In Brief
Schools. Flagler Street. Taxes.
News in less than 1 minute, and a reflection on cities in 30 seconds.
Miami Schools Get an A
Miami-Dade County Public Schools got an A rating, according to school grades released Thursday by the Florida Department of Education. This is the third year in a row the district has reached this milestone. Congrats!
Flagler Street
The graphic below was issued to announce the closure of NE 2nd Avenue, form NE 1st Street to SE 1st Street. Closure starts July 18.
Major subterranean work is expected, including sewage and electrical. When would 2nd Avenue reopen? Like everything related to Flagler Street, the answer was an emphatic Who Knows?
On a related note, by the end of July or early August, said DDA’s Wanda Mendez, Flagler Street will open to pedestrians, from Biscayne Boulevard to NE 2nd Avenue.
November Tax Referendum
Miami-Dade County residents will vote to approve a tax-hike for schools next November. It would amount to 39 cents a day, 12 dollars a month, for the average taxpayer. Teachers will receive a pay increase of up to 20 percent. A caveat: the new tax would be temporary, lasting only four years because State law currently does not allow the district to make the increase permanent.
Cities
Let’s end this In-Brief column philosophically; that is, with a quote from MIT Technology Review: Cities are, at the end of the day, an accumulation of the choices millions of us have made. Cities are choices, big and little, made individually and collectively.
