2006 1019 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting October 19,2006 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida regarding bus shelters and benches locations, the outcome would be to purchase 12 large or 13-foot long bus shelters to be placed along Collins Avenue, and inside those shelters we would use our existing benches, and our goal is to place these shelters behind the current sidewalk line by changing our ordinances to require a 1 O-foot wide easement or promenade on the west side of the sidewalks across the entire terminus of Collins Avenue that would enable us to have a clearer distance between backup curb and the bus shelters and also to implement our promenade street furniture streetscape plan. He said for the smaller shelters we would place them along the interior of the island and we are proposing to purchase four- foot benches that have no backs and a privacy bar, funds are budgeted for this purpose, and if the Commission agrees, he has provided a resolution [add-on item 10K above] for the Commission's approval that would allow us to install these benches along Collins Avenue and the interior of the island by the end of February 2007. Mayor Ede1cup asked if all the locations that are showed on the map in yellow are the proposed sites, and Cultural and Human Services Director Susan Simpson reported that the red buses on the map are the large shelters that we will be purchasing and are located on Collins A venue with the exception of the two on 174th Street. She said the blue buses are where we will locate the 9-foot shelters along the interior and most of those will not require any easements as there is plenty of right -of-way space. She said the yellow buses are all the other stops throughout the City that will not have shelters at this time but can be addressed in the future. Commissioner Goodman said on 174th Street there is a blue bus all the way to the west, that is not a City bus, Ms. Simpson said that is a bus stop where we will put the 9-foot shelter in front of Winston Towers 500 which is the City bus stop only. [See action above, Item lOK.] 12B. Discussion regarding Commercial VehicJes Allowed into the City's Parking Lots incJuding Size, Security, and Liability. Action: Community Development Director Robert Solera reported/distributed a power-point presentation. Mayor Ede1cup noted that there would be no occupancy in parked RVs. Mr. Solera said that funding will be required for scenarios 2 and 3 but we need to do further research as to what will be the initial cost as well as any recurring cost, and asked the City Commission for their advice as to which way to go and then they will proceed. Mayor Edelcup said that the study has proven that we can go ahead and solve a problem that has existed since the formation of the City and that is to have a site where our residents who are more diverse today and have more types of vehicles can park their vehicles so they are not on the street which is obstructing our current ordinance laws, their inability to park in their own condominiums because ofthe structure oftheir condominium laws, so he thinks all the scenarios including the parking ofthe boats and commercial vehicles are something that he thinks we should continue to pursue and provide as a service to the residents of Sunny Isles Beach, and hopefully whatever fee we would charge for this would cover the full cost of operating these facilities and not be at a negative cost to the City and we should be able to make this not necessarily a profit center but at least a break even cost structure. He recommended moving forward with the study to determine what costs are going to be 13