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Home My WebLink About1980-09-22 - City Commission Public Hearing Meeting Minutes5811 NORTHWEST 88TH AVENUE 0 TAMARAC, FLORIDA 33321 TELEPHONE (305) 722-5900 September 5, 1980 Notice of Public Hearing City Council Tamarac, Florida Please be advised of a Public Hearing before the City Council of Tamarac on Monday, September 22, 1980 at 5:01 P.M. in Council Chambers of City Hall, 5811 N.W. 88th Ave., Tamarac. The purpose of this meeting is to review, discuss and take action on the General Fund Budget, F/Y 1980/81 Federal Revenue Sharing Proposals 1980/81 and Proposed Ad valorem Millage Rate 1980/81. Council may consider such other business as may come before it. The public is encouraged to attend. r° arily ;Ber holf City Clerk 5811 NORTHWEST 88TH AVENUE TAMARAC, FLORIDA 33321 TELEPHONE (305) 722-5900 CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA PUBLIC HEARING The following items will be considered for discussion and action by the City Council, on Monday, September 22, 1980, at 5:01 P.M. in the Council Chambers. , 1. Temporary Resolution #1759 - A Resolution adopting a tentative proposed Millage Rate for FY 80/81 at 6.88 per One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) assessed valuation; and announcing the percentage of increase of Millage Rate exceeding rollback rate Of percent. 2• TeIMPOrary Resolution #1642 - A Resolution adopting an amended tentative budget for FY 80/81. 3. Temporary Ordinance #817 - An Ordinance establishing the General Fund Budget not to exceed $7,335,120.00 for FY 80/81. 4. Temporary Ordinance #815 - An Ordinance establishing budgets for Capital Reserve, Debt Service, Parks and Recreation, Police Education, Self -Insurance and Drainage Improvement Funds for FY 80/81. 5. Temporary Ordinance #816 - An Ordinance establishing the Federal Revenue Sharing Budget for FY 80/81. Council may consider such other business as may, come before it. The public is encouraged to attend. (22t --t Carol Evans Assistant City Clerk CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING September 22, 1980 ROLL CALL: PRESENT: Mayor Walter W. Falck C/M Irving M. Disraelly C/W Marjorie Ketch C/M Irving Zemel V/M Helen Massaro ALSO PRESENT: �. Irke n;s�i v _ nv. Clerk L. Stuurmans, Asst. City E. Gross, City Mgr. S. Wood, Finance Director B. Simon, Fire Chief CALL TO ORDER: Mayor Falck called the Special Meeting to order on Monday, September 22, 1980, at 5:01 P.M. in the Council Chambers, City of Tamarac Public Hearing and read the Temporary Resolutions for discussion and action by the City Council. Mayor Falck announced that a second and final Public Hearing on this particular matter, including the items just recited will be held at 7:30 P.M. on Monday, September 29, 1980 here in the Council Chambers. Laura Stuurmans, Asst. City Manager said that the City Clerk has distributed to members of the public, a sheet that evidences the summary of expenditures and revenues projected as was established for this meeting,and then the Asst. City Manager went on to read a memo that was sent from the City Manager's office today to the Mayor and members of the Council regarding this hearing. C/M Disraelly stated that he made a very detailed study of the print-out and then proceeded to present to each member of the Council, a copy of what he has attempted to prepare. He said that after reviewing two areas, #1 is the receipts that the city has had up to date for 11 months and indicated that in one area, our Franchise Tax for Solid Waste is anticipated at $10,000.00 too high. He then listed below the following items: CATV Up $2000.00, based on the contract that we have with American Video. State Aquatic Weed Up $3,000.00 based on Control the contract which we have. Homestead Exemption A suggested increase from $125,000.00 to $130,000.00 because we have already received $128,000.00 from the State. Gasoline Tax Increased $1000.00 because of our receipts to date. State Alcohol Beverage Up from $8,000.00 to $9,000.00 because we have already received $9,000.00 this year. County Road and Bridge Increased from $110,000.00 to $115,000.00 because we have already received $117,000, to make sure that there will be excesses next year. Interim Service Fee Increase from $95,000.00 to $100,000.00. Fines and Forfeitures Increase from $75,000 to $80,000.00. Mgr. CL-1 ................. Miscellaneous Up from $20,000.00 Revenue to $27,500.00 this year. Interest Income Up from $40,000.00 Escrow to $50,000.00 and we have already received $75,000.00 this year. Interest Income Up from $160,000.00 Other to $215,000.00 because we have already received almost $300,000.00. Transfer from Utility Is in the budget at $130,000.00 and this means that we, would be increasing the revenue coming to the City by $117,000.00 On Page 2, Mr. Disraelly pointed out that again he has proposed budget changes downward with the exception of one, Police Gas and Diesel where we plan next year to spend $55,000.00 for fuel. He said that we have already spent $63,000.00 and therefore he is suggesting that this be increased to $65,000.00, which would leave us a negative balance of $10,000.00. C/M Disraelly further indicated that after increasing Police Gas & Fuel by $10,000.00, we still come up with a possibility and it should be expressed that these are still not bare bone, but there is definitely $23,750.00 that can be further cut from the budget with the net results that we would be increasing the income by $117,000.00 and decreasing our expenditures by $23,000.00. The full action of this would be instead of talking about a current Ad Valorem Tax of 6.88, with this revision of $140,700.00, our new millage would be 6.58, thus saving .3 of a millage. Then, the increase in roll -back, instead of 19% which had been mentioned before, would now be a roll -back increase of 14.486%, and if we used the figures that were just indicated, the total tax bill to the residents of the City of Tamarac will be the lowest net cost of any city in Western Broward for the year of 1980/81. C/M Disraelly further discussed the fact that with the use of the Ad Valorem Tax and no utility tax and no garbage collection fee, the residents of this city would have the ability of deducting the Ad Valorem Tax from their tax returns, whereas those cities which have garbage collection and utility tax, cannot deduct the cost of the garbage fee, nor can they deduct the franchise fee. The result would be that not only would we have the lowest net cost for a $35,000.00 home in Western Broward, but their ability for a tax reduction on their income taxes would be the highest of any city in the West. Mayor Falck asked a question about the millage, and C/D Disraelly said the revised millage would be $230.31for a $35,000.00 house in West Broward, instead of $240.80. -VIM Massaro thanked CfM Disraelly for the work he had done. Laura Stuurmans read the City Manager's estimated revenue figures prior to C/M Disraelly's changes as follows: Ad Valorem Tax $3,273,120.00 Franchise Tax, Electric 725,000.00 Franchise Tax, Telephone 33,000.00 Franchise Tax, Water --------- Franchise Tax, CATV 19,000.00 Franchise Tax, Solid Waste 40,000.00 License & Permit Burglar Alarms 40,000.00 OPM September 22, 1980 /pe Qccupatinal Licenses City $ 139,000.00 Building Permits 435,000.00 State Aquatic Weed Control 20,000.00 State Cigarette Tax 70,000.00 State Revenue Sharing 695,000.00 State Homestead Exemption 125,000.00 State Gas Tax Rebate City Vehicles 6,000.00 County Road and Bridge Tax 110,000.00 County Occupational License 33,000.00 Parking Lots, City 3,000.00 Parks Recreation Activities Fees 3,000.00 Summer Recreation Program 14,000.00 Interim Service Fees 95,000.00 Engineering Fees Unrestrictedl35,000.00 Lot Clearing 10,000.00 Fines and Forfeitures 75,000.00 Court Cost Fees 3,000.00 Fire Department Special Receipts -------- Police Department Special Receipts -------- Miscellaneous Revenue 20,000.00 Interest Income General Escrow 40,000.00 Interest Income Other 160,000.00 Transfer from Utility West 100,000.00 Transfer from Utility East 6,000.00 N SUB -TOTAL REVENUES $ 6,435,120.00 APPROPRIATED FUND BALANCE $ 900,000.00 TOTAL ESTIMATED REVENUE AND APPROPRIATED FUND BALANCE $ 7,335,120.00 V/M Massaro questioned C/M Disraelly on the Interim Service Fee, stating that with the amount of construction going on, she feels this fee can be raised from the original. $95,000.00 to $122,000.00 and C/M Disraelly said he had no objection to that. V/M Massaro asked C/M Disraelly about the Interest Income Other, and he explained that several months ago interest rates that the city was putting out were 15, 16, and 