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 announce the town hall meeting tomorrow without a specific reason, he thinks it would be interesting to see what kind of a turnout we would get. If we announce a town hall meeting around Winston Towers and say we are going to talk about the bridge,we are probably going to get a good turnout because it is a very hot topic in that area. He thinks that we will have to work with staff and figure out how we do this and to make sure that we have a proper turnout. Going around the community while campaigning we get feedback during that process. City Manager Russo said you are going to have the perfect opportunity to accomplish everything that is being said here and you can consider it a test. The EAR,the updates to the Comprehensive Plan and Evaluation and the Comprehensive Traffic Study will be addressed in a public meeting and we can do south, middle, and north and use those as the town hall meetings. The Study is contemplating public meetings,and Mayor Scholl said that would be great. Commissioner Goldman said with that idea we could even focus traffic issues relevant to the south end, traffic issues relevant to the north end, etc., information and input that maybe the Traffic Consultant wouldn't necessarily have or that dialogue where you get from the residents one-on-one. And so we can even look at it in terms of the different areas. Mayor Scholl said he thinks he heard the City Manager saying that our upcoming agenda for our traffic study and the Comp Plan would be a good basis for a kind of a kickoff for this, and putting a little meat on the bones in terms of when we call these meetings, why we are there, and what the issues are. Commissioner Aelion agreed with the Mayor that the subject matter has to be defined pre-town home meeting. 13. CITIZENS' FORUM: REQUESTS, PETITIONS & OTHER COMMUNICATIONS 13A Request by Robert Kurtzer to discuss the parents of school children who take over the parking lot at Publix, and the Traffic Situation at the 193`d Street Intersection. Action: Mr. Kunzer thanked the Commission for returning his phone calls. His issue was that the parents of the school children are taking over the entire parking lot at Publix every afternoon. People cannot get in and out of the parking lot. They are not even parking their car in spaces, and are taking up every square inch, it is a nightmare. The City has to take an active role along with the School Board and they have to have people that constantly tell the parents over and over again to stop using the Publix parking lot as a place to discharge and pick up their kids and maybe the School can put some school officials in, and tell the parents not to go in there and reinforce that until the project they plan on doing gets underway. Commissioner Aelion said he did speak at length with the Police Chief on the school matter, and on a daily basis they have at least six (6) police officers during the hours to and from there. The Manager at Publix is very much aware of this but they are not going to police their own parking lot because it is a retail customer oriented business. Mr. Kurtzer said it is interesting the issue you have on 174'h Street while on 193`d Street at Heritage Park we have Oceanview Buildings A & B. with 1,200 units. What happened to them was the identical situation. No U-turn, they have to turn into Galahad Boulevard,make a U-turn. come back out and make a right on Collins Avenue. We also have the addition of 19