everybody i'm miles larson with the city of sarasota and this is your commission recap a look back at the regular city commission meeting of august twenty first two thousand and seventeen the commission began the afternoon session of the meeting with citizens input concerning city topics and then they moved on to approval of the minutes there were two meetings to approve the minutes for the first where the minutes from the special sarasota city commission meeting of july tenth two thousand and seventeen these minutes were approved with corrections  the minutes from the regular city commission meeting of july seventeenth two thousand and seventeen these minutes were approved the commission then recessed and convened into a special session of the community redevelopment agency there were two items to take up for the advisory board regular meeting of july thirteenth two thousand and seventeen this report was accepted the c r a then adjourned and reconvened as the city commission and moved into consent agenda number one then consent agenda number two all the items on consent one were approved and all the items on consent to were adopted after that came board appointments there were two board appointments to take care of the first was an appointment to the citizens with disabilities advisory board the commission appointed faith battus then was an appointment to the human relations board in the commission appointed thomas graining next came unfinished business there were five items of unfinished business to take care of the first was a proposed resolution creating an ad advisory committee to review options for amendments to the city of sera so to treat protection ordinances this item was adopted the next item of unfinished business was a proposed resolution extending a moratorium on street closures for main street between orange avenue and gulfstream ave 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 this item was adopted the next item of unfinished business was 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 in twenty eighth street this item was adopted on second reading the next item of unfinished business was 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 for the city owned portion of the vacant right of way of sixteenth street in the amount of four thousand six hundred fifty dollars this item was approved the fifth item of unfinished business and this was the last item on the agenda for the afternoon an approval of the preliminary two thousand and eighteen legislative priorities for the city of sarasota this item was approved with changes and additions the commission then took a short break in return for the evening session they began with commission presentations there was one it was a presentation of the employee of the quarter for the second quarter of two thousand and seventeen after another round of citizens and quit concerning city topics the commission moved on to new business there were five items of new business to take care of the first was a discussion regarding citizens requests to consider design changes to u s forty one the commission chose to move forward with three lanes and the hawk as well as the fruitvale road intersection with the addition of thirty mile an hour signs and two cross walks the next item of new business was a discussion regarding retiring health insurance the commission directed staff to meet with fire and police retirees to engage in bilateral discussions and return with options to move forward and place an item on the september fifth agenda the next item of new business was an approval to authorize the mayor and city auditor and clerk to execute the major encroachment agreement between the city of sarasota and the boulevard sarasota  at five hundred and five forty north tamiami trail and twelve twenty four boulevard of the arts this item was approved the next item of new business was a request from william russell the president and c e o of the sarasota housing authority for the city manager to execute a subordination to the rental assistance demonstration use agreement for jamie's garden face to this item was approved the next item of new business and this was the last item on the agenda was a presentation and discussion of weather warning and response systems briefing and that did it for the regular city commission meeting of august twenty first two thousand and seventeen if you'd like to take a look at the video and any of the backup material you can do so at our website dot com on the right side look for video on demand i'm miles larson with the city of sarasota and we'll see you after the next meeting