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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting October 15;2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida <br /> 5C. A Proclamation to be Presented to the Sunny Isles Beach Police Department for their <br /> response and handling of the Chateau Beach Residences Explosion. <br /> Action: [City Clerk's Note: This item was heard with related Item 5B.] Mayor Scholl <br /> reported on the Chateau Beach Residences explosion that occurred on Friday, October 2, <br /> 2015. He said as he stated earlier, this is the coordinated effort between a whole bunch of <br /> professionals, and our Police Department was front and center. Some can say they were <br /> doing their job,he thinks they went way beyond their job that day. He read the Proclamation <br /> into the record and presented it to four(4)representatives from the Sunny Isles Beach Police <br /> Department which included Captain Dwight Snyder,Captain Michael Grandinetti,Detective <br /> Mike Mulvey, and Sergeant John Wyche. <br /> Mayor Scholl said that we learned a lot from this about emergency response and what to do <br /> when Collins Avenue is shut down. Collins Avenue has been shut down before but never to <br /> this magnitude. He commended all our Departments because everybody has been looking <br /> with a fine toothed comb at how we responded to this incident and what we can do better in <br /> the future. We have a lot of detailed reports coming out of our various Departments that is <br /> looking at ways to better handle emergency situations in the future. Hopefully we will never <br /> have anything of this magnitude again but if we do, he believes this has been a learning <br /> experience and we will be better prepared on how to deal with it. He thanked everybody in <br /> the City because this affected every Department in the City, as well as our surrounding <br /> agencies, and at some point, it brought out every Fire Rescue asset the County owns. <br /> 5D. A Presentation by Perkins+Will of their Conceptual Design for the Government Center <br /> Expansion Project Located at 18080 Collins Avenue. <br /> Action: City Manager Russo reported and introduced Larry Kline of Perkins+Will,who was <br /> with Spillis and Candella prior to this who designed the Government Center, which we get <br /> very good feedback from people who love the design and the building. Now Larry Kline is <br /> working on what we are officially calling our Government Center Expansion. We were <br /> calling it Annex but we realized that what we have created here is a Government Center <br /> between the Post Office, the Library, the City Hall, the School, and the Community Center. <br /> This is a presentation of the conceptual plans to get our blessing on,so we can move forward <br /> on the Government Center Expansion. <br /> Architect Larry Kline introduced his team here tonight, Jackie Candela and Carlos Elitobe, <br /> all happy to be part of the design team that produced the City Hall. They are excited about <br /> expanding the civic precinct to include this additional hybrid building that contains <br /> educational uses, civic expansion, office space, and potentially retail, fitness, and many <br /> different things. They will go through the presentation and he thinks that the context is <br /> important in terms of how you arrive at the site, how students are dropped off, how <br /> pedestrians flow from neighborhoods from the west to the ocean. He was on the team who <br /> designed City Hall 11 years ago,and there wasn't a great deal of thought.that residents would <br /> be walking from the neighborhoods to the west, through the City Hall parking, and over to <br /> the ocean. Now you have this potential to connect the western neighborhoods,the potential <br /> of this new pedestrian bridge across Collins Avenue, and how these things really become <br /> seamless as you go from ocean to residential. <br /> 4 <br />