Renuart reports on first day of session



On the agenda for tonight’s meeting of the St Augustine Beach City Commission, commissioners will take up the lingering issues surrounding the lease between the City and the St Johns Cultural Council.
Watchdog Wire Florida State Editor, Michael Gold, announced today that Historic City News will engage our readers, and our local government, March 16-22; a week dedicated to two of our favorite things — government transparency and accountability.


Historic City News reporters watched as the City of St Augustine mayor and commissioners voted during their regular meeting Monday night to sell the 102 Bridge Street property for an $80,000 capital loss, without giving further consideration to a higher all-cash offer.
Historic City News learned that yesterday, Circuit Judge Dawn D. Nichols, the newest jurist in the Seventh Judicial Circuit, was sworn into office at the Volusia County Courthouse in DeLand by Chief Judge Terence Perkins yesterday; and, she has already started work.
In a move that has the local Superintendent of Schools, Dr. Joseph Joyner, and Commissioner of Education, Pamela Stewart, clearly frustrated and speaking out against the ruling, the First District Court of Appeals of Florida ruled that the Department of Education must release value-added method (VAM) scores of public school teachers.