HomeMy WebLinkAboutMemo MSEACITY OF MIAMI
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Mayor and Members
of the City Commission
From: Priscilla A. Thompson
City Clerk
Date: March 18, 2008
Subject: Miami Sports and Exhibition
Authority (MSEA)
References: April 10, 2008 Agenda
Enclosures: List of members
The Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority (MSEA) was created to promote sports, conventions and
exhibitions and to strive to generate and further community support to achieve this purpose. The Authority
shall endeavor to attract professional sports franchises to utilize facilities in the City.
Members of MSEA shall be qualified electors of Miami -Dade County. Per a legal opinion received
from the City Attorney, this requirement cannot be waived (see attached legal opinion). One member shall
be the Mayor who shall be a voting ex-officio member and the chairperson thereof. One voting member
shall be a City Commissioner appointed by the City Commission to serve as acting chairperson of the
authority in the absence of the Mayor and not be reappointed for another immediately succeeding year until
each Commissioner has served or has declined to serve. Each City Commissioner shall nominate two
members, except for the City Commissioner appointed as a voting member, who shall nominate only one
member. Of the two members nominated by each City Commissioner, one may be the Commissioner, as an
ex-officio voting member, representing that Commissioner's specific district.
Three (3) appointments are required at this time:
• Chair Joe Sanchez has one (1) nomination for a seat currently held by:
1. Joe Sanchez whose term expired on March 7, 2008.
• Vice Chair Spence -Jones has one (1) nomination for a seat currently held by:
1. Vacancy (seat formerly held by Bob Beamon, whose term expired January 12,
2006 and who was removed from this authority as the City was unable to
determine whether he was an elector of Miami -Dade County). *
• Commissioner Marc Sarnoff has one (1) nomination for a seat currently held by:
1. Doris Freudman whose term expired on March 7, 2008.
For your convenience, we are including a copy of the current membership of said board. By copy
of this memorandum to the Agenda Office, we are requesting that this issue be placed on the April
10, 2008 Commission agenda. *This matter was deferred from the November 9, 2006, January 11,
2007, March 8, 2007, May 10, 2007, June 14, 2007, July 10, 2007, September 11, 2007, October
11, 2007, and November 9, 2007 Commission meetings.
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c: Olga Ramirez-Seijas, Assistant City Attorney
Tim Schmand, Executive Director, MSEA
Elvi Gallastegui, Agenda Coordinator