2007 1213 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting December 13,2007 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida and also developments can contribute land, buildings, etc. He said that the agreement really promotes the sharing of information and that is the heart of it, to really allow everyone to know what each other is doing and plan better for the future. Mr. David said out of that Interlocal Agreement comes the next step, the Educational Facilities Elements, a brand new element that will be part of the City's Comprehensive Plan, and because of this Interlocal Agreement we will have to amend the Intergovernmental Coordination Element to allow that coordination, and the Capital Improvements Element. He said that the Capital Improvements Element will have several things, that is where the level of service will be for the Schools, that is where the concurrency management system will be set up, the sharing of development information. He said the third item will be, requiring that the School Board submit to the municipality their capital/work program every year. He reported that the Capital Improvements Element will have to be amended every year to reflect the new document that the School Board is providing. He said if the Commission approves the Interlocal Agreement that it will be forwarded to the School Board, and noted that all 3l municipalities will be doing this, and that 17 or 18 municipalities are now in the process of signing this agreement, and several more are coming up next week. He stated that on the other side, the actual element will have to go through the regular Comprehensive Plan amendment process, and if approved, it will be transmitted to the State for their review. Public Speakers: Ana Rijo-Conde, AICP Mayor Edelcup asked Mr. David to go more into an explanation on the mitigation issue because if the school is fully capacitated and there isn't any additional land in Sunny Isles Beach, what happens at that point, does the developer have a choice of finding land outside the City but in the same district, or to pay cash? Mr. David said before that even happens, the first step is the concurrency service area, if your school does not have capacity, you have a number of schools around the municipality that they will look at first to see if any students can be shifted over to the neighboring schools which is called adjacency, and is the first step before any mitigation comes into play. He said it is a fairly large area and so they are not anticipating any problems but if there were, the next steps in mitigation is land banking, outside the City, contributing to funding, for the School Board to look for sites, or build additions to existing schools. Mr. David also noted that Ana Rijo-Conde, the Planning Officer for the School District is here and may want to explain this further. Mayor Ede1cup said what he is worrying about is that we are in a fast-growth area, not only the City of Sunny Isles Beach but the cities around us, and so it could very well be that the growth of this area surpasses the capacity of the schools in the area. He said that looking within our own City, there is no available land and so he would hope that the provisions of the mitigation would provide that a developer would not be turned down because there is no land in this City and that he was not able to find adjacent schools that had it and therefore would have to come up with cash or land outside the City, and he would like to make sure that is part of the mitigation process. Mr. David said it is broadly worded, and Mayor Edelcup said what they have seen doesn't give them any information and that is the problem because they are asking the Commission to approve something blindly as the details are not there. Mr. David said that there were about 80 meetings held just to come up with this document, it was a very intensive process with many staff members from many of the municipalities in the County, the 4