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DANIA BEACH CITY COMMISSION
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2009 - 7:00 P.M.
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7. CONSENT AGENDA
7.12 RESOLUTION#2009-188
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DANIA BEACH,
FLORIDA AUTHORIZING THE PROPER CITY OFFICIALS TO EXECUTE AN
INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY WITH THE DANIA BEACH
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS, FURTHER, PROVIDING
FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
RESOLUTION NO. 2009-188
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DANIA
BEACH, FLORIDA AUTHORIZING THE PROPER CITY OFFICIALS TO
EXECUTE AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY
WITH THE DANIA BEACH REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY; PROVIDING
FOR CONFLICTS, FURTHER, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DANIA
BEACH, FLORIDA,AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That the proper City officials are authorized to execute an Interlocal
Agreement on behalf of the City with the Dania Beach Redevelopment Agency.
Section 2. That all resolutions or parts of resolutions in conflict with this Resolution
are repealed to the extent of such conflict.
Section 3. That this Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its passage
and adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED on September 22, 2009.
ANNE CASTRO
MAYOR-COMMISSIONER
ATTEST:
LOUISE STILSON, CMC
CITY CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS:
THOMAS J. ANSBRO
CITY ATTORNEY
INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
THE DANIA BEACH COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
AND THE CITY OF DANIA BEACH
THIS INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT (this "Agreement'), made this day of
2009, by and between the following:
City of Dania Beach, Florida a municipal
corporation under the laws of the State of
Florida(the "City"), and
the Dania Beach Community Redevelopment
Agency, a public body
corporate and politic created pursuant to
Part III of Chapter 163, Florida Statutes (the "CRA").
WHEREAS,the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida(the
"Board"), adopted Resolution No. 2002-275 on March 19, 2002, which, among other things,
acknowledged that a slum or blighted area exists in a geographic area(the "Redevelopment
Area"), as described by the City of Dania Beach in its Finding of Necessity for Redevelopment,
the criteria of which presented by the City, in the aggregate, demonstrated that it is necessary and
appropriate to redevelop such Redevelopment Area in accordance with the provisions of Part III
of Chapter 163, Florida Statutes (the"Act'), as amended; and
WHEREAS,pursuant to the Resolution of the County, the Board delegated to the City
Commission of the City of Dania Beach, Florida(the "City Commission")the authority to
exercise the redevelopment powers conferred upon the Board within the Redevelopment Area in
accordance with the Act, to enable the City Commission to declare the need for, create and
delegate power to a community redevelopment agency and to prepare and adopt a plan of
redevelopment for final approval by the Board; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission accepted a delegation of powers from the Board,
found a need for and created the CRA, and directed the preparation and adoption of a community
redevelopment plan (the "Plan"); and
WHEREAS, the City Commission for the City of Dania Beach has created the Dania
Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (the "CRA") for the public purpose of carrying out
redevelopment pursuant to the Plan in the Redevelopment Area specified by the City
Commission, pursuant to the Act; and
WHEREAS,the City desires to delegate to the CRA those powers permitted by the Act
which were delegated by the Board to the City necessary to implement the Plan pursuant to the
Act, except those powers specifically retained by the City; and
WHEREAS, the CRA has undertaken certain responsibilities involved in implementing
the Plan for the Redevelopment Area but does not currently employ staff other than the
Executive Director of the CRA; and
WHEREAS, the City has employed professional staff; and
WHEREAS, City staff time and expertise in administrative coordination, engineering,
financial administration, and planning can be beneficially utilized in the planning and
implementation of public improvements and other projects contemplated by the CRA for
funding; and
WHEREAS, the City is willing to make available to the CRA, in accordance with the
terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, staff, staff support and staff overhead; and
WHEREAS, on February 10, 2004, the County adopted Resolution No. 2004-76, which
creates a funding program known as the "Redevelopment Capital Program" for funding of
redevelopment initiatives in Broward County; and
WHEREAS, the County, the City and the CRA entered into that certain Interlocal
Cooperation Agreement, dated April 20, 2004 (the "Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement'), as
subsequently amended pursuant to that certain First Amendment to Dania Beach Interlocal
Agreement, dated February 21, 2006 (the "First Amendment'), the Second Amendment to
Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement, dated March 24, 2009 (the "Second Amendment'), and the
Third Amendment to Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement, dated March 24, 2009 (the "Third
Amendment'); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Third Amendment, the City
received $2,334,200.00 from the County from funds available through the Redevelopment
Capital Program, for the purposes described therein; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to transfer said funds into the Dania Beach CRA
Community Redevelopment Trust Fund ("Redevelopment Trust Fund") created and established
pursuant to the Act, the Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement and City Ordinance No. 2006-017, as
described in the Third Amendment.
