HomeMy WebLinkAboutCRA-R-24-0033 Bid Waiver MemoSEOPW Board of Commissioners Meeting
May 23, 2024
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
4/5ths RECOMMENDATION INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Board Chair Christine King
and Members of the SEOPW CRA Board
Date: May 23, 2024 File:
Subject: 4/5ths Bid Waiver to Town Park Plaza North
Condominium Association, Inc.
From: James McQueen References:
Executive Director
Enclosures:
BACKGROUND:
A Resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment
Agency ("SEOPW CRA"), with attachment(s) by a four -fifths (4/5ths) affirmative vote, after an advertised public
hearing, ratifying, approving, and confirming the Executive Director's recommendation and finding that
competitive negotiation methods and procedures are not practicable or advantageous pursuant to sections 18-85
and 18-86 of the code of the City of Miami, Florida, as amended, as adopted by the SEOPW CRA; waiving the
requirements for competitive sealed bidding as not being practicable or advantageous to the SEOPW CRA; to
authorize additional funding in an amount not to exceed Three Million Nine Hundred Sixty Thousand Four
Hundred Eighty Three Dollars And No Cents ($3,960,483.00) bringing the total cost of the Project to Thirty -One
Million Six Hundred Eighteen Thousand Eight Hundred Sixteen Dollars and Zero Cents ($31,618,816.00)
("Funds") to Town Park Plaza North Condominium Association, Inc. a Florida corporation ("TPPN") for the
completion of the rehabilitation project ("Purpose") at Town Park Plaza North Condominiums located at 1945
N.W. 5' Place, Miami, Florida 33136 (the "Property).
RECOMMENDATION:
Built in 1973, TPPN, is a residential housing complex consisting of 20 buildings and 169 condominium units.
TPPN is one of the few communities in the Redevelopment Area consisting of homeowners, of which, some
individuals have owned and resided in their property for over 40 years. The condition of TPPN poses significant
risk of health and safety to its occupants, and in turn, extensive rehabilitation is needed, as evidenced by structural
cracks, unsecured railings, deteriorating plumbing, rotting wood, and outdated electrical wiring.
This is a phased, major rehabilitation project the has started years ago and the funding requested will allow for the
full completion of the final phase of the project. This completion is the delivery on an over ten-year promise to
rehabilitate all three Town Park communities in Overtown.
In light of the above stated, approval of a waiver of the formal requirements of competitive sealed bidding methods
as not being practicable or advantageous to the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment
Agency as set forth in the City Code of Ordinances, as amended, specifically Section 18-85 (A), and the
affirmation of these written findings and the forwarding the same to the Board of Commissioners of the Southeast
Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency by a four fifths vote is respectfully requested.
APPROVED
James I fcQueen, Executive Director