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REGIILP.R CITY COI,"MISSION !FETING HELD MAY 19TH, 1969, AT DANIA CITY
HALL, DANIA, FLORIDA
INVOCATION GIVEN BY CITY ATTORNEY, CLARKE WAIDEN
® PLEDGE Or ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG
ROLL CALL
PRESENT: MAYOR - COMMISSIONER ROBERT E. HOUSTON
COMMISSIONERS ROBERT KELLY
® JOSEPH THORNTON
BOISY WAITERS
CITY ATTORNEY CLARKE WALDEN
POLICE CHIEF PHIL THOMPSON
® BUILDING INSPECTOR HUBERT WALKER
CITY CIERK - AUDITOR E. R. CLAY
1. APPROVAL OF 12NUTES OF MAY 12TH, 1969. COM:lISSIONER KELLY MADE A MOTION
TO ACCEPT THE MINUTES AS WRITTEN, THIS WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER
WAITERS. ROLL CALL WAS FOUR AYES.
2. APPROVAL OF BILLS PAID FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL 1969. AFTER DISCUSSION
COM4,IISSIONER WAITERS MADE A MOTION THE BILLS BE ACCEPTED AS PAID, THIS
WAS SECCNDED BY COMMISSIONER THORNTON. ROLL CALL TAKEN :AE VOTE WAS
® h TO 0.
3. 1ST READING
TRANSFER OF A 4 COP LICENSE AT HOWARDIS BAR THE ADDRESS DIXIE AND
S. W. hTH AVENUE. NEW NAME GUM & LONG. COMMISSIONER THORNTON
MADE A MOTION THIS BE PASSED ON FIRST READING, THIS WAS SECONDED
BY COMMISSIONER KELLY. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN SAID ALL THOSE IN FAVOR
SIGNIFY IN THE USUAL MANNER. THERE WERE FOUR AYES.
4, 2ND READING
NEW APPLICATION FOR A 2 COP LICENSE IN THE NAME GLENN COOKE. MAYOR
HOUSTON THEN STATED THAT THERE HAD BEEN NO ACTION DOWN THERE AND
® HF, DID NOT THINK THEY WERE GOING TO OPEN. THE POLICE CHIEF WAS ASKED
IF HE HAD CHECKED IT OUT AND HE STATED HE DID NOT HAVE A CHANCE AS
YET. THE SECOND READING WAS THEN TABLED.
5. PUBLIC HEARING 8s15 P. M.
FRINGE BENEFIT OIL NSULTANTS, PROPOSALS FOR GROUP LIFE INSURANCE AND
® PENSION PIAN FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY OF DANIA. COMMISSIONER THORNTON
IYLDE A MOTION TO TURN THE PROPOSALS OVER TO FRINGE BENEFIT CONSULTANTS
FOR OFENING AND TABILIZING AND HAVE THEM REPORT BACK TO THE C0I3ISSIONV
THIS WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER WAITERS. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN SAID ALL
THOSE IN FAVOR SIGNIFY IN THE USUAL MANNER. THERE WERE FOUR AYES.
TOM' PFLEGER THEN STATED HE HOPED TO HAVE FIGURES READY FOR THE FIRST
® MEETING IN JUNE AND THEN TO MEET WITH THE COM!aSSION AGAIN ON THE
THIRD MONDAY SO AS TO GET THE PROGRAM STARTED ON JULY IST,
THE. FOLLO','ING COMPANIES TURNED IN PROPOSALS:
PROVIDENT LIFE CONTINENTAL NATIONAL
:0 t.ANUFACTURMIS LIFE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE
PACIFIC MUTUAL OCCIDENTAL LIFE
MUTUAL BENEFIT GENERAL AMERICAN
JOHN HANCOCK MACCABEES MUTUAL
HC1E LIFE MINNESOTA MUTUAL
LIFE OF VIRGINIA MASS MUTUAL
1,,Z" ENGLAND MUTUAL PENN MUTUAL
SHENAIMOAH LIFE EQUITABLE LIFE
FININSULAR LIFE PILOT LIFE INS.
