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Resolution R-18-0216
Legislation
City Hall
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Miami, FL 33133
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File Number: 3981 Final Action Date: 5/24/2018
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S),
BY A FOUR -FIFTHS (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, AFTER A DULY NOTICED
PUBLIC HEARING, (1) WAIVING COMPETITIVE BIDDING PURSUANT TO
SECTION 18-86 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS
AMENDED; (2) AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT GRANT
AWARDS FROM THE CITIES FOR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT FUND, INC.,
A DELAWARE NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ("CFE FUND"), FOR THE FIRST
(1ST) YEAR IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWENTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($20,000.00) WITH NO MATCH, FOR THE SECOND (2ND) YEAR IN
AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND
DOLLARS ($150,000.00) WITH AN EQUIVALENT MATCH FROM THE CITY OF
MIAMI ("CITY"), AND FOR THE THIRD (3RD) YEAR IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO
EXCEED ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($100,000.00) WITH A
MATCH FROM THE CITY IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($200,000.00); AND (3) AUTHORIZING THE CITY'S IN -
KIND CONTRIBUTION OF COMMUNICATIONS, MARKETING, PUBLICITY
MEDIA EVENTS, AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED
TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($2,500.00) ("IN -KIND
CONTRIBUTION"); AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SECURE SAID
MATCHES FOR THE PURPOSES OF ESTABLISHING A FINANCIAL
EMPOWERMENT CENTER ("PROJECT") AND PROVIDING FINANCIAL
EDUCATION AND PERSONALIZED COACHING TO LOCAL RESIDENTS
("PROGRAM"); ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL REVENUE PROJECT FUND,
ENTITLED "MULTI -YEAR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT EXPANSION
PROGRAM 2018-2020" AND APPROPRIATING THE GRANT AND IN -KIND
CONTRIBUTION, SUBJECT TO BUDGETARY APPROVAL AT TIME OF NEED;
FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND
EXECUTE GRANT AGREEMENTS AND ALL OTHER NECESSARY
DOCUMENTS, APPLICATIONS, RENEWALS, EXTENSIONS, AND
MODIFICATIONS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, IN
ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE ACCEPTANCE OF AND COMPLIANCE WITH
SAID GRANT AWARD FROM THE CFE FUND AND IN -KIND CONTRIBUTION;
AND PROVIDING THAT CITY MATCH FUNDS SHALL BE APPROPRIATED BY
SEPARATE LEGISLATION AT TIME OF FUNDING.
WHEREAS, ACCESS Miami stands for "Assets Capital, Community, Education,
Savings and Success", an initiative that unites City of Miami ("City") resources with similar
resources available in public, private, and non-profit sectors to offer tools and education that
enable City residents to improve their quality of life; and
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WHEREAS, the ACCESS Miami Fund has, as one of its four (4) cornerstones, the goal
of assisting City residents, entrepreneurs, and small businesses access to benefits and the
opportunity to reach financial self-sufficiency; and
WHEREAS, the City has been awarded a multi -year grant to replicate and implement a
Financial Empowerment Center ("Project") in the City to implement an existing program model
("Program") to facilitate comprehensive and coordinated efforts to affect and improve the self-
sufficiency of its low to moderate income working families and small business owners by
increasing their access to the financial tools and education that are fundamental to economic
prosperity and success; and
WHEREAS, the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund ("CFE Fund") is providing a
multi -year grant in a total amount not to exceed Three Hundred and Seventy -Thousand Dollars
($370,000.00) ("Grant') to the City for the planning, implementation, and integration of the
Project and the Program that requires yearly deliverables to be achieved in order to advance to
the next phase; and
WHEREAS, the total Grant has three (3) phases which includes a Twenty Thousand
Dollar ($20,000.00) grant to be used in the planning phase during year one; a One Hundred
Fifty Thousand Dollar ($150,000.00) grant with an equivalent match from the City to be used for
implementation during year two; and a One Hundred Thousand Dollar ($100,000.00) grant with
a City match of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00) to be used for integration of the
financial empowerment coaching services during year three; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to allocate required matching funds in an amount not to
exceed Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000.00), of which the total match amount
of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,00.00) is to be secured as a deliverable of the
first year's Twenty Thousand Dollar ($20,000.00) grant; and
WHEREAS, the first -year match requirement will be provided in separate legislation for
the appropriation of funds from the Miami Foundation under the ACCESS Miami Fund in an
amount not to exceed One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) from funds previously
