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05-20-1968 - Regular G ,.y~ ~ u o o REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDGEWATER, FLORIDA HELD ON MAY 20, 1968' The Regular Meeting of the City Council of the City of Edgewater, Florida was called to or.der by Mayor William H. Cairnie at 7:30 P.M. on May 20, 1968. ROLL CALL Mayor William H. Cairnie Councilman Francis H. Norman Councilman David C. Ledbetter Councilman George M. Dimm Councilman Calvin R. Dietz City Attorney Charles A. Hall City Clerk Elsie L': Ward Deputy Clerk Gertrude B. Dunn Police Chief Clyde W. Heath APPROVAL OF MINUTES Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present Present The Minutes of the Regular Meeting of the City tounci1, held on May 6, 1968, and the Special Meeting held on May 16, 1968 were presented to each Councilman for his approval. Motion was duly made by Councilman Dimm these Minutes stand approved as submitted, seconded by Councilman Dietz and by vote CARRIED. Councilman Norman abstained from voting on the Minutes of the Regular Meeting and Councilman Ledbetter abstained from voting on the Minutes of the Special Meeting. BILLS & ACCOUNTS General Government: Southern Bell T.&T. Co. Magnolia Lawnmower Service Waterworks & Sewer System Florida Power & Light Co. Utility Supply Co. Daytona Fire Equipment, Inc. Telephone Answering Service Bond-Howell Lumber Co. Brevard-Vo1usia Tractor Co., Inc. Lloyd Cox Co. City Auto Supply William1s Garage Watkins Ford, Inc. News-Journal Corp. Gasoline Alley Service Center New Smyrna Beach Police Dept. Engel's Woodbury Chemical Co. of Fla. General Insurance Underwriters, Inc. 7.25 9.20 21. 50 823.98 27.15 6.00 20.00 10.06 19.03 3.10 11 . 70 33.85 59.69 9.90 39.88 21 .00 308.00 124.30 20.00 $1,575.59 Water & Sewer Dept.: City of Edgewater Florida Power & Light Co. City Auto Supply Southern Bell T. & T. Co. Davis Meter & Supply Co. Southern Meter & Supply Co., Inc. Harold McKee The Permutit Co. Conrad Yelvington Bond-Howell Lumber Co. Sanfax Corp. B & H Sales, Inc. Neptune Meter Co. Utility Supply Co. Sieg & Ambachtsheer, Inc. 6.00 468.30 4. 14 5.60 244.56 54.03 12.00 160.95 12.00 21.10 29.92 8.70 30.74 24.08 500.00 $1,582.12 Page One tl U . .,.- ~ , o (.) Q Motion was duly made by Councilman Dimm that these bills be accep~ed for payment, seconded by Councilman Dietz and by roll call vote. CARRIED. Councilman Ledbetter abstained from voting. OFFICERS REPORTS Certification~ of POSTING dated May 7 and May 16, 1968 was read. Clerk's Cash Statement for April was read. Budget Report for April was read. COMMUNICATIONS A letter was read from Pam Walker, Captain of the Edgewater School Patrol thanking the Council for their contribution., A letter was read from Mrs. Robert Redding, Edgewater School Patrol Sponsor thanking the Council for making the Patrol trip to Nassau possible. A letter was read from the Zoning Board relative to a petition from James L. and Valeda H. Budd for a variance, in which the Zoning Board made no recommendation. Motion was duly made by Councilman Norman to table the petition from the Budds for further study, seconded by Councilman Ledbetter, and there were no objections. RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTION NO. 237 APPOINTING CHIEF OF POLICE CLYDE HEATH AS THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY TO THE GOVERNOR'S HIGHWAY SAFETY COM- MITTEE AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE THEREFOR. The above Resolution was read in full by City Attorney Hall and upon motion duly made by Councilman Norman this Resolution be adopted, and seconded by Councilman Dimm, and passed by vote of the City Council of the City of Edgewater, Florida at the regular meeting of said Council held May 20, 1968. RESOLUTION NO. 238 APPOINTING A COMMITTEE TO STUDY, PROMOTE AND SUPERVISE THE USE OF THE SOUTH END OF THE VOLUSIA COUNTY BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION PROPERTY UPON WHICH THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL IS LO- CATED IN THE CITY OF EDGEWATER, FLORIDA AS A PLAY GROUND AND REC~_ REATIONAL AREA FOR THE CHILDREN OF THE CITY OF EDGEWATER, FLORIDA. The above Resolution was read in full by City Attorney Hall and upon motion duly made by Councilman Dietz, this