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STEPHEN P. CLARK CENTER
March 10, 2003
Mr. Joe Arriola
City Manager
City of Miami
3500 Pan American Drive
Miami, FL 33133
Dear Manager Arriola:
OFFICE OF COUNTY MANAGER
SUITE 2910
111 N.W. 1st STREET
MIAMI, FLORIDA 33128-1994
(305) 375-5311
Miami -Dade County recommends that the Miami City Commission adopt an ordinance changing the date
of your upcoming Regular Election (runoff) from November 11, 2003 to November 18, 2003.
Additionally, it is recommended that all future election dates be amended to provide a minimum of two
weeks between primary and regular elections. Section 100.3605(2), Florida Statutes states:
The governing body of a municipality may, by ordinance, change the dates for qualifying and for
the elections of members of the governing body of the municipality and provide for the orderly
transition of office resulting from such date change.
The additional time between elections is essential to offering voters the opportunity to vote both in -person
on Election Day as well as by absentee ballot. Should a general election be necessary, two weeks between
the primary and regular elections will allow for the accurate programming of the voting machines as well
as the preparation, printing, testing and return of absentee ballots.
Enclosed for your reference is a copy of the ordinance that was adopted in 1997 by the Miami City
Commission changing the date of the regular election. A member of my staff will gladly make a
presentation regarding this matter to your City Commission. Please contact me if you have any questions
or need any additional information.
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Steve Shiver
County Manager
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c: Alicia Cuervo Schreiber, Assistant County Manager
Murray A. Greenberg, First Assistant County Attorney
Susan Torres, Assistant County Attorney
David Leahy, Supervisor of Elections
Lester Sola, Acting Director, Elections Department
i/Priscilla A. Thompson, City Clerk
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AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS;
CfiANGING THE DATE FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI
MUNICIPAL RUN-OFF ELECTION NOW SCHEDULED FOR
VETERANS' DAY, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1997, TO
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1997, BECAUSE OF THE
CONFLICT WITH SAID NATIONAL HOLIDAY;
DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT A
CERTIFIED COPY OF THIS ORDINANCE TO THE DADE
COUNTY ELECTIONS SUPERVISOR; CONTAINING A
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AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the Charter of the City of Miami, Section 7
(hereinafter "Section 7"), provides, inter alia,:
[a] regular [run-off] municipal election for the
election of commissioners shall be held on thesecond
Tuesday after the first Monday in November in odd -
numbered years. A nonpartisan primary election for the
nomination of candidates for the commission shall be
held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in
November in odd -numbered years....;
and
WHEREAS, a Primary (first) Election, pursuant to Section 7,
is scheduled for November 4, 1997; and
WHEREAS, the Run -Off (regular) Election is currently
scheduled, pursuant to Section 'i, for No i er 1.:1,
WHEREAS, November 11, 1997, is Veterans' Day, a National
Holiday; and
WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Dade County Elections Department,
in its efforts to facilitate an orderly, mutually cost-effective
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and coordinated holding of Dade County3 s municipal elections, has
recommended to all similarly situated munj.cipaiit-ies a substitute
date of Tnu.r:day, November 13, 1997, for the holding of November,
1997 Run -Off Elections; and
WHEREAS, Section 100.3605(2), Florida Statutes (1995),
provides:
(2) The governing body of a municipality may, by
ordinance, change the dates for qualifying and for the
election of i�i.iob;:i: of he
municipality and provide for the orderly transition of
office resulting from such date change .;
and
WHEREAS, the City Commission, after careful consideration of
this matter, deems it advisable and in the best interest of the
general welfare .of the City of Miami and its inhabitants to
change the scheduled date for the November, 1997 Municipal Run -
Off Elections as hereinafter set forth;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF MIAMI, FLORIDA:
Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the
Preamble to this Ordinance are hereby adopted by reference
thereto and incorporated herein as if fully bat fcrth in this
Section.
Section 2. The date for the Run -Off (Regular) Municipal
Election, now scheduled for Veterans' Day, Tuesday, November 11,
1997, is hereby changed to Thursday, November 13, 1997, to remove
said conflict.
Section 3. The City Clerk is hereby directed, upon the
adoption of this Ordinance on second and final reading, to notify
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the Metropolitan Dade County FlecLi ons D6pE.rtm .n.t of said change,
and transmit a certified copy of th1s Ordinance to David C.
Leahy, Met-opolitan Dade County Elections Supervisor.
Section 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances insofar
as they are inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of
this Ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section 5. If any section, part of section, paragraph,
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remaining provisions of this Ordinance shall not be affected.
Section 6. This Ordinance shall become effective thirty
(30) days after final reading and adoption thereof.
PASSED ON FIRST READING BY TITLE ONLY this 23rd day of
May
, 1996.
PASSED AND ADOPTED ON SECOND AND FINAL READING BY TITLE ONLY
this 13th day of June , 1996.
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STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF DADE
CITY OF MIAMI
I, WALTER J. FOEMAN, City Clerk of the City of Miami, Florida, and keeper of
the records thereof, do hereby certify that the attached and foregoing pages numbered 1
through 3, inclusive, constitute a true and correct copy of an Ordinance, passed and adopted by
the City Commission at the meeting held on the 13th day of June, 1996.
SAID ORDINANCE WAS DESIGNATED AS ORDINANCE NO. 11371.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and impress the Official Seal
of the City of Miami, Florida this 12th day of August, 1996.
By:
(OFFICIAL SEAL)
WALTER J. FOEMAN
City Clerk
Miami, Florida