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Meeting Minutes 2.28.19 G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 2 of 16 I. Introductions Chair Karen Rivo brought the meeting to order. She had everyone introduce themselves. Everyone in the room introduced themselves. Chair Karen Rivo asked Maria Hernandez to go through the handouts to make sure everyone had what they should in order to start the meeting. II. Implementation Recap Maria Hernandez explained the handouts. She said they have today’s agenda, the fourth draft implementation plan, and the list of the projects from the Parks and Recreation Department that are all G.O. Bond projects with a further breakdown of the budgets for each of those. In addition to that, there is a one page description of the Flamingo Park neighborhood. She also included an article from the Miami Herald regarding Fire Station 1. III. Adoption of Meeting Minutes Chair Karen Rivo asked the Committee if there is a motion to approve the minutes from February 7th meeting. Jason Greene seconded the motion. Chair Karen Rivo thanked the members of the public for being there and reminded them that they will take the last 15 minutes of the meeting to address them. IV. Continue Review of Projects Implementation Plan Chair Karen Rivo explained that they have four projects marked in yellow, in which they were going to go through them today. She said that their goal tonight is to sign off on this document after their discussions. She reminded everyone that the Commission Workshop is on Monday so their work will be complete for a little bit. She said that Chief Oates requested that we go over project #15 first, which is the Police headquarters renovation. 1. Police Headquarters Renovations #48: Lily Alvarez, from Property Management, began to explain project #15. She said that they confirmed from their last meeting that they are comfortable with the way it has been spread, with the $4 million in tranche 1 and $6 million in tranche 3. Chief Oates asked the Committee if they need details on the first $4 million and then the $6 million. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 3 of 16 Chair Karen Rivo said that would be great. Lily Alvarez said that the heavier items are in tranche 1, such as the roof and windows. They then will move onto the design development of the station, meaning what is the space limitation that the Chief needs. Chief Oates said from his perspective the two critical needs were to weather seal the building and do the firing range and the comprehensive redo of the building will be done in the 3rd tranche. Alex Dennis, Procurement Director, asked of the $4 million how much is going to the firing range. Lily Alvarez said that right now they are allocating $1 million. Alex Dennis said so of that $1 million, is that just the ventilation system or everything. Lily Alvarez said everything. David Martinez, Capital Improvement Projects Director, said that the $1 million includes more than the ventilation system. Alex Dennis asked where are we with A&E selections. David Martinez said their intent was to re-engage the design build process that we had before so he would have to re-create the design criteria. He explained that they have spoken with some companies in order to get them lined up and then we will go through the proper procurement process. Chair Karen Rivo asked if anyone has any questions. Jason Greene said so it’s going to be the roof, the windows, the firing range, and the site development plan and design will be years 1, 2 and 3. And then right in the beginning of year 7 will be the interior gut and structure. Vice-Chair Marie Peter said it sounds like they have done a great job trying to organize the proper way to do it so I don’t see any reason why we don’t move forward and agree. Members gave the project a Green light. 2. 72nd Street Project #1 Eric Carpenter, Assistant City Manager, explained that this project is still in the concept development phase. Ultimately, it is our project that we believe will be a regional impact for North Beach. Tranche 1 is for design costs and other upfront work and then tranche 2 is the construction of the actual facility. There are still a lot of moving pieces such as the library, the G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 4 of 16 civic space, and the swimming pool, which draws the most discussion. There is still some debate about whether the swimming pool is best served in this location or whether there are other locations that we should be looking, one of which that has come up is the Scott Racow Youth Center. Ultimately, we know we need something there and we know we need additional fields in North Beach and we want to make sure we give ourselves some room at the 72nd St. complex for some fields. If we are able to execute the quad in the North Shore Park and Youth Center then maybe we are looking at soccer fields here. John Rebar, Parks and Recreation Director, explained that we had a deficiency in sports fields within the City. The quad is taking over the small parking lot at the North Shore Park and Youth Center, where we could turn that into field space. Since four official Little League fields won’t fit we have to be creative now and meet the needs of the residents. What we can fit on North Shore will determine what our needs will be on 72nd. Ron Starkman asked if you don’t locate the pool on top of the garage will that save