WITNESSETH, that for and in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements
contained herein, the City and the CRA agree as follows:
1. Delegation of Powers
A. With the exception of the community redevelopment powers that continue
to vest in the Board pursuant to Section 163.358, Florida Statutes, the City hereby delegates to
the CRA those powers permitted by the Act which were delegated by the Board to the City,
necessary to implement the Plan pursuant to the Act, except those powers specifically retained
by the City, and the CRA shall have the sole right and responsibility to exercise the following
redevelopment powers specifically delegated by the Board pursuant to the Act:
(1) The power and authority to make and execute contracts and other
instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers pursuant to the
Act, with the power to procure contracts and services exercised in accordance
with Part XII, Article 5. Contracts, of the Code of Ordinances of the City, with the
Executive Director of the CRA having the same authority as the City Manager
and the Board of the CRA having the same authority as the City Commission,
thereunder;
(2) The power to disseminate slum clearance and community
redevelopment information;
(3) The power to undertake and carry out community redevelopment
and related activities within the Redevelopment Area, which redevelopment may
include:
(a) Acquisition of a slum area or a blighted area or any portion
thereof,
(b) Demolition and removal of buildings and improvements;
(c) Installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets,
utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements
necessary for carrying out in the Redevelopment Area the
community redevelopment objectives of the Act in
accordance with the Plan;
(d) The power to dispose of any property acquired in the
Redevelopment Area at its fair value for uses in accordance
with the Plan;
(e) The power to carry out plans for a program of voluntary or
compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other
improvements in accordance with the Plan;
(f) The power to acquire real property in the Redevelopment
Area which, under the Plan, is to be repaired or
rehabilitated for the dwelling use or related facilities, repair
or rehabilitation of the structures for guidance purposes,
and resale of the property;
(g) The power to acquire any other real property in the
Redevelopment Area when necessary to eliminate
unhealthful, unsanitary, or unsafe conditions; lessen
density, eliminate obsolete or other uses, detrimental to the
public welfare, or otherwise to remove or prevent the
spread of blight or deterioration or to provide land for
needed public facilities;
(h) The power to acquire without regard to any requirement
that the area be a slum or blighted area, air rights in an area
consisting principally of land in highways, railway tracks,
bridge or tunnel entrances, or other similar facilities which
have a blighting influence on the surrounding area and over
which air rights sites are to be developed for the
elimination of such blighting influences and for the
provision of housing (and related facilities and uses)
designed specifically for, and limited to, families and
individuals of low or moderate income;
(i) The power to construct foundations and platforms
necessary for the provision of air rights sites of housing
(and related facilities and uses) designed specifically for,
and limited to, families and individuals of low or moderate
income.
(4) The power to provide, or to arrange or contract for, the furnishing
or repair by any person or agency, public or private, of services, privileges, works,
streets, roads, public utilities, parks, or other facilities for or in connection with
community redevelopment; to install, construct, and reconstruct streets, utilities,
parks, playgrounds, and other public improvements, and to agree to any
conditions that it deems reasonable and appropriate which are attached to federal
financial assistance and imposed pursuant to federal law relating to the
determination of prevailing salaries or wages or compliance with labor standards,
in the undertaking or carrying out of a community redevelopment and related
activities, and to include in any contract, issued in connection with such
redevelopment and related activities, provisions to fulfill such of the conditions as
it deems reasonable and appropriate.
(5) Within the Redevelopment Area:
(a) The power to enter into any building or property in the
Redevelopment Area in order to make inspections, surveys,
appraisals, soundings, or test borings and to obtain an order
for this purpose from a court of competent jurisdiction in
the event entry is denied or resisted;
(b) The power to acquire by purchase, lease, option, gift, grant,
bequest, devise, eminent domain (as provided in this
Agreement) or otherwise any real property (or personal
property for its administrative purposes), together with any
improvements thereon;
(c) The power to hold, improve, clear or prepare for
redevelopment any such property;
(d) The power to mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise
encumber or dispose of any real property;
(e) The power to insure or provide for the insurance of any real
or personal property or operations, of the City against any
risks or hazards, including the power to pay premiums on
any insurance;
(f) The power to enter into any contracts necessary to
effectuate the purposes of the Act;
(g) The power to solicit requests for qualifications for
proposals for redevelopment of parcels of real property
contemplated by the Plan to be acquired for redevelopment
purposes by the Agency and, as a result of such requests for
proposals, to advertise for the disposition of such real
property to private persons pursuant to Section 463.380,
Florida Statutes, prior to acquisition of such real property
by the Agency; and
(h) To the Agency, the power to exercise eminent domain as
provided by law so to acquire by condemnation any interest
in real property, including a fee simple title, which it deems
necessary for, or in connection with, community
redevelopment and related activities under the Act,
provided however, the exercise of eminent domain power
by the Agency is limited as follows: (i) County approval
must be obtained based upon a request by the Agency
adequately describing the real property to be acquired (by
parcel) and stating the public purpose of the acquisition;
provided however, if the County staff (either with or
without a positive staff recommendation) fails to place the
Agency's request on an agenda for consideration by the
Board within sixty(60) days following submittal thereof by
Agency to the County, the Agency may proceed directly to
the Board for consideration of its request, and (ii) the
power of eminent domain shall not be exercised by the
Agency if the effect of such condemnation is a net
reduction in the pool of affordable housing.
