2015-0219 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Reenter City Commission Meeting February 19,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida owners where we might be able to expand the school and relieve some of the overcrowding. The idea would be that we take a certain set of grades out of the main building and we put them on this site which is within proximity of the main building so that we can ultimately still use the playground and the facilities of the school site. Since former Commissioner Roslyn Brezin is sitting here, also in that site we are talking about acquiring in those plans a Senior Center. It is something that we have all talked a lot about to create a dedicated space for our Seniors and that would be incorporated in those plans as well as potentially some expansion space for some square footage at City Hall. Mayor Scholl said as we talked about a few months ago, the City Manager engaged upon to look at beach mitigation because we have a lot of issues with erosion on the beach. It has been very difficult now to actually bring sand in like we used to do. We cannot pump it from off-shore any more,and when he says we,he means the Federal Government has always done that. There are grants and programs at the State and Federal government and the County for matching funds, and quite frankly as wealthy as everyone believes our City is, one beach renourishment would probably bankrupt us, and so we cannot be in the beach renourishment business. What we can do is to look at the beach mitigation business and that would be looking at mechanisms for mitigating the issues that we have with the ebb and flow of the sand on our beach. That is what is in the hopper right now that staff is working diligently on. 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES 3A. Regular City Commission Meeting—January 15, 2015. Action: Commissioner Aelion moved and Commissioner Gatto seconded a motion to approve the above mentioned Summary Minutes. The motion was approved by a voice vote of 5-0 in favor. 4. ORDER OF BUSINESS (Additions/Deletions/Amendments) 4A. Request to Hear Items; Information: Item 10A. Results of the Special Election; Add-On: Item 101. Pay-Off"FRDAP"Grant;Item 10J.Release&Cancel Declaration of Restrictions; Hear Out of Order: Item 12A. Report from CAC Chairperson; and Item 12B. Discussion by Bicycle Action Committee, hear after Item 5A. Action: Mayor Scholl noted the above changes to the agenda. Commissioner Levin moved and Commissioner Aelion seconded a motion to approve the above changes to the agenda. The motion was approved by a voice vote of 5-0 in favor. 5. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 5A. Presentation of the City of Sunny Isles Beach Audit Report for Fiscal Year 2013/2014. Action: Finance Director Audra Curts-Whann introduced Cindy Calvert, the partner on engagement from the firm of Keefe,McCullough&Co. LLP,who provided the Commission with a brief presentation of the City's Financials. She noted that based on their audit, they provided an unmodified opinion which is the highest level of assurance that they can give.