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RESOLUTION NO, 97-22607
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING RESOLUTION NO, 94-
21382, ESTABLISHING THE THREE (3) CITY COMMISSION
COMMITTEES; SAID AMENDMENT PROVIDING FOR THE CHANGE OF
NAME OF THE "CAPIT AL IMPROVEMENTS AND FINANCE
COMMITTEE," TO THE "FINANCE AND CITYWIDE PROJECTS
COMMITTEE," AND FOR THE "COMMUNITY ISSUES COMMITTEE,"
TO THE "NEIGHBORHOOD COMMITTEE;" CLARIFYING THE
RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES OF THE COMMITTEES; CHANGING
THE NUMBER OF REQUIRED COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND
PROVIDING FOR AL TERNA TE MEMBERS; AND DELETING THE
REQUIREMENT FOR EACH COMMITTEE MEMBER TO SERVE AS
CHAIRPERSON OR VICE-CHAIRPERSON ON A ROTATING BASIS,
WHEREAS, Resolution No. 94-21382 established the three (3) City Commission
Committees, entitled "Land Use and Development Committee;" "Capital Improvements and Finance
Committee;" and "Community Issues Committee," with each Committee to be comprised of~ve (5)
Commissioners selected by the Mayor; and
WHEREAS, in order to continue to assure the viability and effectiveness of the aforestated
Commission Committees, the Mayor and City Commission wish to herein re-evaluate the role of
said Committees, as well as the rules governing the composition and attendance at Committee
meetings.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT DULY RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA as follows:
1. Paragraph 1 of Resolution No. 94-21382 (Resolution) is deleted in its entirety and
replaced with the following language:
.L Three (3) Committees shall be established to examine in
depth facts and issues relating to matters in which the Mayor
and City Commission may need to act and to advise the
Mayor and City Commission of their findings and their
recommendations relating to those matters, The three (3)
Committees shall be as follows and shall generally have the
following purposes:
a. the Land Use and Development Committee
shall hear matters related to Planning and
Zoning issues and issues related to specific
public and/or private development projects:
b. the Finance and City- Wide Proiects
Committee shall hear issues related to
municipal finance and City-wide capital
improvement proiects:
~ the Neighborhood Committee shall address
issues related to the quality of life. including
improvement programs relating to the various
neighborhoods throughout the City.
Notwithstanding the foregoing. the Mayor and City Commission
reserve the right to assign such other matters as they may deem
appropriate. to be addressed by one or all of the afore stated
Committees.
2. Paragraph 2 of the Resolution is amended to read as follows:
1. Each Committee shall have five (5) three (3) members who
shall be comprised of members of the City Commission
selected by the Mayor; provided however that the Mayor may
serve as one of the three (3) members of any Committee,
Notwithstanding the foregoing. any member of the City
Commission may be present. participate and vote on any issue
before a particular Committee, In the event that one or more
of the three (3) members comprising a specific Committee are
not present at a Committee meeting, any other member or
members of the City Commission present at the meeting may
serve as an alternate member or members for pm:poses of
establishing a quorum and with regard to voting on a
particular issue,
3. Paragraph 3 of the Resolution shall be amended to delete the requirement that each
member of the Committee shall serve as a Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson of a
Committee on a rotating basis.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 3rd
day of
December
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MAYOR
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RESOLUTION NO. 94-21382
A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA,
ESTABLISHING THREE CITY COMMISSION COMMITTEES,
ENTITLED -LAND USDND n~LOpM'F.NT COMMITTE~-,
"~!TAr. rMPRO~AND FINANC~ ~n~TTTEE-,
AND "COMMUNITY ISSUES COMMITTEE", EACH
COMMITTEE TO BE COMPRISED OF FIVE
COMMISSIONERS SELECTED BY THE MAYOR; PROVIDING
THAT COMMITTEE MEMBERS SHALL SERVE AS
COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON AND VICE CHAIRPERSON ON
A ROTATING BASIS FOR A TERM OF ONE YEAR AND
SHALL BE SELECTED BY THE MAYOR AND PROVIDING
FOR COMMITTEE MEETINGS TO BE HELD AS NEEDED ON
THE WEDNESDAYS WHEN THERE IS NO OTHER
SCHEDULED MEETING OF THE FULL CITY COMMISSION.
WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Commission believe that City
Commission Committees are needed to examine in depth facts and
issues relating to matters on which the Mayor and City Commission
may need to act and to advise the Mayor and City Commission of
their findings and recommendations; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Commission believe that there is
a need for three City Commission Committees to examine issues
relating to the following areas of City business: 1) land use and
development, 2) capital improvements and finance, and 3) community
issues; and
WHEREAS, in order to better enable the Mayor and City
Commissioners to plan their schedules to ensure their attendance at
Committee meetings it is necessary to establish a regular meeting
date for those meetings.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT DULY RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH AS FOLLOWS:
1. Three committees shall be established to examine J..n depth
facts and issues relating to matters on which the Mayor and City
Commission may need to act and to advise the Mayor and City
Commission of their findings and recommendations relating to those
matters. The three committees shall be as follows:
1.) the Land
Use and Development Committee, 2) the Capital Improvements and
Finance Committee, and 3) the Community Issues committee./
2, Each committee shall have five (5) members who shall be
comprised of members of the City Commission selected by the Mayor;
provided however that the Mayor may serve as one of the five
members of any committee.
3. The Mayor shall appoint a chairperson and vice chairperson for
each committee.
Each member of a committee shall serve as
chairperson or vice chairperson of a committee on a rotating basis,
The term of service for each chairperson or vice chairperson shall
be one year.
4, Meetings shall be held when called by the chairperson, or in
his/her absence by the vice chairperson, and shall be held,
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whenever possible at 4:00 p,m, on a Wednesday on which there is no
other scheduled meeting of the Mayor and the entire City
Commission,
PASSED and ADOPTED this
November
, 1994.
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Mayor
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Agenda Items for the Commission Meeting of Wednesday, December &1997
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On the agenda for the Commission meeting of Wednesday, December 3, 1997, please place the
following two items (to be heard in conjunction):
1) Discussion regarding a proposed resolution related to the three (3)
City Commission Committees (copy attached).
2) Appointments to the City Commission Committees,
Thank you in advance for your attention to this matter.
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Enclosure
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