2016-1020 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting October 20,2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida are not to build our building any quicker to increase profit, we do it when it is in the best interest of the City and all the residents. We have worked very hard, we want to be good neighbors,we are sympathetic to all of the Ocean III resident's concerns about construction, we understand that it is noisy,we understand that it creates dust,we have been trying to work with them since March 2015 to put an agreement in place to impose a whole host of construction mitigation, process, and measures that would hopefully address some of their concerns. Unfortunately for reasons we believe are out of our control,we are just not there yet but hopefully we are there soon. We think that the Ocean III residents interests would be better served if they paid a little more attention to us and see if we can come to a good neighbor agreement and then we will promote a more harmonious relationship going forward and hopefully eliminate some of the emails that are clogging your inboxes. Vice Mayor Gatto said she is not going to let him off the hook easily because there are some residents from Golden Shores that have been complaining that trucks are running through the neighborhood and parking there,and Golden Shores is this little enclave,no sidewalks there, a lot of people walking the street, walk their dogs, a cute little neighborhood with mostly single-family homes. And so there is a halo effect of disturbance that is going on with this construction site. She just wanted to put it out there because she has been receiving a lot of complaints from the Golden Shores folks as well. Mr. Thomas said he appreciates that and he will bring it to the attention of their general contractor immediately. Commissioner Goldman said when this issue first arose when the Commission first started to get bombarded with correspondence and with emails, she specifically requested the City Manager if in similar municipalities whether or not these types of requests are ever granted by the Commission or if they are more of a staff and an administrative level, and un- equivalently the City responded that this is a staff issue not a Commission issue. The Commission really does not set hours,and again as a practicing attorney where she has had a similar client and a similar situation where she represented a unit owner controlled association against a very large and reputable developer, she has to say that, and while she respects the concerns of the residents, she certainly never advised her client to throw hand grenades at the Commission. She feels that we have been really in some ways unfairly bombarded with these types of certified letters and correspondence by the law firm and so forth when in fact these are decisions that are best left to staff and administrative level. So there is really a way to work this out amicably. We as the Commissioners set policy,we do not get bogged into this type of issue which is more at the level of staff in connection with the expertise of the Building Official. We don't really make those determinations,so to kind of rope us into the middle of this discussion is a little bit unfair to us. There is a way to handle it is what she is saying. In fact when she advises clients she would not interpose the Commission in the middle of this type of a discussion when in fact we really have nothing to do with those hours. Mr. Clark said he appreciates that and he apologizes if you feel as if we have been bombarding you with hand grenades, that has not been their intent. But, when the policies and the Codes that you have enacted,are not being complied with. Commissioner Goldman said the Code is very clear that this is a staff decision about overtime. She gave a hypothetical, is the time extension issue the only issue your client has with this in the equation with the developer and the construction company? Let's say if all the hours were 17