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MINUTES OF SPECIAL COMMISSION MEETING DANIA FLORIDA
HELD ON AUGUST , 1968.y: The City Commission of the City of Dania, Florida, held a special
Commission meeting in the City Commission Room at the Dania City Hall
at 8:15 P . M. August 12, 1968 .
1 Mayor-Commissioner Kelly asked the Clerk to call tha roll and the
following Commissioners and city officials were M;; g y present:
Mayor-Commissioner - Robert Kelly
` Commissioners - Robert E . Houston, Ab:;cnt
- Joseph Thornton, Absent
- Richard Marant
". - Boisy N. Waiters
City Manager - Stanley Goldberg
rs City Attorney - Clarke Walden
k Chief of Police - Donald Parton
r Building Inspector - Hubert Walker
City Clerk-Auditor - E. R. Clay
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3 There being a quorum present, the Mayor called the meeting to
order.
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Public Hearing - 1968-69 Budget
�t now being the time auvcrtised for a Public Hearing on the
tentatively adopted 1968-69 City of Dania Budget in the Dania Press, the
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Mayor said this was now the time and place to ask questions on a budget.
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Mr. Gus Brice, 218 S W. 6th Street, Dania, appeared before the Com-
mission and stated he had noted in General Government there had been no
provision made for codification of the city's ordinances and requested that
$52000.00 be put into the budget for such purpose. He said that some years
ago $2, 500.00 had been put in the budget for codification; that the city
has not had the codification of ordinances brought up to date since 1950.
4 He said, that sometime in the past the city had contacted an "ordinance"
company in Tallahassee and the estimate given at that time for codification
was $4,600.00. He said, that the people of Dania, as taxpayers were
entitled to know what ordinances were on the books and they should be able
to come to city hall and read such an ordinance. Mayor Kelly said, that
under the office of the City Clerk, there had been allotted $2, 500.00 for
codification of ordinances. Mr. Brice said this would not be adequate and
would not cover the cost.
Mayor Kelly, in noting General Government,stated the following:
Payroll - $ 66,181.00
Expenses 124,530.00
Equipment 800.00 Total: $191,511.00
He said the money for the tax collector was included under "Other
Compensation" and was a percentage figure paid to Broward County for the
tax collector there for collecting the City of Dania's taxes for the city.
Mayor Kelly then read the totals of some of the budget categories:
City Manager Total: $ 19,247.00
City Clerk 41,814.00
Building Inspector 10,363.00
City Engineer 2,000.00
Auditing and Accounting 10,000.00
City Attorney 113000.00
Health Department 240.00
Humane Society 300.00
Planning & Zoning Board, Consultant,& Secretary 1,240.00
Social Security 16,552.00
Insurance, including Workman's Compensation, Public
Liability, False Arrest, etc. 56,001.00
Municipal Judge 3,000.00
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F Public hearing - 1968-69 Budget
Mr. Robert Grammer, Dania, came before the Commission and asked
if any of the departments noted so far had provisions made for salary
!`= r raises and Mr. Clay said he had made provision to give only one girl a
raise :in salary in the total amount of $300.00.
Mr. Stanley Goldberg said, that in his budget there were raises
included in percentages of 5% to 10%.
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€a ® Mr. Carl Zenobia, Dania, came before the Commission and questioned
o.1hy there were no raises included in the budget, and also asked if the
t., City Manager was to receive a raise. Thd City Manager stated he had not
T: i-nclude a raise in his budget for the City Manager.
Commissioner Marant saidto clarify the budget lif et discussion there
f; were two budgets : the budget prepared by the Finance Committee and which
appeared in the Dania Press; the other prepared by the City Manager, which
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was a balanced budget. He said, if there were raises to be given, now
would be the time to discuss the matter. Mayor Kelly noted the Commissioners
-TS did not get a raise this year.
