Alachua County’s constitutional officers and elected leaders presented mostly continuance budgets before the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) at a Tuesday morning special meeting—though some special increases and decreases will come.
The constitutional officers—tax collector, property appraiser, sheriff and clerk of the court—along with the public defender and state attorney are required departments that every Florida county must fund, though they largely operate outside BOCC direction.
Tax Collector John Power said his budget would decrease. He joked about feeling darts in the back of his head from the other officers…