96-22134 RESO
RESOLUTION NO. 96-22134
A RESOLUTION OF THE MA VOR AND CITY COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AUTHORIZING
THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE TWENTY-
THREE (23) SUB-RECIPIENT AGREEMENTS NECESSARY
TO IMPLEMENT TWENTY-ONE (21) COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) AND TWO (2)
EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) ACTIVITIES WHICH
WERE APPROVED AS PART OF THE ONE-YEAR ACTION
PLAN FOR FEDERAL FUNDS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996/97.
WHEREAS, On July 3, 1996, the Mayor and City Commission adopted
Resolution 96-22046, which approved the One-Year Action Plan for Federal Funds, which
contained the FY 1996/97 budget allocations for the Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG) Year 22 Program and the Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Program
projects/activities; and
WHEREAS, the program year for these grants commences on October 1,
1996, and continues through September 30, 1997; and
WHEREAS, the City has duly submitted the One-Year Action Plan for Federal
Funds for FY 1996/97, which includes the budgets for the Community Development Block
Grant (CDBG) Year 22 Program, Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Program, and HOME
Investment Partnerships Program, to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development (HUD), which identified $3,689,500 in available CDBG resources for Year
22 programs, as follows: $2,895,000 Year 22 entitlement funds; $200,000 reprogrammed
funds from prior years; and $594,500 in estimated program income of which $4,500 is
available for Year 22 programs; and
WHEREAS, in order to implement the various projects and programs which
were approved by both the Community Development Advisory Committee (CDAC) and the
Mayor and City Commission, it is necessary to prepare and execute contractual
agreements for such.
WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Commission deem it to be in the best interest
of the residents and citizens of the City to enter into the Agreements with various
Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) sub-
recipient agencies, as prescribed in the One-Year Action Plan for Federal Funds for FY
1996/97, as follows:
CDBG
1. ASPIRA of Florida, Inc.
ASPIRA Youth Leadership Development/Outreach Program - $24,500
To provide an 600 units of "one-on-one" counseling and 1 00 club meetings/group
activities to approximately 90 "educationally at risk" youth for drop-out prevention,
youth gang intervention, and leadership development, at Miami Beach High School,
Nautilus Middle School, and the South Beach Club at the South Shore Community
Center.
2. Boys & Girls Clubs of Miami, Inc.
Boys & Girls Club Juvenile Program - $64,650
To provide a "no charge" after-school program and an eight-week summer camp
program to approximately 250 youth ranging in ages from 5 to 15, at South Pointe
Elementary, Fienberg/Fisher Elementary School, and Flamingo Park.
3. Community Council for Jewish Elderly
Miami Beach Senior CenterlWorking Together - $53,000
To provide homemaking/shopping services to 125 unduplicated frail elderly Miami
Beach residents, adult day care to 21 unduplicated frail elderly clients, and housing
relocation assistance to 100 income-eligible senior adults at the center located at
610 Espanola Way.
4. Barry University School of Social Work Academy for Better Communities
Cool School at Biscayne Elementary School - $28,000
To provide group, individual and family counseling and community outreach to 40
at-risk children attending Biscayne Elementary School.
5. Cure AIDS Now, Inc.
Cure AIDS Now - Meals on Wheels Program - $50,000
To provide 40,000 meals to 70 income-eligible homebound AIDS patients in Miami
Beach of which 20,000 meals are CDBG funded and which are delivered weekly..
6. Dade County Public Schools
Dade County Schools Child Care and Fee Waivers - $23,000
To benefit 331 income-eligible persons by providing 31 full tuition waivers for child
care and 300 for educational/vocational programs at Fienberg/Fisher Adult Center.
7. Housing Opportunities Project for Excellence (HOPE), Inc.
Fair Housing Education Program - $7,000 ($3,500 - CDBG and $3,500 HOME)
To provide a Fair Housing Education Program which will include a minimum of 7 fair
housing education and outreach workshops/seminars/presentations to housing
providers and groups involved in housing and related issues.
8. Jewish Vocational Services
Nutritional Project - $15,000
To fund two drivers to deliver 12,692 CDBG meals to homebound elderly
participants residing in eligible CD target areas.
9. Little Havana Activity and Nutrition Centers of Dade County, Inc.
LHAC Miami Beach Elderly Meals Program - $65,000
To provide 54,210 hot meals of which 20,410 meals will be CDBG funded, to 850
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Miami Beach elderly clients, at two congregate meal sites: 533 Collins Avenue and
8638 Harding Avenue, of which 15,120 meals will be CDBG funded.
10. LHAC Miami Beach Rainbow Day Care - $50,000
To provide affordable child day care for 60 children utilizing an intergenerational
approach. Twenty-five income-eligible Miami Beach children will receive
waivers/scholarships through CDBG funds.
