Watchdog Report Vol.19 No.64 December 16, 2018 EST: 05.05.00 – I go when you cannot – Celebrating 18 years of monthly publishing
See you next week and hope you will consider supporting a reliable news service and keeping me in the field and I think over the years I have done my best work covering Jackson health System and the school board and these still need to be monitored and hope you will help. If you are no longer getting the WDR please send me an email after my internet service earth link account was hacked by a foreign actor a few months ago and the cost for the IT was not cheap. Thanks for all the past support!
>>> This national story ran in all the Tribune papers around the nation and covers the early years of the WDR: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2003-01-20/news/0301190045_1_ricker-miami-watchdog and here is a different versionhttp://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-01-20/news/0301190341_1_ricker-school-board-president-miami-s-first-cuban-american
Further, if this works the WDR will go back to my original schedule over the last 18 years. bailed me out of this IT nightmare that coincided with my 18th anniversary of weekly publishing since May 5, 2000. However, this hack has deleted several my email addresses and hope those readers just go to the web page to see the latest issue
>>> And to support the WDR go to my Pay Pal account that is easy to use and right now would be a great time:http://paypal.me/WatchdogReport Further, if you would rather send a check send it made out to Daniel Ricker and mail it to 3109 Grand Ave., #125 Miami, Fla. 33133. Thank you, Dan
>>>And having a member of the press at public meetings gives teeth to the Florida Sunshine Law (and why you get a Flu Shot) and open meetings tape recorded keeps good governance in place and reduces waste fraud and abuse, and public corruption, and is why you don’t speed in front of a state trooper for example. And hope you can support the WDR efforts to have informed residents to public institutions issues, in our community.
>>> Further thewww.watchdogreport.net in South Florida is an established news service presence, because most people are too busy to go to these important meetings, and all the information comes through me as a central point allowing me to see things at a 100-mile altitude and being an early warning system when projects have overruns or other issues. But my job is to sound the alarm and I have done so many times over the past years in a host of ways.
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ARGUS REPORT: The super bowl is not the big enchilada of upcoming events, but the 2020 Census is, undercount costs millions, maybe even a new house seat like in 2000, the worse count ever after Cuban boy Elian sent fear through the Cuban community of the federal government, some $800 billion at stake for some counties
OBITUARY: >>> Community leader and Pinecrest council women Gail Serota,65 passes in snorkeling accident, always a solid caring woman, looked out for taxpayers & residents’ interests, made her mark along with devoted husband Joe, both Princeton tigers, UM law grads
STATE of FLORIDA: Gov. elect: DeSantis in course of term will make 4,000 board appointments, not happy with a few water district board members and some of their deals —16 states have strong cyber stalking laws but not Florida, Legislators should look at this before it happens to them!
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY: commission taps two veterans on body, chair Edmonson & Sosa, again vice-chair- Audit committee Dec.11, community firewall
Miami-Dade County Public Schools: Board taps Tabares Hantman & Dr. Martin Karp for leadership positions, will WLRN license controversy come to an end?
PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST: Cerner IT pilot program at Jackson north app “brings the voice of the customer alive with just a click,” says JHS staff a couple of months ago
JHS like a phoenix rebuilds itself, Bariatric and transplants two areas for growth girders rising on the campus
CITY OF MIAMI: Mayor Ferré honored with park naming, mayor during Mariel, riots, cocaine cowboys, helped create Miami as the gateway to South America, with Brickell banking expansion
EDITORIALS: Mayor Suarez’s strong mayor proposal flawed should not allow outside income for either mayor or manager, not about him but future mayors – Politicians don’t realize voter’s frustration is they are such hypocrites, many times (like now when congress gets paid but no other federal departments with a gov. shut-down) in their own actions Florida Constitutional commission should insist on transparency, not darkness as Sunshine law gets diluted — Most politicians hate the press- Florida needs Sunshine Amendment many municipalities out of control and get little press coverage or oversight, legislators are on wrong side of this one
Community Event: Lotus Village gala https://lotushouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2019-Gala-Sponsorship-Package-final.pdf
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>>> And here is the story done by Miami New Times when they named the publisher as the community’s Best of Miami and Best Citizen and to read the story go to: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/best-of/2003/people-and-places/best-citizen-6399517
>> Given his dedication and perseverance, this new honor, Best Citizen, is well deserved. Ricker goes to 2500 mind-melting meetings annually, from the Public Health Trust’s purchasing subcommittee to the Efficiency and Competition Commission to the Alliance for Human Services’ nominating council to the school board’s audit committee. Sometimes he’s the only public observe
Object: to be the Public Citizen for all those out there who can’t attend, and to connect and serve as an information bridge[electrolyte] among the special-interest-dominated Miami-Dade governmental institutions that seem newsletter, The Watchdog Report, celebrates its [18h] Anniversary. In a former life Ricker made a handsome living as an international salesman of heart pacemakers. As the hard-working publisher of Watchdog, though, he’s struggling financially — this even though his weekly compendium of meeting summaries, analysis, interviews, and commentary has become essential reading for anyone involved in public affairs. What his written work may lack in polish, it more than makes up for in comprehensiveness. So, raise a toast to the man whose official slogan says it all: “A community education resource — I go when you cannot!”
