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Bond counsel tells Temple Terrace council public funds cannot be used to promote referendum; elected officials may speak personally
Summary
Bryant Miller Olive bond counsel advised council May 5 that a 2009 statute—amended in 2022—permits factual dissemination about a ballot question historically but now bars use of public funds to broadcast information about a referendum; council members may speak personally and staff may provide factual information in certain public-forum settings.
Christopher Row of Bryant Miller Olive, the city's bond counsel, briefed the Temple Terrace City Council on May 5 about legal limits on what the city may say about an upcoming general-obligation bond referendum.
Row explained that the earlier statute once allowed cities to transmit factual informational materials about referenda (for example, utility-bill stuffers or public-forum presentations) so long as the…
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