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Winter Springs advisory committee to hold January meeting after residents press for five‑year maintenance plan
Summary
Residents urged the Winter Springs assessment-district committee to adopt a short-, mid- and long-term five-year plan to justify future assessment increases; Finance Director Holly Queen reported an unaudited fund balance of about $1.16 million and staff proposed a special planning meeting in mid‑January to map priorities.
Residents and committee members on Tuesday pressed the Winter Springs Assessment District Advisory Committee to publish a clear five-year maintenance and repair plan before asking for future assessment increases.
At a public-input segment, resident Art Gallo urged the committee to itemize the district’s needs — monuments, signs, landscaping and fountains — and assign short-, mid- and long-term priorities so residents can see where money will be spent. Tim Lonsbury, treasurer of the Howell Creek Reserve Homeowners Association, said a visible plan would make future rate requests easier to justify to the…
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