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Ochopee fire district to benefit from federal tax-makeup payment to Collier
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[Naples Daily News] - The county has received PILT money for more than a decade, county spokesman John Torre said. The money is deposited into the general fund — much like property taxes — and is unrestricted, which means it can be put toward any general fund use.
Collier County housing director resigns
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[Lehigh Acres News Star] - Marcy Krumbine, who has worked for the county since and has served as head of the Housing, Human and Veteran Services department since 2006, resigned Wednesday, county spokesman John Torre said. Krumbine has been reassigned to the communications
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[Gulf Coast Business Review] - In Collier County, spokesman John Torre says the county made it policy long ago not to fund nonprofits. “The issue, when it was discussed, [was] we didn't want to get in the business of picking and choosing what nonprofit would receive county funding,”
Collier County program lets people on probation work to pay their fees
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[Naples Daily News] - County government spokesman John Torre said the county values the work of those in the program at $9.73 an hour. That's the same sum, he said, the county pays for temporary day labor. “In theory it allows us and the taxpayers to benefit from free labor
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