Many similarities and a few differences emerged Thursday during the District 2 and District 7 Cape Coral City Council primary forum.
Cape council candidates debate utility system, city manager
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They were fearful of ‘too large of a crowd’
Is it legal to require insurance for a public protest?
Do they require insurance for other protesters?
We have the right to peacefully assemble.
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“Lynn Rosko planned to hold a tax payer tea party at Jaycee Park in Cape Coral on April 1st. The idea was announced at a Cape Coral City Council meeting, then an e-mail blast by the Republican Party and it was mentioned in the local media.”
“With all of that attention, the City of Cape Coral felt there could be more than 500 people attending the tea party.”
“Therefore Rosko needed to get a permit and insurance for the event. Rosko says she’s not willing to get insurance and accept liability for something that a stranger could do. Rosko told WINK News, “I have rescinded any organizing or supervision or what ever you want to call it over this tea party on April 1st.”
The house is owned by a revocable trust who leases the property to us with permission to sublet. So technically there is one lease between landlord and tennant. When vacationers use the property weekly or monthly there is not a lease just a simple rental agreement with arrival and departure dates, a deposit and a cleaning fee. When I spoke to the mayor he stated that we’ve turned a single family home into a hotel. That’s garbage.
THE WORK AROUND IDEA: I’m thinking we could make it a corporate property and let our clients stay for free. I could sell the guest a website (new client) that costs me $0 and about 2 minutes of my time to install. Then they pay $1,750 for the website and get a free week at the beach house which sleeps up to 14. Then all they pay for is the cleaning fee.
Do you think this will work? Have a better suggestion? Can the city prohibit or place restrictions on who I let use the property?
•Create a test which others could take about your town (fifteen questions written in multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, or matching form).
•Supply an answer key along with the test.
Please help I am not asking you to do the work for me I just need some ideas, I already have 8 questions but I cant think of anymore.
here is what I got about Ft.Myers, Fl.
Who is the mayor of Ft.Myers?
When was Ft.Myers established?
What makes Ft.Myers Popular?
Do you know the name of the river that borders Ft.Myers and Cape coral?
What is the 2012 population of Ft.Myers?
Does Ft.Myers have a beach?
What famous person lives in Ft.Myers?
Please help me out
What can you tell me about Port St. Lucie, Fl ?
Is it a nice, quiet, safe place to raise a famliy ?
What area / neighborhood of the town would you suggest moving to ?
What area / neighborhood of the town would you suggest avoiding due to high crime ?
Thanks !
A man was thrown out of a Cape Coral City Council meeting Monday night after the mayor objected to what was on his shirt.
On the front, John Keiffer’s shirt makes a statement -the words “One nation, indivisible” superimposed over an American flag, along with his organization’s name, Atheists of Florida.
Keiffer wasn’t happy Mayor John Sullivan removed him from the meeting before he was given the chance to speak.
“He was talking about removing us at the last meeting on December 13th. We said ‘Look we’re not doing anything wrong,'” said Keiffer.
Before the meeting, Keiffer was joined by other atheists, all wearing the same shirts, all sitting in the front row.
Once Keiffer was taken out of the council chambers, debate started on whether to let him back in.
Mayor Sullivan said Keiffer was violating the rules of council.
“I don’t want the banner up there. I don’t want the commercial up there and that’s what you’re looking at,” said Sullivan.
Sullivan was in the minority. Other council members wanted to let Keiffer make his point.
“I don’t believe these individuals should be kept from speaking in his current attire,” said council member Chris Chulakes-Leetz.
“The gentleman that came up was respectful and courteous until he was led away from the podium–then he was upset. And I understand why he’s upset. I would be upset,” said council member Kevin McGrail.
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Foreclosure Filings Hit Record High
By Kenneth Musante,
CNNMoney
Posted: 2008-05-14 13:00:31
NEW YORK (May 14) — US foreclosure filings reached a record high in April rising almost 65% over the previous year and putting municipalities at risk by cutting into the value of taxed property according to a study released Wednesday.
Some 243,353 households nearly one in 519 received a foreclosure filing during April according to the US Foreclosure Market Report from RealtyTrac an online marketplace that tracks foreclosed properties That was up 4% from March, and surpassed the record of 239,851 set in August 2007.
It’s “the highest monthly total we’ve seen since we began issuing the report in January 2005 said chief executive James J. Saccacio in a statement.
RealtyTracs measure of foreclosure filings includes notices of default auction sales and bank repossessions According to the report, 54,574 were fully repossessed by banks in April.
Property tax plunge: The record number of foreclosures added their weight to an already saturated real estate market pulling down home prices Plunging home values reduce the money that cities villages and towns collect in property taxes.
In particular jeopardy are parts of Nevada California Arizona and Florida whose states maintained the highest foreclosure rates, according to RealtyTrac.
“For example the city council in Vallejo Calif. – part of a metropolitan area with a foreclosure rate that ranked sixth highest in the nation in April – last week voted to have the city file for bankruptcy said Saccacio.
The state of California had the second-highest foreclosure rate in the nation up 112% over the previous year and affecting about one in 204 households The top spot among states was held by Nevada which maintained a foreclosure rate 3.6 times the national average affecting about one in 146 homes.
Nationwide single-family home prices have fallen 7.7% since the beginning of the year to the lowest level since at least 1982 according to the National Association of Realtors and data from real-estate broker Zip Realty showed that the number of houses on the market grew by 3.5% in April.
With more homes being seized by banks, local governments also lose out on tax revenue from sale transactions. “It’s really hitting the municipalities from multiple fronts said RealtyTrac marketing vice president Rick Sharga in an interview.
Ten hardest hit metro areas: Cities in California and Florida have been particularly hard-hit. Areas in those states accounted for 9 of the top 10 metropolitan foreclosure rates.
The California metro areas of Merced Stockton Modesto and Riverside-San Bernardino took the top four spots. In Merced one out of 66 households was hit by foreclosure in April.
In Florida Cape Coral-Fort Myers came in at number 5 Port St. Lucie-Fort Pierce and Fort Lauderdale came in at numbers 9 and 10.
Also making an appearance was Las Vegas a city that had seen heavy real estate speculation at number 7 with one in 116 households receiving foreclosure notices.
As Congress debates plans to prop up troubled homeowners the foreclosure rate shows little signs of slowing. Delinquent mortgage payments which lead to foreclosure will likely rise over the next six to 12 months according to a key mortgage trend statistic from First American CoreLogic.
Copyright 2008 CNNMoney
2008-05-14 06:06:18
Cape Coral has grown so fast, the hospital is too small, people with real life and death situations, have to lay in the hall for hours,
and they could die, before being helped! We need another Hospital
very badly. Who should I talk to about this?