2008 0117 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting January 17,2008 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Commissioner Goodman moved and Commissioner Brezin seconded a motion to approve the resolution. Resolution No. 2008-1217 was adopted by a voice vote of 5-0 in favor. 11. MOTIONS 11A. Call for a Motion to accept the resignation of Celina Shevlin and confirm the following appointments to the Mayor's Advisory Council: . Confirm the appointment of Ronald Starkman to the Long Range Planning and Intergovernmental Relations Committee. (Vice Mayor Thaler). . Confirm the appointment of Erica Michalsky to the Long Range Planning and Intergovernmental Relations Committee. (Commissioner Scholl). Action: City Clerk Hines read the title. Commissioner Scholl moved and Vice Mayor Thaler seconded a motion to accept the resignation and confirm the appointments. The motion was approved by a voice vote of 5-0 in favor. 12. DISCUSSION ITEMS 12A. Discussion regarding the City of Sunny Isles Beach New Web Portal. Action: Information Technology Director Edel Fonseca presented a power point of the City's new Web site. He said that they based it on statistics of our website where users have been visiting, and grouped them in categories and took this design which is clean and organized and designed it for users to find information quickly. Public Speakers: none Information Technology Director Fonseca said that other things that will be added is to give direct requests to Public Works or Code Enforcement on-line, and noted that this website will be developed in phases, and the first phase will be a template on how the web site will look once we go live, which will be on February 4, 2008. He said that the web site is very informative, pleasing to visit, and one feature is beach conditions, beach accesses, etc. Also we have taken control of our website from the County, so we can now update events, beach conditions, etc. in real time, including road closures, emergencies in the City, announcements, etc., and there will be an animated gift that is going to scroll down main events in the City such as movie night, etc., and once it is highlighted, they can click on it, and it will take them to the event itself. City Manager Szerlag noted that we did this work in- house, and IT Director Fonseca said yes that they worked in conjunction with Administrative Services Director Alyce Hanson and her staff. He said when we go live on February 4 residents will have the ability for on-line inspection requests. Vice Mayor Thaler suggested putting an article in the January 28th Edition of the Sunny Isles Beach Sun relating to this new website. The Commission commended IT Director Fonseca and City staff for a great job. 15