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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOMNI CRA 2022-06-23 MinutesCity of Miami 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, FL 33133 www.miamigov.com liZ Omni C R A Meeting Minutes Thursday, June 23, 2022 12:00 PM City Hall 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, FL 33133 OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency Alex Diaz de la Portilla, Chair, District One Joe Carollo, Vice Chair, District Three Ken Russell, Board Member, District Two Manolo Reyes, Board Member, District Four Christine King, Board Member, District Five OMNI CRA OFFICE ADDRESS: 1401 N. Miami Avenue, 2id Floor Miami, FL 33136 Phone: (305) 679-6868 www.miamicra.com OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency Meeting Minutes June 23, 2022 CALL TO ORDER Present: Chair Diaz de la Portilla, Vice Chair Carollo, Commissioner Russell, Commissioner Reyes and Commissioner King On the 23rd day of June 2022, the Board of Commissioners of the OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Miami met in an emergency session at Miami City Hall located at 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, Florida. The meeting was called to order by Chair Diaz de la Portilla at 12:20 p.m., and was adjourned at 12:24 p.m. Note for the Record: Vice Chair Carollo entered the meeting at 12:23 p.m. ALSO PRESENT: H. Bert Gonzalez, Executive Director, CRA George Wysong, Assistant City Attorney, Supervisor Todd B. Hannon, Clerk of the Board OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency Page 1 Printed on 3/2/2023 OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency Meeting Minutes June 23, 2022 OMNI CRA RESOLUTION(S) 1. OMNI CRA RESOLUTION 12192 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE OMNI REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ("CRA") AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROPERTY WITH WYNWOOD WORKS, LLC, DATED NOVEMBER 24, 2020 ("AGREEMENT") TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXTENSION OF THE FINANCING COMMITMENT AND CLOSING DATES, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE GENERAL COUNSEL; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL OTHER NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, ALL IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT. ENACTMENT NUMBER: CRA-R-22-0022 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Board Member, District Four SECONDER: Christine King, Board Member, District Five LAYES: Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Russell, Reyes, King Chair Diaz de la Portilla: Good afternoon, everyone. I'm calling to order the June 23rd, 2022, emergency Omni CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency) meeting. Mr. Executive Director, will you explain what we're doing today? H. Bert Gonzalez (Executive Director, CRA): Good afternoon, Chairman and Commissioners. We're here today to provide an amendment for a project in Omni CRA. And it is a resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the Omni Redevelopment District Community Redevelopment Agency, CRA, authorizing the executive director to execute a second amendment to the agreement for the development of property with Wynwood Works, LLC, dated November 24th, 2020, agreement to provide for an extension of the financing commitment and closing dates in a form acceptable to the general counsel further authorizing the executive director to negotiate and execute any and all necessary documents, all in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement. Now, we have provided -- Chair Diaz de la Portilla: Mr. Gonzalez, we have an amendment that we're proffering. Can you explain the amendment? Mr. Gonzalez: Yes. We have an amendment. The amendment is going to be amended now. Chair Diaz de la Portilla: Most amendments are amended, right? Mr. Gonzalez: This is an amendment to the amendment. Okay, play on words. Instead of the 20 days that we have detailed in the written amendment, second amendment, we're going to provide for 90 days, which will take the -- extend the financing to the developer from July 8th, which was the deadline, to October 26th, 90 days, and we will provide for the amendment. Chair Diaz de la Portilla: Okay, and -- OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency Page 2 Printed on 3/2/2023 OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency Meeting Minutes June 23, 2022 ADJOURNMENT George Wysong (Assistant City Attorney): Mr. Chair, just for -- Chair Diaz de la Portilla: You 're recognized, Mr. Wysong. Mr. Wysong: Just a technical point. George Wysong, Assistant City Attorney. It's technically not an amendment because -- Chair Diaz de la Portilla: We haven't proffered anything. So, it's not an amendment. Mr. Wysong: Exactly, so we'll make it -- Chair Diaz de la Portilla: You'll make it -- we call it an on -site resolution, how about that? Mr. Wysong: Absolutely. Chair Diaz de la Portilla: Okay, on -site resolution. So, we'll do that. The reason we're doing that is we want to give the developer an opportunity to get his financing in order. This is something I think is a good project. He's having some difficulty. He has increasing -- increased construction costs, things of that nature, and we understand all that. We know what the market is doing. So, we want to give him an opportunity to build this project. We also don't want to give too much time because we want to make sure that we don't tie up the CRA money so it can go to another project. So, we're going to give you the opportunity to get there. We'll give you 90 days, okay? Board Member Reyes: 90 days. I move it. Chair Diaz de la Portilla: 90 days, sir, to give him the opportunity to get there. The public comment is now open. We're opening public comment for this item. Seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. Is there any further discussion among the members? Seeing none -- Board Member King: I'll second. Chair Diaz de la Portilla: I'm sorry, there's a motion by -- somebody's got to make a - - oh, Commissioner Reyes makes a motion, seconded by Commissioner King. All those opposed, say "aye." The Board Members (Collectively): Aye. Chair Diaz de la Portilla: In support, "aye." Opposed, "nay." It passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Board Member King: Thank you. Chair Diaz de la Portilla: The Omni CRA meeting is now closed. Mr. Gonzalez: Thank you, Board, Commissioners, Chairman. The meeting adjourned at 12: 24 p.m.. OMNI Community Redevelopment Agency Page 3 Printed on 3/2/2023