Tuesday Briefing: Micayla Cronk, FPC Football, Monitoring Children's Devices, Generators at City Facilities

Flagler Palm Coast High's football team, undefeated this season, is among those being recognized by the school board this evening at the Flagler Auditorium. (Cady Studios via FPC) — Flagler Palm Coast High’s football team, undefeated this season, is among those being recognized by the school board this evening at the Flagler Auditorium. (Cady Studios via FPC)

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“I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it. There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates.”

–Ernest Hemingway, from “A Farewell to Arms” (1929). [Click on the image or the link to buy the book.]

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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.

The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall at Town Center. The council is expected to approve a grant package that will add electric-power generators at numerous city facilities, including city hall, for $366,000, with $274,000 of that assumed by a federal grant and the remaining $91,000 paid by the city. The 32 generators would be at City Hall, the Community Center, 15 sewer-PEP stations and 15 Lift stations.

The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. for a workshop in Training Room 3 on the third floor of the Government Services Building, Bunnell. Board members will hear an update on a pilot project enabling parents to use a certain app to monitor their children’s activity on electronic devices. It meets again for a meeting at the Flagler Auditorium at 6 p.m. That meeting was moved to the auditorium to accommodate several celebrations: the board will recognize the FPC football team, which has gone undefeated, it will recognize teachers of the year from all its schools, and it will recognize Micayla Cronk, a 9th grader at FPC, who is state champion in the 100 yard freestyle swimming competition.

Blood Donations: The Big Red Bus will be at the following locations this week:

Wednesday: Metro Diner, 250 Palm Coast Parkway NE, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Thursday: Walmart, 174 Cypress Point Parkway, Palm Coast, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thursday: Town Center, Fantasy Lights in Palm Coast, 5:30 to 9 p.m.
Saturday: Walmart, 174 Cypress Point Parkway, Palm Coast, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Ongoing: the 12th Annual Fantasy Lights Festival at Central Park in Palm Coast’s Town Center, hosted by the Rotary Club of Flagler County: 6:30-9 p.m. each night. Fantasy Lights is a free, self-guided walking tour around Central Park with 40 large animated light displays, festive live and broadcast holiday music, holiday snacks and beverages. A favorite for the kids is Santa’s Village with a collection of elf houses festively painted and nestled among the lights, warm fire to roast marshmallows or create s’mores, and encircling the village is Santa’s Merry Train Ride.

Announcements:

Public Hearings for Surfview, Los Lagos and Las Casitas postponed a second time, to January 22, 2018: Several public hearing items on the agenda for the Monday, December 18 regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners have been postponed until January 22, 2018. This is at the request of attorneys representing the applicant for the Surfview, Los Lagos and Las Casitas developments. Flagler County Attorney Al Hadeed determined the postponement is proper due to the requirements of constitutional due process as articulated by the courts of our state and the particular facts and complexities of these land use agenda items.
At the open session on Monday, County Administrator Craig Coffey will add a memo to the start of the agenda backup materials for these items. This action will allow for a vote on the record and determination to adopt this postponement with a continuation to the time certain of January 22. The standard procedure is that public hearings on land use are held in the evenings to allow for broader participation. The memo also serves to confirm that Hadeed did not discuss the matter with the County Commission in advance of its drafting.

Skip A Week: A Message from the St. Johns Water Management District on Not Mowing Your Lawn: One of the great things about living in Florida is the beautiful weather we have most of the year. A flip side of our year-round warm weather is not remembering that our lawns and landscapes take a winter break and naturally go dormant, reducing their need for irrigation. This year the St. Johns River Water Management District is joining in the Skip a Week campaign developed by the Southwest Florida Water Management District to encourage efficient irrigation practices specific to winter months. This campaign focuses on studies showing that lawns need only about three-quarters of an inch of water every 10 to 14 days during the winter, and less if it has rained. Irrigating every other week during December, January and February (skipping a week) could save more than 1 billion gallons of water in our District alone. That’s a lot of water! Watering too much makes lawns less able to survive dry conditions, encouraging shallow, weak root systems, leading to weeds, pests and diseases. In addition to the Skip a Week campaign, our winter watering restrictions of one-day-per-week on designated days allow sufficient irrigation to maintain healthy lawns. You’ll know if your lawn needs water when blades fold in half, turn blue-gray or leave footprints.

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.

SPECIAL ELECTION IN HD 58: A special election will be held in Hillsborough County’s House District 58, which became open this summer when former Rep. Dan Raulerson, R-Plant city, announced his resignation. Candidates in the race are Republican Lawrence McClure, Democrat Jose Vazquez, Libertarian Bryan Zemina and no-party candidate Ahmad Hussam Saadaldin.

HD 72 RESULTS CERTIFIED: The state Elections Canvassing Commission will certify the results of a Dec. 5 Democratic primary election in Sarasota County’s House District 72. Margaret Good won the primary and will run in a Feb. 13 special general election to replace former Rep. Alex Miller, a Republican who resigned this summer. (Tuesday, 9 a.m., Cabinet meeting room, the Capitol.)

COLLEGE ENROLLMENT CONSIDERED: The Education Estimating Conference will analyze enrollment in the Florida College System. (Tuesday, 9 a.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)

FINANCE REPORTS DUE IN SD 31: Candidates in a special election in Palm Beach County’s Senate District 31 face a Tuesday deadline for filing campaign-finance reports. Democratic state Rep. Lori Berman and Lantana Democrat Arthur Morrison will square off in a Jan. 30 special primary election, with the winner facing Lake Worth Republican Tami Donnally in the April 10 general election. The seat became vacant with resignation in late October of former Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth.

—-Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive

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