Candidate Response - Mickey Rosado
Candidate Information:
District: 7
Name: MICKEY ROSADO
Occupation: ENTREPRENEUR
Website: WWW.MICKEYROSADO.COM
Email: VOTEROSADO@YAHOO.COM
Phone: (239) 458-2074
What is your vision for the City of Cape Coral?/ What will the city look like after your first full term in office?
Developing an inclusive community with a diverse portfolio of commercial & industrial tax base, city management of the UEP, success of the academic village, and consolidation of government services such as DCD/economic development. /
Reflecting on my first term right now, accountability, strategic plan, smart growth, successful community action centers, charter schools, and Zemel lands forecasted as light industrial & commercial with excellent paying jobs. academic village, removals of the eco park, Chiquita boat lifts. reduction of taxes.
What do you see as the largest challenges facing the city? / What are your plans for addressing these challenges?
diversifying our tax base / propose more incentives / public private partnerships
regionalizing our issues / personal participation in Tallahassee
maintaining lower uep cost / propose city administration role
infrastructure needs / g.o. bonds proposal development
What are your plans for controlling the costs of government services/ assessments/, taxes and fees to our citizens and businesses?
government consolidation /
city management/
diversifying our tax base is crucial to our success in keeping taxes low for our citizens and businesses.
What are your plans for improving the economic situation and general appeal of our city for current and future residents and businesses?
Resolve the law suit with lee county concerning the Zemel property, expedite this annexation with the MUP regulation already in place, we can measure our impact on our heavy reliant property tax burden.
Implement a government consolidation plan that will save millions for decades.
What are your plans for using new communication and business tools provided over the Internet for residents and businesses to contact you, or for you to share your ongoing
work with residents?
I developed a plan call taking leadership to America’s doorsteps that was heavily criticized by my colleagues in council, I strongly support this mechanism of communication.
August 30th, 2007 at 10:31 am
“Reflecting on my first term right now, accountability, strategic plan, smart growth, successful community action centers, charter schools, and Zemel lands forecasted as light industrial & commercial with excellent paying jobs. academic village, removals of the eco park, Chiquita boat lifts. reduction of taxes.”
Please tell me what are “successful community action centers”? Are these the CAC’s that you and others on council voted on? I believe these are what are called Commercial Activity Centers for mixed use development. I also recall you and Tim Day having voted against one on Burnt Store and Kissmet.
As to the “Academic Village” purchased in 2002, please tell me what academics have been occurring there?
Please tell me when this occurred; “removals of the eco park, Chiquita boat lifts”
“reduction of taxes” Tell me when during anytime you were on council that taxpayers paid less on their tax bill? The only real “reductions” in the mill rate had to due with a reduction in the debt service that council had absolutely NOTHING to do with. So while revenue and spending went up 60% over the last 2 years where was “our reduction in taxes”?