ARGUS REPORT: Heard Seen on the Street
>>> The super bowl is not the big enchilada of upcoming events, but the 2020 Census is, undercount costs millions, maybe even a new house seat like in 2000, the worse count after Cuban boy Elian sent fear through the Cuban community of federal government
While Miami-Dade county is preparing for the Super Bowl next year a bigger event is coming in the 2020U.S. Census that in Miami the count has been generally a flawed process and the worst count was the 2000 Census after the young boy Elian Gonzalez was extracted from Little Havana and the community erupted in ethic tensions and fear for many residents since even though the count is done by the commerce department many saw a “federally,” and would not participate and years later the numbers had to be revised and south Florida got an extra congressional seat that was later filled by U.S> Rep. Mario Diaz Ballart, R-Miami and the census count per person back then brought some $23,000 in federal funding and was in stark contrast to other counties around the nation where very high count was achieved. Further for some counties the undercount could result in some communities losing some $800 billion in lost federal funding that includes Medicare funding and a host of other programs.
School Board member Lubby Navarro is part of the 2020 census taskforce being assembled an she spoke in front of the county commission about the important matter and noted residents will get a form with a number on it and they can file online using that number. She also noted there will be Major outreach at schools’ libraries and other sites with NGOs to get an accurate count and the community’s fair share of representation and federal funding. She also noted we might get a new house seat if the census is done accurately.
Back in 2000 I watched and wrote a lot about the undercount and how it starts and then stops, though the county did get an extension back then but that is no longer assured.
https://www.naco.org/articles/2020-census-what-counties-need-do-now-prepare
What about Pam Gigantea at WPBT?
Pam Gigantea the host of This Week in South Florida is moonlighting and doing ads for the Miami Health system and one appeared on WPLG channel 10 last week and continues a troubling trend such as when Helen Ferré was said to be inconsideration as a Republican Lt. governor candidate when Charlie Crist ran. She later became the Hispanic outreach coordinator for the Trump campaign. I write abut this because WPBT is the last bastion of what should be objective reporting and having a host hawking the healthcare system just seems tacky.
OBITUARY
>>> Community leader and Pinecrest council women Gail Serota, 65 passes in snorkeling accident, always a solid caring woman, looked out for taxpayers & residents’ interests, made her mark along with devoted husband Joe, both Princeton tigers
I missed writing last week about the sad death of Gail Serota who drowned in a snorkeling accident and my condolences go out to her family and boys for this tragic event. Gail married to civically minded Joe Serota was a Pinecrest Council woman who once ran for mayor. Both Gail and her husband Joe were Princeton University tigers and they met there. He would later go to the University of Miami’s law school which she also attended to be with him even after being accepted to Stanford’s Law School. I did not know her that well but when I saw couple eating dinner. She would up date me on the current issues at Pinecrest and was a solid citizen in every way and did her community and public service with honor and will be missed. My condolences to the family and she made her mark and will be missed by many and I am so sorry. To the law firm Weiss Serota, Helfman Bierman where she practiced my condolences. For more on her life and career go to:https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/miami-fl/gail-serota-8067984
>>> The Miami Foundation is starting a program where people can tell their Miami story and to tell your story go to :https://miamifoundation.org/mymiamistory/https:
Give Miami Day was a rousing success with donations topping a new record and Camillus House did very well and shows that Miami is a very giving city something that was always not the case.
> October is Rett Syndrome Awareness month “I am her voice she is my heart,” and to support Julianne Espinosa at http://events.rettsyndrome.org/goJulianne Espinosa2018
What about the internet back in 2000?
Back then everyone was using e-mail and would say to people at the time “my email is on the card,” very proudly and even then, there was a question if this would stay around but later exploded to what it is today. Further the community’s major public institutions were like giant ships in the night not knowing what each was doing in an aggregate way. Wasting millions in public tax dollars since they operate in a discrete fashion.
