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SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
AND OMNI
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
SEOPW & Omni Board of Commissioners Meeting
November 27, 2006
Item # 4
To: Board Chair Michelle Spence -Jones
and Members of the CRA Board
Date: November 17, 2006 File: 06-02077
Subject: Approval of Grant to Black Archives for
Schomburg Jazz Blues Exhibition at
the Lyric Theater
From: James H. Villacorta, References:
Interim Executive Director
Enclosures: Supporting Documentation;
and Legislation
BACKGROUND:
The attached resolution authorizes a grant to the Black Archives, History and Research Foundation of South
Florida, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $50,000, to partially fund an exhibition at the Lyric Theater by the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture documenting the African -American contribution to jazz and
blues.
JUSTIFICATION:
Commissioner Spence -Jones has requested approval of the attached resolution funding a grant to the Black
Archives, History and Research Foundation of South Florida, Inc., in an amount not to exceed $50,000, to
present an exhibition at the Lyric Theater by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
documenting the African -American contribution to jazz and blues. Support for this exhibition is consistent with
the redevelopment objectives "of restoring a sense of community" and "Program[ing] activities and events that
recreate the former vitality and atmosphere of the community ..." as provided in Section III, B., at page 13, and
Section IV, M., paragraph 4, at page 97, of the 1982 SEOPW Redevelopment Plan, as amended.
FUNDING SOURCE: $50,000 from FY'07 SEOPW Tax Increment Fund, "Other Grants and Aids," Account
Code No. 10050.920101.883000.0000.00000.
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