{"id":6274,"date":"2023-01-23T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/?p=6274"},"modified":"2024-09-11T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T07:00:55","slug":"uncategorized-new-faces-on-virginia-key-beach-park-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/hat\/uncategorized-new-faces-on-virginia-key-beach-park-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"New faces of Virginia Key Beach Park Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-28-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-28-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-28-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-28-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-28-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-28-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-28.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-29-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-29-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-29-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-29-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-29-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-29-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-29-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-29.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vincent Brown and Bonita Jones-Peabody congratulate each other on their appointments to the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust as the board\u2019s chair, Christine King, looks on.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(Johania Charles for The Miami Times)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After voting Oct.13, 2022<\/strong>, to remove all members of the majority-Black Virginia Key Beach Park Trust and serve on the board themselves, Miami commissioners will now be joined by three community members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>District 5 Commissioner and trust Chair Christine King appointed attorneys Vincent Brown and Bonita Jones-Peabody to the board during last Thursday\u2019s commission meeting with unanimous approval from her colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown, managing attorney of Brown Law Group, <strong>is Opa-locka\u2019s former city attorney and a former assistant <\/strong>county attorney who also served as a judicial law clerk for the late Judge Wilkie Ferguson Jr. Jones-Peabody is an assistant public defender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cI believe they will serve with distinction, integrity and they will be ethical,\u201d <\/strong>said King, noting how the pair were well acquainted with Miami\u2019s Black beach. \u201cI look forward to serving with them and moving the agenda of the Virginia Key Beach Trust forward with forward progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioners also appointed Neil Hall, a longtime architect and founder of The Urban Collective, as interim director to replace the former executive director, Guy Forchion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One seat on the city commission, just previously occupied by former District 2 Commissioner Ken Russell, remains vacant for now. <strong>A special election Feb. 27 will decide who will serve District 2 and \u2013 by default \u2013 the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russell was the only commissioner to vote against overtaking the voluntary beach board, stating that commissioners should appoint members to the trust instead of sitting on the board themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioners will revisit the <strong>October 2022<\/strong> resolution sometime this year to determine whether their term as board members should be extended or if each commissioner will appoint members to the trust in lieu of holding a seat. The trust now consists of four Black and three Hispanic members, pending the outcome of next month\u2019s election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-30-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-30-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-30-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-30-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-30-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-30-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-30-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-30.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Division persists<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly before last week\u2019s decision, some Black advocates pleaded with commissioners to reinstate the previous board and to withdraw item BC 27, a resolution on the commission agenda to appoint trust members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former board chair Patrick Range II, various Circle of Brotherhood members and OneUnited Bank president Teri Williams were among those who hoped commissioners would do what they call <strong>\u201cthe right thing.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cShame on you city commission,\u201d<\/strong> said Range, grandson of the trust\u2019s founding chair, M. Athalie Range. \u201cYou dropped the ball, you missed the mark. You\u2019ve insulted and disrespected this community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Expressing a desire to finally see Miami\u2019s Civil Rights Museum built at the park after a delayed construction, King said it was time for former board members to pass the mantle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThis narrative of \u2018restore the trust,\u2019 the trust didn\u2019t go anywhere,\u201d<\/strong> she said, responding to the pleas. \u201cWhat you\u2019re asking is to reappoint the members that were on the trust \u2026 all but one member\u2019s term had expired. Other people want to serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd the reason why my colleagues took this position was because they would like to move forward, as do I, with progress to see the museum built. We will not be withdrawing BC 27.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>At least three Miami residents praised King for her decision last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re doing the right thing,\u201d Lola Capers told the chairwoman. \u201cI don\u2019t care who gets mad with me. No, you don\u2019t need to reinstate no one from the previous foundation. Let\u2019s move on. Let\u2019s make a change and let\u2019s have progress.