Category Archives: KLWTD
Swap Agreement – Hearing Date Set
As of right now, the only hope Key Largo taxpayers have of achieving wastewater funding equity is the anemic swap agreement. Under this agreement, the Key Largo Wastewater Treatment District (District) trades state funding it has in hand for county … Continue reading
Monroe County Follows Through!
In this post, Swap Agreement Follow-up, I linked to an email exchange between me and Bob Shillinger, County Attorney. The county’s shady history combined with Bob’s evasiveness obviously did not inspire confidence. However, I was told today that the validation complaint was … Continue reading
Food For Thought
I’ve got another idea beginning to germinate. As I go through this process of examining documents, Monroe County’s pattern of short-changing Key Largo taxpayers on wastewater funding becomes clearer and clearer. Not only that, I can’t help but view it … Continue reading
Swap Agreement Follow-up
I have zero confidence in the county’s willingness or ability to follow through on any action that may relieve the extremely unfair wastewater funding disparity that they have imposed on their taxpayers in Key Largo. I have good reason to feel that … Continue reading
Key Largo in the News
There are a few interesting items in the papers. Key Largo sewer district GM accused of ‘power grab’ Sewer GM avoids official reprimand. Emails, letters reveal widening rift between commissioners Utilities manager fired and replaced On the Key Largo Wastewater … Continue reading
Key Largo and Cudjoe Regional In Pictures
I updated my post, “Key Largo and Cudjoe Regional” to clean things up and add some links. So if you already read it, please take another look. I throw a lot of numbers around and I know that can get tedious. I’m a numbers person … Continue reading
Key Largo and Cudjoe Regional
After I published my post on Cudjoe Regional and Rowell’s Marina the other day, it occurred to me that none of the citizens in the unincorporated area feel they have been well-served by the county when it comes to the … Continue reading
More GM Drama
More drama at the Key Largo Wastewater Treatment District. My two cents: Employees come and employees go. Losing the Operations Manager is significant, especially when it’s someone as capable as Dan Saus. But the GM (General Manager) should be able … Continue reading
I Ask Questions
I watched part of the County’s last budget meeting and I started to get concerned. It looks like the BOCC (Board of County Commissioners) is attempting to abandon the wastewater funding issue. Unfortunately, this would do a huge disservice to … Continue reading
Monkey Math – the Craptacular Spreadsheet
I ran across some interesting documents while researching my post about infrastructure sales tax revenue that would be available to Key Largo if the citizens choose to incorporate. There are a few items I want to share because they epitomize the county’s fundamentally … Continue reading
The Real Poop 