HomeMy WebLinkAboutM-83-0831CITY OF MIAMI. FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To Honorable Mayor and Members I'AIE
of the City Commission
Howard V. Garj;&,'
FR:,M City Manager
5_L Metro -Miami
Action Plan
RErEA Ell -ES
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FILE
The Metro -Miami Action Conference held July 29-30, 1983 at
the Miami Convention Center was a great success. Subsequent
to the Conference, the Executive Committee of MMAP and staff
from Dade County assigned to MMAP categorized
recommendations which were produced at the Conference and
accordingly identified the public and private sector
entities under whose jurisdiction these actions fall.
The MMAP Executive Committee has assigned Willie Gort and
Charles Johnson to coordinate with the City of Miami those
recommended actions for which we were identified as lead
authority. The attached analysis will inform you of the
status of these recommendations, noting additional action
which would be required by the_City for implementation. T-he
major areas add-ressed are sensitivity__-in_--t-h-e-_C_riminal
u_ sce__�tem , Econom_ic_ Development and Employment and
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At our budget hearing on July 26, 1983 Mr. Gort and Mr.
Johnsor, along with interested citizens, will appear for
purposes of encouraa�_n�the _Co_mmission to continue lt5
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In November, the Metro -Miami Action Plan will hold a public
forum for the purposes of informing the community of the
actions which have been taken thus far and of advising the
community of the manner in which MMAP will proceed in the
future to bring the remaining recommendations to fruition.
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ISSUE/109COlq+MED ACTION
1. CRIMINAL JUSTICE
ssue ecomvnF` ation
#2/#48 - Re -institute
resource officer program.
#4/#84 - Hoid a
for welfare mothers to apprise
officials of their plight.
#5/#69 - Evaluate and strengthen
intercultural awareness and con-
flict resolutions training for
law enforcement personnel.
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#5/#73 - Strengthen Miami's
Office of Professional
Compliance and implement
in other municipalities.
# /#33A - Activate team foot
patrols in high crime areas. -
# /#338 - Establish sub -stations _
is Overtown and Liberty City
MEMO-MIAMI ACTIOn VLM
CITY OY MIAMI RECOMM"ATIONS
1. City is exploring a program
for training for school guards.
1. ADC and violations of ADC
regulations are note within
the purview of City of Miami.
1. City has purchased training
simulator.
2. City will award proposal for
sensitivity training to
augument simulator training.
3. City hired 50 (87% minority)
Leficersduring 1983.��84 Citywmpleinen
laglcaE screeningforw officers.
1. In -place.
1. City of Miami required officers
in high crime areas to park and
walk two hours per shift.
2. City Liberty sCity andoinadd hrseOvertown.
patrols �n
1. City has established mini -station
in Overtown.
RF.002R,D ACTION RY CITY OF MIAMI
1. Follow through on implementation
Of program if approved and
continue interaction with Dade
County on Officer Friendly concept.
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1. Monitor software development and
implement of simulator.
2- Award human relations training
contract and monitor effective-
ness.
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1. Monitor effectiveness of Overtown
mini-station-
2. Develop position paper on sub-
stations.
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METRO-MIAMI ACTION PLAN
CITY OF MIAMI RECOMMENDATIONS
ISSUE/RECOMMENDED ACTION
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
AND tFlF[UYMtNF
Issue ecommen a ion
#1/#88 - Develop linkages to
the international market for
the black business community.
1.
2.
3.
City of Miami trade and Commerce
has conducted a successful trade
mission to the Bahamas for tw lve
black businesses.
y is developing technical
assistance program with Miami
Dade Community College for
minority businesses in import/
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City is planning a trade mission
to Barbados Trinidad in January
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for business
4.
City/Fla. orters Association
conducted "Fundamentals of
Importing/Exporting".
#2/#90 - Award bonus points for
1.
Currently the City utilizes
construction contract proposals
a point system to evaluate
which include black businesses
its professional services and
as joint ventures, with a greater
Unified Development Projects
number of points awarded for
which consider minority involve -
minority involvement.
ment (Ordinance 9530)
#2/057 - Implement a replica of thE
2.
Ordinance 9530 creates a 50% set -
Federal Prompt Payment Plan which
a or minors
provides for interest payment
developme fects-`m4-tons-truc-
beyond its days after due date.
tion contracts. All bid announce-
ments contain the minority partici-
pation requirement.
3.
Ordinance 9530 and 9341 require
minority enterprise registration.
tered vendors receive
u - t� ica :ono u coming
bids.
