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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Members of the
City Commission
From: Priscilla A. Thompson
City Clerk
Date: April 30, 2012
Subject: Virginia Key Beach Park Trust
References: Agenda for May 10, 2012
Enclosures: List of members
The Virginia Key Beach Park Trust was created to preserve the Virginia Key Beach Park in
cooperation with the Depaittnent of Parks and Recreation and other City depaittnents in a manner
consistent with the environmental health, public use, historical importance of the Park and the
aspirations of the African American community and shall propose policy, planning, and design to
ensure maximum community utilization, enjoyment, and maintenance of the Park as an open green
space compatible with its historical and recreational characteristics and accessible to the public.
Ordinance 13065, adopted on May 14, 2009, which amended Chapter 38, Article 6 of the City Code,
authorized the waiver of the eight -consecutive year term limitation to allow members of the Virginia
Key Beach Park Trust to be reconsidered annually for an additional one-year term by a unanimous
vote of the members of the City Commission.
Four (4) appointments are required at this time.
• Commissioner Michelle Spence -Jones has one (1) nomination for a seat currently:
1. Vacant.
• The Commission -at -Large has three (3) nominations from the recommendation proffered
by the trust for seats currently:
1. Vacant.
2. Vacant.
3. Enid C. Pinkney, whose term expired on March 11, 2012, has served since February 8,
2001, and would require a term waiver by a unanimous (5/5) vote of the Commission, in
addition to a 4/5ths waiver of residency requirement per Section 2-884(a) of the City
Code.
NOTE: Awaiting memo of proffered name(s) from the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust.
For your convenience, we are including a copy of the membership of the Trust. By copy of this
memorandum, we are requesting the Agenda Office to place this issue on the May 10, 2012,
Commission agenda.
PAT:th
c: Victoria Mendez, Assistant City Attorney
Elvi Gallastegui, Agenda Coordinator
Guy Forchion, Director, Operations
Gene S. Tinnie, Chair
* This item was continued from April 8, 2010, May 13, 2010, June 10, 2010, July 8, 2010, September 16, 2010, October
14, 2010, January 13, 2011, February 10, 2011, March 10, 2011, April 14, 2011, May 12, 2011, June 9, 2011, July 14,
2011, October 13, 2011, November 17, 2011, December 15, 2011, January 12, 2012, February 9, 2012, March 8, 2012,
and April 12, 2012, Commission meetings.
t This item was continued from February 9, 2012, March 8, 2012, and April 12, 2012, Commission meetings.