Protect Clean Water & Promote Resilience
ALLOCATE HEALTHY FUNDS FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT IN THE FY 24-25 MIAMI-DADE COUNTY BUDGET
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava proposes great things for fiscal year 2024-2025, including: expansion of a Climate-Ready Tech Hub, increasing our tree canopy, and accelerating the shift from septic to sewer. We applaud those initiatives!
But there is more work to do. Tell the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners to support adequate funding for the following items: coral restoration, habitat monitoring, the Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) program, and sewage upgrades. Increased funding for these budget items will help protect native ecosystems, wildlife, clean drinking water, and the maintenance of our sewer systems. It will also provide invaluable data to guide conservation strategies that ensure the long-term health of Biscayne Bay. Here’s why:
- Coral reefs are vital to Miami’s biodiversity and economy, and serve as natural barriers from storm surge and erosion. Habitat monitoring effectively measures the success of our restoration efforts, and tracks the health of our ecosystems, including coral reefs.
- The EEL program preserves remaining natural lands, breaks up urban heat islands, and receives stormwater runoff that would otherwise flood neighborhoods.
- A functioning wastewater system is a prerequisite for human civilization! Miami-Dade’s sewage system overall needs significant infrastructure investment to cease sanitary sewage overflows, leaks, and to handle additional capacity as households with septic tanks transition to the municipal wastewater system.
Support for these programs will improve water quality and enhance resilience.
Tell the Board of County Commissioners to support additional funding for these budget items.
Take action:
- Sign the action alert. Enter your information and push the "send email" button at the bottom of this page to send a letter urging County Commissioners to support adeqaute funding for these budget items.
- Spread the word. Share this action alert with your networks and tell them to join us at the meeting!
- Make a public comment. Show up at the FY 2024-2025 Proposed Budget public hearing on September 19 at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center (111 NW 1st St.) and register to make a public comment about why you support more funding for these budget items. The budget public hearing starts at 5:01PM, but you’ll want to get there at 3:00PM to register to speak, go through security, and meet other advocates. Bring your ID, check in at the first-floor registration window, and tell them you’re going to the budget hearing on the second floor. Then, sign up to make a public comment at the table downstairs (underneath the escalator, by the South entrance- right off the MetroMover).
Read the 2024-2025 Proposed Budget HERE.
This alert will be inactive after September 18, 2024, at 11:59 PM.
We will not, in any circumstances, share your personal information with other individuals or organizations without your permission, including public organizations, corporations, or individuals.
Protect Clean Water & Promote Resilience
ALLOCATE HEALTHY FUNDS FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT IN THE FY 24-25 MIAMI-DADE COUNTY BUDGET
Mayor Daniella Levine Cava proposes great things for fiscal year 2024-2025, including: expansion of a Climate-Ready Tech Hub, increasing our tree canopy, and accelerating the shift from septic to sewer. We applaud those initiatives!
But there is more work to do. Tell the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners to support adequate funding for the following items: coral restoration, habitat monitoring, the Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) program, and sewage upgrades. Increased funding for these budget items will help protect native ecosystems, wildlife, clean drinking water, and the maintenance of our sewer systems. It will also provide invaluable data to guide conservation strategies that ensure the long-term health of Biscayne Bay. Here’s why:
- Coral reefs are vital to Miami’s biodiversity and economy, and serve as natural barriers from storm surge and erosion. Habitat monitoring effectively measures the success of our restoration efforts, and tracks the health of our ecosystems, including coral reefs.
- The EEL program preserves remaining natural lands, breaks up urban heat islands, and receives stormwater runoff that would otherwise flood neighborhoods.
- A functioning wastewater system is a prerequisite for human civilization! Miami-Dade’s sewage system overall needs significant infrastructure investment to cease sanitary sewage overflows, leaks, and to handle additional capacity as households with septic tanks transition to the municipal wastewater system.
Support for these programs will improve water quality and enhance resilience.
Tell the Board of County Commissioners to support additional funding for these budget items.
Take action:
- Sign the action alert. Enter your information and push the "send email" button at the bottom of this page to send a letter urging County Commissioners to support adeqaute funding for these budget items.
- Spread the word. Share this action alert with your networks and tell them to join us at the meeting!
- Make a public comment. Show up at the FY 2024-2025 Proposed Budget public hearing on September 19 at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center (111 NW 1st St.) and register to make a public comment about why you support more funding for these budget items. The budget public hearing starts at 5:01PM, but you’ll want to get there at 3:00PM to register to speak, go through security, and meet other advocates. Bring your ID, check in at the first-floor registration window, and tell them you’re going to the budget hearing on the second floor. Then, sign up to make a public comment at the table downstairs (underneath the escalator, by the South entrance- right off the MetroMover).
Read the 2024-2025 Proposed Budget HERE.
This alert will be inactive after September 18, 2024, at 11:59 PM.
We will not, in any circumstances, share your personal information with other individuals or organizations without your permission, including public organizations, corporations, or individuals.