Swearing-In Ceremony for Miami Beach Mayor-Elect Dan Gelber and newly elected City Commissioners Michael Gongora, Mark Samuelian, and Micky Steinberg
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November 10, 2017
Swearing-In Ceremony for Miami Beach Mayor-Elect Dan Gelber and newly elected City
Commissioners Michael Gongora, Mark Samuelian, and Micky Steinberg
WHO/WHAT: On Monday, November 13, 2017, at 10 a.m., Dan Gelber will take the
oath of office as Mayor of the City of Miami Beach. Mayor-Elect Gelber
has spent his life devoted to public service, nearly a decade as an
Assistant U.S. Attorney and in the Florida legislature - in both the House
and the Senate. A Miami Beach native and graduate of Miami Beach
Senior High School, Gelber is the son of former Miami Beach Mayor
Seymour Gelber. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Tufts University
and the University of Florida College of Law, where he was a Truman
Scholar.
Michael Gongora returns to the Miami Beach Commission after having
served a partial term in 2006 and re-elected to a full term in 2009.
Góngora graduated from the University of Miami School of Law where he
earned his Juris Doctor (cum laude). He is an attorney at Becker &
Poliakoff.
Commissioner-elect Mark Samuelian will also be sworn in on Monday.
Samuelian is an active civic leader and a business strategist. He holds an
engineering degree, cum laude, from Georgia Tech and an MBA from the
Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Commissioner Micky Steinberg was elected to the City Commission in
2013 and will be sworn in for a second, consecutive term. Steinberg has
championed various initiatives, some of which include strengthening
ethics ordinances, human rights, finding solutions to alleviate traffic
congestion and supporting our local Miami Beach public schools.
The ceremony will take place in the Miami Beach Commission
Chambers.
WHEN: Monday, November 13, 2017 at 10 a.m.
WHERE: Miami Beach City Hall Commission Chambers, Third Floor
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