Death and Taxes in Palm Bay

Its July and the City of Palm Bay has now had six homicides. The latest last Thursday at Woodlake Apartments off Palm Bay Road. A Twenty something female gunned down in the parking lot. This latest killing comes a mere two weeks since the last apartment parking lot shooting that happened on Agora Circle. I am telling you these apartments just attract the crime like magnets. Anywhere on Agora Circle is pretty much the hood now. Woodlake was supposedly getting cleaned up. They should invest in a guard tower as highlighhted in a previous post they work great, it could have saved lives. Most of the apartment complexes in Palm Bay are havens for the lowlife. Any punk who has knocked up his girlfriend a few times can just move in to her free or Section 8 housing and feast on her food bought by the food stamps that our tax dollars pay for. And he doesn't have to worry about paying for anything because the good citizens of Florida and the USA pick up the tab and we pay for the babies and everything else.
That leaves the money that he gets doing who knows what, for those tattoos including the one on the back of his old ladies neck, The Bling, $200.00 sneakers, The dental work, gold of course and maybe some nice rims on that piece of shit car. Somehow they seem to get cash. Maybe it came from your house when it got broken in to, or perhaps just from selling some drugs. The bottom line is these "affordable Housing" apartment complexes are poorly managed and poorly maintained and full of low life scum. Just take a drive by the place behind the ABC on Babcock and be sure to do it during daylight hours and you will see exactly what I have just described. My prediction is that's where the next shooting takes place, what a shit hole.

So much for the Death lets talk taxes.




The City is coming after us again for more money. We all have to tighten our belts and lower our standard of living so we can survive on our measly paychecks but never ever have I ever seen any Government agency whether it be local or State or federal do the same. They just come and take more of our money. Here is something really funny, Milo Zonka is blaming the previous city councils for our current financial mess. Sounds alot like he is learning from the president. Milo how long have you been sitting on the council? The Mayor says he does not want to raise taxes but is blaming the mess on the Firefighters saying its their pension that's killing us. Weren't you the Mayor Mr. Mazziotti when that contract was negotiated? Its a little too late to be bitching now. And if you were not Mayor then its still too late. Its a done deal. But they sure did get a sweet retirement deal didn't they. Who negotiated that one anyway 100 % pay when you retire. I will say one thing the Mayor is against raising taxes but he did not make any friends at the fire house. I say its time for the city to tighten its belt up like the rest of us.
Home values have plummeted about 38% in the last 2 years in Palm Bay so that means our investment, our homes here in Palm Bay have lost almost 40% of its value so the City wants to hit us harder because they spent like drunken sailors when times were good. What the hell were they spending it on? Landscaping and sprinklers in the medians? What were they spending it on? Now the cash flow has slowed and they are hurting for money. Well so are we. If you don't have the money you don't spend it. Pretty cool concept, right? If you can not afford the cable TV what do you do? You have to cancel it and learn to live with out it. We can not go to our boss and say "you have to give me a raise because I can no longer live like I have been on what you are paying me so you have to give me more money". Well you could say that, but you might be looking for another job because he is going to tell you to F' Off He is hurting right now too. I know this is not going to be too popular and it is impossible because of the unions but a pay cut and or salary freeze seems to be in line for City employees or unfortunately layoffs will have to take place. They work for the City and that's what should happen when the city does not have the money to pay them. That is what any business would be forced to do. And that is what Businesses in Palm Bay are doing. Know anybody who works at Harris Corp.? Know anybody who got laid off or now has their salary frozen? Its how things work in the real world. How about we stop paying for a City employee who drives around in the big truck on Saturdays ripping up and stealing the garage sale signs. Is that service really necessary? I think we could probably live with out it. There already is so much trash along the roads whats a few more signs. How about instead of awarding contracts to mow the medians and landscaping some city employees who would have to get laid off can do it to stay employed. I am sure you can cut corners else where. I think Milo makes enough at his business, does he really need the token salary they pay the council members and Mayor? Don't they do this job because they love their City and they like the power. Does Milo Zonka run his business the same way he expects the city to be run? The City Manager just got a 10K raise do we think Lee Feldman deserved that? I do not remember anyone asking the residents if He should get a raise. Are we afraid he is going to leave for greener pastures? Highly unlikely but if he did would he be that hard to replace. Just this year Feldman our wonderful City manager cost us about $50,000 in lost revenue because he tried to put the squeeze on the Adult softball leagues. He figured he could jack up the prices and everyone would just shell out the cash. They did not. The softball leagues left and now play in Melbourne where they did not have to bend over and spread em to play softball at night. So that's money Feldman lost the City and we gave him 10 grand more for doing such a great job? Its our City and we own it and we are paying these people to run it. Obviously they have not been too responsible with spending our money. Its a tradition in politics, they just love to spend OUR money away in every level of government with no regard because they can just take more from us when ever they want. And we cant stop them we can only vote them out. So now with out any say from us, The City Council has voted 4-1 and has raised our taxes the maximum allowed by law. I hope everyone remembers this bull shit when election day rolls around again. Because people seem to forget about it. How much has the City spent studying Baseball stadiums? Seems like we spend a boatload of cash on studies for this and that $10,000 here and $15,000 there for impact studies and feasibility studies. Maybe its time the Puerto Ricans really do pay for their own parade this time. Sure Sam is going to sue again and the lets make the Haitians pay for their shin dig and all the rest of the people who want to organize their own little celebrations in the City can pay for the clean up, the porta pottys and the overtime for city workers and police. Because we can not afford it now. Times are tough. Maybe the big 50 birthday bash the city is planning should wait. It is time to worry about what we have now and how to maintain what we already have and quit dreaming about what we could have in the future. In this economy and with Obama's plans and the Democrats running things in Washington things are not going to get any better any time soon. With over 10% of Houses in Palm Bay being foreclosed on and its only going to get worse.

