Venetian Causeway Neighborhood Alliance

Downtown Miami is at our doorsteps

May 12, 2002

Downtown Miami is at our doorsteps!!!

Hear plans that will affect your quality of life

at the
Town Hall Meeting

7:00 p.m.

Wednesday, May 22, 2002

1000 Venetian Way Community Room

Special Guest: Johnny Winton

Commissioner, City of Miami

-Light rail Link to Miami Beach
-Causeway Streetscape Project
-Parrot Jungle, Performing Arts Center
-Bicentennial Park, Biscayne Blvd.

Come, learn, and speak your mind

Tollbooth Emergency Funding Issue

Read the next page, please

Thanks to Jim Armstrong, John Ballou, Barbara Bisno, Bob Chitty, Karen Chitty, Paula Erlich, Helen Marie Gordich, John Haralambides, Steve Herbits, Jeff Kaye, and Claire Tomlin for working on all of our projects and distributing flyers.


NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS

Emergency Tollbooth Funding Issue

Funding of the rehabilitated Tollbooth will be considered at the County Commission meeting June 4, 2002. The budget for the Tollbooth is for $1,592,000 and the award that is going to be recommended to the Commissioners is for $2,089,106, which is 33% or $497,106 over budget. Commissioner Barbara Carey-Shuler's numbers and email are: (305) 375-5393 (T); (305) 372-6104 (F); District5@miami-dade.gov; Commissioner Bruno Barreiro's numbers are (305) 375-5924 (T); (305) 375-5904 (F); District3@miami-dade.gov. Call, write, email and ask for their assistance in getting this project done. We will try to put the time the item will come up on our website (http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/miami/venetiancauseway).

Parrot Jungle

The developers of Parrot Jungle have met with us and reiterated their desire to be good neighbors. We have spent thousands of dollars paying our sound expert to work with their sound expert on a proposal. However, Parrot Jungle developers will not assure us that we will see their plans for amplified sound systems before they go out to bid nor that their sound consultant will approve them. We have asked the City of Miami to fund a monitoring system at Parrot Jungle (a request in which Parrot Jungle did not join us). No response yet.

Causeway Streetscape Project

Progress has been made. This project executes the plans developed for the Causeway by Urban Resource Group. We have a spreadsheet that shows we are about $1.2 million short on a $7.8 million project for 2006. We are hoping that the City of Miami will contribute from capital improvement bonds.




Undergrounding of Causeway Utility Lines

Old estimates put the cost at over $14 million dollars to underground the utility lines along the Causeway. Neither City nor the County will fund this. It is up to the residents if it is going to be done. We are looking at a Special Taxing District. This would require a massive effort of lots of people. Do you think it is a worthwhile project? Would you help? It would need to be done in concert with Streetscape Project in 2006.

We have a website on the Internet.
We will post neighborhood news the first of each month. You can view at http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/miami/venetiancauseway. Want news to be posted? Send to Barbara K. Bisno at Bbisno@aol.com. Would you be willing to write a neighborhood history for our Website?

JOIN THE VENETIAN CAUSEWAY
NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE

Name__________________________________

Address________________________________________________________

Phone Number________________ Fax Number__________________

Email Address(PLEASE, PLEASE) ____________________________
(please print legibly)

Would you like to help with the Alliance?____ Serve on the Board?_____
Would you help make phone calls?______ Fund Raise? __________
Distribute Flyers?_____ Manage website? _____What?…?_______________

Contribution:

$35 Family membership __________ $100 Causeway Booster __________

$50 Causeway Friend ____________ $200 Causeway BridgeMaster ______

Mail to Venetian Causeway Neighborhood Alliance
1602 Alton Road, P.O. #27, Miami Beach, Florida 33139
NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS

Bob McCabe, former President of the Miami-Dade Community College, has formed a neighborhood network to advise neighborhoods of critical votes in the City of Miami. WE are members. Miami has passed a Neighborhood Conservation District ordinance -- more information will be on our website next month.

Causeway Resident Survey:

Would like us to schedule a yearly social event -- for example, a Labor Day picnic:
Other suggestion? ________
Would you come? _________
How much would you pay?____

Do you support the Undergrounding project? _____

Are there projects we are not doing that YOU want us to do?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Would you help on these projects?_________

Would you be willing to serve on our Board of Directors?_____

Would you be willing to serve on a Project Committee?____

Let us hear from you. VCNA, 1602 Alton Road, #27 , Miami Beach, Fl. 33139





Downtown Miami is at our doorsteps!!!

