Watchdog Report Vol.22 No.38 September 25, 2022, EST: 05.05.00 A free community education resource weekly for 22-years – I watch and go when you cannot
“We are at a pivotal point in this body, because we have limited resources,” said long time chair Ron Book, at Miami -Dade County Homeless Trust meeting Friday.
The Trust is dealing with a “flawed immigration system,” Book said, and immigrants are coming from Venezuela and Columbia, and we are not getting federal funds for these people and had the latest census at 2,400 people which is a significant up tick from the 900 usually counted. This in flux has Camillus House with “no vacancies,” said CEO Hilda Fernandez. Further, “the vast amount of people we are seeing have no family members here, said Fernandez. These people need attorneys to resolve immigration help and [many]don’t know why they got here,” as well as working with partners, she said. Further, the trust won’t send people anywhere there is no one to receive them. Said CEO Vickey Mallette. Camillus is also experiencing “lengths of stay,” at the facility and along with Lotus Village they are running full.
Book also noted Miami Commissioner Joe Carollo’s interview on WPLG 10 with Michael Putney also helped raise the trust’s issues with Miami Beach contributing $3 million in their budget and what would really help. Is to rescind the exemption to remove beach cities on the food and bed sales tax with the Florida legislature. That includes Miami Beach and Surfside and would bring in extra revenue to the Trust’s coffers.
Book noted that in 1980 during Mariel boat lift with Cuba that the federal government helped cover the costs of resettlement of the exiles. The trust had a 25% growth with the last count and cannot sustain these numbers since it won’t go into debt.
Book said the trust will not go back to housing the homeless as in warehouses years ago. Editor’s note: I write about this because I have had rough patches and for some it’s not easy to recover once they slide into it his condition, and I am hoping my supporters renew again keeping the community and county watched that passed a flush $9 billion budget supplemented with federal funding that is ending next year and will likely produce a hole and result in many cuts in social programs in the county next year without this supplemental funding.
>>> How did commissioner raise their salaries from around $6,000 to around $70,000, without a county wide vote approving the deserved bump in pay?
The Miami -Dade County Commission raising their salary during the final budget hearing is causing controversy since county voters 13 times have shot down any increase in their $6,000. Annual salary and about $50,000 in benefits and expense account. Commissioner Javier Souto remarked in the discussion he had “seen 10 commissioners removed in his time on the body,” and is termed out himself. The charter says such a increase has to be approved by voters and there are questions how this came about said commissioners, with one noting it was not attached to the electronic document she had gotten, said commissioner Eileen Higgins during the hearing.
Miami commissioners at Tuesday’s commission meeting faced a host of hostile residents objecting to the closing of the Virginia Key outdoor center and a suggested little house homeless complex. The issue was “commingled” with the black historical Virginia Key beach, and Chair Christian King said the homes were not on the historical beach as reported in the media and caused a fire storm, around the nation
The outdoor organization, renting paddle boards, kayaks was suddenly closed down for back rent and code issues that was in retaliation to being outspoken on the idea of little homes for the city’s homeless, and part of the problem is the city’s high staff turnover. Also, an issue in the code department over the past administrations and also includes the unsafe structure board staff. “blame is shared by both sides,” said Commissioner Reyes. About the whole affair that included a political “sweetheart deal,” at $700. A month in rent in the beginning said Carollo and are now trying to do it politically again after demonstrations at city hall protesting the closing of the facility in August.
EDITORIAL
With the nation and our community so divided and threats to lawmakers in possible candidates’ minds. The community faces a dilemma of will good honest candidates actually run or stay on the sidelines in future races. Currently Miami Commission District 1,represented by Ken Russell that snakes along the Miami coast and host to high rises and hotels, law firms is leaving Jan.3 after a failed run for congress in the democratic primary in August and while commissioners have not decided whether to appoint a replacement or call a special election that costs money.
The commission historically appoints getting the appointee to pledge they wouldn’t run for a first term, which cannot be enforced, and the promise has been broken a number of times. In this case Russell if he wants could run again.
