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07-02-2001 - Regular , , '-' .."., CITY COUNCIL OF EDGEWATER REGULAR MEETING JULY 2, 2001 7:00 P.M. COMMUNITY CENTER MINUTES CALL TO ORDER Mayor Schmidt called the Regular Meeting to order at 7:03 p.m. in the community Center. ROLL CALL Mayor Donald Schmidt Councilman James Brown Councilman Dennis vincenzi Councilwoman Harriet Rhodes Councilwoman Judith Lichter City Manager Kenneth Hooper City Clerk Susan Wadsworth Deputy City Clerk Lisa Bloomer Legal Assistant Robin Matusick Present Present Present Present Present Present Excused Present Present INVOCATION, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE There was a silent invocation and pledge of allegiance to the Flag. APPROVAL OF MINUTES Reqular Meeting of May 21. 2001 Councilwoman Lichter moved to approve the May 21, 2001 minutes, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. PRESENTATIONS IPROCLAMATIONS/PLAOUES ICERTIFICATES I DONATIO NS A. Plaque presented to Sondra Penqov in recoqnition of her services to the city of Edqewater from April 18. 1989 through July 5. 2001 Mayor Schmidt presented a plaque to Sondra pengov recognizing her for her years of service with the City. Fire Chief Barlow informed Ms. pengov although they have hired someone to take over her responsibilities and duties, she certainly can not be replaced. B. Introduction of County Manaqer CindY Coto Mayor Schmidt introduced County Manager cindy Coto. Ms. Coto feels the County's relationship with the City of Edgewater will be a beneficial one for both of them. She thanked City Manager Hooper for agreeing to serve on their Strategic Planning working Group for their Economic Development program. Mayor Schmidt stated we are a City that isn't going to stand still as far as economic development and he is sure they will be on the County's door for help and advice. Ms. Coto stated economic development is good for all of us because it benefits the entire community. City Manager Hooper spoke about having joint projects with the County. The paving of Airpark is now complete. Ms. Coto has worked with the City to get that done for a very reasonable price. They are working on the 64-acre acquisition of the parcel. Ms. Coto has been integral in the discussions and working with her staff they have been able to come to a purchase sale draft that they are putting in front of them. They are headed towards getting many things accomplished. "W ~ Mayor Schmidt asked Ms. seven months. Ms. Coto and she has enjoyed the Volusia County. Coto how it has been for the first six or stated it has been a great deal of fun transition from Seminole County to Councilman Vincenzi asked Ms. Coto of her plans for streamlining some of the operations there. Ms. Coto spoke of the reorganization she went through back in March. She spoke about the County not being very business friendly. She put an aggressive individual over permitting and she will be bringing about quite a bit of change with the direction that she expects them to be business friendly. She has had some meetings with the Home Builders Association and they are looking at trying to put together a group where they talk to the developers, the home builders and the County staff and see if they can come to a meeting of the minds regarding what is the expectation from them and what some of the constraints are of the County. Councilman Vincenzi spoke about Volusia County being 20 years behind the times as far as being business friendly and spending money on things that would attract quality businesses. Ms. Coto stated she can not disagree with that statement and she is trying to do something to change that. Councilwoman Lichter asked Ms. Coto what her position was with Seminole County. Ms. Coto stated she was the Deputy County Manager. Councilwoman Licter stated on their City Council and when they go to workshops, very much the goal they hear is for consensus building. She stated she doesn't always get that feeling on the County level. She asked Ms. Coto if she is trying to pull it together. Ms. Coto stated she works for a very unique group of seven people that are all committed to doing the right thing for the County but they approach it from different angles. Ms. Coto thanked Council for the invitation to be here. C. Presentation of a ~Business Card CD' - Tom vittetow. Steven Dennis and Rick Sterba Steve Dennis stated Tom vittetow couldn't be present tonight. Rick Sterba distributed the information about the presentation they made to Edgewater Economic Development Board which revolves around a marketing piece that can be used throughout Southeast Volusia County and can be individualized for companies, organizations