1992-01-21 Regular MeetingC I T Y O F 0 K E E C S 0 B E E
C I T Y C O U N C I L M E E T I N G
JANUARY 21, 1992 - 7:00 P.M.
SUMMARY OF COUNCIL ACTION
A. Call meeting to order.
B. Invocation offered by Rev. Jim Griffis;
Pledge of Allegiance led by Mayor Kirk.
C. Mayor and Council attendance:
Mayor James "Jim" Kirk
Councilmember R.R. "Nick" Collins
Councilmember Danny Entry
Councilmember Jerry E. Walker
Councilman Dowling R. Watford, Jr.
Staff attendance:
Attorney John R. Cook
Administrator John J. Drago
Clerk Bonnie S. Thomas
Deputy Clerk S. Lane Earnest
D. Motion to dispense with reading and
approve the Summary of Council
Action for the regular meeting of
January 7, 1992.
COUNCILMBMBERS ACTION
Mayor Kirk called the meeting to order at 7:00 P.M.
Invocation offered by Councilmember Watford;
Mayor Kirk led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Present
Present
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Absent
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Councilmember Collins made a motion to dispense with reading and
approve the Summary of Council Action for the regular meeting of
January 7, 1992; seconded by Councilmember Entry.
KIRK
COLLINS
ENTRY
WALKER
WATFORD
MOTION CARRIED.
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E. Motion to approve Warrant Registers
for the month of December, 1991:
GENERAL FUND ....... $402,671.18
PUBLIC UTILITIES ... $274,461.98
REQUEST FOR THE ADDITION, DEFERRAL OR
WITHDRAWAL OF ITEMS ON TODAY'S AGENDA.
F. NEW BUSINESS
Councilmember Wa
for the month of
Public Utilities
and Walker.
KIRK
COLLINS
ENTRY
WALKER
WATFORD
MOTION CARRIED.
None.
LOUNCILMEMBERS ACTION
tford made a motion to approve Warrant Registers
December, 1991, General Fund $402,671.18 and
$274,461.98; seconded by Councilmembers Collins
1. Presentation of a Proclamation to Mayor Kirk read the proclamation in its entirety as follows:
Mr. Tom McGowan proclaiming the week
of February 16-22, 1992 as Engineer's "WHEREAS, engineers help to design, construct, and maintain the
Week - Mayor Kirk, infrastructure and facilities that contribute to a high quality
of.life for all citizens of Florida; and
WHEREAS, the future growth of Florida depends on engineers to
execute innovative, creative, high -quality solutions to
technical problems; and
WHEREAS, the state purposes of the Florida Engineering Society
are the advancement of the public welfare and the promotion off
the professional, social, and economic interests of the
engineering disciplines, and the stimulation to develop
professional concepts among all engineers in proactive through
education; and
WHEREAS, current members of the Florida Engineering Society are
interacting with schools at all levels of education to prepare
future engineers to assure our economic leadership, our
technical expertise, and our superior quality of life; and
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WHEREAS, it is appropriate that we recognize and honor the
continuing contributions of our engineers with the motto:
Engineers -- Turning ideas into reality.
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F. NEW BUSINESS
1. Continued . . . .
2. Motion to approve Chuck McElheny as
a regular fire fighter - Fire Chief.
3. Motion to approve Ronald Payne as a
regular Treatment Plant Operator -
Director of Public Utilities.
COLWCILMFMBFRS ACTION
NOW THEREFORE, we, the City Council of Okeechobee, Florida, do
hereby proclaim February 16 - 22, 1992, as "ENGINEERS' WEEK" in
Okeechobee, and we urge all citizens to join us in paying
tribute to the contributions of engineers to our society."
Mr. Rick Creech accepted the proclamation and thanked the Mayor
and Council. The Florida Engineering Society, the Treasure
Coast Chapter, represents Okeechobee, Highlands, Martin and St.
Lucie Counties. We basically provide several services in math
counts which is middle school math competition among the four
counties. Okeechobee, is representing two teams this year which
takes place during the February Engineers Week. The other thing
we do is sponsor scholarships on the State level. A young lady
in Highlands County won a four year scholarship. We are
currently working with Principal Raulerson to be able to talk to
some of the physics and mathematics students on obtaining
careers as engineers and just giving them a revelation as to
what the universities and colleges are all about. I hope that
I can live up to this proclamation, I think its a pretty high
regard, but I believe that we are definitely going to try. And
again I thank you for your time.