11. Log Cabin Enterprises, Inc.
Log Cabin Plant Nursery - $80,000
To provide funding for a plant nursery business program at a facility for the mentally
handicapped located at 8128 Collins Avenue, which creates and/or retains
approximately 40-45 jobs for income-eligible persons. Program Income @
$120,000 to be generated and retained by Log Cabin Enterprises, Inc., for retail
nursery operations and employee wages.
12. Miami Beach Development Corporation - $455,000 (Plus unexpended prior
year project funds from the Commercial Property Development and
Rehabilitation Grants Program)
MBDC/Commercial Property Development and Rehabilitation Grants Program
- $170,000 (plus unexpended prior year project funds)
A matching grant program for commercial facade improvements and the correction
of interior code violations, in a neighborhood commercial business area, which
serves a primarily residential area with a majority of income-eligible residents.
CDBG funding will assist in the rehabilitation of 15 storefront/business.
MBDC/RAIN Emergency Food/MedicaIlHousing/Child Care - $35,000
In partnership with the RAIN Mothers of Fienberg/Fisher, to assist 400 income-
eligible families through the provision of approximately 20 units of child care, 800
mini-grants for food, medical, and housing assistance. Part-time employment will
continue to be provided for 3 income-eligible elementary school parents.
MBDC/Rehabilitation of Multi-Family Rental Housing - $100,000
To complete the rehabilitation of 17 units of family housing (259 Washington
Avenue), and acquire/rehabilitate an additional 25 units of elderly or family rental
housing.
MBDC/Scattered Site-Affordable Homeownership Acquisition - $75,000
Disposition - $75,000
To provide homeownership opportunities on a city-wide basis to eligible first-time
homebuyers in Miami Beach. MBDC will acquire and sell 34 housing units to
qualified income-eligible individuals/families. Program Income @ $200,000 to be
generated and retained by MBDC for the continued acquisition/disposition of
housing units.
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13. Miami Beach Methodist Child Care Center, Inc.
St. John's Child Care Center - $20,000
To provide affordable child day care via scholarships/fee waivers to 11 children of
income-eligible families, as well as funding to purchase learning materials.
14. Mount Sinai Medical Center of Greater Miami, Inc.
Project Sinai/Community Outreach - $14,000
To provide outpatient social, emotional and physical care to 700 income-eligible
residents once discharged from the hospital, or who are ambulatory patients,
including clients from the Project Sinai Clinic and the hospital emergency room.
15. North Beach Development Corporation of Miami Beach, Inc. - $400,000 (Plus
unexpended prior year project funds (hard costs only) from the North Beach
Commercial Facade Renovation Program)
Normandy Isle Exterior Commercial Property Enhancement - $125,000
A matching grant program for commercial facade improvements and the correction
of interior code violations, in a neighborhood commercial business area which
serves a primarily residential area with a majority of income-eligible residents.
CDBG funding will assist in the rehabilitation of 9 storefronUbusiness.
North Beach Facade Renovation Program - $275,000 (Plus unexpended prior
year project funds)
A matching grant program for commercial facade improvements and the correction
of interior code violations, in a neighborhood commercial business area which
serves a primarily residential area with a majority of income-eligible residents in the
northern CD Target Areas. This program will provide direct grants to 5
storefronUbusiness.
16. Miami Beach Police Athletic League, Inc.
PAL/Juvenile Resource Center - Phase II - $72,956 (Plus unexpended prior
year funds)
To continue the expansion of the present PAL facility located at Flamingo Park by
3,822 sq. ft. and replace existing prefabricated structure, to comply with ADA
requirements and provide an expanded level of service.
17. South Florida Art Center
Operations and Management - $157,000
To provide affordable subsidized studio, teaching, and showroom space to
approximately 90 artists, of which at least 60% are income-eligible artists on Lincoln
Road. Program Income @ $270,000 to be generated and retained by SFAC for
continued operation.
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18. South Shore Hospital and Medical Center
Community AIDS Program/HIV Testing Program - $15,000
To provide free and anonymous HIV screening and pre- and post-test counseling
to at least 425 income-eligible persons at South Shore Hospital.
19. Stanley C. Myers Community Health Center, Inc.
SCM Medication Program - $34,000
To provide primary health care to income-eligible residents through health
maintenance, treatment of illness and providing referrals when necessary; CDBG
funds will provide 2,500 prescription drugs for 2,000 income-eligible patients using
the facility located at 710 Alton Road.
20. UNlOAD, Inc. - Total funding @ $44,122 (Plus prior year unexpended project
funds)
HCC/Bilinguallnformation & Referral Service - $14,122
To provide information, referral services, and bilingual assistance to income-eligible
persons, such as: accessing public benefits, housing, child welfare, and family
support services etc. at the Hispanic Community Center.
HCC/Coral Rock House Rehabilitation - $15,000
To renovate the coral rock house facility located at 1701 Normandy Drive for use
as the "Hispanic Community Center" which will provide social services to income-
eligible residents.
HCC/Coral Rock House Removal of Architectural Barriers - $15,000
To renovate the Hispanic Community Center (coral rock facility) located at 1701
Normandy Drive, to make the facility accessible to the disabled population.
