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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1969-10-30 Special City Commission Meeting Minutes iR. SP;:CIAT, CITY C i'P'.Iz;SI'71; MEETING IfT,D THUISDAY :)CTOBEt 30, 1969, IN THE CITY COMMISSION WJ0M, DANIA CITY HALL , DANIA, FLO'IDA. 1. ff)LL CAIL PRESENT MAYOR-COMMISSIONER ROBERT E. HOUSTON COMMISSIONERS LILLIAM E. JACKSON R7 RERT KELLY JOSEPH THORNTON S BOISY WAITERS CITY ATTORNEY CLARKE WALDEN CITY MANAGER STEPHEN A. DERBY BUILDING INSPECTOR HIIBERT WALKER CITY CLERK E. R. CLAY COMMISSIONERS KELLY AND WAITERS ARRIVED LATE. POTICE CHIEF PHIL THOMPSON WAS ABSENT. 2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 15th, OCTOBER 7TH & OCTOBER 9TH, 1969. COKh1I33I:'NER JACKSON MADE A MOTION THEY BE ACCEPTED, THIS WAS SECONDED BY '3 �. COVP,'TSSIONEII THORNTON.A.LI, THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY AYE, THE VOTE WAS THREE T:) 3. DANIA. POLICE tESEtVES THERE GIFT OF A 1961 VALIANT TO THE CITY OF DANIA. ;.FCE.". A T;NGriff DISCUSSION REGARDING THE POVIERS OF THE RESERVES AND IN AS +.UCH AS THIE POLICE CHIEF WAS NOT THERE, IT 1^AS DECIDED TO TABLE THE ITEM. COMMISSTONER JACKSON MADE A MOTION IT BE TABLED, THIS TAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER THI.INTON. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY IN THE USUAL MANNER. THE VOTE VAS FOUR TO 7ERO. 14. FF,NCF, AT THE DANIA PIES. THE CITY MANAGER THEN STATED THAT T.tOPICAL FENCE HAD COME IN WITH .A BID EAV IER IN THE DAY AND HAD REDUCED THEIR FIGURE DOWN TO $1163.88 AND HE HAD TOLD THEM THAT OVER $1998 IT WOULD HAVE TO GO OUT ON BIDS, THEY THEN CAME HACK 1.7TH A FIGURE OF $996.86. .AFTER A LENGTHY DISCUSSION AS TO THE NEED FOR THE FENCE, A MOTION 4TAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER JACKSON) THIS "71S SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER KELLY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY IN THE USUAL M.ANTIEt. THE VOTE WAS FOUR AYES. THE MOTION SHOULD HEAD THE ITEM WAS TABLED. 5. APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES FO` THE THREE PENSION FUNDS. THE FIRE CHIEF TURNED IN THE NAMES OF V 0 FIREMAN, ONE FIREMAN MOORE IND THE OTHER FIREMAN BRIGGS. AS THE COMMISSIONERS DID NOT HAVE THE NAMES )F TH.IEE CITI7ENS CNE FOR EACH FUND IT WAS DECIDED TO TABLE THIS ITEM TILL ','ONDAY NOVEMBER 3RD, i969. 0 6. -,TREET LIGHTS IN ALLEY - REPORT TO BE MADE BY THE CITY MANAGER AND 'THE } UTILITY C01,41ITTEE. THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN EXPLAINED THE PROBLEM REGARDING ?NETHER THE ALLEY "AS IN THE LIGHT PLACE, HE STATED TWO DIFFERENT SURVEYORAS HAD SURVEYED IT AND THEY BOTH CAME UP !:,ITH DIFFERENT ANSWERS. AND THAT THE COMMISSIONER HAD AUTHOtI7ED HIM TO HAVE AN INDEPENDENT SURVEYOR DO IT AGAIN AND THAT THE MAN • "AS VOtKING LIKE MAD TO GET IT DONE. THERE WAS THEN A LONG DISCUSSION BEDIZEN THE MAYOR, COMMISSIONER KELLY, CITY ATTORNEY, CITY MANAGER, COMMISSIONER TIDIL"1TON AND THr GENTLEMEN REPRESENTING THE HOME OWNYRS OF THE ALLEY. MOST F TIFE DISCUSSION WAS IN REGARDS TO CONTRACTS, PRICES .AND LENGTH OF TIME. IT ' AS THEN DECIDED THAT THE CITY ATTORNEY SHOULD CONTACT THE FLORIDA. POWER T,IGHT ANI) GET A COPY OF THEIR CONTRACT AND HAVE SOMETHING READY FOR THE i !',TTNG `N N)VF;?IHER 1TT{1, 1969. 