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Tuesday, September 8
We are not here to tell people what to believe. We show what government is deciding, who has the power, what happens next, and how people can make their own voices heard. Across Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach, we post the decisions people usually hear about too late — in plain English, while there’s still time to act.
Pick your county and city — we’ll point you to the decisions closest to home.
0 open items currently tracked in Miami-Dade County — including decisions affecting Miami.
While you were at work
Over the last 12 months: 986 decisions, 71% of them passed in bulk with no individual discussion. The next meeting is September 10 — and this time you can know first.
Counted from Broward County's official record ↗ · covers the 12 months up to the June 2026 meeting · updated September 7. Every item the county commission passed, counted from the official record — no sampling, no estimates. "Bulk votes" are items the county itself labels consent items.
This week · September 7 – September 13
Every item below is still open for public input. Times are local; most meetings offer a livestream or phone-in option.
No public meetings posted for this week yet.
No deadlines posted for this week yet.
Miss a deadline? Most decisions take more than one vote. We track what’s next so you get a second chance to be heard.
What we’re watching
Each card tells you where it’s happening, what stage it’s in, and the next moment your voice can still count.
By county
By what you care about
When the Broward Sheriff’s Office seizes cash or property under Florida’s forfeiture law, the money goes into the Law Enforcement Trust Fund — and under state law (F.S. 932.7055) the Sheriff can only spend it after the County Commission approves each transfer at a public meeting. Since 2019 the commission has approved $38 million across 134 transfers, including about $2.6 million on surveillance and tracking technology — gunshot-detection sensors, license-plate readers, and social-media monitoring among them. 62 of the 67 approval votes were consent-agenda bulk votes: no individual discussion, no separate vote. Every figure here is assembled from the county’s own records on our receipt-trail page.
Next up: No transfer scheduled — the next one appears on a commission agenda before its vote; followers get an alert
Read the full explainer →The City of Hollywood is proposing an ordinance that would amend Article 4 of its Zoning and Land Development Regulations to revise definitions and create a new "Hollywood Beach Overlay District" with its own "Hollywood Beach Design Guidelines." The area covered is the city’s entire beach barrier island: east of the Intracoastal Waterway, south of East Dania Beach Blvd, west of the ocean, and north of East Hallandale Beach Blvd. The Planning and Development Board holds a public hearing on August 11, 2026 and makes a recommendation; the City Commission decides later. (Source: Hollywood agenda item 26-Z-18, applicant: City of Hollywood.)
Next up: Planning and Development Board public hearing on 2026-08-11 — advisory recommendation to the City Commission
Read the full explainer →The county is asking to lease 17 forty-foot Gillig transit buses from the City of Gainesville for one year, with an option for a second, at a not-to-exceed cost of $1,020,000. No meeting date is set yet — we are watching for it.
Next up: No date set yet — the county has not scheduled this item
Read the full explainer →County by county
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Housing money, flood maps and school boundaries
Library hours, transit lanes and bay health
Downtown growth, dunes and voting sites
Civic education
People tune out local government because it feels decided already. It isn’t. Most items pass or fail on the strength of who bothered to say something — and the bar for “who” is astonishingly low.
Learn the 15-minute playbookReason 1
A county commission vote can affect two million people — and draw twelve public comments. A handful of informed residents routinely swings the outcome.
Reason 2
Written and spoken comments are legally part of the public record. Officials must receive them, journalists can cite them, and courts can review them.
Reason 3
Your insurance bill, your bus route, your kid’s school start time, the height of the building next door — these are local and state decisions, not Washington’s.
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Florida Watch · from the statehouse
Tallahassee moves fast and far away. We only bring a state item to this page when it has major, direct impact on Broward, Miami-Dade or Palm Beach — everything else is tracked on Florida Watch.
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