2015-0319 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting March 19.2013 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida going to end up with a Comprehensive Traffic Study, and look at signalization and everything that is a part of that. What has been interesting is that we have all been coming up with little fixes that we think could have an impact but ultimately we have got to look at it holistically but he has no issues with directing staff to basically put something like this in front of FDOT and see what they have to say. That is the outcome of this, we are not voting on it as it is just a presentation. Clearly when we do our Traffic Study and looking at the rest of the City it is something that we are certainly going to present to the Consultants as well. The thing that is frustrating him as Vice Mayor Gatto pointed out,and it is the reason why he has always been against the pedestrian bridge in Winston Towers being vehicular because we don't want to use interior streets as secondary means of ingress and egress from major arteries in the City, and basically that is what is happening here. They are going down 174th Street to make the U-turn because you don't have the advantage on Collins Avenue. He thinks that anytime that we can prevent that it is very important to be able to try to do that. He thanked everyone again. City Manager Russo said we expect to have that Comprehensive Traffic Proposal before the Commission at the next meeting [April 16, 2015]. 6. ZONING: ZONING HEARINGS ARE QUASI-JUDICIAL PUBLIC HEARINGS. None 7. ORDINANCES FOR FIRST READING 7A. An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, Amending Ordinance No. 2014-436;Amending the City's Budget No. BA1415-03 for the 2014-2015 Fiscal Year—General Fund: Authorizing the City Manager to Do All Things Necessary to Implement the Terms and Conditions of this Ordinance; and Providing for an Effective Date. Action: City Clerk Hines read the title, and Finance Director Audra Curts-Whann reported that our budget is a living document so as we become aware ofchanges we will present to the Commission periodically amendments to that budget. We have some additional budgetary needs that we have not anticipated. We have a reduction in some budget revenue and we have done some reclassifications. Commissioner Levin said that it says reason for budget item C. "Increase Planning and Zoning professional services budget for estimated costs of Heritage Park/Gateway Park re- platting...",what does re-platting mean? As a real estate attorney it means something to her but she doesn't know if it means the same thine here. Mayor Scholl said it is what it means to you. City Attorney Ottinot said when we bought Heritage Park and also Gateway Park basically we assembled a number of parcels with different folio numbers, in order to ensure that we received a State grant where they platted the parks to ensure that the public use is exempt from taxation as private use. Public Speakers: None Commissioner Aelion moved and Vice Mayor Gatto seconded a motion to approve the proposed Ordinance on first reading. The motion was approved by a roll call vote of 5- S