2011-0223 regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting February 23, 2011 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Mayor Edelcup requested a timetable revision, and Acting City Manager Vera said we should get the permit in June 2012, one year after that we will have a finished product. Mayor Edelcup said it is the will of the majority of the Commission to push forward as forcefully as we can, move it along, and try to shorten the negotiations period. He asked him to try to compromise so that we can move forward. Acting City Manager Vera said that he has already started with DERM seeking their requirements for mitigation. 13. CITIZENS' FORUM: REQUESTS, PETITIONS & OTHER COMMUNICATIONS 13A. Mariana Talalaevsky discussed Overcrowding in the Sunny Isles Beach Community School. Action: Mariana Talalaevsky handed out school board items and noted severe overcrowding of the schools. She said they will create a committee to look at different options, and that parents are complaining that the school is not part of a mail out. She went before the City Advisory Committee and they recommended bringing it before the City Commission. Vice Mayor Thaler said he would like to call Martin Karp and find out why the school is not there, and report back to this Commission as our representative to the School Board and find out what he believes we should do here to get people out of our public schools that should not be here. It is the School Board who should operate it, not the City Commission. Mayor Edelcup said we can sit back and give advice but in the end it is the County's school, and it is their problem to search out people that should not be there. We have made this offer and other offers for programs many times to the School Board, and we asked the Police to get involved, and so there isn't much more we can do other then lobby Mr. Karp. Commissioner Aelion said they found addresses that were rejected, and have a better feel of the number of correct addresses. Ms. Talalaevsky said that our school was not part of it, and she had asked Dr. Weissman if it is an issue of the money because most of the school's funds have been frozen, and is talking about our school funds being frozen. It is true that at our school a lot of the students last names are different from who they are living with, i.e. grandparents, uncles, etc. Today she worked in a B Class, she asked how one class can have so many students, and she was told that there are four classes in one, and even worse was the ih grade where they have seven classes in one with two coaches. Weare the number one school out of compliance. Mayor Edelcup said as much as he sympathizes with her, he reminded her that the School Board is run by a different governmental agency, and they may resent the fact if the County were to tell us how to run this City, and therefore a City can't cross the line and tell the County how to run their school as a governmental agency. The citizens of our City that has children in the school or want to be an activist can certainly lean in that direction. Commissioner Scholl said he sympathizes with her too but he believes that the School Board has to induce the administrator of the school to deal with this problem, and he doesn't believe that the administration of the school really wants to deal with this problem because they have talked to the administration ofthe school repeatedly, and so he agrees with both the Mayor and Vice Mayor and unfortunately we don't have control over that. We have been a great community partner with the school system, and have contributed greatly to the school, but unfortunately if they don't want to do something that we ask them to do, they don't have 12