(6) The power to invest any community redevelopment funds held in
reserves or sinking funds or any such funds not required for immediate
disbursement in property or securities in which savings banks may legally invest
funds subject to their control and to redeem such bonds as have been issued
pursuant to Section 163.385, Florida Statutes, at the redemption price established
or to purchase bonds at less than the redemption price, all bonds so redeemed or
purchased to be canceled.
(7) The power to borrow money and to apply for and accept advances,
loans, grants, contributions, and any other form of financial assistance from the
Federal Government or the state, County, or other public body or from any
sources, public or private, for the purposes of the Act, and to give such security as
may be required and to enter into and carry out contracts or agreements in
connection with such activities, and to include in any contract for financial
assistance with the Federal Government for or with respect to community
redevelopment and related activities, such conditions imposed pursuant to federal
laws, as the County, the City or both deem reasonable and appropriate which are
not inconsistent with the purposes of the Act.
(8) Within its area of operation, the power to make or have made all
surveys and plans necessary to the carrying out of the purposes of the Act; to
contract with any person, public or private, in making and carryout out the plans,
and to adopt or approve, modify, and amend the plans, which plans may include,
but are not limited to:
(a) Plans for carrying out a program of voluntary or
compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings and
improvements;
(b) Plans for the enforcement of state and local laws, codes,
and regulations relating to the use of land and the use and
occupancy of buildings and improvements and to the
compulsory repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or removal of
buildings and improvements;
(c) Appraisals, title searches, surveys, studies, and other plans
and work necessary to prepare for the undertaking of
community redevelopment and related activities.
(9) The power to develop, test and report methods and techniques, and
carry out demonstrations and other activities, for the prevention and the
elimination of slums and urban blight and developing and demonstrating new or
improved means of providing housing for families and persons of low income.
(10) The power to apply for, accept, and utilize grants of funds from the
Federal or any State or Local Government for such purposes.
(11) The power to prepare plans for and assist in the relocation of
persons including individuals, families, business concerns, nonprofit
organizations, and others displaced from the Redevelopment Area and to make
relocation payments to or with respect to such persons for moving expenses and
losses of property for which reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise
made, including the making of payments financed by the Federal Government.
(12) The power to appropriate funds and make expenditures as are
necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act, and to enter into agreements with a
housing authority, which agreements may extend over any period respecting
action to be taken by the City pursuant to any of the powers granted by the Act.
(13) The power to close, vacate, plan, or replan streets, roads,
sidewalks, ways, or other places and to plan or replan any part of the City within
the Redevelopment Area, subject to City Code and Charter requirements.
(14) Within its area of operation, the power to organize, coordinate, and
direct the administration of the provisions of the Act as they may apply to the
City, in order that the objective of remedying slum and blighted areas and
preventing those causes within the City may be most effectively promoted and
achieved, and to establish such new office or offices of the City or to reorganize
existing offices in order to cant'out these purposes most effectively.
(15) The power to exercise all or any part or combination of powers
herein granted or to elect to have such powers exercised by the Agency.
(16) The power to develop and implement community policy
innovations.
2. Land Dispositions
Any disposition of land within the Redevelopment Area shall be accomplished in
accordance with applicable provisions of federal, state and local law, the Plan and this
Agreement pursuant to the Act.
3. Staff Services
A. Commencing with the execution of this Agreement, the City shall provide
the CRA the following professional services:
(1) General administrative and coordination services including but not
limited to providing secretarial services to the CRA.
(2) Engineering services implementing public improvements including
but not limited to preparation of right-of-way maps, appraisals, acquisition of
right-of-way, road design, construction and inspection including bid coordination
and supervision of contracts.
(3) Financing services including but not limited to financial reporting,
paying bills, investments and preparing management reports.
(4) Planning services including but not limited to preparing planning
studies relative to updating the adopted Community Redevelopment Plan.
B. In consideration for provision of the professional services referred to in
this Section 3, the City shall be compensated by the CRA in the following manner:
(1) General Administrative Services - The CRA shall reimburse the
City for staff work on an hourly basis determined by the respective hourly rate
schedule for Administrative personnel.
