Winter Park Voice Partners on Upcoming Voters Guide with Local News Outlets
The Voters Guide is the latest project of the News Collaborative of Central Florida, which is endeavoring to work together to bring more people high-quality local news
July 13, 2026
Staff
The Winter Park Voice is partnering with six other local news outlets to create a voters guide for the primary election on Aug. 18 and the general election on Nov. 3.
The project is part of the News Collaborative of Central Florida, a group of independent local news organizations and aligned partners working toward a more informed and engaged Central Florida.
The Voters Guide aligns with the mission of the nonprofit Winter Park Voice, which aims to provide its readers with high-quality reporting about their local government and matters that influence life in Winter Park.
“At the Winter Park Voice, we serve an audience who cares deeply about local civic and political happenings and this collaboration will help us deliver more of the election coverage our readers deserve,” said Winter Park Voice Editor Beth Kassab. “Our regional News Collaborative is still new, and many people are still learning about it, but it’s already showing how our news organizations can combine resources in ways that we hope make a bigger impact than any one of us could make on our own.”
The news organizations collaborated to create questionnaires for candidates in federal, state, county and judicial races to answer. Questions range from asking candidates what are their top issues, how they would address affordability and even where they stand on Florida’s proposed constitutional amendment on property tax reductions.
In the most recent episode of Talking Central Florida, a podcast funded by the News Collaborative, host Steve Mort and Sentinel Executive Editor Roger Simmons discuss the Voters Guide. Pictured is Mort (right) with Donovan Myrie from WKMG News 6, from the same episode, who discussed Florida’s new approach to tax holidays and whether changes adopted by the Legislature in 2025 could have an unintended impact on hurricane preparedness.
The goal is to give more people access to the candidates’ positions in their own words on the topics that matter most to people in Central Florida.
The city of Winter Park doesn’t have any races on the August or November ballots — those occur in March. But voters in Winter Park will play an important role in deciding races for Orange County Mayor, School Board Chair, Clerk of Court, judicial races and the Orange Soil and Water Conservation District on top of this year’s open race for the next Florida governor and other state and federal seats.
“This is the first time we have news outlets in our region cooperating to create a guide to help voters make informed choices at the polls,” Sentinel Executive Editor Roger Simmons said. “It’s really extraordinary to see these newsrooms come together to work on an important project like this.”
Candidates have already been contacted several times to respond to the questionnaire. If a candidate does not respond, it will be noted in the voters guide. The news organizations may then try to answer the questions for the candidates from information posted on campaign sites or social media.
“Of course our preference is for all candidates to answer themselves,” Simmons said, “but it may be telling for voters to see who responded and who did not.”
The goal is for the voters guide to publish by the end of July, in time for early voting and primary election day on Aug. 18.
The News Collaborative of Central Florida was a result of the Central Florida Journalism Ecosystem Summit, created in 2024 by Central Florida Public Media, Central Florida Foundation and Oviedo Community News. Collaborative members worked together last year on a project focusing on the impact of the state’s homeless camping ban.
Commission Approves Contract for Next City Manager Michelle del Valle
Randy Knight will retire from the post in January after 19 years in the role
July 9, 2026
By Beth Kassab
The City Commission this week quietly approved the contract for Michelle del Valle to take over as city manager when Randy Knight retires early next year.
The city will pay del Valle $290,000 a year plus benefits including a $775 monthly car allowance and memberships to two civic organizations or other clubs of her choosing, according to the contract approved without discussion as part of the commission’s consent agenda on Wednesday.
Knight, who has a similar contract, is projected to earn $294,000 a year by the time he leaves the post in January after 19 years in the role and more than 30 years with the city.
Commissioners voted unanimously in April to name del Valle, who has served as assistant city manager since 2008, as his successor. She is projected to earn $263,665 in her current job.
Winter Park has a city manager form of government, which means the person in that job sets the tone and oversees every department — from the $247 million budget to parks to police and fire rescue — helming more than 500 employees. The elected commissioners set policy, but the manager is responsible for overseeing the execution of that policy.
Del Valle is slated to take over the top role in January.
Orange School Board Looking to Ban Electric Scooters and Bikes at Elementary and Middle Campuses
Talk of the proposed ban came this week as cities like Winter Park are attempting to finalize their own micromobility ordinances ahead of the start of the school year
July 9, 2026
By Gabrielle Russon
Orange County Public Schools board members appear poised to ban electric bikes and scooters at elementary and middle schools while only allowing high schoolers with driver’s licenses to ride them.
