Comments on: Commissioner Proposes Efficiency Study to Cut Tax Burden, Streamline County Operations

By: Norah

Norah — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:37:51 +0000

Unbelievable! I worked all my life to buy a home. Now I live off Social Security on less than $1,400 per month. They went up on the fire tax. Now they are running schools that have no students and again went up on our property tax. Now of all things, they want to spend millions on studies. Take the millions you want to throw away and come down on our property tax. Vote these people out! They are useless! I’m tired of starving and eating bread and butter sandwiches. It’s a shame.

By: MR REALITY

MR REALITY — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 06:01:43 +0000

GREAT. If she needs a million dollar study THEN Lumon will need three, million dollar studies and Barry will need at least 2 million dollar studies for their districts…

By: Luigi

Luigi — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:56:26 +0000

Why pay for another expensive study report . Reduce taxes , increase efficiency in operations , support homestead tax exception . They all voted for tax increase , so actions matter . We the people are paying more for less . Broken tax system . Tax revenue is not a politician piggy bank . Wasting money on a paper pusher report creates an expenditure , not revenue .

By: Bonnie Exner

Bonnie Exner — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 04:38:29 +0000

One way to reduce taxes.is for our county commissioners to stop engaging in frivolous lawsuits. Over $10,000,000+ of taxpayers monies were spent on losing lawsuits…because our commissioners don’t have to spend their own personal monies because of their position, there should be a ruling that if they are on the losing end of a lawsuit, they personally must reimburse the expenses to the county budget.

By: Frank

Frank — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 02:41:02 +0000

Could have started before the$34M fire Tax increase.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:49:59 +0000

Looks as though all of the commentators here need to run for county commission, since they have all of the answers.

By: katherine lindley

katherine lindley — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:04:20 +0000

she is one of the commissioners that added mega bucks to the taxes this year. mine went up $120 more then it ever was; fire protection went from 125 to 220. . now she wants to spend a million dollars to figure out how to help with taxes. REALLY; she was NOT voted in; she was assigned the seat by desantis. not surprised she wants to saddle us with more taxes; like when desantis let FPL to come up here and triple our rates over night for 3 YEARS, even though that company made over 150 million in profit that year. . they keep saying they want to drop property taxes and then they raise the rates. RHINO.

By: RW

RW — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:29:52 +0000

VOTE THEM OUT ALL OF THEM

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 20:20:47 +0000

“ I’m from the government and I’m here to help you “ .

By: Voices in Pensacola

Voices in Pensacola — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 17:37:08 +0000

Can the department directors not identify means to accomplish “streamlining” in house? Of course they can. The directors are not blind to making things efficient! They are highly intelligent people. There is absolutely no justification to hire a consulting firm to increase efficiency without tapping their expertise first.

If high taxes are of such great concern, much of the problem lies in the fact that the Florida Legislature has enabled voters to have tax breaks and exemptions for dozens of reasons. (We all get a flyer on these breaks each year in our Homestead Exemption receipt mailer each January.) When one specialty group gets a break or an exemption, it simply raises tax burdens on all remaining parties.