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Final budget hearing Thursday for City of St Augustine
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A vote for Thrasher is a vote for someone
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Mayor Boles used secular resources for religious purposes
FFRF wants pope invite rescinded
The Freedom From Religion Foundation, on behalf of its Florida chapter and more than 21,000 members nationwide, is asking the mayor of St. Augustine to withdraw his invitation to Pope Francis to visit the city when he comes to the U.S. in 2015.
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Tuesday celebrate National Voter Registration Day
The overwhelming majority of Historic City News readers were not counted among the millions of Americans who did not vote in 2012, many because they didn’t know how to register or they missed the registration deadline.
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Monday city will pick two new PZB members
On September 30, 2014, two new members will join the five-member Planning and Zoning Board in St Augustine; a panel that City Attorney Isabelle Lopez calls the “most important citizen’s board”, and those two people will be selected on Monday evening at the regular meeting of the St Augustine City Commission.
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City’s budget process comes to a close
City’s budget process comes to a close
Second and last public hearing is Thursday, September 25 at 5:05pm
The mayor and St Augustine city commissioners are wrapping up work on and poised to adopt a budget for the fiscal year 2014-2015 this week. All that remains is the final second public hearing which will be on Thursday, September 25th at 5:05 p.m.
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Airport Authority – five years without ad valorem tax assessments
Edward R. Wuellner, Executive Director of the St. Augustine ‐ St. Johns County Airport Authority, reported that at last night’s meeting, the members voted not to assess ad valorem taxes.
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VA doesn’t know where their veterans live
Historic City News has received a copy of a letter from Assistant County Administrator Jerry Cameron to Thomas Wisnieski, Director of the North Florida and South Georgia Veterans Health System, concerning the Veterans Administration Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) location in St. Johns County, that indicates the the VA doesn’t know where their veterans actually live.