Will Tamarac recall efforts survive court?
By Buddy Nevins, BrowardBeat.com (Feb. 14, 2013) - Recalls – the attempt to toss an elected official from office – usually fails when it reaches the courthouse. This time Tamarac voters have a real chance of driving a city commissioner from office even if it ends up in court. They may really accomplish what so many [...]
Coconut Creek City Manager wants big pay raise for Valentine’s Day
By Buddy Nevins, BrowardBeat - The city manager of Coconut Creek has a big, expensive Valentine Day’s gift for taxpayers. The only question is whether city commissioners will accept it. Manager David Rivera’s evaluation is scheduled for Feb. 14. It could result in an 8 percent raise on his already huge salary. Rivera was paid $359,288 in salary [...]
UPDATE: One lost Broward School item may have been in the bosses driveway.
UPDATE By Buddy Nevins (Jan 29,2013) – Earlier this week we reported that Broward school board members were stunned to learn the district had almost $1 million in missing items. Today, we’re reporting two of those items may have been located. One of them in the bosses driveway. The two missing Ford Explorers that the [...]
Building Consensus To Stop Gun Violence
By Mike Ryan, Sunrise Mayor, for BrowardBeat.com (Jan. 14, 2013): As a Mayor of a town with 90,000 residents, thousands of businesses, 11 public schools, and millions of visitors a year, I have a very keen interest in preventing gun violence where possible. As a former PTA president and father of two in our Broward [...]
Hundreds lined up three hours early for gun show
By RC White and Buddy Nevins (BrowardBeat) – Fort Lauderdale (Jan. 12, 2013): The Fort Lauderdale Gun Show is taking place today and tomorrow at the War Memorial Auditorium, 800 N.E. 8 Street, Fort Lauderdale. People wanting to attend today’s event, began lining up at 6 A.M. By the time the doors opened three hours later [...]
Plantation voters don’t want red light safety cameras, says survey
By Buddy Nevins, BrowardBeat - Plantation voters — at least the ones who answered the survey — don’t want red light cameras The cameras were rejected by 63-27 percent, with the rest having no opinion. That’s the results of a survey by Plantation Commissioner Pete Tingom as one of the opening shots of his re-election campaign in March. [...]
Bad math! School staff say spend $9 million to save $1.6 million
By Buddy Nevins, BrowardBeat - Fuzzy math is way too frequent in the Broward County school system like this example: To save $1.6 million annually, the staff suggests spending roughly $9 million. “It can’t be $9 million. That’s absurd,” Chair Laurie Rich Levinson said. First the good news. Board members agreed this week to move employees out of [...]
On Tuesday will Broward School Board End Leases in Stiles-project?
By Buddy Nevins, BrowardBeat - Maybe, just maybe, the Broward County School Board is really changing. Maybe insiders like big-money real estate mogul Terry Stiles no longer have control of Board members. On Tuesday School Board members will consider what was unthinkable just a few years ago: End a lease in a Stiles-project. Considering alternatives to spending $3.124 [...]
Parents Start Pressure For More School Police
BY BUDDY NEVINS, BrowardBeat - Parents that have begun lobbying the School Board for full-time police officers at their children’s’ schools. The question, of course, is who will pay? The School Board? Individual cities? The e-mail below is from Nova Eisenhower Elementary, a magnet school where many of the students live outside the city where it [...]
Redistricting Committee Threatens School Board’s Only Black
By Buddy Nevins, Broward Beat – The Broward School Board’s only black could be redistricted out of her seat this week, leaving thousands of African Americans without a neighborhood Board member. Dr. Rosalind Osgood, who was elected just a month ago, is a victim of the Board’s Redistricting Committee. All four of the committee’s recommended districting maps [...]