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6. CIARKE WALDEN THEN STATED THAT HE HAD HAD A NUA93ER OF INQUIRIES FROM
CITY SERVICE OIL COMPANY IN RESPECT TO THE LANDS THAT WERE ANNEXED IN THE
NORTH PART OF THE CITY. SOMETIME AGO THE CITY DID RE-ZONE THIS IAND AND
THAT CITIES SERVICE DID OBJECT TO THE RE-ZONING AS IT DID PROHIBIT PETROLEUM
® TANK F'ARYS. THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN STATED HE COULD WRITE UP A NEW ORDINANCE
COVERING CITIES SERVICE AND HAVE IT PRESENTED TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING
BOARD. THIS WAS THE COMMISSIONERS WISH.
7. IYLYOR HOUSTON THEN STATED THAT AS THEY HAD FIFTEEN MINUTES TILL THE NEXT
PUBLIC HEARING, AND THAT MOST OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARDS MINUTES WERE
® AP'FROVAL OF SITE PLANS THAT THEY COULD GO INTO THEM.
1. LITTLE GENERAL STORE S. W. 4TH.AVENUE AND STIRLING ROAD. MAYOR
HOUSTON SAID HE HAD CHECKED THE PLANS AND EVERYTHING WAS IN ORDER
SUCH AS SIDEWALKS, DRAINAGE. ALSO PARKING WAS IN ORDER. AFTER QUITE
A DISCUSSION BY COMMISSIONER THORNTON IT WAS AGREED THAT THE PROPERTY
SHOULD HAVE A THREE FOOT FENCE AROUND THE EAST AND NORTH SIDES.
THE BUILDING INSPECTOR WAS INSTRUCTED TO MARK THE FENCE ON THE SITE
FLANS. ALSO ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
2. SAL' SPANO OF 348 SOUTH FEDERAL HWY, DANIA, FLORIDA. LENGTHLY DISCUSSION
REGARDING THIS PROPERTY AND AS TO WHETHER THE ALLEY WAS DEDICATED, IT
WAS STATED IT WAS. IT WAS POINTED OUT THAT THERE WOULD BE A 30 UNIT
APARTMENT BUILDING ERECTED THERE AND IT WOULD GO THRU TO S. W. IST AVE.
THE PARKING AREA WAS THEN BROUGHT UP AND WALKER STATED THAT THERE WERE
30 PARKING PLACES. OR 1 FOR 1. drainage was then brought UP AND
COMMISSIONER THORNTON OBJECTED BECAUSE IT WAS NOT SHOWN ON THE PLAT
PLAN. HE STATED EVERYTHING SHOULD BE SHOWN SO THERE WOULD BE NO
® ARGUMENT IFTER. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN SAID HE THOUGHT A MOTION COUID BE
MADE THAT THESE PLANS BE APPROVED SUBJECT TO ANY ENGINEERING SEAL ON
A SITE PLAN WITH THE DRAINAGE COMPLETE IN IT OR THE PERMIT COULD NOT
BE ISSUED.
THE MEETING THEN LEFT THE SITE PLANS AND MOVED ON TO THE NEXT PUBLIC
HEARING.
0 8. PUBLIC HEARING 8:30 P. M.
L4R CONSTRUCTION CO.
TO REZONE TO R 2 (DUPLEX ZONING) ALL OF BLACK 92 OCEAN VIED! GOLF A.M.
THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN SAID THAT AT THE APRIL 8TH9 MEETING OF THE
PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD THERE WAS A PUBLIC HEARING HELD AND AFTER
S THE HEARING THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD DENIED THE REQUEST. THE CITY
ATTORNEY THEN SAID HE BETWEEN 40 AND 50 SIGNATURES OF PERSONS WHO WERE
OBJECTING. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN ASKED IF THERE WAS ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE
IN FAVOR OF THIS REZONING, THERE WAS NO ONE. THERE WAS THEN A COUNT
➢E OF PERSONS IN THE AUDIENCE WHO OBJECTED AND THE COUNT WAS ABOUT 35,
COY?:ISSIONER KELLY THEN MADE A MOTION THAT IT BE DENIED, THIS WAS THEN
0 SECONDED BY CORISSIONER WAITERS. ROLL CALL WAS THEN TAKEN AND THE VOTE
.SAS 4 TO 0.
