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Brett Bibeau provided the Stormwater subcommittee with a progress report on the approved Miami River Commission’s Stormwater Subcommittee’s “Miami River Water Quality Improvement Plan’s Action Item 1 A, Pinehurst Stormwater system retrofit, $1,450,000.”  On February 14, 2002 the City Commission passed resolution 02-197, “Authorizing the City Manager to accept a grant, in the amount of $450,000 from the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD), and to commit the funds in the amount of $1,050,000 from the Storm Water Bond proceeds…for the retrofitting of a drainage system in the Pinehurst neighborhood.”  Furthermore, the City Commission approved Resolution 02-198, authorizing the City Manager to execute an agreement with the SFWMD for the retrofitting of a drainage system in the Pinehurst Neighborhood.  Jose Lago, the new City of Miami Public Works Department liaison to the Stormwater subcommittee, stated the City Attorney’s Office is currently reviewing the agreement with the SFWWD, prior to the City Manager’s signature.  Lago stated the March 7, 2002 City Commission meeting’s agenda item 9 has several amendments to the City of Miami’s Capital Improvement Project (CIP) budget, including the necessary $1,050,000 City match for the Pinehurst Stormwater project, from project #399001, which is 1976 and 1978 stormwater bond proceeds.  Bibeau noted CIP project number #399001, $4,790,474, 1976 & 1978 Storm Water Bonds, was highlighted in the Water Quality Improvement Report on pg. 16.  The $1,050,000 allocation for the Pinehurst Stormwater System retrofit project, will leave a balance of $3,740,474 in unallocated and available stormwater funding in City CIP #39901.

 A letter from the East Little Havana Neighborhood Enhancement Team (NET) to the MRC, officially reporting a stormwater/sewer system overflow problem beneath the First Street Bridge, on South River Drive, was provided to the subcommittee.  John Chorolog, Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department made arrangements to have a repair crew meet with the East Little Havana NET staff, at their reported site, later the same day.

Bibeau informed the Stormwater subcommittee that on behalf of the MRC and in partnership with the City of Miami, he is preparing a Florida Inland Navigational District grant application, to fund the return of a Miami River “clean-up” vessel, which has water decontamination capabilities.  The FIND grant requires a 50/50 match.  Currently the City is offering a $50,000 match.  Bibeau stated he would provide the FDEP, DERM, EPA and other agencies involved in the Stormwater subcommittee additional information, and asked them to consider allocating additional matching funds, in order to increase the amount of time the needed vessel would have on the Miami River.

The Stormwater subcommittee concluded the meeting with a discussion of the first round of quarterly Water Quality Report Action Item’s progress reports, due at the next regularly scheduled subcommittee meeting, the first Wednesday of the month, April 3, 10 am, SFWMD, 172-A West Flagler, Video Conference room.   

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