July 29, 2025 • 7 mins
It’s my belief that Governor DeSantis will take these very seriously and the audits could become extensive throughout the state. Independent of the inherent benefit of uncovering potential waste (or worse) of taxpayers' dollars, this initiative also figures to serve Governor DeSantis’s objective to end property taxes on homesteaded properties.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Have a question or topic you want to have addressed.
Just ask.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is the Brian Mud Show. It is today's Q
and A as we dive into Dojing the Florida's local governments.
This is brought to you by Melissa and Ashes. Check
more collections. Each day I feature a listener question that
is sent by one of these methods. You may email
me Brian Mud at iHeartMedia dot com, hit me up
(00:30):
on social at Brian Mud Radio. May also use the
iHeartRadio talkback feature. We'd love it if you'd love us.
We love you, Jola, you love listeners, Rachel, of course. Okay,
I didn't want to speak out of turn for you.
I'll speak for myself. So good okay. Joel's loving to
and so there's lots of love here and we'd like
(00:51):
you to express that by making us your number one preset,
and then the Brian Mudshow podcast your number two preset.
And while you're in there, you look for a little
microphone button. You see it, it's happened. You may lay
down the message right there, maybe for a future A
Q and A. Today's note this good morning, Brian, thank
you and Joel for your morning show and all the
(01:12):
great information your show airs it' speaking of love, appreciate this.
I'm somewhat of a longtime listener ten years and we
determined that that qualifies.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
For sure as a longtime listener. Mostly. I guess the
question then becomes, okay, what is the cutoff? But where
is what's the milestone here? We appreciate them anyway, but yes,
it could be ten days and we thank you for
being here. I think five six years somewhere around there
are okay, So Joel says five five's a good number.
We can right with that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
So yeah, but gentleman, said someone a longtime listener sense
of a living in your listening area. Please report the
state of affairs of Saint Lucy County from the DOGE filings.
I've lived there for ten years now and feel that
there have been a lot of progressive policy and undertakings
in Saint Lucie County and Port Saint Lucy.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I do appreciate the note. I'll be happy to report on.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The DOGE findings of Saint Lucie County with you if
when we do get them. Saint Lucy not among the
first round of announced to Florida dozings that will take
place With that said, this is a good opportunity to
break down Florida's new DOGE program what's now getting underway.
So you have to start in February. I mean, if
you really want to start far back, go to two
(02:31):
thousand and seven. But February Governor de Santis announced Florida's
incarnation of DOGE, which is in addition to the quasi
DOGE program the state did have in place since two
thousand and seven through a voter approofs constitutional Amendment's reference
yesterday though we passed this constitutional amendment, but we didn't
fund it, so without funding and structure behind it, it
(02:51):
just kind of exists as an unfunded mandate. But anyway,
in February, Governor d Santis laid out these objectors Florida
will polish in additional seventy boards and commissions. This year,
Florida will conduct a deep dive into all facets of
college and university operations and spending, and make recommendations to
the Board of Governors and State Board of Education to
(03:14):
eliminate any wasteful spending. Florida will utilize AI to supplement
ongoing efforts to review operations at our state agencies and
identify more ways to cut unnecessary spending and eliminate bureaucracy.
Florida will aid doze's federal efforts to save taxpayers money
by returning unused or surplus federal funds allocated to the state. Now,
(03:37):
the first four were in our aimed at ways the
state government could operate more efficiently. As we quickly saw,
this led to the state sending over eight hundred million
dollars back to the federal government in unused and unneeded funds,
and the state task Force is going to continue dozing
at the state level through those agencies through March thirty
(03:57):
first of next year. The fifth piece of the DeSantis
order focused on local governments, and that one said State
task Force will look into local government expenditures by utilizing
publicly available county and municipal spending records to expose bloat
within local governance. And so that is now the final
(04:21):
piece that is in play. There were two missing pieces
that were needed in order for the local dozing to
take place, one money and two a CFO to lead
the effort. So the new state budget that kicked it
on July first provided funding for the state to establish
this task force to doze local governments and with Blazing
(04:42):
Goolia now serving as Florida CFO, the pieces are in
place to put this into motion, which is why this
is starting to move forward now. In March, every local
government received a letter from the Office of the Governor
under the heading of Florida DOGE, stating that they would
be undergoing an assessment by the state's EOG DOGE team.
