Hyperlocal news for Miami Beach and the barrier islands
A committee takes up Mayor Meiner's mounted patrol idea today. Administrators say any money should wait for the 2028 budget, and the same agenda has a $30,000 Swim Week refund.
A committee takes up the next slice of the 2019 G.O. bond today, led by $43 million for the 72nd Street park, library and pool and $10 million for a new Fire Station 3.
The town's November Gazette also lists a first step to restore Surfside's older zoning rules and a dune payment from the Ocean House project.
The two candidates for the newly redrawn 25th Congressional District, which reaches Miami Beach, take questions at a free forum on Pine Tree Drive at 7 p.m.
The only question on the city's special election ballot would extend a city ground lease twice and allow 47,000 square feet of new building above a garage. Early voting ends Sunday.
A second special commission meeting on Nov. 16 will accept the results of the Nov. 3 special election.
Residents can tour the Lincoln Road construction site on Oct. 29 and hear the latest on the flood-protection project.
The World Cup legacy gift will pay for a new artificial field at the North Beach park. A public celebration is set for Thursday morning.
Commissioners cut the fair's license fee nearly in half while adding a bigger half-price ticket presale for Miami Beach residents.
