latest city fiasco

Thank you for all the excellent research and information. Is there ANY of the, what, 20-25 community pools in S Fla that charges a flat rate? No matter how any swimmers and how much time? Are WE the only one to operate in this manner? There are reasons why all the other pools charge by the lane, time, and swimmers, right? IF ALL the other pools charge that way and WE charge a flat rate that is ridiculously cheap (because the City Manager has NO idea how much any other pools charge, as he has said in the past), then he is just incompetent beyond belief, and needs to go just for THAT staggering and stupendous stupidity! He is obviously NOT concerned about getting a fair market value for the residents, and seems to be MORE interested in putting money into swim team owners pockets than anything! Why would he be interested in lining the MDAC owners pockets with our tax dollars? Fabricating Optimist connections, totally failing to do due diligence in hiring the Rec Director, FORGETTING to include water, electric, and sewer connections to the new bathrooms, multiple expensive (300%) cost overruns and at least TWO YEARS to complete the bathrooms and the CC enclosure, each - how many more costly fiascos does it take to see hes in over his head (at the very least)? At the worst...... well, you decide.... There is a pattern of incompetence, at best; at worst is a pattern of backroom handshake deals, HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of taxpayers dollars lost, multiple fabrications, and willfully disregarding the Councils directions whenever he wishes. Is this the record of a man who is a good steward of our tax dollars? Is THIS a record of a man we can TRUST? You decide.

trust, but verify

Daily logs for the past ten days or so are not available now. The documentation has been EXCELLENT at times, and incomplete or entirely absent at other times. Is management somehow discouraging good documentation now? If they were, what would they be hiding? If the coach who said he paid $2 a swimmer per day to use our pool for practice is right, consistently under-estimating and under-documenting the numbers of actual swimmers six days a week could leave a significant amount of cash unaccounted for, no? Same with admissions, but on a lesser scale. We are pretty sure the Rip Tide monies made it into the city accounts, but of course need to verify those revenues anyway, just as a matter of good business principles. The same will be required of the City Manager for the MSSH, Columbus, Reagan HS and MDAC monies that were supposedly paid to the City over the past 2-3 years. Trust, but verify. It just gets more and more curious.

right?

When the City Clerk says that a FOI request has had all confidential items removed from a job application, one might assume they would be talking about things of a personal nature: SS #, credit and background check, personal and professional references, etc. Those WERE done, right? Those are standard checks that are done for almost ANY job applicant these days, right? Not to mention a high-profile position that has been described as " the most important job in the city", right? To NOT have done them prior to hiring would be a SERIOUS and unprofessional breach of the public trust, right? Gymbo IS on record as having conducted a thorough and complete vetting of this candidate, right? Any possible problem areas would have been presented to the Council PRIOR to any hiring, right? Were any possible problem areas found and presented to the Council? None that can be recalled. While rumors are not to be given all that much weight, especially unsubstantiated ones, it would be the City Managers job to check them out and prove or disprove them as much as possible beforehand. As the old saying goes," Where theres enough smoke, you will usually find a fire".