Directors/Alternates Present
Keith A. Reynolds/Brickell Key One
Robert Ayona, Emily Sea/Brickell Forest
Norman Mininberg/Brickell Place I
Bruce Cotten/2000 Brickell
T. Sinclair (Tory) Jacobs/Brickell 25
Jorge Iglesias/Brickell Mar
Judge John Gale/Villa Regina
Mac Seligman/Brickell Townhouse
Omaira Sinclair/The Metropolitan

Henry H. Taylor, Jr., Esq./General Counsel
Ronald K. Smith, Esq./Deputy General Counsel

Natalie Brown/Communications Director

Associate Members Present
Danny Ponce/Brickell Key Master Association
Philippe Labarre, Marie-Ange Dumont/Constructa
Rebecca Gibbs/First Presbyterian Church

City of Miami Present
Frank Rollason/Assistant City Manager
Tony Wagner/Coral Way NET
Officer Jeffrey Giordano/MPD

Also Present
Jeanette Crisostomo/The Metropolitan
Chris Cedeno/Brickell Forest
Marilyn Goldaber/Brickell Townhouse
Jose Carneiro/Continental Management
Joseph A. Bier/Brickell Place Phase I
Simon Ferro/Greenberg, Traurig
Alberto Walsman/Sarmiento Advertising
Dave Thompson/Brickell 25

Called to order at 6:15 p.m. The reading of the December Minutes was waived and the Minutes unanimously accepted as published.

President's Report
Traffic. A Reminder to Attend: Jan. 24, City Commission Meeting, 6 p.m. The BHA Resolution adopted Nov. 14 which encourages City to look at traffic issues holistically versus project by project will be taken up. BHA has received support from other neighborhood groups. Everyone encouraged to attend to support the resolution.

Tony Wagner, NET Office
Opening, dedication this Friday at 4 for new wing at Shenandoah Park. This is the closest full athletic park to Brickell Ave.
Clean up on Coral Way this week.
Coral Way construction has started. We're getting daily and weekly updates.
Grafitti clean up is ongoing, directly out of the NET office and not waiting for the graffiti team to come. Will take a graffiti drive with Mac Seligman in a week or so.

Request to Wagner about what can be done about the 25th Road (in front of Brickell Forest) median, which looks bad and now doesn't look as good as east side of Brickell Ave. on 25th Ave. "No parking" signs have been requested

Jeff Giordano's Report
19 burglaries occurred and12 arrests last month.
Armed robbery at Burger King on 8th St and 1st Ave. All three were arrested, who matched the description of another incident.
5 decoy vehicles have been placed in the area. They are moved around.

Traffic Meeting Report by Judge John Gale
Town Hall meeting on Brickell Key will be set in 6 weeks. Webcam to be placed at the light coming off the Key. John Gale represented the BHA at first meeting just a few days previous.
Comments:
Why would they allow 20 buildings to be built without looking at the traffic impact?
Construction equipment on the roadway rather than the open lots?
They're putting it all on the Police.
Plus a movie shoot one day.
Federal government can't do anything until the City does something.
Bottom line: no one is doing anything.
Manual traffic direction works better than automated lights.
Dan Ponce sending electronic images to FDOT daily to show them the traffic.

Report from Frank Rollason, Assistant City Manager, Miami
Bus benchesa new way to look at the benches. The City is looking into contracting with a new firm that promises national, backlit advertising. Of the 1500 benches in the contract, 900 would have advertising, and 600 which are in scenic corridors, would not. Each would be permitted individually, inspected. The advertising will have underground electricity. Sarmiento working with Greenberg Traurig and Rollason on what Brickell wants. R1 and R2 and scenic corridors ­ advertising is not allowed. No one has overlayed the actual existing bus routes with the bus benches that are there, bench locations now do not necessarily correlate with bus stops.

Rebecca Gibbs ­ represents the First Presbyterian Church.will come back Feb. 20th

Next meeting: Annual Meeting, Feb. 20, Brickell Harbour.