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NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING
CITY COUNCIL OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA
There will be a Special Meeting of the City Council on
Wednesday, February 19, 1992 at 1:00 p.m. in Conference Room
#1 of City Hall, 7525 NW 88 Avenue, Tamarac, Florida.
The purpose of this meeting is:
1. MOTION TO ADOPT Tema. Reso. #6219 approving the agree-
ment between the City of Tamarac and the Joint Group of
Cities Recycling Agreement and All Service Refuse
Company, Inc.
FINAL ACTION: RESOLUTION NO. R--92-22 PASSED.
APPROVED.
2. MOTION TO APPROVE a waiver to Section 10-128(1) of the
City Code to allow a building permit to be issued before
the required fire hydrant is in place as required and
shown on the site plan for JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, KINGDOM
HALL, 5811 NW 88 Avenue.
FINAL ACTION:
APPROVED with a 90 day timeframe and the City Manager is to
be notified if there are problems. This will be monitored by
the Fire Department and the Building Department.
3. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION - Any member of the public may
speak to any issue which is not agendized for public
hearing at this meeting. Speakers will be limited to
three minutes during this item and at public hearings.
There will be a thirty (30) minute aggregate time limit
for this item, and speakers are encouraged to sign up in
advance with the City Clerk prior to their participa-
tion.
The City Council may consider and act upon such other busi-
ness as may come before it. In the event this agenda must be
revised, such revised copies will be available to the public
at the City Council meeting.
CAE/pm
Carol A. Evans
City Clerk
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CITY OF TAMARAC
CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1992
Tape 1
CALL TO ORDER Mayor Abramowitz called the City Council Special meeting
to order at 1:30 P.M. in Conference Room #1, City Hall.
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND MOMENT OF MEDITATION : Mayor Abramowitz called
for t e Pledge of Allegiance and a Moment o Meditation.
PRESENT :
Mayor Norman Abramowitz
Vice -Mayor Dr. H. Larry Bender
Councilwoman Diane Glasser
Councilman Henry Schumann
Councilman Irving Katz
ALSO PRESENT :
John P. Kelly, City Manager
Mitchell S. Kraft, City Attorney
Dan Wood, Chief Building Official
David Viele, Fire Inspector
Patricia Marcurio, Office Manager, City Clerk's Office
Phyllis Polikoff, Secretary
2. MOTION TO APPROVE a waiver to Section 10-128(1) of the City Code to
aIlow a building permit to be issued before. the fire.hydrant is in
Place as required and shown on the site plan for JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
KINGDOM HALL, 5811 Northwest 88th Avenue.
OPSIS OF ACTION
APPROVED
City Manager Kelly said the Code did not allow the Chief Building Official
or Fire Department to provide a waiver and only the Council could grant
the waiver. He said in order to proceed, the fire hydrant had to be
relocated to the other side of the street and the cost would be split
between the Jehovah's Witnesses and the City.
Mr. Kelly said the application was not processed in a timely manner to
Broward County and the Chief Building Official and the Fire Department
indicated the conditions outlined by the Jehovah's Witnesses were
acceptable.
Mr. Kelly said the application was submitted to Broward County and it
would probably be about 30 days before the application was processed.
Dan Wood, Chief Building Official, said the Fire Department would be doing
a periodic surveillance to make sure the limit of combustibles did not
exceed the Fire Department's guidelines of what might create a hazardous
condition.
David Viele, Fire Inspector, said Mr. Mackey would advise when he would
start welding, etc., and the Fire Department indicated they wanted to
stand by.
C/M Katz said he had some concerns and there were some things he insisted
on:
1) The ceiling should not be closed in until proper protection was
afforded.
2) He did not care if the studs were metal or something else.
3) He said no wood construction until the Jehovah's Witnesses had
proper protection.
4) The Jehovah's Witnesses had proper storage facilities.
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C/M Katz said he discussed his concerns with Mr. Wood and Mr. Budzinski
who agreed. He said the contractor, and not the City, should pay the
bill for stand by duty.
C/W Glasser asked if the fire hydrant on the east side of the street
would be relocated to the west side and Mr. Kelly said there would be two
hydrants.