Hear plans that will affect your quality of life

at the
Town Hall Meeting

7:00 p.m.

Wednesday, May 22, 2002

1000 Venetian Way Community Room

Special Guest: Johnny Winton

Commissioner, City of Miami

-Light rail Link to Miami Beach
-Causeway Streetscape Project
-Parrot Jungle, Performing Arts Center
-Bicentennial Park, Biscayne Blvd.

Come, learn, and speak your mind

Tollbooth Emergency Funding Issue

Read the next page, please

Thanks to Jim Armstrong, John Ballou, Barbara Bisno, Bob Chitty, Karen Chitty, Paula Erlich, Helen Marie Gordich, John Haralambides, Steve Herbits, Jeff Kaye, and Claire Tomlin for working on all of our projects and distributing flyers.


NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS

Emergency Tollbooth Funding Issue

Funding of the rehabilitated Tollbooth will be considered at the County Commission meeting June 4, 2002. The budget for the Tollbooth is for $1,592,000 and the award that is going to be recommended to the Commissioners is for $2,089,106, which is 33% or $497,106 over budget. Commissioner Barbara Carey-Shuler's numbers and email are: (305) 375-5393 (T); (305) 372-6104 (F); District5@miami-dade.gov; Commissioner Bruno Barreiro's numbers are (305) 375-5924 (T); (305) 375-5904 (F); District3@miami-dade.gov. Call, write, email and ask for their assistance in getting this project done. We will try to put the time the item will come up on our website (http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/miami/venetiancauseway).

Parrot Jungle

The developers of Parrot Jungle have met with us and reiterated their desire to be good neighbors. We have spent thousands of dollars paying our sound expert to work with their sound expert on a proposal. However, Parrot Jungle developers will not assure us that we will see their plans for amplified sound systems before they go out to bid nor that their sound consultant will approve them. We have asked the City of Miami to fund a monitoring system at Parrot Jungle (a request in which Parrot Jungle did not join us). No response yet.

Causeway Streetscape Project

Progress has been made. This project executes the plans developed for the Causeway by Urban Resource Group. We have a spreadsheet that shows we are about $1.2 million short on a $7.8 million project for 2006. We are hoping that the City of Miami will contribute from capital improvement bonds.




Undergrounding of Causeway Utility Lines

Old estimates put the cost at over $14 million dollars to underground the utility lines along the Causeway. Neither City nor the County will fund this. It is up to the residents if it is going to be done. We are looking at a Special Taxing District. This would require a massive effort of lots of people. Do you think it is a worthwhile project? Would you help? It would need to be done in concert with Streetscape Project in 2006.

We have a website on the Internet.
We will post neighborhood news the first of each month. You can view at http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/miami/venetiancauseway. Want news to be posted? Send to Barbara K. Bisno at Bbisno@aol.com. Would you be willing to write a neighborhood history for our Website?

JOIN THE VENETIAN CAUSEWAY
NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIANCE

Name__________________________________

Address________________________________________________________

Phone Number________________ Fax Number__________________

Email Address(PLEASE, PLEASE) ____________________________
(please print legibly)

Would you like to help with the Alliance?____ Serve on the Board?_____
Would you help make phone calls?______ Fund Raise? __________
Distribute Flyers?_____ Manage website? _____What?…?_______________

Contribution:

$35 Family membership __________ $100 Causeway Booster __________

$50 Causeway Friend ____________ $200 Causeway BridgeMaster ______

Mail to Venetian Causeway Neighborhood Alliance
1602 Alton Road, P.O. #27, Miami Beach, Florida 33139
NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS

Bob McCabe, former President of the Miami-Dade Community College, has formed a neighborhood network to advise neighborhoods of critical votes in the City of Miami. WE are members. Miami has passed a Neighborhood Conservation District ordinance -- more information will be on our website next month.

Causeway Resident Survey:

Would like us to schedule a yearly social event -- for example, a Labor Day picnic:
Other suggestion? ________
Would you come? _________
How much would you pay?____

Do you support the Undergrounding project? _____

Are there projects we are not doing that YOU want us to do?
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Would you help on these projects?_________

Would you be willing to serve on our Board of Directors?_____

Would you be willing to serve on a Project Committee?____

Let us hear from you. VCNA, 1602 Alton Road, #27 , Miami Beach, Fl. 33139