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HomeMy WebLinkAbout31014 - MINUTES - City Commission (1) Sll,'CIA.L CITY C01.11SSION IELTIIIG HEID JUIE 27TH,1969, Ili THE CITY :iSS�ICd! I?001,, CITY HALL, DXIIA, FIORIDA ..'3I:TIIiG CALLED TO ORDER BY MAYOR HOUSTON AT 10:00 A. M. U011, CALL PRESENT MAYOR - COL21ISSIONER ROBERT E. HOUSTON COVI,'ISSIONERS ROBERT KELLY JOSEPH THORNTON BOISY l7AITE S CITY ATTORNEY CLARKE IYAIDEN CITY CLERK E. R. CLAY 1. CIT !.TTORI+EY THEN PASSED OUT THE IEASE AS I'iRITTEN BY THE ATTORNEY FOR TIE FLORIDA OCEAN SFORTS, INC AND STATED IT WAS MDE OUT THE WAY THEY HAD DISCUSSED IT, BUT THAT HE VAY REMAKE IT MORE ON THE CITY OF DANIA ® r c' n.:. If,' Tl9::i SAID THAT THIS IFASE 17OULD COI E UP FOR FINAL READING ON DULY 771 1969 WHICH IS THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING. 2. CIA1111 '.?.IDEN THEN BROUGHT UP THE MATTER OF A BOND THAT VMS ESTREATED II; JAAUARY OF 1968) AM FOR S01+E REASON THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OR JUDGE '_CLACK FORGOT ABOUT RESETTING THE TRIAL DATE, AND AT THIS TIME AS THE ® AT OFFICER COULD NOT BE FOUND, THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PARTY FILED AN AfFIDAVAT TO THE EFFECT THAT HE HAS AN UNDERSTANDING WITH THE CITY E:LT TI+L' T:SI:G '.;OULD BE CONTINUED OVER, AND THEREFORE THE BOND SHOULD NOT i,:i ' BLE11 FORFEITED. JUDGE BLACK HEARD THE ARGUMENT ON THE THING P CTETLY l.D AGREES �.ITII 11''HAT THE DEFENDANT SAYS. THAT THE BOND WAS Fi'-tF::ITED THIRCUGH A ;;ISTAhE, AND THAT HE FURTHER DISWISSES THE CHARGE ® AS T!- '::ITIIESSFS A.RE NOT A7AILABIE. CLARKE 11ALDEN THEN STATED THAT THE a256.00 WOULD HAVE TO BE RETURNED TO THE DEFENDANT. THE CITY ATTORNEY TH?.I? SAID THLAT AS THE MONEY TIAS ALREADY IN THE GENERAL FUND IT NOULp BE --CESSARY FOR A MOTION TO BE MADE FOR THE CITY CLERK TO RETURN THE MONEY. Y.AYOR HOUSTON TFE11 ASKED THE CITY ATTORNEY IF IT :PAS NOT POSSIBLE FOR THE J'JDGE TO SET UP SOMB KIND OF A POLICY, HE STATED THAT OTHER ITEMS HAD COME Tl1Rl=UGH LIKE THIS ONE SIMPLY BECAUSE THE CASES WFJ�E DELAYED AND IMN THEY DID COIL UP THERE PERS NO IVITNESSESS. THE MAYOR THEN BROUGHT UP THE MARINO CASE AND HIM' LONG THAT HAD BEEN AND IT STILL DID NOT COME TO TRIAL. THE CITY ?.TTORIv'Y THEN STATED THAT HE THOUGHT THE POLICE COIBITTEE AND JUDGE jLACF. SHOULD SIT D047N AND FORK OUT A POLICY. CO?3aSSIOIER THORNTON TIEN NOTION FOR THE CLERK TO RETURN THE MONEY, THIS WAS SECONDED BY C01:1.SSSICII R 