$105,810.07 In Stadium Property Insurance Charged To Taxpayers

The talk about what La LEY owes the City and vice-versa should not be confused with what the La LEY people said they would pay. They understood they needed to pay the Stadium Property Insurance, that is very clear, of course not having known how much the insurance cost would be has created the non-payment of their responsibility. The question is why are Homestead taxpayers charged with the bill?

Putting aside the errors made by the Solid Waste and Water Departments of the City in not having a proper or an acceptable billing system in place for the Stadium property, the fact remains La LEY has not paid for their contractually obligated Stadium Property Insurance.

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During the La LEY stadium construction period a large dumpster was used and subsequently every month since it was charged, the dumpster was billed to La LEY. The water estimate is another embarrassing error committed by the City of Homestead. Who is responsible, the mayor, the manager, the public works department, customer services? It doesn't matter, the taxpaying public are getting the insurance bill, because La LEY could not afford higher than anticipated utility bills along with errors and a higher than anticipated property insurance bill.

So now once again the taxpayers who are not responsible to perform due diligence on La LEY's behalf are being charged with La LEY's Property Insurance bill.

Is this how accountability works in the real world of our Mayor? The Quality of Life under Mayor Bateman sure is expensive when we have to continually bail out his business decisions. The Redland Settlement cost us at least $5,000,000, the 93 Agreement cost us another $4,900,000, waiving code enforcement and other fees cost hundreds of thousands and now this. To date just under $106,000, citing Quality of Life issues in the March Council meeting the Mayor said La LEY should not be paying the property insurance, he was right, they aren't but taxpayers are. He made his point and La LEY has complied for ten months now.