This action supports the Commission Goal of "Consistently and effectively market and brand Broward County programs and services, locally and globally, through effective collaboration."
At a joint workshop of the Broward County Board of County Commissioners (Board) and the City Of Fort Lauderdale City Commission (Commission) (jointly the Parties) held on May 9, 2017, the members of the Board and Commission unanimously supported the idea of moving forward with the development of a joint government center campus in downtown Fort Lauderdale (Project) to serve as the new offices for both the City and the County. The respective Mayors of the Board and the Commission appointed both an elected and an appointed official to serve on a Working Group (WG) to help advance the Project. (Since that date, Commissioner Ryan was appointed to replace Commissioner LaMarca on the WG).
Since that time, the WG has met numerous times to discuss a variety of issues related to the Project, most importantly where it would be located. The WG decided to recommend to the Board and the Commission to build the Project on the site of the County's downtown bus terminal, immediately adjacent to Broward Boulevard. The WG also discussed a number of process issues related to how the Parties would work together during the development of the Project and how costs would be shared.
The resulting Interlocal Agreement (ILA) (Exhibit 1) establishes that the Parties are desirous of working together on the joint development of the Project. The ILA establishes a basic framework for the oversight of the procurement and development process of the Project, specifically including a condition that all decisions of the Unified Direct Procurement Authority (UDPA) will require a majority of the respective membership of the Board and Commission. The ILA provides for the procurement of a design consultant to perform a space needs assessment and develop a design criteria package, the cost of which will be shared 50/50 by the Parties. The ILA further provides that future cost sharing will be on a proportional basis.
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