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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2013-0409 Special City Commission Meeting SUMMARY MINUTES Special City Commission Meeting Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 6:30 p.m. City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida ATTENTION ALL LOBBYISTS: CITY LAW REQUIRES YOUR REGISTRATION PRIOR TO ENGAGING IN LOBBYING ACTIVITIES BEFORE CITY STAFF,BOARDS,COMMITTEES OR THE CITY COMMISSION. PLEASE CONTACT THE CITY CLERK FOR FORMS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. AGENDA 1. CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS The meeting was called to order by Mayor Edelcup at 6:30 p.m. with the following officials present: Mayor Norman S. Edelcup City Manager Christopher J. Russo Vice Mayor Isaac Aelion City Attorney Hans Ottinot Commissioner Jeanette Gatto City Clerk Jane A. Hines, CMC Commissioner Jennifer Levin Deputy City Manager Stan Morris Commissioner George "Bud" Scholl Deputy City Attorney Fernando Amuchastegui 2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Action: Arie Steiger led the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Mayor Edelcup gave opening remarks of decorum. 3. RESOLUTIONS 3A. A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida,Approving the Third Amendment to Design-Build Agreement between the City of Sunny Isles Beach and 4M Investors, LLC., Attached Hereto as Exhibit "A"; Authorizing the City Manager and City Attorney to Do All Things Necessary to Effectuate this Resolution; Providing for an Effective Date. Action: [City Clerk's Note: Eduardo Castineira distributed a booklet of renderings of the project.] City Clerk Hines read the title, and City Manager Russo reported that after 18 months of planning,meetings,adjustments,revisions to the plans,we now have the third and final amendment to the Design-Build Agreement which was executed recently by Mayor Edelcup and Jose Milton,Principal Contractor. These amendments and approvals are subject to the approval of this Commission tonight. The fundamental terms of the revised Agreement encompassed within the Third Amendment is amongst a number of legal language changes which he will not get into, however, the fundamental changes are as follows: 1. A revised Guaranteed Maximum Price for the project of$18,710,186.00 was reduced to $17,343,701.30 based on a credit for all the design services paid previously by the City; 2. We have eliminated from the project but we will still be going forward with a Pedestrian Overpass Bridge on the westbound lanes of Sunny Isles Boulevard/SR826; 3. We have in the revised schedule the Contractor applying for a Building Permit no later than October 1, 2013, and final completion of the project shall be no later than 365 days from the date of the issuance of the Building Permit; 4. We have required payment for performance bonds within five(5)days of issuance of the Building Permit; 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 l , Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting April 9,2013 Sunny Isles Beach,Florida Parker on this whole concept,and he was nice enough to put together a massing model which they were able to focus on and come out with decisions that were right on the line that the City wanted in this new design. We had two very important meetings with the Building Official,one was a Charrette a brainstorming meeting and then we followed up with another meeting where we brought in plans with dimensions. We further tweaked hallways, bathrooms, etc., to make sure at the end of the day that everything was in line with the shopping list that was put together by the City of all of the items that needed to be met. Architect Castineira went through each rendering. One of the ideas that they introduced at the west end of the building was a drop-off, a porte-cochere type space, very important to these types of facilities. At the ground level, there are two things that needed to happen, although we are creating a shell space,basically the 16,000 square foot box,the future of it is still to be determined. It is not part of what is going to be built out now,the interiors,but in any case there are certain things in regard to the underground,the rough-in of the plumbing system,etc. that needs to be taken care of and looked at now. One of the things they needed to do was to lay out a possible scenario of what this place could be,and put that already as a part of the infrastructure of the engineering. We laid out two different schemes,whether it is a banquet hall or a restaurant. He showed a scheme that is based on two restaurant components, they will share their own bathrooms. These bathrooms are different than the bathrooms that are allocated for the park, meaning that these bathrooms once designed and built, will be a little bit of a better quality, a high-end type restaurant bathroom. Of course whoever does the restaurant,the kitchen,etc.will do their own thing and they will be able to move the bathrooms wherever they need to,put the kitchen wherever they want to. We will have the rough-in adequate for those things to come into place. We also discussed very detailed things such as the slab of that space. We have it as we are leaving it as sand,and the reason for that is because whenever you do this type of work in the future, they end up cutting these slabs and trenching them in order to run all the