Beautification Committee
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BOARDS AND COMMITTEE BI-ANNUAL REPORT FORM - PAGE 1 OF 3
BOARD OR COMMITTEE NAME: Beautification Committee
CHAIRPERSON: Elizabeth Resnick
CITY LIAISON:
William Dale Bryant
NUMBER OF MEETINGS HELD SINCE January 2003: Six
ACTIVITY:
Monitors the overall aesthetic of the City of Miami Beach, it's businesses, residences, public
spaces, and patron establishments. The Beautification Committee makes recommendations
to elected officials such as the Mayor and City Commission, as well as advising and directly
coordinating tasks and issue resolutions with top Administration staff such as Department
Directors, Assistant City Managers, and the City Manager. Through these processes and
venues, the Beautification Committee seeks to promote a clean, beautiful environment within
which to live, work, and play.
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FUTURE ACTIVITIES
Future activities includes hosting of the 2003 Annual Beautification Awards (an awards
event that celebrates and recognizes beautification efforts by local properties whose uses may
include commercial, multi-family residential {apartment and condominium buildings with
More than four individual units}, and not-for-profit non-public properties), finalization and
distribution of the 'beautiful places' map (a full-color map ofthe city that will identify, via the
use of color graphic icons, beautiful places within the city including former beautification
A ward-winning properties, parks and recreational facilities, memorial sites, greenways and
significant streetscapes, etc.), various "clean-up" projects (projects the Committee undertakes
when a property, area, or entity is deemed as problematically unclean or unsightly, thus
detracting from the beautification of the city).
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Hosted the 2002 Miami Beach Beautification Awards and pre-award breakfast social
Co-hosted the 2003 Miami Beach Arbor Day celebration and street tree planting
Co-hosted the dedication of 81 st St. pocket park and educational opportunities for
students of Biscayne Elementary School
Coordinated and advised Washington Ave. and Alton Rd. clean-up projects