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October 20, 2022 • 10 Pages • Volume 20 • Issue 6 • Celebrating 20 Years
AVENTURA • BAL HARBOUR • DANIA BEACH • HALLANDALE BEACH • HOLLYWOOD • NORTH MIAMI BEACH • PEMBROKE PINES • PEMBROKE PARK • SURFSIDE • SUNNY ISLES BEACH
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Booogie By The Beach
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Department was directed to look at their Budget from a fresh perspective, prioritizing needs over wants. Every Department Head was provided the tools they needed to get to work and submit a comprehensive, responsible Budget. This was followed by one-on-one Meetings with each Department and my Office to review their submissions. We scrutinized each division and cut where it was possible and added where necessary to meet the vision you provided. I thank our Finance Team and our Department Heads who took on this challenge and made the hard decisions to provide this Balanced Budget that asked to do more with less. The third goal was to develop a Budget that remained fiscally responsible, could lower the
Join friends and neighbors Halloween Weekend in the City of Sunny Isles Beach for a scary good time filled with all of your favorite attractions, a haunted house, activities, food for purchase and live entertainment. Booogie By The Beach will take place on Friday, October 28th, 2022 from 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. located at Pelican Community Park, 18115 North Bay Road, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33180 and on Saturday, October 29th, 2022. You’ll get a chance to take a walk through the Haunted House for lots of frights and fun. Enjoy games, crafts, rides, a photo booth and other attractions for the whole family. Think you’re the spookiest witch out there? Enter the costume contest in the gym and you could win prizes! Food will be available for purchase to satisfy the hungriest of werewolves. Wristbands are available for purchase now and may be purchased in person at Pelican Community Park, Gateway Center and online at: www. activities.sibfl.net Wristbands purchased online can be picked up during regular business hours at Pelican Community Park or Gateway Center. Wristbands are $5 with a Valid City-Issued Sunny Isles Beach Resident ID Card and $20 without. Children 2 and
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The City Of Sunny Isles Beach is still in the early planning phase for this new park The City Of Sunny Isles Beach is in the early stages of planning to build a new park underneath and adjacent to the William Lehman Causeway. They are working with the talented professionals who are building The Underline from Brickell to Dade-land underneath Metrorail. City residents have a dire need for more team sports and other recreational facilities and the Lehman Causeway underpass and adjacent City-Owned Land present an opportunity to provide these amenities to the community. The City is still in the early planning phase for this new park. A critically important component of conceptualizing the final plan is to ensure robust and inclusive input from Sunny Isles Beach residents. The City recently sent out a survey asking residents’ opinions about what additional recreational facilities “you would want in the city.” If you’re are a Sunny Isles Beach resident and you have not already done so, please take a moment to complete the survey: https://www. surveymonkey.com/r/Recreation Needs With the possibility of New Recreation Areas being added Underpark Project, Page 6A
A Message From The City Manager The Sunny Isles Beach Proposed Budget And Capital Improvement Program By Stan Morris, SIB City Manager - www.sibfl.net
In accordance with Article IV Section 4.5 of the Charter of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, I am pleased to present to you the Proposed Comprehensive Budget and 5-Year Capital Improvement Program for FY 2022-2023. When we started this process, I had four main goals to accomplish. The first goal was to involve the City Commission in the development of the priorities for this next Fiscal Year. Through Individual Meetings with the Commission and our Administrative Team, we were able to freely discuss what the goals were for the future of our City. A special thank you to the Commission for their guidance and open dialogue to discuss what the vision and goals are for this upcoming year. Their message was clear and the recurring theme included
Public Safety and reducing our Millage Rate. The second goal was to thoroughly involve the Staff in this process. As it is, the Department Heads and their team that must execute the work that this Budget represents, they need to be involved at every step. After they heard your vision, they were tasked with doing the research to provide a Professional Assessment of what was possible, how to do it and what it would cost. Simultaneously, our Assistant City Manager, Audra CurtsWhann performed a full 5-Year Review, line by line, of the actual expenditure for each Department. Working with our Finance Director Tiffany Neely, every Department met individually with them and my Office for a thorough review of what they had spent historically to identify where surplus may be cut. Every
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