Pinellas County Commissioner Vince Nowicki sought to serve as his own aide and collect a separate taxpayer-funded paycheck, according to a colleague and “friend” on the board.
Commissioner Chris Latvala also admonished Nowicki at a workshop Thursday for attempting to pull triple duty as a local municipality’s city manager. Nowicki did not deny the allegations at the meeting.
The public rebuke followed a recent visit from the Florida Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which Nowicki welcomed. Latvala said he supported efforts to identify wasteful spending, “but there’s some things I don’t necessarily agree with.”…