Parks and Recreation Committee - Regular Meeting

Welcome to the December 15th meeting of the Parks and Recreation Committee. Would you please call the roll?

Thank you. Let me give everybody a chance to review the minutes. Mm-hmm.

WE SKIP AN ITEM. KEEP ME STRAIGHT, BUDDY. RUDY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD THE ITEM ON THE SCOOTER AND... YES, I WOULD.

He was once called the homeless Santa. All right.

The school system also has that. It's a good system and the parents do use it. Yes, they do.

Did you discuss anything about them putting aid on the bus?

Who brought that up? Mario. Mario is... Tell me the truth. I do. He gets that, the man needs to be hired for life. The school board doesn't do school buses unless you're two miles outside of your home to the school sites. But, hey, he might know.

Actually getting school board to go to Bay Harbor. Okay.

Is it still out for bid? The concession thing?

For years we've been dealing with in and out of people. It's just not enough to make a living off it. How many people are at the pool today? Some days it's packed. Some days there's nobody there. You have to be prepared.

It's still out. The bid is still out. The advertisement to bid.

I could ask them to do that. Yeah. There's something that could be done on social media with Cindy.

Yeah. Mayor Novak, that was in office for 14 years, could certainly talk about the process, and how important it is, and what kind of things does an elected official do in a town that's eight by eight.

Because I believe that if you had, Joe, put in paperwork, I'm going to run, And there was also two others that you would have to invite them all.

I don't know. Well, maybe it's, do you? These brunches are every month. Yes, sir. So maybe it's a little early for that. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. For the elect, you know, let people get their paperwork in and then probably on with it. More because I'm tired of seeing these elections that cost the town a lot of money and having a couple hundred people come out. Exactly. Right.

Let's move the agenda on. Senior programming is not the only thing that we need to talk about at these meetings.

How many people do you have signed up for the trip? We have 17.

No, it was... You know, well-attended, and thank goodness, you know, I wrote to you today. When that man called for a 90% rain chance, I'm saying it can't. It can't rain. And nothing happened. Not a drop. It was sunny. Yeah. A little hot, but we'll take it over rain. Yeah, for sure. No, but it was nice. The activities were nice. You got feedback from the guests. Yeah.

personally kind of bothered me a little bit when you see children getting out of very expensive cars and getting a toy. But it's what we do. Either that or they can, but it's, I think, do we also give, were there leftover toys at all? Food, giveaways. But it was a good event again. Correct. And I like the little bounce house and the little slide, so the little kids could really participate too.

You have no count to say how many people were residents and non-residents. That would be really difficult to do. I knew you were clicking, coming in the gate.

Kids are going to come from all over the town. I know they're great. You know, you had the activity. That was a short time ago you had the other activity. What was before that? Halloween?

No. We got a lot of pushback building that building, but I think it was a great thing. Winter session programming.

I like the idea. Have the parents been asking for that?

So it is, would it be a, you could, if you, could you register for the full session and then make payments or is it?

Which, that's what I asked about money, you know, because I think.

Yeah. Let's see if the system will allow us to make any adjustments to paying 50% and 50%. I mean, you've got to pay the coaches, you've got to pay the safety, you've got to pay our people to be there. I mean, it's good to have a menu.

Is there any scholarships offered by the town if a kid says, I can't, I want to play basketball, but my mom can't do it? Nothing on the way out.

Maybe you give the other side where, yeah, you'd have to come up with a total amount when you register rather than half and half.

Are we comparable in our cost to residents to a Miami Beach park doing the same activity? Or cost? I don't know. For a long time, it's my kids playing baseball and t-ball.

Is there a cap? We're opening up for basketball in January.

So it's a first-come, first-served. So if parents had the extended session already signed up for, they would go on to the next one.

We're not getting in or not getting in to a particular sport.

Well, I'm just saying, I'm saying if I signed up for soccer in the fall, and now it ends, and basketball's starting in January, they want to... You have to sign up for basketball, it's a totally different program. Okay. It just doesn't roll over. So what's... So it's... Ah, I got you. So that really wouldn't take any matter. Okay. Winter camp is...