The board met during a Tuesday workshop to discuss a proposed policy as cities like Winter Park are also crafting new rules aimed at stopping more crashes from happening. The school board did not take any action Tuesday but could vote on the final policy at a July 28 meeting ahead of the 2026-27 school year in August.
“If we can do something to make our community safer, I believe a ban on micromobility devices coming to and from school is a way to do that,” said Board Member Melissa Byrd.
Board Member Angie Gallo, who is running for chairwoman of the school board, called banning them at elementary school “an absolutely no-brainer” but was more hesitant about prohibiting high school students because she feared it might be government overreach.
“We’re banning something that their parents bought for them,” said Gallo, adding she needed more time to make her decision before she supported restrictions for teenagers.
Angie Gallo
Banning e-scooters and e-bikes for just elementary students but not middle school students could be a “hot mess” in the handful of K-8 schools across the district, added board Member Alicia Farrant who is also running for the board chairwoman role and supported only allowing high schoolers with driver’s licenses to ride them.
Outgoing Gov. Ron DeSantis vetoed a bill last month that some viewed as a first step in addressing the problem. The Legislature does not reconvene until March, so local governments and schools are moving ahead to set their own policies and ordinances without guidance from the state.
Winter Park city commissioners voiced support again at their own meeting this week for adopting their own ordinance before the start of the school year in August, though the proposal hasn’t been finalized yet.
Commissioner Craig Russell, who works at Winter Park High School, said he hopes Winter Park can help set a standard for the state with rules that enforce safety without leaving kids with traffic citations on their records. Winter Garden, in West Orange County, already has an ordinance in place that affects the West Orange Trail that runs through its downtown.
For 90 minutes, OCPS school board members debated what was the appropriate age to allow riding e-bikes and e-scooters. Some questioned who should take the first step to regulate the electric devices — the school district, local governments or the state?
“We can’t control the sidewalks or the roads leading up to the campus,” said Gallo, who supported the district’s push to educate students on road rules. “In my mind, this is a county and a city issue that they need to deal with and provide ordinances that we would follow along with and adhere to. But just us banning them, I don’t think that that makes kids more safe on the roads as they move around Orange County.”
Board Member Stephanie Vanos, who represents Winter Park schools, agreed that the district should lean on local governments to lead on policy decisions. However Vanos viewed the safety situation as too urgent not to act now.
“I’m also honestly just not willing to wait for it,” Vanos said.
In the wake of DeSantis vetoing the bill, Farrant said the district should take the lead.
“We can either point fingers or hope somebody else does it,” Farrant said. “We need to rise up as leaders and do what we can to do our part.”
“We still can only lead so far,” OCPS Board Chair Teresa Jacobs countered as she said she hoped the state would pass a law. “An electric vehicle ought to be regulated similarly to a car.”
The recommendations were discussed at an Orange County School Board work session earlier this week.
Stephanie Vanos
OCPS’ proposed policy would also completely ban modified or Class 3 e-bikes that go faster than 28 miles an hour.
Charging the devices on campus would also not be allowed for safety and fire prevention.
The older students eligible to ride e-bikes and e-scooters would need to register with school administrators.
Superintendent Maria Vazquez warned it would be up to school staff to enforce the rules and oversee the permits.
“I’ve had a few conversations with some principals that see this is going to be a burden because they do not have the staff to follow through and monitor this the way it needs to be,” Vazquez said.
The district will also need to add better signs and more storage and parking for students to park their e-bikes and e-scooters as well as create a safety video.
Alicia Farrant
“From an education standpoint, we are developing a comprehensive informational video for parents and students to improve awareness and micromobility safety, district expectations and responsible use of e-bikes and e-scooters,” said Joe Silvestris, the district’s senior director of the safety and emergency management department.
Some school board members were skeptical the district’s proposed policy could meaningfully solve the problem on campuses.
“Who is regulating it? Who is standing at the door ensuring that the kids riding up have the permit?” Farrant said. “When I’m going out and about, the kids are running through stop signs as if they own the road. … I don’t know that a little video is going to really fix the problem.”
OCPS’ action comes as school districts across the country and state are tackling the issue in different ways, Silvestris said.
