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Home My WebLink AboutSEOPW CRA 2024-09-07 MinutesCity of Miami 819 NW 2nd Ave 3rd Floor Miami, FL 33136 http://miamicra.com Meeting Minutes Saturday, September 07, 2024 10:15 AM City Hall 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, FL 33133 SEOPW Community Redevelopment Agency Christine King, Chair, District Five Miguel Angel Gabela, Board Member, District One Damian Pardo, Board Member, District Two Joe Carollo, Board Member, District Three Manolo Reyes, Board Member, District Four SEOPW CRA OFFICE ADDRESS: 819 NW 2ND AVENUE, 3RD FLOOR MIAMI, FL 33136 Phone: (305) 679-6800 I Fax (305) 679-6835 www.miamicra.com Southeast Overtown/Park West CRA Meeting Minutes September 7, 2024 CALL TO ORDER Present: Chairwoman King, Commissioner Gabela, Commissioner Pardo, Commissioner Carollo and Commissioner Reyes On the 7th day of September 2024, the Board of Commissioners of the Southeast Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Miami met in regular session at Miami City Hall located at 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, Florida. The meeting was called to order by Chairwoman King at 11:55 a.m., and was adjourned at 12:02 p.m. ALSO PRESENT: Vincent Brown, Deputy Executive Director, CRA Domini Gibbs-Sorey, Assistant City Attorney Todd B. Hannon, Clerk of the Board MINUTES APPROVAL 1. SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST CRA - REGULAR - JUN 27, 2024 10:00 AM MOTION TO: Approve RESULT: APPROVED MOVER: Miguel Angel Gabela, Board Member, District One SECONDER: Damian Pardo, Board Member, District Two AYES: King, Gabela, Pardo, Carollo, Reyes Chair King: If I may have a motion to approve the minutes -- Board Member Reyes: Yes. Chair King: -- of June -- Board Member Gabela: Motion. Chair King: -- 27, 2024, and July 25 -- Board Member Reyes: Move it. Todd B. Hannon (Clerk of the Board): Chair? Chair King: -- 2024 -- Mr. Hannon: My apologies, did you want to vote on Item Number 1? Resolution Number 1? SEOPW CRA Page 1 Printed on 10/02/2024 Southeast Overtown/Park West CRA Meeting Minutes September 7, 2024 Chair King: No. Why? 1 can't approve the minutes first? Mr. Hannon: Oh yeah, I'm sorry. Board Member Reyes: That's right. Chair King: I mean -- Mr. Hannon: My apologies. Chair King: -- I'm just trying to get the minutes out of the way. Board Member Reyes: That's right. Mr. Hannon: My apologies. Chair King: I have a motion and a second. All in favor? The Board Members (Collectively): Aye. Chair King: Motion passes unanimously. 2. SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST CRA - REGULAR - JUL 25, 2024 10:00 AM MOTION TO: Approve RESULT: APPROVED MOVER: Miguel Angel Gabela, Board Member, District One SECONDER: Damian Pardo, Board Member, District Two AYES: King, Gabela, Pardo, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Minutes Approval Item 2, please see Minute Approval Item 1. CRA RESOLUTION(S) SEOPW CRA Page 2 Printed on 10/02/2024 Southeast Overtown/Park West CRA Meeting Minutes September 7, 2024 1. CRA RESOLUTION 16572 A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ("BOARD") OF THE SOUTHEAST OVERTOWN/PARK WEST COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ("SEOPW CRA"), WITH ATTACHMENTS, APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE PROPOSED GENERAL OPERATING AND TAX INCREMENT FUND BUDGET ("BUDGET") OF THE SEOPW CRA, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED HEREIN AS EXHIBIT "A," IN THE AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED MILLION FOUR HUNDRED SIXTY-SIX THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-EIGHT DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($100,466,278.00) ("FUNDS"), FOR THE FISCAL YEAR COMMENCING OCTOBER 1, 2024 AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2025 ("FY 2024 - 2025"); FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE DE -ALLOCATION OF FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF ONE MILLION ONE HUNDRED ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FIVE DOLLARS AND ZERO CENTS ($1,101,305.00), ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED HEREIN AS EXHIBIT "B"; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE COMPENSATION OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR FY 2024 - 2025 AND DIRECTING THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR TO TRANSMIT A COPY OF SAID BUDGET TO THE CITY OF MIAMI AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTY; PROVIDING FOR INCORPORATION OF RECITALS AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: CRA-R-24-0055 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Board Member, District Four SECONDER: Damian Pardo, Board Member, District Two AYES: King, Gabela, Pardo, Carollo, Reyes Chair King: At this time, I'm going to call the Southeast Overtown/Park West CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency) meeting for September 7th, 2024, to order. Mr. Deputy Director. Vincent Brown (Deputy Executive Director/Staff Counsel): Good morning, Madam Chair and other board members. Today we have the -- a resolution of the Board of the Southeast Overtown Park West CRA, with attachments, approving the general operating fund budget, tax increment fund budget, attached and incorporated by reference as Exhibit A, excuse me, in the amount of $1, 466, 287, for fiscal year 24-25, commencing October 1, 2024, and ending September 30th, 2025. Further authorizing the allocation of funds in the amount of $1,101,305, attached and incorporated herein as Exhibit