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TO. Honorable Mayor and Members DATE: April 23, 1987
of the City Commission SUBJECT
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1 Lucia A. Dougherty
C ) City Attorney ENCLOSURES
In accordance with Motion 87-348, adopted April 9, 1987, we are
suggesting the following language for your review and
consideration:
"Notwithstanding any provision to the
contrary contained in the Charter or Code of
the City of Miami, no sale, conveyance lease,
management agreement, revocable use permit,
or license agreement may be entered into for
the management, occupancy or use of the area
known as Watson Island unless (1) there shall
have been, prior to the date of the City
Commission's consideration of such sale,
lease, management agreement, revocable permit
or license agreement, an advertisement
soliciting proposals for said sale, lease,
management agreement, revocable permit, or
license agreement published in a daily
newspaper of general paid circulation in the
City, allowing not less than 90 days for the
City's receipt of proposals from prospective
purchasers or lessees, said advertisement to
be no less than 1/4 page and the headline in
the advertisement to be in a type no smaller
than 18 point; and, (2) the proposed
transaction be approved by a majority of the
votes oast by the electorate at a referendum.
The procedures for selection of proposals
shall be those provided by Charter Section
83(o), or (d)(i) as appropriate or by
applicable City Code provisions. Nothing
herein shall effect the existing rights, if
any, of any current lessee, permittee,
licensee or concessionaire. This Charter
Amendment shall not affect the City 's use,
occupancy or improvements to the area, nor
shall it apply to contracts for the
construction of any City facilities in the
area."
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By way of information in regard to selection procedures, 53(o) is
the Charter Section dealing with the Unified Development Project.
Section 53(d)(i) reads as follows: -
"Sales and leases of real property. Except
as otherwise provided in this Charter
section, there shall be no sale, conveyance
or disposition of any interest, including any
leasehold, in real property, owned by the
city, the department of off-street parking or
the downtown development authority, unless
there has been a prior opportunity given to
the public to compete as purchasers of said
real property or any interest therein. There
shall be public notice prior to any such
sale, conveyance or disposition. Any such
sale, conveyance or disposition shall be
conditioned upon compliance with: the
provisions of this section; such procurement
methods as may be prescribed by ordinance;
and any restrictions that may be imposed by
the city, the department of off-street
parking or the downtown development
authority, as appropriate. Further, no
right, title or interest shall vest in the
purchaser of the above property unless the
sale, conveyance or disposition is made to
the highest responsible bidder as is
determined by the city commission, or the
off-street parking board, or the downtown
development authority board of directors.
The city commission or the off-street parking
board or the downtown development authority
board of directors, as appropriate, may by
resolution waive the requirement of sale,
conveyance or disposition to the highest
responsible bidder by means of the following
procedure: the city manager, the director of
off-street parking authority, or the director
of the downtown development authority, as
appropriate, must make a written finding that
a valid emergency exists, which finding must
be ratified by an affirmative vote of two-
thirds of the commission after a properly
advertised public hearing. When the
requirement of sale, conveyance, or
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disposition to the highest responsible bidder
is waived, other proourement methods as may
be presoribed by ordinanoe shall be followed.
The oity or the department of off-street
parking or the downtown development authority
shall have the power to rejeot all offers.
All invitations for bids, requests for
Proposals or other solioitations shall
oontain a reservation•of the foregoing right
to rejeot all offers. This seotion shall not
apply to transfers to the United States, to
or any department or agenoy thereof, or to
the State of Florida or any politioal
subdivision or agenoy thereof."
LAD/RFC/bss/P369
oo: Cesar H. Odio, City Manager
Natty Hirai, City Clerk
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8'7-3951,
87 -395,
CITY OF MIAMI
N CITY CLERK REPORTS
ARSTma DATE: April 9. 1987 'ACE NO. 3
A MOTION INSTRUCTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO DRAFT AN
AMENDMENT TO THE CITY CHARTER REQUIRING PRIOR APPROVAL BY
THE ELECTORATE AT A REFERENDUM BEFORE ANY PERMANENT LEASE
ON WATSON ISLAND CAN BE GRANTED; FURTHER REQUESTING THE
CITY ATTORNEY TO HAVE THE PROPER WORDING OF SAID AMENDMENT
BY THE NEXT COMMISSION MEETING TO BE PLACED ON THE
NOVEMBER ELECTION.
M 87-348
MOVED: CAROLLO
SECOND: PLUMMET
UNANIMOUS
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