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Eye On Miami (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
... be Chair so I do not think they will appreciate the elimination of term limits for the Chair that Bruno, the Chair, is proposing. It would take 7 votes to unseat him under Bruno’s new plan. Right now the Chair serves for 2 years and cannot be reelected. There are other changes in this ordinance, among them: “...waive a measure requiring committee consideration on certain legislative...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
... Beach to save $280,000. The proposal was dropped after local leaders like County Commissioner Bruno Barreiro, whose district includes Miami Beach, objected.This year's proposed budget does not include cuts for cleanup crews, but Miami Beach officials say the county still needs to do more -- and have seized on the YouTube clips as evidence.The Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau,...
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Eye On Miami (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
As reported by me Monday, Bruno Barreiro the County Commission Chair, in a self-serving move, wanted to eliminate term limits and increase power of the County Commission Chair. Most of his buds (the unreformable majority) on the Commission must have had their own illusions of power dancing in their heads: Not one Commissioner would second his ordinance for discussion so it died at yesterdays...
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CBS 4 - South Florida's Source for (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
... raising Miami-Dade's sales tax by half a penny. Commissioners voted 10-2 to reject Chairman Bruno Barreiro's plan, which would have raised the local sales tax for transit to 1 percent. In return, Barreiro wanted to provide free rides to everyone.
