Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, Port Everglades, the Broward Sheriff's Office headquarters, the county medical examiner, the regional library and parks systems, the bus network, property tax administration — Broward County government runs one of the largest single-county operations in Florida. The county encompasses 31 municipalities and serves roughly 1.95 million residents, the second-most-populous county in the state.
The county is governed by a nine-member Board of County Commissioners, elected from single-member districts in partisan elections. As of 2026, all nine commissioners are Democrats. Each November, the Commission selects one of its members to serve a one-year term as Mayor, with another taking the role of Vice Mayor. The current Mayor is Mark D. Bogen, who represents District 2 and was elevated to the chair on November 18, 2025 — his second time in the role, having previously served as Mayor in 2018–19. District 8 Commissioner Robert McKinzie serves alongside him as Vice Mayor.
Unlike Miami-Dade County to the south, where the County Mayor is an executive office, the Broward County Mayor's role is largely ceremonial. Day-to-day executive authority rests with the County Administrator, currently Monica Cepero, who is described in the Broward County Charter as the chief executive officer of county government. Cepero, the County Attorney, and the County Auditor are all appointed by the Commission and serve at its pleasure.
A separate story shaping the 2026 election cycle is Mayor Bogen's bid for a fourth four-year term, which has drawn legal attention because of a 2014 timing quirk: Bogen was not sworn in until January 2015 after a delayed District 2 general election. The Broward County Attorney issued a December 2023 memo concluding Bogen was eligible to run, treating his first term as a partial term under the county charter. Bogen filed for re-election unopposed alongside Vice Mayor McKinzie and Commissioner Lamar Fisher (District 4).
Boca Post covers Broward County Commission meetings, county budget actions, the Mayor's office, the appointed leadership of the County Administrator, County Attorney, and County Auditor, the constitutional officers elected countywide, and major county-controlled assets including Port Everglades and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. For city-level Broward coverage, see Pompano Beach news, Deerfield Beach news, and Coral Springs news. For all Broward coverage across topics, see Broward County news.
County Commission meetings are held at the Broward County Governmental Center, 115 S. Andrews Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. Agendas and meeting video are posted at broward.org.
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The Broward County Commission
The nine members of the Broward County Commission represent geographic districts that together cover all 31 cities in the county and its unincorporated areas. Commissioners serve four-year terms in partisan elections, with a limit of three consecutive four-year terms under the county charter. The Mayor and Vice Mayor are chosen annually by the Commission itself on the third Tuesday of November; by long-standing convention, the Vice Mayor typically rotates into the Mayor's seat the following year.
The Commission's current Mayor and Vice Mayor were selected at the November 18, 2025 reorganization meeting.
Mark D. Bogen
Role: Mayor, Commissioner — District 2
Democratic commissioner representing District 2, which includes Coconut Creek, Margate, and portions of Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach, and Coral Springs. An attorney by trade, Bogen was first sworn in on January 6, 2015 following a delayed general election and was unanimously elected Mayor by his colleagues on November 18, 2025 — his second time in the chair, after a first stint in 2018–19. Filed unopposed for a fourth four-year term in the November 2026 election. His eligibility hinges on a December 2023 county attorney memo treating his first term as a partial term under the charter.
Recent Coverage of Mayor Bogen
Robert McKinzie
Role: Vice Mayor, Commissioner — District 8
Democratic commissioner representing District 8. Elected Vice Mayor on November 18, 2025. By the Commission's typical rotation, the Vice Mayor stands to be selected as Mayor at the following November's reorganization meeting. Filed for re-election to his District 8 seat unopposed for the November 2026 cycle.
Recent Coverage of Vice Mayor McKinzie
Nan H. Rich
Role: Commissioner — District 1
Democratic commissioner representing District 1. Elected to the County Commission in November 2016. Served as Broward County Mayor in 2023–24 and as Vice Mayor in 2022–23. Before joining the Commission, Rich served four terms in the Florida Legislature — two terms in the Florida House from 2000 to 2004 and two terms in the Florida Senate from 2004 to 2012, where she served as Minority Leader from 2010 to 2012.
