2019-30806 Resolution RESOLUTION NO. 2019-30806
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ACCEPTING THE
2019 GULF SOUTH SUMMIT MONETARY AWARD OF$500 FOR
OUTSTANDING SERVICE-LEARNING COLLABORATION WITH
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY AND ALLOCATING
SUCH FUNDS TO THE EDUCATION COMPACT FUND TO
SUPPORT EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES.
WHEREAS, on April 4, 2019, Dr. Leslie Rosenfeld attended the 2019 Gulf South Summit
(GSS) as the representative of the City of Miami Beach for the Outstanding Service-Learning
Collaboration award for the City's partnership with Florida International University(FIU); and
WHEREAS, the recognition from the GSS included a $500 award; and
WHEREAS, the Gulf South Summit Award for Outstanding Service-Learning
Collaboration is given to a team of practitioners, faculty, and community partners who have
demonstrated success in achieving a mutually beneficial collaboration that has successfully
addressed a genuine community need; and
WHEREAS, FIU and the City of Miami Beach were recognized at the GSS meeting with
a plaque and a cash award of $1,000 ($500 each). The GSS meeting was held in Huntsville,
Texas from April 3-5, 2019; and
WHEREAS, FIU and the City of Miami Beach have forged a dynamic partnership
leveraging their unique assets—geography, history, demographics, and intellectual capital—to
address their most pressing challenges. The partnership, facilitated by FIU's Office of
Engagement and the City's Office of Organization Development Performance Initiatives, began
• in February 2014 with three workgroups and has flourished into a robust partnership with five
workgroups focused on education, transportation, history and culture, coastal resilience and
adaption, and messaging; and
WHEREAS, the five named workgroups are:Youth &Education Development Workgroup,
Arts, Culture, & History Workgroup, Transportation Workgroup, Florida Coastal Resilience and
Adaptation Workgroup, and the Messaging Workgroup; and
WHEREAS, the City of Miami Beach and FIU will continue to support and enhance our
mutually beneficial collaborations to successfully address genuine community needs.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT DULY RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND THE CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA that the Mayor and City Commission
hereby accept the 2019 Gulf South Summit monetary award of $500 for outstanding service-
learning collaboration with Florida International University and allocate such funds to the
Education Compact Fund to support educational initiatives.
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COMMISSION MEMORANDUM
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission
FROM: Jimmy L. Morales, City Manager
DATE: -April 24, 2019
SUBJECT:A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, ACCEPTING THE 2019 GULF SOUTH
SUMMIT MONETARY AWARD OF $500 FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICE-
LEARNING COLLABORATION WITH FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL
UNIVERSITY
RECOMMENDATION
Accept the $500 monetary award from the 2019 Gulf South Summit for outstanding service-
learning collaboration with Florida International University
ANALYSIS
On April 4, 2019, Dr. Leslie Rosenfeld attended the 2019 Gulf, South. Summit as the
representative of the City of Miami Beach for the Outstanding Service-Learning Collaboration
award for our partnership with Florida International University. The recognition from the summit
included a$500 award.
The Gulf-South Summit Award for Outstanding Service-Learning Collaboration is given to a team of
practitioners, faculty, and community partners who have demonstrated success in achieving a
mutually beneficial collaboration that has successfully addressed a genuine community need.
FIU and the City of Miami Beach were recognized at the GSS meeting with a plaque and a cash
award of$1,000 ($500 each). The GSS meeting was held in Huntsville, Texas from April 3-5, 2019.
Florida International University &The City of Miami Beach Partnership
Florida International University and the City of Miami Beach have forged a dynamic partnership
leveraging our unique assists — geography, history, demographics, and intellectual capital — to
address both of our most pressing challenges. The partnership, facilitated by FI U's Office of
Engagement and the City's Office of Organizational Development Performance Initiatives,
began in February 2014 with three workgroups and has flourished into a robust partnership with
five workgroups focused on education, transportation, history and culture, coastal resilience and
adaption, and messaging. A brief description of each workgroup follows.
Youth & Education Development Workgroup
Together, the Office o f Engagement and City of Miami Beach's Chief Learning and
Development Officer have worked to leverage FIU resources to advance the competitiveness
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of students attending Miami Beach public schools. The partnership has addressed key needs in
Miami Beach's schools, including dual enrollment course offerings, afterschool enrichment
programs, and math and reading intervention. The opportunities have allowed FIU students to
engage in service-learning activities as afterschool instructors and math and reading
interventionists. FIU students have benefited from experiential learning in the City's internship
program.
In March of 2015, the Office of Engagement and the City signed two MOUs i n support of a
formalized internship program for FIU students and the municipality, and dual enrollment course
offerings for high school students at Miami Beach Senior High School. The Office of
Engagement has assisted in recruiting 80+ FIU students to participate in the internship
program, eight of whom have gone on to find full time employment with the City.
In collaboration with Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the dual enrollment agreement has
allowed FIU professors, Miami-Dade County Public Schools teachers, and even the City of
Miami Beach's City Manager and police chief to teach college courses to students at Miami
Beach Senior High School. The course offerings have saved parents and students an
estimated $850,000. With the costs of books included, parents and students have saved over
$1 million. This year, there are 14 courses, which translates into 25 classes for more than 500
high school students.
