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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Members
of the City Commission
From: Todd B. Hannon
City Clerk
Date: March 24, 2014
Subject: Miami Sports and Exhibition
Authority (MSEA)
References: Agenda for April 10, 2014
Enclosures: List of members
The Miami Sports and Exhibition Authority (MSEA) was created to promote sports, conventions
and exhibitions and to strive to generate and further community support to achieve this purpose. The
Authority shall endeavor to attract professional sports franchises to utilize facilities in the City.
Members of MSEA shall be qualified electors of Miami -Dade County. One member shall be the
Mayor who shall be a voting ex-officio member and the chairperson thereof. One voting member
shall be a City Commissioner appointed by the City Commission to serve as acting chairperson of
the authority in the absence of the Mayor and not be reappointed for another immediately succeeding
year until each Commissioner has served or has declined to serve. Each City Commissioner shall
nominate two members, except for the City Commissioner appointed as a voting member, who shall
nominate only one member. Of the two members nominated by each City Commissioner, one may
be the Commissioner, as an ex-officio voting member, representing that Commissioner's specific
district.
Six (6) appointments are required at this time:
• Chair Wifredo (Willy) Gort has one (1) nomination for a seat currently held by:
1. Wifredo (Willy) Gort, incumbent, whose term expires on April 11, 2014.
• Vice Chair Keon Hardemon has one (1) nomination for a seat currently:
1. Vacant. (Vacancy created due to notification that Mr. Luther Campbell is no longer a
duly qualified elector of Miami -Dade County)
• Commissioner Marc David Sarnoff has two (2) nominations for seats currently held by:
1. Nathan Kurland, incumbent, whose term expired on July 12, 2013.1.
2. Jay Solowsky, incumbent, whose term expired on March 14, 2014.1
* This item was continued from September 12, 2013, October 10, 2013, January 9, 2014, February 13, 2014, and March 13,
2014, Commission meetings.
This item was continued from July 11, 2013, September 12, 2013, October 10, 2013, November 21, 2013, January 9, 2014,
February 13, 2014, and March 13, 2014, Commission meetings.
$ This item was continued from March 13, 2014, Commission meeting.
• Commissioner Frank Carollo has two (2) nominations for seats currently held by:
1. Marc David Sarnoff, incumbent, whose term expired on February 11, 2010
2. Frank Veloso, incumbent, whose term expired on December 15, 2012.
For your convenience, we are including a copy of the current membership of said authority. By copy
of this memorandum to the Agenda Office, we are requesting that this issue be placed on the April
10, 2014, Commission agenda.
TBH:ne
c: Kirk Menendez, Liaison, MSEA
Barnaby Min, Deputy City Attorney
Julia D. Hernandez, Agenda Coordinator
§ This item was continued from 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, April 12, 2012,
May 10, 2012, June 14, 2012, July 12, 2012, September 13, 2012, October 11, 2012, November 15, 2012, December 13, 2012,
January 10, 2013, February 14, 2013, March 14, 2013, April 11, 2013, May 9, 2013, June 13, 2013, July 11, 2013, September
12, 2013, October 10, 2013, November 21, 2013, January 9, 2014, February 13, 2014, and March 13, 2014, Commission
meetings.
** This item was continued from January 10, 2013, February 14, 2013, March 14, 2013, April 11, 2013, May 9, 2013, June 13,
2013, July 11, 2013, September 12, 2013, October 10, 2013, November 21, 2013, January 9, 2014, February 13, 2014, and
March 13, 2014, Commission meetings.