071243-Regular Session MINUTES
CITY COMMISSION, SANFORD, FLORIDA, July
at 7:3o ? 1943
The City Commission of the City of Sanford, Florida, met in regular session
at the City Hall in the City of Sanford, Florida, at ?:30 o'clock P.M. July 12,1943.
Present: Commissioner Edward Higgins, Mayor
Geo.D.Bishop
H.James Gut
W.C .Hill
M.J.Lodge
City Attorney Fred R.Wilson
City Clerk H N Bayer
Ohief of Police R.G.Williams
Meeting called to order by the Chairman.
Current invoices and payrolls for the month of June 1943,
properly audited and
vouchered as evidenced by voucher Nos. 5836 thru 5911 , submitted, examined , approved
and payment authorized.
Monthly reports of Streets, Sanitation, Health, Water, Police, Fire, Library and
Golf Departments for the month of June 1943, submitted and examined.
Financial statement and statement of revenues and expenditures during the month
of June,1943 , submitted and examined.
Bank statements in all accounts for the month of June 1943, properly reconciled,
submitted and examined.
On motion of Commissioner Lodge, seconded by Commissioner Bishop and carried, the
Commission next authorized the employment of W.A.Zachary in the Police Department tO
patrol the zoo and bandshell five hours each day at a salary of .40 per hour.
A certified copy of Chapter 22453, House Bill No. 813, Act of 1943 Legislature
next presented as follows:
CHAPTER 22453 No. 819
House Bill No. 813
An Act Creating a Pension Fund for the Police Department of the C ~ty of
Sanford, Florida; Defining Members of the Police Department of said City; Providing
for Monthly Oontributions to be made by Members of said Police Department to said Fund
and Authorizing the Imposition and Collection of Costs in Criminal Cases by the
Municipal Court of said City and the Payment of said Costs to said Pension Fund and
Authorizing the Transfer of Certain Funds now on hand in said City Heretofore Collected
as costs by the Municipal Court to said Pension Fund; Providing for a Board of Trustees
to Admi~ster said Pension Fund and Providing for the Payment of Pensions to Members
of the Police Department of said City having the Qualifications Therefor as herein
required, and Providing for the Acceptance or Rejection of the Benefits of this AcS
by the Members of the Police Department of said City.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA:
~ection 1. That there is hereby created a pension fund for the Police Department
of the City of Sanford, Florida, to consist of the funds hereinafter described and to
be administered by a Board of Trustees as hereinafter provided.
Section 2. That members of the Police Department of the City of 8anford, Florida,
and embraced by this Act, shall be construed as including all officers and policemen
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nated depository for funds of the City of Sanford, Florida, and said funds so deposited
shall be secured by direct obligations of the Government of the United States or
such obligations as shall be fully guaranteed as to principal and interest by the Government
of the United States.
Section 9. That whenever any member of the Police Department of the City of Sanford,
Florida, shall have served for a period of twenty years as a member of said Police
Department, including service before and after the passage of this Act, although such
service may not have consisted of twenty consecutive years of service, he shall be
entitled to retire from said Police Department and shall be paid out of the aforesaid
pension fund, a monthly pension of One Hundred Dollars per month for the remainder
of his life, if the amount in said pension fund is sufficient for said purpose.
If the aforesaid pension fund is not sufficient to pay said pension, said pension shall
be reduced proportionately among the members entitled to said pension until said fund
shall be sufficent to pay said pension in full. Upon the retirement of any member
of the Police Department prior to his having served as a member thereof for twenty
years, he shall not be entitled to a refund of his contributions to said fund, but
upon becoming again a member of the Police Department, his prior service may be
accepted as part of the twenty years' service required to entitle him to a pension
hereunder.
Section lC. That
City of Sanford, Florida,
if at any time any member of the Police Department of the
wishes to relinquish the benefits of this Act, he may do so by
notifying the Chairman of said Board of Trustees and Secretary thereof and the City
Commission of the City of 7anford, thereafter no deduction shall be made from his
salary as a contribution to said pension fund, but he shall not continue to be
entitled to the benefits of this Act nor entitled to a refund of contributions
previously made thereto.
Section ll. All moneys paid out of the pension fund herein provided for shall
only be paid by check drawn on the bank in which said funds are deposited and which
check shall be signed by the Secretary and Treasurer of said Board of Trustees and
countersigned by the Mayor and Chief of Police as members of said Board of Trustees.
Section 12. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the
same are hereby repealed.
Section 13. That this Act shall become effective immediately upon its passage
and approval by the Governor or upon its becoming a law without such approval.
Became a law without the Governor,s approval.
Filed in office Secretary of State June 14,1943.
STATE OF FLORIDA
Office of Secretary of State.
I, R.A.Gray, Secretary of State of the State of Florida, do hereby
certify that the above and goregoing is a true and correct copy of Chapter 2245~ No.819,
laws of Florida, Regular Session 194~, as filed in this office.
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the State of Florida at Tall-bessee,
the Capital, this the 19th. day of July A.D. 1943.
R.A.GraY
(Great Seal of the State Secretary Of State.
of Florida.)
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five feet of right-of-way on each side of Park Avenue from the railroad south to Twenty-
first Street, Commissioner Gut next moved that City Attorney Wilson be authorized to
secure an expert appraisal of the properties involved in such proceedings.
Seconded by Commissioner Lodge and carried.
