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SOUTHEAST OVERTOVVN/PARKWEST
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To Board Chair Michelle Spence -Jones Date: October 17, 2011 File: 11-00950
and Members ofthe CRA Board
From: Pieter A. Bockweg
Executive Director
Subject: Resolution Authorizing Funding for CRA
Special Counsel onanAs-Needed Basis
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Enclosures: Legislation
BACKGROUND:
It in recommended that the Board of Commissioners of the Southeast C)vertwvvn0zork West Community
Redevelopment Agency ("CRA") approve and adopt the attached Resolution authorizing the Executive Director
to expend up to One Hundred Twenty Five Thousand DoUara($125.0OO) with Holland & Knight. LLP, CRA
Special Counsel, as previously approved by this Board in the 2012 fiscal year budget, for legal fees and costs to
provide specialized legal services bnthe CRA.
The Board of Commissioners, by Resolution No. CRA-R-98-1 1, passed and adopted on June 30, 1998, selected
the firm of Holland & Knight. LLP to serve as CRA Special Counsel. Pursuant to o motion passed and adopted
on December 27, 2007. Holland 8 Knight, LLP was again selected to serve as Special Counsel, and has
provided services to the CRA in complex real estate matters, existing litigation oa000, and cases of potential
JUSTIFICATION:
Pursuant to Florida Sbahuhao Chapter 103.350(3)(d>. the Board of Commissioners of the Southeast
Overhown/PorkWest Community Redevelopment Agency may appropriate tothe CRA any amounts deemed
necessary for the administrative nxpanoam and overhead of the agency. The CRA requires the services of
special counsel tocarry out its operations.
Pursuant to Florida Statutes Chapter 103.370(2)(a>. the CR\, through its Executive 0nachx, nhmU have the
power to make and execute contracts necessary to nffeotumha the purposes and provisions of the Southeast
[)voriown/ParkWest Community Redevelopment Plan.
The CRA has occasional need for |ago| counsel to provide specialized legal services to the CRA. This
Resolution provides funding for legal services provided by Special Counsel on an as -needed basis.
FUNDING: $125.000 from SEC)PVV Tax Increment Fund. "Professional Sen/icam.^ Account Code No.
10050.920101.531010.0000-00000.