17 per cent and he is not sure that there will be that much available in the next year. He felt that interest rates will be higher, and after reviewing these figures with Steve Wood, their opinion was that perhaps they can get 10, 11, or 12 per cent and are not anticipating 15 or 16 per cent. He also stated that were they were able to get $293,000.00 in revenue in interest this year, but feel that in July at anticipated revenue of $160,000.00, we are now antici- pating $215,000.00 based on the trend of the banks today. V/M Massaro asked Steve Wood if these were actual computations and if he took the actual amount of money that was invested and usedcurrent figures to determine how much less we would have. Mr. Wood replied that they took the amount of money that they felt they would have available on a month to month basis for the next fiscal year and then they took an interest rate of 8%, using that basis to make the $160,000.00. Mr. Wood went on to say that currently we had a little bit better cash flow than previously so that they were able to increase that rate sub- stantially to move it up to $215,000.00 which they feel very comfortable with. Mayor Falck mentioned the Expense Area and Laura Stuurmans said that she will be reading from the City Manager's Recommendation column as follows: Legislative $ 74,000.00 City Attorney 127,030.00 Social Services 5,500.00 Community Development 67,070.00 City Manager 126,300.00 -3- September 22, 1980 , /nP L Cat Clerk FYn�nce Police Department $ 215,770.00 201,260.00 1,904,100.00 V/M Massaro stopped Asst. City Mgr. Laura Stuurmans at this Point to discuss the last item. C/M Disraelly stated that there were no changes made in the salary structures of any of these departments and he did not go into those because the city is in negotiation with Union contracts in a couple of these departments. The changes for the confidential employees is computed in there according to C/M Disraelly. _-.City Manager Ed Gross said also included in the budget Were those increases that we have already proposed. V/M Massaro stated that she would much rather go over th this now and the next meeting, but said it was up to the rest of the Council. C/W Kelch questioned Arthur Birken on our time schedule, stating further that she didn't feel they were in a position now to give blanket approval of modifications in the budget. Arthur Birken said Council has the right to cut, as the only time there is a problem is if you increase. C/W Kelch asked Mr. Birken if they cut the budget, then does this not preclude it being raise d again at the following meeting. Mr. Birken answered that there is a procedure to raise it, but it is ex�remely expensive and it is a cumbersome process. C/M Disraelly and C/W Kelch discussed the possibility of studying over the figures and between now and next week, make changes if they decide to. C/M Zemel felt that there might be items that could be pared more closely and also that the public might have something to add, and at that point V/M Massaro asked C/M Zemel if he had any specific changes in mind. C/M Zemel discussed the item Professional Services under Fire Department and that the figure of $26,750.00 that was expended for the fire protection of Lakes 1 and 2 area will be cut by $20,000.00 with the use of the second fire house in agreement with the Ft. Lauderdale Fire Dept. Fire Chief Bernard Simon said with what they were projecting with the new improvements in Commercial Blvd. response to 22nd Avenue which would leave the Lakes 1 and Lakes 2 that would still be under coverage of the Broward Central, which he believes is 240 homes and which is enough to allow for the increase in the County fire protection fee times 240 something houses that are in the two areas. C/M Disraelly asked what date the coverage would start and Chief Simon answered anytime they want to start. C/M Disraelly asked that when they opened the new fire station at the Turnpike, . why didn't they do it immediately and Chief Simon replied that they didn't have the manpower right now, and said they can't use it until they have another couple of men in there. C/M Disraelly stated that then they couldn't reduce it $20,000.00 if more manpower is needed and Chief Simon said they could in the interim period. V/M Massaro asked if manpower had been included in the budget