(2) Financial Services - The CRA shall reimburse the City for staff
work on an hourly basis determined by the respective hourly rate schedule for
Finance Department personnel.
(3) Planning Services - The CRA shall reimburse the City for staff
work on an hourly basis determined by the hourly rate schedule for Planning
Department personnel.
(4) Engineering Services - The CRA shall reimburse the City for staff
work on an hourly basis determined by the hourly rate schedule for Engineering
Department personnel.
C. Additional administrative costs such as supplies, printing, and long
distance telephone charges shall be reimbursed by the CRA to the City on a monthly basis at
actual cost.
D. The staff of the City are not employees of the CRA and the City shall
retain full control over the employment, direction, compensation and discharge of all persons
assisting it in the performance of this Agreement. The City shall be fully responsible for all
matters relating to payment of its employees, including compliance with Social Security,
withholding tax, and all other laws and regulations governing those matters.
E. The City agrees to hold the CRA harmless from loss, damage, injury, or
liability arising directly from the negligent acts or omissions of the City, its employees, agents,
subcontractors and their employees and agents.
F. The parties hereto recognize the necessity of each staff to work closely
and coordinate with each other in order to effectuate the intent of this Agreement. Therefore each
party therefore pledges such co-operation.
4. Transfer of Funds to CRA Trust Fund
A. The City hereby agrees to transfer to the CRA Trust Fund the
$2,334,200.00 (the "Funds") received by the City pursuant to the terms and conditions of the
Third Amendment to the Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement within ten (10) days of the
execution of this Agreement.
B. The CRA hereby agrees to utilize the Funds in accordance with the terms
of the Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement, as amended, the Plan and this Agreement.
5. Miscellaneous
A. Joint Preparation. The preparation of this Agreement has been a joint
effort of the Parties hereto and the resulting document shall not, solely as a matter of judicial
construction,be construed more severely against one of the Parties than the other.
B. Merger; Assignment. This Agreement incorporates and includes all prior
negotiations, correspondence, agreements or understandings applicable to the matters contained
herein; and the Parties agree that there are no commitments, agreements, or understandings
concerning the subject matter of this Agreement that are not contained in the document.
Accordingly, the Parties agree that no deviation from the terms hereof shall be predicated upon
any prior representations or agreements, whether oral or written. It is further agreed that no
change, amendment, alteration or modification in the terms and conditions contained herein shall
be effective unless contained in a written document executed with the same formality and of
equal dignity herewith by all parties to this Agreement.
C. Assi mnent. The respective obligations of the parties set forth in this
Agreement shall not be assigned, in whole or in part, without the written consent of the other
ply.
D. Recording/Filing. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed after
approval of the Agreement by the governing body of the City and the CRA and the execution
thereof by the duly qualified and authorized officers of each of the parties hereto to file this
Agreement with the Clerk of Broward County, Florida, as required by Section 163.01(11).
Florida Statutes.
E. Notices. Whenever either party desires to give notice to the other, such
notice must by in writing and sent by United States mail, return receipt requested, or courier,
evidenced by a delivery receipt, or by facsimile, evidenced by a delivery receipt, or by an
overnight express delivery service evidenced by a delivery receipt, addressed to the party for
whom it is intended at the place last specified; and the place for giving of notice shall remain
such until it shall have been changed by written notice in compliance with the provisions of this
paragraph. For the present, the Parties designate the following as the respective persons and
places for giving of notice. Notice shall be effective upon delivery as evidenced by a delivery
receipt.
FOR CITY: Robert Baldwin
City Manager
City of Dania Beach
100 West Dania Beach Boulevard
Dania Beach, Florida 33004
With a copy to: City Clerk
City of Dania Beach
100 West Dania Beach Boulevard
Dania Beach, Florida 33004
FOR CRA: Jeremy Earle, ASLA, AICP
Executive Director
Dania Beach Community Redevelopment Agency
100 West Dania Beach Boulevard
Dania Beach, Florida 33004
F. Governing Law and Venue. This Agreement shall be governed, construed
and controlled according to the laws of the State of Florida without regard to its conflict of laws
provision. Any claim, objection or dispute arising out of the terms of this Agreement shall be
litigated in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida.
G. Severability. In the event a portion of this Agreement is found by a court
of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the remaining provisions shall continue to be effective
unless the City or the CRA elect to terminate this Agreement. An election to terminate this
Agreement based upon this provision shall be made within seven (7) calendar days after the
court's determination becomes final. For the purposes of this section, "final" shall mean the
expiration of time within which to file an appeal or the conclusion of any appellate proceeding
and the granting of an order. In such event the parties agree to cooperate fully with each other to
effectuate a smooth transition of service.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have made and executed this Agreement on
the respective dates under each signature: City of Dania Beach, signing by and through its
Mayor-Commissioner, duly authorized to execute same and the Dania Beach Community
Redevelopment Agency, signing by and through its Chair, duly authorized to execute same.
