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FILE ID: 0 ' d t
Date: 8/24/2006
Commission Meeting Date: 9/12/2006
Requesting Department: Public Facilities
District Impacted: 3
Type: Resolution ❑ Ordinance ❑ Emergency Ordinance J Discussion Item
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Subject: Personal Appearance request of George P. Castano, Jr. on behalf of the Josefa Perez de
Castano Kidney Foundation, Inc. to request a waiver of past due use fees.
Purpose of Item:
This is a personal appearance by Mr. George Perez Castano, Jr. of the Josefa Perez Castano Kidney
Foundation, Inc., (the "Agency") to request a waiver of past due use fees for rental of office space at
Manuel Airtime Center located 970 S.W. 1st Street, Miami. The Agency has incurred $14,263.45 in
use fees in the last 15 months of which it has paid $4,413, thereby leaving a balance of $9,850.45.
We recommend an abatement of past use fees in the amount of $9,033.75.
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Subject: Personal Appearance for the George Perez de Castano, Jr. of Josefa Perez Castano
Kidney Foundation. Inc. to request waiver of use fees.
Background Information:
The City entered into a Revocable License Agreement on May 16, 2001 with the Josefa Perez Castano
Kidney Foundation (the "Agency") for its use of 1,609.1 s.f. of space in the Manuel Artime Community
Center ("MACC"). The City Commission authorized an abatement of six months of monthly fees to
facilitate the Agency's start-up at this location. Upon the expiration of the abatement, the Agency paid
its monthly fees through September 30, 2003 at which time the City Commission granted a moratorium
of the use fees for several agencies in the MACC, which moratorium ended March 31, 2005.
The Agency subsequently fell behind in its payment of monthly fees due to its main source of funding
(County CDBG) being reduced from $60,000, $42,000, then $20,000 for the years ending December 31,
2004, 2005, and 2006, respectively. City of Miami funding during these same years was $0, $11,000,
and $10,000, respectively.
The Department of Public Facilities has met with the Mr. George Castano, Jr., the Executive Director of
the Agency several times to discuss the matter of past due use fees and possible ways to accommodate
them in light of recent cuts to their funding. The Agency and the Depai tinent agreed that the Agency
will move from their current room of 1600 square feet to an office of 590 square feet. The Agency's
move into a smaller office space to accommodate their decreased funding will lower their use fees from
$956 per month to $350.56. The amount of the waiver discussed with the Agency is based on charging
them as if they had been in the smaller room since the end of the last moratorium granted by the City
Commission which expired March 31, 2005.
The actual amount of use fees due by the Agency for their space since March 31, 2005 totals
$14,263.45, of which $4,413 was paid, leaving a balance of $9,850.45. If we were to charge $350.56
since the March 31, 2005, the Agency would have owed a total of $5,229.70, thereby saving $9,033.75.
Given their actual payments of $4,413 over the course of this period, the Agency's arrearage would now
only be $816.70.
The Department of Public Facilities recommends retroactively abating $9,033.75. The abatement is
being recommended in light of the above mentioned funding cuts and the continued service the Agency
provides to City residents combined with the fact a smaller space was not readily available for the
Agency until July 2006. Our recommendation is conditioned upon the arrearage of $816.70 being paid
within 30 days of City Commission approval of the abatement and remaining current on their monthly
fees.
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