HomeMy WebLinkAboutFR/SR Summary MemoD5 AGENDA SUMMARY MEMO
Date: November 29, 2010
Commission Meeting Date: December 16, 2010
Sponsor: COMMISSIONER RICHARD P. DUNN II
Agenda Item: REPEALING IN ITS ENTIRETY, CHAPTER 14/ARTICLE V, ENTITLED
"DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT/SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST REDEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT AND COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
Subject: CRA
Impact: SEOPW CRA DISTRICT
Purpose of the Item:
The purpose of this item is to repeal an ordinance pertaining to the SEOPW CRA that
has become obsolete and bears no relationship to the operation of any of the CRAs.
Background Information:
In 1995 the Commission adopted emergency ordinance 11248 creating the operating
structure for SEOPW CRA. Part of that chapter, §14-285 of the code, provided that the
CRA shall employ and fix the compensation of the executive director, who also serve at
the pleasure of the board, and act as chief executive officer of the CRA. Moreover, the
ordinance provided that subject to the Board's policy directives and budget limitations,
the director shall employ the employees of the CRA.
Later in 1997, partly as a result of the State Finance Oversight Board, the ordinance was
changed (emergency ordinance 11561) to take advantage of city's structural
enhancements — namely the merging of the CRA and the office of Asset management
into a new Planning and Development department. As a result, amended §14-285 gave
power to employ and fix the compensation of those city employees detailed to work at
the CRA to the city manager; and it made the director of the department of Planning and
Development the executive director of the CRA. Additionally the amendment allowed
the city manager, subject to Board policy directives and budget limitations, to employ
and/or assign city employees to the CRA.
It has been nearly ten (to) years since the CRA operated within the confines of the city'
management structure. Consequently the chief executive office of the CRA is not the
planning director, and the city manager does not employ the employees of the CRA.
Amended §14-285 reflects a law that was predicated on the CRA operating within the
city's management structure because the CRA did not have enough funds to operate on
its own. Interestingly, this was one of the reasons the SEOPW CRA recently reimbursed
the city for those associated expenses.
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