Miami-Dade County Commissioners Dennis Moss and Rebeca Sosa want the federal government to spend money and manpower to rebuild Haiti.

Call it the Caribbean Marshall Plan.

The two are co-sponsors of a resolution that will be proposed at Tuesday's County Commission meeting which urges the federal government to ``adopt a plan to rebuild Haiti similar to the Marshall Plan.''

That plan, created in 1947 and engineered by then-Secretary of State George Marshall, led to four years and $13 billion worth of reconstruction in Europe to repair war damage, mostly from bombs dropped by allied forces.

The resolution cites Haiti's status as the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, and notes that a quarter of the country's economy is money that islanders receive from overseas. A Marshall Plan, the resolution says, could result in a massive infusion of food, infrastructure, aid, technical help and trade preferences.

''A Marshall Plan for Haiti could serve to jump-start Haiti's economy just as the Marshall Plan did in many regions of Europe, leading to several decades of growth and prosperity following World War II,'' the proposal states.

It directs the county's federal lobbyists to advocate its passage and asks the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs to include it in the 2007 and 2008 federal legislative packages.

South Florida has one of the nation's largest Haitian communities, estimated at more than 162,000 in the 2000 Census.

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Miami Republican, accompanied Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on a trip to Haiti in 2005, just before the country's elections. She said that despite the rampant crime and corruption that has hurt previous U.S. investment in the island nation, she's willing to make another go of it.

''The concept of a Marshall Plan for Haiti proposed by some of our local officials could serve as an instrument of growth and sustainable development,'' Ros-Lehtinen said.

Moss was out of town and unavailable for comment.

Sosa, the resolution's co-signer, said she realizes any help headed Haiti's way has to come from a hybrid of the actual Marshall Plan.

''I'm supporting Commissioner Moss based on the incredible needs of the Haitians,'' she said.