pipes, etc., underneath. What ends up happening is that slab which used to be a structural slab now is all cut up and doesn't work structurally anymore and so you have to rip it all out and put it in again and so it is like spending the money twice. Architect Castineira said the other scenario is the banquet hall which we were able to work with the same amount of bathrooms and the same layout of the bathrooms, and so again it will not change in either scenario. In this one you have moveable partitions which gives you the opportunity of having four(4)different banquet halls of various sizes. You have from a small one that accommodates approximately 100 people, to a mid-sized one that accommodates about 200 people, and you put those two together and you have one that accommodates about 300 people. If you put everything together you will have somewhere close to 900 people in the overall 16,000 square foot space. Of course part of that space will be taken up by the future bathrooms, etc. We fine tuned the hallways, there are two on the backside and the front side. On the front side we have a passageway that goes all along the front of the building. It has an extended deck for outdoor dining, it is elevated at 8-feet, which is actually one foot above flood level, and so that is an important feature. It connects again the eastside of the property all the way with a plaza and on with the Great Lawn and the park. On the backside of the banquet hall you have an internal hallway that we made slightly bigger than typical in order to accommodate cars,etc. He noted from that corridor in the center basically everything on the rendering in purple is back of house. One of the 3 Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting April 9,2013 Sunny Isles Beach,Florida interesting things about the design is that once they laid out a design that had the exterior columns and then one row of columns in the middle we really opened up a lot of space. The building became a lot more efficient in its structure,and so the areas in the back of the house became a little bit bigger then what we had in the previously design. He also showed an area for a future.concession stand,which again is more of a shell space that would build out later as a concession stand. We have an ample trash room for trash created from the restaurant and future events. A large storage area at 8-foot elevation to prevent water infiltration in case of flood, all this is underneath the ramp. We have the two bathrooms that serve the park, and we have a small office, electrical and mechanical rooms, etc. On the back side of the building is a service area that works as an in and out of service trucks, which will be enclosed with a 6-foot privacy wall. Within that area we have allocated an area where we will have the grease traps for the future restaurant. Also,we will have a pad area that will be prepared for the future air conditioning unit and things that come in as part of the restaurant. Architect Castineira said we strategically placed everything so everything then needs to be roughed in at this moment, it is done in such a way to foresee that step later on. The service area is in and out, there is no backing into the street from the trucks, there is enough of an area for two trucks to be able to stop and unload merchandise, etc. Architect Castineira said on the upper portion of the garage you will see a very straight forward,a very efficient parking garage layout. The big difference is in the structural design, we don't have internal columns, we have only one row of center line columns, and the external columns,identical to the Heritage Park structural concept. The previous design had three (3) levels of parking, and we have added one level of parking on the new design. The reason is if we were to leave it at three levels,we were going to be down to roughly 250 cars because we were losing a lot of cars on the ground level due to this restaurant component. By adding that other level,not only did we meet the 308 which was the original concept,but we are actually at 371 spaces. Architect Castineira said one of the important elements that was discussed is the height of the restaurant, the clear height is about 14 feet plus to the under side of the structure. We know that there will eventually be ceilings there, air conditioning ducts, etc., and so at the end of the day there will be a comfortable 12-13 foot height in the banquet hall or restaurant. The façade of the building has a strong architectural precast element,the motif that we have been working with from very early on. At the same time the backdrop, the wrapping on of the whole metal skin on the three sides of the building, and the only side that will not have the metal skin, and this was agreed to, is the west back side which is hardly visible. It will receive a lot of the landscaping from the previous design we had incorporated a lot of landscaping there to buffer that elevation. Lastly,he showed a concept for the stage that is a concrete stage, hard roof, it is meant to take weather. It is meant to be there for a while and to be a structure that does not require a lot of maintenance over the years. Everything about it in terms of the size for a big symphony arrangement, the height and everything has been done and designed to the requirements of the City. They have incorporated the elements of the patterned walls and we are bringing the same