Hi All,
This has obviously turned into a mess….. hard to have confidence in the process after this history. I'm against the new building at this point.
As a board you all REPRESENT MY interests, I don't wish you to DECIDE ON THEM for me.
Bring this to a vote… or risk making a bigger divide in our community?
Thank You for your consideration,
Doug Koos
Key Colony Beach, FL
May 13, 2023
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This is the most spend happy administration we have ever had in the over 20 years of my living full time in KCB. We have grown from a building department and public works team of 3 and a city hall of 3 full time and one part time clerk to the monstrosity of big government we have today.
We also have gone from a commission who worked for the people, especially full time residents, to the one we have today that are on a power trip and want to build this ridiculously expensive building. Are they too good to work in the old building. They probably are as a majority of them weren’t even here before Hurricane Irma and probably would have flown the coop afterwards if they had been.
Please wake up and quit spending our money on frivolous new equipment and buildings and restrict and better control the over abundance of vacation rentals you have allowed.
Marie Flood
Key Colony Beach, FL
May 13, 2023
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Att: City Clerk, Sylvia Gransee,
Please see that this letter is officially shared with the commission, the city manager, the city lawyers, the building official and all concerned with the plans for getting our city hall up and running. Please add the verbal reading of this letter to the May Commission meeting agenda.
Fred and I do not agree that the city of KCB should build a lavish city hall complex. We want a city hall to simply serve the community. We don't want or need a multi-million dollar plan.
We want a working city hall that the citizens can use RIGHT NOW! Just going out for bids nearly 6 years after Irma is useless. We want the fastest path to a community center we can use ASAP. That path leads us to refurbishing and augmenting the structurally sound Marble Hall complex.
It is time for a KCB-wide referendum to let the citizens of KCB decide what is best for KCB. Let's get all the figures out in plain sight. The citizens of KCB have asked you to listen. Residents stated that they want a referendum in overwhelming numbers at the March and April meetings. Please respond to their requests. Please respond to our request.
Fred and Laurie Swanson
Key Colony Beach, FL
May 13, 2023
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To Silvia Gransee, City Clerk. Please put my email on your agenda and read it into your minutes.
I have been a homeowner here since 2001. Much here has changed over those years. Key Colony Beach is no longer a kinder and gentler city. As others have said, it is like you against us the homeowners. I am a retired citizen here who must watch every penny that I spend. I worked hard all my productive years as a self employed small businessman to get where I am today. But now...I am one of those fixed income, senior citizens. I expect my government officials including local, state and national to spend my tax dollars wisely, just like I would for myself. You are preparing to not do that. As I have said from the beginning, our city buildings are just fine, they were not severely damaged. We do not need new buildings. They are repairable at a much lower cost than are the plans currently to build new.
We have been lied to and promised much that is not now possible. The taxpayers will bear the cost for the most part on a new set of buildings. Please get bids on the repair before you go forward with new construction.
Ron Teke
Key Colony Beach, FL
May 15, 2023
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I want to reiterate that I do not support the city's plan to build a new city hall. It is my opinion that the current city hall building should have been refurbished years ago, just like so many of us homeowners were able and had to do. A storm like Irma had not affected KCB like that for 60 years and I feel the city commissioners have been dragging their feet on this for way too long. We could already have had a fixed up fully usable building and have avoided the expenses of the trailers for the past years.
I also want to voice my concerns about the lack of transparency that seems to be with the activities of the city commission and administrator. Meeting minutes are brief; citizens are not being updated on what is going on; it is extremely hard to attend meetings virtually as if you can get through, you eventually get cut off or lose the connection. There are many of us that feel the commissioners turn a deaf ear to our opinions.
KCB is certainly not the friendly community city that it used to be.
Constance Foster
Key Colony Beach, FL
May 13, 2023
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Consider me one of the "small resident contingent" who, as included in this email, has previously voiced concern regarding the expense of a new City Hall and the lack of information being provided by City Hall. Since the writing of my initial email, not only have several other KCB owners voiced concern which seem to have gone unheeded, but City Halls fabrications of facts have also come to light.
To be clear, I would like this letter to not only be made a public record, I would also like to see it entered and acknowledged at the next Commissioners meeting. As stated above, City Hall has publicly stated only a small contingent of people have voiced concern which I believe to be totally false and by acknowledging and reading my email of concern along with other owners requesting their letters of concern be read, interested parties can make their own conclusions on statements made by City Hall and if statements made by City Hall are fabricated or not.
As property owners located at 680 9th street Key Colony Beach, we do not support the building of a New City Hall and request Commissioners hold back ANY decisions until a cost of repairing our current City Hall with improvements has been fully explored with details made public for full transparency as should the details of the new City Hall that has been sent out for tender.
We also agree that a KCB City wide referendum of property OWNERSHIP be held should the decision of the Commisioners be such that they still ignore the wishes of the people and continue to go forward with a new City Hall without tendering a repair with improvements prior to final decisions on City Hall.
Tim Husel / Brenda Molofy
Key Colony Beach, FL
May 13, 2023
PS: We also do not agree with the position taken by the City Manager and those Commissioners who remain silent on the micromanaging of our City Police Force. Seems time for an outside arbitrator be brought in.
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