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 they provided their five-year plan and their obligation essentially was to come up with a financially feasible plan. She said they had to demonstrate that, at least the first three (3) years, and that is a requirement of the law, of that Capital Improvement Plan were fully funded and financially feasible, and so they advanced that data, they advanced a five-year plan, and their data takes into consideration, not just the births and the deaths and the migration, etc., but data that has been provided by the individual cities as it relates to proposed projects, permits in the works, all those additional variables, to be able to project forward what their needs are going to be in each city. She said they sent that body of work, out to the State DCA and it has to pass in a number of different reviews and it came back with a favorable response, and so they are very comfortable with what they put out there. She indicated that every year they adopt a new five-year plan, they basically drop a year and add a year just as the City does, and so they will be continually re-evaluating their needs together with the City. She said that she is confident that the plan before the Commission tonight is a plan that will take care of their needs for the next five (5) years but they have an opportunity to re-evaluate again next year because every year things do change. Mayor Ede1cup said he knows that we are under State Mandate that we need to sign this by December 31, and what he would hope that when the formal language finally gets written on the mitigation section, that the School Board can transmit that to City Attorney Ottinot and that we can internally or have a public workshop here to walk through the process in the worst case scenarios. He said that we know the other scenarios will work, it is that worst case that bothers us and we would like to at least be educated on that even though it might be a one in a million shot but he thinks we need to know what that effect is so that we can act accordingly, and Ms. Rijo-Conde said that they can do that. Commissioner Scholl said that he feels that we have no frame of reference and that is the first question that he asked the City Attorney, where do we stand today, and what is in the hopper as far as the buildings are concerned. Vice Mayor Thaler agreed, he said we are sitting here in the middle signing an agreement that may not be advantageous to Sunny Isles Beach. He said what has been said in terms of not having the overall finite details is important but we also have a problem going forward with the State and how the State has changed their mind and have gone up and down on the amount of seating in the school, which is one of the things not guaranteed here, they have gone to 23 and they are down to 18, the numbers have changed through the years, and you are asking us to sign an agreement that we don't even have the details for today. Ana Rijo-Conde clarified that when she said they spent the last 18 months doing this work, they really involved all of the cities, they had a staff working group that included representatives from Sunny Isles Beach and all of the municipalities, and she wouldn't want to leave here with the Commission thinking that this is a unilateral proposal, it was drafted in conjunction with the County and the municipalities and it took them about a year and a half to put together not only the draft element before you tonight, which is being used as a template for all the municipalities. She said the Interlocal Agreement, and perhaps the City was not involved in that process and so are coming upon this more at the last minute then they have, but she would be happy to come back after the holidays, once the concurrency system has gone live, to make a presentation to the Commission at a workshop or to staff so you can have a feel for how things work with the automated system that they have put together. Mayor Ede1cup said that would be very helpful. 6