Tourist Development Council Executive Director Glenn Hastings reported to Historic City News today the outcome of yesterday afternoon’s application for reserve funding to backstop the satellite event parking plan being proposed by the City of St Augustine for the two-day Mumford and Sons Gentlemen of the Road stopover September 13 and 14, 2013.
Beginning this morning at 9:00 a.m., Historic City News will be covering the St Johns County Commission meeting when Doug Timms, Director, Office of Management and Budget, presents the proposed budgets for Fiscal Year 2014 from three of the five Constitutional Officers.
Over last week’s objections by Vice-Mayor Nancy Sikes-Kline, the four remaining St Augustine City Commissioners approved, on first reading, an amendment to the city’s prohibition of intoxicating beverages being sold within 100-feet of an established church; so long as 50-percent, or more, of the applicant restaurant’s sales come from food.
In a request that will come before the St Johns County Tourist Development Council for funding Monday, St Augustine Comptroller Mark Litzinger has articulated a satellite parking plan and shuttle that he tells Historic City News editor Michael Gold will allow the city to manage large-attendance events, like the upcoming Mumford and Sons concert.
The City of St Augustine has received approval from the commission during last night’s regular business meeting to move forward with an application for a $50,000 matching grant to get the Flagler era city water works building at Davenport Park in condition to be returned to public service.
The last formal proposal to return the North City Water Works building to use was reported by Historic City News on July 16, 2011, when Colin Bingham proposed that the property could be repaired for community meetings — tonight, the St Augustine City Commission will revisit what should be done with the aging, deteriorating structure.
The very last item on the agenda of Monday night’s city commission meeting will no doubt test the patience, and endurance, of St Augustine commissioners, residents, and non-residents who have taken adverse positions with the issuance of a permit to Dolphin Cove Inn, Inc., to build a wooden fence along their north property line on the east side of the Bridge of Lions.
A controversial provision that allowed 607 acres of Joe Anderson’s property in northwest St Johns County to receive “agriculture enclave” status by being slipped into a larger growth management bill at the end of the 2012 legislative session was overturned yesterday when Governor Rick Scott signed HB 537 into law.
