138-1998 LTC
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH
CITY HALL 1700 CONVENTION CENTER DRIVE MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 33139
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L.T.C. No. 138-1998
LETTER TO COMMISSION
September 30, 1998
TO: Mayor Neisen O. Kasdin and
Members of the City Commission
FROM: Sergio Rodriguez
City Manager
SUBJECT: A RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD
RELATIVE TO THE ETHICS ORDINANCE
Attached herewith, please find a Resolution adopted by the Historic Preservation
Board, at its July 14, 1998, meeting, urging the City Commission to amend the City's
ethics ordinance.
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CITY OF MIAMI BEACH HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD
RESOLUTION
At the July 14, 1998, meeting, the Historic Preservation Board of the City of Miami Beach discussed
Ordinance No. 97-3105, adopted on December 17, 1997, amending Miami Beach City Code Chapter
2 entitled "Administration", Article III thereof entitled "Standards of Conduct for City Officers and
Employees", by creating Section 2-47.4 entitled "Supplemental Abstention and Disclosure
Requirements", and 2-47.5 entitled "Certain Appearances Prohibited" relative to City of Miami
Beach Board and Committee members and unanimously resolved (7-0-2 [2 vacant appointments])
as follows:
1. The Historic Preservation Board unanimously urges the City Commission to strengthen the
City's ethics standards by adopting an amendment to the aforementioned Ordinance No. 97-
3105, which will uniformly limit the permissible conflicts-of-interest for members on all fuYI
City land use boards, including the Historic Preservation Board, Design Review Board,
Planning Board, and Zoning Board of Adjustment, to three (3) per year, and will exempt the
land use boards from those provisions of the ethics ordinance which now prohibit a person
who presents to the board from serving on a City board or committee, due to a conflict-of-
interest, by allowing a maximum of three (3) abstentions for voting on a matter before the
respective board, due to a conflict-of-interest, on three (3) different applications within a
period of one (1) year.
2. The Historic Preservation Board unanimously urges the City Commission to consider an
amendment to the Code of the City of Miami Beach, Chapter 118 (Historic Preservation
Board), Section 118-105 (Removal) to include the language as follows, "For the purposes
of this section, an absence from a board meeting shall be defined as missing more than thirty
percent (30%) of the scheduled matters on that meeting's agenda."
Acknowledgement by Chairperson: ~~ ~ ~ .3::?, /'!~
Linda Polansky 'Plitt:..-- Date
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