13058 RESOLUTION NO. 13058
WHEREAS, pursuant to existing statutory law, the
Dade County Tax Assessor duly filed the County Tax
Assessment Roll for the 1970 tax year, on July 1, 1970,
and
WHEREAS, said Tax Assessment Roll, according to
official statements which have been widely publicized
through all forms of news media, represents an average
increase in the Tax Assessment Roll of not less than
32%, and
WHEREAS, the taxpaying public was wholly unprepared
and wholly unadvised by any source , official or otherwise ,
that such a drastic increase in the Tax Assessment Roll
would be forthcoming, and
WHEREAS, in accordance with statutory provisions , an
ad valorem taxpayer is and was required to file his appeal
from any increase in his ad valorem assessment on or before
July 15, 1970 , and
WHEREAS, said appeal period is completely inadequate
and wholly fails to afford a reasonable opportunity to
file an appeal from such increase in assessment with
resultant deprivation of due process of law;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT DULY RESOLVED BY THE CITY
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that the
Governor of the State of Florida, the Honorable Claude Kirk,
be and he is hereby respectfully requested and petitioned
by the City Council of the City of Miami Beach to take such
steps as may be reasonably within his powers and authority
to extend the time for the filing of appeals from increased
tax assessments by aggrieved taxpayers , to August 1, 1970 ,
or, in the alternative, to exercise his constitutional power,
prerogative and authority to convene the Legislature in
emergency session for the purpose of amending the existing
statutory provision for the filing of such appeals up to
August 1, 1970 , or such other later date as the Legislature
may duly advise .
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL that
appropriate copies of the Resolution be transmitted to the
Governor of the State of Florida, Honorable Claude Kirk,
and to each member of the House of Representatives and the
Senate of the State of Florida representing Dade County.
The adoption of the above and foregoing Resolution
was moved by the Honorable Jay Dermer, Mayor of the City of
Miami Beach, Florida.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 15th day of July, 1970 .
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Attest :
City Clerk-Finance Director
OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY-1130 WASHINGTON AVENUE-MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 33139