Councilmember Entry made a motion to approve Chuck McElheny as
a regular fire fighter; seconded by Councilmember Collins.
KIRK
COLLINS
ENTRY
WALKER
WATFORD
MOTION CARRIED.
Councilmember Entry made a motion to approve Ronald Payne as a
regular Treatment Plant Operator assigned to the Public Utilities
Department; seconded by Councilmember Watford.
KIRK
COLLINS
ENTRY
WALKER
WATFORD
MOTION CARRIED.
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F. NEW BUSINESS
4. Motion to adopt Resolution 92-2,
Supporting the addition of State Road
70 to the Florida Intrastate Highway
System - City Administrator (Exhibit 1).
COUNCILMEMBERS ACTION
Councilmember Collins made a motion to adopt Resolution No. 92-2,
supporting the addition of State Road 70 to the Florida Intrastate
Highway System; seconded by Councilmember Entry.
Councilmember Watford expressed his concerns regarding... : the
Florida Intrastate Highway System which is to be a highway
network of Statewide limited access facilities and controlled
access facilities...". We have enough problems with access to
businesses, for example on Highway 441, are we going to make
that worse for them now, or the Department of Transportation is,
are we going to get into that situation here?
Administrator Drago answered, no. What we are asking them to do
is to support the current highway system they have and to
improve that highway system by four-laning it and widen this in
the City and it would get done. State Road 70 was part of the
system and somehow somebody got it taken off and used a
different route which would by-pass Okeechobee. A lot of the
other counties like Highlands, Manatee, DeSoto, Pinellas are
going to support this because State Road 70 goes through all
those Counties so they want the road improved so that the public
can use that road and therefore it would benefit the businesses
in the Cities.
KIRK
COLLINS
ENTRY
WALKER
WATFORD
MOTION CARRIED.
Resolution No. 92-2 reads by title only as follows:
"RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE ADDITION OF STATE ROAD 70 TO THE
FLORIDA INTRASTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM."
YES 1 NO
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F.
NEW BUSINESS
5. Motion to adopt Resolution 92-3,
delineating support for the Central
Florida Regional Planning Council
and urging the Florida Legislature
to reinforce the role of the Regional
Planning Councils in Florida -
Councilmember Entry (Exhibit 2).
6. Motion to approve a contract between
the City and CSX Transportation for
repairs to the N.W. 9th Avenue Rail
road Crossing in the amount of
$16,000.00 - City Administrator
(Exhibit 3).
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COUNC7LMEMBERS ACTION
Councilmember Entry made a motion to adopt Resolution No. 92-3,
delineating support for the Central Florida Regional Planning
Council and urging the Florida Legislature to reinforce the Role
of the Regional Planning Councils in Florida; seconded by
Councilmember Watford.
Councilmember Watford commented that he thought the Regional
Planning Councils do play a very vital role as far as local
governments, it is a good step between the local and state
governments. I think many times the legislature could use the
Planning Councils in much better ways than they do, there are a
lot of things they could do if the Legislature would allow them
to.
Councilmember Collins expressed he thought everything could be
a lot more efficient if they (the Legislature) would listen to
them (the Planning Councils) a little more.
KIRK
COLLINS
ENTRY
WALKER
WATFORD
MOTION CARRIED.
Resolution No. 92-3 reads by title only as follows:
"A RESOLUTION DELINEATING SUPPORT FOR THE CENTRAL FLORIDA
REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL AND URGING THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE TO
REINFORCE -THE ROLE OF REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCILS IN FLORIDA."
Councilmember Watford made a motion to approve a contract between
the City and CSX Transportation for repairs to the Northwest 9th
Avenue Railroad Crossing in the amount of $16,000.00; seconded
by Councilmembers Collins and Walker.
Attorney Cook made a brief comment that in paragraph four, there
is a legal question that he needs to clarify whether the Council
we have today can bind, by contract a City Council fifteen years
from now to bear the expense of re -doing that crossing which is
what part of that paragraph indicates.
