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FYI Miami: March 23, 2023

Written by on March 21, 2023
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MORE TRANSIT FARE BREAKS: Miami-Dade’s Transportation, Mobility and Planning Committee is asking the county to develop a plan to expand the Patriot Passport Program, offering free public transit to veterans, to include active military service personnel. The committee also is asking that the age for the county’s senior citizens Golden Passport Program be lowered from 64 to 60. Funding would come from “legally available, non-charter county transit sales surtax funds” for 2022-23, and the mayor is asked to include funding for fiscal 2023-24.

HOBIE BEACH REVAMP: Revamping of the Hobie Beach portion of the Rickenbacker Causeway will proceed under a $12.8 million contract with Magnum Construction Management LLC. County commissioners approved the contract by a 12-0 vote March 7. The work includes stabilizing shoreline, renourishing the beach, adding new seawalls, installing a new stormwater management system, paving parking and parkways, creating new paver walkways, adding guardrails, and doing extensive landascaping, as well as creating new paved bike lanes and trails in an area of frequent bicycle accidents.

OPENING INCENTIVES DOOR: County commissioners are reopening the door for companies to apply for targeted jobs incentives through the Beacon Council, the county’s economic development public-private partnership. A former county ordinance had slammed the door on applications to the funding as of Sept. 30, 2020. But a unanimous commission vote without discussion on March 7 agreed to create an open-door policy for funding applications and sent the issue to the Airports and Economic Development Committee for action. If it clears there, it would come back to the full commission for a final vote. The county created the Targeted Jobs Incentives Fund in 2000 to foster economic growth and development, create above-average paying jobs, alleviate unemployment and enhance the business climate in distressed target areas. But commissioners a decade later voted to halt applications in 2020.

INTERIM AUDIT CHIEF: Duane Mathis, who had been deputy director of the Miami-Dade County Audit and Management Services Department, has been named interim director of the department while the county searches for a permanent department head. Mayor Daniella Levine Cava named Mr. Mathis to the interim post after the Feb. 26 death of director Cathy Jackson. The mayor noted that Mr. Mathis will hold the position for up to six months while a permanent director is sought. He holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Florida State University.

 

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