hi everybody i'm miles larsen with the city of sarasota and this is your commission recap a look back at some of the major actions of the regular city commission meeting of july the seventh two thousand and fourteen the commission began the afternoon with citizens input and then moved right into approval of the  minutes there were two meetings to approve the minutes for the first with the minutes from the regular city commission meeting of june the sixteenth those minutes were approved as corrected the next meeting was the minutes from the joint city county meeting of june twenty third two thousand and fourteen and those minutes were also approved asked corrected the next move onto consent agenda one which is was approved in its entirety and then consent agenda two and all the consent to were adopted after this the commission moved on to unfinished business there were three this of unfinished business on the agenda the first was an approval regarding the city commission policy pertaining to city of sarasota bayfront marina island park open space utilization and this item was approved next was direction regarding processing a comp plan amendment that would expand the proposed rosemary residential overlay district for downtown edge zone properties this item was denied the third item of unfinished business was a continued discussion on the homelessness status report a presentation was given on this item and the commission there was commission consensus to send a resolution and letters to the state of florida legislative bodies and local legislators urging additional mental health funding across the state and that we did it for the afternoon session of the commission meeting and the evening session began with presentations there was one and it was a proclamation proclaiming august twenty sixth two thousand and fourteen as women's equality day after another round of citizens and put the commission then moved on to public hearings there were three public hearings on the agenda this evening the first was a proposed ordinance amending the city code regarding the parks recreation environmental protection advisory board and this would was going to reduce the numbers of members on that board from eleven to seven and this was passed on first reading the next public hearing was a proposed ordinance and axing real property into the city of sarasota the address is sixteen seventeen hanson street this was also passed on first reading the third the third public hearing on the agenda this evening was proposed ordinance and axing real property into the city of sarasota with addresses at two thousand two hundred two zero four and two zero twenty six garden lane this was also passed on first reading the commission then moved on to new business there were five items of new business on the agenda the first was a pressed presentation regarding the donation of park and handsome and manatees and the name change for causeway park the donation was was presented by ernest worland and the commission accepted mr whirlwinds donation and directed the city attorney to prepare a resolution to address the renaming of the park and directed city administration to draft a naming administration policy to address any future naming changes and or opportunities next item of new business was a presentation in discussion regarding the successes of the gulf coast community foundation's collaborative efforts regarding children and family initiatives this presentation was given and no action was taken the third item of new business was a presentation  discussion of the sarasota bayfront twenty twenty update this presentation was given and the commission directed the city manager and the city attorney to meet and discuss a more active role for staff in the bay front twenty twenty process and report back to the city commission at the next meeting as a continuing agenda item the fourth item of new business was an approval to set for public hearing a proposed ordinance regarding abandon in foreclosed property registration system this item was approved and the post ordinance is going to get set for public hearing after the budget workshops the fifth item of new business was a presentation in discussion regarding the city's capital improvement program and thresholds and this item was approved and that did it for the regular city commission meeting of july the seventh two thousand and fourteen if you'd like to take a look at the video of the meeting and all of the backup material you can do so at our website sarasota gov dot com on the right hand side look for video on demand for the city of sarasota miles larson will see you