A live worked example using the Stevens method and Florida Chapter 119 There’s a story developing in Broward County right now. A city is in the middle of a high-stakes public safety decision — whether to break a decades-long contract with the Broward Sheriff’s Office and form its own police and fire departments. The debate is loud, political, and closely …
Allow me to retort. “People over politics” sounds great. Until the same office offers to pay for the study that decides whether it keeps the contract. That’s not independence. That’s a do-over. The City didn’t ignore facts. It declined a vendor-funded redo offered only after the vendor saw the vote slipping. Calling a study “flawed” because it didn’t land where …