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 some of them have two or three Grandchildren who live there. The only way that you are going to address this is by having the cooperation because most of them are from high-rises, and they have one apartment and they register three Grandchildren, etc. But there is documentation showing who actually is occupying these apartments and we will have to seek out the cooperation of management of the different condominiums. She knows for a fact that there are several of them in her building that she knows do not live there. Vice Mayor Gatto said you bring up a good point. One of the things she wanted to say was her Condo docs have limits to the number of people that can live in a one-bedroom, a two- bedroom, and a three-bedroom. Mayor Scholl said this is why we are going to lean on the Chief a little bit, as the front end of the process are the school records which has to be done by the School Board employees because of privacy issues. But when we actually go out into the community to verify things he thinks what we are going to say is to collect all the records for one building and then our liaison or school officer will go there. The management is less likely to give one of our officers a hard time about going through the verification process. Your point is very well taken, and it will be completely remised not to try to do something, that is the point. Chief Maas said he used to have a Traffic Unit for the City,now he has a Traffic Unit for the school. Some of the issues that he has as you know because they complain to you and send you emails, we have as many traffic issues from 4:30 on through the rest of the evening but unfortunately our whole Traffic Unit is dedicated to the school Monday through Friday. Some food for thought here, if we stagger the hours, which we believe would be a good thing, we would rather see them staggered on the later time which works in Broward. Typically it says 8:20 a.m. but that is the time they are due to be in their seat, the young children from K through 6,start arriving at school as early as 7:30 a.m.because that is when breakfast is served to them and they can go into the cafeteria. We find that we are set up by 7:40 a.m. our officers with the crosswalks and signs,etc. If we back it up earlier for the older kids it is going to push that whole schedule of officers back another hour earlier which means on the lagging end of it that they are also going to get out earlier because they are only working ten-hour days. However, if it moved on the later side which they do for the older kids, it would be within the framework of what they are working now and the time that they still get off. For example, if it was 9:00 a.m. start time and they get out at 3:45 p.m. it certainly helps us. These are not just from Police considerations, it is a well known fact that the older children often times will walk with them,drop off the younger ones first,and then they are able to go to their school or their classroom, or the parents will be comfortable dropping them off Not the reverse, not having the young children start at 6:30 or 6:45 a.m. to get there and then they have nothing to do with the younger child. Mayor Scholl said he thinks what he is hearing is before we make a formal recommendation to the school system,we sit down with them,this is going to be a cooperative effort,and they are going to have to reconcile their own position internally about what is the most efficient way to do this. And then we will sit down with the school system. He thinks we can work with them with recommendations and obviously the Chief will work with our staff members and we will make sure that we get a holistic approach to it. Chief Maas said we know in other districts it does work better that way with the youngest. We have two schools that are six blocks apart in his residential area and because it is staggered one hour there is impact but 14 •