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Home My WebLink About1992-09-04 - City Commission Joint Special Meeting MinutesJoint City Council/Charter-Board Special Meeting 9/4/92/KJ Page 1 CITY OF TAMARAC JOINT CITY COUNCIL/CHARTER BOARD SPECIAL MEETING FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 CALL TO ORDER: Mayor Bender called this meeting to order on Friday, September 4, 1992, at 2:00 p.m. in Conference Room #1 of Tamarac City Hall, 7525 Northwest 88 Avenue, Tamarac, Florida. R,49 AFMT s ABSENT: Mayor H. Larry Bender Vice Mayor Henry Schumann Councilman Joseph Schreiber Councilman Norman Abramowitz Councilman Irving Katz Muriel Davis, Charter Board Chair Morton Winter, Charter Board Vice Chair David Krantz, Charter Board Sam Garber, Charter Board Oscar Brawer, Charter Board ALSO PRE$X*T: John P. Kelly, City Manager Mitchell S. Kraft, City Attorney Patricia Marcurio, City Clerk Office Manager Joe Stokvis,Redistricting Committee Chairman Karen Jackson, ,Secretary --�--�aya� finder announced that the Charter Board members are absent from :his-j(5ant-Special meeting, although their presence was requested. C/M,'Xakz asked if this meeting was properly noticed and Mayor Bender saidr,'=yes, on September 2, 1992. Mr. Kelly said he personally called Muriel Davis and Morton Winter advising them of the date and time of this meeting. 1. PUHPLIC, PARTXCIRJkTION - 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 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 participation. There was no Public Participation. 2. ACCEPTANCE of the Redistricting Committee's report. Mr. Stokvis read the Redistricting Committee Report. (Attachment 1) He presented the Redistricting Map to Mayor Bender. C/M Katz said this is the number of the March election as mandated. C/M Abramowitz requested that the City Manager compliment the Engineering and City Clerk Departments for a job well done on the maps. V/M Schumann questioned the total population of the districts. He said one of his biggest areas, 16J, was taken from his district and put into District 1 and he was compensated by one of the smallest precincts in Joint City Council/Charter Board Special Meeting 9/4/92/KJ Page 2 District 4, 2J. He asked who recommended this. C/M Abramowitz said this is Dr. Alfred Wald's recommended plan. He said the main problem was that everything had to be contiguous. He said the only other plan that was presented was almost the exact same plan. Mr. Stokvis said of the two plans that were presented, Districts 3 and 4 were identical. He said differences in the percentages between Districts 1 and 2 were smaller in Dr. Wald's plan than in the second plan. C/M Schreiber asked if this can be rejected and Mr. Kraft said, no, based on the Charter, this is the final plan. C/M Schreiber said this seems to be stacked in a certain direction and is not done in an equitable fashion. C/M Abramowitz said-there,were only two plans presented and the must run in a contiguous manner in the Districts. C/M Katz said the only other alternative if 4J is not accepted, 3,.7, which are the only contiguous sections to District 4. , Sections would be Mr. Kelly said there is not much of a difference numerically in the Precinct population numbers for 16J and 2J. I i C/M Abramowitz said there -is less than a 1% difference betwen �he two districts. With no further business, Mayor Bender ADJOURNED this meeting at 2:16 p.m. . BENDER MAYOR CAROL A. EVANS CITY CLERK CITY OF TAMARAC WROVEO AT MEETING Of � O --p9 ,- 9 � [i 11 CITY OF TAMARAC 7525 Northwest 88 Avenue Tamarac, Florida 33321-2401 W/IW\N W�M.N WMf,NW W.IIN NMMW/ WI II.\ W I � l� REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE REPORT September 4, 1992 Phone (305) 722-5900 Fax (305) 722-4509 After discussion of various plans during the Redistricting Committee meeting of September 4, 1992, the Committee voted to accept the plan as presented by Dr. Alfred Wald. The changes voted upon during the Redistricting Committee consist of the following: 1. Precinct 16J is moved from District 2 to District 1. 2. Precinct 2J is moved from District 4 to District 2. 3. Precinct 41 is moved from District 3 to District 4. The four districts in the City shall contain the number of registered voters as noted below: District 1 - 7,418 (26.17%) District 2 - 6,691 (23.60577%) District 3 - 7,001 (24.699%) District 4 - 7,235 (25.524%) This concludes the report ofrt ricting Committee. THE CITY OF TAMARAC IS AN EOUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND DOES NOT DISCRIMINATE ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAPPED STATUS IAI / A �V\Y'r/WYNNYVW\—NHV\IA 1.'Ah A / 4M1 �A iR. A � �AWI/IN W\VWT \W nrnT� N'I Revised 9/4/92 DISTRICT 1 -,BOUNDARIES All lands within Tamarac City limits that are: a) North of Commercial Boulevard and east of NW 61 Avenue; and b) South of Commercial Boulevard and east of 64 Avenue. DISTRICT 2 - BOUNDARIES Revised 9/4/92 All lands within Tamarac City limits that are: a) North of Commercial Boulevard, east of Pine Island Road, south of Lagos De Campo Boulevard and McNab Road, including Buildings 11 and 12 of Concord Village at t�e southwest corner of McNab Road and Lagos De Campo Boul - vard, and west of NW 61 Avenue; and i b) North of McNab Road and east of University Drive, south 4f NW 76 Street. -----------------------------..---------..-_----------------- - I DISTRICT 3 - BOUNDARIES Revised 9/4/92 All lands within Tamarac City limits that are: a) west of Pine Island Road, north of Commercial Boulevard, south of McNab Road; and b) North of McNab Road, west of Pine Island Road, to 77 Street, south of 77 Street to 96 Avenue, west of 96 Avenue to 81 Street, south of 81 Street to Nob Hill Road, east of Nob Hill Road to 80 Street, south of 80 Street to 108 Terrace, west of 108 Terrace to McNab Road; and c) Recorded Weldon and Lombardy plats and unrecorded plot Land Section 6 South and Tract 9. i ------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRICT 4 - BOUNDARIES Revised 9/4/92 All lands within Tamarac City limits that are: a) Bounded by Pine Island Road on the west, C-14 canal on the north, University Drive on the east, north side of McNib Road and north side of Lagos De Campo Boulevard on the south excluding Buildings 11 and 12 of Concord Village at the southwest corner of McNab Road and Lagos De Campo Boulevard; and b) North of 76 Street, east of University Drive and south of the C-14 canal; and c) West of Pine Island Road, north of 77 Street to 96 Avenue, east of 96 Avenue to 81 Street, north of 81 Street to Nob Hill Road, west of Nob Hill Road to 80 Street, north of 80 Street to 108 Terrace, west of 108 Terrace to McNab Road, north of McNab Road to west City limits, east of westerky City limits to C-14 canal and south of C-14 canal; and d) Less Weldon plat, less Lombardy plat, less unrecorded plat Land Section 6 South and less Tract 9. 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