birds of a feather...

It seems that arrogance and spendthrifty ways come with the City Manager position. The Coral Gables City Manager, David Brown, was reported to have charged up 22k to his city credit card for expensive lunches, travel, and conferences since 2005. When exposed he admitted in court he had backdated checks to make it appear that he had paid for some of it himself, and was ordered to pay a $500 fine and investigation expenses. The City Manager later had the guy who exposed him arested for harrassment of his secretary. Petty, small town politics at its worst. City officials are NOT above retaliating in a similar vein here. While it has not been suggested at this point that Mr Borgeman has abused his credit card privileges, paying four, six, and eight times the going rates for construction projects certainly puts him at the front of the spendthrift class. He would NEVER consider paying those outrageous sums for his personal purchases, but has no hesitation when its OUR tax monies. The over/under on the bathrooms is 500k.