Did Key Colony Beach do a Risk Assessment on the damaged City Hall?

On November 3, 2020, Norry Lynch Risk Recovery Advisors noted that "City Hall was significantly damaged during Hurricane Irma in August 2017. Over the subsequent four months, NFIP and PA undertook several, separate inspections as is routine. The only commonality among the inspections was that each documented only cosmetic damage to the building."

The rest of the Norry Lynch reports explains, spins, and walks around the problem that the only documented damage to the building was cosmetic. Read the report and the associated emails here.

"The only commonality among the inspections was that each documented only cosmetic damage to the building."

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After all the work they did to "prove" city hall was so damaged that they simply had to had to build the Taj ma-KCB, then-Mayor Deneale was "in total disbelief!" about this Risk report.

Mayor DeNeale wrote in 2020, "It was my understanding, and Chris [then-city administrator Moonis] told the commission that we were working toward the 'Specialized Project #11458' because we were not under the 50% rule as a critical facility. Further the commission voted on January 9th, 2020 to build a new City Hall based on the proposed project and with the new firm maps we would be at least 5.7 feet below BFE. It did not make sense to do anything but build new. Also any plan to repair would include flood barriers and or berms that would preclude the building being at EOC or refuge of last resort.

"What do we do, specifically, and who do we need to talk to to make some sense of this? I am willing to make as many much noise as I can with the governor, senators, FDEM. We have a very good lobbyist in Tallahassee that I can have working the issue...

"Can we at least approve a design contingent on new construction being approved by FEMA?"

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Read the report and the associated emails here. Is there any doubt that the city officials are overlooking the "inconvenient truths" about the condition of City Hall in order to build a "grand edifice"?

There's more. Read why Marble Hall and the post office were not condemned, that city officials jack-hammered part of the floor to "prove" it had sunk, the quotes to repair City Hall, the building official's statement that City Hall was not structurally damaged and the City Engineer's report that the structure is in good condition. And, no, the city hall floor did not actually sink several feet.