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summm Minutes: Reeular Cite Commission Meeting October 16, 2014 Cin. of scone Isles Beach, Florida 4. ORDER OF BUSINESS (Add itions/Deletions /Amendments) 4A. Request to Hear Items: Change Order of Agenda: Hear Items ION, 100 d 10«' after Item 6B. Assignment of TDRs; Additional Information: Item IOF. Correspondence from CGA: Add -On: Item 10X. RatiN Settlement Agreement: and Item 5C. Presentation re: Courthouse Initiative on the November 4, 2014 Ballot. Action: Mayor Edelcup noted the above changes to the agenda. Commissioner Scholl moved and Vice Mayor Aelion seconded a motion to approve the above changes to the agenda. The motion was approved by a voice vote of 5 -0 in favor. 5. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 5A. A Proclamation to be Presented Proclaiming October 16, 2014 as "Coffey Burlington Day" in the City of Sunny Isles Beach. Action: Mayor Edelcup and the City Commission presented the Proclamation to Kendall Coffey. Esq. and Jeffrey Crockett, Esq. of Coffey Burlington Law Firm upon the Firm's 26h Anniversary. 5B. A Special Presentation to the Cite by the Organizer UCAF of the 12th Annual South Florida Dragon Boat Festival for its First Place Finish in the Corporate Race Division held on Saturday. October 4. 2014. Action: Deputy City Attorney Fernando Amuchastegui, Team Captain of the City's Dragon Boat Team "Sunny Dragons'. introduced Johnson Ng, Executive Director of the United Chinese Association of Florida, who had provided the team with his invaluable time and leadership in helping the team prepare for this race. Mr. Ng presented the City a trophy upon its First Place Finish in the Corporate Race Division. 5C. Add -On: A Special Presentation regarding the Courthouse Bond Initiative on the November 4, 2014 Ballot. Action: The 11th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Beatrice Butchko reported and presented renderings of the Federal Courthouse in its current poor condition. She asked for support of the Bond Initiative on the November 4, 201=4 Ballot 9168 for funding of emergency repairs to the existing Courthouse and for the construction of a new Courthouse. The Courthouse was built between 1925 and 1928. and is 89 years old. When the construction started there were approximately 40,000 citizens in this region. At the conclusion the population had grown to over 120,000 people. Now the Courthouse is serving a community of over 2.6 million people. The Courthouse was constructed originally to house seven (7) judges, the County Commission, the City Government and the jail. All of those government functions have moved out. The only ones that remain are yourjudges. The Courthouse designed for seven (7)judges now has 23 courtrooms which are shared by 41 judges. The facility only has seven (7) public bathrooms. There are approximately 3,600 citizens a day that visit that building, 65,000 jurors are summoned to that building a vear, and there are nearly one million visitors a wear.