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RF.MTIRBD ACTION BY CITY OP MIAMI
1. All future trade missions to
foreign countries will involve
minority businesses.
2. City is communicating with the 4
Caribbeana Council to establish
an Export Revolving Loan Fund
for minority businesses.
1. Investigate additional legal
tools which City has at its
disposal to increase minority
involvement.
I. None - City has documented that
late payments are not occuring
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CITY OF MIAMI
ISSUE/RECOMMENDED ACTION RESPONSE REM/IRED ACTION BY CITY OF MIAMI
01/#136 - Assess the success of the
City's Overtown Job Assistance
Center for replication in other
areas.
#91#61 - Utilize the Community
Development Corporations in the
area of job development surround-
ing rapid transit stations.
4. 's Community Development
F'n - fonds s'rify tar�etiPg
of funds or communi develo men_t_
'to CityIs_nit eve o_pment
areas. _
1. City's evaluation of the Overtown
Job Assistance Cen�.er ind _c e "
tha edera funding cutbacks and
general decline in economy make
job placement difficult.
2. City has targeted its limited
dollars to Overtown.
3. City's use of its own budgeted
positions supports OJAC efforts.
Eighty seven (87%) of new hires
were minorities and seventy-nine
(79%) promotions are minorities.
I. This is a part of the City's
Master Plan.
2. The City has provided seed money
to the Allapattah CDC to build a
shopping center and was a part of
the development of the Overtown
Shopping Centet.
3. The City is encouraging Community
Based Organizations to utilize
C mm pity Development Floating
funds 1<or G eve ooment, in
conc r with federal programs
which support minority involve-
ment in transit station develop-
ment.
1. On -going
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ISSWRECOMMENGED ACTION
#21051 - Replicate the Tallahassee
Procurement Plan which awards bonus
points to minorities and allows City
to contract with black firms if their
bid is within 50% of the lowest.
021/#53 - Establish a self-insurance
pool to encourage the use of the
bond waiver in letting contracts
under $100,000.
02//54 - Sub -divide bid specifica-
tions to ensure that a significant
number of specifications are easier
for black firms to bid.
#211#121 - Implement the Entre-
preneurial Institute to provide
technical assistance to minority
businesses.
f3//91 - Community Development
Department should continue to
significantly increase the
allocation of funds for economic
development.
METRO-MIAMI ACTION PLAN
CITY OF MIAMI RECOMMENDkIONS
I. City adheres to lowest bid. however
Ordinances 9341 and 9530 have goals
which allow City to evaluate propos-
als and bids in light of minority
involvement proposed.
1. City has minimal bond assistance
program with Minority Contractors
Training Program.
1. On -going, however experience has
been that other assistance, i.e.
bonding. insurance. etc., must be
available in conjunction.
1. This is within the purview of the
Dade Revitalization Board and the
Business Assistance Center. The
City of Miami is represented on
the Boards of the agencies and
will encourage this within those
settiings.
1. City's Economic Development Depart-
ment funds 10 Community Development
Corporations to address this
recommendation.
2. City created and funds Miami Capital
Development Corporation to address
same .
3. City has allocated
new money for capital improve-
ment in black areas.
Rrn"rRRD ACTION BY CITY or MIAMI
1. City is investigating the ways
in which such a program may be
replicated on a project by
project basis.
1. City will continue sizing where
feasible and will investigate
additional assistance programs.
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CITY OF MIAMI WCOMMENDkIONS
ISSUE/RECOMMENDED ACTION RPSPONSE Rr.nuIRFD ACTION BY CITY OF MIAMI
f9/095- UtiIize joint ventures
between merchant associations
and Community Development Cor-
porations in the development of
businesses and concessions sur-
rounding transit stations.
t9/f11 - Implement first source
manpower agreements, affirmative
action plans and procurement
adjustments written into zoning
codes, industrial revenue bond
approvals and new sewer hookups
in industrial areas.
#10/015 - Support industrial
revitalization of target areas
through the redevelopment of old
areas, development of new
publically supported industrial
parks and revitalization
deteriorated areas.
0101014 - Encourage commercial
revitalization through continued
clean-up/business revitalization
and assistance to merchants
associations.
I. See /91/#61
1. City is receptive to these
recommendations.
1. City is currently utilizing
funds to enable Community
based organizations to develop
such areas in liberty City and
Overtown (Overtown Shopping
Center, MLK building and
Edison Shopping mall projects).
I. SEE i10/i15
1. Research the legality of these
issues.
1. Investigate additional funding
sources and programs which will
promote such revitalization.
