Community Redevelopment Agency

City of Clearwater City Hall 112 S. Osceola Avenue Clearwater, FL 33756 Meeting Agenda Tuesday, September 5, 2017 9:00 AM City Hall Chambers Community Redevelopment Agency Community Redevelopment Agency Meeting Agenda September 5, 2017 1. Call To Order 2. Approval of Minutes 2.1 ID#17-3709 Approve the minutes of the July 31, 2017 CRA Meeting as submitted in written summation by the City Clerk. 3. Citizens to be Heard Regarding Items Not on the Agenda 4. New Business Items 4.1 ID#17-3774 Approve the Interlocal Agreement with the Downtown Development Board (DDB) to provide personnel, administrative and management services during Fiscal Year 2017-2018 in the amount of $68,624 and refund the CRA tax increment fee of $210,441. 4.2 ID#17-3786 Approve an Interlocal Agreement between the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and the City of Clearwater (City) to provide staffing, Information Technology services and telephone services for the CRA, provide for the reimbursement of certain expenses by the CRA to the City, and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. 4.3 ID#17-3794 Approve an Interlocal Agreement between the Clearwater Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and the City of Clearwater to provide CRA funding in Fiscal Year 2017-2018 in the amount of $174,928.74 to underwrite the cost of additional Community Policing services by the Clearwater Police Department in the East Gateway District, Town Lake District, and Downtown Core District, encompassed by the CRA (Community Redevelopment Area) to address quality of life issues, drug dealing, prostitution, and homelessness, and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. 4.4 ID#17-3789 Approve a Renewal Interlocal Agreement between the Clearwater Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) and the City of Clearwater to provide CRA funding in Fiscal Year 2017-2018 in the amount of $97,890 to underwrite activities in the Clearwater Main Library that support community learning in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, Entrepreneurship and small business growth and development pursuant to the recommendations of the Urban Land Institute report on economic enhancement of the downtown Clearwater area and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. 4.5 ID#17-3787 Approve a conceptual plan, as prepared by consulting group Project for Public Spaces Inc., for a public market/mercado in the Downtown Gateway neighborhood, and authorize city and CRA staff to proceed with project implementation. City of Clearwater Page 2 Printed on 8/21/2017 Community Redevelopment Agency Meeting Agenda September 5, 2017 4.6 ID#17-3788 Approve an Agreement between the Community Redevelopment Agency and Ruth Eckerd Hall, Inc., a Florida non-profit corporation, to produce Downtown Clearwater’s festival series (Blast Fridays, Miracle on Cleveland Street, Cruisin’ at the Capitol) in an amount not to exceed $100,000 for Fiscal Year 2017-2018, and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. 4.7 ID#17-3791 Approve the Amended and Restated Clearwater Business SPARK Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), and delegate to the City Manager or his designee, authority to administer, evaluate, market, seek funding for the program, and adapt objectives, services, partners and facilities by amendment to the MOU, as may be identified for success of the program from time to time, and authorize the appropriate officials to execute same. 4.8 ID#17-3795 Approve the Fiscal Year 2017-18 Community Redevelopment Agency Preliminary Budget and adopt CRA Resolution 17-03. 5. Adjourn City of Clearwater Page 3 Printed on 8/21/2017