tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post116593692062515630..comments2024-03-03T22:01:12.376-06:00Comments on Pensacola Beach Blog: Florida in the Year 2060Beach Bloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16153908891922140526noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-85722772726464096942012-05-18T11:06:11.368-05:002012-05-18T11:06:11.368-05:00Sad to live in Surfside and watch the leaders lea...Sad to live in Surfside and watch the leaders lead all of the residents right down the drain. We (residents) just sit on our behinds and let the leaders (officials) sell the Town of Surfside out to SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS. Why? Because we're too busy with our own lives to be bothered with doing something about it. WAKE UP SURFSIDERS! GET INVOLVED BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE? STOP THE CRAP THESE POLITICIANS ARE HANDING US? OUR BEAUTIFUL LITTLE TOWN WILL SOON BE JUST LIKE ANY TOWN! AS AN EXAMPLE! WHAT ABOUT HIALEAH? It's not impossible. Now this manager (Roger Carlton) will probably get his way to put Surfside even further in debt and help to create an asphalt jungle by building a garage in the Abbott parking lot (not needed) by coincidence just across the street from where the Young Israel's of Bal Harbor will build their "New Home". Strange, since they will need loads of parking spaces to accommodate their parties, etc. <br />WAKE UP SURFSIDERS? STOP THEM? FIGHT THEM?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-9137124996364944532012-01-28T22:00:05.505-06:002012-01-28T22:00:05.505-06:00Look up the latest information about Surfside Flor...Look up the latest information about Surfside Florida.<br /><br />Who Controls Surfside.<br /><br />Save Surfside.<br /><br />Florida's future?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-77040575539900024172011-04-24T20:41:55.012-05:002011-04-24T20:41:55.012-05:00Freedom of speech under attack by government of Su...Freedom of speech under attack by government of Surfside Florida do internet search for: WHO CONTROLS SURFSIDE and youtube search for LONGTIME RESIDENT SURFSIDE see videos and SAVESURFSIDE the films, documents, reports expose an abusive deceptive government selling out fast in 2011 to complete the deals that have been made. Officials attacking blogs and trying to crush dissent and stop the facts from coming out into the light of day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-16025882114733718242009-07-31T20:19:16.584-05:002009-07-31T20:19:16.584-05:00Surfside Florida: new owners: Calvin GiordanoSurfside Florida: new owners: Calvin GiordanoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-33081668834828989132009-07-25T19:42:58.016-05:002009-07-25T19:42:58.016-05:00SURFSIDE VOTERS ARISE
SAVE OUR LIBRARY!
ACT NOW ...SURFSIDE VOTERS ARISE<br /><br />SAVE OUR LIBRARY!<br /><br />ACT NOW OR LOSE OUR LIBRARY FOREVER ON OCTOBER FIRST.<br /><br />THE TOW MANAGER PROPOSES NO PAY CUTS FOR DEPARTMENT HEADS-CONTINUED<br />BLOATED BUDGET FOR RECREATION BUT COMPLETE ELIMINATION OF OUR LIBRARY.<br /><br />THIS IS THE SAME ADMINISTRATION THAT DEMOLISHED THE COMMUNITY CENTER SO THAT WE, THE RESIDENTS, WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO VOTE FOR A RENOVATION, SPENT OVER $1 MILLION IN “PLANS” FOR THE TAJ MAHAL ON THE OCEAN-NEVER TO BE BUILT-OVER $3 MILLION FOR “CONSULTANTS” AND HAS DRIVEN OUR TOWN INTO NEAR BANKRUPTCY. LET THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS KNOW THAT OVER 60% OF US HAVE LIBRARY CARDS AND REGULARLY MAKE USE OF THE FACILITY.<br /><br />IT PROBABLY WONT CHANGE THEIR MINDS NOT IF THEY HAVE THEIR MINDS MADE UP BUT BOMBARD THEM WITH E-MAIL, PHONE CALLS AND LETTER S TO LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL. IT IS OUR LIBRARY WE PAY FOR IT AND WE USE IT AND THEY CANT KEEP DEMOLISHING EVERYTHING GOOD ABOUT OUR TOWN WITHOUT US TELLING THEM TO STOP.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-91303836167024279652009-07-25T09:48:31.556-05:002009-07-25T09:48:31.556-05:00State officials did not listen, town officials wen...State officials did not listen, town officials went wildly irresponsible with public money, and now look what has become of the town budget and town money ....... here's the letter sent to the State last year with signatures of dozens of Surfside residents and taxpayers:<br /><br /> <br />November 11, 2008<br /><br />David W. Martin, Florida Auditor General<br />111 West Madison Street<br />Tallahassee, Florida 32399<br /><br />Re: Town of Surfside<br /> <br />Dear Auditor General Martin:<br /><br />We are residents of the Town of