HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Council 041372WORKSHOP MEETING
CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS
APRIL 13, 1972
The Workshop Meeting of the City of Palm Beach Gardens was called to
order by Mayor Wiley at 8 :00 P.M. The meeting was held at 10500 N.
Military Trail in the Assembly Room and opened with the Pledge of
Allegiance to the flag.
ROLL CAUL: Roll was called by the City Clerk and present were: Councilman DeLonga,
Councilman Orr, Councilman Dunbar, Vice Mayor Kiedis and Mayor Wiley.
Mr. Carlson, City Manager and Attorney Brant attended.
PALM BEACH Mr. John Ford and a member of the Palm Beach County Charter Commission
COUNTY CHARTER
COMMISSION: presented the proposed charter for the County and held a question and
answer period for the Council and audience. He also invited everyone
to attend a meeting for those in favor of the Charter called, "Taxpayers
for the Charter" which will be held on Wednesday night in the City
Commission room in West Palm Beach. A chairman will be elected at this
meeting. The Charter will go up for voter referendum on May 23, 1972.
Mayor Wiley extended the Council's appreciation for the presentation.
ORDINANCES: Ordinance #7 - Granting conditional use of mobile home trailers for
security purposes which was read on first reading on April 6, 1972 will
be placed on second reading on April 20, 1972.
Discussion of proposed ordinance regulating solicitors and peddlers
and requiring Identification Cards for persons employed in certain
occupations was tabled to Workshop Meeting, April 27, 1972.
KASSUBA CORP. Council discussed briefly a petition for a change of zoning by the
Kassuba Corp. Attorney Brant was instructed to prepare an Ordinance to
grant a change of zoning to be read at the Regular Meeting, April 20,
1972, first reading. The Public Hearing was scheduled for May 4, 1972
at 8 :00 P.M. with the second reading at the Regular Meeting of May 4,
1972. Mayor Wiley instructed the City Clerk to invite the Chairman of
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the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Chairman of the Zoning Board
of Appeals.
RECOMMENDATIONS Mr. Carlson submitted a summary of the bids for electrical supplies
�. ON BALL PARK
LIGHTS: and equipment, concrete lighting poles and the pole top lighting
platforms for the Plant Drive Baseball Field. These bids had been
reviewed by the Electrical Engineer Gee and Jensen, who submitted
recommendations to Mr. Carlson and they jointly recommend the following:
1. Graybar Electric, Inc., West Palm Beach, be awarded a contract for
the purchase by the City of 142 Landmark, 1500 watt Quartz fixtures,
for their low bid of $29896988 (lamps not included)
2. Service Equipment Company, West Palm Beach, be awarded a contract
to fabricate 2 15 -ft 6 -in. x 54-in. Pole Top Lighting Platforms and
6 11 -ft 6 -in. x 54 -in. Pole Top Lighting Platforms for their low
bid amount of $30460.00; award to be conditional upon the contractor
furnishing the City with Shop Drawings and to include delivery to
�.s the site.
3. Southeastern Prestressed Concrete, Inc., be awarded the contract
for the purchase by the City of Palm Beach Gardens of eight (8)
80 -ft. reinforced concrete poles, delivered to the job site with
one (1) hour free unloading time for the low bid amount of $11,450.
demurrage rate time $11.50 per hour, per truck additional; award
conditional upon the contractor furnishing the City of Palm Beach
Gardens with Shop Drawings.
Action on the awarding of the bids will be taken at the Regular Meeting
of April 20, 1972.
REVISED Capital Improvements Account #01 -600 was reviewed and Mr. Carlson
BUDGET:
informed the Council that he would be preparing a revised budget
around the first of June for Council's consideration.
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MERIT Council discussed the policy in awarding of the annual Merit increases
INCREASES:
to the City's employees. Mr. Carlson presented a summary of the ratings
of the Employee Review Forms as submitted by the Department heads. Mr.
Sam Brown, Chairman of the Merit System Board, recommended to the
Council that the recommendations as presented by Mr. Carlson be adopted
for the present year and he stated the Merit Board was in agreement.
Mayor Wiley stated the intent of the Council was to create a fund and
the City Manager was to expend 99% of the fund to the employees on
Merit Increase. He recommended that raises be somewhat proportional
between departments and no raise shall take a person out of the current
range level.
Council recommended that Mr. Carlson review the Employee forms and
submit this in form of a report for review and comments next week.
The report will be sent to Councilfor study.
RECOMMENDATIONS BY COUNCIL AND MAYOR:
Mayor Wiley: Mayor Wiley announced the Youth Athletic Association will hold a
meeting Tuesday, April 18, 1972 and he will represent the City to
receive a donation of $3000.00 from the Association.
Resolution naming Garden Boulevard as Mac Arthur Boulevard will be read
at April 20 Meeting.
He announced that the Fire Station construction was progressing very
well. The Volunteer Fire Department met Tuesday and discussed the
Fire Works display and estimated the cost at approximately $1200.00.
He asked Council to decide when they would like to celebrate the 4th of
July. Councilman DeLonga will be in charge of the celebration.
Acknowledgement was made of the letter from Mr. Larry Lukin of the
Palm Beach County Health Department regarding the sewage system and the
anticipated addition to the Hospital.
He stated he had been in conference with Mr. John D. MacArthur who had
suggested that the City get out of the moratorium and asked that the
Council think on this.
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Mr. MacArthur stated he would be delighted to attend the organization
dinner on Monday, April 17, 1972 and will let us know. Mr. MacArthur
will also attend the Florida Bowmans Target Tournament and receive an
award from them.
Mayor Wiley announced that Mr. Gilchrist from the Cable TV Company will
be present to discuss with the subscribers to Cable TV their various
problems. Mr. Haythorne, Mr. Edwards- 622 -1900, the Tavern, George
Blanck and Gus Anderson will be extended special invitations.
Mayor Wiley designated those members of the Council who will represent
the City at the Advisory Board Meetings as follows;
Mayor Wiley - Ordinance Review Board, Fire Station Steering Committee
Councilman Dunbar - Zoning Board of Appeals, Merit Board
Vice Mayor Kiedis - planning and Zoning Commission
Councilman Orr - Recreation Advisory Board, Beautification Committee
Councilman DeLonga - 4th of July Ceremony, Junior Police, Police Dept.
and Fire Department.
Weekly calendar of events to be sent out.
Mr. Carlson reported on the status of the tax collections as reported
by the City Clerk and stated collections were good and there were
approximately $7600.00 of uncollected taxes, which is a differnece of
$2274.00 from our figures. This was due to the reduction of the roll
by approximately $600,000. more or less.
ADJOURNMENT. No further business. Motion for adjournment by Councilman DeLonga,
seconded by Councilman Orr. Time for record 11;00 P.M.
Thelma Compton,City Clerk