2007 1213 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting December 13,2007 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida City Manager Szerlag said that Mr. Parker said something that caught his attention, he indicated that the Fire Department comes through condominiums once per year for inspections, and Building Official Parker said yes that they are required to come through once a year but ChiefMena admitted to them that they have not been doing all of them every year. City Manager Szerlag said but if they did hit some buildings and we can prove that, his question is should we hit them again if they were inspected six months ago, he thought we wanted to be on a one-year schedule, so we would have to coordinate the Fire Department's inspections with various condominiums with our inspectors. Building Official Parker suggested that he would get with the Fire Inspectors that are in this area and let him initiate this thing with the private lobbies. He said he sent an email to Chief Mena and told him that we were proposing to hire a temporary part-time inspector to start out initially inspecting the private lobbies, ifthey are confirming inspecting these doors to make sure that they are not closed off in the back, and ifhe can look at their inspection reports. He said that their meeting was very fruitful as they had an immediate response from his inspectors the next morning and we are now putting together a fact sheet where if they find something they will let us know and if we find something we will let them know, and he thinks that we have established a better line of communication. He said he was instructed to ask Chief Mena if he would be willing to help pay for this part-time inspector as we are helping his Department to catch up but he has not had a response from him yet. Community Development Director Solera said that is the reason why we became a City because of the fact that we never got a response from anyone. Commissioner Scholl said to remind Chief Mena that the City pays 5% of the County Fire Budget on our tax base, which is $12 Million Dollars a year for our Fire Rescue services. 13. CITIZENS' FORUM: REQUESTS, PETITIONS & OTHER COMMUNICATIONS None 14. ADJOURNMENT Commissioner Goodman moved and Vice Mayor Thaler seconded a motion to adjourn the . . meeting, and Mayor Edelcup adjourned it at 10:58 p.m. /" . /" \. ' . ,. .' , t ", .:~Uf;Rtt~ Approved by the City Commission on Jan. 17,2008 .. (,".-.( - --". .c'... -:"~ .~.~, Jane' A. l#nes, c:tv~C, City Clerk , . /,"'" <:' ~. ,'/ .~) .. '. " "i- ."" -. .. .~ '" ~ .. ..... J 26