2006 0216 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting February 16,2006 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida pleased that they can move on with their lives and get their windows repaired. He asked Clayton Parker, Building Official/Administrator to report. Building Official Parker reported that the Board of Rules and Appeals looked at the appeal by Oceania III today and through a memorandum from Michael L. Goolsby, RRC, Acting Deputy Director, Miami-Dade County, to Herminio Gonzalez, P.E., Director, Building Code Compliance Office (City Attorney Ottinot noted that the City Clerk had copies for the public), that they are looking at glass replacement as a repair, and it takes it into a direction that people can go back and put their glazing back in as it was prior to that. He said it does not require them to get shutters if they are over 30-feet, but Mayor Edelcup said that people should think about shutters anyway as an added precaution. Building Official Parker said it is not quite as clear as we would like it to be, one thing that they did not touch upon in the meeting is, if you go to the last page of the memo it talks about the final issue raised by the appellant involving exterior glass walls and combination guard walls which would be floor to ceiling glass or glass with a combination of two or more units that go from the floor to the ceiling, and they don't mention balcony railings with glass in them. He said that is still throwing it back to a level 2 alteration which means it has to come into full compliance with the Code even though they did give permission to do the repair and put back the glass that was existing. Building Official Parker said another thing that is mentioned here is that we have to certifY that the frame work is not damaged. He said if the frame work is damaged then we have to look at full involvement with the new Code, and it is going to be up to the Engineers to certifY that their framework is not damaged, and then he can give them permits to put the glass back as the Code it was built under but when it discusses glazing and hazardous locations it would be floor to ceiling glass, balcony glass, any glass where a person falling through that glass could cause them to fall more then 30-inches is a hazardous condition and so they still have to look at those issues. Public Speakers: none Commissioner Iglesias asked if he was going to require a Structural Engineer to sign off to make sure that the framework is okay, and Building Official Parker said yes. Commissioner Iglesias said he didn't think too many Engineers are going to sign off of framework unless they are going to comply with the Florida Code so it is going to be a little tough. Mayor Edelcup said that he thinks people realize that we are here to uphold the laws of the State of Florida and whatever this Committee that met today or Miami-Dade County or the State of Florida passes, we as Commissioners took a oath of office to uphold the laws of the State and County, and we also have to be mindful of the health and safety of the people and residents of our City, whatever the instructions or directions from those agencies above us give us that becomes our marching orders at this point. Commissioner Iglesias said he agreed but feels that we should put a strong emphasis that whatever was there should be placed back, and feels that the people know what they bought rather then force them to comply with new codes. Mayor Edelcup said it is out of our purview. Commissioner Iglesias said he feels we should put the pressure on Miami-Dade County not the Engineers, and Commissioner Goodman agreed with him. 22