Highlights from March School Board meeting held March 13, 2012.

Julie Wraithmell, Audubon of Florida’s director of wildlife conservation, tells Historic City News that her organization is asking Governor Rick Scott to veto a bill that would allow zoos to put rhinos, elephants, giraffes and other zoo animals on state conservation lands.

St Johns County Administrator Michael Wanchick nominated Wil Smith for a promotion today — from interim director of the Recreation and Parks Department to Department Director; making permanent his role in the department after the resignation of Troy Blevins last October.

Historic City News has learned that Republican Senator Steve Wise of Jacksonville, who is leaving the chamber because of term limits, was added to a Florida Senate Redistricting Panel yesterday when the legislature started a two-week “extraordinary session”.

St Johns County Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes announced to Historic City News today that her office would begin its “Voter Outreach Program” tomorrow at the St Augustine Lions Seafood Festival.

Sunshine Review, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to government transparency, released the winners of the “Third Annual Sunny Awards” and among the winners was the St Johns County School District, awarded an A+

Historic City News local reporters learned of a request from a Port Orange company, Masci General Contractors, to the Florida Department of Transportation to be allowed to continue the $1.6 million King Street Drainage Improvement Project approved to begin next week.

Among other business to come before the St Johns County School Board tomorrow, attorney, Frank D. Upchurch III, will request approval to publish notice of a public hearing on two proposed new rules related to electronic communications and employee use of social media websites such as facebook and twitter.