BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. — Broward County Mayor Beam Furr says the county is dedicated to transparency and compliance, whilst Florida’s governor alerts it might be among the many subsequent native governments focused for monetary scrutiny beneath a brand new state regulation.
Gov. Ron DeSantis not too long ago mentioned the state plans to “Doge 10 to fifteen extra counties and cities,” pointing particularly to South Florida jurisdictions.
Whereas talking about Miami-Dade, DeSantis mentioned: “We have now had some cooperation, I suppose you’d say some cooperation … I feel it’s very potential that you simply see an announcement on Miami-Dade, inside the subsequent couple weeks.”
Furr, talking remotely with This Week in South Florida host Glenna Milberg, mentioned he was canoeing when the information broke.
When requested concerning the worth of economic oversight, Furr agreed it has benefit.
“It’s all the time good to just be sure you’re doing the most effective job potential. We do our personal scrutinizing,” he mentioned. “We have now an auditor full time to take a look at each contract and search for any anomalies. It’s nothing new and if there’s anyplace we are able to do higher, we’ll.”
DeSantis mentioned this week there’s “some criticism with the way Broward County has operated,” although he didn’t specify the supply or nature of that criticism.
“It sounds fairly nameless to me, to be trustworthy,” Furr mentioned. “Once they determined to undertake these for the state, I suppose my first thought was they might do it just like the federal authorities did. They examined themselves. I believed the state would truly start inspecting itself.”
He added, “Perhaps … as a result of now we have 9 Democrats as commissioners … that could be a purpose why he’s beginning there. However we go about doing issues a bit of in a different way down right here.”
Furr and Milberg’s dialog could be seen on the prime of this web page.
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