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HomeMy WebLinkAbout86422 - MINUTES - City Commission • MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING, CITY COMMISSION, CITY OF DANIA, FLORIDA, HELD JANUARY 6, 1964. The City Commission of the City of Dania, Florida met in Regular • Session in the Commission Room at the City Hall. PRESENT WERE: MAYOR COMMISSIONER VERA L. HILL COMMISSIONERS R. L. GRAMMER VIRGIL L. TARPLEY • JOSEPH D. THORNTON S. =IS YOUNG CITY MANAGER E. S. TUBBS, JR. CITY ATTORNEY CLARKE WALDEN CHIEF OF POLICE MONTIE F. SMITH • BUILDING INSPECTOR CHARLES LINDEMAN CITY CLERK MARY THORNHILL Meeting called to order at 8:00 o 'clock P. M. by Mayor Hill, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag and the invocation. • Minutes of meetings held December 16 and December 18, 1963, were read. A motion was made by Commissioner Grammer minutes be approved as read. Commissioner Thornton seconded the motion for the purpose of discussion, • Commissiow.r Thornton: I would like to discuss the minutes of the special meeting held December 18 in which the appointment of Contractor's boards was made. In the first board appointed, you have too many men. One of the appointments is an engineer, it should have been an architect. I suggest you drop one name and appoint an architect in the place of the • engineer. Commissioner Tarpley: Is this an amendment to the original motion. Commissioner Thornton: Yes: I will make an amendment to the original • motion to drop the last name of the general contractor's and the engin- eer, and retain the same architect as last year, and that this board be appointed by an ordinance and not by a motion. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Tarpley. Commissioner Grammer: I would like to comment on this. Does this ord- inance say one member has to be an architect? commissioner Thornton: Yes. If one is available. Attorney Walden: To be quite frank, I think over the years the com- mission has generally appointed these boards by resolution. We do have this clause in the charter which says that a separate boardrof examiners should be established by an ordinance for each of said boards. I would interpret that as the ordinance sets up the mechanics of the board, etc. I believe you can still do it by resolution unless some one wants the ordinance. You have passed that ordinance by the authority of the pro- vision in the charter. .3 Commissioner Thornton: I will read the provision in -the ordinance for appointing the Contractor's Board. "There is hereby created a Contract- or's Qualifying Board, which shall be appointed by the City Commission, m consisting of five (5) members. One member shall be an architect, if available. " ul • The charter tells you how you will set up aboard, that is by ordinance. We adopted the Hollywood Building Code as adopted by their ordinance No. 1578, amended by ordinance No. 1579, which states that the board is ap- pointed by ordinance and this ordinance tells you how the board is set • up. That is it unless you wish to rescind this ordinance, or else you have to live up to it. Commissioner Young: I would like to know from the City Attorney if the charter does not refer to the initial establishment of this board rather than each appointment to the board? In other words, each year it would • be perfectly legal to appoint the boards conforming with the previous ordinance and conforming with the charter merely by appointing them by resolution. Attorney Walden: Yes. As far as appointing members, so long as it is • done in accordance with the ordinance. . Commissioner Thornton: The ordinance states you shall have five members, and it tells you who the members will be. • Attorney Walden; We use these phrases very loosely. Once or twice we have had occasion to get the Attorney General 's opinion. Actually, the commission itself can act only by ordinance or resolution. On this very routine business that comes before you, much of it, frankly, the city manager ought to handle. But he seeks your guidance so you use the phrase • motion on a very routine thing. But actually the commission technically, and I am speaking very technical, acts either by ordinance, which is a form of law that pertains to the community at large, or by resolution, which pertains to some limited problem in .the city. The charter is the basic law, and it is only a copy of a legislative act passed in 1949 . specifying the general ground rules by which the city will operate. • This was thrown at me only a few minutes ago. The charter provision merely authorizes the commission to by ordinance set up these various boards. In the ordinance you get into the details .as to who will be on the beard, how they will meet and how often, whether they work for • nothing or for some compensation, etc. As far as the designation of the individual members each year, I will back track and say, I think a resolution is proper so long as you follow the ordinance. Commissioner Thornton: That is the ordinance we have now. • Commissioner Grammer: Does it say we can only appoint five members? Commissioner Thornton: Yes. Commissioner Grammer: As to the name you wish to drop. Is it the •last man that was appointed, of the last name on the list? Commissioner Thornton: I meant the last man on the list. You can pick any name you wish. • Commissioner Young: As far as the motion is concerned, it should be a motion on a resolution, rather than just a motion. Commissioner Thornton: I will amend the motion by adding that appoint- ment be by resolution, plus the fact that the other two boards also be appointed by resolution. The names to be left or added are: yi Jake Crouch C. C. Lee ® Harry Hillard Dan Foley James Hartley Commissioner Grammer: I am not for letting that member go because that • was the first member appointed to the board. There was some discussion about another member and that was why we picked up the sixth man to put on the board. Commissioner Tarpley: What do you mean this was the first man appointed? • Commissioner Grammer: This was the first name submitted by me. Commissioner Tarpley: Just because you submitted it does not necessarily mean you have to put him on. