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January 5, 2000
MEMORANDUM
TO: The Honorable Mayor
and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Jim
SUBJECT: Follow-up items from Commission meetings
The following are responses to questions and requests for additional information that
were made at recent City Commission meetings:
Beach Preservation Association Workshoas; At the last regular meeting of the City
Commission, action was deferred on the possible approval for Suzanne Shaughnessy to
attend future Florida Shore and Beach Preservation Association workshops. Staff was
requested to prepare an estimate of the cost to attend the workshops and determine if
other attendees could be authorized on behalf of the City of Atlantic Beach. We have
been advised by David Tait, Executive Director of FSBA, that funding for future
workshops has not been approved by the Legislature at this time and no further
workshops have been scheduled. Therefore, an estimate of the cost to attend future
workshops is not available. Mr. Tait also indicated that it would be possible for Atlantic
Beach to appoint another elected or appointed official to attend these workshops in the
future.
Flyover Project; Follow-up letters have been sent to the JTA and JEA since the last
meeting of the City Commission outlining the items discussed at that meeting. The next
staff meeting with JTA has not yet been scheduled although several telephone
conversations have occurred, mostly concerning sidewalks, bike lanes, and traffic patterns
in the Section H area. Both the FDOT and JTA are investigating the possibility of
designating bike lanes or adding sidewalks to the new bridge over the Intra-Coastal
Waterway as well as the Flyover Project, although no final commitments have been
received from either organization at this time. We expect to receive a copy of the RS&H
report on the estimated traffic effects of the Flyover Project before the City Commission
meeting on January 10, 2000.
Follow-up items report
January 5, 2000
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The JTA has requested that Atlantic Beach take formal action to close First Street. Alan
3ensen is preparing the necessary documents to do so and should have them ready for
consideration at the January 24 Commission meeting. He is also reviewing an agreement
for Atlantic Beach to accept maintenance responsibility for Flyover landscaping.
Storm Water Review Committee; By the time of the Commission meeting, the date and
location of the next Storm Water Review Committee meeting should have been finalized.
As of the date of this writing, two dates (1/13 at 6:30 p. m. and 1/12 at 6:30 p. m.) are
being proposed to SRC members to determine their availability.