Fresh off a stinging rebuke by the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature, the state’s economic development agency will move ahead with a plan to lay off roughly a third of its employees.
The Enterprise Florida board agreed Wednesday at a meeting in Naples to begin streamlining the operations of the 20-year outfit that is responsible for trying to lure companies to the state. Enterprise Florida is supposed to share expenses between private companies and taxpayers, but the state has been picking up most of the $34 million cost to run it.
