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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/sobek/FI14103460/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Harvey Ruvin and family
- Publication Date:
- 1999
- Physical Description:
- 1 postcard : col. ill. ; 21 x 22 cm.
Notes
- Abstract:
- The Ruvin Family in 1999. Harvey Ruvin was first Mayor of the City of North Bay Village in 1968 and later commissioner at the Metro Dade County between 1972 and 1992, when he was elected Clerk of the Office of Miami-Dade County. He is running again for the 2016 election.
- Scope and Content:
- January 6, 2006 - The Ruvin Family, 915 N. Shore Drive, Miami Beach, Fla post card showing the recently restored courthouse lobby and atrium.
- Biographical:
- From the Miami Dade Clerk of Courts webpage: Harvey Ruvin is a graduate Industrial Engineer (University of Florida 1959). He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Miami Law School, 1962. He was first elected to public office in 1968 at the age of 30. Serving as Mayor of the City of North Bay Village, he became one of the youngest mayors in Miami-Dade County history. In 1972, Ruvin was elected to the Metro Dade County Commission where he served for twenty years: focusing on environmental and technology issues. n 1987, elected by his peers, he served as President of the National Association of Counties representing America’s 3200 County Governments. In 1989, Harvey Ruvin was named “County Leader of the Year” by American City and County Magazine. In 1992, he was elected to the Office of Miami-Dade County Clerk of Courts. He has been re-elected five times, leading the ballot in 2016 with the largest vote total in South Florida’s history. Through over thirty years of community involvement, Harvey Ruvin, has performed a leadership role within scores of civic, cultural, environmental and charitable organizations. He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the prestigious Washington-based Public Technology Institute award naming him the “2003 Public Technologist of the Year” in America, citing his highly successful efforts to employ emerging technologies to reengineer government processes, eliminating paper, achieving fiscal savings and efficiencies. The goal; serving more and more of the public “on-line rather than in-line”. His public career continues to be hallmarked by his commitment to improve the lives of the citizens of Miami-Dade County, and to use his technological expertise to help solve the problems of providing needed services to the people in a cost efficient way while protecting the environment and our quality of life. In 2004, he won Computerworld Magazine’s “2004 Medal of Achievement” for utilizing technology to achieve massive savings and enhancing the public’s accessibility to records. Mr. Ruvin, having made an effective transition from a county legislator to an extensive administrative role, received the much coveted “2004 Public Administrator of the Year” awarded by the South Florida Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) and in 2016 earned ASPA’s coveted award as South Florida “Elected Official of the Year”. In 2008, he received the “Defender of the Everglades Award” by the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Friends of the Everglades. In 2009, he was named the Inaugural Recipient of the “Reitmeister-Abess Award” for Environmental Advocacy by the University of Miami Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy. Some of his other many awards include the 1987 Miami Beach Chamber of Commerce “Man of the Year Award” to the coveted Tropical Audubon Society Conservation Award in 1981 and in 1985 (the only person ever to have been named twice). He has received environmental service awards from the Sierra Club as well as from the Environmental and Industry Association. To Harvey, his greatest honor so far came when “Naples, a rescued West Indian manatee gave birth to a male calf and the Seaquarium named the newborn “Harvey” in recognition of the Commissioner’s work on behalf of the endangered species (Sept. 1990). He is an avid exercise, fitness and health devotee, having been ranked as high as 16th in the nation by the American Amateur Racquetball Association.
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- City of Miami Beach
- Holding Location:
- City of Miami Beach
- Rights Management:
- Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the users' responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights.
- Resource Identifier:
- MB 1045
FI14103460
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