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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes Council 060172REGULAR MEETING CITY OF PALM BEACH GARDENS JUNE 1, 1972 The Regular 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 CALL: 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. MINUTES: The minutes of the Regular Meeting of May 18, 1972 were unanimously approved on a motion by Councilman Orr seconded by Councilman Dunbar. REPORTS: The monthly reports of the various City Departments for the month of May were approved as follows: Police Department, Public Works Department, Recreation Department, Vehicular Maintenance, Fire and Building Departments. Council extended thanks to the Public Works Department for the excellent trash pick up completed after the flash storm. Fire Chief Summers reported that the fireworks for the 4th of July Celebration were in and being stored at the Fire Station. PUBLIC HEARING: Mayor Wiley declared a Public Hearing to consider a petition from Louis Bills to rezone a parcel of land at the intersection of the Southeast corner of U.S. #1 and PGA Boulevard from C -1 to C -2. He announced that the Planning and Zoning Commission had recommended the Council grant the rezoning as requested based on a convenience factor, and the road will be expanded to more lanes, possibly 6 to 8 lanes in the future and the store existing there now would have to be torn down. Mr. Bills gave the facts and background of the request for petitioning and stated that he requested the rezoning to C -2 to conform with the other three corners, and have all 4 corners equal in their zoning. He informed the Council the existing store would be torn down due to the widening of the road and at the present time there were no definite plans for construction Regular Meeting, 3une t, 1972 Page 2 less traffic than other C -2 uses. Mr. Tony Silva gave a brief resume of the proposed use of the land and he informed the Council that the request has been for the construction of a new car dealership on this parcel. Council directed the City Clerk to advertise the Public Hearing for July 6, 1972 and authorized Attorney Brant to prepare an Ordinance to rezone the parcel to C -2, for first reading on Juthe 15, 1972. LETTER TO Mayor Wiley read a letter which he had written to Dr. Eissey in -� DR. EISSEY: recognition of the Student in Government Day which had been held here at the City Assembly and commended the students. The students were invited to on this corner. He also stated he would like to have a convenience type of service station located on the property, and that construction of the road should have been started 6 months ago but he had been informed by the County the plans were not complete as yet. No objections by the public. No further discussion and Mayor Wiley closed the Public Hearing. ORDINANCE #8- A change of Zoning from C -1 Limited Commercial to C -2 General Commercial as REZONE FOR LOUIS BILLS: petitioned by Louis Bills, was read by the City Clerk on second reading by Title onlyf' motion by Vice Mayor Kiedis, seconded by Councilman DeLonga. Vote 5 ayes and 0 nays. Motion to adopt Ordinance #8 by Vice Mayor Kiedis, seconded by Councilman DeLonga. Vote 5 ayes and 0 nays. Mayor Wiley announced the zoning was approved. PLANNING AND Mayor Wiley read a communication from the Planning and Zoning Commssion ZONING RECTNMENDATION: recommending that the Council consider rezoning a parcel of land located on the Southside of Northlake Boulevard across from MacArthur Boulevard, and west of C -17 Canal in section 19- 42-42; zoning change from R -1 to C -2 as petitioned by Royal American Industries, Inc. The Planning and zoning Commission approved because C -2 zoning was compatible with the existing commercial and industrial zoning of surrounding areas of Northlake Boulevard and a new car dealership would be beneficial to the City and would generate less traffic than other C -2 uses. Mr. Tony Silva gave a brief resume of the proposed use of the land and he informed the Council that the request has been for the construction of a new car dealership on this parcel. Council directed the City Clerk to advertise the Public Hearing for July 6, 1972 and authorized Attorney Brant to prepare an Ordinance to rezone the parcel to C -2, for first reading on Juthe 15, 1972. LETTER TO Mayor Wiley read a letter which he had written to Dr. Eissey in -� DR. EISSEY: recognition of the Student in Government Day which had been held here at the City Assembly and commended the students. The students were invited to / Regular Meeting, June 1, 1972 page 3 hold their Student Council for a week next year. Mayor Wiley also extended thanks to the Department Heads who participated with the students. SCAWAB AND Schwab and