She’ll be in the hot seat at Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club
Alina Hudak is almost one year into her new job as the city manager in Miami Beach. The former deputy Miami-Dade mayor under Carlos Gimenez was named to replace former manager Jimmy Morales, who went to work for Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.
It was almost like a trade.
And some might say the Beach got the better end of the deal.
Hudak is a veteran government administrator, working almost three decades in Miami-Dade. She served as assistant county manager and county manager before becoming a deputy mayor in the administration of Carlos Gimenez. She was set to retire when she was hired as an assistant city manager in Miami Beach in 2020 — her boss was termed out later that year anyway. She got the interim role four months before being appointed the permanent position last April.
She now has a four-year contract at $320,000 a year (plus $9,600 annually for a vehicle allowance and tons of leave time and retirement benefits).
Read related: Jimmy Morales leaves Miami Beach early for Miai-Dade and La Alcaldesa
The wife of Coral Gables Police Chief Ed Hudak, Alina Tejeda Hudak became the first female city manager in Miami Beach. This week, she is the invited speaker at the Miami Beach Tuesday Morning Breakfast Club meeting. Ladra expects the controversial street raising project and the recent and demolition of the Deauville Hotel will dominate the discussion.
Breakfast begins promptly at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at CAO Bakery & Cafe, 1420 Alton Rd. Hosted by former Mayor Matti Bower, it will also stream on Facebook Live, where viewers are encouraged to submit questions.
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Hudak is incompetent. South Beach is in headlines worldwide again for the disaster that is Spring Break on Miami Beach. Photos and videos make South Beach and Miami Beach look like a drug fueled ghetto. Hudak was warned but she panders to special interests. She takes her massive pay and benefit package. She leaves Miami Beach every afternoon.
” She is a big buddy of CF Rundle. ”
And that is the key in Miami being friends with the ENABLER .
All roads take you to her and the City Attorney .
” Paging Kathy Rundle! North Miami Beach is a cesspool of corruption. Do something already!”
‘ State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle turns a blind eye to corrupt public officials, especially looters posing as elected officials.
In the City of North Miami Beach, for instance, corruption has become the rule rather than the exception.’
County employees breathed a collective sigh of relief when she left in 2019-2020. Everyone hated her for her arrogance and sliminess. She was appointed by Gimenez as Director over the 1,000+ employees of the County’s solid waste department (HQ located at MLK and NW 27th Ave in Liberty City), but she NEVER visited her office at MLK, preferring to hang out with the big shots on the 29th floor Downtown. Great for morale !
Another odious example took place in 2016-2017, when she ordered numerous mosquito-spraying flight that the Feds had told (see emails archive) the County would do nothing to kill mosquitoes or even slow down reproduction in mosquitoes. Nothing. Yet she kept ordering such spraying flights at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars just to show people that she was “doing something” to attack Zika. Anything (especially our taxpayer money) for her to get a headline. No indictments on the horizon yet. She is a big buddy of CF Rundle.
County employees feel sorry for the Beach employees that now must tolerate her arrogance, loathsome pettiness, and kow towing to special interests.
Update: Looks like she answered my question.. Invoke the nuclear option… again. I wonder does travel insurance cover city declared state of emergency restrictions for guests’ misbehavior?
Alina Hudak swapped jobs with our former incompetent city manager Jimmy Morales. He went to the county; she came to the city. She doesn’t know what she is doing, other than completely doing the bidding of wealthy special interests. The city seawalls by my home are crumbling and flood at every high tide, but nothing is happening to fix the issues. Staff in MB are hired based on loyalty, not competency. Fire Hudak!
Is Alina Hudak friends with Luis Puig? The founder of the drug club Club Space? Cuban connection? Will David Suarez show up to the TMBC?
Alina Hudak deserves scorn for allowing far too many apartment buildings in Miami Beach to be turned into short term rentals ie fake hotels. Some of the decisions were made by Jimmy Morales and his staff BUT Hudak should have spoken out in favor of the residents. Instead she sided with the law breaking staffers. Hudak should be fired for this action alone. No resident wants to pay $500,000 to $3,000,000 million to live on a quiet block only to find a drug club gangster has bought an apartment building and he is exploiting contacts and loopholes (and maybe bribes) to bring in parties and criminals nightly…with no onsite supervision.
We didn’t always see eye to eye as sometimes what is possible to accomplish and what is politically practical are worlds apart. Clearly she survived all these decades following the latter approach but I am happy for her success. For a time I worked for both her and Jimmy and respect both but yes M-D’s loss was the Beach’s gain.
My question for the meeting: what’s holding up cleaning up that never ending shit show on South Beach? Must all resolutions, ordinances and policy first be vetted by the Clevelander Hotel?
Who is WORTH ?