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Home My WebLink About1993-12-27 - City Commission Special Meeting MinutesCity Council Special Meeting 12/27/93/KJ Page 1 CITY OF TAMARAC CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1993 ORDER. Mayor Bender called this meeting to order on Monday, December 27, 1993 at 10:00 a.m. in Conference Room #1 of City Hall. PRESENT• Mayor H. Larry Bender Vice Mayor Irving Katz Councilman Norman Abramowitz Councilman Joseph Schreiber Councilman Henry C. Schumann Dina McDermott, Interim City Manager Mitchell S. Kraft, City Attorney Patricia Marcurio, CMC, Acting City Clerk Karen Jackson, Secretary 1. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION_- Any member of the public may speak to any issue which is on this meeting notice. Speakers will be limited to three minutes during this item. 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 participation. Nathan Peretzman, resident, requested a copy of the personnel file of Vernon Hargray, Acting Director of Public Services and of Roger Anderson, Risk Manager applicant, pursuant to Florida Statute Chapter 119. 2. MOTION TO APPROVE the Interim City Manager's appointment of Vernon Hargray as the Director of Public Services effective 12/27/93. Ms. McDermott said Staff recommendatii Director. She said City Engineer and ' Director. She said selection was made Public Services. on December 20, 1993, Council was given Dn for the position of Public Services there were two applicants, Kline Jones, the lernon Hargray, Acting Public Services they were both interviewed and the appointing Mr. Hargray as Director of Ms. McDermott said Mr. Hargray has many years of experience in other cities as well as the City of Tamarac and he meets all of the qualifications for this position. C/M Abramowitz said he has worked with Mr. Jones for a number of years and he is a nice man, but Mr. Hargray is far more suited for this position. He said his co-workers seem satisfied with his work and he has a good relationship with them. C/M Abramowitz MOVED to APPROVE the appointment of Vernon Hargray as the Director of Public Services, SECONDED by C/M Schumann. City Council Special Meeting 12/27/93/KJ Page 2 C/M Schreiber said he has no objection to the individual who has been recommended. He said he made a recommendation to the City Manager for the City to get an independent efficiency expert to review and examine all personnel in the City, including Department Heads and ascertain what personnel is needed and what is not, to provide the City with more productivity and efficiency. He said it would be wise for the City to establish the need or removal of personnel not needed. VOTE: ALL VOTED AYE 3. MOTION TO APPROVE the Interim City Manager's appointment of Michael Vonder Meulen as Planning Director effective 12/27/93. SYNOPSIS OF_ACTION: APPROVED V/M Katz MOVED to APPROVE appointing Michael Vonder Meulen as Planning Director, SECONDED by C/M Abramowitz. VOTE: ALL VOTED AYE 4. MOTION TO APPROVE the Interim City Manager's appointment of Roger C. Anderson as Risk Manager effective 1/24/94. SYNOPSIS OF_ACTION: APPROVED V/M Katz MOVED to APPROVE appointing Roger C. Anderson as Risk Manager, SECONDED by C/M Schumann. V/M Katz said he would hope that Mr. Anderson will be with the City longer than the previous Risk Manager. Ms. McDermott said that is a requirement. She said they are going to coordinate this with the City Attorney. Mayor Bender said he had recommended that the City make an agreement that they make a commitment for at least one year. C/M Abramowitz said this was discussed and voted down. V/M Katz said the only problem he had with the one year commitment was that when an individual takes a job and is not happy after a few months, he will not perform adequately. He said it may not be to the City's advantage to do this. Mayor Bender said the City can always terminate the individual who is unhappy. He said the City must have some type of understanding on this. V/M Katz said understanding is one thing, but commitment is another. 1 OW3 ALL VOTED AYE 5. MOTION TO APPROVE the attendance of the Public Services Administrative Supervisor at the Florida Innovations Group Seminars on Rightsizing for Local Governments and Building Citizen Support to be held in Orlando, Florida, January 13-14, 1994. UIVU00"T C/M Schreiber MOVED to APPROVE Item 5, SECONDED by V/M Katz. 1 Li City Council Special Meeting 12/27/93/KJ Page 3 C/M Abramowitz asked who would be attending this and Ms. McDermott said Roberta Bonavia. ALL VOTED AYE 6. DISCOSSION_AND__POSSIBLEACTION to provide a grant to the White Willis Theater to help promote economic development in TAMARAC SQUARE WEST, northwest corner of McNab Road and NW 88 Avenue, to provide one full page advertising space to the City of Tamarac in all its programs for a two year period of time. C/M Abramowitz MOVED to APPROVE Item 6, SECONDED by C/M Schreiber. V/M Katz asked if there is enough money in the budget for this and Ms. McDermott said there is an Economic Development Program and the City has budgeted for advertising and other special activities. C/M Abramowitz asked