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84-17778 RESO . J,e-vy RESOLUTION NO. 84- 17778 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, REQUESTING THE COUNTY OF DADE, FLORIDA, TO ISSUE SPECIAL OBLIGATION BONDS TO FINANCE THE COSTS OF EXPANDING AND IMPROVING THE MIAMI BEACH CONVENTION CENTER; AUTHORIZING CERTAIN ACTION WITH RESPECT THERETO; AND PROVIDING CERTAIN OTHER ACTION WITH RESPECT THERETO. WHEREAS, Section 212.057, Florida Statutes (1983), as amended by Ch. 84-67 of the Laws of Florida (the "Convention Development Tax Act"), authorizes Dade County, Florida (the "County") to levy a three percent (3%) convention development tax (the "Convention Development Tax"), on the amount of any payment made by any person to rent, lease or use for a period of six (6) months or less, any living quarters or accommodations in a hotel, . apartment, hotel, motel, resort motel, apartment, apartment motel, rooming house, tourist or trailer camp, or condominium, except payments made by a person to rent, lease or use any living quarters or accommodations which are exempt under Part I of Chapter 212, Florida Statutes (1983), as amended; and WHEREAS, the Convention Development Tax Act authorizes two-thirds (2/3) of the receipts of the Convention Development Tax (the "City's Share") to be used to extend, enlarge and improve the largest existing publicly-owned convention center in the County; and WHEREAS, the Miami Beach Convention Center (the "Convention Center"), situate in the City of Miami Beach (the "City"), is the largest existing publicly-owned convention center in the County; and WHEREAS, the County has enacted Ordinance No. 83-91 which Ordinance, as amended, imposes the Convention Development Tax pursuant to the Convention Development Tax Act; and WHEREAS, the City deems it necessary and desirable and in the best interests of the City to extend, enlarge and improve the Convention Center; and " WHEREAS, the City deems it necessary and desirable and in the best interests of the City to finance the costs of said extension, enlargement and improvement of the Convention Center through the issuance of bonds of the County secured by a pledge of the City's Share of the Convention Development Tax and certain other security. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT DULY RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA: Section 1. The City Commission of the City hereby formally requests the County Commission of the County to authorize an issue of not to exceed $80,000,000 aggregate principal amount of special obligation bonds of the County, secured primarily by a pledge of the City's Share of the Convention Development Tax and certain other security, the proceeds of said bond issue to be utilized to finance the costs of extending, enlarging and improving the Convention Center. Section 2. The City Manager, the City Attorney and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Bond Counsel to the City, are hereby authorized and directed' to negotiate and prepare an interlocal agreement and to assist the staff of the County and its bond counsel in preparation of said bond issue. Section 3. The Mayor is hereby authorized and directed ~ to deliver a certified copy of this resolution to the Mayor of the County and to each member of the County Commission. Section 4. This resolution shall be effective immediately upon its adoption. PASSED and ADOPTED this 20th ZJ4:::;" Mayor ~ /' Attest: AL~ 8; a~v/ City Clerk fORn1 r, p;-p:,y ''"D I". .~, . . ','J!r:..... LEGAL DePT. By' -2- Det, DE YOUNG: ... couldn't do it directly because it's not part of the scope of the original issue. Once the available funding goes to the General Fund balance, it is then ... PARKINS: Well, that becomes, then, the subject of the budget issue for '84- 185, ... DE YOUNG: That's right. PARKINS: ... but your answer is, yes, after it's gone back to the General Fund, it becomes a budget issue then, Commissioner. FROMBERG: Okay, any further discussion on this? Do I hear a motion on R-7G? SINGER: Move it. FROMBERG: Moved by Conunissioner Singer. Seconded by Conunissioner Shackett. All in favor, signify by saying "aye". (AYE) Any opposed? It passes unanimously. (6-0, Conunissioner Eisenberg away from table) R-7B, Mr. City Manager. PARKINS: A similar situation related to $230,000 outstanding on the 1974 bike path bond issue. FROMBERG: Mrs. Falk, do you want to speak again on it? I assume your statements would be the same with regard to this matter. Okay, thank you. Do I hear a motion on R-7B? Moved by Conunissioner Singer, seconded by Conunissioner Shackett. Any further discussion? All in favor, signify by saying "aye". (AYE) Any opposed? Let the record reflect that passes unanimously. (6-0, Conunissioner Eisenberg away from table) Does that conclude the matter? I~ R-7I COIMISSIOR IIBI<<>llAIIDllM RO. 41.7-84 A RBSOLO'J.'IOR OF mE CIn COIMISSIOR OF mE CIn OF IIIAIII BBACII, FLOlUM, RBQUBSTIRG mE eou..n OF MOB, PLORIM, '1'0 ISSUE SPECIAL cmLIGI\TIOR BalDS '1'0 FINABCB mE COSTS OF BXPARDIRG ARD IIIPllOVDlG THE IIIAMI BBACII Culv....dOR .............; ADTIIORlZIRG ~ ACTIOR 1II'IB RESPECr '!IIBRETO; ARD PROVIDING CBRl'AIN arBBR llC'fiOR 1II'IB RESPECT TIII5lCIt.tO. ACTION: Resolution No. 84-17778' adopted, requesting County Conmission to authorize issuance of not to exceed $80,000,000 aggregate principal amount Special