More than 40 years after Miami and Miami-Dade County launched an effort to expand economic opportunity for Black residents, County Commissioners are weighing whether to drop that goal from a county agency’s mandate.
Commissioners are scheduled to hold a public hearing and take a final vote Tuesday, Nov. 17, on an ordinance by Commissioner Oliver Gilbert that would make substantive changes to the Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust.
The Trust’s long-standing goal has been to ensure equitable participation of Black residents in Miami-Dade’s financial growth through advocacy and monitoring of economic conditions and development initiatives across the county…