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HomeMy WebLinkAboutR-97-0508J-97-530 7/24/97 9 7 - 5 ® 8 RESOLUTION NO. ' A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF FUNDS FROM ACCOUNT CODE NO. 210301, IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,500.00, TO THE COMMITTEE ON BEAUTIFICATION AND ENVIRONMENT, ACCOUNT CODE NO. 920801, FOR THE PURPOSE OF ASSISTING SAID COMMITTEE IN TREE PLANTING AND OTHER BEAUTIFICATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS WITHIN THE CITY OF MIAMI; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO MAKE PART TIME STAFF AVAILABLE TO SAID COMMITTEE; STIPULATING THAT THE FIRST $10,000.000 RECEIVED FROM PRIVATE DONATIONS IN CONNECTION WITH ZONING APPLICATIONS BE ALLOCATED TO SAID ACCOUNT. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA: Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the Preamble to this Resolution are hereby adopted by reference thereto and incorporated herein as if fully set forth in this Section. Section 2. The transfer of funds from Account Code No. 210301, in the amount of $2,500.99, to The Committee On Beautification and Environment, Account Code No. 920801, for the purpose of assisting said Committee in tree planting and other beautification and environmental projects within the City of Miami Section 3. The City Manager is hereby directed to make part-time staff available to said Committee. Section 4. It is hereby further stipulated that the first $10,000.00 received from private donations in connection with zoning applications be allocated to said account. Section 5. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption. My CC)MnS81CvJ ETIIVG OF J U l 2 4 1997 Resolution 1Io , 97- 508 PASSED AND ADOPTED this 24th day of July, 1997. r JOE CAROL ,MAYOR ATTEST: U WALTER J. AN CITY CLERK BUDGET A RE IEW: DIPAK M. REKH, DIRECTOR BUDGET & MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS: W1767:CSK 2- 7- 50S STEPHEN P. CLARK ` y� Mayor LI 1 �1' � i�'.Cj f RED i.E WILFREDOGORT rn CI ft t�1 ii i 'T!it `1 .F Vice Mayor �� JOE CAROLLO 97 MAY 20 AM 7• 54 y ""1i ^"' BOARD OF DIRECTORS MILLER J. DAWKINS '`c'o,F�oP RALPH BEAUDRY I.L. PLUMMER, JR. 381-8858 Commissioners COMMITTEE ON BEAUTIFICATION AND ENVIRONMENT PAT CLARKE 2474 S.W. 27 Terrace 661-1837 Miami, Florida 331.33 Tel (305) 859-9455/FAX (305) 859-952 PEGGOCROMER CHAIRPERSON // 667-3722 STEPHEN DADE PEARSON L( 859-9455 BILL DOBSON FIRST VICE CHAIRPERSIONS May 15, 1997 , t 863-9626 KATHY GAUBATZA 6 ST � t E E '' (I HELEN EIDSON 661-2481 I'. F �✓ (616)382-5183 RUTH KASSEWITZ u 661-0082 ALBERTELDRIDGE Mayor Joe Carollo and 441-8682 VICE CHAIRPERSONS Honorable Commissioners PHILIP ENGELMANN ..',..;Z4Tl-11rMNECHESSER City Of Miami, City Hall 593-0001 665-5237 3500 Pan American Drive THELMA GIBSON GEORGECHILDS Miami, Florida 33133 442-9613 377-5965 CHIEF CARLOS GIMENEZ Re: Financial Support for the Beautification LENN5397241 DSTEIN 416-1601 Committee WILLIS HARDING 652-1100 Dear Mayor and Honorable Commissioners: JOHN HARRIS 926-3339 I have written and telephoned the City Manger to RUTH HOPKINSROSENTHAL request that I could appear before the Commission to 666.3080 request funding for our Committee's work. However, I JOY FINSTON LANDY have received no response from him and I am therefore 866-5144 writing to you to determine what, if any, financial WINSTONLIPPERT support can be provided by the City this year. 661-5231 REV. PETER NAGY I have enclosed for your review copies of the 866-2333 schedules for our upcoming tree planting projects, as SHEILAMOYLAN well as the annual Royal Poinciana Fiesta. We hope 854-1033 that you will be able and desirous of attending one or CARMEN PETSOULES more Of the Fiesta events. As you can see, the 854-1376 Committee is continuing to provide significant benefits LARRY SCHOKMAN for the City, and I hope that you agree that these 445.8076 endleavors are worth continuing. JOYCE THOMPSON 661-4816 However, the Committee has not received any BETTYWA01 financial support from the City for two ears now, and PP Y Y z71-2so1 there is only so much that a group of volunteers can do CHIEF DONALD SHAW without funding.It is an unfortunate situation, but 579-6565 9-6565 we are basically trying to do more and more each year, IO54-061NS while the Cityis providing less and less support. The P 9 asa-o610 volunteers that constitute the Committee understand and • are sympathetic to the financial predicament that Vice Chairman & Treasurer ROBERT H. SMITH currently exists for the City, but it is hoped that 7897749 there are some designated sums for beautification or ViceChairman& tourism that might be allocated to help support the Recording Secretary JONATHAN KRONER work that we are performing. 