COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD
Regular MeetingFort Lauderdale, FL · June 7, 2022
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Action Summary
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
2:30 PM
City Hall - City Commission Chambers
OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE
100 North Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD
FORT LAUDERDALE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS
DEAN J. TRANTALIS - Chair
BEN SORENSEN - Vice Chair
HEATHER MORAITIS - Commissioner - District I
STEVEN GLASSMAN - Commissioner - District II
ROBERT L. McKINZIE -Commissioner - District III
CHRIS LAGERBLOOM, Executive Director
DAVID R. SOLOMAN, Secretary
ALAIN E. BOILEAU, General Counsel
PATRICK REILLY, Interim City Auditor
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT Action Summary June 7, 2022
AGENCY BOARD
PUBLIC APPEARANCES BEFORE THE CRA BOARD:
If any person wishes to address the Board, the person shall sign up in the City Hall lobby. A
member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. Speaker Cards are given to
the Chair. After being recognized by the Chair, the speaker should identify the agenda item
in question, indicate support, opposition, or neutrality on the agenda item, and then proceed
to succinctly state the speaker’s position or present information.
If an attorney, or any other person appears before the Board in a representative capacity,
the attorney, or other representative the person shall sign up in the City Hall lobby. A
member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. After being recognized by the
Chair, the speaker should identify the client(s) being represented, and identify the agenda
item in question. The speaker shall then indicate the client’s support, opposition, or
neutrality on the agenda item and then proceed to succinctly state the client’s position or
present information on behalf of the client(s).
Pursuant to Section 3.13 of the Charter of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Chair
shall maintain order at all meetings, and the Police Department, upon instructions of the
Chair, shall expel any person from the meeting who refuses to obey the order of the Chair
in relation to preserving order at the meetings. Any person who interrupts or disturbs a City
Board meeting, or who willfully enters or remains in a City Board meeting having been
warned by the Chair to depart and who refuses to do so, may be subject to arrest.
AUXILIARY AIDS AND SERVICES: If you desire auxiliary aids or services or both to assist
in viewing or hearing the City Board meetings or reading the agenda and minutes for the
meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 954-828-5002 at a minimum of two days
prior to the meeting and arrangements will be made to provide these services to you.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC: If a person decides to appeal any decision made
by the board, agency, or commission with respect to any matter considered at such
meeting or hearing, the person will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for such
purpose, the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made,
which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
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COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT Action Summary June 7, 2022
AGENCY BOARD
ROLL CALL
Present 5 - Commissioner Robert L. McKinzie, Vice Chair Ben Sorensen,
Commissioner Heather Moraitis, Commissioner Steven Glassman,
and Chair Dean J. Trantalis
MOTIONS
M-1 22-0572 Motion Approving Minutes for May 17, 2022 Community
Redevelopment Agency Board Meeting - (Commission Districts 2 and
3)
APPROVED
Yea: 5 - Commissioner McKinzie, Vice Chair Sorensen, Commissioner
Moraitis, Commissioner Glassman and Chair Trantalis
RESOLUTIONS
R-1 22-0342 Resolution Approving the Development Agreement for the
Development Incentive Program and Approval of a Second
Amendment to the Commercial Contract for the Comfort Suites Hotel
D’Arts Project, Authorizing the Executive Director to Execute Any
and All Related Instruments, and Delegating Authority to the
Executive Director to Take Certain Actions - (Commission District 3)
ADOPTED
Yea: 5 - Commissioner McKinzie, Vice Chair Sorensen, Commissioner
Moraitis, Commissioner Glassman and Chair Trantalis
R-2 22-0358 Resolution of the Fort Lauderdale Community Redevelopment Agency
to Waive the Maximum Award Amount under the Property and
Business Improvement Incentive Program (PBIP); and to Award an
Additional $70,695.00 in Forgivable Loan Funding, for a total of
$295,695.00, to The Blue Tree Café, located at 612 NW 9th Avenue,
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311- (Commission District 2)
ADOPTED
Yea: 5 - Commissioner McKinzie, Vice Chair Sorensen, Commissioner
Moraitis, Commissioner Glassman and Chair Trantalis
ADJOURNMENT
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Agenda
City of Fort Lauderdale
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD
Agenda
City Hall - City Commission Chambers
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 2:30 PM
OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE
100 North Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
https://fortlauderdale.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
www.fortlauderdale.gov/fltv
www.youtube.com/cityoffortlauderdale
Cable Television - Comcast Channel 78 and AT&T U-verse Channel 99
FORT LAUDERDALE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS
DEAN J. TRANTALIS - Chair
BEN SORENSEN - Vice Chair
HEATHER MORAITIS - Commissioner - District I
STEVEN GLASSMAN - Commissioner - District II
ROBERT L. McKINZIE -Commissioner - District III
CHRIS LAGERBLOOM, Executive Director
DAVID R. SOLOMAN, Secretary
ALAIN E. BOILEAU, General Counsel
PATRICK REILLY, Interim City Auditor
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT Agenda June 7, 2022
AGENCY BOARD
PUBLIC APPEARANCES BEFORE THE CRA BOARD:
If any person wishes to address the Board, the person shall sign up in the City Hall lobby. A
member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. Speaker Cards are given to
the Chair. After being recognized by the Chair, the speaker should identify the agenda item
in question, indicate support, opposition, or neutrality on the agenda item, and then
proceed to succinctly state the speaker’s position or present information.