element from the parking garage into the stage where lights will be illuminated at night. It becomes a beacon element in the Park as the focal point as you look towards the east from the restaurant and from the great lawn. 4 Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting April 9,2013 Sunny Isles Beach,Florida Vice Mayor Aelion said on the renderings,first floor,he counted spaces that are identical to what is on the legend, on the second and third floors,and so 121 spaces,reflected as is. On the first floor you only have 30 spaces while the legend says 58. Architect Castifleira said in his office when they are counting the spaces, they are counting the ramp as well, and all of the ramps of the parking garage will be parking spaces also. He said that is an important point because the length of the ramp is such to accommodate the slope required by Code to be able to park on it because if it becomes too steep,by Code you are not allowed to park on it because people will fall when they walk down the ramp. From ground to second we have 15 feet,and then smaller from there on. Vice Mayor Aelion said he does not see a rendering of the northwest elevation, on the west side, and he asked if that was identical to the south elevation section where he has the grid from the ground floor up? Architect Castifleira said he will be producing three(3)more renderings as we now enter from an architectural design development,working with Building Official Parker,and those renderings will show all three facades. There will be tweaks to it because with design development there will always be tweaks but will be very similar. On the back façade, it will be very similar to this with the exception on the bottom. Instead of having the glass box concept you have a privacy wall for the service area, the entire length of the building, it will be the metal skin. Vice Mayor Aelion said you have 58 parking spaces and on the same level we have banquet hall/restaurant/retail,etc. The question is are we allowing for good air circulation taking into account? Architect Castineira said by Code, even with the metal screening, we have to maintain a certain amount of open ventilation for the exhaust of fumes from the cars. There is a wall that will separate one side of the project from the other side. So,the air that comes in from this side of the building,and also remember that the backside of the building is open. That will create enough circulation to not to have any problems in the banquet hall area,etc. Commissioner Gatto said you touched a bit on the garage façade but we have had some façade issues,and she asked if he would talk about the material he will be using for the actual façade. Her second question is, is it just three sides by design or is it a cost issue? Architect Castineira said there have definitely been issues on budget,costs,etc. There has always been an understanding that the west side façade doesn't really need it, and the City has agreed to that. There is landscaping there that will more than take care of that. The rest of the facades are very visible from the streets. Commissioner Gatto said she is really concerned with the materials, is it sturdy,etc.? Architect Castifleira said there are multiple materials out there in the market as South Florida is unique because we have the Hurricane Codes. One of the materials that we have identified and definitely want to use is the Hunter Douglas, the Wealth, it is a fantastic brand and top notch material. We are doing the research in terms of meeting products approval, meeting hurricane winds, etc., all the checks have to be there. There are several other alternatives and we will definitely be able to identify them. But at the end of the day we are looking at a material that is a prefab material, is meant for the exterior and to take weathering conditions. It is definitely going to be secured and put up in a way that it will not blow away with a gust of wind. City Manager Russo said what Commissioner Gatto is referring to with problems,meaning the façade on the Heritage garage and the peeling of the paint, a mural if you will,that is on that. What the intention is right now is that this be solid single materials, not a paint, not anything else applied to it. Architect Castineira said right, and to his understanding, and he doesn't know the specifics of Heritage, that was fabricated panels that were fabricated and 5 Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting April 9,2013 Sunny Isles Beach,Florida then painted, and Mayor Edelcup said right, auto coded. City Manager Russo said the bottom line is that on our shopping list we said that is what we don't want. Architect Castineira said that is exactly why they are looking at Hunter Douglas which is an antidike material,made out of aluminum,different than paint,a different part of coding. Everything next to water is an issue and that is one of the things that these coastal areas have in common. ' We are definitely looking at a quality product that is meant for the exterior, etc. Commissioner Scholl asked what is the back of house on the stage, is there a bathroom, a backroom? Architect Castineira said yes that means specifically what was required in terms of the shopping list, he thinks it was 20 feet. There is a bathroom and a room that is air conditioned. Commissioner Scholl asked how do we step up for the 16,000 square feet?Are you going to put in the mechanical