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HomeMy WebLinkAbout86177 - MINUTES - City Commission MINUTES OF SPECIAL MEETINGS CITY COMMISSION, CITY OF DANIAs FLORIDA HELD SEPTEMBER 14, 1964. A The City Commission of the City of Dunia, Florida met in Special Session in the Commission Room at the City Hall. MEMBERS PRESENT WERE: MAYOR COMMISSIONER VERA L. HILL COMMISSIONERS ROBERT L. GRAMMER JOSEPH D. THORNTON VIRGIL L. TARPLEY S. ELLIS YOUNG CITY ATTORNEY CLARKE WALDEN CITY MANAGER • LESTER E. CULVERSON CHIEF OF POLICE MONTIE F. SMITH BUILDING INSPECTOR CHARLES LINDEMAN CITY CLERK MARY THORNHILL Meeting called to order at 7:30 o'clock P. M. by Mayor Hill. 1. Awarding of Contract o .;Fishing Pier and Equipment Mainten- ance. Fja" BIDS ON FISHING PIER: John W. Harrison: 8% of Gross Sales. Commissioner Grammer:' Before you read the other bid, I would like to say that I talked with this gentlemen; and he said he would like to withdraw his bid. Karl McIntyres. Free rent on bait and tackle shop, plus 15% of Gross Sales per month, payable at the end of every month. Commissioner Thornton: Award it to Mr. Harrison. He either accepts it or he forfeits his bond. That is the purpose of the bond. Attorney Walden: The $500.00 is really meant to be a Security Deposit. It depends upon whether you want to take advantage of the situation or not. You can go ahead and award it to him, but I don't think you take notice of his verbal communication when he met the Commissioners on the street. A motion was made by Commissioner Thornton that a resolution be drawn and passed accepting the offer of John W. Harrison. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Young. City Manager Culverson: I talked to the man, and in my opinion he is not conversant with running a pier, and I don't believe it would be advantageous to the city to award this to him. ' Commissioner Grammer: I hate to award a contract to a man who doesn't want it. There is so much difference between these bids. • I would like to throw both bids out, let the city run it a little while longer, and try again later. Mayor Hill: I will have to go along with you on that because I . feel that the pier cannot make it on the bid that this man pro- posed. I am not against the man, I am against the proposal. I am afraid if, we award this to him, we are going to have that pier dumped back in our lap, because I know the man can't make it on that bid. �e fs -l- • A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley to table this until Mr. Harrison is contacted to find out what he wants to do. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Grammer, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: • Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yes SIDS ON EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE: City Manager Culverson: We had two bids, one from Callahan Motor Company, and one from Maus. I studied both of them over very carefully, and I recommend that we accept the bid of Mr. Callahan of Callahan Motor Company. His bid is $400. per month. • Attorney Walden: Let me suggest that the city reserve the right to terminate it on a 10 day notice. A motion was made by Commissioner Thornton that the City Attor- ney be authorized to draw up a contract for maintenance of equip- ment with Callahan Motors, with the stipulation that the City reserve the right to terminate the contract on a 10 day notice. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Tarpley, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: • Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young. Yes Hill Yes 2. Discussion on Seaquarium at Dania Beach. City Manager Culverson: A short time ago I .met Mr. Lamberth who has a Seaquarium in Gulfport, Mississippi. Mr. Lamberth is here tonight, and would like to talk to you. • Mr. Lamberth: We have a large Mar inarium in Gulfport, Mississi- ppi. It is the largest one in the world. Unfortunately, we have a four month operation in Gulfport. Particularly the last three winters have been so severe that we have lost many of our animals. These animals are invaluable. So about 3 years ago we made the decision to center our operations in a temperate zone, and of course, Florida is in a temperate zone. After studying the situation' for the past .two years we have come to the decision that we are going to locate in the temperate zone of Florida, which would be anywhere from Palm Beach to Hollywood, on the East Coast. Actually, we want our entire operation over • here. This would be the main operation, and the Gulfport opera- tion would be a secondary operation. That is , it would operate from May to Labor Day, whereas this will be a year round operation. We have studied the area very thoroughly, and after many encounters of various types , we have finally decided that the Dania .Beach • area offers what we want in an Aquarium location. There are three determining factors for a salt water Aquarium. Number one is a location where you have a parking area. Number two, you have to be adjacent to salt water. Number three, we have to be adjacent to means of water transportation when our collection boats bring the specimens in and put them in the aquarium with a minimum amount of handling. Because every time you handle a sea creature, you are decreasing his life span. :. . -2- ® So all these things are very important, and after analysing the entire coast, we find that Dania Beach offers all these