The Vote is in: County Commissioners Gave The Nail Clipper Building $9 Million from Us! A Bond means we are borrowing the money. Guest Blog by Juan

Skyrise Miami - "The Nail Clipper Building". Who will pay to maintain it?

Who is watching the store for us?

Where is the Beacon council on the nail clipper as a "game changing" project worthy of lots of bond money? Readers do you know?? A joke question right?

The folks now leading the Beacon council are so afraid of their own shadow -- like Peter Pan -- they need their shadow to be sewn on too.

They are indeed puppets led by the puppeteers and  Captain hook Giminez and his  band of pirates..Osterholt and Lopez…the Board at Beacon is in Name only as they will do whatever captain Hook wants for fear of losing their funding.

But if they are merely a bunch of "lost boys" who needs them? Ginimez and his lobbyist friends  are in the hip pocket of Gentling and anyone  else with a buck..like the Nail Clipper folks. Captain Hook  made a statement when he made the former Beacon  President walk the plank for taking a stand against him on the gambling gang and several other issues as well. No on at Beacon will stand up for fear of the same fate.

Beacon has not taken a position on any of the  major economic development issues before the community in the last year..the new president continues to use the excuse that he is new..Really?? he has been here for over a year. Beacon is no longer independent but is now merely an extension of the Captain Hooks band of pirates. The Board for the most part get along by going along as many have a vested interest in keeping the chief pirate happy. Maybe it is time however for Captain Hook to walk the plank along with his lobbyist “pirates."

Daniella Levine Cava, Rebeca Sosa and Xavier Suarez voted against it December 16th. I suppose they did not want to sully the waterfront with whimsy. If the Beacon council continues to be not  a beacon of light" for the Commission but a group of sycophants -- afraid of their own shadow -- they will render themselves useless, as yes men only. Oh, that has already happened. Unfund them now, save some money!!!

Area slated for the nail clipper building.

Don't give any money to the Nailclipper. By Geniusofdespair

Bruce Matheson

 The people voted to give no public money to the nail clipper building when they approved the city referendum. Even Mayor Regalado is against it now because the county is giving it public money, that comes from city residents. All you Stupid County Commissioners, vote against giving them money. It is an eyesore in my opinion.

In a separate discussion (putting the cart before the horse, they vote for the partial funding of the Nail Clipper on the 16th) about how the thing will be built Lee Hefty and Daniella Levine Cava had an exchange about building it from land or barge. She was concerned with the impact on the Bay. I think she trusts to be told the truth. I can tell when county staff is bending the truth to me. They have a tell. They get uncomfortable and squirm a bit. The trouble is I have to be in front of them.  Who cares if they build it from land or water, it shouldn't be built Period. Lee Hefty is afraid of Osterholt and will say just about anything. He looks like he will pee in his pants when Osterholt is around.  DERM has been co-opted. They are all telling you what the Mayor wants you to hear, not the truth, a version of the truth. Daniella stop trusting staff's convoluted explanations meant to confuse you, the whole bunch are afraid of the Mayor. Maybe Daniella Levine Cava is too ethical for office. Of course the building of it will impact the Bay. I don't care about assurances from Lee Hefty. They will just say oops. What can you do after the fact? One only has to remember the 1994 Dutra dredging fiasco (illegal) when 3.5 acres of sea grass was decimated while dredging of the turning basin for the port was being conducted.

And in this topsy-turvy County world, since when does Barbara Jordan care about coral? She asked how building from barges would impact coral. What is that woman up to?

BTW, Bruno is a dim bulb, don't anyone follow him on this issue.

I guess we will end up contributing public money for an eyesore in the park, the nail clipper no one will go to. Has anyone been to Bayside lately? A ghost of what it was. This won't fix it. Major surgery is needed in the junk store area. The other side is doing okay.

And all of you County Commission nitwits: Stop saying the $75 Million is not from THIS pot of money, it is from THAT pot of money, so it doesn't count. IT IS ALL THE SAME MONEY --- YOU GUYS AT THE COUNTY DIVIDED IT UP (SO IT LOOKS MORE PALATABLE) into bonds and incentives and other stupid crap with official sounding names. UNLESS IT IS A FEDERAL GRANT or someone donated it, it is all the same money: OURS. We didn't borrow that $75 Million bond money yet so we don't have to pay for it. So let's not borrow any of this money -- unless Apple wants to put their headquarters here. I would pay them to move.

All of you new condo owners across Biscayne Blvd., The Downtown Neighborhood Alliance, you have to come together and get a grip on the County Commission. You all are big taxpayers and this is your hood. Do something. Sue, like Bruce Matheson because the people were lied to in the City of Miami voter referendum and we don't like being lied to when we vote on something.  Thank you Bruce Matheson for being our Park savior, the Dan Paul of the 21st century.  Matheson is suing against the plans to put Libraries in Parks and FIU in the park.  The people weren't informed they were lifting the Dan Paul amendment, they were given misleading language just like this nail clipper language.  You Commissioners should all be outraged. Am I?  You bet I am.

Proposed Nail Clipper Building is Center. Other stupid ideas for the waterfront surround it.

Mayor Regalado: Full of surprises, now on the Nail Clipper. By Geniusofdespair

Eye on Miami's Version of SkyRise Miami a.k.a. the Nail Clipper. By the way that green space in the foreground is Parcel B where they want to put the unfunded museum.

Today the Miami Herald reported that Mayor Tomas Regalado, City of Miami Mayor, is not supporting County Funding of this project. The City of Miami had a referendum and the campaign pledge said to voters no public dollars, it would be privately funded.

County funds  are also  paid by City residents. City of Miami citizens pay both. So the referendum language would be a lie and it got 68% approval from the brain-dead voters.

Regalado said: "we can't continue to do things differently from what we promise the people"..."this isn't about $9 million. It's a moral issue."

...“I don’t have control over the county but I do feel the county should consider what the people of Miami voted for and were told,” Regalado said.

 Mayor Gimenez, I think this pot of money is being misused. The way Burgess and Nero designed it, it should be used for projects that were to generate large number of well paying jobs AND incremental taxes  the Skyrise project is .. Not really going back to the "original intent." 

Frank Nero, former head of the Beacon Council, said about the two projects proposed by Gimenez: "These are bread and "circus" type projects: Low paying tourist type jobs not the high paying above median wage jobs /with high incremental taxes which WERE the original  targets.

But he did say they were better than the little projects that the county commission committee voted on Thursday.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article2959719.html#storylink=cpy