R9L-Discuss Status Of The Collins Park Neighborhood Improvement Project -Bower-MIAMI BEACH
OFFICE OF THE MAYOR AND COMMISSION MEMORANDUM
To: Jimmy Morales, City Manager
From: Matti Herrera Bower, Mayor
Date: October 4, 2013
Re: DISCUSSION ITEM REGARDING COLLINS PARK NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT
PROJECT
Please place on the October 16, 2013 City Commission Agenda a discussion regarding the
status of the Collins Park Neighborhood Improvement Project.
Please see the attached request from the Collins Park Neighborhood Association outlining their
concerns.
Should you have any questions, please contact Gabrielle Redfern at extension 6157.
Thank you.
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September 30th, 2013
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Neighborhood
Association
www.collinspark.us
The City Manager, Mayor and Commission
City ofMiarni Beach
1700 Convention Center Drive
Miami Beach, Florida 33139
Re: Collins Park's uncompleted CIP Projects
Dear City Manager Morales, Mayor Bower, and Commissioners, Weithom, Libbin, Gongora,
Wolfson, Tobin, and Exposito
The Collins Park Neighborhood Association Board of Directors at our last Board meeting,
September 17th, 20 13 voted to send you a formal letter to go on record and ask you for a status
of the following projects that were funded to be part ofthe park's make over that 5 years later are
still absent with no status.
I) A signature water feature
2) A children's play area that would fit into the artistic feeling of the surrounding cultural
campus.
3) Bike racks. The cement pads are there but no bike racks.
4) Future plan for the Rotunda that was placed on hold due to a lack of funding.
These were all being tracked by the Collins Park Cultural Oversight Committee that sunsetted
with no notice and these projects still open. The other major project that would have been part of
this committee would have been to insure the new ZaHa Hadid parking garage properly tied into
the Cultural Campus and Liberty Avenue. This would require not only the City but coordination
with the County who owns 23rd Street and Possibly the State who owns Dade Blvd/Pine Tree
Drive. There was talk of this oversight coming to CPNA when the Oversight Committee
disbanding but that has not come to fruition. This oversight must still be there to insure our
neighborhood gets a workable plan that benefits the Cultural Institutions, Residents and
Businesses of Collins Park particularly with the added development of private venues on Liberty
Avenue north of23rd Street.
Please advise us on :;;ese questions and how we proceed from here.
Thankyou, R
Ray Breslin, Prcside:::a: for the Board
255 West 24th Street CU-6
Miami Beach FL. 33140
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