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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEXHIBIT-1DRAFT. DRAFT ■ DRAFT • DRAFT ■ MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING This Memorandum of Understanding ("Memorandum") is entered into as of October , 2003, by and between the City of Miami, a municipal corporation of the State of Florida ("City"), and the City of Miami Retired Police Officers Community Benevolent Association, a Florida not -for -profit corporation ("Association"). For the purposes of this Memorandum, the City and the Association are collectively referred to as "Parties". Recitals WHEREAS, in 1944, the City of Miami, under the era of "separate but equal", established the nation's first Negro Police Precinct and it was housed in the dentistry offices of Dr. I.P. Davis; and WHEREAS, in 1950, the City of Miami constructed on the corner of N.W. 11th Street and N.W. 5tE' Avenue the nation's first Negro Municipal Courthouse and Police Precinct Station and the courthouse and station had its own clerk and bailiff; and WHEREAS, the legendary Judge Lawson E. Thomas, the first Black judge in the South since Reconstruction, and other Black judges, including Judge John D. Johnson, Judge Henry Arrington, Judge Harold Braynon, and Judge Donald Wheeler Jones presided in the courtrooms; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Resolution 31652, effective February 3, 1960, the City directed the transferred the Municipal Court and its jail and stockade operations to the Miami -Dade County and the municipal court was abolished in 1964; and WHEREAS, for over forty years, this City -owned facility has remained vacant and had become a blight on the community Whereas, the building is located near the Jefferson Reeves Health Clinic, the Athalie Range Mini -Park and several elementary schools and Booker T. Washington High School; and WHEREAS, since 2001, the City of Miami Retired Police Officers Community Benevolent Association ("Association"), consisting of the former police officers that were stationed at the "Negro Police Precinct", has been working with the City to restore the precinct and courthouse and create a Black Police Precinct & Courthouse Museum; and WHEREAS, the Association has procured an architect to make drawings for the restoration of the precinct and courthouse and has raised approximately $700,000 towards this project; and DRAFT. DRAFT ■ DRAFT • DRAFT ■ WHEREAS, the Department of Community Development has committed approximately $400,000 towards this project; and WHEREAS, the building has been designated as a historic landmark; and WHEREAS, the City has committed to allocate over $1 million of Capital Improvement Program ("CIP") funding towards this project, through its historic preservation funds, and the CIP Department has agreed to expedite the reconstruction and restoration of this building; and WHEREAS, once the building becomes operational again, the City will maintain the building; and WHEREAS, once the building becomes operational the City will provide the Association an opportunity to assist the City in developing a plan for interim management of the building; and WHEREAS, once this building is restored, it will be operational for use of the community and will be used to commemorate this legacy in the City's history; and WHEREAS, the Association shall deliver to the City fully permitted plans for project, has agreed to continue to assist the City in the restoration project and has committed to raise additional funds so that this project is realized. The Parties Agree as Follows: 1. The building which housed the former "Negro Municipal Courthouse and Police Precinct Station" is owned by the City of Miami. 2. The City has already committed or will commit approximately $400,000 from its CDBG funds towards the project. 3 The Association shall provide the City's Department of Capital Improvement Programs with fully permitted plans for the restoration of the building. 4. Upon receipt of the fully permitted plans for the restoration of the building, the City's Capital Improvement Programs will work, expeditiously, towards the restoration of the building. 5. The Association has applied for and has been awarded a grant for $300,000 from the funds that it will receive from the Grants and Education Section of the Bureau of Historic Preservation of the Division of Historical Resources and the Association will donate those funds to the City towards the project. 6. After building is restored the City will maintain the building under its Department of Parks and Recreation. DRAFT. DRAFT ■ DRAFT ■ DRAFT ■ 7. The City shall accept the donations from the Association and any other members of the community towards this project. 8. The Association has committed to continue its efforts in assisting the City in the restoration of the building and opening the building to the community. 9. After the building is restored the City will determine how and by whom the building will be managed, but will give the Association the opportunity to participate in the process. In consideration of the above -referenced recitals, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the Parties hereto agree to be bound by the terms of this Memorandum. IN WITNESS WHEREOF. the Parties hereto have executed this Memorandum as of the day and year first above written. ATTEST: Print Name: Print Title: ATTEST: Priscilla A. Thompson City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS Alejandro Vilarello City Attorney City of Miami Retired Police Officers Community Benevolent Association, a Florida not -for -profit corporation Otis Davis President CITY OF MIAMI, a municipal corporation of the State of Florida Joe Arriola City Manager APPROVED AS TO INSURANCE REQUIREMENTS Ramona Fiumurra, Acting Director Risk Management