CITY OF DANIA BEACH, FLORIDA
a Florida municipal corporation
ATTEST:
Anne Castro
Mayor-Commissioner
Louise Stilson, CMC
City Clerk
Approved as to form and Correctness:
Date
Thomas J. Ansbro
City Attorney
DANIA BEACH COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
ATTEST:
Anne Castro - Chairman
Louise Stilson, CRA Secretary Date
INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT
BETWEEN
THE DANIA BEACH COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
AND THE CITY OF DANIA BEACH
THIS INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT (this "Agreement'), made this day of
2009, by and between the following:
City of Dania Beach, Florida a municipal
corporation under the laws of the State of
Florida(the "City"), and
the Dania Beach Community Redevelopment
Agency, a public body
corporate and politic created pursuant to
Part III of Chapter 163, Florida Statutes (the "CRA").
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Broward County, Florida (the
`Board"), adopted Resolution No. 2002-275 on March 19, 2002, which, among other things,
acknowledged that a slum or blighted area exists in a geographic area (the "Redevelopment
Area"), as described by the City of Dania Beach in its Finding of Necessity for Redevelopment,
the criteria of which presented by the City, in the aggregate, demonstrated that it is necessary and
appropriate to redevelop such Redevelopment Area in accordance with the provisions of Part 111
of Chapter 163, Florida Statutes (the "Act'), as amended; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Resolution of the County, the Board delegated to the City
Commission of the City of Dania Beach, Florida (the "City Commission") the authority to
exercise the redevelopment powers conferred upon the Board within the Redevelopment Area in
accordance with the Act, to enable the City Commission to declare the need for, create and
delegate power to a community redevelopment agency and to prepare and adopt a plan of
redevelopment for final approval by the Board; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission accepted a delegation of powers from the Board,
found a need for and created the CRA, and directed the preparation and adoption of a community
redevelopment plan (the "Plan"); and
WHEREAS, the City Commission for the City of Dania Beach has created the Dania
Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (the "CRA") for the public purpose of carrying out
redevelopment pursuant to the Plan in the Redevelopment Area specified by the City
Commission,pursuant to the Act; and
WHEREAS, the City desires to delegate to the CRA those powers permitted by the Act
which were delegated by the Board to the City necessary to implement the Plan pursuant to the
Act, except those powers specifically retained by the City; and
WHEREAS, the CRA has undertaken certain responsibilities involved in implementing
the Plan for the Redevelopment Area but does not currently employ staff other than the
Executive Director of the CRA; and
WHEREAS,the City has employed professional staff; and
WHEREAS, City staff time and expertise in administrative coordination, engineering,
financial administration, and planning can be beneficially utilized in the planning and
implementation of public improvements and other projects contemplated by the CRA for
funding; and
WHEREAS, the City is willing to make available to the CRA, in accordance with the
terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, staff, staff support and staff overhead; and
WHEREAS, on February 10, 2004, the County adopted Resolution No. 2004-76, which
creates a funding program known as the "Redevelopment Capital Program" for funding of
redevelopment initiatives in Broward County; and
WHEREAS, the County, the City and the CRA entered into that certain Interlocal
Cooperation Agreement, dated April 20, 2004 (the "Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement'), as
subsequently amended pursuant to that certain First Amendment to Dania Beach Interlocal
Agreement, dated February 21, 2006 (the "First Amendment'), the Second Amendment to
Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement, dated March 24, 2009 (the "Second Amendment'), and the
Third Amendment to Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement, dated March 24, 2009 (the "Third
Amendment'); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Third Amendment, the City
received $2,334,200.00 from the County from funds available through the Redevelopment
Capital Program, for the purposes described therein; and
WHEREAS, the City wishes to transfer said funds into the Dania Beach CRA
Community Redevelopment Trust Fund ("Redevelopment Trust Fund") created and established
pursuant to the Act, the Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement and City Ordinance No. 2006-017, as
described in the Third Amendment.
