Candidate Forum of Republican City Council Candidates in Lake County, FL for Nov. 2019 Elections
Channel: FiscalRangersFlorida
Date: 2019-09-12

Republican candidate forum for City Councils in Lake County, FL.

Held on Sept. 11, 2019, at the Mission Inn, Howey-in-the-Hills, FL
Coordinated by Andy Dubois of the Republican Liberty Caucus of Lake County. These Republican candidates will be on the Nov. 2019 ballot. (But the City Council positions are "non-partisan" so no party labels will be provided on the ballots.)  

Issues covered included:
- Justification of high millage rates or budgets.
- Discussion about the need for most cities to add video coverage of City Council and Planning & Zoning meetings like Eustis and Leesburg already provide.
- Issues about road funding or workforce housing. 
- Questionable annexation of rural properties for high-density developments that conflict with rural neighbors. 
- Lack of transparency in completely explaining the effects of increasing millage above the rollback rates, or increasing budgets with bonds, loans, etc.   What is reasonable debt?
 
Republican City Council candidates speaking included:

Clermont:
- Joe Gustafson - Seat 2
- Jim Purvis - Seat 2
- Ebo Entsuah - Seat 4

Groveland, FL:
- Mike Smith - Dist. 4

Minneola, FL:
- Paul Giacolone - Seat 5
- Joseph Saunders - Seat 5

Mount Dora, FL
- Nick Girone - Mayor

Tavares, FL
- David Boylston - Seat 2
- Lou Buigas - Seat 2
- James Sweezea - Seat 2
- Robert Wolfe - Seat 2
- Walter Price - Seat 4
- Troy Singer - Seat 4

Montverde
- Allan Hartle - Councilemember

Video by Lake County Fiscal Watchdog blogger Vance Jochim of FiscalRangers.com. 
This video is 5gb in size, and is 1 hour, 24 min. long. 
Short link to this video is:  https://youtu.be/BwJyEAi4sfc

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