7. P*h7T,13 END TRAILER PACK. THE MAY')t STATED THIS ITEM HAD BEEN TABLED AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING AND �;IFTJI,D NOT BE, ON THE AGENDA. THE CITY MANAGER SAID THE CITY ENGINEER HAD SOME 1.,F' IVATION ON T!!IS ITEM. THm- MAYOR THEN SAID A. MOTION TvtJLD HAVE TO BE MADE ® _ TO P.",T1;G THIS ITEM BACK ON THE FLOOR. COMMISSIONER JACKSON MADE A. MOTION 10 P-IS i'F'r i{CT, IT "AS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER THORNTON. ALT, IN FAVOR SIGNIFY TIT THE IISI[AT, MANNER. THE!tE I-MM. FOUR AYES. F CITY ENGINEER THEN OA.VE A LONG TALK REGARDING THE TRAILER PARK AND ASTcD T� KN01' 'HERE THEY STOOD III REGARDS TO HOOKING UP THE NE!•" ADDITION TO T'" CIPY SANITARY SM, Tft SYSTEM. THE CITY ATTORNEY SAID THIS COULD HAVE SOME "NF'T TC ' TTH THE Fi�NID RESOLUTION AS THIS '.'AS OUTSIDE THE SEFIER DISTRICT. Irl, 1969 (1) ,. All (2) THERh: : ►S MORE DISCUSSION REGARDING SEVER EXPANSIOT, COSTS STATED THEVICES BOND (Attorney) COST AT THE PLANT FOR TREATMENT. THE CITY RESOLUTION STATED THAT ANYONE IN THE SEI^iBR DISTRICT HAD TO HOOK UP 'HEN ROPERTY, AND THEREFORE THE CITY HAD TO HAVE THE SERVICE AVAILABLE. TH[:Y HAD P SO IF YOU ERE RUNNING OUT OF SERVICE THE PEOPLE IN THE SEti'7ER DISTRICT HAD THE FIRST PREFERENCE. COMMISSIONER THORNT UNTIL N MoVETYT AN EITHER EXPAND OR HAT IT BE DENIED TO HOOK N IN THE SEl^!fiR SYSTEM AT THIS TIME, USE THE HOLT,YIOOD OUTFALL LINE, HE SAID AT THIS TIME HE MOULD BE MORE THAN GLAD T HAVE HIM HOOK INTO THE CITY SYSTEM, THIS. VOTING WAS AS FOLiiOWSs LUS SECONDED BY CO 13 NoOasR heC SON felt the COMMISSIONER JACKSON ?ES _City obligated to servic C"ISSIONER KELLY NO --- 50 Trailers ,because if COMMISSIONER THORNTON YES they could not do it MAYOR HOUSTON YES now they were really In trouble. 8, PAVING OF REACH PARKING LOT, SHOVED SPECS AND PLANS. THERE 4'AS THEN DISCUSSIO THE CITY ENGINEER THEN REGARDING WHICH PART COULD BE RESURFACED AND '••WHICH PART COULD RE PAVED. THE THE n THENUTH SSTATED IDE or THTHAT ATHERE NG ANDNTH�T LTHERE SHOULDEASE A TEN FitCURBIPUTSFRIM THE ALONG FR NT OF TIIE BUILDING TO THE REARATES , DEEP ENOUGH SO IT I.OULD NOT VASH OUT. THE CITY THE MAYOR THEN T1lRBUGT UPTTPE PAVING OF MEETING ALLEIN MONDAY E;'EEN N. E.B1 T STREET O AND MAN. E. 1ST TERRACE AND ASK THAT AN ESTIMATE BE GIVEN ON THIS ALSO. 9. DISCUSSION ()F STORM DRAIN EXTENSIONS. THE CITY ENGINEER SAID HE HAD MADE AN INSPECTION TODAY, AND IT WAS IDEAL TIME 'ITH ALL THE RAIN. HE EXPLAINED THE CONDITION ON S. E. ANI, VRERE THE T•'ATER WAS COMING FROM, HE ALSO EXPLAINED WHAT COULD BE DONE TO O