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Home My WebLink About31011 - MINUTES - City Commission �PECI ,T, ;'.?' TING OF THE CITY CON'NISSICII OF THE CITY OF DANIA, HELD JULY 19r9 T:l THE C, NFER.ENCE ROOM OF TTIG CITY HAT!. , DANIA, FIORIDA, 3CT'. CA.TL PRF. ENT MAYOR - CO)"NISSIONER ROBERT E. HOUSTON CO'?MISSIONERS ROBERT KFLLY JOSEPH THORNTON BOISY VAITERS ACTING CITY AT'PJRNFY ROBERT DUBOW CITY CLERK E. R. CLAY 1. THE MAYOR THFN STATED THE FIRST ORDER nF BUSINESS WOULD BE THE HAMPTON r7ASF. ATTORNEY DUBOid !,'AS THEN ASKED WHAT HIS FINDTNGS WERE, HE STATED 'IE HAD ;17-INT ABOUT A HALF A DAY TRYING TO FIND SOME IJAY THE CITY COULD T,EGATSY PAY THE ANNUAL INSURANCE PREMIUM ON OFFICER HAMPTON AND ALL HIS FIND,NO.S 5• RE AGAINST THISBEING DONE. HE STATED THAT ANY PAYMENT 4rIfETHF.R ,rACATTON OR TOKEN PAYMENT MUST BE MADE ON A NON-DISCRIMINATOR BASIS. YOU Ci.HNOT ST?•ILLY SAY T•'ELT, T''F. T,IKE THIS FELT,Oi•T LETS GIVE HIM A LITTLE EXTRA. t,T";rRNFY THEN STATED THE ONLY TTAY YOU COULD DO THIS WAS TO SET A GENERAL ^r,TCY I,; THE FORM OF Al, ORDINANCE. COMMISSIONER KELLY THEN ASKED IN AS ® N'T'CFi ^S 'TFT;Y HAD JUST CHANGED INSURANCE PLANS AND AS OFFICER HAMPTON bTAS " ' 0?lLY ')NE EFFECTED AND NOT BEING ABLE TO BE CARRIED UNDER THE NEW CARRIFR ?TETHER THE CITY COULD PAY THE FIRST YEARS INSURANCE PREMIUM ON THIS MASTS. ATTORNEY SAID IF SOMEONE CHALLENGED THIS THE CITY COULD BE TIARLE FOR A TAXPAYERS SUIT, AND THE ONLY ANSWER THE CITY WOULD HAVE IS THAT TIIT:. MAN COT CAUGHT IN A TRAP, COMMISSIONER KELLY THEN STATED HE THOUGHT THERE WAS ANOTHER EMPLOYEE INVOLVED, THE CITY CLERK EXPLAINED THAT IA.i: CARNEY IF HE HAD C014E BACK TO WORK WOULD HAVE BEEN CARRIED UNDER THE NEt' DLAV, BUT THAT HIS CLAIM lTAS BEING PAID OFF BY PROVIDENT AS THERE IS A 11 DAY GRACE PERIOD AND HE WAS COVERED UNDER THIS. IT VAG EXPLAINED THAT IF OFFICER HAMPTON COULD CLFIE BACK TO WORK HE CDULL BE COVERED UNDER THE NEW ROT ICY. THERE WAS THEN A LENGTHY DISCUSSION ® ,,3ARDING LEAVE OF ABSENCE, DISABILITY AND OTHER FACTORS REGARDING THE !TAMPTCN CASE. THE CITY CLERK THEN SPOKE UP AND STATED THERE WAS AN ORDINANCE �)N T!IE CITY BOOKS DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE CITY 101EN THEY TOOK THE PROVIDENT 17E"1STON AND INSURANCE PLANS DID NOT TAKE OUT A DISA13ILY INSURANCE POLICY. ;iTNGE P.ETIEFIT HAD STATED IN THE PAST THAT THIS ORDINANCE COVERED ANY H!17F,CYFE SUCH AS THE HAMPTON CASE, AND THAT ACCORDING T7 THE ORDINANCE THE ® r,ITY !,AS LIABTLE FOR A PERCENTAGE OF THAT THE EMPLOYEE HAD IN THE PENSION FUND AT THE TIME HE WAS DISABLED. AND IN HAMPTONIS CASE THE DATE WAS JANUARY i.OTH, 1969 AND HE THOUGHT THE FIGURE WAS AROUND $80. HE THOUGHT THE CITY l-)iTD PE aETTFR TO INVESTIGATE TI{IS PHASE RATHER THAN TO TRY TO PAY THE PNNRAL Aif UNT ALL AT ONCE. THERE WAS MORE DISCUSSION AND IT WAS FINALLY SETTLED THAT THE CITY CLERK FOULD CALL FRINGE BEN&CST IN THE MORNING AND r.SK THEM REGARDING THE PAYMENT AND ALSO LOOK UP THE ORDINANCE AND SEND A C"'PY TO LTTORNEY DUr-nT.'