As most of you know, I’m a small business owner here in Fort Lauderdale. Today, I received an official-looking letter from the City of Fort Lauderdale. As I was opening it, I was trying to think what the contents would contain. As the first formal communication from the City to me & my business, I was [...]
It seems as though the Police Department here in Fort Lauderdale has been getting a lot of scrutiny over the last few weeks. I believe everyone by now knows that we can do a lot more to tighten up the Department’s costs. So here’s another issue that our City Commission should be tackling- According [...]
TO: Mayor Jack Seiler (jack.seiler@fortlauderdale.gov) Commissioner Charlotte Rodstrom (crodstrom@fortlauderdale.gov) Commissioner Romney Rogers (rrogers@fortlauderdale.gov) Commissioner Bobby DuBose (bdubose@fortlauderdale.gov) Commissioner Bruce Roberts (broberts@fortlauderdale.gov) FROM: Earl Rynerson (earl@abetterftlauderdale.com) SUBJECT: Fort Lauderdale’s 2009/2010 Budget I know that you as a Commission will start to be making some tough decisions in June about what our new budget will be looking [...]
Since this weekend is Memorial Day, I would like to make a couple of suggestions to the Fort Lauderdale City Commission. Background: Our country has hundreds of thousands of troops overseas, thousands of them fighting this ridiculous and shameful war in Iraq, with over 4,000 of our troops paying the ultimate sacrifice for our [...]