LHIA E-Newsletter

Sept. 2009

Friday & Saturday,
September 25th & 26th

YOU'RE INVITED!...
to BIMINI BOATYARD'S 'REMEMBER WHEN' 20TH ANNIVERSARY EXTRAVAGANZA!

- Happy Hour starts at NOON Friday

- See Our All-New Look!

- Live Entertainment

- Family Fun on Saturday

- Contests-Prizes-Giveaways

It's a celebration to be remembered at

the all-new

Bimini Boatyard & Grill!

Congratulations to Rio Vista's own Steve Hudson & staff!

Our Sponsor

Dear Members, Neighbors & Friends,

I'm delighted to welcome you to the first issue of our new E-newsletter. This e-newsletter is a critical component of our all-new newsletter program, 'THE HARBORS', providing us with new capabilties to pass along up-to-the minute news, notices, updates and events information to you and throughout our Lauderdale Harbors neighborhood.

As such, I ask you to please pass this along to your friends and neighbors and ask them to sign up to receive our e-news by clicking on the 'JOIN OUR MAILING LIST' link at the lower left. All email addresses we collect for this will remain confidential, used for our LHIA e-news items only and will not be sold or otherwise conveyed to anyone else.

Thanks for your help! I look forward to receiving your comments and suggestions on ways we can make our new newsletter and e-newsletter program even better over the coming months! Just email them to us at publisher@lauderdaleharbors.org.

Browne Pearson

President, LHIA

FINAL PUBLIC HEARINGS ON CITY & COUNTY BUDGETS

The City of Fort Lauderdale Commission and the Broward County Commissioners will have their hands full this week with the final public hearings on their respective FY 2009/2010 budgets.

Fort Lauderdale Commissioners final public hearing will take place on Wednesday, Sept. 23rd and all residents are encouraged to attend. More information about the proposed FY 2009/2010 budget is included on the following pages, and additional budget details may be viewed at:
http://www.fortlauderdale.gov/documents/budget.htm

At their first public hearing on the 2010 Broward County Budget held on Sept.10, County Commissioners voted to keep the current millage rate at 4.8889 for Fiscal Year 2010. Commissioners will take a final vote on the proposed $3.3 billion budget at their second and final public hearing, which will be held Tuesday, September 22, in Room 422 of the Governmental Center, 115 S. Andrews Ave., Fort Lauderdale. Public testimony will be taken.

Budget documents, including a list of recommended reductions, are posted on www.broward.org/2010budget.

We'll have more to come in future issues...City of Fort Lauderdale news & commission reports...Broward County updates...and, of course, our own Lauderdale Harbors news, notices, announcements and event updates. Please send us YOUR news, announcements, events and photos...and we'll get them out there! Email your updates to: publisher@lauderdaleharbors.org

Thanks! See you around the neighborhood!