Request next received from the local Lions Club for financial assistance toward
defraying the cost of displaying an exhibit at the International Lions Clubs Convention
to be held in Chicago on July l?-l~, and on motion duly carried, an expenditure in
amount of $25.00 was authorized for that purpose.
The following adjustments of delinquent taxes and/or special assessments were
next presented,
Inez Williams
and on
motion duly carried, same were approved:
Lot 3~ Florida Land & Colo Co. Addn.
Taxes and penalties 1927/39
ADJUSTMENT AUTHORIZED
Adjusted to:
5.94
Joe & Bessie Smith
HuldaAkins
HuldaAkins
Lot lO Block 9 Tier 16 Seminole Park
~xes and oenaltle~1929/39
JUSTMENT ~UTHORIZED:
Lot 5 Block 10 Tier 16 Seminole Park
Taxes and penalties 1929/39
ADJUSTMENT AUTHORIZED
Adjusted to:
Lot 6 Blk 10 Tier 16 Seminole Park
Taxes & Penalties
3.22
3.22
$
$
ADJUSTMENT AUTHORIZED
Adjusted to:
3.22
Trustees of the Queen
Esther Lodge #299
The N. 50 ft of W. 1OO ft of
Lot 37 Robinson Survey
Taxes & Penalties 1932/42
ADJUSTMENT AUTHORIZED
Adjusted to:
n.35
Cora Bell Coohran
Lot 21 Fort Mellon
Taxes & Penalties 1933/42
ADJUSTMENT AUTHORIZED
Adjusted to:
22.65
W E Kirchhoff Jr
Lot 2 A V French ~ubdiv.
Taxes and penalties 1936/42
ADJUSTMENT AUTHORIZED
~iJusted to:
$16.93
Jerome & Evalena~
Robinson
E 1/2 of Lots 7 & 8 Holden Real
Estate Co. Addn.
Taxes and penalties
192g/39
ADJUSTMENT AUTHORIZED
Adjusted to:
107.66
Mrs Mary Ellen Darden Lot 12 Block 9 Bel Air
Taxes and penalties 1927/42
ADJUSTMENT AUTHORIZED
Adjusted to:
29.94
J R 0row
Lot 27 Block A Buena Vista
Taxes and Penalties 1927/39
ADJUSTNENT AUTHORIZED
Adjusted to:
Special Assessment & Interest
11.40
ADJUSTMENT AUTHORIZED
Adjusted to:
9.21
Steven Hines
Lot i Block 10 Tier H
Taxes & Penalties 1929/39
ADJUST~.NT AUTHORIZED
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There being no further business the meeting then adjourned until 2:00 o'clock
P.M. July 13,1943.
Attest:
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City Commis~on, Sanford, Florida, July 13 at 2:00 o'clock P.M. 19~3.
The City 0ommission of the 0ity of Sanford, Florida, met in adjourned session
at the City Hall in the City of Sanford, Florida, at 2:00 o'clock P.M July 13,19~3.
Present: Commissioner
Edward Higgins, Mayor.
Geo. D.Bishop
H. James Gut
W. C Hill
0it~ 01erk
H N Sayer
Absent: Commissioner N. J. Lodge
Meeting called to order by the Chairman.
The Commission then resolved itself into final
session as a Tax Equalization
Board to act upon complaints registered as to assessed valuation for year 19~3.
The following action was next taken with respect to complaints as to valuations
presented to the Board at its meeting of July 7 and other complaints filed with the
Clerk sine e that time.
NA}~E
Mrs Floy Cooledge Lot
Joe Jarrell Lot
DESCRIPTION ASS'D VALUATION COMPLAINT .ACTION iOF BOARD
5 Block 17 Tier 2 $2500.00 Claims too high NO Change
lO Block 2 Tier 6 5950.00 Claims too high in reduced to
proportion to income $5,500.00
Mrs Rhoda B.Ewing Lot 43 Gracellne Court
Miss Bessie Long Lot 1 Block 6 Tier 5
115o.oo
143o.oo
Claims too high
Claims too high
Reduced to
1,000.00
Reduced to
1,250.00
S.G.McGill
Lots 6-7 Blk.6 Tier 1
35oo.oo
Claims more than
actual cash value
Reduced to
3,000.00
C.D.Matthews
8. 165 ft. of E 1/2 of Lot
11 Blk Y St.Gertrude 1890.OO
Claims too high
No change
Harvey Vieno Lots 6 & 7 Blk 12 Tr. H 1600.OO
Mrs Winnie Smith Lot 6 Block 10 Tier 6 17OO.OO
Claims too high
Claims too high
No change
No change
W R Dyson
Lot 6 Block 14 Tlr 2
3810.00 Claims too high
No cha~ e
Miss May Dickens Lots 1 and 2 Blk 5 Tr. 10
lSOO.O0
Claims too high
Reduced to
1,500.00
W E Kirchhoff Jr. Lot ~ Blk 7 Tier 1
2100.00
Claims too high
Reduced to
2.O00.O0
W E Kirchhoff jr. All Blk E,First St. ~xtn.
45,0OO.OO Claims too high
No change
W E Kirchhoff Jr. Beg 41 ft W. of S W Cot
Blk I Tr.lO at iron stake, run
W.170 ft N 2S3 ft. W.30 ft N.
to Lake Monroe Ely to Pt. N. of
Pt. 112.5 ft W. of Beg. $. to
Pt. 566. ft N and 112.5 ft W. of Beg.