Category: Government

Last week the State Board of Administration released investment performance figures to Historic City News for Fiscal Year 2012-2013 showing that the Florida Retirement System Defined Benefit plan earned a 13.12% return — beating its benchmark by 111 basis points.

The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen and the Florida AFL-CIO filed a lawsuit yesterday to overturn a Florida Department of Transportation decision to award a bid for work on SunRail, the commuter line in central Florida, to a contractor they believe is unqualified for the project.

Historic City News in St Augustine has received the signed agreement between the City and Tennessee concert promoter, AC Entertainment, Inc., to rent Francis Field, “Event Premises”, and adjacent property, “Supplemental Premises”, for the Gentlemen of the Road Stopover beginning September 13, and concluding September 14, 2013.

Within the next two-week period, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is required to complete an assessment of state-owned lands in order to identify up to $50 million worth that could be sold to the public to raise money to fund the purchase up to $70 million of “conservation land”, allocated in the 2013-14 budget.

Dissatisfaction with a subjective process, allegedly rife with favoritism, has focused increasing attention on how St Johns County awards grants from the millions of dollars in bed tax money to certain non-profit organizations that provide programming and events of a cultural, artistic, or heritage nature.

On May 15, 2013, Historic City News reported on a “Lunch-n-Learn” held to inform the Lincolnville Community of the City of St Augustine’s intent to relocate horse stables adjacent to the north end of the Wastewater Treatment Plant. As a result of that meeting staff decided the plan should be scrapped and other alternatives be…

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Tourist Development Council member Scott M. Bartosch of St Augustine has served as an un-compensated representative responsible for developing tourism in St Johns County since the TDC was reconstituted by the Board of Commissioners in 2010.

The regular meeting of the St Johns County Board of Commissioners was held Tuesday July 16, 2013, in the County Auditorium in the St Johns County Administration Palace located at 500 San Sebastian View in St Augustine.