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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03242010CRACity Council Present: Mayor Richard H. Gillmor Vice -Mayor Jim Hill Council Member Andrea Coy Council Member Eugene Wolff Council Member Don Wright QfY HOME OF PELICAN ISLAND COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY (CRA) (CITY COUNCIL) MINUTES WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2010 5:30 PM CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1225 MAIN ST, SEBASTIAN, FL 1. Mayor Gillmor called the CRA meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. 2. The Pledge of Allegiance was recited. 3. ROLL CALL Staff Present: City Manager, Al Minner City Attorney, Robert Ginsburg City Clerk, Sally Maio Deputy City Clerk, Jeanette Williams Administrative Services Director, Debra Krueger Finance Director, Ken Killgore Growth Management Director, Rebecca Grohall Deputy Police Chief, Greg Witt Police Captain, Bob Lockhart MIS Systems Analyst, Rob Messersmith 1 -6 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES March 10, 2010 Mayor Gillmor asked that the minutes reflect a correction which had been provided by the Clerk on page five of the minutes. MOTION by Mr. Wright and SECOND by Mr. Hill to approve the minutes with the correction passed with a voice vote of 5 -0. Community Redevelopment Meeting March 24, 2010 Page Two 5. NEW BUSINESS A. FY08 /09 CRA Annual Report Accept Report to Forward to Council Administrative 7 -25 Services Transmittal, Report) (CAFR Previously Provided Under Separate Cover) The City Manager said the Administrative Services Department prepared the report and he would answer any questions. MOTION by Ms. Coy and SECOND by Mr. Hill to approve forwarding the report to City Council carried on a voice vote of 5 -0. 27 -43 B. CAVCORP Concept (City Manager Transmittal, Conceptual Plans, Estimates) The City Manager presented a conceptual plan done by Brad Smith from 1993 the Clerk provided which showed a plan very similar to the one being considered tonight, which received unanimous Council approval to close then Fellsmere Road, but ultimately did not occur when the City entered into the Community Development Block grant. He handed it to Council to review. The City Manager then gave a Power Point presentation (see attached), noting the design being looked at tonight came from the 2001 Charrette. He responded to questions from Council relative to available funds from CRA and recreation impact fees, and stated that recreation impact fees are to be designated for use in the district from which they are collected but not if you have a community project. He suggested revisiting the recreation impact fee ordinance in the future to make it more pure. He responded to questions about plans to pave Cleveland and Coolidge Streets and the difference in funds, stating it was discussed to resurface the two streets with the bond money or in this project, CRA funds would be used to widen, improve drainage, and landscape the streets. Joe Schulke, Schulke, Bittle and Stoddard, said paving was not included in the plan before them tonight. Mayor Gillmor said the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) has prioritized Laconia and South Easy in their plan so there is a chance we will get money for those and there will be bond money available for the streets in the district. In response to Mr. Wright, the City Manager said this project would be done over two fiscal years and the shortfall in funds would be $197,893, noting the design would take at least six months and put us into the next fiscal year. He said no grant funds had been sought as yet but there may be grants available. He reminded them that this is only conceptual at this time, 2 Community Redevelopment Meeting March 24, 2010 Page Three Mr. Schulke described the exfiltration system in the design with inlets and piping to take water underground to treatment before stormwater goes to the river. The City Manager said staff is seeking approval to move forward with the with the Competitive Consultants Negotiating Act (CCNA) process so they can move forward with design, public input, and a contract to come back to Council for approval. He said there would be no effect on the general fund and Council would not be committing to any type of design. Mr. Wright asked if there were cost estimates for bump outs as part of this and the City Manager said this would be a two phased project and Mr. Schulke was working on it. Mr. Wright remembered in 2003 there was an outcry not to close Sebastian Blvd. Mayor Gillmor said this is too large a project to move forward without public comment and was concerned staff wanted Council to bless it. He did not agree with closing the road in light of MPO work on keeping US1 four lanes by keeping adding additional connectivity and said now we are talking about closing a road. He said we need that access to the riverfront, we need to keep the large oak in the middle of the Cavcorp property, the clock and kiosk would have to be moved, we would lose car parking spaces, he'd like to see turf block considered rather than asphalt in the parking area, did not see how the promenade would enhance anything, and said we are not considering paving of Cleveland and Coolidge in the plan. He said it needs to be redesigned with public input. Ms. Coy said we are not here to approve design but bless a concept and commit funds. She said she had many issues and would like to see a number attached to the Main Street part of the plan and do it altogether in phases. She noted that the district was created in 1995 and it took ten years to get it started, listing the accomplishments from the CRA report in the last five years. She said she wanted to look at the CRA District overall and make it so you know you are in a district. Mr. Hill thanked Mr. Schulke for his work, said this project goes back to 1993, and closing Sebastian Blvd was controversial, that he is hearing the need for more public input to include bump outs and road. He suggested we open up the CRA master plan with tabletop meetings with the public, citing the success of the previous Charrette process. He said now after the success of the Main Street project we need to look at the whole CRA District and the master plan and then go forward. Mr. Wright said he pretty much agreed with most of what the other members were saying but was concerned with the statement that if Council is happy with the design concepts, we can move forward. He said he was not hearing that Council is happy with the design concept and the focus is too much on Cavcorp and it should include more of US1 and Council should consider amending the order of it. He said he wondered if this was the best use of the CRA money for the next two and a half years, said we need to enhance 3 Richard H. Gillmor, Mayor ATTES Community Redevelopment Meeting March 24, 2010 Page Four the visual appearance of the district and there are things we can do on US 1, and with Cavcorp tucked behind Hess station he was not so sure of it's visibility. He said there were some concepts he liked in the design like the organizing parking but was concerned for losing car parking, suggesting pulling the property south on Indian River Drive together with this. He further cited the current DOT evaluation of the speed limit on US 1, the enhancement of US 1 could be done separately and before Cavcorp, described his efforts to pull out on US 1 today with traffic speeding down the road, and said this needs more input. Mr. Wolff said he was in Winn Dixie recently and was told "Council loves to spend money noted caution in giving contracts to campaign contributors and said we need to look at other ideas and get all encompassing viewpoints. Mayor Gillmor said it would be unwise to move forward without a traffic study, and he was hearing a consensus to workshop this, noting that public input at the end of the agenda after Council was out of order. MOTION by Mr. Hill and SECOND by Ms. Coy to have Council re- examine the CRA master plan through public meetings at workshops. The City Manager asked if Council wanted staff to close down shop or redraw the plan. Mr. Hill said if we find out Cavcorp is not a public priority and said let's workshop. Result of the roll call vote: AYES: Hill, Coy, Wolff, Wright, Gillmor NAYS: None Motion carried 6. PUBLIC INPUT None 7. Being no further business, Mayor Gillmor adjourned the CRA meeting at 6:25 p.m. Approved at the April 14, 2010 CRA meeting. Sally A. Maio MC City Clerk 4