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RESOLUTION NO. 2007- log 3 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FLORIDA, APPROVING AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH MIAMI-DADE COUNTY FOR DISTRIBUTION OF CHARTER COUNTY TRANSIT SYSTEM SURTAX PROCEEDS LEVIED BY MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, ATTACHED HERETO AS EXHIBIT "A"; AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO DO ALL THINGS NECESSARY TO EFFECTUATE THIS RESOLUTION; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, Miami-Dade County adopted Ordinance No. 02-1 16 levying and imposing a one half of one percent Charter County Transit System Surtax pursuant to Florida Statutes; and WHEREAS, Miami-Dade County and the City, via Resolution No. 2003-559, entered into an 1nterlocal Agreement delineating each party's obligations; and WHEREAS, Miami-Dade County and the City wishes to modify that agreement, and this Agreement supersedes all previous agreements; and WHEREAS, twenty (20%) percent of surtax proceeds shall be distributed annually to thosc cities existing as ofNovcmber 5, 2002, ("eligible cities") that mcet certain conditions including: the City continues to provide the same level of general fund support for transportation that was in its Fiscal Year 2001-2002 budget in subsequent fiscal years, and any surtax proceeds received shall be applied to supplement, not rcplace a City's general fund support for transportation; and WHEREAS, Miami-Dade County Ordinance 02-116 requires that the City, on an annual basis, apply at lcasttwenty (20%) percent of any surtax proceeds received to transit uses in the nature of circulator buses, bus shelters, bus pullout bays or other transit-related infrastructure. Any City that cannot apply the twenty (20%) percent portion of surtax proceeds it receives as provided in the preceding sentence, may contract with the County for the County to apply such proceeds on a County project that enhances traffic mobility within that City and immediately adjacent arcas; and WHEREAS, if the City cannot expend such proceeds in accordance with either of the preceding sentences, then such proceeds shall either carryover and be added to the overall portion of surtax proceeds to be distributcd to thc Cities in the ensuing year and shall be utilized solely for the transit uses; WHEREAS, surtax proceeds distributed on a pro rata basis amongst eligible cities based on the ratio such City's population bears to the total population in all such Cities (as adjusted annually in accordance with the Estimates of Population prepared by the Bureau of Economic and Business Research of the Univcrsity of Florida) that continue to meet the foregoing conditions; and WHEREAS, the City Commission has reviewed the proposed Interlocal Agreement with Miami-Dade County, attached as Exhibit "A", for the Surtax proceeds embodying thc terms set forth herein. Page 1 of2 R2007- Inter/ocal Agmt ll'/COlllll)' re: Disfributioll of Swlax Proceeds