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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Mayor and Members Date:
of the City Commission
From: Priscilla A. Thompson
City Clerk
January 19, 2011
Subject: Miami Sports and Exhibition
Authority (MSEA)
References: February 10, 2011 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. 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.
Five (5) appointments are required at this time:
• Vice Chairman Frank Carollo has two (2) nominations for seats currently held by:
1. Gene Meehan, incumbent, whose term expired on December 17, 2010.
2. Marc David Sarnoff, incumbent, whose term expires February 11, 2011.
• Commissioner Francis Suarez has two (2) nominations for seats currently held by:
1. Francis Suarez, incumbent, whose term expired on December 09, 2010.
2. Anthony Luis Reico, incumbent, whose term expires February 11, 2011.
• Commissioner Richard Dunn II has one (1) nomination for a seat currently held by:
1. Roland Smith, incumbent, whose term expires on February 11, 2011.
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
February 10, 2011 Commission agenda.
PAT: sa
c: Veronica Xiques, Assistant City Attorney
Tim Schmand, Executive Director, MSEA
Elvi Gallastegui, Agenda Coordinator
*This item was continued from the January 13, 2011 Commission meeting