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October 201h, 2009
Honorable Mayor and Members of City Commission
Roger M. Carlton, Acting City Manager
Cesar Garcia, Parks & Recreation Director
Jose Olivo, Public Works Director
Murray Park Pool Facility Update
As an update to the pool workshop we hosted on September 291h, we have invited our consultant
to provide you with a brief presentation on the comments gathered. The presentation will
include feedback on questions from the public and the City Commissioners who were present at
the workshop. We ask that at end of discussion on this topic that you provide us with direction
on the final design scope of this project to meet the time sensitive deadlines imposed by the grant
agencies.
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DATE: October 20th, 2009
TO: Honorable Mayor and Members of City Commission
VIA: Roger M. Carlton, Acting City Manager
FROM: Cesar Garcia, Parks & Recreation Director a
RE: South Miami Park Temporary Improvements
The South Miami Park Master Plan has been approved and adopted by the City Commission.
Unfortunately, because of funding restraints, the adopted improvements cannot move forward as
planned at this time. Since the inception of our very own soccer program in the Spring of 2009,
our soccer parents and volunteers have been fundraising to offset some of the costs associated
with developing South Miami Park. Through many fundraising initiatives by this group, enough
money has been raised to make a few temporary improvements that would begin to solidify the
program among others it competes with.
At this time, the South Miami Grey Ghosts Soccer program would like to purchase a
office /storage trailer and a set of temporary field lights. With the growth of our program, both of
these requested purchases are vital to keep the program moving forward. First the trailer is
necessary in order to safely store the equipment that the program utilizes and also to be used as a
place to have a definitive information/first -aid station for patrons to go to in case of need.
Secondly, because of daylights savings that is quickly approaching, we need to have temporary
lights to accommodate our travel teams. As has been done in the past with our travel teams for
other sports, these temporary lights would be used only as absolutely needed and only for
practices on weekdays. The light discipline would' be until 8:00pm to respect the residents that
live in the vicinity of the park. With the sun expected to set at 6:00pm, these lights would give
our children an additional two hours of programming that would greatly help with the growth of
our soccer program.
We are now proposing to purchase the office /storage trailer and the temporary lights with funds
made available through the fundraising efforts of the parents and volunteers of the soccer
program. The purchase of both of these items would come directly fundraised funds and not from
general city funds.
END OF MEMORANDUM