2014-0116 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summarc Minutes: Regular Cin• Commission \leetine January 16. 2014 Cine of Sunny Isles Beach. Florida compliance requirements are applicable to the City's major programs. Again this year, your major program was several forfeitures, and you had expenditures of approximately $490,000. She noted that this year with the new Finance team leadership she had doubts that they would be able to get the Audit to them in January. however. Finance Director Audra Curls-Whann and Assistant Finance Director Tiffany Neely -Jean and the rest of the Finance Department were able to get them everything they needed in order to start the Audit the second week of November. Thev worked long hours with us through December doing our field work, and the beginning of January finalizing the statements. disclosures, and presentations. Their hard work paid off and the City received Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for the 2013 Financial Statements. This distinguished award would not be possible without the dedication of the Finance Department and also the Commission's support of the City's attempt in achieving this award. Mayor Edelcup on behalf of the City Commission thanked Ms. Calvert and Finance Director Curls-Whann and her staff for doing a great job and for delivering the Audit in a very timeh manner. It is so great to hear a report like this that has no adverse comments and everything went well. He knows a lot of that is due to vour hard work and the hard work of our Finance team that came on the scenejust in time for the year end closing and he knows that was really a test and they performed outstandingly and you did as well. 5C. Presentation/Discussion regarding the 2014 Priorities of the Citv Adwisory Committee. Action: Mayor Edelcup noted our Chairperson Dana Goldman of the City Advisory Committee (CAC) is here. [C'ip, Clerk's ,Vote: CAC d9enJbers Howard Gordon, Shobha Arcrgaprasanna. and Jeniffer Viscarra are also in attendance.] This is basically an opportunity for our Commission to give some guidance if they choose so that the CAC has an idea of what we are expecting of them. At the same time it clarifies any communications that we would have to be able to make to the CAC at a public hearing because of the Sunshine Law and the only time we can do this is at a scheduled meeting. City Manager Russo mentioned a recent meeting he had with Dana Goldman to discuss the priorities. They went through the general four or five categories of the areas that we perceived as the priorities. Obviously one of the first ones was one of the issues that they have been working on and brought before the Commission previously and that has to do with communications. Communications in various respects or programming information. how we communicate with our community and try to get out the word on events and programs of the City. We will be back to the Commission with our report by the next meeting on the electronic signage issue. We have been spending a lot of time researching that, and Depuq City %4ana2er Stan Morris has been working very hard on this with Dana and following up on the items from the Committee. City \4anager Russo said the other issues we discussed is the Building Code as it relates not only to the 40 -year inspections which is a particularly big issue in this equation. but on the whole general issue. We will be moving forward on workshops that we originally planned on and it was a priority dealing with: what is a Building Code issue and what is a City issue versus what is related to condominium association rules and their requirement and the difference in how we deal with that. 3