The swap agreement has the potential to correct the negligently unfair wastewater funding disparity imposed on Key Largo taxpayer by the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC). It also has the potential to go very wrong and leave Key Largo taxpayers stuck.
In the past few years, the District has spent about $6 million on construction projects. Of that, approximately $4 million could have been funded by the $17 million from the state. (That would include almost $3 million for the aerobic digester project and nearly $1 million for the purchase and renovation of the administration building.)
Instead, those projects have been financed primarily by the District’s own resources. The District has only received $1 million from Monroe County so far as a result of the swap agreement. As of now, District ratepayers are down $3 million, and Monroe County owes them $16 million on the agreement alone. It’ll take another $9 million to correct the $26 million worth of financial damage caused by the funding disparity so far. Continue reading

Here’s an interesting one. Last week, the Free Press profiled
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Update: The FKAA responded right quick this time. I sent an email Sunday, got a response on Monday. This is new and different. Here’s a
Update: Yeah, copying the board members really seems to 