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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting December 18,2014 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida <br /> 12. DISCUSSION ITEMS <br /> 12A. Add-On: <br /> Discussion to Develop a Policy for Publication of Articles by Members of the City <br /> Commission in the Community Newspaper. <br /> Action: Withdrawn/deferred. <br /> 12B. Add-On: <br /> Discussion regarding a Bike-Share Program. <br /> Action: Commissioner Levin said when she was first elected to office she had met with Bill <br /> Evans and Susan Simpson,and she believes this was in March of 2013,they met with Deco <br /> Bike who operate the Bike-Sharing Program in Miami-Dade County,and they also met with <br /> Broward B-Cycle that operates the Bike-Sharing Program in Broward County. The City of <br /> Miami just started a Bike-Sharing Program under"Citibike", as Citi Bank is sponsoring it. <br /> We are a small City, we have issues of transportation, of cars, and if you look at this as a <br /> short-term issue or we don't want to be inconvenienced then we are not looking to the future <br /> in getting people to stop using cars as modes of transportation. <br /> Commissioner Levin said that right now Deco Bike goes up as far as Bal Harbour, and <br /> possibly they may have a station in Haulover. Broward B-Cycle goes as far south as the <br /> Water Tower in Hallandale Beach,and so we have a link. If Sunny Isles Beach participated <br /> in the Bike-Sharing Program we can link Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. She spoke <br /> with Eric Soroka who is trying to get a meeting with Deco Bike to look into the feasibility of <br /> putting in Bike-Sharing Stations in the City of Aventura. The Dezers just started something <br /> called the "Five Stars Club". It is for the public and they are trying to promote it to their <br /> tenants and they own Intracoastal Mall. If you go to www.fivestarclub.com and sign up you <br /> can get discounts at the restaurants,the dry cleaners,and whoever is participating at the Mall <br /> and at the Car Museum. She called Gil Dezer and asked him if he would be interested in <br /> having a Bike-Sharing Station at the Intracoastal Mall that you could connect with other <br /> cities, and he said yes, he would be happy to look into it. She also knows that as part of the <br /> Bike-Sharing Program, we could put out an RFP to have somebody sponsor our Program, <br /> and we can reach out to developers. <br /> Commissioner Levin said another benefit is that we can agree to have as many or as few <br /> bikes as we want, and obviously the numbers would have to be looked into like how many <br /> stations do we have to have, how many bikes at each station, etc. The station at the Water <br /> Tower in Hallandale have only three(3)bikes. We can take a bike over Lehman Causeway, <br /> we can go to the mall, we can bicycle over to Aventura, they can bicycle over here, we can <br /> start participating in getting cars off the streets and educating people to use other modes of <br /> transportation. She noted that she has given everyone some materials, the station location <br /> guides materials that Susan Simpson had kept from our meetings. One of the things that <br /> Susan Simpson had in her file was the bicycle trail on Sunny Isles Beach, and she went on <br /> the website today to see if it had been updated and it is not there anymore. She gave <br /> everybody an article that was in the Miami Herald about the Miami program, and there was <br /> another investigative report on Bike-Sharing in Europe, and different ways to structure it. <br /> 21 <br />