From a Channel 10 Report:
"Local 10 uncovered more than 100 vehicles, paid for by Miami-Dade taxpayers that have been sitting idle in the Earlington Heights Metrorail garage for years. In total, an estimated $965,000 worth of taxpayer bought vehicles" have never been used.
Sure doesn't make sense that they are laying off people. I guess this counts as a boondoggle. Gimenez's answer for the idle cars: "Years ago the county significantly reduced the size of its fleet and decided to keep current vehicles on the road longer. By that time, the idle vehicles had already been bought and delivered. Gimenez said the idle vehicles will eventually be added to the county's fleet, as needed."
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In the same article Lynda Bell said:
"My district needed a vehicle and now I see we have almost a million dollars worth of vehicles there, it is appalling to me," Commissioner Bell said. "
Why does her district need a vehicle? Why would we give vehicles to districts?
Gimenez may want to pretend that this happened on the previous Mayor's watch, but he has kept the Alvarez team that managed GSA as his own crew. He must think that what they did was stupid, but not dumb enough to be removed from his leadership team. Keeping the bar low...
Who was responsible? GSA Fleet Management Division Director Ana Gutierrez, GSA Deputy Director Danny Alfonso, GSA Director Wendi Norris, and Assistant County Manager Alina Hudak.
Alfonso is now the budget director at the City of Miami (God help them).
The rest of them should be disciplined and/or fired for incompetence and mismanagement.
These vehicles can be used to give the county commissioners to drive. The commissioners can then return the luxury vehicle they drive.
Let's add in the cost of insurance and tag renewals each year, estimate at least (on a low scale & a guess) $1300 per year, per vehicle. That's $130,000 just for that stuff, now multiply x the 6 years (they said they were 2006 vehicles) So those costs to us taxpayers were $780,000 (maybe more, maybe less), however, that's a big chunk of change in addition to the near Million Dollars left over from the Burgess regime.
And those County Commissioners, all of them who gave an on camera interview, would have been better off not saying a word! They all looked like idiots. How could they not know, or is it they didn't really care? As to Bell? You know what, she's so pathetic I cannot believe anyone takes anything she says seriously!
There are three floors of new Miami Dade Police Dodge Chargers sitting at earlington heights. Yet there are officers driving vehicles that are from 2001 or older with mileage nearing 200k and in decrepit condition. The cost of keeping those vehicles on the road is higher then switching them out with a newer model. Some of the old vehicles in use are missing paint and have huge rust spots. Just drive by station 4's shop in south dade and look at some of them. It's embarrassing.
Why are you surprised? What did you expect?
This is Miami-Dade County after all. If anything works here, that should be a shock.
But this? Par for the course!!!!
Business as usual.
Those police cars that are sitting there have been there since before Alvarez... He knew it as police chief and so did the commissioners. And certainly, George burgess.. Those cars have square tires from sitting and are a liability... I think that it is horrible that the existing police cars are in such disrepair... It is a freaking accident waiting to happen
I had requested a list of Vehicles from the county. Got the list and it's over 10,600 vehicles.
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