Meeting

The real mover on this agenda was the Uptown Aventura Mobility Plan. Even with only a resolution in front of the Commission, this is the item that sets the operating map for how Uptown circulation gets implemented from here, which means it matters more than the routine housekeeping around it. If you own, lease, build, or depend on customer access in Uptown, this is the policy signal to watch because it frames future transportation decisions before any individual project fight shows up. The other substantive action was money and institutional control. The budget amendment revises the current 2024 to 2025 operating and capital budget, which is where priorities get made real, not rhetorical. The Pirtle Construction item advances preconstruction services for the proposed Aventura High School through a construction management at risk agreement, which tells you the city is moving the school from concept toward delivery and locking in a project delivery structure early. The FDOT landscape maintenance contract is smaller but practical: the city keeps taking responsibility for maintaining the Biscayne Boulevard corridor and gets compensated for it under a one year state agreement. Everything else was internal governance. Repealing the Arts and Cultural Center Advisory Board removes one advisory layer from city code. The City Manager contract amendment changes how compensation increases are granted and includes a salary adjustment and bonus, which is a governance choice about executive discretion and oversight. School recognition funds and school board reappointments were operational, not market moving.

Statura-generated summary of the official agenda and minutes. Verbatim per-item votes and dollar figures are in the Agenda & votes tab.

Key decisions

1. Approving the Mobility Plan for Uptown Aventura

   Pending

   This sets the implementation framework for transportation and circulation policy in Uptown Aventura, making it the agenda item most likely to shape future access, development, and street level operations in that area.

2. Amending the 2024 to 2025 operating and capital budget

   Pending

   This revises the current fiscal year budget, which is the mechanism the city uses to shift actual spending and capital priorities rather than just discuss them.

3. Repealing the Arts and Cultural Center Advisory Board

   Pending

   This removes Division 5 of the city's advisory boards from code, cutting out one formal advisory body and consolidating decision making back toward staff and the Commission.

4. Agreement with Pirtle Construction Company for CMAR services for the proposed Aventura High School

   Pending

   This approves preconstruction services under a construction management at risk model for the proposed high school, moving the project into an execution phase and establishing the delivery structure early.

5. FDOT contract for landscape maintenance along Biscayne Boulevard

   Pending

   This authorizes a one year state contract that compensates the city for maintaining landscaping along the specified Biscayne Boulevard segment, keeping corridor upkeep under city management with state reimbursement.

6. 2025 A+ School Recognition Funds spending plan for ACES and DSAHS

   Pending

   This allocates school recognition funds for the two Aventura charter schools, an operational funding decision for city run education assets rather than a broader citywide policy shift.

7. Amendment to the City Manager employment agreement

   Pending

   This changes the process for granting compensation increases to the City Manager and approves a salary adjustment and bonus, affecting how executive compensation is governed going forward.

8. Reappointment of members to the Don Soffer Aventura High School Advisory Board

   Pending

   This renews advisory board terms for two years and is routine governance with little direct effect outside school oversight.

Agenda items

8 items on the agenda. Outcomes not yet parsed from minutes.

1. 4.DResolutionpending$379Outcome not recorded
   A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA, APPROVING THE AGREEMENT WITH JAMES B. PIRTLE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, INC. D/ B/ A PIRTLE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY FOR CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT AT RISK ( CMAR) SERVICES FOR THE PROPOSED AVENTURA HIGH SCHOOL PURSUANT TO REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS 2025- 07; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ISSUE A PURCHASE ORDER FOR PRECONSTRUCTION SERVICES IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $ 379, 900; PROVIDING FOR IMPLEMENTATION; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIV
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2. 4.AOrdinancependingOutcome not recorded
   AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 2024- 18 WHICH ORDINANCE ADOPTED A BUDGET FOR THE 2024/ 2025 FISCAL YEAR BY REVISING THE 2024/ 2025 FISCAL YEAR OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET AS OUTLINED IN EXHIBIT " A" ATTACHED HERETO; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO DO ALL THINGS NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE AIMS OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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3. 4.BOrdinancependingOutcome not recorded
   AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA, AMENDING THE CITY CODE OF ORDINANCES AT CHAPTER 2" ADMINISTRATION," ARTICLE III " ADVISORY BOARDS," BY REPEALING DIVISION 5 " ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ADVISORY BOARD"; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, SEVERABILITY, CODIFICATION, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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4. 4.CResolutionpendingOutcome not recorded
   A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE ATTACHED CONTRACT WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR ONE YEAR, TO COMPENSATE THE CITY FOR LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE WITHIN THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION RIGHTS - OF - WAY ON BISCAYNE BOULEVARD, FROM THE OLETA RIVER BRIDGE NORTH TO THE MIAMI- DADE/ BROWARD COUNTY LINE; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO DO ALL THINGS NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THE AIMS OF THIS RESOLUTIO
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5. 4.EResolutionpendingOutcome not recorded
   A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA, APPROVING THE REAPPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS TO THE DON SOFFER AVENTURA HIGH SCHOOL ADVISORY BOARD FOR A TWO- YEAR TERM; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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6. 4.FCommission ReportspendingOutcome not recorded
   AVENTURA CITY COMMISSION ACTING IN ITS CAPACITY AS THE GOVERNING BOARD FOR THE AVENTURA CITY OF EXCELLENCE SCHOOL ( ACES) AND THE DON SOFFER AVENTURA HIGH SCHOOL ( DSAHS): A MOTION APPROVING THE 2025 A+ SCHOOL RECOGNITION FUNDS SPENDING PLAN FOR ACES AND DSAHS.
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7. 4.GResolutionpendingOutcome not recorded
   A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA, APPROVING THE ATTACHED AMENDMENT TO THE EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY MANAGER AND THE CITY OF AVENTURA; AMENDING THE PROCESS FOR GRANTING INCREASES TO THE CITY MANAGER' S COMPENSATION; PROVIDING FOR A SALARY ADJUSTMENT AND BONUS; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
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8. 4.HResolutionpendingOutcome not recorded
   A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF AVENTURA, FLORIDA, APPROVING THE MOBILITY PLAN FOR UPTOWN AVENTURA; PROVIDING FOR IMPLEMENTATION; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. 7. ZONING HEARINGS — QUASI- JUDICIAL PUBLIC HEARINGS: None. 8. ORDINANCES — FIRST READING/ PUBLIC HEARINGS: None. 9. ORDINANCES — SECOND READING/ PUBLIC HEARINGS:
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