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Miami-Dade / Biscayne Bay

County Creates a Permanent Boater Safety and Bay Education Board

Miami-Dade will have a permanent Lucy Fernandez Boater Safety and Bay Education Advisory Board, created by an ordinance the County Commission approved on second reading.

Stock photo: Averette via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
Stock photo, not the project: Averette, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0

Miami-Dade will have a permanent Lucy Fernandez Boater Safety and Bay Education Advisory Board, created by an ordinance the County Commission approved on second reading. A friendly amendment, accepted by the sponsor, named the board after Lucy Fernandez, who was killed in a boating crash. Creating the board was the main recommendation of the mayor's boater safety task force.

Why it matters. The task force's chair, who lost his daughter in a boating crash, told the board that a permanent body keeps the work going.

What's next. Members will be appointed.

Reported from the Oct. 6, 2026 Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners meeting.