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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_Regular_07/25/1978i MINUTES OF THE N~ETING OF THE COUNCIL OF THE VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA, FLORIDA July 25, 197$ A meeting of the Village Council was held on Tuesday, July 25, 197$ at 7:30 P.M. in the Village Hall, 357 Tequesta Drive, Tequesta, Florida. Councilmembers present were Brown, Cook, Mapes, Ryan and Yoder. Also present were Robert Harp, Village Manager, Cyrese Colbert, Village Clerk and John C. Randolph, Village Attorney. The meeting was opened with Prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag by Vice-Mayor Mapes. Mayor Brown presented Mr. Joe B. Wise with three golf balls that Mr. Wise had won in a golfing match at Tequesta Country Club. Mayor Brown advised of the Community Appearance. Boardts meeting for July 26, 197 at 10:00 A.M., to consider plans fora Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan Association Branch Office building, plans for Al Woodard Retail Store and Warehouse and plans for a warehouse addition to Tequesta Tire Company Building. Mr. Brown also advised of the Zoning Board of Adjustments Public Hearing at 7:30 P.M. July 31, 197, the meeting on August 15, 197b at the Palm Beach Gardens, City Hall Council Chamber held by Rep. Bill Taylor on an update report of the widening of Alt. AlA. Mr. Brown also read a memorandum from the Village Manager reporting of N1r. Bill Sydow'S illness. The agenda was amended by deletion of 2b until Mr. Sydow could be present and Brown asked that Mr. Robert Kauffman President of the Country Glub Community Association be substituted at 2b. 3c became Drainage Repairs and Improvements and the Village Attorney added two RESOlutions to 3a and 3b. The minutes o~f the July 11, 197$ Council Meeting were received with no comments. The Village Manager's Report was received as submitted with nuestions asked and answered. On item X27 Ty;apes asked if the full amount of the $16,0$1.32 would be credited to the Water System, if and when we received it. The Village Manager told Council that most of it would be refunded to the Water System. l_.J 0?-25-7$ -2 On item X26, Mapes asked the Village Manager how much of a penalty would be incurred because of cashing in of "Certificates of Deposit" of various Water Department funds in order to make required deposits pursuant to the Refunding Program. The Village Manager informed Council that the penalty would be approximately $7,600 just on the Certif icates of Deposit. The Village's Financial Statement and the Water Department Statement for June, 197 were received with some questions being asked and answered to Councils satisfaction on the Water Department Financial Statement. One important question Yoder asked the Village Manager was "do you foresee that we arP going to have to raise water rates`?" The Village Manager answered "no". Next on the agenda was Robert Kauffman, President, Country Club Community Association. Mr. Kauffman told Council that as President of the Country Club Community Association and a resident of the Country Club Community he was greatly concerned about the possible changing of the Palm Beach County bus service into the Country Club Community beyond the gates. He also told Council that the Country Club Community Association has passed a Resolution of no rerouting in the Country Club Community but that there should be a staging area were parents could drive their children to outside the Country Club Community. He went on to say that there are approximately thirty-five (35) children to be picked up out of a total of one-hundred and thirty-six (136) homes. In talking with Chief Flannery, • Flannery agreed that a staging area would be safer than stopping at different homes. In an verbal survey Mr. Kauffman took over a period of six (6) days about 9~.6% of the people opposed the rerouting because they felt they paid higher taxes for the seclusion and integrity they enjoy within the Country Club Community. NTr. Kauffman told Council the Association voiced objection of a staging area at the North gate but did not object to a staging area at the South gate. Councilman Mapes told Mr. Kauffman that Council never received notification of the change of the bus schedule. When Ryan asked Mr. Kauffman what other areas did the Country Club Community Association have in mind as alternate staging areas Mr. Kauffman told him the Association suggested maybe the United Presbyterian Church, Baptist Church or the Art Gallery. Mr. Jim Nagle asked if the bus service would be just for students or could anyone ride the ride and received the answer that anyone could ride the bus. But Mr. Kauffman said that of the people he surveyed no one without children would be interested in riding the bus. Mrs. Dwyer, Bunker Place, told Council and Mr. Kauffman that when t.