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File ID: 08-00520
Enactment #: R-08-0290
Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
Enactment Date: 5/22/08
Introduced: 4/29/08 Controlling Body: Office of the City
Clerk
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), APPROVING
THE TERMS OF, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM,
BETWEEN THE CITY OF M1AMI, MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, THE MIAMI SPORTS AND
EXHIBIT -ION AUTHGRITY,-THE MIAMI ARTS MUSEUM OF DADE COUNTY ASSOCIATION,
INC., THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE, INC, AND THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OF
SOUTHERN FLORIDA, INC., FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MUSEUM PARK PROJECT
IN BICENTENNIAL PARK.
WHEREAS, Miami -Dade County ("County"), the City of Miami ("City"), the Miami Art Museum of Dade County
Association, Inc. ("MAM"), the Museum of Science, Inc. ("MSM") and the Historical Association of Southern Florida, Inc.
("HASF") have negotiated a Memorandum of Understanding (the "MOU") that sets forth the parties' intent to develop the
Museum Park Project in Bicentennial Park (the "Project); and
WHEREAS, the Project consists of the Museum Component, consisting of the MAM building, the MSM building
(which will provide space to the HASF) and Museum parking, and the Park Component, which includes the Park and related
parking; and
WHEREAS, the MOU provides that each museum will develop its own facility, each on four (4) acres of land
(collectively, the "Museum Parcels"), as contemplated in the Master Plan approved by the City Commission pursuant to
Resolution No. 08-0126, adopted March 13, 2008, and for the City to develop the Park component on approximately
twenty-one (21) acres; and
WHEREAS, to implement the Project in a most efficient manner, it has been determined that the City should lease (the
"Lease") the Museum Parcels to the Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority ("MSEA"), which in turn will sublease the
parcels to the Museums (the "Subleases"); and
WHEREAS, the MOU will be considered by the MSEA Board at its meeting of May 13, 2008, and was approved by the
County Commission, at its meeting of April 22, 2008; and
WHEREAS, the MOU is a non -binding agreement which expresses the intent of the parties and establishes the basic
terms of certain definitive documents which will be brought back to the City Commission, and the MSEA board, including
the Lease, the Subleases, a Master Development Agreement and a Master Management Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA:
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