The City of Miramar’s Mayor Wayne Messam, of Caribbean-American heritage, was recently named National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials (NBC-LEO)President-elect during the National League of Cities conference earlier this month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In his role as president Mayor Messam will administer leadership to an organization that has more than 200 members who represent millions of Americans.
The National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials regularly works independently with its member black-elected officials to inform them on issues affecting the African-American community and helps to devise ways to achieve their community objectives through legislation and direct action.
NBC-LEO conduct their annual meetings in conjunction with National League of Cities (NLC) City Summit and its Congressional City Conference.
Referring to his appointment, Messam said, “It is an honor to serve as President-Elect of the National League of Cities National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials. It is the oldest constituency group in America that advocates for policy issues impacting African-Americans and people of color since 1970. Their work has never been more important. Our progress in Miramar will help build the national agenda within the National League of Cities.”
Choosing the City of Miramar as a municipal leader and destination has become a normality for the National League of Cities, National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials. The organization have previously utilized Miramar as a host city of planned think-tanks; when they brought their summer conference and board meeting to South Florida in 2015.
At that event, attending elected officials took advantage of several networking opportunities and swapped ideas with NBC-LEO members from all across the country.
A tour of the City of Miramar was then included as an excursion to provide NBC-LEO conference-goers with an understanding of why Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurs are flocking to the City. They included City corporate assets of Spirit Airlines, Carnival and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Southern Wine and Spirits, FBI Headquarters, AeroTurbine Aviation Solutions and many more well-known and established brands.
The City of Miramar is home to one of the largest Caribbean-American middle-class community in the US, The influence of the city’s Caribbean-American community is reflected on the composition of the city’s governing body in which all the members of the city commission are of Caribbean heritage.