VOTE
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F. NEW BUSINESS
6. Continued . . .
7. Discuss a proposal from DOT for the
purchase of City property at the corner
of 441 and 70 - City Administrator
(Exhibit 4).
COUNCILMEMBERS ACTION
Mayor Kirk asked Attorney Cook, whether the Council needed to
amend this contract before they voted on it or can the language
be worked out?
Attorney Cook advised the language can be worked out and he did
not think it was necessary for it to be in the motion. It is
just not clear what their intent is. It is something I think I
can "x" out and they will not object to it.
Public Works Director Elders commented, just so it is not
misunderstood later on, this is just for the repairing of the
railroad tracks. The City is going to have to asphalt up to and
in between the tracks, but it will still be considerably
cheaper.
Councilmember Watford, and this is a much better job than what
we could ever hope for.
KIRK
COLLINS
ENTRY
WALKER
WATFORD
MOTION CARRIED.
Councilmember Entry made a motion to approve a proposal from the
State of Florida Department of Transportation for the purchase
of City property at the corner of 441 and 70 (Chamber property);
seconded by Councilmember Watford (Purchase proposal amount:
$12,500.00; Location: S.E. corner of 441 & 70 near Chamber
property).
After discussion Council voted on the motion as follows:
KIRK
COLLINS
ENTRY
WALKER
WATFORD
MOTION CARRIED.
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F. NEW BUSINESS
7. Continued
Administrator Drago then advised the approval of the Resolution
regarding the sale of the property to the Florida Department of
Transportation.
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Councilmember Collins made a motion to approve Resolution No.
92-4 regarding the sale of City property to the State of Florida
Department of Transportation for the purpose of transportation;
seconded by Councilmember Entry.
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WATFORD
MOTION CARRIED.
Attorney Cook advised that Council should make this subject to
his confirming that this legal description matches the area and
that it does not interfere with the use of the property. We do
not want to be caught in a position with the trustees that the
City is no longer using the property for what it was intended.
Mayor Kirk asked the Attorney whether the motion should be
amended subject to his request?
Attorney Cook advised that if there is a problem he would let
Mr. Drago know and they would get back to the Council before
they sent it off to the Department of Transportation.
8. Discuss Water and Wastewater Rate
Discussion began with Councilmember Watford stating that the
Study - City.Administrator (Exhibit 5).
majority of the rates will stay basically the same with the
exception of the volume rate for the water and then the wastewater
connection and capacity fees that are being lowered. It is
evident that we would have to change rates particularly the debt
service rate as we borrow more money for the improvements to the
water system. I do not see us changing the rates now and then
six or eight months down the road changing them again when there
is no major changes to be made. I think to alleviate the
problem with the wastewater connection and capacity fees, that
maybe we just want to continue that roll -back until we have to
change rates again. In my opinion there are not enough material
changes to make.
F. NEW BUSINESS
8. Continued . . .
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Mayor Kirk asked, are you saying do not let it sunset? ( the
wastewater connection and capacity fees).
Councilmember Watford stated, do not let it sunset otherwise it
would go back to the $1500.00 and I think obviously the study
said we did not have to do that right now.
Councilmember Collins, agreed with what Mr. Watford said about
the wastewater because Council discussed that before and if the
$765.00 is a fair price I could not see going back to the
$1500.00 just because the 28th got here. He asked if this
pertained to the water deposits too and are you talking about
just leaving them like they are today?
Councilmember Watford, yes, that is my suggestion.
Councilmember Collins stated, I have a problem with the water
deposits because they are too high. If we change anything I
would like to see us take his (the consultant's) recommendation.
Change the deposits to two and a half months until something
comes up later on. But everybody knows the deposits are way out
of line, especially on the water side, if they just have water.
If we are going to keep everything like it is I wish we would
keep everything like it is except the deposits and take his
(consultants study) recommendation on the deposits.
Councilmember Watford, I do not have any particular problem with
that, I would prefer just to wait and we could do deposits and
the rates at the same time, I am not going to object to it I
just think it would be better to wait to do it.
Councilmember Collins how long of a time are we talking about?
Director Loftin stated he thought eight months would be
reasonable. Within eight months we should have enough design
work done that we could project the cost of the wastewater
treatment plant expansion.
