TEMPERS FLARE AT TESTY BUDGET TALKS IN KEY WEST

TEMPERS FLARE AT TESTY BUDGET TALKS IN KEY WEST

The typical tedium of city budget workshops — tax rates, funding formulas and the price of paving projects — got a bit belligerent last month during a back-and-forth between the city manager and a commissioner. A long-simmering tension between commissioner Sam Kaufman and City Manager Brian L. Barroso has become familiar to observers of city meetings. That tension boiled over at the July 22 budget workshop, when Kaufman implied that Barroso had …