March 30, 2016 Workshop Meeting Minutes The Cityof CITY COMMISSION
Aventur WORKSHOP MEETING MINUTESAventura Government Center
a MARCH 30, 2016 19200 W.Country Club Drive
Aventura, Florida 33180
6:00 P.M.
CALL TO ORDER/ROLL CALL: The meeting was called to order by Mayor Enid
Weisman at 6:00 p.m. The following were present: Mayor Enid Weisman, Vice Mayor
Robert Shelley, Commissioner Enbar Cohen, Commissioner Teri Holzberg,
Commissioner Denise Landmanl, Commissioner Marc Narotsky, Commissioner Howard
Weinberg, City Manager Eric M. Soroka, City Clerk Ellisa L. Horvath, and City Attorney
David M. Wolpin. As a quorum was determined to be present, the meeting commenced.
1. iPREP HIGH SCHOOL (City Manager/Mayor Weisman):
Mayor Weisman noted that the topic of the iPrep was being discussed in response to
concerns on the location of the school, from the Sky Lake-Highland Lakes Area
Homeowners Association.
The Commission reviewed certain portions of a video of the Miami-Dade County
Superintendent's Town Hall Meeting in December 2015, in which a commitment was
made to build an iPrep high school with a 500 seat capacity, to provide relief to Krop
High School. It was noted that Aventura residents had overwhelmingly voted in favor of
the GOB bond, in response to the Superintendent's prior commitment to add high
school capacity in the area.
Mayor Weisman discussed a letter received from Marc Hurwitz, President of the Sky
Lake-Highland Lakes Area Homeowners Association, opposing construction of the Krop
iPrep Annex at Highland Oaks Middle School, as well as an Article in The Miami Herald
regarding the issue.
The Commission discussed the following issues: in favor of the 500-seat capacity,
noting that Aventura had no input on the proposed iPrep location, the request of
Aventura parents for more high school options in or closer to Aventura, the proposed
location chosen by the School Board due to no cost for land acquisition, requesting the
School Board to do what they agreed to with the MAST Academy @ FIU to prevent
losing it, inviting the MAST Academy @ FIU to a meeting, passing a resolution either
supporting the iPrep or not, supporting Aventura's residents if the City needed to take a
position, whether or not County School Board Member Dr. Martin Karp was in favor of
the iPrep at the proposed location, concern that traffic and congestion was the issue
instead of the education component, having the iPrep located as close as possible to
Aventura, a proposed resolution supporting the iPrep at the current proposed location,
including the construction of permanent classrooms at the MAST Academy at FIU.
City Manager Summary: It was the consensus of the City Commission to place
a Resolution on the April 5, 2016 Commission Meeting Agenda supporting both the
construction of permanent classrooms at MAST Academy at FIU and iPrep at the
current proposed location (Highland Oaks Middle School).
Commissioner Landman participated via telephone.
Aventura City Commission
Workshop Meeting Minutes—March 30, 2016
The following members of the public provided comments: Howard Weiner (21252 N.E.
18 Place, Miami - Sky Lake—Highland Lakes Area Homeowners Association Board of
Directors Member and Chair of the Krop iPrep Annex at HOMS Committee).
2. ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business to come before the
Commission, the meeting was adjourned by consensus at 6:55 p.m.
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Ellisa L. Horvath, , City Clerk
Approved by the Commission on May 3, 2016
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