{"id":72,"date":"2025-10-13T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:33:53","slug":"council-to-discuss-flood-plan-state-funding-e-bike-ban-and-civic-center-plaza-concept-key-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72\/","title":{"rendered":"Council to discuss flood plan, state funding, e-bike ban and Civic Center Plaza concept | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Village Manager Steve Williamson on Tuesday night will outline Key Biscayne’s legislative priorities for 2026<\/a>, seeking funding at the state level for such topics as the Garden District flood mitigation project<\/a>, a possible barrier reef that would protect the island from erosion and a request to expand senior programming for more than 20% of the Village’s population.<\/p>\n

Those are just a portion of the list that will be presented to Village Council as part of Tuesday night’s agenda items<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, in the Council Chambers and can be viewed live or on VKB-TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Williamson also will explain in a resolution of what he would like to see in the Village’s new media policy, one that was just rescinded on Oct. 8 (in effect since last Nov. 26), regarding clear and concise “voluntary communications guidelines” from city government employees.<\/p>\n

Also up for a vote, on second reading, is the amending of an emergency ordinance<\/a> to delete the sunset (expiration) provision and continue the current ban of electric bicycles, motorized scooters and other motorized mobility devices within the city’s boundaries.<\/p>\n

Other items of interest include:<\/p>\n

\u2022 A resolution to extend the solid waste collection agreement with Great Waste and Recycling Services, LLC<\/a> for a period of nine months with a 2.2% fee adjustment consistent with the Consumer Price Index for the South Florida region.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Two capital projects are up for a vote — the purchase of six police vehicles not to exceed the amount of $346,972.00, and the purchase of a 2026 Tahoe in an amount not to exceed $63,190.55 (and declaring the current vehicle as surplus) for the Fire Rescue department.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0A resolution for the Village to enter into a Professional Services Agreement with the Key Biscayne Chamber of Commerce for one year at no more than $89,235.00, with four possible extensions will be discussed, as well as the scope of that contract.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Also up for vote are two resolutions that would allow the Village to issue a work order to GIT Consulting<\/a>, LLC for Zone 1 alternative stormwater modeling and planning services in an amount not to exceed $240,810.<\/p>\n

Among the special presentations:<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Mayor Rasco will honor the 4th grade students who earned top honors in the “Why I Love My Village” essay contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0A concept for a possible re-imagined Civic Center Plaza will be shown by Building, Zoning and Planning Director Jeremy Calleros Gauger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Village Manager Steve Williamson on Tuesday night will outline Key Biscayne’s legislative priorities for 2026, seeking funding at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[133,131,126,134,128,129,123,125,124,132,127,130],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-fire-rescue","tag-great-waste-and-recycling-services","tag-key-biscayne","tag-key-biscayne-chamber-of-commerce","tag-legislation","tag-legislative-priorities","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-police","tag-village-council","tag-village-council-meeting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}