Resolution 77-15427 RESOLUTION NO. 77-15427
A RESOLUTION CREATING THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH
CULTURAL ARTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND PROVIDING
FOR MEMBERSHIP; TERM OF OFFICE; ORGANIZATION
OF THE COMMITTEE; DUTIES, FUNCTIONS AND
RESPONSIBILITIES; AND LIMITATION OF POWERS .
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that a City of Miami Beach Cultural Arts
Advisory Committee be and the same is hereby created and estab-
lished. The Committee shall consist of eight (8) members appointed
by the City Commission; three (3) members of the Committee shall be
appointed from the existing membership of the City of Miami Beach
Arts in Public Buildings Committee; three (3) members shall be
appointed from the existing membership of the Arts in Public Places
Committee; one (1) member shall be appointed from the existing
membership of the Board of Directors of the Bass Museum of Art; and
one (1) member shall be appointed from the administration personnel
of the City of Miami Beach. Members shall be appointed for a term
of one (1) year, provided, however, that prior expiration of mem-
bership on any of the hereinabove designated existing Committees
shall constitute expiration of the term of membership on the City
of Miami Beach Cultural Arts Advisory Committee. The Committee
shall elect a chairman who shall serve at the will of the Committee.
Appointments to fill any vacancy on the Committee shall be for the
remainder of the unexpired term of office. A member may be removed
without cause only by a three-fourths (3/4) vote of the entire
membership of the City Commission. When any member fails to attend
three (3) consecutive meetings without due cause, the chairman
shall certify the same to the City Commission. Such members shall
then be deemed to have been removed and a vacancy created.
The members of the Committee shall elect such officers
other than a chairman as may be deemed necessary, who shall serve
at the will of the Committee. Five (5) members of the Committee
shall constitute a quorum necessary to hold a meeting and take any
action. Members shall serve without compensation, but shall be
reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in the performance of
their official duties, upon approval by the City Commission. The
chairman may call meetings of the Committee and meetings may be
called by written notice signed by four (4) members and the Com-
mittee at any meeting may fix and call a meeting on a future date.
Minutes shall be kept of all meetings of the Committee. All meet-
ings shall be public.
The Committee shall have the following duties, functions,
powers and responsibilities:
(a) To serve in an advisory capacity to the City Com-
mission for the evaluation of gifts and bequests of works of art,
including but not limited to paintings, sculpture, engravings,
carvings, frescos, mobiles, murals, collages, mosaics, statues,
bas-reliefs, tapestries, photographs, drawings and antiques . The
Committee shall accept or reject proffered gifts or bequests of art
on the basis of accepted standards and criteria of current and
potential art value and appropriateness for acceptance by the City
of Miami Beach.
(b) When a gift or bequest of art has been approved by
the Committee, an appropriate resolution recommending acceptance of
the same shall be delivered to the City Commission.
(c) Prior to the approval of any gift or bequest of any
work of art, as hereinabove defined, to the City, all donors shall
be specifically advised that such gift or bequest must be made to
the City without any conditions whatsoever attached thereto, parti-
cularly with regard to the location or specific public building
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wherein said work of art shall be displayed, provided, however,
that this jurisdictional requirement may be waived or modified upon
a three-fourths (3/4) vote of the Committee and of the City Com-
mission.
(d) To perform such other duties as may from time to
time be assigned to it by resolution of the City Commission.
It is the purpose and intent of the City Commission that
the creation of this Committee shall in no way be deemed to be an
impingement, impairment, diminution, or conflict with the juris-
diction of any existing committee of the City of Miami Beach, and
it is further the intent of the City Commission that the proper
prerogatives and the appropriate jurisdiction of any existing com-
mittee shall be uneffected and unimpaired by the powers, authority
and jurisdiction hereby conferred on the City of Miami Beach
Cultural Arts Advisory Committee.
The powers and jurisdiction of the Committee shall be
purely advisory, voluntary, and persuasive. The Committee shall
not have any power or authority to subpoena or compel the atten-
dance of witnesses. The Committee shall have no power to appoint
city officers or employees or to make policy decisions .
The City Manager of the City of Miami Beach is hereby
directed and authorized to furnish, supply and make available to
the Committee suitable and proper accommodations for the trans-
action of the business of said Committee. The Committee shall
submit to the City Commission and to the City Manager interim and
periodic reports as to the performance of its duties and responsi-
bilities as hereinabove delineated.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 7th day of September, 1977 .
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Mayor
Attest:
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City Clerk
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ORIGINAL
RESOLUTION NO. 77-15427
(Creating the CMB Cultural Arts Advisory
Committee and providing for membership;
term of office; organization of Committee .
duties, functions and responsibilities;
and limitation of powers)