In a Miami Herald article MIAMI HERALD WATCHDOG | HOUSING: HIV/AIDS nonprofit's dealings questioned reporter Scott Hiaasen reports: “A nonprofit agency is under scrutiny for its practices, including selling a Liberty City apartment complex that was supposed to be set aside for people with HIV/AIDS.”
According to records I found that the Non-Profit Mover's, Inc. sold 5 properties for $1,800,000 to Golden Sterling, LLC in May! (Hit on image above to enlarge).
Where is the money now? They say paying off loans and providing services. Well there was that $550,000 they paid on the mortgage but Services? No, really, where is the rest of the money: $1,250,000?
I always say, that there are too many people on too many boards. Even if you are a good person, you are so distracted you let just about anything be rubber stamped. Let’s look at the board history of the troubled Mover’s Inc.:
Who were the first officers in 1995:
Dr. Solomon Stinson, Andrea Harris, Lillie McCall, Charles Arnaud.
Who were the officers in 2005:
Andre Smith, Shirlene Lassiter, William Perry, Dewey Knight, III, Darryl Holsendorph, Roy Phillips.
Who are the current officers:
Tyrone Washington, Connie West, William Perry, Dewey Knight III, Rev. Willie Williams and Elaine Black.
I recognize some of these names don’t you?
The Manager of Golden Stirling is Secured Quest, LLC out of Miami Lakes which was formed February 27, 2007. Secured Quest, LLC managers are Nicolas Quijano and Jorge Gross of Miami Lakes.
Considering they were receiving other funds, unless they have more than $1,000,000 in the Mover's bank account, something may be fishy or mismanaged! I need more information on where this money is and what happened to all the Federal money pouring in for aids. I would suppose this is a boondoggle at the very least.
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It's amazing that while the City of Miami and Dade County officials are rushing through fancy projects that will provide no benefit to regular citizens, another of their useless organizations "to help the poor" has left victims of the AIDS virus homeless living in the streets. Let's see if the 13 M-D commissioners and the two mayors rush to the aid of the new homeless people. They will if there are enough reporters taking their pictures while they pretend to be concerned.
Usual suspects...
Mighty suspicious list of board members. Many names keep appearing at too many situations where taxpayer money keeps being "disappeared".
The expression "poverty pimps" come to mind. Those board members never want solutions... they want poverty to continue because that is how they make their money.
I wish all those "board members" would just get jobs in the private sector and stop making taxpayer money disappear, from the public sector. (Into their pockets?)
What can one say? We certainly have a tough time in this county spending money with common sense and using what we have without giving it away.
I think that the county budget audit should be done with some ordinary citizens (random names picked off the tax rolls by computer) doing a line by line search of the outgoing and incoming funds. Let them ask why that check was written or why we have so many outstanding receivables. The county has staff to add and subtract the numbers for the group. Let's make the county accountable for our dollars from the grass roots level. It would be an audit that would produce results. Can you imagine them asking for documentation on why something cost so much? Or how moving the same employees from department A to department G saved the county money in the budget crunch? No spin-doctors allowed in the room, either!
36,000+ employees of Miami-Dade County. Many live in Broward County. Far too many care nothing for the taxpayers.
Most Miami-Dade employees make 20% to 80% more as "public servants" than if they were in the private sector. For them "working" for the County is the gravy train.
Some of those employees putin 60 hour weeks for their salaries... and they DON"T get paid over time or the big bucks. So, get rid of the lazy ones and keep those that work.
Many Non-profits struggle with their boards... you either collect the guys who love the title on their CV or those are "yes" men/ladies to the exec director.
Non-profits, even the best ones, have issues. And considering that they are using money that is not theirs to achieve their mission, it really can get hairy.
I sit on one board and trust me, the board is basically locked out of operations of the non-profit. We have a "paid" outside bookkeeper, but she does the bidding of the excutive director. The staff has been told not to interact with the board and the executive director is pals with the president, who is always there. The rest of us are mushrooms. It makes me nervous as heck.
Any board member who is being treated like a mushroom (kept in the dark and being covered in shit) should speak up and complain. The taxpayers deserve and expect board members to speak up and complain when crimes are being committed.
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