Resolution be adQpted, and seconded by Councilman Dimm, and passed by vote of the City Council of the City of Edgewater, Florida at the regular meeting of said Council held May 20, 1968. , OLD BUSINESS The Mayor called for old business and Councilman Dimm spoke, "I "m afraid to bring up Monroe Circle again; we can't even seem to get the specifications out let alone a bid on the paving. I wonder if the Mayor can do something about it?" Mayor Cairnie, "We have turned it over to the engineers, and so far, I have not received any specifications from them. Every time I call Mr. Strang, he says he wi 11 call me tomorrow. Tomorrow obviously never comes." Councilman Dimm, "Perhaps we can get the specifications from the County." Councilman Dietz, "We might as well set it up for the next regular meeting; might as well try once more." Councilman Dimm, "What else can I do?" Councilman Dimm, "Councilman Ledbetter brought up the idea of a raise for the hourly employees at an earlier meeting. I have a few resolutions to propose, so is this old business or should it be new business?" Mayor Cairnie, "It is new business." Page Two u ..;:.. "'" Q o u NEW BUSINESS Motion duly made by Councilman Dimm that this Council instruct the Mayor to have each City Department Head submit a list of all city equipment in his or her department, whether now in use or not, to the City Clerk; the City Clerk to transpose this information on a card system, including the date of purchase, the cost, present condition and use, the purpose being so Council can evaluate these items for trade, sale or any other use also for comprehensive ser- vicing records to be completed by July 1, 1968, seconded by Coun- cilman Ledbetter. The rollcall vote was unanimous. Councilman Dimm, III1I'm a little amazed we don't already have this system set Up.1I Mayor Cairnie,IIWell, I think the information is a 1 rea d y a v ail a b re' i s n 't it, M r s. War d ? II M r s. War d, II I tis i n c 1 u d - ed in our inventory records. II Councilman Dimm, III have suggested this before and have been told it would be made, and it never has gone any further. All of the information I want is not on the inventory.1I Mrs. Ward, IINo, all of the information is not on the inventory.1I Councilman Dimm, III now make a motion that this Council instruct the Mayor to have Mr. Shippee, Superintendent of Streets and the Garbage Department, build a concrete platform at the City Barn, the size and exact location to be determined by him, for the pur- pose of servicing City equipment. We had decided that this be done in a workshop, and it's never been done, therefore, 11m making a motion. I am doing this so it now becomes a part of the record. Some day in the near future, we will hire our own mechan- ic. 11m not ready to propose hiring one now.1I Councilman Norman seconded the motion. The roll call vote was unanimous. Councilman Dietz, IIGeorge, do you have any specifications; how much do you think this will cost? Those shuffleboard courts cost $600.00. We should certainly have some idea of the cost. This whole thing should have been settled in workshop.1I Councilman Dimm, IIThat is why 11m doing it this way. Nothing ever gets ac- complished in workshop.1I Councilman Dimm, IINow 1111 lay the groundwork for my next motion... We gave a raise to the City Clerk, to Mrs. Blackwell and Mrs. Sedg- wick. We gave a raise to the Water Department Superintendent. At that time, nothing was said about the money or the budget. We gave a raise to our patrolman, and raised the Police Chiefls salary to $500.00 a month. Still no one said anything about the cost of the raises or the budget. We apparently got the money somewhere. Now I make a motion to raise the salary of our Superintendent of Streets and Garbage, Mr. Alvin Shippee, to an annual salary of $5,200.00. This will bring him up to the level of the other department head.1I Councilman Ledbetter seconded the motion. Councilman Dietz and-" Mayor Cairnie voted ~ay. Motion denied.-.