>>> I also pushed to have schoolboard committees taped. Since I had the only tapes of these and contained what was said about a variety of land purchases sold by politically connected individuals with one piece needing some $49 million in demucking given the containments.
During the 1990s one trick in Miami was to sell contaminated land to a public entity which would in one deal involve some $44 million to demuck and clean up the site but the land was owned by a politically connected man. Now deceased school member Betsy Kaplan once said to me “Dan your trying to keep us out of jail,” she said. I responded, “no kidding.” And to read the early years go to Maya Bell’s long profile in the Orlando Sentinel and she spent weeks with me in an old BMW without air and it captured my journey in this endeavor and to read the national story go to:http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2003-01-20/news/0301190341_1_ricker-school-board-president-miami-s-first-cuban-american
>>> Connect Miami is a new program trying to get residents to engage with their neighbors and friends to broaden community interaction something that at times may be difficult to do. And for more go to www.connectmiami.org And Many of the events are free.in the future.
STATE OF FLORIDA
>>> DeSantis in course of term will make 4,000 board appointments, not happy with a few water district board members and some of their deals
Florida Tax Watch has estimated that a incoming governor in the course of one four year term will appoint some 4,000 people to a host of boards around the state and incoming Gov. Ron De Santos is said to be looking closely at a number of people especially in the water management districts that have done some unusual land deals and the man is softening some of his past rhetoric since winning the close race.
>>> 16 states have strong cyber stalking laws but not Florida, Legislators should look at this before it happens to them
The upcoming Florida legislature must pass legislation strengthen laws regarding cyber stalking and such laws are common in 16 states and with cameras in dorms and many other sites even a home is capable of being hacked Floridians need greater protections. For it is clear this threat is not going away. Here is what some states are using re legal laws and the Florida legislature should beef up the statutes. For more go to http://www.ncsl.org/
What about the Children’s Trust of Miami-Dade County?
The county commission voted on new trustees for the Children’s trust and they are Lourdes Gimenez, Constance Collins, Jose “Félix” Diaz, and Dr. Kate Callaghan our youth and the trust is a community treasure nurturing our youth to excel in life.
What about the United Ways new program?
United Way of Miami-Dade County has several programs for-not for-profits with good ideas fostering their growth for more go to: https://unitedwaymiami.org/contact-us/media-kit/
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
>>> Commission taps two veterans on body, chair Edmonson & Sosa tapped again as vice-chair
The county commission elected new leadership and Commissioner Audrey Edmonson was elected Chair for the second time and Commissioner Rebeca Sosa was elected vice-chair and the two women have worked well in the past. Edmonson cam e to the body after being mayor of El Portal and Sosa was a mayor in West Miami.
>>> Mayor Carlos Gimenez tells commissioners that the new LNG buses, if the technology is suitable may end up being pollution free electric buses. Commissioner Joe Martinez questioned if any cost savings and noted the LNG buses were bought because gas was high a few years ago and while reducing the carbon footprint. It was the fuel savings that tipped the scale toward LNG d
A county employee was honored after he created a way to save some $93,000 and chair Bovo noted that could pay for an employee. The man shot back “that he was taxpayer as well,” and the program over the past decade has resulted in several very good ideas on how the county can save money in its $78 billion budget.
At the infrastructure committee a discussion on a smart water meters a large contract was discussed versus retrofitting the older “dumb meters,” and is expected to save the county money while getting a more accurate reading. Commissioner Joe Martinez said he has had the department check his meter twice since he got a $700 water bill.
What about the 2009 IG report?
Years ago the county’s OIG office checked some 30,000 water meters on residences and in the fields where fire hydrants were supplying free water to farmers and in homes investigators found 15,000 private meters had been bypassed and was a local cottage industry costing the county “$35 million,” the report found in loss revenue an these smart meters will be introduced in the coming years.
What is the new elderly crisis coming?