But my concern is there are many elected officials coming up in the months ahead and while apathy is always a problem, security is now a new concern for candidates with families… and in their hearts have the right moral compass to and not exploit their office for personal benefit.
That had the county commission creating a paid ambassador program to pay19 past commissioners a $25,000 stipend a year to do ceremonial events. A program tucked quietly in the county’s budget and is a terrible idea and only highlights that the retired elected leaders just want to exploit their past service that was paid and with benefits and retirement. We are in turbulent times and good governance and candidates is demanded as voters are inundated with political ads non-stop. Thus, will you be a informed voter or just a bench warmer since you didn’t run yourself, will you at least vote?
>>> PHT upcoming budget $2.94 billion, closes year with “57-days cash on hand ahead of budget, still has “significant threats throughout system, “says CFO Knight
The Public Health Trust had a budget meeting Aug.31 and the trust and Jackson Memorial Hospital is reporting a $2.94 billion budget for the coming year and while challenges remain for the public hospital system that is the envy of many counties and has benefited from a 2013 capital bond of $837 million they would leverage to over $1 billion has updated the ageing campus and expanded the public system throughout the county, though CFO Mark Knight reported the system still had $1 billion in “unfunded capital needs.” Further Knight noted that the institution was closing the year with “57-days cash on hand and was ahead of the target.” This cash on hand is a big turnaround from 2009 when it was down to 7 to8 days. And would begin the new administration under CEO Carlos Migoya whose leadership helped to get the voter approved $837 million bond passed.
>>> Mayor Levine Cava needs non county ethics advisor after Qatar sponsored trip to Kingdom with political operative doesn’t see problem, she tells press but public sees different
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava missed an opportunity to strengthen ethics at county hall and much is a result of perception. She hired a new chief of integrity officer recently even though the county has an ethics commission well-funded. She picked Brenda Kuhns Neuman a former assistant county attorney with little ethics credentials. However, the mayor should have picked a neutral officer like from FIU or other public institutions for an ethics officer.
What about the controversial trip to Qatar on the country’s dime, which included political operative and lobbyist Ulvert
She also had a controversy when she took a delegation to Qatar, paid for by the nations embassy and included county commissioners and some from the city of Miami. But also included a political operative and lobbyist Christian Ulvert and such a trip is a real boost for the man’s firm. She should have known how such a choice would be perceived as blatant favoritism ( and was why in 1999 every county employee had to go through ethics training after county voters created the county’s ethics and public trust commission.) for more go to : https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/miami-dade-mayor-levine-cava-s-free-trip-to-qatar-smells-she-should-have-stayed-home-editorial/ar
>>> With all the robust public budget hearings county property appraiser Pedro Garcia warned county commissioners that the property values and taxes “are going down, “in the future and curb spending levels he suggested, and municipalities need to keep this in mind that has Miami with a $1.5 billion budget and the county at $10.37 billion this upcoming budget year.
>>> Homeless ticks up 23 percent, “the end is in sight,” says Chair Book, with lifting of exemption in Fla. Leg. of beach cities of food & bed tax creates extra $45 million in revenue Camillus House should lobby leg., “Jackson physicians” may see homeless on street, says trustee judge Leifman, landlords wanted WPLG ad gains 30 landlords
The Trust’s Friday monthly meeting examined the uptick in homeless population with only Miami Beach showing a 9 percent drop, versus the overall county census of 1100 increase to 23 percent. trust chair Ron Book said much of this new population are refugees and immigrants. He also thanked former Miami mayor Joe Carollo for his recent advocacy of the homeless on television and his pilot plan of tiny homes.
Chapman Partnership interim CEO Peter Pruitt filling in after being a partnership board member
What about the Ryder Trauma Center 20th anniversary?
Ryder a community jewel after hospital and community leaders agreed on one incredible trauma center after the late 70s when emergency rooms were jammed up and malpractice insurance costs were staggering. The center is a state-of-the-art trauma facility and a Level 1, and community leaders including Jay Weiss, a JHS benefactor at the hospital helped create this medical jewel in car accidents or gunshots.
