RESOLUTION CALLING OUT SPECIAL ELECTION

Board of County Commissioners · 2026-07-21 · resolution

Resolution calling a countywide special election in Miami-Dade County, Florida, to be held in conjunction with the General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, to submit to electors the question of whether to amend the Home Rule Charter to create an independent salary commission to determine compensation for the Board of County Commissioners. Adopted by the Board of County Commissioners on 7/21/2026. Prime sponsor: Danielle Cohen Higgins. File number: 261181. Reference: R-680-26. A scrivener's error was corrected on 7/9/2026 and 7/13/2026, changing a reference from Resolution No. R-255-24 to Resolution No. R-225-24. The Charter Review Task Force recommended the referendum by a vote of nine in favor and one against. The ballot question asks whether to replace the fixed annual salary for County Commissioners with an independent, five-member Salary Commission appointed by the Chief Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, State Attorney, Public Defender, Executive Director of the Commission on Ethics, and Inspector General, with decisions final without modification by the Board. No specific project site, address, parcel, acreage, or construction scope is stated.