[Goldwingnut]

Originally Posted by wlasowicz

Why should I ask for it? The CDD is a public department. They should be posting it. The town government up north which is still my full time residents for good or bad. When the budget is made up it is available for review for the public comment before vote. Every department is listed in detail. Lets take the town clerk for example its lists total budget for the clerks office then it broken down where the money is coming from whether it from taxes or collect fees Then it list expenses Clerk's salary, total staff salary ,benefit cost for the department, office supplies, computers and etc. Any money moving in or out the town budget going to another government agency is listed. Whether I like how the money is spent is another question but it does show transpacery of your tax dollars
The tax dollars whether it called amenity fee or maintenance assessment its money in the villages is coming out your pocket to support public services

Interesting comment. Different governmental bodies have different reporting and budgeting requirements. In the case of the CDDs we have an inter-local government agreement with the VCCDD to provide district staffing to support individual district operations, they are not direct employees of the individual CDDs so such breakouts are not required.

Every contract entered into by the CDDs is available for public review under Florida's Sunshine Laws. You can contact the District Clerk for this and most other any information on the budgeting process, costs, and expenditures.

Since you are so very interested in the budgets of the CDDs I have to ask you a question. Did you attend the budget workshop for your CDD? This is the first step in getting all your questions answered. So far this month these have occurred for all except for CDDs 1-4 and NSCUDD which happen next week?

In the last 2 weeks I presided over both the CDD10 and PWAC budget workshops. The PWAC workshop had 2 residents in attendance and CDD-10 had ZERO. Total number of resident questions, comments, or other input - ZERO. My guess, based on 7 years of doing these budgets in The Villages, most of the other CDDs had a similar turnout.