7AITERS. MAYOR THEN SAID ALL IN FAVOR SIGNIFY IN THE USUAL 1'.a i:1-R. TARE ','4'E.9E FOUR AYES. 3. THE !:::XT ITEY OF BUSII:TSS VIAS THE EYFLOYE S PENSION PLAN. MR JOHN PFAU AS ':'I'1: REFR:t S!,::TIVE OF FRINGE BENEFITS TO SPEAK. HE STATED THAT AFTER TH :IR ANALYSIS THAT TI'lA+IELERS INSURANCE CO CAME OUT THE BEST. HE THEN S,+.ID HE THOUGHT THEY SHOULD COVER i•IHAT WAS IN THEIR REPORT. HE SAID THAT T:FICY-vES 1,1!0 RETIRE AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS OF SERVICE V;OUIa GET BETTER EE;:;.FITS UNDER THIS PIAN, ALSO THAT AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS THE EMPLOYEES " 111D "'T to OF THEIR SALARY FOR EACH YEAR. THE OTHER PLAN DID NOT ALLOW FC:? LONG TER',: ELTLOYEES. IT WAS THEN STATED TIIAT THERE WERE ONLY IYOPLE "1I0 �XULD RECEIVE LESS LIFE INSURANCE UNDER THIS PLAN THAN T!il-, OT:-,"R FLAN. HE ALSO SAID THAT THEY HAD TAKEN A SHORT TERM SA?:1LI 'Y FGLICY HIICH PAID AFTER FOURTEEN DAYS ONE HALF THE PERSONS 4I:.};Y A J TI-'N AFTER MAT THE TRAVELERS POLICY Y:DULD TAIL; OVER FOR A LONG ?,"1: !_TqAT�T [TY. 1^ ALSO STATED THIS 1s0ULD ➢E HANDLED BY THE TRAVEIERS AND T::AT .:AY vOULD BE No YORE HAMPTON CASES. COLMSSIONER WAITERS THEN 3i(eJ ABOUT T•r RAI`.FTCN CASE AND MR, PFAU SAID THEY WOULD HAVE TO GET TO* ','IT" T!!? CITY ATTORNEY AND THEY WOULD GIVE HIM TIE INFORMATION THEY j.D IT ".AS UP TO TIfE CITY ATTORNEY TO DETERMINE TO laT EXTENT THE CITY .AS IIA.SL . CLARKE 'U.LDEN THEN SAID HE DID NOT KANT THE TIME TO RUN OUT ON . "A'.'i TC1l CASE AIHD MR PFAU SAID THEY WERE WATCHING IT. ,1:;:Y THEN JL3!F:D TO THE SECOND LAST PAGE, AND HERE IT SHOWED FIVE EXAMPLFS HCIICLI'AN, 0?1= FIP.EM_AN, AND THREE OF THE GENERAL GROUP. THIS SHOWED THAT June 27, 1969 W �4 (2) THAT IN ALL FIVE CASES THE EMPLOYEE WOULD RECEIVE A LOT YORE PER Y014TH THAW UNDER THE OLD PLAN. C0I.2JSSIONER THOR14TON THEN ASKED IF THE EMPLOYEE LEFT BEFORE RETIREYENT Cc,UID HE LEAVE THE E0I4EY INS IT WAS EXPLAINED THAT HIE WOULD ALfRAYS HAVE THE ® VOUNT HE PUT INS BUT THAT AFTER FIFTEEN YEARS HE WOULD AL90 HAVE 50% OF '%TLkT THE. CITY PUT IN AND THAT THIS WOULD INCREASE IN FUTURE YEARS, 1Ik PFAU THEN STATED '.;HAT ALL FUND PUT IN BY THE EMPLOYEE AND WELL AS TKE FUNDS PUT IN BY THE CITY WCULD BE INVESTED AND THAT TRAVELERS VOULD GUARANTEE 7% THE FIRST TWO YEARS AND 6% THE NEXT THREE YEARS, BUT THAT THEY COULD ALSO PAY A HIG71ER RATE OF RETURN. IT WAS THEN CORRECTED THAT THE ® THIRDI FOURTH AND FIFTH YEARS WERE AT THE INTEREST