WITNESSETH, that for and in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements
contained herein, the City and the CRA agree as follows:
1. Delegation of Powers
A. With the exception of the community redevelopment powers that continue
to vest in the Board pursuant to Section 163.358, Florida Statutes, the City hereby delegates to
the CRA those powers permitted by the Act which were delegated by the Board to the City,
necessary to implement the Plan pursuant to the Act, except those powers specifically retained
by the City, and the CRA shall have the sole right and responsibility to exercise the following
redevelopment powers specifically delegated by the Board pursuant to the Act:
(1) The power and authority to make and execute contracts and other
instruments necessary or convenient to the exercise of its powers pursuant to the
Act, with the power to procure contracts and services exercised in accordance
with Part XII, Article 5. Contracts, of the Code of Ordinances of the City, with the
Executive Director of the CRA having the same authority as the City Manager
and the Board of the CRA having the same authority as the City Commission,
thereunder;
(2) The power to disseminate slum clearance and community
redevelopment information;
(3) The power to undertake and carry out community redevelopment
and related activities within the Redevelopment Area, which redevelopment may
include:
(a) Acquisition of a slum area or a blighted area or any portion
thereof,
(b) Demolition and removal of buildings and improvements;
(c) Installation, construction, or reconstruction of streets,
utilities, parks, playgrounds, and other improvements
necessary for carrying out in the Redevelopment Area the
community redevelopment objectives of the Act in
accordance with the Plan;
(d) The power to dispose of any property acquired in the
Redevelopment Area at its fair value for uses in accordance
with the Plan;
(e) The power to carry out plans for a program of voluntary or
compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings or other
improvements in accordance with the Plan;
(f) The power to acquire real property in the Redevelopment
Area which, under the Plan, is to be repaired or
rehabilitated for the dwelling use or related facilities, repair
or rehabilitation of the structures for guidance purposes,
and resale of the property;
(g) The power to acquire any other real property in the
Redevelopment Area when necessary to eliminate
unhealthful, unsanitary, or unsafe conditions; lessen
density, eliminate obsolete or other uses, detrimental to the
public welfare, or otherwise to remove or prevent the
spread of blight or deterioration or to provide land for
needed public facilities;
(h) The power to acquire without regard to any requirement
that the area be a slum or blighted area, air rights in an area
consisting principally of land in highways, railway tracks,
bridge or tunnel entrances, or other similar facilities which
have a blighting influence on the surrounding area and over
which air rights sites are to be developed for the
elimination of such blighting influences and for the
provision of housing (and related facilities and uses)
designed specifically for, and limited to, families and
individuals of low or moderate income;
(i) The power to construct foundations and platforms
necessary for the provision of air rights sites of housing
(and related facilities and uses) designed specifically for,
and limited to, families and individuals of low or moderate
income.
(4) The power to provide, or to arrange or contract for, the furnishing
or repair by any person or agency,public or private, of services, privileges, works,
streets, roads, public utilities, parks, or other facilities for or in connection with
community redevelopment; to install, construct, and reconstruct streets, utilities,
parks, playgrounds, and other public improvements, and to agree to any
conditions that it deems reasonable and appropriate which are attached to federal
financial assistance and imposed pursuant to federal law relating to the
determination of prevailing salaries or wages or compliance with labor standards,
in the undertaking or carrying out of a community redevelopment and related
activities, and to include in any contract, issued in connection with such
redevelopment and related activities, provisions to fulfill such of the conditions as
it deems reasonable and appropriate.
(5) Within the Redevelopment Area:
(a) The power to enter into any building or property in the
Redevelopment Area in order to make inspections, surveys,
appraisals, soundings, or test borings and to obtain an order
for this purpose from a court of competent jurisdiction in
the event entry is denied or resisted;
(b) The power to acquire by purchase, lease, option, gift, grant,
bequest, devise, eminent domain (as provided in this
Agreement) or otherwise any real property (or personal
property for its administrative purposes), together with any
improvements thereon;
(c) The power to hold, improve, clear or prepare for
redevelopment any such property;
(d) The power to mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise
encumber or dispose of any real property;
(e) The power to insure or provide for the insurance of any real
or personal property or operations, of the City against any
risks or hazards, including the power to pay premiums on
any insurance;
(f) The power to enter into any contracts necessary to
effectuate the purposes of the Act;
(g) The power to solicit requests for qualifications for
proposals for redevelopment of parcels of real property
contemplated by the Plan to be acquired for redevelopment
purposes by the Agency and, as a result of such requests for
proposals, to advertise for the disposition of such real
property to private persons pursuant to Section 463.380,
Florida Statutes, prior to acquisition of such real property
by the Agency; and
(h) To the Agency, the power to exercise eminent domain as
provided by law so to acquire by condemnation any interest
in real property, including a fee simple title, which it deems
necessary for, or in connection with, community
redevelopment and related activities under the Act,
provided however, the exercise of eminent domain power
by the Agency is limited as follows: (i) County approval
must be obtained based upon a request by the Agency
adequately describing the real property to be acquired (by
parcel) and stating the public purpose of the acquisition;
provided however, if the County staff (either with or
without a positive staff recommendation) fails to place the
Agency's request on an agenda for consideration by the
Board within sixty(60) days following submittal thereof by
Agency to the County, the Agency may proceed directly to
the Board for consideration of its request, and (ii) the
power of eminent domain shall not be exercised by the
Agency if the effect of such condemnation is a net
reduction in the pool of affordable housing.
