$1.7 MILLION FOR LBTS….$1.7 BILLION FOR STATE….
Here in LBTS many residents were scratching their heads….as LBTS Commission/Administration made the decision to spend $1.7 million for a hotel next door to Town Hall…
The reasoning…how often does this kind of opportunity present itself….
Now those same residents will have plenty of company as fellow Floridians will be scratching their heads with the state’s decision to spend $1.7 billion for 185,000 acres of land from U.S. Sugar…
‘U.S. Sugar agrees to sell the state 185,000 acres in the Everglades’….Linda Kleindienst and Andy Reid…
The reason given to allow a “flow away” …to carry water from Lake Okeechobee to the Everglades…
A plan called unfeasible by the state water management officials…
But again……..the reasoning…… how often does this kind of opportunity present itself……
Big Sugar plans to be out of the business in 5 years….
more to come…….
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