1979.02.27_TC_Minutes_SpecialTOWN OF HIGHLAND BEACH, FLORIDA
• Minutes of Meeting of Town Commission
Special Meeting
February 27, 1979 9.30 A M
The Special Meeting of the Town Commission was called to order by Mayor
Horton at 9:30 A.M. Those in attendance were: Mayor Horton, Vice Mayor
Mumford, Commissioners Bauer, Genovese and Storm. Also in attendance
were: Mrs. Elaine W. Roberts, Town Manager, Thomas E. Sliney, Town
Attorney, Chief Jones and Jane E. Barker, Town Clerk.
Mayor Horton stated that the first three items on the agenda for this
Special Meeting concerning the proposed bond issue would be postponed
inasmuch as the Resolution had not been received from bond counsel.
Mr. Sliney explained that the Resolution was to have left Jackso nville
via Greyhound bus last night and should have been at the bus station
at 6:15 this morning. It did not arrive and Mr. Sliney was hopeful
that it would arrive on a later bus.
Mayor Horton said that Commissioner Storm was meeting with a firm
• asking to bid on these bonds and act as our fiscal agent. This delay
will now give Commissioner Storm the chance to meet with this firm.
Discussion then took place regarding the
it would be the County library if we get
economical method of running it, what if
library system and should the Town staff
stated that if the Town did not put up a
no additional office space nor additiona
proposed new library: - whether
the new building, the most
we do not get in the County
the library? Mayor Horton
new building, there would be
Post Office space.
Commissioner Bauer then brought up the matter of the water plant ex-
pansion and the report from the Engineers which was due the Town by the
end of February. The Town's water was discussed, as well as the meter
on this side of the Intracoastal, the accuracy of which is questionable.
More discussion took place with Mayor Horton suggesting that some of
the surplus funds be used to start engineering plans now; thereby elim-
inating a lag time of approximately four months. Mrs. Roberts is going
to check the Engineers' status report to determine how far along they
are with the plans.
Any and all other matters that might come before the Town
Commission at this time.
Mrs. Roberts told about a Resolution passed by Delray Beach a week
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ago opposing the widening of AlA and asking that the four-laning
of AlA be taken out of the cost feasible element. A copy of this
Resolution, as well as a copy of a letter from the Delray Beach
Property Association's letter, was given to the Commission yesterday.
Mayor Horton called for a Motion that copies of the Town's prior
Resolutions be forwarded, objecting to the four-laning of AlA,
with the accompanying statement that the Town is still of the
same frame of mind.
MOTION by Vice Mayor Mumford/Commissioner Bauer to so move. All Commission
members voted Aye.
Mrs. Roberts asked if the Commission would consider passing another
Resolution strengthening the Town's stand about the cost feasible
element. The Commission agreed to do this at the March 6, 1979
Regular Meeting.
Bills for Approval
•
None
Mr. M. H. W. Dent, a Town resident, asked why not leave out
defining the Post Office and the Library in the bond issue?
Mr. Sliney then stated that the Resolution from bond counsel
had been received and was delivered to the Town Hall by Mr.
Sliney's secretary.
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Being no further business to come before the Commission, the Special
Meeting ADJOURNED at 10:25 A.M. - MOTION by Vice Mayor Mumford and
seconded by Commissioner Bauer. All Commiss' ne~s...~ i ~avor.
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APPROVED:
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Dated: March 6, 1979
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