June 28, 2005

Constituent Report
An Update on Your Hillsborough County Government

Dear Friend & Neighbor,

The Hillsborough County Commission has just ended six months of deliberation and will now break for the next few weeks. As this is the first natural break in the legislative process since becoming your County Commissioner, I wanted to send you an update to let you know what is happening within your county government and what I’ve been working on as your County Commissioner.

Fighting Government Waste

• Hartline

  • Tampa Tribune - HARTline's Service Remains Flat; Spending Habits Wasteful As Ever

  • St. Pete Times - Struggling streetcars may seek fare increase

Fighting New Taxes

• Opposed the Stormwater Fee Increase

  • St. Pete Times – Blair, who led the charge to ax the tax increase
     

• Prioritizing Our CIT Dollars

  • Tampa Bay’s 10 – What’s that costing you? …taxpayers will pay millions for museum

Protecting Our Children

• ABC Action News

  • Hillsborough commissioner proposes posting photos

Warmest Regards,
Brian Blair
County Commissioner, District #6