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Infrastructure Oversight board asks for standardized reporting; commission directs municipalities to implement recommendations
Summary
The Infrastructure Surtax Oversight Board recommended standardized questionnaires and enhanced auditing for municipalities receiving surtax revenue. The county commission voted to accept the board's recommendations and directed staff to request municipalities implement them.
The Infrastructure Surtax Oversight Board (ISOB) presented recommendations to the Alachua County Commission on May 13 aimed at improving monitoring and accountability for infrastructure-surtax dollars distributed to municipalities.
Eric Drummond, chair of the ISOB, told the commission the board's review of how municipalities track and report surtax funds found inconsistent approaches across jurisdictions. Drummond said the board's work identified variation in technical capability, software and accounting practices that make it difficult to compare…
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