Things seem to be calming down
Speaking of The New Times calling for an interview. So did Plum TV. They want me on their talk show.
I think it was about the Code Enforcement stuff and I didn't want to get into that since it looks like things are calming down. I don't see any police on the streets these days giving parking tickets and I hear that the restaurants are being left in peace.
I think all the negative publicity finally got them to back off. Plus I don't think the Parking Authority wants us delving into their shift of money from the Grove to other areas of the City for various cultural events. Bunch of B.S.
The Parking Authority should not be ticketing cars and then promoting and paying for festivals elsewhere. Makes no sense and it is a total waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. This is fiduciary irresponsibility in a big way. Let Budweiser sponsor the events, what is this crap with the Parking Authority using money they get from citations to sponsor events? If the Parking Authority wants to be altruistic, how about giving free parking? That's what people want.
I think it was about the Code Enforcement stuff and I didn't want to get into that since it looks like things are calming down. I don't see any police on the streets these days giving parking tickets and I hear that the restaurants are being left in peace.
I think all the negative publicity finally got them to back off. Plus I don't think the Parking Authority wants us delving into their shift of money from the Grove to other areas of the City for various cultural events. Bunch of B.S.
The Parking Authority should not be ticketing cars and then promoting and paying for festivals elsewhere. Makes no sense and it is a total waste and abuse of taxpayer dollars. This is fiduciary irresponsibility in a big way. Let Budweiser sponsor the events, what is this crap with the Parking Authority using money they get from citations to sponsor events? If the Parking Authority wants to be altruistic, how about giving free parking? That's what people want.
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Word. Perfectly said.
Miami Parking Authority is one more form of the mob operating under our local government. Their biggest scam is the "fee" (note they refuse to call it a tax) they collect by force from Grove restaurants and bars as part of the Coconut Grove Parking Improvement Trust. Just like the mob collecting protection money. Have you seen the amount of self promotion and advertising Miami Parking Authority pays for in the local media. What is the point of this monopoly? Is it not more efficient to rent out the huge number of parking assets on annual, renewable, strict contracts to multiple private companies. Rather than have government officials arbitrarily decide where the collections of parking money is spent?
The kind of Non-sense that doesn't happen in most Villages which govern themselves, like our next door neighbors, on the south border: The City of Coral Gables and the City of Key Biscayne, north border.
They don't seem yo have as many Parking or Tax management problems, do they? And you can immediately tell where their tax payer monies go.. just look at the pavement on the roads, their parks, and so on. Free Parking too, when/where it counts.
For what it's worth, the Miami Parking Authority has multiple garages and thousands of on-street parking meters that are NOT in Coconut Grove. While Coconut Grove may seem to be the entire universe to some, it is not all that unseemly for the MPA to spend money collected outside the Grove on events that are not in the Grove.
On a related note, it has been bandied about that Coconut Grove contributes something like 78% of the City of Miami tax revenues, a specious notion at best. District Two in its entirety may contribute 78%, but that includes Brickell, Downtown and a long stretch of high-value commercial and residential areas up the coast, not just Coconut Grove.
To just a fact m'am,
Since you have the facts, tell me does the Coconut Grove have a surplus in taxes that is spent outside of its collection geographic area. According to some sources the amount has been for more than five years over $40 million that is spent outside the Grove of this area's tax collections. If this is not true then you seem to be so in that can give us the right info. Secondly if Miami Parking Authority (as you call it MPA) has been collecting for years so much fees related to Coconut Grove Parking Improvement Trust from restaurants and bars and meter collections, why is the Coconut Grove Parking situation still still so bleak? After all is the function of MPA primarily funding cultural events or managing trhe parking infrastructure? Your argument and justification in support of your MPA seems tinged with typical MPA insider speech. MPA has become a jackpot machine for some. Time to clean up. Time to privatize.
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