Mark it on your Calendar: 2013 Transportation Summit, Thurs, June 6th

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2013 Transportation Summit
Visioning the future of Miami-Dade Public Transportation

Thursday, June 6, 2013, 8:30 am to 6:30 pmMiami Dade College -- Wolfson Campus -- Chapman Center
300 NE 2nd Avenue, Miami, Florida 33132

Sponsored by Mayor Carlos A. Gimenez,
the Board of County Commissioners, and
the Citizens Independent Transporation Trust

Includes breakout sessions on Innovative Financing, Mode Technology, Public-Private Partnerships, Corridor Development, and culminating with an interactive Community Visioning Forum.  Join Miami-Dade County officials and fellow citizens in building momentum toward a comprehensive and coordinated public transit system.

To register for the summit or for additional information call 305-779-7875 or visit www.miamidade.gov/citt/ or email citt@miamidade.gov.

Taking transit to the meeting?  Go to: www.miamidade.gov/transit or call 305-770-3131 for route information.

Renewed Effort Underway to Address Alton Road For Everyone!

Tammy has energized a renewed effort to address Alton Road.  Two meetings have already been held and the next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 8th, 6:00 pm, at The Seymour, 945 Pennsylvania Avenue.  Please join us on Wednesday if you want to participate in this advocacy coalition -- Alton Road for Everyone!!

We are blessed with creative and energized neighbors who also include trained Urban Planners, very knowledgable in this work.  Matthew Lambert, Jason King, Pam Stacy, Wanda Mouzon have joined in this effort with Tammy Tibbles, Aaron Sugarman, Jeff Donnelly, Mark Needle, Ron Starkman (from SoFNA) and others in re-energizing this effort.

Attached is the flyer describing our position --Alton Road for Everyone

You can also find Meeting Notes for our earlier meetings
Meeting Notes -- Apr 20, 2013
Meeting Notes -- Apr 24, 2013

Alton Road Reconstruction Coalition is on Facebook.  To connect with Alton Road Reconstruction Coalition, sign up for Facebook today.

https://www.facebook.com/AltonRoadReconstructionCoalition

Flamingo Meeting Adopts Resolution calling for the naming of the Flamingo Park Tennis Center

Based upon action taken at the most recent meeting of the Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association, the following letter and Resolution was sent to the Mayor and Commissioners of the City of Miami Beach:

Dear Mayor and City Commissioners:


At its meeting of April 1, 2013, the Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association returned to the matter of the naming of the Tennis Center in Flamingo Park. Following substantial review and discussion, by motion properly made and seconded, the attached Resolution was unanimously adopted, calling for the following:

The Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association hereby request that the Neighborhoods Committee consider our proposal for naming/renaming the new publicly funded tennis center in Flamingo Park as “The Flamingo Park Tennis Center” at its next available committee meeting, per City Code Section 802-503 (a)2.

We also request, to avoid any public embarrassment over this naming process to the Holtz Family or any other individuals that Staff please refrain from installing any new “name” signage on the tennis center until the City Commission has approved of and ratified a name for the new facility, per the procedures outlined in our City Code.

Attached:
Adopted Resolution
Naming -- Timeline

Additional Background Information:

In early 2012, this matter was brought to our attention by Gayle Durham and then by Aaron Sugarman. It was fully discussed at our January 2012 meeting when we adopted and forwarded the following position to the Mayor and City Commissioners:

Dear Mayor and City Commissioners:

At its meeting on January 9, 2012, the Flamingo Park Neighborhood Association unanimously voted in support of a proposal, pursuant to City Code section 82-503, to name the new Flamingo Park Tennis Center "The Flamingo Park Tennis Center". We request that the Neighborhood's Committee add this proposal to their agenda at their earliest convenience, pursuant to city code section 82-503 (2).

Background:

It came to the attention of FPNA that a sign was posted outside of the existing tennis center with a rendering of the new tennis center that reads Future Home of Flamingo Park Holtz Tennis Center. We feel that it is inappropriate to both re-name the tennis center without following a public process, and to move the Holtz name from the demolished stadium to a new tennis center funded wholly with public monies (not Holtz money).

City Code Section 82-503 states that "public facilities and plazas should not be named, or renamed, for living persons unless such persons are over 100 years of age unless the naming or renaming is in exchange for a monetary donation pursuant to Section 82-505."

Since the existing Flamingo Park Tennis Center was not named for Holtz in prior years, and since the new Tennis Center has not been funded by Holtz, it seems inappropriate if not in violation of the City Code to name our new tennis Center after Holtz. It may be appropriate to post a photo of the former Holtz Stadium within the tennis center on a wall, or affix a plaque to a bench on the site of the former stadium bearing his name, if the Commission wishes to continue to honor the Capital Bank funding of the original Stadium.

Denis Russ -- 305-672-4782 -- Denis@MiamiBeachCDC.org
Miami Beach Community Development Corporation
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