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ORDINANCE NO. ______ _
An Ordinance amending the City of South Miami Code of Ordinances,
Chapter 2, Article I, Section 2-2.1 (A), (B) and (C) to give the City
Commission more flexibility in rescheduling regular meetings, especially
during times of emergency, to improve the scheduling of the agenda and
to make other revisions.
10 WHEREAS, Chapter 2, Article I, Section 2-2.1 (A) prevents the rescheduling of
11 a regular meeting between two regularly scheduled meetings; and
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13 WHEREAS, the City desires to amend Chapter 2, Article I, Section 2-2.1 (A) of
14 the Code of Ordinances give the City Commission more flexibility in scheduling its
15 regular Commission meetings.
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17 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
18 COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI, FLORIDA:
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20 Section 1. Chapter 2, Article I, Section 2-2.1 (A), (B) and (C) of the Code of
21 Ordinances, City of South Miami, Florida, is hereby amended and shall read as follows:
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23 Sec. 2-2.1. -Rules of procedure of Ceity Ceommission.
24 The following rules of procedure shall govern all meetings of the Ceity
25 Ceommission, namely:
26 (A)REGULAR MEETING. The !::.eity !::.eommission shall hold regular meetings,
27 typically at 7:00 p.m. on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. When the
28 day set for any regular meeting falls on a day designated by law as a legal, public
29 national or religious holiday, such meeting shall be held on a date determined in
30 advance by a majority of the Ceommission. Regular meetings may be otherwise
31 postponed, cancelled, or reset by written resolution adopted at a regular meeting by
32 a majority of the entire membership of the commission All regular meetings shall be
33 held in the commission chambers located in the city hall.
34 No meeting of the Ceity Ceommission shall extend later than 11:00 p.m., except
35 upon super-majority vote (4/5 vote) of members present at the meeting~ and such
36 meeting extensions shall not exceed midnight. Any and Aall items not
37 considered by this limitation time period at that meeting and that are not tabled,
38 deferred indefinitely or to a date certain will be automatically deferred to the next
39 regularJLscheduled Ceommission meeting.
40 (B) SPECIAL MEETING; WORKSHOP MEETING and SUNSHINE MEETINGS.
41 A special meeting, sunshine meeting (a meeting of two (2) or more members of
42 the Ceity !::.eommission to discuss any matter that may foreseeably come before
43 the !::.eommission for action) or a workshop meeting of the !::.eity Ceommission
44 may be called by the mayor whenever, in his opinion, the public business may
45 require it, or whenever three (3) or more members of the !::.eity Ceommission
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request a special or workshop meeting or two (2) or more members of the Csity
2 Csommission request a sunshine meeting. Whenever a special, sunshine or
3 workshop meeting shall be called by the mayor, a notice in writing signed by the
4 mayor shall be served on the Csity Cslerk, and whenever a special, sunshine or
5 workshop meeting shall be called by three (3) or more members of the Csity
6 .Gsommission, notice in writing. signed by such .Gsommission members shall be
7 served in writing upon the City Cslerk. The clerk shall forthwith serve either
8 verbal or written notice upon each member of the .Gsity Csommission, the
9 mayor, the Csity Mmanager and the Csity Aattorney, stating the date and hour of
10 the meeting, and the purpose for which such meeting is called, and no other
11 business shall be transacted at that meeting other than that for which the meeting
12 was called. The p .... l3htyf9U(ho~rtimelimitmaybe\·lalve'd intime otRllbllo 13 mergel1cy
13 affecting: life, health,'PrQ'pertfo;'s~~ty,. The clerk, shall ensure that written notice is
14 sent to the mayor and all of the members of the Csity Csommission informing
15 them of the date, time and place of the special, sunshine or workshop meeting at
16 least twenty-four (24) hours in advance of the meeting. A copy of said notice is
17 to be posted in a prominent and conspicuous place at city hall not less than
18 twenty-four (24) hours prior to such meeting. The twenty-four-hour time
19 limitations may be ignored in time of public emergency affecting life, health,
20 property or safety unless a super-majority (4/5) of the members of the City
21 Commission vote against ignoring the time limitation. The minutes of each
22 special, sunshine or workshop meeting shall include the manner and method by
23 which notice of such special, sunshine or workshop meeting was given, or shall
24 state the reason why the notice was not given as required by this section. All
25 special, sunshine or workshop meetings shall be open to the public and shall be
26 held at city hall. For the purposes of this paragraph, the leaving of a copy of the
27 written notice at the residence of the mayor or any commissioner shall constitute
28 service of written notice on such mayor and commissioner. All written notices
29 that are required by this section to be sent may be sent in any form of
30 communication that appears in text format, such as an email, and that can be
31 printed.
32 (C) (C) AGENDA. There shall be an official agenda for every meeting of the
33 Csommission, prepared by the City Manager, and assembled and distributed by
34 the City Clerk, which shall determine the order of business conducted at the
35 meeting. The Ceommission shall not take action upon any item, matter or
36 business (city business) which is not listed upon the official agenda without
37 approval of at least three (3) Csommission members present at such regular
38 meeting to add such Ceity business to the official agenda. The official agenda
39 shall be prepared by the clerk in appropriate form approved by the Ceommission.