CORRECT THIS. AFTER MUCH DISCUSSION THE CITY ENGINEER WAS INSTRUCTED TO GET PLANS AND SPECS FOR A PERMANENT INSTALLATION TO REMEDY THE SITUATION ON S. E. 2ND AVENUE. THE CITY ENGINEER STATED ON THE OTHER DRAINAGE PROBLEM ON N. E. 3RD S TDHAT OWNTAND PLUGGED AUPETHE PI� HE SAID THIS AREA AND IT ASHOULD BE CLEANETHAT D OUT AND T HAD GOT O SVALE REapRKED DOWN BY THE LOW SPOT AT N. E. 1ST COURT. AROUND THE CITY THE MAYOR THEN ASKED THE CITY MANAGER IF HE COULD RIDESAID IF THE SI:ALE AFTER A RAIN AND SEE ALL THE WATER LAYING IN THE STREETS, HE T'AS CUT AND MAYBE THE GR.►SS SO WATER COULD GET TO A DITCH IT 'nDULD HELP ALOT O 1p, FIRE DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR THE TITLES ON TIO PIECES OF EQUIPMENT THEY ISSH T? DISPOSE OF IN ORDER DODGE TO BUY A STATION WAGON THEY NEED. THE EQUIPMENT IS: 1956 FORD THEM THIS VAS CO.y'ISSIONER THORNTON MADE A MOTION THE TITLES BE RETURNED TO SECONDED BY COMMaSSIONER JAC197N• ROLL CALL WAS TAKEN AND THE VOTE VAS FOUR TO HERO. O TURNING ON I•'ATER IN THE SEWER DISTRICT. CHARGE'.liOR THE MAYOR STATED THAT FOR SOME TIME THE CITY HAS SEEN CHARGING jnklM THEM DOLLARS 11. ND ONLY ONE DOLLAR N S RSN TdE CITIRATTORNET THEN STAIN THE SEwER TEDCHEAUOULD BRING AN ORDINANCE TO THE IS ® MEETING nN MONDAT NIGHT AND THEY COULD PASS IT ON ALL THREE READINGS• 12. SEWER FLA.NT EXPANSION DISCUSSION HETtiizm THE CITY COMMISSIONERS, HARM HENNAN AND JOHN FARINA. THE FIRST SPEAKER '•:AS HARVEY HENNAN AND HE I.•ENT ON TO EXPO EXPLAINED N THAT 11IS FI'4t HAD HANDLED THE FINANCING OF THE ORIGINAL SEWER SYSTEM- O I{rRE THE MONEY CAME FROM FOR THE ORIGINAL FINANCING. HE SAID SOME CAn FROM A GRANT, SOME FROM SEWER ASSESSMENTS AND THE BALANCE FROM SEh'ER REVENUE. HE SAID THE SYSTEM LOOXING AHEAD ,qAS SELF S�TA�NT AND COMES SAID THRtURTHE STATE FROM THt IF GRANTS UOTH BASIC, ME SAID THIS GRANT WAS FOR, ABOUT 33 $ OF THE FEDERAL 7?ATER POLLUTION CONTROL, COST. HE SAID THE OTHER GRANT WAS NOT AVAILABLE WHEN THE SEWER SYSTEM WAS PUT • g e (2) THERE ':%S MORE DISCUSSION REGARDING SEWER EXPANSION, COSTS OF SERVICES COST AT THE PLANT FOR TREATMENT. THE CITY*X1M THEN STATED THE BOND (Attorney) RESOLUTION STATED THAT ANYONE IN THE SE1�TR DISTRICT HAD TO HOOK UP WHEN THEY HAD PROPERTY, AND THEREFORE THE CITY HAD TO HAVE THE SERVICE AVAILABLE. SO IF YOU -`ERE RUP!NING OUT OF SERVICE THE PEOPLE IN THE SEWER DISTRICT HAD THE FIRST PREFERENCE. COMMISSIONER THORNTON MOVED THAT IT BE DENIED TO HOOK INTO THE SEWER SYSTEM AT THIS TIME, UNTIL THE CITY CAN EITHER EXPAND OR USE THE HOLT,n'OOD OUTFALL LINE, HE SAID AT THIS TIME HE 4.OULD BE MORE THAN GLAD TO HAVE HIM HOOK INTO THE CITY SYSTEM, THIS VAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER JACKSON. VOTING I-,AS AS FOLLOWS: Voted No as he felt the COMMISSIONER JACKSON TES City, obligated to servic COMMISSIONER KELLY NO ----50 Trailere ,because if COMMISSIONER THORNTON YES they could not do it MAYOR HOUSTON YES now they