HomeMy WebLinkAboutSummary FormDate: 1 /11 /2008
AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY FORM
FILE ID: Qg .. aQ *Q
Requesting Department: CMO
Commission Meeting Date: 2/14/2008 District Impacted: 1,2,5
Type: ® Resolution n Ordinance ❑ Emergency Ordinance n Discussion Item
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Subject: Implement the EPA Brownfields Assessment Grants Project for Wynwood and Allapattah
within the industrial and commercial areas of both neighborhoods.
Purpose of Item:
It is respectfully recommended that the Honorable Mayor and the City Commission adopt the attached
resolution authorizing the City Manager to ratify the acceptance of the United States Environmental
Protection Agency's (EPA) grant award to the City of Miami, a total of $400,000 in Brownfield
Property Assessment Funding (Please see attached for continued Purpose of Item)
Background Information:
In December of 2006, the Department of Economic Development submitted an application for an
EPA Assessment Grant on the City's behalf The neighborhoods of Allapattah and Wynwood were
selected as the target areas for this grant award due to the heavy presence of industrial and
commmercial activity, and in which residential housing is present directly adjacent to and within the
industrial and commercial district. In May of 2007, the EPA officially awarded the City of Miami its
second overall assessment award, in which the Allapattah and Wynwood Grant will follow and
replicate assessment activity and data collection of the 2004 EPA Assessment Grant for the Little
Haiti Industrial District.
Budget Impact Analysis
NO Is this item related to revenue?
NO Is this item an expenditure? If so, please identify funding source below.
General Account No:
Special Revenue Account No:
CIP Project No:
NO Is this item funded by Homeland Defense/Neighborhood Improvement Bonds?
Start Up Capital Cost:
Maintenance Cost:
Total Fiscal Impact:
CIP
Final Approvals
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Budget 414
If using or receiving capital funds
Grants
Purchasingg
Chief
Risk Management
Dept. Director
City Manager
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Attachment;
Purpose of Item:
It is respectfully recommended that the Honorable Mayor and the City Commission adopt
the attached resolution authorizing the City Manager to ratify the acceptance of the
United States Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) grant award to the City of
Miami, a total of $400,000 in Brownfield Property Assessment Funding within the
Allapattah and Wynwood industrial and commercial areas, of which $200,000 will be
used to assess potential hazardous substance contaminated sites, and $200,000 to assess
potential petroleum contaminated sites within the designated areas, for the purpose of
identifying likely contaminants and promoting the cleanup of contaminated properties for
an overall healthy and sustainable community and promote redevelopment and re -use of
inactive properties, by identifying potentially contaminated and known contaminated
sites, and producing an inventory into a public database that will be accessible with GIS
capabilities.