673-0731 • CONSULTANTS: WALDEMAR E. LEE Assistant City Manager ' 416-12009. _ 508 ADOLFO JIMENEZ 374-8500 RUTH KARP 861-2099 NANCY MASTERSON 372-6555 ROBERT McCABE 854-4428 JAYSON MEIIA 558-2878 BLANCA MESA 579-1300 KITTY MORGAN 663-9582 ALFRED BROWNING PARKER 19041336-9513 ARVA MOORE PARKS 854-8067 LAUREN PRIEGUES 536-3002 STANLEY PREVOST 758-2106 DORIS ROSEBRAUGH 667-0054 BOB ROSS 666-0012 SUZANNE SALICHS 270-4979 • CONSULTANTS: Solid Waste Department ADRIENNE MACBETH Deputy Director 575-5107 Parks & Recreation Dept. CHARLES HUDSON Parks Planning Coordinator 416-1312 Thank you for your consider4tion. Very truly yours, Stephen D. Pearson P.S. I apologize that we do not have stationary that correctly reflects the current Commission. However, the City print shop charged us for the stationary when it created the current batch, and we have been deferring this expenditure because funds are very tight. 11-1168 2 97- 508 �. Till. CHT 01, MIAMI C0m1\lrr'rr j '►N BEAUTIFICATION MVIIE ENVIRONMENT 1 PRLSLNTS TIIL 611.1'11 ANNUAL •1..�'op:�i.'� 1.4 i'7 ' I ►,v;� Ie• 1997 t?�'c +b6RlQa �' :i'i ) Y" 11"•, is r 11;~- ROYAL POINCIANA FIESTA I riclay, June 6111 Ilrr•mugh hlonclay, June gill SCIIEDULE: Friday, June 611t: 12:00 noon Royal Fla laic iana Lttttcheun. Crowning of Ruyal Polnciarta Queen and her coma. Talk by Larry Schokman on the horticulture of the poinclana and other beautiful flowering trees of South Florida. Monty•s in Cite Groye. COST: $15. For Reservations, call 789-7401. Salurclay, June 711c 10:00 a.ut. Royal Poinciana fiesta Plant Sale. Tropical plants and trees for sale by local plaul societies. The Walk of Knowledge of the Atuseumt of Science, 3280 Sottllr Miami Avenue, hllami 33129. FREE UNTRY 10:00 a.m. Royal Pohtclana Fiesta lvoticslop. lrtfonnation about cultivation and hislory of tree lit this area. Poinciana corsage making demonstration and seedling sale. llluseum of Science, 328U South Miami Avenue, Miami. FL 33129. FREE 2:00 - 5:00p.m. Taste of the 'tropics. Lnfonuation about and lasting of rare tropical fmits. Mumma of Scicnce, 3280 Stmlh Miami Avenue, 111taml, FI. 33129. FREE 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Poinclana Fiesta Concert. Special unisical event., Science Park Museunt of Science, 3280 South hllami Avenue, Miami, FL 33129.• fREli Sunday, June 8111: Royal Poinciana Day on Metronril. Passes to be distributed al other fiesta events. FREE 10:00 a.m. Royal Poinciana Fiesta I'lanl Sale. Tropical plants and trees for sale by local plant societies. The Walk of lCnutvledge of the Museumt of Science, 3280 South hilaml Avenue, hliaml 33129. FRET? ENTRY 10:00 a.m. Arboreluu► tour. See flowering trees and interesting botanical specimrens in leaching collection of University. Nottlrtvest collier of the University of hilami campus, where Campo Salto meets San Amaru Drive. FREE 2:00 p.m. Bus Tour of lite Beautiful Palrclanas. Vizcaya Aielrortii Station. View lice beautiful trees on a uaraled lour. Stall at lite 1(ampong (David Fairchilci's historic lame) for refreshments. For information and reservations call (305) 789-7531. COST $15 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Royal Poinciana Block fatty. Museunt of Science, 3280 South A4fautf Avenue, h4iand FL 33129. Live utusic and entertainment, historical and botanical exhibits, see the animals in Cite Museuur's special collection, enjoy delicious food, view the magnificent poincianas along Soullt hliatnl.Avenue. FREE Monday June 9111: 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.ut. Opening Reception for Royal Poinciana Art Exhibit. Awards Ceremony and Coronation of Royal Poinclana Queen and her Court. Miautl Ilemld lobby, 1 Herald Plaza, FREE • BE SURE TO TAKE METRORAIL TO FIESTA EVENTS. • BE SURE 1'0 VISIT TILE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 1'0 ENJOY ITS EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINING EXI1111TI'S. Royal Poinciana Fiesta t-shirts on sale at fiesta events. Fiesta Chalnuan: Kathy Gaubatz (305) 661-2481. 3 For recorded Flesh infonuatlon call (305) 789-7608 after !uie 19t, 508 .7 0 • CITY OF MIAMI COMMITTEE ON BEAUTIFICATION AND ENVIRONMENT (an organization consistingi entirely of volunteers) 2474 S.W. 27 Terrace Miami, Florida 33133 1997 PLANTING PROJECTS June 21, 1997 - We will complete what has been a multi -year, massive planting of flowering trees at the juncture of I-395 and I-95 that morning. Bombax Ceiba, Jacaranda and Caesalpinia pulcherima (yellow flowering) trees will be planted in the last quadrant of an area that we started landscaping' in 1992 with a large planting of Chorisia speciosa (Silk Floss), and continued last summer with a planting of Delonix regia (Poinciana) and additional Chorisia trees. With completion of this year's project, we will have planted tropical flowering trees that provide color, cleaner and cooler air, and beauty at all times of the year to a blighted area of downtown. To get to this site, you must be on f-95 South and then take the exit for I-395 East (the expressway that becomes the McArthur Causeway). When you are on the exit ramp from I-95 South to I-395 East, you will, see an