In South Miami, voters are not only casting ballots for next week’s Republican presidential primary, which is already decided anyway. They will also be voting March 19 on whether or not to amend the city charter so that the city-owned property where City Hall is can be leased for more than 50 years. Today, the […]
Budgets or burpees? Diapers or disciplinary reports? After almost a decade in the city of South Miami administration — the last two and a half as city manager — Shari Kamali will resign from her job. The official announcement will be made at Tuesday’s commission meeting. “I want to be a full-time grandmother,” Kamali, 64, […]
Voters in South Miami elected Brian Corey to serve out former Commissioner Bob Welsh‘s term after Welsh died in January. Corey beat out two other candidates: Mary Ann Ruiz and Zach Mann. Guess those negative mailers worked. Corey got 43% of the vote while Ruiz came in second with 33%. Mann came in third with […]
Newly-elected South Miami Mayor Sally Philips held court in her first meeting Tuesday — albeit with a lot of help from City Manager Stephen Alexander and the city clerk — and proceeded to nail the coffin in the city’s CRA, which gets more than half its $3.5 annual budget from Miami-Dade County to provide programs and […]