infrastructure because when he looked at the jewelry box all he thinks is a thousand ton of air conditioning, and so who pays? Is that included in the price because when he sees the slab by others,he understands that we are not putting the slab in but when it comes to mechanical infrastructure for the future restaurant/banquet hall what are we getting? Joe Milton said we leave it all free, we have the pads outside for the AC equipment, we don't install it because we have no idea what requirements you will have for AC. The plumbing is all brought in for the design that he has done that is a requirement for the bathroom fixtures. We will oversize your sanitary,we will oversize the water coming in here,we will distribute the fire sprinklers throughout. We will provide all the accesses to the ventilation and so in the future when you do put in the AC, you will have access to the location and the appropriate ventilation to the location but we don't put in any of the final equipment. That needs to be with the final design. Commissioner Scholl asked what the purple areas are in the bathroom in the rendering, and Mr. Milton said those are finished areas, and are completed where they are following instructions provided by staff He noted that the bathrooms are not air conditioned,they are mechanically ventilated at the request of staff We have feedback from staff on all of these items, and that is what we provided. Architect Castineira noted that the concession stand is also raw space because the City has not decided what that is going to be, to what degree it was going to have, what type of equipment, etc. Commissioner Levin said the only question she has is where will the pedestrian bridge fall, and the Commission stated in the northwest corner. Architect Castineira said right,based on some preliminary discussions,this area is ample enough for the pedestrian bridge to come in, and that works with the distance that he has from the ramp. Also the possible location has been identified by Building Official Parker of the other tower on the other side of the bridge. In a previous review there was a suggestion about closing the bathrooms here from within and that was an input from Commissioner Levin and that made a lot of difference. City Manager Russo said that there will be some adjustments to this,nothing major,this has been pretty well thought out even at this preliminary stage. Where the bridge lands is probably going to be somewhat east of where Ed was just pointing out. However, we have our spot, everything on that side can be made to,and there is some leeway in that. Mayor Edelcup said the bridge itself will never go into the garage,and City Manager Russo said right,the bridge is going to be totally free standing for a lot of reasons: 1) primary use of it is to get to the Park; 2) there are security issues; and other issues. Mayor Edelcup opened it up to public comment. Regina Fridkin said her concern today is 6 Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting April 9,2013 Sunny Isles Beach,Florida that they love the parks, love the neighborhoods, but they need more space for our children programs. She would like the City to put in more programs for the children. She is representing a lot of parents who are concerned of where their kids are going to be after school, etc., and if they had additional space for the older kids as well as younger kids. She wants to make sure our kids are safe,with secured closed space,there is not enough space at Pelican Community Park. Mayor Edelcup said that part of our success if that we certainly have had a change in the demographics to the City and our needs keep changing. We are building a number of parks and as we are building those parks, we can figure out where we can build some enclosed spaces to accommodate some of that. Way back in our plans for instance the Intracoastal Park,we are hopeful of acquiring another piece of land down there that would permit us to build a community center at the south end of the City. We also own another piece of land behind Walgreens which is scheduled to be a parking garage and perhaps again an enclosed area there, and so your thoughts are in sync with what we are working on. Resident Vida Raz said she is an Olympic and World Champion in Europe in basketball,and Regina Fridkin translated for her. She said she is speaking for a group of people that the City has no enclosed space for sports activities. At PCP they can start their activities only after 6:00 p.m. because during the day it is used for school purposes. She suggested for the City to open up a closed sports center,cultural center that can be used for our community. We need a place where we can actually practice sports, and hopefully we can have our own Sunny Isles Beach team. All the activities have to be conducted under the supervision of professional trainers. During the morning hours when the students are in school,the retired community can actually enjoy classes there under the supervision of professional trainers, health related such as exercise. We want to see tennis courts so we want to have some kind of training. Everybody has swimming pools in their condos but basically what happens is that we have a lifeguard program during the summer camp but it is conducted in the sun by the ocean, and it would be much easier to conduct it in a swimming pool area and have the kids professionally trained. We can have a