Watchdog Report Vol.22 No.47 December 4, 2022-EST:05.05.00 – I go when you cannot – a free community education resource
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Vol.22 No 47, December 4, 2022, Celebrating 22 -years of free weekly publishing! www.watchdogreport.net & Former Miami Herald news & editorial columnist. 05.05.00, I go when you cannot, for almost 22-years & a trusted community education resource & news service, without the attitude
>>> Just because you do not take an interest in politics does not mean politics will not take an interest in you. –Pericles (430 B.C.)
ARGUS REPORT:
>>> Cardiac EKG screening should be required by state, number one killer of young athletes in schools, highlighted at school board Wednesday.
>>>I will return next week, I’m sick and hope to feel better next week.
FLORIDA: The Florida Ethics Commission has $799,569.in ethics fines unpaid and the list is a cross section of people on state boards.
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY: Gov. Ron De. Santos taps Robert Gonzalez to fill county commission district 11,replacing Joe Martinez suspended by the governor
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: The board’s student advisor Ms. Cori Anna White with a unique perspective made some saliant comments recently when the schools code of conduct was being discussed. With all the mass shootings she noted “student safety was paramount regardless of zip codes. She inquired about the role of “threat assessment teams,” and “reporting lines,” and their role “in identifying patterns of behavior,’ of students.- Chair Hantman & Perez saying sayonara, after decades helped to stabilize rocky public district plagued by scandals
PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST: Oct. JHS financial dashboard: https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/jacksonhealth/b071ed27-6113-11ed-95a3-0050569183fa-6872cee3-98a7-4865-85f1-4b68344022ed-1669154377.pdf
CITY OF MIAMI: Will Commissioner Ken Russell, be allowed to have last meeting in
December as two commissioners say no? clerk working to get it on, Reyes in, Chair
King unknown: she needs support from Carollo and Diaz de la Portilla for Virginia Key
trust, likely no December meeting requested, by Russell, no decision yet candidates’
line-up to replace him, after Jan.3 when he resigns after losing the Democratic Party
primary to Taddeo.
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>>> Cardiac EKG screening should be required by state, number one killer of young athletes in schools, highlighted at school board Wednesday
Student Athletes dying from sudden cardiac death, was highlighted at Wednesday’s school board meeting. Sudden death is common with athletes and the need for a EKG screening is important. And advocates say screening should be mandatory. And Florida has nine districts that have this screening requirement before entering school. Further, some parents are hesitant to screen, and just have to be notified, said advocates including a girl with an implantable defibrillator. For more go to: https://nzdsos.com/2022/09/09/unexplained-coincidental-collateral-damage/
FLORIDA
>>> Is Florida changing its political stripes, Christ was a flawed candidate with too much political luggage & chameleon
With governor Ron De Santos easily defeating Charlie Crist a democrat and Sen. Marco Rubio defeating Val Demings. Florida is no longer a swing state that even touched normally Democratic Miami-Dade County and the election over here in Miami-Dade candidates will emerge to run for all the new state voters approved creating a sheriff, tax collector.
>>> The Florida Ethics Commission has $799,569.in ethics fines unpaid and the list is a cross section of people on state boards and to see the list go to:
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
The board’s student advisor Ms. Cori Anna White with a unique perspective made some saliant comments recently when the schools code of conduct was being discussed. With all the mass shootings she noted “student safety was paramount regardless of zip codes. She inquired about the role of “threat assessment teams,” and “reporting lines,” and their role “in identifying patterns of behavior,’ of students.
Dr.Steven Gallon, III, a former principal overseeing 3,200 students said the goal was not “to suffer situations that take away opportunities to educate. He said, “parents send the best students they have and the district policy was going to be applied with “firmness and equity,” noting a large public school “is one of the most challenging education jobs there is said the veteran teacher
>>> Chair Hantman & Perez saying sayonara, after decades helped to stabilize rocky public district plagued by scandals
Two iconic board members are leaving after serving since 1996. Perla Tabares Hantman and Dr. Marta Perez, also an attorney since joining the board and was an advocate for a ethics committee chaired at one time by judge Kogan. She also pushed for the inspector general at the district. Hantman the chair most of her years was calm did things by the book after scandals rocked the district. Further, there was a state oversight board. Both women were very supportive of the WDR over the years, and they will be missed on the nine-member school board.
Retired Florida Supreme Court Judge Gerald Kogan was honored posthumously by the school board Wednesday. The jurist was the point of the spear after the Miami-Dade Chamber created the Alliance for ethical government after scandals and arrests at the county and bogus land deals at the public district, where matchbox degrees were prevalent, and the community outrage was palpable and confidence in government was abysmal. Editor’s note: I was at many meetings with Kogan, and he helped convince me that I should keep at my efforts and had a card, which read “Citizen Advocate for Ethical Government.”
PUBLIC HEALTH TRUST
>>> Oct financial dashboard: https://d3n9y02raazwpg.cloudfront.net/jacksonhealth/b071ed27-6113-11ed-95a3-0050569183fa-6872cee3-98a7-4865-85f1-4b68344022ed-1669154377.pdf
CITY OF MIAMI
>>> Will Commissioner Ken Russell, be allowed to have last meeting in December as two commissioners say no? clerk working to get it on, Reyes in, Chair King unknown
The cancellation of Decembers commission meeting had leaving commissioner Ken Russell walk off the dais since his last meeting in December was being cancelled because commissioners Joe Carollo, and Alex Diaz de la Portilla, wanted to spend time with family over the holidays a first. Russell is trying to get three commissioners to agree to have the December meeting that commissioner Manolo Reyes has agreed to and just chair Christine King must agree. Russell has projects he wants to finish before leaving the body and the commissioners who often take shots at Russell
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Published on January 20, 2003, Page 1E, Orlando Sentinel, PAPERWORK TIGER, Miami’s citizen watchdog piles up government files in his quest to keep the “little people” informed. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-01-20-0301190341-story.html
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>>> Watchdog Report publisher named ‘Best Citizen’ 2003 by the Miami New Times
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