Subject: Constructive Alternatives for Spending and Revenue
Constructive Alternatives for Spending and Revenue
July 14th, 2025 at 5:35 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents,, Please share with friends and neighbors. The city commission will vote on the tentative property tax rate for 2026 on July 23rd. As noted earlier, two commission members have publicly indicated their suppor ...
Winter Park Wastes Our Money
July 7th, 2025 at 5:43 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. City management is recommending a 2025-26 budget that spends 7.87% more than 2024-2025 in a less than 2.5% inflation environment. Revenues are up a similar amount pri ...
Fashionable Proclamations
June 10th, 2025 at 5:40 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. While I typically focus on creating value for Winter Park in our spending, this post addresses appropriate issues subject to governance. What issues should our local ...
Mayor Puts Lipstick On Pig
April 30th, 2025 at 5:50 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. I am thrilled to share exciting new developments about my email on Winter Park Pines. Our Mayor has responded with a public relations piece that contains carefully wo ...
More Fiduciary Failure
April 23rd, 2025 at 5:24 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. Over the past six years Winter Park spending has grown faster than inflation and the city commission has voted for over $100,000,000 in government waste. Click here f ...
Kris Cruzada or Justin Vermuth?
March 3rd, 2025 at 6:04 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. We will elect either Kris Cruzada or Justin Vermuth to the Winter Park City Commission on March 11th. Elections should be about policy, not personality or who is frie ...
City Commission Digs Historic Hole
February 17th, 2025 at 9:15 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. We now live in the theater of the absurd. Rather than acknowledge that staff, the city attorney, and the Historic Preservation Board (HPB) coerced, and likely extorte ...
Referendum On Leaf Blowers?
February 12th, 2025 at 5:57 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. I am voting YES to keep gas leaf blowers legal in Winter Park. My very fastidious neighbor uses an electric leaf blower almost daily to tidy up her yard. It's high pi ...
No More Incumbents: Vote for Justin Vermuth
February 8th, 2025 at 9:45 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. Winter Park has been fortunate to have strong real estate values driving up property tax revenues. The problem is that the current city commission has been wasting ou ...
Winter Park - Third World City
January 30th, 2025 at 5:38 am EDTView onlineFellow Winter Park Residents, Please share with friends and neighbors. The Winter Park Historic Preservation Board forced a local contractor to pay $100,000 to the city. This was at best unwarranted coercion and likely meets the legal st ...