Fiscal Rangers

Lake County, FL Business Owners suffering economically from the virus caused downturn

The Lake County, FL economic development staff issued a press release on initiatives they are working on to help local businesses. READ it here: https://www.lakecountyfl.gov/news_releases/news_release.aspx?id=3555 "The Lake County Agency for Economic Prosperity wants to make local businesses aware of the resources available to help mitigate the economic impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)." Vance Jochim FiscalRangers.com Read more →

Lake County, FL K-12 Parents! Learn how the school district staff plan to implement distance learning for 42,000 students

Lake County, FL Schools were closed due to the Wuhan virus. Here is a meeting video how staff is rolling out distance learning and Chromebooks for 42,000 students. Read more →

YouTube has removed visibility for the White House video channel if you search for it

YouTube has removed the White House YouTube channel from showing up in their search results if you search on "White House". Instead, Read more →

How will Lake County Schools implement online classes for 40,000 students?

Today's Emergency Board meeting for the Lake County, FL School Board covered a single subject - how to roll out online training to 40,000+ students using Chromebooks. Read more →

What happens to local city and county cash flow if Florida cuts sales taxes like the UK just did to cope with the Wuhan Virus?

The UK just reduced their VAT, or national sales tax, to zero for awhile. What happens if Florida does the same, or the state government reduces tax revenues sent to local governments due to the Wuhan virus crisis? Will we go through layoffs and increased property taxes in Florida and Lake County? Read more →

Texas Democrats blame Republicans for Voter Suppression of a black voter, then find THEY caused his problems

Leftists in Texas attacked Republicans for voter suppression when a black voter had to wait 5 hours to vote. Ooops, then they find the precinct and County administrators were DEMOCRATS who ignored common sense allocation of voting machines and THEY caused a shortage of voting machines in the affected district. Read more →

Liberal Press is creating Wuhan Virus panic by citing incomplete statistics

In my opinion, the liberal press is feeding panic about the WuFlu / Coronavirus / COVID virus by only citing virus cases and deaths, and not the number of those diagnosed, then recovered. That is BAD reporting. Read more →

Concerned about Water Quality in Lake County, FL's 1200 named lakes? Read this.

Get some info on water quality of lakes in Lake County, FL. The Lake County Water Authority had a meeting and among other things discussed reasons for Algal blooms in Lake Minneola. Read more →

Orlando Sentinel's Scott Maxwell asks that voters monitor LOCAL elections as much as National elections

Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell encouraged taxpayers to attend local city council and other local agency meetings to monitor what they are doing, and also monitor who are the best candidates for their local government agencies. Here are my additional ideas for reform of City Councils and policies. Read more →