Where Did the Clerk of Courts Office Go?

Once again the good people of Palm Bay have been shafted by Brevard County. The County has treated Palm Bay like shit forever. The largest City with the largest population and they decide to close the new Clerk of Courts office in Bayside. It only took 50 years to get the County to open that office. Why not make the people from Melbourne drive over here for their business? Why is it that we always have to drive over to Melbourne. The people drive over here 5 days a week to work I think they could drive over here to do their business with the clerk of court. The road goes right by our beautiful golf course maybe that will put the thought in their heads that they should come over here to golf too.
Chalk it up to another weak performance by our City government showing who's the boss in our city. Aren't you tired of the same old crap from Brevard County. Where are our boat ramps? Well maintained County Roads? The truth of the matter is the County Commissioners could not care less about Palm Bay unless there is an election coming up then they stand on the corners waving their signs... Well screw you! Why do we bother to keep sending in the tax dollars. We don't get our moneys worth except when it comes to keeping the jail filled. They now keep most of the freaking traffic fine money the City gets screwed. And now we have to drive to Melbourne again to pay the damn thing. We get screwed on what they spend here verses what we pay here. Meanwhile our City government says "oh well" and starts looking into building baseball stadiums and we have got the police paragliding over crime scenes. Maybe its time to raise a little hell with the county. Do you think Feldman, Mazziotti or Zonka have the balls to rock the boat a little bit. Doubtful. We need to let the County know that we are pissed off. The Palm Bay City Government will not do shit!

District 3: Commissioner Trudie Infantini
1311 E. New Haven Avenue, Melbourne, Fl 32901
Phone: (321)952-6300 Fax: (321)952-6340

District 5: Commissioner Andy Anderson
1515 Sarno Road Building B
Melbourne, Fl 32935
Phone: (321)253-6611 Fax: (321)253-6620

Call your useless county commissioner and say I remember when you were waving with your sign at the intersection of Palm Bay and Minton Roads begging for our vote Well now your in and the people of Palm Bay are tired of being treated like the Little red headed step child.
Maybe we deserve the reputation we have in the county. Because everyone thinks Palm Bay sucks!

We're Off To See The Wizard

The Newest dream for our fine city is a dream called the Emerald City just like the one in the Wizard of Oz. Well not really, it is supposed to be like Celebration near Disney but would be more in line with Baldwin Park of Orlando but with a town square.. Our Emerald City is to be located right off the yet to be built but coming soon I95 Interchange at Micco Road. Now a Gentleman by the name of John D. Copanos and his limited partnership Sebastian Resources of Ft. Lauderdale would like to have the 900 or so acres they have sitting there rezoned so they can make this New Emerald City happen. They have come to the City of Palm Bay seeking this zoning change which will turn their land into some extra prime real estate. Now the Emerald City in concept is beautiful place where you never have to leave home to do anything.

