2013-28115 Resolution RESOLUTION NO. 2013-28115
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, CREATING THE MAYOR'S AD
HOC COMMITTEE TO PLAN THE 2013 SUSTAINABLE & AUTHENTIC
FLORIDA CONFERENCE AND PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES, MANNER
OF APPOINTMENT, AND THE TERMS OF OFFICE OF COMMITTEE
MEMBERS.
WHEREAS, Section 2-22 of the Code of the City of Miami Beach provides for the
creation of agencies, boards, and committees; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and members of the community participated in the 2012
Sustainable & Authentic Florida Conference hosted by the communities of Ana Maria Island, the
Anna Maria Island Preservation Trust, and the Island Players Theater, and found the
Conference informative and inspiring; and
WHEREAS, the City of Miami Beach is proud of its historic, authentic, and sustainable
community; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Commission, as well as members of the community,
have expressed an interest in promoting the City of Miami Beach and wish to showcase the
City's efforts in historic preservation and sustainable practices and to educate others in building
their communities in sustainable and authentic ways by hosting the 2013 Sustainable and
Authentic Florida Conference in Miami Beach; and
WHEREAS, the planning for the hosting of the 2013 Sustainable & Authentic Florida
Conference could best be accomplished by an Ad Hoc Committee composed of sixteen (16)
members to be direct appointments by the Mayor, with additional members to be appointed at-
large on an as needed basis, who shall report to, and receive input from, the Mayor and
Commission, with terms to begin on January 29, 2013 and end on December 31, 2013 (subject
to earlier or later sunset by the City Commission).
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT DULY RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that a Mayor's Ad Hoc Committee is
hereby created whose purpose is to plan the 2013 Sustainable & Authentic Florida Conference
to be held in Miami Beach, Florida in October of 2013 which shall be composed of sixteen (16)
members to be direct appointments by the Mayor, with additional members to be appointed at-
large on an as needed basis, and which shall report to, and receive input from, the Mayor and
City Commission, with board member terms beginning on January 29, 2013 and expiring on
December 31, 2013 (subject to earlier or later sunset by the City Commission).
PASSED and ADOPTED this day of January, 2013.
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JOSE SMITH, CITY ATTORNEY COMMISSION MEMORANDUM
TO: MAYOR MATTI HERRERA BOWER
MEMBERS OF THE CITY COMMISSION
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FROM: JOSE SMITH
CITY ATTOR Y
DATE: JANUARY 16, 0 y
SUBJECT: A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH, FLORIDA, CREATING THE MAYOR'S AD HOC COMMITTEE TO PLAN
THE 2013 SUSTAINABLE & AUTHENTIC FLORIDA CONFERENCE AND
PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES, MANNER OF APPOINTMENT, AND THE TERMS OF
OFFICE OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
Pursuant to the request of Mayor Matti Herrera Bower, the above-referenced
Resolution creating the Mayor's Ad Hoc Committee to plan the 2013 Sustainable &
Authentic Florida Conference is submitted for consideration by the City Commission.
The Conference will be held in the City of Miami Beach in October of 2013.
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Agenda Item 7
Date
MIAMI BEACH
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR AND COMMISSION MEMORANDUM
TO: City Manager Kathie Brooks
City Clerk Rafael Granado
FROM: Mayor Matti Herrera Bower
DATE: January 10, 2013
SUBJECT: Referral to the City Commission — Formation of Mayor's Ad Hoc
Committee & Appointment of Members to Organize 2013 Sustainable
& Authentic Florida Conference in Miami Beach.
Mayor Matti Herrera Bower would like to place an item on the January City Commission
meeting consent agenda regarding the formation of a Mayor's Ad Hoc Committee to
plan and implement the 2013 Sustainable & Authentic Florida Conference in Miami
Beach.
During its inaugural event in October 2012, the Sustainable & Authentic Florida
Conference decided to bring its 2013 event to Miami Beach. To ensure the success of
the Conference, Mayor Bower would like to appoint Elizabeth Wheaton from the Public
Works Department as the City Liaison to work with the committee appointees listed
below. Mayor Bower would also like to invite the City Commission to appoint additional
persons as well:
Herb Sosa, CMB Historic Preservation Board
Mitch Novick, CMB Sustainability Committee
Com. Jerry Libbin, City of Miami Beach
Becky Matkov, Dade Heritage Trust
Gabriole Van Bryce, Dream In Green
Luiz Rodriguez, E-COMB
Brad Wells, Entrepreneurial Center
George Neary, GMVCB
Keith Menin, Menin Hotels
John Stuart, FIU School of Architecture and Art
Brian Scheinblum, MBCC Sustainability Council
Jack Johnson, Miami Beach CDC
Denis Russ, Miami Beach CDC
Charles Urstadt, Miami Design Preservation League
Daniel Veitia, North Beach; Urban Resources
Elizabeth PlaterZyberk, U of M School of Architecture
Attached, please find supporting material.
Thank you.
We are committed to providing excellent public service and safety to all who live,work,and play in our vibrant,tropical,historic community.
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Authenticity advances sustainability for Florida's future
Conference challenges Florida orthodoxy with facts on the ground
A revived century-old main street in mid-October was the setting for the first Sustainable &Authentic
Florida Conference that folklorist Peggy Bulger said "traced the historical trajectories, outlined the
present realities and charted the imagined future of Florida."
