MESSAGE FROM THE TOWN MANAGER
SeeClickFix Empowers Residents to Help Improve our Community
GAZETTE
Right in your hand, you have the power to make Surfside a better community. Surfside’s SeeClickFix is a mobile app that allows residents to use their smart phones to submit service requests to the Town. With a few clicks of their phone, Surfsiders can photograph, map and report issues that are impacting our neighborhoods. You can either download this app to your smart phone or simply access it on the Town website, www.townofsurfsidefl.gov. This tool also provides feedback and updates between residents and the Town, ensuring that your issue is being solved. For instance, a resident used the app to report that a paving stone at the base of the 88th Street beach shower was missing. The same day, Public Works replied that a work order had been generated to repair the shower base. The appreciative resident was notified when the base was fixed. I encourage everyone to use this technology. SeeClickFix makes the process accessible and easy. Together we can work to enhance our neighborhoods, raise our community standards and improve the overall quality of life for Surfsiders. - Guillermo Olmedillo, Town Manager
Lifeguard Honored For Beach Rescue After he had closed the Surfside beach lifeguard station for the day, lifeguard Calvin Webb III was patrolling the beach looking for a sea turtle that had been seen earlier. Instead, he spotted three distressed bathers in the choppy surf, 100 yards from shore. He swam out to the trio and managed to get all of them to hold on to the rescue buoy and pulled them to safety. Calvin was honored at the May Commission meeting for his professionalism and quick response in a dangerous situation.
JUNE 2015 (L-R) Mayor Daniel Dietch, Commissioners Barry Cohen and Michael Karukin, Aquatics Supervisor Jackie Villagran, Calvin Webb III, Vice Mayor Eli Tourgeman, Commissioner Marta Olchyk, Town Attorney Linda Miller and Town Manager Guillermo Olmedillo.
Surfside Gazette • JUNE 2015
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