Allow me to retort. “People over politics” sounds great. Until the same office offers to pay for the study that decides whether it keeps the contract. That’s not independence. That’s a do-over. The City didn’t ignore facts. It declined a vendor-funded redo offered only after the vendor saw the vote slipping. Calling a study “flawed” because it didn’t land where …
This isn’t about tone. Definitely not about personalities. It’s about sequence. Timing. And what ends up in the file when the meeting is over. At the last meeting (January 20, 2026), Commissioner Shinitsky, aka Proffer Shitsky of District #3, voted to stay with BSO. That motion failed, 3–2. No ambiguity there. Minutes later—same meeting, same issue—he votes to leave BSO. …
TL;DR GovHacks is an adversarial stress-testing service for municipal policies. Much like a penetration test for software, GovHacks identifies constitutional vulnerabilities and liability “edge cases” in city ordinances before they result in lawsuits or civil rights complaints. We don’t litigate or lobby; we debug policy to prevent expensive legal failures. Cities routinely hire outside professionals to stress-test critical systems. You …
TL;DR At the Jan 2026 Deerfield Beach Commission meeting, BSO officials proposed funding a new fire-rescue study in exchange for a two-year contract extension—a move critics call a ‘delay tactic’ to avoid municipal independence. I’ve been around Deerfield Beach politics long enough to know when a room gets nervous. Not loud. Not chaotic. Nervous. That was the vibe at the …