40 City business may be placed on the agenda by the mayor, the Ceity Mmanager,
41 any commissioner, and the .Geity Aattorney. A physical agenda books, if
42 requested in writing by a member of the Ceity Ceommission, will be prepared by
43 the clerk's office and will be placed in the Ceommission 's mailbox in city hall.
44 The agenda package will also be uploaded into the city's cloud server or similar
45 electronic location and on the city's webpage, at least seventy-two (72) hours
46 prior to any regularly scheduled meeting, and twenty-four (24) hours prior to any
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special, sunshine or workshop meeting. The twenty-four-hour time limit may be
2 ignored in time of public emergency affecting life, health, property or safety,
3 unless a super-majority ( 4/5) of the members of the City Commission vote
4 against ignoring the time limitation.
5 Except for emergencies, no item will be placed on the agenda of a regular meeting of
6 the .ceommission which has not been delivered to the Ceity Celerk by noon on the
7 Wednesday preceding such regular meeting, excepting as provided in this subsection
8 2-2.1(C).
9 (D) (1) Add-ons: No business shall be conducted at a regular meeting that is not
10 reflected in the official agenda unless the official agenda is amended or
11 supplemented to reflect additional business ("add-on items") to be conducted at
12 said meeting ("add-on agenda") and unless the add-on agenda is posted and
13 delivered to the .ceity Ceommission. The add-on agenda items must be delivered
14 to the Ceity Celerk no later than 4:00 p.m. on the day ofthe meeting and must be
15 posted on the city's website no later than 5:00 p.m., and, at substantially the same
16 time, it shall be forwarded to the members of the Ceity Ceommission before the
17 commencement of the relevant meeting, electronically or by any comparable
18 means. The .ceity .celerk is further directed to make said add-on item(s) available
19 to the public at the entrance to the Ceommission chambers during every
20 .ceommission meeting. The Ceity Celerk' shall at the end of the consent agenda,
21 read into the record the title of any proposed add-on item(s) sought to be placed
22 on that agenda. Nothing herein shall affect the requirement that any add-on item
23 can only be placed on the agenda by the approval of the majority vote of the
24 Ceity Ceommission. The time limitations may be ignored in time of public
25 emergency affecting life, health, property or safety unless a super-majority ( 4/5)
26 of the members of the City Commission vote against ignoring the time limitation.
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(2) Workshops, sunshine and special meeting: No Ceity business may be
conducted at a special, sunshine or workshop meeting other than that for which
this meeting was called.
(3) Removal of business: Any agenda item that has been tabled without a time
certain shall automatically be removed from the agenda if not acted upon during
the three (3) succeeding regular Ceommission meetings following the date of
said tabling. If a proposed ordinance has been automatically removed for lack of
action, it may only be re-introduced as a first reading ofthe ordinance.
38 Section 2. Codification. The provisions of this ordinance shall become and
39 be made a part of the Code of Ordinances of the City of South Miami as amended.
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41 Section 3. Severability. If any section, clause, sentence, or phrase of this
42 ordinance is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent
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jurisdiction, this holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
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4 Section 4. Ordinances in Conflict. All ordinances or parts of ordinances and
5 all sections and parts of sections of ordinances in direct conflict herewith are hereby
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Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective upon
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PASSED AND ENACTED this __ day of _____ , 2017.
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ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
1 st Reading
2nd Reading
APPROVED:
MAYOR
21 READ AND APPROVED AS TO FORM: COMMISSION VOTE:
22 LANGUAGE, LEGALITY AND Mayor Stoddard:
23 EXECUTION THEREOF Vice Mayor Welsh:
24 Commissioner Liebman:
25 Commissioner Edmond:
26 Commissioner Harris:
·27 CITY ATTORNEY
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SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 17 2017
MIAMIHERALD.(OM '
miami 1Heralb
Cuba mystery:Wbat,theories
u.s .. investigators are pursuing
BY JOSH LEDERMAN
AND LAURAN NEERGAARD
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
There must be an answer.
Whatever is banning U.S.
diplomats in Havana, it's
eluded the do~ors, scien-
tists and intelligence ana-
lysts scouring for answers.
Investigators have chased
many theories, including a
sonic attack, electromag-
netic weapon or flawed
spying device.
Each explanation seems
to fit parts of what' shap~
pened, conflicting with
others.
The United States doesn't
even know what to call it.
Secretary of State Rex Til-
lerson used the phrase
"health attacks." The State
Department prefers "in-
cidents."
Either way, suspicion has
fallen on Cuba. But in-
vestigatorsalso are exam-
ining whether a rogue fac-
tion of its security services,
another country such as
Russia, or some combina-
tion is to blame, more than
a dozen U.S. officials fam-
iliar with the investigation
told The Associated Press.
