The Positives and The Negatives!

North Bay Village “positives” and “negatives” let’s take a look. Positive, the Village Clerk Ms. Yvonne Hamilton is quiet and gets her work done. Positive, our Interim Manager Ms. Jenice Rosado and her staff gets the job done and can dialogue to make things better. Positive, Mr. Bert Wrains our Finance Director transparent, professional, resourceful and detailed, not afraid to say “I don’t know”. Positive, Public Works Director Rodney Carrero-Santana Professional, resourceful, detailed and no nonsense type of person.  Positive, most of our policemen are professional, caring and doing a superb job. Positive our garbage collection people do a fabulous job and have no problem accommodating our residents. Positive, North Bay Island Commissioner Richard Chervony is always prepared and not afraid to call it as he sees it. In addition he works hard to keep our residents informed.  Positive, Treasure Island Commissioner Wendy Duval in short time appears to have the ability and knowledge to get things accomplished. Currently Positive, FSM Landscaping Inc is improving their services and have been more visible doing their job, definitely an improvement. I am sure to have missed a few more, feel free to add.

The negatives, The Mayor, Vice Mayor and Commissioner at Large not taking our budget seriously and not having the courage to listen and make the necessary responsible budget cuts! This is a problem foreseen since 2011.  Negative, our police budget and over spending. Negative, the red light camera program makes money only for ATS, Inc.  and their answer is to add more cameras.   Our roads, speed bumps and sidewalks need repair. The Public Works grounds and facilities have deteriorated and are an eye sore. The Tot Lot needs the proper flooring, our children deserve nothing less! Our Building Codes need to be updated to the 21^st Century and the costs to do business in North Bay Village need to be transparent and fair. Negative, no appointments to the Budget and Oversight Committee could have come in handy given the disarray of our Village finances.  Negative, the backdoor way that the commission is a hiring a new Interim Village Manager.  Negative, the cost of our legal department, I am sure to have missed a few, feel free to add.  

Honestly Opinionating!

PUTTING NORTH BAY VILLAGE FIRST!

Mario Garcia

July 20, 2013