2006 0518 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting May 18, 2006 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Commissioner Goodman said what Building Official Parker did tonight with his presentation was interesting to the public and all the people living in Sunny Isles Beach has been having difficulty with Code Enforcement repairs, etc. Commissioner Iglesias said advertising would maybe generate something for programming itself like Channel 2 for example, the Sunny Isles Beach Resort Association had a very good 15-minute presentation about this area regarding hotels that have gone up, etc., and what has been happening in the area, and something like that is really interesting and could be played, the developments that we were thinking of doing at the very beginning and where we are, and that is in the files. Cassey Gabor suggested historic moments like old motels, some educational things, and Mayor Edelcup said we may be able to film History Hall with a commentary from our City Historian Richard Schulman. Mayor Edelcup suggested if any of the residents do have ideas of what they would like to see on Channel 77 to please contact us in writing so we will have a file of what it is that residents may like to see, and if we can work it into a systematic programming, it will only enhance what we are able to do. 12D. Discussion on the Status of Negotiations relating to FPL Franchise Fees. Action: City Attorney Ottinot reported giving some background information noting that the County has agreed to repay two years out of the four years. Mayor Edelcup reported that this has been an ongoing dispute by the five cities of A ventura, Key Biscayne, Pinecrest, Miami Lakes and Sunny Isles Beach. He said three cities have met this week to discuss the County's recent proposal to us which was to give us half of the money that was owed to us, for the first two years of the four years they withheld monies to us in the neighborhood of $400,000 and noting for the total four years they withheld monies that we believe belong to the City of over $800,000. Mayor Edelcup said that they have suggested that perhaps to admit their error in withholding this and it was withheld unilaterally it was not by a consent on our part, and they suggested that they would pay back the $400,000 over a longer period of time, some four years. He said in addition, the County would like to rewrite into the future, the amount of the monies that they would refund to us for franchise fees and they are suggesting a number for Sunny Isles Beach that would basically be maybe a third of what we feel is the shortfall that we are experiencing every year. He said in our discussion with the other two cities, that the amount they are offering Sunny Isles Beach the one-third of the differential was much smaller than what they were offering some of the other cities so their formula still is not necessarily being fair to the City of Sunny Isles Beach nor are they being fair in trying to only give us back half of what we are entitled to. Mayor Edelcup stated that his position is, and he hopes the other cities will agree, that we should not settle for anything less than the full amount ofthe monies that we were entitled to under our agreements with the County. He said as it relates out into the future, ifthe County wants to sit down and negotiate future and not past we would be willing to sit down with the cities affected by this and discuss a new formula that if the County can convince us it is a more fair treatment for all parties involved then certainly we wouldn't take a hard stand position of what the formula was before. Mayor Edelcup said what we are asking the County to do is to first agree to pay the four years that they withheld from us even if they can't pay it in one lump sum that we would take 17