Elections Hallandale Beach 2026

Hallandale Beach and our entire City can continue to move forward in stability and unity with the most civil Commission in the history of Hallandale Beach. This really matters. Our City has become fiscally stable as we continue to address all types of needs including the best Police Department, top notch Fire and EMS Services, In Addition Millions Of Dollars In Infrastructure While Not Raising Taxes.

I can say for the first time we are all unified. Not because we agree on everything. We are all unique individuals as the Mayor and Commission. We get that having a stable civil government has a unique value when it comes to unifying our community. Creating stability sends a message that our City is serious about getting things done. All stakeholders need to know that their elected officials do not take things personally, they are professionally educated and experienced leaders. Stability.

The other issue is in fact that we understand fiscally sound policy and conservative leadership helps to recruit and maintain staff on all levels including Police, Fire, EMS, Department of Public works, Financial Services, and constitutional officers. We send a strong message that we value our employees but more importantly we understand that there is a balance between providing services and protecting every tax dollar.

Our City has become fiscally stable because we made difficult choices. We did not give lip service or resort to popular politics that say “cut taxes vote for me.” This year it became quite important as we are all faced with Amendment 3 which did pass 61.98% Yes (4,922,165 votes) vs. 38.02% No (3,019,284 votes) points.

We're now looking at Amendment 3 as a serious challenge but not as a threat to our City’s fiscal insolvency. There are many cities now scrambling to try to figure out how they are going to pay for vital services. Our governor just announced that he may call a special session to preemptively stop cities from adjusting service fees or creating new ways to generate revenue to provide vital services.

As past President of the Florida League of Cities and a current Board Member we just conducted an emergency meeting and debriefing on Amendment 3. There was a discussion on how everyone was caught off guard somewhat because all the polling suggested that Florida voters got that Amendment 3 would impact their daily lives and vital services. Many organizations united against it.

Over the course of the debate from my observations, we did what we could to educate. We did a Town Hall Forum and tried to educate on the impacts and what would happen to our City if the amendment passed. I continued along with my colleagues to try to address issues and false information on Social Media. We did our best and it was up to the voters.

I am old school and always vote in person on Election Day. I walked out of the Cultural Center thinking that before many people would vote no. That evening there were many people that live paycheck to paycheck and were simply looking at any way to cut their expenses. All along I said this was a consumer issue. And I think that's what it came down to, people saving money. Every precinct supported Amendment 3 except for Y05.

We will see what will happen overall because not every city is the same. As I mentioned at the start of this article, our City is really fiscally stable, we've done what we can to create a balance within our means. We charge fairly for the services we deliver on a day-to-day basis. While we will take a hit, and I believe it's up to $12 Million annually, in the second year many other communities will be in a different situation.

While we had a remarkably interesting election and just like it was two years ago very split on the state, national level our City elections went very smoothly.

Anyone that puts their hat into an election does deserve some recognition for bravery and putting themselves in the public eye. Mike Butler had two candidates run against him. Matthew Mickens ran a virtually quiet race. He ran last year and did not win a seat. That did not change this year. The other candidate Victor Vaynashteyn had also ran last year against Annabelle Lima-Taub and lost. Joy Adams won her seat with over 70% with an extremely unusual candidate that ran Cheryl’ "WhoDat" Robinson.

We are back to work, and we will have our organizational meeting on Wednesday, November 18th, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. at that time the officials will be sworn in and a Vice Mayor will be appointed.

As always, I am available anytime for your questions, concerns, and ideas to make our City a better place on my Phone/Text at: (954) 632-5700. Or you can email me at: jcooper@cohb.org. Please visit me on my Facebook page at Mayor Joy Cooper. Like! Follow! And share!