Maggi Black won the mayoral race with 55% of the votes. Nancy Oakley won the race for district 3 with 61% of the votes and John Douthirt won district 4 with 55% of the votes (in a three-way race!).
The Beach Beacon and Bay News 9 reporting on the results.
Here are the “unofficial” results from Tuesday, March 14th, ...
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Ghovaee was appointed to the City Commission in July 2016 to fill the District 4 seat vacated by Pat Shontz. This ill-advised and illegal appointment contained a variety of errors on the part of city officials.
The actions of the Mayor and Commissioners violated the state’s Sunshine Law. The appointment of Ghovaee was ...
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A flyer was distributed to Madeira Beach resident’s door steps on 11/9/16. It was titled “Madeira Beach in Turmoil” and was blaming City Commissioner Elaine Poe, for the turmoil in our city. Whoever composed the flyer didn’t even have the courage to take responsibility and put their name on the flyer.
Any turmoil ...
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….no wonder…
Who wants to face the City Manager who bullies and threatens residents who have opposing opinions or an opinion not complimentary to the city plans.
Who wants to be the victim of that backdraft?
Even when it is fair ...
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The “Tampa Bay Times” and “Beach Beacon” have each now published an article about Madeira Beach City Manager Shane Crawford’s censure and expulsion from the International City/County Management Association (ICMA).
Nearly as interesting and important to residents – now that the ‘shock and awe’ have died down – is that our Mayor and City Commissioners are so far off base in their thinking about the City ...
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View Points Article: A Madeira Beach resident sent this to us and asked us to share the thoughts…
Our Madeira Beach City Manager was emboldened by the letter he received from ICMA dated 8/15/2016, saying that the complaints filed against him lacked support and that no further action would be taken for those filings.
Image courtesy of Visti St. Petersburg Clearwater Convention Visitor Center Media Center
| Shane Crawford | scrawford@madeirabeachfl.gov | City Manager |
| Travis Palladeno | tpalladeno@madeirabeachfl.gov | Mayor |
| Elaine Poe | epoe@madeirabeachfl.gov | Commissioner |
| Nancy Hodges | nhodges@madeirabeachfl.gov | Commissioner |
| Terry Lister | tlister@madeirabeachfl.gov | Commissioner |
| Housh Ghovaee | hghovaee@madeirabeachfl.gov | Commissioner |
| Michael Noble | mnoble@madeirabeachfl.gov | Chair |
| Dennis Carr | carrden23@gmail.com | Planning Commissioner |
| David Lawrence | dlaw@giopsnow.com | Planning Commissioner |
| Ann Rasmussen | annras1@gmail.com | Planning Commissioner |
| Ingrid Ferro-Spilde | Not available | Planning Commissioner |
| Sonny Flynn | Not available | Planning Commissioner |
The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) is THE professional association for local governments, worldwide.
And, this is exactly what has happened to Madeira Beach City Manager, Shane Crawford. He was censured and expelled.
The ICMA Executive Committee found that two different tenets were violated. They both were related to his ...
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The challenge to the comprehensive plan based complaint (Hein/Parker v city of MB), challenged on the (improperly) advertised notice is scheduled for October 7th.
A summary judgment hearing is requested and alleges that the court needs no testimony and can make a decision based on the facts of law and the case.
To read the Summary Motion filed with the court, click Here.
Anyone can attend. The ...
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Our first day in court is coming this week.
Yesterday, Ken Weiss provided an update on recent work done on our behalf and that is what is included below. Some of this is taken verbatim from Mr. Weiss’s information.
Our attorneys filed “complaints” yesterday, to request that the court rule on the refusal of public records and associated Sunshine Law violation. (This is related to the Commission meeting when the Mayor and Commissioners voted to pay ...
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