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 whole building becomes too imposing. He does not want the students to climb two levels to get into the courtyard of the school, and so we are really trying to keep the parking to two levels, the basement and at grade. Vice Mayor Gatto said that is a good idea, what she is trying to visualize is pickup and drop-off time. It is pretty hectic right now,and is it going to be on Atlantic Boulevard, pretty much 100% of that, and not Collins Avenue? Mr. Kline said definitely not Collins Avenue,there are three options,it could be on Atlantic Boulevard, it could be, if the City saw this as a smart move, using the queueing of the City Hall site driveway at that hour for drop-off and the third option is consolidate and use that street that you closed off for the current drop-off but then the students have to walk one block to the school. He thinks of the three options,Atlantic Boulevard,but he thinks the staggered hours is probably the best bet, if we could stagger that drop-off and pickup so it doesn't coincide with the other school drop-off and pickup. City Manager Russo said we are going to have to look at that,this is something that we have to seriously deal with the School District on,and in fact he thinks he has on his camera the best study he can have to present to them. It is a tremendous amount of pictures he took from the roof one day when the Chief had textea him about coming out and taking a look at dismissal on Wednesday when the school gets out all at the same time. Mayor Scholl said a point to recognize is we are transferring activity from one school to the other school, obviously we are adding some more seats. He commended Mr. Kline on a beautiful building, and he is glad that City Manager Russo found him again because obviously he was always a big fan of the City Hall design. It is fairly timeless, it has held up beautifully and the building that you designed here compliments that and it really creates our vision of a Civic Center which is what we are looking for. Mayor Scholl said he is going to speak a little bit on things that don't concern architecture but he is going to speak to the dynamics of how we are dealing with the school and how we are doing with the School Board just so that the public understands it. When we first started to conceive this back in the spring,he and the City Manager and the City Attorney met with School Board officials and his position was pretty clear. His position has been pretty clear for the last eight (8) years on this issue, is that we define some actionable solutions to what we call the"district jumpers". The district jumpers means that people that come from out of our community and enroll their kid into the school but don't live here. Frankly we live in a community that is really just one square mile,and so almost every kid had the opportunity to walk to school, yet we have 600 cars when the school bell rings, so what is wrong with that picture? Well that tells you that a large percentage of children from that school are being driven to school from other parts of the County or Broward County for that matter. Mayor Scholl said that in the spring when we first discussed this with school officials, he said to them that he wants to see two plans. One plan is showing us a way that you can start to govern the intake, and one plan is dealing with the kids that are in the school that does not belong there. He knows that this is a distasteful issue and nobody really wants to deal with it because nobody wants to take kids out of their environment and transfer their environment. But unfortunately if we don't deal with it, we could not build enough schools in this community that would not get filled up on day one. We can spend tens of millions of dollars building schools all up and down Collins Avenue and because it is such a strong community to go to school in, it would all get filled up. The fact is that we have an"A"rated school,the 8