About a dozen people affected by last year’s floods spoke out against the prospect of raising taxes on homeowners to pay for stormwater maintenance, during a Sarasota County commission meeting on Friday.
They said the county had not shown it really needed the extra money.
“Where are the much-needed solutions? I cannot see how anyone could read the stormwater program audit and ask for an increase in assessments,” said Kristy Molyneaux, whose home on Phillippi Creek flooded three times last year…