Nearly 200 city officials from all over Florida recently visited Tallahassee as part of the Florida League of Cities’ Legislative Action Days, where they spoke with state lawmakers about issues being addressed during the legislative session.
Largo commissioners Jamie Robinson and Michael Smith were among those officials, and they shared the same concern as many of their counterparts: the decline of Home Rule.
Robinson said several bills filed this session attempt to limit cities’ local decision-making authority and that it was his mission this trip to voice opposition to those measures.
“Every year it seems like there are several issues in the Florida Legislature where they are trying to take away some of our Home Rule,” Robinson said. “So we go up there and speak with the legislators to try to convince them that we do a good job at the local level of knowing what our citizens are wanting and trying to represent them as good as we can. The Florida Legislature does a great job of protecting the state. We just want to make sure that we can protect our municipalities in the same way.”
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