Thursday Briefing: Gun Buy-Back, Chamber’s Hob-Nob With Candidates, Flagler Beach Montessori, Fluoridated Water

Today:Partly cloudy in the morning then becoming mostly cloudy. Chance of showers and slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs in the lower 90s inland…in the upper 80s coast. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Heat index readings 98 to 102. Tonight: Partly cloudy. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Details here.
Today’s fire danger is moderate. Flagler County’s Drought Index is at 448.
Today’s tides: at the beaches, at the Intracoastal Waterway.
Today’s document from the National Archives.
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The Live Community Calendar
Today’s jail bookings.

Today’s Briefing: Quick Links

• First Light
• In Flagler and Palm Coast
• Local News Recap
• Flagler Jail Bookings and Sheriff’s Crime Reports
• In State Government
• In Coming Days in Flagler, Palm Coast and Beyond
• The Day’s Best Reads
• Fact-Checking the Knaves
• Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports
• 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.

In Court: Flagler County Circuit Judge Matthew Foxman holds Drug Court at 10 a.m. At 1:30 p.m., he holds docket sounding, the last step before trial, in four cases, including that of James Albert Taylor Jr., a 38-year-old Gainesville resident facing a first degree felony charge of lewd or lascivious molestation involving an alleged victim who was 11 at the time; John Schenone, who faces two first-degree charges of lewd and lascivious molestation involving an 11-year-old girl; Holly Norris, a Bunnell woman facing a first-degree charge of aggravated manslaughter; and a minor drug case.

Gun buy-back hosted by the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Flagler County Association of Realtors building, 4101 State Road 100 in Bunnell. The gun buyback program grants amnesty to citizens who want to get rid of guns without any questions asked. Those who participate in the program by turning over a gun will receive a $75 gift card to Target. Gift certificates will be limited to the first 100 guns surrendered. All firearms should be unloaded and safely secured in your vehicle. If you do not know how to unload your gun, please tell a deputy or officer immediately when you enter the event location. As a safety precaution, trained sheriff’s deputies and officers from Bunnell and Flagler Beach will retrieve guns from vehicles for all gun owners. Please follow the event directional signs upon arrival at the FCAR building.

Free Computer Distribution at Rymfire Elementary for grades 4-6, 4 p.m.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall. Commissioners will hear a request from Ricardo Da Silva to open a taxi company in town. Commissioners will discuss the 2016 evaluation of manager Larry Newsom, who’s in the second half of his first year with the city. The commission will also, on second hearing, decide whether to approve a lease with the Montessori school at 800 South Daytona Avenue. The full agenda and background materials are here.

Flagler Votes Hob Nob, the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce’s pre-election event for voters to meet candidates, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the Flagler County Association of Realtors’ building, 4101 E Moody Blvd in Bunnell. Participating candidates must pay $150 a table for their space, but it’s otherwise free to attend. As part of their free admission, attendees will enjoy light snacks, great conversation and a ticket to vote in an electronic “straw poll,” the results of which will be revealed at the end of the evening. Beer, wine and water will be available for nominal cash donations.

Flagler County Schools’ District Strategic Plan Steering Committee meets at 5:30 p.m. in the third-floor conference room of the Government Services Building.

Local News Recap:

Updated jail bookings and day and night shift incident summary reports are available here.

Key Flagler Panel Votes 7-5 To Endorse Pot Citation Proposal, But Split Reflects Hazy Fate

10 vying for 3 Flagler County Commission posts

Flagler County’s water isn’t fluoridated, but that may soon change

Bunnell Commission Honors Two Boys, 10 And 12, For Helping Save 88-Year-Old Woman

Homelessness: Living in the shadows

The return of ‘house calls’? County may start community paramedicine program

Masked Man Who Taunted Lamb at Sheriff’s Forum Is Unmasked as Whisenant Supporter

Taxpayers Hit for $215,000 to Repair Bunkers at City’s Money-Losing Palm Harbor Golf Club

Florida Elections Officials Seek to Assure Voters That Machines Are Safe From Hacking

In Florida and in State Government:

Note: Some proceedings below can be followed live on the Florida Channel.

