Florida Senate - 2018 SB 720
By Senator Young
18-00403-18 2018720__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to children’s initiatives; amending s.
3 409.147, F.S.; creating the Tampa Sulphur Springs
4 Neighborhood of Promise Success Zone within the City
5 of Tampa in Hillsborough County and the Overtown
6 Children and Youth Coalition within the City of Miami
7 in Miami-Dade County; providing for the projects to be
8 managed by not-for-profit corporations that are not
9 subject to control, supervision, or direction by any
10 department of the state; providing legislative intent;
11 requiring the corporations to be subject to public
12 records and public meeting requirements and to
13 requirements for the procurement of commodities and
14 contractual services; providing that the success zone
15 and the coalition are designed to encompass areas
16 large enough to include certain components but small
17 enough to allow programs and services to reach
18 participants; providing implementation of the
19 coalition and the success zone; providing an effective
20 date.
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22 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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24 Section 1. Present subsection (11) of section 409.147,
25 Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (13) and
26 amended, and a new subsection (11) and subsection (12) are added
27 to that section, to read:
28 409.147 Children’s initiatives.—
29 (11) CREATION OF THE TAMPA SULPHUR SPRINGS NEIGHBORHOOD OF
30 PROMISE (SSNOP) SUCCESS ZONE.—
31 (a) There is created within the City of Tampa in
32 Hillsborough County a 10-year project that shall be managed by
33 an entity organized as a not-for-profit corporation that is
34 registered, incorporated, organized, and operated in compliance
35 with chapter 617. The Tampa SSNOP Success Zone is not subject to
36 control, supervision, or direction by any department of the
37 state in any manner. The Legislature determines, however, that
38 public policy dictates that the corporation operate in the most
39 open and accessible manner consistent with its public purpose.
40 Therefore, the Legislature declares that the corporation is
41 subject to chapter 119, relating to public records, chapter 286,
42 relating to public meetings and records, and chapter 287,
43 relating to procurement of commodities or contractual services.
44 (b) This initiative is designed to encompass an area that
45 is large enough to include all of the necessary components of
46 community life, including, but not limited to, schools, places
47 of worship, recreational facilities, commercial areas, and
48 common space, yet small enough to allow programs and services to
49 reach every member of the neighborhood who is willing to
50 participate in the project.
51 (12) CREATION OF THE OVERTOWN CHILDREN AND YOUTH
52 COALITION.—
53 (a) There is created within the City of Miami in Miami-Dade
54 County a 10-year project that shall be managed by an entity
55 organized as a not-for-profit corporation that is registered,
56 incorporated, organized, and operated in compliance with chapter
57 617. The Overtown Children and Youth Coalition is not subject to
58 control, supervision, or direction by any department of the
59 state in any manner. The Legislature determines, however, that
60 public policy dictates that the corporation operate in the most
61 open and accessible manner consistent with its public purpose.
62 Therefore, the Legislature declares that the corporation is
63 subject to chapter 119, relating to public records, chapter 286,
64 relating to public meetings and records, and chapter 287,
65 relating to procurement of commodities or contractual services.
66 (b) This initiative is designed to encompass an area that
67 is large enough to include all of the necessary components of
68 community life, including, but not limited to, schools, places
69 of worship, recreational facilities, commercial areas, and
70 common space, yet small enough to allow programs and services to
71 reach every member of the neighborhood who is willing to
72 participate in the project.
73 (13)(11) IMPLEMENTATION.—
74 (a) The Miami Children’s Initiative, Inc., the New Town
75 Success Zone, and the Parramore Kidz Zone, the Tampa SSNOP
76 Success Zone, and the Overtown Children and Youth Coalition have
77 been designated as Florida Children’s Initiatives consistent
78 with the legislative intent and purpose of s. 16, chapter 2009
79 43, Laws of Florida, and as such shall each assist the
80 disadvantaged areas of the state in creating a community-based
81 service network and programming that develops, coordinates, and
82 provides quality education, accessible health care, youth
83 development programs, opportunities for employment, and safe and
84 affordable housing for children and families living within their
85 boundaries.
86 (b) In order to implement this section for the Miami
87 Children’s Initiative, Inc., the Department of Children and
88 Families shall contract with a not-for-profit corporation, to
89 work in collaboration with the governing body to adopt the
90 resolution described in subsection (4), to establish the
91 planning team as provided in subsection (5), and to develop and
92 adopt the strategic community plan as provided in subsection
93 (6). The not-for-profit corporation is also responsible for the
94 development of a business plan and for the evaluation, fiscal
95 management, and oversight of the Miami Children’s Initiative,
96 Inc.
97 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.