Sunshine Week couldn’t have come at a more opportune time in St Augustine as the UF Historic St Augustine, Inc. direct service organization, managing the lease on Florida’s state-owned properties, attempts to hold a controversial public Special Board of Directors Meeting in a not-so-public way. More sunshine, please.
The Executive Office of the Governor reported to Historic City News today that, following a meeting with the families of victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida Governor Rick Scott signed SB 7026, the “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act”.
Historic City News readers will want to take note that during the regular meeting of the St Augustine City Commission Monday evening, time has been set aside for public input in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida last month. Some communities around the state are lobbying their local government to enact ordinances regulating firearms and ammunition.
In a decision filed March 6, 2018, Scott and Donna Wendler were informed that the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Daytona Beach affirmed the lower court ruling; leaving few practical options in their lawsuit against the City of St. Augustine.
For the first time in more than 20-years, a sitting judge in the Seventh Judicial Circuit has been removed from the bench by the Chief Judge and a Judicial Qualifications Commission recommendation has been made that Judge Scott DuPont is not fit for judicial service.
Ordinance no. 2018-06
An ordinance of the City of St. Augustine, Florida, repealing and replacing section 18-8 of the code of the City of St. Augustine; providing for findings and intent; providing for definitions; providing for prohibited conduct, proximity and location restrictions for solicitation, panhandling or begging; providing for penalties; providing for inclusion in the code of the City of St. Augustine; providing for repeal of conflicting ordinances; providing for severance of invalid provisions; and providing for an effective date.
