According to Miami Today - I am told this came out in August but I never heard this:
Operating a new Museum of Science at Bicentennial Park may require a new tax of some sort, the museum's president and CEO says."They've had special taxes allocated toward other sources," Gillian Thomas said Tuesday. "They could do that for cultural causes as well."
Keep dreaming Gillian, we just had that county bond issue including cultural causes remember? BTW, we didn't even want your venue in the park anyway. Stay at your current location.
Miami Today said that at a July 23rd City of Miami Commission meeting, Mr. Sarnoff said he was wary of "setting a dangerous precedent" by putting up buildings for groups that may be unable to run them. Good thinking! (Read the first comment for some more news I didn't know about.)
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Well, how about another NEWS FLASH?
At the fancy luncheon the trust had last Friday at the Parrot Jungle, The Children's Trust primary mover and shaker, David Lawrence Jr., mentioned that he was hopeful that the public would see a way to raise the Children's Trust Tax to a full penny. Exactly what shouldn't be done. The mission to serve kids is great, but they have issues to straighten out before they could pry another half-cent out of my sweaty little hands. Same goes for the MAM museum on bay, next to the Museum of Science....Why are they throwing away a perfectly good building?
The museums there already have all the money I am coughing up. period.
Thanks child advocate good to know...
The "Miami Today" quoted the Miami Science Museum Executive Director Gillian Thomas as stating the museum might have to close. She was stating MiaSci was so broke they might have to close.
How can two broke museums be allowed to take taxpayer owned waterfront land? Park land? Even if either museum was somehow permitted to begin construction why should they bother? They are both too broke to finish construction and neither has any endowment.
Another PAC disaster in the making...
Miami Science Museum is broke. It is tapped out. The County is sick of funding its losses and there are no donors left.
Put it out of its misery, now.
Watch the lobbyists from Akerman Senterfit feverishly work to divert all the Tax Increment Tax money from the Omni CRA (tax money should be used to encourage for-profit on-the-tax-rolls businesses)to bail out the failed proposed museums.
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