Homeless seniors are becoming the biggest threat facing the county in the future and it is a “Crisis, said Ron Book,” the Homeless trust chair. At past trust meeting and the need for permanent housing for this emerging group is critical and he is on a crusade to find permanent housing the trust can buy but in Miami the inventory is small an expensive he has said in the past. And to review the task force recommendations: go to Bing addreshttp://www.miamidade.gov/charter/library/2018-02-26-meeting-materials.pdf
Ron Book has been making the political rounds speaking at Thursday’s Miami commission meeting Thursday about a new encampment in the inner city that has been blocked off by the health department after open sexual acts and drug dealing has resulted in a spike of AIDs cases and the finding of drug paraphernalia around the local schools and the trust gas gone into emergency mode to get these people into rehabilitation and other programs and those coming back are being addressed where one Women had “black lips,” gangrene and was “spotted having a rat eating the food in her mouth,” in her stupor condition said Book to city commissioners and she was taken into rehabilitation but this is the challenge the county’s homeless trust faces. For more go to https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/downtown-miami/article219921130.html
What about shot spotter technology 80% of shots residents hear do not call 9/11? Going to be combined with license plate readers in Miami and Miami Gardens, along with Ring security systems helping
A presentation by a regional rep of shot spotter which employs sensors around the county and the facts show only a small number 80 percent of people who hear shots” will not call 9/11 when they hear shots and many families have a “protocol,” when they hear shots and the rep believes they are afraid of being known as a “snitch,” and residents why call after hearing shots and no police coming. Commissioner Dennis Moss suggested they think “the police just don’t care.” One thing the shot spotters is good at is recovering shell casings which helps law enforcement on who the shooter might be. Further county police will soon be equipped with “license plate readers’ already in use in a variety of municipalities. And for more on the technology go to: http://www.shotspotter.com/ Update: In Miami Gardens which along with Miami are getting license plate readers one resident said large number of residents are using Ring security systems as well and hope all these efforts will reduce the violence facing the two municipalities.
| >>> New continuum of care center coming for homeless with mental issues, JHS involved one stop cente |
The Miami-Dade County Homeless Trust along with Jackson Health System is opening a one stop public facility for homeless who qualify for a new diversion program with a mental illness and includes many veterans on the streets and is an old facility previously used by the state, but it will offer a continuum of care and was briefly discussed at the trust board meeting Friday. The whole community has been seeking ways to resolve the mental health issues of the homeless now drawing in people with opioid addiction and a drop of fentanyl can kill and many times is cut with cheap yellow Mexican heroin that appeared years past and is causing thousands of overdoses and the city of Miami spent $150,000 in procuring the miracle drug Narcan that can revive a overdosed person almost immediately and these people cut across all ethnic lines and the issue was discussed Sunday on “This Week in South Florida,” and to see the show go to https://www.local10.com/this-week-in-south-florida/this-week-in-south-florida-oct-29
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Chapman, Jr. partnership go to: https://www.chapmanpartnership.org/about-us/leadership/ https://www.chapmanpartnership.org/wpq_events/nextgen-gala-party/
The trust has a new program where people with rental housing can register their rental units with the county and for more on the program go to: http://www.homelesstrust.org/rentconnect.asp
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
>>>> Board taps Tabares Hantman & Dr. Martin Karp for leadership positions, will WLRN license controversy come to an end?
The school board voted its new leadership and long serving chair Perla Tabares Hantman was reelected and Dr. Martin Karp is the vice chair on the nine-member board. That years go voted over 100 times on new leadership but Hantman who believes in diplomacy versus fighting with the Florida legislature or by suing the state she has said in the past. She also asks for civility among the board and has a great memory when it comes to past board legislation and is also on the county’s Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) as a long-time member with great attendance.
Karp in the past has been on the WLRN oversight board that is slowly working on an operating agreement that keeps the station independent of the administration and includes an advisory board of prominent media professionals working to craft a satisfactory agreement with the district that holds the station’s license. Critics believe the schoolboard and the station should be independent and not require staff to be school district employees. Supt. Alberto Carvalho has argued that the district when it comes to this should be with consistent with other such agreements, especially approving the general manager and his level of pay. Further, this s issue may be discussed at the Dec11 Audit and Budget Review Advisory meeting and I will be there.
PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST
>>> Cerner IT pilot program at Jackson north app “brings the voice of the customer alive with just a click,” says JHS staff a couple of months ago
The trust on June 13 went live with a Cerner IT update that allows the Jackson North pilot program to “bring the voice of the customer alive with just a click,” said It staff a few months ago and if a “patient needs a blanket,” and is expected to improve the “patient experience,” said staff and the ap is a boon for patients in the emergency rooms where “75 percent of the patients come through the emergency room,” said JHS staff.
Residents need to drive by the public Health trust campus as girders and new construction is occurring on the campus
What about Bariatric surgery and the UM transplant program?
The health system is running ads for the bariatric surgery and a woman gave a testimonial at a committee meeting saying her weight was the same as her weight when “she was 22 and can now do exercise and climb stairs. The trust is also running television ads,” she said, and the system is great and a big supporter.
What about the $884 million in charity care report at JHS?