nice inside theater where we can come in and see a show not related to the weather. We have a lot of professionals, singers,performers from Russia, from different countries, and it isn't right to invite them to a cafeteria at the School, we need a cultural center for that. Mayor Edelcup thanked them for their suggestions, and said it will give the Commission some food for thought for the next generation of growth in our City. Certainly everything mentioned are desirable things for us to have, and it is a matter of finding sites and also finding the financing and resources to do it all. He is sure as time goes on that the Commission will be very sympathetic to a lot of those ideas and move forward with them. Commissioner Gatto thanked them for coming, and especially for coming from Winston Towers 300. We have a lack of space and we have to be creative, but maybe there is an opportunity in one of the condos auditoriums where there can be an opportunity to have an afterschool art class, or music, etc. Maybe you can start out with a private situation where kids can pay to go to an art class, or learn poetry, learn an instrument, etc. She knows there are a lot of condominiums in her complex that are dark all day and not being used. Regina said they need the Commissioner's help on that as well so they have permission to conduct this sort of class in our building. Commissioner Gatto said the City Advisory Committee is 7 Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting April 9,2013 Sunny Isles Beach,Florida the group you could go to, and she will give her contact information. Regina Fridkin also asked what the status is of Samson Park, and Mayor Ede lcup asked the g � Y P City Manager what the status is,the construction of the Chateau, and when the Park will be redesigned and available again. City Manager Russo said it is a two-year project and we are looking at February 2015 as a completion date. In addition to a new playground and landscaping,we are going to be also improving the other side of the Park,and it will be done in sections. They will be expanding the bathrooms with a new electrical system and a new sewer system in it,and a new playground being mostly funded by a developer agreement by the Chateau. Vice Mayor Aelion said from an informational standpoint,he thinks we should make a better effort of informing the residents because he has had several phone calls regarding Samson Park. Besides the newspapers, etc., perhaps we could install a sign saying this is the future site of the Park, some rendering that will mitigate this concern. City Manager Russo said they have had printed signs out there for quite a while. They already have put it in the newspapers but they will provide better signs. Mayor Edelcup said one of the things that we could do is,during the interim while Chateau is being built,is to have a public workshop on the redesign of Samson Park. That way everybody in the community will have an opportunity to hear what we are planning on doing. We can hear their suggestions,if we can pick up some of those suggestions and get the community totally involved in the redevelopment of Samson Park. That way people will better understand what is being planned for that area and when it will be ready. Commissioner Scholl said he agrees with Vice Mayor Aelion, this has generated so many calls. Mayor Edelcup said he thinks some people thought that somehow some of the Park is being used for private purposes, and it won't be. The best way to do that is to have a workshop on the redesign, and we need to address that anyway now rather than later because it will take us a year just to come up with the concept whatever it is that we want to do there. Commissioner Scholl moved and Commissioner Gatto seconded a motion to approve the resolution. Resolution No. 2013-2040 was adopted by a roll call vote of 5-0 in favor. Vote: Commissioner Gatto Levin yes Commissioner Scholl yes Vice Mayor Aelion yes Mayor Edelcup yes 4. ORDINANCES FOR FIRST READING 4A. An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida,Authorizing the Issuance of a Stormwater Utility Revenue Refunding Bond,Series 2013,of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida in a Principal Amount of$4,450,000.00 for the Purposes of Financing,Together with Other Available Funds of the City,the Refunding and Redemption of the City's Outstanding Stormwater Revenue Bond,Series 2002,and Stormwater Revenue Bond, Series 2010, and Paying Certain Costs of Issuance; Determining the Need for a Negotiated Sale of the 2013 Bond to Branch Banking and Trust Company;Providing for the Terms and Payment of the 2013 Bond and for the Rights, Remedies and Security of the 8 Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting April 9,2013 Sunny Isles Beach,Florida • Owners Thereof; Making Certain Covenants Relating to the Issuance of the 2013 Bond; Designating the 2013 Bond as a"Qualified Tax-Exempt Obligation"Within the Meaning of Section 265(b)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as Amended; Authorizing the Proper Officers of the City to Do All Other Things Deemed Necessary or Advisable in Connection with the Issuance of the 2013 Bond; and Providing for an Effective Date. Action: [City Clerk's Note: Schedule A —Bond Debt Service, was distributed prior to the meeting.] City Clerk Hines read the title,and Finance Director Minal Shah reported noting that we went out to the market to