2015-0319 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting March 19.2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida allow them to park on the street. Not changing anything, what if instead of doing it on the sidewalk we do the line on the street on that north side, we don't put up the signs that we have got on North Bay Road on posts and marking the sidewalk, but for that stretch from North Bay Road to Collins Avenue on the south side of 174'h Street, while it has to be there, we just do the marking out into the street for bicycles, and allow if we have to the cars for purposes of construction, for parking because it is no different than what it is today. Bicycles are still going to go on that street, and they are going to go around the cars that are parked and go on the sidewalk. And so it is just a suggestion. Vice Mayor Gatto said when you create the lines and the little insignia for bicycles you are basically sanctioning that as a bicycle route and so there is a bit of a difference perception wise. City Manager Russo said he understands that but that is the way it is all along Collins Avenue even in some areas where that is marked if there are cars or traffic, you can't physically get to it,and so he is just suggesting, that is all. I2B. Add-On: Discussion regarding the Concept of Having Town Hall Meetings. Action: Commissioner Goldman said she just came off from a campaign. She learned a lot and received a lot of input and a lot of comments, ideas, suggestions, and while it is true we do meet once a month and our Commission meetings are open to the public,we should not as a Commission have to wait until the next campaign to get our message out or to receive input or dialogue with people of our City. The idea is to bring us out there into the community where not in a more formal setting but certainly bringing our message, receiving our input, and getting ideas, imparting what developments are in the City, answering questions, and bringing it out there into the Community in a more informal setting and how can we improve our message and information and that is just one example of how we can do it through that type of a vehicle through a town meeting. She proposes that the Commission bring our show, so to speak, on the road and have that dialogue in different settings outside of this Chambers. A perfect example is this traffic analysis,again she received scores ofemails and lots of information and she would never have that information just as a commuter from the south side, and if she went to visit as part of the Commission, the north side, the central side, other areas of the City and we are more likely to get more information, more likely to have a better vehicle to impart that information,talk about traffic issues,talk about issues ofconcem to the residents, and to our community and it is just one way to improve our dialogue and improve our message and ultimately improve our product, and really improve our output. And so she advocates implementing town hall meetings on either issue specific or on a periodic basis. Speakers: None Mayor Scholl asked her how she is seeing the difference between a workshop on an issue and a town hall meeting? Commissioner Goldman said a town hall meeting is a more informal gathering outside of this Commission Chambers where we would present ideas, not a workshop where we are basically going through an analysis. For example when she was at Winston Towers people asked her what is happening with the bridge, when is it going to go up, what is happening with our 1 74th Street improvements? And so people ask questions and it is a way to get out into the City and respond to those inquiries and get the message out. It 17