larson with the city of sarasota and this is your commission recap it looked back at the regular city commission meeting of february the second two thousand and fifteen the commission began the afternoon session as they always do with citizens input concerning city topics and then they moved into approval of the minutes there were two meetings to approve the minutes for the first with the minutes from the special city commission meeting of january the fifteenth two thousand and four two thousand and fifteen excuse me those minutes were approved the next were the regular city commission meeting minutes from january twentieth two thousand and fifteen and those minutes were approved with corrections after that the commission moved into consent agenda one all the items on consent one were approved and then they moved into consented genda two and all the items on consent to were adopted after that the commission went to board appointments there was one to take care of and it was the bobby jones golf club study committee now the commission appointed the following members to that committee john bonder j logan milly's small clarence rogers rich kill in dan smith and norman domain after that the commission moved on to unfinished business the first item of unfinished business was a discussion regarding the banner program the commission did discuss this item but no action was taken and then was approval of proposed zoning text amendments another commission tabled this item until the march second two thousand and fifteen regular city commission meeting the commission then took a dinner break and when they returned they went right into commission presentations the first presentation was a proclamation proclaiming february sixth two thousand and fifteen as a crossing guard appreciation day the next presentation was a proclamation regarding children first head start fiftieth awareness fiftieth anniversary awareness month after that commission moved on to unfinished business the first item of unfinished business was a discussion regarding direction on leasehold located at one north lemmon avenue it's currently leased by madison city grill the commission approved the restated lease agreement with madison city grow with the option of two five year extensions the next item of unfinished business was it to continue discussion regarding the homelessness status report the commission directed then agenda item pertaining to the homelessness status report appear on the city commission agenda once every month after that there was another round of citizens input concerning city topics and then the commission moved into public hearings there were two legislative public hearings to take care of the first was a complement amendment  for a city owned land located at the north east intersection of fruitvale road and an evil road with a street address of four hundred north but he rode the commission denied the compliment meant for insufficient showing a public benefit the next  legislative public hearing was a proposed ordinance regarding the downtown improvement district to affirm and to clarify the authority of the downtown improvement district to award grants after that the commission moved on to new business there was just with this the one item of new business remaining on the agenda and it was an approval regarding modifications to the vehicle for hire ordinance the commission directed staff to continue to work on an ordinance to improve the standards for vehicles for hire and bring this item back to the city commission prior to setting the item for public airing and that dated for the regular city commission meeting of february the second two thousand and fifteen 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 dot com look for video on demand  miles larsen with the city of sarasota and we'll see you after the next meeting