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VILLAGE COUNCIL BUDGET HEARING
VILLAGE OF KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1994
COUNCIL CHAMBER
85 WEST MCINTYRE STREET, SECOND FLOOR
1 CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS: The meeting was called
to order by Mayor Festa at 7 15 p m Present were Councilmembers
Mortimer Fried, Raul Llorente, Betty Sime, Raymond Sullivan, John
Wald, Vice Mayor Joe Rasco, and Mayor John Festa Also present
were Village Manager Sam Kissinger, Village Clerk Guido Inguanzo
and Village Attorney Steve Helfman
2 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Mayor Festa led the Pledge
3 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: There were no minutes submitted for
the Council's consideration
4 AGENDA: Councilman Sullivan requested the discussion of the
following resolution
A RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA
PERTAINING TO PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES ON KEY
BISCAYNE; URGING THE SCHOOL BOARD TO ABANDON ITS CURRENT
PLAN TO RENOVATE KEY BISCAYNE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN FAVOR OF
A PLAN TO BUILD A NE PUBLIC SCHOOL; URGING THE CONSTRUCTION
OF A LOCAL MIDDLES SCHOOL (GRADES 6 - 8) SIMULTANEOUS WITH
AND CONTIGUOUS TO THE NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL; PROVIDING FOR
TRANSMISSION; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND AN EFFECTIVE
DATE.
By majority consent, the resolution was discussed The Council
concurred to further discuss the resolution at its meeting of
September 13, 1994
5 SPECIAL PRESENTATION: There were no special presentations
scheduled for the meeting
6 RESOLUTIONS: The clerk read the following resolution
A RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF KEY BISCAYNE ADOPTING
THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE OF THE VILLAGE OF KEY BISCAYNE
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 1994 THROUGH
SEPTEMBER 30, 1995 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA STATUTE 200.065 (TRIM
BILL), SETTING A DATE FOR A FINAL PUBLIC HEARING TO ADOPT
THE MILLAGE RATE.
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September 8, 1994
The Council briefly discussed the resolution
Mayor Festa opened a public hearing The following residents
addressed the Council Frank Collins, 611 Ocean Drive, Steve
Ettenheim, 397 Harbor Court, Hugh O'Reilly, 475 Allendale Road,
Tom O'Brien, 200 Ocean Lane Drive, Michael Kahn, 881 Ocean
Drive, Ron Drucker, 251 Crandon Boulevard, Cecilia O'Reilly,
475 Allendale Road, Bill Ofgant, 512 Fernwood Road, and Fred
Perkins, 485 West Matheson Drive
There was extensive Council discussion regarding the revenues
aspect of the budget
The Council reviewed each departmental budget and made the
following changes
By consent, the Village Council's budget was reduced to
$10,000 00
Councilman Sime made a motion to reduce the Administration's
budget by $15,000 00 The motion was seconded by Vice Mayor
Rasco Councilman Waid offered an amendment reducing the
budget by $25,000 00 The amendment was seconded by
Councilman Llorente and adopted by a 4 - 3 voice vote The
vote was as follows Councilmembers Llorente, Sullivan,
Waid, and Vice Mayor Rasco voting Yes Councilmembers
Fried, Sime and Mayor Festa voted No The amended Sime
motion was adopted by a 5 - 2 voice vote The vote was as
follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sullivan, Waid,
and Vice Mayor Rasco voting Yes Councilman Sime and Mayor
Festa voted No
Councilman Sullivan made a motion to reduce the Village
Clerk's budget by $2,000 00 The motion was seconded by
Vice Mayor Rasco Vice Mayor Rasco offered an amendment
that the clerk's salary be increased by $1,500 00 There
was no objection to the amendment The amended Sullivan
motion was adopted by a unanimous voice vote The vote was
as follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sime, Sullivan,
Wald, Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting Yes
Mayor Festa made a motion to reduce the Village Attorney's
budget to $200,000 00 The motion was seconded by
Councilman Llorente and adopted by a unanimous voice vote
The vote was as follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente,
Sime, Sullivan, Waid, Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa
voting Yes
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September 8, 1994
Mayor Festa made a motion that the Economic Development
Department be eliminated and that a sum of $25,080 00 be
transferred to the Administration's budget The motion was
seconded by Councilman Llorente and adopted by a unanimous
voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Fried,
Llorente, Sime, Sullivan, Waid, Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor
Festa voting Yes
Mayor Festa made a motion to eliminate the "Newsletter" line
item The motion was seconded by Councilman Waid Vice
Mayor Rasco offered an amendment that the line item be
reduced to $10,000 00 The amendment was seconded by
Councilman Llorente and adopted by a 5 - 2 voice vote The
vote was as follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Waid,
Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting Yes
Councilmembers Sime and Sullivan voted No The amended
Festa motion was adopted by a 5 - 2 voice vote The vote
was as follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Waid, Vice
Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers
Sime and Sullivan voted No
The Council, by consent, also made the following changes to
the Non -Departmental budget the first six line items were