Some districts have banned e-bikes and e-scooters completely while others prohibit the class of high-speed electric devices, he said. Schools that allow them require students to dismount on campus entrances and walk them to parking storage areas, he added.
“Schools are experiencing significant increase in student use of e-bikes, e-scooters, and other micromobility devices,” Silvestris said. “This rapid growth has contributed to a rise in injuries and near-miss incidents on and off our school campuses.”
Already the district drafted an incident reporting and data tracking process to better understand the scope of the problem at OCPS and established a working group with principals to share feedback and look at the challenges, Silvestris said.
Orange County and city of Orlando representatives attended Tuesday’s school workshop with Jacobs saying, “Our entire community has a stake in this.”
The attorney and Winter Park resident said he would like to preserve the house. The real estate agent for the sellers said the offer was too low.
July 6, 2026
By Beth Kassab
Matt Morgan, the Morgan & Morgan attorney who lives in a home on Winter Park’s Historic Register, said he made a verbal offer of $10 million last year to purchase the entire Merrywood lot and reinitiated the offer last week with, he said, the intention of preserving the nearly 90-year-old estate that is significant because of its age and as the largest and most ornate home built by architect James Gamble Rogers II.
Mick Night, the real estate agent handling the transaction, said the sellers considered Morgan’s offer to be too low. He said he didn’t include the information in his discussion with the commission because he never had a conversation with Morgan about saving Merrywood.
“There was never a discussion with Matt about preserving the house a year ago,” Night said. “His offer was for the land.”
Morgan agreed that such a discussion did not take place. He added that his offer at the time was not contingent on a lot split and that he is interested in seeing the home maintained.
Lakefront lot splits are generally prohibited by Winter Park, which is why the amendment to the comprehensive plan is required. The change requires a second vote after the state takes 45 to 60 days to review the amendment, likely landing the next time the City Commission considers the matter sometime in August.
A greenlight for the lot split would pave the way for the old house to be demolished — a demolition permit is already active and set to expire Aug. 31 — and two new lakefront homes to be built in its place.
“They [the City Commission] heard there’s no other options … yes there is,” Morgan told the Voice after reading news stories about the vote. “If I see a bulldozer pull up to that house and I didn’t say something, it would bother me.”
Commissioners were told that more than 100 people toured Merrywood and not a single person was willing to purchase and preserve the home because it was too expensive, required too much work or both. Commissioners heard about the attempts to market and sell the estate from one of the sellers as well as the prospective buyer who has the property under a contract that is contingent on the lot split receiving final approval and Night, the Sotheby’s real estate agent who represents them both.
Morgan walked through the home with Night nearly a year ago in early August just as the property became available. Morgan said that a short time later he sent Night a voice memorandum communicating the $10 million offer that he says was not contingent on a lot split. By the time Morgan heard back from Night, he said it was early September and Night told him that that the property went under contract shortly after Morgan toured the estate.
That contract belongs to Tara Tedrow, the land use attorney with the Lowndes law firm who grew up next door to Merrywood and applied for the comprehensive plan change that would allow the lot to be split in two so that she could build a home for her family on one portion while the other is sold.
Night said $10 million was too low for Cathy and Raymond Gilmer, the siblings who inherited the property when their parents, who had lived in the home since 1977, died.
“That was not a number the Gilmers, last summer or anytime since then, have ever been open to selling the property for,” Night said.
Night declined to give the price of Tedrow’s contract on the lot. During a public city work session on June 22 he estimated the land value of the lot to be in the range of $13 million to $15 million.
Night told the City Commission that, while he never listed the home on the MLS, more than 100 people toured the property, including what he estimated to be 15 to 20 people qualified to make such a high-dollar purchase and that none offered to preserve Merrywood.
“All left the property shaking their head, hands in their face,” Night said during a June 22 work session with the City Commission. “They just don’t see it. We haven’t had traction with one buyer.”
Two days later at the regular Commission meeting, Mayor Sheila DeCiccio asked Night: “Is there anyone interested in purchasing that home?”
He replied, “The answer is no. Not one of the viable buyers, much less anyone else, left that house and said, ‘Wow, there’s so much potential here.'”
Night told the Voice on Monday that his comments at the commission meetings intended to convey that he didn’t receive what he considered to be “bona fide offers.”