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3. ALEX MEDINA OF 1LL2 NORTH FEDERAL HWY, DANIA, FLORIDA. TO CONSTRUCT
A ONE STORY STORE BUILDING. THERE WAS A IENGTHLY DISCUSSION REGARDING
i A 72 foot DONATION, THE CITY ATTORNEY STATED THAT IF HE MEET ALL THE
OTHER REQUIREL'.ENTS THERE WAS NO WAY THE CITY COULD IMPOSE THE 732- FOOT
D014ATION ON THE OWNER. THE PARKING AREA WAS THEN BROUGHT UP AND THE
GENTLEMAN EXPLAINED THERE WERE 17, COMMISSIONER THORNTON THEN BROUGHT
UP THE DRAINAGE, IT WAS EXPIAINED THAT THERE WAS A 10 FOOT SETBACK TO
THE REAR IN SHUBBERY AND THAT THE ASPHALT CAME RIGHT UP TO IT. ALSO
® THAT THERE WAS 10 F;ET TO THE NORTH TOWARD THE VIKING WHERE THE WATER
COULD DRAIN. COMMQSSIONER THORNTON THEN SAID A DRY WELL IS A MUST.
THE GE4TIEVAII FROM MEDINA'S THEN CAME BACK LATER IN THE MEETING AND
STATED HE HAD FOUND OUT THAT THERE WAS A DRY WELL ON THE PROPERTY.
THE LEETING THEN SWITCHED BACK TO THE NEXT PUBLIC HEARING.
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9. PUBLIC HEARING 8:45 P. M.
SEALED BIDS ON THE SINKING OF A NEW RAW WATER WELL. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN
STATED THERE WAS ONLY ONE BID AND THAT THE CITY ENGINEER HAD ASKED THAT
THE RIDS BE HELD OVER TILL THE NEXT REGULAR MIEETING. THE MAYOR THEN ASKED
® FOR A MOTION TO THIS EFFECT. COMMISSIONER KELLY MADE THE MOTION TO HOLD
TIE BIDS OVER TO THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING WHICH WOULD BE ON JUNE ST, 1969,
THIS 'VAS SECONDED BY COYlgSSIONER THORNTON. ROLL CALL WAS THEN TAKEN AND
THE RESULTS WERE 4 TO 0,
10. PUBLIC HEARING 8s55 P. M.
® BROVIARD CAB ' ISION INC.
THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN READ THE NOTICE OF THE PUBLIC HEARING. CIARKE MAIDEN
THEN READ THE HEADINGS OF THE ORDINANCE. HE STATED THE CITY MOULD RECEIVE
10% of THEIR GROSS RECEIPTS AND IF EITHER HOLLYWOOD OR FORT LAUDERDALE
NEGOTIATED A HIGHER PERCENTAGE THEN DANIA WOULD RECEIVE THE HIGHER FIGURE.
.A MR. JIM SCOTT OF THE IAW FIRM OF SAUNDERS, KURTZ OF FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA.
Gy MR SCOTT THEN SAID THERE WERE QUITE A FEW CHANGES, HE WAS ASKED IF HE HAD
NOTIFIED TIIE CITY ATTORNEY AND HE STATED NO THAT THEY HAD JUST RECEIVED THE
ORDINANCE 014 SATURDAY. HE STATED THEIR NAME WAS WRONG IN THE ORDINANCE AND
THAT THE FEE SCHEDULE THEY HAD PROMISED THE CITY WAS NOT IN THE ORDINANCE.
SECTION 4 OF PAGE 8 DID NOT MEET RITH THEIR APPROVAL AS THEY WOULD NOT BE
GIVEN A CHANCE TO REPLY. PAGE 11 SECTION G. THEY OBJECTED AS IT STATED THAT
® THEY :9ULD HAVE TO ADHERE TO ANY CHANGES IN ORDINANCES ETC. THEY FELT THE
CITY COULD REVOKE THE FRANCHISE WITHOUT ANY REASON AT ALL. SECTION 8B ON
PAGE 14 THE ORDINANCE STATES THAT WITHIN 120 DAYS AFTER THE ACCEPTANCE OF
THE FRANCHISE THEY ARE TO START CONSTRUCTION, THIS SHOULD BE CHANGED TO
READ 7+ITHIIN A CERTAIN TIME AFTER THE FCC GIVES THEM APPROVAL THEY WOULD
START CONSTRUCTION. ANOTHER ITEM WAS WITHIN 30 DAYS IN CASE OF TERMINATION
® THEY WOULD HAVE TO REMOVE THEIR EQUIPMENT, HE STATED THIS WAS IMPOSSIBLE.
SECTION 12 YdAS ALSO QUESTIONED BY THEM.