. ?, THE MAYOR THEN BROUGHT UP A LETTER FROM THE FLORIDA FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT tEC.4RLING A CANAL. THEY 1,TRE ASKING FOR AN EASEMENT. AFTER A LOT OF TALK F77"'F'T THE COMMISSIONER, THEY DID NOT ARRIVE AT WHAT CANAL THEY WERE TALKING APOTrT, THE LETTER WAS THEN TURNED OVER TO ATTORNEY DUBOW TO CHECK FURTHER ON IT. "AYOR THE': STATED HE HAD ANOTHER LETTER FROM WALL INSURANCE AGENCY AND ID NOT UNDERSTAND IT. THE CITY CLERK EXPLAINED THAT HE HAD WRITTEN A. L:"PTF,R NOTIFING THFM THAT THE CITY HAD CHANGED INSURANCE AND PENSION IER . '.`D TH,if THERE SERVICES 1,10ULD NO LONGER BE NEEDED. PROVIDENT LIFE AL•S' NCTI-T!E-. TF. REASON: THIS ',.AS NOT DONE SOONER YAS TO MAKE SURE THE C,,:?RIERS IiAS TAKFN OVER. a� 27 , 1959 �1) d ,,tN'R'^ �.5......... l (2) Cl!;!!=STONIER THORNTON THEN SAID HE HAD ANOTHER MATTER HE W ULD T,IKF O P'3TF.G UP FOR DTSC;1SSION. HE STATED THAT AT THE LAST REGULAR MEETING KETT,Y HAD SPTD HE T•'OULD BRTNC. UP FIVE NAME FOR TFIE FIFTH 'T C('";IL;SIOti d SEAT. ONE OF THESE FTUF IF SUITABLE TO THE OTHER COMMTSSIONERS 'G'ljj,U I�TTI, THE P03T TO T!TE NEXT REGULAR EI,FCTION. COMMISSIONER THORNTON S;_TD HE IIAD RFCEIVED THE LIST AND HE T,'OII,D T.IKE TO SUBMIT ONE OF THE NAMES nN TI F T,?ST, HE STATED THIS PER;=ON HE THOUGHT '-!AS BORN HERE, I•TAS A T-ELL i?S'PPPLISIIED P.USINJESS MAN AMD LIVES AT 242 S. G1. 6TH, ST, DANIA. HE THEN STATED '!E ' niTLD T,IKE TO SUBMIT THF. NAME OF UTILLIAM E. JACKSON, THIS MOTION 1745 SECONDED BY COMMTISSIONER KELLY. COMIMISSIONER WAITERS THEN ASKED IF THE nTIFR NAMES nN THE LIST HAD BEEN DISCUSSED, COMMISSIONER KELLY SAID THEY HAD NOT RUT HE F'EIT THE, COMMISSTONERS KNEW HE WOULD GO ALONG WITH ANY NAME ON TIE LIST. MAYOR H"iUSTON THEN SAID HE HAD STATED IN THE PAST THAT IF THE PPOPER `drME WP5 SUIIMITTED, A PERSON THAT MET ALL THE QUALIFICATION HE T•'OULD GO ALONG PITH THAT PERSON, HE SAID FIE F'OLILn HEARTLY GO ALONG T,RTH MR JACKSOII NOT OILY WAS HE A RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF DANIA, BUT HE WAS ALSO A SUCCESSFUL PIT.SINESS MAN, HE ALSO STATED THAT IF THEY GET OVER THIS PHASE AND THEN ELECT A CTTY MANAGER HE THOUGHT THEY COULD GO ALONG AND HAVE A HELT, OF A YEAR, COh;ISSTnNER "ALTERS AGAIN BROUGHT TIP THE OTHER FOUR NAMES ON THE LIST AND VHF,TI-711 THEY