More carefully on the flyers. 5A, Surfside Safety. I asked Rudy to look into, we have a serious problem in the residential area with children riding the electric bikes, electric scooters. They're not stopping at all at stop signs. They are doing way more than 20 miles an hour in the residential area. They're doing tricks and they're not wearing the approved, under 16 by state law they're supposed to be wearing helmets. They're supposed to be single rider on a scooter. Sometimes it's two. Sometimes it's a parent and a kid with no helmets. So I ask, this is going back to Tim about working togeth

And I still don't understand why Publix allows them to come into the store Adults and children. Why CVS allows them, even though they have signage that says no scooters in here, they're bringing the electric scooters right into CVS. Like dogs. What did you come up with?

Is the registration... process the same as sunny isles uses sunny isles beach because every scooter every e-bike everybody has to be registered they have to go over a safety protocol with that frank i think we would be best or i think it's ideal just to focus on our residents That's what I'm saying. But I want to mirror the system that they have in Sunny Isles Beach.

Oh, absolutely. I still think our police department should be involved. And I hate to say it, but some teachers make an example of a child in the classroom that's doing wrong, and they make an example out of that child. We need a couple of these children to be tagged. for their speeding.

From what I understand, they have a registration process where the parents have to sign off on it. There's a safety, almost kind of a quiz, like a driver's test they have to somewhat pass. You know, I will wear a helmet. I will ride one person on an e-bike or a scooter. And then it's registered in the city. And they must have some kind of a decal or something. You remember when you were young, you used to have registered your bike in day categories. I do, too.

You used to come to the volunteer fire company right here. And the volunteer fire company used to be right here where the gym is. And they would register your bike.

They shouldn't be... From what I read, with the state scooter and e-bikes, they're supposed to wear a helmet if they're under 16. They're supposed to follow the street signs, signage, stop signs, speed limits. Those e-bikes have speedometers on them. I guarantee you they're going faster than 20.

One police patrol on the beach, but it's...

People with SUVs aren't going to abide by them. But we have enough police on our streets that can handle that, but...

But I'd like to see a combination of the three. A combination of having parks do an educational workshop, offer a workshop for parents to come, saying that this is coming up, I'd like you to work with the police department to get this registration process started. I don't really know what it involves and I hope it's not in depth, but I think before we have a problem.

Right, tied to the requirement that there will be a registration process in the near future that you need to come to this workshop to learn what it's about.

It's not just the kids that are riding these things. It's a lot of people that are working, you know, I see them parked outside of the audience. It's obviously a lot of the hostesses and waiters that are, it's an easy way to get to work. You only live down the street. It's an easy way to get to work. But they're zipping through.

I appreciate you guys looking into it and keeping the ball moving. Set by the wayside for a little while, but I'm glad to see it's moving.

Anything else? 5B Surfside Santa. What's up with Santa?

Is this something that would be out for bid?

Okay. So when he comes down, before next year, we need a makeover.

Where is he stored these days? He used to be stored by the trash trucks. Where's he stored? He's stored at the community center.

Okay. So we're going to recruit Oliver to need me to get paints or whatever we need. Clean them up a little bit? Zap them up?

So is the sand uneven? Is it not packed anymore?

So it needs to be leveled and compacted.

And the last time I walked on it, there were a lot of people that liked to walk.

So what... Do you think it was ruined because of the re-nourishment project? The dune re-nourishment?

Elevate the dune. Yeah. But if they're going to have a walking path on the dune, it needs to be.

This sounds like a manager issue. Yeah, now we're talking about how manager it can be.

But it's not our department. That's why. Back to the meeting. I'm going to direct you to please speak to the manager and get back with us and the resident, of course.

aware of, I thought that you would be not in charge of the beach and the nourishment and stuff like that, but you would help to be aware of the maintenance of the walking path and the hard pack. You're not. So we don't know whether it's Public Works, whether it's Durham, whether it's

We need to know who's going to make it right. We paid for this, or the state paid for it. It needs to be done right.

But I'm asking you to go through the manager because he would direct.

Sir, did you have something you wanted to speak on? No.

Next meeting date will be on the 21st, January 21st.