if there would be a problem with him voting on this issue and Mr. Kraft said not unless these ads are for private gain. C/M Schreiber asked if the City has some assurance that this grant money is not issued if this project does not materialize. C/M Abramowitz said the White -Willis Theater has existed for 14 years and is supported by Broward County and many other governmental agencies in the area. He said they could have theaters in other areas, but they wanted to come to Tamarac. Mayor Bender said the White -Willis Theater has commitments from the owner of the shopping center and from Walgreens, who is willing to match their funds raised. He said the statistics from one show indicated that the Theater has 40.9% attendance from Broward County residents, 28.3% from within the State and 30.8% from out -of --state people. C/M Abramowitz said he feels this would be a plus for the City. VOTE: ALL VOTED AYE 7. MOTIgn TO APT T=,.- R2so. #6611 appointing seven (7) members to the Equity Study Committee to make recommendations to amend the occupational license classifications and rate structures. SYNOPSIS gZ ACTION* RESOLUTION R-93-184-PASSED APPROVED appointing the following as members to the Equity Study Committee with terms to expire March 1, 1994, pursuant to Resolution R-93-168: Donna Bromfield Don Fazio Craig Goldstein James Moore Robert Newman Richard Percic Michael Schipani C/M Schreiber MOVED to APPROVE Temp. Reso. #6611, SECONDED by C/M Abramowitz. Mr. Kraft read Temp. Reso. #6611 by title. Council reviewed the applications. City Council Special Meeting 12/27/93/KJ Page 4 Discussion was held between Harold Carter of All Service Refuse and C/M Abramowitz regarding holiday garbage pickup. V/M Katz nominated the following applicants: Dewitt Casey Don Fazio Craig Goldstein Robert Newman Richard Percic Casey Surez Pat Yonker C/M Abramowitz nominated the following applicants: Diana Beisterfeld Donna Bromfield Dewitt Casey Don Fazio Dom Gambale James Johnson James Moore C/M Schreiber nominated the following applicants: Donna Bromfield Dan Farber Craig Goldstein James Moore Robert Newman Richard Percic Michael Schipani C/M Schumann nominated the following applicants: Donna Bromfield Craig Goldstein Tim Hernandez James Moore Richard Percic Michael Schipani Ben Sonkin Mayor Bender nominated the following applicants: Donna Bromfield Don Fazio Robert Newman Michael Schipani Ben Sonkin Pat Yonker Harvey Gluckson C/M Abramowitz MOVED to APPROVE appointment of the following as members to the Equity Study Committee, SECONDED by C/M Schumann: Donna Bromfield Don Fazio Craig Goldstein James Moore Robert Newman Richard Percic Michael Schipani VOTE: ALL VOTED AYE Ms. McDermott said Council received a report from Engineering on the NW 71 Street Drainage Project. She said the Engineering Staff met with the Homeowner's Association Group relative to NW 71 Street and the consensus from the Homeowner's Association was that they were interested in the project. She recommended that this be discussed during a Council workshop in the future. Ms. McDermott said Council received a report from the Finance Department relative to the City receiving two letters of notification of CPI increases for the All Service Refuse and Southern Sanitation contracts. She said these are automatic adjustments based on the interpretation of the contract. C/M Schreiber asked if the optional items on the multi -family service are included in the CPI increase. 11 Ms. McDermott said she is meeting with Southern Sanitation on Tuesday, December 28, 1993, to discuss this issue which has not been resolved. C/M Schreiber recommended that the City use Kline Jones as the expert in his field for presentations. V/M Katz said a new speaker was just voted on. City Council Special Meeting 12/27/93/KJ Page 5 Ms. McDermott said there are several committee vacancies for the four new committees. She said the City Clerk will be advertising to solicit volunteers to apply for these committees. She said this will be included in the Tam -A -Gram, Channel 19 and fliers will be posted. Ms. McDermott said she also received a memo from the Insurance Advisory Board regarding their vacancies and this will be included in the advertising. C/M Schreiber asked if there are some applications which may be used for these vacancies which were not selected for others boards and committees. Mayor Bender said the volunteers indicate on their application which boards and committees they are interested in serving on. He said the Code needs to be changed,to include alternates for these committees. C/M Abramowitz recommended that the City include information in the Tam -A -Gram regarding the State of Florida, Department of Elder Affairs Shine Committee, which provides information to the elderly regarding all health issues including Medicare, Medicaid, hospital bills and other medical information at no charge. Ms. McDermott said this is in the current issue of the Tam -A -Gram. With no further business, Mayor Bender ADJOURNED this meeting at 10:35 a.m. C; CAROL A. EVANS, CMC CITY CLERK I-] BENDER MAYOR CYTY OF TAMARAC APPR ED AT MEETING OF / /•� 9� City Clerk �:1 F