Governor DeSantis and Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia held a press conference October 1st on the subject of county and city government waste. The video is linked below and worth watching.
Local governments have exploited tax increases resulting from fast rising assessed values, creating unnecessary overhead while spending arbitrarily on projects that do not serve the general welfare. Winter Park is the poster child for this problem.
If you are fed up with the blowout spending by this commission please run for city commission in the March 2026 election on a platform of fiscal responsibility, serving the general welfare of all Winter Park residents. Qualifying is straight forward. See: https://cityofwinterpark.org/government/election-info/#tab-qualifying-info.
Pete Weldon served the City of Winter Park from 2007 to 2019 on the code enforcement board, the tree preservation board, the planning and zoning board, and on the Winter Park City Commission.
