hi everybody i'm miles larson with the city of sarasota and this is your commission recap a look back at some of the actions of the regular city commission meeting of april the seventh two thousand and fourteen jumping right in the commission began the afternoon with citizens input and then moved on to approval of the minutes there was one meeting to approve the minutes for it was the regular city commission meeting of march seventeenth two thousand and fourteen and they did approve those minutes then they moved to board actions there was one board action it was a report from the parking advisory committee  and the there was no action taken on that makes up to the report that they moved to consent agenda one and two consent agenda one was approved there was one item polled by commissioner chapman so she could abstain from that item that i was also approved and then they moved to consent agenda to which was adopted after that the commission then moved onto unfinished business there was two items of unfinished business the first was to authorize the mayor to send a letter to the sarasota county commission regarding the sarasota action plan and regarding the down payment assistance program what the commission did on this item was approved an advertisement of an amendment to the sarasota action plan to eliminate h o m e funding for the downpayment assistance program and to reallocate the six hundred thousand dollars in funding to the housing rehab program and they also directed that in the event that sarasota county wishes to proceed with a down payment systems program that any release of the six hundred thousand dollars would be conditioned upon a fully executed agreement for indemnification by the county then the second out of unfinished business this was the last item on the agenda for the afternoon was a continued discussion regarding homelessness natus  date on the homelessness status no action was taken on the side of that it for the afternoon the evening session began with two presentations the first was a proclamation proclaiming april two thousand and fourteen as child abuse prevention month  and the second presentation was a proclamation proclaiming april two thousand and fourteen as sexual assault awareness month then there were two scheduled presentations the first was a presentation from the more to life community rejuvenating and support  this is a nonprofit organization focused on human trafficking and the second presentation was from the sister cities association of sarasota then there was another round of citizens input there was no public hearings on the agenda then they moved to new business there was four items of new business to deal with the first was an approval regarding the bayfront connectivity plan two thousand and fourteen update the commission approved the addition of a roundabout us forty one and ringling boulevard to the bay front connectivity plan and further evaluation as part of this system of u s forty one roundabouts under evaluation by the florida department of transportation the second item of new business was in approval regarding the sarasota manatee county  o funding requests for congestion management system transportation alternatives program in the us forty one multi modal emphasis emphasis quarter or the commission approve the projects to be submitted to the m p o including median walkabouts on washington boulevard and others that staff presented specifically those were us three zero one between fruitvale and tenth roundabouts at ringling boulevard and us forty one and ringing boulevard in pine place and  improvements to the cone key bridge the third item of new business on the agenda was a presentation in discussion regarding a potential city of service to a charter amendment that in effect would cap tax rate increases not to exceed three percent of the prior y budget approved by the city commission this was placed on the agenda by mayor snyder and after some discussion the commission agreed to direct the city manager to include a third column to consider during the coming budget formulation to apply in theory the city of sarasota venice and the city of venice or next excuse me regarding not increasing the general fund budget by more than three percent or c p i whichever is greater as an academic exercise to determine how would it impact sarasota budget the fourth item a new business and the last item on the agenda was a discussion regarding the independent police advisory panels alleged sunshine law violations now after some discussion again the city commission agreed to direct the city attorney not to send a letter to the attorneys for citizens for sunshine that the city should not admit fault and should not pay any money and they further directed the city attorney to draft a new ordinance for the independent police advisory panel to remedy the referenced ex officio members and that was it for the regular city commission meeting of april the seventh 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 website sarasota go dot com look for video on demand and that's your commission recap for april seventh two thousand and fourteen if you'd like to send us an e mail you can do so it's commission report at sarasota com miles larson with the city of serve so we'll see you after the next meeting