“There have been many offers,” he said, but none have been “anywhere near reality” on price.
At one point in the June 24 meeting, Tedrow suggested that the price of the Merrywood portion alone would be about $12 million if the lot was split. It’s unclear how that figure is reconciled with Night’s estimate that the land value of the entire lot is at least $13 million.
Morgan said if the city allows the lot split without assurance that the house is preserved then “the city gives everything and gets nothing in return.”
“If the city voted to allow this, they are voting to allow all residents to split lots in the future and get nothing in return,” Morgan said. “It would be one thing if there was some type of meaningful consideration for the city in exchange for the lot split, most notably, preservation of a very important historic home to the city. However, as currently contemplated, in my opinion — the buyers would likely make a meaningful profit and the people (the city) would get nothing in return.”
Morgan isn’t inexperienced when it comes to historic homes. He spent $10.5 million in 2022 for a house that sits on about 3 acres on Winter Park’s Lake Maitland, according to property appraiser records. The 1926 home was designed by Maurice Kressly, another notable local architect, and was placed on the city’s historic register in 2002 by previous owners. It is larger than Merrywood at about 10,000 square feet.
He told the Voice that his original $10 million offer for the entire Merrywood lot still stands and that he made a second $5.5 million offer on Friday to purchase a portion of the lot and preserve Merrywood.
“I think it’s important to the community that the home not be torn down,” Morgan said in a text message to Night on Friday that he shared with the Voice. “For that reason, I am offering to purchase the Merrywood estate for 5.5M. We can split the lot at 1.835 acres each parcel and the current contingency contract holders can build their home on their 1.835 acre lot. I will make a covenant to the city that I will not tear the house down … Alternatively, my offer for 10 million for the entire parcel stands.”
It would be difficult or impossible, according to documents filed with the city and public discussion, to split the lot exactly in half with a straight line from Palmer Avenue to the lake without removing a portion of the Merrywood house that was added on in the 1960s as well as a portion of the swimming pool.
Morgan said if he purchased the entire lot he would also want the ability to split it in the future, but his interest didn’t hinge on that.
“I said of course I’d love that optionality [of a lot split] if I could get it, but it’s such incredible land and such an incredible house that wasn’t a contingency for me,” Morgan said.
He agreed the home is in need of a lot of work and would be expensive to restore. He said if he was the buyer he would look to renovate Merrywood over a number of years and not right away.
The chairman of the board of Friends of Casa Feliz, a group that advocates for preservation and worked with Tedrow and Night to get the word out about the house in hopes of finding a buyer, said news of Morgan’s offer is “extraordinarily encouraging.”
“It demonstrates what many preservation advocates have said from the beginning: Merrywood can be saved, and there is a real market in Winter Park for significant historic properties,” said a statement from Chairman John Bill.
He urged the City Commission to make saving Merrywood a condition of the approval of a lot split.
“To reward the demolition of this resource, now that there is a demonstrated buyer, with a change to our comp plan without requiring designation, would be unconscionable,” the statement said.
At the end of the discussion during the June 24 commission meeting, Tedrow said the sellers were willing to wait until the next vote before they demolish the house even though they are permitted to do so anytime.
DeCiccio said the agreement would “give another 45 to 60 days for someone to come forward for that property and purchase it and designate it historic so we’re buying more time.”
It remains to be seen if Morgan’s offer will be enough, if another buyer will step forward or if Merrywood will be the latest Gamble Rogers house to be reduced to photographs in an archive.
Night and Morgan are planning to meet to discuss the property.
Safety Rules for Electric Bikes and Scooters Vetoed by Gov. Ron DeSantis
Improving safety regulations, especially near schools, is a priority in cities like Winter Park where officials have already begun drafting their own ordinance
July 3, 2026
By Gabrielle Russon
Some local officials expressed surprise and frustration after Gov. Ron DeSantis recently vetoed a bipartisan bill considered an important step in tackling the epidemic of electric bike and scooter crashes.
DeSantis’ decision came less than two months after a 13-year-old boy was killed in Orlando’s Lake Nona area while riding his e-scooter to buy Mother’s Day flowers.
Without a statewide safety law, rules will fall to local governments like Winter Park, which has already begun drafting an ordinance that city officials say they want in place before the start of the school year in August.
Roads near schools are of particular concern to local officials because so many students use e-bikes and e-scooters on a daily basis.
