approval of the minutes there was one meeting to approve the minutes for which they did with no corrections then they convened to a special session of the c r a they had two items to deal with as the c r a the first was an approval of minutes of a previous meeting which again they did with no correction the second item was an appointment to the newtown community redevelopment agency advisory board there was two members to appoint to the board and they appointed mary colleen mchugh and joe hembery then they reconvened as the city commission and moved on to consent agenda one they they approved all consented gender one except for one item which was pulled this was pulled by commissioner chapman who initially made a motion to deny the funding request in that item and that was defeated by a three two vote commissioner kerik julio then made a motion to approve the funding request as presented and that was approved by three to two vote with vice mayor cheye and commissioner chapman voting no so all of consent agenda was then approved senate gena one excuse me was  approved then they moved to consented to and that was adopted and then they moved on to unfinished business the first out of unfinished business was to execute the restated lease agreement with marine max for sixty no one can thompson boulevard  now this was a twenty year lease that was at the appraised rental value of three hundred fifty thousand dollars per year plus increases this was approved five to nothing with the understanding that the filing would be added  statement of city policy that no lease be extended beyond the year two thousand and fifty then the commission moved on to first review of fiscal year two thousand and fifteen strategic plan objectives there was consensus to direct staff to explore the ability to collaborate with the county on several of the objectives and they added these following issues one to collaborate efforts and data collection with external organizations regarding families and children as part of partnership policing the second thing was to work with sarasota county on extending the legacy trail and the third was to explore consolidating sustainability efforts with the county they also discussed the potential to hold off on the invitation to negotiate regarding the property formerly occupied by gee whiz in order to revisit the cultural park master plan then they moved on to commission presentations and the first was a presentation that proclaimed february the sixteenth through the twenty fourth as engineers week in the city of sarasota then the next presentation was a formal presentation of the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting and a distinguished budget presentation award after that they moved on to another round of citizens input and then on to public hearings there were two the first public hearing was a proposed ordinance expanding the duties of the independent police advisory panel to include recommendations concerning administrative aspects of policing in addition to policy matters this was passed on first reading the second public hearing was a proposed ordinance requiring a public hearing before the city commission for street closures which will last more than seventy two hours in connection with special events this was also passed on first reading then the commission moved on to unfinished business the first item was a status report of urban chicken keeping within the city of sarasota and the commission direction was to continue with the ordinance in its current form then they moved on to new business the first item was a discussion of the sarasota police department waiver form for volunteers they discussed the waiver forms and cleared up some issues that some of the volunteers had been confused about and discussed the potential for future training for volunteers no action was taken the second item of new business was a proposed resolution declaring that the county ordinance relating to the regulation of designer drugs shall be effective in the city of sarasota this was adopted the third item of new business was was regarding revisions to the city's noise ordinance now this item was continued to a future meeting so that the city attorney could could address certain questions that had arisen related to the ordinance the next item of new business was regarding a letter from  minister county administrator thomas harmer regarding solicitation in rights of way the counties was looking for cross jurisdictional consistency with this ordinance the commission consensus was to authorize the city attorney to send a letter to the county stating that both the city and the county ordinance relating to that issue had been considered and that the commission the city commission will continue with the city or cities ordinance as it's currently written the last item on the agenda was a request by greenpoint communities to ignition is zoning text amendment that would allow the duration of a development agreement to be up to thirty years this is the application for an expedited process was denied and they directed staff not to process the zoning text amendment to the to allow this duration to be increased up to thirty years and that did it for the meeting of february the eighteenth two thousand and fourteen if you'd like to take a look at the video or any of the back up material you can do so at our web site at sarasota gov dot com on the right side you'll see a link that says video on demand for the city of sarasota miles larson will see you after the next meeting