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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Members of
the City Commission
From: Priscilla A. Thompson
City Clerk
Date: September 21, 2007
Subject: OAB/Overtown Community
Oversight Board Appointment
References: October 11, 2007 Agenda
Enclosures:
Application(s)
The Overtown Advisory Board/Overtown Community Oversight Board was created via
Ordinance 12858 amending Article XI of Chapter 2 of the City Code to encourage and support
housing, job creation, economic and business development, educational opportunities and historic
and cultural preservation. The Board shall provide written recommendations to the City
Commission regarding activities, developments and improvements within or substantially impacting
the residents of the Overtown Area.
The Overtown Advisory Board/Overtown Community Oversight Board, in addition to five (5)
elected members, shall consist of six (6) members who shall be appointed. In accordance with
Ordinance 12858 the District 5 City Commissioner shall appoint five (5) qualified members and the
Mayor shall appoint one (1) qualified member to the Board. Additionally, the District 5
Commissioner shall appoint one (1) qualified youth board member, and the Overtown Advisory
Board/Overtown Community Oversight Board shall appoint one (1) qualified youth board member.
Vacancies in the membership of the Board shall be filled by the District 5 city commissioner.
• Commissioner Spence -Jones has three (4) nominations for board members.
1. Vacancy (due to the resignation of Gary L. Moore, elected member seat).
2. Vacancy (Dr. Bradford Brown declined appointment to the appointed member seat).
3. Vacancy (due to the resignation of Nicole Wild, appointed member seat)
4. Vacancy (due to excessive absences by Gerald Muhammad, appointed member
seat).
• Commissioner Spence -Jones has two (2) nominations for qualified youth board members.
1. Vacancy (previously held by Jerry Lee Clark, Jr.).
2. Vacancy (previously held by Eddie Thomas).
By copy of this memorandum, we are requesting that the Agenda Office place this issue on the
October 11, 2007 Commission agenda. This matter was deferred from the June 14, 2007, July 10,
2007 and September 11, 2007 Commission meetings.
PAT:PB
c: Ilene Temchin, Assistant City Attorney
Loren Daniel, Overtown NET Administrator
Stephanie Van Vark, Staff Services Assistant, Board Liaison
Elvi Alonso, Agenda Coordinator