deposited pursuant to City Commission Resolution No. 11-0342 adopted September 15, 2011 to
establish the ACCESS Miami Fund in support of financial literacy programs; and
WHEREAS, remaining funds at the Miami Foundation not used in the second -year
implementation will be used to match funds in the third -year funding cycle and will be
appropriated by separate legislation; and
WHEREAS, this additional funding from the Miami Foundation will enable the City to
leverage and take its existing financial literacy program which has served thousands of
residents and low income small business owners to the next level of individualized coaching and
financial prosperity through the Project and the Program; and
WHEREAS, the Program will work with existing local providers and community
organizations to coordinate services and facilitate Program access to provide one-on-one
financial counseling; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to allocate required matching funds in a total amount not to
exceed Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($350,000.00) ("City Match") and to enter into a
Grant Agreement ("Agreement") with the CFE Fund to implement said Grant; and
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WHEREAS, the Grant Agreement requires the City to contribute communications,
marketing, publicity media, and social media events in connection with the Project and the
Program and the City desires to provide such in -kind contribution in an amount not to exceed
Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00) ("City In -Kind Contribution"), subject to
budgetary approval at time of need; and
WHEREAS, the Grant, the City Match, and the City In -Kind Contribution will total a not to
exceed amount of Seven Hundred Twenty -Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($722,500.00)
for costs for the Project and the Program; and
WHEREAS, in order to accept the Grant and to comply with the Grant's requirements
by providing the City's In -Kind Contribution of communications, marketing, publicity, social
media, and media events, it is in the best interests of the City to waive competitive bidding
pursuant to Section 18-86 of the Code of the City of Miami, as amended ("City Code"), by a
four -fifths (4/5ths) affirmative vote, after a duly noticed public hearing;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI, FLORIDA:
Section 1. The recitals and finding contained in the Preamble to this Resolution are
adopted by reference and incorporated as if fully set forth in this Section.
Section 2. By a four -fifths (4/5ths) affirmative vote, after a duly noticed public hearing, (1)
the competitive bidding requirements of Section 18-86 of the City Code are waived; (2) the City
Manager is authorized' to accept and allocate the total Grant from the CFE Fund for the first
(1st) year in the amount of Twenty -Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00) with no match, for the second
(2nd) year in an amount not to exceed One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000.00) with
an equivalent match from the City, and for the third (31 year in an amount not to exceed One
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) with a match from the City in an amount not to
exceed Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00); and (3) the City's In -Kind Contribution of
communications, marketing, publicity media events, and social media in an amount not to
exceed Two Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($2,500.00), are authorized.
Section 3. The following new Special Revenue Project Fund is established and
resources are appropriated as described below:
PROJECT TITLE: Multi -Year Financial Empowerment Expansion
Program 2018-2020
RESOURCES: CFE Fund, Inc.
City Match
City In -Kind Contribution
$270,000.00
$350,000.00
$2,500.00
APPROPRIATIONS Multi -Year Financial Empowerment Expansion
Program 2018-2020 $620,000.00
City In -Kind Contribution $2,500.002
TOTAL: $622,500.00
1 The herein authorization is further subject to compliance with all requirements that may be imposed by
the City Attorney, including but not limited, to those prescribed by applicable City Charter and City Code
provisions.
2 Subject to budgetary approval at time of need.
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Section 4. The City Manager is further authorized' to negotiate and execute the Grant
Agreement(s) and any and all other necessary documents, applications, renewals, extensions,
and modifications, in a form acceptable to the City Attorney, in order to implement the
acceptance of and compliance with said Grant award from the CFE Fund and the City In -Kind
Contribution for the Project and the Program. City Match funds shall be appropriated by
separate legislation at time of funding.
Section 5. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption and
signature of the Mayor.3
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS:
ndez, City Attor ey 5/15/2018
3 If the Mayor does not sign this Resolution, it shall become effective at the end of ten (10) calendar days
from the date it was passed and adopted. If the Mayor vetoes this Resolution, it shall become effective
immediately upon override of the veto by the City Commission.
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