VI (B) Discussion/ Action re: Proposed Legislative Issues for Oscar Juarez/ Three City Meeting AGENDA 3-4-97
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OF GOO° ELLIS SHAPIRO
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Honorable Mayor and Board of City Commissioners
FROM: Ellis Shapiro, Interim City Manager
DATE: February 27,1997
RE: THREE-CITY MEETING
At a recent meeting with Commissioner Freeman, Oscar Juarez, our 'Iri-City
Lobbyist, was present and advised the cities of Winter Garden and Ocoee that
the legislature this year would attempt to budget the State funds in the first 3 to 4
weeks of the legislative session.
To this end, Jack Douglas, Assistant City Administrator of Apopka, Hollis
Holden, City Manager of Winter Garden, and myself met to discuss a possible
legislative agenda that could be agreed upon by the three cities and given to
Oscar Juarez to support in Tallahassee.
This meeting promulgated the memo written earlier this month scheduling a tri-
city meeting for March 6, 1997, at 7:00 p.m. at Apopka Commission Chambers.
Attached is a legislative agenda for your review and discussion.
Respectfully Submitted,
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Attachment
Legislative Agenda for Apopka, Ocoee, and Winter Garden
Item #1
Ocoee would like to share the cost of constructing a flyover at Maguire and Old
Winter Garden Road in connection with the Beltway and possibly Florida
Turnpike accessibility with the State funding the remaining portion in the next 3
sessions of the legislature. They expect the cost to be approximately eight to ten
million dollars.
This item will be discussed as a separate item on this Agenda.
Item #2
Apopka, Ocoee, and Winter Garden support the Western Beltway with priorities
given to Part A and the northern section of Part C as priority one. Priority two
would be the remainder of Part C and priority three would be the Apopka
Bypass which would be the missing link on the Western Beltway.
Item #3
Apopka, Ocoee, and Winter Garden support the compromised position of the
Six Cent Gas Tax offer by the City of Orlando to Orange County. It is our
position we should proceed with the correction to the state law to incorporate
this proposed local agreement, if adopted before legislative session. If not
adopted, we should proceed with correcting the state law and adjust with a
future bill toward the end of the session.
In addition to the above, the City of Ocoee has advised Apopka that we can not
support Section 6 of this Agreement as written, but can support the concept of
the remainder of the Agreement. I will discuss this at the City Commission
meeting of March 4, 1997. A copy of the proposed Agreement is attached.
Item #4
Apopka, Ocoee, and Winter Garden support the Economic Revitalization of the
area as a result of the muck farm buyout program. We support any process that
will provide additional jobs, by attracting additional and replacement of
commerce to the lake Apopka rim area from Winter Garden all the way around
to the north of Lake Apopka to the northern Apopka area. This may include
airparks, commercial parks, enterprise zone, educational retraining,
infrastructure funding within this target area.
Item #5
Apopka, Ocoee, and Winter Garden support the final funding of the IFAS
Consolidated Research Center located on the eastern edge of Lake Apopka. The
State should make sure that the last part of the consolidation of the IFAS facility
located between Apopka and Ocoee is complete. Last year, the legislature partly
funded this construction. This year, the legislature should complete the funding
for construction and land purchase.
Item #6
Annexations - State law requires an agency to describe a property by metes and
bounds when a more acceptable manner for describing a property is based on
sectional description as provided by the Property Appraiser's Office. This law
should be changed to make both acceptable.
Item #7
Fire Pension Plan (ISO) - If an agency provides a higher level of service, i.e.,
rating of two when the agency was previously a six, the premium distribution
could be lower for the premium tax in connection with the funding of the
Firefighter's Pension Plan. The reason for this is the premium tax is based on
gross receipts. The insurance companies generally give a substantial discount
depending on what ISO rating has been obtained. Therefore, the better the
rating, the lower the insurance premiums. The laws should be changed so it
would provide some incentive to improve level of service rather than the current
disincentive. This is in reference to Florida Statute 185.08.
Item #8
Mandated Impact on Trim Process - the Trim Process should not require an
agency to show an increase property tax when the mandate is caused by transfer
of cost from one agency to another, i.e., crossing guards transferred from Orange
County to the cities.
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February 19, 1997
Mr. Ellis Shapiro
City Manager
City of Ocoee
150 N. Lake Shore Drive
Ocoee, FL 34761
Dear Ellis:
The City of Apopka will be the host of the next Tri-City meeting which will be held March 6,
1997, at 7:00 p.m. at the City Council Chamber. In order to prepare an agenda for this meeting,
please forward to me, at your earliest convenience, a list of any items you wish to discuss as part
of the Agenda of this Tri-City Meeting. It is my understanding the primary item will be the
Legislative Agenda for the 1997 Florida Legislature, which I have faxed to you for review.
If you can send me any other items for the Legislative Agenda, please do so at your earliest
convenience so that I may prepare any handouts necessary to conduct this meeting. Additionally,
if there are any other requirements your City Commission will need, please contact me.
Sincerely,
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.sistant City Administrator
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cc: Mayor John H. Land
Mayor: JOI IN II LAND C ,ivas. I. 'VILLIAM AHHOWSMII 1 MAIIK I. HOLVNES HDEERI 5. JOHNSON. JP NILLIE L DEAN