Laserfiche WebLink
00 26V <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach <br />17070 Collins Avenue, Suite 250 <br />Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 <br />(305) 947-0606 phone (305) 949-3113 fax <br />David Samson <br />Mayor <br />Connie Morrow <br />August 14, 2000 <br />Vice Mayor <br />Commissioners <br />I\'IEINIORANDUM <br />Danny Iglesias <br />Lila Kauffman <br />Irving Turetsky <br />TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Commission <br />Jack Yeustadt <br />City Manager <br />FROM: James D. DeCocq, Acting City Manager <br />Lynn M. Dannheisser <br />City Attorney <br />RE: S20,000.00 Passive Park Change Orders <br />Richard Brown-Morilla <br />City Clerk <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />It is recommended that the City Commission adopt the attached resolution <br />authorizing the City Manager to expend funds on Change Orders for <br />upgraded grass and additional work and materials for the Passive Park_, in <br />an amount not to exceed $20.000.00. <br />In response to citizen concerns about flooding in the Passive Park site at <br />North Bay Road and 178`h Street, as discussed at the February 10, 2000 <br />Commission meeting, the Office of the City Manager expended <br />$78,761.00 for the transportation of fill, leveling, resodding, and <br />temporary tree removal and storage, in order to raise the elevation of the <br />park site. Via Resolution No. 2000-234, adopted May 30, 2000, the City <br />Commission authorized the City Manager to expend both the above <br />amount for said purposes, as well as $57,775.50 for the removal of 44 <br />undersized suffering tree specimens, replacing them with 45 additional <br />palms (five (5) different species), 78 additional trees (14 different species), <br />and 165 shrubs (3 different species), as well as transplanting four (4) large <br />short -leaf fig from the Active Park site and constructing internal drainage <br />for the entire site. As can be readily seen, the park is massively improved <br />in both design and function, with numerous accolades being conveyed <br />upon the staff from senior, middle-aged, and adolescent citizens alike. <br />Unfortunately, in our haste to push the park forward, we did not scrutinize <br />the choice of grass that the previous landscape architect suggested. While <br />we felt that `Bahia" grass would perform well due to its lush appearance <br />131 Agenda Item 9 D <br />Date 9- 4 1)o <br />