The breakdown of St Johns County Sheriff David Shoar’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget was obtained by Historic City News this morning, and, if approved by the Board of County Commissioners, it will be the largest budget request ever submitted by the county’s law enforcement agency.
Taxpayers in the City of St Augustine have been some of the harshest critics of what they see as mismanagement, fraud, waste and abuse surrounding more than $4-million dollars in public spending; much of which was paid to employees, contractors, and those insiders who profited from “sole-source” contracts, private meetings held outside of Florida’s Government in the Sunshine Law, and political cronies of the pseudo-elite carpetbaggers who conspired to line their own pockets and enrich their own lifestyle from what should have been a joyous celebration of more than four centuries of Spanish influence by the families whose ancestors persevered in order that we could hold a 450th Commemoration.
