City of Miami City Hall 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, FL 33133 www.miamigov.com Meeting Minutes Thursday, July 29, 2010 9:00 AM SPECIAL MEETING City Hall Commission Chambers City Commission Tomas Regalado, Mayor Marc David Sarnoff, Chairman Frank Carollo, Vice-Chairman Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner District One Francis Suarez, Commissioner District Four Richard P. Dunn II, Commissioner District Five Carlos A. Migoya, City Manager Julie O. Bru, City Attorney Priscilla A. Thompson, City Clerk City Commission Meeting Minutes July 29, 2010 9:00 A.M. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Present: Vice Chairman Carollo, Commissioner Gort, Chairman Sarnoff, Commissioner Suarez and Commissioner Dunn II On the 29th day of July 2010, the City Commission of the City of Miami, Florida, met at its regular meeting place in City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, Florida, in special session. The meeting was called to order by Chair Sarnoff at 9:42 a.m., recessed at 11:32 a.m., reconvened at 11:49 a.m., and adjourned at 2:03 p.m. Note for the Record: Commissioner Suarez entered the Commission Chambers at 9:43 a.m. ALSO PRESENT: Julie O. Bru, City Attorney Carlos A. Migoya, City Manager Pamela L. Latimore, Assistant City Clerk Chair Sarnoff: Good morning. I'd like to welcome everybody to the July 29 meeting of the City of Miami Commission in these historic chambers. The members of the City of Miami Commission are Frank Carollo, the Vice Chair, Francis Suarez, Wifredo Gort, Reverend Dunn, and myself, Marc Sarnoff, the Chairman. Also on the dais are Carlos A. Migoya, the City Manager; Julie O. Bru, the City Attorney; and Pamela Latimore, the Assistant City Clerk. The meeting will be opened with a prayer by Commissioner Dunn and the pledge of allegiance led by Commissioner Carollo. Invocation and pledge of allegiance delivered. ORDER OF THE DAY Chair Sarnoff: We will now begin this special meeting called by Mayor Regalado. The City Attorney will state the procedures to be followed during this meeting. Julie O. Bru (City Attorney): Good morning, Mr. Chair, members of the Commission, Mr. Mayor, Madam City Clerk, and Mr. Manager, and members of the public. Any person who's a lobbyist must register with the City Clerk before appearing before the City Commission. A copy of the Code section about lobbyists is available in the City Clerk's office. The material for each item on the agenda is available during business hours at the City Clerk's office and online at www.miamigov.com. Any documents that are offered to the City Commission that have not been provided seven days before the meeting as part of the agenda materials will be entered into the record at the City Commission's discretion. Any person requesting action from the City Commission must disclose at the commencement of the hearing or continuation of a previous hearing on the issue any consideration provided or committed for an agreement to support or withhold objection to the requested action. This is found in Section 2-8 of the Code, and you should consult it if you want to determine what consideration means. Formal action may be taken on any item discussed or added to this agenda -- well, not in this case. This agenda is limited to the matters that were called by the Mayor. All decisions of the City Commission are final, except that the Mayor may veto certain items within ten calendar days of the Commission action. Commission may override the veto by a four-fifth vote. Anyone who wishes to appeal any decision that's made today may need a verbatim record. No cell phone, beepers, or other noise-making devices. Please silence those now. And if anybody becomes unruly in the Commission chambers, you will be barred from further attending Commission meetings. Any person who needs any kind of auxiliary aid, any person with a disability, please notify the City Clerk for assistance. Chair Sarnoff: All right. I don't think I need to ask -- or do we need to approve --? There's no minutes to approve yet, right? And of course there's no Mayoral vetoes. Okay. City of Miami Page 2 Printed on 9/10/2010 City Commission Meeting Minutes July 29, 2010 SP.1 DISCUSSION ITEM 10-00869 DISCUSSION OF A CHARTER AMENDMENT RELATED TO THE MIAMI PARKING AUTHORITY. 