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

which to hold the dinner. He suggested if the City were interested and so expressed a welcome to the committee it would be well received. He said it would be a Dutch treat dinne, r, and those invited would be the I governor, members of his cabinet, senators and representatives. I,~. Long moved that a resolution be drawn inviting and welcoming the dinner to be held in Fort Walton Beach. Motion seconded by I'Ir. Ready, and the vote was aye unanimously. r'~ yorDavi~ appointed the Board of Equalization for July 1965 as follows: George Dewrell, Jim Buchanan, Fred Hedrick, and George Alford as an alternate. Tolbert moved that since ~ x. Guidry placed Dr. Thompson' s name in nomination, he would place Jimmy Tringas name in nomination. Motion seconded by Mr. Rogers. Secretary was asked to read Guidry' s nomination, and it was confirmed that he had ended II his comments with the words ! move that Dr. vfilliam W. Thompson l' . be appointed IV: ayor . . . I/~. Rogers said if Dr. Thompson was appointed then he withdrew his second. Mr. Ready commented that due respect to everyone, this might have been embarrassing to the individual. Carnathan commented that the City ought to be officially represented on the Sikes Appreciation Dinner Committee. He moved that 1'>'Iayor Davis be appointed to represent the City. Motion seconded by r~. Ready. Mayor Davis said he would be glad to ~ cept temporarily. Vote to the motion was aye unanimously. Manager reported that there had been a misunderstanding last week on the Little League Program. He said that three members of Council discussed with some of the parents and members of the Recreation Department and the misunderstanding was over the cut- off date for the program. He said this was referred back to the Parks and Recreation Board and they had agreed to officially end season with ten games and from there would be offered another five game season to the children that still wanted to play. He said this seemed to satisfy those parents that had registered complaints. Manager reported that he had been contacted by the Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners and they would like to come I to Fort Walton Beach Friday morning at 11: 00 to discuss the County' s water and sewer program. He said he was first called by Cecil Anchors from Crestview and asked if the City had permits and easements to run water from main through Ocean City area and asked what City planned to do with well contracted to have dug on Skipper and informed the Manager that City would not be able to connect the well to the City' s 12n line that runs in front of the well because property did not touch on the transmission line. He said the engineer checked after the call and confirmed that the lot does touch on the transmission line. He said he then a~ kect the Chairman if the City had violated any 126 County procedure in going about drilling the well. He said he assured him the City had violated no procedure and then informed Manager that the citizens of the area objected to well stating that it would lower their water table. He said private utility company owners were opposed. }' lanager said he only had opportunity to mention this briefly to the City Attorney, but there were three alternatives open to Council. He said City crould say this was City' s own property ano do as saw fit and County might initiate action; or could move well site back to Golf Course area. He said there might be difficulty in getting to the 12 transmission line. The third alternative he said would be to move well to western end of town and into Industrial area. He said additional cost in that area would be approximately $ 4, 200. 00 due to having to go deeper for water. He said if well were moved to golf course property additional cost would be $ 600. 00 forttest well. Carnathan asked if City had deed to the lot on Skipper Avenue. I'Ir. Attorney said deed was being prepared and he had talked with the Attorney for the Barrow estate who gave every indication that he planned to go ahead with preparation of the deed. Mr. Carnathan said in view of this, he moved that this Council instruct the City 11anager to proceed with the drilling of this t'lell in all due haste. = Iotion seconded by Er. Rigdon. ICr. Rigdon asked if the call came from ~~. Landreth himself and ~~ nager said it did, that the commissioners were in session at the time of the call, and that was the formal action of the Board. I'.Ir. Long said he felt City had friends on the commission and he couldn' t believe that they could look him in the eye and say they would penalize the City of Fort ' Jal ton Beach for water. I.:: anager mentioned that the City could be blocked as far as getting easements needed on county controlled right- of- way. I: r. Carnathan said he was sure from past action, City was going to be blocked in anything attempted to do an~rway. He said further that when City had abided by all laws and regulations he did not believe they could stop City from proV" idil\lg W'~ ter to the citizens of Fort Walton Beach. TCr. Ready agrem vlith l\'!r. Carnathan. I.Tanager asked if Council would want to hold action until the Friday morning meeting. Nr. Long moved that the motion be tabled until special meeting Friday morning. Ti~otion seconded by I,:r. Ready and the vote was as follows: Aye: Long, Guidry, Tolbert, Ready Nay: Carnathan, Rogers, Rigdon IIotion carried.  127 Long commented that there would only be three days delay. He asked if Hr. Thompson the well contractor were likely to incur undue expense in the three days. rTanager said he would not. Ir. I'' Long moved that Thompson didn' t incur undue expense as long as in the well at the new site that the construction continue. I' lotion 1 seconded by Er. Ready and the vote was aye unanimously. I'~ r. Tolbert asked if Nr. Kallman of the FortVlalton I''Ianufacturing Company were waiting and someone checked outside the building but he was not. Rogers inquired after status of the disposal plant. IiII'. 1' lanager reported that it was hoped to have bids for lift station ready for the next Council meeting and after that engineers could put full time on the local plant for upgrading, etc. Tolbert asked about the economic survey and the Manager said r,Ir. it was ready for this meeting but it was hoped that itW)uld be not ready by next Council meeting. Meeting adjourned at 9: 25 P. M. APPROVED: n~~ / 9& S- MAYOR: - cJ. tV,~~ ATTEST: d4/ J. a~_ CIIyC/flf~ I 128