In response to a request advanced on June 11th by St Augustine City Commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline, Historic City News reporters have been notified that, at tonight’s regular meeting, the commission will hear a report and request for approval of up to $75,000 for an outside consultant associated with the creation of a Lincolnville Community Redevelopment Agency.
Before Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes begins the process of mailing voter information cards in July to the nearly 150,000 registered St Johns County voters, she told Historic City News that she wants residents to make certain that her office has their correct mailing address.
Responding to today’s announcement by the Department of Homeland Security regarding its relaxed immigration enforcement policies on children of illegal aliens, US Senator Marco Rubio issued the following statement to local reporters with Historic City News in St Augustine.
City Hall proudly displayed the colors today, emblazoned across the front of the Lightner Building where municipal workers hoisted a United States flag so large that it stretches from tower to tower above the entrance to the centuries-old Flagler era structure that once housed the Alcazar Hotel.
Describing herself as sounding like a “harpy”, Historic City News reporters listened as St Augustine City Commissioner Nancy Sikes-Kline interjected her support for a Community Redevelopment Area as the way to fund future operation of the Willie Galimore Center in Lincolnville.
In one of the last items of business in a City Commission meeting that went on until 10:00 p.m. last night, St Augustine City Attorney Ron Brown addressed “concerns” that entrepreneurs offering small-scale tour services are intruding on the domains of larger regulated competitors.
Historic City News rarely reports on the City of St Augustine appealing the decision of the Planning and Zoning Board; however, tonight Mark Knight, Director of Planning and Building, rose to appeal a decision that would allow the partition of two homes built on one-half of a lot in Lincolnville.
The St Johns County Industrial Development Authority has announced to local reporters at Historic City News that a planning meeting to discuss the The Players Championship event will be held prior to the Monday, June 11 regular business meeting in St Augustine.
