miles larson with the city of sarasota and this is your commission report a look ahead at the wreck of the city commission meeting of august twenty first two thousand and seventeen want to let you know before we get started that the agenda is subject to change and sometimes it does at the last minute the commission begins the afternoon session of the meeting with citizens input concerning city topics and then they move on to approval of the minutes there are two meetings to approve the minutes for the first are the minutes from the special sarasota city commission meeting of july tenth two thousand and seventeen and then the minutes from the regular city commission meeting of july seventeenth two thousand and seventeen the commission will then recess and convene into a special session of the community redevelopment agency there are two items to take up for the c r a the first is an approval of the minutes from the special c r a meeting of march twentieth two thousand and seventeen the next item is a report from the newtown community redevelopment agency advisory board regular meeting of july thirteenth two thousand and seventeen the c r a will then adjourn and reconvene as the city commission and move into consent agenda number one and then consent agenda number two after that comes board appointments there are two board appointments to take care of the first is an appointment to the citizens with disabilities advisory board and then is an appointment to the human relations board next comes unfinished business there are five items of unfinished business to take care of the first is a proposed resolution creating an ad hoc tree advisory committee to review options for amendments to the city of sarasota tree protection ordinances the next item of unfinished business is a proposed resolution extending  for main street between orange avenue and gulf stream avenue for a period of one year commencing october two thousand and seventeen and continuing through september two thousand and eighteen in order to mitigate the impact of various downtown construction projects the next item of unfinished business is the second reading of a proposed ordinance to vacate an approximately twenty foot wide platted alley right of way near dr martin luther king jr way and twenty eighth street the next item of unfinished business an approval to authorize the mayor and city auditor and clerk to execute the purchase and sale agreement between the city of sarasota and twenty three thirty two seventeenth street l l c four the city owned portion of the vacant right of way of sixteenth street in the amount of four thousand six hundred fifty dollars the fifth item of unfinished business and this is the last item on the agenda for the afternoon is an approval of the preliminary two thousand and eighteen legislative priorities for the city of sarasota and that will do it for the afternoon session of the regular city commission meeting of aug twenty first two thousand and seventeen if you'd like to take a look at the agenda or any of the back up material you can do so at our website sarasota dot com on the right side look for video on demand the meeting will be getting underway shortly miles larson with the city of sarasota