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Committee expands mayoral authority to accelerate rail safety projects, members seek project list before budget vote
Summary
The Miami-Dade Appropriations Committee approved an item to raise the county's expenditure authority for certain rail safety projects and give the mayor or designee more discretion to approve work above previously set limits; commissioners asked staff to provide a project list and funding sources before final budget votes.
The Appropriations Committee approved an item (identified in committee as item 2g) that changes the county's authority for implementing rail safety projects along county rail corridors, allowing the mayor or her designee to approve expenditures that previously required additional board action.
Commissioner Cohen Higgins, who presented the item, said it "changes how we are able to implement safety projects we have already approved along rail corridors" and noted the current threshold had been set about 17 years ago at $25,000. She told the committee that inflation and project complexity mean nearly every single contract associated with rail crossings now exceeds that limit and that the change would…
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