2015-1113 Special City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting November 13,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida Golden Beach. Historically yes it has but there is no project to come from the north, Golden Beach just keeps filling up and if it was full,the sand would continue south. Commissioner Levin said she is fairly certain that there is probably some law out there that says you can't build structures to prevent the sand from flowing,or can you? Penny said we will get a little bit of that but you cannot cause a down drift effect, you cannot cause an adverse down drift impact from your neighbor. Just like we want the sand coming from Broward County Segment 3 to keep coming, the people down drift of us don't want us to hold our sand and preclude it from moving further south. City Manager Russo said on that note, Penny do you know the amount that comes from Haulover from the north to the south? Jordan had mentioned about 50,000 yards being pumped to the south side of Port Everglades. How does that compare with what they just started to permit pumping from Haulover from the north side over to Bal Harbour? Mr. Cheifet said you are talking about the volume of Baker's Haulover inlet, he believes it is a similar number of about 50,000 to 60,000 yards every eight (8) years. Mayor Scholl said because we let it build up to a certain level. Ms. Cutt said it is similar to future plans of the Port Everglades project to look at bypassing material about every three(3)years and so when Jordan mentioned the 50,000 a year, that is basically about 150,000 every three (3)years in reality. They have got to make economy some scale work but the more frequently they do it, the better it is for the beach system,the more natural it replicates the natural rhetorical threat. Vice Mayor Gatto said she is looking at the chart and the red line for 2012, seems to be the most consistent one and probably providing the best beach line there. At first glance you are looking at a chart like this and you can see that there is going to be ebbs and flows and it will probably be like that forever. But what was it that caused 2012 to be so wonderfully consistent? Ms. Cutt said we haven't had a hurricane in a while,and the sand from Broward County that has been moving through the system for a while, a million cubic yards or so, with very little lost offshore due to storms. This is just looking at aerial images,just making a quantitative assessment of it. City Manager Russo said the differentiation between that 2006 line and the current black dotted line,it may not seem like a lot but that is very substantial in our ability to secure under the mechanics, the plumbing and everything that is under the Pier building itself, the restaurant,an access for the lifeguards,and other things,because that 2006 number in theory was at its worst point until now but that difference is substantial. Ms. Cutt said we have not done an in-depth analysis to see where it was in past years, was this a typical thing that happens every few decades? There are a lot of unknowns right now. And again,this is just Jordan tracing the rack line on aerials where you can see it, but it provides a nice graphic for discussion purposes. Commissioner Levin asked what kind of an effect all the construction have on this,of all the buildings on the beach? Ms. Cutt said in the past the excavation for garages were relatively small, they run through 10,000 cubic yards of sand which often times there were 3,000 to 5,000 cubic yards of sand. Now they are going deeper and bigger and they are pulling out 20,000 to almost 40,000 cubic yards of sand from a particular project. That is equivalent to the size of the truck haul nourishments that the County has done in the past for an area like this when we nourished a hot spot. And so that sand provides a tremendous source of free 5