2006 0928 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Special City Commission Meeting September 28,2006 Second Budget Hearing Sunny Isles Beach, Florida in the last year, the metered spaces which we can't tell if it is the Ellen Wynne Lot or under the Causeway as far as where the revenue is coming from but those two lots combined they bring in 1/3 of the revenue that just Pier Park alone makes. Now with these machines we have the opportunity to calibrate them, you can have the $1.00 an hour which would agree with the Ordinance with a six-hour minimum still charging $6.00 a day, and they can be programmed to do the $10.00 on the weekend which would keep our revenue consistent with what we have budgeted and what we have received this past year. Mayor Ede1cup recommended leaving Pier Park at the current rates and do the same for the William Lehman, and then as it relates to the Ellen Wynne, the two parks that are on Collins A venue on 192nd Street, that we look at those in a different mode that perhaps we have a hourly rate during the week and a flat week similar to the $6.00 and $10.00 that we have at the other two parks on the weekends. He said the purpose of those two parks are mainly to make sure that they were used for beach purposes and if we lower the rates too significantly people will wind up using those for condo parking and other purposes and they won't be available to the beach. He said we will be forced to spend more time trying to police those areas even though there are signs out there saying beach parking only, people will violate that knowing that it is difficult to police it. He said he would like to make sure the original intent stays there and the best way to do that is to keep the revenue similar to what we use at Pier Park. Commissioner Thaler said that residents of Sunny Isles Beach use the Ocean II parking lot and the Wynne parking lot to go swimming in the mornings and he said he doesn't feel it is fair to charge them $6 just to go in there. He said we should increase the rates to $2.00 an hour, and noted that you will find that the majority of people using the Pier Park and under the Lehman are out-of-towners. He said the $1 an hour at the Wynne and at the Ocean II permits the commercial people to park there that are going into those buildings, so if we go to $2 it will slow them up and they will either go into the buildings themselves or figure another way out. Mayor Ede1cup asked if that is seven days a week, and Commissioner Thaler said five days a week, and $6.00 on Saturday, and $10.00 on Sunday, and holidays need to be incorporated. Ms. Simpson said that it does state weekends and holidays. She said residents can purchase a permit to park for $75.00 per month, and Mayor Edelcup said they want to instruct staff to remove that from our Ordinance. Commissioner Iglesias said he agrees with Commissioner Thaler, and that $2.00 an hour for parking on the ocean is a bargain. Mayor Edelcup said to be consistent we should go back to all four places and change all of them to $2.00 an hour, and the question is would we lose revenue as a result of that or not. Commissioner Thaler said you are taking a receipt from the meter machine and putting it in your car, and when you pull away, that meter reads nothing, you are starting over, and he feels we will pick up a substantial amount where people have left early and money is still on the meter. Mayor Edelcup said at Pier Park you pay your $6.00 and you may leave after an hour. After discussion it was the consensus of the Commission to leave Pier Park and under the Lehman as it is. Mayor Edelcup said if a person wants to stay longer then they should go to the Lehman area or Pier Park area, and Commissioner Thaler said both those parks are within walking distance of the Lehman, so what we have created is long-term and short-term parking. 4