Good morning, Paul -
Received both of yours. Cities and counties across America have same problem, but not as bad as where tourism so important. Unlike keys businesses, keys municipalities still have tax revenues coming it, although not as much as before red China's gift to the world. I think you are right that Americans, and Canadians and other foreigners, in the main, can't afford to vacation in the keys, and that's gonna become clear after the keys reopen on June 1. I imagine Miami area people will flock to the keys, and some of them will bring red China's gift and there will be a spike in infections and will that lead to another shut down? How about the county government, in order to survive (cut costs), fires the county manager and the bubbas he gave 2.5 times regular salary for doing same work? When those bubbas run out of money, they can use food banks, rob fishermen's traps, panhandle, fish off of bridges, spend nights at KOTS - oops, it's already at capacity, so they camp in parks and on beaches until law enforcement puts them in the sheriff's detention centers - oops, they are nearly at capacity due to housing federal detainees and homeless people. Maybe the bubbas jump in their boats and hijack a passing cruise ship and turn it into a bubba refugee camp. Maybe the bubbas get a good lawyer and sue red China like Missouri did.
Over and out.
Received both of yours. Cities and counties across America have same problem, but not as bad as where tourism so important. Unlike keys businesses, keys municipalities still have tax revenues coming it, although not as much as before red China's gift to the world. I think you are right that Americans, and Canadians and other foreigners, in the main, can't afford to vacation in the keys, and that's gonna become clear after the keys reopen on June 1. I imagine Miami area people will flock to the keys, and some of them will bring red China's gift and there will be a spike in infections and will that lead to another shut down? How about the county government, in order to survive (cut costs), fires the county manager and the bubbas he gave 2.5 times regular salary for doing same work? When those bubbas run out of money, they can use food banks, rob fishermen's traps, panhandle, fish off of bridges, spend nights at KOTS - oops, it's already at capacity, so they camp in parks and on beaches until law enforcement puts them in the sheriff's detention centers - oops, they are nearly at capacity due to housing federal detainees and homeless people. Maybe the bubbas jump in their boats and hijack a passing cruise ship and turn it into a bubba refugee camp. Maybe the bubbas get a good lawyer and sue red China like Missouri did.
Over and out.
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The County MUST balance its budget. Since salaries are an expense, they MUST be balanced by receipts. When receipt totals are recognized to have crashed, there will be a grossly unpleasant impact on the Personnel Department's budget. They're not going to have much latitude in their range of responses. It's going to hurt a lot of still employed people.
No matter how pure their motives or how 'smartly' they try to administer the impending crisis, they've got to have money to do anything meaningful. Without sufficient income they will not, already don't, have the underlying capacity to act - at all.
Things are going to get ugly and stay that way until the Keys' customer base up North reacquires the disposable income levels that will allow them to budget their next vacation in Paradise.
That could take years. Regrettably, only then will the County regain the capacity to do the right thing. The underlying reality is way more pervasive, more damaging to Keys people, than any clever stunt 'Bubba' could ever dream up. I'd like to say something positive but all i see right now is a years-long Tunnel filled with unemployed Keysians, and no visible Light anytime soon.
If the County continues to face continuing severe income losses, what can they really do? They can't print money... can they?
Wait! Let's ask Bubba! That would be Right up his alley, Later Sloan