Surfside, and we have major concerns about the financial status and integrity of our Town. Statements from Town Officials reflect major issues that require prompt and in-depth examination by the State of Florida. The Town has failed to prepare and file the annually required independent comprehensive financial audit, and there have been statements about their inability to reconcile accounts, about vastly depleted town surplus and reserve funds, and about conflicting information about the remaining level of town funds. <br /><br />In the last two and a half years, there have been questionable expenditures and procedures, and an absence of the open and accountable manner that is the standard of municipalities in Florida. Now with the failure to file the required outside audits, and significantly rising taxes, utility fees, and all charges made by the Town to the residents, we are worried that our formerly efficient, open and accountable Town has become quite the opposite. The failure of the Town to comply with state mandated auditing is the most recent of a long series of actions by the current Town government that create deep concerns amongst residents about what is actually going on with our public funds here. Please initiate all possible action to review the situation and get to the bottom of it. We sign below, and give you our names and addresses of the attached sheet. Thank you.<br /> <br />Signatures and Addresses of Individual Surfside Residents and TaxpayersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-37038124905340097382009-07-25T09:09:08.848-05:002009-07-25T09:09:08.848-05:00Surfside officials are pushing ahead towards subme...Surfside officials are pushing ahead towards submerging the town in debt. Two tracks, one on the "down low" and one more - but not completely - visible. One push is to take huge loans or bonds for sewer system work and the officials plan to pledge the utility tax and sewer/water fees as collateral (and they plan NO referendum just to impose it) -- note that these are the utility taxes they promised to eliminate and now they are bloating them, raising them, and pledging them towards DEBT! and the other track is to keep trying to get debt (bonds, loans) to build a community center than can no longer be afforded because officials squandered and wasted the town's surplus accounts, spending wild on their lawyers and consultants and no-bid contracts. Its a sick world at Surfside Town Hall these days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-51594431882821743992009-07-14T20:48:47.237-05:002009-07-14T20:48:47.237-05:00Thank you Pensacola!
Struggling to survive against...Thank you Pensacola!<br />Struggling to survive against greed and corruption.<br />Surfside and Pensacola and lots of other coastal communities.<br />Find the "restore Surfside's Honor" page and the information about Surfside on the net. Under siege from greedmongers and profiteers and worse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-28611136679082938282009-07-04T17:59:48.807-05:002009-07-04T17:59:48.807-05:00THE MASTER PLAN FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF SURFSIDE AS...THE MASTER PLAN FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF SURFSIDE AS AN INDEPENDENT TOWN OF INTEGRITY, TO PUT IT INTO FINANCIAL DESPAIR AND TO SIPHON ITS MONEY OFF TO GLADHANDERS AND CASH PASSERS, TO RUIN ITS CHARACTER AND INSTALL CRONIES AND CROOKS, ALL A PLAN OF KENNY ARNOLD AND HOWIE WEINBERG, WITH SUPPORTING ROLES FROM CHARLIE BURKETT AND MARC IMBERMAN AND A HOST OF UNSAVORY HENCHMEN.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-45603668189624883382009-06-06T10:58:10.125-05:002009-06-06T10:58:10.125-05:00Surfside Florida is being horribly misled by a gro...Surfside Florida is being horribly misled by a group of politicians who have ruined the town’s financial status and trashed its integrity. The present Surfside administration either has the collective I.Q. of a chimpanzee or that they believe that “we the people” who put them in office do. For example: Would you demolish your house before you consulted with your family and residents if it was a good idea and whether they approved?<br /><br />Worse yet, would you demolish your house before you ascertain and arrange where you are going to get the money to build a new one and how much is going to cost? Maybe you would also want to know how long it would take?