Tuesday Briefing: Beach Renourishment in Flagler Beach, Palm Coast Manager Search, Thespian Showcase

From NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day: “The dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating. As powerful starlight whittles away these cool cosmic mountains, the statuesque pillars that remain might be imagined as mythical beasts. Featured here is one of several striking dust pillars of the Eagle Nebula that might be described as a gigantic alien fairy. This fairy, however, is ten light years tall and spews radiation much hotter than common fire. The greater Eagle Nebula, M16, is actually a giant evaporating shell of gas and dust inside of which is a growing cavity filled with a spectacular stellar nursery currently forming an open cluster of stars. This great pillar, which is about 7,000 light years away, will likely evaporate away in about 100,000 years. The featured image in scientifically re-assigned colors was released in 2005 as part of the fifteenth anniversary celebration of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.” (NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA))

Today: Cooler. Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers in the morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Tonight: Colder, clear. Lows in the lower 40s. Northwest 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: 246
The OED’s Word of the day: puredee, adj. (and adv.)
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Justice Robert H. Jackson west virginia board of education v. barnette

“To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous, instead of a compulsory routine, is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional eccentricity and abnormal attitudes. When they are so harmless to others or to the State as those we deal with here, the price is not too great. But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order. If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. If there are any circumstances which permit an exception, they do not now occur to us.”

–From Justice Robert Jackson’s majority opinion in West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943).

Previously:

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.

Beach renourishment: The Flagler County Commission, the Flagler Beach City Commission and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hold a Joint Workshop to discuss the 6.25 mile Flagler Beach dune restoration project, at 1 p.m. at the Emergency Operations Center, 1769 E. Moody Blvd, Bldg. 3 (behind the Government Services Building), Bunnell.

Palm Coast Animal Control hearing at City Hall in Town Center, 10 a.m.

The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall in Town Center. Council members are expected to approve a joint agreement with the county on emergency communications services, and hear an update from their head-hunter on the search for a new city manager.

County Commissioner Joe Mullins hosts a town hall along with Emergency Management Chief, Jonathan Lord and Fire Marshal, Jerry Smith to discuss Community and Fire Safety, at 6 p.m. at the Espanola Community Center, 3570 County Road 205, Bunnell.

The Flagler Beach Planning and Architecture (or PAR) Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 S 2nd St.

The Rymfire Elementary School Advisory Council meets at 8 a.m. at the school’s media center.

Buddy Taylor Middle School holds its Winter Concert at the school’s cafeteria, 6:30 p.m.

Thespian Showcase: Matanzas High School, Flagler Palm Coast High School and Buddy Taylor Middle School hold a Thespian Showcase at the Flagler Auditorium, 5500 East Hwy 100, Palm Coast, 7 p.m.

Audition Call: Flagler Playhouse’s “A… My Name is Alice”: Audition dates/time: 6:30 pm at Flagler Playhouse. Looking for 5 talented females to play multiple roles in the musical, “A… My Name is Alice”. Voice types needed: 2 sopranos, 3 altos. Ages: 18 and up. Please prepare a song in the Pop genre for the audition. You will also be asked to read prepared selections as part of the audition process. If you are unable to make the scheduled audition dates, please email Michele at moneil50@gmail.com for an alternate date. Performance dates : January 25 through February 10, 2019. Please park in the rear lot and enter through the cast door.

Blood Donations: The Big Red Bus will be at the following locations this week (schedule your donation by going to the website and entering a Palm Coast zip code, then locating one of the venues below):

Tuesday: Daytona State College, Palm Coast Campus, Building 2, 3000 Palm Coast Parkway, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Wednesday: Post Office, 2 Pine Cone Drive, Palm Coast, noon to 5 p.m.
Thursday: Sandvik Kanthal Palm Coast, 1 Commerce Boulevard, Palm Coast, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday: Aaron’s, 229 St. Joe’s Plaza, Palm Coast, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday: Santa Maria del Mar Church, 915 North Central Avenue, Flagler Beach, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Jail Bookings and Last 24 Hours' Incidents in Flagler, Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Bunnell


Jail Bookings, June 19-22 Sheriff's night shift incident reports, June 21 Sheriff's day shift incident reports, June 21 Flagler Beach's night shift incident reports, June 21 Flagler Beach's day shift incident reports, June 21 Bunnell police's night shift incident reports, June 21 Bunnell police's day shift incident reports, June 21
Previous and archived reports

Sources: Flagler County Sheriff's Office, Flagler Beach Police Department, Bunnell Police Department. This is Flagler County's only comprehensive, one-stop compilation of all local law enforcement's daily day and night shift commanders' reports.