RATE OF 6j%, IM PFAU THEN POINTED OUT THAT EVEN THO THE OLD PLAN WOULD HAVE BEEN KEPT THERE 1,E:iE CHANGES THAT WOULD HAVE HAD TO BE MADE IN ORDER TO QUALIFY ;iIJDER THE STATE REGULATIONS CONCERNING POLICE AND FIREMAN SO THAT MONEY ,MOULD BE RECEIVED BACK FROM THE STATE, HE ALSO STATED THAT THE BENEFIT FORKULA AS FAR AS SOCIAL SECURITY WAS BASED ON A 400.00 A MONTH AND HE ® SAID 11071 "Iv '.,,ERE UP TO 650.00 A MONTH. HE STATED THIS IS WHEN IRS WOULD C01.,' IN AI4D SAY NOW YOU HAVE TO ADJUST. HE SAID THAT ALL PLANS NOW IN FORCE WOULD HAVE TO BE CHANGED BY JANUARY CF 1972. THIS WAY THEY ARE HANDLING BOTH CORRECTIONS AT ONCE, IT SAS THEN STATKD BY MR PFAU THAT A BOOKLET WOULD BE PREPARED THAT 'i;OULD EXPLAIN TO ALL NEW E1PLOYEES WHAT THE FRINGE BENEFITS WERE. • THE IAST PAGE OF THE REPORT WAS THEN REFERRED TO AND IT SHOWED THAT rOR THE THIRTY TWO EMPLOYEES NOW COVERED IT WOULD COST THE CITY $229600. there are also ELEVEN EMPLOYEES THAT WILL BE ELIGIBLE ON THE FIRST OF JULfs THIS OUTLAY TO THE CITY WOULD BE $6,60Gs, making A TOTAL OF $29p200 FOR THE COST FOR THIS =UNG YEAR. IT WAS STATED THAT THERE WAS A FIGURE OF $24,9000 NO'H IN THE BUDGET AND IF THIS WAS PAID INTO THE FUND THEN THE FIGURE TO BE ® USED IN THE NEXT BUDGET WOULD ONLY BE $5s200. IT WAS THEN POINTED OUT THAT THE ANIVERSARY DATE WAS JULY 1ST AHED IF AN'. EMPLOYEE WAS HIRED ON JULY 15TH HE WOULD HAVE TO WAIT TWENTY THREE MONTHS BEFORE HE WAS ELIGIBLE FOR THE PENSION PLAN. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN ASKED WHAT THE COST PER EMPLOYEE WAS TO THE CITY PER WEEK, AFTER A LOT OF PROS AND CODS A FIGURE OF $12.94 'OAS STATED BY COLRSSSIONER THORNTON. IT WAS THEN POINTED OUT THAT IT ALL DEPENDED ON THE PERSONS SAIARYj IF YOU WERE HIRING A CLERK IT WOULD BE SO MUCH A VIEF OR IF YOU WERE HIRING A CITE MANAGER IT 1'sOULD HE A DIFFERENT FIGURE SO IT WOULD BE HARD TO COME UP WITH AN AVERAGE. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN STATED FORGET THE OLD PIAN ALL HE VIANTED TO KNOW WAS HO':7 ?!UCH IT COST THE CITY PER EMPLOYEE PER WEEK OR PER MONTH. MR MCMILIAN SAID HE THOUGHT THE COST WAS ABOUT $15.00 A WEEK. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN BROUGHT UP THE REASON HE WAS ASKING THIS WAS IF THEY WERE TO HIRE A NEW MAN AND OUR SALARY MIGHT BE A LITTLE LESS THAN OTHER TOWNS, BUT MAYBE THEY DID NOT HAVE A HU31014 PLAN AND HE WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO TELL THE MAN THE PENSION PLAN WAS 'V:ORTH SO MUCH PER WEEK OR PER MONTH. COMMISSIONER KELLY THEN STATED THAT THE CITY KNEW NOW MUCH IT WOULD COST FOR JOHN LASSITER OR FOR JOHN KELLY AND THAT THE COST FOR CHARLENE MOORE WOULD BE ABOUT ONE THIRD OF THEIR COST DUE TO HER AGE AND THE FACT THE OTHERS HAD BEEN IN THE PLAN SINCE OCTOBER LSTO 1964. mr pfau THEN STATED WHEN THE BOOKLET WAS MADE UP IT COULD BE SHOWN IN TiZ-RE WHAT THE COST WOULD BE FOR A CERTAIN EIIPIAYEd. HE ALSO SAID THE BOOKLET WOULD SHOW HOW MUCH THE CITY WAS PUTTING IN FOR THE EMP-MEES PENSIONS HOW FUCH FOR HOSPITALIZATION) ALSO FOR LIFE INSURANCE) AND SALARY REPLACEMENT INSULMICE. THIS 17AY IF THE EMPLOYEE WAS GETTING $400.00 A MONTH AND THE CITY ', AS PAYING $85.00 A MONTH IN FRINGE BENEFITS$ THIS EMPLOYEE WOULD NOT BE LIKLY TC MOVE FOR AN EXTRA TEN DOLLARS A MONTH, COMMISSIONER THORNTON THEN SAID IF YOU TOOK THE $292000 AND DIVIDED IT BY THE FORTY THREE EMPLOYEES IN TH:, PIAN AND THEN DIVIDED IT BY THE NUMBER OF WEEKS IT WOULD AVERAGE OUT TO °;12.97 PER i1LEK PER EMPLOYEE. THE MAYOR THEN ASKED, THE EMPLOYEE IS CONTRIBUTING i,`HAT TO THE FFZSION FUND. HE WAS ANSWERED THAT GENERAL EMPLOYEES WOULD CONTRIBUTE 2% OF THE FIRST $400 OF THHEIR SAIARY AND 5% OF THE EXCESS OVER $400. THEY STATED T POLICE AIID FIREMAN HAD VOLUNTEERED TO PAY A STRAIGHT 5% IN ORDER TO QUALIFY Fc)R THE EARLY RETIREtZNT. THIS 111S NECESSARY IN ORDER TO QUALIFY UNDER THE STATES STATUTES. IT 'iIAS STATED THAT THE EMPLOYEES CONTRIBUTIONS LESS THE AMOUNT RECEIVED FROM THE STATE ON POLICE AND FIREMAN, THE CITY WOULD CONTRIBUTE THE DIFFERENCE WHICH QUID BE NECESSARY TO FUND THE PLAN AND GUARANTEE THAT THE RETIREMENT BENEFITS PrOULD BE THERE WHEN THE EMPLOYEE RETIRES. June 27, 1969 (2) (3) IT 7iAS THEN POINTED OUT THAT IT TAKES ABOUT A YEAR BEFORE THE CITY COULD RECEIVE ANY MONEY FROM THE STATE ON POLICE AND FIREMAN. MR CORKUM 1'wl.! FRINGE BENEFITS THEN EXPIAINED THE VIAY IT WORKED Vl.AS TWIT TRAVELERS INSURANCE 'MOULD BE INSTRUCTED BY THE STATE TREASURERS OFFICE TO PROGRAM III A CODE NUMBER ON THEIR COMPUTOR FOR THE CITY OF DANIA. HE STATED THAT FROM THEN ON ANYONE WHO HAS A DANIA MAILING ADDRESS AND BUYS INSURANCE 17HGTIIER IN DANIA, HOLLYVi00D OR FORT LAUDERDAIE, WOULD BE PICKED UP BY TRAVEU',RS AND THIS IS VIE-RE THE INFORMATION COMES FROM FOR THERE REPORT AT THE END OF TIC, YEAR. IT WAS STATED THE FIRST YEAR THE CITY OF MIRAf!kR. RECEIVED ONLY $219 AND THE SEC0ND YEAR IT WAS $2,000, it waS STATED THAT ® DATJIA WAS I14 A MUCH BETTER