Mayor .Abramowitz said one reason the hydrant was being relocated was if
there was a fire the traffic would have to be stopped in order to run the
hose and Mr. Kelly said he agreed.
Mayor Abramowitz asked if there was a problem temporarily running a hose
across the road and Mr. Viele said, no. Mr. Viele replied there was no
problem for 90 days with the Jehovah's Witnesses getting a Building
Permit to start construction with the: temporary hydrant.
Mayor Abramowitz said he understood C/M Katz's concerns and he would not
support something the Fire Department rejected.
Mayor Abramowitz asked if anyone was living in the old City Hall or would
anybody live there until Kingdom Hall was completed and the applicant
said, no.
C/M Schumann asked if a tunnel would be cut in the road for the hose and
the applicant said, yes. C/M Schumann asked about the traffic problem
and the applicant said traffic would first be blocked on one side and
routed to the other side.
C/W Glasser asked how long the road would be blocked and the applicant
said a maximum of 10 days.
* C/W Glasser MOVED to approve the waiver without any conditions based on
the report given by the Fire Department and the Chief Building Official,
SECONDED by V/M Bender.
C/M Schumann said he thought the permit should be issued before the
hydrant was relocated and Mayor Abramowitz said the application had not
yet been submitted to Broward County.
C/M Katz asked if there was a time limit and Mayor Abramowitz requested
Mr. Wood and Mr. Viele to advise Mr. Kelly if there were any delays. He
said the time limit would be 90 days from today.
VOTE : ALL VOTED AYE
1. MOTION TO ADOPT Tem . Reso. #6219 approving the agreement between the
City of Tamarac and the Joint Group of Cities Recycling Agreement and
All Service Refuse Company, Inc.
SYNOPSIS OF ACTION
APPROVED
Mr. Kelly said the City finally came to an agreement which had been
approved by the Cities of Coconut Creek and Lauderhill. He said the
agreement was waiting for approval from the Cities of North Lauderdale and
Margate.
Mr. Kelly said the agreement was between the City and All Service Refus
Company, Inc., and the expiration date is December 18, 1994. He said th
date could be extended to June 15, 1995.
Mr. Kelly said the service was for single-family units at an additional
cost of 60 cents. He said it covered clear glass and aluminum in addition
to the newspapers. He said the service for multi -family units was an
additional cost of 57 cents or 54 cents, according to the contract, and
covered newspapers and aluminum cans.
Mr. Kelly said the definitive cost would be determined when the
participants agreed on what the residents would be charged. He said there
was discussions about charging 60 cents to 65 cents for the multi -family
units and Tamarac had considered additional pennies to cover any
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replacement costs for lost or stolen containers and the extra pennies
would go into a reserve fund. He said nothing had been finalized yet.
Mr. Kelly said if approved by Council, All Service Refuse Company, Inc.,
will be paid 57 cents. He said if the City provided an additional
recycling truck, the cost would be reduced to 54 cents.
Mr. elly said there would be 40 cubic yard roll -off containers at several
loca ions in the City. He said these containers, at the contractor's
expe.se, would hold clear glass, amber glass, green glass and mixed
plas ics. He said aluminum cans and newspapers would be held in
containers at all City owned facilities.
Mr. Kelly said the pages 22 and 23 of Appendix A pertained to Tamarac and
they were sent to the Council today and indicated where the containers
would be located. He said the locations were at the Public Services
Complex on Nob Hill Road, City Hall, at both Fire Stations and at Tamarac
Park on University Drive.
Mayor Abramowitz asked if containers would be placed at the Multi -Purpose
Center, the ball park and at Tract 27 and Mr. Kelly said there would not
be any at Tract 27.
C/W Glasser said containers should be placed in the area of Tamarac Lakes
North and South and the Boulevards and Mayor Abramowitz said he agreed.
Mayor Abramowitz said he did not want to see any area left out of the
recycling container locations. He said five facilities were identified
but facilities for Tamarac Lakes North and South and the Boulevards were
not.
