Fort Walton Beach Council minutes — 02-27-1979 Regular — reading text

T '_ MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL OF FORT WALTON BEACH, FLORIDA February 27, 1979 INTRODUCTION A regular meeting of the City Council of Fort Walton Beach, Florida was held on Tuesday, February 27, City Hall 1979 at I at 7: 00 present: COUNCILMEN: p. m. Daniel Houghton, Jr. with the following members C. H. Rigdon, Jr. Robert L. Hunt Charlie H. Hill John H. Bishop Hurdis A. Brock James K. Baughman Mayor Smith ALSO PRESENT: City Manager, City Attorney, City Clerk- Finance Director Invocation was given by Councilman Hill and Mayor led in the Pledge to the Flag. UNITED FUND PLAQUES Plaques were presented to the Police Department and the Sanitation Department for their participation in the United Fund Drive. MINUTES Mayor presented the minutes of the Feb- ruary 13, 1979 meeting. Mr. Baughman moved that the minutes be approved as presented. Motion was seconded by Mr. Hill and carried unanimously. INDUSTRIAL PARK BID: City Manager we advertised for a said SILVERLINE, INC. bid for 15 in the Industrial Park, acres 5 acres to be utilized now and two addi- tional 5- acre tracts to be used in the future. The highest and best use of this property to be the manufacturing of boats. We have one bid from Silverline, I with a check enclosed in the amount of 12, 500 which represents bid on the ini- tial 5- acre plot advertised for bids by Fort Walton Beach. The check represents bid offer for the first 5 acres and includes assent to the provisions set forth in the Notice to Bidders. l44 2/ 27/ 79 Mr. Baughman moved to accept the bid. Motion was seconded by Dr. Houghton and carried unanimously. REQUEST FROM SILVERLINE TO Under New Business, Mayor presented a LAUNCH BOATS FROM LIZA request from Silverline for permission JACKSON PARK to launch Company- owned boats from the boat ramp at Liza Jackson Park. Mr. Hunt moved to approve the request. Motion was seconded by Mr. Bishop and carried unanimously. REQUEST FROM SCOTT STEEL Mayor presented a request from Scott FOR INTERPRETATION OF Steel for interpretation of Section 407 BUILDING CODE hazardous occupation), Section 408. I( c) and Table 400 ( factory occupancy) of the Standard Building Code to classify cons- truction of paint spray booths, flammable storage, and the remainder of the proposed Silverline boat facility as Factory- Industrial in the City Industrial Park. Mr. moved that the request be ap- Hunt proved. Motion was seconded by Mr. Hill and carried unanimously. Mayor said, I think this paves the way to wonderful addition to Fort Walton a Beach. He introduced Mr. Ray Stordahl, president of Silverline Boats. Mr. Stordahl said he appreciated all the good things that have been happening the last few days, and also the fine treatment the City and other people in the community have given their company in helping them try to fit into the community. We are looking forward to moving down. We will have a place ren- ted to start training in mid- March, and by early fall we should be in the new factory. REQUEST TO INSTALL LIGHTS Mr. John Georgiades requested permission AT LIOLLIOS to install Mexican decorative lights on property line in parking lot of Liollios Restaurant on Miracle Strip Parkway. I l Mr. Hunt the request be moved that granted. Motion was seconded by Mr. Rigdon and carried unanimously.  2/ 27/ 79 ~ 1,T '._ C; ORDINANCE REFERENCE City Manager asked that the ordinance CONSTRUCTION PENALTY imposing a penalty for commencing cons- truction without a building permit be brought back before Council. Council passed this some time back and I under- stood the intent to be for one who con- I tinues to construction without a start permit to be penalized. The way it is written, the Building Inspector is utilizing it on innocent people, and I donlt think it was Councills intent to do that. So to keep the Building Inspec- tor and myself from having differences I would recommend that we set up something to penalize second offenders. Mr. Rigdon said, that was my recommen- dation when we set up this thing, and I agree. It is just a tool, because we have people who continually violate the ordinance and we ought to have some way to penalize them. Mr. Baughman asked, does that mean that nobody who commits a first offense would be penalized? City Manager replied, there will have to be some judgment exercised here. You take homeowner who has never heard of a a permit and doing $ 200 worth of work and slap him with a $ 100 fine, this is not right, because he does not intend to do any wrong. Mr. Hunt said, the penalty was estab- lished for a reason. It was for the habitual offender. Is there anything wrong with us leaving it like it is and giving you whatever authority you need to get the proper interpretation over to the Building Inspection Department? Mr. Baughman said the builders are I really the ones who ought to know, and I think this is where the real violations are coming from. Mr. Hunt said, I disagree. If a man is in business to build, he is not going to go out there and violate the law or not buy a building permit. He knows he is going to have to have the inspector come out and inspect it and pass on it.  2/ 27/ 79 1.46 Mr. Baughman said, the ones I remember were fences put up by fence companies. Mr. Hunt replied, that is not a building contractor. Mr. Hill said, why donlt we let the City Manager have the latitude of making that decision? Dr. Houghton suggested tabling it