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion • as far as the man is concerned. Commissioner Grammer: We agreed to appoint this board once, and that was when we went to a six man board. Commissioner Tarpley: The appointments were made wrong. We have to • correct it. Attorney Walden: The first motion was merely to eliminate one name without mentioning the name, it was amended to mention the name of the man to be dropped, and to drop the engineer, and the name of James • Hartley, Architect, be added. Commissioner Grammer: I cannot see that, you do not have an architect available. Did this man approach any of you about an appointment? • Commissioner Thornton: I have talked to the architect a number of times. Commissioner Grammer: Did he approach you about an appointment Mr. Young' Mr. Tarpley? • Commissioner Young: No. Commissioner Tarpley: I run into him .quite often. These people don't approach you for these jobs, you have to approach them. As far as that goes Mr. Charest never approached me either. • Commissioner Thornton: Just because they approach you does that make you king bee so that you can name them. all? , CommissionTGrammer: Why didn't you put this name in before if you wanted this man on the board? Commissioner Thornton: I called the office the day of the special meeting and asked if you were going to bring up anything other than the bids, as that was why the meeting was called, because my work • required me to be out of town at that time. I was told there was nothing else on the agenda. Commissioner Tarpley: I also told you that was all we had on the agenda. Commissioner Thornton: I went ahead with my work assuming you were only going to take action on the bide. Two days previous I read this ordinance to every one of you and told you that .you had to abide by it. You can 't. say you did not know about it. I was not here, so you appoint ed the board. e. -3- Mayor Hill called for a vote on the motion. It was as follows: Grammer No Tarpley Yes • Thornton Yes Young Pass Hill Yes Commissioner Young: Under the same conditions we recently appointed • a Human Relations Board. I would like to know from the Counsellor if this comes under the same perspective as the other boards? Does it comply under the charter and under the ordinance? If not, we should clarify it now. • Attorney Walden: The Human Relations Board was created and members appointed by resolution. This board is nothing more than an advisory board .and the charter gives you the right to set up any kind of ad- visory board you might want solely to advise you. This was done in accordance with the charter. Commissioner Young: As long as that is clear in my mind so there will be no mistake in the future it satisfies my question. Mayor Hill called for a vote on approving minutes as corrected. The vote was as follows: • Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes • Hill Yes An ordinance rezoning Lots 1, 2, 3; 4, Block 1, Victoria Villas, from R-1 to R-2 Classification, was read by Attorney Walden. A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley this ordinance be passed on second reading. The motion wa s seconded by Commissioner Thornton, and the roll being called, the commissioners voted as follows: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes • Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yes City Manager Tubbs: I would like to be authorized to advertise for bids for labor only for painting the City Hall. A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley to advertise for bids for . labor ONLY, for painting the city hall, bida to be received until 8:30 P. M. EST, February 3, 1964. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Thornton, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes, Hill Yes w=+ Commissioner Young: I would like to know the primary purpose £or -ad- vertising for labor only. Is there a special mixture of paint to be used or is there a price factor involved? City Manager Tubbs: There are so many different makes and grades of • paint. We have three or ,four firms in the City that handle first line paints we can get prices on. if we had to advertise specifications for a particular type paint we would have to have a laboratory analysis specifying the components we wish in the paint. • Commissioner Young: What is the approximate cost of the paint involved? City Manager Tubbs: We have not made an estimate. We are going to buy a first line paint. We plan to contact at least three dealers in Dania to get prices, • Mayor Hill: The next item is David A. Jacobsen regarding an occupation- al license for antiques, guns, coins, etc. , 68 North Federal Highway. City Manager Tubbs: Mr. Jacobsen will not be present, we have solved • his problem. Mayor Hill: The next item is Edward H. Brooks, Sr. regarding sewage and garbage disposal. Mr. Edward: H, Brooks: I have a very serious subject to converse with • you. Today we are confronted with the fact that the