money or do you think with all of the other things you are planning to do that it will be about a wash. Eric Carpenter reminded everyone that they did some really rough calculations on this project before they got started and he believes it came out to $63 million. David Martinez corrected Eric Carpenter and said it came out to a little more than that. Eric Carpenter continued explaining that this project was reduced to $50 million and then there was a $3.8 million resiliency component that was added to it. He answered yes to Ron Starkman’s question but he doesn’t know how much money would be left over when you consider everything else. John Rebar told Ron Starkman that we may see savings on the O&M side. Ron Starkman said if you look at the residential neighborhood there they have a pool there already, so I thought this was more for the high school. Since the neighborhood already has a pool they shouldn’t mind or be too upset if this pool isn’t physically there. Laura Veitia said that she thinks we would have more upset residents if we move it from one tranche to another. She believes that it is very important for North Beach to get this project started in tranche 1 and 2 and it go with the momentum of what is going on in that area. Ron Starkman said meaning including everything and maybe not the pool. Laura Veitia said exactly, such as the Library and civic center. John Woodruff, CFO, said that if we look at the whole list, the two expensive projects are really the PAL and the pool component of the 72nd St. project. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 5 of 16 Vice-Chair Marie Peter said we spent an enormous amount of time in the Panel on this and I think the Commission felt the same way-that this is a project that needs to get started for North Beach and I can’t see any reason why we wouldn’t just a vote yes and let this go green. Jason Greene asked if the 500 spaces in the garage is meant to be for community parking for the activation of the parks and things like that. He asked why it wasn’t funded from the Parking Department Enterprise Fund. Eric Carpenter said that they had a lot of discussion about that during the advisory panel. The parking department was replacing the parking spaces that they have in their current surface lot in the garage and then the remaining parking that is being provided is for the programming of the facility. So, from the Parking Department’s perspective they weren’t really gaining any parking revenue. Jason Greene asked how many spaces are they losing in general. David Martinez said somewhere between the mid 300s. Jason Greene asked if those 300 parking spaces are well used. Laura Veitia said yes. Chair Karen Rivo asked if anyone had any questions. Laura Veitia asked once we greenlight this type of project how much community involvement is there. Maria Hernandez said a lot. Laura Veitia said so basically you will have more community meetings to discuss what goes in there. Chair Karen Rivo said that most of these projects will go through many committees for different reasons. Yechiel Ciment said based on the amount of input do you think you will fall into some type of situation like the fire station that might cause pushback or some type of delay at all. Eric Carpenter said I hope not is the answer to your question but you never know for sure. This has been talked about for quite a bit in North Beach and I think we built a consensus around we need something there. We are just not sure what that something is. I believe there is a lot of support for more fields space and civic space up there. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 6 of 16 Yechiel Ciment that this is probably going to be one of the most transformational projects for the city. He asked if there is any desire to spread out the funds a little bit more over the later tranches. Eric Carpenter said that he thinks their concept when they were putting this together is that this is probably going to take one year to 18 months to cook and come up with a program that everybody can agree on. After that we are talking another 18 months to 24 months preparing a criteria package with the feedback we get from the community. He asked David Martinez what his construction duration is. David Martinez said on a project like this you are looking at a solid 24 months. Chair Karen Rivo said for our purposes we have to validate the tranches and where this money is. Jason Greene said that he thinks this project is very important for North Beach. He believes how the cash flow is presented is fine. He asked if the City does up to a 30% design with the design build method. David Martinez said we don’t take it up to 30% but we are expecting the proposer to provide us with what would look like a 30%. Chair Karen Rivo said she had a question regarding the decision making that goes to the relocation of the pool. She mentioned Robert Gonzalez, who represents the Parks Committee. Robert Gonzalez said that the Parks & Recreation Board felt that Scott Rakow was the best place for it but because there was already a lot of movement to put it at the parking lot we didn’t want to lose the pool by changing it last minute. There are a lot of reasons why Rakow would be a better place for the pool. We just had a couple of meetings about the lack of field space. The sooner we find out what we are going to do with this building, the sooner we can decide where the field are going to go, which are so desperately needed. Chair Karen Rivo asked Robert Gonzalez as a representative of the Parks Board if he feels good about the location of the funds in the tranches. Robert Gonzalez said absolutely. Members gave the project a Green light. 