Category: Government

During tomorrow’s special meeting of the Board of County Commissioners of St. Johns County, Florida, Historic City News subscribers will want to consider alternatives to physically attending.

This list was compiled by local Historic City News reporters from information obtained from the St Johns County Supervisor of Elections, Vicky Oakes.  These are the declared candidates for St Johns County and local municipal offices this election cycle.

Michael Ryan, Director of the St. Johns County Communications Division hereby notifies Historic City News readers that one or more members of the Board of County Commissioners of St. Johns County, Florida, will hold a special meeting at 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 7, 2020.

St Johns County Supervisor of Elections Vicky Oakes contacted Historic City News this morning to announce that, due to health and safety concerns of our employees and the public, and, in response to COVID-19, the Elections Office will allow only limited public access to the building thru May 1st.

The City of St. Augustine, in collaboration with Kinsa, Inc., is developing a pilot project to provide real-time temperature data that will enable public health officials to monitor, predict, and respond to aggregated changes in fever data with the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the city.

Earlier this afternoon, Governor Ron DeSantis announced that the State of Florida is being shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic.  Historic City News subscribers must now stay home unless they’re going out for “essential services or activities.”

Michael Ryan, Director of Communications for St. Johns County, informed local Historic City News reporters that St Johns County Beaches are now closed to pedestrians.  We previously reported when the county banned vehicles from accessing the beach and closed all beach parking lots earlier last week.

The City of St Augustine informed Historic City News this week that Director of Finance, Mark Robert Litzinger, who turns 52-years-old on May 4th, will be retiring on May 15, 2020.  Hired at 23-years-old, Litzinger will have served the City of St Augustine for 28 years, 9 months.