Metropolitan Dade County v. Floyd, Pearson, Richman, Greer, Weil, Zack & Brumbaugh

FERGUSON, Judge.

Dade County challenges an award of attorney’s fees to the appellee law firm for services rendered to a legislatively created and abolished independent agency. We affirm the trial court’s determination that there was an entitlement to the fees.1

A 1972 amendment to the Home Rule Charter, approved by referendum, gave Dade County the authority to expand the City of Miami Water and Sewer Board to an agency with county-wide authority. Pursuant to that authority, Dade County’s Board of County Commissioners, by ordinance, created the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Authority [WASA] with…