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April 20, 2005
Ms. Priscilla A. Thompson, City Clerk
City of Miami
3500 Pan American Drive
Miami, FL 33133
Dear Ms. Thompson:
Following up on productive conversations between your staff and my staff Ie date
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writing to formally request that the City of Miami changes, via ordinance,
of its General Municipal Election from November 8, 2005, to a new date of
November 1, 2005.
This change w111 be of mutual benefit to the City s on No Band the i ber 1st (as welll as
Several other municipalities are holding electionsdy
run-off elections on November 15th, when your run-off is
l ea date than o �, and
we can more efficiently run .several municipal electionson
several different dates. in turn, the efficiencies that we can realize can result in
spreading out certain fixed costs among several m icipaliod t Kerresi u ting the lower
costs to each municipality, including your City,
ase
using separate dates. Additionally, fewer differentelection
moredates
apt toinform the
lessvoter confusion and higher turnout, because n
public about an election date in which more voters are eligible to participate.
Thank you for working with us to address this issue. If you have any questions or
require any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Sincerely,
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George M. Burgess, County Manager
Alina Tejeda Hudak, Assistant County Manager