Lake County, FL Legislative Delegation Jan. 9, 2023 Annual event, in Leesburg, FL - 40+ speakers
Channel: FiscalRangersFlorida
Date: 2023-01-15

This is the big, annual Lake County, FL Legislators' Delegation meeting of the three Florida House Reps. and our single FL Senator to listen to agencies and groups and individuals asking them to support or fund various issues.  The meeting was held at Leesburg's Venetian Center. Details about the meeting are in the agenda attached in our FiscalRangers.com pre-meeting post at:  https://www.fiscalrangers.com/2023/01/alert-mon-jan-9-2023-lake-county-fl-legislators-delegation-meets-9-1-in-leesburg.html 

The annual event was administered this year by Aline Guy who works for Rep. Keith Truenow in his Tavares office. He was the Chair for this meeting.  The legislation delegation (LegDel) included Senator Dennis Baxley, FL House Reps. Keith Truenow, Stan McClain (new), and Taylor Yarkosky (also new).

Some notable results of this meeting:  
- They elected Sen Dennis Baxley as the new chair of the delegation, and Rep Taylor Yarkosky as Vice Chair for 2023.
- They passed a proposed "local bill" affecting only Lake County that set rules for Rural Protection Areas.  You can see a copy of that bill and background also on the pre-meeting notice linked above. 
- About 43 public speakers talked about their issues and requested actions.  The Delegation members rarely had questions and did not make any decisions regarding the presented issues.  This was a listening session. Experienced speakers will follow up with emails, calls or visits with the legislators, even at their Tallahassee office. 
- Three speakers from the Lake County Election Integrity Committee spoke starting at about 1 hour, and 38 minutes, starting with Sue Parent.
- The publisher of this video and the FiscalRangers.com fiscal watchdog blog spoke on "Florida the Huckster State" at 2:14.  
- If you want to see the handouts given to the Delegation members, you should be able to call any of their offices and ask them to visit and view the binder that was prepared for them that contains any handouts submitted by the prior Friday. 

Video by Lake County, FL Fiscal Watchdog blogger Vance Jochim of FiscalRangers.com.  
A short link to this video is:  https://youtu.be/YGrmzcRFgks 
The length of video is:  2 hours, 33 min
The video filename is:  2023-01-09 Legdel Leesburg.mp4   
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