At the North Region listening session in Miami Gardens, public speakers urged the Charter Review Task Force to improve notice of meetings and to clarify a proposed administrative change related to recall petitions.

A resident asked whether a proposed transfer of administrative responsibility for recall petitions to the supervisor of elections would change substantive petition requirements such as formatting, signature thresholds, or certification procedures. The task force attorney responded that the draft change was not intended to alter substantive standards and that, historically, the clerk worked with the supervisor of elections office when petitions arrived: "The point was not to change substantive standards," the attorney said.

Marisol Centeno, president of the League of Women Voters of Miami-Dade County, told the task force the community had difficulty finding meeting notices and urged more active outreach, including social media and partner distribution. "We will address [these concerns] at a further date," Centeno said, adding that better notice would increase community participation.

Representatives of the mayor's office described existing notice practices and committed to more active outreach for future regional meetings. A mayoral office representative, Henderson, said the office currently follows sunshine notice requirements and posts agendas and minutes on the Charter Review Task Force web page: "We currently follow the sunshine provisions... That is where your meeting agendas live," Henderson said. George Damon Talapas, director of policy in the mayor's office, added that the mayor promoted the meeting on social media and that staff "will be more aggressive in the upcoming meetings, to make sure we're soliciting as much public input as possible."

The task force heard several public comments during the listening session, including a former commissioner who urged retention of single-member districts and urged revisiting the fixed $6,000 commissioner salary in the charter. The former commissioner described serving 16 years and said that, in her view, $6,000 is insufficient for the duties expected of a county commissioner.

No formal task-force action was taken on outreach or recall-administration at the meeting; staff were asked to follow up with more explicit outreach plans and to clarify in drafting that substantive petition standards would not change if administrative oversight shifts.

The task force closed the listening session portion of the meeting after the public comments and moved into its agenda items.