Above, the 1923 Abraham Lincoln 3-cent stampThursday December 17th, 2009
3:20 a.m.
You know how at the top of this blog of mine it
says that you are NOT in the Land of Lincoln.
That's still the case.
Not that you'd asked, just saying...
Sadly, that was proven by the past 6-7 hours here
in Hallandale Beach, when an opportunity to do
the right thing for the future of the majority of people
who actually live here right now, was missed.
Missed because of a lack of leadership and a chase
for imaginary city taxes that may never materialize.
Five hours and forty-three minutes after the
agenda item came up at 9:03 p.m. Wednesday
night, starting barely thirty minutes after a
marching band walked thru the packed HB
Commission Chambers, to the great confusion
and consternation of many arriving attendees,
the Hallandale Beach City Commission approved
Diplomat Properties L.P.'s LAC proposal
largely along the lines I feared it would when
I arrived at 6:45 p.m.
Comm. Dotty Ross made the motion for approval
at about 2:36 a.m. and Mayor Joy Cooper
seconded the motion after having previously
handed the presiding gavel over to Comm.
William Julian.
Voting for the approval:
Dotty Ross, Joy Cooper, Anthony A. Sanders.
Voting against: Keith London, William Julian.
I'll have more to say about this meeting later today.
I'd really been looking forward to being able to
bring you video of the most important parts
of the evening, both to clarify some points I've
been making here on the blog for a while,
as well as to show you the lighter-than-air
quality of many of the promises made on
behalf of the project, but due to both the length
of the meeting and more importantly,
some secondary problems associated with
my camera and I getting thoroughly soaked
in a torrential thunderstorm on Friday
afternoon, that's not likely to happen unless
I can salvage some video and photos.
Many people arriving at 7 p.m. for the Public Commentsportion of the meeting for non-agenda items were very
surprised to see that Holiday Decorations prizes were
still being given inside a packed Commission Chambers.
Not me -I expected it.
Experience!
So instead of going over their three-minute comments
in their head from their seats inside, everyone milled
around in the dark.
You only see these movers-and-shakers because of
my camera flash -when it was working.
December 16, 2009 photo by South Beach Hoosier.
See I told you there was a marching band!This is a shot of the marching band lining-up inside
the City Hall breezeway to go inside the Commission
Chambers.
That's Becker & Poliakoff attorney
Alan B. Koslow on far right, facing you.
Again, you only see them all because of
the camera flash.
December 16, 2009 photo by South Beach Hoosier
You remember what I said yesterday about the
messed-up ceiling, don't you?
See, I wasn't exaggerating about that, either.
Those public parking lot lights in front of Hallandale
Beach City Hall were still out, too.
But then you probably guessed that, right?
Now you're catching on...
Below, the marching band coming out of the Hallandale
Beach City Commission Chambers around 7:45 p.m.
or so, Wednesday night.
Seeing is believing. That's why it's Hallandale
Beach, oui?