things. Of course, there are some things that Dania Beach does not offer. You are not on a number one highway, but you are on a good secondary highway. Number two, you have a hurricane situation that your beach is very vulnerable to, • but we appreciate that, and we understand. Our buildings that we put up will withstand a moderate hurricane at any rate. So that brings us up to the point that we are definitely interested. If there are any questions that you would like to have answered, I will be glad to answer them for you. Mayor Hill: What part of the beach did you have in mind? Mr. Lamberth: We studied it very closely. We feel that we should be located in a very prominent location where people can see our Aquarium from the highway. Plus the fact that, if we are going to do the advertising that we expect to do here, which will run into many thousands of dollars, if we are hidden where people dan't see it immediately, then we have lost the effect of these many thousands of dollars. Therefore, we feel that the Aquarium should be located somewhere in the Southern end of the area where it can be seen from the • highway either approaching it from the South or approaching it from the East. So it looks to me like there are two possible locations. There is the 90 feet of ground that you have on the bulkhead of the harbor going East. Or we could run it East and West and locate • it just to the South of the bulkhead where it makes the "L", right adjacent to the harbor. We have tentatively measured it off, and it will fit in either of these spaces. At present we have plans to build one 60 foot in diameter tank. We are trying to shoot at getting it opened sometime the latter part of December or the first part of January. We can put this together in about 3 to 3-1/2 months. Attorney Walden: Mr. Culverson asked me last Friday to look into this thing from the legal standpoint. I have not had an opportunity to do so. My off-hand opinion right now is that the • City, particularly on that long part of the beach, does not have the right to lease it out. We acquired a large part of it from the internal improvement fund. Have you had anyone look into it? Mr. Lamberth: No, I haven't. • Attorney Walden: I can't give my final opinion on it now. May I suggest this. . .if the Commission is generally interested in the proposition, perhaps you would like to create a new committee, possible a Beach Committee, to refer this. to so that you can come to a common meeting ground. Mayor Hill: I recommend that we refer this to our Parks and Recreation Committee and let them work with Mr. Lamberth and Mr. Walden on Wednesday evening, September 16. 3. Renewal of Alcoholic Beverage Licenses for 1964P1965. • A list of these Alcoholic License Renewals is attached to and made a part of these minutes. A motion was made by Commissioner Young to renew the licenses as read. The motion was seconded,by%Commissioner Tarpley, and the roll being called, the Commissioners doted as follows: • -3- ib' ., • O Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yes • 4. Resolution concerning certain lands at Houston Park for Public sale. Attorney Walden: I was told at a previous meeting to have a form of Resolution ready, which I do have. However, it is a lengthy 'resolution, so I will merely explain it. Basically, • under our charter, before the City has a right to sell anys, public land, it at first in effect must declare the land to be surplus. The Resolution must also recite. what the land had been used for. After you find this land is surplus, and not required for public use, you then under the Charter have the right to advertise for bids from the prospective purchasers. • The sale not being less than 30 nor more than 60 days from the date this resolution is adopted. ;At the sale, it is necessary that the property be sold to the }iighest bidder and that the bids be submitted by a cashiers check or certified check pay- able to the City. The City under the charter has a right to • reject any and all bids. If the maiority do want to sell it, I will be glad to read the resolution. Commissioner Grammer: Before we declare it surplus property, I would like to get an appraisal on it for my satisfaction, just to see what we could get out of it. A motion was made by Commissioner Thornton to get three apprai- sals on the park land from Ryan & Sparkman, Barney Crowley, and from Robert LaPorte. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Young, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: Grammer Yes Tarpley . Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yes 5. Mr. Henry Ransburgh, Re: Lots 1, 2, 3, Block 3, St. James Park North. A motion was made by Commissioner Young to accept the Zoning Board's recommendation and approve the plans with their changes with the stipulation that it all shall become null and void if the right-of-way deeds are not received by!