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Originally Posted by bill14564

as others have mentioned, this particular bill only affects districts in place before 1968 which means it affects disney but would not affect the villages.

The villages is made up of a large number of special districts. To better understand the structure you should really attend the resident academy. That presentation gives a lot of information about how things are set up and how the several districts work with one another to provide services to the villages.

If all our districts were wiped away the counties (sumter, lake, and marion) would suddenly be responsible for providing the services we now use. The maintenance of the town squares, postal stations, recreation centers, pools, roads in the villa sections, flowers in the medians, and gate houses would fall to the county. Wages for the gate guards, recreation department, and community watch would fall to the county. The water, sewer, and irrigation infrastructure would become the county responsibility. And i believe the bond debt would become a county liability.

The county would need to find funding for all of that or the county would drop the services. They might be able to absorb the water and sewer infrastructure and provide service at the same rate we are paying now. Our amenity fee would go away because there would no longer be anyone to collect it. What we now call amenities would become public county facilities. The county could increase taxes to pay for those facilities but the increase would be spread across the entire county and not just the homes north of 44 and east of 301. Maybe the employees that are now paid by the villages would be hired by the county but again, the county would need to collect more taxes in order to pay for those employees.

Dismantling the many special districts that make up the villages would not be easy. "the villages" would cease to exist. Anything paid for now through amenity fees or bond maintenance fees would need to be paid for through county taxes or simply boarded up. The process wouldn't be pretty. I hope i'm long gone before some politician decides to try it.

based on your analysis then all our pools, fields, recreation centers, everything would be open to everyone?