Miami-Dade committee sets agenda, debates audits of procurement pools and administration review process

The Government Efficiency and Transparency Committee of the Miami‑Dade County Board of County Commissioners set its initial agenda and debated a proposed auditing requirement for county procurement pools at its first meeting. Commissioners voted by unanimous consent to set the agenda, agreed to defer one item to the committee's April meeting and moved all remaining items except item 2(f) for later discussion.

The committee’s purpose is to identify ways to streamline county operations, improve procurement timelines and reduce procedural red tape. "There is huge opportunity, for us to be as efficient as possible, streamlined as possible, and as, Commissioner Cohen Higgins likes to say, move at the speed of business," Carla Denise Edwards, chief administrative officer, said as she represented Mayor Daniella Cava at the meeting.

Commissioner Regalado proposed an amendment to a resolution (agenda item 2(f)) to require the commission auditor to perform no fewer than three reviews of prequalification pools per county fiscal year. "Within 30 days of the resolution, the commission auditor shall disclose to the board how many reviews it can perform on an annual basis, but no shall the commission auditor perform less than 3 reviews per county fiscal year," Regalado read into the…