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5. DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE HISTORIC SITES. Review of Letter from Golden Strand; St Mary Magdalen Church; and B'Nai Zion Temple. Action: Richard Schulman said that he had done a survey on sites that the Board discussed as possible historic sites. He said he went to the Golden Strand in April 2006 and spoke to Joe Feldman who is the President of the building. He said after his discussion he received a copy of a letter addressed to Mayor Edelcup and he read it into the record, stating that they came to the conclusion that it would not be in the best interest of their 7,752 owners which is a time share, and asked the City to terminate any further action. Chairperson'Scholl asked when the Golden Strand was built and Mr. Schulman said in 1946, and the second building was completed in 1949. Richard Schulman also read into the record a letter from B'Nai Zion Temple dated August 2006 addressed to the Mayor and Commission stating that their members' are not interested in designation at this time. Chairperson Scholl asked when that was builtland Mr. Schulman said it was originally owned by a church built in the late 1950's. Richard Schulman said that he visited Father Hanold from St. Mary Magdalen Church which is the oldest church in Sunny Isles Beach built in the late 1920's, and he said Father Hanold has respectfully declined to have the Church designated as an historic site; and that he lives in the rectory. Chairperson Scholl said that the City is growing and people get nervous about wanting to get an historic designation. He said that a commercial enterprise gets real nervous because they know that, in the future if they are designated, they lose their flexibility for selling their property or demolishing the site. From his perspective we have to be careful, we can force the issue if we thought we had something that was worthy of designation. He said with his house if he was giving you a hard time, you could force the issue because his house was built in 1922 and it is unique. He worked with the Historic Board on Miami Beach and they looked for something that was unique, not necessarily old, and there is a difference. Chairperson Scholl said he feels that Mr. Schulman has probably flushed out everything in the City that is worth looking at, at this time, we just don't have that many old unique structures in the City. Mr. Schulman asked what flexibility does the Board have, we have not only sites but we could also say artifacts, memorabilia, because we do have the first artifact which is the horses and carriage, and we are running out of possible sites. He said the second artifact that we are going to place for discussion is the Pelican which has been in a museum downtown. Chairperson Scholl said he agrees with Richard as we do have some tiriique artifacts that were very germane to the history of the community. He said when you show'the Pelican it certainly brought back memories for him because he lived over the bridge fof the last 45-years. Mr. Schulman said they are landmarks, and Chairperson Scholl agreed and said that Mr. Schulman has a catalogue of Sunny Isles Beach artifacts. Mr. Schulman said that we also have the five (5) Egyptian images which we got from the Dunes Motel, and he hated that the piece of driftwood he had from the Driftwood Motel fell apart. Commissioner Brezin reminded the Board that the Rascal House has three(3) rascals and Mr. Schulman said that they have spoken to Seth and they said they would save them for us. Cassey Gabor said that the Rascal House is really a landmark and she has composed a letter Summary Minutes 2007-0123 HPB Mtg Page 3 of 7