Tracks Commission Votes To Show How Resident-Friendly the City Of Miami Beach Elected Officials Are
In 2017, Miami Beach United
heard from residents
who found it difficult to find information on whether or not elected officials are serving their interests.
As a result, in early 2018, Miami Beach United (MBU) launched the framework for the inaugural annual Residents Scorecard, and began tracking the voting record of Miami Beach Commissioners on issues of concern to its membership and the community at large which were deemed to affect Miami Beach residents’ quality of life.
Here's how it works:
Each month, Miami Beach United identifies and tracks issues coming before the Commission. Many of these issues become resolutions, voted on by the Board of Directors, and shared in advance of the monthly Commission meetings with the Mayor and Commissioners (and staff) of the city of Miami Beach. They are also shared with all of you via this 2500-person mailing list for MBU.
In each case, whenever MBU passed a resolution on a matter before the Commission,
the scorecard indicates whether or not an individual elected official
supported
or
opposed
the action recommended by MBU.
For ordinances, which require two hearings, only the final vote on Second Reading was recorded and counted.
In some cases, when MBU’s recommendations were only partially implemented, that was treated as a neutral action, and that vote was excluded from the total score.
All items were weighted equally when calculating an overall percentage grade for each elected official during the measurement period.
The final scores for the period Jan 1 – October 31, 2018 were as follows:
Mark Samuelian - 88%
Kristen Rosen Gonzalez - 87%
Micky Steinberg - 81%
Michael Góngora - 81%
Ricky Arriola - 75%
Dan Gelber (Mayor) - 75%
John Elizabeth Alemán - 63%
This Commission Scorecard process will commence for the 2018-2019 Fiscal Year with the November 2018 Commission meeting, with the final scorecard to be published at the end of October 2019.
