“Transparency is not an event; it is a discipline.”
This is what Sarasota County Tax Collector Mike Moran wrote in a recent Herald-Tribune guest column to defend his push for a 50% budget increase for his agency (“Sarasota County deserves a top tax office. We will deliver it,” Feb. 28).
Well, parents in the Sarasota County Schools district would like some transparency from Moran to explain why his office is now able to receive a commission – in other words, a fee – from the schools’ tax referenda revenue…