3. Fire Station 1 # 45 Chief Fernandez said that the fire station is in dire need to be repaired and one of the problems they are having is dumping a lot of money into this fire station to keep it running. The Fire Department believes that that money is better spent to take care of Fire Station 2 and 4, which are not going to be rebuilt. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 7 of 16 Chair Karen Rivo asked the reason why there is $6 million in tranche 1 and $4 million in tranche 2. Eric Carpenter said that it was broken down that way because we still don’t have a site for it yet. We are still looking for a location. We have the 20% design and half of the construction cost in tranche 1 and and the second half of the construction cost in tranche 2. Jason Greene said that the Committee is all well aware that this is a top top priority and we wanted to make sure as a Committee was there anything we could do to maybe move it forward to move it faster. We know that the preferred location is still in discussion but locking that down is important. Wendy Squire said if you decide on a location faster than you have planned within this split and you get that done, is there not enough in the first tranche. Eric Carpenter asked David Martinez if we are contemplating the same kind of design build. David Martinez said yes that is initially the approach we were taking because it is a fire station which is a basic type build. Chair Karen Rivo asked David Martinez if we found a spot by tomorrow can we build this quicker than in the next four years. David Martinez said yes because it would follow a similar pattern as I described on the 72nd St. project but it wouldn’t take as long. Yechiel Ciment said we should front load this entire $10 million amount and push it all into tranche 1. Vice-Chair Marie Peter said she agreed because it is a safety issue and is something that should be built quicker. She said that the Committee should move it all into tranche 1. Jason Greene proposed that we move the log cabin to tranche 2 and the funding for that be reallocated to allow the tranche 1 be $7 million and tranche 2 be $3 million for the fire station. Chair Karen Rivo said before we make that final decision let’s go through the final project and then she’s going to open it up to see if we are satisfied or if there are places we feel we need to move and why. 4. North Shore Park and Youth Center #13 Erik Carpenter explained that the north shore Park and youth Center is a project that actually had a number of different components specifically associated with it. The biggest component of that project is actually the baseball diamond reconfiguration. The need for fields is driving a lot of discussion in the parks right now. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 8 of 16 Jose Del Risco, from Parks and Recreation Department, explained that tranche 1 will be broken down, where Property Management is going to have the quad. We are going to be handling tranche 2 which we are going to be coming in after the fact. We are going to replace the playground and do the perimeter fence since the perimeter now is most likely going to change, we are going to implement some reforestation improvements and we are going to handle some of the floor replacements inside the facility. Elizabeth Miro explained that tranche 1 will encompass a generator, fixing the roof, and installing the security cameras. They are also going to be doing interior painting and planning for the jogging path. Chair Karen Rivo asked the Committee what was the reason they yellowed this project. Jason Greene mentioned that he has notes that they discussed design versus construction and the split out of the funds. Robert Gonzalez said that everything in tranche 2 was extremely important for the parks and we are not going to get to tranche 2 obviously until we get to building. I would urge that we leave it as is. Jason Greene asked if there is confirmation that the $5 million of work will be able to be procured, designed, and completed within three years. Elizabeth Miro said they feel comfortable with being able to complete these projects in tranche 1 and we do have some of these contracts in place. Members gave the project a Green light. Jason Greene had a question regarding Flamingo Park. He pointed out the $15.15 in tranche 3. He mentioned how there was some discussion on the LED lighting on the baseball field. Eric Carpenter said that if he remembers correctly the question was the smart lighting going to be able to be implemented in a regular park’s lighting, to which the answer was that it would be looked at for the regular parks lighting but the athletic lighting would be a different category or a different type of lighting. The other question that I recall was the lighting included in this project or was it included in a separate LED lighting parks project. Jason Greene asked if the football LED was in Flamingo Park. Eric Carpenter said that the new sports lighting was for the softball field renovation and the football field, I believe. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 9 of 16 Jason Greene pointed out project 28 which is LED lighting for parks and in tranche 2 it has Flamingo Park. His question is whether that LED lighting is for the youth football field. John Rebar said that in the public safety sports lighting it did not include the baseball stadium; that is in the Flamingo Park project. Ron Starkman said he received some feedback on the Ocean Drive infrastructure, which is project 40. There is no money in tranche 1 and the feedback I got was that the people working on this wanted to know if they could have some money in the first tranche for design work and some prep work. He asked Maria Hernandez and Eric Carpenter if they have heard this feedback. Maria Hernandez said that she has heard that too, and that the Committee there really wants to accomplish something the first year they are together so it’s really a matter of if we move it up what do we offset. Yechiel Ciment said he received feedback from the 41st St. committee regarding project 24. Something that they wanted comfort on was that in the event that everything was moving along smoothly with 395 and the other projects and the 41st project was ready to commence sooner would funds be available to move up in order to facilitate that project. John Woodruff explained that we are trying to finalize what is in tranche 1 for the Commission. When we get to three years from now and we are looking at what is in that second tranche I imagine that we will have much more clarity for certain projects. We will certainly have an opportunity to re-figure and move some things around, if you will. Jason Greene asked if that is something that would fall under the purview of the Committee moving forward is having the opportunity to accelerate or slow down based on changing criteria. John Woodruff said that he thinks this is going to be a living plan that will move around so the idea of using this Committee to make sure that, when and if it changes, it has its eyes wide open and that it all makes sense. I like to believe that it is going to be a living document and that you will be able to clearly communicate to someone in 10 years from now exactly what happened on any particular project. Chair Karen Rivo said that we need to feel really good that we have made the best choices because as a committee we have met four times and I think we need to go back and just think about where we are. This is our final meeting to decide if we are comfortable with what we are recommending to the Commission at the workshop on Monday. I went back to the resident survey that was done and I’m going to remind everybody that the top priority was project 16 which is sidewalks. The second highest was project 2, which is Seawalls. Number three was the street tree master plan and number four was protected bike lanes. We have to feel good that at the end of the day that what we are recommending meets the needs of the community. I am going to open it up for those final conversations about if we feel like anything needs to be moved other than the log cabin. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 10 of 16 Jason Greene wanted to know if there was any feedback from city staff regarding moving $1 million up to tranche 1 and locating seed money. Erik Carpenter said that is something that we thought a lot about. We certainly have heard that from the Ocean Drive folks. One of the things that I personally struggle with a little bit, and I can’t speak for everyone else, but when things are so nebulous- if we are to do a concept that ultimately does not end up as a capital expenditure then we can’t use these dollars and we end up having to find another dollar source for it. So sometimes it is better to look for seed money, and it depends how much seed money you were looking for, but if it is just a small amount of seed money sometimes it is better to look for an alternative funding source. Robert Gonzalez said that this is his second meeting and he was in here for some of the things that got approved. He noticed that the skate park is in tranche 3 and he felt that it should be moved to tranche 1. Eric Carpenter said that there is a reason why it is in tranche 3, which is a combination of items. The fact that we just recently opened this temporary skate park on one of the west lot and recently seen the opening of the much larger skate park in Haulover and we are not sure at this point how underserved that constituency is that was so underserved for many years. We were kind of waiting to see what happens over the next year or so as far as are we bursting at the seams in the facilities that we have or are we seeing kind of a trail off of usage after some of the novelty wears off, so to speak. Chair Karen Rivo said that it seems as though we can move the funds for the log cabin. Vice-Chair Marie Peter asked how valuable is it to have the log cabin done right away. She asked out of respect is there a group of residents that will actually use it that need it for a historical reason or is there something that we as a Committee can respect why it needs to be there. Maria Hernandez said that one of the problems we have with this is that where are we going to put it. I know where it is today and it has to move out of there. She asked if David Martinez could add to the log cabin discussion. David Martinez said that to his understanding the consultant basically did an inventory of all of the components and they were packaged in some form or another and were put into storage. There were discussions of potentially locating it in North Beach Oceanside Park. The new designer has to go in and see what they have and see what’s missing and see how to put all of these logs together and a lot of it depends on where the site is because they are going to have to do geotechnical testing and design some type of foundation for it. Vice-Chair Karen Rivo asked who started the whole thing about taking it out of storage and put it in the G.O. Bond. She asked is it North Beach or Mid Beach who is asking for it. The Committee answered North Beach. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 11 of 16 Elizabeth Miro said that our consultant Douglas Wood verified the pieces that could be salvaged and those are the ones that are currently in storage. Laura Veitia asked what percentage of the log cabin do we have in storage.Elizabeth Miro said we have about 20% of the log cabin. Wendy Squire asked how big is it. Elizabeth Miro said 1200 ft.² Jack Glottmann asked how can a log cabin cost $1000 a square foot to put together. Laura Veitia asked if there is a historical component to the log cabin. Chair Karen Rivo said that it sounds like the will of the group is to move this to a later tranche. The Members said yes. Laura Veitia asked if we could donate the remaining parts of the log cabin.Jason Greene said no because we have to build the project since it is in the G.O. Bond. V. Implementation Plan Recommendation MOTION: Jason Greene made a motion to accept all of the projects as presented by staff with the exception of the $1.76 million in tranche 1 for the log cabin be transferred to Fire Station 1. Yechiel Ciment seconded the motion. Chair Karen Rivo said so does this mean you are not recommending that we move any money for the fire station. Jason Greene said it would make the fire station have $7.76 million in tranche 1 and then you short tranche 2. Chair Karen Rivo said all in favor of taking the log cabin and moving it to a later tranche and moving those funds up for the fire station say I. The Members said aye SUMMARY: Chair Karen Rivo said that that means we have accepted our suggestions to the Commission. Vice-Chair Marie Peter said that first of all the staff at the City did an amazing job and I think they made our Committee and our job much easier because they put so much thought into this process. She thanked the City staff because they feel good with their decisions. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 12 of 16 Chair Karen Rivo asked if there is another vote we should take. John Woodruff asked if we could agree on the double thumbs up list because he would like to go ahead and budget that. Chair Karen Rivo reminded the group that the double thumbs up projects are in red and added up to about $20 million. She asked if she has a consensus on the $20 million and that we are all in agreement. The Members said yes. Chair Karen Rivo said that there are a lot of projects that the public wants completed as soon as possible such as the sidewalks and we struggled with some of these decisions. John Woodruff reminded us that we made a promise to the residents about some sort of timeline for this and how much this was going to cost our residents in taxes. Commissioner Malakoff is going to be in the hot seat having to ultimately sign off on this so do you have any thoughts or advice to us. Commissioner Malakoff said we did a great job. We went through the list of what the residents said was most important to them and we have touched North Beach, Middle Beach and South Beach in a fair and equitable manner. Public safety is extremely important and she is still very concerned about relocating the fire station; that is going to be very hard politically. However, she believes that the log cabin being in tranche 3 doesn’t do any harm. Chair Karen Rivo said that we don’t know how often we are going to meet but we have calendared April 18th for our next meeting and then we are going to decide how often we are going to meet, unless anyone has any suggestions on how we should meet. Jason Greene said the heavy amount of money is in the first three years and it sounds like the procurement office is going to be super busy, I would think that just like we did this month where we had a meeting weekly in the first year I wouldn’t be surprised if we were meeting monthly. I think that there will be a lot of procurement that will be quick and I think that we should keep the schedule of monthly for the first year and if there is a determination in one meeting that we can skip something then it can be canceled going forward. Vice-Chair Marie Peter said she would have to agree because we promised the residents that this Oversight Committee was going to do a job and if we start skipping months then that’s not the job we promised them so we have to meet at least once a month for the sake of the residents. VI. Public Q & A Chair Karen Rivo told the members of the public if they would like to speak or ask a question to please raise their hand. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 13 of 16 Resident and President of “We Love Lakeview” Bob Kunst addressed the Committee. He stated that he doesn’t know if it’s covered here but he wanted to address benches. He said that he doesn’t know if it’s part of the budget but if we can get a few hundred benches to take care of the people because we have a lot of elderly and disabled residents and we need to consider them as well. He said that the second issue is that we used to have these beautiful planters on 41st St. and somehow they went missing and I think we need to have a very aggressive tree planting program because not one tree has been planted in Lakeview since hurricane Irma. He said that his third point was that yesterday he was at the resiliency meeting and it was the first time in eight months they were allowed to be heard and only for three minutes. I can’t tell you how frustrated I am as a resident to be treated on this level. I wanted to suggest to Commissioner Malakoff that the outreach to the grassroots community has been a major disaster. Scott Needleman with the Flamingo Park Association address to the fire station. He said that maybe three years ago when the Chief came to our neighborhood and told us about the station everyone was in agreement. We would love to see the fire station where it is now but we understand the constraints of that lot; the pump stations are there and of the building is in poor condition. It is not the idea that we don’t want it there- it is the idea that we don’t want it in the park. We went through a process where the city came to us and gave us certain ideas. I want to get into a few reasons why it’s probably not the best location. In our discussions with the Chief he said he wanted a pull in and pull out station where the fire trucks pull in through the back and pull out to the front. You can’t do that at that site. The second issue is the type of calls the fire station receives; most of them are fire rescue calls-not calls where you have to put out a big fire and send the big fire trucks. At the time it was explained to us that it might be a little better to have a station a little further south than where it is now because of the bigger population at South Pointe. I am looking at the implementation plan and I am looking at project two, which is the PAL facility. There is $15 million in tranche 1 for the PAL building and that building, by all accounts, is not falling apart. It may need some cosmetic repairs but you are allocating $15 million for it. In tranche 3, for that same project, there is $15 million for the master plan for Flamingo Park. The master plan for Flamingo Park is something our neighborhood has been trying to get done for more than 15 years. I see no reason why those two items shouldn’t be switched around. Adam Shedroff said he is a member of the Flamingo Park Association and he agrees with what Scott said but he thinks there are additional considerations. He said that Flamingo Park is not the place to have a fire station. My two kids essentially grew up at Flamingo Park for 15 years and when you think about it, they’re saying it’s just a parking lot. Imagine you lived in an apartment building and you had a parking lot outside and you could see the sea and the sky and ocean and the trees and somebody said let’s build a building in the parking lot it’s just a parking lot. That isn’t what the case is. It is not a two-story building that is going up. It completely obscures the views. We should look carefully at every place we can evaluate; the parks are to have nature in the city for our kids and we should seriously consider any other place to find an adequate place for a fire station. Troy Write, Executive Director of the Washington Avenue BID, said that the Committee has done a great job. Washington Avenue is a pretty frightening place if you have not been down there G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 14 of 16 recently. It is getting darker by the day. As a matter of fact we have discovered that a lot of the homeless have started to use the walkways as their own personal condos. This is a big issue. We have also discovered that a lot of families are afraid to walk down Washington Avenue. We used to look at Washington Avenue as a place where the tourists met the residents but there is a problem now. That same glow is not happening on Washington Avenue. I really want to thank Roy and his group because just a block away from ours his team was able to set up some lighting and actually we were able to see who a shooter was because of the lighting that was a block away. Now if that same shooting had happened on Washington Avenue we would have never known what happened with that shooter. The lighting on Washington Avenue needs a lot of help. We have a master plan that we are starting to develop but we need support. We cannot allow Washington Avenue to wait another four years in the shape that it is in. I am really seriously concerned. I am not asking for all of the $10 million but I think for engineering and planning purposes 33% for soft cost would be incredible. We need to change Washington now. Matis Cohen wanted to acknowledge as a regular attendee of public meetings what a wonderful and professional job you guys have done with collaboration with city staff. It really is a pleasure to watch. Like Washington Avenue, just look at North Beach and Town Center. This is something we have been struggling with for only 40 years. For the 15 years that the log cabin remained dormant nobody used it. Prior to that the City subsidized the visitation by adding greenery there and nobody knew it was historic for those 45 years. It is a distraction. You still can’t find a tree in town center or a sidewalk that is matching the crosswalk or the street across from you. The parking garage- the project for 72nd St.