Everyone's mind is on storm recovery and dysfunction within the property insurance market(s) in the state of Florida post-Hurricane Ian. That issue will be discussed heavily in the upcoming special session of the state legislature in early December.
So we will probably discuss Insurance matters on Monday.
I also want to talk about getting more power from the state to curb the ongoing, incessant littering we find ourselves dealing with in our County. We clean it up, citizens dump more out of their car windows, over and over the cycle repeats. I get a lot of calls on this so I am assuming my peers do as well. So we will discuss the idea of working with the state to allow us to up the penalty for littering locally at our discretion. Currently, this is a highly controlled area of governance where the state has usurped our ability to independently enforce and or set our own penalty amounts. An interesting discussion of this issue occurred in February of 2021 and can be heard at minutes 9:45 and 12:45 of this video.
I'm certain we will also be discussing the area of getting state reimbursement for state prisoners we house in our Jail--as this is something that costs local taxpayers lots of money and for which we have not been reimbursed.
Other topics of interest will certainly be discussed, and this should be a productive meeting this Monday at 1:00.
