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WORKSHOP MEETING
CITY OF PAIM BEACH GARDENS
August 9, 1971
The City Council met in Workshop session at 8:00 P.M. on August 99 1971 in the
assembly room of the Municipal Complex at 10500 N. Military Trail. Mayor
DeLonga presided and opened the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
ROLL CALL: Roll was called by the City Clerk and present were: Councilman Orr, Councilman
Kiedis, Vice Mayor Wiley and Mayor DeLonga. Attorney Brant was present. Mr.
Carlson and Councilman James were on vacation.
OPENING BIDS. The bids for the tractor and mower, as advertised for the Public Works Dept.
were opened by the City Clerk as follows:
Trail Ford Tractor Co.-- $4753.20, Sunrise Ford Tractor Co, Inc. -- $4797.00,
Hendry Tractor Co. -- $4850.00 and Smitty's Service Shop -- $4720.00. Mayor
DeLonga referred the bids to the City Manager, Robert Carlson and Leonard Devine,
Public Works Director for review and recommendations to the Council.
REPORTS: Council reviewed and discussed the monthly reports for July 1971 as presented
from the Building Department, Public Works Department, Fire Department, Recreation
Department and Police Department. Approved by the Council.
Lt. Nolan of the Police Department reported the organization of the Junior Police
and stated there were 22 members to date. He reviewed the outline of the program
which will be used in teaching the Junior Police.
PRESENTATION City Manager, Robert Carlson, submitted to the Council the 1971 -72 Budget message,
BUDGET MESSAGE:
which was read by the City Clerk as Mr. Carlson was on vacation. Mayor DeLonga
remarked that the presentation seemed to be in line with what Council intended
in doing, such as lowering of the millage due to the reevaluation of the City
by the Palm Beach County Assessors. Council will have a Budget Workshop at the
conclusion of the Regular meeting of August 16, 1971.
CENTRAL r'inE Vice Mayor Wiley reported on the meeting of the Fire Station Committee and stated
STATION
the final plena are being considered with minor alterations suggested. A firm
cost estimate will be presented to the Council for approval within a very short
�. time. He stated also that the bond validation for the General Revenue Bonds
for the fire station and purchase of land, as voted on by the electors, had
been held on Thursday, August 5, 1971 at the Palm Beach County Court House.
He proposed a schedule for October 1, 1971 for start of construction.
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PETITIONS AMID COMMUNICATIONS:
A letter from Stan D. Trahan requesting a street light be placed on the corner
of Hickory Drive leading out to PGA Blvd was referred to the Public Works
Department for a survey of this street and others and recommend to the Council.
MERIT BOARD: Three members of the Merit Board were present and stated their meeting which
was scheduled for this evening had been postponed because, Mr. Larry Hood was
unable to be present. A date will be set for the next meeting. Present were:
David M. Runkel, Albert W. Pollard, Louis F. Oxnevad.
SCHOOL BUSING: Mr. MacIntire, Chairman of the Save Neighborhood Schools organization was present
and distributed handbills to the Council giving notice and inviting everyone
in the Community to attend the Palm Beach County School Board meeting at the
Northshore High School on Wednesday August 11, 1971 at 7:00 P.M. He asked
permission of the Council to have a group of people pass out these handbills
in the City, which was granted.
Mr. Shearin of the Concerned Parents organization asked that anoiice be sent
out to announce that the meeting scheduled for Wednesday at 7:30 was rescheduled
1� for Thursday, 7:30 P.M. at City Assembly room.
ORDINANCES: Ordinance #12 -- Amending Chapter 27-- Swimming Pools and Ordinance #27 -- setting
a schedule for Council meetings were authorized to be placed on second reading
at the Regular Meeting, August 16, 1971.
.RE: LOT MOWING: Mr. Wm. Lanier who is a lot owner in the City protested to the Council because
the City was notifying owners of the charge for mowing of vacant lots and which
cannot be built on at the present time because of the moratorium.
Mr. Lanier: I agree with the Public Works department mowing the lots but as a tax payer I
should get something back for the tax money. We can't build on this lot and I
don't see where this will change. In reality we are getting nothing and it would
appear to me that the City should at least take the responsibility of keeping
these lots mowed.