C/W Glasser asked if there was a passive park east of State Road 7 and Mr.
Kelly said yes. He referred to the park near Prospect Road and said there
were two potential areas, one of which was Caporella Park. He said
Caporella Park was more centrally situated for a container.
Mayor Abramowitz asked what containers would be put at Tamarac Lakes North
and South and the Boulevards. Mr. Kelly said the drop-off points covered
everybody.
Mr. Kelly said it would be advantageous for the City to have the sixth
container at Caporella Park.
Harold Carter, All Service Refuse Company, Inc., said Page 4(b), Section
D, covered the scope of services and the drop-off points. He said the 90
gallon carts would be put at the designated locations and one 40 cubic
yard roll -off would be provided and it would be put at a designated site
for the other items. He said the 90 gallon carts would be for newspapers
and aluminum cans.
Mr. Carter said one potential problem that Council should be aware of was
contamination. He said there seemed to be a contamination problem with
containers at ball parks due to the refuse left by teenagers and that
Council might want to take this into consideration when they made their
decision. C/W Glasser said in her opinion, a container at Tamarac Park
was not a good idea and Mayor Abramowitz said they used a lot of aluminum
cans there because it was an active place.
C/W Glasser said the discussion was on drop-off points and Mayor
Abramowitz asked what kind of container would be there for aluminum cans.
Mr. Kelly said there would be containers for newspapers and aluminum cans
and Mayor Abramowitz said there was a difference between a drop-off point
and a stationary point.
Mr. Carter said he would not have igloo -shaped containers but he would use
90 gallon to 100 gallon mobile carts and each drop-off center would have
one 40 cubic yard roll -off box in each City. He said there would be
service -to -City facilities which were the 90 gallon mobile carts to hold
newspapers and aluminum cans, etc.
Mr. Carter said this service was in the agreement to cover every facility
and all City facilities would have recycling abilities.
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C/M Katz said the dumpsters would be for recyclable materials such as
plas ics and which to -date were not being picked up. He said glass was
not teing picked up at single-family homes and a method would have to be
implemented where glass, which was not part of the agreement, would be
picked up. Mayor Abramowitz said he disagreed because there would be one
very large facility in each City for the recyclable materials which were
not being picked up.
Mayor Abramowitz said putting one facility in one area would not guarantee
that all the citizens from the City would put their recyclable materials
there.
Mayor Abramowitz said Tamarac Park was probably the busiest location and
had the most traffic and a container would be put there for recyclable
materials from Tamarac Park. He said C/M Katz was of the opinion that
single-family home owners would put recyclable materials there which were
not being picked up.
C/M Katz said it did not seem feasible to put a dumpster for certain
recyclable materials if the same materials were being picked up on a
regular basis and C/M Schumann asked how the City could get people to take
recyclable materials to a dumpster.
C/M Katz suggested having a container at Tamarac Park just for aluminum
cans and Mayor Abramowitz said he agreed.
C/M Katz said there was a difference between a large dumpster and a small
container and Mayor Abramowitz state that All Service Refuse Company will
provide one large dumpster for each City.
C/W Glasser asked where the large dumpster would be placed and Mayor
Abramowitz replied it would be anywhere the Council wanted it. He said
every single-family home would get one container to hold aluminum cans and
newspaper. Mr. Kelly said the additional container would hold clear glas
and aluminium.
Mayor Abramowitz said All Service Refuse company would place a container
in a strategic place at a multi -family unit to do the same thing as the
single-family homes and Mr. Kelly said he disagreed. Mr. Kelly said the
container at the multi -family units would hold newspaper and clear glass.
C/M Schumann asked who would move the containers to the collection points
and Mayor Abramowitz said, All Service Refuse Company.
C/M Schumann asked where the containers would be placed at multi -family
units and Mr. Carter said the agreement indicated they would be in the
same room or next to the garbage container. He said multi -family units
were handled this way throughout Broward County and the State. He said
his vehicles would take it from there to his trucks.
Mayor Abramowitz said there were no pick-ups at the multi -family units of
glass.