Mayor Kelly said that from the 1967-68 budget the first noticeable f
tf, raise was in the City Clerk's department and that last year was budgeted ,s
$22,100.00 in the City Clerk-Auditor's department and this year it was
' $_'1, 000.00 . He said this covers six employees including the City Clerk w
F. and five other employees .
' ® Commissioner Marant asked Mr. Goldberg, if he had included in his
bu,�get raises for each and every person in the Clerk's Department and then
remark=d that Mr. Clay's budget for his department only included one raise
for one person. Mr. Goldberg said he could not answer for Mr. Clay, but
that Mr. Clay submitted the salaries at $24,036.00 and he had submitted
in his proposed budget that salaries be $29, 554.00 and included in that
® was $2,600 .00 for the Personnel Director. Mr. Goldberg said, since he has
allotted $7,500.00 elsewhere in the budget for the Personnel Department,
the Commission could deduct that $2,600.00 out of his salary account, which
would leave Mr. Clay with approximately $27,000.00. He said that the
advertised budget prepared by the Finance Committee had $31,000.00 allocated.
After some discussion, Mr. Clay said he had added another girl to the pay-
roll, which was the cashiering position. Mayor Kelly said he thought the
answer was there was some additional raises and possibly two additional
employees . Mr. Clay a separate category had been made for the Personnel
Director.
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The Commission now took into account the Police Department and said that
® the Payroll was Total: $118,511.00
1 Expenditures 185064.00
Equipment 3,000.00
and that under this the expenditures consisted of such things as
Special Investigation: $300.00 Other Compensation: $1,000.00, Telephone:
$-0-, and Conference Training: -0-, Radio Maintenance: $1, 582.00 Heating
a Gas: $150.00, Traffic Lights : $750.00, Repair to Traffic Lights: �400.00,
Repairs and Maintenance to Equipment: $2, 500.00, Office Supplies: $600.00,
Gas and Oil for Vehicles: $4,000.00, Advertising: $25.00, General Supplies:
$300.00, Prisoners' Meals: $3,000.00, Uniforms: $1,000.00, Taxes: $30.00,
Office Equipment: $500.00, New Equipment: $3,000.00, Car Allowance: $600.00,
e and Cleaning Allowance: $1,326.00.
recommended
Commissioner Marant/that budget plan "A," as presented by the City
Manager on the first plan be adopted for the Police Department to include
a five-day week, and in some instances raises in excess of 10% and in no
case raises of less than 10%. He said he also wished to see added in there
the amount of money originally suggested for five additional policemen of
$28,000.00 and that in the evant the five men are not able to be hired by
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Publi�c Hearin - 1968-69 Budget
CFiler of Police, ten, i the men are required, because of lack of manpower,
to work the sixth day,' the $28,000.00 be used to pay them at a rate of time
and a half based on their regularly weekly salary, based on a five-day week.
Commissioner Marant said in regard to police personnel uniforms,
he would recommend that instead of an allowance of $1.50 per uniform clean-
ing allowance a week, that the allowance be changed to $2.00 per week, or
$8 .00 per month. Commissioner Marant further recommended, that with the
concurrence of the City Clerk, that the men be issued a separate check for
this cleaning allowance and the City Clerk said he would rather the cleaning
bills be submitted for payment.
Commissioner Marant further recommended that the mistake found in the
policeman uniform allowance(and this mistake would make it about $50.00 per
new man; )that the city nzw givesnew policemen hired two (2) shirts, two (2)
pairs of pants, and other articles to perform his duties, badge, cap band,
etc. be clanged henceforth to three (3) shirts and three(3) pairs of pants.
Mayor Kelly said the point was to get the money into the appropriation and
the policy could be carried out at a later date. Commissioner Marant said
he wanted to make sure the money was put in for the aforementioned purpose
so that the lower echelon men could carry out their duties.
Mr. Gus Brice, from the audience, said Commissioner Marantts proposals
was fine, but how much money were they talking about. Commissioner Marant
said they were talking about $28,000.00. There was further discussion about
paying policemen time and a half and then Mr. Brice said the police pay scale
was well in keeping with the surrounding municipalities on a five-day week
and for the Commission not to get into a donnybrook of where the city can
pay time and a half and not hire the policemen. Mr. Brice asked how many
men were entailed and Commissioner Marant said the present force was
nineteen (19) and four (4) additional men would bring it to twenty-three (23) .
