Category: Government

Historic City News has confirmed that this afternoon Leanna S. A. Freemen will seek re-election to the St Augustine City Commission.

Historic City News observed Friday, while everyone else was playing April Fools jokes, that city employees were systematically removing all of the city parking meters and signs from the 2 Artillery Lane parking lot between St George Street and Aviles Street.

When St Augustine City Manager John Regan made his decision to replace retiring Chief of Police Loran Lueders, he interviewed five current members of the department.  There was no outside search — a process that has been publically criticized within both city and county government in the past.

Heather Sutherland-Neville, the wife of St Augustine City Commissioner Todd Neville, is an appointee of the city who serves on the Citizen Advisory Committee of the North Florida Transportation Planning Organization.

All departments of the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners, St Johns County Administrative offices, and the Pet Center will be closed Friday, March 25 in observance of Good Friday.

Consultants, studies, workshops, steering committees, surveys and visioning are such overused buzzwords in the City Manager’s vocabulary in St Augustine that the taxpayers have come to expect them as the solution to just about any problem that presents itself — and its been that way for many, many years.

The City Commission of the City of St. Augustine is accepting applications to fill two alternate positions on the Historic Architectural Review Board.

Historic City News has been informed that the St. Augustine City Commission will hold a special meeting on Tuesday, March 22nd to consider several items relating to early planning for the 2016-2017 budget.