C/M Schumann asked who picked up the newspapers on Monday and Mr. Kelly
said this was a separate contract. Mayor Abramowitz said the City took
care of the multi -family units.
Mr. Kelly said Mr. Carter's contract covered single and multi-famil
units.
Mr. Carter said garbage, old newspapers, aluminum beverage cans, and clea
glass would be picked up at curbside on one day. He said garbage, old
newspapers and aluminum beverage cans would be picked up at the
condominiums and multi -family units.
Mr. Carter said the State provided Grants to the City for recycling carts
or collection equipment and he will. provide other collection equipment.
He said his Company would charge either 54 cents if the Cities decided to
add the third collection truck from the Grant Fund or the charge would be
57 cents if he added the third vehicle.
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Mr. Carter said each individual City would have a 40 yard roll -off box for
cleat glass, amber glass and qreen glass and mixed elastic_
C/M Schumann asked who filled up the 40 yard roll -off box and Mr. Carter
said some commercial customers and some residents. He said the City would
have a 40 gallon cart at a designated facility to pick-up clear glass,,
aluminum beverage cans and old newspaper. He said no other material w4s
identified for the 90 gallon carts at. the City's facility.
C/M Schumann asked if he could put another color of glass into his garbage
bag and Mr. Kelly said, yes.
Mr. Carter said temporarily, there was a limit on how much the recycling
program could do while waiting on a decision for Materials Reprocessing
Facility (MRF). He said when a comingled MRF was available in Broward
County, all three colors of glass and and mixed plastic could also be
added in a cart presently being used at condominiums for aluminum beverage
cans. He said currently, they were separated at the collection point. Mr.
Carter said Broward County recently put out an RFP for a comingled MRF and
a real MRF was to be available in one year.
Mr. Carter said two contractors were interested in the City's recycling
program and were actively recycling. He said both could expand.
Mayor Abramowitz asked when the contract with Waste Management expired and
Mr. kelly said it dovetailed with the proposed agreement with All Service
Refuse Co.
Mayor Abramowitz said Broward County would not take any money away from
any City which did not sign the agreement with All Service Refuse Co. but
that city would lose its Grant.
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C/M Schumann said there would be a pick-up for newspaper, a pick-up for
garbage and a pick-up for aluminum cans and glass.
Mayor Abramowitz asked if an MRF was in the process of being built and Mr.
Carter said, yes, and the location had already been selected and he
received approval from the City of Fort Lauderdale. He said he could not
do anything about a comingled MRF until he knew how the MRF would be
funded.
Mr. Carter said he could not compete if Broward County charged each city
extra tipping fees to pay for the processing of an MRF but he could
compete if Broward County found other revenues which did not come from the
cities who did not participate.
Mr. Carter said his trucks would not be in the way of the other trucks
which also picked up on the same day.
C/M Katz said the 40 yard dumpster would accommodate the materials which
were not picked up by the truck.
Mayor Abramowitz asked what would be put in the container at Tamarac Park
and Mr. Kelly said aluminum cans and newspapers.
C/M Katz said the dumpster would be in specific areas where certain types
of recyclables were not picked up. Mr. Kelly said in lieu of Fire Station
#1 on Pine Island Road, the dumpster should be at Caporella Park and Mayor
Abramowitz asked that the dumpsters be strategically placed.
Mayor Abramowitz asked if a designated area could be changed if it was
found not to be heavily trafficked and Mr. Carter said he had no problem
with this. Mr. Carter said there was no additional charge to change a
location but asked to be notified when the 40-yard roll -off was full and
he would take it to a new location; Mr. Kelly said he agreed.
Mr. Carter said handouts or brochures would be given out by the Recycling
Committee when the bins were delivered to the single-family homes and
arrangements were being made to communicate with the representative at the
multi -family dwellings.
Mr. Carter said brochures were handed out to the Cities of Sunrise, Fort
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Lauderdale, Deerfield Beach and Unincorporated Broward
there was a kink in the system. He said a sticker was
if there was a continuing problem and the appropriate
contact person at a multi -family dwelling.
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there was a recurring problem.
