Fort Walton Beach Council minutes — 06-08-1965 Regular — reading text

117 MINUTES OF REGULAR HEETING OF CITY COUNCIL FORT WALTON BEACH, FLORIDA June 8, 1965 A regular meeting of City Council of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, 1 was held at City Hall on June 8, 1965, at 7: 30 P. lI. with the following members present: Elbert Davis, I,Iayor C. H. Rigdon Joseph Guidry Fred Tolbert Sill L. Rogers C. H. Long, and City ITanager, City Clerk- Finance Director, and City Attorney. Invocation was given by Rev. Turton. Turton presented a sketch and requested that alley be closed on the Evangelistic Centre property. He said the alley was contiguous to lots 5 and 6, and 7 and 8, Block 3, Central Addition at the corner of Harbeson and First Street, and affected only property owned by the church. lIr.Long asked if Council could hear this request without there having been first a public hearing. Attorney said public hearing would have to be held though could be held by Councilor by the Hearing Board, but there would have to be proper legal notice as prescribed by Florida Statutes. Manager said hearing could Dot b. be held until 15 days after notice of such hearing had been published. 11r. Rogers moved that City Attorney prepare ordinance closing the alley to be presented two weeks from this meeting at a hearing but amended it to be hearing and ordinance at the first meeting in July with permission of his second, fIr. Tolbert. Public hearing was set for July 13 meeting. Vote to the motion was aye unanimously. Turton brought up the fact that ice cream vendors go into residential area and deal almost entirely with children and he felt that possibly they ought to be required by the Police Department to be fingerpri~ ed I and photographed for the protection of the City' s children. He said he was not opposed to vending but felt that people in this business ought to be checked. r--.-------.-.--~.------- 11A Mr. Long moved that the Chief of Police and City Attorney be instructed to check this out. r,lotion seconded by I''Ir. Rogers, and the vote was aye unanimously. IIrs. Hails a member of the Teen Advisory Board thanked Council on behalf of the Board and of the Teens for all Council had done and for the prompt action. She reported that over the past two weeks 420 had signed in and signed out. Ilayor Davis thanked her on behalf of the Council and then thanked the Board for all their efforts on behalf of the teenagers. Bids for sanitation truck were opened and are tabulated as follows: Lee Pontiac Oldsmobile 5, 299. 00 L 8: V IIotors 5, 343. 86 These bids vlere referred to Public i,vorks Committee for study and recommendation on motion by IIr. Rogers, seconded by l'I. Guidry and aye unanimous vote. Mr. Ready arrived at 7: 50 p. n. Bids for pump were opened and are tabulated as follows: Griffin Wellpoint Co. 3, 995. 00 Turner 2, 694. 00 These bids were referred to the Public Works Committee for study and recornmendation on motion by I,Ir. Tolbert, seconded by IIr. Rogers and aye unanimous vote. Bids for wellpoint system were opened and are tabulated as follows: IToretrench CorD. 7, 027. 50 Ben ~ illiams E~ uip. Co. 6, 317. 00 Thompson ~ ellpoint ip6, 850. 00 Griffin 5, 917. 00 These bids were referred to the Public Works COlnmittee for studv and recommendation on motion by I~r. Guidry, seconded by rrr. Long and aye unanimous vot e. The following recommendations from the Public ; Jorks Comrnittee were presented: 1. Recommend that Joseph Bass property be resubdivided into one lot, thereby eliminating the requirement for two tapping fees.  119 2. Recommend that letter from attorney regarding assignment of the garment plant lease be referred to the Finance Committee for their study. 3. Recommend that bid for fire hose dryer be awarded to Jack Cocke, at $ 813. 00. 1 4. Recommend that level bid be awarded to Tfuyes Printing Co. for K & E level at $ 745. 00. 5. Recommend approval for lease between City of. Fort Walton Beach and USAF for approximately 19. 25 acres at ~ 1. 00 per year for five years. t..Recommend that the City l: anager be authorized to negotiate contract for renovation of community center building for a teen center. 