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<br />Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting November 18, 2004 <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida <br /> <br />beach, and found it was a very complicated process, He said that Committee member Art <br />Kapel has had discussions with the Army Corp of Engineers as well as academics in <br />order to understand the process. He noted that it is an on-going process. <br />5) Otv-Wide Wireless Broadband Internet Access: Mr. Scholl said that they would put <br />access points around the City and envelop the whole City to be able to provide wireless <br />broadband access to any resident or business in the City. He said they believe that if it <br />was done properly that it can be done in a very inexpensive manner, and noted that the <br />technology is available and he has a consultant coming down the first week of December. <br />6) Public Water Transportation: Mr. Scholl said the final issue was the concept of <br />public water transportation. He said that being a coastal City and being surrounded on <br />two sides by water, that it would be very advantageous to our community to have some <br />sort of water transportation. He said that Committee member Gloria Taft researched the <br />possibility of bringing this forward, and invited Peter Evans from Metro Aqua Cats to a <br />meeting, who has been working on a plan to provide links throughout the County, up and <br />down the coastal waterway that would provide public transportation. He said Mr. Evans <br />picked a spot under the 163rd Street Sunny Isles Bridge as a potential site and noted that <br />the conceptual Site Plan for the Sunny Isles Beach Wharf was attached to the handout. <br />He said a second link would be under the William Lehman Causeway, He said that Mr. <br />Evans said that there are several federal grant programs that he has applied for that are <br />available. Mr. Scholl said it is very exciting and it is a long-range project that will take a <br />lot of coordination and a lot of money to put together, but it is very compelling. <br /> <br />Public Speakers: Bud Scholl; Irving Diamond; Joseph Milton; Mary Ann Eicke; Herb <br />Abramson; Jay J ackler; <br /> <br />Mayor Ede1cup noted that the water taxi project was something that our City Manager <br />started to discuss about a year ago and it was referred to this Committee to work on it. <br />Commissioner Iglesias congratulated Mr. Scholl on an excellent job and noted that is one <br />ofthe problems that we have with the Sunshine Law because the Committee he is liaison <br />to [Tourism and Development Committee] was also looking at a water taxi. <br /> <br />Commissioner Thaler said that he had a couple of articles that he gave to the City <br />Manager on the wireless broadband, and that there are two cities on the east coast that <br />has already done it. Mr. Scholl said he has found three cities in the US that have <br />effectively implemented this and they are all small towns. He said we are very uniquely <br />situated and the engineers he called that are looking into it got very excited about this, <br />and they have a meeting on December 2, 2004. He said another compelling part is that <br />there is new wireless technology that has greater distance and has become available in the <br />last six months that has brought the cost down and the penetration to an even greater <br />level. <br /> <br />Vice Mayor Goodman asked about the Regional Community Relations Board, if it is the <br />board with Sunny Isles, Aventura, North Miami Beach, Bal Harbour, and Bay Harbor, <br />and Mr. Scholl said yes, and that they are even looking at Surfside. Vice Mayor <br /> <br />3 <br />