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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM 24
Honorable Mayor and Members
To : .of the City Commission
FROM: Alberto Ruder
City Manager
DEC - 2 199 i
DATE: FILE
SUBJECT : Discussion Item - Coconut Grove
Chamber of Commerce
REFERENCES:
City Commission Agenda
ENCLOSURES: December 9, 1997
A discussion item has been scheduled for the December 9, 1997 City Commission
meeting, regarding the joint project between the City of Miami and the Coconut
Grove Chamber of Commerce, to implement a visitor's information center to be
located at Peacock Park.
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Vice Mayor Tomas Regalado
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Dear Vice Mayor Regalado:
Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to meet with you regarding the Coconut Grove
Chamber of Commerce office at Peacock Park.
After our meeting with you to discuss the possibility of using the Coconut Grove Chamber of
Commerce as an official City of Miami Welcome Center, we presented it to our Board of
Directors. Our Board was very supportive of this idea and looks forward to this opportunity. to
work with the City.
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To accomplish the transition to an official Welcome Center, we are prepared to provide the
following:
• Install signage at the glass house indicating that we are a "Welcome Center" providing tourist
information.
• Educate the public as to our presence and the services offered through public relations efforts.
• Maintain hours of operation 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday, and 10 am — 4 p.m. on
Saturday.
• Recruit interns and volunteer chamber members to man the Welcome Center on alternating
Saturdays — ideally, City of Miami employees would be provided for the remaining
Saturdays.
In exchange, the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce would like to remain tenants of the City
of Miami at the current favorable rental rates. We look forward to having this arrangement
approved by the City of Miami Commission so that we may move forward expeditiously.
Please call if you need any further information.
Thank you for your consideration of this proposal.
Yours truly,
Ivan F. Fernandez
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