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City of Miami Beach

Meeting

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

What happened

Statura summary

The only thing with real policy weight on this agenda was budget housekeeping, led by the citywide amendments to the FY 2023 and FY 2024 budgets. The Commission teed up an eighth amendment to the FY 2023 General Fund, Enterprise Funds, Internal Service Funds, and Special Revenue Funds budgets, plus the first amendment to those same FY 2024 budgets. That is where actual operating priorities move, because these amendments reallocate money across the city’s main spending buckets rather than creating new policy on paper. For anyone who does business with the city, this is the mechanism that tells you where dollars are being shifted now, not what was promised at budget adoption. The other substantive lane was North Beach CRA budgeting. The Commission and NBCRA also had first amendments for the FY 2023 and FY 2024 North Beach Community Redevelopment Area operating budgets. The second order read is simple: if your interests are in North Beach, the CRA budget amendments matter more than the ceremonial election items because they control how that district’s money is allocated inside the redevelopment area, separate from the citywide funds. Everything else was mostly formalities: certifying the runoff election, swearing in the Mayor and Commissioners in Groups IV, V, and VI, and electing Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez as Vice Mayor for a term ending March 31, 2024.

Statura-generated summary of the official agenda and minutes. Verbatim per-item votes and dollar figures are in the Agenda & votes tab.

Key decisions

  1. Eighth amendment to the FY 2023 General Fund, Enterprise Funds, Internal Service Funds, and Special Revenue Funds budgets
    Pending

    Would formally revise the city’s FY 2023 operating budgets across its main funds, which is the core mechanism for shifting spending priorities before the fiscal year books are closed.

  2. First amendment to the FY 2024 General Fund, Enterprise Funds, Internal Service Funds, and Special Revenue Funds budgets
    Pending

    Would adjust the current year operating budgets across the city’s major funds, signaling where Miami Beach is changing course after the original FY 2024 budget adoption.

  3. First amendment to the FY 2024 operating budget for the North Beach Community Redevelopment Area
    Pending

    Would amend the North Beach CRA’s current year operating budget, affecting how redevelopment area funds are allocated within that district rather than citywide.

  4. First amendment to the FY 2023 operating budget for the North Beach Community Redevelopment Area
    Pending

    Would update the prior year North Beach CRA operating budget, a procedural but important cleanup for how redevelopment funds were allocated in that area.

  5. Election of Commissioner Kristen Rosen Gonzalez as Vice Mayor for a term commencing November 28, 2023, and terminating March 31, 2024
    Pending

    Would install a new Vice Mayor for a defined term, a leadership change that affects meeting dynamics more than policy substance.

  6. Administer the oath of office to the Mayor and Commissioners in Groups IV, V, and VI
    Pending

    This is ceremonial and simply seats the elected officials who will control the next round of budget and policy decisions.

  7. Adopting the certification of the results of the November 21, 2023, runoff election and declaring candidates elected
    Pending

    This formally certifies the runoff results, making the new governing lineup official before the Commission turns to substantive fiscal decisions.