Updated: January 30, 6:00 p.m.??The University of Florida is asking Alachua County to go back the payment it received on Friday with the security costs in connection with Richard Spencer’s campus visit in October.
The county sent UF a $302K bill in January,?asking the university to reimburse event-related expenses.? In the interview with WLRN, UF President Kent Fuchs said he thought the expenses belonging to the Richard Spencer event became a shared cost relating to the county, the university additionally, the state.
“But our county apparently feels differently,” Fuchs said.
Alachua County spokesman Mark Sexton said he received notification regarding the wire transfer from UF on Friday.
But Fuchs said the amount of money shouldn’t have been sent.
When the invoice from your county was transported to him, he asked his finance individuals identify which account or accounts UF would use in the event it would cash – but he believed it should not are actually paid.
“It turned out misunderstood in that communications that identifying the sources was similar to paying it,” Fuchs said. “That has been not the intention, so there was obviously a miscommunication.”
Fuchs said if ever the university is answerable to a lot of these costs for programs by outside organizations that rent university facilities, he can rethink the practice.
“Taking plenty of time the county sent this bill for $300,000, I became in opposition to changing our policy, even if this individual’s renting on this space was incredibly disruptive to your campus, ended up costing a lot of cash. But if we’re going to have to bear the complete cost when we follow the federal law, that simply is not sustainable.”
County commissioners briefly raised this issue on Tuesday morning inside a meeting, but thought we would discuss an answer in private with Fuchs on Friday. WUFT has requested to attend and hear that meeting, but has not yet received a result.
WLRN’s Tom Hudson caused this story.?
