The Virginia Key Beach Park Trust on Oct. 9 authorized its executive director to negotiate and execute a memorandum of agreement with the City of Miami to complete the Virginia Key Beach Museum project and to provide operating support after transfer.

Assistant City Attorney Thomas Foster read the resolution to the trust, saying the agreement would have the City "design and construct the Virginia Key Beach Museum project, and upon transfer of the project to the trust for operations and maintenance, provide additional funding to cover shortfalls in operational costs for a period of 10 fiscal years following said transfer in an amount not to exceed 1,700,000 and no cents." Foster read the text of the resolution into the record during the meeting.

The chair opened the public-comment period before the trust voted. A speaker identified in the transcript only as a commenter expressed support for the museum funding and said they would vote for the measures while urging action on an unrelated Allapattah CRA matter. The commenter also asked the trust to help draft a letter urging county action; the transcript records the request but does not show the trust taking further action on that request during the meeting.

A motion to move items 1, 2 and 3 on the agenda was made and seconded; the trust approved the grouped items by voice vote. The meeting record shows a voice "Aye" when the chair called for the vote. The trust also approved the minutes in a separate procedural motion.

The resolution authorizes the executive director to negotiate and execute the MOA in a form acceptable to the city general counsel and to sign any modifications, amendments and extensions as necessary. The oral reading of the resolution specified the City would both construct the museum project and provide the annual operational shortfall funding, capped at $1,700,000 per fiscal year for 10 fiscal years.

The trust did not record substantive debate on the mechanics of the funding or the museum's operating budget during the vote; the meeting minutes and the executive director's written report (read at the meeting) were accepted as provided.