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Volume 61 Number .‘51
Tuesday
January 29, 1985
Hertz report advocates Dade reform
By SHERYL STEIN
and
AHMED SHOKI IBAII
Of the Hurricane Staff
A study of Mrtropolitan Dado County government recently produced at the University of Miami, Governing Dude County: A Study if Alternative Structures, has created controversy among city officials and citizens alike.
The report is concerned with governmental problems, objectives and alternative structures. It was made under the direction of Dr David B Hertz, distinguished professor in the UM School of Business Administration and adjunct professor of Law.
Backed by a $30,000 grant from the Ford foundation, the study team consisted of several UM professors involved with managerial studies and consultation from Howard Mantel, director of Government Programs and General Counsel of the non-profit Institute of Public Administration in New York. Theybegan the study in April 1984 and concluded their work in December.
"Some people in Miami asked President |F.dward T.| Foote if the University would arrange to undertake a study of Dade County government,” said Hertz The report is designed to examine the issues facing Dade County and to generate discussion and debate on alternatives to the present structures.
Metro government, formed after the passage of the Home Rule Charter in 1957, consists of a two-tiered, council-manager system of government This government, covering an area of 2,352 square miles, one-third of which is in the Everglades, has a constituency of about 1.8 million residents, of whichapproximately half live in unincorporated parts of the county.
There are 27 municipalities in Dade County that are able to control certain local issues but are still bound to the Metro system — they make up the lower tier of the two-tiered system. Those unincorporated areas claim Metro as their local government and permit it jurisdiction on local issues
Metro must also bear the responsibility for regional services like planning, elections, tax assessment and collection and transportation. Incorporated areas may partake of certain Metro services if they do not want to provide them or are unable to do so.
According to the Hertz report, four broad and basic problems exist for both the centralized county government and the individual city governments — “relationships of the several governments to individual citizens; relationships of the governments to each other; operational
Governing Dade County
The principal findings and conclusions in the Hertz report
regarding governmental problems were:
Accountability tor government actions at the county level and in some municipalities and the unincorporated areas is not commensurate with authority exercised
Governments, metro and municipal, are not fully representative of the current demographic make-up of the county.
Many service levels are deteriorating and are not equitably delivered.
Zoning authorities and responsibilities are inefficiently distributed and performed.
Serious ethnic and racial issues have been difficult to resolve
Bonded indebtedness structure of the county and the municipalities are not cost-effectively integrated.
County-wide fiscal and capital resources are not effectively allocated and in some cases improperly burden municipalities.
Financial health of some municipalities is precarious
Tax growth in municipalities outpaces inflation
Significant environmental assets are inadequately protected and conserved.
Information on fiscal affairs and policies are not adequately communicated to the public.
Capital construction projects are often behind schedule and exceed budget estimates.
aspects of the governmental entities; and effective and efficient provision of services, eg., transportation, environmental protection, zoning, economic development."
According to the report, problems here include the idea that both Metro and municipal governments do not fully represent their
constituencies; government decisions of the county and of certain municipalities are exercised with varying degrees of enforcement; the financial stability of certain municipality •- is questionable; and racial and ethnic problems still persist and haunt all levels of government.
The report suggests several possibilities for improving governmental systems here in Dade County — retention of the present system; consolidation of the city of Miami and Dade County government; consolidation of the 27 municipalities and Metro government into one centralized government; incorporation of the 50 percent of the county's fiopulation who live in 95 percent of its land area, annexation of the unincorporated areas; merging of adjacent municipalities; retention of the county administration’s professional managerial system; creation of a full-time mayor and a stronger county executive government; provision for district elections at the county commission level; improvement of staffs for the county commission; and increased number of county commissioners with “appropriate compensation "
A common misconception has been that this report is calling for radical changes. In fact, the purpose of this report is to get the subject of improving Metro and municipal governments out in the open.
“The bottom line is this — I want to see a prosperous Dade county — economically, culturally, and environmentally People should discuss this [the report] and debate it," Hertz said
In the Jan 11 issue of the Miami Herald, an article quoted Mayor Maurice Ferre stating that the Hertz report was going to be used by the downtown Miami power structure as the "weapon to wipe out Miami government to abolish the city through a county wide vote."
“Mayor Ferre has the mistaken impression that this will harm Miami. The report is not trying to ‘get rid of anything' — it's trying to improve government," Hertz said. "Miami should have a strong mayor first.”
Moreover, according to Dr. Michael E Milakovich, professor of politics and public affairs and an expert on Miami city government, the Hertz report contains "nothing really new" and similar proposals were made in a June 1971 study by the Dade County Metropolitan Study Group.
Milakovich says that Dade County, as the 12th largest metropolitan county in the country, needs a governmental organization that is not only representative and efficient but is capable of governing such a large population.
But he notes that several measures in the past aimed at reform have been defeated by county voters.
Miami Hurricunc/MIKl BELNAVIS
Collecting for a good cause
Kiwants' Peanut Day was sponsored Saturday in the vicinity of North Kendall Drive and U S. 1. The day-long fundraising event, in which donations were exchanged" for small bags of peanuts, involved about 20 UM students and was expected to raise about the same as last year’s total of $4,000. Pictured here is Circle K member Suzanne Graham, who participated in the drive_____
Trustees help blacks
By MARA DONAHOE
Hurricane Staff Writer
A Board of Trustees' ad hoc committee has been examining the status of black students at the University of Miami.
