Mayor Gimenez backtracks on cuts to agriculture budget Following an outpouring of support, agricultural services will not face the drastic reductions originally proposed in the county budget. The Miami Herald, posted on Friday August 12,2011. By Christina Veiga cveiga@MiamiHerald.com More than 100 people packed into the council chamber at town hall in Palmetto Bay for [...]
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Mayor’s office backs off
Posted in events, location, politics, tagged Agricultural Manager, county budget, Mayor Carlos Gimenez, UF/IFAS Cooperative Extension on August 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Cooperative Extension is largely restored – thanks to YOU!
Posted in politics, tagged county budget, Extension, UF/IFAS on October 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we received this welcome message from Teresal Olczyk, one of our Extension Agents with whom we’ve worked closely for many years. Yes, we are back in business thanks to you and many other supporters. We were restored at about 84% thanks to the hard work of all community and many organizations. The County Commission restored [...]
Help save Extension Services
Posted in farm, food, location, politics, Uncategorized, tagged county budget, county commissioners, Extension, Margie Pikarsky, Redland Organics on September 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
<nag> Have you written to your county commissioner about the proposed budget cut that would close the doors to the Miami-Dade Cooperative Extension Service? No? Still thinking about it? Maybe it’s just not that important or relevant? I mean, how could it possibly tie in with the tasty, fresh, local and organic veggies you’re going [...]
Green Needs to Be Seen and Heard
Posted in csa, farm, farmer/grower, location, locavore, politics, tagged avocado, county budget, county commissioners, Extension, laurel wilt on August 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Did you go to the county commissioner budget meetings to state your case? No? You have several more chances. There are Budget Conference Committee (BCC) meetings on Aug 24, 25, 26 and 27 at commission chambers downtown. The commission will hold final budget hearings on Thursday Sept 3rd at 5:01 pm and Thursday Sept. 17th [...]
Extension (and farmers) need your help!
Posted in farm, food, politics, tagged commissioners, county budget, Extension, laurel wilt, UF/IFAS on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Originally I didn’t plan on this blog being political, but it looks like I’ll have to dip a toe in those waters… By now you’ve already heard about the new proposed county budget that Mayor Carlos Alvarez presented to the county commissioners. There was much debate about what to cut, how much to cut, and [...]
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