ITEM H

Board of County Commissioners · 2026-09-03 · ordinance

The document is a legislative item for Miami-Dade County, File Number 261538, an Ordinance titled 'Fiscal Year 2026-27 Miami-Dade County Self-Supporting Budget Ordinance.' It was introduced on 8/28/2026, had a first budget hearing on 9/3/2026, and was amended and passed on first reading by a 9-4 vote on 9/3/2026. The ordinance approves, adopts, and ratifies proprietary budgets, special assessment district budgets, and other budgets for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 2026 and ending September 30, 2027. It appropriates all budgeted revenues and expenditures, authorizes investment of county funds in time warrants, authorizes transfer of funds as cash advances, ratifies and approves implementing orders setting fees, rates, and charges, approves the Fiscal Year 2026-27 Pay Plan, authorizes allocations and reallocations of bond proceeds, authorizes the Mayor to provide bond issue reserves, establishes funds, appropriates grant, donation, and contribution funds, authorizes the Mayor to negotiate and execute certain funding agreements and apply for certain grants, continues the Municipal Services Fund, rescinds Resolution No. R-122A-89 creating a Child Care Center Trust Fund, authorizes a $5,000,000.00 disbursement from the Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) Acquisition Trust Fund to the EEL Land Management Trust Fund, waives various code provisions for FY 2026-27, repeals Sections 2-119 through 2-127 of the Code relating to branch offices of auto tag agencies, and supersedes conflicting provisions. The ordinance includes revised implementing orders for various departments and agencies. It also includes a provision effective January 1, 2027, that no provision of the budget shall authorize funding or promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. The ordinance becomes effective ten days after the date of enactment unless vetoed by the County Mayor.