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As part of the Mayor and Council’s continued commitment to public safety, the City of Doral will be investing funding to design, equip and construct the technology infrastructure required for a sustainable, efficient, and interoperable City of Doral Divisional Emergency Operations Center (EOC).

During Art Basel Week, Doral Legacy Park will be transformed into a modern garden for the Doral Arts & Flowers Festival, produced by Yola Guz and Ruben Consa, from the YOLA GUZ School of Floral Design. Sculptural pieces of art created with flowers, plants and organic elements using unconventional materials such as steel, aluminum and wood will adorn the interior and exterior of the community center and park.

As part of the Mayor and Council’s continued commitment to public safety, the City of Doral will be investing funding to design, equip and construct the technology infrastructure required for a sustainable, efficient, and interoperable City of Doral Divisional Emergency Operations Center (EOC).

This year, art makes it out west to Doral in the form of a Pedestriart Urban Art Project! The project consists of traffic signs in its form and codification of color utilizing an iconography to stimulate the pedestrian’s conscience through infinite range of interpretation.

Under the leadership of the Mayor and Council, the City of Doral’s comprehensive annual financial report for the year ended September 30, 2017, was once again awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA).

The City of Doral submitted a formal complaint against the landfill and the waste-to-energy facility to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) in January 2018 based on the amount of complaints that the City has received in the past several years. Since then FDEP’s generic email was been added to the distribution list of the City’s 311 Odor Complaint & Hotline Complaints.

In the coming weeks the Doral Police Department will be implementing the use body-worn cameras (BWC) for greater accountability, enhanced public trust, and a safer community. The use of BWC is seen as the future of modern policing because it creates a real-time, permanent record of all encounters and interactions between police officers and members of the public.

Today the residents of the City of Doral said YES! Yes, to enhancing our quality of life; Yes, to expanding opportunities for improving health; and Yes, to growing our world-class Parks System.

The Doral Mayor and Council just approved a professional services agreement for an Air, Water and Soil Quality Study! The study will collect and analyze samples in order to quantify reduced sulfur and volatile organic compounds that are typically associated with objectionable odors in the vicinity of the waste-to-energy and the landfill facilities.

The Mayor and Council, along with City Administration and staff, share in your concerns about odor and environmental issues in Doral. We are working to respond to these concerns and exploring any issues to identify possible solutions. That is why the collaboration with residents, businesses and the pertinent agencies is imperative.