While.some City of Miami Beach schools offer dynamic afterschool programs, not all schools
have the means to support programs after hours. I n August of 2018, the City of Miami Beach
and FIU entered into an agreement to use FIU resources to provide elementary students in
Miami Beach equal access to afterschool enrichment. FIU undergraduate students from the
School of Information and Computer Sciences commute to Fienberg Fisher K-8 Center and
Biscayne Elementary five times a week to teach 14 classes to more than 220 Miami Beach
elementary students. The classes include M I T Scratch, JavaScript, 3D Printing, Robotics,
Virtual Reality, and others.
To support Miami Beach elementary students who fall in the lower 25% in math and reading
testing, FIU has entered into a n agreement with Miami Beach to provide math and reading
intervention. Starting in August 2018,10 FIU Learning Assistants, trained through FIU Teach,
provide one on one math intervention to students at both Nautilus Middle School and Miami
Beach Senior High. FIU Education students, who are in their third o r fourth year o f reading
courses at FIU, provide one on one intervention to students at Fienberg Fisher K-8 Center,
Biscayne Elementary, South Point Elementary, Nautilus Middle and North Beach Elementary.
Arts, Culture, & History Workgroup
Through the Arts, Culture, & History workgroup, FIU and City of Miami Beach partners have
created programs and opportunities for FIU students, faculty and staff, and the Miami Beach
community to stimulate their knowledge o f arts, culture, and history i n Miami Beach. Key
initiatives include the annual South Beach Wine and Food Festival, the digitization of the Miami
Beach archives, and hundreds.of other year-round cultural programs.
The South Beach Wine and Food Festival has become a staple event for FIU's Chaplin
School of Hospitality and Tourism and the City of Miami Beach. In its 18th year, the festival
featured 65,000+ attendees, 90+ events, 400+ chefs, winemakers, and culinary personalities,
and 1,200+student volunteers. Since its creation, the event has raised more than$28 million for
the Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism.
Beyond educating the Miami Beach community on food and wine, the annual event has assisted
homeless members of the community. The festival collaborates with the Miami Rescue Mission
to provide leftover food to those in need. In 2018, the event helped serve more than 20,000
meals.
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In 2015, FIU students and, faculty partnered with the City to digitize more than 45,000
documents in the City's archives. The project, completed in 2018, allows open access to the
City's digitized documents.
Fl U's Miami Beach Urban Studios (MBUS) has provided more than 120 programs for the
Miami Beach community, funded by the Miami Beach Cultural Anchor Grant. For the third year in
a row, MBUS has hosted Growlight/Breakthrough Miami, a three-week summer camp focused
on design, art, technology, urbanism, and public policy. Nearly 1,300 K-12 students throughout
Miami-Dade County, including Miami Beach students, have benefitted from the program.
Transportation Workgroup
To address the City of Miami Beach's needs regarding transportation and infrastructure, the
Office of Engagement has connected the City of Miami Beach Transportation Department with
FIU student and faculty researchers. FIU helps the City facilitate data collection and develop
performance measures for both the City's traffic monitoring and management efforts, and the
City's trolley program.
In the Fall of 2018, the two organizations entered into two agreements to assist the City with
pavement assessment and red-light traffic enforcement assessment. FIU engineers will assist
the City's Transportation Department as they determine the condition of pavement stripping
throughout the City, allowing the Transportation Department to proactively address deficiencies.
Through the red-light traffic study, FIU engineers assessed traffic volumes, crash data, red light
cameras, and more, to assess the current state of red light enforcement.
Florida Coastal Resilience and Adaptation Workgroup
In 2015, FIU launched the Sea Level Solution Center (SLSC), a department dedicated to
designing and implementing short and long-term adaptation strategies for a prosperous South
Florida. Since its creation, the City of Miami Beach has served as a key practical partner and
real-life laboratory. The SLSC and the City have worked together to hold thought-provoking
lectures and collaborative meetings; developed applications that educate the community on the
effects of climate change; and applied for joint-grant funding opportunities.
Throughout 2016, FIU researchers participated in studies impacting Miami Beach, one of which
allowed FIU researchers to participate in a public design charrette for the future of North Beach.
In March of 2016, FIU conducted a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
training for more than 20 City of Miami Beach employees in preparation for the City's new green
building ordinance.
In 2017, FIU and the City worked together on the Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability
Research Network grant, holding regular meetings to advance projects related to the
effectiveness of green infrastructure adaptations. In June of 2017, F I U's School of
Environment, Arts, and Society (SEAS) entered into an agreement with the City to further the
collaboration.
This year, SLSC faculty members and City of Miami Beach partners will apply for a planning
grant for an Industry University Cooperative Center. The center will serve as a mechanism for
universities and cities to partner with industry, specifically FIU and the City of Miami Beach. The
center will leverage federal funding to better utilize funding from industry to coproduce materials
for the science of adaptation.
With funds from the Miami Foundation, the SLSC has been able to host a series of lectures
discussing multi-sector issues when developing resiliency plans. Students from the SLSC will
present resiliency plans developed from the lecture series to the City of Miami Beach.
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Messaging Workgroup
With many projects and collaborations positively impacting the City and FI U, the partners found
a need to create a cohesive message when spreading the word. In 2017, the messaging
workgroup was created to promote and highlight the City of Miami Beach and FI U partnership.
Since its creation, the partners have highlighted all workgroups in their efforts to better the
community, while providing opportunities to FIU students, faculty, and staff to partake in
engaged scholarship.
CONCLUSION
The City of Miami Beach and Florida International University will continue to support and
enhance our mutually beneficial collaborations tosuccessfully address genuine community
needs.
KEY INTENDED OUTCOMES SUPPORTED
Achieve Educational (K-12) Excellence
Legislative Tracking
Organizational Development Performance Initiatives
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