City establishing 'Mayor's Advisory Council'
By Bari Auerbach

The Sunny Isles Beach City Commission recently passed a resolution establishing five advisory committees to the Mayor's Advisory Council.

Mayor Norman Edelcup explained, "We had a workshop meeting earlier this month in which we discussed the fact that I've promised the city that when I became Mayor, we would form a Mayor's Advisory Council which would bring the citizens into the loop [regarding] major areas of the future growth of this city whether it be in education, transportation, long range planning, tourism, development, etc.

"The Mayor's Advisory Council will be made up of five sub-committees, each liaisoned with one of the City Commissioners. Each committee will have appointees [determined] by members of the Commission - so we'll have at least 25 people appointed to these committees to work on the major projects we see coming forth in the city.

"Even though we're limited to naming only 25 people on the committee, these will be open meetings advertised [and open] to the public and hopefully more than these people that are being named to the committees will show up and give their input to the Advisory Council."

Edelcup also said the goal is to create "a flow of input" from residents so the committees can advise the City Commission of the direction it should be going in concerning initiatives people who live in Sunny Isles Beach want to see come to fruition.

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