Villager Phillip Baburek couldn’t believe the amount of money spent to finally bring a conclusion to a nearly six year battle over a little white cross.
In Wednesday’s morning edition of Villages-News.com, the Community Development District 8 resident learned that his elected supervisors had agreed to pay $70,000 to Wayne Anderson, who in 2019 was the subject of an anonymous complaint due to a little white cross on display in his yard in the Village of Tamarind Grove. On Tuesday, the CDD 8 board voted to approve the $70,000 settlement with Anderson. It was also revealed that CDD 8 incurred a $173,000 legal tab in its attempt to force Anderson to remove his little white cross.
“Perhaps someone much smarter than I am can explain how spending almost $250,000 in our assessment money, nearly a quarter of a million dollars, to get a little white cross removed from a yard, benefits our community,” said Baburek…