How the City feeds its continued spending addiction: “Late fees” A tourist by the name of Randy Weiss from Potomac Maryland was visiting Fort Lauderdale on December 17 last year when he received a $30 parking ticket for overtime parking. He paid his ticket within the 30 day grace period, but the City did not [...]
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 [...]
The Big Lie: “Cuts in Budgets = Cuts in Services” I’ve heard Mayor Jack Seiler and other City and County bureaucrats spread the following “tall tale” about government budgets. It goes something like this: “We’re afraid that if budget cuts happen, we won’t be able to provide the same level of services to our residents…” [...]
Arguments at City Hall and four months wasted If you tuned in to cable channel 78 this last Tuesday at 7pm, you would have seen the essence of why our City Government does not work. The meeting was supposed to be the second “Budget Workshop” with our City’s Budget Advisory Board, Our Mayor & Commission, [...]
