The city of Miami has an employee flight problem. It begun two years ago when Commissioner Joe Carollo forced the resignation of former City Manager Emilio Gonzalez and, like a virus, has had several mutations and variants since.
New acting planning director Jeremy Gauger, who was the deputy and had taken over after Francisco Garcia left a year ago, left last month to become the director of building zoning and planning in the Village of Key Biscayne. Gauger worked in the private sector, at Arquitectonica, before that. FYI.
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Alan Dodd, the former public works director, is now Public Works Director in Fort Lauderdale, where he worked before coming to the city’s resiliency department in 2018. He left in September but, las malas lenguas say, he came back to take Sylejman Ujkani with him. Ujkani was the program manager overseeing spending of the $400 million bond. He also left last month.
And las malas lenguas say the special events guy, Film and Cultural Administrator Vicente Betancourt is on his way out. He is among many city officials who are dusting off their resumés and throwing out lines because the city is just too dysfunctional.
“There is a lot of drama,” one of the ex employees told Ladra.
Quite a few current city employees are said to be refreshing their resumes. Municipalities have realized it is a perfect place to poach public employees from a city that is basically a dumpster fire on an electric scooter.
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“Nobody wants to work here,” said one City Hall source. “We get no support, everything is an uphill battle.”
No support means they have an absent mayor who is more concerned with his national status as a future game show host than running the city and a commission so keen on fighting among themselves to reward their cronies that they have no time left for public service.
Often, doing a good job means you get demoted or fired, as in the case of former Police Chief Art Acevedo, who was rooting out corruption.
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