2004 1118 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting November 18,2004 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida they are a separate committee other then the City and their purpose for doing this is to recommend to the City what they feel should be good for the citizens of Sunny Isles Beach. Mayor Ede1cup clarified that the Trust is not adjunct to the City that it is a separate charitable 501 c organization and has no political or administrative connection to the City. He said they have brought this to the Commission and now the Commission has to act upon some of the findings and believe that there is some merit in moving forward with this process in a constructive manner, and he proposed that a fact-finding committee be formed that is a subcommittee for this Commission, the Mayor's Fact- Finding Committee, and that committee will have the responsibility to find answers to all the questions that the Beautification Trust has brought up today. He noted they need to: 1) identify the various funding sources that may be available; 2) determine environmental issues, make sure that the turtles and sea grapes are protected, that we are enriching the beach and not destroying the beach; 3) see what permitting processes and agencies we have to go through; 4) determine what the surface of the path will be; 5) determine whether or not we can have some kind of lighting on the beach for security and safety reasons and working that into the turtle issue; and 6) they have to look at the various designs and ways of constructing this path. He said that we are trying to improve the quality of life in our City and to do it in a manner that least offends any group of citizens but overall enhances the quality of life for all of our citizens and that is the mission of this fact-finding committee. He said he has asked the following people to be on this Committee: Henry Kay; Hal Rosenstein; Dr. Kathy Schultz; Anthony LoCastro; Gloria Taft; Alexander Fusco; and Hassida "Cassey" Gabor. Henry Kay said he has a petition with 2,500 signatures for the beachwalk and submitted them to the Commission for its record. Commissioner Thaler said that this is really the first time that he has seen these things laid out and this will enhance the knowledge ofthe people in Sunny Isles Beach. Commissioner Iglesias said that the people on the east side are not against a beachwalk, they were against what was first proposed. He asked ifIsaac Aeilon, an engineer, could be a member of this Committee, and 1) how much are we willing to spend; 2) how long is it going to last; and 3) maybe we could look at a small pilot program, for example, we have a park already on the beach side, it is 200- feet wide (Samson Oceanfront Park) and if we go 300-feet south from that park and 300-feet north from that park, now you have 800-feet, from Collins Avenue to the back of the Park is about 400-feet. Mayor Edelcup said that we can give that to the Committee. Isaac Aeilon accepted the position to become a member of the Committee. Mayor Edelcup asked ifthe Committee can come back to them within six months, and everyone that he named agreed to become a member. Mayor Edelcup asked to meet with the Committee first and that each of the Commission would like to meet with them but one-on-one as the Committee is not in the Sunshine. Commissioner Thaler asked to have a Workshop in about three months instead of meeting on a one-on-one basis. City Attorney Dannheisser noted that the reason that the committee does not have to operate in the Sunshine is because they are not going to be making recommendations to the Commission, they are actually going to be ascertaining facts, information, which the 12