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CITY OF MIAMI
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The City Commission of the City of Miami, Florida (the "City of Miami"), will consider
the approval of an issue by the City of Tampa, Florida (the "City. of Tampa") of its Variable
Rate Revenue Bonds (Volunteers of America Project) (the "Bonds"), in an amount not to
exceed $4,000,000 issued on behalf of Volunteers of America of Florida, Inc., a Florida not -
for -profit corporation (the "Borrower"), at a public hearing on January 13, 2005, at 9:00 a.m.,
at the Commission's meeting chambers, located at 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami,
Florida, in order to satisfy certain of the requirements of Section 147(f) of the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
The Borrower provides housing, health and social service programs to support
military veterans, the elderly, the mentally ill and developmentally disabled at its facilities
listed below. Services include behavioral, mental health and substance abuse counseling,
health services, and employment support services. The proceeds of such issue of Bonds
will be used by the Borrower to finance, refinance and/or reimburse .the costs of
constructing, relocating, acquiring and equipping of certain social service facilities,
including, but not limited to: 1) a two-story office building used as an administrative office
located at 605 S. Boulevard; Tampa, Florida; 2) a one-story building which will be used as a
new state headquarters and administrative office located at 1205 E. 8th Avenue, Tampa, FL;
3) two one-story apartment buildings used as transitional housing and mental health
services facilities, located at 125 Park Street, Sebring, FL; 4) a residential property used as
a mental health services facility located at 341 NE Lakeview Drive, Sebring, FL; 5) four
buildings, two stories each, totaling 40 apartment units, used for housing special needs
military veterans located at 1, 3, 5, and 7 Pineapple Averfue, Cocoa, FL; 6) a one-story
building used for educational and mental health services at 924 Peachtree Street, Cocoa,
FL; 7) a two -floor office building used for providing services to military veterans and mental
health services, located at 1474 W. Flagler Street, Miami, FL; 8) an office building used as a
social service center for educational services, mental health services and other health
services located at 1460, 1462 and 1464 W. Flagler Street, Miami, FL; 9) a parking lot used
for a veterans educational center located at 1461 SW lst 'Street, Miami, FL; 10) a parking
lot usedfor a veterans educational center located at 29 SW 15th Avenue, Miami, FL; 11) a
parking lot used for an administration building located at 1499 SW 1st Street, Miami, FL; 12)
two two-story garden apartment buildings containing five units each used for transitional
housing for special needs military veterans at 1450-1460 NW 1st Street, Miami, FL; 13) a
three bedroom house used for housing special needs clients and providing mental health
services, located at 5038 22nd Court E., Bradenton, FL (such facilities, including the site on .
which they are located, being hereinafter referred to as the "Project"). Proceeds will also be.•
used to pay a portion of the costs associated with the issuance relating thereto. The City of
Miami will enter into an Interlocal Agreement with the City of Tampa in order to allow a
portion of proceeds of the Bonds, in an amount not to exceed $1,500,000, to be used for
the portion of the Project located in the City of Miami.
The Project will be owned and operated by the Borrower and shall be used by staff
of the Borrower and persons receiving social services and other members of the public.
The hearing is being held for the purpose of affording residents of the City of Miami,.
Florida and other interested persons an opportunity to express their views, both orally and in
writing, on the proposed issuance of the Bonds and the nature and location of the facilities
to be financed with the proceeds thereof.
THE BONDS WILL NOT CONSTITUTE AN INDEBTEDNESS OF THE CITY OF
TAMPA, FLORIDA, THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, THE STATE OF FLORIDA OR ANY
POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF,. BUT WILL BE PAYABLE SOLELY FROM THE
REVENUES DERIVED FROM THE OPERATION OF THE BORROWER AND OTHER
REVENUES OF THE BORROWER PLEDGED TO THE PAYMENT OF THE BONDS.
ALL PERSONS FOR OR AGAINST SAID APPROVAL CAN BE HEARD AT SAID TIME
AND PLACE. IF A PERSON DECIDES TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADE BY THE CITY
WiTH RESPECT TO SUCH HEARING OR MEETING, (S)HE WILL NEED TO ENSURE THAT A
VERBATIM RECORD OF SUCH HEARING OR MEETING IS MADE, WHICH RECORD
INCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS BASED.
In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, persons needing a special
accommodation to participate in this hearing should contact the City Clerk no later than
forty-eight (48) hours prior to the hearing at the address given in this notice. Telephone:
305/250-5360.
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