April 10, 2007 - City of Melbourne, Florida
April 10, 2007 - City of Melbourne, Florida
April 10, 2007 - City of Melbourne, Florida
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CITY OF MELBOURNE, FLORIDA<br />
MINUTES – REGULAR MEETING BEFORE CITY COUNCIL<br />
APRIL <strong>10</strong>, <strong>2007</strong><br />
At the request <strong>of</strong> Vice Mayor LaRusso, Mrs. Meehan would not amend her motion to<br />
include a three-minute comment by Bruce Moia.<br />
Discussion followed as to which motion (the failed motion above or the motion to approve<br />
the water agreement) Mr. LaRusso was attempting to amend.<br />
The question was called. The roll call vote was:<br />
Aye:<br />
Contreras, Meehan, Thomas, Palmer, Corby and LaRusso<br />
Nay: Goode<br />
Motion carried.<br />
Moved by LaRusso/Palmer to reconsider and allow Mr. Moia an opportunity to speak.<br />
Motion carried. Mrs. Meehan voted nay.<br />
Mrs. Corby said she has never seen such difficulty in allowing someone to speak. Mr.<br />
LaRusso said Council followed the proper procedure and he would like to provide Mr.<br />
Moia an opportunity to speak based on new information that staff did not provide.<br />
Bruce Moia, representing South Developers, LLC, said this is a new project coming to the<br />
<strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> West <strong>Melbourne</strong> that will require <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Melbourne</strong> water. They have been denied<br />
concurrency from the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Melbourne</strong>. He acknowledged that the agreement on the<br />
agenda does nothing to change that; however, his concern is that they cannot obtain<br />
concurrency from <strong>Melbourne</strong> for projects coming into West <strong>Melbourne</strong>. Every project that<br />
comes into the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> West <strong>Melbourne</strong> will be at a standstill. He asked Council to have<br />
staff address this so they can obtain concurrency.<br />
Attorney Gougelman said that the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> West <strong>Melbourne</strong> is our customer, not individual<br />
property owners and developers located in West <strong>Melbourne</strong>. This is the process we have<br />
been trying to work with the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> West <strong>Melbourne</strong> on to make it clear that a water<br />
customer in West <strong>Melbourne</strong> will be a customer <strong>of</strong> the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> West <strong>Melbourne</strong>; therefore,<br />
that is where they need to apply. In turn, West <strong>Melbourne</strong> can present to us at any time a<br />
concurrency request for any proposed development.<br />
The interim water agreement is a step in the direction toward trying to resolve that. But,<br />
as Mr. Moia has noted, that only involves a limited number <strong>of</strong> projects because it is an<br />
interim agreement. Hopefully our continued negotiations, which are called for in the<br />
interim water agreement, will bear some fruit and we will finally have a new system that<br />
will be more expedited.<br />
Mr. Moia said he knows a little bit about concurrency as he worked as an engineer at the<br />
County and at the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Melbourne</strong>. He explained that if you can demonstrate that the<br />
line has the capacity, then you can get concurrency. There is not even the ability to<br />
demonstrate that the existing facility has the capacity to serve their project.<br />
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