Category: Government

A wide-ranging agenda for Monday’s City Commission meeting includes a public hearing on an ordinance to regulate short term rentals, a strategy to reduce aggressive panhandling, the process for selecting a new city clerk, and three new residential parking spaces along Shenandoah Street.

Historic City News has learned from Florida Association of Counties General Counsel, Ginger Delegal, that four of the nine constitutional amendments originally slated for the November 2010 General Election, have been challenged in the Florida courts.

The City of St. Augustine reported to Historic City News that, in addition to their regularly scheduled public meeting on Monday, August 9, 2010, the City Commission will hold a private, non-public meeting — referred to as a “shade meeting”.

In an update received by Historic City News today, St. Johns County Administrator Michael Wanchick reminded political candidates and their campaign supporters that the County Land Development Code regulates political campaign signs, including their placement, size, and removal.

Historic City News reporters learned from County Administrator Michael D. Wanchick that his office recommended no millage increase for the 2011 budget — at their regular meeting Tuesday, the County Commission formally took the recommended action and adopted a tentative millage rate.

“One historic feature of the nation’s oldest city is not aging well and needs immediate attention — the pipes that carry the city’s water supply,” Public Works Director Martha Graham told Historic City News this afternoon.

All Historic City News readers should plan to watch tonight at 7:00 p.m. when the St. Johns County League of Women Voters hosts the second of two Candidate Forums live and televised — this time for two County Commission seats.

Historic City News readers who are voters in the City of St. Augustine will face one City Commission race in the August 24th Primary — then two, or three, more on November 2nd as Elections 2010 gets underway.