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FLAT WATER: Water and sewer charges wouldn’t rise within the coming 12 months, with Miami-Dade County absorbing price will increase fairly than passing them on to customers, underneath a decision within the Appropriations Committee this week. The decision would require the Water and Sewer Division to current a plan to soak up price will increase, selling “monetary self-discipline and transparency within the finances course of,” Raquel Regalado’s decision says. The division must discover “artistic and sustainable cost-control measures” together with “reprioritizing capital enchancment tasks, delaying non-critical expenditures, enhancing procurement methods and provide chain administration, lowering extra time or vacancy-related inefficiencies, discovering alternate options to waste water remedy and disposal, and leveraging of state grants to offset working prices.”
HIGH JOB GAINS: The Miami Metropolitan Statistical Space confirmed a far bigger job acquire share in Could than the nation as a complete and the third-highest acquire in absolute numbers nationally, figures launched final week by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics reveal. The Miami space grew 1.4% in whole jobs from Could 2024 to Could 2025, whereas the nation as a complete was exhibiting a 1.1% job acquire. This space gained 42,900 jobs in these 12 months, trailing solely 95,300 jobs for New York and 46,800 for Dallas. Philadelphia at 41,100 jobs gained was fourth. On the backside of the size, San Francisco confirmed a 21,300-job loss, with Atlanta second-lowest with a 2,000-job acquire.
DRIVING THE TRAINS: As Miami-Dade and Broward counties plan to run commuter rail from downtown Miami to Aventura and on into the guts of Broward County, “We all know there’s discussions with SFRTA [which runs Tri-Rail] and Brightline,” a privately owned rail agency, to function the brand new service, says Maria Perdomo of Miami-Dade Division of Transportation and Public Works. The counties count on inside three months to select an working entity that will then select what group will run the trains. Timing is essential, as a result of practice orders take a very long time. “Nationwide, it’s taking about 4 years to buy these sort of automobiles,” she informed the Residents’ Unbiased Transportation Belief. Plans are for the railway to be rolling by the second quarter of 2032.
JOBLESS CLAIMS UP: First-time unemployment claims in Florida elevated barely as June got here to an in depth. The US Division of Labor estimated 6,892 preliminary claims had been filed within the state throughout the week that ended June 28, up from 6,516 throughout the earlier week.
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