2004 0617 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting June 17, 2004 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Rorida much love, by an agreement, to hand over this huge headache and a money loser for the County to permit things like this on their property, so they are trying to get this burden out of their hands. He said that the only two communities that we found, one in Miami- Dade, was Surfside, and the reason they did this was to pass an ordinance and ban it all together, and there are ramifications to this. There are a couple of operators in the City there is apparently a desire a need a demand on the part of some of our residents to do this but that is one option. Boca Raton did the same thing, but they took it over to ban it. However, in having a staff meeting on this about a week ago, and the City Attorney is still doing research on this, but came up with a couple of things: 1) they are running under a County ordinance so we can instruct our lifeguards to call our Police who can issue tickets; and 2) we issue occupational licenses to the businesses that are operating these jet skis. He said we feel that we have jurisdiction to possibly revoke those occupational licenses for any unlawful action under the requirements. He said that we may have to pass an ordinance or strengthen our Code Enforcement Ordinance on that to take that approach if we want to, for example, if we do that there is some things that we found that we could possibly address some of the concerns, if we require in an ordinance that they use oxygenated fuels this would remove the vapor, the pollution that comes out of it, and we can encourage or actually eliminate the use of two-stroke engines, four- stroke engines now have to meet EP A standards which would not have that release of the fuels that comes out of these now with the fumes. Public Speakers: Mary Ann Eicke; Babu Y. Rao Mayor Edelcup said that we are talking about the health, welfare and safety of the people and that the easiest choice would be to ban them altogether but that interferes with hotel operations that want to offer amenities. He said if we are going to allow them, maybe there should only be a few designated areas on the beach that this kind of water sports would be permitted. He said there is a water hazard, safety hazard, noise hazard and also the gasoline hazard involved in this. Commissioner Brezin agreed however, we are drawing a fine line, and need to conduct a study on this before we make a concrete decision. Commissioner Thaler said he feels that it should be banned because they are very dangerous. Vice Mayor Goodman they run to close to the beach, and there is a boat rental at 163rd Street and they have jet skis, and they run the intercoastal. Commissioner Iglesias agrees and said that enforcement is very important, and if no one else has them now to ban them except who already has them, and those that have them have to be regulated and if they break the rule, they lose their license. City Manager Russo concluded that we should look at our ability through Code Enforcement and Occupational License Ordinance and see how we can go that route of strengthening that Ordinance to accomplish this. Mayor Edelcup added that we would like to ban future ones but to grandfather in the current ones as long as they obey strict enforcement as yet to be determined by the City. City Manager Russo said that we will look into that because he is not sure that we can deny an occupational license to something that the County allows. He said we will have to get the County to limit how 10