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Miami Florida Business directory, 3.2.1 Concourse E Further information: History of Miami, School of Hospitality and Tourism Management; 4.1 Tri-Rail expansion In 1766 Samuel Touchett received a land grant from the British government of 20,000 acres (81 km2) in the Miami area the grant was surveyed by Bernard Romans in 1772 a condition for making the grant permanent was that at least one white settler had to live on the grant for every 100 acres (0.4 km2) of land While Touchett wanted to place a plantation on the grant he was having financial problems and was never able to develop it. Florida has 67 counties Some reference materials may show only 66 because Duval County is consolidated with the City of Jacksonville There are 379 cities in Florida (out of 411) that report regularly to the Florida Department of Revenue but there are other incorporated municipalities that do not the state government's primary revenue source is sales tax Florida does not impose a personal income tax the primary revenue source for cities and counties is property tax; unpaid taxes are subject to tax sales which are held (at the county level) in May and (due to the extensive use of online bidding sites) are highly popular.

9 Notes 4.2 Student organizations, 7.1 Colleges and universities On June 27 2005 the popular ex-city commissioner Arthur Teele walked into the main lobby of the Miami Herald headquarters dropped off a package for columnist Jim DeFede and told the security guard to tell his wife Stephanie he "loved her" before pulling out a gun and committing suicide His suicide happened the day the alternative weekly Miami New Times published salacious details of Teele's alleged affairs including allegations that Teele had sex with a transsexual prostitute and used cocaine At the time Teele was being investigated by federal authorities for fraud and money laundering for allegedly taking $59,000 in kickbacks to help a businessman get millions of dollars in contracts at Miami International Airport Teele was suspended from his job in 2004 by Florida governor Jeb Bush after being arrested for trying to run a police officer off the road Teele was also charged in December 2004 with ten counts of unlawful compensation on charges he took $135,000 from TLMC Inc promising that it would be awarded lucrative contracts to redevelop neighborhoods in Miami Teele was also found guilty in March 2005 for threatening an undercover detective. . Country Walk A turning point came for development in the Everglades at the proposal in the late 1960s for an expanded airport after Miami International Airport outgrew its capacities the new jetport was planned to be larger than O'Hare Dulles JFK and LAX airports combined,[citation needed] and the chosen location was 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Everglades National Park the first sentence of the U.S Department of Interior study of the environmental impact of the jetport read "Development of the proposed jetport and its attendant facilities . will inexorably destroy the south Florida ecosystem and thus the Everglades National Park" When studies indicated the proposed jetport would create 4,000,000 US gallons (15,000,000 L) of raw sewage a day and 10,000 short tons (9,100 t) of jet engine pollutants a year the project met staunch opposition the New York Times called it a "blueprint for disaster" and Wisconsin senator Gaylord Nelson wrote to President Richard Nixon voicing his opposition: "It is a test of whether or not we are really committed in this country to protecting our environment." Governor Claude Kirk withdrew his support for the project and Marjory Stoneman Douglas was persuaded at 79 years old to go on tour to give hundreds of speeches against it Nixon instead established Big Cypress National Preserve announcing it in the Special Message to the Congress Outlining the 1972 Environmental Program; The airport is one of the largest in terms of cargo in the United States and is the primary connecting point for cargo between Latin America and the world in 2018 Miami International Airport served 2.3 million tons of freight Ninety-six different carriers are involved in shifting over two million tons of freight annually and ensuring the safe travel of over 40 million passengers according to the Miami International Airport corporate brochure it was first in International freight and third in total freight for 2008 in 2000 LAN Cargo opened up a major operations base at the airport and currently operates a large cargo facility at the airport Most major passenger airlines such as American Airlines use the airport to carry hold cargo on passenger flights though most cargo is transported by all-cargo airlines UPS Airlines and FedEx Express both base their major Latin American operations at MIA. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue is also the home to Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1 as well as EMS operations consisting of 57 Advanced Life Support units staffed by 760 state-certified paramedics and 640 state-certified emergency medical technicians. Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project In 1891 a Cleveland woman named Julia Tuttle decided to move to South Florida to make a new start in her life after the death of her husband Frederick Tuttle She purchased 640 acres on the north bank of the Miami River in present-day downtown Miami; The Green Library is FIU's main library is the largest building on campus and one of the largest library buildings in the Southeastern United States Originally designed by Architect David M Harper in 1973 the Green Library was expanded by the architecture firm M C Harry & Associates Inc in the early 1990s to its current eight floors with a capacity to expand to a total of 15 floors if necessary the eight-floor structure was built over through and around the original three-story library while it was still in use! There was some opposition to the railroad line being returned to service with claims that it would be as much of a problem to downtown traffic as container trucks and that the noise would be a disturbance to nearby residents However trains are occasional and will be reserved for specialty freight such as oversized loads and hazardous materials which will be banned from the tunnel.[citation needed] as well trains will be able to travel at up to 30 mph (50 km/h) on the newly renovated line in contrast to the old limit of 5 mph (8 km/h) and so will be able to cross Biscayne Boulevard in 90 seconds the current plan is for the line to be strictly for intermodal services with the project including a rail yard and station at the port However a passenger station may be added in the future.