~a °a1m Reach County Bus Authority came to a 07-25-7~ -3 meeting of the interested parents they gave the parents a temporary route. She also told Council that there • were already three (3) public school buses and four (G.) private school buses going into the Country Club and no one has said or done anything about them. So why start pointing fingers at a few children. Mrs. Dwyer did not object to the North and South gate being used as staging areas, since those areas are already being used by other students. Mrs. Pat Anderson, 326 Fairway North, told Council she was the one who started the whiole bus thing because she was thinking of the safety of the children, saving of gas for economy reasons and this would be a way of getting the children to school on time, but that she would not fight getting the buses through the Country Club gates. Mrs, Anderson told Council and Mr. Kauffman that she would fight for getting both the North and South gates as a staging area. Mr. Leo DeLanti told Council he is for the bus service and feels that the bus service is a public service taking care of public need. Mr. Bobby McBride, 232 River Drive, did object to the buses going into the Country Club gates, because he feels the roads are too narrow to handle the traffic flow, but he • did .not object to the buses stopping at the North and South gates. William Brennan told Council he thought Mr. Kauffman did a goad job speaking on the behalf of the Country Club Community Association, He objected to the buses going into the Country Club gates. James Young, objected to the buses going down Country Club Drive. Mrs. Gifford, Fairway East, was concerned about the North and South gate being used as a staging area because of the heavy traffic along that area. She also felt that when it rains there will be cars with parents and children in them parked along the road side waiting for the bus and that would also cause a traffic problem in those areas. Jack Servies told Council he recommended quite a while ago that rain shelters be installed in the area of the North and South gate. Brown summarized the different arguments as being 1., Council has not received any notification from the 07-25-7$ -~. County 2., that there is a group (the Country Club • Community Association) that do not want the buses to go into the Country Club gates and are opposed to the North gate as a staging area and 3., parent's feel.. that the buses stop at both the North and South gates into the Country Club. John Giba, reminded Council the reason the shelters were not installed was because Council felt there would be a precedent set if the Country Club area would have shelters and the other areas throughout the Village did not. Mapes moved, "to direct the Village Manager to write a letter to the County Commissioners and the Palm Beach County Transit Authorities expressing the opinion of the Council that. the buses come to the North and South gate of the Commi~nityT1. Ryan seconded and vote on the motion was: Brown -for Cook -for Mapes -for Ryan -f o r Yoder -for and therefore the motion was passed and adopted. Mr. Edwin J, Nelson, introduced himself to Council and told Council he has had about four (4) acres for about nine (9) years that is between the Lighthouse Plaza and U.S. ~1. Mr. Nelson explained that he is ready to build a shopping center on that piece of land. The problem he once had of traffic exiting from his plaza to U.S.~1 has been revised and has received approval from the D.O.T. The shopping center will have about 30,000 sq.ft. and will use cedar, walkways with greenery which he hopes will enhance the shopping plaza. Mr. Nelson advised there would be ample parking with some 22$ parking spaces plus a small possibility of cross easement parking between the Lighthouse Plaza and his shopping plaza. Mr. Nelson has paid the necessary water fees and says he is now ready for the building permit. Brown told Mr. Nelson that he was very interested in the shopping area but he did not want to see another Lighthouse Plaza because he said, "we are very unhappy with the Lighthouse Plaza". Brown went on to say that several people attended the Community Appearance Board Meeting and were concerned about the traffic pattern.. Mr. Nelson replied that the Village could expect a little more cooperation from the Lighthouse Plaza in the 07-25-7$ -5 future because of K-N~rt and their agreement with the owners of Lighthouse Plaza, When asked if there was • any hope of him (Nelson) taking over the Lighthouse Plaza, NZr. Nelson said the owners would have a big tax obligation if they should sell now. Yoder asked the Village Manager if he, the Building Official and the Police Chief were happy with the traffic patterns. The Village Manager said everyone involved is pleased and has approved the plans. Council discussed to some length with Mr. Giba about the traffic pattern, Brown said the Community Appearance Board has approved the plans but he feels that Council should review the plans also and maybe Council could review the plans approved by the Community Appearance Board for future buildings. Mayor Brown called a 5 minutes recess. At 9~~3 P.NT. Mayor Brown reconvened the meeting. Mrs. Martin said she understood there was a letter from the Country Club Community Association informing Council they were no longer in favor of the bicycle path along Country Club Drive and she wanted Council to know that she hopes that Council will go ahead with • the bicycle path down Country Club Drive. A'Ir. Joe B. Wise, William R. Hough & Co., was present and told Council there were several documents to be implemented for the Bond closing. The signing is scheduled for Monday, July 31, 197 and the closing scheduled for Tuesday, August 1, 197$, in New York. There were two (.2) resolutions that. had to be adopted, 1., a Resolution fixing the form and details for the refunding and 2., a Resolution providing for the redemption of the refunded bonds. Other documents that needed to be executed were the Public Meeting Certificate, the Signature Certificate, the Treasury Bond Purchase Agreement and the Escrow Deposit Agreement. The Village Attorney read by "title only" a RESOLUTION FIXING THE DATE, MATURITIES, MIANDATORY AMORTI- ZATION INSTALLr~NTS, INTEREST RATES AND REDEI'~IPTION PRO- VISIONS FOR $3 , 915 , 000 6tTA TER REFUNDING REVENUE BONDS, SERIES 197$; FLING THE DATE, MATURITIES AND INTEREST RATES FOR $1,3`]0,000 SPECIAL OBLIGATION BONDS, SERIES 197~A; CANCELLING THE UNSOLD PRINCIPAL AMOUNTS OF SAID 197$ BONDS AND 197~A BONDS, RATIFYING PURCHASE CONTRACTS AND AWARD OF SAID 197$ AND 197$A BONDS; AUTHORIZING USE OF OFFICIAL STATEMENTS FOR SAID 197$ BONDS AND 197$A BONDS, AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AN ESCROW DEPOSIT AGREEMENT AND A TREASURY BOND PURCHASE AGREEMENT AND LETTER AGREEMENT RELATING THERETO; AND NAT~iING ESCROW HOLDER, PAYING AGENTS AND SUPPLIER UNDER TREASURY BOND PURCHASE AGREEMENT. 07-25-7$ -6 T4lapes moved, T'the adoption of the Resolution". Ryan seconded. Vote on the motion was: • Brown -f o r Cook -for Ma pe s -f o r Ryan -f o r Yoder -for and therefore Resolution No. 12-77/7$ was passed and adopted. The Village Attorney read a Resolution entitled, A RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE REDEI~TPTIOPI OF CERTAIN OF THE OUTSTANDING WATER REVENUE CERTIFICATES, DATED JULY 1, 167, OF THE VILLAGE OF TE~UESTA, FLORIDA, ON CERTAIN REDEMPTION DATES OF THE RESPECTIVE CERTIFICATES. Mapes moved, "to adopt this Resolution as read". Yoder seconded and vote on the motion was: Brown -f o r Cook -for Ma pe s -fo r Ryan -for Yoder -for and therefore Resolution No. 13-77/7$ was passed and adopted. • Council next discussed the drainage repairs and improvement projects at three (3) various locations in the Village. Cook expressed her concern that Grady Parker Paving submitted a bid of X7,000 and the other party submitted their bid for $2$,450 which is quite higher than Grady Parker Paving. The Village Manager sent Council a memorandum on July 24, 1978 recommending that the Village Council exempt Grady Parker Paving from executing a payment and performance bond for the project. Grady Parker Paving has not been able to start work due to the fact 'that the company has been unable to obtain a payment and performance bond. The Village T~Ianager also informed Council that he and the Building Official would see that one job was completed before the paving company would be allowed to start another one. Mapes moved, 'tthat the Village Manager be authorized to have Grady Parker Paving go ahead with his work on the consensus of completion piece by piece and to waive the bond". Yoder seconded and the motion was passed and adopted. The next item on the agenda was`the report on Building Permit for Lighthouse Plaza. The Village • • L~ • 07-25-7$ -7 Attorney told Council that it will be the duty of the Building Official, before we can give a building permit • for Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan to see that the Lighthouse Plaza be brought u to code (fie: plants, shrubs and general appearance. Council showed concern o~~ how they could let the Community Appearance Board know that the Village will not issue the Building permit until the necessary work is done. The Village Attorney brought to Councils attention that the Building Official was present in the audience. Brown expressed his concern that the traffic pattern ought to be considered by the Community Appearance Board in reviewing of new plans and he also felt it is desirable that the Community Appearance Board make their recommendations to Council and that Council ought to have final approval. Mrs. Butterf field, Chairman of the Community Appearance Board told Council that the Community Appearance Board has very well qualified people serving on the board who are architects, engineers, landscapers, etc. and that they are just as qualified, if not more, than Council and if Council feels this way maybe the Village should do away with the Community Appearance Board. The Village Manager read by 'ititle only't A RESOLUTION OF THE VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA, FLORIDA REQUESTING THE STATE • OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS TO INCLUDE THE VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA APPLICATION AMONG THOSE REQUESTING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING ACT ASSISTANCE FUND PROGRAM FOR 197$-1979. Mapes moved, t'the Resolution be adopted. Cook seconded and vote on the motion was: Brown -for Cook -for Mapes -for Ryan -for Yoder -for and therefore Resolution No. 14-77/7$ was passed and adopted, Under Councilmemberts Reports Cook advised of several complaints received of bushes in the Country Club obstructing vision of cars traveling certain roads. Brown also told of several complaints of high bushes in certain areas and of cars exceeding the speed limits on Golfview Drive around 5:00 P.M. The Village Manager • 07-25-7~ -~ made note of both of these complaints and reassured Council they would be checked out. • Brown also asked the Village Manager to update the "Priority List" so Council could once again start on the list. The meeting was adjourned at 10: 53.P.M. ,') ,,; _ >. ~ ~ r Cyrse Colbert