or cities. He further commented on the 50 megabyte CD. They are working on building a body of information that they can use for the CD and their website. The CD houses the information of 20,000 pages of written text. For $2,750, the City can buy 500 disks. The City will have its own flash intro. It will be designed so there will be a link to the Chamber website, onto the City's website or from the flash intro to the city's website. He commented on the modules on the CD. Councilwoman Rhodes asked if businesses will pay to be on the disk. They will not pay unless they want to have their own individualized disk. If someone goes to their website anyone listed as Chamber members, people will be exposed to them. Councilwoman Rhodes asked if it would be advantageous to charge them. Mr. Dennis stated the object of charging anyone is to try to provide an individualized disk. If this is very successful and they continue this project, they may chose to charge a fee for them to include it. They didn't choose to do that because they wanted to build a body of knowledge. Page -2- Council Regular Meeting July 2, 2001 V' ....." Councilwoman Rhodes asked what the advantage would be of a person using this disk instead of going to the website directly. Mr. Dennis commented on using these disks when they go to shows or deal with a prospect. It is a lot easier to hand them the disk then to hand them a brochure. You can have infinitely more information on the disk. He spoke about if you hand someone a brochure they will put it down. If you hand them a disk they will put it in their pocket and look at it when they get home. He spoke about Ms. Plaskett working with them to build the profile for Edgewater. Councilwoman Lichter asked if Edgewater's Economic Development Board has input regarding what goes on the disk or is it the planner. Mr. Dennis stated they have already. Mr. Dennis explained the disks for Edgewater will come up for the city of Edgewater. Councilwoman Rhodes asked City Manager Hooper's opinion on this. City Manager Hooper feels they should participate. Councilman Vincenzi asked Mr. Dennis if he will have these disks with them when he goes to shows. Mr. Dennis stated he would probably carry the disks that say Chamber of Commerce but it might depend on the type of show that was being held. Councilman Vincenzi stated he would like to add some support. Mayor Schmidt asked what Mr. Dennis needed from the Council. City Manager Hooper stated they need a concurrence that the City is agreeing with that. Councilwoman Lichter asked if it is already in the budget. City Manager Hooper informed her yes. It was the consensus of Council. D. Presentation of proposed concepts for ~Welcome Signs' for the City of Edqewater - Chamber's Gatewavs committee Mr. Dennis passed out copies of the proposed sign for Edgewater. The design was suggested by Ms. Plaskett. The Chamber has been providing the Welcome Signs for the communities for a very long time. They have been welcoming visitors to the communities since 1932. Mr. Dennis spoke about replacing several signs at one time. The last signs that were put in were put in in 1987. They have refurbished a number of signs. The sign is made of granite, which will last a long time and requires little maintenance. The sign is 11 feet 2 inches to the top of the sign. The emblem is quarter inch aluminum. The letters are eight inches high with the City's name. The Chamber's name is four inches. They want to replace four signs at this time at a cost of $5,600 each which includes permits and installation. They want to place one on the northern end of New Smyrna, one on the southern end of Oak Hill, one to the west on SR 44 and one to the west on SR 442. Recognizing that SR 442 will be under construction, the city may chose to put theirs at another location. They are attempting to raise $22,000 to cover the cost of these signs by contacting businesses. Mr. Dennis showed samples of the granite to the Council. Councilwoman Rhodes asked what the symbols are for Oak Hill and New Smyrna. Mr. Dennis stated Oak Hill is a large oak tree and New Smyrna was a palm tree but they determined they would like a sailboat. Page -3- Council Regular Meeting July 2, 2001 ~ ...""", Mayor Schmidt asked what would happen, since there isn't one planned for where you come into Edgewater by McDonald's, with that sign. He questioned that site being big enough for one of these signs. Mr. Dennis stated the sign that is there is 9 feet 6 inches. It probably would house it alright. By using reflective paint, they are trying to remove the need to have electric lighting there. The other option is to use some type of solar lighting to illuminate the