Category: Government

Will a Historic City News reader be one of the 36 Florida citizens who join Attorney General Pam Bondi to serve on Florida’s Constitution Revision Commission; an honor that comes around only once every twenty years? In fact, the 2017-2018 Constitution Revision Commission will only be the third of its kind in state history.

If you have ever driven an automobile through St Augustine during the past ten or twelve years, you know the frustration of non-standard, for-profit vehicles adding to congestion and menacing moving targets like pedestrians, bicyclists, and other automobiles.

As chairman of the St. Johns County Legislative Delegation, State Representative Cyndi Stevenson has announced to local Historic City News reporters that the delegation will hold their next meeting on Wednesday, January 18, 2017.

Two meetings going on now for the St Augustine City Commission, being held in the meeting room of the Fullerwood Training Center, 10 Hildreth Drive in North City due to construction in The Alcazar Room, where most city meetings are held.

Some Historic City News readers are saying that St. Augustine Beach Mayor Rich O’Brien picked the wrong time to advance criminal allegations against an outspoken critic, while others are reporting that O’Brien has been around long enough to know that he needs to grow some thicker skin.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency and other organizations will participate in a town hall meeting on Wednesday, December 7th from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. at the Willie Galimore Center located at 399 Riberia Street, according to an announcement received by Historic City News today.

Historic City News reporters watched as vice-mayor Roxanne Horvath nominated Todd Neville to assume her position, as she stepped down from the appointment she has held for the first two years of Mayor Nancy Shaver’s administration.

In what many Historic City News readers have jokingly referred to as “shady meetings”, before tonight’s special, ceremonial meeting to reorganize the newly re-elected mayor and commissioners, a private “shade” meeting will take place at city hall — a meeting not open to the public.