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Morningside Pool Engineering Report 17NOV2017.pdf
Chairperson Rosenberg's July 2019 Report Regarding City of Miami Proposed Tennis Contractor for Programming and Operations, Friends of Miami Tennis, Inc.

	City	FOMT
General impression	Status quo	Small group, runs 2 facilities Tamiami and Ehrmann in Pinecrest; does not appear to have big commercial ambitions; knowledgeable and experienced tennis veteran
Facility Culture	Minimally required service, open gates, man cash register, close gates, keep clean	More robust pro shop, vending machines, tables and umbrellas
Youth Programming	Status quo	More robust and professionalized
Adult programming	Status quo	More robust and professionalized
Price (open play)	$2 city resident $3 Non-city resident	Same for year 1, then $3 city resident and $4 non city resident for remainder of 3 - 5 year term
Price (youth programming)	$15 drop in, $90 for month (includes 9 one hour programs)	$13 - $18 per 1 to 1 ½ hour after school activity
Tournaments	None	Desired, but not a must have, parking and infrastructure of facility not necessarily conducive for tournaments
Court open play availability	Status quo	More robust youth programming (assuming demand is there) may reduce court availability from 4 – 6:30 weekday afternoons; if adult leagues are introduced and successful, this may have an impact on availability
Private coaching	Allowed + fee	Only FOMT instructors
Consistency of coaching staff	Rolando, Tim, Lenka	Tim and Lenka would be employed by FOMT and Rolando would not
Impact on neighbors	Status quo	More robust programming creates unknown exposure

Conclusions:

From a narrow Morningside resident perspective, the status quo poses the least risk.
From a Morningside tennis perspective either adult or families with children that play or desire to play, FOMT offers more opportunities, and the risk of courts not being available for open play during desired times appears low.
While the City beyond Morningside is outside the MCA jurisdiction, the City would derive clear benefits from a more professionally run tennis facility, compounded by the cap on price increase.
Biggest and unknown risk: car spillover due to increased programming. If parking were required to remain within the park boundaries and not allowed on swale adjacent to resident homes, risk would be minimal if at all. By way of example, there are family birthday parties and bbqs that attract equal if not more people on a given weekend day as would any of the tennis programming noted above that have no impact on the community, because the activity and the parking are contained within the park. Enforcing interior parking would be a reasonable request of the city and of FOMT to enforce.

Recommendations

Require contractor to either restrict USTA sanctioned tournaments or to limit i.e. no more than 1 per calendar quarter
Require contractor to enforce tennis goers for all tennis scheduled programming to utilize park interior parking; consider requesting the City to do the same for all park activity and eliminate swale parking permanently
Require contractor to elaborate with more clarity court availability, currently contract states “FOMT shall ensure that at least two (2) tennis courts are available for open play at all times.”

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