and was advised that it was. Chief Simon said they could start immediately on October 1st now that the road is wide open and the Fire Dept. could now respond even with the manpower they now have, but it will -4- September 22, 1980 /pe I mean that they have to put an extra fireman in that station in the meantime until they get a man trained. He went on to say that the Fire Dept. does have a request for one fire- man to go on in January, February or March of next year and even with that they will be slightly short-handed, but they will have a contract with the County that if they need emergency response, they also can respond, but money won't have to be spent on it. Mr. Gross said that the figure they have that is needed is $5700.00, not the $6700.00 that has been projected, which is a $1000.00 saving. C/M Disraelly said he he happy about saving that money, but mentioned that at the last conference, they had talked about putting two men on which was on May lst, and had nobody to come aboard in January or February. Mr. Gross said on the sequel that they will have that the Fire Chief worked on with him in the workshop shows that they will have a man coming on in January. Mr. Gross said that actually it is the first schedule that is up that they will be reducing it by two individuals. C/M Zemel mentioned there is another item that they may have a reduction on which came up in his discussions with the City Manager and the Chief, and that is in the addition of 10 fire fighters under Supplemental Request. He went on to sa_y_ khat there is a requirement for one fire fighter to come in on March 1st of 1981 and it has been agreed that this item can be deleted, as the department could function properly with that body deleted and then if we go down a little further, it calls for two additional fire fighters which can be reduced to one, for a savings of $14,865.00. C/M Zemel then called attention to two pages further where the item calls for three additional lieutenants at a cost of $5,040.00 and which the City Manager allowed none, he would like to add an Item 3(a) which would be an increase to our budget item rather than a decrease and that would be a 4% differential for shift leaders, which would cost approximately $1500.00 and make a number of our fire fire fighters respon- sible for that shift and responsible for'the operation of the equipment. He went on to say that he believes there is no person under any shift that has that responsibility, except when the Asst. Chief is on duty. Mr. Gross said that at the present time we have three lieu- tenants, but that those lieutenants work out of Station No. 1, but we do not have anybody in charge per se in Station No. 2 and recently a change was made so that one of our lieutenants is now in Station No. 2 during the daytime. He feels that we need a shift leader, someone who will be in charge of each shift at that station, so that they will be charge of the equip- ment going to a call until a senior officer gets there. V/M Massaro asked for a memorandum from the City Manager on that item. C/M Disraelly questioned Item 8, wondering if C/M Zemel's request was in addition to the$1900.00 and Mr. Gross said that it was and that there will be three additional people. Fire Chief Simon stated that his car was in very bad shape and Mr. Gross mentioned that it had been discussed at a workshop meeting that we put the Chief on a monthly allowance, rather than buy a car, that figure being $125.00 per month to run his own car or attempt to find a car that is in very good shape for the Chief. C/M Zemel had called attention to the above. V/M Massaro asked that the City Manager check into this item and give them a memorandum as to the condition of the Chief's car and what is available and what can be done. She also asked for the City Manager's recommendation as well. -5- September 22, 1980 /pe Mayor Falck mentioned that V/M Massaro would like to review the matter of Police in detail between now and the next meeting, which will be held next Monday evening. The City Manager addressed C/M Zemel,asking if the input he gave in his summary meant that he wanted to save $15,000.00 and spend $1500.00 and C/M Zemel stated that this was correct. Laura Stuurmans continued to read the City Manager's estimated revenue figures as follows: Fire Department $ 769,480.00 