VOTE
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F. NEW BUSINESS
8. Continued . . . .
COUNCILMEMBERS ACTION
Councilmember Collins stated, what I had in mind was, you got
six, eight, nine months left before your can do what you need to
do and that means the City is using that money above and beyond
what they need for the normal deposits. Times are hard and
people need their money and the city is paying no interest on
that money and with the economy like it is there are people out
there who could use that forty, fifty, sixty dollars, that would
pay a lot of their water bills for three months.
Councilmember Watford, we would not anticipate refunding
differences would we?
Administrator Drago and Director Loftin, No.
Councilmember Collins-, I would, we have got a ninety dollar
deposit up here and they got a thirty dollar two and a half
months bill you would not anticipate refunding that difference
between that thirty-five and ninety? There would be no point in
changing them if we are not going to refund, if we are going to
keep their money why notjust leave it like it is?
Director Loftin, I believe the recommendation that Mr. Gonot
made was based on us not refunding deposits when it goes down.
Councilmember Collins, how can we justify that? If our bill is
thirty-five for two and a half months and they have a ninety-
five dollar deposit up how can we justify keeping that sixty-
five dollars?
Councilmember Watford, we do not automatically go back and we
have put a procedure in place were someone is delinquent on
their bill they have to upgrade to the current deposit but we
have not automatically gone back, some people have five dollar
deposits we have not gone back and told them just cause we are
changing deposit you got to upgrade your deposit and we did'put
the policy in place that if they were late on their bill a
certain amount of times then they have to upgrade it to whatever
the current deposit is whether its thirty-five or ninety-five.
We don't go back and make everybody upgrade so I don't see why
it should work in reverse. We are going to create an
administrative nightmare.
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F. NEW BUSINESS
8. Continued . . . .
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LOUNCILMrMBE"RS ACTION
After further discussion by Council and staff; Mayor Kirk asked
where do we stand here? I do not think we are in agreement.
Councilmember Watford, I think we agree not to change rates
until we have to.
Councilmember Collins, we agreed to leave the wastewater
connection and capacity fee at seven sixty-five.
Councilmember Watford, right, so we have agreed on that much,
its the deposits that are the stickler. I will agree as much as
changing them but I will not agree to refund any of them.
Councilmember Collins, I would agree to change them and I would
agree to give anybody'a refund that has got anything paid above
and beyond the two and a half months.
Councilmember Watford made a motion that we leave all the rates
that are currently in effect in effect; that we continue the
roll -back rate on the wastewater connection and capacity fees;
and that we change the deposit amounts. We can argue about how
we are going to change them (at a later date); seconded by
Councilmember Entry.
Councilmember Collins asked, has everybody agreed on the two and
a half months for the deposits? It is just the refund that we
do not agree on?
Mayor Kirk commented, I do not think we are going to get it
settled tonight, Director Loftin can give us some information at
the next meeting what we are looking at dollar wise.
Director Loftin asked in terms of producing refunds?
Mayor Kirk inform Director Loftin that he needed to give Council
some insight as to what is involved if we tried to refund.
Councilmember Collins asked, couldn't we go on with what Dowling
said tonight and we could agree about the refund two weeks from
now and just implement what we need to do to take care of the
roll -back rate and change it to two and a half months for
deposits.
VOTE
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F. NEW BUSINESS
8. Continued . . . .
9. Discuss implementation of the Water
Distribution Master Plan - Director
of Public Utilities (Exhibit 6).
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Mayor Kirk, yes, that is what his motion states.
Administrator Drago questioned for clarification, as recommended
by the consultant, right? The deposit schedule as recommended
by the consultant?
Council commented in agreement.
Councilmember Watford stated, we are not actually adopting that
amount tonight, technically we could come back in two weeks and
say we want it to be "two -hundred dollars". We are accepting
the idea.
Mayor Kirk, that is correct.
Vote on motion is as follows:
KIRK
COLLINS
ENTRY
WALKER
WATFORD
MOTION CARRIED.
Director Loftin stated to Council, gentlemen you have before you
a memo from myself and a letter from Engineer Bill Reese. I will
repeat a couple of items. The water distribution system master
plan produced in September 1991 clearly identifies problem areas
in our distribution system. For several reasons I feel that we
should proceed as quickly as possible to implement the work that
is outlined in the master plan. I will repeat two of the
reasons that are in the memo:
One is, these problems are clearly identified and they are
well known by ourselves and by our customers.