This town to be modeled similar to Disney's Celebration and will have just about everything you could want and more,it would be a down-town urban center creating a large employment base with mixed uses of residential, office, hospital, hotel, and a town-square, within a concentrated area large "green" areas a University and or satellite campuses, a Hospital, health care centers, senior living with all kinds of amenities, shopping, restaurants, more shopping, entertainment centers for concerts, Community gardens, farmers markets, and Commercial business such as Pharmaceutical and maybe some new green energy projects. No golf course as of yet so that could be great for the Majors. Companies developing Solar and wind technologies could set up shop. It sounds so good. And like the saying goes if it sounds too good to be true...... It is their hope that they can get the Federal Government to foot some of the bills through grants and by creating enterprise zones. Hell there is probably stimulus money just waiting to be spent on this place.

Sebastian Resources 400 LP
633 S Federal Hwy
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
(954) 467-4111

The company Sebastian Resources 400 LP of Ft.lauderdale is the Company that is pushing for the rezoning so they can develop this land. They have hired Brenda Yates of Yates and Company. Brenda Yates is a real mover and shaker with an excellent reputation and the experience to get something of this magnitude moving. Her Company has reputation and a resume that shows successful projects. Copanos and Sebastian Resources 400 LP are kind of a mystery. You can google John D. Copanos and you will find he has some reputation up north in Maryland and its not all great but, you will have to google him yourself. I understand limited partnerships are formed just for certain projects and this appears to be one of them. There is a lot of money from the pharmaceutical industry that will bankroll this investment and that's what the Copanos name is associated with .... Pharmaceuticals. Ms. Yates stated that there is a lot of federal money in the form of grants and such to make things happen which I have already said.
I just do not want the City taken for a ride. Remember the big project that was supposed to spring up across the street from the Auto Zone there on Malabar Road. The Mall the condos a Civic Center. Well its bankrupt and got foreclosed on. Something tells me this Emerald City project could be for real. Especially with the new Parkway . I cant see Ms. Yates involved with it unless it was on the up and up because she is the real deal or one incredible bull shitter. I tend to believe she is the real deal. I hope the City can plan this as not to further tax our already crumbling infrastructure. I would just hate to see the land rezoned and then flipped for a huge profit. Before we start rezoning that property in the south Eastern corner of Our City and before Mazziotti, Zonka and Feldman start skipping down the Yellow Brick Road arm and arm with Mr. Copanos toward the Emerald City I think we should take a peek at the man behind the curtain and find out a little more about Mr. Copanos and Sebastian Resources. If the City should give them the rezoning it should be based upon certain criteria such as if Sebastian Resources decides to sell their land before they develop it, the zoning goes back to the way it was. After all the city will not even hire a guy to fill pot holes or rake a ball field until they check him out. We should check out Mr. John D. Copanos before we rezone all that property
Do you really honestly believe that a Disney type Celebration Community or a Baldwin Park type self sustaining village will be built in Palm Bay. It just might happen. I think someone needs to click their heels together three times and come back to home. "Theres no place like Palm Bay", "Theres no place like Palm Bay", "Theres no place like Palm Bay". It is a big project and so far it is just a dream so lets proceed with caution. Lets try to get this one right.

