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HomeMy Public PortalAbout09-12-96 Budget Hearing.tifMINUTES SPECIAL VILLAGE COUNCIL MEETING (BUDGET HEARING) VILLAGE OF KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1996 COUNCIL CHAMBER 85 WEST MCINTYRE STREET, SECOND FLOOR 1 CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS The meeting was called to order by the mayor at 7 04 p m Present were Councilmembers Raul Llorente, Hugh O'Reilly, Michele Padovan, Betty Sune, Raymond Sullivan and Mayor John Festa Vice Mayor John Wald was absent Also present were Village Manager Samuel Kissinger, Acting Village Clerk Yocelyn Galiano Gomez and Village Attorney Steve Helfman 2 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Mayor Festa led the Pledge of Allegiance 3 APPROVAL OF MINUTES There were no minutes submitted for approval of Council 4 AGENDA Councilman Llorente requested that a resolution of sympathy for Luisa B de la Pezuela, who served on the Village Clerk Search Committee, and recently passed away, be prepared for the next meeting It was the consensus of the Council that the appropnate document be prepared and brought back to Council Councilman Padovan requested that Council authorize the Village's participation in a food drive to aid communities in North Carolina affected by recent hurricane There were no objections There were no changes to the agenda 5 SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS The mayor introduced Barbara Hunsaker, 285 Ridgewood Road, President of the Parents and Teachers Association at the Key Biscayne Elementary School Ms Hunsaker and Cynthia Culter, 251 Crandon Boulevard, gave a beef report regarding the establishment of a technology trust to benefit Key Biscayne Elementary School Mayor Festa addressed the members of the PTA who were present regarding the availability of funds through the Community Assistance Grant Program or through a chartable contribution It was the consensus of the Council that this matter be brought back to Council at a later date Page 1 of 9 September 12 1996 At this time, Ed Stone, 145 Hampton Lane, representing the Key Biscayne Chamber of Commerce addressed the Council regarding the contract between the Village of Key Biscayne and the Key Biscayne Chamber of Commerce and presented a proposal to obtain funding under the Fiscal Year 1997 budget William Durham, 748 Glenndge Road, the President of the Key Biscayne Chamber of Commerce, also addressed the Council 7 PUBLIC COMMENTS Heidi Archibald, 881 Ocean Drive, addressed the Council on the issue of taxes Antonio Aguirre, 798 Crandon Boulevard, with La Isla newspaper, addressed the Council to clarify erroneous information published, in the paper regarding the Recreation Department Bill Ofgant, 512 Fernwood Road, spoke to Council regarding the difference between County controlled and Village controlled millage rates 8 RESOLUTIONS The acting clerk read the following resolution by title A RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA, ADOPTING THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE OF THE VILLAGE OF KEY BISCAYNE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 1996 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 1997 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 200 065 (TRIM BILL), SETTING A DATE FOR A FINAL PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT THE MILLAGE RATE, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE The manager began the budget review by giving a bnef explanation on the difference between the proposed millage rate (3 80) and the roll back rate (3 606) 9 ORDINANCES The acting clerk read the following ordinance by title AN ORDINANCE OF THE VILLAGE OF KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA, ADOPTING A TENTATIVE GENERAL FUND OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 1996 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 1997 IN THE AMOUNT OF $10,611,250 00 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 200 065 (TRIM BILL), SETTING A DATE FOR A FINAL PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT THE BUDGET, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE At this time, the mayor opened the public hearing for general comments and explained that the public would also be allowed to address specific sections of the budget Hearing no public comments on the budget in general, the mayor opened for comments specifically on the Capital Budget section Page 2 of 9 September 12 1996 Gregory Han, 685 Curtiswood Dnve, addressed the Council regarding the Capital Budget The mayor made a motion to reduce the Crandon Boulevard Capital Outlay allocation by $100,000 The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente and passed on a 5-1 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilman Padovan voted No Council reviewed the Underground Wiring Capital Outlay allocation Councilman Padovan made a motion to keep the $40,000 for underground wiring Councilman Sime seconded the motion which failed on a 3-3 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly and Mayor Festa voting No Councilmembers Padovan, Sime and Sullivan voting Yes Council reviewed the West Mashta Drive Bndge Capital Outlay allocation Martha Broucek, 170 Ocean Lane Drive, addressed the Council It was the consensus that the allocation remain the same The mayor made a motion to allocate $100,000 to the Harbor Drive Improvement line item in the Capital Outlay Budget Martha Broucek, 170 Ocean Lane Drive addressed the Council The motion was seconded by Councilman O'Reilly and adopted by unanimous voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes The Council discussed the Land Acquisition/Community Center Capital Outlay line item Julie Alvarez, 234 Seaview Drive addressed the Council The mayor made a motion to allocate $300,000 to the Land Acquisition line item The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente and passed on a 4-2 roll call vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers Sime and Sullivan voting No It was the consensus of the Council that the Fire Equipment line item in the Capital Outlay budget be transferred to the Fire Rescue Department budget Mayor Festa made a motion to reduce the Fire Vehicle Replacement Reserve in the Capital Outlay to $100,000 The motion was seconded by Councilman O'Reilly Fire Rescue