POSITION AS IT HAD INSURANCE AGENT WITHIN THE CITY AND VIRAMAR DID NOT. GEORGE CORKUM THEN STATED THAT WHEN THE PLAN GOT STARTED AND THE CITIES CONTRIBUTION AS WELL AS THE EMPLOYEES CONTRIBUTION WAS PUT TO WORK AT A GiTAPANTEED 7% INTEREST, THE FOLIOVIING YEAR THIS' VIOUID CUT DO'9N THE AMOUNT THE CITY %,OULD HAVE TO PAY. ® THE 1,?AYOR THEN ASKED ABOUT THE MONEY THAT WAS NOT PAID TO PROVIDENT AND IF IT "!0IJID NOT BE WISE TO PAY THIS NO'R, IT WAS EXPIAINED THAT IF THE CITY PAID TO PROVIDENT THE AMOUNT OF $19,667. THEY WOULD BE CHARGED A PENALTY ON TI;E CLOSE OUT AND THAT IT WAS NOT NECESSARY. TOM PFLEGER OF FRINGE BENEFIT STATED IT 7IAS MUCH BETTER TO PAY THE MONEY TO TRAVELERS AND THE CITY WOULD GFT THE BENEFIT OF THE 7% INTEREST I1.0EDIATEIY. ALSO WHEN THE MONEY IS ® RECEIVED FROM PROVIDENT IT WILL START EARNING INTEREST, HE STATED THAT NO :NE HAD RETIRED FROM THE CITY DURING THE YEAR AND THEREFORE IT WAS NOT NECESSARY TO PAY PROVIDENT, THE MAYOR THEN ASKED RI AT THE PENALTY WOULD BE F:RON TE PROVIDENT CLOSE OUT, THEY REPLIED IT WOULD BE 5% ON THE SIDE FUND, AND ;P5 PER THOUSAND SURRENDER CHARGE. THEY ESTIMATED THE TOTAL CHARGE TO BE ABCUT $23000 ON TILE SIDE FUND, AND ABOUT $1,500 ON THE SURRENDER CHARGE OR ® A. TOTAL OF $31500. THEY GUARANTEED THAT THE NEW PLAN WOULD BE PROPERLY FUNDED WITH THE 1A.YII:NT OF $20,000, PLUS ESTIMATED $9,200 NEXT YEAR, THEY SAID GIVE OR TAKE L'Y A 312000 DEFENDING ON PROVIDENT'S CLOSE OUT FIGURE. 1% PFAU SAID THEY ':,CULD '',VORK '' ITE THE CITY ATTORNEY AS FAR AS THE NECESSARY RESOLUTIONS AND TKAT TRk%rELERS WOu�LD HANDLE THE CLOSE OUT WITH PROVIDENT. THE 1::AYCR ASKED WHEN THE PLAN WOULD GO INTO EFFECT, MR PFAU SAID IF THEY GOT THE AFFROVAL TODAY IT WOULD GO INTO EFFECT ON JULY 1ST, 1969. the city ATTORIOrY THEN SAID ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS TO PASS A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE FLAN. THE CITY CLERK THEN STATED HE DID NOT BELIEVE THE COMMISSIONERS HAD AIFROVFD AS TO FIHO 7-AS A FULL TILE EMPLOYEE AND WHO WAS A PARTTIME EMPLOYEE. IT ":AS THIN BROUGHT UP THAT AT ONE OF THE CONFERENCE MEETING IT HAD BEEN DECIDED THAT THF. CITY GEM WOULD NOTIFY EMPLOYEES WHEN HIRED AHETHER THEY ERE FULL TI1,E, PARTIME, OR T'EYFORARY, AND 1'!OUID HAVE THEM SIGN A FORM. IT ',VAS THEN BROUGHT UP REGARDING CLARKE WALDEN, WAS HE A FULL TIME OR ?.'