Wednesday Briefing: New Student School Board Members, Palm Coast Budget, Senior Games

Today: Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly cloudy. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear in the evening then becoming partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Details here.
Today’s document from the National Archives and the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Drought Index is at 131.
The OED’s Word of the Day: bagsy, v..
The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.

Today’s Briefing: Quick Links

• First Light
• In Flagler and Palm Coast
• Flagler Jail Bookings and Sheriff’s Crime Reports
• Announcements
• In State Government
• In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
• The Day’s Best Reads
• Editor’s Tweets
• Fact-Checking the Knaves
• Palm Coast Construction and Development
• Local Road and Interstate Construction
• Cultural Coda

In Flagler and Palm Coast:

Note: all government meetings noticed below are free and open to the public unless otherwise indicated. Many can be heard or seen live through each agency’s website.

The Sheriff’s daily incident reports and jail bookings are posted here.

All Flagler County schools are offering free meals to all students today and the rest of the week, by order of the United States Department of Agriculture, and as a consequence of Hurricane Irma.

In Court: Erin Vickers, 23, the Palm Coast woman facing 49 charges related to sex crimes against children, is in her second day of trial on two of the 49 charges—the alleged rape of her own daughter, who was 1 year old when the alleged assault took place on Feb. 26, 2015, and a charge of promoting sexual acts. Vickers since that winter has been held without bond at the Flagler County jail. Her case is tied to that of Paul Dykes, 20, who also faces eight charges of raping a child about the same age as Vickers’s—he has two children of his own, but his parental rights were terminated by court order in March 2016—among the 41 charges that have been filed against him. He is not expected to go on trial until later this year or early next year. The trial takes place before Circuit Judge Dennis Craig.

The Flagler County Technical Review Committee meets at 9 a.m. in the First Floor Conference Room of the Government Services Building, Bunnell.

The Flagler Beach City Commission Meets at 5 p.m. for its second budget hearing, setting next year’s tax rate, but also possibly to revisit and potentially settle its long-running legal dispute with Howard Sklar over the Flagler Beach Marina, and to hear an engineering report on how the pier fared during Irma. At City Hall.

The Flagler County Contractor Review Board meets at 5 p.m. in board chambers at the Government Services Building, Bunnell.

The Palm Coast City Council holds its second budget hearing, where it adopts next year’s property tax rate, at 5 p.m. at City Hall in Town Center.

The Old Kings Elementary School Advisory Council meets at 4 p.m. in the school’s media center. The PTO meets at 5 p.m.

The Palm Coast Senior Games are on all week click here for details.

Announcements:

In Florida and in State Government:

Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel. Most legislative proceedings can be followed through the Senate or House websites.

The Florida Citrus Commission is scheduled to meet in Polk County. (9 a.m., Florida Department of Citrus, 605 East Main St., Bartow.)

Parole: The Florida Commission on Offender Review is scheduled to meet and discuss numerous parole cases related to crimes committed in the 1970s and 1980s. (9 a.m., Betty Easley Conference Center, 4075 Esplanade Way, Tallahassee.)

The East Central Florida Regional Planning Council is scheduled to meet in Orange County. (10 a.m., 455 North Garland Ave., Orlando.)

The Florida Supreme Court is expected to release weekly opinions. (11 a.m.)

The St. Johns River State College Board of Trustees is scheduled to meet. (3 p.m. St. Johns River State College, Palatka Campus, Administration Building, 5001 St. Johns Ave., Palatka.)

In Coming Days in Palm Coast, Flagler and the Occasional Beyond:

The Day’s Best Reads:

Editor’s Tweets

Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

Updates of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast usually run here, along with a link to the city’s Week in Review. But the Week in Review, under the guise of being modernized, has become flashier and power-point like while becoming less substantive and dumbed down. We may or may not link to it in future.

Road and Interstate Construction:

• Florida Department of Transportation Road Project List

Cultural Coda:

Fandango, by Antonio Soler

Previous Codas:

• Frescobaldi: Toccata in G, Magdalena Baczewska, harpsichord
• Willie Nelson: Full Concert, Woodstock, 1999
• How playing an instrument benefits your brain
• Mozart’s Requiem: Camerata Salzburg, Arsys Bourgogne, Cond.
• Repairing Willie Nelson’s guitar
• 100 Year Old Self-Playing Violin
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Symphony B minor, Christophe Coin Ensemble Baroque, Limoges
• Wynton Marsalis Septet: Sunflowers (From The Marciac Suite Album)
• Nikolai Kedrov: Otche Nash (Our Father)
• Ludovico Einaudi, “Elegy for the Arctic”
• Black Violin at Apollo Amateur Night
• Bach’s Beer Bottles: The Art of Fugue, Contrapunctus 1
• Mozart’s Only String Trio, K563
• Sibelius’s Violin Concerto, Ida Haendel, Violin
• Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue: Marcus Roberts Trio, Seiji Ozawa, Cond. (2003)
• Wynton Marsalis takes the Horn Challenge
• Beethoven String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, Afiara Quartet
• K.D. Lang: The Mind of Love
• World’s Oldest Violin: Marco Rizzi Performs Schumann’s Sonata No. 2 on a 1566 Amati Violin
• Mark Knopfler on Guitars
• Bach’s Little Fugue in G minor, Performed by the Canadian Brass
• The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man’s Unlikely Path to Walden Pond
• Macklemore Feat Skylar Grey: Glorious
• Edward Luce On the Retreat of Western Liberalism in the Trump Era
• Why Don’t All Instruments Sound The Same?
• Joachim Horsley’s “Beethoven in Havana”: What the Piano Can Do
• Bojan Cicic and Richard Egarr: Giovanni Carbonelli’s Violin Sonata No. 1
• Voyager: The 116 images NASA wants aliens to see
• Bohemian Rhapsody: Brooklyn Duo and Ft. Dover Quartet
• Down in the River to Pray: University of Texas Tuba/Euphonium Studio
• Brahms : Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, op. 25
• The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Mohsin Hamid in Conversation with Akhil Sharma
• “The Day After” (1983)
• Rui Arayama Performs Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas K.427 & K.455
• Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras
• Angelina Jordan, 10 Years Old Norwegian, Sings the Blues: I Put A Spell On You
• Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689-1755), Concerto in B Minor for five Recorders Op. 15 Nr. 4, Abateva
• Introduction to Bullshit
• Chopin: 24 Etudes for Piano Op.10 , Op 25, Lukas Genjušas, Piano
• Alike: The Best Short Film Ever
• Fauré’s Requiem, Performed by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Choeur Accentus
• Arthur Rubinstein Performs Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22
• Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, Reformation: Jérémie Rhorer Conducts the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra