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1a:I= 1 City of South Miami 2 Special City Commission Minutes 3 August 19, 2010 4 • • 0 - ;, 6 7 The City Commission of the City of South Miami, Florida met 8 in special session on Thursday, August 19, 2010, beginning at 9 7:45 p.m., in the City Commission Chambers, 6130 Sunset Drive. 10 11 A. Roll Call: 12 The following members of the City Commission were present: 13 Mayor Philip K. Stoddard, Commissioners Brian D. Beasley and 14 Walter A. Harris. Vice Mayor Valerie Newman and Commissioner 15 Velma Palmer were absent. 16 17 Also in attendance were: Acting City Manager Buford R. Witt, 18 Deputy City Attorney Mark A. Goldstein and City Clerk Maria M. 19 Menendez. 20 21 B. Moment of Silence: By Mayor Stoddard. 22 23 C. Pledge of Allegiance: 24 The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison. 25 26 D. Presentations(s) 27 NONE 28 RESOLUTION oil 32 174 -10 -13208 33 1. A Resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the 34 City of South Miami, Florida, authorizing the Acting 35 City Manager to retain Richard Weisskoff, Ph.D to 36 perform a study of the impact of new transmission lines 37 on economic development along FPL's proposed U.S. 1 38 corridor; and providing an effective date. 3/5 39 (Mayor Stoddard) 40 41 Moved by Mayor Stoddard, seconded by Commissioner Beasley 42 to approve this item. 43 44 With no further comments, the motion to approve this item 45 passed by a 3 -0 vote: SPECIAL CITY COMMISSION MINUTES 1 August 19, 2010 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12_ 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 Commissioner Palmer: Vice Mayor Newman: Commissioner Beasley Commissioner Harris: Mayor Stoddard: :Ina t Absent Absent Yea Yea Yea 175 -10 -13209 2. A Resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of South Miami, Florida, scheduling a Committee of the Whole Meeting (COW) for August 23, 24, and 25, 2010 to interview the City Manager applicants finalists; September 1, 2018, �_ interview the City Manager applicant -finalists and setti_� - Special City nm_.._..._..:.....:._...._ Meeting for a..pa-....ber 7, 2010, tea seleest a Gity Manager; and providing an effective date. 3/5 (Mayor Stoddard) Moved by Mayor Stoddard, seconded by Commissioner Beasley to approve this item. The Commission discussed scheduling the interviews at Committee of the Whole (COW) meetings scheduled for August 23, 24 and 25 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Goldstein said that he would be informing The Mercer Group about the Commission's decision so that they could notify the eight finalists. The Commission would be interviewing the out -of -town candidates on Tuesday night (August 24) on Skype. Moved by Commissioner Beasley to amend the Resolution to reflect the results of the Commission's discussion. Seconded by Mayor .Stoddard, the motion to approve this item as amended passed by a 3 -0 vote: Commissioner Palmer: Absent Vice Mayor Newman: Absent Commissioner Beasley: Yea Commissioner Harris: Yea Mayor Stoddard: Yea 176 -10 -13210 3. A resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the City of South Miami, Florida, authorizing the City Manager to renew the contract with Humana /CompBenefits to provide group dental and vision insurance for City of South Miami full time employees to be charged to SPECIAL CITY COMMISSION MINUTES August 19, 2010 I t- 1 departmental account numbers respectively; Providing an 2 effective date. 3/5 3 (Acting City Manager) 4 5 Moved by Commissioner Beasley, seconded by Mayor Stoddard 6 to approve this item. 7 8 Ms. Baker clarified that there will be no increase at all, 9 even though the Memo indicated a 10 percent increase. The City 10 pays 50 percent on dental and the employee is responsible for 11 100 percent of vision. 12 13 With some further comments, the motion to approve this item 14 passed by a 3 -0 vote: 15 16 Commissioner Palmer: Absent 17 Vice Mayor Newman: Absent 18 Commissioner Beasley: Yea 19 Commissioner Harris: Yea 20 Mayor Stoddard: Yea 21 22 177 -10 -13211 23 4. A Resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the 24 City of South Miami, Florida, authorizing the City 25 Manager to enter into a one -year contract with Standard 26 Insurance to provide Long Term Disability insurance for 27 City of South Miami full -time employees. To be charged 28 to departmental account numbers respectively; providing 29 for an effective date. 3/5 30 (Acting City Manager) 31 32 Moved by Commissioner Beasley, seconded by Mayor Stoddard 33 to approve this item.' 34 35 Moved by Commissioner Beasley, seconded by Mayor Stoddard 36 to amend the Resolution to read that this will be a one -year 37 contract, the motion passed by a 3 -0 vote: 38 39 Commissioner Palmer: Absent 40 Vice Mayor Newman: Absent 41 Commissioner Beasley: Yea 42 Commissioner Harris: Yea 43 Mayor Stoddard: Yea 44 45 Mr. Crossland said that the provisions on this and the 46 following Resolutions remain the same since this is just a 47 renewal and there are no labor law issues as far as the unions SPECIAL CITY COMMISSION MINUTES 3 August 19, 2010 11auf t 1 are concerned. Mr. Casey with the PBA and Mr. Bynum, the 2 insurance agent addressed the Commission with clarification 3 relating to the pension as it relates to disability insurance. 4 5 Even though there were no public remarks, the Mayor allowed 6 the following residents to express their views: Brad Cassel, 7 Sharon McCain and Pat Shields. 8 9 With some further comments, the motion to approve this item 10 as amended passed by a 3 -0 vote: 11 12 Commissioner Palmer: Absent 13 Vice Mayor Newman: Absent 14 Commissioner Beasley: Yea 15 Commissioner Harris: Yea 16 Mayor Stoddard: Yea 17 18 178 -10 -13212 19 5. A Resolution of the Mayor and City Commission of the 20 City of South Miami, Florida, authorizing the City 21 Manager to enter into a one -year contract with Standard 22 Insurance to provide Life /Accidental Death and 23 Dismemberment insurance for City of South Miami full - 24 time employees. To be charged to departmental account 25 numbers respectively; providing for an effective date. 26 (Acting City Manager) 3/5 27 28 Moved by Mayor Stoddard, seconded by Commissioner Beasley 29 to approve this item. 30 31 Moved by Commissioner Beasley, seconded by Mayor Stoddard 32 to amend the Resolution to read that this will be a one -year 33 contract, the motion passed by a 3 -0 vote: 34 35 Commissioner Palmer: Absent 36 Vice Mayor Newman: Absent 37 Commissioner Beasley: Yea 38 Commissioner Harris: Yea 39 Mayor Stoddard: Yea 40 41 42 With no further comments, the motion to approve this item 43 as amended passed by a 3 -0 vote: 44 45 Commissioner Palmer: Absent 46 Vice Mayor Newman: Absent 47 Commissioner Beasley: Yea SPECIAL CITY COMMISSION MINUTES 4 August 19, 2010 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Commissioner Harris: Mayor Stoddard: BTEN Yea Yea There being no further business to come before this Body, the meeting adjourned at 8:57 p.m. Attest Maria M. Menendez City Clerk SPECIAL CITY COMMISSION MINUTES August 19, 2010 5 Approved Philip K. Stoddard Mayor