2016-0915 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting September 15,2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida she will no longer be acting as a Commissioner. She is hoping that the Commission will continue to look into this matter,obviously there are issues,and as the Mayor said there is no silver bullet but this City has the brainpower and the ability to put together something that works, and she really believes that, and something can be done to make it happen. She may not be on the Commission anymore but she will continue to support you however that she can. Vice Mayor Gatto said several times she has spoken to Roberto Rodriguez about how sympathetic she is about the situation because one of the gentleman that was here earlier brought up the Skate Park and that was about having your quiet enjoyinent ruined for seven (7) days a week, she personally suffered from that. She said it was a little harsh and unfair for Tony Rodriguez to say she came to La Perla and spent a couple of hours there. She knows that the Commission did, and so they did give you the time, it is not just for tonight, and so she just wanted to say that she wants to be fair about this and she wants the rest of the group to know that a lot of us has spent time over at your building and we understand what is going on. She doesn't want this to come out the wrong way but it has to do with the safety issue with the caliber of people you are all describing that is on the beach. The district that she oversees is Winston Towers, and Samson Park is part of her district. We deal with characters all the time from homeless situations to bad people and quite honestly we don't need cars to get them there, they walk there or they are walking up and down the beach and they get there, and so that part of the problem is not just indicative of that area because you have a Pier there. We are dealing with it in our district and they probably deal with it on the rest of the beach. The Police does a magnificent job of managing that and controlling that, and so she understands the concern about the safety issue you talk about on the beach but she thinks we need to separate that which is a whole different thing,from what is going on in the actual parking lot. She thinks linking the two might be a little unfair, we get our share of characters whether they are on foot or in car, it does not make a difference. She just wanted to clarify that. Again, with that said, she knows and she has worked with the Mayor for many years and with this Commission, and she knows we are going to sit down and figure out a solution, she doesn't know what the solution is off hand but she knows we will figure out something because as the Mayor said,we heard what you are saying and you got to us,so we will figure something out. Commissioner Aelion said that many of you know that he took this issue to heart personally, he came many times, he met the Board, he met with all of you that sat together with the City Manager and alone, and the video that we saw is self-explanatory of what you are going through on a regular basis. With that said, he wants to touch upon what the Mayor voiced here tonight. It is very easy to feel that the solution may be a simple one because of the 2010 Agreement, and think that the Commission has a right to basically move the 29 parking spaces and the public piece of land should be also pro-fitted for the use. If it is pro-fitted it then becomes a singular use,and the singular use is the egress and ingress from La Perla and with that the use becomes singular and it becomes for the use of La Perla,end of story. Even with what the Architect had presented, you can enlarge the sidewalk to make it nice and attractive beach access and so forth. He will tell you something that may open your eyes as far as what the Mayor was referring to. The City of North Bay Village has a liquor store called Happy Stork, it is right there on the 79th Street Causeway. It has been there for over 60 years together with a lounge, and so you can imagine what type of people visit there. The 30