The committee, formed last May at a Board of Trustees meeting, is concerned with the total matriculation process of black students at the University Many blacks were found to begin well at the University but to drop out after a year due to various academic or social problems.
The committee was formed to aid blacks through job placement and counseling concerning problems with academic and social life
"It is unfortunate we need such a committee to look after the affairs of black students," said Roosevelt Thomas, assistant vice president for personnel affirmative action « It serves a unique
purpose, though, in that it focuses on specific concerns and issues facing black students."
The committee wants to "enhance the recruitment and retention of black students," said Director of Special Programs Ronald A. Hammond, by meeting with the students and their parents prior to entering the University.
In December, the committee met with administrators of Dade County high schools to create links with these schools and make it easier for the admissions office to deal with the problems of black students before they enter the University
Robert Simms, chairman of the committee, said that the committee "represents a very sincere effort of the University of Miami to make sure that all students have equal opportunity to move into this new area of educational exci‘ency "
Health issues discussed
Commission sponsors series
By MARA DONAHOF.
Hurricane Staff Writer
The Women’s Commission concluded Health Fair Week with a lecture in the Student Union titled "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask.”
Lynn Leight, registered nurse and executive director of the SHE Center, answered the audience's questions on personal sexual matters.
Other lectures this past week took place each day from noonto 1 p.m in the Student Union and at night at the Honors College library.
On Monday Dr. Jim Schachner spoke on acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) At night a panel discussed life during medical school and techniques for strengthening an application in "The How's and Why's of Medical School."
On Tuesday, the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court
decision to make abortion safe and legal in the United States, Kelly Flood discussed the recent violence against abortion clinics and the statistics of the present “terrorist" movement. Also discussed was the FBI’s needed classification of the violence as terrorism.
"Anorexia and Bulemia: Things You Should Know" was presented Tuesday night by the local Anorexia and Bulemia Society.
Wednesday's lecture was a panel with Dr. Janet Canterbury, Dean of Student Administration, which explored the aging proces-sand was titled “Growing Older and Healthier."
On Thursday Linda Marraccini spoke on preventative medicine, and on Thursday night at the Honors Residential College library, Dr. Beverly Jaranillo and medical student Beth Shelley discussed breast and cervical cancer
All day and evening programs were sponsored by the Women's
Commission and Residence Halls
The Women's Commission also sponsored booths in front of Pearson and Mahoney Halls and in
the breozeway Organizations such as the Family Practice Club. Open Door, and the Bulemia Organization took blood pressure and passed out literature
SET «liscotiills lickcts
Tickets for the Feb. 15 David Sanborn concert are available to University of Miami students for the discounted prices of $12 and $8. Regular prices are $15 and $12.50
Ticket prices for the benefit concert were underwritten by the Student Entertainment Committee to the tune of $5,000.
David Sanborn, the jazz fusion saxophonist, will perform at Ihe James I Knight Center as part of the Big Orange Music Festival, a series of concerts sponsored by PACE.
Tickets are available at all BASS outlets with a valid UM ID.
Mim-Bol/
By CARMEN PEREZ
Hurricane Staff Writer
Quick, it's golden in the Henry James novel and cotton in Dallas football. What is it? The answer is bowl.
It was this question and others like it that helped establish the “Jim-Bob" team from the Honors Residential College as the school champions of this year's college bowl
The competition, which began at 10 a m and ran until 6 p.m., was open to all students and was sponsored by Time-Life Publishers and College Bowl, a national organization that sponsors regional as well as national competitions
This year, eight teams of four players each, with such unlikely names as “The Brain-Cops." "Mostly Harmless" and “The Me-trons," participated in an event which Clayton Randall, political science major from "The Big-Ones" team, described as "the ultimate trivial pursuit."
The rules are fairly simple Two teams at a time vie for control of a question through the use of a buzzer. Whoever answers the question correctly gets to answer a 20- to 30-point bonus question.
However, as simple as the rules were, the answers to the questions that moderators Dr Keith Astuto and Dr Edmund Midura read required knowledge of everything Irom Shakespeare to surgery
For example, did you know that the number of s's in Mississippi divided by the square root of one-fourth is eight’’ Do you care1
Well, the fact that most team players in the bowl did care was evident during the second round when broken buzzers and a score of 115 for "Contractual Obligation' compared to -5 for "Brain-
wins College Bowl contest
Miami Humcane/D ARREU. E O flRJf-JN
The “Jim-Bob” foam, winners of the College Bowl contest held on Saturday, will go on to regional competition representing UM.
storm" increased the tension of the game.
Despite the pressure, most players felt prepared to deal with the challenge of the competition "However 1 perform in this has been helped by my high school experience with this type of game," said Phil Rernrk. music major and member of the "Brain-Cops." c
Others seemed to be less concerned with winning than with just enjoying the event 'Wt may lose the game, hut we are -not going to lose our sense of humor, ' said Aaron Elkin, a biochemistry major from "The Doctors" team In vpite of a strong effort from "The Brain-Cops" during the last round, the true winners of the College Bowl Were “Jim-Bob”
players Brad Brumm. Brett Feldman Roman Frillarte, and Michael
Scholl
Any team that could take the question 'What British poet was too close to his half-sister. Augusta I ay," and answer "Frito-Lay," when the true answer was Lord Byron, deserves to represent l.'M at the regional competition.