deleted (reducing the budget by $9,745 00), the
"Appraisers" line item was reduced by $5,000 00, the
"Leased Equipment" line item was reduced by $7,000 00, and
the "Furniture and Fixtures" line item was reduced by
$5,000 00
Vice Mayor Rasco made a motion to eliminate the "Tuition
Reimbursement" line item The motion was seconded by
Councilman Llorente and adopted by a 5 - 2 voice vote The
vote was as follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente,
Sullivan, Waid, and Vice Mayor Rasco voting Yes Councilman
Sime and Mayor Festa voted No
Mayor Festa made a motion to eliminate the "Community
Grants" line item The motion was seconded by Councilman
Waid Councilman Fried offered an amendment to reduce the
line item to $50,000 00 The amendment was seconded by Vice
Mayor Rasco and adopted by a 5 - 2 voice vote The vote was
as follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sime, Sullivan,
and Vice Mayor Rasco voting Yes Councilman Waid and Mayor
Festa voted No The amended Festa motion was adopted by a 5
- 1 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers
Fried, Llorente, Sime, Sullivan, Waid, and Vice Mayor Rasco
voting Yes Mayor Festa voted No
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September 8, 1994
Councilman Llorente made a motion to reduce the
"Contingency" line item to $100,000 00 The motion was
seconded by Councilman Fried Councilman Waid offered an
amendment that a decision on the line item be made at the
end of the meeting The amendment was seconded by Mayor
Festa and adopted by a unanimous voice vote The amended
Llorente motion was adopted by a unanimous voice vote The
vote was as follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sime,
Sullivan, Waid, Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting
Yes
Mayor Festa made a motion to reducing the Building, Zoning
and Planning Department's budget by $56,000 00 The motion
was seconded by Vice Mayor Rasco and adopted by a unanimous
voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Fried,
Llorente, Sime, Sullivan, Waid, Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor
Festa voting Yes The Council also reduced the Building and
Zoning Inspections budget by $20,000 00
Mayor Festa made a motion reducing the "Living Allowance"
line item in the Police Department's budget to $12,977 00
The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente and adopted
by a unanimous voice vote The vote was as follows
Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sime, Sullivan, Waid, Vice
Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilman Sime
made a motion to reconsider the Festa motion The motion
was seconded by Councilman Fried and adopted by a unanimous
voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Fried,
Llorente, Sime, Sullivan, Waid, Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor
Festa voting yes The Council concurred to table the matter
until a legal interpretation of the police chief's contract
is given by the attorney
Mayor Festa made a motion to extend the meeting until 11 45
p m The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente and
adopted by a 6 - 1 voice vote The vote was as follows
Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sullivan, Waid, Vice Mayor
Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilman Sime voted
No
Councilman Llorente made a motion to reduce the Police
Department's budget by $100,000 00 The motion was seconded
by Vice Mayor Rasco Councilman Waid offered an amendment
to reduce the department's budget by $150,000 00 There was
no second to the amendment The Llorente motion was adopted
by a unanimous voice vote The vote was as follows
Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sime, Sullivan, Waid, Vice
Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting Yes
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Mayor Festa made a motion to delete the $100,000 00
"Supplemental Aid" line item from the Fire Rescue
Department's budget and use the current fiscal year's monies
to establish a reserve fund for this purpose The motion
was seconded by Councilman Llorente and adopted by a
unanimous voice vote The vote was as follows
Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sime, Sullivan, Waid, Vice
Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting Yes
Mayor Festa made a motion to extend the meeting until 12 15
a m The motion was seconded by Vice Mayor Rasco and
adopted by a 5 - 2 voice vote The vote was as follows
Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sullivan, Vice Mayor Rasco,
and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers Sime and Waid
voted No
Councilman Llorente made a motion to reduce the Public Works
Department's budget to $500,000 00 The motion was seconded
by Vice Mayor Rasco Mayor Festa offered an amendment to
reduce the department's budget to $475,000 00 The
amendment was seconded by Councilman Waid and adopted by a 5
- 2 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers
Fried, Llorente, Waid, Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa
voting Yes Councilmembers Sime and Sullivan voted No The
amended Llorente motion was adopted by a 5 - 2 voice vote
The vote was as follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente,
Sullivan, Waid, Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting
Yes Councilmembers Sime and Sullivan voted No
Councilman Sullivan made a motion to eliminate the
Recreation Department The motion was seconded by
Councilman Llorente After brief discussion, the motion was
withdrawn