“We know they’re dangerous. We know they’re killing students. And so I’m not sure why we needed to delay taking any action knowing how dangerous they are. … All of us were hoping that we would get some guidance from the state,” said Orange County School Board Member Stephanie Vanos, who represents Winter Park. “It just doesn’t seem like the governor cares all that much about what’s happening to our kids.”
Senate Bill 382 won unanimous approval from the Legislature in March, but DeSantis has expressed concerns it could lead to more police surveillance and bring unintended consequences.
“What it will lead to is more surveillance of people by law enforcement and we don’t need that. I think there were problems with it,” DeSantis said when he spoke to journalists late last month during a press conference. “Certainly, I don’t want to do anything that’s going to lead to more surveillance.”
Winter Park City Commissioner Warren Lindsey said he would prefer cities draft the new regulations for their specific needs instead of the state imposing one set of rules for all of its 23 million people.
“My opinion is that it’s better to regulate that by local ordinance rather than state statute,” Lindsey said. “In a time when you’ve got preemption, where the state’s taken away local governments’ ability to regulate anything, this one is good because what works in Winter Park may not work in Maitland. What works in Winter Park may not work in Orlando or Ocoee so I’m in favor of local ordinance.”
Winter Park is developing an e-bike and e-scooter ordinance with the goal of rolling it out before school starts on Aug. 11, said Lindsey, who was the only city commissioner who responded to an interview request for this story.
Some of the potential regulations could includesetting a speed limit for e-scooters and e-bikes on sidewalks, increasing the helmet age requirement from 16 to 18 years old and imposing fines for those who break the rules.
Winter Park Commissioner Craig Russell, who is also a teacher at Winter Park High, held a community meeting about e-bike safety earlier this year and has advocated for a local ordinance. School Board member Stephanie Vanos (third from left) sat on the panel.
Lindsey, whose day job is a criminal defense lawyer, called e-bikes and e-scooters “definitely a public safety issue.” However, he said he is mindful that minors don’t end up with traffic records as the city drafts a policy.
“The purpose of the proposed regulations are not intended in any way to be punitive to children but rather to be educational and to protect them because they’re inexperienced and to educate them on proper and safe operation of e-bikes and scooters,” he said.
In 2025, nearly 500 e-bike and e-scooter crashes were reported in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties, according to MetroPlan, Central Florida’s regional transportation planning organization.
MetroPlan is focused on working with local governments, like Winter Park, to lower those statistics.
“We were expecting for some action to be taken at the state level, but I would say that the fact that it didn’t pass isn’t significantly changing how we were planning to proceed as an agency for metropolitan Orlando,” said Lara Bouck, MetroPlan project development manager.
The group is considering whether to draft a model ordinance to help local governments. Bouck said she hopes a Winter Park representative joins a working group expected to take on that task.
“The intent there is to give each of our municipalities, including Winter Park, a starting point that they can sort of pivot off of if they’re going to adopt their own ordinances, which I think will be a priority now that nothing passed at the state level,” Bouck said.
MetroPlan also launched a pilot program offering a free rider safety online course for parents at selected schools.
If DeSantis had signed SB 382 into law it would have required all law enforcement agencies across Florida to document micromobility device crashes the same way and record crash date, time and rider’s age or if the rider has a valid Florida learner’s driver license or regular license as well as other information.
The challenge is law enforcement agencies currently don’t report crashes in a uniform way, making it hard to understand the big picture.
Another provision in the bill would have allowed police to write $30 nonmoving traffic violations if an e-bike goes faster than 10 mph within 50 feet of pedestrians.
“I understand law enforcement has a job,” DeSantis said. “Do we really want to have policing of e-bikes? Are you going 10 miles or eight miles? I think it was a little bit of overreach.”
The bill would also have created a statewide task force to propose recommendations by Oct. 1 how to regulate “micromobility devices” like e-scooters and e-bikes.
Vanos acknowledged the bill wasn’t “perfect” but said it was “moving us in the right direction.”
She testified in Tallahassee during the Legislative Session to urge lawmakers to give schools representation on the task force.
Both Vanos and Orange County Commissioner Kelly Martinez Semrad, who represents Winter Park, said improving safety also means addressing bigger infrastructure challenges in communities.
