Conservancy rakes in cash at taxpayer-owned Miami Beach Botanical Garden
By Francisco Alvarado, FloridaBulldog.org
A non-profit group turned the Miami Beach Botanical Garden into a cash cow by obtaining federal pandemic aid funds and charging top dollar for hosting booze-filled events. But the Miami Beach Garden Conservancy fattened up its coffers without giving the city its fair share, and without contributing any money for maintenance of the taxpayer-owned flora facility, an internal audit found.
Miami Beach’s inspector general Joe Centorino determined city staff has provided lax oversight in tracking the revenues and finances of the conservancy, including overpaying the organization that manages the three-acre public green space by $153,000 between 2018 and 2021, according to the report.
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