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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting December 17,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida <br /> worker or their supervisor or Department Head, it was also suggested in the nomination put <br /> in by different Department's supervisors or co-workers from a different department that <br /> acknowledged and realized their efforts. The four recipients are, and he will start out with <br /> the one that is not here tonight who has been working quite hard and has been sick since last <br /> week,and he is Darrin Graumann,Events Coordinator,Cultural&Community Services. As <br /> many of you know, Darrin has been with us just a short couple of years and in that time he <br /> has done wonders to the quality and creativeness of many of our programs. He deals with <br /> our most visible, largest, and most complex programs that we put on for the public,and his <br /> touch has made a tremendous improvement in that. <br /> City Manager Russo said the three recipients that are here tonight, and he will start with <br /> Lester Alexander,Athletics Program Coordinator,Cultural&Community Services. He calls <br /> Lester one of the real unsung heroes, he is a quiet guy, and he has taken on much more than <br /> the supervision and oversight of our sports programs which is what you would think from his <br /> title. He is not going to go into everything but he has taken on quite a bit above and beyond <br /> his duties. When we needed a certified playground supervisor,he took that role. When we <br /> lost Christine who was handling programming at PCP, he helped fill in that role. When we <br /> decided to take over the Skate Park he took control of that and created a reporting system, <br /> and got us some real information and much better management and care,and the list goes on. <br /> City Manager Russo said the third recipient is our Assistant Finance Director Tiffany Neely- <br /> Jean who held things together through this budget process for a few weeks when Finance <br /> Director Audra Curts-Whann had an accident, and that was recognized by a number of <br /> Departments because there were a lot of long hours trying to figure out everything that Audra <br /> knew. We did a really good job holding it up under Tiffany for those few weeks. <br /> City Manager Russo said the last and certainly not least is Debra Lima, Administrative <br /> Assistant, Public Works. With the staff changes that we had there she really stepped up to <br /> the plate to assist in seeing that we didn't miss a beat. She has taken ownership to a lot of <br /> things to see that it gets done,to see that processes were followed,that a lot of initiatives that <br /> we had kept on going, and her dedication to the job,because she knew somebody needed to <br /> step in and do it. He asked the recipients to come up and he presented them each with an <br /> award. The Mayor and City Commission congratulated them. <br /> 5D. Add-On: <br /> A Special Presentation by the Santos FC Soccer Club. <br /> Action: Commissioner Aelion said this afternoon he received a fax that the Coach of our <br /> local Soccer Club Team Santos,Coach Robson Manente,who was with the actual Brazilian <br /> National Team wanted to take this opportunity to make a presentation and thank the City and <br /> City Officials. Coach Manente, along with a translator,thanked the City and City Officials <br /> for all these years of their support. Coach Manente and several members of the Santos FC <br /> Soccer Club presented Mayor Scholl and the City Commission with gift bags. Mayor Scholl <br /> and the Commission thanked them. <br /> 3 <br />