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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 2016-03-11 MinutesCity of Miami City Hall 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, FL 33133 www.miamigov.com V [gyp Meeting Minutes Friday, March 11, 2016 9:00 AM Regular City Hall Commission Chambers City Commission Tomas Regalado, Mayor Keon Hardemon, Chair Ken Russell, Vice Chair Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner District One Frank Carollo, Commissioner District Three Francis Suarez, Commissioner District Four Daniel J. Alfonso, City Manager Victoria Mendez, City Attorney Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 CONTENTS PR - PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS AM -APPROVING MINUTES MV - MAYORAL VETOES PA-PERSONALAPPEARANCES CA - CONSENT AGENDA SR - SECOND READING ORDINANCES PH - PUBLIC HEARINGS FR - FIRST READING ORDINANCES RE - RESOLUTIONS BU -BUDGET BC - BOARDS AND COMMITTEES DI - DISCUSSION ITEMS MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS' ITEMS M - MAYOR'S ITEMS D1 - DISTRICT 1 ITEMS D2 - DISTRICT 2 ITEMS D3 - DISTRICT 3 ITEMS D4 - DISTRICT 4 ITEMS D5 - DISTRICT 5 ITEMS City ofMiami Page 2 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 9:00 A.M. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ORDER OF THE DAY Present: Commissioner Gort, Vice Chair Russell, Commissioner Carollo and Commissioner Suarez Absent: Chair Hardemon On the 11th day of March 2016, the City Commission of the Cit) of Miami, Florida, met at its regular meeting place in Cit) Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, Florida, in regular session. The Commission Meeting was called to order by Vice Chair Russell at 9:22 a. in., recessed at 12:25 p. in., reconvened at 3:14 p. in., recessed at 6:21 p. in., reconvened at 6:31 p. in., and adjourned at 8:02 p. in. Note for the Record: Commissioner Carollo entered the Comission chambers at 9:23 a.m. and Commissioner Gort entered the Commission chambers at 11:09 a.m. Vice Chair Russell: Good morning, Miami. Welcome to the March 11, 2016 meeting of the City of Miami City Commission in these historic chambers. The members of the Cit) Commission are Wifredo Willy'Gort, Frank Carollo, Francis Suarez; and me, Ken Russell, Vice Chair. Also on the dais are Daniel J. Alfonso, City Manager; Victoria Mendez, the City Attorney; and Todd Hannon, Cit) Clerk The meeting will be opened with a prayer by Commissioner Suarez. Invocation delivered. Vice Chair Russell: And the pledge of allegiance can be led by our Mayor. Pledge of allegiance delivered. Vice Chair Russell: All right. It seems some of us are running late. I think the Republican Part) had a bunch of parties last night, so we're taking a little second to get going, so thank you for your patience. Victoria Mendez (City Attorne)): Chairman, may I start with the procedures? Vice Chair Russell: We will now begin the regular meeting. The Cit) Attorney will state the procedures to be followed during this meeting. Ms. Mendez: Thank you, Chairman. Any person who is a lobbyist, including all paid persons or firms retained by a principal to advocate for a particular decision by the Cit) Commission must register with the Cit) Clerk and comply with the related Cit) requirements for lobbyists before appearing before the Cit) Commission. Any person may not lobby a Cit) official, board member, or staff member until registering. A copy of the Code section about lobbyists is available in the City Clerk's Office. Any person making a presentation, formal request or petition to the Cit) Commission concerning real propero) must make the disclosures required by the Cit) Code in writing. A copy of this Code section is available in the Cit) Clerk's Oce. The material for each item on the agenda today is available during regular business hours at the City Clerk's Oce, and online 24 hours a day at wwwmiamigov.com [sic]. Any person may be heard by the Cit) Commission through the Chair for not more than two minutes on any proposition before the Cit) Commission unless modified by the Chair. If the proposition is being continued or rescheduled, the opportunio) to be heard may be at such later date before the Cit) Commission takes action on such proposition. Anyone wishing to appeal any decision made by the City Commission for any matter considered at this meeting may need a verbatim record of the item. A video of this meeting may be requested at the Office of Communications, or viewed online at wwwmiamigov. com [sic]. No cell phones or other noise -making devices are permitted in Commission chambers; please silence those devices now. No clapping, applauding, heckling, or verbal outbursts in support or opposition to a speaker or his or her remarks shall be permitted. City ofMiami Page 3 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Any person making offensive remarks or who becomes unruly in the Commission chambers will be barred from further attending Commission meetings, and may be subject to arrest. No signs or placards shall be allowed in the Commission chambers. Any person with a disabilio) requiring assistance, auxiliary aids and services for this meeting may notify the Cit) Clerk. The lunch recess will begin at the conclusion of the deliberation of the agenda item being considered at noon. The meeting will end either at the conclusion of the deliberation of the agenda item being considered at 10 P. m., or at the conclusion of the regularly scheduled agenda; whichever occurs first. Please note, Commissioners have generally been briefed by Cit) staff and the City Attorney on items on the agenda today. At this time, the Administration will announce any items, if any, that are being withdrawn, deferred, or substituted. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Mr. Manager. Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Mr. Chairman, we will defer item RE.2 to March 24. We withdraw item RE S; defer DI 6 to 4114. And my understanding is that SR.1 and RE 10, the -- Commissioner Gort has asked that they be heard after his arrival. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Could the Manager repeat that again, Mr. Manager? Mr. Alfonso: Yes, sir. Commissioner, RE.2 will be deferred to March 24. RE.S is withdrawn DI 6 is deferred to April 14. And SR.1 and RE.10, Commissioner Gort requested that they be heard after he arrives. Ms. Mendez: And if I may add, Mr. Manager -- I apologize that I didn't tell you before -- FR. 1, I'd ask if that could be deferred, as well; FR. 1. Commissioner Carollo: Till when, Madam City Attorney? Ms. Mendez: If possible, a month and a half? Todd, Mr. Clerk, what meeting would that be, more or less? Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): We can make that for May 12. Ms. Mendez: Perfect. Thankyou. Vice Chair Russell: Do any Commissioners wish to have items be removed from the consent agenda to the regular agenda? Commissioner Suarez: Move it as articulated by the City Attorney and the Manager. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: Anybody else -- I'm sorry. Is there any other -- Commissioner Hardemon asked -- Chairman Hardemon asked that RE. 1, DI S and DI10 also be deferred. Commissioner Carollo: Till when? Vice Chair Russell: He did not give a date. Commissioner Suarez: What were the ones; I'm sore? City ofMiami Page 4 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: RE], DI. 5. Commissioner Carollo: DI. 5. Hold on a second Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: Yeah. Commissioner Suarez: And let me -- I think -- are they here? Is there anyone here from Ygrene? Because they were here until 2 in the morning -- Commissioner Carollo: Yes. Commissioner Suarez: -- at the last Commission meeting, and we promised them that we would hear their item expeditiously. I don't see them here in the audience. Is there anybody here from Vice Chair Russell: Okay, good. Mr. Alfonso: Well, they had a time certain for 3 p.m. Commissioner Suarez: Right. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. That'll all be deferred anyway, so. Ms. Mendez: So we need to call them, Mr. -- Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, let's give them a heads up. Let's give them a heads up so they don't come all the way out here, please. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Commissioner Suarez: I'll amend my motion. Mr. Hannon: And so if Commissioner Hardemon wanted them deferred, I guess we can just defer them to the very next meeting, March 24? Commissioner Carollo: Yes. Commissioner Suarez: And I would respectfully request again for another time certain. Commissioner Carollo: As a matter of fact, could we make it for a time certain at 3 p. m. ? Commissioner Suarez: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: Just like it was in this meeting? Commissioner Suarez: Yes. Mr. Hannon: Understood. Commissioner Suarez: We can do that by Commission action, correct? Mr. Hannon: It'll be all part of the motion that you make for the order of the day. City ofMiami Page 5 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Suarez: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: So the motion that we vote on would include a time certain for -- I don't know if you call it 1he Ygrene issue, 'br not, but -- Vice Chair Russell: PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energ)) Program. Commissioner Carollo: -- because I --like Commissioner Suarez said, I thought it was unfair that at 2 a. m., we told them, IVo, we're deferring this, '. o I want to make sure that, you know, whether we vote up or down, they get a fair hearing. Mr. Hannon: Yes, sir. Vice Chair Russell: We have a motion with amendment by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Second, with the amendments. And can the Clerk go down and make sure we are clear on all the different ones that we're going to defer and withdraw, amend, exactly? Mr. Hannon: Yes, sir. Commissioner Carollo: Thankyou. Mr. Hannon: I have RE 2 being deferred to 3124; I have RE. S being withdrawn; DI 6 being deferred to April 14; SR.1 and RE.10 will be heard after Commissioner Gort arrives; FR.1 is being deferred to May 12; RE.1 and DI S are being deferred to March 24, with a 3 p. M. time certain; and DI. 10 is being deferred to March 24. Vice Chair Russell: All right. We have a motion, we have a second. All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Motion passes. PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS PRA 16-00325 Honoree Presenter Protocol Item Jackie Bell Mayor Regalado Salute Constance Collins Mayor Regalado Salute & Vice Chair Russell Herminia Leyva Mayor Regalado Salute & Comm. Carollo Silvia Blanco Mayor Regalado Salute & Comm. Carollo City ofMiami Page 6 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Lakatriona Brunson Mayor Regalado Salute & Comm. Carollo Victoria Mendez Mayor Regalado Salute & Comm. Suarez Jordana Zarut Mayor Regalado Salute & Comm. Gort Marie Louissaint Mayor Regalado Salute & Chair Hardemon Miami Bike Month Mayor Regalado Proclamation & Comm. Suarez Sonia Suarez Mayor Regalado Salute & Comm. Carollo Allen Cohen Mayor Regalado Commendation & Vice Chair Russell 16-00325 Protocol Item.pdf PRESENTED 1) Mayor Regalado saluted Ms. Jackie Bell in honor of National Women's History month; furthermore thanking her for her courageous vision, her expertise and talents to elevate the qualiov of life for residents of the Ciov of Miami. 2) Mayor Regalado and Vice Chair Russell saluted Ms. Constance Collins in honor of National Women's month; furthermore thanking her for her initiatives as founder and guiding spirit of the Lotus House, a non -denominational public charity dedicated to the support, education, advancement and social inclusion of homeless women and children. 3) Mayor Regalado and Commissioner Carollo saluted Ms. Herminia Leyva in honor of National Women's History month; furthermore thanking her for having qualities that embody a tremendous source of strength for our communion, expertise and talents to elevate the quality of life for the residents of the Ciov of Miami. 4) Mayor Regalado and Commissioner Carollo saluted Ms. Silvia Blanco in honor of National Women's History month; furthermore thanking her for having qualities that embody a tremendous source of strength for our communion, expertise and talents to elevate the quality of life for the residents of the Ciov of Miami. 5) Mayor Regalado and Commissioner Carollo saluted Ms. Lakatriona Brunson in honor of National Women's History month; furthermore congratulating her for being the first female high school head football coach in Florida History, and for her expertise and talents to elevate the qualiov of life for the students of the Ciov of Miami. 6) Mayor Regalado and Commissioner Suarez saluted Ms. Victoria Mendez in honor of National Women's History month; furthermore congratulating her for having a successful and illustrious career in jurisprudence, as evidenced by the numerous awards and public recognition, in addition to commending her for her role as Ciov Attorney for the Ciov of Miami since September 2013 and performing with distinction and grace. Her knowledge and talents elevate the quality City ofMiami Page 7 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 of life for the City of Miami. 7) Mayor Regalado and Commissioner Gort saluted Ms. Jordana Zarut in honor of National Women's History month; furthermore thanking her for her work as President of Young Dreams Communii)v Outreach, a non-profit organization dedicated to reaching out to low income children and families and serving as chief executive for events such as back to school giveaways, annual easter egg hunts and thanksgiving meals and Christmas gifts initiatives uplifting the qualii)v of life for the City of Miami. 8) Mayor Regalado and Chair Hardemon saluted Ms. Marie Louissaint in honor of National Women's History month; furthermore expressing gratitude for her courage and entrepreneurial spirit and qualities that embodied in starting Gateway Airport Concessions, founding the Sports, Film and Entertainment Committee (SFEC) to encourage minority business participation and economic opportunities in the sports, film and entertainment industries. Ms. Louissaint also established the Little Haiti Optimist Club. Her initiatives raise the quality of life for the Cii)v of Miami. 9) Mayor Regalado and Commissioner Suarez presented a proclamation recognizing the benefits of bicycling and the positive impact on the City of Miami's economy, health, and tourism industry, therefore proclaiming the month of March as Miami Bike Month in the Cii)v of Miami further promoting safei)v education to bicyclists and motorists. 10) Mayor Regalado and Commissioner Carollo saluted Ms. Sonia Suarez in honor of National Women's History month; furthermore thanking her for having qualities that embody a tremendous source of strength for our communii)v, expertise and talents to elevate the quality of life for the residents of the Cii)v of Miami. 11) Mayor Regalado and Vice Chair Russell presented a proclamation to Mr. Allen Cohen of AC's Icees Truck, he has been a successful business in the Cii)v of Miami since its inception in 1978, also holding the City of Miami's first mobile concession permit. In addition, was thanked for his spirit of friendliness and good humor he shares with his devoted customers, and the service he has provided to the visitors of Kennedy Park, furthermore wishing him a happy seventeenth birthday and commending him for his wholehearted contribution to the communii)v of the City of Miami. Vice Chair Russell: We will now make the presentations and proclamations for the morning. Presentations made. APPROVING THE MINUTES OF THE FOLLOWING MEETINGS: Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, to APPROVED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon Commissioner Suarez: Move the regular meetings minutes ofFebruary 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: We have a motion. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: Second by Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Discussion. Did we ever pass the minutes for the January 28, 2016 --? City ofMiami Page 8 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 MAYORAL VETOES Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): No, sir. We're going to place those on the March 24 agenda We didn't -- there was a -- I guess an administrative error in placing them on this agenda. Commissioner Carollo: Understood Vice Chair Russell: Do we have any Commissioners wishing to remove anything from the consent--? Mr. Hannon: If we could -- Commissioner Carollo: Have we -- Vice Chair Russell: We did Commissioner Carollo: We need to vote on the minutes. Mr. Hannon: If we could call the question. Commissioner Suarez: Yes. Mr. Hannon: Sorry. Vice Chair Russell: Which one? Mr. Hannon: For the minutes. Commissioner Suarez: For the minutes. Vice Chair Russell: Oh, yes, yes. We have a motion and a second on the minutes. All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Minutes are approved. END OF APPROVING MINUTES NO MAYORAL VETOES Vice Chair Russell: Consent agenda Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): We just lost Commissioner Suarez, so, unfortunately, we don't have quorum, but if you would like to touch on mayoral vetoes, that doesn't require a quorum. Vice Chair Russell: Of course. Are there any mayoral vetoes? Mr. Hannon: Chair, there are no mayoral vetoes. Vice Chair Russell: Very good City ofMiami Page 9 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 CONSENT AGENDA CA.1 RESOLUTION 16-00094 Department of Capital A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Improvement ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A PYograms/Transportat QUIET ZONE IMPROVEMENT AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ion ATTACHED FORM, WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ("FDOT") FOR THE ALLAPATTAH QUIET ZONE PROJECT, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTAND TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM PROJECT NO. B70248; FURTHER ACCEPTING A GRANTAWARD FROM FDOT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $441,351.00, ALLOCATED AND APPROPRIATED BY THIS RESOLUTION FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SAID PROJECT. 16-00094 Summary Form.pdf 16-00094 Legislation.pdf 16-00094 Exhibit-Agreement.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Gort, that this matter be ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATIONS PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0086 Vice Chair Russell: And CA.1 will be moved into the regular agenda. .Ieovanny Rodriguez: Good morning, Commissioners. .Ieovanny Rodriguez, director of Capital Improvements & Transportation. CA.1 is a resolution authorizing the Cit) Manager to execute a quiet zone improvement agreement with FDOT (Florida Department of Transportation) for the Allapattah Quiet Zone Study Program; furthermore, accepting the grant -- a grant award from FDOT in an amount of 441, 351 for said project. Now, Commissioners, the change that we are proposing is that this resolution also act as an appropriation; authorizing an appropriation for this item. Vice Chair Russell: Close the door, please. Thank you. Mr. Rodriguez: Again, the change that we are proposing is that this resolution also gives us the authorio) to appropriate this item, and not having to come back as a separate Commission item for appropriations. Vice Chair Russell: Understood Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Vice Chair Russell: Move as -- Commissioner Gort: Second. Vice Chair Russell: We have a motion by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Gort, as amended. All in favor --I'm sorry. Do we have any members of the public who wish to be heard on this item? Hearing none, seeing none, public input's closed. City ofMiami Page 10 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Gort: (INAUDIBLE). The reason we're doing this, because I had a lot of complaints, 3, 4 o'clock in the morning, those trains goes through my neighborhood, and they're very loud. So they wake people up, and people got to work next day, and we never had a quiet zone there. We're trying to meet with them and deal with them, because a lot of the rails have been abandoned,- they don't go beyond 7th Avenue. That used to be the Grand Central Station on 7th Avenue. That was stopped a long time ago. So we're in discussion with the DOT (Department of Transportation), and with the CXS [sic], and Tri -Rail, because we need to do that. I mean, I get complaints that -- I don't know, because maybe I'm complaining so much lately, they do -- use it a lot more, 3 or 4 in the morning, and those horns, they can wake you up, and that's the reason we're working on this. Vice Chair Russell: So in order for us to make a quiet zone, we need to implement additional security so that there's -- so that the train can pass without blowing the horn -- Mr. Rodriguez: That's correct. Vice Chair Russell: -- and that's what this is for, correct? Mr. Rodriguez: That is correct, yes. The trains are required to blow the horn -- I believe it's 15, 20 seconds before each intersection. If you want them not to do that, then each intersection has to be sort of reinforced to make sure that those additional warnings are in place, so therefore, the train doesn't have to do that. Commissioner Gort: And you're talking about a block between intersections? Mr. Rodriguez: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Do we need to read the resolution into--? Barnaby Min (Depuo) City Attorne)): Not unless you so desire to. Vice Chair Russell: Okay. We have a motion; we have a second. All in favor, say 5ye. " The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Motion passes. CA.2 RESOLUTION 16-00095 Department of A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Fire -Rescue ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A LEASE AGREEMENT ("LEASE"), IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, BETWEEN THE GRAND CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. AND THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") PROVIDING FOR THE PLACEMENT OF A MARITIME RADAR AND ASSOCIATED INSTRUMENTS ON THE PREMISES OF THE GRAND CONDOMINIUM, LOCATED AT 1717 NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE, MIAMI, FLORIDA FOR USE BY THE CITY'S DEPARTMENT OF FIRE -RESCUE AT NO COST TO THE CITY, COMMENCING UPON EXECUTION OF THE LEASE BY THE CITY FOR A TERM OF FIVE (5) YEARS, UNLESS EARLIER TERMINATED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE LEASE; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING AMENDMENTS AND MODIFICATIONS TO SAID LEASE, INA FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, AS MAY BE NECESSARY FOR City ofMiami Page 11 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 SAID PURPOSE. 16-00095 Summary Form.pdf 16-00095 Legislation.pdf 16-00095 Exhibit-Agreement.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon CA.3 16-00168 Department of Parks and Recreation R-16-0088 RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TOACCEPTA GRANT IN THE FORM OF IN-KIND MEALS VALUED AT TWO HUNDRED SEVEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTY DOLLARS ($207,480.00) FROM THE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT ("COUNTY") MEALS FOR THE ELDERLY PROGRAM TO THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ("CITY") DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION FOR THE HADLEY MEALS FOR THE ELDERLY PROGRAM; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT"), IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH THE COUNTY'S MEALS FOR THE ELDERLY PROGRAM; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL OTHER NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, AMENDMENTS, EXTENSIONS, RENEWALS, AND MODIFICATIONS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, TO IMPLEMENT THE ACCEPTANCE OF AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE AGREEMENT FOR SAID PURPOSES, WITH THE OPTION TO RENEW ANNUALLY UNDER THE SAME TERMS AND CONDITIONS SUBJECT TO BUDGETARY APPROVALAT TIME OF NEED. 16-00168 Summary Form.pdf 16-00168 Legislation.pdf 16-00168 Exhibit-Agreement.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0089 CAA RESOLUTION 16-00131 Department ofParks A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH and Recreation ATTACHMENT(S), ENDORSING THE SOUTH FLORIDA PARKS COALITION CHARTERAND SUPPORTING THE PRINCIPLES EXPRESSED THEREIN; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SOUTH FLORIDA PARKS COALITION. City ofMiami Page 12 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 16-00131 Summary Form.pdf 16-00131 Legislation.pdf 16-00131 Exhibit.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0090 CA.5 RESOLUTION 16-00274 Department ofPolice A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), ESTABLISHING ANEW SPECIAL REVENUE PROJECT ENTITLED: "SRO - TRUANCY REDUCTION PROJECT MIAMI FY16" AND APPROPRIATING FUNDS, IN THE AMOUNT OF $37,243.00, CONSISTING OF A SUBGRANTAWARD FROM THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, EDWARD BYRNE MEMORIAL JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT, TO BE UTILIZED BY THE CITY OF MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT TO FUND SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER PROJECTS; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE ACCEPTANCE AND ADMINISTRATION OF SAID GRANT. 16-00274 Summary Form.pdf 16-00274 Legislation.pdf 16-00274 Exhibit.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0091 CA.6 RESOLUTION 16-00164 Department ofPublic A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Works ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A LOCALLY FUNDED AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH THE STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR THE INSTALLATION OF NINETEEN (19) DECORATIVE LIGHT POLES ALONG STATE ROAD 968/SOUTHWEST 1 ST STREET FROM FLAGLER STREET TO SOUTHWEST 17TH AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA. 16-00164 Summary Form.pdf 16-00164 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 16-00164 Legislation.pdf 16-00164 Exhibit-Agreement.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. City ofMiami Page 13 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0092 CA.7 RESOLUTION 16-00163 Department ofPublic A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Works ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A THREE (3) PARTY ESCROW AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH THE STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ("FDOT") AND THE STATE OF FLORIDA, DIVISION OF FINANCIAL SERVICES, DIVISION OF TREASURY, TRANSFERRING REQUIRED FUNDS FROM THE CITY OF MIAMI TO FDOT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF NINETEEN (19) DECORATIVE LIGHT POLES ALONG STATE ROAD 968/SOUTHWEST 1 ST STREET FROM FLAGLER STREET TO SOUTHWEST 17TH AVENUE, MIAMI FLORIDA. 16-00163 Summary Form.pdf 16-00163 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 16-00163 Legislation.pdf 16-00163 Exhibit-Agreement.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0093 CA.8 RESOLUTION 16-00091 Department ofPublic A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Works ATTACHMENT(S), ACCEPTING A PERPETUAL SIDEWALK EASEMENT FROM BRICKELL CITY CENTRE PROJECT, LLC ("GRANTOR") FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING PUBLIC PEDESTRIAN ACCESS TO PORTIONS OF THE SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTED ON PRIVATE PROPERTY ABUTTING THE SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTHEAST 6TH STREET BETWEEN SOUTH MIAMI AVENUE AND SOUTHEAST 1STAVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AND RECORD SAID PERPETUAL SIDEWALK EASEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF MIAMI. 16-00091 Summary Form.pdf 16-00091 Legislation.pdf 16-00091 Exhibit - Easement.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0094 City ofMiami Page 14 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 CA.9 RESOLUTION 16-00166 Department ofReal A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Estate andAsset ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE Management AMENDMENT NO. 3, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, TO THE REVOCABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT') WITH THE CENTER FOR HAITIAN STUDIES, INC. ("LICENSEE"), A NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION, PROVIDING LICENSEE USE OF A CITY -OWNED TRAILER, DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A2", ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, THAT IS ON CITY -OWNED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 185 NORTHEAST 82ND TERRACE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "Al ", ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, ON THE PROPERTY SUBJECT TO THE REVOCABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR USE AS ADDITIONAL CLINIC SPACE. 16-00166 Summary Form.pdf 16-00166 Back -Up Documents.pdf 16-00166 Pre-Legislation.pdf 16-00166 Legislation.pdf 16-00166 Exhibit.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0095 CA.10 RESOLUTION 16-00087 Offrce of Grants A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Administration ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMITAN APPLICATION, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR REIMBURSEMENT GRANT FUNDING TO THE FLORIDA INLAND NAVIGATION DISTRICT WATERWAYS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $75,000.00, FOR THE DESIGN AND PERMITTING OF A MOORING FIELD FACILITY OFFSHORE FROM THE DINNER KEY MARINA ("PROJECT"); FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR THE SUBMISSION OF SAID GRANT APPLICATION, THE EXECUTION OF GRANT OR DEED AGREEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND EXTENSIONS THERETO, AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT FUNDS, IN THE EVENT OF THE AWARD OF THE GRANT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017. 16-00087 Summary Form.pdf 16-00087 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 16-00087 Legislation.pdf 16-00087 Exhibit.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon City ofMiami Page 15 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 R-16-0096 CA.11 RESOLUTION 16-00088 Offrce of Grants A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Administration ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMITAN APPLICATION, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR REIMBURSEMENT GRANT FUNDING TO THE FLORIDA INLAND NAVIGATION DISTRICT WATERWAYS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $75,000.00, FOR THE DESIGN AND PERMITTING OF A MOORING FIELD FACILITY OFFSHORE FROM WATSON ISLAND ("PROJECT'); FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR THE SUBMISSION OF SAID GRANT APPLICATION, THE EXECUTION OF GRANT OR DEED AGREEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND EXTENSIONS THERETO, AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT FUNDS, IN THE EVENT OF THE AWARD OF THE GRANT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017. 16-00088 Summary Form.pdf 16-00088 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 16-00088 Legislation.pdf 16-00088 Exhibit.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0097 CA.12 RESOLUTION 16-00097 Offrce of Grants A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Administration ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMITAN APPLICATION, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR REIMBURSEMENT GRANT FUNDING TO THE FLORIDA INLAND NAVIGATION DISTRICT WATERWAYS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $30,000.00, FOR THE REMOVAL OF SMALL DERELICT VESSELS ("PROJECT'); FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR THE SUBMISSION OF SAID GRANT APPLICATION, THE EXECUTION OF GRANT OR DEED AGREEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND EXTENSIONS THERETO, AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT FUNDS, IN THE EVENT OF THE AWARD OF THE GRANT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017. 16-00097 Summary Form.pdf 16-00097 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 16-00097 Legislation.pdf 16-00097 Exhibit.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. City ofMiami Page 16 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0098 CA.13 RESOLUTION 16-00098 Offrce of Grants A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Administration ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMITAN APPLICATION, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR REIMBURSEMENT GRANT FUNDING TO THE FLORIDA INLAND NAVIGATION DISTRICT WATERWAYS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $18,775.00, FOR THE INSTALLATION OF TIKI HUTS AND TABLES AT HISTORIC VIRGINIA KEY BEACH PARK ("PROJECT'); AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION AND APPROPRIATION OF THE REQUIRED MATCHING FUNDS FOR FIFTY PERCENT (50%) OF THE PROJECT COSTS, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $18,775.00, AVAILABLE UNDER CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM PROJECT NO. B-30174; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR THE SUBMISSION OF SAID GRANT APPLICATION, THE EXECUTION OF GRANT OR DEED AGREEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND EXTENSIONS THERETO, AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT FUNDS, IN THE EVENT OF THE AWARD OF THE GRANT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017. 16-00098 Summary Form.pdf 16-00098 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 16-00098 Legislation.pdf 16-00098 Exhibit.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0099 CA.14 RESOLUTION 16-00100 Offrce of Grants A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Administration ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMITAN APPLICATION, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR REIMBURSEMENT GRANT FUNDING TO THE FLORIDA INLAND NAVIGATION DISTRICT WATERWAYS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $31,000.00, FOR THE DESIGN AND PERMITTING OF A NEW SEAWALLAND BAYWALK, LOCATED AT THE END OF NORTHEAST 22ND STREET AND NORTHEAST 22ND TERRACE ALONG BISCAYNE BAY ("PROJECT'); FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR THE SUBMISSION OF SAID GRANT APPLICATION, THE EXECUTION OF GRANT OR DEED AGREEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND EXTENSIONS City ofMiami Page 17 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 THERETO, AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT FUNDS, IN THE EVENT OF THE AWARD OF THE GRANT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017. 16-00100 Summary Form.pdf 16-00100 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 16-00100 Legislation.pdf 16-00100 Exhibit.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0100 CA.15 RESOLUTION 16-00102 Offrce of Grants A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Administration ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMITAN APPLICATION, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR REIMBURSEMENT GRANT FUNDING TO THE FLORIDA INLAND NAVIGATION DISTRICT WATERWAYS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $16,500.00, FOR THE DESIGN AND PERMITTING OF FLOATING DOCKS AT MORNINGSIDE PARK ("PROJECT"); FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR THE SUBMISSION OF SAID GRANT APPLICATION, THE EXECUTION OF GRANT OR DEED AGREEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND EXTENSIONS THERETO, AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT FUNDS, IN THE EVENT OF THE AWARD OF THE GRANT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017. 16-00102 Summary Form.pdf 16-00102 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 16-00102 Legislation.pdf 16-00102 Exhibit.pdf This Matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0101 Adopted the Consent Agenda Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, including all the preceding items marked as having been adopted on the Consent Agenda. The motion carried by the following vote: Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon END OF CONSENT AGENDA Vice Chair Russell: Where are we now? Let's move on. City ofMiami Page Is Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Suarez: Consent agenda Vice Chair Russell: Consent agenda Did we already --? Okay, thank you. Is there anything else -- anything to be pulled from the consent agenda? Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): Excuse me, Chair. Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Mr. Chair. Vice Chair Russell: From the Administration. Mr. Alfonso: Mr. Chairman, I'd like to pull CA.1 from the consent agenda. We have to make an amendment to it on the floor. Commissioner Suarez: Okay. Move the remainder of the consent agenda, other than CA. 1. Vice Chair Russell: Do I have a second? Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: We have a motion by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Carollo. All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Consent agenda passes. PERSONALAPPEARANCES PA.1 PRESENTATION 16-00314 Honorable Mayor PRESENTATION BY CATHY RICK -JOULE, FROM THE NATIONAL MARINE Tomas Regalado MANUFACTURER'S ASSOCIATION (NMMA) AND ALICE BRAVO, DIRECTOR OF MIAM I-DADE TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS, REGARDING TRAFFIC FLOW ON THE RICKENBACKER CAUSEWAY DURING THE MIAMI INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW. 16 -00314 -Submittal -Alice Bravo -Traffic Control Plan for the Miami International Boat Show.pdf PRESENTED Vice Chair Russell: And Commissioner Suarez had a phone call; is that right? Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): Chair, we could move on to discussion items that don't require any Commission action. Victoria Mendez (City Attorne)): We also have the personal appearance. Mr. Hannon: Oh, yes, yes; today on personal appearance. Vice Chair Russell: Personal appearance it is. Let's see. Our first personal appearance of the day -- oh, yes, we had a time certain at 10 a.m.; Cathy Rick -Joule, from the NMMA (National Marine Manufacturers Association). Welcome. City ofMiami Page 19 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Cathy Rick -Joule: Good morning. Cathy Rick -Joule, 1635 North Bayshore Drive, Miami, Florida. Commissioner Carollo, Vice Chair Russell, very nice to see you again. Thank you for the opportunio) to come back to Commission and report on some of the very important items as related to the Miami International Boat Show. As you know, we had a very successful event by all accounts, for the most part. Over 100, 000 people visited the show. I think the most important highlight and why we're here today is to share with you what we found out and what we learned as it relates to the MOT, the maintenance of traffic plan, which was developed in tandem with Miami -Dade Police Department and Miami -Dade Count) Police Department. Some other highlights as it relates to the transportation plan: We transported 53,224 people by water taxi. The largest pickup point was Bayfront Park, with 16,554 people; Miamarina at Bayside, with 9,415 people; the Viceroy, with 7,895 people; the Sea Isle Marina, 7,562 people; Dinner Key Marina, with 5,3 75 people; and our one Miami Beach pickup point at Purdy Avenue, with 4,975 people. We also transported over 78, 000 people by shuttle bus from downtown Miami, and we presold 24,086 prepaid parking spaces between Lot A, 'Arthur Lamb, Jr. Road; and Lot B, " Historic Virginia Key Beach. So I think we demonstrated at a very high level the abilio) to move people by mass transit. It was something not a lot of people believed was possible, and I think most of that is -- thank you for your support, and your wisdom, and your -- most importantly, your belief that we could do it, and we could produce an event in a respectful and successful way for all parties involved. I'd now like to turn it over to Alice Bravo, with Miami -Dade Transit, whose department produced a very high-level report on transportation as it relates to on and off Rickenbacker Causeway, which was of great important to many of us, so Alice is going to join us and present those findings. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you, Cathy. Hello, Alice. Alice Bravo: Good morning. Alice Bravo -- Vice Chair Russell: Welcome back, welcome back. Ms. Bravo: -- Miami -Dade Count) director of Transportation and Public Works. Glad to be back visiting here. I'm going to get started here while our IT (Information technolog)) gets set Up. Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Mr. Chair, while they setup, I'll just mention that we got a lot of free publicio) . Southern Boating Magazine did a whole spread on the boat show, and the Marine Stadium, and we didn't pay for that, so good stuff. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you, Mr. Manager. Ms. Bravo: Well, as you all know, the boat show was held at Miami Marine Stadium. The first day was February 11, and we have the show days, February 12 through the 15th, with hours of operation, 10 a.m. to 8 p. m.; and on the last day, the 15th, it was 10 a.m. to 6 p. m. Many people worked together from different agencies to not only develop the transportation plan, but to implement it and make sure it was effective, and that included, first and foremost, Cit) of Miami Police; Miami -Dade Count) Police; City of Miami Special Events; Public Works; Capital Improvement, Miami -Dade Transit; Florida Department of Transportation; the Sun Guide Center, which is a component of FDOT, where they operate and control many of the traffic cameras that are located throughout Dade Count); and the Miami -Dade Expressway Authority also helped us with signage and providing information. So the different elements of transportation that were coordinated was, first and foremost, public transportation. NMMA provided a free bus shuttle service from our Metrorail Station at Vizcaya and other locations throughout downtown. There was the free water taxi service, and we also coordinated the online sale -- actually, the first time -- we had online sales of Metrorail passes, so when someone bought their pass to the boat show or the Coconut Grove Art Festival, they could also buy the Metrorail pass, and we had folks with scanners at the various stations to process those passes. City ofMiami Page 20 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 And in addition to that, we relocated some of our bus stops temporarily to accommodate the shuttle service at the Marine Stadium, and there were also freebies onsite. So many months ago, we developed a traffic control plan with everyone's input, and basically, that plan provided for police control of several intersections, which we'll go over in more detail; a pedestrian fence along the south side of the causeway to make sure people weren't parking at the beach and crossing inappropriately. That was our primary concern, was safei)v during the boat show, and making sure we didn't have any issues with pedestrians. And the Cii)v of Miami provided a central control center, where all the different entities that were working the show could coordinate and information could be provided to the people in the field. And a large component Of making this plan work was the control over parking. We wanted to make sure in the early planning phases that there wasn't a rush of thousands of people coming to Virginia Key, looking for a parking space, not finding it, having to turn around, and adding to the congestion. So I think NMMA very successfully managed the parking and advised people that if they didn't have a pre purchased parking pass, they shouldn't come out to the Key, and they should use one of the alternate modes of transportation, and I think that worked out very well. So with regard to the big picture of the control plan for traffic, obviously, there was the water taxi services from different points: downtown, Miami Beach and Coconut Grove to Virginia Key. In addition, we worked with other agencies to provide signage. Soon this map, you could seethe numbers. The numbers represent signs that were controlled to have messages. The actual planning of this actually started during the art festival the prior year, because for that art festival, we wanted to demonstrate that we could keep traffic from flooding the intersection ofI-95 and 26th Street. So during the prior art show, variable message signs along I-95 and 395 were used to direct folks that were going to the art festival to use State Road 836 and then go south into the Grove; either 17th Avenue or 27th Avenue. And based on the results of last year's art show, we demonstrated that that intersection at the highway was kept clear, and there wouldn't be an overlapping of traffic congestion from the two events. So in addition to that, there were variable message signs that were placed temporarily throughout the field, as represented with the Vs7hat also directed people, you know, which way to go to get to the art show, and also park and ride destinations for the boat show, and I think people made very good use of those remote parking locations. Chair Suarez: Mr. Chair, iflmay? Vice Chair Russell: Yes. You have a question? Commissioner Suarez: First of all, this is impressive. The collection of data at this level is impressive that you've collected this information. I mean, it's also very telling, you know, of what the store is, so, I mean, I've spoken to you a little bit about what I think are -- I think, generally speaking, people particularly generally think it was handled very successfully. I don't -- I think I've only heard one complaint; I've only heard one. I don't know how many you guys have heard, but I've only heard one complaint from somebody in the Key, from the Key; you may have heard more, I don't know. But what is interesting is --and I shared this with you --I think there --it's the first year, so there are always refinements that can be done, and I think one of them is, obviously, the lines for the water taxis, we certainly -- DERM (Department of Environmental Resource Management) approving --and that's your neck of the woods. We --you know, we probably should remedy that. And secondly, I think there had to be a little bit more of a proactive effort of knocking on windows with -- when cars were in the queue line to come in to get people who did not have passes -- I happened to be in the queue line without a pass just to see how it worked -- just to let people filter out, and I think that would have reduced some of the traffic on the non --you know -- the non -entrance lanes, if you will. So -- and clearly, the data shows that -- the high volume of differentials in the morning, so, I mean, I think that's what your focus needs to be. Ms. Bravo: Would you like me to explain the data? Commissioner Suarez: Sure. City ofMiami Page 21 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Bravo: Okay. All right. Commissioner Suarez: I just --you know, we've -- we spent, you know, all morning, so we kind Of would like to. Ms. Bravo: Okay. I'll go through it very quickly. So we have our traffic control plan that laid out -- the concept was that for traffic going towards the boat show, we'd keep the left-hand lanes for boat show traffic, and that way, we could keep the right-hand lanes open, free flowing for folks that wanted to go beyond Virginia Key and go to Key Biscayne; and the same thing in the reverse. In the reverse, leaving Key Biscayne or Virginia Key, the boat show traffic was to the right, and that way, the left-hand lanes could be kept open for Key Biscayne traffic. And there was appropriate signage directing people to the parking lots based on color coding, and there were restrictions for pedestrians so that they could betaken to safe crossing points. So with regard to the data, the very telling graph here shows that there was not really a significant increase in traffic volumes on the causeway, so the bars to the left in the darker colors represent daily traffic volumes at the toll plaza back in 2015 on the same weekend without the boat show; and the five bars to the right, the lighter colors represent traffic volume. So you could see just for the first day, the traffic volumes last year were roughly 22, 000 vehicles on that Thursday. And this year, with the boat show, it was roughly 27, 000. So an extra S, 000 vehicles per day on average went through the toll plaza as a result of the boat show. Vice Chair Russell: Okay. So just to clarify that for those who might find it confusing, there were -- 100, 000 people attended the boat show; correct? More or less. But the daily activii)v over the -- how many days was the boat show? Six? Six days of the boat show? Ms. Bravo: Five days. Vice Chair Russell: Five days of the boat show was an approximate increase of S, 000 cars per day -- Ms. Bravo: Going to -- Vice Chair Russell: -- compared to the year before on the same weekend -- Ms. Bravo: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: -- with no event. Ms. Bravo: And that included the volume of shuttle buses going through, as well. Vice Chair Russell: Right. So what would you attribute that to; that half of the attendees went by water and there was not much actual attendee parking on the Key, right? They were mostly satellite parking with shuttles? Ms. Bravo: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: And so that's what mitigated the amount of cars that came in? Ms. Bravo: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: Understood Thank you. Ms. Bravo: So the next graph gives you a picture of the opening day and the traffic volumes by hour. And so here, we have a comparison to the same day the week before, so you could see City ofMiami Page 22 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 around 8 a. in. to roughly noon, you had a spike in traffic; and where a week before, you had maybe 1, 400 vehicles, 1, 500 vehicles per hour, we --you went up to 2,400 vehicles per hour. And given the capacio) of the causeway -- you have three lanes in each direction -- that's certainly an easy hourly volume for the causeway to manage. In addition to cameras and the counts at the causeways, we also installed as a pilot Blue Mack devices. And so these devices use basically blue tooth information to anonymously sense a cell phone and -- at one point and then sense it at another point. And what that does is that gives us an average travel time and travel speed for the flow of traffic between those two points. So if we go to the map, you could see the two places where these devices were installed: one just off the interstate intersection and one just past the MAST (Maritime and Science Technolog)) Academy at the entrance to Arthur Lamb Road So very quickly, you could see from that data on this first graph average travel speeds. Sothis is average. This is average for the left-hand lanes going into the boat show and also for the right-hand lanes that were observed to be free flowing just about the entire time as traffic continued onto Key Biscayne. So the average travel speeds you could see primarily fall in that 40 -mile -an -hour range. And on February 11, around 9 to 10 a.m., there was a little delay, I think, in getting all the traffic control signs up around that time, so there, the average travel speed dropped. Then all the signs were in place, and you could see that by roughly before noon, traffic travel average speed was backup to 35 miles an hour. Vice Chair Russell: So if one lane was dedicated for entrance to the boat show, those dots represent the free flowing lanes, more or less? Ms. Bravo: These dots are an average of all the vehicles going through. I don't have the ability to -- Vice Chair Russell: From Point !to Point B, 'dight. Ms. Bravo: -- separate the traffic in the left lane from the right lane. Vice Chair Russell: What I'm trying to understand is whether or not there was a point where there was complete backup traffic on the Rickenbacker Causeway where a Key Biscayne resident was actually in standstill traffic. Was that ever the case? Ms. Bravo: That was not observed. That was not a problem. Vice Chair Russell: So we didn't get any complaints about -- Ms. Bravo: No. Vice Chair Russell: -- actual back-to-back stopped traffic to Key Biscayne? Ms. Bravo: No. And after this, we actually have like a time-lapse photography, because we put up some traffic cameras so that we could just record. First observed -- we had our traffic signal engineers on standby in case we needed to adapt signal timing at any of the intersections on the mainland, and also, we were observing the flow and reporting back and forth with the police working in the field. And that actually led to tweaking some of the traffic signs the first morning, and adding an additional variable message sign in advance of the toll plaza, and after that is when everything improved significantly, and that was by 10 a. in. Vice Chair Russell: Understood Ms. Bravo: So the next graph, you can see travel times, so basically, from the point at the interchange to the point at Arthur Lamb Road, you could see here the average travel times, you know; 3.6 minutes; 4.73 minutes; and that spike that first morning before the signage was fully in place where that travel time was seven minutes. So, you know, that's an average, again, so if you City ofMiami Page 23 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 were in the left-hand lane waiting to go into the parking lot, you probably experienced a little more than that; and if you were in the Key Biscayne through -lanes, you experienced less than that. Vice Chair Russell: Have you ever done a similar analysis of tennis weekend traffic to the Key? Ms. Bravo: We're going to do that this year. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Ms. Bravo: So with that, I'll just show you some of the cam --footage that we have. If you go up --there you go. So we had a camera out by that intersection by Arthur Lamb Road facing roughly westbound, west -north, and so you could see -- this was the first day, roughly 2 o'clock, and you could see the vehicles on the left stacked up to go into the boat show, but the other side of the rubber barrels, you could see that traffic was preto) free flowing, based on the spacing between the vehicles, and then you see that again in the next photo, and you see that consistently throughout; the left, you know, folks in the queue to get into the parking lot, and the right-hand lanes relatively free flowing. Then the other camera we had was placed at the intersection of -- Vice Chair Russell: Pardon me. I have a question of the last photo. Ms. Bravo: Mm-hmm. Vice Chair Russell: So how many spaces were there at the boat show site for parking; was it 3, 000 or something like --? Ms. Rick -Joule: (INAUDIBLE). Vice Chair Russell: 3,800. Ms. Rick -Joule: (INAUDIBLE). Vice Chair Russell: And so how many of those were probably utilized by boat show staff, or people working or setting up, would you guess? Ms. Rick -Joule: (INAUDIBLE) Vice Chair Russell: About 50 percent. So there could have been almost 2, 000 spaces available for the people just going to -- attendees, correct? So that might be what we see as residential cars coming inhere at this point. Thank you. Ms. Bravo: So then the other camera was placed just before the toll plaza, and it's facing west, and you could see here also a progression of different shots where, really, we did not observe any significant delays at that intersection, either. And that's it. That's my presentation. Vice Chair Russell: Are there any questions from the Commission? Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: Not necessarily questions; just a few comments. I could tell you -- and I'm glad you asked whether there was on the Rickenbacker any backed up, stopped traffic. I could tell you that I went to the Grove Arts Festival on Saturday, and I specifically traveled on Brickell through the area of Rickenbacker into South Bayshore Drive, at I p.m. on a Saturday, City ofMiami Page 24 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 and I didn't seethe traffic. And that was on a Saturday. You would figure if it was going to be backed up, that would be one of the days and times. With regards to the boat show itself, I went there -- obviously, a different location -- but I went to the boat show, like I do every year, and I have to admit, it really felt like a boat show. I wasn't just in a big building full of boats. It really -- the atmosphere really felt like a boat show, so I was actually pretty impressed. And I could tell you, I think, with over 100, 000 visitors, having, I think -- and I'm not sure of the number, but I heard it's about 80 percent of the people that attended used mass transit, one form or another. I think that's pretty impressive; and at the same time, it demonstrates South Florida and Miami can use mass transit. We can change the culture of always taking our cars. So I think it was a success. I could tell you the feedback that I have gotten has been all great for the -- except of one person that was a little upset, other than that, all the feedback that I received was very good, so -- and I think the number speaks for itself, with over 100 -some thousand people attending the show, and 80 percent of those people taking mass transit, I mean, I think it speaks volumes; it speaks volumes for this community. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yeah, I would basically echo Commissioner Carollo's comments. It's funny, because the one person who had sort of a negative comment, if you will, was actually upset that the City of Key Biscayne -- it was a Citi of Key Biscayne resident -- was upset that they had spent three quarters of a million dollars on legal fees to try to stop the boat show from happening. And they said, Well, we made a million, too. "I think it's like a two million dollar swing. So if you really want to be upset, if you take a look at the positive side of our ledger in comparison with the negative side of your ledger. But I agree, I also had an interesting, really neat experience. Sometimes, to really get a flavor for something, you have to do that sort of undercover boss thing, you know. And I happened to be at Versailles having dinner one of the nights, and I saw four people that were in marine clothing, and clearly had been to the boat show, had been at the boat show all day, and -- my wife with a nice little note -- and -- thanks. And I just chatted them up, you know. I happened to behaving dinner with my wife, and I sat next to them, and I started talking to them, you know, and they said you know, that it was a phenomenal -- exactly what the Commissioner said, you know; that the venue was incredible; the attendance numbers were up; the sales were strong. And I think these were actually vendors, and, you know, I just wanted to get an -- they didn't know who I was. I just -- sort of picking their brain, wanted to get an unbiased perspective. So, you know, when we decided to undergo this -- I said -- I was very adamant about saying we have to do the postmortem, if you will, and I think that's what this is about. And I'm really impressed, also, at the way you guys handled it at the County, because, I mean, this is really robust. I mean, this is at another level. And I'm sure -- and I understand why the Vice Chair who is chairing tonight -- today -- hopefully not tonight -- would ask that a similar study be done for the tennis tournament, because this is -- when you have this kind of data and this kind of information, it's very hard to dispute or argue with the facts, and with the images. So I commend you. I think you're doing a wonderful job over there, obviously. You know, I get to interact with you a lot on my MPO (Metropolitan Planning Organization) stuff, but kudos to the boat show people who are here for really taking it seriously, and for listening to our concerns. And, really, as the Commissioner said I think one of the great byproducts of this, it's not only just mass transit, like he said, but specifically waterborne transit. I think Commissioner Gort actually had an item on the agenda today that is probably going to be held until he gets back, but he's been a big proponent on activating our waterways as a means and method of transporting people, and I think the boat show, certainly you could see that that was -- and I told the people who wanted to have soccer, you know, here in Miami, in a venue and in a site where parking is going to be an issue and tight, I said, fro look at what the boat show is doing. "You know, they're really, really putting the energy and the emphasis on having non-traditional ways of getting to and from their venue. And if they can do it with the amount of value, any time -- which is five times the amount of people a soccer stadium would have, then, certainly, somebody with a much smaller event can do it, as well. So kudos to you and kudos to you. Thank you. City ofMiami Page 25 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Bravo: Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Ms. Bravo, regarding the water transit, was that organized by the Coumty, or independently, by the boat show? Ms. Bravo: That was done by the boat show, as far as the shuttles. Vice Chair Russell: So the routes were privately chosen and -- okay, I'll reserve my questions for Cathy on that. If there was a bottleneck, where would you say it was? Where was the slowest point of congestion? Was it exiting I-95; was it before the tollbooth; was it before getting into the boat show? Where would you say it was? Ms. Bravo: I would think it's just the traffic that was queuing to pull into the parking lot. The first day, about noon, maybe that queue extended up to the top of the bridge, and after that, we never really saw it go that far back; it was always immediately in front of the stadium or the -- back to the Rusi)v Pelican. Vice Chair Russell: Now, before we had automated tolls that used to be the backup point, right? Ms. Bravo: Right. Vice Chair Russell: And that's open, as well now. Ms. Bravo: No. Now it's a Sun Pass system. Vice Chair Russell: Okay. What learnings would you say are the greatest things that we could change for next year, transit -wise, that you felt could be improved? Ms. Bravo: Well, I think with regard to the circulation of the shuttles, themselves; the sizes of the vehicles that maybe are used to take people back and forth to the parking lots that were on Virginia Key, where they're allowed to turn around. I think there were a lot of lessons learned, and observations, both by Cii)v police and Coumty police, and we will all be regrouping soon to put that all together and improve next year's plan. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. How many satellite lots were there; the ones that -- within the City? Ms. Bravo: Well -- Vice Chair Russell: That were with the shuttle service. Mr. Hannon: And Chair, if I can get these comments on the record. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, of course. Mr. Hannon: Okay. And that means for the -- Vice Chair Russell: Oh, I'm sorry; yes, of course. I'll reserve that for the boat show -- Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair, ifI may? Vice Chair Russell: Of course. Commissioner Suarez: I just want to get the Miami perspective; not that I don't agree with the City ofMiami Page 26 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Count) perspective, but our major for special units is here; if he can come up here and give us the Miami perspective on what he feels was his -- my former commander in Coral Way, straightened out the Coral Way NET (Neighborhood Enhancement Team) area, and now is a big shot, a big dog and major, so I just want to get his perspective on what his take was on the event, and how it went off. Albert Alberto: Good morning. Major Albert Alberto, Cit) ofMiami Police Department. I wish I could stand here and take all credit for it; although the Chief did give me an ultimatum that either make it happen or get fired. I didn't really have a choice. But really, the kudo -- Commissioner Suarez: It's all good. Listen -- Major Alberto: -- goes to my special events office, Lieutenant Joel Gonzalez and Sergeant Carlos Alvez; if you could step up? Really, from day one, as Alice Bravo brought to your attention, you know, they took ownership of this event. We had a lot of components involved in it, you know, from the traffic side of it, from the venues, but overall, it was a total success. There was a couple hiccups the first day, as expected, not a lot of dry runs. The boat show representatives were phenomenal; George Navarro. Anything we asked of them, they provided. We had great communication aspect with all law enforcement agencies and entities; Eire Rescue, so it kind of all melted into a successful event. Like I said, we had a dry run two days prior to opening day to make sure that logistically, we were all ready with the MOT (maintenance of traffic). We noticed that there were some hiccups, but -- and we modified that. We spoke to the boat show representative. We brought in our personnel the next day a lot earlier, and that -- since that moment on, we didn't really have any major issues. We had resources. We had motor Officers available to respond in case, God forbid there was a critical incident in Key Biscayne and they had to have their fire apparatus or their EMC -- EMS (Emergency Medical Services) involved We also had that component in place in case that would happen. The biggest take of all this -- I mean, we had our motor lieutenant, along with our traffic sergeants. What I had them do every hour, you know, drive from I-95 and Southwest 8th Street to the end of the boat show. And there was -- the most that it took was 12 minutes. Commissioner Suarez: Wow. Major Alberto: Which is phenomenal -- Commissioner Suarez: That's amazing. Major Alberto: --with the amount of cars and residents that were traveling. I mean, we didn't hear one single complaint. I had the Chief of Key Biscayne onsite numerous times. We had that communication open, and he was phenomenal, and I think, as Commissioner Carollo alluded to, you know, I am also a avid boater, and my wife goes with me every year, and this year, she was so excited to go to the boat show that she almost made me sign a couple contracts, so -- Commissioner Suarez: Nice. Major Alberto: -- thank God, we didn't. And I mean, from a City perspective, it went very well, sir. Commissioner Suarez: Thank you, Major. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Suarez: And I just want to say one thing that we talked a lot about last year --I didn't hear any complaints about the load -in or load -out, either, and that's a huge process, because the boat show actually goes off in, you know, three, or four, or five days, you know, of -- City ofMiami Page 27 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 but the load -in and the load -out is months, and I think that's important, because that was a big part of our discussion before, and I didn't hear any complaints about load -in, load -out, and that's -- that could have been a much bigger issue, too. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. I had a couple more questions, just for the NMMA, and Cathy. Thank you. The -- so the water taxi routes, which we've deferred -- we have an actual item, a resolution we're looking -- and I think the boat show was a great kickoff to that discussion, because people in Miami have always wondered, Could we have a water taxi system in the Cit), and could it be safe for the environment? Would people use it?" The ii ould people use it Part, I think, has been answered from the boat show; 50, 000 -some users on the water taxi system. Ms. Rick -Joule: I would just add to that that people would forego a shuttle bus, which was a couple steps away or half a block away, and wait in line to get on a water taxi, because they preferred to take that method to get to the show. Vice Chair Russell: It was enjoyable. Ms. Rick -Joule: Very enjoyable. Vice Chair Russell: And would you do the water shuttle free again next year as a -- or it was a -- learning that it created such wait times, because there was no barrier; would you charge for it next year? What do you think about that? Ms. Rick -Joule: At this point, we would expect to continue to provide courtesy shuttle bus and water taxi services. It's something we've looked at, but we would prefer not to add expense to the ticket price for our attendees to get into the show. We learned a lot, and we knew that we would. What we found is we needed to transport larger numbers of people quicker, so we know we need to go to a larger occupancy water taxi. We need some flexibility as it relates to water taxi pickup points in downtown Miami, and we're going to be encouraging, for instance, the Bayfront Park Trust to get excited about fixing the dock that is in the EEC (Florida East Coast) slip, so it's a usable water taxi pickup point. That would have helped us a lot, because that was a -- between Bayside Park in Bayfront, and Miamarina, those were the two largest occupancies, because they were fed by the American Airlines Arena, by the -- by Bayside Garage. There was a lot of parking in that area that were gravitating to those pickup points, so we need to change that up. We found also that on the receiving end in Virginia Key, those water taxi slips designated that are part of Miami Marine Stadium Marina are too small for the water taxi size that we need, so we need to take another look at where our embarkation point would be on Virginia Key. But to your point, we would continue to want to provide this as a courtesy. Vice Chair Russell: Is the map for the water taxi available? Was that -- is that Alice's presentation? Ms. Rick -Joule: No, it's not part of that, but I could describe it if that would be helpful. Vice Chair Russell: I'd rather have the graphic up if we could Ms. Rick -Joule: Okay. Vice Chair Russell: That was the water taxi presentation. Is that still available? Sorry. Ms. Rick -Joule: There were basically seven pickup points. The only pickup point we had and only transportation we had on Miami Beach was from the Purdy Avenue boat ramp, which is just north of Venetian Causeway at Sunset Harbor. That proved to be problematic only that we designed the water taxi point from thereto handle hotel traffic as residuals for some of the hotel blocks that we traditionally had in Miami Beach. We were overwhelmed with folks from the City ofMiami Page 28 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 yacht -- Miami Beach show and them bringing their shuttle buses into that location, so, again, we couldn't transport people quickly enough and/or fast enough, and we needed a larger occupancy. So we will definitely revisit that as -- probably deprioritize that pickup point in Miami Beach. Starting from the north, the first pickup point was the Sea Isle Marina, a significant pickup cpportunio) there, fed by the Omni Garage across the street; the Marriott Garage, as well. Coming down to the American Airlines Arena where we picked up those folks by water taxi at Bayside -- Miamarina at Bayside. Bayfront Trust was the largest pickup point, which is, of course, along Bayfront Park, right behind -- near the Hard Rock Cafe. Further south -- and that serviced the Intercontinental, the, you know, YVE, those hotels in that area, as well as those major garages. And then down around the corner to the Viceroy, which serviced those hotels downtown: the Hyatt, the hotels across the street, the Epic. That, we need to improve as far as a pickup location, because we couldn't get enough people from there, and we were restricted from the pickup point near the Hyatt, which is the -- would be the primary choice. And then the further south point pickup was Dinner Key Marina. Vice Chair Russell: How many companies were involved in, as vendors -- as the suppliers of the water taxi system? How many companies did you have to work with to compile enough boats? Ms. Rick -Joule: There were 19 boats in the fleet As Ilook on my list quickly here, probably at least 10 different operations, but all running under the auspice of Mike Simpson and his water taxi operation, which is Island Cruises. He coordinated the vessels, the captains, the education. Vice Chair Russell: So all the vendors were under his control; is that correct? Ms. Rick -Joule: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: And what environmental concerns were taken into account with the water taxi system? Was there anything -- manatee protection, environmental issues regarding water taxi, what was done? Ms. Rick -Joule: Well, as it relates to all of the boats that were utilized either in the construction of the show, the dismantle of the show, folks that were bringing boats in for the show -- there were 407 slips in the water, so those boats all had to be brought in by a captain -- as well as the water taxi operators all underwent a varied) of things. The first was all of the information that's required as it relates to our permit conditions with DERM were listed on the website. We had a captains meeting in advance of the show; again, including the water taxi captains and any of the installation contractors captaining tugs or vessels. There were over 450 captains that participated in a webinar about two weeks prior to the actual installation of the show. They were all required to receive from us a printed package of all the permit conditions and have those available on every vessel, and they had to sign for those and came in compliance as they arrived at the show, or as their vessels were coming in and out of the show. Anyone that was conducting a sea trial needed to operate with a sea trial pass so that the marine patrol who were accessing, access in -- or controlling access in and out of the basin knew who these vessels were, which ones had the ability and the authority to come in and out They all were well versed on manatee speed zones, manatee protection, any specific areas that were not to be navigated within. And, you know, they basically operate in the navigational plan that's designed for Biscayne Bay. Vice Chair Russell: On each of the water taxis, was there a manatee spotter? I had heard that there was a -- I don't know if that was a rumor, but that one of the crew was tasked with actually being on the bow, keeping an eye out for manatees; is that correct? Ms. Rick -Joule: Yeah, there absolutely was, and that also speaks to the sea trial. Anyone operating a vessel has to have somebody designated on the boat that's looking for manatees. Vice Chair Russell: That was mandatory? City ofMiami Page 29 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Rick -Joule: That includes the construction of boats and vessels, as well. Vice Chair Russell: The sea trial boats -- obviously, you've got some high-speed power boats involved Were there any rules with regard to how the sea trials could be done and where they could be done? Ms. Rick -Joule: Yes. They needed to be operated in sea trial zones, as designated by the Biscayne Bay navigation channels. They needed to be operated within the footprint of the hours of the show, so, obviously, 10 in the morning till 6 p. m.; not after dark. And any captains that were in violation of any of the designated zones, speed zones -- speeds mostly was the key -- were -- the passes were pulled, and they were restricted from moving in and out of the show. And we did have to pull passes in about five or six different cases. Vice Chair Russell: You had to what? I'm sorry. Ms. Rick -Joule: We had to pull their abilio) to operate under water taxi --under sea trial rules. Vice Chair Russell: The sea trials. So a couple of the exhibitors may have not been following the protocol. Ms. Rick -Joule: Were operating a little quicker than they should have in the navigational channel before they exited out underneath the bridge. Vice Chair Russell: So if one of the exhibitors had a high-speed boat that wanted to be tested, what would there -- and I'm looking at the map now -- what would -- what should they have done? What was the route they were supposed to take to get to safe water where they could do high-speed testing? Ms. Rick -Joule: They should have followed the allocated navigational channel, which was created by us under DERM's guidance outside around the Rickenbacker Causeway Marina, and then exiting south under the Rickenbacker Causeway Bridge. Vice Chair Russell: So after Rusty Pelican, they would take a left, go under the Rickenbacker, and once they were in the open bay? Ms. Rick -Joule: Yes. That's open water there. Vice Chair Russell: Open water there, and they're under the rules of the Coastguard at that point, and Marine Patrol. Now, was there any specific monitoring out there aside from just what the standard Marine Patrol and Coastguard would have been? Was --or were they trusted with -- the open water testing was trusted after that point -- morning, Commissioner -- to conduct their trials on their own out there? Ms. Rick -Joule: Absolutely, yeah; conduct themselves as boaters are responsible for. Vice Chair Russell: Okay. But there was no monitor from the boat show out in the bay for the sea trial portion? Ms. Rick -Joule: Correct; not outside of the footprint of the basin. Vice Chair Russell: Right. I might make that as a recommendation, and I'm just thinking off the top of my head for next year. And so I assume that any permits that were pulled were done because you noticed within the footprint that there was some violation of people going too fast. City ofMiami Page 30 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Rick -Joule: We visibly viewed them; visibly viewed them operating in excess speed in that navigational channel that should have taken them outside, into navigable waters. Vice Chair Russell: Right. So none of the sea trials should have taken place by turning right, outside of the basin, and going north toward Government Cut, Bear Cut -- I'm sore -- going north toward the port. Ms. Rick -Joule: That --yeah. That's all no wake, slow speed zone, with the exception of Government Cut. There is a portion along the port that is --provides for a quicker passage. Vice Chair Russell: And was that area available for sea trial? Ms. Rick -Joule: They should -- they couldn't have sea -trialed They couldn't get out to open water that way, so if they choose to go right, and up the channel, and then out into the ocean that way, past the south point of Miami Beach, certainly, that's an option, as well. Most of them chose to go the other direction just because it was much quicker. You're getting to open water much quicker than you were going -- observing speed zones past Brickell Key, and then into a very short Government Cut slip, and then again to open water, so. Vice Chair Russell: Right. Ms. Rick -Joule: That was not the preferred route. Vice Chair Russell: That might be a recommendation for next year, as well; that all sea trials actually conduct within a very specified area, rather than just -- and I don't know how much you can govern them once they're outside the footprint, but maybe it's something that they sign if they're going to do sea trials and have the permit that there is a dedicated area, because, also, there's just standard weekend boat traffic happening, and on a weekend like that -- Ms. Rick -Joule: Yeah, it's very busy. Vice Chair Russell: -- I'm sure it's rather significant. And so even though they're within the law to be out, going as fast as they want in open navigable waters, we -- adding that sort of risk and congestion -- might want to try to control and monitor that, knowing that they're out there doing that. And if it's a fast boat, they're probably opening it up. They're probably really showing what it can do; just an assumption, but maybe that we monitor and regulate that beyond. Of course, what I'm curious about -- and it was in the papers -- was that there was a manatee found during the weekend, and I don't believe that it was conclusively found that that had anything to do with the boat show. I'm wondering if we have a representative of DERM here. I didn't invite anybody to come speak, but do we? So then, just to the best of your knowledge, did you investigate the issue regarding the manatee from the boat show side of things ? Ms. Rick -Joule: What happened, DERM did callus and let us know that they had found a manatee in what they were describing as Fishermen's Channel, which is a navigational channel that's used by a lot of local boaters. I confirmed what -- they didn't have a lot of information at the time. I -- Florida Wildlife Commission was onsite at the show, so I immediately went over and talked to the representative there that was onsite. He shared with me that the manatee was found on the back side of Fisher Island and they had determined about the approximate time of death was sometime between midnight and 3 in the morning. The -- Vice Chair Russell: On which day? Ms. Rick -Joule: Pardon me? Vice Chair Russell: On which day? City ofMiami Page 31 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Rick -Joule: On -- that was Friday morning, which would have been February 12. So it was -- he didn't have any more information than that, but the male was already, I guess, transported to Dinner Key Marina and was on his way to Tallahassee for autopsy, so I don't think that -- there's no conclusion to that autopsy at this point, butt guess the two points I would make is that it was -- the manatee, unfortunately, was found outside -- was found dead outside of the footprint of the show, and clearly out of the hours, operating hours of any of the vessels related to the boat show. Vice Chair Russell: The -- now, on the map I'm looking at, Fisher Island, I can see -- and for those who are in the audience watching -- Fisher Island being the triangular island about mid -screen on the right side. What side of Fisher Island was the manatee found? Ms. Rick -Joule: He said the back side, so I'm -- Vice Chair Russell: Would that be the north side? Ms. Rick -Joule: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: Relative to the boat show. the backside. Ms. Rick -Joule: That's what I speculate based on his description. I don't know -- Vice Chair Russell: So Government Cut side. Ms. Rick -Joule: Pardon me? Vice Chair Russell: The Government Cut side, the -- right? And so which is also a heavily -tracked area. So -- and it does look like, though, there was at least one water taxi route that did go that way heading to South Beach; is that correct? Ms. Rick -Joule: No. The water taxi that operated from the Beach was north of the Venetian Causeway, so the trip it had to make, because the Venetian Causeway is -- was restricted and the east bridge was in a fixed down position, because of the construction, they had to travel along the Venetian Causeway from east to west; come under the Venetian Causeway on the west side opening of the bridge; then navigate in that slow speed no -wake zone down past Bayside; cross the Miami River opening down Brickell Key and into the navigational channel. So -- Vice Chair Russell: Right. And I apologize if it sounds like I'm cross-examining you. Ms. Rick -Joule: Okay. Vice Chair Russell: I'm absolutely not. I'm really just trying to get to the root of it, so we can really see, because there's a lot of speculation. So the dotted line on the map up -- could we keep the map of the boat show up, please; of the water taxi? That's what I was looking for. There's a dotted line on the right side of the screen going to the north side of Fisher Island, exactly where you described Was that not used? I'm sorry, let me show you the map I have on my -- that was handed to me by Ms. Bravo. Ms. Rick -Joule: If we had a pointer, I could probably point better where the -- Vice Chair Russell: It wouldn't show up on the screen -- Ms. Rick -Joule: Oh, okay. City ofMiami Page 32 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: —unfortunately; I do, but it wouldn't show up. Ms. Rick -Joule: So you'll see on the top portion of that map, you'll see Hibiscus Island Star Island those islands that are on the Venetian Causeway. Almost where the seal is on the right side is where the Purdy Avenue boat ramp is. It's connected to Sunset Harbor. There's a public boat ramp there. It was coming along the Venetian Causeway, almost due east to west. Once it hit the West Venetian Bridge opening, which is very close to the Sea Isle Marina, they would come under the bridge there, which is fixed in an open position because of the construction. Now that construction is completed but at that point, it was. And then travel down along Bayside, continue down along -- past the opening of Miami River, along Brickell Key; the slow -wake -- no -- navigational channel along the key, and then come into the navigational channel that was designed and built, but there's -- part of it is there all the time -- and then attach to the one that we built that would bring them, continuing into Virginia Key to the drop-off point. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. So just to clarify, then, that right -- that dotted line on the right that is shown in the map was not used? Ms. Rick -Joule: That -- yeah, that was not used, because we originally wanted to run from Miami Beach Marina, but unfortunately -- Vice Chair Russell: Correct. Ms. Rick -Joule: -- we were not able to utilize it -- Vice Chair Russell: I have a pointer. Thank you. So this line that we're pointing at -- Ms. Rick -Joule: Right. Vice Chair Russell: And if you could stop the mouse right there, just south of there is actually where -- Ms. Rick -Joule: Right. Vice Chair Russell: -- the manatee was found, but that line was not used as -- Ms. Rick -Joule: Right. We -- Vice Chair Russell: -- a water taxi route. Ms. Rick -Joule: -- weren't able to secure that location. That would have been our preference, but unfortunately, we couldn't. Vice Chair Russell: And that area was not intend -- it definitely was not intended for high-speed water trial; that was more to the south side of the Rickenbacker Causeway, where boats were supposed to be. Ms. Rick -Joule: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: And, of course, there is all the weekend traffic, so -- of boats that are in that channel, to start with. Ms. Rick -Joule: Yeah. There's about 800 -- over 800, 000 registered boaters in the State of Florida. How many of those are in South Florida, I don't know, but if --you know, I'm a boater down here -- City ofMiami Page 33 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Gort: There's a lot of them. Ms. Rick -Joule: -- and certainly, on any weekend, the traffic in that area on -- heading, you know, southbound is tremendous. Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Gort, good morning. Commissioner Gort: Morning. Vice Chair Russell: We actually, I believe, deferred your item at your request, which is a resolution having to do with water taxis. I don't know if you want to bring that back, but if you'd like to discuss this at all, we have a -- Commissioner Gort: Let me tell you, I'm glad you're asking all those questions. I believe that's very important, a discussion with it. And I'm glad Alicia Bravo is here, because Ms. Bravo, one of the things I'm going to ask of Cit) of Miami, to do a study how we can use water transportation. Throughout the world, not only in the United States, any cit) that has as much water as we have, they use water transportation constantly, and there's different ways you can use it. You can go all the way from Homestead to North Miami. My understanding is Miami Beach has some of it right now with the taxis. My understanding, Broward is using it, also. So it'll be very important, these questions you're asking right now, because of the routes that we can select, because DERM is the one that opposes almost to anything that we want to do there, and that's something we got to work with DERM and Miami -Dade Count), and when I bring that up, I'm going to make sure that the Commission -- that the resolution is passed, and maybe it's a study you wanted to do. We have specific questions. I don't know if the attorney wants to read it, the resolution. You want me to move on the resolution now, or you want to wait until they finish? Vice Chair Russell: We can wait on that. I -- we've actually -- Commissioner Gort: Okay, fine. Okay. No problem. Those are good questions, though. Later.. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman, before Ms. Rick -Joule sits down, just real quick, if you could reach out to my office so we could setup a meeting with Bayfront Park Trust, Mr. Tim Schmand -- Ms. Rick -Joule: Absolutely. Commissioner Carollo: -- and start working for possibly next year. Ms. Rick -Joule: We'd really like to assist and help with that. Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair, I'd also like to ask -- I'd like to ask, if you don't mina coming before the MPO (Metropolitan Planning Organization); and Alice, if you can facilitate her coming before the MPO, and I'd like our -- Commissioner Gort to come, as well -- to do a presentation on water taxis, their success. And I want -- we need to catalyze, get things moving. And Commissioner has been very -- been pushing me to get the MPO to move on this issue, and he's -- we've been passing resolution after resolution. This is the second resolution that we passed in the City. You know, we need the County to come onboard with us. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: While we have you, one last environmental question, Cathy. The pilings that were used for the floating temporary docks in the basin, how many pilings were put in? City ofMiami Page 34 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Rick -Joule: At last count, we had just about 400 pilings in the water. They're all Green Heart pilings, which are easily recyclable. They have a life span of about five years, so we continue to monitor and move inventoty in and out as it comes close to the point of recycling Vice Chair Russell: So these were temporary pilings that we're putting -- that we put in before the boat show, and they're being taken out after the boat show; is that correct? Ms. Rick -Joule: Yes. And, in fact, the property is now clear; the dismantle is complete. Vice Chair Russell: So what is the method and what is the effect on the bay bottom in the basin when a piling is put in; how is it done? Ms. Rick -Joule: It's done with a -- basically, a boom crane is there, and it impacts the piling as it goes down into the surface of the bay bottom. We have divers down there that are navigating and moving around any -- what could be possible seagrass or any species there, so that we can make sure that we don't impact those areas. The bottom in the basin there is primarily what they describe as a muck bottom. It's very sandy, very porous bottom, so things go in vett' easily, and when the piling comes out, it's almost like the sand in an hourglass; it just sort -- it falls back into the hall. Vice Chair Russell: So before a piling would go in that sand, there would be a diver actually on the spot for each piling, to scout and make sure they were not crushing coral or seagrass or an animal? Ms. Rick -Joule: Right. Vice Chair Russell: For all 500 -- 400 pilings? Ms. Rick -Joule: That's a requirement of the permit. Vice Chair Russell: That's very good to know. And then they're removed, and that's it? Ms. Rick -Joule: The thing that -- the video will be shot again, you know, pre -construction, post -construction; evetything will be reviewed by DERM; that's in the process right now. They obviously were on propero) at many points doing their inspections; as was DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) and Army Corps. So those are, you know, compliance issues that are happening in real time, every day, from the vett' beginning throughout the entire show, through the conclusion. So they'll be putting together their reports. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you vett' much. Thank you. Ms. Rick -Joule: You're welcome. Vice Chair Russell: And before we move on -- I know we have a motion and a second, but I'd just like to make a statement about the boat show in general. There was a couple words that were not uttered here this morning, and that was ley Biscayne, 'bnd I think that they are a vevy affected party within this situation. It's a bit of the elephant in the room; that we've had legal issues with them; we've had mediation issues with them as a cit). And early on, even before I was a Commissioner, I was reaching out to the Mayor, Mayra Pena Lindsay, to understand what is the conflict, because to look at the basin, it looked to me early on that this could be a good place for a boat show if it were done environmentally properly; if it was done as a good neighbor. And things seemed to escalate vett' quickly. I wasn't involved at that time, but now I am, and I really want to make sure that we, as a Commission and we, as an Administration work well with our neighbors to move forward positively, because I am sure that the hotels booked up on Key Biscayne. I'm sure that there are a lot of boaters on Key Biscayne who really enjoyed the City ofMiami Page 35 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 show. So why are we at odds? You know, and if we could look back over the history of how this came about, perhaps it was, you know, some of the tone or whether they were fully included, whether their voice was really heard, and their concerns. Now, the fact that they ended up really shoring up their side and bringing preto) much a fight regarding stopping the boat show, you know, out of that conflict, maybe we had some positive results, because the spotlight was onus, as a city, and the boat show as a business to really get this right. I mean, the precautions that seem to have been taken that appear to have been used to mitigate traffic is tremendous from what we can see this morning. Of course, Key Biscayne has their version of what did happen traffic -wise. And just a moment, Commissioner. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: That they said -- you know, you read in the paper --that traffic was a nightmare. And, of course, the City side is saying traffic was a breeze. Is the actual somewhere in between, or is there bias on either side? And it's good to have the Count) here to help, and it seems there's a lot of data, but I can definitely see that the City and the boat show made tremendous effort to mitigate that traffic, and so that Key Biscayne residents could get to and from their homes without any incident. The other concern of Key Biscayne --and I don't believe there's any representative of Key Biscayme here this morning. I apologize. I would have invited them if I'd had the forethought -- was environmental concerns, as we, as a cit), should have as well; Virginia Key being part of my district, the environmental concerns of protecting the basin; the bay surrounding there; the channels; the island, itself is tremendous. And as Commissioner Suarez said, this was an impressive entity that came in -- onto the island. In terms of the size of the tent, you really felt that you were at a boat show or a convention. And, of course, that -- you can't deny that that has an impact. And so, to know that we, as the Cit) and you, as the boat show did make maximum efforts. My learning on this, watching the whole process from start to finish, is to be a better neighbor, and to really include Key Biscayne, not as fis versus them, 'but all working together at the table to see how we can work together in the future. And so I believe if they were at the table more from the beginning, we may have had less resistance. We may have had a cooperative partner, and we may not be in the fight that we're in today. Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. I would just say, Mr. Chair, that -- and this sort of precedes you a little bit -- but, you know, I think their concern is the intensio) of use issue generally, over the course of the year. I think they saw the boat show, for whatever reason, as something that was ominous, that was going to start some sort of chain of events that was going to lead to a high intensity of use of that property, and I think they felt that they had to exert themselves; otherwise, they would open up sort of the floodgates, if you will. But I think we had some very productive talks, actually. I think your predecessor and I expressed a lot of concern about being a good neighbor, and we had some advanced discussions about settling the dispute, and I think we should find a way to re-engage, because I really believe that if we put our heads together that we can find a solution would help the City, because at the end of the day, we want to restore Marine Stadium; that's the ultimate objective for us. And also, give them some of the calm that they want from a -- having an intensio) of use issue sort of discussed and pre -worked out, if you will. And I think, you know, I think what's interesting is -- and that's why she made the comment about the load -in and the load -out, because if you have two or three of these big events a year, the load -in and load -out takes a long time, but the load -in and the load -out doesn't create a lot of traffic. What creates a lot of traffic is the event, itself. So you could have one event a month, which would have an additional S, 000 cars, as we saw, per day -- and that would be challenging -- versus having two or three events a year that have a larger load -in and load -out that are larger events for the City. So those are things that we can discuss, and debate, and talk about. And I think you're right. I think part of the reason why we created the Bayfront Park Oversight Committee was to give them a voice -- exactly. I'm sorry. Commissioner Gort: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). City ofMiami Page 36 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Virginia Key -- Commissioner Gort: Been watching, Frank. Commissioner Suarez: --well, that was part of the inspiration, actually. The Virginia Key Steering Committee was to give them a voice, and make them feel like they're a participant in the process. Commissioner Gort: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Gort: Yeah. For your information, I want you to know we discussed this quite a bit with them. Our administrator and our staff got together with them quite a bit. We even came up with a plan where they could be partners with us on this transaction. And we were talking at one time that we should get together, the Cit) of Miami, Key Biscayne, and Miami -Dade Count), and create some kind of a bridge, or some kind of a traffic pattern that would not affect the residents of the Key. So that's something that we discussed quite a bit with them. We had a deal. At the last moment, they walked out. But I think we should,- we should get together, and I think the Count) should be -- has to be involved, the cities have to be involved but we have to find a solution, because at the same time, I just read -- I might be wrong -- but I read something about a new -- two new hotels going up over in Key Biscayne. They going to be -- start building preto) soon. Originally, it was a village, but a lot of the people that moved in have been residents for a long time. That island has changed quite a bit, too. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: And if what Commissioner Gort has legs, I would like then the same for Watson Island and Miami Beach. Commissioner Gort: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: What's that? Commissioner Carollo: If what Commissioner Gort is saying has legs -- I mean, if it actually comes to fruition, and that is established, I would want the same, also, for another bridge, another municipalio) that's concerned about traffic issues -- Vice Chair Russell: Sure. Commissioner Carollo: -- and that is the one at Watson Island. So we would want the same O pe of study, or same type of collaboration for that area, also. Commissioner Gort: I have to tell you, Watson Island would be a lot easier, because it's only a quarter of a mile. Okay. PUBLIC HEARING PHA RESOLUTION 16-00143 City ofMiami Page 37 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Department of A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Community and ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF PROGRAM YEAR Economic 2016-2017 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS ("CDBG") Development IN THE TOTALAMOUNT OF $2,699,621.00, CONSISTING OF CDBG FUNDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,663,046.00 AND PRIOR YEAR PROGRAM INCOME IN THE AMOUNT OF $36,575.00, TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CATEGORY TO THE AGENCIES SPECIFIED IN ATTACHMENT "A", ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN PROGRAM YEAR 2016-2017; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. 16-00143 Summary Form.pdf 16-00143 Notice to the Public.pdf 16-00143 Pre-Legislation.pdf 16-00143 Legislation.pdf 16-00143 Attachment A.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0087 Vice Chair Russell: Moving on. Are we on PH 1; is that correct? Commissioner Carollo: Yes. Commissioner Suarez: (UNINTELLIGIBLE.) Vice Chair Russell: Morning, Mr. Mensah. George Mensah : Good morning, Mr. Chair, Commissioners. My name is George Mensah. I'm director of Community and Economic Development. PH I is a resolution of the Miami City Commission authorizing the allocation of program year 201612017 CDBG (Communio) Development Block Grant) funds in the total amount of two -- approximately $2.6 million, and prior year program income of approximately 36,575 and distribution to the agencies and projects as outlined in your attachment. And just want to say for the record that everything remains the same; however, just the allocation to Martin Luther King Economic Development Corporation for technical assistance to commercial fagade will be made, but we intend to come back and make changes to it later. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Carollo. Any input from the public? Hearing none, seeing none -- Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: -- public input is closed Commissioner Gort: There's somebody -- City ofMiami Page 38 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Gort: They're here. Vice Chair Russell: I'm sorry. That -- Commissioner Carollo: I think they're here for -- Commissioner Suarez: They may be here for some of the other ones, yeah. Vice Chair Russell: Is this for PH I or PH 2? Commissioner Carollo: Are you here for PH I or PH 2? Mr. Mensah: 2. Commissioner Suarez: Public service. Madelyn Danes: Good morning. My name is Madelyn Danes, and I'm the director of Centro Mater, and I'm just here to thank the Commission for -- Vice Chair Russell: Your address, please. Ms. Danes: Oh. 1304 Southwest 36th Avenue. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Ms. Danes: I'm just here to thank the Commissioner for all the years that they've supported Centro Mater; it's close to 50 years, and we're able to provide the mission of serving the neediest children [sic] and families in our community, and the assistance from the Cit) of Miami is crucial to the quality of services that we provide. So basically, I just want to say thank you, and for the continued support, and to tell you that the money is going to the neediest families, and is making a big difference in our community. Thank you. Commissioner Suarez: Amen Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Would anyone else like to be heard on PH.1 from the public? Mr. Mensah: I think you -- Commissioner Suarez: Might be PH 2. Mr. Mensah: -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE) about PH 2. Commissioner Carollo: I think everyone's for PH 2. Mr. Mensah: It's PH. 2. Commissioner Suarez: That's fine, yeah. Commissioner Carollo: And hers probably for P --her was probably from H.2 and RE. 8. Mr. Mensah: Yes. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. City ofMiami Page 39 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: They're your constituents. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, they -- we hear all the same sort of --yeah. Vice Chair Russell: Very good So -- Commissioner Carollo: Chairman, ifI could real quickly -- Vice Chair Russell: Please. Commissioner Carollo: -- just a quick question. I just want to -- just put for the record. Is the formula used for the allocation to the different districts based on the HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) standings? For example, distribution based on povero) levels, over-crowdiness [sic] and so forth? Mr. Mensah: Yes, correct. Vice Chair Russell: We're closing public -- any more input on PH.1 ? Do we have any discussion from the dais? We do have a motion and a second. All in favor, say 5ye. " The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Passes. PH.2 RESOLUTION 16-00144 Department of A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Community and ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF PROGRAM YEAR Economic 2016-2017 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS IN THE Development TOTAL AMOUNT OF $706,856.70 AND THE AMOUNT OF $128,440.50 FROM PREVIOUS YEAR'S PROGRAM INCOME, FORA TOTALAMOUNT OF $835,297.20 IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE CATEGORY, TO THE AGENCIES SPECIFIED IN ATTACHMENT "A", ATTACHEDAND INCORPORATED, FOR PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES BEGINNING APRIL 1, 2016; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. 16-00144 Summary Form.pdf 16-00144 Notice to the Public.pdf 16-00144 Pre-Legislation.pdf 16-00144 Legislation.pdf OBSOLETE 16-00144 Attachment A - SUB.pdf Motion by Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATIONS PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0102 Vice Chair Russell: PH. 2. George Mensah (Director, Communio) Development): PH 2 is a resolution of the Miami City City ofMiami Page 40 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commission, with attachments, authorizing the allocation of program year 2016/2017 CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) funds in the amount of 706,856 and the amount of 128, 440 from previous year's program income, for a total amount of 835,297 in the public service category to the agencies specified in -- I just want to add for the record that there's a scrivener's error. Instead of the projected amount, it has to be the real amount. This is not a projection; this is an actual amount, because we received the allocation from HUD on February 16. And I will read for the record this here, because there's some changes, modification made to the allocations. So Allapattah Communio) Action received 178,749; Catholic Charities Sagrada Familia received 2,444; Centro Mater received 17,298; Curley's House of Style, 25, 000; De Hostos Senior Center, 10, 000; Fanm Ayisyen Nan Miyami/Haitian Women of Miami, 30,000; 50 Years and Up, 10, 000; Jose Perez de Castano Kidney Foundation, 8,181; Little Havana Communio) and Nutrition Center of Dade Count), 136,196, St. Alban's Day Nursery, 23,960; Southwest Social Service Program, Incorporated, 79,834; Sunshinefor All, 61,386; Association for Development of the Exceptional, 21,163; The Sundari Foundation, 8, 000; Thelma Gibson Health Initiative, 54,876; Greater Miami Service Corps, 35, 000; The Start Program, Inc., 14,868; the Libero) City Optimist Club is initially 55, 000, but there's an addition of 5, 000, so that would be 60, 000; World Literacy Crusade of Florida, 25,638; Multi -Ethnic Youth Group Association, 22,500; Coconut Grove Collaborative, 6,403; and Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Childcare --for Childcare, $5, 000. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you, Mr. Mensah. Commissioner Carollo: Move it. Commissioner Suarez: Second. Vice Chair Russell: Motion by Commissioner Carollo; second by Commissioner Suarez. Any input from the public on PH. 2, please. Please state your name and address. Luther Campbell: Luther Campbell, Liberty Cit) Optimists. We'd just like to thank the Commission for the support for the program. You know, these funds --just like I say every year I come here -- these funds go directly to the kids. Nobody at our program -- we have over 150 volunteers. Nobody at the program get paid any money. You know, we do these things for the kids. And the funds last year were -- it allowed kids to travel to Orlando, buy new equipment, buy new padding, buy new water jugs, new water stations and these different things; purchase computers. So, you know, I like to come up here and tell y'all the things that we did with the funds, because these are the things that we do. And, you know, we'd just like to thank you all, you know, because Cit) of Miami is preto) much one of the only organizations that do donate to the Libero) City Optimists. We only --we have over 350 kids in the program. We get no funding from Children's Trust or any other organization. We stand alone, and we'd just like to thank you all for the support and the continued support. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Commissioner Gort: Thank you. Eureca Coulanges: Eureca Coulanges, 1451 Northwest 50th Street, Liberty Cit) Optimists. Also, I want to reiterate what Mr. Luther Campbell said. In 2015, we were able to serve 30 kids. We had an increase in our funding. In '15/16, we served 50. And thank you for this increase. We're going to increase more and have those kids be able to participate in our program, so we want to thank you again for your support. Thank you. Mr. Mensah: And I just want you to know that the increase came from District 3 Commissioner. Ms. Coulanges: Thank you. Thank you. City ofMiami Page 41 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Please state your name and address. Shirley Presley: Shirley Presley, 22946 Southwest 105 Avenue, Cutler Bay. I would also like to thank you for the funding that you're giving Liberty Cit) Optimists. I have been involved with this program for over 25 years. My kids, both of my kids grew up in the program. My son played baseball, football. One of the reasons that I stayed with this program is that we're not all about winning. We teach skills that the kids need to help develop into abetter person. We help the kids believe in themselves. We show them different methods of solving different problems. I also work with scholastics. I'm the scholastic coordinator for Libero) City Optimists. We provide tutoring. I visit schools. Right now, we're in our baseball season, and I coach the T-ballers, and I have 20 kids, and I am visiting all of their classrooms to find out how they're doing what we can do to help them do better. And my son is in the U.S. (United States) Army right now. The skills and things that he was taught at Libero) Cit) helped -- has helped him really grow into a fine young man. My daughter also grew up in the program, and she played T -ball. She was on the first girls' softball team. She became an assistant coach. She has coached T -ball. She is now the baseball commissioner. So I really appreciate what you're doing for our program. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Marleine Bastien: Good morning. Vice Chair Russell: Good morning. Commissioner Suarez: Morning. Ms. Bastien: My name is Marleine Bastien from 181 Northeast 82nd Street. First and foremost, I'd like to thank you for having us this morning. I'd like to thank Chairman Hardemon, who is not here; and Chairman -- Commissioner Gort for contributing to our recent fundraising. We appreciate you. Thank you so much. Those of you who didn't have a chance to contribute can still do it. It's Women's History Month. We also wish to salute the courage of all women in the City of Miami; all women. We need to be inclusive next time we celebrate Women History Month. And I'm also here to thank George, and his team, and you at the dais for supporting FANM (Farm Ayisyen Nan Miyami) with the $30, 000, investing in our program to strengthen families. We do believe that when we invest in families, the community benefits, because strong families make strong communities. However, I'm here to speak -- also, I wish to say thank you first, because there is a -- the saying that we say at FANM often: Before you beg, you thank. So thank you for this investment in our public service program. You like that, huh? Commissioner Carollo loves it. Before you beg, you thank. So I wanted to speak specifically on PH 1, because this year, unfortunately, we did -- we were not awarded any money under the Economic Development Project. Over the past year, FANM has been increasingly involved in helping the growth of small businesses at different levels in Little Haiti. This renewed involvement in the small business communio) is based upon the understanding that businesses have a leading role to take in community development. As a community-based organization, FANM believes that the growth of the Haitian community is directly related to the development of its diverse businesses. Consequently, FANM has focused some of its resources to provide support to small businesses which form the backbone of the Haitian communio) in South Florida However, for the past two years, most of the businesses in Little Haiti -- especially on the 82nd Street Corridor, where our Office is located -- has had to close their doors. This is sad, even the fact that most of these businesses have been in the community for the --for two to five decades. Vice Chair Russell: Please wrap up. Ms. Bastien: Gentrification -- I'm going to end soon -- should not mean displacement of businesses and people. So I'm going to urge you this year to reinvest in our communio) economic City ofMiami Page 42 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 development, because these businesses are closing their doors. We must support and invest in these small businesses. We must support and invest in keeping the legacy in Little Haiti. We must save Little Haiti. We cannot save Little Haiti with weekly displacement of the businesses in Little Haiti. So we hope that you will con -- reconsider, and that you will invest in the businesses of Little Haiti that are closing their doors. They have been trying to boot us out. That is not right. That is not fair. Reinvest— Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much Ms. Bastien: -- in our community economic development project this year. There is no reason why we were not awarded any money; there is no reason for it. So we hope that you guys will reconsider. Thank you so much. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you, ma'am. Please limit your -- thank you very much. Please limit your comments to two minutes. You'll hear an initial buzzer when there's 30 seconds left, and then the final buzzer when you've reached your time. Miriam Urra: Commissioners, my name is Miriam Urra, and I am here representing -- Commissioner Gort: Speak in the mike, ma'am. Ms. Urra: My name is Miriam Urra, and I'm here representing Allapattah Communio) Action, Inc., and I am here -- Vice Chair Russell: Your address, please. Ms. Urra: -- to thank you -- Vice Chair Russell: Ma'am. Ms. Urra: -- all of you --yes? Vice Chair Russell: I just need your address. I'm sorry. Ms. Urra: My -- okay. It's 2257 Northwest North River Drive, in Miami. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Ms. Urra: You're welcome. As I was saying, I'm here to thank you for all your continued support toward our communio) . Practically toward the City of Miami, we have a lot of elderly people in the City that are very needy, and they don't have enough funds or money to pay for their rent, their food, their bills, and I have to acknowledge here in front of all of you that if it were not for your efforts to help these elderly families, they would be in big trouble. So thank you. Thankyou very much, Commissioner Willy Gort, my Commissioner. Thankyou for all your efforts, Mr. -- Chairman Russell. Commissioner Frank Carollo, thank you. And also, Francis, thank you very much. I really appreciate all the things that you do for our people. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Any further public input on PH.2? Please state your name and address. Cristina Penedo: Cristina Penedo, Southwest Social Services, 25 Tamiami Boulevard. We serve seniors in the area of Flagami, and I just wanted to take the cpportunio) to thank Commissioner Suarez, Commissioner Carollo, and Commissioner Gort for a special donation that they made to our program. It -- as you all know, it's very necessary, because we obtain our buses to transport elderly with funds from DOT (Department of Transportation) and they require that we give a City ofMiami Page 43 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 certain percentage of match, and thanks to your help, we have been able to, little by little, change all our buses that were falling apart. Also, the amount of money that the City of Miami gives us allows us to feed almost 100 clients a year. And like I said, many of -- all of you, except Commissioner Russell, have been to Maria Senior Center, which is located in Flagami Park, and I am extending an invitation to you, so you can meet the seniors that are served with these funds. Thankyou. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Gort: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Gort: I'd like to -- for people to understand this, because people talked about there's places where you have for the senior citizens. That's the one meal they might have in that day; the meal that we help to provide. Commissioner Suarez: And can I just jump on that? Vice Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: I mean, and we've fought this fight for a long time, and we have to keep fighting it, because all these agencies are doing the best that they can with the very minimal amount of resources, but the fact of the matter is, just to touch on what Commissioner Gort just said, the biggest benefit that you can give someone, other than breathing oxygen, is eating, is a meal, and we do it for such a low amount of money; and not only that, but they get the tremendously beneficial benefit of having a society that they can interact with their fellow residents, and with their friends, and they become family and friends. And for many people who lose loved ones as they get older, this becomes a way for them to feel reinvigorated. So thank you for the work that you guys all do. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Ramon Perez Dorrbecker: It's their second home. Commissioner Suarez: It's their second home. Mr. Dorrbecker: My name is Ramon Perez Dorrbecker. I represent Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Center. My address is 700 Southwest 8th Street. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Dorrbecker: The agency I represent has been providing services to the residents of the Cit) of Miami and Miami -Dade Count) for the last 44 years, and I really are vett' appreciative; not only myself, but the board of directors and all the citizens and residents of the City of Miami that we serve, for the support and effort you have demonstrated to us every year by granting us the money that you have available to help this elderly population. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you to all of you Commissioners. Thank you. It's nice talking to you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Any other public input on PH 2? Hearing none, seeing none; closing public input. Any further discussion? Commissioner Carollo: Yes, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Real quick. All these head of organizations came forward and thanked us here today, but in realio) , we should be thanking them, because the work that they do is really a love for them. I mean, the care that they give all City ofMiami Page 44 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 these elderly, like Commissioner Gort and Commissioner Suarez said, you know, for some of these elderly in our communio) , this is the only meal that they have per day. So it's not easy, so I want to make sure that we extend our gratitude to all these people that have come forward. Thankyou. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner Carollo. Anyone else? Commissioner Carollo: And real quick, I don't want to leave out the people that do the childcare. I see Madelyn there, and evetybody else, so. Vice Chair Russell: Mr. Mensah, we were here about a month ago discussing timeliness at the end of the CDBG season. Mr. Mensah: Yes, sir. Vice Chair Russell: And obviously, these are the funding that we're allocating for Community Development Block Grants, and this is a tremendous responsibility that we have to do this properly, and we count on your guidance. The issue last month was that there was money that was not allocated that we needed to reallocate elsewhere; otherwise, the timeliness becomes an issue, and we could possibly lose it for future years; is that correct? Mr. Mensah: No. The issue was that in addition to -- we had allocated all the funds; however, some of the projects were slower than we anticipated. In addition, we also received a lot of program income, and when you get more program income, your amount that you have to spend goes up. So we received over a million dollars in November, which means that between November andJanuary, I have to spend that million dollars, and that was one of the reasons. Vice Chair Russell: So between November and -- we had none allocated, but spend it; is that correct? Mr. Mensah: Yes, spending, yes. Vice Chair Russell: Because I remember during that meeting, the Commissioners were looking at each other, A there some way we can spend this appropriately amongst the not -for -profits that really need it? "And timeliness was such an issue that we were pretty much out of time. Is there a way for you to work with us as Commissioners to ensure that that does not happen again this year? Mr. Mensah: We've always, definitely, and that's the reason why when these issues come out, I always reach out to Commissioners for assistance in -- well, not only just allocating the funds, but also in ensuring that the ones that we have allocated have been spent, because sometimes, we have -- you know, there are one or two reasons why money sits there and is not being spent, so we always reach out to Commissioners to have an assistance. Now, when you get a program income comes in last minute, like it did this year, it becomes extremely difficult because of the program restrictions. You have to advertise for 30 days, and then you -- if you put it into construction, you cannot spend it before the date. So we need to spend it in something that it can easily purchase an allowable item that can -- is easily purchased, and that is what we ran into the beginning of this year. Vice Chair Russell: Okay. Mr. Mensah: We are hoping that by -- and that is the reason why I made the recommendation to change the year to the original year, so it becomes the same year as the City's. One thing it does is that it helps us in terms of the timeliness, which we receive our program funds earlier. So, like, for instance, when I come to you, I already know how much money we are receiving. Right now, City ofMiami Page 45 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 when I come to you, I don't know how much money we will -- receiving until later on, like in February. Vice Chair Russell: So it's your recommendation that we change the calendar year to match the City's calendar year financially; October to October; is that correct? Mr. Mensah: Yes, that's my recommendation. We are working on it with the City Manager, and the Budget Department to see how much it will cost, and I'm sure that, you know, the City Manager has promised that he'll look into it. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. In the meantime, until that's done, could you start to compile a list of short-term projects that when emergency or last-minute funding does become available that we have some projects that we can start to target that are quick that we can spend on very quickly; not long-term allocation projects, but if we need to get rid of money quickly that we use it wisely on projects that can be implemented very quickly. Mr. Mensah: Definitely. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Mensah: And I'll work with your offices so that we can get those projects listed. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Any further discussion? We have a motion and we have a second. All in favor, say 5ye. " The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Barnaby Min (Depuo) City Attorne)): As amended. Vice Chair Russell: I'm sore. Mr. Mensah: As amended. Vice Chair Russell: Do you need to read it? Mr. Min: Mr. Mensah -- Commissioner Carollo: As amended Mr. Min: -- it was amended, so it's as amended Vice Chair Russell: As amended Thank you. Yes. It passes. That's PM 2. PH.3 RESOLUTION 16-00173 Department of A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Community and ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE TRANSFER OF PROGRAM YEAR Economic 2016-2017 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSON WITH AIDS Development ("HOPWA") LONG TERM TENANT BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ("LTRA") FUNDS, IN THE AMOUNT OF $49,000.00, FOR PROJECT -BASED OPERATIONS SUPPORT, AS SPECIFIED IN ATTACHMENT "A", ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, TO PROVIDE HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND HOUSING RELATED SERVICES TO LOW-INCOME INDIVIDUALS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE City ofMiami Page 46 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. 16-00173 Summary Form.pdf 16-00173 Notice to the Public.pdf 16-00173 Pre-Legislation.pdf 16-00173 Legislation.pdf 16-00173 Attachment A.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0103 Vice Chair Russell: PH. 3. George Mensah (Director, Communio) & Economic Development): PH3 is a resolution of Miami Cit) Commission, with attachments, authorizing the transfer of program year 2 01 612 01 7 Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS, HOPWA, long-term tenant -based rental assistance program in the amount of 49, 000 to project -based support, as specified in attachment. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: Moved by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Carollo. Any public input on this item? Hearing one, seeing none, move to discussion. None? All in favor, say 5ye. " The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Passes. Thank you very much, Mr. Mensah. PHA RESOLUTION 16-00283 District 5- A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, BY A FOUR-FIFTHS Commissioner Keon (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, CODESIGNATING NORTHWEST 6TH Hardemon STREET FROM NORTHWEST 7TH AVENUE TO NORTH MIAMI AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDAAS "GARTH C. REEVES WAY"; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE HEREIN DESIGNATED OFFICES. 16-00283 Notice to the Public.pdf 16-00283 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 16-00283 Legislation.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0104 Vice Chair Russell: Moving on to PH 4, please. City ofMiami Page 47 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Commissioners, PH.4 is an item that was sponsored by Commissioner Hardemon. It is a 4/5ths affirmative vote needed. This is the co -designation of Northwest 6th Street from Northwest 7th Avenue to North Miami Avenue to name it Garth C. Reeves Way. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Mr. Alfonso: Further directing the Cit) Clerk to transmit a copy of this resolution to the designated offices. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: I have a motion by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Carollo. Open for public discussion. Would anyone like to be heard on this item? Hearing none, seeing none, closing public discussion. Any discussion from the dais? All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. PH.5 RESOLUTION 16-00231 District 4- A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Commissioner ATTACHMENT(S), BY A FOUR-FIFTHS (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, Francis Suarez AFTER AN ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING, APPROVING, AND CONFIRMING THE CITY MANAGER'S FINDING THAT COMPETITIVE NEGOTIATION METHODS AND PROCEDURES ARE NOT PRACTICABLE OR ADVANTAGEOUS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-85(A) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED; WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SAID PROCEDURES; AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE DISTRICT 4 SHARE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ("CITY") ANTI -POVERTY INITIATIVE PROGRAM, INA TOTALAMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $13,000.00, TO VENTURE HIVE, LLC ("VENTURE"), FOR SERVICES TO BE PROVIDED THROUGH THE VENTURE HIVE FULL-TIME SPRING BREAK TECH ENTREPRENEURSHIP CAMP AT CITY PARKS WITHIN DISTRICT 4; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A GRANT AGREEMENT WITH VENTURE, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. 16-00231 Memo - City Manager'sApproval.pdf 16-00231 Notice to the Public.pdf 16-00231 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 16-00231 Legislation.pdf 16-00231 Exhibit.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0105 Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair, PH S is an item that I'm sponsoring. City ofMiami Page 48 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: Of course. Commissioner Suarez: Need a document to -- I don't know what happened to it. Vice Chair Russell: It got -- Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, I might -- I know it was there. It was there, so I don't know; might have just gotten out of place here. Here it is, here it is. I got it. I think I got it. Yeah, yeah. Sorty. So last summer, my district and your district, Chair, partnered with a company called Venture Hive on an entrepreneurship educational initiative in the inner Cit) to provide a tech entrepreneurship summer camp, which impacted the lives of 142 children, age 10 through 13. The summer camps introduced participants to the world of entrepreneurship, product and coding development, and hardware platforms. The partnership is part of my effort to promote the tech industry in Miami, which I believe to be one of the bases of our future economy, and extend tech training opportunities to our children, which oftentimes grow up in our City with different set of educational and technological tools that other kids have. For this new proposal, my district will be partnering with Venture Hive again; that time, to provide a spring break full-time tech entrepreneurship class for teenagers, age 12 to 15, at Shenandoah Park The program will focus on skill development related to hardware production development, basic coding, entrepreneurial thinking, communication and personal development. The cost is $13, 000, and would service up to 25 campers. So I just would like to move the item. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: We have a motion by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Caroller We're going to open up for public hearing if anyone would like to be heard on this item regarding Venture Hive. Hearing none, seeing none, we're going to close the public hearing. Any discussion from the dais? Commissioner Suarez: Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Passes. PH.6 RESOLUTION 15-01439 Department ofPublic A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Works ATTACHMENT(S), ACCEPTING THE PLAT ENTITLED "ILANA", A REPLAT IN THE CITY OF MIAMI, OF THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN "ATTACHMENT 1", SUBJECT TO SATISFACTION OF ALL CONDITIONS REQUIRED BY THE PLATAND STREET COMMITTEEAS SET FORTH IN "EXHIBITA", ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, AND THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN SECTION 55-8 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, AND ACCEPTING THE DEDICATIONS SHOWN ON THE PLAT; AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE PLAT; AND PROVIDING FOR THE RECORDATION OF THE PLAT IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA. City ofMiami Page 49 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 15-01439 Summary Form.pdf 15-01439 Notice to the Public.pdf 15-01439 Legislation.pdf 15-01439 Attachment 1.pdf 15-01439 Exhibit A.pdf Motion by Vice Chair Russell, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be DEFERRED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon Note for the Record: Item PH 6 was deferred to the March 24, 2016 Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting. Note for the Record: Please see item RE.6 for minutes related to item PH.6. PH.7 RESOLUTION 16-00240 Department ofPublic A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Works ATTACHMENT(S), ACCEPTING THE PLAT ENTITLED "MIAMI WORLDCENTER PLAT 2", A REPLAT IN THE CITY OF MIAMI OF THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN "ATTACHMENT 1", SUBJECT TO SATISFACTION OF ALL CONDITIONS REQUIRED BY THE PLATAND STREET COMMITTEE AS SET FORTH IN "EXHIBITA", ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, AND THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN SECTION 55-8 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, AND ACCEPTING THE DEDICATIONS SHOWN ON THE PLAT; AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE PLAT; AND PROVIDING FOR THE RECORDATION OF THE PLAT IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA. 16-00240 Summary Form.pdf 16-00240 Notice to the Public.pdf 16-00240 Back -Up form Law Dept.pdf 16-00240 Legislation.pdf 16-00240 Attachment 1.pdf 16-00240 Exhibit A.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0106 Vice Chair Russell: We are moving on now to PH 7. Eduardo Santamaria (Director, Public Works): Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, Commissioners. PH 7 is a resolution accepting the proposed plat of Miami Worldcenter Plat 2, located between North Miami Avenue and Northeast IstAvenue, and between Northeast 8th Street and Florida East Coast Railway right-of-way. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Second. City ofMiami Page 50 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 SRA 15-01597 City Commission Vice Chair Russell: We have a motion by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Carollo. Open for public hearing on this item. Hearing none, seeing none, public hearing is closed Any discussion from the dais? No? All in favor, say 5ye. " The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Passes. END OF PUBLIC HEARING SECOND READING ORDINANCES ORDINANCE Second Reading AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 2/ARTICLE XI/DIVISION 6 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "ADMINISTRATION/BOARDS, COMMITTEES, COMMISSIONS/SPORTS AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY/GOVERNING BODY", TO CLARIFY THE ORGANIZATION, DUTIES, AND POWERS OF THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. 15-01597 Legislation SR v3.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATIONS PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon 13597 Vice Chair Russell: Second reading ordinances. I believe we are up to SR.2. SR.1 was deferred or withdrawn? Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): No, sir. SR.1 is in play. Vice Chair Russell: It is? Mr. Hannon: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: I'm sorry, I have it crossed out here. Commissioner Suarez: It was tabled. Vice Chair Russell: It was tabled. Thank you vett' much. We could take this together with DT 7, which I think would be appropriate. One is on the amending of the MSEA (Miami Sports & Exhibition Authorio) Code, and one is the discussion of proposed changes to the MSEA ordinance. Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair, ifI may? Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Suarez: Can I just --at least to get the ball rolling --make a motion on SR.1 ? City ofMiami Page 51 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Carollo: Second, discussion. Vice Chair Russell: We have a motion from Commissioner Suarez; second from Commissioner Caroller We'll open this one up for discussion, and we'll open this one up for public hearing regarding -- this is specifically regarding the powers of MSEA -- Commissioner Suarez: Right. Vice Chair Russell: -- and this is the second reading. Is there anyone here that would like to discuss this item from the public? Hearing none, seeing none, closing public discussion. Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Just that this was the bifurcated --and I don't know if the Commissioner -- I don't want to steal his thunder -- this was the bifurcated -- we bifurcated it last time, so, I mean, this essentially takes out the benign exception, which there was some discussion about, and I think we all agreed was a wise thing for us to do. It does some -- a variety of other things that are subject to the Commission approval; and also, the director being subject to a 4/5ths vote of the Commission. So I'm in favor of it. It's preto) straightforward. Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to verify with our City Attorney on a couple of things. I want to verify that on item number 9, any time there's a "sell, lease, grant, exchange or otherwise dispose of any surplus property, both real and personal, or interest therein now required in the normal operation of and unusable [sic] in the furtherance of the purpose of which the Authorio) was created herein is subject to Cit) Commission. " So in other words, we had an issue, I guess, a few weeks back, a few months back, where you stated and I mentioned that a contract should be void and nullified, and you stated that it could not, because it stipulated that there was language in Section 5.8 -- and I think it's 5.8 -- that the landlord agrees to reasonably cooperate with any request by tenant in connection with zoning and land use of the property in order to permit the uses and structures contemplated in the original sublease, and -- sublease and this sublease. I mentioned that, Was this a catchall phrase?'bnd so forth, but in realio) , I kind of disagree. I kind of disagree, no. I disagree, because I don't see how MSEA can preempt the Cit). So here, an agreement that never came to the Cit) Commission is saying that the City is going to make everything possible in order to change the zoning should there be an issue. So I'll put that aside. My question is: In here, Number 9, does this mean that anything dealing with a lease, dealing with the sale, lease, anything of that needs to come to City Commission for approval? I want to confirm that that's what we are voting on or -- Victoria Mendez (City Attorne)): For any future land that's not subject to a lease right now. Commissioner Carollo: Understand Ms. Mendez: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: Any land -- any --? Commissioner Gort: Yes. Ms. Mendez: Anything that's not subject to a present lease right now -- Commissioner Carollo: Understood Ms. Mendez: -- that controls. So let's say MSEA acquires -- City ofMiami Page 52 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Carollo: Understood Ms. Mendez: Right. Commissioner Carollo: Understood I just want to make sure that that change is there, and that I'm reading this correctly. And the other thing that I wanted to verify, in -- it's 12(c), or at least I see it in lower case e, 'hot with -- Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Carollo, I just have one question about that last part, just to clarify and understand fully. The future land -- so if the current land, currently leased land goes through a new lease, or changes hands in any other way, would it then be considered future land and be -- would this apply to that? Ms. Mendez: If there was a change to the lease terms or anything, that would come before you. Vice Chair Russell: So existing lands would apply if there is a change to the lease. Thank you. Ms. Mendez: If there's a change; something not subject to a present contract with present terms and all those things, so any future changes or any new leases, those things would come before you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. If I could -- just a moment, Mr. -- Commissioner. Commissioner Gort: I would like to see any changes that would take place with MSEA, they have to be approved by the City Commission. Ms. Mendez: Any leases that are present. Now, if it changes -- Commissioner Gort: Any action that MSEA's going to take, it's got to be approved. The board approves something, it's got to come to have approval from the Cit) Commission. Ms. Mendez: Having to do with land or the -- Commissioner Gort: Everything. I want to make sure everybody's happy here. Ms. Mendez: -- surplus property, real or personal. Commissioner Gort: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: I appreciate that, Commissioner Gort, because that's really what I'm asking, you know. Commissioner Gort: You did. Commissioner Carollo: And listen, I understand that this Commission makes a vote or takes a position, you know, it takes a position, hey, I can live with that; but when this Commission does not and then, you know, our City Attorney is saying, Hey, there's language in there saying that the City will do everything possible in order to change any zoning, should it need to. "I don't see how MSEA has -- it's within its purview for MSEA to do that. Ms. Mendez: Right. Commissioner Carollo: So -- City ofMiami Page 53 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Mendez: Remember, that was subject to that interlocal; it was a broader thing. The --you know, the Commission had already granted that pursuant to the interlocal. Commissioner Gort: Right. Ms. Mendez: So it was a little more than just the agreement. Commissioner Carollo: I understand, but that interlocal -- Commissioner Gort: It was approved by the full Commission. Commissioner Carollo: That interlocal -- it was my interpretation that interlocal was to manage and -- well, let's just say 1hanage. "It had some other requirements, but with that said, I just want to verify that from now on, any lease, any sale, anything does have to come through this City Commission. Ms. Mendez: How this is drafted that's what would happen. I just want to make sure that I capture, though, Commissioner Gort's request that any change to any present leases, any -- that, as well, should come, correct? Commissioner Gort: Yes. Ms. Mendez: And -- but you didn't say Livery decision. "I just want to make sure -- I'm sorry -- that I -- Commissioner Gort: Whatever decision that they feel is be -- could be affected, the -- see, my understanding is they think that MSEA is trying to override the City of Miami, itself, on the Commission. I don't think so, butt want a real decision. I mean, a budget's approved by them, and we bring the budget to the City Commission. It have to be approved by the City Commission, and so on. Ms. Mendez: Okay. Vice Chair Russell: If I may? And Commissioner Gort, this is -- a lot of this is my fault that my first day in here, I asked the question, Why do we have MSEA?'and I've learned a lot since then. And I'm very appreciative of the appetite for this Commission to close any potential loopholes. And my goal, though, was not to create any ill will or animosio) toward the -- what MSEA has accomplished or what the intent of MSEA is. I believe we did identify a loophole in which lands could be transferred, waterfront lands could be transferred without going to referendum, and I believe that's all we're trying to lockup here today. I don't feel there is any suspicion over MSEA; that the rest of the Commission is feeling, We need to watch every move that MSEA makes, 'br anything like that. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Vice Chairman, I agree with you. The only thing is that I want to make sure that we are closing the loophole, so that's why I'm asking,- to make sure that I can confirm that we are closing that loophole. The second loophole --some may think Perceived loophole "-- was regards to 29-B, so once again, I want to verify that lower case L'fhat stipulates: "Notwithstanding any contrary provision in the Cit) Charter, including but not limited to Section 29-B, the Authorio) shall not sell or lease waterfront propero) unless there is an approval of a majority of the votes cast by the electorate at a referendum. " So I think that, once again, will eliminate either the loophole or the perception of a loophole to find a way outside of our Charter when we have to go to a referendum for the sale of waterfront property at Watson Island. So -- and again, I just want the Cit) Attorney to confirm that. Ms. Mendez: Yes. City ofMiami Page 54 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: If I could just address Commissioner Gort's amendment, I don't believe that we need-- as a Commission -- necessarily need to deal with every single issue that MSEA does, from grants to internal decisions within the MSEA Board, but I -- Commissioner Gort: Anything to do with properties. Vice Chair Russell: Anything to do with properties. Commissioner Gort: Right. Ms. Mendez: So any decisions having to do with the use of the property, or a lease of the property, management of the property, that needs to come before the Cit) Commission. Commissioner Gort: Correct. Commissioner Carollo: I'm okay to amend my motion or second Vice Chair Russell: Any further discussion? Commissioner Suarez: I'll amend my motion to include that. I'm not sure what exact language it -- would be needed to get that in there, because it has just about everything in there. Ms. Mendez: Yes. I think that the -- what we would need to add in 9: "From time to time to sell, lease, grant, exchange "-- and after &change "-- "or anything having to do with the use" -- Commissioner Suarez: Or taking any other action having to do with the use. Ms. Mendez: Yes, that's perfect, "or taking any other action" -- Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Then I'll call the question. Ms. Mendez: With regard to the use. Commissioner Suarez: Okay. Ms. Mendez: Exactly how he posed it. Vice Chair Russell: Only on SR. 1, correct. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Commissioner Carollo: I think -- Vice Chair Russell: I'm sore, please. Commissioner Carollo: I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman. I think you need -- someone needs to read it into the record, and then we take a -- Vice Chair Russell: Yes, thank you very much; if you would read it into the record. Commissioner Carollo: -- Roll call vote. The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney. City ofMiami Page 55 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Mr. Hannon: Roll call on item SR. 1: Commissioner Gort? Commissioner Gort: Yes. Mr. Hannon: Commissioner Carollo? Commissioner Carollo: Yes. Mr. Hannon: Commissioner Suarez? Commissioner Suarez: Yes. Mr. Hannon: Chair Russell? Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Mr. Hannon: The ordinance passes on second reading, as amended, 4-0. SR.2 ORDINANCE Second Reading 15-01657 Department ofPublic AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER Works 54/ARTICLE V/SECTION 54-190 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "STREETS AND SIDEWALKS/BASE BUILDING LINES/NONSTANDARD STREET WIDTHS", BY MODIFYING THE WIDTH OF NORTHEAST/NORTHWEST 9TH STREET BETWEEN NORTHEAST 1ST AVENUE TO NORTHEAST 2ND AVENUE, NORTH MIAMI AVENUE TO NORTHWEST 1 ST AVENUE (EAST) AND NORTHWEST 2ND AVENUE TO INTERSTATE 95, MIAMI, FLORIDA; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING FOR AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE. 15-01657 Summary Form SR.pdf 15-01657 Memos with Location Map.pdf 15-01657 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 15-01657 Legislation FR/SR.pdf Motion by Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon 13598 Vice Chair Russell: SR. 2. Eduardo Santamaria: Good afternoon once again, Commissioners, Mr. Chair. Ed Santamaria, director of Public Works. SR.2 is an ordinance amending Chapter 54 of the Cit) Code, Base Building Lines, 'to modify, the zoned street right-of-way width of Northeast/Northwest 9th Street in the Southeast Overtown/Park West neighborhood from Northeast Ist Avenue west to I-95. Commissioner Carollo: Move it. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved by Commissioner Carollo -- Commissioner Suarez: Second. City ofMiami Page 56 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: -- second by Commissioner Suarez. Like to open for public hearing. Hearing none, seeing none, we're going to close public hearing, and open for discussion on the dais. Anyone? Hearing none, seeing none, all in favor? Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): Chair, it is an ordinance. Victoria Mendez (City Attorne)): An ordinance -- Vice Chair Russell: I apologize. Thank you. I'm still getting my training wheels off here. The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney. Mr. Hannon: Roll call on item SR. 2. A roll call was taken, the result of which is stated above. Mr. Hannon: The ordinance passes on second reading, 4-0. Commissioner Gort: Mr. Chairman, unfortunate, I have an emergency, so I have to leave. Vice Chair Russell: I hope everything's okay. END OF SECOND READING ORDINANCES FIRST READING ORDINANCES FRA ORDINANCE First Reading 16-00154 Offrce of the City AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER Clerk 2/ARTICLE XI/DIVISION 2/SECTION 2-884 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, ("CITY CODE") ENTITLED "ADMINISTRATION/BOARDS, COMMITTEES, COMMISSIONS/STANDARDS FOR CREATION AND REVIEW OF BOARDS GENERALLY/MEMBERSHIP ON BOARDS", TO CLARIFY LANGUAGE AS TO THE REQUIREMENT THAT MEMBERS OF CITY OF MIAMI BOARDS ARE REQUIRED TO RESIGN FROM ABOARD POSITION UPON SEEKING TO BECOME A CANDIDATE FOR ELECTIVE POLITICAL OFFICE, AND AMENDING CHAPTER 16/SECTION 16-6 OF THE CITY CODE; ENTITLED "ELECTIONS/CANDIDATE QUALIFICATIONS; AFFIDAVIT, AND FORM THEREOF, REQUIRED OF CANDIDATES FOR OFFICE OF COMMISSIONER OR MAYOR; FINDING CANDIDATE UNQUALIFIED; FAILURE TO SUBMIT AFFIDAVIT; AUTHORIZATION FOR CITY CLERK TO PURSUE JUDICIAL DECLARATION", TO DELETE CERTAIN LANGUAGE RELATING TO CITY BOARD MEMBERS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. 16-00154 Memo - City Clerk.pdf 16-00154 Legislation.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be DEFERRED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon City ofMiami Page 57 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Note for the Record: Item FR.1 was deferred to the May 12, 2016 Regular Commission Meeting. FR.2 ORDINANCE First Reading 16-00089 City Manager's Office AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 10/ARTICLE IV OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED, 'REGISTRATION OF VACANT, BLIGHTED, UNSECURED OR ABANDONED STRUCTURES', TO ADD A NEW SUBSECTION REQUIRING THE REGISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE OF CERTAIN REAL PROPERTIES BY MORTGAGEES; DEFINING TERMS; PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES AND ENFORCEMENT, AS WELLAS THE REGULATION, LIMITATION AND REDUCTION OF REGISTRABLE REAL PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF MIAMI; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. 16-00089 Summary Form SR.pdf 16-00089 Legislation SR (v2).pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be PASSED ON FIRST READING PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon Vice Chair Russell: Moving on to FR. 2, first reading. Eli Gutierrez: Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman, Commissioners. For the record, Eli Gutierrez, Code Compliance director. Before you, we have an ordinance on first reading, amending Chapter 10/Article 4 of the City of Miami Code, entitled Registration of Vacant Structures, 'to add a new subsection requiring the registration and maintenance of real properties by mortgagees. Vice Chair Russell: We'll open for public hearing. You have two minutes. Please state your name and address. Brenda Betancourt: Brenda Betancourt, 1436 Southwest 6th Street. Yes, I just want you guys to support our resolution. We are looking at so many different complaints that we hear in the Code Enforcement Committee. It's been not just annoyance to the neighbors, but it helps that those people who are actually luring around the properties and trying to commit more crimes, and that's something that we trying to prevent. So we actually encouraging you guys to help us to do these new resolutions, and help us to give to the Code Enforcement officers the power that they need to get those properties to betaken care of. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Anyone else from the public like to speak on this item? Hearing none, seeing none, we'll close the public hearing. Do I have a motion on this one? Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Vice Chair Russell: Moved by Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Carollo: Second for discussion. Vice Chair Russell: Second for discussion by Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Suarez: With that --a sigh and a breath. Can I just --you want me to jump in real quick? You want me to start? Okay. City ofMiami Page 58 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Carollo: You can start. Commissioner Suarez: So the reason why I don't think this is as nefarious as the first time -- and I think you remember the first time when something like this came up -- is because when a mortgage is in foreclosure or defaulted, it's a slightly different standard. Certainly, when it's in foreclosure, it's a public record, because once a foreclosure proceeding has begun, there is a public record, so I don't think theirs is much of a privacy issue. Some of this titling, Madam Cit) Attorney, talks about defaulted mortgage, and there's a difference between being a defaulted mortgage and being a foreclosed mortgage, unless it's being defined as the same thing in the definition section. And so, foreclosure is defined -- and default means that have not -- they have not complied with the terms of the mortgage of the property, or the promissory note, et cetera. I mean, somebody can be one day late in the payment of a mortgage, and technically, they're in default. So -- I mean, does that mean that a person who's one day late on paying their mortgage has to register their properi)�? Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): It's not the mortgager; it's the mortgagee, so it's when the bank files the lis pendens. We wouldn't know that the person's a date late on the mortgage. Commissioner Suarez: Right, I get it. But, again, a default means when the person hasn't complied with the term of the mortgage; so I'm just thinking, from a legal perspective, if this is tight enough. Victoria Mendez (City Attorne)): The goal is that when a lis pendens is recorded -- and you know better than I do -- Commissioner Suarez: Sure. Ms. Mendez: -- because this is what you do on a daily basis -- that if the lis pendens is recorded, that's when the mortgage company is basically saying, Hey" -- Commissioner Suarez: That's notice to the world. Ms. Mendez: Right. -- you've done something that you don't "-- you know, "if you don't fix it, you're going to end up in foreclosure. "So, in this case, if the lis pendens is recorded, then they will be considered, for purposes of this ordinance, in default, and then that's when, you know, a process can start or not, depending on how slow the bank is, or how quick the property owner is to resolve the problem. Commissioner Suarez: Right, and I get that, and that's fine. Ms. Mendez: So it's a little earlier than usual; that's all. Commissioner Suarez: Okay. And lis pendens usually is right around the same time the filing of a foreclosure lawsuit, which is a public document, and lis pendens is certainly a public document as well. I just --you know, when you define Hefault'as, you know, where the mortgagor has not complied with the term of the mortgage of the property, a promissory note, that technically can be vett' broad. I mean, that can be anything. There's a lot of things that that can mean. There are, you know, 16 pages worth of obligations -- Ms. Mendez: Correct. Commissioner Suarez: --you know, O pically. So I'm just -- I'm concerned about the privacy issues, you know, related to someone who, you know -- is there anything that is in here that would -- that someone would be -- that either the mortgagee or the mortgagor would be forced to give up information that would otherwise be private? City ofMiami Page 59 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Mendez: In order -- as you've said, in order to tighten that up, if you put lis pendens at the time of lis pendens on the default, but as you know, the default is -- it is broad. Commissioner Suarez: Well, I mean, you can define a default for purposes of this ordinance in whatever way you want. That's my point, you know. I mean, a default can mean something different in the context of this ordinance than it would mean in the general parlance of litigation for, you know -- I mean, a default is a default on any provision in a mortgage or a note, so. Ms. Mendez: Right. But as you mentioned it could be -- default can be one day late. Commissioner Suarez: Exactly. Ms. Mendez: Right. Commissioner Suarez: So you may want to change -- you may want to more -- better specify the meaning of the word default'in the ordinance. Ms. Mendez: Agreed. Commissioner Suarez: Okay. Mr. Alfonso: Yeah, and we -- Commissioner Suarez: So -- Mr. Alfonso: -- can do that for second reading. I think, Commissioner, what I was going to say also is that we're not so much concerned about when the mortgagor goes into default as much as we are when the mortgagee starts his process. Commissioner Suarez: I get it, and those are two different -- totally two different points -- Mr. Alfonso: Right. Commissioner Suarez: -- and I think one of them is certainly --you know, sort of a matter of privacy, because, you know, again, there's a million different ways that you can be in default, and that doesn't -- it's never becomes a public matter versus the moment where the creditor decides to take action, public action, and so I just want to make sure that the ordinance doesn't create a privacy issue. Is that fair? Vice Chair Russell: Understood Madam City Attorney, when we -- when I received the briefing on this item, you expressed a little concern on it, and there was a healthy discussion with the Cit) Manager on -- and I just wanted to see if you could share the same for my colleagues so that they can consider that as well, as we make our decision. Ms. Mendez: And it's basically what Commissioner Suarez has alluded to, in that it's one thing when a company or a private entity may have information that normally they wouldn't have or have access to, even though it's a public record at the end of the day. If we tighten up this default language to mean "at the time of the lis pendens, " it makes it a little better, obviously, with regard to how early citizens' information could be compiled with regard to having problems with their home, and going through a foreclosure process, and what have you. So those were some of the main issues with regard to that, and it's an earlier process than it is -- than we basically have it now. Vice Chair Russell: I'm not sure if I recall that being the concern. It had something to do with City ofMiami Page 60 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 this possibly being redundant to a process that already exists within the City. Ms. Mendez: Right. It's -- this process is -- already existed some -- through the NET -- Neighborhood Enhancement Teams; they do register properties already, and this is -- Commissioner Suarez: But -- Ms. Mendez: -- a process that already exists -- Commissioner Suarez: But -- Ms. Mendez: -- but it's streamlining it to start earlier, definitely, if you do it with a lis pendens. The notice of default -- like just a notice of default is too -- may be too early, and it deals with the privacy issues that Commissioner Suarez was discussing. Lis pendens is still earlier than the process we have now, but it's public, so it's better. Vice Chair Russell: Any further discussion? Commissioner Carollo: Yes, Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, sir. Commissioner Carollo: You said that this made it a little better. "A little better" means that there are still issues, or you still have concerns. So can --? Ms. Mendez: It's just -- at the end of the day, it is a policy issue. It's just how early that information is out in the public. Commissioner Carollo: Okay, but every time you tell me that it's a policy issue, that's like a red flag for me. So when you said that it was a little better, what other concerns do you have? Do you think that it's too early; or it makes it better, but it's still early? Can -- does this open the door for companies now to start coming in and selling that information? Or the Cit) for, in the future, to privatize some of this, and then sell the information? Does that open the door for that, for what I'm saying? Ms. Mendez: Well, if -- obviously, if this process goes in as it is, what would happen is that the minute that a bank defaults; and if we, between first and second reading, describe "default" as a notice of lis pendens, then the minute that there's a notice of lis pendens on the property, arguably, this property owner, though they're still living in the propero) , would have to register, or the banks would have to register them as vacant or abandoned properties, which, arguably, they wouldn't be at that time, because normally, somebody's still living in the home when there's a notice of lis pendens filed so it just could -- Vice Chair Russell: You said that the NET office already does this. At what point do they enter into a registry? Ms. Mendez: They normally enter into the registry when Code Enforcement finds these properties vacant, open, and abandoned, then cites the property for being vacant, opened and abandoned, and then we're able to follow up with either the banks or the propero) owner to place them on the registry, because you already know they're abandoned. Vice Chair Russell: Right. But at that point -- Ms. Mendez: So it's a little later. City ofMiami Page 61 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: -- we're already chasing a violation and running around ttying to figure out where these properties are. We're trying to find the middle ground between that and entering the notification the second someone forgets to pay a bill. Commissioner Carollo: Exactly. Vice Chair Russell: Somewhere in there is the middle ground that I think -- Commissioner Suarez: Absolutely. Vice Chair Russell: -- we'll find between first and second reading. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. I think you got it. Vice Chair Russell: Any further discussion? All right, we have a motion by Commissioner Suarez and a second by Commissioner Carollo. If we could -- Commissioner Suarez: With direction. Commissioner Carollo: With directions. Vice Chair Russell: With directions, yes. Commissioner Carollo: Right, because -- Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Carollo: -- between first and second, we got to find that -- Commissioner Suarez: Happy medium, otherwise. Commissioner Carollo: -- happy medium. Question: Is there any contemplation of any company coming in the future and taking this over and privatizing this ? Vice Chair Russell: Mr. Manager. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Manager. Mr. Alfonso: Yes, Commissioner. Commissioner Carollo: Is there any contemplation of any privatization of this in the near future, and having some company take this over? Mr. Alfonso: When you say Privatization, 'Commissioner, there's a number of companies out there that offer the ability to basically look at the public record constantly andupdate these lists. That is a tremendous advantage. As you just mentioned briefly a second ago, we are chasing the violations. People are supposed to require -- I mean, our Code says that people are supposed to register an abandoned propero) or a vacant lot; supposed to, but if they don't, we really don't know until somebody says, Hey, my lot is overgrown next door, 'br our inspector's driving by and he notices that the property's boarded up or whatever, and then he proactively has to see if, in fact, it's registered or not. This changes to the Code will allow us to, if we wish, to do a request for proposals from various companies that are out there that troll the data on the public record and are able to identify properties that are going into foreclosure because of public documents -- not violating anybody's privacy -- and they keep these databases; that then they would make it available to the Cit) of Miami -- we wouldn't have to pay anything, because there is a fee City ofMiami Page 62 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 involved, and that's how they make their money, and I'm sure that they're going to share some of that money as well -- and therefore, we would have the abilio) to access these databases and address the proper people that are supposed to be maintaining that propero) earlier than we 're doing it right now. Vice Chair Russell: Short answer, Yes. " Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. And that's the part B71 at I didn't hear in my briefing, and we're not hearing here, and I'm even hearing of a company that -- Mr. Alfonso: I'm sorry, Commissioner. I do believe that I mentioned that there are companies out there that do this kind of work, because the privatization work -- it's not privatizing anything. We're not privatizing anything that we're doing right now. Commissioner Carollo: Well Commissioner Suarez: We're not doing right now. Commissioner Carollo: -- if you put an RFP (Request for Proposals) for other --a company to actually do the follow-up and -- Mr. Alfonso: No, no, no. These companies are already doing that. We don't have anybody doing that right now, so we're not privatizing anything. Commissioner Carollo: Understood But if we pass this, then you're contemplating going out to an RFP. Mr. Alfonso: Yes, sir. Yes. Commissioner Carollo: Yes. Mr. Alfonso: Absolutely. Commissioner Carollo: And that's the part that, like I said was -- it's not the whole picture. I'rr, even hearing one of the companies that is either in line to get the job or is going to -- a company by the name of Champion. Vice Chair Russell: If I could, I think you are both on the same page here. He's saying that it's not privatizing something that exists, but to answer your question, yes, it would be a private company taking on this function. Am I correct? Mr. Alfonso: Right, because we don't have people that -- Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Alfonso: -- do that work. Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, why would we? I mean -- so -- okay. I think what's key here for me is, again, here -- evetything here -- when it talks about the operative language, when you talk about, you know, when the registration is required, like, for example, in Section 10-65(a), where it says, Which is in default, the owner shall register the" -- so that's the issue that I have, where it says here, {Mich is in default. "If Hefault'is defined as broadly as it is in our ordinance right now, essentially, anybody who would be one day late on a mortgage payment would be in default. City ofMiami Page 63 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Anyone who transfers a property to their wife and doesn't notify the mortgage company is in default. Anyone who moves their fence two inches onto another property is in default. So there's a varie0v of different trigger points that I think we need to tighten up, because I think what we're saying is -- we're trying to be a little bit more anticipatory, rather than seeing a property go into a dilapidated condition, because we know, historically, that when banks own properties or are in the process of owning properties, they don't take care of them; they don't act like normal neighbors. And so we have them sort of on a watch list, and it streamlines our process of enforcement or compliance if we know in advance that these are properties that are problematic, you know. So, if we get it right, I think it could be a useful tool, but right now it's not right. Vice Chair Russell: Got it. Any further discussion? Commissioner Carollo: No. Just -- I think the Manager -- the Administration knows the direct -- the direction for second reading, and we'll take it from there. Commissioner Suarez: Cool. Vice Chair Russell: Madam City Attorney, would you read it into the record, please? Ms. Mendez: Thank you, Chairman. The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney. Todd B. Hannon (Ciov Clerk): Roll call on item FR. 2. A roll call was taken, the result of which is stated above. Mr. Hannon: The ordinance passes on first reading, 3-0. Vice Chair Russell: That's the end of first reading. Later... Vice Chair Russell: RE.4. Mr. Alfonso: Commissioner, real quick, before we go on to RE. 4, I just want to mention that that last ordinance that we -- can we bring that back on 4114 so that the Attorney has the appropriate time to change the language? Because, if not, she has to have it in by Monday. Commissioner Carollo: Yes, yes. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: Yes. END OF FIRST READING ORDINANCES REA RESOLUTION 15-01636 RESOLUTIONS A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING THE GREEN CORRIDOR PACE DISTRICT TO EXPAND ELIGIBILITY FOR FINANCING OF QUALIFYING IMPROVEMENTS TO PROPERTIES WITHIN THE CITY OF MIAMI. City ofMiami Page 64 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 RE.2 16-00047 Department of Procurement 15-01636 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 15-01636 Pre-Legislation.pdf 15-01636 Legislation.pdf 15 -01636 -Submittal -Victoria Mendez-Ygrene Financing Agreement Section 8.pdf 15 -01636 -Submittal -Commissioner Carollo-Addendum Notice of Rights.pdf 15-01636 Exhibit "A" - Sub.pdf SPONSORS: HONORABLE MAYOR TOMAS REGALADO COMMISSIONER FRANCIS SUAREZ Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be DEFERRED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon Note for the Record: Item RE.1 was deferred to the March 24, 2016 Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting with a time certain designation of 3: 00 p. m. RESOLUTION TO BE DEFERRED BY THE ADMINISTRATION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), ACCEPTING THE ASSIGNMENT OF OBLIGATIONS OF SOUTHLAND THE TOWING COMPANY UNDER THE CITY OF MIAMI TOWING/WRECKER AGREEMENT, PURSUANT TO REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS CONTRACT NO. 04-05-054R, TO AMERICAN TOWING OF MIAMI, LLC; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN ACCEPTANCE OF ASSIGNMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH AMERICAN TOWING OF MIAMI, LLC, FOR THE PROVISION OF TOWING SERVICES, SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN RESOLUTION NO. 07-0335, ADOPTED ON JUNE 14, 2007, AND THE ATTACHED ACCEPTANCE OF ASSIGNMENT. 16-00047 Summary Form 3-24-16.pdf 16-00047 Corporate Detail 3-24-16.pdf 16-00047 Pre -Legislation 3-24-16.pdf 16-00047 Legislation 3-24-16.pdf 16-00047 Exhibit 3-24-16.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be DEFERRED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon RE.3 16-00074 Department of Public Works Note for the Record: Item RE.2 was deferred to the March 24, 2016 Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting. RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), ACCEPTING A TRIAL AGREEM ENT FROM City ofMiami Page 65 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 CLEARWORLD, LLC. TO EVALUATE CERTAIN PHOTOVOLTAIC SOLAR POWERED STREETLIGHTS TO BE LOCATED AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF SOUTHWEST 1 ST COURT AND SOUTHWEST 1 ST STREET, MIAMI, FLORIDA; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE SAID TRIALAGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF MIAMI. 16-00074 Summary Form.pdf 16-00074 Legislation.pdf 16-00074 Exhibit.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0107 Vice Chair Russell: Moving on to resolutions. I believe we are at RE.3. Eduardo Santamaria: Again, Mr. Chair, Commissioners, Ed Santamaria, director of Public Works. RE.3 is a resolution for the approval of a trial agreement from Clear World, LLC (Limited Liability Compan)) to evaluate solar -powered lighting equipment at a location established to be southwest corner of Southwest I st Court and Southwest I st Street, in Miami, Florida, under a pilot program for a six-month trial period. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: We have a motion by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Caroller We'd like to open for public hearing. Anyone like to speak on the solar -powered light trial? Hearing none, seeing none, we're going to close public hearing. Discussion on the dais. If we could read it, then? Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): Sir, it's just a resolution. Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): It's a resolution. Vice Chair Russell: It's just a resolution, thank you. Commissioner Carollo: All in favor? Vice Chair Russell: In which case, thank you again. All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Passes. REA RESOLUTION 16-00085 Department ofReal A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Estate andAsset ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A Management PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT"), IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") AND THE City ofMiami Page 66 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION ("SELLER"), FOR THE ACQUISITION OF THE REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2601 SOUTHWEST 13TH STREET, MIAMI, FLORIDA, ("PROPERTY"), WITH AN APPROXIMATE TOTAL LOT AREA OF 6,900 SQUARE FEET, AS LEGALLY DESCRIBED IN THE AGREEMENT, FOR A TOTAL PURCHASE PRICE OF TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($271,000.00), CONTINGENT UPON THE CITY OBTAINING A WRITTEN APPRAISAL FROM A LICENSED FLORIDA APPRAISER STATING THAT THE APPRAISED VALUE OF THE PROPERTY IS ATA MINIMUM THE REFERENCED AMOUNT HEREIN; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING AMENDMENTS AND MODIFICATIONS TO SAID AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO EFFECTUATE SAID ACQUISITION; WITH FUNDS ALLOCATED FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM PROJECT NO. B-50568, DISTRICT 4 PARK LAND ACQUISITION, IN A TOTALAMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($280,000.00), TO COVER THE COST OF SAID ACQUISITION, INCLUSIVE OF THE COST OF A SURVEY, ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT, TITLE INSURANCE AND SUCH OTHER RELATED CLOSING COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID ACQUISITION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT. 16-00085 Summary Form.pdf 16-00085 Legislation.pdf 16-00085 Exhibit-Agreement.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0108 Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Go ahead sir. Mark Burns: Good afternoon, Commissioners. Mark Burns, lease manager with the City of Miami's Department of Real Estate& Asset Management. RE.4 is a resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a purchase and sale agreement with Fannie Mae for the acquisition of a real propero) located at 2601 Southwest 13th Street, in an amount not to exceed $280, 000, covering all the costs associated with acquiring the property. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Discussion. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: Moved by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Carollo. Like to open for public hearing. Anyone like to speak on this item? Hearing none, seeing none, open for discussion on the dais. Commissioner Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Chair. This is --first of all, you know, I'd love to get your support on this. This is an initiative that I've been promoting in my district. We have a very hard time amassing large tracts of land in my district for a variety of reasons. They're very expensive. Land is becoming very expensive to try to dedicate it to make park space, and what we're doing is we're buying -- purchasing lots and trying to combine lots, and create mini parks City ofMiami Page 67 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 and pocket parks that our residents can enjoy; because we're seeing, as we become more urban, is quality of life is becoming a bigger and bigger component of what our residents expect from us as a Commission in terms of delivery of services for them. Ido have one that will becoming, hopefully, in the future, which is a large acquisition, but -- and there --you know, we set aside some money for Ludlum Trail, which is very important to me, and very near and dear to my heart. I think we've all been focused on trail, bike, pedestrian safety, and also the underline, but in this particular case, I'm just very proud to be able to do something. Even though it's small in the grand scheme of things, it's very important, so thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Anything else? Commissioner Carollo: Yeah, Mr. Chairman. I just want to, just for the record, verify that subject to appraisal. Mr. Burns: Correct. Commissioner Suarez: And let me just say that 260 -- I think it's 280 -- I'm sorry $280, 000 for a piece of property in that area is a very good deal, and I'm not giving you like a Donald Trump -ism to -- but it is a very good deal. As a real estate attorney, I could tell you -- Mr. Burns: IfI might add Commissioner Suarez: -- it's a great deal. Mr. Burns: The -- there's -- in addition, since this was put up to come to Commission, I understand that the property -- the house that was on it was demolished, and the price has gone down to about 238, 000. Commissioner Suarez: Great. Mr. Burns: So it's going to come in considerably less -- Commissioner Suarez: Awesome. Mr. Burns: -- but we're still waiting on the appraisal, so. Commissioner Suarez: Congrats. Thankyou. Great. It's good Good news for the community. Vice Chair Russell: Certainly. No, I'd like to commend our Real Estate & Asset Management team for taking on this effort, and identifying these properties, and helping us turn them into parks. We have a motion, and we have a second. It's been moved by Suarez; second by Carollo. All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Passes. RE.5 RESOLUTION 16-00155 Department ofReal A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Estate andAsset ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A Management PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT"), IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") AND SAINC CORP. ("SELLER"), FOR THE ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTIES LOCATED AT 240 SOUTHWEST 7TH AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, FOLIO NO. City ofMiami Page 68 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 01-0202-020-1220,230 SOUTHWEST 7TH AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, FOLIO NO. 01-0202-020-1210, AND 220 SOUTHWEST 7TH AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, FOLIO NO. 01-0202-020-1030 ("PROPERTY"), WITH AN APPROXIMATE TOTAL LOT AREA OF 20,000 SQUARE FEET, AS LEGALLY DESCRIBED IN THE AGREEMENT, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATEDAS EXHIBIT "A", FORA TOTAL PURCHASE PRICE OF ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,300,000.00), CONTINGENT UPON THE CITY OBTAINING A WRITTEN APPRAISAL FROM A LICENSED FLORIDA APPRAISER STATING THAT THE APPRAISED VALUE IS AT MINIMUM THE REFERENCED AMOUNT HEREIN; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING AMENDMENTS AND MODIFICATIONS TO SAID AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO EFFECTUATE SAID ACQUISITION; WITH FUNDS ALLOCATED FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTAND TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM PROJECT NO. B40355C, DISTRICT 3 PARK LAND ACQUISITION, IN A TOTALAMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,340,000.00), TO COVER THE COST OF SAID ACQUISITION, INCLUSIVE OF THE COST OF A SURVEY, ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT, TITLE INSURANCE AND SUCH OTHER RELATED CLOSING COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID ACQUISITION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT. 16-00155 Summary Form.pdf 16-00155 Legislation.pdf 16-00155 Exhibit-Agreement.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be WITHDRAWN PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon RE.6 RESOLUTION 16-00169 Department ofReal A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Estate andAsset ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT, Management PURSUANT TO A SPECIAL WARRANTY DEED, THE DONATION OF A PARCEL OF LAND FROM PRH NE 31 ST STREET, LLC AND THIRTY-FIRST STREET PROPERTY OWNER LLC ("GRANTORS"), IDENTIFIED AS PORTIONS OF FOLIO NOS. 01-3230-012-0060 AND 01-3230-095-0001 LOCATED AT APPROXIMATELY NORTHEAST 32ND STREET AND NORTHEAST 7TH AVENUE MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A" ("PROPERTY"), TO THE CITY OF MIAMI WITH THE GRANTORS PAYING FOR ALL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE TRANSFER OF THE PROPERTY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE SURVEY, ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT, TITLE INSURANCE AND CLOSING COSTS; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, IN ORDER TO EFFECTUATE SAID CONVEYANCE. City ofMiami Page 69 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 16-00169 Summary Form.pdf 16-00169 Back -Up Document - Covenant 3-24-16.pdf 16-00169 Letter - Donation of Park.pdf 16-00169 Pre-Legislation.pdf 16-00169 Legislation.pdf 16-00169 Exhibit 3-24-16.pdf Motion by Vice Chair Russell, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be DEFERRED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon Note for the Record: Item RE.6 was deferred to the March 24, 2016 Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting. Vice Chair Russell: PK 6 and RE. 6 are related. I would like to take --so to speak -- RE. 6 first, please. Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Commissioner, RE.6 is the agreement authorizing the Manager to accept, pursuant to a special warranty deed, the donation of the parcel of land from Northeast 31st Street, LLC (Limited Liabilio) Company), the 31 st Street propero) owner, portions defined in the folio as basically the property to be converted into the park. Iris Escarra: Good afternoon, Chairman, Commissioners. Iris Escarra and Carlos Lago with Offices at 333 Southeast 2nd Avenue. I'm joined today by Carlos Rosso, the president of the Condo Division of the Related Group, and Bernardo Fort -Brescia of Arquitectonica, who's here on behalf of our team. This is actually a very exciting moment, because this is actually where everything comes to fruition. We've been working on this for four years; gone through various public hearings with regards to the street closure; gone through three site plan reviews; and this is actually almost like what would have been a SAP (Special Area Plan) had we -- it all come together at the same time; however, it is a Miami 21 compliant project, so it never went through the SAP process. One of the things that RE. 6 is doing today is actually the acceptance by the City of Miami of the land to be dedicated for park purposes. So here, on this particular drawing, it shows that Tract F, '{vhich is the green parcel, is the parcel that is going to be dedicated to the City for park purposes. It has approximately 324 feet of bay walk, which, in taken in connection with the abutting project that's part of the Paraisos, this is approximately 500 linear feet of new bay walk that is being dedicated to the City for -- in accordance with the City Charter. The project -- I brought a small photo that I can circulate -- is currently under construction. I didn't think you -- I should put it on a board, but it -- to show you that it's an active construction site today. We have been working with various neighbors on our project with regards to the development of the site. We have had several public meetings with regards to the construction that's going on currently. Interestingly enough, Related, as part of its initiative in its projects has granted two -- this would be the second of the public parks that are dedicated to the Cit). It's the second of a waterfront public park, which to most developers is the most valuable land that they have in their arsenal. And here, they've created a 26, 000 -square -foot park, which is approximately a little bit over half an acre, which they are dedicating the land, making the improvements, and providing for a covenant for the perpetual maintenance of such park. And just to read into the record quickly the numbers, the park is 26,186 square feet. The roads that we closed in coordination with this project were 28, 000; and the new roads that we dedicated back are 28, 000. So the Cit) here is getting another park between Margaret Pace Park and Power Park, Magnolia Park, which is on the north. So this would be the second of the waterfront projects on parks that they'll be receiving. In connection with -- if you'd like me to discuss quickly, also PK 6? Vice Chair Russell: Sure. City ofMiami Page 70 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Escarra: It's a companion item. PH 6 is actually the platting process, which the City Commission considers it a ministerial role, but I just wanted to let you know here, this tract in green here is Tract F. "And the reason why you have the deed and the plat on the same is because they're companion items, because as soon as the plat gets recorded, then immediately thereafter, the Count) will record the deed to the Cit) so that the City receives this land and adds it into the assets that the Cit) has. It helps increase the ratio of park space to resident owner, which, O,pically, it's very expensive. I -- you know, I can only think of maybe one or two parks that the City has actually been able to acquire land, and it was quite costly. This is the second of the parks that Related has donated to the Cit). With that, I'd like for Bernardo Fort -Brescia to introduce and walk you through the project, and the concept, and the master plan; as well as the Biscayne line, which I've included a copy of the booklet that actually talks about the Cit) Charter's requirement to have this public accessible bay walk from -- all the way from the river through Biscayne Bay. And it shows you all the little pieces as they're coming to fruition between the last development cycle and this cycle. Bernardo Fort -Brescia: Good afternoon. Vice Chair Russell: Hello. Your name and address, please. Mr. Fort -Brescia: I'm Bernardo Fort -Brescia from Arquitectonica, 2900 OakAvenue in Coconut Grove. Maybe I should give you some context for what we are proposing here, and what has been accomplished to date, and why this is part of a very large picture. You may have read in the publications -- in publications locally and across the country -- about an initiative to create something called the "Biscayne Line "; a way to connect the waterfront of Miami all the way from the river and up and down the coastline, and make a public space that would become a connector between districts, and create a recreational space for the general public. As you know, the City was originally designed with lots that controlled the waterfront, and one could only reach from behind, and occasionally, some streets ended up in a dead end on the waterfront. The -- our office sponsored a studio at the Universio) of Miami that precisely examined this, and that is what you see in the publication. And, obviously, the only way to accomplish this is going to be through a very long period of history, but you have to start somewhere, and you do it in -- as you go along and as projects come on stream, you try to create a piece of this future pathway that would acknowledge the importance of Biscayne Bay, and make it accessible. The first example that you can see is already evident in Icon Bay, where the streets that were dead ends -- actually, streets that were dead ends had other life safeo) problems; the fact that afire truck can't make a turn at the enc, has to back in and out, and there's no way to service those properties in case of an emergency. And instead, we deviated a street and made a full circle to the next street; made four cit) blocks accessible to the waterfront -- before, they didn't -- and allowed fire trucks to be able to circulate properly and be able to evacuate those blocks that otherwise were not. This is a second example that fits into this big picture. It is a larger one, because it encompasses three streets, and therefore, more cit) blocks than even the previous one, and it creates an even larger park than on Icon Bay. The park in Icon Bay has been incredibly successful. It has amazing artwork that has been created. Young Arts has done some of the artwork there that is --that people come to visit as part of the --visiting the location. In this case, the park, as I mentioned, has a larger scale. This project originally started as these -- this building and this building. And as Iris mentioned, there was a dead-end street here and a dead-end street that went to the water here. This was not interconnected, and this property was on the waterfront; and by creating this street, which completes the loop and connects all of these street and all of these blocks through the waterfront, the public that lives in the projects are being built and the rest of the blocks where they're still undeveloped, and some of them in development will all have a place -- a public space on the waterfront. And this is the new park It has a Michael's Genuine Restaurant on it, with terraces, and has open space, and it's open to the sky; and next to it is another project, is another building that is -- was a later addition to the Paraiso Bay Complex. And there's another building now going up here, and there's more that are being proposed by others along the street that would benefit from access to this waterfront park. You City ofMiami Page 71 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 can see here the piece of the Biscayne Line already introduced here, and as other projects happen, it will continue. So -- but there have to be the beginning, and this is part of the initiative that I mentioned The replatting that is in front of you today is what allows this to happen. We create the park, and reorganize the streets, and create a cross -street in order to create the traffic flow that enables access to the park from the public. As you see, the street actually has frontage on the park, no different than Lummus Park in Miami Beach and other well-known parks in the City. Thankyou very much. Vice Chair Russell: Mr. Fort -Brescia, a question about the Biscayne Line. Thank you for coming in. And did we -- did you all get this packet, as well? Unidentified Speaker: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: So this is in accordance with the intention of the bay walk and (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and the idea that we have a continuous walkway of 25 feet, with 50 foot setbacks to the buildings -- Mr. Fort -Brescia: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: -- all along the waterway. And it's great to see the projects that you're working on, and Related taking that initiative as they go. What is the bottleneck that you -- I mean the -- this can only happen as each property gets developed along the bay, correct? And so if the neighbor to the south or the north, for example, doesn't redevelop any time soon, we're looking at a bottleneck until they decide to do that that could connect that line; is that right? What --? Mr. Fort -Brescia: Yeah. Let me -- if you look at the map that we provided, it actually shows you Ms. Escarra: Third page. Mr. Fort -Brescia: -- where the obstructions are, and there's quite a few new projects being proposed that are already doing it, and this is just one of them. So we're not alone. It's not anymore just these two projects, but there are -- actually, obstacle is more related to older buildings that go all the way out to the edge; and, of course, there's some concern by some of them, "Oh, there will be people walking in front of our building, "you know, and those buildings don't have the obligation, because they're not going after a building permit. Some of the other buildings being proposed, like LEZ, by our office and Biscayne Beach and many others are providing it. They're not providing a park like this, because they don't have the benefit of the space and the size of the assemblage. And we've made the choice to create a park, but it's -- there are going to be parks occasionally. So your question is, what happens when our next-door neighbor doesn't? So we have -- there are -- there's a parallel set of studies being done that will be addressed with DERM (Department of Environmental Resource Management) in which the Biscayne Line will switch to a wooden walk in front of the properties forward of those seawalls that are -- Vice Chair Russell: So a boardwalk that would extend out over the water. Mr. Fort -Brescia: -- like a boardwalk that is forward projecting, either by means of an -- equivalent of a dock or a floating dock that would occur along the edge. And those little pieces that are missing, unless we have maybe some of these existing buildings come and see what we're doing, and they decide, actually, they're missing out, they're not part of this big idea, and actually, they may be devaluing themselves indirectly by not participating, and they may choose to do that voluntarily. And -- but we -- our hope is that we're setting an example of something that is of great value, and that maybe they'll decide to do that, but if -- those who don't, we have City ofMiami Page 72 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 the ability to think of the alternative; that maybe it is something that has to be discussed with the Count) and the City and others to fill in those little gaps for the continuity. Vice Chair Russell: It's certainly a challenge to ask the existing properties to see the greater good. Basically, we're asking them to put a public sidewalk on the back of their private property, which is a tough ask, but it is --- to think of -- the end goal is an amazing goal, I think, to really have that waterfront walking public space. Mr. Fort -Brescia: But one has to have a dream and then see how we accomplish it, right? But it is a way you can do it by the floating docks that I mentioned. But remember that at that point, those properties may see that all they need is really to contribute is 20 feet, not the full 50 feet, you know? They're not -- they don't have the obligation as you do in a permit of doing 50 feet, you know. They don't have to create a park, they don't have to do all the things we're doing. They could just do a small boardwalk. It could even be frankly 10 feet, if that's necessary, you know. It is not a -- Vice Chair Russell: Just access, right. Mr. Fort -Brescia: Just access, and allow people to go through. Even if it didn't, what this is creating, when you see all of these blocks, you know, look -- this half of that block, these two sides of that block, these two sides of this block, and this other half of this block, before, they didn't have a public space on the water. They didn't have access to the water. And even if you don't see it in the big picture of the line, of the linear connector, even for this particular neighborhood, which is dozens of properties that now have -- they can walk down, they can bicycle down and reach a park, which, before, they did not. There was no public space. It was private property, like next door, here and here, that would reach out to the edge and there was no public access. This means that you can come all the way from -- if you choose to someday -- from Midtown or Wynwood and come all the way to the water and find a place where you can enjoy the waterfront. And -- but in the immediate time, I'm saying that already, there is a significant -- in many places, this is a village, how big it is and how many people live on the street. All the way down to Biscayne Boulevard, there are quite a few properties, and they will all benefit from this waterfront park. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Ms. Escarra: Thank you. With that, I'd like to call Mr. Rosso up for a few minutes. Carlos Rosso: Good afternoon. Carlos Rosso, 315 South Biscayne Boulevard, Cit) of Miami. The idea, the concept was always for us, you know, at least for Related is that there is this misconception that if you have private property and there is public property in front of you that your units or your condos are worth less, because you have a public park, or because you have a public walkway in front. And the big idea, the big concept of this Biscayne Line is to try to convince people that it's actually the other way around, that if you look at the most expensive properties around the world, they're generally in front of very public spaces: Copa Cabana, Central Park in New York; La Gran Bien, Madrid --you know, all these spaces where people can actually look at those units, and those units become an object of desire. People say, "How lucky are these guys that live in these locations. " So that's a concept that we started with, you know, when we did Icon Bay, and then we moved forward and we did also in Paraiso Bay. And, of course, you know, we tried to add to all this the art component that is very strong, and relate it with a great competition of art with Young Arts in Icon Bay. And now, we're doing more or less the same in Paraiso Bay; not only with art, but in this particular case, activating the waterfront with a restaurant that doesn't exist. And to go back to your point of, you know, what it takes to do the things, you know, the connection between Paraiso and Icon Bay, for example, is the first, I think, link that is really possible, and there is only one building to the south of Paraiso Bay, which is that old condo building. It's four stories low -- four stories high; sorry. And it's only 50 City ofMiami Page 73 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 feet of frontage. That doesn't allow the connection between Biscayne Beach that has to produce that walkway and us. And from Biscayne Beach, it's very easy to walk into Icon Bay. So there already, you have the first three or four miles of walkway of -- or two miles area of public walkway that would exist between two properties and two public squares. And I think that the interesting idea before -- behind the studio of Biscayne Line, also with Universio) of Miami, is that this first year, you know, we just did a presentation with the students and with Bernardo at Paraiso Bay, and we are trying to take it to the next step, and to the next step, and next year, these same kids are going to meet with the same condo associations and start proposing these ideas from a real, you know, real experience and real work experience for young kids in UM (Universio) of Miami) to start working with people -- with Iris or our planners -- to meet with the associations and start going through the pros and cons of something like that. And that's, I think, where the Cit) can also have some impact, because part of this idea is that the City would be interested in this project, and somebody at the Cit) would embrace it and would offer to those associations that are a bottleneck some sort of incentive; whether it is a rebate in propery) taxes, whether it's some program that allows that to happen for the common good of Miami. You know, it's not possible that we live in a cit) with this beautiful weather, and this beautiful nature, and we have to go to places like Vancouver or Seattle and feel jealous for the public parks that they have on their waterway, and we don't have them. So that was sort of our small pinch of salt and grain to the better good of Miami, and with this park, we hope we continue in the same line. Thankyou very much. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. I'd encourage you to reach out to the Downtown Development Authorio) where I'm the chair, and one of -- our transportation committee is actually taking on the Biscayne Line or the bay walk as a project, to really start to brand it and create awareness about it. They can get the public behind it. With the public momentum, I think we can start a movement to really start to connect these missing links, and make it a realii)�, instead of having to wait 20, 30 years until everybody is -- has developed So thank you for taking the initiative. Ms. Escarra: And with that, that concludes our presentation for today on the two items: the plat, and the acceptance of the land for park purposes to the Cit). Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much. I'm not actually looking for a motion on this one. I'm going to pass the gavel. In fact, I was -- I'm not actually looking for a motion on this one. Is that all right? Commissioner Suarez: I thought you actually were going to move it yourself so -- Vice Chair Russell: No. I will be passing the gavel to defer both of these items, actually, and I -- the option of doing that at the beginning of the day and the order of the day, but I really wanted to give the developer the opportunio) to present fully into the public record exactly what their intention is. The reason I would be looking to -- well, before I get into that discussion, I'd like to see if the -- open the floor for public hearing to see if there's anybody here who would like to speak on this particular project. Brenda Betancourt: Good afternoon. Brenda Betancourt. I just -- Vice Chair Russell: Your address, please. Ms. Betancourt: 1436 Southwest 6th Street, Miami, Florida, 33135. I just have a question if we are going to provide them -- or they are providing for the land for the park that they still working towards that walkway that we are trying to accommodate, if any way that those properties, that they are not getting part of it would benefit as well? Can we help them in any way to guide them, maybe to a grant or any other venues so those -- maybe those condo association, you know, the fee do not allow them to be able to build that area that we missing, but maybe we can find a way for us to embrace that to them. City ofMiami Page 74 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. For sure, we're going to have to work with DERM and the property owners to see if this is a possibilii)�. Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Suarez: There's also an organization called FIND (Florida Inland Navigation District), and I don't know if they -- if those -- that would be eligible for grants, FIND grants, which might -- we've gotten some big ones before, so. Vice Chair Russell: Absolutely. Did you have some -- I'm sorry. Ms. Betancourt: No, no. Vice Chair Russell: So we've seen today -- this is an example of a development that's bringing something good to the neighborhood, a neighborhood park. I don't know if we could call it exactly a donation of a park, because it is -- it seems to have been worked out a few years ago as an exchange for the replatting and the reassignment of the roads. Ms. Escarra: Right. Well, actually, the road numbers are equivalent; meaning we closed 28, 000 and we dedicated 28, 000. The park is an additional 26, 000. So the roads was a swap, basically, in the sense of square footage, and this was an additional 26, 000 not anticipated before. Vice Chair Russell: Right. So I've --you know, my job as the Commissioner, obviously, is to fully understand as well as possible these projects and then meet with the communio) and understand where they're coming from. You know, Edgewater is a growing neighborhood where we have a lot of growing pains. And in any -- even when your neighbor next door is building a house, you've got to go through those growing pains with them. Imagine when your neighbor is a set of 50 -story towers. So I can imagine the friction that can come about. That being said, my job is to be the intermediacy between you and those neighbors, and really help tty to move things forward in a positive way, because we have to admit that their qualio) of life is being compromised as construction goes on. And I know that you, as the developer, has taken many, many steps to tty and mitigate the effects of the noise. And my office and the District 2 office where Edgewater is has gotten several complaints about this project regarding noise waiver issues. And most recently, I've received photos of many, many, many cars just next door this weekend that were covered with cement from a cement pour during a high wind that covered these cars with concrete. I know during the dust -- when there was a lot of dust in early construction, you all were offering car washes. The neighbors are telling me that it's so difficult to sign up for a car wash through the paperwork that it's --you know, it's not really taking care of it for them. I see the intention on your side to make up for how this is affecting them, and I really want to help make sure we get everybody to the table to see that that happens. I don't know -- my staff had a -- you didn't have the cement picture queued up, did you? I just wanted to show what happens even when you're trying to do well, but the unintended consequences of a neighbor going through heavy construction, these are the t) pes of things that happen. Ms. Escarra: And while she's queuing that up, I just want to put into the record we do offer car wash services. We also offer reimbursement if they go --decide to wash their car someplace else, we reimburse them for that. If they go to a particular location, the Uber, on behalf of our -- we have an Uber where we -- it's charged to us, but they're able to go by Uber to different locations. So we're trying as much as possible to address the neighbors' concerns. Evevy time something comes up -- ideally, in an ideal world these things wouldn't come up, but it's a construction site, and it's windy, and we're trying to mitigate as much as possible on a daily basis what happens on the site. City ofMiami Page 75 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: I recognize that. And, of course, it goes beyond just the base cost of their car wash or whatever. This is affecting their quality of life. And if they do get concrete or cement on their car, that needs to be removed, and maybe their car is out for a while, or who knows what, or even paint -- I don't know if any specific damage has happened to that extent, but that is one of my concerns that I really need to address, and that only happened even this weekend and I really want to help you guys get together with the neighbors and make sure that we make life as good as possible for them during this process. The second issue is regarding the park, and I heard, at least from the neighbors to the north, that they haven't been involved in the design of the park, that they weren't aware that this park actually has a restaurant in the park, and that's something I'd like to make very clear to the -- my fellow Commissioners as we're looking at this. So we're not actually getting donated the full rectangle, which would put the restaurant on public land. We're getting donated the parkland wrapping all the way around the restaurant. The restaurant would remain private; is that correct? Ms. Escarra: Correct. The restaurant would be located on private land. There's a pedestrian access here that's 20 feet, all the waterfront, the bay walk, as well as this portion here; the total of which is the 26,000 square feet -- 26,186 square feet. We --just to put on the record, we've gone through four public hearing at the Cit) between PZAB (Planning, Zoning & Appeals Board) and City Commission. We're gone through two public hearings at the County, with regards to the alleys that were also included in this. We've gone through three site plan reviews, where we've notified people within the neighborhood, and we've also met individually with some of the communio) associations. So we haven't done anything -- you know, it's all been in the public, every meeting that we've had with regards to this, so I just wanted to put that in the record. It's been a four-year process of various public --either notices through the site plan process, or through the public hearing process and the street closures; as well as the proffer of the park plans was mentioned in the previous four public hearings. Vice Chair Russell: Right. And I can appreciate that, but even that being said, the neighbors at least to the north said they even had to go through a public request for documents to understand what was going in that park, that it was a restaurant, or a clubhouse, or whatever. But now that this is coming to light and fully understood -- and I understand you have the process, but many of the neighbors that I've spoken with around -- don't know what's going on and were not able to be involved in the planning process for the public park. And so that's why I feel public notification is, you know, one of the weak points that we often hear about with residents and neighbors. And I wasn't here during all that process, but I am now, and I really want to make sure that the neighbors that are receiving a benef t from this project, including access to a bay front walk, a beautiful park, and a Michael Schwartz -- probably excellent restaurant. He makes, what? -- Harry's pizza, as well as Michael's Genuine, right? This could be a great thing for the neighborhood, but they're not feeling it so great right now, and maybe it's hard for them to see beyond the construction with what they're going through at the moment. And I have to be able to sympathize with that, and help get them through it. That be -- that said, I want to also help you communicate with them. So, as you know, I've spoken with you about trying to get the communio) together, and I'm looking for not just a 500 foot line from the project, but every condo association that would reasonably use the access to this, which is up both streets, on both sides; The Terrace, and the condo to the north. I know there's -- neither side at the moment has access. Ms. Escarra: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: So in essence, what we have here, even though we're going to call it a public park, if the north condo doesn't have access to it and the condo from the south doesn't have access to it, we're really creating a private park for the development, itself, which is an unintended consequence, unless we go through the really strong steps and efforts to ensure access from all --for all neighbors. City ofMiami Page 76 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Escarra: Right. Vice Chair Russell: And if I could just -- I've got a pointer here. Ms. Escarra: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: Along the south edge, I believe there's a large wall you had mentioned, right? Ms. Escarra: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: Between these neighbors. Ms. Escarra: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: And there's no access for these neighbors to get into the park from this side, right? Ms. Escarra: Right, because when they were designed, it was just the way that they were designed. Vice Chair Russell: Yeah. Ms. Escarra: This was the back side of their buildings. Vice Chair Russell: On the north side, there is the possibility to open up a fence here that you all have offered,- is that correct? Ms. Escarra: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: Could you explain that a little bit? Ms. Escarra: Correct. Here, this particular development to the north of us is called Bay Park Towers. They actually -- we offered to -- here, on the public bay walk -- to provide a gated entry with like a key fob, so that only their residents could be able to access and walk along this -- because all this is public -- to the park, they could walk to the restaurant if they wanted to. So that's been offered to these particular residents to the north. They haven't accepted the offer as such, but we did offer that to them. And if I could point out, there is public parking here in front of the site that's for the park, for anybody in the area that wants to come to the park by vehicle, because all the parking for the restaurant is being provided inhere through a valet service. So the parking for the restaurant's inhere, and this is all public parking spaces here for anybody visiting the park. Vice Chair Russell: Metered or free? Ms. Escarra: It's probably going to be free until -- Vice Chair Russell: It hasn't been decided yet. Ms. Escarra: -- the MPA (Miami ParkingAuthorio) realizes that there's parking spaces there. Vice Chair Russell: Of course. And if my staff had queued up the photos that I --you can see here on these photos on the screen the amount of concrete -- wet cement that's come down on the cars within --the neighbors to the north, in their parking lot. This is really bad This is really -- City ofMiami Page 77 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 you know, washing this off their car, it doesn't quite make good for what they feel like is a burden to live next door to a construction site, and so to really -- to take into account how that makes them feel; not just having washed it off, but this is their private property, their love and joy, their cars, their vehicles, and, you know, it's something that we really need to make good on, and I trust that you -- Ms. Escarra: Understood. Vice Chair Russell: -- all will do that. The final thing -- and this is probably the most important reason to me that I would in the moment plan to pass the gavel and defer this item to the next meeting is in our backup documents on this item -- and I don't know if my fellow Commissioners have looked at them carefully -- but we were presented in our backup documents the following picture of the rendering of the park. And could you -- this rendering was in -- go back one, please. This is the rendering of the park that's in our documentation to make a decision on this acceptance of this parcel. And as you can see, the entire footprint of the park does not have a restaurant in it. And if you go to the next slide, this is what you shared with me today in my Office, which is the -- what will be there; that there will obviously be a restaurant on there. And it's not to say that this was, you know, intentionally hidden, but it's a -- it -- we're acting on information that isn't correct; and the public, who could have looked this up on Legistar, would not have been able to come today and know that there -- this building was here, that they might be able to speak or have an issue with it. And just in the effort of absolute transparency and full disclosure -- because this picture is not in our backup documentation, that I know of, in our agenda, and so I really want to make this part of the outreach to the neighbors. I think we can knock this out in the next couple weeks together. I'll work together with you and the neighbors; that we can comeback and move forward on this. I absolutely do seethe intentions of what you're trying to do to mitigate the process. We do value the new park. I want to make sure that not only is it accessible to the neighbors, but that the neighbors know that it exists and don't -- if you were to drive by -- think, "Oh, that's the backyard of the restaurant" -- Ms. Escarra: Right. Vice Chair Russell: -- "that's not really accessible, " or, you know, the signage has to be appropriate, and I understand that you all intend to also maintain the park -- Ms. Escarra: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: -- at your cost. So this is a good thing for the City, so please don't feel that I'm looking a gift horse in the mouth in this sense. We need parks in this area, and I want the neighborhood to appreciate it, have a say-so in what it looks like, and then have access to it. Ms. Escarra: And we appreciate the opportunity. We're happy to meet with the communio) on it. Vice Chair Russell: So, Commissioner Gort, I'll just pass the gavel long enough to make a motion to defer this item. Commissioner Suarez: Second, discussion. Commissioner Gort: There's a motion, second. Discussion. You're recognized. Commissioner Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I want to thank the developers here. Obviously, dedicating waterfront property is extremely valuable for the Cit). It's very hard for us to get that kind of dedication, and that kind of property in our City, and if we had to pay for it ourselves, we certainly wouldn't be able to do that. You know, I want to be sympathetic to the district Commissioner, who has expressed some reasonable concerns over some pictures that were preto) dramatic, and certainly, if that were happening in my district, I could understand City ofMiami Page 78 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 why my residents wouldn't be too happy. I will say this, though, and I'm -- this is more of a curiosio) more than anything else: Usually, when there's a contentious Planning & Zoning item, the residents that come here are lined out the door to complain about it, and I don't see that here today. I'm not saying that there's not residents that are complaining about it. Clearly, you know your district better than all of us do. I'm just curious as to why that is. Is it because you've been speaking to them before, or is it -- did they feel they didn't have to come? Is that what --? Vice Chair Russell: Absolutely, I have, and I've reached out to the homeowners associations, as well, but the complaints have been coming in -- Commissioner Suarez: I get it. Vice Chair Russell: -- email and the phone. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: And, you know, I've assured them that we're going to do a communio) meeting on this; that there -- it wouldn't actually be decided on today. Commissioner Suarez: Perfect. Vice Chair Russell: And I, as well -- you know, the developer has been very cooperative in trying to come to a resolution with this. So I wanted to make sure the timing still works for both sides; that we can get to the next meeting with a positive result. Commissioner Suarez: Awesome. Okay. Commissioner Gort: Did we open the public hearing? Is anyone in the public --yes, it was addressed. It was closed, the public hearing was closed. I have to tell you, looking at those pictures, I don't see how that could happen. I'm on Brickell, and I receive -- there's a lot of concrete going around. I haven't had any at all, so that's --that looks kind of bad. And if you want to get somebody upset, get your cars full of concrete, because it's vett' difficult to take off. Ms. Escarra: Understood. We had somebody washing it out there immediately, and we're also working with them to see if we could do like a cover. They have like these special covers that -- some people have been seeing them on South Miami Avenue when you're next to the site -- to individually -- Commissioner Gort: They doing -- Ms. Escarra: -- wrap them every day. Commissioner Gort: South Miami Avenue, they doing it right now. Ms. Escarra: Right. We're trying to do that, as well, but we have to gain access to the property, so we're working on that. Commissioner Gort: Now, that's actual concrete, or the water spray? Because it doesn't look like -- Ms. Escarra: It's the water spray. It's from the water spray, and it comes off apparently quite easily, but it's still -- Commissioner Gort: Right. City ofMiami Page 79 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: No, no, he's asking, what is it that's on there? It's actually splatter from a concrete pour, correct? Ms. Escarra: Well, it's actually -- Mr. Rosso: It's the water on the surface of -- Commissioner Gort: Yeah. Ms. Escarra: He can explain it much better than I. Mr. Rosso: It's the water that is left on top of the slab. You know, there is a wind gust, and it takes that water that has cement, but it's all cleaned already, so. Commissioner Gort: Okay. Thank you. Any further discussion? Being none -- Commissioner Suarez: It's not bird doo-doo. Commissioner Gort: When are we deferring this to? Ms. Escarra: March 24. Commissioner Suarez: It's not bird doo-doo. Commissioner Gort: March 24. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Commissioner Gort: How many items do we have already? Mr. Alfonso: Well, that was my concern earlier, Commissioner. This -- today's agenda had 79 items, I believe, and I think that our Code calls for no more than 60 items. Clearly, we waived that. For the next -- Commissioner Carollo: That's why -- Mr. Alfonso: -- agenda, we're above that already, as well, so. Commissioner Gort: It's a policy decision. Vice Chair Russell: I'd say we put it on there, and if we need to defer it -- Commissioner Suarez: That's fine. Vice Chair Russell: -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE) meeting, at least then it has a chance. Commissioner Suarez: That's fine. Ms. Escarra: We appreciate that. Thankyou. Commissioner Suarez: Thank you. Commissioner Gort: Thank you. Any further discussion? Being none, all in favor, state it by City ofMiami Page 80 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 saying "aye. " The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Ms. Escarra: Thanks, everyone. Commissioner Gort: Now, that was PH 6. Now we got to go to RE. 6. Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): Chair, for the record, that motion to defer was for -- Commissioner Gort: They both -- Mr. Hannon: -- RE. 6 and PH 6 to March 24, so we're good to go. Commissioner Gort: Thank you. You can have it back. Vice Chair Russell: You don't want this anymore? Thank you very much. RE.7 RESOLUTION 15-01696 Department ofReal A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Estate andAsset ATTACHMENT(S), BY A FOUR-FIFTHS (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, Management AFTER AN ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING, CONFIRMING AND APPROVING THE CITY MANAGER'S WRITTEN FINDING OF AN EMERGENCY, PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-90 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), AND WAIVING COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDDING PROCEDURES, PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-85 OF THE CITY CODE, AS AMENDED, FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF THE MANUELARTIME THEATER HEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING SYSTEM COMPRESSOR, FAN MOTOR, AND MINOR REPLACEMENT PARTS ASSOCIATED WITH REPAIRS FOR THE SAME, IN THE AMOUNT OF TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED FORTY-TWO DOLLARS ($28,142.00) TO DEBONAIR MECHANICAL, INC. AS AN EMERGENCY PROCUREMENT. 15-01696 Summary Form.pdf 15-01696 Back -Up Documents.pdf 15-01696 Legislation.pdf 15-01696 Exhibit.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN Vice Chair Russell: And we're moving on. I think we may get through before 2 a. m. Commissioner Suarez: That would be wonderful. Vice Chair Russell: RE.5 was withdrawn; is that correct? Commissioner Carollo: Yes. Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Yes. Vice Chair Russell: RE. 6, we've already done. RE. 7. Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Commissioner, RE. 7, I'm going to have to -- City ofMiami Page 81 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Todd B. Hannon (CiOv Clerk): Excuse me. Yes. Mr. Alfonso: -- request to move to 4114. Commissioner Suarez: We don't have four-fifths. Mr. Alfonso: -- because this requires a four fifths, and we only have three members present. This is -- we had to repair an air conditioner that broke down on an emergency basis, and it requires retroactive approval; that's why it's a four-fifths. So it will have to move to April 14. Vice Chair Russell: Of course. Mr. Hannon: And Chair. I will need a motion. Commissioner Carollo: For the deferral? Mr. Hannon: Yes. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, yeah. Commissioner Carollo: Move to defer to April -- Commissioner Suarez: You want to pass a resolution supporting the item, even though it's only four-fifths -- it needs four-fifths, so at least make an expression of support? Commissioner Carollo: No. Commissioner Suarez: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: But if we don't take action, doesn't it just automatically go to the next Commission meeting? Mr. Alfonso: It can't be on the next, Commissioner, because we don't have time to advertise a four-fifths right now. Mr. Hannon. No. Commissioner Carollo is correct. If you take no action, it'll go to the next like meeting, so that would be April 14. So if you want the record to reflect no action taken -- Mr. Alfonso: No action. Mr. Hannon: -- or a deferral, it's -- Commissioner Suarez: No action taken. Mr. Hannon: -- the will of the Commission. Vice Chair Russell: We're good? Commissioner Suarez: We're good. RE.8 RESOLUTION 16-00145 City ofMiami Page 82 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Department of A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Community and ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS IN THE Economic TOTAL AMOUNT OF $743,000.00 TO THE AGENCI ES AS SPECIFIED IN Development ATTACHMENT "A", ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, FOR PUBLIC SERVICES ACTIVITIES, WITH FUNDS ALLOCATED FROM THE SOCIAL SERVICES GAP PROGRAM FUND, ACCOUNT NO. 00001.910101.882000; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AGREEMENT(S), INA FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, WITH SAID AGENCIES, FOR SAID PURPOSE. 16-00145 Summary Form.pdf 16-00145 Legislation.pdf 16-00145 Exhibit-AttachmentA.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0109 Vice Chair Russell: All right, RE.8. Commissioner Suarez: I think we did that one. No? Didn't we do that one already? Vice Chair Russell: Did we do RE. 8? Commissioner Suarez: I thought we did all those with the CDBG (Community Development Block Grant). Commissioner Carollo: No, I don't think we did RE.8. Vice Chair Russell: Not yet. George Mensah (Director, Communio) Development): RE (Resolution) -- Commissioner Suarez: We should have done that one, George, before when you had all of them coming. George Mensah: Yes, we should, butt didn't want to say anything. Commissioner Suarez: Go ahead, George. Mr. Mensah: George Mensah, director of Community & Economic Development. RE.8 is a resolution authorizing the allocation of funds, in the total amount of 743, 000, to the agencies specified in attachment A, 'and this is allocated from the Social Service GAP (Government Assistance Program) Program fund. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Carollo. Open for public discussion, public hearing. Hearing none, seeing none, closing public hearing. Any discussion on the dais? All in favor? City ofMiami Page 83 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Passes. RE.9 RESOLUTION 16-00171 Department of A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Community and ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE Economic AMENDMENT NO. 7 TO THE AGREEMENT WITH FLAGLER FIRST Development CONDOMINIUMS, L.L.C., IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, RELATING TO THE REDEVELOPMENT OF AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING CONDOMINIUM PROJECT KNOWN AS FLAGLER FIRST CONDOMINIUM, LOCATED AT 101 EAST FLAGLER STREET, MIAMI, FLORIDA ("PROJECT"), PROVIDING AN EXTENSION OF THE DEADLINE FOR THE SALE OF ALL THE PROJECT RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM UNITS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30,2016; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, AS MAY BE NECESSARY TO COMPLETE THE FLAGLER FIRST CONDOMINIUM TRANSACTION. 16-00171 Summary Form.pdf 16-00171 Pre-Legislation.pdf 16-00171 Corporate Detail.pdf 16-00171 Legislation.pdf 16-00171 Exhibit-Agreement.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0110 Vice Chair Russell: RE.9. George Mensah (Director, Communio) Development): RE.9 is a resolution authorizing the Cit) Manager to execute Amendment Number 7 to the agreement with Flagler First Condominiums, in substantially the attached form, and relating to the redevelopment of an affordable housing condominium project known as Flagler First Condominium, located at 101 East Flagler Street, Miami, Florida, and extend the deadline to September 30, 2016 Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Carollo. Like to open for public hearing. Richard Kuper: My name, Richard Kuper; law offices at 19 West Flagler Street, in Miami; just here representing Flagler First Condominiums and its managing partner, Sergio Rok. If there's any questions, or if you'd like me to speak about it, I'll be more than happy to. Vice Chair Russell: Absolutely. If I understand it correctly, we're working on some affordable housing here, and it's had several extensions. Could you just give me a brief history, and bring its up speed? City ofMiami Page 84 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Mr. Cooper: Yes. Well, first of all, I'd like to thank the Department of Community Development, and Mr. Mensah, because this has been a long-term project. It's something that Mr. Rok got into many, many years ago before there was market housing in downtown Miami; and Mr. Mensah and Mr. Duran have been exceptional. They've had the vision, the fortitude, and the patience to deal with this complex situation. There is funding from the Cit), funding from the Count). The issues that we've had in selling these properties, the affordable aspect of it has been really related to the Count). I'm vett' pleased to say that today -- and we have Henry Paul, who's done an exceptional job on behalf of Mr. Rok, selling them. We have -- the remaining two condos are under contract now with live bodies. so -- Vice Chair Russell: They're under contract? Mr. Cooper: Yes, they're under contract right now. Vice Chair Russell: How many were there originally? Mr. Cooper: I think -- well, originally, it started with 25, and then it was 11, and 9 last time we came here, and we had a number of them under contract, and now we're almost complete. Keep in mind, Commissioner Russell, that when we started this project -- or when Mr. Rok started this project in the Central Business District, there was very little development, and probably zero development when it came to market rate housing. So this is a mixed project with market rate and with the affordable housing component. Vice Chair Russell: What is the average size of the unit, and what do they sell for? Mr. Cooper: I'm going to ask Mr. Hemy Paul to come up, because he's intimately familiar with the project. Henry Paul: Yeah, the units are two bedroom and one bedroom. The two bedrooms, which are now all been totally sold, were selling for 115, 000; the last two units that I have under contract are one bedroom, and those are selling for 85, 000. They're roughly -- Commissioner Suarez: That's amazing. Mr. Paul: -- 753 square feet, approximately. Vice Chair Russell: So you're selling an $85, 000 one -bedroom condo in the -- Mr. Paul: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: -- heart of the Central Business District of downtown? Mr. Paul: Yes, sir. Commissioner Suarez: That's preto) awesome. Vice Chair Russell: Yeah. I don't mean to -- Commissioner Suarez: That's preto) awesome. Vice Chair Russell: Now that we've said it out loud on the microphone, I'm sure you'll have no problem selling it. But what's been the bottleneck? What do you feel has slowed it down from City ofMiami Page 85 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Mr. Paul: What has been the bottleneck (UNINTELLIGIBLE)? Vice Chair Russell: Or have you just lowered the price to get them into contract? Mr. Paul: Yeah, we lowered the price because, basically, trying to get the individuals who could qualify -- Commissioner Suarez: Financed. Mr. Paul: -- because of -- Commissioner Suarez: Finance. Mr. Paul: -- low income -- because, remember, these are under a 80 percent area median income; meaning, they cannot exceed 37, 000 gross annual, so -- and usually, those individuals have other issues, not -- in trying to get the income. So a lot of them fall by the side of the road because they can't get the loans; or if they get the loans, then their next hurdle they have to go through is not from the lending side, but through the income verification, which comes through the Count). Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair. Mr. Paul: And that's where they usually get knocked out. Vice Chair Russell: Understood Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: And I think this is an important point, because there's a delicate balance with two independent systems. One is one that wants to promote affordable housing and that creates a certain set of standards and criterias [sic]; and then the lending industry that does whatever they want, basically, because they, you know, obviously, have the ability to set their standards and their own criteria, and sometimes, the two don't interact, and I think that's why it's important when we do these affordable housing initiatives that we go beyond just the principles and look at the practical consequences, because sometimes we have the right principles or we think we have the right principles, but we don't get the right result in practice because the other side of the equation is not sort of jiving with what we're trying to do, so we have to be realistic in that sense, unfortunately, sometimes. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. No, I absolutely commend you for taking on the affordable housing, especially in downtown, and it's much needed in our cit), so I'm in favor of this for sure. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: So we have a motion. We have a second. Any discussion further from the dais? All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Kuper: Thank you very much. On behalf of Mr. Rok, who's present, he wants to thank all of you for your patience with this project, and it'll be sold soon. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Good luck. Sergio Rok: Thank you, gentlemen. City ofMiami Page 86 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 RE.10 RESOLUTION 16-00259 District 1- A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION DIRECTING THE CITY Commissioner ADMINISTRATION TO EXAMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF CONDUCTING A Wifredo (Willy) Gort STUDY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A MAJOR WATERWAY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, TO INCLUDE NUMEROUS FACTORS CONTAINED HEREIN. 16-00259 Legislation.pdf Motion by Commissioner Gort, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 4 - Commissioner(s) Gort, Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 1 - Commissioner(s) Hardemon R-16-0085 Vice Chair Russell: Are there any other comments or questions regarding the water taxi route? Mr. Clerk, what would be the process? We did have a resolution on the agenda, but we did defer that. Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): Actually no; it was just basically tabled. Vice Chair Russell: Oh, I did not catch that. Sorty. Mr. Hannon: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: Then, absolutely, yes. If you'd like to move on the resolution -- Commissioner Suarez: Second. Vice Chair Russell: -- you've vett' welcome. Commissioner Suarez: Second it. Vice Chair Russell: We have a motion Commissioner Gort; second by Commissioner Suarez. Later... Vice Chair Russell: So we have a resolution on the floor. Commissioner Gort: Let me -- the resolution. One of the things that I'd like for the Cit) to study is the ability of the City to provide it. If you look at the traffic in U.S. 1, in Coconut Grove, you got all the people coming from the south to Coconut Grove. Those people could come by water taxi, or water transportation all the way from way down south to downtown Miami, which most of the people in that -- so one of the things that we need to look at is manatee protection, O) pe of vessels that can be used I mean, today, they don't all have to have propellers. We have to look for the marinas and port of calls; relationship with Count) and other municipalii)�; the 0pe of craft -- example, hydrofoil, hover craft, catamaran, Executive. You can use those; they're very friendly to the environment. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) water craft, especially addressing the concern Of no -wake zones; private versus public. And this is the things we need to study to make sure that we can do some transportation, but I believe -- we have so much problem with traffic; yet we have so much water that we can use, and it's used all over the world and the United States; we need to do that. So the resolution is to ask the Administration to get together with the County and the boat show and all these people that have been working in the industry, and MPO, also. Send this to MPO, because this should be countywide; it should be tri -count) transportation; City ofMiami Page 87 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Tri -Rail on the water. Thank you. Barnaby Min (Depuo) City Attorne)): For the record, it's RE.10. Vice Chair Russell: RE.10. Thank you very much. Commissioner Gort: Did you read the -- Mr. Min: I believe Commissioner Gort's asking me to read the title. Is that acceptable, Mr. --? Vice Chair Russell: I'm sorry, I can't hear you, Barnaby. Mr. Min: I believe Commissioner Gort is asking me to read the title. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, please. The resolution was read by title into the public record by Depuo) Cit) Attorney Barnaby Min. Vice Chair Russell: Would anyone from the public like to be heard on the resolution? Hearing none, seeing none, we'll close public hearing. Any discussion -- further discussion from the dais? All in favor, say 5ye. " The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Vice Chair Russell: Any opposed? Passes. So that's RE 10 and our presentation done. RE.11 RESOLUTION 16-00086 Offrce of Grants A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH Administration ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMITAN APPLICATION, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR REIMBURSEMENT GRANT FUNDING TO THE FLORIDA INLAND NAVIGATION DISTRICT WATERWAYS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $1,200,000.00, FOR THE SEYBOLD CANAL DREDGING PROJECT ("PROJECT"); AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION AND APPROPRIATION OF THE REQUIRED MATCHING FUNDS FOR FIFTY PERCENT (50%) OF THE PROJECT COSTS, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $1,200,000.00, AVAILABLE UNDER CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AND TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM PROJECT NO. B-50643; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR THE SUBMISSION OF SAID GRANT APPLICATION, THE EXECUTION OF GRANT OR DEED AGREEMENTS AND AMENDMENTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND EXTENSIONS THERETO, AND THE ACCEPTANCE OF GRANT FUNDS, IN THE EVENT OF THE AWARD OF THE GRANT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2016-2017. 16-00086 Summary Form.pdf 16-00086 Back -Up from Law Dept.pdf 16-00086 Legislation.pdf 16-00086 Exhibit.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. City ofMiami Page 88 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0111 Vice Chair Russell: RE H. Lillian Blondet (Director): Lillian Blondet, Office of Grants Administration. This is a resolution authorizing the City Manager to submit an application to the Florida Inland Navigation District for $1.2 million for the cleanup of the Seybold Canal and the dredging of the canal, and authorizing the allocation and appropriation of the required match funds for $1.2 million. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Discussion. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Carollo. I'd like to open the floor for a public hearing. Hearing none, seeing none, discussion from the dais. Commissioner Suarez: So the reason why I wanted to just discuss this for a quick second was because it came up in another item when we were talking about the bay walk, and this is organization, the Florida Inland Navigation District, that has a small line item on the tax bill, and they give out grants, and we get -- we're a preto) good recipient of them. They're usually a match; we usually have to put SO percent, but this is a very important dredging project, and they're funding half of it, and we're funding it through our tax bill, so that's all. Vice Chair Russell: I -- just a question on process. I notice we also had within the consent agenda several FIND (Florida Inland Navigation District) grants that we were approving. Is there a reason this one wasn't in the consent agenda? Ms. Blondet: Because of the amount. Vice Chair Russell. The amount. Thank you vett' much. That's what I needed to know. Any further discussion? We have a motion. We have a second. All in favor, say 5ye. " The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Ms. Blondet: Thank you. RE.12 RESOLUTION 16-00255 Offrce of the City A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AUTHORIZING THE Attorney DIRECTOR OF FINANCE TO PAY CATHLYN ANN POZDOL, AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF DREW RANDOLPH POZDOL, AND ON BEHALF OF THE ESTATE OF DREW RANDOLPH POZDOL, WITHOUT ADMISSION OF LIABILITY, THE AGGREGATE TOTAL SUM OF ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($1,500,000.00) IN FULLAND COMPLETE SETTLEMENT OF ANY AND ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS, INCLUDING ALL CLAIMS FOR ATTORNEY'S FEES, AGAINST THE CITY OF MIAMI AND ITS OFFICERS, AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES, AND RAFAEL BORROTO, IN THE CASE STYLED CATHLYN ANN POZDOL, AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF DREW RANDOLPH POZDOL VS. CITY OF MIAMI, TOMAS REGALADO, MIGUELA. EXPOSITO, AND RAFAEL City ofMiami Page 89 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 BORROTO, PENDING IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, CASE NO.: 13 -22167 -CIV -KING, UPON THE EXECUTION OF GENERAL RELEASES OF ALL CLAIMS AND DEMANDS, AND A DISMISSAL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI AND ITS OFFICERS, AGENTS AND EMPLOYEES, AND RAFAEL BORROTO, WITH PREJUDICE; ALLOCATING FUNDS FROM THE INTERNAL SERVICE FUND. 16-00255 Memo - Office of the City Attorney. pdf 16-00255 Memo - Budget Sign-Off.pdf 16-00255 Legislation.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0112 Vice Chair Russell: RE.12. Victoria Mendez (City Attorne)): Thank you, Chairman. This is a settlement in the case --for the estate of Drew Randolph Pozdol, on behalf of the estate of Drew Randolph Pozdol, without an admission of liabilio) . It is a settlement for 1. S million; however, the net financial impact of this settlement to the City is less than 400, 000; third part) sources would reimburse 1.1 million. So that was a concern that you all had with regard to how much money would come from this City's coffers, and it is less 400, 000. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Discussion. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved by Commissioner Suarez; second by Commissioner Carollo. Like to open this item to public hearing. If anyone like to discuss. Hearing none, seeing none, closing public discussion. Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: Brief comment. This is -- is this the final litigation from the incidents that arose in 2000 --police involved in 2 01 012 011 ? Ms. Mendez: Yes. Commissioner Suarez: Okay. So I think --and I'm glad that our CIP (Civilian Investigative Panel) panel members, I think -- or our CIP direc -- executive director is here, and members of the Coalition are here, because I think what we're seeing is, hopefully, the finalio) of what was a difficult period in our history, you know, with the DOJ (Department of Justice) settlement being settled in the last hearing, the last Commission meeting, this financial settlement; and then, hopefully, the reforms that are needed to the CIP, which we're actively working on, and that'll be discussed later today, but, you know, I'm glad that you're here for this, because this is part of that process. Vice Chair Russell: Any further discussion? It's been moved by Commissioner Suarez; second by Carollo. All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. RE.13 RESOLUTION 16-00321 City ofMiami Page 90 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 District 3- A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION DIRECTING THE CITY Commissioner Frank MANAGER TO CREATE A LEGISLATIVE INFORMATION SUBSCRIPTION Carollo SERVICE TO ALLOW USERS TO RECEIVE CITY COMMISSION AGENDAS BY E-MAIL IN AN EFFORT TO CREATE A MORE OPEN, ACCESSIBLE, AND TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT. 16-00321 Back -Up Document.pdf 16-00321 Legislation.pdf Motion by Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0113 Vice Chair Russell: RE.13. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you. This is a resolution that I'm sponsoring, directing the City Manager to create a legislative information subscription service to allow users to receive City Commission agendas by email in an effort to create a more open and accessible and transparent government. In essence, someone could go into our web page, put in their email, and request that from now on, all the City agendas are automatically emailed to them. I think it's something that we should take up, and I move the item. Commissioner Suarez: Second. Discussion. Vice Chair Russell: Moved by Commissioner Carollo; second by Commissioner Suarez. Like to open for public hearing. Hearing none, seeing none, we'll close public hearing. Commissioner Carollo: And Mr. Chairman, if I may? I put an example in the backup so you all would see, and there you could click on "Miami City Commission Agendas, " but I think where I'm hoping is that in the future, it could also have CRA (Communii)y Redevelopment Agency), MSEA (Miami Sports & Exhibition Authorio), Bayfront Park, and so forth, and people could automatically receive the agendas for all the different meetings occurring for all the boards and for the City automatically so they should (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, I know. I just want to commend both of you. I mean, I think, you know, this Commission meeting today, we've started to see much more intelligent thinking on how we interface with our residents from a technological perspective, and I think we should continue this trend. I think we need to continue utilizing technology as a means for our residents getting services and having an easier, more transparent view of what we do. I met, I think it was yesterday or the day before, with Oracle -- that's one of our software providers, their current vender -- in my office, and there's just a variety of different ways that we can make -- and it doesn't have to be Oracle. It could be a variety of any companies. I mean, there -- Microsoft. I mean, there's a variety of companies that are doing things that make easily accessible platforms for our residents from phones so that they can have up-to-the-minute financial data on what the City of Miami is spending money on; can see our meetings, which is a good idea; can interface and volunteer on boards; and then, you know, obviously, applications, such as taking pictures of potholes, taking pictures of trees that need to be trimmed, things like that that you can immediately communicate to directors and City officials. Those are the kinds of solutions that we should be exploring, and I would like for its to do it in a little bit more of a rapid pace, if City ofMiami Page 91 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 possible. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you. And you're right, Commissioner Suarez. And as a matter of fact, I think we're all doing this as a team. Commissioner Suarez: Right. Commissioner Carollo: You know, all the Ciov Commissioners are actually coming forward with Commissioner Suarez: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: --new innovative ideas, and we're doing this as a team. Some of the things that you mentioned I believe 311 already has that, where you could take a picture and send it in through 311, and it actually, you know, already is updated, and gives it to the proper department with the picture so they could take care of it. It's actually something that we were looking at already, and we saw the 311 was operating. I think a few months back, for some reason, the picture thing wasn't working, but it's working now, and it's fully operable, so it's good and -- Commissioner Suarez: And, by the way, just to touch on that. To me, as we advance, we have to have one platform. We shouldn't have to have four or five different apps that don't interact with each other. For example, we have a trolley app, so that's a different app; and then we have 311, which is a different app; and then, you know, you need to have access to the Commissioners' website to, you know, like ask to volunteer for a board, and -- Vice Chair Russell: Yep. Commissioner Suarez: --then setup for an email. We should --that should all be on one platform, like a City of Miami app -- Commissioner Carollo: Right. Commissioner Suarez: -- with one app, where you can access all those different functions from the one app. You okay? Daniel J. Alfonso (CiOv Manager): It's going to be a very busy front page. Commissioner Suarez: No, I'm -- listen, you can have an app with multiple functions. You know what I mean? Just like --you know, you pushing the app that could say, you know, "Trolley Program," and then it'll tell you where all the trollies are. It can have another, you know, button for "Financial Transparency, " and it can see how much money you're spending, you know, on paper clips, or whatever, you know. Andit can have another button for, you know, "Volunteer Here, "you know; another button for "Send us, "you know, "notices on meetings. " I mean, those are all opt -in -- they're very easy to do. I don't think it's that complicated We just need to push the envelope a little more and speed it up. Commissioner Carollo: Absolutely. Vice Chair Russell: If we could, though, stick to the subscription service concept. This is a big one, and I --and we do have a DIA on 311, which will definitely get into the app. The City ofMiami Page 92 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 subscription service -- and I think it's a great idea. So, if I understand correctly, currently, a resident who is interested in today's agenda would -- could go to the website, link to it; they could get the basic agenda, correct? But if they wanted the backup material, they'd have to go on Legistar. Mr. Alfonso: No. Well, the entire agenda's available. If you click on the -- when you look at -- once we post the agenda online, the document is live. It's a PDF doc. Commissioner Suarez: He had a head of steam; you got in the way of it. He had a head of steam. Let him finish. Mr. Alfonso: Yeah. The PDF (Portable Document Format) document is live. So when you look down to the attachments, you click on it, and it takes you to the full backup documents. Vice Chair Russell: So all the backup is available from that first link? You don't need to go to a Mr. Alfonso: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: --further -- Mr. Alfonso: Correct. Commissioner Carollo: But here's the thing. Right now, our Commission meeting was on a Friday, not on a Thursday. If they automatically receive that email and on the front page, it stipulates what date we're having the Commission meeting, and then they could read through all the agenda items, and it's automatically emailed to that person, they don't have to "When is Commission meeting?" and look it up, and go to our web page. It'll automatically -- gives them a heads up. Listen, such and such date, there's a Commission meeting; here's the agenda Vice Chair Russell: Right. Commissioner Suarez: And, you know, we've been talking a little bit today --you brought it up -- on notice issues. You were bringing it up in the context of a P&Z (Planning & Zoning) item, you know. Vice Chair Russell: We might be students of a good government initiative. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, yeah. I have been already, but yes, I agree. But, no, listen, you were talking about the notice issue in the context of a P&Z item, and I think, you know, the good thing about this service is that if you change things also, it's -- you get the notice, so it's -- which sometimes people say, Oh, well, you changed it, " and there was a, you know, nefarious reason why something was changed. "Well, if you're being transparent in notifying people, then, really, that sort of takes away a little bit of that concern. Vice Chair Russell: They would just get the new email -- Commissioner Suarez: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: -- of the new agenda, okay, but there's a file that's going to arrive to them that's this, but digitized, right? So -- Commissioner Suarez: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Vice Chair Russell: --I would maybe suggest that we take it a step further, possibly. On City ofMiami Page 93 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Google, you can -- Commissioner Suarez: No, no, no. We're only on this subject. We can't take it a step further. Vice Chair Russell: No, it -- having exactly to do with this subject, but -- I mean, this is a massive document, right? And I assume it's searchable when it would be emailed to somebody. Mr. Alfonso: Right. The point is that you don't get that in an email. Commissioner Suarez: You get a link. Mr. Alfonso: You get the short version. Commissioner Suarez: You get a link. Vice Chair Russell: I understand. But when they want to go in and find out what changed or what's different, how are they going to know? Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair, can I jump in? Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: I think you can put the short version as a PDF, or whatever, as an attachment, but you can also put a link -- Commissioner Carollo: Right. Commissioner Suarez: -- to the full version -- Commissioner Carollo: Right Commissioner Suarez: -- so that they don't have to download I think your concern is "Well, that's a big document, and you have to download. " Vice Chair Russell: No, it's not that. It's about how do they find what changed? How do they know what -- like, if we follow up an email that there was a change in this agenda, how do they know where to go to know what changed? And -- Commissioner Carollo: And by the way, I need to say this, because I need to commend the Administration; and I don't think you really have experienced this, thank you to the Administration. Before we used to get substituted items all the time -- Mr. Alfonso: Right. Commissioner Carollo: --and I think it was a culture change within time. I think it started with the five-day rule that any of these substitutions, if it's not within the five-day rule, any one Commissioner could actually invoke the five-day rule, and it would be automatically deferred. I have to admit, to their credit, the Administration does not give us the substituted items; that used to happen just about every Commission meeting, so I think it's a big plus. Mr. Alfonso: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: You know, so far, they've been upset at me for bringing stuff within five days. Commissioner Suarez: No. I was going to say that you've hit on a point --and I've talked to the City ofMiami Page 94 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 City Attorney about this -- because usually, the person who's entrusted with making changes, even like from first to second reading, is the City Attorney; we give them direction to change it. There has to be -- I know I can do this as a private lawyer. I do this all the time, where you red line or blue line documents when you change them, and that's so that you're not trying to hide the ball from your opposing counsel, if you will. You're really trying to make life easier and streamline the process so that that person can go to the document and see what has been changed and focus on that, if that's what they want to focus on. And so, we've talked about this, as you create different versions of a document. For example, you could have -- we defer, we change it; sometimes we have six versions of apiece of legislation that began months in advance -- or months in the past, and the question is how do you evolve those changes in a way that people can see what's going on? And I think that's something that we can work on, if that's what you mean. I'm not sure if that -- Vice Chair Russell: I think if a follow-up email, due to a change, comes, perhaps, even in the subject line or the body of the text, the email would say, RE.6 got" -- "has a new version, " or something like that. But here's where I was going with this that might take it a step further and evolve it more for the average person who has an interest but doesn't necessarily time in to Channel 77 with popcorn every Thursday to watch us for 12 hours. Commissioner Carollo: Or Friday. Vice Chair Russell: You know, you absolutely have to commend the activist that's interested enough in the Cii)y s going on's [sic] to want to read this entire agenda and follow along and see what's going on, but the average citizen isn't watching like a hawk, isn't wanting to receive 1,500 pages in a link and study up, but they do absolutely want to know if something they're interested in is coming up on the agenda. Now, when you -- you can create something like a "Google Alert, " and I don't know if this is tasking the management technologically, but I trust our IT (Information Technology) Department to think about this and let us know if it's possible. That a resident could make a -- an alert that, let's say, they put in their street name, and if there's anything within our agenda that has to do with their street name, or parks, or waterfront, that they would get a notification. Commissioner Suarez: You're getting way outside the scope of this thing. Vice Chair Russell: Am I? Commissioner Suarez: No, I'm just kidding. I don't think it's that defying (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Vice Chair Russell: Okay. And so -- but it has to do specifically with receiving the agenda on a regular basis, or as requested. Commissioner Carollo: Exactly. And so I think this is just a basic. Vice Chair Russell: Yeah. Commissioner Carollo: I don't see why we couldn't expand and offer that in the near future, but this is just the basic; and, you know, I think, at the very least, we should be doing this. So if someone wants to know when the next City Commission meeting is, they get an email automatically, you know. It's as simple as that. They sign up for the process, and they get an email automatically. And in the future, I'm hoping that they could go into our web page, click on whatever agendas they want to receive, and they could receive Bayfront Park Management Trust agenda, CRA's; all the boards, for that matter, so they know when they meet and what's on that agenda. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. I mean, this is definitely a crawl -before you -can -run solution City ofMiami Page 95 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Carollo: Right. Commissioner Suarez: And I think what you're talking about is a run solution, which I think is -- Vice Chair Russell: Okay. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: I got you. Do we have -- I thought you wanted to say something. I'm sorry. Mr. Alfonso: Yes. She wants to talk a little bit about the agenda process, because I think there's a misunderstanding as to what changes in an agenda Once we print, there's a process to it, so please. Julia Cerrato (Assistant to the City Manager): Julia Cerrato, Cit) Manager's Oce. I just wanted to make a point that --for example, in the substitution, which is what you were referring to, Vice Chair, we can probably send a link. Once we start the subscription service, there could be a link just for substitutions, and potentially maybe have the old document with the new substituted document. Generally, substitutions will have a memo that has a description of what is being changed within the legislation, or if it's any additional backup that's being placed, or an exhibit, so it would -- Commissioner Suarez: Send a memo. Ms. Cerrato: --have the explanation where you could compare. Commissioner Suarez: You can send a memo then. Ms. Cerrato: Correct. Commissioner Carollo: So -- Vice Chair Russell: So the memo would come along with a new -- Commissioner Carollo: Right. So, Mr. Chairman, this actually, what it does is it gets the ball rolling. Vice Chair Russell: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: Just to get the ball rolling, and now let's be in a cutting edge. Let's see how much information or what type of information we could actually provide. Vice Chair Russell: All right. RE.13 has been moved by Commissioner Carollo; seconded by Commissioner Suarez. All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. RE.14 RESOLUTION 16-00322 District 3- A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION REQUESTING THE Commissioner Frank CITY MANAGER TO IDENTIFY ALL UNZONED LAND THAT CAN BE Carollo ASSIGNED PARK SPACE WITHIN THE CITY OF MIAMI WITH THE DIRECTIVE TO ASSIGN THE UNZONED LAND AS PARK SPACE. City ofMiami Page 96 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 16-00322 Legislation.pdf Motion by Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0114 Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: RE. 14 is an item that I'm also sponsoring, and I'm requesting that the City Manager identify all unzoned land that can be assigned park space within the City of Miami, with a directive to assign the unzoned land as park space. Obviously, once we identify all that lana I expect for them to come back to us for its to zone it parkland. And if you saw recently, we saw when there was a discussion -- there was actually a vote, but beforehand, there was a discussion as far as changing park zone to CI (Civic Institution). However, since we have an ordinance that says "no zero net loss of parkland, " there was land that was identified that was unzoned, and we made that parkland So I'm curious to see how much of that land do we actually have, and I would like to know that in order to for its to make the consideration of making it parkland already so we really do have a net zero loss of parkland. Commissioner Suarez: Can I just jump in? I have a little bit of concern. I know the Planning director sort of expressed it when we were taking up that issue. I guess one of them is that Miami 21, as we know it, has not been glitch free, to put it mildly. Vice Chair Russell: Has not been what? Commissioner Suarez: Glitch -free. And so, I think --for example, they would argue -- the Planning Department would argue that the change from park to CI in that property was a glitch that they had to fix, but because of another Code requirement, they needed the available space to fix the glitch. Vice Chair Russell: Yeah. Commissioner Suarez: So that's one concern. The second concern is that not all space is necessarily park space, per se, and maybe that could be part of the analysis; I don't know. But, you know, some space just because it's CI or just because it's open doesn't necessarily mean it's park space, per se, but I don't want just create park space for the sake of saying we created park space, but it's not really park space, you know; it's something else. It's a parking lot, for example, or whatever the case may be, you know. So, I mean, I don't think it's good to put to our residents, "Hey, come visit our new park, " and then it's like a parking lot. You know, they come with their family, and their hotdogs, and they're ready to go, and it's like whatever, whatever it is, you know, so -- or an alley, you know. So, those are my two concerns. I don't know if the -- I don't know how the Planning Department sees it. Maybe at some point -- because -- I mean, there's some sense to this. At some point, you know, you have to -- the glitches have to be worked out. You know what I mean? And there has to be like a -- almost like a statute of limitations on the glitches, you know, where you say, "Beyond this point, " you know -- it's six years already, you know, so -- Commissioner Carollo: Exactly. That's exactly my point. Commissioner Suarez: Right. It's six years, so it's not like -- this wasn't yesterday. However, you know, I mean, what is then the line where you say, `Zook, you know, we're a preto) City ofMiami Page 97 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 glitch free Code, and, yet, we shouldn't necessarily use this as a tool? Luciana Gonzalez (Assistant Director): Good afternoon, Commissioners. IfI may, Chair. Luciana Gonzalez, Planning & Zoning Department. We have identified some areas of the Cit) that are not cit) -owned properties, but --and they're not private propery) ; they're owned by the Count), or a spoil island that we've identified that does not have zoning. Can we add zoning to those? We can look into it. There's about approximately 18 acres of that O pe of land that we can look into. The spoil islands O pically are not even zoned CS (Civic Space); they're zoned TI, which is conservation. We can look at that. Our -- you're right, Commissioner Suarez, to say that there are some glitches; though, I don't think we'll ever be glitch free. However, what I can say is that the CS zoning category is more restrictive than what Parks & Recreation used to be under 11000. So, as things come -- as the Cit) develops, and there are needs that are identified by this Commission that -- or future uses through RFPs (Request for Proposals) that are done through Asset Management that we will have to look at the zoning and change that zoning, if necessary. When we change that zoning, that's when we are -- we have to -- because of the no net loss policy in the Comprehensive Plan, then we have to identify new areas. What I can tell you is that we have been working extremely hard in the parks lands acquisition, so we feel extremely comfortable that we're continuing to add parkland through -- not only through the conveyance of properties, as through the Public Benefits Program, as well as new parkland, and you will be seeing that. In addition to that, we've -- also have been scrubbing the parks list and the zoning related to civic space, and we have identified areas currently that are serving as parks that are not zoned accordingly, so you will be seeing that as well. Any changes that we make, obviously, will come before you for consideration. So there's a lot of different options on the table as far as increasing park space. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Luciana, what -- canyon tell me the difference between -- fundamental difference between TI and CS? So if a spoil island is TI, what would it potentially lose if it were changed to CS? Ms. Gonzalez: Uses -- additional uses can be included in the CS Souses in CS can be from general commercial to -- I wouldn't say -- obviously not residential, but some commercial uses are allowed in CS by exception, which is through a public hearing at the Planning, Zoning & Appeals Board. Vice Chair Russell: Okay, so CS alone would -- Ms. Gonzalez: TI is conservation. Vice Chair Russell: -- not allow commercial -- Ms. Gonzalez: TI is nothing, zero. Vice Chair Russell: CS would not allow commercial inherently; it would need to be by exception? Ms. Gonzalez: All the uses under CS are all allowed by exception. Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair. Ms. Gonzalez: There's nothing by right. There's nothing administrative. So everything requires a public hearing, and that was done with the intent of notifying the public accordingly. Vice Chair Russell: But could TI be called a park in the way we have it now? Ms. Gonzalez: There are three areas in the City that are TI: Some parts of Virginia Key are TI, City ofMiami Page 98 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Simpson Park is TI, and there's one more park up the river; I can't think of the name right now. Sewell Park -- thank you -- that's TI. That's all the City has as far as TI goes. Everything else, park related is CS, civic space. Vice Chair Russell: All right. So, then, spoil islands as TI could be considered park already? Ms. Gonzalez: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: Do they count toward our parks --official park space in terms of the no net loss at the moment? Ms. Gonzalez: They do not. Vice Chair Russell: They do not. Ms. Gonzalez: No. Vice Chair Russell: Why is that? Ms. Gonzalez: TI is just a different zoning category. We can look and see if we can add to TI, but I think that the Comprehensive Plan is very clear with the land use designation of parks and recreation versus conservation, so all that is counted is the parks and recreation land use component. Vice Chair Russell: So, perhaps, there are some T1s, but not other T1s that might qualify as a useable park, and others are conservation lands we don't even want people walking on, for example. Ms. Gonzalez: Simpson Park is conservation, so it's just as far as the intensity of the use. TI does not allow for anything. Vice Chair Russell: TI protects it more Ms. Gonzalez: Complete protection. Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: No. I was going to say that, in CS, you can build 25 percent --up to 25 percent of the land, correct? Ms. Gonzalez: Correct. Commissioner Suarez: And I don't think that anybody wants to build on the spoil islands or -- right -- or Simpson Park, or any of those properties, and that's the concern, you know, is that, you know, you don't --you know, that's the right zoning category. Vice Chair Russell: Yep. Commissioner Suarez: You know, the right zoning category is strict conservation with no development, so -- Ms. Gonzalez: That's correct. City ofMiami Page 99 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Suarez: --that's some of the concerns that I have there. Vice Chair Russell: But Simpson Park is within our park system -- Ms. Gonzalez: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: -- and it is TI at the same time. Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Yes. Ms. Gonzalez: That is correct. Vice Chair Russell: So I guess what I was looking for --and this would go toward Commissioner Carollo's -- Commissioner Suarez: A nomenclature. Vice Chair Russell: -- issue here is that we find TI that could be labeled as park that currently are not. Is that -- Commissioner Carollo: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: --will that find some additional park space? Commissioner Carollo: Yes, or unzoned land like just happened recently that it was unzoned, and next thing you know, we could have zoned it parkland. So what I'm saying is all these issues, yes, let's correct it, which is part of the glitch of Miami 21. It's been six years, as you know. When -- I mean, when are we going to take --? Listen, recently, the Trust for Public Land identified Miami as a high-densio) cit) with below-average amount of parkland, you know. So there's many different ways to reach the goals that we have, you know, and one of them is what I just saw, you know: There was unzoned land that, realistically, should have been zoned parkland already, and it was not. So I want to make sure that all the land that we have -- and listen, just by passing this, doesn't mean that we automatically make it parkland It still has to come before us, and we have to, you know, make a determination as a board that it is parkland, and we change the zoning from no -- from unzoned land to, you know, park space. Mr. Alfonso: But l just want to clarify something. When you say i;nzone,'TI is a zone. Commissioner Suarez: Right. Vice Chair Russell: What was the Rickenbacker Causeway space that -- this is what you're speaking of, right? Commissioner Suarez: It had a zone (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Vice Chair Russell: What was it beforehand? What was it beforehand? Ms. Gonzalez: There was no zoning designation. Mr. Alfonso: No zoning. That was no zoning. Vice Chair Russell: That was a no zone, but -- Commissioner Carollo: Is there any more of that land? City ofMiami Page 100 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Gonzalez: There is. Like I said -- Vice Chair Russell: Eighteen acres. Ms. Gonzalez: -- there is about 18 acres, and I can tell you what those are. It's Hobie Beach, which is the south side of Rickenbacker Causeway; the spoil island in Dinner Key, which I've been told is not even accessible; and the south side of the Venetian Causeway, east of the toll plaza, is about another two acres there, so --for a total of 18 acres. Those are the areas, and we would have to look at whether we can zone them or not. We need to reach out to find out who the property owners are and whether that would make sense to zone them CS. Commissioner Carollo: So we're getting to what I'm saying. Ms. Gonzalez: And that's it. Vice Chair Russell: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) we are. Commissioner Carollo: What I'm saying, let's just do the homework. Let's -- Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: -- do the process. Vice Chair Russell: Now, the counterargument, which I understand from the Planning Zoning Department, is they would like to have a small stock of unzoned land in the event there's a glitch that needs to be fixed that we don't violate the no net loss park space property. I'm with you actually on this, in that we -- you know, in the case -- and we do have a Watson Island green space discussion item coming up as well, which this may come up again, because the activists felt in that case that the zoning change lost the abilio) to make a park where the Chalks propery) was. There's -- other side of that argument, but in order to get around the no net loss propery) , we have found a park -- or a space that was unzoned which is being used all the time as a park, and just suddenly calling it a park. I think what you're onto is the first step of finding those lands and deciding which ones we should designate now. Commissioner Carollo: It is the first step, because all that will have to still come back to this Commission, but I want to start -- again, I want to start the ball -- I want to get the ball rolling, and that's -- this is the first step; let's identify all these lands, because I don't want to have a secret stash that comes out, you know, and I mean that with no malice, you know, but, again, I don't want that there's a little stash away; and whenever we want to say we have no net loss, we bring this out and say, "Well, Commissioner, there is no net loss because now we can make this parkland. " No. Let's already make that parkland. Already, we know we're below average in park space, you know, so let's try to make as much land as we can park space and go towards the calculation of where we need to be. Ms. Gonzalez: Through the Chair, just to clarify something. The unzoned lands was never something that was done intentional, so when we've -- because the Watson Island challenge that we had, we had to look and identify something. Vice Chair Russell: Right. Ms. Gonzalez: Right? Because we don't want -- at the same time, ultimately, there is -- the policy is no net loss, and that's what we aim for. But I can tell you that there's approximately 1.7 acres of land that we've already identified either through the conveyance or through the recent purchases of parkland that are being rezoned, and they're going to be coming quickly to your -- for your consideration, so that's 1.7 acres that's already coming your way that we're adding to, City ofMiami Page 101 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 and the -- there is -- the no net loss policy has a baseline, so when the Comprehensive Plan was approved, that's what our baseline is, so since then, all we've been doing is adding to parkland. Vice Chair Russell: Right. Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, and I think -- I presume that the lot that we just purchased in my district will ultimately be converted into a park, and that'll change its zoning designation. My question is how does a parcel as large as Hobie not get zoned when we put in Miami 21 ? That's the part that I don't understand. Ms. Gonzalez: When you look at the GIS, there's no -- I don't -- and it's something that we have to look into. I don't see --you can't click on the map and see it platted or anything like that, so it's something that we have to look in our research, based on this resolution that we will look at, because it's not necessarily something that's platted. It's there; we can draw lines, and like we did with -- Vice Chair Russell: But it's been -- I'm sorry to interrupt it's -- paved,- it's maintained Ms. Gonzalez: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: There's barbecues there. There's dogs there. There's -- Ms. Gonzalez: Correct. Commissioner Suarez: Are you saying that nobody owns it? Ms. Gonzalez: No; the Count) owns it. Commissioner Suarez: Can I just --I'll put a flag there and -- Ms. Gonzalez: The County owns it. Commissioner Suarez: -- setup shop. Commissioner Carollo: But that's exactly my point. And she stated, based on this resolution, we're going to be looking into this and all the other lands within the Cit) of Miami that could possibly be parkland, for it to come back to here and properly be zoned the way it's supposed to be zoned. And again, I mean, the assistant director said it, "Based on this resolution. " Vice Chair Russell: No. The people want to know that if we do something that takes away park space or potential park space that we go and find new park space to make up for it. Commissioner Carollo: Exactly. Vice Chair Russell: Not that we pull land out of our pocket. Commissioner Carollo: Not that we have a secret stash and we take it out, exactly. Vice Chair Russell: Not that it's intentional, but we just want -- and what this does is it finds those -- any potential lands that should be park, and we name them as a park now, and that'll force us to go out and find new parks when we need to. City ofMiami Page 102 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Vice Chairman, either we're going to be fully transparent or we're not. It's as simple as that. Either we're going to be fully transparent or we're not. It's that simple. Vice Chair Russell: Do we have a motion on the floor? Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): No, you do not. Commissioner Carollo: I make a motion to move it. Commissioner Suarez: Second. Vice Chair Russell: We have a motion by Commissioner Carollo; second by Commissioner Suarez. Any --? I'm sorry. I believe we already did public hearing on this one? Ms. Ewan: No, you did not. Vice Chair Russell: We have not. I'd like to open the floor for public hearing. Wow. Apparently, if we have Commission on Friday, the park activists don't show up. We'll keep that in mind for the future. I thought we'd have a lot of discussion on this one. Please. Brenda Betancourt: Brenda Betancourt, 1436 Southwest 6th Street, Miami, Florida 33135. Actually, I want to congratulate Commissioner Carollo. We actually were complaining about not having the agendas on -- handy, and it's kind of hard for people to get it, so the email will be very great. But in talking about the park, I think we short on park, especially when we have parks that they are not being able to use by the citizens; that it has to be used by charter schools that we have, especially in Little Havana, so I really, really appreciate that you guys thinking about parks, because our kids need park We need to keep them entertained,- we need them to exercise, so this will be great if it's possible for the City to utilize these properties in order for us as a citizen enjoy the green areas. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you vett' much. Any further public discussion? Hearing none, seeing none, we'll close public hearing. No further discussion from the dais. We have a motion. We have a second All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Ms. Gonzalez: Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. RE.15 RESOLUTION 16-00324 District 3- A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION DIRECTING THE CITY Commissioner Frank MANAGER TO EITHER OBTAIN FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI THE MONETARY Carollo VALUE ASSOCIATED WITH THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ALLOTMENT TO TICKETS TO MARLINS BALLPARK AND THE MIAMI OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT, IF POSSIBLE, OR ESTABLISH A LOTTERY SYSTEM WHERE NONPROFIT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS AND RESIDENTS ARE ABLE TO ENJOY AND BENEFIT FROM TICKETS PROVIDED TO THE CITY OF MIAMI FROM THE MIAMI MARLINS AND THE MIAMI OPEN TENNIS TOURNAMENT. 16-00324 Legislation.pdf City ofMiami Page 103 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 WITHDRAWN A motion was made by Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, and was passed unanimously, with Chair Hardemon and Commissioner Gort absent, directing the Cit) Manager to provide a written description of the current policy as it relates to the Cio) 's lottery system for tickets to the Marlins ballpark and Miami Open tennis tournament, and to look at options on how to expand the lottery system so that additional organizations /facilities and residents can participate. Vice Chair Russell: RE.15. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And RE.15 is my -- the last resolution that I'm bringing forward before you today. It is, in essence, a resolution directing the Cit) Manager to either -- or "either" -- obtain from the Cit) --for the City of Miami the monetary value associated with the City of Miami's allotment of tickets to the Marlins ballpark and the Miami Open Tennis, if possible; or establish a lottery system where nonprofit charitable organizations and residents are able to enjoy the benefit from the tickets provided to the Cit) of Miami for the Marlins and the Miami Open Tennis Tournament. In essence, back in 2000 -- well, let me start by saying that we all know that preto) soon the --I don't know what it's called now. I guess it used to be the Ericsson; it used to be the Lipton. The Miami Open Tennis Tournament starts within a week or so. The Cit) of Miami used to receive tickets to that event. In 2012, I passed a similar resolution directing the Cit) Manager to obtain a monetary value for those tickets. I am under the impression that at that time, the Cit) Manager, which was Johnny Martinez, obtained $12, 000 from that tournament. Mr. Manager. Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Yes, Commissioner. We found a letter that was signed -- it was a commitment from the Count) to pay $15,100. Commissioner Carollo: Gotyou. Mr. Alfonso: That money was never paid because our Cit) Manager cannot enter into a lease agreement. It has to come to this Commission for approval; that never happened. So what happened was that the following year, the Count) agreed to do in a separate letter a lot of in-kind repairs and maintenance items to the parkland after they used it. There is no agreement between us and the tennis tournament. The tickets that were being given to the Cit) and given to different Commissioners at the time, those tickets were given out of the goodness of the heart of the Count), I suppose. It was just them being a good neighbor, because they're the ones that had the agreement with the tennis tournament. They would get tickets, and they would bring them over to the Cit), but it was not part of the letter of agreement. We have copies of the agreements; several letters going back to as far as 2004. They never mentioned tickets, per se. It was always, you know, We'll use your property. We'll repair it. We'll maintain it. We'll clean it. We'll give you a better berm. "Those type of things. In 2012, as you said, Johnny Martinez did get a letter from -- I believe it was George Burgess at the time, where they committed to pay 15, 100for the use of the space; but again, since I cannot enter into a lease agreement without bringing it to Commission, just like Johnny couldn't, that never did come to Commission for approval as a separate lease agreement; that 15, 000 was never paid. And what happened, instead, the following year, they made it up by doing in-kind improvements in the park. Commissioner Carollo: So, in essence, it fell through the cracks? Okay. So, that's why I'm bringing it up again for two tournaments or two events: one is the -- I guess it's called now the Miami Open Tennis Tournament. So, again, it's a resolution seeing -- ifpossible, to obtain, you know, monetary value. The other is the Marlins Park. At that time in 2012, it was also included to have the Marlins Park to see if we could obtain the monetary value for the box that we have there and we share with the Count). It's my understanding that the Marlins did not want to give us the monetary value, and I don't know what happened to the tickets. However, it's a new -- there's a new season now, so I want to make sure that we could either obtain a monetary value, City ofMiami Page 104 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 which -- I'm not going to kid you -- I don't think we are. If the Marlins didn't do it before, I don't think they will now, but then let's setup a lottery similar to what the Count) did in order for us to be able to give those tickets to different organizations, different not -for -profits, and different -- and the residents of the Cit) of Miami for their enjoyment. And if I may, I'll give you language, which is -- which was done by the Count) for the lottery system, and it stipulates: "The 2016 Miami Marlins baseball season, whereby the tickets allotted to the Count) will be allocated to each of the Count) Commissioners and the County Mayor via a random drawing/lottery and will then be distributed as directed by the district Commissioner or Mayor to whom the tickets was allotted to youth, charitable organizations, and/or any other organization, and/or individual fulfilling a public purpose or function. " As you all know, yesterday we had an ethics course here, and the Ethics Commission has no problem with this type of lottery. As a matter of fact, I think they look at it positively, and this is a way of the tickets that, by contract, the Cit) is supposed to receive from the Marlins can now be handed in a transparent manner to different charitable organizations, to youth, and the public, the citizens of the Cit) of Miami. Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: The -- so you're -- it seems you have two concerns: One is the value of the tickets. Commissioner Carollo: Well, what I'm saying is -- the tickets obviously have value, so what I'm saying is either obtain the monetary value of those tickets, and we could put it in the general fund or, you know -- Vice Chair Russell: Meaning, purchase them? Commissioner Carollo: No, no. Vice Chair Russell: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) saying. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Vice Chair Russell: This is a gift from the tournaments to the Cii)�, correct? Commissioner Carollo: You could call it a gift; you could call it an allotment, you could call it whatever you want, but these tournaments, historically, have given us tickets. The Sony Ericsson, which is now the Miami Open -- and you heard what the Manager said. So maybe this year, that's it. They're going to tell us, Hey, we don't have an agreement anymore. We've given you the in-kind, so that's over with. " And we dropped the ball, unfortunately, back in 2012 when we even got a letter from the Count), according to the Manager, that Yeah, we'll pay you the $15, 000 instead of the tickets that we always give you. "Somehow, it fell through the cracks, you know. We can't micromanage everything. Now, with that said, the Marlins have a contractual obligation to give the Cit) and the Count), for that matter, a box for every single one of their games. We alternate: one game the City has the box available to them; the next game the County has a box available to them. So what the County has done is that they did a lottery with all the Commissioners, since they have 13 Commissioners and the Mayor, to see how many Commissioners receives X'humber of games. Now -- tickets to those X'humber of games. Now, those tickets to Vhumber of games then goes to charitable organizations, the youth; different organizations and individuals that will fulfill a public purpose, you know, within their districts. So what I'm saying is let's follow that motto, you know, which is approved by the Ethics Commission, so that we don't lose those tickets, or that we at least have a process that is transparent for the residents to be able to enjoy. City ofMiami Page 105 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Suarez: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: Simple as that. Vice Chair Russell: Understood So your resolution just encompasses these two events. Do we want to make it that specific or --? Commissioner Carollo: I do for now. Vice Chair Russell: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: I mean -- because in the future, we could bring a ticket policy, but I think for now, these are two events that are going to start within -- one within a week or so; the other one within a month, so I want to make sure that at least these two events we have covered and gives the flexibilio) to the Manager to either obtain monetat y value or do the lottery, so we can actually, in a transparent manner, start issuing these tickets out to the public, to the different not-for-profit organizations, to the youth, you know. You obviously know we have a issue with youth gun violence, you know, and this is alternatives for the youth, you know; gives them something to do when they're, you know, young. So, you know, all it is is directing the Manager, "Hey, listen, reach out to these organizations and see if we could either get a monetary value, " you know; so the money, to put it in our general fund or let's establish a transparent process in a way that we actually give these tickets out to the different not-for-profit or different organizations or the youth in our communii)�, but in a transparent process. And I just gave you an example of Vice Chair Russell: I believe -- Commissioner Carollo: -- the language that -- Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Carollo, I believe we've lost quorum for a moment here Commissioner Carollo: And I gave you the language -- I understand. We're not --I don't think we'll vote on it just yet And I gave you the language of what the Count) recently did. Mr. Alfonso: Commissioner, while we're tossing this around, I have no problem with divvying it up. For the last two years -- before I became Manager, we threw the tickets in the garbage can, basically. We didn't use them, because of the whole issue with the Ethics, and all that stuff. Commissioner Carollo: That's what I'm trying to avoid Mr. Alfonso: Yes, I understand So for the last two years, since I've been Manager, what I've done is I've given the box of tickets to the Parks director, and we have given them to kids in our parks, and we're taking kids to the games, and stuff like that. I have no problem with doing it differently. There are 41 games that we get tickets for. We believe --I believe I get 16 tickets per the game; there are six elected officials; I can easily divide it to each elected official. And do you want to do a lottery managed by us or by you or how would --? You know, that would be up to you guys. Commissioner Suarez: By the Florida Lotto. Mr. Alfonso: The Clerk's Office will run the lottery; there you go. God bless you. I think he's the most impartial person in this group, and I think that's what the recommendation is. Commissioner Carollo: I think we have former Count) Commissioner Sorenson, and maybe she could shed some light, because I don't know if it was first done while you were still a Count) City ofMiami Page 106 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner, but you understand what I'm trying to accomplish. Commissioner Katy Sorenson: Yes. Commissioner Suarez: I want her to handle the bingo balls. Commissioner Sorenson: Mr. Chair, if I may? Vice Chair Russell: Welcome. You're recognized. Commissioner Sorenson: Thank you. Kat) Sorenson, with the Good Government Initiative at 1320 South Dixie Highway. Commissioner Carollo, I really appreciate what you're trying to do, because I think the ticket situation got way out of control -- Commissioner Suarez: Absolutely. Commissioner Sorenson: -- at the County, at the City. And I think probably the best good government solution is to have the Manager handle it the way he's han -- he's got a lottevy system or he's distributing to the parks. The problem with doing it by Commission office is then you can be accused of patronage; that you're giving some kind of benefit to certain people in your district, and even if it's a lottery, it looks like favors you're granting; whereas, if you do it through the Cit) Manager, you've got a vett' transparent way that nobody can criticize. So I applaud your efforts in this way, and I hope you come up with a good system. Vice Chair Russell: Is there an established system through the Manager that makes sure that they're distributed fairly? Even through the Parks Department, who's to say who they go to? Is it a squeaky wheel situation or -- Commissioner Carollo: Exactly. Vice Chair Russell: -- a kid did good in soccer today, or is there an actual distribution program? I don't know that Commissioner Carollo's specifically needing them to go through the district Offices, but at least that we have a system -- Commissioner Sorenson: Right. Vice Chair Russell: -- that's accountable and reliable. Commissioner Sorenson: That's fair and transparent, and it doesn't just -- maybe it's beyond the parks; it goes to also the communio) -based organizations in the Cit) , and that would make sense. Commissioner Carollo: Exactly. And I -- that is what the County is doing, and that's why it's got the blessing of the Ethics Commission. And as you know, Mr. Centerino was here yesterday, and I mentioned this; and yeah, he thought it was a good idea. Once again -- and what it is is -- and you hit it right on the head, Mr. Vice Chairman -- we want to make sure that there is -- equal through all the districts, and all the different organizations through all the districts. We just don't want to focus on one area or the squeaky wheel. We want to make sure that, you know, there's representation. That's why, you know, the five of us are here, and the Mayor, and that's how the Count) has done it. It's been praised by the Ethics Commission. And I think that we should now follow a transparent model and -- as opposed to, well, we give it to the Parks director, and do you really know where the tickets went to? Vice Chair Russell: But it sounds like, Mr. Manager, you're saying -- at this point, you throw them in the garbage just to avoid the controversy. City ofMiami Page 107 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Carollo: Right, right. Mr. Alfonso: No, no. Let me state that again. And please, you know, the way you said it, Commissioner, it sounds like you give it to the Parks director, and (UNINTELLIGIBLE). No, the Park's director has been spreading it through all the parks, through different kids, and whatnot. For two years, Commissioner, what happened was we threw them away, because there was a lot Of controversy about who's going to get what, and people -- it was -- the City of Miami had some issues with tickets in the past -- let's just be honest -- and it became kind of an issue, so we've decided we're not taking tickets from anybody sometime back, like concerts and stuff like that. We have a contract with you; you pay your rent; thank you very much. We don't take tickets. The issue with the Marlins is by contract, they're giving us tickets to 41 games. Now, there was supposed to be a ticket policy established It was brought to Commission like six or seven different times; it was deferred each and every time, so that, eventually, it was just withdrawn, because we sort of got -- I guess the Administration decided, you know, there's only about seven or eight times you can bring this up. We're not going to discuss it; we just withdrew it. Sounder the previous Manager, the tickets just got tossed in the garbage. I felt, when I became Manager, it's really a waste to throw away those tickets, so I gave them to the Parks director to put tickets to use with the kids that are in our various parks throughout the programs, throughout the Cit), and he's kept records of who got all the tickets. So there's not like we're, you know, mysteriously giving anybod the tickets. But if this Commission wants to take each Commissioner and give each Commissioner six games, I'm more than willing to do that, and the Clerk can divvy them up to whoever it is that signs up from the residents or CBOs (Communio) Based Organizations) or whoever. Vice Chair Russell: Director Kirwin. Kevin Kirwin: Mr. Chair, how are you today? Good afternoon. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Kirwin: Kevin Kirwin, your City of Miami Park & Recreation director. Sir, I'm very familiar with the Cotmo) 's legislation, because I remember writing it. The -- what could happen, Mr. Manager, with your permission, is if we go and we meet with every one of you, show you how we're going to distribute the tickets. If there are organizations within your district that you feel that you need to bring to our attention, we can make sure that those organizations get the tickets, because we've been doing a very good job (UNINTELLIGIBLE) from all the communio) -based organizations, but there may be somebody that you know that we -- is not on our radar, because we're going by the folks right on the parks, and we would work with you to make sure that they -- Commissioner Carollo: Director Kirwin, since -- Mr. Kirwin: Yes, sir. Commissioner Carollo: -- you're saying that you wrote the policy, is there a flaw with it? Because it continues to be used the exact same way, and it seems like it's got the blessing of the -- well, it doesn't seem it; it's got the blessing of the Ethics Commission. So, since you wrote that policy, is there a flaw with it? And if there's not, then why don't we just incorporate it now in the City? And that's what I'm seeing. I'm seeing a policy that has worked that has the blessing of the Ethics Commission, that is transparent; why not replicate it? Mr. Kirwin: It's working at the Count); and though I wrote it, I did not vote on it. And it is working now. It was just renewed. And it was a very simplified process and very transparent, so -- I mean, it is an option. City ofMiami Page 108 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Carollo: So what I'm saying is why not follow it. You said it; it's a simple process, and it is transparent. What more do you want? I mean, let's not follow it. And it's proven that it works. Mr. Kirwin: Sir, we will do whatever this board directs us to do. Vice Chair Russell: What is your current policy? How --you say you distribute it amongst the parks. How does that work? Mr. Kirwin: We get a list of all the communio) -based organizations and all the park -- obviously, the park programs. And there are 41 games; that there's 16 tickets. There --we ensure that there is a -- somebody there that -- an adult that -- so there's a ratio of adults to children. And we also give them out to our senior programs and disability services programs, and they go. And they come, they sign a log for their tickets, and then they go to the game. Vice Chair Russell: But what is the process through which that individual park selects which kid gets or doesn't get the ticket? Mr. Kirwin: It's -- here's our program on the park: one, two, three, four, and we just go right down the list, and we do make sure that they're getting spread through the system and through the City. Commissioner Carollo: Is that what you're doing now, or is that what the County does? Mr. Kirwin: That's what we did last year. Commissioner Carollo: Right. But What does the County do? "I think, is the question. Vice Chair Russell: I -- no, I was wanting to know what we do, and just fully -- because I don't fully understand it yet What do you mean you go down the list, one, two, three, four? Mr. Kirwin: If we have an after -- a summer camp, after school program -- because the season starts while we're still running an after school program -- Vice Chair Russell: Right. Mr. Kirwin: -- a senior program, a optimist team, another organization that's on the park -- Vice Chair Russell: Right. Mr. Kirwin: -- then we go -- okay, this park's going to get -- we just go down one, two, three -- Vice Chair Russell: I mean, who gets the ticket? Like how do you choose which kid? Or does everyone in that group get a ticket? Mr. Kirwin: We go to the leader of the organization. Vice Chair Russell: Okay. Mr. Kirwin: We don't go to the individual child. Vice Chair Russell: So then the leader of the organization gets a group of tickets for their entire group, or they select a kid? Mr. Kirwin: They select the children. City ofMiami Page 109 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: Okay, that's -- Mr. Kirwin: We get -- they're going to get that block for that --for the --for those seats for that night or that day of the game. Vice Chair Russell: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: Madam City Attorney -- Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Of course. Commissioner Carollo: Madam City Attorney, have you asked the Ethics Commission if the way we're doing it is proper? Victoria Mendez (City Attorne)): Yes, sir. It's proper. Commissioner Carollo: So you have asked them? Ms. Mendez: Yes, yes, I asked. Commissioner Carollo: Okay, good. At least we're in the -- in a good standing and good pace. Now, with that said, again, if it's something that I know is proven, is worked, is transparent; and you say yourself, you drew the legislation, from what you're saying; it's transparent, why not do it? It's got the blessing of the Ethics Commission. Mr. Alfonso: Right. So the only difference -- and again, Commissioner, if this -- Commissioner Carollo: Everybody knows -- all the Commissioners know what tickets are going where, so it's fully transparent; why not adopt something like that? Mr. Alfonso: Mr. Chairman, can I? Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Mr. Alfonso: So, Commissioner, again, I have no problem if this is the way the Commission wants to do it, because it makes it very simple. Commissioner Carollo: Exactly. Mr. Alfonso: I don't have a problem. It does take away, though, from the kids that are in our parks right now that we guarantee that those are the people getting them, the people in our parks programs. This would give it to other people as well. Again, it's really a policy. I don't have a problem either way. Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. I mean, I really don't know what's going on with the tickets. I don't -- we don't touch the tickets, thankfully, and I think it's a good thing that we don't look at them, we don't see them, we don't touch them; they never flow through our office anymore, so I think that's wonderful and good The only population I think that has complained about not having the abilio) to go to games and there being a -- I don't want to say a disequilibrium, but a -- because what happens is people talk to each other, and so I've only heard complaints; only people that have ever complained to me are some of my residents at Smathers who have complained, because that's not a park That's just an elderly -- a public housing facilio) , and so City ofMiami Page 110 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 what they have complained about is that they had heard that in other eomedores'(phonetic), if you will, people got tickets, and they have not gotten the same access to tickets, and these are people that love baseball. I mean, they're, you know, Cubans, mostly, and they really love baseball. To them, going to a baseball game is a big deal, you know. And so that's the only group of people that I ever heard complain. I don't know -- I mean, I like to think, as you know, that I'm very present in the park system, but I don't know who's getting them in that system or not, because no one comes up to me and tells me, Oh, I got tickets to the Marlins game; that's great; that's fantastic. "Again, I like being totally separated from the process completely. I think that's the way we're to do it. But I will say that I have gotten complaints over the years. And this actually precedes you, and it may even precede the policy. Mr. Alfonso: Again, before I became Manager -- Commissioner Suarez: Right. Mr. Alfonso: -- I know that I threw away -- when I got into the office, there was a season that had finished and it was the entire box of the previous year. Commissioner Suarez: And it wasn't because they weren't doing well. No. Mr. Alfonso: Well, no. I mean, because they're not doing well, we actually got like 2000 tickets Commissioner Suarez: No. Mr. Alfonso: --for one of the games in a summer program. Commissioner Suarez: No. Mr. Alfonso: But we threw the entire summer program (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Suarez: No, but I had heard things like --particularly at Smathers, like people saying, "Oh, we heard that so and so at another comedoer (phonetic) got tickets to the Marlins; we didn't get tickets." You know, "Why is that happening" kind of a deal. That's the only thing I've heard on the issue. Vice Chair Russell: At the vett' least, I definitely would like to see the Parks Department's policy in terms of how those tickets are distributed, what are the -- what is the universe of the groups they're distributed to, and what is your rotation that you use with them, just to make sure nobody's either getting left out, or that we know -- so that when someone does come to us, we know what the system is and we could tell it to them. I, similar to Commissioner Suarez, prefer not to have tickets in the office. It's very confusing to me about who I'm allowed to accept tickets from and who I'm not allowed to accept tickets from. I received tickets for the Art Fest; I threw them away, and then I had to pay to go. I snuck into the Boat Show. I'd rather not have tickets to give out so that when -- I don't get accused of favoritism in myself, because I know if I give them to someone and I don't give it to someone else, they're going to come to me and -- so, anyway. Commissioner Suarez: I went to the door of the Boat Show to see how the traffic was, but I never went in, so -- Vice Chair Russell: The resolution that's -- that you have before us, does it specifically ask to put the tickets into the district Commissioner's hands? Commissioner Carollo: No, I'm not saying that. However, what I'm saying is, follow the Count) City ofMiami Page III Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 policy that I know the Ethics Commission has blessed, it appears that has worked Our own, you know, Parks director said, "Hey, I drafted it. It's easy, and it's transparent. " So, all I'm saying is, is there a compelling reason not to do it? And again, listen, I'm not a fan of receiving any of these tickets or anything of that. As a matter of fact, I mentioned today earlier that I went to the Boat Show; I paid for my ticket. I --you know, so -- Anyways, with that said what I am saying is, listen, since I know for a fact that for a couple years, those tickets have been thrown away, and our communio) could have used them. What I have seen, where there has been no argument, is that the policy that the Count) has used has worked. Therefore, okay, then let's abide by that, as opposed to -- before this conversation, did you know how the tickets were being distributed, and that they were even being distributed? Vice Chair Russell: Director. Commissioner Carollo: Because -- did you know, Commissioner Suarez? Commissioner Suarez: No, I had no idea. Commissioner Carollo: You had no idea. Commissioner Suarez: No. Commissioner Carollo: Well -- Commissioner Suarez: I didn't want to know. Vice Chair Russell: I actually do want to know. Director, what would the difference be if we adopted the County policy of ticket distribution? What would be different from what you do now? Mr. Kirwin: The tickets would all, I believe, go to the Clerk's Oce, and there's a lottery held where they go in a cycle -- Commissioner Suarez: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Sorenson is doing the lottery. That's my only issue. She's got to do the lottery. Mr. Kirwin: And I will never go against a former Count) Commissioner. Vice Chair Russell: So there would be a lottery system open to the entire public, anyone who wants to -- is that (UNINTELLIGIBLE)? Mr. Kirwin: By district. Vice Chair Russell: I'm sorry? Mr. Kirwin: By district. Vice Chair Russell: By district. Mr. Kirwin: And to former Commissioner Sorenson's point, I mean, that was the rub, but that -- from a staff perspective, it was very easy, because we did not need to account for -- Vice Chair Russell: Sure. Mr. Kirwin: -- and distribute all the tickets. City ofMiami Page 112 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: Clearly, this is a clean ethical way. According to our City Attorney, our current way is ethical as well, but it also rewards children within our parks, people within our system that are -- you know, that we can identify versus the lottery system would be completely random, correct? And so I guess that's really up for us to decide. Commissioner Carollo: Exactly. And as far as completely random, I yield to our Parks director. I mean, he drafted the legislation. I mean, so -- Mr. Alfonso: Now, he -- Commissioner Carollo: But -- Mr. Alfonso: -- didn't say he's advocating for it. Mr. Kirwin: I did not direct -- Mr. Alfonso: He drafted it. Vice Chair Russell: He was directed (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: Right. But I said, is there any flaws, you know? And again, listen, I think the reason why the ticket policy hasn't come before us is because, in all fairness, I don't think any Commissioner really wants to deal with this. Vice Chair Russell: Sorty, Commissioner. Yeah. And, in fact, we just lost quorum again, so you're probably right. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. No Commissioners really want to do deal with this, with the whole ticket policy; that's why I brought it to two events, because it's the two events that, realistically, are going to happen now, and that's why I'm bringing it up. No Commissioners wants to deal with these ticket policy. I think every Commissioner think it's a pain, it's a headache. Again, I don't want to touch tickets anymore, but at the same time, I'm seeing that this is something that works, and I want to make sure. I didn't know that the Parks Department was giving them out. So, in all fairness, I think, at the very least, this board should know what's going on in our city. But I had no idea that those tickets were not being thrown away again or that they were being utilized. So, again, what I want to do again is establish something that appears to have worked And if it hasn't worked, then I want someone to tell me, "No, it hasn't worked. " Or, "Hey, we've had these issues, " but I'm telling you, just -- Vice Chair Russell: Understood Commissioner, just a moment. Without quorum, should we hold the meeting for a moment until -- yeah. Ms. Ewan: Commissioners -- Vice Chair Russell: We need quorum to continue, so we'll wait. Unidentified Speaker: Can I just say something very simple? Vice Chair Russell: Not without quorum. I will --we may open for public discussion. We're waiting for quorum. Sergeant at arms. Chief Llanes. Commissioner Carollo: By the way, it's 6:12 on a Friday. I just wanted to point it out. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. City ofMiami Page 113 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Suarez: Keep it up, guys. Vice Chair Russell: We got to get this rolling. We got to get this rolling. Commissioner Suarez: Keep it up, keep it up. Vice Chair Russell: All right, we have quorum. We do not have a motion on the floor. Commissioner Carollo: Look, just real simple, real simple. The only thing I try to do with this is establish a policy that is transparent and that we know exactly what we have. Simple as that. It's as simple as that. It's something that it was blessed by the Ethics Commission; something that we have known to have worked for the past X'humber of years. And what I don't want is to be, you know, passing out tickets, even if it's our Parks director, you know, passing out tickets where none of us knew that that was going on; and once again, I thought, "Hey, are the tickets going to get thrown away again? " So all I'm doing is bringing something forward that I know has worked in order for us to be, you know, once again, transparent. Vice Chair Russell: Absolutely. It's definitely been brought to light. We -- at the -- personally, I am not looking to change the current policy. It sounds like there is a policy, until I study it further to understand that it's not a fair policy, not an ethical policy. Commissioner Carollo: I didn't even know there was a policy. Vice Chair Russell: Now we know. And so, unless there's a motion on the floor -- we've had a healthy discussion on this. We --unless there's a motion on the floor, we will not be having public discussion --public hearing on it. So where are we? Do we have a motion? Commissioner Carollo: What's the will of this Commission? I mean, what's your preference? What's Commissioner Suarez's preference? I just know that this is something that has worked, and that's why I'm bringing it forward, and it is transparent. Vice Chair Russell: It may be possible, but without a lot of further study, I'm not -- I personally don't want to take tickets from kids at the parks they're currently distributing, if it's in a proper way, rather than a completely random lottery to half a million people. I don't know. But it may be the right thing, but I want to study it some more. I want to study it some more. Commissioner Suarez: I mean, we can study it, table it, defer it, whatever. I mean -- Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: What is the will of this Commission? Commissioner Suarez: You want to defer it? Vice Chair Russell: Sure. Commissioner Carollo: I mean, in all fairness, believe me, I didn't want to be the Commissioner that, once again, brings the ticket policy back. I was the original one that brought the whole ticket policy, and it just kept being deferred and deferred and deferred. Believe me -- but again, I'm seeing that, once again, in 2012, I brought it forward; it passed We were supposed to get $15, 000; it fell through the cracks; we didn't get it. The tickets were thrown away. And I'm just seeing that, once again, is this going to happen? I had no idea that the tickets were being passed out, so I'm bringing this forward as something that, you know, I know it's working; I know it's ethical, according to the Ethics Commission. And I wanted to see, "Hey, do we finally have a policy, or we don't? " Because the way it's been doing it, it could be -- and I don't mean that City ofMiami Page 114 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 there's any malice by it. It could be legal. It could be ethical. But there's no policy established, and none of us knew what was going on. Vice Chair Russell: Correct. I would say, let's -- Commissioner Carollo: And that's not transparent. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. So can we get a motion on the floor, please? Commissioner Carollo: What's your --? Commissioner Suarez: I mean, I see both sides, you know. Like, I hear your point about -- you know, I think it's a tool that we use in our cit) with children in particular, with kids in particular, and we need to do everything we can. We have an obligation to do everything we can; particularly, since a lot of these, including the Marlins stadium in particular, are publicly financed facilities. So, I mean, our residents, and particularly our poor residents, should be availing themselves of this. The -- but there is sort of something that's being missing, which is a lot of our residents don't interact with the park system, so, you know, in the case of -- and again, I gave you an example from my district, which is just an elderly communio) that doesn't interact with the park system, per se. I do have elderly, by the way, that do interact with the park system in Coral Gate and in other parks, but some don't, and so I feel that they're being left out, so I don't know. Maybe you guys can incorporate more facilities rather than just parks. Maybe that's a way to solve the issue, is if you let people register -- I mean, I don't know if it's the same thing -- but you let people register -- Vice Chair Russell: I think I can help us along here, because we -- it's past Miller Time, and we are -- Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, sure. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chair. Vice Chair Russell: -- what we need to do here is -- Commissioner Suarez: No doubt. Vice Chair Russell: -- possibly direct Administration to give us a written description of the current policy, because it seems they have a policy; it's just not concretized and -- Commissioner Suarez: Absorb what we've talked about here -- Vice Chair Russell: -- absorb what we talked about. Commissioner Suarez: --if there's some modifications that can be made to expand the process a little bit more to encompass -- to get more people involved. Commissioner Carollo: And, in essence, that's what I want. I want a policy that's transparent, you know. I don't necessarily -- Vice Chair Russell: Okay. So, do we have a direction for -- Commissioner Suarez: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: --Administration? City ofMiami Page 115 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Suarez: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: Please. Commissioner Suarez: As you articulated it. The direction is that the Administration is going to write the policy, if it's not already written, or give it to us, and they will amend the policy to incorporate our concerns and comments. Fair? Vice Chair Russell: Absolutely. And so, are we --? Commissioner Carollo: So I make a motion with that statement and -- Commissioner Suarez: And I'll second it. Vice Chair Russell: To -- what is your motion? Commissioner Carollo: Exactly what Commissioner -- Commissioner Suarez: His motion was a directive. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah, it's a directive. Vice Chair Russell: Okay, so we're not bringing this back on any specific date? Ms. Ewan: If we can address the directive first -- pass the vote on the directive, and then we can address the item itself. Commissioner Carollo: Well, the directive is that apparently, there's a policy that's not written, or that we didn't even know about, so can we have it written and given to the Commission in a Commission meeting so we, you know, can see what the policy is, number one. And number two, with what Commissioner Suarez says, can some of the stuff that we stated be incorporated in that? It appears, Mr. Kir win was the person who drafted that, the County's policy. Okay, can we make it better then? Can we make that policy better? And then bring it back to this Commission for us to actually vote on it, and we actually have a ticket policy, at least with these two events. Vice Chair Russell: Is that sufficient? Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, sounds good Vice Chair Russell: Good to move on. Commissioner Carollo: Are we good, Madam City Clerk? Ms. Ewan: Yes. If we can have a motion and a second Was that by (UNINTELLIGIBLE)? Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Commissioner Carollo: I think -- Commissioner Suarez: It's already been -- Commissioner Carollo: I made it. Vice Chair Russell: Moved by Commissioner Carollo; second by Commissioner Suarez. City ofMiami Page 116 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Suarez: Yep. Vice Chair Russell: All right, we are onto Boards and Committees. Ms. Ewan: We do -- Vice Chair Russell: Oh, you have to -- Ms. Ewan: -- need to address the item itself. Vice Chair Russell: That's what I thought. Commissioner Suarez: Withdraw the item after -- Commissioner Carollo: So -- Ms. Ewan: Is the item going to be deferred? Commissioner Suarez: Okay, we got to vote first. Vice Chair Russell: That -- okay. That's what I was asking from the start, and you were saying, "No, we just need the directive. " Commissioner Carollo: No, let's -- Vice Chair Russell: Exactly. What is the motion on the item? That was what I was -- Commissioner Suarez: No, but he made a motion and a second. We -- did we vote on it? Did we take a vote? Ms. Ewan: No. We need to vote. Commissioner Suarez: Okay, let's take a vote. Commissioner Carollo: Let's take a vote. Vice Chair Russell: I'm sore; thank you. Commissioner Carollo: All in favor, say 5ye. " Vice Chair Russell: All in -- thank you. Commissioner Suarez: Aye. Commissioner Carollo: Aye. Vice Chair Russell: All in favor, say "aye. " Commissioner Suarez: Now we can deal with the item. Vice Chair Russell: Aye. Wow. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. City ofMiami Page 117 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: Boards and Committees. Ms. Ewan: We still need to get -- address the -- Mr. Alfonso: No, you still need to figure out how (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- Ms. Ewan: -- the deferral or withdraw of the item. Commissioner Suarez: Why don't we withdraw it or bring it back? Commissioner Carollo: I'm sorry? Ms. Ewan: We still need to address whether the item is going to be deferred or withdrawn. Vice Chair Russell: Okay, so we moved just now on the directive. Ms. Ewan: On the directive, correct. Vice Chair Russell: We need a motion on the item. What would you like to do with the item? Commissioner Suarez: I think you -- Commissioner Carollo: And when they bring it back -- Ms. Ewan: You can indefinitely defer it, and they can bring it back before six months, if you would like that. Commissioner Carollo: In six -- Mr. Alfonso: No, before six months is what she said. Commissioner Carollo: How 'bout when the season's over? Mr. Alfonso: Clearly, it'll have to be sooner, so otherwise, there'll be no tickets for us to do anything else with. Commissioner Carollo: Okay, so we just voted -- I thought when we were voting, it was actually on RE. 1 S. And instead of this -- instead of what's written here, it was what -- Commissioner Suarez: Different (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Vice Chair Russell: The directive. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Commissioner Suarez: That's what I'm saying. That's my point. Vice Chair Russell: So then you're withdrawing the item? Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, that's what think, you should withdraw the item. Vice Chair Russell: Okay. Then we need -- that's what the motion is. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, because this -- we're not going to vote on this. We're voting on what we voted on already. City ofMiami Page 118 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: Right, but we have the item sitting here. Commissioner Suarez: Agreed. Vice Chair Russell: We need to do -- Commissioner Suarez: So we should withdraw it. Vice Chair Russell: Is it being withdrawn? Commissioner Carollo: Okay, I -- Ms. Ewan: Since it's Commissioner Carollo's item, he can unilaterally just withdraw the item. Commissioner Suarez: Right, okay. Commissioner Carollo: Okay, I withdraw the item, because this --from this item that other motion came about. Ms. Ewan: Perfect. Commissioner Suarez: Perfect. Ms. Ewan: Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. And I was doing so well on my first day -- Commissioner Suarez: You were doing great. Vice Chair Russell: -- with the gavel. Commissioner Suarez: You're doing great. Commissioner Carollo: You're doing great. Commissioner Suarez: You're doing great, you're doing great. I like the "Miller Time" one. That was good. Vice Chair Russell: All right. Commissioner Carollo: We're almost there. END OF RESOLUTIONS BOARDS AND COMMITTEES BC.1 RESOLUTION 16-00260 Office of the City A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING Clerk CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT COUNCIL FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: City ofMiami Page 119 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 NO ACTION TAKEN 113C.3 RESOLUTION City ofMiami Page 120 Printed on 412 012 01 6 Mercedes Lopez -Cisneros Mayor Tombs Regalado Maria Napoles Mayor Tombs Regalado Cameron Basden Commissioner Francis Suarez 16-00260 Arts CCMemo.pdf 16-00260 Arts Current_Board_Members.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0115 Vice Chair Russell: Now, can we move on to Boards and Committees? Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): Yes. Good evening. BC. 1, Arts & Entertainment Council: Mayor Regalado will be reappointing Mercedes Lopez -Cisneros and Maria Napoles; Commissioner Suarez will be appointing Cameron Basden. Commissioner Suarez: Does she need any sort of special waivers? Ms. Ewan: No, she does not. Commissioner Suarez: Okay, good. Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved and seconded. All in favor? The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. BC.2 RESOLUTION 16-00261 Office of the City A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING Clerk CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE AUDITADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Chair Keon Hardemon Vice Chair Ken Russell NO ACTION TAKEN 113C.3 RESOLUTION City ofMiami Page 120 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 16-00262 Office of the City Clerk BCA 16-00263 Office of the City Clerk BC.5 16-00264 Office of the City Clerk A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL ASA MEMBER OF THE BAYFRONT PARK MANAGEMENT TRUST FOR ATERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEE: Marlene Avalo NOMINATED BY: Commission -At -Large 16-00262 Bayfront CCMemo.pdf 16-00262 Bayfront Current_Board_Members.pdf Motion by Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0116 Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC 3, Bayfront Park Management Trust: Marlene Avalo, Commission -at -large appointee, will be reappointed by Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Move it. Commissioner Suarez: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved and seconded. All in favor, "aye. " The Commission (Collectively): Aye. RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE CHARTER REVIEWAND REFORM COMMITTEE FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Vice Chair Ken Russell Vice Chair Ken Russell 16-00263 Charter Review CCMemo.pdf 16-00263 Charter Review Current_Board_Members.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI City ofMiami Page 121 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Chair Keon Hardemon Vice Chair Ken Russell Commissioner Wifredo (Willy) Gort Commissioner Frank Carollo NO ACTION TAKEN BC.6 RESOLUTION 14-00967 Offrce of the City A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION CONFIRMING THE Clerk APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE CIVILIAN INVESTIGATIVE PANEL FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Civilian Investigative Panel Civilian Investigative Panel Civilian Investigative Panel Civilian Investigative Panel Civilian Investigative Panel 14-00967 CIP Memo and Resumes.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN BC.7 RESOLUTION 15-01679 Office of the City A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A Clerk CERTAIN INDIVIDUALAS A MEMBER OF THE CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD FOR ATERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEE: Frank Pichel 15-01679 CEB CCMemo.pdf 15-01679 CEB Current_Board_Members.pdf NOMINATED BY: Commissioner Wifredo (Willy) Gort City ofMiami Page 122 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Motion by Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0117 Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC 7, Code Enforcement Board: Commissioner Gort will be reappointing Frank Pichel. Commissioner Carollo: Move it. Commissioner Suarez: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved and seconded. All in favor, say "aye. " The Commission (Collectively): Aye BC.8 RESOLUTION 16-00265 Office of the City A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING Clerk CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. BC.9 16-00266 Office of the City Clerk APPOINTEES: 16-00265 CRIB CCMemo.pdf 16-00265 CRIB Current_Board_Members.pdf 16-00265 CRIB Memos and Resumes.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION NOMINATED BY: Mayor Tombs Regalado Chair Keon Hardemon Chair Keon Hardemon Vice Chair Ken Russell A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Mayor Tombs Regalado Chair Keon Hardemon City ofMiami Page 123 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Chair Keon Hardemon Vice Chair Ken Russell Commissioner Frank Carollo Commissioner Francis Suarez Commissioner Francis Suarez NO ACTION TAKEN BC.10 RESOLUTION 15-00291 Office of the City A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING Clerk CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE EDUCATION ADVISORY BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. BC.11 16-00267 Office of the City Clerk APPOINTEES: (Ex -Officio Non Voting Member) (Ex -Officio Non Voting Youth Member) 15-00291 EAB CCMemo.pdf 15-00291 EAB Current_Board_Members.pdf 15-00291 EAB Resume.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION NOMINATED BY: Mayor Tomas Regalado Vice Chair Ken Russell City Manager Daniel J. Alfonso City Manager Daniel J. Alfonso A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUALAS A MEMBER OF THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ADVISORY BOARD FORA TERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. /_1N11i]I,011111111:14 Anna Fernandez I01507►VA110/_A1219j--y i Commissioner Wifredo (Willy) Gort 16-00267 EOAB CCMemo.pdf 16-00267 EOAB Current_Board_Members.pdf City ofMiami Page 124 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0118 Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC 11, Equal Opportunio) Advisory Board.- Commissioner oard:Commissioner Gort will be appointing Anna Fernandez. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved and seconded. All in favor, say "aye. " The Commission (Collectively): Aye. BC.12 RESOLUTION 15-01283 Office of the City A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A Clerk CERTAIN INDIVIDUALAS A MEMBER OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR ATERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEE: NOMINATED BY: Eric Zichella Commissioner Frank Carollo 15-01283 Finance CCMemo.pdf 15-01283 Finance Current_Board_Members.pdf Motion by Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0119 Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC 12, Finance Committee: Commissioner Carollo will be reappointing Eric Zichella. Commissioner Carollo: Move it. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved and seconded. All in favor, say "aye. " The Commission (Collectively): Aye. BC.13 RESOLUTION 15-01284 Office of the City A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING Clerk CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE HISTORIC AND City ofMiami Page 125 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. /_1NI10710111; 126y[N7_AI:We] V126yi Lynn Lewis (Citizen - Category 7) David Freedman (Business/Finance/Law - Category 6) Hugh Ryan (Historian or Architectural Historian - Category 3) Todd Tragash (Architect or Architectural Historian - Category 4) I0[0]►TA110/_A121ej-.Y i Commissioner Wifredo (Willy) Gort Commissioner Frank Carollo Commissioner Frank Carollo Commissioner Francis Suarez Motion by Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0120 Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC 13, Historic & Environmental Preservation Board: Commissioner Gort will be reappointing Lynn Lewis; Commissioner Carollo -- Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Ms. Ewan: --will be reappointing David Freedman and Hugh Ryan, and Commissioner Suarez will be reappointing Todd Tragash. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Move it. Commissioner Suarez: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved and seconded. All in favor, say "aye. " The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye BC.14 RESOLUTION 16-00268 Office of the City A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A Clerk CERTAIN INDIVIDUALAS A MEMBER OF THE MAYOR'S INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ATERMAS DESIGNATED HEREIN APPOINTEE: NOMINATED BY: City ofMiami Page 126 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 BC.15 16-00081 Office of the City Clerk BC.16 16-00269 Office of the City Clerk Vice Chair Ken Russell NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUALAS A MEMBER OF THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY FOR ATERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. Rafael Cabrera I01507►VA110/_A1219j--y i Commissioner Francis Suarez 16-00081 MSEA CCMemo.pdf 16-00081 MSEA Current_Board_Members.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0121 Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC 15, Miami Sports & Exhibition Authorio) : Commissioner Suarez will be appointing Rafael Cabrera. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved and seconded. All in favor, say "aye. " The Commission (Collectively): Aye. RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Vice Chair Ken Russell Commissioner Wifredo (Willy) Gort City Manager Daniel J. Alfonso City Manager Daniel J. Alfonso City ofMiami Page 127 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 BC.17 16-00270 Office of the City Clerk BC.18 16-00083 Office of the City Clerk BC.19 16-00271 Office of the City Clerk 16-00269 PRAB CCMemo.pdf 16-00269 PRAB Current_Board_Members.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUALAS A MEMBER OF THE PLANNING, ZONING AND APPEALS BOARD FOR ATERMAS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEE: NOMINATED BY: Vice Chair Ken Russell 16-00270 PZAB CCMemo.pdf 16-00270 PZAB Current_Board_Members.pdf 16-00270 PZAB Application.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE SENIOR CITIZENS' ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Vice Chair Ken Russell Commissioner Frank Carollo Commissioner Francis Suarez 16-00083 Senior Citizens Committee CCMemo.pdf 16-00083 Senior Citizens Committee Current_Board_Members.pdf 16-00083 Senior Citizens Committee Resume.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD (DDRB) FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: City ofMiami Page 128 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 BC.20 16-00272 Office of the City Clerk BC.21 15-01686 Chair Keon Hardemon Chair Keon Hardemon Vice Chair Ken Russell Vice Chair Ken Russell Commissioner Wifredo (Willy) Gort Commissioner Frank Carollo Commissioner Frank Carollo Commissioner Francis Suarez NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUALAS A MEMBER OF THE VIRGINIA KEY ADVISORY BOARD FOR ATERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEE: Steve Kneapler NOMINATED BY: Mayor Tombs Regalado 16-00272 VKAB CCMemo.pdf 16-00272 VKAB Current_Board_Members.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0122 Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC 20, Virginia Key Advisovy Board: Mayor Regalado will be appointing Steve Kneapler. Commissioner Suarez: Move it. Commissioner Carollo: Second. Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved and seconded. All in favor, say "aye. " The Commission (Collectively): Aye. RESOLUTION City ofMiami Page 129 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Office of the City Clerk BC.22 15-01689 Office of the City Clerk A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUALAS A MEMBER OF THE VIRGINIA KEY BEACH PARK TRUST FOR ATERMAS DESIGNATED HEREIN. r.'.'I.TwItrr-1-E I01507►VA110/_A1219j--y i Vice Chair Ken Russell 15-01686 VKBPT CCMemo.pdf 15-01686 VKBPT Current_Board_Members.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUALAS A MEMBER OF THE WATERFRONT ADVISORY BOARD FOR ATERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEE: W. David Moore 15-01689 WAB CCMemo.pdf 15-01689 WAB Current_Board_Members.pdf NOMINATED BY: Commissioner Wifredo (Willy) Gort Motion by Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Suarez, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon R-16-0123 Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC 22, Waterfront Advisory Board: Commissioner Gort will be reappointing David Moore. Commissioner Suarez: Que malo to eres. " Commissioner Carollo: Move it. Commissioner Suarez: Contain yourself. Second Vice Chair Russell: It's been moved and second. All in favor, say "aye. " The Commission (Collectivel)): Aye. Ms. Ewan: Thank you, Chair. Vice Chair Russell: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chairman, ifI may, I really -- the CIP (Civilian Investigative Panel) and the Coalition have been here waiting all day; if we could take them next? City ofMiami Page 130 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: If I could take just five minutes; that way -- we're going to lose quorum anyway. I just need a break. Five minutes. Commissioner Suarez: Oh, okay. Got it, got it. Vice Chair Russell: Five minutes. Commissioner Suarez: Understood Vice Chair Russell: Five-minute recess. Commissioner Suarez: Understood END OF BOARDS AND COMMITTEES BUDGET BUA BUDGET DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00055 Office of Management MONTHLY REPORT and Budget I. SECTION 2-497 OF THE CITY CODE OF ORDINANCES (RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENTAND BUDGET) II. SECTION 18-502 (CITY'S ANTI -DEFICIENCY ACT) III. SECTION 18-542 (FINANCIAL INTEGRITY PRINCIPLES) 16-00055 Summary Form.pdf DISCUSSED Vice Chair Russell: We need to go back now. I believe we are at budget, BU. 1. Christopher Rose (Director): Good evening, Commissioners. Chris Rose, Oce of Management & Budget. BU.1 is the status of budgets. We've done a thorough projection for the month of January, which closed on February 9. We're projecting a $26.8 million surplus in the general fund and a $4.8 million surplus in the internal service fund. But remember, we're using $27.6 million of prior year fund balance to balance the budget currently. Let's see. We have changed our methodology a little bit as we're doing projections, so this may go up and down a little bit as the year goes on. And revenues were $29 million higher than last January; expenses were more than $100 million higher than last January. It's due to an accounting change that we've done this year that'll even out over the year. Additional detail is in what I emailed out last --two weeks ago, and I'll be back at the next meeting with the February report. Take any questions you may have at this time. Vice Chair Russell: Okay, thank you. Commissioner Suarez: Thanks. Mr. Rose: Thank you, Commissioners. END OF BUDGET DISCUSSION ITEMS City ofMiami Page 131 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 DIA DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00170 City Manager's Office PRESENTATION BY THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE FOLLOWING BOARDS/COMMITTEES CONCERNING THEIR ANNUAL REPORTS: -COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN -VIRGINIA KEY BEACH PARK TRUST -STARS OF CALLE OCHO WALK OF FAME CELEBRITY AND COMMUNITY RECOGNITION ADVISORY COMMITTEE (INACTIVE) 16-00170 Annual Board Reports2015.pdf 16 -00170 -Submittal -Gene Tinnie-Virginia Key Beach Park Trust Annual Board Report.pdf 16 -00170 -Submittal -Guy Forchion-Virginia Key Beach Park Trust Annual Board Report.pdf 16 -00170 -Video Presentation -Gene Tinnie-Florida Crossroads.pdf DISCUSSED Vice Chair Russell: Before we break for lunch, I'd like to ask for your indulgence so that we don't take our precious board members' time as we value them very much and all that they do for the City. If we could get -- DI I is it? And if we could hear DI 1, please, which is board discussion -- board -- annual board report. Allyson Warren: Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice Chairman. Gentlemen, I apologize for the voice. This is the best I've got after coughing for four weeks. I am here to tell you that the Commission on the Status of Women, as you all saw this morning, does have a very serious purpose within the City. We try where we canto partner; we're small. We have a potential membership of only H women. You saw Ms. Bastien a little while ago. She was one of our board members for quite awhile. We are tasked with being advisory to you all on issues that affect women and girls in the Cit) that may keep them from reaching their full potential. Weare tasked with trying to empower women and girls within the Cit), because we are still the poorest cit), and the resources for a lot of these young women, and their parents, and their siblings are few and far between, which is why so many of the organizations that you saw today, including Lotus House, are so critical. We are trying, now that we've got more people on our board -- and we still need a couple more -- to partner with a lot of these organizations to see what we can do to bring our resources through you all to help; whether it be programs. One of the things that we brought to you this --was The Envelope, Please, Uhich is something that's strictly advisory, but I do want to be sure that once the Mayor has signed it -- which I'm hoping he already has -- that it gets channeled to the appropriate people; whether that be the DDA (Downtown Development Authorio); whether it be the Greater Miami Visitors Bureau, because sometimes, when legislation like that is signed, it vanishes into the black hole someplace. I know that Miami Beach passed a similar ordinance, and I'm told by my board member here who does a lot of work with the Beach hotels that nobody ever heard about it. So we want to be sure that stuff like that that is important goes where it's intended so that it has the intended effect. One of the things that we attempt to do every year is have your appointed board members come to you and say, May, Commissioner, what are your two top issues that you know affect women and children in your district that we can partner with you on? "That hasn't happened for a while because we haven't had a full board, and a lot of our board members'schedules conflict with yours. So I'm going to ask you all right now, you who are here to sit down and think about it. It doesn't take more than one or two issues because we're small. And nobody meets in August. You've got -- Women's History Month is March. You've got Domestic Violence Month, which is October, but everything in between is open season. We've got a lot we can do. We're planning to partner and do a lot of work with Lotus House. I just talked to Marleine, and we're going to try and partner up with Haitian Women again. I see -- well, Irene's hiding in the back there. Green -- she is the -- Greenberg, Traurig's Women's Initiative partner, and I'm going to hit her up this year, too; I City ofMiami Page 132 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 already warned her. But I'd like you all to sit, talk to your staff. You know your community as well, Mr. Caroller We want to be able to function and to do things in all the districts, not just one district. And we've been doing a lot of things in just one district for a lot of reasons, but there's a lot of need all over the place. And even though we're small, having you all appoint us and having your ear means that we can go in and do a little more in the different districts. So if you will help us by doing that, helping -- working with some issues. Commissioner Gort has helped us over the years sponsor many, many programs that we've done. Even though we're not officially chartered to do programs, we do them. Publix gives us a donation card every year at the holidays, and we have the abiliov to either separate it into multiple cards. This year, we gave the whole thing to Lotus House. Last year, Commissioner Hardemon's chief of staff doled out what we were given by Publix. So this is -- we need your input. We have no budget. We work through the EODP (Equal Opportuniov and Diversion Programs) Office budget right now. Many -- during Mr. Ariola's tenure, we were under his wing and his budget. I don't know that having an extra budget is going to help or hurt with programs, but what we do does come out of the EODP budget. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Is your goal primarily programs, or creating legislation, suggestions to bring up tons? Ms. Warren: Both. Both. Officially, we are advisory, which is why we can bring you stuff like The Envelope, Please. "I'd like to do more of that, and we plan to do more of that, but my board members like to do programs, so we're kind of a hybrid. If you've got issues within your districts, which I know several of you do -- we don't have, for instance, a Lotus House in every district where there may be need. We don't have Camillus in every district where there may be need. I'm sure Allapattah's got issues that we could work with; I know they do. Commissioner Gort: We have too many. Ms. Warren: Thank you; exactly. We want to be there, but we need input from you all, because we do have the ability to put -- to partner to do programs, as well as to be advisory. We bring every year a resolution to support the Violence Against Women Act, which still hasn't been passed federally. I mean, there's a lot of stuff out there that's that level, but on a local level, we can do a lot more like The Envelope, Please. " Vice Chair Russell: I'd like to see ifI could tasking the Commission on the Status of Women to really take on serious legislation that they may find as bestpractice done in other cities throughout the country that really elevate the status of women and create more equaliov in the workplace. What we, as a municipality, have the jurisdiction to do, I'm very glad to sponsor legislation that you guys can put together as a suggestion or recommendation, and we can fine time it with the City Attorney and our office, and I'm -- I'd be very glad to bring it, but think big. Take on the big fights, and you've got an advocate here. Ms. Warren: Be careful what you wish for. Vice Chair Russell: Bring it on. Ms. Warren: I'm notorious, unfortunately. Commissioner Carollo is looking at me like, What's she going to say? "Bottom line is we could use more things at the Cit). We've had a shortly -tenured appointee who wanted to know how many women directors there were in the City, and this -- and there are a lot of issues within the Cit), which is why there's an EODP Office in the Ciov and in the County, and everyplace else. I used to work at Dade Cotmov Fair Housing many years ago, and I helped redraft the Fair Housing Ordinance. I'd love to see you all help to sponsor some mentorship for students, for young women within the Cit); within the departments, as well as within your offices; not just Take Your Kid to Work Day, 'but an actual internship program, which somehow I think that Mr. Carvalho -- excuse me -- would be more City ofMiami Page 133 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 than happy to help with. That's something that's going to help empower children and young women coming through school to be able to have that to strive for. And if they know that they can come in and sit in your office for a week, or a period of time, whether it be for credit or however it gets worked out, the possibility is there; it's just we need you all onboard to do it, as well, which means that we need to be able to find you, you know, during working hours -- most of you are here -- or be able to at least make the appointment so that if these kids are going to shadow you, they've got an ability to do that. So we need you as much as --you know, because these are your constituents. Vice Chair Russell: Well, the District 2 office implemented a -- I just started implementing a internship program in the last month. Ms. Warren: Perfect. Vice Chair Russell: And one of our college students is in charge of that, and he's actually gotten quite a good group of interns that are active in helping us throughout the week, and it's great to see them; both high school and college -aged students. Ms. Warren: That's perfect. That's exactly what we need. We tried to implement women's -- young women's commissions in the high schools a few years ago. The Count) Commission for Women did okay, but that got -- finally fell apart, because it's just harder to keep young women at that age together for this particular focus, but for any of you who are interested in doing something like that, we will do everything that we can to work with you, Mr. Manager back there; Barnby. Commissioner Gort: I hada visit from the principal from Big Brother, Big Sisters, and I thought they were going to be here today to make a presentation. That's part of the work they do. You should get together with them, because one of the things they want to do is work with the young girls, and bring them to the Cit), and use them as intern. I've used intern all my life, and they're very good. They can help a lot. Ms. Warren: Canyon hook us up? Commissioner Gort: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: Big Brother, Big Sisters? Ms. Warren: That's two. Commissioner Carollo? Commissioner Gort: Big Brother, Big Sister, yeah. Ms. Warren: Commissioner? Vice Chair Russell: If I'm not mistaken, there's a Cit) Hall mentorship program with Big Brothers, Big Sisters that may have been done in the past -- Commissioner Gort: They want to come -- Vice Chair Russell: --and I spoke with the director to see if we could re -implement it. Commissioner Gort: They want to come back, and I'd like to see it again, yes. Vice Chair Russell: Good. I look forward to it, as well. Ms. Warren: Anything that we can do, because, as you see from the lectern right now and the City ofMiami Page 134 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 dais, we still have no women Commissioners. We did briefly; they've come, they've gone, and it's back to being all men, and it makes it a little formidable sometimes for ladies to come up here. You know, people have tried to kill me off over the years, and I'm not quite so easy to kill off, but it is -- it can be intimidating for a lot of women to getup there and to try to be an intern, to try and have input without getting in your face, because getting in your face only works sometimes, and then after a while, it just -- it's over. Your 10 points are used up. But I think there's a lot we can do, but it's got to be with you. So that's my challenge to you all, and I know it's your challenge back to me, but I need to hear from you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Ms. Warren: We need to hear from you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you, Allyson. Ms. Warren: Talk to your appointees. Thank you, sir. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Would you like to speak, as well, or --? Brenda Betancourt: Yeah. Brenda Betancourt. Commissioner Gort: Bring the mike up. Ms. Betancourt: Brenda Betancourt, a new member. I'm representing Commissioner Willy Gort, and -- Vice Chair Russell: Your address, please. Ms. Betancourt: -- I think we are into a big challenge. We are requesting your help for all those members that we have. We are currently -- with her, we are 11 members. I think four of us show up; sometimes five, over the phone. But I think if we going to make any changes, we need your support for your members to show up and at least make quorum and do some other stuff. We have so many things pending for our women. We have the health issues, economic issues, education issues that we can address. And even though I haven't -- we haven't agreed a hundred percent, but I want to make sure that if we do a meeting that we do it in a different district; if we can meet one month with you guys and with women in your district, that's what I -- would be my suggestions to you. And if you can actually help us having a meeting one month in each district, it will help. It will -- it's not the same as having a meeting in Coconut Grove, Little Havana, Overtown, or Liberty City, or downtown Miami, or Allapattah. It's completely different. Every single one of us -- Vice Chair Russell: You mean you'd like to hold your board meeting indifferent districts? Ms. Betancourt: Yeah, and invite everybody. I think it will be something that if people know that we exist and we are doing things, as Allyson has requested, in different districts, the best way to do it is if you guys can help us, having -- every month that we do our meeting, can we do it in different districts? Vice Chair Russell: I believe that's up to you as aboard. You could vote on where you'd like to meet. Commissioner Gort: Yeah. Ms. Betancourt: To me, that's something that we have to address. We cannot just meet here in City Hall; at least to me, that would be something that we -- it can help, or if we go and reach City ofMiami Page 135 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 out to those women that cannot come to Cit) Hall. Vice Chair Russell: Sure, that's an idea, but take it to the board. Your board should vote on that, and how -- so you say there's 11 members. Do you have any vacant seats? Ms. Betancourt: But then -- Ms. Warren: 11 potential members, but you still have one; Commissioner Carollo -- excuse me -- I'm sorry. Commissioner Carollo still has one. A couple of folks are up for reappointment that have been pending since December, and nothing has been done on that. Part of the issue with meeting in other places -- the Count) Commission for Women can do that. They've got 13 members, plus an executive director. Our staff, who is sitting over there, I'm not sure that they have the abilio) , capacio) , anything else to travel with us. They are the EODP director and her assistant. So I like the idea I know the Count) does it. They'll have a meeting in Homestead; it's wonderful. They've got the people that can do it. They've got Commissioners' offices down there. If the staff has the abilio) to do it, we've got to check with them, as well, aside from the board members; aside from board members. Vice Chair Russell: Right. Ms. Warren: Because it's --you know we're small. We used to be a potential of 25 women when we put the board back together in 2000. 25 women in a room at the same time is chaos, and they never showed up, which is one of the reasons they quit meeting for a long time. Vice Chair Russell: Right. You said that; not me. Okay. Ms. Warren: It's the absolute truth, and I will admit to it and -- Commissioner Gort: Mr. Chairman, my understanding, I had people that I appointed in the past, and after two or three meetings, they walked out and they says they don't want to go back -- Ms. Warren: Absolutely. Commissioner Gort: -- because there was no reason to. Ms. Warren: Absolutely. Commissioner Gort: Now, if you want to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) with the board decides they want to do it in district, I can assure you, each one of us can provide a place and you can get -- or can have them here. Ms. Warren: Okay, perfect. Commissioner Gort: You have your NET (Neighborhood Enhancement Team) office; you got your parks; you got a lot of places where it can be done. Ms. Warren: No, no, the -- Commissioner Gort: And everybody drives. Ms. Warren: No, no, the location isn't necessarily the problem. We have to record Vice Chair Russell: Yeah. Ms. Warren: It's just a matter of our staff being able to come along and do it and -- City ofMiami Page 136 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: But you -- if you as a board vote to do that and it's physically possible -- Ms. Warren: Okay. Vice Chair Russell: -- we've very open to it. Ms. Warren: Yeah. We have no problem. Vice Chair Russell: So please take that up at your board, gladly. Ms. Warren: That's absolutely fine. Commissioner Gort: Our Clerk's Oce has been great in doing that. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Thank you for the report. Are there -- Ms. Warren: Thank you, gentlemen. Vice Chair Russell: Mr. Clerk, is this the time where all boards are meant to report their annual reporting to us, or just the -- just this particular board? Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): Sir, just for clarification, the board reports, the written reports every single board during this time of the year submits a written report with the City Manager, and then there are a select few that are staggered, of all the City of Miami boards that actually do an oral presentation. So that's why you only have three boards speaking for you -- before you today, but every board in the City of Miami is required to submit a written report along the lines of what the Commission on the Status of Women just presented to you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. I said this from the podium on my very first swearing in ceremony, and you may remember that my goal is to elevate the status of boards within the Cit), and for us to really task them with bringing us potential legislation and things that we can change in the City; that we really listen to them and respect them as experts, but the first step obviously comes with us is making the appointments that we need to make to see that they're able to function. We had an issue a little over a month ago regarding quorum count, and boards aren't able to reach their quorum, and possibly, we, as Commissioners, aren't filling all of our appointments. Now, I came up with an idea, and I don't know if it's done --been done in the past but I created a website, and there's a link on the District 2 page at miamigov. com where any interested resident can click, see all available board appointments available through my office, and check off any board that they would like to participate in, and submit an application. We've put it on social media, and we've mentioned a little to the news, and in the last couple weeks, we had over 100 applications for board appointments. This community wants to participate in their local government. There is a shift and a change where outsiders are taking part, and we need to help enable them and make sure they're heard. So with that in mina I really task us as a Commission to make sure that we do everything we can to fill all those spots. Commissioner Gort: Very good. Commissioner Suarez: I think that phenomenal, and I'm going to -- I'm asking my chief of staff to do the same thing for our district. You know, but the other part of what you're saying, also, I think, is we need to be technologically better at giving those -- creating a platform for that communication, that interaction to happen, because had you not created that platform, you may not have understood what the appetite was in the community completely. So I think the interesting byproduct of this is that we're seeing more evidence of the fact that when you create an easy platform that people can interact with the City, whether it be on boards or -- everything, City ofMiami Page 137 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 really. You see that the participation then will skyrocket, and I think we really, really need to focus on that in the next year; on increasing our interactive platform so that people can interact with us on every single level in the City. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: Yes, I actually commend you, because right now, if you really wanted to go on the website and see what board vacancies there are, you actually can. Ms. Warren: Right. Commissioner Carollo: You actually can. But for some reason --you can go onto the Ciiy website, and you actually can. You could see each vacancy for every board, however, I think you've made it in a platform that makes it much easier. You know, I've often wondered, is it our responsibility to go out and seek people for these boards -- Commissioner Gort: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: --or is it the public's responsibility to say, listen, I want to serve the communiiy,'and come forward with the resumes? Well, I have seen --not always -- but many times, when we start going out and asking someone, Hey, would you sit on this board? I think you'd be a "-- you know -- 5 good person for this board, 'and so forth, you start -- usually, they say Yes,'and they see it as, We're doing the Commissioner a favor,'but a lot of times, you'll start seeing that the quorum usually doesn't -- they don't show up, and that's where you have lack of quorums and so forth. So the truth of the matter is that I actually applaud what you did, and, yes, we should be more technologically involved in order for -- to make it easier for all of our residents that want to be able to participate. So I think it's a great idea, and us, too, in our district, we're going to see how we implement that. And if you see, I have a resolution later on implementing, once again, for our residents to be able to sign up in an email and automatically get our agendas, you know, through an email, so they already know what's going to be coming up, you know, in Ciiy Commission and so forth, so. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. And if you're interested, please let your staff know. I'm glad to share what a high-schooler kid -- well, actually, now a college student in my office came up with as this sign-up sheet for these boards. I don't know if it's perfect, but it -- so far, it's been creating -- Commissioner Gort: It's a good idea. Vice Chair Russell: -- input. Commissioner Gort: But it is our responsibilio) , because I'm sure that over the hundred applications you received, you're going to have to check them out to make sure that the people understand what time it takes, all the documents they have to file, because a lot of times, we have problems with people when they tell them, Oh, you have to file a financial disclosure, and this and that, and all the documents, so it's hard sometimes. And then, the boards, it's got to make sure they're effective, because we have people interested in doing something. They want to make sure that their participation means something, too. Vice Chair Russell: Well, I --you know, and you're absolutely right, it's a big commitment and a big responsibilio) , but also, tasked within us as a Commission -- and this is something -- some legislation I'll be bringing in the next Commission meeting -- is to take a look at the 4/5ths and S/Sths waivers that we give out for tardiness and for term limits. Now, the term limit waiver is a City ofMiami Page 138 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 S/Sths, and -- meaning that all of us need to agree unanimously that someone who has served out the entire limit of their term can continue and serve again. And I think it's made of S/Sths because that's how important it should be, but I understand from our Clerk that never in the history that we can remember has it not been a S/Sths; meaning that it's a rubber stamp; that if someone wants to continue that we leave them in their term. So I really want to strengthen our responsibility to look at those term limits. I'm of the opinion that as valuable as a person may be and the experience that they have, it's always good to continue to refresh the board, and bring new people in, allow space, and with new ideas, and I'll be looking to bring some stuff regarding that. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, I agree. I mean, I have no issue with that, whatsoever. I just think in some cases, we need to make sure that we have a good replacement, because, you know, that's probably why -- and I think your platform will ensure that we have a robust -- hopefully, we have a robust queue, if you will, of people who are willing to serve, but I'll tell you a very brief store. When I first got elected, I went to change a board member, just to pick someone new, and the person had been a board member for a long time, and was, you know, selected by my predecessor. And they got very insulted when I went to change the person to someone else. And I was like, you know, This is not like a lifetime appointment, you know. You know, you serve, and we "-- and the person had done a good job; they weren't derelict in any way, shape, or form. We simply wanted to give another person an opportunity. And there's a lot of people that want to serve, and so I agree with that. I agree that we should be continually looking at that. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: And I think it just needs to be the right balance, because some board members do bring institutional knowledge, but then, again, not necessarily the whole board needs to bring institutional knowledge. I like the -- I don't know if Young blood'is the right terminology, but you like the new blood to come in. Commissioner Gort: Some of our 51d blood, They do pretty good. Vice Chair Russell: So you -- Commissioner Gort: And historical knowledge helps a lot. Commissioner Carollo: But at the same time, you want some institutional knowledge. So I think it's a balance where, in some of these boards, you have, you know, two or three members that have been therefor a while and do have institutional knowledge, you know, in combination with the new board members that are a little more -- Vice Chair Russell: Certainly. Commissioner Carollo: --you know. So as long as there's a good balance, that's where I, you know, I can go along with it. And I can assure you that I don't rubber-stamp anything. Vice Chair Russell: I know that. Commissioner Carollo: I think numerous people will attest to that; that I don't rubber-stamp anything. So even if it's a 5th/5th and I have voted in favor of that 5th/5th, it's for a reason, you know. And like I said I know in some of the boards, you know, I look to see if there's a balance. I look to see if you have institutional knowledge, and at the same time, do you have, you know, young blood in there; and then, how has the board worked, let's say, for the last year, for the last five years, you know, and so forth. City ofMiami Page 139 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Gort: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Gort: Look how good we are. I got all these young guys on this side that's helped me quite a bit in bringing good ideas. Let me tell you, I told my staff, and I will not vote 415th for anyone that have missed the meetings and they have not been able to make a quorum; that, I will not pass for that. Vice Chair Russell: Well, that's why I'm going to bring these changes. And I had to tread carefully, because we had five appointees today, which we aren't able to hear, because we don't have five here for 515ths, so we won't actually be handling them. And I didn't want to broach the subject on the same day, because it is so touchy. If one of you is bringing an appointment, and I vote iio'bn that, that's never been done before. Commissioner Carollo: Oh, yes, it has. Ms. Warren: Oh, yeah, it has. Commissioner Carollo: Oh, yes, it has. Ms. Warren: I could attest to that. Commissioner Carollo: Oh, yes, it has. Vice Chair Russell: Okay; my mistake; withdrawn. Commissioner Carollo: Oh, yes, it has. Mr. Hannon: I'm sorry. Just for clarification, just not when it came -- comes to a 515. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, I -- Vice Chair Russell: I'm talking about a 515ths vote. Mr. Hannon: Yes. Commissioner Suarez: We voted against board members, but we haven't voted -- I think what you're saying is a distinction where -- voting against someone in a 515ths scenario. Vice Chair Russell: 515ths term limit waiver. Commissioner Suarez: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: And I didn't want it to be seen as a personal affront that I have any issue with the particular candidates that are being appointed, but I -- and I'm behind on putting the legislation together, so I'll be working with the Cit) Attorney to do so, but the basic idea will be that if we find it important enough as a 515ths to allow this person to continue that it not be another full term; that it be one more year, and that maybe we only are able to do it that one time, but I'll bring it in proper legislation so we can deal with it. Commissioner Suarez: And I think it would be fair to say that, okay, if it's one more year, but then there is no like waivable; that's it, like the end. You know, the term is over after that one year, and they cannot be reappointed. City ofMiami Page 140 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: Correct. Commissioner Gort: Right. Commissioner Suarez: Right Vice Chair Russell: And that puts pressure onus to find that new appointee, and --yeah. So that's just a thought, and so -- Commissioner Carollo: Or on the district Commissioner that may have that situation, because it --you know, at -large will be onus; however, if that appointee is from a district Commissioner, then you're putting it on that district Commissioner to find -- get another appointee. Vice Chair Russell: Absolutely, absolutely. So that is all of our reports. Mr. Manager, hello Daniel J. Alfonso (Cii)v Manager): Mr. Chairman, just really quick, I want clarification, because it kind of got all of us worried here. The agenda for the 24th is already like 60 plus items; some of today's may get carried onto that one. And you mentioned that you want to bring that legislation at the next Commission meeting, and that deadline has already pretty much sailed, unless we put it in -- Vice Chair Russell: Oh, of course. But we stay till 2:30 in the morning, right? That's practice, regular? Okay. Commissioner Suarez: It's Friday, guys. Vice Chair Russell: Understood I'll -- Mr. Alfonso: Thank you, because I think the City Attorney told me they haven't even seen what you're talking about. Vice Chair Russell: No, and we haven't -- we haven't brought it, so, okay. Barnaby Min (Depui)v City Attorney): Thanks. Vice Chair Russell: We'll do this as soon as reasonably possible. Yes, Mr. Clerk. Mr. Hannon: I believe the Public Works director needs to make one brief comment about DI. 1. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, of course. Eduardo Santamaria: Good morning, Mr. Chair, Commissioners. Ed Santamaria, director of Public Works; also the liaison, the administrator's -- the Administration's liaison for the Calle Ocho -- Stars of Calle Ocho Committee. This is a newly -minted committee. All of the members have yet to be appointed. We're working on that, and we hope to have our first meeting. Once that is taken care of, hopefully, we'll be having our first meeting within 60 to 90 days. Unidentified Speaker: Once they're appointed. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Santamaria: Once they're appointed. Commissioner Gort: I was understanding that the Kiwanis -- City ofMiami Page 141 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Carollo: The Kiwanis have two appointed-- appointments that they haven't made, and I don't -- Commissioner Gort: Got you Commissioner Carollo: -- think this is the week to let them know, because they have the 40th anniversary, Calle Ocho, and I think they're all focused on that, but they have two appointments Mr. Santamaria: Funny you should mention that, Commissioner. I have been speaking to the Kiwanis. I ran into them at an event related to Calle Ocho last week, and they're analyzing who they would appoint. Commissioner Carollo: Right Vice Chair Russell: All right. If there's nothing else on the report, I'm going to recess for lunch, and we can be back at -- any preference, gentlemen? Unidentified Speaker: 3 is fine. Vice Chair Russell: 3 o'clock? We'll see you at 3. Thank you very much. Later... Vice Chair Russell: I'd like to circle back to DL 1, annual board reports. The Virginia Key Beach Park Trust would like to give their report to the Commission. Gene Tinnie: Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, Commissioners, citizens. Thank you again for inviting us. Our executive director, Mr. Guy Forchion, is passing you -- distributing some packets, press packets, if you will, as background information. We also have a PowerPoint presentation. And my name is Gene Tinnie. I'm honored to share -- serve as chair of Virginia Key Beach Park Trust. I'm going to endeavor to do high tech here and do this PowerPoint. That's our logo. As you know, we made history last year by observing the 70th anniversary of the opening of Virginia Key Beach back in 1945, when it was opened as a segregated beach in response to a bold protest. In your packets is a reproduction --a reprint of the Miami Herald article that describes our celebration of that protest and the anniversary of that at Haulover Beach, and it got front page coverage, so it just gives you some idea that, you know, the world is watching us. As you see these slides, these are essentially highlights of the year of 2015. Along the way, as you can see, we had many special events and this is in line with a number ofpartnerships that we've been forming; some old, some recent; in other words, some of these, like Love Burn, are repeat visitors, similar to the Grass Roots Festival, extremely popular. We do have both good news and challenging news, of course, with all of these events, is that they're being very instrumental in sustaining us just financially, but we have to be very mindful of the toll that some of them might be taking just on the environmental qualio) . We had the honor of kicking off Baynanza, and part of that kickoff --this is a special slide that I should pause to talk about. This young lady, Ms. Rebecca Rauch -Thane, won a --she did a science project, looking at -- analyzing the water in coconuts at Virginia Beach for heavy metals, and she, I think, is the youngest person to --at age 14 -- to win a full scholarship to FIU (Florida International Universio). So if anybody doubts that Virginia Key can be a source of inspiration, well, there's our proof. Vice Chair Russell: Did she find any heavy metals? Mr. Tinnie: She did not, which we were glad to say. Ancestral Remembrance Ceremony, this happens every June; sunrise remembrance of the Middle Passage, which is related, of course, to slave trade, but it's also the remembrance of everybody whose ancestors survived ocean City ofMiami Page 142 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 crossings. We were featured in the July 4th Parade; very meaningful partnership with TREE-mendous. TREE-mendous has been among many volunteer groups, but it has really stood out for the amount of plantings they've done, particularly in terms of beautifying the historic railway. The big 70th Anniversary Celebration itself took place on August 1; the actual opening of the park in 1945 officially by Dade County. And this was a very popular, very exciting event, and we were glad to get the kind of turnout that we did. World's Tallest Sand Castle was, I guess, one of two significant events where we, you might say, rook to the skies. "Earlier in the year, we were honored to be the site that launched the Flying Laboratory, the new helicopter for the Rosenstiel School of Atmospheric -- Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. And Turkish Airlines did this promotion. This sand castle is officially the world's tallest and recognized by the Guinness Records. Amazingly, it's still there, so if you haven't visited you still have time; a little worn, but still standing tall. And, of course, as we remember the past, we look forward to the future. And with that, I'll segue into just answering some of the specific questions in the annual report format, and I'll call on Mr. Forchion to back me up on any of these things if -- The first question is, "Whether the Board is serving the purpose for which it was created." Yes. You have a copy Of our mission statement, and very much so in terms of carrying for ward the vision for the -- the community's vision for the development and use of Historic Virginia Key Beach Park; promoting and maintaining absolute public ownership and access; fostering its perpetuation as a passive open green space that includes nature trails, recreational facilities, and museum structures appropriate and compatible with the nature of Virginia Key; and preserving it as a valuable resource to be enjoyed for posterity; and to honor the rich historical legacy of the social and civil rights history of South Florida It's kind of a mouthful, but as you see, our answers to the questions very much fall into the extent to which that mission has been fulfilled. We have essentially restored just about all of the historic structures that are there, and we are pretoj much -- not Pretty much "-- we're right now very active in getting the museum -- the indoor/outdoor museum experience up and running, so we're meeting regularly with CIP (Capital Improvements Program). And also in -- you'll note that as of 2013, we are now officially designated -- it took a little while to get to that --as a historic site by the City of Miami. Sothis sort of complements our listing on the National Register for Historic Places. And as all these pieces go in, we can realistically foresee going from listing on the National Register through -- elevating up to National Historic Landmark, simply because of the uniqueness of Virginia Key Beach, particularly in terms of its response to the segregation era, which was so different from the rest of the South. "Whether the Board is serving current community needs. " Well, as you'll hear, Miami New Times has named the Beach as "Miami's Best Beach, " and where it was once this beautiful spot that was only restricted to certain people, if you were the right color, now it's open to everybody, and we really have -- we can really boast of a great deal of diversity, both in the population that visits, and in the uses and the kinds of activities. `A list of the major" -- "the Board's major accomplishments. " As mentioned, we were named "South Florida's 2015 Best Beach" by Miami New Times. We completed [sic] in the Army Corps of Engineers Ecosystem Restin --Restoration. I'm sorry. We have new partners, and we're always adding new ones; the Zen Village, Battle Frog, Multirace Triathlon, Wanderlust 108, Love Burn, Blue Satellite -- Starlite Urban -- Mini Urban Drive -In movies; a lot of unique, very interesting, you know, not -to -be found -anywhere -else features. The completion of the 9th Annual YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) Junior Marine Biology Summer Camp. This has been very special every summer, and has grown in just effectiveness, and what the youngsters get out of it. The completion of the 3rd Annual Virginia Key Beach Park Trust Holiday Fair; third year of collaboration with Nature Links for Life Long Learning. And I'll just mention that the founder of Nature Links, Dr. Greg Bush -- I think he's here -- his book on Historic Virginia Key Beach is due for publication this year, so we'll be getting another measure of national and global attention there. Sea Grass Adventures; partnerships with TREEmendous, as mentioned,- Cultural and Historic education programs; addition of Tiki Village, and that was with the help of Florida Inland Navigation District, a FIND grant, continued near shore upland ecosystem restoration; additional bike and walking trails; additional recreational programing. And last but not least, one of the really great assets that this park has benefited from, and by extension, the whole City, it doesn't kind of show up on -- as dollar figures, but the literal tens of thousands of volunteer City ofMiami Page 143 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 hours. We have had beach cleanups, tree plantings; and the enthusiasm with which people come and really lookforward to coming there and contributing, and knowing that this is something that they -- you know, they can point to their -- say to their grandchildren they have a -- they had a hand in developing. "Whether there's any other board, either public or private, which would better served the function of the Board. " Well, in our impartial view, no. I will mention that one Of our great advantages is that we have just folks, trustees who are very knowledgeable, pioneer families, people who have grownup with the history, and who also have the skills and the professionalism to know how to gather and present that. Not on your written report, but I'll mention it, and not just being polite, but we have been blessed with an extraordinarily dedicated staff- dedicated, competent, and qualified at all levels, you know, from our executive director, our consultants; very few people doing a lot of work, and really keeping the park as something very special. I mean, those little things that we don't often think about -- restrooms that are kept just, you know, sparkling clean. I mean, you know, it's not what you find at every park, having the amusement rides; having folks who can share the history and the spirit of the place. "Whether the ordinance creating the Board should be amended to better enable the Board to serve the purpose for which it was created. " Essentially, the answer to that is iio. "The way the ordinance is worded, we made one modification some years ago, but it -- sorry -- it actually serves our purposes very well. "Whether the Board's membership requirements should be modified" We may want to explore some flexibiliov there. We have a few vacancies. We've encountered very qualified people interested and so forth, but they don't live within the Ciov of Miami, work within the Ciov of Miami, or own real properov; they would automatically be excluded. So we want to maybe just, you know, explore that as needs be. And finally, "The cost, both direct and indirect, of maintaining the Board. " Well, here, I guess I can just abbreviate all of that in saying that we have been -- and here again, thanks hugely to our staff -- largely sustained by having this venue develop into a very popular site for special events, small events, weddings, birthday parties and the like. However, for going forward, for what we're going to need to do, particularly as the museum components come into place, we will need added support. We'll have to go back to our original status where we got a dedicated contribution from the Cit) to the Trust, which is not to ignore those in-kind, and, you know -- obviously, you know, the Parks Department and other departments are benefiting. Mr. Forchion, I know I might have overlooked some key points, if you want to add anything. Guy Forchion: I would only say that, you know, the Trust is ready to work with the newly formed Virginia Key Advisory Board. We— Vice Chair Russell: You have a seat on there, correct? Mr. Forchion: I'm sorry? Vice Chair Russell: The Trust has a seat on the board? Mr. Forchion: Correct; an appointment, yes. And so I find that very exciting, because for the entire island to work, it is about an entire unit and how the City puts that whole picture forward for tourism, for local residents, for new --you know, new neighborhoods that are exploding in size in downtown and Brickell, and it is, you know, poised to be Miami's Central Park, poised to be Miami's location for recreation, and education, and culture. So we're looking forward to when that partnership really gets going. And then, also, of course, as Chairman Tinnie spoke, you know, we've been working week to week with Capital Improvements, and very shortly, we'll be putting forward a timeline and schedule for moving forward on general obligation bond funds and convention development tax funds for the final pieces of the mission of the Trust, which is to build a cultural center, a visitors center, to really tell the history of the park. Mr. Tinnie: I'll just conclude by -- I'd be remiss ifI didn't mention -- there's a small document in your folders that talks about remembrances in 2015. In 2015, we were able to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of our founding chair, Ms. M. Athalie Range, at the park. We City ofMiami Page 144 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 lost two of our founding board members, Ms. Bernice Sawyer and Ms. Eugenia B. Thomas; and, Of course, as we remember those who were part of the founding, we always have to remember the leadership and the vision that was provided by our late Commissioner Arthur E. Teele and the whole Cit) Commission at the time. This is, as you know, the City's largest park, regional park, a park that is so special in and of itself. It's a scenic site; one of the few places you can go in the City of Miami and not see tall buildings; have -- enjoy views of the water, of nature. And so this very, very special place is -- it's been a really special charge for us to be preserving that and developing that into a legacy for future generations, and we really are so appreciative of your support, your vision in keeping this going, so thank you very much. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Mr. Tinnie: If you have any questions -- Vice Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I could— I'm one that could definitely tell you that I've been a witness from when I first started here to now that Virginia Key Beach Trust has come a long ways from the very first reports, and audited reports and so forth that we went through with Mr. Forchion. And you, as the chair to now, you've really come a long ways. And, you know, I commend all that you've done through the years. At the same time, Mr. Tinnie, how long have you been on the board? Mr. Tinnie: I have been therefrom the beginning, so that's -- what? -- 2001. Commissioner Carollo: And you've been the chair for how long? Mr. Tinnie: Well, let's see. From -- when Ms. Range passed as in 20 -- what was that, '12? I succeeded Ms. -- Commissioner Carollo: A long time. Mr. Tinnie: -- Range. It's been a while, it's been a while. Mr. Forchion: Actually -- Commissioner Carollo: I understand. Mr. Tinnie: Well, go ahead Commissioner Carollo: I understand, I understand. And I guess what I'm trying to point out, that in some of these boards, we have -- that institutional knowledge has been there, and, you know, some members just have that passion and that drive, and they've been there in the downturn, in the down times; and then when, you know, they finally pickup steam, and they actually start doing great jobs, and great things, and so forth. So I just --I wanted to point that out, because I have literally seen it through the years with you and Mr. Forchion and so forth, and it was just a point that I was making earlier on today; that in some boards, even though, like I said, I don't rubber-stamp anything, but you understand the persons; you understand the board, and you understand that some of these individuals have put so much time and passion to it, and, you know, it -- they believe in it so much. And here, I have witnessed from when I first started here as a Commissioner to now, how far you all have come, so congratulations. Mr. Tinnie: Thankyou very much. Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair. City ofMiami Page 145 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 City of Miami Vice Chair Russell: Thank you, gentlemen. Francis. I'm sorry. Commissioner Suarez: I just want to briefly say I really enjoyed attending your board meeting this week. Mr. Tinnie: So did we. Commissioner Suarez: It was an honor to be there. You know, Virginia Key Park is a crown jewel, and I think you said it, you know, of our park system. It's --you know, we -- in some of our other parks, like Museum Park, we've partnered with the Count), and the Count) spent, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars to have cultural institutions utilizing a part of that space. We -- Douglas Park, we're going to invest millions of dollars. And neither of those two parks have the history component that Virginia Key has in preserving the history as a function of our City. So I'm with you. I think we have to do everything that we canto not only invest in that history, as we would in all our other parks -- and we've already done it, actually -- but also to make sure that the history and that legacy is preserved for our kids and grandkids to be able to enjoy it. So I echo a lot of the sentiments here, you know. And you guys have had to hang in there to get to a point where -- but I think we're really turning the corner, and we're seeing the remediation happen, and a varied) of things happen on that piece of property that leads me to believe that we're heading in the right direction. Thank you. Mr. Tinnie: Thank you. Commissioner Gort: I have a question. I've been there since the beginning. Mr. Tinnie: Yes. Commissioner Gort: Is there any chance to maintaining and saving that castle that -- the sand castle that was built? Because, I mean, that was beautiful work. Mr. Tinnie: It was extraordinary work, and I was only sorry that the artist wasn't there, you know, when it was dedicated. It has been surviving remarkably well for something as -- Commissioner Gort: Sometimes the water makes them stronger. A lot of the -- some places, they build houses out of that, mixed with water and so on. Okay. Mr. Tinnie: We might have to actually look at ways to -- I don't know. If we can't perpetuate that one, maybe have others, or have, you know, sand castles as a annual or some kind of -- Commissioner Gort: That was a great event Mr. Tinnie: Yeah. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: They say the beauty of a sand castle, no matter how magnificent, it can be gone tomorrow, and then we make another one. Mr. Tinnie: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much, gentlemen. Mr. Forchion: Thank you, guys. Vice Chair Russell: I appreciate the report. Mr. Tinnie: Thank you very much. Thank you. Page 146 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 DI.2 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00180 City Manager's Office PRESENTATION BY MILTON VICKERS TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM ACTIVITY FOR THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY INVESTMENT. 16 -00180 -Submittal -Milton Vickers-Presentation.pdf 16 -00180 -Submittal -Milton Vickers-FIU Training Handout.pdf 16 -00180 -Video Presentation -Milton Vickers -Talk It Through Teen Community Engagement .pdf DISCUSSED Vice Chair Russell: Back into discussion items. We've done DT 1. DT 2, whose item is this? Commissioner Suarez: I'm DI.3. Vice Chair Russell: Did we do -- Commissioner Suarez: I'm on DI3 and -- Vice Chair Russell: I'm sorry? Commissioner Suarez: No, no, no. Go ahead Vice Chair Russell: Two? Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Milton Vickers: Good afternoon, Commissioners, Mr. Chairman. Milton Vickers, Oce of the City Manager, Communio) Investment. We're hereto give you an oversight of the first quarter of the fiscal year in terms of community investment programs and activities. You've just recently heard a preto) lengthy presentation in terms of police community relations; not just in Miami, but basically allover the country. Part of the activities for our office has been to address police communio) or police teen involvement through dialogue sessions taking place in every Commission district over the last seven weeks. Our activio) has also included the training of police officers as it relates to diversity and communications. We have delved in the area of abandoned housing - abandoned properties and buildings within the Cit) of Miami, as well as developing new health initiatives, at no cost to Cit) residents, that would cover every Cit) Commission district where there is low -- individuals who are underserved in your Commission districts. I'd like to start off by -- and I understand it's little timely, and I'm going to try and make this as brief as possible, but I'm going to start off by giving you a little taste of what's happened over the last seven weeks in many of your Commission districts. If you would watch. Note for the Record: An audio-visual presentation was given at this time. Mr. Vickers: Commissioners, some of the other activio) that we've endeavored to take has been in the area of employment, job training. Our future goals in that area is to place Career Source personnel in each of the NET (Neighborhood Enhancement Team) districts in your area, in order to increase the cpportunio) for the unemployed in your districts. The results of the last several months is in the reports that you have; I won't take the time to go over it. One of the other areas that we have dealt with is some innovative areas within the General Service Administration by establishing an apprenticeship program. In conjunction with Camillus House and our Career Source, we're taking individuals who would love to be apprentice and deal with heavy equipment repair in our General Service Administration Department. We've secured scholarships for ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) training at no cost to the participant. We've also received scholarships for CDL (Commercial Driver's License) training so the individual would --or City ofMiami Page 147 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 individuals -- there are four slots: one is hired, six are in the pipeline, so those individuals will receive actual on -hand experience in heavy equipment repair and, at the same time, receive their CDL and ASE certifications. Several months ago, the Cit) Manager took a ride along in the Libero) City area with the resource officers and the commander in that area. She pinpointed several abandoned buildings. The Manager came back, we had a brief discussion about those buildings. And as we looked into some of the background and history of those buildings, we found that many of them had been cited on several occasions. We asked the Police Department to pull the crime reports in and around those buildings, and we found that there were excessive numbers -- excessive amount of crime taking place. Further review of those buildings, it was determined that those buildings were actually owned by Miami -Dade County. We met with the Depuo) Mayor. We took the Code compliance data, as well as the police reports; and to date, you can find or see in your report the activio) that the County has taken regarding those buildings. Many of them have been demolished, some have been deeded over to developers for infill housing, but they have taken a proactive position to lessen the effects of those buildings in the City of Miami, or at least in the Model Cit) area. From that, we decided to take a look cio) wide. So we've just recently received the last bunch of data that reflects abandoned buildings and -- abandoned properties throughout the City. Our intent there is to map them; identify the most dangerous and hazardous buildings and make recommendations in terms of those -- the demolition of those buildings to the Cit) Manager. Health and uninsured, in many of your Commission districts, is at an all-time high. Even though the health initiative have been preto) successful in terms of signing individuals up under Obama Care, we still find that many in the underserved do not receive adequate healthcare. As you remember, Amerigroup awarded the City of Miami a $20, 000 grant to our Parks & Recreation Department to deal with a basketball program, which is a health initiative, as well as a teen, and keep -them -off -the -street initiative with teens in the Cit) of Miami. They've also contributed by donating health screenings through their mobile units in our neighborhoods. We've established a relationship with Florida International Universio) lSchool of Medicine. Vere soon, we'll be offering mobile mammograms for women within the Cit) of Miami. It's a 3-D mobile mammogram unit. Diagnostics will take place within minutes after the mammogram has taken place. Usually, there is a couple of days' wait. Florida International would provide at-home guidance as it relates to treatment and other activio) necessary, based on the findings of that mammogram. There are several other areas that we have endeavored to take part in over the last several months. At this stage, at this time of night, I will not bore you with going through this entire report, but I ask that, at your leisure, you take a look. If there's any questions, please feel free to give us a call. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you, Mr. Vickers. Any comments or questions? Commissioner Carollo: No. Comment: Do you leave everything for the next meeting, since you're losing members by the minute? Vice Chair Russell: Yeah, we're down to two. What do we have left? We have a few discussion items: 3, 4, 8, 9. Is there anyone in the audience who would like to be heard on any of the specific discussion items that we have remaining, which are DI.3, Minds and Machines Revenue; DI. 4, Financial Statements; DI B, State of 311; DI. 9, State of Contaminated Cit) Parks; DI 11, Watson Island Green Space; DI. 12, Status of Virginia Key Steering Committee; DI. 13, Reducing the Speed Limit. Is there anyone here who came to speak specifically on one of those items? Which ones? Miguel Soliman: DI2. Vice Chair Russell: Just 2. The one that was just --? Mr. Soliman: Yes, sir. Vice Chair Russell: Please. Open for public hearing on DI. 2. City ofMiami Page 148 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 DI.3 16-00304 District 4 - Commissioner Francis Suarez DIA 16-00307 Mr. Soliman: Good evening again. My name is Miguel Soliman, 1436 Southwest 6th Street. I just wanted to speak about the program that Mr. Vickers hosted in our community a short time ago. It was amazing. The -- how you saw the youth of our Cit) alongside the police officers. We'd have in -- we'd have a huge circle, and Mr. Vickers was incredible putting this together, and we'd have a number of kids from the communio) sitting; six, seven kids, then a police officer, and so on throughout the entire circle. And the feeling you got when you got there was one of: "Okay, we're here. " After this event was finished, it was incredible. You could feel it in the air. You could see it in the kid's face. The communication between the kids and between the police Officers and their understanding of the communio) from both sides was amazing. It was really -- I mean, you had to have been thereto see it. And I just want to say if we plan to do any more of that, I think it would be a great idea for our Cit). I support it completely, and I support Mr. Vickers and our Cit) Manager for doing this community events. They were really excellent and inspirational, and I think a great benefit to our youth. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you vett' much. Mr. Soliman: Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Gentlemen, I did have one pocket item, and since there's three of its, we could handle it. Oh, I'm sorry I didn't notice. Brenda Betancourt: I know we got to go. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) I want to go too. Vice Chair Russell: Is this DT 2? Ms. Betancourt: Yes. Just -- I'm not just -- Vice Chair Russell: Name? Ms. Betancourt: -- being happy as a -- Brenda Betancourt, 1436 Southwest 6th Street. I'm not just happy the Cit) of Miami is doing this event,- we doing it in the Community Relation Board with the County, but I can say that comparing with what we doing every month in the County, with what they doing in the Cit), this event was amazing. See the reaction of the teenagers, understanding what is the role of the police officers. It was amazing. And so I hope that the Cit) and the City Manager, who start all these events, they continue doing these communications with teenagers and the community, because we need it. And I really appreciate Daniel and Milton; they did an amazing job. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you vett' much. Any further discussion from the public on DI. 2? Hearing none, seeing none, closing public hearing on that discussion item. DISCUSSION ITEM DISCUSSION REGARDING UPDATE ON MINDS AND MACHINES CITY OF MIAMI REVENUE. 16-00304 E -Mail - Discussion Item.pdf 16-00304 Back -Up Document.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN DISCUSSION ITEM City ofMiami Page 149 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 District 3- DISCUSSION REGARDING ISSUING THE SEPTEMBER 30, 2015 Commissioner Frank FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ON TIME. Carollo 16-00307 E -Mail - Discussion Item.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN DI.5 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00058 Offrce of Grants PRESENTATION BY THE ADMINISTRATION ADVISING THE CITY Administration COMMISSION ON THE DIFFERENT ISSUES WITHIN THE YGRENE IMPLEMENTATION. 16-00058 - PACE Presentation. pdf 16 -00058 -Submittal -Commissioner Carollo-Addendum Notice of Rights.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be DEFERRED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon Note for the Record: Item DT was deferred to the March 24, 2016 Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting with a time certain designation of 3: 00 p. m. DI.6 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00093 Department of NET PRESENTATION BY NEIGHBORHOOD ENHANCEMENT TEAM (NET) Administration ADMINISTRATION. Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be CONTINUED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon Note for the Record: Item DI 6 was continued to the April 14, 2016 Regular Commission Meeting. DI.7 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00228 City Commission DISCUSSION REGARDING PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE MIAMI SPORTS AND EXHIBITION AUTHORITY (MSEA) ORDINANCE. 16-00228 Back -Up Documents from Law Dept.pdf DISCUSSED Vice Chair Russell: And the companion to that was the discussion item on proposed changes to the MSEA (Miami Sports & Exhibition Authorio) ordinance. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: I think it was a discussion item regarding the composition of the board, City ofMiami Page 150 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 whether we're going to have -- there was an issue in the past and again, whether it was an issue or a perceived issue of dual roles. I think that's the technical name. And I think you -- it was your preference not to have any Cit) Commissioners on the board, but then from there, it went to maybe having one Commissioner to two Commissioners, three Commissioners, all Commissioners, so I think that's what the discussion item is; whether we have all five Commissioners sitting on the board or one or none or -- and I think that's what the discussion is. Commissioner Suarez: I'm okay with hone. "I mean, we have enough things on our plate, but it's up to you guys. Commissioner Carollo: I'm okay with "none" also. Vice Chair Russell: As -- Commissioner Hardemon is on the board of MSEA, and he's not here to discuss this with us. Even though we could vote four-fifths on this without him, I believe we should wait, so -- Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: -- I'd move to defer this item. Commissioner Suarez: Second. Vice Chair Russell: Well, it's a discussion item anyway, so -- Commissioner Gort: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: Well, we're not -- Vice Chair Russell: -- who's the -- Commissioner Carollo: -- We're not reaching a decision; we're just discussing it. Vice Chair Russell: I apologize, then. Sorry, I -- Commissioner Suarez: We can defer the discussion item. I mean, if we're not going to take action -- is there going to be action? Because it's got three action items attached to it. Vice Chair Russell: Who is the sponsor? Did we -- I know this one changed -- the sponsor evolved and changed over several meetings. Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): In all honesty, we can show it discussed today; bring it back with Vice Chair Russell: Perfect. Mr. Hannon: -- a new file number, everything with it, so it's more of an administrative technicalio) . Commissioner Suarez: Sure. Vice Chair Russell: I'd like to bring it back when Commissioner Hardemon's with us. Mr. Hannon: Absolutely, Chair. March 24. Vice Chair Russell: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). City ofMiami Page 151 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Carollo: And -- Commissioner Gort: Thank you. Commissioner Carollo: -- ifI may, since we're discussing it, I don't want to finish the discussion just yet. I want to know what's your preference, Commissioner Russell. Are you still with that you prefer no members of the Commission on the board? And I would like to hear from also Commissioner Gort. Commissioner Gort: Yeah, I'd like to be part of it. I've been part of it for a long time, and I feel very good with what we've done, and I think the Commissioners being -- serving there serves a dual purpose, because it also approves it in here. So when a Commissioner sit there and they make a decision, they make a decision based on the benefit to the Cit) of Miami. Commissioner Carollo: And -- Commissioner Gort: And I want to be part of it. I'd be happy to be in it. I want to be in it. Vice Chair Russell: I'm sore; you want to -- Commissioner Gort: I want to be a board member, yes. Commissioner Carollo: Okay, so that's one where -- okay, we'll have further discussion, because -- I mean, I was -- what I was thinking is -- my preference is "none " or -- Commissioner Suarez: "All of them. " Commissioner Carollo: -- "all. " Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah, you're right. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Commissioner Carollo: So that's -- so we'll have the discussion then when Chairman Hardemon is here. Commissioner Gort: I'll tell you -- Commissioner Carollo: In that way -- right. Commissioner Gort: One or all, or could be one or three, and that complies with the dual -- Vice Chair Russell: Honestly, could be one or two, as well, and my concern here -- and I'm -- my preference is "none, " but at the most, I -- and we'll discuss this further then with the Chair. But with three members of the Commission serving on the board ofMSEA, they meet separately from us as the Commission as a whole, and then they do -- then when the item comes before us, there is already a block of three, and so it's a done deal. So, for me, two would be the limit. That's just an opinion, but - Commissioner Carollo: It's something -- Vice Chair Russell: -- you just kind of want to gauge where we are at the moment, right. City ofMiami Page 152 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Carollo: Yeah, I'm just trying to gauge. I'm just -- and for me to contemplate, because I was thinking either we have "none, " or we have "all. " So maybe two? I see you're going with two. Vice Chair Russell: Well, I'm, you know -- Commissioner Carollo: So that's -- again, we're not making a decision today. We're just discussing because, you know -- Vice Chair Russell: This is our chance to talk Commissioner Carollo: -- this is the chance to talk -- Commissioner Suarez: Right. Commissioner Carollo: -- because we don't violate the sunshine law, so this is a chance to talk And that's why I wanted to like, you know, candidly ask you guys -- I mean, `)you guys, " I'm -- you know, my fellow Commissioners -- what are your thoughts, and so forth, so that could contemplate and, you know, be ready for the next discussion when -- Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Carollo: -- the Chairman's here. Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. No. I mean, I don't have much of a preference one way or the other, to be completely frank with you. I understand your concern, the one that you just articulated right now, and I think that there's some validio) to that. I think what the Cit) Attorney --from my recollection of the discussion -- was trying to do is prevent the perception of a potential dual -office -holding argument by someone, and so I think you gave us a couple of options, but -- that you felt would remedy any perceived issue that might exist. Victoria Mendez (City Attorne)): The whole thing is that if -- whatever choice we make, whether it's one, two, three, four, five, that -- it's not that any anyone has an option to sit or not. Whatever is chosen, that that's what we stick with. It can't be the -- that's all it is. Commissioner Suarez: Okay. Ms. Mendez: So if it's one, it has to be one that's -- one of the five need to sit. If it's five, all of the five have to sit. That's really the thing. It has to be part of your office. That's all the -- Commissioner Suarez: Got it. Okay Ms. Mendez: -- it requires. Commissioner Suarez: Whatever you guys want, it's fine with me. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. So we'll bring it back when we've got the full board. Mr. Hannon: And so you'd like it for the 24th or April 14, since March 24 was looking a little Vice Chair Russell: Well, we'll take it to April. City ofMiami Page 153 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Mr. Hannon: Okay, April 14 it is. Commissioner Suarez: There you go, Mr. Manager. One for the team there. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. DI.8 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00152 District 2- DISCUSSION REGARDING THE STATE OF 3-1-1. Commissioner Ken Russell 16-00152 E -Mail - Discussion Item.pdf 16-00152 - 311 Presentation. pdf DISCUSSED Vice Chair Russell: Gentlemen, anything else you'd like to discuss this evening? Then I would like to adjourn this Commission meeting. Thankyou. Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Well, you know, it is -- we had a gentleman from the Count) hereto talk about 311 for the second time. Last time he waited until about 10; he left. Vice Chair Russell: Okay, that would be the part where I asked, "Is there anyone here who would like to discuss on any of the remaining discussion items ?" because I was very ready to do so. Commissioner Carollo: Exactly. I heard you. I mean, I would like a head's up if that's the case. Vice Chair Russell: Because I -- I mean, we -- Commissioner Carollo: Now, the head's up previously. Vice Chair Russell: -- are absolutely willing to stay here to listen to anyone who has waited here to speak. Mr. Alfonso: Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: All right. Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): Resumed. Vice Chair Russell: Meeting is resumed for anyone who would like to -- wow, I've made a number of this one. All right, 311 is the discussion item, which is DT 8. I brought this item simply to bring our attention to the fact that we do have a beta testing program right now for a 311 app that the Cit) is taking on. This is something that's very, very important to me. We're going to touch on it tonight. We're going to get a small presentation on it; any questions you all have, but basically, for me, the most important thing is that we prioritize the community's experience when they're trying to solve a problem within the communio) , and 3111 want to become our strongest asset in terms of having the communio) have access to its to solve a problem. So do we have a presentation on 311? Is that what we have? Unidentified Speaker: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. City ofMiami Page 154 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Otto Conteras: Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, my name is Otto Conteras, Deptiov CIO (Chief Information Officer), City of Miami, IT (Information Technology) Department. We're just going to go briefly, due to time, about the history of 311; what are the current operations right now; some statistics that actually we get from that system -- that data center; what is going on with the mobile app, and what are the next steps on this initiative. Mainly, I'm going to go directly that the 311 number is owned by the Ciov of Miami. Back in 2003, the City of Miami and the Cotmov got into a interlocal agreement to partner and use (UNINTELLIGIBLE) of the County, where the City is not responsible in any funding of 311, including staff, equipment, hardware and software. At the initial state, the Counov engage and launched the 311 CRS (Citizen Request S)vstem) System, which was a Motorola system, but due to high maintenance costs, the Cotmov decided to start developing their own system. Today, we all in the Ciov of Miami, we are using the system that they developed, what is called 311 Hub, and it started being use since 2013. Currently, the Counov has a call center, operations of six days, and these are the days that they are actually in operations. There are some performance indicators that are from that call center that we could receive. The Counov is responsible right now for maintaining a secure connection between the City and the County to make sure that we access the 311 Hub. And the mobile 311, which is an application that was self -launched in January 30, and is a better version; in production, but it hasn't been really advertised. Right now all the City departments in the Ciov access the 311 directly, except for a direct interface between the City View, which is the system used by the Code Compliance. All the departments maintain a knowledge base directly into the 311 Hub; that way, the calls -- the call takers are able to help citizens without coming to create a service request in the Cit). If the knowledge base doesn't help them to create that, they create a service request that comes directly to each department. All statistical or analytical information is currently done by resources of the Cit), and accessing directly to the database on the County. The Counov is working in all the capabilities to be able to identify all the calls that are coming directly that are for the Cit), but mainly the -- we -- they are receiving about 42, 000 calls -- this is data from the 2015 -- that are coming directly into the City, but are being forward automatically to the County, so they are the ones that are taking care of these calls. And mainly, it's -- provides to the citizens a single point of contact, and you have some data there of what they have --the 311 Hub has. These are an example of the statistics that you can get for the 311. This is data that is produced by resources in the City, and it's accessing, like I said directly the database in the Counov. These are all the calls that you have, and this data is for 2015. The mobile app, like I mentioned, was self -launched in a beta application in January 30, 2015, and it went live with 28 service requests out of the 67 that are including the --live in the 311 Hub. The next steps are to prioritize the remaining service requests and work with the Cotmov to configure them and testing. Just as imple screen shots of what's the mobile app on your smart phones. And that mainly, it's -- we'll continue work and partnering internally. We are doing a -- because the NET (Neighborhood Enhancement Team) Department is the one that does all the administrative contact with everybody, so we're working with them; and every single thing that has to do with technical, making sure that we get all those statistics for you to make informed decisions, we handle that from the IT, so we're creating that partnership. And mainly, continue partnering with the County and adding service requests, and that's the next steps and vision. Any questions? Vice Chair Russell: Yeah; a lot, actually, but I'm not going to get too deep into it tonight, because this, to me, is a very, very important thing. What I definitely wanted to do is bring about awareness to the public that the City of Miami does have a 311 app; that it is in -- we'll call it "beta mode" at this point, but it is live and fully functional. It just -- it's -- we're working the kinks out; is that right? Mr. Conteras: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: And I would encourage both of the people watching tonight to download this app. I have -- if you have Whone or Android -- I don't believe it's on Windows phone -- that City ofMiami Page 155 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 it's --you Google search or you app search "Miami 311. " Now, one of the first things that's confusing is when you do that search, you'll see two apps: You'll see the Couno) `s app -- Mr. Conteras: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: --and then you'll seethe Cio) `s app with the County's name underneath that City app. Here's step one of confusion to the public -- and this is my number -one priorio) on 311 as a call center, as an app, and then the NET office as a whole -- is that we eliminate confusion; that we eliminate, you know, double tasking, and we want to encourage the public to use 311. I really want to strengthen 311. I'm behind you guys 100 percent. And I know we have another representative here who actually worked on the app specifically, correct? Mike Sarasti: Yes, sir. Mike Sarasti, program manager with Department of Communications, Miami -Dade Count). We oversee miamidade.gov and the 311 answer center. Couple things are important to note about the app. We mentioned it's in beta. We're taking the same approach that we took with our 311 direct app, which was -- what you have right now on the City of Miami app is essentially a copy. It's a skinned, re -skinned copy of what we created for 311 direct. 311 direct links directly to the system that is used by 311 call takers and that your workforce here uses, so it's an extension of the platform that we actually built in-house. We built it with open standards with the idea that if anyone -- anybody wanted to customize it, that would be possible in the future, or to connect it to other applications. So we've really taken steps to do things; ways that make sense with modern architectures. It's in beta mode now. Part of the reason we haven't made extensive announcements is that at -- the phase that we're at right now, there is still human intervention on the app. Someone has to physically click and approve that app at the call center. Why do we do that? Because --part of the reason that you mentioned: There's still two separate apps. Right now, if you report something from the Count) app, if you report it within a Cit) boundary, we will accept that. Someone at the call center is actually looking at that request and routing or reclassifying it accordingly. If not, it would be lost, right? It would be rejected by the system. So there is still a manual process involved. It's also important to know that we built this with an (UNINTELLIGIBLE) model in mind. We didn't build something that we were just going to put out on the app store and never touch again. We did that before, six years ago; it didn't work, because we had a stale app that didn't work for very long. So we're already working on phase two. We're putting it in front of users as often as we can. I know you, sir, had some experience with it as well. We received some feedback, and that's exactly what we want. We put it in front of a limited number of users. We've already started to make adjustments. For example, this week we corrected a bug fix that came -- that we realized that the feedback that was coming back from 311 call specialists was not actually showing up in the app as it's supposed to. You can see that within history'. ection. We've gone the next step now to try to create abetter user experience so you don't have to go inside of the app. We're creating an email notification, where if you provided an email, you don't have to call back the call center; you don't have to do a search. All that stuff has happened automatically. So we're paying very close attention to what people are saying about the app. We're working on these things in parallel. Address validation, which gets at what you're talking about, is central, right? To be frank, I don't care if you report a City app through the Count) app, or a County app through the Cit) app; it's all going to the same place. We want to create a seamless experience for the users, so we need to figure out how we want that to route, but the app will be capable of accepting in phase two and identifying where it's coming from. It can't do that today, but we're working towards that so then we can decide what that workflow is going to be for the organization. Vice Chair Russell: Why do we want two different apps? If they're the same apps, skinned separately, and they're both going to the same call center, isn't two apps just more confusing to the public, whether they know whether they're --? I mean, as I'm walking around, maybe I'm a City -- a citizen of the Cit), but I may be walking on Count) property at the time when I see an issue; I don't know that. I just see an issue, a pothole or whatever. Wouldn't one app be sufficient or --? City ofMiami Page 156 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Mr. Sarasti: So, from the Count) perspective, 311 direct, we launched it first, and we always saw that as being the master app just because all the municipalities are within the County. However, realio) is that municipalities want their brand and their identity, and a lot of municipalities have already -- not this one -- but had already gone -- I believe South Miami has an app. Certain have gotten third -party applications; they're branding themselves, and this tends to cause an interest, so we wanted to at least create the option. If a municipalio) wanted to sink up and link up to our application -- we built the application open source for the purpose that everybody could plug into it so it could be a seamless experience, no matter where you were at. We could talk to your app; that app could talk to this app. That's the goal. Now, obviously, these things are currently still in a disconnected fashion, but we're working to remedy that. Vice Chair Russell: So the goal would be even if I have the Cit) app, I happen to be on County property when I push the button to -- it'll go to the Count)? It won't get lost in (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Mr. Sarasti: I live in the City, work in the Count); I don't know when I'm crossing one boundary or another, and -- Vice Chair Russell: So both apps (UNINTELLIGIBLE) over (UNINTELLIGIBLE)? Mr. Sarasti: And it shouldn't. It should route accord -- it would --for example, there is a pothole service request 0,pe for City of Miami, and there's a pothole service request 0,pe for the Count). That's all happening in the back end You shouldn't need to know that. The system should know, based on where you're at, which one to open. So we're currently in the process of actually matching your requests with the County's requests, which aren't always the same. Vice Chair Russell: In beta testing mode, do you have the capacio) at this point for me to start talking to homeowners associations and recommending that they give it a try? Mr. Sarasti: We -- we're going to start speaking with the DDA (Downtown Development Authorio) next week that have a very limited number of users. Truthfully, I'd like to go back and speak to the call center. The issue is, there's a limited number of senior 311 agents that are currently reviewing the requests, and it's a training capacity issue of how -- we did one social media announcement on Facebook on our 311 direct, and it almost tripled the amount of requests that were coming in. So, even internally, we've had to stage and move that up. We eventually don't want human intervention at all, but right now, just because of where the app is at, we're going to start picking and choosing which ones we let go through. So we'd be happy to -- I'd be happy to check with the call center and get back to you as soon as possible about the -- Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Sarasti: -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair. Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: Whenever you're finished, I just want to get your attention. Vice Chair Russell: Absolutely. So this, to me, is very important in a way that I want to bring it all together with a holistic view, and I really want to wrap in the NET offices with this, because this is about constituent services. This is about solving problems that we see around town. And I've tested the app several times -- halfa dozen times in the last couple weeks, and some of the issues I found to be technical; some of them were actually human issues, where I saw graffiti in a City ofMiami Page 157 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 park. I took a picture. The app allows me to take a picture. It lets me pinpoint where I am. I know you're working on that, because it kind of sent the wrong address, or whatever. And someone went out to -- well, I never heard anything back after that. There's no feedback on whether the issue was solved or not. There's nothing on the app that I can go back and check on that number to see where the status is, whether it's in process, finished, closed, or whatever. In fact, if I don't screen -grab that number right then, it kind of disappears, as far as I could see, so I screen -grabbed it. I waited a few days, and I called because I still saw the graffiti there, and so I spoke with the call center. At this point, now I'm not dealing with the app; I'm dealing with the three 311 call center. And so they just checked, and they said, Oh, this is -- it's actually closed, but it wasn't resolved. Mr. Sarasti: Right. Vice Chair Russell: So it was put to -- was it NET Oce or Code Enforcement to -- or Public Works? And the officer went out, looked for it, couldn't find it; closed the ticket. Mr. Sarasti: In that particular case, that actually didn't happen. It was closed by a 311 call taker. Vice Chair Russell: Right, but they said that -- Mr. Sarasti: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Correct. Vice Chair Russell: Right. So there was human issue there, which is where I want to go deeper with the NET office just to really improve their customer experience, because what I don't want is a black hole where some -- a problem starts to get routed, and then it doesn't get back to the constituent (UNINTELLIGIBLE) that it was solved Mr. Sarasti: Right. Vice Chair Russell: And I think, after a little while, someone figured out that it was me putting all these in, because all the problems got solved really quickly. Commissioner Suarez. Mr. Sarasti: So -- I'm sore. Just to make a quick point to what you were saying. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Mr. Sarasti: In the app, there is a history button on the bottom left -- the button on the bottom left, which will give you what you're looking for; that you could see the history Vice Chair Russell: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Mr. Sarasti: You'll see -- anything that you reported through the app, you'll see a list of that, and you can click on that to find out the status, and you should see on there -- because it's working as of -- again, as of this morning -- the citizen -- the feedback provided by a 311 answer -- call taker, or possibly someone at the Cit) with access to input that and give you information, so -- Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. And I just didn't find that, so that's a user error on my side or -- Mr. Sarasti: User design on our side for not making it easier for you. Commissioner Suarez: No, I -- look, this is a great discussion, and I appreciate you came in the last meeting, and you waited so long, and then you're back here. And I think the sort of flaws that you identified are right, you know, because what happens is sometimes -- and I think it happens to all of us in using thesystem. You might -- eompletion7s a different --it means City ofMiami Page 158 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 different things to different people. Completion7night mean --let's say for a Commission office: We recommended -- or we passed on the complaint to the appropriate department, for example. For me, that's not Lrompletion. "For me, Lrompletion7s when the pothole's filled you know. For me, Lrompletion 7s when the graffiti is painted over. That's Lrompletion," not, "I went and I didn't see a pothole, " and it's still there. You can find it, but I can't. So I think that's a good refine -- those are good refinements, and there has to be a way for residents to be able to check; and if that's the history button, then if it's there -- Vice Chair Russell: The history button doesn't let you check the status. It just lets you see all the tickets you've turned in, correct? Mr. Sarasti: It also lets you see the status. Vice Chair Russell: Oh, it does. Okay, I apologize. Commissioner Suarez: Okay, so that's good because that has to happen, too. I would say two things that I would offer as refinements, and I just downloaded it right now, so I haven't even actually got to play with it yet, but it seems to do all the things -- many of the things that I would want it to do, based on the discussion. I would say two things that we talked about today: There could easily be a agenda, you know, a tab here, and there could easily be a notice tab. And on the agenda tab, you could get -- you could just click on agenda tab, and there could be all the different meetings that we have; and you could click on that, and the agenda can be emailed or it could be -- you know, to the email that's banked here, or whatever the case may be. So that, to me, I think, is a very easy button. And then the notices is just -- again, when -- these are when the meetings are happening, when and where the meetings are happening. So like CRA (Communio) Redevelopment Agenc)) meeting, hit --you know, hit CRA of whatever day, and then it'll tell you it's on such and such a time, and such and such a place. So I think those are two, just from a public information perspective, categories that you can easily change and implement. The last thing I would say is -- and this, to me, is critical, because this goes to the point that you were making at the end, and I think it's a critical point. I suspect they did find out it was you or -- unless you made up a fictitious name? Vice Chair Russell: I didn't, but -- Commissioner Suarez: What's that? Mr. Sarasti: Yes, sir, we did. Commissioner Suarez: Right. So, that's why -- and that's why thing got resolved so quickly, and there's something to be said about that, and so here's my experience, and it's not 311 's fault, it's just the way that our government works. If you were to -- you can do this experiment, if you haven't already done it in your offices. Ask our Administration -- send an email saying, you know, that a garbage container needs to be replaced at a certain location, because a resident is calling in and requesting a new garbage container because one has been broken, or call 311 and ask for the same thing. And you'll see that the time that it takes for one versus the other is a diametrically different -- I mean, a very, very, very, very different -- usually very, very different result time. And so what I would suggest is that on the administrator side, right, on the administrator side, that we, as Commissioners, be ported, or be sent, be downloaded on a daily basis -- I'd like to see it on a daily basis, maybe twice a day -- what all the, you know, complaints, concerns, comments that are requested in my district are so that I can follow up on them as well, because, you know, it's one thing for -- with all due respect, it's one thing for 311 to follow up on them, and it's a whole 'pother thing for a Cit) Commissioner to follow up specifically on them, and that, to me, would be very -- it'd be great if I could see it on my phone, by the way, too. City ofMiami Page 159 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Mr. Sarasti: You can actually -- we can enable that very, very quickly. Why? Because you -- the City's already on the 311 Hub system, which is the underlying system we're referring to. Commissioner Suarez: Right. Mr. Sarasti: As a matter of fact, I think your office was recently given access to use it. Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Mr. Sarasti: What we've done in our office is Commissioners, they can't open whatever request, right, but they can see what's happening in different areas. So we could easily give you access to see what's coming in -- Commissioner Suarez: On our phone? Mr. Sarasti: -- through a mobile access. Commissioner Suarez: So all -- Mr. Sarasti: It's -- the technology is -- this is not a technology question, right? Vice Chair Russell: So all tickets have district tag on them so that we could see all the tickets related to (UNINTELLIGIBLE)? Mr. Sarasti: Correct. It can be setup so that you can see what is happening in your district. Commissioner Suarez: I would like to. Mr. Sarasti: You don't have to tag somebody with reporting on things -- because that's the other issue. These things tend to (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Vice Chair Russell: So I did report a trash -- broken trash can using the app, but there wasn't a category for broken trash cans, so I did it under lather, 'and the status is now closed but does that mean the trash can was replaced? Commissioner Suarez: I don't know; you got to call. Mr. Sarasti: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Suarez: Correct. Vice Chair Russell: Where it says, "Please continue to dispose your garbage in the broken trash can until it's replaced. Ticket closed " That's not Lrlosed7o me. Commissioner Suarez: That's the thing-- same thing. That's what I'm talking about. Vice Chair Russell: That's not 'Problem solved. " Commissioner Suarez: That's -- so we have to focus on what is the actual "closed. " Is --you know, because tome, again --I agree. Tome, "close" is not referring it to the right person. To me, "close" is --it's like the difference between Code Enforcement and Code Compliance. That's why that semantical change is very important, because it's one thing to enforce the Code without any compliance, and it's whole 'pother thing to get the people to actually comply with the law. Mr. Sarasti: And by -- this is -- Ilove this stuff, because what it's actually doing is it's creating -- City ofMiami Page 160 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 we've created enough visibility, and this is obviously a great discussion. It means that we're being successful at creating more visibility around the requests, because we're finding some issues with the process, right? Commissioner Suarez: But I would suggest -- I would actually agree with his suggestion that -- for us to beta test something to the level that it needs to be beta -tested, we need to start putting it out there. Vice Chair Russell: Yep Commissioner Suarez: We need to start telling our associations: "This is out there; test it; play with it. Let us know what your feedback is in the next meeting. " And then that way, we can get even better feedback. Vice Chair Russell: My objective is selfish. My office, in the 105 days now that I've been in, has received over 2, 000 constituent requests by email alone, and not even including phone. Commissioner Suarez: Wow Vice Chair Russell: And if this were very readily available to them, I'd bet a lot of those could be handled very easily, and they would be satisfied with the results, so I really want to strengthen it. I'm excited about this. I think, once we get it all together -- but it's -- the IT part, the technology part, anything's possible. Where we're missing is the customer service part. To really understand the customer experience and analyze it, that's a specialty. That comes from the private and business world. That's not government's forte as a regular habit. But at someplace that I come from where I know that, you know, your business is going to die if you don't do proper customer service and there's -- I mean, there's analysis of that. And so I look forward to being of any assistance I can and really learning, as we go through this process, in helping the management put together the -- a fully 360 -- so it's not just the app; it's not just the phone line. And, in fact, just to speak on that, and customer service alone, these are two flyers that are put out, and this one's by the DDA. They're going to kill me because I'm the Chair, because I'm about to throw it under the bus. Mr. Sarasti: Yeah, that's a fantastic piece. Vice Chair Russell: But this one's called "Who are you going to call? " And here is 36 phone numbers that you can call within the City to handle any issues from broken awnings, damaged missing trees, trolley information. You know what this should be? 311. And that should be the only number that anyone needs to know. The NET offices: I've got to figure out which neighborhood Ilive into call one of, oh, seven or eight or nine different phone numbers and dial to get to a NET office. All I should know is 311. Any constituent issue item, reporting item, or something like that -- and so I really want to start to bring everything together. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah, but at the same time, I don't want to lose the notion of what -- how far 311 has come already. You know, again, I think all of us need to be proactive, and that's why -- and it wasn't just my office. I teamed up with Barreiro in the County, and we've been working with it quite a bit to see exactly. That's why I knew -- earlier today I mentioned we already have that. You could take a picture; you could send it to 311, and actually, you know, you'll get the problem solved or -- you're supposed to get the problem solved. So it's something that I think all of us -- I think, more and more, you'll see us being more and more proactive. But at least our Office, we've been keeping up with what 311 is doing. And again, it was in combination with City ofMiami Page 161 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Barreiro in the Count), and both of us playing with the app and seeing exactly what we can and cannot do in order for us to do better service for our constituents and to the public as a whole. So, again, let's not overlook how far we've gone already with 311. Now, I agree; we still have to, you know, go now to those next steps, but, you know, I commend you thus far with -- at least the IT part. I mean, we're getting there. We're getting to where we need to be. And like I mentioned, even today, I already had said, "Hey, we're already farther than most people think " You could really take the picture and send it; where just a few months ago, you couldn't do it. Mr. Sarasti: You couldn't do that. Commissioner Carollo: I know that. I've been on top of it. Mr. Sarasti: Yeah. Thank you, sir. No, absolutely. And the partnership with the City has been truly fantastic. They've been vett' open to experimenting and ttying things, like a beta test. We've been in situations before where, you know, people say, "No, no; evetything's got to be perfect. " If you wait for Perfect, 'ft's not going to happen. So we've taken -- and it's been great. Vice Chair Russell: It is. So I hope I don't sound like I'm beating it up at all; I'm really excited I'm impressed by where we've come, but I want to get it there. I want it to be -- you're going to love it. It's going to be beautiful. All right. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Vice Chair Russell: Gentlemen, thank you vett' much for your patience in the last meeting. Thank you for coming and presenting tons tonight. I look forward to getting further on this. We can adjourn. Thank you very much. Goodnight, everyone. Have a good weekend. Mr. Conteras: Thank you. DI.9 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00237 District 2- DISCUSSION REGARDING STATE OF CONTAMINATED CITY PARKS. Commissioner Ken Russell 16-00237 E -Mail - Discussion Item.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN DI.10 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00239 District 2- DISCUSSIONAMENDING THE M URAL ORDI NANCE TO LIMITTHE Commissioner Ken GEOGRAPHICAL AREA WHERE MURALS ARE PERMITTED. Russell 16-00239 E -Mail - Discussion Item.pdf Motion by Commissioner Suarez, seconded by Commissioner Carollo, that this matter be DEFERRED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 3 - Commissioner(s) Russell, Carollo and Suarez Absent: 2 - Commissioner(s) Gort and Hardemon Note for the Record: Item DT 10 was deferred to the March 24, 2016 Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting. City ofMiami Page 162 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 DI.11 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00245 District 4- DISCUSSION REGARDING INCLUSION AND/OR IMPLEMENTATION OF Commissioner GREEN SPACE IN WATSON ISLAND MASTER PLAN. Francis Suarez 16-00245 E -Mail - Discussion Item 04-14-16.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN DI.12 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00246 District 4- DISCUSSION REGARDING STATUS OF VIRGINIA KEY STEERING Commissioner COMMITTEE AND ITS FIRST MEETING. Francis Suarez 16-00246 E -Mail - Discussion Item 04-14-16.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN DI.13 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00316 District 2 - TO BE WITHDRAWN Commissioner Ken Russell DISCUSSION REGARDING REDUCING SPEED LIMITS CITY-WIDE. 16-00316 E -Mail - Discussion Item.pdf NO ACTION TAKEN DI.14 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00320 District 2- DISCUSSION REGARDING THE CIVILIAN INVESTIGATIVE PANELAND THE Commissioner Ken COMMUNITY RELATIONS BOARD. Russell 16-00320 E -Mail - Discussion Item.pdf 16 -00320 -Submittal -Carlos Morales-CRB and DOJ Settlement.pdf DISCUSSED Vice Chair Russell: (INAUDIBLE) and myself. Discussion items don't need quorum, and so I know we have a bit of a time sensitive for Commissioner Sorenson, who needed to leave probably by now, so I'm going to look at DI 15. Is this --? Commissioner Katy Sorenson: I thought there would be three of you to listen. Vice Chair Russell: They'll come. Well, we can just have a conversation until then. Commissioner Sorenson: Okay. Vice Chair Russell: Obviously, we're looking on the heels of the DOJ (Department of Justice) settlement at this point, and one of the things that we created, a Communio) Advisory Board,- and it was brought up at the last meeting, the CIP (Civilian Investigative Panel) and the CRB (Communio) Relations Board), and so I promised to bring a discussion item on those two items, City ofMiami Page 163 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 and as -- that's DI 14, which these kind of go a little bit together, except for the fact that they are, all three, vett' distinct and separate entities with very separate functions -- Commissioner Sorenson: Right. Vice Chair Russell: -- which is something I wanted to put into the record and for us to talk about; and then, possibly, start looking toward tasking the advisory board with very good specifics, and your name came up quite a bit in that -- the DOJ discussion. Told you they'd come. Commissioner Sorenson: Okay, good. Okay. Well, thank you, Mr. Chair. And I'll start out, and I hope Commissioner Carollo will join us, too. Again, Kat) Sorenson, with the Good Government Initiative, 1320 South Dixie Highway, in Coral Gables. And I'm joined by my colleague, Maribel Balbin, the president of the League of Women Voters; and Julia Dawson, a very exemplary citizen. So the three of us were talking about the whole idea of --this DOJ has required --and I understand that it was just --the agreement was just signed yesterday --that you have three months to setup a communio) oversight body. And the thought is that instead of using the CRB, which was recommended, to take the cpportunio) to setup a little bit more of an independent board, so you'd have maybe 17 members: 12 from communio) groups, and, say, the communio) groups would recommend two each to both Maribel and myself -- we're volunteering for this task -- and then each Commissioner would have one appointment, but the appointments -- so the appointments could come from communio) groups, neighborhood associations, whatever you think would be appropriate; but then you would also have recognized groups, such as Cuban -American Bar Association, or, you know, perhaps, the NAACP (National Association of the Advancement of Colored People), the Miami Council of Christian and Jews, or if it's -- I think MCCJ is called something else now, but it's -- that's the organization, but recognize communio) organizations that have a stake in this whole project. And you would ensure independence of the board, you would get some direct appointments, but you wouldn't have the sense that it was just an appointed body by the board that then has to do your bidding. It's more independent. It's more of an oversight board. And since you have three months to set it up, it would be for the duration of the DOJ agreement; and we would hope, at that point, we'd be done, unless you want to do something else with that group if they had performed so well that you want to use them in some other capacio) ; but I think it would be, from a good government perspective, a great way to solve this problem and to move on. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Should there be any Cit) -related appointees like from the Commission, or would that --you know, if this is supposed to bean independent board that's overlooking the Cit), should there be a Cit) -appointed board member? Commissioner Sorenson: Well, that would be a matter for you all to decide. I know that some people would feel -- some Commissioners might feel very strongly that they should have an appointment, especially if they thought some neighborhood group was being left out and wanted to augment the selection process. Again, if there were S out of 17, then it wouldn't be a majority of Commission appointments; it would be a minority of Commission appointments, and so I think that probably that would still work. And the idea of 17 is that it would be -- you'd have to have a majority to have a quorum, so you'd at least have nine people at a meeting discussing these important issues and (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Vice Chair Russell: And that nine would always outweigh the -- well, it wouldn't actually -- the five over the -- if there were five Commission appointments. Commissioner Sorenson: If the five always showed up and only the bear majorii)�, or bear quorum showed up, yes. Vice Chair Russell: I was trying to get to the bottom of why there are 17, because that is a big -- City ofMiami Page 164 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 it's quite an unwieldly board, and -- but it -- I can see where it's meant to stack so that the City -related appointees can't outweigh the independent appointees; is that correct? Commissioner Sorenson: The Cit) -appointed could outweigh? Vice Chair Russell: No, it shouldn't. Commissioner Sorenson: Shouldn't. Should not. Vice Chair Russell: And that's why there's 17 -- Commissioner Sorenson: Right. Vice Chair Russell: -- in order to create that so that the quorum, at the very least, has a chance to -- Commissioner Sorenson: Right. Vice Chair Russell: -- not be outweighed by the Cit) -- Commissioner Sorenson: Exactly. Vice Chair Russell: -- related appointees. Commissioner Sorenson: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: I mean, is it -- this is -- we're on a discussion item right now, and just to -- Commissioner Carollo: Which one is that? Vice Chair Russell: We were actually putting together 14 and 15, concentrating right now on DI 15. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. That --yeah, that's a discussion item that brought -- Commissioner Sorenson: Right. Commissioner Carollo: --forward because I heard the concerns the last time, and I want to make sure that we, as a body, had the discussion to see how we're going to make up this Communio) Advisory Board. And just like I mentioned in the past, I don't see us at least with -- I don't want the Community Relations Board to actually take this new created board also. I'm seeing -- you know, and I think that's where we need to have the discussion on how -- you know, how many people we place there, and, you know, what's the right count, and exactly who -- and who will have the appointments, so -- and again, I bring this discussion the very next meeting, because I think it's an extremely important matter, especially when we've been for years now under, you know, the watch of the DOJ, and not knowing the uncertaino) of the DOJ, and now we have a path where we know how to ride the ship, so to speak. So with that said, part of the DOJ agreement was for the creation of a Communio) Advisory Board, and that's why I want to bring this discussion so we can create this board as soon as possible and see what should be the makeup of the board, and something as simple as that. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Sorenson: So, Mr. Chair, if I could just reiterate a little bit for Commissioner Carollo, who was out when I started this. The Good Government Initiative, represented by me; City ofMiami Page 165 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 and the League of Women Voters, represented by Maribel Balbin, were volunteering to be the two entities that could help you with the composition, the creation of the board. So we would have a board of 17 people; each Commissioner would have one appointment, but there would be 12 communio) organizations that would have -- that would submit two names each, and then we would look at those community organizations and balance it for all the factors that we always balance boards for -- ethnicio) , race, sexual orientation, neighborhoods, all of that -- to come up with a board that would be representative of the communio) and that would be able to serve the function of the oversight board for the duration of the DOJ agreement. Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Suarez. Commissioner Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you for doing this. Vice Chair Russell: Did you just vote? Commissioner Suarez: Yeah, I did. Vice Chair Russell: Did you just vote in that five minutes? Commissioner Suarez: I did Yeah. I was making productive use of my time. Vice Chair Russell: Please continue. Commissioner Suarez: I was going to say something, but I'm just going to keep it to myself. Thank you for doing this. When the Coalition came when we were deciding to vote on the DOJ agreement, they suggested that you could be helpful and useful; and obviously, based on my time as part of the Good Government Initiative, I was very happy that they made that suggestion. I'm certainly in favor of the --you know, the -- these two organizations coming together. And we've always talked about how the Good Government Initiative can transition a little bit from, you know, teaching to getting involved in public policy issues, like -- such as this. And I think this is a natural evolution of what the Good Government Initiative should be doing. And so, I'm very pleased and happy that you have volunteered your time to step up, and I'm very happy that the Coalition has brought up that suggestion, and I'm fine with it. So I lookforward to hearing -- if the rest of the Commission is okay with it, I look forward to hearing your suggestions. Commissioner Sorenson: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: I look -- I welcome any suggestion, and I look forward to hearing them. I do have to tell you, though, I feel a little uneasy because this is an extremely important decision. It's something that -- it's been upon us for many, many years. Now we're finally steering the ship in the right direction; and I'm a little uneasy, because two of my colleagues aren't here, and I would like to hear from all my colleagues and make sure that this is a joint decision of the five of us. However, with that said, I welcome any discussion, any suggestion. You know, that's actually why I brought it as a discussion item, so this doesn't linger away; and next thing you know, it's forgotten, and then we're rush, rush, rush. So that's why -- I know we have a time period to do this, but I wanted to do it in the very next meeting, so that's why I'm bringing it for ward. Commissioner Sorenson: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: Thankyou. City ofMiami Page 166 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Maribel Balbin: Mr. Chairman, Commissioners. Maribel Balbin, president ofLeague of Women Voters, Miami -Dade County. I just wanted to add the fact that the League of Women Voters, we do this O pe of work throughout the country. We're normally part of a nominating committee. We're a nominating committee of the Count) for a couple CIPT and other organizations. So they would just come in, like Kat) said and help put together the board, using the processes that we have already in place and other places. So I just wanted to add that to the conversation. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much. The -- I just want to take the temperature on the item we were just discussing, which was the actual makeup of the board, including Commissioner appointees. And my point was that if this is supposed to be an independent board that's overseeing the Cit)�'s actions, should there be any Cit) -appointed members; and in fact, in order to make up for the fact that there would be five appointees from the City on this board that's basically grading the Cit) on how well they're meeting the terms of the DOJ settlement, she's actually turned the board into a 17 -person board, with a quorum, in order just to make up for the balance, which might make their board quite unwieldly. What's your thoughts? Commissioner Suarez: No. I think -- as to the minutia or the niti)�-grito) as to how the board can be composed, I'm wide open on that issue. I do, however, sort of want to echo, in part, some of Commissioner Carollo's comments, which is, something of this magnitude should be handled with the entire Commission. Having said that, when we realized that we didn't have the entire Commission, they've been sitting here in the audience patiently waiting for many, many hours, so we should do a little bit of a better job ourselves of letting them know, you know, look, if we're not going to handle this today or we're not going to move forward on this today, you know, we'll set a time certain for the next meeting so that, you know -- Commissioner Sorenson: If I can make a suggestion, Mr. Chair? If I can make a suggestion? Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Sorenson: I know Ms. Dawson would like to speak. But my suggestion would be a draft of a resolution that then could propel the discussion forward. So if you -- if either Commissioner Carollo or any of you would like to jointly sponsor a resolution with the -- some of the criteria that we've outlined, then your next discussion wouldn't just be a discussion, but it would actually be an action item, which would get you farther. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Now, I understand what Commissioner Suarez is saying, but I don't think --at least from my point of view, I really wasn't sure what you were bringing here. You were going to, you know, obviously participate, but I didn't know to what degree as --and how different or similar your ideas were to this Commission. So, again, I didn't know if this was going to be a 20 -minute discussion, 30 -minute discussion, or if it's going to be a long discussion that, yes, this is, you know -- this -- you may not have the consensus here, or it may get into a lot of discussion, which I always welcome the discussion. So, again, I'm more than willing to listen to them now, and listen to your suggestions. However, be very clear; I do not want to take a vote today -- Vice Chair Russell: Agreed. Commissioner Carollo: --for the reasons that I've mentioned, but that doesn't mean that I wouldn't mind listening to your suggestions, and maybe bringing this item back, you know, and taking it up then with the rest of the Commission. City ofMiami Page 167 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Vice Chair Russell: All right. Commissioner Carollo: So you don't feel like you lost, you know, your time -- Commissioner Sorenson: No, no, we're (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Vice Chair Russell: This is a discussion item at the moment, there's no action on the floor. Commissioner Suarez, are you comfortable with having discussion where our colleagues can watch the video, and we can all catch backup the next time we get together -- Commissioner Suarez: Yeah. Vice Chair Russell: -- without taking an action? Commissioner Suarez: I have no problem having discussion. I want them to have productive use of the time that they've been here waiting. That certainly -- Vice Chair Russell: All right. Commissioner Suarez: -- is important. Vice Chair Russell: How 'bout we -- Commissioner Carollo: And by the way, I appreciate all of you coming down here on a Friday at -- well, it's almost 7 o'clock now. Vice Chair Russell: Well, let's stop discussing about whether to have the discussion and just have the discussion. Commissioner Carollo: Let's do it. Commissioner Sorenson: Maybe Ms. Dawson might -- Vice Chair Russell: Please, Ms. Dawson. Julia Dawson: Thank you. Julia Dawson, 1701 Southwest 4th Avenue. I'll be brief. The settlement agreement mandates communio) oversight. What we're talking about is how we're going to accomplish that, and what it's going to look like. And I'm very happy to hear you use the word lMependent, 'because community oversight cannot be meaningful unless it is, in fact, independent. So this is, in our discussions, the direction that we have gone in to try to make this something that is different, actually, from the boards that you're used to seeing with the City with more independence than other boards might have currently, and deservedly so, because this is in response to direction from the Department of Justice through the settlement agreement that communio) oversight is important in this circumstance. So I would suggest that the principals, Kat) Sorenson and Maribel Balbin, work on flushing out exactly what the suggestion would be. You've already heard some of what has been discussed; it can be elaborated on even more than that. There may be points where there are two options that would be equally, you know, useful that could be suggested, and bring these best suggestions, this best framework back to the Cit) Commission through a resolution, as Ms. Sorenson says, so that you have something specific to say: "This is what the communio) has brought tons as a proposal for communio) oversight to fulfill the settlement agreement, " and then have that discussion. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, I think that's very good And -- in fact, I think you're seeing today that there's a potential appetite for us to not even have a -- Commissioner -appointed members. Now, City ofMiami Page 168 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 I'm not speaking for any of my colleagues on that, but at least that's where I am, so keep an open mind on that. If that would allow the board to be smaller and more nimble and more effective without having to make up for the Cit) involvement, I'm open to that. Because at the end of the day, what I want is for this thing to be trusted -- the results of this to be trusted by the communiy) , and so that there's no doubt there. What other recommendations do you have for us on this board? Commissioner Sorenson: Well, we can talk about the communiy) groups that we have brainstormed and -- Ms. Dawson: If I just might add one other thing. One of the key components of this, in my opinion, is that a lot of the leadership, the leadership for this community oversight group is being put in the hands of two individuals who really have impeccable community credentials for nonpartisanship, for civic engagement, and for good government practices. And to put them in that position is an act of trust on the part of the Commission that they are capable and able of creating a body that can serve the purposes that the settlement agreement ask that body to do. So I would say the decisions, for example -- and this is what I would imagine could come forward in a proposal, in a resolution. I would ask that -- anybody can suggest communiy) groups, as Commissioner Gort did today privately, saying it should include a homeowners or neighborhood association, which was not something that had occurred to us at this point; can suggest groups, but put it in the hands of these two leaders, these two communiy) leaders to select those groups so that there is a balance. The time that we have spent discussing this has been trying to figure out how can we get the most comprehensive coverage of the diversity of this City represented on this panel? Because that's what I think is going to be important to people in the communiy) , is to know that there is someone that looks like me, lives like me, has the same culture as I do, the same ethnicio) ; some of those things to say, "Yes, I'm represented as part of this. " And so, I would ask you to put those kinds of decisions in the hands of these two leaders to competently do, and bring those suggestions back; and in the meantime, if there are organizations, community entities that Commissioners would like to suggest, you can email those to Kat) Sorenson or Maribel Balbin, and those can be put as part of the discussion to try and accomplish that diversio) and coverage of the many interests in this cit) . The other thing that I would like to ask you to think about is the settlement agreement is about policing, and how it is done by the Miami Police Department. That is the whole topic of the settlement agreement. And I would ask you to think about what I think is true, which is there are parts of this communiy) that experience more policing than other parts of this Cit) . There are parts of this communiy) that have more interactions with the police -- some of them very serious interactions with the police -- than other areas of this community. And I would want to make sure that since this is concerning policing that those communities who feel the most impact from policing have a substantial role in communiy) oversight. Commissioner Sorenson: Okay. I think Ms. Dawson has spelled it out for you. I think our next step would be to come back with a draft resolution for one or all of you to co-sponsor, and then have that full discussion when all five of you are here, and we can come back and talk about it. Does that make sense? Vice Chair Russell: It does. A couple questions, please, and I'm sore. The timeline is three months -- Commissioner Sorenson: Right. Vice Chair Russell: --from -- Commissioner Sorenson: And the clock is ticking. Vice Chair Russell: --this past week City ofMiami Page 169 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Commissioner Sorenson: From yesterday. Vice Chair Russell: The clock the ticking. We have -- and we have a stacked agenda in the next meeting, and things can easily get pushed back, and then, suddenly, we're already in default, and we don't even have the board formed. So, yeah -- once that three months is done, it's -- is it a two-year grading period to see whether we've met and maintained compliance with the DOJ settlement? Is that --? Commissioner Sorenson: I'm going to defer to -- Ms. Dawson: It is -- it goes -- George Wysong (Assistant City Attorne)): Mr. Vice Chair. Ms. Dawson: -- it expires in 2020 -- Commissioner Carollo: However -- Ms. Dawson: -- but -- Mr. Wysong: I could answer that, if you would like. As we discussed at the previous meeting, these items are on a -- sort of a punch list; and so as we comply with the items and attain substantial compliance, we have to show one year of substantial compliance -- Commissioner Carollo: Exactly. Mr. Wysong: --for that item to be resolved. And I just wanted to comment that the -- according to the agreement, the communion board shall be authorized to do the following: Advise the chief, majors, and commanders on strategies and training to improve communion relations and MPD (Miami Police Department) responsiveness to communion concerns; B,"work with the chief, majors, and commanders to establish and carry out communion public safe0v priorities; C, " provide the communion with information on the agreement and its implementation; and D, " receive and convey to MPD and DOJpublic comments and concerns in addition to MPD civilian complaint system. " The concept of the Community Oversight Board is to be the bridge, the communicator between the Police Department and the communion groups. It's not really a monitoring position; it is a communication. It's to meet with the various stakeholders to communicate, to have meetings with the chief and the command staff, and speak with the communion about those items. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Is that similar to your interpretation of the--? Commissioner Sorenson: Yes. I've got the same points right in front of me, and that is what I understand. Vice Chair Russell: So it's not as much of a monitoring watchdog of compliance? Commissioner Sorenson: No, I think -- Mr. Wysong: Exactly. Commissioner Sorenson: I mean, it does have that component of it just because people are going to be watching to see what's going on and paying attention, but the communication part of it and that bridging part I think, as the attorney pointed out, is very important. City ofMiami Page 170 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Ms. Dawson: And I would just like to add, if I might, when Mr. Wysong said that the purpose was to take information from the Police Department to the communio) , the purpose is also, and just as much important, to take information from the communio) to the Police Department. So the Communio) Oversight Board is not an arm of the Police Department to go out into the communio) and act on behalf of the Police Department in any way. It is, as described a bridge. It is a two-way street. Vice Chair Russell: Understood Ms. Dawson: And so it is very important that the members be members of the community who understand the communio) , know what's important in the communio) , have good involvement in the communio) ; can bring that information, those responses back. Vice Chair Russell: What do you see as the life of this board? Would it be just for the extent that we've met the one-year compliance and then this board would sunset? Commissioner Sorenson: I think it's more than one year, but let me ask the attorney. Mr. Wysong: Well -- Commissioner Carollo: Well -- Mr. Wysong: -- quite frankly, it's a policy decision of the City Commission, but the idea is -- I believe the board should be in existence during the period of time that the City is driving for compliance. So if we happen to finish in two years, the board would end in those two years. Commissioner Sorenson: Right. Ms. Dawson: But I believe there's also a provision that in 2020, that's like a deadline for -- of some kind. Mr. Wysong: Well, the 2020 is the drop -dead date. Ms. Dawson: Right, exactly. Mr. Wysong: The agreement finalizes in 2020. However, if the City and the DOJ agree to end it sooner. it can end sooner. Ms. Dawson: Of course. Mr. Wysong: If we attain substantial compliance on all the requisite points, it ends upon that date of (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Vice Chair Russell: Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And that was the intent and the point that I wanted to make in our last meeting when we actually were going to vote on the DOJ agreement that this isn't something that needs to last years and years and years. It could actually finish before, and that's why I asked, "Are we substantially in compliance already?" And the City believes that we are. And if you see, many of the things is "continue to do this, continue to do that. " So, unfortunately, agreements of this sort have a tendency to keep going much further in time than originally thought and be a lot more costly than originally thought, so that's what I wanted to point out. If, in a one-year timeframe, we are substantially in compliance with the regulations, we could end the actual -- I don't know what you call it -- City ofMiami Page 171 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Mr. Wysong: Monitoring? Commissioner Carollo: -- monitoring. Commissioner Sorenson: Oversight board. Commissioner Carollo: Monitoring. So what don't want is for this board then to actually -- that we're creating, and we know you're going to do a good job -- to extend the life of this where there's no need to it, because obviously, it's an expense to the Cit). We're paying the independent monitor, we're -- you know, we're paying the salaries of three police officers to run the program that could actually be on the streets patrolling our streets, so there's a cost to it. And I get it; we want to make sure that we do everything proper and everything is proper for our Police Department to flourish, so I get it. But I don't want, at the same time, for this to be an ongoing thing year after year after year, and there's never any resolution. Vice Chair Russell: I think if their focus is narrow, we can achieve that. Commissioner Sorenson: Right. And Mr. Chairman, just to respond to Mr. -- Commissioner Carollo's concerns. I think there would be a sunset provision in the resolution that would be coterminous with the -- whatever criteria are in the agreement so that it doesn't last beyond the agreement. Vice Chair Russell: How much time would you need to create a draft resolution that you could share with the various Commissioners -- Commissioner Sorenson: We can do that -- Vice Chair Russell: -- that we could bring and possibly co-sponsor? Commissioner Sorenson: -- in a few days. We can do that very soon. Yeah, a week. I'm going to be out of town -- Vice Chair Russell: All right. Commissioner Sorenson: -- tomorrow through Wednesday. Vice Chair Russell: We may not be able to pick it up in the PZ (Planning & Zoning) agenda next --in the next round, but I would say, probably in four weeks from now, we'll hit it, and then we can -- we'll have the whole Commission here to work on it. Thank you very much for taking this task on. It's incredibly important that we get it right. Ms. Dawson: If I may, one other deadline in there that hasn't been mentioned. I think that the proposal for the oversight, the communio) oversight body needs to be ready within 30 days and implemented within three months. I think those are the two deadlines. Vice Chair Russell: Got it. Commissioner Sorenson: Thank you. Ms. Dawson: So -- Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. And now, this was mostly DI 15. I companioned this with DI. 14, because the CIP and the CRB are similarly tasked, but not similarly tasked, and I really wanted to clarify, because if one originally thought -- original thought and some people have thought the CRB kind of does some of this communications between the Police and the public, so City ofMiami Page 172 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 is there an overlapping? Is there a redundancy here? And that sort of thing. And I know we have a few people here that would like to speak on the CRB issue. Personally, I would like to see this advisory board be very specifically laser focus tasked on the DOJ settlement. In which case, they've got their task to accomplish; we get it done, and then it's finished. But for me, that's not enough for our communio) in terms of what we need to do to prepare for a potential Ferguson situation. In this case, we'll have seen ourselves complying with the DOJ settlement; that's great. We have a CIP that needs to be strengthened. We've had recommendations from the Independent Review Committee that I would like to take up all of -- not today, obviously, but with the full Commission. But the CRB, I'd like to discuss a little bit, because I think that they could potentially, if tasked by this Commission, have a new mission or a role that could become quite relevant with the goal of hopefully bringing forward recommendations and legislation that would help avoid the aftermath of a Ferguson; not necessarily avoid the initial situation that would cause it, but how we handle things. Any recommendations from the communio) not related to the DOJ settlement necessarily. The DOJ settlement, if I'm not mistaken, doesn't even cover non -lethals, such as Tasers, and stuff like that. So the CRB might have a mission here; I don't know. I haven't studied it enough, but this is just a thought. Commissioner Carollo: So here's my question. My wife asked me this question a few minutes ago: Do we order pizza or not? Vice Chair Russell: I think we're moving along great, and I -- Commissioner Carollo: So is --I answered "No, I don't think you need to order pizza tonight." However, now listening to you, do we have to order pizza? Vice Chair Russell: Not on this item, but we do have Status of Virginia Key Steering Committee, Watson Island Green Space, Contaminated Parks, 311, Reducing Speed Limits. Commissioner Suarez: Mine's are very quick Mine's, I promise you, I can do in five minutes or less. Vice Chair Russell: All right. Commissioner Suarez: I'll commit to that. Vice Chair Russell: Pizza's 30 minutes or less. Commissioner Suarez: So mine'll be five. You want me to do mine in five? Vice Chair Russell: Are we seriously asking if we want to order pizza, because I --? Commissioner Suarez: No. I think he's --I think the point he's trying to make is that we're going to be here. Commissioner Carollo: I'm kidding, but I'm not kidding. Commissioner Suarez: Right. Vice Chair Russell: No. Commissioner Carollo: I'm joking, but I'm notjoking. Vice Chair Russell: I wanted to definitely open the public hearing. There are a few people who signed up to speak and who have waited regarding the CRB, but we're not taking any action on this item today, so this one's going to go quite quickly, I think. The rest of them, I have no idea. City ofMiami Page 173 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 Opening for public hearing on DI 14 and/or DL 15. Miguel Soliman: Good evening. My -- Commissioner Carollo: Thumbs up or thumbs down? My wife is there waiting. Commissioner Suarez: Sideways; we're not sure. Yeah, worst-case scenario, we take it home. Vice Chair Russell: Please. Mr. Soliman: Good evening, Vice Chairman Russell -- Commissioner Suarez: I got a little ahead of you, but -- Mr. Soliman: -- Commissioners. My name is Miguel Soliman. I'm a member of the CRB Board, but before I speak on behalf of myself, our chairman has prepared a statement that the Clerk has to read, and before I speak, I would like to allow the chairman to speak. Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): Commissioners, may I ask your indulgence? I have a letter dated March 11, 2016 from the chairman of the Cit) of Miami's Communio) Relations Board. It reads: "Dear Honorable Commissioners: The Cit) of Miami Communio) Relations Board would like to thank the Commission for considering the CRB to be the Communio) Advisory Board, as per the Department of Justice agreement. On Wednesday, March 9, 2016, the members of the CRB unanimously passed a motion making itself available to serve, if it is the will of the City Commission. Respectfully, Carlos Morales, Chairman, City of Miami Communio) Relations Board. " Thank you, Chair. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Soliman: Thank you very much. Again, my name is Miguel Soliman, and I'm speaking as a board member; not on behalf of the board, but on myself. I see our city. Our city's a world-class cit). We are -- we have a brand on a lot of different items. The entire world, the entire country looks upon us. And branding, in a positive way, is very difficult to achieve and very expensive, and it can be a very good thing. It could put us into the light of the world. It can bring us as a world-class cit) for the rest of the country to look upon us. The CRB, as you may know, on the recommendat -- on the agreement with the MOJ [sic], the CRB, it says on Item 65, "may use the Communio) Relations Board to monitor. " The Communio) Relations Board, I'll be honest with you right now, as it stands, it needs work It needs work, and it needs overhauling; but I see it as, with the proper overhauling and the proper preparation of that board, with utilizing the guidelines that Kathy [sic] (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and Maribel Valdez would be bringing on, creating different organizations; perhaps, getting key members of these organizations, but they would be recommending and putting them as members of the CRB, only utilizing --forget about how the CRB stands right now. We would only be using the initials CRB7o give -- to create a brand where -- when the rest of the country looks upon us, this isn't the Communio) Alliance Board, this is the Community Relations Board. We use that name to brand --to create that brand, to show what a cit) we are. The Count) has a tremendous CRB board, and they do a great job; they're looked at very favorably. I would like to expand [sic] about that and create a CRB that is greater than the County in our City. Commissioner Carollo mentioned that after this process --this is an expensive process for us. We would be creating this board out of unique individuals, as the ladies mentioned. It's a shame: "Once we create a resource like that, after a couple of years, let's get rid of it; we don't need it anymore, " when we could continue to utilize that resource as the CRB. To get tasked -- the CRB was created when we had the Elian Gonzklez case, where the Cit) didn't know what was happening. The Federal Government came in here, and they took over our cit), basically, and they did whatever they wanted. The CRB would monitor a situation like that and utilize all those resources, all those key individuals that would City ofMiami Page 174 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 be part of this board. We would just be taking -- my suggestion will be just taking what we're talking about, and instead of calling it the " Communio) " -- the -- whatever board, use Communio) Relations Board, 'and use that branding name for our cit) . Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Mr. Soliman: That would be my humble suggestion. Thank you for hearing me. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Any questions? We have other speakers? I thought we had a few registered, okay. This is public hearing for item DI 14 and/or 15. Jeanne Baker: Yes. Jeanne Baker, on behalf of the Coalition of Communio) Organizations that's been very concerned with the CIP for quite a number of years, and that -- I was here and have been waiting in case there is an interest and a need to talk about how the CIP is doing. That's really what I have been focusing on. What I heard, Commissioner Russell, you say is something I agree with very much; that there is the CIP; there is currently a kind of not -so -actively functioning CRB; and there is a requirement in the DOJ agreement for a Communio) Advisory Board, and those, I do believe, are three distinct bodies and have distinct roles, and it should remain that way. If there are any issues or questions to discuss about the CIP today, that's what I would like to address, but I do want to also just comment, since I am at the podium -- I'll be very brief -- about what has just been said. There is a provision in the City Code describing the CRB. It's quite vague and nonspecific. There's also a website in which it describes itself, to some extent. It is not a body that is independent of the Cit); it is a body of the Cit). It has a kind of innate definition, Communio) Relations Board, to deal with community relations on behalf of the City. And I think one of the functions it could be serving, perhaps not, is, but should be or could be, is to communicate between the City and the communio) , but that is very different from the specific role of the Community Advisory Board that is described in the DOJ settlement very specifically. That is not supposed be an entio) of the Cit) , which the CRB is. And with all of the very nice modern talk of branding -- and this is, you know, kind of what the millennials talk about -- I really don't think that's what should be part of the mandate -- or as part of fulfilling the mandate of the DOJ agreement. I think the DOJ and Cit) agreement is very special, and has a very important role and part to play in the evolution of this Cio) `s life. And the Communio) Advisory Board that Kat) Sorenson and Julia Dawson and -- I'm sore -- Ms. Balbin: Maribel Balbin. Ms. Baker: --and Maribel -- thank you --have proposed really focuses in on the special role that the DOJ and the City agreed on that's spelled out in the DOJ/City agreement, and the CRB should not be yanked into something which it's not designed for and which it does not have the independence to promote. Having said that, I'm hereto answer any questions that you might have with respect to the CIP, which is -- has been the main focus of the Coalition over these last four or five years Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much. While you're here -- and you have been very patient, Ido appreciate that. And I do have a potential lengthy discussion on CIP, which will I --which I will not do. I'm going to limit today to discussion of the CRB and the potential -- well, not Potential "-- the mandated advisory board that we're talking about. But while we have you, I would very much like to know if you have reviewed the IRC's (Independent Review Committee) recommendations and -- Ms. Baker: Oh, extensively. The Coalition worked extensively. Really, I think it was our work that brought the IRC into existence. We appeared, quite a few of us, at every IRC meeting. We presented to the IRC. We've listened attentively to the Commissioners discuss the IRC findings. The IRC findings led to the development and the creation of a committee centered in the CIP but with representatives of the community beyond the CIP, including, in fact, Kat) Sorenson, among City ofMiami Page 175 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 others. We met -- that committee met for over a year, developing proposed revisions to the Charter of the Cit) to improve the functioning, and particularly the independence of the CIP, and to extensive changes -- proposed changes in the ordinance, and all of those changes are an outgrowth of the recommendations of the IRC, so I think we stand very much behind the conclusions of the IRC and hope that the changes that that committee is going to be proposing to this Commission will be embraced and in recognition that this has stemmed from the IRC's recommendations. Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair. Vice Chair Russell: From the IRC's recommendations, if I recall, there's maybe six of them that the Citizen [sic] Investigative Panel adopted -- are looking for us to adopt; is that correct? Ms. Baker: Oh, no. There are many more than six. Vice Chair Russell: There's more. Commissioner Suarez: Mr. Chair. Ms. Baker: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Vice Chair Russell: Oh, I'm sorry. We don't (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Suarez: No, no. Whenever you -- whenever you're -- Vice Chair Russell: We're (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Ms. Baker: But maybe -- the recommendations for revision of the Charter, which is a very short document compared to the ordinance, there may be six. That might be the correct number. It's something in that order of numbers. Vice Chair Russell: Right. Ms. Baker: Within the Charter there are approximately that many proposals that we are collectively urging the Charter Review Commission -- Committee to embrace -- Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. Ms. Baker: --and then the Commission. The ordinance itself has many more specific changes than that in number, although it's possible that they could be grouped into six categories; I'm not sure. Vice Chair Russell: All right. All right. Well, let's talk more later. I really thank you for coming. I'm very glad to sponsor legislation to help strengthen the CIP and give it the muscle it needs and the independence it needs to conduct investigations properly. Thank you, Ms. Baker. Ms. Baker: That's great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Vice Chair Russell: If there's no further discussion on CRB and the Advisory Board, I thank you all very much. This is a good first step, and I look forward to having the rest of the Commission here to continue. DI.15 DISCUSSION ITEM 16-00323 City ofMiami Page 176 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 District 3- DISCUSSION REGARDING THE CREATION OF A COMMUNITY ADVISORY Commissioner Frank BOARD OF CIVILIAN CITY RESIDENTS TO PROVIDE OVERSIGHTAND Carollo FEEDBACK AS PER THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND THE CITY. 16-00323 E -Mail - Discussion Item.pdf 16 -00323 -Submittal -Carlos Morales-CRB and DOJ Settlement.pdf DISCUSSED Note for the Record: Please see item DL 14 for minutes related to item DL 15. END OF DISCUSSION ITEMS MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS' ITEMS CITYWIDE HONORABLE MAYOR TOMAS REGALADO END OF CITYWIDE ITEMS DISTRICT 1 COMMISSIONER WIFREDO (WILLY) GORT END OF DISTRICT 1 DISTRICT 2 VICE CHAIR KEN RUSSELL END OF DISTRICT 2 DISTRICT 3 COMMISSIONER FRANK CAROLLO END OF DISTRICT 3 DISTRICT 4 COMMISSIONER FRANCIS SUAREZ END OF DISTRICT 4 DISTRICT 5 CHAIR KEON HARDEMON END OF DISTRICT 5 N.A 1 City ofMiami Page 177 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 16-00078 PRESENTATION OF A PLAQUE BY PLACIDO DIAZ, CHIEF OF POLICE FOR THE CITY OF SWEETWATER, IN APPRECIATION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY OF SWEETWATER'S POLICE DEPARTMENT. PRESENTED Vice Chair Russell: Calling the meeting back to order. How's that for gavel work? Where's Smiley? We have a guest visiting who would like to address the dais; Police Chief of Sweetwater, Placido Diaz. Placido Diaz: Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Commissioners and staff. I'm here to thank all of you for the contributions that you made to the Cit) of Sweetwater Police Department, and in accordance with that, I'm here to present each one of you, the Manager and the Chief of Police with a small token of our appreciation for your cooperation in helping our department move forward. Again, I want to thank you very much, all of you, for all your help; and I'm going to go ahead and present them to each one of you. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Commissioner Carollo: Madam City Attorney, regarding the gift laws, how do we -- I hate to -- Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): (INAUDIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: I asked the Cit) Attorney; not the Cit) Manager. I usually -- Ilike legal opinions from an attorney. Victoria Mendez (City Attorne)): The value of it is about $30, so we should be -- or less. Commissioner Gort: That's for -- the City is receiving it. Mr. Alfonso: (INAUDIBLE) Ms. Mendez: Right. But it's also a gift to the Cit), so what the Manager was saying about leaving it in the office, as well, is fine, too. Commissioner Gort: We spent two and a half hours last night listening to ethics and all kinds of things. We learned a lot. Vice Chair Russell: Some of its did. Unidentified Speaker: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Mr. Diaz: Thankyou, Commissioner. NA.2 RESOLUTION 16-00328 District 2 - A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AUTHORIZING THE Commissioner Ken CITY OF MIAMI TO PARTICIPATE AS A SIGNATORY ON THE AMICUS Russell CURIAE BRIEF BEING DRAFTED BY A NATIONAL COALITION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS IN DEFENSE OF THE UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL City ofMiami Page 178 Printed on 412 012 01 6 City Commission Meeting Minutes March 11, 2016 ADJOURNMENT PROTECTION AGENCY'S CLEAN POWER PLAN. DISCUSSED Daniel J. Alfonso (Cit) Manager): Mr. Chairman. Vice Chair Russell: Did you have additional copies of it? No. This is a pocket item. I'll bring it up, and it'll be up to you gentlemen if you would like to take this up right now or not. Basically, in my first meeting, I brought forth a pocket item regarding a signing on with this -- the Clean Power Plan, which we unanimously voted with a resolution in support of the Clean Power Plan. At this point -- and it's been only brought to my attention recently, and it is of a time sensitive nature to sign on, if we would like, with the amicus brief to the same effect. There is an amicus brief being put together that we could be apart of, if we choose. Is this something you all would like to consider? Commissioner Suarez: I mean, I don't know anything about this. Vice Chair Russell: Fair enough. Commissioner Suarez: I'd like to take some time to -- Vice Chair Russell: Absolutely. In that case, I'll table it for another time. I'll just withdraw it for now. I'll bring it back when -- Todd B. Hannon (Cit) Clerk): No worries. It's a non -agenda item; we'll show it as discussed. Vice Chair Russell: Perfect. Thank you. The meeting adjourned at 8:02 p.m. City ofMiami Page 179 Printed on 412 012 01 6