A new charity care report has been released and a consultant’s study says the public health system does some $884 million in charity care and with cutbacks in LIP. The lower income pool the costs are expected to rise and over the years all the hospitals in Dade have had issues with charity care and years ago Mt Sinai Medical Center did some $130 million in uncompensated care and Baptist Health also gets hit with some $250 to $300 million in charity care or 24 percent of the community’s charity care and JHS is still saddled with $78.8 million in uncompensated mandates to the county that began in early 2000 and includes costs for jail inmates and a host of other expenses and to read the complete report go to: the report was requested by county commissioners Barbara Jordan and Daniella Levine-Cava go to http://www.miamidade.gov/govaction/legistarfiles/Matters/Y2018/181871.pdf
>>> New report on how JHS spending $830 million bond monies, going well
Here is the most recent update on the $830 million GOB passed by County wide voters to update the ageing facilities at Jackson Health System and the projects are going very well and includes minority vender participation similar the public schools oversight system and this public money is key to the communities’ health since there is a big push toward prevention and wellness has FIU physicians doing primary and family medicine and is a real boon in keeping healthcare costs down. To read the report go:
>>> County OIG report on Career Source and workforce development in Monroe and Miami-Dade; to read the report go to: http://www.miamidadeig.org/Reports2018/FinalAuditReport-CareerSourceSouthFlorida.pdf
CITY OF MIAMI
>>> Mayor Ferré honored with park naming, mayor during Mariel, riots, cocaine cowboys, helped create Miami as the gateway to South America, with Brickell banking expansion
Former Mami mayor Maurice Ferré, 83, was honored Thursday with the naming of Bicentennial park after the long-term Miami mayor and state legislator with a strong democratic party bent and is a transportation maven and had an aristocratic background in Puerto Rico and his families Maule concrete was the victim of the 2004-06 Miami recession after a planned expansion that would put the company into bankruptcy. Ferré who lost to Manny Diaz back in 20001 to return to office has been a perennial candidate, and in 2010 ran for the senate in Florida when Mel Martinez resigned the office.
What about the Dist. 2 commission race?
Javier Gonzalez a former chair of the Coconut Grove Village council is challenging Ken Russel for the seat. Gonzalez ran in a larger primary with a host of candidates including incumbent Marc Sarnoff’s wife Teresa and Russel prevailed in the race a two years ago.
However, Gonzalez, a Grove realtor can come off as arrogant and when he last campaigned, he noted he had the American dream since he owned a “Maserati and had a Rolex watch. However, Sarnoff now a lobbyist was seen last week going into city hall and he had a for lone look as he walked from his car since he no longer had a parking spot and here is his lobbying form on file with the city.
Sarnoff, Marc D. Address: 200 S. Biscayne Blvd Suite 4100 Organization City Miami Telephone 3054159072 Fax: State : FL Zip : 33131 Email: msarnoff@shutts.com
Principal Name Issue Description Registration Date Amount Payment Comments
Annual Lobbyist Registration Fee 05/31/2018 $525.00 00553869 Dmitry Kulkov, individually negotiation in connection with potential dockage agreement 07/11/2018 $105.00 00555851 MCD Miami LLC Magic city zoning changes 10/03/2018 $105.00 00560338 Orange Barrel Media Installation of interactive informational kiosks 08/23/2018 $105.00 00558159
What about the Miami Finance Committee meeting?
The WDR attended the Miami Finance committee but was late after the manager’s office receptionist was gone and I went through the mayor’s office, but I lost some 20 minutes and that should not happen.
http://ethics.miamidade.gov/library/closed%20investigations/2018/pi_18-10_bayfront-park-ultra.pdf
What do Suarez’s financial disclosures look like since 22014 to 2017?
Suarez said he had no income since he had just started to work at a law firm so I checked his financial disclosure forms from 2014 where through June he was worth $13,018.44 and in 2016 it jumps to $100,163 the same net worth he had back in 2016 and in 2017 his net worth was $245,015 and I only checked this information since he is seeking to become a strong mayor and since his salary in that initiative is referenced to be 75 percent the county mayors salary. Suarez got a significant raise since in the county budget there was a pay raise of $250,000 in the budget passed Thursday night for Carlos Gimenez and could even grow higher for Suarez and will be cherry on the compensation cake for the young real-estate attorney who will not confirm he will have no outside income with this bump and is od since most senior officials focus only on their duties ( ask ex Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne about this after he went to prison on tax evasion).Editor’s note: My biggest issue is not the banning of outside income.
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MIAMI-DADE WATCHDOG WILL BE MISSED
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>>>Watchdog Report publisher named ‘Best Citizen’ 2003 by the Miami New Times
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The trust has a new program where people with rental housing can register their rental units with the county and for more on the program go to: http://www.homelesstrust.org/rentconnect.asp
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