2013-0409 Special City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting April 9,2013 Sunny Isles Beach,Florida 5. We have a reduced payment and performance bond amount of 15% of the GMP after final completion; 6. This is something that the City has required agreeing to pay the cost for that bond of about $24,000 to keep a bond in place for a one-year period after final completion; and 7. There was other language, modifications, and details within this Agreement that was worked out and resolved through the efforts of our City Attorney's Office. City Manager Russo said with that he would like to recommend the City's approval of the Third Amendment, and to also invite our Contractor and Partner Joe Milton to make a presentation to show this Commission the renderings, the plans, and what this project is going to look like. Public Speakers: Steven Helfman, Esq.; Joseph Milton; Eduardo Castineira; Regina Fridkin; Vida Raz; Steven Helfman, Esq. on behalf of the Milton family, thanked Mayor Edelcup and the Commission,City Manager Russo,City Attorney Ottinot,and Building Official Clay Parker. Joe Milton thanked Mayor Edelcup and the Commission for being so patient during his father's recent health issue. Mayor Edelcup said he knows Jose Milton is listening right now, and we are very happy that he has had a speedy recovery, we wish him well, and we know this will be a great project. Joe Milton thanked the Mayor on behalf of his father, and noted that they are both strong business leaders and between them they got it done,thanks to your efforts and diligence in working everything out. Eduardo Castineira,Architect President/CEO of Axioma3Architects,presented renderings of the Gateway Park Project. He said when we were looking at earlier schemes of the project, one of them was the concept of a restaurant that was detached from the parking garage, and architecturally that restaurant concept was really strong. We have come full circle and are now with a project that has the best parts of all of these ideas. This project has a lot of components that work well together, they are strategically placed and designed to do their function and to work as a coherent architectural piece. If you were to draw a line on the east side of the Great Lawn everything to the east of that line in terms of the concept,the park,the components, the kids play area, the stage at the east end, the butterfly garden, and the landscape architectural components that have been designed,carefully crafted and reviewed by City staff,has stayed exactly the same way,there has been no change in that aspect of the design. We still have the long wall for a bench-like element,we are still enclosing the whole property with a beautiful fence element. All of those elements that have been there are still there and are still part of the project. Architect Castineira said to the west of that line the project has changed. Some things have changed a lot and other things have been modified and tweaked, and moved around in order to accommodate a different building. The most obvious thing that changed is that we now have a building on the ground floor that is not just a parking garage,now it has a component that will serve the City in different ways and this is a decision that the City will make at some point. We have discussed the opportunity to do either a banquet hall or to have it as a restaurant,and those have been the two main elements that have been discussed and brought forth by the Commission and staff. We definitely had to incorporate that element we have identified as a 16,000 square foot space. He has worked closely with Building Official Clay 2