BOCA RATON NEWS Vol 14, No. 125 Thursday, Sept. 18, 1969 24 Pages 10 Cents Council passes chance to take jetport stand JrfT •* *•%- " * v^."S- Alford will obtain more information City Councilmen Tuesday passed up the opportunity to take a firm stand — either pro or con — on the suggested Palm Beach County site for a major supersonic jetport. Mayor Emil Danciu launched the discussion with the entry into the city minutes of letters received from local residents on the jetport controversy. The subject came to a head last week with the apparent rejection of the Dade It's neither a church nor an apartment building. The television antenna county jetport site by officials of the and the small white cross — apparently hung by workmen on the concrete Department of Transportation and the forms — mark the top of Boca Raton Community Hospital where upward Department of Interior in Washington. expansion currently is hi progress. The jetport site has been the subject of a running battle between the Dade County Port Authority and persons interested in resource conservation who feel that the jetport would Council ratifies action seriously damage the Everglades and the Everglades National Park. One of the alternate sites suggested is some 40 miles due west of Boca on golf course purchase Raton and about the same distance due south of Belle Glade. Danciu Tuesday repeated his con- Despite a brief flurry of protest, City mittee, pointed out that the golf course tention that the Palm Beach County Councilmen Tuesday passed an or- plans weren't up for consideration at Grader prepares approaches to new Dixie highway Final completion, however, is not anticipated until Legislative Delegation had acted dinance ratifying emergency action this tune, only the land purchase. He bridge over the Hillsboro Canal. The span is well over shortly after the first of December. hastily in endorsing the county site and taken to purchase a site for the said that when the time comes for the half complete with all of the roadbed sections in place. ticked off four items on which he proposed municipal golf course. city to start the legal procedures for thought the council should take official Tuesday's action technically does floating a bond issue and other items action. nothing more than ratify the necessary for the full project, ad- P&Z suggests changes He found littie support for any for- emergency transfer of funds within ditional hearings on those points will mal action, most councilmen taking city budget accounts to provide the be held. the position that Danciu took in regard cash needed to pick up the option on At present, plans call for a $1.2 to the legislators: "let's not act the land. The city has obtained the one- million bond issue, sold locally, to hastily." Instead, they agreed to in- dollar option on the 184-acre tract west finance the full project of golf course Council studies master plan struct City Manager Alan Alford to of the turnpike for $2,500 an acre. and related recreational facilities. /contact whatever county, state or In order to exercise its option, the However, P&*?v Garnet, president of federal officials might b| appropriate city had to pay $133,^00 by the first of the Boca -Katon iiomeowners sewage systems drawn up by Black, this month. However, because Federation, charged that the im- By KATHIE KEIM The Planning Board recommended to obtain all the information available. adopting the , report with Crow, and Eidsness, Inc. of emergency ordinances are self- pending bond issue and the pledge of modifications. One such change was in Gainesville. In other action at Tuesday's terminating, City Council ratified its funds from other municipal sources is Recommendation that the Milo Nevertheless, the Board asked meeting, the Council: original actions in Tuesday's -formal "doubletalk." Smith master plan for Boca Raton be regard to the site of a proposed fire station in north Boca Raton. Council to check statistics in the report ELECTED Earl Sloan to fill the ordinance which followed the full "If you take money out of one adopted with changes proposed by the relating to sewerage and water unexpired term of Robert Feltner on pocket," he said, "you've got to pay it Planning and Zoning Board are being While the Smith report favored a site procedure of publication and public west of the railroad tracks to serve the facilities, and to take steps to correct the Planning and Zoning Board. hearing. back from the other." studied by the City Council this week. any defects that exist. large IBM facility and Florida Atlantic RE-APPOINTED all of the mem- Tuesday, most comments from While the golf course bonds are Council received the P & Z board's University, the Planning and Zoning The report, while making recom- citizens indicated approval of the proposed as revenue bonds which will mendations for alterations and ex- bers of the Community Appearance recommendations at Tuesday's Board favored a site on 51st Street in Board, the Housing Board, the Appeals purchase of the tract — the price be repaid from operating receipts, the regular meeting. the Boca Teeca tract. tensions to the system of roads, did not already has gone up by some $1,000 an city must pledge other sources of in- make any on public transportation. Board for Housing Violations and the The Council took no specific action The Planning and Zoning Board Contractors Examining Board who are acre — but questioned details of the come to make up any operating deficit. suggested a complete review of the The Board noted its dissatisfaction golf course operation. Gonnett contends that taking funds on the proposals, noting only that it has with the lack of discussion of a local nearing the end of their original ap- received them and would deal with city's sewage facilities and water pointments. Councilman Pat Honchell, who from other sources would result in bus system and of rapid transit increased ad valorem taxes. them at a later date. treatment and distribution facilities. HEARD City Engineering Director chairs the city's golf course com- Board members questioned the facilities between Boca Raton and The master plan was drafted by Milo other cities. J. P. Vansant report that the first Smith and Associates, Inc. of Tampa report's analysis and were assured by The Board also recommended a long Interstate 95 construction plans have and is a study of present and projected Smith that figures were obtained from been received. Vansant noted that planning needs. the city's master plan for water and range program of enlarging the present airport and developing a while the plans to not extend north to The News becomes second airport by 1980, again differing Boca Raton High School, one sheet with a Smith suggestion that em- shows an extension of the road which phasized maintaining the present would eliminate about 40 per cent of County tax millage airport only and improving air traffic the football field. Knight Newspaper m facilities there. AGREED to renew the city's agreement with the U.S. Geological The Board also noted in its report Survey for studies of ground water Chairman James L. Knight of The Boca Raton News began as a that statistics on income and em- resources here. Knight Newspapers, Inc., Wednesday weekly in 1955, added a Sunday edition set at 6.87 for year ployment appeared to be too low with informed the board of directors in in 1965, and now publishes three days a FAU and IBM taken into con- Akron, Ohio, that all steps had been week. A $40,313,096 tentative budget, in- Tallahassee for approval by Oct. 1, sideration. Smith concurred, pointing completed for the Boca Raton News to The paper won first place for general cluding an anticipated $17,587,142 in start of the new fiscal year. out that the statistics and projections become a Knight Newspaper. excellence in this year's National county property taxes and $22.7 million The 1.88 millage increase will mean were made three years ago. Knight Newspapers is. the fifth Newspaper Association contest. There in other revenue, was adopted Tuesday county taxpayers will pay $1.88 more As a result, the Board suggested that Ann Landers Page3B largest group in the nation in total were 2,800 competitors. The News won by County Commissioners. for each $1,000 in assessed valuation on the report serve as a general guide, not Calendar 4B weekly circulation, and includes The the same prize in 1966. Earlier this property than they did this past year. a report of how to deal with particular Church News 8A Millage was set at 6.87 in comparison Miami Herald, the Akron (O.) Beacon year, the News won nine prizes, in- The county tax bill, for example, on a statistics which were out of date. Classifieds 9-10-11B with 4.985 this fiscal year which ends Journal, Charlotte (N.C.) Observer cluding two first places, in national homesteaded house valued at $20,000 With the exception of these and other Editorials 4A Sept. 30. and The Charlotte News, the Detroit competition conducted by Accredited would be $103.11. minor recommendations and Public Notices 9B Plans call for a public hearing to be Free Press, The Macon (Ga.) Home Newspapers of America. held on the budget Sept. 25 at 2 p.m. The current fiscal year budget was suggestions, the planning board en- Real Estate 6-7B set at $35,211,327. The increase of Telegraph and The Macon News, and No changes are planned in staff or before formal adoption.