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• The city of Naples, Florida, has spent more than $340,000 over the last three years suing the owners of seawalls that officials say are in disrepair and pose a danger to citizens, WINK News reported.
The city and property owners have gone around and around about who owns the seawalls, and the lawsuits continued even after an engineer hired by Naples determined that only one of the seawalls was actually failing.
Finally, in May, an arbitrator declared that the seawalls are owned by the city of Naples.
"Procrastination and wasting money of the taxpayers is complete," announced the new mayor, Teresa Heitmann.