2009-1029 Special Commission Meeting

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Summary Minules: Special City Commission Meeting Oclober 29,2009 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida up onto Collins Avenue. Vice Mayor Thaler said he thinks this is something for staff to look at in the future, and Mayor Edelcup agreed, and said to give that suggestion to staff. Vice Mayor Thaler said he thinks as Commission Brezin suggested to put it on hold at this point, and let our staff go through this and advise us. We hear this at a workshop and come back with another report whether this is feasible, or a traffic light is feasible, or if we are going to get a light, there is also a FDOT meeting on the light November 5, 2009. He said that they would give us an answer on the 51h based on the report that they had. Mayor Edelcup thinks that the suggestion to review this idea is a good suggestion, and that could be done in a week. The meeting with FDOT will take place next Thursday, next Friday we need to resolve this whole issue but he is going to throw another item into that hopper and that is to have the City Manager come back with what is the best method to provide the safety of the children with or without Police, with or without Crossing Guards, and how many, because he still goes back to what the Chief was saying that it is a misuse oftime for our Policemen, and if you feel it is necessary to add more Crossing Guards than lets add more Crossing Guards but at least the Police will get back to what they should be doing. And so he is instructing the Manager to come up with a new plan again under the theory that whatever the agreement was with Mr. Katz that the Manager would set the cost and the system which would still speak to the original agreement, and we will live up to that original agreement. In that agreement it left it to the Manager to determine what was needed and the cost. He would suggest that we have the meeting next Friday morning (November 6), and Commissioner Goodman said also in the event that FDOT refuses us the light we have to discuss that too, and Mayor Edelcup said that is a whole separate thing and he would instruct the City Attorney to look into the situation if we were to go back to where we were in August what are all the legal issues that the City faces if we were to impose those traffic barriers going back up and how that affects the City legally. Mayor Edelcup said what he is suggesting to the City Manager is to review the current status of what we are doing, and he has it within his power because of the way that agreement was written to change it any way he desires as long as it meets the safety requirements that this Commission is looking at. City Attorney Ottinot said that the agreement basically allows him to determine the cost, and not anything else, and Mayor Edelcup said what he is suggesting right now is to come up with a plan to spend the right amount of money, to get the right amount of safety, with the right complement of people. We will set a time for next Friday when we have all our calendars. 3C. Add-On: Discussion/Presentation by Paul Greenfield and/or Jose Dotres from Miami-Dade County Public Schools regarding Overcrowding in Sunny Isles Beach Community School K-8. Action: [City Clerk's Note: Added this item via Addendum to Agenda. This item was taken out of order and heard after Item 4A.} Paul Greenfield, Administrative Director in the Region Center 2 Office of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, thanked the City for their ongoing support. He explained that there is a process that takes place annually in Miami- Dade County Public Schools called the ABC Process for Attendance Boundary Committee. They look at every school and, other than open schools that are Magnet Programs, every school is boundaried. When they make these boundaries, particularly for the development of 6