~~ Councilman Dimm, liMy next motion is to give all our hourly employ- ees in the street and garbage departments a flat $.20 per hour in- crease.1I 1I0ur hourly employees make approximately $64.00 to $68.00 per week and that is a disgrace. We can pay them more than that. To make this money available, one man is to go on part time, one man is retiring and one man, who has been off because of disabil- ity is not returning to work. If we can do it in the Police de- partment, we can work it in my department. Councilman Dietz, IIWe canlt do this, George. We have been advised by our auditors that we have to keep the payroll as is in order to maintain our budget for the rest of the year. We just cannot raise the salaries now.1I Councilman Ledbetter, IIYou are hollering about a few'pennies to the street ,department. II Counci 1man Dietz, IIWe11, how are we going to do it? We just don't have the money to pay for it.1I Council- man Ledbetter, IIMayor Cairnie, don't you believe in giving the hourly employees a raise?1I Mayor Cairnie, III do if we don't over- extend our budget. Page Three o r y -...., '; D u o Councilman Dietz, IIWe have been told to cut the budget.1I Council- man Dimm, IIHow come we werenlt in danger of over-extending the budget when we raised the pay in the other departments? What did we do with the garbage department when we ran out of money? We put money into it. And remember the revenue my department never gets. When we clean off lots, we charge the people. When those checks come in, it does not go into my department, it goes into the general fund. No wonder my department is always short of funds. We are already $2,000.00 over-expended. But the cigar- ette tax is already aver~ging more. I may not get these raises, but at least 11m letting the public in on what we are doing. Why must the employees in my department be penalized by a faulty book- keeping method.1I Councilman Dietz, IIWell, if you want to bring the public into it, ask them if they want a raise in their rates.1I Councilman Dimm, IICal, you will just have to get the money out of you r hat ash as bee n s u g g est e d be for e . II Co u n c il man Die t z, II My hat has a hole in the bottom of it.1I IIMayor Cairnie, havenlt the auditors'..advised us not to raise any wages at this time?1I Mayor Cairnie, liAs live stated before, they have.1I Councilman Dimm, "Have the auditors put that in a letter to the City Council. The auditor does not know all the facts, and when he does, he may de- cide to change his view.1I Mayor Cairnie, liDo we have a second to the motion?1I Councilman Ledbetter, III second the motion.1I A roll call vote elicited nay votes from Mayor Cairnie and Councilman Dietz. Motion CARRIED. MISCELLANEOUS Mrs. Donald Gillespie was recognized by the Chair. Mrs. Gillespie, IIMayor Cairnie, the building report which was read at the last meet- ing showed a great increase in construction of new homes. Wonlt the city derive quite a lot of tax money from this area?1I Council- man Dietz, IIPerhaps we will Mrs. Gillespie, however it won't be until sometime next year. II Fire Chief Hanson was recognized by the Chair. Chief Hanson, IIIld like to talk about the communications necessary to the Fire Depart- ment. Unless a policeman is at the fire, and stays with us, we have no way to communicate. We should have a radio so we could be in constant touch with City Hall and the Police. Pete Ream is usually always with us during the day and his truck has a radio. The radio the Fire Department has now is just a piece of junk. We need a radio that will allow us to talk over all frequencjes, that is New Smyrna Police Department and our own.1I Mayor Cairnie, "I will see to it that Chief Heath has a patrolman present at all fires~ There being no further business, motion duly made by Councilman Norman we now adjourn, seconded by Councilman Ledbetter and there were no objections. Time of Adjournment 8:20 P.M. Minutes taken by Gertrude B. Dunn IY~) ~ Mayor )L~~ , City C e rk ATTEST: Page Four u ; I .......... . , . () o AMENDMENT TO THE MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDGEWATER, FLORIDA HELD ON MAY 20, 1968 Upon motion duly made by Councilman Dimm we raise the salary of our Superintendent of Streets and Garbage, Mr. Alvin H. Shippee to an annual salary of $5,200.00, these minutes be and are amended to read Councilman Ledbetter seconded the r'- motion. Councilman Dietz and Mayor Cairnie voted nay. Councilman Norman abstained from voting until such time he may consult with the auditors. lj