Fort Walton Beach Council minutes — 06-13-1971 Regular — reading text

drive- thru lanes in each direction on Buck Drive.  zm 143 17. Recommend that the committee who studied the traffic signal at Beachview Drive and Eglin Parkway at of the foot the Cinco Bayou Bridge and be reactivated that the committee also study with the County Commissioners the plans for 6- laning of Eglin Parkway in the 1975 1 program. ( Palmer, Guidry, Schweizer) Mr. Rigdon moved that recommendations 1 thru 4 and 6 thru 17 be approved as read. Motinn seconded by Mr. Palmer and carried unanimously. TRUCK BID Under bids, recommendation was read that bid for truck cab and chassis be awarded to low bidder who met specifications, Dodge City at $ 3583. 31. Mr. Rigdon moved that the recommendation be approved. Motion seconded by Mr. Palmer and carried unanimously. Other bids were: Tatum Motors $ 3778. 00 Gary Smith Ford $ j658. 00. DRAINPIPE- Single bid for drainage pipe for the GOLF COURSE golf course was recommended for awarding by Golf Course Manager Jim Hughes at 20. 65 per 100'. Bid was Charles A. from Born Company. Mr. Brock moved that the recommendation be approved. Motion seconded by Mr. Palmer and carried un- animously. CRAWLER TRACTOR BIDS Manager said from the discussion at Committee concerning the crawler tractor bids he was unsure of instructions and felt it possible that could wait 2 weeks on this bid. Mr. Palmer asked if there was a recommenda- tion. Manager said there was a recommenda- 1 tion but since there was some question about the HP on the units and didn' t want to put out recommendation until know the desires of the Council. Mayor asked what the wishes of Council were. Mr. Rigdon said he was not a great believej in putting things off. He said we asked for 140 HP and 2 of the tractors bid 125 and 120 and only one bid what we asked for, A/ C was the only one who met specifications. He said if wanted to throw  144 all the bids out that was what they must do. It was commented that without a recommendation it might be proper to put it off. Mr. Hedrick moved that bid be tabled until get sufficient information on which to base an opinion. Motion seconded by Mr. Brock and carried unanimously. SEWER CLEANER BID Concerning the sewer cleaner bid the Manager reported that the Public Works Director requested 2 weeks to study bid. He said it had been determined that specifications had not been mailed to all companies who could have bid that they were mailed to companies with similar names and there was some confusion. Mr. Schweizer moved that this bid be tabled for 2 weeks. Motion seconded by Mr. Brock and carried unanimously. T. V. CABLE For Council' s information Mayor read the sewer operations BOD report, and a letter from the T. V. Cable Company stating their plans to raise the rates and giving their reasons. Mayor commented that he didn' t know why the letter was sent to the City since he didn' t believe the City regulated the rates. He asked what the wishes of the Council were. Mr. Van Buskirk said a number of Council- men had been receiving phone calls con- cerning service of the company and at the committee on Monday they had talked about it a little bit and he wondered about the possibility of forming a committee to meet with the TV Cable people concerning service they are getting at the present time. Mayor asked the City Attorney if City has any regula- tion over TV Cable. Attorney said to some extent; that they represented they would furnish service to the City at a particular rate. He said whether or not Council could hold them to that this much later or not he did not know. He said this was a non- exclusive franchise and that pretty much took the City out of it.  145 ~ Mayor asked if Council would be out of order to ask the company to hold a public hearing to allow the people to come and receive any complaints against service and rates. 1 City Attorney said no. Mayor asked if Council would be out of order to request TV Cable not to raise rates. City Attorney said no. Mr. Van Buskirk moved that Council ask for a Public Hearing question of rates on and service. Motion seconded by Mr. Schweizer. Mr. Rigdon said he felt there were members sitting around the table who were a little more knowledgeable about TV Cable than he was and along with the Public Hearing maybe a 3 man committee of Council could sit down with Mr. Harris and talk about this. He said Harris had come down to Council and discussed it. He said he felt in this way some of the problems could be ironed out. Mayor asked Van Buskirk if he would be agreeable to a 3 man committee being appointed to also sit down with TV people being added to his motion. Van Buskirk agreed and his second agreed. Mayor repeated the motion for Mr. Hedrick. Mr. Palmer asked if a time were stipulated and it was indicated that it was asked for immediately. Mayor asked Mr. Van Buskirk if the committee were to be Couneil appointed appointed by the or Mayor. He indicated the Mayor would appoint. Vote was aye unanimously. PUBLIC HEARING- At 8: 00 p. m. Mayor opened Public Hearing 1 JEFFERSON LANE on assessment roll for Jefferson Lane. City Manager indicated it was 1946. 75 feet of paving and drainage for a total cost of $ 5606. 66 - a 20 foot wide asphalt street without curb and gutter. Mayor asked if anyone present wished to speak concerning this assessment. m~ 146 Mr. Shelley said the property owners felt that the paving of this street would save the City $ 500 to $ 1, 000 a year that is now spent placing clay on the street. He said the Public Works Department had been cooperative in keeping the street maintained ~ and he asked that the City give the pro- perty owners help with the assessment. He said he had some paving done recently and the commercial price per foot was $ 2. 25 and this assessment was more than that. He asked if the City could help at least 50% of the tab on this project, because in 5 or 6 years it would recover through the saving of maintenance. Manager commented that possibly the commercial price paid for paving by Mr. Shelley was not soil cement such as the City used and Mr. Shelley said he didn' t believe it was. Mr. Ralph Yoder arrived late and stated that he felt the City should go along with the property owners since it would be saving the City a considerable amount