2015-1113 Special City Commission Meeting

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l Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting November 13,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida I ' Commissioner Aelion said on the rebuild or restructuring of the Haulover Park, one of the intended construction is the replacement of the jetty to a pier,how do you feel that is going to impact? Ms. Cutt said it is not going to impact the City, they are actually the engineer for that and so she is pretty familiar with that project. What is being proposed is to extend the existing jetty and maybe reorient it a little bit and make that area a better sand trap because right now a lot of sand is being lost off shore and being locked inshore, and so we call the offshore the flood shore, and inshore the ebb shore, or the reverse but some of that sand is just getting lost and so once it gets on the inshore, the sandbar inside Haulover Inlet that everybody is so familiar with, it colonize the seagrass including the threatened Johnson Seagrass and we can't recover that sand. It also has contaminated to some extent with all the silt and sediment that comes out of all the canals in Dade County, and so it can't be excavated and placed on the beach. A lot of that sand gets trapped in the Intracoastal and it channels in the area and so they do dredge it from the channels and place some of that on the down drift beach. But the way that project is being designed it will extend the jetty and change the shape a little bit so it acts as a better sand trap and then the Pier will get connected to the end of the new Jetty and extend out from there. What that is going to do is allow us to come in and cut the beach so dredge some of the material that is stacking up on the north side of the Inlet and place it in Bal Harbour because where you get a lot of sand from, is what is going on in Broward south of Port Everglades and then it stacks up at Bal Harbour. The Corps doesn't come in very often and dredge and bypass that sand,they come in periodically but not as often as Mother Nature and Bal Harbour would like to see it. Commissioner Aelion said that Haulover has a very healthy white beach,does this mean that eventually some of it would be lost? Ms. Cutt said the way it is designed is to come to a beach that is not quite as white as it is but doesn't adversely affect the public benefits there. Obviously the Parks Department in Dade County wouldn't allow for the project to be designed so that it would cause that beach to be very narrow. The sand is always moving with a net movement to the south and it is always going to stack up there, and when it is stacked up and it can't compound it is going to be lost and we don't want to lose that valuable beach quality sand. We want to move that sand across the Inlet as much as we can. So the way those Inlet bypassing projects are designed, there is a lot of coastal engineering modeling that goes into it to ensure that it is not going to have an adverse effect to any of the adjacent shorelines. Mayor Scholl said he was having breakfast about six (6) months ago with the Mayor of Bal Harbour Martin Packard and he was telling him about this pumping project that was going to pump the beach from Haulover. Mayor Scholl said to him that is our sand,you can't take our sand, you have got to pay us for it. Then it dawned on him after he learned all of this stuff that it wasn't our sand, we don't have sand manufacturing device on the north end of our City, and so our sand is somebody else's sand and it all floats out. Ms. Cutt said that Broward County did look at buying the glass pulverizing equipment to make the glass look like sand. Commissioner Aelion said in Asia or beaches of other countries, they tried it and it was very successful. Ms. Cutt said Broward County found it not to be cost effective,they would have to import glass of the right colors from all these other municipalities and other states but it is funny because she shows people a baggie of that sand and ask them what it is and they say it is sand. 15