Obligation Bonds, secured primar ily by pledge of City's share of 3% Convention Development Tax; authorizing negotiation of inter local agreement and assistance in issue preparation. During discussion, Lawrence Levy (City's bond counsel) appeared adoption. of Morgan, Lewis and Backius in support of resolution's PARKINS: There is one other item, sir, and this is just simply a resolution to support ... R-7I I believe it is. DE YOUNG: Yes. PARKINS: It's a resolution of the City COllllllission of the City of Miami Beach, Florida, requesting the County of Dade, Florida, to issue special obligation bonds to finance the costs of expanding and improving the Miami Beach convention Center; authorizing certain action with respect thereto; and providing certain other action with respect thereto. SINGER: Move it. FROMBERG: Moved by Coanissioner Singer, seconded by COllllllissioner Grenald. Any further discussion? We're talking about R-7I. All in favor, signify by saying "aye". (AYE) Any opposed? It passes unanimously. (6-0, Commissioner Eisenberg away from table) CCMtISSION MINUTES - 6/20/84 Page 26 LEVY: Mr. Mayor and members of the Commission, thank you. FROMBERG: Thank you, sir. PARKINS: Thank you, Mr. Levy. FROMBERG: Okay, Commissioner Singer, you wanted C-4C, R-9H, and R-9J. SINGER: Yes. Mr. Mayor, fellow Commissioners, if you recall we formed the Mayor's Ad Hoc Youth Center Committee in April. Since that date, the Committee has met three times and four subcommittee meetings have been held as well. Hundreds of hours have already been expended by the members of the Committee in addressing the concerns that not only the public has raised, but all the members of this Commission has raised. They've done very extensive studies into all of the internal problems. What you have before you today in a separate package are just copies of the minutes from these meetings and some of the responses from the Administration. The issue is to budgetary recommendations, staffing, programming. They're very complex issues and those issues will be coming back before the Commission in July with the overall reconunendations from the Committee as was requested by the Mayor in forming it. What we would like to do, today, and Mrs. Nancy Liebman will be making a presentation that will be just a few minutes long, it's just outlining those areas that the Committee has found to be emergency items that cannot wait for a month or two to be addressed in the overall reconunendations. Hopefully we can get some resolution to these emergency items today. I'd like to point out that in the audience we have several members of the Committee who have spent countless hours of their time on this: Gloria Pope, Sally Barnett, Karen Kahn, and, of course, Nancy Liebman. I don't think anyone else is here, right? At this time, what I'd like to do is just have Nancy give a rundown on five items that are outlined on the form that was given to you and then hopefully we'll have the Administration address them. NANCY LIEBMAN: Thank you. Members of the Commission, today, our presentation, as Commissioner Singer explained, will only deal with the emergency items to the physical plant. The remainder will be on July 11th. I'm making othe presentation as the chairman of the subcommittee of the physical plant. We met initially at the Youth Center with a qualified engineer to examine the physical problems of the building. He went through the building with us and from there we jumped off on our discussions. After three meetings we have have outlined the major problems that we found in the building. I hope that you have read the detailed minutes which are presented to you. To sununarize them, the critical needs, we found, were the roof. This is an overwhelming problem that seems to have been neglected over the past five years. Number two, the general maintenance of the building. Number three, the glass wall problem which is being worked on now. Number four, the maintenance scheduling, and, number five, the problem of having only one Recreation Operations Mechanic. Our committee was concerned that these needs have been lingering for so long a period of time. It just seems like memos have been passed and no actions have been taken to any extent. The roof which is steadily ~eaking at this point, is still, from what I can determine and what the conunittee could examine, is still only in the investigation stages and it seems to have transferred to the Building Maintenance Department from Mr. Aymonin's department. It's changed hands according to what we could determine. The leakage is staining not only the ceiling tiles, but we feel that it's going to create a major crisis in the electrical rooms. There is water leaking into the electrical rooms at this time, which everyone seems to determine that it's a hazard but nothing is happening. We strongly recol1lDend that an immediate action be taken to correct this roof, for a final time. No more patching. Let's determine what the problem is and do it. The glass wall is presently being repaired. The Committee recommends, though, that you investigate and determine whether the current repair is a permanent solution to the problems which have caused the glass to bow in the first place. Is it permanent or is it just a temporary fixing of the glass? Number three, the janitorial contract, ... COMMISSION MINUTES - 6/20/84 Page 27