<br /><br />Well, guess what: those questions were too profound for our present officials and they proceeded to demolish our community center building and now they want us to pay for their ineptitude. Remember when they promised to give the residents a chance to vote on either renovating or demolishing/replacing the community center? That was before they unilaterally demolished the facilities as part of underhanded schemes. They lied their way into office and they continue to try to deceive us today. The first thing they did upon taking office was to eliminate the town’s effective ethics and conflict of interest ordinances and to replace them with a swiss cheese excuse for ethics laws. And they got worse and worse as this group of officials have steered the town into red ink and deterioration and more taxes. Their actions and decisions are proof that the present officials are at worse corrupt and at best totally incompetent. <br /><br />First they asked us to vote on an outrageous bond issue of $ 16,000,000.oo which our residents were smart enough to vote against it in the November election. Bond issues are a burden that would translate in more outrageous taxation with the worst timing possible. Now they have the Machiavellian idea that they will get the bond issue approved by a confabulated new election on July 14 to take advantage of resident travel and absence. They want to quietly get a small minority of voters to impose a huge debt upon the entire town. All the officials now care about it to siphon off the town’s money and to put their names on a plaque in the a building, at our expense. 9 million, just to start!<br /><br />What the gang at town hall today have done with our community center is only one of the many pathetic blunders they have carried out with public property and public money. We put them in office to represent our interests and needs and not to self-serve and aggrandize themselves. So, now it is OUR JOB to get them out of office in the next commission election in March 2010. Needless to say we all need to vote on July 14, 2009 against their ill contrived new proposal to get a bond issue for $ 9,000,000.oo for 30 years approved. And expenses for furnishings, computers, finishes, even staff will all be extra, bringing past the 20mil mark easy before its through. Let them go gamble somewhere else – and with their own money. The cabal at Surfside town hall have acted disgracefully and some accountability is overdue.demolishedtowncenternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-27524934826779413042009-05-24T19:20:29.271-05:002009-05-24T19:20:29.271-05:00Surfside's budget has blown up in the last few yea...Surfside's budget has blown up in the last few years because of incompetence and greed and self serving politicians who whack the public wallet every day.<br /><br />Surfside used to be efficient, now its crazy upside down with a tidal wave of red ink. <br /><br />January 2004 TOWN OF SURFSIDE INFORMATION<br /><br />WORTH COMPARING TO TODAY 2009 FOR EDUCATIONAL/UNDERSTANDING PURPOSES?<br /><br />"Surfside has completed many public projects including renovation of the Town's parks and playgrounds, business district, and Town Hall; the rejuvenation of properties along A1A, roadway, drainage and landscaping improvements, commuter traffic control measures, infrastructure repairs, and the renewal of Town Hall. Surfside's public service levels are at an all time high, but taxes and fees remain low and stable. The Town's garbage fee remains one of the lowest in the nation, with a level of sanitation services that is recognized as one of America's best. Surfside's zoning policies, our safety and security programs, recreation programs and special events, sanitation standards, and our overall efficiency have become models for other communities and our home town can look forward to continued success."<br /><br />At that time Surfside had subjected itself to annual independent outside comprehensive financial audits of all accounts and all funds, assets, and liabilities and in addition submitted annual comprehensive reports to state authorities and agencies and published its full budgets and audit reports for officials and residents and taxpayers to see all of the details, line by line. In 2004 Surfside had experienced 12 years of such scrutinized and balanced budgets, incurring no bond or load debt of any kind, and bringing the town from red ink in 1991-1992 and small dwindling reserves to sound financial operations in 2004 with highest ever level of services and facilities plus savings into reserve/emergency/project accounts when possible, keeping town expenses conservative and controlled while producing project success, productivity, results, and savings for the town's future.EmersonSonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-53357070768285596372009-05-05T19:43:00.000-05:002009-05-05T19:43:00.000-05:00Charles Burkett, Howard Weinberg, Marq Imberman, S...Charles Burkett, Howard Weinberg, Marq Imberman, Steve Levine, Elizabeth Calderon. Shame, shame, shame. Came into a financially strong, beautiful, great community. Took it down the drain. Now its a financial basketcase, ugly with no enforcement of any standards, they demolished the fantastic Surfside Community Center, and they seek only what is good for themselves, the five officials, instead of what is good for the community. Sick. Shameful.