Miami-Dade
Legislative Item File Number: 091662 |
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File Number: 091662 | File Type: Resolution | Status: Adopted | ||||||
Version: 0 | Reference: R-933-09 | Control: Board of County Commissioners | ||||||
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Requester: NONE | Cost: | Final Action: 7/2/2009 | ||||||
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Registered Lobbyist: | None Listed |
Legislative History |
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Acting Body | Date | Agenda Item | Action | Sent To | Due Date | Returned | Pass/Fail |
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Board of County Commissioners | 7/2/2009 | 11A26 | Adopted | P | |||
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Board of County Commissioners | 6/30/2009 | 11A26 | Carried over | 7/2/2009 | |||
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Commission Auditor | 6/16/2009 | Legislative notes attached | |||||
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Housing & Community Development Committee | 6/10/2009 | 2F | Forwarded with a favorable recommendation | P | |||
REPORT: | Assistant County Attorney Cynthia Johnson-Stacks read the title of the foregoing proposed resolution into the record. Chairwoman Edmonson relinquished the Chair to Vice Chairwoman Jordan who called for questions or concerns from Committee members regarding this proposal. After hearing no questions or comments, Chairwoman Edmonson, as sponsor of the foregoing resolution, presented a motion which was seconded by Commissioner Sorenson, and the Committee proceeded to vote. | ||||||
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County Attorney | 6/4/2009 | Referred | Housing & Community Development Committee | 6/10/2009 | |||
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County Attorney | 5/28/2009 | Assigned | Mandana Dashtaki | 6/4/2009 | |||
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Legislative Text |
TITLE RESOLUTION AMENDING RESOLUTION 1277-08 TO INCORPORATE THE AMENDMENTS MADE TO SECTION 409.147 OF THE FLORIDA STATUTES; CHANGING THE NAME OF THE STATUTORILY-CREATED PROJECT TO THE �MIAMI CHILDREN�S INITIATIVE INC.�; DELETING THE ORIGINAL STATUTORILY-ESTABLISHED BOUNDARIES THAT WERE INCORPORATED BY RESOLUTION 1277-08 AND ACKNOWLEDGING THE CREATION OF THE PROJECT WITHIN THE LIBERTY CITY NEIGHBORHOOD; AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DESIGNEE TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST IN THE CREATION OF THE STRATEGIC COMMUNITY PLAN THAT WILL BE PRESENTED TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR ADOPTION PRIOR TO THE CREATION OF THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT ENTITY NAMED THE �MIAMI CHILDREN�S INITIATIVE INC.�; DELETING SECTION FOUR OF RESOLUTION 1277-08 IN ITS ENTIRETY; AND AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OR DESIGNEE TO SUPPORT AND ASSIST THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA, INC. IN CREATING THE �MIAMI CHILDREN�S INITIATIVE, INC.� NOT-FOR-PROFIT ENTITY ONCE THE PREREQUISITES OF SECTION 409.147 OF THE FLORIDA STATUTES HAVE BEEN MET BODY WHEREAS, on March 20, 2007 this Board adopted Resolution No. 355-07 designating the Magic City Children�s Zone and urging the Florida Legislature to provide for creation of the Magic City Children�s Zone Pilot Project; and WHEREAS, during the 2008 regular session, the Florida Legislature passed House Bill 3, Chapter 2008-96, Laws of Florida, effective July 1, 2008, creating the Magic City Children�s Zone, a 10-year pilot project zone in Miami-Dade County; and WHEREAS, the Legislature also appropriated $3.6 million to the Magic City Children�s Zone Pilot Project as part of the State Fiscal Year 2008-09 Appropriations Act; and WHEREAS, H.B. 3 was codified in section 409.147, Florida Statutes and this Board adopted Resolution No. 1277-08 on November 20, 2008, which declared the statutorily-defined area as needing attention in order to improve the health, wellness, education, living conditions, and livelihoods of its residents; and WHEREAS, Resolution No. 1277-08 also authorized the Mayor or Mayor�s Designee to establish a Community Planning Team and provide support to the Community Planning Team and its Working Groups; and WHEREAS, subsequent to the Board�s adoption of Resolution No. 1277-08, section 409.147, Florida Statutes was furthered amended by the State Legislature pursuant to H.B. 381; and WHEREAS, H.B. 381 amended section 409.147, Florida Statutes in the following ways: 1. Changes the name from �children�s zone� to �children�s initiative� and, more specifically, changes the County�s project from the �Magic City Children�s Zone Inc.� to the �Miami Children�s Initiative Inc.�; 2. Delineates expressly that prior to the incorporation of the Miami Children�s Initiative Inc. the governing body must adopt a resolution (in the form of Resolution 1277-08 that has been adopted and is being amended by this Resolution), must establish the planning team, and has adopted the strategic community plan as required by the Statute; 3. Changes where the Miami Children�s Initiative Inc. is administratively housed from the Belafonte Tacolcy Center to the Department of Children and Families; 4. Deletes the previously established geographic boundaries of the project and now requires the project to be within the Liberty City neighborhood in Miami-Dade County; 5. Deletes the requirement of a fifteen (15) member board of directors and deletes any specific requirements as to the board of directors (i.e. specific members, powers and duties, membership terms, meeting requirements); 6. Amends the implementation section to include that the Department of Children and Families shall contract with a not-for-profit corporation to work in collaboration with the governing body to accomplish the prerequisites to incorporation as delineated in paragraph two above. The not-for-profit is also responsible for the evaluation, fiscal management, and oversight of the Miami Children�s Initiative Inc.; and 7. Reappropriates the unexpended balance of funds in Specific Appropriations 345A of the General Appropriations Act for the 2008-2009 fiscal year to the Department of Children and Family Services for the 2009-2010 fiscal year for the purpose of contracting with the Ounce Prevention Fund of Florida, Inc. (�Ounce�) to implement this act. WHEREAS, it is necessary to amend Resolution No. 1277-08 to incorporate the amendments to section 409.147, Florida Statutes, which shall be effective July 1, 2009; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUTY COMMISSIONERS OF MIAMI-DADE COUTY, FLORIDA, that this Board: Section 1. Amends Resolution 1277-08 to change the name of this statutorily-created project to the �Miami Children�s Initiative Inc.� Section 2. Deletes the boundaries as established in Resolution 1277-08 and acknowledges that, pursuant to Florida Statute, the Miami Children�s Initiative Inc. is created within the Liberty City neighborhood. Section 3. Amends Resolution 1277-08 to support and encourage Ounce, once the statutory prerequisites have been met, to create a not-for-profit corporation registered, incorporated, organized, and operated in compliance with chapter 617, Florida Statutes. Section 4. Deletes Section 4 of Resolution 1277-08 in its entirety. |
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