21. Women of Miami Beach
The Out-Reach Project - $5,000
To provide direct services to victims and survivors of domestic violence to include
one-on-one counseling consisting of crisis intervention, safety, escape plans,
injunctions, dynamics of domestic violence, etc.
ESG
1. Better Way of Miami, Inc.
Emergency Shelter and Intervention Services for Miami Beach - $35,625
To provide transitional housing (shelter beds), nutritional services, transportation,
clothing assistance, self-managed domestic and personal services at the Better
Way facility for 28 adult homeless men with alcohol/substance addiction.
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2. The Salvation Army
Emergency Shelter for Women & Families - $35,625
To provide transitional housing (shelter beds) for up to 7 homeless single women
and 1 family (of 5) per night. Services to include: shelter, meals, linens, laundry
facilities, education, case management, assistance with permanent housing,
medical and psychological referrals, nutritional counseling, child care,
transportation, job placement and training.
(collectively, the Agreements); and
WHEREAS, the CDBG funds are conditional upon the approval for release
of funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has recommended to the Mayor and City
Commission that said Agreements be entered into; and
WHEREAS, an appropriate Agreement has been prepared, which
Agreement, attached hereto as Exhibit "A" for CDBG and Exhibit "B" for ESG, sets forth
the terms and conditions of said Program, and same has been approved as to legal form
and sufficiency by the City Attorney.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH FLORIDA, that the Mayor and City Clerk
are hereby authorized and directed to execute the afo estated twenty- ree (23) Sub-
Recipient Agreements referenced herein.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 25th day of September,
ATTEST:
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CITY HALL 1700 CONVENTION GENTER DRivE MIAMI8EACH FLORID!, :13139
CI1-Y OF MIAf\lI1 BEACH
COMMISSION MEMORANDUM NO. 55 J - 9~
TO:
Mayor Seymour Gelber and
Members of the City Commission
September 25, 1996
DATE:
FROM:
Jose Garcia_pedros/t
City Manager
ADOPTION OF SOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF
TWENTY-THREE (23) SUB-RECIPIENT AGREEMENTS AND APPROVAL
OF FORM AGREEMENTS NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE FY 1996/97
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) PROGRAM AND
THE EMERGENCY SHELTER GRANT (ESG) PROGRAM.
SUBJECT:
ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDATION:
To adopt the attached Resolution and two "Form Agreements" necessary to implement
twenty-one (21) Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and two (2) Emergency
Shelter Grant (ESG) sub-recipient agreements for activities which were approved on July
3,1996, via Resolution #96-22046, as part of the One-Year Action Plan for Federal Funds
for FY 1996/97.
BACKGROUND:
On July 3, 1996, the City Commission adopted Resolution 96-22046 approving the One-
Year Action Plan for Federal Funds, which contained the FY 1996/97 budget allocations
for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Year 22 Program and the
Emergency Shelter Grant (ESG) Program projects/activities. The program year for these
g rants commences on October 1, 1996, and continues throug h September 30, 1997.
In order to implement the various projects and programs which were approved by both the
Community Development Advisory Committee (CDAC) and the City Commission, it is
necessary to prepare and execute contractual agreements for such. This is a standard
administrative procedure, to implement the CDBG and ESG activities approved by the City
Commission on July 3rd.
AGENDAITEM~
DATE 9.. 2S-c}(.,..
COMMISSION MEMO
SEPTEMBER 25, 1996
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The Agreements for the North Beach Development Corporation (NBDC) and the Miami
Beach Development Corporation (MBDC), will carry forward the unexpended balance of
the hard costs committed to each sub-recipient as of year end to the new Year 22
Agreement. The Year 22 sub-recipient agreements with the Miami Beach Police Athletic
League (PAL) and UNIDAD of Miami Beach, Inc., will also allow the balance of
unexpended funds to be brought forward to complete the Year 21 activity.
ANAL YSIS:
The City receives and executes the FY 1996/97 "Grant Agreement/Funding Approval
Form" from the U.S. Department of HUD for the period covering October 1, 1996 through
September 30, 1997, and HUD then increases the City's "Letter of Credit" by the
respective grant amounts. The City then presents sub-recipient agreements to the City
Commission for approval which are contingent upon the receipt of these federal funds.
CONCLUSION:
At this time, twenty-three sub-recipient contractual agreements (21-CDBG, and 2-ESG),
are recommended for approval. Funds are available in Fund 134 for the Year 22 (FY
1996/97) CDBG Program, and Fund 137 for the FY 1996/97 ESG Program. It is essential
that the Resolution and "Form Agreements" be approved at this Commission Meeting in
order to maintain the existing level of service and implement the new activities effective
October 1 st.
A synopsis of the CDBG and ESG contractual agreements is attached, which provides
more specific detail on each of the project/activities that were approved by the City
Commission on July 3, 1996.
Copies of the CDBG and ESG Form Agreements are also attached.
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