Mayor Carlos Alvarez will release and discuss the proposed budget for FY 2009-2010 at a news conference at noon. This is the most dire budget in County Manager Burgess’ 27 years of doing the budget. Just remember, we (Happy Marlin’s Fans) are looking towards the future, namely (more accurate: dumbly) a new home for the Marlins, despite the fact that county employees are to be dumped from their jobs and possibly their family homes.
The Mayor’s official budget press conference, signals the official start of the annual budget shell game. The budget has been kicked around County Hall for months now. The alarm has been sounded, the division directors have been warned and employees have been stressed. Many hundreds, rumored to actually be a thousand or more, of currently filled jobs are in danger. The “option” that has been floated to the departments: You are taking a 5% pay cut. That is a morale booster, if there ever has been one. Perhaps, the Marlin’s executives will take a pay cut as well and donate the money they save back to the County to help with job placement services for the fired employees.
Mayor Alvarez when campaigning for office was fond of using the phrase the “buck stops here” as the reason for the need of a strong mayor. It will not happen. The buck is going to be passed off faster than a straight pitch coming off the mound. You wait and see.
As of today, the Miami-Dade Commission better be prepared for more than baseball, the hard pitch is coming right at them, right across home plate.
For us fans, it is time to watch the political game; it is definitely going to be more interesting than the current Marlins season.
4 comments:
Hey, the mayor needs to get a hard hat that fits his head better.
He looks like a cone head.
What for? The hat is just for a pose when the clowns break ground at the Marlins stadium.
If They raise taxes in any manner during these economic times, taxpayers should strike and refuse to pay taxes period. Yes it would be radical but aren't you tired of being fleeced? We've been kicked around by public employee unions for waaaaayyy to long.
Either that or get me one of those high salary, great pension do little or nothing jobs (like mayor).
The mayor is on a pension and drawing a salary I believe.You need more $ than you suspect.
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