Dan Abel
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

Dear Editor and Historic City News readers:

As a Financial Advisor and Retirement Planning Counselor, I talk with clients everyday about their budgets. We talk about balancing their income verses their spending, and setting the extra income aside – investing for the future.

Randy Covington
St Johns, FL

Dear Editor:

Next Tuesday, the St Johns County Commission will take up a very significant change to county land development concurrency. The proposed change is highly detailed and very technical. It was developed by a committee, composed mostly of developer representatives, working over the last 14 months in what many feel is an attempt to quickly ram through a bailout for developers and transfer their obligations for road and school improvements to the tax-payers.

I’ve enjoyed my 60-year visit to St Augustine. Depending on who you ask, their point of view, and their length of time in the historic city; some will say it has “matured”, others will say it has “become too commercial”. A former city manager I was fond of, who, like me, was fortunate to have been born here, would say the city has “gone to the bohemians”.

Nancy Shafer
St Augustine, FL

Dear Historic City News readers:

I wrote to St Augustine City Manager, John Regan to urge him to take a big step back from his plans to engage with Shawn Heister to build an aquarium at Riberia Point. If this feels like déjà vu to each of you, it feels that way to me, too.

David B. Shoar, Sheriff
St. Johns County, FL

This month, I would like to tell you about our Civilian Law Enforcement Academy at the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office. This academy began nearly nine years ago and has been well received. To date over 300 of our citizens have taken the class, and the most recent academy, the 21st, began March25th. The academy meets once a week for eleven weeks and for three hours a night.

A bill to give “in-state tuition” rates to certain undocumented immigrants will be considered by the Senate Judiciary Committee at 9:00 a.m. in room 110 of the Senate Office Building in Tallahassee on Tuesday morning.