reflective portion of it. Councilwoman Lichter asked if they will be waiting until they do something with SR 442 so the appearance when you come in is a little better. She feels right now it is seems like it is one of the uglier of entrances. She is hoping when they are through with the road it will look better. Mr. Dennis felt that would be an ideal location for the westward sign. They increased the size of the sign so it will be easier to see. Councilwoman Lichter asked if it will be landscaped around the sign. Mr. Dennis stated they will let the cities landscape it how they want. He commented on the City doing part of the maintenance on it so they would want something that is easy to take care of. Councilwoman Rhodes asked if they could get a better deal if they ordered more signs. Mr. Dennis informed her probably, yes. Councilwoman Rhodes asked Mr. Dennis if he asked the cities if they would like to purchase individual signs for their city. Mr. Dennis stated they did not do that. If they would like, they will do that. Councilwoman Rhodes spoke about purchasing a couple for the individual entrances into Edgewater. She would like to see one north, south and west of the City. Mr. Dennis stated originally they did have three signs. Councilwoman Rhodes spoke about having to move the signs because of the City growing. Mr. Dennis spoke about these signs being heavy and not wanting to pick them up to move them. He would presume at the completion of the SR 442 project is when the City would want to put that sign in. Councilwoman Rhodes would like Mr. Dennis to ask New Smyrna if they would be interested and let them know what the cost would be. Mr. Dennis stated New Smyrna did indicate they were going to participate in the two signs they have scheduled for them. Edgewater will also get two signs eventually and Oak Hill will get one. Mr. Dennis spoke about commentary they received about not seeing the sign by McDonald's. Councilwoman Lichter spoke about putting a smaller sign in one of the medians. City Manager Hooper spoke about doing a variety. The median coming off of SR 442 is going to be very wide. Councilwoman Lichter spoke of the drawings done by Mike Tanksley of entrance signs. Mr. Dennis stated they had originally discussed with DOT the possibility of having very distinctive entrance signs or some type of sculptured device in the median. DOT made it clear they weren't going to put anything in the median so they abandoned that idea. Councilman Vincenzi asked why they didn't like that idea, because of visibility. Mr. Dennis stated it is a liability issue. Councilman Vincenzi asked how South Daytona gets away with it. City Manager Hooper stated they sign releases of liability that says DOT is held harmless. There are design standards so that it breaks away and other things that you can do with it. Page -4- Council Regular Meeting July 2, 2001 'w' ....." Mayor Schmidt asked what they need from the Council. Mr. Dennis stated they want to keep them abreast of the plans that are underway. Their intention is to move ahead. They are going to be attempting to raise the $22,000. If they would like him to go back and look at a bulk rate, they would be delighted to do that. City Manager Hooper asked the Council if they like the sign and the fish. Councilwoman Rhodes felt the fish on the sign looks evil. Mayor Schmidt asked Mr. Dennis to show it to a few people in the audience. Councilwoman Lichter suggested a manatee. Or a dolphin jumping. Mr. Dennis stated a lot said it looked good. Mayor Schmidt asked if they could have a fish with a half a sailboat in front of it. City Manager Hooper stated you could have a fish jumping with the moon and the palm tree. Mr. Dennis asked if everyone feels comfortable with the design of the sign and how it looks. If they have another character they would like the Chamber to consider, he asked that they provide it to them they will check with the sign man to see if he can do it. Councilwoman Rhodes suggested using a sunrise on the water. Councilwoman Lichter mentioned using the logo. Ms. Plaskett commented on the detail in the logo and it being cost prohibitive. Councilwoman Rhodes feels having a horizon with a sun coming up over it is about as simple as it gets. She also feels dolphins would be nice. Mr. Dennis showed the character for New Smyrna Beach. The characters are large enough and easily identifiable. Mayor Schmidt stated he likes the fish. It was the consensus of the Council to go ahead with the sign. City Manager Hooper agreed to bring back some clip art for the Council to chose from. Mr. Dennis stated the sign man has a pretty broad array of items and they will look for something that will