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MEM` 'IPTG HELD IN THE DANIA CITY COMMISSION ROOM ON
THURSDAY AUGUST 20TH, 1970 WITH ADULTS AND TEENA(=PRE rROM Ww.
THE WEST SIDE OF DANIA. *1O
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1. VETA PETERMAN GAVE THE INVOCATION TO OPEN THE MEETING. ; ;
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2, FIRST SPEAK.T''R WAS CHARLEY TH019AS OF 29 DI. W. 4TH AVENUE.
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,}. HIS MAIN GRIEVANCE WAS WESTSIDE PARK, NO EQUIPMENT AND
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THAT THE PAVILLION IS IN SUCH BAD SHAPE AND THAT IT
MIGHT FAIL ON SOMEONE. Y E
HE ALSO ASKED WHAT THE CITY SPENT AT FROST PARK LAST r;
YEAR AND WHAT THEY HAD SPENT AT WESTSIDE PARK. THE CITY
.s MANAGER THEN WENT DOWNSTAIRS TO GET THE FIGURES, UPON
HIS RETURN HE STATED THAT LAST YEAR THROUGH JULY THEY HAD
SPENT $13,260.86 AT WESTSIDE PARK AND $12,708.00 AT FROST T
PARK . AND IN THE BUDGET FOR THIS COMING YEAR THERE WAS ,17
t21,000.00 FOR FROST PARK AND $22, 738.00 FGR WESTSIDE
PARK.
MR THOMAS ALSO STATED THAT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SUMMER
PROGRAM THE SWIMMING. POOL WASOPENED BEFORE IT WAS READY. „
'V ALSO STATED THEY NEED MORE POLICE PROTECTION AND THAT WHEN s; ;
A COMPLAINT IS CALLED IN IT TAKES FOREVER FOR THE POLICE
TO GET THERE.
3. MRS PETERMAN THEN STATED SHE WATCHED FROM HER HOUSE AT A CAR '
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THAT WAS BEING STRIPPED AND MADE THREE CALLS TO THE POLICE 5 W�
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AND NOBODY EVER SHOWED UP. M;
4. ROOSEVELT CURE OF 22 N. W. 8TH AVENUE THEN SPOKE. HIS GRIEVANCES ,
WERE AS FOLLOWS SEWERAGE FOR THE WESTSIDE, DRAINAGE ON N. We '
5TH AVE AND N. W. 7TH AVENUE, STREETS TO BE PAVED, ANNEXATION '
OF CAMP BLANDING AND MORE POLICE.
MAYOR HOUSTON ANSWERHIS QUESTION ON THE SEWERS AND DRAINAGE.
HE STATED BACK IN 1958 THE PEOPLE ON THE WESTSIDE DID NOT
WANT SEWERS, AND THAT THERE TERE JUST AS MANY PLACES ON THE
EASTSIDE AS THERE WERE ON THE WESTSIDE THAT NEEDED DRAINAGE.
COMMISSIONER JACKSON STATED THAT IF CAMP BLANDING WERE TO
BE ANNEXED THE CITY COULD NOT DO THE THINGS NECESSARY FOR
THE PEOPLE WHO NOW LIVE IN DP_NIA.
5 . WILHEMINA DAVIS OF 29 N. W. 4TH AVENUE THEN CAME TO THEMICRO
PHONE AND HER STATEMENT IS, "WHAT IS CAUSING ALL THIS UNREST."
® 6. RUTH CARTER OF 247 N. W. 7TH AVENUE THEN SAID WHEN THE POLICE
CATCH THESE KIDS STRIPPING CARS THEY SHOULD TALK TO THEM AND
TRY TO UPGRADE THESE KIDS.
7. MELIIN HARRIS THE RECREATION DIRECTOR AT WESTSIDE PARK THEN
STATED HE THOUGHT RECREATION WAS THE MAIN REASON FOR THE
UNREST IN THE CITY OF DANIA. HE SAID TWO YEARS AGO HE HAD
MADE OUT A LIST OF EQUIPMENT NEEDED AT WESTSIDE PARK AND
THIS LIST HAD NOT BEEN FILLED AS OF THIS DATE. HE WAS TOLD
TO GET A NEW LIST UP OF EVERYTHING THAT WAS NEEDED AT THE
WESTSIDE PARK AND TURN IT OVER TO THE COMMISSIONERS.
8. JOHNNY HALL THEN TALKED AND STATED HIS BROTHER WAS ARRESTED
YESTERDAY AND THE POLICEMAN DID NOT PUT ALL HIS PERSONAL
BELONGINGS IN A BAG, IT WAS FOUND OUT LATER THAT ONE ITEM
WAS IN THE POLICEMANIS POCKET AND THEY HAD TO FIND HIM TO
GIVE IT BACK TO THE BOY. THE MAYOR THEN SPOKE UP AND SAID
HE HAPPENED TO BE IN CITY HALI. WHEN THE BOY WAS BROUGHT IN.
THF. MAYOR ALSO SAID TO MRHALL YOU LIVE IN CAMP BLANDING AND
NOT nANIA.
°. CHARLES JACKSON OF 72.5 S. W. 4TH STREET THEN COMPLAINED ABOUT
1ESTSIDE PARK AND RECREATION, LIGHT WERE NOT BRIGHT ENOUGH
TO SEE A BALL AT NIGHT. ALSO SAID THE PAVI",IION WAS TO HAVE
RT,C.N CONDEMED SOME TIME AGO AND HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE ACTION
BEFORE SOMEBODY GOT HURT.
I0. :tU!'H CARTER THEN SPOKE AGAIN AND SAID THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH HELP
AT WESTSIDE PARK AND THAT MR DICKERSON WAS NOT COOPERATING
'KITH MR HARRIS IN SEEING THAT THERE WAS ENOUGH EQUIPMENT.
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