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Meeting on June 15, 2005

Attendees:
  • Jorge Exposito – President,
  • Mihaly Lenart,
  • Hadley & Yannick Henriette,
  • Adriana Miller,
  • Jonathan Kroner,
  • Jack Miller,
  • Martin Wasserman,
  • Wendy Jacobus,
  • Larry Rosen,
  • Julie Feld,
  • Stephanie Berman,
  • Alan Mishael,
  • Tetje Miedema

1. Scott Rakow Youth Center (for details see flyer)

Miami Beach City Manager Jorge Gonzalez wants to take an as yet unknown slice of Par 3’s Hole #2 (by the biggest tree), fence it in to ‘let the kids run around’. The Youth Center was set up as an indoor facility for teenagers, although children ages 8 through teens now attend. The Par 3 is our neighborhood’s ‘park’. When the City came around asking what we wanted for the Youth Center, we asked for improved pool with wading pool, gymnastics, golf for kids, basketball as they already had an ice skating rink. The ice skating rink has been moved and enlarged, the gymnastics is still not in place (but planned for), the pool improvements were nixed but turn out to be what they most needed, and the (very busy) golf pro for kids was removed. The City has never lived up to fulfilling its share of the Settlement Agreement between it and Citizens for Greenspace, which was the predecessor of the Bayshore H.A. and which was reestablished for the purpose of the Agreement [Agreement result of lawsuit necessitated by the City illegally doling out public-use Par 3 land to a private religious institution for non-public use], i.e. restoring and reconfiguring the Par 3 with the money the City got for that Par 3 land, Bob Middaugh said the Settlement Agreement did not matter. A motion was made and seconded to retain Tucker Gibbs, the attorney who gave us a small victory about the dump issue. A retainer of $2500 will be needed to hire him to help us enforce the Settlement Agreement, i.e. remove the ‘temporary parking’, which has become a dumping ground for the city’s junk, and restore and reconfigure the Par 3 with the money it obtained as compensation for the Mikveh and land to the Hebrew Academy. Par 3 needs to be part of Comprehensive Plan.

 

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We need:

a) Money - please make out a check (suggested $100 per family if at all possible) to Bayshore Homeowners Association and drop it to Jorge Exposito, 2123 Meridian Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33140 or Tetje Miedema, 2840 Fairgreen Drive, 33140;

b) Get Your Neighbors involved!, if at all possible by email, please send them our mails and/or get their email address, if they approve, to Bayshore [email protected] so we can include them in our emails!

c) More volunteers to run this association, attend committee meetings such as Planning Board or Youth Center or Golf Committee

2. Jonathan Kroner: Attended, was very impressed by, and recommends we attend the City’s Neighborhood Leadership Academy or ask him or Rene Fuentes Chao. September class is filling up with people from other neighborhoods. Jonathan learned during his stint in Leadership Academy that the brunt of complaints in Miami Beach has shifted from South Beach to Mid Beach, in large part because South Beach’s neighborhood association has become very effective.

3. Consensus was that everything happening in our Bayshore neighborhood affects all of us, not just one’s own little street, new building bring more traffic, pressure on neighborhood etc. We should band together and help support all our neighbor’s issues with the city.

4. It was noted that one single architect is doing Miami Beach’s High School, Public Works project and Fire Department projects. Bernard Zyscovitch has encouraged the city to take further land from the Par 3 to expand the High School’s grounds, instead of maximizing their existing space with smart planning and multi-floor buildings and parking garages. (As this is a School Board Issue, which does not have money to buy additional land, it did not happen, yet.)

5. The Bayshore Neighborhood Association would like input from all parts of the neighborhood regarding issues that they care about, as they affect us all and our property values. Some topics brought up: Traffic, Landscaping, Streets cape, Lighting, Bond Project.

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