Tax Collector’s Office calls for dismissal of complaint, contending School Board’s ‘voter approval’ theory of case has not been novel for 96 years
Eleven days after the co-counsel for the Sarasota County Tax Collector’s Office filed a response to a Sarasota County School Board complaint against Tax Collector Mike Moran, in his official capacity, 12th Judicial Circuit Judge Hunter W. Carroll ordered a limited stay of the case following a case management conference, The Sarasota News Leader has learned.
During that May 26 conference, Carroll’s order says, “[T]he School Board indicated that there is an ongoing effort for the Legislature to address the statue on which this disagreement emanates.” In the petition its attorney filed with the court on April 24, the School Board contends that Moran is not required to take commissions for the handling of revenue from a special, 1-mill School Board tax that first won voter approval in 2002. Moran has cited a state law as making the commissions necessary.
With the Legislature in special session, Carroll’s May 26 order adds, “it is unclear whether [that body] will add this issue [to its business], and, if so, whether there will be legislative action.”…