Read this Haggman article in the Herald all you transit tax supporters.
And, don't miss the Ghost Town article in the Herald that Gimleteye linked to above. It is really good. However, I reported on my own Ghost Town in Florida City March 1st! That is BEFORE the AP story Gimleteye!! I have extensive photos in this post (see left for an example). I guess Eye on Miami knows where the stories are. There appeared to be two homeowners living in the abandoned looking Tower View Villa's. And Miami Dade helped with funding to get people into this loser development to boot! They waste our money and then can't come up with money in the budget for transit. I think it is a crock.
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Another reason why I look to EyeonMiami first for its local content rather than turning to the Herald. Regarding Wounded Healers IRS Form 990, I don't think they're required to file a return if annual contributions are less than $25k.
Wounded Healers might be the best charity in the world, same with Curley's House of Style and others...but the county, by their own rules requires periodic auditing of the entities receiving these discretionary funds. They don't do the audits. Why can't we know FOR SURE that they are DESERVING charities. Why should we just rely on someone simply forming a 501c3? We can do better...to me that would mean stopping the funds altogether but short of that, lets do those random audits that are promised by the County.
HUD has brought people displaced from Overtown and Liberty City when the condo building boom started in downtown Miami to live in these abandoned developments. Instead of appreciating having been moved to new homes in much better neighborhoods, most Section 8 recipients are now destroying the area as they did before with those which they left. If taxpayers are footing their bills, HUD should do a better job when screening beneficiaries of government help to ensure we don't continue to reward bad behavior.
Blame Burgess for the discretionary funds catastophe. He decided late one budget meeting night to give each commissioner a pot of money to use as they saw fit, rather than to be a man and fight the zillions of budget requests each commissioner had that was slowing down the budget process. It is entirely his fault, but for some reason "Teflon George" is never held accountable.
George Burgess knows very well how to butter the commissioners' bread.
Is it just me, or when a certain commissioner you like does something like spend discretionary funds on a mystery organization, you just refer to that commissioner by their District number, and not their name?
It is just you. Yes, District 7 is Carlos Gimenez.
It is not a mysterious charity/non profit...it might be a very good one. We don't know because they never AUDIT any of them. However, I don't think the commissioners should be in the charity business NONE OF THEM. We should be doing our own giving to the charities/non profits we believe are worthy. And, I think we would do a better job of vetting out the losers.
Haggman's article started off good till he quoted Pizzi, who has done the exact same thing with Town funds. He creates loyalty by funding the stupidest requests people can muster up and has even utilized these funds to hold Town-wide events especially during election years to help boost his publicity. He is stacking all the Town committee's with his cronies and has even started chairing many of these committees himself and no fund request gets denied now. Bad source to quote about discretionary funds and politicians. Look at the Simon case that cost taxpayers money. Let's help Optimist with losses stemming from Hurricane Katrina and WIlma by giving $14K to the owner...now serving the community on a committee. Same shit...different venue.
Wounded Healers has been sucking at the teat of the South Miami CRA for years. Does the Director, get his flock to support candidates that funnel more money to him?
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