Trust funds: The Revenue Estimating Conference will discuss issues including what are known as “outlooks” for the Educational Enhancement Trust Fund, the Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund and the State School Trust Fund. (9 a.m., 117 Knott Building, the Capitol.)

Judicial vacancies: The group Integrity Florida will hold a news conference to release a report about judicial vacancies in federal courts in Florida. (11 a.m., Florida Press Center, 336 East College Ave., Tallahassee.)

Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam is expected to speak during the Nassau County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner. (7 p.m., Omni Amelia Island Plantation Conference Center, 39 Beach Lagoon Road, Amelia Island.)

–Compiled by the News Service of Florida and FlaglerLive

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

♦ Aug. 19: The latest pre-trial hearing in the case of Florida v. Kimberle Weeks, continued from July 22, is scheduled for 3 p.m. before Circuit Judge Margaret Hudson in Courtroom 402 at the Flagler County Courthouse. Weeks now faces nine third-degree felony counts, down from 12, stemming from allegations that she illegally recorded various individuals in her capacity as supervisor of elections and in her private life. Weeks resigned that post in January 2015.
♦ Sept. 7: The Flagler Youth Orchestra holds its open house for all new or prospective students who’d like to join the county’s largest (and free) music program. The open house is at the Indian Trails Middle School cafeteria at 5:30 p.m. Any Flagler student, including homes chooled students, in grades 3-12, are eligible to enroll (must be 8 years old by Sept. 1, 2016.) Students may elect to play violin, viola, cello or doublebass. One-hour classes are held at Indian Trails Middle School Mondays and Wednesdays, from 3 to 6 p.m., with students enrolled in the hour block appropriate to their skill level and schedule. The first class for first-time students is Sept. 19. (Auditions for returning students start on Aug. 22, the first class for returning students is Aug. 31.)
♦ Sept. 10: African Art: Ancient Egypt to the Contemporary World, a pair of presentations by Bertrand Green, former chairman of African American studies at Lehman College, City University of New York. The first session is from 10 a.m. to noon, the second session from 2 to 4 p.m., at the Hilton Garden Inn, Palm Coast. $20 for PCAF members, $25 for general admission. Call 386/225-4394 or email pcaf@cfl.rr.com to reserve your seat.

The Day’s Best Reads:

For Republicans, the longer the 4-4 split in the Supreme Court can be maintained, the better https://t.co/bSONUSQrXz pic.twitter.com/YdM9JGYzTc

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) August 10, 2016

In other Rio news, Brazil's Senate approves impeachment trial for Dilma Rousseff https://t.co/jzxAcPIXWN (Photo: AP) pic.twitter.com/EE6f45KScQ

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) August 10, 2016

Olympic swimming’s credibility in doubt after questions over entry times https://t.co/uZA5h3FN6Y

— Guardian news (@guardiannews) August 10, 2016

How incivility spreads in the workplace https://t.co/XIpPjkRWTf

— Eric W. Dolan (@EWDolan) August 10, 2016

Why do these lizards bleed green? https://t.co/KEOGlscYbK pic.twitter.com/xCQPMyJdBv

— Science News (@ScienceNews) August 10, 2016

Clinton has nearly caught up to Trump in media coverage: https://t.co/yPAJsHQIeg pic.twitter.com/y4yM3ew8Lh

— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) August 10, 2016

 

Fact-Checking the Knaves:

Palm Coast Construction and Development Progress Reports

The following is an update of ongoing permitting, construction and development projects in Palm Coast, through July 15 (the city administration’s full week in review is here):

Click to access week-in-review-july1.pdf

Road and Interstate Construction:

• Florida Department of Transportation Road Project List

Cultural Coda:

Dvořák’s American Quartet, Performed by Prazak Quartet

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