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HomeMy WebLinkAboutM-79-056771: F4014: 2 CITY OF MIAMI. ri.cRtnA •••••••.*•.•••••..... Jogeph R. Grassie City Manager Vir,Lceut. E./ rimm, Jr. --) --"A.s.sistant/ i 9-11 airevrerfl-sr August 22, 1979 : FLE: ConfOrence/COnVentionCenter--. Amendment to LaVenthol4AOrwath . Agreement RKFE.tlet.tc.Em H CLOSUfIES: In March the City Commission authorized by Resolution the hiring of the firm of Laventhol & Horwath to do a market study and financial projection for the Conference/Convention Center. The agreement with Laventhol & Horwath was based on a fee not to exceed $46,200.00 to review the existing lease between the City of Miami and Miami Center Associates, Inc. dated April 20, 1978. Laventhol & Horwath has completed its work in conformance with .the original agreement with a few minor exceptions. Since the April 20, 1978 agreement there have been extensive revisions to the lease required as a result of a legal review by the City's Bond Counsel. Although every attempt has been made to keep the business revisions of the original agreement and the present agree- ment the same, it is necessary that these revisions be reviewed by Laventhol & Horwath. The final report they prepare is a part of the validation proceedings. To accomplish this review, Laventhol & Horwath has agreed to a lump sum fee of $30,000. The services that they will provide for this fee are spelled out in the agreement. Should the City require services beyond these provisions, then the City would be charged additionally, as also spelled out in the agreement. A copy of this agreement has been forwarded to the City Attorney for whatever legal action is necessary on his part in conjunction with the 7-,..a,f,/ 7F— 4-4 7 AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENTAL TO THE AGREEMENT OF JUNE 5, 1979 BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND LAVENTHOL & HORWATH CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS THIS SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT, made this between the City of Miami, a.municipal corporation of the Florida, hereinafter called CITY, and LAVENT1iOL '& HORWATH, certified public accountants, Florida day of 1979 Corporation hereinafter called PRINCIPAL. WITNESSETH WHEREAS, the Commission of the City of Miami on March 1979 by Resolution No. 79-157, Section 3, authorized and; directed the City Manager to retain a nationally recognized certified public accountant feasibility; firm specializing i and WHEREAS,; a contract,based an existing Inc. the lease hotel and hospitality, accountancy: and firm of LAVENTHOL &:HORWATH agreed an amount not to etween the"City o 8.. At.th'is.tme exceed $46,200.00`:'for f Miami and Miami Cente to review of rAssociates, as amended April "20, 1978; and WHEREAS, it was not until after much work had been done on the of the -existing lease; and_, WHEREAS, subsequent legal"review of.`the `existing lease between City and Developer raised several State-constitutional.'and..tax basis the exemptions questions; and complete redraft'; _ o= WHEREAS, these questions required a existing lease and agreement," and WHEREAS, it is essential that as a part of the bond validatiOn proceedings that the Market Study and Financial Projection be, on' the basis; of the "finally executed lease; and the City has introduced into the project WHEREAS ence/Convention Center world Trade Center; and the City Commission has directed that the garage b the of- the Confer- - WHEREAS, from 1000 cars to 1500 cars; and CITY and the PRINCIPAL for the increased NOW, THEREFORE, hereafter SECTION 1 - The PR revise .the consideration as follows: et forth, agree and covenant, one otherunto ""the PROFESSIONAL INCTPAL shall provide additional professional: original Market Study and Financial Projection .based on the services to 1 revised lease between the City and the Developer. This contract'>will Works apply to the following research. which Was required Additional o complete the market study. B. Revision of report and financial projections to reflect proposed changes in the lease agreement between the City of .Miami and Miami Center Associates, Inc,., requested as of May 29, 1979. A second revision of,,report and financial,projections to reflect plished further changes. in this lease 'agreement.. This