After a year of doing nothing, at their regular meeting Monday night, October 22nd, the Commission of the City of St Augustine will be presented a proposed repeal and replacement of Chapter 22, Article I, Section 22-4 of the City Charter. If approved, it will govern how the city will regulate events, protests and counter-protests; allowing them to co-exist in the Plaza de la Constitucion and city commons.
St Johns County Commissioner Paul Waldron updated Historic City News readers in District 3 today on current projects and events as well as timely information about St. Johns County programs, services, and initiatives as reported in his monthly newsletter.
Ron DeSantis is hoping to rebound from an attack strategy that has “Blue Wave” written all over it this week as he makes a bold move to instate Ponte Vedra Beach resident Susie Wiles to reboot his campaign.
When Historic City News asked questions yesterday for our reporting of the latest selection of a private contractor to perform a function of city government by City Manager John Regan, we were left with too many unanswered questions to pass the truth-o-meter. Given Regan’s poor performance over the past 8-years in selecting vendors to inherit millions of dollars in payments from public funds, his lousy judgment immediately became suspect, so we dug deeper.
In the latest incident of “do it now and tell the taxpayers later” City Manager John Regan has been discovered doing his favorite thing — hiring yet another outside consultant to do the work of city staff. This time Regan awarded a private consultant in Fernandina Beach a five-year contract, with a five-year renewal, to act as administrator for St Augustine’s two community redevelopment areas.
Vickie Oakes
Supervisor of Elections
St Johns County, FL
The November 6th General Election is quickly approaching. An important deadline is coming — October 9th is the deadline to register to vote.
St Augustine Beach Commissioner Rich O’Brien has refused to provide a written evaluation of City Manager Max Royle, despite consensus of the remaining commissioners to comply with the process supposed to be part of the basis for his salary in the next budget year.