see what the best rates we could get are. We received five (5) responses of which the lowest interest rate was 1.65% but we are recommending to go with BB&T which is at 1.83% The total cost of issuance with BB&T is a savings because one of the existing bonds that we have has a pre-payment penalty of 1%, and that bond belongs to BB&T and they are waiving the prepayment penalty. Therefore the totals savings is to go with BB&T because overall the City will save $650,000 over the next 10 years. Public Speakers: None Vice Mayor Aelion moved and Commissioner Scholl seconded a motion to approve the proposed ordinance on first reading. The motion was approved by a roll call vote of 5- 0 in favor. Second reading,public hearing will be held on Thursday,April 18,2013,at 6:30 p.m. Vote: Commissioner Gatto yes Commissioner Levin yes Commissioner Scholl yes Vice Mayor Aelion yes Mayor Edelcup yes 5. NEW ITEM: 5A. Discussion on Beach Volleyball. Action:Mayor Edelcup said he has a request from two people to speak on Beach Volleyball. Public Speakers: Alvaro Minor; Mike Lukins; Alvaro Minor said he is a resident and a part-time employee of Sunny Isles Beach. He teaches children and is a coach. For the last ten years they have been enjoying the Beach Volleyball court in front of Samson Park but due to the construction by the Chateau, it has been removed a couple of months ago. There is plenty of space on the beach where it can be located so they can continue playing. They have requested it before but have not received an answer. Mayor Edelcup said it seems like something that we could accommodate and he asked the City Manager if he can find a space on the beach for them,perhaps a beach access point. City Manager Russo said it may have been removed in anticipation of the developer being able to use the entire area that was originally designated out to the beach. There was a couple thousand square feet, if you recall, that he was not able to use, but he will take a look at it. City Official Clay Parker said that Coastal took down the posts and they are saving them to relocate them wherever the City wants to put them,and they will relocate the poles and put the net back up. City Manager Russo asked him if that was out of the Park area,they are not infringing on the back of the east side of our Park, and Clay said no, they were further west 9 Summary Minutes:Special City Commission Meeting April 9,2013 Sunny Isles Beach,Florida but they will reinstall them for us at a different location. Commissioner Scholl suggested getting with these gentlemen because they know what the conditions should be like. Resident Mike Lukins said originally the poles were located in front of where the seagrass is a couple of years ago, and then they were removed for a City event because they wanted to put a platform there in front of where the Chateau is. Right now there is that same exact space where we can put those poles. When you walk onto the beach and turn northward,the poles are right there in front of the seagrass section. City Manager Russo said he doesn't want to presume anything but he knows exactly what he is saying because that is part of the area that was going to be taken by the developer temporarily that ended up not being used. He will check on it. Assistant City Manager Bill Evans said that is the area where we need to put sand back onto the beach and so that area is coming up. We need to move the lifeguard tower,and Coastal is going to move it for us. We can't put it there but we can potentially find a spot either further north or further south that may accommodate what they need to do. City Manager Russo said the other thing too,depending on how long it takes to put up and take down these poles,if the sifting in that area isn't going to take place for a while, in any event we will find a place. Alvaro Minor said he has been teaching Yoga on the beach now for over a year,and we don't have a place that is covered to teach Yoga when it rains and so they have been canceling classes, and so he asked if in the future they can get a place where you can accommodate outdoors with a cover for the rain so they can continue teaching the classes. Mayor Edelcup asked how big a space he would need,and Mr. Minor said not big at all, as long as we can sit 20-30 people with a Yoga mat one next to the other, maybe 50x40. Mayor Edelcup said the stage in Gateway Park would probably work for that since it would be during the day. 6. ADJOURNMENT Commissioner Scholl moved and Vice Mayor Aelion seconded a motion to adjourn. The notion was approved with a voice vote of 5-0, and Mayor Edelcup adjourned the meeting at -. •,' (7:40•p m. - . ; t:..1 'Re-spec .11y submitted by Approved by the City Commission on May 16, 2013 .�v • Id ', Jarie`:A:: ines.,CM ,.City Clerk N. an S. Edelcup, Mayer J - ba . ;,, ■ • 10 Preview Page 1 of 1 r�aNY 1 �S City of Sunny Isles Beach 18070 Collins Avenue Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 5'0* Pi• L09." s‘Y. (305)947-0606 City Hall rr or sus /411 (305) 949-3113 Fax MEMORANDUM TO: The Honorable Mayor and City Commission VIA: Christopher J. Russo, City Manager FROM: Jane A. Hines, CMC, City Clerk DATE: 5/16/2013 RE: Summary Minutes for the April 9, 2013 City Commission Meeting RECOMMENDATION: Attached for your consideration are the Summary Minutes for the April 9, 2013 Special City Commission Meeting. 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