Tag Archive for ‘Rick Conner’

Katz asks SIB to adjust 183rd Street safety deal

The largest taxpayer and self-anointed “No. 1 citizen” of Sunny Isles Beach isn’t a happy camper.
Again.
Raanan Katz, principal of RK Associates, thinks he’s being unfairly gouged – to the tune of $16,000 over two months – for a police officer and two crossing guards at the troubled intersection of Collins Avenue and 183rd Street. He [...]

SIB rethinking restaurant plan at Newport pier

The fine-dining restaurant that’s been a signature feature of Sunny Isles Beach’s plan to rebuild the Newport fishing pier is on life support.
A few weeks ago, state officials surprised city officials by balking at plans for an expanded 5,000-square-foot, two-story, fully enclosed restaurant as part of the pier project. Any construction beyond the existing 2,600-square-foot [...]

SIB looking at hole in budget

The new fiscal year begins Oct. 1 and Sunny Isles Beach’s budget already has sprung a leak.
On Sept. 22, the City Commission – with Bud Scholl absent — gave its unanimous approval to the spending plan in under three minutes. That edged out Aventura’s City Commission, which took all of four minutes to approve its [...]

SIB budget draws no complaints

What if they held a budget hearing and nobody showed up to complain?
That’s just what happened Sept. 10 when the Sunny Isles Beach City Commission reviewed the proposed $26 million city budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.
Against a backdrop of contentious budget hearings in nearby cities, school districts and Miami-Dade County, Sunny Isles [...]

Art from Dunes to be used at park garage

In building a parking garage at the new Heritage Park, Sunny Isles Beach officials are planning a tribute of sorts to the city’s roots.
A series of Egyptian-style tablets that once hung in the lobby of The Dunes hotel will adorn the entrance of the parking structure. The six images have been stored by the city [...]

Newport Pier renovation finished by June, city manager vows

Like Channing Crowder boldly guaranteeing a Dolphins’ victory, Sunny Isles Beach City Manager Rick Conner has made a bold prediction of his own: the restoration of the historic Newport Pier will be complete in time for the city’s anniversary celebration next June.
In updating the city’s historic preservation committee on the project July 22, Conner repeated [...]

SIB to revisit traffic plan for Heritage Park

Sunny Isles Beach city officials have agreed to meet with unhappy residents of Ocean Reserve and discuss ways to improve traffic flow for the proposed Heritage Park. 
 
Using the comment period after the city commission had completed its business July 16, Jennifer Levin of Ocean View Tower B told commissioners the latest drawing of the park’s [...]

SIB ready to purchase land for new park

The Sunny Isles Beach park building juggernaut is poised to take another step forward Thursday evening.
That’s when the City Commission will take up a plan to purchase a small shopping center at 16100 Collins Ave. The city is prepared to pay $4.8 million to Malibu Plaza on the Bay LLC for the property on the [...]

SIB looks for savings in cultural, social programs

Sunny Isles Beach commissioners have instructed city staff to take a hard look at  recreational and cultural programs as the city tightens its belt in the face of lower anticipated tax receipts.
At a budget workshop June 30, commissioners pored over the proposed $1.8 million budget of the Cultural and Human Services Department looking for potential [...]

Money OK’d to start work on SIB’s Heritage Park

The Sunny Isles Beach City Commission has approved spending $9.25 million to get work started on Heritage Park, including a parking garage and perhaps the oft-discussed basketball court for youth in the city’s north end.
The June 18 vote was unanimous but Acting City Manager Rick Conner stressed that renderings he was showing were preliminary and [...]