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Pembroke Pines commissioners spar over format and timing of Feb. 25 town hall
Summary
A dispute over Commissioner Jay Schwartz’s planned Feb. 25 town hall — focused by Schwartz on utilities in District 2 — turned into an extended exchange over Sunshine Law posting, staff resource requests and the political optics of holding a staged, single-speaker event 13 days before the March election. No formal enforcement motion passed.
Commissioner Jay Schwartz announced a Feb. 25 town hall he described as a district-level meeting on parks, utilities and other items and said he would present material already in the public record. City Manager Jacob Dodge told the commission he had received emails indicating large staff requests (video, curtains, staging) and asked whether the meeting could be moved to March to avoid the appearance of a political event so close to…
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