Fort Walton Beach Council minutes — 02-12-1991 Regular — reading text

acre using 25% coverage. She then took an average of 35 jobs per acre for those buildings; the going job rate per acre tends to be 20, but with a lot of areas recommending 50, she went in the middle. By doing all of that, the City would find an availability of land that can be sold and bring over 1100 jobs to the City of Fort Walton Beach. Mr. deVaux indicated there are a couple more spots available where the City could possibly get land; a lot of people hold opt ions on property who do not exercise th~ir options and those are choice properties. Ms. Byrne Riley felt option land was not available, therefore, did not make a recommendation; if it becomes available. then it is recommended it be used for the highest and best use. Mr. Wyatt commented that the language contained in the paragraph pertaining to the bid process made a lot of sense. Ms. Byrne Riley gave some background on the language used in paragraph 5 regarding the bid process. She expressed research made and this is specific language used in other industrial parks; if this language is used and bids put out were very specific, there would not be as many problems as in the past. Mr. deVaux asked if the whole parcel " A" was a pistol range. and told majority of it was. was the He then I stated their contract has a 30 or 90 day notice to vacate. Ms. Byrne Riley repeated the property was an extremely valuable piece of property and the pistol range is not a good use of it. Mr. Wyatt suggested when they start putting the Budget Workshop calculations together that the EDC report be a part of it. The Mayor expressed appreciation for the work done by the Economic Development Council, and remarked the report would be put back into workshop and put to use. 278 2- 12- 91 CONSENT AGENDA Mr. Smith . oved to approve the Council workshop minutes WORKSHOP/ REGULAR of 1- 15- 91, the Council workshop . inutes of 1- 21- 91, the MINUTES regular Council ainutes of 1- 22- 91, the Special Council minutes of 1- 30- 91, and the Council workshop minutes of 2- 4- 91. Motion was seconded Mr. Wyatt and carried unanimously, with Smith, Rosenbaum, deVaux, Wyatt, Haney, Nicholson, and Wyninegar in favor. SEWAGE AND SEWERAGE Tom Maney reminded Council that Mr. Mikel has told them TOM MANEY tha t as a result of the terrible rains, there was an overflow problem on Alconese Avenue. After going down there, Mr. Maney said he saw City machinery pumping sewage out of the sewer manhole into another manhole and the water was coming out too fast to make much headway. He decided to look into it further and wrote a note to Mr. Keeler telling him he wanted to mention it at this meeting, and research was done. Mr. Maney checked on Thursday. Friday, and again on Saturday to see that the machinery was still there. On Thursday and Friday, he saw raw human feces in the street. as well as toilet tissue and such, going out Alconese Avenue into the sound; by that time the auxiliary pump was taken away. Mr. Maney indicated the Public Works Dir~ tor made a point in his letter Council the day to that after the last heavy rain over 7 million gallons of water pumped through the waste water treatment plant was more than double the normal flow; average pumping at that station during normal operation is 5 hours a day. During a period of rain. both pumps pump 24 hours a day; they still couldn' t keep up with it. A sanitary sewer is supposed to be a totally independent. self contained system with nothing going in or nothing going out except at the proper orifices. When there is a situation like this with hydrostatic pressure on the outside due to rainwater, it is such that it gives a magnitude more flow from 5 hours a day of pump to 24 hours a day of one two pumps. That says those pipes have a lot of holes in them; the rain water is coming into the sewer system. Also when it is dry outside. it is possible for the sewage to go outside and get into the dirt. This is an intolerable situation, the prospect for disease and bad health is incalculable. To help in correcting the problem. preparations in specifications for a company to come in and evaluate the system and locate the problems to eliminate this in flow thing. and the cost to do the study will be $ 600, 000. Mr. Maney expressed he can' t think of a better way to spend the money. He has found out of other places in town with the same problem. He explained to Council and the taxpayers he thinks that a major expenditure may be faced in fixing the sewers. and he thinks this is the best possible way to spend money to take care of the health of the citizens. If the study will cost $ 600. 000, then the cost of fixing should be a lot more. The bottom line is to be prepared to have to spend money to fix the sewer systan.  279 2- 12- 91 SEWAGE ( CONT . ) Mr. Maney said he would like the City Manager to take the responsibility of notifying Council whenever there is a sewage spill, where it is. and how bad it is so they will know what the problem is. He asked the City Manager if that is a fair request. The City Manager replied in the affirmative. I Mr. Smith asked if the incident had happened before. The Public Works Director explained it happened once before when one of the pumps failed. He said he ~ s looking at doing it in phases and not obligating 600, 000 at one time, hoping to start at a $ 50, 000 range as the money is available.