Hialeah, Florida
| Hialeah, Florida | |
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| General information | |
Mayor of Hialeah
Esteban Bovo Jr. | |
| Last mayoral election: | 2021 |
| Next mayoral election: | 2025 |
| Last city council election: | 2023 |
| Next city council election: | 2025 |
| City council seats: | 7 |
| City website | |
| Composition data (2019) | |
| Population: | 234,539 |
| Race: | White 92.1% African American 2.3% Asian 0.6% Native American 0.0% Pacific Islander 0.0% Two or more 0.7% |
| Ethnicity: | Hispanic 95.9% |
| Median household income: | $35,068 |
| High school graduation rate: | 69.7% |
| College graduation rate: | 15.7% |
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Hialeah is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The city's population was 223,109 as of 2020, according to the United States Census Bureau.
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City government
- See also: Mayor-council government
The city of Hialeah utilizes a strong mayor and city council system. In this form of municipal government, the city council serves as the city's primary legislative body while the mayor serves as the city's chief executive.[1]
Mayor
The mayor serves as the city's chief executive officer and is responsible for proposing a budget, signing legislation into law, appointing departmental directors, and overseeing the city's day-to-day operations. The mayor also represents the city on the state, national and international levels. The current Mayor of Hialeah is Esteban Bovo Jr. (nonpartisan). Bovo assumed office in 2021.[1]
City council
The Hialeah City Council is the city's primary legislative body. It is responsible for adopting the city budget, approving mayoral appointees, levying taxes, and making or amending city laws, policies, and ordinances.[1][2]
The Hialeah City Council has seven members. All members are elected at large by group.[2]
The widget below automatically displays information about city council meetings. The topic list contains a sampling of keywords that Voterheads, a local government monitoring service, found in each meeting agenda. Click the meeting link to see more info and the full agenda:
Other elected officials
Ballotpedia does not cover any additional city officials in Hialeah, Florida.
Mayoral partisanship
Hialeah has a Republican mayor. As of December 2024, 65 mayors in the largest 100 cities by population are affiliated with the Democratic Party, 24 are affiliated with the Republican Party, one is affiliated with the Libertarian Party, four are independents, four identify as nonpartisan or unaffiliated, and two mayors' affiliations are unknown. Click here for a list of the 100 largest cities' mayors and their partisan affiliations.
Mayoral elections are officially nonpartisan in most of the nation's largest cities. However, many officeholders are affiliated with political parties. Ballotpedia uses one or more of the following sources to identify each officeholder's partisan affiliation: (1) direct communication from the officeholder, (2) current or previous candidacy for partisan office, or (3) identification of partisan affiliation by multiple media outlets.
Elections
2023
The city of Hialeah, Florida, held general elections for city council on November 21, 2023. A primary was scheduled for November 7, 2023. The filing deadline for this election was July 31, 2023.
2022
The city of Hialeah, Florida, held a special primary election for city council Group IV on November 8, 2022. If needed, a special general election was scheduled for December 6, 2022. The filing deadline for this election was August 1, 2022.[3]
2021
The city of Hialeah, Florida, held general elections for mayor and city council on November 16, 2021. A primary was scheduled for November 2, 2021. The filing deadline for this election was July 26, 2021.
2019
2017
The city of Hialeah, Florida, held a primary election for mayor and city council on November 7, 2017. A general election was scheduled for November 21, 2017. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was July 31, 2017.
2015
The city of Hialeah, Florida, was initially scheduled to hold elections for city council on November 17, 2015. A primary took place on November 3, 2015. Because candidates received a majority of votes in each primary, however, the general election was called off. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was July 27, 2015. Four of the seven city council seats were up for election.[4]
Census information
The table below shows demographic information about the city.
| Demographic Data for Hialeah | |
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| Hialeah | |
| Population | 223,109 |
| Land area (sq mi) | 21 |
| Race and ethnicity** | |
| White | 47.8% |
| Black/African American | 1.5% |
| Asian | 0.7% |
| Native American | 0% |
| Pacific Islander | 0% |
| Two or more | 42.7% |
| Hispanic/Latino | 95.4% |
| Education | |
| High school graduation rate | 74.1% |
| College graduation rate | 19.9% |
| Income | |
| Median household income | $49,531 |
| Persons below poverty level | 14.2% |
| Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2020). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2017-2022). | |
| **Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here. | |
Budget
The city's budget process operates by fiscal years running from October 1 to September 30 of the next year. The mayor oversees the preparation of the budget by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The mayor presents the budget to the city council for adoption, and the council is required to adopt the budget on or before September 30 of each year.[5][6]
Fiscally standardized cities data
The fiscally standardized cities (FiSC) data below was compiled by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy to make municipal budgets comparable across cities in the United States.[7]
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FiSCs are constructed by adding revenues and expenditures of each central city municipal government to a portion of the revenues and expenditures of overlying governments, including counties, independent school districts, and special districts. The allocations to FiSCs are estimates of the revenues collected from and services provided to central city residents and businesses by these overlying independent governments. Thus FiSCs provides a full picture of revenues raised from city residents and businesses and spending on their behalf, whether done by the city government or a separate overlying government.[8] |
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| —Lincoln Institute of Land Policy[9] | ||
The tables below show estimated finances within city limits. As such, the revenue and expenses listed may differ from the actual city budget.
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Historical total revenue and expenditure
To see the historical total revenue or expenditures as a rounded amount in this city, hover over the bars.[7]
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Contact information
Mayor's office
501 Palm Avenue
Hialeah, FL 33010
Phone: (305) 883-5800
City Clerk's office
501 Palm Avenue
3rd Floor
Hialeah, FL 33010
Phone: (305) 883-5820
To contact individual council members, see here.
Ballot measures
The city of Hialeah is in Miami-Dade County. A list of ballot measures in Miami-Dade County is available here.
Noteworthy events
2020: Events and activity following the death of George Floyd
During the weekend of May 29-31, 2020, demonstrations and protests took place in cities nationwide, including Hialeah, following the death of George Floyd.
2015: Study on city's nondiscrimination laws
In July 2015, the Movement Advancement Project described Hialeah, Florida, as a city or county that prohibited discrimination in employment on the basis of gender identity via ordinances that apply to public and private employers. At that time, a total of 71 of America's largest 100 cities prohibited private employers from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation, while 69 of those cities also prohibited discrimination based on gender identity. This did not include those jurisdictions that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity for government employees.[10]
Nondiscrimination laws can cover a variety of areas, including public employment, private employment, housing, and public accommodations. Such laws may be enacted at the state, county, or city level.
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 City of Hialeah, "City Government," accessed August 13, 2021
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hialeah Code of Ordinances, "Charter, Article II - Mayor and City Council," accessed August 13, 2021
- ↑ City of Hialeah, "2022 Special Election Important Dates and Deadlines," accessed November 2, 2022
- ↑ Miami-Dade Elections, "Election Calendar For 2015," accessed September 19, 2014
- ↑ Hialeah Code of Ordinances, "Charter, Article III - Legislative," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ City of Hialeah, "Management & Budget," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities database," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, "Fiscally Standardized Cities," accessed August 23, 2023
- ↑ Movement Advancement Project, "Local Employment Non-Discrimination Ordinances," accessed July 7, 2015
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