Announcements:

Teens-in-Flight took second place in Best Theme in Saturday's Holiday Parade in Flagler Beach. (Seth Dolan) — Teens-in-Flight took second place in Best Theme in Saturday’s Holiday Parade in Flagler Beach. (Seth Dolan)

Here are the winners of the 2018 Flagler Beach Holiday Parade hosted by Cindy Dalecki and Robert Snyder:

Best of Parade – Phun Coast Parrot Heads

Best Theme
1st Waste Not Want Not
2nd Teens-in-Flight
3rd Turtle Patrol

Best Marching Unit
1st Imagine Spirit Team
2nd Cub scouts/Boy scouts
3rd Greater Daytona Beach Clemson Alumni and Fan Club

Best Talent
1st Studio Z Fitness
2nd MHS marching band
3rd Paks Karate

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.

CABINET CONSIDERS LAND DEALS: Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet will meet and take up numerous issues, including a proposal to transfer state-owned land at the former Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys to Jackson County. Among other issues is a proposal to use money from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to help shield timber land in Dixie County from future development. Scott and the Cabinet will decide whether to spend $6.4 million to purchase what is known as a “conservation easement” on nearly 20,000 acres of timber land near the Suwannee River and the Gulf of Mexico in the sparsely populated county. In making the deal, the state is banking on a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Gulf Environmental Benefit Fund. The foundation received $2.544 billion in 2013 as part of federal plea agreements with BP and Transocean stemming from the Deepwater Horizon explosion and spill. (Tuesday, 9 a.m., Cabinet meeting room, the Capitol.)

EDUCATION BUILDING MONEY EYED: The Revenue Estimating Conference will discuss issues related to the Public Education Capital Outlay, or PECO, program. (Tuesday, 11 a.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)

LOTTERY ANALYZED: The Revenue Estimating Conference will discuss issues related to the Florida Lottery. (Tuesday, 1:30 p.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)

JUDGE TAKES UP CONSERVATION FUNDING CASE: Leon County Circuit Judge Charles Dodson is scheduled to hear arguments on a request by environmental groups to lift a stay of a ruling that found state lawmakers did not properly carry out a 2014 constitutional amendment that requires spending on land and water conservation. Dodson in July ruled in favor of groups such as the Florida Wildlife Federation and the Florida Defenders of the Environment in a lawsuit arguing that lawmakers had improperly diverted money to purposes other than conservation. But the state quickly appealed, a move that led to an automatic stay of Dodson’s ruling. The environmental groups then filed a motion with Dodson to vacate the stay. The 2014 voter-approved constitutional amendment was designed to require the state to use money from a real-estate tax to bolster land and water conservation. Lawmakers and attorneys for the state have disputed that the money was improperly shifted to other uses. (Tuesday, 2 p.m., Leon County Courthouse, 301 South Monroe St., Tallahassee.)

TRAIL ALTERNATIVES ON TABLE: The Florida Department of Transportation will hold an open house on alternatives for the St. Johns River to Sea Loop Trail Project. The department is looking at shared-use path from Kennedy Parkway in unincorporated Volusia County to Dale Avenue in Edgewater. (Tuesday, 5:30 p.m. Edgewater City Council chamber, 104 North Riverside Dr., Edgewater.)

—-Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive

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Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

Here’s a summary of the latest city developments as of Nov. 11, 2018, with a link to the full week in review here. (The city has not updated its reports since mid-November.)

Click to access developments-nov-11-20181.pdf

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