were really In trouble. e. PAVING OF REACH PARKING LOT. THE CITY ENGINEER THEN SHOWED SPECS AND PLANS. THERE 4'AS THEN DISCUSSION REGARDING VffICH PART COULD BE RESURFACED AND '•.'RICH PART COULD BE PAVED. THE MAYOR THEN STATED THAT THERE WAS IN THE LEASE A TEN FOOT PLANTING STRIP ALONG THE S?UTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING AND THAT THERE SHOULD BE A CURB PUT FROM THE Fit NT OF T!!E BUILDING TO THE REAR, DEEP ENOUGH SO IT FOULD NOT VASH OUT. THE CITY ENGINEER TO BRING ESTIMATES TO THE MEETING ON MONDAY NOVEMBER 3RD, 1969. THE MAYOR THEN BROUGHT UP THE PAVING OF THE ALLEY BETIsEEN N. E. 1ST STREET AND N. E. 1ST TERRACE AND ASK THAT AN ESTIMATE BE GIVEN ON THIS ALSO. 9. DISCUSSION nF STORM DRAIN EXTENSIONS. THE CITY ENGINEER SAID HE HAD MADE AN INSPECTION TODAY, AND IT WAS AN IDEAL TIME 'ITH ALT, THE RAIN. HE EXPLAINED THE CONDITION ON S. E. 2ND AVENUE ANL !:'HERE THE 14ATER FAS COMING FROM, HE ALSO EXPLAINED WHAT COULD BE DONE TO CORRECT THIS. AFTER MUCH DISCUSSION THE CITY ENGINEER WAS INSTRUCTED TO GET PLANS AND SPECS FOR A PERMANENT INSTALLATION TO REMIEDY THE SITUATION ON S. E. 2ND AVENUE. THE CITY ENGINEER STATED ON THE OTHER DRAINAGE PROBLEM ON N. E. 3RD ST THAT THIS -.-AS IN A NTVILY PAVED AREA AND IT APPEARS THAT SOME ASPHALT HAD GOT DOYN AND PLUGGED UP THE PIPE. HE SAID THIS SHOULD BE CLEANED OUT AND THE S1,'ALE RET•DRKED DOWT7 BY THE LOW SPOT AT N. E. 1ST COURT, THE MAYOR THEN ASKED THE CITY MANAGER IF HE COULD RIDE AROUND THE CITY AFTER A RAIN AND SEE ALL THE WATER LAYING IN THE STREETS, HE SAID IF THE S% LY VAS CUT AND MAYBE THE GRASS $O WATER COULD GET TO A DITCH IT W ULD HELP ALOT 10. FIRE DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR THE TITLES ON TiO PIECES OF EQUIPMENT THEY v1SH T) DISPOSE OF IN ORDER 1O BUY A STATION WAGON THEY NEED. THE EQUIPMENT IS: 1952 DODGE 1956 FORD COMFiISSioNER THORNTON MADE A MOTION THE TITLES BE RETURNED TO THEM, THIS WAS SFCONDID BY COMMISSIONER JACKS)N. ROLL CALL ETAS TAKEN AND THE VOTE WAS FOUR TO 7ERO. 1 11. CHARGE-.?OR TURNING ON WATER IN THE SEWER DISTRICT. THE MAYOR STATED THAT FOR SOME TIME THE CITY HAS BEEN CHARGING FIVE DOLLARS 1n TURN ON THE VATER IN THE SEWER DISTRICT AND ONLY ONE DOLLAR Y.9{AERE THERE IS NO SE1•ERS. THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN STATED HE WULD BRING AN ORDINANCE TO THE METING ON MONDAY NIGHT AND THEY COULD PASS IT ON ALL THREE READINGS. 12. SE''BR PLANT EXPANSION DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE CITY COMMISSIONERS, HARVEY HENNAN AND JOHN FARINA. THE FIRST SPEAKER LAS HARVEY HENNAN AND HE WENT ON TO EXPLAIN THAT HIS FIRM HAD HANDLED THE FINANCING OF THE ORIGINAL SEWER SYSTEM. HE EXPLAINED '.'HRE THE MONEY CAME FM'MI FOR THE ORIGINAL FINANCING. HE SAID SOME CAMS FROM A G,tsNT, SOME FUME SEWER ASSESSMENTS AND THE BALANCE FROM SEWSR REVENUE. HE SAID THE SYSTEM T,Of,KING AHEAD 14AS SELF SUBSTAINING. HE SAID THUS IaAl TW&_Y KINDS IF