Legislative Matter

Miami-Dade Legislative Item
File Number: 060727

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File Number: 060727

File Type: Resolution

Status: Adopted

Version: 0

Reference: R-467-06

Control: County Commission

File Name: NAME MDT BLDG. AFTER ROSA PARKS

Introduced: 3/6/2006

Requester: NONE

Cost:

Final Action: 4/25/2006

Agenda Date: 4/25/2006

Agenda Item Number: 11A15

Notes:

Title:

RESOLUTION NAMING THE MIAMI-DADE TRANSIT CENTRAL TRANSPORTATION BUILDING AFTER ROSA PARKS

Indexes:

RENAMING OF ROADS, BUILDINGS & FACILITIES

Sponsors:	Dennis C. Moss, Prime Sponsor
	Carlos A. Gimenez, Co-Sponsor
	Dorrin D. Rolle, Co-Sponsor
	Katy Sorenson, Co-Sponsor
	Rebeca Sosa, Co-Sponsor
	Sally A. Heyman, Co-Sponsor
	Bruno A. Barreiro, Co-Sponsor
	Jose "Pepe" Diaz, Co-Sponsor
	Barbara J. Jordan, Co-Sponsor
	Sen. Javier D. Souto, Co-Sponsor
	Joe A. Martinez, Co-Sponsor
	Audrey M. Edmonson, Co-Sponsor

Sunset Provision: No

Effective Date:

Expiration Date:

Registered Lobbyist:

None Listed

Legislative History
Acting Body	Date	Agenda Item	Action	Sent To	Due Date	Returned	Pass/Fail

Board of County Commissioners	4/25/2006	11A15	Adopted				P

Regional Transportation Committee	3/16/2006	1E2	Forwarded to BCC with a favorable recommendation				P
REPORT:	Chairman Gimenez announced that the foregoing proposed resolution was open for public participation. The public hearing was closed after no one appeared wishing to be heard in connection with this resolution. Commissioner Moss extended prayers to Commissioner Rolle and his family upon the passing of his brother. He expressed appreciation to Commissioner Rolle for supporting the foregoing proposed resolution and recognized Assistant County Attorneys Jess McCarty and Bruce Libhaber for their assistance in drafting this resolution. Commissioner Moss also thanked Miami-Dade Transit Director Roosevelt Bradley and staff for helping to identify a facility. Commissioner Sorenson asked Director Bradley to ensure that the signs remain on Metrobuses honoring Rosa Parks’ contribution to the civil rights movement. Chairman Gimenez and Commissioners Sosa and Sorenson asked to be listed as co-sponsors on the foregoing proposed resolution.

County Attorney	3/8/2006		Assigned	Bruce Libhaber		3/8/2006

County Attorney	3/8/2006		Referred	Regional Transportation Committee	3/16/2006

Legislative Text

TITLE
RESOLUTION NAMING THE MIAMI-DADE TRANSIT CENTRAL TRANSPORTATION BUILDING AFTER ROSA PARKS

BODY
WHEREAS, on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, a 42-year-old black woman, boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus after a day's work as a seamstress at a department store and sat in the middle rows of the bus; and
WHEREAS, segregation ordinances in effect at the time in Montgomery, like other cities in the South, required black passengers to ride in the back of buses, permitted black passengers to use the middle rows only until needed by white passengers, and reserved the front of the buses exclusively for white passengers; and
WHEREAS, along the route, the bus driver demanded that four black passengers give up their seats in the middle rows so a lone white man could sit there; and
WHEREAS, three complied, but Rosa Parks defied the bus driver's request, remained seated, and was thereafter arrested; and
WHEREAS, Rosa Parks' arrest led to a citywide boycott of Montgomery's buses that lasted thirteen months, with 40,000 black residents and employees carpooling, walking, and taking black-owned taxis that charged only the bus fare; and
WHEREAS, Rosa Parks' arrest set in motion a successful Supreme Court challenge to the Jim Crow laws that segregated public buses in the South; and
WHEREAS, Rosa Parks' act of civil disobedience captivated the nation and grew into a mythic event that helped touch off the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 1960's; and
WHEREAS, the protest following Rosa Parks' arrest transformed a young minister named Martin Luther King, Jr. into a major civil rights leader; and
WHEREAS, as Georgia Congressman John Lewis recently said of Rosa Parks, "By sitting down, she stood up for all Americans"; and
WHEREAS, Rosa Parks passed away on October 24, 2005, at the age of 92; and
WHEREAS, Rosa Parks dedication to equality directly impacted Miami-Dade County by facilitating the integration of the local transit system; and
WHEREAS, Miami-Dade County should honor the extraordinary actions of Rosa Parks by naming a bus facility in her honor; and
WHEREAS, this proposed renaming of the Miami-Dade Transit Central Transportation Building is located in County Commission District 2,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, that this Board approves the renaming of the Miami-Dade Transit Central Transportation Building at 3300 NW 32 Avenue as the Rosa Parks Central Transportation Building.