In paying up after eight years of court clashes and an estimated $200,000 in legal costs paid for by taxpayers, the authority is avoiding $1.3 million in accrued interest fees. The property appraiser is voiding that charge if the authority's check arrives within the next 30 days.
The resolution of the long-running, front-page dispute is a textbook example of bureaucratic arrogance versus taxpayers' fairness, critics of the quasi-government agency tell GlobeSt.com on condition of anonymity.
"They wanted to show the county they knew the law better than anyone else," an Orlando lawyer not associated with the case tells GlobeSt.com.
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