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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Members of Date: September 24, 2003
the City Commission
Subject: Committee on
Beautification and Environment
From: Priscilla A. Thompson References: October 9, 2003 Agenda
City Clerk
Enclosures: List of Members
The Committee on Beautification and Environment was created to encourage and to participate
in projects that will enhance the natural beauty and ecological quality of Greater Miami.
This committee consists of up to 50 official members, which the Commission appoints.
Traditionally, the Commission has accepted a slate of nominees proffered by the committee
chairperson, Mr. Stephen D. Pearson, with a waiver of the residency requirement for pertinent
members. Attached is a copy of a letter from Mr. Pearson in connection with his recommendations
for the committee. At the Commission meeting of July 17, 2003, eight appointments were made to
this committee.
The Commission At -Large is requested to appoint the names submitted by Mr. Pearson.
Two waivers are needed for this board:
1. Four -fifths waiver of Section 2-884(b) of the City Code, which requires that board
members either reside in the city, own real property in the city or maintain a
business in the city to apply to the eight members appointed on July 17, 2003 (Lenny
Goldstein, Gary Hunt, Penny Lambeth, Robert McCabe, Peter Ostrowsky, Albena
Sumner, Joe Wilkins, Lottie Person, as needed) as well as the new members to be
appointed today.
2. A unanimous affirmative vote of the members of the Commission, for a waiver of
Section 2-885(b) of the City Code, which provides that no member shall serve more
than eight consecutive years on any one board, for the first nine nominees listed
below.
Mr. Pearson's nominees are:
1. George Childs (has served as a member since July 26, 1994)
2. Willis Harding (has served as a member since July 26, 1994)
3. Ruth Hopkins -Rosenthal (has served as a member since July 26, 1994)
4. Steve Pearson (has served as a member since July 26, 1994)
5. Carmen Petsoules (has served as a member since July 26, 1994)
6. Larry Schokman (has served as a member since July 26, 1994)
7. Robert H. Smith (has served as a member since July 26, 1994)
8. Betty Waldor (has served as a member since July 26, 1994)
9. Suzanne Salichs
10. Peter Nagy
For your convenience, we are including a copy of the current membership of the committee. By
copy of this memorandum, we are requesting the Agenda Office to place this issue on the October
9, 2003 Commission agenda. This matter was deferred from the June 12, 2003 and the July 17,
2003 Commission meetings.
PAT:ss
c: Elvi Alonso, Agenda Coordinator
Albert Dominguez, Liaison/Public Works Assistant Director
Stephen D. Pearson, Chairperson