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August 6, 2009
Item # 6
SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST
AND OMNI
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Board Chair Michelle Spence -Jones Date: July 30, 2009 File: 09-00850
and Members of the CRA Board
From: James H. Villacort LJ
Executive Director
Subject: Resolution Authorizing Execution of an
Amendment to the 1983 Interlocal Agreement
with the City of Miami and Miami -Dade
County.
References:
Enclosures: Legislation
BACKGROUND:
It is recommended that the Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community
Redevelopment Agency ("SEOPW CRA") approve and adopt the attached Resolution authorizing execution of
an amendment to the 1983 Interlocal Agreement with the City of Miami ('City") and Miami -Dade County
("County")
The Board of County Commissioners of Miami -Dade County, by Resolution No. R-1677-82 and Ordinance No.
82-115, approved the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Plan ("1982 Plan") and tax
increment financing for the Southeast OvertownfPark West Redevelopment Area ("Original Redevelopment
Area"). Thereafter, on March 31, 1983, the City and County entered into an Interlocal Agreement, delineating
responsibility for redevelopment of the SEOPW CRA ("1983 Interlocal Agreement").
On December 31, 2007, the City, the County, the SEOPW CRA, and the Omni Redevelopment District
Community Redevelopment Agency ("Omni CRA") entered into an Interlocal Agreement, which provided for
certain major projects in the City of Miami, as well as the expansion of the boundaries and the extension of lives
of the SEOPW and Omni CRAs ("2007 Agreement").
In accordance with Florida Statutes, the SEOPW CRA prepared a Finding of Necessity study and Amended
Redevelopment Plan ("2009 Plan") to accomplish the expansion and extension of the SEOPW CRA. On March
12, 2009, the Miami City Commission, by Resolution No. R-09-0107, accepted the FON. On May 28, 2009, the
Miami City Commission, by Resolution No. R-09-0270, accepted the 2009 Plan. Both were transmitted to
Miami -Dade County for legislative action.
The Board of County Commissioners, by Resolution Nos. R-1038-09 and R-1039-09, both passed and adopted
on July 23, 2009, declared the Study Area to be slum and blight and adopted the 2009 Plan, subject to the City
and the CRA's execution of an Amendment to the 1983 Interlocal Agreement ("Amendment").
The Amendment requires the SEOPW CRA to fund three (3) projects. These are: (1) the relocation of Camillus
House; (2) Alonzo Mourning Charities, Inc.'s affordable housing project; and (3) Mama Hattie's House. (See
paragraph 2 of the Amendment.)
The Amendment also provides that the SEOPW CRA's litigation styled City of Miami and Southeast
Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency v. Miami -Dade County, Case No. 07-46851 CA 31, in
the Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Miami -Dade County, Florida shall be abated for ninety
(90) days and dismissed with prejudice following the County's approval of plans for the development of the
Blocks 36, 45 and 56. To protect the SEOPW CRA, the SEOPW CRA clarified that it would only partially fund
the three projects and the dismissal would be entered after the County's reconveyance of title for the
redevelopment of Blocks 36, 45 and 56 to the SEOPW CRA.
JUSTIFICATION:
The Board of County Commissioners, by Resolution No. R-1039-09, adopted the 2009 Plan, subject to the City
and the CRA's execution of an Amendment to the 1983 Interlocal Agreement. Execution of this Amendment is a
condition precedent to the expansion of the SEOPW CRA's boundaries and extension of its life.