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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Mayor and
Members of the City Commission
From: Todd B. Hannon
City Clerk
Date: February 27, 2015
Subject: Community Relations Board
References: Agenda for March 12, 2015
Enclosures: List of members, CRB Memo and
Resumes
The Community Relations Board (CRB) was created to (1) To serve in an advisory capacity to the
City Commission; (2) to foster mutual understanding, tolerance, and respect among all economic,
social, religious and ethnic groups in the City of Miami; (3) to make studies in the field of human
relations; (4) to attempt to act as conciliator in controversies involving community relations; (5) to
cooperate in the development of educational programs dedicated to the improvement of community
relations with, and to enlist the support of, civic leaders, civic, religious, veterans, labor, industrial,
commercial and eleemosynary groups; and private agencies engaged in the inculcation of ideals of
tolerance, cultural respect and understanding; (6) to prepare studies, and have studies made, in the field
of community relations, and to prepare and disseminate reports of such studies; (7) to recommend to the
Mayor, Commissioners, and the City Manager such ordinances to carry out the purposes of the
provisions set forth herein; (8) to submit an annual report to the Mayor, Commissioners, and the City
Manager; and (9) to make recommendations regarding grants and donations on behalf of the City from
foundations and others for the purpose of carrying out the above listed functions, subject to approval by
the City Commission.
Members of the Community Relations Board shall be residents of the City of Miami.
Five (5) appointments are needed at this time:
• Chair Wifredo (Willy) Gort has one (1) nomination for a seat currently held by:*
1. Victoria Cervantes, incumbent, whose term expires on September 12, 2016, has exceeded
the number of allowed absences (4 in 2014), and will require a 4/5ths waiver of attendance.
• Vice Chair Keon Hardemon has two (2) nominations for seats currently held by:
1. Nathaniel Wilcox, incumbent, whose term expires on March 13, 2017, has exceeded the
number of allowed consecutive absences (5 in 2014), and the number of allowed absences
(10 in 2014), and will require a 4/5ths waiver of attendance.t
2. Deidria Davis, incumbent, whose term expires on March 13, 2017, has exceeded the
number of allowed absences (5 in 2014), and will require a 4/5ths waiver of attendance.$
* This item was continued from February 12, 2015, Commission meeting.
t This item was continued from July 10, 2014, September 11, 2014, October 9, 2014, November 20, 2014, December 11, 2014,
January 8, 2015, and February 12, 2015, Commission meetings.
t This item was continued from October 9, 2014, November 20, 2014, December 11, 2014, January 8, 2015, and February 12, 2015,
Commission meetings.
• Commissioner Marc David Sarnoff has two (2) nominations for seats currently held by:
1. Michael Barket, incumbent, whose term expired on October 13, 2013.
2. David Young, incumbent, whose term expires on March 14, 2016, and has exceeded the
number of allowed absences (4 in 2014), and will require a 4/5ths waiver of attendance...
For your convenience, we have included a copy of the current membership of said board. By copy of
this memorandum, we are requesting that the Agenda Office place this issue on the March 12, 2015,
Commission agenda.
TBH:ne
c: Madelin Pacheco, Community Relations Board Liaison
Juan C. Perez, Assistant City Attorney
Julia D. Hernandez, Agenda Coordinator
This item was continued from November 21, 2013, January 9, 2014, February 13, 2014, March 13, 2014, April 10, 2014, May 8,
2014, June 12, 2014, July 10, 2014, September 11, 2014, October 9, 2014, November 20, 2014, December 11, 2014, January 8, 2015,
and February 12, 2015, Commission meetings.
This item was continued from February 12, 2015, Commission meeting.