2012-0328 Special Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Special City Commission Meeling March 28, 2012 Sunny Isles Deach, Florida associates with a scheme of where the cameras should be so that they can move forward with the installation of the conduit. Wc will be coming back in later as part of our City security camera system and it will be a forfeiture fund project. We just want to make sure the infrastructure is in now so it will not cost us more later. Former City Commissioner Roslyn Brezin said the City is growing in population, and she noted that the plan includes a foundation for growth, another building possibly for a restaurant or a building that would house a banquet hall, and she would like them to elaborate a little more on thc foundation that they are providing for this building. City Manager Cohen said the foundation that we are refelTing to is actually the same foundation of the parking garage that is going to be built, and what we are planning on doing is reinforcing the foundation of the parking garage to allow for additional construction on the top of it thereby allowing for growth in that space that is already built on while at the same time preserving the rest of the green space for the benefit of the community. Roberto Atissc noted he just became the Atlantic Isle Civic Organization President and he said the Park is beautiful but don't forget what the Park is, it is the gateway to our Riviera and that Park is also an extcnsion of the Pier, and when you are sitting at that Park you should be looking at the Pier and the Ocean. You are saying that later you will be building a restaurant or banquet hall but if you don't do it now, come 7:00 or 8:00 at night your Park and yonr parking garage is going to be empty. At the bcginning in October 2010 it was brought out that this is for entcrtainmcnt, for us to go specifically to restaurants, he can understand thc budget constraints but right now the way it stands when nighttime falls your Parks are empty. This restaurant/establishment that you are providing not only will it give you more or less a half a million dollars a year in revenue but also your parking garage will be full. You can create things also to take people to thc Pier, maybe a trolley system, they can maybe have dinner upstairs, they can enjoy and have a good time, walk downstairs, walk in the Park, go to the bcach, see the Pier, it is an attraction. There are thousands of cars going by there on a daily basis, this is your entrance, make it right. Mayor Edelcup said that his comments are appropriate and certainly everyonc on this Commission would like something at some point be built there. Based on the current cash needs of the City and the current cash expcctations we feel it is probably prudent to start at this level. We recognize that maybe there would have been some cost savings if it all would have been donc simultaneously but on the other hand that would havc forced us to make a commitment of cash that we don't really see is quite available at this time but as soon as that situation does change, he is sure that the Commission will be looking at your comments as well as the thought process that we really would like to see something in that Park that would make it more useful, particularly during the evening hours. Bob Welsh said in the past wc have had paved streets and built Parks and then a year later we saw that the drainage was not sufficient and we had to do something again, and so his question is, will we have to do something again or did we really plan for no flooding and proper drainage. City Manager Cohen said that we have expressed those concerns and when the building plans come in we will be reviewing those as well to ensure that the drainage for the Parking Garage is designed in a way to accommodate the water load that we expect. We already know that we have more than adequate drainage in the Park area, we are not relying 9