a buddy miles larsen with the city of sarasota and this is your commission recap a look back at the regular city commission meeting of september the fifteenth two thousand and fourteen the commission began the afternoon as they always do with citizens and put concerning city topics and then they moved right into approval of the minutes there were two meetings to approve the minutes for the first was the regular city commission meeting of september the second two thousand and fourteen those minutes were approved with corrections and the next was the minutes of the special city commission meeting of september the third two thousand and fourteen those minutes were approved the commission then moved onto consent agenda one all the items on consent one were approved and then they moved on to consent agenda two and all the items on consent to were adopted then the commission moved on to board appointments there were two board appointment to take care of the first was an appointment to the board of rules and appeals and the commission appointed just in bogey to that board the next was an appointment as the star program member to the parks recreation and environmental protection advisory board and the commission appointed lauren men then the commission moved on to unfinished business the first item of unfinished business was an approval to authorize the mayor and city auditor clerk to execute the redevelopment agreement between the city rosemary square and parker investments pertaining to city owned property located at fourteen forty boulevard of the arts and fourteen thirty thirty four fourteen thirty three fifth street and the privately owned property at fourteen thirty boulevard of the arts and five fifty central avenue to develop the properties as a mixed use development in the rosemary district and this item was approved the next item of unfinished business was a continued discussion of the homelessness status report this the commission there was commission consensus on this item for staff to come back with  proposed program to utilize parking meters to collect money to benefit the homeless the commission then took a break and came back for the evening session of the meeting and began with commission presentations there was one presentation the it was a presentation of certificates of appreciation presented to participants in the reach for change youth anti violence initiative the next presentation was a scheduled presentation that was given by the newtown business alliance then the commission was brought to another round of citizens input concerning city topics and then moved into public hearings there were eight public hearings on the agenda and there were actually second public hearings all had to do with post budget for the next fiscal year the first four were adopting a budget for the city of sarasota the downtown improvement district the same harmon's business improvement district and the golden gate she treats gape special district and those four items were adopted on second reading the next four were setting operating milage i milledge and debt service milage is for those same four entities and those were adopted on second reading as well as the commission then moved into a new business the first item of new business was a request for a waiver of a fee to appeal a decision of the historic preservation board to the city commission concerning the demolition of the structure located at six twenty four south palm avenue the commission waived this fee and directed staff to clarify the ambiguity with the current fee structure and to bring back a resolution to clarify this issue the second item of new business was to authorize the city manager to execute the purchase and sale agreement between the city of sarasota and emma j salem pertaining to city owned property at fifteen sixty four twenty second street in the amount of four thousand dollars this item was approved the third item of new business was an approval regarding the city of sarasota public official employment practices liability law enforcement liability and other insurance renewals brokered through public risk agency effective october first twenty fourteen through september of twenty fifteen in the amount of four hundred ninety nine thousand three hundred dollars decide and was approved by the commission then moved on to the last item on the agenda which was a  discussion regarding long term planning for bobby jones golf club the commission directed staff to prepare a resolution to create an ad hoc committee to make a recommendation concerning the scope of soliciting for a master plan and long term planning interests for the bobby jones golf club and that did it for the regular city commission meeting of september the fifteenth two thousand and fourteen if you'd like to take a look at the video of the meeting and all the back up material you can do so at our website sarasota go dot com on the right side look for video on demand  miles larson with the city of sarasota and we'll see you after the next meeting