Aug 31 is Overdose Awareness Day and with the scourge opioids killing thousands of Americans daily and only increasing with some of these deadly pills colored to look like candy. Many of the ingredients coming from Chinese labs to the cartels in Mexico. I am wondering if this is Chinas’ way of getting back at the west for the Opium War brought on by England and made so many Chinese opium addicts.
>>> Dirty judicial campaign denies Renier Diaz de la Portilla judicial spot
With early voting Monday at secure sites throughout Miami Dade County, the candidates attack ads keep coming and one race for circuit court judge is unusually ugly. A hit piece against judge Fred Seraphin, hit mailboxes by the Renier Diaz De La Portilla campaign says he has refused to release a police record from his youth and asks what is he hiding?
Seraphin a Haitian American appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush has been on the bench for years. He is being challenged by the younger brother of a political influential Cuban Family, and one bother Alex is a Miami commissioner. However, the former public defender comes off arrogant and some question his temperament, and work ethic, and a number of liquor stores have donated $200.00 to his campaign state disclosure forms. He also is a perennial candidate and most recently lost a race for county commissioner. Editor’s note: I am on some new medication that makes me dizzy and will return next week.
Chapman Partnership CEO Symeria T Hudson, M.B.A., has moved on to the Miami-Dade United Way as its new CEO. The talented woman with a Harvard M.B.A, and a Uncle Billy who was homeless and had mental issues which has guided aspects of her work. The woman before leaving Chapman, got Oprah Winfrey to tape a segment on the partnerships work with homeless and she will be missed
Miami-Dade the epicenter of fraud may have a new problem, fake credentials of contractors, and jumper cables used in elevators; one commissioner Martinez “says it should be criminal,” since the public is at risk, fake degrees and credentials have been a persistent issue, from the school board to the county, to Miami’s unsafe structure committee meetings, muck work being done non credentialed pr licensed
The issue of jumper cables at MIA and Port Miami was the topic of the day. And while the county has a “red flag, “to warn commissioners it was not followed and committee commissioner Rebeca Sosa ,the chair, noted her big concern, was “licensing [credentials] were a huge concern,” and she is waiting for county’s inspector general’s report on the issue, she said.
The issue brought out in the media years ago. And the jumpers were shown. One looked like picture hanger wire, no insulation with an alligator clip attached versus a real one fully insulated with the clips and should only used for “diagnostic tests that included elevators and escalators. Commissioner Joe Martinez said, “tampering with this type of equipment should be a crime.”
>> Miami mayor and commissioners net worth through June, Carollo leads pack with $2.3 million, mostly real-estate
The financial disclosure forms are in for Miami elected leaders are in and their net worth has increased mainly through real estate owned below are the net worth, as of June Commissioner Joe Carollo,, net worth was $2.3 million, Alex Diaz de la Portillo net was $1.6 million, Christina King net was $543,938, Manolo Reyes was $930,000,Ken Russell came in at $993,872 and mayor Francis Suarez net worth was $1.338 million and includes a number of properties and in future weeks I will be looking at the elected leaders debt, and income streams.
>>>> Miami-Dade County holding $21 million of transit sales tax revenue for Miami after beef with Carollo and commissioner Higgins over bike lanes.
Miami Dade County is withholding $21 million in citizens independent transit trust funding because of a dust-up with Miami Commission Joe Carollo and county commissioner Eileen Higgins and has to do with funding the trolley program in Miami. The county commission has “declared war on me,” said Carollo. He further went on about the need for bike lanes on a controversial street.
>>>I was wrong when I thought the WDR was good for another year, as contributions have been few and far between and with inflation raging supporters are, I am sure hurting in this treacherous financial time. .I will keep you posted in the future but after 22-years and major political changes the need for public institutions to be watched has never been more critical if we want good governance and public money being wisely spent.
