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A reference of the week's public city meetings
Miami Beach commissioners unanimously directed city staff to independently evaluate engineering claims that the long-promised 5th Street pedestrian bridge cannot be built, and to begin negotiating an over-water baywalk alternative if the finding holds.
The Miami Beach City Commission voted 4-3 to let the City Manager negotiate a beachfront advertising agreement with Amplify Marketing Inc. tied to Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto VI launch, overriding objections about brand image, procedural gaps, and a missing lobbyist disclosure.
Miami Beach commissioners unanimously approved a tentative FY2027 millage rate of 6.0753 mills — down from last year — but a pointed exchange over tax-cut math complicated a smooth path to September 23's final vote.
Eleven items are on the table when the Miami Beach Commission convenes Thursday for its first meeting since the July recess: a 4.1% tax rate increase, police accountability measures, competing license-plate-reader proposals, a verdict on the stalled 5th Street Pedestrian Bridge, rising utility rates, a Live Local Act challenge, and second-reading votes on two major upzonings — Alton City Center and Urban Core.
A reference of the week's public city meetings
A reference of the week's public city meetings
A Massachusetts energy firm says it managed and verified savings on Miami-Dade County's countywide smart LED streetlight project for nearly two years — and was never paid a dime.
A reference of the week's public city meetings
Water service to select Rivo Alto Island properties will be cut from 9 p.m. Aug. 25 to 6 a.m. Aug. 26 as crews make final pipe connections on the Venetian Causeway infrastructure upgrade.
Miami Beach voters helped nominate a Democrat to challenge Rep. Fabián Basabe in HD 106, while the county commission seat spanning most of the city heads to a runoff between a heavily funded incumbent and a Marine veteran who raised under $3,000. No Miami Beach-specific questions were on Tuesday's ballot — the city's own votes come in November.
Daniel Liburdi spent $39 million on a record-setting Hibiscus Island mansion — then federal prosecutors indicted him over an alleged bank fraud and money laundering scheme worth $128 million, with decades in prison on the line. What actually happened in court looked nothing like that.