C/W Glasser asked if there were any video tapes which could be given to a
condominium association and Mr. Carter said he did not know of a specific
tape. He said Broward County had a. series of tapes from their library.
She asked if Mr. Carter would be willing to speak to a condominium if
there were any problems and he said, yes.
Mr. Kelly said the hours of operation throughout the program were from
7:00 A.M. through 7:00 P.M. and Mr. Carter will be advised the 'City's
hours of operation would be 8:00.
C/W Glasser asked if pick-up service was the same day as newspaper pick-up
and Mr. Carter said, yes, at the single-family homes, and All Service
would pick-up. He said All Service Refuse Co. was in the process of
setting up routes to coincide with the other pick-ups.
C/M Katz said he would like to get started with making contacts at each
condominium so a committee could be formed because he did not know if
everything could be accomplished in the 45 days allowed by the contract.
Mr. Kelly suggested that he could coordinate this with Dina McDermott and
the 45 days was when the contract was fully signed by all interested
parties. Mr. Kelly said North Lauderdale and Margate's agreement with All
Service Refuse Co. was by ordinance.
Mr. Kelly said the City of Margate had a serious problem with an Inter --
local agreement which was addressed by Margate's City Attorney Steinfeld.
He said Attorney Steinfeld stated the agreement with All Service Refuse
Co. could stand alone and separate from the Inter -local agreement.
C/W Glasser asked what would happen if the Cities of Margate and North
Lauderdale did not sign the agreement and Mr. Carter advised that Tamarac
could go it alone and he would look at the equipment and down -size the
expense accordingly.
V/M Bender MOVED to ADOPT Temp. Reso. #6219 , SECONDED by C/M Schumann.
VOTE : ALL VOTED AYE
Mr. Kelly asked if Mr. Carter agreed to drop Fire Station #1 and
substitute Caporella Park and Mr. Carter said, yes.
Mayor Abramowitz said there had not been any Parks and Recreation meetings
for a while and C/M Schumann said two people resigned and the openings had
not been filled. He said the Chairperson did not attend two or three
meetings and many times they did not have enough members to have a quorum.
Mayor Abramowitz said the President of T.A.F. had submitted an application
and C/M Schumann said several other people had submitted applications.
C/W Glasser said there were four or five openings on the Consumer Affairs
Board and C/M Schumann said the insurance Advisory Board also had two
vacancies. Mayor Abramowitz asked Mr. Kelly to agendize all three matters
for the.next Council meeting.
Mayor Abramowitz said he would ask his Legislative Aide to compile all the
applications and an announcement will be put in the next Tam -A -Gram and
C/M Katz suggested putting a notice on Channel 19 instead of waiting for
the Tam -A -Gram.
Mr. Kelly said Chairman Assenzio of the Insurance Advisory Board had found
it very difficult to get a quorum and this was agendized for the next
Council meeting of February 26. C/W Glasser said she wanted to see a few
Boards filled and wanted to address all the Boards that had openings at
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the same time.
Mayor Abramowitz said there was a carnival, in the City of Sunrise which
resulted in many problems regarding security. He asked what the Code
indicated regarding carnivals and the number of hours there had to be
security on the premises.
Mr. Kelly said Capt. Goldstein from the Tamarac Broward Sheriff's Office
was waiting for a legal opinion from his counsel to provide security to
the carnival in Tamarac. He said Capt. Goldstein had reservations about
signing off on the approval sheet.
Mr. Kelly said he signed off with the indication that he opposed the
carnival. He said Capt. Goldstein was concerned about the liability and
BSO should be providing security. C/M Schumann asked if any BSO personnel
were taken away from their duties and Mr. Kelly said, no.
Mayor Abramowitz again asked about the Code and Mr. Kelly said he would
check it out.
V/M Bender said the City would have something to worry about if a carnival
only had security during the hours they were operating and this matter
should be revisited. C/W Glasser said some Ordinances should be written
which would address the problem of security in the future.
Mayor Abramowitz ADJOURNED the Special Meeting at 2:10 P.M.
CAROL A. EVANS
CITY CLERK
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NORMAN ABRAMOWITZ
MAYOR
CITY OF TA►MARAC
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