VERO BEACH — A proposal to have the city voluntarily undergo an audit by the Florida Department of Government Efficiency failed to gain traction at the Feb. 24 Vero Beach City Council meeting after no other council member seconded the motion.
Vice Mayor Taylor Dingle urged the city to request the review, arguing that Vero Beach’s financial track record warrants outside examination rather than avoiding it.
“The city of Vero Beach has earned that right. We have governed with restraint. We have lived within our means. We have kept our obligations to the taxpayer. Our millage rate stands among one of the lowest in the state, not by accident but by choice. That record gives us the right and the responsibility to lead by example, to show that good government does not hide from scrutiny but welcomes it,” he said…