2016-1020 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting October 20,2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida higher than the noise that is being challenged as far as a disturbance nuisance. He agrees with his colleagues that it is very improper to send certified mail unless there is a very serious issue that is almost imminent of legal action and so forth. Just to get the attention of the Commission, there are proper venues without having to be threatening because any certified mail unless it is an IOU of a bill payment or something he thinks it sounds threatening and he agrees with his colleagues. To summarize, staff is very cognizant and very sensitive to the needs of our community, they would never accept just because the developer is coming to our City and we are looking at down the road tax benefits,so we are a carte blanche behavior entity, no, we are far from that. We are very cognizant,we are very conscious,in fact six(6)out of seventeen(17)is something that shows and speaks for itself, and we will continue to behave in the similar fashion going forward as an organization and our staff will oblige going forward. So you have to go back to the residents in his opinion and to calm them and to basically explain to them that only under,and you are a construction lawyer so you are very well equipped to be able to explain to them the necessity that a construction process has and the need that course when extended hours are sought and this is not something that is done in any way just to have monetary gain at the end of it. That is the atmosphere of which he thinks going forward they should be seen and addressed. Deputy City Manager Stan Morris said he can respond to a lot of the comments that were made, in terms of our responsiveness to the residents we have really gone out of our way to hear from the residents of Ocean III and the records will show that out of the seventeen(17) requests we have denied eleven (11) of those requests for extended hours including some recent requests that were made. He has been in numerous meetings with the Building Official, the City Attorney, the City Manager, a lot of the developers, the Construction Managers, and we carefully review every request that we get for extended hours with the Building Official including looking at the plans and the need for those. So we carefully consider them and as a matter of fact, our recent Code revision that we presented to the Commission concerning extended hours was in response to a lot of the complaints we received from the residents requiring some additional notification and so he feels in this case we have really gone above and beyond in trying to hear from the residents and respond to them. Mr.Clark said we appreciate that but to the extent that we are not being complied with we just don't know where to turn. Commissioner Goldman said again, she wants to absolutely concur with her colleague Commissioner Aelion to us here on the dais, you really need to work it out with your neighbors. This is all about working it out, while we have plenty of compassion for the needs of the residents in all respects,if this is really best worked out with your neighbors,the other property owners, this is a balancing act, not to throw the Commission into it. Commissioner Levin said initially a few months ago we started getting some emails and she attempted to respond to one, and then all of a sudden it started to snowball, and so it has probably already been cleared up for the record but she does not want the residents to think, and perhaps she is speaking on behalf of everybody since they have all made the same comment,she is not responding to each individual email that she gets because she thinks it is inappropriate for her to do it. It needs to be centralized because we are all being copied on it so we shouldn't all be responding giving separate responses, and so she does not want the residents to think that she does not care, and that is why she has not been responding, it is 19