fit. Councilwoman Rhodes feels a manatee is nice because of the manatee being the mascot for Indian River Elementary. Councilwoman Lichter spoke about manatees but now is not the right time to put a manatee on the sign. Dolphin yes. CITIZEN COMMENTS There were no citizen comments at this time. CITY COUNCIL REPORTS Councilwoman Lichter spoke highly of Ms. Pengov. She feels she was the most excellent of clerks when she was on the Planning & Zoning Board. She spoke about her first Council meeting four years ago when the City Manager and City Attorney were fired, Liz and Sondra came up to her and walked her to her car. She and Sondra have been friends for many years and she is a wonderful person. Mayor Schmidt had nothing at this time. Councilman Brown stated he attended the Southeast Volusia Chamber of commerce meting last week and at that time he congratulated them for the amount of work and their effort to keep things moving in Southeast Volusia. He is very satisfied with the work they are doing. He thanked them. Councilman Vincenzi asked if anyone noticed the bus stop benches leaving. He feels the city looks better. Hopefully they will start replacing them with better looking items soon. Page -5- Council Regular Meeting July 2, 2001 '-" ..""" councilman Vincenzi spoke about a flyer Time Warner sent out saying they are switching the channels and raising the rates again. He feels it is getting to be annoying from his perspective. He asked for a consehsus from Council for City Manager Hooper to send a letter of protest saying we don't appreciate what they are doing. If they want to switch the programming around that is fine, but why do they have to raise the rates? There was no objection from Council. City Manager Hooper stated he would be glad to do that. City Manager Hooper spoke about a franchise working on with them that has taken a year. difficult. He agreed to draft a letter for sign. agreement the City is It has been slow and Mayor Schmidt to Councilwoman Rhodes had nothing at this time. PUBLIC HEARINGS, ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS A. 2nd Readinq, Ord. No. 2001-0-47, amendinq the Code of Ordinances bv modifyinq Chapter 21 (Land Development Code) with the addition of Article XVII (Law Enforcement), section 21-310 (Police Impact Fees): and acceptinq the Police Impact Fee Study City Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. The cost is $129.47 per single family. Legal Assistant Matusick read Ord. 2001-0-47 into the record. city Manager Hooper stated the effective date is August 1, 2001. Due to there being no comments, Mayor Schmidt opened and closed the public hearing. Councilman Vincenzi moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-47, second by Councilman Brown. The motion CARRIED 5-0. B. 2nd Readinq, Ord. No. 2001-0-48, adjustinq the Local Communications Services Tax Rate to 5.5% in accordance with Florida's Communications Services Tax Simplification Act City Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. Legal Assistant Matusick read Ord. 2001-0-48 into the record. City Manager Hooper clarified this is just telephone, cable and satellite. Mayor Schmidt how this will work for satellites. City Manager Hooper informed him he may already be paying a franchise fee. We get our check from the State now, instead of from the satellite company or Time Warner. Due to there being no further comments, Mayor Schmidt opened and closed the public hearing. Councilwoman Lichter moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-48, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. C. 2nd Readinq, Ord. No. 2001-0-49, adiustinq the Local Communications Services Tax Rate bv .12% in lieu of collectinq permit fees from providers of communications services that use or OCCUpy municipal roads or riqhts-of-wav in accordance with Florida's Communications Services Tax Simplification Act city Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. Page -6- Council Regular Meeting July 2, 2001 '-" ....., Legal Assistant Matusick read Ord. 2001-0-49 into the record. Due to there being no comments, Mayor Schmidt opened and closed the public hearing. Councilman Vincenzi moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-49, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. D. Res. No. 2001-R-10 and Res. No. 2001-R-11. city of Edqewater deedinq some city owned riqhts-of-way east and west of Airpark Road to FOOT for the wideninq of SR 442 City Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. This is a deed that allows the City to give property to DOT at the intersection of Airpark and SR 442. They will need this for the widening. Staff recommends approval. There is also authorization for the Mayor to execute the agreement and the deeds. Legal Assistant Matusick read Res. 2001-R-10 into the record. Due to there being no comments, Mayor Schmidt opened and closed the public hearing. Councilman Brown moved to approve Res. 2001-R-10 and 2001-R-11, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. City Manager Hooper stated the motion was for two separate resolutions but asked Ms. Matusick to read the second parcel number into the record. E. 1st Readinq. Ord. No 2001-0-44. Sam Merrill. P.E.. authorized agent for Mark Wallschlaqer. requestinq annexation of 37.7+ acres located west of US 1 and south of Omni Circle City Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. This will become part of the Edgewater Lakes PUD. It will be part of a mixed use commercial. There are still many steps to go through. This just brings the 37 acres into the City. They will be coming back to the Council and to Planning and Zoning for a Comprehensive Plan Amendment for rezoning for a developer agreement for PUD and for the platting of that subdivision. Legal Assistant Matusick read Ord. 2001-0-44 into the record. Councilwoman Lichter referred to Exhibit B and asked if where the City limits are identified is the end of the golf course community. city Manager Hooper informed her that is correct. Councilwoman Lichter asked what the homes are behind the parcel identified. City Manager Hooper stated they are not really homes. They are seeing platted old lots. They will have a very large number of those that have made application to annex. There are probably thirty owners. They have been contacted and a majority of those are coming into the city. Councilwoman Lichter spoke of property owners in the south end of the City receiving letters to go to the Planning and Zoning meeting. She didn't understand why 34th and 35th Street residents were notified. City Manager Hooper stated originally on the Planning and Zoning, the zoning and the developer agreement had been advertised for Edgewater Lakes so everything around that had been noticed. That was pulled off of the Planning and Zoning agenda because it was not ready for presentation. Councilwoman Lichter stated some of those people were under the impression that what they were talking about were plotted for manufactured homes. Word got back to her of disfavor concerning that. Ms. Plaskett stated it is all zoned agriculture. Page -7- Council Regular Meeting July 2, 2001 .'w' ...., Councilwoman Lichter asked if it will be on the next Planning and Zoning meeting for the acreage that abuts their properties. city Manager Hooper stated the developer agreement and the zoning for Edgewater Lakes is on the agenda for the Planning and Zoning for the next time. City Manager Hooper informed the Council anytime they advertise anything for Edgewater Lakes they have to notice 500 feet around. Councilwoman Lichter asked when the 37 acres comes in, will it be up to Planning and Zoning or the Council to put in some kind of impact fees or is that too small a package. City Manager Hooper stated there are impact fees on every project no matter how large or small. Due to there being no further comments, Mayor Schmidt opened and closed the public hearing. Councilman Vincenzi moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-44, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. F. 1st Readinq. Ord. No. 2001-0-45. Dominick Caputo and John Dahl. authorized aqents for Earl and Mariorie Gentrv. requestinq annexation of ap~roximatelv .34 acres located between US 1 and the Indian River on Swordfish Lane city Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. Legal Assistant Matusick read Ord. 2001-0-45 into the record. Mayor Schmidt opened the public hearing. Councilwoman Lichter stated she thought Ranken Road was District four. Ms. Plaskett stated if it is incorrect, they will correct it. councilwoman Lichter stated Swordfish Lane may be different than Ranken Road. Doris Hill, 112 Lincoln Road, asked how much of that land abutting and on Ranken Road has been taken into this City. Has most of it been annexed? Ms. Plaskett stated everything on Ranken Road except two lots are not in the City. Councilwoman Rhodes asked about two dark outlines on Palm Breeze. Ms. Plaskett stated those are out too. Councilwoman Lichter asked where Pyramid Park would be. Ms. Plaskett stated just to the north of Palm Breeze. Due to there being no further comments, Mayor Schmidt closed the public hearing. Councilwoman Lichter moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-45, second by Councilwoman Rhodes. The motion CARRIED 5-0. G. 1st Readinq. Ord. No. 2001-0-46. David Hevburn and Patricia Johnson. requestinq