Wednesday, July 16, 2008
good neighbor
Being a good neighbor is a good thing usually. When younger I played on both VG and MS kids football teams. I also believe that good neighbors pay their fair share. The residents of MS are losing 300k a year and we are allowing others in FREE? How STUPID can we be? Or maybe our city officials just dont care because its NOT their money going down the tubes, AGAIN! Are we really allowing private entities to use our pool for FREE while the residents foot the bill? Friends are fine, but we are talking fiscal FAIRNESS here. Private entities profit while residents pay the bills.. sound familiar? It should, because we are getting hosed AGAIN.
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Your desire to force your will on the rest of us is getting quite boring.
You speak in hysterical rants that are made to instill fear on those that make the mistake of putting any stock in what you say.
First you must be aware that there are two separate and distinct venues to address environmental issues, regulatory and criminal.
DERM is the county’s regulatory agency and derives its powers from DEP via a delegation of authority agreement. DEP retains the authority to oversee DERM as the Statutory Responsibility lies with DEP and while they can delegate authority, they can not delegate responsibility.
Annexation does NOT mean, nor does it imply, transfer of ownership of any of these properties. They simply get a new mailing address and pay taxes to a different Political Subdivision that will in turn provide basic services.
The only properties that the City bares any responsibility in clean-ups are City Properties. This includes the public right of ways, should annexation take place. If for instance, a trailer load of EthilMethalDeath was to be abandoned on the right of way and no owner could be identified, the City would contact DEP to initiate a criminal investigation and become responsible for the logistics pertaining to the removal and legal disposal of the Hazardous Waste. DERM does NOT handle hazardous waste and does not have criminal investigative authority and relies on the Miami Dade Police Department for that task
Properties are another matter. Ownership of these can be readily made available through tax records, etc. The property owners and the corporate entities, which at times are not the same, bare full responsibility of mitigation in the event of an environmental episode on said property, and then of course there is the EPA Superfund.
These matters change from regulatory to criminal depending on the circumstances. If the EPA Superfund is used for a clean up the EPA will immediately subrogate against the responsible parties in order to recover the moneys.
DERM will open cases on issues such as unlabeled used oil containers, regulatory permit violations, failure to properly maintain disposal records, etc.
Should this prevent annexation?
There are three levels of protection in Miami Dade County as it pertains to environmental violations. DERM, DEP and EPA all have over lapping jurisdiction over these matters.
As far as the landfill is concerned, be advised that there are two. One owned and operated by the County, the other in Medley owned and operated by Waste Management, Inc.
If the County owns and operates the 58th St landfill, where do you think the 5.5 mil mitigation fee comes from? Does the County print their own currency, or do they use Tax dollars? This is of course if you were referring the County landfill and not the Medley landfill.
This is as much effort as I am willing to exert in order to get the facts out there, please don’t bother coming back with another rant, for I will not engage someone without knowledge of the subject matter no matter how green you are.
Enigma is talking about annexation while I am discussing being a good neighbor and everybody paying a fair share at the pool. He has sent the same comment at least three times, which suggests he has nothing more to say that is pertinent, IF he ever DID have anything pertinent to say. Mainly he comes across as bloviating blowhard who is enamored with sound of his words while he is lecturing and hectoring. As such, he has little to offer in moving the discussion forward or even sharpening its focus and is a waste of my time and enrgy.
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