Miami-Dade Public Schools
>>> School board workshop documents show $17 million for security cameras, but zero spent for critical school safety measures
The school board had its first 2022-2023 budget workshop untelevised and I did not attend since, every time I have gone to such meetings some staff hassle me and I will be at Wednesday’s board meeting. However, I reviewed the workshop’s documents and one number jumped out $17 million was budgeted for 360-degree security cameras, but none of that money has been spent state the documents and to see the report go to:
http://pdfs.dadeschools.net/Bdarch/2022/bd061522/budget-workshop-presentation.pdf
Candidates for a host of offices are running political ads and citizens need to carefully review the candidates for the county, schoolboard, and judiciary. To see the candidates, go to list candidates and campaign https://www.voterfocus.com/CampaignFinance/candidate_pr.php?c=miamidade&c=miamidade
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
>>>Re do, because so important: The heavy rains are a “wake-up call,” to Miami-Dade, said Mayor Levine-Cava Friday, and is an answer in front of our nose? With scavenger vessel, resuscitating Biscayne Bay, working only 40-hours a week with only one vessel, picks up gas drums, and other garbage, while oxygenating the bay, is a technology marvel that should be expanded
The Biscayne Bay Watershed Management Advisory Board members, Friday saw a video on the propriety vessel the scavenger, which cleans and infuses oxygen into the bay after the extensive fish kills and the bay is at a tipping point and is a major economic generator.
There is only one vessel being used only 40-hours per week because limited funding from the county and the city of Miami. However, more funding and another vessel costing $1.5 million is needed and could be a substantial solution to helping the bay back to health. I have taken an interest in the bay since 2000, after I was asked by Capt. Miller, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers. If I knew anyone that could contact U.S.Rep. Bill Young, chair of the House appropriations committee. And by accident at a luncheon, I heard someone talking about the man and playing golf with him. The congressman was approached on a green about funding the dredging of the Miami River, and with the help of Rep. Ileana Ros Lehtonen -Miami. The first $8 million in funding was included in the upcoming federal budget, which was later assisted by state, federal, and local funding.
For more on the scavenger go to: https://scavengervessel.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/city_of_miami_report.pdf and
>>>To see the damage to the bay go to https://www.miamichamber.com/news/pollution-killing-biscayne-bay-theres-very-little-time-save-it-and-its-going-cost-lot-moneyhttps://www.miamichamber.com/news/pollution-killing-biscayne-bay-theres-very-little-time-save-it-and-its-going-cost-lot-money
Here is a national story on me and the reporter spent a month riding with me in 2003: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190341-story.html
Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust
>>> Rentals needed at county’s homeless trust, has 700 HUD housing vouchers, Oprah Winfrey interested in Chapman Partnership’s work, says CEO Hudson
Oprah Winfrey has approached The Chapman Partnership for Homeless, since the homeless population in places like L.A., SF, have risen, to incredible levels never seen, said Chapman CEO Symoria T. Hudson, to the trust.
The trust has been under financial strain, and with immigrants flooding the southern border and many coming to Miami immigration funding is up 7 percent and cannot be sustained. Further the trust needs new rental units and has seven hundred housing vouchers that are paid directly to landlords including first and last deposits said trust staff. With state funding ending, the trust is stretched for funding as an immigration surge is anticipated until the nation up-dates its laws with many coming to Miami given our demographics. Further, food and bed taxes are up finally by 40 percent with a $19.8 million collection rate in April.
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>>> Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics will not take an interest in you. –Pericles (430 B.C.)
What about Lotus Village?
The nation’s premier social service agency that assists families and women with children is doing an expansion called The Children’s Village. The organization founded by Constance Collin’s with her own money after she saw a need for women’s social services that were being unmet in Miami-Dade and it has been a huge success, for the women. She is also on the county’s Homeless Trust and is a solid provider of these important social services allowing women and children to get back on their feet. For more on the expansion and a look at the project click the link. https://lotushouse.org/lotus-village-a-miami-homeless-shelter-that-feels-like-home-set-for-ambitious-expansion/?msclkid=12ae3ebeceee11ec89415ac1e34cd820
What about the city of Miami’s mid-year budget?
The city’s budget director said the municipality had a $18 million surplus, but only $1.7 million in the fund balance. The city has been riding high given all the federal funding after Covid and its economic impact, to fill budget gaps, for a host of services during the pandemic.
