2006 0518 Regular City Commission Meeting

Home Browse Search

Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting May 18, 2006 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Building Official Parker addressed Ms. Cornell's concerns on impact glass and noted that the glazing around the building is the envelope of the building and should be controlled by the Building's Association, and that we will always recommend that you protect yourself and your building as well as you can. He said that your Association needs to look for low- interest loans and that we have been doing some research on trying to find a way to help with low-interest loans and to see if there are any grants out there. 12B. Discussion regarding Options for Identification/Entry Signage of Various Communities in Sunny Isles Beach. Action: City Manager Szerlag reported that Shahin Hekmat of Calvin Giordano and Associates is in the audience and that we will have a power-point presentation as well as a handout of the presentation of signage that essentially gives the schematic, costs as well as the outside dimensions, horizontally and vertically. Mayor Edelcup noted that the signs we are talking about here are the monument signs that will be identifying certain neighborhoods, these are not commercial signs. Shahin Hekmat noted that this is just a guideline of what they can do for the City, and he proceeded through the power-point presentation of the different options available for entry signage. Commissioner Iglesias questioned the costs of construction of the signs and said that there are ways of getting similar design without going through this detail, and that the City can be proud of a sign between the $20,000 and $30,000 range. He handed out photos of his backyard consisting of three small columns, two large columns and balusters which cost him $5,700 about two years ago, and today he priced it at $6,300. Mayor Edelcup said the plan was to bring up some ideas for signage which was Phase I, and now we can get more specific and give a guideline to staff that we like the signs but we want to see signs produced in the range of$25,000 to $30,000 and to come back to us as Phase II. He asked for three to five choices of signs in that price range similar to what was done here tonight, and at that time we need to establish the locations where these signs will be placed throughout the City. 12C. Discussion regarding the SIB TV Programming and General Policy Guidelines. Action: Information Technology Director Arias reported noting that there are three items of discussion relating to this: the Policy Document itself; programming and what it is that the Commission would like to see us producing for broadcast on our Government Access Channel; and broadcasting the Commission Meeting, and noted that a DVD sample was distributed that was produced of the last Commission Meeting with edited titles, etc. He said he distributed a report at the City Manager's request what it took to produce that using the existing equipment that we have, another option to reduce that time is going to require us to purchase additional equipment and we are looking into that. Public Speakers: Cassey Gabor Commissioner Thaler said it has been months now that we have had this program live and 15