300 5-year-old municipal vehicles found in Miami that were never used - cost to taxpayers $4 million

The public deserves and should always demand 'good' governance.

...financial expenditure.



PB

...in that the auditing of programs and agencies can't be done, lacking manpower and funding.

Often material needs are budgeted for, then cuts elsewhere eliminate the people and the programs that the were to utilize them. And further staffing and oversight cuts remove the people who might have resolved the imbalance.

And as you said, they don't have enough people left to know that its been dropped.

2012 budget:
Florida court clerks warn budget means layoffs, closed offices

Florida's court clerks are warning that the new state budget could lead to roughly 900 people losing their jobs and offices across the state could be closed...A preliminary analysis prepared by court clerks shows that the budget cut would lead to layoffs in most counties, including as many as 175 employees in Miami-Dade County...

http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2012/mar/07/5/florida-court-clerks-warn-budget-means-layoffs-clo-ar-366674/

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez's proposed budget for 2010-11 calls for:

Eliminating 1,199 county positions, including 900 filled posts that would entail actual layoffs in a host of areas including IT, human resources, finance, parks and libraries. That would cut county employment to 27,414 positions, the lowest level since the mid-1990s

That is harsher than last year, when county layoffs were minimized by eliminating open positions and shuffling staffers to different departments through a complex bumping system..

http://www.taxrates.cc/html/07j-miami-dade-budget.html

2009

MIAMI (WSVN) -- Miami-Dade County commissioners are reviewing proposed tax rates as well as budget cuts, after the mayor released his proposed 2009-10 budget...
1700 employees could lose their jobs if the commissioners pass the budget as the mayor had proposed it.

Read more: http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI126485/#ixzz1tIj3znvN

Miami-Dade Mayor Alvarez demonstrates how true conservative principles work when properly applied by government.

Step one: announce steep cuts in services and austerity measures for the constituents – lay off some teachers, shorten the hours at the local library, slash a charitable organization or two, and the arts… that kind of thing … because, as the town hall yelpers will tell you, we are out of money.

Step two: hand over half a billion dollars to your nearest baseball team, so they can build themselves an indoor stadium … with a pool!

Step three: give your team a big, fat raise. (Spoiler alert: we’re now on step three…)

http://blog.reidreport.com/2009/08/in-miami-dade-county-cuts-are-for-little-people/


A quick google gives me the impression there have been cuts in miami-dade every year since the recession began.

still not clear to me how an expenditure that big (single item over 6 million) could get lost so bad, though.



Read more: http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI126485/#ixzz1tIizUJI9

If these weren't needed for city employees they could have been used as part of a CarShare program such as we have here. We value our space here and are big on going green. I hope they auction the other cars off as those are in high demand. There are a lot of them out in this region. Very nice cars.

Maybe we can start the rumor it was Rubio.

cost the county government. even if the cars got lost, the financials shouldn't have, and whoever was doing the books should have noticed no further paperwork on the expenditure (serving, etc.)

Somebody had to pay for security or storage.because they were still there. I guess what I'm getting at is somebody had to either walk by these cars or pay not to

Lotsa people getting paid off on these Priuses that were no doubt meant to SAVE money on gas mileage.

They look nice. I wonder what will happen to them? Sold at an auction?

Seems that every local government in that area is corrupt, incompetent or both.

and soon.