2007 0315 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting March 15,2007 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Things Necessary to Effectuate the Terms of the Agreement; Providing for an Effective Date. Action: [City Clerk's Note: Memo from Cultural and Human Services Director Simpson was distributed prior to the meeting.] City Clerk Hines read the title and Cultural and Human Services Director Simpson reported. Public Speakers: none Vice Mayor Thaler asked when the delivery will be, and Ms. Simpson said by the second quarter of2007. Mayor Edelcup asked about the canvass, and City Manager Szerlag said he gave that assignment to Rick Conner and he will address it before it is reinstalled. Vice Mayor Thaler moved and Commissioner Brezin seconded a motion to approve the resolution. Resolution No. 2007-1066 was adopted by a voice vote of 5-0 in favor. 101. A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, Opposing the Property Tax Revision Proposed by the Florida Legislature; Expressing Support for the Alternative Property Tax Reform Proposed by the Governor with Changes; Authorizing the City Manager to Do All Things Necessary to Effectuate the Intent of this Resolution; Recommendation of the Creation of a Blue Ribbon Panel; Directing the City Clerk to Transmit an Executed Copy of this Resolution to Appropriate Parties; Providing for an Effective Date. Action: [City Clerk's Note: A revised Resolution was handed out prior to the meeting.] City Clerk Hines read the title and City Manager Szerlag reported noting that he and Mayor Edelcup had worked in tandem with each other to fashion a resolution. He said if a revenue stream for any municipality is severely impacted what happens is that that city does not have money for capital planning or capital improvements, they cut back on maintenance of existing infrastructure, they reduce benefits to their employees, they don't hire, and layoff employees that results in having a city that follows an angle of reposed to blight because once a municipality becomes in economic disarray and disfunction for infrastructure the associated properties within that political jurisdiction also becomes blighted and there is a huge need to let the municipality select their preferred future in conjunction with their voters not to have the future dictated to us by the State Legislature. Public Speakers: none Mayor Edelcup said the Florida House Committee that acted upon this acted totally irresponsibly pandering basically to the voters who are homesteaded without giving much thought to the ramifications and draconian results that would be bourn by the various municipalities affected by this. He said as we have learned over the years, local government is the best government, and the further you get away from the area, the more nonsensical at times government seems to be. He said this is a good example of someone up in Tallahassee trying to tell somebody in South Florida how they should raise their funds, and what they should spend it on, and the accusation was being made that the local governments were wasting tax payers money over these past years. He stated that anyone looking at Sunny Isles Beach today would be hard pressed to say we were wasting taxpayer's money when we have 15