Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Miami Beach Commissioners Still Unsure Why They Gave Extra Cash To Ousted Manager

Ignorance is bliss . . . until you find out what you did in ignorance--

Miami Beach Commissioners Still Unsure Why They Gave Extra Cash To Ousted Manager - Miami News - Riptide 2.0: "June's Miami Beach commission meeting ended with what seemed like a heartfelt bit of humanity. Commissioners agreed to keep axed City Manager Jorge Gonzalez on the books for another nine months while he burned vacation days so his family could keep its health insurance. But this is Miami Beach, the most corrupt town in Dade! So it should shock no one that a month later, the commission exploded into chaos when they finally realized what they'd actually done -- given Gonzalez, who was forced to resign because the code department spiraled into an FBI-investigated catastrophe on his watch, up to a $15,000 annual boost to his pension. Two weeks later, they're still trying to sort out the mess and decide who's to blame. "At its best, it was an oversight," Commissioner Ed Tobin says. "At its worst, it was a very sneaky trick to take hundreds of thousands from the taxpayers.""

Hey it's not like they were giving away their OWN money!!

 

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