Twitty, Architects, presented two progress reports on the TWITTY REPORTS: construction of the Central Fire Station and that everything was on schedule. Consideration was given to the relocation of the Radio Antenna to the Fire Station. Schwab and Twitty, Architects, were not in favor of placing the antenna on the Station. Council was in agreement that the antenna be moved. The reason for placing the antenna on the roof of the fire station was for security and for asthetic reasons to place the guide wires under ground. Motion by Vice Mayor Kiedis, seconded by Councilman DeLonga to direct the Architects, Schwab and Twitty, to coordinate the moving of the communications tower and that it be placed on the roof of the Fire Station during construction. Vote 5 ayes and 0 nays. MARBLE PLAQUES: Council discussed the report of the Architects, Schwab and Twitty on the estimate and the cost for 2 marble plaques for the Central Fire Station. The v estimate was from Lake Worth Monument Company in the amount of $476.00 for lettering and 2 white marble plaques. Council unanimously approved the pro- posed plaque with the list of the 1971 Council (DeLonga, Wiley, James, Orr and Kiedis) and to include Councilman Dunbar, the president of the Volunteer Fire Department and City Manager on the inscription. Motion by Councilman DeLonga seconded by Vice Mayor Kiedis. Mr. Carlson was directed to contact the Architects and inform them to proceed with the plaques. MOVING SIREN: Council gave consideration to not moving the Fire Siren from the old building at 3704 Burns Road to the New Fire Station at 10500 N. Military Trail. Mr. Carlson was directed to check out the contract whether moving the siren is a part of the contract. APPROVAL OF Council considered a change order #2 from Schwab and Twitty in regard to the CHANGE ORDER: elimination of 4 parking spaces and the installation of a sidewalk to the rear of the Fire Station. Motion by Councilman DeLonga seconded by Vice Mayor Kiedis to accept Change Order #2. Vote 5 ayes and 0 nays. Regular Meeting June 1, 1972 Page 4 SHUFFLEBOARD Mr. Munsell, Building Official, and Leonard Devine, Public Works Director, CANOPIES: reported that the construction of the Shuffleboard Canopies is ready to go and will begin on these as soon as labor is available. The new employee just hired by the Recreation Department will be recruited to assist in the construction of the canopies. PAVING BURNS Mr. Carlson reported that he had received word from Mr. Hyman of the County ROAD: EngineerRDepartment that the Signalization of Burns Road will be started immediately, and would probably be completed before the Central Fire Station, Mayor Wiley suggested that the Intersection of Military Trail and Burns Road was in need of repaving. Mr. Carlson stated the request was for resurfacing of Burns Road to the Intersection to include a right turn lane and a left turn stacking lane. Mr. Carlson will review with the County on the original request for the signalization and resurfacing. Recommendations were to move the traffic light at RCA Boulevard and AIA to the Burns Road and Military Trail Intersection and replace the RCA light with a flashing light for AIA. Attorney Brant felt that legally the City could not turn this light off at RCA and AIA without the approval of the State Road Department. SELF SERVICE Mr. Munsell reported that the Self Service Postal Unit slab is being POSTAL UNIT: prepared and all would be in readiness and completed by next week. WORK IN Mr. Carlson reported on the following items of work which will be implemented PROGRESS: Tree trimming would be started as soon as the cab and chassis are received; the Public Works Department and Vehicular Maintenance Department are working on a floor plan for the use of 3704 Bums Road; recommendations are in for street resurfacing of roads as prepared by the Public Works Director, as well as dredging of the Earman River and construction of a hyacinth gate; work order to install the lights on the shuffleboard courts is in; Walkway lights and lights on first floor on the East and West side of City v Hall building will be installed. Regular Meeting June 1, 1972 Page 5 RECREATION Mr. Dukes was admitted to the Hospital today and the report on the 4th of REPORT ON 4TH OF JULY: July program was not complete. Mayor Wiley stated he had invited Mr. John D. MacArthur to participate in the July 4th Celebration and to dedication of MacArthur Boulevard at 9:30 A.M. and to the Fireworks Display in the evening, PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS: DR. JASON Mayor Wiley read communications from Dr. Alan Jason, one regarding signs and MOSQUITOS SIGNS: one regarding mosquitos. Dr. Jason had presented photos of signs and Mr. Carlson was directed to place these on a board prior to