<br /><br /><br /><br />These officials made a series of horrendous decisions over the last few years and now they want to bail themselves out with a bond issue and charter changes that would expand their power over the future of Surfside, raise taxes, and sink the town into a deep hole of debt. Town officials are scheming to put bond debt and charter changes onto a unique summer election – when many residents will be unaware of the election or out of town. And they are rushing to get it all set up as quietly as possible. Town officials with personal agendas that are ruining the community with shady plots and deals. <br /><br /> <br /><br />Town residents are struggling to make ends meet. Surfside officials are so out of touch with the residents and taxpayers that they continue to siphon off the town’s savings and push ahead with plans that harm rather than serve the public interest. Town officials remain oblivious to the economic crisis. While other cities are scaling back capital projects and non-essential expenses, Surfside officials are spending more and more even though many town departments are already running into red ink. They cover it up but many departments are already in deficit. No wonder the 5 looks for a bond bailout. Its part of the coverup. There should be a forensic audit to find out why and how this group of town officials have taken a financially strong and stable community and crashed its finances into the ground … where did it all go? – its disgusting.<br /><br /> <br /><br />Surfside’s spending on projects that show no results, and its incredible legal fees, consultants, and dozens of quiet, no-bid, big money contracts, are a lead weight that is sinking the town. Current town officials created the biggest & most bloated budget in town history. They constantly try to impose debt upon the residents, change the charter to up their own power, and change the zoning code to open Surfside to overdevelopment.<br /><br /> <br /><br />After raising combined taxes, water, sewer and garbage bills this year to the highest level ever and decreasing service levels (pay more & get less) town officials now plan to deplete the remaining reserve funds that were saved up over many years – and plunge the town into tens of millions of dollars of debt that will raise taxes and the burden on residents for decades to come. Surfside has never had any debt! And once they get approval for the first bond, the hook is in, and cost “overruns”, staffing, insurance, furniture, equipment, utilities, etc. will force the town into additional debt just to try to finish the project. It’s a sink hole! <br /><br /> <br /><br />The Community Center bond scheme does NOT disclose the expense of the bond issue (fees and expenses and commissions) and it does NOT disclose the amount needed to insure, staff and operate any new Community Center and it is an iceberg with most of it hidden from the public by ---- public officials.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-17787485495441081362009-05-05T19:00:00.000-05:002009-05-05T19:00:00.000-05:00Surfside city officials hiding deep fiscal irregul...Surfside city officials hiding deep fiscal irregularities to cover up their own misdeeds. So many no-bid contracts spending millions on getting nothing back.<br />Surfside Florida is a city crashing into a financial hole. Total mismanagement and failed leadership leads to huge hikes in costs and taxes and fees on all residents and on top of that city officials want to borrow tens of millions of dollars to bail themselves out from utter incompetence but at the cost of putting the taxpayers into public debt.<br /><br />Property taxes up 11% for 2009<br />Sewer bills up 37% for 2009<br />Water bills up 41% for 2009<br />Garbage bills up 59% for 2009<br />Stormwater bills up 114% for 2009Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-86107084898687591212009-02-23T22:51:00.000-06:002009-02-23T22:51:00.000-06:00http://restoresurfsideshonor.blogspot.com/http://restoresurfsideshonor.