of sarasota and this year commission recap look at the actions taken by the city commission at their regular meeting february seventeenth two thousand and fifteen first up was the approval of minutes of the special joint meeting of the convocation of governments  sarasota board of county commissioners the school board of sarasota county the city commissions of the cities of north port and sarasota the town commission of the town of longboat key and the city council of the city of venice that meeting was january sixteenth and those minutes were approved next the commission approved the minutes of the regular city commission meeting of february second with corrections and also approved the minutes of the special city commission meeting of february tenth next it was consent jenna's the commission approved  consent one and adopted all items on consent to that was followed by board appointments first was the appointment to the enterprise zone development agency board of commissioners the commission appointed alexandra cho and tracy wagner next was appointment to the parks recreation and virus protection advisory board the commission appointed mary ellen kirkwood and reappointed carl shawn pierce and robert surgeon and finally the commission appointed william j fuller the third as the chairperson for the independent police advisory panel next for three items of unfinished business one of those items was moved to the evening session because of time constraints first was a discussion of the information technology department issues including benchmarking of a turnaround plan protocol for audit follow up and protocol for audit security now there was consensus for the i t department to present a budget amendment at the next meeting to fund fire wall upgrades a commercial uplink and a security manager position next was the approval of the purchase and sale agreement for the liner building site adjacent to the northern trust garage also the summary of terms for the a dent m to the purchase and sale agreement for the pad like parcel at straight state street in lemon av the summary of terms for a party wall agreement agreement between the city of sarasota and the purchasers of the padlocked site and t authorize the city manager to execute these three agreements once they are in final form this item was tabled until staff has received the appropriate appraisal and also extended the due diligence period for the buyers the evening session began with commission presentations first was a proclamation proclaiming february twenty second through the twenty eighth two thousand and fifteen as engineers week in the city of next the commission adopted a memorial resolution recognizing the transitioning of john rivers local legend hero civil rights activist loving husband father and friend to the community next was one item of new business it was direction regarding the sarasota bay front twenty twenty initiative after a presentation the commission approved the sarasota bay front twenty twenty principals as presented next up were to public hearings first was a public hearing of a proposed ordinance to conditionally vacate a ten foot wide alley located within the property at nine fifty south osprey avenue this one did pass on first reading with the condition to include a twenty foot turnaround next was a public hearing proposed ordinance to conditionally vacate a forty foot wide right of way known as made lane between coconut avenue and florida avenue this past on first reading as revised and finally the item from the afternoon session was the approval of the parking garage license agreement between the city of sarasota and do cadillac incorporated pertaining to the exclusive use of twelve designated and identified parking spaces in the state street parking garage for annual maintenance fee of seven thousand nine hundred twenty dollars and to authorize the mayor and city auditor and clerk to execute the a denim to the purchase and sale agreement between the city of sarasota and w m r consulting l l c pertaining to the state street parking garage now this was approved with direction for the city attorney to prepare i right of way use agreement for execution by the city manager pertaining to the outside display vehicles and that did it for the regular city commission meeting february seventeenth two thousand and fifteen if you like to look at the agenda in the back of material or you'd like to watch the video of the meeting you can do so it serves sort of got dot com on the right side look for video on demand