HomeMy WebLinkAboutCRA-R-25-0031 MemorandumOMNI Board of Commissioners Meeting
June 26, 2025
OMNI REDEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Board Chair Damian Pardo
and Members of the CRA Board
5
Isiaa Jones
Executive Director
Date: June 26, 2025
File: 17814
Subject: Approve, Accept and Adopt City
of Miami's Order of Business and
Rules of Procedure
Enclosures: 17814 Backup
Omni
C R A
City of Miami
Legislation
OMNI CRA Resolution
CRA-R-25-0031
OMNI CRA
1401 N. Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33136
www.miamicra.com
File Number: 17814 Final Action Date:6/26/2025
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE OMNI
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY ("OMNI CRA"), APPROVING,
ACCEPTING, AND ADOPTING THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ORDER OF BUSINESS AND
RULES OF PROCEDURE, AS OUTLINED IN CHAPTER 2/ARTICLE II/SECTION 2-
33/SUBSECTION (0) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS
AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), TITLED "ADMINISTRATION/MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION/ORDER OF BUSINESS AND RULES OF PROCEDURE," TO PROVIDE
FOR THE AUTOMATIC CONTINUANCE OF AN OMNI CRA BOARD MEETING WHEN
A MEETING IS CANCELLED OR NOT HELD DUE TO LACK OF QUORUM OR
OTHER EMERGENCY; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING
FOR AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Omni Community Redevelopment Agency ("OMNI CRA") is a community
redevelopment agency created pursuant to Chapter 163, Florida Statutes, and is responsible for
carrying out community redevelopment activities and projects within its redevelopment area in
accordance with the 2019 Omni Redevelopment Plan (the "Plan"); and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the OMNI CRA is composed of the
Commissioner of the City of Miami, Florida ("City"), thereby providing unified oversight and policy
consistency between the City and the OMNI CRA and further ensuring alignment between the
legislative body of the City and the redevelopment objectives of the OMNI CRA; and
WHEREAS, on occasion the OMNI CRA is unable to meet at its regularly scheduled time
and date due to lack of quorum or other emergency; and
WHEREAS, there presently is no mechanism for the OMNI CRA to address when the
items that were on an agenda of a meeting that has been cancelled due to a lack of quorum or
emergency should be properly heard; and
WHEREAS, items on an OMNI CRA agenda typically have advanced notice requirement
that must be fulfilled to ensure that procedural due process is afforded to interested parties; and
WHEREAS, when an OMNI CRA meeting is cancelled due to a lack of quorum or other
emergency those items must be re -advertised and sometimes at great expense due to the
expedited nature of the notice requirement; and
WHEREAS, the lack of clear procedures can attract subsequent challenges to the OMNI
CRA's action relating to the amount and type of notice that was provided for the re -scheduled
item; and
WHEREAS, on September 13, 2022, the City of Miami ("City") adopted City Ordinance
No. 14087, creating clear mechanisms for continuing items when a City Commission meeting is
unable to meet at its regularly scheduled time and date due to a lack of quorum or other
emergency; and
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WHEREAS, the OMNI CRA, typically holds its Board of Commissioner's meetings on the
same date and location as the City; and
WHEREAS, adoption of City Ordinance No. 14087 will ensure that the public is provided
with required notice and will prevent challenges based upon the amount of notice that was
provided when items are rescheduled; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners finds it to be in the best interests of the citizens
and residents within the OMNI CRA's Redevelopment Area to adopt the City's Order of
Business and Rules of Procedure, as outlined in Section 2-33(o) of Code of the City of Miami,
Florida, as amended ("City Code"), to provide for a more efficient means of rescheduling OMNI
CRA agenda meetings; and
WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners finds that authorizing this Resolution would
further the OMNI CRA's redevelopment goals and objectives;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF
THE OMNI COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA:
Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the Preamble to this Resolution are
adopted by reference and incorporated herein as if fully set forth in this Section.
Section 2. The OMNI CRA shall approve, accept, and adopt the City's Order of Business
and Rules of Procedure, as codified in Section 2-33(o) of the City Code, as the formal Order of
Business and Rules of Procedure process for the OMNI CRA, to provide for the automatic
continuance of Board meetings when a meeting is cancelled or not held due to lack of quorum
or other emergency.
Section 3. Any reference to the City Commission meeting in Section 2-33(o) of the City
Code shall be substituted with the Board of Commissioners of the OMNI CRA.
Section 4. Any reference to the City Manager in Section 2-33(o) of the City Code shall
be substituted with the Executive Director of the OMNI CRA.
Section 5. Any reference to City Attorney or City Clerk in Section 2-33(o) of the City
Code shall be substituted to General Counsel or Counsel, or Clerk of the Board, of the OMNI
CRA, respectively.
Section 6. Any reference to City in Section 2-33(o) of the City Code shall be substituted
to OMNI CRA.
Section 7. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS:
ORGE . WYSONIII, LIENERAL COUNSEL
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