2015-0521 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting May 21,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida 10B. A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida,Approving the Third Amendment to the Agreement with Keefe, McCullough & Co. LLP for Professional Auditing Services,for a Period of One(1) Year, in an Amount Not to Exceed $46,000.00, Attached Hereto as Exhibit "A"; Authorizing the Mayor to Execute Said Agreement; Authorizing the City Manager to Do All Things Necessary to Effectuate this Resolution; Providing for an Effective Date. Action: City Clerk Hines read the title, and Finance Director Audra Curts-Whann reported that they are requesting a one year extension to the contract with our current auditing firm. We have been with them for five(5)years and we intend to go out for RFP, however we are on our first year of a new Finance System, and we would like to continue with our auditors for an additional year. We are also implementing the Budget Module this year, and we are preparing the RFP, it is being vetted right now and will be disseminated in the fall. Public Speakers: None Mayor Scholl said the practice is, because your auditor gets familiar with you, you want to change auditors every five (5) years. City Manager Russo said the Agreement was for five (5) years and so this will make it to six (6) years. Commissioner Aelion moved and Vice Mayor Gatto seconded a motion to approve the resolution. Resolution No. 2015-2413 was adopted by a voice vote of 5-0 in favor. 10C. A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida,Approving a First Amendment to the Lease Agreement Between the City of Sunny Isles Beach and Fly Me to the Moon,LLC,in Substantially the Same Form Attached Hereto as Exhibit"A"; Authorizing the Mayor to Execute Said First Amendment;Authorizing the City Attorney and the City Manager to Do All Things Necessary to Effectuate the Terms of this Resolution; Providing for an Effective Date. Action: City Clerk Hines read the title,and City Manager Russo reported that we are giving the Passion Group an extra sixty (60) days on their plans. That is a factor of going into the Agreement, they were planning to have a restaurant and a banquet facility, now they are having a restaurant and a marketplace. The complications on doing the plans with the marketplace would potentially tend to a dozen different vendors they are laying out. It is very, complicated and they need a little more time. He has a feeling that their build-out is going to correspond very closely with the total completion of the Park anyway. Commissioner Aelion said when you say market place can you be more specific, and City Manager Russo said it is similar to Eagle Lee concept which is in some of the major cities around the world,or the Todd English Marketplace that is in the basement of the Plaza Hotel in New York. It is where you can buy the products or you can have it cooked and eat it there in a restaurant high-end food court type of thing. Commissioner Aelion said like Italia in Chicago. City Manager Russo said he has pictures if you want to see them. Public Speakers: None Commissioner Aelion moved and Commissioner Levin seconded a motion to approve the resolution. Resolution No. 2015-2414 was adopted by a voice vote of 5-0 in favor. 21