.RTIME FYFLOYEE, OCEFISSIONER WAITERS THEN MADE A STATEMIENT THAT HE DID NOT 7;ING CLAiin 71AIDF.N .,.AS EVEN COVERED UNDER THE NEW PIAN. THERE WAS THEN A VERY LENGTHY DISCUSSION REGARDING CLARKE 71ALDEN1 A14D THEN TIE CITY ATTORNEY SAID CAN THE CITY JUST COME ALONG AND THROW s6VEBODY OUT OF THE PLAN, AND WHAT ABOUT ALI, THE MONEY I HAVE PAID INTO THE FLAN. FRINGE BENEFIT SAID THIS WAS A II:GAL QUESTION AND IT SHOULD BE UP TO THE CITY ATTORNEY. GEORGE CORKUM THEN SAID THEY V,ERE BASING THERE WORD ON AN IRS RULING WHICH STATED A FULL TIM1E u1.YIOYEE 'iAS ONE ON V:HGM THE CITY WAS PAYING SOCIAL SECURITY TAXES AND MAKING 7ITHHL'LDItG. THE MAYOR THEN ASKED CLARKE VAIDEN HOW MUCH INSURANCE HE HAD UED 7R THE OLD PIAD AND THE ANSWER WAS $38,000. IT WAS THEN POINTED OUT THAT TIER TFE NFT PLAN CLARKE WALDEN IF HE WAS ELIGIBLE WOULD RECEIVE TWO TIMES HIS ANNUAL, SALARY AND IF HE WAS NOT ELIGIBIE HE WOULD HAVE NO INSURANCE CO'IERAGE, BEING A PARTIME EMPLOYEE. IF ELIGIBLE HIS INSURANCE WOULD BE FOR $22,000. THE CITY CIERK THEN ASKED HOW THE INSURANCE PREMIUM WOULD BE PAID, I1; FIILI, BY THE CITY OR 77OULD THE EMPLOYEES PAY A PART. MR CLAY SAID HE NEEDED A RULING 01; THIS AS FL'' HAD TAKEN NO DEDUCTIONS OUT OF ANYONES PAY FOR THE 1'CNTH OF JUNE, THAT THE CITY HAD PAID THE FULL AMOUNT. THERE WAS AGAIN A LENGTHY DISCUSSION RTTH A LOT OF FIGURES THROWN AROUND AND THE CITY CLERKS :QUESTION ."AS STILL NOT ANSIVERED, WHO WAS PAYING FOR THE LIFE INSURANCE? June 27, 1969 (3) `a 'Y (4) IT 17AS THEN POINTED OUT THAT ONLY THE EL.IPLOYEES UNDER THE PENSION F'L'N HAD THIS KIND OP INSURANCE AND THAT ALL OTHER E1PLOYEES ONLY HAD $1,000 COVERAGE AND THEY MERE PAYING THE COST OF THIS INSURANCE. MR CLAY FOINTED OUT THAT ALL EMPLOYEES WHO HAD NOT BEEN HERE A YEAR VIOULD BE LETTING A L>T VORE INSURANCE, IF THEY WERE ON $5,000 A YEAR SALARY THEY 7x,,ULD HAVE $5,000 INSURANCE FOR THE FIRST YEAR. MR CIAY STATED THIS WOULD IN'VOLVF. ABOUT FORTY FIVE EMPLOYEES. A NOTION '.VAS THEN MADE BY COh2lSSIONER THORNTON TO HAVE THE CITY AT'OFu11EY DRAY; UP A GENERAL RESOLUTION ACCEPTING THE TRAVELERS CONTRACT, THIS ^AS SECONDED BY CCMMISSIONER WAITERS. ROLL CALL WAS THEN TAKEN AND TF'E RESULT :';AS It TO 0, DISCUSSION THF.I1 WENT BACK TO WHO WAS A FULL TITLE RMPIOYEE. THE TWO IN : UESTION SEEMED TO BE CLARKE WALDEN AND JUDGE BLACK. COMI.IISSIONER TFi0P19TCN THEN ASKED IF EITHER OF THE TWO IN QUESTION WERE NOT REAPPOINTED 7.HAT 'MOULD HAFPEN. IT WAS EXPLAINED THEY WOULD GET THERE MONEY BACK PLUS INTEMST SATE AS ANY OTHER EMPLOYEE, AND THE CITIES PART MOULD BE PUT BACK IN AND