2008 0619 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting June 19,2008 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida off area, they have a garage but it is not sufficient, and the student population is expected to grow to 1,600 students within two or three years when they start adding the ih and 8th grades to the school. He said we need major traffic control as 2,700 feet is not sufficient to handle stacking, but in the alternative they will use the existing streets in the neighborhood, stack them along North Atlantic and 179th and 180th, and one side of the roadway will be no parking. Also there are nine (9) points where there will be traffic officers and cross guards to control the traffic and the children walking back and forth from school. It is achievable but the neighborhood will have to be reconfigured operationally, southbound Atlantic between 183rd and 182nd is the only way the buses can go in and out. This will require nine (9) traffic enforcement officers and 14 crossing guards. Public Speakers: Transportation Engineer Jose Rodriguez; Isaac Aelion Vice Mayor Thaler asked if we had enough people as we are committed to 14 guards, and City Manager Szerlag answered that we have five (5) police officers on our best day, and this report is asking for nine (9) Police Officers on top of the crossing guards. He said we will get a sense of where the traffic patterns are the first two weeks of school. 12D. Discussion regarding Town Center Park Lighting Improvements. Action: [City Clerk's Note: A Report from Public Works Director Rick Conner was distributed prior to the meeting.} City Manager Szerlag reported that the Commission asked for bollards which will cost about $164,000 and they won't have effective lighting of Town Center Park, but for about $25,000 we can produce horizontal cut-offluminaries so that the buildings surrounding the Park will not have light pollution and will have better lighting. Public Speakers: none It was the consensus of the Commission for staff to proceed with the horizontal cut-off luminaries for Town Center Park. 13. CITIZENS' FORUM: REQUESTS, PETITIONS & OTHER COMMUNICATIONS 13A. Add-On: Rabbi Israel Baron of King David located on 175th Street, asked for a directional sign be put up, which they had but it was taken down. Mayor Edelcup said it is a reasonable request that we put the sign back that was there before as every House of Worship needs a directional sign in the City. The Commission came to a consensus that the sign should be replaced and they instructed staff to replace it. 13B. Add-On: Isaac Aelion discussed the Calypso Project that is either spearheaded by the State or Broward County to create a deepwater port for the offloading ofliquefied natural gas (LNG) about 6-8 miles off-shore. Commissioner Clottey.ofthe City of Lauderdale- by- the-Sea, in the June 11, 2008 Commission meeting, spearheaded a resolution opposing the construction of such a pipe. He said that he was not able to get a response from her on how far south that pipe would be, and if it would be a point of concern to the City of Sunny Isles Beach. 14