A Florida former mayor resigned abruptly earlier this week because he disagreed with the “reckless” way the city council wanted to spend tax dollars, he told Fox News.

“We’ve had very little debt, but the spreadsheets that we were looking at this past Monday showed a number of projects, and the funding shortfall was a quarter of a billion dollars,” former Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard said. “Local government and government, in general, needs to be very careful with their resources and also be more creative in the way we solve problems.”