13493 RESOLUTION NO. 13+93
WHEREAS, the City of Miami Beach desires to maintain and
preserve its primacy as a preeminent resort and tourist area,
and
WHEREAS, in order to maintain such primacy and leadership,
it is essential and imperative that there be situate in the City
of Miami Beach such tourist accommodations in hotels and other
similar living accommodations as will serve as a standard for
all other competing areas to seek to achieve, and
WHEREAS, it is of sine qua non of preeminent hotel and
restaurant facilities that they be staffed by suitably and
properly trained personnel, and
WHEREAS, such personnel are invariably eager and ambitious
to acquire the skills and training necessary to enable them to
extend the highest level of service to the guests of such hotels,
motels and restaurants, but that such educational and training
facilities are not presently readily and conveniently available
to persons desirous of availing themselves thereof,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT DULY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that the Regents of the College
and University System of the State of Florida and the Board of
Trustees and the President of Florida Atlantic University,
presently using the facilities of Ida M. Fisher Junior High
School, be and they are hereby urged and respectively requested
to provide, at the earliest possible date, a suitable, proper and
adequate curriculum and educational courses leading to an appro-
priate college degree or certification in the fields of hotel and
restaurant management and service; and that immediate steps be
taken for the establishment and implementation of such curriculum,
not only in the existing facility of Florida Atlantic University
at Ida M. Fisher School, but also in the permanent building and
campus to be established by said university in Dade County, Florida.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that the said City Council pledges its aid
and assistance in every possible and available measure and degree
to aid, assist and facilitate the establishment and maintenance
of such educational program and curriculum.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted
to the Regents of the College and University System, to the Board of
Trustees of said Florida Atlantic University and to its President.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 22nd day of December, 1971.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk-Finance Director
OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY-1130 WASHINGTON AVENUE-MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA 33139