From Suzy Trutie, Assistant Director of Communications:
According to Article 2, Section 2.02, D of the Miami-Dade County’s Home Rule Charter, it states: “…the Mayor shall have the power to appoint all department directors of the administrative departments of the County. Appointment of these department directors shall become effective unless disapproved by a two-thirds majority of those Commissioners then in office a the Commission’s next regularly scheduled meeting.”We expected the typical bureaucrat reply, hiding behind process to excuse a lack of action on important matters as is in this case.
We also fully understand that Ms. Hudak is powerless to name a director, however she has the full authority to place a caretaker to oversee MDT as she has already done.
So here is a question for the County Manager: of the 3,000 plus employees at MDT (several of which make salaries in excess of $100,000), is there not one who could have taken over Mr. Kapoor's duties and act as an interim director?
Instead we get Ms. Llort, whom in the May 5th edition of Miami Today states:
"FTA understands that the longer it goes on the harder it will be for the county to maintain the services provided to the public. That this comes at a cost."
At no time have Ms. Hudak or Ms. Llort publicly accepted responsibility for the complete financial chaos at MDT, and Ms. Llort has the gall to blame FTA, as though the federal government has any fault whatsoever that the bureaucrats at the county seem incapable of running MDT. County executives would rather cut public transit service to over 320,000 people than accept blame and responsibility for their actions.
Candidates for Miami-Dade mayor must tell the voters exactly how they will put an end to this utter hubris from these so called public servants, and restore true leadership, confidence and faith in our county government.
