Property owners in Miami are disputing a $7 million controversial legal settlement concerning fire-rescue fees.
By MICHAEL VASQUEZ
Miami Herald (Florida)
Peter Clancy, a 65-year-old retiree, is not a Miami property owner, and has not had to pay the city’s unpopular fire-rescue fee.
When Miami leaders agreed to a controversial $7 million legal settlement stemming from court battles over the fee, Clancy got a share of the pot -- $752,713.
But almost every Miami property owner who paid the annual fee got nothing, even though the lawsuit was filed as a class action on behalf of all property owners.
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