2012-0920 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Reeular City Commission Meeting September 20,2012 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida Ms. Arena clarified the table that shows atypical of a commercial area 60-70 decibel range, but if you look at the table where we actually collected the data, none of the ambient levels exceeded 60 decibels, and so she thinks that 60 decibels is a better number to use as a base rather than 70. Mayor Edelcup said we were not concerned with the noise level within the Skateboard Park itself,we were more concerned with the complaints that we had received from the neighbors. You tested their apartments,and from what you reported to us,the improvement is minor at best for those areas. As Commissioner Scholl stated, these three solutions are not the best solutions, we don't want to look at these. We still have the door open to other solutions. Commissioner Aelion said he would like to have had an Option 4 of complete enclosure. Vice Mayor Thaler agreed, he was surprised that an enclosed building was not put into the report, it would have reduced the sound significantly. The three options showed minimal change,and it would be a waste of taxpayer's money to do any of these options. An enclosed building with all its costs was not given to us. Commissioner Gatto said we didn't request it from them, we can do it in-house. She said it would cost about a million dollars. Mayor Edelcup said that we are turning down all three of these options and let's move on to something better. Commissioner Gatto said she agrees with that, none of these three options will work. This is a pet project of hers, and when she first read the report,the first thing that jumped out to her when she finished it was that she realized that this was a $800,000 to a Million Dollar project, not a $250,000 project. We didn't do it right, she is trying to be solution oriented with all of this. She understands that we don't want to close the Park, we want the kids to continue to enjoy it. We do have people suffering with the noise, and she would like to throw out some ideas. One is to move the Skate Park to another location,there are some other options we can look at and some other areas, one might be under Lehman Causeway near the basketball court,or maybe closer to Collins Avenue in Town Center Park. In trying to figure out what we would do with the current location, she has been getting a lot of feedback from the community where people would love to have a dog park there,and she thinks it is an ideal place for one. Mayor Edelcup said why don't we all agree at this point that these three solutions do not work, and we will pursue other options. Commissioner Scholl said that he had asked from the beginning what it would cost to enclose it. He had asked for it several times and that is why he was surprised that it was not in the report. He figured that staff would come back with at least a ball park figure. He thinks we can agree that this is not a solution, we don't have an engineering solution that doesn't involve either moving it or enclosing it. He thinks we can agree on that tonight and to direct staff to come back with some alternatives. City Engineer Helen Gray said she would like to rush to the defense of the consultants. We did ask them to evaluate three options, we said one of those options does not need to be enclosing the building because we know that is going to be$1.3 to $1.4 Million plus the on- going operational cost. You have to ventilate it, you have to light it, etc. We already knew what that was, we wanted to find out if there were any other alternatives. Commissioner Scholl said you may have known what that was but the Commission did not know. City Engineer Gray said as an engineer, the Skate Park can be built for$400,000, so why would 26