HISTORIC CITY NEWS

According to details obtained from Meredith L. Breidenstein, CPA – Director of Budget & Performance Management for the ‎City of St Augustine, the books for these killer storms are still largely open and there is much work remaining to be done. Our local reporters followed up on the collection results by the City on about $20.7 million in preliminary claims estimated against the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the State of Florida.

Historic City News was informed that ranking member Bill Nelson called on the US Senate to act on the devastating impacts of sea level rise at a Senate hearing Tuesday morning, pointing to nuisance flooding and rising rides in St. Augustine as indicative of the effects of climate change threatening lives and property on Florida’s coasts.

Ed Poppel, the University of Florida’s liaison to the Board of Directors of UF Historic St Augustine, Inc., said it all when he said in an interview after Wednesday’s special board meeting, “I heard nothing today in the discussion that would suggest relocation, removal, or in any way altering the Loring Monument.”