annexation for 1.72+ acres located at 1020 and 1024 Flyinq M Court City Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. Legal Assistant Matusick read Ord. 2001-0-46 into the record. Due to there being no comments, Mayor Schmidt opened and closed the public hearing. Councilwoman Rhodes moved to approve Ord. 2001-0-46, second by councilman vincenzi. The motion CARRIED 5-0. Page -8- Council Regular Meeting July 2, 2001 '-' ...., There was a ten-minute recess at this time. The meeting recessed at 8:15 p.m. and reconvened at 8:25 p.m. CONSENT AGENDA A. General Aareement - staff recommending approval of Agreement between the United states Department of the Interior. National park Services. actina throuah the Superintendent of Canaveral National Seashore. and the cit of Edgewater. Department of Fire/Rescue Services. providina for mutual assistance in wildland and structural fire suppression. and enablina the City to be eliaible for additional Federal arant opportunities B. Statement of Aareement - staff recommendinq approval of Agreement between the Florida's Coast to Coast Chapter of the American Red Cross and the cit of Edqewater to permit the utilization of the Hawks Park Recreation facility as a shot shelter durinq times of isolated evacuations C. Grant writinq Services - staff recommendinq approval of Work Order #1 for B & H Consultants to prepare and file a Florida Forever Proaram arant application through the Florida Communities Trust Councilwoman Rhodes moved to approve the Consent Agenda, second by Councilwoman Lichter. The motion CARRIED 5-0. OTHER BUSINESS A. Conceptual Desiqn Services and spatial Analysis - staff recommendinq approval of Work Order #5 with Land Desiqn Innovations. Inc. (LDn for a feasibility and spatial analysis concerninq the existinq city Hall site for a sum not to exceed $31. 350 City Manager Hooper made a staff presentation. This does not indicate that this is the site for City Hall. He listed the seven items that Land Design Innovations. Inc will provide. This will be presented back to Council as a report. At that time, he feels a public hearing would be the next step to decide whether this or another site is what they are after with City Hall. This will be presented no later than January 2002. Councilwoman Rhodes questioned if this is only what is here and the Police Department. City Manager Hooper stated it includes everybody but the Fire Department. Councilwoman Lichter stated when they determine population, that doesn't necessarily mean the building has to be that big. City Manager Hooper stated there is a direct correlation. The more population, the more staff that is needed to support the population. Our growth rate is at a 3.6 which is pretty sizable considering it has been 1~ or 2 for a long time. The City has almost doubled in 10 years. The City has annexed and had requests to annex of almost 4,000 acres in the Comp Plan. Councilwoman Lichter asked about a limit of about 50,000 people. City manager Hooper feels they are looking at a 30 to 40 thousand population in a fifteen year period and the limitations how far west and south the City goes. There is no boundary between us and Deltona and an awful lot of developable property. He spoke about Florida Shores being wetlands years ago. Page -9- Council Regular Meeting July 2, 2001 '-' ...." Mayor Schmidt stated as far as the other two sites they talked about, is there still basic what is available and what are prices out there. City Manager Hooper stated two property owners have approached him to the south that are in the $100,000 to $150,000 per acre range. These are a 40 and 20 acre site. Adjacent to the school site could be purchased in the $40,000 per acre range. The property owners and developers at the interchange have offered to give property if the City were to lease property, they would give property and build a building if the City were interested in relocating to 1-95 and SR 442. There were no further questions. Councilwoman Lichter moved for approval of the work order, second by Councilman Brown. The motion CARRIED 5-0. OFFICER REPORTS Deputy City Clerk Bloomer had nothing at this time. Legal Assistant Matusick presented an update on the Margaret Stanley case. Our attorney, Michael Roper, utilized the option to file a motion to dismiss in Federal Court. Hopefully we will hear back from the courts on their determination on the motion in the not too distant future. Mayor Schmidt asked if there is a time table. City Manager Hooper spoke about the Federal Court acting very quickly compared to Circuit Court. City Manager Hooper spoke about Waterway Park. The County and the City put a survey out to poll the residents and