population is in- creasing so fast we have to do a great deal more about sewage and gar- bage. I have a system that takes the sewage, garbage and trash. It is the only one of its kind in existence in the country. • My plan for Dania is to put a plant down in the jungle and take care of Hallandale, Hollywood and Dania. Mayor Hill: In other words you wish to have the commission adopt your plan for sewage and garbage. • Mr. Edward H. Brook: Yes. I would like to have you consider it. Commissioner Tarpley: I think this should be referred to the City Manager and let him make a recommendation to the commission.' • Commissioner Young: I think you should take your plans and other pertinent information to -the City Manager. Commissioner Thornton: What is your plan? How are you going to get the sewage and garbage to your plant? Who is going to put in the lines? •, Let 's wait until we get the lines in and then we will discuss this thing. We are getting the cart before the horse. I recommend you come back when we get the system in and then we will talk to you. Attorney Walden: As to the garbage disposal-- we arecommitted in every way you can think of to the county to use their system. There is no way we can talk about garbage disposal with any one. City Manager Tubbs read a letter from the Broward County Planning and Zoning Board notifying the commission of a public hearing to .be held Wednesday, January 8, 1964, on rezoning an area from our west city limits south of Stirling Road to the westside of the Seaboard Railway. -5- y„r 0 This is part of the area we are anticipating annexing and some one should attend this meeting and find out if they will delay any action until we see what the outcome of the election will be on the annex- ation referendum. 0 Commissioner Grammer: I have talked to several people in the area and they seem to want this zoning. I think if we ask them to be annex- ed, we should let' them have what they want. • Commissioner Young: If you have discussed this with some of the people, just what type of zoning is it? Commissioner Grammer: It is business zoning. I don't know exactly.what type of business, but you can have most anything you want. • City Manager Tubbs: I had a call from one man that was objecting be- cause it is business. On the notice of the public hearing they say a new comprehensive zoning, so that could be anything. Commissioner Young: I would like to ask the City Manager to call and • find out what the zoning is. We certainly would not want to protest, something that is vital to the area, we can decide then what we wish to do. City Manager Tubbs: We have a proof on the brochure advertising the • fishing pier. I would like to have approval to order 100,000 copies at a total cost of $1, 640.00. The chamber of commerce has asked for 50, 000 copies to be distributed to the World 's Fair and the Florida Showcase. The Florida Development Commission also uses them at the Welcome Stations. • commissioner Young: This is a very attractive brochure and I will make a motion authorizing the city Manager to order 100,000 for im- mediate distribution. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Gram- mer, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted 'as follows: • Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill . Yes • City Manager Tubbs presented renewal of insurance policies for 1964. Bills for the insurance was $2,392.47 from the Ryan Insurance Agency, and $9, 376.03 from the Myrol L. Wall Insurance Agency. This is a re- dution of $979.89 over last year on the Fleet insurance. The total • insurance is approximately $200.00 higher than last year due to the fact the rate of Workmen's Compensation is up. A motion was made by Commissioner Thornton the bills as presented be approved for payment. The motionuas seconded by Commissioner Tarpley, '• and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes • Hill Yes a:r { ' City Manager Tubbs presented a bill from Attorney Walden for services rendered in connection with the suit involving the Dania Beach Grille lease in the amount of $1, 298. 67 and recommended, it be paid. There is -,; an itemized statement of the work involved. b.i, -6- • commissioner Tarpley: I will make a motion this bill be paid. For the record and a matter of public interest, this suit cost the taxpayers of Dania $1,298.67. Mr. Houston filed a suit against the city for some- thing he had been practicing for the past ten years. commissioner Young: I will second the motion. I would also like to ask the Counsellor if there is any chance of recovering this fee? Attorney Walden: No. That is one of the sad things about a suit. Mayor Hill: I am very happy we won. Commissioner Tarpley: I am very happy we won too, but I am sorry about the money. • Mayor Hill called for a roll call vote on the motion. It was as follows: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes • Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yes. City Manager Tubbs: We have prices and information on a new alerting • system for the fire department. All the commissioners are familiar with it, and I would like to recommend we go ahead and start it. It will cost approximately $100.00 per month:, We have to sign a five year con- tract. It is estimated at twenty lines. We have an item in the budget and a system was put in that worked on radio waves. It was not satis- factory and it was returned. This new system is one being used now • by all the cities. When a call comes in to the fire department, you dial one number and it will ring in all the locations and repeat