After 4½ hours of mind-numbing minutia about the proposed annual budget, some members of the Key Biscayne Village Council threatened to unravel the plan literally at the 11th hour on Wednesday night.
As the clock neared 11 p.m, Mayor Joe Rasco said he wanted to soften the proposed 9.9% average tax increase, without identifying any specific cuts in the $41.5 million budget Council Member Ed London asked for millions to be stripped from the current proposal.
