County staff will renew your causeway pass in person Thursday
A short window for senior pass renewals, a council meeting behind the fire station, and a county scooter agreement now on the books.
Miami-Dade representatives come to the Key Biscayne Community Center this Thursday. They are there for one job. They will help residents age 65 and older renew the Rickenbacker Causeway Annual Pass. The session runs August 20, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. It happens in the Lighthouse Lounge. That is a window of two and a half hours. Treat it like an appointment, not an errand. If you cross the causeway constantly, the annual pass is the only sane way to do it. Maybe the renewal has been sitting on your counter since spring. Someone will now sit down and handle it with you.
One line on the Village calendar explains island scale
A council meeting lands Tuesday and a county session lands Thursday. The Village calendar is the page that settles arguments about both. Village events and schedule changes land there in one place. No flyer has to find you first. The calendar also carries a notice most people scroll straight past. One or more members of the Village Council may be present at any listed event. That is a standard legal disclosure. It also describes this island honestly. The people voting on your zoning are the same people at the ribbon cutting.
Council meets next Tuesday behind the fire station
The Village Council holds its regular August meeting on Tuesday, August 25. It happens in the Village Council Chamber. That is at the rear of the fire station, 560 Crandon Blvd. The agenda is already posted. So are the instructions for watching from home. Regular meetings are where the ordinary business gets settled. Ordinary business is what eventually shows up on your street. Tuesday night is when a decision stops being a proposal. Anyone who plans to speak will want to be in that room. Watching it live works too.
There is now a county-Village agreement covering scooters
Miami-Dade and the Village have an adopted interlocal agreement on micromobility. The county tracks it as File Number 261187. It is a resolution, and its status is Adopted. Micromobility is the official umbrella term here. It covers scooters, e-bikes, and the rest of the small wheeled traffic on Crandon. Interlocal agreements sort out who is responsible for what. That matters when a village sits inside a county. It is also the part that decides who answers a complaint. The county keeps the full text as a PDF on its legislative site. The clerk's official copy sits there too.
The office running your ballot just published its year
The Miami-Dade Office of the Supervisor of Elections has released its 2025 annual report. Much of it reads how these documents always read. It is all secure and accurate and accessible. The detail underneath is what lands here. The report is signed by the county's first elected Supervisor of Elections. Voters now fill that position directly. The office sets the deadlines. It also runs the ballot you eventually fill out. There is a county election calendar to track this year. The person accountable for that machinery answers to you. The full report sits on the county elections site as a PDF.
The cheapest good hour on the island is still at Cape Florida
The Cape Florida Lighthouse sits at 1200 Crandon Blvd. It was built in 1825. That makes it the oldest standing structure in all of Miami-Dade County. It is a genuinely strange fact about a place this new. Park entrance fees run $2 to $8. The exact price depends on how you arrive. For that money you get the grounds and the water. You also get a tower with two centuries of stories attached. There is a Friends of Cape Florida membership for people who go often. Some Saturdays need no plan beyond the drive down Crandon.