South Miami City Manager Shari Kamali ditches gov job for granny duty

South Miami City Manager Shari Kamali ditches gov job for granny duty

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, […]

At new South Miami mayor’s first meeting, CRA and county money ends

At new South Miami mayor’s first meeting, CRA and county money ends

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 […]