While the Miami-Dade Commission considers firing 700 workers and slashing services and making employees sacrifice their benefits, the county spent close to $1 million this year on fancy new pavers for the parking lots at three county facilities. No, not libraries or neighborhood service agencies or cultural centers where hundreds of constituents come and go. These octagonal, terracotta-colored […]
It’s just another band-aid. And it’s not even a good one at that. Rather more like those cheap, generic brand band-aids you buy at the dollar store. But Miami-Dade Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez, who didn’t listen to the people when they voted to increase their own taxes for improved animal services, has turned his other […]
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez will present his budget today for the first time publicly — his proposal to run the $6.2 billion business that is county government and, more specifically, the $4.45 billion that is the general operating budget (the other $1.6 mil is for capital improvements). Oh, that doesn’t mean we aren’t […]
Say it ain’t so, mayor: Please tell Ladra and everyone who lives in the county and pays property taxes that you are not proposing to fire 255 police officers while, with the other hand, you give the Pérez Art Museum Miami $1.5 million more for $4 million in total. How many cops’ jobs can those […]
Forgive Ladra and her friends if we have lost all faith in Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Cry Wolf” Gimenez and the county bean counters. First, there was a $208 million shortfall in the Miami-Dade budget. Then it was $200 million. Then, if I recall correctly, it fell to $160 million. Then it was $90 million. Then it […]
While alarms are sounding about reduced services and Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez threatens to lay off up to 700 employees — including 250 police officers — to balance the $4.4 billion county operating budget, our commissioners will consider spending close to $100 million just today on everything from engineering to janitorial services to concerts to personal trainers. Can […]
Miami-Dade County commissioners will consider another sweetheart deal Tuesday to lease nearly four acres with a 38,000-square-foot building and a surface parking lot included — for $1 a year. This time, the land grab is not for a millionaire sports team owner. It is the City of Miami Police Department, which wants to use the property at 1701 NW 30th Ave. […]
UPDATED: Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and most of his family will not feel the pain that he wants to inflict on the rest of us in the county if and when he cuts 255 officers from the Miami-Dade Police Department. Gimenez lives on the edge of Coconut Grove, across the street from Coral Gables, at […]
You gotta give it to Daniella Levine Cava, the Democratic Party darling running in the non-partisan county commission race against incumbent Lynda Bell: She knows a good campaign issue when she sees one. And she jumped on it quick. The last meeting of Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos “Tarnished Boy” Gimenez‘s blue ribbon task force for the […]
Problems in the procurement process at Miami-Dade County are becoming a persistent plague. We’ve had bid protests over the pizza place at Miami International Airport, the water and sewer contract, the code enforcement court deferment services, where commissioners actually asked for what amounts to a “do-over.” Commissioner Audrey Edmonson said she expects an issue in the […]