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By 1992, it was the nation's third-largest such state agency, with 1,500 employees and a budget of some $650 million. [2] In 1993, the state merged the DER with the substantially larger Department of Natural Resources, creating the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. [3] Virginia Bass Wetherell was named Secretary of the new agency.
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 (/ m aɪ ˈ æ m i ˈ d eɪ d /) is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida. The county had a population of 2,701,767 as of the 2020 census, [4] making it the most populous county in Florida and the seventh-most-populous county in the United States. [8]
A lawsuit is demanding that the city of Miami refund more than $76 million in “excessive” building permit fees collected over more than a decade.
Miami-Dade would lease the campuses to developers for the creation of housing, entertainment and commercial centers paying rent to the county, with some government agencies renting space there, too.
The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is a decentralized agency charged with the establishment, maintenance, and regulation of public transportation in the state of Florida. [1] The department was formed in 1969. It absorbed the powers of the State Road Department (SRD). The current Secretary of Transportation is Jared W. Perdue.
The owner of the house in Kendale Lakes was 86 and living in a Miami Beach nursing home. Her legal caretaker, a lawyer working for the Guardianship Program of Dade County, decided it was time to ...
There is a strong divide between the northern and southern parts of the region in terms of dominant language. In 2010, English was the household language of 73.1% of Palm Beach County residents and 63.4% of Broward County residents but only 28.1% of Miami-Dade County residents. In contrast, 63.8% of Miami-Dade County residents spoke Spanish at ...