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This month I am turning the spotlight on our staff who sometimes work 24/7 to make our fair city look more than just good, but great! In just the last year alone staff assisted in managing, distributing, and volunteering to make the food drive possible- something none of us could foresee. Especially on Thursday mornings, for most of the last twelve-month period, staff members have worked at not only the Regional Park in packing, placing in car trunks, but also delivering to remote locations. We have helped residents and others weather a most critical time in our city’s recent history.
I applaud staff who have worked throughout the pandemic to make sure our seniors, especially have been taken care of with not only fresh vegetables, groceries etc., but also cooked meals, where needed. Thanks to our groundskeepers who have maintained our parks allowing us to appreciate their greenery and beauty during this unusual time and place where the coronavirus has taken us. Sadly, we have lost some members of staff to this vicious virus, and we empathize with their families and former co-workers.
The people who have done yeoman service during this time have been the men and women of our Fire Department. While much of the testing and vaccinations have been managed and/or supervised by the National Guard and others, it is staff who made these services possible during 2020/2021. From the Parks and Recreation staff who instructed residents when their 15-minute post vaccine period ended to the EMS personnel who delivered the individual jabs. Such vital roles were played by City of Miramar staffers, just in the performance of their duty.
When in the fall of 2020, and the potential of flooding presented itself, staff literally got down and dirty in filling sandbags for residents anxious about the possibility of flood water entering their homes. The staff took to the streets, when some of that flooding of roadways occurred, to remove excess water deposited on our streetways.
I’d like to remind you that no single member of management or the Commission came up with the idea to build a new City Hall complex. It is staff who operated out of the decades old building in the historic sector of our city who informed us that the rodents were seeking to take over the building for their own purposes that prompted us to finally begin the move that brought us to our still new City Hall on December 4, 2004.