The second reason is, due to the current slow down of the
economy if we move quickly, take bids and get this work
done we can get this work done at less cost to the City
than if we were to space this work out over several years.
The economy is slow, contractors need work and frankly will
bid very, very competitively, if we do this reasonably
quick.
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9. Continued . . . For these reasons my recommendation is that the City move
quickly to implement the improvements outlined in the master
plan. If the Council concurs with this recommendation, the
Department will move forward with the planning and design work
to implement that plan. Engineer Reese is here tonight, he
wanted to expound a little bit on some of these things.
Engineer Reese stated if the City plans to implement all the
master plan he would recommend separating the plant project into
two contracts. One would cover on -site plant work including the
wells and the other would include all off -site distribution
piping his reasons being:
One, there is a large amount of distribution work that ties
in with the master plan.
"wo, is the City has gotten some letters in the last :north
or so from the Department of Environmental Regulation and
they have some concern regarding the quality of the water
through the distribution system. They ask that you do
certain things.
And the final reason is work to be done on the elevated
tanks. It seems work was bid out and I think the number
was a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Basically the
improvements in the master plan provide you the option to
do away with the tanks. You do need to make a decision on
this either to repair the tanks or move forward to another
direction.
Councilmember Collins stated, I do not see were that is a big
decision (repairs to the storage tanks) to make, if we can get
the storage capacity out there as opposed to keeping this,
cheaper than we can paint this, and you have to go back and.
paint every six to eight years, and that is ground level out
there. I do not see were that is a big decision to make.
Councilmember Watford, I think the cheaper part needs to be
explained a little bit. We are going to spend more here than we
would spend there. I understand we could put a storage tank out
there cheaper than we could paint this tank. But, what he is
talking about, we have got to do some of the improvements also,
we are probably going to end up spending more here than we would
VOTE
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COUNCHMBMBBRS ACTION �YBS
F. NEW BUSINESS I
9. Continued . . .
Engineer Reese, you are both right, it is not an apples to
apples thing. The improvements we are discussing here are
necessary for the distribution system whether you keep the tank
or not. The point is, if you do these you also will get to do
away with both tanks, or you have that option.
Director Loftin, we do not have the option of doing or not doing
the work. We have the option of doing the work within the next
year or two or trying to space it out over a period of four or
five years. If we space it out over a period of four or five
years we may have to paint this tank at a cost of $200,000.00
plus, if we space it out over three or four years we will be
paying more for work three or four years from now than we will
if we bid it out during an economic down turn.
The option is do it all in the package or space it out, and my
recommendation is we do it all in a package.
Alayor Kirk, do you have in your notes there a total dollar
figure for this package?
Director Loftin, that was outlined in the master plan.
Administrator Drago, something like $1.2 million, you have to
take out the work that is being done under the block grant.
Engineer Reese, I should also mention we are talking to some
people about a grant that would clean some lines.
Director ?�oftin, the total amount of that grant is $100,000.00,
however we have to supply half of the funds $50,000.00 either by
actual or in -kind, for a net gain to the City of $50,000.00.
Administrator Drago explained to those present this was the
grant that Susan Groover brought to the Councils attention when
she asked for $2,900.00 for an energy study and the grant is
predicated on the Council going forward with their
recommendations which is basically to clean a lot of lines.
There is money in the budget to cover the $50,000.00 cost.
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F. NEW BUSINESS
9. Continued . . . .
LOUNCILMFMBFRS ACTION
The other improvement item to take into consideration is that
Engineer Reese indicated to me that sometime in June he is going
to have the plans and specifications prepared for the water
plant, the City would need a sixty day window to secure the sale
of the bonds which means I am going to have to start that in
April and I probably contemplate some type of engineers report
to be included with the bond package. If the Council says go
ahead and implement as much as you can in this master plan then
Engineer Reese can figure that portion into the engineering
report when we go out for the sale of the bonds. The City has
historically borrowed $5 million at a time so if you use that
figure as a barometer, the water plant plus the master plan
items would definitely cover the $5 million very nicely. And
the work needs to be done, the faster you get it done then the
faster the system 'is put into what the Department of
Environmental Regulation considers compliance and then you do
not 'lave hassles with the Department of Environmental
Regulation. I think if you try to piece -meal it, historically
I do not think you will be able to do it because of the cost.
