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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Honorable Members
of the City Commission
From: Todd B. Hannon
City Clerk
Date: March 2, 2025
Subject: Virginia Key Beach Park Trust
References: Agenda for March 13, 2025
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.
Two (2) appointments are required at this time.
• Commissioner Christine King has two (2) nominations for seats currently held by:
1. Vincent T. Brown, incumbent, whose term expired on January 12, 2025.
2. Bonita Jones -Peabody, incumbent, whose term expired on January 12, 2025.
For your convenience, we are including a copy of the membership of the trust. By copy of this
memorandum, we are requesting that the Agenda Office place this issue on the March 13, 2025,
Commission Agenda.
TBH:ne
c: Athalie Edwards, Executive Director
Isabel Cataneda, Liaison
Thomas Fossler, Assistant City Attorney
Miriam M. Santana, Agenda Coordinator