IT 1,'C111D COST THE CITY LESS THE FOLLOWING YEAR. CLARKE WALDEN THEN SAID THAT 1.YlIi THE PROVIDENT PLAN WAS PUT IN FIVE YEARS AGO THEY USED TTC-NTY HOURS A WEEK AS A FULL TIME EMPLOYEE. CIARKE WAIDEN STATED HE WOUID LIKE TO BE COVERED AS HE HAD BUILT UP THE VESTED TIME IN THE PIAN, HE SAID IU_ R:'ALIZED If, DID NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEMAND ANYTHING. IN JUDGE BLACK'S CASE HE SAID THE JUDGE WAS NOT COVERED BEFORE AND HE WAS SURE HE WAS OVER SIXTY YEARS OF AGE AND DID NOT THINK HE COULD BE COVERED EVEN IF THE CITY WANTED TO. HE SAID HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT THE COST WAS, BUT ASKED THE CITY CO;T.',ISSIONERS 140T TO THROW HIM OUT THE WINDOW TO SAVE A FEW DOLLARS. HE SAID IF TT-IS 'r'AS THE CASE HE TIOULD RATHER TAKE A PAY CUT AIM KEEP THE COVERAGE AS HE HAD HIS INSURANCE PROGRAM BUILT AROUIZ THIS, IN WAS THEN DECIDED TO KEEP THE CITY ATTORNEY IN THE PLAN AS A FULL TIME EMPLOYEE. CITY CLERK'S QUESTION WAS STILL NOT ANSWERED, BUT SOMEHOW THE SUBJECT CHANGL•:D TO THE FUN SLIDE AT THE BEACH. CO19.9ISSIONER KELLY ASKED THE MAYOR IF HE SAW T H:AE THEY iMM PUTTING IT, THE MAYOR SAID NO BUT EXPLAINED AS TO ';,W= IT SHOULD GO. COMhffSSIONER KELLY SAID THE ONLY REASON HE WAS ASKING ',LIS THAT HE THOUGHT AT A PREVIOUS MEETING IT HAD BEEN DISCUSSED THAT THE SLIDE SHOULD BE NOVED 100 FEET NORTH, THE MAYOR STATED THIS WAS NOT TRUE. CITY CLERK TAS TO GO OVER THE PLANS WITH MR WALKER AND SEE IF THE SLIDE WAS BEING BUILT IN THE CORRECT PLACE. MAYOR HOUSTON SAID HE WOULD GO TO THE BEACH AIID CHdCK ALSO. Co,',TISSIOIIER WAITERS THEN BROUGHT UP THE SUBJECT OF THE BUSHES AND WEEDS AND TR'r:ES CN THE WEST SIDE OF DANIA. HE SAID THEY COULD NOT BE CUT BUT NEEDED A. BULLDOZER TO KNOCK THEM DOWN. HE SAID HE HAD TALKED TO THE CITY MANAGER THE OTII.R DAY AND TKE CITY MANAGER ASKED HIM TO BRING IT UP AT TODAY'S SPECIAL MEETING. HE STATED THE TWO BAD PLACES WERE AT N. W. LOTH COURT AND S. W. 8TH AVENUE .AND HE SAID BE DID NOT KNOUT WHO 0MED THE PROPERTY. THERE WAS THEN A DISCUSSION RLrARDING THE AREAS ON THE EAST SIDE THAT MERE ➢EING FARMED AND THAT THE O')+NERS GOT SOh1E KIND OF A TAX BREAK AND SHOULD CUT DOWN THE WEEDS. C01^.ISSICNER THORN TON SAID HE THOUGHT THE CITY ATTORNEY SHOULD WRITE THE _ PROPERTY OR'NERS AND TELL THE1 TO CLEAN OUT THEIR AREAS OR THE CITY WOULD DO IT .AIM ASSESS THE PROPERTY. THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN SAID THEY WOULD DO IT I'r THE CITY