I didn't vote for that stupid bond and you all did - so now you can see where your money is wasted. Geniusofdespair
The Miami Herald said today:
“Tuesday (today) the Miami-Dade County Commission will take up a resolution by Chairman Bruno Barreiro instructing the county manager and the mayor to use all available money to negotiate with the (Marlins) ball club.
Still to come: A committee chaired by Jose ''Pepe'' Diaz -- who has consistently fought for a new stadium -- must agree with Monday's decision by the Citizen's Advisory Council. Then the full county commission must accept redirecting the money, which has the support of several commissioners and County Mayor Carlos Alvarez.”
Yes, that Marlin's ballpark has reared its ugly head once again.
The reporter wasn’t clear as to what this 50 million was originally earmarked for. In fact, he didn’t say what they were diverting the $50,000,000 from. It appears to be from the Building Better Communities General Obligation Bond CDT (Convention Development Tax) funds according to the legislation but it didn’t say that in the article.
I wanted to see what the Citizen’s Advisory Council does. I couldn’t find such a "council" under county boards. I looked on the county website (that stinks by the way).
I called a woman in the Clerks office. She sent me to the legislation today. So I got the run around. It is not worth my time to run down what the hell the Citizen’s Advisory Council is. I just found it. Apparently the reporter was wrong. It is called the Citizens Advisory Committee NOT Council. That is why I could not locate it. They oversee the Bond Money – here is their charge exactly according to the county:
“The Citizens’ Advisory Committee (CAC) was created by the Board of County Commissioners to provide the residents of Miami-Dade a means to participate in the implementation of the Building Better Communities Bond Program. The 21-member CAC serves as an advisory group to the Board of County Commissioners, Miami-Dade County Mayor and the County Manager on the projects that are included in the bond program. Each County Commissioner appoints one member to the CAC, while the County Mayor appoints three members and County Manager appoints five members.”
Reporter Rabin said, according to CAC board member Sylvia Person (speaking about the ballpark's 50 million from the Bond):
''If you build it, they will come. And they will,'' she said. I think they also said that about the Carnival Center Sylvia.
These Boards are only as good as the people appointing. See post from yesterday. Most of the people doing the appointing are the lame commissioners.
I didn't vote for that stupid bond and you all did - so now you can see where your money is wasted. Each of us in the County is paying $21.81 for this. That would buy me a pretty good lunch or fill half my tank. Or it would pay for 333 affordable units at $150,000 a pop.
And remember: that 50 million is only PARTIAL funding.
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The $50 million from the Building Better Communities' General Obligation Bond (GOB) was originally designated (by the Citizens' Advisory Committee) to go the City of Miami, to be put towards renovations at the Orange Bowl.
However, since the Orange Bowl is no longer going to be needed, given the University of Miami's recent decision to move, the BCC is asking that the $50 million go towards the Orange Bowl "Site", rather than the Orange Bowl Stadium itself.
BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES CITIZENS' ADVISORY COMMITTEE (G.O.B.)
Created 4-5-2005
21 Members
TO REVIEW, MONITOR AND ADVISE ON THE PERFORMANCE AND PROGRAM ACHIEVEMENTS RELATED TO THE PROGRAM.BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND
dear not a moderate:
thanks for the info....
I would prefer to fix the orange bowl stadium. why are always destroying everything?
I don't believe any intelligent person voted for those bonds, which have raised our property taxes even more. But, have you forgotten the absentee ballots with which the BCC and county government "play" with, plus their 30,000 employees the county "motivates" to vote for anything that pleases them?
I've heard that the City of Miami refused any type of negotiation with UM to fix the Orange Bowl. Their main interest is to build the Marlins stadium and whether the citizens protest or not, our politicians will do whatever pleases them. So instead of getting angry, let's move to a better place.
I don't believe any intelligent person voted for those bonds, which have raised our property taxes even more. But, have you forgotten the absentee ballots with which the BCC and county government "play" with, plus their 30,000 employees the county "motivates" to vote for anything that pleases them?
I've heard that the City of Miami refused any type of negotiation with UM to fix the Orange Bowl. Their main interest is to build the Marlins stadium and whether the citizens protest or not, our politicians will do whatever pleases them. So instead of getting angry, let's move to a better place.
Last Anon:
You can oppose the bonds which will barely make a dent in our infrastructure backlog for all sorts of reasons, but don't say they're "raising taxes" because that's precisely the one thing they AREN'T doing. The reason it's going to take forever to get so much of this stuff done is because they're only issuing new debt as they retire the old bonds from the 1970's. If we were serious about making these public investments (pick one you like - parks maybe?) we'd have bitten the tax bullet instead of spreading the fund draw over 15 years.
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