On February 21, 2024, at the request of Commissioner Laura Dominguez, a discussion item (C4 N) was referred by the Mayor and City Commission to the Public Safety and Neighborhood Quality of Life Committee (PSNQLC) to discuss expanding the MB Resident Connect portal to allow neighborhood associations to receive targeted notice of certain Special Magistrate hearings relating to individual properties in a neighborhood.

MB Resident Connect, a tool developed by the Information Technology Department, was implemented as a result of the Residents Right to Know Ordinance on July 26, 2017. The ordinance, in part, required targeted electronic notices for matters that impact resident’s quality of life. MB Resident Connect allows users to sign up to receive electronic alerts based on keywords of their choosing. When City meeting agendas are published, the user receives an e-mail if one of the keywords they set up is part of the agenda. These keywords may be found within documents from the City Commission meetings, or other committee meetings. The system checks for keywords daily and notifies the user via e-mail when a new document containing the keyword is found.

The City of Miami Beach is actively engaged in the implementation of a new agenda system, OneMeeting, which is replacing the City’s existing Novus agenda platform. As part of this upgrade, the City will be consolidating the functionality of MB Resident Connect into the new OneMeeting application. The OneMeeting system is expected to be in production in the summer of 2024.