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-19943795970233572472009-02-20T21:17:00.000-06:002009-02-20T21:17:00.000-06:00Surfside Florida where town officials wasted huge ...Surfside Florida where town officials wasted huge amounts of public funds then pinned their hopes on a federal bailout and deceiving voters into bond issuesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-67953666025191169742009-02-20T20:47:00.000-06:002009-02-20T20:47:00.000-06:00Would knowledge, the seeing of a lot of smoke, com...Would knowledge, the seeing of a lot of smoke, complaints from taxpayers, missing deadlines, incomplete and evasive information, bring it to a state/local conspiracy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-12683831053554340032009-02-17T20:23:00.000-06:002009-02-17T20:23:00.000-06:00State government turning a blind eye to fiscal sku...State government turning a blind eye to fiscal skullduggery in Surfside Florida? So much smoke, yet state officials do not peek into the fire? See no evil, hear no evil, is that how it goes in Florida? One can only imagine what the future will bring.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-530719786787138212009-02-17T20:21:00.000-06:002009-02-17T20:21:00.000-06:00Regulators did nothing while Bernie M. did his dee...Regulators did nothing while Bernie M. did his deeds. Apparently it was obvious but left untouched.<BR/><BR/>Similarly regulators (Aud. Gen. FL) (Joint Legis. Audit Comm.) do nothing despite deep serious problems with finances and integrity in Surfside FL.<BR/><BR/>Those who know but do nothing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-60482471309380922432009-02-10T17:06:00.000-06:002009-02-10T17:06:00.000-06:00Yes they are nervous, the tide of truth is rolling...Yes they are nervous, the tide of truth is rolling in and will expose Burkett and Weinberg and Imberman and Levine for what they areAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-75860426571620151902009-02-08T21:15:00.000-06:002009-02-08T21:15:00.000-06:00Burkett and Weinberg Plotted it all along Now they...Burkett and Weinberg<BR/><BR/> Plotted it all along<BR/><BR/> Now they pretend to be at odds<BR/><BR/> Its all about the drama<BR/><BR/> And the corruption<BR/><BR/> Surfside sinking<BR/><BR/> Money gushing outAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-69344974673000707572009-01-30T21:50:00.000-06:002009-01-30T21:50:00.000-06:00Investigation needed to follow the money into the ...Investigation needed to follow the money into the holes it goes to in Surfside Florida.<BR/><BR/>Surfside officials 2009 'rise' to new levels of incompetence and hypocrisy and pomposity! What a combo.<BR/><BR/>The latest numbers are in, millions of dollars in town reserve savings accounts squandered in the last two years, cost of outside contracts anbd vendors and consultants rising very rapidly, deceipt culminating in the destruction of the structurally sound oceanfront town facilities - the incalculable loss of the unique surfside community center, and<BR/><BR/>Property taxes up 11% for 2009<BR/>Sewer bills up 37% for 2009<BR/>Water bills up 41% for 2009<BR/>Garbage bills up 59% for 2009<BR/>Stormwater bills up 114% for 2009<BR/><BR/>and financial disaster looming, with political promises budgeted for pension increases, paying salaries to commissioners, laying the groundwork to decimate the town charter and swing the doors of exploitation WIDE open, its all afoot in the most corrupt place in Florida. Horrible ..... liars scammed their way into office after years of honorable government ... now the scammers are reaping the results of their plotting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-22659769135165570332009-01-28T19:36:00.000-06:002009-01-28T19:36:00.000-06:00Biggest problem of all is that people can read abo...Biggest problem of all is that people can read about the real situation but they still don't want to do anything about it. DOn't want to go to town meetings, take the microphone, and say STOP you "officials" are wacko. Can know what is going on but can't seem to find the time to tell neighbors, to write letters to editors, to say STOP ruining a real American legit community for your personal cache of lies and sneaks and in-your-pocket deals.<BR/><BR/>Its never too late to stand against even MORE insanity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-1073800454251453572009-01-28T19:28:00.000-06:002009-01-28T19:28:00.000-06:00Florida is YES based on its local communities. Bu...Florida is YES based on its local communities. <BR/><BR/>But there used to be hope, like the former leadership of Surfside a town on the southeast coast. WOW what an example it set for greatness and forward looking. But then WHAM a new slate of officials buys their way into Town Hall and puts into play a plan designed to destroy quality community in exchange for cashing in for a few insiders.