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Commission Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting February 18, 2010 <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida <br />question that Commissioner Scholl has raised is a legitimate one, does he have the financing <br />to complete the project because if he doesn't we can't go forward with ours. <br />Mayor Edelcup said we can continue to move forward on a plan and we can instruct staff to <br />continue moving in a direction to ferret out all the information, to determine where we are <br />with Wometco, to see if we can get a separation of the cost so that we can at least begin to <br />put in distinct piles which areas we would each be responsible for, what the cost to the City <br />would be for the park and the parking garage, and what the cost to Wometco would be for the <br />Aquatic Center, and then everything would be contingent on Wometco moving forward. If <br />Wometco moves forward we can move in parallel and then determine what is the City's best <br />financing method for this project as well as the actual cost estimates to make sure that the <br />City is getting a fair and equitable price on the project. <br />Commissioner Scholl said if Wometco wants to move forward, it is not a guarantee that we <br />are going to move forward and that means that we will have better data to make an informed <br />decision, and we would have to come up with an economic model that is a cost benefit <br />analysis. Vice Mayor Thaler asked if the walkway is part of Wometco or of the City, and <br />Commissioner Scholl said he thinks that is all a part of the Wometco proposal and any <br />conversation that staff has with Wometco would be predicated on the Commission agreeing, <br />and so you do work somewhat in tandem, and the main thing is that we don't want to spend <br />money before we know what potential direction we are going in. Mayor Edelcup said that the <br />City Manager would have to come back to the Commission for permission to spend any <br />money, and realistically, it will be a year or longer of planning and negotiating with all the <br />parties. This is a project two or three years in the making and another two or three years <br />before we see some kind of finalization. <br />13. CITIZENS' FORUM: REQUESTS, PETITIONS & OTHER COMMUNICATIONS <br />mm, <br />14. ADJOURNMENT <br />Commissioner Goodman moved and Vice Mayor Thaler seconded a motion to adjourn the <br />meeting, and Mayor Edelcup adjourned it at 8:40 p.m. <br />Respectfully submitted by: <br />Jane A. Hines, CMC, City Clerk <br />11 <br />by the City Commission on March 18, 2010 <br />S. Edelcup, <br />