MARGATE CITY COMMISSION CREATES A CHARTER REVIEW COMMITEE
MARGATE, FL – (May 16, 2013) – The Margate City Commission, has created a Charter Review Committee (“Committee)” to review the terms and provisions within the City Charter. The Committee will be tasked with considering whether any part of the forty-two page City Charter, consisting of ten articles and sixty-one sections, needs to be amended. [...]
Tons of events at #Broward Parks in June
Saturday, June 1 GUIDED NATURE WALK Secret Woods Nature Center (Dania Beach) For all ages 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Free. A naturalist-led walk at the nature center. Please call for details and preregistration. For more information, call the nature center at 954-357-8884. Accessible from Broward County Transit Route #6. PUBLIC [...]
Round-up of summer camps in #Broward County
Camps will be added on a regular basis. Broward County Coconut Creek Summer camps begin on Monday, June 17 and end on Friday, August 9 Three programs are available: Summer Day Camp is offered at the Community Center (1100 Lyons Road) and at the Recreation Complex (4455 Sol Press Blvd.). Summer Sports Camp is offered at Sabal Pines Park (5005 [...]
Huntin’ for bullseye snakeheads in #Margate
The hunt resumes for Margate’s most notorious canal dweller, the bullseye snakehead common to area waterways. Snakehead Round-ups start next Saturday and run monthly through September at the Margate Marina (Veterans Memorial Park) 7044 N.W. 1 Street. In March, biologist Kelly Gestring pulled a record-size bullseye snakehead out of the C-14 Canal in Margate. Weighing [...]
Margate likely to Join County in E911
A move that could save the City $2 million annually in apparatus and manpower, Margate will decide in coming months whether it wants to join a countywide emergency dispatch system that aims to cure delayed, dropped or misdirected emergency calls for help. The system was overwhelmingly approved by Broward voters in 2002 in response to [...]
@BrowardSchools Top African American Scholars Earn National Achievement Scholarships
Seven outstanding Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) seniors were named National Achievement Scholarship winners and will receive a $2,500 scholarship for their undergraduate studies. Each year, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation awards scholarships to African American students who have excelled in academics and have demonstrated the potential for academic success in college. This year, approximately [...]
Broward County Commission Holds Budget Workshop Beginning today; watch online
The first of four Broward County budget workshops begins tomorrow, April 16, at 10 a.m. in Room 430 of the Governmental Center, 115 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Broward County Commissioners will receive updated budget outlooks for Fiscal Year 2014 (FY14). The agenda includes presentations on the proposed FY14 Aviation and Port Everglades operating budgets [...]
Margate Residents Say $9 Million Wastewater Project is Waste of Money
In response to Margate residents voicing concerns over the grand expenditure, the Margate Department of Environmental Engineering is holding a workshop Wednesday, April 17 to reveal details on the city’s water reuse project already in progress. In the planning stages since 2008, Margate broke ground on the water reuse project two years ago. The reuse [...]
Suspended Margate Commissioner asked to leave residence, business. Owes services in excess of $5K
After being asked to pay a $300 water bill left behind by Dave’s Tiki Bar in Margate, formerly owned by suspended Margate City Commissioner David McLean, landlord to the bar, Chris Singh, told the City, “You pay it, he’s your commissioner,” he said. In addition to the $300 water bill, records indicate McLean owes Comcast Commercial almost [...]
#Broward Touts Economic Engines to Sold-Out Crowd–Mayor, Port, Airport and CVB share progress, impact and vision
Broward County’s leading economic engines — Port Everglades, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau – revealed their latest impact figures and marketing strategies to a sold-out crowd of 400 at the Port Everglades Association’s Fifth Annual Economic Engine Report at the Broward County/Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention Center on [...]