HAD BFEN CONTACTED. COMMISSIONER KELLY STATED HE HAD NOT O0NT,'CTF4j ANY OF THE FIVE NAMES ON THE LIST AS THOUGHT IT WAS BETTER THAN TO CCM7 To A MEETING AND THEN FIND OUT THAT BOISY DID NOT LIKE SOMEBODY OR .TOE DID NOT LTKE SOMEPODY9 OR THAT BOB DID NOT LIKE SOMEBODY, HE THOUGHT IT `OIT,D BE DAD PIBLICITY, HE ALSO SAID AS FAR AS HE WAS CONCERNED THEY COULD TEAR tin THE LIST, AND NOBODY ELSE NEEDED TO KTJOW YHO WAS ON THE LIST. HE ALSO '3 .TD TTTA,r HE REGRETTED THIS ETAS NOT DONE AT A REGULAR MEETING. DUBmT T!IEN ST,.TEU THIS T")LI,D CALL FOR A RESOLUTION. ROLL CALL YAS THEN TAKEN AND 6 T-7, VOTE ITAS FOUR To 'ERO. COMMISSIONER THORNTON HE WANTED THIS TO TAKE EFFECT P?\Frr.DIATELY PTD ASK THAT ATTORNEY DUBOW WEAR IN "III•LIAM E JACKSON AS .A CITY COMMISSIONFR. THIS WAS DONE IMMEDIATELY. COMMISSIONER JACKSON T'•IF.N TDOK PIS C: AIR. MAYOR Ir)USTC!N THEN ASK TO PROCEED WITH THE MEETING AS RE HAD A YIFE HOME IN FED, SHE FELL AND HAS HER LEG IN A CAST. u. TfL !°AYOR THEN STATED THEY HAD ANOTHER GENTLEMAN THERE FOR CONSULTATION. YR STEVEN! DERRY i•'AS THEN ASKED TO TAKE A CHAIR AT THE TABLE, HE WAS THEN IN'PP.^DTCFD TO CO^"MISSTONER JACKSON, ATTORNEY DUBGW AND THE CITY CLERK. THE I'AYOR TU If ASKED MR DERRY IF HE WAS AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY, THE ANSTER WAS s YES. CO",!TSSIr)NPR KELLY THEN ASKED MR DERRY TO GIVE BRIEFLY HIS BACKGROUND. HE ;TATEE FC WAS A GRADUATE ENGINEER FROM PENN STATE TRIIVERSITY, AND THAT "'AS LTC FIT FNGTNEER IN FIVE. STATES BUT NOT FLORIDA AS HE DID NOT WANT TO PAY THE `TUNl_)=) DOLLAR FEE. ANOTHER REASON WAS THAT HE HAD NOT INTENDED '.' IO ProrTISE P! FT ORTDA. VAS IN PRIVATE PRACTISE FROM 1938 TO 1945, he THEN CORR.FCT.D THIS TO BE FROM 1938 TO 1942 and FROM 1942 TO 1945 HE SERVED IN "ORLD s.LD 7'70. IN 1946 IE REOPENED HIS CONSULTING PRACTISE AND CONTINUED THAT TTNTIL 1958. HE VENT INTO RETIREMENT AND CAME OUT OF RETIREMENT IN 1960. 'O Ti,! 1962 HE E-14TERED THE CITY MANAGER'S FIELD. HE SERVED NORTH BAY VILLAGE, *•!AP'TERA BEACH, FLORIDA CITY. HE STATED ALL THREE WERE VERY CONTRAVERSAL CITIES. HE STATED HE LEFT ALL THREE CITIES IN GOOD SHAPE, BUT IN FLORIDA CITY HE '.:,,S TdOT A`'ARE THAT THE POI IGE CHIEF WA.S All ELECTED OFFICER. SO HE 9;,IL' HE HAD F:r'ILEMIS 4'ITH THE POLICE BTIT FIt.ALLY VORKED IT OUT HE JT1ST QUIT. ffE _MATED THE. ",TICE CHIEF HAD MORE POWER THAN THE COUNCIL. COMMISSIONER Y,E!,T.Y THEN ASKFI'. HIM. Ml,' HE THOUGHT A CITY MANAGER FORM OF GOVERMENT SHOULD `hRK, HE ANS`VFERED ONE HE T•!OtLD ABIDE BY THE CHARTER, THEN T!TE COMMISSIONERS "Af;E TTTR POLICY, THE CITY MANAGER THEN INTERPRETS THAT POLICY AND PUTS IT TO IF Som-,THING SHOULD COME