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Cutler Bay

Cutler Bay Vice Mayor faces reelection challenge

 

Cutler Bay residents must choose a vice mayor and decide on more than a dozen changes to the Town Charter.

Ernest N. Sochin (incumbent)

• Age: 76

• Occupation: Sales manager at Master Distributors, a national electronics distribution company.

• Education: Associate’s degree in electronic engineering, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston.

• Other: Former president of Whispering Pines Civic Association.

Ed Wolmers

• Age: 50

• Occupation: Owner of American Lenders Service Company of Miami, a towing and recovery company.

• Education: Associate’s degree in electronics engineering, National Education Center.

• Other: Member of original Cutler Bay charter committee and Cutler Bay charter revision committee.


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• Approve non-substantive editing changes.

• Prohibit town officials from intentionally misusing their positions to threaten, harass or intimidate any other person.

• Add a map of council districts to the charter.

• Allow town awards and recognitions as authorized by council.

• Give the Town Council the power to censure, reprimand or fine any council member or staff member under the council’s control determined by the council to have intentionally violated any provision of the charter or explicit directive of the council.

• Require former council members who have left office due to term limits to wait at least two years before running again.

• Prohibit people from running for a town office if they would be prevented from completing the term due to term limits.

• Declare that any elected official who resigns from office before completing the full term shall be treated as if they had served the full term for purposes of term limits.

• Declare that if any elected official’s term is lengthened because of a charter change, the extra time will not count toward term limits.

• Make any council member who is absent without good cause for three consecutive months subject to forfeiture of their office.

• Declare that the town manager shall be responsible for supervising all contracted services, consultants and contracted employees, except the town attorney and town clerk and their employees.

• Allow nonresidents with special expertise to serve as nonvoting members of town boards.

• Prohibit town officials from serving on the Charter Revision Commission.

• Prohibit any person from serving on more than two consecutive Charter Revision Commissions.

A copy of the Cutler Bay sample ballot can be found here.

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