLANDALE AND SHOWED HIM TWO CARD OF TWO VOTERS WHO LIVE IN CA14P BLANDING. THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN STATED THE BOOKS CLOSED AS OF 5 PM THIS DAY AND HE DID NOT THINK ANYTHING COULD BE GAINED AT THIS LATE DATE. THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN SAID IF THE CITY CLERK HAD KNOWLEDGE OF ANY PEOPLE WHO HE THOUGHT SHOULD NOT HAVE REGISTERED HE COULD TURN THE NAMES OVER TO ® ANY CANDIDATE. AND THAT ALL THE CANDIDATES SHOULD BE NOTIFIED. A MR JIMMY PETERMAN OF 608 W. BEACH BLVD THEN CAME BEFORE THE COMMISSION. HE ASKED WHY A PARTIAL SURVEY WAS BEING MADE, THE MAYOR ANSWERED THAT HE WAS IN THE CITY HALL WHEN TWO FELdOWS CAME IN AND REGISTERED AND GAVE AN ADDRESS THAT WAS FOUND TO BE IN CAMP BLANDING AND THAT THE CLERK HAD QUESTIONED THE TWO WHO REGISTERED FROM HALLANDALE. ALSO THE LANDLORD OF THE HOUSE VERIFIED THAT THESE PEOPLE DID NOT LIVE THERE. HIS SECOND QUESTION WAS WHY ON SATURDAY DID AN OFFICER OF THE LAW COME OVER TO AN APARTMENT BLDG AND ASK ONE OF THE PEOPLE HOW LONGSHE HAD I.IVED THERE, SHE ANSWERED ONE MONTH. THE MAYOR THEN ASKED WHERE SHE LIVID 97MRE AND HE SAID ONE BLACK OVER IN DANIA. THE MAYOR THEN SAID BEFORE ANY ACTION 'WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN ALL THESE THINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN CHECKED OUT. .a THERE WAS YORE DISCUSSION AND THEN THE MAYOR ADJOURNED THE MEETING. RESPPECpTFULLY�I SUBMITTED MAYOR ROBERT E, HOUSTON CITY LERK E. R. CLAY z, OCTOBER 26, 1970 (2)