Fort Walton Beach Council minutes — 05-25-1976 Regular — reading text

ft~- 231 UNCOLLECTABLE RENT RECEIVABLES IN THE AMOUNT OF $ 246. 40, PROVIDING THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. Mr. Baughman moved that the resolution be approved. Motion was seconded by Mr. Hill I and carried unanimously. LPA- 44 RE: CLOSE OUT OF LPA- 44 A RESOLUTION EFFECTING A CLOSE NDP OUT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF FORT WALTON BEACH, FLORIDA LOCAL PUBLIC AGENCY FOR NDP PROJECT FLA. A- 3 ( 3) AND THE CITY OF FORT WALTON BEACH, FLORIDA, PROVIDING THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. Mr. Baughman moved that the resolution be approved. Motion was seconded by Mr. Brock and carried unanimously. LPA- 45 RE: EXTENSION OF LPA- 45 A RESOLUTION RATIFYING AND CONFIRM- PAYMENT TO ATTORNEY AND ING THE EXTENSION OF THE PAYMENT OF SUMS ACCOUNTANT FOR LPA TO THE ATTORNEY AND ACCOUNTANT FOR THE CITY OF FORT WALTON BEACH LOCAL PUBLIC AGENCY PROVIDING THE EFFECTIVE DATE HERE- OF. Mr. Hunt moved that the resolution be approved. Motion was seconded by Mr. Rigdon and carried unanimously. 164. 2 RE: SOLICITORS 164. 2 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 16- 9 ORDINANCE OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF FORT WALTON BEACH PERTAINING TO SOLICITORS PROVIDING THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. City Attorney read the ordinance and explained it. Mr. Rigdon stated that he gets calls from allover the United States. I think it is hard for us to pass an ordinance like this. We put an ordinance on the books that says you can' t solicit after certain hours. It' s kind of silly to try to enforce something like this. I City Attorney stated that we now have in the ordinance section which prohibits a telephone solicitation, and people call anyway. If we take that out, I guess they' ll just call more. Mr. Roy Ourso asked if this would pertain to political candidates calling to solicit votes. City Attorney replied that this pertains to solicitation of funds or the  o'~'" O>'~"'""'-""_~~""","",'."<~'''_'-- r,,' T_- 4.-.'............''''''''___ .,......._...'..'''' - . ',-"---'" iI-'..~ S? 5'/ 7(' 232 sale of products. Mr. Hunt stated that the problem is that if you have someone calling from outside the City, there is not much you can do about it anyway. Mr. Baughman asked if this could be handled by complaint called in by the person who a received the call. City Attorney explained that there have been cases where telephone solicitation has been stopped inside City limits. A problem you have is people cal- ling on a toll- free number from out of town, you have no way of finding out who is calling. It is up to Council, but this is a very hard thing to enforce. City Manager explained that if you pass the ordinance, you are limiting door to door solicitation to 8: 00 a. m. to 6: 00 P. m. and eliminating the prohibition of telephone solicitation completely. Mr. Hunt moved that the ordinance be appro- ved. Motion was seconded by Mr. Rigdon, and Mayor called for discussion. Mr. Baughman asked if Council would con- sider changing the hours from 8: 00 to 6: 00, to 8: 00 to 5: 00. Mr. Rigdon stated that he is in favor of moving it back to 4: 00. City Attorney explained the ordinance again and said that solicitors must get a permit, and then they can solicit between the hours of 8: 00 and 6: 00. Section 2 of the old ordinance prohibited telephone solicitation. This ordinance is repealing that section. City Manager stated that if it is the 1 j intent of Council that telephone solici- j I tation be allowed between the hours of 1 I 8: 00 a. m. and 6: 00 p. m., then let' s state I J that in the ordinance. t' Mr. Baughman moved that the ordinance be changed to read between the hours of 8: 00 a. m. and 5: 00 p. m. instead of 6: 00 p. m. Motion died for lack of a second.  233 Mr. Palmer moved that the ordinance be amended to read between the hours of 8: 00 a. m. and 4: 00 p. m. Motion was seconded by Mr. Rigdon, and Mayor