(6) The power to invest any community redevelopment funds held in
reserves or sinking funds or any such funds not required for immediate
disbursement in property or securities in which savings banks may legally invest
funds subject to their control and to redeem such bonds as have been issued
pursuant to Section 163.385, Florida Statutes, at the redemption price established
or to purchase bonds at less than the redemption price, all bonds so redeemed or
purchased to be canceled.
(7) The power to borrow money and to apply for and accept advances,
loans, grants, contributions, and any other form of financial assistance from the
Federal Government or the state, County, or other public body or from any
sources, public or private, for the purposes of the Act, and to give such security as
may be required and to enter into and carry out contracts or agreements in
connection with such activities, and to include in any contract for financial
assistance with the Federal Government for or with respect to community
redevelopment and related activities, such conditions imposed pursuant to federal
laws, as the County, the City or both deem reasonable and appropriate which are
not inconsistent with the purposes of the Act.
(8) Within its area of operation, the power to make or have made all
surveys and plans necessary to the carrying out of the purposes of the Act; to
contract with any person, public or private, in making and carryout out the plans,
and to adopt or approve, modify, and amend the plans, which plans may include,
but are not limited to:
(a) Plans for carrying out a program of voluntary or
compulsory repair and rehabilitation of buildings and
improvements;
(b) Plans for the enforcement of state and local laws, codes,
and regulations relating to the use of land and the use and
occupancy of buildings and improvements and to the
compulsory repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or removal of
buildings and improvements;
(c) Appraisals, title searches, surveys, studies, and other plans
and work necessary to prepare for the undertaking of
community redevelopment and related activities.
(9) The power to develop, test and report methods and techniques, and
carry out demonstrations and other activities, for the prevention and the
elimination of slums and urban blight and developing and demonstrating new or
improved means of providing housing for families and persons of low income.
(10) The power to apply for, accept, and utilize grants of funds from the
Federal or any State or Local Government for such purposes.
(11) The power to prepare plans for and assist in the relocation of
persons including individuals, families, business concerns, nonprofit
organizations, and others displaced from the Redevelopment Area and to make
relocation payments to or with respect to such persons for moving expenses and
losses of property for which reimbursement or compensation is not otherwise
made, including the making of payments financed by the Federal Government.
(12) The power to appropriate funds and make expenditures as are
necessary to carry out the purposes of the Act, and to enter into agreements with a
housing authority, which agreements may extend over any period respecting
action to be taken by the City pursuant to any of the powers granted by the Act.
(13) The power to close, vacate, plan, or replan streets, roads,
sidewalks, ways, or other places and to plan or replan any part of the City within
the Redevelopment Area, subject to City Code and Charter requirements.
(14) Within its area of operation, the power to organize, coordinate, and
direct the administration of the provisions of the Act as they may apply to the
City, in order that the objective of remedying slum and blighted areas and
preventing those causes within the City may be most effectively promoted and
achieved, and to establish such new office or offices of the City or to reorganize
existing offices in order to carry out these purposes most effectively.
(15) The power to exercise all or any part or combination of powers
herein granted or to elect to have such powers exercised by the Agency.
(16) The power to develop and implement community policy
innovations.
2. Land Dispositions
Any disposition of land within the Redevelopment Area shall be accomplished in
accordance with applicable provisions of federal, state and local law, the Plan and this
Agreement pursuant to the Act.
3. Staff Services
A. Commencing with the execution of this Agreement, the City shall provide
the CRA the following professional services:
(1) General administrative and coordination services including but not
limited to providing secretarial services to the CRA.
(2) Engineering services implementing public improvements including
but not limited to preparation of right-of-way maps, appraisals, acquisition of
right-of-way, road design, construction and inspection including bid coordination
and supervision of contracts.
(3) Financing services including but not limited to financial reporting,
paying bills, investments and preparing management reports.
(4) Planning services including but not limited to preparing planning
studies relative to updating the adopted Community Redevelopment Plan.
B. In consideration for provision of the professional services referred to in
this Section 3, the City shall be compensated by the CRA in the following manner:
(1) General Administrative Services - The CRA shall reimburse the
City for staff work on an hourly basis determined by the respective hourly rate
schedule for Administrative personnel.
(2) Financial Services - The CRA shall reimburse the City for staff
work on an hourly basis determined by the respective hourly rate schedule for
Finance Department personnel.
(3) Planning Services - The CRA shall reimburse the City for staff
work on an hourly basis determined by the hourly rate schedule for Planning
Department personnel.
(4) Engineering Services - The CRA shall reimburse the City for staff
work on an hourly basis determined by the hourly rate schedule for Engineering
Department personnel.
C. Additional administrative costs such as supplies, printing, and long
distance telephone charges shall be reimbursed by the CRA to the City on a monthly basis at
actual cost.
