Leon County Commission Chair Christian Caban says an independent review has exposed financial mismanagement in the City of Tallahassee\u2019s Fire Services Fund. <\/p>\n
He says the review found an estimated revenue shortfall over two years between $15.8 million to $21.2 million.<\/p>\n
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In an announcement Monday with Commissioner Bill Proctor, Caban said a consultant found the shortfall could have eliminated the need to increase the fire service fee for county residents last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve been billed a rate that was not fair, it was not equal, and it was not just. That is against state law,\u201d Caban said during a news conference, standing behind a podium with a sign that read \u201cDEMANDING ACCOUNTABILITY. PROTECTING TAXPAYERS.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to be clear,\u201d Caban said. \u201cLeon County residents and City of Tallahassee residents have legal damages.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caban wants refunds for those taxpayers and an audit by the Joint Legislative Auditing Committee, which provides audit oversight regarding school districts, local governments, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leon County Commission Chair Christian Caban says an independent review has exposed financial mismanagement in the City of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-426557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}