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<br />Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting March 15,2007 <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida <br /> <br />Public Speakers: none <br /> <br />Commissioner Goodman moved and Commissioner Iglesias seconded a motion to approve <br />the resolution. Resolution No. 2007-1064 was adopted by a voice vote of5-0 in favor. <br /> <br />lOG. A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, Approving a <br />Proposal from , in the Amount of$ , for Landscape Design <br />ofthe Front Entrance to the Sunny Isles Beach Government Center, Attached Hereto as <br />Exhibit "A"; Authorizing the City Manager to Do All Things Necessary to Effectuate the <br />Terms of this Resolution; Providing for an Effective Date. <br /> <br />Action: City Clerk Hines read the title and City Manager Szerlag reported. <br /> <br />Public Speakers: none <br /> <br />Mayor Edelcup said there is only a limited amount of things you can do with the area <br />between Government Center and Tony Roma's. He said our landscaping in the median areas <br />are vastly improved over what we had done before, and rather then to spend another <br />$35,000.00 just to get some ideas and on top of that spend more money to buy the plantings, <br />we can find a more profitable use for taxpayers money then to spend it on another study. He <br />said we are not going to come up with much more in alternatives then we already have, and <br />he is not in favor of spending this money and recommends spending a little more money and <br />put some more flowers in there. <br /> <br />Vice Mayor Thaler said that something needs to be done, we have gone through this and we <br />have asked it to be corrected and it was not corrected, all that was done was it was cut down <br />to some extent, and a few flowers were put in, if a visual change can be done for less, then <br />that is fine. Commissioner Iglesias said you can do that without spending $35,000.00 on a <br />study. <br /> <br />Mayor Edelcup said we did have a plan that was being proposed and then it was shelved, and <br />City Manager Szerlag said we had a plan view/schematic from Kathy O'Leary that had some <br />changes but there were no photographs, it wasn't something that you could take with a <br />specification, he said he was asked to have something with more detail. He said staff can <br />take what we have for a schematic and we can do it ourselves, we can select one of these <br />landscape firms to give us more detailed specifications. Mayor Ede1cup said that median is <br />not much different than any of the medians we have on Collins A venue, if we just duplicate, <br />replicate the style that is already there on Collins A venue, and put in a heavy flower planting. <br /> <br />Commissioner Goodman said he would like somebody to come up with some plans to show <br />us, and ifand when the plans are submitted to the Commission, if we don't like it, maybe we <br />should consider our staff to do it in-house. Mayor Edelcup said in some instances the <br />Commission is trying to m.icro-manage what should be planted because each of us is going to <br />have their own ideas as to what should be planted there. He said most of us are satisfied with <br />the re-plantings that were done on Collins A venue by the same people that are still servicing <br />us. He suggested using the same floral arrangements we are using in the rest of the City and <br />put it in the front and get rid of the wild oat grass and the tree that is not blooming. <br />13 <br />