By Frank Maradiaga For a brief moment the nameplate of former North Bay Village Commissioner Frank Rodriguez adorned the dais to the meeting that would select its replacement. City Manager Dennis Kelly caught the oversight and gently put the nameplate out of view, and the Commission went on to choose experience and a lifetime of [...]
By Frank Maradiaga The outsourcing of the maintenance services on the Lincoln Road Mall was sent out to bid in the February meeting of the Miami Beach Commission. The City’s in-house maintenance of the pedestrian mall has long been under fire and plans to privatize the service spans back over a year. A proposal by [...]
Frank Maradiaga The Miami Beach Commission again pushed back a vote on a contract agreement that would increase towing fees in the city. Beach Towing and Tremont Towing, whose current contract with the city expires in March, will have to wait until the June Commission meeting to see if their new three year contract with [...]
By Gregg Tremain A call for a strong mayor form of government in the City of Miami Beach highlighted the February meeting of the Miami Beach Taxpayers Association. Three former Beach mayors advocated a switch from the city manager system before some 150 residents and taxpayers during a lively panel at the Shelborne Hotel. Neisen Kasdin, [...]
Breakfast Meeting David’s Cafe January 31, 2012 8:30 am By David Arthur Walters David Kelsey moderated the Tuesday morning breakfast meeting, attended by 60 people from the community including city employees, neighborhood leaders, and other concerned citizens. City of Miami Beach Commissioner Jonah Wolfson was the guest of honor. The main topic of his presentation [...]
By David Arthur Walters Miami Beach City Manager Jorge Gonzalez wanted residents to think they had more than enough police officers on the force to deal with crime on the beach, and he cited the FBI Uniform Crime Report statistics to prove it, as if dealing with the seven major crimes on that report is [...]
Resolution Passed to Reject Large Special Events in Haulover Park By Frank Maradiaga Special to the SunPost The Bal Harbour Village Council has come out against the fashion event Funkshion, the musical group Swedish House Mafia, and all large scale events in Haulover Park. The council passed a resolution in their January meeting that urged [...]
MB Tax Payers Assoc Holds Forum – ‘Miami Beach: Then and Now’ Five former mayors of Miami Beach have accepted invitations to take part in a panel discussion on ‘Miami Beach: Then and Now’ this Wednesday at the monthly meeting of the Miami Beach Taxpayers Association. The former mayors are Harold Rosen, Neisen Kasdin, Norman [...]
By Linda Mooney If you’re like many South Beach transplants, you moved here with the giddy intention to sell your car at long last and live the life of a beach-bound, walking/biking bohemian who has sworn off oil dependence. But, like many car-less residents, you might have found that life without four wheels can indeed [...]
By Frank Maradiaga Once again the North Bay Village Commission will look different. Commissioner Frank Rodriguez resigned from his Treasure Island seat last week. In his letter of resignation he wrote that the decision came after a lot of consideration and consulting with his family, but little to no information as to the reason. “I [...]
Miami Beach Commissioner Jorge Exposito said Tuesday that he thinks Jorge Gonzalez has done an “excellent job” and will vote to keep the city manager when the City Commission meets in March to decide Gonzalez’s fate. “We individually have to judge the people that we work with on the manner that they work with us,” [...]
By David Arthur Walters Special South Beach sector patrols recently established by the Miami Beach Police Department have drastically reduced the number of vagrants, derelicts and panhandlers on the streets South Beach, particularly on Washington Avenue. Washington Avenue had gradually taken on the appearance of a skid row due to a lack of enforcement of [...]
