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<br />SUMMARY MINUTES <br />Special City Commission Meeting <br />Tuesday, September 20,2011,6:30 p.m. <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida <br /> <br />ATTENTION ALL LOBBYISTS: CITY LAW REOUIRES YOUR REGISTRATION PRIOR TO ENGAGING IN <br />LOBBYING ACTIVITIES BEFORE CITY STAFF, BOARDS, COMMITTEES OR THE CITY COMMISSION. <br />PLEASE CONTACT THE CITY CLERK FOR FORMS AND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. <br /> <br />AGENDA <br /> <br />1. CALL TO ORDER / ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS <br />The meeting was called to order by Mayor Edelcup at 6:30 p.m. with the following officials <br />present: <br /> <br />Mayor Norman S. Edelcup <br />Vice Mayor Lewis 1. Thaler <br />Commissioner Isaac Aelion <br />Commissioner Jeanette Gatto <br />Commissioner George "Bud" Scholl <br /> <br />City Manager Alan J. Cohen <br />City Attorney Hans Ottinot <br />City Clerk Jane A. Hines, CMC <br />Assistant City Attorney Fernando Amuchcistegui <br /> <br />2. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE <br />Action: Commissioner Gatto led the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. Mayor Edelcup gave <br />opening remarks. <br /> <br />3. RESOLUTIONS <br /> <br />3A. A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, Awarding <br />RFQ No. 11-07-01 to and Entering into an Agreement with Calvin Giordano and <br />Associates, Inc. for Special Inspection, Geotechnical/Contract Administration Services <br />for the Newport Pier and Restaurant Project, in an Amount Not to Exceed $434,532.50, <br />Attached Hereto as Exhibit "A"; Authorizing the Mayor to Execute Said Agreement; <br />Authorizing the City Manager to Do All Things Necessary to Effectuate this Resolution; <br />Providing for an Effective Date. <br />(Deferred from 09/15/11) <br /> <br />Action: City Clerk Hines read the title, and City Manager Alan Cohen said that we have been <br />working closely with Commissioner Scholl on this and he asked him to report. Commissioner <br />Scholl said when this issue came up three or four meetings ago he had volunteered to be the <br />point person for the Commission on this along with staff and our potential consultants. At <br />that point we had gone out with an RFQ and Calvin Giordano and Associates was our first <br />choice as far as that RFQ process. Following that he met with Dennis Giordano on if we <br />award them this project how they are going to execute it and the responsibility level that they <br />are going to assume, and since that time he has met a couple of times with Calvin Giordano <br />staff, and several times with City staff. Last week the $5.8 Million number was bantered <br />around and his recollection was right, it was too high, and so as of today we now have a <br />budget of projected cost to finish the Pier of $5.3 Million, and that does not include a <br />contingency of any significance. There is $61,000 in there of remaining funds, and part of <br />that budget is Calvin Giordano's contract and they have a $25,000 contingency in their <br />contract and so there is not a contingency of any magnitude. The point is if the project starts <br />