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On January 1, 1968, the City of Miami Stockade is now leased to the county for a period of 30 years. On January 28, 1970, the Corrections & Rehabilitation Department was established by action of the Dade County Commission Section 8.01(D) and Section 4.02 of the Metropolitan Dade County Charter, and Administrative Order 9–22.
One County Commissioner is elected from each of Miami-Dade County's 13 districts to serve a four-year term. Residents choose only from among candidates running in the district in which they live. Commissioners are chosen in non-partisan, single-district elections and can serve two four-year staggered terms, with elections scheduled every two years.
Miami-Dade County is only about 6 feet (1.8 m) above sea level. It is rather new geologically and is at the eastern edge of the Florida Platform, a carbonate plateau created millions of years ago. Eastern Dade is composed of Oolite limestone while western Dade is composed mostly of Bryozoa. [35]
The three candidates for the District 8 seat on the Miami-Dade County Commission are scheduled to appear Tuesday, Aug. 2, in a Miami Foundation forum moderated by Nancy Ancrum, editor of the Miami ...
If it passes in Miami Beach and Bal Harbour, the tax is expected to generate more than $10 million annually, according to Ron Book, the chair of the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust, the county ...
Among the 19 candidates vying for five Miami-Dade County Commission seats this year, lawyer Danielle Cohen Higgins is the only incumbent on the ballot. Miami-Dade’s District 8 has the only ...
Map of the municipalities (colored) and census-designated places (gray) of Miami-Dade County. Communities in Miami-Dade County, all located in the county's eastern half, include 34 municipalities (19 cities, 6 towns and 9 villages), 37 census-designated places, and several unincorporated communities. The county seat is Miami, which is also the ...
Her family relocated to the Carver Ranches neighborhood in Broward County after being forcibly removed. According to newspaper reports from August 1947, 45 families — 119 people, including 70 ...