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12-10-1974 - Special -' . , ~"I c.J, TFf CITY cnUNCIL OF THf. CITY OF FDGEWATER SPECIAL MEETING HELD DECEMBFR 10, 1974 The Special Session of the City Council of the City of fdgewater Florida was called to order Tuesday, December 10, 1974 hy Mayor David C. Severance. ROLL C1\LL Mayor David C. Severance Councilman Jacob Lodico Councilman ~illiam Cairnie Councilman Walter B. Sikes Councilman Calvin Dietz City Manager Dale Bryant City Attorney Joseph E. Weaver Deputy City Clerk FU zabeth .J. Crouser Police Chief George R. Katez Lt. Norman Pc Ca 11 (Pol ice Dept.) Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Absent Present Mayor Severance explained that the reason this meeting was called, was that the County Council is having their meeting Thursday and one of the requirements of Edgewater to FHA is that we get a letter of concurrence so that the final paper work can be started witll the FHfi people in Gainesville. RFsnLUT lI"'i'J RFsnLUTI0N Nr.: 550 A RPS0LUTInN RrcnGNIZING AND RATIFYING THE LONe: RANGE PLAN OF vnLUSIA C0l!NTY FLnPIDA FOR WATER AND WASTE WATER TRr AT~!rNT, A~JI) PROVTDINr: AN fFFFCTIVE DATf THEREFOR. The ahove nesol tit ion was reael in full hy r.i ty Attorney .Toseph E. weaver. Council~an Lo~ico ~llly ~ade a motion to adopt said Resolution as read heing seconded by Councilman Cairnie. Councilwan Sikes state~ that it says that the FJgewatcr Flant will not he expanded that it will only he maintained, he asked if we were arreeinr with this. Tape 1 Side A 5 }of in. Mr. Fernan~ez statcJ that we arc not refering to that in this resolution. lie explained to Councilman r.airnie, the Volusia County Plan, that the short term plan presents three water alter- natives and two sewer alternatives. Three water alternatives all invlove a dealing with the City of New Smyrna Reach. / I Councilman Sikes stated that there is a minimum of two years for this water and sewer project, and if we don't get it, it means that we arc going to have to have a huildin~ moratorium for at least a year 10 'Tin. or maybe longer. \ \ \ " . . '-J {,) 15 Hin. nr. Armstrong stated that the County can not override the City in municipalities, that they can override the municipalities in the pollution category only. But they must come up with an alternative. They have no right to say that Edgewater has to hook on to New Smyrna. 20 ~Tin. 'tayor Severance stated that he has talked with Mr. Skoval, and he has given him the opinion that if we were ready to roll on this project, and were at a point to where a moritorium would be needed,if we did not do something now and the County could not service us, that hooking up to New Smyrna would not solve the problem, because they have a water problem of their own. Mayor Severance stated that the whole solution to the County system the way that it is now is to petition and get back on the ballot to discontinue the Charter. The County can take action on this Thursday night. City Attorney Weaver stated that this resolution is intended to, as a long range type of thing, in concurrence with the lonp range plan we realize thet we can't keep serving Edgewater with water 25 Min. from our well field, when Edgewater is a 15,000 population. Tape 1 Side 13 Councilman Sikes asked what we will do if they don't grant this request. Mayor Severanse answered that if the City does not proceed with the immediate plans to improve the facilities, a building moratorium within the City of Fdgewater will have to be declared. Then we will have to rescend this resolution and turn it over to the Attorney to seek out leral assistance and possi1)ly go to the Courts. 5 'Hn. \',Ii th there be ing no further ques t ions }jayor Severance call eel for roll callan saie1 resolution. Upon roll call vote said motion CAP-RIfn. t,\rJ~l\r BITS INrS~ . 