By Isaac Aelion, Commissioner (June 29, 2016) – Everyone is familiar with the expression “a gift that keeps on giving“. Well, I like to think that we are a City that keeps on giving to our residents. The City of Sunny Isles Beach which measures only 1.25 square miles in size and has today a population of 21,962 residents, will soon …
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By Christopher J. Russo, Former City Manager (June 29, 2016) – A few things for our ‘to do’ list! The desirability of our City continues to grow while all the improvements and related construction continues. I would like to use this opportunity to let our residents know about things you can do to make your stay or daily life more …
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By George “Bud” Scholl, Mayor (June 29, 2016) – Everyone seems to have their own special relationship with technology. Some of us love it, some of us hate it and some of us have just accepted it as a new part of our everyday life. One thing is for certain, technology is all around us and in many cases has …
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(June 17, 2016) – With the mangrove mitigation project at Town Center Park ready to commence, the City of Sunny Isles Beach partnered with Miami-Dade County to build a skate park at Haulover Park. It was agreed that this central location makes it easier than ever for surrounding municipal neighbors to share in the skate boarding fun. The State of …
Read More »By George ‘Bud’ Scholl, Mayor (June 2, 2016) – We are making a strategic and coordinated effort to make our community stronger through culture and the arts. To do this we are doing a considerable amount of research to determine how we can infuse culture into our community to provide maximum benefit to our residents and guests while improving the …
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By Christopher J. Russo, Former City Manager (May 25, 2016) – Many of the featured articles in this newsletter have been about new capital projects, development, and many other new challenges in our City. But this article is about the “not so new” areas of the west side of our City where we have a high concentration of residents who …
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(Friday, May 20, 2016) – On Thursday, May 19 at the Sunny Isles Beach City Commission Meeting, Javier Egana Fernandez was awarded a Medal of Valor by the Sunny Isles Beach police chief, Fred Maas and the City of Sunny Isles Beach for courageously saving a woman’s life. Fernandez was having lunch with his wife and child at the Newport …
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(May 13, 2016) – Sunny Isles Beach Police are searching for a man who attached a skimming device to the ATM at a Sunny Isles Beach Bank last month. Police have excellent surveillance footage and are looking for anyone who might know this person. This story appeared on Channel 7 News on Thursday, May 12, 2016. —— The below article …
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By Christopher J. Russo, Former City Manager (May 2, 2016) – Moving electrical and telecommunications lines from overhead to underground is a huge endeavor. It took years of planning and is costing millions of dollars. The benefit is a safer city. With power lines underground, they are not susceptible to damage from storms with high winds, car accidents, falling tree …
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By George “Bud” Scholl, Mayor (May 2, 2016) – Quite often I am asked why we concentrate so much effort on acquiring more park land and building more parks. Allow me to give you my perspective and a few facts to back it up. Our City is made up of a little over one square mile of land and we …
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