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Roughly 8,000 Brevard County residents will no longer have fluoride added to their water starting at one this afternoon.
And that is a shame.
Not because of our stance one way or the other regarding the addition of fluoride to drinking water, but because how the decision was made. The public was bypassed entirely during the process.
Wait, who are we kidding, there was no process.
At the end of last week s commission meeting, District One Commissioner Rita Pritchett raised the issue, saying a recent email on the topic had retriggered her. Removing fluoride from Mims water wasn t on any commission agenda, no public notice was given and there was no opportunity for public input.
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The Brevard County Commission appear to have accidentally approved the removal of fluoride from the Mims water supply.
In a snap vote Tuesday, commissioners unanimously approved a request from Commission Chair Rita Pritchett, permitting her to begin halting the addition of fluoride at the county-run water treatment facility in her North Brevard district.
The problem was: no one seemed to realize exactly what they were voting on.
Three commissioners told FLORIDA TODAY they thought they were voting to bring the item back for board discussion. Another, who said he
understood the motion, voted in favor despite being uncertain
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