Building Department 364,270.00 Public Works, General Building Maintenance 200,460.00 Canals, Mosquito 111,540.00 Shops 156,580.00 Street, Drains, Parks 482,780.00 City Engineer 166,390.00 Recreation 70,840.00 Personnel 61,060.00 Insurance 330,200.00 Beautification 350.00 Planning 1,500.00 Charter Board 5,450.00 Adjustment Board 400.00 Unsafe Structures 200.00 Public Information 5,650.00 Consumer Affairs 650.00 Contingency 240,000.00 Sanitation Services 666,400.00 Debt Service 169,880.00 Capital Reserve 381,960.00 Independent Audit 14,000.00 General and Administra- tive 414,050.00 TOTAL $7,335,120.00 V/M Massaro noticed that under Recreation, the request is for seven part-time employees at $8,400.00 and she would like to know why the City Manager approves $14,000.00. Mr. Gross responded that between May and the time summer program, there were changes, and that's the reason for the difference in the figure. Laura Stuurmans reported that this amount was budgeted lower last year and in May the City Manager's office came to Council and said in order to meet that 1 to 25 ratio, they needed to increase the staffing. Ms. Stuurmanswent on to say that by that time the Recreation Director had already submitted her tentative request for next year, so that actually our increase was effective after her request was made for the next year's budget. MAYOR FALCK CALLED FOR A PUBLIC HEARING and asked if anyone from the public wished to speak. The City Attorney, Arthur Birken stated that we are under the Trim Bill unfortunately this year for the first time and mentioned that Council has received a number of pieces of draft legislation. He said it is necessary to adopt a millage before a budget is adopted, at least to take a vote on the millage before we can take a vote on the budget under the State Law. He continued to say that it is necessary to enact a number of documents today, the first of which is the tentative proposed millage rate, and then take action on the tentative budget; this can be done by Resolution, then the general fund budget. He also stated that we have a number of other funds to enact on first reading and then suggested that we have a Public Hearing for each item that is read and then take action. Mr. Birken then proceeded to read Temporary Resolution #1759 in its entirety. -6- September 22, 1980 1 ITEM #1 -_Temporary Resolution #1759 - A Resolution adopting a tentative proposed Millage Rate for FY 80/81 at 6.88 per One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) assessed valuation; and announcing the percentage of increase of Millage Rate exceed- ing rollback rate of percent. SYNOPSIS OF ACTION: Temporary Resolution 1759 Approved with percentage of Millage Rate increased to 19.706 percent. RESOLUTION NO.R-g0-6 PASSED Mayor Falck closed PUBLIC HEARING after asking if anyone else wanted to speak on this subject. C/M Disraelly MOVED to adopt Temporary Resolution #1759 adopting a tentative proposed millage of 6.88 until Council takes action at its next meeting for a positive millage. C/W Kelch SECONDED the motion. VOTE: ALL VOTED AYE Arthur Birken, City Attorney, explained to Council that they have two budgets, the tentative budget which is what they are now considering and which is the same document that will be attached to both the Resolution and the Ordinance which they are also considering as a next item on the Agenda, and then at the next reading, they will take final action, hopefully on second reading on which it is Agenda Item #3. He then said that Agenda Item #2 will not come back before you, and under this Trim Bill, it is necessary that Council adds a tentative budget and the seemingly best way to do that is to adopt by Resolution and adopt their final budget, which is a permanent document, by Ordinance. Mr. Birken then read the Resolution in its entirety. ITEM #2 - Temporary Resolution #1642 - A Resolution adopting an amended tentative budget for FY 80/81. SYNOPSIS OF ACTION: Temporary Resolution T1642 Approved adoption of a tentative budget for the city for the next fiscal year. RESOLUTION NO.R ,FQ1?0 PASSED Mayor Falck indicated that this was a PUBLIC HEARING on the Revenue and expenses. Mr. Sonny Gentile wanted to know what the money for Public Information covered and C/W Kelch answered that it was for the general printing which goes out to all residents