PALM BEACH COUNTY v. CITY OF BOCA RATON

No. 4D07-3287.

995 So.2d 1017 (2008)

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Appellant, v. CITY OF BOCA RATON and City of Delray Beach, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied December 30, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denise M. Nieman, County Attorney, Leonard Berger, Assistant County Attorney; and Susan F. Delegal, Clark J. Cochran and Donna M. Krusbe of Billing, Cochran, Heath, Lyles, Mauro, Anderson & Ramsey, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Diana Grub Frieser, City Attorney, Boca Raton; Susan Ruby, City Attorney, Delray Beach; and Jamie Alan Cole and Matthew H. Mandel of Weiss Serota Helfman Pastoriza Cole & Boniske, P.L., Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.

James A. Cherof and Jamila V. Alexander of Goren, Cherof, Doody & Ezrol, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for Intervenor-City of Boynton Beach.

Virginia Saunders Delegal, Tallahassee, for Amicus Curiae-Florida Association of Counties, Inc.

Andrew S. Maurodis, Deerfield Beach, for Amicus Curiae-EMS Coalition.


STONE, J.

Palm Beach County (County) appeals a declaratory judgment and injunction precluding County's use of county ad valorem tax funds to operate its fire/rescue dispatch system.

Historically, the cities of Boca Raton and Delray Beach (Cities) operated their own dispatch system for fire and police rescue, taxing their residents for the service. In 2005, County began using county funds to finance the County Dispatch...

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