(05:03):
In that notice, the state requested information pertaining to the
finances of local governments, with the deadline of April eighth.
As the notice stated, any community that doesn't comply with
the requests will be presumed to be impossible statutory violation
and the need of assistance. Now it is my understanding
that all local governments did comply with the information requests,
(05:26):
but that the answers by some race red flags, and
that has become the basis for the priority under which
the state task force is set to begin the DOGE
audits this week. Four governments now are known to be
first off for audits, three that have been publicly cited
by the Governor's office. The three that were publicly mentioned
(05:48):
Broward and Manatee Counties in the city of Gainesville. A
fourth that we know because they came forward with a
letter yesterday and presented a publicly Orange County, So you've
got Broward, Manatee, Orange Counties in the city of Gainesville
and announcing the first three on site audits of these
(06:08):
local governments. The state also indicated that another ten to
fifteen currently unnamed local governments will be subjected to dose
audits in the coming weeks. Now to kind of give
you an idea of the view of the possible but
also the size of the task at hand, Florida has
four hundred and seventy nine local governments that consists of
(06:29):
sixty seven counties and four hundred and twelve municipalities, so
it's unclear how many will be audited by the state
and how long that process may take.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The first four audits begin on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So I'll keep you posted as to what's discovered the
rollout of any dozing in Saint Lucis and other counties
around South Florida in the Treasure Coast. It is my
belief that Governor d Santis will take these very seriously.
In the audits could become extensive throughout the state, independent
of the inherent benefit of uncovering potential waste or worse
of taxpayer's dollars. This initiative also figures to serve Governor d.
(07:05):
Santus's objective to end property taxes on homesteaded properties. Florida's
CFO Blazengolia told me he doesn't believe sales taxes would
necessarily have to rise in order to eliminate homesteaded property taxes,
and I suspect the state's Doge Task Force will seek
to evidence that to communities over the next year.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
This is a real good way to be able to
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Raise the level of information for voters in advance of
next year's push on property taxes.
Have a question or topic you want to have addressed.
Just ask.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is the Brian Mud Show. It is today's Q
and A as we dive into Dojing the Florida's local governments.
This is brought to you by Melissa and Ashes. Check
more collections. Each day I feature a listener question that
is sent by one of these methods. You may email
me Brian Mud at iHeartMedia dot com, hit me up
(00:30):
on social at Brian Mud Radio. May also use the
iHeartRadio talkback feature. We'd love it if you'd love us.
We love you, Jola, you love listeners, Rachel, of course. Okay,
I didn't want to speak out of turn for you.
I'll speak for myself. So good okay. Joel's loving to
and so there's lots of love here and we'd like
(00:51):
you to express that by making us your number one preset,
and then the Brian Mudshow podcast your number two preset.
And while you're in there, you look for a little
microphone button. You see it, it's happened. You may lay
down the message right there, maybe for a future A
Q and A. Today's note this good morning, Brian, thank
you and Joel for your morning show and all the
(01:12):
great information your show airs it' speaking of love, appreciate this.
I'm somewhat of a longtime listener ten years and we
determined that that qualifies.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
For sure as a longtime listener. Mostly. I guess the
question then becomes, okay, what is the cutoff? But where
is what's the milestone here? We appreciate them anyway, but yes,
it could be ten days and we thank you for
being here. I think five six years somewhere around there
are okay, So Joel says five five's a good number.
We can right with that.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
So yeah, but gentleman, said someone a longtime listener sense
of a living in your listening area. Please report the
state of affairs of Saint Lucy County from the DOGE filings.
I've lived there for ten years now and feel that
there have been a lot of progressive policy and undertakings
in Saint Lucie County and Port Saint Lucy.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I do appreciate the note. I'll be happy to report on.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
The DOGE findings of Saint Lucie County with you if
when we do get them. Saint Lucy not among the
first round of announced to Florida dozings that will take
place With that said, this is a good opportunity to
break down Florida's new DOGE program what's now getting underway.