UP I•'FIFRE THE POLICY IS NOT PI THE P':;T T''TFREST OF TL?F CITY, THEN IT IS THE CITY MANAGER'S JOB TO SIT DOT-IN T•TTH `-jRI, IT nL"T. TO SH04' TM, 1-'HERE THEIR POLICY WAS WEAK FL A3K rHDIY Tn OWNrF IT OR IF NOT HE 'WOULD THEN HAVE TO CARRY CUT THE POLICY. . I".n I_ HE `'4S ^^S?:G TO BE RESONSIBLE FOR THE ADMI"IISTRA.TIO?i OF THE CITY l TAVE I`HE AUTHORITY. HE STATED HE WOULD NOT ABASE THIS AUTHORITY. ASKED TF uJ YA.S F,.IIT.IAR WITH FEDERAL AUTHORITY GRANTS, AND HE SAID HE S ':'?^ C::T'D IFF1 P THE CITY. HE VAS ASKED HIS AGE AND HE STATED HE WAS 63 AND 171. PE 6)1 '`EXT Vl-NTH, �_, 1969 (2) (3) C:?I•:A:I63TCNER1-'AITERS THEN ASKED THE COMMISSIONERS IF THE CTTY MGR -I: P:; PA•.ID ON THE SUIS SAT,ARY AS THE OLD CITY MGR AIM THIS WAS AGREED Ul'o''T. I'll DERRY THEN ASKED T,'HF,N THE NF14 BUDGET VENT INTO EFFECT HE VAS TOLD :;!,FT 1ST, AT T!FIS TIME THE SALARY COULD BE ADJUSTED. HE T?AS THEN TOLD HE T,D HAVE A CHANCE TO WORK ON !IIS T•74 BUDGET, HE THEN ASKED IF A BUDGET "'.L PEEN STAHTEL P?Z THE CITY CLERK SAID HE HAD MADE A PREi,IMINARY BUDGET 4 ! PEE?1 E11 TO THE COT'T'ISSIONEPS BUT THAT HE DID NOT THINK A COUPLE OF T!iF Cn?:,iISSInNERS LIKED TT. COMlaSSTONER KET,LY THEN ASKED MR DERRY REGARDING YIMG REC"MMENDATION TO THE COMMISSIONERS AS A BODY. MR DERRY ANSWERED THIS ",RT OF T!'F CITY MANAGERS FUNCTIONS. HE ALSO STATED HE OPERATED STRICTLY •Tfi `RTTTNG NOT VERBAL. HE SAID THAT AT MAIiERIA. BEACH IN ONE MONTH HE UROTE CV^R i�NE HTINDR.'-"i. MEMOS, HE STATED HE ?•'OULD T''RITE THREE NTMOS AND THEN ADVISE PFE PFRSrN IF HE DID NOT HEAR I ITHIN T'TNTY F0UR *HOURS HE WAS GOING AHEAD 4`ITH VIE PROJECT. COMMISSIONER KELT.Y THEN SAID HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE A CITY MANAGER THPT !'O',LP COPP,: UP BEFORE THE COPQIISSION AND SAY THIS IS WHAT I RE00*1END, THE C^?•I'ISSTONFRS CAN STTT,L DO AS THEY PLEASE. BUT IF THE COMMISSIONERS DID GO r,T,n,'0 T'ITH HIS RECOMMEPIDATTONS AND HE WAS T•RONG THEN IT FAS HIS LITTLE RID 7'A6.')N, IF THE CO?SMTSSIONERS DID NOT GO ALONG AND HE WAS RIGHT THEN IT VAS THE 0^' PISSTCNERS RED T•'A3n',T.0OMMISShNER THORNTON THEN ASKED HIM IF HE WAS 1,' '^,TNTED THEY HAD A SERIOUS JOB AT THE SEER PLANT AND RE WANTED TO KNOW IF !T ''O;TTL PE A CITY MANAGER T%HO ',nULD GET OUT IN THE FIELD AND GET THINGS DONE rR I."'TTLD !U BE A P731: CITY MANAGER. HE ABST^TERED HE I.OULD SPEND AS MUCH TIME 4:' P2c;FIPLE TN THE FIET,D, HE WAS THEN TOLD THAT THEY DID NOT WANT A CITY MGR T'`FT 5P "TT AT,T HIS TTME IN THE FIELD, AS WIfEN SOMEBODY CAME TO THE CITY HALL '1V `;4E 'PI!F CITY MANAGER HE SHOULD BE THERE. MR DERRY SAID THIS COULD BE ,',itR'.NGrD. THE NAYnR T!aT ASKED WHAT HIS