will when the. revised agreemen be:`accom- is executed. by both parties• D Preparation` of financial: projections for a 1500 space garage to be included in final report' along with projections of lease income derived by the City from the proposed World Trade Center as provided by the City. E`. Extension of analysis of project;` financing, projected flow and fund balances for the Bond Enterprise Fund to jections based on the 1500 space parking garage with the proposed Trade Center: This would be presented in our final report in parking World addition to the analysis based World terms and to the 98.8 - space. cash. include pro garage without the Trade Center. These analyses will be, prepared w the bond issue are ;determined: SECTION" -I and DOLLARS:, _($30,.000,.00) . PRINCIPAL that agreement:' rates, requires and that i without written o pay, THOUSAND that the CITY will be billed as follows at such work is required the. PRINCIPAL will not authorization.. Partners and Principals $90 Managers $63 Supervisors $51 Staff Consultants $40 I. COMPENSATIONFORSERVICES:' en the amount For professional and technical services the CITY agrees t the PRINCIPAL agrees to; accept the LUMP SUM FEE of THIRTY It is further, agreed between the CITY and the should additional work above and beyond that which this hourly proceed IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Supplemental Agree- ' ment to be executedin their names by their duly authorized officers and the corporate seals to be affixed- thereto; all as of the day and the year first written above. PREPARED APPR City At CITY OF MIAMI, (a municipal: corporationof the. State of Florida ATTEST: the plight be processed by the U.S • STATEMENT BY THE MAYOR OF MIAMI, 1-HON. MAURICE A FERRE, REGARDING, THE NICARAGUAN REFUGEES = TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1979. Along with many people in the community, I am distressed about of thousands of Nicaraguan refugees who have. not been able to Immigration Services. In an effort to assist the U.S.I.S. and other Federal agencies in. coping with the. influx of Nicaraguan refugees and in. -cooperation with the the City of Miami will provide, in the Little Catholic Service Bureau, Havana Community Center, temporary space, for processing the administrative paper work of the Nicaraguan refugees. Thespace is in Building "A" 0 of the older buildings) and is currently unoccupied. Ms. Aleli Puig is organizing this cooperative effort. Temporary space will be provided at no cost for the processing of an unknown number of Nicaraguan refugees. Speculation has it that between two and .three thousand refugees are in need of. Social. Security applications, INS applications and identification in order to qualify for temporary work permits.; work will be performed by the Catholic Service Bureau. cooperating with the provision of space and fac• ilities. It shouldbe noted that this 15 also in cooperation With Senator. Stone's office and the office of Congressman 'Pepper..; of Miamiis o"/14/ 7 - J 7 , a07. :'. Monday, August 27,1979 5A ' rjt rAr�4 . f u Miami now third major.port of immigration in nation RON SYMPSON Mimi NI*$ Reporter They are Soviet Jews escaping religious repression. They are Vietnamese boat people forced from their homelands by a repressive government: - They are Haitians. risking their lives in rotting sail boats to escape the most poverty-stricken country in the hemisphere.. They are Nicaraguans who sided with deposed dic- tator Anastasio Somoza. and who now fear for their lives among the victorious Sandinistas. And they are Cubans. convinced anew that life in the U.S. is not nearly so bad as Fidel Castro tried to pretend. They are the new refugees. the new huddled mass- es yearning to be free. They represent up to 100 na- tions from every continent of the world — from Jamai- ca to Estonia to -Poland — and they are arriving in Miami in record numbers.. "Every time you have a coup d'etat in one of these Latin Ametzican countries." said Metro refugee expert Sergio Pereira. "I'd venture to say you'll have 500 to 1,000 people coming into this country (through Miami)." • Exactly how "many new refugees are arriving in Miami each year is something that no one knows: The Immigration and Naturalization Service doesn't know. They deal only with the