HomeMy WebLinkAboutSubmittal-Mayor RegaladoCITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA
INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
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Priscilla A. Thompson
City Clerk
Tomas Regalado
Mayor
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January 14, 2010
Blue Ribbon. Committee
on Economic Initiatives
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I am submitting the following appointments for the Mayor's Blue Ribbon Committee on
Economic Initiatives. Your attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.
Tony E. Crapp Jr, Chief of Staff to Mayor Regalado — Chairperson
Ana Carolina Corrales, Professor — Miami -Dade College
Luis DeRosa, Executive Director of the Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce
Steven Haas, Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau
Rev. Joaquin Willis, Pastor - Church of the Open Door
Brenda Shapiro, Brenda B. Shapiro LLC
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TOMAS P. REGALADO
MAYOR
Date: January 14, 2010
To:
From: Mayor Tomas Regalad
RE:
The Honorable Members of the City Commission
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I will appoint a seven (7) member Blue Ribbon Working Group Committee to
study, recommend and monitor initiatives that will revitalize targeted
communities that are underserved and economically depressed and improve
quality of life in the City of Miami with a specific focus on job creation, job
retention, and creating employment training opportunities.
The committee will work with a core group of departments including the City
Manager's Office -Economic Initiative Team and the departments of Community
Development, Grants Administration, Planning, the Community Redevelopment
Agency, and ACCESS Miami to establish recommendations for initiatives that will
have a significant impact on revitalizing low and moderate income communities
and improve quality of life for residents in the City of Miami which support the
City's long-term fiscal health and over-all quality of life. In addition to the core
group of departments, the committee will reach out on an as needed or as
appropriate basis to other organizations and agencies including but not limited to
the Beacon Council, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, CAMACOL, the
Miami -Dade Chamber of Commerce, Miami -Dade County South Florida Work
Force, and the Miami -Dade County Economic Advocacy Trust.
The 2000 Census ranked the City of Miami as the poorest large city in the United
States. According to CNN/Money.Com 2009 Best Places to Live report, the City
of Miami did not rank in the top 100 U.S. cities. With a service -driven economy,
steady influx of immigrants, significant high school drop -out rate and a sizable
elderly population, Miami has historically and continues to register median
income levels below the national average. The Census Bureau's 2006-2008
American Community Survey 3-year estimates places Miami's poverty rate for
families at 20.9%, well above the State of Florida's average of 9.0%, Miarni-Dade
County's 12.6% and the national average of 9.6%.
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The committee will review the City's current local, state and federal incentives
and methodology for creating business and job development opportunities in the
targeted communities with an emphasis on opportunities that can be created
through the layering of available incentives and related special designations and
programs, review the City's current incentives and methodology for providing
affordable and special needs housing opportunities and foreclosure mitigation in
the targeted communities, identify and recommend a tool box of incentives for
business and job development opportunities which include attracting large scale
businesses, research and recommend educational/training opportunities via
public/private and public/public partnerships to re -tool the workforce in the
targeted communities, and to recommend changes to the City's current method
of implementing initiatives that will revitalize underserved communities and
improve quality of life that maximize attainment of the stated goals.
Cc: Pete Hernandez, City Manager
Julie Bru, City Attorney
Priscilla Thompson, City Clerk