see if they .would be interested in putting in central water, forming an assessment program. The votes were tallied today and it is about a 2/3 in favor. They will start the design and engineering process to put the water line in. They will be our customers directly. The County has agreed to form the assessment, hold the public hearings and assign the revenue source to the City, which will borrow against that assessment. That process is under way. city Manager Hooper informed Council if they feel uncomfortable with this, for them to tell him they want it brought back. city Manager Hooper informed Council they budgeted money last year in the budget to relocate the utilities. DOT wants him to slgn a letter saying the City will set the money aside. This is a budget allocated amount of about $900,000 that they have approved in the past. It should be on the agenda and it is not. It came in today. He spoke of interest accruing. They will do it as a change order, a joint participation agreement. City Manager Hooper stated he has no problem with this and recommended it. Councilwoman Lichter questioned the item not being on the agenda for the public to know. City Manager Hooper spoke of this being budgeted in the past and if there is no change, that is consistent with the policies and procedures they follow. Councilwoman Lichter asked if it can wait two weeks or if City Manager Hooper feels it has to be done immediately. City Manager Hooper stated they want the Council to sign it and the world won't end if they put it on the agenda in two weeks. He agreed to sign it and put it on the agenda for official review. Council had no problem with this. City Manager Hooper stated he signed the JPA a long time ago, which Council authorized him to do. Page -10- Council Regular Meeting July 2, 2001 ~ ~ Mayor Schmidt asked if this is something where they can say they did this for DOT and ask them to buy the entrance signs into the city. City Manager Hooper commented on things DOT is doing with regard to the Library site and the retention pond. They are living up to things they have described. They have given the city two grants for landscaping. Mayor Schmidt asked if it is the City that put the new line down US #1 from Baja Ringos and in front of Cecil's. City Manager Hooper stated ours goes down to Hacienda. Mayor Schmidt questioned the fire hydrant that was put on the end. He feels that is an awful long distance where they started it to where the fire hydrant is. He doesn't know why there isn't another fire hydrant in the middle. City Manager Hooper agreed to find out. Councilwoman Rhodes made a motion to put the money aside and for City Manager Hooper to sign the paperwork, second by Councilwoman Lichter. The motion CARRIED 5-0. CITIZEN COMMENTS/CORRESPONDENCE Doris Hill, 112 Lincoln Road, commented on the study being done on the city Hall site. She has lived here for fourteen years and has been in favor of every proposition that was ever put before the Council to move ahead. This City has come a long way in fourteen years. They have paid for the growth and are still paying for it. She hopes they aren't going to be asked to pay for growth that they are looking forward to twenty or thirty years from now. We need more space but she hopes they aren't going to go overboard on this. They are paying for what was done in the County. She doesn't want to build for 100,000 people right now. City Manager Hooper stated he thinks the Council has said they want it expandable. What has been authorized is a good place to start but make sure it has room to grow as the population grows. Councilwoman Rhodes anticipates still living here twenty years from now. She would rather pay for it now when it is cheaper than pay for it twenty years from now when it will cost twice as much. She feels they need to have the land to accommodate growth in the future. Ms. Hill stated she doesn't think people today should be paying for what is going to happen 30 years from now. Councilwoman Rhodes feels they are all conservative when it comes to money. Councilwoman Lichter feels Edgewater is very much a senior population and they will be cautious, careful and conservative. She spoke of not building for a population of 50,000 but you make sure you can enlarge when you have to. Ms. Hill stated she doesn't think they should go ten miles out and buy all this land to anticipate what will happen twenty or thirty years from now. She kind of likes the status quo. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business to discuss, Councilwoman Rhodes moved to adjourn. The meeting adjourned at 8:47 p.m. Minutes submitted by: Lisa Bloomer Page -11- Council Regular Meeting July 2, 2001