MB RDA MINUTES JUNE 5, 1985 MIAMI BEACH REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MEETING
JUNE 5, 1985 - 9:00 A.M.
CITY HALL COMMISSION CHAMBERS
INDEX TO MINUTES OF MEETING
RESOLUTION PAGE
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1. Roll Call - Meeting commenced at 9:11 A.M. Messrs. 1
Shockett and Singer arrived at 9:15 A.M.; Mr. Arkin
absent.
2. Acceptance of Minutes of May 15, 1985 meeting 1
3. Report of Executive Director 1-2
Executive Director gave brief oral status reports on:
1) Coast Guard Property - Announcement that GSA
accepted high bid of $2.7 million from an Alaskan.
Advised of 60-day hold on consummation of sale of
property to allow Senator Hawkins and Congressman
Pepper time to introduce legislation to abrogate sale
and give property to the City.
2) Cheezem Development Agreement
3) South Pointe Park
4) South Pointe Promotional Efforts
5) SSDI Lawsuit - Nearing a settlement.
6) Corridor Study
7) Housing Authority Negotiations.
(Copy of report filed with records of meeting.)
4. Old Business 2
a. Financial Statement - (Copy of report filed with
records of meeting.) Mr. Daoud inquired about 2-3
Mark Israel's bill and capacity with Agency.
Administration explained his work is setting up
meetings in Washington re GSA property. Copy of
agreement to be furnished to Agency members.
5. New Business - none 2
6. Report of Agency Attorney - None 2
7. Adjournment - 9:19 A.M. 3
Next meeting: Wed., June 26, 1985, 9:00 A.M.
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MIAMI BEACH REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
June 5, 1985
Regular meeting of the Miami Beach Redevelopment Agency was held in the City
Commission Chambers, City Hall, 1700 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach,
Florida, on Wednesday, June 5, 1985, with the following members of the
Redevelopment Agency present:
Chairman Malcolm Fromberg
Vice Chairman William E. Shockett *
Alex Daoud
Ben Z. Grenald
Bruce Singer *
Sidney Weisburd
* Arrived at 9:15 a.m.
Absent: Stanley H. Arkin
Also Present: Rob W. Parkins, Executive Director
Arnold M. Weiner, General Counsel
Elaine M. Baker, Secretary
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THE MEETING WAS CALLED TO ORDER AT 9:11 A.M. , MR. FROMBERG IN THE CHAIR.
FROMBERG: Ladies and gentlemen, glad to have you all here. Ready to start?
We have a quorum. Okay, the meeting of the Miami Beach Redevelopment Agency
is going to start. Mrs. Baker, do you want to call the roll? (Item 1.)
BAKER: Mr. Fromberg Here
Mr. Shockett Absent
Mr. Arkin Absent
Mr. Daoud Here
Mr. Grenald Here
Mr. Singer Absent
Mr. Weisburd Here
A quorum is present.
FROMBERG: Do I have a motion to approve the minutes of the May 15, 1985
meeting? (2.) Moved by Mr. Weisburd, seconded by Mr. Grenald. All in
favor, signify by saying "aye". (AYE) Any opposed? The minutes are
accepted. Mr. Executive Director.
PARKINS: Mr. Chairman and members of the Agency, you have a report in your
agenda. (3.) The status of the GSA property, you probably read about more
than I can tell you. The auction was conducted; the high bid, I believe, was
$2.7 million. Mr. Gilbert advises me that was a gentleman from Alaska. They
are holding the bids for 60 days in order to give Senator Hawkins and
Congressman Pepper an opportunity to see if they can introduce legislation
that would abrogate the sale.
The Cheezem Development agreement has been exercised.
The South Pointe Park is 70% complete Phase I. 27% complete Phase II.
It's on schedule and within the budget.
South Pointe promotional efforts - As you know, the spring edition of
the South Pointe Newsletter is our. Staff's efforts generally have been
directed in negotiations with respect to SSDI Lawsuit. Mr. Fosmoen will
comment on those.
The Housing Authority negotiations - we have a desire to decline to
comment on the impact of the proposed easement by Freilich & Leitner relative
to the Car ne r-Mason lease since they have not participated in the overall
negotiations.
Mr. Fosmoen, on SSDI.
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RICHARD FOSMOEN: Mr. Chairman, members of the Agency, we have - the City
Attorney and I have been spending a considerable amount of time in the next
phase of the upland development next to the marina and that is to negotiate a
development agreement with SSDI. We are coming fairly close to having a
document that we will be able to recommend to the Agency and the City. We
expect to have that completed by the weekend and at that point we will be
able to give full discussion of what's being proposed. At this point we are
under a settlement negotiation agreement, which means that we're not talking
publicly about what's in that document at this point. I'd be happy to meet
with you individually.
PARKINS: I might advise you there is some prospect, I believe, that we may
wish to call a special meeting should we reach a conclusion before our next
meeting.
FROMBERG: Very good. We'll look forward in anticipation to some good news.
Getting back to the South Pointe Park property. We have called in all of our
troops, Senator Hawkins and Congressman Pepper are working very hard to
attempt to get the GSA to donate the property to us as was said. They've
introduced emergency legislation, Senator Hawkins in the Senate, and
Congressman Pepper in the House, seeking Congressional approval directing the
GSA to deed over the property to Miami Beach at no cost. They're also waging
a war in our behalf through the Department of the Interior seeking to get
them to add more pressure on the GSA by virtue of their declaration that this
should be continued as a national park, plus various people who have contacts
with the GSA and we have 60 days during which time we will actively work
towards obtaining this property for the City, for nothing and for recreation
and parks.
Mr. Executive Director, are there any other matters that you want to
report on?
(CLERK'S NOTE: Messrs. Shockett and Singer entered the meeting at
approximately 9:15 A.M.)
PARKINS: No, sir, Mr. Chairman.
FROMBERG: Okay. Any Old Business? (4.)
PARKINS: No, sir.
FROMBERG: Any New Business? (5.)
PARKINS: None to report.
FROMBERG: Mr. Agency Attorney, do you have any matters you wish to discuss
with us? (6.)
WEINER: I believe the Deputy Executive Director has covered everything I
would have covered. Thank you.
FROMBERG: Okay, motion to adjourn . . . moved by . . .
DAOUD: Mr. Mayor, could I one or two questions?
FROMBERG: Well, we went through Old and New Business. Which is this?
DAOUD: This is on the Agency agenda.
FROMBERG: I'm saying . . which one do you want us to go back to? We had the
Executive Director's report, Old, and New Business. Which . . .
DAOUD: Well, the one I was concerned about was the report that was stated
. . . It's on page 26, dealing with Mark Israel. I wanted to find out what Mr.
Israel's position is and what he is doing for the Agency.
FOSMOEN: Mr. Israel is an employee of a non-profit corporation that is
jointly sponsored by the National League of Cities and U. S. Conference of
Mayors. He arranged and spent some considerable amount of time with Stu
Rogel, with myself, with Commissioner Weisburd, when we were in Washington
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