2014-1120 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting November 20.2014 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida payment, and so while he appreciates the fact that at the end they would like to convert to perpetuity, he will not support it. Raanan Katz said there are many naming rights here, streets, schools, etc. and nobody ever paid for any naming rights. He is the only one that paid, and he paid faithfully for seven (7) years. He showed what he had to do and after his payment today and to ask for more time,he declines. He does it to be a good citizen and he appreciates the support. Commissioner Scholl said he is not a big fan of naming rights, you will notice no streets are named after him, he actually would not accept it because he feels that naming rights does not set well with the public. He just went through a campaign, and he heard a lot of things from the public and they don't like naming rights. Again, in the original deal that you paid,that was a deal that we made and he is willing to stand by that deal but he thinks what is proposed tonight is a modification of that deal and he is not in support of the modification. He said from his perspective it is not a function of money but it is more of a function of the notion of naming rights, it is more philosophical. Commissioner Gatto said her comment is more of a function of money because there are operating costs to the building that really don't apply to the street naming and the beach accesses example. She agrees it should be done on an annual basis and obviously, as the incumbent, giving you the right of first refusal. She said this is a modification of the original Agreement. Mayor Edelcup said the original Agreement never specified, it just said for seven (7) years we will collect the $7 ,000. At some point all of the parties to the original Agreement realized that there would be a final date and it was never specified that it would take place at the end of this payment, it left the door open. There was never an Agreement that we continue$75,000 per year forever, it was for seven(7)years we were getting 575,000 towards whatever funding we wanted to put that to. In exchange for that, Raanan and Phillis's names were on there and the .Agreement was silent as to whether or not this would go on forever or it would come to an end and the names would stay there. Vice Mayor Aelion said Raanan Katz is a pillar of this community in his own right like Michael Dezer, Joe Milton, etc. and he thinks that the behavior of this Commission has always been to recognize those standout actions and achievements with a public/private partnership that has occurred between these people and the City. To emphasize the point more strongly is that recently the name of Intracoastal Park was named after the Dezer Family of which he paid a certain amount of money and that is a permanent structure in perpetuity. The argument could be made for the maintenance of the Park,the need of funds then we would have voted that action with the same approach that if monies were needed to address the maintenance of a certain, in this case a Park, then we wouldn't have agreed to allow Dezer to have a permanent name in the permanent structure. To that end,the argument by Commissioner Gatto doesn't hold,and with that$525,000 is a sufficient amount of money and he will support the resolution. Commissioner Scholl asked if there are any other contingencies associated with the naming perpetuity, is there any other contingencies associated with the Agreement with Mr. Katz. Are there any other obligations by the City or for that structure on Mr. Katz' behalf? City Attorney Ottinot said no,the obligations that were agreed to were the payments for the seven (7) year period and he met those obligations, there are no other obligations based on the Agreement that we entered into. 31