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where the damage occurs but it is blocked,and right now it is in the hands of the City Manager and staff. <br /> Chairperson Scholl read the Resolution into the record. He said it is pretty safe because we support the <br /> City doing it but we also support the staff being very deft of about how to do it because we don't want to <br /> get stuck with the bill if we exercise this at the wrong time because technically if we enter into a lease <br /> tomorrow,the State could come back to us and say you have got to fix it because it is an unsafe structure <br /> at this point and it is hazardous. Chairperson Scholl asked for a motion to accept the resolution. <br /> Cassey Gabor moved and Phillip Chemoff seconded a motion to adopt the Resolution expressing <br /> support for the City's Efforts to enter into a Lease Agreement with the State of Florida in order to <br /> operate the Newport Fishing Pier located at 16701 Collins Avenue. HPB Resolution No. 2007-06 <br /> was adopted by a voice vote of 5-0-2 [Trina Duluc and Bonita Shoki absent[ in favor. <br /> 3B. A Resolution of the Historic Preservation Board of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, <br /> Recommending to the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, that the Newport <br /> Fishing Pier Located at 16701 Collins Avenue be Designated by The National Register of Historic <br /> Places as an Individual Historic Site; Providing for an Effective Date. <br /> Action: Chairperson Scholl read the Resolution into the record. City Historian Richard Schulman <br /> said this will leave us open by designating as an official designee to the National Historic Board, <br /> and the same thing would apply through the State or the County and we are just going up the ladder <br /> and going to the highest point. He said he feels it is to our benefit as a Preservation Board to <br /> designate which we have done already and re-designated as an historic site,and getting on the books <br /> of the National Register would be very important. <br /> Assistant City Attorney Fernando Amuchastegui said that one of the reasons to apply for historic <br /> designation through the National Register of Historic Places is that it would allow the City of Sunny <br /> Isles Beach to become eligible for Federal Grants as far as preservation. Chairperson Scholl said <br /> this scares him because of the standard that they may hold us to. Right now if we got the Pier and <br /> one of the things that Dr. Comfeld said at the last meeting was that he was very nervous about the <br /> character of the repairs to the Pier,these are the original structures,and if you think about it,if they <br /> try to hold us to a standard, if they say we can be in the National Register of Historic Places but you <br /> have to rebuild it and they want to see the original plans from 1936, etc., that is going to be a <br /> significant increase in cost, if they pay for it and we get grants. City Historian Schulman said the <br /> building materials in 1936 were not the same as they are today and that'would be taken into <br /> consideration as to how it would be built and the type of pillars and materials'used,when he was out <br /> there to take a look at it,it looked like your standard treated plywood that would be used today,and <br /> he thinks the majority of the construction money would be used for the pillars. Chairperson Scholl <br /> said that there is a very rigorous criteria for the National Registry,and if this were approved,there is <br /> a significant pot of money there. Assistant City Attorney Amuchastegui said that he had handed out <br /> a memo that listed a 7-step procedure that we must follow to obtain a National Historic designation, <br /> and that the City would work with the State Historic Preservation Officer who is Dr. Carl Shiver <br /> and he would be coordinating the City's efforts to get historic designation with the Federal <br /> government. He said at this stage we don't know what type of Federal finance would be available if <br /> the Pier were designated as an historic site,but it would take approximately 90-days for the State to <br /> evaluate the Newport Fishing Pier as an historic designated site but then once the State is finished <br /> Summary Minutes 2007-0911 HPB Mtg Page 3 of 6 <br />