Once the fair began at 10, Brown found her way into a trailer set up by South Florida Workforce, a tax-funded employment board assembling a list of names to work on the Sun Life project if the Dolphins decide to go ahead with it. “It’s pretty rough,’’ she said of hiring prospects in Miami-Dade. Now, she describes herself as recovered and hoping to find her way into a permanent job at the Dolphins’ event. She has been cleaning houses off and on but a drug problem kept her out of steady work since 2006. “I’ll take any job.”Ĭarmen Brown, 57, stood in the second spot behind him. “I haven’t worked since 2010,’’ said Eugene, a Haitian immigrant who lives with an uncle in Miami. Both revenue streams first must pass the state Legislature and then be approved by Miami-Dade voters. The Dolphins want to raise hotel taxes to 7 percent from 6 percent on most hotels outside Miami Beach and had hoped to create a new state renovation subsidy for stadiums that would give the team $3 million a year from Florida. While team lobbyists are pushing to get the legislation through the House before the legislative session ends this weekend, the Dolphins’ political squad is building support for an election in which early voting is already underway. Along with a chance to sign up to be considered for a renovation job, applicants were handed packets that included campaign literature for the tax plan, which must win approval by state lawmakers this week and then Miami-Dade voters in a May 14 referendum. On Thursday, the Miami Dolphins opened up the stadium to hundreds of job seekers interested in working on a $350 million renovation project, which the team says it will only undertake with an infusion of tax dollars. The employment packets at this Miami Gardens job fair had a little something extra: a pledge card to sign supporting a tax-funded renovation of Sun Life Stadium.
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