Future of Hallandale Beach's Fashion Row Arts District on N.E. First Avenue to be discussed at an important 5:30 p.m. meeting on Wednesday at Dekka; What, if any, are insurance executive and developer Stephen L. Riemer's strategic plans for the future of the N.E. First Avenue area, alongside the F.E.C. tracks?; More cases of déjà vu on Hallandale Beach's woeful website

Above from June 19, 2012 

March 12, 2013

One day before an important 5:30 meeting at Dekka about the future of NE First Avenue and HB City Hall's willingness to actually live up to their past promises after years of eyerolling obfuscation and rhetoric -with only one Fashion Row banner still flying above the street that took the city over ONE YEAR to actually order and then erect onto First Avenue street light fixtures, in Dec. of 2011- and less than one week before next Monday night's HB CRA meeting on that matter, weeks after being hired, new CRA Director Daniel Rosemond's email address STILL does NOT appear on the city's own website. 

And can anyone plausibly explain why Liza Torres' contact info is NOT also located on the same webpage?

http://www.hallandalebeachfl.gov/index.aspx?NID=82

http://hallandalebeachfl.gov/directory.aspx?eid=125

Why is it SO consistently hard over several years for the city to actually construct a normal, accurate and intuitive hierarchical directory on the city website that lists who's in charge of what, and their contact info?

It's like pulling teeth to get them to act like a normal city!

For some of you reading this, these words ring very, very familiar.

But it wasn't yesterday, it was four year ago.

In fact, it was March 8, 2009 when I wrote and posted this...

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Mayor Joy Cooper's so-called column in The South Florida Sun-Times had this headline for her most recent column: It was a very busy week around the community

Her 9th paragraph begins:     We continued the first meeting of the month with the public works update. Director William Brandt reported on the many ongoing construction projects. Many were in the final stages of completion. West Hallandale Beach Blvd is almost fully completed with punch list items and final signalization test. This included the intersection at 8th Ave., which was implemented jointly with our city. Staff continues to evaluate the continued erosion along  Shafer Canal and is looking to work with Broward County Erosion Control and the South Florida Water Management District. We are looking at the possibility of a grant or loan program to assist in repairs.     One other project that was highlighted was the bridge rehabilitation project which has already commenced. It will continue over the next few months with a projected completion date of November 1. This project includes the beautification and lighting enhancements on the bridges located SW 7th St, Paradise Isles Blvd. and the seven bridges within the single family residential area.    After his report Mr. Brandt introduced the new Director of Public Works Department.    Bill Brandt will remain as Director of Utilities and Engineering. Our utilities infrastructure continues to create a high demand with many necessary on going projects . These include; sewer line rehabilitation, lift station replacement, water plant operations, water main line improvements and daily crew operations and maintenance.  All these projects include extensive engineering and planning.    In order to expedite many of our construction programs and projects City Manager Mike Good recommended the department be split between utilities and public works. Mr. John Chidsey was introduced as our new Director of  Public Works. His duties will include but are not limited to; construction planning and supervision, facility maintenance, sanitation, fleet management, street maintenance and transportation. Mr. Chidsey has over 30 years of supervisory experience in construction, mechanical repair and maintenance. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Business from Nova, is a State Certified contractor having built over 100,000 million dollars in construction and holds a Broward County Engineering 3G Certificate.    The combined expertise of both these gentlemen will provide much better service to our community. Keeping with our goal not to increase costs and provide the same quality or improved services this staff change will create no additional costs. Recently Frank Hilemen Legislative Analyst/Grant Specialist left the city for a job with a  private firm. This position was not filled in the city manager's department but transferred to create the new public works position.    After the introduction I took an opportunity to thank Director Brant on a job well done in repairing the water main break that occurred on Hallandale Beach Boulevard. at Golden Isles Drive.  During these trying financial times I have been approach many times with the question.  “Why we are not laying off people and going out to contract service to save money?” This is one of the prime examples. Our staff was able to mobilize instantly and insure that our water services were up and running within 24 hours for thousands of residents. If we had to wait to call in an out side contractor the job would have taken much longer and would have cost much more to complete. I guess I hardly need tell you that as far as the city's own website goes, as of today, after typing his name in the search function, it shows that there is no person -with or without quotation marks- named "Chidsey" working for the City of Hallandale Beach, as you can see below. Not surprisingly, as of today, the city's website, http://www.hallandalebeach.org/Directory.asp?EID=67 also still shows Mr. Brant as DPW Director You are here: Home > Staff Directory William Brant  Department of Public Works Title: Director of Public Works Phone: 954-457-1611 Return to Staff Directory ______________________________

http://www.hallandalebeach.org/Search.asp?SearchString="Chidsey"&Action.x=12&Action.y=6

March 8, 2009

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You are here: Home > Site Search The site search allows you to look for specific items. The first three results are listed on the first page. Additional results are found by clicking “View Next”.  Search Results     Advanced Search   Your search: "Chidsey" No Matches were found for your query. Please try again.