'fro Fernandez introduced ~rr. Carl \Tontikie of Briley Wild & Assoc. to the Council, he hriefed the Caucnil on the lommunity Block Plan Proprarn, which is a Federal Aid Program that is available for Cities. Hr. 71lontikie stat(->d that this is brand new legislature, this program is callen the 1~74 l-'ol1sing Act. Tt appropriates 8.4 billion dollars. Tt is strictly to rive money to the City. The purpose of the propram is to combine several old programs 10 'Iin. that Pousinp Urban Development 1,ad. After he discussed this with the Council he recommended to the City to consider retting started on this program, that he felt 15 ~Hn. tllat tlley have an opportunity to qualify. nr. ~,Iontikje stated that any if the Councilmen have any questions he would answer them. 20 Min. Councilman Dietz asked what this program would cost the City. }fro \fontikie stated tlJat all that it would cost would be time and paper work. Pe stated that the City could go out and hire someone to do strictly the whole thing. -2- 25 Min. Tape 2 Siele A 5 ~.iin. u (.) Mayor Severance stated that he could think of a lot of needs the City has for this program right off hand. Mayor Severance stated that he was definately in favor of going after this but would likc to keep the cost as low as ppssible in doing so. The size of our community is going to be a bearing to how much we can get and how we are poinp to qualify. Mayor Severance read the letter TUD. Fe stated that Thursday night 10 or 15 minutes should he set aside and decide if we want to go into this program seriously and set up some direction for the City Manager to go hy. Mayor Severanc intertained a motion to adjourn, Councilman Lodico seconded the motion, Councilman Sikes rescended this motion for more discussion. Councilman Dietz stated that 11e would like to have a meeting one morning with the City Manager and get all of the files out on the water 8 sewer project so that we can get this a little clearer 10 Min. in our mind s . The Council then went into discussion on this water and sewer system 15 },-fj n. project with l\'lr. Fernande z and Hr. Armstrong. 20 Hin. Tape 2 Side B 10 Min. 15 r'lin. Mayor ~everance suggested that this meeting he held in the evening hours so that Mrs. Sedgwick and Mrs. Rlackw~11 could he present, holding it in the ~ayor's office with accessibility to everything in the vault and in the water files for questioning. Councilman Dietz asked that if we e-ive ~!r. Cameron a varience for this ~robile Fome Park, and he doesn't have to pay for it, does this chanpe our ordinance. "Ir. Pernandcz stated that it did not change jt. City Managcr Bryant stated that FFA has already aQllired certain information of which our auditors have provided and was applied to their formula which told us whether we could afford it or not and 1"hat our rate structure has to he based on the number of present customers based on the number of anticipated customers. All of this information came from our information in City Jlall. He felt that it did not require the whole staff to ro over what has alrcady been clone. Mayor ~everance stated that the reason for this ~92,OOO heing all airmarked in Revenue Sharing for water and sewer was in case we diel not pet an FHA Loan, we knew that we were going to have to have some money to do somethin~. , . ~ayor Severance stated that he was personally satisfieel with the reports that have heen prepared by the auditors and the engineers and the reports that they have prepared have been taken from the records in City Pall. 20 P;in. Councilman Lodico stat~d that it is each Councilmans duty to go over- to the water and sewer plants to see if they are working right and to check them out. He felt that no meeting was necessary. Councilman Dietz made a motion to have a meeting December 11, 1974 at 9: ~o A,rf. ~fayor Severance called for a second. Councilman Cairnie stated that the Council does have a workshop meeting Thursday night, and that it would he much better if we did not have a meeting -3- , . (.J (.) . . this week and then have this meeting on the following week when we don't have any workshop ~eetings: Due to the lack of a second said motion DIED. ADJOURNHENT OR RECESS Councilman Lodico made a motion to adjourn this fueeting, being seconded by Councilman Cairnie. Upon roll call vote said motion CARRIED. ~ I ayor Z~ ..- ~.. 7unCl~~ . . ~ / ~- nCllman ~ ~- dA ,u Cl man ~ Attest ~~~ -4-