For three days, scholars and citizen advocates from Florida places in the vanguard of change freshly i
stirred issues long stifled by the sprawl and empty civics of Sunshine State orthodoxy.
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For more than 100 people and graduate students from
around the state, the conference in Anna Maria
tackled Florida's great unmentionables.
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"Is Florida over?" asked retired USF social historian
r Gary Mormino. "How can we replace, or should we
=; repair, the former growth machine?We have made
-•- Florida. We must now make Floridians."
The difficulty, of course, is that Florida endlessly
Conference Hosts and Speakers—Photo: RChinnis promises visitors that retirement here will deliver
endless vacations, while offshore condominium
investors occupy only Florida's waterfront edge. Still others-who-ar ve-(n flight from poverty and
oppression settle into ethnic enclaves where they remain linked to countries of origin, in the way that
northerners still consider where they come from as home.
Consensus from conflict
Nonetheless, the conference did approach consensus about how younger Floridians no longer buy into
the dream machine. Instead, educated but deeply in debt and with limited job opportunities, they pour
into residential downtowns for networking inspired by loft living where they create "the new laboratories
for better communities," in the words of environmentalist Clay Henderson. For photojournalist John
Moran, the door has opened on "a new way of thinking that doesn't pit environmental preservation
against economic prosperity."
The conference talked about how mainstream denial of climate change and the alienation caused by
globalism might impel these new urbanists to work at climate economies. In the first instance this would
depend on conserving irreplaceable resources that would balance global with local priorities. Citizen
advocates from Miami Beach told how dispossesed young adults 35 years ago led the fight to protect
their city's architectural heritage that, backed by creative investors, launched today's universally
recognized "South Beach" brand.
These "investors look for'the economics of amenity,"' said Partners for Livable Communities President
Bob McNulty. "They look for places of distinct architecture, design and landscape that represent the
infrastructure for redefining the strategic advantage of communities."
For water scientist and conference facilitator Duane De Freese, "sustainability and authenticity mean
opportunity."
Conference blogger Andy Fairbanks identified his own generation as "a creative class of entrepreneurs
in our thirties, [who] want something different than our predecessors. Golf courses are out and bike
trails are in. Sustainability and authenticity matter. Developments that supply this are booming."
New Urbanist and Rollins College Professor Bruce Stephenson discerned that 'civic urbanism' is
inspiring creativity and lowering the cost of living while raising quality of life."
Summing up the conference, registrant Susan Berry of Maitland "found the program empowered us
with concepts and skills for answering our individual needs and addressing policy changes. Now it's up
to us to carry this message into our own communities, to engage with local and state leaders for
positive, transformative discussion and action."
Also by conference end, the City of Miami Beach had bid in a 2013 follow-up
conference, and two more cities were bidding to host a third in 2014.
Manatee County means what it says:
Sustainable and Authentic
In the same mid-October week, Manatee County
introduced a new marketing brand that gained instant
credibility when the Sustainable &Authentic Florida
= Conference also took place throughout the county's
y .-, coastal region.
The brand is Real. Authentic. Florida. The
conference showed more than 100 Floridians why
the brand is the real thing.
The opening conference session took place at the
Florida Maritime Museum in Historic Cortez Village, and from there convened for the next two days at
Conference Director, the oldest performing stage in the county, the Island
Herb Hiller at Florida Maritime Museum Players Theater in Anna Maria.
Landmark venues supplied more than just discussion sites. There was a walking tour of Cortez,
Florida's oldest still viable fishing community with a back-of-the-house visit to the A.P. Bell Fish
Company led by proprietor Karen Bell. There was a water tour aboard the Island Pearl through upper
Sarasota Bay, where director Charlie Hunsicker of Manatee County Natural Resources and fishing
guide Rusty Chinnis narrated stops at a pair of conservation islands.
R There were walking tours led by Anna
Maria preservation leaders Ed Chiles and
Mike Coleman of the Pine Avenue
' Restoration Project where coarse sand
walkways have replaced concrete
sidewalks, native landscaping has
i
replaced exotic plants, and heritage
architecture now houses more than two
dozen one-of-a-kind shops. Front
1 `` porches with slat-back chairs allow for
the exchange of endless greetings.
The half-mile Pine Avenue connection
_• - = between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of
Ed Chiles tour of Pine Avenue Restoration Project--Photo RChinnis Mexico locally is famed as "the greenest
little main street in Florida".
Conference dinners took place at Mar Vista in the historic north end of Longboat Key and at the
BeacHhouse Restaurant in Bradenton Beach across the street from Anna Maria Island Resorts, where
conference participants stayed. Lunches included a fish fry in Cortez of teeming Spanish mackerel and
at the Village Cafe at Rosedale in the historic Green Village on Pine Avenue. The cluster of re-
purposed historic buildings here is a model for combining historic preservation with modern and
sustainable development where businesses operate on net zero energy, generating more energy than
they consume. Site for breakfasts was the Studio at Gulf and Pine across the street from the Island
Players Theater, and a showplace for Florida artists and Florida art.
The conference and the county's new brand represent a bold vision for post-recession Florida.
Together they affirm a so far rare commitment to ascending historical and conservation values.
Herb Hiller, Conference Director Caroline McKeon, Associate Director
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Sustainable and Authentic Florida Conference
Miami Beach, Florida
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