Mayor Kelly said the advertised budget as presented by the Finance Committee
included nineteen men and the budget the City Manager proposed (the original
one) included four new men, which made a total of twenty-three men. Mr. Brice
said he was at a loss to understand why the Chief of Police would recommend
nineteen men and the Commission wants twenty-three. Further, he said, it
was a mystery to him why Dania needed twenty-three men when Pembroke Pines
has a land area almost four times greater than Dania, plus a fifty percent
greater population and that city operates with seventeen men. Commissioner
Marant said fact that a federal highway ran through the City of Dania was a
factor in needing additional policemen as well as keeping the men on a five-
day week.
After much further discussion, the Commission recommended that the
Police D-_partment's payroll be increased by $21,000.00 to include four (4)
;® additional new men, which breakdown is as follows:
Police Dept. Payroll - $118, 511.00 + $21,000.00 = $139,511.00
Also added to 1968-69 Police Dept. budget:
jp Police Telephone account . . . $ 200.00
Police Conference 6 Training account. . . 300.00
Police Uniform Cleaning allowance account, .from $1.SO
a week to $2.00 a week, a cost increase from $1,326.00
to $2,026.00. . . 700.00
Total monies appropriated to the Police Department is:
$21,000.00 plus $1, 200.00 or $22,200.00.
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MINUTES OP SPECIAL COMMISSION MiEETING DANIA FLORIDA
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Public Hearing - 1968-69 Budget
Mr. Joe . Hansen o 1 E. 4th Street, Dania, appeared before the
Commission and was recognized by the Mayor. He said this date his wife
had been attacked by a Negro boy; that the police were called at 1:45 P.M.
and the call was not responded to until 45 minutes later and asked for
the Mayor to comment on this . Mayor Kelly said a policeman responding to
the call was involved in an accident; that the policeman was injured and
a patrol car was lost in the accident. Mayor Kelly said the three Commis-
:;ioners now sitting in at this meeting had fought to get additional men
for the Police Department. He said the original budget presented by the
City Manager was for twenty-three (23) men. He said it was cut from twenty-
three back to the original nineteen (19) men by the Chief of Pclice and that
he thought the Finance Committee had requested this cutback, but that the
three Commissioners here were going to see that the city got additional
policemen and that the men get a five-day week, and this is what had been
done, and that there would have to be other changes in the advertised budget
to obtain this .
City Manager Goldberg, in discussing the police department budget,
said the facts were, that the budget, as he submitted it to the Finance
Committee, was reduced from twenty-three men to nineteen men.
Mayor Kelly -aid the next department to be discussed would be the
Fire Department.
Payroll $52,459.00
Expenses of 23,629.00
Equipment 14,000.00
$90,088.00
Cam�iissioner Marant noted there was provision in the budget for a
new fire truck in the amount of $14,000.00. He also said there was a
salary increase over last year of $8,000.00.
i Mayor Kelly said that Other Compensation was $12,800.00
and Communications, $1,619.00• Lights and Repairs to Equipment,
$1,000.00; General Supplies, �1, 000.00; New Equipment, $14,000.00
(new fire truck) .
Commissioner Marant asked if provision had been made for fire hoses
and Mr. Goldberg said he would like to point out that last year's budget
was $58, 500.00 compared with this year of $90,088.00, almost a 50% increase
of the entire budget. He said there were some sizable increases that would
have to be taken from some place else in the advertised budget. He also
said the Police Department's budget last year was $141,000.00 as compared
to $160,000.00 this year, therefore with regard to the Police and Fire
® Departments, this would represent sizable amounts to be taken out of the
budget elsewhere.
Mayor Kelly said he noted there was $3,000.00 for water service.
After discussion, the Commission deleted $3,000.00 for water service in
the Fire Department's budget under Expenses, thus making the total Fire
Department's budget. . . $87,088.00
The Sanitation Department was next discussed. Mayor Kelly said
there was appropriated for:
Payroll $34,618.00
® Expenses 22, 565.00
Equipment 11,000.00
$68,183.00
Mayor Kelly said there was appropriated $34,618.00 for salaries;
R. pair to Equipment,$800.00; Gas and Oil, $3,200.00; Uniform Rental, $400.00;
G neral Supplies, $150.00; Rentals, $3,000.00; Cleaning Dump Incinerator,
$-5,000.00; New Equipment,$11,000.00. (new garbage truck).
