A new county administrator is in the offing for St Johns County, a trend observed in other local governments in northeast Florida. Palm Coast said goodbye to Jim Landon, the City of Bunnell has a new city manager, and the Flagler County Board of Commissioners replaced their county administrator with Jerry Cameron; a former assistant county administrator under Wanchick.
Letter: Please expose John Valdes
Anonymous Reader
St Augustine, FL
Dear Historic City News editor:
The enclosed letter and documents have been mailed to Michael A. Lischio with the St. Johns County Property Appraiser. He will investigate for Homestead fraud, etc. You may wish to contact him and request records of his investigation, as I and others hope you will publish a story about Valdes’ hypocrisy and that he is corrupt and cannot follow his own rules.
The time to sink or swim has come for 69-year-old Michael David Wanchick, the often-controversial St Johns County administrator hired July 30, 2007. The current effective term of the county administrator’s Professional Services Agreement expires on January 1, 2020.
by A.G. Gancarski
Special to Historic City News
House Member Paul Renner, a Palm Coast Republican on track to serve as Speaker of the Florida House in 2022, currently helms the House Judiciary Committee. On Monday of last week, with the Legislative Session in the rearview mirror, Renner talked about its aftermath and what’s next.
A “Kickoff Meeting” has been scheduled to discuss the upcoming South Ponte Vedra and Vilano Beach restoration projects and Historic City News readers are invited to participate.
Just before midnight last night, May 18 at 11:45 p.m., 43-year-old James Robert Hancock, who reported his residence as 3091 Usina Road in St Augustine, was arrested and taken into custody by St Johns County sheriff’s deputies. He is being held without bond as of Sunday morning; facing 9-counts of possession of a weapon. Each count is a second-degree felony.
Historic City News readers will have an opportunity to sound off about short-term vacation rentals inside the city limits of St Augustine on May 22, 2019 when the city commission convenes a special meeting this Wednesday.
Barbara McNees, President of the Board of the Cultural Council, informed local Historic City News reporters today that Andrew Witt, executive director of the St Johns Cultural Council, announced to the Board of Directors that he intends to retire at the end of December 2019. Witt joined the Cultural Council in October 2011.
