HISTORIC CITY NEWS

Public access to meetings improved at City Hall

No need to hunt for a parking space or move from the comfort of your La-Z-Boy any more, now that the City of St Augustine has established a high-definition closed circuit broadcast arrangement for public meetings held in the Alcazar Room in City Hall that can be viewed by the public, without cost, over the…

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10 Days to pay property tax without penalty

St. Johns County Tax Collector, Dennis W. Hollingsworth, C.F.C., reminds all Historic City News readers that 2013 property taxes are due March 31st and considered delinquent April 1st, when a 3% penalty applies.

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Politics, not security behind Sanchez-Morris complaint

Yes, it is Sunshine Week, but you wouldn’t know that in St Johns County Florida after this morning’s meeting of the St Johns County Board of County Commissioners.

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Approval given to exchange $57 million in defaulted bonds

The St Johns County Commission unanimously approved a resolution allowing the issuance of a bond exchange for non-taxable fixed-rate Health Care Refunding Revenue Bonds, originally issued in 2006, through the St. Johns County Industrial Development Authority for Series 2014 bonds for the Glenmoor Project located in the The Neighborhoods Of The Slammer and Squire of…

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City meets with visioning facilitator

St Augustine Public Affairs Director, Paul Williamson, informed Historic News this afternoon that on Tuesday, March 11th, Commissioner Roxanne Horvath and members of city staff met with the firm facilitating the “2014 and Beyond” visioning initiative, for the purpose of developing a plan of action to launch the program.

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Flagler County engineer catches $600,000 mistake

Last week Historic City News learned that taxpayers will save $600,000 and preserve 12 acres of highway frontage in Palm Coast thanks to a quick thinking engineer who was reviewing recent drainage-rule changes issued by the St Johns River Water Management District.

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Governor Reubin O’Donovan Askew dies today

Historic City News was informed that 85-year-old Reubin O’Donovan Askew, 37th Governor of Florida and a pivotal figure in Florida politics, died today; he was admitted to Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare on Saturday with aspiration pneumonia and had suffered a stroke.

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St Augustine senator chairs Rick Scott campaign

St Augustine State Senator, John Thrasher, announced to Historic City News that he has been appointed chairman of the “Rick Scott for Florida” campaign committee; and, as of tomorrow, he will begin airing the first political advertisement featuring the governor talking about his humble roots and commitment to bringing job-generating new business to Florida.

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