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Well, again I won't hide under a fake name, this recall has nothing to do with the past mayor, nothing to do with the past election except. Nelson ran on the I will work for half salary and then manipulated his way into full salary. He got a 8 k raise in this budget by having it buried in with other things while the council was busy trying to force change for the sake of safety on the fire department. As for dirty politics there are non, not any. When asked by the news who we were endorsing, we were clear, we are endorsing honesty, integrity and transparency all the things missing in this admin. I'm guessing that non of you other commenters paid attention to the 45K a month lost by Nelson's move of the money to Arrowsmith's and Rankins bank, only the first 2 mill was voted on, then an additional 29 million was moved by email request. They moved it from a bank paying interest to One Fla. paying almost nothing. I'm also assuming that you believed his lie that the reserves were spent, well, then ask yourself this, where the heck did the 31 million come from! The dollar fairy? No, truth is the audit proved the reserves were not gone. The death of the young firefighter is but on piece in the puzzle, people are quick to say firefighters go to work knowing they could die, that's right, in a accident on a scene, in a vehicle wreck while responding, yes those are possibilities but not by a trailer that should not of been in service, was refilled and these two young men who had never been trained on it, even seen it used were sent to move it without supervision. It's not just a trailer it was tons of sand in a poorly designed unbalanced contraption which had tipped over on multiple occasion prior to it being put in the shed empty. The fault lies in the fact that the Mayor along with others fabricated a EMS funds issue promising a investigation and prosecution (which never happened to prove his claims) to replace the previous fire chief with this fella who was training officer. Then at the direction of the mayor the training officer position was not replaced, the deputy chief was not replaced and all those duties were added to others workload so things fell to the wayside, training and ensuring that everyone got trained on all equipment was one of those things, along with their so called established culture of intimidation and internal bullying. Austin's death is but one small puzzle piece in this whole picture. Issues with code enforcement on taxpayers while so many city owned properties are out of compliance, issues with understaffed departments across the city, issues with potable water supply, stormwater run off, lift station failures, lack of general infrastructure maintenance are all issues, staffing turnover, general morale of the employees that work for the city is another. Realize that almost every manager got a perfect performance score including the fire chief while all these failures are going on. It's your tax money as well. So think what you want, but the facts are there. There is plenty of dishonesty in this admin without having to make things up. And so everyone knows, the issues go back to way before Austins Death, maybe had more people been paying attention and speaking out, maybe had the truth been known about the issues at the FD he might still be here. But lots of people want to form opinions without getting all the information or even attending the meetings, and yes watching youtube is not attending, you can't see the packet, you can't hear the conversations. Did you even know that the council does not get the packets until at best the friday before the meeting? Lack of information causes tons of issues.