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, to submit to voters the question of whether to amend the Home Rule Charter to create an independent, five-member Salary Commission to determine compensation for the Board of County Commissioners. The resolution was introduced on 6/26/2026, had a final action of Adopted on 7/21/2026, and was sponsored by Commissioner Danielle Cohen Higgins. The Charter Review Task Force recommended the amendment 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 Salary Commission appointed by the Chief Judge of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, State Attorney, Public Defender, Executive Director of the Commission on Ethics, and Inspector General, with decisions final without modification by the 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 it to the Board with a favorable recommendation on 7/13/2026 and 7/14/2026. The resolution was adopted on 7/21/2026. No specific project site, address, parcel, acreage, or construction scope is stated.