MR JIM SCOTT THEN ASKED FOR TIME TO GET TOGETHER WITH THE CI'YY ATTORNEY
SO THEY COULD GO OVER THESE DIFFERENCES, HE REALIZED THE TIME WAS SHORT
SINCE HE RECEIVED THE ORDINANCE. COMMISSIONER "il?ZMN MADE A MOTION TO
CONTINUE THE PUBLIC HEARING OVER TO THE NEXT MEETING WHICH WOULD BE ON
A JUNE ,'SST, THIS WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER KELLY. ROLL CALL PAS 4 TO 0.
11. PUBLIC HEARING 9s05 P. M.
IE,,'IS WERTZ CHANGE OF ZONING.
A MR. BARTOIETO FROM THE AUDIENCE WAS GIVEN THE FLOOR AND HE STATED HE
HAD BEEN UP BEFORE THE COMMIISSION ONCE BEFORE ON THIS MATTER, AND AS A
v COUNCIIL`AN, MEMBER OF BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, MEMBER OF A PLANNING BOARD
HE UNDERSTOOD WITH ALL THE OBJECTIONS THIS SHOULD NOT BE REZONED UNLESS
TIE O',,NER COULD PROVE A HARDSHIP. HE STATED THAT AT THE TIME THEY HAD
BOUGHT THEIR PROPERTY THEY WERE LEAD TO BELIEVE THAT IT WOULD REMAIN TO
BE ZONED FOR ONE FAMILY DWELLINGS. HE TALKED FOR A CONSIDERABLE LENGTH
OF TIME AND HIS OBJECTIONS YIERE ALL FOR NOT CHANGING THE ZONING.
RAY P()''ETLL OF 230 N. E. 2ND AVENUE THEN GOT UP TO OBJECT TO THE CHHANGING
OF THE ZONING.
lug D. T. MARINO OF 133 N. E. 2ND AVENUE THEN ALSO OBJECTED TO THE CHANGING
OF THE ZONING.
H.R. DIETZ OF 202 N. E. 2ND PLACE THEN GOT UP AND OBJECTED TO THE CHHANGING
OF THE ZONING. HE ASKED THE COMMITSSIONERS TO MAKE A FINAL DECISION SO THE
® RESIDENTS OF THE AREA WOULD NOT BE HARRASSED.
MR -.',ERTZ THEN SPOKE, HE STATED THE CHANGE WOULD BE FOR STRICTLY A CONDOMINIUM
AND NOT FOR DUPLEXES. HE STATIC) HE WAS NOT INTERESTED IN RENTAL APTS.
HIE THAN READ ABOUT THREE PAGES OF CHANGING TIMES MAGAZINE WHICH WAS PRO
AND CON.
MR BARTOIETO THEN GOT UP AGAIN AND STATED HE WAS NOT INTERESTED IN CHANGING
TII,ES MAGAZINF. BUT THAT THE MAIN THING WAS HE DID NOT HAVE A PLOT PUN.
EFTS ?tOAALD COLVEP. OF 230 N. E. 2ND PLACE THEN GOT UP AND GAVE HER OBJECTION.
SHE SAID SHE DID NOT 71ANT TO LOOK OUT HER BACK WINDOW AND LOOK AT FOUR
STORIES.
DISCUSSION ;','ENT ON FOR A LONG TIME.
COM7'ISSIONER. KELLY THEN AFTER DISCUSSION MADE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE ZONING
BOARD RECOM7WNIIATION AIM TURN DOWN THE REQUEST, THIS WAS SECONDED BY
CCE?'ISSIOIIER WAITERS. DISCUSSION THEN FOLLOWED BETWEEN THE COMMISSIONERS.
MR "71iTZ THEN SAID IF IT WOULD APPEASE THE NEIGHHBORS HE WOULD RESTRICT IT
TO -117RI°.E FIOORS. ROLL CALL WAS THEN TAKEN AND THE VOTE WAS 3 to 1 PASS,
.''FICH WAS CO},''IISSIONER THORNTONS VOTE,
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12. YOUNG COLLEGE PROPOSAL
THE, REPRESANTIVE OF YOUNG COLLEGE THEN READ OFF HIS PROPOSAL AS WAS
SU'13M.ITTED TO THE C018IISSIONERS. COMMISSIONER KELLY THEN ASKED REGARDING
THE ENROLLI.T.NT A14D WAS ADVISED THAT THEY ONLY FIGURES) ON 60 STUDENTS BUT
HAD IIOFi:D TO BUILD IT UP TO 500 stUDENTS. HE ALSO ANSWERED THAT THEY 'MOULD
HAVE A DORMITORY ;1ITHIN FOUR BLOCKS. COVIAISSIONER THORNTON THEN ASKED THE
GENTLEMAN H071 MUCH THEY VIERE GOING TO SPEND ON IMPROVEMENTS AND THEY STATED
u6000. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN ASKED IF THEY KNEW THERE WAS A STRUCTUAL BREAK IN
THE BUIIDII;G NUN, AND IF ANY PEOPLE WALKED AROUND ON THE SOUTH SIDE THEY WOULD
SEE IT. THE; REPRESANTIVE STATED HE THOUGHT THE CITY SHOULD REPAIR THE DEFECT.
THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN STATED THAT THE CITY CHARTER STATED THAT THE LESSEE
WOULD HAVE TO AGREE TO MAKE THE IMPROVEMENTS BEFORE THE CITY COULD LEASE IT.
CC' :,',ISSIONER THORNTON THEN BROUGHT UP THE PROPOSAL OF THE OTHER PEOPLE AMID
SAID HE THOUGHT IT WAS A LOT BETTER DEAL. HE STATED $500 a MONTH VQUCH WAS
INCORRECT AS IT WAS $350 THE FIRST YEAR AND $500 THE SECOND YEAR AND $700 THE
FOLLOI'.UNG YEARS BLUE THE OVERRIDE OF 3% the FIRST YEAR PIUS 2% IN THE FOLLOWING
YEARS, UP TO $250,000.
1.3. OCEAN SCIENCE INSTITUTE
MR ROSKOPF REPRESANTIVE. HE STATED THAT THEY HAD SUBMITTED THEIR PROPOSAL
AND DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING FURTHER TO SAY. THE MAYOR THEN ASKED THEM IF THEY HAD
A.NY MONEY AND HE WAS ADVISED THAT THE CORPORATION THEY WERE FORMING WOULD HAVE
A $50000. CAPITOL. THE NAME OF THE NEW CORPORATION WOULD BE THE FLORIDA OCEAN
SPORTS, INC. THE CITY ATTORNEY T4EN STATED THAT THE OCEAN SCIENCE INSTUTE WOULD
HAVE TO HAVE A SURVEYOR HIRED TO SURVEYOR THE LAND.
THE MAYOR THEN STATED THAT THEY ALSO WANTED A THREE YEAR OPTION TO PEASE A STRIP
OF L111D IM4IEDIATELY TO THE NORTH AND IF OPTION WAS EXERCISED THE RENTAL WOULD BE
$300 a MONTH PLUS 2% OF THE GROSS RECEIPTS UP TO A GROSS OF $250000..
CO'.'YISSIONER KELLY THEN STATED HE WOULD LIKE A LIST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE NEW
CORPORATION. THEN THEY STATED THAT IF THEIR PROPOSAL WAS ACCEPTED THEY WOULD
SUBI,IT THE LIST. COMMISSIONER THORNTON THEN MADE A MOTION THAT THE CITY ATTORNEY
BE INSTRUCTED TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE FLORIDA OCEAN SPORTS, INC ON A LEASE, THIS
;AS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER KELLY. ROLL CALL WAS TAKEN AND THERE WERE THREE
YES AND C01.±MD:SSIONER YIAI7ERS VOTE WAS TO PASS.
14. CITY OF HOLLYWOOD BILL
SIDEWALK PAVING AT THE BETHUNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ONE THIRD TO BE PAID
BY THE CITY OF DANIA AND TO THIRDS TO BE PAID BY HOLLYWOOD. CO!•laSSIONER
THORNTON MADE A MOTION THE BILL BE PAID, THIS WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER'
KELLY. MAYOR HOUSTON SAID ALL IN FAVOR SIGNIFY IN THE USUAL MANNER, THE
VOTE '!.'AS FOUR AYES.
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4. LUMIS RESTURANT
M`.AYOR STATED THAT THEY HAD SIDEWAIKS, DRAINAGE AND PARKING WHICH HAD
B'Eli CHECKED. AFTER A LOT OF DISCUSSION IT WAS OKID.
5. NCRGE REALTY
MAYOR STATED THEY HAD TORN A COUPLE OF OLD BUILDINGS DUNN OFF THE
FROPERTY. STATED THEY °:'ERE GOING TO ERECT A TWENTY UNIT APARTMENT.
