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Home My WebLink AboutR-98-0442J-98-484 4/28/98 RESOLUTION NO. 9 8` 442 A RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER, OR HIS DESIGNEE, TO APPEAR BEFORE THE METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION ("MPO") IN MAY TO REQUEST THAT NORTHEAST 2ND AVENUE, FROM 36TH STREET, NORTH TO THE CITY LINE, BE CONSIDERED A HIGH PRIORITY FOR STATE/MPO FUNDING AND THAT MILLION DOLLARS BE EARMARKED FOR RECONSTRUCTION, INCLUDING PUBLIC ART THAT RECOGNIZES THE HAITIAN CULTURE; FURTHER, DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO PROVIDE A COST ESTIMATE, WITHIN SEVENTY-TWO HOURS FROM THE ADOPTION OF THIS RESOLUTION, BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS, AND A SECOND ESTIMATE BE PROVIDED BY AN ENGINEERING/ARCHITECTURAL CONSULTANT TO THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ("CRA"); FURTHER, SAID COST ESTIMATES SHOULD INCLUDE SIGNAGE, SIDEWALK, DRAINAGE, REPAVING, LANDSCAPING AND ALL OTHER COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPLETE RECONSTRUCTION OF NORTHEAST 2ND AVENUE. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA: Section 1. The City Manager, or his designee, is hereby directed to appear before the Metropolitan Planning Organization ("MPO") in May to request that Northeast 2nd Avenue, from 36th Street, north to the City line, be considered a high priority for State/MPO funding for total reconstruction, and the amount of million dollars be earmarked for said reconstruction, including public art that recognizes the Haitian culture. 'C= COMMSSION MEETING or, APR 2 8 1998 R-wb2tinn No. Section 2. The City Manager is further directed to provide a cost estimate, within seventy-two hours from the adoption of this Resolution, by the Department of Public Works, and a second estimate be provided by an engineering/architectural consultant to the Community Redevelopment Agency ("CRA"). Said cost estimate should include signage, sidewalk, drainage, repaving, landscaping, and all other costs associated with the complete reconstruction of Northeast 2nd Avenue. Section 3. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption. PASSED AND ADOPTED this28th day of April , 1998. JOE CAROLLO, MAYOR in accordance with Miami Code Sec. 2-36, since the Mayor did not indicate approval of tilt legislation by signing it in the designated place provided, said legislation rbov., becomes effective with the elapse of ten `1 Q) daws frorn the date cat Com ission action regarding same, without the Mayor exer " ' vet . ATTEST: WaltoKi. Fdeman, City Clerk WALTER J. FOEMAN, CITY CLERK PREPARED AND APPROVED BY: 4L EDWARD MAX W LL D UTY CITY ATTO EY APPRQ,VED A� y0 FOAM AND CORRECTNESS: ,teJADd'bR0 GIL, ITY ATTORNEY 2525:csk:JEM 98- 442 15: 4? CITY ATTF-IR 1EY IS, OFFICE M54151 O04 P . 0 '. 0_1 City of Miami �p11i ZiFlf !J ;0 CM ATTORNEY' 5 OFFICE MEMORANDUM TO. Walter J. Foeman DATE: June 29, 1998 FILE: City Clerk SUBJECT: Resolution No. 98-442 Directing Manager to Request MVO Funds for NE 2"d Avenue FROM: Maria J. Chiaro REFERENCES: Assistant City Attorney ENCLOSURES: 1 have reviewed the above referenced resolution which was passed by the city commission on April 28, 1998. The resolution was introduced as a pocket item by Commissioner Teele so that the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) would be presented with a request to appropriate a sum of money for the complete reconstruction of Northeast Second Avenue. The resolution included a blank line where the dollar amount (in millions) was to be specified but the dollar amount, based upon the discussion as noted in the transcript of the meeting, was to be determined in the future and based upon cost estimates to be presented to the MPO. In his memo of May 15,1998, Clark Turner advises that the sum "approximately $b" (million) ought to be inserted in the blank line in the resolution. After speaking with him, it is clear that the estimates received for the project were received after the city conunission took action. No figures were discussed at the commission meeting. The essence of the resolution was not the dollar amount but the direction to the city manager to submit the request for a sum, albeit in millions, to the MPO so that reconstruction of Northeast 2` d Avenue be a high priority. The process, as explained to me by Clark Turner, has begun. The initial request to the MPO for the appropriation of funds has been made to the MPO but the sum requested is for engineering and architectural services. Further request will be made as the funds become available from the MPO. The estimates for completion of the total project are the basis of the submissions and appropriation by the MPO but are not a part of the resolution passed by the city commission. Clark Turner agrees with this analysis. Therefore, Resolution No. 98-442 should retain the blank line preceding "million dollars" because the commission contemplated the above described process when the resolution was passed. %4JC:CkW0 S&,ndor „r. limn , r . M7 i 70A=.A 1 G. 1 PL4d G C1 _. TO Walter Foeman City Clerk Clark P. Turner, Al FROM: Chief, Community CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA INTER -OF F.,.II¢EMQRANDUM 1,AY 2#E A 9 May 15, 1998 suB L 7 c L H Resolution No. 98-442 C ' '� Adopted April 28, 1998 f. . }, REFERENCES: Department of Planning & Development ENCLOSURES: FILE : This is to advise that the phrase "approximately $6 million" should be inserted in the blank space following the phrase "and the amount of " in Section 1 of the subject Resolution. A similar insertion will also be needed in the Resolution's title. This amount is higher than the $5,294,850 "Estimate of Street Reconstruction" prepared by the City's Public Works Department. It is also higher than the amount of $5,690,030 total of the Estimate of Probable Cost prepared by Bermello Ajamil & Partners, Inc., in satisfaction of the Resolution's Section 2 requirement that "a second estimate be provided by an engineering/architectural consultant to the Community Redevelopment Agency..." The reason for the higher figure is as follows: Section 1 