Comments on: Candidate Response – Michael Orchin http://capeinformer.com/2007/08/30/candidate-response-michael-orchin/ A Resident's Perspective on the Issues of Cape Coral, Florida. Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:13:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: R. LePera http://capeinformer.com/2007/08/30/candidate-response-michael-orchin/comment-page-1/#comment-36 R. LePera Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:12:01 +0000 http://capeinformer.com/2007/08/30/candidate-response-michael-orchin/#comment-36 "At this point, the city is run in a secretive manner led by a City Manager who is looking for work elsewhere who somehow manages to obtain and transmit faulty, erroneous or incomplete information to Council. Council then takes this misinformation and continuously fumbles the ball." Can you provide specific examples of this? "Currently, the way the utility expansion program has been bid out and mismanaged (manager at risk) is one of the biggest travesties to be foisted onto the citizens of Cape Coral in the history of our city." Another opinion minus facts?? "There are some exciting things on the horizon for downtown Cape Coral if we can get CRA to quit stumbling around in the dark." Do you have any idea when the General Fund will benefit from increased property values in the CRA??? "The Department of Code Enforcement needs to be beefed up and turned into a profit making entity rather than an ineffective money pit. The fines for violating city codes of importance need to be increased so that they just don’t fall into the cost of doing business for those who ignore them." While I agree with some of what you have said, I think you would find legal challenges with "government operating at a profit." “At this point, the city is run in a secretive manner led by a City Manager who is looking for work elsewhere who somehow manages to obtain and transmit faulty, erroneous or incomplete information to Council. Council then takes this misinformation and continuously fumbles the ball.”

Can you provide specific examples of this?

“Currently, the way the utility expansion program has been bid out and mismanaged (manager at risk) is one of the biggest travesties to be foisted onto the citizens of Cape Coral in the history of our city.”

Another opinion minus facts??

“There are some exciting things on the horizon for downtown Cape Coral if we can get CRA to quit stumbling around in the dark.”

Do you have any idea when the General Fund will benefit from increased property values in the CRA???

“The Department of Code Enforcement needs to be beefed up and turned into a profit making entity rather than an ineffective money pit. The fines for violating city codes of importance need to be increased so that they just don’t fall into the cost of doing business for those who ignore them.”

While I agree with some of what you have said, I think you would find legal challenges with “government operating at a profit.”

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