the meeting for discussion of the Sign Ordinance for June 8, 1972. Mayor Wiley stated he had written to Dr. Jason acknowledging the letters and informing him of the meeting to discuss the proposed Sign Ordinance on June 8, 1972. Mr. Ferrin of Ferrin Signs, will also present a movie re signs. Councilman DeL onga reported that a resident of the City had notified him that he had contacted a Mr. Day at the County Mosquito Control Office in regards to why the air craft is not spraying. Mr. Day reported that there had not been very many complaints from this area. Mr. Carlson was directed by Councilman DeLonga to send a copy of Dr. Jason's petition on mosquitos to Mr. Day and to include Mr. Day's name and phone number in the Newsletter. Mr. Carlson stated he had no intention of getting into a running verbal battle with Dr. Jason or make any derogative comments but would like to clarify one thing, "Dr. Jason has taken many things out of content. He indicates that he had a conference with me, the conference consisted of a telephone call, in which at that time he asked for certain advice and I gave it to him in which they finally decided that wasn't the way to do it. So really this has been a one man crusade up to this point. He was invited to involve the Council if he thought the Council could be of any assistance to him by my instructing him to write a letter, calling this to the attention of the Council and asking for their concurrance or their assistance in any way. He saw fit not to follow this avenue of approach. I also recommended he contact other people in the area because it is an Regular Meeting June 1, 1972 Page S area problem rather than just the City of Palm Beach Gardens. Some of these items you read in that letter I would deny emphatically, were not as written and as far as I'm concerned he has been conducting a one man crusade and hasn't asked the City to join him except through orb conver- sation over the telephone. I will furnish you with copies of letters he wrote and he also submitted this letter to the Post Times. In fact I did a slight burn today because he accused one of our employees of making certain statements. Mr. Munsell in fact, who will deny this. There were also two proprietors in the Tanglewood commercial area that were misquoted through his actions. I would like to say the inference in the letter seems to be that I had no interest in our mosquito control program or no interest in bringing it to the attention of the Council and I didn't have any interest in carrying his banner. I did advise him on how to get the Council involved but he saw fit not to take that advice." Mr. Carlson informed the Council he had contacted the County Department to submit a written summary of just exactly what the County is doing in response to Dr. Jason's report and had contacted Mr. Lieux, on the State level who has been working on information provided to him by Dr. Jason. This information will be brought before the Council when it is received. ZOOLOGICAL Mayor Wiley acknowledged a letter from the Zoological Society of the Palm SOCIETY: �— Beaches regarding Dreher Park and what they are doing to provide adequate shelter for the animals in the park. He requested that the letter be referred to the Woman's Club of the City and also to the North Palm Beach - Palm Beach Gardens Jaycees, for their consideration. ORDINANCE #9 Ordinance #9 providing for registration of certain persons engaged in ID CARDS: soliciting and peddling, was read by title only by the City Clerk on a motion by Vice Mayor Kiedis seconded by Councilman Dunbar. Vote 5 ayes and 0 nays. Amendments to Section 15 -48 were read. Motion to adopt Ordinance #9 as amended by Councilman DeLouga seconded by Vice Mayor Kiedis. Vote 5 ayes and 0 nays. Regular Meeting June 1, 1972 Page 7 CONTRACT TO Mr. Carlson and Mr. Kuhns recommended that the Council award the contract GRAYBAR ELECTRIC: to Graybar Electric Company for the purchase of electrical equipment and supplies for Plant Drive Baseball lighting in the amount of $3268.53. He explained that Mr. Kuhns of Gee and Jensen was no longer associated with the Company and thanks should be extended to both for their assistance. He stated that Mr. Nihns would still be assisting the City as a consultant until the job is completed. Mr. Carlson explained that the bids were studied with Mr. Kuhns and there were some items not bid and other items were not acceptable and did not meet the specifications. Motion by Councilman DeLonga to award the contract to Graybar Electric Company for the amount of $3268.53 for the purchase of electrical equipment and supplies, seconded by Councilman Dunbar. Approved unanimously. Mr. Carlson and Mr. Kuhns will coordinate the work with Graybar Electric Company. HYDRAULIC LIFT Mr. Carlson