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Special election set for $830M Jackson Health bond

By The Miami Herald  
   July 03, 2013

Miami-Dade voters will go to the polls in November to decide whether to increase their property-tax rates to pay for a major overhaul of Jackson Health System, the county's public safety-net hospital system, after Miami-Dade commissioners agreed on Tuesday to call a special election. The commission voted 9-1, with Commissioner Juan C. Zapata dissenting, to set the election on Nov. 5 for a referendum on a proposed $830 million bond to pay for improvements to the hospital system's aging facilities, purchase equipment and expand services. Commissioners Bruno Barreiro and Barbara Jordan were absent from the vote.

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