One of the quotes heard frequently when City Budgets or Pensions are up for discussion is this: It comes from Police and Fire professionals and sounds something like: “I deserve that (Raise/salary/pension/ etc.)…”I put my life on the line every day for you”… Now true, Police and Fire professionals obviously play a critical role in [...]
If you only read one article from my web site, this is the article to read. The lack of initiative shown by Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler (and the majority of the Commission) regarding our City’s growing unfunded pension liability is quite frankly, stunning. The growing unfunded portion of our City’s pension liability has the [...]
Why Fort Lauderdale City Government does not work. There is a general consensus that our current elected leaders are not working for us. With the first newly elected City Commission in over a decade, hopes were high that we would see new initiatives from them. Yet over the last two years, there have been too [...]
Fort Lauderdale Fire and Rescue personnel using fire trucks for shopping trips. Should this happen? A reader of our web site sent me a photograph last week of Fort Lauderdale Fire Trucks parked alongside a Publix grocery store on Sunrise and 15 Ave (photo is shown below). He was concerned when he saw that our [...]
