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Board Chair
Omni
C R A
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Jason Walker
Executive Director
TO: Board Chair Ken Russell and DATE: February 12, 2019
Members of the CRA Board
FROM: Jason Walker
Executive Director
SUBJECT: Recommendations and findings
to waive competitive negotiation procedures
per City Code, authorizing the allocation of
Grant funds to Rebuilding Together Miami -
Dade, Inc. for the Home Improvement
Facade Program"
BACKGROUND:
The Board of Commissioners of the Omni Redevelopment District Community Redevelopment
Agency ("CRA") is responsible for carrying out community redevelopment activities and projects
within its redevelopment area in accordance with the 2009 CRA Redevelopment Plan ("Plan").
The CRA approved and adopted Resolution No. CRA-R-16-0040, authorizing the Executive
Director to implement the findings of the Grand Jury Report for Miami -Dade County
recommending that tax increment funds ("TIF") received by the CRA, be used primarily for
removal of slum and blight, and assisting with affordable housing for families and individuals of
low or moderate income.
REBUILDING TOGETHER MIAMI-DADE, INC. ("Rebuilding"), possess vast and highly
specialized expertise in providing critical home repairs to qualified homeowners in Miami -Dade
County through its Home Improvement Facade Program ("Program"). Rebuilding's mission,
through its community outreach program, is to preserve homeownership and revitalize
neighborhoods at no cost to low income, elderly, military veterans, and disabled homeowners.
Moreover, Rebuilding has an established presence within the CRA's community and
redevelopment area, with a history of providing help and working with community partners to
revitalize neighborhoods and reduce social blight. Rebuilding aspires to preserve the existing
affordable housing stock located in the CRA, and low income residents are in desperate need of
critical home repairs to make their homes healthy, safe and dry. Rebuilding's objective is to
keep such residents in their residences so they may age in place with dignity.
Rebuilding previously requested aid from the CRA in the amount of $700,000 in grant funding
which was approved by the board through CRA-R-16-0061, and through CRA-R-18-0028 in an
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amount of $600,000 towards underwriting a portion of the costs associated with the Program,
and furthering its organizational mission through the provision critical home repairs at no cost to
qualified homeowners. The Executive Director reviewed and vetted Rebuilding's request, in
accordance with the objectives of the Plan.
Currently the CRA would like to increase the grant for an additional $500,000 to Rebuilding to
complete much needed additional home repairs and renovation.
RECOMMENDATION
In light of the above mentioned, in addition to Rebuilding's commitment to the principles
identified in the CRA's Plan for well over twenty-three (23) years, and in consideration of the
Executive Director's pledge to allocate grant funding to Rebuilding prior to the CRA adopting
Resolution No. CRA-R-16-0042 on September 13, 2016, approval of a waiver of the formal
requirements of competitive sealed bidding methods as not being practicable nor advantageous
to the CRA as set forth in the City Code of Ordinances, as amended, specifically Sections 18-85
(a), and the affirmation of these written findings and the forwarding of the same to the Board of
Commissioners of the Omni Redevelopment District Community Redevelopment Agency for
ratification by a four fifths (4/5th) vote is respectfully requested.
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1401 N. Miami Ave' 2"d Floor' Miami, FL 33136
Tel (305) 679 68681 http://www.miami-cra.org/