2. Encourage Business Assistance
Center and Dade Revitalization
Board to address these issues
in concert with City's on -going
activities.
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CITY OF MIAMI RECOMWNDAI!"IONS
ISSUE/RECOMMENDED ACTION RESPONSE RFOUIRBD ACTION BY CITY OF MIAMI
III. HOUSING
IssueRecommendation
#1/#96 - Change the law for the
use of CD Block Grant funds for
new housing construction and
rehab and increase the appro-
priation accordingly.
#11/0110 - Develop and implement
a partnership of Fed. State and
local governments and private
sector interest to coordinate
funding efforts to obtain 4000
housing units per year for 10
years.
#1/#111 - Develop and implement
methods and models for levering
public funds to create afford-
able housing units necessary.
04/#99'- Strengthen code enforce-
ment and improve remedies for
non-compliance to stimulate housin�
rehab by owners and non-resident
landlords.
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1. City is limited to CO Block
Grant funds awarded by federal
government.
2. City has raised $25 mil Bonds
for affordable housing. targeted
to Overtown. Liberty City and
East Little Havana.
1. SEE #1/#96
2. City continues to work with County
and state regarding use of housing
funds to be generated by New
Documentary Stamp Tax funds.
1. City plans to build over 1.000
affordable housing units and has
earmarked 50% of this construction
for
2. City has housing rehab - low
interest loan fund for single
and multi -residential units.
3. SEE #1/0110 and #96
1. SEE ABOVE - City's rehab program
applies to owner occupied and to
non-resident single and multi-
family units.
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METRO-ML*ff ACTION PLAN
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A DESCRIPTION OF ?OW
1. WAP is a task oriented partnership; it is a self-help program of the
members of a camwnity who have a commitment to themselves, in the
most altruistic sense.
Its executive body, a committee made up half of public leaders, half of
private sector leaders, is tri-ethnic. Its members are the repre-
sentatives of the groups and the people who are Greater Miami, and who
work for the actions needed by our community. They work for the actions
needed to change t e way we conduct our daily affairs.
2. MNAP is a voluntary effort of the organizations and the people who must
make the changes needed. MMAP has nc budget, does not expend funds, and
does not employ a staff. The organizations, and the people who must take
action, are the ones who provide the staff, who do the work, and who make
the needed changes happen.
3. MMAP is directed by its executive body. That body identifies the highest
priority community problems, finds the means to define the solutions, and
actively pursues the enactment of the recommended actions that those
solutions require.
4. MMAP is a truly public enterprise. It is representative of the community
and open to the community. It welcomes visitors and the media. It
purposely includes a variety of viewpoints and does not exclude any.
5. rIW publishes a plan of the actions necessary to accomplish its task. It
changes the plan from time to time as circumstances require.
6. MW assumes a responsibility to assure the organizations and the people of
Greater Miami who are responsible and who have the authority to take action
that they shall be given the full gratitude and recognition for the
affirmative actions they take. The record of achievement shall be perpetual
and z lert of the living history of our community.
7. The Action Plan of the N,etro-Miami area is the highest priority of our lives
togetTier. It is our means to continue to live together here. We must make
it the first order of business in every meeting, assembly hall, and individual
enterprise. Until it is accomplished, all other matters must take second
place.
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MZTRO-MIAM ACTION PROGRAM
This documen: contains a statement of cogent issues with corre-
sponding recommended actions in the areas of Education and Trainir4
for Jobs. Economic Development and Employment, Rousing. and Sensitivity
in the Criminal Justice Systems..
It expresses the vital interests of Slacks and the poor in this
community who have not moved forward at nearly the same pace as the
rest of the residents of Dade County. Comprehensive intervention in
correcting this disparity is critical to the continued growth of our
county. A community polarised along ethnic and economic lines cannot
prosper.
The Mayors and Managers of Dade County and the City of Miami, and the
Chairman and Superintendent of the School Board, the Greater Miami United
Board of Directors, and the Chief Executives of the Institutions of
Higher Education have agreed to lead the community toward correcting
this disparity. A unique process was approved and funded by the Board
of County Commissioners to support four work groups comprised of
community representatives and public officials, facilitated by college
and university personnel. Their charge was to gather data and suggest
solutions for major issues in the four identified problem areas.
While we have seen a number of competent plans and studies in recent
years, they have, for the most parts been discussed but not implemented.
