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MINUTES
CITY COMMISSION
WORKSHOP MEETING
MAY 16, 2013 9am
Aventura Government Center
19200 W. Country Club Drive
Aventura, Florida 33180
CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL: The meeting was called to order at 9 a.m. by Mayor
Susan Gottlieb. Present were Commissioners Enbar Cohen, Teri Holzberg, Billy Joel,
Howard Weinberg, Luz Urbaez Weinberg, Vice Mayor Michael Stern, Mayor Gottlieb,
City Manager Eric M. Soroka, City Clerk M. Teresa Soroka and City Attorney David M.
Wolpin. As a quorum was determined to be present, the meeting commenced.
1. TOWN CENTER NEIGHBORHOOD DISTRICT TC3: Mr. Soroka and Community
Services Director Joanne Carr discussed a proposed amendment to the Land
Development Regulations to add Town Center Neighborhood (TC3) District, as
requested by the owner of the property on NE 207 St/NE 30 Avenue. Jeff
Bercow, Esq., Mickey Marrero, Esq. and Steve Sorensen, representing the
owner, addressed the Commission
CITY MANAGER SUMMARY: Consensus to proceed with amendment as
presented. First reading to be at the July Commission meeting.
2. COMMUNITY GARDEN PROPOSAL: (City Manager) Mr. Soroka proposed
having a community garden at Founders Park South where residents could
purchase a planting bed and plant and maintain it.
CITY MANAGER SUMMARY: Consensus to approve. Implementation of the
project to be a responsibility of the Community Services Advisory Board.
3. SCHOOL UPDATE: (Mayor and City Manager) Mayor Gottlieb and Mr. Soroka
reported on a meeting with Mark Rosenberg, President of FIU and Miami -Dade
County Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho in which they are suggesting
providing for a magnet high school on the FIU campus to the funded partially by
surrounding communities, in exchange for which a certain number of the student
population would be designated to the City for its eligible residents to apply.
CITY MANAGER SUMMARY: Consensus to take no action until more
information is forthcoming.
Mr. Soroka requested and received Commission approval to apply for a grant to
provide for a City of Aventura Police Officer as a School Resource Officer at
Aventura Waterways K -8, which has none at the present time.
4. ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business to come before the
Commission at this time, the meeting adjourned at 10:30 a.m.
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T resa M. kal MMC, City Clerk
Approved by the Commission on June 4, 2013.
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