Fiscal Rangers

Oct. 5th is the TEN Year Anniversary of FiscalRangers.com - so naturally our computer motherboard crashed!

Tavares, FL Oct. 2, 2016 Our TEN year anniversary is this coming Wed., Oct. 5, 2016, so naturally our main 7 year old Windows 7 desktop computer, "Miami", crashed and is in the shop for a new motherboard. THUS I have to use an older backup laptop, Atlanta, to post to the blog, which is a pain. BUT, we are using this as an excuse to celebrate our anniversary and build a new computer, Dallas, from scratch to handle editing and video editing duties. I describe the new system below for you computer geeks. Fortunately almost every application I use is cloud based, so they can be used on my older alternate laptop. EXCEPT, I use Outlook email on my PC which uses contact lists, email archives, etc on the PC. Everything is backed up, but it is a pain to move email lists etc. to the old reliable HP laptop I am using ("Atlanta"), so there will be no email distribution until Miami is back. I also cannot edit videos on this old TEN year HP laptop purchased about when this blog started, so I can't upload videos yet to the "FiscalRangersFlorida" YouTube channel. However, to celebrate the ten... Read more →

Tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov 22 is the Investiture of the two re-elected Lake County, FL Board members

This is a quick commentary on the investiture of two re-elected Lake County, FL County Commissioners, Leslie Campione and Sean Parks. In addition, I make a recommendation who should be selected on Dec. 6th as the next Chair of the Lake County Board. Read more →

Lake County Issues Plans for improving yard waste and garbage collection timeliness

Lake County has announced action steps to speed up collection of yard waste and garbage due to delays caused by Hurricane Ian cleanup tasks. This is for the Lake County residents, and City Residents are affected separately by their city trash hauling operations. Before Hurricane Ian, I gave public input at the County Board meeting about missed trash pickups after finding out the staff had no method to track hauler follow ups when a pickup was missed and complaint filed with the County. "Managers" in government need to "MANAGE" actions under them with status reports etc. and not just hope a contractor like a hauler follows up on a complaint. When residents send a complaint about missed garbage pickups, the County needs to TRACK such complaints to completion like IT departments do with incident reporting and status tracking software. Not doing so is in my mind management malpractice. As of Nov. 6, my yard waste trash has been sitting now in my driveway for THIRTEEN days. I have resulted in putting some of it in the normal garbage bins which ARE picked up on the assigned date (Fridays). If Lake County misses collecting your yard waste or garbage, send an... Read more →