In the Metro -Miami Action program. the four work groups have taken infor-
mation from existing plans and studies. along with widespread community
Input, and translated the data and suggestions into concrete recommended
actions. The ideas and opinions of Slacks throughout the compunity have
been solicited. Therefore, the process has enabled the work groups to
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reach concensus smong the public, private, and community sectors at
each phase of the program,'s development; issue identification and
recommended actions. Thus, the process has helped enure the
acceptance of the plan. the individuals who control the economic and
political power in our community will help make the decisions as to
the adoption of recommended actions and the assignment of resources
and priorities.
The appropriate bodies of government, the private sector, and
the ccsimunity will have to agree upon the needed changes. The proposed
issues and recommended actions will be the basis for a community con-
ference to discuss, debate, and ratify the program. It is an open
system - there will be opportunities for additions or deletions. Many
recommended actions will become effective October 1, 1983. Others will
become part of mid -range and long-range plans. All actions undertaken
as a result of this program will be monitored by an official agency.
There will be an annual review and update to determine progress and
future directions.
To stress the urgency of the Metro -Miami Action Program, the
following data has been taken from the material in this document.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR JOBS
--- During the last year and a half. more than 60% of all Expulsions
from Dade County Public Schools were Black, while Blacks moo up
only 31Z of the general school population.
--- Of the students who entered the 9th grade in 1979, 48% of the
Black azudents dropped out before their class graduated in 19820
compared to 28Z of white non-tispanic students and 35Z of
Hispanic students.
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�-- The Drop -Out Prevention Program of Dade County public Schools
Is funded with $7,000 of state funds* and has no staff.
to 1982-1983, the Gifted Propram served approximately 2,770
students; only 92 were Black.
--- During the first term of 1982-1983, 4;662 students were Suspended
from Dade County public Schools; $OX were Black.
-- There are 175 elementary schools in Dade County Public Schools,
and there are only 86 counselors to deal with the children.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT
--- In 1979. median Black family income was $13,108 annually, which
was 70% of the total Dade County median of $18.718, and 67S of
the non -Hispanic white median income of $19,585.
--- In 1979, 29.8x of the Black population in Dade County was living
below the poverty level, compared to 15.1% of the total popula-
tion, including Blacks, living at that level.
--- In fiscal year 1981-82, 50% of the charges of employment discrim-
ination filed with the Dade County Fair Housing and Employment
Appeals Board were on the basis of race.
--- Unemployment among Blacks is at least 1 1/2 times higher than the
unemployment rate in the total workforce of the County. This
figure is probably even higher than reported, but the chronically
unemployed are not counted. Black teenage unemployment is
estimated at 44%.
Black business development lags far behind not only that of the
white and Latin communities in Dade County, but that of Blacks in
most major cities across the country as well. Blacks own only
1.42 of the County•s businesses, while they comprise 16.6% of the
population.
The Black low-income target areas in the County are served by 37Z
less retail space when compared to population than the rest of
the County.
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While the number of persona working for Black -owned firms with
paid employees rose by 62 nationally between 1972 and 1977, the
number of such persons in Dade County declined by 252 in the
same period.
In 1977. Black -owned manufacturing firms represented 8% of all
such fires in the County, but accounted for only .3 of 12 of the
revenue of such firms. in servicea, the 62 of Black -owned firms
accounted for only .6 of 1Z of all revenues. In retail trade,
Black firms were 3.6% of all firms, but produced less than LZ of
total revenues of all retail firms in the County.
Black -owned firma to Dade'County are more heavily concentrated
In the retail trade and service sectors than in the rest of the
United States.
In 1977. the average gross receipts of Black -owned firms in Dade
County was $44,000, which represents an 11Z decline from 1972.
By comparison, the average gross receipts of firms with paid
employees was $186,0001 in 1977, an increase of 9.4% over 1972.
--- In 1977, the average gross receipts of Black -owned construction
firms was $25,000; the average of such firms with paid employees
was $99,000, a decline of 13% from 1972.
--- In 1982, 21% of a sample of businesses located in Liberty City
(white and Black -owned) reported that they were unable to find
an insurance company willing to insure them.
HOUSING
40,000 very low to moderate income Black families have serious
housing problems.
-- There is a critical shortage of affordable housing in Dade
County.
--- Disrepair is pervasive: holes in walls and ceilings* broken
plumbing, and vermin infestation.
--- There is a growing abandonment of housing in blighted neighbor-
hoods.
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--- 2(,000 Black families in substandard housing require rental
subsidies, or expect to be displaced during the current year.
--- Over 31.000 families are on the waiting list for public housing.