'1 37 S. W. 14TH STREET, DANIA. LOT OF DISCUSSION AS TO WHERE THE
PEOPLE WOULD ENTER THE PROPERTY, FROM S. W. 14TH ST NDMMMUMM
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6. SIDNEY LANN OF PHIPPEN RD JUST OFF S. W. 4th Street.
A LOT OF DISCUSSION REQARDINO LOT # 3 AND WHERE THE TRAFFIC WOULD CONE
OFF S. W. 4TH ST OR OFF PHIPPEN RD.
7. RICKARDS ELECTRIC SOUTH FEDERAL HWY, DANIA, FLORIDA
ADDITION TO HIS PRESENT STORE. MR RICKARD EXPIAINED THAT THE LOT
HE 1N.TENDS TO BiQLD ON IS NOW SERVED WITH THE SANITARY SEWER SYSTEM.
PUT THAT HIS PRESENT STORE IS NOT SERVED. THERE WAS THEN DISCUSSION
OI1 THE ALLEY AND WMTHER IT WAS DEDICATED, Mt RICKARD EXPLAINED THAT
THE ALLEY WAS OWNED BY HIMSEIF AIM TlE MOTEL BEHIND HIM, 50% EACH.
AFTER MORE DISCUSSION YA RICKARD AGREED TO HOOK UP THE SANITARY SEWERS
TO HIS PRESENT STORE IF THE CITY WOUID R'AIVE THE ASSESSMENT. THIS WAS
AGREEABLE TO THE COlgaSSIONERS. ON THE ABOVE IT WAS BROUGHT OUT TO MR.
RICKARD THAT IF THEY REMAINED TWO SEPARATE LOTS HE WOULD HAVE TO PAY
TIE ASSESSMENT ON BOTH LOTS AS IT WAS FIGURED ON THE FRONTAGE. HE THEN
AGREED TO MAKE IT ONE LOT. (4)
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7. CONT'D aY
RICKARDS
CO2•?.!ISSIONER KELLY THEN STATED THAT THIS WAS DIFFERENT THAN
'< HAVING ONE LOT BEHIND THE OTHER AND IT WOULD NOT BE NECESSARY
_ FOR YR. RICKARD TO MAKE THE VIO LOTS INTO ONE.
15. PARKIN'G ORDINANCE
THIS WAS ITEM TWO ON THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD MINUTES OF MAY I3th,
1T 1',HICH TIME THEY HAD APPROVED THE ORDINANCE. MAYOR HOUSTON THEN ASKED THE
CITY ATTORNEY IF THEY NEEDED A MOTION TO ADVERTISE FOR A PUBLIC HEARING AND
THE CITY ATTORNEY SAID YES. C00ISSIONER THORNTON THEN MADE A MOTION TO ADV—
:,;, 'TISE FOR A PUBLIC HEARING ON JUNE 36T'H, THIS WAS SECONDED BY COVI.ZSSIONER
KBLIY. ROLL CALL 'IIAS 4 TO 0.
L'AYOR HOUSTON THEN BROUGHT UP THAT IT WAS EXTREMELY IIIPORTA14T THAT THEY ACT
017 TFE PARKING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, IT WAS THEN DECIDED THAT THE SITE PLANS
+' THAT HAD SEEN APPROVED TONIGHT W7OUID NOT BE AFFECTED, BUT STARTING TOMCRROW
r THE BUILDING INSPECTOR WOULD USE THE NEW ORDINANCE. THE CITY ATTORNEY THEN
RULED THIS WAS LEGAL.
16. JOHN F. JUSTICE VARIANCE AND RE—ZONING REQUESTED. ;
THIS ITEV. CAME UP BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD ON APRIL 8th &
L'AY 13TH, ON THE LATTER MEETING THE REQUEST WAS DENIED. AFTER DISCUSSION A r
v` VOTION '.AS MADE BY CO?51ISSIONER THORNTON TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE
CITY COMMISSION ON JULY 7TH, THIS WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER KELLY. MAYOR !
't4 HOUSTON SAID ALL IN FAVOR SIGNIFY IN THE USUAL MANNER. THERE WERE FOUR AYES.
