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Resolution: R-08-0290
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Miami, FL 33133
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File Number: 08-00520 Final Action Date: 5/22/2008
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 MIAMI, MIAMI-DADE COUNTY,
THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY, 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:
Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the Preamble to this Resolution are adopted by
reference and incorporated as if fully set forth in this Section.
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File Number: 08-00520
Enactment Number: R-08-0290
Section 2. The terms of and the execution by the City Manager of the MOU, in substantially the
attached form, between the City, the County, MSEA, MAM, MSM, and HASF, for the implementation
of the Project in Bicentennial Park, is approved and authorized.{1}
Section 3. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption and signature of
the Mayor.{2}
Footnotes:
{1} The herein authorization is further subject to compliance with all requirements that may be
imposed by the City Attorney, including but not limited to those prescribed by applicable City Charter
and Code provisions.
{2} If the Mayor does not sign this Resolution, it shall become effective at the end of ten calendar days
from the date it was passed and adopted. If the Mayor vetoes this Resolution, it shall become effective
immediately upon override of the veto by the City Commission.
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