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No, four years ago, I had to send Mr. Chidsey an email thru other city Dept. heads in order to let him know that the only reason he wasn't already hearing from citizens completely disgusted and dismayed with the continuing unsatisfactory performance of DPW at public parks and the beach was simple -his city email address was still missing from the city's website several MONTHS after he'd been put in charge of the Dept.

Yes, as always, the past is prologue in Hallandale Beach.

Like many of you, I think it will be very interesting to see if insurance executive and real estate developer Stephen L Riemer attends Wednesday's meeting, given all the properties that he owns or is associated with in the immediate area.

All properties in Hallandale Beach currently owned by Stephen L. Riemer or Riemer Brothers LLC: http://riemerinsurance.com/  http://www.riemerbrothers.com/

http://www.bcpa.net/RecSearch.asp?URL_Sort=Address&URL_Seq=0&URL_City=HA&URL_Name=RIEMER

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Directions: Click the folio number to see property details.

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50 Records Found

Folio Number	Owner Name	Property Address
514227070090	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	NE 1 STREET
514227270050	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	NE 3 AVENUE
514227300090	RIEMER BROTHERS L L C	101 NE 3 AVENUE
514227290220	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	105 NE 2 AVENUE
514227300080	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	105 NE 3 AVENUE
514227300200	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	106 NE 2 TERRACE
514227300071	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	107 NE 3 AVENUE
514227290240	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	109 NE 2 AVENUE
514227300320	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	109 NE 2 TERRACE
514227300070	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	109 NE 3 AVENUE
514227290260	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	113 NE 2 AVENUE
514227270011	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	114 NE 3 AVENUE
514227300040	RIEMER BROTHERS L L C	115 NE 3 AVENUE
514227290100	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	116 NE 2 AVENUE
514227290280	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	117 NE 2 AVENUE
514227290110	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	118 NE 2 AVENUE
514227300250	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	118 NE 2 TERRACE
514227290120	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	120 NE 2 AVENUE
514227290130	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	122 NE 2 AVENUE
514227300160	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	20 NE 2 TERRACE
514227110120	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	201 NE 3 AVENUE
514227290330	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	203 NE 2 AVENUE
514227290340	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	205 NE 2 AVENUE
514227110170	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	207 NE 2 STREET
514227300110	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	21 NE 3 AVENUE
514227110160	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	211 NE 2 STREET
514227110150	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	215 NE 2 STREET
514227300150	RIEMER,STEPHEN L	217 E HALLANDALE BEACH BOULEVARD
514227110140	RIEMER BROTHERS L L C	217 NE 2 STREET
514227300140	RIEMER,STEPHEN L	219 E HALLANDALE BEACH BOULEVARD
514227300170	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	22 NE 2 TERRACE
514227300130	RIEMER,STEPHEN L	221 E HALLANDALE BEACH BOULEVARD
514227300120	RIEMER,STEPHEN L	221 NE 3 AVENUE
514222310130	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	224 NE 4 STREET
514227300360	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	23 NE 2 TERRACE
514227070070	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	25 NE 4 AVENUE
514227070010	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	301 E HALLANDALE BEACH BOULEVARD
514227270010	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	308 NE 2 STREET
514227070111	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	309 NE 1 STREET
514227070100	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	314 NE 1 STREET
514222340130	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	316 NE 4 COURT
514227270030	RIEMER BROTHERS L L C	320 NE 1 COURT
514227070080	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	320 NE 1 STREET
514222340030	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	321 NE 4 STREET
514227270014	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	328 NE 2 STREET
514227110320	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	329 NE 2 STREET
514227270020	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	330 NE 1 COURT
514227080040	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	34 SE 3 AVENUE
514222120110	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	408 NE 2 AVENUE
514227010570	RIEMER BROTHERS LLC	410 NE 2 STREET

I say that in light of all the many below-the-radar comments that have been heard around town about him and his purported desire to essentially take over the street, and build a high-density building there, perhaps a mixed-use development with residential on top of first-floor retail.

Of course, if Mr. Riemer or one of his associates is there in-person, they need to be prepared to be asked reasonable questions by the public and small business owners about the specifics of Riemer's strategic plan for N.E. First Avenue.

If those comments I've heard are, in fact, true, personally, I don't think his keeping the entire community in the dark on his plans would work to his advantage.

Quite to the contrary.

I guess we'll all see what happens and who plays their cards tomorrow at 5:30 p.m.

Make plans to be there!

Dekka is located at 139 N.E. 1st Avenue, Hallandale Beach, FL 33009