Sarasota County Charter, January 2019

January 2019 edition 22 are payable from the tax revenues of the County. The County may not avoid the requirements hereof by issuing or causing to be issued notes, bonds, certificates of participation or other instruments of indebtedness which reflect a single, simultaneous or concurrent undertaking but which have been divided in such fashion so as to avoid the limitations as herein set forth. (Section 5.2 Amended 11/6/1984, 11/8/1994, 3/14/2000, and, 9/10/2002 and Renumbered 8/31/2004.) Section 5.3 Compensation on Fee Basis Forbidden. No officer or employee of this government may personally receive compensation for his or her service on a fee basis. (This section shall not apply to services performed by an independent contractor.) (Renumbered 8/31/2004) Section 5.4 Audit. The Board of County Commissioners shall provide for an annual audit of all the fiscal transactions of the County Government by independently certified public accountants. The audit report shall become public record. (Renumbered 8/31/2004)