If an attorney, or any other person appears before the Board in a representative capacity,
the attorney, or other representative the person shall sign up in the City Hall lobby. A
member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. After being recognized by the
Chair, the speaker should identify the client(s) being represented, and identify the agenda
item in question. The speaker shall then indicate the client’s support, opposition, or
neutrality on the agenda item and then proceed to succinctly state the client’s position or
present information on behalf of the client(s).
Pursuant to Section 3.13 of the Charter of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Chair
shall maintain order at all meetings, and the Police Department, upon instructions of the
Chair, shall expel any person from the meeting who refuses to obey the order of the Chair
in relation to preserving order at the meetings. Any person who interrupts or disturbs a City
Board meeting, or who willfully enters or remains in a City Board meeting having been
warned by the Chair to depart and who refuses to do so, may be subject to arrest.
AUXILIARY AIDS AND SERVICES: If you desire auxiliary aids or services or both to assist
in viewing or hearing the City Board meetings or reading the agenda and minutes for the
meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 954-828-5002 at a minimum of two days
prior to the meeting and arrangements will be made to provide these services to you.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC: If a person decides to appeal any decision made
by the board, agency, or commission with respect to any matter considered at such
meeting or hearing, the person will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for such
purpose, the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is
made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be
based.
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COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT Agenda June 7, 2022
AGENCY BOARD
ROLL CALL
MOTIONS
M-1 22-0572 Motion Approving Minutes for May 17, 2022 Community Redevelopment
Agency Board Meeting - (Commission Districts 2 and 3)
Attachments: May 17, 2022 Community Redevelopment Agency Board Meeting
RESOLUTIONS
R-1 22-0342 Resolution Approving the Development Agreement for the Development
Incentive Program and Approval of a Second Amendment to the
Commercial Contract for the Comfort Suites Hotel D’Arts Project,
Authorizing the Executive Director to Execute Any and All Related
Instruments, and Delegating Authority to the Executive Director to Take
Certain Actions - (Commission District 3)
Attachments: CRA Board Memo 22-0342
Exhibit 1 - Location Map and Project Illustrations
Exhibit 2 - Developer Comments Regarding Project Delays, Developer Expenditures to Date, DR
Exhibit 3 - Development Incentive Program Development Agreement
Exhibit 4 - Second Amendment to Commercial Contract
Exhibit 5 - Resolution
R-2 22-0358 Resolution of the Fort Lauderdale Community Redevelopment Agency to
Waive the Maximum Award Amount under the Property and Business
Improvement Incentive Program (PBIP); and to Award an Additional
$70,695.00 in Forgivable Loan Funding, for a total of $295,695.00, to The
Blue Tree Café, located at 612 NW 9th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL
33311- (Commission District 2)
Attachments: CRA Board Memo 22-0358
Exhibit 1 – Location Map
Exhibit 2 – Broward County Property Appraiser Information
Exhibit 3 – Revised Construction Plans
Exhibit 4 – Revised Cost and Funding Breakdown
Exhibit 5 – Construction Draws Paid by the CRA to Date
Exhibit 6 - Amended Property and Business Investment Program Agreement-
Exhibit 7 – NPF CRA Advisory Board Approved Minutes of 7/14/2020
Exhibit 8 - Resolution
ADJOURNMENT
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