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03-08-89BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES The meeting of the Atlantic Beach Beautification Committee met on Wednesday, March 8, 1989 at 7:30 P.M. in the City Commission Meeting Room, City Hall Atlantic Beach, Florida. The meeting was called to order by Mayor William Gulliford who welcomed members of the committee. Attending were Jody Ford, Chris Blanchard, Gwen Mathews, Phil Corp, Barbara Bonner, Betty Carey, Jeffrey & Julia Hite, Robert Wilkins, Carolyn Woods, Cass McKenna Betty Eilers, Joanna Fletcher, Mrs. Gillayrd, Mrs. Jordan and Lou Ann Wilson. Angie Waters- Johnson was there representing Dezmond Waters, who was unable to attend. Aiso present were City Manager Richard Fellows and Recording Secretary Georgia Horn. Mayor Gulliford opened the meeting by discussing the three major topics which were pointed out at the first meeting. They were Landscape, Litter and Signs. The Mayor then proceeded to the first topic which was Landscaping. Julia Hite suggested looking into landscaping areas of Atlantic Blvd with the placement of palm trees, after which Jody Ford questioned where the funds for these trees would come. Robert Wilkins said he thought the first order of business was to prioritize locations for landscaping and that the City should subsidize the funds for the trees. The committee then agreed upon ten areas for landscaping which were review-and amend,Ordinances, city landscaping, to involve Groups, a city subsidized tree program, landscaping to control traffic flow, landscaping of facilities, entryways and medians, America The Beautiful Fund, funding through projects, incorporate bike lanes and last to finalize an overall plan before proceeding. The Committee then agreed to move onto the next topic which was litter. Bob Wilkins then pointed out that we needed to target the sources and areas of litter problems. Seven other areas were agreed upon which were to join America .the Beautiful Program, to investigate the Glen Glitter program, nicer trash containers, to control builders litter, an area adoption program, education of sanitation employees,~and finally to find a method of controlling distribution and placement of free newspapers. The Mayor then asked the City Manager to check into the Glen Glitter and America The Beautiful Programs. Also the subject of six day garbage pick up was brought up and if it was really necessary, along with ,~~~ the question of street cleaning. The Mayor then stated that they had checked into street cleaning equipment but had not resolved anything as of yet. Committee member Julia Hite asked if the other members and herself could be distributed Beautification Committee Meeting '` Minutes Page 2 maps of the the areas under question so that they could decide on what areas did need first priority. All then agreed to move on to .final area of signs. The main interest on this subject was enforcement of the existing Ordinance. Seven areas were also set up for this topic which included enforcement elimination of some parking signs by landscaping intersections, addition of a welcome sign from the south end of the beach, writing a new sign Ordinance, to review and replace some city signs,with the attitude "the fewer the better", and finally to educate residents on sign rules. Mayor Gulliford finalized by talking about the budget and what revenue will be available for these projects and asked committee members to point out areas that needed targeted. The committee then broke the areas into beach accesses, which included 7th street, 15th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and Ahern. Entrances included Atlantic Blvd. W, Bennetts Beach Motel,Ocean Blvd, Mayport Road, and Seminole Road. And finally Park areas which included Dewees & Shell,. Selva entrance and the Public Works area at Plaza and Sandpiper. Following further discussion, Carolyn Woods Landscape/ Architect of BHR agreed to share a sub committee on landscaping to see if she could get the local group AFLA to do some work on proposed entrance ways etc. Mayor Gulliford closed by asking committee members to check into prices on new containers for the city and with no further discussion, the meeting was adjourned at 9:28 with the next meeting date to be announced.