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Residents urge rollback, audits and transparency during Miami Lakes budget workshop
Summary
Multiple residents and former officials pressed the council to avoid raising taxes, called for audits and for easier public access to budget documents and records.
Residents packed the chamber and urged council members to avoid a tax increase and to open budget documents and analyses to public review. Esperanza Reynolds told the council she and a bilingual group called Citizens Budget Auditors have been reviewing budget materials and asked the town to post a "budget season frequently asked questions" page with documents broken out for each year.
Reynolds said the town must provide the public the same information the council receives: "So we need to ask, how can we be intelligent and informed if we do…
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