Miami Beach

Single-pane reference: officials, agendas, procurement, lobbyists, LTCs, public records, OIG, bonds, plans.
Form of government: Council-Manager (7-seat Commission incl. Mayor) Population: ~80,000 City Hall: 1700 Convention Center Drive Last refreshed: May 11, 2026

Officials Verified May 2026

Steven Meiner — Mayor re-elected Nov 2025
39th Mayor; current term ends 2027
Laura Dominguez — Vice Mayor (rotating, through Jul 31, 2026); Commissioner Group II re-elected, term to 2029
Eric T. Carpenter — City Manager (appointed Jul 2024, 5-2 commission vote)
Joseph Magazine — Commissioner (elected Nov 2025; group assignment verify)
Alex J. Fernandez — Commissioner Group III (re-elected Nov 2025, term to 2029)
Tanya K. Bhatt — Commissioner (elected Nov 2025)
David Suarez — Commissioner (elected Nov 2025)
Roster pagemiamibeachfl.gov — Elected Officials (canonical source; verify group-seat assignments)

Meetings & agendas

LocationCity Hall, 1700 Convention Center Dr, 3rd Floor Commission Chamber
CadenceWednesdays typical; monthly Commission + Presentations & Awards / Committee of the Whole interspersed. 2026 dates
Next meetingWed, May 20 — 8:30 AM (regular Commission, per main dashboard)
Standing committeesLand Use & Sustainability · Finance & Economic Resiliency · Public Safety & Neighborhood Quality of Life
Agendas (mirror)miamibeachfl.gov — Meetings & Agendas
3rd-partyDemocracy Agenda App (item-level browser)
NoticesMeeting notices

Letters to Commission (LTC) Gold standard

Live LTC indexmiamibeachfl.gov — Letters to Commission
Cadence~10-15 LTCs / business week · sequential numbering (LTC ###-YYYY, resets annually)
FormatPDF, stored in Laserfiche WebLink (CityClerk repo)
Search the LTC archive (uses Google site-search — works without portal session cookies)

Recent LTCs (from Google index — 2025 series; 2026 not yet indexed)

Phase 3 build: a parser pointed at the city's live LTC index page will populate memos_by_id with the 2026 series and surface a "last 14 days" list here automatically. Until then, use the search box above for ad-hoc lookups.

Laserfiche WebLink — full document portal

Welcomedocmgmt.miamibeachfl.gov/WebLink · repo CityClerk (dbid=0)
Doc rangeDocument IDs 1 → ~317,000 (mid-2025); approaching ~320k total docs
Taxonomy01 Resolutions · 01 Ordinances · Letters to Commission · After Actions · Agreements/Contracts (PSAs, AHAPs) · OIG reports · Lobbyist Registration Forms · Master Plans · Special Magistrate agendas · Board/Committee Minutes (Senior Affairs, Hispanic Affairs, Art in Public Places, GO Bond Oversight)

URL patterns (use these to construct deep links)

Live folder tree: requires session cookies (Laserfiche design). Workspace WebFetch is stateless and can't crawl Browse.aspx directly. Proper fix is a Playwright/Puppeteer job that holds cookies and walks the tree nightly — queued as laserfiche-spider.yml in the Phase 3 build.

Procurement

PrimaryBidNet Direct — City of Miami Beach (migrated from Periscope S2G, Jan 1, 2025)
City mirrormiamibeachfl.gov — current bid opportunities
DepartmentProcurement Department
Contract filesPSAs & contract docs also archive into Laserfiche CityClerk repo (e.g., "PSA with RSM US LLP" doc 256122, "PSA with ICF Incorporated LLC")
Audit: Backend may still be pointed at deprecated Periscope/BidSync (prod.bidsync.com/Miami-Beach). Re-point to BidNet Direct. See Procurement phase artifact.

Lobbyists (Miami Beach registrations)

Registration pagemiamibeachfl.gov — Lobbyist Information
Fee$500 per lobbyist · annual Fee Expenditure & Compensation Statement due Feb 28
Filed documentsStored in Laserfiche CityClerk repo (current year as YYYY LRF - {Principal} ({Lobbyist}) PDFs; historical legacy in dbid=2 keyed by surname)
Sample filingsFY 2024/2025 LRF template (doc 302928) · 2024 LRF — Ophir Sternberg (doc 304826)
Cross-referenceAlso see Lobbyist Catalog for the cross-jurisdictional view

Public records

PRR portalmiamibeachfl.justfoia.com/publicportal (JustFOIA)
Email fallbackresearchrequest@miamibeachfl.gov
City pagemiamibeachfl.gov — Public Records Request
Document storeResponsive records that get cited in agenda items / LTCs flow into Laserfiche; standalone PRR-responsive packages typically stay in JustFOIA
Phase 4 build: Miami Beach is on the JustFOIA shared adapter (with Coral Gables). Public visibility is title-only — files released to the requester unless the agency flips a publish toggle. See Public Records phase artifact.

Office of the Inspector General (OIG)

OIG reports stored individually in Laserfiche; naming OIG No. YY-NN [Subject].pdf. Recent:

Legislation (Resolutions & Ordinances)

Stored in Laserfiche as "01 Resolutions" and "01 Ordinances" cabinets, by year, by canonical number.

Use the search box above to find specific resolution/ordinance numbers across the full archive.

GO Bond Program & Master Plans

GO Bond OversightCommittee agendas/minutes in Laserfiche (e.g., doc 307751); program updates issued as LTCs (e.g., LTC 302-2025 = Update No. 38)
Bond offering docsNOT in Laserfiche · EMMA (emma.msrb.org) is primary for offering disclosure; gombinfo.com for the GO Bond program site
Master Plansmiamibeachfl.gov — Master Plans · Transportation Master Plan (doc 314305)
2040 Comp Plan2040 Comprehensive Plan PDF (hosted on main domain, not Laserfiche)

Recent context (May 2026)