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Rescind the Landfill Purchase Manatee

Rescind the Landfill Purchase Manatee

Closed — 89 supporters Verified

Final supporters

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Eugene W.
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Sara D.
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Barbie B.
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Alicia M.
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William L.
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Lisa H.
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Samuel T.
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Rene K.
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Sophia M.
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Rosaura R.
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Started by Chris Gilbert 5 years, 10 months ago
On October 13th, the Manatee BOCC passed a landfill purchase motion and paid a premium that needs to be justified to the taxpayers. Please sign this petition to ask the BOCC to rescind its action and complete important documentation before revisiting its motion.

Updates

October 17, 2020

The board has been silent since the purchase motion passed. I am currently gathering documents to challenge the premium paid by taxpayers.

30 Comments

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Carol Ann Felts
5 years ago Featured

The BOCC has had years to negotiate a proper deal. Our County administrator has no authority to not utilize the proper dept in this purchase and do proper due diligence on such a large real estate deal.

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Chris Gilbert · petition starter
5 years ago Featured

The board's handling of the landfill purchase threatens public trust in all future acquisitions of land, including conservation land, which is essential to protecting our water and providing green space for people and habitat for animals. Rescind and do it right.

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Elizabeth Arnold
5 years ago Featured

The county should not be paying almost $190,000 per acre for land that is next to a landfill. Fix the infrastructure and only buy property that will appraise!!!

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George Kruse
5 years ago Featured

This is the most out-of-market, disingenuous contract I've seen in 20+ years of my commercial real estate experience.

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Lori A Campora
5 years ago Featured

Overpriced and there are other things that need to be addressed sooner than later, like sewage and drainage.

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Lori Wynn
5 years ago Featured

The very fact that these commissioners made such a decision without public input/approval is the very reason we need change on this board! Unacceptable!

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Ken Carpenter
5 years ago

What a waste of taxpayers money !!

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Debbie Stewart
5 years ago

Once again, bad decisions made by questionable people. When did you stop working for the people of our county? Did you ever start? Why are our tax dollars being spent on this? So many more things are needed! 86 this!!