Category: Government

Animal Control Division Chief Paul Studivant announced to local Historic City News reporters that the St. Johns County Animal Control Pet Center will be closed on Friday, August 26th for routine maintenance and in-service staff training.

Historic City News reporters know that financial disclosure by public officials isn’t just a “good idea” — in Florida, it’s the law.

Historic City News reporters found that the majority of this morning’s St. Johns County Commission meeting was consumed with a presentation dealing with the proposed intergovernmental communications system; presented by their Tallahassee consultant, RCC Consultants, Inc.

Last week, Historic City News reported that the City commission signed on to a “Memorandum of Agreement” to bring the city one step closer to the approval of funding for the Seawall Project south of the Bridge of Lions.

Warning that he had “checked into” the backgrounds of certain residents who object to his support of increased property taxes, Historic City News discovered that every county commissioner has met their July 1st obligation to report their assets and liabilities to the Florida Commission on Ethics — except Chairman Joseph “Ken” Bryan.

An organization that has become a flashpoint for controversy in St. Augustine, the now defunct First America Foundation, Inc., who Historic City News reported brought an “olive branch” in the form of a $150,000 payment through their Chairwoman Christine Chapman, has stalled in their promise to turn over records and the remaining cash on hand.