2012-1018 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting October 18,2012 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida difficult then it would be now, as the other one sunsets,this one picks up and there is a very small incremental cost. For the typical homeowner in 2013 it will be less than$10 per year. Vice Mayor Thaler noted that the addition of the school is being funded by both Miami-Dade County and Sunny Isles Beach and has nothing to do with the Bond issue. Commissioner Aelion asked if the redistricting that has been done by the Legislature impacts the layout of your application? He further stated you are looking on a global basis, and Mr. Tones responded it is global and this is a needs based plan. They know what the deficiencies are in our schools and this was built from the bottom up, and we look at it globally. Mayor Edelcup said this is an important issue that is going to be on the ballot for everyone,and he would recommend people to vote in favor of this as there is nothing more important than the education of the children because they are the future of the city, state or country. 5D. A Presentation to the Incoming City Manager Christopher J. Russo from Outgoing Acting City Manager Chief Fred Maas. Action: Chief Maas said that he had asked the new City Manager during this period of transition what is it that he would like him to accomplish most,and he said he would like the employees to continue to get cross-trained, to get committed to where there is always somebody to step up to the plate. The Chief presented a photo of the K-9 dog being cross- trained at the desk,and he passed incoming City Manager Russo the baton. He thanked the employees for their tremendous support that he received over the four months in accomplishing the job. There was one goal and one interest and that was to provide in the interim the best service that we could to the residents of this City. City Manager Russo thanked the Chief and the employees. The reception he has gotten by coming back has been terrific although the first day seemed like he never left. It is certainly the finest City and the finest employees that he has come across, and the finest elected officials in 32 years in this business. The Commission welcomed him on board. 5E. A Presentation by Simcha Hadassah regarding the Madi Thaler Memorial Breast Cancer Walk-A-Thon Taking Place on Sunday, October 28, 2012. Action: Fanny Korn,President of Simcha Hadassah Chapter of the Greater Miami Region, gave some history of the organization. With the Walk-A-Thon they memorialize Madi Thaler who was a past president of the organization. Madi was kind and caring and embraced them all as members. She was a great president of their Chapter, and it is a great honor that they walk for breast cancer in her memory which will take place on Sunday, October 28,2012 at 10:00 a.m. in Pelican Community Park and will walk north to Heritage Park. They thanked the Commission for their efforts to raise funds for the Hadassah medical organization to support their research to find a cure for breast cancer. They presented Mayor Edelcup and Vice Mayor Thaler each with a plaque and a tee-shirt. Vice Mayor Thaler thanked them and he said he is honored that they are honoring his wife, and certainly they had supported cancer and breast cancer which is something that is very difficult to converse. He was very proud of Madi, and from day one she let everyone know what the problems were. He knows of three or four other people she spoke to who had a mammogram and they did find cancer and all of them are survivors today. 5