B. Further authorizing the executive director's compensation for fiscal year 24-25, excuse me, directing the executive director to transmit a copy of the said budget to the City of Miami and Miami -Dade County. Chair King: Do I need a motion? Domini Gibbs-Sorey (Assistant City Attorney): You have to open up jbr public comment. Chair King: I'm sorry. Public comment. Anyone wish to speak on behalf of this item, please step forward. Good morning. Grant Stern: Good morning. My name is Grant Stern. I live at 425 Northeast 22nd Street. And I just wanted to say about this item, I hope that this budget includes funds for an independent investigation of the Town Park Village investment. The CRA spent $18 million renovating a cooperative in the heart of Overtown, and that money is not SEOPW CRA Page 3 Printed on 10/02/2024 Southeast Overtown/Park West CRA Meeting Minutes September 7, 2024 accounted for. And there are, you know, over 100 affordable living units there that are at risk now. The building is being put for sale, and you know, once affordable units disappear, it's very difficult to get them back on the market. The mission of the CRA is to make sure that there's affordable housing in the area. And so, 1 would just hope that the CRA investigates the missing $18 million spent on Town Park Village. Thank you. Board Member Reyes: Madam Chair? Go right ahead. Chair King: Let's get through public comment and then we can -- Board Member Reyes: Oh, I'm sorry. 1 thought that it was on the -- Chair King: Good afternoon. Roy Hardemon: Good afternoon, Commission. And again, I'm State Rep. Roy Hardemon, 1292 Northwest 79th Street. I'm here again to sort of support CRAs like I did in Tallahassee, make sure that, you know, first we survive and then we'll be able to operate. You know, the little picnics we used to have, they cut them out after I left. But right now, I'm here with concerns that the Overtown CRA, doing a great job on development, our -- hands down, you see the development, you see everything going on. The only issues I have with that, one, we don't have enough community participation for that CRA. We're not putting out letters. I'd rather have all the staff we've got go door to door and let the residents know they're sleeping in the undesirable parts of Overtown now. Let them know the date and time of these hearings, because if we're not there, what do they say? You ain't in the meeting, you're on the menu. The African American Black community is on the menu when it comes to Overtown CRA. We're not being involved. We're not making the dollars. We're not actually owning any of the properties. 1 want to see more participation. I want to see the fact that we got in Dade County, you have the community guiding the CRA, not the commission. We need to reconsider that about what's going on on all the CRA. Communities should be guiding these CRAs, not the commission. Thank you. Chair King: Thank you. Is there anyone else here that would like to speak on behalf of these items for the Southeast Overtown/Park West CRA? Seeing none, the public comment period is now closed. [Later..] Chair King: And at this time -- Board Member Reyes: Resolution Number 1. Todd B. Hannon (Clerk of the Board): Resolution. Number 1. That needs a motion. Board Member Reyes: I move it. Chair King: Is -- motion by Commissioner Reyes, seconded -- Board Member Pardo: Second. Chair King: Second by Commissioner Pardo. Is there any discussion? Board Member Reyes: Yes, I'm -- it's a comment. It's a comment that I made to the gentleman, and -- which -- I mean, I keep on bringing this up. This CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency) -- and I feel very close to it because I was the economist of this CRA when it was very -- first fOrmed, you see? And one of the goals was to incentivize, you see, residents of Overtown, and assist them in establishing businesses, to create jobs SEOPW CRA Page 4 Printed on 10/02/2024 Southeast Overtown/Park West CRA Meeting Minutes September 7, 2024 ADJOURNMENT for residents in Overtown. And I would like to see a very strong effort that we can -- the program of business creation for residents of Overtown be either more aggressive or established. And that's my only comment, because 1 am concerned that l don't -- I'm not seeing the amount of businesses from residents of Overtown, or people that look like residents of Overtown in that area. And that's what 1 wanted to -- I expressed my concern and -- yesterday when we had that meeting, and I'm expressing it again. And I would like to see that be implemented. Vincent Brown (Deputy Executive Director/Staff Counsel): Comments and sentiments well taken, and we will address that concern of yours, Commissioner. Board Member Reyes: That's right. Chair King: Well, 1 could tell you that it is my directive to staff, and we are creating businesses from residents that live in Overtown. Board Member Reyes: Yes. Chair King: We have several programs that are inclusive of residents that are in Overtown. Board Member Reyes: And anything that we can do to help, I'm in. Okay? Chair King: I appreciate that. So, may I have a motion now for RE.1 ? Board Member Gabela: Move it. Board Member Pardo: So moved. Board Member Reyes: Move it. Second. Chair King: I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Members of the Board (Collectively): Aye. Chair King: Motion carries unanimously. This shall conclude the Southeast Overtown/Park West CRA meeting for September 7th, 2024. The meeting adjourned at 12:02 p.m. SEOPW CRA Page 5 Printed on 10/02/2024