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Miami Gardens leaders urge residents to attend Oct. 9 county hearing on North Miami Beach water rates
Summary
Speakers at the Sept. 24 Miami Gardens City Council meeting called on residents to attend an Oct. 9 Miami-Dade County Commission hearing about water billing practices by North Miami Beach, with a county commissioner saying the city’s surcharge violates existing law.
Miami Gardens elected officials and neighboring municipal leaders used the City Council meeting on Sept. 24 to press residents to attend a county hearing on Oct. 9 about water billing practices by the City of North Miami Beach.
County Commissioner Oliver Gilbert (District 1) told the council that North Miami Beach has been charging higher rates to customers outside its city limits and that the practice violates state and county law. “If they’re going to provide water outside of their city limits, they have to have an agreement with the city,” Gilbert said at the meeting. “They couldn’t arbitrarily charge 20% surcharges anytime they wanted to.”
Gilbert said an ordinance before the Miami-Dade County…
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