Historic City News reported last week on the profit and loss posted by the City of St Augustine during the Gentlemen of the Road stopover featuring Mumford and Sons, from figures supplied by the City Comptroller, Mark Litzinger.
Public Information Officer Mark Samson updated Historic City News reporters on this weekend’s activity by the St Augustine Police Department.
The regular meeting of the St Johns County Board of Commissioners was held Tuesday October 15, 2013, in the County Auditorium in the St Johns County Administration Palace located at 500 San Sebastian View in St Augustine.
On a 4-0 vote by members of the St Augustine City Commission Monday night, a Memorandum of Agreement was approved that will establish a kiosk in the Visitor Center where tickets will be sold by the privately owned Colonial Quarter Museum and the University’s new First Colony exhibit, opening in the renovated Government House.
Barbara Golden, Communications Manager for the St Augustine, Ponte Vedra and the Beaches Visitors and Convention Bureau, informed local Historic City News reporters about the following entertaining events for our St Johns County readers.
Historic City News watched yesterday as Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, said that in 2014, he will push for a $250 million reduction on sales taxes that businesses pay for energy; proposing to cut in half the commercial energy sales tax — noting that residential utility customers do not pay the tax at all.
A split vote Monday night when the St Augustine City Commission decided to allow Philip McDaniel and his investors, who are converting a portion of the former ice plant on Riberia Street into a micro-distillery, to convert the side of the historic building into a billboard.
Historic City News readers, commissioners and city staff will have until their October 28th meeting to further consider the wisdom of allowing passengers on horse-drawn carriages to consume alcoholic beverages from open containers.
