Save the Date: County Consultant Holds Public Meetings this month

In 2013 the County formed a Task Force (the "Annexation and Incorporation Task Force" or "AITF").  Don't be ashamed to admit that you don't remember, and to refresh your memory, here is a link with all the details: http://www.miamidade.gov/incorporationandannexation/2013-task-force.asp

They held lots of meetings on the subject of "what to do with the parts of Miami-Dade County that are currently unincorporated" and delivered a well-reasoned and comprehensive final report that you can find at the above link.

What did the County do with the report?  Well, you can read the post on this blog from March 2014 (yes, it's anniversary time) here.  The short answer is that the County did nothing with the AITF recommendations.  It might have had something to do with the fact that the chairperson and one other member of the AITF had been arrested (unrelated to the AITF, but these developments rendered the AITF report "politically toxic"). 

So the County Commission kicked the can down the road by directing the Mayor to hire a university or other consultant to examine the issues, again, and deliver a report.  To me this seems like it would have been an excellent project for a University "Urban Planning" department or program, but I guess there was no interest.  In the end there were only 2 applications for the job, both private consulting companies.  The winner got a $200,000 contract to re-invent the wheel, as described in the last post.

Like the AITF, the consultant will be holding public meetings soliciting input from the community, and the public notice (for those of us that don't read the Miami Herald ... i.e. "all of us") follows.