Month: December 2020

Dear Commissioner Sullivan, Regarding your email below… My comments indeed take a critical view of the lack of thought and judgment supporting your December 9th vote to spend $1,600,000 for artificial turf fields, among other projects totaling $2,800,000, all of which has not been responsibly planned, is outside the budget process, and is paid for by accounting gimmicks. We can and should improve the condition and drainage of our multi-user playing fields for the benefit of Winter Park children. I fully support that objective and there are many ways to accomplish this for a small percentage of $2,800,000. Your spending…

Sorry to put a damper on our holiday cheer but I think every resident needs to know that our city commission just approved major spending initiatives with no strategic planning and no budget process. Please contact the Mayor and Commissioners and tell them to reverse the $2,800,000 spending decision they approved this past week. At the December 9th commission meeting, an Action Item titled “Discussion of financing of Ward Park and Mead Garden capital improvements” resulted in a vote of approval that committed $2,800,000 in new spending without any strategic planning, in depth analysis, or public budget process, and, they…