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<br />Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting August 16,2007 <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida <br /> <br />Bud Scholl said he has been trying to push this for about three (3) years now, and the one <br />thing he wants to caution is to be very careful about getting locked into a recurring cost <br />stream. He said the building access numbers really shook him up tonight because he always <br />thought that we would get access to buildings because we are providing a public service and <br />enhancing law enforcement and other issues around the City and creating efficiencies, and he <br />was dismayed to learn that we may be held hostage for access to some of these rooftops. He <br />said we spoke close to six (6) months ago about having a procedure in place that when one of <br />these buildings comes to us for something, maybe having a dollar a year lease arrangement <br />and be aggressive about that, and so we secured as many building rooftops as we can whether <br />we need them or not, from now going forward and that could certainly mitigate the Million <br />Dollars of Phase III, because he would not support a Million Dollars of recurring expense for <br />the rooftop access to have vertical access. He said that he is very happy to learn that we have <br />the ground accesses lined up. <br /> <br />Jud Heilson, Financial Controller, Le Meridian Hotel said in the hotel or condo industry they <br />have a Telecoms Department and it is cellular technology, the revenue generation from that <br />Department is declining so the hotels are looking to off-set or find a new revenue in <br />exchange for the revenue that they lost, so many of the hotels are very interested in hosting <br />these access points for the wireless communications. <br /> <br />Mayor Edelcup said as we proceed throughout our Phase I approach we won't be letting up <br />with the opportunities of signing up these taller buildings for the future or even if those <br />things do not come to pass currently, at least we will have the agreements on file in the City <br />so when we do plan to go forward we will know how many more we will have to deal with. <br />Assistant City Manager Haag said that we have had some preliminary meetings and the City <br />Manager had said that the City is not paying one cent for any ongoing recurring costs for <br />mounting these accesses on high rises. He said the approach they are taking with these folks <br />is that the City is providing a tremendous asset to them as far as free access to the owners of <br />the building as well as their residents so in return certainly they can provide us free access to <br />rooftops, and response has been very positive. Mayor Edelcup said it should be in the Site <br />Plan Checklist for the Building Zoning Department. <br /> <br />12C. Add-On: <br />Discussion regarding Hiring Contractors to Upgrade the Security, Cabling and Telephone <br />Systems for the Community Center at Pelican Community Park. <br /> <br />Action: [City Clerk's Note: See action under Item 4A adding item to agenda.} City <br />Manager Szerlag said that the Pelican Community Park is moving toward a CO hopefully <br />this fall, and part of the Fixtures, Furniture, and Equipment (FF&E) requirements pertain to <br />security, phone systems, upgrading of the City Call Manager, cabling, wireless, audio visual <br />equipment and computers, with a total estimated cost of $250,000.00. He said as a <br />discussion item he would like to advise, with the Commission's permission, for staff to <br />proceed in acquiring those FF &E components as opposed to going to the contractor because <br />we will save about a 15% markup in doing it in that regard, and come back in September to <br />have the Commission ratify their actions, and they will follow all purchasing and contract <br /> <br />15 <br />