Resolution 4824 RESOLUTION NO. 4824
WHEREAS it has been apparent for many years that the City
of Miami Beach has been paying a great proportion of the State
and County taxes collected in Dade County, Florida, and
WHEREAS the proportion of such taxes paid by Miami Beach
has been steadily increasing yearly and promises to continue
such increase as the rate of growth of this City exceeds that
of the County , and
WHEREAS the value of property and investments in the City
of Miami Beach must be affected adversely as the tax-burden be-
comes greater unless proportional benefits are received from such
taxes, and
WHEREAS we are convinced that the City of Miami Beach does
not now, and never has, received such proportional benefits, nor
even reasonable expenditures of State and County funds within
this City as compensation for the contributions made to State and
County by its tax-payers and
WHEREAS the expenditure of County funds and recommendations
for the expenditure of many State funds both are functions of the
Board of County Commissioners, on which there is no one representa-
tive to watch over the interest of and be responsible only to the
citizens and tax-payers in this area of highly concentrated taxable
wealth which lies east of the Intercoastal Canal and South of the
Broward County line, and
WHEREAS this objectionable condition of taxation without
representation must continue to exist so long as the present un-
just and unsatisfactory division of the County into Commissioners '
Districts is allowed to continue , and
WHEREAS the re-districting of Dade County so as to create a
Commissioner ' s District more applicable to present conditions is
so critically vital to the future of Miami Beach as to come with-
in our sphere of duty, as elected representatives, to protect the
interests of the citizens of Miami Beach, now, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED:
FIRST, that we, the City Council of Miami Beach , Florida, do here-
by protest against the County Commissioners' Districts that exist
in Dade County, Florida, today, and hold them to be inequitable
and unfair based on population together with taxable property
values.
SECOND, that we, the City Council of Miami Beach, ask of every
public official of Dade County full recognition of our situation,
and call upon each of them to do all within his power to rectify
this unjust condition.
THIRD, that we, the City Council of Miami Beach, most urgently
request that all elective Dade County officials who go to our
State Capitol to make laws shall pass whatever legislative act
is necessary to the end that Dade County, Florida, be re--districtec_
so that one Commissioner' s District shall be bounded on the north
by the Broward County line, on the south by the city limits of
Miami Beach, and include all territory lying east of the Inter-
coastal Canal to the Atlantic Ocean.
FOURTH, that the Miami Beach City Council request the following
three citizens and tax-payers of Miami Beach, to-wit: William
Taradash, F. Lowry Wall and John L. Patten, to act with two of
its members, to-wit: Mitchell Wolfson and Val C. Cleary, as an
official committee to obtain public expressions from all Dade
County officials as to their willingness to cooperate in redistrict- ---
ing Dade County in a manner which will give this area adequate
representation.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we, the City Council of Miami Beach,
Florida, do hereby authorize and order the printing of this
resolution, and its publication in newspapers of general circu-
lation.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd. day of April, A. D. , 1940.
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