Fort Walton Beach Council minutes — 12-23-1974 Special — reading text

29 MINUTES OF SPECIAL MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL OF FORT WALTON BEACH, FLORIDA December 23, 1974 I INTRODUCTION A special meeting . of the City Cauncil . of Part Waltan Beach, Flarida was held at the City Hall on December 23, 1974 at 4: 30 p. m. with the fallawing members present: COUNCILMEN: George A. Palmer C. H. Rigdan, Jr. H. C. Van Buskirk Charles H. Hill Art Schweizer, Hurdis A. Brock James K. Baughman Mayor McLaughlin ALSO PRESENT WERE: City Attarney, City Manager, Hausing Authority Baard Members: William Spain, Chairman~ Dan Fleskes, Eugene Braxsan & Executive Directar, William Porter; and NDPILPA Director Bill Peebles. NOTICE OF MEETING Mayor read notice calling the special meeting to cansider Public Hausing Authority Bid recommendation. PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY BID City Attarney explained that basically this was dual bid situation with the LPA a requesting bids for 50 low to maderate income houses for a specified price and at the same time the Fort Walton Beach Hausing Authority was advertising ta buy from a bidder, 50 units .or so an the same tract .of land. He nated a bidder was bidding in twa directions-- primarily in the first place was ta get Fort Waltan Beach Housing Autharity ta buy his praject as the first ~espansibility. He said Council as the LPA could sell this I praject ta anyone . of the bidders they thaught best. He said any bidder that bid an this did so an the basis their bid wauld be accepted by the Fort Walton Beach Housing Autharity. It was noted that both the LPA directar and the LHA Directar were present. ao Question was asked if both LPA and LHA recammended an the design and construction of this-- Which board wauld the recommen- datian come fram? Attorney said both LPA and LHA. Manager asked in case LHA recom- mended ta sell someone the property and the ' LHA recommended purchase from another, , what would happen? in the bid. Mr. Attorney said would a situation passibly of not getting built. : Mr. Hill questioned the Porter HUD played role said HUD had legal n havel .. power on this and that LHA recommended to HUD. Mayar cammented that apparently the federal peaple ruled on whatever Council did in the matter. Mr. Baughman expressed an interest in sitting with LHA and discus- sing. LHA chairman Spain said their board had been appointed to review and recommend and that he personally had no objection to sitting with Council. Mr. Palmer asked what criteria LHA used in making their recom- mendation. Mr. Porter said their recom- mendation was based on three criteria, not necessarily of equal rank: priWe, design, and experience of the developer. He handed Council a data sheet concerning bids. Bids were: Emmer, $ 1, Ol7, lOO. 00; Dan Evans, 1, 089, 500. 00; and Henderson, $ l, 095, 000. 00. Mr. Palmer noted that since he was in the dark and with due respect to the LHA boards-- saying they were better versed in the matter, and due to the camments regarding the bid time and very little difference in the bid, mentioning cansidering people that live in the area-- he moved that bids be thrawn out and let Council be infarmed befare bids are opened ta let all Council sit in. Motian was seconded by Mr. Schweizer. There was further discussion of the criteria for the recommendation and of the role of HUD in accepting the bids. Peebles indi- ,:,: cated that technically LPA was not under a '. deadline but Porter said LHA was-- they had to have a developed plan in 180 days after preliminary low bid is approved and it was \~ approved in November. l.. Mr. Palmer said his motion was made to get clarification for a clear and mutual under- standing. Manager noted that as he understood it, if  31 Cauncil was in disagreement with what the LHA recommended, then he felt praper the action was ta adjaurn as Council and call a meeting of the LPA and make a contrary recammendatian, but felt that they as Council- men should not take any actian. I ADJOURNMENT Mr. Van Buskirk moved that the mation an the floor be tabled. carried unanimausly. Meeting was Motian seconded and adjaurned at 5: 05 p. m. APPROVED: K.P, / 91r' , jl~' By:~~ cL ' , . A0 or ATTEST: c~~ is\' i~ C~:;- I  RIJ. :~ ~: r.~.cx._ P:tOP g'St\ LS f T-:-~: . E ~'~J\ U.... 1.',: ,;; Iri: t~~j';:I{ r) Ci : Dr:: IL~ ',L() P I'::: { In cr :\ i;~~ T ,' U: ni~ Ii~:JT!:;:: i !T r-,' CORP. CCJt~P . FRIC:= S-i-'-:> S125, OOO I S12~), O~~} 3125, 000 Site Imrovements 85, 9()() 75, 3='/) 6-:),630 Swelling Construction ~ [ quo 61 f), 00 :) 71~) , 4::. n 712, 450 i: on- DwE' ll in9 Conc,tructi on 31, 900 n:)") 45,() OO C; l:i i.ectur,ll r n~ d n(;,' 1' 1 n~J l: T! ,our) J 1 7 , O')() h'? r 1<.) 1j , O()\) I, 7('~) 1~~ 4, 9a() arpet [ Air for Elderly 3 , DO( ) Lnc 1 ud .?r: 1nc1 wlc:d r\ TOT ,.\L 1, 017, 100 11, 2' 39, 5~: 31, C95, 1