the message. The phone will ring for five minutes unless it is picked up. it records and repeats the message. If you are talking on the line and a call comes through, there will be a distinct interruption signal • in your conversation and you will know to hang up. The phone rings again, you pic)j up the receiver to get the message Commissioner Young: If this works it will mean faster service to distressed persons such as emergency rescue work and fire. City Manager Tubbs: It seems there is a possibility of discontinuing the whistle during the night. It will be up to the fire underwriters. it will have to be used during the daytime because a lot of the vol- ii. unteer firemen are not at home. A motion was made by Commissioner Young authorizing the City Manager and other authorized personnel to enter into an agreement with the Southern Bell Tel & Tel for the purpose of installing this system. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Tarpley, and the roll being called, the commissioners voted as follows: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Xes Young Yes Hill Yea r -7- • Mayor Hill recognized Mrs. McMillan, representing the Garden Club of Dania. • Mrs. McMillan: Mrs. Blackwelder and I are here representing the Garden Club. This is a group of women who are always interested in our City being beautiful. Our Governor has proclaimed the week of January 12 as "Tree Plant Week" . Some of you know we have had a project for the past five years, which has been a joint project, and that is planting • trees on both sides of Federal HighwaX through the city. In the past we have requested you include money in the budget to help us plant Adinodia Palms, which we have matched funds .by having bazaars etc. We would like to have your help in extending these palms along the highway. Another thing is the planting of ixorias, which we have already pur- chased, in the cemetery. It is a beautiful garden spot and we want to keep it that way. They are in cans and we are afraid they will die if they are not put in the graound soon. • The next thing we wish to ask for is a little more upkeep in our Wayside Park. Prune the trees and take away the broken bird bath and make it more beautiful.for the people that use it. You also asked us for help in the purchase of trees for Houston Park. We have not been called on for help recently. We know you are busy, and we would like to suggest • if it is not possible with the present help, that you employ some one for a short time to actually help and get this done . This is beau- tification time. The City of Dania is wonderful and beautiful to me as I have lived .here a long time and our dream is to have the two sides of the highway lined with the beautiful Adionida Palms that will wel- come of visitors at this time of year. We would like for you to start planting these trees the week of January 12. We have asked our citi- zens, through the medium of the press, to plant a tree that week. Our governor has set as the goal for that week 250,000 trees. Commissioner Young: Have you ladies done anything about selling the special auto tags for city beautification? Mrs. McMilan: . The ladies receive the applications each year for these tags. Last year several people did apply. ,We were given a certain • amount of money last year from this fund, because we had made an effort to sell the tags. It is too late this year to do anything about it. The deadline is December 31. Commissioner Thorntons How much money do you have for trees? • Mrs. McMillan: $300.00 at the present time. A motion was made by Commissioner Thornton that this amount be matched by the Commission and the City Manager be authorized to grant them as many of their requests as possible. The motion was seconded by Com- missioner Grammer. city Manager Tubbs: The Wayside Park was fertilized today. We ordered Adonidia Palms about three months ago. I did not follow through with it, I guess the man I purchased them from forgot about it too. We are watering the ixorias every day and will plant them as soon as we can run a water line. • • Mrs. McMillan: One week from today we will have a photographer to take a picture of the mayor, or whoever you would like, so we can prove we are doing something about beautification week. • Commissioner Tarpley: At this time in order to start this project, I will donate the first tree. Mayor Hill called for a roll call vote on the motion. It was as follows: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes • Hill Yes Commissioner Grammer: While we are on the subject of trees, I have had a couple of residents tell me they have some large Palm trees they will give the city, and I would like to see them planted at the • north end of the beach. I will be glad to contact them if they can be used. City Manager Tubbs: If they have more than ten feet of wood they are too large to be used. • Attorney Walden presented a letter from Periodical Publishers Service Magazine, requesting permission to solicit magazine sales in the city. He advised it should be referred to the City Manager and Chief of Police. • Attorney Walden read a letter from the secretary of the Tri-County Governmental League announcing a.meeting to be held at the Imperial House Restaurant, Friday, January 10, 1964, at 7:30 P. M. and all the commissioners are invited. Attorney Walden: The commission should consider tonight a resolution setting the special election for the annexation of lands to the west of the city. At the last meeting you passed an ordinance providing that a resolution be passed to set the place