and Mr. Speer, Vehicular Maintenance Superintendent recommended BID CONTRACT: that the Council award the bid for the hydraulic lift to Glasgow Equipment Company in the amount of $1757.25, which is in the Vehicular Department Budget. Motion by Councilman Dunbar seconded by Councilman Orr to award the bid to Glasgow Equipment Company as low bidder. Vote 5 ayes and 0 nays. Glasgow Equipment Company have offered that the bid will hold until we want the lift. NEWSLETTER: Council was in accord to have the next Newsletter in the mail by June 23, 1972. FLORIDA EAST Mr. Carlson submitted a bill from the Florida East Coast Railway Company COAST RAILWAY: in the amount of $2411.98 for improvements to the public crossing at PGA Boulevard. Council did not feel this was a City responsibility as it is a County Road. Attorney Brant was instructed to check out the City agreement of July, 1965 with the Florida East Coast Railway and also to see if there was any possibility of the City getting out of this agreement and also seek the assistance of the Public Service Commission. Council deferred any / Regular Meeting June 1, 1972 Page 8 action on the statement until clarification had been received. OCCUPATIONAL Attorney Brant was authorized to prepare an Ordinance on Occupational LICENSES: `r Licenses in order to meet the State requirements. ITEMS BY THE COUNCIL: MEETINGS: Mayor Wiley brought up the article of the Charter in reference to the City Clerk attending meetings and the approval of the minutes by the City Council. lie recommended that all minutes be approved by the Mayor's signature on approval of the Council. These minutes will be submitted at each meeting. Attorney Brant offered that no official action is taken at Workshop Meetings and it would be a policy matter of the Council to act on all minutes. COUNTY Mayor Wiley again commented that the garbage trucks were starting their SANITATION: pick ups prior to 8:00 A.M. and requested that the Sanitation Company be notified. ABANDONMENT OF The City Clerk was instructed to prepare a Resolution to abandon Monet Road. MONET ROAD: MR. MACARTEM : Mayor Wiley stated he had called Mr. John D. MacArthur last Friday and invited him to attend the opening of Plant Drive and requested an appoint- ment to meet, with him to discuss business and had no answer but will try again. COURT RECORDS: Mayor Wiley questioned the use of the Court Records which we pay $40.00 a month, and could we do without these by getting the information elsewhere. The City Clerk was instructed to find a way of obtaining this information, without expending $40.00. VICE MAYOR SIEDIS: Requested that the grass at the waterfalls be cut again as it is over- grown and felt the entrance to MacArthur Boulevard should be kept neat. Mr. Carlson reported that this is being followed up by the Public Works Department. COUNCILMAN Questioned if the report on unsightly conditions of the City will be sent DE LONGA: out and was assured by Mr. Carlson the report will be furnished the Council Regular Meeting June 1, 1972 Page 9 as soon as it is completed. DOORS: He asked if the doors for the Assembly Room were ordered and Mr. Carlson stated he had been in contact with Mr. Desrochers and was informed the doors had been ordered. Council suggested an overhang be considered in order to keep the rains from the new doors, such as a metal canopy. REST ROOMS: Council instructed the Recreation Supervisor to lock the rest room doors on the second floor at the time of the closing of the teen rooms and to be opened again in the morning, and the key would be available for emergency use only. COUNCILMAN Stated he felt the Florida Municipal League Record magazine explained the DUNBAR. distribution of State funds very well. Mayor Wiley still stated he would like to see some recognition that the City's population is in error. Attorney Brant is seeking some breakdown on the 1970 census and will report to Council. THANKS TO Thanks was extended to the Youth Athletic Association for the cooperation YAA: in keeping the grounds at the baseball fields clean and well picked up. MERIT REVIEW: Councilman Dunbar reported that the Merit System Board met on Tuesday, May 31, 1972. The meeting was held to discuss the pension plan for the City employees. He reported that the Board will recommend to the Council that all employees are eligible for the proposed Pension Plan and that new employees serve a probation of 6 months before they can enter into the Pension Plan. ADJOURNMF'dVT: Motion by Councilman Orr, seconded by Vice Mayor Kiedis to adjourn. `1 Timeifo�jthe record 10:48 P.M. .fir\ k �_ • Vt Wal H. i ey, III May r C+ncilman James CF. HeTougA, P Vic�ayor John Kiedis Counci- Yman / GoJohn L. Orr,Jr. V /Goncilman d on J+DunbrJ,,' Thelma Compton, City Clerk