GRANTS BOTH BASIC, ONS IS A PL 661 GRANT AND CODS THRU THE STATE FROM THE FEDERAL EATER POLLUTION CONTROL, HE SAID THIS GRANT WAS FOR A&)UT 33 % OF THE COST, fig SAID THE OTHER GRANT WAS NOT AVAILABLE WHEN THE SEWER SYSTEM WAS PUT IN. Oct 30, 1969 (2) s rFF ~`^ 'fi� ll Y }� (3) ` . HE SAID IT VAS ADMINISTERED OUT OF ATLANTA, AI THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSING AHD URBAN DEVELOPMENT. HE SAID THIS GRANT COVERED 50 OF CERTAIN Polm0NS OF THE TOTAL COST. THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS THEN HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS FOR M.A. HENNAN AND THERE VAS A LOT OF DISCUSSION. HARYFY HENNAN THEN READ A PORTION OF HIS PROPOSAL AS TO WHAT HIS COMPANY V70ULD DO FOR THE CITY. THE CITY MANAGER THEN READ A LETTER HE HAD RECEIVED FROM SMITH & GILLESPIE CO REGARDING THE DRAINAGE CONTRACT, HE ASKED THAT THE CITY LET THEM GO AHEAD AYFILE AS THE CITY MOULD HAVE TO PAI THEM THE $2910 EIT:IER WAY. ® ALL DISCUSSION ENDED WITH COMMISSIONER KELLY ASKING JOHN FARINA IF RS COULD GET TOGETHER IVITH THE CITY MANAGER AND COME UP 4.ITH A DEFINITE DECISION AS TO t•.'HAT SHOULD BE DONE. 13. COMMISSIONER THORNTON SAID HE HAD A COUPLE OF ITEMS TO BRING UP AND THEY ONLY I HAD FIVE MINUTES LEFT. COMMISSIONER THORNTON SAID THAT THERE WAS A LSTTTER SENT ' ® OUT GIVING TEN DAY NOTICE ON TEARING D(WN SOME SHACKS, HE STATED THAT TWO OF THE HOUSES HAD PEOPLE LIVING IN THEM, THEY WLRL THE BRYANT AND THE MIZELL PROPERTIES. COMMISSIONER THORNTON THEN MADE A MOTION TO DEISTS THE ABOVE TWO MUSES AND PROCEED WITH THE REST, THIS %S SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER WAITERS. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY IN THE USUAL MANNER. THERE WW FIVE AYES. • lh. LETTER FROM MR WAGNER AT THE FT LAUDERDAI,S-11DLL2WOOD AIRPORT REQUESTING THAT THE CITY CONTACT FLORIDA FMIER & LIGHT CO AND ASK THEM TO REMOVE FOUR LIGHTS ON FEDERAL H4•II. Wn ARE IN FRONT OF THE IMPERIAL BOWLING ALLEYS, ONE IN FRONT OF MIKE'S SUB PALACE AND THE OTHER IN FAINT OF THE TORCH CLUB, THE REASON BEING THE NEW RUWAY AT THE AIRPORT. THIS IS THE EAST-!*=T RUNWAY. COMMISSIONER THORNTON MADE A MOTION TO HAVE THE LIGHTS REMOVED, THIS WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER JACKSON. ALL IN FAVOR SIGNIFY IN THE USUAL MANNER. THE VOTE WAS FIVE TO 7ERO. 15, COMMISSIONER KELLY THEN BROUGHT UP THE APPLICATION OF BID BRANDES FOR A TRANSFER OF LICENSE FROM ONE ADDRESS TO THE OTHER, COMMISSIONER THORNTON THEN MARS A MOTION IT BE GRANTED, THIS WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSION KELLY. ALL IN FAVOR SIGNIFY IN THE USUAL MANNER. THERE WERE FIVE AYES, 16. THE CITY MANAGER THEN BROUGHT UP SOMxTHING BROOMS & FARINA HAD GIVEN HIM ON THE RAW VATER TELL SHELTERS, THIS TO COME UP ON MONDAY NIGHT'S MELTING, RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED • MAYOR ROBERT L. HGUSTON ��i�S. R. CAdT CITY CLERK AUDITOR 'e Oct 39, 1969 (3)