Protecting Safe Speed Limits in Our Community

Published on March 01, 2025

By Fabiola Stuyvesant, Commissioner

I want to extend my most sincere gratitude to everyone who participated in the 2024 electoral process. It gives a sense of belonging when we actively partake in electing our leaders. Nonetheless, voting is just the first step. It is necessary to continue actively participating by attending Commission meetings to express your opinions and hold local leaders accountable for the decisions they make.

At the monthly Commission meetings, residents have the right and opportunity to express their support “for” or “against” any issue that comes in front of the Commission, such as the impending ban on scooters, the continuous waiving of the open and transparent bidding process when awarding million-dollars contracts to handpicked vendors, safety and security issues, and more.

For example, in the January meeting, the County “mandate” to increase our internal streets' speed limit from 20 to 25 MPH was discussed. I was able to delay the vote by deferring the item, meaning it would come again in front of the Commission in the future. However, I need your help to halt this government nonsense. It defies common sense to increase the speed limits of areas like Golden Shores with their narrow streets and nonexistent sidewalks, or North Bay Road, which is the walking commute road of many of our young school children. So please pay attention and take part.

Attending the meetings also gives everyone the chance to bring new topics during the “Citizens Forum.” To say that decisions made at the Commission meetings impact or will impact our lives is an understatement. That is why voting is just part of the task, and continuous participation is vital to avoid elected officials’ deliberate deception.

Contact Commissioner Fabiola Stuyvesant at seat3@sibfl.net or 305.792.1751.