Mayor Jack Seiler’s Amazing Lack of Leadership Last night’s Commission meeting with the Budget Advisory Board should have been one of the most important meetings for the Commission (and was one that should have been scheduled nineteen months ago, after the new Mayor and Commission took office). It was designed to allow the experienced neighborhood [...]
Call to Action! A grass-roots petition drive in Fort Lauderdale will be starting soon! After years of swollen budgets and wasteful City spending, Fort Lauderdale residents appear to have “had enough”. We saw our property values (and property taxes) increase by as much as 50% since 2004. Our City’s budget grew accordingly, increasing by as [...]
Fort Lauderdale Mayor Seiler finally responds! As most of you know, I have been writing articles questioning whether our Mayor is bankrupting Fort Lauderdale. Having approved the two biggest budgets in Fort Lauderdale history (neither of which were balanced) , continuing to give employees annual 5% pay raises and using up our precious fund reserves [...]
Are you aware of how many ways our City pulls money from your pocket? Did you know that there are more than one hundred (yes, that’s right!) 100 ways the City pulls money out of your pocket, and most of these are ways you may not even be aware of. In fact, there is a [...]