of Resolution No. 98-442 specifically requires that the MPO be asked to consider N.E. 2nd Avenue reconstruction as a high priority "for total reconstruction ... includingpublic art that recognizes the Haitian culture." (emphasis supplied). Later, in Section 2, which directs the preparation of cost estimates for the reconstruction, the language fails to mention the "including public art" item. Therefore, neither the Estimate of Street Reconstruction prepared by the Public Works Department, nor the Estimate of Probable Cost prepared by Bermello Ajamil & Partners, Inc., included an allowance for "public art". Therefore, the total estimate for work to carry out the directions contained in the Resolution was adjusted upwards to allow for the inclusion of "public art". It should also be noted, parenthetically, that the figure mentioned in the statement to the Metropolitan Planning Organization (copy attached) was "on the order of $6-7 million". This still -higher figure is used because Commissioner Teele wished to include in the City's request to the MPO, an allowance for minor work on N.W. 17 Avenue, although that roadway was not mentioned specifically in the Resolution. My statement to the MPO makes clear the nature of this additional request. Attachment (1) c: Christina Cuervo, Assistant City Manager 98 - 442 Attachment to Memorandum to Walter Foeman, City Clerk May 15, 1998 STATEMENT BY CLARK P. TURNER, AICP, CHIEF OF COMMUNITY PLANNING FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI, TO THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION FOR THE MIAMI URBANIZED AREA Tuesday, May 5, 1998 Madame Chairman, members of the board. My name is Clark Turner, Chief of Community Planning for the City of Miami. I'm appearing here today on behalf of our City Manager, Jose Garcia -Pedrosa, who is required to be at the State Oversight Board meeting, and therefore cannot be here. I will need less than four minutes of your time. The purpose of this appearance is to alert you that the City of Miami expects to file two applications for amendment to the (1999-2003) TIP, for projects involving N.W. 17th Avenue and N.E. 2nd Avenue within the City of Miami. We will submit these requests through the usual TIP amendment process, beginning with the County's Public Works staff, as these are county roadways. We are here today to underscore the importance of these projects, and to express our hope that you will see them as a high priority for funding when they reach you through the process. Each of these proposed projects directly addresses an emerging and urgent concern that affects all of Miami -Dade County. This is a growing metropolitan area, but it's running out of room to grow. The Eastward Ho! movement, and other urban infill initiatives, see a solution to this dilemma by looking to the inner cities of Miami -Dade County. In these inlying areas, it is believed, more efficient utilization of land and other urban resources can accommodate a significant part of the future growth of the metropolitan area. But to transform these ideas into reality, the quality of the inner cities environment must be enhanced in a number of ways: physical, economic, and social, and we have a long road to travel to make these improvements. A clear beginning point is the repair, replacement, and enhancement of the aging physical infrastructure of the inner cities, and a clear beginning point there is the transportation infrastructure, particularly the major streets that are —literally —both the faces and the backbones of our urban neighborhoods. N.W. 17th Avenue from State Route 112 Expressway north to the City of Miami limits at N.W. 71 St. is a good example of a street revitalization project begun, but not finished. The street itself is in reasonably good shape -curbs, gutters, roadbed —but it's a hard -edged, bleak picture to the viewer. To make N.W. 17 Avenue attractive as the backbone of its Allapattah and Model City neighborhoods, it needs softening —landscaping, a variety of attractive lighting, traffic calming, wider sidewalks and a friendlier pedestrian environment. There's a lot of life along that street, but it isn't being given much in the way of encouragement by its physical surroundings. (It 98- 442 desperately needs economic revitalization, too, and we're beginning work on that through our business enhancement initiatives workshops in the area.) N.E. 2nd Avenue from N.W. 36 St. to the Little River is a good example of a project not yet begun, and the potential there is enormous. Our resurgent Design District, the colorful and vibrant Little Haiti neighborhood north of it and, still farther north, the upper eastside residential neighborhoods that are on their way back, have all the necessary raw material, but need a fine urban street to connect them. N.E. 2nd Ave. is not such a street. In fact, it's in deplorable condition, and needs to be rebuilt from scratch. Our Design District/Little Haiti charrette last fall has provided the concept for this street —a pedestrian -friendly, urban roadway including public art that recognizes the Haitian culture —we need now to move it to reality. Our first, very rough estimates indicate a total cost on the order of $6-7 million for these projects, and we ask you to earmark that number in your minds in preparation for our submittal of amendments. We are convinced that this kind of investment will ultimately be seen as a bargain, because it will purchase additional urban carrying capacity for the metropolitan area by helping restore these inner city neighborhoods as attractive places to live, work, and employ. Thank you for your time. 98- 442 U.S. Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service Washington, D.C. 20536 E-'rOy$ Official Business Penalty for Private Use $300 Walter J. Foeman City Clerk ' Office of the City Clerk 3500 Pan America Way P.O. Box 330708 Miami, Florida 33233 33233-010a c 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111 1111111 I I I I I I l I111I I11 rrtIc AOUKS opp rtment 61'oVe. Fi E f 98- 442 �'. k, - tv WNVV 1341 VvIbetv V4, t So 51 Re-?- , 4mu I ti k. 1 $ 1 L" 0016 C-511MA, 442