Fiscal Rangers: January 2019

This blog is dedicated to: Monitoring Election Integrity in Lake County, FL plus: A) improving fiscal oversight, management and operational efficiency of the 1) Lake County, Florida School District, 2) the separate Lake County Government, 3) the North Lake County Hospital District, 4) the operations of the 14 cities in Lake County such as Tavares, Eustis, Clermont & Mt. Dora, PLUS 5) the operations of the independently elected Constitutional Officers (Sheriff, Tax Collector, Assessor, County Clerk, etc.) and also B) Improving fiscal and management effectiveness of other local government agencies and programs spending taxpayer funds. Your membership and support may help us expose abusive tax or policy changes that affect your property and wallet. To read older articles, select them from the categories or archives listings. To get this news more frequently, you should join our Facebook GROUP at https://www.facebook.com/groups/FiscalRangers/.

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January 2019

January 27, 2019

Florida "FEFP" Funding Formula of School Districts is uneven and was just exposed by the Florida Watchdog blog

Florida Watchdog blog just exposed the biased "FEFP" formula used by Florida State to allocate per-student funding to each County level School District. Here is the link to the story and other references on FEFP. Read more →

Posted at 10:45 AM in Lake County School District | Permalink | Comments (0)

January 23, 2019

Democrat Congress members file HR-1 to expand voter rights to illegal groups

The Democrats in Congress filed HR-1, a bill that greatly expands the voter pool and reduces restrictions on inappropriate votes. But, as of Jan 23, they have not provided any descriptive text to "know what's in it" but there are over 220 democrat co-sponsors. Read about it here. Read more →

Posted at 09:26 AM in Elections & Voter Fraud, Voter Fraud | Permalink | Comments (0)

January 15, 2019

14 Big Hairy Ass Goals for Lake County, FL Legislators - presented at Legislative Delegation Jan. 15, 2019

The five members of the Lake County, FL Legislator's Delegation met today, Jan. 15, 2019, to hear public input and funding requests from perhaps 35 local groups, government bodies and individuals. I gave them a list of 14 Big Hairy Ass Goals (BHAG) to consider implementing. Read more →

Posted at 04:57 PM in Central Florida government agencies, Florida State Issues, Florida State Waste & MisManagement, Florida the Huckster State | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tags: FL House Rep. Anthony Sabatini, FL House Rep. Brett Hage, FL House Rep. Jennifer Sullivan, FL Senator Dennis Baxley, FL Senator Kelli Stargel

January 13, 2019

Why should conservative parents send their kids to Lake County Schools that follow David Coleman's Common Core?

Why should conservative parents send their kids to Lake County, FL Schools that follow David Coleman's Common Core? Read more →

Posted at 12:03 PM in Common Core, Lake County School District | Permalink | Comments (0)

January 07, 2019

Transparency over local government meeting agendas, minutes, videos, etc. is being damaged by ADA compliance lawsuits

Local governments like cities are being sued because their websites are not completely designed to comply with ADA requirements that were written before the internet was created. For instance, cities cannot post meeting videos if they don't incur the expense to provide captions that software for the blind or deaf can read and translate so they can understand it. Thus the benefit of transparency for 97% of the populations are shut down for 3% who complain. Read more →

Posted at 03:35 PM in Cities in Lake County, Consumer Protection, Districts - Special, Water etc., Ethics in Politics & Government, Federal Government Issues, FiscalFiasco, Florida the Huckster State, Fraud, Waste, Abuse & Oversight, Judicial Activism, Lake County Board & Government, Lake County School District, Lake County Water Authority (LCWA), Transparency of Govt, Web/Tech | Permalink | Comments (0)