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rice appeared TeTore the Commission and said the Sanitation
Department had 2 new packer trucks (comparatively new), which were--aTequate
to take care of the city's garbage, I supply truck as an auxiliary truck,
whirli may need some repairs . Mr. Brice proposed that the Commission take
1 000.00 from the New Equipment account and add $1,000.00 to the Repair
of Equipment and this would then give the city $10,000.00 toward the
$26, 000.00 needed . Mr. Goldberg said the amount of the appropriation here
would depend to a great deal on what the city proposed to do with any
• Garbage Ordinance the Commission adopted. After further discussion city
Manager Goldberg recommended that the Commission add to the $800.00 allocated
to Repair of Equipment $1,000.00 or a total of $1,800.00 and that $10,000.00
be deleted for New Equipment in the Sanitation Department, thus making the
departmental figures as follows:
Payroll $34)
618.00
Expenses 19,565.00
Equipment 4000.00
$15L183-00
Street Department was now discussed. Mayor Kelly said the advertised
budget called for the following:
Payroll $22)000.00
Expenses of 33,614.00
Equipment 4,000.00
$59,614.00
0 Mayor Kelly pointed out to the City Clerk that the item marked "Payroll"
should have been listed as "Street Lights." Mayor Kelly said each street
liqht was charged to the city at an annual rate', Mayor Kelly stated New
Equ-�px,ent was listed as $4,000.00; New Signs, $700.00; New Streets, $15,000.00;
Street Rcp�-ir Materials, .$5,000.00; Taxes and Licenses, $10.00; Salaries,
$12,904.00.
The Commission concurring, $5,000.00 was removed from the Street
Department for new streets and payroll monies were put into the Public
Works Department in the amount of $12, 904.00, thus the new budget figures
are as follows for the Street Department:
Expenses $27,710.00
Equipment 4,000.00
Improvements 10)000.00
$411710.00
PublicDepartment now came under discussion and the advertised
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budget r figures
$ 56,237.00
Expenses 13,423.00
Equipment 4)000.00
$731660.00
The Commission recommended that $1,000.00 be picked up from some
account and put into the Public Works' salaries, thus the new Payroll
figure would be $57, 237.00, or a total of. . . $74,660.00
Drainage was the next item under discussion and Mayor Kelly said the
city —07T—eJ—its own pump to produce power, which item was not included in
the advertised budget, therefore he requested that $750.00 be put into the
budget for Power and deleting $10,000.00 for Drainage Improvements from the
$15, 000.00 advertised, leaving the following appropriation:
Power $ 750.00
Improvements 5,000.00
$ 5,750.00
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Public Hearing - 1968-69 Budget
Commissioner Marant recommended that the $15,000.00 allocated for
Drainage Improvements be chopped down to $5,000.00, leaving $10,000.00
to be distributed as follows: $.1,000.00 to the Public Works Department,
leaving a balance of $9,000.00 and $750.00 to be allocated to the
Drainage Department for Power, then leaving a balance of $8, 250.00 to
be placed in another fund to make up the $27,000.00 needed.
The next department under consideration, the Mayor said, was the
Parks Department:
Payroll $ 8,877.00
Expenses 1, 500.00
Equipment -0-
lmprovements 1,500.00
$ 11,877.00
Co;..;-:,�sioner Marant asked at this time, if any money had been
allocated for Mulliken Park and Mr. Clay said there was $300.00 allocated
for Wayside and Mulliken Parks . Commissioner Marant said these parks need
care because at Mulliken Park, especially, there were a lot of children
® using that park. City Manager Goldberg said, that in his budget he had
$2,000.00 in for Rcpairs and Upkeep and about $7,500.00 for the various
parks . Commissioner Marant said they could not run into a situation as
they did last year in connection with West Side Park. He said provisions
had to be made to get light facilities there and the ball park put into
shape . He said there was some talk about putting up additional poles at
• West Side Park, which were needed and the Commission should make provisions
to get this clone. Mr. Goldberg said Mr. Dickerson, of the Recreation Dept. ,
mentioned that Frost Park also needed poles, and Mr. Goldberg said he had
included this in the budget he submitted to the Finance Committee. Mayor
Kelly asked what the $8,877 .00 in payroll represented in the Parks Dept.,
and Mr. Clay said this sum represented payroll for two men.
