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DeBary legislative director warns state bills could reduce city revenue and constrain local land-use rules
Summary
Sherry Simmons, DeBary’s director of communications and government affairs, told the council that multiple pending state bills could cut municipal revenues, limit home-rule on growth and reduce stormwater protections; she also summarized federal budget outcomes affecting earmarks and grant availability.
Sherry Simmons, director of communications, economic development and government affairs for the City of DeBary, delivered a legislative briefing on federal and state bills that she said could affect the city’s revenues and land-use authority.
Simmons explained the federal budget situation and its local implications: “They passed a very long CR until March 14…What actually happened is something that had the smallest odds, and that is they passed a budget for the rest of the fiscal year till September of 2025,” she said, adding that projects with unobligated earmarks from FY24 can lose remaining funds. She also warned that the FEMA Homeland Security Grant Program was being curtailed, affecting mitigation funding the city had been tracking.
The nut graf: Simmons said…
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