of the election and the time and date. Last week, Mrs. Hill, Mr. Tubbs and myself went to visit Mrs. Gates, the county supervisor of registration to make sure our efforts coinci- ded with hers. She almost set the demand that we have the election on Friday, February 14, 1964. That was the latest date she could allow us to have it. So when I read this resolution, that is where the date • for the election comes from. Under the state registration, Mrs. Gates must close her books to people in the unincorporated area thirty days before the election, or January 15, 1964. The city will close its books seven days before the election, or, February 6, 1964. The reso- lution shows we will have our usual three polling places in the City •. of Dania for Dania citizens to vote. I suggest you have one polling . place in the unincorporated area. . Without any suggestion from any one I have included in this resolution- the Civic Association building. I recommend you call a special meeting later this week appointing election officials. If you wish to make any changes in this resolution !; you can do so before its passage. Commissioner Tarpley: Mr. Tubbs, did you contact the owners of the .. vacant store on Griffin Road about using it for a polling place? -9- >s. City Manager Tubbs: He said we could use the building, but he could not give us a guarantee that it would be available if he had a chance to rent it in the meantime. • Attorney Walden: I have not made any arrangement with the county about using the building mentioned, but I assumed we could use it. Mrs. Gates uses it as a polling place. Commissioner Tarpley: Are we goint to set up a polling place for the • Camp Blanding area? Attorney Walden: We thought we were annexing a part of two precincts. Mrs. Gates advises us that it is a part of four precincts. We will get into some long legal descriptions if you start telling people where • they have to go to vote if you have more than one .place. It is better to have only one place, then you can say every one in the area effected go to one place to vote. It can be done, but you will almost have to get an engineer to describe who votes where. Commissioner Grammer: Can we have a county voting precinct at the • West Side Park? Attorney Walden: No. The ones living in the unincorporated area have to vote in that area. • Commissioner Young: Geographically speaking, the majority of the persons live in the Griffin Road area or very close proximity of the Civic Association building. A motion was made by Commissioner Thornton this resolution be passed • and adopted. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Tarpley, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted: Grammer NO-- Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes• Young Yes Hill Yes Attorney Walden: I suggest the commission have a special meeting or • delegate some one to name the election officials. A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley that a special meeting be called for Tuesday, January 7, 1964, at 7:00 o'clock P. M. for the purpose of naming election officials for the February 14, 1964 elect- ion. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Thornton, and the roll • being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes • Young Yes Hill Yes Mr. Todd, owner of the Shores Motel on North Federal Highway, asked if the city was going to do anything about fixing the Old Dixie Highway in rear of his property. It has become a hazard both to traffic and the dust. City MarB ger Tubbs: The county commission sent a grader in and worked the road believing it was in their 'jurisdiction, scraping all the as- phalt off which created the dust problem`. That was when we informed 1� them it^was in. the. City of Dania. We Also had them move barricades • from the road. I contacted Mr. Adler and he has promised to treat the road with a crude oil which will cut down the dust. We have placed some speed limit signs on the road. The Chief of Police and • I have been up there and we are trying to work out something to con- trol the speed. Mr. Todd: We have lived here for ten years and nothing has ever been done with the road. A man in the court house told me the road was • going to be turned over to the property owners. City Manager Tubbs: A private individual cannot acquire public property by eminent domain. The city can put a street across your property and after a number of years it can be designated as a public thoroughfare. • Commissioner Grammer: I agree with this man. Long before I came on this commission I heard this brought up here in meetings. If you are going to use it as a public street it should be fixed or given to the property owners. • Commissioner Thornton: You cannot give a road or street away. It is dedicated to the county for a public street. Mr. Fred Westfall: May I direct some questions to Mr. Walden regard- ing the annexation of the Griffin Road area? I am on the committee about the' annexation and I went to see Easter Gates last Saturday and I called her attention to page 6 of two items regarding the closing of registration being the date this resolution is passed. I notice tonight your report read 30 days before the election date. • Attorney Walden: The city has the right in the process of passing an ordinance on three readings to make changes during that time. At the time of the third reading of the ordinance there were two minor changes made. One was to provide that ad valorem taxes would not start until January 1965. The other was to provide that. the county • registration books would close 