Village of Key Biscayne Council members moved forward on several major initiatives during a busy February meeting that included progress on undergrounding utilities, continued discussion of the Village\u2019s stormwater project, and multiple capital and advisory board updates.<\/p>\n
Among the most significant actions, the Council approved proceeding with the undergrounding of utilities, a long-discussed infrastructure improvement project. The meeting also included emotional discussion surrounding the Village\u2019s stormwater efforts, reflecting ongoing community interest in flood mitigation and long-term resiliency planning.<\/p>\n
Some of the additional items Council members dealt with included:<\/p>\n
\u2022 A capital project, approving change orders for the Building, Zoning and Planning office renovation project, to allow a $68,813.97 upgrade to the customer service area, was approved 7-0, pushing the total project cost to $516,930.46.<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Village Manager Steve Williamson received a 7-0 favorable vote on first reading of his request to take another look at a Jan. 13 required two-quote minimum to authorize purchases under $6,000.<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Art in Public Places Advisory Board Chair Lourdes Joffre-Collett reported that her board\u2019s members have had a productive year and that five of the Village’s eight plazas have been restored.<\/p>\n
\u2022\u00a0Village Athletics Advisory Board Chair Jimmy Ly said his staff is “hoping to come to a good resolution” regarding some youth soccer concerns, and there’s an ongoing review of all athletic programs’ budgets and structures.<\/p>\n
The next VAAB meeting is Feb. 23, when Mayor Joe Rasco’s appointee, Ernie Cambo, joins the board, replacing Kenneth Coto, who has stepped down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Village of Key Biscayne Council members moved forward on several major initiatives during a busy February meeting that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[53151,126,123,125,124,82796,11685,127,130],"class_list":["post-174851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-council-meeting","tag-key-biscayne","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-purchasing-policy","tag-renovation","tag-village-council","tag-village-council-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}