Chief William C Huddleston addressed the Council The motion passed by unanimous voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes It was the consensus of the Council that the $35,000 allocation for the East Enid Drive Parking be deleted from the budget Page 3 of 9 September 12 1996 The Council discussed the proposed $25,000 line item allocation for the entrance sign Councilman Padovan made a motion to keep the line item balance in the budget for the entrance sign The motion was seconded by Councilman Sime Martha Broucek, 170 Ocean Lane Dnve and Finance Director Jack Neustadt addressed the Council on the entrance sign allocation The motion to keep the $25,000 in the budget for the entrance sign failed by a 3 - 3 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Padovan, Sime and Sullivan voting Yes Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly and Mayor Festa voting No Council reconsidered the failed motion to keep the line item balance in the budget for the entrance sign Councilman O'Reilly made a motion to remove the entrance sign line item balance from the budget The motion was seconded by Mayor Festa and failed by a 3 - 3 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers Padovan, Sime and Sullivan voting No By Council consensus, the line item entitled "West Mashta Sidewalk" was renamed "West Mashta Traffic Calming/Sidewalks" Finance Director Jack Neustadt and Village Manager C Samuel Kissinger addressed the Council The mayor made a motion to delete the $10,000 allocation for the street signs from the Capital Outlay budget The motion was seconded by Councilman O'Reilly and failed on a 4-2 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, Padovan, Sime and Sullivan voting Yes Councilman O'Reilly and Mayor Festa voting No The mayor made a motion to reconsider the Underground Wiring Capital Outlay allocation which had been deleted by a previous Council vote The motion to reconsider was seconded by Councilman Padovan and was passed by 4-2 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers O'Reilly, Padovan, Sime and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers Llorente and Sullivan voting No The mayor made a motion to delete the $40,000 allocation for Underground Wiring from the Capital Outlay budget The motion was seconded by Councilman Sullivan and failed on a 3 - 3 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers Padovan, Sime and Sullivan voting No Council discussed the contingency allocation in the Capital Outlay budget The mayor made a motion to remove the $97,500 allocation for contingency from the Capital Outlay budget The motion was seconded by Councilman O'Reilly and passed by a 4 - 2 roll call vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers Sime and Sullivan voting No At this time, the Council began to review the non -departmental section of the Proposed Fiscal Year 1997 Budget The mayor invited public comment on the non -departmental section The following Page 4 of 9 September 12, 1996 residents spoke on the non -department budget Conchita Suarez, 201 Crandon Boulevard, Heidi Archibald, 881 Ocean Drive, Ed Stone, 145 Hampton Lane, and Bill Durham, 748 Glenndge Road The mayor closed the public hearing Council discussed the Chamber of Commerce line item The following residents addressed the Council regarding the Chamber of Commerce line item Ed Stone, 145 Hampton Lane, Chris Sager, 335 Harbor Drive, and Martha Broucek, 170 Ocean Lane Drive Councilman Sime made a motion to increase the allocation for the newsletter/annual report line item by $10,000 to allow for a quarterly newsletter Councilman Sullivan seconded the motion which passed by a 4 - 2 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers Padovan and O'Reilly voting No Councilman O'Reilly made a motion to reduce the grant allocation in non -departmental by $20,000 The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente After discussion, Councilman O'Reilly made an amendment to reduce the grant allocation by the entire allocated amount which was seconded by Mayor Festa The amendment failed by a 5 - 1 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilman O'Reilly voted Yes Councilmembers Llorente, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting No The motion to reduce the grant allocation in non -departmental by $20,000 failed by a 5 - 1 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilman O'Reilly voting Yes Councilmembers Llorente, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting No It was the consensus of the Council that the electricity line item be separated into Police, Fire Rescue and General Government budgets Councilman Llorente made a motion to reduce the Financial Advisor line item by $8,000 The motion was seconded by Councilman O'Reilly and passed by unanimous voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes The mayor opened the public hearing on the Debt Service budget Heanng no comments from the public, the mayor closed the public heanng There were no changes to the Debt Service budget The mayor opened the public hearing on the Building, Zoning and Planning Department budget Hearing no comments from the public, the mayor closed the public hearing Building, Zoning and Planning Director John P Little addressed the Council There were no changes to the Building, Zoning and Planning Department budget The mayor opened the public hearing on the Police Department Hearing no comments from the Page 5 of 9 September 12 1996 public, the mayor closed the public heanng Police Chief Michael J Flaherty addressed the Council The following people addressed the Council Joe Rasco, 310 West Heather Drive and Martha Broucek, 170 Ocean Lane Drive The mayor opened the public hearing on the Fire Rescue Department Hearing no comments from the public, the mayor closed the public hearing The Council discussed the Fire Rescue Department's proposed Emergency Medical Transportation Fee Mayor Festa made a motion to discuss the implementation of an emergency medical transportation fee The motion was seconded by Councilman Sime which failed on a 5 - 1 vote The vote was as follows Councilman Sime voted Yes Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting No Fire Rescue Chief William C Huddleston addressed the Council regarding his department's budget Mayor Festa made a motion to extend the meeting to 