and also the publication in the Broward Times in addition to other items. Mr. Gentile asked why they don't consider letting the City Recreation Director take care of Public Information and put the $5000.00 into a recreation program that they city desperately needs. Mr. Walter Dortch, Section 5, retorted to Mr. Gentile that he remembered when they first started Recreation and it wasn't supposed to get out of hand, but it has tripled and he is upset that more money is being asked for. Mr. Arthur Hill of Heathgate asked for a copy of the budget document and the Mayor replied that this could be obtained at the City Clerk's office. Ms. Shirley Blumfield, Member of the Public Information Com- mittee referred to Mr. Gentile's comments and said if he had read the brochures that are put out and saw how they are working to keep within the budget, he would realize that they do reach the public. -7- L September 22, 1980 /pe V/M Massaro commented on Mr. Gentile's suggestion, saying that it was completely impossible, as printing is very expensive and must be done. Mayor Falck said that Public Information is mandated by the Charter and was written into the Charter for a specific purpose and since the public wanted additional information, this is why it was included. The Mayor then asked if anyone else from the Public wanted to speak on this subject, and CLOSED the Public Hearing. C/M Disraelly MOVED the adoption of Temporary Resolution #1642, adopting a tentative budget for the City for the next fiscal year. C/W Kelch SECONDED the motion. VOTE: ALL VOTED AYE ITEM #3 _ Tem orary Ordinance #817 - An Ordinance establishing the General Fund Budget not to exceed $7,335,120.00 for FY 80/81. SYNOPSIS OF ACTION: Adopted on first reading. Mr. Arthur Birken presented the Item and indicated that he did not think it was necessary to read the entire Ordinance, as it was nothing different from year to year. C/M Disraelly questioned Mr. Birken as to when adopted on the second reading, and we take into consideration the various deductions that were made, at that time can it still be left that a figure not to exceed $7,335,120.00 or does it have to be reduced or if we reduce it, do we have to reduce that number as well, or can we leave this number even though the budget is lower. Mr. Birken replied that this is the budget figure and total can be reduced. Mayor Falck asked if anyone from the public wanted to speak on this item, and then CLOSED the Public Hearing. V/M Massaro MOVED the adoption of Temporary Ordinance #817 on first reading. C/M Disraelly SECONDED the motion. VOTE: ALL VOTED AYE ITEM #4 - Temporary Ordinance #815 - An Ordinance establishing budgets for Capital ,.R _..—._....—__-- eserve, Debt Service, Parks and Recreation, Police Education, Self -Insurance and Drainage Improvement Funds for FY 80/81. SYNOPSIS OF ACTION: Adopted. Mayor Falck asked if anyone from the Public wanted to speak on this subject and then CLOSED the Public Hearing. Mr. Birken asked that "and" before self-insurance be deleted. C/M Disraelly MOVED adoption of Temporary Ordinance #815, adopting Capital Reserve, Debt Service, Parks and Recreation, Police Education, Self -Insurance and Drainage Improvement Funds. C/M Zemel SECONDED the motion. VOTE: ALL VOTED AYE -8- September 22, 1980 /pe J ITEM #5 -- Tem orary Ordinance #816 - An Ordinance establishing the Federal Revenue Sharing Budget for FY 80/81. SYNOPSIS OF ACTION: Adopted on first reading. Mayor Falck announced that this is a Public Hearing and asked anyone from the public if they wanted to speak on this subject; he then CLOSED the Public Hearing. Mr. Arthur Birken presented the item and said that according to law, we had a Public Hearing asking for input from those citizens who have any ideas or thoughts in addition to the program, and nobody from the Public was there. V/M Massaro MOVED adoption of Temporary Ordinance #816 on first reading. C/M Zemel SECONDED the motion. VOTE: ALL VOTED AYE MAYOR FALCK ADJOURNED THE MEETING. ATTEST: A SISTANT CITY CLERK This public document was promulgated at a cost of $86.37 or $ 3.82 per copy, to inform the general public and public officers and employees about recent opinions and considerations by the City Council of the City of Tamarac. APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL ON -g_ September 22, 1980 /Pe I