7. Recommendthat AC motor grader and HD- ll dozer be sold at public sale to highest bidder and that the City lease new IIodel 12 Road 11achine. These recommendations were unanimously approved on motion by I'lr. Rogers, seconded by Tt'lr. Ready. The following recommendations from the Finance Committee were presented: 1. Recommend that building supply license fee be refunded toVesta Corporation 9n the same basis as it was to Fort Walton Lumber, i. e., $ 400. 00 per year for each year the license was purchased. 2. Recommend authorization for purchase for additional playground equipment and supplies in the amount of $ 250. 00. 3. Recommend that letter from Veterans Administration concerning Lee Phelps assessment on Vine Street be referred to the City Attorney for study and recommendation. 4. Recommend that Councilman Long be authorized to meet with the Okaloosa Island Authority to discuss further rates for fire protection agreement. 5. Was read with two wordings - I Recommend that garment plant lease be assigned on basis that in the event the bank should sub- lease City will approve such sub- lease and bank can only collect up to its interest in the property from any overage in lease payments, i. e., lease payments or forfeit any interest - continue OR - 120 Recomraend that the City assign the lease between the Fort Walton Beach manufacturing company and the City of Fort \ Jalton Beaah with the stipulation that any sub- leasing must be approved by the City Council, Fort \ valton Beach; First National Bank will be required to continue the monthly lease payments or forfeit any interest that they may have in the lease; the Bank may collect any ov~ rage in lease pa)~ ent that they may receive in excess of the $ 500. 00 per month payment up to the Bank' s interest in the property. After the Bank has collected its total interest in the property, the total proceeds from the lease will be due the City. IIr. Tolbert moved that recorI1ffiendations - I through 4 be approved. rotion seconded by I"Jr. Ready, and the vote was aye unanimously. l'lr. Long moved that number 5 be passed as recommended. I,:otion l' seconded by Ir. Ready. IIr. Tolbert a.: k ed if the City were under any obligation to the bank. }~ nager said both suggested i'lordings actually recommended the same thing. Tir. Tolbert asked if the recommendation meant if garment people should abandon lease, then bank would have right to take over, providing the City approved anyone they sub- leased tO, and bank could collect their interest from overage of the$ 500. 00 lease payment until loan would be paid off. Er. Rogers commented that everything oright to be spelled out very clearly so it would be perfectly clear. Tlr. Long asked that the second wording be re- read and this was agreed upon. Vote to the motion was aye unanimously. The following recommendation from I' IAB TtlaS presented: I~AB recommends that lot 22, Block B, Park Place 2nd Addition, be rezoned from R- IA to R- 2, 227 Hospital Drive. ( Hearing Board recommended approval). Conncil unanimously approved this recommendation on motion by r:r. Long seconded by I'Ir. Ready and the vote was aye unanimously. IIr. Kendrick of the Firm of Ricks and Kendrick asked if Council had received any bids on restrooms to be constructed at the Little League Parks md at the golf course. No bids had been received. There was a discussion of the fact that evidently builders and contractors were too busy and weren' t interested in the job. fIr. Guidry moved that the I'Ianager negotiate bids on the basis of price extimates previous submitted. J'Tr. Rogers seconded the motion. The figure of ~)2, 755. 00 was mentioned, and it was requested that the sketches be brought to the table.  121. vfuile they were being located, the City Attorney read ordinance 171. 5 as follows: 171. 5 - An ordinance repealing that portion of section 14- 45 of the Code of Ordinance of the City of Fort Walton Beach ( 65) pertaining to purchase of occupational licenses 1 by building suppliers, providing the effective date hereof. The ordinance by lIr. Ready, was passed unanimously on the first reading seconded by lTr. Rigdon. on motion 100. 43 - An ordinance rezoning a certain parcel of property in the City of Fort Walton Beach, providing the effective date hereof. Council unanimously approved this ordinance on 1st reading on motion by I'/ fr. Rogers, seconded by I-' Ir. Rigdon. 436 - An ordinance declaring the intention of the City of Fort Walton Beach to annex a tract of land to said City under the provisions of Section 171. 04, Florida Statutes, and providing the effective date of said ordinance.