2010-0520 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting May 20,2010 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Mayor Edelcup said for the record that Mr. Katz offered to make the payment in order for us to accelerate the development which otherwise would have been all at our cost anyway, as it has been at the 183 rd to 180th Shopping Center. The landscaping and the sidewalk are the City's responsibility and our beautification project, but in order to induce the City to move quicker and to provide the additional funds so that the City could move quicker, Mr. Katz is making this $150,000 prepayment on his naming rights at the basketball gymnasium in order to accelerate the development of the improvement ofthe streetscape and to that end he thinks it is a very good win-win situation. City Attorney Ottinot said it is basically the internals of the public aspect of it, he thinks the City Manager will bring back an extension of the T enex contract for approval and with respect to the private aspect, he thinks direction to the City Manager to follow through on this is all that is needed. Commissioner Scholl asked if we are managing all the work, or is RK managing a portion and the City is managing a portion, and City Manager Conner said as the agreement stands we would manage the portion involving the pavers, the sidewalk portion, and RK would manage the portion on the public easement, the landscaping easement. Commissioner Scholl asked how we ascertain that we are staying within the same integrity of the landscaping that we have already put in, and City Manager Conner said we have a set of plans that have been created for that project and the agreement is that it references those plans. Commissioner Scholl said then that the agreement binds him to the plans and specifications that ensure us that we will have the same architectural integrity or landscape integrity in the process. City Attorney Ottinot said that is correct, it also has to be identical to the landscaping project on 180th Street and RK has submitted plans to the City Manager for review and approval, and he thinks the City will present those plans to an outside reviewing agency, and so we have some formal control over the plans. Commissioner Goodman said it was always his recollection to make the sidewalk a little wider, and Mayor Edelcup said the sidewalk was never made wider, we asked for an easement to do the landscaping to the west of the sidewalk, and that is what we have done from the north end of the City to the south end of the City. City Manager Conner stated that RK said they would pay for an architect to do the actual design on the segment and so we provided his architect the plans from the prior segments and said that they must repeat these plans, they did, and we verified it. City Attorney Ottinot asked if the City Manager has the authority to extend the contract with Tenex to cover 171st and 168th for the sidewalk improvements, and to come back with a change order to ratify it. Mayor Edelcup said to call this one Phase 3 because there are still a couple more phases yet to go, and with that you have the clear instruction to move forward with it, and we are happy to get the landscaping done sooner. 12B. Discussion on the Establishment of a Cultural/Multi Media Center on Behalf of the City Advisory Committee/Cultural Fine Arts and Enrichment Sub Committee. Action: [City Clerk's Note: Bob Caplan handed out a Preliminary Report on the Cultural Multi-Media Center Conceptual Proposal at the May 19, 2010 Workshop.] City Manager Conner noted at the last City Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting, Bob Caplan made a presentation regarding a Cultural Center, and the Committee took a vote to support the idea 8