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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Mayor and Members
of the City Commission
From: Priscilla A. Thompson
City Clerk
Date: March 12, 2004
Subject: Miami Sports and Exhibition
Authority (MSEA)
References: April 8, 2004 Agenda
Enclosures: List of members
The Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority (MSEA) was created to promote sports,
conventions and exhibitions and to strive to generate and further community support to achieve this
purpose. The Authority shall endeavor to attract professional sports franchises to utilize facilities in
the City.
Members of MSEA shall be qualified electors of Miami -Dade County. One member shall be
the Mayor who shall be a voting ex-officio member and the chairperson thereof. One voting
member shall be a City Commissioner appointed by the City Commission to serve as acting
chairperson of the authority in the absence of the Mayor and not be reappointed for another
immediately succeeding year until each Commissioner has served or has declined to serve. Each
City Commissioner shall nominate two members, except for the City Commissioner appointed as a
voting member, who shall nominate only one member. Of the two members nominated by each City
Commissioner, one may be the Commissioner, as an ex-officio voting member, representing that
Commissioner's specific district.
Two appointments are needed at this time:
❖ Commissioner Gonzalez has two nominations for seats currently held by:
o Eli Feinberg who has served as a member since March 13, 1987 and whose term
expired January 12, 2003. City Code Section 2-885(b) provides that no member
shall serve more than eight consecutive years on any one board. This provision
may be waived by a unanimous (5/5) affirmative vote of the members of the
Commission. At the Commission meeting of October 9, 2003, a motion was made
to waive the term limitation for Mr. Feinberg; the motion failed 4/1. Mr. Feinberg
continues to serve until replaced.
o Commissioner Angel Gonzalez, whose term expired January 12, 2004.
For your convenience, we are including a copy of the current membership of said board. By copy
of this memorandum to the Agenda Office, we are requesting that this issue be placed on the April
8, 2004 Commission agenda. This matter was deferred from the January 8th and the February 12,
2004 Commission meetings.
PAT:ss
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Alejandro Vilarello, City Attorney
Jim Jenkins, Executive Director, MSEA
Elvi Alonso, Agenda Coordinator