/ The Miami Herald Rhonda Anderson and Kirk Menendez will be Coral Gables’ newest commissioners after beating their opponents in a runoff election to replace Mayor-elect Vince Lago and outgoing Commissioner Patricia Keon.
Rhonda Anderson and Kirk Menendez will be Coral Gables’ newest commissioners after beating their opponents in a Tuesday runoff election to determine the successor for two elected officials who gave up their seats to run for mayor.
Anderson will replace Commissioner Patricia Keon as the city’s Group III commissioner. And in the Group II race, Menendez will replace Mayor-elect Vince Lago, who defeated Keon in the April 13 mayor’s race.
Known for its Mediterranean Revival architectural style, the City of Coral Gables was incorporated in 1925 by George Merrick. Photo credit: Jared Lennon
The April 13 Coral Gables municipal election will occur without the knowledge or participation of what candidates say is an important voting demographic University of Miami students.
Although UM students live, recreate and often have jobs in Coral Gables, voting statistics show that most are unlikely to leave their dorms and off-campus apartments to vote in Tuesday’s election, which will put a new mayor in office for the next two years and two new commissioners in office for the next four.
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