10-00869 Draft Resolution.pdf 10-00869 Memo.pdf DISCUSSED (SP.1) RESOLUTION 10-00869a A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION DIRECTING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PREPARE AN AMENDMENT TO THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, FOR CONSIDERATION AT AN ELECTION TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 2, 2010, PROPOSING, UPON APPROVAL OF THE ELECTORATE, TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY COMMISSION, BY ORDINANCE, TO DISCONTINUE THE DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET PARKING ("DOSP") AND THE DOSP BOARD, MODIFY THE DOSP BOARD, TRANSFER DOSP'S ASSETS TO THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY"), ALLOW FOR THE OPERATION, MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF PARKING FACILITIES BY THE CITY OR DOSP, AND AUTHORIZE THE MANAGEMENT, LEASE OR SALE OF ANY OR ALL OF THE PARKING FACILITIES TO A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ENTITY, AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CITY COMMISSION, DETERMINED BY WHICHEVER PROVIDES THE GREATEST EFFICIENCY AND FINANCIAL RETURN TO THE CITY. Motion by Vice Chairman Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Dunn II, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 5 - Commissioner(s) Carollo, Gort, Sarnoff, Suarez and Dunn II R-10-0332 (SP.1) RESOLUTION 10-00869b A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), APPROVING, SETTING FORTH AND SUBMITTING TO THE ELECTORATE A PROPOSED CHARTER AMENDMENT, AMENDING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, KNOWN AS CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1, TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY COMMISSION, BY ORDINANCE, TO DISCONTINUE THE DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET PARKING ("DOSP") AND THE DOSP BOARD, MODIFY THE DOSP BOARD, TRANSFER DOSP'S ASSETS TO THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY"), ALLOW FOR THE OPERATION, MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF PARKING FACILITIES BY THE CITY OR DOSP, AND AUTHORIZE THE MANAGEMENT, LEASE OR SALE OF ANY OR ALL OF THE PARKING FACILITIES TO A PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ENTITY; CALLING AND PROVIDING City of Miami Page 3 Printed on 9/10/2010 City Commission Meeting Minutes July 29, 2010 FOR A REFERENDUM SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 2, 2010, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING CHARTER AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE ELECTORATE AT SAID REFERENDUM; DESIGNATING AND APPOINTING THE CITY CLERK AS THE OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY COMMISSION WITH RESPECT TO THE USE OF VOTER REGISTRATION BOOKS AND RECORDS; FURTHER, DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO CAUSE A CERTIFIED COPY OF THE HEREIN RESOLUTION TO BE DELIVERED TO THE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, NOT LESS THAN FORTY-FIVE (45) DAYS PRIOR TO THE DATE OF SUCH REFERENDUM SPECIAL ELECTION. 10-00869b Exhibit. pdf Motion by Vice Chairman Carollo, seconded by Commissioner Dunn II, that this matter be ADOPTED PASSED by the following vote. Votes: Ayes: 5 - Commissioner(s) Carollo, Gort, Sarnoff, Suarez and Dunn II R-10-0333 Chair Sarnoff: So I think we could begin the meeting, and I believe this is a meeting called by you, Mr. Mayor, and you are recognized for the record. Good morning. I should give you a little bit of volume. Mayor Tomás Regalado: Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Vice Chairman Carollo, Commissioner Suarez, Commissioner Gort, Commissioner Dunn. This is indeed a special meeting called to discuss several items with the understanding that when we end this meeting, the Chairman will call for the regular meeting that was continued last Thursday. And so, there is a lot of work to do. And this is precisely what we are doing in the City of Miami. I don't think that there is a City Commission that has faced, at least for the last 15, 20 years, challenges as we and you face. Last week, the Commission sent a clear message by not raising the property tax, and that has a domino effect on all the decisions that the City Commission has to take. What we are proposing here today, there are two Charter amendment [sic]. One that has to do with the civil service rules and the Administration would explain the -- and the other one is about a discussion on the Charter amendment related to the Miami Parking Authority. What -- the need for this special meeting is that we have certain time to place it on the ballot of the general election of November 2, 2010. This will be an important election. This election, all political pundits and experts say, will bring many, many voters to the polls. We have to decide on a senate race, on the governor of the state of Florida, congressional races. We have amendments, several, to the state constitution. We have amendments to the county Charter in the ballot. So there will be, we believe, and everybody does, a large number of people that will be going to the polls, which is precisely what is important, that the people will get to decide what is their will. And the will of the people was to have you here, us, to make decision. We have to make decisions. You have to make very hard decisions in the month, and maybe in the years to come. And it's all about accountability. We are the frontlines of the people of Miami. Everything that goes on in the City of Miami, the first one to get calls, the City Commission members and the Mayor. That's the norm. You all have seen -- recently there was a media article about parks in the unincorporated Miami-Dade County charging for parking.