RESOLUTION CALLING OUT SPECIAL ELECTION

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

The document is a resolution adopted by the Miami-Dade County Commission calling a countywide special election to be held in conjunction with the General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, for the purpose of submitting to the electors of Miami-Dade County 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. The resolution was introduced on 6/26/2026, and the final action was adoption on 7/21/2026. The prime sponsor is Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins. The resolution references Resolution No. R-225-24, approved on March 19, 2024, which created a Charter Review Task Force. The Charter Review Task Force recommended the amendment by a vote of nine in favor and one against. The proposed amendment would 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 all decisions being final without modification by the Board of County Commissioners. The ballot question is included. The resolution includes provisions for notice, voting hours (7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.), early voting, vote-by-mail ballots, sample ballots, and canvassing by the County Canvassing Board. A scrivener's error was corrected on 7/9/2026, changing a reference from Resolution No. R-255-24 to Resolution No. R-225-24. The Policy Council forwarded the resolution to the Board of County Commissioners with a favorable recommendation as corrected on 7/13/2026 and 7/14/2026.