A post office at any cost?

Secret Real Estate Deal by Cooper City

The following is evidence of the secret real estate transaction being conducted by your city government in Cooper City. It appears that the money just recently announced as available prior to the departure of long time city manager Chris Farrell had been set aside by the Mayor for this purchase. Please note the date referenced in the email. It may be that Chris Farrell did not want to and refused to participate in this backroom secret deal and the Mayor and her two puppets, Generalissimo de Jesus and Jingles the Janitor Curran, decided that he must go. Hence the commission meeting massacre expedited exit. (Shame on your for thinking that the Sunshine Law may have been violated.)

The constant mantra on the part of the Mayor for the past two years that Cooper City must have a post office and her quest to provide Cooper City with that post office in spite of the constant rebuff from the USPS has resulted in the reprehensible acts of deceitful backroom deal in which it appears that more than one commissioner has cooperated with her and used the city clerk as the go between to make an offer to purchase the postal property.

If there exists a more plausible explanation of the events I will be delighted to hear it. In the interim the question is which of the remaining commissioners will have the presence of character to not only question what is going on but to ask for an FDLE investigation as to the intent to bypass the legal process and commit taxpayers funds to a purchase not only unauthorized but put together behind closed doors.
HELP, Somebody Call the Governor while we still have money to pay for the Call.
To the many families in Cooper City struggling to make mortgage payments, pay high taxes with homeowners insurance getting out of hand, paying a serious dollar on just plain water while the grass is dying, don’t bend over as that long shaft being carried by your city leaders is pointed in your direction.
P.S. Aranow where are you when you are needed?

Read On

Subject: Offer on the US Post Office Land
Dear City Manager Bernard: I was pleased to receive the offer of April 21, 2008 where the city offered to purchase the land at Stirling Road and 103rd Avenue. I have transmitted the offer to the US Post Office department in Atlanta. US Post Office want to cooperate with the city and in my verbal conversations with them, they have indicated that they will accept the cities offer with the following comments:

1. Price They will accept the cities offer of $3,969,000 subject to receiving a copy of the cities appraisal. They need to have a copy of the appraisal to justify the price reduction.

2. Paragraph 1.2 Closing Date. The post office would like to have a closing date of September 30,2008 unless extended.

3. The post office has agreed that they would grant to the city a CPU postal station. This is a commercially run post office which is small but I am told that they have all the capabilities of a US post office accept they do not have post office boxes. These smaller facilities can accept or process all types of postal packages, sell postage, accept postal business but they are run by private contractors. The Post office will provide signs for the space indicating that the facility is an authorized postal facility.

I have ask the post office to modify the contract with these provisions and return the contract to me and when I receive it, I will get it to you. Please let me know if you have any questions. I look forward to working with you and the US Post Office to arrive at an acceptable contract.

Lloyd C. NorfleetPresident, SIOR, CCIMNAI Rauch, Weaver, Norfleet, Kurtz & Co5300 North Federal HighwayFort Lauderdale, FL 33308954-771-4400 Direct 954-489-4706 Direct fax 954-489-4724


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