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cKeep your head up, keep fighting,\u201d said former District 108 Rep. Roy Hardemon. \u201cI\u2019m with the fight to keep the board but I\u2019m also in the fight to make sure that we keep our community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision to remove the former board members came after the trust was accused of malfeasance and mismanaging funds. <strong>Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla said last year that the former board members were caught \u201cwith their hands in the cookie jar,\u201d<\/strong> but an audit released to the public in mid-October showed no evidence of such actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe original members of the trust were removed because this commission led the public to believe that they were unethical,\u201d said Lyle Muhammad, executive director of Circle of Brotherhood. \u201cAnd that was a lie. So, if they were removed based on a lie they should be restored based on the truth. Obviously, this commission has ulterior motives for Virginia Key Beach Park.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI do not believe that it is about me or this body,\u201d said King, defending her position. \u201cIt is about the community and it\u2019s about revitalizing that space. Period.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When asked by a resident whether she solely had the power to restore the board as chair, King answered no.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tensions remain high as those who oppose the board\u2019s takeover by commissioners calculate next steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will meet as a leadership team and decide where to go from here,\u201d said Muhammad. \u201cBut I can guarantee you one thing, it is not backwards. This is not an issue of compromise for us, and it may cost someone their term in office.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ario Lundy, owner of the Palmetto Brownsville Community Land Trust LLC., called for unity within the Black community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur best bet is to stick together,\u201d he said. \u201cWe need to get with our commissioner and hold her accountable for our Black beach \u2026 when we\u2019re fighting against here we\u2019re sitting here as Black folks fighting amongst each other and not accomplishing our goals. [The commissioners are] sitting there looking at us like fools.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-31-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-31-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-31-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-31-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-31-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-31-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/virginiakeybeachpark.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Diseno-sin-titulo-31.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Miami\u2019s civil rights museum<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nearly 20 years ago<\/strong>, Miami\u2019s Black community was promised a civil rights museum at a historic site: Virginia Key Beach Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Community members have questioned \u2013 and question still \u2013 why the former trust could not deliver on that promise after county voters in 2004 approved a $2.9 billion bond program that designated $15.5 million to the beach\u2019s restoration efforts, and for the museum\u2019s construction. An additional $5 million in convention development taxes was also reserved for the museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI haven\u2019t gotten a real good answer yet on why there\u2019s no progress going forward on building that museum there,\u201d said Kerry Johnson, who shared concerns about the museum\u2019s progress with King and her predecessor, Keon Hardemon, now a county commissioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen other people come over here from other countries and everywhere else, they get all kinds of museums and soccer fields and everything else that they want,\u201d continued Johnson. <strong>\u201cBut when it comes to the Black people, you gotta fight for something. I just don\u2019t understand. Why not just be fair to everybody?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you know anything about building a museum, it takes a long time,\u201d said Leroy Jones, lead organizer for Circle of Brotherhood. \u201cThe Adrienne Arsht Center and P\u00e9rez Art Museum took a long time to build, and they raised support. Those museums are named after people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t sacrifice the name of Virginia Key Beach for somebody who might want to donate just to have their name on the museum.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Former trustees say the delay is due in part by disagreements between city and county halls.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county will not release the $20 million in construction costs until Miami can produce operating cost projections, a budget and business plan for the museum. Four years ago, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez said the city would commit to cover the museum\u2019s operational costs for a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are going to move forward with getting that money and building that museum,\u201d King assured residents last week. \u201cThat is our charge. These two (appointed) individuals are going to stand with me to ensure that that is done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One Black resident, who spoke during public comment, asked commissioners to seek federal investigation into the stalled museum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe game now is for the community to think the cavalry has arrived to develop this museum when the former trust board did all the work,\u201d said Jones. <strong>\u201cThey laid all the groundwork.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Putting differences aside, Range vowed to help commissioners get the museum built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll continue to see my face,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to do what we have to do to get this museum built. I\u2019m here to help. If you don\u2019t want my help, you\u2019re going to have it anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami commissioners replaced the board of the Virginia Key Beach Park Trust with themselves. 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