- there is a lot of misunderstanding of the importance of this, what it really encompasses, and why it is so important. It is not a parking garage- it is taking a 3-acre surface lot and turning it into whether it will be an elevated green space or another option of half of the acreage be green space and creating parking. This is something that will put the Beach Bandshell, volleyball, baseball, and basketball into one park opposed to 11 or 12 activities that are disconnected. Feel confident that you are doing the right thing with this. Dani Bonini from the Police Athletic League, said that she wanted to specify that we are very much in favor with moving forward. Our building was actually considered a problematic building. We do not have the space and we have over grown ourselves. The property management division conducted an analysis saying that if we renovated it would be somewhere around $61,000 to fix and the overall condition of the facility is unsatisfactory based on the recent analysis. Our building is falling apart and we need help as soon as possible because we can’t service our kids any more. David Phillips from the New World Symphony said that the improvements to Soundscape Park is different from the usual projects that you are considering. I just want to say thank you to the residents, Commissioners, all of those who volunteered, and City staff. Chair Karen Rivo said that she wanted to thank the members of the public who came to voice their concerns and ideas. She encouraged everyone to come on Monday to the workshop that begins at 1 PM in the Commission Chambers This will be an opportunity for public input so please come. Monday is when commission well take the plan we are recommending and go through it and we can weigh in. Any final thoughts or ideas. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 15 of 16 MOTION: Jason Greene wanted to follow up regarding the discussions about funding beyond the requirements and uses of the G.O. Bond. When we got to the bone of some projects, such as sidewalks and roads, the bond was remediating a lot of the very critical issues but it does not alleviate the City going forward with the level of something from the general fund is sufficient. I would like to propose that as a committee in reviewing the G.O. Bond plan it has become apparent to us, as a committee, that the city needs to very much evaluate assets, the condition of those assets, and prepare a long term financial plan to ensure those assets are preserved in a matter that the City is fiscally responsible. Jason Greene motioned that the capital budget portion of the general fund needs to be sufficient moving forward so that assets are preserved in a matter in best practices, so described. Yechiel Ciment seconded the motion. Members voted in favor of the motion. Chair Karen Rivo asked why the city doesn’t have the funds for the sidewalks. Commissioner Malakoff said she could tell us one reason. For the last six years every time the budget comes up and the tax bills we get from the residents come in, they are lower each time. I think the lowest it got was 5.88 something and that’s the lowest it has been in 50 years and because no commissioners wanted to say they raised taxes they don’t raise it, so it’s been the lowest it’s been for history. Unfortunately, I feel like the G.O. Bond members feel like it’s time to raise the millage rate so that we don’t get into this position and our sidewalks don’t get so broken up because there are not enough bonds. MOTION: Jason Greene Motioned that the board feels as if the commission should adopt a policy that staff will present a budget on an annual basis that fully funds all capital asset preservation needs. Vice-Chair Marie Peter seconded the motion. Laura Veitia, Wendy Squire, Jason Greene, Yechiel Ciment, Marie Peter and Chair Karen Rivo voted in favor of the motion. Closing: Vice-Chair Marie Peter asked if it’s possible for the April meeting if we can get the future items that will need approval from the residence or property, things like the fire station and the bay walk. These are things that may not go forward if we do not have where they are going. Can we have the staff bring to the table in April that they have spoken to the parties and where they are with the parties because these projects will not go if we do not get the people to agree where it’s going. G.O. Bond Oversight Committee Meeting Minutes No. 4 February 28, 2019 Page 16 of 16 Chair Karen Rivo asked if that’s a reasonable request for the stuff. She asked if Marie Peter could be more specific with the projects. Vice-Chair Marie Peter said that the one she knows of is Fire Station 1 and the bay walk. Are there any more projects that are going to need either a building or a resident approval? Eric Carpenter said we can scrub that list and make every attempt to reach out to the individuals in the tranche 1 projects. I can’t promise you that we will get 100% because I don’t know how big the list is as we scrub it but we will try. Chair Karen Rivo asked how many members are able to come on Monday. She asked if it is going to be televised. Maria Hernandez said yes. VII. Adjournment Chair Karen Rivo asked Commissioner Malakoff if there are any parting words. Commissioner Malakoff said I think you’ve all done a wonderful job. Chair Karen Rivo thanked everyone for attending the meeting. Meeting adjourned.