Director Loftin added if we piece -meal it then the last twenty
percent of it will probably cost as much as the first eighty
percent of it.
Administrator Drago, what we need is some formal direction to
authorize the staff to proceed with implementation of the master
plan incorporated with what Engineer Reese is saying, separate
plans and specifications for the water plant, separate set of
plans and specifications for the distribution system.
Mayor Kirk, I would assume from the complaints that we are
getting and the problems we are having that we need to do this
(proceed with the implementation of the master plant). The only
thing is the dollar amounts.
Councilmember Watford, somewhere in the process will somebody be
able to look at this and tell us in a simpler way for us to
understand these millions of dollars, is somebody going to look
at it and say okay when we spend this $3 million and this $1.2
million and when we get through, whatever year it is going to
be, this is basically what our rates are going to be? Our Debt
Service is going to be approximately this and our water rate
wL1_ probably be approximately? That would make it a lot
simpler for me.
��•E KIM
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F. NEW BUSINESS
9. Continued . . . .
%OUNCILMEMBBRS ACTION
Administrator Drago commented that part of the bond
documentation would be to show the investors what the present
system looks like financially and where the rates need to be in
the future to meet the financial obligation of the new issue I
would assume that you would be looking at an increase in the
connection and capacity fees not necessarily an increase in the
water rates as long as the system operates efficiently and meets
its obligation. I do not see a need and I think the consultant
pretty well pointed that out in his several reports saying that
you do not need a volume metric rate increase for quite a while.
We are still going to try and structure the bond deal so that
the debt service does not kick in until two years down the road.
By then the water plant should be on line and allow us to hook
up some new customers with the volume and blend the debt service
in. To answer your- question, yes. The same scenario will
happen when the Council goes to address the wastewater plant,
you will have to run the same numbers.
Mayor Kirk, do we have this money already set aside or is this
going to be in the bond.
Administrator Drago answered yes, it is going to be in the bond,
we are going to tell the bond holders that "x" number of dollars
is. for the water plant and "x" number of dollars is for the
distribution system so they know where the money is being spent.
Councilmember Watford made a motion to instruct the Public
Utilities Department to implement the corrections as outlined in
the master plan in conjunction with the ground water treatment
plant; seconded by Councilmember Entry.
Following lengthy discussion, Councilmember Walker commented
that he thought we have a good master plan, its just like
Dowling brought up, as long as we are technically covered to
continue on with the same engineer and we are not abusing the
competitive negotiations act in any way.
Attorney Cook, I am told that this engineering work for the
distribution system was included in previous requests for
proposals that we have obtained other engineers beside Reese and
we selected him to proceed.
VES i NO
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F. NEW BUSINESS
9. Continued . . . .
10. Discuss the Public Utility Authority -
Councilmember Watford.
ADJOURNMENT
Mayor Kirk:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IF ANY PERSON
SHOULD DECIDE TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADE
AT THIS MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL, SUCH
PERSON WILL NEED TO INSURE THAT A VERBATIM
RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING IS MADE WHICH
INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON
WI-IGH (THE -APPEAL IS BASED. A COPY OF THE
RE NG•.CAN'BE OBTAINED IN THE CITY
`Q RK` OFFICE.
t 1
s E. Kirks Mayor
fittest:
Bonnie omas, CMC, City Clerk
LOUNC7LMEMBERS ACTION
no further discussion vote on motion was as follows:
KIRK
COLLINS
ENTRY
WALKER
WATFORD
MOTION CARRIED.
Councilmember Watford stated he wanted to express that he found
it extremely interesting that when the Saturday meeting that was
hosted by the Business Council was over his understanding was
that the County, the City and Okeechobee Beach Water Association
were all going to try to work together, let each other know what
each one was doing. Then three days later, Tuesday, the County
holds a workshop with Okeechobee Beach Water Association to
discuss water and we were not notified. I am sure they
advertised it, however, I did not see an advertisement for it.
And I would like the record to show that we did send them (the
County Commissioners) a copy of our agenda for tonight so they
would know we were going to talk about the Public Utility
Authority.
Mayor Kirk adjourned the meeting at 8:35 P.M.
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