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February 28, 2005
Item 43
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
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COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Chairman Johnny L. Winton
and Members of the CRA Board
From: Frank`K. Rollason
Executive Director
Date: February 18, 2005 File: 05-00122
Subject: Ratification of St. John CDC
Grant Agreement
References:
Enclosures: Resolution;
Supporting Documentation
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Directors for the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community
Redevelopment Agency (SEOPW CRA) approve and adopt the attached Resolution ratifying the actions taken
by the Executive Director in executing a Grant Agreement on July 30, 2004 with St. John Community
Development Corporation in the amount of $252,000 for the purpose of paying the cost to 1) construct a
decorative fence around St. John Baptist Church, 2) to repave and stripe the parking lot for St. John Baptist
Church, and 3) to pressure clean and paint St. John Baptist Church.
JUSTIFICATION:
On April 28, 2003, the SEOPW Board of Directors approved the Primary Settlement Agreement with St. John
Community Development Corporation concerning an RFP issued by the CRA in 1996 and the subsequent
proposal submitted by the Joint Venture of St. John CDC and Lyric Village Housing, Inc. As part of the
settlement discussions in crafting the primary settlement agreement, it was agreed by both parties that a
secondary settlement agreement would be crafted carving out a separate Grant Agreement for capital
improvements on the St. John Baptist Church site, itself, and that St. John CDC would be the organization who
would be the recipient of that grant in the amount of $252,000 (see attached excerpt from the verbatim minutes
of the Executive Session held on September 11, 2003). Subsequent to the Primary Settlement Agreement
being executed, the Executive Director worked with Special Counsel (William Bloom of Holland & Knight) in
negotiating the Grant Agreement with St. John CDC. These negations took until July of 2004 to finalize and the
Agreement was fully executed by both parties on July 30,2004 with no further action of the CRA Board. Since
that time, St. John CDC has been in the process of drawing up specifications and obtaining bids for various
phases of the projects provided for in the Grant Agreement. Just recently, St. John CDC has submitted the
required documentation to make the first draw on the Grant when it was discovered that there does not appear
to be final authorization from the CRA Board for the Grant Agreement. The Executive Director had worked
under the impression that the approval by the Board for the Primary Grant Agreement also contained
authorization for the Executive Director to enter into the Secondary Agreement — the Grant Agreement.
Research indicates that this is not the case and it is therefore necessary for the Board of Directors to ratify the
action of the Executive Director in executing this Grant Agreement.
FUNDING SOURCE: $252,000.00 from SEOPW TIF
Account No. 689001.550108.6.860 entitled "Construction in Progress"
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