Category: Government

Historic City News is joining with the local government advocacy group, “Keep It Local Florida”, in recognizing this Friday, September 6th, as “Local Works Day”; enforcing the message that local government workers help form the fabric of our communities.

The office of House member Janet H. Adkins, State Representative from Fernandina Beach, informed Historic City News that tomorrow afternoon, a legislative hearing will be held in Jacksonville to receive testimony concerning laws related to sexual offenders in Florida.

Historic City News readers in St Johns County will want to participate in the required public budget hearings and take advantage of the opportunity to offer comments on how our local governments will collect and spend your hard-earned money during the upcoming Fiscal year.

All departments of the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners, St. Johns County Administrative offices, branches of the Public Library, and the Pet Center will be closed Monday, Sept. 2, in observance of Labor Day. All offices will resume standard business hours on Tuesday, September 3rd.

When appointed members of the St Johns County Tourist Development Council met Monday, they were still not convinced that their subcommittee, the Arts, Culture and Heritage Funding Panel, had carried out their charge to fairly and objectively evaluate grant applications for Category II local option tourist development tax.

Barbara Petersen, president of the First Amendment Foundation, told Historic City News that her goal would be to have one website where you could get instant access to thousands of public documents, compiled by dozens of state agencies; as she was being appointed yesterday to the state’s User Experience Task Force.

St Johns County Communications Specialist, Danielle Berke, invites Historic City News readers to apply for the following volunteer board and committee vacancies.