11 30 p m The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente and failed on a 3 - 3 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers Padovan, Sime and Sullivan voting No Councilman Padovan made a motion to reconsider the motion to extend the meeting to 11 30 p m The motion was seconded by Mayor Festa The motion was tabled until Councilman O'Reilly returned by Council consensus The mayor opened the public hearing on the Public Works Department Hearing no comments from the public, the mayor closed the public heanng The Council reviewed the Public Works Department budget Village Manager C Samuel Kissinger and Finance Director Jack Neustadt addressed the Council Mayor Festa made a motion to bring back from the table the motion to reconsider the motion to extend the meeting to 11 30 p m The motion was seconded by Councilman O'Reilly and passed by a 5 - 1 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilman Padovan voted No The mayor made a motion to extend the meeting to 11 30 p m The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente and passed by a 4 - 2 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers Sime and Sullivan voting No Councilman Padovan made a motion to decrease the landscape architect line item by $5,000 The motion was seconded by Councilman O'Reilly and passed on a 4 - 2 voice vote The vote was as Page 6 of 9 September 12, 1996 follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers Sime and Sullivan voting No The mayor opened the public hearing on the Recreation Department Hearing no comments from the public, the mayor closed the public heanng The Council did not have changes to the Recreation Department The mayor opened the public heanng on the Council budget Heanng no comments from the public, the mayor closed the public heanng Councilman Padovan made a motion to reduce the admuustrative expenses line item of the Council budget to $4,000 and increase the conferences and seminars line item to $6,000 The motion was seconded by Councilman Sullivan and passed on a 5 - 1 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmember O'Reilly voting No The mayor opened the public heanng on the Village Clerk's budget Heanng no comments from the public, the mayor closed the public heanng Councilman O'Reilly made a motion to reduce the Clerk's salary lme item to $36,000 The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente and failed on a 5 - 1 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilman O'Reilly voted Yes Councilmembers Llorente, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting No Councilman Sullivan made a motion to reduce the clerk bonus line item by $4,800 The motion was seconded by Councilman Padovan and passed by unanimous voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes The mayor opened the public hearing on the Village Attorney's budget Heanng no comments from the public, the mayor closed the public heanng Mayor Festa made a motion to decrease the professional fees line item to $120,000 and increase the professional services - lawsuits line item to $40,000 The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente and passed by unanimous voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes The mayor opened the public hearing on the Administration's budget The following residents addressed the Council Mike Kahn, 881 Ocean Lane Drive and Martha Broucek, 170 Ocean Lane Drive Councilman Sime made a motion to allocate the proposed salary for the manager The motion was seconded by Councilman Sullivan After Council discussion, the motion was withdrawn The mayor made a motion to adopt the roll back rate (3 606) for the millage rate The motion was seconded by Councilman Sullivan and passed on a 6 - 0 roll call vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes Page 7 of 9 September 12, 1996 The acting clerk read the following resolution by title A RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA, ADOPTING THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE OF THE VILLAGE OF KEY BISCAYNE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 1996 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30, 1997 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 200 065 (TRIM BILL), SETTING A DATE FOR A FINAL PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT THE MILLAGE RATE, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE Mayor Festa made a motion to set the date of September 26, 1996 for the final hearing The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente and passed by a 6 - 0 roll call vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes Following the motions establishing the tentative millage rate and date for final hearing, Resolution 96-26 adopting the tentative millage rate and setting a date for final public hearing was adopted by Council consensus Mayor Festa made a motion to adopt the ordinance which established a tentative general fund operating budget with the budget changes The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente and passed by a 6 - 0 roll call vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, O'Reilly, Padovan, Sime, Sullivan and Mayor Festa voting Yes Village Attorney Helfman stated that Florida Statute requires that the Village make a public announcement, at this time, on the percentage by which the re -computed proposed millage rate exceeds the roll back rate computed pursuant to Section 1 - which would be zero (0) In addition, the attorney stated that the percent shall be characterized as a percentage of increase of property taxes tentatively adopted by the governing body and that will be zero (0) The mayor briefly addressed the proposed ordinance to cap employee salaries The meeting was adjourned at 11 40 p m Page 8 of 9 September 12 1996 Respe j ull ubm tted Yocely G nano Gomez Acting Village Clerk Approved by the Village Council this 15th day of October ,1996 0 , ca:e-r k., n F Festa ayor IFA PERSON DECIDES TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADEBYTHE VILLAGE COUNCIL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER CONSIDERED AT A MEETING OR HEARING, THAT PERSON WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND, FOR SUCH PURPOSE, MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE TESTIMONYAND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED Page 9 of 9