Those officials spoke on
condition of anonymity
because they weren't autho-
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vestigators are sorting ,
symptoms into categories,
such as auditory aridneur-
ological, according to indi-
vidualsbriefed on the
probe,' .
There can be alag before
victims discover or report .
symptoms, some of which
are hard to diagnose. So
investigators ate charting
the timeline of reported
incidents to identify "clus-
ters" to help solve the
when, where and how of
the Havana whodunit.
SONDCDEVICE
The first signs pointed to
a sonic attack. But what
kind?
Some victinis heard
things-signs that the
sounds were in the audible
spectrum. Loud noise can
harm hearing, especially
high-decibel' sounds that
can trigger ear-ringing
tinnituS, ruptured ear
drums,even permanent
hearing loss.
But others heard nothing,
arid still became ill. So
investigators considered
inaudible sound: infra-
sound, too low for humans
to hear, and ultrasound, too
high.
Infrasound often is expe-
rienced as vibration, like
standing near a subwoofer.
c,.,.-:..~ 'l:ri-h'l"n'" .yonnrlorl
None of these sound.
waves seems to explain the
concUssions. Usually, those;
follow a blow to the head or
proximity to something like
a bomb blast.
ELECTROMAGNETIC
WEAPON
It may sound like Star
Wars fantasy, but electro-.
magnetic weapons have
been around for years. They
generallY'harm electronics,
not humans.
The electromagnetic
spectrum includes waves
like the ones used by YO]Jf
cellphone, microwave and
light bulbs. '
And they can be 'easily
pinpointed. Such waves can
also travel through walls, so
an electromagnetic attack
could be plausibly con-
cealed from afar.
What about the sounds
people heard? .
MiCrowave pulsd-short,
intense blasts -can cause'
people to "hear" clicking
sounds.
But when electromagnet-'
ic waves cause physical
damage, it usually results
from body tissue being
heated. The diplomats in
Cuba haven't been report-
ing burning sensations.
SOMETHING ELSIE
Thd C)+ ... .a.coc-'l! ..... rI "3nvlo1-1:T
Diplomats reported in-
cidents in their homes and
in hotels. Cuban authorities
would know who is staying
in each.
But what's the motive?
When symptoms'
emerged last November,
Cuba was working feverish-
ly With the U.S.to make
progress on everything
from internet access to
immigration rules before
President Barack Obama's
term ended. Officials still
don't understand why Ha-
vana would at tl).e same
time perpetrate attacks that
could destroy its new rela-
tionship with Washington
entirely.
Cuban President Raul
Castro' sreaction deepened
investigators' skepticism,
according to officials
briefed on a rare, face-to-
face discussion he had on .
the matter with America's
top envoy in Havana.
Predictably, Castro de-
nied responsibilitY. But U.S.
officials were surprised that
Castro seemed genuinely
rattled, and that Cuba off"
ered to let the FBI come
investigate.
Then, Canadians got ill.
Why them?
The warm, long-standing
ties between Cuba and
Canada made it seem even
l'~cc lnm~~l +h~t r!'ctrn'c:
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THEOUTSDDERS. .
Who else would dare? .
U.S: ihvestigators have
focused on a small group of
• usual suspects: Russia, Iran,
North Korea; China, Vene-
zuela. .
Russia, in particular, has
harassed American diplo-
. mats aggressively in recent
years.
Moscow even has a plau-
sible motive: driving a
wedge between the com-
Americas I 25A
Hl
munist island and "the
West" -nations such as the
United States arid Canada.
, Russiaalso has advanced,
hard-to-detect weaponry .
the much of the world lacks
and might not even know
about.
None of officials inter-
viewed forthis story point-
ed to any evidence, howev-
er,linking Russia to the
illnesses. The same goes for
the other countries.
CITY OF SOUTH MIAMI'
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY given that the City Commission of the City of South Miami, Florida
will. conduct Public Hearing(s) at its special City Commission meeting scheduled for
Thursday. September 28. :?017, beginning at 7:00 p.m., in the City Commission Chambers.
6130 Sunset Drive, to consider the following itel'!l(s):
A" Resolution approving an extension to the existing Agreement between the
Oity of South Miami and Steven Alexander for City Manager Services for the
City of South Miami; Florida
. An Ordinance amending the Land Development Code, Article V, Section 20-5.8,
and Article VI,. Section 20-6.1 relating to reapplications and reconSiderations
of applications.
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An Ordin~nce .amending the City of sou, th"Miami Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2"1
Article I, Section 2-2.1 (A) to give the City CommiSSion more 'flexibility in J
rescheduling regular f!1eetings, "espeCially during times of emergency.
ALL interested parties are invited to' attend and will be heard.
For furthe~ information, please contact the City Clerk's Office at: 305-663-6340.
Maria M. Menendez, CMC
City Clerk
Pursuant to Florida Statutes 286.0105, the City hereby advises the public that if a person decides
to appeal-any decision made by this Board, Agency or Con:trOission with respect to any maHer
considered at its meeting or hearing~he or she will need a record of the procel;1dings. and that for
such purpose, affected person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is
made which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
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