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HomeMy WebLinkAbout34844 - MINUTES - City Commission ''F MINUTES DANIA CITY COMMISSION WORKSHOP MEETING NOVEMBER 16, 1993 ROLL CALL: Present: Mayor: Bobbie Grace Vice Mayor: Bob Mikes Commissioners: John Bertino Bill Hyde Albert Jones City Manager: Robert Flatley City Attorney: Frank Adler City Clerk: Wanda Mullikin 4 t, Vern Johnson, Data Processing Manager, presented a demonstration of a computer projector for better visualization of charts, graphs, budget review text, and computer , drawings. Mr. Johnson advised that scanned documents or documents brought into the computer directly or indirectly can be shown on the projector. ' The projector was used to show a demonstration on cemetery costs in item 3. After hnson stated that the overhead projector and projection panel discussion of item 3, Mr. Jo would cost around $5,000. Commissioner Bertino suggested that the Citv require petitioners to provide a computer diskette or camera ready copy of building documents or require petitioners to pay the fee to have their documents scanned for the computer projector. The Commission generally agreed that this would be a good idea but realized that all petitioners may not be able to provide their material in this form. Susan Katz, member of the Hollywood Area Board of Realtors, expressed opposition 2.to Dania charging individual sales representatives a $50 occupational license fee since each broker office is required to for anocpatio notlbeingsallowed toe. She srece presented commissions Chapter 475 or o he Florida Statutes relatingrepresentatives conduct business without a broker and distributed a copy of a Cooper City Ordinance exempting salespersons from this fee. 1 WORKSHOP MEETING NOVEMBER 16, 1993 ?r� City Attorney Adler reminded the Commission of Dania's efforts to go through the procedure to take the jurisdiction of occupational license fees away from the legislature to retain control over the fees charged. He said that businesses are protected as the statute covers limitations on how much can be charged in some of the categories. Mr. Adler said that fees no increases are allowed the rest of this vear an can be reduced anytime, thatd that fees can be increased by 5% next year. City Manager Flatley mentioned that other cities charge sales persons the 550 and that efforts have been made by Dania to make the fees reasonable. The Dania Equity Study Committee was formed to review fees and make changes whenever needed. Eula Gardner, Building Department, reported that the Equity Committee has recommended to change the way auto rental businesses arc charged for occupational licenses noting that r based on the number of cars in their lot. The Dollar Rent-A-Car figured out to S54,000 a yea board recommended to use a cap amount on the cars to make the fee more reasonable. Commissioner Bertino disagreed with this concept since some car businesses can have cars ranging from a few hundred to thousands. Mr. Flatley presented the board's recommendation to charge Security firms on the number of guards as follows: 1-5-3125.00, 6-10—$162.00, 11-25-$262.00, and over 25—$335.00. The e occupational license fees at one time and not on Commission decided to address changes to th an individual category basis. ITEM 4 WAS HEARD AFTER ITEM 2 ITEM 3 WAS DISCUSSED DURING ITEM 1 3. City Manager Flatley said that Dania has the lowest cemetery fees and that there has been an increase in business from out of town residents. Cliff Taylor, Public Works Coordinator, provided a survey on the costs from Ft. Lauderdale and Hallandale and the Commission made some changes to be incorporated a proposed ordinance for first reading on November 23. The Commission returned to item I for further review of the projector costs. ITEM 4 WAS HEARD AFTER ITEM 2 4. Commissioner Jones mentioned the need to cleanup the Public Works facility and asked staff to present a progress report. Cliff Taylor, Public Works Coordinator, said that heavy equipment is stored on the site and that the facility is shared with the Water Plant. The building was recently painted, 7,000 ' square feet of asphalt was installed to improve parking, and landscaping improvements have been made to beautify the site. Mr. Taylor mentioned plans to change the mulch drop off area f WORKSHOP MEETING 2 NOVEMBER 16, 1993 I I at the complex and the need for more manpower to keep up with the Cit}'s landscaping `=c R: needs. 5, mmendations for a settlement with Wanda Mullikin, City Clerk, presented staffs reco Seacoast as follows: amount would be paid by Seacoast, "The City will gran[ a $6am credit (the difference between the 59,000 Seacoast wanted and "The 565, 358.50 penalty $3,000 for the City's Investigative costs); • "The City agrees to a one-time increase of 5.30 per month per unit in the contract; at "The City ' craictl will be null and grant a three avo d if S Seacoast failr extension to s of deliver al refuse to the required "The Con facility. ith extending the f the Vice Mayor Mikes disagreed pending and felt that the City should exercise their r ghtoto bid when litigation that has been Pe the contract expires. Richard Marano, former he City to Manager and PPing fee dispute seacoast nandvment onecommented chat Seacoa on the st negotiations with t Y ` requested a $.35 per unit per month rate and a 59,000 credit on the Reuter penalty amount. pena ty ed ull City Manager Flatley agreed that Seacoast ast is notw,hbthele �ocherr the f garbagecontractors 0ldelivered by Reuters because there is no yover the fees for their specified amounts of refuse.im felt eats legal feesthe .hat Herecommended to grant the e$6,000e investigator that was hired and P Y credit on the $65,358.50 for a total of$59,358.50 due from Seacoast. nt agreed that Seacoast would pay 23 regular 8.50meeting. the Commission agreed to take Mr. Mara the November action on this settlement at said sparity study was conducted by four Person e ° onn SDBE participantstandi 6, Mike Smith, that they use Certification Application Braward Countyagencies SDBstenhinM said that the B Development to confirm a have been to D nia's Council and aEpcazg in enhancing minority project bidding list for future use. Further discussion followed with the Commission on whether to waive the bonding requirement for these types of businesses, e seriously and Commissioner Jones expressed his opinion that the City needs to take this issu ; , .. asked that SDBE participants be considered whenever possible. 7. Airport status report e most recent draft he City Manager Flatley relating tin ised oat the annexationty has and deannexation of properties being imtpacted by ?� th Interlocal Agreement r g WORKSHOP MEETING 3 NOVEMBER 1S, 1993 . ._-._.. . .-R�enn Tv.T1>:4'�r'K?h_-•Lv.Y. .. . . ' '- ' ' .- .. y I the airport expansion. Mr. Flatley stated that a meeting has been scheduled with the County on November 23 from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. to discuss the draft agreement. The Commission scheduled a special meeting with staff on Monday, November 22 at 4:00 p.m. to prepare for the County meeting. City Manager Flatley distributed some ideas from Will Allen, Growth Management Director, on plans for the 90th Birthday Celebration that will be held in November 1994. Commissioner Bertino encouraged the City Manager to schedule a meeting with City board members and business groups to obtain their thoughts on the celebration. i This workshop meeting adjourned. JAL, � � - Mayor Con --manor City Clerk-Auditor WORKSHOP MEETING 4 NOVEMBER 16 t 1993 , I AGENDA ` DANIA CITY COMMISSION WORKSHOP MEETING NOVEMBER 16, 1993 8:00 P.M. 3ll ; 1 k 1. Computer projection panel with overhead projector demonstration. (Staff) 2. Occupational license status report. (Staff) L .' 3. Suggested changes in cemetery rates. (Staff) tt 4. Public Works facility. (Comm. Jones) 5. Discussion of possible Seacoast Sanitation litigation settlement. (Staff) 1 6. S.D.B.E. research. (Comm. Jones) 7. Airport status report. 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