HOURS T-.nULD BE, HE ANSG'E-HED HE WOULD CET THF,RF THEN NECESSARY AND NOT LEAVE TILL EVERYTHING WAS CLEAR. THE OLD CITY r:A?:A.GER WAS THEN BR^T'GH'T UP ABOUT HIS IRREGULAR HOURS SOMETIME WORKING ONLY A lf�UR3 A DAY AND SOME DAYS NOT AT ALL, THE MAYOR CLAIMED T,THEN HE WAS NOT 'T THE CITY HALL HE ?''AS WORKING ON HIS PERSONNAL MATTERS, THE OLD CITY MANAGER 17-.3 I`EFE°7'2!1 BY CrWMISSIONER WAITF,RS.MR DERRY THEN STATED HE NEEDED A GOOD SECRETARY T:'HO COULD MEET THE PUBLIC, HANDLE PEOPLE OVER THE TELEPHONE WHO T•'ERE "N CLOUD T2A AND T-THEN G'?T DOIll TO NORMAL HE t•LTTILD TALK TO TRW, THIS SECRETARY ' n•T,D ALT,AVS KP'CT' T•'HERE THE CITY MANAGER WAS. i•IR D°PlY THEN ASKED IF THE CITY MANAGER'S SECRETARY VTAS TINDER CIVIL SERVICE, uE ':AS TCT,D YES , HE DID NOT AGREE Tr'ITH THIS. IT VAS EXPLAINED THIS COULD VORK T*'n T•'AYS , IF SHE VAS NOT UNDER CIVIL SERVICE AND THE CITY MANAGER WAS LET GO S IE v,-TID ALSO GO, BUT IF SHE WAS UNDER CIVIL SERVICE SHE WOULD HAVE MIME PR:)TFCTTON.IT "AS THEN DECIDED THE CIVIL SERVICE ANGLE COULD BE WORKED OUT !,A.TFR. CCIAIISST^NER JACKSON THEN STATED HE LIKED THE, WAY MR DERRY SAID HE ?n[TIT ' ' T;:E BY THP CTI^RTFR AND HE THOUGHT THIS IS THE ?•'AY IT SHOULD BE. HE ALSO SAID HE ` 071: 1 113T TRY TO TELL THE CITY MANAGER WHAT TO DO AS HE WAS A PROFESSIONAL "r.?I A*M SHO;,T,D KNOT-7 HIS DUTIES. HE MIGHT ADVISE HIM ON MINOR ITEMS. JUST TIGN sA N V FTING U'AS INTERRUPTED BY LYNN KLEIN FROM THE YJW HERALD, SHE SAID A NF ' CITY C"I MISSTOt?ER, SHE STATED YOU ARE PUTTING ME ON, SHE THEN ASKFl) ABOUT T'!E CITY '.'AIIAGER AMID MR DERRY VAS POINTED OUT. C ST^NsZ F.n[T,Y THEN BROUGHT OUT THAT HE DID NOT WANT TO BE INFORMED t P 17T SCI'ETHIN^I AND NOT VE OTHER COMMISSIONERS OR THE OTHER 14AY ARnUND. MR -T-:':)y CrnTFL -JERYTHING MOULD BE IN ?•RITTNG. COMMISSIONER VAITERS THEN MADE A ffi :':TTON THAT A. RE3nLTTTION T3E DRAAYN APPOINTING STE'!EN DERRY CITY :AXE piP.N'.GFR A.T A. SALARY T!TE OLD CITY CCMMSSSIONER RECEIVED WHICH FIA.S $11,000, MP. °'n?Y SAID HE THOUGHT THE SALARY 4'AS $13,000, COMMISSIONER KELLY THEN SPOKE UP A';ii 7ATD IT 1-'AS BUT THEY HAD CUP THE OLD CITY MANAGER'S SALARY HOPING TO GET HT n'' !iII�. C� "ISSIONER WAITERS THEN ADDED TO HIS MOTION THAT THE CITY MANAGER. I,L, OF;': A $50 CAR ALLOWANCE PER MONTH, THIS MOTION WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER T' "!'::P7i I:. 3"'TI. CALL U'AS THEN TAKEN AND THE VOTE WAS FIVE TO ?ERO. 5. :-: Yrg !? ; ;T; N TH^?d HROUGHT UP TPAT HE YUULD LIKE TO SEE COMMISSIONER JACKSON INTFI: T" '''i?E SA!I,E Cni2!ITTEES MIRY THORNH.Ill UPS ON, THIS PASSED. RESPECTFULLY S TTED R. CLA CITY CLERK- AUDITO___l` Jiffy 22, 1969 (3)