“Devices that can reach higher sustained speeds are increasingly being operated in mixed-use environments—roads, sidewalks, and multi-use trails—without consistent rules, training requirements, or clear expectations for right-of-way behavior,” Martinez Semrad wrote on social media Thursday. “The result is a preventable risk environment: faster vehicles, denser shared spaces, and no modernized regulatory framework to govern how they interact.”
Gov. Ron DeSantis Vetoes Winter Park Police Request but Allows Mead Garden Project
Sen. Jason Brodeur said the decisions follow the governor’s preference for regional impact over budget items that he may view as favoring one city
July 3, 2026
By Gabrielle Russon
The city of Winter Park scored an environmental victory and took a public safety hit as Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the new $117.6 billion state budget this week.
DeSantis vetoed $62,500 for Winter Park Police to buy more security barriers to protect crowds at outdoor public events. Meanwhile, $500,000 escaped DeSantis’ veto pen to fund a water clean-up project at Mead Garden that will leave an impact on the greater region’s environment.
“We were disappointed to learn the city’s Police Department Vehicle Threat Mitigation project was included as one of the $1.7 billion projects vetoed by the Governor,” Winter Park Mayor Sheila DeCiccio said in a statement. “We are, however, grateful for the approval of the Mead Garden Regional Nutrient Reduction grant that remained funded at $500,000. This grant will meaningfully support the city’s efforts to regionally improve water quality throughout the interconnected lake systems of Winter Park and Maitland, benefiting both Orange and Seminole counties.”
State Sen. Jason Brodeur, R-Sanford, who sponsored both funding requests on the Senate side, elaborated why he thought the Governor vetoed the $62,500.
“I’m disappointed for the community, but I think it speaks to the Governor’s focus on truly regional needs over a request by a single municipality, favoring projects that benefit multiple municipalities, like a watershed project. It’s not always the case but that is what was portrayed to me,” Brodeur said in a statement.
Last year, Winter Park Police previously received $62,500 from the state and bought security barriers — a trailer with eight barriers and a gate — that will protect Watermelon 5K runners and Fourth of July event-goers this weekend.
Winter Park Police Chief Tim Volkerson said he had been hopeful to receive the same amount of money this year to buy more barricades.
“We will continue to seek alternative funding opportunities to acquire equipment to enhance community safety for our public events,” Volkerson said in a statement. “This is a continuous process as technology and the landscape of public safety evolves.
Barriers purchased by Winter Park Police last year help protect pedestrians and businesses along Park Avenue during special events. (Photo courtesy of Winter Park Police)
Winter Park City Commissioner Warren Lindsey shared the same sentiment that he was dismayed about the police funding veto.
“It was a very practical and necessary security protection that would really benefit thousands of citizens, not just Winter Park citizens, but citizens throughout Central Florida that attend different concerts and events around and in Central Park,’ Lindsey said in an interview. “Anything that we can do to enhance their protection is just a win for everybody and it helps provide peace of mind.”
Lindsey also said he was thankful DeSantis did not axe the $500,000 to filter excessive nutrients from Alice’s Pond in Mead Garden.
“It’s really one of our crown jewels of Winter Park,’ Lindsey said of Mead Garden.
He thanked Brodeur and state Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando, who had sponsored the funding in a bipartisan effort.
DeSantis vetoed about half of Eskamani’s projects, according to Eskamani, who is often a fierce critic of the governor.
Eskamani said she was grateful the Mead Garden funding survived, calling it a crucial non-partisan issue to protect the environment. She had also been optimistic it would advance because DeSantis himself has campaigned on water quality through his term, she said.
“This is going to be a really important investment,” Eskamani said. “All of our bodies of water are interconnected, and when we’re able to create improvements with one of these major parks, it absolutely will impact the entire community.”
Ahead of the DeSantis vetoes, the Florida TaxWatch criticized state lawmakers for sponsoring $380 million worth of water projects in the state budget which the group dubbed as “budget turkeys” in its annual report. The group said its opposition wasn’t targeting the value of the water projects but the budget process itself since the lawmakers-supported projects circumvented a formal, competitive review.
When asked about Florida TaxWatch’s criticism, Eskamani said, “I definitely think there can always be more transparency in the state budget.”
She added, “With that said, water projects tend to be some of the most important projects with a lot of merit” and argued Florida needs more grants for inland communities to clean up their lakes and rivers.
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