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, [...]
Congratulations, Fort Lauderdale, you did it! As most of you know, our Mayor and Commission decided in Dec 2009 to form a “Vision Committee” to come up with a Vision for Fort Lauderdale (the Mayor apparently felt he was not qualified to come up with a Vision on his own that others could work from…). [...]
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’s multi-million dollar love affair with consultants… Now: $400K for a new Vision? Fort Lauderdale has spent millions of dollars over the last few years for “Consulting Services”. Things like: Utility Billing Consulting Services, Parking and Traffic Consulting Services, “Impact Fee Studies”, Feasibility Reports, Environmental Audits & Studies, Solid Waste consulting, Noise Consulting, [...]
