There is a Special Commission Meeting on November 12 at 7 PM. Not that all of our commission meetings are not special, but this is an Extra Special Commission Meeting because (excuse me whilst I shout)
FOR THE THIRD TIME, THE VILLAGE MANAGER MANAGED TO SCREW UP THE
PROCESS OF PASSING THE BUDGET AND WE ARE IN VIOLATION OF STATE LAW.
Okay, back to normal. Here's what happened.
The Commission Chair, Her Lady of Lightness and Positivity, Connie Leon-Kreps, positively forgot to chair the second hearing on the debt millage rates.
The Village Manager, a straight talking, rootin tootin son of a gun, Frank Rollason, has been too involved in matters that are by law none of his business to pay attention to the state laws governing the adoption of a budget and never managed to set up the correct series of meetings and notices. Apparently, he's never done it before.
Add into the mix a group of disenfranchised commissioners, and discouraged village employees, and nobody looked to see if North Bay Village had complied with state laws on the budget. My favorite quote from the state letter on this tragicomedy is "[these violations] tend to misinform taxpayers." That was the point.
So NBV is having the fourth meeting, hoping to get it right this time.
But let's look on the bright side, as our mayor frequently snarls...
That's it, she never actually provides a bright side.
The only bright side I can see is that the mayor is in her last year of shedding whatever it is she sheds all over the place, and I don't think Rollason will make it into next year, so maybe next time?
Kevin Vericker
November 8, 2013
FOR THE THIRD TIME, THE VILLAGE MANAGER MANAGED TO SCREW UP THE
PROCESS OF PASSING THE BUDGET AND WE ARE IN VIOLATION OF STATE LAW.
Okay, back to normal. Here's what happened.
The Commission Chair, Her Lady of Lightness and Positivity, Connie Leon-Kreps, positively forgot to chair the second hearing on the debt millage rates.
The Village Manager, a straight talking, rootin tootin son of a gun, Frank Rollason, has been too involved in matters that are by law none of his business to pay attention to the state laws governing the adoption of a budget and never managed to set up the correct series of meetings and notices. Apparently, he's never done it before.
Add into the mix a group of disenfranchised commissioners, and discouraged village employees, and nobody looked to see if North Bay Village had complied with state laws on the budget. My favorite quote from the state letter on this tragicomedy is "[these violations] tend to misinform taxpayers." That was the point.
So NBV is having the fourth meeting, hoping to get it right this time.
But let's look on the bright side, as our mayor frequently snarls...
That's it, she never actually provides a bright side.
The only bright side I can see is that the mayor is in her last year of shedding whatever it is she sheds all over the place, and I don't think Rollason will make it into next year, so maybe next time?
Kevin Vericker
November 8, 2013
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