Danger in the Redland

Interesting article and well balanced. Would there be more comming?

Si

Congratulations on your article "Danger in the Redland"; I am not suprise about Charles behaivor, he is notorious for this type of action.
His abuse of power thru the years and his intimidation when someone does not do what he wants creates unjust disciplinary actions for inspectors and employees thru the years.Check on County personnel records.
I would like to clarify the incident that you mentioned my name. My position was Building Code Compliance Officer in charge of supervising the Building Departments of Dade County municipalities, including Charles "Kingdom". My duties were to go with inspectors to different projects, including Charles Martinez, Latin Builders president at that time, and also worked with Plan Examiners to insured that they were applying correctly the existing Building Code. All this procedure was an insult for Charles and he manifested his feeling on every opportunity that he has. Fuego and Negreira incident verify this feeling, to the extreme that he does not let any employee from Building Code Compliance enter the offices of his Kingdom. Action that was the reverse when he was Building Code Compliance Director.Negreira and Fuego stopped 5 minutes for a Cuban cup of coffee and use the toilet, not a breakfast as Charles was having with Mr. Martinez. Charles tried to influence my Director Frank Quintana to also give me a disciplinary action with no results.
If you want facts about the legendary Dade Building Official I will be very glad to provide to you.
Silvio Silveira January 12, 2008

The County's Policy on Ethics says that employees should not do things that give the appearance of impropriety. Even if the breakfast meeting with Charlie Martinez was on the "up and up" as stated by Mr. Danger, it is the perception of impropriety that makes it wrong. Where is the mayor on this one?

What is Danger talking about? Yes you can let a homeowner live on a construction site. It's called getting a TCO. A Temporary Certificate of Occupancy allows the owner to live in the house while finishing the work. That can be given as long as there are no life safety issues. Does this man know the code?

As anyone can see by your article, Mr. Danger is full of excuses and his explanations are so stupid that you do not have any other choice but to laugh.
To say that his meeting with Charley Martinez was on the "up and up" and that "it was to discuss lack of performance, poor customer service and bad attitudes by building employees" is asinine. Those kind of meeting take place in offices, not in resaurants while having breakfast. Even if he was telling the truth, what about the "appearance of impropriety" which he uses constantly against his employees?
He also states that "he would not know if Martinez's permits were moving fast through the system without an analysis". This is also asinine because Mr. Danger is a tyrant and nothing happens in that department without his knowledge and consent.
Last but not least, he states that "we cannot condone this family using a construction site as their living quarters". This is ridiculous and if that is the case anybody in Dade County who is planning on adding a room to their house better have the money ready to move to a hotel for the 4 or 5 months that it is going to take for the construction. I wonder if Mr. Danger ever had any construction done to any of his houses and if so whether he moved out while the work was being done. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Charles Danger may not be as pure as Deer Park bottled water. But he was the one man standing in the after math of hurricane Andrew that had the BALLS! to call it like it was and held both Industry & Developers (Like Lennier and Arvada) accountable for the raping of innocent home buyers that were sold paper doll houses as Sound construction under the then South Florida Building Code (SFBC). The SFBC was then and even in todays Code environment would still be one of the best building codes in this great country of our. Like any other law, Codes are only as good as thier enforcement agencies. Back in the 70's and 80's The County Administration was only interested in kick backs and collecting fees. The SFBC was only for "SHOW & Tell".

Before we hold Mr. Danger accountable, lets start with the BIG BOYS & GIRLS "Our own - Miami Dade Board of County Commissioners (MDBCC)". I only have 1 question for the 13 thievies "Who is going to pay for all those Capital Improvement Projects, that our Major & County Manager so neetly packaged, Port Tunnel, Marlin Stadium, Omni CSR, Bay Front Capital Improveemnts, the Down Town Trolley ... ETC)

NOT I , cause by 2015 This raped Tax Payer is OUT OF HERE!!!

GOD BLESS you & your family Mr. Danger, and from the bottom of my heart THANK YOU for all your hard work. It's time to get the Hell out of Town Charles, this county doesn't deserve you, let them have thier corruption and games.

THE REAL DEAL -- 1/20/08

Comments to The Real Deal:
Yeah, that's right. Danger did fight for the strict code that we all need in this area of the country. For that we can say thanks, but do we turn a blind eye to a man's misdeeds because of prior accomplishments? Ok, 15 years ago Danger was the hero of Miami-Dade County, but since then he has used his power to abuse his employees, the code and citizens or this county.
Hitler did alot of good things too if you ask the right people. I bet you would not think so if you were on of his victims. I see that your solution is to run from the problems. Well maybe that is what has caused obvious problems in this and neighboring countries but as for me, I'll stand and fight.