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to them which she read into the record asking them to have Epicure dedicate a wall to the Rascal House for artifacts, allow the City to place a plaque on the wall stating that this was the site of the Historic Rascal House Restaurant from 1954 to the date' of demolition, and all memorabilia not used for the wall to be donated to the City. She said if everyone will write a letter asking them to do the same. Chairperson Scholl stated that if we try to force them to do something within their structure then we are going to have issues. Mayor Edelcup said that they might agree to put a plaque up. Chairperson Scholl said as a Board, let's authorize Richard Schulman to write a letter as the Board's Liaison to the developers of the Rascal House and we can copy the lawyer, and say we respectfully request that the Rascal House memorabilia be donated to the City and upon completion of the building, we would like a spot in the building to place a!designation plaque to the memory of the Rascal House. He said he likes Cassey's wall concept but then we are trying to dictate their interior design and we are going to have a problem legally because they are building a more modern building and they may or may not have'that theme in the new Epicure. Mayor Edelcup said to offer an alternative to turn them over to Epicure, and Chairperson Scholl said yes that is a good idea, the alternative would be, if you are not comfortable in donating the materials to the City would you please consider donating them to the new Epicure. Richard Schulman brought everyone up to date on the Rascal House memorabilia, the Rascal House is a good part of our History Book that will be out in 60-days. He said that we have the old menus, tickets, original pictures of Wolfie Cohen sitting at the counter with the waitresses lined up, and we have a lot of memorabilia which will be shown in the, named "Our New History Book" by Seth Bramson, called "From Sandbar to Sophisticaion, the Story of Sunny Isles Beach", it goes all the way back to Harvey Baker Graves who founded this area in 1918 and purchased land in 1920. He said the book is 7" x 10" with 192 pages and over 200 black and white pictures but colored pictures are on the front and back cover. He said it can be purchased for $5.00 for residents, and Mayor Edelcup said it will be $19.95 when it hits the stands. Mr. Schulman said that we will have a book signing by Mr. Bramson downstairs in the lobby at certain times for the 10th Anniversary. Cassey Gabor asked for a listing of artifacts for discussion at the next meeting and then we can decide where we can place each one. Chairperson Scholl asked M . Schulman to bring a listing of the artifacts to the next meeting. Ms. Gabor said she would like to consider the camels, and Mr. Schulman said we are not only looking at the camels but we are also looking at the Sphinx, when they moved the Sphinx it fell apart and the camels are made out of the same material. Ms. Gabor suggested leaving them in the same original place, and Mr. Schulman said we can't because they are planning a high-rise there, 'and Chairperson Scholl said they would be there as long as the building is there. Chairperson Scholl said that is kind of more like a policy as far as the Board is concerned on how aggressive,we want to be and he is not in favor of that but we can vote on it. He said we could open ourselves up to lawsuits on that one. He said we are doing the artifacts on our own accord within the Board, we don't have legislation in place to make people keep artifacts on their property in good condition, and so he doesn't feel we have the infrastructure legally to do that. Deputy City Attorney Patricia SaintVil- Joseph stated that she had spoken to Mr. Schulman about amending the Mission Statement to incorporate artifacts. Mr. Schulman said amending the rules is for us not the property owners, but he said we will show a valiant effort to save the artifacts. Summary Minutes 2007-0123 HPB Mtg Page 4 of 7