-the City. The motion a' was seconded by Commissioner Thornton, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: Grammer No Tarpley Yes, subject to delivery of deeds. Thornton Yes Young Yea. Hill Yes A motion was made by Commissioner Thornton that the City Attorney be authorized to draw up and adopt an ordinance on first reading . changing the size of the entrance and exits to and from service stations to a maximum of 32 feet. The motion was ,seconded by Commissioner Young, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: _4- Special Meeting, 9/14/64 • • • p Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yes A A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley to amend the previous motion to• read "to accept the recommendation of the Zoning Board with 20 foot driveways for filling stations". The motion was seconded by Commissioner Grammer, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: i Grammer Yps Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yes 6. City Manager's Report. (1) City Manager Oulverson called Mr. John Harrison to step foreward. Mr. Harrison: I would like to withdraw my bid on the Fishing • Pier. When I first made the bid I did not know very much about operating a pier. I had never operated a pier before, or a tackle shop. Through investigation I found that I would really lose a lot of money with that bid. A motion was made by Commissioner Grammer to reject all bids on • the Dania Fishing Pier. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Tarpley, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yea (2) Bills: • DiMar Paving Company, 4063 sq. yds. pavin @ $1.63 per sq. yd. 16,622.69 City Manager .Culverson: I checked out the yardage. It checked out perfectly. I checked out the work with the Building Inspector, and the work has been completed. So I recommend the payment of • this bill. The work was done on SW let Court, SW 3rd Street, SW 4th Terrace and SW 2nd Place. A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley that the bill be paid. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Young, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: • Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yes i (3) Bill: From Clarke Walden for Attorney Fee in connection with Water Plant Expansion: $900.00 w .:g_ gin: A motion was made by Commissioner Thornton that the bill be paid in full. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Young, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows°: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yes Mr. Harvey Henann, representing Barcus, Kindred & Company: One of the many steps in the sewer procedure is to have a rate hearing. You must advertise rates and have a public hearing at which time the rates would be decided upon and would then be incorporated in the bond resolution. I believe you must advertise for 10 days. If the resolution is adopted tonight, you then authorize the advertising for the rate hearing. After it has been advertised, you then have a rate hearing and decide the rates. This is just the monthly charges for service for the various classes of cus- tomers. At that time you would then determine the final rates, and they would then be placed into the final resolution, which would be subsequently adopted. You cannot adopt the bond reso- lupion until you have these procedures. , . As far as the rate schedule that is set forth, we set forthlithe rates as recommended by the consulting engineers. Theyddiffer slightly from the recommendation in the Engineering Report dated . { March of 1964. One of these changes was recommended by the bond attorney. These are the rates that he recommended. Attorney Walden read a resolution entitled: A RESOLUTION setting forth a preliminary schedule of rates and charges for, services of the municipal sewer system of the City of Dania, Broward County, Florida, and providing for a Notice of Hearing concerning such rates and charges. i<< Attorney Walden: The day after tomorrow. we. can give to the Holly- wood Sun Tattler the Notice of Hearing. ' They will publish it on the 16th which is a Wednesday. Then the earliest date for a meeting would be Monday, September 28, which will be a special meeting. If that is what you wish to do, then I suggest, that a motion be presented adopting this resolution and authorizing a notice of hearing be published in accordance with the statutes for a hearing at 8:00 P.M. on September 28. + , Commissioner Young: Why don't we have it published in the Sun Tattler on Wednesday and the Dania Press on Friday? A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley to adopt this resolution ago and to advertise for a public hearing for 8:00 P.M. on September 28. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Grammer, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yes Commissioner Grammer: What is going .to be done about the widening. of Dixie Highway? ,zti. ® Commissioner Young: We have had a hold up from the State. I believe that the Engineer wanted to make one change on it. As far as I know, we have all the right-of-ways. From the Audience: Why wasn't Melalucca Gardens included in this sewer program? • Commissioner Young: Because it is across the canal. We have an agreement with the bonding company, at a later date, when the bond promises have been met, to take in Melallucca Gardens. There being no further business on the Agenda, the meeting adjourned. Mary ,Thornh City Clerk-Auditor • • Vera L. HILL Mayor-Commissioner • x': • Renewal of Alcoholic Beverage License - 1964 - 1965 • September 14, 1964 4 COP • Aloha Club, Mabel C. Biddle 6 Elizabeth Felker 3 PS • Max Phillips, Inc. D-B-A Drive-In Liquor 12 RT Florida Sportservice, Inc. Dania Fronton 2 APS Bub's Grocery, Richard M. Robinson • 2 COP Jimmie's Italian Kitchen, Rose Poalillo Como Inn, Albert Tieri • Tobler's Cheesery, Rene Baudin Brownts Bar, Leonar Brown Michaells. lnn, Michael Markiweicz Riverside Beer Garden, Cedie Bell Mitchel ' • • • • /eJ.• v d 1 h(I