Just 36 hours before Florida’s new DOGE team arrived in Broward County, on the prowl for questionable local government spending, North Lauderdale city commissioners pondered a spending issue — and voted to triple their own salaries, to $57,094 a year.

They also voted themselves an $8,400-a-year car allowance.

The mayor will get more: an annual salary of $68,800 and $9,600 car allowance.

North Lauderdale’s move outraged state Rep. Chip LaMarca, R-Lighthouse Point, who called it “brash” and “ridiculous.”

LaMarca said it was especially galling coming at a time of heightened attention to the way local governments are spending.

Voters may be asked in the 2026 election whether they want to cut, or even eliminate, property taxes that fund the bulk of local government operations. And the stat

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