2015-1015 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting October 15,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach.Florida bottlenecking and all of that. Our Chief is here and he is doing a tremendous job together with staff to handle this on a daily basis with his presence. You don't want to create a filling up of those vacated seats. He thinks if a class has to be changed from ceiling to what you say more auditory culture etc. facilities within this, so be it, but just include the number of kids which by the way is always the thrust of the School, that has to be treated very carefully. Mayor Scholl said the moral of the story is that he, for one, is not going to advocate proceeding until he, the Commission, and staff feels that we have an actionable plan that is enforceable. You know it is the same old story, we talked about the Skateboard Ordinance, he had said he was not voting for it because we can't enforce it. And so we need a plan that we know is enforceable,that we can monitor,that we can deal with because truthfully again, if that school was really only occupied by the students that belong there, the only time that we would have traffic is on a rainy day, otherwise the kids would walk. Commissioner Aelion said the point being that the school district is always looking for capacity,our internal problems with traffic is our responsibility. Commissioner Levin asked if we had any control whatsoever on the scheduling of hours. Mayor Scholl said no, all we can do is make suggestions, the School Board owns and runs the schools. Obviously we do a lot to help and work with the School Board and so he thinks they listen to our suggestions but at the end of the day we have no tangible control. Commissioner Levin asked how long do you think it will be until we hear back from the School Board as to whether or not they are going to put together an actionable plan? Mayor Scholl said we heard back from them two days after they got his letter and they scheduled a meeting. Commissioner Levin said let's say we move forward with this, where do we go from here,do we go ahead and have plans drawn up,a site plan,etc.? Mayor Scholl said no, he thinks from here we have to finish negotiating our arguments with the School Board as to our contribution,and then the architects proceed with the construction drawings,etc.,and we go from there. This is a preliminary presentation and you can all have discussions with the City Manager individually and express your concerns to the City Manager. Vice Mayor Gatto said what she is hearing is that we don't have much control, the School Board controls a lot of this but do we have control in the area of really digging our heels in whatever proposal they come back with, if it is not good enough we can send them back to the drawing board? Mayor Scholl said we will just say we will not build the school, and Vice Mayor Gatto said she would hate for us to build it and a year later have this same conversation again. Mayor Scholl said and again that is where he can tell you from his perspective that plan has got to be strong, it has got to be actionable, and it has got to have longevity to it so, and he thinks he has specific ideas on how to do that,we would set up the meeting talking about it but we are all going to be privy to that if and when we get there. But he thinks right now our leverage is we need a school expansion and if we don't have the proper undertaking to do that,there is no point in doing that in his opinion because all we are going to do is stir the building up as Commissioner Aelion pointed out, and we are going to be in the same boat with just more kids, we are going to be spending more money, and then we are going to have NSE #3 because that is what is going to happen. People will be screaming and we will end up building a third building. Again, we are in a unique position other then most communities because we do give such overwhelming support to our school. He can see in other areas of the County that this is not such a big issue because since the County runs all the schools, and other communities don't contribute to the schools like we 10