The Rosado Report.

Nearly 24 hours after Mr. Rosado went on an incredibly long tirade, I still find myself somewhat shocked at the events that occurred. For those of you fortunate enough to miss the reports portion of the Council Meeting, I can provide a summary. I assure you, my summary will take less time to read, than the approximately 1 hour that Mr. Rosado's temper tantrum lasted.

First, Mr. Rosado started out innocently enough. He latched on to yet another tid bit from yet another commission that he had attended. He wanted to have more residents of Cape Coral receiving services from Cape Coral Government, and not 'crossing the river' to receive services. He apparently fails to realize that a great number of the Cape's residents are normally 'crossing the river' to go to work every day, so they would be hard pressed to drive back to Cape Coral to take care of an issue that they could more easily handle in Ft. Myers.

Next, Mr Rosado began explaining his take on attending budget meetings. He felt that the meeting which the rest of the council approved a 1 billion dollar budget was "parlaimentary" and it wasn't necessary for him to attend. He stated, "Im elected, I'm an official, and I'll be wherever I want to be."

He then began congratulating himself about his "extremely successful" trip to Puerto Rico, where he "represented" Cape Coral. He discussed the spanish documentation from the trip, which he "translated, pro bono". Of course, noone asked him to represent Cape Coral at this conference. The council never voted to approve his representation of us. More importantly, his "representation" actually forced him to miss that "parlaimentary" budget meeting. The date that he himself motioned to approve as the final budget meeting date.

It only goes down hill from here, unfortunately. Mr. Rosado even went so far as to suggest that "maybe you have to be bilingual to go to heaven"

He began to describe phone calls to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. He called them "Harrassment". Mrs. Bertolini was following up on the date that Mr. Rosado was engaged to speak at this conference in Puerto Rico. She learned that it was set for Friday, the 22nd. So Mr. Rosado had the opportunity to attend the budget meeting. He instead chose to handle personal business, in Puerto Rico.

He also took equipment which belongs to the city. He appropriated a city owned cellular wireless card with unrestricted minutes. He did so in violation of the charter, because he did not clear it with the city manager prior to requesting the equipment from the Director of ITS.

The Mayor asked Rosado to name one benefit the City of Cape Coral received from his trip. Instead of answering the question, Rosado directed everyone to contact the builder sponsor of the Puerto Rico convention, asking them if they felt that Rosado had helped the community. He also offered to bring the builder in, to make a presentation to council. This would of course, have lead to a landslide of time wasting presentations from other builders, wanting their fair share of time.

Mr. Boyd also questioned Mr. Rosado. He pointed out the fact that Rosado was late to the interview process, missing the first three or four entirely, and choosing to watch the remainder of the interviews, on television, rather than in the council chambers.

A handful of people were aware of the fact that I was searching for documentation of the number of missed meetings between Mr. Rosado and our City Manager. I was expecting to hear a figure of about three to four months. Instead, to my intense surprise, Mr. Boyd pointed out the fact that it had been over 1 year since Mr. Rosado had held a meeting with Mr. Stewart. Rosado openly admitted it, saying he was 'dissappointed' with the City Manager, but he wanted to 'start fresh.'

Mr. Rosado, there are no do-overs in real life. Last time I checked, this is the real thing, and you sir, do not have a reset button. You do, however, have the ability to pen a resignation letter. Perhaps that would be the wiser choice.