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Petersburg, Florida Related Articles. Lawmakers drop vaccine mandate from bill providing first responder disability, death payouts. Post Views: 1, In Miami-Dade and Duval, the mayors can veto commission actions subject to override by the commission. And, of course, since the office is elected, the mayor is also expected to politically lead county residents and speak publically and to the press about the direction of local policy and even, on occasion, state and national party politics.
These are activities that are strictly forbidden for county managers and administrators and would almost certainly lead to termination. The mayors in all three of these counties are similar to the administrators and managers in one way, however, since the mayor is also legally responsible for the administration of county government and executing the laws that the commission passes.
In fact, Chapter Of course all three of these county mayors employ a full time administrator to oversee day to day operations because of the size of their counties and the enormous workload they carry. The charters of Miami-Dade and Duval each have an interesting and unique twist on county government structure in Florida. Each was designed to help mitigate the problem of metropolitan fragmentation—the existence of many local governments in one region trying to coordinate and offer citizens services efficiently.
Jacksonville and Duval County residents voted to merge in , following allegations of widespread corruption in the city government, a weakening tax base, and deteriorating public schools. P But consolidation proposals have been repeatedly rejected by voters elsewhere in the state.
P Often incumbent officials and public employees fear loss of their positions; racial minorities fear dilution of their power; and other voters fear larger, more expensive, and less responsive government.
And so the legislative body for the county is called the Jacksonville City Council and the chief executive of the county is called the Mayor of Jacksonville. Another attempt to coordinate service delivery and mitigate the problems of metropolitan fragmentation is the creation of a federated local government. The Florida Constitution established home rule in and a special federated government was created in Dade County in Dade County officially changed its name to Miami-Dade County in Interestingly, before the voters of Dade County were able to hold a referendum, the entire state got to vote on approval for this new form of government in as it was proposed as an amendment to the state constitution subsequently it was carried forward in the new constitution of Unlike consolidation, federated government sets up a two-tier system of governance much like the U.
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