Virginia Key Beach Park Trust Meeting

Virginia Key Beach Park Trust Meeting — October 9, 2025 - 12:07 PM

Thank you. >> Good afternoon. Welcome to the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust meeting for OCTOBER 9th, 2025. I am your chair, Christine King, and we are here with my colleagues Commissioner Rosado, Commissioner Gabela, Commissioner Pardo, board member Vince Brown and our executive director MISS Ashley Edward. We have three items on the agenda. MR. City attorney, would you please read the items? >> Thomas Foster, assistant city attorney. The first item, a resolution of the Virginia Key Beaach ark Trust approving the meeting dates for the 2026 calendar year as set forth in exhibit. , attached and incorporated, providing an ed. Ective date. A resolution with attachments submitting and approving the annual report for '24-'25 fiscal year pursuant to the code of the City of Miami Florida, as amended, and providing an effective date. The third item, a resolution of the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust, authorizing the executive director to negotiate and excite a memorandum of agreement in a form acceptable to the general counsel between the City of Miami, Florida for the Virginia Key Beach Museum project and upon transfer to the trust provide additional funding to provide shortfalls and operational costs for 10 fiscal years in an amount not to exceed $1,700,000 and no cents. Just to repeat that, $1,700,000 per fiscal year, further authorizing the executive director to execute extensions in forms acceptable to the general counsel and providing an effective date. >> Thank you. At this time, I will open the floor or public comment. Seeing none, public comment is closed. Gentlemen, MAY I have a motion to move items 1, 2, and 3? >> So moved. >> Can I just comment and use this opportunity? >> Okay. >> I think this is long overdue. How would you feel if I told you today that I have the inclination, if I had the inclination not voting for it, what would you think? >> I don't know. >> The reason I'm saying that is because I am waiting for my Allapatah cra which we passed here a while back. This is a message for the County. I hope they get the memo. I've been assured that the Allapatah, and the [Unclear] Two minutes, I'm going to make it brief. It's a platform to make my case for my people in Allapatah, which I think is also overdue like your people in this museum. It should have happened a long time ago. I'm all for it. I say this because we went through tremendous strain here, Commissioner, you and I. CHAIRWOMAN, you weren't here Commissioner Rosado. With a lot of effort it was passed. This gentleman to my left kept his word on what the omni cra was going to do. He transferred the $2 million to us. There was supposed to be money from the midtown cra. >> Five years. >> I thank you for keeping your word and being a gentleman. The County is dragging their feet and is not forthcoming in this. I only mean well for my community. I please urge the County, if you're listening, please get this done. I've been promised it will be done by the end of the year. We're waiting. >> You were not here yet, Commissioner Rosado. The people of Allapattah thank you. I use this occasion to see how you guys are getting a museum. You will spend 1. 7 million for the next 10 years -- about 17 mil. That's good. You're progressing. I'd like to do that for my community,f or [Sp? Pattah. I want to be passing stuff like this. I am going to vote for this. I wish you well, MADAM Chair, in this museum. And everything that goes with it. Please, I urge you to help me maybe craft a letter to the county, all commissioners. We did this months back, everything we're supposed to be doing. They're sitting on it for what reason? i have no idea. I am going to write a letter. I need your support to tell the county to stop dragging their feet so we can have progress in Allapattah. Thank you. >> We should do a resolution urging the county. >> That's what I mean. Thank you. >> Motion and second? >> Second. >> Items 1, 2 and 3. All those in favor -- ? Motion to pass the minutes as well? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor -- ? >> Our executive director has a report. Has everyone read than report/ >> We read it. >> I read it. Okay, that shall conclude the Virginia Key Beach -- >> We have 2 absence waivers. >> For Peabody, OCTOBER 9 and JULY 10. >> Motion to accept? >> So moved. >> Second. >> All those in favor -- ? >> Thank you. I want to thank the chair for hosting the [Unclear] At the beach and for [Unclear] For participating. Thank you for hosting that. >> Thank you. That shall conclude the meeting. I will see my colleagues OCTOBER 23rd for our next commission meeting. Have a wonderful day. Thank you. >> Story.