Fort Lauderdale’s Spending Addiction and High City Employee Salaries
Last year, in the middle of a horrible economy, City Manager George Gretsas grew the City’s budget from $600M to $605M. He called it a “zero-based” budget, when everyone at City Hall (including Mayor Jack Seiler) knew that description was a complete fabrication.
This year, City Manager Gretsas [...]
Fort Lauderdale saw two firsts this last weekend. The one most people heard about was the arrival of the largest cruise ship ever built (Royal Caribbean’s “Oasis of the Seas”), arriving at its new home port here in Fort Lauderdale for the first time. Equally as exciting was the public arrival here (at the Riverside [...]
A Sad Day For Fort Lauderdale
Last night, our Commission (after considerable squirming around in their chairs), voted 3-2 to renew the contract with Florida Power & Light for another 30 years. It’s a shame that certain Commissioners and the Mayor feel that the interests of their friends at FPL outweigh the interests of Fort Lauderdale [...]
We’ve won a temporary reprieve, but will we win the FPL war?
Tuesday’s Commission meeting concerning FPL (and whether the City should sign another 30 year “giveaway” Franchise Agreement with them), was one for the record books! Last night’s Commission meeting broke several records.
The length of the meeting:
The meeting ran on until 3am in morning! I’m [...]