So you have to start in February. I mean, if
you really want to start far back, go to two
(02:31):
thousand and seven. But February Governor de Santis announced Florida's
incarnation of DOGE, which is in addition to the quasi
DOGE program the state did have in place since two
thousand and seven through a voter approofs constitutional Amendment's reference
yesterday though we passed this constitutional amendment, but we didn't
fund it, so without funding and structure behind it, it
(02:51):
just kind of exists as an unfunded mandate. But anyway,
in February, Governor d Santis laid out these objectors Florida
will polish in additional seventy boards and commissions. This year,
Florida will conduct a deep dive into all facets of
college and university operations and spending, and make recommendations to
the Board of Governors and State Board of Education to
(03:14):
eliminate any wasteful spending. Florida will utilize AI to supplement
ongoing efforts to review operations at our state agencies and
identify more ways to cut unnecessary spending and eliminate bureaucracy.
Florida will aid doze's federal efforts to save taxpayers money
by returning unused or surplus federal funds allocated to the state. Now,
(03:37):
the first four were in our aimed at ways the
state government could operate more efficiently. As we quickly saw,
this led to the state sending over eight hundred million
dollars back to the federal government in unused and unneeded funds,
and the state task Force is going to continue dozing
at the state level through those agencies through March thirty
(03:57):
first of next year. The fifth piece of the DeSantis
order focused on local governments, and that one said State
task Force will look into local government expenditures by utilizing
publicly available county and municipal spending records to expose bloat
within local governance. And so that is now the final
(04:21):
piece that is in play. There were two missing pieces
that were needed in order for the local dozing to
take place, one money and two a CFO to lead
the effort. So the new state budget that kicked it
on July first provided funding for the state to establish
this task force to doze local governments and with Blazing
(04:42):
Goolia now serving as Florida CFO, the pieces are in
place to put this into motion, which is why this
is starting to move forward now. In March, every local
government received a letter from the Office of the Governor
under the heading of Florida DOGE, stating that they would
be undergoing an assessment by the state's EOG DOGE team.
(05:03):
In that notice, the state requested information pertaining to the
finances of local governments, with the deadline of April eighth.
As the notice stated, any community that doesn't comply with
the requests will be presumed to be impossible statutory violation
and the need of assistance. Now it is my understanding
that all local governments did comply with the information requests,
(05:26):
but that the answers by some race red flags, and
that has become the basis for the priority under which
the state task force is set to begin the DOGE
audits this week. Four governments now are known to be
first off for audits, three that have been publicly cited
by the Governor's office. The three that were publicly mentioned
(05:48):
Broward and Manatee Counties in the city of Gainesville. A
fourth that we know because they came forward with a
letter yesterday and presented a publicly Orange County, So you've
got Broward, Manatee, Orange Counties in the city of Gainesville
and announcing the first three on site audits of these
(06:08):
local governments. The state also indicated that another ten to
fifteen currently unnamed local governments will be subjected to dose
audits in the coming weeks. Now to kind of give
you an idea of the view of the possible but
also the size of the task at hand, Florida has
four hundred and seventy nine local governments that consists of
(06:29):
sixty seven counties and four hundred and twelve municipalities, so
it's unclear how many will be audited by the state
and how long that process may take.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
The first four audits begin on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
So I'll keep you posted as to what's discovered the
rollout of any dozing in Saint Lucis and other counties
around South Florida in the Treasure Coast. It is my
belief that Governor d Santis will take these very seriously.
In the audits could become extensive throughout the state, independent
of the inherent benefit of uncovering potential waste or worse
of taxpayer's dollars. This initiative also figures to serve Governor d.
(07:05):
Santus's objective to end property taxes on homesteaded properties. Florida's
CFO Blazengolia told me he doesn't believe sales taxes would
necessarily have to rise in order to eliminate homesteaded property taxes,
and I suspect the state's Doge Task Force will seek
to evidence that to communities over the next year.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
This is a real good way to be able to
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Raise the level of information for voters in advance of
next year's push on property taxes.
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