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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: Virginia Key Beach Park Trust
References: Agenda for April 10, 2014
Enclosures: List of members
The Virginia Key Beach Park Trust was created to preserve the Virginia Key Beach Park in cooperation
with the Department of Parks and Recreation and other City departments 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.
Six (6) appointments are required at this time.
• Mayor Tomas Regalado has one (1) nomination for a seat currently held by:
1. Gene Tinnie, incumbent, whose term expired on March 8, 2014, has served as a member
since February 8, 2001, and will require a term waiver by a unanimous (5/5) vote of the
Commission.
• Chair Wifredo (Willy) Gort has one (1) nomination for a seat currently held by:
1. Maud Newbold, incumbent, whose term expired on March 8, 2014, has served as a member
since February 8, 2001, and will require a term waiver by a unanimous (5/5) vote of the
Commission.
• Vice Chair Keon Hardemon has one (1) nomination for a seat currently:
1. Vacant (Resignation by Frank Rollason on August 12, 2013).
• Commissioner Marc David Sarnoff has one (1) nomination for a seat currently held by:
1. Mark Walters, incumbent, whose term expires on April 12, 2014, has served as a member
since February 8, 2001, and will require a term waiver by a unanimous (5/5) vote of the
Commission.
• Commissioner Frank Carollo has one (1) nomination for a seat currently held by:
1. Gustavo Godoy, incumbent, whose term expired on March 8, 2014, has served as a member
since March 10, 2005, and will require a term waiver by a unanimous (5/5) vote of the
Commission.
• Commissioner Francis Suarez has one (1) nomination for a seat currently held by:
1. Richard Townsend, whose term expires on April 12, 2014.
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 April 10, 2014, Commission
agenda.
TBH:ne
c: Tria Lawton -Russell, Assistant City Attorney
Julia D. Hernandez, Agenda Coordinator
Guy Forchion, Executive Director