'® Commissioner Marant now noted he saw no money in the advertised budget
for Mosquito Control . Mr. Clay said the chemicals were put into the Public
Works Department. Mr. Goldberg said, that in his budget he had provided
$800 .00 for Sandfly and Mosquito Control, and suggested that it be put back
under that account. Commissioner Marant said, if the money was put someplace
else there was not point in putting it back. City Manager Goldberg said
the Commission can't do one thing in one case and not do it in every case.
H.> said this seemed to be the whole philosphy behind this budget, that they
have gone through this budget for the third time and that they were just
working their way back to where they had started with when the budget was
originally submitted to the Commission. He said things had been separated
out of Public Works and put them into various divisions of Public Works,
but then on certain items they put them back into Public Works. Commissioner
Marant said he wanted to ask a question: He said last year Mr. Gus Brice,
Utilities Committee Chairman, suggested all this be put under one heading,
"Public Works," i. e. , Sanitation, Streets and right down the line, and was
this the way Mr. Goldberg's budget proposed this year, as Mr. Brice had
`® proposed last year, and Mr. Goldberg said it was. Commissioner Marant said
that was the way it should be.
Discussion now centered around salaries in the various sub-categories
of the Public Works Department and Mr. Goldberg suggested, that for the
time being, the Commission leave the salaries as is, and if the Commission
made a decision, they could transfer all the salaries back into the Public
Works D_partment. Commissioner Marant said this was the way it was done
last year and it saved a great deal of time and eliminated mass confusion.
:!it . Brice said, from the audience, that they could not separate the employees
in a Public Works Department and keep track of how much time they spend in
each department, and that when it was done that way, it became a burdensome
bookkeeping problem.
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Mayor K selly ! h� next item to be considered was the Beach Dept. .
' Payroll. $28 520.00
Expenses 1, 200.00
Equipment 200.00
Improvements 1,000.00
$302920.00
�" Discussion arose concerning labor in the above referenced department.
t Mr. Goldberg said, if they were going to allocate labor here, there was
quite a crew of labor working down at the beach. Mayor Kelly said there
was one man that worked there regularly all the time, but that the city
sends a crew of men there to clean the beach at least twice a week and '
sometimes three times a week. He said, there again, the figures were
falsifying the picture because these men were coming out of the Public
Works Department. Mr. Goldberg asked Mr. Clay if the Finance Committee
had made any provision for laborers cleaning the beach and Mr. Clay
said they had not. Mayor Kelly asked if raises had been included for r
:y the lifeguards and Mr. Clay said this had been included. Mr. Dickerson
said his total Payroll figure in the budget he had prepared was $24,082.00.
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' Mayor Kelly stated at this time that he thought the Commission would
lump all the salaries back into the Public Works Department, the way he
believed it should be done. He then said thel8SPl for the Beach Depart-
ment would not change except for putting the/payroll into the Public Works a
Department.
The Commission now moved on to the Recreation Department and the
Mayor read the following figures:
Payroll $17,028.00
Expenses 6,303.00
Improvements 4,300.00
$27,631.00
There was discussion concerning the salary for the Director of the
5 Recreation Department. Mayor Kelly said the scale the Commission was
f; going by was $7, 260 .00, or a $356.00 increase in the salary budget.
Mr. Goldberg suggested they make the figure $500 .00 as an even figure
and the Commission concurred. Commissioner Marant said he would also
like to see a new category made for the classification of Improvements
at the Old Dania Bank Building in the amount of $500.00, and a Telephone
account in the amount of $100.00 for a telephone and any phone charges
over and above that amount to be paid by the Arts and Patrons group of
Dania . This figures now read:
Payroll $17,528.00
Expenses 6,903.00
Improvements 4,300.00
$28,731.00
„ Adjournment
„ —"eime now being 11:10 P. M., Commissioner Waiters moved that the
public hearing be recessed until 7:00 P. M., Wednesday, August 14, 1968,
anu Commissioner Marant seconded the motion, which motion unanimously
Respectfully submitted,
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C!ty c-Auditor Clay
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