Fort Walton Beach Council minutes — 02-24-1976 Regular — reading text

dredging. It was also recommended that the City Engineer be included in this meeting. SCRAP SALE 19. Recommendscrap sale be awarded to highest quote received which was West Florida Scrap Company, Wright, Florida: Scrap iron @ $ 1. 50/ cwt; cast iron @ $ 2. 35/ cwt; brass @ . 24/ lb.; copper @ . 42/ lb. Will leave trailer at yard to be loaded. VARIANCE REQUEST: 20. Recommend variance be granted to allow PRIVACY FENCE AT 19 7' fence along rear property line at 19 I OAKDALE ROAD GYM FLOOR AT HEDRICK RECREATION BUILDING Oakdale Road, pool) 21. tractor Col. NW ( privacy Paul Hoffman. Recommend City hold $ 5, 000 due con- for Hedrick Recreation Building fence for swimming and put him on notice that we are not satisfied with gymnasium floor and will not accept it. ADDITIONAL UNITS FOR HOUS- 22. Recommend approval of submitting an ING PROGRAM for additional application an 30 units  T---"__ ....- _____.,."._. _ ~'__'~_""''''''''''''~'~''~'~'''-'--'>-';''''''''''_~''''-'____---';'___'''' _.~ T._.................____....___.._""""-...<. t,/ z'/ 7~ / 122 under the prOV1S10ns of Section 8 Existing Housing Program. PARKING LOT COMMITTEE 23. Recommend postponing presentation REPORT of Parking Lot Committee report for two weeks to give all members of Council a chance for' further study of the proposed areas. Mr. Brock moved that the recommendations be approved as presented. Motion was seconded by Mr. Hill and carried unani- mously. PROPOSALS FOR REPAIR OF Concerning City Manager stated Item # 12, CITY HALL COOLING SYSTEM that proposals for repair of he has two cooling system at City Hall: Air Con- ditioning Engineers for $ 1, 800. 00, and Smith Plumbing & Heating, Inc. for $ 975. 00. He recommended that Council accept the lower proposal. Mr. Baughman moved that Council accept proposal from Smith Plumbing & Heating, Inc. for $ 975. 00. Motion was seconded by Mr. Hill and carried unanimously. GYM FLOOR AT HEDRICK Concerning Item # 21, City Manager recom- RECREATION BUILDING mended that matter be turned back over to architect for his study and recom- mendation. Mr. Bishop moved that City Manager' s recommendation be approved. Motion was seconded by Mr. Hill. Mr. Rigdon asked for an amendment to the motion to include that the $ 5, 000 be retained by the City until the matter is solved. Motion with amendment carried unanimously. DOG PEN COMMITTEE RECOM- Mr. Bishop presented the following recom- MENDATIONS mendations from the Dog Pen Committee: Recommend that the City take no action in the matter of the complaint lodged by Mr. Barrett about a dog pen on Fi~ Street ( at Ray Deal' s home), other than the continued routine ordinance/ code enforcement." Mr. Baughman moved that the recommenda- tions be approved. Motion was seconded by Mr. Hill and carried unanimously. BICYCLE TRAIL COMMITTEE Mr. Baughman presented the following RECOMMENDATIONS recommendations from the Bicycle Trail Committee:  123 1. Recommend that Council consider an immediate budget study to determine if we go ahead and build approximately can' t one- fourth ( 1/ 4) mile bike trail on Mooney Road within the next two months. Committee discussed the possibility of I asking the County to build sidewalk on the opposite side of Mooney Road. 2. Recommend that West Florida Regional Planning Council be authorized to submit an application for federal funds for bikeways - a joint city- county applica- tion. ( Applications must include urban- ized units of 50, 000 or more population.) Mr. Baughman stated that this stretch of Mooney Road is very dangerous to a lot of school children who walk to school. We feel this Council ought to do something now rather than waiting for federal funds. I think we can afford to do it. I think the estimate a year or so ago was $ 15, 000 per mile. Mr. Walker says that for this particular stretch, it would cost some- what more than that. City Manager explained that he had done a little more checking since the Bicycle Committee meeting. If you go through the City budget you can do whatever you want, but what the State is calling a bicycle path is a striped area on the side of the street with signs saying bicycle path. Mr. Brock said that the State won' t build a path, and they won' t furnish money to build a path, they will only put up signs. City Manager said that you can handle this through the City budget in any manner that you wish, but the state definition of a bicycle path is signs. I Mr. WFRPC Rigdon stated that he isa member and he knows that Niceville has asked for some funds. with some 200 cities. You are competing I feel the same of way as Mr. Baughman about Mooney Road. I am in favor of finding some money to correct that particular area. We have asked the county for their support and they don' t have the money. However, Mr.  d_"~'''' ~_, ,_.__ _..' -.,""<-',.____.."", r- Z4;" 124 ~/ Echols has said that he would help us if we could get a