The Dream That Just Wont Die

Palm Bay and the talk of a baseball stadium has made the news again. Our Mayor seems obsessed with the idea of building a baseball stadium with the hopes to lure a minor league team to good ole Palm Bay. There have been "secret" talks with an undisclosed team. Nothing solid mind you just talks. It seems all we need to do is build it and they will come. Just like in the movies.
Why are we wasting anymore of the City's time and another cent of tax money pursuing this dream? Its ridiculous. The City should focus its energy and resources on learning how to keep fireworks dry during rainstorms, providing better roads and better drainage and our parks. For many of us that too is just a dream. For those of us who have lived here a while that dream has been a NIGHTMARE. We were told years ago, vote for this tax and all of our troubles with roads will be over. Yes we fixed a whole lot of roads. Then this year you came after our shrinking incomes for more money with promises of Fixed roads and jobs and economic growth that was going to turn Palm Bay into the land of milk and honey. The citizens did not believe it. Many of those roads that got fixed on the first roads bill need to be repaved already. I will admit some of us do not need front end alignments every month anymore, but there are a lot of miles of roads that were never fixed. And we want to build a freaking baseball stadium? Lets get our priorities straight here before we start dreaming about Baseball stadiums.
If residents want to go to a ballgame all they need to do is drive to Viera and watch the manatees or go South to Port St. Lucie and watch the Mets. If you want spring training games with the Major leaguers, again you have Viera and a whole Host of cities within an hour or two drive. If you desire the big leagues you can always head over to Tampa or Miami. Lets maintain our focus on fixing the infrastructure of Palm Bay. Lets quit worrying about dessert before we get to the meal. There are many many issues more important to the citizens of Palm Bay then a baseball stadium. We can discuss them all right here every other day if you would like. Just email me at palmbaysucks@florida.usa.com .
Mr. Mazziotti if you really feel you cannot live without your field of dreams there is a company that claims they can build your field of dreams at no cost to the Taxpayer. Its called Big League Dreams http://www.bigleaguedreams.com/ These guys say they can do it. Here are their claims: Brings additional recreational sports facilities to your community, Local youth and adults served first, No city maintenance or operations costs, No taxpayer expense, Revenue generated for the city, Positive local economic impact, Large market visibility. Sounds like an option to me.
I still say build a race track if you want to draw the crowds and provide some weekend entertainment. A speedway/drag strip would fit in with the Palm Bay life style and the City would not have to pay a dime for the construction. Many people still have fond memories of the old Melbourne Speedway. Guarantee it will bring in more $ dough $ then the Majors Golf Course. Then you can stand in front of the gate and get your picture taken.
Baseball just isn't selling these days. Viera is a loser money wise Brevard County residents pick up the tab.The Nationals played to some empty seats during spring. And it is real easy to get into a manatee game. The Stadium in Miami where the Marlins play to thousands of empty seats every home game is also a loser and that's a big city with a real major league team. Lets focus on what really matters to the residents of Palm Bay not your silly dreams.

July 4, Is Now Dependence Day

It used to be a day when Americans celebrated our Independence from England and our Freedom and just about everything about being American. We BBQ, picnic, drink some cold ones and then in the evening celebrate with the grand firework display. Now that President Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats have control over our government soon we will celebrate Dependence Day it seems their goal is to control every aspect of our lives from what light bulbs we can use , what cars we can drive, how much money we can make, and to get as many people dependent upon the government for their existence. Hence Dependence Day. I know many of you do not have a clue what Cap and Trade is and I am sure you think that Free Health Care from the Government is going to be of the Highest Quality and Free. Just like that Government Cheese you grew up eating. All of you knuckle heads driving around in Palm Bay with your Obama Biden bumper stickers still proudly stuck on your vehicles have a hand in it. For alot of you it was the first time you felt compelled to vote after all Obama is half black. Some of you just hated Bush so much you bought it all hook line and sinker. This is what we got Hope and Change. We all saw how well a population totally dependent upon Uncle Sam for their existence worked when a major Hurricane hit their fine city.

Katrina was the perfect example. Those poor morons were not capable of leaving New Orleans. It was not like they did not have enough early warning or anything. When it was too late they showed up at the Super Dome with only the clothes on their backs not even a bottle of water. Two whole days with out the government Taking care of all their needs and they lost it. Total chaos. Looting, shooting, crying and dying. And they blamed who? The Government? The white man, everybody but themselves. That is what happens to you when you are not responsible for your self or your family. Yet so many want the government to take care of them. What does the government run well? They cant even run the post office or the DMV Social Security and medicare are broke, And you want them to run health care and take care of you?
That Cap and trade bill passed by the House last week will change the quality of your life, But you have not a clue. You don't care how much it will cost for energy because you are not paying the Bills anyway. Nor do you know what the Stimulus Bill was or anything else. Like Most of you section eighters you just want your free shit. You just want to suck on the big American tit, suck it for all you can get. You wants to get yours. As long as you keep getting your WIC and your Food Stamps and your Section Eight housing and your free health care so you can keep popping babies out and you are fine. Fat and happy.
Long live Obama. Happy Dependence Day Sheeple!