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W4 /S `�� �o City of Sunny Isles Beach n 18070 Collins Avenue Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 i•'A9� 0.`op a (305) 947-0606 City Hall `c,Tr �O (305) 949-3113 Fax Fro of MEMORANDUM TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Commission FROM: Edward A. Dion, City Attorney DATE: 3/18/2021 RE: Ordinance Amending Various Chapters of the Code of Ordinances Relating to Departmental Name Changes RECOMMENDATION: This Ordinance is presented for your consideration REASONS: On December 17, 2020, the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach ("City") adopted Ordinance 2020-558, amending Chapter 22 of the City's Code of Ordinances (the "Code"), eliminating the Planning and Zoning and Code Compliance Departments, and creating the Development Services Department. In furtherance of the City Manager's recommendations to consolidate and rename certain City departments, code enforcement staff and activities will fall under the purview of the newly created Development Services Department as the Code Compliance Division In the past, department names have been revised in Chapter 22 of the Code, but the remainder of the Code was not updated to reflect the amended departmental names, thus, resulting in inconsistencies of departmental names and titles throughout the Code . In the interest of providing consistency, clarity, and continuity, the department names and titles throughout the Code will be amended to conform with the newly revised department names in Chapter 22. Moreover, in the process of renaming departments and titles in the Code to comport with the recent amendment to Chapter 22, the City discovered instances where the term "Special Master" was utilized, which should be replaced with the appropriate title "Special Magistrate". Likewise, a review of the Code further revealed instances wherein the term "Code Enforcement Department" was utilized, when said department had previously been renamed to "Code Compliance Department", and under the current reorganization, will be designated as a "division"; therefore, in the furtherance of ensuring clarity and consistency, when references are made to enforcement being by the "Code Enforcement Department" it was revised to reflect that enforcement would be pursuant to Chapter 14 of the Code of Ordinances. Lastly, the continued review of the Code revealed the inclusion of the Director of Management Information Systems in Chapter 197, which governs Business Tax Receipts, however, that is an obsolete title and in practice, the City Manager or designee completes the function described therein and so the title was removed. ATTACHMENTS: Description Ordinance