Recent Coverage of Commissioner Rich
Michael Udine
Role: Commissioner — District 3
Democratic commissioner representing District 3, which includes parts of Coral Springs, North Lauderdale, Parkland, Sunrise, and Tamarac. Previously served as Broward County Mayor in 2021–22 and as Vice Mayor before that. Re-elected to his District 3 seat in November 2024.
Recent Coverage of Commissioner Udine
Lamar Fisher
Role: Commissioner — District 4
Democratic commissioner representing District 4, an east-county district that spans nine municipalities from Hillsboro Beach south to Fort Lauderdale and includes Pompano Beach. A fourth-generation Broward County resident, Fisher serves as CEO and president of Fisher Auction Company. Before joining the County Commission in November 2018, Fisher served as Mayor of Pompano Beach from 2007 to 2018. He was Broward County Mayor in 2022–23 and Vice Mayor in 2021–22. Filed for re-election unopposed for the November 2026 cycle.
Recent Coverage of Commissioner Fisher
Steven Geller
Role: Commissioner — District 5
Democratic commissioner representing District 5, which includes Davie and Cooper City in full, plus portions of Plantation, Sunrise, Southwest Ranches, and the tribal land north of Stirling Road that includes the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. An attorney, Geller served as Broward County Mayor in 2020–21 and Vice Mayor in 2019–20. Before joining the County Commission in November 2016, Geller served two decades in the Florida Legislature — first in the Florida House from 1989 to 1998 and then in the Florida Senate from 1998 to 2008, where he served as Minority Leader from 2006 to 2008.
Recent Coverage of Commissioner Geller
Beam Furr
Role: Commissioner — District 6
Democratic commissioner representing District 6, which covers parts of Dania Beach, Davie, Fort Lauderdale, Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, Pembroke Park, and West Park. First elected to the County Commission in 2016. Most recently served as Broward County Mayor in 2024–25, the seat he passed to Mark Bogen at the November 2025 reorganization meeting. Furr also previously served as Mayor in 2018.
Recent Coverage of Commissioner Furr
Alexandra P. Davis
Role: Commissioner — District 7
Democratic commissioner representing District 7, which includes parts of Hollywood, Miramar, Pembroke Pines, and tribal land. Sworn in to the County Commission in November 2024 after running unopposed. Davis previously served on the Miramar City Commission since 2010, including a term as Miramar Vice Mayor, with a brief hiatus from 2014 to 2019. With her election alongside Hazelle Rogers, the Broward County Commission seated two Jamaican-American members concurrently for the first time in its history.
Recent Coverage of Commissioner Davis
Hazelle P. Rogers
Role: Commissioner — District 9
Democratic commissioner representing District 9, which includes parts of Fort Lauderdale, Lauderdale Lakes, Lauderhill, Oakland Park, Plantation, and Sunrise.
Coverage of Commissioner Rogers
Monica Cepero
Role: County Administrator (Appointed)
Appointed by the Board of County Commissioners to serve as the chief executive officer of Broward County government. As County Administrator, Cepero directs the functions of county government under the authority of the Commission and oversees the agency heads, divisions, and roughly 6,000 county employees. The County Administrator's office is located at the Broward County Governmental Center, 115 S. Andrews Avenue, Room 409.
Coverage of County Administrator Cepero
How We Cover Broward County Government
Broward County coverage requires reading across a different set of records than Palm Beach County. The Broward Clerk of Courts maintains its own filing systems for civil, family, and criminal cases. The County Auditor's reports are published separately from the County Administrator's budget documents. Port Everglades and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport — both county-controlled enterprise operations — produce their own meeting minutes, financial statements, and procurement records.
We work from the published Commission agenda, the supporting backup, the meeting video, and the adopted ordinance or resolution. For zoning matters in unincorporated Broward, we review filings with the Planning and Development Management Division. For commission action that affects municipal residents directly — millage rates, transit decisions, ambulance contracts — we identify the affected cities and link the coverage to the relevant city hubs.
The constitutional officers elected countywide in Broward — the Sheriff, the Property Appraiser, the Supervisor of Elections, the Clerk of Courts, and the Tax Collector — operate independently of the County Commission but are part of county government. We cover them as separate entities, with the same sourcing standards we apply to BCC decisions.
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