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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1992 09 09 Memo Re: Update to absent CALNO Members for September 2, 1992 Meeting n n o CCI1CGJ~CC Council of Local Governments In Seminole County LAKE MARY SCHOOlBOARD LONGWOOD WINTER SPRINGS MEMO: CASSELBERRY AL TAMONTE OVIEDO SPRINGS September 9, 1992 TO: CALNO Members Absent From September 2, 1992 Meeting Cindy Kaehler, Chairman ~ K~v;,,-1I. FROM: We missed you at theCALNOmeeting last week in Winter Springs. Whitey Eckstein, Sanford, brought a proposal to CALNO that needs to be acted on immediately. Sanford City Commission met last week in a special session to discuss hurricane related relief projects for South Florida. Their idea was to send employees from the Cities, County and School Board to Miami in a cooperative effort to repair roofs in Dade County.CALNO unanimously supported the Sanford's proposal. Sanford will serve as coordinator of this project. Each of us need to go back to our Commissions for approval as soon as possible. Sanford will be contacting each of our Managers for scheduling. This project deserves our full cooperation. To explain a little further (taken from the minutes): Commissioner Eckstein stated that the Mayor of Sanford called a special meeting of the Sanford City Commission at 4:00 this afternoon to try to figure out if there was something the Sanford City Commission could do to help the victims of Hurricane Andrew. We decided to act on a request by North Miami Beach to help them out with temporary communication operators. We also agreed that we would send a back-up fire truck with our people for two weeks to Miami. Commissioner Eckstein also mentioned that the Sheriff has already sent people down to Dade County so therefore our Cities are really going to be backing some of the Sheriff people up. The people of Seminole County need to know that we are acting as a back-up to the Sheriff. Commissioner Eckstein stated that the Sanford Commission felt that the biggest thing that is needed down in Miami is roofing materials. The City Commission of Sanford agreed to give their City Manager the latitude to send a roofing crew, maybe two crews, down to Dade County to help put roofs on. I suggested to my Commission that I would bring this up at tonight's meeting to see if there is some .kind ~oi<cooper.ative.j.oint venture that we can undertake to show that Seminole County cares for the victims. Show that we can get together and maybe there is a common thread of help that we can send a "message" down there. The accommodations for the crews will be provided for, so I am thinking is maybe the vehicle to address this problem would be for us to go back to our City Managers and to our respective Commissions and ask if maybe our City Managers could work out a coordinated effort that we could for example Sanford could go down for two weeks, then maybe Winter Springs could go down for two weeks etc. So the people in Dade County will see that Seminole County is an on-going process. This is an on- going problem, the people down there will be dislodged for up to a year. Within the -.,. .-..... . r n (\ I MEMO CALNO Members September 9, 1992 Page 2 seven Cities, County and School Board, does have expertise in the roofing area, so I am asking this Council for your guidance. Commissioner Jore stated that Lake Mary, ona volunteer basis, is sending Police Officers down. They are using our equipment, somebody is supplying the gas, the meals are free and lodging; our men are going down there on their. days off. I think a coordinated thing makes sense. Commissioner Eckstein stated tht if you do send someone down from your City, they have to be paid by your City to be covered by Worker's Compo There was a unanimous consensus of the present Council members to go ahead with this joint effort to help the Hurricane Andrew victims. Commissioner Kaehler said she would contact the members absent tonight to urge them to discuss this with their City Commission. Commissioner Eckstein stated he would like to have Sanford's City Manager contact the Council's Managers to coordinate this joint effort." If you have any questions, please contact me at 327-7900.