Positive Change for the Residents of Miami

The First 100 Days of the Regalado's Administration

• Address issues resulting from the prior administration’s mishandling of funds that ultimately led to a reoccurring deficit for the City. Working closely with city unions to quickly resolve the pension crisis in a just and fair manner.
  • Determining the responsibilities of the Pension Board’s external auditors as well as Pension Administrators and Fund Investment Advisors.
  • Avoiding mismanagement of pension funds invested in an unstable stock market by ensuring greater accountability.
  • Creating stop-loss procedures for Investment Advisors that require stocks be converted to cash to minimize losses.
• Reanalyze citywide expenditures to reflect current economic conditions. The City of Miami needs a top-to-bottom review of all public sector positions to assess the needs and benefits for taxpayers. The total costs of procuring certain services and analyzing the related benefits should also be studied. For example, the total budget of the City Attorney’s office will be confined to the costs of obtaining legal service - no more, no less.
  • Similar city departments will also be consolidated to reduce costs.
  • Enacting policy mandating each city department have no more than one Assistant/Deputy Director would reduce expenditures significantly.
• Create the Office of Resident Affairs and Public Documents at the Mayor’s office. This will bring government directly into the different neighborhoods and foster a much more responsive administration.The Office of Resident Affairs and Public Documents will be the liaison between residents and all departments of the city to facilitate any public record request by residents. In monthly meetings attended by the Mayor, City Manager and Department Managers, public officials will meet with the community in the various neighborhoods to hear residents, get input, and respond to their needs.
  • With follow-up action meetings attended by the Mayor and the Manager
  • Additionally, once a month, the Mayor and Manager will meet with residents’ associations to discuss quality of life issues
• Cleaning Miami One Block at a Time and Planting a Tree. The Mayor’s Clean City initiative will clean one city block at a time every day of the week, making Miami one of the cleanest cities in the U.S.
• Consolidate Code Enforcement and NET (Neighborhood Enhancement Team) Relocate Code Enforcement inspectors at each NET office. This way inspectors can interact with NET employees and residents on a daily basis
  • A dedicated service phone number will be operational during the weekends and holidays. Inspectors will be on hand to answer resident’s calls on urgent matters related to Code Enforcement.
  • We will have Public Service Aides (PSA) from the Police Department based at NET offices to expedite solutions for any complaints.
• Shaping the Future of Miami. Initiate a dialogue with residents and citizen’s associations to obtain their insight on current and future development in their area.
• Working with the Chairman of the City Commission (appointed by the Mayor). Establish a new protocol where all zoning and planning matters that go before the commission will be heard after 5pm. This new system will give the public an opportunity to participate in all public hearings and not have to miss work.
• Start a dialogue with Friends of the Marine Stadium. Create a workable plan for the restoration of the stadium structure.