Welcome!

We cordially invite you to join us! The Broward Coalition, a not-for-profit 501(c)(4) corporation, has been serving the community for over 30 years. We meet the second Friday of each month (excluding July and August) for lunch, which is complimentary and for members only.

Our meetings present topics that help us make decisions about issues that affect us locally, statewide and nationally. We are non-partisan, present both sides of the argument, and do not endorse candidates for political office. We are all volunteers.

Membership includes 10 issues of the NEWSLETTER, notices of our meetings, education, friendship and great lunches. We are a coalition of Condominiums, HOAs, PUDs, CO-OPs, Community Organizations and individuals. We welcome your active participation, and are always seeking volunteers for leadership positions.

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Do Local Fire Marshals and City Inspectors Really Understand the Law?

Photos from Share and Learn event

Thank you letters from the Share and Learn event (update 11/30)

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Words from our President
Charlotte Greenbarg, President of the Broward Coalition Inc., (March 2010)... (Enter)

Legislative Priorities
Here are current major issues that we are dealing with. We welcome suggestions on important issues concerning our Community.... (Enter)

Boosters & Member Organizations

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CAN ALERT: Your CAN Advisory Council Members Are Hard At Work For Your Community

This is a dam funny story

Gaetz Advocates for Transparency Florida

Help Survivors of Quake in Haiti

CAN ALERT: 2009 Wrap-Up

Association Financial Problems: Pursuing Unresolved
Casualty Claims May Be The Solution

Ashbritt Audit PowerPoint

Who’s flying Florida’s lawmakers?

Best Political Activist - Charlotte Greenbarg

Southeast Chapter CAI Trade Show January 24, 2009 -(Click to view photos)

Donna D. Berger, Esq. discusses Chinese drywall with Channel 4 -(Click to view video)

 

Updates

Don Urquhart’s Response to Comm. Ritter
I have to begin by thanking Charlotte for helping to keep us so well informed about important issues. I read Mayor Ritter’s comments with a bit of astonishment and was compelled to respond. I apologize at the outset for the length of my response but a matter of this complexity and nature needs to be explored before it can be neatly summarized.

IJ announces Supreme Court victory for free speech
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a landmark victory for free speech, making clear in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that under the First Amendment the government cannot stifle dissent by restricting the right of corporations to spend money on independent political speech.

The Fabric of Society Is Being Torn Apart by Corruption
As 2009 draws to a close, the fabric of society is being torn apart by corruption. So says the top Federal Bureau of Investigations agent for South Florida. In a speech resembling a morality pep talk, John Gillies, the FBI special agent in charge of the Miami division, last week gave a summary of his office's caseload to a West Boca Chamber of Commerce meeting.

Is this the next huge swindle/meltdown?
With a mandatory cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions likely, some Florida businesses are looking for an edge — and profits — by trading in voluntary markets. But those markets, some say, are still in a “wild, wild west” stage. For half a century, the Gannon power plant near Tampa Bay burned coal to churn out the electricity that keeps lights burning and air conditioners humming in the Tampa Bay area.

Broward school auditors' reports don't always win them friends
FORT LAUDERDALE - At the nation's sixth largest school district, auditing how the money is spent by co-workers and elected officials isn't always the best way to make friends.

Sunday Post: The Lincoln Park Story (Or: How The School Board Blew $25 million)
The Broward County School Board has driven the district into near-bankruptcy by overbuilding by tens of thousands of seats that now sit empty. Part of the reason is that every board member has had a pet project that's added to the hundreds of millions of dollars misspent.

Ashbritt Report including Administrative Responses 7/16/09 and 7/23/09
Part 1
Part 2
Transcript: Broward School Board members discuss Ashbritt audit (not on agenda) and interrogate Chief Auditor

Final Victory for First Amendment Rights in Florida
Arlington, Va.—The state of Florida has declined to appeal a federal court ruling striking down the state’s “electioneering communications” law, marking a final victory for the nonprofit groups that challenged the law as a violation of First Amendment rights in Broward Coalition v. Browning.

Pro and Con on Florida Hometown Democracy: You Decide
PROs
CONs

Great news from the U.S. Supreme Court re: judges and campaign $$
That was the conclusion today of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.. The Court found that the failure of a judge on West Virginia’s highest court to recuse himself from a matter in which a sizable donor to the judge’s election campaign had in interest violated federal due process.

KatzmanGarfinkelRosenbaum wins $20 Million for client Buckley Towers Condo Assoc

South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com
Stronger limits on gifts, more disclosure of personal finances, expanded rules on when commissioners must abstain from voting and restrictions on outside employment are among the ideas being floated for a special task force to explore over the next year.

Breaking: Broward School Buildings Chief Misled Public About License
It sounded pretty cut and dried at the Broward School Board's December 11 audit committee meeting. Audit committee member and veteran activist Charlotte Greenbarg asked the board's chief building officer, Ronald Morgan, about the status of his state license.

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