SENSITIVITY IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
--- Blacks believe that they receive "unequal treatment before the
law." this is the finding of the United States Commission on
Civil Rights in its Confronting Racial Isolation in Miami (1982).
Little has changed in the way of perception of the criminal
justice system since that report was published a year ago.
-- According to Corrections Director Fred Crawford, at one time
last spring 69 of the 75 youths in Dade County jails were Black.
This disproportionate number of incarcerated Black youth is
largely attributable to the policy of direct filing, by which
the State Attorney's Office may bound a youth over to the adult
system without any other component of the criminal justice system
reviewing the case. The youth is not entitled to representation
by counsel.
--- Jurors are randomly selected from the voter registration roll.
The large cumber of Blacks who have not registered are thus
excluded from serving as jurors. The situation is exacerbated
whenever peremptory challenges are used to deplete juror pools
of Black jurors. Consequently. Blacks are often denied the
right to a trial by a jury of their peers.
--- No group in this community should be an acceptable object of
violence, either in the eyes of the law, or in the eyes of their
fellow man. The message sent by the criminal justice system,
however, is that killers of Blacks need not worry about receiving
the death penalty; Black life is cheap.
--- Black -on -Black homicide rates have increased tremendously in the
last several decades. Black homicide rates are seven to eight
times those of whites and in 80-90 percent of the cases, the
Slack victim was killed by another Black. Black -on -Black homicide
is the leading cause of death among young Black seen. The majority
of the murder victims were acquainted with their assailant.
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MMU-M R n ACTION PLAN
CONFLRENCE
OPENING REMARKS
Honorable Maurice Terre
Mayor
City of Miami
Mayor Steve Clark, Co -Chairman Dick McEwen, my colleagues in Government, Ladies
and Gentlemen. My first thoughts this morning are of appreciation and gratitude.
I will remember the tremendous backlash that I got back in late January when I,
perhaps, spoke quicker than I should have in trying to pin -point some of the
responsiblities and needs of our community. After the very unfortunate dis-
turbance that we had in the City of Miami in January and after my colleague and
friend Steve Clark got through his initial anger, and I think with some justifi-
cation. he called up and said "well, let's do something about it;' He and
Merrett Stierhein. Merrett, you know that you are one of my heroes of this
community and I think this is a good reason why you followed through. You
understood that rather than to get angry about this, perhaps it was a responsi-
bility of our main Government here to pursue this and I think in a typical
fashion of Steve Clark and this County Commission and yours, you did pursue
it successfully.
And then along came another of my heroes, and that's Dick McEwen, who is
a man with a tremendous social conscience, a man who has time and again proven
his concern in this community and he could run the responsibility with this
this organization for bringing all this together.
I want to congratulate those that I mentioned and I want to also add Wilhelmina
Tribble and Marcia Saunders and Ben Guilford. The three of them in particular,
for the tremendous job that they have done in putting this together. Won't you
Join me. (Applause).
There are those during the last 24 hours that have mentioned to me. and I am
sure to others, whether or not this is another meeting, whether or not this will
be another report that will end up on somebody's shelf that we will refer to
and talk about five years from now as promises unkept. Let te, first of all,
to those that were critics in the beginning, say that this is indeed a unique
meeting. I challenge anybody to tell me when so many people of diverse walks
of life, of this community have gathered to talk and to think and to share.
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Secondly, I think it is a unique experience because for the first time there
will be an Action Plan. Now there have been many plans, but these have been
plans that are all over the place dealing with Housing or the Police Department
or the Criminal Justice System, but this is the f irst time that we, s:s a
community, we as Governments, Government officials, Civic neighborhood leaders,
business people, have gathered together to talk and come back with a consensus.
Now, the question that we have before us on this occasion is one of whether or
not we will continue to accept the unfortunate circumstances that exist. -
I am building a house in North Coconut Grove and I did not realize once in a while
planes fly over and I was talking to one of my neighbors and my neighbor says
"oh don't worry about that, you will get used to it." Ok, what happens is that
when those planes fly over they fly over and fly over and fly over, there comes
a point where you don't hear them any longer.
Two weeks ago I ,;as in San Salvador and I went in a helicopter into the war zone
and I talked to s�vme of the village people there and I said "doesn't it bother
you to see everybody with grenades and guns and all the shooting that is going
on?" And this kid said "Nah, after a while you know, you get used to it." See,
that is the problem. The problem is that we, as human beings, would not accept
things but we get used to it and we put it in the back of our brain and somehow
it goes into a different gear and we accept poverty, and we accept injustice, and
we accept these things that surround us...we know they're there, we know the
noise of those planes are there but we just accept it. We say "Oh well, we'll
deal with that some other time." Now poverty, which is one of the big problems
that we're dealing with here, is something that we need to reanalyze and re-
focus our attention on, and that is what we've been doing here.