>>> What about the county commission’s discussion on creating a new constitutional Sheriff’s office like the 57 others in Florida, and the problems it can create are showcased in Broward County
That had Commissioner Manolo Reyes trying to tamp down the divisiveness of the discussion.
I first came to Miami in 1975 when I joined Cordis Corp. in a new executive program that sent me to California, Tokyo, and later to Sydney for five-years, before returning to Miami in 1990. I mention this because ethnic tensions in Miami have always simmered below the surface, with some Grovites believing a sense of entitlement versus other residents and in 2000 had the county push the Mosaic initiative trying to bring the community together after the explosive Elian Gonzalez affair. That had rednecks with confederate flags and Black people shouting “F…” the Cubans,” and was caught by The Miami Herald in a photo back then.
The commission is trying to keep the Grove a tight knit community with very vocal residents in one district instead of three separate districts. The appointed redistricting attorney Miguel De Grandy was told to try to accommodate keeping the Grove together. That has commissioner Joe Carollo’s home in north Grove on Morris Lane in his current district three, rather than rent a home in Little Havana with his wife. De Grandy is a major lobbyist at the county lost a state house seat by one vote, years ago. He noted district -2 that includes the “Grove is 48.7 percent Hispanic,” after the most recent 2020 Census stated the attorney based on the census data.
Carollo bought his home in 2001 for $574,000 and that was a surprise for the WDR, because after his divorce, where he threw an object at his wife and was charged, and after the divorce hearings and settlement which I attended. He remarked he was “worth more dead, than alive,” he told the press. Which makes me wonder how he afforded the property especially after his subsequent numerous divorces. Further, while Carollo made wild accusations about where Russell lives and his personal finances, being interpreted wrong and had Russell saying he has lived in his home for decades and there was nothing “nefarious,” about the deal since his family had expanded and more room was needed for his family
What about the annual Miami-Dade Domestic Violence Annual Board report?
The domestic violence trust has opened a new 60-bed shelter in South Miami and with Covid domestic violence cases have been on the rise. Further, there is new software that allows a caller to use facetime if approved and is great for prosecuting domestic violence.
>>>Clean-up efforts of Biscayne Bay kick into high gear with “120,000,” homes on septic tanks countywide, county commissioners “want to see specifics, one by one,’ since the first Bay study in 2015.
On a different note: than above. The county’s Biscayne Bay task force is revving up its efforts since the first study of the bay in 2015. Funding finally has been surging from the state and federal government. The one main polluter of Biscayne Bay is the est. 120,000 septic tanks countywide and converting septic to sewer can cost up to $20,000, and the desire is to reduce that amount to around $1,000, and there is new septic tank technology, that uses baffles in the interior of the tanks but the bay is at a tipping point say environmentalists and chair Commissioner Daniele Cohens Higgins, wants to see “specifics,” and true goals and time lines. Further, one of the first conversion areas is Schenley Park area in commissioner Rebeca Sosa’s district next year, after years of delays.
Past WDR: What about the issue of homeless children in Miami-Dade?
The point count recently was 947 kids on streets since this most recent count? “The count found 49 percent were ’homeless the first time,” 65 percent were non-Hispanic, and 180 people were moved into new homes and the Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust participated in the 100 Day challenge and above is some of the results I asked trust chair Ron book about the program discussed at the trust meeting Friday and he responded: “The 100 Day Challenge relates to ending youth homelessness, and we were 1 of 5 Communities identified nationally. We accepted the challenge, and there are now 15 Communities in the Country that have accepted it. We are considered probably if not the most successful to complete the one hundred Day Challenge ranking in the top 2 or 3.”
We did things to create new best practices, and if you had the opportunity, which you may already have seen the video from the Chicago Summit, you would see that the other four that participated in this one hundred Day Challenge were truly taken by our efforts, commitment, and our success. We blew our goals out of the water, and we will continue to push, and pursue every youth that are on our streets until we have everyone out, and taken care of,” wrote the long-time chair.https://www.wesh.com/article/desmond-meade-on-time-100-speaks-to-what-this-country-is-all-about/27185500
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