30 days before the election. If you have a copy of the proposed or initial ordinance that was passed on first reading, it set up an alternative -- one-- the county would register the people and one-- the city would register the people. We did not know at that time which procedure to use. The Attorney • . General suggested we use the county procedure. At the third reading of the ordinance these two things were corrected. Mr. Westfall: Is it possible to get a copy of the resolution you read tonight? • Attorney Walden: Yes. Mr. Westfall: Another thing I brought up when talking to Mrs. Gates was absentee voting. Are you going to have absentee ballots? Attorney ➢Qalden: No. Mr. Westfall: In other words you are denying a man that goes .to sea the right to vote. He is entitled to vote, I do not see why we should discriminate against him or any one else, this is the first time I ever • heard there was not an absentee ballot. ', r., • . _ is :, • Attorney Walden: I am not going to argue whether it is wise or not, but our charter, which the City of Dania is governed by, has no pro- vision for absentee voting, and my understanding of the law is when- ever absentee voting privileges are given, it is strictly a privilege, • no one has the absolute right to insist upon an absentee ballbt. Mr. Westfall: Parts of the area to be annexed is west of the city limits of Dania and outside precincts 68 and 68A. We will not have the registration books or the names of people outside of these pre- cincts. Will the City of Dania furnish us with a list of the registered voters in the other two precincts? Attorney Walden: It is not up to me to say. Mr. Westfall: According to Easter Gates everything is up to the City • of Dania. Now who are we to believe? Attorney Walden: She is right. The City is the one initatiating the election. Whether the commission wants to make these election lists available or not I do not know. It is not up to me to say. • Mr. Westfall: There will not be absentee ballots, and there will not be a. list of registered voters furnished to us. Can we ask for two poll watchers? We have two precincts and four books. I understand there were five names submitted for election clerks, • Commissioner Tarpley: At the present fime. no one has been appointed. Attorney Walden: You can ask for one poll watcher. I believe the name should be submitted to Mrs. Gates. The City has initiated the election, but as far as the procedure to be followed in the unincorp- orated area, she largely controls the mechanics. Mr. Westfall: She says she has nothing to do with it. She gave me the form they use and said it was up to the city of Dania. • Attorney Walden: I suggest you submit them to the City of Dania. Mr. Westfall: How will the referendum read on the ballot? Attorney Walden: Basically, the ordinance that was passed has a lengthy • title. It is an ordinance annexing the area described. You will vote in favor of or against the ordinance. James Tuten, President, Griffin Civic Association: I would like to y, say that the polling place you picked in the county will not be new to the people in the Stirling Road area. I am surprised you did not have an absentee ballbt. As you said -- it is a privilege and not a demand to have an absentee ballot. We have a few that would like to have an absentee ballot. I would like to suggest if possible, there is a' good group that the county uses and they are very efficient in their job, and you will find them on both sides, if it is necessary to have it that way, to work as election officials. I would like to obtain, a ?` copy of the resolution for the association. 2 1> -12- e ,r` ® Commissioner Tarpley: I understand there are three or four different associations in your area, which one do you represent? Mr. Tuten: I represent the Griffin Civic Association. If there are two or three it is news to me. We have a charter from the State of • Florida. Attorney Walden read a letter from Mr. & Mrs. Alfonso Lamberti regard- ing the serious condition that has arisen around their home near Frost Park with baseball games, noises and bright lights. This is seriously • effecting their health and asked that something be done about it. Chief Smith: I paid a visit to these people about a month ago and assured them that we would do everything possible to keep noises down and cooperate with them. We will try to put more restrictive rules • on the children about running into their yards after balls. I would like to have a chance to see if I can correct the situation. I have every intention to try to help these people. Mrs. Lamberti: We just cannot stand the noise over there any longer. • Mr. Carl Zenobia: We have not had any games over there in ,some time. We do not allow the children to go in the yards to get balls. It is a lot better to have the children play ball than to get into trouble around the city. • Mr. Marino:. We did not have games at night until the county put lights in the park. No one was contacted about it, they just come in and put up the lights without asking any one. It's a shame as they are ruin- ing the whole neighborhood. • Commissioner Young: Approximately one and one-half years ago there was a meeting of the recreation committee and Porter Reynolds. In the discussion we asked him if it would be possible to swing the baseball diamond from the NW and SE to the NE and SW.. The reason we felt was that that the noise would be behind that spot and near the fronton and not the residential area. At that time he said that would completely obstruct the continnuity of future planning for