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1001 MacAR T HUR CAUSEWAY
MIAMi, FLORIDA 33132
The Honorable Maurice A, Ferre
Mayor, City of Miami
P.O. Box 330708
Miami, Florida 33133
Dear Mayor Ferre:
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The Miami Yacht Club has, for many decades, served as a major recreational
facility for the people of Miami and the Miami area. The Club has given
sailing instruction to Miamians young and old on a non-profit basis, regard-
less of club membership. And the Club has sponsored major boating regattas
which attract entrants from afar, including the climactic Miami -Nassau Race
of the Southern Ocean Racing Conference, which draws over a thousand skippers
and crewmen annually to Miami, where they patronize local businesses, and
enhance Miami's status as a world center of boating.
For several decades, the Club has enjoyed occupancy of a part of Watson Island
on a lease from the City of Miami. During this time, the Club has made and
maintained extensive improvements to the property which have greatly increased
its value to the City.
::ow the time for renewal of the Club's lease with the City is drawing near,
and we would iikc to request that the matter of renewing the lease be placed
on the City Commission agenda for action at the earliest possible date. We
would like to propose that a resolution along the lines of the draft included
nerewith be considered by the City Commission.
With the Club's lease renewed, the Club will be able to continue providing
worthwhile recreational services to Miamians and to further improve the City's
property. Your assistance in concluding this matter will be deeply appreciated
by all the Club's members, all Miamians who cherish Miami's unique water sports
leadership, and sailors everywhere.
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Very truly yours,
Mark L. Albury
Commodore
DRAFT OF PROPOSED RESOLUTION REGARDING THE LEASE
BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMi AND MIAMI YACHT CLUB
WHEREAS, the Charter of the City of Miami authorizes and empowers
the City
f Miami to do all things whatsoever necessary or expedient for
promoting or maintaining the general welfare of the City of Miami or its
inhabitants, and
WHEREAS, such empowering provision of the Charter authorizes the
City of !Miami to establish small boat facilities, and
WHEREAS, the City of Miami does not now maintain adequate small
boat facilities in the central portion of the City of Miami adjacent to
Biscayne Bay, and
WHEREAS, the Miami Yacht Club is a corporation not for profit or-
ganized under the laws of the State of Florida, and
WHEREAS, the Miami Yacht Club has since 1947 maintained such facili-
ties on a portion of Watson Island in the City of Miami under the terms of
a Lease dated March 13, 1957, and
WHEREAS, the Miami Yacht Club since its occupancy of a portion of
Watson Island has:
1. Taught sail boating, water safety, first aid, and swimming
to the youth of the area, its members and to the public.
2. Made facilities available to the Coast Guard Auxiliary, Civil
Air Patrol and many others, at no cost, which would be of
service in times of emergency, as well as boating regatta,
all of which has been of benefit to the general welfare of
the City of Miami and its inhabitants.
and
3. Established and conducted boat regatta which have brought and
will continue to bring international publicity to Miami.
4+. Combatted, through its activities in an affirmative manner,
juvenile delinquency in the City of Miami. .
5. Aided in providing facilities for small boating in the City
of Miami.
6. Pioneered small boating in the Miami area and this pioneering
has aided in establishing small boating as a major economic
assat to the Miami area.
WHEREAS, the City of Miami considers the above named services to be
:.erviccs of a public nature, quasi municipal in character, and
WHEREAS, the Miami Yacht Club has established itself internationally
as an asset to small boating and in so doin4q publici2es the City of Miami,
and
WHEREAS, the City of Miami desires to aid insofar as is possible the
small boat industry of the City of Miami, and
WHEREAS, the Miami Yacht Club has financed and built the facilities
it is no.; using on a portion of Watson Island, and that the said club
pied a portion of Watson Island prior to the time the City received a deed
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from the 1,1. hoard to Watson Island, and
WHEREAS, the Miami Yacht Club has made and plans to.make and maintain
significant improvements in the aforementioned property which it occupies on
Watson Island, greatly increasing the value of this property to the City of
Miami;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOVED that the currently existing lease between the
Miami Yacht Club and the City of Miami be renewed for a period of twenty (20)
years, commencing on the th day of
, 1975.
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