2016-0114 Special City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting January 14,2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida Again, it won't make it all go away but he believes that if we deal with the District Jumpers and we have our professionals help us with mitigation techniques which might be staggered times, three-way stops, whatever that is, he thinks that we are at least going to try to do everything we can to try to move the issue forward. Mayor Scholl said that is his update on the District Jumpers. The good news is that he feels he has gotten assurances from everybody that are necessary in the school system that they are really going to work on this. He told them he wants two actionable plans,one is dealing with the kids that are already there that don't belong there, and one is how we are going to deal with the intake going forward. Of course their first feedback was they don't have the budget for this. We spent so much money on this school that it would be a drop in the bucket for us to pay for it. If we save one Police Officer in the morning from having to stand there, the cost of our study is already paid for, and every year the Chiefs budget goes up and we have to allocate more and more public safety resources to this issue. He feels good because he feels as a Commission we are throwing everything we got at it,we get a root cause analysis, we have got a traffic safety analysis,etc. But he made it very clear to the school system that unless we get to the root cause of the problem because we could build three more buildings and they would fill up immediately because it's a great school,a great community,everybody is involved but we have got to mitigate the District Jumper problem. Public Speakers: Roslyn Brezin Commissioner Aelion said if after the efforts from the County we find out that the numbers are not as pink as projected in other words still the potential density of students and cars are going to be more or less what it is now. He said taking that into account,then the main thrust of creating this extra wing for the school, his initial understanding was,remember when the school was built the target was 1,200— 1,300 kids, and Hans said 1,600 kids and then as the years went by it came up to 2,000 kids which is already an explosion with the ratio being completely outside of the required ratio of teacher to student. He was thinking that it would be a blessing and a big aid to the whole traffic situation if part of the kids that are presently attending the elementary are going to be moved so that it is a deflation of pressure. But what we are saying here in building this we are projecting an additional 233 to 300 kids and we are going to deal with it, actually we are shooting ourselves in the foot, okay, we are separating the elementary from the middle school,etc. He said in San Francisco which the Vice Mayor is from,at one point he thinks it was built,you reach capacity and that is it. You can bring in 100 more families with children and they will have to go to other schools because the capacity has been reached. That is one point that has to be looked at also. The point he wants to make is,the scenario is the result is not really what we expected it to be after the big effort by the County to get the District Jumpers out, then shouldn't we sit down again and consider the number. Mayor Scholl said we have no choice because the thing is that we don't but at the same time he feels we have got to do the root cause analysis first, and the thing that upsets him is he does not want to see Sunny Isles Beach residents who pay taxes and contribute to that school, have to send their kid out of the district because we know that 20%of the school is coming in from Hollywood. We will do our best,and the system will still get gamed no matter what we do but if we get a reputation that we are going to be tough on it, he believes that at least we know we are putting our best foot forward and then he completely agrees with 12