2009-0922 Special City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Special City Commission Meeting September 22, 2009 Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Second Budget Hearing Action: City Manager Conner said there has been some discussion about the stanchions and the traffic control at 183rd Street and to place a Police Officer, and he asked about putting this on the October 15, 2009 agenda, and Mayor Edelcup said he would like to hear it now as the October 15 meeting is too late and he suggested by a voice vote to announce the Commission's support for the light on 182nd Street and he instructed City Manager Conner and City Attorney Ottinot to formalize that and we can take a vote tonight without having to wait. City Attorney Ottinot said for the record, basically the instruction is for the City Clerk to draft a resolution stating the support of the City Commission for the proposed traffic light on 182nd Street, and that the Commission at a previous Workshop expressed their support. City Manager Conner said he has a meeting before the Florida Department of Transportation and he read an email that stated on October 1, 2009 at 2:00 p.m. at 1000 NW l l ltl' Avenue, Conference Room A, Room 6114, Miami, which is their headquarters, we are on the hearing agenda for a variance at the Access Management Review Committee's meeting for traffic signal location at 182nd Street and Collins Avenue. He said in understanding and knowing this process, that this is a major accomplishment, we have done very well. Mayor Edelcup said we need to make sure we have the right people there from the City to push forward with this process, and he noted that he will be out of town as well as the City Manager, and so he suggested that Vice Mayor Thaler, City Attorney Ottinot, and Assistant City Manager Jorge Vera be present at that meeting, and anyone else you feel would be important to be there. You may want to ask Principal Annette Weissman for a letter stating her support. He also suggested that Vice Mayor Thaler contact the PTA and get a letter of support from them, as well as the Trust Committee. Vice Mayor Thaler will follow through on that. Vice Mayor Thaler asked what the step is after the hearing, and City Manager Conner said if the variance is granted, then there is only the process of permitting. We turn in the design and they review it, the staff has to have the variance in hand before they can review it. The design will be completed the first week in October, and they will turn around and submit the plans immediately and ask for an expedited review. Mayor Edelcup said that in previous meetings we were told that the concept was approved subject to seeing the design, and so if anything, all they can object to is a change in design and not the concept of not having a light, we need to hold that line, and City Manager Conner agreed, and said that they have approved it and the only thing they can object to is the technical design. Vice Mayor Thaler moved and Commissioner Brezin seconded a motion to approve the resolution. Resolution No. 2009 -1485 was adopted by a roll call vote of 4 -0 -1 (Commissioner Scholl Absent) in favor. 41). Add -On: Discussion on Artwork on Wall of Katz Sports Center at Pelican Community Park. Action: [City Clerk's Note: A rendering of the wall at the Phyllis and Raanan Katz Sports Center was distributed] Commissioner Brezin said this is in reference to the south side wall of the Phyllis and Raanan Katz Sports Center. When the building was constructed they had this formation there that looked like actual shadow boxes that are part of the concrete. We thought we could just leave it painted to look like a wall, however, upon looking at it recently, she feels it looks incomplete, like something should go in there, and she suggested