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I -- City of Sunny Isles Beach 18070 Collins Avenue Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 Summary Minutes RFQ No. 07-07-03 Professional Engineering Consultant - for Professional Design Services for the Collins Avenue Streetscape Mandatory Pre-Submittal Meeting August 15, 2007 at 10:00a.m., 1st Floor Conference Room 1. CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order at 10:20 a.m. with the following City staff present: Jorge Vera, Assistant City Manager/Services Rick Conner, Public Works Director Jane A. Hines, CMC, City Clerk Shaun Gelvez, Assistant to Public Works Director Mauricio Betancur, Administrative Coordinator, City Clerk's Office 2. DISCUSSION Public Works Director Rick Conner noted that in the RFQ we talk about having different players on the team, one of those was an Economist and he wanted to address that. He said he will talk about the technical side and Assistant City Manager Jorge Vera will talk about the vision. He said he wants this to be a realistic doable economically viable thought out plan. If your responses do not indicate a truly viable alternative or a truly viable plan, then you will not be chosen. Assistant City Manager Jorge Vera said that we did have a Plan for all of Collins Avenue, and it just sat on the shelf. The Plan was very nice, architecturally landscaping, everything looked great but there were a lot of issues that weren't addressed, that they thought they could do. Collins A venue is FDOT, we are very limited as to what we can do. What the City envisions is we have a lot of beach accesses throughout Collins A venue, we have the median which is very hard to move, widen or enhance, so we are trying to enhance the east side and west side of Collins Avenue. The City has already approved and adopted an Ordinance and we have easements, a 10- foot wide easement running north and south along Collins A venue through all the properties. We envision widening the sidewalks, creating more of a landscape buffer between the streets and the properties, and that would occur within that 10- foot easement. You may want to look at signage, you may come up with something nicer than what we have right now. Basically, it is enhancing landscaping and that corridor on both the east and west side, we have a 1 O-foot easement on both sides on the majority of the property on the east side, and all ofthe west side. That is basically the concept, it is for you to come up with architecturally landscaped features that would enhance, and when you go up and down Collins Avenue, it doesn't give you a cannon effect. Try to work with FDOT to see how we can open up that street a little more, it is going to be harder, and the only way he