Guest Column: Beach commission meeting returns to air
Undine C. Pawlowski, Commissioner
St Augustine Beach, FL
The TV Broadcast of the City Commission Meetings has been repaired and the meetings will air live again. Monday night is the August regular monthly Commission Meeting (7pm August 5th).
Guest Column: Please comment on proposed county budget
Bill McClure, Vice Chairman
St Johns County Board of Commissioners
I would like to express my thoughts to you on the upcoming 2013 – 2014 budget, in hopes that you will share yours. The county commissioners will not raise the property taxes and this decision has already been made. However, how and where we spend those dollars is up for debate.
The information contained in this report is taken from sources deemed reliable; the accuracy and completeness of which Historic City News does not control and cannot guarantee.
The original public records are on file with the St. Johns County Clerk of Court and should be consulted before taking any action.
The information contained in this report is taken from sources deemed reliable; the accuracy and completeness of which Historic City News does not control and cannot guarantee.
The original public records are on file with the St. Johns County Clerk of Court and should be consulted before taking any action.
The City of St Augustine is underwriting whatever financial loss will be incurred when they bring Mumford and Sons to town for a two-day concert next month — a commitment of city reserve funds that has some Historic City News readers scratching their heads.
The mayor of St Augustine, Joseph L. Boles, Jr., the interim commissioner, Donald Crichlow, and the freshman commissioner, Roxanne Horvath, voted to obligate $417,838 of the reserve of funds of the City of St Augustine, so that a private concert promoter, AC Entertainment, can entertain 1,515 residents who purchased tickets for the Gentlemen of the Road stopover next month.
Although it was not released to the public prior to the last City Commission meeting, Comptroller Mark Litzinger included a breakdown of spending categories with his final request to the St Johns County Board of Commissioners for payment of $129,485 from bed tax funds for transportation of the 25,000 Mumford and Sons concertgoers.
This afternoon at 3:00 p.m., Amber the Dog received justice when her former owner, Randel Bryan Hart, was sentenced to begin serving 364 days in the St Johns County Detention Facility, and other conditions ordered by Circuit Court Judge Michael Traynor.