17. YILI1R & DE COURSEY DIXIE HWY & S. W. 11TH ST.
TO CONSTRUCT AN 8 UNIT APARTMENT AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. A MOTION WAS THEN
MADE BY COMMISSIONER THORNTON TO HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE PLANNING &
ZONING BOARD ON JUNE LOTH AT 7t45 P. M. , THIS WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER
KELLY. MAYOR SAID ALL IN FAVOR SIGNIFY IN THE USUAL MANNER. THERE WERE 4 AYES.
18. QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE
VERA PETERMAN CAME BEFORE THE COMMISSIONER AND STATED SHE HAD SOME QUESTIONS.
SHE COMPLAINED THAT THE TRASH AND GARBAGE HAD BEEN LAYING ON THE WEST SIDE OF
T0,'+77 FOR WEEKS AND WEEKS. GRAMIM WAS CALLED UP AND HIS REASON ON THE GARBAGE WAS
THAT HE HAD TEN ON VACATION. ON THE TRASH HE SAID THERE WERE NO CERTAIN DAYS TO
f. PICK UP TRASH AS AT THIS TIME OF YEAR THERE WAS MORE BRANCHES ETC. BUT THAT THE
I.BN 'WERE WIORKING REAL HARD. MRS PETERMAN STATED THAT AT THE PLACE HER SON WAS
LIVING THERE PiAS TRASH THAT HAS BEEN THERE FOR SIX WEEKS. SHE TOLD MAYOR HOUSTON
THAT YOU RIDE BY THERE AND YOU SEE IT.
SHE THEN BROUGHT UP THE SUBJECT OF THE JUNK CAR, AND STATED IN THE PAST
'y :••'HEN THEY CALLED THERE WAS SOME ACTION TAKEN, GRAMMER THEN STATED HE COULD HAVE
.A MAN COME IN AND TOW THE CARS AWAY FOR NOTHING, BUT THAT THERE WOULD HAVE TO
BE' A STICKER PLACED ON THE CARS GIVING THEM 5 DAYS NOTICE. GRAMMER WAS THEN
II;STRUCTED TO GET WITH THE CHIEF OF POLICE AND WORK OUT SOMETHING.
SHE THEN BROUGHT UP POLICE PROTECTION ON THE WEST SIDE OF DANIA. SHE STATED
PEOPLE CALL AND CALL AND NO POLICE SHOW UP. IT WAS STATED THAT THREE CALLS HAD
B=.EN MADE AND NO POLICE SHOINED UP. SHE SAID THAT WHEN YOU CALL THE POLICE STATION
'.R THEY TELL YOU I�X VILL SEE WHAT W'E GAN DO ABOUT IT, NOT WE WILL SEND OUT A POLICEMAII.
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SHE THEN BROUGHT UP THE PAVING ON THE WEST SIDE AND HOW BAD THE STREET WERE.
SHF ASKED HOWL THEY COULD PAVE UP TO A HOLE AND STOP. THE MAYOR THEN ASKED HER WHAT
STREET THIS 'lAS AND SHE SAID THIRD STREET. CONMISSIONER THORNTON THEN TOLD MRS
P_TF,RYAN ALL SIZE HAD TO DO WAS GET A PETITION FROM THE PROPERTY OWNERS AND THE
^.ITY 'sCUID PAVE ANY STREET AND ASSESS THE OWNERS. COMMISSIONER WAITERS THEN STATED
: ".T THE T:'O STREETS SHE HAD MENTIONED HAD BEEN PAVED BY THE COUNTY, THROUGH THE
FORT OF f'A.YOR HOUSTON.
A GENTIE'.'_All FROM THE FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY THEN ASKED REGARDING THE
TI'.�Ifi 61-0 THROUGH DANIA AND THE MAYOR REPLIED THAT THE ONLY THING HOLDING THEM
UP —AS THE REMOVAL OF THE CONCRETE. HE THEN STATED THEY WOULD REMOVE THE CONCRETE
If: !.NOUT SIX 7,•EEKS AND ASKED IF A LETTER TO THIS EFFECT WOULD BE ALLRIGHT. THE
:'.'•.YOR STATED HE SHOULD BRING IN THE LETTER TO THE CLERK TO THIS EFFECT.