D. The staff of the City are not employees of the CRA and the City shall
retain full control over the employment, direction, compensation and discharge of all persons
assisting it in the performance of this Agreement. The City shall be fully responsible for all
matters relating to payment of its employees, including compliance with Social Security,
withholding tax, and all other laws and regulations governing those matters.
E. The City agrees to hold the CRA harmless from loss, damage, injury, or
liability arising directly from the negligent acts or omissions of the City, its employees, agents,
subcontractors and their employees and agents.
F. The parties hereto recognize the necessity of each staff to work closely
and coordinate with each other in order to effectuate the intent of this Agreement. Therefore each
party therefore pledges such co-operation.
4. Transfer of Funds to CRA Trust Fund
A. The City hereby agrees to transfer to the CRA Trust Fund the
$2,334,200.00 (the "Funds") received by the City pursuant to the terms and conditions of the
Third Amendment to the Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement within ten (10) days of the
execution of this Agreement.
B. The CRA hereby agrees to utilize the Funds in accordance with the terms
of the Dania Beach Interlocal Agreement, as amended, the Plan and this Agreement.
5. Miscellaneous
A. Joint Preparation. The preparation of this Agreement has been a joint
effort of the Parties hereto and the resulting document shall not, solely as a matter of judicial
construction, be construed more severely against one of the Parties than the other.
B. Merger; Assignment. This Agreement incorporates and includes all prior
negotiations, correspondence, agreements or understandings applicable to the matters contained
herein; and the Parties agree that there are no commitments, agreements, or understandings
concerning the subject matter of this Agreement that are not contained in the document.
Accordingly, the Parties agree that no deviation from the terms hereof shall be predicated upon
any prior representations or agreements, whether oral or written. It is further agreed that no
change, amendment, alteration or modification in the terms and conditions contained herein shall
be effective unless contained in a written document executed with the same formality and of
equal dignity herewith by all parties to this Agreement.
C. Assignment. The respective obligations of the parties set forth in this
Agreement shall not be assigned, in whole or in part, without the written consent of the other
ply.
D. Recording/Filing. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed after
approval of the Agreement by the governing body of the City and the CRA and the execution
thereof by the duly qualified and authorized officers of each of the parties hereto to file this
Agreement with the Clerk of Broward County, Florida, as required by Section 163.01(11).
Florida Statutes.
E. Notices. Whenever either party desires to give notice to the other, such
notice must by in writing and sent by United States mail, return receipt requested, or courier,
evidenced by a delivery receipt, or by facsimile, evidenced by a delivery receipt, or by an
overnight express delivery service evidenced by a delivery receipt, addressed to the party for
whom it is intended at the place last specified; and the place for giving of notice shall remain
such until it shall have been changed by written notice in compliance with the provisions of this
paragraph. For the present, the Parties designate the following as the respective persons and
places for giving of notice. Notice shall be effective upon delivery as evidenced by a delivery
receipt.
FOR CITY: Robert Baldwin
City Manager
City of Dania Beach
100 West Dania Beach Boulevard
Dania Beach, Florida 33004
With a copy to: City Clerk
City of Dania Beach
100 West Dania Beach Boulevard
Dania Beach, Florida 33004
FOR CPA: Jeremy Earle, ASLA, AICP
Executive Director
Dania Beach Community Redevelopment Agency
100 West Dania Beach Boulevard
Dania Beach, Florida 33004
F. Governing Law and Venue. This Agreement shall be governed, construed
and controlled according to the laws of the State of Florida without regard to its conflict of laws
provision. Any claim, objection or dispute arising out of the terms of this Agreement shall be
litigated in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida.
G. Severability. In the event a portion of this Agreement is found by a court
of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the remaining provisions shall continue to be effective
unless the City or the CRA elect to terminate this Agreement. An election to terminate this
Agreement based upon this provision shall be made within seven (7) calendar days after the
court's determination becomes final. For the purposes of this section, "final" shall mean the
expiration of time within which to file an appeal or the conclusion of any appellate proceeding
and the granting of an order. In such event the parties agree to cooperate fully with each other to
effectuate a smooth transition of service.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereto have made and executed this Agreement on
the respective dates under each signature: City of Dania Beach, signing by and through its
Mayor-Commissioner, duly authorized to execute same and the Dania Beach Community
Redevelopment Agency, signing by and through its Chair, duly authorized to execute same.
CITY OF DANIA BEACH, FLORIDA
a Florida municipal corporation
ATTEST:
Anne Castro
Mayor-Commissioner
Louise Stilson, CMC
City Clerk
Approved as to form and Correctness:
Date
Thomas J. Ansbro
City Attorney
DANIA BEACH COMMUNITY
REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
ATTEST:
Anne Castro - Chairman
Louise Stilson, CRA Secretary Date