<BR/><BR/>Surfside Florida politicians gone wild.<BR/><BR/>Should be a "reality" show.<BR/><BR/>Its definitely a show!<BR/><BR/>The lies, drama, deceit, smoke screens and publicity stunts have made Charles Burkett and Howard Weinberg and Marq Imberman INFAMOUS already. And the ultimate cohesive ignorance of Steve Levine and Elizabeth Calderon completes the cast! <BR/><BR/>How does a community go from greatness to despair and bankruptcy in a few short years? Elect Burkett Weinberg Imberman Calderon Levine Blumstein and empower henchmen Arnold, Ioacobaci, Steinfeld, Degraves, Wiescholek, Ott, McGlaughlin, Verzura, Wasserstein, Tourgeman, etc etc etc etc what a gang <BR/><BR/>self service at its murkiestAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-36125478805778313092009-01-28T19:25:00.000-06:002009-01-28T19:25:00.000-06:00Florida 2060 is hard to imagine. Will it be the p...Florida 2060 is hard to imagine. Will it be the product of selfishness, greed, exploitation and abuse of the public?<BR/><BR/>Can Florida's communities find their way to protect themselves from the evil of those who have no roots other than connections to maximizing personal profit?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8586513.post-7278652344941773332009-01-27T18:57:00.000-06:002009-01-27T18:57:00.000-06:00Howard Weinberg and Steve Levine say they will pri...Howard Weinberg and Steve Levine say they will privatize everything they can using everyone they can do get it done? Why?<BR/><BR/>open message to surfside town officials<BR/><BR/>does not look good that you play so loose with taxpayers money<BR/><BR/>Mayor and Commissioners, please stop. <BR/><BR/>Your march towards privatizing everything in Surfside is bad for this community, bad for its taxpayers and bad for its quality of life.<BR/><BR/>You have already privatized so much, giving countless outside contracts for companies to do what should be done in house by public employees. Tonights push to privatize the sanitation department is another step in your plan and while it may fit your own agenda it is wrong, unfair, and detrimental to our town.<BR/><BR/>To say that some of the sanitation employees only work a few hours a day is a distortion, because it does not disclose what they are getting paid or what their job actually is. The fact is that these people are getting paid so low, that the town gets more than its money’s worth and is right to allow them to mow lawns and have other secondary jobs just to be able to make ends meet. Their town salaries are very, very low. Once the town has been cleaned, the garbage and trash removed, they have done their job. Why insult and criticize them? You should be thanking them for a job well done.<BR/><BR/>Another fact is that you have just hiked up the garbage fee, and by privatizing, you would be guaranteeing many future fee increases for the people of Surfside. Don’t try to fool us with a bait and switch for an initial low price that will soar up in years to come.<BR/><BR/>Surfside has an effective, efficient, productive sanitation department. Is that why you want to get rid of it, step by step?We get superb service for a traditionally low rate. Most cities have their residents pay much more, to get much less service. The cities that have privatized pay the most and get the least. Surfside does not have to go that route. We also have an advantage after storms, hurricanes, and events to have our own sanitation workforce, an advantage we would never have again if you privatized and gave out another fat contract to an outside company.<BR/><BR/>Please stop. You tore down the community center. You want to close the library. You want to privatize and eliminate the Surfside Sanitation Department. You have squandered the town’s surplus savings accounts. You’ve done all that harm without any permission or support from the residents and taxpayers.<BR/><BR/>You want to get rid of these loyal, and lowly paid employees. But at the same time, you have highly paid employees and consultants making over 6 figures per year, and they are also not here most of the time! If you want to save money, look at the top. Even look at how you pay yourselves an awful lot more than the town charter allows.<BR/><BR/>This town is headed in the wrong direction because of some very bad decisions made by this commission. Please do not make another one in this push to get rid of the town sanitation department.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com