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Visioning: Marlowe offers $25,000 reduction on fee

300-COSA-VISIONINGFollowing the steering committee members’ reports to the St Augustine City Commission last night, together with mixed public comment, Historic City News learned that the proposed “facilitator” for the project, Herb Marlowe, has submitted a revised proposed plan and fee schedule for the completion of the visioning initiative.

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Letter: If you are finally ready, clarify this

RANDY COVINGTON
RANDY COVINGTON
Letter: If you are finally ready, clarify this

Randy Covington
Pennsylvania resident who owns a condo in St. Augustine

Dear Editor:

Citizen taxpayers in St Johns County are fed up with the convenient forgetfulness and selective memory of sitting members of the Board of County Commissioners; and, as those taxpayers come forward to challenge incumbents, there seems to be a lot of backpedaling.

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Vision committee offers report – needs more time

Historic City News reporters watched as four-of-five appointed members of the “Visioning 2014 & Beyond” Steering Committee made their report to the St Augustine City Commission during the regular business meeting at City Hall tonight. It was first announced that Philip McDaniel had resigned his appointment to the committee and would not speak at the meeting.

Rhey Palmer: We don’t need another $85,000 to do this.
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Rhey Palmer: We don’t need another $85,000 to do this.

ROXANNE HORVATH
ROXANNE HORVATH
Tonight Historic City News reporters will be watching as the St Augustine City Commission hears from its elite group of hand-picked representatives; tasked with recommending a course of action to update, or abandon and redo, a “Vision Statement” for the City — but if they want Herb Marlowe to continue as their “professional facilitator”, they have to pay another $85,000.