Draft 021016 Workshop Summary Mins re Transportation Master Plan

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City Commission Workshop February 10, 2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 10 deserve to go to that school are the ones that are going there, we took it to the next step and wrote a letter to the School Board. We said we understand you need a school expansion but we don’t want to create an expanded environment without dealing with the root cause of the problem which is what we call District Jumpers, which means kids from out of the area. That is the technical terms if you are a School Board official, District Jumpers. Frankly, they blew us off at the beginning. Public Speakers: Susan _____; 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. 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 only for those two schools at that time, they never intersect each other. Mayor Scholl said he doubts if our Consultant has taken the sociology environment into account, he is just distributing the flow. Obviously we are just assuming that 600 cars is 300 as you distribute it across, 200 per group and the timing of those groups isn’t something that really have to be in our purview. Chief Maas said correct as we go out there every day with the parents and kids, and know what the patterns are with them and almost know how many of them come from the school to the Government Center for the Library, for different events that are here. Also, Mayor, your point is well taken with regards to the private shopping centers, if he was a District Jumper or coming from another County, he doubts he would be pulling up to the front of the school and dropping his kids off. He would probably stop at a remote site and this he knows because we have received complaints from people who watch the cars line up in front of their building, the kids get out, or they wait for them to get out to pick up the kids. And so that may also alleviate a lot of the private property parking. Commissioner Aelion said he came down hard and he apologizes on his comments. However, he wanted to compliment you on one of your calculations and your staggering involving the County School Board, etc. One real data that you produced is the net time of drop off and pick up in the morning which is about 20 to 35 minutes, and in the afternoon it was about 45 to 50 minutes. What you did do very astutely and he thinks it is commendable is that with the staggering calculations you went and said you have the 55-minute spread in