Dozens of fed-up residents swarmed this week’s Citrus County Board of County Commissioners meeting to demand their leaders come clean about a shady $3 million funding request made behind the public’s back.
The county administrator and commission chair apparently tried to score state money for a private development without telling the rest of the board – a revelation that has ignited a local scandal.
Citizens lined up with prepared statements, blasting the officials for subverting transparency and betraying the public trust.
Drama Meter: 9.0. This level of dysfunction is undermining local governance to a comical degree. When your own voters are accusing you of backroom deals in open session, any talk of “economic development” in Citrus is dead on arrival until trust is restored.
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