It’s all there in the Sun article.

Not everybody has been here since 2007!

I'm waiting for the more knowledgeable....and credible to post on where the 2M is earmarked to and who, if anyone, in the district's (noticeably) benefits from it

For whatever it's worth, I can't find anything online about the donation. I can't find it on the newspapers site, nor on the District's site.


I'm sure the apparently $2,000,000 "donation" has benefits of some sort to the Developer. That's just common sense.

If the Developer is simply interested in public relations and this is simply a token of his largesse, I don't believe it. There would be much better ways to generate goodwill, than subsidizing the budget of (2) isolated CDD's.

I'm sure most of the story will soon come to light and everyone will have a better idea what's behind it.

Interesting. Our link obsessed membership fails to attach one to this story

Daily Sun Article
 

Not sure how this might or might not work.
This from Daily Sun today.

As far as I can tell, The Villages Daily Sun does not have a real online presence. Yes, they have a page that appears to have articles but not the entire content of the printed version and the articles that do have links are really just teasers with a short intro and then:
Read this story and many others in Sunday's edition of the Daily Sun.

Even if our link obsessed membership wanted to attach one, there is none to attach.

You know how well hearsay plays on here!

Nice. So it looks like it might be a donation for this year which will let the new rates take effect over two years.

I have a suspicion about the lack of a true online presence: I was told long ago, "if it isn't written down it didn't happen."

It works, thank you

So I have one question that I thought I knew the answer to ... but might not.

Bottom paragraph, Page 1: "After reviewing the amount of new infrastructure turned over, compared with the number of new people moving into the District .... "

How does that make a difference? If I'm not mistaken, the Developer pays the maintenance fee on unsold lots, so how many people moving in, shouldn't be relevant ... should it?

I think the next 24 posts answered that question 😂😂😂

Well, it was a nice try. But the kind of hatred that we see around here will take much more than this to relieve. It could have been 20 million and the comments would be the same.

Unfortunately you are right.

The maintenance fee schedules for CDD14 and CDD15 make it look as though each of the 6,800 properties are being assessed the fee.

The meaning of the quote isn't exactly clear so maybe we are both misinterpreting it.

I live in 14. Out of the blue my cdd maintainace fee goes from about $500 to about $1000. A meeting with district was scheduled and an alleged bailout was announced the morning of the meeting. This alleged 2 point something bailout from doubling my maintenance bill to only 25% increase is a hard pill to swallow. I can't help but feel I'm paying for their over extending themselves on the west side of the Turnpike because it's a very very huge wasteland of unsold properties that they are sinking billions into. They might be taking advantage of the late boomer/Millenials down here that go with the flow and just think government waste is something they should normally absorb....only saying because that's what I've heard them say here. The Developer lost points with me with this blindside tactic. Doubt I will "move 3 times"