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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Members of Date: September 22, 2004
the City Commission
Subject: Overtown Advisory Board
From: Priscilla A. Thompson References: October 14, 2004 Agenda
City Clerk
Enclosures: List of members
The Overtown Advisory Board was created to encourage and support historic preservation and
provide recommendations to the City Commission regarding all City funded or assisted activities,
developments, or improvements within the Overtown area.
Five current board members' terms expired on September 14, 2004; additionally one member
exceeded the number of absences allowed per City Code. Six individuals qualified as candidates,
and being unopposed, no election was necessary. Pursuant to Miami Code Section 2-105, the City
Commission at large has to ratify the following six elected individuals to be appointed as
members of the Overtown Advisory Board:
Donald F. Benjamin
LaPrincycsessazatta J. Bess
Del Bryan
Dorothy J. Fields
Claudette P. Tucker Fung-A-Fat
Caldwell Joseph
Additionally, LaPrincycsessazatta J. Bess and Dorothy J. Fields are employed by Miami -Dade
County or a municipality therein other than the City of Miami. You are requested to waive, by a
four -fifths affirmative vote of the City Commission, the provisions of City Code Sec. 2-884(e) for
these two individuals.
For your convenience, attached is a copy of the current membership of said board. By copy of this
memorandum, we are requesting that the Agenda Office place this issue on the October 14, 2004
Commission agenda.
PAT:ss
c: Mimi Turin, Assistant City Attorney
Kristopher Smith, Liaison/Overtown NET Administrator
Irby McKnight, President, Overtown Advisory Board