At the direction of Governor Ron DeSantis, the Florida Department of Education released the newly proposed Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking to local Historic City News reporters. The Governor said that although Florida’s B.E.S.T. Standards were made by Florida teachers for Florida students, he knows they will be a model for the rest of the nation.
When the St Johns County voters elected Clerk of Court, Hunter Conrad, they did so over a more experienced chief deputy who was already in office, George Larue. Now Conrad has turned his back on those voters, surrendering his elected office a year early. He has accepted an appointed position made vacant after the abrupt firing of the embattled County Administrator; a controversial move made without advance public notice.
Vicky Oakes, St Johns County Supervisor of Elections and friend to Historic City News, informs our readers to be prepared for the first deadline in the 2020 Election cycle. Eligible voters must register to vote or change party affiliation not later than February 18th to receive a ballot in the Presidential Preference Primary Election on March 17, 2020.
Historic City News’ long advocated position that state law unreasonably protected a monopoly in the area of publishing public notices is finally gathering support in Tallahassee; finding that this could be the year governments are no longer required to post public notices in newspapers.
St Johns County Property Appraiser Eddie Creamer reported this week that his office now has another intelligent tool to protect local taxpayers from homestead exemption fraud through a new partnership with the private data-mining company, The Exemption Project.
In a unanimous show of support to improve the quality of life for residents over the business interests of property owners looking to maximize the return on their real estate investments, the City of St Augustine passed three ordinances regulating short-term rentals last night.
Governor DeSantis expressed some trepidation Wednesday about a Senate proposal that would create a public-records exemption for sensitive information about members of the House, Senate and Cabinet, their spouses and children.
