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Wednesday, August 5, 1987
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Beautification
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BEAUTIFICATION COMl-tlT1'EE
MINUTES
Wednesday, August 5, 1987
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The regular meeting of the Beautification Committee WllS held on Wednesday,
August 5, 1987 at 9:30 a.m. at the City Hall Annex. Members prescnt were Mr.
Robert Bickerstaffe, Chairman Rita Canan, Mr. Rand Knon, Ms. Lisa Lanza and
Mrs. Emma Whitney. Mrs. Eugenia Berry. Mrs. Ruth DuChateQu and Ms. Jacquelyn
Smith were excused and Mrs. Phoebe Moss was absent.
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The Chairman called the meeting to order and asked for a correction in the
July minutes. In the fourth paragraph, fourth line instead of lithe Chairman said
there was no maintenance" she wanted it to state "the Chairman said there was in-
sufficient maintenance". The motion was made by Mr. Bickerstaffe to accept the
minutes of May, June and July. aa corrected. It was seconded by Mr. Knox and
passed.
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Memorial Causeway Beautification - Ms. Lanza presented the following resolutions
to the Committee.
Whereas. the Clearwater Parks Department needs annuals for Memorial Causeway
and other flower beds around Clearwater;
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Whereas. the production of annual flowers requires an intensive amount of
manpower and supplies;
Whereas, the Upper Pinellas Association of Retarded Citizens has the facilities
and manpower to grow annuals;
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Whereas, the horticulture director of UPARC has offered to contract grow
annuals for the City of Clearwater;
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We hereby resolve that UPARC and the Clearwater Parks Department enter into a
contract for a specified number and variety of annuals and a time frame in which
UPARC will make these annuals available to the landscape division be established.
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Ms. Lanza 'stated she talked with the director at UPARC and they have the .space
and manpower.' She said she does not feel it possible for the City to grow their
own annuals. After further discussion she made a motion that the resolutions be
adopted and be recorded in the minutes. It was seconded by Mr. Bickerstaffe and
passed unanimously.
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Committee members agreed that a lot of money would not be required for the
Causeway to look beautiful. Members would like flowers in all the beds and if
flowers need to be removed. they should be replaced by other flowers. The Chair-
man stated that the Causeway is looking better under Mr. Mulligan's direction and
Mr. Knox agreed. He also said the Causeway'needs flowers, shrubs, mulch and good
maintenance until it is relandscaped next year.
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Update from Mr. Wilson - Chairman Canan asked about Mrs. Moss' statement in
the July minutes about funds for relandscaping the Causeway. Mr. Wilson stated
that $38,000 is in the 1987/88 budget requests with another $38,000 in the requests
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for 1988/89 for a total of $76,000. At this tim~ the funds are still in the
budget but two public hearings arc scheduled h~fore final approval by the Commission.
Mr. Wilson also stated they llre soliciting donations for large accent palms.
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Adopt-A-Park - Thero are two types. residential and commercial. A residential
permit does not require a sign. It consists of individuals who are interested in
improving their neighborhoods. An example of a commercial Adopt-A-Park is Barnett
Bank assuming maintenance of the Howard Johnson triangle and an advertising sign
being placed at the site. The most recent commercial Adopt-A-Park is Ered Thomas,
President of Pinch-A-Penny, who has agreed to landscape the Aster Street end on
Clearwater Beach. There will be a 6' boardwalk, ice plants as ground cover, sea
oats, sea grapes and oleanders. All plantings will be cold and salt tolerant.
There will be a small sign for Pinch-a-Penny at the site.
Street Trees - Permission was received from the Department of Transportation
and Mr. Wilson met with members of the Clearwater Downtown Association. There was
some dissent among members who didn't want oak trees as they drop leaves and hide
store signs but the plan was approved. Mr. Wilson said they were doing some re-
search on street trees. Some cities are planting them in grow bags. Then in
approximately five years they can be replaced by new trees and the old ones can
be planted elsewhere.
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The Chairman welcomed Keith Crawford. Director of Traffic Engineering and
Bob Morrison. Electrical Superintendent, to the meeting to discuss holiday decor-
ations. Mr. Crawford said that in recent years there has been $5,000 in the budget
each year for refurbishing holiday decorations. He said he put $25,000 in the
budget for major improvements but it was removed. Mr. Crawford remembers the
scroll decorations mentioned in Mrs. Whitney's letter to the Commission. He told
the Committee they were hand made and took a massive amount of time to put up.
Also. there was the problem of storage. First some were stored in the basement
of the library and some in the garage and after several years they were scrapped.
There were about fifty of them in the old Williams School which was demolished a
'few months ago and they were removed with the debris of the building. Mrs. Whitney
asked if they could be made again and Mr. Crawford replied that it is a problem
of manpower. In the early 70rs some men worked all year on the decorations. Now
, holiday decorations do not come in ahead of traffic signals or other lighting
maintenance. The cutback in funds came ,in 1974 with the energy crisis and the
funds were never put back. Also, the underground cable is 25 years old and needs
a major overhaul. Mr. Morrison has a design of the scrolls and he will estimate
the cost of const,ructing them and also the man hours involved.
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For the year 1987. the Committee is willing to go along with what is already
planned with the exception of using blue lights on the Causeway and making an
attempt to string the lights horizontally on the tree at the Bayfrant. Mr. Bicker-
staife suggested the Committee get Mr. Morrison's estimate and then have something
to"present to the Commission in March.
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The meeting adjourned at 11:35 a.m.
Respec~fully submitted.
Edith Vanderwerp
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