Vice Mayor Rasco made a motion to reduce the Recreation
Department's budget by $50,000 00 The motion was seconded
by Councilman Sullivan Mayor Festa offered an amendment to
eliminate the department's tennis program There was no
second to the mayor's amendment Councilman Llorente
offered an amendment to accept a revised format for the
tennis program as recommended by tennis instructor Roberto
Castillo The motion was seconded by Councilman Sullivan
and adopted by a unanimous voice vote The vote was as
follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sime, Sullivan,
Waid, Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting Yes Mayor
Festa offered an amendment to reduce the department's budget
to $275,000 00 -- including deletion of director's position
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September 8, 1994
The amendment was seconded by Councilman Sullivan and
adopted by a unanimous voice vote The vote was as follows
Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sime, Sullivan, Waid, Vice
Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting Yes The amended Rasco
motion was adopted without objection
Vice Mayor Rasco made a motion to eliminate the "Fire Rescue
Vehicles" line item from the Capital Outlays' budget The
motion was seconded by Councilman Waid Mayor Festa offered
an amendment to reduce the line item to $100,000 00 The
amendment was seconded by Councilman Sime and failed on a
2 - 5 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilman Sime
and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilmembers Fried, Llorente,
Sullivan, Waid, and Vice Mayor Rasco voted No The Rasco
motion was adopted by a 5 - 2 voice vote The vote was as
follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sullivan, Waid,
and Vice Mayor Rasco voting Yes Councilman Sime and Mayor
Festa voted No
Councilman Llorente made a motion reducing the proposed millage
rate and adopting a tentative millage rate of 4 101 mils The
motion was seconded by Vice Mayor Rasco Councilman Waid offered
an amendment to reduce the millage rate to 4 0 mils The
amendment was seconded by Councilman Llorente and failed on a 1 -
6 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilman Waid voting
Yes Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sime, Sullivan, Vice Mayor
Rasco, and Mayor Festa voted No The Llorente motion was adopted
by a 6 - 1 voice vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers
Fried, Llorente, Sime, Sullivan, Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor
Festa voting Yes Councilman Waid voted No
Mayor Festa made a motion adopting the proposed millage
resolution The motion was seconded by Vice Mayor Rasco and
Resolution 94-30 was adopted by a 6 - 1 voice vote The vote was
as follows Councilmembers Fried, Llorente, Sime, Sullivan, Vice
Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa voting Yes Councilman Waid voted
No
The manager, attorney, clerk, Building, Zoning and Planning
Director John Little, Police Chief Michael Flaherty, and Finance
Director Jack Neustadt participated in discussions with the
Council
7 ORDINANCES: The clerk read the following ordinance, on
first reading, by title
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September 8, 1994
AN ORDINANCE OF THE VILLAGE OF KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA;
ADOPTING A TENTATIVE GENERAL FUND OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 1994 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30,
1995 IN THE AMOUNT OF $9,654,439.00 PURSUANT TO FLORIDA
STATUTE 200.065 (TRIM BILL) ; SETTING A DATE FOR A FINAL
PUBLIC TEARING TO ADOPT THE BUDGET; PROVIDING FOR AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
Mayor Festa made a motion adopting the ordinance on first
reading The motion was seconded by Councilman Llorente
Mayor Festa opened the public hearing There were no speakers
present
The ordinance was adopted, on first reading, by a unanimous roll
call vote The vote was as follows Councilmembers Fried,
Llorente, Sime Sullivan, Wald, Vice Mayor Rasco, and Mayor Festa
voting Yes
The clerk announced that the second reading will be held on
Monday, September 26, 1994, at 7 00 p m
8 REPORTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: The following informational
items were presented to the Council -- there was no discussion
on these items a letter from Ray Eubanks, Department of
Community Affairs, regarding the Village's comprehensive plan,
dated August 30, 1994, a letter from the Village Attorney,
regarding a Calusa Park operating permit, dated August 26, 1994,
and a letter from Tara Alford, Department of Environmental
Protection, regarding signage of vessel exclusion area, dated
August 26, 1994
9 OTHER BUSINESS/GENERAL DISCUSSION: There was no further
business discussed
10 SCHEDULE OF FUTURE MEETINGS/EVENTS : A schedule of future
meetings and events was presented to the Council and public
11 ADJOURNMENT: The meeting was adjourned at 12 55 p m
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September 8, 1994
Approved this 1114 day of 0C.,e-cY4--e- 1994.
Village C1 k Mayor
IF A PERSON DECIDES TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADE BY THE VILLAGE
COUNCIL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER CONSIDERED AT A MEETING OR
HEARING, THAT PERSON WILL .NEED A RECORD OF 773E PROCEEDINGS AND,
FOR SUCH PURPOSE, MAY .NEED T 10 ENSURE THAT A VF BAT'. RECORD OF
THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND
EVIDENCE UPON WHIQ3 773E APPEAL IS TO BE BASED.
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