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
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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.