{"id":250785,"date":"2026-04-29T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250785\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:06:32","slug":"fyi-miami-april-30-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/250785\/","title":{"rendered":"FYI Miami: April 30, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tWritten by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/author\/admin\/\" title=\"Posts by Miami Today\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Today<\/a> on April 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodaynews.com\/subscribe\/\" title=\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Subscription_skyscrapper_Green.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"www.miamitodaynews.com\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/FYI_Miami-1.jpg\" alt=\"FYI Miami: April 30, 2026\" class=\"postimage\" width=\"483\" height=\"300\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BOND SHIFT SAVINGS: Miami-Dade\u2019s Aviation Department will save about $82 million by issuing $725 million in new bonds to replace older, more expensive bonds that the airport issued earlier. County commissioners approved the new bond issue last week. By replacing those older bonds now, the present value of the savings to the county is about $59 million, a memo to commissioners from county Chief Administrative Officer Carladenise Edwards said. The new bonds will replace $9.8 million in bonds issued in 2012, $410.6 million in one bond issue from 2015 and $35.1 million in other bonds issued that same year, as well as $279 million in bonds issued in 2016. Aviation bonds are repaid from airport revenues, not the county\u2019s general fund.<\/p>\n<p>ELEVATORS RISING: Two new elevators being added to the parking garage in the Dadeland North Metrorail station are scheduled to be in use by 2028, the Citizens\u2019 Independent Transportation Trust was told last week. \u201cThe existing elevators will not be refurbished until the new elevators are placed into service,\u201d Alex Barrios, assistant director for construction for the Department of Transportation and Public Works, told the trust. \u201cWe\u2019re building new elevators within the parking garage at Dadeland North to handle the additional traffic flow. Once those come online, then the existing elevators will be taken offline for refurbishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RAPID RESPONSE: The chairman of the Freight Transportation Advisory Committee, John Dohm, had a plea that the Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization board quickly answered last week: \u201cWe need more members.\u201d The advisory group, created 21 years ago by the planning organization, advises on freight movement and truck traffic needs that might impact safety and efficiency. \u201cThat includes truck parking and inland port work,\u201d Mr. Dohn said, both of which are active projects in the county. But as to members, \u201cwe only have five now,\u201d he said. \u201cWe could really use somebody from MIA, we could use somebody from PortMiami, we could use somebody from Hialeah, City of Miami, Miami Gardens, Homestead, Miami Beach.\u201d He had lots of qualified candidates, he said, who could be appointed. By the meeting\u2019s end, the planning organization had appointed two more and he had seven members.<\/p>\n<p>WILSON LIBRARY: County commissioners last week suspend two rules and named the North Dade Regional Library for U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson. Rep. Wilson, 83, earlier served as both a Florida senator and a Florida representative, as well as a member of the county school board.<\/p>\n<p>These are some of the FYIs in this week\u2019s edition. The entire content of this week\u2019s FYIs and Insider sections is available by subscription only. To subscribe\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamitodayepaper.com\/sub\/account_login.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Written by Miami Today on April 29, 2026 Advertisement BOND SHIFT SAVINGS: Miami-Dade\u2019s Aviation Department will save about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-250785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}