legal variety of immi- grant. legal having various meanings according to the particular fancy on a particular day of a particular ad- ministration in power. . Cubans are legal; Haitians aren't. Pre -sponsored Vietnamese and Russians Jews are legal: Nicaraguans are legal now but may not be by the end of the year. Most Communist exiles are legal; most non-Communist exiles are not. • Pereira puts his "guesstimate" at about 7.000 non - Cuban refugees a year. The Miami Cuban community, which until Novem- ber had about 500.000 exiles, has grown by an estimat- ed 2.500 since then., The unexpected increase was pre- cipitated by a new Castro policy allowing exiled Cu- bans to visit their homeland. There are an estimated 1.000 Vietnamese with an- Agencies offering aid to refugees In addition to the Catholic Services Bureau, these agencies are available for assistance to refugees: ✓ Christian Community Services, 111 NW 10th Ave:, Miami. Telephone. 888-5291. Haitians, Cubans. Vietnamese. ✓ Cuban Refugee Assistance Program, 3801 SW 8th St., Miami. Telephone,.350-5851. Cubans. Ilaitian Refugee Center, 1260 NW 62nd St.. Miami. Telephone. 691-2095. Haitians. ✓ Humanitarian Committee for the Refugees of , Nicaragua, 601 W. Flagler St., Miami. Telephone. -4--► 324-8242. Nicaraguans. - ✓ Jewish Federation of Greater Miami. 4200 Biscayne Blvd.. Miami. Telephone. 576-4000 or 672-2773. Russian Jews, Vietnamese. ✓ Latin Chamber of Commerce, 601 NW 22nd • Ave., Miami. Telephone. 642-3870. Cubans. • ✓ Little Havana Activities Center. 819 SW l2th Ave., Miami. Telephone. 858-2610. Cubans. Nicara- guans._ other 70 due before 1980 and about 1.000 Russian Jews with another 200 expected before the end of the year. South Florida has an estimated 23,000 Haitians and others arrive almost daily. There are some 3.000 Nicar- aguans now and their number may reach 10.000 before 1980. - Miamf, now ranked just behind New York and San• Francisco as the major port of immigration in this country, is not quite sure what to do with the refugees. "The county does not have anything specifically -geared toward refugees," Pereira said. Legally regis- tered immigrants are eligible for all services available to all Dade residents, while illegal aliens (such as the Haitians) are not. he said. 'We don't refuse to help them. but we cannot ab- sorb an influx of 10,000 people. or 5,000 people or 3.000 people out of the clear blue sky.' he emphasized. "We're not in the refugee business. Refugee responsi- bilities should be picked_ up by the federal govern- ment." ' The largest single source of assistance to refugees appears to come from the Miami Archdiocese and its Catholic Services bureau. where up to 200 refugees a month are provided with a wide range of services. "We see in any given year just about every country in Latin America represented," said Msgr. Bryan Walsh. who directs the bureau. "We've helped people from 20 to 25 different countries of origin. "The basic problem with regard to the refugee situ- ation." said Walsh. "is that it is not a local problem. These people are all here because of some national poli- cy, or because of the geographic location of this area. "Miami, inundated as it is, cannot be expected to bear the burden." he continued. "There is a national re- sponsibility that has to be recognized." Without that recognition of national responsibility. however, most refugees turn to the Catholic Service Bureau. "We're helping people and we help everyone re- gardless of immigrant status. race. color. national ori- gin or religion." said Walsh. The Bureau. which is located at 4949 NE Second Ave. (telephone number. 754-2444). has staff members conversant in most of the major foreign languages spo- ken by the bulk of refugees arriving here. In addition to assisting refugees through the immi- gration process and helping them obtain political asy- lum and work permits. the bureau also helps locate. housing. food. child care and medical assistance. When there are government agencies that can help. the bu- reau directs the refugee to the appropriate place. There are private agencies in Dade County that pro- vide help for refugees of specific nationality. But there is no central agency, or directory, anywhere to coordi- nate the efforts at assistance. Says Metro's Pereira: "That doesn't exist."