opening where you can turn off to the right into the area.where Chorisia trees were planted. We will be working in the adjacent area. Special "thank yous" are extended to the Miami Herald for sponsoring this planting, and to Larry Schokman for helping design this project. This planting will be dedicated to the memory of Willis Harding, Jr., who died in a traffic fatality in April. He was the eldest son of one of our most dedicated volunteers, Willis Harding. July 19, 1997 - Working with the Federation of Garden Clubs, we intend to do a significant addition to the landscape of Margaret Pace Park, the large park on Biscayne Bay just to the north of the Omni mall and the Biscayne Bay Marriot Hotel. This project will feature a large number of special Coconut Palms that are immune to the lethal yellowing disease, a maritime hammock*area of native trees, and some Poincianas (Delonix regia) and other flowering trees for accents. We also will include Albezia caribea as an accent plant. This is the large, spreading tree seen at Fairchild Garden near the vine pergola that is now illuminated at night. August 16, 1997 - We will install several small plantings this morning, including a planting of Dombeya sp. `Seminole' (a tough, but extraordinarily beautiful shrub from Madagascar)., some oak trees in conjunction with the Glendale Baptist Church, and an assortment of trees to assist a group of citizens who live in the Roads area of Miami and want to improve the environment. We will meet that morning by the Poinciana trees that we planted three years ago at the south end of I-95 South, right before it merges into USI. Incidentally,•I hope that you have seen those trees lately as they are starting to bloom and the grafted, yellow -flowering ones are magnificent) . September 13, 1997 - Working with the Dade Heritage Trust, we are helping to restore the Miami Cemetery located on NE 2nd Avenue at approximately 18 Street. This now forlorn site was once a botanical garden, and that -morning we will restore some of the botanical and environmental value, as well as beauty, that was once present at this location. Special thanks are extended to George Childs for his work in developing the landscaping plan for this site, and for assistance from Wally Bray and Gary Hunt. We will primarily be planting specimen trees of rare and unusual species, both native and,exotic. General - All planting projects are on Saturdays and commence at 8:30 a.m. During the week prior to each project, those who have registered to help will be sent an additional mailing with final details and information about the project. The holes will be dug in advance, and mulch, dirt, trees and refreshments will be available at the sites. Please call 789-7401 to register to participate in one or more of these planting projects. Your assistance is needed and appreciated, and you will be part of a major volunteer effort to improve the environment and beautify Miami. If you have any additional questions, please call Steve Pearson at 859-9455. Thank you, and we hope to see you,at one or more of these exciting projects! 11-1162 4 7- 508 City Manager Ed Marquez City of Miami City Hall 3500 Pan American Way Coconut Grove, FL 33133 • LOYAL POINCIANA FIESTA June 25, 1997 Dear Mr. Marquez: As Vice -Chairman of the City of Miami Beautification Committee and Chairman of the Royal Poinciana Fiesta for the past eight years and Co-chairman for two years before that, I am writing to appeal to- you to facilitate the restoration of funding -to the Beautification Committee. Such appropriations are necessary for us to continue our work. The Royal Poinciana Fiesta itself realistically has a budget of $25,000 and the need of a full-time administrator to run both it and the other functions of the overall Committee. We have persevered for the past two years on reserves from past funding and appeals to the community at large. But this cannot go on. Enclosed find information about the Fiesta, its history and that of the tree for which it was named. In addition, find notices of Fiesta events and the media coverage it have received. The tree plantings bring beauty, shade and cleaner air to public spaces. The Fiesta, which this year attracted 1,800 people to its events two weekends ago, is a source of civic pride and a tourist attraction of immense proportions, whose potential has only begun to be tapped. The Royal Poinciana Fiesta was begun 60 years ago. Its history is intimately related to the that of the City of Miami. Over the years, volunteers have spent innumerable hours making this a very special event. I hope you can help us make sure that the City continues funding the Committee and provides a paid staff person to help us in our endeavors. I look forward to discussing this matter with you soon. With warm regards, Uy/ r� V Kathy Gaul, Chairman 1997 Royal Poinciana Fiesta 2912 Alhambra Circle, Coral Gables, FL 33134 (305) 661-2481 97- 508 5