Senate Bill sb2254

    Florida Senate - 2001        (NP)                      SR 2254

    By Senator Garcia





    39-1691-01

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing Wednesday and

  3         Thursday, April 4 and 5, 2001, as "Miami-Dade

  4         County Days."

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  6         WHEREAS, Greater Miami-Dade County contains more than

  7  72,000 businesses that employ over 1 million people and is the

  8  site of 50 foreign consulates, 23 international trade offices,

  9  and 31 bi-national Chambers of Commerce, and

10         WHEREAS, Miami-Dade County is a center of world

11  finance, with 150 financial institutions and foreign agencies

12  within its boundaries, and

13         WHEREAS, the film and TV industry has made Miami-Dade

14  County one of the largest production centers in the nation,

15  and last year the economic impact of this industry was

16  estimated at $2.5 billion, and

17         WHEREAS, agriculture continues to provide over $800

18  million in economic activity, and the industry has diversified

19  such that Miami-Dade County is one of the largest producers in

20  the United States of tropical fruits, ornamental plants, and

21  fish, and

22         WHEREAS, manufacturing is also a key industry in

23  Miami-Dade County, with nearly 2,700 companies that employ

24  approximately 68,100 individuals, and

25         WHEREAS, Miami-Dade County is experiencing a cultural

26  boom in world-class entertainment and cultural activities,

27  which is evidenced by the more than 1,000 nonprofit cultural

28  organizations offering dance, theater, music and visual arts,

29  and festivals and special events and by the development of a

30  state-of-the-art performing arts center, and

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    Florida Senate - 2001        (NP)                      SR 2254
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  1         WHEREAS, the Miami-Dade community is a microcosm of the

  2  world, in which 156 countries are represented, 60 languages

  3  are spoken daily, and 15 languages are taught in the

  4  community's schools, from which 69 direct, nonstop flights

  5  take passengers to Latin America and the Caribbean, and at

  6  which trade flourishes in the U.S. port located closest to

  7  Africa, and

  8         WHEREAS, today the tourism industry and the spillover

  9  created by the industry creates jobs for one in every six

10  residents of the Miami-Dade area, NOW, THEREFORE,

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12  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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14         That Wednesday and Thursday, April 4 and 5, 2001, are

15  recognized as "Miami-Dade County Days."

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