Category: Broward Cities
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Hallandale commission fires CRA boss; abrupt move avoids airing “dirty laundry,” mayor says
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Hallandale Beach city commissioners last night fired the executive director of the city’s embattled Community Redevelopment Agency after just two years on the job. -
Broward IG says Hallandale made “immense” gaffe in overseeing $12.7 million in city bonds
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Initial findings by Broward’s Inspector General of mismanagement at Hallandale Beach City Hall have led officials to revise plans for a $12.7 million bond issue, according to city and county records obtained by BrowardBulldog.org. -
Hallandale Beach made hush-hush settlement with a top manager over lucrative pension plan
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Hallandale Beach taxpayers quietly coughed up nearly $500,000 in 2009 to settle a complaint by a ranking city official that his bosses had failed to include him in a generous management retirement plan for top city leaders. -
Two Hallandale officials who voted for generous pension plan say they weren’t told true costs
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Two Hallandale Beach commissioners who backed generous retirement benefits for top city officials said they were never told that the program granted retroactive credit for years worked prior to the plan’s start in 2001. -
Hallandale’s ex-top managers collect fat pensions from retirement plan they pushed a decade ago
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
A short-lived, perk-laden retirement plan has paid off big for some top Hallandale Beach officials who helped set it up a decade ago – but today it’s costing city taxpayers extra millions of dollars.
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