everybody on miles larson with the city of sarasota and this is your commission recap a look back at the wreck of the city commission meeting of december the fifth two thousand and sixteen the commission began the afternoon session of the meeting with citizens and put it concerning city topics and then they moved on to approval of the minutes there was one meeting to approve the minutes for it was the minutes from the regular city commission meeting of november the twenty first two thousand and sixteen these minutes were approved with changes after that came board actions and there was one board action it was a report from the public art committee of their special meeting of november first and their regular meeting of november ninth the commission authorized the commissioning of bravo by jorge blanco in the amount of one hundred fifty thousand dollars for installation in the roundabout to be located at orange avenue and ring and boulevard they also authorized staff to draft a zoning text and then meant to allow developers to consolidate their public art contributions for the acquisition of artwork and they authorize the expenditure of public art funds of up to seventy thousand dollars in support of dr kaufman's public art proposal as a joint venture with all stad and contemporary and the city of sarasota then the commission moved onto consent agenda number one and consent agenda number two all the items on consent one were approved and all the items on consent to were adopted next came board appointments and there were nine board appointments to take care of the first was an appointment to the citizens with disabilities advisory board the commission reappointed caribou hill harvey and wendy mann resnick next came the downtown improvement district board of directors and the commission reappointed ron soto and eileen hampshire then came the historic preservation board the commission reappointed christopher wilson leonardo leonardi and robert dine in then was an appointment to the human relations board the commission reappointed window darvill thank him an appointment to the nuisance bateman board the commission appointed linda holland and john ball then came an appointment to the parks recreation and environmental protection advisory board the commission appointed gerry wells there was also consensus to recommend mary ellen kirkwood to the sarasota county park board next was an appointment to the planning board at a local planning agency and the commission appointed eileen walsh normile then came an appointment to the public art committee the commission appointed leslie butterfield and joe and the cob and finally was an appointment to the sane armin's business improvement district board of directors and the commission reappointed gavin may shed the commission then moved on to unfinished business and there was one item of unfinished business to take care of it was a continued discussion of the possible demolition of the former gee whiz building located at one thousand  one boulevard of the arts this item was deferred after a short break the commission returned for the evening session of the meeting and after another round of citizens input concerning city topics they moved into public hearings there were two legislative public hearings to take care of the first was a proposed ordinance amending the code of ordinances of the city of sarasota regarding the general employee's pension plan this item passed on first reading with the assurance that the concerns of the teamsters will be addressed prior to second reading the next public hearing was a proposed development between the city of sarasota and quaid venture l l c pertaining to the project known as a soda the commission approved the development agreement pending and incorporating the general development plan and with additional proposed language as discussed on the record two other items that were on the day session of the agenda were moved to the evening session and were related to rights of way regarding the quaid project both of these items were adopted on second reading the commission then moved on to new business there were two items of new business to take care of the first was a presentation and discussion regarding a proposed zoning text amendment to allow a general development plan to accompany an application for a development agreement in lieu of a site plan in certain circumstances the commission approved it to present the proposed zoning text amendment directly to the planning board without a staff report which would permit an application for a development agreement to be accompanied by a general development plan in limited circumstances when the property subject to the development agreement exceeds seven acres in size the next time in the new business and this was the last item on the agenda was a presentation and discussion of a proposed parks and recreation district the commission directed staff to move forward with option two as presented by the city attorney and vetted through the prep board and that did it for the record the city commission meeting of december fifth two thousand and sixteen if you'd like to take a look at the agenda or 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