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HomeMy WebLinkAbout86416 - MINUTES - City Commission MINUTES OF SPECIAL MEETING, CITY COMMISSION, CITY OF DANIA, FLORIDA, HELD FEBRUARY 13, 1964. • The City Commission of the City of Dania, Florida met in Special Session in the Commission Room at the City Hall. PRESENT WERE: MAYOR-COMMISSIONER VERA L. HILL COMMISSIONERS ROBERT L. GRAMMER VIRGIL L. TARPLEY S. ELLIS YOUNG CITY MANAGER E. S. TUBBS, JR. CITY ATTORNEY CLARKE WALDEN CHIEF OF POLICE MONTIE F. SMITH CITY CLERK MARY THORNHILL • The meeting was called to order -.at 5:00 o'clock P. M. by Mayor Hill. There were no objections, and Commissioner Thornton was excused from the meeting. • Mayor Hill: The purpose of the meeting is to take action on an ord- inance. Attorney Walden: Under the State law, bars are not required to be • closed where you have a special referendum election. I think our City ordinances might require that they be closed. So to be consistent with the state, I suggest you adopt an ordinance in effect providing that at a special referendum election bar rooms in Dania may not be closed. The exact language will be: • "Section 1. Election days. All bar rooms, saloons, cocktail lounges, and , other places for the sale of intoxicating beverages at retail within the city limits shall be closed during the hours the polls are open on any municipal, • general, or special election day wherein candidates for public office or public offices are elected. However, bar rooms, saloons, cocktail lounges, and other places for the. sale of intoxicating beverages at retail within the. city shall not be required to • close during the hours the polls are open in any initiative or referendum election wherein election of candidates to public office or public offices is not involved. Section 2. By unanimous- consent of all City Commissioners, this ordinance has been introduced, read the first time, read by title only the second and third times, and passed on all three readings at the same meeting. " • A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley. that an ordinance be drawn and adopted. The motion was secondedby Commissioner Grammer. Commissioner Young: Do we have to have the unanimous consent of every one concerned in order to do this? • Attorney Walden: Yes. _1- • Commissioner Young: The first motion then should be to see if every one is in agreement. If any one of the commissioners dissents it can- not be done. Commissioner Tarpley: I will amend the motion then to see if every one • is in favor bf the ordinance. commissioner Grammer: I will second the motion on the amendment. Mayor Hill called for a roll call vote on the amendment, it was as fol- • lows: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Young Yes Hill Yes • A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley that the ordinance be passed } on all three readings. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Grammer, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: • Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Young Yes Hill Yes • Mayor Hill: We have a vacancy on our. election board in the Griffin Road area. ''Mrs. Alice Reichenbach is unable to serve and I would like to recommend that Mrs. Virginia Wise be appointed to serve in her place. Commissioner Tarpley: Was she named as an alternate? • Mayor Hill: There were no alternates named. Attorney Walden: What you -need is a motion that a resolution be drawn and passed substituting the name of Virginia Wise for Alice Reichenbach. • A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley that a resolution be drawn and passed. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Young, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: Grammer Yes • Tarpley Yea Young Yes Hill Yes Commissioner Grammer: I would like to refer to an article in the Fort • Lauderdale.News where some official of the city showed the 1963-1964 budget to a reporter, I believe it was Bud Jenkins --that our taxes would have to be doubled if we annexed. I certainly would like to know who that official was because I think it is false information that has been given out, it is not coming from any official information. • Commissioner Tarpley: I think the only way you can handle that is to get in touch with Bud Jenkins and get him down here and verify the sta- tement and ask him what official gave him the information. Commissioner Young: Do you think there is a possibility that he just • forgot to put an "X" in front of it? These things are a little ambig- uous sometime. If you leave a comma out in a certain place it means something. -2- :r`: 1 � • • City Manager Tubbs: I think it should be corrected if that is the case. Commissioner Tarpley: I do too. • Commissioner Young: I would like to see it corrected because I would hate to say we had a city official that does not know any better than that. Mayor Hill: Likewise. • Commissioner Tarpley: I would like to have the city manager get in touch with Mr. Jenkins and have him here at the city hall tomorrow morning and get it straightened out. • Commissioner Grammer: Not so much that-- but I would like for him to get in touch with this reporter from the Fort Lauderdale News and if it was an ex-official, I would like to seethe ex there instead of official. • City Manager Tubbs: Mr. Jenkins was here a couple of hours ago in the police department. Commissioner Tarpley: The Dania- Beach Grille is getting ready to open and I would like to ask the attorney about his beer license. • He has to get a new license, how much of a hold-up is he going to have in obtaining one? Can we have the first reading on this license and waive the second and third readings? Attorney Walden: He also has to get a license from the state. His problem out there is with the health department. He has to get their • approval of the restaurant facilities, etc., that is the hold up. Commissioner Tarpley: This is effecting the city as much as it is him by not being open. If he could get everything in order I would like for the commission to declare this an emergency and go ahead and • issue the license on the first reading and waive the second and third readings. Attorney Walden; You can do it, but I do not know about the state license. It is a simple thing to get a beer license, you can pass it on two readings Monday night. I will have his application ready for you Monday night. Commissioner Young: I am very interested in a very nice newspaper article I read about half an hour ago in one of our prominent newspapers in the southern part of the county. An ex city official made a state- ment to the newspaper that the moat possible revenue that the city could anticipate from the proposed area of annexation would be $85, 000 per year. It goes without saying that he was not including water re- venue. I assume he was not including water revenue in the amount. • Just for the record-- this ex city official stated there would be- in fact it is broken down into the same departments I had it broken down into. He has $25, 000 -- $15, 000 -- $5, 000 -- $1, 000 -- $3,000 -- $9,000 -- $40,000, and of course for any one that is •supposed to be a master mechanic or a genius with figures, you don't even have to have an adding machine to see that is more than $85,000. As a matter of fact it comes to $98,000 by his own admissions, and he still says we cannot possibly get more than $85,000. -3- • I think if a man is that ignorant of the mechanics of addition, that he certainly is guilty of many other fallacies. As a matter of in- formation and records from the tax assessor's office report dated January 22, there are 953 building in the area. They are not broken down to what are apartments, such as two-unit, four-unit, etc. That is certainly quite .a bit more than the 700 a certain person has re- ferred to. Our basis has always been on the assumption of 800. For the simple reason that we are trying to keep everything down to a bare minimum. In other words, in our projected analysis of these ratios, we used our own ratios to hurt us. Actually, in the City of Dania the unit • consumption of water per connection per year is a medial average of $47.91 per connection. Our bonding agent instead of using 953 water connections, he used 800 connections, and he used a medial' average of $27.00 per year per unit as a basis, which is actually not $2.50 per unit per month per year. This is not taking into consideration • the fact there is a concrete plant, a pipe manufacturer and large restaurants and steak houses, which normally are considered large users of water. One other thing that has been kicked around quite a bit is the fact that certain person has stated that the ad-valorem revenue, which is real estate tax, in the proposed area of annex- ation would not reach $40,000. The same report I referred to a • minute ago. from the Broward County Tax Assessor's office dated Jan- uary 22, 1963, stated that the ad valorem revenue at 5.5 mills,. which is the present tax rate for Dania, would produce an annual revenue of $45, 000. Of course, we do not know how many additional buildings or anything else that would enter into it now. Commissioner Grammer: I would like to say I mentioned the wrong newspaper reporter. It was Bill Fenton instead of Bud Jenkins. I would like to clear that in the record. I would not like to accuse the wrong reporter. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. Marf Thornhill City Clerk Vera L. Hill Mayor-Commissioner p -4-