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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting September 17, 2009 <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida <br />13B. Former Commissioner Danny Iglesias said he wants to commend the Commission on a lot <br />of things and one of the things is the landscaping we have done here. He went to Chicago <br />last week and noticed that they built parks around Michigan Avenue, and they have very nice <br />lamp posts, and one of the things they did was to use u -clamp poles and they hang planters <br />from it, and he passed around a photograph of the lamp post. We are coming up with the <br />new teardrop in a lot of areas of the City, in Atlantic Isle and North Bay Village. He said it is <br />a very cheap way but a very elegant way of adorning our lamp posts. One of the things that <br />FDOT has done is "Adopt a Highway" and so maybe we can come up with "Adopt a Lamp <br />Post" in some of the areas. He congratulated the Commission on the north end landscaping, <br />it is beautiful, but imagine when we finally finish the teardrop and looking at the landscaping <br />in the middle which has been very successful, the one we are going to do in both ends, and <br />adorning the teardrops with plants, for your consideration in the future. <br />Commissioner Brezin said she had seen that in California when she brought the pictures in <br />and the answer she got was it is very beautiful but maintaining them was very costly, that <br />they constantly had to be replanting them and caring for them. Commissioner Iglesias said <br />which is why we can look at it in certain areas and have a program like "Adopt a Lamp <br />Post ". He said maintenance could be high but there are certain types of landscaping that is <br />pretty resistant to this weather. <br />14. ADJOURNMENT <br />Mayor Edelcup adjourned the meeting at 8:20 p.m. <br />Respectfully submitted by: Approved by the City Commission on Oct. 15, 2009 <br />Jane A. Hines, CMC, City Clerk orman S. Edelcup, Mayor <br />16 <br />