County Budget
These 13 elected officials vote every September to approve or change the county’s annual budget.
Who are the Miami Dade County Commissioners?
This long-time term-limited mayor cannot run in 2025 and must leave the office.
What is Francis Suarez?
Overtown, one of Miami’s oldest historically Black neighborhoods, was originally nicknamed this, reflecting its role as a cultural hub for Black residents
What is Colored Town?
This powerful Florida legislative committee often determines which bills reach the floor for debate
What is the appropriations or rules committee?
This annual Miami festival celebrates Hispanic culture with music, dance, art, and food.
What is the Calle Ocho festival?
The total amount of Miami-Dade County’s annual budget, making it one of the largest local budgets in Florida.
What is $12.9 billion?
These are the two City Commissioner districts up for election in 2025
What are District 3(Little Havana, Allapattah) and 5 (Overtown, Little Haiti)?
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, skilled laborers from this Caribbean country helped construct Miami’s early infrastructure, including streets, railroads, and the iconic Coconut Grove neighborhood
What are Bahamians?
In 1992, Florida voters approved term limits for state legislators, setting limits for both the House and Senate.
What is 8 years?
This institution in Downtown served as an immigration processing center for Cuban immigrants
What is the Freedom tower?
The county department that received the most cuts this budget year, with a reduction in staff and departmental division
What is Dept of Housing & Community Development
In the last city of Miami election, only about 4,124 of this age group voted
What’s the youth voter turnout?
This river served as a key location for indigenous settlements in the Miami area.
What is the Miami River?
This legal principle allows the Florida Legislature to prohibit counties or cities from passing certain local laws, even if local officials want to.
What is state preemption?
In the 1960s and 1970s, many Cuban-Americans moved to this Miami suburb, creating a cultural hub.
What is Hialeah?
In 2024, Miami-Dade allocated $14 million for this international sporting event, while many community services saw cuts
What is the FIFA world cup?
On this year’s ballot, voters will decide on an amendment to move city elections to even years and expand the number of commission districts from 5 to this new number.
What are 9 districts?
The Tequesta are distinct from this later indigenous group that occupied the Miami region by the 18th century.
Who are the Seminoles? / Who are the Miccouskee?
After the Florida legislature passes a bill, the governor has this many days (excluding Sundays) to sign or veto it during a regular session.
What is 7 days?
Florida’s legislature enacted laws recognizing these languages in schools for immigrant populations, especially in Miami-Dade County.
What is Spanish and Haitian Creole?
In 2025, Miami-Dade set aside over $1 billion for this newly elected official’s department.
What is the Miami-Dade Sheriff department?
On the November 4, 2025 ballot, Miami voters will vote on a referendum to establish this citizen-led group that reviews the city’s map after each census
What is a Citizen Redistricting Committee?
In 1896, Miami became an official city when 367 people voted to approve its charter. Without the participation of this particular community, the city would not
What is Black Men?/ Black community?
In Florida, citizens can bypass the legislature to propose new laws or constitutional amendments through this process, requiring a certain number of signatures.
What is the initiative or citizen initiative process?
This CIA-backed group carried out propaganda campaigns and radio programs out of Miami against the Castro Regime during the 1960s.
Frente Revolucionario Democratico or Operation Moongose