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Rudy Crew to get $368,000 |
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
Following a long and arduous controversy, the Miami-Dade School Board and Rudy Crew have decided to sever ties on Wednesday, essentially ending Crew’s run as superintendent of the Miami-Dade school district.
Crew, who has been a subject of criticism from the school board for years and have been fighting to keep his job, finally agreed to a contract buyout of $297,000, in addition to health, disability and insurance benefits for two years. Crew will also get his retirement benefits, totaling his severance package at $368,000 courtesy of the district.
The school board on Monday voted 5-3 for holding talks about a buyout of Crew's contract. This after the superintendent barely held his job by a 5-4 school board in a meeting prior.
The school district would have had to shell out a whopping $700,000 payout if Crew’s contract was terminated.
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Tri-Rail passenger increase |
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Sunday, 14 September 2008 |
Tri-Rail, the commuter railway that runs throughout Miami-Dade, Broward
and Palm Beach counties, had the distinction of being the third fastest
growing commuter railroad in the U.S. during the quarter, April to
June, according to a report released by the American Public
Transportation Association on Tuesday.
Passengers riding Tri-Rail was up 28.8 percent compared to the same
period last year, and compared to 4.9 percent for all commuter rail
systems nationally. The increase in passengers on Tri-rail is
indicative of people using the railway as an alternative for commuting
by motor vehicles, due to high gas prices.
The sharp increase should also indicate to the budget officers in the
state and in the three counties to reconsider increasing funding for
the railway. Sufficient funding has been a constant challenge for the
South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, the company that
operates Tri-Rail, and without any indication of increase by the three
counties or a dedicated source of funding from the state for operating
the railway, there was some speculation that the operators were
considering cutting trains and reducing the railway’s operation
schedule. Hopefully, the new data will indicate the significance of the
railway to the commuters of the region, and the funding challenge will
be overcome.
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Sunday, 07 September 2008 |
Ike, a 135-mph hurricane has its eyes on Florida as it develops over
the warm waters of the Atlantic barreling towards land… though up to
press time, hurricane officials did not specify if and where it would
make landfall.
However, South Floridians and East Coast populace are bracing for what
might become a disaster, especially if it sustains its Category 4
status.
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State to help ex-offenders to vote |
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Sunday, 07 September 2008 |
Ex-felons in Florida who are eligible to have their voter rights restored may be lining up at the polls come November, if an order by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is carried out.
The governor ordered the state's parole agencies to make more information, which includes voter-registration forms, available to them so they can exercise their newly restored civil rights.
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Supreme Court cuts property tax amendments |
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Sunday, 07 September 2008 |
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday struck a multi-billion tax swap
plan from the November 4 ballot, following hours of courtroom arguments
from justices, many of whom argued that Amendment 5 was unclear
concerning its potential effect of funding for the state’s school.
After four hours, the judges put the issue to rest with a 7-0 ruling,
removing from the ballot a plan which sought to get rid of most school
property taxes and replace that with more sales taxes.
The judges who opposed placing amendment on the November ballot said it
would leave the Legislature to create a replacement revenue to bridge
the gap of about $11 billion in school funding that eliminating school
property taxes would create.
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