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Margate Mayor: "We want our money back!"
• Margate tired of paying BSO for no services
Friday,
July 3, 2009
After years of paying the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) for services that Margate doesn’t receive, Margate Mayor, Arthur Bross, along with leaders from other Broward cities, will be demanding that the agency return $6.4 million to cities not under contract with BSO.
Not only does Bross want the money returned for last year, he wants taxpayers reimbursed three years in arrears.
According to a recent audit conducted by Broward County officials, Broward cities, such as Margate, have been shouldering, in part, the financial burden of cities that contract with BSO.
“Margate has its own police and fire departments,” Bross said. “We don’t need to pay BSO.”
If Margate residents are being taxed both for BSO services and for Margate Police and Fire, double taxation could be an issue, and a constitutional one at that.
Bross made it clear that he holds no ill feelings toward Sheriff Al Lamberti or the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. In fact, he blames former BSO Sherriff, Ken Jenne, for putting the screws to taxpayers.
“I just want what’s fair,” said Bross.
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