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Originally Posted by Garywt
First, the one thing I will never understand is all the names and abbreviations of all the committees and boards and what each does.
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Originally Posted by tophcfa
The convoluted spider web of committees and boards, along with the alphabet soup of names and abbreviations, certainly casts a dark cloud over transparency. It’s enough to make anyone paying attention to look with suspicious eyes at the goings on around them. As a general rule of thumb, things that are on the up and up are kept simple and easy to understand.
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Attend a Resident Academy to learn about the structure, including the names and how the different CDDs work together. There is a lot of information presented in a short time, but it comes with a book that is very useful for reference later.
To me, the "convoluted spider web" appears to be an attempt to separate responsibilities and push them to local control as much as possible. The numbered CDDs provide local control over local concerns. Issues affecting larger areas like utilities or emergency services are left to the CDDs with a larger scope (utility CDD, Sumter Landing CDD, Villages Center CDD, etc). And some things, whether by law or by design, are left to the county or the state.
It isn't a perfect system but it does make some sense. For anyone that wants to understand it better, the Resident Academy is a great place to start.