2016-0218 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting February 18,2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida more connected, and she is very happy to see that 100% of the Committee came back, we were all reappointed, and we can keep the team together, move forward, and build on the lessons that we have learned. Chair Viscarra said from the Subcommittee perspective,she was the head of the Community Outreach,and in that role,for the very first time the CAC now has a dedicated email address, the members have their own business cards to allow them to connect with the community and network better. Again, because they have a turnover if a member was very active and had a lot of connections and communications with certain people, once they left the group, that connectivity left with them. We are all using the same streamlining if they lose track of that member they still have a way to communicate with us and we can pick up where that member left off. We also have an updated website and we tried targeted email lists as a way to send out the invitations to keep people more connected and to attend the meetings. She also met with business owners and different board members to discuss again what are the feasible ideas,what are the needs,we can't address all the needs only the things that have to do with the City, and of course there were a lot of condo issues, and this is where we invite them to come to our"Condo Series", and they see what our role is and that we are here. Chair Viscarra said the Condo Series was very successful, they had five (5)workshops that were very well attended and as a result they are carrying that over. The first one for 2016 is scheduled for Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in the Commission Chambers, regarding Condo Elections. For the Health and Fitness Subcommittee we learned the lesson that sometimes plans can be a little too big,Michael Ducote,Chair of this Subcommittee had fabulous ideas and worked really hard. He tried to bring a big event to the City but the City simply could not sustain that scale of an idea, and so we are reshaping them and refocusing them to smaller scale activities,perhaps connected with the opening of the parks and bridges. Also the joint efforts between Subcommittees, and work together in a joint effort, not everybody has to come up with one individual idea. We had the Traffic Subcommittee and • looming over that Subcommittee was the Comprehensive Traffic Study,all roads in her mind whenever something came up was, isn't that in the Comprehensive Study? And a lot of it was but we found out that there was a lot of things that were not. Now that Subcommittee may be shifting its focus to broader safety issues given that clearly traffic is very much on the City's radar. We also have the Talent and Music Subcommittee and one of the ideas that came out of that was an event at the opening of Gateway Park which has not happened yet,it is still a working idea. Coming forward we also have the Green Subcommittee where they are exploring more environmentally friendly ideas in the City. We stay as a team and we are learning how to reshape and channel our energies more efficiently. She invited the community to connect with them noting their email address is cac @sibfl.net to come to their meetings, they meet every other month, and they actually want to hear from them. Mayor Scholl thanked Ms. Viscarra,it is not an easy job,but the CAC does play an important part of the community and it does connect a lot of people in the community with the City. At the same time it helps manage expectations sometimes because like you said, people come into the CAC not knowing where the constraints are and sometimes when you do get a lot of members they come in with an expectation level that sometimes is good and sometimes is bad but the bottom line is your leadership for continuity is important, and so we greatly appreciate the time that you invest in it, and the Commission thanked her. 3