It is just totally unacceptable for there to be a community of 300,000 citizens
of our county that live in our midst. The vast majority of whom are unemployed,
live in conditions of proverty. Look at the statistics. Twenty-five percent,
and you take away some of these social programs that are being removed by the
Federal Government including the lowering of Food, if you were to take away those
programs in full, 25% of Metropolitan Dade County will be in extreme proverty.
In the City of Miami there is closer to 50% and at Overtown there is closer to
75%. When you realized that the unemployment factor of Black youths, and not
just in Black youths, is up to 500/0' and you realize that in Overtown on Monday
there was... that were unemployed or these that don't even register in the
classification of unemployment because they gave up looking for work is over
40%. When you realize that there are 40,000 black families that either don't
have proper housing or substandard housing, when you realize the educational
problems of the Criminal Justice System ,then we have to ask a very basic
question. These 300,000 citizens who look at the Q;P, despite all this proverty,
if this were a nation that moved to the Bahamas, and, by the way, there are
more people, Black citizens in Dade County than there are in the nation of the
Bahamas, and the GNP would be a billion and a half dollars and I ask you, how
do we share in the welfare for the well being of everyone with limited wealth
and so you have to ask the other side of the question and that is how many
wealthy Blacks are there in Miami? How many people can qualify as having made
it economically? And then you get to the approach of the problem, and that is
the tremendous difference between those who have or have not. Now, what we've
done here is try and define what these problems are.
One of the dangers that we have, Merrett and Howard and those of us that will be
working, is the problem of pie -in -the -sky, of over -promising and not being able
to perform. There is, for example, the statement made in one of the co®ittees
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that I served on in Group "B" about the question of forcing judges to compensate
juries to that there will be black presence in participation of juries. I'm
not a lawyer but I don't think, as I understand it, constitutionally, that's
possible. I think we need not get into the danger of over -promising. iI think,
also, that we need to have the maturity to try to limit our success areas so
that we can be successful.
Now, I think we have a successful rate in our community within this last year and
I'm talking about the Miami Citizens Against Crime. Now, I think Miami Citizens
Against Crime what I learned out of that process is that they went to the edge of
what is possible or probable and they probably went a little bit beyond it. They
organized and they went beyond the edge of what is possible or probable. They
achieved but they did not go way beyond the edge, they didn't go out way beyond
the precipice because then they could have fallen into a little reality and
what they did was pushed all of us from the County, the City, and the Federal
Government into collecting our forces and going and doing a little bit more, but
it was a limitation of what could be done so that it was realistic and I think
that we today have a responsibility to live our patterns so that we can be
successful. Now, that may entail some sacrifice, that may entail saying we're
only gonna deal with Liberty City, Opa Locka, and Overtown first, or we gonna
be dealing with housing in this area or job opportunity or job training. But
that leads me to the last thing and that is the question of commitment.
Last night I was, until about 11:30, with several participants of this conference.
We had dinner and one of the people, a well-known Black businessman was mentioning
a conversation that he had with one of the wealthiest individuals and most success-
ful businessman, and there was a report in the newspaper of how the stock of that
company had gone up and that person was now worth quite a bit of a billion dollars...
and how this Black business person presented this business venture and that man's
answer to him was "Well, I'll talk to the Governor about it."
You see, if we could get this community to make the kind of pledge of commitment
to this effort that was given to the Miami Citizen Against Crime, and if we can
get away from this "I'll talk to the Governor about it" approach, and if we can get
down and say I'm involved, I'm affected, I can't go back to my nice home and barbecue
this Friday and get a raise on the fact that we live in a community that is dis-
tressed and I don't have to deal with that on Monday cause I get into my air-condi-
tioned car and go to my air-conditioned office and I don't have to deal with it.
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Dr. Marzell Smith
Assoc. Dir. (Facilitator)
Miami'Desgreation Assistance Center
P.O. Box 248065
Coral Gables, FL 33124 - 284-3213
Dr. Whittington Johnson (Writer -Editor)
History Department
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248194 - 284-3213
Dr. Geoff Alpert (Researcher)
Department of Sociology
University of Miami
P.O. Box 248162
Coral Gables, FL 33124 - 784-6762
Ms. Carolyn Eliard (Private Sector)
3000 Biscayne Bled., #408
Miami, FL 33137 - 573-7088
Mr. Fred Crawford, Dir.
