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🚨BREAKING: Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz detailed how she saved taxpayers about $33 million by skipping new uniforms, a cold plunge, massage tables, and logos on everything. She said the office was paying the county $54 million a year for IT services. Closer supervision and review brought that down to $42 million, a $12 million annual savings without cutting services. Moving toward managing its own technology independently is projected to save another $6 to $7 million, bringing the total IT savings to $18 to $19 million a year. Eliminating the county’s Sergeant-at-Arms program will save about $4.1 million annually and return those deputies to patrol. Keeping the existing brown uniforms instead of switching to green avoided roughly $4.8 million. Updating graphics on about 1,700 white vehicles instead of repainting them avoided another $5.7 million. Those two decisions alone account for $10.5 million. Buying office supplies directly from the county’s vendor saved about $200,000 a year. Fuel rebates, maintenance discounts, and scheduling changes add more. Together the quantified items total approximately $32.8 to $33.8 million in savings and avoided costs. The sheriff’s office spokesman has also pointed to the uniform and vehicle decisions as part of the rebranding from a police department to a sheriff’s office without the full cost of new colors and paint. Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz says her office has already cut or avoided roughly $33 million by keeping the old brown uniforms, not repainting the cars, trimming IT costs, and dropping the Sergeant-at-Arms detail. She says the savings are real and the work is just starting.