Manatee County leaders took questions about two referendums coming up for public vote June 18 at the Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance Hot Topics Panel Luncheon.
Ed Hunzeker, Manatee County administrator; Kevin DiLallo, CEO of Manatee Memorial Hospital; and Sharon Hillstrom, president and CEO of the Bradenton Area Economic Development Corporation, informed the audience at the Fete Ballroom at Polo Grill, May 29, about how the half-cent sales tax referendum and Economic Development Ad valorem Tax Exemption (EDATE) referendum will affect them.