(County Govt. Admin.)
Corrections 6 Rehabilitation
1351 N.W. 12th Street
Miami, FL 33125 - 547-7355
Bobby Jones, Dir.
(County Govt. Admin.)
Metro -Dade Police Department
1350 N.W. 14th Street
Miami, FL 33130 - 547-7498
Dr. Robert Ingram, Chief
(Public Sector Admin.)
Opa-Locka Police Department
2495 Ali Baba Ave.
Ope-Locka, FL 33054 - 685-2406
Dr. Jeffrey Silbert, Ex. Dir.
(Public Sector Admin.)
Dade -Miami Criminal Justice Council
111 N.W. 1st Ave., 4th Floor
Miami, FL 33128 - 579-4303
Mr. Joe Ingraham, Dir.
(Public Sector Admin.)
400 N.W. 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33101 - 579-3388
Dr. Evelina Bestman, Dir.
(Reps. of Black Leadership)
1469 N.W. 36th Street
Miami, FL 33127 - 635-1366
Mr. Charles Mays, P.A.
(Reps. of Black Leadership)
1400 N.W. 36th Street
Miami, FL 33127 - 638-8882
Mrs. Georgia Jones -Avers
(Reps. of Black Community)
2475 N.W. lllth Street
Miami, FL 33167 - 638-4085
Mr. Herbert Ammons
(Reps. of Black Community)
15150 S.W. 107th Avenue
Miami, FL 33157 - 235-6351
Mr. Kirk Yearly
(Reps. of Black Community)
Belafonte-Talcalocy Center
6161 N.W. 9th Avenue
Miami, FL 33127 - 751-1295
Judge Seymour Gelber
Miami -Dade Criminal Justice Council
3300 N.W. 27th Avenue
Miami, FL 33127 - 638-6234
Mr. Neal Sonnett, P.A.
200 S.E. 1st Street
Miami, FL 33130 - 358-7477
Mr. William Colson, P.A.
66 W. Flagler Street
Miami, FL. 33130 - 373-9016
Mr. William Atkins
Gibson Institute for Social Change
1200 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami, FL 33131 - 358-3227
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HOUSING
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Mr. Oscar DeShields (Facilitator) Mr. Kenneth Baker
Asst. Professor, Business (Youth Participant)
Admimistration c/o New Horizons Mental Center
Florida Memorial College 1469 NW 36th Street
15800 NW 42 Ave. H-551-6627 Miami FL 33127 693-0366
Miami, FL 33054 625-4141, Ex125
Mr. Martin Fine, P.A.
Dr. Alfred Pinkston (Writer -Editor) 2401 Douglas Road
Florida Memorial College Coconut Grove, FL 33133 446-2200
15800 NW 42 Ave.
Miami FL 33054 573-3010 Ms. Willie Mary Myers, Dir.
Housing Opportunity Center
Mr. Ronald Sellers (Private Sector) Urban League of Greater Miami
6385 NW 2nd Ave. Miami FL 33132 358-3237
Miami FL 33150 754-1100
Mr. Melvin J. Adams, Director
(County Govt. Administrator)
Housing 6 Urban Development
1401 N.W. 7th Street
Miami FL 33125 547-5306
Mr. Jerry Gereaux
(Public Sector Administration)
Office of Community Development
City of Miami
1145 N.W. llth Street
Miami, FL 33136 579-3336
Mr. George Hepburn, Director
(Reps. of Black Leadership)
New Century Dev. Corp.
5400 N1. 22nd Ave.
Miami FL 331=7 638-6231
Ms. Pat Mellerson
(Reps. of Black Leadership)
Property Appraiser
11935 S6: 92nd Ave.
Miami FL 33176 255-2086
_ Ms. Eufaula Frazier, Prs.
(Reps. of Black Community)
Dade Tenant Association
4300 N.W. 12th Ave.
Miami FL 33127 635-8764
Ms. Ann Marie Adker
(Reps. of Black Community)
238 N.W. 8th Street
Miami Fl. 33136 356-1493
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Dr. Deryl Hunt (Facilitator)
Personnel Services
F.I.U. Bay Vista Campus
North Miami, FL 33181 - 940-5545
Dr. Toni Eisner, Dir.
(Writer -Editor)
Grants Contract/Personnel
School of Education
F.I.U. Bay Vista Campus
Miami FL 33199 - 554-2767
Mr. Arthur Brooks (Private Sector)
Miami Dade Chamber of Commerce
6255 N.W. 7th Ave.
Miami, FL. 33150 - 579-6884
Mr. Dean Taylor, Deputy Dir.
