Letter: County salary request withheld for money
Randy Covington
St Augustine, FL
Dear Editor:
On September 4, I contacted County Administrator, Michael Wanchick, and Budget Director Douglas Timms to request a list of St Johns County employee salaries for 2012, 2013, and proposed in the 2014 budget, so that I would be prepared to discuss the subject during the second and final public hearing on September 24, 2013.
City Police spokesman, Mark Samson, reminds Historic City News readers that everyone in the crowds that have followed the Gentlemen of the Road Stopover to St Augustine has not necessarily come to town to enjoy the music.
Elections are a year away, but St Augustine business owner and Certified Public Accountant, 39-year-old Todd D. Neville, has announced to Historic City News that he has become a candidate for the St Augustine City Commission, Seat 4.
While watching “Sea Hunt” on television as a child, it wasn’t necessary to wear fins and a mask; but, that didn’t keep the man who is in talks with the City of St Augustine to build an 8,000-square-foot aquarium on Riberia Pointe, from feeding his lifelong fascination with the ocean.
St Johns County Tax Collector Dennis W. Hollingsworth, CFC, told Historic City News that he has received the inaugural safety award from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles for the driver education program his office restored to local high schools.
Historic City News has learned that now, fifty-years after the fact, in the same dining room where a group of more than 100 students from the all-black Richard Murray High School held the first “sit-in” of the civil rights movement in St Augustine, Flagler College will introduce the Civil Rights Library.
St Johns County Sheriff’s Detective Samantha English has been busy rounding up burglars following a rash of break-ins to vehicles throughout the Northwest District of the county within the past several months. Historic City News received word of the re-arrest of one, and three additional arrests over the past few days.
Velo Fest reported to Historic City News that volunteers hit the pavement today with the Official Gentlemen’s Bike Guide; assisting both locals and guests when they navigate the streets of St Augustine during the Gentlemen of the Road stopover Friday and Saturday.