the park. We are all interested in trying to keep every one happy. We want the children to play, and we want the people to have their homes and enjoy them •too. I would like to know if there is a possibility of again considering the relocation of the field. It seems to me the flood lights with a few minor adjustments could give the same effect. Commissioner Thornton: The way the fields are laid out it will not work. You would have to change everything you have. You can only put the football field in one direction. s� Commissioner Young: I do not believe football is the primary concern, I believe it is the baseball field. The back-stop comes right up to the alley. if it were moved it would be less of a nuisance to the neighborhood. The balls do get away from the children and naturally • they are excited and every one yells and has a good time. Both groups concerned are entitled to consideration. A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley to table this discussion and refer it to the recreation committee to make a study and report back " to the commission. The motion was seconded by Commissioner Young, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows:' s -13- Grammer Yes • Tarpley Yes Thornton Yea .Young Yes Hill Yes • Chief Smith: I have had many complaints about the FEC crossing lights at N. W. loth Street. The City has paid their share of the coat of the lights. Mt. Tubbs and I have talked about itand we have a meeting set up for Thursday at 9:00 A. M. _with Mr. Hall of the FEC. I want it in the record of this meeting that'I am asking the commission to back • me in getting something done in taking the necessary steps to get this light working. They have not stopped trains and at times you cannot hear a train when planes are taking off from the airport. It is very necessary that these light s be put into operation. • City Manager Tubbs: We have an agreement with the FEC. They went on strike right after the contract was signed. At this point the city is the only one that has expended any money for the system. There are several phases to be included in the total job. The contract is split three ways. There is the widening of the crossing with turning lanes, which is the county's part. The railroad work consists of putting in switches one-half mile down the track each way. The cost is split three ways also. The FEC maintains that up to this time they have not had any one to do the work due to the strike. They can only do maintenance work on existing installations. I talked to Mr. Hall today and he talked to Mr. Thornton, the Vice President in St. Augustine, and they assured me they would go ahead and get the project finished. They will be here Thursday morning. • Commissioner Thornton: You might remind them that at the meeting of the Mayor's held in Ft. Lauderdale, Mr. Thornton stated that he would do everything in his power, and if necessary, in the city where some- thing should be done toward the cause of safety, he would approve of cities going ahead and doing the work and assessing the railroad for the cost since they did not have the .personnel to do it. You will find that in the minutes of the meeting held at the Governor's Club Hotel. We will gladly obtain the personnel, pay for the work and let them reimburse us. Commissioner Grammer: One of my campaign promises was to issue a free sticker to residents of Dania for parking at the beach, which I think they are entitled to. I would like to have this sticker issued to all the residents..of Dania for $1.00 per year. `+ Commissioner TArpley: How do you propose to handle it? i_. Commissioner Grammer: Let the .city clerk take the voters list and issue a sticker for $1.00 per year. Commissioner Thornton: We reserved a large area for people that did �. not want to pay for parking. City Manager Tubbs: Your contract for the parking meters may prohibit this. -14- Commissioner Grammer: You have one policeman and the maintenance of the beach that is paid for by the taxpayers, not from the parking meters, so why should a person have to pay for parking on his beach? Sixty per- cent of the people that go to the beach are not residents of Dania. You have run Dania residents away from their beach. They go to Holly- wood. Commissioner Young: There is a tremendous area 75 feet from the beach that is absolutely free of charge. The intent of that was that it would be used free of charge by any citizen or taxpayer. In other words, if a person has a family and wants to go to the beach they do not have to pay for parking in this area. Does it hurt any one to walk 75 fett, let's be realistic about it, if they want to save a dime or quarter? commissioner Grammer: We have a lot of retired people here and 150 feet is a great effort for some of them. { Commissioner Young: You have to walk further than that to get to the water. t Commissioner Grammer: A lot of them don't go in the water. They sit in chairs on the beach. f" commissioner Young: The intent was to make it easy for the citizens of Dania if they did not want to pay for parking. Commissioner Tarpley: I think we better check into the contract on the meters before we take any action. � - A motion was made by Commissioner Tarpley that this be tabled until the next meeting and check on the contract with the parking meter company to see if it can be done. The motion was seconded by Com- missioner Thornton, and the "roll being called, the Commissioners di voted as follows: Grammer Yes Tarpley Yes Thornton Yes Young Yes i Hill Yes Commissioner Grammer: I would like to discuss the police