(County Govt. Admin.)
Cor=unity b Economic Development
90 S.W. 8th Street
Miami FL 33130 - 579-2553
Mr. Herbert Bailey, Asst. City Mgr.
(Public Sector Admin.)
Overtown/Park West Development
P.O. Box 33708
Miami, FL 33233-0708 - 579-6040
Mr. Newell Daughtrey, Dir.
(Rep. of Black Leadership)
Business Assistance Center
6600 N.W. 27th Ave.
Miami, FL. 33147 - 693-3550
Mr. Ron Frazier, AIA
(Rep. of Black Leadership)
5800 N.W. 7th Ave.
Miami, FL 33127 - 754-0655
Mr. Joe Wilson, Ex. Dir.
(Rep. of Black Community)
Overtown Economic Development
225 N.W. 9th Street
Miami, FL 33136 - 374-1171
Mrs. Lillie Williams
(Rep. of Black Community)
1180 N.W. 50th Street
Miami, FL 33127
Ms. Tracy Howard (Youth Participant)
YWCA Teen Economic Power Program
149 N.W. llth Street
Miami, FL 33136 - 358-6691
Mr. Charles Babcock, Pres.
The Babcock Company
1500 Monza Ave., Suite 300
Coral Gables, FL. 33146 - 665-1112
Mr. Bill Cullom, Pres.
Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce
1600 Biscayne Blvd.
Miami FL 33132 - 350-7700
Dr. Joachim de Posada
1111 S.W. 92nd Ave.
West Miami, FL 33174 -
554-1963
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR JOBS u'
Ms. Sharon Thomas, Associate Professor
(Facilitator)
Psychology and Education
Miami -Dade Community College
South Campus
11011 South West 104th Street
Miami, Florida 33176 - 596-1274
Dr. Jon Alexiou, Associate Dear,
(Writer -Editor)
Social Science Division
Miami -Dade Community College
31012 Southwest 104th Street
Miami, Florida 33176 - 596-118E
Dr. Kathy Morris (Researcher)
Institutional Research
Miami -Dade Community College
11011 Southwest 104th Street
Miami, Florida 33176 - 596-1188
Mrs. Dorothy Baker, Coordinator
(Private Sector)
United Negro College Fund
1515 Northwest 7th Street
Mimi, Florida 33125 - 541-6696
Ms. Wilhelmina Tribble
(County Government Administrator)
employee/ Manage=ert Development
200 South Miami Avenue
Miami, Florida 33130 - 579-2830
Mr. Tory Ojeda (County Government Administrator)
County Manager's Office
73 West Flagler Street, 9th Floor
Miami, Florida 33130 - 579-5311
Mr. Paul Bell (Public Sector Administrator)
Dade County School Board
1410 Northeast Second Avenue
Miami, Florida 33132 - 350-317L Y
Dr. Eddie Pearson (Public Sector Administrator)
Dade County School Board
1410 Northeast Second Avenue
Miami, Florida 33132 - 350-3174
Mr. Paul Bodet (Youth Participant)
17200 Northwest 42nd Court
Carol City, Florida 33055 - 621.875
Mrs. Thelma Gibson
(Reps. of Black Leadership)
3661 Franklin Avenue
Coconut Grove, Florida 33133
442-9613
Mr. George Ellis
(Reps. of Black Leadership -Minister
Layman)
1055 Northwest 52nd Street
Miami, Florida 33127
324-6070 Ex4118
Mrs. Patricia Due
(Reps. of Black Co=unity)
19620 Bel -Aire Drive
Miami, Florida 33157-235-9205
Ms. Sheba Martin
(Reps. of Black Community)
912 Northwest 64th Street
Miami, Florida 33150-754-9695
Mr. Milton Shaw (Youth Participant)
1365 Northwest 62nd Street
Miami, Florida 33147-635-7587
Ms. Denise Eutsey (Youth Participan
10134 Circle Plaza West
Perrine, Florida 33157-233-9325
Mr. Arthur Hertz
Exective Vice -President
Chief Operating Officer
Wometco Enterprises, Incorporated
316 North Miami Avenue
Miami, Florida 33130-579-1200
Ms. Dorothy Weaver
Vice -President
Intercap Investments
800 Brickell Avenue
Miami, Florida 33131-358-3600
'Mr. Mike Griffey
Executive Director
6555 Rorthwest 36th Street
Miami, Florida 33166-871-6851
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