2011-1117 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting November 17,2011 Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 13B. Resident Alan Collins said he was walking down the beach and he noticed new brown and black garbage cans, and there are hundreds of them scattered all along the beach, and he went down to the other part of the beach where there are nice new metal ones that are transparent. He feels that the City's cans are intrusive and ugly, and there are so many of them, one every ten feet, there is no coordination to it, no beauty to it, it is just random, why did we do that, why not new metal ones. City Manager Cohen said the number of trash cans on the beach is actually dictated by the County and they tell us how many cans they want. The placement of them, the spacing of them is also dictated by the County and it is based on the actual usage of each of the individual cans, and so those that generate more garbage will have closer spacing with other cans. A decision was made some time ago to have cans that hid the garbage and covers it so that during high wind conditions which we are often subject to on the beach, garbage would not come flying out of the cans. At this time there are no metal cans left on the beaches ofthe City, there might very well be at Haulover. But the City made a decision to go aesthetically with the same design throughout the entire beach. The two colors that we have right now, and we might end up going with all one color at some point, most of them are sand colors. The dark blue ones are placed in front of each of the beach access points, and so it is just a very easy visual for people walking the beach to know here is a point where I can cut over to Collins A venue. 14. ADJOURNMENT Mayor Edelcup adjourned the meeting at 8: 19 p.m. , Respectfully submitted by: Approved by the City Commission on Dec. 15,2011 "(' A "'. .. . ~~ Jane A. Hines, CMC, City Clerk 1#$1) d 'I Nrart S. Edelcup, Mayor 19