everybody i'm miles larson with the city of sarasota and this is your commission recap a look back at some of the actions of the city commission at their regular commission meeting of june the second two thousand and fourteen the commission began the afternoon session with citizens input and then moved right into approval of the minutes there were two meetings to approve the minutes for the first of the minutes of the statutory city commission meeting of may the sixteenth those minutes were approved the next meeting to approve the minutes for were from the regular city commission meeting of may the nineteenth two thousand and fourteen and those minutes were approved the with the corrections then the commission moved onto consent agenda one that was there was one item and consented gena one that was approved there was nothing on consented to so then they moved into port appointments there were quite a few board appointments to deal with  the first was an appointment to the independent police advisory panel the commission reappointed dieter anderson and william fuller and they appointed randolph coiner and curtis shantz the next board to do an appointment for was the police complaint committee there were several appointments to that board they reappointed glenda williams in how mcduffie and they appointed thomas first and and in the next was the board of rules of appeals  then they moved on to the parks recreation and environmental protection advisory board they appointed laurel kaiser to that board and then they directed the city attorney to draft an ordinance regarding the parks rec and environmental protection advisory board to reduce the membership on that board from nine members to seven members then they moved on to the planning board local planning agency and they reappointed chris gallagher and robert lindsay then they moved on to the sane armin's business improvement district board of directors and they reappointed getting me she added to that board and then lastly they dealt with commission representation on boards of committees and what they actually did with this item was delay the appointments to these boards and committees until november of two thousand and fourteen next they moved on to unfinished business there were a couple items of unfinished business the first was a public hearing for a proposed ordinance amending the sarasota city code creating a new chapter entitled special events permits the commission directed staff to set this for a public hearing with revisions as they discussed next might have been finished business was to authorize the city manager to execute a change order between the city and western construction corporation pertaining to an increase in the contract time for the construction of lift station number eighty seven for an adjusted completion date of january first two thousand and fifteen and that was approved after this the commission moved on to a continued discussion regarding the homelessness status report the commission during this item directed staff to reinstitute the hot teams they accepted the status report and they directed the city attorney to draft a resolution creating a vagrancy homeless homeless advisory committee to bring back to the city commission for discussion and that did it for the afternoon session of the city commission meeting and during the evening portion they began again with citizens input and then moved on to public hearings there was a couple the first was at legislative public hearing regarding a proposed allocation of grant funds for a local justice assistance grant in the amount of thirty six thousand six hundred forty five dollars from the department of justice to be used for the purchase of body cameras for patrol  this would be a pilot program for those cameras this item was approved then the second public hearing was a proposed ordinance amending the sarasota city code regarding closing of parts of parks during designated hours and this would provide that the paint park playground would open later and close earlier than the remainder of pain park this item was passed on first reading then the commission moved on to new business the first item of a new business was to extend the right of way use permit for the program sarasota keys piano project this presentation was given and the commission authorized the sarasota keys program to continue with up to a total of twelve pianos and to return within a year any year to give the city commission an update the second item of new business was an approval of the proposed fiscal year annual budget for the city of sarasota bayfront morning field this item was approved next they moved onto a rescission of a pool of an approved motion at the may nineteenth two thousand and fourteen regular city commission meeting this was a four to one vote with with commissioner snyder voting no concerning an agreement between the city and d l porter constructors  incorporated this item was discussed by the commission and no action was taken next the commission moved onto an approval of the floor days development companies request to pursue an economic development assistance grant in the city's name for public improvements to coconut avenue between gulf stream avenue and fruitvale road in the jason public areas in an amount up to three point five million dollars you decide it was approved the commission then moved on to the next item of new business which was to set for public hearing a proposed ordinance regarding the sound regulations in the sarasota city code the commission directed the city attorney to set this ordinance for public hearing in the fall and directed the city attorney to draft a preliminary information or report concerning issues with special use permits the next item of new business and this was the last item on the agenda was a presentation and discussion regarding the introduction of the city's new emergency manager that's todd currying and an update on the city's emergency preparedness this presentation was given and no action was taken and that did it for the regular city commission meeting of june the second two thousand and fourteen if you'd like to take a look at the video or any of the backup material you can do so at our website sarasota gov dot com look on the right side for video on demand miles larson with the city of sarasota we'll see you after the next meeting