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ALONZO WILLIAMS THEN APPROACHED THE COMLfISSIONF.RS. HIS COMPLAINT '9AS a
THAT EVERY TILE IT RAINED THE TIATER WOULD JUST SIT IN FRONT OF HIS PROPERTY. tiF
a PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR G`.lMtiER WAS THEN TOLD TO BRING BACK A HtECO1,2EIJDATZON t
TO TILE C0L1ISSION REGARDING THIS PROBLEM. Rill
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THE MAYOR THEN ASKED COI:IMISSIONER THORNTON IF HE HAD ANYTHING TO BRIMK}
UP, HE STATED THEY HAD BEEN DISCUSSING THE VACANCY FOR THE CITY MANAGERIS n
JOB AND AT THIS TIME HE WOULD LIKE TO PLACE IN THE NAME OF MR. STEVE DERRY r;
TO BE CITY PANAGER OF THE CITY OF DANIA EFFECTIVE TOMORROW MORNING. THIS ,
MOTION WAS THEN Z'ADE BY COMMISSIONER THORNTON AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER
r, KELLY. COMMISSIONER THORNTON THEN CHANGED HIS MOTION TO READ BE APPOINTED
CITY MANAGER ON A TEMPORARY BASIS TILL THE NEW BUDGET. AFTER MORE DISCUSSION _
® COMMISSIONER THORNTON MADE THE ABOVE MOTION ALSO INCLUDED THE SALARY WOULD
' BE $11,000. COMMISSIONER KELLY SAID HIS SECOND STILL STOOD. ON THE DISCUSSION
COMMISSIONER ',WAITERS THEN SAID HE THOUGHHT'THEY WERE IN A DIRE NEED OF A CITY
MANAGER AND A CITY COMMSSIONER AND A PERSONNEL DIRECTOR AND REFERRED TO THE
"r THOUGHT WHICH COMES FIRST THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG: COMMISSIONER KELLY SAID THESE
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1',LIRE HIS THOUGHTS ALSO THAT IT WAS MORE IMPORTANT TO GET A CITY COMMISSIONER
iA FIRST. COLMISSIONER THORNTON THEN SAID HE WOULD MAKE A MOTION FOR EACH CITY
"G C06111ISSIONER TO PICK A NAME AND THEN SEND AIL FOUR NAMES IN TO THE GOVERNOR
AND LET HIM SELECT ONE. HE SAID A RESOLUTION COULD BE DRAWN UP WITH THE FOUR
. NAMES ON IT AND SUBMIT THIS TO THE GOVERNOR, COMMISSIONER HELLY'DISAGREED WITH
Y THIS AND SAID IF THEY COULD NOT COME UP WITH SOMEONE THEN IT SHOULD GO TO AN
4e ELECTION. COM.I.IISSIONER WAITERS THEN STATED HE COULD NO SEE WHERE THERE WAS A
® GREAT DEAL OF EXPENSE INVOLVED IN AN ELECTION, HE SAID THERE WERE ONLY THREE
LITTLE PRECINCTS, ViITH ABOUT 3600 PEOPLE AND THAT WE DO NOT HAVE THAT MANY AS
THIS IS THE SULIER SEASON.
EWA CO 1:'SSSIONER KELLY THEN STATED THAT HE HAD HEARD MAYOR HOUSTON MAKE THE
REIM:ARK THAT IF THEY COULD NOT COME UP WITH A NAME THEN HE S40ULD, HE SAID SO
FAR HE HAD NOT HEARD A NAME, MAYOR HOUSTON THEN SAID ALLRIGHT THEN IILL GIVE
• YOU ONE, THE NAME IS KERMIT R. WENKSTERN OF 511 S. W. 2ND AVENUE. HE HAS BEEN
IN THE CITY FOR ABOUT 35 YEARS AND IS A FORMER SCHOOL TEACHER. THE MAYOR STATED
HE HAD ONLY KNOWN HIM THE LAST COUPLE. OF YEARS, HE IS A MAN OF INTEGRITY, AND A
MAN OF HONESTY AND ALSO A MAN OF ABILITY AND HAS A KNOWLEDGE OF THE CITY. THERE
.VAS THEN A LENGTHLY DISCUSSION BETWEEN ALL THE COMHaSSIONERS AND FINALLY THE
MAYOR CALLED FOR A ROLL CALL WHICH WAS AS FOLLOWSt
• COMMISSIONER KELLY NO
COMHMISSIONER THORNTON YES
COMHIAISSIONER WAITERS NO
MAYOR HOUSTON YES
® THE MIEETING VJAS THEN ADJOURNED AT 11s28 P. M.
RFSPECTFULIZ SUBMITTED
MAYOR ROBERT E. HOUSTON
E. R. CLAY WITR
CITY CIERK—A
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