Florida Senate - 2017                              CS for SB 924
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; and
       Senator Rouson
       
       
       
       
       586-02680-17                                           2017924c1
    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 corporations not for profit 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 state
   12         public 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.
   21          
   22  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   23  
   24         Section 1. Present subsection (11) of section 409.147,
   25  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (13) and
   26  amended, and new subsections (11) and (12) are added to that
   27  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 corporation not for profit 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 corporation not for profit 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, the Overton Children and Youth Coalition, and the
   76  Parramore Kidz Zone, and the Tampa SSNOP Success Zone have been
   77  designated as Florida Children’s Initiatives consistent with the
   78  legislative intent and purpose of s. 16, chapter 2009-43, Laws
   79  of Florida, and as such shall each assist the disadvantaged
   80  areas of the state in creating a community-based service network
   81  and programming that develops, coordinates, and provides quality
   82  education, accessible health care, youth development programs,
   83  opportunities for employment, and safe and affordable housing
   84  for children and families living within their boundaries.
   85         (b) In order to implement this section for the Miami
   86  Children’s Initiative, Inc., the Department of Children and
   87  Families shall contract with a not-for-profit corporation, to
   88  work in collaboration with the governing body to adopt the
   89  resolution described in subsection (4), to establish the
   90  planning team as provided in subsection (5), and to develop and
   91  adopt the strategic community plan as provided in subsection
   92  (6). The not-for-profit corporation is also responsible for the
   93  development of a business plan and for the evaluation, fiscal
   94  management, and oversight of the Miami Children’s Initiative,
   95  Inc.
   96         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.