According to information I just received from the county attorney's office--county taxpayers have spent $87,040.00 in costs and fees defending Doug Underhill's various Federal and State Lawsuits currently working their way collectively through the courts.
These costs and fees were compiled in answer to a constituent's public records request. I asked for the information as well, and here it is below.
$87,040.00 and a ton of meetings, shade sessions, and gnashing of teeth..................what a waste.
And the meter is still running on some of these.
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Can that be justified as a valid public purpose to expend funds for that? Ask yourself that before approving an expenditure. He violated County policy and was told to stop the behavior by senior board colleagues in 2017 yet refused.
The board should discuss taking a vote to garnish his wages and ask him to do the right thing or take it from the discretionary funds at least.
The past D2 voters are the ones who did this to the rest of the County by reelecting him in 2018. Since he broke public record laws and violated ethics rules, the taxpayers at large should not be on the hook for his liability.
Sure would be better to spend taxpayer money to benefit citizens. Or employees.
Or outside agencies. Or infrastructure.
What a waste.
Total waste of taxpayer money. Total $ spent on the other 4 Commissioners' legal "fees" = $0
If your campaign donor (The Bears) would stop suing him, that would be great.
Maybe you could share the outcome of those legal cases.
Why not just make it clear that the constituent that requested this info was a Bear and he and the family business have donated heavily to your campaign. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
There is no way on God's green earth that this accurately reflects all the man hours wasted on defending him. This is light accounting on some of these line items and it's STILL 80K.
The next time somebody tells me that they don't think City Council should be "wasting 20,000 dollars on the Florida Power feasibility study," I'll send them here.
Bear donated to Underhills campaign the first time. Maybe he thought he would be a good candidate. It became crystal clear he was not. Underhill withheld public records and abused his position and more.
Read a docket not his fan club Facebook page posing as a government watchdog page.
How on earth could the city generate power and replace infrastructure after a catastrophic event. That feasibily study is bogus and a fool's errand. True the PSC would be the place to contact about rates and practices of FPL.
Put on the agenda to have him pay it. Or use the discretionary cost center he falsely claims to dim wits he is against.
Dim wit @ 123 can't you look it up. Notice no one answered you on farcebook. They don't want to expose themselves.
Clean up ur page
1204--If he would have turned over the requested public records instead of withholding them---none of this would have happened. If the appropriate legal authorities would have done something about this failure to produce the records requested, the lawsuits would not have happened. Put down the rock pipe and understand reality if you want to engage here. This isn't the facebook chat site/fanboy site.
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