cars we are buying. I would like to see two of these cars used in the police de partment and if it is necessary, buy a smaller car for the building inspector. We are taking two of these cars and only giving one back to the police department. We are .going into annexation and we have promised the people more police protection and we are taking "a car rather than adding one to the police department. City Manager Tubbs: You are buying three cars-- one for the city man- ager and two for the police department and you are trading in two cars. . One of the cars will be used by the building inspector during the day- light hours and it sits in the back every night and not used except in the case of an emergency such as when a car breaks down or as an add- itional car on week-ends. Chief Smith: I have a detective now and he is driving his own car. I do not have a car to drive except my personal car. I really need the other car if I can have it. It has come to the point where we have to have another one. -15- 1 Commissioner Tarpley: i agree with the chief. I would like to see the three cars go to the police department for the simple reason they are much better cars, they have automatic transmissions and heavier engines and make much better police cars. As much as they are used they should go to the police department and take one of the old cars for the building inspector. commissioner Grammer: Why can't .you buy a cheaper car for the police department? A motion was made by commissioner Thornton that this be referred to the police and fire committee and let them make a recommendation to sting. The motion was seconded by Com- the commission at the next me missioner Tarpley and carried. Commissioner Grammer: We have a gentlemen that worked for the city for 16 years before I came on the commission and he was not given anything when he left the employ ofthe city, so I have been told. I would like to recommend that a life time admission to the fishing pier be granted to him and his wife for his services to this city for 16 years. This man's name is Mr. Bartlett. I think he is entitled to it. Commissioner Tarpley: There are a lot of things people are entitled to but you just can't give it to them. Commissioner Grammer: There has been a lot of other stuff given to r,.. people around the city that have not put that much time in. Swill make a motion that he and his wife be granted a life time pass to the' fishing pier. Commissioner Tarpley: I think there should be some consideration given this before any action is taken. You are setting a'precedent here. The motion was declared dead for the lack of a second. Commissioner Grammer: We have a petition for paving N. W. 3rd Street. 2 would like to recommend that we advertise for paving N. W. 9th Avenue at the same time. We'may get a better price if you have more work to do. I will make a motion to advertise for objections to. paving N. W. nue, if the N. W. 9th Avenue part fails to 3rd Street and N. W. 9th Ave pass, that we still go ahead with N. W. 3rd Street. Hearing to be held February 3, 1964 at 8:15 P. M. The motion was seconded by Com- missioner Tarpley, and the roll being called, the Commissioners voted as follows: Grammer Yea Tarpley Yea Thornton Yes Young Yes Hill Yes Commissioner Tarpley: I would like to have the street we are going to. pave on the old city hall property dedicated. as S. W. Park Street, and no special assessment for paving. . -16- r r b. \ A O Attorney Walden: it will be necessary to prepare a resolution to dedicate a street. I will bring one to the next meeting. Commissioner Tarpley: Going back to the suit City of Dania vs Houston, Mr. Houston was the man that was the main instigator in writing this city charter. In presenting his case in court against the city in the lease with Mr. Rhodes, he accused the commission at several points of the charter being illegal. He was one of the main ones in getting this charter written. I think the people will be glad to know that the man • that wrote the charter got up and tore it all to pieces and said it was illegal in court. Commissioner Grammer: If Mr. Rhodes sues the city, which he has a per- fect right to, what chance does he have to collect?, Attorney Walden: That would have to be decided in court. Commissioner Young: This afternoon, in pursuit of one of my duties I attended a meeting of the Broward County Erosion Prevention Committee, at the Court House from 2:00 to 4:00 P. M. The purpose of the meeting was strictly organizational for the election of a chairman, etc. We had a few problems and spent. a tremendous amount of time. An informal meeting is scheduled for 1:30 P. M. Thursday and all the city commissioners or councilman are invited to attend and sit in with us if they so desire, to', see what erosion. problems there are throughout the county.. The first area to be investigated will be the county beach near Port Everglades, then Dania, Hollywood and Hallandale. The next will be the north end of the county. Plans, will then be culminated. There are several things I would like to bring. to your attention, such as taxation, etc. It is late; and I will discuss it at a later date. Commissioner Tarpley: We have. our first report on the Human Relations Board. I see one of the members in the audience, I would like to know } if he has anything to say. Chester Byrd: We had a very. good organizational meeting, and we hope { to have something to report after our next meeting. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. Mary Thornhill City Clerk Vera L. Hill Mayor-Commissioner v- -17- �Si: