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Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting September I I,2003 Sunny Isles Beach.Florida First Budget Hearing have ordered the first customized appropriate bus that meets the needs of this City and it is hoped to replace at least one more bus this fiscal year. He noted that some of the Streetscape Plan furniture will be completed this fiscal year, which includes bus shelters,benches, trash 1 receptacles, finishing of the crosswalks. City Manager Russo provided a very detailed description of the Capital Improvements Projects. He said that the City is currently working on zoning for the Town Center. He also noted that the City is in contract to sell the City-owned property that is between the FDOT retention basins, which the City received a grant, and is in the process of landscaping right now. The City entered into a contract with FPL and provided the City with $2.2 Million for that property,rights to control that property,retains any development rights to the City,and it also includes FPL doing the relocation of utility wires that are on the south side of Sunny Isles Boulevard. He also noted that the entrance signs into the City will be in place this fiscal year, and updated the Commission on the new City Hall construction. City Manager Russo noted that one of the loop lanes on SR826 will be eliminated, which will give us 71/2 to 8 feet of additional space on each side. There will be beautiful landscaping on both sides, street lighting, up-lighting on all the trees,and this is up to about a $4 Million project right now, which through the FDOT and the Federal Program that we are in called the LAP Program,we are going to get$3 Million from the Program for this project. Mayor Samson asked if the City had received any money on the tax,and City Manager Russo said yes that we got our first payment of$158,000.00. Commissioner Kauffman asked what are the possibilities of using 174th Street for parking on the weekend as we do during a concert,and City Manager Russo said that our traffic engineer will have to take a look at it and see where it would be appropriate and the Commission will have to make a decision. Mayor Samson said it was not a good idea because in the past there was so much crime on that street with people jumping out in between automobiles and snatching purses, and since we stopped parking on that street we have not had any problems. Mayor Samson suggested waiting until City Manager Russo and Chris Steers have finished their parking plan. Commissioner Kauffman stated that the people that live on the northern end of town have called it to her attention that it says "beach parking only" at the north park with parking meters, but they said that vans, trucks, etc., park there and obviously are not beach parking, leaving no parking for locals and she asked if they could have permit parking there,and City Manager Russo said it has to be general parking. Mayor Samson asked how we were going to control strictly beach parking, and City Manager Russo said that we are going to have a dedicated Parking Enforcement Division soon, to enforce it. Commissioner Kauffman stated that there is an issue about the buses because of flooding at Marianne Towers, they leave them at the curb, and at Winston they actually go inside of the curb, and don't leave them on the street, and when there is a lot of water,they are up to their ankles and sometimes kneecaps, on North Bay Road at Marianne Towers and at 178th Drive by the Church, and she asked about having the buses, if not the County buses at least our City 3