Sunday, November 09, 2014
Home Rule Charter Double Cross. By Geniusofdespair
Libraries in Parks -- how did that possibly pass with 65% of the vote? Why don't you all just end the slow death of parks. Just fill them with condos and be done with it. Bunch of idiots lifting the Home Rule Charter protection of buildings in parks. Now we can all be like Hialeah.
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The first paragraph sounded okay; so people didn't bother to read beyond it.
There should a requirement that each change should be one sentence and written in plain language so that everyone can understand the intent.
I agree. Parks should be left green and open. We need children and adults playing basketball, soccer, tennis... Small community centers are OK to house bathrooms and maybe small computer rooms. Wholesale destruction of open space to allow the Latin Builders Lobbyist Crowd to pick off more contracts building more buildings destroying more parks is wrong on so many levels.
We can bitch and moan about people voting this way and that, but unless we can educate the people on the relevancy of the issues, we are losing the voting battle.
Does any of those 65% of the voters realize what they just did? Of course not!
The majority of voters don't know what they vote for anytime. They read blogs and the paper and talk to who knows who and then they vote without any real information on what it is they voted for or who.
The problem with South Florida is that the people pick up their information on the streets from people who do not know what they are doing politically and really do not know that they do not know.
Putting libraries in parks? That is dumber than dumb. What were they thinking and where in the country are there any libraries in parks?
That is what is commonly known as, “voting against yourself.”
First not sure where you live, but there is nothing wrong with Hialeah. The city has been very resourceful with funds available and no green space has been lost in their park system.
Second, I know it is fashionable to categorize someone that doesn't support your point of view as a idiots or uninformed, but the reality is that we don't want money going to shopping centers and the ballot language gives the county felixbility. Better that than constant threats of cuts and layoffs.
The real purpose of the "libraries" in parks is to steal dedicated library funds for the parks dept. The whole thing was a trick and fraud that doesn't benefit libraries or parks.
Algal virus found slowing down the brains of humans. Condominiums owners are most likely infected with ATCV-1.
Attack on parks started five/six years ago in City of Miami District 2 by organized crime.
Hialeah has a library in its park because they didn't adopt Article 7. They opted out.
Whatever we are doing here is not working. The reality is that 60% of the registered voters did not even think enough of this election to even show up at the polls. Of the 40% who voted, more than half of them voted to eliminate the little open space that is left. Regular park users are being pushed out by buildings. I think a part of the problem is a lack of any leadership on this issue.
Disgraced ex-Mayor Manny Diaz destroyed many parks by covering them in concrete. Marky Sarnoff was a co-conspirator. Manny got rich and the parks got ruined.
It is sad that politicians in Miami say anything to look good and do the opposite behind the scene, Manny Diaz used to correctly repeat that Miami has some of the lowest tree canopy coverage in all metropolitan area of the United States, guess where we stand today.
I know whats next now that this back door has been opened: Cuban American History LIBRARY in a park. Formerly known as the Cuban American History Museum.
People loved Miami for the tropical paradise it once was. We are not like other cities that have the option to find lands elsewhere around us to preserve greenspace. Miami lies between the ocean and the Everglades and most of that is built out already. So it should come as no surprise that everyone will now increasingly be fighting over what to do with the limited open land there is left. And politicians and developers (and forgot lobbyists) who in Miami for as long as forever have been intricately entwined will continue to build out in the name of jobs, tax base, property rights smokescreens, etc. They will even use the argument that the natural or unbuilt environment is so fragmented and unviable that it's not worth spending time and tax payer $ on to preserve and enhance. I wish I didn't care so much or I would just go with the flow being the current is so strong against those who like me love the memory of our tropical paradise that once was. But I can't give up...I just can't as something won't let me.
These days our public parks resemble more private franchises than places where a father and son go toss a baseball. It used to be about 40 years ago that my dad and I could head over to any public park in this county and spend hours batting, running bases and practicing for that "big game". The last time my son and I tried doing that at Miami Lakes Park we were chased out by a park attendant who was adamant in insisting that we had to "reserve" and pay for a field if we wanted to use it. Nothing new here, our taxes pay for parks, roadways and beaches and yet we are hit at the door with entrance fees and any other charge they can think of. These places are no longer public. They have been taken over by bureaucracy and politicians/businessmen trying to make a fast buck.
Your stories of what once was makes me sad. Send your parks comments to your county commissioner too. Maybe you can hit a nerve.
Libraries are just the first step. Sit back, You will then see the County truly become like Hialeah. Police stations shared with libraries inside those public parks will be next. You will then see the parks renamed after someone who supports the politicians.. Sad but true.
I voted a big fat NO. Who comes up with such crazy idea's.
In other jurisdictions, libraries are located with other types of community services -- gyms, health centers, community theaters -- and a case can be made for these synergies. This proposal, however calls for the consolidation rather than expansion of community services.
There is a double-taxation issue with Hialeah. They pay for a city library so the law protects them from being forced to pay for a duplication of services. This gets complicated further by the fact that some parks are "local" and funded through the UMSA levy and other parks are regional, supported by countywide funds. Depending on the site, the library district could be subsidizing a regional park with discounted wi-fi, a "free" benefit to the residents who are not part of the library district.
This issue is so "in the weeds."
Keep parks as parks and libraries as libraries because commingling erodes the financial integrity of the county taxing jurisdictions. Libraries co-located near parks may be a good idea, but becoming space tenants at parks should be avoided.
This entire idea was spawned by Commissioner Bovo. He opposes funding the public library. Besides a string of no votes, it's his way to destabilize and undermine library services under the guise of getting rid of leased buildings. He pretends that the library won't be charged ridiculous rates by their county landlord - just as the Main Library had been charged $5.1 million for maintenance/rent.
This was the result of the wave of goodwill felt towards libraries after the budget campaign. Any library issue timed for this election would have won. Even my friends saw the word library and thought they did a "good" deed voting yes.
Under SEC investigation ex-Mayor Manny Diaz and Carlos Gimenez look at parks as opportunities to build more concrete buildings. Diaz was known as Manny "I love concrete" Diaz and Gimenez recently offered to demolish the newly renovated Bicentennial Park to be covered by a 10 story tall soccer stadium that would only be used 25 times a year. No respect.
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