THREATENED TO CHANGE THE AORICULTURE.AL ZONING. THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN SAID TO THE COMMaSSIONERS THAT MR CIAY'S QUESTION HAD I;OT BEEN ANSVERED AS TO WHO WOULD PAY THE PREMIUM ON THE LLFE INSURANCE. GEORGE CORKUhi THEN GOT UP AND STATED TO THE COMUSSIONERS THAT WHILE THE PRESS 'SAS STILL HERE HE WANTED TO SAY THAT HE PUNTED TO THANK THE COMMISSIONERS FCR THEIR COOPERATION AIM THAT THE CITY OF DANIA HAD THE BEST FRINGE BENEFIT FRCGRAI: OF ANY CITY IN ➢ROWARD COUNTY. HE STATED HE WANTED THE CITY COLTIISSIONERS OF TPE CITY OF DANIA TO GET THE PROPER CREDIT FOR PUTTING IN SUCH A GOOD PROGRAM FOR THE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF DANIA. HE STATED HE WOULD LIKE TO SEND A IETTER TO THE CO:`.39SSICNERS9 THAT THEY COULD USE TO FORWARD TO THE EMPLOYEES TELLING ThF U} PLOYLES WHAT A FINE JOB THE COMMISSIONERS DID. June 27, 1969 ��t) u.; CITY ATTORNEY CLARKE WAIDEN TH'N AGAIN BROUGHT UP THE SUBJECT OF THE CITY CLERK IS QUESTION ON THE LIFE INSURANCE PREMIUM. MANUFACTURERS LIFE FIAD GIVEIJ THE CITY AN AGREEMENT TO SIGN AND IT WAS MARKED AS THE CITY ' OF DANIA PAYING THE WHOLE PREMIUM. IT WAS THEN ASKED OF FRINGE BENEFITS INC ',:TUT OTIff-R CITIES D0, THE ANSWER -WAS A3 FOLLOWSt 3c: zr FIRST YEAR EMPLOYEES CITY PAYS EMPLOYEE PAYS ti EL:PLOYEES WHO HAVE FINISHED 4 ONE YEAR BUT WHO ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR PENSION PLAN IY DUE TO AGE OR OTHER REASON THE CITY TO PAY THE FULL PREMIUM. COITISSIONER THORNTON THEN MADE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE ABOVE AS LISTEDO THIS %AS SECONDED BY C018USSIONER WAITERS. ROLL CALL WAS h TO 0. '.0 THE NEXT ITEM WAS SALARY REPLACEMENT INSURANCE. s THIS INSURANCE TAKES EFFECT AFTER FOURTEEN DAYS AND PAYIS THE EMPLOYEE ONE HALF HIS OR HER'S MONTHLY SALARY. THE QUESTION WAS THEN ASKED BY THE CITY CIRK IF THE CITY PAYIS THE OTHER HALF. AFTER SOME DISCUSSION IT WAS DECIDED THAT THE CITY WOULD NOT PAY ANYTHING UNLESS THE EMPLOYEE HAD SICK TILE COD,9NG AND THEN THEY WOULD PAY THE SICK TIME UP TO THE OTHER FIFTY PERCENT IF POSSIBLE, IF NOT VDUID PAY WHAT EVER THE EMPLOYE HAD CONING IN SICK TIME. REGARDING BILL CARNEY IT WAS DECIDED THAT IF HIS SICK TINE WAS ALL USED UP THE CITY SHOULD PAY HIM HIS VACATION PAY. REGARDING OFFICER BRUSTOWITZ UNLESS HE COMES BACK TO WORK ON JULY IST HE WILL NOT BE ELIGIBLE. J: RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED MAYOR ROBERT E. HOUSTON r CITY CLERIC a :s