? Consent Agenda ?Quasi-Judicial Public Hearing
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DEPARTMENT: Planning & Zoning
SUBMITTED BY: Laura McClelland
PRESENTED BY: Misty Servia
TITLE & DESCRIPTION:
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Ordinance / Dissolving the Oak Stone East Community Development District
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REQUESTED MOTION:
A motion to adopt/deny the proposed ordinance approving the dissolution of the Oak Stone East Community Development District (CDD).
SUMMARY:
The agenda request before the Board of County Commissioners is a petition to dissolve or terminate the existing 330.01-acre Oak Stone East Community Development District (CDD), approved by the Board in 2019. The applicant has requested the dissolution and pursuant to Florida Statutes Section 190.046(10), a CDD can be dissolved by a nonemergency ordinance of the local governmental entity that established the district.
BACKGROUND:
Since 1980, Community Development Districts (CDDs) have been used throughout Florida as cost-effective tools to develop, finance, and manage the infrastructure systems and services needed to support the development of new communities. There are over 1,000 CDDs in Florida.
A CDD is governed by a Board of Supervisors which is elected initially by the landowners, then begins transitioning to residents of the CDD after six years of operation and there are 250 qualified electors residing within the CDD boundaries. Like all municipal, county, state, and national elections, the Office of the Supervisor of Elections oversees the vote, and CDD Supervisors are subject to state ethics and financial disclosure laws. They basically serve as publicly elected officials. The CDD's business must be conducted in the "Sunshine," which means all meetings and records are open to the public. Public hearings are held on CDD assessments, and the CDD's budget is subject to annual independent audit.
Florida Statutes Section 190.011 provides for the general powers of a CDD. ...
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