HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Reorganization meeting 040672REORGANIZATION MEETING
CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS
April 6, 1972
The City Council of Palm Beach Gardens met in the Assembly Room at 10500 N.
Military Trail on April 6, 1972 at 8:00 P.M. to reorganize the Council as a
result of the General Election of March 21, 1972. The meeting was called to
order by Mayor DeLonga and opened with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
ROLL CALL:
Roll was called by the City Clerk and present were: Councilman James, Councilman
Orr, Councilman Kiedis, Vice Mayor Wiley and Mayor DeLonga. Mr. Carlson and
Attorney Brant were present.
OATHS OF
Oaths of office were administered by the City Clerk to the following elected
OFFICE:
officials: James C. DeLonga, Walter H. Wiley,III and Gordon J. Dunbar, Jr.
Congratulations were offered and Councilman James relinquished his seat at the
council table to Gordon J. Dunbar, Jr. as the newly elected Councilman.
MAYOR DELONGA:
Mayor DeLonga expressed thanks to E. Craig James in behalf of the City Council
and for the City and presented him with an engraved plaque in appreciation for
his generous and outstanding service to the City, stating it had been a real
pleasure working with him and that he would look forward to working with him
in the future. Mr. James remarked that the plaque was beautiful and expressed
his thanks to everybody and that it had been great and offered congratulations
to Gordon J. Dunbar, Jr.
APPOINTMENT OF
Mayor DeLonga relinquished the gavel to Vice Mayor Wiley to remark that:
MAYOR & VICE:
"Throughout the past two years I have maintained that we have had a very
harmonious and talented Council and I believe that each member of the Council
who is willing and has the time should be given the opportunity to further
develop these talents. In keeping with this philosophy,because I would like to
devote more time to my family, I would like to nominate for the position of
Mayor, a man who has devoted himself unselfishly for the betterment of our
Community, my friend, Vice Mayor Walter H. Wiley. Councilman Orr moved that
nominations close, seconded by Councilman Kiedis and unanimously approved. Vice
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Mayor Wiley expressed his profound thanks for the comments and to the Council
for their vote of confidence. He then asked for nominations for Vice Mayor.
Councilman Orr nominated John Kiedis. Nominations closed on a motion by b¢ayor
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DeLonga and seconded by Councilman Dunbar; unanimously approved.
NOMINATIONS FOR Councilman Orr nominated Gordon J. Dunbar, jr. as deputy treasurer. Motion
DLYUTY TREAS.:
that nominations close by Mayor DeLonga seconded by Councilman Kiedis and
unanimously approved.
RESOLUTION #16 Resolution 16, appointing Walter H. Wiley, III, Mayor and John Kiedis as Vice
APPOINT MAYOR &
VICE MAYOR: Mayor was read by the City Clerk and unanimously adopted on a motion by Councilman
DeLonga seconded by Councilman Orr; unanimously approved.
RESOLUTION #17 Resolution #17, appointing Councilman Gordon J. Dunbar, Jr. as Deputy Treasurer
APPOINT DEPUTY
TREASURER: and designating signatures for the various aaccounts of the City and authorizing
those persons to open the safety deposit box was read by the City Clerk and
unanimously adopted on a motion by Councilman Dunbar seconded by Vice Mayor Kiedis.
REMARKS BY "I would like to recognize two special guests we have in the audience. The first
MAYOR WILEY:
one I'd like to recognize is the fourth Mayor of the City, Mr. George Bonner
and the next man is the Mayor just preceding past -Mayor DeLonga,who had to resign
to become a member of the Palm Beach County School Board, Mr. George Blanck.
When we came to this Council two years ago the efforts of both George's and the
other Mayors and Councils had brought this City quite a ways and I feel that in
the time that Jim DeLonga has been Mayor and,incidently, there is only one man who
served a longer time and that was Bob Diamond and that is a matter of weeks apart
in their service to the City. We've come a long way due in a large part to the
personal efforts of Jim DeLonga and I would like to recognize those efforts now.
We had open disagreement with Mr. John D. MacArthur, our founder; we had a lot of
things in the City that needed correcting. We haven't been able to correct a lot
of them but have taken tremendous strides towards corrections. We invited Mr.
John D. MacArthur to come to our Council meeting primarily through the efforts of
Jim DeLonga. We made him honorary Mayor; we've extracted promises from him to fix
the sewer plant, to give us the water and sewer connections we needed here at the
City Hall. All of which I don't think could have been brought about except for
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the manner in which Jim conducted himself as Mayor in which he represented the
City. I think he did an outstanding job and I know I'm going to have an awful
hard job filling his shoes and I am extremely greatful that he is going to be here
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on the Council working with us. It will make the job a lot easier because we'll
have double punch, so to speak. So, Jim in behalf of the City,l would like to
thank you for your efforts and congratulate you on the fine job you have done
and look forward to more of the very same thing."
No further business and motion to adjourn by Councilman DeLonga, seconded by
Councilman Orr.
Mayor Warter H. Wiley,III ,
Vice Mayor John Kiedis
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Thelma Compton, -tity Clerk
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_ o c'loran Ja s De on`a
Cou iman, John L. Orr, Jr.
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Councilman, Gdon J. Dunba Jr.