Florida’s largest local government spends more than $6 billion a year, offering a lucrative source of dollars for hundreds of vendors, contractors and grant recipients.
See the entire list of 500 in the Miami Herald. (Hit on the short list and it will keep going) It will make you sick when you think about Library funding. Hanks says further:
The list captures the end results of the yearly budget decisions that are getting underway this spring as commissioners and Mayor Carlos Gimenez decide how to allocate tax dollars. The dollars go to churches and schools administering county poverty and Head Start programs, contractors building county projects, service providers equipping county workers with phones, fuel, and other goods.
Florida Power & Light has a comfortable hold on the top position. The for-profit utility received nearly $370 million in Miami-Dade checks over 36 months, or an average of more than $300,000 a day. If Miami-Dade has a massive electric bill, it also digs deep to purchase fuel. MacMillan Oil, a Hialeah company, snagged the No. 3 spot with about $240 million worth of payments from Miami-Dade.Do you now see why I don't want CULTURAL ENTITIES TO GET MORE MONEY! Look at number 7 and 11.
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In Mayor Gimenez's heroic efforts to be at the ribbon cutting ceremonies of museums and stadiums costing us billions, the previous cost of the building program to expand the libraries over the last decade is never discussed. The price was in the tens of millions. To create a 49 branch system, there was new construction for libraries in Pinecrest, Aventura, Naranja, Kendall Lakes, Arcola Lakes, Hispanic, Golden Glades, International Mall, Miami Beach Regional, Palmetto Bay, South Shore, Verrick Park, and full renovations of Miami Springs and Shenandoah Branches. The supplies, furniture and equipment cost taxpayers millions, but this "strong" Mayor seems fixated only on the salaries of the librarians that still work for MDPLS. There are far less staff running your libraries than in any other library system of this size in this country. The number hovers at 400 now. Each week more librarians quit. In the meantime, those remaining are trying to keep the system afloat. We apologize for the lack of staff at our public service desks.
The problem with basing your economy on tourism and property tax increases is that a hurricane will set the county back ten years. What then?
The Miami Art Museum and the Miami Science Museum got a minimum of $150 Mil (so far) AND they were given a waterfront site worth $200 Mil. Yet neither have endowments and neither can cover their own operating expenses. The libraries serve far more people and at far more locations and with much better ease of access. Watch the broke museums lobby for more tax dollars. Watch Gimenez take money from the library system and give it to the broke museums.
Munilla Construction and MCM-Dragados JV are one and the same. They are commonly referred to as the Munilla Brothers...and all seven (7) brothers are related to the wife of Mayor Gimenez. They seem to be doing pretty well under the Giminez Regime. Funny how that works.
Community Health of South Florida this health organization needs a forensic audit. Certainly, a waste of taxpayers money. Give the money and service to Jackson or Baptist Hospital. This CHI is on the list getting money from the county treasury.
A follow up to this report detailing the names of the lobbyists for each of the listed companies should be made part of this study. The influence of lobbyists over Mayor Carlos Gimenez is sickening. The Munilla brothers are only part of the picture and every other company tells a similar story. With no federal, state or local law enforcement agency monitoring the activities of Gimenez, the high level of corruption permeates throughout this whole county.
Government only serves those that seve themselves! Lobbyist. Oublic servants , unions you name it. Most of our so called public servants become millionaires while the people. Our mayor Is a millionaire all all he has done is work for government. Public service is a means to get paid. Let's not forget to help those that help you be a public servant
Left and right diifferent beliefs but at the end the same result. One party gets rich by protecting the rich and the other party gets rich by protecting the poor. it's all sound bytes. It's funny. Ignorance reigns supreme
Please don't slam all non profits ... Remember there is a little museum at the Tamiami airport that has to beg for mercy from the county and they are volunteer run .... With rent the largest expense, even more than payroll for their 2 employees.
By the way, with all the new gadgets in the world, why are we paying that much for power?
Instead of plastering county buildings (ie: the train storage) with illegal billboards, why don't we take the lead and plaster our buildings with solar arrays? We can then lower our FPL bills and who knows, may be sell some electricity back to the grid. Unless, of course, we are intent on paying back campaign contributions through the county checkbook.
Did I forget to mention paybacks that include allowing FPL run ram shod over county residents with monster poles and unapproved nukes in Dade County's heaviest residential growth areas?
CHI deserves our tax money because they provide healthcare for many poor people. Healthcare is a massively regulated industry and organizations like them are systematically audited and monitored by a wide variety of agencies.
The large grants to the Perez and Frost museums were from the proceeds of the Building Better Communities general obligation bond which was approved through public referendum. The question regarding construction funding for cultural arts institutions passed by the highest margin of any of the 9 referendum questions. These are clearly something that was desired by the majority of those that cast ballots in that election. These are not recurring expenses.
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