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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(i) 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 Avenue, 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 I460, 1462 and 1464 W. Flagler Street, Miami, FL; 9) a parking lot used for
a veterans educational center located at 1461 SW 1" Street, Miami, FL; 10) a parking lot used
for a veterans educational center located at 29 SW 151h Avenue, Miami, FL; 11) a parking lot
used ;for an administration building located at 1499 SW 1" 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 l" Street, Miami, FL; 13) a three bedroom house used
for housing special needs clients and providing mental health services, located at 5038 22"d
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.
Priscilla A. Thompson
(Ad '14915) City Clerk