am john up with the city of sarasota and this is your commission recap a look at the actions taken by the city commission at their regular meeting of june sixteenth two thousand and fourteen after citizens input the commission move to approval of minutes they approve the minutes of the regular city commission meeting of june second with corrections and also approve the minutes of the special city commission of june fourth next and board actions the commission accepted a report from the public art committee's regular meeting may fourteenth two thousand and fourteen they also approve the expenditure of up to fourteen thousand four hundred dollars for replacement of sculptures at the children's fountain and tuition issue an r f p for the hiring of a project manager to assist in acquiring art to be placed in future roundabouts on u s forty one after that the move to a consent agenda is one and two they approved consent agenda one and adopted all of consent agenda to next move to unfinished business first they received a legislative session update from state representative representative jim boyd of the seventy first district no no action was taken on that agenda item next was a presentation and discussion regarding a status report from the florida department of transportation regarding the us forty one roundabouts project from tenth to fourteenth street the commission directed staff to research the cost of decorative lighting and report that back to the commission next was second reading of a proposed ordinance amending the sarasota city code by creating a multi modal transportation impact feet program to be imposed upon new development as well as the authority to enact a multi modal transportation impact the ordinance and this was adopted on second reading next was a presentation in discussion to request approval to set for a public hearing in order to establish a proposed water and sewer rate increase this was a was made to set a public hearing with a proposed rate increase of six percent next was a discussion to authorize the purchase and sale agreement between the sale of the city of sarasota and rosemary square l l c for the city owned property at fourteen forty boulevard of the arts and fourteen thirty three fifth street the commission voted to move forward with the sales contract with the construction did begin sixty days after the closing and to bring back that redevelopment agreement within one hundred twenty days and also to include hazardous waste remediation language as was suggested by the city attorney and next was the continued discussion of the homelessness status report the commission voted to remove zero nine north line avenue site from consideration as a proposed homeless shelter the commission began the evening session with the proclamation recognizing former city finance director chris lyons for the florida government finance officers association's lifetime achievement award then after citizens input the commission moved to legislative public hearings there were three of those first was a proposed resolution requesting an amendment to do the comprehensive plan by adding a new extant strategy creating the rosemary residential overlay district also known as the r rod showing that district bounded on the north by ten st on the west by coconut on the south by fruit e road and on the east by north orange ave this was adopted with the one change of keeping may lane and coconut avenue as primary streets and setting a four year sunset date next was a proposed ordinance amending the zoning code districts by adding a new rosemary residential over lake district the this was approved on first reading with another four years sunset date and again keeping may lane and poking at avenue as primary streets there's also consensus to discuss at their next meeting exploring the expansion the the west of coconut avenue provided that the developer pay for that next the commission passed on first reading and an ordinance axing certain real property consisting of parcels having street furniture on hawthorne street and lynn her street and generally located east of the current city limits on a total avenue in the area from linux her street on the north to arlington street on the south this was passed five zero next was a public hearing of of a proposal to rezone a parcel of property located at twenty seven twenty four twenty seven thirty two and twenty seven forty eight fruitvale road from the residential single family to zone district to the office community zone district and approving a site plan application for properties at twenty seven zero eight twenty seven twenty four twenty seven thirty two and twenty seven forty eight group bill road allowing an existing thirty nine hundred square foot office building as well as a proposed five thousand and forty eight square foot office building this also passed five to zero with some modifications next the commission moved to new business the adopted a proposed resolution declaring a street closures on main street between orange avenue and gulf stream avenue beginning after the two thousand and fourteen fourth of july weekend and continue through september of two thousand and fifteen and this is in order to mitigate the impact of the various down const downtown construction projects going on next was a discussion to establish a process for filling future vacancies on the city commission now there was consensus for the city attorney to draft resolution to clearly define their parameters by which applicants can apply for the vacant seats and which would include a two week timeline beginning at noon on september second and ending at noon on september sixteenth two thousand and fourteen during which the applicants would submit their applications and questionnaires for consideration there was also consensus to utilize the application form provided by the city auditor and clerk with the inclusion of language indicating that the applicant has lived in the appropriate district for at least one year and to utilize utilized the gubernatorial questionnaire as well and finally there was a presentation and discussion regarding the possible skat bus facility relocation now again there was consensus for the city attorney to review the contract with the county regarding the bus transfer to station and determine when the city would need to give notice of interest in buying back their property there's also consist to have staff research  and report back on the status of the street that runs down the south of the parking garage and whether the city or county owns that and there was also consensus to expressed concern to the county about locating a bus transfer station near a neighborhood and a park and give notice of the city's intention to buy back the downtown bus transfers to transfer station property and that did it for the regular city commission meeting of june sixteenth two thousand and fourteen if you like to look at the agenda the