Posted on 11/07/2009 3:42:43 PM PST by rdl6989
TALLAHASSEE (CBS4) The State of Florida is looking for help finding something you'd think would be hard to lose; approximately 18,000 buildings, owned by the taxpayers of Florida, that state officials can't quite put their fingers on. What's more, state officials say they don't have the people to hunt them down, so they want to use tax money to hire an outside company to find each building Florida has misplaced.
The plan was made public by Linda South, Secretary of the Florida Department of Management Services. Earlier this year, legislators handed her the job of locating surplus state-owned properties and buildings that could be sold, possibly raising a few bucks for Florida's cash-strapped treasury. The mission was simple; finding the state owned properties, not so much..
It seems that nowhere in the state was a single list of all of the properties taxpayers own.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs4.com ...
Tax repos, probably.
Good lord....what is this? A game of Monopoly? These people make inept people look competant.
Okay, rodguy911, give ‘em back.
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