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07-27-1932 Special Meeting SPECIAL STING CP THE FREEHOLDERS OF MIAMI SHORES V nLAG2$, HELD AT NEW MIMI SHORES ELEMMARY SCfl00L WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 27th, 19320- Pursuant 932:Pursuant to legal notice in the press and also to Individual letter sent out by the Village Manager, a meeting of the freeholders and members of the Council was held Wednesday Evening, July 27th, 1932, at Now Miami. Shores Elementary School, 10351, N. E: Second Avenue, the purpose of which was to hear objections to the proposed budget and tax roll for the coming year from August 1, 1932 to July 31st, 1933, there being present some fifty persons: The Mayor, Mr. Pruitt, acting as chairman of the meeting, called the meeting to order and first made a review of the budget and statement of actual expenditures for the fractional years period from the 1st of January to Jing 31st 1932. The Mayor read his report item by item and compared each item of expenditure for the period with the allowance made in the budget, indicating that actual expenditures were approxima.telg two thousand dollars less in totea -than the original budget called for. The Mayor then read and explained each item in the proposed budget for the coming gear, it being the same budget as was approved and recorded in the minutes of the meeting of ,- the f ,the Council of Ju17. 26th, 1932. The Mayor then opened the meeting to a general discussion in order that any items in the proposed budget not clearly understood by anyone present might be further explained to their entire satisfaction. Several members of the meeting requested that they be supplied with copies of the proposed Ibudget so they might • study it over and the Mayor instructed the Village Manager • to have a number of additional copies printed for this purpose. After further discussion, upon motion of Mr. Richardson Saunders, seconded by Mr; Be E. Clutter, the budget as proposed and read, was adopted by this meeting. The proposed tax roll was then presented by the Mayor ,.:and the question of assessment values was discussed. After the discussion the Mayor invited any objections that might be had to the tax roll. Since this was the first opportunity the tag payers had had to approve or disapprove the pr6posed tax roll it was deemed advisable to give the tax payers additional time in which to form an opinion as to the fairness of the assessments on various properties. Therefore upon motion of Mr. Sanders, seconded by qtr. Clutter, a motion was passed recessing the meeting without adjournment, meeting to be continued on the following night Thursday and again recessed until the following night Friday for the purpose of hearing objections to the tax roll. The meeting was therefore continued- on Thursday evening July 28th.. beim held in the Village offices at 9533 W. E. Second Avenue, at which there • were present Mr. Frsnk 0, Pruitt, Mayor, John M. Carlisle, We F. Andes, the village manager and village attorney and several of the tag payers of the village. Zra John Lindsey suggested that due to the possibility of legal entanglements, it would be adviseable to remove the item of $500.00 in the proposed budget allowing for the expenditure of this amount for cleaning off vacant lots and that since the purpose of this proposed expenditure was for the elimination of grass fires it should be combined with the $1,100,00 allowance for fire protection. Therefore upon motion by Mr. Gordon, seconded by Mr, Carlisle, and subject to the above change made by Mr: Lindsey, the council unanimously passed an ordinance approving the proposed budget. Mr, Rodgers, owner of several lots in. block 13 of Pasadena Park, objected to the amount of the tax assessment on these lots, saying that the streets in this particular section ware not as improved as in other sections and for other reasons due to location were assessed too high: The members of the Council not being thoroughly familiar with this particular section agreed to make a personal inspection of the lots in order to determine a fair assessment value. There being no further objections to the tax roll, the meting was recessed to be convened the following night Friday, July 29th, On Friday night July 29th, 1932, the meeting re-convened �1r and the Council having inspected the property of Mr.: RodgersJ ' In Pasadena Park, upon motion of Mr. Carlisle, seconded by 1fBrr: Gordon, the council agreed as follows: That in blocks 11, 120 139 14, and 15 of Pasadena Park, all lots numbered 8 and 11 on the map of the village be assessed at $225.00, that lots numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 120 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17, be assessed at $175.00 and that the remaining lots numbered 1 and 18 in each of the four blocks of Pasadena Park In the limits of the Village remain as already entered on the tax roll. The Council also having made an inspection of pr+opertg in Miami Shores Section 8, shown on the reap of the village as • blocks 187, 1880 1890 190 and 191, upon motion of Mr: Harrison, seconded by Mr. Andes, the council agreed that assessment values on these properties should be entered in the tax roll as follow s: block 191 $300.00 per acre; block 187, $1000.00 per acre; block 188J1200,00 per acre; block 190, $1400.00 per acre and that assessments on block 189 remain as already entered in. the assessment roll. There being no farther objections presented,to the tax assessment roll and budget, upon motion of Mr; Andes, seconded by Mr: Harrison, the council approved the passage of an ordinance said ordinance being entitled "An Ordinance Finally Approving a Budget and Tag Assessment Roll for the Fiscal Year 1932-33, Levying Taxes and Making Appropriations for Said. Fiscal Period." There being no further bu s the s s, the meeting adjourned, ov As V age Manager & Clerk APP BY THE COII TL: May j �I i J