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INTER -OFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and
Members of the City Commissioner
FROM: Emilio*nag Ph.D.
City M
Background:
DATE: July 9, 2019
SUBJECT: Covenant between the City and
Miami -Dade County
REFERENCES:
ENCLOSURES:
Pursuant to the Quitclaim Deed ("Deed") recorded March 15, 1991 in Official Records Book 14938, Page
1719, the City of Miami ("City") conveyed to the Miami -Dade County ("County") the property identified
as folio(s): 01-0106-070-2010, 01-0106-070-2020, and 01-0106-070-2060 (the "Property"). The City
conveyed the Property for the expressed purpose of leasing said Property to the YWCA of Greater Miami -
Dade, Inc. ("YWCA") in accordance with the restrictions and reverters more particularly described in the
Deed.
The County complied with the Deed and leased the Property to the YWCA which built the Martha Sutton
Weeks Women's Center and has occupied the Property since then. The County and YWCA are now
requesting the City to release the Deed restrictions to allow the County to convey of the Property to the
YWCA. Furthermore, the YWCA requested that the City allow the transfer of title from the County to the
YWCA's wholly owned subsidiary, YWCA -MG HOLDINGS, LLC ("YWCA Subsidiary").
The City reiterates its full support of the YWCA's mission, dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering
women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all by providing services, programs, and
affordable/low income housing for women, teens, children, seniors, and families, and to aiding and
supporting other organizations operated exclusively for charitable or educational purposes ("Intended
Purposes"). As a condition precedent to the conveyance, the Property will be encumbered by a
Declaration of Restrictive Covenants Running with the Land ("Covenant") between the City and the County
to release the restrictions contained in the Deed and further containing a reverter provision if the
Property ceases to be used by the YWCA Subsidiary for the Intended Purposes or the YWCA Subsidiary
attempts to convey the Property to any entity, all property rights shall automatically revert to the City
without the necessity of further action or proceeding.
Therefore, the City desires to assist the County with the proposed Covenant through the authority granted
in Section 29-B(a) of the Charter of the City of Miami, Florida, as amended ("Charter") and the City
Manager determine, found, and recommends in accordance with the Charter and with Section 18-182 of
the Code of the City of Miami, Florida, as amended ("City Code"), the proposed Covenant and conveyance
would be in the best interests of the City and the greater Miami -Dade communities.
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Recommendation:
In light of the above stated, the Office of the City Manager respectfully requests the City Commission's
approval of a waiver of the formal requirements of competitive sealed bidding methods as not being
practicable or advantageous to the City as set forth in the City Code of Ordinances, as amended,
specifically, Section 18-85(A). /
Respeetfu4ly,
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Emilio T. Gonzalez, Ph.D.
City Manager
cc: Joseph Napoli, Deputy City Manager
Fernando Casamayor, Assistant City Manager
Victoria Mendez, City Attorney
Daniel Rotenberg, Director of Real Estate and Asset Management
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