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COMMISSION MEMORANDUM |
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| | | | | | | | | TO: | Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Commission | | | FROM: | Rafael E. Granado, City Clerk | | | DATE: | July 20, 2016 | | | |
| | SUBJECT: | UPDATE REGARDING THE CERTIFICATION OF SIGNED PETITIONS SUBMITTED BY “SAVE MIAMI BEACH 2016,” A POLITICAL COMMITTEE, PETITIONING THE CITY COMMISSION TO SUBMIT TO THE ELECTORS OF MIAMI BEACH AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1.03 OF THE MIAMI BEACH CITY CHARTER. |
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| | | | | | | | ANALYSIS
| Pursuant to Section 7.04 of the Miami Beach City Charter and Section 6.03(A) of the Code of Miami-Dade County, on July 5, 2016, the City Clerk transmitted the original signed petitions submitted by “Save Miami Beach 2016,” a Political Committee, to the Miami-Dade County Elections Department to determine if the petitions had been signed by ten percent (10%) of the qualified electors of the City of Miami Beach. According to the Miami-Dade County Elections Department, as of November 3, 2015, the City of Miami Beach had 44,576 registered voters, thus requiring the signatures of 4,458 qualified electors to call for an election to amend the City Charter.[1]
The Miami-Dade County Elections Department has completed the comparison of signatures on the submitted petitions against signatures on the voter rolls for the City of Miami Beach, and has determined that out of the total 4,812 signatures submitted, 2,300 are certified as matching the signatures on the voter rolls of the City of Miami Beach. A copy of the Certification is attached hereto.
Accordingly, I hereby present the attached Elections Department Certificate evidencing that the subject initiative petition does not contain the requisite amount of signatures.
[1] The benchmark date for the Supervisor to make the calculation regarding signature sufficiency is November 3, 2015, which is the date of the City’s last General Election - this date conforms to Florida Statute Section 166.031, which reads “...The governing body of a municipality may ... by petition signed by 10 percent of the registered electors as of the last preceding municipal general election, submit to the electors of said municipality a proposed amendment to its charter…”. As indicated by the Official Results of the November 3, 2015 General Election, the number of Registered Voters on that day was 44,576. Thus, 4,458 valid signatures are necessary.
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