MAYOR I just talked with our Public Works Director before the meeting about the
DeLonga:
notifications sent to lot owners. There are some areas of the City that are
looking a little shoddy and I would like to get them straightened out. This
was a notification and not a billing and notsne will be billed as a result
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of that first notification letter. From here on in every lot will be
inspected prior to the notice being sent out to them. In regard to your
comment the Council was not too happy about declaring the moratorium and we
are still not and are still hoping that we will get some relief in the not
too distant future. I'm inclined somewhat to agree with your comments.
Perhaps we whould assume a little more of the responsibility in cutting the
lots and in doing things for the people who haven't been able to build.
However, I think quite a bit of the responsibility should fall also upon the
people who own the Utility Co. I was just wondering if anyone has contacted
Mr. MacArthur relative to asking BA -leers Life Co if they would purchase back
the property that was sold by them."
MR. Lanier: "I personally contacted him and the answer was a firm,no.11
Mayor DeLonga: "Do you know if there was any action by a group of the property owners relative
to this subject."
Mr. Lanier: "Not that I know of."
Mayor DeLonga: "I think your request deserves some consideration."
Councilman
"There is only one problem though, how many of the people who own lots would
Kiedis:
want to relinquish them if they could."
Mayor DeLonga:
" I don't know."
Councilman Kiedis:
"You'd have somebody who would say they don't want the lot anymore but how
many of these people would there bet"
Mayor DeLonga:
"I am not exactly sure of the number, but approximately 270 owned by the
MacArthur companies and 70 under private ownership. So there would be 70
people to be contacted or perhaps we should sort of assist them relative to
this lot mowing. The other 270 I am sure we could get them to cooperate,
and cut their own lots.
Councilman Kiedis "How many mowings do you give them a year Leonard ?"
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L. Devine: "Under the program we discussed we propose to start. Here is my feeling on
this if we revoke the billing on the 70 lots, I'm afraid that unless we impose
a charge on these lots, Mr. MacArthur may dump the 270 lots on us to mow free,
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ADJOURNMENT: Motion for adjournment made and seconded and meeting adjourned at 10:25 P.M.
Mayor DeLonga Councilman James
Vice Mayor Wiley Councilman Orr
Councilman Kiedis
fi. Compton, City Clerk
that is if we attempt to set up a free program and that would cost us a lot
more than what it will cost each one of us to pay now."
%Layor DeLonga:
"They have been fairly diligent about coming over to mow when they are
requested, haven't they ?"
L. Devine:
"That's right."
Mr. Lanier:
"As a taxpayer, the money that I pay in each year should entitle me to something."
Mayor DeLonga:
"We'll see if we can help out a little in this regard."
SIGN ORDINANCE:
Council reviewed and discussed the Sign Ordinance for revision and amendment.
Mr. Dave Runkel, Advertisement Manager for Community Federal, offered to prepare
a review made through various Sign Companies as to their specifications and
present them to the Council. Mr. Munsell, Building Official, was directed
to research other municipalities as to their sign regulations and to review
the present City ordinance and make recommendations to Attorney Brant for
the preparation of an ordinance for amendments.
RECOWENDATIONS
AND DISCUSSION BY MAYOR AND COUNCIL
CITY EMBLEM:
Mayor DeLonga stated he had been contacted by the Garden Lane Restaurant
who requested use of the City Emblem for their menus. Council was not in favor
and agreed that the restaurant submit an idea of what they would use and
Council would reconsider their request.
FIRE HYDRANT:
Mayor DeLonga announced that he had an article from the Post Times which stated
that the City was being sued for $38,000 for fire hydrant rental by Palm Beach
County Utility Co. The City Clerk reported that a billing in the amount of
$38,690 for hydrant rental had been received August 9, 1971,due for 1967 through
1970.
ADJOURNMENT: Motion for adjournment made and seconded and meeting adjourned at 10:25 P.M.
Mayor DeLonga Councilman James
Vice Mayor Wiley Councilman Orr
Councilman Kiedis
fi. Compton, City Clerk