Deerfield Seashore lacks imaginative and prescient. We have to change course.
Commissioner Todd Drosky voted to triple town finances. Mayoral candidate Dan Herz thinks Metropolis Corridor is a cage match. We simply employed a metropolis supervisor with zero expertise for $250,000 a yr. That’s not management — that’s dysfunction.
I’m a problem-solver, reformer and fighter for the folks, a former rocket engineer who will get issues performed. I fought corruption in Deerfield. I put three officers in jail and was twice nominated to town Housing Authority, to struggle for actual affordability. I promise three tax cuts in three years, rolling again charges to place a refund in your pocket with no greater taxes, no greater landfill waste and no tenth Avenue Connector catastrophe.
This election is about turnout. Let’s construct a wiser, stronger, extra reasonably priced Deerfield Seashore. VoteChazStevens.com.
Chaz Stevens, Deerfield Seashore
The author is considered one of 4 candidates for mayor of Deerfield Seashore within the March 11 metropolis election.
Growth in Deerfield
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A rendering of AXIS, a city-approved 237-unit condo advanced on Federal Freeway in Deerfield Seashore.
Your editorial known as Todd Drosky “by far probably the most credible selection” for Deerfield Seashore mayor. However he will be heard on video stating that builders, prefer it or not, are those driving this practice (on the AXIS condo advanced).
Neither he nor Commissioner Bernie Parness dissatisfied the developer. Why is that this a giant deal? As a result of earlier than a vote of this magnitude, commissioners are sworn in at a quasi-judicial assembly, a authorized continuing through which commissioners should act in a capability just like a decide.
The town legal professional warned commissioners that nothing they heard previous to their determination can affect them, and their determination have to be based mostly on what they hear at a quasi-judicial listening to. The audio paperwork bias by three of 5 commissioners who have been influenced by the developer. The third, District 2 Commissioner Michael Hudak, learn a ready assertion supporting the developer, not the folks, which additionally violated town legal professional’s path. He clearly wrote it earlier than the assembly, which exhibits bias.
The actual insult for residents is that this mission didn’t meet the standards as a Deliberate Growth District (PDD). Residents agreed to have the developer construct a seven-story constructing below present zoning. We’re not towards growth — we’re towards spot zoning.
You might be sitting on a information story the place three commissioners violated town legal professional’s recommendation earlier than a vote after which granted a zoning change that doesn’t meet the standards. Because of this residents began the web site Hey Deerfield Seashore — to tell folks of the reality, what’s actually happening and the implications of one of these growth.
Ric Jorge, Deerfield Seashore
No cuts to Medicare
I’m a very long time occupational remedy assistant and have labored the expert, unbiased residing, assisted residing and residential well being settings since 1996 and for seven years as an aide for the aged earlier than that — a lifetime of caring for the aged and folks of all ages.
We can not afford any extra Medicare cuts to remain in enterprise. Cuts have an effect on not simply workers, however enterprise homeowners and most significantly, sufferers. My sufferers, your mother and father, your partner and finally your kids. Our aged labored all their lives for the precise to get higher and stronger, and I’ve seen with my very own eyes and thru my expertise in well being care the results of occupational remedy, bodily remedy and speech-language remedy on adults’ lives. I urge you to decide to abolishing this Medicare lower.
Pamela Siclari, Pompano Seashore
Trump and Musk
To those that thought they voted for Trump: You truly voted for Elon Musk. Our president gave away important data to a billionaire who paid to assist him get elected. We now have a dictator giving our monetary freedom to his henchman.
Ann Cimmino, Delray Seashore
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