The Mayor's Take - a Cape Informer Follow Up
As promised, I am providing the Mayor's take on the now infamous "Attorney General Flip Flop". The mayor emailed Sunday evening to give me his recollection on the recent Attorney General vote.
Mayor F. says that Mr. Rosado, on returning from his month of leave, requested a status report on the AG letter. He then made a new motion that would examine all points of the Attorney General's letter. The Mayor stated that Rosado's motion was "either vague, broad or showed an incredible lack of understanding of the issues before us. Therefore, I and a majority of council voted no."
He was concerned, however, that finding number 20 would not have been investigated, after this new vote that they took. That being the case, they took another vote to resume the original stated request, as a precaution. The ever challenging dance of bureaucracy, do watch your step!
The Mayor also assured me that the delay was "simply through workload." He did not believe that the delay was at the direction of staff, or of any council member. He also said that if someone had directed a delay, he would seek serious punishment.
I'm afraid that my opinion on the delay hasn't changed much. It's an inflammatory issue, one which our political leaders should make a higher priority. They did at least, direct the City Attorney to respond by a deadline. This was missing from the original request, and as such, it's at least a small improvement on the situation. Thanks, Mr. Mayor for the follow up. I'll follow up again, after the letter is actually brought to council.
Mayor F. says that Mr. Rosado, on returning from his month of leave, requested a status report on the AG letter. He then made a new motion that would examine all points of the Attorney General's letter. The Mayor stated that Rosado's motion was "either vague, broad or showed an incredible lack of understanding of the issues before us. Therefore, I and a majority of council voted no."
He was concerned, however, that finding number 20 would not have been investigated, after this new vote that they took. That being the case, they took another vote to resume the original stated request, as a precaution. The ever challenging dance of bureaucracy, do watch your step!
The Mayor also assured me that the delay was "simply through workload." He did not believe that the delay was at the direction of staff, or of any council member. He also said that if someone had directed a delay, he would seek serious punishment.
I'm afraid that my opinion on the delay hasn't changed much. It's an inflammatory issue, one which our political leaders should make a higher priority. They did at least, direct the City Attorney to respond by a deadline. This was missing from the original request, and as such, it's at least a small improvement on the situation. Thanks, Mr. Mayor for the follow up. I'll follow up again, after the letter is actually brought to council.
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2 Comments:
The Mayor is side tracking the issue of all the other alleged violations of Florida Law. He might try looking at finding #5 of the Auditor General's Report, amongst others.
All of the alleged violations of Florida Law by the Administration and Mayor and Council should be given to the Attorney General for him to opine on, post haste!
Mr. Stewart has simply given excuses to justify his poor performance as the City Manager!
Another thought on the Mayors response. Mr. Rosado's Motion ONLY dealt with the findings of violations of Florida Law as stated by the Auditor General for the State of Florida.
What are they afraid of? Why not have the AG opine on all of the alleged violations of Florida law?
Mr. Stewart only offered excuses in response to the Auditors Generals report where the violations of law were brought up. Why not get another opinion to see if laws were violated.
In any other business there would have been a termination but not here in Cape Coral. WHY? Mr. Stewart is quick to use termination of employees as he did with the HR director. Interesting isn't it?
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