Question One: Did we pay for the three Commissioners to go to Africa on County Business: Audrey Edmonson, Sally Heyman and Natacha Seijas. What county business do we have in Africa and what is it costing all of us taxpayers?
Question Two: (There is a correction in this section. I was given bad information--I don't have a paid researcher --I corrected it) The consultant doing the MPO "Kendall corridor" study: Does the transportation consultant have ties to Kathy Sweetapple who does the dog and pony show for developers, she was at the back of the room at yesterday’s MPO meeting at Country Walk. Has she worked for Kimberly Horne in the past? Are they pals, best buds?
How did Kimberly Horne get this contract from MPO anyway?
The reason I ask this question, the proposed routes just happen to serve all the UDB application sites (many are Kathy's clients).
P.S. 4/30: HERE IS THE SCOOP DIRECT FROM MPO -(YOU CAN SEE WHY THIS IS VERY HARD TO SORT OUT):
"we checked into your question and can offer the following: The firm of Kimley Horn is a subconsultant to Edwards and Kelcey (prime consultant) on the Kendall MPO contract. Ms. Sweetapple does not work for Kimley Horn. We are aware that Kimley Horn and Ms. Sweetapple have worked as part of consultant teams representing various DRI's. In addition, Kimley-Horn did inform us however, that they recently did some traffic modeling work for the company Ms. Sweetapple represents involving the Parkland DRI."
14 comments:
A conflict by any other name smells the same!
I see nothing wrong with them going, the problem is they came back.
the problem is not the manager or the ethics committee, it's that the commission runs everything regardless of the strong mayor issue, they are power grabbing every meeting.
meaning the commission essentially runs the ethics commission and they are power grabbers, concentrating on nothing else lately.
Yea, I want to know what business Dade County has in South Africa also.
Sounds like a vacation at our expense to me.......
Hokey Wolf
Thank you, you made me laugh today.
Unless you receive a real answer that you can publish here, please put your questions in that Miami Herald.
Genius of Despair said...
Miami Herald never answers questions unless you embarrass them enough...posing questions on the world wide web, like this, will light a fire under them...and they don't print letters they don't want to answer... and who knows, a reader could have the answer. It has happened before.
Mensa, in case you didn't know...this blog was developed for primarily one reason: frustration with the Miami Herald. We wouldn't bother writing if the Herald were a better newspaper.
Well if they were going to develop business in So. Africa then thats great. South Africa needs all the help it can get, (high levels of HIV, large numbers of unemployment, huge crime problems, remains of racism, no local sucess stories - Zambawe.) On the upside So Africa has become one of the most popular vacation destinations for europeans. If they are going on vacation to this new "hot spot" well then perhaps they should be imprisioned when they return.
Last Anon: when I was a waiter, I found that if you told people there were problems with their order they always were patient. Why didn't the Commissioners tell us AHEAD OF TIME why they were going to Africa? Maybe then this would not be an issue. However, I remember when Pepe Diaz went all over the world under the guise of developing business relationships.
Where is all that business?
And where is our flamboyant State Attorney and the feds to investigate those trips? Sleeping too!
The South Africa story does sound rotten. Why was it so under-wraps that even Miami Today, the paper that always posts a story on that sort of thing, didn't announce the trip? Even if they come up with some "legitimate" reason - i.e. trying to woo a major corporation to relocate to Miami-Dade - there is no reason that three Commissioners needed to go - we have a Chamber of Commerce for that, or at least a Mayor who can appoint a representative.
And I wouldn't be surprised if they come back from their African safari and introduce new resolutions such as "Resolution urging automakers that driving through a herd of wildebeests is dangerous and warnings should be placed on sun visors." Or is it only dangerous when using cruise control?
Did Natacha have a face lift in Africa?
A FACE LIFT? Probably Natacha Seijas lost some weight because there were no manatees to eat.
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